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Reference counting isn't deterministic in the presence of large complex data structures.

You will know when memory gets deleted, but not how long it will take, nor how much stack space the destructors will require to run.

Enjoy Herb Sutter's "Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default." at CppCon 2016, where he explains how those issues affect C++ and goes on to implement a tracing GC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmTagWcqoE
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I got 4-5 paragraphs in and felt that it was just going to make me angry or upset if I carried on, so I didn't think it was worth it.

It's not that I didn't want to read another viewpoint - if well done I like my views being challenged, but this was not that.
An interesting anecdote regarding gender bias and tech.

In the very early stage of my company, we wanted to outsource some UX work. After an exhausting review of applicants on one of the freelance sites out there, we finally settled on a Pakistani woman who had the best balance of portfolio vs cost.

At the initial Skype call, there was no video. And it turned out to be a guy speaking in a very high voice. We didn't really care and just went along with it (after a call or two he dropped his octave significantly, but everything continued with the original female name). But it was curious that this enterprising individual decided that the best way to stand out from the countless other developers with similar demographics he was competing against was to pretend to be a woman.

I do suspect that the presumed bias that women aren't actually as skilled and got where they are because of gender preference, while an uncomfortable bias for women, does make it so that a woman with equal skill to a male candidate is perceived as a greater rarity/find because "oh wow, this one is legit." (Not saying women are actually less likely to be legit, just saying the perception that is true can work to board in the opposite direction). I'd be extremely curious to see the classic "attach picture to resume/work sample" experiment done for tech with actual hiring managers. I'd be very surprised if the work with the female photo has a lower net score than the male photo across the experimental groups.
To argue about species is to argue about definitions and to argue about definitions is to create paradoxes.

For example: A and B (and C) are the same species when they can produce offspring creates these questions:

- What if A and B produce infertile offspring

- What is A and B can reproduce, B and C can reproduce by A and C can not?

We humans and our need to put lines on continuous stuff, we keep ourselves busy with such futile things.
I wonder if this can be worked around by storing a list of hashed domains to compare to instead?
any normally functioning person would realize the reaction that memo would cause. (not that the reaction is justified, just that hes in a super politicially correct area where making nuanced points isnt tolerated)
Not strictly feature-equivalent, but there's already a working (I use it everyday) port of Vimium for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
RMS bangs on about freedom being the ability to have collective / individual control over software by being in possession of, and compiling the, source code.

How does he reconcile this with, say, being in possession of his own DNA, but not knowing how to compile from source.

Is RMS really free if he can't inspect, modify, and tinker with, his own software and hardware.

In the RMS World there would be no life allowed unless all life came with GPL'ed Abiogenesis.

Because non-free abiogenesis is unethical.
I got as far as this:

> > On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just socially constructed ...

> His implicit model is that cognitive traits must be either biological (i.e. innate, natural, and unchangeable) or non-biological (i.e., learned by a blank slate).

Within a few lines of each other. I think she is reading what she wants to read.
From the page you linked to:

"...Prohibited acts therefore include descrambling a scrambled work, decrypting an encrypted work, or otherwise avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating or impairing a technological measure without the authority of the copyright owner..."

It likely wasn't functionalclam.com itself that filed the request. Rather, the owner of a site that uses some ad tech hosted there is likely claiming that EasyList is aiding in the impairment of a technological measure they implemented, which according to this interpretation, is a violation of the DMCA.

It would likely be an interesting court battle, but apparently isn't one that the EasyList folks are willing to defend at the moment.
"Politics [isn't] innate."

That isn't at all clear. Jonathan Haidt has some very interesting research on those lines, showing evidence human moral sense may be genetically based. Our moral sense informs our politics. Having said that, innate does not mean unmalleable.
The population then was about 1 billion.

With 7.6 billion people, greater access to education, and more travel, how many meetings of comparable people happen today?
can someone provide a more serious analysis of this instead of a local news website. I like things I can share with my facebook friends.
That's actually some pretty cool technology! I don't like what it's being used for, but I like that it exists.
Right, but that's why I said "voucher," not "points." Incidentally, that is why United got such a bad rap for giving out vouchers rather than cash for bumping passengers. Because everyone knows vouchers are more than likely never going to be used before they expire.

Even considering you can book rooms for others, there's still a huge segment of the population (50%?) where hotel points are still completely useless. There's a time in my life hotel points would be completely useless to me too. Many people don't travel and don't have friends/family who travel either, it's as simple as that. The HN crowd seems to believe that everyone is taking a few vacations to far away places a year but that's simply not the case, most people I know do not travel at all and do not want to either.

Plus, even you wanted to use them they would have to have a hotel at the destination where you also wanted to travel to.
For what it's worth, the Midwest would be a prime target during a nuclear war due to its ICBM silos. There aren't many places far away from both population centers and military targets that could be considered safe. Maybe New Zealand.
Hope you're wrong because this is starting to look like a Black Mirror episode.
Surely GIMP could copy those tools, as well as any missing functionality?

Couldn't the funding that currently goes to Adobe be devoted to further the development of GIMP instead?
Discrimination is not by definition unfair, the context is important, or do you think aiding people in need but not those who aren't is unfair?.

If you want to reach a balanced state from a unbalanced one, you need to discriminate to provide more for the people that are behind.
He can't but nothing stops him from developing methods with which he can edit his DNA and subsequently applying those methods. So the DNA analogy is not valid, he is the owner of his DNA.
There might be some regulatory hurdles in addition to technical and commercial ones?
Well I didn't mean to imply "you" - I meant "one's" position. Hopefully it didn't come across in any way personal.
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Honestly, relative to the usual discussions on the topic (including discussions about the Google memo), the memo was refreshingly well-argued, coherent and polite.
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I've been out of the Machine Vision space for a while, so my knowledge is somewhat out of date.

What research is out there on general Affine invariant vision algorithms and techniques?

For context, my practical experience ended in the mid 2000's when "jittering" was a bit of thing along with some occasional closed form estimators based on basic linearization approximations.
I do not agree with a lot of points of that diversity memo but that means that it's a topic that needs to be discussed instead of being censored and the author fired.

Discussion is how people change their opinion. It's by being free to discuss and say what you think that you can exchange ideas with other people you disagree with and maybe change your mind once you understand their view point.

If you close discussion, then those opinions will be more radicalized and will tend to be discussed in echo chambers where people are not afraid of being shamed by their writings.

As Voltaire once said[1] "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it " and I think, forgetting this, is what leads to Trump and to an increase of misogyny.

[1] It's actually apocryphal, he never actually wrote or said that but it does illustrate his philosophy so wouldn't have been out of character for him.
> it seems very odd that the DMCA could even be applicable here

This is an invalid takedown request.
Spreading rumours as truth isn't helpful here.
What good is the magically secure Apple logo on top, when you actually have a Broadcom doing the work down in the metal? I doubt this was the only existing hole: http://thehackernews.com/2017/07/android-ios-broadcom-hackin... (but Apple updated fastest, I do concede that)
Not sure why I can't reply to you loup-vaillant but here it is:

Do you mean the "funding" (more like "income") that Adobe generates by selling their software instead of giving the source code away?
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Patagonia is more realistic.
The comparison with Spring does not make any sense, because Play and Spring have different scope. Play is just a web layer, Spring is modular general purpose framework, compatible with different web layer implementations. If you want to compare "lightweight alternative to legacy behemoth", take the full feature stack (and mention all other additional libraries you'll need for Play to match the functionality). I doubt there will be significant difference.
You can film people all you want, I imagine the important thing is that it is inadmissible in court.
I see no reason why that solution would not work, however, the overhead- looping all domains/elements, hashing them, then doing a key->value lookup- might not be worth the processing power. Good solution and worth looking into though!
Which is what my first link was to. ;)
Well, to a degree Freedoms compete. As the old adage often misattributed adage goes, "Your right to swing your arms ends where my nose begins." Sometimes our freedoms encroach on other people's own freedoms; despite the notion of an unalienable right, such freedoms are only available via force of some means; monetary compensation, organized violence (state or otherwise), and so on. As rights need some external force to validate, to me it seems reasonable and sensible that you're going to have both competing freedoms as the enforcers will hold different freedoms in higher/lower regard than others.

I understand that such a position basically strips away all human dignity and reduces everything to a "might is right" argument, but is that not very much true in many ways? We agree on the freedoms we want to have protected and are more lax about those less important.
i support this only because i'm sure there's all types of groups that are underrepresented for one reason or another. hopefully next short people will sue. and then fat people etc. eventually the system will either be exposed as a scam or simply implode.
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Don't get anywhere near fire retardants...

Seriously, there is a balance to be had. People who went through traumatic events are often offered therapy precisely because you can't reasonably expect the entire world to guess and remove every single thing that can trigger someone's hurtful memories.
You may be right but I think his own website is poorly designed too: he says that "Private Internet Access" is too long because forced him to modify his CSS, and as a "forum" (link at the bottom of the page) he uses GitHub's issue tracker.
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They usually ACK...on the happy path. They might RST, for one, or even timeout.
> * Does anybody catch a whiff of, I don't know, child slavery?*

No more so than when other, equally-driven teens focus on, say, basketball or chess or music or figure-skating.
You vastly overestimated the dammage from a MIRV. Nukes are sub liner as a higher percentage of the energy ends up in the upper atmosphere as you increase yield. Nagasaki's Was 20kt and had favorable geographic conditions along with wooden buildings and a large number of people from the same city survived. 500kt still have left survivors in the same city though few.

So, yes a MIV could take out 8-10 cities across Texas while not impacting 99% of the land. But, a more likely approach is to carpet bomb suberbs and redundantly target cities with different warheads from different ICBMs.

Thus, 1000 MIRVs would not get 1000x the dammage as single areas would be targeted multiple times and of course targets get harder to pick. Central West Virginia for example due to all those mountains and minimal population would take a lot of nukes or largely get left alone.
The claim is correct. The security of IE9+, Edge and Chrome is far superior than Firefox. As Geohot said, writing an exploit for Firefox is similar to a harder CTF challenge (done in an day or two). While IE or Chrome Exploits cost a lot. I can back it up with references, but https://www.zerodium.com/program.html shows a pretty clear picture (Scroll down to Payout Ranges). It will take FF like 3-5 years until they have a sandbox as good as the other Browsers, sadly.
> then made an argument from those grounds

Except that's exactly what he didn't make. It severely lacked implications that tied his facts and arguments to his conclusion(s).

> you don't agree with the argument

"Since in the original memo a conservative argued towards a conservative point of view, and you oppose that, you must be a non-conservative arguing towards a non-conservative point of view."

That doesn't follow.

> attempting to root your discourse in science is absolutely pro-science.

New Earth creationism, anti-evolution, etc. Let's try and be realistic here. Interpreting conclusions of actual science to derive truths that were never implied by said conclusions to further base your own argument on is intellectually dishonest and not "pro-science".
How do we correct for the bias if we don't know what the unbiased state would look like?
> seeing what that company did to Opera Max (which I thought was a "killer app" before the acquisition)

What did they do?
"But I see no evil whatsoever in someone making a software tool and selling only the binaries to someone who is happy to use said binaries under the terms the seller and buyer agree upon. That to me is freedom, nobody is forced in that scenario."

to hopefully explain more clearly...

RS's FOSS agenda is promoting some very very specific legal freedoms for all the people in a state. Not "freedom" in general. Not just for software developers or any other niche group. Those freedoms are specific to software as he believes that it's impact on societies, especially democracies is fundamental now and in the future.

If one were to think FOSS is just "open source" or a "nice thing for developers" one would have entirely missed the point. FOSS _is_ a "nice thing for developers" but that is just a side effect. FOSS is a hard-line political tool to very strongly promote specific kinds of legal rights/freedoms. RS drew a line in the sand and never crosses it. Thats why the GPL is so strict. It's the whole point of it.

His use of the word "evil" can be non-obvious. He sees users of software who have had their legal rights restricted via proprietary licensing as having been harmed (possibly in a very small way, possibly in a very serious way) by that situation, even if they entered into it willingly (with or without knowledge of FOSS's philosophy). Even if the proprietary vendor didn't mindfully intend harm, harm can still be done.

RS is not primarily concerned so much about the tiny individual incidents but the "network-effect" they have on society as whole when multiplied by billions. RS refers to that overall effect on democracy as "evil".
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Can we agree that it is obvious as long as we're not talking about retention/turnover?

Well, maybe not "obvious", but "clear that it can't be any other way once you think about it".
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To me the word "retard" immediately brings to mind fire retardants. Offense is in the eye of the person who takes offense...
I'm wondering if this is more like "citizens do not have this right" rather than like "citizens do not, and should not, have this right".

There is obviously nothing in the Constitution about recording public officials, and I assume there isn't a statute against it, so that means it's relying entirely on case precedent, right? Which I understand is still law, so I'm as baffled by the ruling as anybody, but I also feel that if I were taking this case on for the first time, I would find myself ruling that citizens don't have this right -- even though I would desperately hope and agree they very much should. Does anyone feel that if there was no case precedent, they would still believe they had this right due to freedom of "speech" (or something else)? What would be your legal justification?
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Capitalism doesn't require proprietary software, but it enables it.
Oh, that is a must watch for me, thanx. I remember Lunduke being vigilant because he was trying to sell his software on Linux without the risk of it immediately going into a repo for free (if I remember correctly). And why shouldn't he? I still think Linux would benefit from a strong offering of closed source software, as Lunduke did back in the day as well.
I wonder how it would hold up in court, since EasyList is just a list, not the technology itself (like uBlock for example).

Could my comment "Everyone, please block functionalclam.com" also be subject of a DMCA takedown request then?
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Your project was probably doing something wrong or weird since the Lazarus and Free Pascal developers have gone to great lengths to avoid breaking backwards compatibility - i have code from 10 years ago that compiles almost without changes. The only change that i have to do is when i abused strings as byte buffers that wouldn't work in Free Pascal 3.0. However that was something the FPC developers said for years and they made several release candidates so that people can report back issues. Even then the change was simply replacing all uses of `string` with `rawbytestring`.

The only backwards compatibility breaking they do is when they are fixing compiler bugs that shouldn't be used anyway. For example at some point it was possible to take the address of a property getter and this usually worked, but not always. They changed that to be illegal (according to the language reference it was illegal anyway) so any code that relied on that would need to change (a simple change would be to make a new property or function that gave back the address of the private reference and mark it as inline so that you wont get any performance penalty).

Personally i am very anal about backwards compatibility and i have abandoned tons of libraries (SDL, GTK, Qt, etc) because of that. In my experience Free Pascal, LCL and Lazarus are among the most stable frameworks to the point that they prefer to keep unnecessary things around for years just in case someone is still using them or introduce unnecessary options for the framework to change behavior in case someone is still relying on the old one (this is why for example you get a `RequireDerivedFormResource:=True;` line in new projects, older projects wont have this line which affects the behavior of how forms are created).

Obviously i don't know what your project was doing but you don't really provide any description (both of the issues you mentioned i haven't encountered), so i put my counter-experience here since i wouldn't like people to get the impression that Lazarus doesn't care about backwards compatibility. For me it is a prime example of a very complex project doing backwards compatibility right (hell, the Lazarus IDE itself can even be compiled with Free Pascal compilers that are years old just in case someone might for whatever reason - like the few cases mentioned above, or use FPC from some Linux distribution that only has old versions - be stuck with them). Things that break backwards compatibility are considered important bugs and are fixed - sometimes even at the cost of getting things "right".
Opera was killed just after 9.6? I thought it survived till Wahoo.
Nope. It's a lightning fast m.2 SSD. And warm caches don't help either.
Most of the time when you see a headline like this it's worth reading the actual judgement. They are publically available.

http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/17/07/163555P.pdf
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Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
Well, it used to crash a lot at some point : when e10s was first activated by default in Nightly (in 2013 IIRC) it crashed several times a day. I stopped using nightly for a year afterwards.
It does make perfect logical sense - as soon as you exclude the requirement "acting in good faith".
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Yet another screed that conflates machine learning with artificial intelligence, this time in order to reach a novel (yet equally fallacious) conclusion, all the while incurring in Betteridge's Law as form dictates.
These states are also among the most conservative when it comes to gun rights in defense of freedom against a tyrannical government. Upside-down world we live in.
If the vendor is a user or at least, a person. Making one more important than the other creates a paradox, doesn't it?

It's not important who benefits, it's import that one should have the right to offer ones own creation under their own terms.
Now here is another "currency" with intrinsic value! :D

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I agree, at least once the company is well established, but they do own them. If you nationalize them, or somehow make it so the company "serves the greater good", rather than the interests of it's owners, the results are disasterous. It's playing out in Venezuela now.