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The article tiptoes around the issue of "stealing" referenced by the headline, as if the "stolen" fruit is only taken from public property. As you will learn if you plant fruit trees in your front yard, there are quite a lot of people who think nothing of trespassing on private property and stripping your trees. In Hawaii it's become an epidemic - most of the stolen fruit is not consumed by famished thieves, it is sold at farmers' markets. Penalties are so minimal for this crime that the same thieves return over and over with no fear of being caught.

Thi issue has many of my fruit-growing friends ripping their hair out. Believe it or not, not all residential fruit trees are neglected afterthoughts - many of us put blood and sweat into these trees and live for the day we can harvest them.
The problem with showing a warning like that on every site you visit is that users will quickly become used to it and start ignoring it as a result. (Alarm fatigue)

Warnings are only useful if they're shown rarely enough for users to take note of them as an unusual event when they do occur.
Thats the ironic part. The upstream devs are all about a culture of "we don't care". They basically want their cake and eat it too.

And the group this guy effectively represent, is a forefront of this mentality.

If you try to build GTK, that he is directly responsible for, it will complain loudly unless you have the absolute latest Xorg installed.

Yet if you go and build the equivalent from Qt, they are happy to build against versions if Xorg that GTK would consider Jurassic.

No wonder Gnome is so gung ho about Wayland...
I think you'd find that actual leftist speech, calling for a violent Marxist revolution for example, would be treated the same way.
Occupy Wall Street isn't a relevant example to bring up because if it were a public park, then it would be referring to government censorship, whereas Google is private, so it's not relevant.

However, Zucotti Park is private, not public.
What did patent law do to manufacturing?
> So... if a kid is having trouble with text I would candidly posit that the kid may not have the ability to deal with abstraction that coding requires.

You do realize SpriteBox is targeting kids in lower elementary school?

Regardless, you didn't really identify any flaws in the primary thesis: decoupling the process of learning how to write error-free syntax (with raw text) from the more important development of an actual understanding of the underlying fundamental concepts may provide better results in many cases, perhaps especially so with younger kids.
Not now, but if you can really create AI, it shouldn't be indistinguishable of human Intelligence.

My point is that it is unlikely to make big steps now to advance in PL, but it is very likely you can do it in AI. The last 5 years have been crazy and the people working on it now is much more than few years ago.

Note: most probably you wont be getting human-like AI anytime soon
> Uber is the most important and promising company of our generation.

Give me a break. Are you curing cancer? Are you solving hunger? Are you fixing climate issues?

I hate when employers talk like salesmen to their employees.
> The search for a new CEO started over 50 days ago. It was at the same time that Travis agreed in writing to modify the company’s voting agreement to ensure that the board was composed of independent, diverse, and well qualified directors. Despite agreeing in writing to sign these amendments, he has still not done so.

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around what the legal difference is between "agreeing in writing to sign something" and "signing something". Anyone familiar with contract law want to chime in?
> By the same logic Python is multithreading-ready as well, since it's only a matter of it's major implementation why it doesn't support multithreading.

How web workers aren't threads? Browsers are more widely deployed than Node, even with the same V8 engine.
...yet. ;)
Yes they host hate speech. What is your point. They have the right to speak even if their views are poison and stupid. That is the point. This speech would have been perfectly fine in the 50s & 60s. The sites that would get banned by your logic would be the anti-rascism ones as that did not follow the popular sentiment. All speech should be protected even if it is abhorrent and stupid.
Amusingly I do somewhat the opposite. DDG is fine for mobile searches, but I require better results for work lookups.

I use DDG for home laptop, but often use g! prefix for things like flight data or image searches.
Nazis aren't a protected class in the US.
That's a reason for yelling censorship served on a golden tray. Well done, Google. Bravo!
An organization becomes a government the moment it starts governing. There's a difference between an organization promoting its interests and an organization using its power to control and regulate. There's a difference between corporations like Godaddy and corporations like ICANN.

As long as companies are making individual decisions and ICANN isn't involved, I think it's good that companies are making a moral stand. But when we start creating blacklists we become no better than the Nazis. It's a line we're getting dangerously close to and we don't want to cross it. I see no problem with a company like Google banning neo-Nazi websites. I see a huge problem if all the registrars conspire to create a blacklist or if ICANN starts censoring content.
You could make just as a valid (and philosophers like Popper have) that allowing unfettered free speech has also led every society that tried it down the road to dictatorship.

Dictatorship is one of the easy to find local minima of human organization, that we have to fight everyday not to slip down towards. You do that by accepting the humanity of your opponents, finding reasonable compromises, and there's no reasonable compromise to be had with the Nazi ideology, just ask the dead.
This is a stronger comment if you first make the case that refusal to do business with someone is censorship.

I mean, I see at least a vague analogy between not doing business with Nazis and not inviting boring people over for dinner. Is choosing dinner guests censorship?
See my other replay in this thread.

> Parallelizing your number crunching is probably not going to work very well. [...]

The question is, what exactly does "number crunching" mean? We do aerial imagery analysis, so image processing in essence, which I would classify as a "number crunching" problem. A common thing e.g. is to do a time-series analysis and you can simply start multiple (2, 4, ..., N with clusters, etc.) processes for each problem. Obviously this works because most methods are computation and/or memory heavy - the additional memory requirements and "overhead" of Python itself (IMHO people overestimate the weight of starting new processes instead of threads) is completely dwarfed by the requirements (memory and CPU) of the method itself.
Don't you have to carefully balance your mining speed and power consumption to be profitable. This seems like the worst card for that?
The pornography example is also a good one because they experience significantly more issues with web hosting and merchant accounts due to ToS. They seem to understand and accept that.
Not explicitly. Although in my case (2001 civic until about a month ago) car insurance was less than $300/yr, and repairs & maintenance was probably a bit less also, probably under $1000 most years.
>> Neither of these are comparable to Nazis literally shouting to gas kikes in the streets and running over peaceful protesters and if you think they are, you might want to check yourself.

ANTIFA? By it’s very nature Antifa has demonstrated it is a hate group. It attacks Christianity. It attacks white people. It attacks the freedom of speech and assembly. It attacks the very foundation of the country that has allowed them to speak freely while trying to destroy anyone with another idea or a different perspective. Antifa is anathema to what we collectively stand for as a nation and as a people.

The irony is their actions are the very EPITOME of Fascism:

Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and control of industry and commerce, that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.

BLM openly advocates for the murdering of white police officers. Not sure how that doesn't rise to the level of hate speech. Did you miss the youtube videos of the BLM riot in Milwaukee where the black rioters were actively looking for white people to assault and beat up? Again, how do those actions NOT rise to a hate crime??? If you had white people out trolling for Black people to assault, you'd be screaming at the top of your lungs it was a hate crime, right?

>> Nazis literally shouting to gas kikes in the streets and running over peaceful protesters

There were no peaceful protestors on either side. Both sides were armed, and there are images of people swinging bats at the car as it went down the street. You can't say the white nationalists were the only ones carrying weapons and looking for a violent confrontation. It was a tragedy what happened, but let's not try and act all morally superior saying one side was "demonstrating" peacefully while the other acted violent. Both sides are culpable here.

>> you might want to check yourself.

No check needed.

If you can't see the hate groups on your own side of the fence, there is little point in arguing is there?
Yes. Shame on past toomuchtodo for using too few characters, but also thankful I didn't need to spend hundreds of dollars on compute time.
Why are you mentioning this reasoning in the context of DailyStormer?
Also more recent research showing that trying train or educate away such bias doesn't work.

I would have dropped a reference except I thought this was so well known it could easily be found. If not, start here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-...

Meanwhile, thanks for the downvotes on spec - maybe save your downvotes for when you have a bibliography, peeps.
I am very curious to know what is the "email+junk" trick? I tried googling but it yielded no helpful result.
>that's why all countries that do not have USA style free speech are dictatorships

They partly are. The USA, for all its faults, is the last bastion of free speech in the world. And I say this as a European.
> building out a reasonably large Web API for a game.

How does it handle a lot of users hammering at the API at the same time?
The supposed performance improvement is really the only thing I care about as I am happy with the amount of red shift I currently have. It's nice they are bothering to integrate more pro-sleep functionality for those who care though.
> But we acted out of a deep conviction that it would be better for Uber, its employees, and investors to have a fresh start.

Bull-fucking-shit. Don't condescend to us and pretend like you have the employees' interests at heart. I have no great love for Travis, but come on don't act like this isn't about getting your returns. The letter would have a lot more credibility if they just came out and admitted what is obvious to everyone.
Why are they even pushing out OTA updates for a deadbolt? Who designs a deadbolt that locks/unlocks via expiring codes and thinks "we're going to need to release so many updates for this that we should use OTA updates instead of the customer manually applying an occasional patch."
I feel like this letter would have come across as more honest if they had at least once acknowledged that they are also motivated by their desire/need to protect their own investment alongside the rest of the things they claim.
The Spanish invaded, conquered, and enslaved most of South and Central America.

For the Portuguese, you probably have to look at Africa and Southeast Asia; I don't know much about them.
Why call it Lambda?
Pure anecdote, but I feel like there's been a shift in terms of speech/expression philosophy. At home and in school, so-cal for context, I was taught to practice tolerance. Not because every person or peoples were good in their own way, but because attacking them or their rights would weaken the integrity of my own rights and protections since both of us derived our privileges from the same body of law. I don't know if it's just the times or post-internet connectivity but I see a lot more popular support for censorship and violence these days and it makes me a little uncomfortable.
This is essentially the same was what AppAcademy does, though they don't offer this to everyone across the board anymore (some groups have to prepay in full).
Thanks for that illumination. That was helpful.

I think you should be aware your words imply that you believe Google is doing quota based hiring or different hiring bars based on 'diversity'. You said, exactly quoted:

"This goes directly to the core of the issue and what I had brought up on the thread recently about the Google employee who got fired. Specifically, if companies were truly interested in fairness, the only mandate for the interview process would be to hire the best person, no exceptions. "

The first sentence talks about Google. The second sentence you talk about how "companies" should hire the best person, no exceptions. Implying you believe Google does not do that. Because even though they are separate sentences they are part of the same chain of thought. So the second sentence seems to apply to Google despite your use of "companies" (which includes Google, since Google is a company).

So just be aware, if you raise A then B, then people are, naturally led into thinking that A and B are related in your mind some way.

This is why you can't write a memo like the original anti-diversity one, you are conflating too many issues. You can't dispassionately discuss how to change the diversity programs to be more inclusive in the same thought body that says "effectively lowered the bar for diversity candidates". That signals to people that you think these two things are related. Given that he has been embraced by the alt-right, and he has encouraged that, it should be giving people a pretty clear sign that the original 'anti-diversity memo' wasn't actually argued in good faith.
> Empire being a generic metaphor for oppressive regimes

It wasn't always like this. The best example is the Roman Empire in the time of Augustus, with its Pax Romana and everything related to it, which wasn't seen as a bad thing by lots of writers during the centuries that followed it. The second example that comes to mind is the Investiture Controversy from the early Middle Ages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_Controversy), which saw the Papacy ideologically battling it out against the Holy Roman Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire was definitely not seen as oppressive or anything the like.

On a more generic note, us Christian Orthodox use the phrase "The Empire from the Skies" (my not so good translation, here's the wiki article on it in Romanian which literally translates as "God's Empire" : https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Emp%C4%83r%C4%83%C8%9Bia_...), and, again, the term "empire" is not seen as oppressive or anything similar, quite the contrary.
Do you really have to to just provide frames though? Couldn't they just sell empty frames and have optometrists install and request lenses. I think that's how most frames work now.
The review touches the basics, and can't go into all the options that are available.
Amen :)

> The only thing I'd always questioned was whether such a scheme as described above could pass legal muster

Income share agreements are all-but blessed, at least in the US, and in Australia they pretty closely mirror how most student loans work.

> It bears a resemblance to involuntary servitude

The concerns of indentured servitude go away when you realize each student can live or work or do whatever they'd like, they willingly enter into the agreement, etc. We obviously want them to get a high-paying job, and it's in both of our best interests for them to do so.
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Yes, I was assuming net neutrality. Without it the whole discussion is moot since your traffic could just get tossed out at any time by any provider along the route.
OS X is a certified UNIX, no need for external tooling.
But Germany has so far managed to keep the NPD on the fringe. The number of votes they get is low enough that it can be considered a safety valve of sorts. More interesting would be to see how Germany would react if the NPD got within striking distance of control of the Reichstag.

As for your second point, ideas may be too dangerous to express and you're still free to express them. But that's no reason to hand someone a megaphone to express those ideas and I think that Europe learned that there are points in time where small changes can have large effects, and that some of those effects can get out of control. So they tried (and possibly failed, but so far so good) to put mechanisms in place to stop a re-occurrence of recent history.

Which system is better only time will tell, but what's happening in the USA right now does not have a parallel in Europe.
Comscore measures by traffic, and they have iOS as 44.6% of mobile share.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comscore-reports-feb...

That's not too far off 50 percent.
> Would it be a "unanimous" conclusion if it were a conclusion drawn by a singular person or entity?

Which singular person or entity should be responsible for determining what "hate speech" is? According to SJWiki I am a neurosexist for believing that men and women have different brains and that gender is not a social construct. Should SJWiki be trusted? According to the ADL, Gavin McInnes and Mike Cernovich are hate preachers. Should the ADL be trusted?

> Do you have an example of this being identified as hate speech?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMl4kIxw-jo

Also it's a slippery slope because once the "hate speech" clampdown happens, we'll then be punished for microaggressions, so even if you're not a racist, you'll be seen as racist for asking what race or ethnicity someone is?
How many generations are required before you can enjoy the benefits without the guilt?
It's career "damaging" (I wouldn't say killing) because so many crackpots have attempted this problem that making a wrong attempt makes you look a bit like a crackpot.
Funny you mention that - this has happened a handful of times lately and I am not sure why. The network is completely lost and I have to quit and reopen the app on my iPhone for it to work again. I assumed it was due to my carriers (o2 germany) general unreliability..
Their scientists have careers that span beyond those universities, so "encouraging them to contribute" is easier said than done. (Also, their scientists have very diverse disciplines and thus many, many different journals to contribute to - so each individual journal still wouldn't have enough good scientists contributing to carry them.)
But the Internet is neither free nor public... (?)
Every domain registrar allows you to transfer in any domain. Adding humans in that process would be massively expensive, slow, and unsustainable.

They likely canceled it as soon as they found out about it.
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Public accommodation anti-discrimination laws are a thorny area where they address things which can be viewed as expressive/speech acts for exactly this reason, sure.

But, the appropriateness of such laws and how they interact with First Amendment freedoms is somewhat irrelevant to this case, in the absence of a statute that would be applicable.
This headline is editorialised. Some basic OSINT will show he also sold a banking trojan previously, which is what he is facing charges for.
It's probably the company that has had the most concrete impact on my life and the lives of my friends of this generation (depending on how you define generation).
I see some good points on both sides of the discussion here but one thing occurs to me about the current diversity-pushback that I'm seeing(I'm not going to call it anti-diversity because I think a fair amount of it is well-meaning or at least not explicitly hateful).

We've surprisingly quickly moved from periods where it was common to simply refuse to even consider minorities or women in many fields to a time when many people see political correctness and reverse-racism/sexism as a greater problem than sexism and racism themselves.

I'm glad to see people being very thoughtful about fairness and equality, but I have an honest question: Before quotas and social justice warriors, were you thinking about fairness and equality when the status quo potentially benefited you and excluded others not on their merit but race and gender? I'm asking honestly, not trying to point fingers but I would like to know because this community, while left-leaning on many issues (I think) tends more towards libertarian on issues of race and gender and seems especially defensive when it comes to the tech industry (especially when the term "privilege" is used, it turns downright hostile).

If you were active in supporting equality and diversity (by resisting arbitrarily exclusionary practices) when it wasn't popular to do so and now you are seeing the negative aspects of a push for artificial diversity I would like to know that.

If you have never even considered diversity issues until recently when seeing hiring practices that could negatively affect you I would like to know that too. Do you believe any specific action needs to be taken to promote diversity or will the problem solve itself, or does the problem even exist at all?
My fear is it will be easier for organizations like this Website to radicalize otherwise moderate people. It isn't hard to sell the argument that "first they (liberal minded people) wanted to take away your second amendment right. Now they want to take your first! We are the protectors of the Constitution!".

Banning them is futile (someone on Earth will host them) and makes them more subversive, taboo, and attractive to certain people.
Well, let's just say we disagree. See 'free speech zones'.
They'll transfer the name elsewhere, it's a petty waste of time.
When I click your link, the tweet is there. Must have been a glitch?
It becomes censorship when all accesses to a medium (ie. DNS resolvers) are privatized. In other words, if all private providers refuse them access to a medium and if we agree this people still have rights, there is nothing in place to defend these rights. The collective action to refuse them access is therefore censorship.
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>Brilliant, I've long thought that all universities should run under this model

I strongly disagree. Let universities be universities. The point of a university is to develop your mind, not train for a job. There's no reason we cannot have a parallel vocational system which teaches people practical skills. Let the market decide which one better serves students.
Considering the cold war relatively peaceful at sea is interesting, firstly.

Secondly, I would argue that the reason the seas have been free from "major conflict" over the last 60 years is in no small measure due to the preponderance of naval power wielded by the United States and Russia. If odds had not been overwhelming, do you think there would have been less conflict, or more?
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