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One of the things that is useful about due process is the right to confront your accusers and cross examine them under oath. Without those rights, it is difficult, if not impossible, to see justice done.

Too often these important elements are missing, and Rod's statement "At no point have I been provided with an opportunity to answer to these complaints, correct the factual errors contained in them (see below), apologize and make amends where possible, or provide additional context that may further explain accusations against me." suggests that this lack of due process is present in this case as well.

When "Somebody complained about you in a serious way, but we can't say who, or the substance of the complaint." is the standard against which the process is measured, then it leaves itself open for abuse.
Or, you know, Paypal.
Sounds like you'd already made up your mind about Rod, and weren't keen to hear the other side.

I, on the other hand, was curious to read his version of things so I'm glad he took the time to offer a detailed reply. After reading his "polemic" I felt he was rational, composed, and defended his actions and character rather well. I came to the conclusion that the pitchfork wielding folks were slinging a lot of unsubstantiated accusations that look a lot like moral authoritarianism.

My read was that he diffused a lot of possible indignation and inflammation with his word choice and tone. He was more conciliatory than I would have been in his position.
If only
I don't think that's true. The two big changes in the past thousand or so years were the Medeival Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. Both were more regional than global, and the Little Ice Age coincided with the Industrial Revolution, which of course started extremely good economic times.
>If you have found stack traces are already readily available in third-party packages – that you can claim you do it often – what's the issue?

Not in Go. I have found them extremely useful as a diagnostic tool in languages that have ubiquitous stack traces.

>And if a package is written poorly, and you don't want to fix the issues with it, perhaps you should reconsider using it in the first place?

As I said, the problem may not even originate in that particular third party library. The error may just be passing through, coming from my own code or from a different library altogether.

>How so? The simplest form of a fork is one that is an exact copy of the original.

Vendoring is not primarily about forking and then changing the code. The main purpose of vendoring is freezing dependencies.
Well I for one make it a point to call out people being rude to others when I see it. We are out there.

Don't let people get you down.
He was also the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
Paypal doesn't serve many countries. Has high fees. Can arbitrarily lock you away from funds or freeze accounts. Censors Transactions. Banking law does not apply as they are a transmitter, not a bank. Many many reasons not to PayPal.
Light paywall.

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I thought this was odd as well. Even if I knew your intention, which I wouldn't unless I read this comment, some part of me doubts your credibility from here on. I can see the point you are trying to make, but I think that deliberately using misinformation to do so is neither in your, nor the reader's, best interest.
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Anything can be made to seem superficially 'cheap' if corruption is used to enforce subsidies on populations.

Fossil fuels are only 'cheaper' because governments have become irredeemably corrupted by fossil fuel interests, so none have to face public liabilities for the damage caused by their products. The apparent 'cheapness' is a consequence only of fraudulent accounting. This is a specific case of the more general 'Pollution Paradox', viz. "The more polluting a company is, the more money it must spend on politics to ensure it is not regulated out of existence" (George Monbiot).
And vice versa. Jobs got where he was by (not likely coincidentally) finding a person with Woz's combination of genius and gullibility. Woz didn't get a remotely fair shake from Jobs, and there are not a ton of guys dumb enough to ride that ride and smart enough to deliver what Woz delivered.
I'd argue the diff between artisan & artist is semantics. Conceptually they both yearn for the elevation that comes along with your output being considered an art.
I'm curious too. I wish I had something more concrete than "it's much higher than that." The best bet may be to look at charter prices, then divide by some small factor (2-4?) to account for profit margins and the better economies of scale an airline will have and such.
Indeed. And while the fork proclaims to be more inclusive and provide safe-space, how am I as a developer to feel safe when I am subject to kangaroo-court processes?

And this is the reward for the effort of contributing time & code to a project? No, this is not inclusiveness.
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Thanks! The most I have run simultaneously on one Linux box was around 12. I think you could push that to 20 on a small VM.
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>all parties are informed and consent, what is wrong with it?

It's exploitation. First if teenagers are actually doing this (under 18 anyway) they can't legally consent to this. Nevertheless, the only thing they are informed of is they don't have money and they want it. It's like asking what's wrong with child prostitution as long as the children are informed and consent.

You think the class of people engaging in this practice would continue if they were limited to using their own children? We aren't exactly talking about a last resort of donating an organ to keep someone alive.
Thanks, I was just reading the parent link to part 2. Makes sense they are making lower-risk / more trusted transactions faster, similar to remittance companies already.
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Networking is one the most expensive forms of advertising. If a better paying job is what you are after, spending 90% of your time on networking doesn't sound like an efficient or even a good idea. Instead focus on building your brand, doing PR, writing articles, speaking at various events, etc., basically focus on becoming a rockstar and wait for offers to come to you.
Screw consent.

If I pull off some massive project like this what is another person/business/country going to do about?

If someone "solves" climate for some value of solved are you going to invade them and start a war over your economy being saved?
Paypal has nothing to do with ACH or cash settlement. Totally different.
Sunstorm [1] by Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, obliquely touches on this though with added aliens and a larger threat from the sun.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35815.Sunstorm
Can you find stable mirrors for the first N gigabytes?
Only one.

If the USA, Russia or any other nuclear power does it there won't be a war. Nuclear is the key word here, Those wars are much more costly than any amount climate change.
If you look into the reason for each of those constraints, you'll find that any cryptocurrency exchange will eventually have to face the same challenges.

I think it was Hector-Garcia Molina who used to talk about how NoSQL proponents were so excited about the scale benefits, but just hadn't yet realized that they need ACID, normalization, etc.. That's who cryptocurrency advocates remind me of. Just because some features are superior currently, doesn't mean those features are consistent with future, inevitable constraints.
Open source, awesome!

I'm so impressed with their UI. You can watch games in real time and there's a dashboard showing you your Ping + Server Processing Time per Move (usually 2ms).
> It's become such a problem, that it's basically become the biggest issue the pedagogy community as a whole is actively trying to address. This is interesting, because there has been a lot of progress made in injury-preventive technique.

Could you please give me some references for this? Guitar has loads of famous people who encourage people to do things that will cause injuries. Having some actual research to fight against this would be really useful.

An egregiously bad example: Paul Gilbert (who is like 6'5" and has enormously long arms and fingers) actually SELLS an especially long guitar strap that is practically guaranteed to give you RSI. I wish I were joking:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paul+gilbert+gu...

Side note: this made me hugely disappointed in Paul Gilbert. Prior to this, I thought of him as an amazing guitar player with a very wry/dry sense of humor who was simply making fun of the guitar stereotype crowd. Actually encouraging something which is damaging in order to profit from it crosses the line whether he is serious or joking--too many people will listen and believe him.
250K for a house. How exactly do you expect any country, let alone the US, to compete with that kind of offer.

Sure you can expand research grant money, as the article mentions, but what more than that? A guaranteed job? A blank check? The author should have spelled out some realistic reforms.

I'd hardly call 140+ out of 3000+ applicant returnees a brain drain. Sounds like they don't offer this to foreigners either. Someone forgot to tell them how politically incorrect that is. Plenty of smart people from other countries would love to take their place.

And so what if they go to Canada, our friendly northern neighbor, ally, partner in this hemisphere, and subscriber to our intellectual property laws. I don't necessarily consider that a "drain", more like just living in "alternative version USA". Not like they can't easily return to the US if a better opportunity came up and or the political climate shifted more to their liking.
So if someone hacks into my smartphone, they can steal a thousand hamburgers?
> The issue is that large corporations like these don't care about norms or morals

Literally every PR message of every large corporation lately says the opposite. Even if they were all liars, why would they all lie about the same things if not because it is aligned with norms and morals?

> lecturing them on morals is pointless

This is not true, companies are regularly lectured on morality, and often successfully. E.g. just recently several providers were induced to sever ties with a nazi website, for moral reasons. There are numerous other cases, of course, and people are getting fired for moral reasons all the time.

> Murder? Rape?

Murder and rape are way beyond just decency. Those are exactly the things that "if you do them, you deserve to be hurt, badly". The government is good at enforcing those. It is not good at enforcing things that needs to be handled in more complicated ways, like finding proper society norms of behavior and enforcing them. As you probably understand, "at least he doesn't murder or rape anyone" is not really a definition of a good person, there's a bit more to it than that.

> The social norms come first I agree, but you need the law to help prevent morally reprehensible behavior

Do you? So, if you leave a small tip or don't smile back when somebody greets you, or don't hold the door for somebody when they walk behind you, you should go to jail? I think even North Korea doesn't go that far. With this approach, your ideal world would out-totalitarian the most totalitarian regimes known to humanity.

> And until it does, no large corporate entity will care.

As I said, this is demonstrably false. Moreover, there exist many successful organizations that has been and continue to demonstrate it being false every day.
Why bother having a rule if you're not going to enforce it? I agree that questioning authority is healthy, but people also are required to follow rules on occasion and it's your job to teach them how to do that. Using a technological solution to a discipline issue is a short term bandaid for a long time problem.
Neither does Ripple, which is the technology in question in this subthread.
He, I forgot to mention that I also use Chez as a backend for Idris. https://github.com/melted/idris-chez
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I would argue that having to write apps in JS, or transpiling to the JS runtime, is a problem for many people.
Not a lawyer, to be on the safe side - you would want to avoid a scenario where you are getting paid or do anything that may be treated as skilled labor while on a B1/B2 visa. Breaking this may be grounds for revoking your visa status.

You can be compensated for your travel, meal, lodging expenses from a US entity, and you can take meetings, close deals, fundraise, and perform other business activities.

Update: You may have personal funds in your country that you would use for covering your expenses and that should be okay. Any ambiguity with such costs being a payment (you mentioned it a subsidiary) for services rendered should be avoided.
I don't know how this got ethics approval. Doing a trial in 600 people without a placebo or randomisation when you are using a potentially harmful treatment like transfusion is ridiculous.

Of course, they aren't interested in proving whether it actually works. They will report that patients experienced subjective benefits and then engineer some surrogate blood biomarker of youth that 'improves' after transfusion. Then they will sell a transfusion product for at least the next 10-20 years it will take a proper trial to be conducted by someone else.
Refund the placebo folks after the study?
>So I guess, I'm not convinced that injury isn't technique related and that not being injured doesn't have more to do with luck (in terms of natural technique) than genetics.

Certainly luck is a factor, but genetics is an important factor as well. Many studies have linked genetics to a predisposition for inflammation, wound-healing, and other injury-related phenomena.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160302135149.h...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16472051
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We'd also need to advance material science and logistics quite a bit. It sounds like carbon fiber has the tensile strength, but we can't make it in near the length nor quality we'd need for a space elevator.

The elevator would need to avoid or divert space junk.

And we haven't actually practiced asteroid capture, much less orbit keeping on a scale that large.
An escalation is an issue that cannot be fixed by a support engineer using regular troubleshooting methods and known fixes and has to be escalated to the development team. They are usually extremely costly and disruptive.
>Swing and JavaFX can be quite usable, but require a bit of graphics programming skills

By this, do you mean skills with computer graphics programming versus GUI programming? As in things like double-buffering, BitBLT, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit

And if so, why are those needed for Swing and JavaFX?
> Always forget there's a library with that name.

And that "Vulcan" is properly spelled with a "c" in Star Trek? (At least in English...I suppose it might be different in other languages).
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Markdown/CommonMark whatever you call it these days is pretty good for formatting. I keep forgetting how to format things here and the help link doesn't appear until after you've already posted.

HN, have we thought about this before!?
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I'm not against geo-engineering as a general concept, even though I don't personally buy into the most alarmist of the climate change scenarios. If we do do some kind of project like this, I would want to have a counter in place in case it does more harm than good, as a general rule of thumb. I would want that factored into the cost and preparations in place for just such an eventuality before committing to such a course.

In this case, though, it seems relatively trivial - it seems like it's more work to keep them in place then to have them scatter to the (solar?) winds. Once they've moved out of the Lagrange point, then they become a non-issue. All we've lost is the money to put them there and the materials. Compared to some of the other ideas I've heard, this appears to be much safer.
That's total. I still have the American dream, don't think we are scratching the surface in terms of possibilities.
> Sounds like you'd already made up your mind about Rod, and weren't keen to hear the other side.

I actually only read his side, although I stopped after a couple screen fulls as I recognized from experience that what I was reading was not a productive response to the situation at hand, but a defensive one.
The bar for qualification as an artistic expression is extremely low. See _Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co_, 499 U.S. 340 ("To be sure, the requisite level of creativity is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice. The vast majority of works make the grade quite easily, as they possess some creative spark, "no matter how crude, humble or obvious" it might be.")

You'd be better off arguing some other angle, but please study law first so as not to waste anyone's time.
Got any links for when K. Anders Ericsson slams Gladwell? Was it in a blog post or a podcast or something?
OTOH if you build an immutable system it will be exploited for all kinds of bad things as well. Also note that code generally only becomes immutable after it has been reviewed.
And that's just the CS papers.
When you withdrawal from PayPal (or at least Venmo), doesn't it go through an ACH?
From TFA:

> In a study published this week in the journal Nature Astrophysics, researchers say they were able to produce this "diamond rain" using fancy plastic and high-powered lasers.
I'd go with Cuba!
Yes I do maintain a blacklist. The main vehicle is: when I see something I find unconscionable from a company with I'll add an Adguard rule to block their domain name. It's hardly water-tight, but what is?

Your "I think it's much more likely" is a bit odd considering what you know about me (ie. almost nothing). "Outrage" is also pretty exaggerated. There are millions of commercial outfits out there in the world, the vast majority of which I'll never have anything to do with. There's a low bar for me to exclude just one more from consideration.
Not when the support is useless and not required.
Also known as: No.
I think that is maybe distasteful. A monetary incentive to not have children is like advocating state-sponsored neutering of people. And since its money, who do you think would be affected for such things? the rich?

So basically its the very concept of paying poor people not to procreate, so that the current existing people have a 'nicer time' (which is actually also economically incorrect).

Its super gross.
> but you have to consider this scenario (which involves thinking beyond yourself)

I'm not denying that poor behaviour can net more customers -- on the contrary, it's by far the easiest way of doing so. My response was in the domain of ethical, not commercial, calculus.
> It reminds me of a lot of the attitudes surrounding C++ when I was first learning it-- yes, it's more lines of code, but that doesn't mean it can't be a fine place for a beginner to start learning.

Sure, but Vulkan really feels like another level of complexity. OpenGL is simple in comparison.
My favorite part of the original Dracula is all of the weird shit that starts happening just because Dracula's in the neighborhood. Rat infestations, mysterious plagues, the madmen in the asylum getting frisky...

Obviously, this could all translate perfectly into a story of late capitalist vampires living in a condo-converted church in the mission...
> The fact that it even takes more than an hour is absurd.

The fact that it takes more than a couple of seconds is absurd. What could possibly need an hour?

Our standards are far too low here.
I do not know that I have the answer, but I do have a guess: Node.js is the only one of those projects whose development is primarily backed by a corporation.

Culturally, this sort of drama can only take place in environments where the "shut up and show me the code" hacker ethos is either missing or superceeded by other concerns. When a single company has significant control of the project, its priorities will override the project's. Many companies are interested in widespread adoption of the project, which is how "inclusion" ends up working its way on the list of project priorities. Many companies are also averse to controversy, so they're inclined to simply cut someone loose if there is a problem just to make the problem go away.

I could be wrong in the specific case of Node.js; the last time I paid attention to its governance was during the gendered code comment fiasco, where the contributor who was kicked out did not work for Joyent. But I have seen it in other open source contexts, most recently in the Drupal project.
From the paper (brief read) it seems like an attempt at creating one language that could express everything from high level program specifications down to low level implementation details. It seems meant to be paired with a refinement calculus to perform the transformations from one level down to the next.

In my understanding some levels are not, strictly, executable by the machine. Though they may be used as ways of verifying their refinements?

The modes and objects remind me of more advanced type systems such as Haskell and the MLs, a bit of Ada. The ability to mix high level specs and low level implementation brings to mind design by contract (Eiffel), as well as the methods used in formal specification and verification by Frama C and Spark Ada for systems languages.
The point is that the language treats numbers as objects when they aren't.

It's not that reference semantics don't have a place, it's just that the place isn't numbers.

As for your second question, it looks like the type system has two embarrassing questions: what the heck does "new Object()" mean? Nothing worth saying.
God that music...
This is, as I see it, an unfortunate side effect of vastly under valuing intent and over valuing individual interpretations and how they make people feel. There needs to be a balance, and when there's not you end up with problems. If that's what happened in this case, it might have resulted in fault being a much more nebulous concept to those people.

It's possible he said some things which ended up hurting people's feelings. It's entirely possibly he had no intention his actions be interpreted as they were. In that case, if you over value intent, he did nothing wrong, and some people were being too sensitive. If you over value interpretation, he should have known better, and it's his responsibility to be on top of how his actions would be interpreted.

Neither extreme is even remotely workable for all situations. The only thing that works in practice is that people accept that their wording sometimes needs changing based on common perceptions of it, and also that people may not have interpreted something as intended and intention matters as well. The only way to do this in practice is to actually communicate intent and interpretation when there's a problem so corrections can be made if they apply, and to both parties being open to accepting those corrections. This is obviously impossible if there is no communication.
Book recommendation: The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert Heinlein. One of the things handled in the plot is the fictional assertion that the moon is covered in diamonds.
That's funny. I was having a discussion with some colleagues today about this! We also saw the distribution within bitcoin addresses and it's not looking good https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....
Only 1% of addresses hold 90% of BTC :-(