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I'm not a lawyer but I ended up having to take a number of courses on law. One of the most heavily covered topics is procedure. Courts love their procedure.

This isn't something I'm clear on. Maybe someone here is a lawyer and can offer some insight.

Yes, he's a badass but under what rules can the judge completely disallow courtroom access for specific individuals doing representation work? I can see malfesience, disruption, or ethics being reasons - but being illprepared resulting in sanctions (? maybe, not sure of the right word, perhaps censure) against specific individuals seems like it might require a high standard, as choice of representation is a pretty solid privilege.

Like you said, a badass. Judges have awesome powers in their courtroom, but I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like this and I'm unsure of the rules surrounding it. I'm sure there are rules. Courts love their procedure. They've got rules for everything.
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First programmed: Comet (using COMAL and Pascal)
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Same thing in Soviet Russia. I am reading The Gulag Archipelago, and in it, Solzhenitsyn says about the mindset of one who is facing unjust arrest by the authorities:

"...But as for you, you are obviously innocent! You still believe that the Organs [of state security] are humanely logical institutions: they will set things straight and let you out.

Why, then, should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you'll only make your situation worse; you'll make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake. And it isn't just that you don't put up any resistance; you even walk down the stairs on tiptoe, as you are ordered to do, so your neighbors won't hear.

At what exact point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about any one of them individually - especially at a time when the thoughts of the person arrested are wrapped tightly around the big question: 'What for?' - and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest."

I think same kind of thoughts go through peoples' heads in all manner of less serious circumstances. They might know it doesn't feel right or that it's wrong, but they feel that surely someone will help them correct the mistake. And if they just go along for now, they'll be in better standing when they finally find the right time to raise their objection.
>I expect Mozilla to be neutral politically

Then you misunderstand what a 501(c)3 is and what it can do politically[0]. I expect Mozilla to get right up to the line of what is acceptable for that type of organization and probably cross it multiple times, because it appears no one is actually held to account unless the violations are flagrant.

Donating $100k to an email service that claims to attempt to keep the US Government from snooping your email[1] doesn't even come close, IMO.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization#Limitat...

[1]https://riseup.net/en/about-us
Nope, you’re totally not the only idiot. Obviously, since Ajit Pai was reconfirmed.
True, it wouldn't be 3 billion individuals claiming the benefit. Still the scale is so large that it would utterly bankrupt most companies to pay out for a single breach.
If you've ever done concurrent programming in Java I think you'd appreciate many of the design decisions made in Clojure. That's one of the biggest practical benefits.

Also Clojure is dynamic to an extreme (like most lisps), which can make complex programs rather easy and short to write, which might be appropriate for some use cases. I do a lot of data munging, and I've tried many languages for it (Python, Scala, R, Java, Groovy, JS, Clojure), and Clojure is by far my favorite for clarity, simplicity, and speed. And because the REPL toolchain (CIDER/Cursive) is head and shoulders above the rest (except maybe iPython).
Your reading is wrong. The judge is talking about Waymo's merits for the case, vs the fact that Uber's lawyers were assholes.
Ironic. Crypto currency was supported to be the equalizer, not enabler of incumbents
> A problem with Scheme is excessive fragmentation.

Yes. And not only that, but also the fact that each Scheme implementation is slightly (at best) different from all other implementations.
I guess that is because Scheme standards are not that strict (for example, compare with Java specs)
You dont have to look far, the article is written by Cruise’s CEO. :-)
I asked this question a while ago, about why people stay at their jobs, despite knowing they could get paid more. Might be worth a read for some thoughts.

Ask HN: Why did you accept a lower salary?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109079

For me, basically I have similar pros and cons as you.

I could be earning more, but I get a lot of downtime to work on my side projects, location is 10 minutes from home, people I work with I get along with fairly okay, and oh yeah, I work with my fiancee, so that is nice. On the con side, there's no room for advancement, and although there are raises, its general raises depending on: how well our company is doing, and the regular 3% raise to match cost of living.

So.... you have to really weigh in the fact that if you move on, you go into the unknown... not a bad thing at all. If that is what you are ready for.. go! Just know, you could face similar issues. If you feel it's time, then move on. Sometimes it could lead to something better. I mean, I've known people where I work who have been here for 5, 10, and even 15 years... some are regular workers and others have been promoted to the manager position.

The cons of staying at a job for more than 5 years.. is that you have the experience of what that job has taught you. I've seen some people laid off and don't know what to do with themselves because THIS IS ALL THEY KNOW.

For me.. I chose to stay. While I am definitely in a comfort zone.. I have a house and cannot afford to gamble my job with a new one right now. My fiancee currently makes a little more money than I do, but I make up for it by freelancing and building web apps.
Sulfur and CFCs are exceptions for even more reasons.

Sulfur in fuel is a contaminant. It isn't added, it was there when the crude was pumped out of the ground. Once you remove it you don't need to replace it with anything. The oil industry has claimed the sulfur was useful as a lubricant, but that was largely a red herring because they didn't want to pay to remove it.

And CFCs were used for their physical properties rather than their chemical properties, so it's possible to substitute compounds that are chemically different as long as they still have the right physical properties.

A good example on the other side is fire retardant chemicals used in furniture. They're pretty much all toxic, so every few years the most recently popular one gets banned and the manufacturers switch to something else which is just as bad but isn't prohibited yet.
I had to start skipping through just to find out some glimmer of hopeful resolution, what a pit of despair. I am livid having read this.
IIRC GCC is capable of dropping the check if it knows the possible range of the switch variable. An example would be using a single byte and having all 256 possibilities exist in the switch. Another would be switch (x & 7) with 8 cases. I have not checked in a while, but I spent a lot of time on code with this issue. It's at the core of my ray tracer of all things.
> it's innocent until proven guilty

Civil case. Preponderance of evidence is enough. And the defense standing over a shredder pushing stolen documents through, paying for the shredding of a hard drive in cash months after it was supposed to be done, delaying discovery and magically disappearing a boatload of files from a company already known publicly to act scummy looks a fucking lot like a preponderance of evidence. All Waymo needs to do is tell the story the way they see it to a jury - too many dots connect up perfectly.

My guess is that the only reason this case is still going is that Uber can't come up with settlement terms (i.e. billions of dollars of cash) Waymo will accept.
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Ask HN: Can we trust Equifax data?
If hackers had access to the Equifax data one could assume they also had the ability to change data.

Can we trust any of their data?
Wow, excuse me for trying to have an objective discussion and consider the possible downsides of this legislation.

Perhaps you'd care to explain why you think my comment justifies being called an idiot?

Edit: do you really want to give the Trump administration the power to decide what is and is not neutral content delivery? This is the kind of consequence I am attempting to discuss.
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Revenue to market cap multiples in technology on the public market are often in the 6x range even at slower growth rates than private companies. So if they're doing $100M they could easily be worth over $1B now.
> "Picking" a political side will alienate at least 50% of the users (if not more as the left typically is < 50%)

Source?
I don't see this any different than advertising laws. Given the nature of capitalism, people will always try to bamboozle each other and if the benefit of bamboozling someone is high enough, we get really smart bamboozlers. I think it's natural to plan ahead and prevent this.
Sure, but this doesn't account for how Bitcoin or digital currency actually scales. There isn't any reason that the same proof-of-work couldn't secure an order of magnitude more transaction volume. That kind of throws this analysis into question.
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In a production environment: Clojure combines all of the resources of the Java/JVM environment with a nicer (in my opinion), dynamic syntax. It also has the best standard library of any language I have worked with, bar none.

From a learning standpoint: Clojure and other functional languages are worth using because they make you approach problems differently, and in doing so you become a better programmer.

Source: used Clojure in production building a real product for ~3 years
I agree, but people who vape are (generally) moving from something that has a lot of known risk. Moving from smoking tobacco to vaping is likely orders of magnitude lower risk, just from the fact combustion isn't happening.

I agree that we should get more information about the risk of vaping, but the wholesale banning of vaping is likely to be more harmful than just leaving things as is.[1]

[1]Not saying you are arguing for banning vaping, but FDA did take that position originally until they got smacked down
First, no one gives a crap about security until something like this happens to them. The incentives are not in place to require it. Time and resources spent on security are time and resources not spent on beating the competitor. The best outcome you can hope for if you _do_ spend on security is that your competitor will have some apocalyptic breach similar to this one, and that doesn't happen most of the time, at least not in a way that results in any accountability or visibility.

It's important to understand that because it's the reason why your bosses will never care unless/until they have an experience like this, or until they expect someone important to be looking for an opening (audits, due diligence, etc).

Second, there are indeed some clowns and cronies hired at these sort of places, but a lot of the people are decently skilled. I'm speaking generally about the workforce at these larger enterprisey companies, as I don't know anyone at Equifax afaik.

Technical competence is less of an issue than intra-managerial political games like "shift the blame" and "silo defense", at least some of the time. Part of "intra-managerial games" is having the least-skilled people in the most authoritative positions, leaving decision authority with those least equipped to evaluate a situation and determine a responsible response.

I am sure that there is someone at Equifax who saw the news on this vulnerability and registered it as being something they needed to patch. I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that this person didn't say anything because they learned long ago that there's nothing to be gained by actually trying to get the patch done in any non-routine manner.

I also wouldn't be surprised to learn they did try to raise the alarm and were mocked and/or shut down, both by other technical groups trying to avoid the appearance of an issue with "their" section of the system, and/or by management, who are likely to interpret such attempts as alarmism, if not plain political malfeasance.

Hate to say it but we're on the brink of a formalized licensing program for security, servers, etc. I am honestly surprised that the mainstream outlets and politicians have not been touting this yet, with all the high-profile and extremely costly data security breaches that have been occurring over the last few years, but I really expect it to come soon. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Equifax become the Enron-like scapegoat for such legislation.
>political activism has been intertwined with free software for a long time.

Only in the sense of privacy and civil freedoms e.g free speech, copyright. Not in the sense of capitalism/socialism, collectivism/individualism, more taxes/less taxes. In this case, Mozilla supported an organization that is openly against capitalism. I would have applauded Mozilla if they'd supported an organization in favor of free speech, privacy, freedom of information, etc. But that wasn't the case. Capitalism is a gray area for the free software community: some support it, others fight against it.
You could say "make sure customers don't consider alternatives" is his job description.
> No need to rely on us to run the service indefinitely.

Elsewhere in the thread you've said that you control the domain and the presentation... so you can either get rid of or replace the page at any time or even just forget to renew the domain and someone else could take it over.

So anyone who purchases an ad is dependent on you to run the service indefinitely, right?
Interesting, I only have a passing familiarity with Java from school so I wonder if I'm just not appreciating what Clojure brings to the table in that regard.

Thanks for the response.
> It should be noted that such "full-ride" scholarships are generally reserved for the top students in a cohort (scoring at least, I believe, AAB at A Level), and are not available to all citizens (as compared to EU citizens who enjoy heavily-subsidised tuition and student loans).

Makes sense. She was going to go A-Levels after Higher Chinese but her illness threw her off, so she later went to Poly, and then did Primary School prepatory teaching, before going to NIE.

> This is aimed at trying to get "smart" people to settle down in Singapore.

I don't know if the bond is working. My Indian Classmates at NTU wanted to go straight to Silicon Valley, but got stuck at (what they called) the IBM and Amazon sweatshops. They're not happy about it.

> There are sadly no "student loan" schemes to allow for independent living.

The lottery selection on campus definitely makes it worse. My roommate at the time paid one of the lucky ones under the table for a slot but he was somehow exposed and had to move out halfway through the semester. Sad, but I got a two-bed room in the hostel all to myself!
In some cases, say the parser for an interpreter for a general purpose programming language, I would consider the data "trusted". You are already allowing execution of arbitrary code, so there is nothing to be gained by exploiting the parser.
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>Then you misunderstand what a 501(c)3 is and what it can do politically

I'm not saying that they did anything illegal. I said that I would not expect it of them.
What does it matter? There's no claim of journalistic integrity or lack of bias in internet comments.

Would we like to know when bias exists? Sure.

Do we need to castigate those who neglect to comment on their own bias? I don't think it's necessary.
>"At the end of the hearing, Uber's lawyer Arturo Gonzalez made a last-ditch plea that he had a scheduling conflict. He is scheduled to pick a jury in a different trial on November 27, the Monday after Thanksgiving."

The judge told Arturo he wouldn't reschedule for him. He's not barring him from the courtroom; the judge is simply saying he's not making any more accomodations for Uber.
My Fermi estimation puts it at 10bn users
> Perhaps but we already have that debate every time the government decides how much money to put into elderly care (hint: In my country (the UK) not as much as they should - Social Care for the elderly is critically underfunded)

Hm, this is not selling me on your system.

You've already surrendered your freedoms. Take whatever you can get, I guess? Go strike in the streets if you don't get enough care? I am sorry for you; I just hope we (in the US) don't go your way.

> We put animals that are suffering to sleep ...

You are merely an animal, then? You have resigned yourself to the meat grinder. I prefer to take a more enlightened view of what it means to be human and how special human life is.
Anything else one should be archiving in cold storage besides these links for sci-hub?
Without agreeing with the GP about diet and cancer, the rationale for diet-based approaches is the observation that most cancer cells shift energy production to glycolysis. This is known as the Warburg Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect). Several theories have been put forward to explain this effect, I favor the mitochondria/apoptosis link.
Ya, that makes sense. Also, if it's like southern china, people are probably pretty active outside at night when its cooler (e.g. Night square dancing, night markets, etc...).

Rising obesity rates can be related to the weather even if it hasn't changed if there is pressure on lifestyle from other areas (e.g. Work/life balance). E.g. People in the south USA are not increasingly obese even though the weather stays the same, life style pressure plus hot and humid climate combine to create the problem; climate makes the problem more difficult to fix once it appears.
> Levandowski, who is not a defendant in the case, hasn't answered questions about the allegations, instead pleading the Fifth Amendment.

Fifth Amendment only applies to criminal proceedings, not civil case. How can he refuse to answer questions based on the Fifth?
Sure, but he was trying to delegitimize the highest honor in a field of study. The economics Nobel is functionally equivalent to the Fields medal or Turing award, regardless of Alfred Nobel's original intent.

The point is the poster above was trying to diminish the field of study's legitimacy. Reading between the lines of his post he was doing so because of his political leanings, not because he disagreed with any particular contribution of a economics Nobelist's contribution to human knowledge.

We should aspire to be above of such toxic ideologism.
Their mayonnaise is actually very good. If they were making anything less shelf-stable I'd pass, but they'd really have to try to screw up canola oil, pea protein, and lemon juice.
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It's my opinion too, and I think Uber are a bunch of baddy bad-bads.

Since this case began I've been waiting for Waymo to drop the bomb, and no bomb has materialized. Levandowski is in trouble, but what is it again that Waymo has to levy against Uber? I'm not seeing much.

But seriously, judge a person's comments on the merits of their argument, not who they work for.
And here I thought I could avoid grabbing it from my shelf...

"The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'" by Sidney Dekker.
I worked on our VR mirroring and capture system, I wouldn't say it's "impressive" but I consider it pretty cool.

https://www.slideshare.net/ConfluentInc/kafka-summit-nyc-201...

Also our three.js and AFrame integration was pretty difficult to get working. We real time synchronized the scene graph in the V8 context into Unity.

https://developer.altvr.com/

Also a huge challenge was delivering a good experience on mobile. We spent a ton of time on browser integration, rendering, and networking performance to hit frame on low end mobile VR devices. Our commitment to having it work on mobile, combined with our limited resources, led to us having a lot of "least common denominator" type things happening which leads to PC users thinking the app is simplistic or underdeveloped. But being able to have people on lower end devices join in the community was well worth it. I'm sure with enough time the people at Microsoft will invest the work in getting the PC experience to "progressively enhance" further than what we were doing already.

Disclaimer: former co-founder, no longer w/ the company
Well no that's incorrect. A targeted ad is worth significantly more than one without targeting. I buy ads at a $0.25 cpm and a $40 cpm, the only difference is targeting data.
If this is their first funding as claimed, they wouldn't have to file a Form D even if they were a US company which it doesn't seem that they are.
#2 isn't surprising. A ton of shops only patch on a quarterly basis, and even then they only consistently patch the OS. Only when there is a vendor (like my employer, Red Hat) sending out notices that there is a critical vulnerability do people move any faster.

Which is twice as bad for application dependencies. These don't even have quarterly patch cycles. Dependencies may be updated when a new release is deployed, which may be a couple times a year or never. One of my favorite questions for clients is "who is responsible for patching applications with no development team anymore?"

This is an underappreciated benefit of CICD. An automated process lets you get a central group to take ownership of third party libraries and their security, and then let them trigger all applications to rebuild and release. Especially with containers, this is essential.
ViaGoGo creates deceptive copies of events on Facebook to sell overprice tickets
I was recently looking for tickets to a concert in Adelaide when I discovered that ViaGoGo is creating fake copies of events which they do not organise, and posting links to their platform for users to buy overpriced tickets.

At present there are still tickets available from the official seller. However viagogo are attempting to use high pressure sales tactics including warnings of limited tickets to get users to buy.

Real Event: Price $89
https://www.facebook.com/events/104583850194346

ViaGoGo Event: Price $101
https://www.facebook.com/events/338943086534325
That still requires you to download an app, which is significantly higher friction than clicking a link in a browser.
Why? Don't the US media/schools tell you this? :) (that should be the first red flag btw.)

Short-list (from the top of my head):

- Public health-care

- Big government (checks and balances malfunctioning in the US system)

- Central banking

- Welfare system

- Property tax

- High income tax

- Minimum wage

- Biased courts favoring moms over dads (in regards to their children in divorce cases)

- Children early in kindergartens/preschools (a favorite of the old Soviet and the East-block, for early indoctrination)

- UN policies implementations (from building codes to local city management).

- Social phenomena in the spirit of divide and conquer (labeling in particular - was also a very popular strategy by the left in Europe 30+ years ago).

I'm not even touching upon the propaganda being throw around by your government/media/schools, things like "US is a democracy" when in fact it isn't and was never intended to be - it's a constitutional republic, the founding fathers actually warned specifically against democratic form. But hey..

I could go on, but I think this is enough off-topic.
Please no capital in philly.