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No, hold on. The two articles disagree very much. The one Scott just cited explains that you can't trust a commercial VPN provider.
Yes, of course. Adding CO2 is used in greenhouses to increase growth.

Unfortunately adding CO2 only helps if there is enough other nutrients and sunlight. In the nature and forests adding CO2 is not enough. Many plants grow larger even without nutrients, but they are usually weaker in other ways and may be subject to diseases. In the greenhouses they can add nutrients and control for plant diseases and pests.

Changes in weather patterns, heat and water availability will hurt global food production.

Expect more weeds and less forests, less food and more cacti.
A lot of that is inexperience. If they spoke Mandarin and had ongoing relationships with people/places having access to everything ranging from simple milling equipment up to a superfactory in the space of a few square miles, (and next-day shipping from Taobao,) they might have less trouble.
I'm sorry for not meeting the standards. I think it did spark insightful discussion. I thought it was going to cost a few dozen in karma but apparently didn't. So not everyone thought it was terrible I guess.

In my experience the amount of insightful discussion is often inversely proportional to the quality of the initial post. Have no data to back that up.

There is a fine line between flamebait and discussion-bait.
This is exactly how I felt too; nowhere in his responses do I see any form or sexual harassment. Sure, the person is a little intense and doesn't seem to get the hint, but this isn't at all related to gender. There's absolutely no reason to pull gender into this at all.

At what point does the line blur between needing special treatment because you're a different gender and equality?

Edit: after rereading the article I realize my comment might've been a bit knee-jerky. However, I do feel the author puts emphasis on the gender of the people referenced in the story. Above all the line "I considered: what would a male CEO do in this situation?" feels like a forced focus on gender. But I concede; the article focusses on harassment in general, not sexual, mea culpa.
At this point, I think we just need to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies. If we just made people pay for the actual costs of such fuels, rather than letting them pollute for free, renewables would wipe the floor with them.
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That's not preferential. Users equate it because they've observed it. Speaking strictly as a consumer of the web, I have a strong preference for AMP for a few reasons. It's fast. The page doesn't jump around and lag. There are no popups. It's just a good experience. I know it's possible to have a good experience without AMP technically, but very few sites seem to be doing that.
Dafny is pretty damn cool, though. And it handles the major problem of other verification environments (SPARK, Frama-C) (by using garbage collection).
That isn't great privacy wise as it's still privacy by policy. The best way to torrent is to use i2p which - unlike Tor - encourages that activity. (Short tuto: the default Java i2p bundle already comes with I2PSnark, a torrent client. To download a torrent, search through known i2p trackers such as the Postman Tracker: http://tracker2.postman.i2p )
Here’s the video apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeD8E2xxck
however the touch id does not require you to look at your phone to unlock and unconsciously people will look at an X to unlock it even though it only needs to see you, not the reverse.

neither is a good idea but Apple recently pushed out lockouts for Do not disturb while driving. I have not tried this feature and it defaults to off. So how well it works, well it won't stop me from using the phone as it appears to be not allowing the phone to interrupt me.
Amazon/AWS is mentioned as one of the big three in the article, since they're far and away one of the largest. That said, if it weren't them, it'd be someone else.
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Is this another candidate for Betteridge's law [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
There is no "same way" here. Sorcerers don't exist. Torturers do.
The content owner could still request your information from the VPN provider and the VPN provider might provide it (even if they say they won't). I think the main benefit is that there are so many individuals torrenting copyrighted material that aren't using VPNs that it means you aren't the "low hanging fruit" so you're considered not worth the effort by the content owners.
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A lot of the comments here seem to be quibbling. The analysis/argument isn't exactly how you/I would have phrased it.

But beyond the details, I think it's hard to argue with the main point. The web is much more of a large corporation's playground today, far more. That means new things will be built in a different, more giant friendly way. The part of that that worries me most is the cultural part, more than the economic side.

My favourite example is wikipedia. If we didn't already have wikipedia, I don't think we'd be likely to get one on today's web. The culture is just far too corporate for wikipedia to be the end result.

Youtube's another sort of example. Democratic media! A new culture factory!...

Youtubes play by the rules these days. Copyright.. business friendly policy, erring on the side of restriction. It's just more manageable. Nudity? Why annoy politicians and advertisers? Just give us the purple hills version. Violence? Do what TV does. Revolution? Maybe, yes. Sure. Up the arab spring! Wait.. no. actually, wait. Hold on, not in america. Look.., no just means not here. Political ads, eh...? How about you leave us out of this.

They are no longer interested in the unfolding and unpredictable consequences of their inventions. Facebook is the world's news stand & coffee house. Youtube's regional political radio, newsletters & party magazine. They do not want this job, so they're pretending it isn't they're job. Pretending they won't have to draw lines between truth and lies, free speech and hate speech, laws and despotism.

The fear driven incumbent mentality.

It's a pity we didn't get more wikipedia's back when the gettin was good. I would have preferred to see a giant wikipedia end up with the fake news problem (which I think these two giants almost created themselves).
> There are many, many VPN providers, and Mozilla can’t recommend any specific service.

Was it somehow unclear? Pretty clear to me at least.
:) I find it really hard to follow news from movies because often they use things like Squarespace and Wix, and these motherf^W^W^W^W^W^Wsaints never have any feeds. You have a mailing list to follow if you're lucky, and usually the only other medium is the Facebook page.
Are we going back into time where we can draw parallels between internet access through an online portal like AOL and now when we are accessing our internet through a VPN?
Agreed; it's a good way to visualize just how much time was required for the biosphere to produce those fossil fuels but not how much energy would be required to scrub the carbon itself (and I didn't say that, although my statement was a bit misleading - edited).

I still think my point stands - scrubbing it from the atmosphere would involve an amount of energy that is unrealistic without deep, deep changes in our society.
This work seems to be in the same spirit as the work on function passing, previously presented at Onward! 2016 (and, also presented at Strange Loop 2014.)

As the work presents it, the function passing model is a generalization of the Spark/MapReduce model: data is stationary and immutable, stateless closures are passed around the network providing type-safe, higher-order programming with deferred evaluation. The contributions of the paper provide include an implementation of the model in Scala, and re-implementations of systems like Spark to demonstrate the applicability and generality of the model itself.

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[1] https://2016.onward-conference.org/event/onward-2016-papers-...

"Function Passing Style: Typed, Distributed Functional Programming" by Heather Miller
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coX9RKH4rOs
No it wasn’t. It was on the old 1 Infinite Loop campus. The father mentioned they were moving in December to the new campus.
Almost none of the things I mentioned are solutions to 'a problem created by JavaScript' therefore your question seems deliberately misleading.

An accepting community can be a large funnel: it doesn't need to mean that nobody improves or that there are no selection effects. More candidates means more chaff, but also more wheat.

Babel isn't merely contributing to a 'lack of a good VM'. It's more valuable to see it as a playground and streamlined process for large-scale testing of language-level features. (It solved this problem later on. It was originally meant only to solve the problem of running modern code on older VMs.)

I guess you could argue that the VM should have been complete in 1995 but what programming language has managed this?

Also, I don't think that comparing JavaScript's VM to the VMs of statically typed languages is fair. You mentioned yourself that in comparison to similar dynamically typed languages it's faster. Compare apples to apples.

I don't think I'm bending the truth here. There's been a lot of investment into JavaScript, and not all of the problems that have been solved are obvious or easy.

At this point it is ascendant because it has effectively solved lots of problems that relate to speed of change and it has done this seamlessly on a large number of platforms. I think people look at this and pattern-match to 'first-mover advantage' or 'JavaScript has a monopoly on browsers' but neither of these things were what got us to this place: it was innovation in maneuverability.

(It won't necessarily stay ascendant now that it is so easy to circumvent writing JavaScript but yet still plug into its ecosystem.)
He was certainly in the wrong. I was just thinking the daughter was old enough to know that he was in the wrong and that she shouldn’t have participated.
useful resource on selecting a VPN provider: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/
Sure. TouchID can't be used if your fingers are wet or wrinkly. Since I found out about FaceID I've noticed a bunch of scenarios where TouchID falls short and I have to drastically change how I'm using the phone or what I'm doing to accomodate unlocking using a specific finger.

> Because one can use TouchID for Apple Pay much quicker and more reliably in a crowded/rushed situation such as paying for public transport.

Since moving to the UK I was keen to give Apple Pay a try on the tube and I was disgusted at how slow it is. I think mobile-based contactless options are always going to be slower than passive card-based contactless.
The Mozilla post says:

> Are VPNs truly private?

> Unfortunately, no. The VPN provider can still log your browsing data. You are essentially putting your trust in your VPN provider. Will your provider hand over info when pressed? Will they log your browser data and sell it at a later date?

Which is basically also saying you can't trust a commercial VPN provider. I suppose it does differ in that it says it's still an option, though.
> The US has an outsize military because, for most of the past century, it has taken on the role of being the primary defense force not just for itself, but for countries all around the world.

It's also a social program of sorts.

Part of the allure of the military is a middle class lifestyle and access to employment opportunity outside. Millions of people would be unemployed if they weren't in the military or supporting military functions indirectly. I grew up in a small town... 20% of my class of 80 went into the military. If you live in many areas, your options are essentially truck driving or the army.
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That would be. They should develop a whole ad campaign around that. Apple as the heartless corporate behemoth vs the loving samsung. In reality they are both corporate behemoths, but image is everything.

The engineer did violate his NDA, but he was trying to help out his daughter. Should your job really come before family especially since he didn't reveal anything truly secret.
If there is ever a chance that you might use it (or something similar to it in the future), I would most definitely do the paperwork.

If you don't do the paperwork, then that means that they own the code (laws may vary on this, of course), and can use it in their own product or sell it to someone else.

Of course, IANAL, but IP management has become an important topic lately, and this is one of the issues.
Couldn't you do the same? Hash-spaces are segregated by zip codes (hash(zip) is the key to buckets) and then hash the credit card and cvv; compare to verify

Store last 4 digits of cc and mastercard vs visa to provide the "is this the correct card?" form
I'd hand cash to Mozilla if THEY provided a VPN service.

Or if Amazon provides one I'd use that for sure.
Nowhere does the author claim this was sexual harassment, simply that it was harassment. It uses the word "sexism" once, and "sexist" twice, in both cases referring to the condescending response of mentors and others to her complaints about this person.
I've seen people jump between those different arguments in the same conversation. Many deniers/skeptics/whateveryoucallthem tend to go for the strongest claim they think they can get away with, but will retreat to whatever they think might work in a given discussion. In addition to the different arguments you mention, there's also: it's manmade and harmful but not worth the cost of fighting.
This is an over used crutch. Any truth in it comes mostly from a tendency to fund senior researchers over junior ones.
Great, thank you. Will add theses
Indeed. I edited my post accordingly.
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google never really recovered from SEO. once professionals started pouring money into gaming the system it stopped working.

google search results are actually terrible these days. nothing but commercial sites, ads, and a few hand picked non-commercial sources like wikipedia, stack overflow, etc.

i cant remember the last time i found an interesting new site searching on google.
I am a computer engineer so I know nothing of nature :)

But, it boggles my mind why so many people don't believe global warming can be man-made. I know you can have disagreements, scientists can be wrong, a lot of things can contribute to things heating up, an so forth. But to be 100% sure that its not man-made, I dont get it. Is it because these deniers grow up in a eco system so large that they dont sense human interference, is it pure denial or ?
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Who is responsible when a counterfeit device results in injury or damage to personal property?

Is there much difference between Ulbricht's culpability for Silk Road and Amazon (Bezos) liability for Amazon's embrace of counterfeit products? True, the former was criminal liability, and perhaps that might be enough of a difference, but it ought not be.

Decades of product safety regulation and tort deterrence is being washed away.
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Did you even read the article?

For instance:

> Are VPNs truly private?
Unfortunately, no. The VPN provider can still log your browsing data. You are essentially putting your trust in your VPN provider. Will your provider hand over info when pressed? Will they log your browser data and sell it at a later date?
But someone like this can still impact your business. For example, merely threatening to litigate over their perceived rights could ruin a funding round. This is very serious.
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I understand I'm the wrong gender to be saying this, but I don't see harassment there. Maybe there was harassment (dozens of emails over a week could be it, but she never says what the emails say or even how much it is). It's just "harassment". I'm willing to believe that the guy was being threatening and harassing, but I also read into that evidence a guy who is socially inept and frustrating to work with, but not sure on the harassment part.

A further example, when she texted one of the mentors, she got back:

I am not trying to be too invasive in the reasons, but would like to know the reasons of the early split.

To which she states:

This mentor said he wasn’t trying to be invasive, but he was.

Then she says that how they really should have responded was (edit: this is another actual response):

Thanks for letting me know, [I’m] sure you had good reasons and I’m glad to hear that you’ll continue on with [Project].

OK, I get why you'd prefer the second response, but considering what happened, it's not rude for them to ask what's up, and they even padded that question so as to not be demanding. It's possible that's an unusual situation for them. I kind of get the feeling that neither person is really fun to work with, but that's based on what's in this blog post.

I don't mean to be a jerk or victim blame or anything like that.
Guns do kill people, but it's obviously less extreme than that. Killing us in a long term way by encouraging sedentary behavior, for example.
My grandfather, then a pre-teen, walked a 10 mile trap line each day in Nebraska winters during the great depression with a rifle and collected various small animals that were brought back and eaten so his family would be less hungry. In his mid to late 20s, he received three wounds and a bucket of awards for his actions in Guadalcanal and Burma. His wife to be's family got by by making illegal moonshine and hiding from the feds in Oklahoma.

The most important lesson he taught me was simple, and I've never forgotten it.

Every day you're breathing is a good day.

I understand the limitations of this statement; clinical depression is a real thing, and is, fortunately, largely treatable. And situational depression can be pretty brutal.

You are alive. You are breathing. You don't know how many days you have left in your life. Most likely you have a lot.

More importantly, you have little idea of what those days will bring you.

I've been living in a lot of climate change related fear for decades now. 20 years ago, the science was just getting started, and nobody really understood most of the implications.

The fact is, we are all pretty helpless about most everything. That you're here on Hacker News is an incredible twist of fate, rather than starving in a refugee camp somewhere.

So, assuming you are not clinically depressed, I will say this: live today and rejoice in its wonder.

If you are alive tomorrow, live it, and rejoice again.

If it is our fate to succumb to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter then so be it.

We live in fantastic, interesting times. Enjoy the ride and do the best you can to fractionally move the various needles in good directions.
America was born from anti-authoritarianism. The first 8 amendments to the constitution very clearly outline the founding fathers’ skepticism of authority, whether it be royalty, police, judges, or military. It is scary now that only blind deference to uniformed authority is given the patriotism stamp of approval. Even more scary are those that in one breath mutter original intent and in the next breath condone police executions of suspects or unwarranted mass spying or military invasions without declaration of war.
Well - two areas.

One, if you're using it commercially, it's going to pay for itself pretty quickly. I rarely do client projects for less than several thousand pounds; I reckon I could probably churn a lot of them out using this in half the time.

Two if you're not using it commercially, it's still a very low cost; maybe more than pure hosting but it does a lot more than just hosting.
I upvoted you because I agree with the "spirit" of what you wrote, but something is nagging me: Once free energy (in the form of massive solar panel fields or nuclear fusion) is available, would not it be actually worse?

- True we would (in theory) no more need coal/oil, but that would be useless for most transport means as we would have pollution made by producing batteries as well as with old abandonned leaking electric cars?

- For the Amazon rainforest, I learnt that it is something that came and went several times during the hundred of millenia since it exists. Why do you expect it to have an impact on CO2 rate or the climate? After all if the problem is the Co2 we could attack it directly by transforming it in food for example.

- There is at least an ongoing project in Sahel to create a long wall of trees, but the main problem is that people burn bush/trees for cooking and they raise goats. Goats tear off grass, on contrary to other cattle. Those two reasons explain well the desert progression, in Sahara at least.

Another problem is that the West of Sahara is infested with personal mines.

What I would propose (actually I proposed it in the Global challenges shape prize [0]) is for UNHCR to create artificial towns in those areas. It not only would provide work and wealth to people there but it would change their way of living. This is not a pipe dream, China is already implementing a similar policy.

[0] https://globalchallenges.org/en/our-work/the-new-shape-prize
> I don't see the need to do anything more radical.

I do, because the things that you mostly value (I guess I value them a lot less) seem to me incredibly complex for the good that they do, and we already have some alternatives that seem both more powerful and vastly simpler. But I am skeptical of them, too, though :)

> I think the industry switching to Idris-level languages will bring a factor of 10 to 100 improvement in productivity - i.e. I expect we'll see companies of ~100 people putting the Google/Amazon/Citibanks out of business, and companies of less than 10 people competing heavily with the giants.

That is a very powerful statement, and I'd like to know why you'd think that. I would even like to know what makes you think that any language (never mind which) can make such an impact, even though we've seen nothing of this sort. I do not share your belief that Idris could make such an impact or anywhere near it, nor probably any other language.

I am skeptical, because having looked at Idris and played with it a bit, I was completely underwhelmed. Java + JML can do pretty much the same, if not better, and for a lowe cost, and this is not a statement about Java+JML being a leap forward. I have no idea if Eve could make an impact as big as the one you predict, but at least I don't feel I can instinctively reject this possibility as easily as I could Idris, as Eve actually brings a lot of new things to the table, where Idris feels like some ergonomic improvement over things that may have had some potential that never materialized, in the hope that better ergonomics is what should do it.

I would like to point out one more problem with viewing the abundance of research as a proxy for utility or of an "established idea", one that touches on my own personal biases :) When you publish a paper, certainly in good journals/conferences, you must exhibit some significant novelty. This, ironically, rewards the more complicated (and so arguably less useful in the real world) frameworks and punishes the simpler ones. For example, I've seen papers talking about embedding separation logic, or specifying amortized worst-case complexity in Coq. You won't see such papers on TLA, because doing both in TLA is rather trivial. Lamport himself complained that he had trouble publishing a paper on specifying and verifying realtime systems in TLA because it is so straightforward that it was hard to demonstrate mathematical novelty. He had to artificially add an extra novelty (the use of a model checker) to make the paper worthy of publication [1].

[1]: http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#real-simple
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