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>No it can't. FOSS can't be misused to take away a user's access to the software and data produced by said software. Other types of misuse isn't relevant because FOSS can't do anything about them.

You're moving the goalposts now. You claimed that if proprietary software can be misused, it will be, and therefore therefore Stallman is right about all proprietary software being malicious - yet it's precisely those types of misuse you now want to deem irrelevant which underpin the entire moral argument behind the free software ethos.

The argument has never been that proprietary software is immoral merely because the code isn't free, but that the code not being free is what allows those other abuses to occur.
You can even get a Ford Focus that will parallel park by itself. That's a fairly cheap car.
Even at the college level in India, it isn't uncommon to see a 2:1 male to female ratio in engineering classes. Women in India do face plenty of bias, most of which stems from the fact that they are expected to get married and take care of their families. So investing in their education isn't seen as a priority as the assumption is they won't be able to fully concentrate on their careers once they have a family and kids. Now there are some castes where this bias isn't as strong - like Iyers and Iyengars for example, but they are the exception rather than the norm. Even amongst those castes, you'll find plenty of men who think that they are naturally gifted when it comes to math and science. So they claim they can goof around in college and still get good grades while women, who lack that natural talent, have to spend all their time mugging up for exams.
But there isn't a fine line between charging into someone with a lethal force so you can get home a little quicker, and letting them live.

Cars driven by humans redesigned our cities. Cars driven by computers will probably redesign them again.
Very warm. But why didn't it (appear to) move in relation to other things. It should have since I was moving south around 20km/h.

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You all should combine some efforts of these interesting projects!
I find Germans (or at least Bavarians) are pretty relaxed, friendly and helpful even as they are very tied to their beloved "Ordnung". The result is that things go smoothly when you run along the rails, and even if your run off them, people cheerfully help you back on.

But on those occasions when the bureaucratic requirements get silly, people just accept it. Those requirements are the rails, and you need to run along them.
That is a red herring. If I have Comcast service but the channels I want are only on Time Warner, I cannot simply switch to Time Warner. Switching between streaming services is trivial, because all streaming websites are available to everyone with an Internet connection (one of the things net neutrality is meant to protect).
In the west? But that's a good hint.
Not op but since you asked, I will draw the conclusion.

Given that we observe a larger gender gap in countries that are more gender equality we can conclude that when men and women feel more equal their choice of profession diverge.
>those cultures are doing that's different than us.

1. One of the very few jobs that is well paid. So you are either a software engineer or poor.

2. There is not social stigma associated with being an engineer. infact its the opposite, see point 1.

3. Even in India "math is for boys" meme is strong but point 1 overpowers everything else.

> The gender gap is purely cultural

Unless you can point me to a non-poor country where this is true, I would say 'The gender gap is purely economical '
This is a question of credentials only. Which I don't mean to sound like I'm dismissing it at all - It's actually the whole reason this guy's effort got stranded.

Chemotherapy is essentially controlled killing, to mitigate or prevent uncontrolled killing. Just like (as someone said elsewhere in this thread) controlled burning is done to mitigate or prevent uncontrolled burning. And here we have controlled hacking to mitigate uncontrolled hacking.

Society doesn't support anybody killing, burning, or hacking, unless there's a way to know and recognize, that the person knows what they're doing. Which (the knowing and the recognizing) is a credentialing problem. It's the only difference between (doctors, police, firefighters, cybersecurity experts) and (quacks, vigilantes, arsonists and some-unknown-hacker), respectively. A guy I don't recognize as a surgeon, is just a masked man coming at me with a knife, even if he actually is a surgeon.

If your intentions are good, you should take the trouble to get some kind of credentials, which can take many forms. (If your intentions are not-so-good then it makes a lot more sense to bypass that, but also for the public to put you in the "untrusted" basket.) This guy bypassed credentialing, and that places him in the realm of those who are not trusted no matter what kind of good they do. Now he can't continue. Instead of that, imagine there was a public debate about the relevant issues and this or a similar effort had actual public consensus and resources behind it.

Now of course I'll grant there are numerous problems with the political process and consensus-building and all the rest of it. It takes a long time to get anything done, and learning how to hack is actually the easy part. Good news: This is actually not the emergency he claims it is. What's the worst-case scenario, the whole internet goes down tomorrow? Well, it's only the internet. There are ways of getting food, water and shelter without using a network at all. Nobody has forgotten how to use pen & paper. Even blankets will still work without an internet. (Not if these IoT clowns have their way of course.) Whatever, don't listen to me, I'm older and I lived almost half my life quite happily in a world where nobody had the internet, yet still everything got done.

Anyway, the other thing is, a "state of emergency" is how all sorts of atrocities and shitty decisions are justified by governments, so it's not something to emulate. The attendant issues deserve to be publicly recognized, debated, decided and then tackled. Maybe it's wishful thinking to demand that much from people today.
Each individual pays income tax once, when they obtain the income.

There’s no double taxation any more than it’s double taxation to tax my income then to tax the entrepreneurs who I do business with.

And while I agree that money staying with a family and creating economic inefficiencies and pointless disparities is better than war, that’s an absurd false dichotomy.
Wealth grows fast enough due to investment that splitting it up between children won't dissipate it.
One reason is SIMD. Videogames contain quite a lot of math that benefit from SIMD a lot, be it MMX, SSE, AltiVec/VMX or NEON.

Another one is that borrow checker. Games are heavily multithreaded since X360. Game state + game assets = huge pile of data shared across threads. Borrow checker in Rust makes it harder to write parallel code that operates on that large shared state. For small state and/or plenty of RAM you can afford making copies but games can’t afford that. Sure Rust brings value here by eliminating a class of bugs, but for game clients (servers are different story) the optimal safety/resource tradeoff is at another place than e.g. for a web browser.

Finally, games often use many third-party libraries and frameworks (sometimes called middleware), and due to historic reasons majority of those are C or C++ libraries.
Try cleaning it with a vacuum cleaner. Was listed in the manual for mine and it hasn't false alarmed in years since we did it.
The Disclosure Project by Dr. Greer has tons of such stories by very credible people. Look it up.
Can someone point out what are the major issues for self-driving cars? What are the main things stopping GM/Volvo/Google from deploying a fleet of cars?
You are right, I got the order wrong :) Updated post.
The rise of passive investment strategies has neatly proved that no skill and little luck is required to grow existing capital in the modern society.
> Of course those arguments apply to governments as well, since they don't derive their law-making authority by claim to divinity - at least in modern times.

You could use that statement to argue about anything a government does. Why does the inheritance tax need a special justification?
Would it work for, say, a turn-based puzzle video game?
Very cool. I'm adding this to my list of easy concurrency tools. The main thing I like is the statelessness. That's where most people screw up parallel programs.

Seems like there are many languages/libraries trying to make concurrency easier to implement in practice. Most notably for C++ (my fav since I have to use it for most of my work projects): Intel TBB (definitely the go to for most things), RaftLib (saw at C++Now last year) is probably the easiest to understand (same theme as this post, super easy concurrency for c++). Even Java seems to make concurrency rather easy with it's thread pools and relatively strait-forward synchronized sections.
Social security benefits are taxed.
Sun dog?
This is GREAT! Reminds me of the http://explorabl.es/ project. The library it links to is very cool as well - http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wp/
It's amazing that people can just tolerate or not be aware of things like this.
Show HN: Star Wars spoiler filter
I was wondering that too -- also in the news recently, the "interstellar object" that for some reason has attracted enough attention to scan it for "alien life", whatever that means.

https://www.space.com/39100-interstellar-object-oumuamua-ali...

Is this leading up to some big news story to deflect news from something else?
I was talking about OSX upgrades :-)
What level of specificity would you no longer be comfortable with? If it had been 500 or 50 people, would that still have been okay? How you can be sure that this data is inocuous? You can't predict the intentions of every stalker or bad actor that might have access to this data or be able find a use for it.

Listening habits can make a good forecast for other lifestyle habits; i.e, he listens to a lot of jazz, maybe I can find him at Maxwell's drum shop. She streamed a song by Purity Ring 25 times, I bet she'll be at their show in Brooklyn this weekend.
> How do we convince you that a title is worth watching?

That question seems revealing to me. Convincing me that a title is worth watching is good for business, I'm sure, but I want to decide what (and whether) to watch, not be convinced. Most titles are not worth watching.

I don't enjoy how relative and personal the recommendation system is right now, and I don't want more of it. The current recommendation system is showing me hundreds of titles that all say something like "97% match", plus or minus one percent, even though the majority of them are objectively crappy. It seems like the personalized ratings are all super inflated.

I want to know what other people thought and make my own decision, not be subject to a data collection and personalization system that filters everything through the eyes of a neural network that only knows what I've rated in the past.

It also feels like it's getting harder to branch out to genres I don't usually watch. The recommendations are giving me a metric ton of stuff that is similar (same genres, same actors) to whatever I rated highly, but not much that is dissimilar. It feels like I have to work harder now to find good stuff that is new or unusual.
Yes. I recently mentioned to my partner how many days I have left in the form of sunsets. Not that many when we think about it. You know what, I approach everything with that attitude and make the most of what little time we have. That includes re-reading number theory books in my spare time :).
Its nice that author ended up going to engineering school via massive social and economic inertia afforded only to a tiny sliver of indian population. But there are lot more women who need the helping hand and encouragement provided by those groups. So perhaps a little empathy towards those programs and what they are trying to achieve, even if it causes minor distress?
because it’s the reflection of the sun, and it’s far away, so if you move, the reflection moves too? Which if true lets me guess you live in Manly?
It is quite sad, but predictable, that people are trying to silence your voice with their votes. Piketty’s observations dovetail nearly with this article. And a world where r>g, and inherited wealth dominates is a world of economic inefficiency; where lucky sperm dominate all aspects of life regardless of their talent or their value.
That would be some next level mindfuckery
>"The problem isn’t with Spotify. It’s in the contracts between the labels and artists."

That's the convenient lie - "Oh we have nothing to do with that, that's between the record label and the artist."

The overwhelming majority of Spotify users are free tier users(90 million) not paid users(50 million.)[1]

Ad supported streams pay out an even worse royalty rate to artists than the paid user tier royalty rates. And that free tier rate appears to be declining as well.[2]

Spotify's business model depends on converting those free tier users to paid users - that's the funnel. So yes Spotify very much depends on this awful arrangement between the record label and artist.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/15/spotify-announces-140-mil...

[2] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/05/16/spotify-audiam-l...
The flawed thinking that wealth is a pie of fixed size wherein gain by one is necessarily another’s loss is known as mercantilism and was long ago discredited as bunk economics.
China Should Let Its Migrant Workers Roam Free
I can often tell that I'm about to receive a text message because my poorly shielded computer speakers will start buzzing. I assume it's caused by a transmission from my phone's radio inducing a current in the amplification circuit.

I would guess this is what's happening with your GFI. Even though you're receiving the call, your phone is probably transmitting too (sending back the equivalent of an ACK or something). The current induced causes a difference between hot and neutral and the GFI trips. It's surprising that it can induce a strong enough current! I'm not sure what wattage cell phone radios operate at.

Edit: Ah missed the detail about outgoing calls not causing it. That is very strange! Perhaps a cell phone engineer can shed some light on that!
I had a few Transputer boards with PC ISA bus.
flame? glowing? hot? the Mythbusters visiting home?
The problem with sexless-ness is that it only addresses what we're conscious of, when we know that there's lots of unconscious or systemic biases that still exist.

One famous example was a study that involved submitting resumes to various jobs with names removed and then randomly reassigned (to avoid any actual correlation between the name's perceived gender and the quality of the resume). Resumes with female names received half the callbacks than if they had male names. You can't practice sexless-ness when you're not aware that you're discriminating.
He looks exactly like Robin Williams.
Reflection off a specific vehicle also moving south on the bridge.
> Which brings in all the problems with the Pence view. It reinforces the glass ceiling / old boys club

It's a damn shame, too. But the reality for me is that apart from making sure my kids stay alive, my most important commitment in life is remaining faithful to my wife. If that commitment prevents me from personally helping to shatter the glass ceiling or even means I'm unintentionally upholding it, then so be it.
> There is no room for “maybe” - and there is no room for “is this a woman who wrote this or is it a man”. All one should care about is - is this excellent or is it not? Is this right or is this wrong?

The general way that I have understood folks who advocate the programs that are being presented as problematic here is: whether or not there should be room for "maybe", and whether or not one should care about anything else, people inject maybes and do care about gender. That is, the diversity programs and the sense of “I should support this person because she is a woman” is rooted in an observation or impression that being a woman puts you at a disadvantage in one way or another. The bias is already there, and the attempt is at a counterbias.

I think it's very good that this isn't a problem in the author's experience, but that doesn't mean it isn't a problem at all. That said, I'm wondering if there can be a better balance between supporting women who are good but aren't judged to be, or feel like they aren't even though they are, and women who are perfectly confident in their abilities and just want to operate like a sexless engineer at work. Certainly I'm hopeful that women don't experience that bias in every organization, and a (hypothetical) organization that's already structured in an unbiased way would perhaps not want to focus on gender.

From a purely practical standpoint, though, it feels like the right question here is, does the approach the author doesn't like reduce the number of women who don't enter or who leave the industry due to bias more than it increases the number of women who leave in frustration from being treated as ‘different’. If the problem these programs are meant to address is ‘many women leave the industry or don't join it because of perceived bias’, then that's the real metric. In a perfect world, nobody cares… But in a world where people are biased against women, perhaps you have to try to adjust explicitly for that in the short term, so that you can get to the goal of a world where nobody cares in the longer run.
Ok here it is since I have to go ...

It was the reflection of the sun in an airplane's cockpit window. The airplane was actually maybe five kilometres away but the extreme brightness played with my sense of distance. The window must have been flat for the reflection to be so bright.

It didn't appear to move because its speed north relative to the bridge matched my speed south -- i.e. the line between me and the airplane crossed (just west of) the bridge at the same point for a long time. The point of reflection must've been tiny. But it was right on me. I suspect no-one else in the ferry saw what I saw. And it must be extraordinarily rare for the circumstances to be maintained for so long. The illusion disappeared after the ferry and airplane made their turns.
Wouldn't the trend towards fewer children and smaller families decrease the dissipative effect? In the extreme case of a "one child" policy, inheritance would be amplified because the wealth of both parents (and presumably four sets of grandparents) would flow to a single individual. Similar to assortive mating, if wealthier families had fewer children relative to poorer families, then this would worsen inequality over time.
RAM usage still matters a lot. Not only because consoles, also because RAM usage often translates to storage bandwidth, and CPU-GPU bandwidth.

Some of the tricks still apply today. For example, modern GPUs support all kinds of weird texture formats. Here’s a link for PC: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh3... Other platforms have conceptually similar stuff.
It doesn't matter if it's made up. At the very least it appears as though Netflix and Spotify are completely disregarding privacy, and that's all that really matters.
Well done. I was commuting to work at North Head (near Manly).
We hear a lot in these parts about corporate greed, but curiously nothing about state greed.
Does it happen with any other kinds of phones? Like can a landline or Android phone also trip your GFI when it receives a call?
Being taken seriously means your crimethink is also taken seriously.
Uh, that's not true at all - most Googlers don't have a masters. Do you have a source?
Author sounds like former US law student or someone who likes do do amateur legal research. "Attractive nuisance" is mentioned here and in a past missive.
> Some might, I don't. Some crap people do crap things. I discuss work issues in work.

What is so bad about talking business outside of work?
Look over there, Chrome Space Puppies!

https://harvardgazette.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/jeff-koon...
He did look very familiar. Now I know why. I remember him saying near end of the series that he was retiring instead of having to take assignment that would have him pilot desks.
I encourage you to read The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley because it will disabuse you of these and many other prejudices.
i don't think you're allowed to speak that heresy in polite society.
Likewise there must be one better than envy.
Excellent title. It conveyed the entire meaning of the article in this context. That's wonderful, because the moment I clicked through, I realized I would not be able to read the article without enabling javascript. All I receive is a loading spinner. I closed the page and checked the comments to confirm my understanding of the article was accurate. It seems it was. Excellent title. I wish more articles could be this clever and succinct at the same time.
Quite a few things are a bigger deal than this, but get no attention. For example, the same could be said for our government-funded genocide of Native Americans. I don't know why the denial is allowed to persist.[1] In Germany holocaust-denial can land you prison time. America has the only remaining legitimate government in the world that committed an attempted genocide against its people.

1 - www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-madley-california-genocide-20160522-snap-story.html
The advertisements advertise to advertisers that they know the users location and most likely emotional state of mind. The personal information that may be inferred from metadata is the additional cost of using these services. This is why GDPR.
If Firefox had been sitting unused on their machine for even a few months, they would quickly discover that it was outdated and would have to start a cycle of updating and restarting to get to Quantum (I assume this extension won't work on earlier versions). This would presumably quickly put off most users.
Not bad but I would have seen movement of the vehicle against the bridge metalwork. And the reflection appeared on the other side.
You've got a huge number of confounding variables here that you're not accounting for. Gender equality and cultural attitudes towards gender roles are not simple metrics, you can't infer that just because some aspect of a culture demonstrates superior gender equality to another that this culture is necessarily superior in gender equality in every way. Attitudes are vastly more complicated than that, and there's no reason to believe that a society that is more progressive in one sense can't be more regressive in another.
I found those ads funny (I assumed they were not derived from customer data - just something made up for the sake of comedy).

That said I wanted to know the end-goal of those ads?

If it's going to make me convert or sign up - that does not look like it's going to happen (no CTA, no real driver etc.)

If the idea is to be on people's mind (informational) - I can see it being hip/fellow-kids' like (considering it's coming from a multi-million dollar corporate entity) - I don't see how it'll last longer than a few weeks at best (considering the amount they probably spent on it).

That said, I can see how it stands out from the crowd (creepy factor not outstanding).
So what are you waiting on?
POTUS is going after the soecial counsel.
Maybe sexlessness overstates the case. It was more like sex blindness. Or sex irrelevance. I mean, she writes:

> I come from a country and a back ground where intelligence and the ability to work extremely hard is valued highly, with beauty, money and popularity ranked far, far below.

In contrast, modern American culture (which is globally pervasive) is just so incredibly sexualized. And incredibly polarized. Many women are angry, and many men are addicted to angry porn. It seems rather a divide-and-conquer strategy by the kleptocrats. But maybe it's just chaos.