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That's an interesting take, but not one I'd agree with.

The argument that Thiel acted unethically by funding Hogan's lawsuit is not one that I support. You can picture it as a millionaire throwing his money around to exact vengeance on a company that wronged him if you want, and that certainly feeds the idea of a sort of "chilling effect" where media orgs intentionally avoid printing things about powerful (read: rich) people. I think we can both agree that that would be truly unfortunate and a great loss of speech principles.

However, I don't think that accurately maps to the validity of the case. In an ideal world, Hogan wouldn't have had to get Thiel to fund his lawsuit--he was legitimately wronged. Is a better alternative to this universe one where news/distribution organizations can say whatever they want about anyone all the time and unless you're a billionaire you just have to take it? It wasn't like Gawker was acting ethically here. Compare it to Mother Jones, who was sued frivolously, won, and is still around!

But, of course, that's not really your argument. Your argument isn't that news orgs can be sued and that's a problem, it's that legal battles are often a matter of who has more money to spend on them, and regardless of outcome, can leave even honest organizations out of capital. I agree with this (even though Mother Jones is still around). It's unreasonable to expect MJ to pay up $2.4m to cover fees, especially when margins on online journalism are already so low (forcing worse incentives on them just to compete).

But there's hope! We don't need to wring our hands and lament the death knell of free speech--rather, we can just support anti-SLAPP laws to reduce both the cost and frequency of frivolous defamation suits. The technology exists! In fact, the only reason MJ had to pay up is because their state doesn't have anti-SLAPP statutes.

I'm fundamentally not concerned at all with Thiel buying the decaying corpse of Gawker. They acted in incredibly poor taste, noncompliance of legal orders and vitriolic defiance of journalistic good will, so, they pay the price. Rather, I'm more concerned about two issues: first, valid lawsuits require far too large an initial capital investment, preventing truly wronged but non-rich individuals from seeking justice and second, incredibly wealthy individuals can force frivolous lawsuits onto organizations where their best case scenario is a pyrrhic victory.
I think they used to literally sell routers with pirated versions of Cisco IOS.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2223272/cisco-subnet/60...:

> Folklore within the routing and switching community was that Huawei stole router product secrets from Cisco, down to the chassis, IOS and all the way down to the spelling errors in the manuals. Many have said it for years, but 60 Minutes put it on worldwide television tonight for everyone to know. Cisco did file suit and it was settled out of court, so we will never know what really happened. But Huawei did it, they know it, we know and Cisco knows it. Otherwise they would have never settled the court case.
Attacks from everywhere haha. I'll keep educating anyone I can on this until the day I die!
I completely agree.

People are allowed to be frustrated, and they're allowed to use colorful language to express that frustration. The author's opinions are certainly not out of left field; anecdotally, I've been through the same process he has many times. It is frustrating and is completely unnecessary. I especially agree with his feeling that job searches are opaque, with several layers of impenetrable bullshit to filter through. In fact, I've had companies outright lie about why they were hiring me or what working at their company was like, let alone clueless recruiters just trying to make their 20%.
Eh, I was just helping out. Hold onto that thought and if you ever meet somebody who was actually close to him, give them a hug or something instead :)
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The number 1 reason I don't actively look for new jobs anymore is because of what the hiring process has become. I refuse to go through this BS unless I absolutely have to.

All these companies screaming they can't get good candidates. IMO a major part of it there are tons of people that no longer want to go through it so they are not actively looking like they did in the old days.

These big tech companies have seriously damaged this entire industry with all this bullshit. Yes I blamed the big companies because they get all the press and everyone copies them.
Yeah I've gotten about dismissive comments about tone, which is understandable.

In interviews I've had, I get questioned about frameworks so I figured stating my experience upfront would be one less question. I haven't thought about it possibly being perceived as dismissive before.
Ask HN: A lot of stress during live coding interview, what to do?
Writing with a throw account for obvious reasons.

I'm currently doing various interviews because I'm not happy where I work.

I easily pass the first screening step, but the tech call is the one that always fail me. I stress to much coding while someone is checking what I'm doing. Also sometimes it requires me a little bit of time to get the first solution and I may not immediately code the correct/perfect solution but sometimes it's like a trial/error, or I have to check some documentation that I don't remember because I don't use that specific method frequently.

Things get even harder when I do this coding after 8-10 hours of work.

What do you suggest to do? I've already tried to ask if I can do a separate project to do on my own and then discuss it, but so far no one was willing to do it instead of the live coding.
Attorneys can take your case pro bono and then sue for wages later with anti-SLAPP, iirc. And it's much cheaper to file the anti-SLAPP than to defend against the suit.
IOTA is not decentralized. Although it allegedly will be in the future.
"extemporaneously" is probably my new favorite word.
I agree with you. They're all done for different reasons.

I'm 100% pro-Bezos buying WaPo, especially since it seems he hasn't touched the editorial side of things. BUT it has been used to discredit legitimate WaPo journalism by Trump ("Amazon's Washington Post" / "Bezos Washington Post" / etc)

I included GigaOM because it's probably closest to Gawker (relatively small blog, shut down due to external forces, and brought back with a new name).

I didn't mean to imply all of these were nefarious changes. Rather, they're examples of people hijacking well-trusted (or well-known) brand names, which in the world of blogs/twitter/rumors are hard to come by.
There's a systemic problem here, independent of the Thiel/Bollinger/Gawker case.

"Equality before the law" is supposed to be a fundamental value in America and most Western common-law countries. It's the underpinning behind much of our economic system, which is based on the idea that everybody's welfare is improved if people can independently make contracts with each other. If it turns out that peoples' welfare is not improved, they can sue for damages, and the court system will right the externality.

This assumption does not hold when the vast majority of people harmed cannot afford to sue.

Your last paragraph is a good illustration of the problem, and I think that's the point the grandparent post was making. In this case, it may've been a good thing for justice that Gawker pissed off the wrong billionaire. But it's a terrible system where only the organizations that piss off billionaires get slapped, and the only way to achieve justice is to have a billionaire on your side.

Unfortunately I don't really know of a solution to this. We've already tried a bunch, with public defenders and Miranda rights and continent legal fees and class action lawsuits and pro bono work. But the cost of a court case keeps spiraling upwards, and it's soon reaching the level where only big corporations and wealthy individuals can afford them. And non-capitalist countries are even worse off: in many of them, you need a personal connection to a powerful person to get a fair judgment.
Also known as tight vs loose coupling.
Occam's Razor: among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

You dismissed one assumption and named three more. Please explain which applies to Occam's razor.

If you can then explain how your selection isn't related to structural racism and isn't politically convenient for you, I'd appreciate it.
One of the most fascinating experiments was done by Bastian in 1960s (our first podcast will be about it once the site goes live). It remains highly controversial but has also been replicated by others. In 2016 one Russian scientist claimed to replicate it and it resulted in huge storm and controversy. Basically it involved 2 dolphins separated visually but not acoustically. One dolphin was shown what action the second dolphins should perform so both can get a fish. It appeared that dolphins did communicate and performed above the chance level.
What principle are they defending?
They're the same tape.

Whether Hogan sued primarily because of privacy invasion or because it's published evidence of him being racist is something only he can know, really.
Do you use many of the services like Hired / Vettery or Remote seeking these gigs?

I'll be honest I just haven't put much effort into it quite yet - still trying to arrange a few other projects in the event one of them takes off.

I am just resided to the "if it doesn't exist - make it yourself" but it sure is taking a lot of patience out of me to make it so.
That analogy doesn't fit because the money doesn't give someone direct power but instead allows them to tip the scales in their favor. It is the same as Citizens United. The money allows influencing other people's votes but the money isn't directly choosing the president.

I am also not speaking about a moral difference, I am speaking about a legal difference. How can you allow someone to spend $X on something with the logic that money equals speech but not allow someone to spend $X multiplied by a million on the same thing?
Thiel can purport to be a VC for the largest media company on Earth while simultaneously be comfortable knowingly censoring and shutting down other media companies reporting on things he dislikes.

Is this how he wants Facebook to operate?
> but most broadcasters choose to continue regular FM simulcast and subdivide the remaining digital bandwidth across multiple virtual channels.

The FCC has not approved all-digital modes yet. Further, we cannot control the bitrate of the "main" digital simulcast. We _can_ control the sub-channels, but it doesn't matter how much bandwidth you throw at it, the HDC codec (which is a bastardized form of HE-AAC) always sounds like garbage. This is partially owing to the codec, but also to the fact that we only have 96kbit/s in total to allocate to all sub-channels.
Actually, it sucks for a lot of people. Keeping up with trends !== building a todo app with said trend. Do you really expect anyone to create a new app with the new hotness every time a "Show HN: My framework" is announced?
Which would have a better outcome:

(1) Identify various medications that are most likely to be effective between the different races

or

(2) Identify the differences between the races that is causing various medications to not be effective
Please let's not insult professionals - "researchers" - on this forum without good reason.

You, I, Dunning and Kruger all understand the limitations of experiments with local undergrads and why it's done. I respectfully suggest that D&K might understand that better than you or me, given our skill sets.
Ip? Hashes?
"There has been a disturbance in the kitchen..."
Please weep for the privacy of a billionaire whose analytics firm is monitoring your lives for their gain. I'm sure he's losing sleep over his efforts that impacts our free agency; while being up ins the ass of others that cross him.

Won't someone think of these poor billionaires and the stress they put on themselves without anyone asking!

JFC. What a transparent blowhard. When does the right-wing authoritarian crowd accept that they're behaving like childish snowflakes as well?

"It's not freedom if a rich person can't get away with whatever they want!"

Welcome to the club, Pete. You didn't invent any net new human knowledge others couldn't with effectively unlimited $$ and no concern over where the next meal is coming from.

That Thiel was so convinced "Trump gets it right at the high-level" when it's obvious the guy just says what people want to hear is proof Thiel is an idiot who was simply born in the right time and place.
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That quote is almost never relevant when it's quoted.
It’s also like a cockroach staring up at people and lamenting that they aren’t scurrying about or eating feces and crumbs at all.
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That's quite some anterior pelvic tilt on the lady! Good thing she's going to be getting more standing in now.
I believe you can change Hukou after a few years so it's not strictly where they were born.

Many American state universities discriminate against students based on where their parents live (e.g. charging in-state vs out-of-state tuition).
Let's be real here, the vast majority of people use Gmail or Outlook. And importantly, businesses. iCloud breaks into the consumer market though, but these are by far the leaders.
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> Most people aren't going to get a loan to make a $300 to $500 purchase.

To be pedantic, that's wrong. Most people make $300 to $500 purchases with a credit card, which is a type of loan.
I've been forced to implement atoi and itoa functions in interviews, and albeit I agree with you that it's silly, I think they are just looking for a positive attitude.

I try to hype myself up with a "thank you sir may I have another" once I get through solving what I think is a silly question.

I remember being asked to solve a linked list problem with callbacks in JS where a service returned a Node and the API call to the next node in a list.

I had to just build a function to traverse the async list - I'd have wanted to just redesign that API, but instead I had to solve their silly problem.

I got the job, and it was all due to forcing myself to have a positive attitude and being happy to solve the problems vs questioning why one would ask it.
Could you please provide some pointers to those? Thx.
Having many people donate means that there is some democratic consensus behind the suit, rather than one person's fiat decision.
>(5) Top-level event handlers are passed the time of the event. This is easy to fuzz.

Therein lies the rub -- if your program does not have access to precise timing information, it is by definition not operating at the full capability of the hardware which runs it. That's a hard sell to many domains.

Consider gaming. At 144Hz w/ 4K resolution you have 6ms to render a frame: that's about 1.3ns per pixel. If for a moment we imagine that it takes approximately 1 machine cycle per pixel to render a scene: that means you need to be operating at 1.3GHz just to meet the deadline for drawing to the frame buffer. -- That's before you consider memory & cache latency, or the fact that your multitasking OS is stealing resources for itself & other competing processes.

So no, one cannot just fuzz performance counters in the name of security. Any soft-realtime or hard-realtime domain is going to expect the machine to actually perform as advertised.
IMO the elephant in the room is even more fundamental: the _existence of billionaires_.

There is a disturbing narrative I now notice whenever it appears, specifically, the formulation of "good billionaire X takes on public interest Y."

The subtext is, we should celebrate that some wealthy titan has decided to back an interest aligned with our political interest.

The problem is that our current political and cultural divisions are, if not necessarily solely originating in, primarily–even, almost exclusively–_driven and determined_ by a battle of billionaires.

So long as "normal" people are reduced to pawns in a not so secret chess match between billionaires, our entire civilization is hostage. Our democratic institutions certainly are.

The GOP's contempt for public opinion in pushing through a crappy tax bill which extracts a trillion dollars from the collective future, to further enrich its richest stake holders, is just one more example of the consequences.

And it's getting worse, not better.

The last 40+ years have consistently accelerated the consolidation of wealth. This process gives every appearance of having passed an event horizon, beyond which all political remedies to that consolidation are neutralized, through the simple expediency of the very very wealthy seizing ownership literal and figurative of political process.

The historic solutions to the extreme consolidation of wealth are few and don't offer much road map.

But we solve this, or it looks like we get a 2.5 class society.

An underclass, a 1% overclass–and a frightened buffer class jealous of its limited remaining prerogatives and lottery chances of entering the overclass.

Recognize that last cohort? That's the readership of Hackernews.
Interestingly though the failures of image generation are often of the missing narrative kind: eg. windowless bedrooms, eyes/ears at wrong places on animals. It feels like that deep learning is good at local but fails at global coherence.
> A 2 year loan for $500 is 24 chances for me to forget to make a payment

Are the payments for those "loans" included in the buyers cell phone bill? So no extra payment to remember.
Why not unlock your potential with the Cryptosuit?
Yeah, I'm not saying anything was withheld. I'm just pointing out that Google probably had a fix in mind, tested, and deployed much sooner than most. Not a bad thing, rather a good thing that's just a benefit of having been the ones to discover it. You can patch your own machines with a lot lower global risk than sharing outside the company.
And two weeks ago was the second aniversary of Ian Murdock's death. Time flies.
> Given the amount of dumb money chasing anything that smells like Blockchain, it's not particularly dumb to let shareholders sell their shares at a premium to uninformed buyers.

Are you advocating companies exploiting uninformed investors or just saying that it's the "money-smart dickish move"?
If you ask someone who has studied political science, they will tell you that Liberal is the view that individual rights matter, and that supremacy of the group should be allowed to suffer if it infringes on the rights of individuals. Conservative is the view that the supremacy of the group is paramount. Conservatism is what backed monarchies and imperialism and justified slavery and all manner of mistreatment of large numbers of individuals in the name of aggrandizing the group (whether that be the state, church, whatever). Conservatism on that scale had been on the decline from the late 1700s up to the end of the 20th century. I'm not sure any more.

With the little letters, the split between conservative and liberal normally comes down to how the "rules of the game" are seen. Little-c conservatives are willing to cheat and change the rules of the game and do whatever necessary for their tribe to win. Little-l liberals are not willing to cheat, and see the 'rules' being fair as more important than whether their tribe rules supreme or not. There's lots of research supporting a notion that this sort of divide is very real in people, potentially even biological in origin (though I do not personally believe we are even capable of determining something like that yet), and active successful exploitation of the idea by advertisers, politicians, and others seeking to influence the public for one reason or another.
Honestly I have no idea which would have a better outcome, but I know both would have a great impact. My assumption would be the second one if I had to pick though, for example as an African American I have a sickle-cell trait and thus I shouldn't have kids with someone who also has that trait, and African American's in general have a higher likelihood of that trait. This is fortunately one of the well understood minority cases and therefore I can take action on it, but for many other genetic/ethnic dispositions to harm, they are quite unknown.

If I ever figure out which would be better I'll let you know! Or if someone else chimes in.
If Thiel wasn't a billionaire, he wouldn't have been able to do what he did. On the other hand, if he wasn't a billionaire, Valleywag might not have been as interested in his personal life.
I think it's silly to get wrapped up in one minor typo like this, but we're talking about the name of the product here...

It doesn't leave the greatest first impression.
Correct on the FBI and CIA; NSA, though is a DoD agency headed by a general and conjoined at the head with both the military Cyber Command and the military Central Security Service.
as neat as this (likely vaporware) would be, i feel like just starting with something powerglove-esque and then extending up the arms would be easier and capture most of the value.

also, only two sensors per arm seems like it would leave it difficult to measure forearm twist. maybe they expect to recover that from touch controller orientation information?
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In 1982 the FCC allowed stations to apply for C-QUAM [1] operation. Don't let the OP fool you, it uses a nearly identical technique to FM stereo and thus has nearly the same limitations and impact on quality of the station.

Or he's thinking about 1989 when the FCC actually limited AM bandwidth to 20kHz (10kHz audio).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-QUAM
A. Yes but it’s very hard. You have to marry in it or be a grad from a good university in a good major.

B. Yes, but you easily get residence by living there for less than a year. Also,public K12 schools can’t discriminate like they do in china.
Free speech. And, in particular, the chilling effect that's possible due to how our civil justice system is defined.
I mean, if you were paid market rates for interviews, you'd have to do a lot of interviews to net $300K.

I don't see how that is possible, ignoring the fact that doing that would be about as fun as gold farming on WoW circa 2007.
If people live healthier for longer, then there will be a larger share of healthy people to pay into the pool of sick people, which should help the healthcare crisis.
I've met some competent HR folks out there - I promise they exist.

I've only been around for like 15+ years though but been running in consulting circles for over 10. I'll admit that there are a fair number of crappy ones.

I generally avoid recruiters too - just against working with them on principle.

I wish there were an easy middle-person to use to find high quality project work. I think the tried and true referral system is all that has worked for me the entire time.

I've never applied cold to something and done it, and been happy about it.
Well, sure, and a billionaire can donate billions of dollars to help defend you. Or you could crowd-fund $5 million. Or...

But designing a justice system around "maybe you'll find a charitable person willing to help" seems like a bad idea.
That...sounds absolutely dreadful. I'm happy for you but that doesn't sound like my cup of tea.
I downvoted your first post because, much as I dislike Condoleezza Rice, what on earth does that have to do with an IPO? Even putting aside that it was factually wrong (no, her joining isn't "all they had to do", they have 10 years of work to show for it).

I downvoted your second comment because it's complaining about downvotes, and is making the completely incorrect (and really quite narcissistic) assumption that you getting downvoted means surveillance/privacy has lost priority.

Here's your context.