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My feelings about Cory aren't because he insulted Disney, I already knew how he felt about Disney. My feelings are personal. He insulted me without knowing anything about me. He assumed that I was colluding rather than working to fix anything from the inside. He was rude to me personally before I said a word to him. He insulted me while I was holding a copy of his book that I had just paid for, while I was spending my own time waiting in line to get the chance to talk to him. How ungrateful and unprofessional can someone get?

He is selling his writing. I do wonder how hard he'd stick to his copyright guns if nobody ever paid him for his ideas, and everybody copied them instead.

I have all my own reasons to not trust Disney, BTW, above and beyond their historical copyright violations or whatever. They shut down our research group on a whim during a management turnover because they couldn't see in Excel whether it was profitable. They closed the game studio I was working at on very little notice after making a billion dollars on the product we created, after years of overtime. I had left already and was unaffected, but a couple hundred people were suddenly trying to figure out how to feed their families.

That said, they also paid me relatively well, and I fed my family and worked on some fun projects. My family and extended family and friends all enjoyed free trips to Disneyland. As a parent, I do appreciate being able to trust Disney content around my kids.

Given that they are a global economic engine that supports millions of people, I can have my beefs, but it's hard to say that it's all bad. "Evil" is a black and white narrative that, ironically, is the kind of thinking that Disney has encouraged. These companies are made of people, almost all of whom are good and just trying to get by.

All large corporations are doing things that are not in the public interest. Calling out specific ones and claiming they're much worse than others is to misunderstand our economic system. Capitalism is the root cause of the immense amount of direct and indrect harm, at the same time it's the cause of an immense amount of wealth and economic stability.

In any case, even if some companies are bad, it's lame to be rude to strangers face to face.
> Mr. Trump, who is known to watch Fox News while he is tweeting, posted his tweet shortly after a Fox News legal analyst appealed directly to the president during a Thursday morning segment about the coming House vote. The analyst, Andrew Napolitano, turned to television cameras and said, “Mr. President, this is not the way to go.” He added that Mr. Trump’s “woes” began with surveillance.

lol.

But seriously we need someone in the oval office who feels strongly about protecting the privacy of Americans (and everyone else!). Trump is just another one in the line to rubber-stamp this. Not holding my breath though...
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To solve the problem of poor inner city education, we need to get better teachers working in the inner city. Paying them more might be a useful part of that.
ICOs are not necessarily fraud - are they outlawed in your country? Do you simply need to register them properly with any countries you decide to release your app in?
I saw a more detailed article a bit ago on it and it said that Ecuador gave him citizenship on December 12th and then sent a request on December 20th for the UK to treat Assange as an Ecuadorian diplomat and all of the protections that entails. UK rejected that a day later.

edit: article in question - https://www.yahoo.com/news/ecuador-grants-citizenship-wikile...
Goals are a complex arrangement of environmental conditions. But not all such conditions are equal. It's perfectly sensible to classify arrangements of matter that have self-awareness and learning behaviour as distinct from those that do not exhibit such behaviours.
So maybe your natural thought process wouldn't work for said use case, but like keyboards and other user interfaces, you could surely learn to control it fairly simply. Maybe it's as simple as training yourself to imagine the words spelled out (if that was all it took).

We've all seen people who are new to keyboards, mice and even GUI's attempt to navigate a computer. It's clunky, slow, there's a lot of noise in the movements and erred clicks made.

I think it was here on HN I saw a great write-up once about leaving the gap in UX—that there is a threshold where the use just simply has to learn something in order to effectively use the device.

I don't know how the control interface for thought could look in the end in so few words, but I'm reasonably confident it could be brought down to a certain level that is more than attainable for the average user to meet.
Dropbox is the only major cloud drive service that offers official Linux app. That beats everything else for me.
But this seems to be different situation from what the article is talking about which is the inadequate involvement of minorities in drug trials. You are highlighting the lack of adequate health coverage which is a different issue in the US. But this bring up a question if blacks and other minorities have the poorer health outcomes in other countries? Japan, China, South Korea for example does their own drug testing and development so would they find that a particular drug doesn't work on their population at all? What about the black population in UK or France? Do they also have poorer health outcomes?
So you are not one of the normal users. Do you think they will write special logic for you?
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My city the segergation is increased through Private and Charter Schools. One charter school has 93% Latino population. Another Private School near me has over 90% Caucasian population.

It really is frustarting to see the US fall further behind.

Talking further about teachers it is super one sided. Minorities are not joining the ranks of teachers and instead the diversity of teachers is getting more and more white.

https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/highered/racial-diversity/...
That's definitely Skype for Business, and it is a trainwreck. It's also standing on foundations that are at least 15 years old, from the pre-Slack era of instant messaging - it works essentially the same as AIM, or SameTime, or Pidgin, or any of the IM clients of that era.

Good news for you, SFB is most likely going away soon; Microsoft is seemingly hell bent on rolling all of the things into Teams.
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No, it's just like if you were living real life.

Imagine you reading this paragraph at this moment, but in reality you are dreaming of it, it is not real.

How can you tell? can you even ask yourself that question at a moment like that? will it make sense to ask that question since you "think" you are awake?
And it's not tied to a phone number.
Anecdotally, everyone I knew on Skype has already migrated somewhere else and their account is now dormant, with the most frequent destination being Discord, which has the same kind of pseudonymous usernames. Some were active in 'gaming' communities, but others just wanted to keep at least one service where you can still chat without having to give out personal details. With the decline and staling of old-style IM networks, Discord has infringed on this space and is where most growth is taking place.

In most online communities, there will always be a place for an identity provider that doesn't require you to use a full name, and/or doesn't bind your login to your phone number. The addition of easy-to-use E2E crypto has been lagging among services like this, so this addition is welcome.

Skype still has a lot of brand recognition and mindshare among the older generations, and a large installed base, and so it remains useful for incidental chat in scenarios that Discord hasn't actively pursued, or situations which people's assumptions and associations with Discord's perceived nature would hinder.
Really?

Which ones?

I saw the tweets from their CEO and it actually sounded very much like the emperor has no clothes.

If the best examples of "huge global banks" that Ripple can produce when asked are a couple of small-time national banks suggesting they'll trial the software later this year then I'll reserve judgement.
I wish people would stop using market cap as if it was meaningful for cryptocurrencies. A lot of these coins are traded at low volumes on unregulated exchanges that allow wash trading and other means of manipulating prices.

Even were that not the case and they had meaningful price discovery mechanisms 'market cap' would be a meaningless metric because if someone were to buy all the coins, they'd have destroyed the value of them because they've ruined the network value of the currency. This isn't the case for stocks in an actual company, because if you buy all the shares of a company with a 10 billion dollar market cap, you now own a company worth approximately 10 billion dollars.
> Rich Hickey has this thing where he talks about "simple versus easy". Both of them sound good but for him, only "simple" is good whereas "easy" is bad.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone mischaracterize his talk [1] this badly.

The claim is actually that simplicity is a fundamental property of software, whereas ease of use is often dominated by the familiarity a user has with a particular set of tools.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
Very nice! I like how you used multiple data sources to enable a study that couldn't be done with just one.
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You know, before Microsoft Skype had end to end encryption.
Well it's not really surprising. People have been emigrating from Poland for a long time. This eventually has to show up in low unemployment numbers.
I've been using Dropbox Pro for four years, and for me the biggest thing is does one or two things and does them well. It just works. I have a hierarchy on my file system that follows me wherever I go.

I have a few gripes about how it handles conflicts and cross platform issues like capitalization, but they are minor compared to the benefits.
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Would be quite amazing if they are not profitable. After all they seem to be quite conservative on the product development side and have always had courage to charge actual money for their service.

One thing I've always wondered is what is their actual cost structure. Based on my own usage I would assume the actual storage part is quite small compared to the data processing and bandwidth. Since the sync works so smoothly, it is convenient to keep all kinds of projects there. Thinking for example node.js projects, which take not so many megabytes, but may contain 10-100k small files (due to dependencies).
I'm not an expert on such things, but I think it was earlier than the Dutch. It was the Italians, in the 1200s.
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Again, there are humans that feel some types of negative stimuli but not pain. It's not theoretical!

It doesn't matter what my exact definition is for pain as long as we can agree that there is a difference.

(We can agree that soft pokes to the head don't hurt, right?)

And because there is a difference, it's not nuance to say "You can show that avoidance of stimuli is nearly universal, but that's not good enough to show pain". Without that equivalence, the argument is half-finished or less.
Similar to FB - it's good to stay connected to old friends, former colleagues, random nice people you meet at conferences. Useful should you need to ping these individuals for info.
No, not at all, it's ratios of elements that form a compound.

Some of the compounds found are predominantly composed of elements that are expected to be minor constituents, particularly carbon, which is an element.
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> Spectre has nothing to do with program correctness or safety. It has everything to do with hardware's correctness and safety.

Yes, but safety is safety. The point of the article is that the assumption on the part of language nerds for the past few decades -- that correct choice of processes and implementation patterns as expressed by whatever favorite runtime the author wants can protect us from security bugs -- turns out to be FALSE.

Rust and Haskell programs are subject to Spectre attacks just as badly as K&R C ones from 1983. All that pontification didn't actually work!

The point is that it puts a limit on pedantry about "correctness". That's all based on an idea about a "computer" being an abstracted device, when it turns out the real-world machines are in fact leaky abstractions. The lesson to my ears isn't that you shouldn't use Rust or whatever, but that some humility about the boundaries of "correctness" would probably be a good idea for many of the pontificators.
A beanie baby is a beanie baby. It's an asset and offers no other claims or rights.

If I pay $1 for a beanie baby the manufacturer presumably captures the value of the difference between where they value labor and materials (< $1) and $1. I capture the value of the utility a beanie baby gives me (>=$1) less $1.

If I then mark the beanie baby on my books as worth $1 million, because that's where I have seen other similar beanie babies trade, on my balance sheet I have captured $9,999,999 because I was able to get real property the market values at $1 million for $1. That is ludicrous, but it is real (though unrealized).

Now I could sell it for the $1 million, and my gain would realized, and it would equal the difference between my cost and the (possibly irrational) utility the buyer placed on that beanie baby. That the buyer irrationally believes that a beanie baby has value beyond that of a toy, as a store of value, or a possible rising speculative asset is not prudent or wise, but it is real.
I challenge your characterization of anyone who's not from Stanford or an Ivy as dumb

However, if that's what you want to believe then more power to you. Hire whoever you want. I'm just agreeing with OP that the target of diversity programs is decidedly not to get diversity of life experience -- because there are much better ways to attain that than hiring by skin color or gender.
They removed the search option åer conversation as well and made it match everything as long as it is written in the new client, aka totally utterly useless now. It annoys me so much!
Yeah that won't stop people frothing at the mouth. Any day now, annny day Trump is going to start locking citizens up for criticizing him. Any day.
Do you mean buffer overflow? What language protects against stack overflow?
What does E2E benefit you at that point?

Message confidentiality between businesses. Did you perhaps think SfB only works between users in the same organization?
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Congrats to Arash for getting to this point. He has been very helpful when I reported security flaws nearly half a decade ago. I'm still wearing their sweater from time to time.
Following in the footsteps of Obama.
Not really, because it doesn't need to be a real word or an existing name. It could be Rexfus, for example. Even the dot com is available, and as a combination of Rex and Rufus, still dog inspired.
I believe myself to be a competent programmer.
Does this mean I'm incompetent?

It's possible; I can't ignore the possibility.

There goes my self-confidence again.
This is naïve first-order thinking; we can justify length-prefixed strings on a more abstract basis. First, note that in a trusted kernel, we'll prefer to define our string-handling functions only once and then explicitly hand-write their correctness proofs. This means that, on a higher level, we do not have to prefer any one particular string abstraction just because of the white-box implementation details; we'll call strcat() either way.

Now, note that we can store any character, including NUL, in a length-prefixed string. However, we cannot do this in NUL-terminated strings. This is because stray NULs will change the apparent length of the string. More directly, what a string is, whether it's "string of length 5" or "string of length 255", is determined by the string's data. In contrast, a length-prefixed string contains two fields, and only one of them controls the length of the string.

Now, imagine that an attacker comes to totally control the contents of our string. In the NUL-terminated scenario, they also control the length of the string! This does not occur with length-prefixed strings. There is strictly less capability offered to the attacker.

I know about the automaton-based approach to langsec, but this capability-based analysis is far more in line with the recent rise of weird machines.
Can't say I am really happy about it. The more the Signal protocol is used the more money is spend on attacking it.
You know that Skype is still the better cousin? Some of us have to use Skype4Business (previously Lync) at work. After you do that you get a boner at how good the consumer Skype is in comparison. E.g. in consumer Skype if you send a message you can be relatively sure the other party receives it!!!! What a great feature.
I completely understand where you're coming from, and I share some of that cynicism. But there are many contrary examples. Abolitionists fought in the US Civil War to end slavery. Russian journalists and politicians are killed left and right but continue to challenge Putin's dictatorship. The Kurds, though they have never had their own state, continue to resist both Turkey and ISIS. Protesters were attacked and killed for protesting the neo-nazi rally in Charlottesville, VA just last year.

I think it's as Thomas Jefferson said: "...all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

Perhaps in this case, the suffering is not great and the vision of privacy is not strongly supported. But I disagree that people will choose safety over freedom every time.
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what would be a better measure?
Yup. Half the comments in this thread are "oh you could do issues in git or something." No, when my PM asks me if bug 123 is fixed, I want a single source of truth. Whether that truth is GitHub, JIRA or something else, it's still a single point of failure.
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Teams is much better than SfB, and I think if your org pays for SfB it also has access to Teams.
Saying you hate BTC because of smart contracts doesn’t make much sense because smart contracts are not a primary feature of the Bitcoin Blockchain. Also the main argument that most Crypto haters have is “bitcoin is only good for illegal stuff”. There are many many other blockchain and Decentralized applications not just bitcoin, bitocoin was the pioneer. And if I take law for example like the writer we all know these centralized systems are ripe with fraud, corruption and illegal activities. Lastly there is no need to hate Blockchain at all, it’s an innovative technology that can benefit everyone on the planet.
Rexfus, a combination of Rex and Rufus, is available (including the dot com) and would be easy to SEO.
An exit (IPO or acquisition) is the goal of a VC backed startup. If you want to build a company to build a company, do it a different way (debt, savings, bootstrap, investors).
Fedora's Pagure[1] implements those administrative bits as Git repos. Issues are stored in a Git repository along with the git repo for the code.

[1]: https://pagure.io/pagure
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People value confidence over competency. If you always question things because you known enough to know that you don't know enough, people aren't going to take you very seriously. Better for yourself if you fake it till you make it. At least then you will have opportunities to advance in life. I rather suffer from Dunning-Kruger than impostor syndrome.
Yet the article states he was only the second person to ever "beat" it. Clearly most people are not nearly as dedicated to beating this game. That is what makes it a strange hobby.
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Parent sounds nothing like those comments. Whereas you see people saying, “just glue together some ftp, rsync, a little SVN, and you’re golden!”, my take on what parent is saying is, “we have offerings from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Joe’s Online Storage, what makes Dropbox special again?”

The picture you try to portray is “no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame” and that’s not the case at all, I think it is a question worth considering.
> But that ignores federal funding, which is specifically targeted to the highest poverty districts.

Federal Funding is very low and has shrunk to 10% of funding for education. With education dollars it comes with designations and paper work. Most school districts have to spend hundreads of thousands of dollars on admins and staff to follow through with Federal funding. My inner city district had to fire 3 principles so we could recieve $2,000,000 in funding in 3 years. We got $400,000 and probably lost money out of the deal.
We haven't done extensive research in populations outside of the United States, but for the last 50-100 years the US (and Europe) has been leading the charge, but in both these locations, Minorities have been a low percentage participation in research.

As well, many of these outcomes he mentioned are the indirect result of years of research. Think of diabetes, 100 years of research was 99% spent on a white population and that contains prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Populations that aren't white begin to see detrimental effects that add up over time.
> With more than 50 percent of the population estimated to be a minority by 2044

"Hi, I'm Brian Clark and I don't know what 'minority' means"
I think what you're asking about is Efference copy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efference_copy

Other animals do this. They perceive their own movements as different from an others.
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Which could still be done by compiling the source then disassembling it. You lose nothing by it being open source to begin with.