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Charlatans don’t really do clear. Look at Deepak Chopra, it’s also going to be difficult to do demonstrably false stuff. It’s mostly vague mumbo jumbo that’s intuitively nonsense. Still, saying that we are unwiser now than before the enlightenment is demonstrably false by a number of metrics, from medical results to number of books published, literacy and many more.
>Why don’t we approach his sentence from the opposite direction: the prosecution proposed a 15-year sentence, which is less than a reported max of ~25 years under federal guidelines. 7 years is a fraction of what Shkreli could face, so why don’t we accuse her of being emotionally swayed to be lenient?

Because other, similar cases seem to have lesser sentences, not greater. This case has a larger sentence compared to other actual practical cases, though clearly it wasn't as large as it could legally have been.
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> Criminal fraud is something like "they said they were going to sell me something, but just took my money instead." Civil fraud might be something like "they sold me 10-inch sandwiches as 12-inch sandwiches."

Is it purely a matter of partial delivery, or does magnitude matter? What if it's "they sold me 10 tons of gold as 12 tons of gold?" Because that's a big difference.

Then again, 10 inch sandwhiches sold as 12 inch sandwhiches allows you to save over 15% of materials, which if you're a nationwide chain could be quite a lot of money as well.
So here's a question. If there were a cheaper way for China the nation to acquire the steel it needed during it's expansion phase why did China decide to subsidize? Is there an total system cost that they're maximizing beyond the accounting for just the balance sheet of the steel companies?
It's less of a touchy subject than a predictable and boring digression. Users often flag off-topic comments.
Thank you for this response. I'm genuinely curious about this, though:

> You think the judge faces no risk if she decides to draw up a sentence without defensible legal basis?

What are the risks that judges face? My understanding is that Federal judges are appointed for life, with no chance of removal outside of impeachment. Is this not the case?
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The Go runtime for Lambda allows arbitrary binaries, with a CGI-like-but-incompatible interface.
There's been a crack down on enforcing tickets to people riding these scooters without helmets - which are not supplied with the scooters that sit on sidewalks.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-scooters-20180307-s...

http://smdp.com/bird-lovers-tweet-as-tickets-ruffle-feathers...

https://dailybruin.com/2018/02/20/ucpd-begins-to-enforce-tra...

https://patch.com/california/santamonica/santa-monica-cracks...

"Bird Rides Inc. has a business license to operate a
brick-and-mortar administrative office," Santa Monica
public information officer Constance Farrell told Los
Angeles Times, "but they do not have the appropriate
license to operate scooters in an ad hoc manner on the
public right of way."

In an attempt to increase safety, Bird has begun giving
out free helmets to its users – so far, they've delivered
2,500 free helmets which can be ordered from the "safety"
tab in the app, according to Los Angeles Times.
I'm a hobbyist programmer so I don't get a chance to 'pair program' really ever, and watching someone else code is very useful. Books only go so far.
They're all over West LA (Santa Monica, UCLA, Westwood, etc.). It's crazy to me that they are raising this much money for one simple reason: to ride the scooter, you are required by law to wear a helmet. I have friends that have gotten fined because they're riding a Bird without a helmet. And no one in their right mind will carry a helmet around on the off-chance they might ride a scooter.

But it's a neat idea. And if they change the law, it'll be super profitable (especially around campuses).
Should have been clearer here: I've only been interviewed once, but I've given hundreds of interviews over the same time frame.
> This silly popular image of Einstein as the genius among geniuses is just that: silly and popular.

Uh, Einstein published four papers that revolutionized four areas of physics in one year:

* The photoelectric effect

* Brownian Motion

* Special Relativity

* Mass-Energy Equivalence

Sure, he didn't do it alone. But even publishing one of those papers as part of a group would be an extraordinary feat for a physicist of the time, and he did it again and again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers
That's not what was said at all.
> Wow...I'm sort of shocked that wasn't a v1.0 consideration.

Given that you need to pass --expert to gpg 2.1 as of right now to even generate an ECC keypair for PGP use (nor use one on an OpenPGP smartcard or yubikey), I can sort of forgive the lack of ECC in 1.0. I don't think it sees wide usage for PGP keys (some clients don't support it, also).

However, as of the last time I tried Protonmail (about 10 minutes ago to check this is all still true) you can't: revoke/reissue your PGP key, validate outside signatures (either on encrypted messages or signed, plaintext messages) or send pure-PGP mail to users outside of protonmail (there's an encrypt for non-protonmail users option, that sends a link instead). Essentially as another commenter has said, you can't really do PGP with ProtonMail.
That is heart breaking. Hopefully you live in a state where the records of Marijuana offenders will be expunged eventually.
Who do you consider to be a great composer?
Yep! Just posted the same sentiment. I have friends (and friends of friends) that have already gotten fined.
I can't imagine this company will ever successfully be able to pull a license after this stunt. What a short sighted move.
It's a relatively common phenomenon in hydrodynamics (specifically, the formation of large separated cyclones in unstable flow), and the best explanation is delightful -- Onsager's "The Little Vortices Who Wanted To Play" (a letter to Linus Pauling, reproduced on page 33 of this PDF: http://bactra.org/sloth/eyink-and-sreenivasan-on-onsager-on-... ).
Cases like this always use expressions like "showed a lack of remorse." It speaks to how likely they are to reoffend.
I just saw your latest replies in this thread. Can I offer you another way to look at this?

Amateur radio is what it is. It has certain freedoms and certain restrictions. The restrictions include no commercial use and no encrypted communication, along with licensing tests, frequency and power limits, etc.

But the freedoms can be pretty great. You can help in emergencies. You can have a backup radio in case you get in trouble outside cellular coverage. You can explore electronics and antenna design. (I just saw a job listing for an RF/antenna design specialist to work on self-flying cameras.) You can build your own transmitter from scratch. You can talk to astronauts on the ISS or bounce a signal off the moon!

And that's just a tiny fraction of the things you can do. If any of them are interesting, then you just have to ask yourself, "Does it matter to me if anyone is listening in?"

If it matters to you, no harm, no foul, you just find something else to do instead.
You're not the only one who feels like that and you can safely ignore the critics. There's no doubt Bach was a great composer but even asking the question whether there's a "greatest" is pretty dumb. I happen to love some of Bach's works but know many people who find his works too mathematical or cold.
Bird has been leaving their scooters on the sidewalks where I'm at in Marina Del Ray, CA which is a little surprising since there are a lot of homeless folks living on these same streets.
See my post below. The principle is similar, but implemented on a device for that purpose: a steam cleaner. There's also a cloth attached to scrub dirt. Hospitals use this regularly.
I think it got fixed. Looks good to me now.
> Is it too much to ask the article's author to assume the bloody obvious?

Their intentions are not obvious to me, and I have asked both publicly and privately (individuals that I know within github).

> wondering if the article's author's IQ is higher than a shoe size.

Wow, really?
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> represent better what is widely accepted in the field

How do you know this? Are you a practitioner in the field?

> when source A says explicitly that source B is wrong but source B makes no such claim about source A, you should usually believe source A

Yikes. That is scary: "You are wrong." You'd better respond or else that proves it.

"Newton is wrong." "Darwin is wrong about evolution." "Climate change scientists are all wrong." "Popper is wrong about postpositivism." "The legal system is wrong about the right to cross-examination."
Here you go: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Actually they have -
IOS has had almost 1 a year the last 20 years...compare Code Execution CVEs to the Linux Kernel, and they are damn close if you exclude the kernel's huge number for 2017 - Kernel only has 20 more than IOS. And the kernel is likely far larger than IOS

Edit: apparently this isn't the only 'product' page for IOS, there are multiple, and also different versions which get their own CVEs:
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/19/Cisco-IOS.html?vendor_...

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...
Seems like 100% of Githubs problem. Solution: either use /github/about or /profile/name

Or just tell him and be done with it.
Depends on what the product is. Can you do some or all of it manually? Obviously not for a todo app on a phone (for example), so it doesn't apply in every situation.

But for some solutions you may be able to test the market via manual processes or a Zapier rube goldberg machine before spending engineering time.
We've got different goals =)

Under half an hour away from work (by whatever means), somewhere I can afford to buy, quiet neighborhood, nice view, trees around, good schools, not too tightly packed, with a reputation of being safe enough that I don't have to worry if no one else is around.

Walkability is a plus, but not at the cost of other goals. If I ever want to see family or friends, a car is a given. Survival doesn't strictly require one, but it would complicate a number of things.
> Co-ops are just the same as guilds, oligopolies, etc

Um... no? The point of a coop is to make money, just like a joint-stack corporation. In fact, a co-op is a joint stock corporation where the owners are also workers.

> They are (usually government-sanctioned or government-protected) producer organizations

Coops have no government protection, at least no more than mega corporations. Recall that it was GM who was determined to be 'too big to fail', not Mondragon.
Sarcasm, drunk or high?
That's a lot of coin. What makes a company like this worth investing that amount of money in? What are they doing different than all the other bike share companies out there?

Don't tell me it's just electric scooters!
Douglas Adams once said "Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."

As a musician, I understand this. It's our goal as musicians to channel and convey emotion. Bach channels something much greater than himself or myself or ourselves. It's really incredible. His music sounds vast.
That's fair, perhaps I misread it.
Mildly amusing, but basically silly. There is a reason why everyone in the past failed, and that is because they didn't have sufficiently advanced biotechnology to (a) understand the causes of aging in terms of specific low-level cell and tissue damage, and (b) identify and build ways to repair those forms of damage.

We've only had a way to progress towards therapies for aging with this model of development for somewhere between 30-50 years, and no way to make progress towards therapies for aging with anything short of massive war-on-cancer style programs prior to the last 20 years. (Those programs didn't happen, but in a different world could have; arguably it wouldn't have made much difference as to where we are now, just as the war on cancer has only been a foundational effort for the last ten years of exponentially rapid development just prior to the advent of universal effective cancer therapies. It is possible that senolytics could have happened much earlier, decades ago, but finding and validating the candidate drugs would have been very hard back then). But now everything in biotech costs 100 times less than it did not so very long ago - that is really why things are heating up in applied longevity science.

The article also commits the usual journalistic sin of equating every effort. There is a vast difference between all of: eating a different diet; running a pharmaceutical discovery program aimed at a mechanism of aging; running that program to build a way to replicate calorie restriction; running that program to kill senescent cells or clear glucosepane cross-links. These activities have radically different expectation values in terms of best plausible outcome.

The biggest mistake most people make in their approach to the new world of rejuvenation science is to think of every possible methodology as having similar best plausible outcomes in terms of years gained. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Does this mean Servo will exist only as a mixed reality platform, and they are abandoning the independent next-generation browser project? EDIT: Is it an organizational change - i.e., does the Servo team now report to Mixed Reality?
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The parent post by thowawaylalala already mentions Florida, so I think what woliveirajr means by "south of South America, more or less equivalent to Florda" is at a latitude in South America with the equivalent climate as Florida, rather than suggesting that Florida is geographically "south America".
I love these sorts of "is it the real thing" tests. This poses a great economic incentive for the producers to put effort into R&D to advance the state of the art. It's just like how image-based captchas have been incentivizing advances in computer vision.
Helmet rental? Not a hard problem to solve. Already being done at ski resorts and go kart tracks across the country. They usually give you a "sock" to put over your head.

Also, if you rent a "real" scooter or motorcycle they usually have helmets you can use.
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Those pieces you mention aren't exactly the things I would categorize as "moving", though.

What about the pieces for solo cello (BWV 1007-1008)? The Goldberg Variations? The solo violin sonatas (BWV 1001-1006)? His motets (e.g. BWV 227) and cantatas (too many to mention)? Or the Matthäus Passion (BWV 244)? Most people would also mention the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major (BWV 1068, more famously known as "Air on the G string"). Then, for sheer awesomeness, his Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) is hard to beat.

That said, aside from some of the above pieces, Bach is often too dense, complex and (heh) baroque to be truly moving. The beauty of many of his pieces are in their construction, not in their ability to give you goosebumps.
Ask HN: Vulnerabilities in ML frameworks
Does anyone know of any vulnerabilities in machine learning frameworks, specially buffer overflows and arbitrary execution?
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No, but the fact that Shkreli is a jerk, and showed no remorse for what he did, and disrespected the court mean that they shouldn't go easy on him, either.
diffuse => defuse?
If anyone is interested in Bach's keyboard literature, it's hard to top the interpretations of Glenn Gould, a fascinating musician in his own right. Here, for example, is a seminal performance of the D minor concerto, conducted by Leonard Bernstein: https://youtu.be/9ZX_XCYokQo?t=5m9s
> Why would you ever want to name yourself malware, let alone to use it "with the intent of working on some new open source stuff"?

Why not? What about the (currently in use) github user names such as `hacker` or `virus`?

The whole point of the account was to publish things that I didn't deem worthy of my other accounts. Having a terrible name was kind of the point.
the interesting question will be, if the satellite bus size is below the reliable detection threshold for space monitoring radar, if the TLEs will remain valid after they have experienced 6 months of atmospheric drag and expansion/contraction of the atmosphere with solar cycles.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081216-eart...

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/solar-wind-pushes-atmosp...

for example the GOCE satellite lasted longer than expected because its end-of-life period happened to coincide with a lower than usual amount of solar wind activity.
https://www.twitch.tv/omatum_greg

Greg is building a product on top of Ruby/Rails. You might find this interesting.
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Yeah, but this stuff is supposed to make things much better. If it's the same as our current system, I don't see much reason to change.
Ski Resorts and Go Kart Tracks are non-moving locations.

Scooters that you can leave anywhere, and find anywhere - that's not just "helmet rental in location X". That's "helmet rental _anywhere_". Seems like a hard problem to me.
I agree with you on all counts—I feel like you guys are massively misunderstanding my comment and somehow taking it as an attack on the notion of ham radio, as if somehow I feel like it's some kind of evil. I don't. I never did. It can be a great, useful, awesome thing. Where did I deny this? All I was saying was that "no downsides except the equipment cost" is emphatically not an accurate picture—and I feel accurate pictures are important regardless of how awesome something is. In this case it matters because I don't want some poor soul to read this, go buy the equipment, and then discover (hopefully not the hard way) that his (say) encrypted communication is illegal, and everything he says must be public to the whole world. I don't get why everyone here is so quick to extrapolate from "X isn't perfect, it has tradeoffs Y/Z" to "X utterly sucks, I hate it, and it needs to stop existing". It isn't helpful; it's a real turn-off that just sucks the energy out of what could be a more meaningful/nuanced/informative discussion.
Not really. I don't particularly care about the name "malware" at all, to be honest, so I'll probably go with something in a different direction.
Thanks man! What do you think about the Hepa filters in Roomba robot vacuums?
Have you considered uploading your corpus to the Internet Archive? If not, would you like help doing so?
Who is djb?
Synthetic diamonds are exactly that. Not cubic zirconia.
I've never really watched live coding, but I work in a team with three sysadmins and two devs.

I'm fairly new to dev, and my colleague is even newer. The sysadmins only know PowerShell, so I'm always teaching myself, and don't get to pick up on best practises or learn how anyone else would do things, other than from what I read online.

I guess it'd just be cool to see something built from start to finish, watching the problems they encounter and how they work around them.
I think his fan club is hilarious. That they picked such a whiney troll to follow speaks volumes about their character.
No, no composer can equal Bach. Done. Upvote to the top please. :P
That's a hilarious comment. The New Space industry doesn't want orbital debris, either.
I recall there was an article on the front page of hacker news not long ago that argued that it was a better use of public money to not pave every road and to let some roads just be dirt roads because the maintenance cost was not justified by the amount of road traffic. This was not the article but similar to it:
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein
Such a soothing experience!
Has anyone done the math recently or is it industry dogma?
Why doesn't the {1} in this case initialize the array to all 1s?
They're required to get a license from their nation, even if they're private. So "what will happen" is what's currently happening: you have to get a license.
I disagree. I very much feel they should be focusing on both, especially if their satellite could damage and interfere with the satellites of others.
The only winning move is to just not let dirt happen to begin with.
Apt Bojack Horseman quote incoming...

> How do you respond to allegations that factory farming is "torture" or "cruel" or "like a terrifying movie about some strange dystopian society, but in this monster story, the horrifying monsters are us"?

> Relax, Tommy, everything we do is completely legal and FDA-approved, so, therefore, it is fine.

> I have no follow-up questions
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That's unfortunate. Seattle just launched a new bikesharing program (several, actually, which are privately operated and seem to be completing), and while we do have a helmet law, the cops have sort of informally agreed to look the other way provided you're not being seriously reckless: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/hel... It's pretty much a necessity for programs like this to work.
The UN already organized a treaty process which the US signed up to, making the US responsible for US companies like Swarm.
Depends on what news you read, doesn't it?
> Is is possible to create a cubesat that looks and smells like it is doing one mission but is actually doing a different mission?

probably yes, but as 99.9% of cubesats have no thrusters or maneuvering capability (yet), and their initial TLEs are known. It's pretty easy for a nation-state space agency or air force (USAF, UK, most large EU countries, etc) to aim a two-axis motorized tracking VHF/UHF antenna at them with a spectrum analyzer to figure out at least what frequencies it's communicating on. Even if everything is encrypted.

It's not as if any cubesat currently has the capability to change its orbital elements or do anything other than act as some form of radio Rx/Tx, or maybe operate a very small telescopic camera system.
I don't find $100m that surprising, and honestly don't think it's enough. They need the cash to expand to new cities. Motorized scooters are not cheap at all and cost $200-$300 each.
Just to clarify: a "sock" won't work here, you need an actual hard helmet. The problem is that Birds are left just willy-nilly (on any street/at any location). It would defeat the purpose of the concept to have "base camps" where people grab helmets.
Just about everything sent up is going to want to transmit something down. And one of the FCC's reasons for existing is to try and minimize interference for broadcasters.
>>But -- some percent of the population are predatory, or have the potential to become predatory. They have come to believe that the strong (them) have the right to take from the weak. They steal, rob, rape, murder because it benefits themselves to do so. And if you take away any prospect of bad consequences, more people will become predators.

And if you leave the consequences.... they become CEO's.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-...
> This is almost certainly the answer.

I agree. I just wanted to know! But, as the replies on this post have shown, the only thing you get for asking questions that you don't have the answer to is vitriol and ridicule on HN.

I write technical posts that require lots of experimentation, time and research, and no one gives a shit. I write a rant-y blog post on Friday night about something trivial that I found frustrating and suddenly I'm a moron with an IQ the size of my shoe that is a waste of human life.

Hacker News is a fucked up place.
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You can talk after you take a biotech company public.
Huh, interesting; our site config seems to require building so I had assumed that was the case!