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What if this law will be abused as a tactic to attack business competitions?
Why would that happen?

> For example, Business A has a competitor startup B who has less resources to hire security consultant. Business A hence hired person C to register the service provided by B with a weak password and hire D to breach C's account. C claims that he has been hacked, so he brings startup B to court. B goes bankrupt because it runs out of money to hire lawyers.

You use your knowledge or regulation to read and make decisions. If you don't have the required experience,

> How do I know I have required experience (what experience is required is not said in the regulation text)? I know md5 is insecure and you need salting on password. I'm self learned, garage based entrepreneur with $1000 in my bank to either buy food or hire a consultant, is that required experience?
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Problem: U.S. vehicle deaths topped 40,000 in 2017.
Solution: Let's ban car videos

Problem:
Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S.
Solution: Videos about medical procedures? Get rid' of em!

and so on. Only allow cat videos.
I guess we learned nothing from the 20th century. While our country, at least used to, pride itself and base it's image upon excoriating unjust governmental overreach abroad (East Germany), it has become exactly what it once bemoaned.
If there's one thing I would do to C it is to replace the normal datatypes with u8, u16, u32, u64 (ad infinitum) and their signed brethren s8, s16, s32, s64, ...

And don't start with the stupid (u)intXX_t.
Much congrats to the Dropbox team. I know they've been wanting this for a while.
The earth's surface is ~200 million square miles. 1 bomb per 13,000 square miles seems bad, but we had survivors very close to ground zero with even H-Bombs and these nukes would not be eventually spread over the surface. Many people would be 5,000+ miles from the closest detention.

Remember we actually detonated a large number of nukes on the surface with minimal impact on global radiation exposure.

While relatively small by modern standards Yoshitaka Kawamot was less than 1km from the hiroshima blast and survived. Yes, these nukes may be 100+x as powerful but destruction is far from 1:1 with yield sizes.
Most "death by firearms" are suicides, and suicides mostly don't need instructional videos. The rest are mostly murders, and there's nothing to suggest that gun videos on Youtube make people more or less likely to murder.

There's no good reason to think that this step by Youtube will help with the "public health" side of the issue at all; it's fairly transparently about an animus against guns qua guns.
Too much detail. No we all know about you.

Oh shit, now you all know about me.
I did one semester of law school before deciding I didn't really want to go that route, and while I'm not going to comment on how to read this law, I can tell you my most effective technique for really breaking down the language of legal documents:

Treat every paragraph like a great big chain of boolean logic. The confusing parts of law are normally due to long paragraphs of 'and' and 'or', all mingled together. Parsing those in legal documents isn't any different than parsing them in code. But we normally don't have to think that way when reading, so it feels more confusing than it really is.

Try re-reading it specifically looking for the ands/ors, and envision how they really operate on the words of the paragraph, and legal reading will suddenly become far more clear.
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I agree with your points. I think mostly the problem is there is no one specific place to find the list of "appropriate" methods to achieve the objective. Someone working in the infosec field could probably spit them out, but a dev may not be so up to date on such nuances.
Perhaps not.

We can't un-invent the gun, but that's not to say we can't radically restrict ownership, and of course we can make them illegal, why not? It just takes everyone to agree to compromise.

War is clearly a different situation, but the Afghans and Vietnamese didn't fight with a bunch of hand guns. Do you think they had RPG's, grenades etc, stacked up in their basements awaiting an opportunity to rebel? Of course not, they found the means with the cause.

If you want to talk about guns, make videos about shooting them (preferably from a range), or otherwise advocate, I completely support that right - but I will be swayed by your arguments, not the fact that you are waving a gun around.

I guess that's my point. Guns are not power. They belie weakness, even cowardice, and infect the rest of society with insecurity.
I think the caption "The Summer 2017 Y Combinator Batch – Jessica Sitting with Dropbox Cofounder, Arash" for the image should be 2007? Or am I wrong?
It's OK. The state can still come to collect your firearms after you die... of old age.

Sometimes progress is made when old generation dies off. It's painfully slow, but hey, it's better than nothing.
I don't disagree that Gray is tendentious, but I really can't reconcile your first paragraph with what I read in his essay. Among other things, Gray points out that Voltaire and Bentham advocated "enlightened despotism." If that's not a difference of values, what is?
Yes, exactly. And most of the time, you can get by with a simple model like a random forest, so you just need to have a few analysts/engineers doing feature engineering, and feeding it into your model.

Almost everyone using more complicated architectures (e.g. neural networks) are adding unnecessary complexity. [1]

[1]: Unless you're doing computer vision.
There is nothing illegal about running a bitcoin node in most countries.
Press release from Starbucks - https://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-to-pilot-bean-to-c...
You don't need to have an IPO to be a successful venture??
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/attack-net-neutrality-...
Did RHEL backport full PCID or just the bare minimum for Meltdown?
It pretty much is a standard part of the OS. iCloud, OneDrive, etc.

It's the "non-proprietary" part you're not ever going to see. Someone has to pay for storage.
Having just read the Population Bomb Revisited (linked in the article), I think I'm a bit shocked.

The Population Bomb was a political call to arms that used science to give it credence.

It turns out that much of the science was really, badly flawed. And not in subtle ways.

Revisited, while acknowledging some of the egregious issues, tries to diminish them by saying other experts thought so too or something else went bad so the point is still valid. It then goes on to say that they were still kind of right and it'll all go pear shaped in the future (they're a bit more careful not to say when this time).

But that's not science. Their conclusion was based on their predictions and their predictions were wrong. So their conclusions, even if accidentally correct (which they don't appear to be), are not justified by the evidence.

I find this lack of respect for science, by a Professor of Biology, quite astonishing.
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The UK government can compel you to give them whatever they want by indirectly acting via the US Govt. They will pressure the US Govt the US Govt will act on you. So even though on paper they can't directly act against you, rest assured, they can. Lets pretend that the US government would not comply with requests to compel you to give them something, you can still be sued or otherwise acted upon in such a way that you would have to expend time / resources to fend off the request / lawsuit or whatever. So to say that the UK Govt can't do anything to you because you don't have any assets there or don't want to go there is kind of silly IMO.
This is because the two systems are extremely different.
In the brain memory is localized and bundled with processing. Could a neuroscientist figure out how a program works by damaging memory cells in the ROM that holds it? Sounds a lot more probable right?
Maybe I'm reading something wrong but in your image it shows 19 total malignant brain tumors (Meningeal/Glial) across all exposure groups (n=1631) versus 4 across the control group (n=817).

4/817 = .004

19/1631 = .011

Malignant tumors in rats exposed from 5-50 RFR appear to be 2.75x more likely to have some kind of malignant brain cancer than the control group. That hardly seems inconsequential.
> I will 100% bet that the police had to interact with/rely on Uber to provide them with the video and data.

For the video released so far, not necessarily. It seems to be from an off-the-shelf dashcam, which the police most probably not only know how to download, but also has already done so several times in other accidents. For the rest of the data (and the video from the self-driving cameras, if it's stored instead of just used in the control loop and then discarded), I agree with you that the police (and the NTSB) will probably need the help of the Uber engineers.
How does doing exactly the thing that leads to all your problems, over and over again, work out for you in your life? From the middle of 2015, Trump was on every channel of TV, all the time. If he is indeed such a threat, it is because the news media made him that. Without the news media giving Trump thousands of hours of free and unregulated TV ads, Clinton would have defeated Cruz by a somewhat narrow margin. Discouraged Republicans would have said, "Well, that's what happens when the opponent is the second-least-popular candidate in history, and you nominate the first-least-popular candidate in history..."

Since I am a cynic, I see that despite their professed political allegiances, the news media are quite pleased by the prospect of seven more years of political insanity. Every USA president from now until the breakup on will be a veteran of reality TV.
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also - all of the above applies to the CEO as well, so if you're not already talking to the non-founder board / investors, then I'd guess the CEO is (or should be).
The following is an interesting historical/sociological perspective on this issue:

https://erenow.com/common/sapiensbriefhistory/20.html
No, our government still prides itself on excoriating unjust governmental overreach abroad.

Of course, that's often a good distraction from unjust governmental overreach at home. But if you think that wasn't just as true at the Cold War time you point to, you are sadly mistaken.
Thanks. Some of this is quite easy -- I try to eat a very low carb diet. Bacon and alcohol is going to be slightly problematic.

Another comment suggested that even eggs and fish should be avoided. Is that valid?
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Authored by a Republican, with 43 Republican co-sponsors and 27 Democratic co-sponsors.

But, your criticism of my comment was fair.
> the right to skeet shoot with a military weapon
This is a classic strawman argument, and you know it.
ok, I'll be the one to ask. How much is this check worth now?
Out of curiosity, why not do the development in public? Or is there a repo I missed?
> Is "writing truly exception-safe" something that necessary?

If you want your connections cleanly terminated, your temporary files removed, and your database transactions invalidated, yes.
Can I trust those "summaries" (open interpretations)? What if I got fined by trusting them? Who to blame?
Don't forget that Condoleezza Rice, a driving instrument in the War on Iraq and the death of a million Iraqis, sits today on the board of Dropbox.
Why would non-proprietary preclude paying for storage?
I have a theory that buying landfills (especially older landfills from before the popularization of recycling) is a good very long term investment.
This is a 100 sentences rant with 0 substances. Literally, there are no examples at all of any "brick wall".

Why was this even posted here?
So recently a new chrome extension came into the email tracking space called "MailTag".

Imo, it's better than the world reknowned Mailtrack extension.

Anyone heard anything about MailTag?
Every DMV I've ever been in was fast, helpful, and reliable. I don't understand DMV jokes. This experiences include outrageously underfunded rural towns and the biggest city in our state.
> Can this work out?

You’ve pretty much set yourself and your company on fire with your public “negotiating strategy” here.

People have certainly been forwarding this thread to your investors all morning, it’s not like you tried to obfuscate anything here. This is not how a board wants to learn about problems.

If it’s not already toast, shut up and take notes because whichever investor helps you two work through this is a rockstar. You personally have more to learn from them than from anyone else you’ll ever meet.
Don't be so sure -- IPFS provides a possible path. We will see if it works.
But complaining is helping. That's the core of scientific method.

What doesn't help is patching entrenched worldviews for the sake of it, designing experiments to detect aether while refusing to acknowledge critics and problems they point to.
It seems like you are in the product phase. So right now, yes you probably are more valuable. However, there is so much more to building a business than just building a product. When it's sales and business development time the CEO will be the most important.

If you are saying he will not be able to do this job well, that is a tough problem to have. However, changing the equity is certainly not the answer.

You need to ask yourself what is the best way for the business to succeed. Not for you to obtain the most equity.
Too much willful misinterpretation defeats the purpose of critical analysis, and where would that leave the humanities? - it would leave them wallowing in irrelevant self-referentiality, where everyone is talking past everyone else.
I used to think this but after working in a large image processing team, I've come around to believe it's something management just rationalizes. In a lot of cases you _do_ need a big team with diverse research skills, otherwise you are deeply unable to pivot your own products and services for changes customer demands or adapt to situations when new models or competition elevate the minimal level of features that customers expect.

Building this stuff in a way that won't fall apart is really hard and you need a lot of people who are happy to be focused on the integration, deployment, and maintenance for sure. But you do also need a lot of people who are dedicated to the research, prototype, and model performance understanding side too, without trying to squeeze extra work out of them by trying to sell roles as a "hybrid" between integration and research.

Saying that "people don't give a shit about models" is vacuous, because ultimately the stack trace of what they do give a shit about will bottom out at issues with models that require a diverse team of experts to debug and solve.

I think companies are still stuck in a dreamworld right now where they want to believe that very junior engineers with tangential interest in machine learning are going to slot in at your standard $130k - $160k job offer (in major urban areas) and do just as adequate of a job as senior experts who might earn twice that.

But it doesn't work, and this type of penny pinching on the modeling side, rationalized by a false belief that you only need a tiny bit of research expenditure, I think is responsible for many start-ups failing and many projects being unwound in larger corporations.
I have been a founder of three companies that led to successful (>$100M) acquisition over the last 20 years. Always in tech / CTO role.

Reading your post and comments, it seems to me that your ego and reality are somewhat disconnected. Not to say that you aren’t good at what you do, but you have no idea what it takes to actually build a company. It doesn’t matter how good the tech is, you don’t have a company without all the other parts.

I would also like to call out your suggestion that equity balance can solve the problem. This really makes me question the sophistication of your thinking, and casts serious doubt on your abilities as a leader and team builder - a key skill for a successful CTO.

From what I’ve read here, my assessment of you is a low (leadership) potential, very high-performance employee. Not CTO material without a lot of growth quickly.

The fault I would see in the CEO is if he doesn’t recognize his mistake soon enough and fire you before your stock vests. I see no way for the company to be successful with you as CTO and the huge schism in the leadership team that already exists.
Does the loudness of a gun deter its use in the commission of a crime? I think it does, though perhaps only in a handful of cases. Gang violence comes to mind: the gun's loudness gives you away if you're sneaking up on folks, and makes it easier for law enforcement to locate you.

If a gun's loudness sometimes acts as a deterrent, then the availability of this "piece of metal" will reduce/eliminate this deterrent, and consequently increase the probability of the weapon's being used.

The same can't be said for ear protection.
Part of why Trump was elected is his lack of filter. He says what is on his mind, he’s not afraid of being politically incorrect, and he’s a sarcastic motherfucker.

The next few years will show us one way or the other, with North Korea, with China, with Iran, with Mexico, with Israel/Palestinians whether a guy who doesn’t act “Presidential” can make big things happen for the USA.

The tax cuts were enormous. We’ll see how the tariffs work out but even Schumer is congratulating Trump for them. I think NK could work out pretty well too.

When Trump makes politically incorrect jokes to either get his point across, or to rattle his opponents, I think it only advances his agenda when media insist on taking a literal interpretation.

MET Police special forces infiltrate unions and blacklist workers is “real” news. Taking a joke Trump makes and quoting it like a serious statement of intention, like “Trump says we should try out China’s Xi-style ‘President for life’” is what we call fake news.

Just like Trump joking “maybe Russia can recover those 30,000 emails Hillary deleted” the people who vote for Trump laugh and get the point — the obvious crime that gets ignored - while Trump haters consider the statement an actual endorsement. It’s nothing more than a Rorschach test.
? Plenty of examples.

The horribly anti-user futures system, compiler messages generated by a misused macros that are second only to C++ template errors in how egregiously difficult they are to parse, universally terrible documentation and lacking examples, unstable APIs, type annotation hell, and so much more.
Seems like it. But just compare how vocal the "we intend to support vimperator-like functionality" message used to be before version 57, and how silent everything has been since.
I'm looking forward to the full article, because it's nice to know that I'm not alone here. I too started learning Rust with great optimism, and had the same experience: I expected that things would be difficult starting out, but assumed it would get easier as I acquired more knowledge, and then it didn't. Mostly this was for the same reasons as the author cites: Rust futures are incomprehensible, and there is rarely documentation to answer simple questions (one that I ran into the other day was "How do I parse a string into a datetime in a particular timezone?", which took about an hour to answer, compared to the 60 seconds it would take in something like C#)

I'm saying this as a lover, not a hater. I really believe in the mission of Rust, and I really want to like it, but I realized that even after a few months of learning, it was still taking me orders of magnitude longer to accomplish things in Rust than in C# (or even C++), and I wasn't finding the tradeoff worth it.
Incidentally, Drew's relationship with the HN community is even older than his relationship with Y Combinator. Two weeks before we interviewed Drew and Arash, Drew posted Dropbox to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
No, it was a workstation powerful enough to be a reasonable alternative to x86 that wasn't x86. I like Power, it's the architecture I'm most familiar with (other than the 6502 8-), and I think Intel needs a big kick right in the effective monopoly.

Sure, I could have bought one of the AmigaOne systems, which would have been somewhat cheaper, but those are basically embedded systems in ATX cases. The 12-year-old Quad G5 I'm typing this on would mop the floor with one of those. This isn't a slam on the Amiga community, who tried hard to bring in systems at not-completely-eyewatering prices, but this ends up producing boutique systems running underwhelming chips in unimaginative designs because of the small numbers and the rigid price points. More to the point, I don't have a strong Amiga history, so the AmigaOS side of those machines would be mostly wasted on me.

If there's going to be an architectural alternative in the grunt ballpark with x86, and I don't think ARM has gotten there yet, right now it's going to be Power ISA. And everyone in this thread complains about the cost. Understandable, but if no one steps up and buys one, no one will make any more of them and they will never achieve the necessary economies of scale. Fortunately I'm a PPC bigot^Wzealot with more money than sense. So I'll take the plunge. :)

The fact the firmware is auditable, no management engine/PSP crap, I get full schematics, etc., is just a bonus in my view.
Usually get up between 6 and 7am. My body basically forces me into bed by 11pm, often earlier.

It's not as fun as staying up until the am every night, but I sure don't miss feeling tired and sluggish all day.
Have you used this yourself, may I ask?

Thanks!
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It's not about a special group of people. It's about a cluster of ideas whose time had come. Some attack 'the enlightenment' by attacking its luminaries. Attacking people is facile. People are hypocritical and contradictory. Critiquing the people leads nowhere. Critique the ideas instead. The main idea is reason (usually in contrast to superstition or traditions not motivated by truth). Some have attacked harmful applications of reason. Again, facile. People want to do bad things. Critique the applications and the motives for them before critiquing reason.

Why intelligent people misread things isn't a tough question. 1) They have an ideological agenda. 2) They are intelligent-clever, not intelligent-wise. Intelligent-clever people can generate an infinite stream of intelligent-sounding doubt. It's mostly noise and a waste of time to engage with.
By doing more work than contracted you hurt your coworkers and manager. You raise the bar to an unhealthy level, and when your manager asks for more workers, he will be rebuffed with queries as to why most of his workforce isn't as productive/"hard" working as you are.
About 90% of gun deaths in the US are by hand guns. If you seriously wanted to reduce gun violence, banning hand guns seems like the obvious place to start.

Handguns are cheaper, easier to conceal, and easier to shoot yourself with.

Banning rifles to prevent gun deaths is a bit like banning oversized rear spoilers on cars to prevent car deaths. Sure cars with spoilers look faster and there is an association with street racing, but most vehicular deaths do not involve one.
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