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> follow a lengthy documented process with the community, in public (similar to RFC in ietf and wikipedia)

Is this not exactly what is happening in the bug tracker and the mailing list?
> It seems people simply want to be outraged at Mozilla.

I get the impression that people mostly just hope Mozilla will be better than the rest. Casting aspersions on others' motives doesn't help people like me figure out whether this is a big deal or not.
You cannot be sure that Durov will not share or sell your data to your government. Once you gave him the data you have no control over them.
Neither Lauren Southern or this guy were inciting anyone to violence. And if you watch the video there was no "hate" in any reasonable sense of the word.
> We don't need redundant brakes & steering or a fancy new car; we need better software," wrote engineer Anthony Levandowski

He is clearly right about that. Human-driven cars are safety critical and already do fine without redundant brakes and steering. How many crashes are due to brake or steering failure? I'm guessing it's well under 10%.

Most human crashes are due to bad driving, and for computers it will be the same. I mean, even this fatal crash probably could have been prevented with better software. It's not like the brakes failed. They just weren't applied.

> To get to that better software faster we should deploy the first 1000 cars asap.

This is where he is totally mad.
> documented process with the community, in public

You mean exactly like it's happenning in the mailing list right now? Even when the discussion is public, it seems some people prefer to rant on social media instead of contributing to the official discussion.
> Though I don't know why you keep ascribing 'faith' to me. I never brought that dirty word up. I reasoned my way into my positions.

In that case, what do you base your assumption on that self-driving cars will be able to deal with the complexities of todays' traffic in a significantly safer way than humans? Because even though you might not bring that word up, if you just assume that to be the case because you expect technology will one day be able to make that wish come true, that IS "faith" in technology. Whether you like that word or not doesn't matter.
> because a minority of users make a living through sex. //

So you deny there is trafficking of people as sex slaves? Or that particular sites enable it? Or?
You are right. I simply wanted to illustrate the idea of id/locator split. The mapping of a fixed id to a quickly changing locator is a problem of all those schemes.
I think we need to realize that the platforms that we all use are evil. They are literally the equivalent of the book burning that happened hundreds of years ago, based on their own view of the world.

I want a new internet in which content is NOT posted on platforms. I want to host my own videos and host my own pictures.

This is where we are going. I really hope that the greater public realizes little by little that the tradeoff of the ease of use of those platforms is that they lose all freedom of speech or control over their content.

Not acceptable.
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Would it be surprising to say that trading in this might include Bitcoin?
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> Step 1. End Prohibition of Sex Work

All you have to do is study the laws of prostitution elsewhere in the world to understand that they have little to no influence on sex trafficking. Prostitution is legal, explicit, and even taxed in the Netherlands, but sex trafficking remains such a major problem that some large cities, like Utrecht, have outlawed prostitution locally to combat the issue.
Blame the man, it's the only way to reach gender equality.
No ads, no investors, no shareholders. What pays the bills then? How does the future looks like?
>I'd be curious to read more about how they messed it up so badly.

They failed to embrace online, that was their downfall. They didn't take it seriously, opting to let someone else handle online for them, one of the largest players in the ecommerce space: Amazon.

It goes back to the year 2000 when Amazon and Toys R Us signed a 10 year agreement that would make Toys R Us the exlusive vendor of toys on Amazon. So what happened was when you would click on toysrus.com it would send customers to their page on Amazon.

The deal started to fall apart when Amazon started allowing other toy retailers to sell through its site, because they complained Toys R Us didn't carry enough stock. So, they sued in 2004 and terminated the contract, then did its own online thing in 2006.

Coincidentally, the same thing happened with Borders (the large book store chain) which had a similar partnership with Amazon, lost out on embracing online and owning the entire workflow of selling online. Essentially Amazon was the site customers would see when ordering from these retailers.
> (2) the reason the object is good is rather easy to see -- one just has to look at the objective function and verify that that the object has the desired properties;

Minor point: whether the result of evolution is easy to understand or not depends on the representation (encoding). Even GA results can be difficult to understand if they describe complex objects. In the case of GP, bloat (rapid increase in average program size in your population) can make results very difficult to interpret.
I think it's quite the opposite, battery production is the key.

The problem is that no one can mass produce batteries for cars at this scale. As of now the projected capacity of the Gigafactory is enough batteries for 500k cars / year. By 2020 it will be 1.5M cars / year. This is more batteries than the whole world produced in 2013.

By 2020 Tesla is gonna have a lot of experience how to do this efficiently so the cost will be much lower. They are gonna have a new gigafactory in the EU. Lithium mines can't produce enough lithium at this scale so Tesla already makes deals with them to ramp up the production.

BMW makes 2.5 million cars a year. So what's the plan exactly? Just buy the batteries? From whom? When every other large car manufacturer wants to buy batteries and there is not enough on the market the price will go up.

Every time I read something like Volkswagen|Mercedes|Audi|whatever plans to sell x ev cars by 2020 I never see any mention about who is going to make the batteries.

I think the large car manufacturers are already behind, they should start working on their battery factories right now.
Well, yes it can. You have to dismiss massive amounts of male testimonies to say that consent has never ever been removed after the fact.

Reasoning recursively: To dismiss males’ testimonials, you’d need to take girls’ words at face value, which, in itself, demonstrates that girls’ words are taken at face value by a lot of people in society, hence the recurring massive problem of false convictions.
If you think there are no good tech companies in Munich, what's then left in Germany? :P

I do agree the more hip ones are in Berlin, and maybe Hamburg - but I'd still say your statement is unfair, if not taken in the context of lack of "good tech companies" in Germany overall.
It does not even have login and password so you cannot log in without using a phone. I don't understand how is that better than Skype. Skype doesn't require you to have a phone number.
TOML is much better.
Gitlab doesn't have free cloud-based OSX runners. Travis does.
I assume things got worse because cowardly assholes are now allowed to treat the prostitutes disrespectfully. Before, the assholes that were afraid of the law wouldn't risk going to a prostitute. Now that the law won't hurt them, they go and are demanding disrespectful assholes. Just a guess.

Edit: law abiding != kind, respectful, or moral
As I noted in another comment, all you have to do is study the laws of prostitution elsewhere in the world to understand that they have little to no influence on sex trafficking. Prostitution is legal, explicit, and even taxed in the Netherlands, but sex trafficking remains such a major problem that some large cities, like Utrecht, have outlawed prostitution locally to combat the issue.
The person you replied to had mentioned reddit in their comment so it was kind of a natural progression.

They're saying that the scenario where reddit removed some subreddits for wholly subjective reasons is similar to this craigslist thing.
This is not my experience in the UK (not sure if you consider UK part of Europe, though :).

If anything, it was the opposite, people I worked with would consider anything better than Bachelors in CS on a candidate’s CV (eg MS or PhD) as a signal that they wasted too much time in their life before starting with real work in the industry.

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> I strongly believe that legalization is the only answer to the problem.

This appears to be a popular thesis among the commenters on this page. But your hunch is not proven by the realities of countries that have legalized prostitution. As I've commented elsewhere here, all you have to do is study the laws of prostitution elsewhere in the world to understand that they have little to no influence on sex trafficking. Prostitution is legal, explicit, and even taxed in the Netherlands, but sex trafficking remains such a major problem that some large cities, like Utrecht, have outlawed prostitution locally to combat the issue.
Here in the Netherlands, we switched to 3 + 2 years of BSc + MSc from a 5 year degree a while back.

The actual program didn't change, just the diplomas you get in the end. Based on this, I'm comfortable saying that an MSc given these days is essentially the old 5 year degree.
They tried asking nicely with Backpage, and it failed entirely.
> This bill is the CLOUD Act. It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate. It never received a hearing. It was robbed of a stand-alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this un-vetted, unrelated data bill to the $1.3 trillion government spending bill. Congress has a professional responsibility to listen to the American people’s concerns, to represent their constituents, and to debate the merits and concerns of this proposal amongst themselves, and this week, they failed.

The 4th amendment is gone and it wasn't terrorists that killed it, it was fear and representatives of the people that don't represent people that killed it.

These freedoms were given up on page 2,232 of a budget bill with no debate.

History will not be kind to this time or everyone that lived during this backslide. Freedoms are hard to win, we are giving them up easily.

As an aside, these 'pro-business' representatives just made US cloud products less valuable to foreign companies/countries and US competitors.

When will people realize that surveillance can be abused and it is usually for political or corporate espionage, has nothing to do with making anyone more secure or safe.

Business plans, data and ideas are going to be a top target to theft as they can get to it through a fake or associated threat, have some rogue actor email or send info in, extract all business data and information.
> Both this and the Mr. Robot extension issue a few months ago erode my trust in Mozilla a little.

Maybe good to know: the Mr. Robot extension did not send anything anywhere or otherwise did anything unless you explicitly flipped a switch manually in about:config. The thing that was bad about it was that it was listed among your extensions, making it look like a virus, but otherwise it was harmless.
Definitely not true. Depends, if you went with 3 years of studies + 2 on Masters, maybe it is true. But 4 years (and in some cases more) of studies are the "norm".
Most students dont come to CS already knowing everything that is taught - that holds true regardless of how easy the school is. Many students decide they want to do CS only later on and even if they hobby coded, they did not learned everything yet. I code professionally for years and still dont know everything nor everything that is currently taught at universities.

Either he had very easy school or picked courses he already knew about or he splits what he learned into "important" (the ones he knew) and unimportant (new stuff).
GAs are not "basically just stochastic gradient descent." That's the confusion.

Why did they fall out of favour? Fashion, perhaps a natural break in progress - hit a wall and couldn't get further. But there is plenty of GA research going on.
I suggest you do both. Apply to work and grad schools at the same time, as a hedge.
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Their core competency, beside ICE engines, it's furnishing out vehicles with all the expensive, heavy cruft customers have come to expect from big brands vehicle makers, even in supposedly utilitarian delivery vans.

The streetscooter, on the other hand, is really just the most barebone thing you could build around a battery. This saves a lot of money for a startup, but at a big brand with all the processes for sophistication, deviating from the established path would eat much of the savings.

But that's not the only problem: many of the same people who are enthusiastic about the pragmatic minimalism of the streetscooter due to the underdog image would punish the same car if it was made by VW or any other of the big ones. And that's not just interior finishing and amenities, the same applies to more serious things like safety and reliability. People will cut streetscooter a lot of slack where they would be unforgiving towards a big brand.
It's quiet there, really quiet, but there is a background of "stuff" going on, and if you follow me I'll try to make sure I boost some people of interest.
One only hopes the growing gap between the government and its citizens will reach a breaking point, but unfortunately it seems too many are willing to stay apathetic and complacent, "because it doesn't affect me" while the government continues stripping them of their ability to revolt.

Not to mention the clever(!?) technique of naming these bills such that those opposing them could be seen as supporting the various crimes they are intending to fight against.

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
That's what the mail thread this article was referring to was discussing: how can they properly communicate this, and the privacy safeguards they put in place, to the user?
There were experiments that were not explained by the liquid theory.

Now we have data and people for some reason want to claim that a theory with magical super complex and not-even-yet-describable and very-very-irreducible element(s) is a better fit than a good old box full of tiny yet specialized parts fine-tuned to work together over millions of years.
I wonder why Mozilla is lately so fond of collecting user data. Do they have a new data mining department which is looking for work? Did someone tell them to do data driven development/marketing?

If they really want to know more about what we are doing, they could just ask us, don't they? I mean, something like building a FF extension which offers to participate in a monthly survey and at the end of each survey it can ask which data the user wants to attach to his survey responses this one time.

And if they ask the users for all hosts they have visited during the last month, many people will ask what Mozilla wants to do with that data and Mozilla can explain their intent so that everybody can decide if he wants to support that cause.

Yes, that would probably yield much less data and would be more cumbersome for Mozilla, but in the end it would be a fair way of letting your users participate in the development process. As users we want a product which we can trust 100% that it will keep our data on our computer as long as we don't explicitly say otherwise.
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But you're right. Gifts aside, we can at least reduce the packaging. Recently I had a chance to spend some time in Japan and the overuse of plastic bags and packaging was startling. (I expected a modern island nation to be more environmentally efficient.)

Sources suggest this is "customer first" culture-driven:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13266062/ns/world_news-world_envir... (2013)

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-plastic-bags-in-Japan-so-overu...
I think there's a further difference - with some GAs (including GP, widely used by Sentient) the structure of the solution is "designed" alongside the parameterisation of that structure.

Most DL work parameter tunes a structure that is hacked by human guesswork.

The two approaches have strengths and weaknesses, and in no way does this make EC in general superior to DL, but perhaps different.
I'm not sure about the other Asian countries mentioned, but in India we kind of messed up when public sector companies were competing with privately owned companies in the same sphere. The government always bailed out the public companies whenever they messed up, but the private companies themselves have managed to set up organized anti-competitive cartels wherever possible.

But that said, tariffs alone can't explain how some economies succeed or fail. There are a lot of other variables which tend to be ignored in such simplistic thesis about macroeconomic outcomes, as there always are.
On reading people's messages, though it may not be a popular sentiment on HN, "Administering a mail host is sort of like being a nurse; there's a brief period at the start when the thought of seeing people's privates might be vaguely titillating in a theoretical sense, but that sort of thing doesn't last long when it's up against the daily reality of shit, piss, blood, and vomit.

Now that I think about it, administering a mail host is exactly like being a nurse, only people die slightly less often."
Good, less calories means less livestock means less transport and pollution. Virtuous cycle.
To expand upon my above comment:

Basic firearms are significantly less complex than you would think.

Any one of the cartels is big enough and rich enough to make hundreds of thousands of firearms/year.

But why do that when you can get them dirt cheap and higher quality from the US?
Which doesn't work even in Chrome.
Yes, of course, the problem of bootstrapping consciousness from blueprints of a human mind is that we depend on our parents' whole epigenetic and other extra informational make up, plus their support for years while our mind finishes setting up.
Mozilla should be careful about EU's GDPR. Under GDPR, explicit user authorization is needed for every use of personal data. An opt-out does not comply with the law. Nor does a blanket TOS or Privacy Policy.

The law comes into effect in May.
> EFF: You wrote pages about it, but failed to mention the president still needs to sign it. It's a pretty glaring omission...

Maybe you missed this line from the OP:

> All the bill requires now is the president’s signature.
This is a cool initiative but I can't help but think the author has misunderstood a few things:

> Ubuntu is the name of the specific Linux OS that Penn Manor students run on, and has many default programs and security measures — such as a "sudo" account with temporarily decreased privileges for students to use when performing administrative tasks that could otherwise corrupt their system — that make it a perfect fit for students to explore computing on.
The entire purpose of D3 is to be used for visualisations, so no, it's not really used for anything like that and doesn't have as wide a scope as jQuery.
In fairness, your links are opinion pieces not staff reporting.
Technology isn't as important for economic success as functioning markets are.
Not really. There is now an independent streaming service dedicated to shooting sports: https://www.full30.com/. A lot of the youtube channels are moving there, including InRange (mentioned in the article): https://www.full30.com/channels/inrange
They're fairly widely used, but often in places where they are not well publicised - e.g. engineering optimisation or financial trading.
Plenty of people are concerned about any US based company having access to their DNS logs; even with the pro-privacy agreement CloudFlare have in place with Mozilla, the US government has past form of doing bulk data collection from US based companies.

Your ISP's DNS may well be covered by relatively strong data protection laws (versus those in the US) and don't lead to a foreign government gaining access to all your browsing history, even if in principle they could be MitM'd.
All we need now is "GunHub".
I've already made this comment before, but of course, once people are taught something, they reliably have the same behavior, because humans are such previsible machines ! See various addictions, sex ed, advertising, yada yada.
There's probably no need to go that low-level for modeling a mind, but of course the aggregate effects of biochemistry has to be taken into account (and it's full of non-linearities).

None of that means we don't understand the principles. I'd say it's pretty much like fusion. Yes, we know how the Sun works, but putting it into a bottle is a bit of a pickle, similarly with brains. (Except brains have a lot more complexity.)
Here is Freakonomics coverage on the practice: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-japanese-homes-dispo...
Governments have regulated human relationships for as long as there have been governments. Sex was under ecclesiastical law in medieval and early modern Europe, and adultery and prostitution have been criminalised and/or regulated from the early days of the American colonies.

"Big" government is a relatively recent phenomenon in human history; this long predates it.
These people still exhale CO2 and water vapor. Unless you believe that matter spontaneously appears inside their bodies they have to lose weight.
Yes I know, but there’s a massive societal expectation that it’s ok for a woman to beat her boyfriend if he cheated on her, even if it’s not married.

And “cheating” is up to the solipsism of the woman to decide, anything between kissing and looking at a girl on the street and thinking about a woman is considered cheating, at least because society believes the woman at face value.

So no, casual relationships are, depending on the subject, no different from marriage, juges recognize men as fathers even in casual relationships, and there’s no way today to make the contract clear with a woman today. Hence, prostitution would contractualize the casualness of the relationship and it’s not allowed today.
All fake. No russians ever hacked any elections. This is just missinformation by USA. To eventually go to war with Russian.
I'm not sold on "tweet" either. It sounds childish and weird. I'd rather have "X posted on Twitter/Mastodon/whatnot where he said ...".
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First, they didn't give the keys and are preparing to be blocked in Russia, second, the law doesn't mean anything. Once you gave Durov your contact list and messages, he can do whatever he wants without any laws. Governments and corporations always have a lot to offer in exchange for the data.