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Never been a big fan of the "Code of Conduct" wars that seem to be going on. On the surface, yeah, it seems great. Everyone be nice and get along. But for some odd reason, the enforcement always tends to favor one side.

Case in point, the pointless NodeJS TSC drama [1] from yesteryear. I don't like JS to begin with, but that makes me want to avoid the project like the plague.

The problem with letting thin skinned people decide what you can and can't say, is they have a very long (and often contradictory) list. Suddenly, you find yourself in the middle of a kangaroo court facing charges of high treason, guilty until proven innocent. The sentence? Public crucifixion.

Stallman made the right call.

https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/6whs2e/multiple_coc_v...
Not a lawyer. I’m guess I’m just really confused because I’m reading all of these comments and still not seeing a distinction.

YouTube can ban all homosexual videos from its platform so long as it doesn’t ban unrelated videos from homosexual people? That doesn’t sound right to me but it’s what I’m interpreting from your post.

Further are you saying the baker could refuse to sell them the cake they wanted because it had some gay theme ( two girl names I think) so long as they offered to sell them a Superman cake at the same time?
Obviously if the law is wrong it should be changed. Then the question becomes, can a car be programmed to follow the more complex law.
I like the title. It seems meta. It's a simplified title for a simplified site...

I predict the title will be changed, though. Here's the original title for context: Walmart.com
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Have you used carplay? It is awful. Takes 30 seconds to start. Crashes frequently, unresponsive often.

I don’t necessarily blame apple for this, but they clearly didn’t put strict enough requirements on the hardware that runs CarPlay.
> Really? The way I see it used most often, I see it as a call to have a soft totalitarianism of social media mediated social approval.

Not the way I'm using, and it doesn't even have to do with social media. A TV station doesn't have to show "all content", and a local Alcoholics Anonymous doesn't have to accept someone who keeps telling others to drink alcohol.

A "vegan discussion" community doesn't have to allow speech of someone advocating for meat consumption, and a "holocaust survivors" community doesn't have to accept speech from a denier.

Private communities and forums are free to set their content policies. Saying "no discussions about how to make guns" is a content policy as any other.

> In a free society, we should have the right to be an asshole

Oh, you have the right to be an asshole, and I defend that. But that right doesn't mean that people can't show you the door from their private space.

I could see an argument saying that social networks and YT are equivalent to a public square or any other public space. I don't agree with that, but that would be a reasonable argument.

But even then, public spaces still have rules and ordinances on what you can and can't do.
> Consensus is a Bay Area idea

[citation needed]

Merriam-Webster says the first known use was 1843, at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consensus.

An SCM change, by very nature, doesn't "erase" anything, it only creates a record of change. The repository will always have the history.
+100!

There is a lot of very good advice already given here. Granted, some of it might not be applicable, but some feedback would allow these HN contributors refine their suggestions.
Insider trading requires material, non-public information. Rants aren't per se material representations, I don't think, and unless he misrepresented substantive disclosures and guidance (thus keeping the truth secret) he wouldn't have been trading on non-public information.

As a board member and major shareholder he's likely to see (and probably already has, many times) shareholder lawsuits claiming he violated a fiduciary duty in failing to consider shareholder interests and protecting the market value of shares. But it might be hard to show damages if the stock picks up as Musk seems to be betting.

If we're cynical, the act of buying more stock may be an attempt to color his behavior and put it in a favorable light in expectation of such shareholder lawsuits if the stock does drop longterm. That is, make it easier to argue that people were unreasonably construing his rants. I don't think his intentions matter in terms of liability--they're supposed to be judged by an objective standard--but in as much as Musk has a history of this behavior yet is still a very successful businessman with successful ventures, Musk himself partly defines what's objectively reasonable behavior and what are objectively reasonable reactions to that behavior. Reasonable isn't always defined by how the majority of people behave; it can be defined by what it takes to find success for yourself and others.
Regardless of whether he has the right to veto the consensus vote to remove the joke, by ignoring the general attitude that it’s not in good taste, he’s alienating everyone. That’s not a good position to put himself in, and I wonder if he’ll soon find himself the head of a dead project while a forked one lives in in his spirit but without his name.
www.yoism.org is an effort to keep the baby and throw out the bath water.
Wouldn't it be easier to just add one success and one failure and calculate (events+1)/(trials+2) instead of events/trials?
I only think I get what you mean by "beating", could you clarify for us/me? I'm thinking of the particularly sonorous pulsing you sometimes get when playing those intervals.

Having played guitar from a really early age I'm pretty lucky to able to get tuning pretty much bang-on from ear, plus some double-checking it still sounds okay further up the neck. The main downside is that the open G string never, ever sounds right.
> If a company wants to maintain the legal immunity for user generated content, then it MUST be content neutral.

Legally false; CDA Section 230 not only does not require neutrality for its “shall not be considered the publisher” safe harbor, it explicitly protects provider good faith actions to remove content that either the provider or a user finds “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected” as the “Good Samaritan” provision of the safe harbor.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 ; see (c)(1) and (c)(2)
> only because it does so much

> can you point to alternatives which are simpler

Sure, there are plenty of simpler alternatives... as long as you're willing to consider ones that don't do quite as much. (Beware, you'll also need more of them.)
I have different opinions than RMS; that should hardly come as a surprise. As a former Linux and GNOME developer, I don't believe the FSF, the GNU project and RMS have chosen effective ways to communicate their talking points.

The final straw came when me and a colleague were discussion the implementation details of Linux kernel features on a mailing list that happened to include RMS, and he came in to correct me about how it's called the "GNU/Linux Operating System", and wouldn't listen to us when we told him that, no, we are very specifically talking about Linux in this case.
Just call it Airplane! and have Kareem Abdul-Jabbar do commercials.
Is Rachel the lady that always keeps interrupting Jeremy so that he goes out of flow all the time, making lectures less enjoyable?
This video shows an even better way to remove ticks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82n9-eAoLjE

You take a q-tip. Soak in alcohol. Use it to gently rotate/spin the tick around its axis. After a few 360 degree turns, it will release its jaws and pop out all by itself, leaving nothing behind.
What's illegal? Stopping in an intersection? Or exiting the intersection on red?
The light would be red on exiting the intersection unless cars are illegally entering the intersection on yellow when they should be stopping because they weren't speeding and have time to stop.
If there's a separate incentive to keep the system on, then it doesn't function as a disincentive to cause build failures. If you're worried about keeping yourself honest (i.e. not turning the system off), then there could be an escrow service where you prepay and can't get that money back. After every build failure, the escrow contributes a small amount to the "bad" charity, then at the end of the year, the remaining funds get contributed to a "good" charity.
Agree. I have the same vehicle and am simply astounded at how bad the entire UI is. How can a company like that with such a good brand ship something so awful in their flagship product?
> especially when the reason is based on matters of belief or identity.

Yes, and that's why I talked about the protected categories in my post!
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According to a similar thread I read recently, the disparity is because CA gained in foreign immigration more than it lost in domestic immigration outflows.
Worth noting that basically every Linux distro for many years used the eglibc fork, until the former glibc maintainer stepped down, and it's hardly the only GNU project that is what it is today because it managed to reabsorb a fork by admitting a mistake. GCC comes to mind.

GNU is what it is today largely because of the name recognition, and people's willingness to get stuff incorporated into GNU because of that name recognition. eglibc was very conservative about patches because it aimed for reunification eventually, but it didn't have to be.
If you look at his other comments in this I’m not sure it’s sarcasm.
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Dude it's only been 2 hours since he posted.
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Nobody is arguing against his right to publish whatever sensationalist, childish, ad-hominem riddled nonsense he wants to.

We're just arguing that for such a great FOSS leader, he sure publishes some sensationalist, childish, ad-hominem riddled nonsense.

His writing style is absolutely awful, and reeks of selfrighteousness. He's within his rights to keep writing that way, and I'm within my rights to call him out for being ineffective and narcissistic writer.
RMS and glibc developers debating on a joke about abortion
I'm not sure I've encountered a context where "less complicated", said of software, implied "easier to use". Siri is fiendishly complex but very easy to use. A brace and bit is less complicated than a power drill, but the power drill is easier to use.

Also, please don't use rhetoric of the form "We need to make software accessible to/usable by humans." If the software is not usable by humans, who exactly is using it? To what species do they belong? Say "new users"/"people unfamiliar with the language"/etc. instead.

This blog entry is part of an ongoing series about the passes in an Erlang compilation. The author probably assumed some familiarity with Erlang itself, and previous entries in the series, not intending this entry for an audience of general unspecified humans. I'm not sure it's the author's duty to turn every technical post they write into newbie-accessible marketing.
An account of the creation of finger by its creator. It's a little more put-together than the netnews quote that was posted yesterday.

One anecdote:

One issue that arose at SAIL, for example, was that Prof. Donald Knuth, who had become well known because of his authorship of a series of textbooks on The Art of Computer Programming, used SAIL as his primary computer and Finger showed everyone when he was online and revealed his login ID (DEK), which could be used to send him email, with the result that he started receiving a lot of unwanted inquiries. We fixed that by giving him a private pseudonymous email address while continuing to show his real login ID in Finger.
> I gotta say, his essays don't come across as intending to be generally persuasive

That's a weird argument to make. Why write them at all, then? RMS has a long history of trying to persuade people of the benefits and virtues of Free Software; his writing on related topics is obviously meant to persuade, at least how I see it.

I agree with the parents' point: if the intention is to persuade, then the words used matter. It might seem dumb to you that some word choices will turn people off, but that's irrelevant. What's important is the actual outcome of "did you persuade someone or didn't you?" That's literally the only question that matters.

And if a writer doesn't believe that, then, frankly, they're a poor steward of the advancement of their cause.

> His audience is fundamentally one that self-selects to think for themselves, and his... diction is one way of achieving that.

It sounds like you're equating "being a 100% emotionless robot" with "people who think for themselves". I'm getting a bit tired of people who think it's possible to remove all emotion from every argument. Sure, some people can do that, but the vast majority of people cannot. And I don't really assign a value judgment to either kind of person... but I can certainly tell you which kind I think are more fun to be around.
Volvo already supports both. I can’t speak to android auto, but the CarPlay experience is awful. I’ve also used CarPlay in several GM vehicles with similar disappointing results.

Honest question, are there people that have had good CarPlay experiences?
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From your description you seem to be dealing with a narcissist. They are often great sales people, but when hubris takes hold, they turn into insufferable managers / leaders. Perhaps you should research the many web sites that provide techniques in dealing with them or even engage some appropriate therapy -- yes! for yourself. There are ways to preserve your sanity in the face of their attacks. In many cases the sanest approach is to dis-engage. In your case you most likely need legal advice on how to do that without creating even more problems for yourself.
Really? If you don't have anything to contribute to a discussion, please don't drum up noise. Splitting hairs over whether a virus replicates or is replicated is just spamming the forum!

I understand that with a wide enough audience, attention seekers will make some noise about some minutae they know that isn't relevant to the discussion. Don't be THAT guy.
> Restaurants will also have to provide on-site additional nutritional information, such as fat and sodium levels.

Can we please talk about sugar? It's objectively worse than just "fat" as not all fats are created equal and certain kinds are actually really important.
> There's this belief that humans are horrible at driving, etc, etc. Until you run that math and realize, no, they're not. There's just a lot of driving going on.

I've been hammering this concept for a while :) Unimpaired, non distracted humans are actually really good at driving. We're optimized for processing visual inputs and making fuzzy decisions, have high dexterity and coordination, and fear death. All of that is alien to software.
> restores blighted parts of the city to their full potential

I disagree. Gentrification has cultural impacts that can reshape society in positive and negative ways.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/magazine/when-gentrificat...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4618664/
> Why is it necessary to call out “white dudes”?

Is the author really this dense? White men usually don't think that diversity applies to them (see author's rant assuming same), so they won't join that group to discuss that topic (at higher rates than other groups).
It may be worse. If cars are very good at avoiding colliding with pedestrians, why would pedestrians look out for cars at all before stepping onto a street?

We may have to tweak the car’s software to be assertive, bordering aggressive, in busy neighborhoods, if the car is to make progress at all.
Is the Celeste theme inspired by the game?
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There is no god but FOSS and rms is his prophet? This sounds like a religious argument on your end
Fun(ctional)!

When my daughter was in 4th grade, I volunteer-taught a group of pull-out 4th–6th graders, so that she could have some peers to do math with.

You might enjoy this set of math worksheets I created for them. https://www.scribd.com/document/15720543/Squarrows [EDIT: now also at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hfzm3Rvm4xpwp_xHUKBHxuIEgf...]

I was learning category theory at the time. I gave them some element-chasing problems so they could work on the same areas I was studying, although at a different level of abstraction.

We also did some stuff on permutahedrons, and relating single-character-replacement paths (I think Nabokov calls these “rooks path”, when each step is a word) from AAA → BBB, to geometric cubes, and 2³, etc., but I didn't collect the worksheets for those into the same document.
The term "jaywalking" was a slur invented by car companies to steal rights from pedestrians. If cars can't avoid people, the cars need to be separated by physical barriers or removed.
Which is totally fair. But that’s not how this project is set up. And that’s what makes this so odd.
It loads 'second-party' JavaScript (from domains which are pretty obviously also owned by Walmart), which means that it doesn't work with uMatrix. It'd have been easy enough to load all assets from something .walmart.com …
I'm awaiting jenkins-x's maturation. I'm looking at some issues for fixing myself but there's still plenty to do. Support is there for GCS and AWS iirc, but it's still very much beta.
I bet RMS would have something really heated to say about blindly following a leader's every word.

Unless of course that leader is him, in which case his narcissistic side will gladly welcome it
Yeah I've been using Hasklig for a while now, really like it.

Before that I was using Ubuntu Mono and always found it really hard to find a good font that was just the right thickness. A lot of the other ligature fonts like Fira Code just aren't right for me.
If you're a human, you understand that "less complicated" means easier to use. Since you're a software engineer you must be some sort of bioengineered alien hybrid, for whom words don't hold the clear indisputable meanings they do in the Imperium of Man.
Depends how you define “side projects.” I spend about 4 hours each Sat/Sun morning playing and practicing guitar and singing, rest of the time studying up on CS concepts missed to try and fill in the gap with not having a degree in case they are ever needed though doing fine on the job without in-depth theory. If I had more of a social life out here might be a little different.
It's juicy gossip about RMS with sprinklings of information about how the glibc org works and how that fits into the bigger open source picture.

Some people are into gossip and accept it, other people are into gossip and deny it. I've met very few people who don't love gossip, especially high-quality gossip like this. (Note: I'm sure there are many exceptions, but as a generalization, this one's about as good as they get)
Right. I think a better question is how do you deal with a co-founder who posts something like this on HN, where they know you and other people you know will see it, as if the story doesn’t contain obviously identifiable info? Someone who attacks by attempting to frame public opinion? (not speaking as that person, just an observation)
Squarrows: introducing algebra to elementary-school students
> your last three or four comments have been perfectly reasonable

His first banned comment looks pretty reasonable too.
RMS isn't the one bikeshedding it.
I won’t say it’s a universal truth but, for the most part, you don’t want to write non-fiction books in most fields unless 1. You just feel compelled as a way to learn or just because you want the experience or 2. It will enhance your career in some manner.
> To me this is an example of the overwhelming importance of locale-specific context. When I'm near UW, my driving behaviour changes significantly even though the laws do not.

To me this is the incredibly danger of road and our current reliance on cars. Should it be ok to be killed if you aren't paying attention.
In other words the character of a person affects the weight of their arguments. That’s pretty fundamental to society but not acknowledged a lot in the tech world, especially when eccentricities are involved. We like to pretend that life is a meritocracy where we’re all judged solely on our contributions but that’s emphatically not how life works. We can’t change the human nature and the nature of social signaling no matter how hard we close our eyes and wish.
So what annoys me about this discussion is that both sides are not being very honest. Calling it an "abortion joke" is to me highly misleading. It's an "abortion law joke" & has nothing to do with the procedure of abortion! The people arguing against it seem to be implying its much more inappropriate than it is.

Anyway, no where in the article is the actual "joke" mentioned. So I'd like to include it here just so people can judge for themselves.

"Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an
acceptable way of terminating a program."
The huge reduction in crime rates in New York shouldn't be used in an attempt to make London look bad. That's an ignorant technique and should be kept for people who want to look good at political rallies.

Fact: In 2017, the murder rate in London was 1.2 per 100,000 people, and in New York it was 3.4[1]

Fact: For two months in 2018 (February and March) the murder rate in London overtook New York[2]

Fact: The city with the lowest murder rate in the US (San Diego) had a murder rate of 2.2 per 100,000 in 2017.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43628494

[2] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5963434/london-murder-rate-201...

[3] http://time.com/5266759/donald-trump-london-knife-crime-murd...
If self-funded then the question needs to be asked as to who provided the funds -- was it 50:50 or sweat equity (technical partner) and money (sales and marketing partner).

In my experience the person proving money + sales experience tends to grossly under-value the technical contribution, even if they come from a technical sales background.
Sugars are really important too, if that's your metric. That's why they taste good.
Gentrification is a really inartful term that has come to mean a lot of different things.

To some, gentrification is the process of a place becoming nicer, there are more options to eat out, the city services in an area increase etc

To others, gentrification is the process of a place changing in a way that makes them feel alien in their home. New and different people move in, their favorite businesses close down, the closest laundromat closes down so now the next closest one is an additonal 5 minute walk. The prices everywhere rise, what used to cost you 5 dollars now costs you 10, and its hard to live like that because you only make 30k/year, taking home maybe 1.8k/month. You apply to jobs at a few of these new places, and the first 5 places casually turned you down despite their "help wanted" sign and your job experience as a bar tender/server. The 6th place accepts you, but your job is pretty bad because all of the patrons of the bar treat you like "the help".

To others, gentrification means rents go up more than you can afford and you get evicted and need to move away from your family and friends and your support structure.