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Last year he livestreamed[1] inside an English court and called the defendents - before they'd been convicted - muslim child rapists. He was attempting to intimidate witnesses. He threatened violence to the defendents and to some witnesses. He was told to stop. He did not stop.

That action put the trial at risk of collapsing.

He was caught, and given a suspended prison sentence for contempt of court. That judgement is available here: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/committal-for-cont...

Here's the judges words:

> The sentence, therefore, that I pass upon you, taking into account all of those matters that have been placed before me and your admissions entered via Mr. Kovalevsky, is one of three months' imprisonment which will be suspended for a period of 18 months. That will be suspended. There will be no conditions that need to be attached to that suspended sentence, but
you should be under no illusions that if you commit any further offence of any kind, and that would include, I would have thought a further contempt of court by similar actions, then that sentence of three months would be activated, and that would be on top of anything else that you were given by any other court.

> In short, Mr. Yaxley-Lennon, turn up at another court, refer to people as "Muslim paedophiles, Muslim rapists" and so on and so forth while trials are ongoing and before there has been a finding by a jury that that is what they are, and you will find yourself inside. Do you understand? Thank you very much.

What did he do after beign given this very clear instruction to not interfere with criminal trials? He did exactly the same thing again, and so his suspended sentence was activated, on top of the new sentence.

Note that he only highlights trials of child sexual abuse involving muslims. He kept very quiet when a senior EDL member was similarly prosecuted.

Here's a decent write up: https://thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-...

Interfering with ongoing trials and making threats of violence is as far from hought crime as you can get.

[1] There's been an element of "this would never happen in the US", so here's a video of someone being tased because they try to take a camera into court. https://youtu.be/A7U5eJN3hLI?t=2m0s
That was before spectre happened. Software isolated processes are now basically impossible to do. All the CPU microcode updates & workarounds are purely about fixing isolation between processes & rings that the CPU is aware of.
There has been a WebAssembly interpreter implemented in Isabelle [1] and it's been proved correct. Not fast, but still pretty cool.

[1] https://www.isa-afp.org/entries/WebAssembly.html
Deadweight losses from taxes have most certainly not been debunked.
A splendid sting operation. Well done, SBU.
Why would dropping an identity be easier than dropping a physical location? If you change your identity but hang out at the same places you are going to get caught.

Wouldn’t it be much much easier to use a new location for every kidnapping than to do the Hollywood ending?
I see lots of comments like this. What I want to know is: if you have this kind of complaint about Gnome, why do you keep using it? There's a bunch of different desktop environments for Linux. KDE works pretty well, and if that doesn't suit you, I've been finding Xfce is quite speedy for me on my work machine.

This isn't like Windows where you're stuck with it if you need that OS for its applications.
>> A tight labor market causes the raises

Different economic theories can provide different explanations and the statement above is over-simplifying the situation (It should say 'can cause' raises). I'm not an economist. The labor theory of value (LTV) and other systems of thought would have a different take on this.
Wages are not going up because various industries are bumping against hard systemic boundaries. I believe those are hard to see and not much appreciated or studied because they are not merely driven by supply and demand economics.
Truckers are not being paid more because if they were, the rate-of-profit in that industry would not be sustainable anymore. But raising prices for logistics is not really an option for that industry, because as soon as you do that, other factors start to depress demand. What you end up with are maxed out industries where you either keep pay at todays levels, or go home and close shop.

It's complicated, but just 'A tight labor market causes the raises' does not even start to capture the situation. And it's not just greedy bankers that keep wages depressed. A tight labor market is not going to help increase wages. Not gonna happen because it's not seeing the whole picture.
The protection ring 3 offers is greatly reduced by current operating systems. Processes usually can do everything the user could do via the file system.
The difference is that real fur is easily distinguishable from fake fur, at both a macroscopic and microscopic level.

Diamonds, on the other hand, are completely indistinguishable at a macro level and just barely distinguishable at a micro level.
Should be available in a day or two. If you are desperate, the RC1 is available on alpha.gnu.org
> employment in general is

You're absolutely, utterly wrong. Voluntary employment only exists because it isn't a zero-sum game.

Any voluntary trade is not a zero-sum game, by definition.

And any value generated in excess of your cost is capture by you and the employer based on the price elasticity of the demand for labor.
Can you tell me which country allows people to threaten witnesses at trial?Which country allows reporters to call a defendent a muslim child rapist before the verdict is reached?
That said, I still wouldn't put it in ring 0, as per my comment on the other thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17186842
Yay progress!

Really though, they seem quite bright. But I like seeing younger people excelling like this because it means the tutorials, wikis, blogs, etc. that their "forefathers" wrote are doing "good" in the world.
Rapid feedback and short iteration cycles are often considered to be an important part of agile development. TDD suggests that you write a test first, and try to make that test the smallest increment that moves you forward. It feels to me that TDD is an application of the principles of rapid feedback and short iteration cycles on the level of code.

If you think using TDD improves the quality of your code, then it's also important for maintaining high code quality, since that enables some of the other agile practices, such as frequent releases.

I don't worry too much about whether a particular practice is agile or not. If you find TDD useful, then great! It's often included in conversations about agile development, but that doesn't mean you have to be doing agile development in order to use it.
This is how you use today and tomorrow. It's not universal to all human language or even to English speakers. Words have different meanings depending on lots of factors including context and region.

Your definition has the same issue that mine does, just with sunrise being the time around which the meaning of tomorrow is unclear. How high does the sun have to be before "today" becomes defined and the meaning of "noon tomorrow" shifts by 24 hours? If I wake up before sunrise, does tonight refer to now or to after the next sunset?

There's a certain amount of ambiguity inherent to the English language.
Well, that is what they say (without telling anything about the actual drilling method).

A typical water well drilling machine is on the back of a large truck and will bore a 30-40 cm hole for (prices here in Europe) 80-90 €/m.

There are smaller drill rigs (nothing that actually needs to be invented, only "normal" micropiling rigs) that can bore 10-20 cm diameter holes for a price of 60-70 Euro/m.

Let's say you need two holes 80 m deep, at 20 €/m difference (80-60=20 or 90-70=20):

28020=3,200

which represents roughly 10% of the actual price for the dandelion system (the real, not subsidized price) of 35,500 US$.

A typical small micropiling rig has a boring rate of around 100 or maybe 120 m per day so either they are really using a new, ultrafast technology (which I personally doubt) or are using less deep bores, and in any case the depth depends on the geology of the site, so everything is probably "averaged".

A geotermic pump with inverter with 20-30 kW of heating/refrigerating power should be around 15,000-18,000 € so, without more data 30,000 € or 35,000 US$ don't seem such a breakthrough (most probably they have huge savings due to the "massive" scale of operation, instead).
> implementing only parts of Scrum is possible
I am sorry but you are wrong.

Legitimate interest is so wrongly understood. You can only use it if your business is not able to function without some PI and for nothing else. For example if you are having an online store, it is perfectly ok to require name and address as you cant deliver goods to the customer without it. The phone number is already fishy (if you already have another mean to communicate). Using 3rd party by default that is doing monitoring/tracking is a no go, you cant put it under the legitimate interest. And you cant force user to give you a consent by denying access as this is violating that it has to be given free. You will get a consent this way but it will be invalidated in case someone complains to ICO and then you have troubles. And I have talked to our ICO in person. And Google already got a complain. So did facebook and instagram and whatsapp.

I think that persons that were saying that analytics is ok didnt read THIS:
"Article 29 Working Party, Opinion 6/2014 on the notion of legitimate interest of the data controller under Article 7" page 25. (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinion...): "However this does not mean that controllers would be able to rely on article 7(f) to unduly monitor..."

You can thank me later ;)
Ask HN: Did you stop buying O'Reilly books after they ended their online shop?
Now that's everything is on Safari, and there's not even book releases on O'Reilly's site, did you guys stopped buying/accessing/learning from their books?

I am usually more connected to Manning and PragPub ATM.
That is what DISCARD ALL does, it discards all session state.
Still seems better than a colonoscopy experience if it's as effective a screen.
This article's thesis is "we improved our business by being deliberate about culture", but unless I'm missing something it doesn't say how they were deliberate at all. I feel like if you're going to make an assertion like that, you should say how you accomplished your goals.
Japanese: Difference Between が (ga) and は (wa)
Months would be needed to try the hyphoteses from the business model canvas, one at time. And yes, a basic website as a functional box may go public next week but would make little sense before a couple of tests running behind the scenes. Now on Ask HN for a debate and to make this traceable, anyway. I am pretty sure similar projects may show up reading this post and they would be welcome: this is not going to be a one-takes-all kind of venture. Thanks again for your interest.
Treating Mental Illness with Psychedelics
The ultimate guide to ggplot bar charts
The biggest problem with current blockchain implementations is the excessively low block size because of a irrational fear of centralisation yet mining profit just for bitcoin today is in the billions which is high enough to equip thousands of datacenters every year with hardware that can process 10GB blocks or even larger.

Visa processes 50000 transactions per second. Imagine each of them of them requires a single byte to store through black magic. If you do the math you will realise that 50kb per second over 10 minutes is 30 megabytes per block. 2MB blocks are not even remotely enough.
>Why do the rest of HN users have to educate you about the abuses perpetrated by various companies?

Burden of proof lies on the one making the claim.

>Facebook famously did an emotion manipulation experiment on 500k randomly selected users.

I don't really find that abusive or ethically troubling.

>There's a trial now alleging that Facebook used profile data to discriminate against older programmers in job postings:

Maybe this age discrimination, which was already illegal on its own, wouldn't have been possible to commit if the data didn't exist in the first place. That doesn't mean it's the tool's fault or that the tool should be illegal.
The difference between the two is the flaws within the diamond itself (natural diamonds have more). Burying a diamond doesn't do anything to it; the difference dates back to its formation.

Now if you're burying the synthetic diamond hundreds of miles deep, where the pressure is high enough to create diamonds from scratch, then you might be into something.
For Japanese learners. Understanding the grammatical difference between the usages of が (ga) and は (wa).
It is POSIX shell parsing behaviour that redirections can appear anywhere in the command (obviously, not in the same word as another parameter, nor inside a quoted string). They have to be stripped out by the shell before execution: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
> One way to prevent some spectre-like attacks is to mask the offset after those checks.

This is the mitigation we implemented in V8, but it doesn't remove all possible side channels.
I also work in machine learning, and as I noted, have used agile methods very successfully in that field, including advanced research into the application of evolutionary algorithms to neural networks in simulated environments.

There is nothing wrong with taking two weeks to just think about a problem and tinker with it. Take six weeks. Take six months. But when it is time to start making concrete progress on some kind of a timetable, on somebody's dime, then scrum is a great way to do it. Agile is first and foremost a way to implement software; it is not a way to design it from scratch. The most agile says about design is that it is an incremental and dynamic process that continues during implementation. If your point is that agile doesn't help you much if you don't know yet what you're going to build, I totally agree, and so does sound agile practice.

I may indeed just be lucky, but if so then I've been lucky for an extraordinarily long time and in an extraordinarily wide range of contexts. Agile is not right for everything, but for developing software, it's great.

Oh. I see. You're just trolling.

Not at all. I am utterly sincere. Being able to chunk complex projects into simpler components that can fit into smaller timeframes (yes, as small as two weeks or even two days) is an essential skill for a software developer. And if that consistently thwarts you, then software development will make you very unhappy, whether you use agile development or not.
Actually the point of the tax cut was to harmonize our corporate tax rates with the rest of the world, and take steps to eliminate the domicile arbitrage and general loopholing that creates an enormous amount of deadweight loss in our economy.
I'm not under that impression; I've spoken a lot here on HN about the limits of free speech. Legal limitations on freedom of speech almost always stem from pragmatic consequences, e.g. unfair damage to Tom Smith's reputation. When people speak of "thoughtcrime", they refer to cases in which expressing an idea itself is seen as reason for punishment, regardless of whether any consequences occur.

Here's my question: under your definition, how could "thoughtcrime" possibly be detected, let alone punished?
There was no mind reading in 1984, this argument just doesn’t make any sense. As was pointed out above, the French pro-Palestine activists who were jailed didn’t communicate anti-Semitism directly. By simple being anti-Israel it was assumed that they are antisemites and this criminals. Technically this was done by saying their T-shirts were anti-Semitic, but they weren’t in any absolute sense. It all came down to what their thinking was assumed to be.

Comparing this to libel/slander is just absurd. It’s not a slightly different category, it’s such a massive difference that Europe has essentially outlawed aspects of political speech, which is the most important aspect of freedom of speech to begin with.
And say goodbye to the girl of your dreams, who was really looking forward to showing her friends the "rock" on her finger and hearing them ooh and ahh over it.

Even if she doesn't leave you over this, unless you somehow married a Hackernews you've set up the image in her head that you're a skinflint who isn't willing to provide for your wife and it will affect your relationship in negative ways. Is your autism that strong that you will put a pedantic commitment to your own head logic and fighting the evil forces of marketing above your wife's feelings? If so, maybe you don't deserve to be married.
Apple can only do that because they rule their hardware platform with an iron fist.

They also position themselves as a premium product and do not / cannot compete with google in terms of price. While apple products (and iOS specially) are very popular in the US, here in Brazil you almost never see them.
Yes, especially with Postgres. Within Postgres an idle connection still creates overhead both in terms of contention as well as resource consumption. Each connection you make even if it's not doing anything can consume around 10MB of memory from your database. A DB side pooler can help reduce that overhead by allowing only your active connections through. You can get a better idea of the details and how to monitor idle vs. active connections in this post - https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/05/10/scaling-connection...
Played around with Vehicle stability Assist + ABS and it takes a lot to lose control of your vehicle. Hard breaking without a hard turn is not going to do it without lot's of ice and a curved road surface.
That's not what my analysis showed. It has a payback period of 5-10 years depending on your assumptions, assuming new construction. Shorter period the more extreme the climate, longer in places like Norcal. Retrofitting though is a different story (higher cost -> longer payback).
Do you? Because I have never heard of this being a thing outside of "The Whole Nine Yards".
And I don’t understand why you think that all laws have the exact same clarity, compliance burdens, and potential fines.
Article 2:

> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system.

Which makes sense, just keeping customer data on paper instead of in digital storage shouldn't mean you don't have to protect it.
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It's an antiquated rule that no longer makes sense given that women work now too. It only really ever made sense as an equivalent of a male dowry, which just isn't needed in modern gender egalitarian society.
This is what I don't understand...how do you present two cases of "up to" and then say "whichever is higher"?!

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

"Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 10 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 2 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:"
> Just by using DenseNet-BC-100-12 I ended up with 83% ROC AUC after a few hours of training

Of course! Using DenseNet-BC-100-12 to increase ROC AUC, it was so obvious!
I have been looking into this (and pgpool2 and pgbouncer) and what I found most suprising was both the lack of workable Docker images and any hint of a SaaS solution for this problem.

Connection Pooling as a Service, why does this not exist? What factors could cause this to be a bad idea? Need for proximity? Network speeds? Security?
> when we didn't have program formats that could be statically transformed and verified to do exactly what the operator desires.

Which we still don't. Rowhammer, spectre/meltdown, etc... proved that even if the code doesn't violate any sandbox constraints that doesn't mean it didn't violate everything the sandbox was attempting to protect.

Hardware isolation is still very important and very necessary, now more than ever.
Mods: I would advise locking this thread, there is questionable activity here that would seem to indicate a coordinated effort to influence the discussion and I don't see it veering back into a positive place.

Edit: I shouldn't have commented as I didn't add to the conversation. From the guidelines:

Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.

I'll shut up now.
Hmm, author doesn't seem to know about dconf-editor to explore available settings.

That reminds me of why I despise much of what gnome3 has produced however. Instead of improving the applets and file manager and adding to their anemic feature set, they are constantly fucking around with the title bars and removing menus and things. For the same reason I hated 'skinz' in the 90's I dislike that every app is now a custom snowflake that has to be handled differently. For example, look at what dconf-editor has become, like the Disks program---an abomination.

Gnome (all the desktops really) is still not as consistent and integrated as the Windows 2000 shell was, and is harder to use. IMHO, the only useful innovation to come out since then has been the "Super-key search," the rest has been downhill.
I don't see google competing on style or fashion etc. And If you have some subscription car service you need to compete on price. It when a service is free(pay with data) or there's a huge training component(think office) that you don't get market forces which drive down prices and profitability.
>Materialistic, low IQ and shallow. Though that's what most people are, I suppose.

You should look into getting a therapist to talk through whatever has soured your outlook on life to this point of bitter cynicism.
Add to that that you can work while the update is being downloaded and applied; and in the very few occasions where reboot is absolutely inevitable (I have never had such a situation since many years; even the new kernel can wait until I'm done with my things and ready to reboot to bring it online), it's just a reboot, nothing more. With Windows 10, it just blocks you with a screen that has a message telling "I'm doing my things now" and a progress report. Your work is inevitably interrupted.

For example, I sometimes play some games on my brother's Win 10 PC (I don't use Windows on my laptop, and don't want to bother with setting up Wine and the games on it). A couple days ago it wanted to update, and I told it to postpone. Then I left for 15 minutes and came back, there was an update going on. It blocked us out of the computer for the entire afternoon and most of the evening doing black magic behind a soft blue screen.
Kepler.gl, a powerful open source geospatial tool for large-scale data sets
better than Weir’s martian?
California:

2870.
(a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:

(1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or

(2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

(b) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.