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If a smith makes a hammer for nails, makes the blueprint available for everyone and someone uses that hammer model to kill someone, is the smith evil? Should the smith no longer make the blueprint available because hammers can be used for evil?

Has the smith made a political move by making the hammer available to everyone? Because all the smith wanted to do is share his knowledge to everyone, so everyone can smith their own hammers.

Ultimately the smith is not morally responsible for what people do with the hammer IMO. The entire intent behind all actions of the smith was to do good, can we call him evil for that?

Similarly I don't think simply building tools is a political or moral move. Rather, it's what you encourage people to do with it and what people do with it that is politically and moral. If I encourage my tool to be used for the better of society, am I evil is a small number of people abuse it?

Don't get me wrong, I still think SV is a den of abuse, however that is because social networks like Twitter and Facebook aren't the hammer. They're not neutral tools. Both profit from moral abuse of the platform, it is enabled and encouraged to do so. Google as a search engine is making it's tool with the only intend to manipulate and abuse users for ads.

There is definitely tools that exist in a moral vacuum (just think of a selfhosted radioshow software, it can host a show about pro-LGBT and one about 9/11 conspiracies, should the author be responsible for either?). But social networks and the tools you mention are largely not it. Those tools have been made with the purpose to do evil.
Hardened CPUs shouldn't be a problem, as long as you can also run the code on a normal CPU, or in an emulator.
I wish I could upvote this more. I encounter this very often in discourse. I extend this to logic and philosophy as well.
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Right. OP describing a situation where everyone was happy isn't really a good starting point for a discussion of harrasment. There are many of examples of real clear cases (see video in article) why not start the discussion there rather than with a situation he imagined might happen.
There was no need for this malware since Win2k. Windows installer manages pretty well and 3rd party ones too. On win7 I uninstalled amd video driver, installed nvidia driver using their own intallers and stuff simply worked, without any "cleaning". Same with other big applications, e.g. MSVS, MSOffice etc.

Yes, Windows (7, 8, 10) have some curious folders that tend to fill up with something, like winsxs and Installers, but you can't just delete stuff there anyway, it is needed by OS, so malware like CCleaner won't help there.
"I think 95% of industrial espionage effort yields zero if not negative benefit"

Citation needed. That makes extremely little sense.
Context is key. In a bar, it might be OK. (This is not a blank cheque I'm giving you, you still need to think about a lot of things!) In the métro, I'd say yes, in almost all cases it would be unwanted. Unwanted forced interactions with strangers are harassment.

Yes, it's sad that you may lose the love of your life this way. It's sadder that many women lose their actual lives over this kind of thing.
Because it’s made out of consumer bits and pieces that talk on serial bus with little or no environmental protection (with electronics and sensors distributed in a way that’s probably not practical to do so to the level required).

For non-earth you’d probably just want to start again.
I read recently that most BMW owners don't know that their cars are real wheel drive. The enthusiasts are the minority, the majority are the status seekers.
Agile has a remarkable resemblance to both communism and faith healing: Every time I say it doesn't work, a true believer replies and says I wasn't doing it right or I didn't believe in it enough.
Isn't most research done in government labs or universities?

Innovation is great but it's mostly a buzzword to describe the aformentioned research in commercial areas
Statistically speaking, you have 1.5 legs and there is no diet that works. (they have about 20% success rate)

Other statistics tell us that calorie deficit is the required and sufficient condition for weight loss.

Frequentist statistics do not apply directly to individual cases.
Absolutely not! If you're given a dataset and you're trying to fit a model or even run exploratory analysis, Python doesn't even come close to R. Even with Jupyter, the experience is not as smooth as R+Rstudio.
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Thankfully the newer Nikons (D500, D850) have a much improved layout on the right side, iso and exposure comp are nearest the shutter button. QUAL is on top of the dial on the left, right out of the way.

Personally I think it should be removed altogether.

The one Nikon improvement I'd like is an option for bracketing and exposure compensation to be reset when you turn the camera off. That's bitten me more than once...
Do I need to explain risks using foreign local networks in HN ? I see it quite unfair to get a downvote for this.
> we still have no airplane as fast as one built in the 1960's.

Either that or we got very good at keeping secrets, getting stelthy, or the need for this “form factor” was depreciated with the advent of space based tech.

Heck there’s probably a Robocop-style human brain in that CIA space plane[0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
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Many mathematically-trained people fumble the infinity question because infinity is just a term or notation for something that is non-ambiguously defined. People tend to view infinity as a sort of weird, maybe even mystic, concept. Certainly the intuition behind it is useful for reasoning, but mathematically-speaking it's just a term for another formal definition.

Consider limits. One can say that a function converges to a certain value v when its input approaches infinity. This seems all subjective and mystic and non mathematically trained people would come up with all sorts of interpretation of that. But this just means that no matter how small a number ε you chose, then there exists a number x such that for any input greater than x, the function's output will be contained within v-ε and v+ε. That's it. It's as simple as that. There is no mystery to it, nor judgment. "Infinity" is just a name that is involved in such formal property.
This is a fine. It needs a cop thinking a reasonable person would find something offensive to inconvenience you and a judge agreeing for it to be applied.
My 5 cents on this:

- Usually, for large chunks of work, you want to bring in more people. Both because they tend to involve several modules or several layers of the stack, and very few people are equally skilled in every part of the codebase. But also because there will most probably be design decisions and tradeoffs along the way to discuss. Coordinate who is working on which parts of the codebase at any given time.

- I'd avoid excessive preplanning. But I'd make tasks to make explicit the general plan and the interdependencies. E.g. create new server API, then refactor client, then remove old server API.

- Don't be too concerned with showing progress in stand-ups. Feeling like you need to do this to justify yourself is a team process smell. Abandon them if they bring no value, e.g. if you have a de facto three people subteam who is coordinating all the time anyway.
That was a fairly factual statement, it seemed?
1) Yes, which is why it gets much harder to lose weight the longer the diet lasts, which makes more people do it as they don't get any effect.

2) Everyone wants a magic bullet, but sip far there isn't one. On the other hand, specific diets and restrictions may be easier to keep and cause faster or more weight loss than others, as well as suppress appetite more or less.
> The rest of us met every morning for breakfast. No standing up, no meeting. But we knew what we had to cover in between shooting the crap. We did well. He did not.

Basically, since the other guy did not wanted standup you intentionally left him out of loop and communicated only among yourself during breakfast. If there was ever ugly politics, it is this one.

> He finally came. Every morning the team would have fun with the nerf ball (which is just something fun to toss around. Who cares if you have one or not?) When it was his turn, everybody stopped smiling and somebody put the little football on the ground at his feet. Then he spoke. He never did touch the nerf ball.

Frankly, I really don't want to work in environment you and your friends are creating. Regardless of whether I enjoy the process you are pushing for, I don't want to work with people who intentionally sabotage people they disagree with - and then brag about it. If there is something called inability to work with different people, this right here is it.

The pattern I see here is that your colleges are intentionally toxic to those who don't share their preferences and then blame victims. You refused to communicate like adults resorting to passive aggression, not your opposition.
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Why is the act usually perpetuated against the US. China trades with other countries but rarely you hear news of China stealing their tech. Why does China strive to a great deal to steal tech from the US
> It's a good historical anecdote about making progress in computer graphics, but ray tracing is largely an obsolete method,

A ray tracer and a path tracer are very similar and are based on the same foundation of ray-object intersection tests, render the same kinds of geometry, and use the same kinds of acceleration structures. Lighting and textures are a little different, and the process of tracing a ray into the scene is a little different, but a ray tracer is really just a simplified path tracer.

Calling it an obsolete method seems strange, since about 90% of the code in a typical ray tracer could be re-used directly to make a path tracer, and a person setting out to create a path tracer in 2018 would probably start by making a ray tracer and then enabling path tracing once they've verified that ray tracing is working. Path tracing is more like a feature you enable than a completely different method.
I am a Chinese and I am not comfortable with most of comments here. But I see lots of places that China companies can do much better though. I see people are growing awareness of IP or copyright, I hope these companies can do just better.
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There's been an irritating trend of malware authors and other digital miscreants self-identifying as 'security researchers' lately.

If they just want to hack other people's shit, they should own up to the antipathy that comes with that. Instead they act like extorting companies over undisclosed vulnerabilities, emptying *coin exchange accounts, posting credential dumps on the internet or exfiltrating gigabytes of data are somehow noble or academic endeavors.
The problem with such external drive is that it is trivially easy to flub. It takes one good binge to wipe out a year of a diet, one slip of control.

The more you can rely on appetite control, the better.
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How could you defend those accused of this if they were innocent, though?

Someone might quite literally just want to start talking to someone without having any way of knowing where someone's head is at.

I'm thinking particularly of more gray areas. Like outside of a nightclub. Or with a women who is just trying to cause trouble by baiting men (which is a REAL possible outcome of instituting oppressive laws like this!)

Laws have to be clear about what is acceptable behavior and what isn't, and cannot be subject to interpretation.

We may as well just ban all flirting between men and women if that's where this is headed, because this looks like another insanely evil marxist law designed to subvert our natural ways of dealing with social provocations, that mother nature has enshrined us with, and probably leading to more social imbalances than those even posed by original problem!
Sadly the ECMA standard for BASIC never really got adopted by anyone (and is now pretty outdated style anyway).

MS Basic kiiinda became as close to a defacto standard as can be described, just because it was the most common and commonly imitated.

In terms of a modern standard, there's quite a few modern BASICs, but the same kind of applies: Microsoft kinda leads the field. Many of the surviving projects are either directly or indirectly based off of QuickBasic and Visual Basic, or at least heavily inspired by them.
Unfortunately for most of us, work lacks proper kitchens and reheated food is vastly inferior and harder to prepare. Plus you're not getting paid for the time cooking unless you work in a restaurant or as a house maid.
Well let's say you're authentically ignorant of the fact that bringing sex up with strangers is usually considered offensive.

The first you learn of it is when the cops come up and interview you.

You indicate ignorance and also that you think the woman was a shit for dobbing you in.

You indicate ignorance and also deep remorse - you're genuinely hurt that you harassed this woman and potentially several others.

You indicate ignorance and feign deep remorse - you actually think the woman was a shit. You bring up sex with strangers again and the police see that you have form.

There's a difference in what's going to happen in these cases. The fact that the police think it's worth investigating a report of a crime doesn't mean they'll react in the same manner to different circumstances.
Swift is distinctly not Rust although it looks a lot like it on the surface. It uses reference counting, just like Perl, Ruby or Python. RC is the most rudimentary form of garbage collection. Also has its problems, like dealing with circular references.

And yes, CL is fully GC. But my point is that's not the culprit. If your problem calls for allocation and management of heap memory, it has to be done one way or another, manually or via GC. GC overhead in that light can really be negligible, and it's other concerns (like scheduling and real time constraints) that typically make its use problematic.
Yes. Having a properly secured laptop on public wifi is no different than having a server on the public internet. It's not difficult to reason about the threat model here, and operating systems are fully capable of rejecting potentially harmful traffic.
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Generally, yelling things to women from a few meters is not starting a conversation.
I wouldn't say it's automatically harassment to approach women in public areas but you should be very careful about how you are doing that and be ever more polite. Most women want to get from point A to point B and not be picked up.
That or reduced exercise. It can get you that extra 10% or so burn rate you need.
You can update as often as you like, but that does not ensure users will get that update, nor does traditional packaging make it safe to install the update (no rollbacks, maintainer scripts run as root and have full access to the filesystem, library mismatches, etc).

I'm all for debs and rpms, but they seem best suited to providing the base system.

[disclaimer: I'm on the Snapcraft team]
Worth mentioning that the decision to drive on the right was influenced by "Right of Way" rules sailors used for centuries. When two boats meet head on each moves slightly to their right to avoid collision.
I heard a really good interpretation of this recently.

In all these infinite universes, surely there's one where there's an ice cube in the middle of the sun, since that's one possible configuration of matter.

But no! There's no story that ends with an ice-cube in the middle of the sun. There's no sequence of events that could have resulted in that so it's not in the space of possible universes.
Given there are ~7.5 billion people on Earth, and given we're getting more interconnected every single day, and given there is more "stuff" being invented every single day, at what point will we just assume this kind of stuff is commonplace and it won't make the news anymore?

In the same way a lot of forward-looking people are seeing a future were full-time work will have to be replaced by some form of Universal Basic Income, I wonder when we'll realize the whole IP / Copyright / "It's mine, you can't have it" mentality will have to be replaced.
This answer, with the due edits, would describe Uber and AirBnB pretty well, too. ;)
That must've been some impossibly wimpy or tiny cake.

One slice (about 150g, they're dense) of those is equivalent to a whole standard meal. (like 500 kcal or so)
This is interesting to read as I've been struggling with the best approach for my son who's coming up for five.

He has a pretty solid understanding of basic addition, subtraction and multiplication.

He was asking about infinity and although he knows it's very big he was still asking about infinity plus one. Maybe it's not too soon to explain the concept.
... not necessarily.

The existence of the effect really means that it wasn't selected against.
That's a really good point. I know my career has nearly entirely been steered from "non-core" activities that I undertook which never would have been justified on a week to week schedule. Businesses also are actually very poor at understanding technical opportunities which developers at the coalface can see (that is, things that are technically easy or at least feasible, possibly due to the specific skill of the engineer(s) in question, but have very high value).
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If someone is screaming "you claim that men tend to be physically stronger than women" over and over again while you walk alone along a road and you tell them to leave you alone but they keep doing it louder and closer to you than before, deliberatly targeting you, does it matter if it's factually accurate?
Let's be real here: this is an enthusiast price point. Very few decently sized sized teams will want to fit a 100$ a month into their budget for this little value add.

This is maybe even the point: fewer but enthusiastic customers to gather relevant feedback.

Haven't seen the ability to host the videos locally, so serious developers are out too. Potentially broadcasting valuable info isn't a big selling point.
There is a lot of bitterness toward the US in China possibly stemming from their perception that they should be leading the world in every respect, and the irksome reality that for much of the past century or more the US has been at the forefront. Yes that is changing or has already changed now, but they are still very unhappy about having been behind for so long, given their rightful place as the superior (in their mind) civilization.

Yeah our (US) civilization has plenty of flaws, I'm not meaning to suggest otherwise. Just saying since you asked, if it seems they are targeting the US a lot, this could be part of it. Plus the obvious fact that the US is the biggest and softest target.
Google and co aren't the smiths, they are the ones that hire them
Oh for sure, I'm not saying not to involve other people, just that the actual implementation for some things is most efficient if it falls to one person.
I still have my copy of More BASIC Computer Games. Hunt the Wumpus!

I also still have a copy of the Liverpool Software Gazette which had "Stargate: A 3D Planetarium", (from around 1980).

Massive listings, and you not only had to fix typos, you also had to convert between different versions of BASIC.
> This is a completely rational thing to do when it seems you have no better options, which is why social mobility is so important.

Romania is within the EU and there is free movement of people. Meaning, they can relocate here for work. They're entitled to social security a) after living in Netherlands for 3 months and b) are legally allowed to actually live here (this latter bit is interesting). Though important to note that it appears that as soon you ask for social security they'll try to cancel your right to live here.

When Poland got the right to work elsewhere they hugely made use of that, though always went back to Poland. Leaving to situations where they do everything to save as much of their salary. E.g. living with too many people within one house, accepting way too low wages (unfair competition or sometimes illegal below CLA wages), etc. But overall it seemed there was quite a benefit.

For Romania up to now it's mostly criminals who travel. I guess due to distance (easier to drive by car from Poland).
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If you greet them with similar intros, especially with non-sexual topics, great. Take cues when the chatter isn't welcome and stop? Great. Things like this and you are safe. Bonus points if you apologise.

Seriously, cat-calling is a different beast entirely. nothing like walking down the street to pass a group of men who exclaim very loudly, "Well, she was ugly in front but look at that ass!"

I had a customer literally drool forget his sentences every time he saw me. He'd follow me around the store and talk to me. Other folks would step in. He left me a card - at work! - telling me he'd stop, but also exclaiming how sexy I was and how much he adored me. I had asked him to stop. He had noticed I disappeared when he came into the store. He finally did stop, but it took months of discomfort.

I had a boss that would "accidentally" brush up against my breasts or ass. Small place with no recourse, and I had to quit.

There is a lot of area between these two, and I think it should be quite obvious that they are wrong, but it happens nonetheless. There is a huge difference between a nice chat or nicely asking someone out in a way that respects them and this sort of stuff. Save for the one dude that probably thought I was a prostitute, folks in Amsterdam treated me better (I was there for a fun weekend alone, spouse stayed home) - including the dude that propositioned me after chatting in the coffee shop. He was really respectful and simply asked. I talk to random people on planes and other places willingly. Most conversation is fine so long as the other person is reasonable, and halts when I ask the conversation to stop.
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Most renderers support near-realtime preview. If fusion360 doesn't maybe write a script that watches for file changes, converts the CAD data into whatever your renderer of choice takes as input and then display in preview mode?

Maya+Vray spits out a preview within seconds on my machine.
This method is less efficient than using prototypes because the created instance will lug around an object with its own function, instead of sharing one. Sometimes I use "factories" for cases where my instance only needs one method or if the number of instances is going to be relatively small.
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The interesting part, other than fitting into the "Chinese IP theft" narrative, is that:

> [He] removed electronic files with company trade secrets involving its turbine technologies and hid data files in a digital photograph of a sunset. Prosecutors say he then emailed the picture to his email account.

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/01/us/ap-us-general...

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes?