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Something that I think most folks in this thread are missing, that's hugely important to what actually happened here:

This was not an isolated incident.

If it were, I'd look at his comments and write it off as his usual tendency to jump on a minor point and derail a conversation with some totally pedantic technicallity, and I do think the thing he actually said in this case has been wildly mis-interpreted and overstated in many places (the bits about him defending Epstein are clearly untrue, and even the author of the blog post that went viral and set off the shitstorm has said so, and sent corrections to the publications she'd spoken to directly).

I even agree with his statement that, from a moral standpoint 17 vs. 18 isn't really that important -- we set arbitrary cutoffs for age of consent and it's not like there's a legal determination to be made re: Minsky anyway: he's dead.

So from that mailing list thread alone, it reads like a typical autism-spectrum dude missing the social context, making a pedantic point that people read too much into and take the wrong way, and getting himself in trouble. And this is an angle that would naturally draw my own sympathies toward him.

But Stallman is on-record as saying he thinks there's such a thing as "consentual pedophila", and given that context, I think folks can be forgiven for reading into his current statements.

Ultimately though, the bigger issue isn't even about anything that happened in the past few days. RMS has been behaving inappropriately in more serious ways for decades. There are many stories out there about him harassing and propositioning students, making wildly inappropriate remarks to women, and generally making a bad situation around gender and inclusiveness in tech worse. Everyone I've talked to who has known him in a non-trivial personal capacity has corroberated this. The fact that this email is the thing prompted a blog post that happened to go viral and got people to make a fuss about it is incidental.

Even at the FSF's own conferences, he's one of the more frequent violators of the safe space policies that the organizers have put in place. I think the first year the conference had an explicit safe space/anti-harassment policy, he was the only person who violated it (in this case it took the form of a sexualized joke during his closing keynote).

I kinda have the same somewhat fearful gut reaction to these kinds of episodes as a lot of geeky guys do. There's a post[1] out there (which I think originally I found through hacker news) that does a pretty good job of analyzing where that reaction is coming from, and why the fear isn't totally illegitimate, but the idea that this is just a mob picking on some misunderstood misfit is just not what's happening here. Folks have been lienient to the point of negligience with him up until now.

[1]: https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c
I think you are correct but at best this means minsky is guilty not Stallman because coming to the wrong conclusion unlike rape isn't a crime and we shouldn't be afraid to have opinions.
Maybe? But in theory any NFA can be reduced to a DFA through powerset construction, so there must be something else going on.
Is the publisher straight up paying for these “articles” and placing them in various websites?

This it the second one I’ve read in two days and they’re both just excerpts from the book. At least this one had a real conclusion unlike the other, which literally just ended mid-plot.
This article if fairly accurate. Kiteboarding is unusual in that everyone basically agrees it was "invented" by a bunch of people and not an individual. The contributions of the Legaignoux's, Roeseler's, Don Montague, and not mentioned Lou Wainman all helped popularized it.

A lot of this is captured in "UPWIND - Launch of a Sport"[1].

In terms of prior art, there's an amusing anecdote of Benjamin Franklin(!) pulling himself across a pond with a very large home built kite in the 1710's[2].

As a sport, kiteboarding is wonderful. It's mentally demanding in the same way piloting aircraft is while physically demanding in the way, say, snowboarding is. There is immense satisfaction in throwing around a huge 12 square meter sail with the flick of wrist while an intimacy and sense of flow that comes with riding out on the water in solitude exposed to the elements and not boxed in by a vehicle or craft.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKMSJTtypU

[2] http://mentalfloss.com/article/71431/time-ben-franklin-casua...
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To my understanding, We needed to go public to continue financing operations. Who's going to want to lend to them now after all of this publicity?
Mistake. He was in a position to clarify and correct the wrong impression people got from bad reporting. He chose not to, so bad reporting won (again). Sad times we live in, when even stubborn people like RMS cave in to such pressure.
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Here here, RMS is a weirdo but he's being vilified for things that do not effect his job in any way, he is by no means a representative for MIT, and his opinions on unrelated matters (no matter how misguided they might be) do not change his ability to represent the FSF.
All very good points and you could have a detailed discussion on many of them.

I still think that this is a situation where the bandaid/knife needs to be pulled off quickly. Chrome will never go that path voluntarily but you could push Safari and Firefox to do so (unlikely).

I've worked with publishers big and small and I know where this would hurt the most with smaller sites shuttering.

That said, after working in advertising for over a decade its clear to me that it is manipulative, abused, and ultimately harmful and directly/indirectly funding several hateful voices that have influence on the world.
Brendan Eich gave money to a cause that would have limited the rights of his employees. He actively chose to do that. If you're willing to publicly support a position you should not be surprised if it had ramifications. It doesn't matter if no one knew about whether or not he discriminated against employees, it's an appearance of impropriety and his actions outside of work led to a destabilisation of the company inside work. Same thing has happened numerous times to numerous people across any number of issues. It used to be that association with PoC could get you blacklisted. Then there was the Red scare. This has always been happening and most likely always will.
Okay, you got me: """tech company""".

I think it's probably a financial engineering company over everything else, but I mean "tech company" insofar as this post is going to the top of HN in a way a post about Regus might not.
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I integrated a really simple JS runtime into a C# project once and found the same thing. V8 was orders of magnitude slower due to the interop overhead. Even though the IronJS compiler was very simplistic it was just so much faster to do it inside the CLR and let the MSIL JIT optimize to the degree it was able. An example of “worse is better” I suppose.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101112051649/http://www.jeffre...

"Jeffrey Epstein is one of the most amazing, interesting, and brilliant people that I know.” – Gerald Sussman, Panasonic Professor of Engineering, MIT
Applications should respect OS settings unless told otherwise by a user i.e opt in not opt out.

It’s useful Firefox has the option to enable dns over https for users who do not run their own dns, dnscrypt, stubby servers etc but it should absolutely be opt in otherwise it’s bypassing any custom dns servers setup already.

I run a small OpenBSD router with stubby for dns over tls and unbound for caching. Unbound is also loaded with a dns blocklist for adblocking/malicious site blocking which unfortunately would get bypassed automatically by browser defaults.

OpenBSD just patched Firefox to disable doh by default.
I don’t know. I think the fact that it’s a Unix you don’t have to futz with. I know a lot of software shops in the past 15 years that we’re all Macs, where no one was doing iOS development.
On the flip side huge corporations like Apple should be more careful about not abusing free services set up by people not just because it's a dick thing to drown free services in traffic just because they're free but also it's a pretty big security issue downloading (seemingly at runtime given how much they're downloading each day) from a random bucket you don't control.
Yes, it's interesting to me (but not surprising) that the comments are focusing on just the tech industry. This is more widespread IMO.
But this source never included the STL.

You mean things like vector, map, etc. ? The source for those is already in the header files.
We Co isn't a tech company. Its a landlord subleasing commercial realestate as short term month to month leases with snazzy furniture. They happen to have a mobile app. Its functionality is so poor they removed the pay snack bar in my SF WeWork because no one could pay through the app.

CloudFlare... Now there's a proper tech company.
Is it true that WeWork is now the largest single lessee of commercial real estate in the US? Seems like a bad bankruptcy could have some broad ripple effects.
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This doesn't work for C++, as there is no standard ABI and thus no safe way to link object files from different compiler versions into the same binary.
Unacceptable opinions, but a bit late to justify misquoting him in 2019. He was pretty much in line with e.g. the german Green party in the 70s....
Your argument breaks down when you consider the thing that allows newspaper/web ads to be profitable is the cost of delivery effectively being reduced to zero, whereas a book still has massive printing costs that cannot be scaled as well (thousands of the same books vs. millions of the same newspapers/page views)
and not even a good real estate company
Article in PC Mag is indicating that none of the major telcos in the USA are affected. https://www.pcmag.com/news/370736/sim-card-flaw-poses-spying...
I disagree. React has been out 6 years. It most definitely can prevent bugs which were common with the jQuery approach.
Taken from the other resignation thread.

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%20...

His comments on human sexuality make me sad, even though he is an amazing computer scientist... he’s a bit of a troll human.
"Presented as" does not mean "was"

It can mean that.

sentence immediately after that makes it clear that he didn't mean it as such.

No, it is debatable. The following sentence does not clearly state they were unwilling.

Another Stallman gem:

I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.
The furniture isn’t snazzy it seems like cheap ikea stuff
Apparently people just got fired over at Kickstarter for wanting to going a union. Also I think you forget that the national guard have been called in and killed Union members in the Pennsylvania coal fields for unionizing. Also Reagan with his union busting. I had a boss who literally sent an email out to the entire company saying he was increasing our healthcare costs by cutting our benefits if Obama won and he did. The stuff you're taking about happens all the time.
So he was crashing on their couch rent free, and he thanks them by posting crazy screeds on the mailing list? It's not terribly surprising it turned out like this.
Seems to be a even more terrible than usual naming decision.

It appears that DNSCurve is the protocol, and CurveDNS is an implementation.

And the official page for the protocol seems to reside at http://www.dnscurve.org.

What a mess.
After 5 years of rock solid Telstra HFC, I'm now on NBN HFC (same wire) and it has been unreliable as fu__. Right this very moment I'm currently getting ongoing 40% packet loss to the first hop, probably because it's raining.
What a wild ride. Maybe there is hope for the bullshit industrial complex around tech to finally start unwinding a little bit.
Also on that page..."No need credit card" should read "No credit card needed"
I’m likely not as, but kids in undergrad still “finger”ed people at my school as late as 2016. Can’t say anything about after that though :)
>It’s really hard to open source legacy code

Of course, but my point about the new Microsoft was in relation to UCRT source, which used to be part of the standard VC runtime library and distributed with the compiler.

This new release of the c++ stdlib is fine and I'd actually be fine with the entire C/C++ runtime (including UCRT) being on github. At least there'd be just one place to look for it.
Algebraically it makes sense I guess (M.M)
I'm confident that's the case -- the model of US higher education is widely known to disproportionately prioritize the top tier of schools. We focus on the best in the world, but not the highest median quality in the world.

Also, top schools emphasize athletics and other aspects beyond intellectualism. Not saying that's a bad thing, but the emphasis on extracurricular activities seems greater than other parts of the world -- something also observed by Hofstadter.
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Context: RMS waded into the MIT Epstein scandal

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...

> I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it
is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.
Supposing that Epstein would have told her to act willing and supposing that she was willing are two entirely different things.

The first is what was actually said the latter is a lie being repeated.
Exactly. Which is more likely: Apple is just ignoring people left and right, making terrible decisions and bleeding money, while you, an HN poster/redditor, know precisely what Apple is doing wrong and can fix it. Or Apple is doing user testing and your needs do not reflect the general population?
"Did you see that new Thai joint opened up down the street? I heard it was pretty good. Want to try it out?"

"And just how are we to know for _sure_ that this trumped up restaurant is truly superior?"

In other words, this is how capitalism works. Businesses and vendors make value propositions, then people take chances on them. It works for every single other class of good, but for some reason the big brains that run the internet can't wrap their head around how it would work for them.

Some people have understood this, and they're making a killing from it. For instance, which do you watch more of, HBO, Hulu, Prime and Netflix or broadcast TV? Tons and tons of people are happy to shell out cash for products they consider worth it.

Newspapers and magazines have tried to convince us that these asshole millenials refuse to pay for things anymore, but what they mean is they refuse to pay for shitty things. They're actually perfectly happy to OVERpay for things they like. It just turns out newspapers and magazines aren't, you know, worth that much.
>and his opinions on unrelated matters (no matter how misguided they might be) do not change his ability to represent the FSF

Now that I can't say I totally agree with. The free software movement is a political movement, and as such his statements and opinions on social issues of all kinds have a deep impact on whether or not he can be a good representative of the FSF.

But we should at least be truthful about his statements and opinions!
> I genuinely don't think that was a novel argument to his interlocutors. I think they'd thought of that, and I think they have good counterarguments.

I guess I don't understand your point about Stare Decisis, then. Is your point that Stallman knew that his argument was wrong, but he put it forward anyway? Was there some piece of social case law he was supposed to be referencing here?
More information on‒what I guess‒is the relevant backstory (RMS making reprehensible statements related to the Epstein scandal) can be found (among other places) in this blog post [1] by Matthew Garrett (original source referenced in the post is [2]).

[1] https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html

[2] https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
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That makes it harder for everyone though where companies like Apple should proxy and/or cache those requests to their own internal version rather than hitting that S3 bucket every time. Requiring requester payment would mean it would only really be used by corporations where the author clearly wants a service open to anyone without having to open an AWS account to pay.
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Wait. I've lost track of something somewhere. What was Minski doing on Epstein's party island?
Sure, but that’s probably a variance thing. The overachieving can be a multiplier unto itself.

Do you notice it though, when you have a Brezhnev, or a Qin Er Shi, or a Louis XVI? Napoleon was so much cooler than Czar Nicolas II. We don’t remember those other folks as much, and sometimes the effect of their rule isn’t immediately or decisively felt.
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B-b-but what about ebooks?
Not unexpected, but I'm surprised it happened so soon after he resigned from MIT/CSAIL.

Earlier today the director of the GNOME Foundation requested that RMS resign from the FSF, and said severing ties with the FSF could happen if he didn't step down.

https://blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-foundation-relations...
Everybody has those for themselves.
Certainly that would be a reasonable counter-argument, that the circumstances were such that he ought to have known. But that then invites a discussion about the exact nature of the circumstances Minsky was in. Personally I don't know what they were.

If those circumstances were unfavorable to him (as in your analogy), i'd be convinced that Minsky was at fault. If not, then I wouldn't be. But all that is to say that it seems to me that Stallman's abstract argument was fine to bring up - it just then puts the question back to his counterparts in the discussion to articulate a view on those circumstances to justify their position.
Tact and decorum are how ideas are presented. No amount of tact or decorum would make it possible to defend somebody for sleeping with an underage girl.

He's attempting to find some remotely plausible scenario where the actions of his friend are morally acceptable.

No amount of tact makes that okay, and complete lack of tact just makes it worse.
#2 is somewhat problematic. I would suggest finding someone in your organization that truly knows the business you are in and it’s day to day challenges. Identifying this person or people might be hard but it is crucial. Establishing true and open relationship with this person or group is the next step. It has to be genuine. Once that’s established you will see the stream of real pain points and it will be your job to map them into data science opportunities. An alternative option is to shadow day to day ops crew and distill requirements that way.
Just in case you haven't read the rest of the discussion here, this statement

> Stallman wrote that it was most plausible that the Epstein sexual partners were willing participants

is one of the misquotations of what Stallman actually wrote that change the meaning significantly.

He wrote

> We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

"presented ... as entirely willing" is very different to "were willing"
If you have a comment on your personal website expressing a certain view, then people will reasonably expect that you stand by it.
Oh, it's happening! That's fantastic.

Good luck with the NBN lottery! In inner-city Brisbane I'm lucky to have NBN and non-NBN fibre options. But I would cancel fixed fibre in a heartbeat for unlimited 5G if it meant only taking a bandwidth hit.
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The process writing to the pipe just blocks until another process starts reading from said pipe.
Legality has nothing to do with morality. What morality is there in saying that you cannot pass a vehicle in a tight lane? None. It's a safety concern. Morals only concern religion. Ethics concern right or wrong. Law concerns a group of defined social agreements between people within a defined region. While the basis of some of our laws has a history of Christian influence, our laws in and of themselves do not require morality. An atheist is no more likely to go on a murderous rampage than a Christian, ethically it would be wrong. That kind of timing is built into humanity as a whole because it's required for civilization and predates religion. You see it in animal species as well. Heck a dog sees the benefit in not murdering their master.
There is no expectation of anything without a paid contract. This isn't a major issue though, no enterprise is going to care about their team freely downloading generic public ML data from the internet. If they did care, they would already have other arrangements.
I assume that if he was a pedophile we all would knew it yet. If there was anything remotely naughty in the computer stolen from him in Argentina the thief would have reassured that even Santa Claus will hear about that, for a reasonable sum of money.

Absence of of evidence is not evidence of absence, but philosophizing about murder does not make you a murderer
He's got tenure, but I think CSAIL really ought to have a conversation about whether Sussman's sponsorship of Stallman was a benefit to the lab or not. I don't think there's much to be gained by kicking Sussman out (as far as I've heard, Sussman himself is not the problem, and as a former student I can say he taught classes just fine), but I think there's very much to be gained with a "blameless postmortem," so to speak, of what happened and how we can prevent it from happening again. In particular, given the stories coming out about both students and faculty going out of their way to ward off RMS, could the lab have picked up on him being a problem earlier and gone through some well-defined process? (Consensus is that he was an annoyance 10+ years ago when I was there, was he more than that / could we have established consensus that he was an actual problem?) What should the procedure / norms be to review sponsorship of a lab visitor? How did he get an office when the lab was pressed for space for actual paid researchers, and why was he allowed to have a mattress there?

(If you're applying standard SRE philosophy, someone resigning after a media firestorm is absolutely the sort of atypical and unwanted event that merits an unconditional postmortem. Whether or not you agree with them leaving, it's clearly not the right outcome: either they should have stayed or they should have left before the firestorm.)
"'Jeffrey Epstein is one of the most amazing, interesting, and brilliant child sex traffickers that I know.' – Gerald Sussman" as quoted by Vice Media.