skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm re-reading it now. Maybe I'm just not able to follow the text-based email chain format, but it doesn't seem to include RMS's original email with his comments except quoted as part of another email, which leads me to think that part of the conversation is being covered up. Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
We are 15 mins away from each other. It said sign up for prime to receive 2 day shipping on his end I believe.

I may be wrong. I will try to take some screenshots another time, as it seems like nobody else noticed, therefore, i may be in the wrong here.
We can imagine a number of scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that RMS presented himself as entirely willing to step down.
Without a formal definition it's impossible to legislate or enforce.

Take HN - arguably this whole forum is an ad for YC. Would this fall under your definition?
There is an astonishing amount of knee-jerk reacting in this thread.
The ultimate thing is though that as the leader of the FSF foundation his actions have broader consequences and demand a stricter scrutiny. He was given a loooong time to learn and improve, people have been talking about how he's actually kind of sexist and problematic for years.

Stallman's job as head of FSF wasn't just to be technically competent, which he has in spades, but to forward the mission of the foundation and a certain level of social acuity is a necessary part of that.
In evolution, the current uses of a given structure or molecule is not necessarily an indication of what it originally evolved for, and in this case, whatever plants have been doing with serotonin and dopamine, it is not as neurotransmitters. When animals began to evolve neural systems, presumably these already-present molecules proved useful as neurotransmitters. The fact that ctenophores use a different set of neurotransmitters is taken by Moroz as strong evidence that neural systems evolved more than once - and furthermore, according to the article, "Moroz now counts nine to 12 independent evolutionary origins of the nervous system" on the basis of other differences. In this view, ctenophores are the last representatives of one of those alternatives.

I wonder if Moroz is harming his case by stretching it too thinly -- small differences do not necessarily require independent origins -- but I am not a biologist.
Sluggish and nearly unusable describes every experience I have ever had with GitLab.
https://enterprise.github.com/faq
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While my org uses perforce extensively; we also have a gitlab premium license (with far too many seats than we have users due to a fuck-up deploying mattermost org wide then promptly disbanding the effort after the damage was done) which we use enjoyably.

Despite the fact the people who host our gitlab internal do not update it often or support it well I do think it’s a great product at the enterprise level.

So much so that I host one myself for my IRC community to use!

Glad it’s working out for them.
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Are there any available positions in between these polar opposites?
Who was accused of having sex with a sex trafficked minor. Stallman only pointed out that the Minsky may have not known about the trafficking angle, but apparently there's witness testimony saying the act of sex never happened.

I get that the concept of assumption of innocence is something long-forgotten on the Internet, but can we at least discern between correcting the language to ensure that mob accusations are accurate, and wholesale defense of a (presumed) act?
Statutory rape is not "having sex". Even if you make the girl a year older I am not sure the situation changes very much. The power dynamic is not allowing her a lot of free choices.
I'm not clear on how terminal ads are related to sexual assault? Or indeed what Linus (who runs Linux) and Stallman (who runs or ran GNU) have to do with the unrelated NPM commercial open source ecosystem?
Ford was assigned it's netblock in 1988. It was definitely not assigned with IoT in mind. And if they deployed IoT today, they would just use the mobile telco's dynamic IP addresses and communicate through HTTP.
> But it's not Twitter crowd that decides if it is rape or not.

Well, it's not Richard Stallman who decides either, but he tried to do exactly that... and that's why people are pissed at him
It will cool into conventional matter eventually, but it would pass through a lot of exotic phases in between. I'm not sure we can even really answer that question, but here's something to give you an idea of what I mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%E2%80%93gluon_plasma I'm not sure it would necessarily pass through that, but it would at least make a decent pass at it in those first few nanoseconds.

If kmm's guesstimate of 5e26 joules is accurate, we're well beyond "extinguishing multicellular life" and in the realm of eliminating Earth entirely, which requires a minimum of 5.97e24 joules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_binding_energy 1% efficiency of transfer to the Earth is probably attainable.
In my experience CircleCI is an excellent alternative.
A Soyuz capsule that never enters the atmosphere would have a very upset crew.
Heh, in a way. But I do give a lot of credit to Github for exposing me to some really cool and interesting projects. It does a decent job of knowing what I consider relevant, and surfacing projects/humans that fit the bill.
I'm not talking about CA. I'm talking about a state where every body of water over a certain size has to have a public boat ramp and the vast majority of them have no facilities. This is not the yacht club with their complimentary hose for washing off your boat we're talking about. Human powered watercraft do not have inaccessible bilges and cooling systems to harbor invasive species making them much less of a risk of bringing new species with them to a particular body of water.
Snort!

I am imagining a bunch of microdosing firangi sitting in their gravity pods, asking each other what Indians do to be, like, all cool and stuff. "Build a successful business" is, like, way too square an answer, daddy-o. Anybody can be a dull old business man. Our customers want to be cooool. So what's cool and Indian?

Yoga?

Sure, man, but everyone does yoga. They probably do Yoga in Kansas these days, so how's that gonna build our brand? Yoga goes without saying. We need something way cooler than that. What is it?

(Long awkward silence.)

Ah, I've got it! Bollywood dancing! Yeah, they eat that shit up over there. Let's do that.
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His statement says he is stepping down due to misinterpretations and misunderstandings (AKA he stands by his statements), which IMO means he was given the ultimatum of "your job or your opinion" aka if he wanted to stay he would need to repudiate the things he said, and he likely chose to stand by his interpretation of the discussion and resign.
I was born into a somewhat affluent family, in a somewhat affluent area, and went to somewhat affluent schools, and unsurprisingly I have a pretty decent life where I can afford what I want. It was never a question of "if" I get to go to college, but instead "what college are you going to?", and even though I dropped out, I was still able to find a decent-paying job in tech.

Somehow I convinced myself that because I introduced one level of adversity into my life (dropping out), that I was special and had completely earned all my success, and that people who weren't as successful as me just didn't work hard enough.

It wasn't until I met my wife, who is smarter than me an also a harder worker, but was born into a poor family, that I realized how silly my viewpoint was. Despite being very well-read and intelligent, she was working as a cashier at McDonalds to help support her mother and sister, living in a more impoverished suburb of Dallas, TX. It wasn't until we were married that she was able to go to college.

Even she had it easier than someone born in, say, Uganda, but seeing all this made me realize that while, yes, I have worked hard to get where I am, I shouldn't pretend that it was all me.
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That is a self-fulfilling prophecy with no utility to the people making it.
Courts would also have to bar current board members and maybe even investors from founding another credit agency. Not good enough to kill the company, gotta make sure it doesn’t come back.
It looks like you are correct in your assumption that serotonin evolved in the common ancestors of plants and animals, instead of being convergent evolution. [1],[2]

So it would seem as if the ctenophores lost the ability to produce these chemicals, and went on to develop a nervous system that didn't require them.

But the article is really about the evolution of the nervous system, and so the pertinent question is whether (a) the evolution of the nervous system was more recent than 0.5B years ago, in which case the two nervous systems evolved independently, or whether (b) the nervous system evolved earlier than that, and then the evolution of the ctenophores adapted its nervous system to not require serotonin and dopamine.

I think the article is suggesting (a).

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156973391...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin#Comparative_biology_...
Thanks for sharing. Could you help me see clearly the value offered by your product?

In my case, I have a word document that I only occasionally export to pdf when I'm searching for new opportunities, let's say once every two years. Updating is not too much of a hassle for me because I end up just having to add a few lines summing up my new experience since last time.

Am I missing something, or is everyone doing it differently?
I guess we need a comparative term to appreciate the sentence:

>The police said that since 2017, 58 people had been arrested after being identified by the technology.

I mean, 58 people in 2 years is like 2-3 per month, if the scanned faces were (say) 1,000 per month is one thing, if they were (still say) 1,000,000 per month it would be another.

And it all depends on how the 998 or 999,998 not-identified people data (if any) is used (or stored).

The analogy of:

>a police officer standing on the corner looking out for individuals and if he recognizes somebody, saying, ‘I want to talk to you.’”

is fine and dandy exactly because those that were not recognized are not "talked to" nor any note about them is taken by the officer.
I haven't tried this yet, but I like your pricing model more than the others I've looked at.

I tried cake resume a while ago and while it was nice-ish, they wanted to sign up for a $7.95-$15.95/mo recurring charge (I feel like it was even closer to $20 a last time I looked?)
You couldn't actually do that. Time dialation means the thrown object would never actually hit the neutron star from your POV and the black hole would never form.
I wonder how you look at vice-squad members?

And from what I've seen they are quite happy to receive tips about abusers from the public and businesses that care enough to review their content. For society to work some of us have to step forward and agree to do the dirty work.

That some people are doing this for a living without proper counseling and guidance is another matter, you can lay that at Facebook's door. The few times that I've been exposed to that crap was enough to make me shut down some services.

In fact, I think that any business that deals in user generated content should assume the cost of business that goes with that and have a system of flagging and escalation in place.
Oh, stop it. The GP clearly did not say that. If you need to scroll up and read it again, do so.
Leaving? What happened to "until death do us part"? Which is the context in which this kind of arrangement originated from. Apparently the deal has changed and all we can do is to pray that it won't change further...
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Expected, without esni (which requires tls1.3) there’s no way to conceal the domain from the boxes.

Or.. your ISP might be blocking the IPs.

Remember to revert the settings to the original values.
How is it we value free speech, but there are certain discussions you just cannot have, even in a rational and measured way, without risking making yourself completely unemployable. You should be able to have a questionable viewpoint in a discussion, without worrying about the lynch mob ending your career.

The consequences here are out of line. You can be reprimanded to take your discussions to a non company venue, in a situation like this, but fired is over the top.

Stallman said “it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

It's pretty clear with the age difference being what it is, this is exactly what statutory rape laws are for. But it is also incongruous that somehow if she was a year older it would be ok. It's also fucked up that if Minsky were 19, the consequences would be the same. Maybe there's a better law to be had here, but how would we ever know if you can't even have the discussion?

I'm appalled by how free speech is under attack lately by the outrage machine.
Are we talking about RMS? If so, RMS wasn't "punished." Folks were tired of his bad leadership and demanded he leave, because he was consistently bad at his leadership job.

You can decide this is punishment and it might feel that way to RMS, but I think we can all agree sexism is a bad trait to have in the most senior leadership position of an organization founded around principles of liberty in expression and action. RMS was bad for that cause, and he couldn't keep his position on pure tenure and prestige anymore.
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Would you be saying that if an advocate for gay marriage, abortion, trans-gender rights etc were being forced to resign from a leadership position at Chic-Fil-A ?
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Simplifying the issue this much to boil it down to "a difference in opinions" is a bit dishonest. It was a very specific opinion that crossed the line, it's not like he said he prefers chocolate to vanilla.
Yea buuuut that's not even what's happening here. People are wildly misrepresenting stallman's position. To me it just seems like a certain subset of neurotypical people discriminating against people who don't see the world through 15 layers of social obfuscation/are actually honest about what they are thinking.
GREAT comment, and honestly it's an indictment of HN that it's currently downvoted.
Sounds like pretty high consequences if you miss the hook!
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Does that mean that when you're flying an X15 you lose 6.2/22 = 28% of your bodyweight to the Coriolis force? That's pretty neat.
If you assume the cable car is moving at a constant 60 miles per hour, about 4 and 1/2 months (138 days). The current fastest elevator in the world (in the Burj Khalifa) moves at 22 mph; taking that up would take you about a year. However, I'm told by a friend who used to work at Otis (the company that made the Burj Khalifa elevator) that the limiting factor on elevator speed is the comfort factor - there's a hard cap on the acceleration a standing person can comfortably take, and the course of the elevator is generally pretty short, so you don't have time to build up a decent head of speed.

Presumably we can do a little better than that
This is great to hear. Can you be more specific? For example, when/how are you able to bring in other expertise on a project?
To be fair, earlier submissions all got flagged off the front page fairly quickly, so later submitters may well not have known about them.
It's not just having the "wrong opinions about something." It's excusing the actions of a pedophile and human trafficker - a modern slavemaster, in case you're fooled by the modern euphemism.
Github also has on prem offerings.
Again in my country (UK) the age of consent doesn't vary, sex trafficking is illegal in its own right. So this still wouldn't be paedophilia, rather it would be rape.

My point is I could have consensual sex with a 17 year old, paint a picture and the GP would be happy to view it(?). You could have sex with a 17 year old, get arrested for paedophilia, paint a picture, and the GP would not be happy viewing it. Theres a legal line and a moral line both can change so its weird getting absolutist about it.

To be clear I wasn't aware of the sex trafficking element, I thought this was a question of statutory rape, which would seem to yield very different legal answers based on location.

Edit:
'Interestingly' I seemed to have circled around to making the same point RMS made. Except I'm not denying the rape, and I'm not a representative for another organisation.
That FTC statement says exactly what I said:

There is a 425 million pool. It's to be used for:

1) "time and money they spent to protect themselves from potential threats of identity theft" (the 31 million part)

OR

2) "addressing incidents of identity theft as a result of the breach" (the 394 million part)

And yes, at some point both pools can be exhausted at which case there will be no more money for future claims. That's how a settlement works. Since there have currently been exactly 0 incidents of identity theft as a result of the breach it might not be so far fetched to say that there will be plenty of money in the pool to cover any incidents.
Congrats, GitLab team. Way to build an impressive business.

When anybody tells you there are rules to venture capital — like it’s impossible to take on massive incumbents that have network effects — ignore them. The GitLab team is doing something phenomenal here.

Enjoy your success! You’ve earned it.
I'm totally certain you've sifted properly all possible consequences, as well as what does and does not constitute accountability....
Somebody above said:

> Note that this only works if you set region to US ("Available only in California"). If you select another region, you get a completely different page.
Read his recent emails and you'll understand my comment better.
If the allegations that he kept a shag matters in his office are true, i don't think you can actually find a defensible position for this.

I don't like the outrage culture and twitter witchuhnts either but this seems to be more than digging up a bad joke someone said 10 years ago.
Maybe for gore. For child abuse images, not so much.

I can only imagine the aghast looks one would get from the PR and HR people, just for asking about forming a team of people who liked looking at child abuse images!
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"Citation please"

"Here's an article"

"I'm skeptical. Also lots of people don't like that messenger. And I don't like the tone of the article. Also I found someone who agrees with me."

Would you care to address the points raised in the article rather than dismissing it because you don't like the source?
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We moved to Houston, Texas, to pursue a job offer. We left less than two years later to a suburb of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Smaller cities or at least smaller-town lifestyles are more our style. "Making it" in a big city seems like it requires losing what is important [edit: for people like me].
You write that you haven't seen major news outlets focusing on questions like "How did Epstein make his money? Who were his clients?"

Here are some major news outlets which have tried. None have succeeded.

New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/how-did-jeffrey-epste... - "How Jeffrey Epstein Made His Money: Four Wild Theories"

Vanity Fair back in 2003 trying to figure out the mystery - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-2003...

Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/how-financier-jeffrey-epstei...

Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-08/the-myste...

You ask "What did his business associates know about the sexual allegations?"

The only known business associate is Wexner. He has declined to comment, says Bloomberg.

You ask "Who does Acosta claim told him?" He has declined to comment. Eg, the Miami Herald at https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html says "Acosta did not respond to numerous requests for an interview or answer queries through email."

"The simple explanation" is that it was hidden well, protected by powerful people, and had not yet been figured out.

I have no doubt that "the answers would reflect badly on people who have power over them". That's how it has been squelched or diminished until now.

Other than the one comment, is there any evidence that an intelligence agency is really involved? Why can't it be a bunch of sexually abusive plutocrats supporting each other with their connections of power? Why can't the reference to "intelligence" be a convenient cover?

If it were the CIA or Mossad, do you not think that, perhaps, some time in the last 20 years they might have told him to tone down as he's going to get caught, and destroy their decades-long effort?

What are the connections between Mossad and Acosta? Any Epstein connections wouldn't affect the federal prosecutors' office, yet it was they who gave Epstein such lenient terms.

If Julie Brown, the investigative reporter who worked on the story for a long time for the Miami Herald, had been able to figure out any of these questions, do you think she would have reported it?
Stop the cancel culture .. LEARN TO SPEAK WITH PEOPLE YOU DISAGREE WITH ! You fake belief that you are perfect is the exact reason you will be cancelled if you ever succeed in anything
They fired many of their developers and key operations folks, and service has been flaky for months. It was already poor, but is now substantially worse than almost all of the competition.
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You are not going to find anything in the GDPR that cleary state if IP are personal data or not, because the GDPR is tech-agnostic and thus doesn't use tech-specific terminology such as IP.

Article 4 [1] states
> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

Can a person be identified by an IP, which is an online identifier? That's up to a judge to decide, according to context. Some judges do think so (French)[2]. The interesting part there: "Les adresses IP collectées [...] doivent par ailleurs être considérées comme une collecte à grande échelle de données d’infraction au sens de l’article 10 du RGPD". Rough translation : "Collected IP adresses [...] must be considered as large scale collection of offenses data in terms of article 10 of the GDPR" (article 10 is about personal data for offenses and convictions).

You can find a few similar cases where IPs are considered as personal data. It has been a subject of discussion here on HN several times during the GDPR introduction.

Please note that I never said or implied that any of what I said or linked is legal advice or a legal text.

[1] https://gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions/
[2] https://www.legalis.net/jurisprudences/tgi-de-paris-ordonnan...
I hadn't considered this perspective before, thank you.
You're right, extra-judicial punishment is much easier to carry out.
The point is presumably that online interactions do not form the totality of a career or working life in software.

Yeah, here on HN you don't need to care whether I'm a man, woman, chocolate bar or UFO. In the real world when I take a CS course, go to a conference, take a job etc, having my physical form is pretty useful.