skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a link to the actual statement in question that Richard made:

- https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%202006%20(Dutch%20paedophiles%20form%20political%20party)
- http://archive.is/EbJdT#selection-13425.1-13425.258

Yeah... It also kind of shows a lack of self-reflection that in the thirteen years since he wrote it, the thought never occurred to him to go back and delete it.
to be honest, I am not entirely sure about the precise definition of permissioned-blockchain-based, assets-backed, electronic currency that is also mostly vaporware at this time. The ownership is also non-linear. So, IMHO France and Germany are banning something that not only does not exist but also not even clearly defined. which feels like either a "fu Zuck" or "we are scared"
Correct, light travels at 186 miles per millisecond, but virtually nothing we have can actually transfer a single packet anywhere near light speed. Take two high end expensive network cards with fiber SFP+ connectors and connect them with just 1 meter of cable, and I very highly doubt you’ll get a ping time of under 0.1ms. And that’s just 1 meter! If speed of light was the limiting factor, that should be down in the nanosecond region.
I see no real difference. He said that. And there are even worse comments that he made in that thread.
The DOD has like 5 or 6!
*moral/ethical loophole.
Advertising is opt-out. Every idea centered around tipping, micro-transactions, cryptocurrency are opt-in. I don't think most content creators are willing to make that jump.
Oooh, nevermind then. An attendee had told me some inaccurate information a few years ago, then.

Thanks for the clarification. Glad to hear there probably(?) won't be any complication in future years.
> This is part of the cause of this epidemic, people were _entirely falsely_ prescribed an ineffective medication that has heavy side effects.

It really depends. Opiates work for some people, with some conditions. People should have the choice, just like with MJ. For me, one opiate worked, and another didn't (and made things worse. it was Oxycontin, incidentally, haven't taken it in many years).

Also, people with chronic pain take opiate breaks for the reasons of tolerance you describe.

And yes, I've heard MJ works for many people (I've never tried it for my conditions, since it's still not legal where I live. Also, I tried it a couple of times in college and hated how it made me feel, no way I could work on MJ). But I'm very happy it works for your spouse and that she's able to obtain it. Chronic pain is brutal. If MJ is ever legalized where I live I might try it just to see if it works.
Yes. I write NIFs all the time, and it isn't crashing that's the problem for me (I'm a good programmer!) -- it's taking too much time. We have a NIF that does CUDA computations and we have to make sure we break them up right. Rust won't help me on this. I need C++ for CUDA.
None of this is particularly unusual in a FOSS project, and is done for good reasons.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
It exists: http://opentransactions.org/wiki/Main_Page

It is, like all crypto currencies, bottlenecked by the issue that it has to be exchanged for hard currency.
> you have to assign microsoft your copyright

No, you don't. You have to provide Microsoft (and anyone else, for that matter) a license to use your contribution per the CLA, but you still own your work. See section 5(a), https://opensource.microsoft.com/pdf/microsoft-contribution-....

All open-source licenses effectively require this; otherwise, by default, nobody would have a right to copy or use your contribution.

> give them a guarantee in case anyone sues microsoft over your work

I don't see an indemnification clause in the CLA. Which language are you referring to?

> (People sue without merit literally all the time and legal fees are bankruptcy material for any individual)

If they had even a shred of plausible belief, the estate of Elvis Presley could sue you tomorrow for defecating on a sofa at Graceland and potentially bankrupt you, even if you've never visited. What's your point?
Well, on frontend he uses React/Redux/Webpack, which is more of trendy, latest/greatest. If he used Django templates + jQuery, that would have been staid/boring tech. Great post though, aspirational for those of us who wish to found their own startup one day.
do you need to live in SF?
... and Microsoft's CLA is even less demanding; all they require is a copyright and patent license.
Advertisers converge toward pay per conversion on average, so removing non-converting traffic doesn't affect spend or payouts.
"Saving to buy later" is not really a good strategy in Hong Kong, as the increase in market price is faster than what can save. The only option is to get a sharp increase in one's income. This is very disheartening, as the goal post keeps moving.
I love RDS, but having maintained complicated Postgres setups before (at my previous employer we had a few dozen Postgres servers for different big clients, all set up with replication to different geographical locations etc. as well as automated log shipping and backups going to a "homegrown" blob store), it's not that much effort.

What you gain is the flexibility to control e.g. which extensions you want to run, and exactly how you want to set it up. How important that is really depends on what you want to do.
Throughout this whole brouhaha, I’ve been astonished at how nobody in the mainstream press, nor any of those in tech calling for Stallman’s head, ever challenged the statement that Stallman said Epstein’s victims were “entirely willing.” Indeed, quite the opposite.

From the Medium post that kicked the whole thing off [1]:

…and then he says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”.

And from Vice [2, 3]:

Famed Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'

Stallman said the “most plausible scenario” is that one of Epstein’s underage victims was “entirely willing.”

And the Daily Beast:

Renowned MIT Scientist Defends Epstein: Victims Were ‘Entirely Willing’

Here’s what Stallman actually wrote:

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she [Epstein’s victim] presented herself to him [Marvin Minsky] as entirely willing.

In other words, Stallman isn’t saying she was willing, but rather that she likely acted as if she were willing. Lest there be any doubt, the next sentence reads:

Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

So Stallman explicitly acknowledges the likelihood that Epstein coerced these girls and coached them to pretend to be willing to have sex with Minsky and others in Epstein’s circle. At no point does Stallman say they were willing—rather, he suggests the exact opposite.

Regardless of what one may think of Stallman, what else he wrote, or any of his other behavior, the wide dissemination and repetition of this lie is absolutely unconscionable. Those promulgating it should be ashamed.

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

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci...

[3]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm74x/computer-scientist...

[4]: https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-r...
It's always hard when people who built things you love have flaws. I remember my own reaction to hearing just how bad his behavior was. It's beyond the bounds of acceptable for anyone. Using his position to proposition women, handing it business cards to women he was interested in even in professional settings, defending pedophilia on his website as two consenting people when children can't functionally consent. Do I think he's a bad person? No. I disagree with a lot of what he's said and done and he's definitely pushed boundaries but I've never heard of him breaking boundaries, though it's highly possible. He was completely delightful when I met him in person. He's not the right person to be leading the free software movement anymore. He hasn't taken the steps required to develop the social skills needed for the role. He hasn't learned that there's a time for PR people to do the talking. He hasn't learned that there's appropriate times to not have a debate. These are all logical qualities of a leader that he doesn't have. Logically he should step back, reevaluate, and let what he's built continue to grow. It seems like he's doing that. He'll always have people willing to support him and work that he does.
He was not a professor. He quit his job at MIT (as some sort of staff researcher/programmer) in 1984 to start the GNU project. He was an unpaid visiting scientist and had an office, although he was rarely in it (he spends a lot of time traveling). He did not have any institutional power beyond his participation as a rando on the mailing lists.
A little tangential, but I didn't know there was a utility called `finger`. Is this supposed to be a profile directory envisioned for an Internet back when it was more decentralized?
> The arguments Stallman presented were hardly arguments and were not novel at all.

You think that Minsky being unaware of the coercion would not be a mitigating factor in accusing him of sexual assault? When was that decided?
Being a leader of any sort makes it worse, but I don't think it's a necessary condition for justifying his removal.

Each person contributes to the flavor of the community in which they participate. It is within the right of those who lead the community to curate its flavor by adding or removing people when necessary.

In this his case, his removal was well-justified for the cause of keeping the community welcoming and safe-feeling for members of all genders.
Semil Shah on 20MinVC: Why many seed-stage founders are skipping seed rounds
This map was drawn 13 years ago so it's heavily out of date but it does illustrate the companies that got their ip /8 blocks back the day (Ford?!) https://xkcd.com/195/
Isn't the XSS example highlighted here a good example?
Yeah, but a stock arch system is significantly less slowed than a typical stack. Getting to bootloader is still significantly longer than actual OS boot, though. I'm not usually a supporter of the "all software has to be open source" thing, but between spying issues and horrible code, it seems like coreboot is a serious benefit. Wish I could get it on my machine.
They were up on his website last I checked which was a week or two ago. I think that's considered recent.
He was playing something pretty obscure and avant garde, and still drew a small crowd.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism

The suggestion is that this is less likely to occur in an American city.
>convicted under Bush

What kind of revisionist history is this? She didn't whistleblow until 2010. She wasn't convicted until 2013. Hell she wasn't even assigned to intelligence under Bush.

I remember arguing with my family (lifelong Democratic party members who aren't as leftist as me) that she was fulfilling Obama's transparency promises for him. Promises it was clear he wouldn't be keeping as early as the Telco immunity bill during the 08 primary.
It's been incredible watching each part of this unfold exactly as Matt Levine called it each week prior.
That last statement was very bold. Do you think there is a direct link between open-sourcing this library and increased telemetry? What about VSCode and increased telemetry?
Lifestyles of the Broke and Nameless
> I didn’t follow the story. Was Stallman taken out of context?

Yes. This statement of Stallman's:

> 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.

has been reported in several places as Stallman saying Epstein's girls were "entirely willing", completely ignoring that he was not saying they were willing--he was saying that Epstein would have required them to say they were willing.

If you have sufficient power over someone to force them to have sex with whomever you want them to, you almost certainly also have sufficient power over them to tell them to pretend to be doing it of the own free will. Epstein was massively evil, but he wasn't massively stupid, so almost certainly would have exercised such power.

Stallman was talking about Marvin Minsky's sex with a girl at Epstein's island retreat in 2001, which was a few years before Epstein's sexual atrocities became known. Stallman was arguing that from Minsky's point of view, he probably had no reason to suspect that he was not dealing with a consenting girl.
Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This.
BS article by Vice and the like...
This is terrible
Ew that's a lot of preprocessor usage.
the author of [1] basically says the same thing. in terms of io/throughput you gotta side-step Node (but v8 itself is plenty fast).

he's famous for trolling the Node & Deno repos (i think he's banned from both). he also refuses to participate in the benchmarks (despite being able to score very well) because he says their methodology is flawed.

[1] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/
There are many varieties of cannabis. Having a bad experience with one is not a reason to eschew in favor of opiates. you didn't eschew opiates because you had one bad variety.
I'm in an apartment tower which is vendor locked to Internode (IINet/TPG aren't even available).

I'm fortunate that the connection is 100/40/unlimited for $60 AUD, but it still annoys me that I have _no_ options to obtain a static IP whatsoever.
> Underpaid based on their skill-level?

Underpaid based on the amount of money required to live life.
I think it should go without saying that atypicality is not a binary matter.
Yes, but it was also awful in context.

It was taken directly as the girl being “willing” when what he actually said was that she may have been coerced by Epstein into appearing to be “willing” to Minsky.

It doesn’t help that he has a documented history of fucked up comments in this general area.
Is your point that they'll fall for it again?
Good riddance.
Aside from his recent comments regarding sexual assault that he claims are missunderstood, MIT alum contributed stories of him being a pervert throughout the years. This type of person does not belong at MIT or in Tech. His contributions to the field do not excuse him.
“He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it. Many female students avoided the corridor with his office for that reason…I was one of the course 6 undergrads who avoided that part of NE43 precisely for that reason. (the mattress was also known to have shirtless people lounging on it…)”
— Bachelor’s in Computer Science, ‘99
https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
Reisub – The Gentle Linux Restart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
Then you are getting exactly what the demographics supports.

You seem to be complaining that the demographic makeup is insufficiently Democratic to cause a D vs D main election. A jungle primary isn't supposed to oppose the local demographics.

Alternatively, you can try to find some candidates with (R) next to their name that don't suck. A Republican that believes in actual fiscal responsibility, promoting small business, not being a bigoted jerk, and not hanging out with Russian spies would actually get some support from the middle of the spectrum.
Seconding the Calibre recommendation. It'll strip the DRM from your Kindle books with one click.
I just watched 8 hours of Django videos yesterday, and 4 hours of that was a Django + React tutorial. It covers in great detail the CRU from a CRUD, but you'll need additional videos to cover deployment on elastic beanstalk or ec2+elb, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHhQRHE8IR8
looks like this is 2014-2015 tax years, which is well before prop c. square's already announced an oakland expansion though
Except for the part where he got taken to a remote island by a billionaire and was presented with a very young woman who immediately wanted to have sex with him.
The greek philosophers had a very good understanding of social graces. They had a full understanding of the conventions which they were breaking. They chose, out of principle, to break them anyway.
proof we’re not in a bubble?
When he was charged it was determined that despite this possible defense there was enough evidence to convict him off knowingly committing sexual assault. It's possible he'll be found not guilty in the court of law, but it's unlikely a convicted sex offender with a harem of women is above coercion and the law likely find the defendant would more likely have known than not known.
Parts of the CRT are closed source, headers are shippped as a part of MSVC.

(Edited after correction)
> "He was completely delightful when I met him in person"

Really? That's far from my experience with meeting him. I found him to be physically and socially repulsive, but intellectually fascinating.
Not with this amount of traffic it won't be free. 45 TB per day lol Cloudflare will be disabling your account and in contact for payment in a hurry.

Go ahead and try, see how far their "free" tier really goes.
How does the process know that you're reading the pipe? Does it just, like, write a hundred copies of the desired output with EOFs in between so that it can be read multiple times?
yeah Diogenes masturbating and shitting in public and pissing on people is surely the sign of a man that has good social graces
I'm at CppCon and attended the talk today where Microsoft announced this to the CppCon attendees. The folks speaking made it clear that they do intend to accept pull requests, and that they're positive about it being used outside of the VC++ environment under the appropriate license (Apache 2 with LLVM Exception).
> It's little different than the absurd pretzel that Lessig bent himself into when trying to defend his friend Joi Ito

It's massively different, because Joi Ito's interactions with Epstein were after Epstein's sexual atrocities were known. Minsky's were in 2001, which as far as I have been able to find is before Epstein was known to be evil.
The source is also shipped as part of the Windows SDK.
No. His sin was what he said. His sin was having a history of pretty disturbing comments about child porn and sex with children and animals.

Sorry but you don’t get to weasel out by saying you have poor social skills.
I’d suggest this is the opposite, this is Microsoft changing their ways for the better. It’s really hard to open source legacy code, this new code should be the restart of open source releases going forward, and who knows, maybe they’ll upload historical tags at some point in future. Personally I think there will be a lot tighter integration between open source git repos and Microsoft’s newer developer tools efforts, including eventually cross-platform versions.
There's a big difference. "Presented as" does not mean "was", and the sentence immediately after that makes it clear that he didn't mean it as such.

There are other pretty bad comments, yes. If most of the coverage focused on those rather than something he didn't actually say, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it.
Map: https://www.caida.org/research/id-consumption/census-map/ima...

(a bit dated, but shows the historic allocations)

Look up "CIDR", history thereof, for reasons why it looks this way.
I think it works better if you take the genders out of it:

> “When people desire things they are “passionate.” When they feel they have not received something they need they are “deprived,” and given permission for all sorts of behavior. But when a another person needs they are needy.”

I've seen this story many times with both men and women featuring in both roles, and I think the lesson can apply, therefore, to anyone who reads it. As a general rule, society at large favors the provider; whichever of the two is bringing home the bacon. I've found this to be true across classes, and thanks to an increasing number of women getting the role, across the genders too.

I think as a species humans tend to ally with the ones we perceive to be stronger on an instinctual level, which when you consider our origins as a social animal, is really not surprising. I think the 1950's housewife trope was less to do with actual sexism of the populace, and far more to do with the sexism present in the job market. Men held the jobs; therefore, women had to clean the house. What the hell else were they going to do?

Yet, now you regularly see women just as sociopathic and socially detached from their husbands as many husbands were back then; they see their marriages as a convenience, their husbands as a source of child care and free labor, just as men did. And they cheat on their husbands with men they meet in their work lives, just as the men did before. And if the woman is bringing home enough bacon more than her husband, the end result is also the same; she rules him, because he has no options. Because being a homemaker is no career path and the longer a person is in that line of work, the less employable they become.

And this is not to say women are worse or better, in fact, it's to say they're largely the same. It's to say that both women and men, when given more or less entire dominion over another person, will treat that person, by and large, equally shitty.

Edit; I think it's also worth noting that the high success types, the ones who make enough money to sustain an expensive lifestyle on their own with a dependent, is a self-selected group of generally speaking, socially distant and cool/calculating type of people. That's an important distinction to make, and I should've made it on the first go.
Basically his tutorial was to put the react project inside the django project, and depending on which parts you're modifying and how your testing, he has a special static collection script that builds the react portion and copies the static files up into the Django parent project folders.
So this whole Firefox DoH is a moot point when these other options exist. Why Mozilla must you insist on making this more difficult?
"MIT asks brilliant asshole who wrote gcc and emacs and spends his life whining about software to take down his 'knight for hot chicks' sign and hang out elsewhere."
Do you believe Thomas Drake’s prosecution was fair and proportional to the ‘crimes’ he committed?
Did you do the entire stack yourself, I'm planning on using almost identical stack, but need some help, do you have some kind of blog on howto or recommend one

If you create a course on udemy/YouTube on how to setup a production full stack, there are many basic setup videos or tutorials, but none on production full stack with load balancing, replication, caching, etc
A personal blog of a feminist activist that idolizes women to the point she believe "MIT don't deserve them" is the least reliable source of accusations. Also she's the same girl that leaked the email.
Why wouldn't these two approached work in parallel ?
An ad-free experience for those willing to pay and an ad supported one for those who don't.

I'm sure there are nuances like the politics you mention in your linked comment. Just curious why.
You appear to be confusing Minsky, who was dead before any of this hit the news and was never charged with any crime, and Epstein.
I’m also just sick of hearing about how old nerds just don’t know any better even when people are literally telling them to stop. That the topic is a bad idea. That they will make themselves look bad.

And it’s deeply unfair to people who have issues to simply blame gross behavior in being “neuro-atypical”.