skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No: WeWork is a huge part of the "problem", with crazy org structure, self-dealing, a "cult of CEO" structure, and a business model that may not be that defensible.

Sounds just about par for the course of any SV startup, the only difference is, the critique seems consistent with outsiders criticizing SV startup IPOs, only the shoe is on the other foot and SV is criticizing outsiders for the very concepts it seems to promote within its own little bubble.
Assembly? The "move" commands are for positioning the pen.
This is incredible. The various emergent behaviors are fascinating. I remember being amazed a decade ago by the primitive graphics in artificial life simulators like Polyworld:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m97_kL4ox0&t=9m43s

It seems that OpenAI has a great little game simulated for their agents to play in. The next step to make this even cooler would be to use physical, robotic agents learning to overcome challenges in real meatspace!
Other people exercising their rights to speech and freedom of association in response to someone's speech is not an attack on freedom of expression.
For me, it's the somewhat selfish but defensible idea that open source is a good way to get experience with technologies that I don't get to use in my day job. I get some amount of pride in seeing my name in release notes etc but that is about it, I don't do Twitter, don't have followers, and am not high-profile in any way.
12 months 3 weeks after good time and probably 2-4 months in a halfway house. If he's been without bail then he will get time served and go from there. Otherwise he'll be out in less than a year from when he self-surrenders to federal prison.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Jack that's interesting insight, thanks! What's funny is that I was the main driver internally for tone and the process as a whole. We definitely had some intense conversations about the "band-aid" approach where we'd announce and raise shortly thereafter, and the approach we took which was a bit more measured. In the end, I think we spent a lot of time making sure that we were taking care of the customers, but you're right, our tone in certain communications did come off as a bit apologetic.

The truth is we'd never done it before, so we weren't really sure what the reaction would have been - so we erred on the side of caution. Now that we have data points, if we ever need to do this again we'd likely still take an open, honest, but maybe more blunt approach. Tough to say though because I try to default to default to empathy, which means my takes are usually softer. Those conversations are some that didn't quite make it to the blog post, but finding the right balance for us was an interesting process!
> You’re talking about a man who was pedantic about language his entire life.

Thank you for reminding us of this. The man was a noted stickler for language. In fact many ppl only know him via the GNU/Linux interject meme.
LoL, I can't imagine a more apt description of China. Imagine if Japan had successfully invaded China, few hundred year later, China surely will cry "Japan island was part of China since the beginning of time".
I am finally reading "The Subtle art of not giving a f*ck". First 3 chapters in. Good read and more importantly, it's very well written.
We don't know because they won't release his name now that they declined to press charges!

Evidently after they declined to release his name he testified in the case. Name below is correct. Justin Rapp. Coincidentally, there's a videographer in the search results for the name. The blurb below the URL says "About Me Justin Rapp 2019-05-16T13:29:49-07:00. BORN TO SHOOT THE WORLD AROUND ME" Bad luck there bud...
No, you are correct, a minor price increase like this after a long period of stability is a blip for most customers.
I'm a lesbian...
> If you legitimately don't suck then the customer will figure it out through their experience (because they have to deal with you).

This isn't true. Most people in the US, for instance, never have to deal with the justice system. They have no idea whether it sucks or not, and their opinions are largely shaped by both positive and negative PR.
Goodness, I wish Backblaze had a Linux client. I pay for Backblaze for my wife's Windows workstation _and_ a second license for her Windows laptop, yet I'm stuck with CrashPlan for Small Business to back up my Linux workstation.

And before I get comments about B2 and Duplicity, my Linux workstation is also our NAS, so I'd be backing up roughly 4-5TB. I greatly prefer Backblaze, but not enough to pay an extra $200 a year.
He did say (write) that, yes. Still different to what the other poster wrote: that he's ok with non-consentual stuff.
He specifically wrote that it might have _seemed_ consentual to the other guy. He nowhere implied it actually was. He also did not defend someone forcing others to do with things against there will while making it look consentual. I assume if one asked him this exactly, he'd say that yes of course it's terrible to force people do to things against their will. I guess, don't really know the guy of course.
Cheers on not making stuff up btw, that's really, really cool :) and becoming a rarity :(
Edit: excuse all the errors, I'm a phone poster
The victim is a father of two. Oh my God. What a terrible tragedy.
A better way to look at OSS is like charity. Giving to charity is not something you do to enrich yourself, although you will likely enrich yourself in certain ways. You don't give to charity so you can get a better job in the future. And the results of giving to a charity might result in profits for corporations: suppose the charity makes a breakthrough in medicine and a large medical research company uses that to leapfrog their R&D. That's a feature, not a bug. We shouldn't discourage people from giving to charity because of these aspects.

It's worth noting that many of these companies give back to the OSS they leveraged, and are often the genesis of some of the best OSS software themselves.
I like shared channels quite a bit and have been using them for several months. Unfortunately it seems that "user groups" do not seem to work with them yet. (i.e. add a group to a shared channel and the users are not auto-joined)
Laws also have two components - the spirit and the letter of the law. You can violate the letter of the law (for example sodomy) without violating the spirit of the law (preventing a sex act the recipient views as degrading). And as a result, you aren't prosecuted. The flip side is also true - you can also violate the spirit of the law, and not the letter of the law, and be prosecuted.
There are millions of poorly run shady businesses, it's a problem that takes care of itself if you don't have infinite money coming in.

Not sure that it's a problem now though. Like Matt Levine suggested[0], WeWork did a lot of weird shit when they were private, but now they want public money, they need to behave more like a responsible company. It's kind of what's supposed to happen because of the disclosure, it's just that most of the time companies take care of governance issues before the S-1.

[0]
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-13/we-is-...
Why should geometry and trig be "the foundations" while statistics is not? Because that's the way it's always been? Sounds like a horrible reason to keep things the same.
I say it is disingenous because it is completely counter to what can be found on something as mainstream as the wikipedia page.. one does not have to dig deep.

If you want to dig deeper, the mailing list archives are available for all, and I think given the contribution KHTML made to Webkit initially it is poor form to diminish its role.

"Blink started at Google". It's all context. As someone mentioned, it's technically correct but in the context of this discussion thread which is about open-source origins and contributions, saying Blink "started at Google" comes across as dishonest. Blink started at google with a fork of Webkit, which itself was not created in a vacuum at Apple.
At least he's not stupid enough to believe his own BS.

He answers just enough to not be criminally liable for the overvaluation of the company.
That’s correct, but in the context of this source release, I think it’s not more incorrect to say “Apple created WebKit” than it is to say “Microsoft created this library” (it started life as a Dinkumware product)
Indeed. My intuition here is that climate change is an investment problem at this point. The technological solutions already exist.

How do we convince all investors to walk away from a nearly guaranteed and superb return?

This is the main problem which we currently face in my view.
The Dark Side of the Founder Skillset
I bought the book, and I hereby commit to donating a large multiple of the price to an appropriate charity or Snowden himself if they win this suit.
Being the kind of person who would do what he did, having a history of being That Guy in shitty and gross ways ("tender embraces" cards, opining about "natalism" on emacs-devel, pedophile apologia over a couple decades) is why this became the straw that broke the camel's back. Saying is a reflection of being, and that is what is so often elided by a certain crowd getting all hot under the T-shirt right now.

Particularly for figures with significant platforms, the way to redemption is through demonstrating that one has learned and improved, not merely quickly saying "I'm sorry!" and moving on. Perhaps a good way to start would be for RMS to spend time working with an organization dedicated to helping survivors of sexual assault, learning from that experience, and using his broad platform to discuss what he learns with people who, as this thread amply demonstrates, could sorely use the perspective.
That's fine if they never plan to sign another lease. It's like saying oh, you can't service your debt huh, just declare bankruptcy! Sure, if you don't plan to need credit in the next 7 years.
Generally yes. I see rates between 100-250/hr and I know (in person) a number of developers with higher rates.

However, hardly anyone will talk about them publicly, especially online. Part of the reason is there's almost no value to gain from discussing rates in public and a lot to lose.

To answer the second part of your question, I have a large and varied skillset covering nearly every part of starting, growing, and operating small and medium sized businesses on top of twenty years of software development experience and (most recently) a significant body of practical machine learning experience. I can comfortably step in for mid to senior level UX, marketing, strategy, development, and ML roles.

In turn, clients simply describe business problems to me and I deliver entire solutions for them, employing a mix of those skills.

These problem definitions generally reduce down to something like "make me $1,000,000 with 100 hours of work and a 25% chance of success". When you look at it from that vantage, it's not difficult to see how high hourly rates can be justified. I can charge $250/hr and be a highly efficient choice compared to alternatives.

Obviously I also use those skills on my own products as well. But consulting provides interesting experiences and additional streams of revenue.
This is actually the right question. Chances are PayPal is not available in some countries too. So, really depends where the op is and where are her/his customers
Your openness and engagement is highly appreciated. It's always very insightful and pleasant to read about how you're running your business!
It's pretty wonderful. Just started last week and loving it so far. $50/mo WeWork, effectively? Awesome. Plus $200 off at Dell (picked up a new SSD for free), $200 off flight incidentals for one airline, etc. The thing basically pays for itself (for the first year at least).
Google Fi gets a cheaper “unlimited” plan, bundled cloud storage
They did: https://stallman.org/notes/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_20...

It looks like it was just an ignorant thought from a decade ago that had long since been corrected. Not a strongly-held viewpoint.
There's tons of room to improve the police. However, in a country with so many weapons, they're always going to be a bit more quick to fire due to a fear for their own safety.

You can downvote all you want, but the statistics are that police are much more likely to face someone with a weapon in the US.
Social media mobs are not the the root problem that we should be concerned with. They are just a byproduct of a bigger issue which is control of the major media outlets by big corporations.

It is in their best interest to polarize the society, ideally along some bullshit problem or identity (e.g. men vs women, old vs young, white vs non-white). This way people can release their anger and waste their time on pointless discussions (while consuming ads) instead of realizing the system is rigged and they are actually being screwed by the wealthy oligarchs.
> small towns don't use container ships

Nor do most major cities. The vast bulk of UK and most country's trade goes through just their top 6 or 8 ports. The container comes off a ship, then gets to the other cities and towns via rail or road. You get a similar picture across most regions.

> small towns tend to have longer trips from the grocery store

Not in my experience. Usually far less travel, and less congestion to the shops and superstore. There may be fewer stores overall. I'm assuming the town is large enough to have at least one supermarket here. You may well be right if you're thinking of having to make a trip to the next town over to do the shopping.
“And the assassins in rose tinted glasses

At the wrong end of the tunnel of light

Practitioners of paramount scorn

And those who'd rig moral compass rather than bridges”

Ever since I read these lyrics they’ve summed up precisely how I feel the world is recently.
A Pinatubo, Laki, or Krakatau event can easily move the ground truth of climate change.
South Korea's growth was probably the fastest in history. Every other country, not just China, is slower in comparison.
I thought this would be an perfect mix between Reassembly and Endless Sky and was happy to download it right now, but than i saw it's for Windows ONLY and also is closed source. :(

Quote:
Will there be a Mac and/or Linux version?
Eventually I plan to release Mac and Linux versions of Cosmoteer. But right now, I'm just trying to make Cosmoteer as stable as possible on Windows before working on other platforms.

Why is this game free? Will it always be free?
It's free because, right now, getting a lot of feedback from players and building a strong community is more important for the game's long-term success than making a small income. Eventually, Cosmoteer will become a paid game, no longer available for free.
Yes, some allegations against Epstein himself on other occasions include girls who appeared as young, by witnesses' estimations, as 11-12.

But the specific allegation against Massachusetts-based Minsky involved a woman who 1st met Epstein at age 16, and may not have met Minsky until she was 17.
Seeing the complications implied by the O(n^2) problem, I'm curious why it was worth it? What did using GPs to solve the problem buy you that you couldn't get with other methods?

I think GPs are interesting but the kernel matrix is a real problem with them in practice. I have yet to understand why they are worth the cost compared to just using least squares or some other regression method. Confidence intervals are an obvious benefit, but since you can get them via monte-carlo, at what point does the GP method pay off?
Mightn't it be possible to pierce those subsidiary corporate veils to reveal (make liable) the parent corp?

Even if not, they are in for some expensive lawsuits. It won't be a matter of simply walking away.
5tb?! They may not want your business ;)
Yev here -> Hah, we have an internal joke about setting up a digital tip-jar for folks who just really want to give us more money. Maybe some day! :)
> He could even have made his point of thinking it's a misunderstanding and appologize, but didn't.

> feel a real hurt because of what they believe I said. I'm sorry for that hurt. I wish I could have prevented the misunderstanding.

The statement that RMS did not attempt to make an apology even one that is a false apology is 100% made up, he did in fact make a false apology.

My point is that like many people on here the person making the argument believes RMS did wrong and they are now inventing reasons to justify their belief, its not an honest argument.

You are ignoring or not reading the argument I was responding to which establishes the honesty of an apology as irrelevant. This is another example of a dishonest argument because it is moving the goal posts of the argument again to justify your prior beliefs.
Thank you cr0sh, that's great feedback.

Actually at first it was very evident $30/year, but I removed it in the last minute because it seemed like a suscription (which is not). Definetly going to make that thing stand out more.
That depends. If there are valid reasons for me to be fired, (as there were in this case), yes. Irrespective of any social media storm, I'd fire an employee who defended paedophilia or excused rape, statutory or otherwise.

As a business owner, if I felt that an employees continued employment was a net negative for my profitability, I'd be forced to let them go. Perhaps I could keep them for a while, but that's the case.

Yes, I think powerful people facing consequences for doing and saying absolutely abysmal things is a net good for society. Going from no, to some, in egregious cases, accountability is great. RMS shouldn't get a pass for this. Especially not since he's done the same thing before. Especially since now it's concrete and deals with real people and not just abstract ideas.

The threat of an abstract "you could get fired too for saying a truly terrible thing" falls flat because, well, I don't make a habit of doing that. You'd have better luck claiming that I benefit from people making statements that could get them mobbed. But that too is unconvincing: people who I benefit from sharing their views are pushed out anyway via structural dynamics, often due to the things powerful people who don't face consequences do and say.

And then of course, it's not like my life, or his would be ruined. Damore is, as I understand it, gainfully employed and mostly out of the public eye.

I'll ask my questions again since you didn't answer: what due process does one deserve before being fired? What of that did Stallman not receive?
I would take out only classic Euclidean geometry. Proofs in the geometry space are in the education system because they've been there for over two thousand years. Yet few people do those. Even people who do lots of 3D work don't do those. It was at one time considered important because it was the only system of formal logic around, but we're well past that.
> react-native

We've recently run into an issue with building react-native on Gitlab-CI, where apparently the build process spins up a file watcher in the background which quickly exhausts the open file descriptors.

Have you experienced anything like this? We are using stock react-native and not customizing anything.
> There is no moral avenue that leads to sex with a 17 year old prostitute.

This is highly contestable
> If anything, it's Classic POTUS, as his predecessor attempted to prosecute more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all prior POTUS' combined.

It should be noted that "all prior POTUS' combined" winds up being four prosecutions since 1945 prior to Obama. Double of nearly-zero is still nearly-zero.

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10...
Sadly, they will attempt to make an example out of Snowden to discourage anyone from EVER doing something like this again.
Just so we're clear:

> "She was asking for it"

is very different from

> "I don't think my friend - who I knew well - was aware that she was coerced"

You, at least initially, argued that the former was the correct interpretation of his words, but to do so you did misquote him in a way that obviously altered the meaning of his words. Was that intentional or a mistake?

I don't have the context for the "harem" quote, but given how you presented the quote with regard to the victim's willingness, I think it's reasonable to conclude that RMS meant something other than what you insinuate.

In any case, it seems now that you recognize that the latter interpretation is correct, and you question whether RMS' position was reasonable. Fair enough. But tell me, would you know the difference between an 18yo prostitute (who is otherwise free to leave) and a 17yo slave?

Look, I think what Minsky did was wrong regardless, that he was foolish to let himself become entangled with a man like Epstein, and I think it's atrocious what happened to the young woman, but these two scenarios have vastly different legal consequences. Do you not think it is plausible that Minsky thought it was the first scenario?

For what it's worth, my initial thought when I heard that Minksy had been implicated in Epstein's ring, was that he was fully aware and complicit in the abuse. And Minksy may have in fact been fully aware, but RMS' words lead me to question that assumption because RMS actually knew the guy.

EDIT: hold the phone. Looking at some other sources suggests that Minksy may not have even had sex with the young woman. It sounds like she was coerced by Epstein to proposition Minsky, and that according to another witness Minsky turned her down [1]. It does not appear that the victim is actually accusing Minksy of assaulting her (though I could be missing evidence. If this is the case, then why is this argument even happening?

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/richard_stall...
Compared to Elizabeth Holmes? He's much better.
"No officer was charged with a crime for the event."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting
I been there. I once ended up there on a Saturday night and it was a night club with people dressed up straight out of the roaring 20's. Apparently it turns into a club at night. If you get the change it is worth checking out. If you are in the area walk over the "The Last Bookstore", also worth a look.
As soon as we lock up programmers who pushed code that made apps more addictive which, spread over millions of users, led to depression and suicide.
CentOS Linux 7 (1908) released
For Twitter there are bots for various cryptocurrencies which you can mention in an answer to a tweet, leading to the original tweeter's wallet being filled. Unfortunately most systems are not decentralized (custodial cryptocurrency wallets) and of course there's no consensus on using a single cryptocurrency.
Love this. To use computer terminology, kinda like having a mainframe in the home that is connected to devices it controls? I think that is a far better and user friendly design. Also personal clouds backed up by corporate clouds if desired.
Sure, but arguably thats penalising the wrong party. Also depends on who purchases, if you're a first time buyer you get significantly reduced stamp duty for example.
> 28 extensions

Yeah, you should probably hold off on the bug report.
I had a friend whose dad took a shotgun blast to the face entering a home serving a search warrant. It's not uncommon. The officer is acting on the facts that are presented to them. This isn't a domestic violence call or an assault call. It's a call instructing the police that someone is armed and a threat to those around them.
> government seeks to recover all proceeds earned by Snowden because of his failure to submit his publication for pre-publication review in violation of his alleged contractual and fiduciary obligations.

You aint gonna get rich off this, boy. If Snowden would sell the book online via Bitcoin and then have it shipped from wherever to the customers. How would they seize that money from him even if they got a judgment against him??
Wait - they take a photograph of your face at every building?