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IPO is back on. Not surprising when you look at their burn rate vs cash on hand. Or the fact that they entered into a $6B line of credit last month that is contingent on them raising at least $3B in an IPO by end of year. Beyond Adam and Softbank wanting to cash out eventually, the company needs this funding to continue to operate.
Those are free placements.
NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models
I'm not talking about giving him a pass on bad behavior.

I'm talking about there being options other than either "giving him a pass" or "off with his head."
The new one near Waterloo. The DJs are possibly a new-location promotional feature, but they've been around for the past few weeks at least. To be fair, the ones I've been to around town (mostly Moorgate) are generally much more reasonable.
I used it at work[0] for a few years and it was great, but I did not scale that project to large number of people, mainly because it did not need to.

Folks at Grammarly have a writeup about how they are using it, it might have more relevant information for you[1].

I would definitely consider using it again, but proper buy-in takes time, and I have simply been moving too fast since then.

I am still not a big fan of Clojure myself, but it is definitely seems easier to sell than CL. In my humble opinion, if you are already a convert the benefits of going from Clojure to CL will not be as great as the ones for going from Java to Clojure.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13979002

[1] http://tech.grammarly.com/blog/posts/Running-Lisp-in-Product...
You understand this is an encrypted protocol right?

A router or other node in the network that's just moving these packets can't decrypt them, so it can't tell the "ACK of the numbered packet". The spin bit lets such a node estimate the round trip time anyway because it will "spin" between set and unset on each round trip.
Instead of slinging borderline personal insults, would you mind pointing out what's wrong with my opinion?
If that's supposed to somehow make sense as a reply to what I wrote, you're going to have to explain it.
That's depressing news. As is the fact that your have to overcome a sense of hesitation when disagreeing with internet mob tribunals.
Desks would be too work-y. They've got half-sofa, half-bed thingies, which nobody can figure out how to use in a dignified fashion in public.
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> How do you fell about James Damore?

That was definitely a witch hunt. He worked hard to give advice that he thought would be useful for improving diversity at Google. Nothing he said was outside of the scientific consensus, yet he was demonized[1] and fired for it. The whole thing is absurd.

1. Check out some Googler's responses to his document (which, in case you forgot, was deliberately leaked without diagrams or citations): https://imgur.com/a/S48QN Several want him physically battered for his opinions.
ive been teaching myself stochastics, i personally find it really interesting. i really like Peter Medvegyev book Stochastic Integration Theory, do you have any thoughts on it? you really did a good job at summarizing the bigger picture in a few words, really helped, so thank you. any additional recommended resources that ties things together like this?
edit: also liked the write up yugeten, was helpful
That is correct.

To achieve full coverage of possible permutations, one needs independent keys and innumerable rounds.
I read the "citations" and I was left feeling a little skeptical, added to the fact that the daily beast is not considered by many to be a credible news outlet. Regardless; The tone of this article itself uses such emotive words that I would struggle not to define it as a hit-piece.

it seems I'm not alone in my assertion: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/_/f0l50w4/?co...
If you have not read the Equifax Data Breach Report put out by the US Congress, I highly recommend it. The security issues at Equifax went far beyond "failing to apply a security patch."

https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2...
Twitter is not the real world - what goes on there only really effects what happens if you let it. If you ignore it, nothing bad happens.
Again, not true. It was nothing to do with "pre-crimes". The people who were banned from travelling to Russia had previously been convicted of football violence related crimes.

Also regarding the protests - it really depends on your definition of effective. I don't think anyone thought they were going to topple the Trump presidency by protesting when he visited. They were just expressing that they believed he was not welcome here. And given the media coverage and the comments from the man himself I'd say they were quite effective.
> Apple did not hire Lattner for clang

I didn't write that they did? Though I can see where my wording would be misleading.
These comparisons aren't helping. Linus was always factually right (at least overwhelmingly so) and his issue was the aggressive tone in his communication, which was understandably wrong and counterproductive. RMS is being accused of having wrong opinions, defending the wrong people and not being part of the SJW zombie mob that shouts down saner opinions on social media. He has no good reason to change his opinion, he just lost a stupid popularity contest.
Assuming you are starting from orbit wouldn't you have to give that coin quite a "toss" to get it to change its orbit so as to hit the surface? No atmosphere to help...
agreed. the language right there makes it seem as if this is some nefarious stuff happening. as if ridiculously overblown copyright terms are somehow a natural default state.
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> Applications should respect OS settings unless told otherwise by a user i.e opt in not opt out.

No, this is absolutely terrible. The reason being is because it leaves pleb users who don't even know what DNS is unprotected.

It's also only really okay, when you control the DNS server on your network otherwise you're unprotected.

Advanced users which have their own local DNS servers and have those set up to do lookups over DoT/DoHS etc are certainly in the minority.

Getting all operating systems to include support for DoHs and all unsupported ones to include it isn't going to happen, so I think at this point it's certainly justifiable to include support in the browser.

In the future we may see every OS will have support for something like DNS over QUIC (where DoHs will lead to).

We see with Android 9 support for DoT, but that is just Android 9 (10.4% in May 2019) https://www.androidauthority.com/android-version-distributio...

We know there's plenty of older android devices out there which will likely never see an update.
If those are to be counted as "throwing someone under a bus", then what about the person allegedly assaulted by Minsky? Isn't RMS also "throwing her under a bus" to win an internet argument?

> How people choose to respond to problematic behavior is part of that -- and often not in a good way.

Well, yes. There don't seem to be any good answers here. Handling it privately is not at all reliable and may result in the complainer getting privately blacklisted. Going public can be effective, but only if you make a major storm - the outcomes of which can no longer be controlled.

We don't know if people have tried to get RMS to get his act together. But this doesn't seem to be a first complaint out of nowhere.
Well, there's always the risk of some twitter celebrity choosing your comment to draw attention to. There's been more than a few cases of regular people losing their jobs to mobs calling their employer.
So if there's no other seeders, you end up eating the full cost as the only seeder....
Two things:

1. Stallman already has a lifetime of of examples of somewhat poor leadership within the GNU project, resulting in decisions that have compromised GNU and FSF's trajectory (compared to their potential), so once again, these are not new circumstances

2. How is Stallman doing FSF under threat here?
I'm sorry if I communicated badly. English is not my native language

I was trying to give explanation, not excuse.

I was trying to communicate understanding, not acceptance.
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Not magically? Torrents need seeders. If you are the only seeder, then you will still get the full bill from AWS all the same.
Surely lots of orgs would eschew packages with such sneaky behavior? Turning off the network would be a good way to test for that...
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Related discussions from earlier today:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20989696

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990251

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20993430
Thanks mate. This is awesome. The explanations + code made it very easy to understand.
It's surprising that nobody here's mentioned Wasabi, since they have free egress.
> https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%20....
Obsolete, already been updated in other comments:
https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

> https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea/status/1172545166953066497
self proclaimed SJW reposting the original medium article misrepresenting RMS words and adding nothing.

> https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/994010501460865025
Someone who make unsourced claims of having refused to contribute to anything with an open license because of RMS poor taste jokes on mailing list. I wonder if this kind of openmindedness is good to prove a point on how RMS is bad, maybe someone who does not want to contribute to software improving the world but unrelated to RMS on the sole basis that the licensing allows other freedom is not a good basis to support RMS having to be removed.

> https://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/994267277460619265
A reply to the previous tweet from someone who was told an unsourced myth about plants in an office and making up a story about it. She said she's been shown one office with a lot of plants, told that there are many other such offices, that the reason for the plants is to ward off RMS.
This piece of lore has been removed from wikipedia for lack of source[1]

>https://mobile.twitter.com/quince/status/1172290839369773057
also citing the same original medium publication misrepresenting RMS words and calling for his removal on this basis, admitting she actually never met RMS but tells how the same piece of myth was transmitted to her in form of a joke and despite not knowing tries to provide context for trying to ward off RMS: interacting with him is awkward and make them uneasy.
I sincerely doubt that RMS being socially awkward is news or supporting the call for his removal in any way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman/Archive_...
"Some angry woman" also listed several examples of bad behavior reported to her by multiple sources, dating back decades. While a lot of it was new to me, it's nearly impossible that this wasn't known by people at MIT and/or the FSF who could have acted in the past, but didn't.

IMO this was a long time coming, not some brand-new thing.
Okay that guy is just showing off, but rightfully, this is damn impressive. Even if some of that is offloaded to contractors, he still needs to understand most of it.

That's a proper full stack developer with a business mindset as well. Hope I'll improve my backend / devops skill to that level at some point.
Stallman was always a lousy frontman with a long history of foot-in-mouth and blowups. However to his credit he really reigned it in the past couple decades. I don’t remember him doing anything particularly newsworthy from 2000ish until today. I think the turning point was around the time he tried to rename Linux via a glibc patch (and I think in gcc also), and that blew up. I think the rise of llvm softened him up a bit, I seem to recall him doing odd dictatorial stuff with gcc back in the day but that stopped when llvm appeared.
Chrome restricts it to unsafe-eval CSP. The main risk described seems to be escaping to the global object.
Can't we use the power of a tracing GC to determine whether the global object is reachable from the import object, and put _that_ under unsafe-eval? Or add descriptions/tags that need to explicitly allow dangerous APIs to be reachable by the import object, and refuse if any undeclared dangerous APIs are reachable with a CSP not containing unsafe-eval?

I see both sides, but full unsafe-eval is too much of a wrecking ball when a warded lock[0] on this proverbial door to the WASM kingdom would be sufficient.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warded_lock
Some context: https://blog.apnic.net/2018/03/28/just-one-quic-bit/ (discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16695816).
Stallman's career of relentlessly pissing upwind is ended by a disagreement on the implications of the phrase "presented to". A weird time to be alive.
1. Miles are Roman, not Medieval.

2. What would be medieval would be a superstitious reaction to units of measurement as if they were purity religion cult signifiers rather than simple rational concepts to be converted between at will, depending on the task at hand.
Here in Australia, addiction is a real medical diagnosis.[1]

Drug addiction is a real problem that often calls for initial treatment with controlled dosing of a drug in the same class.

1. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/what-is-addiction
My understanding is that RMS is saying the girl being forced to have sex with Minsky unknowingly to Minsky !== Minsky assaulted them. The person who forced them did.
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It's pretty irrelevant whether or not she knew who RMS was before all this. She found out about him, did her research, and uncovered some pretty messed up stuff.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Wasabi's own docs[1] mention a ballpark definition of "reasonable" as monthly transfer being less than total storage. Above that you'll get a call.

I'm sure they'd still be cheaper than AWS, but it's not going to be $5/TB/month to service the entire world.

[1]: https://wasabi.com/pricing/pricing-faqs/
> There is no more direct contradiction of RMS' statements than the opening words of the article he links in his email.

It doesn't contradict what RMS is saying.

> The word "assault" presumes that he applied force [...] but the article says no such thing.

"He" here means Marvin Minksy and the part of the article you cited doesn't imply that Minsky forced the victim.

Also I haven't seen sources that claim that the victim had sex with Minsky and seen at least one source that claims that he turned her down [0].

[0]: http://archive.is/nZIjt#selection-269.94-269.136
16404 fathoms for anyone concerned.
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Security is not binary. It's possible to do a good job on preventative measures, and implement detective and reactive controls to help if/when a breach occurs.

It's just expensive, so companies who haven't been breached yet often don't prioritize that kind of work.
They were incredibly negligent and nepotistic.

Their head of security, Susan Mauldin, had zero security or computer skills - she was a music teacher.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-...
If you're wrong about something, are famous and put that wrong thing on your site, you are advocating for that wrong thing.

Because people believing in that wrong thing will point to you as a figure of authority.

Not fair, but life's not fair.
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I think the problem is that we have no real way of knowing how many threats have been successfully countered by the security services, and no one knows how many potential bad actors have been dissuaded by them either. So it's easy to call them out as security theatre. People on this thread are talking about the rings of steel like there’s some sort of TSA checkpoint on every road into Greater London. Unfortunately the reality is a lot less exciting. It only surrounds the square mile (a much, much smaller and higher risk area) and is pretty uninteresting. It consists of some ram-raid bollards and police booths that have fallen into a pretty bad state of disrepair. I struggle to see the downside of ram-raid barriers in a pedestrianised area - you’ll note none of the van attacks occurred in the City.
I'm enjoying Michael Harrison's Revelation very much so far; thanks for the tip-off. By the way, the fifths in just intonation are a 3:2 ratio, not 2:1.
Excuse me, what's the news here?

A company wants to maximize its profit.

If it is wasn't that way, they would be acting illegaly.

(publicly trading company must seek shareholders profit)

So what is the news once again?
Seems the PR people got the most important figure wrong, the measured mass is 2.14 +0.1 -0.09 M_sun, as per the preprint (and nature abstract[1]): https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06759

The 2.17 M_sun figure is instead the hypothesised upper limit on the neutron star mass, derived from the equations of state that survive recent LIGO observations.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0880-2
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There is no concept of PII under GDPR. There is personal data (information about a natural living person) and identifiers (information that connects personal data with an identifiable natural living person). An IP address is usually an identifier - it's not completely unique, but it is potentially enough (especially when combined with other identifiers) to uniquely identify the subject of a piece of personal data.

This tweet is overwhelmingly unlikely to be a breach of GDPR, because the controller (Julien Chaumond) has no ability to correlate an entire /8 range with a natural living person. Nobody is identifiable, there is no personal data, therefore the activity is not in scope.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
No harm in it either, we all know how to convert.
This emphasizes differences in recruiting and advancement between career tracks, but human resources is more like accounting or legal in that basic compliance is essential and varies more by locality than profession. That is, there are laws and standards which vary by locality regarding how employees are paid, how benefits are given, and how conflicts are handled. While there is some variance depending on profession, most of this is both general and essential.

It is certainly true that attracting and cultivating talent are important and specific to career tracks, but maybe that is more of an argument that teams need to handle that apart from the basic compliance assurance role that human resources often handles.
I think it would need to be more engaging than Streetview to offer anything serious enough to lure people. That said, I've recently finished playing through the story of Red Dead Redemption 2 and the environments in that are both mesmerising and often based on real world places. Horizon Zero Dawn is similar and features a lot of iconic Utah scenery.

Given decent VR tech and maybe a climate-controlled room that could heat up, gust wind, etc, I can imagine spending time akin to meditation in a virtual camp setting. Come home and want to relax for an hour. Pick the setting, put on the goggles, sit back and take in the view, sounds, etc. Golden hour forever.
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I built this originally to scratch my own itch. The way I would like to get my news.

Would really appreciate your feedback and ways to improve it.
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> As someone actually autistic, he doesn't get to blame being a douchecanoe on being autistic.

Was he a douchecanoe? Is that even a helpful label for you to apply to him? Was he claiming he behaved / behaves the way you think he does solely because he's borderline autistic, or are you extrapolating?
That’s called negative profits or earnings before taxes/depreciation/etc.

By definition revenue can’t be negative.
He didn't know what he was talking about, but felt it was okay to use his public platform to say it anyway. That's not scepticism. It's laziness. We have reams of evidence to show that paedophilia is harmful to children, and a 5 minute web search would have returned some of it.
> One has to have the right opinion or stay quiet.

I don't really see how this is so hard. Don't treat women poorly, in person or online. Don't talk authoritatively about subjects you don't understand, especially when those subjects (like rape and human trafficking) cause people intense pain.

If you really do want to act this way, then you probably should exercise some self-censorship, and rethink your views, perhaps.

> ...in what we can say without facing consequences.

What you say should have consequences. No one should censor you (what you say should be up to you), but you don't live in a vacuum. What you say has a real effect on others, and if that effect is bad, you should be held accountable.
I don’t think offering the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on has any effect on your compliance with privacy regulations, considering you can’t install add-ons on mobile.

Why not simply add a way to opt-out of this tracking all together? Is it really that important? You can also set up Google Analytics so it tracks less and might even be compliant without banners.
What does forgiving mean?
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Wow, she's just compiled a hit list and blogged about it: "if I had to ever be in the same room with Richard Stallman, how I would handle it, and how I could keep myself composed.".

I'm pretty sure we could assassinate the character of anyone that started writing on the internet before we knew it was going on your permanent record.

Perhaps Richard is a heel, but he doesn't deserve unaccountable bullying and mob justice.

Where is the accountability for the publications and bloggers portraying him to be a rapist apologist?
To be fair, half of the used services do not have anything to do with the website itself but with the whole business around it. Also, most of the tools do not require a PhD in computer science; neither Rollbar nor Cloudflare are actually hard to set up.
Still, you have a valid point. The setup described here is not boring at all and not easy, I expected a one-root-server-for-everything that runs some PHP and MySQL.
To what? The Trump-controlled FTC? The castrated CFPB that now spends its time promoting a partnership with the most medieval red states called the "Financial Innovation Network" (https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/bureau-sta...)? Where do you think that's going to get you?
> People never seem to get it or admit it up front, but OpenBSD consistently seem to be making the right choices all the way.

It's also worth noting that OpenBSD is used by a relevantly small number of users, when you consider everyone in the world. Out of those users I would bet close on 100% of them actually know what DNS is.

So just because they do something with their default packaging does not mean it is right for everyone everywhere. Take something like Ubuntu for example.
Almost all societies used to believe (and some still do) that what we now call child abuse was ok. People who experienced it themselves would go on to do it to others. Getting past that was a thought evolution that took hundreds of years, not "a tiny bit of reading".

Stallman dared to question the dominant belief in the US today, and needed more evidence before accepting that belief. With sufficient investigation (hardly "lazy thinking") he came to agree with it, but that's not enough for the social media mobs.

His experience shows that one must not only accept the dominant belief, one must accept it immediately and without question, because a moment of heresy will never be forgiven or forgotten.
To be honest, wanting opiates for an ankle sprain is a little bit concerning. While painful, there’s nothing about it that typically warrants a potentially addictive substance over just some bedrest and normal pain killers like ibuprofen.