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> Can we please stop excusing bad behavior with some form of "oh because autism"? It's an insult to the many, many neuro-atypical people who don't say shitty, stupid things online.

No it's not an insult to anyone. It's an attemoted explanation of why some neuro-atypical people behave in atypical fashion.
He held opinions some people didn't like and had personal traits some people considered 'creepy'.
Not a physicist, but: "expansion" is probably understating it. My guess would be something analogous to an insanely powerful neutron bomb. Interesting thought experiment, would love to see someone do the actual maths.
Here's an idea that just came to me. Feel free to shoot holes in it. It's based on my assumption that users do prefer things without ads, and might want to pay for it.

So how about a search engine where, if you pay for it, it ranks sites without ads at the top. And if you click a link to an ad-less site, that site gets some of the money you paid to the search engine.

Maybe combine it with a social network that works a similar way, though that's harder to do because you don't control what people share.

The major downside is that there would be a central place (the search engine) where the money gets distributed. It would be better to have something non-centralised. Still, I might use a search engine like that.
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The revenue is too sweet. Governments do not have the self control to pass up. If not initially there will eventually be a pay to play option for the wealthy. There will eventually be a funding squeeze and some administrator will get the bright idea to open up a pay to play system.

Where I live you can't take your own canoe/kayak on the state reservoirs because "invasive species" but you can take your motorboat (way more likely to transmit invasive species than a canoe) if you jump through all the regulatory hoops and then buy some special permits. The state will rent you a canoe for $20 though.
The answer is a lot, in the US. That’s because the real predictor is not the piece of land you were born on, but who your parents are, and what kind of resources they (and therefore you) have access to. Here’s a nice website showing data for the US:

https://www.opportunityatlas.org/
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"Men enroll in college, women don't" "in every single country". And yet in lots of Western countries, more women enroll in college than men.

I find it weird when articles that claim science make claims that are easily challenged by widely available and commonly known data.
Yeah, the follow_up after clearing some caches it seems to work for me as well. Interesting.
reasons for losing sales get put in a database, and people pay attention when the same reason shows up repeatedly.
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The original article is pretty well written and much more of a structured discussion than this one.

Both of these languages make people feel passionate in a way that other languages do not, and so we will continue to see these kinds of discussions, which I think is a good thing.

Better to have the overall software development community lively and engaged with the tools than cynical or disinterested.
At least they named the Apple, just in case you didn't know what it was.
Some people here seem to need it explained why RMS's comments were wrong.

- Minsky is accused, by a credible victim of a non-credible, convicted pedophile, of receiving sexual contact with a woman who was underage at the time, and who was dispatched to him as part of her employment.

- RMS says the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to Minsky as entirely willing. He also says that the difference between 17 and 18 is a minor detail and it's an injustice to refer to it as a sexual assault.

- RMS fails to understand that an adult with a teenager is unacceptable creeping due to the imbalance of power in several different ways, in this context he's right that 17/18 is a minor detail because both are unacceptable. But 17 is also illegal. What if he didn't know she was 17? Irrelevant because he surely knew she was a very young woman, and by implication relished the power imbalance rather than properly backing away. In fact, Minsky should never have accepted friendship with Epstein who was clearly creeping on teenagers in a completely overt way. And RMS shouldn't be defending it.

- RMS also fails to understand how the employer-employee relationship compounds this with yet another axis of undue power, and how these together make the presentation of being "entirely willing" impossible to tell apart from having no choice. This impossibility is why age of consent laws exist even though teenagers can speak and express their opinion. They don't have the structural power to speak freely. To be honest, 18-year-olds don't either. When someone has sexual contact with someone who has no power to say no, that's sexual assault, or it's rape.

- By taking the side of a man he knows, who was doing wrong, over a woman who was vulnerable, and by brushing off the implied possibility of coercion, RMS shows that he is part of the systemic problem of sexist, exploiter-friendly men in tech which the Epstein scandal has uncovered.
> So, for example, in a place where the age of consent is at 18, an 18 year old could have sex with a 16 year old without being considered a paedophile, while a 25 year old could not have sex with anyone below 18.

That doesn't sound correct to me. As I understand it, an adult (18 and above in the US) cannot legally have sex with someone under the age of consent. So if the age of consent is 18, and an 18 year old has sex with a 16 year old, that is considered statutory rape or child sexual abuse. A quick Wikipedia skim[0] seems to agree with me.

Perhaps you meant to say "if the age of consent is 16"? Even then, that doesn't sound right. In that case, both an 18 year old and 25 year old could legally have sex with a 16 year old.

There do appear to be some exceptions in some parts of the world where, as you say, there are exceptions for people of similar age. So in some places, an 18 year old might not be prosecuted for having sex with a 16 or 17 year old if the age of consent is 18. But these seem to be few and far between.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent
Once you stop comparing developed and underdeveloped countries, social class has the major weight. It determines the environment of your upbringing, your social circles and so on. Geography in a big, relatively developed country also plays a role as some areas are more densely populated, with better access to good education and healthcare, for example.
The problem for me with "under-dosed" is the assumption that any dosing level is correct. The post linked to by parent talks about a Xanax prescription for anxiety. Prescribing benzos for anxiety causes severe harm. (The linked post doesn't say "a small amount when needed", but talks about "three times a day".)

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg113/chapter/1-Guidance

Note that medication is only advised after other treatment has failed, and that the recommendation in 1.2.25 says

"Do not offer a benzodiazepine for the treatment of GAD in primary or secondary care except as a short-term measure during crises. Follow the advice in the 'British national formulary' on the use of a benzodiazepine in this context. [new 2011]"

This also applies to many people being given opioids for pain. Obviously, some people really need opioids and we shouldn't restrict access for those people. But many people given opioids are suffering side effects from the opioids, and are still in pain.

Of course unethical drug companies want to sell more medications to this patient group, so they tell doctors that these patients are under-dosed. They're not under-dosed, they are simultaneously over-dosed and under-treated.
Nintendo had Donkey Kong for the Atari 8-bit computers. I have the official cartridge. It's actually a pretty good version.
In my country WeWork offices are more expensive than competitors?
I don't see blockchain or AI/ML in there??
Attributing all his behavior to his autism is wrong, you're right, but autistic people do have social problems that can influence some behavior, like the ability to pick up social cues and learn something is wrong before hearing others say it.

Also, you're doing a bait and switch, neuro-atypical covers a large swathe of people including autistic people. May be you're using it here as a mere synonym for "autistic" for lingual flare, but it includes people who are generally typical in social settings.
Examples that came as an afterthought after admitting this was not about Stallman and misrepresenting his words.

She did not correct her misrepresentation but instead went on to publish in an appendix what had been dugged and nitpicked to paint RMS in a way that fit her narrative.

the appendix is easy to debunk:

1 can be summarized as RMS has opinions, his personal opinions not being the same as the majority means they are problematic (use a reversal of burden of proof fallacy in the process). Goes on to says that institutions/companies that do not remove people with personal opinions different from the majority should be removed from the institutions otherwise it should be interpreted that the institutions themselves support those opinions.
Of course totally overlooks the fact if instead of public shaming, calling for witch hunt and not talking with the person, having a fact-based conversation with the person about his/her opinion could be enough to change this opinion as had happened here: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

2 is a collection of applying today standard to 40 years old society, expectation of normal behaviour to someone in the autistic spectrum and leaving the reader to fill the holes when the reason for having a mattress in his office and being proud of it is long documented and unrelated to the sexual framing attempt.
Then she presents a 1983 report pointing how it was for women is CS at MIT at the time which makes no mention of RMS in any way but is nevertheless add as charge to him.

3. Goes on to put RMS in the same bag with Epstein, and mentions #metoo as if RMS had been mentioned in it with no explanation and no evidence. Rants about MIT and calls for other institutions to go on witch hunts on threat of chaos such as the one she just caused.

4. is about her personal life and how she felt in social context trying to diminish her efforts and accomplishment, how she is desensitized and prepared for escalation from Stallman but disappointed that he did not and instead went on to apologize. Unhappy with the apology and impervious to the fact that she is responsible and the cause for the misunderstanding and the media coverage, she uses this apology as a call to other people to take her action as a model and fight the powerful people.

So as a whole this appendix is really not more evidence that the original author missed the point and further attacked a wrongly perceived threat and as a result polarized further against RMS and her.
Hugely matters even from one block to the next - https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/06/raj-chett...

As for the American women Vs Saudi women question check out Tara Westover's book Educated (which Gates has also recommended). We are all usually and blissfully unaware of things we don't see even if they are happening right next door.
Uber: Our drivers are not a core part of our business.

Driver: Okay, then I'm an independent contractor and I get to set my own prices.

Uber: You're fired.
Note that that sequence of approximations of pi is not the entire sequence of optimal approximations. That one requires a bit more work.

It is a sequence of optimal approximations though.
Sure, I appreciate the hands of actual doctors are tied
What does political leaning has to do with IT sec?
What purpose exactly ?
Only corporate products are good and other are trying to kill me ? That's your point ? McDonald sandwich will kill me or Apple iPhone ? Maybe facebook can kill me ? Qualcomm processor ?

Or maybe you think sole people doesn't build cars/planes and don't use them in public ?

Anyone can read about anything anywhere and yeah older people also talk about products they use and how good they are. They actually talk about it more than younger people.

I recommend you a great book by Cory Doctorow "Information doesn't want to be free" you can buy or download it.
Seems like you just need to invent a time machine, learn several years and then go back and replace young self.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/7eyrbx/how...

Basically 4 months is too short term to learn some really useful things in programming from scratch.
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With the confining pressure of gravity gone, it would instantly and violently expand. The intense 10^32 pascals of degeneracy pressure drop quickly with expansion, but even just assuming it can expand 5 ml at that pressure, the energy released would be 5e26 joules. That's about 1000 times the asteroid that made the dinosaurs extinct. It would certainly imply the end of all multicellular life.

If somehow you could keep it confined, it would drop through whatever it was put on, through the entire Earth, and pop up at the other side. I suppose it would keep oscillating and eventually settle in the core.
I’m extremely lucky, I was raised in projects at an early age in an absolutely horrible area and went through middle school and high school there (mother eventually moved out of the projects but in the same city). Random beatings were common once you neared your teen years, I was physically attacked many times just because I was white I guess (judging by the racial words said towards me).

But yeah, most people do not do well in life there, they are stuck in a cycle of violence, drugs, and other destructive behavior that they never recover from. It makes absolutely no sense how I was able to make it out and end up doing very well in life.

I want to help others break free from the cycle of self destruction but it’s very hard unless you are with them daily.

Anyways, to this day I’m thankful for John Carmack for giving me that spark of interest in computers.
There's also an old movie called "X-15" which I enjoyed a lot as a kid.
It tells me that HN has more people who fear being accused of sexual assault than people who are afraid of suffering sexual assault.

Somehow the former group has trouble imagining the fear of the latter group is more likely, within its demographic, to happen, and its outcome more deeply damaging, because its damage is somehow related to emotions. No emotions allowed. We're working with capital-R Reason.

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Next time I hear about "the pipeline" on HN, I'm going to imagine something like the fish tube.[0] If only we had such a tube to pipe potential hackers into engineering and computer science, we would have a more diverse industry.

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-nihilistic-eu...
Citation needed. Have we read the same thing?
Oh, yes, DNS is an internal DNS. You can't change it. I meant, it's the only way to "trickle leak" data without it going through the filtering proxy. But who knows, maybe the DNS requests are logged too, but they don't seem to be filtered.

Edit: they are filtered. Suspicious names go to 127.0.0.1
Facebook user growth was 20%. You said earnings.
The point is not whether it's good or bad; the point is that it's a free service that allows you to tell Equifax truthfully that you want the check and not their free credit monitoring.
https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild

It's also fairly well documented: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/msbuil...
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On any subject one can imagine two tribes: The "self-restrained" and the "self-indulgent". The former thinks through every word and the latter blurts out immediately.

And they could self-organize into self-selected groups. Then each type could best thrive in their own self-constructed communities.

And they could practice other-tolerance for the other sort of folks. Because tolerance.
You mean it’s not a coincidence that I was born in Palo Alto and I am now a millionaire CEO?
Drivers (Universal, UDF, KDF), COM/UWP, C++/CLI, Event Viewer resource libraries, C++AMP, WinUI, MFC, ATL, ...

It might be well for plain old Win32, but there is more than that across all Windows development scenarios.
The first line of the article qualifies the title by adding [being born] "to white, well-off parents who lived in thriving communities and were able to send us to excellent schools."
I personally hate to see important free software and opensource contributors quitting because of some stupid reason that could have been handled without immediately weaponizing what someone said to start a twitter or news shit storm.
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> The world needs everyone to speak about every topic. If we all self censor then only the extremists will be speaking.

actually stallman was one of the extremists and he wasn't happy if somebody with the middle ground spoke about free software/open source software.
> Many people kill themselves over chronic untreated or undertreated pain.

The answer is to give people access to better treatment for pain.

That isn't giving them opioids.

They end up addicted to opioids, with a bunch of side-effects caused by opioids, and they're still in pain. Their functioning is decreased.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/2019/06/25/seans-story/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wv052
Can you link to sources regarding Stallmans behavior towards women? It’s not that I don’t believe you but because I tried to google “Richard Stallman suicide threat” and couldn’t come up with anything... I do want to believe you, but I can’t propagate information without evidence.
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While I resent most these attacks, the "I'm only here for the tech" stand, many tech-people have, deeply disgusts me.

Edit:

I'm not saying the work of a person can't be good if he did bad things.

I think it's important not to glorify people.

Free software is important for all of us, but so is a stand against sexsim or the likes.
> Women who tell stories about him paint a picture of lonely socially incompetent man who makes super creepy attempts to connect opposite sex.

Really?
From the end of the article:

> Additionally, we cannot comment on this specific case as it is an active legal matter.

Companies and other organisations always say this, and it's true. However, what I'd like to see is this:

Make a statement, then encrypt it with a public/private keypair. Keep the private key, and then when the legal matters are resolved, provide the private key so we can see what you wanted to say.

Even simpler, file the statement under an escrow agreement.

In the main, I don't believe they want to say anything. More, for those of you into logic: I actively believe they want to say nothing.

I believe the "... legal proceedings ..." is too convenient, and we should pressure organisations to make statements under suitable escrow conditions. Good and honest organisations would welcome it.
Amusingly, jazz people call it "legit" music.
Not just today. By many accounts, he's been failing that test for decades, and it's about time he's been taken to task for it.

It's a shame that this shitstorm started due to blatantly dishonest reporting, but I'm not sad he's gone.
His personal website re-states this opinion clearly (see links in other comments). There was nothing mischaracterised or out of context about this. This time he merely made his opinion more visible, and it ended up being the last straw.
Depending on where you live that can be very true.
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Can you tell us more? How did it change the way you look for companies?
One of the problems of cancel culture is #everyonedoesit. At some point, all of us have niche issues where we feel powerless in our individual lives, yet feel empowered when the mob goes up against individual X for something we care about. I'm convinced at this point everyone indeed does it, from the right to the left and so on. People treat it as a weapon reserved for those they hate and unfairness when applied to themselves or people they like. I'm not sure what the answer is, more empathy might help, but part of me feels like with everything else going on all of it stems from a deeper disintegration in US society where people feel like they've lost control of their own lives. These are just symptoms of that.
Ah, magic dirt. It's all to do with the patch of land you hail from, and most definitely doesn't have anything to do with who your parents are, their IQ, or their genetic legacy...
It’s one of the greatest spaceflight books I’ve read. It’s movie still holds up very well even today.
Why Slack and none of the other recent tech IPOs? There have been. A lot in the past year.
The title of this post (which, admittedly, was taken from the NYTimes) isn't really correct.

The terms of the settlement have been set. Equifax's financial outlay is fixed. All of the post settlement divvying up of the funds is being administered by the government bodies who negotiated the settlement, not Equifax.

Equifax's desires about how the money gets divvied up at this point are irrelevant.
> Weirdly all the information technology is steering towards being more similar in our opinions and in what we can say without facing consequences.

Patently that is false.

Given the sheer amount of ad revenue that youtube, twitter et al get from hosting stuff that if printed or broadcast, would be liable to fines. (at least in the UK)

Self censorship is what defines empathy. When your child has done something hilariously stupid and hurt themselves, you comfort them, you don't stand back and tell them how incredibly stupid they are.

99.999% of people would never Mock a grieving spouse in person, why should you be enabled to broadcast that to millions of people on the internet?
It tells me that HN has more people who fear being accused of sexual assault than people who are afraid of suffering sexual assault.

I don't know what your point is, but smearing all of HN based on the fact that it is a predominantly male environment isn't some kind of constructive path forward.
I'll have you know I'm an expert, I'll stake my [imaginary] PhD on it.
Like Chomsky, Stallman did nothing illegal or immoral himself, just with his speech defended somebody who (potentially) did an illegal/immoral thing.

So if we consider "holocaust denial" to be the bad action (whether it is or not, that is for another discussion), then the analogy holds.
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That's not what happened at all. The headlines are reporting that Stallman said the girl was "willing", while the article you link to explicitly acknowledges what Stallman actually said.

It also happens to chronicle a ton of other bad behavior that he's been engaging in for decades.
Good point. I believe it (and similarly Amazon marketplace sales) uses nominee accounts.

I don't use Uber so I don't know if the payments are always to the same 'Uber Ltd' or not, but you're right that would seem to be a good option.
I can't find any references in the report to Melinda as an example of gender inequality, and it seems extremly atypical of the Gates' to say that. Which part are you referring to, exactly?
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The next election is going to be decided by about 5% of the country that’s contested. Everyone else might as well not even bother filling in the box for president
'...asked Oracle why it chose to create a cluster of Raspberry Pis instead of using a virtualized ARM server...one company rep said simply that "...a big cluster is cool."'
Analysis of any such statement is absolutely meaningless without a context. You can put around a text which would make it simple no-hidden-meanings thing, or you can make it sound ironically, or negatively. So this dummy deconstruction is neither correct, nor incorrect it's just useless. Which makes it a good illustration for the idea as whole.