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Yeah urban sprawl is a terrible cancer that needs to be stopped. But encouraging people to move even further away from the city center is not the way to do it.
Nothing wrong with it if you know what you’re doing and have a strong API to power it. Most people don’t know what they’re doing and end up with a duct taped ball or spaghetti. This tendency is compounded when you’re in a hurry to get shit done.
I also haven't gotten anything from them, yet!
Large parts of the Tube and UK rail network were built privately before the 20th century. Most of them lost money and consolidated before nationalisation.
> Also chances are the girls in question were most likely sex trafficked (Modern day slave trade by another name).

The women in question (those in contact with Epstein) were, in no way, a representation of chattel slavery, which is (i presume) what you mean by "modern day slave trade". They were neither 'owned' nor 'inheritable', they were also (by all reports) paid. Slaves are not paid.

The phrase "Modern Day Slave Trade" as it refers to sex work denigrates those who were forced into slavery by men with guns, as well as the subset of women and men who chose to participate in the sex work economy willingly, whether full-time or on-the-side.
Edit: very interesting that this post is getting downvoted. I didn't even say anything controversial, just that banning people is bad. Exactly the danger we face online, which will eventually get into broader society.

I got banned on a platform for saying a public figure was physically attractive to me. Prior to that, I had engaged in a perfectly factual discussion about certain statistics that were in favor of a particular political position. There is no doubt in my mind that I was flagged for having a political position (to clarify: I didn't actually have the position, I was just posting statistics that supported that position).

I like HN's approach to moderation. You don't ban the person unless they are really unreasonable. You flag the comment, disappear it from the thread and tell them to behave. I also like Gab's approach which is: if it's not illegal and you don't like it, then just block them from your feed.

The wholesale banning of people for single statements that are generally taken out of context is emblematic of cancel culture and it isn't surprising to me that "hacker news" is more nuanced and understands that people are not one statement or one act.
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Good pointer, that was some misleading wording on my part.

OP mentioned after the part that I quoted that

>This is a man who said something wildly inappropriate in an MIT forum and got fired. He deserved it.

I think you could make the argument that what he said wasnt that "inappropriate", but only in the frame of reference of a rather puritanical American society. Hence the reference to a more far out frame of reference in form of Saudi Arabia.

His original quote is

>The word ‘assaulting’ presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing. Only that they had sex. 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.

That might not make him a great person, but you can make that argument. That the equivalence of assault and prostitution is a rather American one and not universally. And that the distinction in the form of the age of consent of a 17 year old isnt universally either.
Equifax should go bankrupt and sell all its assets for paying the settlement. Equifax has no value and it can only create troubles to people. It should not exist.
No deal Brexit is not a hedge fund conspiracy
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This is a good demonstration of the larger dynamic. When asked for facts, you reposted the blatant slander by Vice. Ten minutes of reading would have gotten you a primary source, yet you're still acting on Vice's sensationalized falsehoods.

(Maybe this will end up with a second organization for Free software funded by a hefty settlement from Vice Media et al. One can hope!)
I just want to address 'valuation' quickly for people who may not be familiar with how this is made up.

Lets say I have a peanut cart, and in my sack I have 10,000 peanuts. Some sucker comes along and invests in the peanut cart, and I sell him 1 peanut's worth of the cart for $1.00. By the usual rules of 'valuation', the valuation of my sack of peanuts is now $10,000.00.

Valuation just means what someone somewhere estimates the value to be, it doesn't have to be credible. It becomes more significant when investments are made, since if an investor puts in money at a valuation of X, they are betting that the company will find liquidity at some point in the future with a valuation greater than X, or the investor will lose money (even this is not true, since they will likely have liquidation preference or other backstops to protect themselves at the expense of founders and employees).

The short version is, valuation is not what the company is actually worth, or even an impartial estimate or appraisal. It is purely the amount invested divided by the fraction of the company that investment purchased (even if the fraction is small), and it ignores things like liquidation preference that let investors hedge risk when they invest money at valuations that make no sense.
Maybe Stallman should focus less on rape and sex, and more on writing software. We're still waiting for HURD...

Seriously, what is it with all those people discussing in corporate and public function their stupid opinion of the moral definition of rape. Let justice speak, and you, speak privately. For someone lauded as a genius of some sort, he could have maybe understood what you can say where.
How does this story engender these questions?

1. Nothing. No. The CCP retains power without challenge under far more volatile conditions. Xi is the head of the CCP and he is not about to let go.

2. No. Nothing cements the future.

3. Nothing. Their growth is not China's growth.

4. It will continue to grow.

5. No. This "slowdown" has nothing to do with expats. Financial tools being taxed, has curbed Chinese investment outside of China. Anchor babies will continue to be popular.

This announcement, means very little in the long term, imo.
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Also as soon as the breach happened Equifax started running on TV ads promoting their monitoring service for a fee.

They also made money from people freezing their credit and unfreezing their credit they charge a fee to unfreeze the credit report. I can't remember the exact amount but I think they wanted $10 from me to unfreeze my credit report early so I just waited out the freeze period instead... Which was inconvenient.
Which explains a lot about how capitalism works out in the real world.
The comment that started all this was:

> You and the earlier commenters are using the word “gender” when you mean “sex.”

Clearly not everybody is using the word that way.
I think if you study the right materials and build projects for your resume its possible in 4 months.

Finding your first job will be tough, as you are competing with other developers who already have professional experience most likely, so just keep learning new technologies and building projects to improve your marketable skills.

I would reccomend reaching out to developers in your area to start conversations and ask for advice on what/where to learn.

That being said a year to become is a more realistic timeline.
I attended a computer science magnet jr/high school in Omaha Public Schools. 68111.

McMillan and Omaha North were my first introductions to computer programming. I fell in love. Met so many people of different backgrounds. And I don't know where I'd be today without those initial classes.
I only wish all the other pedo/rape apologists were as dumb and and socially inept as RMS and the people posting here. It would make it a lot easier to root them out.

People are panicking now because Epstein finally got taken out and there are probably thousands of people guilty of Rape who can be hunted down because of their connections to Epstein. The last thing they want is to be publicly defending anything even closely related to this because it draws more attention to them.

RMS is an idiot. Now the mob will be pouring over every inch of his life to see what they can pin on him. That is what these people deserve though. Epstein died way to easy and the mob is still hungry for blood.
Yes I was aware of this misconception, but I was thinking that there could be strange effects, like tide effect ripping away the stars passing nearby. I was also thinking of the possibility of the hole getting wider transforming once stable orbit into non-stable one which will end-up inside the black hole.

From what I've gathered, evaporation seems to be a really slow process. So I figured that it only gets bigger. The remaining question is how fast.

We know there are very big black holes, though they were formed when conditions were different. I was wondering if there were possibility of a small one slowly by accretion growing into one, and was thinking maybe that if you are already very close to the black hole limit, maybe the neighborhood is also crowded and you could start a snow-ball effect.

There is also the dark-matter/dark-energy issue if it exists, when you are a neutron star, you can pass freely but once a black hole you should collect it as you go.
Yes, and it is also broader than just the first amendment. Part of being able to maintain a free society is having cultural norms that do not require employers to fire someone just because they said something that others disagree with or find objectionable.

The first amendment is really of no use if expressing opinions outside the norm causes you to be fired by social convention. In that case, only being independently wealthy affords one any freedom.

In this case, even founding his own organization based on his own values did not protect him from being fired.
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> when I'm at my house browsing the internet I would really like to not have to constantly be mindfucked with small purchases every moment.

Do you feel this way about using the toaster, shower, every light switch, turning on the TV, marginal usage of rechargeable electronics, etc? You already make "micropayments" for a million tiny, less-discrete usages of electricity, but have learned to adapt to only getting feedback and adjusting usage at a monthly cadence. Why do you assume this couldn't also be the case for Internet usage?
Trumps measures taking effect to some extend?

I expect China will be hit hard by the US terminating UPU.

Edit:Changed to UPU
It can be both. Senior devs and frameworks are two complimentary ways of managing chaos and organising your code.
I understand what you're saying and i'd like to point out, as i have done in other places, that I am a real fan of RMS and his works and have been for years. I'm not on a witch hunt here.

But.

I think its really important for people making this sort of argument to deal with the fact that public people who make public statements do not get to control how those things are taken. In much the same way that your production as an artist isn't entirely yours when you release it to the public, RMS' actions have consequences outside of what he may have meant. I for one dont think for a moment that he means to justify human trafficking. But what he did do what make a statement that can be taken as victim blaming. This is very, very dangerous and there should be consequences.
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%20...
Yes, but once they get bored they move on, to the dismay of the community, if there's money involved however that would give the community more stability.
Is there a reason why a photo should be included?
Ask HN: What is the current state of ISAs in Europe?
After some research and reaching out to several ISA providers in the US, I've been unable to ascertain the presence/legality of ISAs in Europe. I'd appreciate if anyone had any insights or resources in any country in the EU really.
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Oof private CCTV network, so they can sell the live video feeds. Imagine the possibilities with face recognition. Wanna follow your wife everywhere? Want to follow anyone you want to stalk? No problem for this fee you will have access to our video feed and face recognition software, which will enable you to track anyone and anywhere.

Want their DNA? No problem. Want their interests? Sleeping schedule? Work schedule? If you got the money we got the stuff.

Future is looking really interesting.
Well deserved ! Kudos to the team, staying true to their Vision and execution.
The richest economy doesn't actually want to solve the problem.
ROFL. Never have I seen a more skillful distortion of facts. China's GDP per capita was around $500 per person in 1950, just at subsistence level, whereas it is currently around $9500. Other than a few countries such as South Korea, there are no countries that have advanced so much in that period.

If they have fallen in ranking, that is only because a number of countries became independent after WW2, especially in Europe.
> A rational actor never works for "free"

A rational actor with emotions can work for free is that work makes him/her feel well. Some people even call this a hobby.
Would you be interested in sharing your template? I used to use TeX, but the available templates never interested me, and I didn't have the time to DiY a good one.
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> Building a 73 mile train line through some of the most expensive real estate in the world

Apart from the 13 miles of tunnel in the middle, pretty much the entire above-ground train line existed already, so it's not a fair comparison -- the need for real estate purchases for Crossrail was comparatively very small.
Random bug report, long names overflow into the skills section. Fun tool, though I personally prefer making my own website with print css that is the resume itself (with a PDF copy).
Phone Phreakers
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My path: studied full-time (36~40 hours/week) for 4 months, then started applying to frontend development jobs. More 4 months (still studying full-time) and I got hired.

One year working as software developer until I felt I could build a for-profit side-project, so I started working on my free time (~10 hours/week). 6 months after starting I launched a web app SaaS MVP.

So... That would be 2 years and 2 months from starting learning to code to launch a side-project SaaS functional product. For me.
But then you're back to not voting and getting a Trump again.

Not voting is not a solution.
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I know why they're doing it, I'm arguing density isn't getting forced on them. Rather it's saying "hey, you should pay for that."
So if someone starts firing open borders advocates or basic income activist would that be ok as well? Following your argument you could say a given company had its tolerance, it was tested and those people lost.

Firing people for political views, especially expressed in coherent not aggressive way is certainly violation of free speech and thought. It's also currently legal in US.
I grew up rural. First internet connection I used at home was a 14.4k connection through my dad's Startac. I used to have to put a rubber band on the connector to keep it properly plugged into the phone for data. Eventually we got a 1Mpbs microwave connection from a local WISP. It was a huge improvement in a lot of ways but the latency was terrible and very jittery.

Now when I go back to my parent's house I get 10+ Mbps 4G on Verizon and Tmobile. It's awesome.
There are plenty of dangerous things we purchase. Imagine if there was a switch that could be flipped changing it from edible to inedible and dangerous.

Not cooking pork to 165 could kill you. I still think it's BS to sue a pork mfg.
What is political about banning products that are counterfeit, dangerous, obviously poor quality etc? And fake reviews too. This is something that requires no discussion or thought, isn't it?
Ask HN: What is your least favorite mainstream programming language, and why?
We do plan to make the NIFs open source! Keep searching on github.

We use ours for signal processing, not "deep learning" so it may not be completely applicable.
"shame" is not a reasonable means of enforcing such a thing with big companies. People may feel shame, companies don't.
PWAs make a lot of sense.

But users go to the app store when they want an app so some consumer education/push is still required.

Twitters PWA is awesome and i assume its been pretty successful for them.
I feel like there is an article a week about how open source developers are being used by corporations for free labor. I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding that these journalists aren't grasping.

Nobody is doing anything they don't want to do. Nobody is forced to build open source software. And, most importantly, most of these contributions aren't worth enough individually to charge for. It's only collectively that these contributions have value and we all collectively benefit from it. And for-profit companies are part of that collective benefit but that doesn't mean money needs to be involved.

I'm working on an open source project right now -- I've put a lot of hours into it -- and it's cool but there is no way to build a profitable business from it. It's an end-user product, the small number of users will like it, and I just enjoyed building it. But I also don't want to make it business. I already have a job.
Again, i am not disagreeing. I am making the argument that you can make an argument like Stallman did without deserving mob justice. Stallman broke with the strict morality code of his society and nothing more. That i might have the same opinion as the mob doesnt mean we should go around ignoring free speech and attacking anyone commiting the heresy of playing Advocatus Diaboli. Its not free speech if you only allow people saying what you like.

I am also not talking about justifications for Epstein, i mentioned how unrelated Stallman is to the real problem here namely Epstein and his visitors.
Yeah, exactly the info I was looking for. "They're different" is like half the story. How do they work?
Yeah but see, nobody cares. Stallman is not well paid by his students, some of which female, to hold sexual assaut position in his MIT functions. He could, for example, let judges decide what the definition of rape should be, that's what we all pay taxes for after all.

He can hold an opinion about the moral definition of rape, sure, but why express it so widely in a corporate environment, it blows my mind.
Å is a good letter in many ways, but not for names. Just my opinion, and I do have around 30 years of personal experience :P
Whatever it is, it’s just a fact of human behavior, and to understand the world around us, we ought to be honest about such facts and investigate how best to live in a world where such facts are true.

For instance, it might suggest that championing a grassroots boycott effort is a waste of time, and that perhaps putting that effort to lobby for laws by which these types of privacy breaches result in automatic prison time or high personal fines is a better option? Also not likely to succeed, but perhaps much more likely than asking rando consumers to not defect in their personal prisoner’s dilemma game with an unmoving corporate behemoth.
I'm in NYC and this is what we refer to as the projects here: https://i.imgur.com/UyTKWJg.jpg It's mostly people living on welfare but there's all sorts of people living in these. People that are disabled, poor, people with money but want to be cheap and save money. The buildings and the elevators can sometimes smell like piss. On garbage days, the streets and the walkways in between are covered in litter.
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Thanks, noting the bug :)
And a quick follow-up post on Swing hyperlink labels (i.e. customized buttons). I’m using both in my own projects, pretty simple classes but they work as intended.
https://news.kynosarges.org/2019/09/17/swing-hyperlink-label...
I can assure you that the overwhelming majority of people building open source software, even very popular software, are not being paid for it and it offers little value for their careers.

Like most things, the top couple of percent are being used to project an upside that does not apply to everyone else.
Yeah, I understand all that going in to the article. I have, let's call it, an advanced beginner's understanding of neuroscience & evolutionary biology.

It was just an extremely long article, in my personal opinion, for "this is different."
Is this for teams that don't use a project management tool like JIRA?
>> All in all I am pretty bearish on them.

Who will "kill" them ? What will the e-commerce market look like in 10 years - and could that be without Amazon as a major competitor ?
Or worse, a corporation secretly pays mods to let spam pass and delete dissent.
> his friend who ... is accused

It's the accused that is the problem with this. He isn't defending the proven actions of a pervert, he is defending the memory of a dead friend, suggesting that his friend was incapable of the crime of which he is accused. If defending an accused friend is now itself punishable by excision from society, then the effect of an accusation alone becomes immediate isolation. The presumption of innocence, not only in court, but in public discourse, is a vital component of a genuinely free society. I will not support people who reject it.
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Come on - if I accuse you of being 74 and having sex with a a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island - then nobody can defend you? Minsky is dead and he cannot defend himself, the girl said she was directed to have sex with him - but she did not say she eventually did it, she did answer a question about where she went to do that and she answered that which would imply that she had sex with him - but it is entirely possible that she meant the place where she was directed to do it, but eventually failed, there is a witness saying that he turned her down. These are the facts from the deposition and it is fair to point them out.

There is another aspect of his emails - he also wrote that she presented herself as willing and that was entirely misquoted as 'she was willing', which was unfair. Stallman's point was that it is a bit misleading to characterise the act as 'assault' if it was she who sought out Minsky and he was not aware of the fact that she was coerced by Epstein. This is a bit insensitive splitting hair - but the misquoting was really mean.
I think there are 3 main rules in society:

1. As long as women or men are adult deemed by society (for example: 18 years old), anything is fine, even if 18 year old woman paired with 74 year old man. Age of consent rule.

2. A man should not date a woman younger than his age / 2 + 7. So a 74 year old can only date the youngest woman with 44 years age. Creepiness rule.

3. A man should not date a woman younger than 25 year old because the brain is not fully formed until 25 years age. Unless the man is more or less 25 year old himself. So a 74 year old man can only date the youngest woman with 25 years age. Brain fully formed rule.

Of course there are edgy case rule. We call it Romeo-Juliet rule (no more than 4 years difference). 16 year old woman should not pair with 74 year old man but if the man is 18 year old, that should be fine.