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It is not just a Chinese event though:

https://www.cnet.com/news/cameron-considers-blocking-twitter...

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/08/11/london.r...

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/london-riot-social-media-b...
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Which players have been prevented from kneeling? Kaepernick famously did it until he left the 49ers. His former teammate Eric Reid is still doing it— I saw him kneel three days ago before a game.
But muh virtue signaling...
I'm reminded of the trend of starting systems in Lisp (I believe this included reddit) and then rewriting in Python.

Maybe the Blub paradox has been hitting its limits. The point of using leftfield expressive languages was that developer time is orders of magnitude more expensive than machine chugging time. But maybe web-scale-big-data-etc. needs enough (latency) juice that the scales tip and the comparative advantage is clearly on the side of adopting "industrial-strength" enterprisey technologies again.
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Real question: How is what China is doing any different from what we've seen the US do to Venezuela (the Adobe incident) or even Cuba for that matter?
Just because you cant ping something does not mean its down. They could disable ICMP replies, and you will get nothing.

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/secure.2checkout.com.html
You know, it's quite possible for multiple people to be "wrong" in a given situation. It's possible both the employee and the sysop to be wrong.
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He's not even pretending to care for the oppressed people in China. They'll get thrown under the bus just like the Kurds are right now with Turkey.
> it is easier these days to find Go devs than C devs

Not really actually, there are still loads of C devs (or C++ at least) and a lot more jobs in C and C++ than for Go.

Having made engineering decisions between C++ and Go, my key reasons for picking Go over C++ are:

* Simplicity when multi-threading

* It's much easier for someone who knows neither language to become productive in a professional environment in Go than in C/C++

* Fast compile times - no more typing "make" and then going off to get a coffee

* Lots of modern niceties that are more fragmented in the C world: third-party vendoring, unit testing, style guides, etc.
Is the point about insulin not a fact?
The flaw is in the individual. The environment is exploitative, but wantonly acting to harm another person is an individual decision. The only defense could be medical.

Our civilization has evolved much faster than our minds and bodies, but the choice to harm others is still ours.
Most companies will hire targeting the language that the vast majority of the company is using: often Java or JavaScript depending on the role.

They will also have often have projects in "support languages" for internal tools and services. Often in python atleast, and more and more in Go. Those are often unlisted.

Edit: Just noticed you said in your country. I suspect this is true broadly but what do I know?
I enjoyed reading this. If you're a fan of an author writing about a passed father figure, check out Moonglow by Michael Chabon.
I can just say that attempting to even begin learning to play bass guitar had me exercising the fingers for two–three hours before they stopped feeling like wooden sticks on the strings. Almost every day. I.e. mashing the keyboard is no workout at all.

This means, however, that a typewriter would likely noticeably exhaust a modern keyboard jockey, though not in eight characters (hopefully). But dunno about teletypes.
I'm plenty technical, but I was late to the party when it came to using my phone as a computer.
Can you prove that you knew it beforehand?
I'm an Android user, but this might be the first action of Apple that gets some respect from me without alternative motives.

It would be one that makes me change to a more expensive platform in 3-6 months.

Nice
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Maybe that wasn't the best way to phrase it, but the question was asked and Prof Buzzard replied basically that in Lean it's straightforward to express quotients, while in Coq you get "setoid hell". This specific statement is at 1:04:20 in the video. The question is at 1:00:02, and is probably useful for context.
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> In the context of personal life, you are under absolutely no obligation, regardless of social caste, to join Instagram or Facebook and it's disingenuous to claim otherwise.

I've had an employer require me to make a facebook account. They let me use a fake name, but it seems like that decision was made during hiring by my immediate manager. Upper management only allowed it to continue because it was agreed upon during hiring. If I were required to use my real name, it would be impossible to stop actual acquaintances from seeing my profile. You're not obligated to work for a specific company, of course, but saying "nobody is obligated to clean toilets regardless of social class" would seem ignorant of the reality of working class life.
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Instead of the 3 bars we just use the word menu. People seem to get it better.
Do you know any specifics of why the Bay area is worse than London? Or what causes it?
It's an interesting commentary on the state of discourse that the mere suggestion that the sitting president may have done something good is considered political flamewar bait.
The adwords management app might be one of the worst designed pieces of business software I've ever used.

Google Analytics was also full of strange decisions and unnecessary complexity.

I guess they don't get the good designers on their B2B stuff either.

If I was in charge of the gmail team my first goal would be making it faster. It always feels clunky when you need to open gmail.
How about a Venmo alternative since Venmo is owned by PayPal?
> That is how western society works.

No, that's how justice systems in western society (and many others) work. Because guilty/not-guilty is a binary choice, there's no in-between option.

I don't have the same binary restrictions when I form an opinion based on the information available to me. As we all do.
Really? In theory I think most Americans agree on freedom of speech but in practice it seems like everyone is offended by something these days. The offended (both sides of the aisle) band together and rally against contrarian view points trying to shut them down rather than deliberating or understanding.
> if China fully boycotted Apple

They'd seize the factories and continue production, at least for the medium term. It makes no sense economically, but it keeps Xi in power.

To Beijing, the factories are valuable for (a) IP and (b) jobs. Apple walking deprives China of (a), but not (b), not in the short term.
I think they're referring to this article, which took his quotes entirely out of context since Stallman never said that the victims were willing (quite the opposite)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-r...
I agree with such activists. It's stupid to have to make a phone call when a website should be perfectly capable for this role.

While I don't claim to know what such disabilities are like, I feel I have experienced analogous frustrations. Back when Linux on the desktop and Firefox were catching on, I remember it being a crapshoot about whether critical sites (like banks and tax filing) would play nice with non-IE browsers, and I had to have a PC/Windows/IE setup as a fallback. Same issue: the use the meth-addled design that breaks any non-mainstream clients.

I also use Tridactyl (and before it, Vimium and pentadactyl), an extension that lets you click links from the keyboard, which is a huge UI improvement and (along with other keyboard input methods) speeds up web browsing significantly. It's generally good at detecting links, but the same sloppy design and over-clever features make clickable elements undetectable and frustrate this enhancement.

And for the kicker ... often times, these improvements "for the disabled" end up benefiting everyone else even more, but designers/buisdev people don't get it! See my previous comment about the Curb Cut Effect [1].

The web was designed with screen readers in mind. It is a serious regression to find major sites telling blind users to call in. This isn't the 60s.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195054
Surprise, Go 1.12 isn't fully supported anymore
I feel like there’s some implicit self-deprecation in their comment considering in order to be able to share it they must have generated the archive link for their own lazy/poor self :)
It's easy to boycott companies that are only in China as another market to sell to. It's not easy to boycott one of the largest private employers in an industry the CCP views as strategically important.
This must have been a popular pastime in the 90s as I did the same thing for my university's security on their new, centralized student accounts server. This effort was further aided by there being a predictable salt used for the password hashes that indicated which passwords were still set to the (again, predictable) default pattern. They were kind not to kick me out and not fire me as I was both a student and part time employee in their networking services department.
Epic CEO says a lot of stuff he doesn’t mean or live up to.
AC is pretty rare in Europe
Yes, and if we don't push back against sexual harassment, what we get is yet another... now
China's using economic leverage to bully companies into toeing their propaganda line -- particularly in light of the nba incident -- should have every public companies entangled in China figuring out their strategy for when someone speaks this way.
Because jokes shouldn't be top comments. They can lighten a thread, but they shouldn't be the tread itself.
Anything less than total non-cooperation is finding a way to facilitate ICE, the USG, and their massive criminal acts against humanity.
This is why outrage machines everywhere are supremely dangerous. I just want to throw out the possibility here that more entities than governments are using sock puppets to rev the world's outrage machines.

I'm about to do a thought experiment here. Only a thought, I'm not accusing anyone of anything. But just consider, what sort of messages would sock puppets controlled by, say, CBA teams be throwing into the Weibo Outrage Machine on the subject of the NBA? You say, "Well the NBA is likely doing the same", and I'd probably agree. Point is though that this is a new era really in public manipulation.

Think along those lines and you can kind of get an idea how these outrage machines around the world can be far more powerful tools than any government.
Sorry, I still don't see how the attacker would have seen the information necessary to do that, unless the victim's answer's to questions over the phone enabled that.
Where is the claim or implication that it's RMS's fault?

Just because some people have a belief - which is what the author wrote - doesn't mean that RMS caused that belief.
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I think the subtext here is obvious to people on HN, but isn't this because so much value is generated using electrons on increasingly efficient computer systems?
> How more secure would something like that generally be compared to static passwords?

It's not secure at all. If someone knows the rules of the system, the entropy on that is tiny, because it's basically a 2 letter password with only 6/3 options.

The only security would be from the obscurity of the attacker not knowing the password rules.
> Ironically, I've added a few whole pages and had them go largely unchallenged--I suspect this is because adding pages is a less visible event to those watching a topic.

Aha, I watch all the articles I've written and check them routinely. Any changes is obvious and cannot escape detection (but I do not revert changes!). Meanwhile, adding new articles or changing less-known articles can only be found from the global Wikipedia changelog that have huge amount of activities, I guess people only checks for blatant guideline violations.

> Yes. But I think the exclusion you're talking about is a good thing, IMO, and not really what I'm talking about. I've literally added citations to scholarly research [...] and had them deleted without explanation.

Hmmm, another reason for deletionism is whether the content is encyclopedic or notable. The official policies state,

> Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, but a digital encyclopedia project. Other than verifiability and the other points presented on this page, there is no practical limit to the number of topics Wikipedia can cover or the total amount of content. However, there is an important distinction between what can be done, and what should be done, which is covered under § Encyclopedic content below. Consequently, this policy is not a free pass for inclusion: articles must abide by the appropriate content policies, particularly those covered in the five pillars.

Often in practice, content that is "unimportant" or "insignificant" is often removed.

According to what I've read, I think these two opinions:

breaucratic enforcement of standard and,

strict removal of unimportant articles

is the main criticism of Wikipedia's deletion culture. However, strangely it seems neither applies to your contributions. I think I don't fully understand the deletionism on en.wikipedia.org as well. Is there someone who know better about it?

> My underlying complaint is really just that there's a lack of visibility into why changes were reverted.

Although I don't understand your problem, but I recommend to try check the changelog of the next revision after your edit. Unfortunately, sometimes you cannot find a meaningful commit message, just a boilerplate "REVERT". It's an important responsibility to write edit descriptions properly, so other people can see the reason in the changelog. But just like software development, when people do it from time to time, they'll simply hit the revert button and stop writing anything meaningful in the log.

I guess you can start a topic at the talk page.
If I crack one of your passwords (or search your email on haveibeenpwned), and assuming you haven't changed your animal, then cracking any other password you have is trivial and takes at most 12 permutations.
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What I meant was the machine learning systems that have developed in the last decade since the 2008 crash. Many of these are black boxes with thousands to millions of variables, and it's very difficult to understand exactly why a ML algorithm made a decision that it did.
Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens?
Well that's the point. Engineering is as much about compromise as it is about anything else.
Absolute, not relative.

"17 minutes ago."
I am a Chinese American but my wife is Chinese. I have a large number of Chinese friends. You may be surprised to learn that vast majority of Chinese natives are very pro-China; and while they can be critical of the Chinese government at times, they tend to be united against any actions taken by foreign entities they consider anti-China or anti-Chinese government.

Talk to a few Chinese immigrants and you will know.

The younger Chinese generation grew up in an era of Chinese economic boom and are the benefactors of the efficiency in decision making that came with a more top-down (dictatorial if you will) government. The younger generation is much more focused on economic well-being and safety over liberty or freedom.

So as long as China can maintain the economic growth it's been having the past two decades, the Chinese public will by and large support the government.
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I think it's a legitimate question to ask, and I think it's a question some GNU devs have been asking. If GNU is just a loose collection of whatever software people offer up to the "brand" in exchange for some old-school hosting services and giving absolute veto power to RMS, then there really isn't much purpose to it, and unfortunately that's what GNU feels like these days. It doesn't have to be this way. We'll see what happens, I guess.
But do you think it's likely that the PRC actually invades Taiwan?

I'm not taking a side on PRC vs ROC, maybe you're misunderstanding me. I just honestly thought it was taken for granted that that's pretty unlikely. All the talk about who's sovereign has been polite fiction for some time now.

(and, I'll admit I haven't done a ton of research on Taiwanese public opinion, but unless/until I do so, I'm going to take 'taiwansecurity.org' in English's takes with a grain of salt - Ahmed Chalabi sounded good too)
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Apple is going to cave. And it’ll set a worse precedent because other governments are going to demand backdoors etc.
The n log n bound is for comparison sorts, which Radix Sort is not an instance of.
This might be broadly true in the US, where iPhones are a status symbol and where they achieved market dominance early, but it's not true globally.
I don't want to get into the weeds discussing the ins and outs of the various things that have happened with RMS and the FSF. I have my own opinions on whether or not these moves were warranted. Separate from that I guess my largest worry is that this is another step on the road to a complete neutering of the Free Software movement, and the increasing corporate enclosure of the software commons.

The one thing I feel like everyone would have to agree on with RMS is that he was strident in his belief in the Free Software movement and refused to compromise in ways that initially seemed intransigent, and were later revealed to be prescient. I worry that both Gnu and the FSF will move more and more toward being co-opted by the corporate "open source" movement as people less obstinate that RMS take charge and let themselves and the "overton window" of Free Software be dragged further into the realm of captive corporatism.

Of course the counter to this is that retaining RMS as the leader alienates enough people to weaken the movement equally, and that may be true, I don't have a crystal ball. What I do know is that he published The Right to Read in 1997 and a year later we had the DMCA and things have only accelerated from there.

I guess we'll see where the road takes us, but as someone who remembers the excitement and energy that surrounded the web, linux, firefox etc etc, it feels like nowadays open source reigns supreme and it's all just a bunch of free work for corporations to scoop up, stick a web interface on (or containerize), and give back none of the same freedoms they make use of. I just hope we don't look back on this moment (from our locked down walled garden devices) as when the real decline of a true free software commons started.
What a fuckfest.
Leaves nothing to the thought of why people are abandoning Github.(And other such companies for that matter)

Further proves the point that Corporations have more and more influence and de facto power than governments.
Yes (subjectively, this is politics) what the US gov does through ICE is shitty, but "at least" ICE& the gov. are elected and not a for-profit corporation.

The hypocrisy is high and the move is obvious: less immigrants gives Microsoft & company less profits.
This has very little with "we're against ICE's methods because we care about our values" but more about the money.
And yes, donating to charity & rejecting "dirty" money is still part of the PR move.As said in this thread, 500k is nothing to Microsoft.
I had both experiences in high school. One situation -> bad result. The other I was made a quasi IT fixer - they put me to work (Novel Netware and other stuff). I would be called out of class to fix things. Since I was naturally super interested in how everything worked together and all the features and the librarians or VP or teachers were not it worked out. At the time I took it reasonably seriously.

In hindsight some teacher must have spoken up for me to come up with the solution when they were trying to come up with an appropriate response.
I'm confused; I'm pretty sure resigning is an act done by the individual, at least supposedly voluntarily, and a quick dictionary check seems to bear that out. Are we just using this as a euphemism, or is there another definition that I needed to learn?
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(the example is in spanish, but it's not much different)
That also helps to convey the meaning of the icon and educate peopple

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Tho a counter-point can be made to the end that communication providers have been mandated to give law-enforcement special surveillance access for decades already, when most of it was analog.

But the counter to that counter-argument is that the traditional methods of interception had a significant practical cost and therefore an incentive to use them only when there was a legitimate interest in doing so. In our digital world, governments are trying to get access to everything on everyone.

Moreover, so far we have mostly been talking about threats due to reading data. To the extent that adverse changes are being effected as a result of attacks, most of them are probably being made using genuine credentials, which were themselves compromised.

However, the kinds of weaknesses we're talking mandating in encrypted communications would potentially also allow hostile actors to impersonate others and change the data directly. It doesn't take a genius to predict that this would create a future where everything in our ever-more-connected world is under threat, from financial transactions to medical instructions, from criminal records and intelligence profiles to control signalling for networked self-driving vehicles and essential utility supplies.