skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this particular case, Schneier can honestly, with 100% accuracy assume that he is being monitored. This is not paranoia - he has publicly stated that he has some of the Snowden documents. And as we've seen in this saga, the people in power are doing anything and everything they can to get to them. (Miranda case, Guardian UK hard drive destruction, ...)

Under constant and potentially aggressive surveillance, there is not much room for obscurity.

As to his using Windows - well, there may be good reason for that. Schneier has been using Windows for a very long time, and with his level of sophistication, I expect him to be rather good at digging in to the system and identifying potentially unwanted behaviour. This should make NSA less likely to deploy some of their highest-value tools, because it is probable that the tools used would be exposed.

Assuming he is less well versed in maintaining and excavating a Linux installation, it would be more likely for the machine to get silently infected by a zero-day, high-octane exploit.

After all: prevention is desirable, detection is crucial. (How else could you contain the damage once it happens?)
I could also read content from system files by using the advanced hacker tool "cat".

I don't see what this has to do with exec.Command.
> Do you have any citations for the futility of reporting a crime with two witnesses?

http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-ra...

http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43249/

That's just two.
Where would your processor fetch its program code from, if not RAM?

Assuming you place code also into registers...

If you squint hard enough registers are also a form of RAM, just closer to the processor and faster. A machine with only instruction execute and registers would still have a Harvard/Von Neumann architecture.

The reason why processors don't have more registers is because they are quite power hungry and they are not very dense. For a given chip area, D-RAM gives you more than 6x the capacity for less than half the power use. And no, you can't make registers with the same technology as D-RAM.
If air was a big, expensive, complex, hard-to-use, proprietary product that we could perfectly well kill off and do without, I'd loathe it.
"All that's needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
What part of "not her fault" was not clear?

But I believe if you hang out with people who drink a lot, often, sooner or later you are going to regret being associated with them.
Bear with me: virtually no one in the United States actually starves, and only a very small number lack a roof over their head or other "necessities."

Your definition of necessities is, I believe, narrower than the BLS. Consumer goods is probably a better term in retrospect. When you redistribute wealth from savers to spenders (as a BI is purported to do), you are increasing demand for consumer goods.

No one is materially satisfied at the basic income level, which my gut says should be $10k-$12k...No one is materially satisfied at the basic income level...(At some point most people do value time over money, but that's well above the minimum income level.)

This is simply incorrect. Most Americans below the poverty line already choose time over money.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2011.pdf

I don't propose that basic jobs necessarily involve real, economically valuable work. I expect basic jobs to cost the government money.

The point is that it's cheaper than a BI, for two reasons. First, only a small subset of the population will even take the basic job - perhaps 10-50 million people. The rest will find jobs in the market economy paying more than $7.25/hour. Second, you gain some economic output from them - a low skill worker might be worth only $3/hour, and you pay him $7.25, so the loss is $4.25/hour rather than $7.25/hour. This would actually save the government money in some cases if the basic job worker replaces a unionized government worker making $20/hour.

Incidentally, the Basic Job program has been tried. FDR did it. We got a national park system out of it, among other benefits.
The problem with "ask first" is that it is a self-defeating behaviour in current culture: Touching is an integral part of flirting and also common in interactions that don't involve sexual or romantic interest. And the current social norm is to start with light touching at a non-intimate place, and see if the other person reciprocates. Doing so is associated with confidence. "Can I touch the outside of your arm?" would be perceived as creepy for two reasons: It will be considered a sign of insecurity, and people often aren't explicitly aware of the implicit rules on touching, and would thus find the request strange.

Asking first already works well in some sexual subcultures as well as some professional settings: For example, in some armies, a superior will ask a soldier whether they may touch them before fixing something that's wrong about the way they are wearing their uniform. That's a very professional way of dealing with having to touch somebody who is reporting to you. The hard question is how one can engineer this cultural change in society in general. I would love to see that happening in my lifetime
Justine explicitly said that she's leaving them on in order to show everyone what happens when someone reports a sexual assault.
WAR2MAP massive multiplayer in node.js
You can simultaneously think that what Joe is claimed to have done is totally and utterly wrong and that doing body shots and allowing back rubbing and head kissing with coworkers, let alone supervisors, is incredibly stupid.
http://www.consentissexy.org/ discusses this topic in depth, including how to explicitly ask.
OK, I am with you on that one. ;-)

But I really feeld the withdrawl symptoms in the afternoon at work, if I do not at least drink two cups of coffee till 2pm.

That is why I try to reduce my caffein-intake gradually.
As an ongoing exercise it's useful to study over time the number of times the notion of state's rights is invoked in defense of a good idea, a bad idea, or a genuinely disgusting idea. I'm not trying to impose any beliefs on you: feel free to use your own definitions for these things.

My position is that state's rights is invoked so often in defense of bad or disgusting policy in the United States - and frankly, used so infrequently to test genuinely interesting policy in a meaningful way - that it's not a hugely important thing. I feel this is an empirical observation that won't necessarily hold true in all times or places.

When people try to state these things about how government should work purely out of principle, it usually seems pretty unconvincing. We can judge methods of government based on their outcomes to a large extent.
Acquihire. The product has been scuttled.
> The contract has an estimated total contract value of US$93.7 million over a two-year base with three, one-year option periods. The US$55.7 million base contract has been awarded.

http://www.cgi.com/en/CGI-selected-build-US-wide-competitive...
As a non-believer, I've never touched a sacred book and never will, and I don't understand the need to "indoctrinate" everything. Why can't there be a culture of having just good clean fun, no religion, no wars, no oppression in the name of a virtual god?

(point being: blame the perpetrator, not the substance)
Yes, victims are often traumatized after an event like this, and it causes them to make poor decisions later. That doesn't invalidate the assault. Consent is consent.
Can you implement it freely?

Will microsoft sue you into oblivion if you attempt to use it?

"It's hard" doesn't mean it isn't open. It may well mean that it is a crappy format.
>You're always going to have things that are scarce. They might not be the things that are scarce today, but not everyone can have everything.

you forgot the Continuum - they have no scarcity at all, so no economics (yet, surprise!, they still have politics)
Some DPI software also processes English, should we stop using it?

If you want security, you need encryption, not obscure encoding formats.
Ah. I didn't see that mentioned in the post itself anywhere. Thanks for the info.
Nice ad hominem, but it doesn't address my question. Also, what you are taking out of context here is the author describing her life falling apart after this incident, not her behaviour before the incident.
It's a shame the "scheme in a grid"-project apparently is dead:

http://siag.nu/

(At least it's not trivial to get it to compile on a modern Linux distro as far as I can tell...).

Not that it's really a replacement for excel for all users, but it was an interesting package.
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The part of that culture that is, IMHO, the worst is the idea that alcohol is to blame for our behaviour.

Pigs are going to be pigs. They don't get to say "but I was drunk" Real men don't have it in them to treat others they way pigs do - alcohol or no.

I just don't blame the substance. Blame the man who thinks of his immediate satisfaction without regard to the cost he inflicts on others.
I don't think the fight here is Word vs LibreOffice vs Latex vs whatever, it's that it sucks when a very specific format (and workflow or tools, when the format is too complex to be universal like plaintext) is imposed on you even though the task at hand could be easily completed with dozens of different tools. I hate when msword .docs are imposed on me, and I'd hate it just as much if latex or libreoffice was imposed on me the same way.
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The "51%" bit doesn't matter. Even if you have 99.99% of the mining power of the entire network you can't steal anyone's bitcoins, you can only reverse transactions. This is because bitcoins are secured by public key cryptography.

However, what certainly can happen, is that the community can come together and say that any bitcoins sent to the FBI's address are considered worthless. If nearly all Bitcoin users install such a patch (even if "nearly all" includes exactly zero miners), then those bitcoins will become worthless, since the value of a bitcoin is backed by nothing more than community consensus. In practice, however, such measures have been debated and universally rejected in other circumstances, because they would lead to political issues (who controls the blacklist? What stops the blacklist operators from using it to delete the funds of tax evaders, drug users, Wikileaks or whoever happens to be politically unpopular at the time?) that, once "resolved", would basically lead us right back to where the mainstream financial system stands today.
I can't believe that the trackball (very old tech might I say) hasn't replaced the analog sticks yet!

People have already modded controllers with a trackball, and it works great for the most part, bringing the best of both worlds together, yet Sony and Microsoft still insist on using analog sticks...
I blame the boss for a whole bunch of things but where it gets to the point of getting drunk and then getting behind a wheel and killing me or my friends, that's where the victim turns into a criminal without forgiveness.

Your level of unconditional forgiveness becomes an excuse that I cannot accept.
In most legal systems there is also a civil procedure against sexual (or any other) assault
No problem, it was on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaltineJustine/status/388908504209047552
The reason you're getting flak is that it sounds like you're saying "I mean, I'm not saying her fault, but basically, she should have expected it, so it's her fault."

This may just be because textual communication is hard. Letting you know in case that's not what you mean.
steveklabnik, When someone publishes your name in a blog post concerning sexual assault, scores of people harass you in comments, emails and sometimes phone calls.

They take it into their own hands to administer justice. You become concerned that employers, friends and family members will see the accusation if they search for your name.

So, if you're angry at someone, you can achieve a form of vigilante justice by publishing negative information about them and sharing it with many people - even if your account appears to be factual and not sensational.

You'll see people attempting to take justice into their own hands if you look at the comments below the author's post.
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According to the post, she was punished by the law for that (DUI). What else are you asking for?
I really don't think it's about alcohol or about men and women working in close quarters for long hours.

This is about a small number of pigs that care more about their desire than any thought of consent or mutual interest. Real men, the vast majority, would never consider inflicting this sort of evil on another. Drunk or not. It's not about sex, it's about power and abuse.
I switched several years ago and never looked backed. No problem whatsoever, I produce all my corporate documents with it.

Could you explain what it is that scared you so much? I am the one to scream whenever I'm forced into using anything from the post 2003 MS office suites, which is thankfully extremely rare.
> The executive's posture and actions aggressive; "no" was not a possibility. She was visibly upset and shut down. That's an understatement. I saw somebody trapped in a nightmare, in public. That freeze frame is burned into my brain.

http://theotherzach.com/writes/2013/10/9/events
I can understand the frustration with publishers who choose to use .doc as their standard.

This is not as bad as the government adopting it. In Israel, so many online documents provided by government and public funded organizations are .doc/.docx format.

(disclaimer: I moved out of Israel in 2002, so things might have changed and I do so some shift to pdf, but I believe a lot is still .doc based)
In ads, if the ads compete with search results, then make the ads better.

Or hide the content way down, or make the content slightly worse than ads, or make ads look like content. I mentioned the scams that Google, your employer does. This http://i.imgur.com/mhJhc5W.png is good for everyone, long term, right ?
Battlebots, scaled up and at high speed? Where do I sign up?!
Here: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spiraled...
I believe YC accepted them for the idea and not for their strategy for acquihire. Kind of baffles me that just a 2 month old company gets acquired for talent, and that too for a not-an-out-of-the-world product
Yeah, designing clear and well-written laws is a boring waste of time. Congress has much better things to do than that. We should just punish people arbitrarily based on "intent" and the shifting political winds.
No, we don't :(
> Pigs are going to be pigs. They don't get to say "but I was drunk" Real men don't have it in them to treat others they way pigs do - alcohol or no.

You'd be surprised.

Of course, "real men" who know they turn into pigs when drinking choose not to drink.
"Ask first" works just fine when the question is "can I stick my hand down your pants?". It really isn't the social norm to do that without asking.
>> haven't yet met a single person who is happier with OOo/LO than with Word...

> The point is not that they are better but that they are a suitable replacement...

Well then you're just confirming what I already said...
Why do I feel like someone posted the equivalent of extremist Tea Party crap (or Micheal Moore crap for that matter), and we all took the (troll) bait? Just read through the back and forths herein.

I thought Hacker News was smarter than this. I thought I was. :( We have better things to do. More intelligent things to disagree with.
The relevant psychological literature is on 'trauma.' I am not a psychologist, but traumatic effects certainly cause lots of problems. It's incredibly complex. Brains are hard.
By "getting hands on" to be clear you are referring to his fondling her backside and front. Just to be clear, what those witness saw was molestation in progress.

Thank god one of them gave her a chance to escape. Thank god there was one person not like you there.
In addition to what others said about the overhead of context switching just for a DRAM access stall (at today's DRAM latencies, which are ~200 to 400 cycles), there's an architectural issue with the idea, too. Consider that from software's point of view, missing the cache and going to DRAM is "invisible": it happens as part of executing a single instruction. Software doesn't know the cache miss happened; architecturally, the result of the memory load is the same whether it came from cache or DRAM. So to allow the OS to do something clever, the processor would have to define a way of notifying the software that a cache miss occurred, probably by raising an exception and aborting the instruction, to be resumed later (like a page fault). So it would take a nontrivial amount of effort by CPU architects to enable such an OS feature.

Interestingly, there is at least one academic proposal to do something like this [1], but I'm not aware of any real implementations.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=891494
The post accuses someone by name with some fairly emotive acts. Enough to have repurcussions on the other person's life. That seems like an attempt at amateur justice to me. In my country, the post would be grounds for libel if she can't prove it in court.
I'm familiar with the incident (I current serve as the co-chair of the PyCon Program Committee, as well as a board member for the Python Software Foundation). I'm just curious if the OP was implying that anything would have been better without a CoC?
Everybody's playing the same game. Some just don't know it.
"i prefer to think of myself as reasonable, rather than an apologist. if i publish a public review of something, i do it specifically so that other people can see that review."

See it where? On every billboard on earth? CNN, BBC, Superbowl commercial? (without any compensation for you)
Why not? After all, since JSON is not a proper Javascript subset, you still need to parse it somehow. And as JSON is a proper subset of YAML, you should get by with a YAML parser.
Like Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, Samuel Chao Chung Ting, Shing-Tung Yau, Steven Chu, and Daniel Tsui? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American#Science_and_tech...

Plus the Chinese guy who built China's ICBMs (after the US exiled him, under suspicion that he as sympathetic to his home country ... smart move that was).

Oh, and Terrance Tao.

There's quite a few Chinese-Americans who did pretty well. I'm not sure what generation they are, and I'd have to check if there's a higher proportion than non-western Americans; but the general idea (which could do with some real verification) is that "outsiders" often pursue a lot of the higher risk careers which "insiders" don't tend to flock to.

Just have a look at the students at any hard-core undergraduate course, and count the number of students with black hair.

There's not so many famous Asians in entertainment, probably because of the parts available. A Chinese actor is more likely to be offered the role of "ethnic minor character", while a Jewish actor won't be so constrained.
However much it cost Microsoft to build Excel.
The two incidents are separate. If she drove drunk, she should face the music. That doesn't excuse previous sexual assault. This thread isn't about Justine's DUI.

Furthermore, psychological trauma is a thing.
At a recent PyCon a couple of attendees made a weak joke about forking a repository that came off as sexual humor (I don't know if it was intended that way or not). Someone was offended by it and tweeted a picture of them rather than approach the conference organizers. Things escalated from there.

As I recall it, by the end of everything, the jokesters had been asked to leave the conference and subsequently lost their jobs, and the community blowback after that resulted in the originally offended person also losing her job because the controversy would have made it basically impossible for her to act as a developer community liason.

There were no winners, but PyCon apparently does now make procedures for handling sexual harassment, etc. much more clear in conference materials.

edit: though clearly my recollection was flawed in some ways - among other things, only 2 lost jobs and I was incorrect about them being asked to leave the conference.
The story is heart wrenching, but the fact is, it may not be true. Anyone can literally say anything they want about someone and the internet will believe it without a moment's hesitation. It is downright scary.

If you were the accused and the story was contrived, you would not have much recourse.
The reason is because it doesn't work. How do you walk forward continuously for a long stretch? Do you roll it to some position and keep it there? Do you keep rolling?
That is most certainly not what I mean.

Her final plea for "no touching" is beyond reasonable, it shouldn't even have to be said or explained.

Just like it should not have to be explained, if people drink a lot, sooner or later those people are going to do insanely stupid, irreversible things, like drive drunk.
Yes, drive sharing was disabled server side (though, if the external RDP server is compromised, one could turn this back on). On the client side, we set up the connection not to try to share anything.
"You agree to a body shot or a pole dance to show them "hey look I'm not homophobic, I can roll with you guys I can go along with the joke, I'm comfortable around you". "

As a straight person, I can't imagine allowing a drunk 'muscle bear gay' to do a body shot (I had to look 'body shot' up- I'm not American) on me just to show a gay crowd that I can "roll with you guys"(!!). Licking salt off someone's body seems (to me) to have sexual overtones, but this maybe different in US culture. Honest question: Do straight men/women take body shots off one another? (which should happen if this were a non sexual thing).

Seems like a very overstretched scenario, but I'm not sure if this is ok in some cultures (again, not an American, though I've lived in the USA, and so could be missing cultural nuance).

I have no comment on the original event, and I appreciate your attempt to create a scenario straight men would understand. Just saying(fwiw) that your analogy seems to be fairly unrealistic, and may end up conveying (to straight men) that this is a fairly unrealistic scenario in the first place, which would be precisely the opposite of what you intended.

Has any straight person here actually done things like this? (again, just curiosity, not arguing about the rightness of various parties' actions in the reported event).

That said, I totally agree with your (well made) "don't make sexual moves unless you have confirmation that they would be well received" point.

Personally, I wouldn't want to have a sexual relationship with anyone who works with or for me. Yes, I know it is a little bit extreme, but (imo) not worth the hassle if/when things go wrong.
There's no mention of punishment, only arrest. I'm asking, insisting actually, she doesn't drive if she is going to do drugs. Getting sober is a better request but I cannot make her do that, she has to find a way herself.
I browsed the article and wanted to look at what else you have written but didn't find any references in the URL: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/22/filtering-the.... Not even your name. Is that normal for Wired?
Those who have been long-time HN news commentators may remember that I myself was on the receiving end of a Hacker News and Reddit 'lynch mob' for a mistake I made. It was terrible for me. Yet, I also made someone else feel terrible. Mistakes get made. I have to deal with remembering that for the rest of my life. I think about it often.

Yet, equivocating "harass you in comments, emails, and sometimes phone calls" with being sexually assaulted is... yeah.

Note that Joe has specifically said that he's radio silence on this issue. No apologies, no rebuttal, no his side of the story.