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Wow, there is a long that is incorrect in your comment.

1. You are right that typically you need two registrational trials for approval and yes you can have many trials that show it doesn't work.

2. You are incorrect that you don't need to show it works against a disease. Sometimes you can show that you are impacting a biomarker (which I assume is what you mean by "some number"), but there must be evidence that changing the biomarker impacts the disease. Without that evidence you will not get approval.

3. You are incorrect you only need to show its effective for up to six weeks. If that were true, why would drug companies be running multi-year trials for cholesterol drugs? You typically need to show its effective for however long the drug is taken, but a follow-up period is also required.
This is a false equivalence. You are presupposing that being pro-marriage-equality and anti-marriage-equality are positions of equal moral value. They are not.

It's like claiming someone being placed in prison for murder is being "discriminated against" for being a murderer. No, we are punishing despicable behavior.
The main problem is that the enterprise sees:

JVM == Java and CLR == C# (or VB.NET for VB shops)

Given the size and skills of the said teams, usually you cannot sneak in alternative languages anyway.

So for many of us, regardless how much we like alternative languages, those are the ones we are allowed to play with.
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Oh, come on. "Taking their money" would never destroy them. As Patrick loves to say, this is peanuts to most company budgets. Also, by focusing on enterprise needs instead of normal folk, you end up with an offering that is designed for the enterprise, which automatically pushes out the smaller fish.

> Patrick's agenda is Colin's success.

Sorry, but this is bullshit. Read the blog post again. I would doubt very much that Colin feels like Tarsnap is a failure of some kind - quite the opposite. Patrick's agenda is keeping the idea that what he does is worth "Large Sums of Money". This might work with the marketing people, but it disappoints me to no end to see this becoming the prevailing view of "Hacker News".

> What should Patrick have done?

A much shorter blog post:

"Do you know Tarsnap? It's this amazing backup solution, created and run by Colin Percival. I wished I could tell everyone to use, but I understand that most people get put off by it's lack of marketing polish. This is understandable if you know that Colin is a genius who (like most other geniuses) do not realize how things that seem simple to him might be harder for the common folk.

I am not such a genius, so I can not contribute to tarsnap itself. But I can contribute to ancillary things that Colin is too smart to even bother doing. So I put together this website (http://link_to_repo) and also this wiki (http://link_to_wiki) where people can discuss things and/or come together to improve the product in ways they think it's relevant. This way we can have Colin doing the things he is already happy doing at a such an affordable price, we can get rid of these small annoyances and get to have more arguments to convince Grandma to use Tarsnap. Most importantly, everyone can be sure that Tarsnap will be around for a much longer time.
"

Now, this would be pushing Colin's agenda. This would be allowing Colin to do business on his own terms. Patrick's post just reads as a self-marketing piece.
Looks like a deer-cat to me.
How is this disingenuous? How else is the reporter supposed to explain that this issue has not been experienced by any customers?
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> Just seems weird how fiery was the criticism.

I wonder how you would feel if it was your human rights and dignity being denied, instead of someone else's.
It is allowed. No one forced him to step down. They just expressed their own opinions.
Yes I agree that is an odd downvote. I wonder if anyone will own up.
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For the predictions I quote you'd have to ask the predictors what they meant I suppose, but it's a fair question. I'm a firm believe in the principles behind the Turing test; it doesn't matter how it is implemented or why it works as long as it does.

So sample testing strategies I'd use are for example teaching the respondent in the test a simple game and plying it with them, then asking them to propose new rules to modify the game and why they chose those rules. Teach the respondent a simple language with made-up words and odd grammar and ask them to ask me questions in it and make up words of their own. Tell the respondent a story and ask them questions about the motivations and relationships between characters and how they change, ask the respondent to make up a conclusion or sequel to the story, and then re-tell the story from the point of view of one of the incidental characters. Testing for intelligence isn't all that hard.

I'm aware there are varying versions of the test. I'm not really interested in exactly emulating humans and testing for that, I'm more interested in capabilities that denote intelligence and testing for those.
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As I mentioned below, you have confused discrimination with punishment. Eich is not being discriminated against, he is being punished. He lost his job because the people he worked for and the customers of his company's product did not want his as their CEO.

If he never works in the tech industry again because he is a shunned pariah, then that would probably be discrimination.
Does it use a generator to generate lexer and parser or author is suggesting to write them manually?
These are some good steps to follow for securing your startup.
It's mostly true. Most universities require that incoming bachelor's degree students to have finished either a matching pre-university secondary education program or pass a test (only for people of 21+ years old) that checks whether a student has the required Dutch/English/math skills. After this, universities are allowed to boot students that fail to pass 50, 80 or 100% of the courses in the first or second year (actual percentages differ per university).

On the other hand, master's degree programs tend to require a bachelor's degree that has sufficient overlap in terms of courses. So to start a Computer Science master's degree, you'd probably need some bachelor's degree in engineering, math or physics. If you for instance got a bachelor's degree in Psychology, you'd probably need to attend several courses in order to be allowed to join.
I do not recognise that right, nor come from a place that has that right.
It's not like Scala has generics interop with Java, you can't use advanced Scala generics from Java so I don't see your point. I'm sure they could have erased the extra stuff on CIL and support a basic subset that's visible to .NET languages.

Generics in .NET combined with value types are much stronger than Java/Scala generics, there's no boxing/casting of value types.
If I decided to work through this, and thought it was really good, I'd be unable to make a donation because I don't dabble in cryptocurrencies. Why not make donating "real" money possible, as well?
Tencent has been the elephant in the Global room for a long time. It sure took a long time to be recognised.

It is also the elephant in China, in a very nice way. Its success being based in Southern China seems testament to this. vs Baidu for example.
The EMA should work on discovering the drugs that already have publically reported serious side effects. It took the EMA how long to pull Mediator?
My point is that people who opposed interracial marriage thought that they had a rational basis for doing so (even though it didn't make sense); similarly, people who oppose gay marriage today also think they have rational bases for doing so, even though they don't make sense.

> they can be rational and maintain that a relationship between two people categorically incapable of producing children together biologically, two people of the same sex, can’t be a marriage

Pretty much nobody actually makes this argument, though. Probably because infertile people get married all the time.
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> more like a lynching

Yes, being fired from a powerful position because you actively tried to deny some of your employees and fellow countrymen their human rights and dignity is exactly the same as being hung from a tree for innate characteristics.

Get some perspective.
Author here. Actually a parser combinator library is used for the parsing. As you mention, I think there should be some interesting things inside for people with any experience in C.
The Mozilla Manifesto (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/) talks about openness, equality, community and an Internet for All Humans.

The public head of contributed to a campaign aimed at removing rights from a significant part of the population. This wasn't off-hand remark or ill-received joke, his intentions cannot be misinterpreted in this case.

If you can put yourself in LGBT shoes, can you imagine working for Mozilla? What if it had to be closely with Mr. Eich? Could you be his PA?

Maybe if gay rights weren't at the forefront of public opinion right now, this could have slipped by unnoticed for a while. But especially now that it did, do you see a company with that manifesto keeping a CEO like Mr. Eich onboard?
Old smoke detectors had this feature. You just take the battery out. I have to do this to one of mine every time we use our broiler. I'm sure I'm not the only person who ever removed a battery an forgot to replace it for awhile. At least the nest feature is temporary.
And you know what, that's perfectly fine to me, as long as they are all adults,they are not forced, and they can divorce. Why should we impose whatever notion of marriage on mormons, or muslims ? if they want to have 12 spouses ,let them have 12 spouses...
Building a moral framework atop a paradox seems like poor logic to build upon.

Here's a related point: All governments rely on the persecution of groups (almost always minorities) for their continued power. Government would cease to exist were it not persecuting people.

You're simply quibbling with Eich over who gets persecuted (and more basically about who's morals are superior).

Keep in mind that his "intolerant action" was only intolerant if the state dictating personal morality is good (I would note that things like murder are uni-directional intra-personal actions and thus quite different).

I think a better answer is to abolish government-dictated marriage and allow people free reign in their private lives as this satisfies both the gay community and the anti-gay community while also solving the issues of less-vocal groups (eg. polygamists). In fact the general principle of government staying out of citizen's private lives solves a whole host of issues.
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So your opinion is no person who considers homosexuality to be wrong should be allowed employment?

You lay up some facts [I've not checked but don't doubt especially] but don't look at his actions in his employment - were there objections from staff that he discriminated against them. Did he force modification of Mozilla's codes to deny rights based on specific sexual behaviours of the employees in an unreasonable way?

Mozilla's values are, according to their blog:

>We welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, sexual orientation, geographical location and religious views. Mozilla supports equality for all.

Except that's no longer true is it. "Mozilla welcome contribution from anyone who believes that homosexual behaviour is right and that homosexual's should be granted civil unions by the state those unions to be called marriage". Not so pithy I guess.

Unless they tried to refuse his resignation then this move strikes out the "culture" and "religious views" parts of that quoted statement.
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Dropping the cost to less than half would definitely make us reconsider just keeping the domains while we figure out what we can do with them.

BTW do you happen to have any knowledge on why registering and renewing the Nigerian domains cost so much more compared to other domains?
I walk past Imgur's office reasonably often. There's a slightly crumpled-up, inkjet-printed piece of paper with their logo on it, taped to the glass of the front door.

Makes me chuckle every time, I hope they don't blow any of this on a fancy door sign.
I think it is possible to hold both views (it is acceptable to force Eich out; it was immoral to fire workers for being part of the civil rights movement, blacklist workers for being communists). And you don't even have to appeal to the "my side is always morally right" non-argument.

I think the critical distinction is workers versus management.

If an engineer were fired from his job for a donation he made to any organization -- the ACLU, the KKK, the Communist Party, Prop 8 -- then yes, we would have a problem.

Low power individuals, they need to be protected. High power individuals, we need to be protected from them.
"Real" is probably the wrong term, chosen too quickly. Byte-code compatible is probably a better descriptor.
Everything else they've released has been Apache2, so assuming that, they could decide stop releasing new versions of it. They couldn't "take back" the versions already released, though.
Maybe it's the modern version of saying Jesus won't actually come back. And maybe it's false; but the point is we don't know that yet, and to react offended to the suggestion is silly, and maybe telling. I'm all for AI from a technical fascination standpoint, and from a "the more the merrier" perspective. It's our hoping that it will solve problems for us, instead of being an expression of our solving our problems, I, uhh, have problems with.
But if he made this speech, it may not have been a lie. We may suspect it would have been, but we would have had to give him the benefit of the doubt.

It would also have been a very public statement of position that he could have been held accountable to.
One of the main caveats of MATLAB can be better understood by trying to concatenate a few strings (something you sometimes must do to output stuff).

You look around and find the strcat function. Nice, this thing should just concatenate whatever stringy thing I throw into it. Well, sorta, kinda: http://www.mathworks.es/es/help/matlab/ref/strcat.html

> combinedStr = strcat(s1,s2,...,sN) horizontally concatenates strings in arrays. Inputs can be combinations of single strings, strings in scalar cells, character arrays with the same number of rows, and same-sized cell arrays of strings.

So you can throw a bunch of different string-like stuff and everything will be concatenated. A bit strange but okay. However, there's more:

> If any input is a cell array, combinedStr is a cell array of strings. Otherwise, combinedStr is a character array.

Ouch. So you can build your program, test it only with non-cell-array arguments, and later on someone trows in an extra thing to concatenate (or uses a cell array to define the output separator).... and that changes the output type of the function!

But that's not the only side-effect! It truns out that

> For character array inputs, strcat removes trailing ASCII white-space characters: space, tab, vertical tab, newline, carriage return, and form-feed. For cell array inputs, strcat does not remove trailing white space.

Oh yeah, you also get different "concatenation" rules when these types change. And that's even before discussing why on earth would a "strcat" function remove trailing spaces from within the stuff you tell it to concatenate...

TL;DR: What is wrong with matlab is that it is designed to write one-liners that probably perform what you want. This is achieved by an endless stream of tweaks in the basic language's functions that automagically try to do "what you probably want". As a result, it is an extremely compact, easy to write for language when the tweaks work, but an utterly terrible experience when the magic doesn't work that makes you feel like walking through a minefield.
> McCarthyism

Bring that up if it turns out that he is blacklisted across the valley, and unable to land a new job. Given the number of millionaire VC's alone that have come out supporting him on Twitter, I kind of doubt he'll face anything resembling McCarthy level persecution.

If you don't see the difference between people being upset about having a known supporter of discrimination in a role where he is shaping public opinion about an organisation like Mozilla, and the person ultimately responsible for a workplace vs. someone being blacklisted across an entire industry, or worse, and paraded in front of congressional committees to confess their "sins", then that shows a scary lack of understanding of just how nasty McCarthyism was.
could this be considered recursive?
My second-worst nightmare is that a loved one is about to get help but then a "friend" convinces them about how eeeeevil Big Pharma is and they stop. The "friend" feels happy and walks away, while the close relations of the loved one have to deal with the latest relapse.

I view those who discourage people from taking their meds as the same as people who encourage alcoholics to "just take one drink."
You might also enjoy Matías Giovannini's write-up of a typed concatenative language in Ocaml:

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Not all constituencies are created equal. That bigotry is still accepted from a US president does not mean we should excuse it in other circumstances.
Woah! There are some good mainstream names there that should'nt be hard to work with and monetize (ex. hiri.ng).

Some sound as if they were for porn or alternate lifestyles (ie. spanki.ng swi.ng).

I'd personally find a cheaper registrar and take OoTheNigerian on his offer.

Also, if budget remains a concern, you could trim the list down a bit to the ones which you could work with in the future and let the rest go.
No, you probably don't want to use F# if you can't use the .NET framework.
It's like Coffeescript for Java...

I hereby suggest it be renamed "Coffee".
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"This imbalance (of usable knowledge on an institutional level) is a palpable problem, not just for Graeber, but for us all. Whether it’s prosecution for the three felonies a day we are all alleged to commit, or mere public humiliation, the risk of abuse by means of knowledge (and the lying pretense of knowlege) is a real engine of fear."
If you're interested in this, you might also enjoy "Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours." It uses Haskell rather than C as the implementation language.

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no I think this plan was scrapped, too dangerous (too many websites had stateful actions as GET). I think they just stuck to pre-loading DNS.

edit: and i was messing the webstats for advertisement.
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Clearly a politically-biased article. No facts at all, not even bothering to look for them, but a clearly the government is out to get him. And everyone.
This is a bollocks piece of writing that makes no argument or substantive point bend saying "I'm disgusted by this." Please don't promote it.

The idea that Eich has been "scalped" is ludicrous. He received a bunch of public pressure because of his controversial (for the community and post) views, he failed to deal with it, and he resigned.

Sullivan and yourself seem to imply that no public figure should be subject to pressure because of unpopular personal views, which is obviously not achievable or desirable.
No: They believe that marriage is a union that's only between a man and a woman, which has long social and cultural roots. Justified by the fact that same-sex couples categorically can't reproduce with each other.

Of course these objections to same-sex marriage have a slight problem: egg and sperm donations. But it's not exactly typical biological reproduction.

It's pretty stupid, but not everyone who holds these objections is a homophobic bigot. And, to be clear, I'm not attempting to act as an apologist for whatever views Eich holds: I'm just trying to refute the direct comparison between same-sex and interacial marriage bans. Because it's in every thread multiple times, and usually with a KKK reference which is absurd.

There was really no way this situation would have ended well regardless of how it turned out, because both sides seem incapable of communicating.