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> How then does it make sense to immediately dismantle a corporation that breaks the rules even in a small way (destroying huge amounts of value)?

It determines the values of your society. Fuck with the powerless at your own, extreme risk. If your values are more important than your spreadsheets, then the violation of the rights of the weak must take precedence. And, for me, it does; I'm proud to say that I've been pretty on-point about hewing to that in my adult life, even when balancing managerial responsibilities to an employer.

We can argue about the level of impact that must be assessed; I'll bend on something like the revocation of a charter for this (though there are plenty of corporate crimes for which it's a fair response). But suppression of worker rights should involve a very, very harsh penalty that makes the company not simply think twice from, but recoil in utter fear about, doing so again. (Perhaps a personal consequence to the actor involved; I don't really believe in the fictional person of the corporation and I'm okay with holding its agents responsible for its bad behaviors.)

> It seems that you're advocating a 'punishment as deterrent' strategy for society along the lines of capital punishment.

Essentially, yes, but there's a multiplier involved that makes this comparison fuzzy. Organizations, which are not people, should be held to significantly higher standards of moral rectitude than any individual due to their geometrically (even exponentially?) greater power and ability to impact others. Impacts that would be "small" on the individual scale are seismic at Google-scale, and the punishments must reflect this.

I think there are better strategies for encouraging lawfulness (and, more important, ethical behavior) at the individual scale, and even at the societal level. But the modern corporation's entire schtick is being above that society--look how many useful idiots speak positively of the "amorality" of a corporation. If an appeal to the better nature of which people celebrate its non-existence, I'm okay with giving fear a go. I mean, we already live in the cyberpunk dystopia of the eighties, minus the mohawks and shoulderpads--at this point, inaction is acceptance.
I think this quote from the article is what is all qbout.
"In Shane's talk last night, he argued against copyleft because software licenses should have "no strings attached". But the very strategy that is advocated above is all about attaching strings! Copyleft's strings say "you can use my stuff, as long as you give back what you make from it". But the proprietary differentiation strategy's strings say "I will use your stuff, and then add terms which forbid you to ever share or modify the things I build on top of it." Don't be fooled: both attach strings. But which strings are worse?"
It was a gradual slowdown. That "non-zero" has enough zeroes after the decimal point for Japan to send the number to Hawaii and have another go at Pearl Harbor.

Worst-case scenario, somebody might've been rear-ended. Maybe a bit of whiplash. That's not great, either, but seeing as more-controlled tests by these researchers were outright ignored by auto manufacturers, your priorities have to be incredibly out of whack to villify the researchers over the auto manufacturers - who are willfully endangering hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans every day - in this scenario.
Wait what.

Counseling is mostly unregulated with practioners who have very little training. There's not much evidence base and what evidence there is is either weak, or suggests not to use counselling.

Modern (and I recognise some terrible practice used to happen) tries to have regulation through professional registration and protected names; and tries to work to an evidence based model.

I agree that therapy as evidence based treatment is fairly new and there there are still many terrible therapists.
Sarcasm aside, this is actually what the article is literally suggesting:

> The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers.
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Men have a fear of other men, so they're much less likely to insult them. Throughout our evolution, getting angry and insulting men is more likely to get a male killed. Because men naturally don't fear women they're more likely to express anger and blame on them. "But they're on Xbox live" you say. The evolutionary response is ingrained permanently.
Here's the doc for resource constraints, called "limits" in Kubernetes.
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/maste...

The Kubernetes scheduler looks at "fit" and "resource availability" to determine the node a pod will run on. Nodes can also have labels like "high-mem" or "ssd", so you can request a particular type of server (via the the nodeSelector field). More details are in the link above.
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Ah thanks. I just created the "My Photos" folder automatically through google drive settings, and it automatically added every photo I've ever sent through google hangouts. Yikes, who wants that?
Copyright holders do all kinds of wacky things. Who are you to judge?
Do drones really pose that large of a threat to a commercial aircraft?
Your personal opinion about whether a piece of untested legislation is good or bad according to your own morals/values/ethics is more subjective than a judge's legal opinion about what that legislation means in terms of regulating behavior in accordance with everything else in the legal system.
Interesting points. I'll go further on the security aspect to say that having a high-level version can dramatically improve ability of customers to secure their operation. The reason is that they can apply countless improvements to static analysis, transformation of unsafe to safe, hardware, and so on. Hard to do this on platform-locked binaries. I've seen some impressive results but their impressiveness came from the uphill battle they fight. Better to make software maintenance and security a downhill battle using every trick we can.
Life is short and precious and you could die tomorrow. 7 months IS a long time if you are hating every day.

I think you're giving bad advice saying "Quit being a baby". That's the kind of advice that gets people stuck in crappy jobs their whole life being unhappy.

The OP needs to get out now before the unhappiness ruins his passion for the work and potentially his entire career.
Feelings are incredibly important around these things! Dismissing them as unimportant misses a huge part of humanity, and of freedom itself.
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Maybe they use recycled credit cards?
I think it might also be a case of a lack of funding via more traditional routes: even though 'niche material' has often been shown to be quite the money-maker it can still be quite hard to get funding for a 'niche' venture the traditional way (and even among the "new players", kickstarter doesn't allow 'niche' material).
>'Slowing down on the freeway'...

With or without shoulder, a stalled automobile is an everyday occurrence that drivers must absolutely watch and be prepared for. It wasn't the safest thing to do, but it isn't outside the normal range of "dangerous" events that one will experience on their commute daily, often more than once daily. IMO it doesn't increase the danger nearly as much as traffic patrol conducting a routine traffic stop on the freeway. If we're prepared to accept traffic patrol on busy freeways, then I don't think it's justified to treat a rare, even if foolish demonstration such as this one as anything more than a nuisance.
How about a rule title change to "poorly performing video gamers more likely to harass women". Not only is the title inaccurate and click baity, but as someone who was physically bullied in school for being an actual loser, it triggers me.
It's definitely elementary school stuff to snitch and play the informant on your colleagues. The worst thing that this was coming from an old fart stuckup who thinks that they could police every thing and everyone around them and act more royal than the king himself.

Old habits die hard.
Not on Adioso, which is why I use them. You can choose a city (with multiple airports) for the departure location and something like "about X weeks/months" for the travel duration. And then drill down, since they display a range of dates.
There's a pretty significant difference in scale between two nerds putting maybe 2 or 3 vehicles in danger of a dented bumper v. the world's largest military conducting live-fire bioweapon testing.
Sounds like you guys pulled out everything except for Express. I too found the more I used Sails the less useful it became, as though it was missing a solution for anything lying outside of the very basics. Compare Sails to say, Laravel, and you begin to see how much work needs to be put in to bring it up to date.
Stop acting like it takes negligence on the part of the other drivers to make this a dangerous situation.
40% of a small number is still a small number. Lightening strikes 100% more men than women.
But his point was also that access to a developer is empowerment, which is exactly what I said.
EA began in 1982, not 1987. If I google 'c64 electronic arts', the entire first page of results is about games. Same with 'atari 800 electronic arts'; 'apple ii electronic arts' brings up mention of a few of their various 'something construction kit' titles, about half of which were really just games with level editors.

From the wikipedia page on DPaint:
DPaint began as an in-house art development tool called Prism. As author Dan Silva added features to Prism, it was developed as a showcase product to coincide with the Amiga's debut in 1985. [...] Deluxe Paint was first in a series of products from the Electronic Arts Tools group, which included such Amiga programs as Deluxe Music, Deluxe Video, and the Studio series of paint programs for the Macintosh.
I'd actually like to see a focus on low-DPI support, for large touch-screen low-res interfaces like smartboards.
Switzerland has also been a parasite on European finance since the renaissance and especially since the Treaty of Paris in 1815, every outcome of Germanic squabbles ending in unpaid damages and debts to other European peoples from the Hussite war to World War II has ended in Germanic warlords fleeing to Switzerland with their wealth, laundering their finances into the black hole of the Swiss economy and banking system, then conveniently shrugging "Switzerland is neutral ground, sorry" to avoid any responsibility in European politics.
> The IRB as it currently stands it too strict with its regulations.

WTF are you talking about? There is no the IRB.
Any link to a discussion on these Ruby stat calls? We might look into them as well.
You would think from reading this that PySpark does not exist.
> For example, using a private road, a large empty parking lot, an abandoned airforce base, the salt flats, etc.

The researchers did many of these things, according to the article. They were ignored by auto makers.
Ask HN: Is there a theory of unit testing?
Unit testing seems to be very popular in industry, but I have not come across any theoretical work on the subject. Is there anyone in academia working on it? In general they seem to prefer type systems.
This is a marketing piece for their new GPU, which has ray casting built into the silicon. It's not clear how to access this new hardware (some OpenGL extension?), but they do mention that their chip gives shaders the ability to cast rays.
Look into Nancy for some really interesting options. .net http services without IIS. Increasingly, there's something for everyone.
Why did you feel the need to reiterate the exact quote that the grandparent post quoted?
I'm having a bit of trouble reading your response, it seems like you're driving at a few points simultaneously. (You only quoted one word out of my reply so I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to argue.)

Are you defending AGPL and saying that proprietary SaaS software shouldn't use GPL code? Then I think you and I are 100% in agreement.

My post was in response to the grandparent who seemed to be saying that the GPL is A-OK to use in proprietary web services because it's only relevant "when you want a licence to redistribute that software (or your derivative version)". I was explaining that that's more of a loophole in the GPL than it is "not relevant".

I'm not basing a business on limiting others' freedom, I just want to write a dumb rails app for adding users to LDAP, or any other myriad of dumb reasons you'd want to make a dumb internal service. And I basically can't touch the GPL unless I can also convince our legal department to let me GPL the dumb tool and distribute the source code. Since things we distribute have a bit of brand identity to them, it would make my company look bad if the tool sucks, or it's not general-purpose enough to be useful outside my company, etc. So it's just not worth the hassle to go through all that for some dumb internal LDAP tool.

So instead I stick with MIT/apache/etc permissively-licensed libraries in my dumb internal tools, find bugs in those libraries, and submit fixes upstream. Ironically this is the exact same thing that GPL proponents say would never happen if everyone used permissive licenses.

I don't want to GPL my code and distribute it because I don't want anybody to see how bad it is, not because it's some "secret sauce" for my company. It's just a bunch of glue on existing libraries anyway (basically a variety of ruby gems.) The GPL is far too difficult for me to use in this case, so as a result I just don't touch it.
Usually that means you get a fat paycheck. And far more resources than you had before.
You don't have to believe in the singularity at all for this argument. You just have to believe the AI will be able to get sufficiently advanced to cause a sufficient level of damage.

> Maybe an artificial intelligence will be just as limited, just as slow as humans, only a little less so.

Only you can duplicate them with far more ease, and have each instance try out different approaches.

So if an AI reaches human-level intelligence at sufficiently low computational costs, we can assume that even if something prevents it from scaling up the intelligence accordingly, it will be possible to scale up the achievable goals dramatically through duplication the same way humanity is able to achieve far more through the sheer force of numbers than even the smartest of us would be able to achieve on their own.

EDIT: you don't even need to assume they'll be able to reach the intelligence of a particularly smart human. A "dumb" AI that has barely enough intelligence to just figuratively bash their collective, duplicated heads against enough security systems for long enough to find enough security holes might be able to cause sufficient damage.
> This is especially the case when a safer alternative to demonstrate this exploit easily exists.

And when said safer demonstrations are ignored by manufacturers, as was the case here?
I got knee jerk downvoted for that so hard I have whiplash. I rtfa, it ignores anything else and pretends gamers exist in a vacuum.
This is what Schneier calls "security feudalism": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht...

It's a rational choice given the complexity, but makes you totally vulnerable to your feu lord. And their feu lord.

By the way, there is no necessary conflict between signing and software freedom if the system allows you to replace the master keys. Matthew Garrett is doing a collection of work to enable Linux users to use UEFI and TPM hardware to secure themselves against malware.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike
Bit unrelated, but this website crashes Chrome on my Android phone, crashes the WebView inside my HN reader app, and brings my aged netbook to its knees. Oh, and my company MBP's fans blast on full until I close the page.

What the fucking fuck is this thing doing with the RAM/CPU of my system? For heaven's sake, it's a load of text with a couple of pictures.
The final lines gives some indication of what delusion the author is labouring under; Don’t let you or your organization use that as a false shield or excuse to lose momentum. The moment you do, you lose your competitive advantage.

This is someone who has either not only drunk the kool aid, but is already on their way back from the store with another carful of it, or someone with very limited experience of business. I have worked for many, many businesses whose competitive advantage is not being fast, but in this author's view, being fast is the only advantage there is. Competence, cost, quality, reliability? Just fairy tales.

However, part way through this breathless look-at-me, the author clearly describes the advantage of a simple price scheme (We offered one price of $50 per employee per year... We just wanted to be able to tell people, “We may not be free, but we’ll be the simplest decision you ever made.”). This actual advantage is then smothered under the breathless fact that it was decided quickly; he made a good decision quickly, and that it was done quickly is apparently more important than being right. What a mess of text, and a mess of self-contradiction. Clearly, someone has decided the correct answer, "speed", and is now trying to mash evidence to fit.
> One of the chief advantages of suburban life is cost.

And that's entirely a function of bad city design. When I lived in New York, I lived in a Westchester suburb satellite city over 20 miles away from the city. I had a 35 minute commute by train right to Manhattan. There are tons of such suburbs in Westchester, because they have train lines running through the whole area.

Meanwhile, my parents live in D.C. suburbs that are similarly priced, half the distance out of the city, but where the commuting options are a 1-1.5+ hour drive. In Westchester you've got a little downtown and can walk to shops and restaurants. In the D.C. suburbs you have to drive 20 minutes just to get to the drug store.

It's all about city design.
Bird strikes have taken down commercial aircraft, so I would guess that yes drones are a threat
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I was going to write up a bit of a rip on this as well:

> All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win.

So, that's why we all still use AOL? And why Microsoft never had to worry since it built Office? Why PayPal squashed Venmo? The point is really that all else are never equal. Speed to market is A factor, but it's not the only factor, or even the most important factor today. Look at Box, vs. Dropbox, vs. Copy, vs... The market is big enough for multiple identical services. Users pick the one that works the best for them.

And I certainly agree asking questions is a GREAT way to start documenting all the stuff that has to go into a project. I'd add a bullet point, "Way more hours than I want for... explaining why setting up Vagrant is important... explaining why unit tests save time, for the 900th time... explaining why QA is needed..."

Things don't often get tracked that ought to be, but PLEASE do not send more meeting requests to your entire dev team asking them to justify to marketing or sales why we need the basic steps we ask for.

(This article hits a bit close to home today, as I'm literally in a meeting with 15 people where only 2 people are talking and I literally just had to defend QA marketing guy who clearly doesn't get it. And the topic... "How we can organize our team to be more efficient.")
"Study finds less skilled Halo 3 players more likely to harass women in-game" would be the best title.

I've been playing games long enough to know that certain games attract certain types of people. The demographics can even vary widely from platform to platform within the same games, especially when online play is also segregated by platform.

This study's dataset is much too narrowly scoped to be making the sweeping statements in this article.
Might be possible with text-to-speech engines based on pure synthesis (like eSpeak) rather than concatenation of actual voice recordings (every mainstream text-to-speech engine).
If a bird strike can do this [1], I don't see why a drone could be any "better" for an aircraft to hit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
The PAN on smart card based chips is clear text readable with a simple USB reader use EMV mode
https://code.google.com/p/cardpeek/

Simple CCD cameras will read out PAN+CCV without even having to use a smart card reader.
Unfortunately, it's an art, not a science.

In the question "which ones?", don't miss the point of the article - that we spend far too much time making most decisions.
Hey, cool, it's nice to see my stuff get referenced by someone that isn't me!

Rhombus only _reads_ magnetic stripe data. It won't write it. But yes, you could totally write to a low-coercivity stripe with the right hardware.

Before you run out and get a Square reader, they're all encrypted now and don't return the raw data necessary for Rhombus to work. You can still get unencrypted readers from China on alibaba pretty easily.
Yeah, sorry if that came off as snarky; I appreciate the suggestion.

I guess I can understand the cost-cutting mentality that drives Google, AWS, etc. to limit these kinds of offers to "new customers" only. Just remember to consider what kind of incentives you're creating. By effectively punishing developers for being early adopters/experimenters, you're making them wary of signing up early for whatever new and interesting stuff you announce in the future.
why don't you post a link to check it out??
You don't need to use IIS for hosting anymore, look up Owin self hosting. You'll have to build some of the stuff IIS gives you yourself, but the speed is better
Try birds, for starters.
They can. From what I've read the real problem is much like birds. If they get sucked into the jet engine then they can do a huge amount of damage. More than a bird even because of the fact that you've usually got a good bit of metal and a lithium battery or two. That's enough to take out the engine just like a bird but with the lithium battery that's going to get splattered around there's an increased chance of fire starting that could make even losing one engine a really bad prospect. Combine that with the fact that the plane is likely to be at a low altitude and it's unlikely that the plane will be able to glide somewhere it can safely crash land at either an airport or long stretch of road.
I was interviewing student devs recently and was flabbergasted how many of the kids doing greenfield personal projects were still using WinForms. It's frustrating how Visual Studio pushes them to work with this bone-headed warty out-of-date technology. These weren't old hands using somethign familiar just to get an MVP for a personal project, these were kids who didn't know any existing GUI frameworks and started using WinForms because it's the default in VS.
For the same reason the grandparent post reiterated it: the readers downvoting the parent post seem to have missed it.
Interestingly, they also only have a single $1+ tier. Other creators usually have multiple tiers with a lot more focus on the rewards at each level.
Yes, it seems like this article is very specific to PowerVR.
> Calling the police on security researchers...I honestly cannot believe this is considered acceptable behavior. A much less aggressive (and thoughtful) move would be to contact the researchers directly. Wow.

So, you don't care about the fact that this experiment on public roads could have killed people? Just because it's for security research it's ok to recklessly endanger lives? What Wow's me is your cavalier attitude, I'm glad he informed the police and I hope they face repercussions. What they did needlessly endangered people's lives and public safety to add a sensational bit to a story, I find that way more "aggressive" than informing the proper authorities of those actions.