Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression
In the wake of Charlottesville, both GoDaddy and Google have refused to manage the domain registration for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that, in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is “dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism.” Subsequently...
Hasnain says:
"Protecting free speech is not something we do because we agree with all of the speech that gets protected. We do it because we believe that no one—not the government and not private commercial enterprises—should decide who gets to speak and who doesn’t."
"We would be making a mistake if we assumed that these sorts of censorship decisions would never turn against causes we love. "
Posted on 2017-08-20T02:52:24+0000
graydon2 | "What next?"
graydon2.dreamwidth.org
Hasnain says:
A great read on PLs and what's next for programming languages in general
Posted on 2017-08-19T22:31:21+0000
Bannonism lives on in the White House - BBC News
Steve Bannon may be out as a senior White House advisor, but his ideology is firmly entrenched.
Hasnain says:
""The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em," Mr Bannon said. "I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.""
It's scary to admit, but the guy is right and that freaks me out.
Posted on 2017-08-19T17:38:58+0000
A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M.
Like many in the housing-starved San Francisco region, Sheila James has moved far inland, gaining affordable space at the price of a brutal commute.
Debugging a Race Condition in a Release Target
Debugging a Race Condition in a Release Target 2017-08-08 Back in June, while working on a Rust project, I had the unfortunate opportunity to stumble upon a very obscure bug in a dependency. The bug didn't occur in the debug build target at all, only the release target. And even then, the bug didn't...
Opinion | What if Western media covered Charlottesville the same way it covers other nations
The world would shake its head at America.
Hasnain says:
"“This is the time for moderates across the white male world to come out and denounce violent racial terrorism, white supremacy and regressive tribal politics,” said James Charlotin, a Canadian national security expert. “Why haven’t they spoken out?”"
I literally laughed out loud.
Posted on 2017-08-17T05:55:50+0000
More on Dota 2
Our Dota 2 result shows that self-play can catapult the performance of machine learning systems from far below human level to superhuman, given sufficient compute. In the span of a month, our system went from barely matching a high-ranked player to beating the top pros and has continued to improve
Hasnain says:
Doesn't go into enough detail about how they built the bot
Posted on 2017-08-17T04:38:27+0000
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again. Our terms of service reserve the right for us…
Hasnain says:
This is really scary:
"Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision. It was different than what I’d talked talked with our senior team about yesterday. I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet. I called our legal team and told them what we were going to do. I called our Trust & Safety team and had them stop the service. It was a decision I could make because I’m the CEO of a major Internet infrastructure company."
Posted on 2017-08-17T04:20:48+0000
why selection bias is the most powerful force in education
Imagine that you are a gubernatorial candidate who is making education and college preparedness a key facet of your campaign. Consider these two state average SAT scores. …
Ask A Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
This is the sixth installment in a series where we ask female engineers questions and share their candid, anonymous responses. In this post, we did something a bit different: we asked engineers to answer questions about the recent memo by former Google engineer James Damore. There’s been a lot of an
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Posted on 2017-08-16T04:49:16+0000