skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the Midwest and would happily consider living here long-term in order to work at jobs like these, except that the jobs are generally terrible. They don't pay well, even by lower-cost-of-living Midwest standards. Yet they do all of the same nonsense that companies do in larger urban areas: open-plan office layouts (even when private working space out here is much cheaper than the already cost-effective prices you'd pay for it in a city), Agile/Scrum crap, various over emphasized alcohol-based social functions, ping pong tables, etc.

Why would a talented person stay around here for that? Most of us who like it out here like it because it's different than Silicon Valley or New York, and it suits our preference better.

You're not going to win with the talented people in the Midwest if you just try to make it feel like Silicon Valley Jr. -- you have to be different, with a whole different ethos that's a bit more about the style of life here. Many people choose to live in the Midwest because they like having more personal space, they want to raise a family, they value frugality and consider cost-of-living carefully, they might possibly actually want to own property some day, and/or they just may not personally derive much value from urban amenities.

But I've never seen start-ups or tech businesses here aim at providing a kind of working life that affords these values. It's all still the same "work hard play hard" bullshit as if by making yet another app or something-as-a-service, we're going to become masters of the fucking universe or something.

That stuff is already stupid even in the urban tech hubs. It just comes off even dumber when you're farther away from the tech hubs.

At any rate, I question the article's claim that there's a talent problem in the Midwest. The problem isn't that there are no talented people. The problem is that companies are not providing the opportunity for a lifestyle that matches up with the values of someone who would prefer to live in the Midwest.

If I have to work a million hours, put up with aggressive deadline culture, deal with Agile/Scrum "sprint cycle" idiocy, and feign social interest in rock climbing while I code or joining the same people I've been working with for 10 straight hours at a bar for 2 more hours of trite conversation where I'll be judged by how much overt social signalling my alcoholic beverage of choice emits, then fuck it. I'm just going to move to a big city and demand a big city wage and career opportunities.

On the other hand, if you can give me what the big city folks can't, like say a private office where I can actually get work done and feel productive instead of listening to the person at the desk next to me chew potato chips, or you can provide me with a work environment where 40 hours is exactly all that's expected, and also is exactly what is rewarded (i.e. you encourage workers to have a substantial life outside of work), and I don't feel like you're just doing a bunch of stuff like whisky night and ping pong to try to affiliate with the cool kids in SV, then we could talk.
Sorry, I can't speak properly when I'm on my phone. Now I'm on the computer I hope I can be a little more clear. I struggle with the notion of Christianity = love when (arguably) one of the most Christian countries is rife with problems and conflict distinctly un-lovelike. America has horrible education, especially for the children that need it most. It incarcerates a huge amount of people (many used for forced labor) and as far as I know there is a large culture behind punishing more than rehabilitating. Its healthcare system charges people to broke when they need it most, and the mental health system is bad on its own merits. If the majority of the people are based on a religion of loving each other, how can this happen in such a country?
You're still missing the point. An analogy is not meant to show that two things are similar. Therefore responding by saying that they are, in fact, different doesn't refute anything.
I'm afraid it has nothing to do with Mumble, since it uses webrtc for voice calls
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Homeless not Hopeless
FireChat seems to be an app, not a service. We only listed services, so things like Trillian, Pigin, etc were excluded.
Looks like an interesting paper, but I can't find any source code.
> But the false negative rate has to be extremely low

How would you know, you reject them offhand.

Thankfully, that sounds win/win.
And when the next Snowden publishes the global decryption keys we'll all just update our software together.
Once you do lead a team, which I'm sure you will do in the future if you're so inclined, It can be a bit harder than you would think! Even a team of all A players can flounder and never produce anything if you're not careful.

For me the thing is that you just have to constantly adapt your plan as things develop. I don't think deadlines are inherently bad. But if you do set deadlines, the team needs to be a part of that process and the goals need to be based on reality rather than just arbitrary. If you have hard external deadlines, then that may dictate the features you can deliver. I find that developers (myself included) appreciate being able to focus on their individual tasks, knowing that the manager is making sure the ship is heading in the right direction.
As a driver you get %70-%80 of the fare. So uber & co does not take %40
>>The rule of law might not seem always fair, but it hampers the powerful much more than the weak.

I guess we live in different realities. The powerful have proven over and over that they are capable of subverting the system in their own favor using their resources and influence.

>>As an example: None of the billionaires in my city have set up their own duchy pressed us into an army, enforcing their own laws.

They haven't set up their own duchies with private armies because they haven't had to. The state already protects them. Here is a direct quote from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations:

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Yes, and that reduces the number of people you need to watch more closely by about 100x.
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I think the extent to which this sect is completely and utterly divorced from the rest of humanity was well captured in a piece by The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...

> We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world.

> We are misled in a second way, by a well-intentioned but dishonest campaign to deny the Islamic State’s medieval religious nature.
You're not forced to use joins and most DBs don't force you to use transactions if you don't need them. Sharding is supported by postgres, oracle, sqlserver and mysql, even if it's not the recommended solution in all cases. A database doesn't magically start to scale by not supporting SQL nor does SQL support magically prevent it from scaling.
> What information sources do you follow that indicate that Christian extremism is even remotely as great a threat as Islamic extremism?

Actual statistics on who kills Americans in America.

> When I look at the FBI most wanted terrorists lists

That tells you which individuals the FBI sees the most value to the policy objectives set by their political leadership to draw public attention to.

It doesn't tell you anything about relative risk of classes of terrorists. At most, given complete trust of the judgement of the FBI and assumption of their policy objectives being aligned with risk to Americans and assumption that there are no factors other than risk weighing into what they draw public attention to, it gives you information on the relative risk attached to individual terrorists. But, even then, if there are relatively fewer Islamic groups posing danger to Americans, and each of those groups is more dependent on a narrow set of senior leaders for effectiveness, then members of Islamic groups could be dominate the 10 most wanted list by being the individuals responsible for the most risk, even while Christian groups are collectively responsible for greater risk.

> Contrary to your claim that the DoJ is downplaying domestic terrorism

I didn't claim that DoJ is downplaying domestic terrorism.

What I stated is that they don't issue press releases as frequently, and don't highlight organizational ties in the press releases they do issue, for the actual specific arrests or specific investigations of homegrown Christian terrorists in the way they do for arrests or specific investigations of Islamic terrorists tied to international groups.

This is actually in tension with the DoJ's portrayals of the overall risk from domestic, non-Islamic groups (I suggest a possible motive for this inconsistency in my early post, though that is pure speculation.)
Oh. Thank you for the clarification!
> Generally "Physical growth" and "GDP growth" are not really similar.

No, two different things. But just the same, neither can grow infinitely.

> A number can grow infinitely.

Especially if it's a measure of a scale that's constantly adjusting itself.

Your explanation of economic growth sounds like how American capitalists justify the existence of growth economies. Economic growth cannot be infinite, just like physical growth. Economic growth depends on resources just like any other kind of growth. When the resources run out, the everything stops. You can't math your way out of that.

The only way to sustain our current economic burn at our current (and growing) population is to move off-planet.
Do you think those things won't contribute to a happy life? I love open space and affordable housing and I'd like to have more.

Sorry, but I can't tell what you're getting at. What do you suppose would be sarcastic? Your comment needs a lot more explanation.
I cleaned up the README and hosted the decrypter on Github: https://github.com/eugenekolo/linux-ransomware-decrypter
The health insurance companies collect money monthly from all enrolled participants. That money sits on their books until it has to be paid out for claims. Higher healthcare costs means that the insurance company can raise the monthly premiums, which means that it's got more money sitting in it's accounts before the claims get paid. That money isn't under a mattress; the insurance company has it invested in something that's earning interest. So higher healthcare costs == more interest earned on the premiums as they pass through the insurance company on the way to paying claims.
Here's what the FBI said in 2002:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/the-terrorist-threat-conf...

> At the same time, the United States also faces significant challenges from domestic terrorists. In fact, between 1980 and 2000, the FBI recorded 335 incidents or suspected incidents of terrorism in this country. Of these, 247 were attributed to domestic terrorists, while 88 were determined to be international in nature.

> Right-wing groups continue to represent a serious terrorist threat. Two of the seven planned acts of terrorism prevented in 1999 were potentially large-scale, high-casualty attacks being planned by organized right-wing extremist groups.
I have thought about this response a bit, but, all I see here are more lists of characters.
That's the narrative.

This is the real misogyny:

>And she does it all behind the scenes while being kind and compassionate.

So:

1. Women should fuck men.

2. Women should stay behind the scenes.

3. Women should be "kind and compassionate" (are you one of those people that tells women they should "smile more" as well?).

If this blog post was a book or a movie I wouldn't read it or watch it because even if the female co-star is an actually impressive character it would be so annoying that she was shoehorned into a love interest role and doubly annoying that she was constantly shoved into the background.

Humans remember narratives, not facts, and so this isn't really a feminist story.
IMHO it's not fair to the website, no matter how poorly designed, to appropriate their content.
If your browser directly negotiates with the site, there would be no third party aggregating data. If federated, you could choose the payment processor (perhaps bitcoin?), and only companies (or distributed protocols) you implicitly or explicitly trust receive the data.
healthchecks.io follows this pattern and it works really well: you just get an email with a login URL. No passwords are involved.
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Don't confuse your opinions with ours.
That's generally the rule in C/C++-land. If you have two shared objects/dlls linked into your program that are linked with different versions of the C++ runtime, it's not safe for an object allocated by one to be freed by the other.
Is Google being a 300B dollar company a good thing for the internet though? Sure, Google provides a lot of useful things thanks to that, but I'm pretty sure there will still be internet after Google is gone.
Show HN: Wikitract-crowdsourced “wikipedia” for papers/patents(eg deep learning)
How does FB decide which disasters qualify for the safety check and which do not?
> plea deals

There are more violent crimes than can be tried. This is a _hard_ problem. Of the options, simplified a bit:

a) try fewer crimes and let more suspects free

b) try all crimes and forgo the right to a speedy trial

c) increase the funding of the criminal justice system by a factor of 10-100

d) allow prosecutors and defense attorneys to negotiate settlements in easy cases, to avoid wasting court resources, and providing a path for leniency for certain defendants

(d) has flaws, but I'm not surprised our system has opted for it as the least bad solution.

Legal scholars have struggled to find a better approach for decades. Curious to hear your recommendation, really interested in novel approaches to this issue.
> For example, music is strictly forbidden in Islam, except for the beat of a drum.

o.0 and that's in the Quran where? You talk with such certainty; seems to me _you_ are also very 'ignorant' of the Islamic Text
I believe that people in the USA would be just as willing to use public transit as people in Europe, if we had public transit systems that were actually worth using. Just look at New York, Boston, or Chicago: they have real transit systems, and people use them.
Sigh...there are a lot of problems with your statement. The first is that you are reciting anecdotes from 1400 years ago; there is absolutely no proof of anything you said. Even if we accept that the Quran was given to Mohammed by God, we have to at least acknowledge the possibility that a lot of what you've learned has been added in by various persons over the course of many hundreds of years i.e. we cannot be so sure about anything that is written down, by anyone, at any time, especially from something as old as the Quran. And to be clear, that applies to all writing, the Bible, etc.

The second is that no, believing ANYBODY about ANYTHING, no matter how eloquently put, is foolish to say the least. It doesn't make a difference if they are my parent or not, never mind some professor or total stranger. The only person who can decide if something is right or not is YOU. Belief should not be based on how charismatic anyone is, that is irrelevant. Unfortunately, you have total responsibility for your actions and opinions and it is inexcusable to believe anyone or anything without first exploring your doubt. And even then it is up to you to walk the line of what should be believed and what should be questioned.
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It's like tradition. You don't say it's tradition to eat dinner - because there's a clear and logical reason why.

Meditation has empirical benefits. Meditation is good. If you believe you have to meditate to not go to flaming eternal hell, that's religion.

So I'd argue, keep the logic, drop the religion.
I second a usb authenticator. It's also an effective defence against phishing attacks - unlike OTPs.
The actions of the teacher are debatable but not really what the article is about.
That budget includes all of the intelligence apparatus' budget, ongoing research programs, so on and so forth. So likely not even close to the $100B mentioned.

Secondly, I asked for source to support the claim that "all rebels switched to ISIS", but apparently you don't have that and are just of the opinion that that is what has occurred.
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A case for bots
The course material is all on the course website, you can find it here (look under "Labs"): https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/
WhatsApp now uses Facebook Messenger's protocol ... FYI
Yes! Here in Seattle, so far as I can tell, Uber succeeded mightily not because people particularly loved Uber, but because everybody hated the taxicab system.
I think the panacea is dedicated hardware that can produce secure tokens (a signed message) without having to expose my key to the machine I plug into. But existing systems still require that level of trust; I'm doing no worse than someone with a password typing it into a possibly insecure machine.
Ok wait, fraud? That's a bit strong don't you think? The person running this hypothetical plugin doesn't have any agreements with people to do or not do anything with ads on a page. There is no obligation from someone viewing an ad to not click on it for any reason.

That said, if you wanted to cause the ad industry to implode, you could do a lot worse than creating a plugin that does precisely this and having it reach critical mass.

As a bonus, it would completely screw up the analytics attached to your tracking cookies/IP address.
Exactly! I thought I was getting senile reading that article...
And then there are 100s of other stories like this one where people catastrophically fail.
Generally people are ok with Facebook doing it because they can opt out.

If you notice, the times people really get upset about companies tracking their personal information is if it's either not disclosed or it's done in a shady manner.

Also, capitalist societies tend to treat state actors differently than private corporations. It's much easier to choose a new corporation to interact with and the state tends to have a lot more personal/private data about you (which you're required to share with them).
My understanding is Zulip can now be only self-hosted, correct? If that's the case, it's disqualified from our criteria (cloud-based services).

(Please correct me if I'm wrong and we'll fix the graph)

We decided to count big IRC networks as "cloud-based services", because basically that's what they are.
>Interestingly, back in the 1980s, we Americans thought Japan was going to take over in every market: automotive manufacturing, high tech and consumer electronics, software, even space travel eventually. They were buying up iconic American properties like Rockefeller Center, and Japanese culture was all the rage.
>
>Then something strange happened in the '90s: the Internet.

The Internet had nothing to do with it. Japan was simply in the midst of a titanic property bubble which subsequently popped:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble
If they actually did have enough time to enforce all broken laws by reading our emails then their unreasonable effectiveness may warrant the intrusion. If these capabilities only are able to thwart a small percent of lawless plots then perhaps the cost to our personal privacy and security is too high to justify.
The hilarious thing is that the reason why open office spaces are popular in expensive real estate markets holds no water in the Midwest where there's ample space.

People just do it to cargo cult the woo-magic ideology of open office spaces without realizing that the marketing hoopla around that just exists to avoid saying "we do open office spaces to cram more people into less space and save money on furniture."
Call for an urgent rethink of the ‘health at every size’ concept
Interestly, those tradeoffs have nothing to do with relational or non-relational. They are a part of SQL.
I read an interesting article which found that it wasn't necessarily a religious sect for many of its members. It was more of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" after the aftermath of Middle East turmoil after post 9-11 military operations by the USA and others. Give it a read. It made a lot of sense.

http://www.thenation.com/article/what-i-discovered-from-inte...
Not necessarily worse than any other phone. They discount the phone and make the money back in the minutes. On contract phones do similar things.
What are you, a communist?
>The average distance between any two of Facebook’s 1.5 billion users is 4.74 edges. Sorry Kevin. With 1.5 billion users the whole graph can be explored within 5 hops.

Nitpicking here, but that does not follow. Starting from a random user and hopping 5 times in all directions you'd expect to explore about half of the graph.
Smashing Mag comparing 4 static site generators. Hugo, Jekyll, Middleman and Roots
Is the Native Mobile App Ecosystem Worth Saving?
There have always been problems in the US and elsewhere. It's a continual fight. Saying "woe is us, it's all rotten, we can't do anything" is capitulating in the worst sort of way to those who would take away our rights.
In some cases, I have known other people who worked in the companies and attested to the poorness of the work environment, or been able to read large and very public accounts of employee discontent within them.

Another good indicator of the same things is the unnecessary use of open-plan offices, especially if combined with a lack of willingness to permit significant time working from home.
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Big question I have is: Can it drive at least a 1080p display for something like full screen HD YouTube or HD Netflix?

I've had devices like this before, and while they often work for basic web browsing, they often fall short of being streaming video devices because of the relatively weak graphics acceleration and a low power CPU that cannot pick up the slack.
"The rule of law is largely a joke that the powerful trick the weak into accepting."

If you're saying that in the US the rule of law has been corrupted to the point that it's largely a joke that the powerful trick the weak into accepting, then while that's a bit stronger than I'd agree with, I do see how you'd come to the conclusion.

If you're saying that rule of law itself is largely a joke that the powerful trick the weak into accepting, then that's a deeply concerning statement.

Which do you mean?
I would agree the reproduction is quite possibly a violation of copyright, but this isn't an "appropriation." It isn't as though the OP has placed his or her ads around the text and seized revenue that would otherwise have gone to the original website. The intentions seem to be positive, even if society has deemed that the act itself is unacceptable.
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I don't know why we've not added Discord -- we've known about it for a long time. Will add!
You may say "I don't want to send them back to Syria" but there are only two real choices: to take your share of refugees and work with other countries to get them to do the same, or to wash your hands of them and leave them to the wolves.

There was a boat of Jewish refugees that Roosevelt hoped would be accepted to Cuba but whom the United States was unwilling to accept. 254 of those refugees ended up murdered in the Holocaust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis#.22Voyage_of_the_....
Yes, RSA provides systems like this also I think. My solution is worse, but only uses commodity hardware and free software. When I can program my own smart card I will prefer that.