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I often wonder whether my parents felt the same way raising me that I do raising my children: just winging it for the most part, trying to figure out how to be a good parent from any available resource, and projecting an aura of infallibility and reassurance.

You have to step up and own your ignorance if you ever want to move past it.
This is of course true, though not a new idea. Bret Victor said "the most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing."[0]

Moreover when we are convinced we know what we're doing, it's a sure sign we don't have a clue. After a few decades of practice I realized that in fact I didn't know what I was doing, and turns out that's the key to success.

[0] http://worrydream.com/dbx/
The last two paragraphs are almost Onion-worthy.
The US effort to disrupt Al-Qaeda is over a decade old. At what point in that effort does the public interest in tracking what NSA/DOJ/CIA is doing override the public interest in not compromising sources and methods for what is still a very real threat to the world?

Maybe a model statute that required the USG to (a) declare its surveillance objectives publicly (it's no secret that we're after AQ and ISIS, nor should the USG get to be secretive about its broad objectives) and (b) limit use of the FISC process to targets operationally relevant to those objectives.

But while I would be happier with that kind of transparency, I think people actually involved with surveillance would say it's just window dressing, because the totality of the FISC process and the 2001 and 2003 AUMFs has the same effect.
> Hillary may be a triangulating politico ; but this one is a no brainer for her.

Well that's exactly the point though, no?

Deep, excavatory reform in intelligence (and government generally) - the kind of change that might lead Snowden to be treated with respect - is precisely the motion that requires thought leadership from a statesperson who is ahead of public opinion instead of riding it.
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We'll give you Hilary for free if you want her!
Considering that Hillary was instrumental in helping to create ISIS, this is rich.
This kind of surveillance by government isn't going away, so I'm happy to see this kind of technology ending up in the hands of the public to help level the playing field.
Thanks! I hadn't seen Vox article, and it didn't show up in results when I checked for prior submissions.
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Putting someone in prison for a decade is violence. If you believe there's nothing wrong about what you did, isn't using violence just self-defence? Is no law unfair enough to warrant more than passive submission?
How do they define "familiar with Snowden"? John Oliver's team interviewed numerous passers by in Times Square in New York and while many of them gave negative opinions, few of them demonstrated knowledge of what he revealed. Many thought he was related to Wikileaks or thought of him solely as "that guy who hurt our national security".

When asked about the actual ramifications of Snowden's revelations (how they would feel about "dick pics" being seen by the government), nearly all of them had very negative opinions (which would likely affect their opinion of Snowden).

Doesn't really affect Hillary's politics but still, if the media would actually inform the public about his revelations, things may change.
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We just need robotic farmers that are powered from manure and use real livestock to fight desertification.
I'm a PhD student studying gerrymandering, and I think it's cool this is getting written about in the NYT. But, there are very good models of gerrymandering built off of well-informed counterfactual analysis of generalized linear modelling that can provide both easy to understand indicators of gerrymandering and bias, as well as provide an indication of the uncertainty in those measures.

One thing that's been getting on my nerves in the road to the big D(issertation) is the complete lack of value some in the domain place on that uncertainty.

Elections in single member district systems, at the geography where gerrymandering study becomes meaningful, has to be modelled as a Stochastic system. These kinds of "accounting methods" can vary wildly in their estimates from election to election, and almost always fail to really express how uncertain the indicator is.
This is likely because React moved to Discord too after Slack did not want to bump up their maximum user limit: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-...
This is the smartest thing I've heard her say. To advance a successful agenda in the middle east, the US needs to wage a subversive culture war, not a physical one.

If you could focus on one core idea that would end suffering, bloodshed and violence in this region it would be to nurture the spread competing ideologies (eg.atheism) to the religious one.

Unfortunately, America is never going to do that, and this is why the middle east won't be disrupted, and why it hasn't happened in the last 50 years. It would be good if some other western country's propaganda dept would pick up this torch, but they'd never get it done as good as your average silicon valley growth marketer could.
If you are being targeted by the "checked and balanced" system for doing what you believe to be an harmless activity, isn't that enough to lose your faith in it?
Author here. I'm running a "show hn" on what is a complete backend project - but I'm well aware interest in the project will be a lot higher when a registration interface is implemented.

Any feedback on the work thus far would be appreciated.
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A stationary car bomb has a lot of advantages over other assassination methods. For one it allows you to get away, you only need to plant the thing and it could go off hours, days or weeks later. The assassin could be a in a different country when the bomb goes off. You could put more of them at strategic points into a city not knowing anything about the daily routine of your target, just their license plate would be enough. You could drop a bunch of them ahead of time in random places and program all of them by remote to scan for new plates and so on. Not much you could do about it either, every parked car would be a risk.
Right, but it takes years of immersion in specific fields just to be made aware of the existence of git, let alone grasping the only somewhat related concepts necessary to interface your raspberry pi with your homemade bomb (a whole nother set of skills!) Do you remember your first foray into microelectronics? Let's just say you might not want to use live explosives for your first attempt...

I have a friend who likes to make and print his own 3d models. He built his own 3d printer. I connected the camera he got to his raspberry pi and installed and configured octopi for him because he wasn't confident he could figure it out in a timely manner.
Interesting to see that percentage of repos is private.

Is BitBucket separate from Atlassian? Are you hiring? ;)
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Thanks! This Vox summary is much more share-friendly.
"fake it until you make it"
Option 1 seems the best of those constrained choices.

Until global and remote work is the norm and as productive as on-site work, there is a local market. And the local market is one of the factors you're competing within/against (employee/employer perspective).

Setting one market wage worldwide as an employer ensures that you'll not get much (any?) talent from the high-cost locations.
"Thought leadership"

I actually like that turn of phrase ... but I"m not holding my breath this election cycle.
I suppose it's totally okay to not compensate workers for home power user, printer paper, toner, and phone time when asked to work from home though?
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Employers are customers that pay for semi fungible services. And like all people and organizations they will try to get the best price they can get. They want a certain amount and level of service and will try to pay the minimum to get it. Just like a person will try to get the cheapest plumber who is skilled enough for their needs.
>What happens next? More importantly, what should happen?

>So, we punish Ann for moving by reducing her salary?

I don't see a problem with reducing Ann's pay. If rent is only $300 instead of $3000 the pay should reflect that.

If that sounds like a problem, imagine that the company pays rent or for hotel stay for visiting employees. If hotels cost $400 a night in SV and $40 a night in Argentina, should the company pay $400 a night in Argentina in order to 'equalize the pay'?
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>John Oliver's team interviewed numerous passers by in Times Square in New York

Emphasis mine.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+.bash_hist...

This works pretty good too, does not suffer from the github blocking of your script and is probably even easier.

Github might include something like a warning on your repo that it includes possible data that you might not want out there.
I had a short look at CT recently and came away with the impression that you'd need serious resources to usefully process the data - certainly doable, but more than most private persons or even organizations would be willing to invest into watching after their domains, so it is great to see a project for a watcher-service.

What kind of hardware/instance size do you actually need to run this and keep up?
> I don't see what's wrong with the trend of encouraging people not to use 5000 words when 50 would do.

If 50 would do. That's rarely the case.

Most of the time short articles aren't the result of distilling hundreds of hours of wisdom down to an easily digestible few hundred words.

Instead they are the result of dropping all consideration of context and pushing a simplistic view. Or rushing junk out the door.

An article goes from:

"Given our specific set of circumstances (industry, team size, project size, project makeup, technology stack, turnover, strategic direction, short term goals etc) X is great. We considered alternatives Y and Z but discarded them because of A, B, and C. We ran into issues D and E and were able to do F and G to work around them. We later found we had missed risk H in our analysis but we were lucky enough that it didn't come up.

To:

"X is great. We used it to increase our productivity by 10%."
Ok, well let's rephrase that: it would be trivial for me and I hate to underestimate the opposition, they're not all dumb. And the proliferation of IEDs in Iraq suggests that those skills are readily transferable.
Lenses are too big a concern. Whichever way I go, I'll probably stick to the kit zoom, plus a wied-ish pancake prime for carry-around.
For some reason this reminds me of Twin Peaks. I was expecting a surreal, supernatural twist midway through.
Now there's a startup idea I can get behind!
They've made a lot of progress. But their site says "The ASCar website is not providing product or company details at this time. The company will begin promoting its products in 2015." Getting the price down by three orders of magnitude is tough for a small startup, especially since the technology pushes the limits of the technology at the high price point.
LE was threatening to lock him up for life. How is that not abuse to an obscene degree? It's not like he initiated violence for the political goals; he did so only when he faced a real threat of violence against him.

I don't condone his alleged procurement of murder, but I think people are misstating what happened.
A risky venture ...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1618/favorability-people-news.asp...
>I haven't spoken to her in years but I remember the affect the depraved stuff aome people do - call pizza for delivery, leave things in mailboxes, hack the computer and steal private files, stalking.... It's just crazy.

I think this teaches us that there are two categories of people in large-ish quantities:

1) Lots of imbalanced people out there.

2) Lots of teenagers whose parents didn't instill social skills into them.
Looks interesting. "Marketplaces" are always tricky because the quality is so uneven. Usually like to see which components are produced by the core team, or at least which are "vetted".
I've probably taken too many courses on this and related topics during my undergrad, going from basic group theory to category theory, representation theory, and algebraic geometry.

For the uninitiated, a great first book is Fraleigh's text - very down-to-earth and conversational. When you're done with that you can read Dummit/Foote and for those with serious gumption, Lang's classic text. Have to say, it was my favorite subject - clean, elegant, and abstract.
I agree that superstars without toxic traits are rare. However, I believe that both superstar and toxic qualities are learned, and can change. I believe that it's toxic organizations, or at least toxic managers, that shape potential superstars into toxic workers.
The problem with these novel ideas is two-fold:

1) The market it appeals to would rather just write the code themselves (programmers don't seem to like drag and drop tools - or so I am told)

2) The technology behind them is chosen through flavour-of-the-year/month

- If this was 2013, it would have been some other JS library instead of React.

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A better solution would be to create a CRUD-generator in the raw languages themselves that can kick-start or help get MVPs out a lot quicker than normal (or basically eliminate the need of "I need a tech-guy to build my idea" part of starting a startup).

Eg. you have an application that is drag-and-drop-like that generates pure Python-3 for the backend and pure ES6 for the frontend and moves along with these languages (and not tied to any framework).

The only catch is that it will appeal to a small market and will never be something you can comfortably make money from.

As long as the generated-code is 'good', the project will live on for years.
You are pretending that "nuke Moscow" is some kind of specialized mission requiring specialized planes that can't be used for anything else, even though the B-52 itself is a glaring counterexample.

"Carry a heavy load of weapons anywhere in the world while having a decent chance of penetrating air defenses" is a better description of what a bomber does, but that doesn't lend itself to the kind of facile sneering that was in your original post, does it?
> I don't see a problem with reducing Ann's pay.

It does seem odd that an employer can use a person's lifestyle as a basis for adjusting their pay. Almost a violation of privacy.
Decline in gun violence in the United States
It would not even have to be "atheism," just having the courage to start talking about that the West in fact has what it has because it stopped taking religion too seriously.

Which is hard to imagine being said from any influential politician in the US.

And there are, as we would see them today, some gory things in the Bible. But not even most extreme international organization of believer fighters tries to "do all what's in the Bible." Not so with the Quran and Surah, only because the doctrine, even promoted by the US "close friends" like Saudi Arabia, is that these "words of God" are to be taken very seriously.

And there is really a lot of explicit intolerance in these basic Islamic texts. Which is also unimaginable to be admitted, even if it's true.

Humpty-Dumpty politics.

And another thing politicians would never say is "OK we'll really stop doing what we're doing, supporting the guys "on our side" no matter what they do."

Basically Hillary just hopes "somebody" would invent how to let the big politicians do just what they did up to now, and not lose any sponsor, but to cause change, but only to
the taste of them.

Win against ISIS but not admit that Libya is much worse since the West did what it did, and Assad is not allowed to stay too, just because "we" don't like him, and that Syria remains "a kind of Libya" "we" don't care too... And "we" will never excuse to anybody for what "we" made of Iraq. Or that "we" actually like those Islamic religious guys making wars because that's always "opportunity" for "us."

And when you're there, invent how to make energy out of nothing while keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. And how to eat sugar and fat indefinitely and remain thin. And...
Huh? The M4 was directly based on the M16, which was based on the AR-15, which was all ultimately based on the AR-10, which was first made in the mid 1950s, thus making it almost exactly as old as the B-52 bomber.

There's a lot more differences between a B-52 bomber when it first rolled off the production line and what they're like now than there are between an AR-10 and a modern M4, though of course the rifles are a lot less complicated.
How can we surmise the 64% number is probably made up?

Well, if we make the assumption that most probably over 50% of people don't know and don't care (about much of anything that doesn't have to do with their direct income) we can immediately see that there isn't 64% left!
Are they obliged to support platforms they don't care for?
I gave beyondmeat[1] as an example that we possess the technology already to provide meat-like products that are 100% plant-based. It's backed by people like Bill Gates, Biz Stone...

I'm just hoping that people will start educating themselves and stop ignoring the facts about factory farming and reject the idea as it's destructive on so many levels.

I'm not so much arguing against farms that give the animal a decent life and try to reduce suffering as much as possible, although I hope this will also become a thing of the past when products like beyondmeat will become cheaper than the cheapest meat available.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TpQl9V9yoA - interview with the CEO (4min)
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I read this study via the article http://qz.com/563683/turns-out-toxic-coworkers-are-more-expe... which pointed out the net savings between hiring a superstar vs firing a toxic employee, and I was more shocked that the numbers were so low for superstars. That a Top 1% person in their field can only deliver $ 5303 worth of extra value to their company over their whole period of employment? I mean I'm no superstar, but that seemed pitifully low just from my own experience of the right action at the right time by the right person being able to secure deals worth a lot for the company.

As per the paper:

"To generate a straightforward comparison of the value of each of these focuses, we quantify the value of a star performer by identifying the cost savings from her increased output level. That is, a superstar is a worker that adds so much value that without her a firm would have to hire additional workers (or pay for additional hours from existing workers) to achieve the same level of output as when they have that single superstar worker."

"We calculate the percent in increased performance for each of these performance levels and multiply it by the average worker salary, based on company records."

"For comparison, we report in the "Avoid a Toxic Worker" column the induced turnover cost of a toxic worker, based on company figures. Induced turnover cost captures the expense of replacing additional workers lost in response to the presence of a toxic worker on a team."

"Top 1% Superstar: $ 5,303
Avoid a toxic worker: $ 12,489"

"The data were obtained from a company that builds and deploys job-testing software to large employers. Many of these companies are business-process outsourcers (BPOs) that themselves provide a variety of business services (e.g., customer care, outbound sales, etc.) to their clients. The employees included in the dataset are all engaged in frontline service positions and paid on an hourly basis."

So these stats are coming from call center staff and telemarketing where there's a lot more priority on people following the script/process than showing flashes of brilliance. But all of that gets lost when it gets breathlessly repeated in the abstract or in articles referencing it.
I think that you should put the pictures you've placed in Github on your front page. I feel hesitant to sign up for something when I don't see any pictures.
I was about to write a long economic essay on why this can't always work out, but I think the main thing here is that he is talking about a distributed team. in which case, (I presume that) the location has very little advantage unlike a company that is let's say based in Sillycon Valley with sales efforts there as well elsewhere in the States, or development work that relies heavily on collaboration (as opposed to top down direction).

In which case, realistically Ann should get paid the same amount as Sofia. No problem hiring all Sofias if Ann's situation in Sillycon Valley does not confer any benefit to the company at all.
Thanks so much for the feedback -- that makes a lot of sense. :)
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Github search does many, many things you can't trivially recreate through a Google search:

https://github.com/search/advanced

You can access all of this functionality with ghrabber.

One of my suggestions to Github is that they disable indexing of dotfiles of all persuasions (including contents of dot-directories), unless the repo owner explicitly opts in. That would make it much harder to find a very large fraction of the more obvious leaks.
Auren Hoffman has a theory on desirable employees: people who "steal" things from home and bring them to the office!
How do you be a leader in a situation where it's your first time doing a startup and "we all don't know what we are doing"?
Why should the pay reflect a change in rent?

Would the same thing apply for moving to a different neighborhood of the same city? A different apartment/house in the same neighborhood? Gaining or losing a roommate?
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Setting one market wage worldwide as an employer ensures that you'll not get much (any?) talent from the high-cost locations

I don't see why; it just means you have to set the global wage equal to the ceiling, not the average of all local market wages.
Cost-of-living adjustments are pretty de rigeur for global operations which hire out of a particular social class and want consistent ability to staff locations important to them regardless of variances in local cost of living. Consider, for example, megabanks.

Many software companies hire remotely and are rediscovering this. We don't need, as a function of the business, to have someone in e.g. central Tokyo and central Kansas, but it turns out that we often end up having that, or the strong possibility of that given the ex ante distribution of individual candidates.

Almost every distributed shop I worked with has a formal or informal discretionary bump in "the formula" to accommodate high-cost-of-living candidates. It is generally closer to $10 ~ $20k rather than "double."

American companies used to (and some foreign companies still) adjust salaries based on family size, too, which was also primarily a way to maintain access to desirable candidates for non-managerial work who had gotten an early start on family formation. (This was subsequently illegalized in the US, AFAIK, but "city in which you live" is not in general a protected class in US labor law.)
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Ya... that shows W. Bush with over a 50% favorability rating in 2015. In short.. I'm not sure I buy it.

Be that as it may, it still shows Hillary viewed unfavorably by more people than not at 43% vs 46%. And to my point, this group probably overlaps significantly with those who hold an unfavorable view of Snowden. And I'm guessing in that intersecting group (people who dislike both), the hatred of Hillary is generally stronger than of Snowden.