skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In response to "are all Muslims terrorists" I would expect to get an informative page detailing that no, obviously they are not (I know muslims personally who are as western, educated, and civilized as any of my Christian friends) while also explaining why some muslims or muslim countries are uncivilized places that have not been exposed to basic things humanity figured out during the enlightenment. (In these places Apostasy is a crime punishable by death, for example.)

Your search results there will already have been filtered by google to things you agree with based on your previous search history. So if you search for that kind of thing a lot, you'll likely see a lot of news items about Trump and rants by angry people talking about how all muslims are indeed terrorists.

Just one of the many ways our modern technology works to create divisions between us, all based on the best of (marketing) intentions.
Security is not a boolean. It's all about how expensive is to attack you. Purism and QubesOS make it quite expensive.
Do you have a firewall that drops ICMP packets? Some firewall admins do this believing it improves security, but it can cause exactly this to happen.

You can usually get away with it in IPv4, but with IPv6 it causes connections to stall as soon as you try to push any significant amount of data through a TCP connection.
Correlation is not causation though, so it could be the other way round: reported anti-Muslim crimes lead to a spike of interest in the subject, not necessarily the other way round. Or both are caused by a third factor (say, Boston bombings), but don't affect eachother directly.
I never said that I thought it was easy; I just don't see the email-specific barrier to entry. Syncing is hard in general, dealing with legacy systems is a pain, parsing poorly compliant file formats is annoying... But you have that everywhere.

What do you expect? That writing an email client should be as easy as cobbling together a map view with Google Maps? If that's your point of reference, then yes, there is a barrier to entry.

In another reply you said that your MVP took 4 years; but looking at your website I see something that tries to compete with Outlook. That's hardly what I'd consider an MVP.

I'm pretty certain that I could develop a solid email app in a year. Of course, it wouldn't do everything that existing mail clients do, and it wouldn't be compatible with every email provider, and it would probably be limited to a single platform. But it would do some things differently enough that it would be worthwhile for a few people.

If you think there's an insurmountable barrier to entry, you need to take a step back. There is absolutely no need to compete with the best existing clients on a feature-by-feature basis to enter a market. Focus on a small niche, and go from there.
It's interesting that Stripe customers knowingly, or most likely unknowingly, have overlooked anti-fraud measures and taken on additional liability in exchange for a good user interface and easy setup.
For home and small server users, ease of use trumps perfect security, that is a simple risk model assumption: your security has to be good enough, not perfect. Better than others and all that.

As someone else points out in a neighbouring thread, OwnCloud is generally less secure than any of the large services, because of automated vulnerability scanning. If an OwnCloud user updates their server days or even hours to late, it can be game over and your data is on the street. It does not matter if the attacked service is OwnCloud or some other service with enough privileges.

This does not mean that open source and/or decentralized services are at a disadvantage, but you have to make the right security choices. The storage service[1] should never see unencrypted data - encryption at rest is not good enough. For instance, Bittorrent Sync provides this with their encrypted read-only keys. A cloud peer with such a key never sees unencrypted folder data. The only thing you lose when a cloud peer is hacked is a node in the swarm, but it'll never result in visibility of plain-text (unless you subvert AES-128). One SyncThing developer is currently also working on similar functionality for SyncThing.

For this reason, I would never recommend OwnCloud to anyone outside a large company that has the capacity to do continuous security auditing and monitoring, unless you apply client-side encryption (but then you could use Dropbox et al. as well if privacy is the primary consideration).

[1] I know that OwnCloud does more than just storage.
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Personally, I'm looking for a database with:

- strong consistency (cross-node transactions!)

- strong access controls (don't want clients to see data they're not allowed to!)

- the ability to seamlessly replicate a view from the server to a web client without me having to think about it (although only read-only)

So far none of the web nosql databases I've looked at support these. Strong consistency seems to be unfashionable, presumably because it's hard to shard. I was really surprised to discover that CouchDB apparently doesn't support access controls, though --- if a client has access to the database endpoint, it can see everything. Aren't access controls part of the core competency of a multi-user database?
I guess the attention to it has been spread out over a bunch of different papers.
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you can see unfiltered search results at google.com/custom (an old page that's still up.) I often find it useful.

EDIT: I see your response but I'm confused. did you go to http://www.google.com/custom ? there's no signin or anything like that, it's just an old page that's still up, from when they were cobranding the page or something.
Indeed, that's what I've done. I've completely eliminated sugar and I've increased my veg intake. As of the end of last week urine strips indicate that I'm in ketosis. I'll have another set of bloods done this week before I go to see a specialist probably after xmas. I intend to take a very self experimental approach with this. At the same time, if it does turn out that I'm one of those people who doesn't metabolize saturated fat well, or I do in fact have a genetic mutation then I'll also have to consider the drug route I suppose.
I've stopped eating all together and my stats are out of this world.
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Speaking of Sayre's Law ..
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If someone truly believes that all Muslims are terrorists, they aren't all that likely to be searching for websites that question this point of view. I'm not googling for "are all humans mammals?" etc.
My assumption here is that it is cost prohibitive to go after individuals so the loss is just written off.
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The problem is now that I'm not even sure whether I should agree with what a "good" or "bad" number is for LDL or TC. The recommended number seems to fall every few years, and I'm unsure how much of that is based on good research or industry pressure or what.
I think it's not as much "people expect her to be doing incredibly well" but more "I expected to be doing incredibly well based on my youtube status". At least that's the vibe I get from her post.

It's like that "I have to succeed" line in the article. You have a fairly steady income and spend a lot of time doing something you love; you're already succeeding. You don't want to "succeed", you want to be rich. I'm sorry you feel that being a barista is beneath you, aren't you the special one.

edit: to be clear I don't mean you, I mean the person who said that :)
I'm not cristian (by my choice) and I reserve right to hate christians too.

Currently, I'm definitely in "I hate some christians" mode too. That's what happening in my head (hate as an emotion).

I'm not generalizing. Not all muslim declare themself salafi. Those who do - want to eventually kill all able non-abrahamic folk the same way as vegans want to avoid consuming animals. There's no such thing as non-practicing vegan.
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"The sandwich you just sold was purchased with stolen money. Give us the money back." This means, that the seller has no sandwich and no money. In reality he has to pay a fine in form of a chargeback fee, because he did not detect, that this money was stolen. WTF?"

Well, the problem is that the real life works exactly like this. If you pay someone $1000 for a laptop, and the laptop turns out to be stolen, the police will take it away without giving you anything. Now you have no money and no laptop. Money is a bit trickier, since in general it will not be taken away even if it comes from a robbery, but there might be exceptions to that.
I would think so, but then again, I also thought the class action suit against Sony's removal of OtherOS on the PS3 would have been a slam dunk. This is no different: the removal of a popular feature well after purchase.
But most anti-cholesterol diets lower animal fat intake, not dietary cholesterol intake. Is this supposed not to work?

I had high cholesterol for years, I didn't take it very seriously because I'm otherwise healthy and I was eating healthy, but when I decided to take care of it I got it from around 210mg/dL to something like 140mg/dL just by changing all my meat/cheese to low fat alternatives as my doctor said. I am a big eater though, so maybe it doesn't make as much a difference for people that don't eat so much.
... I remember deleting ~500 C++ files .. they were all classes that differed by a constant, so I just passed in a parameter. Was not popular at all, they liked lots of files.
This is ridiculous, it is the responsibility of Merchant and card companies to provide some sort of guarantee that the cards used are valid.

Why do we even accept credit cards if they aren't better than someone saying I promise to pay you when I get your product.
> my point is it doesn't matter what a religion says in purely literal terms,

But it matters if the followers of the religion actually form countries where they punish according to that, like in Saudi Arabia.

ISIS is also a self-proclaimed Islamic state. That's what I and S stand for. They execute homosexuals.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-punishment-for-homosexuali...

"All Islamic schools of thought and jurisprudence consider gay acts to be unlawful. They differ in terms of penalty:

The Hanafite school (currently seen mainly in South and Eastern Asia) teaches that no physical punishment is warranted.

The Hanabalites, (widely followed in the Arab world) teach that severe punishment is warranted.

The Sha'fi school of thought (also seen in the Arab world) requires a minimum of 4 adult male witnesses before a person can be found guilty of a homosexual act. Al-Fatiha estimates that 4,000 homosexuals have been executed in Iran since their revolution in 1979. 10 public executions of homosexuals have been performed in Afghanistan by the Taliban army."
Why the snark?
> And building tests for some really old, badly factored code just wasn't in our top list of priorities.

Really? I always thought that it's the old, ugly and brittle code that needs unit tests the most. Especially right before the moment you finally decide to rewrite it.
Britain's first official astronaut to got to the ISS.
This is completely awesome.

How do you do the side-by-side notebook and display thing Jupyter? Is it the new Jupyter dashboard/widget thing?
There are other forms of value besides money; in terms of social value and reputation, a hack that steals a large quantity of data about people is worth a great deal to the hacker.
Fame for fame's sake is not going to get you food on the table unless you're very lucky (and even then it will always be hollow). Fame + some marketable skill will. It's the same thing with websites that are attracting lots of eyeballs but don't have a way to monetize them.

Those things are called 'hobbies'.
Thanks!

I think I started before Ghost existed, but it went in a similar direction later on, possible that it influenced me. The big differences apart from the programming would be that there is no backend, that it is a way smaller project, that it has more features of a real blog at the same time (comments, trackbacks and pingbacks) while not having the cool editor.
According to a friend who works in politics & energy, the general consensus is that almost all oil will eventually be used. The real battle is over coal, and wether the world will manage to leave some of it in the ground.
This is something we encountered at Snowplow with our real-time loading of events into Elasticsearch [1]. It's not an issue for us because we schema all our events, but it was interesting to observe. Here's a summary in one slide:

http://www.slideshare.net/alexanderdean/snowplow-analytics-f...

[1] https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/tree/master/4-storage/k...
I wonder if you know the same NYT that I know, because they have been shitty for years now.
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The problem with that theory is voter turnout.

In San Francisco, the latest new regulation against housing was passed by a simple majority of the vote, with 8.5% of San Francisco residents voting in favor. In the latest election, the moderate District 3 supervisor was replaced by a rabid anti-growth supervisor with the approval of 12% of the district’s residents.

This is actually sort of by design. Americans in general are pathetic (I do not mean apathetic) about their civic responsibilities, but aggressive home ownership policies were pushed partly to get people more involved in politics. Turns out that this promotes narrow-minded personal interest rather than the good of society.
Inflation can also be the other side of a forex coin: you can't print other countries currency, and if your trade balance is bad then printing results in the cost of imports soaring.

The US is the country least likely to have this problem, as the countries where it is a problem (e.g. Argentina) use the dollar as hard currency to buy imports.
>It isn't, unless you only visit a dozen sites and ignore links on them.

Why do you feel entitled to use all the sites? They are not there to serve you out of goodwill. They are making a profit. You use them, but deny their profit.

>Installing an ad-blocker is much simpler.

Simple doesn't mean right.
Having skimmed over, one indication that my GP isn't up to date is that the lipid test is no longer required to be a fasted test, whereas mine was. Interestingly the specialist lipid clinic has also asked for a fasting test.
Dmitry Odintsov Appointed as Chief Business Development Officer of TrueConf
Dmitry Odintsov (former Sales Director) has been positioned as TrueConf Chief Business Development Officer. This newly created position will enable Mr. Odintsov to respond to some exciting, new international market developments. His primary tasks include the identification of promising market niches, the expansion of TrueConf’s global partnership network, and the promotion of TrueConf solutions in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia-Pacific region.

According to Michael Gotalsky, TrueConf CEO, the decision to create this new position was made in response to the growing demand for TrueConf solutions. To that end, strengthening TrueConf’s position within the international market is the company’s top priority at the moment.

Mr. Odintsov is ready for the challenges that lay ahead. “I am happy to work on TrueConf development in collaboration with our team of professionals. Through my work in the Sales Department, I gained solid business experience in various countries and I am sure that my knowledge will be useful for the company,” says Mr. Odintsov.

Dmitry Odintsov started his career at TrueConf in 2008. He singlehandedly created the Sales Department and became its head. Thanks to his professional approach, more than 1 500 companies have become TrueConf clients.

In his new position of Chief Business Development Officer, Mr. Odintsov will work closely with the heads of Sales Departments within Eastern Europe and worldwide. Such an approach will allow him to monitor changes in demand for the company’s products and focus on TrueConf’s global development.
Not sure about "random generals", but the red belt did exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Belt_%28Russia%29
I am not claiming that owncloud is shoddy, I am just refuting the claim that somehow hosting your own server makes you a smaller target and somehow safer.
Every code base eventually has security problems, sometime a big as heartbleed. If you are Amazon, you get a preferential disclosure and patches before it is publicly revealed. If you are John Doe, you better hope that you read the cve as soon as it's published and that you can patch the server right then.
The socialst government of Venezuela already 'broke' and was voted out in favor of conservatives, due to various reasons, one of them that the socialists could no longer pay for everything with petro dollars.

What more would you assume "break" means for Venezuela?

Russia's government is still in place.
Investors should and do make their own estimates of market opportunity.

Investors should and do demand help in making those estimates.

A common way to help is to provide a full estimate plus the inputs you used to make that estimate.

Now, I think a BETTER way to help is to provide ranges and discussions of the inputs, rather than point estimates. And it's rare that I've encountered an investor who didn't find that acceptable. But some version or other of the exercise is worthwhile.
payment in a devalued currency in mind when he bought the bond

This is why developing countries issue bonds priced in dollars. That therefore is why worrying about Zimbabweisation of the US is silly: you can force a printing race but not an absolute devaluation on a huge scale.
or with similar sentiment.. "Music is the space between the notes" Debussy
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Is it ok if I share “exclusive” news on my blog?
Hi,

I am looking to start a new blog in a niche. In my niche, information is scattered across multiple sources.

I am a member of many closed communities and VIP on some important forums.

Would it be ok, if I share the information that I collect from these sources on my blog after giving due credits or can it result in be getting banned from those communities?

As the information is scattered, a small blog might help people looking to read in my niche.

I am told that a lot of good bloggers frequent HN, would really appreciate their take on this.

TIA
You're ignoring the Muslim Brotherhood which recently gets a lot of support from Hillary and Sanders.
Not much going on here... and sponsored content to boot.
> stuff that Christianity does or did.

What is that "stuff that Christianity does or did" that I write about above? What do you consider an accusation? I see just a set of facts.

Which part of my text do you dispute?
Recent research suggests that cholesterol directly in food isn't a major problem because most of it passes through the digestive system untouched.

The problem is actually cholesterol produced by the body using other substances. 80% or more of the cholesterol in your body is produced by your body, no more than 20% of it comes from your diet unless your diet is particularly unbalanced in that manner. The reason cholesterol in people's diet got the blame is that there is often a strong correlation between the foods containing substances that do cause increased cholesterol in the body and foods containing significant amounts of cholesterol, and a similar correlation between certain lifestyle options that are risk factors for heart problems generally and eating those foods.

So blindly reducing cholesterol in your diet is not useful and may lead you into a false sense of security - you could still be taking in the other stuff and living your life in a way that will encourage the body to produce too much cholesterol itself.
I would pay $1 for a service that matches my skill level to various open source project issues on github and gives me an intro to make a PR for them.
This service once stable and dependable could be sold to Comp Science depts of universities as real-world programming projects for their students.
I don't understand why you're arguing about a book you haven't read.

> no matter the prestige, they could still be wrong and/or poor researchers and/or poor writers

Sure, but those are generalizations, and they don't apply in this case. As you would know if you could be bothered to read it...
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So they're selling vague promises. Getting everyone to open source their binary blobs (and the Librem has a lot) is highly optimistic at best.
You're evidently unfamiliar with the meaning of the word "fashionable". Looking up the definition may help in understanding my post.
I always read you should usw loose mode if you can, which shouldnt have these Bad performance implications.
Oils ain't oils these days. Fracking and oil sands have broken down the division between what is oil and what is not. God help us if we get close to burning even half the coal.
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Everyone mentions Van Gogh every time this comes up because he's the one artist out the top thousand or million who couldn't sell during his lifetime. He was an extremely rare exception.
FYI, when compiled with Babel 5's loose mode, the transpiled code is roughly similar to what you'd hand-write:

https://babeljs.io/repl/#?experimental=true&evaluate=true&lo...

I didn't test the performance impact though. Also it's still a mystery to me how to enable Loose mode in Babel 6.
The comparison with Couch and other solutions actually exists in our documentation: check out http://kinto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html#compari...
We will see what all the voting amounts too in practice in Venezuela. Even if it does mean a change in government and policy there is not much they can do given their financial situation.
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"As rates go up, oil producers will have to increase output to achieve previous profitability, however, there will be less consumers of the goods that oil helps produce since liquidity will be drained from the system. This will create an opportunity for alternative petrocurrency systems to gain influence over disgruntled oil producers."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Emblem21/comments/2yuefw/the_proble...
If the term Islamophobia denotes an irrational fear of Islam, what is the term for a rational fear of Islam? Of course, such a term would have currency only in the West given that (some) Muslims kill many more Muslims than non-believers. And what is all this down to? Interpretation of a text! As well to bear in mind that a similar problem once existed, now pretty much in the past, with the Christian bible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9
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> their dictators

How do you define who's a dictator and who's not?

If Winston Churchill have acquired more executional powers during WWII to get through mind-boggling beurocracy, would you call him dictator, for example?

You're trying to prove a statement that is true, but your proof is abysmal.
Absolute and utter FUD article, with zero basis in science and all the markings of another self-fulfilling social research trick.

Of to Google "Are all The New York Times articles shitty journalism?" Our research shows that in the months after these searches, the number of shitty articles on The New York Times seems to rise. We know this before the FBI does so, because we wield the power of Google Trends.
I would love to write my bash scripts in node, but end up writing them in bash anyway ... How do you do something like this in node?

sudo -u 2>&1 >> logfile | tee | echo