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There's also this: "For months, the FBI used a confidential source to get close to Cornell, who allegedly said he wanted to hatch a plot inside the U.S."

"Get close to" in law enforcement parlance means "encourage criminal activity". If you read the details in these court cases, you repeatedly see an almost universal pattern of activity on the part of law enforcement to egg their targets on towards the criminal act. Drug "dealers" hassled for months to purchase LSD and repeatedly being told "no", only to finally give in and then get arrested. "Terrorists" being repeatedly contacted by informants or agents and plugged pro-terrorist encouragements for months until they agree to a part in some kind of "plot".

You have to remember that the vast majority of people won't take action by themselves. Even the crazy people that want to blow something up won't go out of their way to do it. It's the leaders you should be worried about. People that coordinate or incite others. Part of my career as an infantryman involved "riot police" training. The number one thing for arrest teams to do is to isolate and detain the people inciting the others. And this is why the powers that be are so hungry for mass surveillance: It's actually pretty easy to make giant relationship graphs of these networks to find the leaders. Remember the military talking about dropping five hundred pound bombs on phone numbers? They don't know who the person is, but they know he's a leader. Those people are easy to identify with enough information (and no, they don't need to unlock our iPhones to get at it).

It is in their best interest to keep pushing this idea that any random anti-government person is capable of an Oklahoma City bombing. The fact is, they're not.
I felt the same until I realized that all I really wanted was Chrome without all that Google-goo all over it. That's Opera in a nutshell.
I think keybase has the best attempt at a solution. They solve two fundamental problems.

1. Identity. its the sum of your online presence.

2. Insecure devices. In keybase devices have unique keys and can can be revoked when lost

I have been trying Protonmail, they have been deploying gpg in browser and apps. The interface is nice and I would have no problem recommending it to my parents. The problem is that it currently only works with other Protonmail users. Once they allow adding public keys for contacts and searching keyservers/keybase it will be quite nice and useful.

They have no solution for the key security on the mobile phone. I personally dont want my key on my phone.

I would really like to see a product that interfaces keybase and protonmail. Nicely designed apps and webinterface that all have different keys. Directly integrated with my social media contacts.

Thanks to everybody working these problems.
I don't recommend giving this advice to people who are seriously depressed. Speaking as someone who went through that for two years, it's more of a disease than a lifestyle problem. I could have done all these things and still have been miserably depressed.

What helped me was talk therapy, medication (the biggest factor), and having really supportive friends.
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I am still confused. You said,

>We'd still need ways to motivate people. I think basic income would be great. ...
>I think not having to worry about starving would be great for humanity as a whole.

Motivating a person who is not starving and has no worry about starving in future is a damn difficult job. But maybe I will grant this thing for the sake of argument, because, there may be other things that may still motivate people. e.g. yearning for better lifestyle.

So, I guess, the basic income should be very minimum, in fact, should be minimum possible to keep the person barely alive. Anything more will potentially have "spoiling" effect (failed communism and the British welfare system comes to mind here).
No more than minimum required shelter (without any kind of "luxury", including TV, more rooms etc as are given in UK), minimum required raw food with minimum required equipment for preparing the food (no pre cooked fancier food of any kind) and minimum clothes to sustain life (no fancier clothes).

Of course, I am aware that terms like "luxury", "minimum" need more precise definitions. I will make a try -

Minimum required shelter/food/clothes for survival - to find the minimum amount of shelter/food/clothes required for survival one must look at the quantities the people/peasants in African/Asian/European poor countries (e.g. Liberia, India, or Russia) survive.
In fact, the basic income should be just sufficient to survive, if required err on the side of less but not an iota more; if we can guarantee this, then I guess the basic income scheme will not corrupt the people, else it will be a recipe for economic/societal disaster and ruin.

Luxury - anything beyond/more the minimum is luxury as far as basic income is concerned.

Edit - added definition of luxury.
That's a naive belief. If 95% of the parents want that and 5% do not - and you are in the 5% - then the market is less likely to serve your preferences, unless the market is big enough that a service provider will start up to serve the niche.

Take a look at Catholic hospitals. They do not exist only "to serve the customer". They can and do place religious preferences before the health of the patient, especially in regards to abortion. Non-customer-oriented preferences even apply in competitive markets. To give another religious example, Chik-fil-A is not open on Sunday, even though other fast food chicken restaurants are open and profitable, which shows a customer demand.

Similarly, education is rarely a competitive marketplace. In some towns there may be only one high school. I believe this is why jMyles felt "blessed to have that choice."

Even when there is a choice of two or three schools, consider the full economics. A parent who sends a student to a private school is not the only customer. If you are in that 5% then your preferences may be ignored because even if all 5% went to the same school, that would still only be 20% of the school population. The school may prefer to optimize for the 80% than the 20%.

In addition, religious schools often get support from the supporting church, which dilutes your economic power. Or a school may get donations from alumni who want the school to remain unchanged from when they were in school.

Nor did superuser2 say that "there would be NO private schools" which met the parents' criteria, only that "private schools have extremely wide latitude", so some are better, and some are worse, than public schools. Some have draconian discipline by design, hence the question "Do you imagine that private schools are better in this regard?" than the public schools which jMyles universally dismisses.
My dad had kind of a typical (?!) depressive career: he worked a lot. First, he had a tinnitus and some years after that he had "burnout". 6 months after my dad retired he tried to jump into death. After 2 weeks of coma he was like mentally switched. It was christmas and we told him that he'll be grandpa in a few months. Now, 5 years later he says that this helped a lot. He still does therapy. He found the therapist that fitted him perfectly. Its still work to do but he works on it. The therapist told him that he has a trauma like many Germans which were born in the generation after world war 2. The trauma is the root cause and he has a chance to overcome this trauma. We will see. My wife's uncle didn't worked his first depression and recently - about 10 years after the first breakout - he's depressive again.
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I didn't downvote you but I certainly don't agree with your point. Data about her exercise is hers. It's private. Just because it might be "useful" (in a cargo-cult'ing "what works for one person surely works for all" unscientific and nonsensical version of "useful") doesn't mean we should have any access to that information any more than access to her email would be "useful" to look at the way 100-year-olds communicate electronically.

In my opinion we should be thinking of ways we can do useful data science without access to private data, not working out ways to make gathering private data easier.
Overall it's a fun list, except for:

6. This is terrible for sex and sensual cuddling. You need skin contact. I'd say have a bathrobe ready close to the heat source so that you can sleep naked, but don't suffer from cold when you get out of bed by getting inside its heat.

4. It's terrible advice if you have trouble getting asleep. You should be in bed only to sleep, otherwise you associate bedtime with being awake. Following this advice worked wonder in reducing the time it takes me to fall asleep.

9. Naps don't work for everybody, and can reduce sleep quality for the temporary gain of efficiency, so I've mixed feelings about it.

You seem to have scheduled your life well, but I wonder how you manage things that break the routine. Friends, exceptional crunches quickly break the good patterns and I find it difficult to come back to cruise mode after a lost night.
How incredibly unfortunate.

The annual death rate for people in their 90s is probably in the 10s of %, and rising every year. Someone posted a nice infographic where you could put in your age and it would give you some simulated death ages. It was pretty hard to get over 100 even when starting quite close to it.

This guy happened to pick the oldest person ever.
Downvoted you because of that edit.
Switching from one essentially single threaded language to another wasn't likely to solve your issues. Instead of Go you could have chosen any JVM language or even C++ and had similar success.
In Geneva or Zurich, it was until very recently. Even now you probably will get away with it (not recommended, though).
Try meditation, it got me out of depression after 3 years of pain, seeing a lot of psychiatrists and taking multiple antidepressants. There is always a reason why we are depressed. We need to go deep into ourselves to find it, there is no other way.
I agree, warmth in the morning hours is the number one incentive to get out of bed for me.

I do a slight variation of the same concept: I've set the a/c timer to raise temperature to an almost tropical heat 20 minutes before alarm time.

I sleep under heavy covers and a somewhat low temperature, which is also part of the program.

The idea here is to sleep tucked in and warm like in winter, then wake up to a excessively warm but welcoming environment. If I remain in bed, I'll start sweating profusely and I'm forced out of my covers. So getting out of bed to me is actually inviting while undressing and getting into the shower is less painful.
https://s.m.ly/

Garbage p2w microtransactions. Seems like they even sell access to the nether/end, core parts of the game.

So nothing to see here, move along, another minecraft server host looking to exploit kids with access to their parents' credit cards.
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The concept is very powerful. Disney's MMO tried a variation, which was only preapproved conversational phrases. Solving forum trolling could be brutally curbed by this method and would probably be effective with an extensible whitelist.

Simplewriter includes "ostensibly" but omits "is" and "for". So good luck with that.
Just out of curiosity what are you referring to when you say "Google-goo?" Does chromium not fit the need?
No, it wasn't. Amiga500 cost about 1000 German marks. PC cost about 2500 and you got a Hercules card and appalling sound.

It took a while before PC made any financial sense except of course if you had to use applications available only on DOS/Windows.
Sergey got bored with his new robot toy and chucked it into the same bin as google glass, wave, internet balloon and some other stuff that got cancelled before public announcement.
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> Nodejs is still outpacing Golang according to Google Trends and yet I have never seen a single article about switching from X language to Node.js.

This is not the endorsement you seem to think it is.

> My guess is that the Go community probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for this constant form of aggressive propaganda/marketing. Node.js on the other hand doesn't need any marketing/propaganda; it just sells itself.

Your guess? This is pure emotion arguing here. I have rolled my eyes at the golang converts for literally years and recently I decided to give it a try and it truly sold itself, sans marketing. I also really like node.js, for what that's worth. This comparison sounds like the hurt feelings of the True Believer.

Different tools have different applications. Don't ever forget it.
Having a dog always counts. I once read (somewhere?) a story about a woman who had many dogs over her lifetime. She felt that dogs give us pieces of their hearts every day but of course, when they leave us, they take great chunks of ours. The writer was hoping that, by the time she died, she might be lucky enough to have the kind heart of a dog.

It seems like a worthy goal.
On the plus side, all the devs running to Go from Node, maybe we can finally get all those great libs from npmjs written in go, like Kik, isArray, isThirteen, and so many more classics of robust software engineering that the js community excels at.
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And OP is a fantastic statement in support of rope control.
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Or... just use the battle-tested tool that solves this exact problem well for you. Put your cache into Redis or other in-memory cache.
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Okay, fine, let's make it active. Everyone drives cars just like they use computers. We need to teach everyone mechanical engineering now.
Well, it's a commonplace that complaining about what happens on the Internet is useless, and typically counterproductive. So hey, "fair use". But as Glenn Fleishman notes, fair use tends to get tested in court.

But whatever. For me, it's mostly about pigs and mud ;)
Here is a more credible analysis from a law professor, not a random armchair pundit: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/21/law-professor-explai...
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I've tried so many things, and most of the things I read here in the comments sounds like fairy tales (just do it, go to bed earlier, ..). I'll spare you the details (I should make a blog post about it), but here's what worked for me:

- get a dawn simulation device (doesn't work on its own, but still helps waking up more gently) // the more powerful/lumen, the better

- likewise for audio: volume going up slowly (I use AlarmDroid), for this, use a gentle non-continuous sound (knock knock, pause, knock knock, pause) the idea is that a continuous sound is too much annoying, forces you to go turn it off asap and go back to sleep. You may use a more brutal sound for your real wake-up time (so, at the end of the dawn simulation), the idea is that you'll have a gentle alarm beforehand and hopefully fear the brutal alarm and just get into a habit of getting up before the brutal alarm.

- best for the end: padlock your alarm in a solid case, and put the key in your mailbox the night before (hopefully not too close to your bedroom, in my case, I may meet neighbors, so it forces me to fully clothes on). A key-less alarm at the other side of the rooms does NOT work and you will just get up, shut it down and go back to sleep.

- bonus : use a very bright light (at least 5000+ lumen) on a programmable plug for the end of the dawn simulation (or just get a really powerful dawn simulation one, not sure if that exists though)

edit: added bonus

edit2: everyone is different, I just wanted to add my part to the overall list of ideas, please check out all the other comments, different stuff works for different people! (the coffee one sounds interesting, I would have tried it if I was a coffee drinker)

edit3: This should be common sense, but please don't use this as a way to sleep less. I use this because even when I sleep a fair amount (9+ hours for multiple days, I still struggle to wake up).
once you've diabled write protection (often just a screw), fdisk/cfdisk/parted will wipe the drive.
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Does it really matter?

USA and its 3-letter-organizations got much more power on spying on users worldwide.
That just isn't true. In fact, your homeowners insurance will cover your belongings even if they're in your unlocked car when they're stolen.

Most home burglaries involve breaking a window or kicking in a door, which is why people say "locks just keep an honest man honest".
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Yes, by default. I tend to remember that immediately after I unintentionally add another link to the Reading List. I'm sure I can change, but it seems like I only just got comfortable with shift-click after switching from ctrl-click a decade ago.

I was very happy, though, to see that on the Preferences/Tabs settings I can set Command-Click to open in a new window rather than in a new tab. I was hoping there might be a hidden "non-easy" way to reconfigure this too.
VNC Server is an application that allows you to have remote access to my PC. Once installed you can use any other PC (or a phone/tablet) that has the client VNC software installed to connect to it and remotely login as if you were sitting in front of it. VNCRoulette is a site that is scanning for these servers on the Internet, logging in, and taking a screenshot of the desktop. VNC can be secure with an extra logon password, but a lot of systems and users don't bother. It's this vulnerabiltiy that VNCroulette is exploiting. Most of the PCs it's connecting to are 'read only' so the remote access can only see the desktop and not interact with it, but a good many are read/write with no restrictions.
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You are actually proving my point. There is no natural law that says that to have an economy we need humans to produce the output. Yet you speak as if our needs somehow trump the reality we live in.

You are simply confusing what humans need with what humans can expect. Technology is a competitor to humans not just a tool.

My train of thought is exactly sustainable in that it expects technology to take over most jobs instead of ignoring this.

If people start burning uber cars then uber cars will start defend themselves. Again technology is competitor way before we take it into Superintelligence land.

If more people was on my "train" we would be dealing with the problem by introducing something like Unconditional Income.

Technology is like a tsunami, you can try and stop it or try and learn to surf on top of it for as long as possible. I prefer the latter rather than being crushed by the former.
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I've had good results with GalliumOS on a Chromebook C720P. if you want better graphics, upgrade to a C740 with a Core i3. Otherwise, C710 can take 16GB of RAM, if you're okay with the weak CPU.

Make sure you get an Intel chipset chromebook. That's most of them. You won't find much difference in them, other than that.
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It is heartening to see that US Software patents are starting to expire (the patent in question here did so in 2014). So eventually we will be able to put much of this nonsense behind us, even if the lawmakers don't wake up and smell the coffee anytime soon.
People matter to people. But technology increasingly a competitor to the human workforce more than an ally.

So your argument is preaching to the choir not to that which you need to convert which is technological progress.
I use Keybase + Thunderbird + Enigmail. It's not the most user-friendly approach but honestly I think whoever is not willing to go the distance now doesn't really value encryption/their privacy and thus won't quite care when encryption is more usable/ mainstream.
Most fiber being pulled nowadays has much more than 48 strand. One of my providers is currently burying 288 strand right down the road from me.
Lots of good points being made here. I wanted to point out that there are various non-profit organisations dealing with depression or mental illness. They (or their websites) are great places to go when you or a loved one suffers from depression. E.g. (google for more in your area):

UK: http://www.mind.org.uk, http://www.sane.org.uk

US: http://www.adaa.org, http://www.freedomfromfear.org
Hugh Greenburg's git repositories (used for GalliumOS) were essential in getting my C720P chromebook working linux. GalliumOS is the only distribution that supports Elantech touchpads out of the box. GalliumOS is the only distribution that has chromebook keyboards working correctly.

I personally owe Hugh a debt of gratitude for all the hard work he has done.
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My nephew was quite into minecraft for a while. I ended up setting up an EC2 based server for him.

To avoid crazy costs I setup a bit of infrastructure: I managed to pipe the active / logged in user count of the minecraft server to cloudwatch: 30 mins of server in-activity and I had the server shutdown (to avoid paying for it to run 24x7). Additionally I setup a webpage that he could login to (only used basic auth to be honest) and click a "start server" button. This sent the ec2 start instance command to AWS. Granted he didn't have instant play capabilities (had to wait for server boot up) but the costs were quite low.

I personally installed any mods or plugins he wanted.

I'd highly recommend rolling your own setup like this to anyone interested :)
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Amiga DID have the "option to work with the IBM-PC compatible disk format": starting with AmigaOS 2.# (KickStart 37.###), the operating system came with the MS-DOS FAT driver. One could either have it loaded by explicitly clicking on the "PC0" icon in the "DOSDrivers" drawer (directory), or have it be automatically loaded by putting the relevant commands in S:User-Startup.

DF0: would then have the equivalent PC0:, DF1: PC1:, DF2: PC2: and DF3: (the fourth floppy drive) PC3:.

The Amiga floppy drives could read double or high density floppies formatted at 720 KB (although in general, DS-HD floppies were unreliable when formatted at low density 720 KB capacity); if one installed high density floppy drives, the MS-DOS FAT driver could read and write 1.44, and up to 2.88 MB MS-DOS, FAT formatted floppies.
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Creating a timeout modifies the global state and is therefore a side effect.
Why on earth are both of you getting downvoted so hard?

I am so tired of reading hacker news articles with comments that are so pushed down because of subjective opinionated voting that is so obviously skewed towards one personality type.

I have so many thoughts and opinions I want to contribute to these discussions but I have zero confidence it will fit within this type of environment that's been created.

It really saddens me to see some of the comments that get downvoted here.
what about just using the built in cluster functionality already in nodejs?
I've used it many times with great results and it is really easy to implement.
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Minecraftly is open source and going to be transformed to a non-profit organization soon, but I still have operational costs to run the service.

In fact, I am further from a p2w model, as there are only cosmetic items and boosters in the store.

It took me years to build the first scalable architecture, after many mistakes, but at least I got a working version, and want to donate all the software and ongoing work to the public.
Hashset is a nice collection in c# and useful for tracking things that are already processed. I encourage c# devs to learn about all of the generic collections and their use cases.