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> as paying outside technologists to find ways to access highly-encrypted messages on phones used by terrorist suspects was not “scalable.”

It would be fucking hilarious if he used this kind of language to mock the SV lingo.
Fascinating long read, which gives a lot of insight in the struggles of daily life in these remote parts of our world.

And no, it's not just the dark that makes people commit suicide. Of the top 10 countries with the highest suicide rates, only Lithuania can be considered as having a somewhat gloomy winter. The rest of the countries all get more sunlight (Guyana, Suriname and Sri Lanka for instance) than the countries generally accepted as happiest in the world: Denmark (ironically, considering the story), Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.
Yep, especially since ClearCase records adding/removing files not only as a change to these files themselves, but also as a completely separate change to the parent directory. Really terrible system.
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I like https://regex101.com because of the way it colors things. The maps seem like they'd get too complex to be super useful on more complex patterns, but I'll give this a shot too next time I need it. I also have an Jupyter notebook that I often use for testing Python regex and match groups.
What's the benefit of OSBoxes in comparison to Vagrant and others?
I do the same. My Facebook account is basically my Business account and nothing else. No friends, no likes other than my sites, no nothing.
Well, why do you think? He's stuck in Russia because of his NSA whistleblowing, and Putin isn't exactly the most tolerant about criticism. He's playing the cards he's dealt the best he can.

But why don't you do something? Is Snowden the only person responsible for criticizing all the wrongs in the world? He's already done, and sacrificed, way more than the vast majority of people. Why is that still not good enough? What have you done and sacrificed for others?
I've seen orthodox religious people get into serious psychological problems after someone they loved died prematurely and unexpectedly. When you really believe that God has its hand in everything, death of a loved one is a hard thing to swallow: it must be some punishment or lesson, but why?

Orthodox christian religion is i.m.o. not helpful at all when coping with death.
"Arguably". Remember Morales. You don't need fighter jets to intercept/divert a civilian aircraft in "friendly" airspace. Just pull the right strings.
The vote was well covered in the British press, and the people I know who voted were neither kids not anything other than completely serious about the name.
fancy... But perhaps a proper system is what is needed, I.e. An existing invoicing system. Why do we always have to build everything when something better exists?
Offtopic but website seems to support HTTPS. Thank you!

https://open.bekk.no/learn-new-languages
I'd feel pretty good. In fact the official name for my company is CodeMonkey :)

Really, people take this stuff waaay too seriously.

I understand that calling it "CuntBrick 5000" would be offensive and we shouldn't do that, but "Boaty McBoatface" is just whimsical...
I plead guilty, as that particular name was so hilariously funny, that I voted while I was still laughing. And I'm a Finn, not a Brit, so I wouldn't even expect that my vote would be taken seriously.
> most people would interpret it the same way

For most people, a computer is PC.
In some civilized countries, yes. Take eg. your brain (as an accused), a doctor, a lawyer. There are even countries respecting the sources of journalists...
Yeah, but Russia already looks pretty bad for a variety of other reasons. I don't find this a particularly compelling argument.
:)

https://thelongestchain.com/
Serious Sciency McScienceface seems like an apt compromise.
Why not Java? It's more powerful, mostly faster, has superb tooling, high quality libraries for just about everything, tons of very experienced developers, etc.
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I don't see much fun in that. The funny thing about getting the ship named Boaty McBoatface is that it would be painted on the ship and would be named as such in official documentation. The ability to casually refer to the ship by that name does exist, obviously, but how often do people refer to specific government ships by name anyway?
My apologies, I misread your comment.
Brazil has 25 national parties in parliament. Though nowadays their system might not sound like something to emulate :|
"Government of the people" or not, I've yet to see anything resembling a convincing argument that the average citizen thrust into government is actually better at government than someone who spends their life prior to and in office trying to demonstrate their aptitude at government to the average citizen.
Google is an advertisement company, they will never care about these matters.
didn't know about Lithuania and googled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Lithuania#Statistic... - the lowest rate was in 1990, on breaking up from USSR and getting independence back.
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I'd probably put down that I'd been working on an Antarctic research vessel. If I put down whatever generic name they actually do use most employers would probably assume I'd been a deckhand on a cross channel ferry or something
But there's no international waters between Moscow and Oslo. The Baltic isn't that big, and even if there is a patch of international waters (which I strongly doubt), it'd be easily avoided.
I build my app using AMQP as one of the building block. Thank you so much to Pieter for creating it. I hope the best for him.
It is a difficult line to toe. Obviously if their primary objective is to raise awareness of the (continuing) existence of the boat, BMcBF is a winner, and there are numerous cash-in opportunities such as those you suggest. If done right it might not even look cynical!

If on the other hand giving it a silly name "dilutes their brand" (to use an HN favourite) then they're going to do the stuffy thing. Not entirely sure why folks would be surprised at a Conservative minister taking a conservative approach...

Really seems that SCIENCE does a lot better in the public eye at the moment when it goes populist rather than cloistered, but here we are...
That said I find it much more cheerful going off somewhere sunny when it's Jan/Feb in London. Maybe they could lay on some charter flights to Bahia or somewhere.
Russia shares a tiny bit of border with Norway. Even if Finland, Sweden and the Baltic states don't want to cooperate, as long as Russia and Moscow agree, the plane could simply take a detour through the far north.
The only thing that changed is that there's the NSA Untersuchungsausschuss, which is "investigating" the NSA spying affair.

It's pretty clear that the investigations will not yield anything we don't already know and will have no consequences on US-German relations. Our NATO membership alone is enough to make us avoid upsetting the US at all costs (just as we've been turning a blind eye on Turkey all this time).
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I'm reminded of sitting first day in class, English 101. The teacher said 'I won't accept late work in this class' And I'm like fair enough. Then she added 'because when you get out into the real world your boss won't accept late work' And the other students are nodding their heads while I'm trying hard not to snort coke out my nose.

The difference between me, the other students and the teacher was I'd had been working at technical job through school. In the real world crap's late all the time. Meeting the deadline involves jettisoning requirements like the sailors in a stricken ship tossing valuable cargo over side.

You know your wife is an adult. And school actually is the real world. Grad school is often harder, you don't have a boss. You don't have tasks that are neatly sectioned. Work places tend to be organized to psychologically pressure you into getting stuff done. Self motivation is a big factor in being successful in school.

Lot of students don't get that though. And the potential transition out of school seems scary. So they punt.
I'd say it's fair for candidates to break promises. If voters keep voting for them and their party despite seeing that happen, then it means voters don't mind broken promises. This is what's nice about democracy - you don't have to argue about too many rules, the rules evolve naturally. For some reason it turned out that keeping promises wasn't a natural rule that voters wanted. The same goes for resigning. If they don't resign and are still re-elected or their party is still re-elected then that reflects what their constituents want, not some artificial rules that some unelected rule-maker (who would that be?) decided on.

The US system seems to be doing quite well. The majority of the population doesn't care at all, and their votes don't count. Those are people who either always vote for the same party or don't vote at all. The important decision then comes down to the minority of people who are most interested in the policies - the swing voters. Isn't that quite an efficient division of labor?
remember when clothes didn't had to be aligned to the nearest shutter and you needed to retrieve both half and stitch them together for having an usable one?
"As an Eastern Orthodox Christian, euthanasia would not be an option to me,"

why?
When I saw the title I thought this was going to be about Canada. Suicide rates are extremely high in some aboriginal communities; in Attawapiskat for example, 5% of the residents have attempted suicide in the past year.

And I can't say that I really blame them. Attawapiskat is an extremely isolated community, with few jobs and no amenities. Kids growing up in Attawapiskat have nothing to look forward to. Those who leave the community have much lower rates of suicide, but given the memories of children being taken away from their families and forced into abusive residential schools, no politician in their right mind would dare to suggest that as an option. So they live out their lives in miserable isolation, waiting for their boredom to end; and some decide to speed along the process.
I'm curious why it's so bad there. It neighbours Poland which has less than a quarter the rate. Cultural maybe?
I do have a chairdrobe for two use items like sweaters and pants.
"there's no cherry-picking"

What about all the other different branches of Christianity then? Catholicism, anglicans? adventists etc

Are they not Christian?
The novel "Smilla's Sense of Snow" by Peter Høeg is in large part about the alienation and culture shock of an Inuit woman in Denmark.

P.S: I like the article's side bar about responsible reporting on suicide. That's forgotten far too often in the rush for gripping headlines and clicks.
Your argument is very unclear, and your last sentence makes no sense. What exactly is the problem with jointly learning perception and control? They are widely considered to be intertwined problems in robotics. Not independent at all. But for what it's worth, you will find researchers working on all sorts of different approaches.

Clearly this competition is an attempt to build off successes in reinforcement learning with agents that play games using only images and scores.
For that matter, most countries are smaller than the US, both in size and population. There are only two countries with a larger population. China has one ruling political party, and India has had prime ministers from many different parties.

For a full accounting, look back to the rise of the two party system during the Jacksonian era, or the current system of Democrats and Republicans (replacing the Whig party) started in the 1850s.

An explanation based on population size would have to be able to explain why it is that the current two party system in the US started when it was a much smaller country.

The US population in 1860 was 31,443,321. There are now 42 countries with a population larger than that.
Interesting, even though it's now 5 years old. I'd be interested in the evolution. Also, a pie chart? Really? I can't fathom who thought it'd be a good idea…
I use OSBoxes a lot when I want to quickly spin up a Linux distro I don't normally use. I really wish they'd clean up the design of their website though...
I appreciate the article is written from a US perspective but here is how it works in STEM in the UK:

1. Get a funded PhD offer for 3-4 years (The funding is tax free so comparable to the average grad salary).

2. Complete in 3-4 years (it is hard to get more than a 6 month extension, technically they can take their money back if you do but this rarely happens as the system wants you to quit early or succeed).

3. Be more employable (I'm speaking from personal experience here. I didn't go looking for jobs like I did after my undergrad, they came to me via LinkedIn/Monster etc.)

As an avid reader of PhD comics I have always struggled to understand why the US system is so different.

As a side note it is worth pointing out that it is foolish to assume that doing a PhD inherently leads to a Professorship now. What it does do is give you 3-4 years experience (which employers like) and a vast range of research and communication skills (which employers love).
I read this comment and my jaw nearly hit the top of my sneakers but it missed and hit the floor instead (stupid jaw), was it a parody or a blurry line when Latka Gravas dressed up like Elvis, was it a parody or a blurry line when George Bush had sex with that Segway, I don't know those answers but I do know answers about this article - it was quite obviously a parody.
Bits like this suggest that it is satire:

"as if the satisfaction of making Unreal Tournament VII isn’t enough to “feed their families” or “send their child to college.”"
and:
"Working for a video game company is entrepreneurship in a way that I never explain in this article."

He's laying it on thick in the first paragraph. I know there are other articles that spout similarly idiotic ideas and mean them seriously, but I'm fairly certain that this is satire.

Edit: Actually, reading further, almost every single sentence is just dripping with sarcasm.
Someone has to take the Edgnenet project and move it forward!
What I really want is a good repository for ready to go 'application appliances' - something pretty much production ready - and in a format that I can deploy to a VPS as well as locally in a VM. I know there's a few of these in existence but the selection always seemed a bit patchy.

Can anyone point me towards a good source?
Friend said he and his wife joked about being peeved that their PhD's didn't come with the line 'Successfully completed without resort to psychotherapy or drugs'
It is in a comment at the original article.
I really like that, I might get to work on it. Can't imagine it'd be too hard.
A little sidetrack here: As a user, I absolutely hate apps that require me to sign-up, especially if it requires email verification. It's an instant uninstall from me, no matter how compelling the app may otherwise be.

Developers, what is it that you absolutely cannot offer the user without forcing them to register? If it's personalization, then store it on the user's device or iCloud or something similar, or say, generate a random ID number on first-run and inform the user to save it if they want to transfer/restore their preferences in the future.

ANYthing other than this deliberate speedbump which only decreases the total amount of users you would have.
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Yes exactly, I agree with that. That's why there is inherently a conflict between what the market should provide as a goal (openly reusable seeds) and the incentives to create them (making them private is the only way to properly get money out of it).

That's why, because of this conflict, I'm not advocating for private company to product seeds, it's one of those markets (like health-care or public infrastructure) where the incentives will never be align whatever law you put in place. I would therefore advocate to move seeds to public research.

And I also agree with the technology part but none of what I can think of has similar problems to the seeds.
There's like five comments from you in this thread and you seem very adamant about people not writing bash scripts. Have you considered that not everyone has the same requirements? Maybe they don't care about targeting systems that don't have bash installed. In that case, they can use the myriad of enhancements that bash offers to improve their productivity and happiness.
People are complaining a lot about it because they're just visiting it to explore before coming back to HN to comment. When people are actually using the page as a reference, it's much less likely that they'll want to go back to another website in the same tab.
> The rest of the countries all get more sunlight (Guyana, Suriname and Sri Lanka for instance) than the countries generally accepted as happiest in the world: Denmark (ironically, considering the story), Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.

South Korea as well, its latitude roughly matches the northern half of Tunisia (Seoul's latitude is 37°33′N, Tunisia's northernmost city of Bizerte is at 37°16′N)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catania
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A similar argument could be made for not studying any humanities subject. The point is often not what the degree is in but the soft skills you gain. A good undergrad degree is seen by many employers to be enough to get a job (outside of specific technical fields).

If you have a PhD it is important to sell the skills it gave you that an employer wants. A good list of which are found here: https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/phd-transferable-skil...
This is a known bug. Facebook is working hard to fill that space up.
i like to hope that i will never die because by the time i age humanity would have evolved to the point of curing all forms of cancer and extending life past 100 years of age.
It's easy to love a person who will never turn up on your doorstep with a dog and a bottle of whiskey and ask to sleep on your couch for a week. :)

I think euthanasia rights are worth fighting for. People will argue that it's a "death panel". Show them my article.
I've moved our infrastructure over to GCE and basically just clicked around in the interface until I had what I wanted. It's really quite easy (although I'm only using compute engine and bigtable right now).

I got 300$ in credits on every google account when I first vistited which allowed me to play around with their big data stuff and some public datasets, which was nice.
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>There's no such thing as a half-Christian

There's a massive variation in belief and practices amongst people who call themselves Christian. And I don't recall Jesus saying that you shouldn't do euthanasia for terminal cancer. He was generally a caring guy. Most of the anti stuff comes from right wing nutters born long after Jesus's death who I'd be happy to disregard.
(personal impression, not a professional sociologist obviously :) Poland is more capitalistic/enterpreneural in spirit and they have strong nationalistic drive (the Poland state had been destroyed and Polish land&people divided between neighbors several times for pretty prolonged periods during recent several centuries, yet still the country gets back every time it gets a chance) - as 1990 in Lithuania statistics suggests nationalistic drive can be a pretty strong factor too. It was the place that revolted in 1980 against the socialism and USSR control. Lithuania are much more calmer in all respects (i have a part of extended family there). If you look at statistics by age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Lithuania#Statistic... - it seems to be a typical mid-life crisis in a society without active vertical mobility.
I think the concern is that if you take an IonValue and cast it to IonText, then call stringValue(), you'll get an exception somewhere if the document contained a null value.

It recalls the nullability arguments between the ML family and the C/Java family.

kazinator is asking for safer document semantics and a type-safe API.
Nothing makes me reach for my back button quite as quickly as a full-screen "9001 PPL LIKEZ US ON TEH FACEBOOK PLEASE DO IT TOO" modal.
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Show HN: I've created an iOS version of Colordot, a color picker for humans
Was this book intended to be distributed for free electronically? I am not sure this is an appropriate thing to have on the front page.
This is a better way of explaining something I wanted to put in my comment. You have been accepted by your peers as an independent researcher and many companies will pay good money for that.
Did their mothers and grandmothers vote too? I doubt the voting base was representative of public opinion...
Sometime people want take their mind off of work for few minutes to get relaxed. That does not make it procrastination. It's called taking a break.
Yea, I felt the same what parent mentioned.
I love, love, love Greenland. Best place I have ever been to. When I was spending time in Tasiilaq, I was told that the breakdown happened because of the fallout from the Greenpeace activities against seal clubbing in Canada. This destroyed the market for fur products and led to social welfare from Denmark and alcoholism.

Anyway, when in Greenland it is politically correct to eat seal and whale, once you find out how they are hunted and how the population cherishes the animals.

The coolest thing about Greenland was that the museums had no tools for warfare. Conflicts between people in Greenland were carried out by people playing drums and 'rapping' their cause in a song duel. If you had the laughs and opinions on your side, the person who 'lost' received sled dogs and food and was let go. I wish this could be used for all conflicts around the world.
Man thats disappointing to hear :( Brother Zuckerberg has worked hard for years and years for what then?
Yep this is probably the biggest failing in the modern workplace; expecting employees to be able to sit down all day and be productive. I found in those environments you just end up pretending to be productive a lot of the time.
I am wondering that exact same thing. I did see that it is available through Google Books as well so not sure myself at the moment.
> Attawapiskat is an extremely isolated community, with few jobs and no amenities.

Thing is, like the towns in the post, these have always been "isolated communities with few jobs", but they used to be somewhat content. The difference is that they (like everyone else) are now bombarded with very powerful messages about rich and successful white people living in the Big City. They are basically getting constantly shamed for doing what their ancestors have done for generations. Those same powers of connectedness that can be so positive in certain cases (e.g. alienated small-town geeks finding accepting communities elsewhere) can often turn out to be trojan horses for cultural shaming.
We are on the same page(no pun) that back button should take you back to HN, but if you are on chrome, clicking and holding the back button (browser's) shows you the list of tabs and you can choose the tab from there.
Three years ago, I made a color picker which acted how I think about colors: https://color.hailpixel.com/. Here's its iOS cousin. Bonus: you can also use your camera to grab colors.
Yes! And this is also where all the trade-hate comes from. Value is not an inherent property of a product or service, it varies for different people!

I trade you a bag of peanuts for $5 iif I value it at less than $5 and you value it at more than $5!!!
Check out docker-osx-dev which uses rsync to more efficiently synchronize container volumes with your local files and enable watchers.