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That's the interesting thing. It's the opposite of deskilling that the parent was talking about.

Instead of removing skilled jobs and increasing a job pool of less skilled ones, tech can increase efficiency of master craftsman to the point where there is no need for the less skilled/experienced apprentices, thereby compressing the job pool instead of expanding it.
Read all the way to the end.

> At 6:30 on a recent Wednesday night, Rothenberg offered to give one of Backchannel’s reporters, Lauren Smiley, a tour of his Folsom Street office. I rang the doorbell, but there was no answer. An inbox check yielded an email just then from Rothenberg’s crisis communications flack: “Mike just called me and is slammed with some deadlines. He’d love to show you the office but overcommitted himself.” Soon after, an executive assistant I recognized from LinkedIn answered the door, and asked if I had an appointment. She showed me upstairs to the lobby. Rothenberg came out briefly in office casual to politely say he was on a call with an investor, and retreated to his corner office...

Waiting for Rothenberg to get off the phone, the assistant handed me a HTC Vive VR headset, and cued a video by Wevr, one of the fund’s portfolio companies. Fitting it over my head, I found myself undersea in an underwater cage... I took the headset off, and was back in a nearly abandoned Rothenberg office, where I told the assistant I’d show myself out. Rothenberg remained behind his office door, talking away.
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The Sofacy Group (also known as APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear and Sednit) was linked to the FSB (Russian Intelligence) during the German Parliament attack

http://www.lse.co.uk/AllNews.asp?code=kwdwehme&headline=Russ...
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He certainly is, although too often I wish that wasn't the case. For instance, right now I wish that very much!
> Rabbits have completely transformed the Australian continent, one so dramatic you can see the effects from space. (http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/181383/view)

I don't get it. Which side are the rabbits?
Evernote actually got nice export tools build into their desktop client.
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Digital is dangerous. There's a reason why the Kremlin switched back to typewriters.
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#startups on freenode is great.
As an American, I hope so too - there's a real cost to emigrating and I would think that home is always home and people should have the option of being there. I'd like to be able to buy cool things no matter where they are made.

In principle, I'm also for pretty much unrestricted immigration but that's politically ... difficult. It may also be practically difficult.
I was thinking about Google photos but is there a way to backup the whole thing offline.

Also how can a whole family combine all their photos in one place?
I can just imagine Richard Stallman tingling with pleasure reading comments like this (after pulling the html through his email server or whatever he does)
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I don't think a Google Survey is a valid Show HN.
I know, but still couldn't keep myself adding that comment :|
I read the whole piece. Not buying it.

1) When did the authors reach out for comment

2) What was the response

The authors craftily imply that they reached out, but did they?

>At 6:30 on a recent Wednesday night, Rothenberg offered to give one of Backchannel’s reporters, Lauren Smiley, a tour of his Folsom Street office.

Did they just ask for a tour of the office? Was this last Wednesday? Did they reach out for comment subsequently?

Furthermore, I can't Imagine that Mike is not actually completely swamped . . .
Asking to reschedule is not refusing to comment.
Gem is still library albeit its name.
So, look, if you believe that there is a large chance that climate change will be a global catastrophe in the next few decades -- and there are a lot of people who claim to believe that -- then you should be willing to compromise on other beliefs/other risks to forestall or mitigate that catastrophe.
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Well first before looking at military strength there has to be a motivation by China to want to attack the US. What in the next 50 years would make china interested in attacking the US? In what way would it benefit?
Here's my heuristic. I wonder if it can be made rigorous.

Write P_n for the probability of throwing at least n sixes with 6n dice.

1. P_0 = 1

2. P_n -> 1/2 as n -> infinity, by the central limit theorem.

3. I can't see any reason that P_n shouldn't be monononic.

Thus I expect that P_1 >= P_2 >= P_3.
Anyone who can create a startup should be allowed as long as they can pay themselves and their employees. If they employ more than 5 citizens/green card holders who are more than 50% of employees and have more than 0 profit for 3 years give them a green card. These company should build products and not provide services.
It's hard to imagine any company making consumer devices or software is really the most innovative. Innovative to me means changing the way a society behaves. Uber is a great example despite all the negative things that could be said about them. Tesla is another.
This is not the kind of comments encouraged at HN, but, that said, I laughed really hard at this :)
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First time I've heard of RunKit. I've used Jupyter in the past to do a similar thing (minus the API stuff which is very cool). What does RunKit provide that Jupyter doesn't?
> China.

On the surface this seems hyperbolic but its true. The area I am at has seen wealthy Chinese investors buying up property in the new developments and then leaving it to their children to manage. It's almost impossible to buy a house here in the sub $300k range due to the rapid buy up and flipping they're doing. Most of them don't sell either - they rent, leaving people here in perpetual rent cycle without the ability to own property in a decent area.
I think he just wants to encourage people to buy some of the logos quickly while the the prices are cheap. Forces immediate action instead of waiting and thinking about it.

I doubt there's any expectation that he'll sell all or even most of the logos in this fashion and it's certainly not revenue-maximizing -- but that clearly doesn't seem to be the goal.
funny thing is that they had digital bugs in the 70s and 80s just for those digital typewriters. Mechanical hipsters rejoice!
It always blows my mind to see people suggest the police exist to provide protection. The government and the court system is very clear that the police are NOT a protection unit, any protection provided is merely a by product of their primary mission, Law Enforcement.

Law Enforcement has nothing to do with protection, but rather order and control. Protection can be a side effect of order and control but it is not the primary goal, or reason for the existence of Police.
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That's because you have a brain. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff I've seen people try to use.

So much copypasta, often with just enough changed to be hacked into a customer's system.
That is ultimately too pessimistic. Security is a gradient, and there's a lot you can do make yourself both a smaller target, and a harder target.

Compartmentalization is one of the strongest defense tools we have. For example, with the icloud leaks an attacker was able to gain access to all the data in a single strike. If it's true that Apple can no longer decrypt user's icloud data, an attacker now needs to hack people one-by-one. Hacking takes time and effort, and a one-by-one payoff may make it that hacking icloud is no longer worth the effort. Users are safer, even though they are still theoretically vulnerable.

A lot of people are stepping up to the plate to offer stronger security on digital systems. (Qubes, for example. Let's Encrypt, for example). If choose to take security seriously, hacking will become harder, the rewards will plummet, and the world will be safer.
Key difference being there's a responsibility of recommendations with consequences.
Education is not job training. And a good education should prepare you to switch careers.

Comparing higher education to job training is especially damaging in a fast paced economy with new fields and jobs popping up all the time.
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Since when were simple solutions considered stupid? If filtering audio (which will probably only work the CPU, and thus the fan, more) is smarter than stopping a fan, I must be as dumb as bricks.
Unless iCloud is being stupid and your paltry couple-hundred megabyte phone won't back up to 5GB free storage. No info other than a "backup failed" message. Or a phone backup mysteriously decides to make a 2nd copy and there are no tools to delete the first.

Both of these things have happened to me. I'll pay for iCloud backup when the tooling improves, not before.
Exactly! Grinder > beans > machine.
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The reason for the binding can be that no-one can be assed to reimplement the functionality. It is not as if anyone expect the scripting languages to implement their own versions of openssl.
Publicity stunt, what else? Both Alphabet and Chipotle get to hit the top of the news again.
I was trying to find a subreddit to help promote a friend's video when I found this and now check it every day:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube

The rules are something like < 1000 views in six months. So it's all obscure stuff.
Most of these jobs are not salaried and can have significant opportunity for overtime at time and a half or more.
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Paraphrasing: To think with just the mind, like a high note played on the violin's E string, unsupported by the body, lacking resonance and depth.

Wow. Great (short) read.
What did I write that requires 30k in the bank? I'm specifically talking about the same cash flows you mention.

The amount spent per month on car loan, insurance, gas, parking, amortized maintenance, etc is now free to pay for other forms of transportation: car rentals, uber, flights.

Someone with the monthly cash flow to choose not to buy a car, that complains they can't afford to go anywhere or do anything is very much a straw man.
Same state media that claimed MH17 was shot down by the Ukrainian air force, so I'm not terribly surprised.
>They might feel like you tricked them, if you then don't do the job to the level of your salary.

This will also be a problem if you do worse job than expected and your manager does not know your salary. Simple solution - don't do a bad job if you don't want to be fired.
I concur that the book is indeed a very entertaining read. It describes the ships (which btw were steam powered and had central heating) and the dreadful conditions that the sailors faced in great detail. Dan Simmons is a good storyteller.
This might not be the feedback you were hoping for, but the new name is similar to a very juvenile word in Swedish (and possibly/probably in Norwegian and other Scandinavian languages). I guess it's too late, but I would probably recommend changing it if possible.

Edit: Not sure why this is getting downvoted. I'm only pointing this out to help.
As others point out, it's really unusual to have federal loans as low as 2.5% (as you mention below). Most are considerably more. Are you sure that's a federal loan?

It's also worth noting that 2.5% is still higher than inflation in the last couple years.
Freenode:

#web

#startups (although not been in there for ages)

#go-nuts
Do you think it's possible that such comparisons grow dull with overuse?
>>I'd much rather see a super-efficient all-knowing and well-intended protector

That is a recipe for a Tyrannical Police state.
Governments delegate rule-making authority, which have the force of law, to these industry organizations. If all laws should be public, these too should be public, regardless of funding model.
I think what's interesting is that a lot of the other recent leaks of user data were all from around 2012 or before.

What has leaked since 2012 that we won't know about until 2020?

I don't think it's necessary a problem that more current leaks are state sponsored.

Firstly, that's their job.

Secondly they're open about what they[1] are doing and are on a recruitment drive.

Thirdly, the more leaks that are obviously state-sponsored suggests sites are better protected against johnny hacker and his downloaded scripts.

[1] By "they" I mean the agencies who frequently pop up here with articles about how they're recruiting because of an ongoing cyber-war. (And yes, the word cyber is cringeworthy but it's the word used.)
Please post them on a pastebin. The alt-right tumblr and conspiracy reddit sound amazing
I would prefer an approach(I am a US citizen) in which if we are going to call college loans financial aid than every student should upon graduation get a 10% more money but in small business grant form so that they can form a small business.
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Why the hell US government, US media and pro-US organizations (ex. WADA) says that the Russian government was behind all hacking attacks in the last 6 month (maybe year or even more)? It sounds like a broken joke from 60s...

Yes, I'm Russian. Yes, I live in Russia. And Yes, I like my country.
I think the reason is that, at some level, Wadhwa believes that immigrants make better entrepreneurs than (native-born) Americans. He's never said that outright, but that's been a theme in his writing for a while. For example, from the article:

America has lost an entire generation of entrepreneurs and innovators and bolstered its global competition. That is also why the proportion of immigrant-founded start-ups in Silicon Valley fell from 52 percent in 2005 to 44 percent in 2012 and is probably even lower today.

It's possible that a lower proportion of startups are immigrant-founded because there are fewer immigrant founders, but it's also possible that there may be more native-born Americans becoming entrepreneurs. One can't tell from just this statistic. If the ratio has changed because of an increase in American entrepreneurship, then Wadhwa's argument becomes that it's bad for the U.S. if more Americans become entrepreneurs.

Which is weird. And being an American myself, something I find quite offensive.
Conversely, leverage allows you to make more money, and if you can use education as leverage to put you into a six-figure-a-year career trajectory, that's going to pay off.
Could it be that taste differs in different parts of the world?

Just trying to have everyone get along and get to be right.
The author doesn't explicitly mention it, but the CVVs were saved as a part of debug logging. That mistake should serve as a warning to others implementing PCI DSS systems.
You should make it so that the purchaser can have an option to sell their logo if someone else wants it more than them. Take a cut from the transaction
Indeed. The term for the manager of a TLD, as Verisign is for .com and .net, is a 'domain registry', not registrar.
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Congrats! I really enjoy using it to play with JS

Do you plan on branching out to other languages with Notebook (Ruby!)? Also any plans to open-source any of your stack? In particular, I would love to have an on-prem version, then I could reach internal resource and store sensitive data.
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Or you can use a free hosting: Firebase, Github Pages, Dropbox.
Some people inside BSofA are trying to change that (I know one of them). Hopefully they'll prevail.
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Digital typewriters are prey http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/
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Done.
Did aircraft carriers stop being one more the more strategic advantages in world war? Those are considered Navy are they not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_by_c...
The logic here seems flawed; it's generally cheaper and faster to hire from within than without (you don't have to spin up people on corporate process or software that someone else wrote). So why wouldn't companies do that?

And the flaw in the logic is revealed here, I think:
> nearly any programmer is capable of doing "data science" or "machine learning"

Nearly any programmer might very well be capable of learning these disciplines, but they're different disciplines from business logic or database theory or networking; they're non-discrete and statistics-interpretation heavy, and it's entirely plausible that you can have an entire company full of programmers who are neither excited about nor prepared to take on these categories of challenge. Some programmers will (lots of people are polymaths), but it's not nonsense to consider them different categories of discipline.

I think smart companies provide an internal channel to get into these sub-disciplines, but it's not necessarily a problem space you can throw at any developer and say "Here you go; good luck tuning those training and test sets!"
I use an adblocker. If your website doesn't like that, I'll stop using your website. So far as I am concerned, how you make money is your problem, not mine.

Data privacy isn't obviously a public good - it's both rival and excludable. There's way to look at it as non-rival, but since much of it comes down to trusted key authority I'd say that makes it rival.

I just recall the world of shareware before open source. It was certainly a way and much was done in that way.
Yes, they'd have gotten away with it too, on a technicality, if it wasn't for truth-loving hackers. A drug's a drug, a cheat's a cheat. Zero tolerance.
>The fact that part of the government did something illegal in no way justifies undermining national security goals if those two are not related.

If a government does something illegal and actively works to prevent itself from being held accountable, it is justified in my opinion to make them accountable even at the cost of intangible inconvenience. You're operating under the assumption that a government should operate in secrecy, which in my opinion is bullshit - even for military and CIA activities, we should be transparent on non-granular scales. Obviously not releasing "hey we're going to mortar this coordinate at this time" but you probably get the idea.

>He did release documents selectively, therefore he could have chosen to not release the foreign surveillance information.

He released 200,000 documents. Millions of pages of information. I don't see how it can be argued he alone could have thoroughly vetted these documents to prevent unintentional leaks. And in his situation, I am sure he had to weigh the advantages of revealing illegal activities to the intangible and temporary inconvenience of only slightly less morally reprehensible spying programs.

>In case you handn't noticed, other powerful states have no qualms about cyberwarefare.

We shouldn't make our standards by comparing us to other countries. There are some pretty fucked up laws out there.
Maybe because the evidence both online and offline implicates them? Lest we forget the events of Sochi.

http://m.bbc.com/sport/36823453
I thought I could pay mine off in 2 or 3 years of graduating, but ended up taking about 5. I paid my car off about a month ago, so I have zero loans!

I've been entertaining the idea of buying a house in my neighborhood. This town never had real estate inflation and bubble, because of rust belt economics. $150,000 should buy a nice place.
There were a few chromebooks that ran on ARM chips. Not sure about sturdy, but they were definitely cheap. (And, you can enable developer mode and then use whatever flavor of Linux you like.)

Also, the Microsoft Surface RT tablets were ARM and fairly impressive from a hardware standpoint (sturdy, nice screens, etc.) You should be able to get a used one on Swappa fairly cheep. I know there was some credential leak recently, but I'm not sure if that's gone far enough to make it a useful development machine. (Also, it's a tablet with a kickstand and a detachable keyboard...)
How WADA can distinguish Russian group from any other? How anti-doping agency becomes proficient in cyber security?
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Not just pet ownership, but e.g. "bring your dog to work" policies. I also find it strange how highly dogs are valued relative to kids (at least among millennials), but also how over-the-top Americans are about how much effort they invest in both pet ownership and parenting.
A years back I became fascinated with 19th century Artic exploration through reading Fergus Fleming's excellent book Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy.

I was therefore rather surprised to find that one of the bodies from the Franklin expedition, of Lieutenant John Irving, is buried not far from where I live in central Edinburgh:

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AFAIK Google Cloud uses encryption throughout including for storing data with customer-provided keys. Not sure how your privacy would suffer in this case.
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I actually think it's a great idea. So far the people who don't like it are they smaller is better crowd. The run it like a 3 person coffee shop crowd.
Hi all, just started this site today and want to make it better, and perhaps with time expand to other types of frameworks.

Where does it lack, what search filters are missing and what key data should be there that isn't there now?
helloworld's assessment is realistic when people's lives are on the line. That doesn't happen too often, but when it does, are you sure you'd trust a gradient?
>>EDIT2:

I am sure violent criminals would love such a database as well, this way when they need an illegal gun they know which homes to rob.

No, you have no right to know what I own, be that Gun, Drones, or TV's. You have no right to compel me to publicly list my assets in a database you can search.
You could try a plugin I wrote to quickly comment/uncomment blocks of code:

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It's a no frills plugin that only does one thing, but it does it pretty well.
Well if they do I think we can expect them to write home about it!
> Why the hell US government, US media and pro-US organizations (ex. WADA) says that the Russian government was behind all hacking attacks in the last 6 month (maybe year or even more)? It sounds like a broken joke from 60s...

You are likely on solid ground accusing the US government of using Russia as an excuse.

When you accuse WADA of being "pro-US"; however, you lose all your credibility.
Maybe we could let athletes take (and disclose) anything they wanted. Then we could develop a handicapping system similar to balance of power in Motorsport. It'd allow for more dimensions of strategy. Would be interesting to see how that would play out.