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There's a central "support Israel" authority in the US - AIPAC.

It's Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister, who's the "super Jew" (her words). [1] She organizes trips to Israel for tech executives and supports AIPAC. She heads Zuckerberg Media.

The Facebook censorship seems to be a response to pressure from Israel.[1]

[1] [http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/randi_zuckerb...]

[2] http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/20000-Israelis-su...
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If only they had applied that "forward thinking" to upgrades. It's one of the reasons we're leaving them behind.

We use GitLab for both internal and client project code, including their runners to run limiting on code (for example) so web based edits/commits can be checked with the same rules we may run locally. Love it.

We use GitLab wikis to replace Confluence (which had replaced Evernote because, well, I couldn't trust them any more). We sometimes use Gollum locally because sometimes a UI around editing pages is helpful, though I sure wish prose.io connected to GitLab. I'd also like to see GitLab switch to Kramdown for Markdown rendering (there's an issue open for that already) and actually use the Gollum gem to render the pages, so that we can use the various partials that Gollum supports when it's serving up a wiki.

Once time tracking lands in GitLab, our (admittedly) basic usage of Jira can be replaced, since we're already using guest/reporter accounts for customers to report all issues on any custom dev project we do for them. We'd like to see that on-boarding process (for our clients who we intend to use Issues) go a little more smoothly, and I'm working on a written spec for proposed improvements, and I'm comfortable enough with their code base to take a whack at writing it.

If it's not dev work (e.g. a general SharePoint support contract), we just use a new HelpScout mailbox with a custom email address for the client. That email address is just an alias that forwards to the primary HelpScout mailbox, where a workflow rule moves it to the client's specific HelpScout mailbox. Nice thing is that HelpScout's Slack trigger doesn't fire until after the email is moved, so notifications also go to the channel we use to discuss that customer's issues.

If Mattermost got bundled with their hosted offering, that'd be killer.

We're using their free hosted service, and so I'm reticent to ask for these sorts of changes by opening issues unless I want to at least attempt to contribute the code for it. I'm unsure how some of that would work out in their multi-tenant environment, but I still plan to dig into it.

GitLab is good stuff. I've been deeply impressed by their agility and responsiveness to their customers. If anyone is on the fence, there's no cost to check out early all of their features.
Does an espresso really need the crema?

In Italy, espresso is simply called caffe. When you order coffee, you get an espresso. At home, many still use a caffettiera (sorry, do not know the word in English). A caffettiera will not produce any noticeable crema, but it is still an espresso.

I never drink coffee (I am way too energetic as is), but in Italy I constantly drink it since it is cultural. In fact, I leave tonight for Italy, so I expect a coffee soon after landing (after many many hours).
MIPS and ARM laptops exist, or an old Thinkpad X60 with coreboot.
There are many great mentors in the startup world, but I've yet to meet one with a better time in to help out ratio than Michael Seibel. Excellent choice to lead YC.

It's also very inspiring to see YC Group tackling some of the world's most important problems. Excited to see what comes of this.
At a broad level, you're correct: prisoners like Saeed are often pawns in a wider geopolitical game (in fact, there's an upcoming documentary on this aspect coming out soon, which includes a detailed look at Saeed's case: https://www.facebook.com/filmcheckmate/ ).

However, these negotiations don't work at such a dramatic level as you suggest. For instance, Saeed was originally sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life following external pressure. Mostafa Azizi, the Canadian filmmaker, was released in April.

Canada frequently makes strong protestations to Iran, and is currently in the middle of debating whether to restore diplomatic relations with the country. The fate of Canadian prisoners in Iran is clearly tied up with this, including that of Homa Hoodfar, who was arrested earlier this year.

While I can't predict what the results of those negotiations would be, whether Saeed is included in the names of prisoners being discussed would have a relatively marginal effect on the cost to either Iran or Canada. What's disturbing is that the previous Canadian government appeared to include Saeed in that equation, whereas Stephane Dion has implied that the new government does not.

(The other point I'd make is that the Iranian government, like most governments, is not a monolithic organisation. In particular, the parts of the political administration attempting to improve trade and diplomatic relations with the West is not the part that targeted and sentenced Saeed. Much of the real negotiations and power dynamics are internal to Iran. But that can be positive as well as negative. My impression is that Saeed's detention has served its political purpose for the more strident groups. I don't think, at this stage, years after the original prosecution, that releasing him would be an immense loss of face.
If a company could build a processor/system that doesn't have this back-box/back door, then the government or governments might prevent them from ever selling it.

I believe, at least for the USA, there is the ability to tap into a running computer & view all operations in RAM, if it's not strongly encrypted. This is achieved through those hardware back doors (and physical access). if those black-box chips have remote capabilities, no physical access is required, it's already there on the chip.
Although P_n can't be computed in anything like n steps.
> Do I have to require 'rubygems'?

>> No. Never. Your code should not expect/require a particular dependency manager

But there's loads of code out there that does that. So the answer isn't clear.

> should I require_relative?

>> This has nothing to do with package management, [...]

It's to do with the interplay between what you install via package management and what you require. In Node you require a package by the same name as you install it, and there's one `require()`, end of story. In Ruby, it's less clear. That's what I meant.

If you want a further example: Why do I `gem install activesupport`, but `require 'active_support'`?
35K is def not poverty. I managed to get by in Manhattan on less...
Because a magic number picked mostly at random is the optimal number of H1B visas?

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-number...
Your points are covered in the official announcement [1], and cross-linked on their FAQ about the announcement [2]. That was also posted to HN but didn't get much traction [3].

[1] https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/09/13/evernotes-future-c...

[2] https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/226885427

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12490149
I am not saying it's a good idea but it is a valid concern.
Honestly, based on the interest rates, and their comparison to the market rates on other things, I assume we're already having to do that. I know a lot of people that choose to just not pay their loans, then people who do pay them get higher rates to cover that.
I spent almost $2400 on my box. Finished it just a few weeks ago. I used parts of this article for inspiration. I only have 2 x NVIDIA GTX TITAN-X 12GB (bought used), not 3. I also used a 1600w power supply.
wow $500 for some clipart what a deal
Their Navy will be closer than you think. Take a look at the rate they are building ships. Their destroyer squadrons (Luyang II and III are amazing ships) have been rapidly growing, as well as their replinishment ships, subs, frigates, and smaller boats. These DDGs and supply ships are the foundations of a CSG. You're right they only have one carrier at the moment, and its only used for training. But this is their modus operandi: Buy something already built, reverse engineer it, tailor to our needs, mass produce. They have 30 years to manufacture 10 more carriers (and associated ships) to reach the power project with the current US Navy. If they continue at their current rate, they will easily reach that.

I don't know where you're getting the notion that the Chinese navy doesn't compare to Japan, because its stronger/larger in every measurable way. Are you accounting for the 30+ ships the Chinese navy has been building every year recently? I would agree with that statement six years ago.

You are absolutely correct: The most interesting question is can they sustain their current output. Will the party hold up?
I would think that a thief would be less interested to steal from someone who is, by virtue of owning a gun, equipped to defend his or her property with lethal force.

What you're missing is that in the US, criminals in almost all the states and cities know there's a good chance their targets have guns in their homes, so they generally choose to burglarize them when unoccupied.
The license changing to Apache is probably a good thing in the long run. The committer list in the proposal is roughly 1/3 Oracle. One can only hope they continue to be committed to it. It is certainly an ominous sign for the Java community in general that the designated steward is divesting tooling.
My call is that we will have a student debt relief fund when enough government folks get scared (within 5 years my guess). So basically the printing press will turn on and we will bail out students. Watch out for all the controversy that's going to come with this bail out.
Ads are placed on web pages in the hope that people will click on them and make them money. It's not unethical to instruct my browser not to download them any more than it is unethical to avoid the lady giving out free samples at the grocery store.

If it means we go back to the days where people spent their own money to create pages because they were passionate about a subject, I'm fine with that. I miss that era. It sure beats advertisers thinking they are entitled to know where you go when you browse around the web.
Same day 'Merica was announced as an official word!

http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oe...

No but seriously, do you want Reddit? Because this is how you get Reddit.

Why is this here?
> You use tons of other services right now which are built on the same back end.

Not everyone does.

(Although I wouldn’t use Evernote in the first place, because it’s hosted in the US and cooperates with the US government, which is hostile to any non-american)
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Language changes and is fluid. You are witnessing a change from one common vernacular to another. Bricked = made useless, some people could probably figure out how to fix it.
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My definition of open source is software where I can modify the source and use the resulting modified software without unnecessary roadblocks or fear of legal reprisal.
Enacs can be set to handle history substitution itself in various ways (the idea being that it can record an accurate history even when your shell can't). There's an option to configure if and when it does this, which you may want to set to never.
>>...fer instance: "Here's what 10$ an hour looks like! Had to put in my 2 weeks."

And pretty much every reply is "I make way more than that, what are you thinking??"

I'd imagine the guy either doesn't know how to show up consistently and on-time, or has such a severe lack of social skills that he can't properly interview for a job. If you can weld like that and can't find a job making more than $10/hr you are doing something SERIOUSLY wrong.
Yes, that's the goal :)

I like working with startups and advancing our program, but do not generally enjoy administrative work. This change enables me to do more of what I like and less of what I don't.
Caffettiera = moka pot. I wouldn't be so bold as to argue coffee technicalities with an italian :), but espresso is technically different, mostly in regards to extraction through pressure as well as heat.
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Interesting perspective. What about the other extreme, though? This circumstance has only really existed in the past 20 years or so, maybe less. Why not just revert some of your behaviors?

- Delete your Facebook account. If you really need it to keep in touch with people across the country, at least delete the app from your phone and don't leave it open in a browser tab.

- Don't place asinine Amazon orders just because they ship free. Stop by a drug store or hardware store on your way home from work for odds & ends. You can even pay cash and kill the CC data bird with the same stone. Bonus points for instant gratification.

- Don't use GMail. Use an email provider like Protonmail or Tutanota that doesn't index all of your emails for advertising or other purposes.

- Don't sign in to Google (or Waze or whoever else's site) when navigating or searching so all of your actions online aren't automatically tied to a single account.

- Don't buy some internet-of-shit appliance that inevitably phones home with a bunch of telemetry data just so you can get a push notification when your laundry is dry.

Want to go really extreme? Now that you've uninstalled Facebook and aren't getting push notifications from your toaster, ditch your smart phone. Pay $15/mo for calls/texts on a Nokia 3310 and save some cash while you're at it. Want to listen to music on the go? Buy an MP3 player like everyone did 10 years ago. Want to play games on the go? Buy a GameBoy and experience the wonder of physical buttons while gaming. Really need directions on the go? You can probably get by with a Garmin or even gasp a paper map. Want to read HN or Reddit on the toilet? Try a book. Yes, I've written mobile apps and my iPhone is sitting on the desk right in front of me, but I hate the fucking thing and its always-connected mobile data. I've done the rest of the above bullet points and don't plan on buying another smart phone when this one hits planned-obsolescence in another year or two. Aggressive data collection depends on user engagement. The easiest way to fight it is to just quit engaging. Usually it'll save you money, too, which is nice.
They way I see it we're already fractured. We have tons of frameworks, libraries, and tools. And they are not easily interoperable. I know React but how good is that if I need to start working with Ember?

Backend developers already have many languages to choose from, and the communities are doing fine.

My only worry will be in the very beginning when dozens of new languages will compete with each other. In the long run, I think a fistful will survive.
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Cuban espresso is often made with robusto beans which are very strong. So your theory might be true.

Many cuban restaurants I have been to in Miami use Café Bustelo which to be honest probably wouldn't be so crappy if the roast-to-serve-delta was lower. Robusto beans get a bad wrap.
> Sousveillance is much more broad. It doesn't just mean watching government officials, it's watching everyone.

Theoretically, isn't this what we're already supposed to do? If you see someone breaking into a car, you're supposed to call the authorities.
I mostly find the odd places when searching on and for discussions of old stomping grounds. That usually leads me down a long path of links. Sometimes I discover by joining oddly named and sparsely visited IRC rooms. Occasionally great sites are posted to 4chan.

A recent discovery was made when looking for recent references to Temple Of The Screaming Electron. This search led me to two weird corners (potentially NSFW).

1. http://www.popeye-x.com/title123.htm As far as I can tell originally set up by a group of programmers (and I think phreakers, digging through the archives ), based in Texas with a common connection to a niche Austin based radio station. Highly original, deeply buried links, multiple hidden forums.

2. http://nobodytm.com Not even sure how to explain this one! Has a chat room that the owner sometimes frequents with cryptic messages that appear to mean something to other participants.
Wait what, they weren't https before, that's way more chocking
the data preparation work involved in doing anything trivial with that setup is mind boggling. I'm going to assume that this very cavalier assumption comes from a place of relatively little knowledge. Do some of this and you'll realize very soon you'd rather shoot yourself than doing complex data prep on constantly evolving schema using schema-on-write tools.
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if CPU isn't that important, then I suggest getting a second had hp Z800, with the big PSU

lots of space for GPUs lots of space for ram and disks.
Gitlab-ci can do this easily with the gitlab-ci-multirunner docker image. My CI/CD spins up multirunners in autoscaling groups and those said multirunners (it's basically a docker container with privilege mode to spin up the Dockerfiles of whatever you're building) handle the builds, whether they're node or ruby or anything else I've made into docker images.
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Their single origin Sweet Tooth espresso was pretty amazing when I had it last year, you could really taste the cantaloupe in that particular version. Their Seasonal Espresso was not bad either but I did make both at home as opposed to drinking them inside a Ritual shop.
Wouldn't he have to be tried, convicted, and imprisoned before he could be pardoned? I think what Snowden wants here is amnesty.
This happened a while ago. Maybe six months ago?
It never was about theft, from the bad guy vs good guy point of view. It's about enabling a mechanism for the appropriate authority to gain access to your system. Since your hardware is not property, it's licensed, the appropriate authority has access, either through a warrant or some other "law" based process (or not).
what state does that exist in? No state school here in NJ is under 10k a year, and none of them are ranked decently except for maybe Rutgers, Stevens, and NJIT's architecture program.
Never used a Mac but this seems more like a workaround for the noise filtering problem.
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naive

It's not naive, but a well-executed damage-control move to detract attention away from Mrs Clinton's health problems. The ludicrousness of discussing frogs close to the election of the world's sole superpower is part of the effectiveness of the move.
Interesting. I don't consider myself to have a very refined coffee palate, but I came away with the same impression. I wonder if you've tried any of the Seattle espresso shops: Vita, Vivace, Cherry Street, Millstead, Slate, Ballard Coffee Works...
I actually like it, sure they read it but they can't get me and they won't allow usa snooping. I use it a lot
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Sure, George, Dumping tons and tons of iron into the ocean with no idea what it will do to the ecosystem definitely seems like a 'cautious approach' (quote from the article).
They used to be https for checkout pages but not item info pages, and now (where now means earlier this year) they're https for both.
This is a very good point. Even if you don't want to self-host and you'd rather use a service, having the software available as open source so you can self-host if you so choose, makes it more rational to use the service, because it makes it harder for you to be screwed the way OP's startup was.
I don't see what the difference is between WebAssembly and what we have now. Now we have transpiling to ES5. Eventually, we'll be "compiling" to WebAssembly. The only difference is that one target is a bytecode and the other is a source language.
Thank you so much for taking the time to teach this class again. The original contained nuggets of knowledge and wisdom that are hard to find anywhere else.
I was unaware that cane toads, in any number, could have any effect on climate.

"...and that is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped..."
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Every state school in NJ is pushing close to 20k a year now with fees. Let alone room and board and you're getting close to 30k.
Exactly I use it often
I'm confused. We will transfer wealth from people without degrees to (typically much wealthier) people with degrees. How does this prevent economic stagnation? Could you explain the mechanics in detail?
Don't need a beagle bone black. I have flashed my laptop (T500) with a raspberry pi just fine.
It is a joke - but intuitively you'd expect some correlation between tides and earthquakes. It would be somewhat surprising if such correlation did not exist, and then I'd wonder what does that mean for the mechanisms that produce EQs.
These are some of the alternatives.

OneNote (http://www.onenote.com/),
Notebook from Zoho (http://zoho.com/notebook),
Apple Notes (https://www.icloud.com/#notes),
Keep from Google (https://www.google.com/keep/),
Simplenote (https://simplenote.com/)
> This situation is a dramatic departure from the original immigration spirit of the US which used to welcome creative immigrants with $0 in their pockets dreaming of success.

I'm not sure this was ever true. A blunt review of historical American attitudes towards immigrants shows they were typically despised and discouraged, and only allowed here at all for the purpose of being exploited as cheap labor for industrial projects.
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What is he looking at to his right? Did he receive the questions beforehand and is reading his speech from a paper?
Carrying a fatal weapon and being trained that people within 25-30 feet are in your 'danger zone' has had a very poor outcome.

But the "within 25-30 feet" at least has it being the truth in its favor. And none of this has changed, US cops have always been well armed, right?

The problem I see is the switch from their being "peace officers" to warrior cops, or at the very minimum, having as their #1 objective making it home safely when their shift ends. Rather negates the "Thin Blue Line" concept of their being there to protect us, also calls into question their outsized benefit packages.
I still use mine:) http://www.horriblelogos.com/kevin-lord-barry/
This is fantastic. Right now I use GCE autoscaling groups to spin up runners while I've got several kubernetes clusters running 24/7. It'll be nice to utilize those for builds (especially with how fast the scheduler is) going forward. Saves money, as well.
Wrong link and website impossible to read.
I have a business question.

Has anyone on HN known anyone who actually bought a logo from this particular site?

I think the site is great. I just question the sold logos, but then again I don't understand the buying mentality of most people.

I'm not knocking the site, or logos; just doing research.
I just don't understand why everyone refuses to study the results (at least, from what the article seems to convey). Yeah, it was short-sighted and illegal and probably dangerous in ways that are currently inexplicable -- but isn't that the whole point? Go ahead and arrest the guy, or sue him, whatever -- but scientists should not pass up the opportunity to study the effects of an actual geoengineering intervention.