skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it became clear to me that, at some point, the attempts to tarnish Wikileaks's name was to prime the listening audience in a way such that when information so irreparably damaging would get released, the voters would have to choose between continuing a corrupt government and choosing an apparently mad authoritarian, and to soften the landing on the former.

correct. you saw the exact same defamation routine a few years ago with the iraq leaks, and again (not as strongly) with the diplomatic cable leaks. the only twist this time is the attempt to conflate russia-us geopolitical tensions with wikileaks involvement.

does the source of the information matter, if the information is legitimate? no. the dems live in fear of wikileaks and the endless dirt on hillary.

it's clear that russia does view assange as an asset, however-- the whole RT show a few years ago spelled that out for me. what is also clear is that unhappy facts are more effective propaganda than mere rhetoric. assange seems content to be a participant in russia's propaganda schemes, so long as he is actually releasing documents whose beef was agnostic to the context of geopolitical rivalry.

in other words: i want the dirt, too. i don't care if russia helps assange, we need all the help we can get against our own government at this point.
> Heartbreaker #4 – The N00b

Everyone is a n00b at some time. But being a conference n00b doesn't mean you're not an expert on the subject of your talk, that your content is not original, that you're not an excellent speaker, or that your talk would not be excellent. All it means is that you're a n00b to public conferences. The wholesale discounting of candidate talks based on such narrow criteria is foolish.
> The simple fact is that Assange is campaigning for Donald Trump.

This is classic US politics. This A vs B mentality is what leads to such a fierce two party system.

If you don't support choice A, then you are assumed to support choice B. Any attack on Hillary is viewed as support for Trump and vice versa.

I don't think that's a fair interpretation.
> You're implying that the reboots occur at random without notification. They do not.

Well actually......twice in the past seven days I had updates installed during my "work hours" and it still went ahead and did the 20 minute reboot warning thing during the same specified work hours in the same day.
In order to access classified information, you must posses two things:
1) the appropriate clearance level (confidential, secret, top secret)
2) a need to know

So even possessing the appropriate clearance level doesn't give you the right to just start reading anything that interests you on a classified network. You're supposed to have a "need to know" in case you're questioned about it.

We always get stuff here (contractor on AFB) about "don't read this or that" or else you could be in trouble. But I've never heard of anyone actually getting in trouble.
>rather than letting those viewpoints tear you apart.

Is that not what you're already doing?

How can you bring light into your family's life when you're full of darkness?

It's okay to let people be wrong and biased, because haven't we all been?

>Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

-Lao Tzu
This is great advice, I want to add to this:

> This person should personally gain something by your product. i.e. spend less time doing something they hate, look good to their boss. Linkedin can be super helpful for this.

to include "This person should be someone who might be the _purchaser_ of your product" (e.g. the person who can buy it, since they're the person you need to convince)
I you ever visit Hamburg and have a spare day make sure you visit the Wunderland! I can't recommend it enough. They even have a model of their own building as a miniature. With tiny moving trains in it :-)

Be sure to get a reservation. That way you don't have wait in a queue to get in: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/besuch/tickets/
The experienced presenters tend to talk about the same things, over and over, at conference after conference. Selecting for "noobs" injects diversity into what is otherwise a well-worn conference circuit by many of the non-noobs.
Career Advice
Hello,

I am a Platform developer with 1 year of experience. I have a MS degree in Computer Engineering.

I am still not very confident on taking my career in charge as there are so many fields and each require a rigor in its own. I read Cal Newports Deep Work, So good they cant ignore you. Talent code and Adam Grant's Originals and a bunch of other titles. But after that, I would know or workon my work ethic for that achievement, but deciding a path in a field in such haziness is what I am not able to decide upon( on what variables I need to consider when deciding). It would be great if I can get some advice on that front. Is joining a startup the best thing to do? I have still a lot of student loan, so I deferred an offer from a startup and joined a safe company.

It would be great if I can get some suggestions/advice on this.

Thanks
Apple's move into auto seems to have been about recruiting. For a brief time some of the most talented young engineers were favoring Tesla over Apple because the mission was more interesting.
good grief you're right, I never realised, the market is always right about everything!
Open Source Demolishes Myth of One Man Startup
Where does the lithium or neodymium come from? Those have to be mined too.

> The Chinese Society of Rare Earths estimated that the refinement of one ton of rare earth metals results in 75 cubic meters of acidic wastewater and one ton of radioactive residue. The 1998 leak of hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive wastewater into a nearby lake was a contributing factor to Molycorp’s shutdown in 2002.

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/19/rare-earth-metals-wi...

And with those materials (and especially with coal) we're talking about entirely different scales of material. A couple dozen tonnes of uranium will run a reactor for a year. You need millions of tonnes of coal to produce an equivalent amount of power.

As for where, the interesting thing about uranium is that it's pretty much everywhere. Nobody really prospects for it because it's not commercially valuable. Let's say you go prospecting, and you find a big deposit, then you spend a bunch of money starting up a mining operation. Who's going to buy mass quantities of your uranium? What do you do with it? Beyond nuclear activity and a few things that need super-dense weights for balance, nobody uses it for anything. Why would you even bother prospecting for it?

Canada actually has larger feasibly-recoverable uranium reserves than Niger does. Russia has more than Canada. Australia has more than four times as much as Niger. The US has about half as much. And because it's not really something people go looking for, it's quite likely that there are other large deposits that nobody has found yet.

http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-uranium-reser...

This also has some interesting implications for the cost of nuclear fuel. Fuel costs are essentially rounding errors in the total cost of operating a nuclear power plant (14% including refining). This means that you can withstand massive flunctuations in fuel costs with very little impact on energy prices.

There's actually a huge amount of uranium diluted in seawater. It currently costs twice as much to extract it as it does for terrestrial deposits, but that's a massive quantity if we needed it. About 4 billion tons total (vs 1.7 million tons of known deposits in Australia). And as you extract it, it'll leach from deep-sea rocks which contain about 100 trillion tons total.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-se...
Ah, I see what you are saying, I wasn't thinking about the groups from which you were drawing (mornings before coffee obviously don't show me at my best).

My first thought after understanding what you were trying to say is actually backed up by the stats you found, as while men make up slightly less than half the populace, they have a much higher incarceration rate.
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Your opinion is quite common with old vim hands, but I would have to respectfully disagree.

Someone learning vim is probably coming from Atom or Sublime. The defaults in vim are so egregiously awful, that I don't think you can expect these folks to stick with learning. Their productivity drops to zero - there isn't even syntax highlighting - so they give up and go back to what they were using.

You have to get vim to a point where they can be sort of productive, if you want them to stick with it. I think some customization is necessary for beginners.

An alternate idea would be to use neovim, which fixes many of the defaults.
I was out in the field consoling into a cisco switch and I had my laptop restart(I had been cancelling it a while now and it got to the point where it just restarted)

It took the better part of 10 minutes to apply updates.
Thankfully it was nothing pressing I was going on the switch.
I have disabled auto updates with a registry hack.
Microsoft isn't serious about Windows and is now treating it like an OS used for petty un-important work
I was out in the field consoling into a cisco switch and I had a force update restart done(I had been cancelling it a while now it go to the point where it just restarted)

It took me the better part of 10 minutes to apply updates.
Thankfully it was nothing pressing I was going on the switch.
I had to disable auto updates with a registry hack.
Microsoft isn't serious about Windows and it treating it like an OS now used for petty non important things.
Cool! Though I think a flat matrix would be far more readable. Can't really see if there are any trends on first glance.
She didn't deny it, but said “It would have been a joke, if it had been said, but I don't recall that.” I say that indicates she likely said it, although maybe jokingly.

Speaking for myself I know I would never say that, so the response would be "No, I never said that."
Are you honestly suggesting that UBL, Ulbricht, and Assange deserve to be treated the same way?
Cause killing THOUSANDS of innocent citizens around the world is the same as leaking state secrets.

I'll refrain from commenting ill about Ulbricht on this site...
You're assuming someone is recycling their phone...parent comment is talking about throwing it away (landfill/litter)
I think the webpack ecosystem has a lot of plugins for inlining.
The problem is, this has been a long term trend that pre-dates proliferation of internet by decades.
Ask HN: Where do you find the most fair and balanced political news?
Misusing Træfɪk for accessing internal services on Kubernetes
From the article -

"There was no way to immediately verify if he had been knocked offline, and if so, how a state actor was suspected."

As far as I can tell, no one has verified any of this. Given JA's recent bizarre state of mind, I'm not sure where all of this breathless HN commentary is coming from.
> I disagree that Clinton is trying to distort reality. She is more old school - she just stright up lies from time to time. Trump, on the other hand, is quite literally trying to create an alternate reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
My solution is NO active looking for news until Friday, and then only for an hour.

It has greatly increased my overall happiness. And you really start to see news for the attention drug it seems to have become. You also learn what is really important as you'll hear about it. Yes you miss things but honestly, I've found what is missed is really not all that important.
Yeah. I think it works when you take three fingers from your left hand and mash them together with all five from your right, representing a set of 8 elements. Now to perform 8-choose-3 and choose a set of 3 out of the 8 elements, you separate your hands and you've "chosen" (albeit in advance by the topology of your hands) a group of 3 out of the 8, but your fingers are still bunched up because these are sets and you haven't ordered everyone yet. Now we ask for both sides to line up, you "order" them by flattening out your hands facing each other palm-to-palm, as if you were holding a box on its sides: the 3 and 5 fingers on either side are now lined up. Now if you've been following the math you have (8 choose 3) * 3! * 5! ways that you could have done those steps.

Now you take these 2 hands facing each other and turn them palms-down so that they form one line of 8 fingers, a permutation of the original set-of-8 which happens to have a piece of tape (or other division) separating the first 3 from the last 5. Ignoring this division you have just the permutation of 8.

With a little reasoning you get the one-to-one and onto properties of this mapping: if you got to some permutation of the 8 this way, there was only one choice of the 3 out of the 8, and only one ordering of the left, and only one ordering of the right, that generates that permutation of the 8. Furthermore every permutation can be generated by those very steps of choosing the first 3 of the permutation in the 8-choose-3 step and then ordering the two groups appropriately. Since this process is one-to-one and onto, it must be the case that (N choose K) K! (N - K)! = N!, the total number of possibilities for each must be the same.

Does that help?
I really like memeorandum.com for this. Like Techmeme, its sister site, it groups news stories by topic. You can read all sides. It gives you an excellent overview of how easy it is to put bias into what appears to be objective coverage.
How could one verify this?
I'm sure that at the time the Fukushima reactor was built, the general public was assured that its design was perfectly safe. Now you are claiming that it was, in fact, "pants-shittingly unsafe" and the modern designs are much safer. So my question is, why should the general public believe you this time? Because this time, you're really serious?
you probably emailed them at 2am and they hope you go away eventually
Of all the cases of excessive government intervention I've read about in recent years, the ones about families are almost always the most distressing.

Obviously there are cases that really do involve serious abuse of someone who is not capable of protecting themselves, and intervention may be justified.

However, the state in many of our western countries has an awful record of providing real, genuine care for those at a disadvantage, and it has an awful record of interfering without reasonable cause. I therefore believe the law should require an unusually high standard of evidence before permitting such actions.

Mere reasonable suspicion that all is not perfect in the subjective view of some official is nowhere close to sufficient to justify things like removing a child from a parent's care or separating an elderly married couple who have lived happily together for 60 years, in my not so humble opinion, yet I have read far too many stories that are disturbingly close to that in recent times.

At least it is reassuring that a very senior judge in the UK does seem to have recognised the problem and to be trying to do something about it.
I don't really see the point of this comment: Above is a proposal to use a tool to accomplish a goal. It presumes the goal is desired by the actor. If it is not, they are free to use the tool for other purposes.
In a lot of cases two are not the same. User of your product (person who is going to benefit the most) might not be same as purchaser (VP or founder)
As a consequence of the Centralia incident[1], a portion of Pennsylvania, USA has been rendered practically uninhabitable since 1963. The fire may continue burning for up to two hundred and fifty years. It is not the only persistent coal mine fire in that state, let alone worldwide.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

I do not mean to diminish the tragedy of the Chernobyl incident or the dangers of nuclear accidents, but to provide context. Even ignoring the energy balance which show nuclear as being safer per KWH than any other tech (including wind and solar), even including the disasters of fukushima and chernobyl, Nuclear has been safer and less damaging to the environment than coal.

Wind and solar are great, I'd love to see more use and developments there. They can't compete with the energy density of coal, let alone atomics.
REITs are traded on the market, (pretty much) just like a stock. So you don't have to worry about liquidity being too much of a problem. One example of a REIT is [1].

However, if you really just want to park money for 20 years, you probably want a target year fund like [2] which will have higher risk now (stocks, REITs, etc), and rebalance to lower risk (Bonds) as it gets closer to 2040. It's literally the definition of set it and forget it.

[1] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0123&...

[2] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0696&...

edit: I should add, I'm not your financial advisor, and I don't have a fiduciary duty. You should consult with a financial advisor (who has a fiduciary duty) before making any decisions about investments. However, target year funds are frequently (one of) the best decisions for many people.
I would read that.
Similarly, Russian has two blues: goluboy (like the sky) and siniy (like the sea). Nobody, not even a child, would confuse the two, or consider them the same color. Even blue eyes are differentiated into these two categories, just like English speakers differentiate between blue and green eyes.
> I rather like the idea of having fresh speakers on stage over the 4th instance of the very same old talk.

I'd rather have an experience talker who is used to giving his talk. You know you will get way more out of it.
Only this guy or we all?
Low margin? Uber collects ~20% from the cost of every trip taken. Given the hypothetical that full autonomy is a solved problem, A premium robotaxi service could readily command Apple-grade profit margins.

The barriers to entry are insanely high, of course, and that places Apple amongst a handful of companies with the resources to clear those barriers.

Autonomous vehicle pioneers have recently amended their expectations for when autonomous car will be fully realized, claiming it will now be more than 20 years. This is a far cry from conventional expectations in the self driving car world 3 years ago, when it was assumed that one or several big industry players would be mass producing robotaxis by the mid-2020s.
Potentially similar question was already asked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703393
Apple is undoubtedly looking to change the car market.

If you imagine that people will buy, own, and sell cars the same way they do today, forever, then sure--an Apple car makes no sense. But it's pretty likely that the relationship between cars and people will change at some point, and that is the point at which Apple wants to be ready.

Or rather, just beyond that point--when the new direction is clear, but the early products still suck. That's when Apple likes to get into new markets.
I'm also in Canada and I follow the passive investing Couch Potato approach which I've converted to pseudo code here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11528787.

That said if investing doesn't interest you just use a Robo advisor like Wealth Simple (Toronto based). You will pay maybe 0.2% more in fees but your performance will be the same as the couch potato approach, and you'll never need to think about investing.
I've poked a bit at the Wikileaks emails. My conclusion is that the email release is designed not to understand the emails in any sort of context but rather to be selectively quote-mined. The use of Courier can obscure the fact that the message is a quadruple-forwarded quote, as well as hide what was highlighted in the original HTML versions of emails. The lack of any attempt to reconstruct threading makes this worse than even the new IETF mailing list archive for trying to read email archives--and that is a bar I didn't think could be cleared.
I wouldn't say "cleanest". A lot of the stuff she's been investigated for is completely true, but for whatever reason hasn't stuck. We know for a fact the whole emails thing was completely true. She sent state secrets over a private email server using non-secured devices, and those emails were leaked to foreign governments. Doesn't sound "clean" to me.
And in my personal opinion, social media allows me to be almost 100% more in touch with my family that lives on the other side of the globe, who I would probably barely think about if it wasn't for Facebook. Personally, I find this a good thing. In the counterfactual world in which FB didn't exist, I would have zero contact with them - now I have some.

I'm not saying I'm right and you're wrong, everyone can make their own choice about what's better for them. I'm just saying:

1. It's a huge leap to go from "many people disagree with me" to "may people are brainwashed". Note that tons of the HN population share your views, but I never said I think you are all brainwashed, and I think it would be pretty silly to say so.

2. Saying that social media furthers the disconnect from actual relationships is a pretty big statement, and without real proof it's mostly anecdotal. Everyone has opinions on what is good or not, worthy or not, moral or not, etc - I really think more people should just trust that others know what they're doing. If people use FB and say why they use FB, it's not a 100% certainty that they're right, but give people the benefit of the doubt regarding their own choices!

3. Most people share the same reasoning on why balls fall to the floor when released from the hand. That's not a weird thing - it's because gravity is real.

Btw, I'm not upset at all, just disagree :)
Yep, this is it. I charge sponsors on a CPC basis. In the near future I'll be doing actual interviews with sponsors, so readers will get to know all about how they started their companies, too.
Take 1/2 your money and dump it into a lowest cost index fund you can find. Ignore it for 40 years. Do whatever you want with the other half.

And really what to do with the other half is what most of investing is about. If you have a lot of money then many people try and beat the market, which generally means they lose it all. Others hedge for bad times, which is a good idea if your wealthy and care about downsides more than upsides.

However, if you are like most people you can invest in other things. Save for unemployment, pay off your debt, pay for education, start a company, buy a house, buy solar panels, or buy a Prius etc. Chances are there are non 'investment' options that are better than the stock market after taxes, but it really depends on you and what you want to do.
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Reading the Constitution is nowhere near enough to understand 200+ years of U.S. law.

It's akin to thinking reading the wiki page on Special Relativity means you're Einstein.
but how they use your application is not a reflection of how they use the web at large.

i'm not surprised by your study's result, I'm just not sure you can extend your conclusion to believe that people won't or can't click the back button to return to Google after clicking a result.
To sum up: no one really knows for sure!
That's the thing. Rather than being a neutral clearinghouse, that it pretends to be, it's more and more selectively his mouthpiece, used to release information on people Assange dislikes, threaten others, and withhold release for groups he approves of.

Who knows what they have?
As did I. I would argue the advance of tech, code as law (effect of code for most of us), and that imbalance warrant elevating the importance of Internet access.