skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it' funny that there is so much criticism about that point considering that the blog post already shows how to gain these experience points without actually having talked at conferences (by making a video, by presenting at events with lower requirements, like a meetup).
Sarcasm aside.

There is a caveat to the legality of classified materials, usually you must have been "entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of". Which alludes to the fact that you would first have to have been read in, or taken the material that you knew was classified.

There is also a "requirement" to "knowingly" cause harm. I put these in quotes because the wording and the enforcement of that requirement has been in flux and selective. Also relevant is that gross negligence would also meet the requirement.

I guess a creative prosecutor could challenge that visiting wikileaks would be knowingly removing the material from the server, but it would probably be beyond difficult to meet all of the guidelines for prosecution.

That being said. If you do currently hold a clearance, visiting Wikileaks is a violation of your NDA/ReadIn, Employment Agreement, and the UCMJ for service members.
Did he try turning his router off then on again?
> But I think it would still be possible to greatly improve load times with a bit of optimisation - it's just not commercially important.

A lot of work goes into optimizing titles on consoles... it wouldn't make sense to skimp on such an important part of UX.
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> "State actor" can only really mean UK or Ecuadorian government - or at the very least one of those two must be pulling the trigger.

Not necessarily. Russia could think that it's best interest is that Wikileaks' dead man switch goes off. They could be pressuring Ecuador or actually have cut the connection themselves.

> Also, this is central London - the internet floats freely through the air. Contingency measure is tethering?

Cellphone signals can be easily jammed, as shown at DEFCON and other events. No one has reported on whether or not they can get signal at the Ecuadorian embassy AFAIK.

EDIT: Some people streamed Periscope from the embassy, so no cellphone jamming. If Ecuador is involved, of course, they could just take away all of Assange's devices.
hmm I would suggest there's something more to this than "Internet cut off". There's pretty much no chance you could cut off all connectivity from a building in the heart of london (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Embassy+of+Ecuador/@51.4...)

From that location you have Base station's covering all 4 major UK mobile networks and I'd guess a large number of wi-fi hotspots.

So to "cut off" internet access, you've got to cut all BT lines in and out of the building, block all 3/4G signals all round the building and block each and every wi-fi band around that area, without smegging up all the frequencies in a very central part of london, right next to large shopping areas like Harrods.

you cant' just cut off devices known to belong to Assange, as anyone can buy a 4G router with cash from a shop in London which isn't easily attributable to him.

oh yeah and I forgot there's the satellite internet bit they'd need to block too.
Ask HN: Is someone down-voting all my comments because they don't like me?
Perhaps a good feature to add to HN would be some check on down-voting that watches out for when a single person down-votes another persons comments in mass in a short period of time, or on a sustained basis. Revenge down-voting, that is.
> 3.5 Our first plugin: the file explorer

it would be cool to be able to open
files without having to do File -> Open
using the menu bar

How about using the :edit command?

> 3.5.1 Plugin manager: Pathogen

> 3.5.2 The NERD Tree: a file explorer

The NERD Tree is a plugin that will
allow you to display your directory
and file tree directly in Vim

> 4.1 Learning how to move

Most distributions of vim include the netrw plugin for remote and local directory browsing. Do we really need to learn how to install plugins before even learning how to navigate within a file?

This book seems to focus on the basics of vim. Unfortunately, it falls into the common trap of piling on many layers of unnecessary extras before explaining the basic details. I would not recommend this resource to a beginner.
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“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Blood, Sweat and Tears
To reiterate my comment another time this was posted in a comment thread:

I feel this graphic, while informative and delightful, is insidious in its choice of scale and its lack of comparisons.

On scale, it colors +3% to +7% real returns as "neutral". This makes it seem like the stock market is sometimes good sometimes bad but overall it may as well be just okay. I feel that 0% nominal returns, or even 0% real returns, is more honest as a neutral anchor, and even with the latter it would need some comparisons against other asset classes to paint an accurate picture.

On comparisons, it does a disservice to its readers by not adding a tab showing bond yields and a tab showing cash/treasury yields (which would be dark red across the board except light red around 1930).

These slights in the graphic unfairly make the stock market look unfavorable and makes the suboptimal strategy of keeping your money out of the market seem much more favorable than it is.

Adding a specific example, the "worst 20 years" is 1961 to 1981 with a BIG RED -2.0% a year, as if someone loses money and in retrospect would have been better stowing cash away under one's mattress. According to the BLS[1], US inflation was 5.7% over that period, so the mattress strategy yields at best -5.7% in real returns, not at all better than investing in the S&P.

[1] - http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=1961&ye...: $1 in 1961 was $3.04 in 1981, 3.04^(1/20) = 1.057
https://xkcd.com/552/
I don't think Assange is a partisan. He's Australian after all and has no stake in this election. I think he is releasing info on Hillary because that is what he has and is timing the release for maximum public exposure. If he had similar info on Trump, I firmly believe he would be doing the same thing.
> As someone who only uses Vim casually, what's an example of a bad default?

By default, vim doesn't enable filetype detection or syntax highlighting, so even though it can easily recognize a source file's language, it doesn't.
Whether you like it or not, the world has moved on and sources are now able to post stuff directly without having to go through intermediaries like the established press.

This causes all kinds of havoc and requires more skepticism on the part of the consumer but that does not diminish the fact that it might be true and that the timing is interesting.

Now chances are better than even (a lot better) that this is false, but so far it fits the facts as good (and in some cases better) than most other theories about why this is happening other than the one about today being the day of the 'interview' with the Swedish representatives.
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In 2013, the Wunderland donated one square meter to each of the six major political parties in Germany, asking them to envision what the nation would look like if their party were in power. Top politicians and their advisors visited the Wunderland to participate in this special “Utopia” exhibition. They fretted for weeks over the small details, which each took on the symbolic importance of a plank in a political platform. They had to decide what to include, what to emphasize, and which scenarios would convey their policies most precisely; essentially, what kind of world they wanted to imagine into existence.

I really like that idea. It's almost like an elevator pitch for each party's platform.
Check also Brillo.
Even if the embassy was shut down surely just a cheap smart phone would rectify the situation and get him back online. Are they somehow blocking mobile signals as well?
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> Also, i am at a loss of finding his full column on the Italian tourist story.

Here you go: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherboo...
But the point is that, if where you ended up was completely unrelated to where you started, you would expect 20% of the middle fifth to end up at the bottom, 20% the 2nd lowest fifth, 20% the middle, 20% the 2nd highest, and 20% the highest. The article seems to be arguing there is NOT a lot of social mobility, but if so you wouldn't expect more than 20% of the middle fifth to end up in the top.
I don't know about others but I really enjoy my day job. My only complaint is that I don't have enough free time to "idle", but I'd hardly quit just for that purpose. Maybe slow down to a 3 day week. Neither busting ass or 100% idling.
Wow, I never knew that! That is a gem of a piece of history.
Not that I believe the rape allegations against him are necessarily true, but just because she consented before doesn't mean she consented then. That's a dangerous assumption to make in any situation.
If it were my embassy I wouldn't let assange on my network. I imagine he has his own private internet connection.
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In college I used something like 10 systems on 6 networks of which I had control over 2. VIM was already everywhere, that's when it's worth learning. When ubiquity is a compelling feature
Search for "Alessandra Pacchieri", the story has been published on most UK newspapers, including:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/03/caesar...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/15/pacchieri-ba...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1050307...
That's why Neovim carefully implemented[1] most of the defaults (and a few others) from sensible.vim.

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2676
What if "they won't go down" is untrue? Asking because my $ are GBP..
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This seems to insist that social mobility is only moving into the top fifth, and ignores that moving from the middle fifth to the second fifth (etc) is still mobility
These cases are not related to each other, so skip the Whataboutism.

While this Assange case for sure is controversial, Sweden has done more for the rights of women than most other countries. And that is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Whether Assange is guilty of anything or not, I have no idea. But you don't have that, either.
Wow. Screenshot?

(For those not aware, (((echo parenthesis))) are an anti-semitic symbol used by white supremacists to highlight people who are Jewish.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

Edit: Wow, here it is: http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-echoes-tweet-anti-s...

Most of our critics have 3 (((brackets around their names))) & have black-rim glasses.

i.e. most of our critics are Jewish. Presumably part of some kind of cabal....

Here's a white-supremacist organization praising Assange for the tweet: http://www.dailystormer.com/julian-assange-and-general-flynn...

Anti-Semitism is rising. Everywhere. We are going high-profile.
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and General Flynn this week have tweeted openly anti-Semitic tweets.
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So lets say that you "fix" the education system.

What does that mean for college enrollments? Do the ~70% of households making less than 50k who were generating far lower percentages of college bound children now boost enrollments for universities?

With a similar dropout rate or lower since education is "fixed" we now have a ton more college graduates. Are there anywhere near enough jobs requiring a college degree to satisfy the demand?

There is a much larger problem than some stock-phrase about education can fix.
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>I'm indeed prejudiced against cowboy coders that want to jump from team to team, focus on picking up new tech for their resumes and do their best to avoid any maintenance work.

Being at a company for a year doesn't tell you someone is like that. This is why I called it a prejudice.

Being at a company for a year can also indicate that the person is quality enough to be choosy about where they work and not to stick around when management proves themselves incompetent.

Most statups fail. Most startups management is very poor. The best software developers realize that they are making an investment by working for a startup. Thus staying around past the first year is a judgement call on the future of the company.
Ok, you are correct that the US President can in fact pardon people preemptively (though it is very rare). But no such power is available to anyone within the Swedish government or judiciary, so far as I am aware, and to pardon Assange preemptively would in any case violate Sweden's treaty obligations.
Here's Hillary's response to a question about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSTht4G4yJs
Right, but switching to Linux will not solve anything for those people either because they will not be allowed to do that either.

The person who wrote this up article obviously has complete control over their computer don't they?
I think that's true of all mirrorless. A full-frame SLR is going to take better photos because it lets in more light and has a larger sensor. It's hard to get around physics.

But, as you noted, carrying an SLR can be a pain. I tried to get into photography many years ago, with a Canon Rebel XT. It didn't stick because I hated carrying the bulky thing around. I stuck to point & shoots, then my iPhone.

I recently picked up an Olympus PEN e-PL6, which, for me, strikes a nice middle-ground. It fits in my wife's purse, or my small backpack (easy to carry-on flights, unlike the Canon, which ate up my underseat area on its own). It is light enough to carry all day. And has an excellent selection of lenses for all purposes.

Of course, I also frequently carry my Canon S100 because it is truly pocketable and still takes excellent photos.
I deleted my comment because I didn't see a reply from you and wasn't certain my comment was correctly speaking to your points because I just don't get your comment. Since I wasn't certain my response was speaking to the points, I removed it so as not to muddy the conversation.

Don't appreciate your aggressive tone.
>We're in the middle of some crazy propaganda war right now

Agreed. It's like some people somewhere woke up and realized hiring some script kiddies to hack old people that use the same password for all their accounts is a lot cheaper and easier than old-fashioned espionage.

The frenzied pace at which all of this is happening reminds me a child with a new toy.

>gaslighting from both sides

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.
I have no direct evidence. My bet is based on the simple fact that 1) the claim of access being cut off by a state actor is pretty huge and completely unsubstantiated, and 2) random internet outages are not uncommon.
That's correct. "The certificate chain is complete", says https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=vimebook.com
IIRC there was another recent article in Hacker News that looked back on prominent families in Florence going back centuries. They still found that families who were prominent back during the Renaissance are still on top today.
The waste is not simply the spent nuclear fuel, but much of the machinery and systems around it, plus the discarded items used daily in the management of a plant (clothes etc).

This low level nuclear waste while 'only' dangerous for 100 to 500 years, is huge - vastly bigger than the 76000 metric tons of spent fuel:

http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/On-Si...

I don't have the tonnage of the low level waste to hand, but it is certainly much larger than the high level waste.
I'm not sure what inspired these somewhat angry responses. I'm just discussing ancient mathematics, which is not a hot button issue. Sorry if I offended you somehow.
Honestly, applying to speak at industry conferences is a very frustrating experience. I have given lots of talks at my university, I have spoken at local meetups, and at one local free conference where the organizers knew me. Students and other attendees at my talks often tell me that my talks are good. However, trying to break into the "conference" circuit has been difficult as I have never gotten any direct feedback from anywhere I have submitted to and often wonder if they read my proposal at all. They sometimes even forget to inform you that your talk has not been accepted! It is a bit ridiculous.

In contrast, while I don't want to paint a rosy picture of academic conferences, you always get detailed feedback on your paper/talk that you submit. It may be biased, it may be frustrating, but at least you can tell that someone at least looked at your paper/talk and gave you some feedback. Industry conferences never do this.
Maybe we disagree about scale :-)

Vim is my "little" editor; JetBrains (and the like) are my "big" editor (albeit with vi[m] plugin to avoid the mental context switch).

Somewhere an emacs user is laughing at me, but I'll get over it.
And companies turn out to be poorly run.

With the 4 year vesting schedule, employees are incentivized to leave after a year to diversify their holdings.
Because he could easily prove his internet access wasn't shut down by sending out a message to the contrary. Also the Ecuadorian embassy could deny it.

Absent any proof that he actually has access I'm going on the assumption that he does not because that is what they claim.

Now whether or not it really is a state actor (could be Ecuador!), Assange's laptop frying the network card or some other reason why he hasn't got access (didn't pay the phone bill?) is up for grabs.
Hillary => no change. Trump => change. Positive or negative? Who knows...
The post was titled ".NET on Linux", not "Why Windows 10 is garbage". The forced update is just an easy and "fun" excuse to switch.

Maybe take a look at the last paragraph:

> To sum up – I’m not trying to say that Windows is not so good for the software development. For example, the Visual Studio will be probably hard to beat for many years amongst many other great tools. My point is that if you’re not tied up to some specific technology which is not cross platform (which usually means for the Windows users only), you might want to give a try to some other environment. It’s always a good thing to try out something new, hone skills and broaden your horizons.
Maybe the embassy cut him off?

It's not unlikely that a person could be targeted to have communications access disrupted across multiple devices and networks.
sure thing :)
Use ":set paste" before you paste. (Disable with ":set nopaste".)

See also:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Toggle_auto-indenting_for_code_pas...

Or, if your terminal emulator supports "bracketed paste", use something like this: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste
That makes sense. With the top fifth being 20% of the population isn't 20% going into the top fifth what would be expected?
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I didn't see it as sarcastic.
Parts of Docker are implemented on them.

So anyone that wants to improve Docker or adapt it to their distribution of choice needs to eventually use them.

For example, Microsoft did several contributions in Go for making Docker run on Windows.

The TCP/IP stack used by Docker on OS X is taken from MirageOS, written in OCaml.
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There are many such formulas, such as Willan's 1964 simple formula for the nth prime. But they are basically all hiding a sieve, Wilson's theorem, the prime count function, or some other calculation. That is, none of them are at all practical, and most offer no insight.

I'd recommend perusing "Formulas for Primes" by Underwood Dudley, 1983. Free online link: http://www.maa.org/programs/faculty-and-departments/classroo...
Very good point.

While there are total return (i.e. with dividends re-invested) and net total return (i.e. with dividends partially re-invested, as if after tax) versions of the S&P 500, they're almost never quoted.

The German DAX is the only major index I can think of that's primarily quoted as a total return index.
Why doesn't the author just measure how much money they are making? They seem to think some things are bad (header bar, etc) but as far as I can tell they could find out very easily if using AMP is helping or hurting.
I see it as more of a failing of our current economic system if we don't know how to use a surge in the number of college graduates.
To be clear, this is coming from a woman who has repeatedly told bald-faced lies; anything short of a complete denial is a confirmation.
All the way in the bottom also a reaction by lead AMP product team member.
People can absolutely still afford to buy houses on middle-class salaries. They just can't do it in San Francisco or Manhattan or the nicest neighborhoods in Chicago. They may also have to hold off buying a new phone every year. They may have to not sign up for all 500 cable channels along with Spotify and Netflix. But there are lots of people living just fine, with families in their own homes, on middle class families.

But, sure, some things are harder. And other things are easier. It's much easier to learn skills on Coursera/Udacity/etc without having to pay for college. It's much easier to move around the country. For people who gay, lesbian, or trans, I would say life is probably a lot easier than it was in the 80s and 90s. The gig economy provides options for making side cash.

I'm sure every generation is whiny. But within the generation, everyone is going through the same things. So, live the best you can, and stop trying to compare yourself to everyone else, let alone those in other generations.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667871
He isn't jailed in the embassy, he's escaping jail by hiding in the embassy.
Like this, then:

You started by arguing that following the laws of war is terrorism. That subject of law have been really discussed, there are lots of academic papers. I'd be happy to see references?

And your follow up was just not possible to parse. Please read Byer's article, it taught me a lot on the subject.
Yes! The thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11731890
The desire to "keep up with the Jones's" is one of the strongest human motivators in my opinion and very hard to fight. Most people want to feel respected or on par with their social circle. And even if one can resist the urge, there is often pressure from others (wife is a big one)
Has anybody heard about this story from anything other than HN?

Searching for her name doesn't count.
For starters, OP says that he has health issues. That makes it much more difficult to hold a full-time job. If he can only work part time, he would be stuck earning far below the full-time market rate. As total annual revenue decreases, the time required to pay off that debt, along with the total amount of interest paid servicing it, goes up exponentially. Going to university isn't always a guaranteed win.
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I posted a similarly-minded article, also from Rolling Stone, and it got flagged. While Trump was in the article's title, the flagger may not have read it since it was a bigger-picture article about the media and political system as a whole.

What's the line between flaggable and acceptable when it comes to articles such as these?