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>I don't agree that's antisemetic in any honest sense of that word (ie "hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews").

It's using the clearly anti-Semitic (((echo))) format, and linking those people to a mysterious cabal working against them. That is an incredibly standard anti-Semitic view. In what way is that not prejudiced against Jews?

>Hanlon's razor is the obvious objection, and goes unaddressed.

What is Hanlon's razor for including an anti-Semitic key in their tweet? I'm honestly asking what the simpler explanation is for them including that, and then going on to link (((those people))) to an international conspiracy, something people have accused Jews of for centuries.

>Interesting, any you'd care to link?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/09/wikileaks_...

>I'm merely assuming they aren't going to be obviously incompetent? Like, maybe the phrasing will be self-serving... but look at GP... he's seriously suggesting that they may have mistaken a gardening accident for a state actor...

Intentionally misleading/lying isn't being incompetent. They could know or think that it was an accident, but intentionally spin it as foul play to reinforce the narrative they've been spinning.
That's an excellent way to describe it. Most of his verbal quirks appear to be designed to get around various filters.
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Thanks! Definitely a good place to start.
> When a student is paying for an education in a federally-funded institution...

That's not what we are talking about.
> If you are feeling such crippling despair from consuming this information, why are you consuming it (Assuming you're not a sadist.)?

This! I stopped reading mainstream news years ago and I'm a LOT better off feeling. I'm less stressed, less angry, less fearful. I don't know "that funny/offensive thing that Trump said" and I don't know about the latest celebrity breakups but I can still form opinions about people and politics without sensational bullcrap being shoved down my throat on a daily basis!
It's great that China is excited about space. Hopefully, they get soon excited about Nobel Prizes, and basic research. They could easily double the world's output of research.
The comment section is probably even more interesting. Specifically, that Jef Raskin was talking about there being a complete product, where for instance you plug in a printer rather than buying a printer and an interface for the printer, rather than opposing expandability.

Other words that might get at the same point: the "Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer" document [1] describes a structuring of components that does not favor people who enjoy tinkering over those who don't.

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/bom/...
TL;DR: Britain has no Bill of Rights
There's a possible ugly 5th heartbreaker: "we love your topic and experience but you look too old and unhip for our hip frontend conference".

I've been rejected for conferences where every speaker that was accepted looked well under 30. At the least, no one had grey hair.

It's frustrating to me because the very same conferences are highly vocal about seeking diversity, and do usually end up with some gender diversity (although non-Asian/non-White speakers are almost always poorly represented). But there's no age diversity: everyone on stage is between 20-30, or else goes to a plastic surgeon and dresses to look that age.
I think there is no good evidence that the official inflation rate is being artificially suppressed by "the government".

Krugman: "As it happened, there was a very easy answer to the inflation truthers: quite aside from the absurdity of claiming a conspiracy at the BLS, we had independent estimates such as the Billion Prices Index that closely matched official data."

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/distrust-of-data...
> This is not the case for the Chernobyl area or Fukushima. This place is lost and cannot be used by humans for a long time. This cannot not happen when using coal power plants.

Wrong.

The Centralia Mine fire has been burning since 1963.[1] The area of the mine is extremely dangerous, causing the city above to be seized by eminent domain and condemned. Poisonous, dangerously heated gases erupt from the ground at random. Chernobyl is reaching the point where the radiation levels are low enough for tourism. Centralia's mine fire will continue burning for up to 250 years. The released gasses will continue to contribute to atmospheric CO2 that entire time. The radiological components of coal combustion (radium gas being one) will continue to be released. It's already a known fact that coal power plants cause more radiation in the cities around them than nuclear plants do.

This is not the only mine fire in the state of Pennsylvania[2], let alone the only such site in the world.

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

Say what you want about nuclear. Coal is far worse.
… would the overall "economics" of HN make sense if a down-vote cost 1 point of reputation, or some fraction thereof?
REITs:
-are publicly owned on the stock market
-have a legal obligation to pay out 90% of their operating profit through dividends
-can own/operate myriad forms of real estate assets, but I'd suggest sticking with REITs that actually own real estate and not mortgages.

That's like, just my .02 though.
I didn't say it was a guaranteed win
Sorry to be pedantic, but I googled the quote because it didn't sound like Lao Tzu to me. It's a nice quote, but it sounds vaguely Buddhist. It looks like it was written in a Taoist book called the Hua Hu Ching several hundred years after Lao Tzu's death, as a Taoist response to Buddhism.
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You're not trying to get absolute position from those sensors, are you? I spent far too long on that project. At least at the precision we needed, my conclusion was that you would want to acquire and process the images yourself - both to get a higher resolution/field-of-view, and to estimate the error associated with each position update (Kalman filtering or similar). You can also then "re-register" your position if your path travels over the same spot twice.

Hopefully your application is less demanding!
Agree - also an X-Pro 2 user, and the camera was worth every penny because ultimately (at least in this case) UX trumps technical capability.

The A7s is the undisputed low-light boss, but IMO Sony's UX is convoluted and too many features are buried behind too many menus.

At this point I see few reasons to worry much about spec sheets - every single camera, even small-sensor point-and-shoots - made right now are lightyears ahead of even the best 135 film cameras with the most exotic film back in the day.

Every modern crop-sensor body can shoot clean RAWs at ISO 6400, many shoot cleanly up to ISO 12,800. And what point do we accept these capabilities and focus on things that make it easier to get better photos?

The joystick on the back of the X-Pro 2 and X-T2 is a game changer, as are the advances in AF speed. I can nail shots purely by muscle memory, and that's great. The camera feels less like a thing I have to operate and more like an extension of my brain.
If you're interested in an alternative to the traditional suggestions, I'd suggest the derivative-trading approach you can find espoused at tastytrade.com. It's not for those who don't want to learn and engage though.
I also went to a PT that specialized in low back pain & sciatica. Mine has finally gone away and the PT helped, but it has taken 1 year.

There was a study in the UK where 90% of back pain goes away in 1 year, so they advised against any surgery. Of course this was in the UK so they couldn't get surgery within a year.
This is a dup. Around 5 predecessors this week.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=computational%20law&sort=byPop...
Although conferences are hard work to put on, and I certainly don't want to imply that the organizers don't deserve to be paid well, I've noticed a large rise in other types of (sleazy) money-making conferences as well.

I've been cold-called by several conferences before (not totally unusual, I've spoken at a few large ones, and my name's out there) where they ask me to speak, but "don't have the budget" for payment and don't reimburse or offer a stipend for travel costs. Unsurprisingly, they charge hundreds of dollars for admission, have extremely cheap venues, and a somewhat lackluster roster of gullible "expert speakers."

Sure, there's a large gray area between "not a very good conference" and "scammy ripoff" but it's another thing to watch out for.
You just proved my point. How does he know it's a "state actor"?
The problem is that a payment system for hundreds of extremely tiny pieces does not work. See my car example. You have to make a decision "do I pay those people" on a level that is too small.

Similar reason why companies like Netflix exist. Imagine each movie would try to sell itself, they would get their own webshop, one per movie... and similar to why subscriptions exist and many other bundling arrangements. Making payment decisions comes at a psychological cost, but just because it's "psychological" and your brain doesn't pay some other part of itself with coin or credit card doesn't mean it's not a cost economics cares about. Cost in economics is not just money.

Another example is Twitch. In addition to giving mostly gamers (but they also have programmers streaming and other non-gaming activities) a technical platform to stream content from home they also give them a monetization opportunity. While you can subscribe to streams individually, which is of course not what I suggested, they now have a program where you can subscribe to a handful of channels for free if you have an Amazon Prime subscription (http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/30/13125824/twitch-prime-amaz...). So this is a partial example of this "bundling" of small individual items to increase the overall spending of money compared to having to make individual purchases.

I see this as an opportunity for achieving something similar for people who contribute code, there could be a business opportunity to bundle a large number of those offerings and in turn offer the programmers a way to monetization, to get paid out of the subscription pool. It's much more difficult though because the audience on bot sides, those offering as well as those buying, is much more discriminating, and the situation already is far more fragmented. For things like gaming streams it never was (very fragmented) to begin with. Imagine Github had a subscription and would pay out to projects according to use (stared, downloads, whatever).
can you explain this more? What is the affect on cryptography. Thanks a lot
Could you link to statements where Assange is given praise to Trump and encouraging people to vote for Trump, you know like quality comments do that make assertion about peoples intentions. It would be a nice change to the many political opinions being thrown around here that assume that people can't just hate both political figures and view them both as corrupt and harmful.
Creating encrypted documents with vim
I've seen that in every gaming competition I've ever entered. Which is probably over twenty at this point.
We've moved most comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12725427.
Yeah. I understand why you think this: it is the dominant media narrative. But think critically about it for a minute: I think it falls apart.
I consider the unedited content of Trump's speeches to be pretty good evidence of his intent to cause a lot of pain for everyday people.
For some charts that _are_ useful aids to choosing an asset allocation, check out this guy's site:

https://portfoliocharts.com/
They released on-schedule; they filter through the data they receive to avoid releasing information that can endanger individuals. This takes time, and they made it clear that it would be completed close to the election.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727186.
In your alternative, what does confident mean? Which specific people does "Russian Government" refer to? What does directed mean? What does compromise mean? The English language is not code that can be debugged, you can second guess the semantics of anything.

If credibility is the only thing at stake here, then the legalese is irrelevant. As you noted, it seems like everyone besides you took this statement to be an unambiguous accusation. If it turns out to be wrong, the technical wording will not matter. James Clapper could not maintain credibility by claiming "Oh no you misunderstood, we were talking about a leak from 5 years ago". From a PR standpoint, that would look a lot worse than just saying "We screwed up, sometimes the evidence is misleading".
I continue to be baffled that software written 40+ years ago, to deal with constraints and realities that are long long gone keep being used by people on the cutting edge of technology change.
Dictatorship (or totalitarianism, my preferred term for it) is not assured to be unstable. If done right, the totalitarian regimes manage to periodically weed out the internal threats, including dissidence, and thus keep the remaining masses content, a trick employed at least since the dawn of written history with Ancient Egyptian police[1]. As I see it, the totalitarian political system however, being one of the most rigid of all, is more prone to corruption than others. (You may think of the pun about power tending to corrupt and absolute dictatorial power - absolute corruption, but I'm more about the precarious ability to react to different form of corruption.) The communism's main idea is to please the majority, which happens to be the mass of mediocre, at the expense of the the ambitious minority, the needs of which are taking a back seat. This makes communism a lesser environment for development, but it's not in itself a destabilizing factor.

[1] http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/law_and_order/police.htm
He's also had a national political career less than half the length of HRC's.
A car being driven all day (especially in cities, where the demand will be highest) is going to wear cars down incredibly fast. Manufacturers won't see that big of a hit if fewer people buy cars, if those people will replace it every year or two.
I think [jnativehook](https://github.com/kwhat/jnativehook), is one good route. Now I just have to find the right scripting language and package java as self extracting 16mb 7zip.

```
import org.jnativehook.GlobalScreen;
import org.jnativehook.NativeHookException;
import org.jnativehook.keyboard.NativeKeyEvent;
import org.jnativehook.keyboard.NativeKeyListener;

public class GlobalKeyListenerExample implements NativeKeyListener {
public void nativeKeyPressed(NativeKeyEvent e) {}
public void nativeKeyReleased(NativeKeyEvent e) {}
public void nativeKeyTyped(NativeKeyEvent e) {
System.out.println("Key Typed: " + e.getKeyText(e.getKeyCode()));
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws NativeHookException {
GlobalScreen.registerNativeHook();
GlobalScreen.addNativeKeyListener(new GlobalKeyListenerExample());
}

}
```
It says pre-commitment so it looks like a dead man switch. If something really bad happens to Assange and someone releases documents about Kerry/Ecuador/FCO we can look at the hashes and see if they match. That way we know it's not some fake leak by an opportunist.
We were discussing the United States in that context, I thought. Hopefully this was clear as I mentioned 4 years duration (1941-1945 versus 1939-1945) and the resulting economic prosperity which was heavily weighted toward the United States.
An Era Hostile to Innovation
Assange/Wikileaks nemesis is secrecy and corruption, not HRC specifically. Now if they view her as the most corrupt, they would naturally be against her, and inevitably that supports Trump. But that is not the same as the rabid right wing supporter of Trump.

Assange is savvy enough to know their position inevitably supports Trump, but there isn't any reason to think if they viewed Trump as more corrupt they would be against him. So it is possible they take a principled position while wrongly accused of having a preference in who wins the election.
Where do you think the American one got its name from? It wasn't original.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
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hjkl (not jkl;) are a) ergonomically bad because they are one key off of home row position and b) completely useless for anyone who types with a different keyboard such as Dvorak, and presumably some foreign language ones.

also, HJKL actually IS the arrow keys... but it's the arrow keys from an ancient computer that no longer exists. People get all uppity about it being the "right" way but there's no logical argument that supports hjkl on a modern computer OTHER than the fact that it's the default.
Wow – why the downvotes? I agree 100%. You do need to make a real choice and sacrifice when it comes to open source. You will not have commercial support like Windows or a Mac. Depending on what you do, even your future career and job opportunities may be impacted by this choice.

And at least we have a choice, thanks to the thousands of faceless individuals who have contributed to make it possible.
I remember seeing something like this before too. This is the one I was thinking of. http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/
I completely agree with your analysis. To add to this, I've been watching US media closely over the past few months and have never seen them so biased in any matter before, including past elections. It appears to me that there is not a single news source in the US that does not entirely follow some political agenda. There seem to be no dissenters or cautious writers left.

Most of them are biased against Trump, of course, and follow a fairly obvious strategy: "Hillary is extremely unpopular, we cannot make her more popular, so let's make Trump even less popular."

It works very well. Just to make this clear, I'm a European left-wing liberal democratic socialist, not a Trump or Hillary supporter of any kind. But I've seen many US elections and it was never like that before. It's as if all US media and news organizations have sold out to the highest bidder at once. (To be fair, I don't follow that many of them, just a few newspaper sites like L.A. times, NY times, TV channels like CNN, Fox, nbc and a few social media sites.)
How has no one mentioned the gears in the background on this page yet? It's a touch distracting, but there is some smart stuff going on to make them line up.

Sadly the CSS is optimized, which makes understanding its implementation a little tough, but i suspect it'd make for fun reading!
ECC (including Curve25519) is not secure in a quantum computing world, Shor's algorithm solves discrete log efficiently.

I am not a deep expert in this field but there is a lot of work in post-quantum crypto that derives security from the hardness of some lattice-based problems instead of discrete log (E.g. New Hope being used in an experiment in Chrome is based on RLWE, I think).
Gooodbye! No one likes diversity fascists. they bring down company standards.
>to push the website live __
The website has been live since like December 2015. There's a new tournament weekly. (I think it used to be every second week)... New tournament, new data -- always encrypted.
Just look at the leaderboard; look at some of the participants' submission history

>any serious data scientist __
- I mean, any human - data scientist or not - would see at least that the website wasn't just pushed live; or at least have noticed the film is from like August...
^are you a serious data scientist? If you are (which I assume you are - just also an eager beaver to download the datasets without learning about the company sufficiently) -- then you'd do well to join the tournament and have a real go before you [attempt] to knock it as you have here -- and then come back and give some real feedback -- I'm sure everyone would appreciate to hear the 'after' report from you -- since you're so kind as already to dish out benefits of doubt :)
Looking forward to catching you above controlling capital!
> The 2005 Mental Health Act was shoddy legislation, and created the Court

The Mental Capacity Act. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/contents

There are some problems with the mental health act, but they are different bits of law.
What possible reason could Assange have to support Trump?
"Commodore 64 RAM Disk"

Oh man.

I manually stuffed 1.5mb (three 512mb RAM cards) for an image capture system. My thumbs got blisters. The PC was an over clocked Tandy 80286 (8 mhz!). I forget the name of the goofy Lotus/Intel/Microsoft memory expander contraption. That Tandy was a tank.

We were doing large format image capture for document archival. Totally not worth it. Results were unusable. But we had investers, so...

Before that, I thought I was pretty cool pimping my Apple //e with an 80 column character display and 128kb RAM. True word processing, WYSIWYG.
Which side are you arguing? Everything you're saying sounds like reasons to just throw cheap RAM at the problem and load one level, then put the whole game in RAM while that level is being played.

I imagine with some filesystem trickery you could even do it without the game even knowing, it just magically gets everything it asks for virtually instantly.
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Learning Vim is probably a bit like learning to bicycle/swim. It requires a lot of conscious effort at first but eventually becomes a second nature. Also, I doubt many vim users would use "nano + plugins" if vim suddenly disappeared. The fact that vim has many plugins and runs in the terminal is nice but isn't the main reason people use it IMO.

I second the suggestion of using vimtutor to get started (uninstalling other editors helps too!).
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Yes, no one really wants to talk about the ageism thing. I'm not sure how much the plastic surgery thing actually happens in real life, but I too find it frustrating and sad how it's never included in the topic of diversity. It's a problem that literally everyone who sticks around long enough will gave to contend with.
Announcing the JavaScript Foundation
Two reactions:

1) Companies can rarely articulate the problems they're facing. They know the pain they're feeling, but not necessarily why. If they know the problem, they're either a) working on a solution, b) thinking about it in a different way than you might be, and/or c) wrong.

So get to the symptoms of the problem you're trying to solve, and see if those are big enough pain points. This also helps you focus on your value. If the pain point you're solving is low on my priority list or low-ROI, I'm not going to pay you to solve it.

2) You're not talking about sales, you're talking about market research. So the sales comments here are good, but the question I'll ask you is: "What value are you creating for your contacts?"

You're asking people for their precious time and not offering anything in return. A hypothetical solution to their problem at some point in the future is not value. The only reason I take that call is the goodness of my heart (e.g., my friend introduced you and asked if I could help you... I'm doing them a favor, not you).

What's their feedback worth? And what's the value of their time? You might have some success with a "paid" survey (Starbucks gift card, swag, etc.): your question then becomes right-sizing the benefit to the individual. A CEO doesn't care about your T-shirt.
i run PhantomJsCloud, I tried Adwords and found it to also be a total waste of time/money (as mentioned by others here).

basic SEO seems to be what works. I should work on more "inbound marketing" content but have a few technical features to add before doing another SEO push.

also answering related questions on stack overflow helped me in the initial MVP phase.