skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't wait for moxie to jump into the commentary. :)

>Lack of federation

Moxie's pissy because he trusted the kangbangers at Cyanogenmod to to keep in sync with his development. They didn't. Someone will need to volunteer to run their own server that's kept updated, then buy Moxie a Snickers and hope he stops being moody.

>Dependency on Google Cloud Messaging

Fun fact: The iOS client doesn't use GCM, it uses Pushkit. GCM was chosen for Android because what else is as robust and doesn't eat battery? Moxie's voiced support of Websockets if someone implements it correctly and he can merge it as a fallback option when Play Services are missing. If you can't code and want it, contribute to the bounty on it:

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/43

> Your contact list is not private

https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/

TL;DR, it's a tradeoff because nobody has a better idea that works at scale and is usable. Redphone used to have a good way of blindly doing contact discovery but it would require too much data for their current userbase.
There's a parable of a guy who lost his keys in the park at night. Upon realizing he lost his keys, he begins to look for the keys in the street near a street lamp. When his friend asks why he's looking for his keys in the street instead of in the park where he lost them, the guy responds that the light is better in the street.

It's true that espousing nuanced opinions and making effective arguments are often at odds, but the fact is, reality is often nuanced. Glossing over that nuance to make your argument more effective is like searching where there's light. Sure, it's more persuasive, but if you are persuading toward an incorrect idea, what are you really accomplishing?

Of course as Asimov's Relativity of Wrong points out, not all wrongs are equal. It may be worthwhile to persuade someone of a not-very-wrong given limited resources. But this sort of compromise has problems of its own. A social justice movement that ignores the nuance of handling white men's needs is effective until it needs white men's cooperation but instead generates backlash (Trump). The devil is in the details.
"To achieve flow, the brain needs to be tasked with doing something slightly challenging, but not impossible, and given rules or parameters. People usually associate flow with running or playing chess, for example, so now we might add kinky sex to the list. The researchers likened flow to a rewarding sense of control and loss of self-consciousness; it has also been strongly linked to enhanced creativity."

I relate to the running association. Even sustained walking 30-45 minutes seems to offer "flow."
I agree overwhelmingly with what you wrote, except that I want to point out that this isn't "crypto-puritanism". It's just hipsterism. The author isn't a cryptographer, and if you asked a panel of 10 cryptographic engineers what messaging system they'd recommend, 9 of them would say "Signal".

The 10th wants you to use something else because they're working on an attack for that "something else", and want their paper to be splashier when it's released. :)

When reading critiques of messaging software, keep in mind that messaging is a fucking midnight back-alley knife fight of a market. For whatever reason --- I think because (a) basic chat software is pretty easy to write, with a near- hello- world payoff similar to, say, blog software for Ruby on Rails and (b) because there have been multi-billion-dollar acquisitions of messaging tools --- there are a lot of different messaging products. Messaging is a network-effect market, so all the different vendors are fighting for users.

I don't think Signal has sockpuppets (it's just not their style), but I know several other "secure" messaging applications do.
Google Movies (Showtimes) discontinued
> Every single trade agreement has something like ISDS and the entire purpose of these courts is to make sure people follow the agreement as it was written.

Huh? ISDS isn't about enforcing the trade deal (which might also go to arbitration), it's a separate issue.
This was a very fascinating writeup. Video codecs are still sorcery to me, but I was kind of blown away by how many individual operations are employed in shedding redundancy. I kind of assumed that there was a single flat algorithm being employed, not a dozen or so special case optimizations that by some stroke of magic play so nicely together.
I was assuming he was talking about Philando Castile, who was shot to death while putting his hands up.
Note that many operating systems today are already multiple architecture. It may not seem like it, but for example x86 and AMD64 are different architectures, just as 32 bit ARM and 64 bit ARM are different. The operating system has to define system call interfaces for them, have copies of libraries for each architecture, ensure the processor(s) are in appropriate modes when running the applications, provide inter-process interoperability even when different architectures etc.
I think Apple's interest in the Mac is mainly as a platform for iOS development these days. I wonder if there will be a point when they will open up iOS development to other platforms and totally abandon the Mac.
Donald Trump's mind readers try to win him voters
I've been doing this without thinking about it for a while and after reading it from a beginner's perspective It seems like quite a few steps. It is the "right" thing to do though, as far as I know.
You're reasoning based on a name. Names are not necessarily accurate descriptions. From what I've read of theirs, it doesn't seem that anarcho-capitalism would support capitalism in the sense you describe.

Remember, "capitalism" is an overloaded term. Sometimes it means what you describe, and sometimes it means the free market. Make sure you know what sense it's being used in in a given context, or you can't have a meaningful discussion! In the case of anarcho-capitalism, it refers to the free market. (But even though that works out in this case, you really should be wary of reasoning based on names.)
Apparently they still haven't been able to translate the treatment to work on humans.

Also, it hasn't yet been proven that the treatment itself is completely safe for the brain.
Actually it started as a independent company that Symantec bought in the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton_Computing
Google and Sprint set to launch RCS, an upgrade to SMS
Ask HN: Is it better to have leaders who are too old or too young?
It is not my argument that because drugs account for only 15% of incarcerations, our drug policy is OK.
Modern MacBooks, with their aluminum unibody design, are pretty sturdy things in any case.
There are people for whom Ego and social status are more important than life itself. They, like you, and the OP who stated effectively "I can't converse with people who have strongly held opinions", are usually people with such little confidence that the only thing they have going for them is the hope that a nice suit and not rocking the boat will get them through life comfortably.

There are people who are there to accomplish an objective such as completing a project or achieving a goal. Those people will present strong opinions to each other, and often will call each other names and hack things out. But, at the end of the day, they are motivated to explore the other sides opinion in order to discourage it and that fosters the growth of character that can admit they are wrong. They learn which discussions are important as a group, which cause the group to go in a completely insane tangent that will accomplish nothing, and which discussions don't matter; 90% of the debates you have don't mean a thing and often whether you're using one method or another is pointless so long as the work gets done to spec.

People who debate on ego and their own inflated sense of importance do not present discreet arguments, and are incapable of having a discussion about achieving a goal or completing an objective. Forgive my vitriol, but after seeing those people flush untold millions down the drain and hurt people and families countless times, they belong flipping burgers or in a mass grave.

If your job gets to the point, or is going in the direction of such catastrophe that you might as well not be there, it's time to have a "course correction" discussion with your boss. You don't have to walk in with your resignation letter in your pocket, but a simple "X is really stupid, here's why". Don't blame people, don't make assumptions, just point out the situation, how you got here, and where you think things should go. I've never, ever been fired for this. I have been fired for not having those conversations, however.

Additionally, there's a sexist truth here, which is men are made to make women into their purpose for being, and women are made to follow them, this is how nature works. The kinds of corporate environments where strong opinions are eschewed or actively discouraged are usually those with lots of grown women and boys parading as men. Those environments exist usually as cargo cults for established enterprises such as utilities or governments. The work performed does not further society or the enterprise in any meaningful way and in order to compensate for that, management builds an ego farm of gullible, easily manipulated people that will do as they are told unquestioningly. It's like having a harem. Those environments tend towards managerial abuse, and end up going down like the Hindenburg. If you find yourself in that kind of environment, decide on your exit strategy early.
As sibling comments note, it's not a crime to provide material rewards (probably including cash) to vote, so long as it's not for voting a specific way (e.g. show me a trump ballot and you get a free coffee). EDIT: see response thread, that's illegal too but IMHO doesn't affect the point.

I still see it as a loophole for getting money into politics: if a maybe-voting demographic that leans toward party X also shops at Y, then Y's reward for voting is going to differentially help party X.

E.g. since Starbucks patrons probably lean Democrat, Starbucks's free-coffee-for-voting probably does have "disparate impact" favoring Democrats, even if the free coffee is not conditional on who you voted for.

Then you can go one step removed: if rich billionaires want the Democrat to win, they can approach similar establishments and offer to pay for the cost of their "free X for voting". Boom, a money vector that will survive a Citizen's United reversal.

Then what? Do you require such efforts to bankroll similar offers at coffee places with opposite demographics? Or prohibit any rewards for voting?
Signal is a honeypot, it was marketed as anti-mass surveillance, but depends on freaking Google for even functioning.
What makes someone too old or too young?
I can't answer for RHSeeger, but I like to watch movies on DVD, because the streaming options (particularly Netflix) are so horrible.
So... cooperatives?
Yes, people play silly moves once in two decades, but again, in 99.9% of games nobody swindles or plays a6. In starcraft a good third of pro games or something involves cheesy openings.
When the whole Uber/Lyft proposition vote debacle happened in Austin, they offered a similar discount. The discount was for inbound rides to the polling location. Obviously they couldn't force you to vote once you arrived at the location, but if the discount destinations are limited it would somewhat help to prevent abuse.
Interesting take that I've heard elsewhere. What is this based on? If I understand what you're saying correctly (and please correct me if I'm wrong), can we infer that most people who buy Macs are iOS devs?
Even if you knew what you were talking about here, you can't make accusations like this on HN. You've been here for over 3 years now, and should know better.
Thanks for posting that link, it's one of the more thought out musings on controversy, divisiveness, and stubbornness I have read for a while. A good thoughtful read.
I am 37 years old, I am coding since I was 9 but this is not my full time job , I make graphics and sound with the computer since day one.

The one thing I hated more than I hate Windows and C++ is the Green monitor of my first computer, a Amstrad CPC 6128. I was drooling over a Amiga 500 but my father apparently did not want to "spoil" me. But I was lucky enough to own a computer back then it was luxury.

I have to say I am in love with the Internet , is just an amazing tool. When I was kid my go to knowledge base was a 20 tome encyclopaedia.

Even learning coding was a huge struggle, as a 9 year old kid I could not afford expensive programming books, fortunately Amstrad came with a Basic manual, not the best written book but better than nothing.

I laugh when people claim that coding is hard, because I immediately remember my struggle those days. Internet would have been a miracle to have.

Its not hard to filter noise, I have made Twitter my news site with subscriptions to people that offer tutorials and links to useful websites. I watch youtube tutorials and very rarely cat videos. I dont care about facebook and most other popular sites.

The things I do not like, is mainly that sofware has become very complex, that is difficult to keep up with technology , though that is also an advantage. I also hate internet trolls and people being rude.

My iMac is the revenge of not owning an Amiga 500 and now I can have powerful software without even spending money.

I know people take a look at the technology and say "whatever" or as a comedian once said people fly with an aeroplane and complain that they had to wait on the runway for 10 minutes instead of feeling the wonder of flight.

I am the kind of person that is amazed by the ability to fly.

I am also find extremely hard to fathom that my iMac is more than 6.000 times more powerful than my first computer.

Its crazy

just crazy
Layoff the personalised attacks on the psychology of someone who has helped increase the security of hundreds of millions of people for free, on basically a shoestring. Making pro/against arguments about Signal is fine but Moxie is genuinely a nice person (as are the rest of the former and current OWS team), so let's keep the argument civil.
Yeah we were actually discussing whether we should support HJSON natively or not https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS/issues/5

But as for HTML, I decided to incorporate it natively because it's def worth it: https://jasonette.github.io/documentation/templates/#html
iPhone = notepad

iPad = clipboard

Mac = desk
How do you plan to convince China and Russia to stop worrying about weaponry and thinking in terms of tribes?
Why not use w3m or lynx?
Makes me wish this was what Firefox would present me with if i entered a ftp url...
Very cool.

For what it's worth most med-high profile games are built on similar techniques albeit at a larger scale. You're largely building tools and reusable components that let designers, artists and animators define behavior, look & feel.

It goes by a couple different names but the most common one I see is "Content Driven Development". As you've noticed it has all sorts of benefits like fast iteration time, updates on the fly and ability to allow non-coders to bring in their perspectives to build experiences.

Don't let the ivory tower haters get you down, it's a very powerful and valid approach in the appropriate domains.
Summary: negative result.

"In conclusion, the data from the EDEN mother-child cohort do not
support the hypothesis that 5–6 year-old children with high IQ experience more emotional, behavioral and social difficulties than children with normal IQ. If they do, then these difficulties must be very subtle
and therefore went undetected in the present study."
I started working in tech at 16 and I am 36 now. I've had bosses who were older than me (in their 70s), and younger than me (now). Age has never been a factor in what makes them good or bad at what they do.
You can read the licensing details here: http://epdf.hevcadvance.com/pdf/embed?hash=45a69e5fbd2854d3a...

I believe the latest terms removed the content revenue fee.
The rise of the boy-genius: psychological-neoteny, science and modern life
Some of the confidence of this article (which one could describe as a remarkably, um, self-confident explanation of basic accounting identities in international trade) seems a little misplaced 20 years later. Especially if you've spent much time in the burned-out areas of America.

As an economic doctrine, running a country as if it were a company (in economic terms) has a name. It's called "mercantilism." Adam Smith coined this term to describe, essentially, normal economic policy before Adam Smith.

You don't need a time machine to investigate the effects of mercantilist economics, since the entire modern Far East is run on basically mercantilist principles. Just visit Harvard, ride the Amtrak to DC (looking out the windows), then fly to Shanghai. Cost, about $2K. This should give you a good gut feeling for whose econ professors are on the money.

On the other hand, Adam Smith sure could turn out a sentence. And so can this guy. Not clear that this is the best way to judge economics professors, however. For a classic text in mercantilist economics, try Friedrich List, _National System of Political Economy_ (1844):

https://books.google.com/books?id=4uuc7tdk0Z8C
We intend to execute the roadmap.

We have stuff that must stay on AWS, too dangerous to make a move now :(

We'll ignore the "switch to auto scaling" bit. Teammates have already started testing CoreOS & Kubernetes (on AWS) while I was writing the article. We'll figure it out and get it in production soon, hopefully.

We have a subsidiary which has no locking on AWS and could use an infra refreshing. They already have google accounts and use one or two products. They'll be moved to GCE in the coming months, hopefully.
The way I read the statute I linked, paying someone to vote is illegal.

But Lyft isn't paying people to vote, they are making it cheaper to gain proximity to the polling place. If they made the discount conditional on voting, it would be illegal.
My company-issued HP laptop running Windows 7 does not reliably wake from sleep. I have to use hibernation instead.
> Another issue, and a plus for using usernames, is that you may want to use Signal with people you don’t necessarily want to give your phone number to.

So, how do you know that the Edward.Snowden@signal you're communicating with is the same Ed Snowden that we all know about, and not some TLA stooge?
In Germany, the typical click-through contract you only get to see after you have purchased the product, or that is for software required to operate hardware that you have already purchased, is invalid.

So I happily click.
My problem with wine is that I know what I like when I taste it, but as best I can tell, there is no language with which to express that, after "red". There's "headache flavor", which never shows up in cheap wine: it doesn't taste bad, but it means I'm going to get a headache if I drink more that 4oz of a wine tasting like that. No bottle has ever been labeled with "headache flavor". I ask wine people, and they hand wave something about tanins, but I've tasted high tanin and low tanin wine, and the flavor is completely orthogonal.

Given the lack of information, I never bet a lot on a bottle. My favorite wine ever was a Consumato Nero D'Avolo from 2010 (I paid $22), but other years of that label have been wildly inconsistent, and now I can't find it any more. It was very close in flavor to a wine I had at a wine bar that they called a "California Malbec" which I've never found again, and another at a restaurant where -

WTF restaurants! Whenever stumble on a wine I especially like at a restaurant, I go to Google and find out the label doesn't exist! It's some fictional house label!

Not my very favorite, but something I liked with meals was Corbet Canyon Malbec, so of course they don't make it any more.

Even if I had the time and money to make thorough study of this, I'd have spent a year being drunk and discovering perhaps a dozen excellent bottles - which would henceforth never be made again. Screw that. Inexpensive box wine for me.

Or, just as often, an IPA. The beer people know how to produce consistent quality and have categories where the product consistently meets expectation, while still having entertaining variations between brewers.
is civilization locked into the "myth of progress" or, by living in civilization, is an individual's incentives (professional, financial, cultural, social) just more likely to be aligned with technology-centric and business-oriented practices? i don't think the issue is that we, as a society, are collectively choosing a path that may further erode personal liberties, societal cohesion, and maybe even personal happiness. it's just that rewards are positioned in such a way that many people, especially young and educated, will generally move toward that direction.
So not one source from the gov't. Just a one sided article. It may be an unfair policy but with out any context its hard to take it at face value.
Conversations is great, but there's nothing comparable on iOS except Chatsecure which isn't yet beta quality. Then you need to pair it with a server that actually has all the recent XEP's installed (for push is XEP357, usually missing), see: https://gultsch.de/compliance_ranked.html

My current 'solution' is to use ZNC connected to Bitlbee (supporting OTR). On Bitlbee I use the jabber.fr service. ZNC has a push script for Mutter (great iOS IRC client) that I modified to redact my notification content from Apple's push service. I connect to the ZNC with TLS, so in theory everything should be ok.

NOT USER FRIENDLY but allows me to keep all my chats in one client and not tied to some shitty walled garden. Everyone less savvy I just tell them to use Signal.
Usually distros don't change libraries in dangerous ways within a major release. For Debian, "stable" remains as it is for a very long time and even "testing" doesn't change much. Red Hat also maintains the environment stable to a fault. If you want to package for Ubuntu and Fedora, you'll have to probably build for every six-month/one-year release.
Have to start somewhere. This is a big deal for a number of reasons. This provides a non-invasive treatment avenue for a very common (35M worldwide and expected to double in 20 years) CNS affliction and shows incredible curative properties in animal models.

This is real science.