skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On this:
https://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html

there are links on that page that point out multiple e-mails from the STRATFOR leaks and other files that point to Google being deeply embedded with the U.S. security apparatus.

Also:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-cost...
But he did invent email.
Regardless of side, political violence is unacceptable in a democracy.
I have a similar inclination, though I strongly suspect a cultural and familiarity bias. I've been trying to go through the literature of political philosophy and dynamics, which is ... complicated. As with economics, a key point to remember is that virtually everyone writing on the topic (and most especially those who've been promoted to cultural consciousness) are promoting a model that benefits ... someone.

I've found William Ophuls to be an interesting point of entry. His topic is politics within a context of ecological limits, but he has classic training (he's strongly influenced by Plato), direct experience (positions in the US foreign service), and an excellent grasp on modern (mostly 20th & 21st century) thought on ecology, limits, and the interactions of these with polity. His bibliographies are excellent, and worth publishing on their own right. I'd recommend his 1977 Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity and his more recent Plato's Revenge. The former focuses more on the ecological case, the latter more on the questions (with very few answers suggested -- he's really exploring the problem space) of how you'd construct a polity, given environmental, psychological, and social limits.

I'm also starting to form some new thoughts on the role of religion as something of a social glue in vast empires over which communications might take weeks, months, or years, but in which a plausibly predictable level of trust would be found. Religion-as-trust-glue strikes me as a fundamental aspect. Curiously, instantaneous communications (and the monitoring and management that entails) allows for a near-total breakdown in such trust.
+1 to Pittsburgh! My girlfriend is a resident at UPMC and from everything I hear/see, they're treated well. The cost of living here is cheap enough that if you're making 50-60k you can afford one of the nicest 1-bedrooms in the East End (area around the universities); I'm very comfortable on half that as a PhD student. The town is filled with nerds of both the tech and medicine variety (we have Google, Uber, etc offices too). Anyway, best of luck!
If it's purely wasted time, sure. If she has reading, research, or other "portable" work to do each day, however, commuting with somebody else doing the "driving" isn't wasted time at all. That's part of why I take Caltrain to SF whenever suitable.
You can share libraries without having an underlying OS, a rich runtime playing OS role is enough.

For example, all JEE containers allow for sharing libraries among applications, and they can be running bare metal for what I care.

I can even control in which order they get loaded in each application.
"X factor". 11/10 would pun again.
I get anxious about this too sometimes, but in my experience the "long lists of conditions that no one ever told me and assumed I knew" are hardly ever relevant.
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Actually, Egypt did come up when I was researching that question as another instance.

The Ship of Theseus is a profound question.
I don't get anxious. I get tired of doing what people told me would work and having it go really badly.
> No need for the USB-A. Just switch to C. You won't need to orient your power cord, and you'll have more throughput

Sadly, almost everything is still USB-A. USB sticks, 2FA tokens, mechanical keyboards, mice, and - oh yeah - iPhone charging cables.

Would I like to move to USB-C? Sure. But as a professional, there's going to be some situations where I need that backwards compatibility, if not for me then for some client. There's going to be a really long transition period, because all that USB-A stuff is still 100% functional.

And if you argue that adapters are the solution, then clearly we still need at least 1 port, so why not leave it? Design is supposed to improve usability. Technology is always a compromise, but for many people, thickness wasn't an issue in the first place.

(BTW, magsafe power cords don't need orientating. Kind of a solved problem)

> If you maintain the USB-A, users will keep using it instead of switching to the superior alternative and driving progress.

This argument is backwards. If it's superior, then people will switch. For many use cases, USB-C offers no practical benefit - in other words, it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

Is one USB-A port too much to ask for, for the sake of backwards compatibility and potential emergency use? On the other hand, ironically people (including me) would pay $$$ for a USB-C iPhone. That application of USB-C is clearly superior!
Can you elaborate? It seems counterintuitive unless local smog is trapped by an inversion layer or there is smog-producing industry nearby.
Interesting that Gizmodo was a gawker property and this is them essentially re-publishing the claims, immediately after setting a defamation lawsuit.
And Google became a PRISM partner in 2009, as the slides here from the Snowden collection prove:
https://search.edwardsnowden.com/docs/PRISMUS-984XNOverview2...
And screen (p3 colour and macOS still handles hidpi better than anything else), and SSD throughput (3.1gbps), and probably a million other tiny things that you forget about cos they aren't as obvious as a number that says 16 vs 32.
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I've only had contact to patients experiencing the calm phase. It must be hell slipping in and out of consciousness and realizing for a short moment what is happening until it vanishes again. It's stuff for nightmares.
I feel mildly revolted when I see him. I don't feel like I've much control over the reaction either, it's automatic. I feel a bit bad about that because I'm certain he's a reasonable human being albeit a waxy doll-human. This video gives me the same impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mYK2Ht-b0

There's also something about his presentation that is like some version of the uncanny valley with intellectual ideas. TED talks have this quality sometimes.

I don't have this with Sagan or Dawkins even though they will often use poetic turns of phrase.

I tried explaining this to my cousin who is infatuated with Cox, but I came across as somebody with highly specific form of racism directed at just Brian Cox.
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In most cases, this exists.

I'm profoundly disappointed in Debian's decision, but one consequence may be that the worse elements of systemd's design are in fact abstracted out. There are several shim frameworks which can provide systemd-like capabilities, where required, without the full stack being required. On alternate Debian kernels (BSD and Hurd are both targets), this is required due to systemd's own dependencies on the Linux kernel itself.

To a large extent, systemd has taken the joy out of using Linux, and sunk my trust in both kernel and distro development.
Aside: Is there a HN script out there that creates an account and posts a comment in one action?
Regardless of political affiliation, it baffles me a person like Trump can get even close to being president. Disclosure: I'm European and not allowed to vote in the US (yet)
Too bad housing prices are viewed as a completely uncontrollable force of nature beyond any human ability to tame. Too bad a supossedly endless stream off ideas and innovation apparently can't possible solve it.

Otherwise the chief driving force of the economy might not be increasingly constrained by literal rent seeking.

But rent-seeking is apparently a sacrosanct property right that trumps all other issues of well being and so we must comfort ourselves with myths that innovation is so independent of culture that it can appear anywhere and, if it does, won't be choked to death in infancy in exactly the same way every time.
And here I thought my jokes were wasted on hacker news. :)
Add a lack of real desktop to this.
Ask HN: How do open source companies succeed?
With the recent posts about Docker not being production ready for years now (despite having huge conferences), and RethinkDB shutting down, I'm starting to wonder how an open source company actually makes it.

Docker often says, "you need to decide for yourself if you want to use Docker in production," but I'm betting they knew all of the problems people were going to face. RethinkDB, on the other hand, proactively warned us ahead of time. Is the secret to be ambiguous about how good your software really is?
"The internet has been a wash with a well written article about ..."

Typo: a wash => awash

I know! The content is more important than the quality of the writing, but it's a little surprising to see such a mistake jumping at the reader at the start of an article. We should go back to the first days of the Internet where "updates" were possible. :) I would have loved to suggest an update quickly.
Metadata can reveal intent, motivation, and far more than you intend especially when collected in mass. Metadata = Data. Saying that metadata doesn't matter, or matters less is just wrong.
I still cultivate bookmarks and links from others, and avoid corporate (spoon)feeds like the plague.

I miss civil discourse on Internet forums.
Short version: Nope :p

Long version: I met the DevOps guy who [I believe] is responsible for pushing Docker at Expedia and we've had long conversations about it.

They were lucky to have had a particular environment and a specific version that worked, and got it pinned down and frozen very early.

I suppose you are on the dev side and not aware of all that. (Hell, maybe, you're not even in the same subsidiary of Expedia). I'm glad it all worked out for you as a dev, my devs are also happy with Docker. (We're probably used as an example of Docker success story at times).

In the end, there is no free lunch. There is dirty work done and more to be done. Some of which is invisible.
I'm not sure, I believe it's 35% or more. She once mentioned that "it's not the legit stuff unless you have to sign a hazardous materials sheet" or something to that affect.
Reverse engineering Outernet: time and file services
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To stay relevant I think they would have to support a dual-cpu configuration, and offer Tesla and Xeon Phi cards as options. High end RAM and disk setups would still be difficult to support in the current form factor though.

I'd love to see someone start building modular, rackable, workstations resembling the Cray CX1. Unfortunately Apple is moving away from scientific workloads in general.
Animated GIFS were the straw that broke the camels back?

Let's throw the best available solution under the bus.

This post will be my go to example of the myopia of some members of the security community. We have very few examples of well executed, consumer friendly privacy soloutions. Signal is the best for all possible scenarios: Open source, user friendly, buy in from a major Internet service.

I like wickr, but it falls short due to the closed source nature of the project.

Consumer friendly, usable security needs to be the number one priority for security advocates. We need to stop burning down houses because they are short a door or are the wrong color. The foundation is the hard part. Wait till there is a real alternative that can be used by people who are not c.s. majors before you argue that people should stop using the best available solution.

I appreciate the authors perspective and I agree with some of their points. Then they fuck it up by demonstrating purist jackassery. Worth a read as a useful persuasion antipattern.
Animated GIFS?

Let's throw the best available solution under the bus.

This post will be my house to example of the myopia of the security community. We have very few examples of well executed, consumer friendly privacy soloutions. Signal is the best for all possible scenarios: Open source, user friendly, buy in from a major Internet service.

I like wickr, but it falls short due to the closed source nature of the project.

Consumer friendly, usable security needs to be the number one priority for security advocates. We need to stop burning down houses because they are short a door or are the wrong color. The foundation is the hard part. Wait till there is a real alternative that can be used by people who are not c.s. majors before you argue that people should stop using the best available solution.

I appreciate the authors perspective and I agree with some of their points. Then they fuck it up by demonstrating purist jackassery. Worth a read as a useful persuasion antipattern.
I don't believe this is true. The long-polling that Matrix does in the baseline impl is just a long-lived HTTP request which blocks until the server has something to send it. Radio-wise this is conceptually the same as an XMPP TCP connection.

The only difference is that (in the baseline impl) you start a new HTTP request after receiving each response - which chews some additional data relative to XMPP. The radio will already be spun up from receiving the previous data, though, so it shouldn't impact significantly on battery consumption.

Also, we put a timeout on the long-lived request (typically 30-60s), to aid recovery in case of the request or connectivity breaking - which could theoretically increase bandwidth and radio battery consumption, but in practice almost all Matrix use cases involve receiving events more frequently than the timeout, so the timeout doesn't actually have much impact on battery.

That said, there is (deliberately) huge scope for improvement with alternative transports - using strict push rather than long-polling; using transports with less overhead; using more efficient encodings, etc.
* Docker encourages fully disposable infrastructure

Absolutely. You will get the most out of it like this. You can run pets, and treat containers VMs but I don't think you will get all the advantages.

* Docker containers can be more secure then traditional environments

Out of the box you get isolation from namespaces (not being able to see the host filesystem or network), resource limits via cgroups, a default seccomp profile that restricts some system calls that could be used in exploits, and more. You can set all these defaults yourself but the majorty of people do not. So there are definit benefits.

* Docker provides for indempotent environments agnostic of hardware concerns etc

Most applications do not talk directly to hardware, the default container does not directly present hardware interfaces, yes.

* Container management software (Kubernetes, etc.) makes Docker much more powerful/useful and is only going to get better

It does help to have software to manage programs across multiple computers, for scaling and redundancy, yes.
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SV ~doubles your burn rate, when you are sucking up VC funds that's not an issue. But, a lot of SV failures may have succeeded in other places.
This is what we do, 3Dprinting bionic hands for amputees
Sorry, had to downvote this as you have to be trolling.
VOTER FRAUD HAPPENING NOW IN FLORIDA! 10000 Illegal Hillary Clinton Votes Counted in Robert County!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xtYmIGcIzU

It Just Got Way Bigger: Wikileaks Bombshell Reveals Clinton Email "Where They Are Literally Pricing How Much It Costs to Transport Children"

http://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/wikileaks-...

Hillary Accepted Qatar Money Without Notifying Government, While She Was Head Of State Dept

http://www.zerohedge.com/node/576566

Anonymous (@LatestAnonNews): "Clinton Underground Child Sex Scandal about to break in a couple hours. Happy 5th of November!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/5badqu/anonymou...

Hillary sent classified email to Chelsea about Greece debt crisis. Chelsea's husband run hedge fund trading Greek bonds. Insider trading!

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/794676239571111936

Hillary Emails Reveal She Knowingly Delayed Benghazi Rescue

http://www.eutimes.net/2016/11/hillary-emails-reveal-she-kno...

The Clinton Foundation provided $10,000 toward Maria Abramovic's performance art for "General Operating Support" #SpiritCooking

https://twitter.com/laissez_claire/status/794662340025348101
Added my coment above... thanks for having the time to reply.
And I thought that Southpark is joking about the PC vegan self driving epidemic. I was wrong.
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I wasn't terribly active in CTY - but the times I was involved it was excellent. I met other kids that could "keep up with me" (with perspective, that actually means "could fill in the blanks since I was bad at explaining"), and had an environment that celebrated success, even if it meant you colored out of the lines. That is to say, if I skipped ahead in programming class and made stuff into functions, I was both congratulated and saw that a couple other kids had done so too.

I only recall taking two classes with CTY - a class on fractals and tessellation, and an intro to programming class. They were both excellent, and I made friends and learned in both. Would highly recommend.
Do you have to compile locally though? Or could you use a cloud based system for compilation?
Thanks! Look forward to your application! :-)
Serious question: does the conclusion change in the absence of the Fed? The author's examples of a business leader's choices being countered by the Fed, rendering those results fruitless, makes it seem like the Fed is getting in the way of the natural consequences of these decisions.
Violence happens when there arent enough resources
How I quit using Google search
You've been using HN exclusively to propagate racial and political rhetoric. That's not what this site is for, so what you've been doing is abusive here. Please stop.

There are places on the internet where this war (and it is war, in the sense that politics is war by other means) is welcome; Hacker News is not one of those, so kindly keep your racial passions elsewhere.

The guiding value of this site is intellectual curiosity, and that spirit does not survive five minutes with this stuff. I've noticed that proponents love to speak as if they were the voice of science incarnate, but the truth is that this is politics all the way down, and nasty politics at that.
No, no, it's true: he did invent email. He just didn't do it first.
I imagine this will be the next generation of jackbox.tv-style experiences, except with no need for the external site. That'll make these more accessible and practical.

The stuff they've done with using phone apps to play group guessing games is a lot of fun.
Come home from work and do one productive thing, every day. I'm tired of feeling lazy but not feeling motivated to do anything but play video games and generally be a slob.
>"trying to FIRE"

is FIRE an acronym?
Democracy isn't a failure, you just need a better voting system.

If people could rank their preferences then people like Bernie and Bloomberg would actually run without fear that they might "take away votes from Hillary" and therefore help Trump. In fact, the two-party syste would give way to something better. Only the party elites would NOT want this... but after this election, even they probably do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Toronto + Kitchener/Waterloo, and Vancouver are sizeable.

Toronto is big. Much bigger than many places mentioned.

A secret Canadian bit: healthcare is pretty good, and 'free' - at least it's not out of pocket, and covered by taxes which are on par with Cali/NY. That makes a difference in the very early stages, I think. There is a lot of technical talent in Canada, just not great marketing and business leadership, and of course nothing like the Valley etc..
That's an excellent idea! Do you have a blog or something where you're going to post when (if) you get a response?
When I lived in Colorado Springs, my wife was friends with the wife of one of the military security guards at Cheyenne Mountain. We went on one of the last public tours of the facility in April of 1996 (IIRC).

None of the doors in the buildings had any indication of what went on behind them, just numbers, or maybe number-letter combinations. We followed our guide through a maze of these featureless corridors with the anonymous doors all closed, then were ushered into the command center.

It's pretty small, maybe holds 20 people around a conference table in close quarters. The folks who monitor everything in the world were right next door. One wall is a glass partition between the two rooms, but they pulled a curtain over that because there was some incident going on right then that we were not authorized to see.

Then we got a walking tour of much of the rest of the underground complex. The tunnels are wide and high, and there are big reservoirs of water and diesel fuel along the sides.

It was really fascinating. Of course no photos were allowed, but I still have a fairly good mental picture of parts of it 20 years later. The photo of the gigantic blast door took me right back - we walked through that very spot.

Edit: Thinking about it more, the most surprising thing was the scale of the place. It's a quarter mile from the tunnel entrance around the bend (meant as a way to diffuse the energy from a nuclear blast) to the big steel door. We all rode a bus back to that point. We walked about a half mile or maybe more to near the bottom of the other end of the main tunnel. If you look at the diagram in the story, it doesn't do justice to the sense of how much work went into carving out the middle of that mountain.

The conference room where command decisions were made might have only held 12, not 20. It was very small and spartan. I remember thinking, Shit, the fate of the world might be decided in a room smaller than our conference room at work.

Also, it might have been April 1998, not '96.
I have updated the navigation for mobile. It should be a lot easier to navigate now on a small screen. I'd like to make the site look better overall, but all in due time.
Looks like "pure politics", and from a dubious source.
This is disturbing on a First Amendment level: you can't insult someone when he makes a claim that puts him in the public spotlight, and when such a claim is highly disputable with facts?

On a tech level, this is just shameful. Neither Thiel or Ayyadurai will say if Thiel paid for this lawsuit, that it's just a coincidence that he hired the same lawyer at around the same time when Thiel hired him for the Hogan case. After Tomlinson died, Ayyadurai immediately went on the offensive and blogged, "Correction: The Inventor of Email is Still Alive"

http://fortune.com/2016/03/07/who-really-invented-email/

Edit: a more in depth story here from 2012 when the debate first broke out; MIT apparently highly disagreed with Ayyadurai's version of history and cut off ties with him http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/05/shiva-ayyaduri-email-u...
I propose a common core for dating.

The first 3/4 of each initial pairing shall be spent picking out furnitue at IKEA and the last quarter you both shall play portal 2 co-op.

There shall be an officiator and witness on hand to immediately marry you both in the unlikely event that you survive either endeavor.
> "A police officer or two killed" ...

> "Humans who are vastly over-prepared for the threat they face"

> Again, these are people who want to go home to their families.

I said “or two” for a reason. Vastly more civilians are killed by police than vice-versa.

> Valid point. But the riot gear itself was a reaction to throwing stones or molotov cocktails.

Reaction or not, it's not appropriate in many situations where it's deployed.

> How can a protester throwing stones or shooting people engage with the institutions they are trying to change?

They are a tiny minority of protestors.