skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although it doesn't have PGP/GnuPG, I found "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" to be very interesting and something that should be spread out more.

My work demanded me to read the ITK and VTK parts. Git and GDB are also very nice.

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
We get updates through a corporate AppStore and they function like normal Apple updates. I can choose when to install, etc. I found the software underneath (https://www.jamf.com/solutions/technologies/mac-management/). Sounds like a better UX than what you got stuck with.

The spyware on my personal phone so that I can read corporate email is pretty asinine though.
How RSA works belongs to those snippets of random information that I do possess, but can't reliably link together to get a full picture of the PGP experience.
Poised doesn't mean "here's some wild ass speculation". Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn't make things true
Upcloud provides great performance for the price. Couldn't be happier.
Man, that looks like a website I made back in 2001...
Not quite. Think of that 108 billion as an economic stimulus dolled out on an 'as needed' basis. Does that equate to increased demand for higher education down the road? Maybe, maybe not. But: a.) The demand was there before the stimulus package. b.) The individuals benefitting from the stimulus do not have a pure strategy of attaining the bail out. i.e. Just because the government forgave student loans in the past does not mean a later "generation's" loans will be forgiven. c.) The people benefitting from the stimulus spent that money in the past. The stimulus actually affects them as an income factor effectively raising their monthly income while holding their actual wage/salary constant. For the vast majority of the "forgiven" borrowers, this will increase their demand for goods and services. That's the exact sort of multiplier effect government's want with a stimulus. You can even guestimate the effect this would have on GDP. If the government was going to see payments of $1 billion (just a number) per quarter on the principle of those loans then at least an additional $1 billion of goods/services will be demanded by the borrowers. The additional goods/services demanded will be spread out across consumption by the nature of the borrowers. (i.e. If you qualified to have your student loans forgiven then the student loans were having a negative effect on your consumption.) So for every $100 billion in student loans forgiven the economy would grow by some fraction (could be 1 billion, 2 billion, etc) of that amount per month, in perpetuity.
For me it is about simplifying where I work. Most of the time I work at my desk in the office. Since I have a laptop as the main machine, I am not bound to that desk. I can move to a sofa, we can go to a conference room to discuss some code, I can work from home if I want to, and so on. Previously, I had both a laptop and a desktop, but there was always some extra effort to make sure everything was synced between the machines.
The iPhone 5c was an attempt at a "youth market" that didn't exist, but I'll agree it was cheap for them to make it.

However, the iPhone SE had 98% of the guts of the 6S in a smaller package. That's not a cheap or simple thing to do.

And the Series 1 Apple Watch had a better CPU. That's basically a different watch.
You probably also chose the correct student loan like a responsible adult. Considering you were not an adult back then, that's an achievement (or just luck).

But you can hardly expect all people who just got out of high-school to have good financial sense.
What this actually means is that someone is making on-time payments for 20 years (10 if they work for the public sector) and still hasn't paid back the balance. More often than not this means they're paying less than interest.

When I was initially on an IBR plan I was paying roughly 3/4 of the interest that was accruing every month. Do you have any idea how soul-crushing it is to make less than $30k a year, make payments in the multiple hundreds of dollars every months, and see the balance increase?

After 20 years of that, I think you deserve the forgiveness. But not only that, you're then taxed on the forgiveness (which I think is necessary!). So you struggle for 20 years, still have the debt, then get nailed with what could very well be a 5-figure tax bill.

Under most circumstances they have probably paid more to the federal government than you have.

Screw all those freeloaders!
So what? This form of "price discrimination" already exists at universities, e.g., with certain graduate, MBA, and continuing education programs that function largely as profit centers. There's no reason for different schools like engineering or liberal arts to charge the same rate.

Students aren't forced to pay tuition. It's a voluntary exchange if they feel they're getting their money's worth.
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There are Federal programs to retrain and financially assist those who have be displaced by offshoring.[1]

The problem is that these programs are notoriously underfunded (the financial assistance barely helps. It's like 10k a year if you're very lucky), have their resources misallocated, and do just enough to say that they're doing "something". Their funding is also often lumped in with other welfare "handouts". So when people vote against funding "handouts", they vote against helping people who need it most.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Adjustment_Assistance
Did you tell him to put a piece of tape over it?
While I entirely agree with you wrt the kernel, the separation and isolation bits they do is new and novel from a general purpose operating system's standpoint. Also, Xen really is a small microkernel that runs ontop of Linux, so their comments on the separation being more secure than if they used KVM actually do have merit. If you want something similar that actually is a different operating system, checkout the Muen Separation Kernel (which is pretty neat tech).
If you don't need the power of the desktop (which most developers don't, macbook pro 15inch is just fine), then why would you forgo the mobility of a laptop?
A. I would suggest targeting people with ample budgets rather than low budgets because this allows higher prices. The benefit of higher price is:

1. More money for development.
2. A willingness to pay a meaningful price
is better validation of the idea and concept.
3. Charging money is what businesses do.

B. Launching a website is not the first step in building this sort of business. The first step is to implement the guide service. Probably by serving as a guide yourself.

1. It will provide first hand experience with
traveling customers.
2. It will provide first hand experience regarding
the needs of guides.
3. It will provide first hand experience with processing
payments.

C. Compared to Uber, a guide service has long running transations (on the order of days). One of the engineering challenges Uber has faced is that in computing terms it's transactions are very long running though they complete in minutes.

D. Quality of a tour guide is highly subjective and good tour guides are not nearly as fungible as competent drivers. Uber's rating system reflects the ease with which driver's are replaceable.

Good luck.
yep, and it's pretty trivial to just plug in a monitor when I'm at my desk- everything else is wireless and Just Works™, so it's not like I'm giving up a whole lot for the convenience.
A title being protected doesn't mean it's scientific. C.f. naturopathic "doctors."

I don't know enough about art therapy to say that it is or isn't scientific, though.
The infamous Barmin's patch doesn't have any `sh` mentions either:

```
echo "test... test... test..." | perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;;y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/" -;;s;;$_;see'
```
We'll just compromise a whitelisted end point. The whitelisting would have to be pretty liberal because of corporate and many of us are corporate.
This bill only empowers those with technological skills.
I saw academic bloat run sky-high when I was a post-doc. Today, I think about saving for my daughter's college, which I am fortunate enough to be able to do. It's infuriating that the money is going to paying for self-preserving bureaucracy and campus beautification projects like replacing the flowers every month. From what I've read, it's even worse today.
That's not what usury means, because it's not illegal and it's not unreasonable high rates of interest. My highest student loan, which is private, is about 6%.

Also, who are you to tell someone that they can't go to a school if they can find someone to lend them the money to do it?
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I wouldn't be surprised if the next Mac Pro is just an external graphics card providing a setup like the Razer Blade Stealth.

Although it would be nice if there was a Mac with normal intel RAM and CPU sockets.
Ooh, ooh, ooh they're partly by Greg Wilson! I'm a huge fan of him! Shame they don't cover GnuPG. :(
It is nice having all of your stuff on one computer.

At my desk I use a dock to connect 3 high resolution monitors to my laptop via a single USB-C port, which works really well as a replacement for a desktop PC, then I can disconnect it, go to a coffee shop or a conference and continue working without even having to close my IDE.

Now we are at the point where your laptop can confortably drive a couple of monitors when you want it to, but can also be portable and light with good battery life when you want it to, you don't need a desktop PC.

Also, if you work in multiple places, you can have a couple of screens and a keyboard/mouse on your desk in each place, rock up with your laptop, and plug in.
Sometimes I like to code on the couch. Also guilty of coding in the bathroom. And sometimes I code on the train into work.

There is something tactile about a laptop that a desktop is missing. It's a thing I can carry around, it becomes an extension of my body in a way. This thing is mine. Whereas a desktop - that's my company's computer, or that's my home office computer - it's not mine. It's not a work-life balance thing, I just like carrying my tools around.
Labor conditions are actually not a major factor. Hardhats are pretty cheap.

American construction costs are unique in the world. No other country is even in the same ballpark - this includes wealthy countries (Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong, Italy) with plenty of safety rules. Delhi's construction costs are typical, they are not exceptionally low.

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...

I just bring up Delhi because a) the article is discussing an Indian solar project and b) I have a Delhi metro card in my wallet and am pretty familiar with it.
For work I prefer laptops simply because they are more flexible, I can bring it into a conference room, take it to a quiet corner if my semi-open office is noisy, etc. The CPU power of any recent MacBook Pro has been more than sufficient for web and iOS development.

On personal side projects: I enjoy working in cafes & libraries.
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My 95 year old Dad has a Mac Pro and loves it. He does a lot of 3D animation and general video work, and it meets his needs perfectly.

I understand that the Mac Pro is a tiny market though.

I also need a lot of compute resources for my work (deep learning and other machine learning to support NLP) but I use large servers on Azure, GCP, AWS, and OVH so a MacBook meets my needs.

Even for my Dad's use case, it might be better to use cloud compute resources, but at 95 years old, he wants to stay with what he knows.
Yes and yes. The fact that they are offering the service at all means you don't have to go somewhere else (possibly far away) to get an equivalent service, so that is a form of discount.

The exception is for fields that are zero-sum games, such that an abundance of lawyers, for example, makes it cheaper to defend yourself from a lawsuit but also more likely to be sued.
Wow. How can someone even understand it like that! No way. I actually meant what I wrote and im not really worried about what someone else might think about my comment. Cause it's way way softer.
I currently use my laptop for both work and play and it's kind of convenient to not be tied to my desk :)
The author's definition of "secure" doesn't match up with mine: "oh, if you don't want to send your SMTP credentials to the client just give them to us and we'll keep them safe, pinky swear".
That certainly is a common perspective from people who get their knowledge of dark matter exclusively from pop-science articles!
Looks like the tbm=nws parameter needs to be added to all WSJ web links on here. I wonder if we can get HN to do it.
An Advanced Introduction to GnuPG by Neal H. Walfield

https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-11-05-advanced-intro-gnupg.h...
It's a respected field here, (obviously not universally well respected) although not as highly paid as anything requiring med school.
We also get completely unrestrained tuition growth, which is really the core problem. And we forgive hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to professionals earning 10x the median income.

Also: don't kid yourself. Non-profit hospital chains are enormous businesses. [0]

[0] http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/25-top-grossing-n...
I wonder if cats are domesticating humans in the same way.
The Net interprets anchor strike as damage and routes around it
Really interesting that so many people went straight for the "welfare queen" of this current economic specter (s/"welfare queen"/"art therapist") while ignoring this.

I mean the article all but says this ("critics.. say the income-based repayment program... instead bestows big benefits on those who... earn high incomes").

I guess history does repeat itself.
I'm a developer/consultant so I need to take my laptop to clients a few times a month. The rest of the time is sits closed on my desk, running a couple of big monitors.

Data point: I have a MacBook Pro and my previous laptop was also a MBP. My next laptop wont be.
I grew up relatively poor but was encouraged by my high school teachers to attend a nearby private undergraduate university, which at the time (2005) was $40k/year. Even as a 17-year-old I was worried about carrying a lifetime of debt. My parents weren't involved at all in the situation (neither having gone to college and not particularly concerned with my choices -- long story), so these teachers were the trusted adults I turned to for advice. They universally said, "the degree will pay for itself! Don't worry about the debt!" I did get some financial aid and scholarships, but now 7 years post graduation my total debt is still around $50k, with about $44k of that being federal loans.

Just an anecdote of someone who not only wasn't educated about the options, but actively encouraged to ignore them.
Part of it is that I need to bring my work computer home since I am on-call for server issues. The other part is that I don't have a designated working space -- I work wherever I want to. I would get restless having only a desktop available.
I was going to recommend Singh's book as well. I have an older edition of it, and some of it is certainly out of date (I think it has a whole chapter on Freenet, which may still be around but these days has been eclipsed by Tor), but the core principles are quite good. It's among the best explanations of asymmetric cryptography that I've read, anyway.
The highest paid public employee in my state is a college basketball coach.
> But on this point, Trump is absolutely right, to the point where Ford backed down from their plans to move a factory to Mexico.

But that didn't happen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/17/trump... . (Note that the URL unfortunately suffers from some translation error so that it says the opposite of the headline: Ford wasn't planning to move the plant.)
Rich Harris created RactiveJs, which is an awesome UI framework on its own right.
For a number of years laptops have been "good enough" for most developer needs, and they provide much greater flexibility.

Using my laptop and occasionally iPad, I've worked from at least 4 different homes, a casino, 3 short term rental houses, a couple of client offices, and a beach in Thailand over the last ~7 years.
Individuals with useful majors can pay their own debt precisely because their major is useful. It's the people with degrees in terrible fields that need and deserve forgiveness, because they were scammed.

They shouldn't have been allowed into college in the first place, but the college was just too happy to take their money and give them nothing.
Don't those charge many dollars in tuition despite being public? UC Berkeley is $13k/year according to their site.

For comparison, my european public uni was 50eur/year for enrollment fees.

LMU Munich, #1 uni in germany, is 110eur/year in mandatory fees.
Taking out a loan you don't realistically have the capacity to pay back is irresponsible. This scheme is nothing but privatized success and socializing failure.

If you want to fix the problem, stop subsidizing the loans and allow these colleges to die, shrink or reduce costs.
I had no idea, thank you!
> That's what MDMA pills were known as in the late 90's/ early 2000's.

That means there IS a definition of Ecstacy, the meaning hasn't changed. There are just lots of bad pills in circulation. That's why you should always check pillreports.net before using any untested stuff.
Where is this being used right now in production?
The exact same thing happened in cycling, particularly mountain biking. Here in Michigan starting with the time change, 50% of riding (for those who work) is in the dark.

Not only did LEDs make it cheaper and easier for us to get lights, the cost is so low that there's a huge increase in the number of people riding after dark. This is a really great thing, since having more people out in the woods after dark makes it overall safer, more welcoming, etc.
While that's completely true, my point stands. If loans don't need to be repaid, what's the point? Why just give up the ruse and make college free for everyone? I'm not proposing this at all, I'm just saying this is a slippery slope and the difference between the two is minimal.
The costs increased because the government hands out money that people don't have to pay back. The government should stop the student loan program now.
The 2013 Mac Pro was never viable for almost anybody, and today it's even less obvious what direction they're taking with it.

It looked gorgeous, and many people thought they were _the_ machine to have, but once you prodded the specs a bit, it seemed over-priced, and they lack of upgrades has meant it's just now a really poor buy.

Since they decided with the MBP lineup that touchbars were seemingly more "pro" than decent chipsets and more RAM, I've started looking more earnestly at getting out of the Apple ecosystem.

I have been eyeing up the iPad Pro for a while, but struggle to make the jump because once I move out of Apple, everything will go: I'll move to an Android phone, an Android tablet, and a Linux laptop.

I have already used Linux server-side (although am preferring to head towards Lambdas and "pure Go" Docker containers more and more), all the while, but in 2006 I moved to OS X for my main workstation because it was the best Unix box I could unpack from a box and just expect to work.

And then there is the household ecosystem. If I move, I'll be buying my family non-Apple kit in future as well.

In my small office alone more than a dozen developers are considering the same switch. That's $30k/year or more we spend collectively on Apple gear we're going to shift off from. In one, small office.

Imagine how this scales. It's a mess. Maybe we're too small a market, maybe if every dev with Apple kit in the World switched away Apple would barely notice the shift, but they would within a few years.

They courted Unix devs back in the early 2000s. They know if they could get the best professional developers onto Apple, they in turn would make great software, which would then make the product lineup competitive. It worked.

As the exodus picks up pace, they'll only have a few years before they realise there are only a handful of developers prepared to keep a Mac around, and the collective innovation will move from OS X and iOS to Linux and Android. That could be an interesting shift for those of us who are comfortable in both, but I don't fancy going long on AAPL long-term.

A really great Mac Pro that is best in class out of the box, some really amazing displays which Apple could make in ways that no other manufacturer has pockets to match (and the ability to use third party displays, please!), an MBP that at least holds it own, that can compete with the Dell XPS, it could add up to keeping people in the loop, and others too.

The Mac Pro stagnation was the first sign that Apple had given up on their traditional market. The MBP was an underline and an exclamation mark.
Drone operators do though, in large numbers.
Yea, in reverse i don't get the confusion/argument for desktops. In this day and age, i feel like the defense should be on the side of desktops.

For a good portion of work a laptop can do everything a "desktop" can, including big monitors and additional keyboard/mouse. And it has the added benefit of taking it anywhere. It's a desktop when you want it, and a laptop when you want it.

Sure, there are plenty of resource intensive applications that would be better suited for a desktop, but i highly value the mobility. And i work in a very strict 9-5, (nearly) no work is taken home past clock-out. Barring freak outages of course (i have yet to see one in my time here, \o/)

edit: Fighting my comma demon.
Maybe the government could just hire doctors and have them treat people. An idea so crazy that the rest of the developed world does it already.
Working on a desktop is just so limiting. I cannot imagine doing it in this day and age. I work at home, in cafes, on the train and yes, sometimes at the office too. At home and at the office I have a couple of big monitors to plug in and - hey presto - I have a fantastically large desktop. It's simply the best of all worlds.

And the work/life balance is definitely not screwed if you spend half the week working from home, like I always aim to.
The whole mess that is higher education sickens me. The bankers did this. They colluded with susceptible financial aid officers and corrupted and victimized. Now the rest of us are left holding the bag, as usual. Socializing the losses. This is unacceptable. I still think the idiots who took out the loans need to repay them, not be let off. You might say it is akin to modern day slavery, and I get that, but the fact of the matter is, it is the bankers who are looking for the write offs because a) they still get paid and b) they need those same suckers to take on loads more debt buying houses.
Hardhats may be 'cheap'. Go to most construction projects in India and see how many wear them.

Then control for costs of permits and bribes to arrive at an actual cost for the labour.

We can then discuss social technology some more.

I bring all this up as my family has handled many construction projects in India, and so I am pretty familiar with it.
There are such programs, but their effectiveness and avilability varies widely depending on where you live.

Where I live, we have Second Career Ontario[1]. When I was in college, several of my classmates were formerly highly paid tradespeople who ended up unemployed and unable to find work after the decline in Ontario's manufacturing sector. The Second Career program funding was enough for them to go back to school for a couple of years. To to best of my knowledge, all of my classmates ended up making the transition to a new career successfully.

I've seen programs in other jurisdicitions that provide some funding for retraining, but not enough funding to teach people enough skills in enough depth for them to realistically be able to move to a new career.

[1] http://www.secondcareerontario.com/web/second_career/