skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough critique on Android bugs, we're fixing them at a steady pace. But if you know any good Scala developers in Berlin / interested in moving to Berlin then we're hiring https://wire.com/jobs
I think the snark is more than sufficiently justified in this case.
While I agree that Drake and Binney were "leakers as insiders", I do not agree that this impacts the narrative of the article. Snowden wasn't an NSA outsider because he didn't want to be an insider. He was an NSA outsider because he was an NSA outsider --- his attempts to be an insider failed.

Moreover, there's more to the point Gladwell is making than that Snowden wasn't an insider. The core point of the piece is that Ellsberg's insider status enabled him to leak carefully, and to redact strategically. Snowden demonstrably did not do this: not only did things get published that weren't in the American public interest, but other things that were (for instance: traces of the Juniper/Netscreen backdoor, or implants in other VPN products) were never published.

It's not just that Snowden wasn't an insider, but that he lacked the ability to leak carefully and strategically --- and so the public outcome was inferior to the Pentagon Papers.
There's also a major problem in that both D and R parties are going thru a turmoil period and some sub-groups are being ejected while others are entrenching and the relationships are a bit fluid. I'm not sure studying an opponent's caricature of a subgroup from the 80s or 90s is of much use in the 10s. This would apply to both parties.
which garmin do you wear?
I have to agree that it isn't the quintessential book to understanding the right. It starts off with good intentions, but she misses a few things, most likely as a result of not being able to escape her bias. I found the following review something to keep in mind if you do read the book. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2016/09/30/book-revie...
God and simulation to me are fundamentally different, but that may be because I dabbled in religion a lot.

The simulation hypothesis, to me, is not terribly surprising or interesting. Why wouldn't someone be able to create a simulation like ours at some point? I am not following why Musk's belief is stupid? Yeah, obviously there's another layer above, and this doesn't explain that much, but I don't understand the stupid part.

God is something else. For one, not all gods in religions are the same. The Christian God is not a mere simulator. He's everything that ever was (i.e., final level), he's super powerful, and, most importantly, as far as Christianity is concerned everything that God does is right.
If you actually are a US resident and declare that, you would be breaking the law.

And if you receive payment in a US bank account and declare yourself a non-resident, expect questions to be asked.
Not an audiophile or amateur by any stretch but this sounds familiar/similar to tripod sounds in the War of the Worlds (2005 edition). That sound has stuck with me. Great visuals in that movie... that train!!

Tripod sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzY099ihULs
I use syncthing for this very purpose, works great.
You are absolutely right, they don't but I start with the assumption that they do and I just need to ask the right questions.
Unless you're willing to allow that Christianity is conjecture, "introducing Christian thought" is not a discussion but a sermon.
Yeah, that's true for sure. If I feel extra anxious for whatever reason (happens from time to time), I'll skip my cup or two that day. And if I have more than two cups in a day, bad things tend to happen. But I was at a point for a while where drinking a cup of decaf would make me extremely anxious (or having a green tea, I swear, even the tiniest bit of caffeine would set my heart pounding), so I'm extremely glad to be past that.
relative to how much debt he had to pay off?

$40MM wouldn't be much buffer for a product that was about to go into manufacturing and distribution I would have thought?

I.e. all the costs of design, development and planning are sunk. And they didn't get to the stage of selling them to recoup any of that.
Rolling out paid stuff next year. As someone said - VC funded so have had the luxury to focus on building a great app, see if people find value in it. This has been true, lots of interest form B2B world from groups, teams, organizations where privacy and security important.
Don't hate on the email outreach because it's automated. If your going to hate it, do so for sincere reasons: namely that you're not interested in their services

But that's not the sincere reason why I hate it. The sincere reason is because there's one of me and millions of companies all thinking they have a right to my attention so I can give their offer a genuine consideration.

If I do see an offer and don't want it, I'm not hating on that specific offer that I didn't want.

I am hating on the way the overall system tends towards me spending 24/7 reading advertising with a limitless queue of advertising backlog, and marketers defending it saying it's legitimate because they, individually, need to do marketing to survive.
I suspect the author is talking about the type of hotels that aren't terribly worried about such things.

Edit: cash friendly hotels that are already in rough shape, and dont worry about this sort of thing do exist...
I've found that the battery life issue has been largely overblown, especially with the Apple Watch Series 2. On most days (all features enabled, moderate app usage, no GPS usage) I still have between 65% - 75% of battery life remaining.

Even if the battery life wasn't that good, is it really that hard to take your watch off before bed and set it on a magnetic charger? I've worn watches my whole life and have never slept with them on.
Being published by Elsevier has some "cachet".

Maybe they capitalize on that, I'm not sure. Although I had the possibility of publishing with them I turned it down, only because at the time I was way too busy and already had a deal running with Charles River. But mostly because... way too busy.

I guess it depends what you want from a book deal.

Any book deals I have been approached for have never been for financial gain. More like, let's get this stuff out in a dignified way. Elsevier seemed to fit the bill.

Is like I would go to Taschen for Art stuff. Revenue would not be the driving factor.

Again, not saying I agree with some policies.
Your comment inspired me to try all 3 tools in combination, and at first glance it seems like a very nice solution; certainly more effective than my current manual method.
A quick question for you though, if you don't mind: do you use taskwarrior just as a backend for taskwiki or do you use it in its own right aswell?

I like the idea of just being able to add todo items quickly from a shell without opening the task list but I imagine those items would not be reflected in my taskwiki list without some kind of taskwarrior hook.
As a Fitbit user I'm so very happy to hear that Pebble's developers are going to Fitbit! Fitbit's software ecosystem is bad. I have many Fitbits (Fitbites?) and I've stopped using them because the app and website are "meh" at best.
50k seems like a low bar to start losing messages at. If this was done with Celery and a decently sized RabbitMQ box, I would expect it to get into the millions before problems started happening.
For me the problem with smart watches is that they're not independent devices. If you have to carry a phone anyway, what's the point in an accessory to the phone which duplicates the functions on a smaller screen?

The only use I found for the ones I've tried was glancing at text messages rather than taking out the phone, but even that let's people more easily interrupt me...
Local VCs in Berlin – A Network Analysis
Could you be more specific about how he's "warped the narrative" in this piece? I feel like I've done my due diligence on this topic and I felt like it was both well written and made a pretty compelling point.

Further, the places where Gladwell departs from the message board orthodoxy on Snowden aren't at all out of step with what other reporters who covered him had to say. For instance: read Fred Kaplan's review of the Snowden movie, which recaps many of the points Gladwell made here, but is far more acidic.
>Didn't both of those publications vigorously oppose Trump?

Yes.

>The "conservative intellectual" niche may be the most politically irrelevant group in the country.

Trump won the Presidency, not the Movement. The rest of the GOP, though shell-shocked, has not suddenly ditched conservatism and embraced Trumpism. The vast majority of the GOP members of the House and Senate, and those in state governments, are conservative, not Trumpist.

Conservatives, not just Republicans, have far more power in the US right now than at any point in recent memory.

And thankfully, the Founding Fathers, sharp blokes that they were, crafted a system of checks and balances. I suspect we'll hear fewer cries of "obstruction!" when Congress blocks President Trump's policies than we did for Obama's.
The problem with Christian thought on these matters is that it is mostly a dead end.

Christian creationism is stated as "god revealed it in bible and hence true" and it is not a result of curious human beings questioning themselves and trying to answer those questions and coming up with theories (Like in Buddhism or Hinduism). The problem with this is that you can't really evolve those ideas further refining them and eventually most of us simply find them shallow.

A conversation on HN about this topic can be stretched in million directions many of which can be falsified and people might have an open mind as to pick which idea they want. In case of Christian faithfuls they are supposed to pick what the bible has already stated.

Off topic:

"Buddhist cosmological ideas" .. said the speaker with a short pause.
"a disgrace". "They must be thrown out".

Speaker was Dalai Lama speaking in Ashoka Hotel - New Delhi.

I think when the Christianity accepts that sort of openness it will be possible to value Christian notions of cosmology and creationism much better.
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Creativity, Inc.

“Ed Catmull, the co-founder of Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter, on how they built a culture of openness, honesty, self-reflection, and risk-taking that protects new ideas and creativity instead of squashing them.” –Aaron Epstein

I wonder if it comes with any helpful pointers on how to execute long-term, systematic wage-fixing[0] schemes.

The top one-star review[1] on Amazon sums it up nicely.

[0] http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/ed-catmull-on-wage-...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/0812993012/R1CW8GBYEH3UQ...
The U.S. reaping these benefits from their two party system is confounded by the primaries. The "centre" of each primary is with respect to the party platform, not the general population.

Presidential candidates' optimal strategy is to be centre of the party base in primaries, then centre of the entire country in the general election. (And they have to do this while avoiding accusations of flip flopping.)

(And there are other confounders that apply regardless of voting system. Nobody involved is working with perfect information and nobody is a perfectly rational actor.)
One genre that is always missing from HNer's and YC's recommendations is Fantasy.

It feels like most people here read books to acquire knowledge and philosophy to apply to real life.

Most fantasy books are read for entertainment and imagination. There's no hidden message to parse and put toward your next start-up project. That doesn't mean Fantasy books are a waste of time though if they're engrossing and entertaining. That's why I read them.

Some fantasy recommendations:

The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch

The First Law series, by Joe Abercrombie (especially the standalone books #4, #5 and #6)

The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
Yeah this is quite a great update.
I would like to look further into
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Regulation would have to start with simple coding standards. Updated yearly. Much like building codes. A project could pick what standards they wanted to adhere to, and then everyone on the project would have to adhere to those standards -- the whole project would be audited by a third-party after the fact for compliance.

There are plenty of good, short, concise coding standards to draw from. Especially useful in giving non-technical people the confidence that things were built consistently... if not correctly even. This is about as simple as it gets:

* WordPress Coding Standards – Make WordPress Core || https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/codi...

I'm sure there are others that aren't terrible.

I do think having more standards would help, standards defined by the devs on the project. If they get to choose their benchmark, then it's just about consistency of approach. Not a bad thing, right? Currently it's the wild west, and the only thing a dev can do is say, "It's my word against theirs, their code is bad."
Every community I have been a part of (church, family, techs, software development, Ruby Programming, etc) have been multifaceted. I will only talk about my camp, Evangelical Christians, because that's what I know.

When I was a new Christian back in 1990 I was a bit baffled by the anti-intellectualism I witness among my friends at a local Pentecostal church. I found a sufficient answer in the book "Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It".

So I think it's fair to say many people have had the experience of talking to people of faith who know what they believe, but they don't know why they believe it. I'll give you that.

But consider this: Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Princeton are all Universities that started off as Christian seminaries. Their roots are founded in the idea that academics and reasoning are inherently noble pursuits.
Cortana forces both Edge and Bing on you.
Speaking of details, I neglected to cite the bit.ly link. Stats for that can be obtained simply by adding a + sign to the end, as you can see here:

https://bitly.com/1PibSU0+

It resolves to this clearly-fake URL:

http://myaccount.google.com-securitysettingpage.tk/security/signinoptions/password?e=am9obi5wb2Rlc3RhQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D&fn=Sm9obiBQb2Rlc3Rh&n=Sm9obg%3D%3D&img=Ly9saDQuZ29vZ2xldXNlcmNvbnRlbnQuY29tLy1RZVlPbHJkVGp2WS9BQUFBQUFBQUFBSS9BQUFBQUFBQUFCTS9CQldVOVQ0bUZUWS9waG90by5qcGc%3D&id=1sutlodlwe

And regarding the DKIM keys, for anyone here who doesn't know, you take the selector from the DKIM header (view source to get this), which is this part: d=1e100.net; s=20130820;

Then you can plug it into tools like this to actually dump the key: http://mxtoolbox.com/dkim.aspx

It's simply a TEXT record on the relevant DNS server which results in something like this:

http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dkim%3a1e100.net%...

k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAnOv6+Txyz+SEc7mT719QQtOj6g2MjpErYUGVrRGGc7f5rmE1cRP1lhwx8PVoHOiuRzyok7IqjvAub9kk9fBoE9uXJB1QaRdMnKz7W/UhWemK5TEUgW1xT5qtBfUIpFRL34h6FbHbeysb4szi7aTgerxI15o73cP5BoPVkQj4BQKkfTQYGNH03J5Db9uMqW/NNJ8fKCLKWO5C1e+NQ1lD6uwFCjJ6PWFmAIeUu9+LfYW89Tz1NnwtSkFC96Oky1cmnlBf4dhZ/Up/FMZmB9l7TA6gLEu6JijlDrNmx1o50WADPjjN4rGELLt3VuXn09y2piBPlZPU2SIiDQC0qX0JWQIDAQAB

http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dkim%3ahillarycli...

v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCJdAYdE2z61YpUMFqFTFJqlFomm7C4Kk97nzJmR4YZuJ8SUy9CF35UVPQzh3EMLhP+yOqEl29Ax2hA/h7vayr/f/a19x2jrFCwxVry+nACH1FVmIwV3b5FCNEkNeAIqjbY8K9PeTmpqNhWDbvXeKgFbIDwhWq0HP2PbySkOe4tTQIDAQAB

It is, of course, important to archive these because you never know when DNS records might go missing, leaving future people unable to validate them unless someone happens to have posted a comment with a copy thereof somewhere.
MacBook Pro Launch: Perplexing
> Parents subsidize the people who don't have kids.

That's a silly argument. Just because an action (possibly) has a positive externality, like having children, doesn't mean we need to subsidize it. You also get quickly diminishing returns; dumping $10M into a kid won't get you a 100x better result than dumping $100K into a kid.

Every single form of industry that isn't already subsidized by the government, by virtue of its continued existence, has a higher value to society than what they earn in income. Should we subsidize all those CEOs to make up the difference?

> each person contributes a lot more to the economy over their lifetime than the cost of raising them.

This is true and irrelevant. Again, spending more money on children doesn't mean their economic output will be correspondingly higher. At some point (which I imagine we've already passed) you're just burning money. That is, of course, if your goal is economic optimization (which your post seems to suggest). If your goal is e.g. more effective socialization/indoctrination or accelerated education, then you could reasonably argue for increased spending to push us farther down the diminishing economic returns curve.
It makes use of an ocr.space API
We moved 10 racks of servers from New York hosting to custom build small hosting facility in Tallinn, Estonia, and we were able to save about €13K a month on hosting. We use free side cooling to save on electricity. We are here for 3 years now, no major problems so far...
Vim is a useful skill to have because sometimes you need to configure a server. However, I'd encourage you to really learn a modern editor like Sublime before emacs, then visit emacs long enough to figure out if you want it.
Well, yes, just like taxes are a thing, and you can't drive on sidewalks or against traffic lights, and we all pay for fire, police, courts, food inspectors, and so on. Turns out the world is full of coercive behavior--if you kill someone, there's generally a consequence, and so on.

Again, that's society.
I've known some homeless people, and for them, it was mental illness that kept them on the streets. They thought everyone was out to get them or control their life. It's a shame that they all want the handouts, but they don't want to follow any rules that come with it.

What I realized is a lot of these people don't want any responsibilities. They're not willing, or able to accept that life sucks for everyone. The governments need to start offering better mental health care that doesn't involve locking people up in hospitals (something an old friend of mine had happen to him, and it caused him to lose trust in everyone).

I don't think giving people hotel rooms is going to solve any problems - if anything it's just enabling it. A better solution is to expand affordable housing and job programs so people start to get back on their feet while ultimately leaving the decisions up to them. Ultimately if they want to live under a bridge that a choice they've made and there's nothing we can really do about it.
I read a couple of comments that say this is a step in the right direction to reverse the demographic trend in most developed countries of decreased fertility.

I don't think that we will ever be able to compensate a couple and mother in particular for the cost of bearing children simply because we have made child rearing so expensive. I am not talking about education or housing costs but rather the opportunity cost.

I don't think there is any way to adequately compensate couples for the loss in career opportunities and wages that they forgoe by choosing to instead spend time raising children. The unfortunate thing is that the more financially capable a couple is to raise children the less likely they are to do so probably because of the increased opportunity cost. I am not sure even the most generous maternity leave policies will be able to fix that.
Uh, yeah, that's a pretty good summary: God is, by definition in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, the standard of good.
I wonder how Hollywood was taken over by lawyers in the first place. The plaintiffs in the Betamax suit are Disney and Universal.
My guess is most/all of that money went into paying off suppliers and debt.
I'm busy exploring some of these ideas in my little project Extraterm https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm .

This little gif demonstrates what it can do now: https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm/raw/master/docs/ed...

Some more demos of its features are here: https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm/blob/master/docs/t...

It is still early days for Extraterm although I use it myself daily (mostly on Windows and Linux). It too is built on Electron. It makes it possible to try out ideas relatively quickly and grants access to a megaton of 3rd party libraries and tools.
Creativity, Inc. is also one of the best books on management.

I say this with reverence for the work of Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming.
React is multi platform whereas most of the derivatives target only the browser. This means that whereas React includes event delegation Preact and Inferno can just use the browser's event delegation. As one example of why you might create a spinoff.
The scientific publishing industry makes no sense to me. It wouldn't take much for a few universities to get together to set up the required infrastructure for sustaining the entire enterprise online with on-demand printing as a last resort. Why they don't do this is the part that makes no sense to me.

What is the value that Elsevier is adding to have the de-facto monopoly on the entire enterprise of scientific publishing in so many scientific disciplines?
I'm sorry, this topic has nothing to do with the operating system. Inferno in this context is a popular JavaScript library for building UIs, not an operating system.
There's something like 19,000 people working on Redstone Arsenal. Do not try to enter around 7:00 am (0700 for those of you with a 24-hour bent) or leave around 3:00 pm (1500...). Huntsville traffic is usually moderately heavy, except for a 45-minute window around those times.
Vouchers also don't do anything for the possible damage/theft. I used to work hotels, mostly 3rd shift, and none would ever have gone for that. They also all always require ID cash (photocopied if cash) or not; even in the ghetto.

Let me possibly shatter an illusion though. Staying at a "nicer" more expensive hotel in not-the-ghetto doesn't make it safe or secure or have any less problems than the cheap ghetto ones. It just means the room might be cleaner and you might be compensated something for bitching instead of told to fuck off. I worked both.

I saw a lot of shit and basically if you go in and they look like they're cutting corners on things like, and I shit you not and am quoting an Indian manager fresh off the boat "We're not required to have coffee creamer", run the fuck away fast. I saw similar places not wash sheets to save soap money (different hotel, same mind set). I saw meth labs in "nice" hotels. It goes on.

But you're right they wouldn't do it just for the "reputation of being a homeless shelter" alone.
> Also "Linux on Windows" is a huge step forwards, but sheesh, it's still atrocious compared to proper native support. It's like a slick version of Cygwin. Remarkable but not a drop-in replacement for Linux.

What's the practical distinction you're making? I develop a program that has Linux as its primary platform there. It gives you a closer-to-Linux experience than OSX does.