skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't because GnuPG doesn't work well or because it is too hard to use that people don't use it. They don't use it because other people don't use it.

Why do people use Facebook instead of Diaspora? It's not because Facebook is better, works well, or is easier to use... It's because other people use Facebook.

Why do people use Skype instead of XMPP? It's not because Skype is better, works well, or is easier to use... It's because other people use Skype.

Why do people use WhatsApp instead of GnuPG or OTR? It's not because WhatsApp is better, works well, or is easier to use... It's because other people use WhatsApp.

It's always the same standard chicken and egg adoption problem. As shown in the article, GnuPG is used for package signing, commit signing, file encryption, and all sorts of things that don't involve many people. But when it's about communication, you can only use GnuPG if the people you want to communicate with use GnuPG too... and thus the adoption problem applies.

And the reason people initially used Facebook, Skype, and WhatsApp is not that they were easier to use or better. It's advertising. Notice how all of these are proprietary software made by companies with the means to advertise their software? You can bet people would use GnuPG, Diaspora, and XMPP if they had been advertised by companies like Facebook and Microsoft.

So if we want people to use open source software and open protocols instead of living in walled gardens, we need to advertise them. Advertising works.
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I'm absolutely sure people enjoy terrible working conditions and meagre wages just because they want to make their millionaire boss a multi millionaire boss... not because they alternative is to be homeless/be hungry/die of cold.

I'm also absolutely sure you can be whatever you want to be. I.E. an immigrant arriving in the shores of the USA in the 19th century could just build his own cattle ranch. Boy if he accepted to work 18h a day 400m bellow the surface of the Earth, receive a ridiculously small wage for the job and die in his 30's from it, I'm absolutely sure it was because that was actually the miner's life long dream.

Damn unions, destroying those nice miner's dreams of having a miserable life since the 1900's...
A World of Disputed Territories
Since you're speaking the language of product marketing, which is one I sort of speak too, can I gingerly offer you some advice?

Until you come up with some other cool-sounding term for end-to-end encrypted storage, every time your product is discussed in a forum that includes people familiar with cryptography, the discussion is going to be dominated with threads about how your product doesn't do what its name claims it does.

If it were me, I would think of this as a very suboptimal situation; sort of the worst case for what a product name can do.
"fleet of atomic clocks" is definitely a cool phrase.
Breaking out of your comfort zone isn't about addressing defects, it's about growing as a person.

If you are content staying in, great. Many people face paralyzing fear or anxiety and want to overcome it or maybe just aren't happy with 100% of who they are. If you are, great, I don't think you're the target audience.
I second the recommendation for Duet. It's one of the best iOS games I've ever played.
At this moment I'm a paying user of both Evernote and Dropbox and I do not like how they are focusing on extra bells&whistles instead of investing time in their encryption methods to make my data more safe.

From a business perspective you can get the money that I give to Evernote and Dropbox if Spideroak offers competing products. And for me the advantage is that my data is more secure because of the zero knowledge(1) idea and I do not need to worry about wild ideas from companies think about employees reading my notes "to make my experience better". Yes I'm looking at you Evernote.

(1) until 10 minutes ago I did not know that zero knowledge had a specific technical meaning that is different than what Spideroak implements. And I even have Bruce Schneiers Applied Cryptography on my bookself. I'll need to read that again. Maybe it should be called "Full stack encryption" because it covers everything from data transport, to storage, to metadata encryption, etc...
How Do You Dismantle a 90-Ton Whale?
Could you elaborate on what differs shyness and social anxiety?
There's a good point to be made about continuous functions, but the author hasn't made it, because he/she doesn't know the difference between continuous functions and time-series.

> What is a continuous function (or continuous data)? It is a sequence where each item is related to the one before and one after determined by a process.

So, to paraphrase the article: My reply should actually stop here with one sentence.
Two things I learned from the report, one was that the helium tanks are actually inside the oxygen tanks. All the rockets that I can recall seeing the insides of, had the helium tanks as a sort of 'ring of pearls' around the end of the tank. Clearly from a volume perspective it doesn't matter if they are inside or outside, and from a thermal perspective it means the LOX can keep the helium cool (or vice versa I guess).

And the second is that their wrapping method allows for the creation of voids between the inner aluminum tank and the carbon fiber wrap. I can certainly imagine how that could happen with carbon fiber prepreg (it's a prewoven fabric which maximizes strength by pre-laying out the various ways the fiber goes through it) but if you were to spool on straight up fiber that would make it easier to be conformal.

I wonder if other people do the 'tanks within tanks' architecture and if so how they avoid voids and buckles in their overwrap.
There are many good points in the article. I worked in Switzerland for a couple of years and there are also some inaccuracies to keep in mind.

1. Yes, the average Swiss makes more than the average American, but the cost of living there is also much higher. So much higher that on a purchasing power parity computation, the average Swiss makes $58,600 compared to $56,000 for the average American (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...). That's a long way from the stated $91,000.

4. Wealth-based taxes. Yes, the Swiss Federal taxes are very low. That is entirely offset by cantonal taxes. This isn't a good thing or a bad thing depending on your perspective. The Swiss cantons are very independent compared to U.S. states and provide most services locally. But, as a tax-payer, you'll be paying an equivalent amount to both levels of government as you would in the U.S. Only the ratio is going to be different.

While I can vouch for the amazing unemployment benefits, I will also point out that for the many HN readers who are software developers, you would find that your profession doesn't have nearly the status in Switzerland as it does in the U.S. Anecdotally, when I lost my job, my unemployment benefits were great, but the jobs I could find were pathetic compared to what I could find back in the U.S. which is where I ended up despite my regret in missing many of the benefits of Swiss life the article discusses.
Just a minor suggestion, Hindu is not language, Hindi is.
Mastodon is the software. Welcome to the world of community powered social media. You could name your site twatter if you want, or quitter ;) and still use the mastodon software.
I think the OP was referring how she was not a typical woman of her age, and had the long history of drug use -- hence why they had to use Lloyd's rather than Liberty Mutual.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Payload User Guide [pdf]
Yes, this is obviously paid content marketing material.

EDIT: The Pearl team mass downvoted me. :(
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I've read the "Orthodox C++" definition. It's mostly outdated or misunformed or just a troll.

Two examples:

- In 2017 you don't say STL but "Standard Library" and saying that it has "bad memory management" means you don't understand how it works (because you can use whatever memory management you want for most containers and you can even use the algorithms on C-arrays).

- I don't see why you would want to use printf instead of libfmt for example.
We decided to use JWT internally, and force clients through an API gateway that converts between a classical session key (stored in a fast, distributed key/value store) and an internal JWT.

This means that internal microservices don't need to deal with session management at all (including revocation), and only need to worry about validating the public key of the signer.

Yet if anything is accidentally exposed (let's say a microservices fetches a user-provided URL, and the URL is localhost), the user still cannot spoof an identity without having the signer's private key.

The internal JWT also has a very short TTL, so accidental leakage wouldn't cause much trouble.

I would not use JWT for session management.
There's also the NFC S4 Mini, which only supports half length GPUs (Gigabyte makes a good 1070). It 4.3L or 262in³.

Both of these options are certainly smaller than a macbook plus an enclosure though.
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Yep, you're right. Sorry! That was a dumb cite.
For the First Time,Researchers Identify Key Proteins That May Make Zika So Deadly
That's sad news.

Hopefully the other TB3 enclosures will come along at a reasonable price.
The way they did it was by claiming that the crimes didn't stem from any written law, but rather from an unwritten universal (for Europe, at least) custom. This is not actually all that far fetched - the notion of "customs of war" long predated any formal conventions etc.
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It's been pointed out before but:

a) Social Text is a pleb-tier journal

b) Sokal pressured them into publishing his junk article

So it's not the home run against postmodernism that Sokal and his fans thought it was.
I currently work in central Virginia a bit more rural. Good pay and great cost and quality of living. 3 of the more senior engineers work 60% and 80%. But HR has told me that no one wants to come here. It has been a great place for starting a family, the only risk is there is not very many software engineering options.
Developer and marketing/product strategist

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Puzzle Jug
An ex-colleague (in a company I worked in earlier), who was based in Minneapolis or somewhere in Minnesota, came for a visit, and told us that he got frost-bite as a kid, and parts of his face were still sensitive due to that, many years later.
Looks pretty slick. I'm in the market for a laptop I carry to work every day and leave my 5lb MBP at the office more like a mobile desktop.

Pretty intrigued by this vs the expensive X1 Carbon or Yoga. The quickcharge on the X1 sounds amazing though...
It's certainly marketing material but I don't think the NYTimes publishes paid content in the way you describe.
January 2017 Issue: Predictions, Interviews, and Insight
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Technologies:
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It's the whole Daplie account that's gone, not only that repository.

See
https://daplie.com/articles/why-github-took-down-daplie/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5l731y/moving_...
Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle for “Unicorn” Employees
I suppose that would work, but all the operations you do on the region quadtree have to be aware of the "clipping size" as well. For example, the rotation transformation that this article implements would also have to rotate that "clipping size" as the unwanted portion of the square is now in a different location.
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My suspicion was that SpaceX was rushing to validate their carbon fiber tank plans, which is why they did it on stage 2 (process is lower scale and easier to experiment). Well, at least they failed fast. I made this prediction in a private twitter DM (yes, weaksauce, I should have been bolder with a public post) the day that Musk announced their plans for giant carbon fiber tanks, with no knowledge that the stage 2 tank was made of carbon fiber.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3uVSPZl-I22UjE4aElRcDFaaE...
You could try Ask Metafilter.
What would you suggest then?

In my experience, only Thinkpads and Latitudes have provided me satisfying user experiences.

Except XPS 13 and Macbook Pros, which I tried and I don't like the feeling.
Interesting project, you can also search for all kinds of suspicious commits using commit watcher: https://github.com/srcclr/commit-watcher
Omnidirectional conveyer belts from Intralox
SPICY TRY Not TO LAUGH CHallENGE
All of our couches @ Davis during undergrad were obtained off the side of the road.

Needless to say our house had many shitty, yet comfy couches.
Could you pair this surface with a virtual reality headset and make an infinite world to explore?
I "solved" the problem by restoring a week old backup from before I'd upgraded to Sierra. All other things were equal, so the OS was the culprit. This is why good backups are important, never know when Apple's gonna screw you.
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How Amazon Innovates in Ways That Google and Apple Can't
LineageOS: Infrastructure Status and Official Builds
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Buy-in from megacorps is needed to get this passed. Requiring exponential fees will ensure it'll never happen.
I had the 7260 but for some reason it was slow and was always dropping the connection. Happy with the 8260 now.
The S4 Mini is news to me, it looks very nice. It does use an external power brick though, unlike the A4 which is all internal.

Zotac just announced a mini GTX1080 so you could get some amazing performance density in the S4.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10947/zotac-announces-geforce-...
Actually the Brown U. political economist Mark Blyth predicted global Trumpism well before Trump was elected based off economic and political events around the globe. Trump was not a unique phenomenon. Trump was part of a global domino effect. Check him out if you're more interested.
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Geez, calm down. I knew it was more than one, I just didn't know the exact number. Multiple means "more than one". I wasn't being misleading. Save your outrage for when it's warranted.
John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing, has died
Nancy the Van Seat [1] was a mobile robotic platform developed at the Stupid Fun Club that was useful for performing moving sofa experiments, but we never tried taking her down a staircase!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvXG4gQ2FWI
>I have to laugh that Snapchat has apparently solved the identity exchange problem and PGP is still stuck with these ridiculously baroque implementations.

Er, how? Admittedly I've only used it a few times, but the only thing that sticks out along those lines is the Snapcode system. How is that any different than scanning a QR code in OpenKeychain?