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People are confused by Assange apparently attacking one US political party and then switching to attack the other party.

What's missing is an understanding of his underlying motivations. This piece hints at it, but it doesn't quite get there.

Assange sees the existing power structure as a connected graph that requires secrecy to function.

His objective is to sever or degrade the links between nodes in the graph by exposing secrets.

Information flows from conspirator to conspirator. Not every
conspirator trusts or knows every other conspirator even though
all are connected. Some are on the fringe of the conspiracy,
others are central and communicate with many conspirators and others
still may know only two conspirators but be a bridge between
important sections or groupings of the conspiracy.

If all conspirators are assassinated or all the links between
them are destroyed, then a conspiracy no longer exists. This
usually requires more resources than we can deploy, so we ask our
first question: What is the minimum number of links that must be
cut to separate the conspiracy into two groups of equal number?
(divide and conquer).

When we look at an authoritarian conspiracy as a whole, we see
a system of interacting organs, a beast with arteries and veins whose
blood may be thickened and slowed until it falls, stupefied;
unable to sufficiently comprehend and control the forces in its
environment.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070129125831/http://iq.org/con...
There is the Sony Xperia X Compact from September 2016. It's slightly larger and much thicker (9.5 mm) and it weights more. Still the closest one. It came with Android 6 and got an OTA update to 7 in mid December.

It's fast and the battery always lasts 2.x days to me, I charge it again at around 20%. It lasted 3 days 18 hours last time over a long weekend, down to 9%. I checked and I made 8 hours of screen activity so it wasn't in my pocket all the time.

Given how long it lasts I wish they traded some battery to make the phone thinner and lighter, exactly as the SE.

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_x_compact-8292.php
Github Project is to Trello as Bitbucket is to Github.

Guess which two products I use every day, and which two I avoid like the plague.
At work my setup is in a corner desk. I have a laptop right in front of me and a 24" monitor propped up about a foot behind it, so I setup the displays as being one above the other. I can see both completely. glance down for the laptop and look forward for the big display. My glasses are a progressive lens with distance straight ahead and an intermediate "computer" distance part way down, and reading at the bottom. With some head tilt I am able to use both monitors through the middle section (the far part is still workable for the far monitor though a little head tilt improves is). For my phone or reading I look down and for driving I just do as normal.

For a single large desk monitor of that height, I may need a different pair of glasses. I wouldn't want to tilt my head back far enough to see the top of it clearly. Perhaps just a non-variable lens optimized for the display distance. I could keep them on that desk when not in use.

Yeah, for all those younger HN readers that whole "lens hardening unable to change focus" thing usually happens some time in your 40s. It's one of the first "old people" things to happen and you're not really old when it hits. Our line of work makes it especially challenging to find a good solution, but they are out there. Custom lenses that work for you are worth every cent.
Sysadmins are, 99% of the time, responsible for production uptime. Sadly, management includes all of the software being written in-house in this expectation. Change means instability, means that Sysadmins' feet are held to the fire - this makes them resistant to change.

Software developers, on the other hand, are responsible for making changes. Adding features, pushing fixes, and so forth.

These two points of view are inevitably going to cause friction. Developers are only recently starting to be held responsible for production uptime and the pages that come along with that - and it's a good thing for both sides.

That "most trivial issue" for a developer is something the sysadmin was woken up for 3x in the past, and doesn't want to be woken up for again, so he pushes back. How can he not?
I don't really think it's debatable. Jobs was a crazy asshole. No need to hedge the assertion with all the evidence.
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under which submission title? on the journal page or nuzzel page?
bigchaindb main product is actually a cluster of something like mongodb. Read the whitepaper, was disappointing.
Are you really not trolling?

Likewise you haven't provided any motivation as to why the Civil War should be taught in history class instead of last year's American Idol winners (If you tell me prominence in popular or cultural memory, than indeed Shakespeare occupies the same place).

Shakespeare endures well because he endured for the readers, theater goers, actors, authors, poets, artists, film-makers and academics after him. Of course you could say that they are all also brainwashed by schooling and wouldn't have cared about Shakespeare (this doesn't pass the litmus test though, author's that were popular solely based on being forced in schools haven't endured c.f. Chinese or Soviet education with ideologically shaped curriculums).
I still don't understand why at some point "coder" has become more popular than the simple "programmer".
> Packaging is a complicated task and isn't as automatable as you'd think

I think the Solus guys would have a word with you. Even with no packaging experience it is pretty simple to create a package for Solus Project.

Here a short intro:

https://wiki.solus-project.com/Packaging
Haha, that do you thing, it will be smart to shout at the kid. NOO.. Offcourse i will favor them..
No, but it makes shared links less inefficient. If you share a URL like this, the server will not receive the hash on the initial request, so the js client will have to do the search as a second request after the page load. The reality is that most users will never even notice because it's still fast.

Manually editing the link causes that same fetch-render-refetch flow.

Edit: Oh, you were asking about pushstate. No, that specifically fixes the problem with the double fetch, so long as the server side and client side do the right thing to make the user see the same page for the same URL.

Pushstate just lets the JS client modify the URL without triggering a page reload, so the client can change the actual query param instead of the hash.
By really nailing step 1.
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Atlassian has cracked the enterprise sales nut completely. Github is still struggling with it some. Completeness is a big reason for that.
Try Active Collab. It does wonders for my team.
The main issue is syntactic: Python's syntax is such that reduce() isn't terribly useful. If Python had an equivalent of blocks in Ruby or at least the ability to write non-trivial lambdas, I can see reduce() being useful, but as things stand, it's just kind of useless.
It's because lambda technically isn't an anonymous function. It's more like an anonymous expression. It probably helps to avoid confusion for people trying to do things that can't be expressions in it. E.g.:

def (x,y): x += y
This is why I can't be self employed. The situation is out of control. That's the rate for the small local carriers too with poor provider networks. The major carriers such as United go for $2,000/mo.

Don't forget the 30% coinsurance after you get past that deductible!
I'm a big fan of Trello and Atlassian both. Personally speaking, if all they do is take away the crippling "add on" restrictions in Trello for solo users, this will be a huge win.
I can only imagine it went something like this... http://imgur.com/Yf9Hz4J
Very surprised not to see MIT and Duke on this list. They were such seminal universities for the hacking scene in general back in the 70's and 80's. I guess the landscape has just changed too much.
Yep, I use this feature all the time and I think there's only ever been one or two sites I've had to set it up for manually. For most sites, Ctrl+T <First 2-3 Letters of Site Name> <Tab> <Search Query> <Enter> works just fine without me having to configure anything.
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Is Slack next? Could they afford that?
The joke is that the NYPD could very well "airstike" you so I'm not sure why you'd think a "airstrikes from a real military" would change our mind.
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That's been my experience working with JIRA the past few months. Bug after bug and always a bug report with someone begging for a fix and being ignored.
I suspect this is because

def f(x, y): x+y

is valid one-line syntax for a regular function definition (that in this case computes `x+y` and returns `None` becaus Python does not have implicit returns). Maybe the parser could distinguish between them by saying that "if the function definition is all on one line and the function is missing its name, it's a lambda":

def f(x,y): return x+y
g = def x,y: x+y
assert f(3,4) == g(3,4)
assert f != g

That said I have no

Nothing gives me the willies in mathematical code like writing out Greek letters. I don't know why, it just does. The fact that the otherwise excellent Stan (https://mc-stan.org) only accepts ASCII variable names is depressing. I would love to be able to actually write `map(λ x: x+7, range(5))`. I think a big reason why people don't use `map`/`reduce`/etc. more is that writing anonymous functions is still verbose (`lambda` is just too long a word) and relatively hard to read compared to list comprehension. Better still a syntax like `x -> x+7` would be ideal, since I'm pretty sure `->` would be a unique syntax element.
My semi-educated guess: Far more often than any of us is comfortable admitting...
>> It really baffles me how they can afford to sell it at that price.

Just remember these are essentially a piece of glass with special stuff printed on it. Yes, it's very complex and expensive to set up but then it's more or less like a printing press. (no, I don't know the actual process)
Nothing but this here big steaming nine-figure pile of cash...
There's an open source clone of Trello that you can self-host: https://wekan.io/
This one takes your car payment out of your pay check. Stop driving and the negative balance accrues. You can work it down by driving. In a traditional lease you can default and get sued. In this case you can default by stopping work, and accumulate a negative balance. If you start working again the balance due is taken out of your next paycheck-essentially becoming a slave.
There is such thing as "evading the law" you know. It's not enough that you satisfy the regulation, if you act against the intent of the law in other ways. Or perhaps it's different in the US, but that's what I would expect in most of Europe.
> To me, those characteristics are: decentralized, immutable, assets;

How do you achieve fully trustless decentralisation without the currency aspect, while still being resilient to sybil attacks? Or are you willing to sacrifice truslessness? In which case, how are you defining decentralisation?
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My mother is a helicopter parent. She's one of those who, I swear, pioneered the habit of emailing each teacher daily to check in over a decade ago. Watching it with my much younger brother, it's very clear that it can definitely negatively impact your drive to do things, if you know your parents will fix it for you later. She won't even allow her kids to fail at extracurricular activities, so it can be hard to really develop a sense of urgency for getting stuff done that you need to do.
Strawman-schrawman....

Your threshold for hate speech much be pretty low if you think "fat and unattractive" fits the definition.
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When certain groups are exempt from the force of the law, while others feel its full weight, it is not justice, but rather a mockery of it.
Is Trello really a competitor though? JIRA and Trello couldn't be more different.

I'd think Trello and Asana are much closer competitors. JIRA is like an over engineered spaceship with more features than anyone could learn in a lifetime. Comparatively Trello functions more like a Prius. Priuses and spaceships don't compete.
I've been in the field since 2001. I have seen exactly two perl files in that time
>My cost estimate is probably on the high side :)

Well, at least here, you cannot confuse "missed income" with "costs".

If you are payed (or can be payed) 700 US$/hour, you should be in a range of around 1,400,000 US$/year of revenue.
On this you pay taxes and you have (or should have) some costs, even if minimal.

I wouldn't be surprised if, once you have detracted those, you remain with US$ 350/hour (half of the revenue).

Then what you can spend (and that you can consider as cost) is US$ 350/hour.

And you cannot really consider the "stress and sleepless nights" as "cost", come on, this is what may eventually be "moral damages", and 5/6 days to make a binder with 150 pages?
If we take the 350 US$/hour as cost, you have managed in 6 x 10 = 60 hours 150 pages, let's double them to 300 including the ones you discarded, that is 5 pages per hour or less than 1 page every 10 minutes or US$ 70 each for just reading and printing or photocopying a sheet of paper and putting in t in a binder, I understand the tabs, Exhibit A, etc. still ...
Realistically it cannot take more than 20 hours at the very most to assemble such a binder.

8 days at court, 10 hours each, 80 hours + 20 hours, still 100 hours at the most, and these should be multiplied by 350 , not 700.
Yes, sorry for that. I need to work a bit more on a more responsive CSS.
There are already lots of Trello clones:

Restyaboard: http://restya.com/board (open source, self-hosted)

Phabricator Projects https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/projects/ (open source, self-hosted, or paid hosting)

Kanban: https://kanboard.net/ (open source, self-hosted, or paid hosting)

Wekan: https://wekan.io/ (open source, self-hosted)

And no doubt, lots more not listed here...
why would they do that though?

Trello covers a market that was not really served by any Atlassian products (or rather, market segments that weren't well treated).

Trello has a huge active following, and a lot of users who would otherwise not know Atlassian products.

Getting any sort of proper cross-selling going on would be great for their ecosystem long-term. People might start at Trello, but go to Atlassian products as their team scales and need other coordination tools.

I don't think you spend $425 million to kill a "competitor", especially when that competitor has a lot of paying customers anyways.
> why should a sysadmin who doesn't even know Python

Because a Python sysadmin has been through all the transitions of packaging systems, all the nasty corners of "backwards compatible" changes, and knows how underlying changes to the operating system will affect your code, what the storage behaves like under load, and why one tech is not "better" than another. If you really hired an admin (cough, "reliability engineer") for a Python codebase that doesn't know Python, well, that's a different question altogether.

> I have regression tests to catch if an upgrade breaks anyyhing

You don't know what you don't know.

When you can reason about the multiple ways the above statement can fail, congratulations! You are now a seasoned sysadmin, the scorn of junior developers who just want to get things done (who incidentally read a great blog post the other day about a new packaging system that we should immediately transition to and by the way it's all backwards compatible).
We are planning to open API but it will be after the launch. What kind of features do you want to see?
Trello is a JIRA competitor based on providing simplicity to task boards.

Why would they JIRA-ify it? They would lose their audience who sought a JIRA alternative in the first place. From their blog post on the subject https://blogs.atlassian.com/2017/01/atlassian-plus-trello/ they seem to acknowledge this

I happen to use, and like, both products. JIRA at work (where I want a lot of the features) and Trello for personal/small group projects and even family/household stuff where I just need _simple_
But the point of DNSSEC isn't to protect your ability to contact another server, just like the point of SSL isn't to be a substitute for TOR.

Are we on the same page that with DNSSEC activated on a local resolver one would either get an authentic answer, or nothing at all?
Trello, Bitbucket and Github are mature products. Github Projects is MVP.
Funny how much opinions can differ. I've used them both professionally and I think Trello scales poorly above 5-10 people while Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size.
There are a few new features over the last 5 years...

* Merge checks
* Build status (finally...)
* Audit logs
* Inline editing

From: https://bitbucket.org/whats-new

Nothing that keeps it above Github, but they always seem to maintain feature parity.

/not a bitbucket shill

//just don't like inaccurate comments.
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You're right.But like any big change it will take time.Say 5-10 years to most new stuff being serverless.
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Small/micro AWS/Azure instances. Set up your own CI/CD pipeline. Read sysadmin books. Get comfortable with the environment shell (Powershell/bash/etc.) and write some scripts.

Bonus points if you make an actual product that solves a problem and also practice all of these skills.
The hip replacement can be covered under another policy like a home warranty. At the same time, without coverage, the prices have to come down. If they don't, all of those expensive doctors are bringing in near $0. Such an economic position is untenable.

The other two are probably going to be fixed through direct market forces. If the people of America can only pay $X, then the makers of the drugs can only charge $X + small premium to have a market. Since they would face a similar price pinch abroad, they'd have to adjust their prices.

We've seen the inverse of the price pinch with the epi-pen scandal. The makers knew the price could go up since insurance would absorb the cost.
I worked for a game studio several years ago and we used Trello to report on what we worked on that day to our Programming Manager.
It's okay! I appreciate your eagerness and willingness to help though!
Congrats to Trello and Fog Creek Software!

I've moved on to Zenhub instead of Trello, but it's indeed a really nice product that can be used by many, and not just people in software development
Okay, that's valid.

Here is the thing: Catastrophic health events are not determined by some random number generator that says "Tag! You're it! We decided to fuck with you today!" Study after study after study shows that diet, lifestyle and preventive care (or lack thereof) correlate strongly with whether or not someone winds up with a catastrophic health event. This includes cancer.

One of the ways DPC lowers costs is by helping patients stay on top of health maintenance so health problems do not escalate. For example, patients with well managed diabetes can live long, healthy lives with few complications. Patients with poorly managed diabetes see high rates of blindess, foot amputations and other horrifying, expense, life altering health complications due to diabetes.

Does that make any more sense?
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There is a (very minimal) HTTP server in the stdlib. It can be used for very quick prototyping.

It can easily be wrapped in a more usable API, for instance I have made mine: https://github.com/andreaferretti/rosencrantz
O.o I'm in New York City which for America has pretty decent fiber service and 100mbit costs ~61 pounds ($75). Very jealous!
It looks more like a list of places people are ready to do anything to escape from. Poor people engaging in (recruiting) contests to move away/abroad and bring back money. (When I say 'poor', I don't mean mediocre, of course, that's unrelated.)
This is also my experience. I like JIRAs search, and writing experience better. And the integration with Github & Bitbucket is lovely also.
They spin out each of their products (Stack Overflow, Trello) as separate corporations so Fog Creek didn't own Trello.

Edit: I guess the spinning-out doesn't say anything about ownership (though the article does say Trello did a round of funding after the spin-out)
From http://blog.trello.com/trello-atlassian

>> We will continue operating as a standalone service, and we will continue to integrate deeply with all of the tools available out there that help people collaborate (and you can look forward to some great integrations with HipChat, Confluence and JIRA).
I checked and it appears there isn't really a loophole. Direct primary care providers are able to combine their offering with insurance and offer it on the ACA exchange, but they are subject to the same requirements of any other insurer. And none seem to be doing this yet:

From http://www.dpcare.org/specialties:

"H.R. 3590 recognizes DPC and allows DPC Medical Homes to offer coverage in health insurance exchanges in combination with a wraparound insurance policy provided by a qualified health plan (QHP). Working together, the two must satisfy all other essential health benefits requirements under H.R.3590. DPC practices provide all primary care in a monthly fee arrangement. The QHP is used for hospitalization, specialty care and other more costly services. The first DPC offering paired with a QHP in the healthcare marketplace went live in the Washington state exchange in January 2015. There are no DPC practices operating in the federally facilitated exchanges yet."
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So the problem is effective communication? Why can't the sysadmin in this imagined scenario explain their actions this way?
Well, this is the 2nd most sold device right after Apple's iPad.

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> They aren't kids playing with toys that we need to nanny over

In my experience (university), yes they are, and they should do that at home.

Why do you need the latest bleeding versions in the first place?

In my sysadmin experience, people believe software gets bad and deprecated as soon as the glory next breaking version appears. I don't think I need to argue why this is an illogical stance.

With my developers hat on, bumping to the next version mid-process reliably introduces more friction than is worth it. People think the next version solves that one weird issue but ignore that it introduces two new ones and that the software must be changed to fix five new incompatibilities.

But the solution reliably is to just not use that weird feature that caused the bug in the first place, and think what a clean solution would have been. And guess what, the result is a cleaner and more compatible code base. It's a tip that works for me again and again: If there is friction, think - before spending the next hours with an update that will soon lead to new problems.

It's great that you can for example compile Linux without too much friction. It's great that arcane shell scripts can run on any system. Stability (in a compatibility sense) is not a nice-to-have, it's basic sanity.
Because being a great coder ~== solving hacker-rank problems. /s
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Come back when they have done this for 24000 third-party packages.
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It's a project for decentralizing existing big data databases... Not sure where you've set your expectations?