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It is synesthesia. The news is that it seems to be more common than previously thought.
In the past, I've also suffered from sleep paralysis, so it's interesting that the two are possibly linked.
No, they are not. This is a common misconception.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-cor...
I agree with your point completely. I just want to add that throwing out raw numbers like "10.3MB" or "400 KB" is not very precise. Binaries can vary immensely based on whether they have debug info, string tables, etc. or whether these have been stripped away.

I wrote a size profiling tool that can give much more precise measurements (like size(1) on steroids, see: https://github.com/google/bloaty). Here is output for LuaJIT:

$ bloaty src/luajit -n 5
VM SIZE FILE SIZE
-------------- --------------
74.3% 323Ki .text 323Ki 73.8%
12.5% 54.5Ki .eh_frame 54.5Ki 12.4%
7.6% 33.2Ki .rodata 33.2Ki 7.6%
2.2% 9.72Ki [Other] 12.9Ki 2.9%
2.1% 9.03Ki .eh_frame_hdr 9.03Ki 2.1%
1.2% 5.41Ki .dynsym 5.41Ki 1.2%
100.0% 435Ki TOTAL 438Ki 100.0%

And for Pixie:

$ bloaty pixie/pixie-vm -n 5
VM SIZE FILE SIZE
-------------- --------------
57.5% 4.39Mi .text 4.39Mi 44.7%
33.7% 2.58Mi .data 2.58Mi 26.3%
0.0% 0 .symtab 1.31Mi 13.4%
0.0% 0 .strtab 978Ki 9.7%
8.8% 688Ki [Other] 595Ki 5.9%
0.0% 8 [None] 0 0.0%
100.0% 7.64Mi TOTAL 9.82Mi 100.0%

In this case, neither binary had debug info. Pixie does appear to have a symbol table though, which LuaJIT has mostly stripped.

In general, I think "VM size" is the best general number to cite when talking about binary size, since it avoids penalizing binaries for keeping around debug info or symbol tables. Symbol tables and debug info are useful; we don't want people to feel pressured to strip them just to avoid looking bad in conversations about binary size.
How is the cost of copying close to zero or not apparent?
Have started using and has become my daily driver (for notes and lite GTD work). The developers also actively engage with the community over at reddit.com/r/bearapp
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I think you might have more than just issues with the operating system. I run Windows 10 at home and Windows 10 fast track at work and have nearly 0 issues(the ones I do run into are only on the fast track). In addition, none of my coworkers seem to be running into any issues like this.

Before my current computer I was purely a Mac user. These days I run into more issues on my MBP than my SB.
You should understand fiduciary duty vs corporate director responsibility.

Best interest != monetary gain.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-cor...
With all of these note editing applications I wish I could bring my own editor. Vim has ruined me and it can be hard to adopt any of these applications without being able to use vim keybindings.

https://github.com/xolox/vim-notes mostly fits my needs, but if apps like these came with a pluggable editor interface than I imagine adoption would be a lot smoother for a certain subset of users.
Show HN: ENAB, a free alternative to the very popular YNAB (you need a budget)
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This a gun made for cancel.
I worked through many of these when discussed here 7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12022953 ... really enjoyable, great refresher, and learned some things I never knew before.
It's been tried with magazines, e.g. Texture. My library lets me read some magazines through Zinio. So forms of such services exist but they're pretty niche.
> the fact that an estimated 3 million people have access to them with nothing worth mentioning in the form of access control should give you serious pause. The 1% are real, they are just not all billionaires.

Ok... there are probably far, far worse hidden scandals in terms of access control/data security in the US government. I don't see your point. I don't think that's the point anyone was trying to make. It's bad, for sure, but it doesn't warrant leaking all of the documents.

>while others out there risk their life to produce the documents that can bring about actual change.

What in the diplomatic cables brought, or could have brought, actual change?

NSA surveillance leaks could (and, to a small extent, did) bring about actual change. The cables accomplished nothing positive for anyone.
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Nevertheless, such people exist.
I'm saying that based on https://9to5google.com/2016/12/17/google-contributor-in-its-....

I do agree they didn't do a great job of communicating this to the existing users. The transition could've been smoother.
Just want to go on-record as saying I stridently disagree.

There are too many rich text formats. Many are undocumented, proprietary, or otherwise not well-supported. They're hard to revision control, which means harder to sync across computers and among groups of people.

The hardest thing about this project, which I love, is going to be saying "no" to almost every single feature request people propose. I'll be interested to see how well the authors can hold the line.

I'm also very interested in the software development methodology the authors use. If they're seriously about longevity, they'd be smart to take as few dependencies on external libraries/systems as possible and use clean, layered architecture. I'd probably do the lowest levels (the sync and file storage, etc) in close to pure C and put a graphical front-end on top of it, similar to what Netflix does with their high-performance media libraries (streaming and decode) to share code across iOS and Android (via NDK). You want something super-portable that's easy to slap a new front-end on in 10-15 years when things have changed, which IMO pretty much rules out any language except C and maybe Java or .NET.
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>Let's not forget that people have left 4chan because they didn't consider it nearly free enough.

People come and go from 4chan constantly, yet it remains. I've posted there since it was launched in 2004 and seen many different waves of new users in that time. The moderators have always held a strict line of no illegal pornography, but essentially anything else is allowed. There's really no other large internet community that is so laissez faire in it's limitations on free speech.
If the EU is a voluntary union, then how come it's members are democracies, yet almost every vote about joining the EU went the same way. Some examples:

1) Brexit (obviously)

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Ukraine%E2%80%93European...

3) OXI - Greek referendum on whether to accept EU authority over their financial system

4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_r...

5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_euro_referendum,_2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_euro_referendum,_2003

It's not that they never won any referenda, but if anything has been made blatantly clear it's that EU constituencies do not want most of the EU. They want the Euro, Free trade and ... that's it. The EU most certainly does not have the consent of the governed.

They do not want the EU controlling local economies. They do not want the ECB. They do not want the EC as a local regulator. They do not want the EU to control the borders. They do not ... etc.

Recently the EU declared that anyone who has the right to exercise any protected job anywhere in the EU, has that right everywhere in the EU. That means doctors, accountants, ... This has got to be the stupidest move yet. The upper middle class is the center of support for the EU and this decision might decimate their incomes. Whether it will or not is even not that relevant, merely the fear of it will massively erode whatever support is left after the monumental immigration fuckups, the (financial, and real) devastation of southern Europe (now Italy has > 25% youth unemployment too, hell it's approaching 50% in some parts of southern Italy)

Furthermore, your claims are inaccurate. The EU parliament has no power. Power exists within the European Commission, and the trade organisations. The EC has the power to unilaterally impose laws on the member countries (as was demonstrated with Greece and more generally southern Europe or the so-called PIGS). There are very few things that are beyond the reach of the EC.

The EU has been an unmitigated disaster for normal people in the EU. That is the perception, and, frankly, it's accurate. Looking at how the EC operates, that is neither an accident nor beyond their scope.
> if Obama thought it was a moral good to have this person avoid a prison sentence

What if he thought it was good to avoid too long of a sentence? One possible interpretation is that he wanted punishment because it was against the law and as a deterrence, but didn't want to be too harsh. Sentencing isn't within his control, but commuting a sentence is.

> If commuting someone sends a message, the delay sends a message too.

Sure, everything sends a message, but not every message is intentional. It's undisputable that these actions send messages, but impossible to know for sure what the reasoning was and what messages were intentional and what were byproducts. The traditional time for a president to commute and pardon is at the end of their presidency, so reading a purposeful message into the delay may or may not be useful.
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Hi. I'm Gabe Newell. AMA
Interesting, I never knew there was a word for this. I get the "plunging into a bottomless pit" version myself.
Maybe a lot would it turn it off, but its better than the current situation because everyone would know exactly what they're getting themselves into. Most importantly, the people who are most at risk would get a chance to understand the issue and leave it on for their protection.
It's a good point. An all you can eat Comic reader is somewhat niche, but I wonder if news isn't a more mainstream market.

Currently, Brave's wallet tries to "boil the ocean", but a more focused vertical seems more tractable.
Ah but technology, specifically the technological process may make tools of us yet.

Heidegger's question concerning technology is essential reading, but his basic argument is the technological process subordinates all others to be ends to itself. Notice how people don't so much adapt technology to their needs as adjust their needs to the available technology.
Google and Facebook had far better ways to affect change (by using site speed/weight to factor heavily into rankings).
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I used to think that, but now I make $500k and I think you could convince me to work on something I like slightly less well for $700k. Once I achieve financial independence, it will be different, but until then, changes that significantly impact the distance to that goal are motivating.

The interesting thing though is that you wouldn't really want to entice me that way, because I'd guess you'd get a worse product out of me. So there are different types of motivation that are important. The motivation to make a choice, versus the motivation to work hard on a choice.
Time to port the Ask Toolbar to Brave

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A really good book about this is "Code Name Ginger" which is not the blind glorification that such books can be.

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Ginger-Behind-Segway/dp/157...
I don't think it's as black and white as that. Maybe the NSA spying on some overseas entities isn't strictly illegal. But to understand the bigger picture of their all-encompassing reach and sheer pervasiveness better emphasises their wrongdoings on US soil because it helps explain why the NSA's general mentalities of 'we have the right to collect ALL of the information' and 'we are above the law' exist.

Am I saying I think it's outright justified? No, because I'm honestly not sure. I am however sure that it's not as black and white as 'legal' vs 'illegal' when it comes to whistleblowing because the extra infromation helps us establish a context and understand a sense of scale of the wrongdoing, for example.

edit: Here's an example: It's probably not illegal that the 'official' estimates of civilian deaths in the Iraq war were likely far lower than the reality. Assume for the sake of discussion that this was intentional. Having a better understanding the more realistic magnitude of civilian deaths helps the public understand the realities of such wars and helps them make more informed decisions on whether they're comfortable with the actions of their government. It changes the context of the Iraq war and may go from 'we were justified in doing it' to 'it wasn't worth it' for some of the voting public.
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Hey, I admire your hustle. I'm not sure if I can offer you exactly what you're looking for, but feel free to submit a pull request to any of the Standard Notes projects[1]. The code is pretty simple so it might be a good way to learn. Even if your code is initially bad, you'll learn just as well from rejected pull requests :)

[1] https://github.com/standardnotes
> Speaking realistically, investing your personal data in this project is currently a much greater risk than using Evernote.

I fail to see any risk in investing your personal data in this project. According to the website you can simply output your data to a text file:

- [..]
- exporting all data as a human readable file
- [..]

(I have no stake in this app, but personally use vimwiki and thus have all my notes in markdown text files anyway)
> I know nothing of the signal protocol, but whether the server can tell the message is garbage depends on what the receiver client tells the server.

You're forgetting that the server is the one telling the sender what the new key is. If the key is under the control of the attacker/server, they can read the message and determine if it's garbage or not.
Run through the document; let me know how well it works :)
With freelancers you can just stop paying them after day 1 if they don't and try another. In some verticals of software development there is a ton of supply.
I think the "Data Scientist" job title is overloaded–I see several clusters of skills being useful, and in my ideal world they would have similar but slightly different job titles:

–Medium Stats/ML, medium Engineering ("Data Scientist" or "Data Engineer")

–High Engineering on very large datasets, low/medium Stats/ML ("Data Engineer" or "Backend Engineer")

–High Analysis, medium Stats/ML, low Engineering ("Analyst")

–High traditional Stats, High Analysis, low ML/Engineering ("Statistician")

–High ML, medium Stats, medium Analysis ("Data Scientist")

–High ML, medium Engineering ("Machine Learning Engineer")
I typed "collateral murder incident" into google and it returned the exact Wikipedia page that pvg told you it would return.

Further, when I type "Collateral Murder" into the Wikipedia search, it brings me directly to the page about the airstrike that pvg has repeatedly referenced, anchored at the section about the video.

Just what are you trying to pull here?

which does include a Wikipedia page, but it's not one
that has been referenced in this discussion.

It has been referenced multiple times in this thread by pvg. For someone who purportedly puts so much stock in honesty, this is incredibly dishonest of you.
Sure they are. Some of the denser fluid is above the average level of the surface, and gravity pulls it back down again. That's what makes the wave.
Can I save notes on my device while in airplane mode and then have them sync when I have a connection again?

I don't always have an internet connection when I want to make a note or write something.
Neither my wife's parents nor mine are involved in our lives, and I can say it makes a huge difference - our friends whose parents are involved with the grandchildren have it much easier. Being an island is very, very difficult.
You could check out Typora: https://typora.io
If one in five people hears flashes of lights, I'd expect one in five writers to use such words, to describe evocatively some scene with that in it; I'd expect others to think it's some metaphor, and I'd expect a few sound-words to make it into the language of describing flashes of lights. so, are there any? stars twinkle - but they don't "sizzle" or "crackle". a shooting star or a far-off flare does not "sigh" or "whistle" or click or any other sound word. Can anyone think of a single common, and clear example in the language?

If not - why not?

I've used lots of words to describe lights (shimmer, twinkle, etc) not one of which happened to be introduced by one or more writers using sound-words evocatively. We could say "I saw a flare pop in the distance" - but we don't. Why didn't these 20% of writers make some sort of mark on the language like that? (with everyone else not realizing it wasn't supposed to be a metaphor?)
There's similar support in org-mode, in case you are interested in Emacs or use another platform:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-velocity.html
"Want to cure polio, go to Mars, put LED lighting in every home in Africa, fund research into fusion reactors, build flying cars, or push VR into the mainstream? You'd better have some cash."

That might have been more accurately stated as:

"Want to hire people to cure polio, go to Mars, put LED lighting in every home in Africa, fund research into fusion reactors, build flying cars, or push VR into the mainstream? You'd better have some cash."

It's rarely the people with the big money that are doing these things, they're just hiring people and having influence on direction. Sure, they might get credit for being a "visionary" or "innovator", but the people doing the real work rarely make the big bucks (or get much credit, unless they're very lucky).

But, in fact, the very people with lots of money who are influencing these developments are themselves influenced: often by people with not nearly as much money -- such as relatively poor authors, or other "real" visionaries.

So you could also say something like: "Want to have some really significant influence on the world? Write a book." It doesn't take a lot of money, and it's not certain that you will be influential, but if you have some really great ideas you might stand more of a chance of changing the world by writing than by trying to compete with the likes of Gates or Musk for the really big bucks.

Of course, lots of other cultural artifacts have also been hugely influential. How much of our modern world has been influenced by Star Wars or Star Trek, or by mathematics -- which really makes all those Mars journeys possible in the first place. How many people have been influenced and inspired by music? All of the arts really feed in to and greatly influence each other.

So there are plenty of ways to influence and change the world apart from being rich -- and many of them are even more effective, as these other means could influence many generations of people -- poor, rich, and otherwise.
I remember a few years back after I got my first decent Android phone looking at "top 10" lists of the best apps out there.

One of those apps was Lumosity, and I installed it. The first step was setting up an account. I promptly uninstalled the app, and to this day, I have no idea whether it is any good.

It felt odd to me that for a game with no multiplayer component would require me to sign up for an account, and I'm not interested in leaderboards or cloud based backup either. I have the same feeling about email clients, especially when Thunderbird exists and is mostly decent.

Giving up an email account for a free "app" (and not a service) continues to feel odd to me. It almost feels wrong to call it "free", especially since it is unclear to me how my email is used.
if you like vim-notes, you should have a look at vimwiki:

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
"Good" and "bad" mean different things at different times to the same company.
Gravity is one of several forces that may act on what's going on, but the cause of the wave is the initial perturbation, which isn't gravity. Put another way, if I have a steady-state hydrostatic system, gravity waves won't just spring into existence. You need that initial push.

In this case, the initial push seems to be wind hitting a mountain and being forced up.
> By whose definition?

By the definition set forth in the law[1][2], but it's not just crimes. There is a list of specifically acceptably things.

1: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-103/pdf/STATUTE-103-Pg...

2: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/2302
It's a bit of a stretch to assume the timing of this massive batch of pardons and commutes was predicated on making her release (which includes a mandatory grace period) line up with that holiday.
Hardware support. I've been lucky in the past but not so on my new machine, where I'm learning that "RX 480 is supported" really means "it'll kind of work, but to get full resolution and and HDMI sound you have to compile you're own bleeding edge kernel.
As a chronically depressed person, I guess I'm in trouble.
In the spirit of Pascal, I apologize in advance for not having a more eloquent, concise reply, though on my part its more exhaustion and laziness rather than lack of time.

People have different definitions of what constitutes torture. There is also a legal definition of torture (which may be vague, but will be determined judicially if it comes to that). By definition, torture is against the law. As people have different definitions of what constitutes torture, some acts will meet the legal definition, while others will not even though they meets the definition held by someone else.

I happen to agree with you that "enhanced interrogation techniques" is a euphemism for torture. By defining certain acts as such, it gives proponents of using such acts a legal basis of arguing that they're not torture, whether it's ultimately justified or not.

Does that make sense? I'm not asking whether or not you agree with the distinction (which would be hard to do as I haven't defined which acts fall under either). I'm just asking whether the argument follows, that you understand why the language matters.

A similar distinction is made for killing in war and murder. Some people believe all killing is wrong and murder. That said, there's a legal distinction between the two. Which term is applied is legally important.
Actually, murder isn't a federal crime.
Maybe space travel's biggest contribution so far is that it somehow helped to keep the cold war from going hot - as a substitute contest for the real war. RIP Gene Cernan.
dude, you rock!

I'm using all the tools built by you.

Please keep that energy.
Maybe it is unfounded, but I was (am) afraid of pulling requests to open source projects. I read all the time how time-consuming is for the developers, so to send poorly coded requests as a junior developer seems kind of abusive to me. Someone will "waste time" reading my request to reject it.

But since you opened that door, I will take a better look and take my chances. Thanks!
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> Speaker Paul D. Ryan called it “outrageous.” “President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won’t be held accountable for their crimes,” he said in a statement.

Didn't GWB pardon Karl Rove for blowing the cover of a CIA agent? I feel like I'm not making that up.
It's troubling that calling for witch hunts and firings over political opinions is okay, but a direct tone is a problem. Maybe our society would be better if that was flipped around.
Cheers for the quick fix, and the explanation. I'm happy to know it was only an aesthetic misstep.