skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If modularity is the main thing your care about, Apple hasn't really catered to that for ages. Changing the SSD and RAM is useful, but most people wouldn't use that. I know I haven't in my last 2 models.

> no huge company, Apple included, is innocent of releasing sub-optimal products

This is usually solved by having competition, but doesn't work if you care about the OS. Same for phones. It's a new-ish problem with no solution so far.
Hey, you should go to https://app.standardnotes.org. Those servers are not meant to be visited. You plug those in into the app.

Edit: I should really set up redirects for those.
sometimes i write python packages to auto populate tex files. like imagine running LDA with 50 topics and showing how each topic (via word cloud) correlates to an outcome variable

then it starts to become a tool :)
I don't know Amazon's solution, but an API Gateway in general helps you abstract public and private APIs from each other. You can change your internal processes without affecting your external APIs, in addition to not having to build authorization, monitoring, etc. into every API separately.
So $19 for a well-executed piece of software makes you sad?
I'd add 0) don't have a shitty code base. Nothing hampers my productivity (and the businesses) like technical debt.
Does this do reminders?
This is an issue you (along with many others) are very passionate about. An earlier comment you made I think describes this particularly eloquently and civilly.

She was always a woman; she just presented as a man for many years. The NYT presented the information quite well when they said, "Ms. Manning was still known as Bradley Manning when she deployed with her unit to Iraq in late 2009."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13422094

You're also very aware that a lot of people are not on the same page with you. Some are trying to figure it out for themselves, some have made up their mind. I think it's commendable that they're willing to do so in a public forum and for the most part civilly, particularly on an issue that has been historically as divisive as this. Let's encourage this discussion in a constructive manner and leave strong, insulting language out of it, regardless of how strongly we may feel about the issue. I completely understand how frustrating it can be when you feel like you're constantly repeating yourself and no one's listening. It would be great if people could be convinced over the course of 30 minutes, but I doubt that's realistically going to happen.
There are standards for calendar. iCal/CalDAV. Here is a free server [1]. Nextcloud can be hosted via HTTPS, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_and_Contacts_Server
While the right loves WikiLeaks now, that's all because of Assange's more recent tactions that don't involve Manning; at the time, they wanted Manning and Assange treated as enemy combatants, while that's changed for Assange because he has now served their political interests, I don't see any indication that it has for Manning.
First I've heard of Red. Does it implement 'readable' [1] or is it a [parallel school of thought] (can't think of right phrase here but you get what I mean)?

Also has anyone tried to create a 'readable' [1] flavour of Clojure yet? If not, why is that, do lispers consider all the parens to really not be a barrier?

[1] http://readable.sourceforge.net/
Bitbucket has been taken down but someone made a torrent/magnet of opera12v15presto.tar.gz,

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C34ZPHM4A27XDGR5QYMZHPIBNYJ5A6EAC34ZPHM4A27XDGR5QYMZHPIBNYJ5A6EA
You can access the app without sign up here: https://app.standardnotes.org.
It would be nice (and I'm looking for somewhere to move all my Flickr photos), but it massively increases the resources required at the back end. Storing a lifetime's worth of typed text is maybe tens or hundreds of megabytes. Many people will generate that much data as photos in an afternoon.
Population mobility has decreased over the past decades, the median american lives 18 miles from their mother, and only 20% of Americans live more than a couple hours away from their parents. (NYT Upshot 12/23/15).

Perhaps the fact that 64% of the women were dealing with unemployment suggests a different stressor.
I used to use pirated PS as a teenager, and switched to Gimp later on. My experience has consistently been: for basic selection masking, color changes, and minor adjustments(i.e. things you would typically do to photos), they're equivalents. For graphic design, Gimp lacks in certain features that add flexibility; the text tool is not as robust, and there isn't a direct equivalent to effects layers. The UI of Gimp tends to have more "irritating adjustment" involved and forces more early commitment. And PS has a much deeper set of content creation options - especially so in the later versions, which I've read about but haven't used.

I'm interested in learning Krita next. Krita is more explicitly an creation app but it also bleeds into other spaces in its new versions as it accumulates more features. It's gained animation tools, and its interface more closely resembles the classic PS look. Krita has a lot of velocity which makes me think it may surpass Gimp as an all-rounder in time.
In the last 4 years of Obama presidency the clout America had abroad has considerably reduced. Especially after the whistle blowing incident , the ruling dispensation came across as corrupt and unethical. The bargaining power was compromised greatly because of this and the whole world now knows about spying , prism , NSA etc. A Greek philosopher Diogenes I think it was or Socrates dont remember had said this awesome quote , " Pardoning treason will lead to self destruction" . This decision seems to have a strong left liberal bias unfortunately
I'm also yet to find the perfect photos app. It needs to have:

- self hosted front end with a simple management interface for organising photos into albums, uploading, setting permissions
- simple security so you can share only with the people you want to share with, especially simple for older relatives
- backend storage should be any cloud hosting system such as on AWS S3, but the data shouldn't be accessible to any one publicly, except via the application, and ideally encrypted at rest.
This looks great! I really like the whole idea and you just gained an user.
>Naturally, the answer's no - there's plenty of material the public doesn't need to know about

This can't be reconciled with saying Manning's actions were justified without post-hoc rationalizing.

>Do I still consider her a whistleblower? Yes

Then clearly the meaning of words mean nothing to you. Which is fair, a lot of that going around lately.
I appreciate many of your points but this:

> No one has the actual Pentagon Papers outside of very specific news agencies

is patently false, they're available in full from the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers

There are very good arguments made elsewhere in this thread about releasing in full vs. releasing to a group that has the ability and willingness to appropriately vet documents before release. Certainly Wikileaks' blanket release caused a large amount of unnecessary controversy that could have been strategically avoided, and would have served as less distraction from the issues presented in them.
Did YC get DMCA too? because this story vanished from /news (checked all 11 pages)
This is a non starter if the new employee salary + recruiting costs > existing employee salary + raise.

Recruiting costs are typically worth several years of 10%+ raises.
I've been looking for stuff like this - thanks.

I'm trying to start a career as a BA and expect that it will be handy to know SQL, which is fine, but I haven't been able to find anything out there that simulate the kind of scenarios and tasks SQL would be used in. I suppose your site is a step closer to that.
Webpack 2 is finally here
Interesting idea, but i'm not sure how practical it is, especially since it's FM only. Won't affect you if you're listening to CDs, mp3s, etc.

I think the biggest problem emergency vehicles face is people talking on mobile phones and not paying attention to their mirrors.
Some serious amnesia in this thread. But the reaction is all too common, people who just go "we knew all of that already" and switch back to sports while others out there risk their life to produce the documents that can bring about actual change.

Even if you don't care for the content of the cables, 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.
> raise of 2-3% at 12 months

Ah, I missed that was delayed.
Could you please elaborate on this? I recently had dinner with a friend in intelligence, who was trying to convince me that Snowden was in bed with Russia from the get-go, and that the 90% of the leak had nothing to do with privacy concerns.

I took his opinions with a grain of salt given his background, but also couldn't refute due to being relatively unfamiliar with the Snowden saga.
You don't have to speculate, you can just read the wikipedia page.

Which page are you referring to? Could you please provide a link?

a reporter for the Washington Post was able to reconstruct the
incident and write a book about it without seeing the video.

Is that not worrying though: a journalist writing an article, whilst ignoring a reputable source? If there is a verifiable video, shouldn't the journalist view the video (and decide whether it's verifiable or not), and include that in the article? To deliberately ignore a significant piece of evidence is a significant editorial decision.
That's a partial answer to only one question which, if a quick google search is correct, ignores all but the easiest problem: BIP38 appears to offer a way to backup a primary key using a printout and a memorized passphrase. That doesn't answer what happens if they lose one of those two things, much less what happens if someone malicious gets either the primary or the backup.

Remember that I didn't say your favorite toy sucks, only that not everyone else has your level of appreciation for it. Most people aren't going to put serious amounts of money into something which they don't trust and the status quo works fairly well for the average person: increasingly few people carry significant amounts of cash, most people use bank accounts and credit cards, etc. which means that the maximum cost is usually either capped or otherwise (e.g. you lose your ATM card but the recovery cost is only the time it takes to go to the bank with photo ID).

Bitcoin can do interesting things but getting non-aficionados to use it will depend on getting to a comparable degree of confidence, especially since most people don't share the [over-]confidence that the typical Bitcoin advocate has regarding their personal info-sec footing.
Most of the French folks I meet say that French employment law is the number 1 reason why startups can't work terribly well in France. As well as all of the benefits you listed, there are employee protections that make it very difficult to get rid of staff if things start to go wrong. Not being French, I don't know the details, but it's supposed to be much easier to run a startup in Germany or the UK. They both have their own employee protection but it looks a bit more evened out.
Fantastic read.
> Putting aside my dislike for considering horses as tools

Well, I labeled humans as tools as well, so I'm not treating horses any differently in that respect than I am people, so I think you inferred a slightly different connotation for tool than I meant. Interestingly, the ability to see horses as non-tools is possible largely because their usefulness as a tool was surpassed by other technology. The same with cats and dogs.

> You could say that the majority of humans are just seen as 'tools' to the people in power that are driven by profit.

Yes, that is one aspect of the current system. The main difference is that it's not the only aspect, as it was for significant periods of history for significant portions of the world.

> If you think this is far fetched, look at what's happening in places like Flint, Michigan. People were drinking poisoned water for decades, and those in charge knew about it.

This is only a counter-example if the problem comes out, everyone wants a change, and nothing happens, and then only somewhat, depending on how much people actually care. I'm not arguing that the world has magically eradicated corruption, negligence and shortsightedness, but I do believe that once exposed the public then gets to steer the response if they care enough. Special interests will still have a disproportionate amount of influence, but when the populace cares enough, that disproportionate influence is a drop in the bucket compared to the influence of an incited populace.
The Man in the Zebra Suit Knows the Secret of the Stripes
For ones like me that never heard about AppImage before (shame on me), you just need to "chmod a+x file.AppImage", then execute as a normal (./) [0].

[0] http://appimage.org/
Writing complete non-ambiguous specs looks absolutely equivalent to writing code.
The answer is - it's sorta comparing apples and oranges - libraries, or general C++ inlining cruft can inflate the binary size a lot indeed.

A much fairer comparison is to compare source side by side. Chromium source is about 4x larger than operas, when not counting any 3rd party dependencies.

Or even better, compile times. Chromium build (or firefox) is half a day job on mid-range laptop (especially with 4/8G memory).

Opera builds in about 20 minutes. I was also pleasently surprised the codebase is not particularly bitrotten, and both VS2015 and modern gcc could cope with it.
He didn't release details. He lied to investigators to deflect their attention from the real leaker. Sort of like how Martha Stewart was convicted of making false statements to Federal agents.
I don't think it does yet. But there's an extension system built for Standard Notes so 3rd party can add.
You would have been better of talking to them, asking for more of a raise.

I got 60k raise over 2 years because I pushed for it.
The free market hypothesis is that these companies will ultimately be unable to compete with companies that preserve that value.

What has yet to percolate into the consciousness of a lot of managers is that "web delivered" products are essentially constantly drawing on the engineers who keep them running and available. When they do, they will be able to more accurately assess revenue at risk based on personnel and losing valuable people will become a good reason to let a manager go.
After the election, Silver said something to the effect of this. That given the polling data available, there is no way anyone could have favored Trump. Clinton was leading by a large amount in a large percentage of polls. You would have to apply some seriously creative statistics to make a model that favored Trump.

Systemic polling error is a thing that happens. It's happened in previous elections. The polls are much more accurate than chance, but they aren't infallible. Particularly in this election, it's difficult to predict voter turnout from polls.

538 was one of the only models that took that into account. And as far as I know, they gave better odds to Trump than everyone else that tried to predict the election with statistical methods. Certainly they have a better track record than political pundits, which have never been better than chance.
Bear App (http://www.bear-writer.com) is pretty neat too - it has Markdown support and uses iCloud Sync, which is probably the best part of Apple's Notes app.
I can't tell for others but it'll absolutely motivate me to be able to buy my own plane or yacht.
What's the difference between Simplenote or notational velocity?
This is incredible. I was going to pay a developer to create something like this because I wanted its exact features so badly. A note-taking system that works cross platform with local-encryption. I'm too happy right now!
Lots of people "do backups", not many have a "disaster recovery plan" and very few have ever practised their disaster recovery plan.

Years ago we had an intern for a time, and he set up our backup scripts on production servers. He left after a time, we deleted his user, and went on our merry way. Months later, we discover the backups had been running under his user account, so they hadn't been running at all since he left. A moment of "too busy" led to a week of very, very busy.
Guess what? Ms. Manning doesn't get to dictate how the English language works.

"They" works just as well for her as it does for me or you. If Chelsea doesn't like it, well, she can take it up with the dictionary. A person can express a preference but their choice (oops, I used "they" again! be sure to downvote!) has no bearing on my choice of words.
I hate the stupidly gratuitous use of vectors in specific syntactic roles like the denotation of variable bindings.

That applies regardless of how they are spelled, be it [...] or #(...).
The fact that the US murdered innocent civilians was highly embarrassing and hurt the interests of the US, not the fact that Manning leaked that information itself. Punish the murderers, not the messengers. The only people were actually harmed were the innocent children and journalists on the receiving end of US machine guns.
For note taking and simple task management, I have cycled through pen and paper, plain text files, taskwarrior [1], hnb [2], ToDoList[3] et cetera. Always looking for the perfect solution. I think it doesn't exist as a standalone environment, but as a combination of (synced) app and some pen and paper.

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/

[2] https://linux.die.net/man/1/hnb

[3] http://abstractspoon.weebly.com/
I agree, and I live in the US. I couldn't care less about seeing the original URL and have never run into a broken page.
Also be sure to switch it off of "plain text file" or it'll save as file.csv.txt (though if you have 'hide common file extensions' off you'd've noticed this in your file browser)

iirc notepad auto prepends .txt anyways if that value isn't changed.
Because a "more, more, more" attitude without a real use-case is just dreaming. If you don't understand compromise, this isn't a realistic argument - it's making shit up.

What price are we talking about for such a machine? $15,000+? Because it's likely you'd need new tooling for a bigger unibody, and that's just the start.

And it isn't like there's no alternatives, like just using a desktop, or connecting to a more powerful server from a less powerful laptop to do work.
The diaeresis and the umlaut both are two dots; but are different. The diaeresis indicates hiatus -- a pause between vowels, resulting in two syllables where we might otherwise be inclined to use one. This is the classical (and rare) use of this marker in English.
I think GP's point is that although it's obviously sloppy, it's also sadly common.

Because sure, it's basic. To someone who knows that it's basic.
Unlikely, given you just commented on it. It may have received flags from users, which will cause it to go down in the rankings, even prior to receiving a '[flagged]' tag.

As of this comment, it's ranked 308, on page 11:

https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=11
In a trustless decentralized world (ie the web) more speed means less security. There is definitely an equilibrium between centralized and decentralized systems.

I realize I'm starting to sound like a crackpot so I'll just recommend the writings of a more well-respected crackpot Dee Hock (founder of Visa Inc.)

https://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/ChaordicOrg.pdf
What's the best format to distribute Linux apps?
This is a really cool project. I love the spirit of this. I would also mention nvALT has a similar philosophy in terms of file format and supports Markdown and fast searching of notes. Sadly it is closed source and Mac only so it does not have the same overall philosophy (despite the note output being very portable).

I feel this will work for a lot of people, especially less technical users. I have settled on Org and or Markdown, to Dropbox if required sync. Emacs and or any other text editor will just works. That said just taking notes in a consistent place and in a consistent format gets you 80% of the way there. Grep and find still work. I almost always end up back there :)

Org is its own little world, but I know that I can always edit an Org file on any computer with my preferred editor.

I like this trend of back to basics in computing (even if it is running in a web browser on my desktop), its goals are nice.

edit:nvalt is open source. Mac only and as others pointed out not updated too regular but I know people who love it.
Given how Swedish ministers dirtied their hands when the MPAA wanted them to interfere in Pirate Bay investigations... I will require proof they WOULD NOT say "how high?" if the Dept of Justice of the USA asked them to jump.
Hows the step into BA going for ya? What kind of things besides SQL do you have to learn?
I don't think that's what happened in this case.

They removed an illegal (that's the key word) in-law unit, making the unit a single family home.

That single family home was no longer under the rent control laws, enabling the owner to jack up the rent.

If they had gone by the book, they would have just had to pay the tenant 9.5k to go away, which is what (in retrospect) the owner should have done.

400k seems egregiously high, and designed to pander to populist opinion rather than any reasonable interpretation of the law.
The article says version 2.2. Is the headline wrong, or is there some kind of weird back story in which versions 2.0 and 2.1 met some strange fate preventing them from being "officially released"?
> This can't be reconciled with saying Manning's actions were justified without post-hoc rationalizing.

> Then clearly the meaning of words mean nothing to you.

I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the post-hoc fallacy.

If you want to get strict about definitions, look up "whistleblower." You'll find it covers anyone who acts as an informant to reveal something illicit within an organization. For someone like yourself who seems to be eager to find a reason to dislike Chelsea Manning: yes, there's such a thing as an irresponsible whistleblower.
Manning intended to remain anonymous. Snowden always intended to take personal public responsibility for his whistleblowing.

They did it different, different tools for different purposes. Comparing them like for like is not a good comparison.
Any idea why he wouldn't make it effective immediately?
It's actually hard to track down exactly when these images are cached. I don't really trust MailChimp to be truthful about this but I also can't find any specific from Google themselves about whether that caching happens when their SMTP receives the email or when the user actually opens the message.

Since Google's goal with this was clearly to defeat tracking, I would strongly expect the former, but I can't back this up.
Exactly.

And this doubling down that they're doing is only burying them further.
You have it backwards. I have this account because HN is not very open to political discourse unless you toe a very specific line. The Overton Window around here is very small.
There is actual a fair amount of coordination in this logging system -- with the combination of redirects and gossip to handle them -- but it does seem to be the right kind of coordination.
Note that you can export a single Paper doc, or all the Paper docs you've created:

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9212
The solution is easy, make a real app.
Do they give away all their money to charity?
Not that I know if it helps, since you seem predisposed to Clojure, but CHICKEN Scheme on a Pi also works quite well. We even have direct bindings to GPIO and the like, since someone has gone ahead and packaged a library that speaks to the GPIO through the wiringPi project (http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/raspberry-pi-gpio).