skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The story of him dissolving the Order of the Star is marvelous:

http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/about-krishnamurti/dissolution-...

"The Order of the Star in the East was founded in 1911 to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher. Krishnamurti was made Head of the Order. On August 3, 1929, the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order before 3000 members."

""I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.""

His speech was filmed and available to everybody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYnxRYAHmEs&t=11s
In what way is most of his money spent on Mars? Most of his money seems to go to LEO cargo launch tech, and solar panels, batteries, and the cars that use them to charge.
My basic advice from practicing architecture is to consider behaviors indicating a lack of trust a red flag when talking to potential clients.

At best, it's a sign that the potential client is out of their depth in terms of experience dealing with professional services. That is to say that good potential clients for professional services tend to have used similar services before. Potential clients with unrealistic expectations who become actual clients make their unrealistic expectations your problem.

At worst, and perhaps more typically, people tend to project their character onto other people. People with less inhibition to not pay/deliver tend to act as if I am going to rip them off. A person who fundamentally views business as the process of extracting as much as possible from everyone is going to approach me as if I held the same view of misaligned interests.

After many years I developed a simple test. I require a retainer paid upfront and applied against final invoice. Logically, a willingness to write checks to me is a premise of the agreement for services. The ability to write a non-bouncing check for my services is also part of the deal. And a potential client who balks at writing a check upfront indicates a lack of trust that over the long haul may not be worth trying to overcome.

Good luck.
Love that xkcd, but I found the Maclaurin "trick" to be extremely common-sensical... If you're already finding the area of infinitely many small boxes under a curve then Taylor series don't seem that weird. Once you are convinced that Taylor series are O.K. then this proof is really cool. I also think it's weird to show high-schoolers this, as about 1% of high school seniors have the mathematical knowledge needed to grok this level of math.

Anyways - people have differing levels of magic tolerance, and some people don't have a lot of background in calc, so I don't blame them for looking for other explanations.
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There isn't a good solution to this problem. And it's a problem Americans often have a very hard time understanding due to cultural differences.[1] But the world does step in occasionally to stop one ethnicity from beating up another even within the same country. NATO did so in Yugoslavia.

But it's also used as an excuse for expansionism. The build up to WW2 was Germany doing this exact thing.

But post WWII European history also has a lot of ethnic regrouping. All Germans were put back inside Germany. Borders are drawn to group people. Mixed ethnic nations broke apart into single ethnic countries.

This question is at the heart of the blood bath in twenty century Europe.

[1]- Americans treat ethnicity very differently than most cultures since we have such diverse ethnicities with no little to no cultural heritage leftover. America entirely decouples ethnicity and nationality. So it seems strange that it's such an important force in other countries.
You've posted plenty of uncivil comments to HN and we've given you plenty of warnings. If you continue to do this we are going to ban you.
Thanks! Considering that this seems to be a popular question, maybe it makes sense to state this more clearly on the site.
i'm not the person who posted the original message.
No, it turned into Hangouts, which is alive and kicking, specially for companies using Google Apps.
The developer of Pry-Fi started it as a proof of concept. He didn't have the time to continue developing it though, but said he might revisit it at some point.
Depends what the teachings are about.
Unfortunately, with all of the major problems in the world today, the US is too much to blame to be able to solve them. We were seen as a neutral force around much of the world in the post-colonial era (we were a colony who threw off our empire, as much of the world was doing in the 1950s through 1970s -- not coincidentally the apex of American power). But as we've operated the world, we made mistakes, and we're having to deal with those now.

Look at all the big problems: global warming (we're the major cause and we're so addicted to oil that it ain't gonna change), Islamist terror (so we inherited the modern conflict through Sykes-Picot, but we escalated it enough that it's our problem now), North Korea (we caused it but China has to live with it), and so on.

China is in a MUCH better position to address all of these. Their economy is just now industrializing heavily, and they're doing it with the focus of leading a new global clean energy revolution because they have determined that it is the only way China can obtain widespread prosperity. Sea level rise will hurt China as much as anyone, and their pollution levels are unacceptably high. Their peak industrial scale is 3-5x that of the United States, and their manufacturing capacity will never be challenged given the population difference.

They also don't have the baggage that we do in the middle east -- America and the Christian west are collectively referred to as "Crusaders", even by liberal Jews in Israel. In many minds, we're just the latest in an ugly, 1200 year long procession of white people who come in and wage wars of conquest to distract from the problems at home (the early crusades were a way for the European nobility to keep their 3rd and 4th sons occupied / killed lest they cause a succession crisis). Sure, they're mixed up with the Uighirs, but honestly they don't oppress the Uighirs any more than they oppress similar opposition groups. And the key here is that China only does it within their borders.

And Korea... yeah, China really doesn't want a small-scale nuclear war happening on its border. Any radioactive fallout would likely destroy China's economy for a decade or more -- considering the engines of China's economic might are mostly on the eastern coast of the country. So China is willing to tolerate almost any level of bad behavior by the Kim family. Best case scenario for North Korea is a power vacuum caused by the death of a Kim where the Chinese military comes in and runs peacekeeping and propaganda with an iron fist. Very few countries know how to urbanize farmland filled with illiterate farmers. China is one of them.
According to this, the law is not enforced: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Amtrak-has-priority-ov...
> someone with a little effort could hack my phone and cause it to malfunction in various ways

Even with the best of intents, the actual makers of said phone (and apps) sometimes end up causing it to malfunction in various ways... Let that sink in for a minute.

Admittedly, bio-implants would probably fall under much higher reliability standards than mere external electronics, including user control of the hardware and software.

But things like infrastructure (e.g. networks), everything "ambient" to the end device that's required for a true AR paradigm to exist, cannot be accelerated by wishful thinking (e.g. bandwidth, business model of currently leading companies, etc.)

While it's crucial that we begin these ethical debates early on, preferably before it actually happens let alone scales, I think we're still a decently big "last-mile"away from an actual consumer-tsunami the likes of PCs or smartphones. Thinking 5 years for early adopter/high end devices, twice that for infra to follow and enable consumer-grade scaling.

By that time, 2020-25-ish, we should have some medically-informed (in physical expertise and centennial empirical experience) ethically-decent legal/engineering framework to work with when it comes to intrusive implants.

My personal guess is that we'll limit those to tiny <1mm devices that act as mere interfaces with external nodes.
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It's unfortunate because Hangouts is still really awesome. It works really well for video chat (including group chat), but more importantly it works great with multiple devices. I can get a message on my phone, laptop or PC, and reply anywhere, with the conversation and notifications synchronized. I nearly always have my phone with me, but it's really nice to be able to just send someone a link from my PC, for example.

It looks like Telegram has multi-device support, but then this kind of thing scares me:

> Q: How are you going to make money out of this?

> We believe in fast and secure messaging that is also 100% free.

> Pavel Durov, who shares our vision, supplied Telegram with a generous donation, so we have quite enough money for the time being. If Telegram runs out, we will introduce non-essential paid options to support the infrastructure and finance developer salaries. But making profits will never be a goal for Telegram.

That's not very compelling in terms of investing my effort to switch.
This reminds me of the clothing made out of flour sacks in the Great Depression[0].

[0] https://www.littlethings.com/flour-sack-dresses/
Why is that a puritanical view?

Clerics in Western religions (Z, J, C, I) (claimed to) sit on a privileged spiritual perch and certainly in Christianity are subject to the "original" 'beam/mote' admonishment.

So yes, if your neighbor is an adulterer, it may be "puritanical" to get on a high horse, but if your confessor is a wolf in sheep's clothing, that is a different story.
Was some there specific language in Sicily or other Italian Jewish communities, like Ladino in Spain?
These examples just show that 100% tolerance, or tolerance of all ideas, equally, is a fairly tale proposition, not practical, and not conducive to well-functioning society. I like the concept of fuzzy-tolerance: try to understand where the accoster is coming from. Maybe some of his ideas have merit, while clearly others do not. Society should be in a constant tug-of-war, or re-negotiation, between tolerance of some ideas and intolerance of other ideas. The same thing happens, on a smaller scale, in your own mind.
>You avoid paying $10 every month to a hosting provider I guess, but is that what your work is worth?

Great question, I've been asked that before and here's the closest thing I can get to what I think is a fair answer:

The work? No. It may be worth less, it may be worth more to others, to me it's definitely worth more.

But

My time, on the other hand? By publishing on Medium I'm saving a lot of time I otherwise wouldn't get back from self-hosting. Let me unpack that a bit, maybe you can provide some insight because I'd like to hear some perspectives on this I hadn't previously considered.

Keep in mind, I'm a SysAdmin during the day for a company that hosts many client sites so this is a lot of stuff I do 9-5, so I really don't want to do it after 5 if I can get out of it.

Self-hosting for me means the following:

* Spinning up a DO droplet (or Linode or whatever cloud provider you pick) and all of the ancillaries like domain, email etc

* Installing and configuring the platform (I went from WordPress to Ghost, back to WordPress)

* Making sure my installation is secure, making sure my host node is secure

* Promoting posts, keeping SEO and discoverability up-to-date, keeping my shareable URLs in check, etc.

That's a lot of work to put into self-hosting-and granted a lot of this stuff is "set it and forget it"-but when my last blog got hacked twice in a row despite checking off all the best practices for WP security-I wanted to go somewhere that allowed me to do three things and do them quickly: (1) Start a site (2) Publish posts (3) Promote them as effortlessly as possible.

Medium fit the bill brilliantly. I love their editor, I like the discoverability of other writers through the community, and it's a one-stop-shop between my site and the sports site I write for.

Big wall of text, hope that answers your question, but I'm curious what you think of this take, if you're willing?

postscript: I have recently discovered and managed to get a site up and running via Jekyll+Github pages and there's a very good chance it will become my main platform, I'm still testing out a few aspects but I'm liking what I see so far.
> the problem-space of attempting to make a reasonable UI for GPG has been explored for a long time with no useful results

Has it? Have we ever had even e.g. 2 reasonably skilled design professionals spend a year trying? That would, I suspect, be much less effort than has gone into Signal et al. But still beyond the resources of volunteer-only FOSS, unfortunately.
Resistance is futile, I guess?
I use Aquapel and it works better at low speeds compared to RainX. And honestly it does make me drive faster in the rain (the tires I run also have a very high rating in the wet). In rain and with a little 'speed' (80-140 km/h), I don't even turn on the wipers
I personally encrypt everything before cloud storage. So this doesn't actually concern me.
The only people who would be inconvenienced by it are those who can make money out of it. Anyone who agrees not to use it commercially can still receive it, source included, gratis, when it's ready for release.

If a commercial user likes my software they can pay for it or hire me. (I'm available). Is that too much to ask?
Sounds great :-) Only problem is the "not-so-great" keyboard :-/
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It was like magic. No expensive drugs. No side effects.

I'm surprised and disappointed that none of the doctors I saw recommended it and I only found it by googling my symptoms.

I had a gastroenterologist suggest that I take miralax every day for the rest of my life but he never suggested vitamin or mineral supplements.
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They do work with phones. I have an iPhone with a Lightning-Camera (USB) adapter and use it all the time.
I'm skeptical that shutting off the main spillway was due to concerns about the overall integrity of the dam. I think it was more an attempt to mitigate cost. As soon as emergency was declared and the funding hose turned on they said screw it and turned the main spillway on full blast.
Since 1989, you also don't need copyright notices in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
I was just looking around yesterday for a programmatic way to encrypt/decrypt a file with a USB fob. I used an Aladdin fob a while back for a similar project. The encryption was symmetric but the fob kept the key and it couldn't be exported - so it was safe enough for my application.

Is this Yubikey capable of something similar?
Most maintainers aren't looking for "casual contributors." It's a huge pain in the ass to have someone open a half-baked PR and then never respond to feedback or support questions.
re: Catholic priest vs. others and credibility, this SMBC comic is appropriate:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20110503.gif

In other words, it's one thing when someone is claiming to speak on behalf of a deity; it's another otherwise. To be hypocritical in such a context reflects much more harshly on the priest than it does on, say, the civil rights activist.
Osho - similar to Krishnamurti. Nice, poetic words, reassuring in a time of need, but not practically accessible.
There's such a range of olive oils, but I think it's roughly the same price for a similar quality. It's just kind of hard to find.

This is the one I buy (it's been prime before, looks like right now it's not) so $0.52 an ounce.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Macadamia-Bottles-Cold-Pressed-100/dp...
I think, what most people here are missing in the discussion, is that Elon Musk mainly points out there is a mismatch in INPUT vs OUTPUT bandwidth between a computer and a human.

We only communicate to computer via toch, button clicks, keyboard and mouse. The bandwidth is low here.

However we can already "read" from a computer using vision which is a high bandwidth connection.

If you think about it, from first principles (like Elon Musk often advocates), this gap can probably be solved by a better interface with computers. Thing about a Brain-Computer cable.

Or we could computers learn to recognize human voice, human facial expression etc. That would increase the bandwidth. However it would be a lot cooler to send our "thinking" to a computer. This would allows us to program faster, too lookup wikipedia articles faster etc.

Thats the merger he is pointing to.

I think its a valid point.
There's this very nice guide that works well for Linux machines:

https://github.com/lfit/ssh-gpg-smartcard-config/blob/master...
https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

One of the explicit protocol level trade offs is federation:

> One of the controversial things we did with Signal early on was to build it as an unfederated service. Nothing about any of the protocols we've developed requires centralization; it's entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.
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From my experience the biggest hinder to the future of data science is how crappy it is to learn statistics. And I think this is why a lot of data science courses stop at Z-tests and p values or super basic Bayes theorem. I think mathematicans and statisticians have a lot of work to do to make more advanced parts of the field more accessible, otherwise we will end up with people ignoring important assumptions and using tools like a black box.
So presumably an Android user needs to just disable their wifi until they need it and they prevent most of this tracking?
A picture is worth 1000 words: https://sandrp.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-...

Dirt hillsides are not designed to have 100,000 cubic feet of water rolling down them. They tend to erode extremely quickly and can quickly turn into uncontrolable discharges if the lip erodes.
> First: it needs to be made clearer why anyone would use this rather than Nacl/Sodium.

The advantages are marginal. Negligibly better primitives (Chacha over Salsa, Blake2b over SHA-512), ease of deployment (only one .c and one .h file), and cleaner interface (foolproof functions return void). Oh, and it has an Argon2i implementation that doesn't allocate.

> Second: this statement does not inspire confidence:

Actually, that's kind of intended. When I say "fairly" rigorously tested, I mean users should stay the hell away, at least for now. Right now I need reviews, specific counsel, criticism, possibly even audits. I've went as far as I could on my own.

> If your primitives don't match their test vectors, your tool doesn't work at all

Well of course, but you wouldn't believe how strong the temptation to punt on those test vectors can be. On the other hand, test vectors are surprisingly complete. Almost all of my primitives went from "utterly broken" to "probably perfect" with a few character changes. Heck, those test vectors even let me find a bug in the reference implementation of Argon2i.

---

I'm close to the point where I'd trust this library with my own data. There's a good chance this library is bug free. There's just no way I'd trust it with your data just yet.
Yeah I saw that CNN interview where the girl from Ossetia was telling what actually happened and then got cut off for "technical difficulties" :). Georgia got off easy.

As for Ukraine - yeah Russia occupied Crimea, but it was either that or risk a crack that could disintegrate it entirely. Israel struck first in the 7 day war as well, and good that they did, because otherwise they wouldnt exist. History is full of such examples.
Get a Lightning to Camera (USB) adapter. Works fine here.
I can confirm that the NFC support works (yubikey neo with a nexus 5x) - but very few applications and sites support it.
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Well the linked domain is krishnamurti-teachings.info.
I've read Krishnamurthy and frankly it is hard to tell how much of his output is genuine spiritual insight instead of Theosophic hand-me-down.

One thing is for sure, his images in old age (at least to me) convey a melancholic doubt as opposed to the expected beatific enlightened soul. YMMV.
This sounds like a "drop your pants and surrender already" post.

You could add at least some constructive advice or strategy. And using...

a) closed platforms (silos) that

b) run on closed-source code that's

c) produced by companies that are PRISM partners

...is not in the interest of anybody who values real privacy and requires a solid basis for freedom of speech and democracy.
Thanks for the clarification, I didn't think/mean it to be rude/dismissive but I can see how that was taken.

I'll refrain from inserting IRC commands in future too :)
Yeah, there a bunch of bootcamps for people who have statistics or statistic-heavy PhDs that need to translate those skills from the academic to tech company context. Tends to work out pretty well.
The hardest problem, IMHO, has been key management. How do you get+trust the other's key?

I think a combination of keybase + a useful client can help, but the reasons listed in parent are pretty convincing.
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Oy vey, sounds like anutha shoah!

Testing for shadowban.
Well hold on, mandatory calorie information is already available on basically every processed food. The only things that don't have that are actual raw whole foods, which frankly aren't the problem. ("Couldn't control my broccoli intake! I was eating too many salads!" said no fat person ever).

There's also already a massive amount of "education" of children. We all had to learn the (extremely flawed) food pyramid and now they're pushing "MyPlate" with the same zeal. This was all rammed down our throats when I was in high school 15 years ago, so I can only imagine that the focus has increased in recent years given current trends.

Your link isn't exactly concrete proof since it's evidently promotional text from a vitamin store? I've never seen someone try to use promotional copy as scientific evidence before.
Let's assume we agree with both premises - the free market has decided the value of apps, and the free market does not always produce the best results. Since "the free market has decided" means the people participating in that market have made such a decision, there's two strategies you can take - persuasion and coercion. You can already apply most methods of persuasion through the free market - are there any that you think are unable to thrive in it?

For coercion, people are naturally resistant to it, even when it is "good for them". Do you think it is a worthwhile investment to spend political capital on laws, regulations, enforcement etc to apply such coercion? Maybe if we use one of the subtler methods, i.e. taxation and subsidy? There's also the problem of the 1A which tends to negate most government action you can take in this sphere.
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>history has been exceedingly cruel to the Russian people

Their leadership just doesn't/didn't value human lives very much.

How about you put yourself in the shoes of people who's lives were ruined by Russian expansionism?

Oh, and why should we care about their pride at all?
There are also other ways to deal with this. If it's reasonable to require that I get my $10,000 car emissions tested every two years to be able to drive it, it should be reasonable to require that vastly more expensive tractors get emissions tested periodically too.