skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A possible answer to the first question: Alice is not compelled to provide the key. She is compelled to decrypt the drive. Obviously she can't do that without Bob. Alice is screwed and will spend the rest of her life in prison.

Yes, and in this scenario she would not be held in contempt, so your hypothetical does not apply.

You can only be held in contempt for refusing to comply with court orders, not for the failure of a desired outcome.

Let's put it another way: you are totally misunderstanding why this fellow is in jail. It is not because the hard drive remains encrypted - it is because he defied a court order to decrypt it. Granted, if the drive were decrypted by other means he would likely be let out of prison because the point of holding him for contempt would be frustrated - but that does not mean that he was put into jail because the drive was not decrypted. Contempt is solely about defying court orders.

If Alice gave over her half of the key, she would have complied with the order, therefore, there would be no grounds for contempt.
> Corbyn's approach (let councils start building again) is a far more rational approach than this.

Leaving aside the question of where the money and land comes from (both main parties have announced impressive housebuilding targets at the last few GEs, and nobody's even come close to hitting them), doesn't this run afoul of parliamentary sovereignty?

If "no Parliament can pass laws that future Parliaments cannot change", then even if under the current government councils manage to build a zillion new homes, won't the next Osbornean Tory or Blairite Labour government just give them all away again as electoral bribes?

My gut feeling is that the #1 problem is excessive lending on housing and way too much tolerance for housing as a speculative investment. That's certainly not the only problem, but it's addressable relatively cheaply via macroprudential measures and tax law, so I'd like to see uk.gov start there and then see what further action is needed.
> You absolutely can do it for doctors.
> If she needs to be out on a certain day, she'll just swap with a co-worker.
> It's amazing how flexible things can get when you hire a huge pool of warm bodies

I think you're selectively missing certain nuances in the article. The article says that the company written about creates both flexibility in hours and flexibility in location.

If you're a health care professional or in retail, you absolutely have to be at the location. Also, if you're performing a procedure, you need to schedule a team and equipment to be available, which also implies a time and place for your schedule.

Also, the article mentions unpredictable schedules, such as staying up late with a baby or elder health care. For doctors and retail, sure you can swap shifts, etc etc. But when you take a shift, you're obligated to show up a week in advance. Last minute objections don't cut it.

And re: hiring a huge pool of warm bodies, that implies that your job is fungible and that most jobs are like gig jobs, where you can get paid for the time you're working.

I don't understand what you're saying - when you say "hire", are you implying a salary or an hourly rate and if some of them don't show up, do the remaining workers get paid more? That doesn't work for any sort of low margin business. If you're a restaurant, you can't just hire six dishwashers and hope four of them wander in during Friday rush.
Presumption would be it's much harder to stop/start a freight train vs. a passenger train.
> Not sure what the man's crime is here.

He didn't commit a crime. He is being held in jail for contempt of court. This is how the system works. This is no different than if a judge demanded that you turn over any other form of evidence - it should not be so shocking that you can be held in contempt for refusing to obey a court order.

It is bad, however, that he is being let to rot indefinitely. That is the problem here - not that he was jailed for contempt in the first place.
> I think "100% proof" is a close enough summary of that phrase...

Not even close.
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If anyone is interested in this same kind of architecture for multi-cloud file-system providers ( no cloud lock-in ), please check out this project: https://github.com/bigcompany/hook.io-vfs

Used in production, but it could use some contributors.
> goes so fast

Especially goes too fast right when it becomes less obvious.
Another potential concern is that it runs through some good farmland, which CA has some of the best of in the world.

I would love to have an HSR along the coast however. When I was in Taiwan it was amazing being able to get to the bottom of the island in a couple hours.
As a Marxist who works for a social service agency, I have become convinced that the two original sins of civilization are (1) forced labor and (2) the controlled fermentation of alcohol. At some point, a local entrepeneur figured out that he could get serfs to stay on the land and give him a cut of their produce if he bashed a few heads in. Probably at the same time, he figured out they would less effective at leading a revolution, and a little more content with their lot in life, if he let them get wasted when the work was done. Hell, said entrepeneur probably sold them the beer itself... Add a spectacle like a gladiator fight, and voila! Fast forward to Coors Light, working at a Target warehouse, and the SF Niners on TV. Plus ca change, plus la meme chose....

(I think of poor people as the originary arbitrage... Yes, I know what micro economics says about the existence of arbitrages, that's the point.)

Also interesting that I don't think they mentioned cider (paywall preventing me from re-reading), which was a huge thing in America at least until prohibition.
At 2:37, right after finishing explaining adders and multipliers on the line it started going way too quick like where did e^x and some these infinite sums come from???
Gauss said that if the reason weren't immediately obvious to someone, they would never be a first rate mathematician. For the rest of us, there's YouTube.
Not to the freight line companies owning the networks (Apparently there is a law saying that Amtrack has priority, but enforcing it has as of now just lead to years of lawsuits, without useful results)
For the anti tax libertarians, move to free countries, free in that there's little property tax like Bahrain or former countries of Yugoslavia. However, the article is fixated on property taxes, but how about overall tax rates, I saw no discussion of that? And what do you get out of that tax that you pay, say safety and public services. Bahrian, not so great if you have a girlfriend.
Almost surely
I deliberately avoid using ambitious publishing platforms. I don't think this is an industry where you can grow your revenue without defeating the purpose of the product. This is an industry where you have to survive on tight margins, and figure out how to reliably provide the service longer than your users live without losing your wife. It's not glamorous, but there is no other way to offer a platform worth publishing on.

If your business is going to fail after less than a decade of hubris and greed, then why not use any other blog platform?
Guns already are absurdly heavily regulated. Unless you actually mean banned.
Consumer trucks are 12v, up to and include 1-ton models.

Beyond that I'm not sure off the top of my head, but I do know that a 12v conversion is a very common modification to ex-military vehicles like the CUCV.
Part of the problem is that some parts of the government treat everything as a secret by default. That in itself changes the way people there think about things and how they act. I'm sure it helps foster habits that you want in place when people handle real secret information and it make it easy - you don't need to think about how to handle anything. But it's really not appropriate outside of being a convenience.
Native Docker Clustering with Swarm
Apparently, it can be done with a bunch of TTL logic chips.

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329
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The Venetian Republic had an interesting solution to that. The initial lottery was just to pick an electoral college, who would would then vote (using approval voting) on another randomly-selected pool of candidates. This was repeated for several rounds! See http://www.counter-currents.com/2013/06/lot-in-venice/

That seems like a pretty clever way to prevent anyone from stacking the deck in advance. Although it was ultimately an oligarchic system, since only the rich ruling class were ever considered for office at any stage.
No sharing. Prominent people's opinions in Medium articles would make news and drive people to Medium content. "Colin Powell calls Trumps immigration policy misguided". That's a global headline. Traffic rules.

Everyone tries to think like a VC. Medium will never be the biggest money. What they can do is be the next '60 Minutes', not the biggest, but prestigous and elevating.
Like when he presents equations that he said we wouldn't need...
Agreed. Except that it's the freight railways that generally own the trackage in most (all?) places where it's shared with Amtrak. And the freight railways generate significantly more revenue from that trackage (about $75B annually vs $3B).
Immigration and Customs Enforcement asserts authority over land within 100 miles of a border (including coasts). Anyone in the US can be stopped and asked for ID and proof they're in the country legally in that 100 mile zone.
Js.org certificate expired
"user:foo" will search an organisation named foo.
Interesting to note that we might be seeing more people make it to the 90-100 yr club but we don't see a jump into the 120 club
2 weeks ago. we contacted teleric and they have acknowledged that 2s app launch time is within parameters.
we have since stopped development with nativescript.

react native is able to launch a much more complex application within 180ms btw
I'm really grateful that we have folks like Binney thinking about the bigger picture. It's not as though our government has not made mistakes in the past; during the Korean War for instance, we killed ~20% of the North Korean population [1], largely with napalm. That, in my humble opinion, is an unacceptable civilian casualty ratio. Binney is the kinda guy, were he around back then, who would have spoken up and said "This ain't right."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
A lot of the most annoying and time-consuming abstractions at my company are, ironically, geared towards maintainability/extendability concerns.

We have wrappers around generic web service callers that rely on factories that create classes that convert between web service objects and domain objects, all wired together using interfaces for each service class and an IoC container, with its own XML configuration file.

The irony is that if the web service were to change its interface, you'd have to change like 10 files instead of like.. a single conversion function somewhere. And to begin with you had to create those 10 files in the first place. It's absolute fucking madness.
Just had to test what the other keys did.

What i found:

t = search file

j/k = move down/down (selected file)

w = select branch

s = focus search field

y = expands url

Anyone know any more?

EDIT: Found this https://help.github.com/articles/using-keyboard-shortcuts/
No, its not the quality of the content which makes it a business, this is exactly the misunderstanding of the whole mission to save journalism. Its never been a business to begin with.
https://imgur.com/a/p6IzQ
Don't forget that open source software brings rewards of all types - reputation, outside contributions, and eyeballs.

The beauty - and paradox - of open source is that people produce software, in an act of self-interest, for free.

Ask for money when it makes sense. Give it away when it doesn't.
See the "Essence of Linear Algebra" (visualized) by the same author -- it should give you more intuition into the nature of the transformations:

Essence of Linear Algebra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
Yeah, that post was for Robin's self-published book. This link is a paid interactive course based on the same material.

(FWIW, Max Stoiber did the same thing with his React/Redux/Immutable tutorial [0], and I'm actually hoping to turn my own "Practical Redux" tutorial series [1] into an Educative.io course in the near future as well.)

[0] https://www.educative.io/collection/5642398931615744/5741031...

[1] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/series/practical-redux/
That's a shame, Sprouts is my family's primary grocery store.
RainX works well where the rain typically has large drops. It sucks in places where the droplets are smaller because they bead up everywhere but aren't large enough for the wind to push them away quickly. You end up looking through a bunch of microlenses rather than normal rain on the windshield.
There's also the small detail that it's the freight companies that actually own the tracks in most cases so they make the rules.
> Almost all nutritional advice is based on small studies.

I doubt they'll ever really expand beyond small studies in that field. There's certain groups that routinely do meta-analyses of nutritional (and other) studies, like the Cochrane Collaboration. E.g., Effect of cocoa on blood pressure: http://www.cochrane.org/CD008893/HTN_effect-of-cocoa-on-bloo...

That's really the only way to be confident, short of setting up a massive (expensive) randomized controlled trial.
Same here. I am a European who lived in the US from 2012, but I am going to move back to Europe this year. Even in 2012 I thought the US is going to be awesome, since everyone says how awesome it is. Well, after 5 years my views have certainly changed. Now I kind of dislike this place. Of course, I wish I had a chance to live in other areas of the US before judging the whole country, but that is not possible now. So Europe, here I come!
> our wiper group includes 15 or 20 people for North America, and globally it would be several hundred people.

Not sure if that is only designers, or includes test people and manufacturing people. The stabilizer flight controls group on the 757 I worked on consisted of maybe 15 engineers and draftsmen. We did the elevator controls and stabilizer trim system. It was a fair amount of machinery, and there was an awful lot that needed to be taken into account. (The stab trim and elevators are flight critical, meaning it's pretty serious business and nobody wants to make a mistake.)

It took about 3 years.

This did not include the "stress" group which double checked the design, nor the testing and manufacturing people.
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> Meanwhile, you may have to create a Github account and fork the repo for PRs, but I don't see any way for that to not be trivial

It's been said. You do it with a service built upon the traditional currency of open source: patches. GitHub-style pull requests are not an intrinsic requirement even for the kind of shiny web UI that GitHub wanted to build. It was, however, an important part of GitHub's lock-out strategy.

If you build your startup so that the way that person B has to get their changes to person A is through a pull request, then you can make sure that not only is person A active in the market for Git hosting, but person B is, too. They'll need to throw their changes up on some Git hosting service, because it has to live somewhere. And if your startup happens to be a Git hosting service, that's good for you. And, hey! since it's a pull request, you can do more than strongly suggest that person B hosts their stuff with you, you can force it, by making it impossible for the pull request to come from off-site.

You can't do that kind of underhanded "growth hacking" if you allow contributors to submit patches, because while pull requests are indirect, patches are self-contained. They are a unit of change.

(I've referred to this in the past as using a strategy of dark patterns inspired by social networks.)

I want to emphasize: "patches vs pull requests" is one matter, and "email vs web UI" is an entirely different matter. It's a 2×2 matrix, not a dichotomy. But this conversation has (annoyingly) run on as if it is "patches (which must be done through email) vs pull requests (which are done through point and click)". There's nothing that precludes GitHub from having built a web UI where today's "pull request" button ended with a "submit patch" button in its place. Nothing.

> I don't see any way for that to not be trivial

Yes, this is clear every time the conversation comes up. Something has happened wrt GitHub that causes people to a) forget how things looked before GitHub, b) have extreme difficulty imagining that things could work any other way—even when the other way is more straightforward and less convoluted than the way GitHub actually works. It's kind of nuts.
Remember using play services unofficially like e.g. microg can get your account locked. It is OK to create a throw away accounted for downloading apps,but continued usage _may_ lock your account.
I do use lineageOS on a nexus 5 without play services and battery lasts 2 days with light usage.
Sure, but the freight companies own the track, so they prioritize their own trains.
(I think you mean signed arithmetic here and in your almost-sibling comment.)
I never understood what is genius about intermittent wipers.
Mathologer has a video that I found easier to understand, YMMV

https://youtu.be/-dhHrg-KbJ0
How startups are nailing their own coffins with VC hammers
I think this may be going for the perfect by sacrificing the good. There is nothing inherently wrong about relying on voter patterns. It's only been wrong to use voter patterns to gerrymander.

One could require that a redistricting lead to a layout that averaged 0% efficiency gap for all elections since the last redistricting effort. From that point forward, voter patterns and distribution would change, but that is exactly the reason we periodically redistrict anyway. There would still be some distortions but it would probably be a marked improvement from the status quo.

Redistricting without looking at voter demographics would lead to greater efficiency gaps. It's true that it would favor one party or another from state to state, but 50 states (or ~400 districts) is not enough to expect it would cancel out. And there are plenty of other good reasons to look at voter patterns - cohesive neighborhoods, historic geographic personality of districts, etc. It's more complicated than just aiming at contiguousness itself.
I recommend this book[0] to anyone interested in the historical origins of this sort of inverted subtext. It makes a strong case for esotericism as a way to impose a barrier to entry on intellectual sophomores, to duck critique from authorities, and to promote critical thought, among other purposes. In essence, that people who aren't inclined to do critical thinking(who are the majority at all times) will see what they already wanted to see, while the remainder take home the underlying wisdom.

[0] http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo1869230...
Framing various issues in moral terms is quite the plague. It makes it impossible to have an interesting discussion about diet, fitness, mental health, etc. Any sort of experience is instantly thrown out, and people are afraid to bring up contradictory examples.

You would think that with all the reproducibility issues around various topics we'd know better than to assume we completely understand human metabolism. If we're wrong, how much damage is being done?

Btw, do you have citations for these?
24v heavy equipment is kind of a a PITA, in reality. For instance, my father always ran Timberjack and Clark logging equipment, in part because they were 12V. One common problem is that you've got a dead battery in your piece of equipment. With a 12V system, you can just jumpstart your skidder/dozer/whatever using your pickup and a set of cables. If the equipment is 24V, you have to use two pickups in series, which is a lot more difficult.
I assumed that the Northeast Corridor (which I believe is the only place where Amtrak actually makes any money) would be much different from other routes but that actually isn't the case. Acela is better than the long distance routes but not by a huge amount.

Of course OTA % doesn't account for the size of the miss and I've heard plenty of stories of long distance trains sitting for hours while multi-mile long freights go by.
If you've already optimized your game for 2-4 cores, is it that much harder to make it run well on more than 4 cores?
We're thinking about adding the file tab to the default view in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26834
Interesting question. Partially it's that the global car market is huge so there's enough profit to go around even with a lot of companies.

I think the more important reason is historical, though. The car companies of today were almost all established back in the days when shipping cars internationally was expensive, and operating a factory in a foreign country was difficult. So each major industrialised country wound up with a few manufacturers after a lot of consolidation -- in the US dozens of manufacturers got reduced down to three. Then there's three German, two French, one (major) Italian... Japan is a weird case but it is still consolidating... Only in the last few decades has the car market become really global, and as a result there's ongoing consolidation continuing, eg Fiat-Chrysler and Renault-Nissan.
Do you have any refutation to the logic in the rest of my post? Or is "nope neener neener" the only thing I get?
Some trains in the northeast corridor also get bounced by local commuter trains that have priority on the tracks.

Several times I've been on the Downeaster headed to Boston and gotten shunted onto sidings, to the point that we got an hour behind schedule.
See MIT's "Big Picture of Calculus" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWsDwg1XwM&list=PLBE9407EA6...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhzKVdSnPmg

Live coverage.

They say situation is better now that drain is sufficient.
And big sugar and corn.
The Talented Mr. Huxley (2015)
macOS screen sharing works well for me, using Messages/FaceTime (aka Apple ID) contacts.
Oldsmobile Achieva in 1991 had it too.

I idn't like it - it's nice to let the cleaner soak into the windshield before tearing up the squeegee part of the wiper blade.
My personal opinion about the weeks and months leading up to 9/11 is that the neocon Bush Administration wanted it to happen. That is not the same as orchestrating it, but they quashed certain investigations at certain times, made it hard for intelligence agencies and the FBI to do their jobs, etc. They did this because the "peace dividend" would have been upon us and they needed a new enemy to fight. There is too much money in military and security contracts to ever let the US actually wind down the machine. Or maybe they did it because the nation was on the cusp of a financial collapse due to the "dot com" collapse that was taking place. Either way, the reasons were economic.

For every privacy invading technology you see, I will show you a company that lobbied for it to exist. You want examples? Level III systems and those idiotic naked body scanners at the airports. The Real ID Act is another--nothing wrong with most state issued driver's licenses, they just weren't expensive enough.

If you want to be free then you have to accept certain dangers in life. It's not like the tech put in place is doing anything to make you safer, anyways--it's only purpose is to suck billions of dollars out of taxpayers and concentrate that wealth in the hands of those who know how to go out and force it in their direction. When we inevitably suffer more attacks, it's all "we did our best."

I hold out very little hope for any of this to change, but we as citizens need to keep resisting anyways. Gut some government agencies, cut the budgets, stop the revolving door of lobbyists.