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I think we might be about to see the political miracle you're hoping for.

The Dems are already cleaning up their act, and if the system works, and Trump is impeached for treason, the GOP will need to clean house too.

We might just end up with an actual, honest to goodness, functioning democracy in the U.S. as politicians seek to regain trust.
If they don't do it, and just take the code someone else contributed to the project under a different copyright notice and put it under Apache 2.0, does that mean I can fork, say, Firefox or gcc and slap an MIT copyright on the source code if not all of the contributors reply to my email asking them if they agree to it?

If no, then what percentage of contributors need to agree? Or do I need to rewrite all of the code that I get noes for?
Almonds for export has to go. Anyone have a list of names of almond farmers? Or if its not "families" what are the names of the big almond agribusiness operations going on? As they are responsible for the majority of water consumption and causes of drought problems.
They want to allow selling of data to third parties. One of those third parties can be political market research firms that report back to the politicians. This is a back door to government spying on citizens like we've never seen before.
> Uber has been able to provide a competitive service by legally structuring themselves in a way maximizes return for the themselves, for the driver, but still keeps costs low client due to say structuring.

In fact, they haven't. They're taking a huge loss on subsidies to the fares.
> Hopefully 5 years from now, we'll all be looking back in disbelief at what we used to put up with to build web apps.

We've all been saying that for 20 years when it comes to web dev :/
Very simple, there's a couple of orders of magnitude greater number of developers and designers who have skill with web technologies than native UI.

There is a very succinct rebuttal to that, and a good explanation for why apps based on "web technology" are they way they are: "quality is not quantity."
Sorry, I meant the HQ left Washington. Doesn't it impact taxes if you're registered as a foreign corporation vs local?
I am not sure how this works. I copied the generated CSS and used the class in an element but nothing happens.
We spend a lot on our veterans; what you're thinking of is the fact that we could spend even more! (And/Or better)
but I can't "shop around" on Uber. I don't get a choice of who provides me a service.

The concept of Uber being a marketplace is utterly ridiculous.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want you to think about it at all.
> It's going to be bad. A little panic is not a bad thing.

It's always lose/lose for the skeptics:

Scenario A: skeptics were wrong - "burn them at the stake, they screwed us all over!"

Scenario B: skeptics were right - "well, they got lucky. It wasn't as apocalyptic as experts were claiming. They were still wrong to have rejected the evidence at hand and I was still right to have believed the evidence at hand"
On the other hand, connecting a 4k display in windows will default to configure it at 200% scaling, in mac it defaults to render everything tiny as ants.
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I still find it astounding Americans can't drink until 21.
To answer you both:

I host mine on a DigitalOcean instance. The Streisand installer (bash script + Ansible playbook) has a number of built-in deployment targets (Amazon, DigitalOcean, Google, Linode, and Rackspace at the time I did mine), and you can further select which region you want. It costs $5/mo, though there would be a cost for bandwidth overage if you hit your limit for the instance size.

I have not done a speed test on it as I have always been constrained by my local connection more than the server's end. I use it only when traveling at the moment.
This must be part of the reason why you can't view profiles with_replies now if you're not logged in
IIRC minifying is against the terms of use and is more likely to result in your Chrome extension being removed from the Chrome webstore.
Compressing X.509 certificates
All utilities should be owned, funded and built by the Government. Roads, sewers, water mains, power mains, data mains, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939546
I still wonder how much it would have cost the FBI to crack the passcode/phrase on a phone with secure enclave. I also wonder if an agency like the NSA has capabilities around these devices and would they be willing to expose such capabilities in another similar scenario. A final musing of mine is if they wouldn't just claim some group or another did it for $X,000,000 dollars to make it all seem plausible (e.g. the cost and attack scenario on the 5c was plausible and probably required desoldering the storage, but that won't help on a device with the enclave system).

The encrypted by default iOS 4 and the whole design around passcode handling in that release was the start of a very strong security posture for Apple and their iOS devices.
I'm confused, I thought MathML is a markup language, and MathJax is a rendering system.
Really? I thought vacuum was an excellent insulator. Seems like the normal 75-100 watts should be plenty. After all a vacuum sealed thermos keeps hot coffee warm for days and has a much worse surface to volume ratio.
>These problems exist all over the country, and are all caused because by prices for services being set too low, because they are set by elected officials and not the market.

They exist because the US continues to insist on spreading responsibility out of thousands of local governments instead of having a single set of rules and standards for everyone.
Sea ice is floating. That means that it is already displacing water. When it melts, it fills the volume that it was displacing, and total sea levels remain nearly constant (the difference coming from salt concentration)

Sea level rise comes from glaciers on land melting. That is also happening, but more slowly, because convection moves heat more efficiently in the ocean.
No kidding. I've still got 5 bring a friend tickets for Mammoth, if anyone on HN is interested.
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My Gazelle has also worked out really well. I do need another new battery for it though.
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I think video is quite a bad medium. Watching trains the wrong part of the brain. Being alone at a library yielded better results in my case.
I wonder how old the leaked CIA docs are though. Are there any contextual clues that it's current?

Someone might have sat on a copy for years before leaking.

Edit: Quick scan shows there are some docs with dates in 2013, 2014, 2015. So at least some of it is fairly recent. No real way to tell, though, if it was all pulled at once, assembled over time, etc.
Ask HN: Article from 2016 that graphed college major vs. prestige vs. salary?
Does anyone know it?

IIRC, it did the rounds on "tech twitter," and seemed to show that degree was a better predictor of salary than college prestige
When I was in grad school, I sometimes worked for days straight, with just naps.
Asking that new dev to install cygwin might have been easier!
Interesting:

"Our folks’ third and last child, Molly, born in Palo Alto, was, sadly, not what anybody had thought. By four or so, Molly was visibly abnormal — not saying any words at all, nor absorbing any. It wasn’t autism; it was a profound brain malfunction, probably dating from birth or prior to birth, but what was wrong, nobody could say — no diagnosis. Molly just didn’t pick up any words, who knows why, and our Mom and Dad had such anguish for so long on Molly’s account, as did Laura and I. What bad luck."

https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/autolipo...

The second sentence of the quote does seem strongly opposed to what I know of Dennett's position.
Why not immediately begin treating these connections as plain HTTP? Don't show the padlock or "Secure".

Don't fail the connection, so people will still be able to use the site, but don't present it as secure.

This would be a stronger action than treating EV certs as non-EV, which only a few geeks will notice. Or reducing the maximum age of certificates.
Funny, I don't think it was that model, but I think it was a S&G lock we used (2 or 3 of them actually) on radioactive source containers back in the oilfield.
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Downvoting = "I disagree with you"

Flagging = "You're a jerk"

It's funny that in your comments there's this thread where you take it personally, and only one other comment where you tell someone else to not take it personally. It's almost as if this was a purpose-made account.
> Even those not in the rust belt have a good reason to want those jobs to stay here: current account and exchange rates.

Yes, everyone wants those jobs, or, jobs, to stay. But almost no one working today has a job that looks anything like a job of 100 years ago, and I doubt anyone would want those jobs.

Almost every job worked today is going to disappear, or change beyond recognition that it's still the same job.

Those lost manufacturing jobs are just among the first of the current set of jobs to disappear. Yes, it's painful and tragic; not because those specific jobs were lost, but because we have mis-managed the idleness of the people whose jobs vanished.

The fix is not to cling to jobs that the free market says should not exist, and that consumers also say should not exist by buying the cheapest available products, often products not previously available. Some of those consumers are the very ones that have lost their old jobs.

The only way for those manufacturing jobs to stay or come back is to never buy anything that didn't exist 50 years ago, and to stay out of Walmart and Amazon and everywhere else that sells anything at all from outside America.

Who starts?

We've lost the recognition that the reason we band together into communities and governments is to support each other. We've come to act as if "I've got my support, sorry you lost yours" is the proper way to treat each other.

We need to stop being so punitive and miserly, automatically blaming people for their condition. How anyone got anywhere doesn't much matter. How we move each other to the next better thing is what we should be focusing on.

I despair that we can get anywhere near that as long as quarterly, my bonus, my election thinking allows the few to stay a few steps ahead of everyone else. We treat each other as social petri dishes, and we're quite willing to throw the experiment materials out if it doesn't fit our data, our view of how we think the world is and how it ought to be.
Central, national government should fund, own and control all infrastructure.
That's not a problem. The point in the tax code is to prevent offloading the tax liability by classifying people who are rightfully employees as contractors instead.

I'm reasonably certain the tax code has no regulation that says you must be classed a contractor if you meet certain criteria.
Pardon my ignorace, but what do you mean by "small horror news publication"? And how do you monetize it?
That's a great point, but does addressing these finer points take more time than building two separate apps, for Mac and Windows?

Or if a service doesn't find it feasible to build two native apps, aren't their users better off with an Electron app than accessing the web app in their browser?

For example, Simplenote has an Electron app for the Mac, and I much prefer that to having to use simplenote.com in a browser.
I think it's unfair of you to lump meditation with homeopathy. The latter is obviously pseudoscience but there are many studies backing the former's claims to reduce anxiety, depression, etc.
Neo-cons seek to make systematic changes like this as their strategy.
If they get more rain then yes climate change is to blame.

If they get more drought then no because global warming is to blame.
I'd say that works for LLVM only because Apple can afford lawyers who can argue that provision if it ever came to that (not that I think it ever would). AFAICT, ASLv2 is superior to BSD/MIT in all practical respects except for the GPLv2 compatibility, and if it were so trivially easy to make a version of ASLv2 that didn't have that downside, then I feel like some company would have already done that and instantly created The One Permissive License To Rule Them All (and in the eyes of the law, bind them).

Until such an exceptional provision becomes established precedent, I'd suggest that small projects stick to vetted licenses rather than pitching in with anything novel.
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> The better these services get

The trend seems to go the other way.

Years back small perks such as free bottled water and plugged-in cables to charge your phone while you ride were not that uncommon with drivers striving to get to the 5-star ratings.

Today getting a car that doesn't smell too much and has enough trunk space to transport two luggage bags (not a completely unreasonable expectation in case of an airport pick-up) is close to a miracle.

My pet theory is that early successful drivers quit after running their numbers (that included costs on maintenance, wear and tear, extra tires, insurance that suddenly tripled when the car went way above the typical 12,500 annual miles), the current drivers looking to milk the system for as much as possible before the music stops.
Symantec bought Verisign's authentication business, still two different companies.

GeoTrust was started from buying Equifax's security business. Symantec bought GeoTrust. Symantec doesn't own the Equifax brand or company.
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"Permissive" is a spectrum on many dimensions. This relicensing is less permissive than the old license in some ways (like patent requirements for developers) and more permissive in others (the advertising clause).

If the relicensing was done with the requirements of the whole open source community in mind, they would have dual-licensed or just removed the advertising clauses (and whatever else is GPL incompatible).

Why not turn the tables and relicense OpenSSL under the AGPL? Current users couldn't accept security patches unless they "chose" not to release a bunch of unrelated proprietary code under the AGPL, including things they don't have copyright to.

The only real difference is that service provider's rights would be trampled instead of developer's rights.
No no no no....

Don't give them more money! Journals already have far too much power. They already publish research in a way that serves their own financial needs. They are too slow. They make you do all the writing, editing, formatting and figure design for free, then they charge people to read your publicly funded research. They make you put your data in an excel spreadsheet or a PDF. They fail miserably at peer review. At my institution, editors of nature journals are going around and giving seminars on how to publish in their journal - journal editors giving SEMINARS to ACTUAL SCIENTISTS. Absurdity.

All of this will sink journals. They just don't know it yet. Their strategy seems to be to become more like news outlets, publishing opinion pieces on how to fix scientific publishing, yet never actually changing what they do. The only reason it survives is because more than anybody, scientists learn to put up with all sorts of shit.
I also work on call center software. Care to say which company?
Because blessing your Javascript code is always a great idea. :)
I would HUGELY pay for twitter feeds that actually provide useful information. Imagine having a twitter feed that actually gives you clueful summaries and links of critical information that helps you out in your work everyday.
I think I was using mine around '98, on my second PC, which had about 10gb of storage.

I think it was quickly obsoleted by CD-Rs and CD-RWs, though during its short lifespan on my desk, I feel like I enjoyed using it (then again I was a young teenager, so I definitely didn't push the technology into revealing its faults at all)
You think it is the same to setup renewal for Letsencrypt and a vanilla cert, but it's not.

We buy 3 year wildcard certs - Rapidssl was about 80$. From about a month before renewal, they start sending you emails and make sure you don't forget.

Letsencrypt is a good idea for larger setups with dedicated devops. For a start-up, it's the exact same argument as Gitlab vs Github.
How would any of these things end us? We've have world war II. That didn't make a dent in the population.

Famine and drought would be localized so we can use international trade to smooth them over, just like we currently do. For long term failures, there will always be other arable places to grow crops, they just might be fewer or more inconvenient than they currently are, and they'll change at an easy human scale speed. China has a 300,000,000 migrant worker population. That's all of the US population migrating every year!

We currently produce far more food than we need, so even losing a big part of production capacity will still leave us with enough to eat, but perhaps with less meat or seafood for poor people.
> Or even let them to specify where they want to go. Maybe it's already implemented by someone?

Yes this is already implemented by Uber [1]. I have used it several times on my commute home.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/16/uber-drivers-can-now-pick-...
I really like the clean UI first layout, but it could use an arrow/indicator to emphasize the content below the fold; especially for first time visitors. I wish more sites prioritized their layout like you did. The core functionality seems solid, Nice work!
Personally before it enabled inline images which turned it into a firehose of reaction gifs.
That wasn't the intended function, but yes - by doing that, you'd end up blessing your code and putting all sorts of helpful checkpoints. At one point, with a bit of luck, such a checkpoint could even prevent your code from crashing - 'cause it's blessed..
IANAL but the provisions in law and precedent for orphaned works and for jointly copyrighted works might come into play in that case.
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Thank you!

I suppose I could expose the blessing ID. I could either create a `Blessing` class, in which case you'd instantiate it and have easy access to the generated UUID. Or, I could simply return a dictionary containing the UUID and the blessing.
Very cool, thanks for that. Their prices are super super super expensive though.

Almost 10x as expensive as Comodo for wildcard .
> "The cost/value ratio is incredible."

Think that's the first time in years anyone's said that about my code. Thank you!
I don't think that your Yahoo scenario is correct. The license you are granted is perpetual and irrevocable. Yahoo transferring the patent to another party is one of an entire universe of things that cannot revoke your license to use it. It doesn't matter whether the other party decides they'd prefer you not use it -- you still own that license.

I also don't have any sympathy for you if you contribute OSS code that necessarily infringes on a patent, but also want to retain your ability to enforce the patent against users of the OSS project you're contributing too. That use-case is one that has negative priority for me -- I would prefer that you be unable to contribute under those circumstances.
> just removed the advertising clauses (and whatever else is GPL incompatible)

From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2 :

"Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2, because it has some requirements that are not in that GPL version. These include certain patent termination and indemnification provisions. The patent termination provision is a good thing, which is why we recommend the Apache 2.0 license for substantial programs over other lax permissive licenses."

It's clear that keeping the patent clause was more important to them than keeping GPLv2 compatibility, because otherwise they could have just gone with MIT.
> I still wonder how much it would have cost the FBI to crack the passcode/phrase on a phone with secure enclave.

Apparently $1,500[1]:

"Cellebrite's CAIS now supports lawful unlocking and evidence extraction of iPhone 4S/5/5C/5S/6/6+ devices (via our in-house service only)."[2]

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/24/cellebrite-lawful-unloc...

[2] https://twitter.com/jifa/status/834510775158976513
> If there is no joy in what you are saying [...] why are you saying it?

In addition to my other comment, I think the "only say positive things to someone" attitude is dangerous.

I think it can be really damaging to someone if they grow up always only hearing positive things about themselves. It can lead them to be very egotistical and somewhat delusional -- they're great! they've always been told so! -- and unable to handle any form of criticism. And because they haven't received criticism they haven't been able to grow and develop as much as they could have, which can lead to incompetence.
Although I personally think matching the OpenBSD libressl license would have been better, I still have to regard the move towards using one of the mainstream, modern standard open source licenses for such a widely used and critical software component a Good Thing. I do, however, also agree with those voicing skepticism about the "silence gives consent" bit - this is important enough to be worth doing without adding a (very) questionable practice like that to the mix. I'd suggest instead setting up some sort of "relicensing coverage" report, and use the yay/nay/no-answer status of various diffs to figure out a price tag for re-writing the bits that can't be relicensed.

I don't suppose the libressl folks could end up creating a 2-clause BSD implementation of the SSL/TLS stack that could divorce itself completely from its openssl origins? (Yes I know that's almost certainly impractical for such a large, complex and thorny code base and problem set, but it's a nice dream... maybe some cryptography researchers/companies/etc. looking to make a name the the industry could target and re-implement specific pieces/algorithms/etc...)
I agree that it would be more efficient to have more wav files in the github repo, but we kept them minimal to reduce the total file size when cloning the repository. You can find more of the Librispeech data here: http://www.openslr.org/12/

We kept the epochs at 100 to demonstrate the negative consequence of overfitting training data, when doing the test or dev set evaluations. We could probably reduce that to ~50 though to save time in training :)
Uber drivers are absolutely employees. They might claim that they are independent contractors, but they are not independent contractors. The law doesn't just say 'you can decide that your employees are contractors if you want to'.
This is the most rain I've seen since I was a child (in the 90s). It's really nice to see wildlife, and frogs again. It was getting kinda scary when the grass went from it's typical golden hue, to grey, and then to dirt...