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No, Journalists need to ensure the confidentiality of their source by all means. Simply releasing the info would consitute negligence. They have a duty to protect those who risk their life or freedom for the public good
Excellent and I suppose CSV is the nearest we have for a lowest common denominator format for structured data
I would expect charging for storage. Let the user try whatever he wants for free -- both the mobile app and the website, but after some point, say one month of average usage, one faces a limited storage problem, solvable with an account upgrade.
I never said Uber didn't have that many people. I said that all those people aren't writing the app and maintaining the backend.

Could I do it with fewer people? Maybe, maybe not. Could I do it with fewer than 12,000 people writing the app and maintaining the backend? Absolutely.
equilibrium-punctuating arrival of Alex Honnold...

Yeah, I guess that just about describes the guys career.

Fun question: which people in other disciplines have had the same shattering effect in their field ?
I can think of Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov in Chess.
It is a different route and significantly harder and will likely never be free soloed for a long time if ever. The crux is so insecure that it's suicide.
>I have independently verified Susan Fowler's claim that her management chain didn't treat her case seriously. And by that I mean with a member of her management chain.

I never doubted her account. But it is anecdotal, and you can't extrapolate her singular experience to the entire company.
I believe that was deliberate. Many people only care about iCloud to backup their iOS devices, and 5GB is really only enough space to backup a single device because the backup sizes inflate over time due to some mechanism I've been unable to pin down even after extensive effort.

The alternate is to setup multiple Apple IDs and link them via family sharing to get the same iTunes purchases, but that's a huge pain in the butt and (IMO) not worth the effort to save $1/month on the 50GB iCloud plan.
is the need for prison simply the side effect of a population density that is too high? But that is a different topic. The issue is the cost of incarceration and how a once noble idea (eliminating bad behavior instead of eliminating the owner) has been 'corporatized'. It seems a fundamental rhythm of human activity is to express the goodness in us with a new idea. The evil in us then tries to maximize profit and efficiency resulting in a loss function that destroys initially unrecognized but important parameters of humanity.
No, a statement is not evidence no matter how much you want it to be. A _sworn testimony_ of a _witness_ is evidence. But there can't really be any witness here, unless the person on the other end was extremely careless. So you get a bunch of hot air and unsubstantiated allegations which will never go anywhere.
You know what's funny? Six or seven hours south is Santa Fe/Albuquerque NM. Both have nearby national laboratories, colleges, and (some) technical businesses. They're also generally affordable. Pretty much anywhere in NM would just kill for more business and has some technical workforce. I'm also sure it'd be relatively easy to convince people to move there.
I'm not sure I understand. There's a woman actually in jail awaiting charges over this. You're saying the NSA has a sacrificial agent to take the fall? That they're faking the whole judicial process? That they somehow induced a contractor to steal a real document and leak it to the paper they wanted it leaked to?

I'm all for a good conspiracy theory, but you're going to have to spell this one out better.
I understand your position but I disagree. Honnold is well aware of the risks and has prepared as necessary to accomplish this feat. The media needs to better report on that aspect.
I've been using Tinyblu [0] for this, which seems to be simpler/have fewer features.

0: https://tinyblu.com/
HN generally welcomes people with a wide set of beliefs and values. I don't think someone would be banned just because they say they don't care about something. Of course I could still be proven wrong.
One can be snarky while very serious. I didn't even realize until looking it up that "snark" is a portmanteau of "snide" and "remark". One can be seriously snide.

Anyway I'll take the lack of substantive criticism of my point and critique of form as a point of pride.
Fair enough of an assessment, I just thought it was clever and happened to like the continuity between an established IP from the game and a competitor to Siri. As far as it being part of a game, my take on it was that people in real life would use Cortana as a virtual assistant similar to how she is used in Halo.
No universal anything and no claim to truth. Just trying to convey the various influences in the moment.
Nuts go rancid. Bad idea for a survivalist story.
http://ucanr.edu/datastoreFiles/234-2753.pdf
I've seen several comments on here about how high a percentage is being charged by credit card processors and this is something I've wondered about for a while. There are some sites where I feel like I must be missing something.

As an example; https://www.sendmoneytoschool.com.

The site is used to pay online with a credit card for your children's school lunch and it typically charges a $1.50 "convenience fee". It is my understanding that they are not charging schools for the use of this service (I may be mistaken); at Stripe or PayPals fee rates this service would be losing money. Every $100 would incur at least a $2.00 fee. Here a low cost processor like Worldpay and Handepay would allow for a profit; albeit a very small one.
I think that content creators should get paid, but I don't want them to try to put DRM chips in our brains to make sure we're all paying for whatever information we consume.

I don't think it's right that they carve out this valley between their legally afforded copyright protections and my fair-use rights meant to assure I can never use my fair-use rights even after their copyrights are long expired (as if it was even possible for a copyright to expire anymore.)

Yes, I am a little off-topic from WSJ Paywall, but it's all one discussion. How do content creators get paid in my ideal version of reality? At the pleasure of content consumers. What can content creators do when that's demonstrated not to be working? IDK not restrictive digital rights management schemes, tho.

There are no easy answers that would satisfy me as either a content consumer or creator.
If having Uber in my career profile makes me look bad to a prospective company then I don't want to work at that company. If the company policy I'm applying to is so toxic that they feel the need to purge people for minor things then I would never want to work there.
Thank you to everyone! I will give this a try.
Exactly. Simply not paying people living wages is not a disruptive new idea, it's just exploiting your workers to provide a lower cost to your customers. You're exactly the same sort of scum you're attempting to unseat.

Bring on the downvotes! You can call it whatever you want, "side hustles", "the gig economy", whatever new age bullshit the VC companies are using this week but it's the same thing: ducking labor laws to pay less than living wages to people to do work you don't want to do.
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Haha sorry about that. College of course :)
That's an important distinction that gets lost in the vaguery of the sensational journalistic rhetoric. To me, the evidence trail presented sounds like one of those post-facto explanations the FBI concocts in order to preserve their true secret methodologies.
Hey I just wanted to clarify that I don't want to make you feel bad about being a landlord. I just wanted to share some alternative economic logic, and get kinda riled up about poorly managed capitalism. I realize that everyone is doing what they gotta do, and didn't mean to imply that you landlords in general are bad people or something like that. I don't actually think you're dumb for renting out your old house, it's smart given the circumstances. The circumstances are dumb.
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Thanks a lot for your comment :-D If you do use it, let me know what you dislike so we can improve the product.
iptables is terrible, but nftables is great and mostly available.

I wrote a post about my nftables config a while back.

Plug: https://stosb.com/blog/explaining-my-configs-nftables/
"every time the word "passion" is thrown around"

The problem is the English language doesn't, today in 2017, have separate words for "Our workplace and workers are passionate" vs "I'm passionate about something"

I'm passionate right now about virtualization and I've got a micro-lab of vmware ESXi and vCenter and all that and I purchased the home lab license so its all legal and I love fooling around with it at home. There's just something weirdly entertaining about it, like setting up webservers at home in 1996. Its a pity because I just got over a bad case of passion about MQTT where I was doing unspeakable things to defenseless ESP8266 microcontroller chips and RabbitMQ with MQTT and node-red for graphing and here I am addicted to screwing around with something else with barely a break. There's not a darn thing wrong with this kind of passion. Its more fun than watching daytime TV or sportsball on TV.

The kind of passion (same word) that "we" hate in workplaces and workers is best expressed as "Yeah sorry the bad news is your boss is a screamer. The good news is we prefer to think your boss is very passionate about his work, not that he's an antisocial asshole raised by wolves or maybe werewolves". The first and last time I worked for a screamer was in the early 90s and its the kind of thing people only tolerate roughly once per lifetime if at all avoidable.
> I don't think The Intercept has much responsibility here at all.

They do if they want to keep their jobs. It's not a moral point, it's a Darwinian one. No one talks to journalists who burn their sources.

The Intercept's literal genesis was as a clearing house for leaked data. This is... really bad if they want to be known as a safe place to send leaks.
> Are you sure this is something NYTimes/WaPo/WSJ/etc would have detected and removed?

No, I'm not sure about that, and if they'd made the mistake after having claimed to be safe for whistleblowers I'd be gently complaining about them on an Internet message board too.
My favorite tool for finding software alternatives is alternativeto.net, which returns these alternatives for Zapier: https://alternativeto.net/software/zapier/

Most promising on that list is Huginn (https://github.com/huginn/huginn) which looks like exactly what you want.
What company is that so I know to avoid it? Sounds like you should get out of there.
Why would do care whether other people think most people care? What makes this special? You are not posting similar comments under other articles.
It's a huge disservice to just destroy people's academic careers like that.
Having worked on an iCloud using iOS app... it's hugely buggy. I've yet to see as problematic API as iCloud is on iOS 10. Files failing to sync, a lot of users don't even get the app folder, randomly files won't sync (forever) and more. All of that is wrapped into opaque service, which doesn't really tell you what it's doing and what went wrong.

Might be they're all messy like that... but iCloud didn't really seem like a reliable service and it wasn't close to reliability of Dropbox :/
You can also use offline files on Sierra, where files are stored in iCloud and only downloaded when needed to save disk space. It's pretty cool technology, similar to what MS did with Skydrive (nee Onedrive) in Windows 8.
As someone who worked their way through Strang (we did a little study group and did the homework assigned to some class at Rutgers), I'd love it if someone could take a moment to explain what they like so much about Axler. I've tried a couple times to slog my way through Axler and had not much success.
The West Midlands has lost almost 100,000 manufacturing jobs.

The coal pits of the Midlands are no more. The last deep coal mine in the UK closed on 18 December 2015. Many heavy manufacturing jobs went down with them.
I would personally consider it career suicide to move to Reno since you will have few or no options to move on to something bigger or better.

It will be far easier imho to increase your income in NYC such that you can save the as much or more than you can save in Reno. The potential upside in NYC is insane. There is no upside in Reno other than perhaps being close enough to the Bay Area to cultivate professional contacts there.

Said another way, you will leave this startup eventually. Where do you want to be when you leave?
In the UK, you tend to get an offer conditional on references, and you only provide them once you've given notice to your current place.
Definitely on the roadmap. See ghs.com.
The major feature that makes me stay with iCloud is that it transparently moves rarely-used files to the cloud and frees up the space locally.
Maybe we're operating under two different definitions of "taught" here. You're using "taught", I think, in the sense of giving someone an "impressive feats in the history of climbing" lecture. Which, sure, why not.

The parent seems to be using "taught" in more the sense that a master teaches an apprentice: giving you the skills, yes, but also putting you in that same situation, or encouraging you to participate in such a climb. Like, picture a skydiving instructor, only they're a "free-solo this particular mountain" instructor. They're giving you instruction and practice with the implicit goal of doing this dangerous thing at the end, and with the implicit suggestion that the course will be all you need to be fully prepared to do the thing at the end, with little risk.

Such "teaching" would be very unlikely to succeed; it would more-often-than-not just kill people.
> Any idea of how many people have free climbed this route? I'm really curious to know if Honnold is a one-of-a-kind climber or there are similar skill level climbers who just aren't willing to risk it without ropes?

I don't know how many people have freed that particular route (called "Freerider"), but SuperTopo says it's one of the easier routes on El Cap to free climb[0] (though it's still not any "easy" route by any stretch).

But I think it's safe to say that Honnold is a one of a kind climber because free-soloing something takes a significantly higher level of self-control and self-confidence than freeing the same route does. So he's one of a kind precisely because he's willing to risk it without ropes.

[0] http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/Yosemite-Valley-El-Ca...
As far as I can tell, your comment has little to nothing to do with mine, due to an ungenerous interpretation.
>As a manager, if you have a clueless 20-year old making an inappropriate proposition to one of your reports, and you hear about it, you are legally obligated to deal with the situation. It could mean reprimands, demotions, pay cuts, and re-assignment. It could mean termination.

Sure. I don't disagree with that, even the termination. But I hate the idea of now treating these individuals as modern equivalent of 'untouchables'. OP used incredibly ugly words to describe people he has no clue about, and implicitly advocated for not hiring them.

>I assure you, batch-firing 20 people for sexual harassment out of 6,700 is not normal.

12,000. It's a big company.

>t means that there has been a consistent pattern of management not dealing with harassment

Except we don't know what it means, do we. It could be that they fired a bunch of people to make a PR statement. Or not.
> I rejected any career that involved deliberate group manipulation, such as military, law enforcement, and legal

There's dozen of us. Kudos to you for your choice.
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A lot have free climbed it, but it is a major project for most who do. Here is a great account from James Lucas of what it takes for a more normal human (who is still a pro climber) to climb the freerider:
http://eveningsends.com/the-day-i-sent-freerider-in-a-day/
I have always enjoyed the insult "I thou thee thou traitor" offered to Sir Walter Raleigh, presumably just before he was executed. There is a semi-plausible explanation of how thou died out in England

https://www.quora.com/English-language-Why-did-people-stop-u...

but it leaves open the question why it persists in other languages.
There are a shocking number of older tech companies around Boulder (say 10+ years old) that haven't gotten the memo about the market value of engineers. They've somehow gotten away with paying engineers $80k/yr, and now they can't even hire a new grad for that.

I've certainly had several hiring discussions that were going great until we hit salary. I make good money but nowhere near crazy money, yet these hiring managers weren't even in the same ballpark.
> It allows you to ask questions like "What is the likelihood that a curveball is thrown for a strike on a 3-0 count in the 8th inning?" and get statistically significant results.

Does it though? medicine is learning that when you do data mining the bar for statistical significance needs to be much higher. When you do the traditional hypothesis/experiment loop and a result hits 95% likely that is good enough. However when you data mine from millions of data points anything interesting is much more likely to be coincidence. Modern statistics is trying to figure out how to handle this.

Data mining is good for generating hypothesis that you can then test with a controlled experiment. It can be used in meta-analysis to find small effects that were not significant in individual experiments but when you combine them they are significant. However it is dangerous to use it alone.

In more depth, if you look at 100 data points and find 5 things that meet the 95% bar - that is 5 out of 100, odds are that all of them are false positives since you studied 100 things and found 5. (this is a gross simplification of things like p-values, real statisticians will cry about it, but the average person has a chance of understanding)
I think speed will still be valuable as stolen bases continue to decrease across the league, as long as those hitters can still get on base at a .320+ clip. But speed is what makes players who can do it all, like Altuve, MVP candidates now.
Thanks, I figured as much but in the articles on Honnold's ascent I didn't find any mention of a specific route.
I've left all of my previous posts without anything lined up and taken a few months. Even once in to the interview cycle at the end, it's a lot more relaxing (and flexible) than doing them while employed!
Being civil on Hacker News entails regarding other human beings as such.

We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14496368.
nothing wrong with forced hard labor as a punishment for a crime to the degree required by justice

Ah, justice, that famously objective thing we can measure scientifically and which is not subject to any sort of sociopolitical bias.
I became interested in climbing in the early 90s, like the day before the climbing gym revolution swept the world, and there were two compendiums of hair raising tales I read that indoctrinated me into the spirit of climbing, and the experience of being in absolutely atrocious situations at the edge of the unknown: Mirrors in the Cliffs, and The Games Climbers Play. Recommended reading for anyone who might be into such a thing.
In the NYT article[0] he said he's climbed this route without falling in 2008-09, so physically he's been able to do this for 8-9 years.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/california-today-alex-...
How much is the version that doesn't auto-share with hackers?
This page is a good starting point to dive into a number of studies:
http://www.urbanchildinstitute.org/articles/policy-briefs/in...:

UCI is a non-profit, whose board is composed of very qualified childhood health professionals/researchers: http://www.urbanchildinstitute.org/about-us/board-of-directo...

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"Infant exposure to television has been linked to delayed language development and kindergarten readiness skills."

Christakis DA. Audible television and decreased adult words, infant vocalizations, and conversational turns: a population-based study. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2009; 163(6): 554-558.

Zimmerman FJ, Christakis DA. Children’s television viewing and cognitive outcomes: a longitudinal analysis of national data. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2005; 159(7):619-625.

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"Early exposure to TV has also been connected to attention disorders and sleep problems."

Schmidt ME, Pempek TA, Kirkorian HL, et al. The effects of background television on the toy play behavior of very young children. Child Development. 2008; 79: 1137-1151.

Thompson, DA, Christakis DA. The association between television viewing and irregular sleep schedules among children less than 3 years of age. Pediatrics. 2005; 116(4): 851-856.

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"TV use at age three has been linked to behavior problems and to long-term effects on social development, classroom engagement, and academic achievement."

Manganello JA, Taylor CA. Television exposure as a risk factor for aggressive behavior among 3-year-old children. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2009; 163(11):1037-45.

Mistry KB, Minkovitz CS, Strobino, DM, et al. Children’s television exposure and behavioral and social outcomes at 5.5 years: Does timing of exposure matter? Pediatrics. 2007; 120: 762-769.

Pagani LS, Fitzpatrick C, Barnett TA, et al. Prospective associations between early childhood television exposure and academic, psychosocial, and physical well-being by middle childhood. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. 2010; 164(5): 425-431.
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Well no that's not my reaction. You shouldn't jump to conclusions that you want to exist. He had a bad time in jail. He is now unlikely to break the law again, right?

But maybe I'm wrong. Given his other comments it sounds like he's been in jail/prison more than once.
If the area grows, the commute won't be that good in the future.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, a lot of people in the Bay Area moved from the core Silicon Valley cities to some of the outlying East Bay cities like Dublin, Pleasanton, and Walnut Creek, where they could afford larger homes. The commute from those cities to the major job centers is much worse than it used to be.
Yet Whatsapp managed to support 500M users sending 10 billion messages/day using five mobile apps with only 50 engineers.
Yes, the very same point I raise in another comment on this thread. And the difference is this: Manufacturing output is an almost meaningless metric unless its tied to jobs, balance of trade or some other "facts on the ground" statistic. For example, the loss of British manufacturing jobs is strongly correlated to a growing British trade deficit, an enlarged British welfare system, and a concerning British debt-to-gdp ratio.

It doesn't matter how many Trent jet engines Rolls Royce exports if the bulk of inputs are imported and there is little impact on jobs. But, because of the high price, those engine can have quite an impact on reported manufacturing output.
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Thank you so much for these links. Recently I've thought about building something data viz and stats related using baseball stats.

I know MLBAM has a bunch of data they keep to themselves, but I should definitely be able to find something to play with here. Many thanks for sharing!