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Ask HN: What would a “better” LinkedIn look like?
I am working on a side project - a cleaner, better version of LinkedIn. Curious to know what "features" would you want to see in such an application.
Ask HN: What are your favorite Sublime Text 3 Packages
Now that ST3 is out of beta, it is good time to re-evaluate what Packages I have been using. What are your favorite Packages? I'd like to get a good balance of:

1. General Sublime Enhancements - useful to most people

2. Language, Framework or Specialized Tasks - help with a specific type of work

3. Themes and Color Schemes - there are many of these, which ones really make ST3 features set shine
> hate speech" is not a class.

As a hacker, do you not see that there's a security vulnerability here that's big enough to drive a truck through? You simply label whatever you don't like as hate speech, then you're magically allowed to censor it.
It was $1000 earlier this year...
The error in your reasoning lies here :

> Without the decimal point these real numbers just become natural numbers

This is wrong because irrational numbers have an infinite number of digit, if you remove the «dot» you end up with a number infinitely long, which is not a natural number.
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Edit: the set of natural numbers is infinite, which means it can contain arbitrarily big numbers, yet it doesn't contain «numbers» with an infinite amount of digits.
This is why they usually use civil forfeiture against people that cannot afford an attorney -- they do not need to charge anyone with a crime, or provide a public defender.

So, for small cases, the cost of defending dwarfs the loss from forfeiture, and there is no legal recourse in practice.

For this to be remotely fair, you'd need to eliminate the current widespread abuses by law enforcement. For example, there could be stiff penalties when law enforcement loses the civil case.

A minimum of (cost of assets + legal defense fees) * 10 seems reasonable to me -- it would prevent civil forfeiture from being a reliable profit center.
I mostly use safari mobile to access HN and I've nothing to complain about. Links on mobile may not satisfy touch interface standards but oddly I get what I want most of the time when I hopelessly click.
Well-written? I thought it was closed-source.
I already run TrueOS on one of the laptops. I think a lot of us in the illumos community view the people in the FreeBSD community as our brethren in arms, and when Bryan speaks about the values, I also think our two communities share a lot of the values together. The best part is that it's not just lip service, you guys help us out with driver code and the bootloader and we help you out with OpenZFS and DTrace. We love you guys, you're the best!
> * "Batteries included".

That's a tricky one. Right now it's wonderful, because all the included core modules are recent and relevant. I suspect in a decade you might find that the core modules are somewhat more crusty, sometimes support defaults that don't necessarily make sense with what's the common standard at the time, and is hard to change because of backwards compatibility. You might find in a few years you're not using the built in SSL library, or the http2 implementation, because better (either through capability or interface) alternatives have come about, and the core libraries start to look really annoying as you have to continuously tell new users to avoid them in lieu of the current best practice, which is not in the core libs.

It's a trade-off these languages make when designing their core libraries. There are upsides and downsides to both approaches, but one isn't necessarily clearly better than the other overall (even if different approaches have stronger outcomes when the language is new and when it's mature).
Stop putting code and data into the same object. It encourages way too stateful code and lots of cross-dependencies between code components. Pass around plain-old-data instead and the need for dependency injection is much less needed, just inject data instead when testing. And stop adding abstractions premptively, YAGNI.
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Ultimately you just don't like their UI, and want to experiment with making it better. Just do that.
This article has some good points. But I think it's interesting to notice that there are certain kinds of information that even we here in the US, and other liberal countries, censor (and have more or less always censored) without a moment's consideration. Take child porn, for example. So that blows a hole in the idea that there's no clear line somewhere. I wonder, then, why are ideas like Nazism, with its close historical proximity to genocide and the death of millions (arguably much more repugnant than pictures of naked children), somehow given more consideration than something like child porn?
First, the amount of data this would generate is huge. The Pluto encounter was about a day worth of measurements that took over a year to downlink. The link is slow, about 1 kbit per second.

What instrument do you watch? The cameras are more like telescopes with very narrow fields of view. Slewing the spacecraft around aimlessly snapping pictures isn't doing science.

Next, space is big and empty. Many people have visions of dodging asteroids, planets, comets, and moons, but you only encounter these things when you aim for them. A typical journey across the solar system would encounter nothing larger than a grain of sand.
I never said it was chump change and I specifically mentioned big tech companies, not employees at most companies. Please don't put words in my mouth.

I also respectfully disagree that it's rare:
https://www.paysa.com/salary-rank
The way Tim Cook Ballmerized Apple into a company coasting on its past success rather than continuing to innovate is a great example of the pitfalls.
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Because, Facebook is ruining WhatsApp.

Facebook sells information of its users. And yet people are happily feeding their data.

Even WhatsApp's founders were not happy with the Facebook's policy. For them it was a mistakes that they became a product of Facebook.

Yes, I've a problem with that. Don't you think its legit?
Circulating ideas where people disagree about whether or not they're true is an excellent way to discover things. Not just whether the particular ideas true, but why or why not, and where the uncertainty comes from.

In your example, perhaps the most lasting value of priming studies is a much greater understanding of how p-hacking actually misleads us. Everyone knew that it could in theory, but it was general and surprising that entire fields could have an apparent scientific consensus entirely based on p-hacking and file drawer effects.
I think there are two main enforcement tactics.

1. Classify them as a utility like the phone company.

2. Allow safe harbor provisions only for those companies that do not do content discrimination. You can either choose to provide your services to every legal user that pays and have safe harbor, or you can choose who you service based on content and be liable for that content. For example, someone hosts pirated movies. If the company had no content discrimination, it would have safe harbor and would not be liable. If the company had engaged in content discrimination, then the copyright owner could also sue and win damages from the company.
- Facebook wasn't the first social network. People were connected, shared pictures, and had friends before.

- Amazon wasn't the first online store.

- AirBnB wasn't the first short term rental website

- Netflix wasn't the first online movie portal.

- Apple didn't make the first cell phone or even the first smart phone, or the first music player or the first home computer.

- Tesla didn't make the first electric car.

- etc.

Still, the one criticism that startup hear again and again is that "You are late - it's already there".
I did not know that this was an unsolved problem. It is quite paradoxical. You can map the subset of rational numbers in the range [0, 1) to the set of natural numbers, so there are an infinite number of disjoint subsets of the rational numbers that map to the natural numbers. Intuitively a 2nd dimension of infinity should be bigger, but the count of a set is defined to be one dimensional regardless of the dimensionality of the members.

Edit: real -> rational
This is an interesting comparison. Curious as what you think makes OS X better. From what I understand Ubuntu is faster, uses less resources and is much more extensible. All things know to be Sublime-like.
So you actually hit on the correct answer in your response. According to George Friedman, the futurist, it is "to destabilize the region". That might not be the original goal of any mission the US does, but the fact remains, if the US goes into an area and really help a population, we win. If the region is destabilized such as crazy infighting occurs that prevents people coming together and such, the US also wins.

A good example is the often observed fact that "Napoleon was the best thing to have ever happened to the British". Europe was very close to aligning against Britain, and dragging them into a revolutionary war ala the US, but at the last minute a new bad guy appeared, the French, whose energy the other European powers poured themselves into.
How do you know if it is important? I presume you are looking at the caller id? But can't you program your important contacts in your phone to use a different ringtone/vibration pattern?

Having the watch, if you don't mind wearing a watch, might be nice, but I can't justify the extra expense.
Free is only free until your money runs out. Look at Venezuela, the government gave the things you listed as free until they couldn't.
I'm from (arguably) the only Arab Spring success story, so I'm quite familiar with how Middle Eastern dictatorships operate. We have a truth commission that has gone through how people have suffered at the hands of the deposed regime.

Even when compared to similar Middle Eastern autocrats, Assad is simply on a whole other level in my opinion. One might argue it's because of the war, but I really don't see why war crimes and torture prisons are required to "win" the civil war.

On the contrary, his people will never forget. Good luck building a stable and successful country with so much blood on your hands.
I've taught many MBAs and I can attest to their disappointing analytical skills. However, a company like Amazon already has plenty of analytically skilled employees. What they need from the MBAs are their management skills. I suspect Amazon is particularly targeting those MBAs who have experience with operations and supply chain management experience. At Amazon's scale, even a small reduction in costs is worth the cost of hiring all these MBAs.
I’m having a big problem paying monthly for a password manager . May have to just roll my own in swift
Can you extrapolate your thoughts on Phoenix real estate?
These uprisings "keep" happening because the Saudis and the usa provide funds to these rebel groups to oust the Shiite (alawite) regime.
In Bahrain, a Sunni minority government is ruling the state.
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/08/syria-to...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/21/syrias-...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/aug/30/t...

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-03-23/it-was-my-duty-to-...
They're probably converting stock options into a house. That's why you see a lot of all-cash buyers. If you have a few million lying around a house in silicon valley is probably a better investment than stocks and bonds. Especially if it also makes your commute easier and gets you the suburban lifestyle that many american families crave.
It's not like Sublime Text will suddenly stop working when the developers no longer release any updates.
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A couple of years ago (in Oakland) we bid on some houses that were priced at the market rate or slightly over. In one case, we bid a token amount over the asking price, and were the only bidder. In the other case, we were slightly below asking. In both cases, the sellers had expected to get a bidding war and pulled the house from the market. In the first scenario (we bid over asking), the sellers are supposed to pay the selling agent the commission the agent should have received had the deal gone through (that is generally the rule when the agent delivers a full price offer). In the Bay Area market, however, demanding the commission would be fatal to the agent's reputation. The sellers of both houses re-listed about 6 months later and got a much higher price that what we had offered, so they won in the end.
At first glance, pbr appears to solve the problem of having to duplicate my dependencies in both setup.py and requirements.txt.
Oh, more than one infinity in the same reality and no contradiction? What a wonderful world we live in..

More than one zero, more than one infinity, why not? More than on nothingness, more than one everything..
I'm curious how the language support works? There is apparently a plugin for language server protocol, but it's in beta.
There is more that goes into declaring a release as "stable" than just having it not crash.

For example, take the updated homepage, the licence upgrade process, the proper integration into linux package managers and more.

Couple that with the perception of users of things being "stable" having more reliability and them more likely trying it out and finding rare bugs or issues. Just looking at the forum today revealed a couple issues that nobody on the dev releases has discovered or reported.

That said, you still have to release a stable version every once in a while and they knew that. Unfortunately it took longer than anticipated.
I guess my question is, how to we bring this concept out of the "conspiracy-theory" realm into something demonstrably true/false?
> Could someone explain to me why Al Qaeda and ISIS are aligned with Israel's interests?

Much the same reason as Hamas is (and why Israel was instrumental in creating Hamas because it's the enemy they want to have): it's an opponent to their existing more established enemies that creates instability and conflict among Arab and Muslim grouos, and because if it succeeds in displacing the existing groups rather than merely weakening and destabilizing them while killing lots of Arabs, it's ideology is much easier to turn international opinion against.
Update: an article I read this morning says you can choose to disable the attention checking.
Active links:

http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/

http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=oxford_slides

http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=download

http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=installation
What does this have to do with building a wall? They should pass a bill that prevents overloading bills with irrelevant addenda.
Listing under to create a bidding war is definitely a thing in the Bay Area. It's really gotten out of control the last few years. From last month:

Listing: $2M - https://deleonrealty.com/property/4136-briarwood-way-palo-al...

Sale Price: $3.2M - https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/4136-Briarwood-Way-94306...
> True, it's not "apt install"

And I guess it'll never enter Debian/main now, unless a maintainer forks it in order to build Free binaries :/
>I know it will be supported by the community

They won't. Projects like Atom and VSCode thrives because they have big companies behind them. Remove them - and the project will die.

There are tons of abandoned text editors on GiHub.
Still a conflict of interest.
I think the GP was saying it would be unconstitutional to _force_ Cloudflare to serve neo-Nazis.

"We needed a constitutional ammendment for many protected classes, because otherwise there's issues with other rights" is the idea here perhaps?
I'm curious if the population generally thinks this is a reasonable situation. I can easily imagine a 25% difference in valuation of two properties in the same area with the same number of bedrooms, the same age, same space, and nominally the same amenities. I can also imagine a 25% difference based on some newly opened restaurants, new bus routes, etc., that will not be reflected in historical data.

There is also an enormous subjective-experience component in how people value residential real estate, and enormous variation in details that really do matter and aren't available in real estate data aggregates (like lighting profile, and how intelligently the interior design exploits that lighting profile).

It's so far from what I'd consider reasonable based on my (obviously limited) experience, and I'm genuinely curious how the locals feel about it.
Probably, yeah. I think the proof will be in how they deal with HUD-less full screen games like Infinity Blade--will they expect an animated background to draw around the notch, will they be OK with a 16:9 crop to normalize between phones, or what?
Here is a snapshot of sales of lots that are 10.000 to 20.000 sqft sold in the last 3 months:

https://www.redfin.com/city/19457/CA/Sunnyvale/filter/min-lo...

2,5M, with respect to the existing market, doesn't appear to be out of the norm.
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Let d(n) be the sum of the divisors of n (for example, d(6) = 12 because 1, 2, 3, and 6 divide 6 and 1+2+3+6 = 12). Let h(n) be the nth harmonic number, that is, h(n) = 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/n. Let ln(x) be the natural logarithm and let e be, well, e.

Show that the inequality:

d(n) <= h(n) + (ln(h(n)) * e^(h(n)))

holds for all n >= 1.

Best I can do, hope that works! [1]

[1] http://www.theoremoftheday.org/NumberTheory/RobinLagarias/To...
Nothing is faster for me when opening gargantuan text files. It's never broken for me and never lagged either. I think that's pretty impressive, not to mention the customizability options.
Equifax breach is a symptom of poor designs working against each other
Interesting. From my perspective using Typescript and its transpilation power entirely instead of Babel is even easier still. There's a lot less complexity in my builds if I don't need to manage Babel. From that perspective, Typescript has always been easier than Flow, too, though some of that is also bias from how hard Flow has been to get working on Windows up until somewhat recently. I realize though that there are many perspectives on this issue and I asked the previous question because I was indeed curious about your perspective, thanks.
Because people have been labeling each other Nazis for the past decades, that the word lost all meaning. What it kinda boils down to is "a person I disagree with".
I think this sounds like what the GP is describing -- they price above market to seek a higher than market offer. That they aren't inundated by offers simply suggests that the demand isn't there to garner that sort of premium. The market for houses in Silicon Valley is severely supply constrained, so sellers are able to demand a premium (that is, they could price well above what they "market" price ought to be and likely get offers at or near their asking price). It would set up a similar uncertainty in potential buyers minds that results in the absurd offers above asking that we see today.

Put differently: while the specifics of this sale (price well above asking) might be impossible in France, the "sale price well above rational market price" phenomenon is really hard to quash when the market chooses to be irrational for a while.
That subreddit is great. My favorite:

Dave Grohl Says There's "One Thing Missing" From Possible Nirvana Reunion | It's Kurt Cobain.
I'm not a big fan of AppImage. It takes everything good about static linking and then fucks it all up.
He was criticizing Catholicism for relying on reason. You certainly can't then generalize and say Catholicism is anti-reason, so you can't say religion is anti-reason.

What you call dogma is largely a body of knowledge that has been passed down the same way scientific knowledge has been passed down. Ignoring it isn't very different to ignoring the body of published scientific literature and insisting on rediscovering everything for yourself.
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This is about what the Pentagon/military is doing. The CIA had its own operation.

"Reporters have pieced together the Pentagon’s complex supply line to Syria using procurement records, ship-tracking data, official reports, leaked emails, and interviews with insiders. This program is separate from a now-defunct CIA effort to arm rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad."
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Fuchsia OS networking stack will be implemented in Go
Be careful, there are such things as transfinite numbers, and they are well-founded. They let us do wonderful things like transfinite induction, and to prove, for example, that Goodstein's Theorem is true, even though it's unproveable in Peano Arithmetic.

But transfinite numbers are not "natural numbers", they are not in the set N, they don't have infinitely many digits, and in the context of this thread, they are a red herring.
It depends how you look at it.

One way is to say no religion is any more or less convincing than any other, therefore any of them could be true. Also man of them share common features, so maybe they do encapsulate some underlying truth. That leads to Agnosticism.

Alternatively we could demand a higher standard and require proof. None of the religions is able to prove any of their theological beliefs or tenets. Therefore we reject every single one of them. That leaves you with Atheism, because all religions and theological positions are discarded as having no reliable explanatory power, leaving you with no theology at all.

Arguably the atheist position is just more rigorous and demanding, but I don't see how you can claim it is more arbitrary.
> [...] that you probably utilize for thousands of hours over a given year

Assuming 4hs net per day, 20 days/month, 12 months .. thats 960 hours/year

And that's assuming that you spent all those 4 hours _entirely_ on your text editor; no cli, no browser, no nothing.. only text editor.

I'd say that on avg we should be doing ~200 hours per year.. Are there any study about this?
But is what's biological a preference for specific types of jobs, or is it a preference for what society considers "male" jobs? I don't see how this test could distinguish the two.
There's always KeePassX if they're still around.
>Transfinite natural numbers must exist otherwise you do not have an infinite set

Transfinite

This word does not mean what you think it means. I'm not entirely sure what you think it means, but it's definitely not what it means to everyone else.