skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he had more technical capability than a typical SharePoint administrator at the time of his leaks.

Well again there were several journalistic pieces at the time that summarized his work both for the CIA and as a contractor that (taken together) make it pretty clear that, while he's not like some domain expert, his crypto and security skills (before the leak) went significantly beyond that of a typical sysadmin. And again, they're pretty easy to find my keyword searching and the like.

I flubbed the detail about the VPN though -- apparently all he did for Poitras was set her up with a (significantly) enhanced mail drop.
> Of his novels, he said: “This is the kind of fiction I would read if I read fiction.”

Well that explains a lot.
If the law is broad enough that the law can be "enforced" and used to arrest anyone at any given time for almost any reason, then yes, it absolutely is oppression.
Freeform lenses, from what I can see, are an attempt to compensate for higher-order aberration than the standard sphere, cylinder/axis, prism/base prescription
I currently use two apps: Simple Habit and Oak by Kevin Rose. The latter is in public beta and should be generally available in a few weeks. Both apps take different approaches to meditation where Simple Habit is like "Netflix for meditation", Oak is more minimal.

Simple Habit - https://www.simplehabit.com/

Oak - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1673249232974412/
I can really only get 3-4 hours of coding done a day without needing to recharge. I’d love if I could just get to work at 7, code until lunch and then go home, read a book, etc.
Yes. I imagine the last probe doing its last bit flip in the heat death of the universe. Then nothing can be computed anymore and all what will happen is the decay of the matter of the probe. So sad.
The term "hybrid" is not a particularly useful concept, since the whole idea of a microkernel is to achieve stability and extensibility by placing only a minimal kernel in kernel space, and have everything else (drivers, file system, etc.) live in userland.

XNU is built on Mach (initially 2.x back when it was NeXTStep/OpenStep, later 3.0 for OS X), but everything runs in a single address space. Mach ports are retained throughout the OS as a communication mechanism, including userland, but all the core stuff is in the kernel, and Apple has transitioned many Mach port IPC responsibilites to more traditional syscalls to work around the fact that ports are comparatively slow. For example, all POSIX operations such as read and write are BSD syscalls that correspond to entrypoints in the kernel; they're not IPC messages.
How much time have you spent in Scandinavia? I grew up there and it's very much alive and well.
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Not sure why constantly saying "u more!" is an argument at all to deny population voting.
Childish if you ask me.
The UN has no jurisdiction.

The EU, which actually has jurisdiction, is basically siding with Madrid, they will only recognize it if it's legally sanctioned by Madrid.

As for the local Catalan 'law' - it can be superseded by the National Courts. Catalonia does not have 'treaties' with the rest of Spain - there are actual laws.

If it's declared illegal - it's invalid. The police are shutting down dozens of voting centres, there's no way to know in the end the degree to which it's 'valid' ergo, it's not.

There is either a clear and legal referendum, or none.

The Catalonians should have had a referendum that was within constitutional boundaries.

What they should have done was worded the question so that it was legal, like 'do you want to attempt to renegotiate our status with Madrid' - or something like that.
It's used, but not sure if it's used for recruitment:

> The player's squad in the online mode for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, as well as the expansion pack, Portable Ops Plus could use the Fulton system to escape their current mission

http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recove...
> https://twitter.com/aynrandpaulryan/status/91342690928271360...

Do you have a second source for that claim that is not anonymous and not being reported by an anti-Trump activist?
Sources please.
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I like the ideas of negative income tax a lot more, we can help people live better, we can even give some people money, but we cannot ignore effort.
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We're unlikely to see them for much longer; my most recent credit card has the number as a sticker on the back, with no embossed printing at all anywhere on the card. (I've also got an even more recent debit card that does still have the traditional style. But it seems like their days are numbered.)
This is one of the few applications I'm missing badly since I switched to Mac.

Is there a decent free equivalent for Mac? I've tried Gimp, but many things are complicated, hidden or slow.
Are you confusing the not for profit mozilla foundation and the for profit mozilla corporation here ?

The foundation had engaged in tax evasion over the money raised through the corporation and ended up settling with the IRS by paying a $1.5 millions fine[1], they had provisioned $15 millions for this fine, suddenly they got a few unexpected millions to spend on whatever.

I agree that comparing mozilla to google makes little sense as mozilla was working for google in exchange for 85-95% of their revenue. Without google paying mozilla for their users privacy, mozilla would have had to find an actual business model and would not have had the option to wander away from their core product.

On the other hand, without mozilla google would have been mostly the same though would have probably missed some data about millions of users .

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-gets-lucky-settles-irs-aud...
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The same Twitter-posting Apple employee noted in a thread last week that they had intended EFI checks to ship in Sierra. This indicates that Apple has been considering EFI as an attack vector for at least a couple years, and may perhaps (!) be aware of the risk category.
I’m not saying there’s a [citation needed] for every single claim someone makes, but good golly this sure would go better with a link to back what you’re saying.
Pointing to the future of UI (2010)
Roughly, but the nomenclature is different. It's kind of the opposite of metonymy, it's using the more general word ("government") to refer to the more specific thing (the current set of politicians in power).
I write and audit Ethereum smart contracts for a living. Most of the projects I work on aren't much bigger than a thousand lines, and many are less. Some especially large projects are several thousand lines, still many orders of magnitude smaller than Win95.
Currently I have to pay the government if I work (taxes). If I don't pay, I go to jail. So my only other choice is not work and go on "rural agrarian existence, or die".

So, let's see, work and pay the man, or don't work and the man pays you, hmmm...
"For example, property consumption and different steering taxes aimed at changing people’s behaviour, are possible new avenues of income."

I like the overall sentiment, but these statements are ominous to anyone with a even a casual grasp of the history of the 20th century political developments around the world.
Reminds me of rationale behind GPL versus BSD. Or is that far fetched? Are there other analogies?
>> At my -10 diopter in both eyes

I was -9.50 in both eyes and in the same boat as you. I started to get astigmatism which made contacts very expensive (toric lenses).

I went to get LASIK and even though it got me to just 20/30, it was a huge improvement. A few years later I got PRK to fix one of my eyes and I've been fine since, but in another 10 years I'll have to get a light prescription as you can't fight the aging process.
>> Do oncologists need to talk about how bad cancer is every time that they write about it in a public space? Eh.

They would if a surprisingly large portion of the public believed cancer didn't actually exist.
That is a striking perspective. While I was already hesitant about UBI, I had never considered that it effectively expands the power of the government.
Haskell's syntax is very terse, but Haskell codebases can still be more verbose than JavaScript ones because the type system actually makes you think about things like error states. JavaScript is definitely more verbose when you write code for all paths and not just the happy one, but doing so seems far less common in practice than it ought to be.

Another angle on the parent comment is that Roboprog hasn't been exposed to statically-typed languages with good inference. It sounds like they're mostly complaining about type annotations, but at least in Haskell you can get quite far without having to annotate anything.
The agencies in the executive branch are 99% civil service people, not political appointees, and they don't change over every four years. The administration is the President, the cabinet, and political appointees, so I think that's the equivalent term.
Technically speaking, an EV will be lighter when the batteries are discharged. Not that anyone is going to notice or appreciate the difference.

Note: This has no impact on your argument. I only mention it because I love me some physics.

Here's a citation, if you're curious:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-m...

The short version is that it will have less mass when the battery is discharged. However, you're not going to be able to detect a difference on your bathroom scale.

Again, this is being posted as a mere factoid and not meant to argue your point.
The usual extropian retort to this limit has been "reversible computing," but as far as I can tell there has been little work on reversible computing hardware -- far less than quantum computing. It looks like the University of Florida made some hardware in the early 2000s. Can anyone offer insights about why hardware research is so scarce here? Are there reasons to think it's a dead end prior to fabricating anything?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing

EDIT: searching Google Scholar, it looks like only ~50 papers/books mention reversible computing in the past year, compared to 1000+ for quantum computing.
Calorie restriction slows age-related epigenetic changes
Xorg is a fork of XFree86 which was made just because a relatively mild advertising clause was added to the XFree86 license. This resulted in the complete death of XFree86.

People really hate ads. With Adblock Plus, there has been no forking because it's kind of hard to tell unless you're paying attention that it lets some ads through. Either way, I think a lot of people have moved on to uBlock Origin.

Don't underestimate the outrage caused by an ad where there was none before.
I would have thought they'd use Dragonfly BSD. Get it!?! Dragon FLY... 'Cuz it flies...

I'll show myself out.
What exactly are you doubting?
That would be equally applicable to all types of criminal charges.
The trouble with the generic
Eh… I wouldn’t call this phenomenal. https://i.imgur.com/X8g7J1D.png

The design extends about as far as “blur the background of everything”. Beyond that, the choices are not so good. The file explorer’s sidebar was nice, at least.
Not to sound like a doomsday prepper but my dad instilled in me growing up in south Florida to “be the bank” in case I was ever in a scenario like this. I keep a months worth of pay on hand in small bills and a months worth of pay in 1/10th ounce gold coins.

Nothing like needing a bottle of water and only having $20s.
This seems totally irrelevant to the essay.
No, the independence movement took off when the right-wing CiU feared loosing elections. And then it kept growing because it was very convenient to the conservatives in the rest of Spain, equally troubled by corruption :-)
1 kB = 1024 bytes, not 1000.

13*1024 = 13,312.
Patina isn’t free, but it’s only a few bucks and is a decent “Mac-first” paint program.
>>That's by design. If there's equity or promise of profits, it automatically trigger the 'it's a security' lever.

That is not true. There are other components to the Howey Test besides expectation of profit. The DAO was one of the most security-like token issued so far, and the DAO investigative report went over how the SEC believed it met all the conditions for classification as a security. Securities laws might not apply to a great many other tokens.
...I'll start writing pacemakr.js now....
Remove bad habits/ behaviors/people... cure the problem
Spanish is studied alongside with catalan. Out of 10 tv channels, 9 are in spanish. School is mostly taught in Catalan, so what? It's not a commodity, but you are abogating extinguishing a language for commodity?

However I just see for the first time your [1], and as a totally pro-independentist person that I am, I totally condemnd that. Thats blatant catalan fuckup, that is unacceptable and that is not what my independentist rationale claim for.
A proper income tax credit system, which adjusts based on income, is also the solution to eliminating the regressive, backward minimum wage approach that simultaneously punishes low skill labor and small businesses the higher you raise it.

It's also vastly superior to the basic income, which is extremely regressive as it gives money to everyone, including the very well-off top 1/3.
B2G extensions were already WebExtension-based when its preview release landed in Firefox 42. e10s was indeed introduced way earlier, but Firefox OS and Fennec were its main users for a while, which for sure has sped up the development significantly. Same with things like APZ.
Firefox OS was the out of reality belief from mozilla that computer were dead in a handful of years to be replaced by mobile, combined with the absolute nonsense that they could compete without hardware manufacturer support.

Wanting to believe in something is a thing, neglecting your core product and users to bet on a personal belief is something else.
Interested parties will have to explain their laws to voters, convince them that it makes sense to legislate their thing and not a competing law.

The second one is very easy. Allocate voting points to every citizen. This way, they shop for laws they want every year.
Yes, a U.S. "administration" is the closest analogy to a "government" in the sense usually used in reference to parliamentary systems when talking about a particular leader's government or a change of government, as opposed to the government of the country ("Europe" is sort of beside the point here, as its more about form of government than geographic location.)
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I’m truly amazed how MZ is getting away with this. I know I’m not the only one, everyones frustrated but it’s got so extremely ridiculous. I love this game I had so much fun playing. I didn’t mind spending a little bit of money I enjoyed it. They literally almost made it impossible for me to even play there so many updates. I’ll spend all my time upgrading by the time I’m finished there’s 50 more. the last few months have just continue to get worse. updates hourly you’ll spend couple hundred dollars and your account is obsolete the next day or even within an hour. If you’re not logging in every day it’s impossible to even keep up. The sad part is it was a great game it was fun and they’re destroying it. I just done know and how they can get away with this. I wish there was something we could do someway to get the game back, and get them to just chill the F out. I could go on and on, but I just want to start a comment thread and see what everyone else is feeling. Maybe someone has some ideas of what we could do or anything I don’t even know.

It’s just shocking it sucks because we’ve lost so many great players in the game that most of us once loved. I don’t mind spending money on something that I enjoy but not if my money is just being thrown in the garbage.

As far as I’m concerned MZ is a criminal. This cannot be OK for them to allow us to spend all this money. Invested in something and then just destroy its value in minutes.

I’m so shocked by this and I honestly think the only reason they’re getting away with this is because it something so different. Something that’s never really happened before there’s no one looking out to protect gamers. MZ is leading the bandwagon to create a new way to scam people.

I think if there was some kind of law put in place to protect consumers who are playing these apps and games. There was somebody monitoring these developers. I think we could stop things like this from happening.
Some taxis still have this for when their Square reader doesn't work.
In awe of your fine work, gracias. BTW: The settings UX is my favorite aspect of VLC. It's like if NASA designed a video player.

I only have ETH in my wallet... will try to donate later.
It's also a demo of the most glaring game issue: game doesn't work on non USA keyboard.
you need to radically reduce the cost of goods and services. How ?

Automation.
One is total dependency in which you can't exist without the government giving you an income. The other is the government being dependent on you and taking part of your income as their revenue source. In the first case, you're the dependent; in the second case, the government is the dependent.

Further, keeping with your example, it's not: don't work and the man pays you. It's: don't work and become entirely owned by and dependent on the man (who is the source of everything you have).
Doesn't mean it's a good idea; Jenkins recommends 2GB. That's 50% right there.
This is an urban legend or folk tale or whatever you want to call it. I've seen this exact same story before only it was a soap factory in Japan or something like that. It's presents a good lesson but isn't a true story at least this re telling of it isn't.
"Data from Media Cloud, a database that collects news published on the internet every day, shows that the devastation in Puerto Rico is getting comparatively little attention..."

But the graph (and data) cut off before Maria even made landfall in P.R. It didn't make landfall until 10:15 on the 20th.
Pf I know it's media based (so yeah... take the "reliable" part of it with a grain of salt... or handful maybe)

http://www.expansion.com/economia/2017/09/29/59cd50b8ca47412...
There's no reason that government can't be vastly reduced in a world that is capable of sustaining UBI. The only way UBI works is with massive increases in automation and productivity. At that point, why is a large, powerful government needed?

And further to the point, why can't collection of taxes and distribution of UBI be fully automated, taken away from governments altogether?
The thing that changes in a change of "government" isn't the whole executive branch -- most parliamentary systems have a well-developed permanent civil service. What changes are the PM, cabinet, and some subordinate political rather than civil service officers. That's pretty much a precise parallel to a U.S. "administration", not the whole of the executive branch.
Personally I’m doubting that they’re accurately representing things
They are not very complicated. A decent machinist can replicate the parts. There isn't much of a call for exotic alloys or anything.

This is, of course, assuming society starts to reform and not all knowledge is lost. There will still be pockets of tech and society left, and there will still be power sources that stay running - like hydro.

Humans are pretty resilient and adaptable. If we don't kill the entire population off, we will probably be okay. Maybe not okay as an individual, but okay as a species.
Net neutrality in the USA affects everyone because it will shape the future of competition on the web in one of the largest and most important markets. Basically, entrenched giants will be much harder to disrupt across the globe, because of their huge incumbent advantage in the USA.

A startup trying to disrupt Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc. will have a much harder time succeeding if it doesn't have equal/fair access to the American market. Added to the fact that historically most web startups come from the USA, and you're talking about a potentially huge decrease in total innovation on the web.
Except most hard but interesting operations with Git are not very visible in histories.

They are:

- getting a clear status of you repo so you know where you are and what you do;

- figure out which one of the various method of undo you need for this specific screw up;

- find a practical way to compare this particular version of a snippet with another particular version of a snippet, and work on the result;

- merge the terrible mess you coworker rush-pushed to avoid to be the one to have to merge;

- rediscover the arcanes required to save only what you want. Maybe I should branch and commit. Or stash. Or reset and add. Or do an interactive thingy ?

- survive a rebase with squashing;

- use the history, trying to look for clues of what the heck is going on with the current version of your code.

- setting up those damn editors, viewers, differs, etc.

So I LOVE your idea, because having a set in stone subset of git for most projects that give you one, and only one, obvious way to do X is really needed.

But I don't think stats will help you. You need a LOT more than that. You need several people that have tried it all, can agree on a solid, versatile yet definitive workflow that will work in the pareto case. And then a UX designer that can sculpt that into something.

And right now, I have tried every single git UI under the sun, command line and not, and they all fall short outside of the basic use cases.

Some manage to prevent the user from screwing up too much (github client), some have a nice overview window (kraken), some have defined a clear subset of operations (GUM), some are productive (smart git), some are well integrated to the file explorer (git tortoise) or the IDE (vscode)...

But basically, every time I go back to give a Git training session, I have to start with the classic cmd client. Because that's the only one I can trust to do the job perfectly. But I also have to provide such a long cheat sheet it's not even funny. And it's useless before each student perfectly understand what's going on anyway.

Git is merciless with understanding and doesn't allow high level thinking. We have yet to come by with a decent abstraction for it.
Out of curiousity -- how many people on HN have a faraday cage where they store stuff? Maybe a box/room/shed/garage? As prep for a Carrington Event or nuclear EMP scenario?
Off-topic: do you know if there exist glasses that do not touch the nose?
Prior to learning to analyze, yes, I did feel that way. In fact I was swallowed up by those feelings quite often, for years.

After learning more about analysis, not so much. Analytical thinking is more tactical and adaptive. It says, "forget about the big picture of who you are and what this says about you, and just focus on what this situation seems to demand. Which changes would seem to give you the most leverage on your next try?" So I'd try different things the next time and kind of keep a log, asking how it was all working. "Star date..." I was Jean-luc Picard and today was another episode. An internal monologue helped.

Tactical / analytical thinkers are good negotiators. I began to admire those who were in it to _win_ it, not just to give it a shot and see what happened. I followed study blogs and watched presentations by negotiators. For all they knew, if they failed at reaching a goal, it was the goal's fault! This was a real reset to my thinking.

I also have a son who is a very gifted tactical thinker. He's constantly analyzing and negotiating. Analyzing his behavior, I've learned that he will ask again and again until you get sick of him asking for things. The asking comes at little cost to him and there's a good chance that the asked will give in.

So: I'm more of an asker now. And I find that I accomplish more as a result.

I don't mean to communicate that I'm perfect, some kind of ubermensch, btw. Just sharing what I've learned. Also, I don't think this advice will work for everybody, but I hope it can help you somehow.