skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet people here and the NYT are labeling this "far right" and even alt-right. It's laughable.
Not just him, but his family, possibly colleagues and friends would suffer.
Met him at a metro station in Boston as I was going for a job interview. The company used Gnu/linux but the devs didn't even know who Stallman or Linus were. I didn't get the job because I wasn't "technical" enough. I was not asked any technical questions. Probably dodged a bullet there.
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So what if your kid has access to a MacBook Air? Would you still start him/her out on an iPad or is it the same experience starting out on a Mac? Or is it too much/overwhelming to get started on Mac/Xcode from the get-go? Great suggestion, thanks for sharing this.
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This is one of the things that stood out to me at the launch of this phone: using a site that clearly copies the Kickstarter design language, but on a non-kickstarter page, has always felt shady. The assumed guarantees Kickstarter makes are not present. (It was not clear if they would issue refunds if they failed to make the minimum threshold, for example).
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It's in the default METADATA branch in Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl/tree/metadata-v2/FF...

so you can just Pkg.add it rather than having to Pkg.clone it from a special source.
You say Helm solves or will solve all these problems.

But if I don't actually need to be able to reach the box in order to use my email - if it will work even when the box is offline, powered-down, stolen, or destroyed - then what, exactly, is the point of the $500 box itself?

It's not privacy, it seems. If it were private, how could it work when the box is offline?

I'm not opposed to a "pay for your email instead of it being ad-and-surveillance-supported" model. I just don't see the point of paying $500 for a box that you're telling me the service will function just fine without.
Since your ability to educate yourself has been exhausted at a single misreading of irony, others will do it for you:

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
Did Russia liquidate their Treasurys or just move them offshore?

The Kremlin may be trying to pull off a balancing act by mostly shifting its cache offshore, rather than selling outright.

Analysts at the Council of Foreign Relations this week found that holdings of American bonds in Belgium and the Cayman Islands increased by about $45 billion in the same period that Russia was reducing its U.S.-based hoard, meaning it may have been an attempt to protect against seizure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-15/russian-g...
If you feel like doing this yourself, get something like a Raspberry Pi 3 (or better, like the Asus Tinker Board) and use sovereign (from github) to automatically install your own mail server/owncloud on it.

Then get a dirt cheap VPS (less than $15/yr) from lowendbox/lowendtalk and run a OpenVPN tunnel.

So what's the advantage of having this at home instead of an ISP?
For one, backup and restore is fast and easy. You can use your NAS that's at home. You may want to have an additional offline backup in case your home network gets completely compromised.
A box at home is also more difficult to tamper with. If you're paranoid, put it into a tamper resistant box.
The PDF is in Comic Sans so I've also included another link to the paper that doesn't use Comic Sans https://www.brynmawr.edu/cs/resources/beauty-of-programming
I think Pico-8 would be perfect if:

a) The code editing story was a bit nicer (better resolution / builtin support for external editing and reloading etc)

b) If there was some kid-specific introductory game programming content for it (even "type all this in and play around with it after" worked for me as a kid)
Or just make the window 100% transparent. AFAIK all mainstream OSes on all mainstream platforms support transparent windows.
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I really don't agree with many of the points of the article.

Non indented bullets? That is just wrong on so many levels (pun intended). Negative letter spacing is way less legible IMO. Etc.

Also, the web is a different medium than paper. These old school typographic idioms are becoming less and less relevant every day.

The most used websites such as Facebook or Twitter are proof that users don't really care about old school vertical rhythm.

OTOH I will agree that we still haven't distilled the graphical language of the web. Hopefully in a couple of decades we will have a consensus based on a historical body of practices.
> I've seen so many job listings calling for extensive experience with Bootstrap, for example. Why would knowledge of CSS and the grid system not suffice there?

Because their current system might already be using Bootstrap, so they need someone who understands it to be able to continue the work.
It's true that it's often a logical relativism. Some would say whataboutism these days. If alcohol is legal, and weed less harmful thus I can overdo it too :)
What's backwards? Who cares how we got cloud providers? They are responding to customer demand and we've had colos and datacenter players for decades doing similar things, just at a smaller scale.

Obviously the service is managed and that has value, regardless of the backend and your opinions on how they run it. Perhaps your issue is with all the customers who want and pay for this rather than providers meeting a need.
With public key encryption, a cloud provider doesn't need your private keys to encrypt data that can be only viewed by you—they need your public key.

In the parent, the private keys are not on the premises of the cloud company.
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This is in response to this comment, as well as the parent: Minimize your trust in all-in-one authentication services. A password manager is reasonable (still makes me nervous), because it makes it simple to have a different complex password for every account. But taking Persona for instance, it claims "free yourself from password management". Don't do that. When you free yourself from managing your security, you are not secure. It really is as simple as that. Security takes diligence. One could even say that security is diligence. The harder you make it for yourself, the more secure you are.

Regarding the possibility of locking yourself out of your accounts, one suggestion that I have is to have one or more primary accounts that you use to recover all of you less critical accounts, and keep the device used for authenticating to those at home, preferable in a safe. Do not use this device for your normal 2FA - only use it as 2fa and recovery for the primary recovery accounts.

For the remaining accounts, use a separate device that you carry around with you. This way when you eventually lose access to something, you'll have a better chance of getting it back. In other words, a lost phone wont necessarily turn into a catastrophe because you've lost your only means of 2fa.
Fun tidbit (from the Wikipedia article) that Peberholm is named "Pepper Islet" as intentional joke that it's neighboring natural island is Saltholm ("Salt Islet").
This kind of stuff is regularly done at LHC - they simulate the detectors and the collisions, and then compare real data against that, to both confirm that the detectors are working properly, and for searching of new physics.
Yeah, I meant to say it's no longer in the standard library. It's not given special privileges anymore, so we are free to iterate alternatives to it. I'm not sure how to edit and fix that post (there's another typo in there :( )
Indeed; it's unfortunate, really.

I step in and out of engaging in political discourse online, but spend most of my time outside of it. I only come back to test my (hopefully) improved perspective to see how my worldview holds up against the critiques that the internet throws at me.

I'm about due to another half year or more recess away from social media, though. It definitely wears on you.
I can second this. Semantic was never set up with real modularity in mind. There is tons of relational knowledge you need to have to make anything work well.
we should not.
Collect all of Earth's extremophiles--those tolerant to heat, cold, radiation, drought, high pH, low pH, organic pollutants, etc.--and pack them all into an artificial spore casing. Pack those into a spacecraft.

Aim the spacecraft at a detected planet or moon, and set it to start ejecting spores whenever it nears a massive object. Make the spores break open and release their biological payload when an accelerometer detects an impact spike, starting a timer, which is reset by changes in acceleration.

Most spores will break open in an environment too hostile for the extremophiles, but some will land in conditions that at least partially overlap those found on Earth, and those could reproduce. A cold desert planet could become a lichen-encrusted planet. A wet volcanic planet could become a vent-tubeworm planet.

If we ever have the wherewithal to reach those planets eons later, the extremophiles that evolve there could be sequenced and broadcast around explored space for use in other spore-ships.

Panspermia from meteorite ejecta would be a slow and painfully random process. An engineered--and, more importantly, aimed--spore craft would increase the odds tremendously.
I was thinking about external company consultant, since I have more experience with that type than self-employed (I'm a consultant, working for a big French consulting firm (Alten)). Also I think there's more available company consultant than self-employed consultants in France.

I agree that external company consultant are more expensive than employees, but on the other hand it's much more flexible than employees.

> in some places state tries hard to force self-employed consultants into permanent positions

I don't think that France is trying to do that, but it's from talking to a half-dozen of self-employed consultant, so anecdote, not checking the legislation. Still in France, regarding consultants, there's a limit on how long a consultant can stay in the same mission, I think that beyond three years, the law state that they should become employee where they are really working. But I don't know how much it is applied.
However, if you run both commands consistently, nothing untoward occurs:

touch -- -l
ls -- *

The fact that you have to use a double-hyphen flag to create a file with a name starting with a hyphen is a strong indication that this situation is an edge case.
This is not a god situation. So, EC2 are handy and flexible servers, but not really because some arbitrary internet services are banned, and in all of a sudden your whole setup depends on the cloud provider. Talk about tight coupling. We go backwards. This is really sad.
I can't help but feel that this is something that Apple should do with their AirPort Time Capsule. Give user the choice of hosting their own iCloud instance on the AirPort Time Capsule. It feels like a great way of selling more hardwares.
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Or Angular v1
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Except in this case the consumption could have happened years prior, as opposed to being actively intoxicated.

edit: not saying I agree with Dubai's policies.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how strongly you feel about ads or anything else. Please don't do this again.

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Election fraud? Are you serious? Your response is pretty much the essence of why this meme is a huge hit: because it's true. It's like the left is just jealous they can't meme and aren't funny anymore.
That's awesome, and there must be more stories you can tell about this guy. If so, do tell!
Saw this last night: http://www.anotesark.com/ Had never heard of Kiribati (pronounced roughly Kiribahs). That country could be the canary in the coal mine for the rest of us. Glad there are people such as Gates who are not waiting around.
Nitpick: this only works if the player played exactly three moves (in the version of Tic Tac Toe I know you can play for up to 5 moves). Generalizing to 4 moves is fairly simple, to 5 moves less so; you can test all '3 from 5' combinations, which is only 10 possibilities, but I doubt the code to do this is easy to read and understand after the fact.
Some great stuff in this repo thanks. I'm particularly interested in resources that build a type system up step by step, from very simple and working towards Hindley-Milner
Most (gmail claims ~90%) email is encrypted with opportunistic TLS in transit and can't be passively monitored.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...

Further, "the provider could intercept email" and "the provider stores all email" are very very different.
Thanks for your encouragement! I appreciate the feedback and keep tabs on our GitHub for what we open source down the road.
I wasn't debating your point; I was pointing out how this service accomplishes it without tripping over that problem. FWIW: I'm not sure that's actually how it works.
Even if you dislike the idea or the price, you should be happy there are companies trying to change what has become a real privacy problem these days. At least for me, it gives me hope to think people out there are working on these issues and trying new approaches with new technology.
You mention that you use a hardened Linux OS, but you don't discuss any of the other opensource software that you use. While you technically only have to distribute the sources to the people that receive your hardware, it would be nice to know these kinds of things before purchasing. This is a niche market you're marketing to that has a history of researching these kinds of things.

Are you using a custom distro or one of the off the shelf ones? What webserver (presumably there is one) is running on this? MTA? What're you using for backups? Is this just a ownCloud running under the hood with a tunnel to AWS and small proprietary layer on top?

Along different lines, how to do the backups work? Are they just stored on the device (what happens when its drive dies)? If not where are they stored and how much manual intervention is required. If your company goes under can I use any opensource software to decrypt the backups and access my emails?

Edit: With the list of sources in hand I can answer a lot of the questions I posited. So for others interested:

Distro: Still unknown, but see additional interesting tidbits.

Webserver: Neither nginx or apache are present. If I had to guess its using golang's net code to run any webserver / API that is present

MTA: postfix, dovecot, opendkim, opendmarc, spamassassin (might be more components I missed)

ownCloud: Doesn't appear so

backup software: Duplicity

backup location / process: Unknown

Interesting other tidbits:

OpenVPN is present, and so is ipsec-tools/strongswan. So they might be using either IPSec, OpenVPN or a combination of both for the tunnels. They could just be distribution defaults.

It's running docker, I'm guessing they're using some form of container image sync update system rather than a proper package manager.

It contains a fully developer toolchain, so presumably this is a full distribution rather than a minimized / custom one.

Based on the versions it appears the ARM processor is a QorIQ variant which is an ARM evolution of the PowerPC architecture.

Contains the libatomic libraries, so perhaps this is running on Fedora Atomic as an underlying OS? Would explain the presence of docker and give an idea how they're providing updates.

Appears to have a wifi chip (I couldn't find any information about connectivity on their site). Specifically it seems to be using a Qualcomm ath10k chip.
Attacking someone like this will get you banned here, regardless of how ignorant they are. Please don't do it again.

On HN, if someone doesn't know something, please either politely inform them or leave that for someone else to do.

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True, but you need water rich asteroids to crash in the immediate phases after planet formation, and then you need life to develop. After which you need asteroids to not crash into the planet. Of course in the meanwhile, you need a lot of other things like formation of atmosphere, plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions, lakes sitting on geysers etc etc.

Basically things have to (not) happen in a series of steps for life to form, even if other things like a rocky planet being situated in the goldilock zone come true. This is apart from a lot of other factors, like not having a big sun etc etc.

All this suggests even if we consider 'Terrestrial mediocrity' to be true. Life could just very very rare across the universe, if not totally absent.
I think it fits with his current phase of wanting to explore his human side.
Your setup with Let's encrypt certificates is exactly what I was thinking about. I was thinking however about a one step further. Put the server on a smartphone. This way you're pretty much covered most of the time. Also one could be notified as soon as email is incoming. I thought also about a home server that would be used as a secondary.

It would be best to give ability to create random subdomains, so a user can have a separate addresses for everyone. Then it would be easy to filter out spam on the proxy level. Which is crucial for a server on a mobile phone.
New Brunswick's stores look like Apple stores complete with iPads on wooden tables to browse their catalog.

https://twitter.com/CBCNB/status/1052536817864626176?s=09

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Well, yeah. Vet your partners. They need to have a realistic and achievable idea that makes sense to you. "Business plan" becomes their responsibility, and it needs to be better than "collect underpants, ???, profit!", or "Facebook for cats" or whatever.
I should have pointed out that I was referring to the new Redesign of the desktop web. I never use the mobile web.
Sure. Listen if you want to know what those racists are saying because you need to be able to counter their messages, but no they are not valid statements to consider.
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I tried to get a business account once at Comcast, and they wouldn't give me one that terminated at an apartment. : /
They don't just tax the profit, do they? If they tax the sale price, it's pretty easy for the taxes to exceed your profit margin.
Because that gives the application even more chances to do the wrong thing, which is what we were trying to avoid.
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It isn't Comic Sans - the lower-case m is wrong. Comic Sans has a very jaunty and distinctive lower-case m.

I don't know what this actually is, perhaps some open-source stand-in. For some reason I haven't thoroughly researched replacements for Comic Sans.

Looks like the link has changed now anyway, so this is disappointingly moot.
Helm, also known as "Hillary Clinton" v1.0 (just joking, no politics intended). Anyway, while it is kind of awkward having a physical server at home or office, there's a sense of peace knowing i control my own privacy, especially when I can see the server with my own eyes. While people argue about using SaaS email service like Fastmail, nothing can be truly secure, with exception to true end-to-end encrypted email service like ProtonMail. Most email providers, even the privacy-centered email service like Mailfence, are still required to turn over their data in case of local (Belgian) court order.

The only thing I'd really want is to have option to not pay for annual $99 fee, and instead have everything configurable so that I can point tunnel it to my own VPS/VPN or I can use it at the office, where the business ISP account allows me to host my own email server.
Yeah that’s a great example of memoization. Also, the surprising:

phi = (1 + sqrt(5))/2.0
def fib(n):
return round(phi**n / sqrt(5))
"JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, where there are so many better alternatives (to a first approximation, every other programming language ever used), is utterly appalling."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851
It has both of those. Most of the tutorial is in the pico8.txt file though.
To be fair, immigration has been a mainstay of American hegemony. I don't think anyone supports doing away with borders, just that our immigration laws shouldn't be so draconian as to have things like children in detention camps and people spending days in deserts to seek economic opportunity.
This is cool. I never actually realized that magic squares exhausted all of the sums to 15; in other words, there is no triplet which sums to 15 and is not already a row, column, or diagonal. No false positives, so to speak.

I wonder if this is true of larger magic squares.
I agree with your opinion if the Kickstarter design being copied too closely, but they are far from the only ones doing this. Other crowdfunding sites are virtually indistinguishable from this page too.
Comcast in the US doesn't give residential accounts a static IP, nor do they give you the option to purchase one. You have to sign up for a business account with a 2 year contract term and a pretty draconian cancellation policy (basically the entire rest of the term is due when you cancel).
> Cattle are a huge source of methane; in fact, if they were a country, they would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases!

Imagine how opposed to a carbon tax the beef industry would be.
archive link if the site is too slow: http://archive.today/2018.10.17-152207/http://retractionwatc...
the truth is that law enforcement isn't even in the top 10 of dangerous jobs

The police unions would have you believe that it was. Regarding people killed on the job, law enforcement is right there with construction work, but most deaths on the job are traffic deaths. Actual genuine targeted murders of police officers are rare, it's about 40/year. The number of civilians killed in police-involved shootings is a different magnitude altogether, over 1000/year.
NYC is tough for (inexpensive) event space generally. You might try reaching out to meetup organizers and see where they meet. A lot of the time though meetups are in the evening and the space won't be available during the day. There are hotels of course but that raises the price a lot.
How are the valuations calculated for companies that haven't raised a priced equity round in a long time? Specifically I'm thinking about companies like Zapier. They initially raised $1.3M in 2012 but haven't raised since and have funded off revenue. Is it based on private 409A valuations or some sort of formula on YC's end?
Well, how do you propose this sort of framework work with them since it needs its own Javascript? At which point it can offer a better experience by at least tying in to one framework (like letting you drive a component's state with props).
We use duplicity for backups so there's nothing proprietary in our approach. There will be more transparency coming in a series of technical posts about how the product works, what open source software we use, etc. Appreciate the feedback - we'll keep this in mind as we move forward.
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> and bob's your uncle

Completely OT, but I had just had to look up this phrase and the supposed origin made me chuckle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_your_uncle
What do you guys think of that cross-distro, Linux installation method?

curl -L https://... | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin
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Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma/teaching/beautyOfProgramming.....