skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropbox is not the only option. While not officially supported, I sync 1Password just fine using BTSync in local mode (no tracker, no relay).

Sure, it's kind of a pain (I can only sync on my home network) but worth the trade off to me. I mean how often do you have to sync passwords?
Those are goalpost-moving requirements. Netflix didn't say anything about spoilers, etc.
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Just like every other barrel combination lock, these are trivial to compromise. For me, trivial equals not needing any tools and opening it quickly enough to not draw any attention in a public space. Recently someone locked their bike to my fence with one so I figured it was fair game since it was on my property & fastened to my fence. The combination was "FUSE." The first thing that popped into my head was "short fuse" so I put the lock back on and spun the tumblers.
> instead preserve arbitrary modifications customers have made

Which, having worked in a PC repair shop in a past life, makes it difficult to both diagnose the initial issue and to test the fix. How do I confirm it's a hardware and not a software issue without knowing that the base platform state is in working condition?
Gaming granny and grandson
Talking about meritocracy and the US sounds strange to me. If we agree with use the term "meritocracy" it should be noted the distinction in the meaning with today's.

Today merit means working and generating value for others. In the past, specially in the US it meant killing other people and stealing what they had.

"I think the British were nervous about Napoleon setting up shop in America and building a war machine that he would use to dismantle the British Empire."

The British were not nervous. They knew that Napoleon could not be trusted if left alive, because he could go back to France in order to take the power, like he actually did.

"his pitch to Europeans was basically that he would give them freedom from the yoke of the nobility."

While proclaiming himself emperor and putting all his family in charge as the new nobility, including his son as his heir ...
If your ideas go unchallenged - are you learning?

If you're "triggered" by history lessons - do we need to rewrite history? Is it even considered history at that point?

Who's "safety" should we prioritize? What if two students ideas of safety conflict? How would that be resolved?

Should we focus on teaching or "student safety" from ideas? Which is more important in an academic setting?
> I'm referring to "soft sciences" like social work, psychology, sociology, [grievance] studies, poli sci, etc, as opposed to the humanities

Race/ethnic/gender/subculture (what you seem to call "grievance") studies are humanities (academic disciplines that study human culture) not sciences (soft or otherwise.)
New JavaScript NodeList Library
If you learn bash, and you learn vi, then the next most glorious addition is:

set -o vi

Then you have vi keys in your shell. And it is marvelous.
I'm glad the author took time to mention sl - every sysadmin should make sure that its installed on all the boxes they manage.
Cheryl's Murder – How to generate and solve logical deduction problems
Hopefully gradual increase in interest rates will result in stabilization of stock value as people pull out for safer low-rate returns (which are basically non-existent now).

Then again the fed sure is taking their time...
Depression affects about 4-12% of the people -- depending on how you look at the numbers -- not insignificant. What you seem to be talking about is not major depression. I grant it may be an interesting theory for some mild depressions, although I'd prefer to see some evidence presented. To suggest it to someone who has actual, clinical depression can come off as offensive and patronising, thus the kind of response you received from Devthrowaway80.
I'm against permanently "flipping the bozo bit" on any source, and yes, the grandparent post's pure-shunning against-the-person is both unhelpful and corrosive.

But there's a case to be made that the extent of Hari's prior dramatic fabrications still hasn't been recognized, and that he still tends to embellish details in more recent work:

http://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/2014/9/7/kdgwxcbsned1rknh0h3...

(For me, a compelling excerpt from his book a few months ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8919880 – seemed vague and jumbled on timelines enough for me to wonder about the trustworthiness of Hari as a narrator... even though I'm naturally sympathetic to criticisms of the drug war and drug-warriors.)

As wrong as it is to say Hari "is" inherently something bad, it should be fair to remind the unaware of what he once-upon-a-time did via his reporting, and that those who are conservative with their trust may still want to take his most poignant reporting with a grain of salt.
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Strange fact: changed my master password a few min ago. But there's a message saying it was changed 23 hours ago.
> Many people may not agree that diversity should supercede meritocracy in a company.

If the diversity is viewed by the decision-makers of the company as part of the mission, than actions consistent with it are part of merit in the context of employment with the company. "Merit" isn't a freestanding thing unrelated to the context of employment, it is meaningful only in regard to what the company is hoping to achieve by paying you.
This looks interesting! Do you have any articles, papers etc. I can read?
Awesome for the github folks!
If anyone had trouble seeing the embedded flash of slideshare, here's the direct link to the slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/a16z/state-of-49390473
I'll give you an up vote because it's a fair question. (And, I don't see any reason why someone would down vote.) I don't want to spin my appreciation for Hunter, but I'll provide you some articles. If you want some interesting reads, his most influential books are (pre-gonzo) 'Hell's Angels', 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', 'Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72', and, much later, 'Kingdom of Fear'.

'Campaign Trail 72' is about the antics at the 72 Democratic Convention to get George McGovern the party's nomination. He was a longshot, but many young writers (including Hunter) started a movement to get him nominated; which succeeded. A lot of people thought that Nixon was undefeatable that year, but things got interesting after the youth movement behind McGovern. Unfortunately, his campaign failed miserably after his running mate, Thomas Eagleton, revealed that he underwent electric shock therapy years earlier. I think that many people would qualify McGovern as the first progressive democrat to be nominated, but, TBH, I don't know much about him, or his campaign, other than what I've already told you.

The other books don't need any introduction, from me, because you can easily find out a lot about them.

Articles by Hunter (personally selected):

"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Deprived", notable for his first meeting with Ralph Steadman. [1]: http://grantland.com/features/looking-back-hunter-s-thompson...

"He was a Crook" Obituary to Richard Nixon [2]: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a...

... Somewhere there is an article about Hunter talking about his only conversation with Nixon. They talked about football. Both men hated each other, but Nixon had no idea who he was talking to at the time. Those events are fictionalized in the movie 'Where the Buffalo Roam' starring Bill Murray as Hunter.

"Fear and Loathing in America" - Published September 12th, 2001 [3]: http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751

"Don't you dare cancel football" - [4]: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=thompson/040...

"Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray" - His last article, submitted hours before his suicide. [5]: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1992213

'Hey Rube, Page 2' Archive [6]: http://totallygonzo.org/gonzowriting/hst-hey-rube-espn-page-...

Edit: As for the documentary that you watched, it was likely 'Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson' which was produced by his son, Juan, and narrated by Johnny Depp. As far as his family life, he raised his son, and remained friends with his first wife. I don't know the facts behind the abuse claims, but he was certainly a chaotic person. So, I would imagine he was a difficult person to be around.

Edit2: Fixed the documentary mentioned in the first edit, I had stated it was 'Buy the ticket, take the ride'.
They call it HTML5 player because it's using the HTML5 <video> tag and using native browser controls. Being decoded by an external module isn't determinant - in fact, Firefox uses the same infrastructure (GMP) for both encrypted and unencrypted videos.
The Traveling Programmer: The adventure begins today
Lynching can be funny. Just like the holocaust and racism can be.
I also like that in an emergency I can log in to Dropbox (one of four passwords) I remember, and open the HTML 1Password implementation (another I remember), and start to reaccess my services if all my devices get stolen.
Hear back from their lawyer accusing you of extortion.
Many highly valued tech companies do secondary offerings to allow average employees to get some liquidity.

Sure, the general public may not "get in early" but M&A is far less risky for both VCs and general investors. If mostly "sure things" make it to IPO, it's far less likely for the general public to be exposed to the meltdowns that made the headlines circa 2000-2001. The flipside is that until the startups IPO, the VCs and founders are exposed to most of the risk.
When you read "public returns" that doesn't mean the middle class. The "public market" the deck is referring just means that the trading happens on the open market (NASDAQ, S&P, etc.) rather than in private deals. Regardless, it is always the big players who make the big returns. The average investor wasn't the one making all the returns on Microsoft either. So you are right that the rich use these tools to get richer, but it is hardly a new thing.
I see it as the cost of forming a startup is much lower now so they can stay private longer. Combined with VC companies and angel investors flush with money, they are keeping the companies private longer to capture more of the gains. Then there are established companies who want to stay relevant who throw money at startups with no profit in sight but cool technologies.

My guess is that in the end, problems will come when the established companies slow down in acquisitions and the VC companies and angel investors get tired of startups which can't show profit.
Those would all be good questions that I would have liked the article to give some attention to.

For instance, do the trigger warnings on historical content imply a way for students to avoid that content and still graduate the class? Or does it merely say what material will be covered, just as a syllabus does, so that students can be mentally prepared?

Have there been conflicting ideas of safety? Concrete examples may be helpful to figure out what we're talking about.

What's a good basis for determining what needs to be taught? I can imagine, for instance, a top-notch CS curriculum that involves no classes about history. (MIT's graduation requirements, for instance, don't require any history classes.)

The article doesn't talk about any of this, and instead spreads FUD about the impending destruction of the academy.
Jenkins has a Lambda plugin now so I've setup the typical GitHub Branch > Webhook > Jenkins > Lambda workflow. Push to a stage branch, the function is updated pretty quickly. Test then push to prod.
Lithium salts are most commonly prescribed in pill form. Their therapeutic range is quite narrow, and the toxic range follows quickly beyond that, so blood levels need to be monitored on a regular basis.
Good to know, thanks.

And interesting. Always nice to see hard numbers.
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Unless they are on your property, in which case you can ask them to leave.
How does github make money? I read the article but it's only a couple of paragraphs.

Github seems to be mostly personal and open source projects. With good reason since it's trival to set up a git server yourself and so you'd only want to put up stuff that you want public-facing. But it's not so trivial to set up the web ui in git server and so I could see some value there (not sure if $2B of value though)

I used github at a company but only for some code that we wanted to share outside of our company. And if we had to pay for it we never would have used github since we could have spent a 1/2 day setting up a public-facing git server.

We would never have used it for our internal code - again, it's trivial to maintain your own git server and it would also be irresponsible of us to put our internal code on a public-facing server.

So... what makes them valued at 2B? Do they have any revenue at all? Maybe they can hook up with linkedin?
The new csysdig curses CLI [1] unifies and replaces a bunch of the system debugging tools listed here.

[1] https://github.com/draios/sysdig/wiki/Csysdig%20Overview
Paywalls don't specifically block people who block ads. They're a completely different revenue strategy.
I know that common sense isn't always a useful lens for these matters, but how is it possible that Github, which has actual paying clients and revenue, is worth 10% of whatsapp?
This is highly subjective, of course, but I don't think it's the same as with physical sports... or even genuinely challenging videogames!

In those cases sometimes it's partly paying-to-win, but even then there is genuine value in the activity itself. Playing hockey or Counter Strike is its own reward. But clicking cows isn't, it's an exploit of the human brain's tendency towards addictive behavior. Often there is very little "game" in these F2P games, which is why you spend money to quickly progress through the grinding and bypass the boring gameplay. You level up or buy clothes for your mascot or a bigger house, but don't engage in an actual enjoyable activity.

I understand this is a lucrative business opportunity, and of course no-one is forcing anyone to play these games... but I find the whole thing perverse. I don't agree casual games should necessarily be hacks of the human brain.
I used to get the little pocket ones that were $10 for 3 and had no trouble writing in them.

Field Notes have the same price point, but I like their paper better. (The top of a page in particular has space I can put a title that'll stand out.)
The OP was asking for a alternative business model for his game. I suggested he had more important things to be concerned about. Did you reply to the wrong comment?
They have a paid tier, the primary feature of which is private repos.
Minecraft and Hololens = Whoa
That's the way capitalism has always worked - it is up to you to make deals that increase your overall level of happiness, and it's up to your counterparties to ensure that those deals also increase their happiness. In past years, instead of "VCs" the villains have been hedge funds, private equity, corporate raiders, giant conglerates, corporations in general, investment trusts, robber barons, and colonial empires.

In return, the average person has gotten information at their fingertips, sheep-throwing, Farmville, Candy Crush, easy travel bookings, a place to stay in every city, a computer on every desk, the ability to fly through the air, a car of their own and a house in the suburbs, and many other things.

The reason money gets drawn away from "the average person" and collects in "billionaires and large companies" is because the average person values money for what it can do for them, while billionaires and large companies value money as a scorecard. Naturally, it makes sense that money will flow away from people who want it so they can spend it, and toward people who want it so they can hoard it. If you're unhappy with this arrangement, decide which side you would rather be on and then act accordingly.
> How does github make money?

GitHub Enterprise[1].

> And if we had to pay for it we never would have.

I think you're the exception.

[1] And private repos, but I'd imagine that 80%+ of their revenue comes from on-premise enterprise deployments.
Github Enterprise certainly makes money. How much I do not know.
Flattr is a donation model, not a subscription model. Donation models are much less lucrative in general than nearly anything else because you can just forget to donate after reading. This is why Exhibit A for the donation revenue model is non-profits.
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I need to remind the somewhat younger and more idealistic HN crowd that national service is just that: national service. If it's "Obama's startup", it ain't national service. It's partisan service.

It's an important point, because time will tell how some future Republican administration will both treat and be treated by this group. If you're working with millions of federal jobs, you'd better be ready to play the long game; not just play the PR game.

I wish guys joining the best. But if you're only in it because of Obama? Please don't go. I wouldn't want to see a situation where IT systems favored by one party were automated while those favored by another were not. That would take what could be a great good and turn it into a great evil.
Github is one of the best examples of a successful company built around open source technology. This is proof open source software can be profitable.
There is no logical explanation for the valuation. It's pure especulation.
Github Enterprise. Turns out that maintaining a git server and the familiar and great (imo) UI is something that medium-large companies generally have no interest in doing in-house and will gladly pay for.
> For those pumping their own water from their own property, however, we'd need some major rejiggering of property rights in order to justify charging land owners for the use of what's arguably their own property

This is doable. "California is the only western state that doesn’t really monitor or regulate how much groundwater farmers and residents are using."

http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/06/02/drought-drives-drilli...
Docker not for sale
I love this sort of functionality.

I feel like I just saw this recently in another browser, either Firefox, Chromium, or Midori. I can't recall which. You press a button and it switches to reader mode, press again and it goes back to the normal layout.

Can anyone remind me what browser that is?
Yeah, but as I understand it, employees can usually only sell about 20% or so in secondary offerings. Six months after the IPO, they can liquidate 100%.
There is a lovely quote that I think might apply here: "Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers". You're presenting a simple answer to a complex, multi-faceted problem and presenting it without any evidence besides your experience. This problem is also deeply personal and challenging to many people (sometimes life-endingly challenging), but your suggestions are coming off as flippant.

If you want to be heard I would suggest presenting scientific evidence, and presenting it gently.
ln -s /dev/urandom /srv/wwwroot/favicon.ico
Unfortunately I can't use 1Password at work because it doesn't have a browser client, and I can't install anything I like on my computer (corporate). Sticking to Dashlane for now.
I thought Dan Primack had a solid response:

http://fortune.com/2015/06/15/andreessen-horowitz-why-were-n...

"Andreessen Horowitz’s presentation treats the relative lack of tech IPOs as a sign of market health. As I wrote last week, there is a much less charitable way to view it. Moreover, the lack of IPOs also means that the public markets have yet to validate many of these unicorn valuations."
That was pretty damm amusing.
Lot's of points to dispute:

Slides talk about S&P IT but no one is concerned with IT public market valuations (at least relative to the rest of the public market). The concern is with private tech market.

Slides talk a lot about how the amount of funding is justifiable but the question is whether the valuations are. Lower amounts of funding do suggest there is less at risk, however.

How do you reconcile slide 37, which suggests that fund raising is as difficult as ever, with the widely held view that money is flowing freely today.

You can't own an index of unicorns (slide 32)

etc.
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>For instance, do the trigger warnings on historical content imply a way for students to avoid that content and still graduate the class? Or does it merely say what material will be covered, just as a syllabus does, so that students can be mentally prepared?

Quite literally what a syllabus is for, so I imagine the former rather than the latter. If it were the latter - they already have the syllabus so what's the problem?

>Have there been conflicting ideas of safety? Concrete examples may be helpful to figure out what we're talking about.

I feel more safe with security/cops on campus. Certain individuals may feel less safe with security/cops on campus given recent events and media coverage over the past 2-3 years especially.

Just one plausible example. Not to say that issue has come up in any notable cases - but it is one I can imagine playing out given recent events.

>The article doesn't talk about any of this, and instead spreads FUD about the impending destruction of the academy.

In my personal opinion, academia is already screwed. Not every field and not every campus - but an increasingly number of them. But my opinions aren't important here.
The latest release of Firefox added support for Reader View :)
There are several ways to expose data on dropbox as the result of human error that don't apply to lastpass
Combination locks that use letters/characters/non-numeral-glyphs have been around for an astoundingly long time, what's interesting about the word lock, though, is that they start with words, then make the dials.

https://www.google.com/patents/US6621405

The patent goes into detail - and is actually super easy/enjoyable to read - but the goal was to have a letter lock that maximized the number of real words that could be spelled from the available letters provided on the dial rings. So, a wordlist is generated under some parameters (such as word length) and then the rings are generated from that word list.

It's basically exactly what the author is doing, but in reverse.

The goal of the word lock was to increase the available keyspace of real words in a letter lock, thus increasing the security of those users who will buy a letter lock regardless. They do a number of other things right mechanically as well. Whether or not a bike lock is the best medium, I wouldn't say, but wordlock silently improved the security of a specific user base that greatly prefer convenience to security. That's awesome.
Github is about $25 a month, which is probably worth it for any organization vs. the cost and engineering resources to maintain a redundant and available git server. Sure it is pretty trivial, but so is paying $25 monthly.

Also, if you are a small organization you could pay as little as 7 to have a private repo.

https://github.com/pricing
Does it really make sense to put your company's intellectual property on another company's servers?