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brotherjerkyon How to leak to the press

> Leakers shouldn’t use their work computers and should use public wifi, “like a Starbucks or at a hotel or anywhere where the Internet is open for public use.”

Lately there seem to be very few completely open wifi points. Most of them at least require some click through for agreeing to terms. Is there any risk involved here?

brotherjerkyon Felony Charges for 6 Reporters at Inauguration Protests

That makes more sense:

> Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011 [sic] - Amends the federal criminal code to revise the prohibition against entering restricted federal buildings or grounds to impose criminal penalties on anyone who knowingly enters any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. Defines "restricted buildings or grounds" as a posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of: (1) the White House or its grounds or the Vice President's official residence or its grounds, (2) a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting, or (3) a building or grounds so restricted due to a special event of national significance.

brotherjerkyon Felony Charges for 6 Reporters at Inauguration Protests

https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/374

> Life at Conception Act - Declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being beginning at the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes into being. Prohibits construing this Act to require the prosecution of any woman for the death of her unborn child.

Not sure how that's relevant.

brotherjerkyon Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?

I use a Chromebook, can't run Firefox easily.

brotherjerkyon Wine 2.0 released

Let the computer do the work, I recommend beets which pulls Musicbrainz data: http://beets.io/

brotherjerkyon Detailed VPN Comparison Chart

Nice, which docker image?

brotherjerkyon Detailed VPN Comparison Chart

Has anyone setup OpenVPN via Docker? I've seen some of the images, just wondering if anyone has actually got it working.

brotherjerkyon The World’s Most Innovative Economies

Well, you can look at the numbers here: http://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/styles/report_371px/...

    Medicare, Medicaid, etc: 25%
    Social Security: 24%
    Military: 16%
    Safety Net Programs: 10%
    Federal / Veteran Benefits: 8%

Looks like some people get services, just not everyone.

At the state level, California: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/California_state_spendin...

    Health Care 35%
    Pensions 18%
    Education 16%
    Welfare 9%
    Protection (?) 7%

The US does not seem to get a great return on healthcare spending.

brotherjerkyon The World’s Most Innovative Economies

Looks like top tax bracket in Sweden is $90k -- at $90k, CA marginal is 42%. So a delta of 14% -- still probably worth it, especially at lower incomes where student loans and health care a higher percentage of earnings.

brotherjerkyon The World’s Most Innovative Economies

I think Americans tend to over-estimate the tax rate in Europe.

California's top marginal rate (including state and payroll taxes) comes out to about 47%. It looks like Sweden tops out at 56%. But for that extra 9%, you get lots of services (health care, education, etc). I'd guess most Americans would take the tax hike to not worry about insurance, school loans, etc.

brotherjerkyon Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data

Does `-no-use-agent` work? I see this in man:

       --no-use-agent
              This is dummy option. gpg always requires the agent.

brotherjerkyon Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust

Emoji support would be huge. I can't get this working on Linux, iTerm supports it well though.

brotherjerkyon Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Good to know, it was a terrible idea.

brotherjerkyon Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

> I can't point to the part of my brain that is "good at neurosurgery", operate on it, and by repeating the procedure make myself the greatest neurosurgeon that has ever lived. Ben Carson tried that, and look what happened to him.

Nice, but does it fall under political ban?

brotherjerkyon Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?

Washington state has no state income tax, which in California is a little under 10%: https://www.tax-brackets.org/californiataxtable

Works out to $9k according to this for a single filer: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#8TRRj... -- so your additional income is more like $11k, or just under $1k / mo. In my experience, the difference in housing is far more than $1k/mo, so you come out ahead in Seattle.

EDIT: Looks like I forgot about California's other taxes on payroll, so it's actually even more in Seattle's favor.

brotherjerkyon Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

Is that really the type of site you'd want Hacker News to be?

brotherjerkyon Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

Thanks for making Neomake!

brotherjerkyon Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

For me, I like:

- Neomake ( https://github.com/neomake/neomake ) which I use for async linting. I know this is now working in Vim 8, but I've been using Neovim for a while and this was exclusive for a while.

- Vim-test ( https://github.com/janko-m/vim-test ) uses `:term` for running your tests from within vim -- this is most useful because I have a shortcut to test from current editing file, etc. I know this is also possible in vim now.

- Mapping Meta keys in terminal -- opens up a bunch more shortcuts that weren't available before

- `inccommand` This I believe is only in neovim, and likely not enough for anyone to switch for

Cons: - Not in distros, gotta install manually via their PPA

brotherjerkyon Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

As a daily neovim user, love the progress! Here's to a great 2017!

brotherjerkyon What.CD is shutting down

WCD would have been valuable w/o downloads, just the collages alone are an incredible source of curation.

brotherjerkyon No Laptop, No Phone, No Desk: UBS Reinvents the Work Space

Unlikely. Typically these rules are for the little people.

brotherjerkyon Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer

> Masquerading as a regular cellular service provider, Stealth Cell Tower surreptitiously catches phones and sends them SMSs written to appear they are from someone that knows the recipient. It does this without needing to know any phone numbers.

Pretty witty, but how does this work? Does it wait for the user to send a message and snoop?

brotherjerkyon Vim: So long Pathogen, hello native package loading

Note that you can bind something like `jj` to this command in the terminal in order to more easily get out of terminal insert mode. Use `tnoremap`

brotherjerkyon Switzerland is the world’s most competitive economy

Does that mean you should breakout London from the rest of the UK? Frankfurt from Germany?

brotherjerkyon San Diego Struggles to Keep Its Young Tech Talent

Blind Pig by Russian River?

brotherjerkyon Rclone: rsync for cloud storage

You may be interested in CryFS: https://www.cryfs.org/ -- it splits files in order to obfuscate sizes and directory layout.

brotherjerkyon [dead]

I don't understand how this article is sitting in the top 5 of HN right now, especially given no comments. This is a marginally useful roundup of a bunch of tools, some of which are only remotely connected to remote working.

I guess looking at the submission history of the author ( https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nm12112 ) it makes a bit of sense, but perhaps there is a voting ring to get this story so high?

brotherjerkyon Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

I used to use Digg and switched over recently to Inoreader, way better in almost every way.

brotherjerkyon The U.S. Blew $1.4B on Abstinence Education in Africa

It's only wasted money if you believe the aim was actually to help anyone in Africa. The real aim was purely political.

brotherjerkyon Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

I've been using cmus for a while, which I've been pretty happy with. Anything I'm missing with moc?