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His allusion to a JSAS arising from the ashes is a pretty clear reference to ISIS. The Taliban, by comparison, predate the U.S. invasion by decades. Hell, the U.S. supported them against Russia when Russia was trying to occupy Afghanistan. For a real mind-trip, go watch Rambo 2 again sometime. It's surreal watching Sylvester Stallone play rugged, manly, ball-games with his heroic comrades: the Taliban (Yes, the film really does refer to them specifically as Taliban)!
Agreed. I feel like I'm never quite sure where Go falls on this line.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that the U.S. has gotten past the madness that seized it post-9/11, but then crap like this pops up. Bin Laden's mark is still deep inside the American subconscious.
I believe it also was a weapons test on real targets, that's why the bombs were dropped over two major cities, not over the sea in the vicinity of Tokyo.
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He tested his sexual patience by sleeping next to his grand-niece? Jeezus, why would your sexual patience even be an issue in that situation?
This leads off a series of tweets from the Edinburgh team evaluating the read data with some informative images: https://twitter.com/sujaik/status/671758970982416385
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Are you really, really sure that this is not a trademark violation? Do you like receiving cease & desist letters, or your projects getting DMCA'd? Are you prepared to defend your views in court? If not, I would change the name.
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Sure, it's definitely helpful to have a less-technical article.
> What Japan still had was a warrior / religious culture that would have no problem fighting to the end

I really don't buy that. It smacks of dehumanization and propaganda. I can't answer whether waging conventional war on Japan to the end would have been too costly a decision, but let's not excuse ourselves and say it's because the extreme nature of their cultural values makes it necessary.
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There is no such thing as "the browser" - there are lots of browsers, each of which has many versions in current use (not everyone can auto-update to today's version of Chrome, especially in big companies). Since you have no control over which browser your users are running, what do you do if your web site is dependent on the latest version of jQuery but half your users have a browser that's several months older than that?

On the other hand, if your web pages load a known version of jQuery, you have control over the dependencies and can update to a new version of jQuery when it's convenient for you to do so (and after you've tested it to make sure it doesn't break your site).

And jQuery is just one of dozens of popular JavaScript frameworks...
This is somewhat too simplistic. The Black Panther Party is not universally regarded negatively today, and some of its statesmen have been lionized in media. You can find plenty of fictional movies in which the hero cathartically kills the bad guy in the end - and "corrupt exploitative cops" is a trope.

For better or worse, we glamorize violence when done for a just cause. There's a wide interpretation of "just" - consider for a moment that some of the latin american drug lords managed to become popular figures in their communities. And there are plenty of people that romanticize the mafia.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it is a thing.
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So did AltaVista, when it was good.
I know some people already going into business on the assumption that it will pass. I wouldn't be surprised. Canada could use the income.
* Automate configuration with Puppet or whatever. You should be doing this anyway. Not earth shattering.

Yes and it's very helpful to have a dedicated team of SMEs doing it. Otherwise you distract engineers who have to context switch to 'devops' mode and will, invariably, do a mediocre job. It's not earth shattering but I've yet to see an organization automate their infrastructure, configuration, and deploys without a team whose job it is to do it.

* One-step build and deploy. I'm still waiting for you tell me how these steps will solve my problems.

Because having a fast, reliable, and reproducible mechanism to push application changes is very valuable to most businesses that develop software.

* Culture of respect & trust, good attitude toward failure. How about "culture of stop fucking up"?

People fuck up. That is a constant. The challenge is building tooling and business processes that reduce or eliminate the impact of inevitable fuck ups.
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I guess we'll have to strip his name from all those buildings and awards, and tear down the statues.
I would rather allow you to do that than require you to harm other people if you want to be provided for in an institutional setting.
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1. Well, there are people who serve web fonts and CSS sprite assets to about 10¹²³ people per hour and would go to some lengths to save a few bytes on those, even if it involves niche tools that many others don't bother with.

2. "What's the incentive" is IMNSHO a terrible question for a research area.
jacquesm, I think your comments are completely justified. And I don't think they're slights against the HN crowd.

The article enacts precisely what most feminists decry about patriarchy: it's one gender telling a second one how it's expected to perform. It does this by accumulating evidence to build a case against men. The statistics it uses [1] are clearly chosen to de-emphasize the value of men in society. What's notable is what's missing. For example, is there a stat on "contributing toward the betterment of the world through open-source software development" ?

More food for thought:
"we spend less time talking about how women help perpetuate the shadow side of the patriarchy." [2]

[1] http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/time-spent-in-leisure-activ...

[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/owning-pink/201408/wome...
Only idiots are shaken by such articles (well, it's for the Vice audience after all).

Yes, Gandhi was human, and had many of the prejudices of his era plus some failings of his own.

What's important is not what he thought and did in situations that nearly everybody else at the time thought the same, but what he did different and what impacted great change -- which is the reason we celebrate him for.

It's like pointing out that Jefferson had slaves, or Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13yo cousin, or MLK was sleeping around as reasons to dismiss them.

Yeah, so? Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone, and also let them tell us what compared to the Declaration of Independence or Great Balls of Fire or the fight against racism have they done that was as important?
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Well, sure, anything is debatable if you take the Humpty Dumpty stance. But if English words mean things the language in the Constitution will hamper gun control efforts in the USA.

These articles are examples of what I call "sneaking repeal under the wire". Just because an article comes from a scholarly source doesn't mean it stands up to scrutiny: Michael Bellesiles landed himself in hot water attempting to argue this very issue, that the right to personal arms is a recent invention. The first tell I found in the sources you cited was when Toobin called the amendment text "ungrammatical"; it's perfectly grammatical, just not rendered in modern style.

A more modern restatement of the amendment would be: "Since a well-trained militia is necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to own and carry weapons shall not be infringed." The thinking of the time -- and this is all in the freakin' Wikipedia article on the Second Amendment should you care to look -- was that the right to self-defense and to defense against tyranny were of paramount importance -- thinking that predates the Constitution and has its roots in English law. To raise a defense force from among the people it was thought necessary to protect their right to own, train with, and carry weapons.

Now you may say that this right is trumped by others' right to live peaceably without fear of being shot. I won't disagree. But what you should be agitating for is repeal of the second amendment, whose language is very plain once you parse it; not for the courts to obfuscate and reinterpret the meaning. That way does lie tyranny, for the next step is for the courts to interpret away your right to not be searched without a warrant, your right not to be punished for a crime without due process, etc. Because hey, the Constitution is a living document; that means its meaning in times of old has nothing to do with today.

(My belief is that the Constitution was intended as a living document and that's why it has a well specified amendment process of which we should avail ourselves.)
The brain is a black box of complexity. Until we completely understand what's going on we don't even know if we're treating something that is even fixable. It's like adding random voltages to pins on a motherboard to try to fix a software bug.
Quite a subjective opinion.

To me looks very far from "neat".
Given Lego's history of vigorously defending its trademark, this is on point - it would save a lot of pain switching asap.
I am fully bilingual and know quite a bit of a third language. Given I have learned my second language fairly late in life - around 16 - I do have some accent. But I do not mess up grammar in a way that would make your ears or eyes bleed. Or so I think ;-)

I have two kids that we raised with two languages since birth. And now the interesting part:
- daughter is fully bilingual, native speakers of both languages cannot tell she is not native,
- son has some handicap in one of the languages.

I really think it goes the other way - having some cognitive advantage will allow you to be bilingual 100% and not the other way around. This is why my daughter can pull this stunt and my son not so much.
What is actually relevant here is whether the percentage that Google considers Chrome to be valuable to their company times the resources of the company is competitive against the resources Mozilla has (times the percentage that Mozilla considers the browser their focus, as they clearly spend a lot of money on side projects people sometimes seem to enjoy, such as Persona). Mozilla is small enough (at least in comparison to Google) that I think comparing their entire company to one division at Google is probably the correct strategy.
You seem to be going back and forth between the general case and this specific case. When I'm talking about the specific case, you start arguing in generalities, and when I'm talking about the general case, you switch to talking about the specifics.

> Accepting user registrations generally entails obtaining a means of contact which can be used to unlock an account whose password has been forgotten. By far the most common contact method used is email. GP may not have mentioned it in so many words, but the implication is trivial.

In this specific case, using your guessed-at reason for the need for registration, the implication that an email address is required isn't trivial. It simply isn't necessary at all. If it had been required, I also would have forgone registering. They have no need to contact me that I consider valid.

> Requiring unique registration on a site also demonstrably results in significantly fewer people actually making use of the site. It's perceived as a burden, and people not unreasonably wonder why they have to providing sensitive information in order to find out whether there's anything there worth providing sensitive information.

Yet linking it to their social media or other accounts is not perceived as a burden? It is demonstrably percieved as a burden as evidence by both the other poster and myself. You also seem to be suggesting that linking a social media or other account is providing less sensitive information than creating a unique login. That may be the case at times, but I suspect, and I'd be surprised if you disagree, that usually you are providing more information by linking an external account versus a unique login.

> And I think there's a fair argument to be made that authentication via OAuth with a third party hits a sweet spot between user convenience on the one hand, and persistence and distinguishability of identity on the other.

I think there is too, in general, but not in this specific case if the only need is to have a unique identifier.

> Finally, I'm really not sure why "they're tracking you!" is such a concern in this case.

I'm not sure why you've gone from speaking very generally about the issue to getting very specific about the site in this case. I objected, very clearly, to identifying them as "authentication providers" in general. I never said anything about whether it was a huge privacy violation that they know you visited this particular site.
Economic systems are not inherently morally good or bad, that depends on their beneficial or harmful outcomes.

It may be the case that a system of pure property would lead to the best outcomes, but if so you need to actually argue that.

Putting your preferred rules on a pedestal by calling them "rights" and refusing to engage with criticism is not an argument.
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Graph databases are exciting, but I'm far more interested in the potential of append-only stores. Rather than recording data at all, you store events (item added, item deleted, etc.).

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He did a campaign speech in my home town on Nov 30th and he can get his points across rather easily. I may or may not agree with him, but he is rather good at it. I only went because he was in town, if someone else running for president was in town, I'd go to his or her speech.
Even when books are cataloged, they can still be missed. Renaissance dance manuals are rare, they talk about etiquette, and etiquette books are much more common. There's been at least one dance manual that was never examined by a dance historian until a researcher with a hunch looked at all of the books classified as etiquette books.

In another case a dance manuscript written around 1500 AD sat in a pile of papers on a guy's desk for a decade because it looked like it was a music manuscript -- much more common, no hurry to catalog another one.
Right, so complaining about "hidden" orders is useless. The problem lies with the exchange, not the strategy.
What even is speaking better?

I grew up bilingual, mostly speaking Spanish at home and English at school. I think growing up with a different language can be a disadvantage if the children don't spend lots of time reading and learning English but fortunately my parents encouraged that heavily.

One thing being a bilingual speaker taught me and having older family members with differing grasps of the English language was not to ascribe too much value to 'correct' grammar or pronunciation. People who are well spoken English speakers have a way of seeming intelligent regardless of actual aptitude and it's easy to dismiss someone with syntax that is unusual or cobbled together from different languages.

I rarely if ever work with Latino engineers, but working with lots of Chinese nationals, it has been easy for me to ignore their grammar mistakes and diction choices and focus on the underlying message of what they are saying. For that I'm grateful. Grammar snarkiness is one of the most useless traits of English speakers I've encountered in my adult life.

It's funny when Americans claim that British people just 'sound smarter' when British people are just that: British. Same with bad grammar sounding less intelligent, it's not actually any less intelligent as long as it still communicates the message.
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Rust does this as well, just FYI.
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> Of course, it is very very unlikely that npm modules with native code work in Node.js/Chakra just yet.

I would hope they follow the same path as the jxcore+SpiderMonkey team so I don't have to worry about which engine my npm modules support.
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I think that the government is trying to grab as much power as possible by exploiting old laws that were too specific. But of course privacy should remain.
Apologies for wading into Godwin's Law territory, but this article draws a picture scarily reminiscent of Hitler's scaremongering.
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This doesn't have to do with citizenship, as far as I understand. I think it would hinder people's ability to travel, for people in the US. For Americans abroad, it'd have more serious consequences and would likely affect their daily life, but they'd still be Americans.
I am in school, so maybe I don't count, but I love the way my math teacher teaches! He has fun lessons and I love math in general thanks to him.
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Some perspective on this subject:

- A graph database is essentially a relational database plus join recursion. Many modern relational databases support join recursion; support for graph models is ubiquitous, they just don't call themselves "graph databases". There are other reasons graph-like computation is relatively rare.

- There are some important types of relationships that are effectively not representable in graph data models. Relationships that have a topological nature, such as negative constraints, spatiotemporal, etc are notoriously problematic.

- General graph-like operations have terrible scalability and performance characteristics as commonly implemented. Consequently, people almost never organize their data models this way unless it is absolutely unavoidable. Even Facebook materializes common traversals as non-graphs so that they do not have to execute them dynamically. The heavy reliance on secondary indexing for performance in most graph databases ensures they will be marginal for large-scale data models.

- Semantic Web fails at scale because no two people map reality to definitions in the same way. This is particularly obvious at global scales because of cultural influences on how we interpret the world. If you've ever done global data model integrations, and I have, you quickly realize that the only values that are approximately consistent globally are physic-based measurements e.g. "650nm wavelength" (instead of "red"). The nodes have no common definition in practice, just commonly overlapping parts of countless subjective interpretations of the definition, which leads to pollution of the data model in real systems.
I'm keen on unikernels too. At work I've argued that we should build a Xen backend for Garden so that Cloud Foundry can drive unikernel apps on equal footing with buildpack staged containers, docker containers and .NET apps. Mind you, I argue for a lot of things at work, very few of which are ever picked up; probably for the best.

But for all the virtues of unikernels, an awful lot of software assumes a linuxy userland. Outside of consciously isolated universes like Java and .NET, it might be tricky to get traction.

As for devops, the missing bit isn't the sexy stuff -- the parts that locate and monitor processes running in containerised environments. Kubernetes, Mesos, Diego and the dozens of others popping up every week are busy solving that.

What seems to be forgotten is that, as this article mentions, you still need a sane build-and-verify pipeline. Tools like Puppet, Chef and the like can be seen as image-building toolkits. Buildpacks already know how to take various stacks and turn them into runnable images (on Heroku or Cloud Foundry). Docker is a step backwards, in some respects.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, the company which donates the majority of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry.
Fair enough. I accept this critique.
I'm running OSX Yosemite on a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. It wasn't too difficult once I had the correct boot.efi, and it works flawlessly. With an SSD, a minor CPU upgrade, and a recent video card it's nearly as fast as a 2013 Macbook Pro.

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Someone who knows more than me might be able to confirm or explain why not, but:

Isn't there something in the copyright rules about "can be mistaken" where two companies might have similar names / product names as long as there is no risk of mistaking one for the other?

Edit: that said I guess one can avoid a lot of hassle by changing anyway.
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"... because you can trivially MITM someone..."

This assumes the user is relying on certificates for authentication. Certificates that are likely tied to domain names.

What if the user authenticates by another means? SSH keys, real life meeting and exchange of keys, keys printed on paper and sent in the postal mail, etc. No domain name involved.

There are other ways to authenticate an endpoints besides domain names and certificates.

It's possible to have encryption without authentication.

It's also possible to have each of encryption and authentication handled by a different program. What we have now are programs that try to do both, and may do a very bad job of one at the expense of the other. These programs provide a false sense of "security".

The fundamental question: Are domain names easier to MITM than IP addresses?