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Seriously? They will have no shortage of poor desperate stupid people to fight and die for an insane cause, but how many computer scientists, who could work anywhere in the world, want to go work for this insane organization?
serious question, since I'm confused, why is the word "frightful" used here?
I often find myself wondering if Cruz actually expects that the federal government would pay any more attention to new amendments. It's already remarkably manipulative about what it considers relevant now. Any system that requires precise language laid down by "scholars" to justify stepping around what reads differently in plain English is clearly not a system that anyone is shy about gaming anyway.
Exactly my thoughts. In fact I can't remember the last time I saw a restaurant, coffeeshop, or food truck NOT using Square. If Square went belly up those vendors may have to forfeit accepting credit cards. I've not seen a more affordable competitor.
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There is an awesome summary by Emili Lakdawala at the Planetary Society (as is often the case with such news).

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/0120095...
The $3 oversized lunch that comes on a food truck that serves mexican food and primarily seems to service factories and the like uses square too, btw.
Any plans for something similar for hipchat?
Is this a joke? The more educated someone is the less likely they'll become a terrorist.
But at least you still have a house, and steady, predictable payments - instead of rent that could start creeping up and up and up.
This startup might not be for you. That's ok and doesn't mean the author is doing something wrong.
GDP and Unemployment rates are very poor measurements to look to for indications of "progress"
As someone looking to buy their first house in Phoenix, it startles me that you think Phoenix is cheap. I'm accustomed to the metro-Detroit housing market (which is doing far better than Detroit-proper and has mostly recovered from the recession) and the prices here are hard to see myself paying. A house I would have expected to pay ~$200k for is listed at $310k, as an example.
Yes, life was great for white males in the 50's and 60's. You're romanticizing it because you were on the right side of the fence.
Not quite? It's talking about format, not content. Content would make it definitely a walled-garden.
LV-426. Just sayin'.
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This is because efficiency gains are channeled into improving overall productivity rather than reducing work required. This in turn is driven by global competition.
franze probably intended "responsive" to have its dictionary meaning - "not sluggish".
>Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

-Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
I don't think that's correct. Leisure isn't much good if it's due to unemployment and you're living at the subsistence level.

What you're looking for, is "standard of living." And the part they're not really making explicit, is that economists have long accepted as a truism, that the best predictor of "standard of living" is productivity.
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> They had me until the moment where I read "While our game servers are built more like HFT Quant trading servers"

I read that and was hoping they were going to start talking about ring buffers and event sourcing, but no such luck.
You're right, this offers no protection while the server is running.

But: Hard disk die. Usually just a few sectors become unreadable and the remaining part is still accessible. Sometimes you can even read all the data, but S.M.A.R.T. is indicating an impending failure. Of course you want to swap out such a drive as soon as possible. Hopefully the old drive will be disposed of responsibly and securely. But do you want to depend on that? I don't. If I have a failing drive and I can't wipe most of it, I keep it instead of sending it in for warranty replacement.

I have come by several old servers and hard disks that still contained non-empty partitions from the previous owner / user. If that happens, I just wipe the drive before reformatting it. But I always wonder: would they do the same if they got an unwiped drive of mine?
Which "best days of the past" ?

Let's limit it to just the past 50 years to be fair.

The ones where people of color couldn't drink at white water fountains?

Jim Crow laws only ended in 1968 and you can be sure their mindset persisted for years after that well into the 70s where it may not have been illegal but it could end your life.

Or maybe it was the vietnam war years?

Maybe it was the decades when two people of different color couldn't marry or two people of the same gender?

How about the living hell decade Bush put us through over invading Iraq for literally made up reasons and caused ISIL?

If you think the past was great, you probably were privileged one way or another and fortunate not to be a minority.

America can only get BETTER, it certainly isn't hard to do better than the past with all of our poor choices.
Could you not say the same for any system that relies on or offers third-party additions?

Of course. Any external dependency is a trade-off between the extra value you get, typically through saving time and/or solving a problem better than you know how to do yourself, against the overheads.

The key point in this case is that I just don't see much extra value in Gulp and its plugin ecosystem. As shown in my examples above, it's a whole load of extra mechanics to replace literally one-liner CLI operations. On most projects I've seen try to adopt Gulp, it wasn't clear that the Gulp-based tooling was actually more effective even when everything did work properly, which is why as you've probably figured out by now I'm not much of a fan.

But by complicate the matter, I mean multiple files with multiple tasks to perform on those same files that results in a single output for each original file. [...] Now, I'm assuming all this can be done without gulp, but does using gulp not help with this task?

I don't think I can give an informed opinion about your specific example without knowing more about the details. All I can say with confidence is that in the more complicated multi-stage build processes I've worked with, I've yet to find Gulp an advantage over plain old scripting of the kind we've been using for a decade or five. Shell scripting was made for this kind of automation work, and if you prefer more general programming tools or need cross-platform portability then you can write similar logic straightforwardly in any number of programming languages, without all the complication that these "task runners" introduce.

At that point, you have far more flexibility as well. That makes a noticeable difference if you want to do things not quite within the target area of a tool like Gulp, such as processing of two different types of file together. How do you wrangle Gulp's stream-based approach into, say, hashing CSS or JS filenames for cache-busting purposes and then incorporating the appropriate hashed filenames into your HTML files' headers? You can do it -- it's ultimately just JS code, after all -- but is Gulp's framework really helping at that point, or are you just coding your way around it? In my experience, it's been the latter in 100% of cases, but again, YMMV.
Thanks.

Incidentally, even though I have been using computers for many years before that, the first laptop I ever owned came with Vista. Anyway, as it is now, I seem to already love Linux. I would also need to re-familiarize myself with the command line. Interestingly, when I first came across computers, we were taught MS DOS, Word Perfect, Lotus 123 and DBase. This was in the late 90s and Windows was already available. It is just too bad that I didn't continue studying computers then and have to teach myself programming in my very late 30s, now.
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> You need marketing that isn’t perceived as marketing.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but ... if ad blocking is such an issue for publishers, why don't they do the ad-serving logic on the server and display locally saved creative assets (from the same host)?
Front-end systems have more room for creative expression, drawing in more of those who want to express themselves with a major overhaul. Furthermore, the base skills of front-end developers are more of "understanding how humans interact with user interfaces" and managing complex state. Back-end developers tend to need more understanding of the problem domain and communication skills, so the developers that do better at back-end work tend to build things that need less updating.

Basically, I'm asserting that front-end and back-end work attracts different kinds of developers. Back-end developers are less likely to write things that need replacing, and front-end developers are more likely to want to replace things.
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It's not true that all diversity of thought is good or acceptable. As obvious examples, the idea that people with black skin should be slaves, or that people who believe in Judaism should be rounded up and exterminated.

Saying that gay people should be denied the right to marry is not much different in my mind than advocating segregation for blacks, or denying Muslims various rights. (However, as long as Eich is no longer promoting that view, I think it's long past time for everyone else to move on. I hope my personal mistakes aren't remembered and rehashed industry-wide like that!)

So where to draw the line? A simple mnemonic I use: The only thing I don't tolerate is intolerance. It's a little trite, but it works and there is another good reason for it: The intolerent are parasites on the social contract of tolerance; they violate it and then claim they should have its protection.
> instead of being able to use that downtime to do things that practically everyone knows needs to get done, you have people sitting on their hands because everything has to go through the "backlog."

Oh man, this happened at one of my stricter scrum managed companies. There was a bug that people were noticing that should have meant that no other cards could pass QA.

I recognized it as the small change that it was, made the branch, and had a peer ready to merge it, but got "a talking to" from the scrum master and product managers because they never recognized it as a bug.
Yeah, hopefully more people listen and opt out. A future where Windows has a reduced market-share is ideal for the consumer. It doesn't even have to be that OSX or Linux take over. Maybe the void could be filled by some other vendor with a completely new design.
Glad to see you back Brendan!
Possibly to save money using "UberPOOL" or whatever it's currently called. While regular uber ("UberX"?) is around the same or more than a yellow cab, UberPOOL is sometimes cheaper than a yellow cab
We can't really have both ad relevance (outside the local context) and privacy. One requires the advertiser know things about me I personally have no desire for them to know.

> Would be willing to pay for this experience not to happen.

I don't know if I'm in the minority, but I'm honestly not willing to pay for that. Fact is, I use adblock right now, but if I couldn't use adblock on some sites I'd simply stop visiting them.

I despise the ad-filled experience. I'm with the current top post and despise the idea of being constantly manipulated into buying things I do not need. If there were less ad overall on the internet, I wouldn't care about blocking them, but that's tragedy of the commons for you.
A quick note on the human development index, there's an average one (where say bill gates walking into a room of homeless people means the average person in the room is a billionaire) and an inequality-adjusted one (where you get the same thing, only adjusted for the fact that one guy holds 99.99% of the wealth in the room and the average person is actually homeless). I'm exaggerating my story a little bit of course.

Anyway, on the adjusted figure, the US comes in at nr 28, which is certainly not a great place to be as there aren't all that many developed countries, let alone rich developed countries.

Further, the HDI is really lacking in certain areas. But it's decent, unlike the 'OECD better life' index which is a complete joke.

Beyond that, anyone taking a serious look at our society would have to conclude it's much better off across the board than before. Look at education rates, crime rates, life expectancy, civil rights, it's a world of difference in some cases. Drugs is somewhat a new issue that didn't exist in the same fashion long ago (although already better than the 80s for example), and poverty remains tricky. But even there, I'm a kid from a poor family from a minority background and I've traveled and studied in different continents, have advanced degrees, a decent job. There's opportunity for me that simply wasn't there, as you mention, some decades ago. And to be poor today usually means you have access to a basic quality of life that simply wasn't available back then. I know plenty of people who didn't have warm water growing up, showered at the neighbours or some public facility. That's virtually unthinkable in western-europe today, as I would assume to a large extent it is in the US. I won't even go into the value of something like the internet that cost me growing up the equivalent of 4 hours of wages in a supermarket per month, and from which I gained priceless value, the fact my wealth didn't grow during this time versus the wealth of similar people 50 years ago, didn't capture the immense wealth I had accessible to me that they didn't. These things are not always easy to capture in terms of GDP growth, if anything the 'added value' of a telephone or postal service that got swallowed up by dirt cheap instant messaging, probably reduced GDP if anything.

And worldwide... oh man, TREMENDOUS progress we somehow don't celebrate. I mean just compare the number of kids under 5 who die per year of preventable issues today and say in 1995, just 20 years ago. A quick hint, the annual figure roughly halved and it's equivalent to roughly the holocaust (6 million deaths) being prevented every single year. Poverty reduction is hugely positive, too, as is primary and secondary school attendance and healthcare. It's quite amazing how shitty things were, and how ignorantly nostalgic we are.
So why do I have to "sign up" for this supposedly privacy-enhanced browser? They don't have a need to know who I am.

"Then we put clean ads back". This is open source, right? It's on Github. Can someone fork this and remove all the ads? Thank you.
I apologize for the redundancy in my phrasing. Hopefully you can get over it.

I do not appreciate you using "Aspergers" with an insulting tone.
Hey dang, can we please kill the first part of the title?
In 15 seconds? Between which banks is that?

My experience is quite different, sending from Rabobank to ABN AMRO seems to take a few hours. From Rabobank to ING at least a day. From Rabobank to a bank in Ecuador is usually faster (within 30 minutes), but not reliably so.
How will you provide better ads? Facebook knows everything about me and I unblock ads on their site for the laugh at how bad they are (Two examples: I don't want to go back to college to get my degree a second time at the place I already got it once, thank you very much. Also I don't want to supply my house with natural gas 200 miles from where I live). You will know very little about me, how will you come up with better ads? Remember better = more relevant to things I might want.
Hey everyone, I got fed up with having to juggle around multiple tabs each with a different stream and manually muting them. I spent the past 2 months working on a website that hopefully solves this problem.

This was my first foray into React. After having been developing on Ruby / Node on Heroku, making a pure frontend static app was refreshing.

Here are some of the features:

- Very, very fast. A lot happening under the hood with video to make the swaps near instant. I had to play around with GPU acceleration and CSS transforms to manipulate the streams.

- Load three streams simultaneously, when you swap out the primary stream, the other two streams are muted automatically.

- A powerful compact stream browser accessible to your left. I've tried to make it so you can scan a whole lot of streams at once to pick out the most interesting ones.

- Auto-refreshing stream list. Hopefully you won't even notice it reloading. It's always kept up to date to minimize any offline streamers and catch your favorite streamers coming online.

- Drag and drop streams into screens, click on screens to promote them to the primary. A lot of small miscellaneous things that hopefully make Teevox more intuitive.

- Auto bandwidth optimization, when you select a very high quality stream (ex: Source), instead of switching all three to high quality, it'll only do it for the primary stream. When you swap out for another primary stream, it will seamlessly transition into the proper quality.

The best part was the static HTML portion that allows it to load almost instantly without any preprocessing necessary. Let me know what you think!
You've got a bug. Your thing sent me the following email:

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COMMAND:

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So I just told you about a few things that are physically impossible in static languages, therefore dynamic language cannot be a static language subset. For example, you first need to prove that it's possible to tell a static language that "for now, for this execution, I don't care about these 3150935031 trillion code paths being correct, just these 123 code paths, so just compile and do it". Without that you are just trolling.
Two quick things,

-Has America ever considered that it is not a loss of American power as much as its an equalization of power across the world. Everyone wants what America has and roughly, they are getting it. This should not really diminish what America has or will get. This does not need to be zero-sum.

-There are a couple of things that keep America ahead of everyone else (even though as I established, it is pointless) and that is soft-power and immigration. Everyone wants what the latest Hollywood star has and everyone wants to move close to Hollywood (or other American power centers).
ok, let's assume such a hyper-connected system exists and ads disappear completely. You decide to buy socks. You find a supplier you like. Socks come in black and orange. You like black, but your wife prefers orange. She convinces you to change your mind with arguments such as "orange is more vibrant". Do you consider that a form of manipulation? is it unethical?

The truth is, we as human being are constantly target of manipulation, always was, always will be. If not in the form of ads, then masqueraded in other more subtle forms. Would you rather know you're explicitly being subject of manipulation?
> the remarkable historical and technological circumstances of white, cis-gendered, cis-sexual male post-war America
Rails forked sometime ago (around 2.0) into Merb then later on merged back into Rails 3.

Similarly Node forked into io.js then later back into Node 4.
> 2. The documentarians omit, while the police fabricate. The documentarians are not mirroring the entity they set out to indict.

The point, as I see it, is that you need to also identify your source for your believe that the police fabricated. Is it entirely informed by the documentary? If so, then that's circular logic. If you believe the police fabricated evidence because of the documentary in question, then it's hardly a defense against the charge the documentary manipulated opinion through the careful curation of presented evidence.

Personally, regardless of specific opinion, I'm a little startled at how many people here are using just the documentary to explain their view that the police obviously fabricated evidence, which is then used as evidence that the article in question, regarding the trustworthiness of the documentary in question, has less merit. It's disconcerting, but hopefully it's just a case of people not explaining their other sources of information.
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Definitions and stated assumptions are huge. This is why macroeconomic arguments on HN tend to devolve to claims of "strawman" this "red herring" that, often ending in outright hostility and vitriol when the two combatants might agree with each other if the argument were framed properly.
Eventually. I'd personally love it is my house stopped increasing in value so I can pay lower property taxes. My value went up over $100k in the first year after I bought it.
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To any downvoters, please feel free to explain what you find objectionable. Is it the dissonance caused by the realization that the political left is willing to use techniques you find angering when they don't support your views?
Or scenarios where throwaways are warranted to prevent leakage of personal info. I think flagging/downvoting worked well here considering the post is an hr old.
Your second point. That Isis makes much of its money by taxation. Got any source on that? Taxing the local people sounds like a sure way to lose support. As far as I understand Sunni locals support Isis as their militia.
FANG is for growth stocks; AAPL is not considered by Wall Street to be a growth stock. On the contrary, the prevailing view seems to be that Apple is on the verge of collapse.
So the proletariat should rise up and seize the means of leisure.

Suggest a 4 day week and people think you've lost your mind.
>Always prefer tools closer to your core competencies.

This is basically the reasoning behind my recent choice to not use an API documentation framework. Our application framework already has the ability to introspect and render templates, so there's minimal advantage in adding yet more tooling surface area.
I think you are confusing naming and classification.
Doesn't work for me. Safari 9, no Flash.
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The argument isn't that you use OpenCV: OpenFace also uses OpenCV. However, I think you should target and present your program as being a program that uses face recognition, not as a face recognition program. You are using and not crediting here that your program uses existing, off-the-shelf face recognition functionality already in OpenCV: https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho/blob/2823479d5abf9f8f2de21...
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Well, if you follow that path to the logical conclusion why not just drop an atom bomb and be done with it?

The thing is ISIS will lose, it's not a question of if but a question of when. Unlike a fairy tale there won't be a happy end afterwards though. These countries will have to be moved back on track and need to become stable. That requires state building which takes time, is expensive and very unpopular with voters.

Additionally these strikes themselves cost lots of money. It also makes sense to avoid civilian casulties to not further support ISIS and other terrorist organizations in their recruitment, which is already going better than anyone would like.

If you think ahead, I don't think you can come to any other choice than to try to minimize damage, especially to important infrastructure like this.
It's very rare that I see a comment flagged to deletion. This might actually be the first time I've seen it.