skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it did. You have to look more broadly than just direct contributions to candidates. Large contributions to PACs would still buy influence.

Consider the Koch brothers. They're expected to spend around $889 million in the current US election cycle:

http://theweek.com/speedreads/535882/koch-brothers-plan-spen...

Considering the maximum campaign contribution is $2,700 per candidate, I think it's safe to say they plan on influencing the election without relying on directly funding candidates. That does not mean that the candidates aren't responsive to these alternative funding streams.

Another example of how this money corrupts the position of politicians can be seen in the Clinton Foundation.

https://www.rt.com/usa/340480-clinton-donors-panama-papers/

"Giustra is a Canadian mining magnate who became a large donor for the Clinton Foundation 11 years ago, going on to set up the ‘Great White North’ chapter of the foundation. He currently sits on the board.

The billionaire later became an example of the foundation’s murky ties between donors and apparent political favors, due to the 2005 dinner with Giustra, Bill Clinton, and Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev – and the deal that “stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr Giustra,” wrote the New York Times, quoting analysts."
Mostly Javascript and caches.
That's a fair point, though my threshold for fast is probably a bit higher than 100ms. That might be a conditioned thing, though.
What? The size of a page has nothing to do with the CPU. Most of that size is going to be in images and animation, and most web pages put basically no load on your CPU. If one does it's going to be because of badly written JS, not because of the size.

Shrinking the average page size even by half is not going to "the web run faster on a large scale." Most of the time your page load speed is not affected by congestion, and if it is it's likely due to a local tower or something. The problem there will be the number of users per tower, not the size of the pages they are loading.
Plus one for you. It used to be the internet was a book, now it's a movie.
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> If everyone simply linked the "canonical" version of jQuery (the CDN link is right on their site) then requiring jQuery will be effectively free because it will be in everyone's cache.

So create one massive target that needs to be breached to access massive numbers of websites around the world?

Imagine if every Windows PC ran code from a single web page on startup every time they started up. Now imagine if anything could be put in that code and it would be ran. How big of a target would that be?

While there are cases where the performance is worth using a CDN, there are plenty of reasons to not want to run foreign code.

(Now maybe we could add some security, like generating a hash of the code on the CDN and matching it with a value provided by the website and only running the code if the hashes matched. But there are still business risks even with that.)
> are not just unspeakably evil places - that's the system they got by walking their path

Yap. And I think on the other side is the realization that people are not willing to trade progress, jobs, health insurance, peace, stability for democracy.
>Who would they contribute to?

The candidate who would be most likely to make sure they keep their jobs and are not prosecuted for fraud.

>Goldman, the company, is not allowed to contribute to candidates. What OpenSecrets means when it says that is Goldman employees contributed.

This is a null distinction. "Goldman Sachs" is not a person, it is a brand name: words on a piece of paper or on the front of a building. Though I understand how this could be confusing as the law (once again, words on paper) says that articles of incorporation (words on paper) are literally people.

When someone says "Goldman" they are of course referring to the persons who work or invest together under the banner name "Goldman Sachs". Like when someone says "the US did x" they are of course referring to citizens, and not the flag.
In all cased you are buying access. Imagine how much free time the Clintons would have to meet with the average American if they did not do such engagements. Access is influence.
Mixing Agile Scrum and Software Development Outsourcing
Yes, I think it is extremely unlikely people will figure out thousand-year lifespans. I suppose perhaps we could somehow colonize other planets but I don't see any progress or even interest in progress there right now. As for cryogenics, check this out: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/everybody-freeze-pein
SO feels more like a race to answer fast rather than to answer with quality. I think the best way to learn about the language is through the Mozilla Developer Network. I can't speak for everyone but I feel incredibly productive when programming in javascript.

I'd argue that jQuery was great, but now most (if not all) of it can be replaced by native javascript features (e.g. document.querySelector). Today I wouldn't recommend jQuery to anyone.

I suggest learning a functional language (in my case it was Haskell) in parallel, as it opens up new ways of thinking about javascript and problem solving.
The problem with caching is that you're sharing the referer with the canonical URL. Another problem is that you're using someone else's bandwidth. And if you combine the two, you can be sure that info about your visitors will be sold, which is why quite a lot of people would prefer to host their own versions of jQuery...
It's mongodb and nodejs, so yes.
This article is troubling.

It seems to be an attack on the fundamentals of modern governments, that the legitimacy of the government follows from the will of those governed. Because those governed can't be bothered.

So, what's your next suggestion, then?

Personally, as a random human and as a scientist, I have no problem with Boaty McBoatface, although I know a lot of the stuffier set who would regard it as ridiculous and insulting, and might reflect those feelings on the work done aboard the ship. (I also feel those people should be vetoed.)
That's amazing, what was it? My first computer had 5K of RAM.
Speech money is bribe money, plain and simple. These firms don't have any interest in hearing her speech.
I don't see how there is anything good coming out of this for startups. Theranos burned the field for many more companies.

//EDIT: which is very sad to see because in many ways it seemed like the CEO was behind it with a lot passion and no ill intentions.
I can speak only for me. I don't want to be an anachronism in some distant future. We're a very long way from cryo being a viable solution anyway. Bring a formerly healthy rat back, then we'll talk. :)

Consider how our current world would treat people from the 18th or 19th C. Would it be endless media titilation, Buzzfeed memes of 20 things you didn't know about Bob the Victorian? Would there be the discrimination akin to how we treat indigenous or third world peoples? Would we help Bob the Victorian to get fully up to speed with society, or just see a curiosity?

So, for now, I'm happy with my lot.
Just to clarify, since I was confused (I remembered that Doom 2 was about 30 megs uncompressed, which websites are still a long ways from), this metric appears to refer to the compressed size of the Doom 1 shareware distribution.

http://www.doomarchive.com/ListFiles.asp?FolderId=216&Conten...
"Citizens United did not affect the ban on corporations donating to candidates."

It clearly has an impact on donations to candidates, just not in an official manner. See my response to Lazare.
The industry doesn't produce readily available SPARC systems, except for NEC and that European space chip consortium, plus including what's left of Sun inside Larry's dungeon, but SPARC is still evolving and is in a similar space as POWER. There are certain workloads that benefit very much from POWER and SPARC, but it's not your general purpose system that works well in a common denominator kinda way. There just aren't enough SPARC and POWER systems around to be economically viable as a x86 alternative, but technologically they're good choices for many scenarios.
Everything explained here. https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_cre...
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Do you need Visual Studio for its C compiler? Or can you get by without it (eg, is there another compile you could use to build native stuff)?
There are checksums available for resources now. As of last few months. Also things like jQuery are available from multiple CDN, and they are used by many of the top websites and html frameworks. So you probably already have it in cache.
I love messenger.com

It's a way better interface for just chatting then the Facebook site and they have been adding new features to it regularly.

My only complaint is that it refuses to work on mobile (even though the desktop site is very responsive). It just pushes you at the app.
Curious as the current results of your ongoing evaluation. It might help clarify the scope of "cross platform", the relevant technologies, and the scale at which they are applicable.
I thought Google already punishes slow loading websites.
> Once they go on antidepressants, they go on suicide watch. It's the most dangerous time. Because they'll still be depressed, but they'll finally have the energy to get up. And they just might have the energy to do themselves in.

Not sure if you can really generalize this much. There are several studies studying the effect of antidepressants on suicide rates, and it's true that some of them seem to lead to more suicides but it's far from being something that you can categorize like that.

I'd also wager there are lots of suicides that could be avoided if people got the medical attention they needed on time.

It's not all black and white.
This is mostly about custom SoC's, which means like ARM SoC's it's a couple CPU cores with a few special purpose chips all in the same package. Think networking, databases, ai, image processing...
> Morning stand-ups are training wheels for effective teams, and are necessary for folks that aren't co-located.

They're also necessary for teams where people are working on multiple projects at once. All the happy stories I hear about Agile come from people in your situation, where you have a team of X all concentrating on a single project. I'd love to be in that situation for once in my career.
I wish this could be possible.

Eventually you'll have to track every minor version of every library when not every site stays up to date. At that point it's (almost) effectively a CDN.
I don't think so; the passage of 'time' measured in the simulation could be quite a bit faster/slower than on the hardware underlying the simulation (I would assume quite a bit 'slower').

So if we were in a simulation, I'm skeptical that we could guess much about the properties of the 'host' system.
Whenever I read about tribal communities coming into modernity, I can't help but think that our "first-world" culture gets a lot wrong. These communities seem to have a deep sense of narrative--you're a part of a greater cultural story, a spiritual story that's connected with place, nature, and family. There is a journey laid out for you rich with sacrament (e.g. the rite of passage to become an Inuit hunter in this article). I can't help but feel that the modern world has lost this purposeful way of life. In the modern world, we're really left up to our own devices to figure out where we fit in and what we find meaningful. Would love to hear other's thoughts.
I'm genuinely excited by ensuring great response times and minimal load on a website.

Locally I see so many companies building good looking but horrendously optimized websites for their clientele who don't know enough to ask for it.

The last company I worked at were building a local search engine and were displaying thumbnails whilst loading full size pictures which were hot linked from businesses websites. With an auto loading feature at the bottom of the page by the php backend, an initial 5-6 Mb page load could turn into 30+ Mb within a few seconds of scrolling. Add to this no gzipping and caching was not properly configured either.

I tried my best to get some changes going but the senior (and only other) dev wouldn't allow any modifications to the current system "for the moment". It was a bit frustrating to see so many easy fixes ignored.
Big surprise, the mods favorite shill cries and you go protect him. Typical mod bullshit protecting government sock puppet accounts
"It's so pathetic that we as a society waste so much time and energy on non-essential stuff instead of curing major killers"

Non-essential stuff like what? Fast Cars? Games? Music? You tube? maybe Religion?

Imagine all the money/smart people that are currently involved in religions because of some random reason and could be working on meaningful things... The Catholic church alone could pay for cancer research for a 100 years.

My point is what is essential to you, is not for me.
Darn it! I worked so hard on my app, and it was in the market for a few months, but it just got taken down for god knows why. I don't see why these organizations have to have such arduous approval processes.
You can't practice as a physician without an MD, if you drop out of med school after 4-5 years you can get a PhD very easily since with the exception of the research component the first 4-5 years are almost identical between MD, and PhD.
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'npm install -g rimraf' will provide the special software needed to delete files whose path names are too long in Windows. I deal with this all the time with Atom extensions, and it drives me crazy. It drives me crazy that it's even possible for the normal file creation APIs to create files that the normal file rename and delete APIs can't process.
These are companies that have a responsibility to shareholders to spend funds to benefit the firm.

Obviously they feel the quarter million is well spent, as a bribe to influence government actions.

Anyone who thinks the bribes don't have the possibility to change a politician's actions is quite gullible.
Its not more or less of a security risk as any other binary that you download from anywhere (or pipe into bash from curl for that matter).

Yes, it's sold as being more secure than other solutions, when it in-fact isn't, but the headline still is clickbait because if Snap is a security risk then everything else is too.
It feels extremely American (to a Brit).
What if the checksum was the same and you accepted the cache hit if the checksum agrees and get your own copy if it doesn't? Maybe the application should get to declare a canonical URL for the js file instead of the browser? So something like

<script src="jQuery-1.12.2.min.js" authoritative-cache-provider="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.2/jquery.m... sha-256="31be012d5df7152ae6495decff603040b3cfb949f1d5cf0bf5498e9fc117d546"></script>

Would this cause more problems than it would solve? I'm assuming disk access is faster than network access.

I'm concerned about people like me who use noscript selectively. How easy is it to create a malicious file that matches the checksum of a known file?
When Google does this they are explicitly making a trade off between relevance and speed on behalf of the user. I'd rather leave that choice to the user, especially when the user can infer that this is the correct destination from the search result text.

Also, it doesn't work other places.
And link the non-minified versions.

(but the different domains actually helps speed up loading with http because it helps parallelise transfers.)
>Why are they not anonymous?

The concept of a nation-state depends upon closed-source sovereignty. Anonymous money could be coming from anyone or any foreign nation-state, thus usurping and subverting the sovereignty nation state.

However, this is a problem that already exists because it is easy enough for a foreign entity to use a third party shell to do this (i.e. AIPAC).
Thanks, I didn't know that. Do they actually use sRGB "gamma" (which has a linear region near 0) or do they use a straight 2.2 gamma like Adobe RGB does?
> And no, it's not just the dark that makes people commit suicide.

That was obvious from the get go. Whoever even claimed this in the first place just did not bother to check facts for more than 5 minutes.
All of their cross licensing agreements are private so everything is speculation. That being said...

In 2009 AMD divested itself of it's manufacturing arm by spinning it off into GlobalFoundries (GF) which was a joint venture with Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC). Intel sued AMD, GF, and ATIC for violation of the terms of AMD and Intel's prior cross licensing agreements.

Later that year Intel and AMD entered into a Settlement Agreement to halt several on going lawsuits both parties had against each other. The AMD/GF/ATIC lawsuit was one of those that was part of the settlement agreement. Under section 4 of the settlement agreement are the mutual releases each company agreed to. Section 4.2 is Intel's release and it states the following.

4.2 Intel Release. Except for the rights and obligations expressly created or reserved by this Agreement and by the agreements described in Section 3.7, Intel does hereby irrevocably release, acquit and forever discharge AMD, GF and ATIC from any and all Claims that Intel ever had, now has or hereafter may acquire against AMD, GF and ATIC, whether known or unknown, on account of any action, inaction, matter, thing or event, that occurred or failed to occur at any time in the past, from the beginning of time through and including the Effective Date, including, without limitation, any and all Claims based on or arising out of, in whole or in part, the Actions or the facts underlying the Actions and any claims that could have been raised in the Actions up to the Effective Date. All third parties included within the scope of the preceding release, pursuant to Section 1.4, are expressly agreed to be third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement.

It seems somewhat relevant to today's announcement as it seems to release AMD from litigation for any future joint ventures it might partake in. However I'm not a lawyer and it's entirely possible that I'm miss reading this.
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Agile works fine. I find that people are broken and don't want to change, or they want to adopt some magic formula by talking about it a lot but don't actually practice it and when they run into problems they blame the process they weren't practicing correctly. If somebody has a process to change people's bad attitudes I would love to learn that.
As far as I am aware, on Windows, for C/C++ modules that need compiled, there are no options other than Visual Studio. I have to qualify this by saying that I have had an MSDN license for a decade and haven't been forced to find a work-around. If you could find a Community Edition of it that would probably be enough.

The other aspect of this question is how often this actually is needed. I'd say it really depends on the type of development you are doing. But you can expect that any project with a sufficiently large amount of dependencies will have at least one that requires building this way. But I am surprised how often this isn't the case, and often those modules are soft dependencies.
I came here to say just that. It also _does_ increase security if X isn't used by the application in the snap (i.e. if the X11 or unity7 interfaces aren't requested).
I keep waiting for Theranos to loudly and messily implode, in a shower of subpoenas and people fleeing the country.
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Three popular ones is not "approximately 5 million": Google, cdnjs, MaxCDN.
The Air 2 was pretty good, and the Pro is supposed to be even better. I haven't noticed any issues, but to be honest I use my iPad at home in situations where I don't think glare would come up much. I don't notice my face, but honestly I don't remember having that issue with the Air 2 either.
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Click bait. Snap is like Mac's .app or Windows .exe, period. It has upsides and downsides, and they are well known.
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That's what I meant. The game is not centered around skins. It is not a "Collectible Skins Game", but an FPS. CCG's are, as the name implies, all about the cards and what you can do with them.
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I'm surprised by your latter statement, especially in light of your former statement. Being blinded by passion, and having "no ill intentions", even if we liberally grant that much, is not the same as being properly considerate of the risks and responsibilities of as critical a technology as healthcare diagnostics. I assign a CEO direct responsibility for being aware of the efficacy of their product, and being honest about this, or at the VERY LEAST taking a proactive, candid, and reconciliatory response when the former is found to be untrue, and none of these preconditions seems to have been met from the news I've read.

We live in a society where CEOs are lionized for success, but often seem to escape responsibility for failure. Frankly, I don't care either way if we consider them to be the true guiding hand or not, I just want us to be consistent one way or the other.
At least Musk will do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_shi...
Well, people change over time. Not to mention trauma. Things could happen that change these "brain signatures". This experiment is really lacking seriousness.
I have to admit to knowing nothing at all about Yu-Gi-Oh, and therefore have no basis to make an informed response, sorry.
I don't think HN is the right place for this, there are plenty of studies on this sort of phenomena. In short: there are powerful network effects, which are influenced by various factors. Saudi money going directly to religious organizations abroad is one of them, and can be the catalyst for triggering a number of other processes. This is even more true in very problematic places, like Bosnia-Hercegovina during and after the war or French banlieues.
>Yes, I think it is extremely unlikely people will figure out thousand-year lifespans.

Why? Do you think this would withstand a thousand years of human ingenuity? I'm confused where you're getting this very confident prediction.

It also still seems to me that long lifespans are extremely desirable, albeit difficult to obtain, and I'm not sure whether you agree. This is relevant because if we want to decide e.g. where to put research effort, it's useful to know what we want.

The article you linked is kind of long, and looks like it mainly consists of sneering at various people; could you point to the part that's relevant? All I saw was some stuff about Alcor messing up a preservation, which is pretty unfortunate, but not really strong evidence that they have bad motivations.
http://i.imgur.com/wB5B35g.png

My user experience was great, I have to agree.
These are all good points that I knew when I hastily pushed the site last week. Still way under 1000kb!

Also, I said my blog, but serves me right I guess ;-)
They aren't, I should've been clearer.
MD and PhD in medicine have a very large overlap, the first 4-5 years of med school are virtually identical.
If you decide to drop out of medschool before you start your residency you can get a PhD very easily usually within a year or so depending on the school and how many credits you have.
"Becomes the new normal" Oh, that's the very best kind of tech!
Not far different from the name of a Phoenix song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF3reVVUbio