skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely.

Those pages have been kept so securely & hidden away from everyone that even Congressmen & Senators with clearances weren't even allowed to take notes on a scratchpad, when perusing them.

They had to mentally memorize any of the contents therein !

Here's the recent 60 Minutes piece on the White House's potential declassification of the "28 pages" [1] of the 9/11 Commission Report [2].

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/28-pages

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It also comes at a time when the White House and intelligence officials
are reviewing whether to declassify one of the country's most sensitive
documents -- known as the "28 pages." They have to do with 9/11 and the
possible existence of a Saudi support network for the hijackers while
they were in the U.S.

For 13 years, the 28 pages have been locked away in a secret vault. Only
a small group of people have ever seen them. Tonight, you will hear from
some of the people who have read them and believe, along with the families
of 9/11 victims that they should be declassified.

[1] 28 Pages

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-911-classified-report...

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[2] 9/11 Commission Report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report
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If you'd resent your parents for explaining death to you when you were five by an analogy without technical accuracy you probably have other issues.
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

I think this article fits the description.
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Maybe because of the Presidential trip to Saudi Arabia?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/barack-obama-sa...
As of right now, Alexander has all of 1-star on Github, and that's on a forked repo.

https://github.com/arechsteiner?tab=repositories

I think he may need help grokking the whole concept :-)
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Has a very "Scientists report water to be wet" feel to the whole thing.

It's almost like they think that 9/11 is just a part of life now, and the only thing that matters is the paper trail. Realistically, it signals a new societal problem of religious toxicity and an insidious new type of invader that we as Americans (assumption) have not faced before. If we can't trust our neighbors not to blow us up, who CAN we trust?
I was under the impression Agile was just the opposite - used to give structure to dysfunctional teams so they could learn to work together? Old established teams don't need more structure - they have grown processes that work for them.
So what's your solution then? What if I agree with you and say: fine, it's impossible for procrastinators to do their work. Is this the end? Do we all just agree that procrastinators can't do their work and sit around not doing work?

What's the solution, if not somehow, some way, gathering the willpower and forcing yourself to do the work? Is there another way around it?
I remember thinking years ago, that my CV in Word took up more memory than my first computer (Acorn Electron 32kb ram). It amazes me that I used to play Elete on that machine.
"May have had"?

I thought it was widely known that Osama Bin Laden was heavily financed from there? Also: wahabi?
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I hear MS is really pushing Node on Azure. There was another HN article recently mentioning something like $100K of discounts for the first year, but to tell you the truth, that wasn't really enough to pique my interest in Azure. The only reason I'm here is for disaster stories and popcorn ;)

Things must have gone pretty bad if Azure is offering Linux now.
Rural Russia isn't exactly the manicured place you imagine it to be.
It seems like if every person who has ever lived were still alive today we'd had some issues.
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I'm sorry but you just don't seem do know what you are talking about. I routinely can't do mundane task that would cost me a lot of trouble if I didn't do it, because it upset me. As say in the article, someone just telling me to do it has as much effect as someone telling me to cheer up when I was depressed. I do agree with you that is detrimental to label yourself anything and make it a self-fulfilling prophecy but a lot of what was said in this article resonate with my experience.
I disagree with one of your three conditions; I don't think all team members need to be of similar skill. Particularly, I think agile practices can be very good for knowledge sharing between senior and junior developers.

As for trust and values, I might combine the two and say that members have to trust in each others values. For example, I don't want to bother to get my code reviewed by someone who doesn't care about its quality, and I don't want to put in the effort to review someone's code if they are only having it reviewed to satisfy the process. These differences in values can really suck the energy out of the process.
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I'm surprised vagrantbox.es is still around; Hashicorp had been offering box discovery themselves for a while now.

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search
See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/bulk_personal_datase... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11540777
The XML serialization Apple defined for plists is awful and not easy to query with XPath.
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> For example, when I visited Bangladesh in the early 1990's, seeing veiled women in the capital city of Dhaka was unusual. It's very common today.

Why do you think SA has something to do with this?

BTW, this is true in some western countries as well (I'm thinking of France where veiled women are everywhere, it wasn't the case in the 80s). I wonder what explains this trend.
I wouldn't have thought to bring up Banks, but it's a good point. To think that a lack of gravitas in naming is an indictment of democracy is absolutely ridiculous.

I think it's on topic as there are many ships in his books with names referencing a lack of "gravitas". As explained by Banks:

"But it was a scathing review of Culture ship-naming policy delivered by another Involved civilisation. They suggested that such enormously powerful and intellectually refined entities ought to have names with a little more gravitas, to reflect their near-god-like status; the immediate and sustained reaction of one of the Culture's ship manufacturies was to name all its subsequent vessels things like:

Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out; Gravitas, What Gravitas?; Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment; Gravitas Free Zone; Low Gravitas Warning Signal"
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Oh, you just want to add a class to the element? \adds whole jQuery\ That's what's wrong with the web.

Oh, and you need a loop? \adds underscore.js\
It sounds like you are building a transactional CRUD webapp that doesn't need to scale all that much, for a startup where the team already has a bunch of experience with Rails, which IMO, has the best ecosystem for webapps available (and I'm not a huge Rails fan.) And the main reason you are looking at Golang is because of performance improvements, even though it doesn't have a great ecosystem yet, never mind a solid webapp framework, and the team doesn't have much experience with it? Is that right?

Having written and maintained a large Rails app from the ground up, and done some small projects in Golang, I think you'll be extremely dissatisfied with all of the extra work you'll find yourself doing, which really takes away from the time of actually getting your product in your users hands.

When coming from Rails, most other options will have speed that is tempting. If it were me and I were in your position and wanted to avoid Rails I'd pick Java/JVM for its speed, ecosystem and its fit in to fintech. But that's me. Or just use Rails and rewrite it in the new shiny if and when performance becomes a problem.
I would guess that the name itself was put forth as a signal to the organizers that "we know your public vote is bullshit, and this will prove it", and every vote in favor was saying "we triple-dog dare you to prove us wrong, and actually give up that meaningless iota of control to the people".

I think that everyone already knew that the poll was nothing more than a meaningless diversion, and "Boaty McBoatface" was just throwing it back into the organizers' faces. Everybody knew this would happen, and that was the entire reason for the joke names. If it doesn't matter anyway, it's at least good for a laugh or two.
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Wordpress theme or not, it was still chosen over and above better designed themes in that collection. Plus some of the most distracting elements on that page are stuff they've added which wasn't in the theme's demo:

* The main carousel images background is different from the background of the carousel itself. And since the images are quite small, it means the top section of the landing page looks disjoined when the browser window is sized to larger dimensions.

* The main carousel has lots of sunken bevels which makes the logos and text harder to identify and read. I'm not generally a fan of flat design, but things like that are meant to be instantly identifiable; so they should either be flat, or have a larger unified border around them (badly explained, but something like how the social icons are often bevelled, or how Apple shapes iOS apps).

* In the main title, "OSBoxes" has a different vertical alignment to the rest of the text.

* In the main title, "VMWare" and "Virtualbox" scroll in a vertical "carousel", which is very distracting.

* In the main title, the aforementioned vertical carousel has a blue background which is jarring against the rest of the white document. To be honest, between this and the previous two points, the dyslexic in me took a couple of attempts to parse the title. Which somewhat undermines the point of a title.

* Downloading a VM image requires clicking the OS to reveal a hidden dropdown, then clicking the download link. Given the amount of whitespace in that list, they could have just had download icons in the list and saved users a pointless click. Given you only need a download icon and a www icon (icons people are already familiar with), you could still have a clean usable design.

Anyway, I didn't mean this to slate the project based on the site. In fact normally I wouldn't be so critical of someone else's site. Perhaps it's just my dyslexia, or even just me specifically, but I really struggled to read through this site in ways that I don't on most other websites.
Makes me wonder if any of these were part of the inspiration for Iain M. Banks ship names.
I found "Inside the Kingdom" to be a very interesting read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004YE4U5Y/ref=dp-kindle-redirect...

It's not an "agenda book", it might even be described in some stretches as somewhat sympathetic/pragmatic to the regime, but it's a very thorough and very well written history of Saudi Arabia and analysis of its current (as of 2009) situation - politics, economics etc. Wikipedia states (unsourced) that it has "been cited as standard study texts for the diplomatic community working inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia", but I can believe it.
Really tugs at those heart strings.
On your diversity note. I find it amusing, since when I was at collage the diversity push was all for women, so unless you were an exceptional student all of the scholarships went to women. And now it appears to be being pushed to a smaller and smaller subset.

I hope that you've found something you enjoy to go into a career in. I know I studied tech and now work tangentially to it, and sometimes I feel like I made the wrong choice.
> The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install

It's not really surprising in a world where a graphical driver is > 100 MB (Nvidia driver for Windows).
>> intended to happen

Not sure I can provide a source on this (it's a matter of inner workings of Government).

>> inflation [...] was actually absorbed by the financial market

In the UK the CPI is made up mostly of operational costs. I deliberately use the term 'operational' here as distinct from 'consumer goods' or something because I am philosophically opposed to partitioning humans into 'consumers' and 'producers'. A naive idealist. :)

I would like to produce a 'teardown' of the specification at some point, but haven't motivated myself yet. I actually have a comment somewhere here on HN that has gotten lost - that's a bit of a kick up the arse for me to produce something a bit more structured like a blog.

Mortage payments, both interest and capital, and rent are dealt with very badly by CPI. As I recall, they're basically not even included. I think legal fees on home purchase, maintenance, and some other related expenses are in there.

At the moment, for at least the median household and probably a large percentage of them, some combination of rent, mortgage payments, or imputed interest is the highest annual expense by a large margin.

In that context the CPI becomes a sort of analysis of 'inflation of items purchased by discretionary income', because it fails to account for well over half of the economy.

On the ground I think this is sort of obvious, which is why I've been reluctant to produce write-ups with proper citations, because it feels a bit like preaching to the converted.

(This is taking as axiomatic that housing costs are 'the financial market'. I'm considering it 'obvious', because housing is essentially the only valuable asset that the median, or even 75th percentile person owns. It functions as capital.)
Reusing a Culture ship name would have been a great tribute, now that I think of it :(
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Nothing. Screw the planet. I'm going to get all I can out of it while I'm alive. I just hope I can last long enough to see the post-apocalypse world.
What's wrong with Boaty McBoatface? I think it's kinda cute.
>For those unlucky enough to have a terminal condition (and regardless of progress there will always be some), or riddled with chronic conditions and infirmity, let's allow them to pass with dignity, when and how they choose.

I'm all for that, after all one can decide what to do with his/her life and how to end it. But I think it would be much more fair to give people another choice: being cryopreserved. Sounds futuristic, but I don't see anything futuristic in storing humans in a tank of liquid N2. The technology to do this on scale is half a century old.

Of course euthanasia is cheaper than cryo, and that makes us ask ourselves another unpleasant question: What is the real market value of human life? Is it really lower than the price of infrastructure for preserving humans in liquid nitrogen?
Do you mean because of limited resources like food and space? Sure, but (1) these look like difficult but quite solvable problems (we are engineers, after all) and (2) the alternative is having every person who has ever lived also be dead, which sounds bad to me.

There might be more clever options, like cryopreserve everyone who dies; this does not consume many resources (the only recurring cost is liquid nitrogen, which is pretty cheap). Then we can wait to revive everyone until we have the medicine and the resources to support everyone, avoiding overpopulation.
Al Quaeda was founded by Saudi nationals, but it saw the Saudi government as their enemy just as US — so, while a lot of terrorists are Saudi citizens, they are a common enemy for Saudis and US together. Saudi government itself is balancing between international system and wahhabism, which has a lot of local support: if they would suddenly adopt human rights, democracy and other western policies, they would most likely not stay in power for long. So, US relationship with Saudis makes a lot of sense: US is trying to find common interests and build commercial relationship, hoping that it will help gradually promote western values in Saudi society over time. If there would appear a democratic, westernized faction, US would support it over existing government, but it doesn't seem likely in near future. Alternatively, if US would cut ties with Saudi government because of their human rights records (as a lot of commentors here routinely suggest), it would only push Saudi government and society away from western values further into islamism.
That's a frustrating parallel you draw. I wouldn't tell a depressed person to cheer up. I've been depressed.

And I wouldn't tell an addict to just stop. I have friends who are addicts.

But I know that at the end of the day, if you want to fix either of these issues, you are the only person who can do something about it. It's difficult, but possible. Nobody else can stop drinking for you, or fix your depression for you. Sure you can try rehab and antidepressants, but at the end of the day you have to do it.

Same with procrastination. Except there's no pill for it, you just have to do it. I wouldn't say it in such a crude way to a friend, but the fact is, the friend is the only one who can fix his problem.
I'm not sure anymore that EMT64 actually relies on any AMD IP, if articles are correct and the Intel-AMD cross-licensing agreement expired last year.

Intel has basically had a de-facto monopoly on the PC and server space for the past 5+ years so I don't really buy that argument either. The buyout pressure was real enough when AMD was splitting into AMD + GloFo that Abu Dhabi couldn't buy a controlling stake in AMD, much to their chagrin. That might be null now if there really is no more agreement, in which case I would be surprised if there was NOT a buyout offer in the next few years.

Edit: Also, as far as I can see from googling, the Rockchip deal doesn't actually exchange any IP, it simply allows them to customize existing Atom cores into SoCs.
The best protocol is to just ignore it. Animals do it, so why shouldn't we?

This approach is also fully compatible with the idea that life itself is a "terminal disease".
Think about players hiding behind foliage. The AI cheats that are used now make this a lot less practical / fun than a per-pixel visibility test.
Obviously you try to explain, but what was objected to above is making excuses for death. Death sucks, and trying to pretend there's some good to balance that out is a lie.

That said, I'm not a parent, and I realise it's easier to be idealistic in theory.
I would argue two things:

1) This is an irrelevant statistic.

2) Even if this were true it's not that big of a deal.

This is irrelevant because most people don't browse the average web page. They browse the top few sites on the internet and that's it. A more relevant statistic would be what have the sizes of the top 50 sites been over the last 15 years. I imagine they still may have grown on average, but download speeds have also grown over that time. Especially on mobile.

Even if we accept the premise that web sites as a whole, including the most popular ones are all growing and are now an average of 2.2MB each. Who cares? 2.2MB is nothing in 2016. Even on an LTE connection that's probably between 4 and 1.5 seconds to download the full page. And a lot of that size is probably in ads, which nobody minds if they load last or not at all.

Lastly, this is a self fixing problem. If a site is too bloated, users will stop going to it.

But I would propose that a lot of this increase in size is due to users (especially mobile) having higher and higher resolution displays, which necessitates higher resolution content, which of course is bigger.
How about not using js at all? I think that for the majority of pages it doesn’t add any value.
I really wish more companies cared about their mobile presence. You don't need much, especially since native mobile widgets go so far along towards making web a nice thing. Also, for gods sake allow zooming. I think of that as such a major plus for mobile and yet so many mobile sites disallow it.
This won't work because it requires user input. People are lazy, and unless you are extremely disciplined I guarantee you will stop wanting to use that input box very soon after installing.
There would be over a hundred billion people today if nobody ever died, and that's only counting the humans. The practical reality of the world since the dawn of life has been that if you want to shake up the genetic Lego box and create new creatures, the old creatures have to die. Eventually.

The analogy is not perfect. To create new Lego creations you have to destroy the old ones first. But analogies are never perfect. They're just a starting point to get a rough understanding.
>2) US elections are so dominated by advertisement, expensive campaigns and donations

By outspending his opponent over 2:1 and still losing by a large margin, Bernie Sanders has proved that money can't buy an election.
The average Web page now does more than the average Doom install, I don't see the relevance of this.

Although I get really annoyed when I visit a blog post whose page is 100x larger than Dostoevsky's novels in .txt format. On my blog (https://pljns.com/blog/), JQuery and genericons are often my largest file transfers, but I still clock under 500kb.
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> physicists are conjouring up stuff like dark energy and dark matter to "fit the gap" between theory and observation without any sound basis for their existence.

Physicists are undertaking a wide range of experimental programs to look for more satisfying explanations of what underlies ΛCDM cosmology (which I guess is the "conjouring" [sic] that you are referring to). Such experiments could also show that ΛCDM cosmology is wrong or needs to be modified. But right now, ΛCDM cosmology does a pretty good job of explaining the data we have so far.

I'm not sure what else you would have physicists do—should they just not talk about the fact that there's a relatively parsimonious framework that explains the large-scale behavior of the universe?
Oh come on, let's talk about Adobe Reader and Skype. :)
Probably the best bet nowadays is Ember.js. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. It works out of the box and you can focus on your application. And no crap. Matured, robust, scalable, faster than others (the new Glimmer 2 is 3x times faster than React...), huge add-on ecosystem. Easy to learn, great tutorials and guide. No more problem at all. ;)
I never hear about GoSquared. Thank you for suggestion. I'll observe.
Death is just another part of life. It's going to get you eventually.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
They mean the original Doom, which ran with a software renderer anyways.
More on HRC:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wK2K5v5bm0Q
The community is the worst. The adds whole jQuery comes from every single js topic on SO in the past five+ years being answered by "just use jquery". Many times they are not even web related at all.

> "How do you do something in javascript?"

> "With jQuery you do it like this..."

I had the worst time ever when I had to work with jscript. I really wonder if my dislike of the language comes from the language itself or the community around it.
With the instant gratification generation, not having dynamic content is going to be a tough sell. I will however agree, there is a gross overuse of it.
Agile doesn't give structure when compared with Waterfall (traditional project management), usually an Agile system is less structured (at least IMHO), and will have less meetings, shorter planning discussions, etc.

If your team is dysfunctional Agile will not fix that. Agile requires a functioning team that can communicate together and invested in working together.
Speaking of airports, I know of several people who outright refuse to refer to Washington National Airport by its current name, "Ronald Regan Washington National Airport". They will go so far as to correct someone who says "Regan National" and insist, "Washington National."