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I guess her speech was worth every penny. Such a good speech. Goldman liked it. Too bad the rest of us cannot enjoy it. Let's all pitch in and collect $225,000 for Hillary, so she can give a speech to us (over Skype maybe). I also want to be touched by Hillary's greatness.
It's no secret that Bill Clinton has made somewhere in the neighborhood of $250k per speech since he was president.

This number doesn't surprise me.

I'm surprised people want to hear what he has to say that much but I say if he can get that much, he should keep giving talks.
Some users are lurkers. I created this account 1921 days ago but have only 201 karma.

That said, I don't remember the previous posting of this article, so linking to previous comments is useful. It lets me compare the discussions and see how opinions do or don't change.
For comparison, the most popular game creator makes over 10 million per day over 4 games, with over 4 billion in revenue per year. This creator is supercell, with Clash Royale, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach and Hay Day

Edit - They made 2.5 billion last year with nearly a billion in profit, so they may reach 10 million a day this year.
It's not just the content, but his popularity and speaking ability.
This is a common pattern that has a name and Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Use continuations.
Just because our infrastructure is lousy doesn't mean "underinvestment" is the cause. However, you measure it, American infrastructure has become extremely expensive to build. Countries with nice infrastructure---like Japan and European countries---can also build it much more cheaply.

A number can be small because the numerator---the total amount of funding---is small, or because the denominator---the amount of infrastructure purchased per dollar---is large. In the US, it's mainly that the denominator is large. And because the denominator is large, we choose not to make the numerator as big as it could be.
Also, the point about public transit is a real cheap shot against Republicans. Public transit accounts for a small percentage of total infrastructure investment. Even if it were doubled, this would have almost no impact on our infrastructure budget. And much of what transit is built now fails to pass a benefit-cost test. Look at BART's extension to Livermore. Look at the new Bay Bridge span, which now has a whole book about it
http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/10/from-250-million-to-...
We can't! (or I can't)
this sounds like the conservative attack ads against Trudeau that lead up to the election... that definately lowered the bar for Canadian politics by attacking his background and taking comments out of context to "shame" him and his party.

it didnt work.

i would expect a Canadian leader to be visiting the white house for dinner, as do many political/country leaders.
i would expect him to be going cross country trips as thats what every PM has done.

"Would HN be upvoting this story if it was Stephan Dion or Stephen Harper trying to teach QM?"
no, as i expect the press to never ask them that type of question and never being in a situatiton to be asked that type of question.

i personally dont care for trudeau and what mostly the press brings up about him, i do however support some of his policies more so than any other candidate.

most people voted liberal in their riding as Justin Trudeau was not Stephen Harper and the Conservative party, and was more of a free thinker compared to the other options.

everyone was tired of Stephen Harper and his policies that i would say set canada back on the world stage... canada was just a lacky in the shadow behind the USA, following along most actions.

every political leader makes promises and dont fulfill, that IS politics... but as some has pointed out Trudeau has a decent track record so far.
For what it's worth, it actually doesn't. I used it in a quote in a recent post :p
I don't know anything about Japanese, but if "aoi" is used to describe both the sky and unripe fruit, what makes linguists say that the correct translation for "aoi" is blue? Wouldn't it make more sense to say that "aoi" means "green/blue", i.e. a general term for both green and blue? Doesn't it make the relationship between the words "aoi" and "midori" the same as the relationship between the words "rectangle" and "square" - one is a superset of the other?
It is not content. It is about buying contacts. Bill makes some phone call that enables a meeting with someone somewhere which leaves you rich and you pay some kickback. This is blatant corruption by people who are supposedly fighting for poor.
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WebAssembly is a neat idea, and could be useful for creating cool ways of interacting with scientific data. But a lot of code scientists write only needs to run once on one machine. And in that case, there's no reason to take the inevitable performance hit associated with WebAssembly.
Both of them are currently private citizens. They have no ethical obligation to do anything with their income.
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We developed OMF using agile scrum, not waterfall, but we ultimately were running our agile process within a waterfall
About 3x that.
He wouldn't have paid so much in taxes. But he still would have not had the money. He's being an honest citizen and just giving the government the money, as, like he said, all he really did was work with his own knowledge.
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If you had to put them on your 'a' tags, it could conflict with other "rel"s. That is, how would one make a link that was both "next" and "nofollow"? (that's probably a bad example, but you get what I'm getting at)
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According to that standard then if you got rich selling illegal drugs so long as you then start doing "good" things with your illicit gains after that, nobody can criticize you? Sure, I guess...
What does this do that nano doesn't?
That's ridiculous. This is a laudable first step towards divesting themselves from carbon-producing industries!

You have to start somewhere, coal is as good as any place to start I think.
This doesn't work as a solution to the problem in focus here.

Consider: could you implement a chat app that worked as effectively as the ssh one if you used lynx as the client? No, because interaction with lynx is synchronous.

The original article is making a point that you can build effective apps that work over ssh. The post at the root of this thread raised concerns about using ssh specifically.

Hypothetically you could have a console based web browser that supported javascript and websockets, and then expose the chat server over javascript. But that wouldn't be a good solution either: it's a specialised client and a large number of layers to achieve something that the ssh chat app shows to be straightforward - a secure, generic approach to exposing async functionality to a thin console tool.
could not have gotten the job apart from all that I've learned on hn
Good move by Norway!! Can you read this? I cant tell if I am shadow banned? Please give me a vote in any direction
I said this in the previous thread and I'll say it here too: Rethink the Sync is an attempt to solve this problem from ten years ago.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi06/tech/nightingale...

Basically (read my comment in the other thread for a bit more info), you get file durability and good performance without ever having to type the word "sync", all with the standard POSIX interface.
As a side note, I really enjoy seeing Google Trends information. I really hope this is one Google dont take from us.

And I'd love Google to build on their Public Data explorer. There is so much need and value for a business and the wider public for a central data repository that has good cutting and display options. And a business could easily pay for a private corner to link to these data sets. If this Public Data tool had been a bit further ahead I suspect it could have taken a chunk the massively growing space now being filled by Tableau and other BI solutions.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
About yom...

I recently read a fun article speculating (decoding) the values given for years and ages were Sumerian (or Babylonian) in origin, had different units and symbology, so it's not appropriate to interpret those values as literal base 10 values, which is a much more modern system.

...I've always understood that the Bible is the word of God as interpreted and written by the various disciples.

Ya, I've heard that a lot, when I was in the church, and now from my fundie relatives.

Starts to break down when you start to trace and relate origin myths. Mithras, Horus for the New Testament. Zoroastrian origin of monotheism. A student of religions could likely go on and on. I'm just a casual reader.

Every big chief thru the ages has actively remythed their host culture, claimed divine providence, and presents his/herself as something entirely new.
The comments here are very negative so I'll share a little background on this Norway fund in case you haven't heard of it. Norway started making money from oil reserves and knew they wouldn't last forever. So they invested all the profits in a fund that bought stocks. Now the value of the fund, if liquidated, would net over $1 million per Norwegian citizen.

read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28882312
truthfully, I use hn as a sort of delicious replacement.
As much as we like to say bad things about Marissa Mayer (I don't know her in person so she might be truly awful in person I don't know) but she might have made the right call in buying Tumblr. I think Tumblr still has value. When the teens who use tumblr today become older, there might even be some emotional/sentimental value in Tumblr for them.
I've seen many people accidentally upload secret keys to external repos because of things like this.

I didn't see it in what I read (honestly I just breezed through it), does this prevent secret keys from being uploaded accidentally?
which might include flying across the run way to the coordinates it took off from.

As others have pointed out, the last thing you want is some object flying over the airport that is not under your control.
SSH compression is your friend.
To clarify, you'd rather they doubled-down on an investment in coal?
Only things I saw unless nano already does them:

* Execute commands (edit: to manage the editor settings).

* Support for shortcuts we're all very accustomed to in other software C+S to save, Ctrl+c to copy, Ctrl+v to paste, etc

* Mouse Support

Nano serves it's purpose but sometimes I need something that feels "modern" so I use TextAdept (works on the terminal as well). I might give Micro a try though.
Right now not. But it's definitely a warning sign if somebody who is running for president is indebted to banks.

They are also greedy. After the first 100 million they have made they should be rich enough to give their wisdom to non profits who have less money than banks.
I was wondering why you didn't include and so I plunked it in there and then realized why you didn't include facebook: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...
Wouldn't that information already be priced in to the market?
As a result Europe contributes very little innovation to the world and just piggybacks off what everyone else built. That's fine - USA and China will move things forward, and India is joining the party. But if everyone did this we wouldn't have all those things that make the modern world great.

(I do wish Europe could at least stop being counterproductive, and just not surrender to terrorists. http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/french-anti-uber-protest-tu... http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-france-leaders-arreste... )
All of Evan Miller's programming reviews are good. I'm pretty sure it's been posted on HN before, but I quite liked his take on Rust as well.
Should everyone stop trying to make improvements, lest they attract the attention of your self-defeating cynicism?
>I cant tell if I am shadow banned?

Yes, you are. Seems to have happened after this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10291099
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I have read that they also get paid around 300k for college commencement speeches. I think a lot of people think those speeches are made for free to support young people. So the speaker gets a boatload of money and a lot of credit for doing something good for youth. A double win.
Submit a PR, maybe? :)
Well, the author's day job might be as a "whitehat" for a state sponsored entity -- its even possible/plausible the author could be one of the HackingTeam -- perhaps motivated by company politics to expose them.
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You know, maybe I'm wrong, but I read the comment as a cheap way to register superiority over the OP - essentially saying "we already talked about this, so move along." That's not as valuable when "we" changes over time, and (as you pointed out) a lot of "us" don't participate in every discussion. IMHO we'd be better off if we didn't have to hear about it every time an old topic got resurrected.
Ask HN: Turning off Google's “personalisation.”
Google personalises for your IP and region, which is all fine and dandy until;

- your phone gets updated to speak in a different accent

- the number system changes to one you don't recognise

- local results are prioritised above the results you want

- the play store tries to restrict the apps you can download

Localisation started off as a helpful feature, but the problem is that I can't turn it off. There is no setting within Google products to turn it off - setting your search preferences to google.com/ncr does not work. The only way out is to manually go to google.com/ncr and search from there every time.

There is a similar case to be made for the individualised personalisation Google does for search results. It initially started off as a really great tool for a few queries, but it is now an obstacle in my workflow. And I can't turn it off. Google offers me no setting that I can change and pws=0 has stopped working. Initially it didn't work with Google Instant, but now it doesn't work with Instant turned off - at least as far as I can detect.

Is there some way for me to access "vanilla" Google? Or a better alternative?

I am willing to sacrifice their attempts to read my mind for quicker and more accurate search results.
This is not about the speeches. It's about buying influence with well connected people.
I've seen that, but wouldn't a laser actually be more reliable / faster?
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Interested to know how Twitter let their momentum tail off starting mid-2013. Does anyone know the missteps?
The VP is likely required by employment contract to submit all such relationships (contracting, consulting, advisor boards, board of directors, and maybe even angel investments) to Google beforehand so that Google can run a conflict if interest check and give their blessing or prohibit the activity.
An easy fix in JDK5 and beyond is listed at the bottom of the article. Pretty much a non-issue these days.
Does SSH have PFS?
More links here - https://github.com/checkcheckzz/system-design-interview
> You can't really prove it, but you can reason that
> this is to the detriment of the public at large

I'm glad that high-profile politicians know they have a guaranteed income from speaking engagements so that they don't feel any need to make more nefarious pension arrangements.
In addition to those features, micro also supports colors better. You can make colorschemes for it so that syntax highlighting is consistent across filetypes, and it supports 256, and true color, while nano only supports 16 colors.

Micro can also easily interface with the system clipboard (Ctrl-c, Ctrl-x, Ctrl-v).
The fund's international speculative investment portfolio has seen positive YOY growth, and it was only recently that the NBIM has decided to go ahead with actively tackling social and environmental issues.

And Norway's petroleum engineering is top notch.

Frankly I think the moral superiority is justified -- they have an opportunity to make a positive contribution to the world and they didn't sabotage the planet or employ slave labor to get here.
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Well in that case, app or no app, it's a good thing taxi drivers' godawful working conditions have come under public scrutiny.
> indebted to banks

So the money was a loan? Are you implying the banks can withdraw the money if they're unhappy with performance?

> They are also greedy. After the first 100 million

You know, I think you should be giving everything over your first $15,000 to charity too. It's cool for me to tell you how to spend your money, right?
Well at that level, it probably all cancels each other out.
If they are projecting sonar images at each other, this would be much easier for us to determine than if they are using serial, syntactical language, right?

They may not be projecting shapes of actual objects, but if they are projecting shapes at all, it would probably be easy to record and reconstruct them visually for us to see, no?
> It was not always this way

Citation?
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Absolutely, but it by no means marks the bottom. Have a look at the last 5 years of KOL (ETF because I can't recall the coal futures symbol).
1st Ave L is probably one of the most crowded stops in the morning for rush hour in the city, probably competing closely with Lorimer and Bedford L stops.
In PM out of the city Union Square is similarly packed, and the train is nearly empty once you pass Lorimer
Very interesting. An can I say it's particularly salient as the Saudi's are about to divest from the USD?![1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-ara...
Interesting to see Snapchat and Instagram in there: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...
Women were fat-shamed on dating apps by men saying they're “glorifying obesity”
Lazy evaluation is what drew me into Haskell a few years ago, when someone showed me how you could use it to beautifully read a file as if it were in-memory, but done entirely as a stream. I thought that was amazing and I was sold.
My main concern here is that someone was monitoring John Dickson's wall. It may have been accidentally deleted, but did it get flagged? How did it come to the attention of Facebook admins?
So Europe contributes every little innovation to the world... based on which numbers about European tech companies or start-ups? I mean, if you want some conflicting anecdata from a marketing department, here it is: http://www.eu-startups.com/.
What's Google's policy on speaking fees? Or are you just curious how people would emotionally react to find a co-worker making a lot of money on the side?
Because it's easier to wrap an arbitrary protocol with TLS than it is to tunnel it through ssh. Plus, TLS is already supported for the purposes you mentioned. A number of MU*s already offer TLS access, IRC and XMPP have supported TLS since forever, there's near ubiquitous support for it in any language you want to write a client/server in, plus, as others have mentioned, you don't have the security risks that SSH can potentially have. It just provides too much weight for not enough benefit.
I think It's a bit premature to suggest they're "about" to divest.
+ Whatsapp: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...
Citation:

[1] The good ol' days.
They did not make many missteps. Once the general public started using Twitter by 2013, they realized it's not for them, unless they were a celebrity.
I just wrote about doing it this way yesterday.

http://www.mozartreina.com/
Brazilian President impeached, ending 13 years of Worker's Party leadership
The math seems to be a bit off

$860B / 5000000 people (2013, wikipedia) = $172000
The bankers are not stupid. They don't give a lot of money for nothing. They expect that the Clintons will open doors for them. The Clintons know that too so if they want to keep the money rolling they better be useful for the banks.

I am not telling them what to do with their money but it should be clear to everybody who their paymasters are.
Heretical though it may be, yes, I am in fact suggesting that the US government enforce its existing competition laws, which are already on the books, in order to force a few megacorps down to a size where they will be subject to fair market competition and will have to come up with a business model besides monopoly rent.
Have you tried a methodology like GTD?
If this were just some ex-President making a ton of cash for speeches, I really wouldn't care. The problem is that he's gunning for the White House, as "First Dude" (or whatever the title will be; we've never had one before).

Hillary constantly uses her experience as First Lady as political experience, and basically touts it as equivalent to VP or more. Similarly, if Hillary wins, Bill isn't going to just sit around the WH and screw interns (though he'll probably do that too), he's going to be using it as a political office, just like she did, and he'll use his position as her husband to influence her. So these people paying "speaking fees" are really just practicing legalized bribery.
Over 1 million kr (not $) per citizen. Big difference.
That "GENERIC-*" points to just one of the problems.
"by similar logic..."

Please...do other countries currently have 22% of GDP tied to [slave labor, child labor, war profiteering, fraud, outright theft, etc.]?

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/count...

edit:

In other words, by similar logic it could be called “holier-than-thou”
for westerners to have any standards whatsoever about investment choices,
because our wealth is built on all kinds of unsavory sources.

I also find it ironic that "westerner" in your world doesn't seem to include Norwegians ;-).
> usually breaks the back button (e.g. scroll to the 20th page, click something, go back. welcome to page 1!)

This is easily overcome by pushState or what have you. As you scroll, the URL in the address bar changes to like `/page/20/` and then going back takes you to that URL where only the results from page 20 are displayed.
Search, and nonprofessional social networking, respectively. As noted below, Eric Schmidt has already de facto admitted to Google holding a monopoly position.
i find these lectures difficult to watch, in the same way i found real lectures difficult to sit through

it is too raw

a 2 hour video for maybe 20 minutes of actionable content?

youtubers may be mocked for lacking credibility but at least they seek to develop a skill for editing their content

this(o) is the best source i've found on getting an understanding of the np-complete problem sphere

this in conjunction with karp's very digestible original paper(i) describing his process of reduction can help you develop a full understanding of hard problems

(o) http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/orclass/integer/integer.html

(i) http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~sgk/teaching/grad/handouts/karp.pdf
> They don't give a lot of money for nothing

Your explicit assumption there is that having the former president of the US give a speech at your Xmas dinner doesn't carry the speaking fee in terms of:

- Impressing your clients: "Of course we're large, powerful, and trustworthy - Bill came to talk us last week"

- Hospitality to your clients; offering important clients a chance to come and watch the speaker

- Making the partners feel like Very Important Peoples

- Morale boosting for current and future employees

As a random example, I note that CareerBuilder had Condoleeza Rice speak at their Empower 2015 sales conference. Do you think there was a political / regulatory angle there?
I really have to question why this article is on HN; this site seems to normally highly discourage political discussion, and I really don't see what this has to do with tech. If you mods want to have political discussions, go ahead, but don't be surprised if they turn nasty, as they usually do in online forums.