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Stupid question from an interested outsider: how's a "subscription" different from a good ol' callback?
I was genuinely expecting a bubble burster article with copious amounts of weather balloons thrown in. Surprised to know that there are well recorded events with no reasonable explanation. But the question whether there is a government cover up is almost meaningless. Any answer given by any one is open to interpretation. Either at face value or a part of elaborate cover up or the ramblings of a crazy person.
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I always do a fresh install of any distro (my files are on a separate drive and I use links to Doc, Vids, Pics etc). I wipe my home dir and start fresh. This has been the worst Ubuntu install for me. Lots of errors and issues (software center has alot of problems). Which BSD release do you run for easy install of GNOME?
The naked human body.

Also, New York apartments.
That's not clear at all.

The information that was emailed to Clinton was sensitive but only supposedly from a classified source. There is no proof that it was, just accusations.
Western societies improved a great deal after the dominance of the Church was broken.
There's also a lot of similarity with Rx.JS and observable based (aka "Reactor") patterns:

Rx.Observable.fromTime().subscribe(tick)

Rx.Observable.fromSocket(mySocket).subscribe(handleEvent)

https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS

Regardless of the exact library or pattern, the broader concept of treating data sources as asynchronous event streams you can subscribe and react to definitely simplifies data flow and makes systems very robust.

An additional benefit of this pattern is the natural way it makes it easy to filter, chain, map, etc onto these subscriptions. Once again from the Rx world, http://rxmarbles.com/ does a great job visualizing these patterns.
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Certainly. Also weather balloons that were in fact doing remote observation of Soviet nuclear weapons testing (see project Mogul run out of Roswell, NM).
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Challenging the Catholic Church and the divine right of kings was unthinkable too, and was a "full stack" social control model.

Ideology doesn't do anything. People do things. Ideology is completely instrumental. Material forces dictate the way ideology manifests because, having no power of its own ideology must be propagated by something physical.

The enlightenment, first of all a 20th century reinterpretation of history was not ideology overcoming ideology, but material forces of social change outmoding old ideology and fertilizing new.

So the question is, what are the material, physical forces driving the political situation in the Middle East?

Would it be ridiculous to say that the petrodollar, coups and bombs drive it?
Well that's rather the problem. Most people assume that "the Ubuntu team" tests everything. It's an LTS. Of course it's going to work, right?

In practice, we rely on users to test and report. There are simply too many hardware configurations, use cases and user hacks out there to assume everything will just work.

And if people are unwilling to do this before release, why would you expect anything other than a big bucket of bugs when it did finally release? So no, don't assume it'll just work. Get involved before the next release.

And all this is why the LTS→LTS upgrades aren't issued until the first point release. The .0 is still considered unsuitable for production.
Every time I see the word "UFO", I think back to this comic: http://i.imgur.com/86y8abV.png
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Yes this is a great point - though I'm not advocating for any consolidated religious power. I don't think Iran would really be a good fit for that anyway, as the political-religious combination is fairly recent and was an affect of major political polarization as the whole region started gaining power through oil trade.

The Kurds are an amazing and resilient group that have been an incredible ally to the west.

I don't know any group it's size who has been more historically oppressed, marginalized and killed with almost nobody paying any attention to it.
People these days, always wanting to give you money back, I swear! :)

The comments on the post and the corresponding KS have confirmed what I always suspected about the project. People weren't just interested in the game, they were interested in Gavan's journey, a finished game being a nice side-effect.

Like so many others, I certainly don't want my money back and I'll gladly give more money if allowed.

Gavan, if you're reading this, I admire your integrity and your kindness, which is a big reason I supported the project in the first place (beyond VQ being obviously really neat). I sincerely hope you don't give up but either way, I wish you all the best.

Here's to hoping there's a generous soul around these parts willing to forward a fair wad of cash your way!
The flip side of that cultural influence that while Saudi Arabia as a country is relatively young and the land is inhospitable compared with Iran, it also happens to be home to Mecca and Islam's other most holy city, which means the state is disproportionately influential over and vulnerable to adherents of the world's fastest growing and most highly-politicised religion. So it would be quite hard to ignore even if the neighbouring countries had most of the oil and especially if the House of Saud remained ostensibly friendly.

I'm under the impression that the US is mostly following rather than mostly leading in engagement with the Saudi rather than Iran: one country is lead by plutocrats whose relationship with the US is driven by desire to dominate the world oil trade, and the other controlled by powerful revolutionaries and theocrats whose control over an increasingly diverse society depends on invoking the spectre of "Great Satan" as recent history's most dangerous enemy.
Which is why I prefer to make my own. Candied and most kinds og dried fruit are nutritionally negative worth compared to fresh or frozen.
Trying to justify one terribly gone wrong political ideology with another isn't a good way to justify an argument. And in the modern age, many Christian majority nations have successfully created secular states, something Islamic states won't and never will consider unless major reform can occur.
Great read and I've passed it on, it may come in useful for me or someone I know some day. Just want to ask a few questions:
1-What triggers this response? Are you just swimming casually when all of a sudden this kicks in?
2-For those who have experienced drowning, what stopped you from swimming normally?
I've always been a good swimmer and hardly ever had problems in the water. There was one year when I was 9 in a wave pool in Rhodes, there were no more Rubber Rings so I swam in, I was out of my depth and I got hit by a wave I miss timed, and couldn't correct my timing so I started to panic realising I was about to drown, luckily a woman close by saw this and pulled me up...drowning scares the hell out of me.
Elm is very cool and pleasant to use compared to JavaScript, but I have some reservations. The limited typeclass system (for numbers and such) seems... questionable. The interaction of what looks like pure declarative syntax and what is actually impure imperative semantics is confusing to me. I understand that the author wants to avoid monads and other perhaps somewhat confusing staples of functional IO, but I'm not sure the cost/benefit of doing it this way works out.

I will say that Elm is the best JavaScript-targeting platform I have tried! I have hopes for GHCJS, but it's not near Elm's level of readiness yet.
"First, Clinton was allowed to use a non-state.gov email address as Sec of State."

By whom? Even the SOS she is required to follow the rules. She did not.

"Secondly, the Sec. of State has original classifying authority so there are things she can do with respect to classifications that a normal person with a clearance cannot."

But she cannot declassify emails.

"Third, State Dept emails sent over the open internet are not meant to be classified"

What actually happened remains to be seen and may never see the light of day.

And then there's intent. One must ask "Why did she request that a separate server be set up?" and then follow her answer to the base of her justification. Why her request? Is her justification valid? Was she ignorant of the ramifications (also bad if you're running for the Presidency)?

In the end one faces the dilemma "Was Hilary evil and deceptive or merely incompetent?" Having read about her part in the Whitewater scandal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitew...

which is titled

"Hillary Clinton and the Whitewater Controversy: A Close-Up"
By David Maraniss and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 2, 1996

I know where I come down.
What resources are necessary to get this spun back up?
One of the 'solutions' to solar energy storage is to collect power from the east / west of you. Considering most grid scale storage is expensive and not that efficient ~5-10% transportation losses are viable which makes China, India and the EU well within range of Saudi solar electric power.

Another option is manufacturing, cheap power means cheap aluminum. And there is significant research into synthetic fuels, even if significantly more expensive than Oil right now they are likely in demand for aircraft in the long term.
The difference being the New Testament was written decades after Christ's death by apostles who expected worldly salvation a lot earlier, and so the stories are ripe for exaggeration and misremembered details (and the parts that the Catholic Church destroyed because they were incompatible with their ruling ideology but we'll let that go for now).

As for the Old Testament: how many Christians keep kosher?

Islam's founding story is much more straightforward: Angel tells Muhammed to transcribe a book that exists word-for-word in heaven. No ambiguity there.
If true, then this is worse than the worst aspects of Angular:

"And of course then we would go on to update the parent, but which parent? Both of them! Yes, that’s right, even though the Car page has nothing to do with the CarPart part of the database, it would need to include a carPart fragment just so it could make its child container getFragment call. And likewise the CarPart page has to include a Car fragment so its child container can get a Car fragment when it needs to."

But my impression is that this not true.
Depressing to see this thread immediately devolve into dismissals from people who obviously didn't take the time to read the article. It's actually pretty interesting -- both because of who it's about (pretty serious classified government dude) and what action he's taking (collecting hard data).

To paraphrase:

I've spent a lot of time in classified programs and there doesn't seem to be any official government UFO program, so getting the government to disclose what it knowns won't amount to much. Having said that, if such programs exist they're likely conducted by separate, extra-government organizations. Personally, I think the phenomenon is worth studying based on a high number of credible people giving credible reports. Because of that, I've joined the board of UFODATA which is using automated surveillance stations to try to collect (more) hard data about UFOs.
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> Are you allowed to tell us more about the company? Number of employees?

We were around 15 people ( sales, design not included )

> It sounded like you got hired to do TCL without knowing TCL.

Indeed, in their job description, they just wrote that I had to be curious and willing to learn something unusual.
They didn't mention TCL.

> Why was it a secret weapon?

I would say flexibilty, it was quite impressive to watch how his very own web framework evolved.
He would check out new frameworks over night, if he liked some patterns/features etc. from other frameworks, he would just put it into his own framework over night.

The most impressive part, was probably the loose coupling of all the software components.

There wasn't some kind of an ORM, just pure handcrafted optimized SQL.

The secret weapon was, how he ignored other opinions.

Just a few examples, for some people OOP is the way to go, anything else is just unacceptable.
They are forcing themself into a corner with limited options.
I agree, OOP is awesome but it's not the solution for all our problems, in TCL we just could switch from OOP to imperative or to functional without breaking anything.

As already described above, plain SQL is already the best DSL for databases, we didn't have any abstraction layer on top of that, which we had to learn.

I don't agree with all his opinions but I do agree on the fact, that we software engineers tend to over engineer things.
@thecupisblue - without getting into details - what if we could allow you avoid surge pricing- through the use of smart algorithms?
There's a great blog post on this: https://blog.twitter.com/2015/building-distributedlog-twitte...
I guess this is on HN because people are surprised that not all programmers are atheist members of the Democratic party.
> I want to fire him immediately. If I do, she'll know and it will be a violation of the trust she placed in me.

Beyond creating a potential legal liability-- the biz dev guy demonstrated poor decision quality, bad peer relationships, and questionable business acumen. All cause for performance dismissal. He caused the true breach of trust. You can leave your female employee entirely out of any discussions.
I think they are doing quite a good job considering the vigilance it takes. The beach near me has mostly teenagers lifeguarding, and there has been 30k rescues over the years, with zero deaths while lifeguards were on duty. I do not hear of many drownings anywhere with lifeguards on.
It should say 'Peter Thiel', not PayPal co-founder, imo.
I can provide two counterexamples.

Lebanon has been a highly secular state with a varied population when it comes to religion (Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, Druze). Unfortunately Hezbollah now has far more influence than it should have, which is what is ruining Lebanon in my opinion.

My country Tunisia is slowly shifting towards a pseudo-secular republic. The constitution currently lists Islam as the country's religion, but freedom of religion is guaranteed. The majority are Sunnis, but there are some Shiites, Abadis, and a small historically Jewish population based on the island of Djerba.
One thing I'm wondering with elm is how does it deal with state across different components? I.e. where would you put the settings of the current user and how would you access that within one component? (By component I mean the (init,update,view,subscription))
A startup typically does not have a lawyer on retainer for HR issues or an HR department for that matter.
In 16.04 they broke importing a saved VPN configuration. Again. Previous time they broke it with a previous LTS release, 14.04 (sic!) [1]

Another failure of such magnitude that affected me - breaking the switching between keyboard layouts with Ctrl+Shift (to introduce a new dialog in place of the one that worked for years) was in 13.10 - not the LTS release, at least.

I wonder if they will fix the VPN by 16.04.1, due in July.

Sometimes I wish they were not so strict about time-based releases, if only to allow for the bugs like this one to be fixed.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-op...
If oneloop doesn't like the submissions that have been made, oneloop (who appears to have submitted a total of "2" links in their posting history) should submit more of the kind of things they feel is appropriate.
Love, war, running a business.

Hell I bet making a movie doesn't look like making a movie.
then perhaps the reasonable thing to conclude is that it is not an act that somebody should go to jail for. I mean, that's the only thing I can conclude.

If that's the only thing you can conclude than you're choosing to ignore circumstances and the complexity of real life situations. I am arguing that both Bush/Powell and Clinton's misuse of personal email servers should be investigated to the fullest extent and prosecuted without considerations for protection of reputations of those individuals. Any ordinary citizen trying to wiggle credible-sounding arguments for the other side is working against their own interest (unless they are being paid - which I am not accusing anyone of).
Wonder how it compares to Facebook Scribe?
It might be (waaay) outside the scope of the usual discussions around here, but I don't know that it's pointless. I'm an atheist, and I'm totally fine with the idea that when I die, that's it, I'm as dead as any other organism.

Still, though, I've got strong opinions about how I want to be "disposed of" when I die. Burial evokes strong emotions for me, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Even in games like Fallout, I try not to leave corpses just lying in a river or in a shrub or something, even if it was somebody who was just trying to knife-murder me. I accept that it isn't a person anymore, like I said in my previous comment, but I still have a sentimental attachment to the... husk.
It's because the "old styles" worked well and were easily discoverable, tested over decades instead of at random whim.

The new fischer-price look and feel desktops however target grandma and tablets, and are not what I need in a workstation at all. Mate is almost as good as the XP/Classic theme was, it's all been downhill from there, where every good new feature comes with debilitating regressions.
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I am happy to see Elm evolving and it looks like a good framework, but there is a tendency in FRP articles to ignore prior work, as acknowledged at the end of the article:

> Note: Interested readers may find Lucid Synchrone interesting. Unfortunately for me, I had no idea my thesis had so much in common with synchronous programming languages at the time, but the connections are quite striking. I might argue that Elm was never about FRP.

My thesis was related to synchronous programming languages and articles about FRP tend to have too little to say about them, for my taste. Yes, there is a word or two in the related work, but also it looks like some wheels are being reinvented.

The subscriptions model reminds me of Esterel, which is imperative and uses await/emit pairs.
In the domain of GUIs, which is related to Elm, there is ReactiveML (see "ReactiveML, Ten Years Later" (https://www.di.ens.fr/~pouzet/bib/ppdp15.pdf)).
Look also at Lustre or Signal, with Signal allowing directives to define multiple execution units: this is used to generate concurrent programs exchanging values with message passing.

The domain is different, though. Synchronous languages do not target web interfaces. They are about embedded systems and as such, they are mostly static. On the other hand, they are compilable into a simple event loop with static memory usage and constant execution time.
Maybe some of the existing research could be useful to something like Elm, even if it does not target the same problems.
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What I wonder is, if you don't have any control over your own movements anymore, how likely are you to also drown the person that is trying to save you? Is that something that can happen?
You can choose political beliefs if you are aware of alternative political beliefs existing. If you live, work, and learn in an environment that is actively excluding political beliefs, so that only one political belief exists in your environment, can you really choose your political belief then?

It's debatable if nothing productive can come from sharing a department with people whose beliefs are different from your own, but it's actively counterproductive to exclude those people.
Don't know. But did you notice that t-shirt read "bitcoin" in season 2?
Here is a pdf going briefly into kafka comparison and design motivation http://goo.gl/J9XdsG . During my time at twitter I remember when Twitter switch from Kafka to distributedlog. They have an internal layer that adapts Kafka API to distributedlog, I am not sure if they have open sourced that
BS. "Spam" is advertising; news you don't agree with is not.

Yes, if Facebook users shout about something loudly and it gets popular, FB has no right to squelch that just because they disagree with it. That's censorship.

If Democrat voters don't like the Republican-aimed news, FB can and should make sure their news feeds are tailored for users so that people don't see stuff from sources they think are junk and so their feeds are more tailored for them and their preferences. I have no problem with that. That's how Google News works; I can tell it to not show me news from crappy sites like Breitbart or WND. But it doesn't censor those sources against my will; if for some crazy reason I really liked those site, I could tell GN to show them to me, and I can set my preference for those sites to a higher factor. The whole key here is user choice: having some fedora-wearing hipster at Facebook telling me what I should and shouldn't be reading is asinine and condescending. Having the ability to configure my news feeds to show me what I want, and hide things I think are garbage, is absolutely correct however.
> canny sculptors may have gone for smaller dimensions to make their statues more robust as well as aesthetics.

I think that's one step to far. It's a better (at least 'cleverer'?) argument if you just leave it at "it's survivor bias."
I see SQL support, that is interesting. Isn't Riak the premier NoSQL database. I guess it is a NoNoSQL db now ;-)

The implementation of SQL part is so neat. Great work whoever did that. It uses yecc and leex that comes with Erlang and rebar even knows how to compile those. Very cool!

https://github.com/basho/riak_ql
Yes, exactly. The debacle in the Middle East has far more to do with imperialism and neoliberalism than religion. Trying to fix a religion-dominated society by viewing it primarily through the lens of religion misses the larger picture, which unfortunately I see as (and am complicit with) being willing to turn a blind eye to the abuses of our past and present leaders so that I don't have to spend too much on gas.
A better phenomenon to study: why haven't "credible" "UFO" reports skyrocketed since cellphones with digital cameras became common?
Nice to read.

Last time I tried Elm, (1 or 1 1/2 years ago) tutorials and docs were kinda outdated. Got errors in this REPL thing they got for beginners on the webpage and nothing from the examples worked :\
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Have you seen the video of an Iraqi Shia cleric claiming that eating rabbit meat is forbidden because rabbits are insects?

Hierarchy can only take you so far. There will always be uneducated idiots. The best way for quality control is to educate clerics at the national level and allow only those certified to actually preach or lead in prayer.
The motivations are tied to the ideology. You simply cannot protect the ideology from the people and say its not the way that is wrong but the people who follow it when there are so many of the people follow the so called "wrong way". The Catholic Church ruled in a period where opposing it was difficult not only because of societal norms but also the peoples understanding of the world was limited and so opposing views were hard to justify. That is no longer the case, and as can be seen, secular nations have arisen in the west.