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It's a fundamental principle of diplomacy going back 55 years, and if you'd like to put money on my inability to cite you an example of a country not respecting the inviolability of a diplomatic mission on their own soil, I invite you to name a number.

At any rate: we agree: it's the Vienna Accords that keep the UK from simply lassoing Assange and hauling him out of the building. It has nothing to do with whether he's on Ecuadorian soil (he is not).
I wonder how much of that "grade performance inflation" isn't due to changed externals but just due to the ever built-in ways of inter-generational parenting-evolution:

It doesn't matter that you are the only sibling graduating, what matters more is that once you've gone PHD you'll (openly/subconciously) put your expectations on display for your kids to see.

As a college-grad, how likely would you tolerate ("welcome"), your kids leaving education with a high school diploma?
The work ethic correlation with suicide at the end of the article in a common sense way is sort of sound but it also begs the question: "maybe some cultures are more comfortable with suicide" (a->b) instead of idea of the author has "since asians work harder/have higher expectations more asians must commit suicide" (a->b->c). Obviously the author has the stats that asians are in more prestigious schools but that doesn't necessarily mean they are pressured more or that they are consequently more likely to commit suicide.

For example you could have devout catholics that have the same work pressures and stressors but would never commit suicide (I don't know if that is true but I'm not sure about the authors position either).
If you or I had destroyed evidence and lied to both Congress and the FBI repeatedly about it, I think we'd be in jail.

Clinton is becoming vaguely reminiscent of Julius Caesar, who had to repeatedly duck lawsuits by taking up governmental positions that carried freedom from prosecution.
The right way to do this would have been to simply drop the association with YC and give a minimalistic explanation when somebody would ask.

But this would not have served the actual purpose which was to attack Thiel (YC is just collateral damage). This should have been done in some blogs posts, possibly on the personal blogs of the participants of this project.
I think it's hard to find an exact equivalent because Russian has a number of color words that are used mostly for one category of objects. For example, рыжий for human or animal hair, русый for human hair, карий and болотный for eyes, смуглый for skin, etc. So when translating, you might pick the English equivalent for describing that type of object (рыжие волосы = red hair), but it doesn't feel quite right, because that same English word would be perfectly OK for describing the color of all sorts of unrelated things (and might imply a different shade when applied to those unrelated things!), and the original Russian word wouldn't be.
I wasn't alive in 1956 nor have I studied the 1950s enough to make a valid judgement, but I graduated college this year and high school in 2012 and the attitude was definitely one of uncertainty. If you didn't get X grade or Y internship (or any random thing like that), your chances at a good career were well, uncertain.

A lot of people paint the 1950s and early 60s such that you could do okay in high school and not go to a 4-year college and still manage to provide for a middle class family. Can anyone who has studied or otherwise know if this was true? The only thing I can be certain of is that this is only true if you were white.
There are non-opioid choices. Pick one. The opioids will ultimately kill you.

Ziconotide is a fine choice. It works better too. The only downside is that you can't take it in pill form.
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@50 and @40 was shorthand for 50 years old and 40 years old.

The point was the older you retire the less money you need. But, also retiring ASAP is often a poor idea as you tend to worry about cash more the less you have. If you are going to keep working then it's a purely theoretical exercise and you can quickly get far more savings than your lifestyle will ever spend.

I would also say 65 can feel rather young when you hit 65 or you might not make it. However, planning to have money indefinatly adds peace of mind even if you never spend it.

@23 just dump it all in a low cost index fund and ignore it, in 10 years you can rethink the situation. You could easily be married with kids or something. Also, get a solid understanding of the tax implications of what your doing. Some people say having X months of cash on hand is important but selling stocks is hardly the end of the world the real issue is tax deferred accounts can have withdrawal penalties.
This reminds me of that short time I've been working with scala... I honestly think Scala is Perl on the JVM. I mean, the write-only unreadable-code part of Perl, but on the JVM.
>Pop history in particular artistic works are reflective of society.
Look at early Bond movies for example.

The Human Centipede
It is completely different. A freegan is a tax avoider.
Possibly flogging a dead horse here, but note that one can face criminal charges for lying to the FBI.

This may be the one and only thing I agree with Trump on: Clinton should have been prosecuted over the email server affair, even if only for lying about it.
The difference is very important because tax avoidance is completely legal and encouraged. Tax evasion is illegal.

Your statement below is false as written:

>the IRS pays as a bounty for intelligence on tax avoidance scheme

From the IRS' website: [1]

"The IRS Whistleblower Office pays money to people who blow the whistle on persons who fail to pay the tax that they owe"

You can't fail to pay a tax that you legally avoid.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/uac/whistleblower-informant-award

Here is some more information on the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion: http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/tax-avoidance-vs-tax-...
But does it catch fire if you use it? :P
People are known to take principled stands.

Which is what this conversation's about.
To use scala effectively, you must use SBT. Almost every scala library and framework is built using it. There are tons of productivity enhancing tools wrapped in plug-ins for it. It is java, scala and scalajs aware, and incrementally compiles large projects if you use it. The documentation for it is good from version 0.12 on. You can learn 90% of what you need to do scala builds in SBT in 4 hours by reading the documentation and the walk-through tutorial. Eventually you may need to write your own tasks, but 90% of those tasks are covered by the existing plug-ins available, and you can easily modify or create a new task by writing some simple scala function on your first day using the tool without having to publish a plug-in to some repo for it to work.

I absolutely would reccommend SBT for beginner scala users. It's a must to use and understand it, as much a part of understanding scala as understanding for comprehensions, case classes, and if/else expressions.
Sounds like a product.
Trump is the one who said that Russian war planes overflying American warships should be shot down to teach a lesson.

I can't think of a better way to start WW3 in current climate.
> Weirdly, some of the best programmers I have met are people who go their degree in Music Theory. Odd and really not enough sample size.

This is a very common experience, and I think it's a form of selection bias. If you look around at the top people in the industry, most have studied CS or closely related, highly mathematical subjects (math, physics). But the reason why so many people see "great" programmers who have studied art, music, literature or any other field is, according to my hypothesis (which may well be wrong), because they don't work in an environment where the typical bright CS student goes to work. So if you're working in a small web-dev company, you're not getting the cream of the crop from MIT, Stanford, CMU and other top universities (or even the less well known ones) -- those guys (or gals) go to work for Google, Facebook, hot startups in the valley or stay in academia. Instead, you're getting the average or below average CS students, and the brightest people who studied irrelevant subjects, who would have a hard time getting into a company like Facebook.

Again, I may be wrong, we need a much more in-depth analysis to draw any form of conclusion. Still, I think this also highly depends on what you consider a "great programmer". Many people consider a programmer to be great if he writes very clean, logical and easy to understand code. Personally, I think this is way too low of a bar, and I think being called great requires a very in-depth understanding of a subfield of programming (be it graphics -- Abrash, scalability -- Dean, languages -- Stroustroup, Sutter, Alexandrescu etc.) Maybe not as good or well known a the people I mentioned, but I wouldn't call any random programmer from a random company writing CRUD apps great.
EDIT: Nevermind, found the proper name: Kuleshov effect.

Could you elaborate on the Kuliekov effect? Couldn't find anything related with a quick google search.
> remix boredom

A sentiment captured perfectly by: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/08/17/infinite-and-i...
Hillary paints herself as the savior of all women, yet she can't convince a group of women who could literally win her the election to press charges?

Smells like bullshit to me.
What exactly is the point of having a space station? I'm not aware of any scientific/space exploration reasons that can justify the money spent.
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by my opinion

if you want something found on a CDN and as a result more likely cached in browsers (or pre-loaded via an extension), font awesome is a safe bet

If you want the most pure option, SVG (hint, change the background of the css icon boxes to see why, the usage of background-colored boxes everywhere is pretty damaging if you want to use it on anything other than flat colors)

if you want the icon to interact with your content (want text in a speech bubble? changing numbers? etc?) or to be quickly tailorable, then probably CSS icons
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As others in the NYT and HN comments have said, the best parenting strategy seems to depend on the psychology of the kid.

My parents were more or less in the pussycat camp, which led me to put an enormous amount of pressure on myself as I felt like they just said that to be nice, because they knew I was "gifted" and would ultimately do "what they really wanted". It wasn't good for me mental health wise.
Why on earth react for a blog..?
> This submission has received a huge number of user flags. We've overridden flags and other software penalties for several of these stories already for being related to YC, but our primary duty is to the community and we have to let it protect itself from being ripped apart by politics.

Surely, you jest.
Please don't speak for "the rest of the world" - the rest of us didn't give you that prerogative.

As a citizen of Russia, I would vastly prefer Clinton on foreign policy. For all her flaws, she can keep Putin in check. Trump is more likely to prop his regime and keep it from collapsing for a while longer.
UC Berkley already pulled their online content for fear of a similar lawsuit.
You can't ask what problem they are facing (I'm assuming that you are going to sell something). You have to identify what problems are you solving with your product/s, then research about the company (As much as Possible) and learn what problem they might face. Now approach them (Any person who might be a decision maker of that company) with your solution.
> "News" is often like fast food

And don't forget, engineered for addictiveness, not for utility.
>racist (again, no more evidence needed, he said it all)

You're wrong, and I think you know it. Liberals have used the racist word against anybody who was winning an argument with them for too many years. It ends now.

Trump has more support of black and hispanic people than any other Republican presidential nominee. [1] He has that because the ones who speak English (not getting their news only from Univision) understand that he wants to help Americans of all ethnic groups.

The co-opting of minority votes by the democratic machine is legendary, but it's over. Those minority AMERICANS that are getting the message undistorted by the media are understanding that their lives are made worse by liberal policies, not better.

It's not racist to wish to enforce current immigration law. It's not racist to wish to protect the jobs and lives of American citizens. If you're reading HN, I know you actually understand this, but choose to spit venom anyway.

[1] http://truthfeed.com/trump-surging-with-black-americans-beat...
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I thought balance was a multiplayer thing (it's the only domain I've heard about it, but I'm a casual gamer).

I guess balance in single player is about difficulty? Or are there other aspects of single player games that are considered balance?
I do recall hearing a chant during the convention "Four! More! Years!"
> One option of course, which as a European who had to live with media-government collusion his whole life, is to triangulate

That's what's really depressing about this: it is absurdly easy to get to the bottom of whether a fricking blender is worth buying, but important events happening in the world? Get your researchin' shoes on.

By the way, thank you very much for your input - your experience in that arena is unique and very valuable to the discussion.
Yes. Someone bragging outside a work environment about who they support is fine. Someone bragging inside a work environment is less fine. Someone bragging about supporting Trump, in front of Mexican colleagues is even less fine.
Yes. It is part of the Pratas Islands.

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Antony & The Johnsons. It's sad and beautiful.
If being rational would correlate with getting rich, one would live in a rather interesting place.
If there's confusion about the concept of regions, it seems to be coming from Amazon themselves. They couldn't just call it the Ohio region?
That's such an absurd argument. "They have so much money, so let's MAKE them spend it on ME." MIT and Harvard had nothing to gain from releasing their lectures online for free, and plenty to lose by continuing to do so. When you stare a gift horse in the mouth, expect to be kicked in the face.
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That sounds like being transparent about your intentions and not using economic hitmen.
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While I agree with most of the points you're making you certainly could have presented them in a nicer way.
"- Thiel wants to restrict immigration to highly educated people. Just like Trump." - But also believes higher education is not so worthwhile that it should be required or even considered important for all Americans. See: Thiel Fellows

I'd be inclined to suppose that Thiel might say that he wants to restrict immigration to highly educated people because education correlates with intelligence. If you've already identified intelligence, you don't need to use education as a proxy rule-of-thumb.
>You and I must understand entirely different things when we read the phrase "premeditated collusion with the media."

Agreed.

>Those media organizations and those journalists may have editorial and personal opinions on who they would prefer to win the election, but there's one thing they care more about than any of those preferences: access.
The idea that the press wouldn't or shouldn't care about vacuuming up every talking point that a campaign is willing to spit out, no matter how obviously-canned it is, is to fundamentally misunderstand the operations of the 24 hour news cycle.

I was trained as a journalist before I became an engineer. I'd argue I understand this stuff better than most. Perhaps I had the benefit of a journalism program that was better than it had any right to be, but we had ethics drilled into us pretty heavily. I can assure you the things in those emails between the press and the Clinton campaign are shameful on a journalistic ethics front.

Further, if you want to buy into the philosophy behind the press and why it's given so much leeway in American law, then their fundamental role is to serve as the fourth estate. It's supposed to be the role of the press to take an adversarial stance to government and hold them accountable. Clearly this doesn't happen much, but worse still, the Podesta emails reveal that they're actively facilitating the goals of a presidential nominee. That's horrible. If you want an off-topic thing to look into for this, look up Amber Lyons. I had her in the 'maybe she's credible' pile until this came out. Now she's in the 'There's something to her claims' pile.

>the peculiarities of that campaign than it says anything about the same media companies' willingness to play the same game of ball with Generic Q. Republican.

Most news organizations are staffed with people who lean fairly heavily to the left. It sounds like you might be surprised to find out just how much. It used to be the case, and was what I was taught, that you fought your bias as much as possible, did your best to avoid editorializing and didn't let yourself just become a mouth piece. There's a reason why someone picks up the New York Times rather than combing through the press releases from the Clinton & Trump campaigns. Obviously Fox News is the notable dissenter in providing this kind of service to Republican candidates. Still, if you run the numbers it's something like 80% / 20%.

Overall, the thing that has been pretty evident to me during this campaign, even before the Podesta leaks, is that the bulk of the press has decided to burn their credibility in promoting Clinton. This even goes back to when she was campaigning against Sanders for the nomination, though to a lesser extent. I think the moment something smelled off to me was when she won the six coin tosses in Iowa (?) to begin the primaries and I didn't see many eyebrows raised in the reporting I looked at. Maybe I missed it, but since then They've held to a pretty consistent pattern of burning bridges to protect her.
His explanation was good, that he needed to keep appearances and not leak to others he was co-operating with government. Any way, he had the last laugh, the DoJ is a bunch of political hacks who hate Whistle-blowers any way.
> HRC has moved the Democratic Party to the right.

Comparing the Democratic platform over the past several presidential cycles side by side does not support this assertion.

Indeed, it has steadily moving left since Obama, and Clinton was pretty much forced to follow in the primaries. She didn't move as far left as the Sanders crowd (myself included) hoped, but we still got a pretty good platform this year.
Definitely agree. Binding of Isaac does procedural generation great because of its mass amount of items. Seeing the "same room" and enemies doesn't bother most people since there will be something different gameplay-wise when encountering that again and again.
> It's not implausible that the basic factors which promoted the relative fluidity of the party system in the early Republic are gone.

I agree that it's not implausible. I'm just not convinced of it, on a time scale of "never".
Just an FYI: Always be careful!

I opened up a couple of these repos and some seem to have modifications on their licenses.

Some like OpenEXR say "BSD" but don't actually have a license file.

Others like, Ptex and Partio, have no mention of a license at all.

Edit: For anyone wondering why this is an issue. From a legal standpoint, there is a huge difference between being able to read the code, and being able to use the code.
its mostly pretty avoidable, border-image with a gradient solves it a majority of the time
It is. What isn't visible in those pictures is the fact that they have a day-night-cycle that takes 15(?) minutes. Not only do you get to see the nice scenery during bright light but also during the simulated night during which > 350k [1] lights turn on. It's awesome.

[1] http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/wunderland/wunder...
For one thing, statutes of limitations would be a factor in many cases.

Insofar as the offenses are criminal rather than civil then, even if they aren't barred by statute of limitations, it's not their decision but that of a public prosecutor.

And, in some cases, they can't file civil charges because they sued in the past and already reached settlements.
Beautifully put. Now notice how I sent this message to you. We're doomed! DOOOMED! :)
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> But hey, oil right?

Why does this canard keep coming up? This isn't 1973. The Middle East does not have the West by the balls with respect to energy anymore. We're invested in Saudi Arabia to keep it from imploding, not for natural resources. Not directly, at least, since oil money is one of the few things keeping it from imploding.
Thanks for comment, I'll write something soon :)
Suppose that you make 20% returns for 8 years straight, followed by 4% returns for 12 years straight. Then your AAR is 10% ((1.2^8*1.04^12)^(1/20)-1), but your median yearly return is 4%.
A Trump presidency would be an economic disaster: Objectively true because his policies involve reducing taxes, increasing spending, and isolating the country from free trade (eg. withdrawing from NAFTA which has been shown to have created jobs and growth on both sides of the border).

"American innovation would suffer": Because of economic consequences, so see above.

"He's erratic, abusive, and prone to fits of rage": I don't even know how you can argue against this, just watch one of his speeches.

"He represents a real threat to the safety of women, minorities, and immigrants": He personally is a threat to women, and his policies, such as they are, are now stiring up racial hatred. Again, an objective truth.

"Trump shows little respect for the Constitution": He announced several completely unconstitutional plans, such as suspending the right of US citizens to return to the country if they are Muslims. You don't need a ruling from the Supreme Court on this.
I thought balance was a multiplayer thing

No Man's Sky was supposed to be multiplayer, originally. There can also be a notion of balance in single player games. For example, in a 4X game or an RTS in single player mode, you can still have issues of balance with regards to the relative effectiveness of ECM versus weapons. Missiles vs. beams. Fighters vs. small units.
>Do you think there is more uncertainty about the future today than there was, say, 50 years ago?

1956 would have been the height of the cold war, a time when people thought a nuclear war with the Soviet Union that that would extinguish all life on earth was inevitable. It would have been just after McCarthy's Red Scare and the end of Korean War, and in the early phases of what would become the Vietnam War.

Life is always uncertain.
Using SBT with Scala is certainly encouraged, but you can use other build tools. At work we're successfully using gradle without too many problems. The only things that are slightly weird are the not-so-perfect plugins for gradle, but that is understandable considering they are mostly community driven (sometimes only a one person even).
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