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That's a view, I thought I was explaining why "Internet cut off" was likely not the case (or at least not the only case). Wikileaks are suggesting that he's been cut off by a state actor. I'm pointing out why that's pretty unlikely.
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The magnitude of the falseness of this equivalence tells you everything you need to know about Wikileaks role in this election.

Implied in it is the idea that the Clinton campaign had an obligation to release their opposition research on Trump as soon as they had it. But of course, they have no such obligation: they're not journalists!

On the other hand, Wikileaks clearly is structuring their releases to draw out the impact on the Clinton campaign and (vainly) to blunt the impact of Trump's own behavior (mostly, Clinton has won the news cycles despite these attempts).

But Wikileaks is not supposed to be an organ of the Trump campaign. Unlike the HRC campaign, Wikileaks ostensibly does have an obligation to serve the public interest. It clearly does not honor that obligation; instead, it's transparently servicing the Trump campaign.
The chart from the article disagrees.

Investing in the mid- to late 20s generally, a period of overvaluation, you would have done well initially. But for people who didn't have perfect timing to cash out (aka most shmuks like me), every buy-and-hold dollar invested in that timespan would remain deeply in the red for a very long period of time.

Due to the severity of the actual 1929 crash, a brief moment of semi-good investment returns (measured over multiple timespans from a few years to decades) occurred in 1933-1935.
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> It's become a spite-driven, rage-fueled, all out fear mongering and hate breeding spectacle.

That happens every time.

> Trump's supporters have, in some cases, started talking open revolt if he doesn't win.

This also happens every time.

> On Twitter, there was a hashtag of #RepealThe19th, which essentially said they wanted to disenfranchise women in efforts to ensure Trump is supported.

Eco-terrorists vote too.

> Trump is threatening to throw Hillary in jail

There's a not-insignificant percentage of the population (potentially a majority) who believe that jail is where she belongs.

Being receptive to free speech means being receptive to free speech, full stop. It is a pillar of our country, and regardless of how incendiary you view anyone else, this is a country where the KKK, fundamentalist groups of all flavors, Nazis, etc, are all allowed to exist and that's important.
I went to school for computer engineering with greater emphasis upon hardware and over the years I've tried to approach software the way that I've learned how reliability is increased in hardware and electrical engineering, and the business drivers are nothing alike between the two worlds to me on top of the technical differences in disciplines.

When we write ASICs in HDLs, most commercial designs have at least 10 to 100 times as many lines of code for test harnesses compared to the actual design. I've never seen a general commercial software product with anywhere near that much test code in my life (SQlite included perhaps). Furthermore, much of what allows hardware testing is through problem spaces being enumerable (or at least approachable on a statistical basis similar to how memtest works with various bit patterns aimed at different failure modes) and with cross-disciplinary lessons (materials sciences, chemical engineering, etc.). The closest we have in software is the functional programming test ecosystem, especially with Haskell's QuickCheck. But commercial software typically just doesn't care about software reliability to the extent anyone in real world systems does, and there's probably a lot more people pumping out random code now than there are hard sciences engineers thanks to the accessibility of modern software and computers. Combined with software developers as a community being more fashion driven than Milan, London, New York, or Paris we're constantly reinventing the wheel. This is both the blessing and curse of modern software.
It's not one or the other. Restarting might save you some downtime if you're running a single IRC container. That doesn't mean you shouldn't find and resolve the root issue. Normally I just rollback to the previous version container if I have a recurring issue.

Windows containers are now available, if you can't stand linux: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...

Anyway, don't use containers if you don't want to. I'm glad I invested the time since I understand them very well and use them to my advantage. But I did have to learn a lot and experiment with a bunch of tools, and maybe that's not worth it to you.
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Did you read the article? The discussion is entirely about colour as a linguistic concept, not as a wavelength of reflected light.

Until a few hundred years ago, pink things were simple "light red" things in English (and many other languages) - we didn't have the word pink and so couldn't express the colour without using relative terms.
This article from an infotainment site is the best write-up I've seen on where a lot of Trump's support comes from. Applies to Duck Dynasty's success as well imho.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-on...

Media and many businesses are excluding and mocking a huge chunk of America. I deal with that chunk on a regular basis. Most are decent, hard-working people with different political views is all. A small percentage of them are as bad as portrayed in some category. You wouldn't think that from how liberal organizations or media portray them. Huge untapped market for politics and business if people market it the right way. The shocking thing is lack of Republican candidates really appealing to them. Even business people as I can think of plenty Republican founders and executives that make a better President than Trump. Mind-blowing.
Awesome work China!
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Interesting thoughts. I don't wholly disagree. You are right that the maturity of solid-state drives and multi-touch displays played a big role in the timing of new Apple products in the past. Though, I could point to VR and Electric Vehicles as just-mature technologies where Apple could have made a big investment. How excited would people be if Apple released an electric car... or just bought Tesla.
Thanks, yeah even more applicable in this case - Electron is not perfect, but hand-crafting Atom for every native platform and toolkit is not feasible.
Sorry if my wording was confusing: I mean that they should pick the most qualified based on the proposal -- not that they should expand the scope of the conference to accommodate every plausible submission.

As an aside, I do not understand why my comment is being voted down; is a double blind review process that controversial?!
I think that any intelligence community that couldn't digest 500GB in full text / keyword searching (keywords that are likely already configured/known) between now and the election would be a pretty sad intelligence community.

Apropos of the keyword list, dissecting the corpus could be done in a few hours with a promo-code worth of AWS time.
I'd say it's typical, and pathetic, not surprising. Lets not pretend that anyone particularly cares about his thoughts where they don't pertain to his incredibly narrow specialty, and more importantly, his money.
Germany as well.
If recreations of Julian Assange's room in the embassy (from memory; photographs are not allowed due to embassy rules) are correct, then Assange uses a wireless router just like the rest of us.
I know Hacker news likes "Technically Correct - the Best kind of Correct" but in what sense is China 'ahead' here?

It may be obvious but there are plenty more Americans who are back and walking around on planet earth than there are Chinese astronauts who have been put into orbit.
The "smearing" in the last year consists largely of repeating the reporting of facts of what Trump has done and said in the period in which he has been a public celebrity.
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Is there something really damaging in Wikileak emails? Even on Fox News they are not able to mention anything that is at the level of Trump tapes. Sure, there is some amusing stuff and quipes by aggressive campaign staff about opponents but nothing that can points to big corruption directly on Clinton's part. The media coverage is unexpectedly very low but I can see why media will want to put these rather boring emails front and center while juicy Trump stuff keeps coming out. If anyone has studied these emails, please feel free to comment.

PS: As far as voting is concerned, I'm still in information collection mode and don't support any candidate at this point.
The USSR had world-class mathematicians and theoretical physicists. A partial list of household names among the latter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Alexeyevich_Abrikosov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Bogolyubov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Cherenkov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Faddeev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Fock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Ginzburg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Gribov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Ioffe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau
I personally tend to feel the same way as this. But I also don't think taking the other position is so unreasonable as to inherently warrant banishment.
You mean the time Clinton campaign needed a way to counter Bill's actual sexual assault victims Trump was hammering them on.

Wikileaks: 'Democrats prepared fake Trump "grope under the meeting table" Craigslist employment advertisement in May 2016'[0]

[0]https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787060280832380928
That is very hard to do.

Usually you have to fight for the right to contribute back, which in big companies means lots of fun with upper management layers and legal department before you get the green light to do that little pull request.

So in my career I have seen lots of open source being used at Fortune 500, sometimes with internal forks of bug fixes and zero contributions being done back.
One does not beget the other but it certainly makes it easier to propagate.
This title isn't a great title and the article doesn't explain the concept very well.

What this is trying to say is that human languages all over the world come up with color names in a similar path, but they stop at different points.

It's all very fascinating, and interestingly is the argument some use against strong AI -- that is they believe that to truly understand language you must have a human or human-like body that can perceive the world in the same way as a human, because these color words develop based on the physical properties of your eye and brain. For example, many people that are blind from birth have a hard time understanding the concept of color.

A few of you mentioned that Russian has two words for red. Russian is actually at the end of the spectrum (pun intended) -- that is they have the maximum number of color words.

English is close but we don't have separate words for blue and light blue.

You can see this as English speaking children learn words -- they will call "pink" "red" until they learn pink, and will almost always learn "red" before "pink".

Some cultures just stop with "warm" and "cold" (which are red orange yellow vs green blue purple).

Ah the joys of being a CogSci major -- we had entire weeks of classes devoted to this.
How terrible? Probably a nice Idea, but will be soon be overrun by people who just want to compete(and obviously, don't need a job) and making the hiring HR feel like the people who are looking for a job(and not finishing that high on the leaderboard) are really bad at their job. It ends up being a place where no one finds the job and companies get really demanding from anyone they hire. A guy who can probably finish 350th might not be that bad from the guy who finishes at say 25th on daily programming tasks, but HR is gonna say, "Well, there are 349 people better than him, so we may try hiring them". All in all, the companies ends up paying more depending on the "Rank". Probably only winners in this scenario are the big corps & people who finish < 25th.
Someone told me that I should switch to using shipping containers instead of my current method.

Unfortunately, when my cattle arrived in the US, they were all dead. I was told containers "would just work".

After some experimentation, we managed to get our cattle in a container by building a system that correctly managed food and waste. Then we found a partner who had successfully packaged sheep and so we just used that. Unfortunately, they appeared to have a leak in their waste management system, and the container overflowed and all the sheep died. We did not have this problem when the sheep were able to fill the entire hold with their output.

Clearly the idea that shipping containers just work is a gross oversimplification. In fact containers seem to be complex thingamabobs with multiple points of failure.
Is there anyone who can put into practical terms what these domain-specific processors mean to the future of AI/deep learning?
They use soviet technology on a 1960s era rocket to launch to a single room space station, all using massive government subsidies.

If the US wanted/needed to, they could put a man up tomorrow (seriously just strap a capsule to Antares 203). The only difference is that we are taking time to safely transition to a commercial market for spaceflight.

I'm not trying to knock China, more power to them, but they are definitely not "ahead".
> By discriminated against do you mean someone saying hateful things to you, or someone actively going out of their way to deny you something?

More like being murdered for being gay or black or ... and the police refusing (sometimes openly) to investigate, which used to happen well into the 1960s in the US.
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A rare few people are using Elm server-side in production already with lukewestby's worker stuff. Check the Elm subreddit. Elm's JS interop is much more interesting than your understanding of it: it's a pub-sub system which allows you to embed small Elm components in otherwise "normal" web pages very easily. More info here:

http://tech.noredink.com/post/126978281075/walkthrough-intro...

I'm sorry to be so negative but I really hope your comment doesn't remain the top comment as it's not very well-informed at all.
OK, downloaded it for free, as I have already paid for it. :)
There are also people who believe Obama created Hurricane Matthew to suppress turnout without, using his network of wind farms.

There really are people who believe that.

In fact, depending on where you get your news, you might also believe that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are actual literal demons, who smell of sulfur.
Marketing is key, in any industry. People are run by emotion, including social cues, much more than they'd like to admit. People want to feel like the thing they are discussing is relevant to themselves, so they prefer insular groups that confirm their fantasy. A greying middle-aged guy in a suit doesn't stroke the ego of the exuberant youth.

At the end of the day, people want a movie that reaffirms their personal views more than they want a quality constructed film. They want music that triggers their own pet emotions, not a technically clever composition. And they want a friend, not a coworker.
I apologize for having misread your comment as suggesting that all those who rallied to him were Nazis. It was the use of that word that confused me, because I read it as a judgement rather than identifying a group of currently-living individuals in the US.
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This is very cool idea! Does your balance shrink in time, so you can "teach" yourself to spend less and less time on the distracting stuff rather than working?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727511 and marked it off-topic.
Multiple discussions on this already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12725427
10 billion people could fit within the USA with a population density of less than New York City.
Great to see academic research resulting in real world products.
This is exactly what I feel too.

After watching Bret Victor's talk https://vimeo.com/67076984, I feel like Vim way of using computers is backward. I am probably wrong because I never got proficient with Vim. Using it only when I SSH to remote server.
I love the double standards on that thread:

"This happened! Why? We said so! Gospel truth!"

Interfering with the election?

"Why? Because they said so? Fool!"
Surely you jest? For AI (QC or not) to bring such a result, even with perfect AI, would require delegating governmental controls on a wide scale. Hard research requires hardware, people, money, etc. So does your AI first solve the problem of how governments make decisions? And how do you conclude that an AI would decide that researching fusion is the best choice?
AMP in general is rather gimmick and scam. Just normal regular HTML stripped from third party tracking JS--dozen of megabytes--provides pages of the same size. It's only a matter of clean code to make a page mobile friendly.

Introducing yet another additional markup format to serve mobile sites with the only purpose for Google to compete better with Facebook is excessive and additional dev overhead. But it favours Google's interests and Google basically blackmails content providers locking search availability to only those who obey. And additionally it gives Google excuse to serve pages via own domain with backlinking.

There should be just common practices for mobile code simplicity and not another new markup.
What percentage of the population do you think really identifies as white nationalist?
Interesting discussion. Thanks for posting.

As I've gotten to learn many different languages (PHP, Ruby, Go, Java, Python, etc) over the last 10 years, it has been really interesting to see how different languages and communities can vary so wildly in their quality of documentation.

As it relates to programming languages, Go's "Tour of Go" (https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1) is an excellent introduction to the language. I wish every language had an intro guide as good.

In terms of frameworks, I absolutely love the Ruby on Rails guides. They strike the right balance between staying high level enough for me to build a mental model of how the framework is working under the hood, while getting deep enough to be useful to solve individual problems I have.

Overall, I think the Ruby community has done a great job of documenting their libraries and frameworks. Whether it's Rails or Sinatra, or it's a library like Devise, Ruby OSS projects seem to tend towards thorough documentation.

On the flip side, Spring's documentation (and most Java library documentation) is absolutely atrocious. Spring in particular only seems to give you 2 flavors of documentation: a 10-minute tutorial, or a 1000-page deep dive in all of the corners of the framework. And Java libraries in general seem to have miserable, out-of-date, incomplete documentation.
I hear people saying the 'most corrupt candidate ever!' about both candidates. More about HRC than Trump though. For some reason I doubt both assertions.
Wildcards! Yes you're right, would be extremely useful. Will look into it!
Totally agree. I've noticed something else similarly disturbing. The people who advocate the loudest for demographic diversity aren't really interested in diversity of ideas. They want to see men and women of all shapes and colors saying similar things. If you want thought provoking talks, diversity of ideas is far more important than having a group of speakers that looks like captain planet and the planeteers.

I want to see talks where presentors have radically different approaches to problems. I want to see Zed Shaw and Douglas Crockford have a passionate explitive laden argument about the merits of Ruby vs server side JS only to see Ken Thompson or Rob Pike blow their minds with a talk about go. So what if they all happen to be white guys. What matters is they have interesting things to say and vastly different perspectives coming from long careers in the industry honing their craft.
To be fair, this is just a reasonable strategy on the part of the Clinton campaign. To my knowledge there hasn't yet been anything particularly damaging found in these emails. If I were them, i'd have done the same thing with respect to timing though, it just makes sense when you have a pre-commitment from an adversary to release on a particular date.

I mean, I guess it's a little bit underhanded, but only just barely. If there were something significant in the emails then it still would have been reported on, but as far as I can tell, there wasn't.
> beginning you can do everything in edit mode

Can I make an alias for vim or emacs to keep me in edit mode at all times? That's one of the worst things about the editor.

The other "Worst" thing in the editor for me is that it doesn't show the common shortcuts at the bottom like nano does.

Is there a way to do this? Is there a plugin that observes all of the shortcuts you use and lists the most common ones at the bottom?
Porsche makes a gross margin of $23,000 per car.
The problem is, it's a non-partisan issue in that almost all our representatives, regardless of political party, are totally comfortable with it. ;) And the reason we're uncomfortable with special interest influence is... that it absolutely freaking works. The power money has on election results is so strong, that almost anyone who isn't accepting it probably isn't getting elected. So the likelihood of gaining a majority of Congresspeople who would move against it is pretty much impossible.
Xkcd has a lot of good ones but this is one of my favorites:

https://xkcd.com/327/
Look, if you're a Trump supporter, I exempt you from criticism about support for Wikileaks. As a Trump supporter, your support for Wikileaks is totally coherent.
Right, and there are ways you can consider the validity of either method, but to block SMS would mean blocking voice.

Perhaps a temporary data hiccup might be a more realistic solution (or simulation, if malicious) versus "Call cannot be connected".
I consider the unedited content of Trump's speeches to be pretty good evidence of his intent to make america great again.
I think Wikileaks is definitely anti-Clinton but it's a stretch to say they're pro-Trump.
I wish they would kill it, personally. It makes sites feel and act weird different.
I know Tim Cook has mentioned VR as something "interesting" in the recent past, so they may be waiting for it to become a little more mainstream.
I bet many of them would just go back to pirating stuff.

This is what FOSS actually made in the last decade, moved many that would never pay for software from pirating it to just downloading whatever they can find in open source repositories.

But the developers still don't get anything back.
I mean, you've made it clear how you feel, but not so much what that feeling has to do with the facts of this election. The choices are Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. To oppose Clinton is to support Trump. It is a zero-sum contest. If Assange wishes a pox on both parties, he could stay out of the election altogether. But of course, that's not what he's doing.
I don't know, if you are going to lay the cable, surely gigabit makes more sense than say 100mbit