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It will remain helpful because not everyone will use the tool or follow its advice.

It's like coupons. In theory, coupons are pointless because the coupon price just becomes "the price." In practice, a lot of people can't be bothered to deal with coupons.

Like coupons, this becomes another mechanism for price discrimination. People who really want to pay a lower price will use tools like this to accomplish it. People who don't care as much won't bother and will likely pay more.
No, they say.
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As I commented elsewhere /r/wikileaks is the best place I've found to get less biased info on the leaks.
It might be unhelpful to the users who know how to take advantage of the current system, but hopefully the net impact will be greater price transparency, which helps consumers in the long run; people will pay more for things which cost the airline more, but not for arbitrary reasons like booking too early.

In general, flight pricing seems rather opaque; I'm always confused by flights from city A to city B that are more expensive than flights from city A to city C with a layover in city B. I'm all for more transparency of the air travel market.
Looks like this is your first project on Github; impressive stuff!
This whole nuclear strike thing is a canard, nobody is going to nuclear strike anybody. Yes, there's a chain of command, and also Trump is not some Hollywood supervillain. He is a real estate developer, a conman and a blowhard, not a Doctor Evil. So we need to stop discussing Hollywood scenarios and start discussing real issues the country is facing.
'word-break: normal;' would be a good backup to 'break-word' which is not actually working. Also, why do I need to reenter my name every time?
Great resource on Fermi problems and related topics.[1]

[1]https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/free_dow...
It's a chronic temporary insanity that pops up every four years or so. It will pass in exactly 21 days.

Seriously: everyone here does this when we get to crazy time in the election. You're just seeing it on HN more because the Wikileaks kerfuffle happens to overlap the digital liberty stuff we talk about when the election isn't looming.
I know this is slightly tangental but I'm always a little shocked that Facebook (and I think Google to some extent) have massive mono repositories.

The benefits of having one repository do not seem to be worth the serious performance issues as well as potential coupling that can happen with a gigantic code base as well also making much more difficult to OSS certain parts.

e.g. why doesn't FB use dependency management (or binary package management aka maven, npm, etc)? That is have multiple repositories and cut releases. Build tools to help cut and manage the releases and dependency graph of the releases.

There are even plugins and shell scripts that will make Mercurial act like a mono repository for many small repositories (I use it for our own Java Maven code base).

I must be missing some killer features and would love to see it in action (FB major repository).
well not too bad if they could deliver the jdk 10 (valhalla) a faster.
jdk 9 is less important than jdk 10.
That's what boilerplates, and even generation tooling like yo is there for.
Your point seems to be that because these people want to play a game using us as pieces, we should accept that they should get what they want. You never really get to why, though. You just leave it there, like a religious belief. Care to expand the reasoning?
It is possible (if not the norm for branded accounts) for multiple people to use a single account.
Irrelevant to your point, but I hadn't heard “onymous” as the antonym of “anonymous” before, thank you for that.
To support your position it's more complex than it appears I'm going to repost this article that correctly describes many issues leading to Trump support:

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

It's from an entertainment site but many claims in here are exactly what rural people tell me in person in 3 states plus online in a few more. That Duck Dynasty treated and portrayed them positively is why that show exploded in popularity to great confusion of many liberals. Trump is tapping into concerns of half the country that doesn't exist or is "a bunch of fucktards" in the minds of many (most?) city-dwelling and liberal Americans. I actually took time to listen to them to find many of their positions make more sense when you actually understand their lifestyle, businesses, upbringing, etc. My agreement was a mix with mostly disagreement but I saw where they're coming from. Shit like Trump's rise doesn't happen in a vacuum.

The sooner liberals and Silicon Valley start understanding rural America the better. They'll be able to target them with better political candidates, businesses, etc. There might also be increased cooperation instead of fighting. We might get more Trumps in the future if the disconnect remains and continues to increase.
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Does anyone have the full changelog of added/new features.
Since when has, as relates to the web, standardization above all else been a thing. The web's design was intentionally decentralized and has led to occasional Cambrian Era level explosions of features and tools, that simply manifest. If we "try" to make the next platform, we'll probably fail. If we keep on keeping on, and let it happen, we will certainly succeed.

Centralized, profit driven organizations certainly benefit from having a clear, standard road-map with which to direct their resource deployment so as to maximize return on investment. Their investment. Not to maximize community value.

Standardization of the web will be the death of the web. Building the web-browsers on standards has forced corporations to make their flavor of browser compatible with the world wide web, keeping them from making a proprietary www. But, to standardize a language is a whole other thing. Languages are best when they are maximally flexible, so they do not constrict one from expressing in the world what is currently only in one's imagination.

That is, in my opinion, why despite the crappy design of JavaScript it has been so successful. There are not many languages with less restrictions. Take that away and we'll have a whole bunch of Walmarts, all the same implementation of the same super efficient product with great user experiences for 98% of users. But as the web becomes the global commons, for an Earth with a population of 7.125 billion, well 2% is still 145 million people. So, if you want the perfect solution, the final answer, then standardization requires you to write-off those people, if you want to be intellectually honest about it.
There are OECD countries that have varying degrees of public healthcare supplemented with private insurance that have excellent quality of care.

I'm not sure the US model for primary care is that great either - there have been many articles about how medical clinics are now pushing people through in 10-15 minutes instead of taking the time to fully understand the patient's needs and avoid over prescription. A routine visit for my kid at the local clinic (Allina Health) is now $150 - $190 (for a 15 minute appointment to check for something basic that a PA at Minute Clinic wouldn't touch). That same visit back in my home country cost $43 USD (non resident rates).

I'm not sure there would be a significant drop in primary care for most people?
Security concerns in the same editor that added non-authenticated blowfish encryption in 2010?
I've noticed this too. Not only on HN, but below the line on many publications - The Economist, Politico, even at The Guardian, long a liberal bastion.

I don't think the reason is that 'reasonable' people have jumped ship though. At least that's not the sole reason. It seems recent events have turned some of those reasonable people reactionary. They've watched an increase of censorship and dishonesty under the guise of progressivism and decided that sunlight is the best disinfectant (just take a look at the shrieks of conspiracy whenever a frontpage post is flagged).

In doing so they have paved the way for an increase in bigotry from those who now believe that the lid has blown off once-taboo topics.

Perhaps I'm wrong but sorting comments by 'popular' on any of the sites mentioned above suggests that this isn't a phenomenon unique to HN. It's a shift in our online discourse.
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>The real issue is that Trump and his campaign have actively tried to appeal to the -ist nature of people for political gain.

Trump is certainly not alone there; appealing to the "-ists" is the foundation of every campaign.
Short story: I gave this a try not expecting much. I got matched with a person named "Lenny". The conversation started off fairly straight forward:

>Lenny: hello there

>hnperson: whats up

>Lenny: How are you doing today?

>hnperson: Not bad, yourself?

>Lenny: I'm doing beautifully

Having tried all the features I wanted to try, I was ready to end the conversation and get on with my work when Lenny asked:

>Lenny: I'm a recruiter for Facebook.

>Lenny: Are you happy with your current work?

This was a bit of a pleasant surprise, as I just entered the interview process with a few companies including Google and was planning to reach out to FB sometime today.

Unfortunately, before we were able to exchange contact info, Lenny left the chat in the middle of typing (presumably an accident?). I just wanted to share my Tuesday morning experience, and if Lenny is out there, I'd love to continue the conversation! If not, thanks for sharing this Show HN :)
It seems the exact opposite to me. Spineless would be cutting ties with Thiel, even though it's against their principles to do so over political affiliation, just because some people who get hysterical over politics want them to.
This is a bit misleading. The article you point to says that yes they do have information on Trump that they won't be releasing, but it's nothing compared to the crazy stuff that comes out of Trump's own mouth on a daily basis.

He then says that they would like to get hold of internal documents from the Trump campaign and calls publicly for people to send in things to be published from the Trump campaign.
My experience is completely different. I've been using Google flights for 2 years now, it always shows me the best price compared to cheapoair/hipmunk. Also I love the clean UI :)
Yeah, exactly. The guy is in London and can receive visitors. All they need to do is walk into the embassy and hand him a phone to log into twitter with, and we could clear this all up with a straightforward firsthand report.

Instead, we're getting hints. That's called a "stunt", folks.
> one true mechanistic answer

Well yes, if they thought this, they would likely be wrong. But that isn't what I was suggesting. The answer I would be looking for would be something like "A accounts for approximately 20%/50%/90% of the variance of B in context C". Clearly many or most biological entities have more than one input and output.

My problem isn't that there's complexity, it's that we don't/can't/don't even try to quantify and robustly model it. The reason why I feel it is such a problem is that without quantification of effect sizes, (and obviously these effect sizes would be probabilistic and perhaps context-dependent), we cannot really predict much of anything.

Another way of making this point is to consider the sort of pathway or signal transduction diagram you often see in Nature Reviews, etc. Then imagine for a moment that you are looking at a electric circuit diagram instead of a biological diagram. You have a resistor here connected to that capacitor there, etc...

What's missing? Resistances. Capacitances. More generally, numbers or functions specifying the behavior of the nodes and edges conditional on their inputs. Such an electric circuit diagram would be almost entirely useless to a person who wanted to predict the behavior of the circuit under different conditions.

I guess I just object to the statement (and you are far from the only one to have implied it, if indeed that's part of what you were saying) that we have a mechanistic understanding of X, if we cannot predict the behavior of X conditional on perturbations, even approximately.

For me, this was and is a major stumbling block in my ongoing journey to learn biology. I am often shown such diagrams and told "this is how it works", as if these diagrams had any explanatory or predictive power. I am perpetually confused about how and why people think they do.

N.B. I admit they have SOME explanatory/predictive power, but it seems to me to be very close to zero. The only remotely quantitative aspects of these diagrams are the stimulatory/inhibitory "arrowheads", indicating a positive or negative correlation, and missing edges, indicating presumed conditional independence. These diagrams also lack any temporal information.
He hasn't "become a politician", it isn't proposed "for a while".

> I'm not wondering why supremacist views sometimes takes hold

We were talking about "various racist and misogynistic ideas", not "supremacist views". Are you talking about any view you see as subjectively racist/misogynist, or only specific ones?

> Marie Antoinette's mistake wasn't not working in the interest of her people

Antoinette's famous comment was glib and not intended to help, versus PGs sincere willingness to discuss sex issues; Also, she was a monarch is a brutal reign, if you want to compare than to the SV tech industry, go ahead.
Well, there definitely is some value in studying the extraterrestrial space medium. Regarding the ISS, just think about its sheer size -- how else can the knowledge about constructing and maintaining such structures be gained? Besides that, a lot of knowledge and experience was gained or confirmed/replicated from previous experiments. So the answer in two words: research & development (with emphasis on the last one).
Their assembly is reasonable at a few cents per solder joint. I am pretty sure the machine they use is a hard working guy with a soldering iron though. I used it on a small project because they can put down surface mount passive components for less than the cost of the shipping I would pay mouser.

If you can live within their parts library there is no reason not to use it.
The same is true on Wall St. A run of the mill analyst/associate/vp isn't going to burn their money by donating it to a political candidate.
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The crisis is not one of content. But one of distribution.

The internet has destroyed the lock on distribution relied on by; Publishers, MPAA, RIAA, newspapers, governments and even people who expect hard to access (look up in county courts files) means effectively "private".

There is vastly more supply of "attention" than there is demand for "attention". Combined with the ease of distribution/search and picking and choosing tiny bits from each "supplier" means it's extremely hard to monetize or even convince your consumers that you provide any value at all. i.e. I can pay/endure ads from you or I can go to the fify other sources/aggregators of same information.
Write a serious test suite before doing so. Otherwise you will miss a bug 31337 fixed in 19xx and will be sad later.
This is not even about Trump, he is just the most blatantly visible artifact of a movement that enjoys calling people names and delegitimizing. Trump did this in 2008 and again in 2012, he did it with the whole racist birther routine which few Republican leaders denounced - they were perfectly happy to ride the coat tails of delegitimizing a sitting president. Perfectly happy to continue to do it this year by not even holding hearings on his Supreme Court nominee. And then just yesterday McCain proposes delegitimizing Hillary in advance by blocking any of her nominees.

I agree with you, I think this is playing with fire. But I have no idea if getting a little bit burned is what's needed, or if it quickly turns into Donald actually trying to get the Speaker of the House removed.

"They'll be there...I would think that Ryan wouldn't be there--maybe he would be in a different position," Trump said on The O'Reilly Factor.[1]

Does he really think he can do this? i.e. autocrat. Or does he not know how our government works? i.e imbecile. Or is he trolling? i.e. troll as head of state is great! I mean really? People are so deranged with anti-Hillary sentiment they don't really get how unstable a presidency this would be, just like this whole 18 month shit show has been.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/11/donald-trump-speaker-p...
The O'Keefe video[1] shows extended primary source material of named Democratic operatives bragging about recruiting the homeless to deliberately cause violence at conservative events, including providing scripted words.

You may not like the editing, and there could be material edited out that redeem the Clinton operatives 1-5%. But not much. At least by my lights, the evidence is quite damning.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
I tend to agree, but it certainly seems like Sam Altman and Paul Graham don't. I'm reasonably confident that they would do more if they thought Trump being elected was more likely.

Also, you paint a terrifying picture of what happens next - as you (IMO correctly) point out, Trump will not just disappear, but will probably be setting up the next election. Which isn't even the worst case - the worst case is a serious and ongoing Trump challenge to Clinton's election.
Them becoming a "platform" where don't just link to content but can actively host, curate and present it.
That's the first time i've got to know some people from HN. Awesome.I hope it stays popular and becomes self-fueling. Is there some place else where HN people chat(other than HN itself)?
It isn't a real word I'm afraid, but an FBI invention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Onymous
Article just sounds like an attempt to prepare public for more censorship. Twitter has no problems with trolls or terrorists or inciters of violence (blm), but they are however effective on removing political opinions that don't align with their agenda. They don't have "problem" with trolls - they are their facilitators and enablers.
In Google's case it comes from an acquisition [1]. Not all airlines share data. For example, you won't find Southwest fares except on their own website.

[1] http://www.itasoftware.com/about/
Thank you for posting this. I'm also a liberal, but when such politically divergent people as Ralph Nader and Rush Limbaugh are (shockingly) speaking out against the same kinds of social disease, it's time to take notice. Something has gone very wrong on the left.
Assange and wikileaks make it really hard to support their cause.
People are calling for the severing of working relationships based on the guy's politics, which is perhaps not a textbook definition of bullying but more than just debate.

Sadly the concept of civil debate seems to have been lost somewhere along the way.
"The future is probably wealthier, has better technology, and can reap the reward..."

For how long can this be true when there are finite-easily-accessible resources?
No difficulty whatsoever
Certainly true, but that's not a reason to give up on creating those abstractions, like the post I was replying to was suggesting. It's a reason to be judicious about when it's appropriate to create these abstractions, and in particular about when they should be shared. An abstraction that's used in just one or two places is still really easy to change. A bad abstraction used in a dozen places is a pain the ass to clean up. It's not an easy problem, and it ultimately takes some combination of experience and careful mentoring to learn to identify good and bad abstractions before they're built.
If you think that's out there, consider something like sharia law [1][2] where the law is based on religion. In some regions, you can get arrested for things you don't even understand.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_on_sharia_law
Yeah, totally right, it could easily be subjective to what you're searching for and when/where. I could have just had bad luck with Google Flights vs what I saw on Hipmunk. Just wondering if anyone knows more about the structure/algorithm of it all and why it may be different so much per site. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's a couple fatal errors, ERR_CERT_CONTAINS_ERRORS, ERR_CERT_REVOKED, ERR_CERT_INVALID, ERR_CERT_NOT_IN_DNS: https://github.com/adobe/chromium/blob/cfe5bf0b51b1f6b9fe239... Not sure which one of these catches HSTS failures.
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Almost all changes are effectively "staged" like this whether intentionally or not, because people upgrade at different times, and some fail to get updates completely. Making it easy to figure out depends more on writing clear error messages and documentation than on making everyone's configuration change at the same time.
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"Can't we just drone the guy?" - Hillary Clinton, on Assange.
> Is anyone else troubled by how reactionary we are?

People are waking up, and they're angry at the machinizations that have been used to influence and flat out control what we believed to be a free democracy.

Personally, I am gratified that HN contains people who are not so cerebral that they would only talk about linux package managers at such a time.
Thank you. I had known about Taylor's work from a course on scaling methods in continuum mechanics (it is also one of the introductory examples in Barenblatt's very nice book Scaling), but did not know that it has other applications.
I haven't worked on a monorepo, but I will say that Facebook _does_ use at least some of these tools, apparently: enough so that they created a whole replacement for the npm client, yarn.

From talking to some companies that use monorepos that want to use Rust, they _do_ use these kinds of tools, but want support for it in the tool. Firefox, for example, is pretty much a monorepo, and we built tooling in Cargo to help.

I think that part of it is that "monorepo" can mean slightly different things. Does it only contain your companies' code, or also your dependencies? Do you modify those dependencies in-repo?
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He certainly has the right to his opinion, just as people here have the right to critize his opinion.

And apparently enough people think that it should be on HN that the topic continues to appear even after flaggings.
The Constitution is simply a means to an end now; it's merely a political talking point. It stopped being the actual basis for ethical, legal governing a long time ago.

If your house's foundation (the Constitution) is crumbling, do you continue to build on top of it (laws) to keep the house from collapsing?
Agreed - open up any religious text. There are a few pages that make Trump's talking points sound progressive by comparison. We don't marginalize religious donors. We should not marginalize Trump donors. It is a dangerous and divisive sort of tribalism that we should not engage in.

If religion X rules the world, it's possible that there will be bad consequences. If Trump becomes President, it's possible there will be bad consequences. Should our confidence score for either of these eventualities determine how we treat those who think the opposite? I think that is at the heart of these issues.