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Does wapo not enforce its own comment guidelines[1] anymore?

We will remove posts that include profanity, hate speech, name-calling and personal attacks.

This Tila Tequila[2] piece has comment section full of people calling her dumb whore who needs to be marched into a gas chamber.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ask-the-post/discussion-...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/...
Derek Sivers has phenomenal book summaries. https://sivers.org/book

- changed my life
- read summary first, if really good, buy and read book
- cons are
1) makes you think less about content
2) may be too easily forgotten
3) retention isn't as high as reading a book that hits theme over and over with a sledgehammer
4) ignore books with bad review that may be useful to you
I don't understand what the big deal is. Almost every integrated circuit manufacturer does this because supporting a few big customers is far cheaper than many smaller ones especially when you're operating on the cutting edge, a chronic condition for Intel. Google and Facebook will only call support when there is a discernable pattern of failures of processors or in previously verified code and that's the most optimal way for Intel to deal with early problems instead of handling thousands of support calls for intermittent failures in tiny sample sizes. The difference here is that microprocessors are a key piece of IT infrastructure and there are now a few providers that can soak up production of new products for months. For better or worse, economies of scale have always been a natural competitive advantage and Intel's dominant position in the server CPU market doesn't change that calculus, nor obligate them to make their products widely available when they first roll off the fab.
> And AMD CPU was literally uncompetitive even with price reduction for the past 5 years.

I don't know about that.

The Intel core are very good processors but the entry price for the smallest one is over $100.

I can remember some cheaper product lines from Intel but they weren't that great. AMD had decent CPU for the cheap laptops and computers. Dunno how much volume and margin there is to be done on that segment.
Most Cubans live in very poor conditions with no means to improve their lives because of low wages and high cost of living (by Cuban standards, tourists will find it cheap so that should show you how little money they make). Also, government oppression against those who speak up is a great deterrent to changing the current socio/economic situation.
You talk about levels of education like a grandiose achievement, it is, but to what end? there are many Cuban doctors that cannot feed their families with their state provided salaries and have to resort to illegal means. or defect to other countries where their education is not valued and have to start from near zero.
homelessness in Cuba is not reported because it goes against the image the government wants to portray. so the statement "Millions of children will sleep on the streets tonight. None of them is Cuban." is only supported by the state-ran media and it's very inaccurate.
How to visit 30 cities for less than $450USD – Europe on the cheap
If you can't read, try this link:
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If A is n x n and P is n x p then P is not square but P^T A P is well-defined.
How do they enforce that ban? Do they check the ID of every shopper who makes a purchase?
Not at all.

PropOrNot outlines eight steps to manually identify Russian propaganda [0].

Of course it's not an exact science, but it's a lot more rigorous than just "anything critical of standard US foreign policy".

[0] http://www.propornot.com/p/the-yyycampaignyyy.html
> I stated we could have mass violence in this country if the election were overturned this late after the election.

"Could"?

There will be a civil war if Trump's presidency is revoked. Count on it.

By the way, how many Democrats are there in the Army, Navy and Air Force? How about the National Guard? Law enforcement? How many Democrats own guns?

Democrats are funny people. "Mass violence is better than a Trump presidency."

Be careful what you wish for.
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If a designer doesn't confront reality while creating a design, then I would say they have failed miserably. Perhaps you are right, and few designers are successful in this regard.
Public Cloud or Private, That Is the Question
Post postmodern

Postmodern is so passé.
> This rhetoric is ridiculous

Here's what I honestly don't understand about HN:

Climate change has near unanimous support from climatologists. Most (rightly, imho) point that as a reason why it should be accepted by the general public. And those doubting the experts are considered ridiculous.

Here, however, we have an issue to drop corporate taxes which has near unanimous support from economists (across the political spectrum). Yet we call the experts ridiculous.

Why the flip? Why should the general public accept the expert advice in one field, but then turn around & call it ridiculous in another?
It really works on a lot of people I know. Always buying tons and tons of stuff because "Prime." It's like "buy," "buy," "buy" all the time. I just find it amazingly fascinating.

Couple years ago. I was looking to buy a couple staples on Amazon once to spend enough for free shipping. I love Kraft Mac and cheese and it's a commodity item. Amazon was selling them for 3x the cost of the grocery store. Decided to check Walmart.com out of curiosity. They were normal grocery store price at Walmart.com, if you needed to order it online. I wonder if people actually think Kraft Mac and cheese actually costs that much.

I also noticed that the price of many toys skyrockets during December.

As an aside I've ordered Kraft Mac and cheese from jet.com at normal price since. Their prices and inventory change a lot though so you can't always get the same stuff and the same price.

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/04/412046900/retailer-arbitrage-h...

COHEN: So this is interesting. This is a Babies R Us 800 baby wipes.

GOLDSTEIN: The wipes are in one of those displays out in the middle of the aisle. They're selling for $16.99. As the father of two young kids, I feel like I have some insight here.

Baby stuff - I know how much baby stuff costs.

COHEN: OK. Is this a good price?

GOLDSTEIN: Not great. It's not great.

COHEN: Seventeen bucks for 800 wipes? It's a value box.

GOLDSTEIN: I mean, buy it if you want. I don't think there's a lot of margin in it for you.

COHEN: I think you're wrong.

GOLDSTEIN: Sam has brought along one of his employees, a guy named Jay Freiday, to help him with the shopping. Freiday pulls out his phone and looks up how much this $17 box of wipes is selling for on Amazon.

JAY FREIDAY: This is currently selling for $46.

GOLDSTEIN: Wait a minute. People are paying - what did you say?

FREIDAY: $46.

GOLDSTEIN: For 800 baby wipes?

FREIDAY: Yeah. It's a lot?

GOLDSTEIN: It's a lot.
If he'd paid a fine after they caught him, he wouldn't have gone to jail. He very openly refused to pay. He effectively went to jail for refusing to pay a fine.
Would be interesting to hear your story. It sounds like a very good description, this "voluntary but compulsory". Would you mind to share more?
I have the new 13 inch model and one of my main frustrations is that if I apply pressure to the area just the the side of the track pad, it prevents two finder scrolling from working. Basically if I rest my palm to the right of the trackpad, it interferes with the track pad movement. This isn't a palm detection issue because I'm definitely resting my hand to the right of the track pad, and I think it's a result of the pressure from the weight of my hand.

Wondering if anyone else is seeing this?
Communicating over the Internet is like relaying letters with the destination and return address at the top. Anyone in the chain can choose to look at the content, tamper with it, or refuse to pass it on.

A giant web that relies on trust. Is there a system where trust is not necessary, but can still get things done? Although I can't think of a use-case for this.
Interesting. I wonder if the technology will ever be economically viable to build chips out of.
But receiving scorn is no evidence of speaking the truth. A death spiral looms from this confusion.
They already have > 20 cores for servers (> 40 with HT).

It is pointless for consumers. Well, except for squeezing a few dollars from the enthusiast who only want THE best, a profitable niche.
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Is is dangerous to not call out evil for what it is; unfortunately, you're looking at a symptom rather than the cause.
Effort wasted hating Castro, Hillary, Trump, climate change policies, or GB surveillance laws is lost from actually fixing our world.

It is easier to hate people than to accept that their behavior is emergent and afflicts us as well. The most intelligent, benevolent AI or angel will fail in our complex systems/organizations. This is an incredibly desperate understanding, particularly when you realize that those in power are disincentivized from making improvements.

Organizations DEMAND 'evil' behavior. It is not User Error.

CGP Grey has a great video that can help open your mind, if you are willing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I think the most bizarre part about it is the structure of this as a report of 'things Ed Blockley said' (or 'added', or 'continued' - I was surprised not to learn that he 'exclaimed' or 'averred' anything), mixed in with a different set of additional facts and figures and context provided by the 'narrator'. It seems we might have been better served to have just had Ed Blockley's contribution unedited and in its entirety, without the contextualizing and narration provided by the reporter. It is possible to copy/paste out all the reported paragraphs attributed to Dr Blockley from the text and get a well written overview of current Arctic climatology.
I guess I did not elaborate it enough. Once you have read a certain number of these books you sort of learn to create your own examples and test the ideas against them. (Critical thinking)

This is not to say that the summaries or notes are bereft of examples. Derek Sievers notes for example are extremely detailed and he retains the narrative wherever necessary.
Good luck doing that in Florida where places are already below sea level. Ever dug a hole that filled itself with salt water?
For kids that are a little older try snap circuits or Lego Mind Storm.
> Maybe Americans value their rights more than anything else

I certainly do, but sadly not every American agrees. There are many "law and order" types who would have that person arrested and beaten if they could. Fortunately our rights are still intact, even after all this time. People can do such things without fear. Far from being "laughable and disrespectful", I consider it a sign of a healthy, functioning society. "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism", as the saying goes.
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Tech/Finance news aggregator. Still a work in progress.
https://quantumsheep.herokuapp.com/
>But the absence of a political outlet for dissatisfaction is similar.

So... sort of the like the US?
Good and Evil are great examples of abstractions gone wrong. They are too high level to mean anything now.

They've become a psychological comforting mechanism where we apply "good" to things we like or want to like and "evil" to things that we don't. But the words themselves connote something deeper than that--something foundational about morality.

It's convenient. Tidy. We all want to think of ourselves as "good." We don't want to think that we, individually or as a nation or whatever group identity we cling to, is capable of being "evil." Calling something evil is a way of creating cognitive distance between ourselves and what we don't like.

I think it's dangerous. Literally dangerous to engage in the world this way. The real fact of the matter is that perfectly normal, sane, rational, "good" people are capable of doing atrocious things. Even you. Even me.

Hitler wasn't fundamentally different from any of us. Any one of us could become just as bad under the right (wrong?) circumstances.

Pretending that we are different in some basic way paves the path for us to become "evil." It allows us to believe that we are immune to certain types of bad actions.

But we aren't.

Any single individual among us has the capacity to do awful things. Some people were simply able to scale awfulness effectively. That doesn't make them fundamentally different from us.

Calling some individual "evil" isn't semantically different from applying the "good" label to yourself. And when you believe that you are good, it's a lot easier to bend the rules.

There's a specific and frightening chain of logic that goes like this:

I'm good. Good people don't do evil things. So this [insert bad behavior here] is good. Because I'm good.

But the good/evil lens of the world has another drawback. It removes accountability and consequence. If I believe that I'm "good", there's no credit to be given when I choose not to do "evil" deeds. Of course I wouldn't do that. I'm not "evil".

When you apply a label like "evil" to a person, what else could you expect? Of course that person is going to do horrible things. That person is "evil."

The Good/Evil abstraction is pernicious, self-fulfilling, and circular.

We need to be better than that. We need to own up to the full spectrum of our nature and accept it so that we can guard against the worst parts of it.

Pretending that we are not capable of being "evil" is pretty much the foundational mechanism that allows truly terrible things to happen.
I can't go to a bar or buy alcohol/tobacco without showing ID.

Why should I be able to vote for the country's future without ID?
Ask HN: What are some challenging things I could build to become a better coder?
I'm tired of building boring CRUD apps. I don't feel like I'm learning a lot. What are some challenging things I could build on the side to develop my skill set as a developer?
One could say that non-cash (debit/credit) transactions are recorded by the devices that enable them, and thus recorded and tied to an identity. The information could then be used by matching your card number when you use it online or elsewhere.
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True. I suppose better picks would have been leaders of Russia, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, etc. going off of http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/which-countr...

In all those cases they're helping some group in their country, even if its the political elite.
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I am not. I think CC is a dated book and should become obsolete.

It propagated a couple of myths without solid evidence that should be discarded from the software culture (e.g.: 10x productivity of good programmers, the cone of uncertainty).

Also it advocates an approach that, although valid for some areas (NASA labs, embedded systems), is not valid for a lot of the software culture (web development, startups).

"Pragmatic Programmer" and "Clean Code" are much better readings, IMHO.
We've already asked you to please not introduce flamewar topics like this, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll post within the guidelines in the future.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13044957 and marked it off-topic.
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Dark/black background colourschemes look awesome and you can massively reduce the strain on your eyes. I am planning on grabbing an OLED for my next monitor.

If you code in low or no light environments then I would certainly rank OLED as an important factor. If however your work occurs in brightly lit spaces (outside / horrid offices) then you will be wanting a white screen anyway and it makes no difference.

Of course, always consider having multiple monitors and raising the size of the text - this is often much better at reducing strain than the extra play an OLED will give with light levels.

- I am not a doctor and am in no way qualified to give the above advice. I have programmed for roughly a week on an OLED that wasn't mine
Packaging wasn't critical. That's my point: without the product (the Foreign meddling + social fragility) there wouldn't have been anything around for being packaged.

If you blame the atrocities committed on the packaging alone and not on the market that was created beforehand, you're not provinding any help to make sure history doesn't repeat itself.
When did I "parrot" anything as truth? I said I find it highly suspicious. If you want to go down the path of "fake news" sites how about we talk about almost every major network that had Clinton winning in a landslide?
It doesn't seem like a particularly bad approach. I would guess that most developers don't have the skills (or time, for that matter) to be able to efficiently write code at the hand optimisation level.

Abstracting this away to the compiler is a safe bet, and developers will soon learn ways to at least generally optimise the code for the compiler, much like people have already learned to optimise code for javac, v8, etc.
I offered free hosting on my site for a little while, the legal issues of what people would do with free storage started to be the biggest problem. We're in a different era now.
I don't really think they even check their email.
I love reading and learning from books. However, it is a bit too easy to tell yourself that you have improved after finishing a book. I like this quote (from Dale Carnegie I think):

"Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied."

You need to use the knowledge you gain, not just hoard it.
One Money Question to Rule Them All: How Much Is Enough?
The Intercept article is a bit [EDIT: very] misleading. The Post article from the start relies on two groups:

* The Foreign Policy Research Insititute

* PropOrNot

* EDIT: The Post also says, The findings about the mechanics of Russian propaganda operations largely track previous research by the Rand Corp. and George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

* EDIT: The Post uses yet more sources later in the article.

Unless you read about two-thirds of the long Intercept article, to where FPRI is first mentioned, the impression is that the Washington Post relied only on PropOrNot.

EDIT: In fact, The Intercept seems to misrepresent how propaganda is identified. It's simply information from known Russian gov't sources (e.g., Russia Today (RT)) that is repeated elsehwere. Here is the heart of the Post's report:

....

The researchers used Internet analytics tools to trace the origins of particular tweets and mapped the connections among social-media accounts that consistently delivered synchronized messages. Identifying website codes sometimes revealed common ownership. In other cases, exact phrases or sentences were echoed by sites and social-media accounts in rapid succession, signaling membership in connected networks controlled by a single entity.

PropOrNot’s monitoring report, which was provided to The Washington Post in advance of its public release, identifies more than 200 websites as routine peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans. On Facebook, PropOrNot estimates that stories planted or promoted by the disinformation campaign were viewed more than 213 million times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-prop...
Intel makes use of EDG as far as I am aware.
I'm a cuban american and I don't see how people don't understand the most obvious viewpoint. You can condemn both the evil actions by the US and by Fidel. The fact that they've both committed atrocities doesn't mean that we can't criticize either harshly, it means that we MUST criticize BOTH. I hate the whitewashing of Obama's wars. Its a BIG reason I was against Hillary (and pro Gary Johnson). The left is spineless and completely abandons the anti-war rhetoric when its their team. AND I hate the apologism I'm hearing about Castro. He was an evil, hateful, murderous, greedy, lying dictator.
To have a tremendous hole dug in the earth.
I'm in the middle of your Elixir course right now - it's excellent! I did your first React/Flux course and also the Redux one. Your teaching style works very well for me.

The way I get the most out of it is to pause the video after you outline the project spec, implement the whole thing in my own (bad) way and then watch to see how you do it.
Having to fill out web forms rather than just uploading a PDF will turn me off applying unless I already really like your company.
I think if you take the complete intersection, the set is empty. However, the five standard vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ are fairly common (although many Native American languages have four vowels). For consonants, /p/, /t/, /k/, /m/, /n/, /s/, and /l/ are probably the most common.

Esperanto's phonotactics is basically Zamenhof's Slavic dialect (Polish and Belorussian). However, Lojban tries for a more neutral disposition, even to the point of permitting epenthetic vowels in complex consonant clusters (stressing that they need to be distinguishable from the 6 regular vowels--the 5 vowels above plus /ə/).

It should be noted that when languages have restrictive phonemic inventories, the challenge is not so much in producing the other sounds as it is in recognizing them as distinct sounds.
"We can replace the timestamp with the primary key for the “recentness” calculation".
Very different properties, not a great replacement.
This is so remarkably non-nonsensical and fun. Not that I'd throw money at it. I'd be curious what they did if they accidentally struck water or an underground fiber optic cable.
> This is based on clang --- it's not a new compiler.

This is good. Apparently it improves compile speed by a factor of 2..10 for a wide use range without compromising on the output quality. For many C++ developers it will be like a nitro injection.
All the mobos for these cpus aren't ATX, so I'm curious to see what gamers put them in.
As I mentioned in several other threads, in around 10 years time, the GPL will be sorely missed.

The only thing left will be the Linux kernel and a few major projects like Emacs.

The circle will be complete and we will be back to the 90's with freeware like licenses.
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More like the later, but less extreme. Disappointed that there wasn't time to talk about the philosophical aspects of computer science in a degree named `Doctor of Philosophy'.
I am made of different stuff than you are.

From experience, passing substantial unconditional wealth to my children (above and beyond education) seems far more likely to turn them into assholes than decent citizens.
Using sqlite (rather than mysql) with wordpress?
Is it meaningfull to replace mysql by the "much more lighter" sqlite utilizing wordpress? I am using such a setup and found it much more "repsonsive" than using the everywhere used LAMP-, WAMP-, LNMP-Setups. It 'feels' very fast..

I know that in a multi-user-environment a REAL database-server is a much more better approach, but if a blog is mostly just used by "one person at a time" - I could imagine that sqlite outperforms mysql a lot. What is your opinion and experience about that?
The Android Auto app on Android smartphones already does this. It has still have some ways to go with other app developers participating, but that could be a model for future.
It'll never top the KLF burning a million pounds.