skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole truth is probably more fluid and multifaceted but these are some of the interesting claims I've seen on there.

1. Al Nusra a branch of Al Qaeda is embedded amongst the moderate rebels and were the main fighting force in Aleppo.

2. Allies Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been flooding Syria with weapons to anyone who will take them including radical groups. SA sees situation as opportunity to spread Wahhabism to the region.

3. Early on the coalition had been using a funneling strategy that involved bombing locations peripheral to ISIS with the goal of forcing them to move into civilian regime territory.
http://federal-tax-rates.insidegov.com/

Some samples (cap gains rates, via whatever method is used on the site above):

2015: 25%

2010: 15%

2005: 16.1%

2000: 21.2%

1995: 29.2%

1990: 28%

1985: 20%

1980: 28%

1975: 36.5%

1970: 32.3%

1965: 25%

1960: 25%

1955: 25%

1950: 25%

1945: 25%

1940: 30%

1935: 31.5%

1930: 12.5%

1925: 12.5%

1920: 73%

1915: 15%

Cap gains rates policies have fluctuated a bit throughout the decades as well. One could argue (unless it's in one's interest NOT to) that there is at least some correlation between rates lower than 25% and hyperactivity leading to crashes. E.g. 1925/1930; 1985; 2000-2010. Or one could argue that correlation is not causation (in which case, why not "fund the commons", since tax rate doesn't affect business cycle outcomes, anyway).
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George H. W. Bush only served a single term.
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Is your assertion that liability insurance only became either required or suddenly much more expensive in 2007 and that it was coincidental that Mylan bought the rights to the injectors the same year the price started going up?
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Looking at this from the users perspective, the URL is becoming less noticeable anyway. On mobile you don't have the screen real estate for it. And I don't see the average user complaining about the sub-second loading times. If anything, this is a step in the right direction.
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AMP is fast and that makes it really nice when reading news on my phone. I just wish it was less centralized / dependent on Google's cache. It seems like it should be possible to build something similar to AMP - possibly even with a smaller runtime - and self-host the content. Then, throw in a transparent, geo-distributed caching layer like CloudFlare to get the same insta-load qualities.

The main downside I can imagine is that the centralized gatekeeper (Google) won't treat the optimized content the way it treats AMP content today. But, we are locking ourselves into Google's solution if we let that stop us from exploring better alternatives.
Note that the price started sliding on the news that regulators were finally paying it attention.
Companies will usually mention what they want to be included. If they don't, I'd not include a photo. If they're English-speaking, they are either following US/British business practices as a matter of custom or they're aware of the criticism of that particular German practice.
No matter if it's the point of them or not I was responding to "for the most part, people graduate from these online universities without the skills needed for the jobs they want." Pointing out that it's not unique to online universities.

(Either way, if you are going to teach programming at all version control is a big part of programming so it should be taught.)
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Anyone have a mirror for the redacted source code?
I recently got a Mazda3, their newer MazdaConnect system is running an iMX6 (dual CortexA9 w/GPU and video accelerators) and uses Opera as the interface. All of the core UI is written in Javascript.

It's also highly hackable. =)
> Adding an example of recent Firefox innovation

I think this is a poor example, this does nothing to make the browser better at browsing the web. It's just a feature no one asked for, that has loads of alternatives already. Why do I need video calling built in?
Their IRC channel is pretty shitposty but when anything newsworthy happens it's the first place the news is aggregated to and discussed, generally even before making it to the subreddit and often while the newsworthy event is still ongoing.
They only will if it proves worthwhile. Also, it can reuse components from Chrome where possible.
The story of the failure of elites in all circles and their intransigence or out right opposition to the TRUTH has been the overarching story of my lifetime.

It makes me cautious, though. The monetization of acrimony actively seeks ways to tell that story over and over again. If the author's paper is good science, its idea's will persist.

Not every scrappy upstart will overturn the empire and not every Goliath is evil.
At one undiscovered bug per KLOc, that's basically advertising that their software is a disastrous ball of mud.

KLOC are something you spend, a debt you accumulate.
Yes and no.

I think of alchemy as early contact between mysticism and objectivity. People thought mysticism was a valid way to get info about the world. The failure of alchemy proved them wrong and may have partly led to a more skeptical "hypothesize and test" approach from the original "try to confirm religion" approach.
Again, my point is that the average home probably wouldn't have had a car, and if it did, it was far worse in terms of efficiency, safety and performance than all but the cheapest used cars today. This is the mis-perception I'm talking about - people imagine living in the 1930s as though they'd have been in the top 5% or 10% of the population in terms of income, but what we have to look at is the overall level. Just because some people could zip around in a sleek Plymouth Phaeton doesn't mean that everybody, or even many people, could.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805656
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378247
> independent contractors so they are paid less than minimum wage.

That is exactly what they do in the UK. Deliveries are outsourced to other companies (but still under the Amazon Delivery Network brand). Those companies then hire people as contractors, pay them close to minimum wage, but use every trick possible to ensure they see as little of that as possible (i.e. pay reductions when aggressive delivery targets are not met, charging extortionate rates for vehicle hire and insurance).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/amazon-insi...
This is awesome! I was at bar with a group of security people / cryptographers during the Real World Crypto conference last week. We were discussing what we thought some of the most important security research papers from the last five years were. Everyone agreed that CONICKS (which is what Key Transparency is based on), will likely have a huge impact in the next five years or so. I'm excited to see Google finally open-sourcing their efforts in Key Transparency.
I'm just saying.. we don't know. Your heuristics may help inform you slightly, but it is the future and by definition we cannot know. Otherwise if you really do know - you shouldn't be wasting time here complaining, you could be making a lot of money.

Having a different management style is just that: different, not "batshit insane". You really can't judge until the results are in.

For example, people questioned the way Job's ran his teams at Apple. At some point in time that was "batshit insane". To be frank, even today Job's management style is "batshit insane", but no one can question it because it worked.

Building a rocket ship company that planned to steal away revenue from Lockheed-Martin was "batshit insane", but Musk was able to pull it off.

Another example, losing half your army trekking through the Alps with elephants was "batshit insane", but Hannibal was one of the only generals in existence that could have destroyed Rome. Hannibal may not be the best example though, he happened to be outsmarted at the last minute, and acted emotionally rather than continue his objective - losing everything in the process.

I'm just trying to explain to you (while Trump will likely cause WW3): In general by jumping to conclusions, prior to having the data, you do yourself and the world a disservice.
Thanks, I tried some Chromium based browsers on the Play Store, but they all have unreliable or even non working Chrome Sync. I'd go full FF, if scrolling on Android wasn't so jerky compared to Chrome.
Did that 40x number come from that video? In my experience, any non-trivial async operation (e.g., a 2ms database insert in a fast OLTP system) is going to be on the order of 10-20% slower in straight-line operation latency than a sync operation while handling vastly more throughput.
That's a good point. It's just enough to get them to click through to the github/portfolio.
Yeah, but you could also easily ask how many would-be Jordans stopped short because of all their failures. Point is Michael wouldn't be Michael without it.
I was a developer on Dead Man's Hand published by Atari and developed by Human Head. I was assigned the development of a mini poker game that pops up before each level and potentially rewards the player with extra ammo, armor, etc. In real life, great poker hands don't come along often. In our game, we wanted the flip the odds so the player usually won something and only lost it all on occasion. I basically scripted the game based on what I wanted the odds to be and produced hands to match. This includes when the user trades in cards. The result ended up being very addictive and was called out specifically this review:

https://youtu.be/rjf3G43cUfg?t=1m55s
I was oversimplifying, but yes the manufacturer still has to prove that their drug is equivalent to the gold standard for therapeutic uses and that they have sufficient quality control. How much it costs depends on the complexity of the drug and who does it. An experienced generic drug manufacturer will have everything in place for patient selection, investigators on their payroll, and expertise in designing protocols for the marketing application. Since we're talking about adrenaline, not some complex drug cocktail, I think the device portion would make up the majority of the cost (life and death emeregency device + has to work in the field without a medical professional tends to be pricey).
Maybe it's because I'm still on ADSL1 but I find it hard to believe that fibre Internet wouldn't be seen as a widely important thing...
Perhaps in the future Google could make YouTube videos count towards your Drive quota? Though this would be problematic for accounts that already have tons of footage.
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For me the most insulting part is the inversion of priorities in these designs. The top priority of a UI designer SHOULD be to make the user as productive as possible, yet making me wait for something that is by definition not necessary (like an animation) is nonsensical. A related backward trend is this idea of pushing something in front of my face as a modal panel, with complete disregard for the fact that I was working on something and am now (a) distracted, (b) completely unable to continue doing what I chose to do, and (c) will have problems even after the modal goes away, taking extra time to figure out how to refocus on whatever I was originally trying to do before being interrupted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382134
It is a bit self-serving of you to include the unnecessary dependent clause "that you don't understand", but as you are just stating your personal opinion, it is ultimately inconsequential.
Which IMO is done well and makes the game less random.
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I have a background as a visual designer, so this is good advice. I used to have very visual resumes because it fit the field, but I'm realizing that would be not such a great thing in engineering.
As someone who does ML research for a living, I can wholeheartedly assure you that programmers will be even more in demand as a result of ML.
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Is anyone else confused by the baseline thumbnails and current thumbnails bar graph? I'm not really sure what it is measuring
Long time ago I've decided to be utterly honest with people.

The friends are now not many, but all true and for a lifetime.
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Since the entire thing was hot-loadable, how was the game linked, did every function call go through a indirection, or did you potentially re-link the entire program if the new function couldn't fit at the address of the old one?
They've continued trending down since then, especially when you count hours of domestic labour, which has dropped a lot (and no surprise, since you're not getting paid wages for those hours generally.)
> did every function call go through a indirection

Yes.
It's not just about performance gain. The real problem is that if you don't ConfigureAwait(false), you don't know where your continuation is going to be executed, and how long it'll take to get there.

Worse yet, posting to the original sync context increases potential for deadlocks. The UI thread often has to do something synchronously (e.g. invoke an API that doesn't have an async version), thereby blocking the event loop. If anywhere down the line it happens to wait on a task, and that task gets posted to the UI synchronization context, you have a deadlock.

Note that the answer you link to is specifically for ASP.NET, where there's no UI thread. But for libraries, you don't know if they're going to be used in a web app or a GUI app. So, the safest thing is to always ConfigureAwait(false).
Your response seems to imply you missed the major points of the article:

"[...] there is no bigger favor that Trump opponents can do for him than attacking him with such lowly, shabby, obvious shams, recruiting large media outlets to lead the way. When it comes time to expose actual Trump corruption and criminality, who is going to believe the people and institutions who have demonstrated they are willing to endorse any assertions no matter how factually baseless, who deploy any journalistic tactic no matter how unreliable and removed from basic means of ensuring accuracy?"

Greenwald, who has been a consistent and vociferous critic of Trump, is arguing that falling in line with the CIA is as big a mistake for the left now as it was back in '03 when they lied us into the Iraq War. The CIA is not your friend, and there are much more effective and powerful ways to handle Trump's obvious corruption:

"Beyond that, the threat posed by submitting ourselves to the CIA and empowering it to reign supreme outside of the democratic process is — as Eisenhower warned — an even more severe danger. The threat of being ruled by unaccountable and unelected entities is self-evident and grave. That’s especially true when the entity behind which so many are rallying is one with a long and deliberate history of lying, propaganda, war crimes, torture, and the worst atrocities imaginable.

[...]

There are solutions to Trump. They involve reasoned strategizing and patient focus on issues people actually care about. Whatever those solutions are, venerating the intelligence community, begging for its intervention, and equating their dark and dirty assertions as Truth are most certainly not among them. Doing that cannot possibly achieve any good, and is already doing much harm."
But why? Programmers right now do everything by hand. In a ML future less of those by hand things will be needed. It seems like less programmers will be needed as a result.
awesome, thanks! ... this is my first time interacting with HN, is it a smart idea to share emails in comments? ...?
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How long before someone decides to port LLVM and jemalloc to rust? :)
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I understand and agree that you have a valid point, but what is your suggestion? Would you rather have no data?
>> Now let's get practical: find me such a library.

> Certainly. I'm most familiar with Python, and for that, both Paramiko and asyncssh support returning the exit status of a command, distinct from any network failure.

Oh, that's something new. From what I heard, Paramiko used `ssh' under the
hood, but apparently I was wrong.

> ([...] The ssh binary is mostly a porcelain interface to the SSH protocol;
libraries are a better tool for building on top of.)

There's still a big problem on the client side itself. SSHv2 is a complicated
protocol, so client libraries' APIs are not pretty or force you to use
OpenSSH-like home (or both, like Paramiko does).

>> with tracking state of each and every machine I would possibly want to reconfigure, and remembering to check if the machine was booted to re-issue a reconfiguration command.

> Perhaps this is just a difference in our production environments. We strive very hard to have all our machines online at all times.

You must then have very homogenous environment with a small team. Sounds like
a startup of sorts. Anything more loose (e.g. more than one team working on
the servers, or split between who installs the machines in racks and their
OSes on disk and who manages the OSes) and you won't have the luxury of
keeping everything up and running all the time.

>> Sorry, I'm lost here: what re-running?

> My larger point was about non idempotent commands. If your infrastructure retries commands, are you just very careful to not have non-idempotent stuff?

And what does it have anything to do with re-sending the commands when they
didn't reach their target machine?

> Again, if you can structure the command to be idempotent, you can work
around this, but in my experience there always seems to be some patch or
database upgrade that this can't be accomplished for.

Uhm... What? Where did you get the idea that upgrading database is managing
configuration? It's a deployment operation. A different category.
I can see how US law requires public entities to accept cash, but it's not clear whether they are allowed to charge transction fees for "expensive" transactions (othewise those transactions are subsidied by others)

Also: does the law imply that every public entity that you pay taxes to in the US must have a physical office somewhere that you can go pay with cash? Mind blown.
Or that might give them yet another in the long list of reasons to continue trying to abandon their wired infrastructure.
So we all moved to Linux for nothing? ;-)
I believe this is only a current indicator because of less predators. Ie over-fishing.

We don't know, but most studies that look at what does well in acidic oceans come up with jelly fish. Lots of jelly fish.

Yum, heavy metal infused jelly fish...
> not everyone takes $100ks of loans

To clarify, I'm saying that college should be available to all either for free or at an affordable price.

More generally, I don't agree with the premises that some people deserve a better education than others, that we can determine people's worthiness at a young age, and that the only value (or even the primary value) of education is making money.

Regarding our ability to determine the worthiness of young students, note that parents' wealth and/or income are the leading factors (AFAIK) in determining how much education a student receives.

> previously it was 6 years, and you want to make it 16?

I think many ideas for limiting education imply an abandonment of progress, that we should plan for the economy and society we had over the last 50 years instead of looking to the future and building a more educated and productive one. The society and economy of the last 50 years was built by forward thinking people before that, including those who thought education should be expanded.

Perhaps if people were better educated, they would be less vulnerable to absurd political, economic, and scientific ideas. (To be clear: I'm not calling the parent's idea absurd; I'm referring to many others out there and sometimes here on HN.)
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The file sizes of the different thumbnail sizes. Baseline shows all the different sizes they used before, and current thumbnails shows the space saved by switching to just two thumbnail sizes.
Hahaha, much better!
async/await is not just to avoid blocking UI. It's to avoid blocking any thread, so that it can be reused for a different task while yours is awaiting completion of some dependency.

It's not entirely clear what your problem is from that description. Why is the new ID not available when using async/await? If your "add a record" operation produces an ID in sync version, then the async version of it should not be considered logically completed until said ID is returned. Are you using some library that works differently?
yeah, doing the thinking through who will be looking at it and tailoring it to their imagined tastes is a great thought.
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I've tried Crawlera in the past and found it too expensive. Plus, I don't need compute power, just a node with its own IP address that runs squid. Does anyone have any experience on this subject? Thanks!
Because GPL license protects from stealing of code without contributed back.

Apple chose FreeBSD as base for it OS, Google chose Linux. Look at sad state of FreeBSD now.
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Same thing was pushed through quickly in Australia with bipartisan support.

Not a peep out of anyone.

I think even the RSPCA get access to our various data.
The way I read it is that they eliminated intermediate thumbnail sizes. So the graph shows the before and after of storage space used by generated thumbnails.
> faith of atheism

I used to entertain this idea, that you need faith to believe there is no god just as much as you need it to believe there are 1000. Perhaps you do. What does not require faith, however, is observation - at least to the limits to which we can test and trust our observations.

Atheism isn't a belief that there is no god, it's an observation that we don't experience any supernatural forces interacting with this universe.

> naive assumption that we know the limits of knowledge

I think very few people claim to know the limits of knowledge, but that is not the same thing as saying we know nothing. Asimov's essay on the Relativity of Wrong [0] is some of the best reasoning along this line of thought.

[He] went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

[0] http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
That's a great idea, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!
A while ago he gave me the manuals to GOALENV and GOALASM, but not the right to post them. Hopefully it's long enough ago now he'd be willing to make them public!
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The author seems to make a very valid point. In social sciences, validation by peers and reputation seems to be at least as important as factual correctness.

Chomsky's 'theories' do sound vague and pompous. It is never nice to see counterexamples to your conjectures, but he should deal with like a grown-up. I do understand that this is very hard when you are praised the way he was and is.
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True, you must put your source within a directory named src.