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The fact that most trade agreements are negotiated in secret by special interests doesn't make it right.

The TPP was full of provisions that would have made profits higher for corporations and very little that would genuinely protect workers and the environment. This is understandable given that most the voices in the room were representing corporations.
Didn't he already create a Megaupload successor, i.e. mega.co.nz?
Python 2.8?
That kids can learn languages quickly with not much more than consistent exposure during their critical periods is pretty clear.

That adults can learn languages more quickly is a different question than that of critical periods.

Adults don't have that critical period to lean on, but there are efficient ways to learn languages for people who have long been outside of that critical period that can allow adults, with their own cognitive strengths, to quickly master a language to a given level of fluency at a quicker pace than children.

There are entire online communities of polyglots that regularly practice these techniques and many of them didn't learn their first second language until well into adulthood.
I didn't really make any value judgements, simply described what's happening in the world.

>We were told by the Very Smart People we had to go into Vietnam, because otherwise Domino Theory assured that the Communists would take over the world. We lost Vietnam, and tens of thousands of lives, and nothing happened.

Please stop trying to dramatize reality. The truth is that withdrawing from a multilateral 'trade' deal has consequences, and those are worth analyzing.

>We were told by the Very Smart People that we had to invade Iraq, because otherwise the Islamists would consolidate control over the region. We invaded, and not only did we not prevent that outcome, we actually caused it.

I don't really understand what you're saying, to be honest - are you talking about the Iraq War, like the one that happened in '03? Do you think that's the reason that was cited, or the motivation of the administration?

>I didn't even vote for Trump, but the one thing I'll side with him on is that I'm quite sick of being told that we have to take this or that self-destructive action for the sake of defeating the foreign-boogeyman-du-jour.

Funnily enough, Trump gave up a great piece of leverage and instead needs to resort to threats ('China wont go into the north china sea', recognizing Taiwan). So the net result in the change in relations is much less effective and much riskier leverage.
It's basically the _definition_ of luck: "the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual"
And then lose out to the majority who either don't see how answering the question could be bad for them or just can't see that not answering is an option...
Yes, but the issue was, that it was to be taken as either all or none, and the intellectual property section, as per what was leaked on wikileaks was kind of ridiculous.
> We were told by the Very Smart People that we had to invade Iraq, because otherwise the Islamists would consolidate control over the region. We invaded, and not only did we not prevent that outcome, we actually caused it.

This is incorrect. The primary justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein's regime had WMDs, and that his WMD programs were a growing threat to the region and the world. The majority of Americans thought that invading Iraq would increase the terror threat to the US.[1]

1. In a CBS/NYTimes poll, 62% of those polled said that if the US took military action vs. Iraq, the threat of terror would increase. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-talk-first-fight-later/
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It's all about who to trust. Science sometimes gets it wrong for a while, as do some scientists. However, I would trust expert academic financiers over someone who by luck happened to have a good year with his or her stock picks.
That I get. That's always usually been the FreeBSD way(tm). Set a knob, sysctl, something that allows you to have that behavior if you need it.

It's kind of odd that is not the case here.

Also FreeBSD supports boot environments now, as well as selecting them from the loader menu if you haven't used it in a while. But reading the TrueOS website makes me think I should give it another go soon, it has some nice features. Even the Pico version seems interesting.
I think this type of solutions will be more and more relevant as we progress toward more on-chip processing as system on chip (SoC) become more and more ubiquitous.
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I didn't say anything about NAFTA so I'm not sure why you're bring it up. TPP happened during the Ohbummer admin. ACA. Several expansions for domestic surveillance.

That's what I'm referring to.
Probably won't withdraw, but may seek to re-negotiate it is what is more likely
Pretend you're someone who conducts a lot of daily life via email, e.g. messages related to your day job, setting up appointments, chatting with friends, etc, and imagine that someone has leaked 2 months of those daily emails as a public download.

Now imagine you are someone else tasked with writing something that captures "the substance" of those emails. You've basically been asked to capture "the substance" of someone's life over a 2-month period. The reason why you don't see many "deep" articles about the content of the emails is because John Podesta is someone who is interesting to the public for a specific role: Clinton campaign manager. So the contents of his emails are analyzed in the context of the presidential race, not for any other kind of deep contextual analysis.
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I agree. Truth be told the older I get the tinkering has lost its luster. I just want to get Sh%5 done. I don't have time to keep reading mailing lists and commit logs the first half of my day anymore to keep up on all the hacks, tricks, knobs, comments on HW etc. I just need to get things done.

I think Ill kick the tires on TrueOS this weekend. As you said it seems to have some awesome features that would make my network/deployment life easier than stock FreeBSD.
After reading to the end (very enjoyable),be sure to find out what weaknesses Bletchley Park exploited to break the encryption:

http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmauboats.htm
Looks like a great toolkit. I'm going to convert some of my PEG.js grammars over to test it out. It would be good to have an online page like https://pegjs.org/online. It allows people to start playing without all the setup.
Yes, but he resigned in 2013 (the same year MEGA was launched) in order to focus on his political career[0]. Bill Liu, who had some control over MEGA, was arrested in November, a couple of months ago[1].

[0]: http://geeksnack.com/mega-founder-reveals-bill-liu-5th-most-...

[1]: http://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/national-news/86407...
I'm not a troll. TPP was mentioned... that was tabled during the Ohbuttocks administration.

Also the ACA. Several expansions for domestic surveillance.

These should be repealed/reformed.
Can confirm, many stories from my company where the CIO and VPs go golfing with oracle. Come back with a decision to choose oracle. Even though they have a subpar solution years behind the competition.
I'm not a troll. Also, not part of #fakenews.

Please read my other comments in the parent.
Are you willing to share some details about the challenges you had?
So your original post was in regard to negative financial consequences, not quality of life. So far the UK has far exceeded expectations since Brexit especially compared to EU countries.

Luckily you have articulated and agreed with one of the main drivers behind Brexit. Quality of life is not dictated by GDP. Brits were repeatedly warned of the potential economic (short and long-term) consequences of Brexit (short term turned out to be absolutely incorrect) but decided having full sovereignty was worth it. They decided Brexit would lead to a better quality of life even if it meant a weaker economy.
Yeah exactly. That's why I hate articles like this.
You are missing the point. Companies are offering jobs and thus in a position of power.
> If Mr. Zuckerberg takes seriously his oft-stated commitments to diversity and openness, he must grapple honestly with the fact that Facebook is no longer just a social network. It’s an advertising medium that’s now dangerously easy to weaponize.

The story is chilling. It more or less proves that Trump campaign and the Billionaire Republican donor who owns the Data Analytics site used Facebook to profile people and send targeted "fear" stories to them and swing the vote away from Clinton.

Fear is a great motivator.
I see you've been on Hacker News for a long time, but haven't been very active, so I just thought I'd point you toward the guidelines, linked at the bottom of the page.

Of particular note, name-calling is off limits, even if it's of the former President and he's not actually involved in the thread. Among other things, it's a relatively strong signal that productive dialogue is not going to happen. Since we prefer productive dialogue here, we'd appreciate if you'd fill your comments with substance but not name-calling.
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> if they were they'd never get that far. Too many interests.

"That's a feature, not a bug. Whence this argument that trade negotiations are somehow different from every single other aspect of good governance? For all other mechanisms of government, everyone agrees that transparency is a vital mechanism for preventing corruption, and that whatever inefficiencies it introduces into the system are a necessary evil. Yet somehow free trade agreements operate on a different set of rules; even though time after time it's been shown that this invites boatloads of the exact corruption that government transparency is meant to combat."

(This argument gets trotted out with such reliability in TPP threads that I can just copy-paste my response from a previous one)
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Make sure you have your DMARC, SPF, DKIM all correctly setup. Then test some emails with this tool: https://www.mail-tester.com/

Go through the issues one by one and you should be all good.

I've used Mailgun for years with hardly any issues.
Nope, the plan to invade Iraq was created before 9/11 and information was faked to get us to go to war. No smart people told us we should go, it was only Bush, Cheney, etc. The smart people worldwide were pretty much all in agreement about what a bad idea it was.

> We invaded, and not only did we not prevent that outcome, we actually caused it.

Well yeah, who thinks you bring peace with war? There are ways we could have taken over Iraq peacefully, such as making it a protectorate and giving everyone health care (which would have been far cheaper than the war).

In fact, what you're saying is the second half of the traditional "We have to do something, and this is something, so we have to do this." fallacy. "Well, if bombing the the ungrateful fuckers didn't make them love us we're out of here."

No, you've got a lot of shit to fix before you get to quit.
BOFH comes at least in part from putting people who don't want to do customer service into what are effectively customer service roles. You see this at food service locations where someone who hates customers ends up interacting with them. They end up being unpleasant. For roles like food service, the person eventually either gets fired or learns to be socially reasonable.

For technical support roles, this behavior gets a pass unless it's really egregious because the employee is supposedly hired for technical ability and not hospitality. Plus in these roles the "customer" is often another employee who's basically captive. So largely this is the result of messed up incentives.

You see the same issue, e.g., at the DMV. Largely the employees are fine, but there are always several who clearly don't want to be there and a couple who are actively unpleasant. The incentives are set up to enable this because customer service is not "job 1". The customers are captive and there's little pushing out unpleasant employees.

The relative lack of women is probably multifaceted but to the extent that it's related to antisocial geeks, I again think it's more to do with enabling the behavior than with the volume. A very small portion of the population can do severe damage if the rest allow it.
I say it without any understatement that Icefrog is probably the best game-balancing developer ever.
I still keep a copy of Flashget 1.73 around, it comes in handy for certain situations.
queuing up a bunch of downloads without hammering a server, it also comes with a site explorer that has helped out a few times.
This space is becoming so full of open source offerings, I wonder if or how long the enterprise solutions can stay afloat.

Is Github making the kind of money they aimed to when they raised all of that VC money? What about Gitlab and Atlassian?

I realize that Github and the like have distinguishing features, such as issue trackers, but I can't imagine open source will lag far behind forever.
I feel as though the side with the upper hand in hiring negotiations goes with the tide of the economy/labor market. In my opinion corporations have the advantage in today's market (as indicated by stagnant wages, although this metric may be at a turning point) and it may be suitable to provide protections for job seekers. One could also argue that the opportunity cost of job hunting for an individual is greater than that of a corporation. However, perhaps it is better to ban employers from demanding proof of past salary as opposed to banning employers from asking salary.
I've never done any serious programming with bash, just simple Bourne shell scripts, because I don't want to think about all the escaping rules and such. I did write some programs in Awk in the 90s (notably https://github.com/darius/awklisp), so I'd go with that. Maybe someone who's bent bash to their will could speak up here?

AFAIK they're both ubiquitous, though you might need a particular awk like gawk for library functions, depending on what you need to do. Nowadays I'm way more likely to use Python, though of course it's a much bigger dependency.

Sorry about the injury, and good luck -- I'd like to hear how it goes.
Do you mean "we're?" If we were, past tense, we don't need to do anything about it.
You can fix that by adding -B (or -b) to the ls command.
>"Sounds like the same argument people made against Wikipedia, which I consider to be a very legitimate source of information on average."

It can not be "legitimate" and "on average".
Find local political/nonprofit groups and ask them what you can do to help. They will probably have a tonne of ideas with no idea how to implement them. Their ideas may not all be good, but as long as you've reached out to groups who have a track record of being effective, they're probably better than yours/mine. If you want to dig even deeper, try and really understand what they're doing and use your knowledge of what is possible to find opportunities they didn't know existed.

I spent this afternoon readings about housing policy and one of the nonprofits literally said on their website that they were seeking funding to do web development for an interactive visualisation. Is this the most effective way of using dev resources? No idea; maybe these visualisations help them influence decision makers in this area, but it's a start if you're really keen.
Thanks for the paper. Do you have suggestions for other reading on econophysics at a similarly accessible level?
Matt Taibbi reviews Thomas Friedman's new book “Thank you for being late”
The reason I like control like this is the reason I want a plastic shutter/window on all phone and laptop cameras I should trust ur software butttttttt I still want the extra piece of mind. Also I don't trust software since ...ya know...zero days.
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This book should be required reading for anyone looking to write their own tech books.

It's short, clear, and concise. It's useful and helps you solve real problems with AWK. Who could ask for anything more?
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You're forgetting one of the two major features of SaaS repos (and software in general):

1. Someone else hosting, securing & backing up all your repos.

2. Someone you pay to blame when there are issues and hopefully with the incentive to fix quickly.
What is the future of deep learning Hardware?
So, I was thinking about what the future holds for deep learning hardware. It seems like nvidia dominates, but big challengers like Intel (and Nervana!), AMD , Xilinx, etc. are coming up with their own products. Startups like wave computing and graphcore also appear to be doing interesting stuff.
I'm very interested in FPGAs for deep learning and even more about ASICs and special chips for deep learning. Are there any papers and/or companies you could point me to? What do you guys think about the future of deep learning hardware? I understand that GPUs are already very good because of matrix multipliers and FPUs, but surely an opportunity exists just by lowering precision (for inference mainly, but apparently stochastic rounding works for training also)?
They are heavily vested in money guiding them in a given direction based on who likes them. On paper they are free speech, in reality, they are tightly bounded where they found themselves, and afraid to threaten the bottom line.
Reminds me of https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78993
Sorry about this! I went to go make dinner and forgot about promising to delete the comment.
Yes, but on that note, the 'reflector' in the Enigma, which essentially double encrypted everything on the device was one of the features that the allies managed to use to break the device.

The reflector essentially routed the signal path back through the rotors again, which the Germans thought made the device even harder to decrypt. However, the wiring involved essentially meant that the same letter typed could NEVER be represented by itself once encrypted. (e.g. a raw 'A' could never come out encrypted as 'A' etc.).

This n-1 weakness meant that allied cryptographers could eliminate options by a large factor when running decrypting routines.

Also, the Germans would routinely ask their field operators to send long random garbage transmissions in order to soak up the time and energy of the allied decrypting teams.

However, human nature took over, and a lot of operators were simply too lazy to hit random keys on the device, but instead would repeatedly press the same key (usually the 'L' key which was the lowest key on the right of the keyboard) while chatting to their colleagues.

Thus when the allied cryptographers saw a long transmission which never contained the letter 'L', they knew it was a 'dummy lazy transmission', and they could use 'LLLLL...' as the crib which made cracking that day's Enigma code so much simpler.

An astonishing example of when a tactic to try and make things harder to crack actually made it easier to do so (with the assistance of human frailties).
I'd suspected for years about such quizzes. Initially, I assumed the posts to calculate your (porn/movie/etc) name was a low grade phishing exercise as it asked you to mix personal data that are often used in security questions (eg first pet name plus mothers maiden name). This is a whole new level, but entirely unsurprising. Facebook is a data mining platform. Remembering that is nothing but a good thing.
"If you like your insurance, you'll keep your insurance."
Haskell is beautiful in its way, but it isn't the only game in town. Try some other languages that are similar in philosophy but have different strengths than Haskell. You'll be a lot happier and you'll also stand a better chance of convincing your coworkers to try Haskell for some things.
I'm not sure how the Dem's will compete with this going forward. Maybe it will become taboo and they won't have to. Maybe they already are.. I hope they don't go too deep into the mud on this.

It's almost impressive though how well the Republicans, and Trump specifically, are employing these, IMHO shady, tactics.

Is it scandalous how little scandal is made of all this(the FUD, populist rhetoric, phycological manipulation, etc)? I can imagine how this would be spun if "evil Hillary" was found to be targeting people with "dark posts".
You literally responded to Animat's comment about NAFTA.
But, it provides a dead easy way to publish a research work, claim insane speedups, and not worry about disk journals, caches, in flight data corner cases when VM is snapshoted, etc.
I think one would have to be extremely far right to view the predominate view of HN as 'socialist'... But as for
statist, it depends on how you define the word, but in an economic sense at least, the more I talk to libertarians, the more I associate that word with 'realist'.

There are lots of nice ideals in voluntarism and total free-market economics, but I'm less and less convinced that they could work at any significant scale in the real world...
Comcast's resistance makes it seem like this is a good idea, but I do wonder if this law will actually achieve anything.

Employers will just low ball people, and those who have higher salaries will bargain more and bring up their salary, and people with low salaries will just accept the low ball...
The markets and cryptocurrency.
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What reporters and data geeks missed about the election
I'd definitely worry about creating any kind of "human training ground" for pathogens.

If our immune mechanics are in animals, those animals need to be treated like people when it comes to herd-immunity.
> Councilman William Greenlee, a Democrat, who sponsored the bill, says the measure wouldn’t prevent employers from setting a fair salary, bar salary negotiations with prospective hires, or keep job candidates from voluntarily sharing their pay history. But if passed, violators who quizzed would-be hires about salary could face fines up to $2,000.

Even if passed, the penalty hardly seems disincentivizing.
Do you think market will forget this ? Govts seem to forget that despite being big, they are market actors themselves. And it wont be the Comcasts but many SMBs.

In todays volatile world, noones existence is certain. And govts need to realize this soon before they spend all of their capitals like this.
If you're teaching a course in X using Y, I don't think it's out of line to expect someone to be proficient in both X and Y. That's kind of their job.
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Okay, and what is the point of statistics as a discipline if you don't use it and make up percentages for arbitrary assessments?
Statistics is a useful metric, but how they are used and what they are trying to say while using them can often be very subjective.

Example USA-someone is collecting unemployment, in December their unemployment money is up. They have no job, they want one and are looking.

By government standards in January they are no longer unemployed, they are "not part of the work force" and ding! guess what unemployment rates just dropped because that person is no longer unemployed, awesome!

Anyone interested in the reality of who is unemployed knows that statistic is full of bs. In December that person is looking and wants a job and is unemployed. In January that person is looking and wants a job and is unemployed. Stats changed but reality didnt.
Yet another investment scam from a lifetime fraudster. Isn't he due to change his last name again?

Hopefully his undeserved Robin-Hood glamour from government-troubles has faded by now.
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The problem is on SendGrid's side, however I doubt they would have paid $10K for it. He was smart to take it to Uber, who is likely (by far) SendGrid's largest customer, and who certainly has much deeper pockets than SendGrid.