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> If you still think of the world as divided into good and evil, then I have to break it to you that you have been played.

People don't know the half of it, and in my experience, they don't want to know. It's comforting to feel like the good guys. The media is complicit, in that it intentionally leaves out relevant facts that might make us look bad.

For example, take Iran. In 1953, we overthrew their democratically-elected government in favor of the opposition, because their citizens didn't want BP to have control of their oil. We bribed politicians, street thugs, and demonstrators; incited deadly riots; bombed houses; etc. BP actually contributed funds to help out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

Or you've probably never heard of Iran Flight 655, where in 1988 a reckless US cruiser drifted into Iranian waters and shot down an Iranian commercial airplane in Iranian airspace. 290 fatalities, including women and children. 8th deadliest disaster in aviation history, nary a peep in the US media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655. But they are the reckless terrorists to watch out for.

And it gets worse, much much worse. Look into our activities in South America, especially Guatemala. Our terrorist activities in Cuba. Our "defense" of Vietnam. Our thinly-justified and roundly-condemned embargoes. (Quite common to see UN votes that are 190-1, everyone vs the US. Or the US and Israel.) We've killed hundreds of thousands, millions of people in many cases. Often explicitly for US business interests.

Honestly, I somewhat doubt a thread like this could make it to the top of HN at a time when most Americans aren't sleeping. Americans don't want to read this stuff.
With the media (and gov't, and everyone else) bombarding non-tech Americans about how dangerous cyberterrorism could be, with the ISIS social media accounts ready to snatch up your children... I'm entirely unsurprised there are many people who would be willing to give up their privacy for "safety."

If only there were a way we could inform Americans that they aren't actually doomed.
Japanese is actually not the best example of "bracket pain" - in order to type in Latin script at all, you need to shift completely away from "native" input, as the various methods for typing kanji and kana tend to be some variant of lookup (via eg pronunciation) - select (like tab completing identifiers).

Thus, it makes a lot of sense to simply switch input modes and maybe even keyboard layouts.

Now, for something as close to English as Norwegian - you have a rather different touch layout due to having 29 letters. This is actually one reason I like python - less gymnastics due to less curly brackets.

Another problem with using ascii, is that now even code comments need to be in English character set in practice. Never mind function names etc.

Utf-8 by default is actually great in the programming languages that support it.

Don't mistake "have been tolerating absurd limitations of C" with "greatly enjoying the backward limitations of ASCII".
A grain shortage, even.
This sounds like work to me. Best to provide an estimate and send them an invoice for this project.

200/hr with minimum billing increment of 2 hours PLUS legal expenses to even understand what the heck it is they want you to sign.

Easily a 4-8 hour gig. $800-1500 is a reasonable price to be paid for such a job.
Just because you posted a few example articles, does not negate the fact that the media fails to provide front-page coverage of such an important issue.
That's fair. It's not that it's gone completely unreported--but often the coverage is uncritical.

The NYTimes in particular, which also played a tremendous role in justifying the Iraq War to the public, has been downright jingoistic in its occasional coverage of drones. Look at this ridiculous results page: https://www.google.com/search?q=nytimes+op+ed+drone+program

But you're ultimately right: some outlets did run some critical coverage.

The Democratic party establishment, otoh... crickets. Even now, two weeks into the Trump presidency.

They seem more worried that he's appointing some incompetent rube to run the EPA than the fact that he just inherited their secret kill list.
Some countries use cluster munition for some of their strikes. The usa last did this in 2009. The opposite of precise...
I've only recently heard of Lenny (late to the party), but think some of the videos I've heard are hilarious.

I know "he's" been around for a while, and runs on a purely manual random delay system, but I wonder if Lenny could be updated with modern technology, to do a bit of rudimentary voice recognition for better interaction with the scam caller?

I know that his existing script is very cleverly generic and timed to work in with most telemarketing scripts, but I think if it was improved just a bit more, we could end up with quite a convincing respondee that would burn up more scammer time, and hopefully make a small dent in the enthusiasm of these con artists...
Ah yes, the 10Ghz CPU. Now if you run 6 cores at 2.5Ghz each[1] is the 15Ghz? By the end of 2001 it was clear that Intel really needed to rethink things. And ever since that time we've had a series of "linear projections" which have come up short (process nodes, power levels, cpu power). Not to say we don't have some pretty awesome toys to play with that can do a lot more than machines of a decade ago could do, but every time someone takes an exponential and extends it out into the future to make a point, I stop and ask "And what if this is the end of this s-curve?" Nature hates an exponential almost as much as she hates vacuums :-)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Xeon-2620-Processor-BX80621E526...
Dialog between two entities is pretty much all there is. If you screw with the dialog, suffering results.
It wouldn't need to be. The application could have different UI/UX models based on the expectations of the user.
Nah, I think AI would be a more suitable candidate.
Show HN: Analyse Redis Cluster Nodes.
I would argue no mmo ever made has ever truly run at 60fps but that's another story I guess :p
I feel sorry for them, but the employment opportunities for lawyers and people in that industry has been decreasing for a long time. That's just silly. The millions of people who now have health insurance are also a very important improvement in society.
FreeOTP, as well.
> Someone would really, really have to have it out for diabetic geeks for this to be plausible.

I disagree. The remote and disconnected nature of this renders it less real than say killing a person with a knife. You don't have to witness first hand the yelling, screaming, pleading, suffering, etc. and finally the moment when a person sublimates from a living, breathing, unique being to a lifeless husk. It's like pushing a button to kill someone...it can be so far away that it's not quite real.

When I was younger, I spent time on 4chan's /b/ and could see some of the more deranged+immature members of the community doing things like this for the lulz or using some half-baked logic rooted in 20th century eugenics. Example A: Individuals like Dylan Roof who don't understand statistics and the context around it (I watched the entirety of his interrogation and he's borderline mentally challenged or autistic)
No, they make sure that what's left as unions is pretty much harmless.
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Had to google translate your little saying there.

There are people - there is a problem, there are no people - no problem

I like the idea.
Syria: Assad complained about that in recent interview with Belgian press. It's also hard to say he's against ISIS. But anyway, he's a dictator and a paranoic who sees terrorists everywhere and can't even fathom that opposition against him may be legitimate, so his permission means nothing really.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/president-al-assad-to-belgian-m...

[I'm not endorsing this website in any way. It just was the first in the google that had a transcript of the interview.]
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The most recent episode of PBS Frontline offers an interesting view on this.

Note that anyone 15 years old or younger living in Iraq today has never even seen a version of their country that isn't an active warzone, and it's only getting worse. The US are seemingly creating new terrorists faster than they are killing existing ones.
I can only think of one contrary example within the last decade -- Libya, where Gaddafi was still in power when we started bombing. It was complicated, and I think in the end it was a poor decision, but I don't think it's fair to consider it wrong or evil.

Looking farther back you find Iraq and Afghanistan on the list with similar disclaimers. In any case, neither was a "lob a few missiles from the stratosphere and peace out" strikes the parent comment implies.

Let me know if I'm forgetting something.
Sure, they throw the issue a bone every once in a while, but was it even within an order of magnitude as the amount of airtime given when Bush was doing the bombing? (you can even look at the amount of stories coming out now, in the two weeks that Trump has been doing what Obama did non-stop for nearly a decade.)

It's a little disingenuous to link to five stories from five different sources over a five year period and claim that the magnitude of the ongoing stories has been fairly captured over the last eight years.
ah, thanks. I missed that.
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Really? The article says something negative about Indian politics therefore it sounds racist? You realize this is a teaser for a book written by an Indian author, right? Indian politicians being more likely to have criminal allegations against them is an easily verifiable claim.

And why do you think The Economist is generally racist? Because they don't shy away from criticizing shitty behavior just because the people doing it happen to be non-White?
It's not exactly a phenomenon that's unique to India. Endemic political corruption on a local level are endemic to developing democracies around the world. Even the US had it at a certain stage of its development. Ties to organized crime were a defining characteristic of big city politics in the 19th century.
> People in India will take money
> if you give it to them, but they
> will vote on identity only

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

> This is because there is no reciprocity

This is the opposite to what published science suggests, and thus needs something stronger than "here's what I think should be the case"
There is also another fundamental limit, the speed of light.

Because of the special relativity theory nothing including electrical current can transmit information faster than the speed of light (c = 3*10^10 cm/s). So if maximum size dimension of your CPU is say 2cm (I'm ignoring that they actually can have multiple smaller cores), then the maximum physically achievable frequency is upper bounded by size/c = 15 GHz.

Although it has not been reached yet, it has the same order of magnitude as the record frequencies achieved by overclockers using liquid nitrogen cooling (something a little below 9 GHz). Also it shows that reducing transistor size and as a consequence overall CPU size increases maximum physically allowed frequency.
> Not everyone wants to optimize their life for living longer.

It would be real nice if they would refrain from optimizing the lives of everyone around them for not living longer as well.
There's also https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/tantalum.html and a great writeup on how it's done: https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/
Damn. The linked article says nothing about Intel claiming 10ghz, and the author is just speculating that, applying a 9x speed increase to Netburst (the same 9x they saw with the P6), 10ghz should be doable. But then the link at the bottom, "FACTS FROM INTEL" specifically mentions 10ghz, presumably from the horse's mouth.
Electronics aren't the only problem for a Venus probe. You also need some way to power the thing. One interesting possibility is that lithium will combust in a carbon dioxide atmosphere, and it is also, conveniently, liquid at Venus surface temperature.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160705-the-toughest-spaces...
> Our "defense" of Vietnam.

And most people only think of Vietnam itself regarding that conflict, yet Cambodia and Laos were absolutely decimated too. The US dropped more tons of bombs on Laos and Cambodia individually than the combined amount dropped by the allied forces in WWII. There are still 80 million unexploded bombs in the Laos countryside. Landmines sold by the US and China to the Lon Nol government and the Khmer Rouge respectively were up until recently killing 1000+ Cambodians a year. If you've seen these places and met the people there, it's hard to imagine.
I'd be more interested in Github commits on weekends vs. weekdays as that is likely to be a better indicator of side projects (due to the "homework factor"). Or maybe Gitlab commits or private Github commits since public Github commits are FLOSS and thus likely to include more side project commits than another data sets.
Could you provide some contemporary examples in Scandinavian or Western Europe of where organized crime has had a blind eye turned to it as a result of using mafia-sponsored "muscle"?
The problem is both. Obviously prime responsibility lies with the decision makers--but that doesn't absolve the many people who are making a lot of money building these systems.

Systems which they know will be used to kill people extrajudicially, invisibly, far from any war zone; people whose deaths will never even be acknowledged.
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> But hey, since 40 years of social democracy has failed, let's keep doubling down and giving people more "free" money.

... you mean the countries with the highest quality-of-life measures? The Scandanavian nations, Canada, Australia, NZ, all of which have vibrant economies, high average wages, and strong middle classes?

The US with their pathological fear of their own government is not what I'd use as a particularly characteristic example of social democracy.
lol, I remember trying to explain those things, during the multi-core console wars.

turns out, flirting with women is more fulfilling than that after all
Fox News and The Daily Mail are sources. Really?

Is there another source, so I can even start to believe that this might be true? Corroboration of the person making the claims?
> The "SmartTV" isn't really smart (nor is anything to be honest). The SmartTV is just a smartphone type hardware built into the TV

By definition, this is what makes it smart. It's not the sophistication of the embedded hardware, it's the connectivity. The Echo Dot isn't anything special (and a bit overpriced IMHO). Wifi, Bluetooth Radio, 3.5mm audio out, decent mic, speakers about as good as free swag portable speakers, etc.
I was living in South East Asia when the USS Vincennes incident took place, and it was widely reported there. But I do remember when I returned to Australia, hardly anybody knew about what had happened. That was my first introduction to 'curated news' by various countries.

Of course, a few years later when the family of the Captain of the Vincennes was targeted in a failed car bomb attack, we heard a bit about this 'terrorist' activity. I thought it interesting that when Western forces eradicate an entire family of a suspected 'terrorist' via anonymous drone strikes, it is considered merely collateral damage, a byproduct of a dutiful and patriotic thing to do, but when Iranian operatives attempt to retaliate against someone who murdered 290 of its citizens in their own airspace, it is an underhanded terrorist activity.
Your salary is irrelevant. What matters is your buying power in the country you live. Plus safety, health, vacation time, racism, culture etc. etc. It is a complex issue. In the same way that choosing a job based on salary only is a big mistake.
> Millionaires fly without
> even seeing border security

For clarity, you're saying that it's possible to arrive in -- for example -- the UK without being subject to immigration or border controls?

If you're merely pointing out that it's possible to receive much speedier service with money, then yes, there are a wealth of commercially available options operated by airports, private and public alike. That's hardly evidence of corruption.
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I am tired of people confusing programming languages and domain specific languages. Sql is not Turing complete.
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Using timestamps and last write wins is a well known and well documented behavior, so you must assume updates can be sometimes applied in a different order than they were submitted. However, reordering updates is not the same as rolling back writes as was in case of Mongo. Cassandra does not promise linearizability in this mode of operation (if not using LWTs), and this is a tradeoff to get better availability. There is no better way than last write wins if you want high availability and partition tolerance and don't want to pay the performance and availability price for a consensus algorithm like Paxos or Raft. And no, vector clocks do not solve this problem in practice at all.

As for the post on HN from a few months ago, I remember only one guy who mixed LWT and non LWT updates and was surprised with lack of linearizability. Not a Cassandra fault if somebody doesn't know what he's doing.
Definitely. Google Home picks up everything perfectly on the level that I'm really surprised the few times it actually fails.
I'd much rather hire an intern that has a solid Haskell background and never used Java before than the other way around. Even as a pure Java shop. Especially as a Java shop that is using Java 8.
>Human augmentation is probably better?

Most of the automation work I do in financial services is a 90% automation. This leaves room for more analytical tasks where people can free up time to drive more business decisions and insights.
The article itself does a terrific job of disabusing this very notion.

ASCII art isn't a problem. I've played a lot of Angband and haven't really ever been bothered by the graphics. Yet Angband frustrates me far less than DF does.

The problem is an illogical and inconsistent interface. Discoverability is next to nil, and the stockpile example in the article is a wonderful example of inconsistency. This seems to be the result of iterative development that adds features while seldom overhauling the UI. I don't know much about DF version history in any kind of detail, but I'd bet that the stockpile UI made some sense when it was initially implemented, and likely much simpler. Maybe it was just toggling back then.

I would hate to see DF get a mouse-based interface, but there are huge gains that could be made with the UI.
Hi om2, this is completely off-topic, but I'm so intrigued that Safari devs are actually chatting openly about their product, I figured what the heck I'd ask something.

A few years ago, I tried my hand at making an HTML5 application using the apple-mobile-web-app-capable, apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style, apple-touch-icon-precomposed META tags and the apple-touch-startup-image LINK tag.

It was so slick how the iPhone put my webapp's icon on the home screen and had a very beautiful startup splash screen as well. It felt very native and I could feel Jobs' influence on the way that presented, especially because it reminded me of his original iPhone reveal where he hinted that one would write apps for the iPhone using HTML5 (this was prior to the appstore.)

Ultimately, I had to give up on offering my webapp as a homepage app because of differing behaviors of my page in application mode versus in Safari.

For one, if the user switched applications and switched away from my html5 application, it would fully unload. Whereas the same web page would only pause/suspend if safari lost focus (I assume this is iff there is enough memory to keep the tab alive/passivated, which is of course reasonable.)

I can't have my webpage unload/reload on focus changes because it's a single-page webapp and keeps a lot of transient state.

Second, if I recall correctly, there was some oddities about the browser chrome that differed between application mode and safari mode whereby you stole some extra screen real-estate in application mode with an opaque bar and I needed that space for my layout. This second issue I think would be already addressed because your devices post iPhone5 have larger screens.

It would be so neat if these limitations were lifted on HTML5 applications and I could offer it to my users! Are there new/recent improvements to the system that you can share with me? Are there any super secret toggles I might add to my meta tags to tell the iPhone to preserve my HTML5 app's context as aggressively as Safari?

Thanks for talking even though people here are dogging on your proposal!
What happens once someone sends you a fake report in order to trick you into harassing a real person with fake calls?
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One reason why the poor stay poor is that they simply don't know how to spend money. Financial literacy doesn't penetrate well into India's rural poor because of the lack of quality education.

Another big problem is the gender inequality prevalent in the nation. This will simply lead to income getting concentrated at the hands of the male head of family. Buying nutritious food (which govt is directly providing as of now) or educating girl child (govt subsidise it as of now) may not be his priorities, not out of malice, but simply because he doesn't know about it.

Superimpose the corruption and caste dynamics, where wealth transfer has to go through a bureaucratic sieve that is dominated by upper caste or privileged Indians. The atrocities we hear from the average govt. office are gruesome because majority of govt employees simply doesn't understand the plight of the poor Indian.

To make an understanding for Indians and others, I will suggest the book "The Feast of Vultures" a book that metes out excellent objective treatment to the state of govt affairs in India. It is penned down by a veteran journalist named Josy Joseph. If we start to appreciate how this huge system that thrive in chaos, you will almost instantaneously pick up why this won't work. I am not going to the objective arguments for UBI even given a perfect system to disburse it. This won't work for India.
> It's a little disingenuous to link to five stories from five different sources over a five year period and claim that the magnitude of the ongoing stories has been fairly captured over the last eight years.

I tried to explain that was a quick Google of resources that most people consider to be "the media". The OP had suggested not "a single member" to which the counter point is, fairly I believe, minimal evidence to the contrary.

To make a claim about relative magnitude would require us to establish "how much is enough" and I do not believe that was the point in question -- as I am unsure how we could ever make such a determination.
Where does it say a programming language has to be turing complete?
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Drone%20str...

Interesting how that became so popular lately.
> remove checks to improve performance

In addition to my other points, the Vulkan validation layers are objectively (and IMHO significantly) better for debugging than OpenGL ever was. It's not just to improve performance. The debugging and development experience is significantly improved.
> I don't need data, I need advice.

And you will get better advice when that advice is data-driven. And you need the data because it's GS's proprietary data. If you're paying for a relationship, all you're really paying for is a smiling human face to read the numbers on the screen to you.