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Every time I bring this up, someone corrects me and says that things aren't the same these days with fiat currency and the way national debt is owed to "ourselves." I don't know enough myself to counter this.
Engineers, and especially the hardware kind, are a limited resource. Not that Apple couldn't spend even more than they currently are on growth, but they're reaching some limits, and until later this year office space is/will be one of them.

This is combined with the fact that the Mac Pro sells in the "low single digit" percentage range of Mac sales means that it's hard to justify an outsized expense. When factoring in R&D costs, my guess is the Mac Pro has much lower margins than other Macs.
Whether the chemical weapon in question is stored in individual mines or steel containers isn't really an issue compared to other factors like where they're stored (above-ground in a building versus a deep bunker, etc.) when they're planning an airstrike for something like this. A conventional Tomahawk carries ~1,000 pounds of high explosive. In the initial 5 seconds, the explosion's temperature can reach above 263 °C to 290 °C.[0] The boiling point for sarin is 147 °C, and it decomposes very quickly at that temperature. If you can penetrate to where it was stored, the odds are very good that sarin (along with most other chemical weapons) will decompose immediately in the explosion, or at the very least, have the process greatly accelerated.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)

1. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/sarin#section=Odor
Right now this post is ~1 hour old and 88 points yet is nowhere to be seen on the front page. Did this post get forcibly removed?
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Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056254
Impersonating a Federal Agent is not a "serious" federal crime. And typically it's only prosecuted when done in relation to another crime. The only crime here is saying mean things about Trump.
Simplified scenario. Bank's liability is the deposit people put in the bank. Bank's asset is its deposited cash. When people deposit money, the bank's liability and asset increase by the same amount.

When the bank lends out a loan of X amount as cash, its asset is deducted with X cash, but it would book the loan as asset as well since the borrower owes the bank X cash. Everything balances out.

When the bank lends out a loan of Y amount as fund in the borrower's account in the bank, the bank's liability increases by Y since Y has been deposited into the customer's account. At the same time, the bank's asset increases by Y since the bank receives the borrowed money under the customer name into its cash pile. Everything balances out.

Afterward when the customer withdraws the borrowed money out of his deposit account, it decreases the liability and asset of the bank at the same time.
In my gut, I feel like the same mindset that caused 2000 and 2007 has come together into one that will cause a bubble greater than both. Why do I think that?

1.) After watching 'Big Short', it made me realize that a lot of what causes a bubble is no one asking difficult questions because nobody wants to be 'that guy' who ruins the party.
2.) If Facebook, Uber, or the Pepsi ad is any indication, there are a lot of talented 'yes men' going along with business-as-usual because of self-interest.
3.) Snap is more alarming to me than Tesla. Tesla succeeding with their long-term vision is a much safer bet than Snap is. I know a 'social media influencer' and he recently told me that a lot of his network is leaving Snap for 'more stable platforms with broader demographics'.
4.) The recovery will be very different from the last 2 because AI, robots, and other forms of disruption will swallow up thousands, if not millions, of jobs. Why would executives and shareholders decrease margins for PR? Uber was affected a little by their recent issues but they are already 'back on track' it seems.

All in all, I am 27 and graduated high school when 2007 happened. I was 10 when the 2000 happened. This is the only world I know, one that works in 8 year cycles. 1992 Bill Clinton was elected with 'it's the economy, stupid'.

We are in for quite a ride because fanaticism, corruption, and climate change are all showing up in unexpected ways too. It will all be okay though, suffering builds character.
Credible? Who wasn't lying?

But you know what, I come to this site for tech and science type things. But a large contingent appear to be bent on using it for a political platform. My opinion is they are badly damaging the site. I've tried to register my opinion on things or talk about topics in what I perceive to be an objective manner only to be trolled, flamed and down-voted into oblivion. At this point I'm not going to bother with anything remotely political. If people want to make another ideology bubble fine. It's just not worth the struggle at this point.
It was on the front page for about 20 minutes before it started sinking rapidly. Perhaps it was reflexively flagged by users for some reason or perhaps the mods buried it intentionally.
Whether it's the fault of RPi or Broadcom is a matter for Broadcom and RPi, not the retailer of the RPi or the end-user.
> That doesn't really sound like they politely asked for it.

How is it impolite? It's a legal request. Legal requests are always objective and to the point. You should argue objective facts and not whine because "its not polite enough"

>No one's making the argument that twitter is some bastion of free speech, but it seems reasonable to respect them for not complying to government strongarm tactics to criminalize their own users. The law is well on twitter's side on this one.

The government has not criminalizing anything. The account is deriving its authority from the fact that owner claims to be federal agent. The law is not on twitter's side. If the government suspects the impersonating of a federal agent they have the right to investigate.

If you say "Trust me I'm a federal agent." the government can ask for your identity. If someone says "trust me I'm a cop" you have the right to ask for their name and badge number.

The difference is that the account is claiming to be a federal agent. If the account were for example just an anonymous reporter who did not claim to be employed by the government, the government could not force twitter to reveal the identity.

>Comparing this to selectively banning trolls from their own business is just a false equivalence.

Twitter is explicitly citing "free speech" as their reason for denying a federal investigation.
Are you sure? There are 62 destroyers that can launch them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer

(among other ships capable of launching them)

Of course they aren't all deployed in the Middle East and won't each have 90 of the missiles ready to go, but 50 doesn't seem like a huge stretch of capabilities.

There are numerous attacks of more than 150 missiles and several thousand available (which I agree doesn't necessarily mean they are all ready for use):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)#United_Stat...
One of my favorite tricks as maintainer for a moderately popular project is asking every user to give themselves credit in the release notes, e.g.,

- Fixed a terrible bug that crashes lots of crashes. By John Smith.

Contributors feel great seeing themselves get credit. New users see all the different contributors listed, giving themselves confidence that the project is well maintained. And finally, contributors are much less likely to forget to update the release notes!
> 1. Called her an ape, echoing a long history of racist comparisons: https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755182965060169728

Not to defend Milo here (it certainly sounds like he deserved to be banned for harassment), but the tweet in this screenshot doesn't seem to be him? It's from "evyarb9000", and from a quick Google search, Milo's username was "Nero". (He must have grabbed that handle pretty early on...)
I can't edit my post now, but the original intent was to point out that Twitter does not have to publish Milo according to my understanding of the USA free speech laws and how they would analogously be applied.

For some reason, it seems like most people interpreted this the other way around.
It's just that it's not worth $4,000 or even $3,000.

The trashcan is cool, despite looking like a trashcan, but way too expensive for what you get.

Something at that price needs to last, and permit upgrades.

For what you get, and what you can do with it, it's not worth more than $1,000.

Many Apple fans buy for status though, and Apple knows this, hence the watch. So, simply having the price tag as an ornament works for some people.
Previous discussion on a post that seems to have been removed from the front page for some reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056254

Edit: removed hash
True, Gnome has had huge development carried out over the last few years. Red Hat / Fedora have been great in terms of contributing to the FOSS community.
I understand the basics of the Shiller PE but what effect does the fact that so many companies are keeping their earnings overseas in Ireland, etc. have on this?

This article says that the top 50 companies have $1.4TT overseas right now.
[http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/14/news/tax-us-companies-offsho...]
Sick burn. However, about ten paragraphs in, and after mentioning Trump serveral times, the article states:

> There is no indication that the White House was aware of the summons, which was signed by a Florida-based supervisor who works in an office that investigates employee corruption, misconduct and mismanagement. The supervisor could not be reached for comment.

So while this supervisor might be serving as a catspaw of the administration (who can say at this point?), this article (and the related discussion) seems to be using it to stir up controversy about Trump, whose only known involvement at present is as one of the subjects `ALT_uscis` tweets about.
You don’t need Shared Workers to benefit from this. I haven’t ever actually used Shared Workers, but as I understand it the normal sort of case for them could be polyfilled without too much difficulty.

Using Web Workers instead of Shared Workers just means that any actual communication beyond the shared memory must be posted via the instantiator of the worker.
Doesn't it bother you that these names showed up in intelligence reports on Russia?
"Lantos was a strong supporter of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. During the run-up to the war, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, of which Lantos was co-chairman, hosted a young Kuwaiti woman identified only as "Nurse Nayirah", who told of horrific abuses by Iraqi soldiers, including the killing of Kuwaiti babies by taking them out of their incubators and leaving them to die on the cold floor of the hospital. These alleged atrocities figured prominently in the rhetoric at the time about Iraqi abuses in Kuwait. The girl's account was later challenged by independent human rights monitors.[30]"

"Nurse Nayirah" later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States."

So basically what just happened with the gas attack and all.
It's far more systematic and normal in developing countries. In the US you wouldn't have to bribe city officials to get a factory built, for instance. I've an acquaintance who is doing just that and construction has stopped because they refused to pay off the right people. Later on, if you do something that the authorities don't like, they take you down for corruption. I don't have a hollywood view of China; I've lived there for some time.
I think the best news out of this is hopefully that it seems you (as Canonical) have shifted away from "This is not a democracy. [...] we are not voting on design decisions." and the (paraphrased) "This is good because we [Canonical] made it!"
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You don't think impersonating a federal agent in order to spread political propaganda is serious?
Is there any way to find out how many 'flags' a submission has or whether it was flagged by the mods? Does anyone know the HN algorithm?
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I thought we were done with turning 90% of HN comments into "is this politics or not" experiments...
I like that quote: competition is good, but replication is a waste. One of the comments below says that Unity was a necessary experiment, and it could have resulted in something amazing. That's very true, and the world has some amazing inventions because somebody wasn't afraid to experiment.
Hypothesis: this is a message to Xi and North Korea. Syria is a consequence-free zone. Unless we depose Assad and commit to nation building, this has limited non-humanitarian consequence. Bonus: decisive action right after McMasters reclaims Bannon's NSC seat.
A Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser usually carry ~26 Tomahawk missiles in their standard loadout. The US Navy has over 3,500 Tomahawks stockpiled. Firing off 59, even in one attack, won't cause an issue.
It could have been a lot worse. How big is our trade deficit annually? What if we couldn't run a trade deficit?
That's a snarky way of saying that WW3 was avoided.
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> I'm still not convinced that the Chemical Weapons where from Assad or the Russians attack and the probability of them actually being in a weapons store the rebels held, to me seems if not equally probable.

I wasn't aware that the rebels controlled fighter jets?

> I also believe Assad would be totally foolish to use Chemical Weapons

This is not the first time Assad uses chemical agents...

I'm honestly quite surprised to see such a display of mental gymnastics being upvoted on HN.
Certainly Putin wouldn't dare to announce "hey I'm going to start a nuclear war, ok?" However, an ICBM launched from a sub in the Atlantic would reach NYC in, well, less time that it would take for the guys watching the early warning radar scopes to get in touch with the President. There would be no hard evidence linking the source of the attack. With Manhattan pulverized, the US thrown into total chaos, what's Trump going to do? A response would bring total war and the destruction of everything. Both Trump and Putin know this. Trump would have to accept the loss of one city. The US would effectively be off the world stage forever. Putin just may risk this in order to stop the US from meddling in his affairs once and for all. Dr. Strangelove, except orders given by the Kremlin.

Anyone find this plausible or should I turn off the computer and go to sleep?
TurboTax has an iPad app. Also, it works fine in a laptop as well.
The IRS also was scrutinizing liberal and Occupy groups. And it was all done at the request of senators. Political groups are not supposed to claim 501c4 nonprofit status. Tea Party and Occupy groups were breaking the law so the IRS started looking into the explosion in political groups claiming non-profit status. Keywords the IRS agents were on the lookout for included "Tea Party", "Patriots", or "9/12 Project", "progressive," "occupy," "Israel," "open source software," "medical marijuana" and "occupied territory advocacy".

Then Congressional Republicans turned it into a successful fake news witch hunt against Obama saying he was abusing his power by targeting conservatives.

Read wikipedia for a mostly objective account https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
Honestly I don't see how it's any different than a prospective employer running a background check on me, which has been a relatively common practice since before google achieved ubiquity.

Do you find that gauche as well?
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>Anonymity is baked into first amendment protections.

Not when you're claiming authority as a federal agent.
Al Jazeera coverage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJtWREOXHA
> Remember, though, Milo wasn't banned for his views.

Or, he was, and the ToS raised as public justification.
Making them accessible from WASM is also likely to happen in the future, as they're perfect for running truly multithreaded C/C++, Rust, etc. code.
The Holy Roman Empire is only so named because Charlemagne managed to get a Pope to crown him the Holy Roman Emperor of the West.

The Roman Empire was so large that at some point they needed two-four emperors to run it (Senior and Junior emperors)

The reason for the name split is probably due to Gibbon who moralised about the decline and fall and tied the fall to the rise of the Church
I'm interested in this too - as a consultant, there are a lot of cool problems that could make solid technical/architectural blog posts, but the issues of exposing client incompetence (real or perceived), or simply mentioning people who don't want to be mentioned keep me from doing it. Sort of a shame. We've solved some fun issues and it'd be great to get some comments on how other folks solved similar ones.

At the end of the day, unless your company is the kind that's desperate for 'thought leadership' style attention, it's not likely you'll get the OK to do much under official auspices.
Well said, they need to do things smarter. But I guess that's what they are doing with this decision. They've determined that Unity has failed as a commercial endeavour, and now they're moving to something different. It just so happens (in my opinion) that moving to Gnome will not only be better for Canonical, but also for the broader community.
I hope somebody at Apple can get it through their heads that a Mac Pro desktop doesn't need to be the thinnest, lightest box full of the most exotic parts with corners engineered to within fractions of a millimeter. It just needs to:

1. Run macOS

2. be fast as hell

3. be quiet

4. be reasonably priced

5. be somewhat expandable on the inside with RAM and disks

6. have a variety of external ports

7. be spec-bumped at least once a year.

Do that and you'll sell units, and more importantly keep devs and creative types happy
Here is extensive discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867739
congratulations. I'm sure you can keep it up.
US forces, or US-backed forces? And was the killing deliberate, or just avoidably collateral?

When judging crimes, intent matters. EDIT: Even if you wish it wasn't.
Look on Promethease wiki and Reddit.
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Here's the official White House video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sVp3yFNEYQ
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Thank you! I wouldnt have made the post if inside I didn't want a coment like yours to keep me pushing forwards. Before the character limit I had in there, "I look forward to being on day 2." I had the sweats all day today so I am excited for tomorrow and the rest of my life, lol.
>There would be no hard evidence linking the source of the attack.

There would be no hard evidence of a submarine launched ICBM pre-impact in the year 2017? I think you can stay up a while longer.
I'm sure they lost a lot of fans with Unity. They lost even more with the Amazon search debacle. But it's almost certain that they won just as many with both of those changes. I don't really like or dislike Unity. I've used it in the past and been happy enough. Ubuntu did lose a lot of my trust with the Amazon search feature though. My grandmother used to say "trust is hard won, and easily lost".
Thank you for sharing this. I am curious, what books on that bundle do you recommend for Python beginner?
I don't think that the problem here is the society that firing people creates, but rather that we don't have a very good definition of performance.

A similar problem occurs when you try to define evolutionary fitness. There are trends and correlates, but we have never found any universal criteria for fitness.
It would have been nice if Britain and France hadnt drawn the Sykes-Picot line. But they did. 2017-Americans can only take actions in 2017.
I agree, this is excellent news. Assad's regime is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians, the torture of children, the setting up of torture chambers in hospital wards, and much, much worse. The blatantly repeated use of chemical agents on non-combatants isn't helping Assad's case either. He is the definition of human scum, and I'm glad to see the US finally step in.
Or it could be a message to Assad to stop using nerve gas. Just a wild guess.
You're proposing a lot of regulation that I'm personally not interested in.

And why is it that Twitter has to carry that regulatory burden? At what point does a company/website become telecom infrastructure?

One of the issues with ISPs and other utilities is that they have been given local monopoly in exchange for regulation, so I would not say they are similar to Twitter. This is also why your statement "you can go to another company, or heck, even start your own, right?" is supposed to cut.

You're also not giving very much credit to the audience you speak of. The audience has always had to ensure their own information sources are good.
Interested to see how the market reacts to Trumps first and very justified use of military force.
We're headed for some kind of correction, but it's not at all clear what form it will take. I've been expecting an interest rate spike for years, but that hasn't happened. If we get one, much activity that's been assuming low interest rates will be disrupted. There will be demands for high inflation to relieve debtors.
I don't know about the US but here is Australia Engineers are consistently rated as one of the most ethical and trusted professions eg. http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/work/2016/05/14/most-trusted...

Most of my ethics course from university focused on US based case studies (Tacoma Bridge, Kansas City walkway collapse, Space Shuttle etc.) So it could be possible Engineers in US have a worse reputation.
As a Syrian-American who voted for Clinton, I am incredibly happy that Trump has shown resolve where Obama failed to.

This may not directly cause the downfall of the abominable Assad regime, but at least it will make Assad think twice before using chemical weapons again. Hopefully, it will be followed by safe zones and arming the Free Syrian Army.
> This is not the first time Assad uses chemical agents...

The situation has changed though. His regime's prospects of surviving are the best they've been since the war started. Why risk upsetting the current situation for such a small gain?
>I wasn't aware that the rebels controlled fighter jets?

They don't and afaik no one is claiming that they do. The Syrian government isn't denying a bombing. They're saying that they bombed using conventional munitions but hit a chemical weapon stockpile.
Or it could be political cover for trump to "show" he is not a Russian puppet.
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"Trump knows this" is a strong statement.
This is the first time I've ever heard about "stolen CPU".

What is this and how do you measure it?
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What are the repercussions for individuals? Loss of jobs? If so, why would higher interest rates hurt the job market?
Do you seriously think that Assad thinks about stuff like that? This guy repeatedly allowed the use of chemical agents on his own civilian population! He is the definition of evil, so using them again is just natural.