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Subs aren't made for first strikes. The point of them is to hide and launch their nukes to enforce the MAD doctrine. the important parts of the oceans near the US and Russia are guarded quite well even according to publicly available information.

I can't really predict or imagine what would happen in the event NYC was hit with a nuclear missile, but my gut says we'll be back to sticks and stones, regardless of who launched it. A bomb could be blamed on terrorists. Not an ICBM.
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> Don't we have the numbers (and quite frankly the money) to solve this issue at the root?

With the amount of people on this site who come from tech and entrepreneurial backgrounds, I bet we could fix this issue 10-fold
I'm pretty sure their decision to drop Unity was already done (internally) even before Dustin started the suggestions thread. So this conclusion isn't necessarily accurate.
"Stop being so arrogant! You need people!", that would be one thing I would tell my past self, right after I smacked him upside the head.

Be humble, trust win, trust lose, trust again. Adapt to the market, don't think it'll adapt to you!

Also, the real meaning of life is to find your creator, not make millions of dollars. When they bury your sad fat rear end in the ground, all you've made goes to someone else. The afterlife is a part of life. Read Acts 2:38.
I would drop it in a heartbeat if I could. Dealing with servers it's not solving a problem I have, and just introducing the strangest behaviour along the way.
And we're supposed to believe the claims of a government that has used chemical agents on civilians multiple times? Have you heard of 'the boy who cried wolf'?
I'm not familiar with the issue, were other developers not able to do a hard fork of the code base and continue without her?
Any anti-Trump thread gets flagged these days.
Just want to chime in with others and say thank you for making this followup post. Regardless of the outcome, distilling the results the way you did means a lot to me and I'm sure others as well. Thanks!
I started to post a detailed 6-part how-to guide on Linkedin. The topic was using pyvmomi, Redis, vROPS API, and Pandas to collect VMware capacity data for intelligent VM placement. My company asked me to take it down halfway through. It shook me up pretty bad for a couple days, even though I halfway expected it.

It contained no data specific to the customer but they said they were worried someone might get the wrong idea. They're not allowed to even disclose who their customer is per their contract.

They said I could post it on a tech blog but just not there. I thought about posting it here but I don't know what to do since I don't have much of a social media presence. All my techie friends are on LinkedIn.
I don't think it's fair to say "no matter who got elected". There are minor political parties that are all about non-interventionism. "no matter who got elected out of the major parties" is more accurate.
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Wait so what happens if I get in the Uber and ask them to take me somewhere else entirely?
I agree completely that experimentation needs to occur. I definitely don't begrudge them for making the decision to implement Unity.

My initial thoughts were more hypothetical - and I definitely wouldn't suggest that Gnome is the best software/DE around!

If we take Linux Mint for example - they've gone out on their own with custom/forked versions of simple things like XEd, XPlayer, XReader. That isn't experimentation, it's just a difference of product development philosophy. I'm not saying we should all be clones and all use the same software, but at what point do we say "ok, there are 57 text editors out there, let's work with one of them to improve that feature set rather than go out on our own with the 58th editor". Surely the hours of development going in to these "X" apps would be better spent contributing back to something that everybody can use and is already using.

I think for me it all comes back to a deeper philosophical and moral issue - why can't we all just get along and work together on shared solutions.

I feel like this is a relevant quote: "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
> failure to comply with this summons will render you liable to proceedings in a U.S. District Court to enforce compliance with this summons as well as other sanctions.

It's not a request if you're threatening legal consequences, is it?
I'm not "whining that it's not polite enough", it's clearly not a request at all but instead a strongarm tactic by an overreaching government agency.

> Twitter is explicitly citing "free speech" as their reason for denying a federal investigation.

Free speech != businesses can't censor whatever the hell they want from their own user created content. It's surprising to me how often people don't understand this. The comparison is absolutely a false equivalence in this case.

> If you stand up 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.

Yes, if you're doing something illegal - speaking out against government policy is not, hence Twitter's free speech argument.
For the bits described in https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02527 you're essentially correct. Though it's still stochastic, and you can have mini-batching on each node.

The interesting technical bits are in https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05492

To save on update bandwidth, they either restrict the gradient to a lower dimensional space, or compress by quantizing the full gradient (which should effectively add zero-mean noise) before sending it back. (In theory they could do both of these, but they didn't actually test that.)
This is huge. You have no idea yet how huge. Just shoot for tomorrow. Midnight to midnight, no pot. You can do that.
China would have been thrown into chaos in that case.
Yes, that is likely the reason for the downvotes.

For reference, source text from https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755218642674020352

"Replying to @PetriJonathan @whitebecky1776
bitch I want to tell you about your self but I'm gonna let everybody else do it I'm gonna retweet your hate!! Get her!!"

Inarguably inciting harassment.

The last couple of years have been a disaster in terms of brigading and willful ignorance of evidence that does not fit the narrative of the commentator. Rational views are easily drowned out online, becoming a signal vs noise issue.

I see this on a daily basis, on all aspects of the politial spectrum. Bigger issue than fake news in my opinion.
I think you're going to have a serious marketing and UX problem if this is going to be adapted to the general public.

People already get alarmed if their urine is a few shades darker than usual, then scramble to WebMD (what a terrible service) to find out which flavor of cancer they've acquired.

Hyperbole, but I think my point is clear. The instant shock of seeing bright green in the bowl is more than enough to hinder widespread adoption.

Perhaps it could be useful as an as-needed test, administrated by doctors in-lieu of blood tests?
"Scuttlebutt was created by Dominic Tarr, a Node.js developer with more than 600 modules published on npm, who lives on a self-steering sailboat in New Zealand."

That's roughly the level of paranoia I want now
YES. I had those same mental images looking at the weird front clip. I get that a grille is not necessary, but the body panels creases are designed as if there should be one, and they then decided to leave a blank expanse there instead. It’s one of the ugliest front ends I’ve ever seen.

I’m not saying that a grille is necessary. Just that if you aren’t going to put one there, then don’t demarcate a space for it.
A few things.

* Don't necessarily trust, without thorough vetting, those who made money extremely quickly and claim to truly understand business. Being successful at business and understanding business can and often are very different achievements.

* You can entirely do it on your own, you don't need anyone else. [1]

* You cannot entirely do it on your own, you need a partner. [1]

* Maybe my greatest business insight: the longer it takes to find revenue to less likely you will be to find revenue or profitability.

[1] These are not mutually exclusive. For me, I needed to realize that I did not have to be trapped by a partner. And I also needed to realize I should not be trapped by doing things by myself. Picking the right partner is essential whether in business or just in life. I have been lucky to find them in both cases.
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It's ok to set impossible goals as long as you get going in that direction....like walking toward the horizon, you can always see farther the more you walk.
1929 was not so bad as a recession. We had plenty of those. 1929 was bad in term of how it was handled to exacerbate the problem. The Fed back then drained liquidity out of the economy as a policy. Since then we have learned the lesson. Witness how the Fed handled the 2008 recession by pumping massive liquidity into the economy with QE, which was unheard of before.
I don't think they necessarily have to be powerful as much as they have to have the means. At present, two countries off the top of my head that do are Saudi Arabia and Israel. The latter has enjoyed a direct diplomatic line to the US president (no matter who), but I'm not sure what they'd gain. The former has gifted candidates on both sides of the isle with various odds and ends for years, and in spite of their own local economic problems, they have a keen interest in US politics as well. They might stand to gain more in the short term, but it seems like an unnecessary long term gamble.

There's a conspiracy that's been floated for a few years and is resurfacing that the Saudis and Qataris have been pushing for a pipeline from Qatar to Turkey via Syria, and Assad has been a thorn in their side preventing diplomatic means to get it done. But there's also sound arguments against this [1], although the source I found suggests that this is directly tied to US access to bases in the area (possible) and thus aligning with SA, Qatar, and Turkey (perhaps in opposition to Russia/Iran/Syria). I'm not sure anyone really knows what's going on at this point. If I had to guess, it probably ties into everything from oil to archaic alliances dating to the Cold War and even military expenditures.

The Israelis may have a part to play in all this, too, but in my mind, I don't see what benefit they'd gain by continuing to destabilize the entire region. Then again, I guess you could argue the same point for every other actor, and perhaps there's an advantage behind encouraging your adversaries to go for each others' throats every few years (dangerous!).

Another protracted war in the Mideast is the last thing we need... sigh.

(Note: I'm just speculating here based on what I've read over the years and my own opinions and biases. This is probably entirely wrong.)

[1] http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37685-the-war-against-the...
But how many are actually there today? The fleet must keep in reserve enough missiles to address more pressing issues. Take the 60 missiles to take out a single airport. They probably want to keep twice that many in case they want to strike another airport, perhaps a Russian base. So 60 empty tubes, plus 120 ready to attack another base. Then how many do they need to take out all the air defences should a wider air war start? And then all the deep targets that they wouldn't want to risk manned aircraft to reach during the first wave. Say there are 5 ships x 50 missiles, that's only 250 to spread across all those missions.

I;m interested in how many ships actually fired. Whether one ship fires all/most of them, or whether the tasking was spread amongst the fleet, speaks to the potential timeline. If it all came from one ship, and that ship is now racing back to port to rearm, that says to me that they expect to do this again sooner rather than later as that would get the fleet back to full capacity more quickly than waiting for many ships to rotate out.
> Thinking he had solid proof of this, and not being politically savvy, my father presented his evidence to the other faculty who had been on the hiring committee.

A few years ago, I could have used some advice from someone who is more politically savvy.

I received a tip a while ago that a then-sitting member of the United States Congress did not possess a degree listed on his website on congress.gov (and repeated elsewhere). I looked into it, and sure enough, I do not believe he received the degree in question. The congressman was not incredibly famous, but would make the news now and then. He is no longer in office.

What was the correct course of action, if I wish(ed) to stay anonymous? Tip off a reporter? Post on reddit?
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It looks like this got hit with the HN effect. Does anybody have a mirror?
I'm not well verse in economy but I believe much of what US is today is built on being the global dependency. It's like the JQuery of everyone's economy: too big to fail.

After Trump inarguration, the world got a shock at what a hell of a dependency they got themselves into (bigger shock than 2008). It's like the leftpad fiasco all over again. Any sane politician would by now understand the need to reduce dependency on America. Everyone else are planning a Dodd Frank fix for their economy.

US will really suffer a crisis if the world stop depending on it, if they can afford to ignore America. After TPP was canned, and Trump protectionism approach, that dependency is surely weaken.

If you think about it, China is not even trying to complain about US anymore. That's because they got what they wanted.

But US had a nuclear arsenal, its better for the world if we had this dependency. Trade and economy have kept peace for so long, I hope I don't see an end to this peace.
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There's a recent book by Ober, _The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece_, pointing out that the pre-Roman Greek world had per-capita income that high. I think a better question is why did that culture not keep advancing, and maybe the biggest part of the answer is that they got conquered by Rome.
What's the warning supposed to be? "Don't do anything while we're bogged down in the middle east for another decade"?
Their papers mentioned in the article:

Federated Learning: Strategies for Improving Communication Efficiency (2016)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05492

Federated Optimization: Distributed Machine Learning for On-Device Intelligence (2016)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02527

Communication-Efficient Learning of Deep Networks from Decentralized Data (2017)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629

Practical Secure Aggregation for Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (2017)
http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/281
Doesn't HN automatically flag/throttle articles if its heuristics detect a possible flamewar or potentially hot button issue? I might be misremembering this.
So? Most iPhones are patched already, or soon will be.
It can't, due to licensing incompatibility.

ZFS is not compatible with the GPL. Canonical is treading a risky path with what they're doing.

I would love ZFS to be native on Linux, BTFS has had too many scary data loss bugs to be able to trust it.
All true. We're all free to install any DE environment we want. But defaults are definitely useful to the entry level Linux users. I would love to see the day when the first (and easiest) choice for Joe Dad and Mary Mum setting up a computer for themselves and their kids is Linux with an easy to use DE instead of Win10/MacOS, with defaults that include LibreOffice instead of Pages/Office365, Firefox instead of Safari/Edge, and more.

Yes, many distros offer this out of the box right now, but it's not at the forefront of Joe-average's mind, because it's still not easy enough.

I just think that if there was less fragmentation (see my Linux Mint XEd example above), we could make much faster progress toward a FOSS world for the average user. Note, I'm talking about less fragmentation - not zero fragmentation.
I'm not sure how overseas earnings are treated. Would be interested to know.
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it's not theft. The driver contract says you get paid back for the time and mileage that you incur, NOT "whatever the customer gets paid". Besides, if the trip goes over the amount that the customer pays (beacause, say, for traffic, or an unmarked road closure) then uber pays out the full amount to the driver for the actual time/mileage incurred.

let's say that Uber posted really unreasonably fast times for the given route instead. Would you then argue that uber could systematically pay the drivers a lower rate, because that's the fare they pitched to the passenger?
Yeah, nothing says "claiming authority" like explicitly calling yourself "Alt". /s
post author here, this is good perspective, thanks.

* The "<++=" operators are much-maligned but I've seen them ~0 times in 6 months; I may have come in to SBT-land just as they were being finally phased out, I think I did see them in the beginning a bit.

* Agreed that the recursiveness of the build is presented somewhat confusingly and navel-gazingly!

* Speed-wise, I imagine you're talking about reloading projects, either in the SBT CLI or IntelliJ? That's pretty fair, I've had to adjust my IJ workflow a bit to not trigger full-project-refreshes as often (e.g. disabling auto-import). If you're talking about e.g. compilation or other tasks being slow, I'd be surprised and interested to hear more, though.

* re: SBT plugins being stuck on 2.10, I was also a bit daunted to read that early on, but at this point I've written several SBT plugins and it's basically never been an issue or introduced any friction; curious to hear if it's caused problems for you.

* Agreed that there is a steep learning curve and some payoff that reasonable people may value differently, and also to not write a build system :)
Thank you! I love it, "midnight to midnight." I know it will get easier. Today, honestly, that seems impossible, but tomorrow I WILL have my second day in a row for the first time in 11 years... and I will look to your comment for motivation. I like that I have no idea how huge it is, because thats what I believe deep down.
This is literally all I want. I'll even buy what will undoubtedly be an overpriced 8k monitor that they'll be selling along with it, instead of a new iMac.

I do not care what the box looks like.
Two years ago was a bad bet, based on market momentum. Winter 2016 was a good bet based on market momentum. Then the election happened and the market inexplicably took off.

Yeah, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I actually don't support this behind closed door meeting with reporters. Steve always ran things incredibly tight lipped, no need for transparency that's part of the Apple experience. This is a leadership error in my eyes and seems like a decision made by community.
Seriously. How long before we have these reviews all over Amazon?
Are we supposed to believe the same guys that came up with the ginned up tale that got us into Iraq?
I don't think so. His shares likely have a basis of essentially $0, so he'll pay less taxes on the sale, but only because he's making less money. There's almost never a reason to turn down real income/growth to save a (less than 100%) percentage of that on taxes.
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I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I'm surprised and glad that Apple has broken their vow of silence on ever talking about future products or plans. On the other hand, it's pretty clear from their talk that they are just now starting development on a new Mac Pro, and they're saying "not coming this year" makes it seem like they don't even want to commit to 2018.

They let the Mac Pro sit there for over 1200 days without a single update or price drop. It's hard to think that they weren't planning on just killing it. And they're apparently surprised that developers are buying non touch bar macbooks, which considering how many developers use vim just seems weird. It seems like it took a big outcry and actual sales numbers to make them realize their pro segment isn't happy, and considering you can't develop for iOS or in many cases macOS unless you own a mac, I just don't feel reassured.
There's reports of 2 destroyers [1]: USS Porter and USS Ross.

[1] https://news.usni.org/2017/04/06/breaking-u-s-destroyers-fir...
It's not Assad using chemical weapons, it's the US backed groups. They launch a gas attack on civilians, blame it on Assad, and it gives them a 'credible' reason to keep trying to oust Assad for the formation of 'Greater Israel'.
This reads like Donald Trump propaganda. "The mac is doing really well. We're proud of..."

I guess this is the only USA made Apple product. Not really surprised they can't execute.

"One of the interesting things through all this has been the feedback on MacOS. It’s been so positive. "
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Perhaps, but if you look at the comments from the original submission, there is little evidence of a flame war brewing.
Points to Ulanoff for referencing the "courage" meme to Phil Schiller's face.
On the Accidental Tech Podcast from the other day it was hinted they heard rumors that Apple engineers did try and do some spec bumps, but they kept running into thermal problems no matter what they tried.

I guess they were really really close to the edge with that design, and Marco said he's heard those GPUs are failing from heat issues fairly often.
You really think that Russia could nuke NYC and it wouldn't invite a retaliation? It's trivially easy to identify it as Russia - the only other countries that could do it are Britain & France (our allies) and China (who has no motive as of yet, and can just barely reach NYC with land-based ICBMs). There's no way that Trump is would let a nuclear attack on a U.S. city go unpunished, and so his very next step would be to nuke Moscow. From there, the countries have a showdown: either they continue retaliating and that's the end of life on earth as we know it, or they let it stop at one city and both countries have their most populous city reduced to rubble.

Both countries know this, which is why neither Trump or Putin are going to launch the missiles.
No, but obviously minimize it. Don't manufacture reasons to fire, like the stacking scheme does.
Yes...this is the same blueprint on Iraq 2, Libya and now Syria.
With Syria they got even better by using social media. Example is the 7 year old who writes better twitter post than many native English speakers. She writes very touching yet concise and to the point twitter posts [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/world/middleeast/aleppo-t...
...because they wouldn't have had dollars to buy oil. What if they didn't need dollars and could use local currency?
I like some weird looking cars, but this thing is just an ugly sedan