skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is quite misleading. The US did support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. The Iran-Contra affair, if you read the article you linked to, was an attempt to free American hostages held by Hezbollah (an Iranian funded group) while also procuring illicit money to pay the Contras. i.e. US sells weapons to Iran, Iran pays US, Hezbollah frees hostages, US pays the money from Iran to Contras. The US never supported Iran the way it supported Iraq; the USG has been pretty anti-Iran every since the Islamic revolution, and specifically the storming of the US embassy in Teheran.
thats tautological and/or no true scotsman, and doesn't directly address his claim
"What a shame you're getting downvoted, simply because you're wrong."

It's not simply because of being wrong. Being wrong is a hazard to your karma, yes, even sometimes just asking questions can be a hazard (which I dislike and do what little I can to fight, but it's still obviously true). But there's a much bigger hazard being invoked here.
Given the .. unusual... plugin module (compile one caddy build per plugin-set x arch combo), I don't see ohw that could possibly translate into proper apt/whatever packages.

If, during the install, it's compiling caddy, that's probably not what people want.

How will it actually work, given plugins are determined at build-time and there's a phenomenally large matrix of plugin X arch combos?
> He literally admitted to a war crime, and nothing happened.

I thought the idea was that you call them terrorists specifically so that they’re not official enemy combatants and the Geneva convention doesn’t apply?
Several apartment buildings by me in Sunnyvale just went up, if you want to pay $2940 for a studio[0].

In my experience, anything in the South Bay or Peninsula (in a decent area) that is managed by a large company (AvalonBay, Alliance, etc.) is going to start in the 2ks and go up a couple hundred each year.

[0]https://www.481mathilda.com/Apartments/module/property_info/...
> There are no natural numbers with infinite digits, so this is not correct.

Exactly. If you allow an infinite number of digits you wind up with the p-adic numbers, which are uncountable just like the reals.
No Linux version is disappointing, especially considering it's an Electron app. Other than global shortcuts, it doesn't seem to offer much over using the web version as a Chrome app with its own launcher and window.
1984 was simply an extrapolation into the future from someone that already saw the story as a later progression of what is or what has been in societies. The powers that be have always 'watched', there have always been class systems (being a Party member or a Prole), and each class is always said to have it better than the rest, although each always wants to be on the other side, thinking it's better.

It's been this way a long time and didn't start with 1984. There's a saying the '1984 is not an instruction manual', but with it's great proliferation amogst all the great works, one has to wonder that it's spread through society can be thought of as an instruction book on how to lead a society into fear and oppression by claiming it is literature.
Start with zero. Add an infinitesimal epsilon an infinite number of times. Now go back to zero and subtract the same epsilon an infinite number of times. You have now traversed all the real numbers.

The decimal representation of the epsilon has an infinite number of zeroes after the decimal point and before the last digit, which is '1'. So if you were to just chop off the leading zero and decimal point to make an equivalence with natural numbers, the epsilon is as much a representation of the natural number 1 as 0.1 or 0.01 or 0.001 or 0.0001 . Infinite real number equivalents to one natural number.
Unfortunately I don't have an iPad to test with. Is it zooming to 480px wide?
Let's take a simple example of deploying Caddy on a digital ocean droplet that you are paying for. The end user in that case is you, not the people who access web pages served by Caddy since they are not receiving a copy of Caddy in the course of using your site.

To tie back to the original comment:

> It is only when you decide to embed it in an on-premises version that you sell to customers (who run it on their infrastructure) does the disclosure requirement kick in.

In that situation, when dealing with an on-premises deployment with another person or organization, the end user is the counterparty. You are required to disclose to them, but they are not required to disclose to users of their web site.

Note: this type of scenario is why AGPL emerged in the first place.
It was run by literal neo-Nazis, I think. Pretty sure the literal Nazis were either put to death, sent to prison, died of old age, or ended up hiding in Argentina somewhere never to be heard from again.
There's also the pipeline angle, which isn't a mainstream narrative, though I haven't noticed anyone trying to debunk it. Article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:

https://www.ecowatch.com/syria-another-pipeline-war-18821805...
As a tech worker with a large family (this house is too small for my family), I believe I am now officially priced out of every moving to SV. And that's with me being quite wealthy; I have about $1MM in equity in my house, and various other investments and retirement savings.
Are those locations occupied exclusively by Al Qaeda? The only evidence you've shown is that the CIA has given arms to rebels in areas where Al Qaeda and its affiliates are known to operate.

I see no evidence that the CIA directly gave weapons to Al-Nusra or other Al-Qaeda affiliates. And zero evidence of any direct funding or support of ISIS as conspiracy theorists and Putin propagandists love to assert.

It's possible that these weapons fell into the hands of Al-Qaeda, but more evidence needs to be presented and it's doubtful that arming Al-Qaeda was ever the original intent.

As for arming the SDF/YPG, that has been well known and public for awhile. Morever, the Kurdish forces are pretty much the only ones actually making significant progress against ISIS and will likely be the ones to free Raqqa. Arming and supporting them is completely justifiable, just as supporting the Iraqi army in their fight against ISIS was and remains justified.
Exploring the Green Canopy in cities around the world
Before we get to Turkey there are other much more outrageous human rights violators.

For example Saudi Arabia, where if you say that you are atheist you are punishable by death and will be. But instead of sanctions, US, UK, France and others do multi-billion arms deals with them.

"In March 2014, the Saudi interior ministry issued a royal decree branding all atheists as terrorists"
Rubbish. The US needs to curb its military, worldwide.
Yes, but that collider can't get to the energy levels needed.
If you spend years taking the risk and building a piece of software; why give it away once it's successful?
To me, this is equivalent to saying there are no scientific questions.
I love Code. It's one of Microsoft's greatest masterpieces.
If experience has taught us nothing (and it hasn't [1]), it's that price controls simply don't work in the long term.

That being said, capital controls are an entirely different beast.

I've seen a variety of property systems in different parts of the world. In Sydney and Melbourne for example, it's hard to work out what anything will cost because the majority of properties are sold at auction. If there's a listed price at all, it doesn't tend to tell you a lot.

I haven't seen the state of Switzerland in more than a decade but from my time there, they seemed to have a pretty reasonable system. It's one that basically discouraged property speculation in that short term sales of property attracted high, even punitive, rates of taxation. This could be close to 100% of the gain if held for under two years.

There's two basic problems with global real estate as I see it right now:

1. Real estate is not a reportable asset under FBAR (the US foreign asset reporting framework to ostensibly clamp down on money laundering). As such, it's becoming pretty clear that real estate in the world's great cities are being used for money laundering; and

2. Real estate is being used to park vast amounts of foreign wealth. This is the case in Vancouver, London, NYC and a host of other places.

Now if a bank takes money there is a lot of requirements placed on the bank, so called KYC (Know Your Customer) frameworks. In most cases this simply isn't the case with real estate. Why not? The true owner is hidden behind an LLC in any high end property sale in NYC.

But (2) is the big one. I'm a firm believer that New York, for example, should be for New Yorkers. Not Russian and Chinese billionaires.

Australia has a regime where property purchases by foreigners need to be passed by the FIRB (Foreign Investment Review Board). This typically means new developments. This is a somewhat flawed system as it means apartment buildings are built for and sold to foreign investors. This is killing inner city living.

In NYC ultra-luxury condos are taxed really low, probably the lowest (as a percent of market value) of any property kind in NYC. The reasons for this are complex and NYC can only do so much to fix it because it's up to New York state to fix it and New York state has a whole bunch of SFH owners who will fight property tax reform tooth and nail.

Property investors in general perform a useful service. Those houses and apartments you rent have to be owned by somebody. Kill that regime and where are people going to live? As an example, before about the 1970s, the UK had a virtually nonexistent private rental market.

So I'm all for:

1. High valued properties taking a bigger share of the tax burden (as a function of property value);

2. Restricting to some degree who can buy property in a city; and

3. Taxing non-working property punitively. By this I mean a property that isn't either occupied (by the owner or a tenant) the majority of the year.

This French system however of forcing someone to take the first offer is ludicrous.

[1]: Reference to https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/2w2hjs/lisa_if...
A quick look at the CIA's Protego: likely a MANPADS missile control system
Are you suggesting that everyone with an 8-5 job works in Sublime Text for at most 4 hours of the day?
Prominent Democrats Are Alleged Pedophiles
You could say that about almost any Petro State, including Saudi Arabia. Libya's tremendous energy reserves plus small urban population made it that much more easy to offer freebies to all the citizens who asked for it.
As a libertarian, do you not see there's a security vulnerability here that's big enough to drive a truck through? You just put all speech under the control of private monopolists you control, and then you're magically allowed to censor whatever you don't like!

;-)
thank you for proving GP point.

EDIT: "CNN says that we are at war with Eastasia. therefore we are at war with Eastasia."
Spotify gives me absolutely zero issues on Linux. What type of issues are you seeing with it?
So basically it seems that houses in France are sold via a slow Dutch auction[1], whereas in the US it's an English auction...

It seems that the English auction goes much faster for the seller, whereas in the french house market, the buyer is the one having a fast process since as soon as they find a good home with a price they like, they can just decide to buy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction
Slippery slope arguments like the one in the article are so tiresome. It's perfectly possible to deny service to Nazis without it snowballing into a problem for the rest of society.
After all, plenty of nations have had anti-Nazi laws on the books for generations, and they continue to function just fine for the 99.9999% of society that doesn't want to murder me for my religion.
No, that's just the media inciting tribalism for profit.

People across the political spectrum are sick and tired of our absurdly expensive and destabilizing foreign wars and international policing.

Republican politicians are escalating the war. We've actually increased the number of lives and dollars being sent to this war since Trump came into office. None of the Republican governing factions are seriously opposed to the Middle Eastern war.

Democrat politicians aren't really trying to stop it either. Obama de-escalated relative to Bush, but there was never a serious push to withdraw. Some of the progressive governing factions are in favor of moving foreign war spending to domestic investments, but I don't really hear the drums beating for ending the war purely for the sake of it.

There's a disgusting discrepancy between voter priorities and politicians.
Ask HN: Does the GMail app snatch embedded links?
I started noticing that every time I click a link, embedded in an email I receive in my GMail app on Android (e.g. http://www.example.com), the browser opens the following link: https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.example.com&source=gmail&st=387456384756&usg=ADFSDRT6.

My questions:

1. Why does Google feel the need to snatch links?

2. Is there any way to prevent the GMail client from doing that? Besides the obvious privacy concerns, it takes longer, and consumes more data to open an email link.

3. Can this be avoided by switching to a different mail app, or are the others equally creepy?

Thanks!
> automatic generation of AUTHORS and ChangeLog files based on git history

I used to think this was a good idea. Then I found a huge loophole in it: if I copy-paste code from another FLOSS project, then that code's author should still be listed, but won't have any commits.

Also, peer-programming.

> version management based on git tags

setuptools-scm already does this for us.

Finally, a big upside of setup.py, is that I can programatically generate information, whereas pbr's cfg file doesn't seem to allow that.

flavors are listed as a big deal, but much like the article says, setuptools already has this, nothing new here.
A New Surprise Airline Fee
Machine learning and neural networks are in vogue because it's easier than ever before to collect data for them to be trained upon and process. Phones are a part of that for sure.
Would like to see everyone who flagged Hope have their own account terminated for violating ToS. But will never happen.
Update: It's called Made of Code.

Here is the screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/JvDEBk7.png

Here is the theme: http://fl-mwhalen-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/Made%20of%20Code.tmTh...
Synthetic a priori = getting epistemological alpha (to speak financese) :)
Have you read or watched what the picbreeder author is actually about? It's not about a greater horizon. It's that you only get "valuable results" by using a heuristic that only looks at the very next steps, and completely ignoring any goals that would lie further ahead. You could say that he's promoting a greedy search with very broad success parameters.

An example: You plan to be a millionaire, and you currently have nothing in the bank. How do you get there? Any plan would most probably not work, if executed in a rigid manner (or we would all look up the recipe on the internet and be millionaires). You end up trying all kinds of jobs, investments, take opportunities when they arise, etc.. and finally you realize that you probably will not ever make it. Or you get lucky and make your million - who knows. Picbreeder showed that it's quite rare to hit the very desired result you wanted.

However, if you were more flexible regarding your goal, at every step, then you might take the job that agrees the most with you, meet a lot of great people, travel if you are able, start a family.. and end up without a million in the bank but with a satisfying life situation. With pic breeder, certain shapes and beautiful pictures emerged that were not intended or planned from the start. The algorithm went along with whatever was there, and optimized on that.

Looking at the millionaire example again - if you already had 500k, then doubling that might not be that hard (?), or not that many steps away. People keep saying that the more money you have, the easier it is to earn - think opportunities like buying an apartment in a firesale and reselling it for 1.5 as much.

For me, it's a very counter intuitive way of looking at things. It goes very deep against the wanting of goals or things in our current society. OTOH, it somehow makes sense that things work this way, because every step in our step-by-step plans is SO dependent on things beyond our control. Agile development methods remind me of this very much: Try telling a customer not familiar with agile that the software she orders might look completely different than she imagines it right now - most will think you are crazy or want to cheat them. But you might recognize problems in every sprint, and adapt the end goal accordingly.
California state law means that commercial real estate is absurdly more profitable than municipalities then residential. Why would you ever approve a permit for an apartment building, when a much more taxable office building could go on a lot? There are dozens of non cooperating municipalities in the area, and none of them have incentive to allow high-density residential development, because it will just increase demand for office buildings in the neighboring municipalities.
Yes, but some people would prefer to have an apartment and save some money, and that would overall create less demand for the available homes.

End result: people who want apartments get them, people who want houses still get them and pay less for them too.
The Stories Behind the Data
The "seemingly" suggests that you remain unconvinced. If you define for example some kind of distance between an arbitrary (x,y) and (0,0), for any (x,y) you can easily count how many points are closer to the origin. There may be ties but it's easy to define a rule to break them. This means you can order all the pairs of integers: (0,0), (1,0), (0,1), (-1,0), (0, -1), (1,1), (1,-1), (-1,-1), (-1,1), (2,0),....
Update: Turns out I bought Sublime in 2012 so I was due to pay the $30 upgrade fee. Gladly! Just completed the process.
What is true Bitcoin and its future potential? [video @ Ecole Leonardo de Vinci]
Sure was up last Thursday. Cached results are being scrubbed from Google. The point I'm attempting to illustrate here is that someone appears to have had a PHP web shell on a force.com endpoint.
what does a "pro ui theme" even mean?
Broken wheels won't stop Curiosity from exploring Mars
I've experienced this, and, per my other comment, I think it's a good example of the sort of thinking that is (analytical) philisophical, in contrast to the sorts of artistic prose m_fayer brought up.
I pay something like $65 a month for unlimited data with AT&T. India isn't a fair comparison, my colleague recently went to visit a team there and was able to get a free SIM card. Like literally a free SIM card with a decent amount of data from an up and coming provider.

How much is $10 a month for someone on an Indian salary?
There is the opportunity cost of transitioning to a different editor/tool. The second the individual got the 10th "Please Register!" dialog they should have just ponied up and factored it into business expense. Instead a few hours were likely wasted scouring the internet for tips and plugins and tools on how to configure Atom.
To put in another way, Russia is trying to defend Assad rather than fighting ISIS. They are going to fight anyone who opposes Assad, whether it's ISIS or the rebels. The reason is their military bases in Syria which Assad has allowed them to operate in exchange for his "safety".
Nothing that went from female to male?
Wasn't hard to find: "and reports that some of the C.I.A.-supplied weapons had ended up in the hands of a rebel group tied to Al Qaeda further sapped political support for the program."

New York Times, Aug 2, 2017
Linux Containers on Windows
Obama Foundation Summit
True; though the life cycles on update seemed much more frequent on Gmail vs ST3.
Looking at the screen shot, I still find it odd that, they use a white background for the file panel on the left. This has the effect of drawing the eye to it, making it the focal point of the window.

That's the least important part of my editor honestly. Would expect it be a lot more low-key.
HAMMER2 Is Looking and Performing Good as the Future DragonFlyBSD File-System
> Bannon is a powerful propagandist who uses deception and fraud.

Care to put some more meat on this statement? Do you think Bannon forced Charlie Rose to interview him? Or that he forced which questions to be asked?

Out of curiosity, which points from Bannon's recent 60 Minutes sit-down, in your view, where inappropriate?

Otherwise, please allow me to say that your statement is too broad and lacks enough specificity to make sense.
If you have a little one that you read these to now, save them, because as they get a little older these are good books for them to read back to you. I have a 5 year old who reads her old board books to me now. They're really good for beginning readers - some more difficult than others of course.
That's a very nice intuition, but for the wrong concept. What you have been describing is the difference between a dense set (almost no holes) and a nowhere-dense set (holes everywhere).

It turns out that there is a nowhere-dense set that is still uncountably infinite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_set
This is a great read. I know the single cluster for all env is something that is sort of popular but it's always made me uncomfortable for the reasons stated in the article but also for handling kube upgrades. I'd like to give upgrades a swing on a staging server ahead of time rather than go straight to prod or building out a cluster to test an upgrade on.

I tend to keep my staging and prod clusters identical, even names of services (no prod-web and stage-web, just web).

I'll set them up in different AWS accounts to clearly separate them and the only difference they have is the DNS name of the cluster and who can access them.

Edit: I suck at italicizing and grammar.
Hanlon's razor, eg Max Headroom[1]. Just a couple smart idiots with enough intelligence to override a network signal (a hell of a feat, from what I've gathered) and enough stupidity to use that to moon thousands of people.

The US is full of militias. All you really need is for one to happen to have a cop/ex-cop and a telecom/electrical guy in the same one, and you get this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_...
Yes they have a new campus and yes Apple is rich but that does not mean their employees are rich. How do you imagine employees "made a killing"? Do you think that Apple just hands out stock grants to everyone? Company stock is an asset like anything else, why would would they just be giving it away?
> it's way faster and more lightweight

Now you've got me wondering why editor speed is actually a thing.
I doubt I would have read this article (through HN) if the submitter hadn't added "Falsifies End User Documents" to the submission title (actual title of the article is "Revealed: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2 Billion on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels"). So I'm glad that technical detail was emphasized, because a lot of this story deals with technicalities. It's not a secret that the Pentagon spends hundreds of millions to fund rebel groups -- as the article points out, they put out press releases and official PowerPoints about it. But what is interesting is the obfuscation of details, such as the special ops "end-user certificate" which is so vaguely worded that it basically implies the Pentagon could transfer weapons to anyone it feels like. "NATO allies and partners" instead of "Republic of Iraq", for instance.

I loved the example of one of the publicly-available arms contracts being altered after reporters sent questions; even in something as big as arms deals and proxy wars, someone in the bureaucracy will fuck up the paperwork: https://www.occrp.org/assets/makingakilling/pentagon-procure...