skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, by '09 there was clearly no reason. When they originally sold the war they played up Al Qaeda's size, power, and level of infrastructure (specifically in Afghanistan) so, assuming you believed that[1] the original invasion kind of made sense.

[1] personally, my suspicions that the claims that this organization was so huge and capable and dangerous, yet had only just now managed anything so big and had totally failed to achieve any of the more obvious follow-on attacks, smelled a bit of BS (that is, its size and capabilities were being wildly exaggerated) were confirmed when IIRC Rumsfeld went on the news with a diagram of some GI Joe playset-style giant underground base thing that couldn't conceivably have been built in secret due to its scale and equipment, and claimed that Bin Laden had "not one, but several" of these obviously-fantasy supervillain lairs hidden in Afghanistan. That they were clearly lying about the popular war that was an easy sell definitely colored how I received their later pitch on Iraq. Not that it mattered.
Europe is a big place with wildly different educational standards. Just like the US. If you are wanting to move due to the schools then you should be aware that many places in the US have better schools than most places in Europe. It's not cut and dry.
>The side that is working on making sure EVERYBODY wins is the side I'm on. What side are YOU on?

I think this gets at the root of what you're not understanding, so I'll just address this. It doesn't matter what side you're on. It doesn't matter what side I'm on. What matters is that people in general are biased. It is unreasonable to anticipate that they will act otherwise. Do you agree with that?

There are policy choices which must be made by governments in which there is no option which will result in equal benefit to all races. Indeed, there is no definitive way to even measure that which everyone would agree to. Do you agree with that statement?

>Erm, that's horrifying that you care about dominance of your race above all else and so casually support this idea.

Please try to stick to the topic at hand. I haven't expressed any preference one way or the other, and I certainly haven't given you any reason to believe I care about the dominance of my race above all else. If you only read what you want to read rather than what's actually written, you're never going to have a productive conversation.
Agree. Also, see the DW Nominate scores for congress.
https://voteview.com/parties/all

Liberals are at 0.38, and the most extreme they've ever been was 0.39. They have been somewhat more liberal than they were in the 40s, but they've generally been within the same band of scores for the last 100+ years.

Conservatives, on the other hand, are at 0.49, which is the most conservative they've been in the last 200 years. They've basically doubled since the 1970s.

So, objectively, conservatives are more extreme (0.49) than liberals (0.38) today. Also, the most extreme conservatives are more extreme than the most extreme liberals.
I think most parents would say that you have the causality backwards. Children are not taught the "x is for boys and y is for girls". Instead, they figure it out on their own, because they are driven to distinguish themselves along gender lines.
Cool! A variant of C language, makefiles... Now all I need is a tower PC with Windows NT 4.0 on it and I'll be all set!

On another thought... no. I'll stick in 2017 with modern tools and languages.
Dude, I think it is great you have left the army. I offer you another anecdata :

I have an American friend here in Groningen ( NL ) who has been living here for about 30 years now.

In the eighties he was stationed in Germany. Due to the thawing relationship between the US and the USSR a meet and greet between Russian and American soldiers was organised. He discovered they were ordinary guys, not monsters. They talked intelligence : both groups had knowledge about weapon systems of their enemies.

It opened his eyes, he left the army and stayed in our beautiful city.

The cold war too, was just 'a story line'.
I've been taking this the entire time: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BD0RT0/

Its Magnesium Glycinate/Lysinate
For more information about kids socializing and studying in other countries watch Michael Moore's doc "Where to invade next", eye opening.
> Splitting the world into admins and programmers - that is elitist.

That's what you do when recommend people who program in a particular language should learn a new one 'to produce rock-solid tools (which they need!)'. You're calling the bash scripts shoddy, and saying they're incompetently wasting their (and their company's) time.

> It is all about using the right tool for the job, and for complex jobs, a generic programming language with proper libraries is the right tool - far better suited than a shell script gluing together highly specialized tools, which run in separate processes and communicate via ad-hoc text formats rather than proper data structures.

I think your viewpoint is unnecessarily limiting. If that shell script works, takes 15 minutes to write, fails loudly and obviously, can be fixed & deployed in 5 minutes, and generates significant revenue, then it is better than a unit-tested, versioned, documented package.

I have seen too many tools that follow the approach you are recommending that overengineer a solution, take ages to release, and fail in obscure ways because they are trying to replicate a bash script's ability to say, "start this, then run that, then these ones in parallel, then wait for the first thing to finish".
They are experts, we are not.

Here's a scenario: you're an IT guy, not much of a programmer. You need to do some weird data processing on 10,000 MBOX archives and you can't mess it up because there's important corporate data in there, although if you did mess up nobody would probably notice for 5 years. Just because programmers disagree on software architecture doesn't mean you shouldn't have a programmer look at your code before you try to run that Perl script.
> the strategic purpose of invading Afghanistan was to demonstrate to every country that shielding those who commit acts of war against the United States is itself an act of war against the United States

In hindsight (actually, even it seemed even at the time) it was probably better to offer a more mature presentation to the world community about what we knew about Al Qaeda, why we believed some of its associates to be in Afghanistan, etc.

Rumsfeld and Bush didn't across as authors of some thought-out strategy; they seemed like buffoons. Underground fortresses? [0] Watch this drive? [1]

As it is, most of the world now doesn't believe that the US had any idea what it was doing. We also now know that some well-connected Saudis were directly responsible for some of the planning of the attack.

So I don't think that this "strategic value" panned out in the slightest.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhGHxw0mSo

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCm9788Tb5g
Weren't those side channel attacks? IE getting the tor browser to leak info over plain internet when connecting to an onion site so the connection could be correlated?
When I'm choosing a library to use for a personal project, I do put some consideration if I'm likely and would be able to use it at work. If I end up contributing to the library (and I have), it's nice to be able to use the one with my own contributions in it at work as well.
Should `all` also be in `.PHONY` or is it a special case?
Individuals undergoing chemotherapy also don't have their treatment constantly second-guessed by message board trolls.
Not saying it is here but it could be dependent on your country.
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Why does it have to be about "damage?" The poor design of a disorganized resource wastes time and hides value.
TransitFlow: using Python and Processing to visualize regional transit frequency
Sure, but laptops with HDD are a niche case. That's not what your average user wants nor has and for good reason.

Your indexing performance would also sharply decline when subjected to the random access seek times of those 2.5" spinning metal.
I've recently started using Makefiles for this reason, it cut my cache hit on checking if my docker image needs a rebuild based on dependencies from 1.8s to 0.03s. My workflow had me hitting this check probably 20 times/day, so it was a huge time save!

IGNORE_FILES := "Makefile\|.gitignore\|.dockerignore"
DOCKER_CONTEXT := $(shell git ls-files -cmo --exclude-standard \
--exclude-from=.dockerignore \
| grep -v $(IGNORE_FILES))

.PHONY: build
build: .build/docker_image

.build/docker_image: .build $(DOCKER_CONTEXT)
docker build -t $(IMAGE) .
docker images -q $(IMAGE) > $@

.build:
@mkdir -p $@

I'm still figuring this stuff out, so I would love any feedback. :)
I'm not sure that's accurate either. That just says that the people who want to buy [Share|BTC|BCH|Whatever] value it less than those who currently hold it.
The underlying problem with the first, simple, approach is that the template it is using to get things from git,

"<tr> <td>%H</td> <td>%s</td> <tr>"

interpolates values that need to be escaped, but includes literal text that must not be escaped. (My guess is that the author meant "</tr>" for the last element, but the article says "<tr>" so I'm going with that).

The author's approach to deal with that is to mark the places in the template where escaping will be needed, and then make and use an escaping tool that recognizes those marks and just escapes the marked segments.

A simpler approach is to eliminate the underlying problem. For getting the data out of git use a template where the literal text is safe to escape, such as this:

"%H,%s"

The escaping can then be done by a tool that escapes its entire input. That will leave the comma from the template alone, and will not introduce any new commas. The interpolation of %s might have introduced commas, but they will all be after the literal comma from the template. The interpolation of %H will not introduce commas.

The output from the escaper can then be transformed into the final output by replacing the first "," with "</td> <td>", prepending "<tr> <td>", and appending "</td> <tr>". All of these are simple in a shell pipeline using sed.
Even when devices are capable of running some software, I'm wary about it. I've seen enough VR/AR turn phones into a brick of magma.
With regard to Yandex and Baidu: there's the notion of threat proximity. Google is a US company, beholden to US laws. If you reside in the United States, you also reside in the jurisdiction of state actors with the capability to get at you.

If Putin himself showed up to Yandex HQ and demanded a full data dump of every search you made, he is still incapable of touching you, whereas J. Random Agent at the FBI can throw you in a 6x8 steel box.
I think of "Centrists" the non-negotiable principle is cooperation and successful operation of government for the dignity of the most people, and other policy principles have to compete within that framework. As opposed to the Republican and Democratic parties, which have identified no-compromise principles that divide people as effectively as sporting alliances or religions.

Example (of my own, not from any Centrist literature): charging a commensurate fee to pollute a river rather than strictly allowing or outlawing it. The business would prefer to be allowed to pollute for free (Republican Party principle) while the environmentalists would prefer that the pollution not be emitted under any circumstances (Democratic Party principle). But a structure that accurately prices the impacts and externalities of the pollution respects the environmental and health values, and the business can choose the most beneficial option for them: prevention, change of product or process, or just paying the fee.
To say that implies that there's no biological basis for people who feel transgender.

You're thinking of "chromosomal sex".

There's all sorts of other things that can happen that lead to a mismatch between these things.
You sound like you think you're disagreeing with me. But what you're saying is what I was trying to say as well.
I was talking about the question I asked you:

> Could you imagine the point-of-view of someone who did find this helpful?

I felt that your response didn't try to answer it, and thus I thought you cannot imagine such a person & see things from their point-of-view.
I just forgot it.
> ... I hope that we can pilfer it.

Steal and steal alike? No thanks.

> I don't know how they'd get the price and quality without benefiting from industrial espionage.

They engineer their internal economy to keep cheap labor at near starvation levels of subsistence.

> Perhaps something more ideal would be to opensource everything that's been stolen.

Robin Hood arguments are vapid. Stealing is often costly. Hackers aren't free, although the Chinese government does basically quarantine anyone with any chops.

> Now, I'm sure some middle manager would insist that the 'operational knowledge' be documented and stored somewhere that becomes that much more lucrative for a thief.

Actually, all levels of management want information to be there because you don't want to lose enormous sums of money if someone leaves and doesn't document the location of encryption keys before taking a secret job and disappearing into Asia or eastern Europe.
In my area, this is definitely a common feeling. It's not expressed in quite that way, but there's an underlying tone of stress among parents that want the latest buzz for their children, lest they suffer failure later on in their life.

Sadly, those parents are often the ones who eschew quality time with their toddlers. Yes it's tiring after a full day of work. Yes it's demanding. But that's also how as parents we help our little ones develop healthy emotional responses.

Just as with startups, children can suffer from vanity metrics. I'm always impressed when my 3-year old can use a 5-syllable word, but I'm acutely aware that it's a vanity metric. What matters to me are healthy emotional foundations which will help my child cope with all the setbacks that will happen when trying to learn.
Who on earth designs these things! Do they hate kids? Do they hate life? Are they doing this so there will be a plentiful market for antidepressants? Is the goal to program an unmotivated an unimaginative workforce of robots?
I'm not interested in having a meta-conversation about logical fallacies that may or may not be in use in the actual conversation at hand. It's just a big derailment.
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However you feel about go, it's not really a variant of C. The syntax is a bit similar, but there are a lot of fundamental differences.
Wow... that's quite a price tag. For ~$60 USD you can pick up a 1080p camera with quite good quality, nice Sony sensor and hardware H.264 with no mandated cloud connectivity - then hook it to Xeoma, Zone Minder, Blue Iris or similar software and automatically ship the latest motion detection results up to your favorite cloud storage platform or your own server.

I guess I'm probably not the target market for this though, but if you're a tinkerer there are some interesting options. And fun to be had in the firmware reverse engineering department too.
All of those except the screen can be done with Bluetooth.
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Is it me or the article's photos were taken at a weird moment?
I guess it's totally unavoidable, but installing hard power lines (even if it's 12v PoE) for cameras is really a deal-breaker for DIY residential installations in countries with brick and mortar construction techniques.

Anecdotally, I've a Synology NAS and any* IP camera can be hooked up to it, and there are plenty with PoE, etc so what's stopping me having a camera system at home is figuring out how to drill through 60cm thick walls made of three layers of brick, insulation and render without compromising the weather seal of my house... not lack of smart features.

ps. does anyone trust wifi cameras?

(* not quite every camera is supported)
> One question I have is why did you prefer Typescript over flow?

I don't want to start a holy war on this, as it's generally accepted that Flow's type system and inference is superior. I believe TypeScript is a generally better solution despite this, for other reasons. This is just the list I can come up with offhand:

Upsides for TypeScript:

* bigger community

* more definitions (This cannot be overstated; the gap is wide)

* great IDE tooling and support via language service

* great compiler

Downsides for Flow:

* less definitions

* smaller community

* .flowconfig is difficult to get right, and often requires hacks to pass type checking

* dodgy IDE support

* type discovery is more difficult
Ok, it is now off Cloudflare.
Having a bunch of variables is more useful once you get into Auto{make,conf}, where programs like the compiler can be auto-discovered and can be overridden by the user at configure-time.
Intel is litigious when it comes to emulating x86.
Normally I would agree but in this case Dell and Apple appear to be the ultimate backers. I assume Bain was brought in to lead the financing aspects.

(Disclosure: I have zero inside knowledge of this deal)
We once had a contractor who used our printer to print out a letter to a competitor, offering to sell them our source code. Unfortunately, one of our employees visited our printer at the wrong time (for the contractor)...
We are the ones making the iPhone and Pixel more expensive
There seems to be a cycle for trends like these:

"New education alternative available to some children."

"Wealthy suburban parents begin turning to new education alternative."

"Public outcry over lack of education alternative available to middle and lower class children."

"New education alternative now being implemented in public schools."

"Wealthy suburban parents unhappy about options available in public schools, begin looking elsewhere."

...

I am very thankful that my parents ignored any of the hyped trends and just gave us both the most convenient education experience possible. Unfortunately, I think there is a spirit of constant, hand-on meddling that our generation has developed.
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Yeah no problem
Google is close to purchasing HTC assets, reports Bloomberg
Nooooooo... you're right about enums but this codifies the same error I was trying to elucidate with code. Here, let's try this:

enum Booze {
case Wine(region: String)
case Beer
case Whiskey
}

let drink = Booze.Wine(region: "Champagne")

Now.. Anyone want to demonstrate how to use enums for the wine region or, say, whiskey subtypes? Should we use classes?
Did you ever see a historical chart showing the supply of heroin coming out of Afghanistan? It stopped in 2001 but ever since the USA got there it's been growing steadily. Heroin is a huge business with many dark and powerful players.
+1. I'll never buy Google hardware again. 6 weeks ago, my Pixel C tablet bricked itself playing Minecraft: Pocket Edition (my guess is that the heat corrupted some of the flash memory). Google agreed to replace it under warranty, but they didn't manage to address the package correctly (they forgot to include some details, like the street, city, zipcode, and state (according to FedEx)).

What followed was 4 weeks of calls to Google support. Each time they promised they would reach out to the "shipping partner" and get it sorted. I was also receiving emails threatening to charge me the full cost of the replacement device because I hadn't sent in the broken tablet yet.

Eventually the package got delivered... back to the Google warehouse. Google wasn't aware of this until I called them up - their system assumed it had been delivered to my house. Another promise to fix the situation - and this time they managed to actually get a package to my house. Only it was a Pixel C Keyboard, not a tablet.

Another call, another promise. It's been over a week now and the latest package has not yet been shipped, it's stuck in the order confirmed state.

So, 6 weeks later, still no replacement. Luckily the tablet is mostly for entertainment, I personally plan to never rely on Google for anything important like making a living.
To answer you directly: It appears the author just forgot to include it.
Sure. It's like driving to to the gym to run on a treadmill. But I'm not sure that other people doing something for themselves for their own reasons needs to be corrected because you or I would find it suboptimal for ourselves. If the person wants the thing, let them do the thing. What are we, the thing police?
I had a similar experience, except in the Army "Reserves", in Iraq, and asking my "stupid" question to our Major instead of a Lt. Col. My rank didn't survive the deployment, as I was attached to another unit at the time and asking questions put me high on his shit list. I guess I was lucky my home unit was kind enough to return the stripes before my inglorious departure a few after that deployment.

You are 100% right that folks who don't toe the line, don't make much past E4, although there are a few older NCO's who still maintain their integrity, and take care of their troops.

I don't know if there is such a thing as a "just" war, but I do know we were not fighting one, and the military we have today is an overpriced facade of what it claims to be.
Keepers of the Secrets
I just took it off Cloudflare and switched to Letsencrypt. No biggie, I'm glad Cloudflare is proactive and flags things as phishing that fast.
What is considered "better" varies from person to person. I know personally, I'm deeply worried about whether or not my children will have a better life than me. I don't know of anyone my age(23) that actually has any close friends. The companies I work for don't even pretend to be loyal to me or anyone else at my income bracket. An unexpected illness could bankrupt me and my wife. Testosterone levels for men are significantly lower now than then, which sure affects a man's quality of life.

People today may have more things, and may be more healthy, but that doesn't mean their quality of life is greater unless they're part of the upper middle/upper class, and even then, it's often very stressful.
Doesn't AirPlay work already on current iPhones? And Intel announced they'll be dropping thunderbolt's licensing fees making it free to implement on anything starting 2018.
do some of you realize that 95%+ of people _don't_, and they are the customers that Apple is targeting?
I think a lot of transgender people would describe themselves that way.

It is not uncommon to hear of transmen who talk about always knowing they were male and were really confused when their penis didn't grow at puberty.

The point is the parts you're born with don't match how you feel. Just because the exact cause can be identified in this case doesn't make it invalid for others. If you had one of these kids at age 8 insisting they were a boy, but they still had a vagina... they'd be as trans as any trans man.

There is a biological basis for the feelings trans people feel.
I didn't mean to imply that shows got delisted at the sole discretion of Netflix. I understand that it's a complex decision with multiple stakeholders, and would even like to think that Netflix benefits the most from NOT delisting shows (i.e. they are on "my" side).

I was merely trying to point out that whoever decides what gets delisted (in this case for the sake of simplicity I said Netflix), has control over what I will be able to watch instead of me.