skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oil is an oversimplification. The US could have just bought all the oil it wanted from Iraq at market prices for less than the cost of going to war, and the Hussein regime would have been happy to sell it at those same prices. So that doesn't really fly as a whole explanation.

The Bush Adm. had its eyes on Iraq pre-9/11. It's mostly forgotten now, but there were Tomahawk cruise missile attacks on Iraq in the summer of 2001. I remember discussing it and even noted in a journal entry that summer that it looked like G.W.B. wanted to go back and finish G.H.W.B.'s job.

It was not as straightforward as just oil. I think that eventually history will settle on it being a more complex set of factors, some of which boiled down to personal animosity by the President, and a feeling that Hussein had been given a free pass by the US in 1991 and was using it to thumb his nose at the West and, in doing so, was in a position to build up power and status within the region on the basis of having "survived" a US-led invasion and deposition attempt. To conservative hawks, his continued existence was a reminder of US failure and impotence, which didn't fit with the US's unipolar, pax Americana / "hyperpower" ambitions at the time. It wasn't a war for territory as much as it was a very public execution (or, politely, "regime change"), pour encourager les autres.

Hussein was a dead man, in retrospect, when G.W.B. got elected; it just took the administration a while to figure out how to get the war they'd wanted from the beginning out of the post-9/11 environment. Absent 9/11, if you look at what was going on during the early months of the G.W. Bush presidency, they would probably have found a way to push Hussein into giving them a casus belli anyway (it's not like Saddam was the most level-headed dictator; given the resources of the entire State Department, one can safely assume the US would have come up with a way of making him overreach, and then grab that overreach to pull him off the cliff and into destruction).

The oil and strategic position of Iraq viz. Iran, Russia, Turkey, etc., certainly helped make the case and pushed aside what might have been probable objections (if we invade, how can we survive an oil boycott, a la 1973?), but saying that it was a "war for oil" as is sometimes claimed doesn't really wash. You don't need to go to war for oil at the price the US goes to war for, you just buy the damn oil. You go to war for things you can't buy with money.
> You should really distinguish between "the US" and "the Trump admin".

Is this a thing that is possible to do? Given that the trump admin is literally the highest office in the US, and it's common for the lower orgs to parrot things from the top, it seems very difficult to make this distinction.
Please just re-read your comment replacing Facebook with either your phone service or email service or USPS. What you said applies to all these three. People are complaining because Facebook gives the perception of connecting people but fails without notifying.
These cups are not usually labeled with serving information. They don't, for example, have how many calories are in them because they can be filled with a variety of different sodas (some zero calorie).

FWIW, from my perception, the 128 oz is very rare, 64 oz is fairly common but a small percent of sales, and 44 oz is very common. (edit: these are for convenience stores like 7-11, not restaurants etc where sizes are much smaller)
Well, if the US had privacy laws with teeth, said organisations would learn quite fast not to commit such "mistakes".

As such, all it takes apparently is a corporate drone to push hard enough and poof go the customer rights.

Food for thought regarding your outrage comment: one does not protect their rights by bending over every time they are taken advantage of.
Shield Studies are opt-out by default

https://github.com/mozilla/normandy/issues/741

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370801

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370799
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There's no goddamned reason why -anything- 'Mr. Robot' should be in the browser.

None.

And choosing to release this before the weekend is.. well, even worse.. because it shows YET ANOTHER PROBLEM: Terrible QC/User Feedback mechanisms.

But hey, "We're Sorry".
You might ask yourself how different this is from the situation in the US. It is different, to be sure. Worse, absolutely. But how much worse?

>A small cabal of crooks lives like kings while the rest of the country suffers a never ending reign of terror

A fairly accurate description of the US

>horrific labor camps

Yes, we have these, but we call them 'prisons' and we have the highest proportion of people in them in the history of humankind.

>total surveillance

Need I say more?

>punishment of whole families

You're right this is horrifying and different from what we do. We do, however, encourage this behavior in our closest allies (Israel) and fund them as they commit these war crimes. Our current president has also explicitly advocated to introduce this technique to the American arsenal, though there's no evidence he's succeeded quite yet.

> The guy in charge is a sicko who executed his uncle with an anti-aircraft gun, and probably had a good laugh throughout the whole thing.

Our guy in charge raped women and laughs about it...

>he previous leader, his father, did such things as kidnap South Korean actors to force them to put on shows for him.

Our previous guy funded a wide scale genocide in Yemen that created hundreds of thousands of terrorists and unilaterally murdered our own people without trial.

>These are deeply deranged people.

On this we agree fully.

>How sure are you that, when that moment comes, the regime won't launch nukes against all of their longtime enemies, just for the hell of it as a parting fuck you to the world?

This is explicitly American military policy. We have the power to kill every human on the entire planet with the press of the button and are gleeful about our willingness to do so. You should be terrified.

As it turns out, nuclear weapons are the only effective insurance policy against aggression from the United States. I am not surprised NK (or any state leader that wishes to not obey every command of the US and simultaneously not be unilaterally murdered/have their country destroyed by the US) wants to acquire, hold, and threaten to use nuclear weapons. Do I want NK to have them? Absolutely not. The idea is terrifying. Do I understand their motives and think them reasonable given their circumstances and experiences? Absolutely.
This email is completely unverified. Apple certainly has its targets on app generators, but not Xamarin, React Native or other similar technologies, that I have seen. The email contains grammatical errors and has not been received by any other developer, that I know of. It is highly likely to be a fake.
Thanks for replying! I agree that the easiest way is probably to rewrite from scratch.

DB Browser is like Excel. That's like seeing a single library playlist with lots of rows with songs on.

I need playlist folders, which is a kind of nested data structure. I can drag-and-drop playlists between playlist folders, and also make Smart Playlists.

Smart Playlists are basically SQL queries. But SQL databases are flat - I can't have tables inside tables.
They were counting on Facebook to bring to them updates from someone that was important to them. Yes, it's their fault for giving away that responsibility in the first place, but it doesn't seem right to say that they weren't friends.
They need to stop pushing messages.
How about vectors or coordinates? This post from a few years ago comes to mind:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-jav...

(Allegedly, a Minecraft update added significant strain on the garbage collector by switching the codebase from using separate variables/parameters for x, y, and z coordinates to using a single “BlockPos” object.)
Half Orange by Fruitvale BART notably comes to mind.
This is very rude. You're telling someone that her (deceased) friend is not really a friend because of the medium they used to communicate.

She knows better than us whether they were friends or not.
This is humorous but really not a useful or appropriate analogy for alocohol consumption. That is more about diabetes than alocoholism.
Or maybe it is its skin, and we’re looking at the equivalent of a dead beached whale. One might imagine the funeral rite of interplanetary life forms would be to send their deceased on a deep space trajectory.
That’s fake news. There’s nothing to discuss here.
Why Ohio health care startups saw a 206% funding increase in 2017
If you could change ONE thing, How would you change Reddit?
Depending on which stats you look at, iOS has around 12-16% of the global market share for smartphones, which is likely too small to invoke antitrust laws (which are there to discourage anti-competitive behaviour from players who are "too big to avoid").
You're talking about the "sale of baby body parts", right?

Scandalous? Yes. Libelous? The NY Times described the practice:

> Companies that obtain [fetal] tissue from clinics and sell it to laboratories exist in a gray zone, legally. Federal law says they cannot profit from the tissue itself, but the law does not specify how much they can charge for processing and shipping.

> ...

> Many [labs] buy the tissue from companies that act as middlemen. Those companies pay small fees, usually $100 or less a specimen, to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, who say they charge only what they need to cover their expenses. The companies then process the tissue and sell it to researchers for higher prices that reflect the processing.

> The fees, which can run to thousands of dollars for a tiny vial of cells, do not break the law, according to Arthur Caplan, the director of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.

> “It appears to be legal, no matter how much you charge,” Dr. Caplan said, adding that there appears to be little or no oversight of the processing fees. “It’s a very gray and musty area as to what you can charge.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/health/fetal-tissue-from-...
> Look: aperrien raped my sister today.

Ugh. This was a nasty flamewar already—the kind of thing this site is not for. Please don't take things even closer to the bottom of the barrel.
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Maybe Mozilla needs to part ways with the people that are pushing for marketing and advertising stunts like this or cliqz and put in charge people that care about open source, privacy and the open web and are also willing to fight for them.

Then it wouldn't matter that everyone was in an airplane, because stupid proposals wouldn't be accepted in the first place.

It would also be nice if the CEO or CTO would chime in, having an official reply by marketing makes it look like marketing is calling the shots.
esr is a loon
That's an extremely limited and dare I say outdated view of what constitutes a friend. One of my best friends I only see irregularly once a year at best, sometimes not for years, yet we always get on great when we see each other. That to me is a great friendship, that you know you'll always get along. I don't think it's your place to decide who someone views as a friend and how their relationship should look like.

OP clearly states he met the person online and they communicate online and that might involve irregular but deep, friendly exchanges and meeting up once in a while. I.e. exactly a kind of communication Facebook is supposed to facilitate, yet it completely failed him here which is absolutely valid to criticize and call out.
No they are a real issue, and that is why Oracle is pouring millions into improving the JVM in this area.

Oracle is not a company that gives money away for free.

Fintech is one of the areas that is slowly moving from C++ into Java and doesn't do it faster because they cannot move all the kind of code they have into Java, hence Oracle efforts.

Or why we are starting to see languages like Pony and Chapel pop up.
or even abandoned "forks" like Ethereum Classic for that matter
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If you mean false, please say false.
You take my original comment incorrectly. I said nothing about how git is designed and how it may be broken. I made no claims about how Perforce may or may not be superior. I made no claim as to how SVN may or may not be superior.

I made exactly one claim:

These git cheatsheets on how to get out of a bad state get a lot of traction on Hacker News. That is a pretty good indicator of something. Let's think about what that is. The fact that you consider it a serious indictment of git should also tell you something.

I'll make another claim now though:

When someone criticizes git, some users sure get defensive about it. That should also tell you something.
> If I was Microsoft I would remedy this by adding first-class support for Java libraries in C# by throwing their support behind existing projects to do so. This might close a gap that could otherwise take decades to fill

Apparently you never heard of J#.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp
But they dont know that. And the stress they experience as a result is potentially damaging to a developing brain.
Electron for a music player? It's like using matlab as a text editor.

Absolutely stupid.
> Price of an electric car powertrain:
$16,000

> Price of a conventional car powertrain:
$6,000

Can anyone provide a better source for this?

This is exactly the opposite of what I expected. I thought electric powertrains had far fewer (in the hundreds, even) moving parts?

Edit: Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. As user analognoise points out, this is literally answered by the sentence that follows the above: How soon that day arrives is almost solely a function of the price of batteries.
That was totally unacceptable abuse of a fellow community member. If you post anything this nasty to HN again we will ban you.

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Or the opportunity cost of what else could the creators of that literate person could be doing with 20 years worth of time spent on that person.
In the U.S. it’s kind of a joke. Bartenders will tease that a typical globe can in fact hold 20oz of wine, almost an entire bottle. You might not think so looking at it. So when you ask for a “half glass”, it’s a joke.

But very few would actually pour 20oz. The globe is designed to be filled only partially, to allow aeration.
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> But being 'on Facebook' should not be a prerequisite for normal social interaction.

Why not? Collectively it's proven to be the easiest way for groups of loosely and moderately connected people to communicate and coordinate socially, so it's what virtually everyone I know uses. We all use Facebook for events and for Facebook Messenger. The set of friends who live within train/car distance who I communicate with via something other than Facebook Messenger numbers around...four? Out of dozens? And it's not because We Don't Use Facebook, it's because we share a Slack and had an IRC channel before that.

By not using it, somebody my age and in my neck of the woods relies on making people who they ostensibly call friends treat them as a special case just to organize beers on a Friday. And it does make that person a special case: why would people use group-SMS anymore when Facebook chats are right there and you don't need to track down phone numbers to include everyone (and deal with sharded SMS threads if people are added, etc.)? The expectation that people special-case your edge-case life decisions has to be balanced against not being a pain in the ass for people you claim are your friends.

So, yes, in many quarters Facebook is a prerequisite for normal social interaction (unless you're That Guy, and it's good life advice to never be That Guy). And, TBH? It works fine. It's nothing special. It works fine. I very rarely see a news feed (I use Social Fixer) so I have no real opinion on the way it does likes/shares/etc.; I did tag some people as "close friends" so when they post it does reliably surface, but I don't remember the last time I even scrolled down the news feed and its existence has no impact on the other features of the platform.

It is just not that big a deal. It's certainly not worth the airs put on--not from you, but the I-don't-even-own-a-TV levels of smarm from people who don't use Facebook makes my eyes roll out of my head and bounce down the stairs--by people who don't use it.
it's interesting that this mind set is so common. i see it in myself too. fear of failure, plus equating success with being as good or better than the equivalent level of your current profession, means that you never end up starting.
i really want to change that : and perhaps it's hubris at its root that need fixing.
Batteries aren't cheap.
Something to keep in mind here: Testing these kids is orders of magnitude cheaper now than it was when they started piling up back in 1984.

This isn't to say that they shouldn't be tested now -- they absolutely should -- but it's less clear that they were wrong to throw the kits into storage at the time. (Especially if they thought for some reason that the case had been resolved without needing to run DNA tests.)
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Open Spending – search, visualise and analyse fiscal data in the public sphere
This is based on Chainer, not raw cuda, meaning its also very flexible for the user
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The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
You sound like an exhausted resource
Show HN: A not too accurate reflection on the lack of fundamentals
I've seen it a lot in entity beans and the early days of hibernate.

Nowadays I only bother with Dapper, MyBatis, using a mix of SQL and stored procedures.

EF only if the RDMS happens to be SQL Server.
This is brilliant given that even Deeplens is around $250, this poor man's set up is a very good DIY kit for anyone who wants to start in this new age of Image processing.
I felt you had a very good point until I went with all my hopes to the cmus page. So it’s *nix only (no supported GUI on other platforms)

And that’s why Plexamp is based on electron, as OSX and Windows support comes basically free.

To be clear I’m not dissing cmus, just that it’s not the same target as Plexamp and each choices make sense.
Owning a Chromebook
Seems it worked as intended during the elections. Next cycle they might have to come up with something else to reel you in.
Would both of you please stop? Nasty tit-for-tats are always off topic here.

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I've noticed that the trend is to change the h1 on the page, but not the <title> element or URL slug. This avoids the major SEO hit of the first-scraped title suddenly going nowhere.

Presumably the search engines consider one url one article, know about the title at time of scrape, and get most of their SEO juice from links to the (unchanging) URL. I can imagine a scenario where the title changing isn't an issue. Especially if you consider the articles being judged by the same standard as eg a blog site homepage, which would presumably have an ever-chanaging series of headings based on which posts were current.
Almost all of that is the battery. Even though batteries are coming down in price, they are still very expensive.

For example GM’s list price for the Bolt battery is $15,734. Now this is the replacement cost Bolt owners pay for a new battery not the actual cost, but it gives an indication of their cost.

https://electrek.co/2017/06/12/gm-bolt-ev-battery-pack-price...
"CARMAKERS’ ANNUAL PROFIT:
$400 billion"

This seems hard to believe.
Revenue, maybe?
Once the whole world has converted to electric cars, perhaps, but in the near future vast quantities of lithium will be needed to increase the number of electric cars.
IOTA – no longer a tangled mess
GoAccess seems like a great tool. Thanks for pointing it out!
Explain in detail all of the minute muscle movements that you make to throw a ball.

Not all things that humans learn are easily articulated or explained, not because those humans aren't articulate, but because they learned actions that are more easily intuited.

Also, on this topic, explainability of machine learning models is a hot field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP7-JtFMLo4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04938 https://github.com/marcotcr/lime
Wannacry had a really obvious and weird kill-switch ( presumably to limit damage ) an un-registered domain[1].

Marcus Hutchins a British security researcher registered this domain.

As the domain offswitch ping was obvious Hutchins was seemingly the only competent researcher who read the source code.

Hutchins, Britain's Saviour of the NHS[2] (Britain's National Health Service) was outed by the British tabloid press that published his home address.

Next Marcus Hutchins was arrested while attending DefCon and is currently awaiting trial in the US on unrelated charges. [3]

Wannacry had spread throughout the NHS and was preventing actual life saving operations, it spread on some Microsoft XP and mostly unpatched 7 systems, from the audit:

"NHS Digital told us that all organisations infected by WannaCry shared
the same vulnerability and could have taken relatively simple action to protect
themselves
.

... NHS Digital told us that the majority of NHS devices infected were
unpatched but on supported Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems. Unsupported
devices (those on XP) were in the minority of identified issues. NHS Digital has also
confirmed that the ransomware spread via the internet, including through the N3
network (the broadband network connecting all NHS sites in England),"[4] NHS Digital Audit

[1] https://whoapi.com/blog/3079/what-is-the-domain-name-that-st...

[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-cyber-att...

[3] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/marcus-hutchi...

[3] https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Investigat...

From a comedic dystopian science fiction perspective this coincides the politics of underfunding the NHS, institutional costs of running Microsoft's patches on vital life-saving equipment, the US intelligence services offensive rather than defensive playbook, and an "unlikely" hero.

Might make a great novel except if ludicrously we are about to live it as a pretext.