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> Israel has enormous influence over the whole of congress.

No, Israel has enormous support by Americans so it gets a lot of support by Congress. No surprises there, that is how a democracy should function.

> The US give Israel billions of dollars in foreign aid every year.

Because they are a democratic ally with a stable government in a highly volatile region. Of course, there can be legitimate debate if that level of funding is a good idea, but it is entirely within reason. Additionally, much of the funding was in exchange for repeated concessions from Israel in peace talks which were always rebuffed and rejected by Palestinian leadership.

> Allows them to disgregard UN resolutions and prevents the recognition of Palestine.

...by which they are uniquely singled out and targeted by countries with tremendous human rights violations such as Syria, Iran, etc.

> Israel has nuclear weapons and is outside the Non proliferation treaty and yet the US goes crazy about other countries that try to get weapons.

Because Israel is a stable democracy under existential threat by it's neighbors, as opposed to, say, Iran or North Korea which are destabilizers.

> Meanwhile AIPAC isn't even registered as something foreign.

Because it isn't. AIPAC is made up of and supported by American citizens. And this is where these arguments begin to take an undertone of antisemitism. The assumption that AIPAC is a foreign organization implies that it's members (primarily Jews) are foreign by virtue of being Jewish.

> Now even Jerusalem is recognized as the capital of Israel, by one country in the whole world.

Because it is their capital. America recognizes Seoul as capital of South Korea and Pyongyang as capital of North Korea, does it not?
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Thought the same, just watched it the other day.

Anyway:

Why are all these interesting news hidden from HN frontpage?? It's a pretty big news that the biggest airport went offline incl all power incl all lights for 11h and caused hundreds of flights got canceled and people stranded in unlit terminals in the week before Christmas.

More than 5 other news from the last 24h should also be on the HN frontpage according to the voting count and comment count, but are missing too. It's a shame that info is oppressed from other users. This in transparency is disgusting.
First of all, you are arguing against a straw man. I never said "climate change wouldn't be bad". I said it wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as a full nuclear war. You can't even compare the two.

Anyway I'm sick of this meme that we should care about everything that happens to the third world. Look at Africa. Their population is growing exponentially. It's already far above of any reasonably sustainable size. And their economy is actually deindustrializing. They are going to suffer no matter what happens. Climate change is the least of their problems. And there is nothing we can do the help them.
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Most languages with first-class support for Unicode strings do. But usually they don't let you define custom operators.

Haskell has this feature. While it is easily abused, it lets you write functions like:

a ∈ [] = False
a ∈ (x:xs) = a == x || a ∈ xs

(some might consider this abuse)
An ORM is both a more native way to represent data rows in the application and a convenient wrapper to automate much of dealing with SQL and result sets. But only a fool would wish to see an ORM as an object-based abstraction over SQL.

Dynamic languages such as Lisp and Python can often make-do without a specific ORM layer because it's easy to stash data into lists and dictionaries. If you can read rows from your result set into a list, make dicts or structs out of each row, and pass around that list or its entries to various functions you've just implicitly implemented a LRM: lispy relational mapping. But sometimes it just fits to create objects out of rows.

Simple wrappers will do for an ORM: the best kind always make it clear that you're just using a machinery to operate an SQL database instead of updating an object and then "saving" it back to disk in the end.
And the enemy of your friend is your enemy. And when you're big and powerful, some friends might be using you just for that.
I wonder why Git, CircleCI, test runners, and IDEs all have that “reject stored procedure code” logic built into them...

> doesn't benefit from the investments around maintaining source code, e.g. development environments, source control, CI, static analysis & compiler feedback, fast unit testing, REPLs, etc.
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> OK, this story has a definite "urban legend" ring to it. Mythbusters wouldn't have tested it with a real dog, I guess.

It would be easy enough to test without involving a dog. They've done plenty of electric-shock myths with ballistic gel dummies.
Cool, really enjoyable to play around with. This made me notice a cute (probably trivial) phenomenon that I haven't seen before. If you take x^n+...+1 and move one of the roots to 1 (equivalently, divide x^(n+1)-1 by (x-z) where z is some nth root of unity), then the resulting polynomial's coefficients seem to be the nth roots of unity.

By the way, it doesn't seem to prevent you from entering a degree higher than 7 if you enter the number manually even though it gives off a warning. Not sure if this is intentional.
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I think Narwals are the ones responsible for the IOTA white paper.
Wow, I've never met a developer that didn't know SQL.

Even 1 year "learn programming fast" courses here in Uruguay have at least the basics. OTOH, Javascript is not taught in many courses so YMMV...
One could add queryable criteria there as well.
0) Ask neighbor if they have any idea what's going on. Modern alarms usually at least indicate which sensor triggered.

> What does your neighbor think of this lmao

> > I don't have time to stay around because I tend to lag for work and have to leave as soon as I do get to my car.

How ... convenient.
You still benefit from your parent's network, you learn a lot more at a young age at home, you profit from their money while being raised. That's a huge difference between people from poor areas and those from even middle-class families.

And that's something advantaged people don't like to think about when they use the meritocratic word: most of them benefited from huge advantages by being born in the right family. Or even just by being born in the right country.

Nowadays you benefit from your inheritance when you are established and don't really need it anymore. What really helped you was the 100k-1 million 0% interest loan with no problem if you don't pay it back you got during your 20s from your parents. Or just knowing you could be attending a good college and knowing the most important you have to get out of there is the right network of people.

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/toddler-langua... for an example of what having the right parents can help a long time before inheriting their property.
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Nice, I love reading about these things.
As a libertarian I think that government should not do commercial projects like this fiber optical network. But then I raise a question - why private companies do not make such fiber networks? And it is obvious that it is not about cost. Google has plenty of money to invest (is YouTube already profitable or still burning 1 million USD a day?), but still they struggle with their fiber network.

I have a live example I live in Lithuania. Until 1998 Lithuania had one monopolist telecommunication company owned by government. But in 1998 our government sold this monopole company (about 95% of shares) to Swedish company Telia, but at the same time they passed the laws to liberalize telecommunication market. Theoretically Telecom was obligated to allow usage part of their communication infrastructure to other competitors, but as monopoly they set such high prices, that for other companies it was cheaper to build their own networks. And laws allowed to build network for everyone. And that's where libertarian dream came true - even monopoly could not limit expansion of private networks when there laws allowed that. Soon there appeared many amateur networks that used simple UTP cables or wi-fi to connect to each other, some of them joined forces together and become companies who sold internet connection to neighborhood homes. That's how suddenly there appeared lots of small ISP's. Soon they understood that they cannot rely on UTP cables or wi-fi, so they started building fiber cable networks in largest cities. And keep in mind, that in 1998 - 2000 when those companies have appeared, the Lithuania was quite poor country who has just escaped USSR. It had a GDP only of 11 billion USD; average salary was about 150 USD/month, so you can imagine that average customer could not pay for internet a lot. That small fiber optical ISPs didn't had big investors behind their back, tons of money to invest, but still they managed to buy equipment on word prices and expand their networks. And now here in Lithuania we have plenty of ISP's who offers 100 - 300 mbps fiber connection to almost every home that needs it.

So I think real problem in USA is not about the money, it's about the laws that limit competition. And building government network would not solve this issue - building municipal networks is just the fight against the consequences, not the causes.

P.S. Lithuanian capital Vilnius has population of 650 000, so it is quite similar to the case described in this article.
fuck ORMs. Here's the thing, the DB queries will make up less than 0.1% of your typical codebase. Spend a week and write a good fucking query instead of relying on your bullshit magic blackbox to do it for you. Even a shitty query is going to perform better than the 100s or (literally!!) 1000s of lines of ORM code which need to happen to generate your "select * from users" query.

seriously. grow up. learn the amount of SQL you need to and napalm any ORM that comes within arm's reach.

and if you're not sure about the SQL you've come up with then just go a few cubicles down and ask your DBA what they think. Chances are they'll write something 1000x better than you came up with an you'll have learned something along the way. win-win.
This made me laugh louder then i should i guess :D
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The “trick” is decomposing it in terms of only skewing and stretching because those are the operations available in Paint.
So the easiest way to avoid using an ORM is to create your own ORM?

What AI do you need? You map your tables to objects and relationships between objects via FK relationships.
+1 SQLAlechemy is an excellent library. Zzzeek, many kind thanks for such a good ORM.
I don't think the history of gold changes the argument here. As a store of capital gold has also been stolen by corrupt governments in history.
Why is it an either or? EF can do that but then you loose the benefits of a type safe language.
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Very well written! Couldn't agree more. Getting the best talent at this early stage means being able to convince employees much like VCs and partners
Sales and marketing. I blame this area of human endeavour for pretty much half of the shit that goes wrong on this planet.

It's because, instead of informing about their offer honestly and letting people decide, people figured out they have to convince buyers. Given that this is mostly a highly-competitive zero-sum game (for a given established market segment you're in, you're competing with others for limited amount of potential customers), I suppose me complaining about this is like complaining that the water is wet, or that speed of light is too slow.

But pause for a minute and consider, how so many of this bullshit - including "greater polarization of political views, lack of ideological diversity, the snowflake generation, and a host of other problems that seem to be getting worse by the day" - all boil down to individual entrepreneurs who engage in convincing to bump their income a tiny little bit each step of the way.
I find that jOOQ (java) solves all that for me.

Very happy to not have and ORM on our stack for many years.

I believe that the interaction with the database is just about the most important part of code that you need to rely on. We have had messy data written to the database due to misused or misconfigured ORM (perfomance issues, bad orphan handling, session state problems, overflown sequences, to list a few) and decided that we should not rely on all devs touching that code to be experts in the ORM api to avoid the pitfalls, we rather our devs be expert in SQL.

Never had any of them complain about mapping using something like jOOQ. Type checking and composability are also built in.
How so? I can log the the sql being generated and look at the logs. Something I should be doing either way.
Well, since you removed rating by stars and replaced it with nigh useless thumbs system, you don't seem to be very interested in personalising what I want to watch. And it shows.

Since the recommended titles are clearly very focused on Netflix production, I just ignore any recommendations altogether and just browse all new arrivals every week...
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This measures two self assessed factors so it's very well possible that at least some of the correlation runs in the opposite direction. That is, more attractive people, all else being equal, are rated as being more physically strong.
Why don't you just compute the HTML Codes from the Unicode codepoints?
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’Interests’ are more complex and layered than that. Am I interested in going to the gym or is the underlying interest to feel healthy and fit? A brain may be easily misled to believe an expensive colorful drink would satisfy the interest to feel healthy. Maybe the brain kinda knows it should do x to really be healthy but y is easier. It might advertise to its brainy friends that y ‘ is pretty good in fact!’ to legitimize its preferences.

It’s your own responsibility to decide what to want and what not to want, but these days it’s pretty hard to fight the hundreds and hundreds of brightest minds that work full-time to convince you to like something. They know much more about the inner workings of your brain than you do, and you might not be equipped to tip the odds of manipulation in my favor.

I recently deleted Facebook and it was a real mind blower to realize how much they impacted my brain chemistry even though I didn’t feel like I used their service much. Since then I’m even less trusting of corporations armed with big data, big brains, big money and supposedly aligned incentives.
The main problem is that right now we have absolutely no idea of where the wealth is. One of the most important consequences of the universal income tax was the production of a huge amount of data. There is no equivalent for wealth, even things like Forbes lists are mostly guesswork and handwaving.
Not to mention that there are only two stopping points (London / Glasgow airports) where as a train needs to stations all over the place.
> even when they're make more of an effort to be pleasant than those for whom it comes naturally

Have you got a source for this? It sounds plausible but also difficult to prove.
I feel the same way.

It's like Netflix has (at least) two different population of users - those like us, who would like a catalogue of legally streamable good movies to choose from, and the other population for whom Netflix basically replaces TV, i.e. people who don't really care what exactly they watch, and thus are open to recommendations.

I suppose it's fair if they want to target that other population. Maybe they're majority. For me, their recommendation is only an utter annoyance, and it lost any value the moment they switched from objective ratings to "percent match".
Yeah, well, if it's too hard to paint a line on the side of the road, imagine what would happen with maintaining arrays of low power microwave transmitters.
I don't know why Instant Pot became such a sensation when pressure cookers have been around for ages....
As long as the process is acceptably fast, nuking & restarting (with an appropriate amount of isolation) is a fine approach to many things that would be harder or less efficient if done the “right” way. Memory pools and “let it fail” architecture in Erlang come to mind; and there’s a practice sometimes seen in Forth, where you ensure that the codebase itself is always small enough that it can always be easily rewritten, for example if requirements change enough that incremental development would be harder.
I think the comparison of bitcoin with gold is a better one than stocks.
The value of gold today is not tied to the underlying precious metal any more. Gold is kept in vaults likely never to be looked at or touched. It might as well be a digital number.
Instead gold is a place to store capital with a value agreed between buyers and sellers. It is limited in quantity and is very difficult to copy. Bitcoin is quite similar is many respects. It also doesn't have to be stored and corrupt governments cant easily steal it.
Yes, that was the point the comment was making - that going back further shows that the common assumption of a more fair distribution is wrong.
That doesn't make it all China's fault though, which is how a lot of discussion about this that I've seen is being framed.
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Essentially, my understanding is that all the shares are held by a common trusted corporation, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), or something like it. In this way, transfers in ownership are as fast as updates to their ledger about who owns what.

I suspect it's only a matter of time before something like the DTCC is established for Bitcoin. Yes, from one perspective it would defeat the "trust-less" part of the system, but from another perspective it would enable instantaneous trades both within exchanges and between them. All that's necessary for this scheme to work is for the exchanges and other market participants to trust that the depository company will deliver on any assets it claims to owe them.
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Yes, it is definitely improper to say the least. It also brings the profession into disrepute. I agree that it breaks trust as well as insulting dignity; and I should also clarify that my aim was not to defend the actions of the surgeon. I'm not a doctor but I don't find the complications argument convincing in this case though (unless it took a long time and resulted in prolonged anaesthesia; then I believe there are added risks). I still maintain that something like being drunk at work, especially as a doctor, is significantly more dangerous and reprehensible - lives are put at risk. By contrast, I think having initials on my liver, especially if I don't know about it, is less of a hardship.
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> worth pointing out that less than 1000 entities owns 40% of the bitcoins

The fiat equivalent is saying 10 entities own most of the USD in the world. They are banks with liabilities holding money for others.

Of all the bitcoin conspiracies it's provably false yet people somehow gravitate towards it.

Do worry how easily people and especially journalists fall for this. Go click on the top 10 addresses in a chain explorer, please. They are all exchanges.
The real issue i have with tax isn't how much i pay but how it is used.

Pardon my french, but that's such bullshit. Everyone who doesn't like to pay taxes has a noble excuse like yours. Sometimes they oppose to taxes being used to fund the arts, even though it's such a minuscule slice of the total pie as to be barely visible. Other times it's something else that they feel is frivolous or opposed to by some principle or other. The thing is however, that the nature of public spending is such that there is always something which we as private citizens would prefer not to pay for, if given the choice.

People with a libertarian bend tend to think of tax money being spent inefficiently as simply being wasted. But money spent by the government doesn't just disappear after it has been spent. It ends back in the pockets of the citizens! In the worst case scenario, it is thus simply being redistributed. In the best case scenario, it buys society something valuable (universal healthcare, say, or public education) along the way.
Certainly the nationalizing seems to be part of it. Attacking the people producing said food for "hoarding" just to appease your socialist backers [1] [2], I must say, also seems less than helpful to my admittedly uninitiated brain. They've been at it for a decade.

[1] https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11478

[2]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/world/americas/17venezuela...
Yeah, would be great with some comparison to Alea ... optimally a point-to-point comparison.
Around when this was published I looked into the feasibility of pencil-and-paper wallets. What would it take to generate a key-pair using just pencil and paper?

There are tricks like big tables of precomputed multiples of the generator that make it easier, but you still need to do hundreds of 77 digit modular multiplications. And you want to be absolutely sure you made no mistake.
Well, the comparison of cooking rice that way to making instant coffee is apt
Probably in high schools where they teach matrixes at all.
> initially finance it by making them all toll lanes until widespread adoption / etc

That's what they said about I90 in MA and that was how many decades ago. The government doesn't get rid of revenue sources.
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You also don't realy allocate in C or C++ GPU code, beyond what is done before calling it, setting up buffers.
That may be true, but all 3 countries are tiny with a large natural resource sector (so is Russia, incidentally, except on the "tiny" front). None depend on manufacturing or resources, despite all their European neighbors doing just that. Of course, sure, only 1 has a real oil sector. Like the middle eastern countries, though, Norway is somewhat guilty of sabotaging their own agricultural sector to appease political interests (ie. the greens), and compensating large amounts of importing from their immediate neighbors.
> * The syntax occupies what is, for me, an awkward middle ground: it's a bit better than POSIX syntax if POSIX shells didn't exist, but not enough better that I care to juggle the two syntaxes;

This. It's an awesome shell, but I couldn't set is as a default because my already done shellscripts and aliases would stop working. And I also can't set it on server, because then a deployment tool logs in, and expects bash.

And if it isn't default, I might not bother, I'd forget to run it manually most of the time.

(The worst offender is replacing && with 'and' - why not at least enable both and preserve compatibility?)
> Aren't they proposing this would be shown to you for titles you haven't seen, and haven't made an association with yet?

Haven't seen on Netflix, using your (sub)account. This breaks in an annoying way when you saw the artwork previously at your friend's party, or on your spouse's subaccount, etc., and are now skimming the catalogue for the movie (maybe you don't remember the exact title, but know it's in a particular genre list).
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