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There’s actually quite the list here[1] but basically we’ve been very prolific at that:

> The U.S. has executed at least 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections during the period 1946–2000

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...
Wasn't this fairly close to the premise in Peter Watts' Rifters series?
What gets coverage in the news is not the totality of what is being said by Democratic or Republican politicians.
As a very very basic example: UBI.
Engaging in actions after office that would suggest behavior while in office could have been 'for sale' is really quite a new concept. It only started with Gerald Ford [1] in 1977. Quite amusing. The banks engaged in extremely reckless behavior that caused immense suffering to millions and devastated the world economy, yet exactly 0 individuals faced any personal accountability. And then the president gets out of office and goes to give speeches on Wall St. at $400k a pop.

Oh yes, and Eric Holder the former president's Attorney General who also chose not to give any consideration to prosecution, simply resigned and immediately returned to Convington & Burling -- a law firm who had as clients many of the banks responsible for the financial crisis.

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Quite fortunate for establishment politicians that Americans are so divided. Instead of focusing on events like this, we instead attack each other. In a two party system so long as you make people hate and fear the alternative enough, it doesn't matter what you do - since you can safely rely on people resigning themselves to 'Well.. it's better than the alternative.' It's almost like politicians might have even realized this and are utilizing division of people as a tool to ensure the perpetuation of the current political class...

[1] - https://www.thoughtco.com/former-presidents-speaking-fees-33...
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Ask HN: Successful startups using Rust?
Do we know of start-up ventures where the Rust programming language was used to gain a competitive advantage? I was not good at googling and duck-duck-going, therefore I am asking.
But they did appeal to enough of the electorate. Clinton received ~3% more votes, which was in line with the polling data.

Unfortunately, because we have a system that makes certain Midwest and rust belt votes worth 3-10x more, Clinton lost anyway.

Most of what people have been complaining about actually happened. Russia really did interfere. Facebook turned a blind eye to massive misinformation campaigns on their platform. Facebook also knew about the Cambridge Analytica breach for quite a while before making it public. A lot of the voting and ads for Trump were driven by latent (or not so latent) racism.

It's not Facebook's "fault" that these things are happening any more than it's paper's fault if someone makes a racist poster. However, we can't ask paper to help us protect systems of election and governance that were invented before instant global communication.

Facebook is "just a platform," but we have the unique ability to ask the platform for help ensuring against abuse. I believe we must try to do that.
It's nice to see an article like this every once and a while to remind myself that there is so much about programming still to learn. I particularly liked the javascript examples so I could play with them in my scratch pad. I am still not sure I could describe what a Y Combinator is and where to use it, but I'm much closer than I was 15 minutes ago.
You are definitely not a Chinese bot. 100% right. And I am a Russian bit for making this comment.
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All in all, the Chisti bottle-based ventilator shows what can be achieved by stripping an idea down to its basic principles. Effectiveness, it neatly demonstrates, need not always go hand in hand with high tech.

Can't be said enough.
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>Facebook has issues, but the idea that it will "break democracy" is absurd, and kind of offensive.

Agreed. But there is no kind of about it.

The not-so-hidden subtext of the article is “how can Facebook get away with helping only Democrat candidates”

Even if you beleive in the ““theory”” that Trump was helped by Russian ads on Facebook, you’d need to admit about 1/2 were ProClinton or AntiTrump.

I have hopes they’re going to come to their senses. They’re driving away reasonable people.
I didn't know about https://www.qwant.com , an alternative to Google. Any feedback on it from personal experience?
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Github is based on ruby, so is jekyll, so its a frictionless setup that's free.

You can use netlify but there's more setup to that than github imo.

with github you can also have as many sites as you want, little unknown fact just make 100 organizations and you have 100 sites. Content is open to anyone though. But the option is still nice to have
Well, there have been industrial experiments, which may have helped industry down here.
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What is the performance difference? All of them produce raw html and it's is served by static file servers right?
You're right, it couldn't possible be that some people actually have good intentions and want to do good work for a good salary utilizing their decades of expertise in incredibly complex and ever-changing topics.
I slightly wish the exponentiation function from the original article weren't the more complex "faster" version -- it's not really relevant to the article, and it makes playing through the calls in your head just a little bit harder with a topic that already stretches your mind the first several times around. Regular exponentiation is a fine example without the added fun of working out why and how exactly this alternative form works.

That said, as always raganwald's stuff is a pleasant and informative read.
My parents both hated math but I loved it and excelled at it through public school. That was due 100% to my own interests and having two PhD math teachers in high school.
It's really, really hard to see in yourself when you're being turned into an extremist by an echo chamber. It's a self feeding cycle. The more extreme you get the more extreme your filter bubble becomes. It looks normal to you at any point in time. It happens slowly over time and it's hard to notice. If you're lucky one day you go to smoke it up with your hippie friends and you realize they're all talking about bail reform, solar power and sustainable ways to raise beef and you're talking about toppling statues, silencing wrongthink and seizing the means of production and realize that something has changed. Some people realize they've been radicalized and step back. Others think their friends have gone soft and double down on their new ideology. Most will never see the change because it happens so slowly.
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> So you train for many years and acquire knowledge of a particular area and then what? You can't actually make money from the skill you learned?

Sure you can. But you shouldn't be regulating the companies you hope to work for.

If these people were angling to get cushy jobs for large banks, don't you think there is a conflict of interest there? And if you were large banks, wouldn't you tell these regulators you'd love to hire them for their "expertise" so that you get preferential treatment?

If you think these people were hired for their "expertise", that's naive. It's rewarding regulators for working for the banks interests and it's a signal to future regulators that they also will be taken care of if they "do the right thing".

Think about it. If you were going to regulate facebook, do you think it is smart to stack the regulatory board with people who want to work for facebook after the regulation is created? Don't you think that's a conflict of interest?
I agree. There was some examination of why he may have won in the first weeks after the election, but that aspect of the conversation has largely disappeared.

It's now all about the dark art of "fake news", almost as if, since he was elected illegitimately, none of the reasons he may have been elected matter.

I wonder if we'd even be having this discussion if Trump hadn't been elected. Probably at some level but not to the degree it has been.
Ugliness is not the opposite of beauty. Ugliness is a form of beauty, or at least its necessary foil. This has been understood for thousands of years.

See Laocoön and His Sons, one of the most beautiful works of art in the human tradition, because of the tragic ugliness therein.

See Hotel Rwanda, one of the most beautiful films ever made, because of the tragic ugliness therein.

Injustice in art often builds the beauty. If there was only injustice, with nothing transcendent about it, it would not stand up as a work of art. It would be brutality porn.

Take that most famous picture of slavery, the scarred photo of a slave's back. The picture's power derives not just from the scars, a record of his mistreatment, but also from his uprightness and strength. There would be nothing transcendent or beautiful in it were it a photo of a man reduced to nothing. It would not be art.

Similarly, the photo of the Chinese man in front of tanks in Tienanmen square is not just about the brutality of communism, but also the strength of the individual. If the photo was merely of a man crushed under a tank, it would scarcely be art. At best it would be journalism, but more likely it would be mere violence porn.
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Poor admin of theirs. They must feel like talking to a wall.
Hugo is way too complex for me as well. Not to mention the awful awful Go template engine.

I ended up writing my own static site generator which has a good chunk of the features of Hugo but focusing on ease of use rather than increasing the feature count.

> The speed of generation doesn't seem much of an added advantage since you're gonna do it only once anyway.

I have to disagree on that. My Pelican blog a few years back was taking several seconds to render vs milliseconds now and live reload is instant.
I always like to remind people that China has constitutionally protected "free speech". Saying you guarantee your citizens freedom of speech doesn't mean that freedom of speech is actually meaningful.
I think the challenge with regulation is that it is infrequently revised, so imagine you have to write code that is works and also cannot be edited for 10 years.

It's a long time, so if you happen to over specify your regulations, you might end-up creating a giant loophole that will be open for years. If you under-specify it, you end up with a lot of uncertainty over what is or isn't included.

Having been on the receiving end of a lot of safety and environmental regulations, I would have appreciated more specific guidelines, especially with the number of meetings I had to go to where we would internally try to justify if our decisions were going to violate something or not.
Out of interest, how did those option compare with the napkin maths for paying a 3rd party company to include the needed features in their product?
I'd love to see a graph of the stars over time. Or perhaps a graph of a new-stars-per-month statistic. That would show which ones are getting more popular and which are in decline.

Jekyll has a ton of stars, but that's probably because it's been around so long.
You seem to be using a metric we don’t use in this country.

Trump received 304 votes compared to Clinton’s 227.

People don’t vote for a president, they vote to direct whole their state votes. Each state vote is worth the same with larger states having more of them. This is the system we’ve had for 240 years.

I think you know all of this.
Last year's news: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40498395
Democracy is “broken” for a variety of reasons, including deep problems with the parties themselves. But the role of news media in democracy is critical (in both senses of the word), and the rise of Facebook and other media based on unmoderated positive feedback loops is certainly not helping.
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right that's my point, he's moved the burden around and then is surprised that the burden on one side is really big now.
Aren't echo chambers mostly self organizing? I just see this as a general problem and not something unique to Facebook.

Culturally we seem to be moving increasingly towards echo chambers as we are losing the social skills to be capable of engaging in dialog without immediately collapsing into emotional rants.
Checkout netlify. They support forms without you having to run a backend.
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It's incredibly complex and ever-changing for a reason $$$.
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Performance during build, not serving the resulting files. I've seen people with really large Jekyll sites report build times of >40 minutes.
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So your argument is, "Self-interested entity A wants to gain something, therefore they should take it."

There is absolutely zero substance to what you are saying. You are basically saying, "the strong survive! Yay on strong! Boo on weak!"

That is the basis of what you are saying. Then you back it up by saying, "This is the way it has always been done! Timmy jumped off a bridge too, so I should do it!" Did you know that it is completely possible that other Governments are doing things wrong as well?
I would be interested to know what their monthly Redshift bill is. The work they’ve done is really impressive, I’m just wondering if the cost savings justify all the time they’ve invested. Sometimes the right answer in these situations is just to throw more CPUs at the problem.
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Ads on reddit are incredibly deceptive. I'm not sure why advertisers tolerate it. 98% of the ad clicks on mobile are surely fraudulent through being intentionally accidental. The ads are designed to look exactly the same as real posts at a glance, with a username, post date, upvote/downvote arrows, deceptive title meant to make it look like a real post, comment section, share link, and image thumbnail. Reddit users are all conditioned to believe that they can tap a thumbnail and be shown a larger preview while staying on the site. On these ads, it takes them to the advertiser's site instead.

https://i.imgur.com/Vm68wLP.jpg
Full map: http://www.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=86a972...
Are you ready for a mobile-first indexing by Google
> Or the hole that allowed RAII guard subversion.

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Although no one enjoys moving, it's not exactly common enough to factor in a decision between renting vs owning. The bigger factor is not having to spend any time doing maintenance or yard work. Those tasks can take up weekends or entire weeks.
Are there multiple versions of the current OneNote? I can't OCR anything in my version for Windows 10. I'm stuck like this guy - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_...
Exactly. This is very typical.

No one bats an eye at a software author consulting on the software.

The difference here is that laws are mandatory. But that doesn't change the equation of expertise.
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Nobody at facebook is saying to themselves "yup, keep the illegal stuff around, we need the numbers". That's such a farce, you clearly just have a hate-on for facebook. The article is about 12 facebook groups. Twelve! Wow. So many users.

They absolutely can track the traffickers elsewhere, but they are here on facebook now and if the facebook groups go away, they need to find them again. That costs time and money. Is your hate for facebook so strong that you are blind to this?
> I'm saying that it's unsustainable to maintain a hundreds of features for the benefit of different slices of 1% use.

There isn't one kind of "power user," especially for something like a web browser. If you want to support power users, you probably will need to support hundreds of specialized features, many of which won't be used my everyone. If you don't do that, then I think it's very unlikely that you support power users [1]. Apps with feature-sets like this exist, so I think it's wrong to make a blanket statement that it's unsustainable.

I'm not saying it's always sustainable either: if you're a two man team at a small company, you probably can't manage to support much more than the core user group. However, Mozilla's big and I think they need to offer something unique compared to Chrome and Safari.

[1] As opposed to developers or extension-writers. My definition of power user excludes people who extensively modify the software themselves.
The point I have to make here was made far more effectively by Orwell in 1945, so I’ll just quote him:

> The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to the taking of life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States. Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of the western countries. The Russians, unlike the British, are not blamed for defending themselves by warlike means, and indeed all pacifist propaganda of this type avoids mention of Russia or China. It is not claimed, again, that the Indians should abjure violence in their struggle against the British. Pacifist literature abounds with equivocal remarks which, if they mean anything, appear to mean that statesmen of the type of Hitler are preferable to those of the type of Churchill, and that violence is perhaps excusable if it is violent enough. After the fall of France, the French pacifists, faced by a real choice which their English colleagues have not had to make, mostly went over to the Nazis, and in England there appears to have been some small overlap of membership between the Peace Pledge Union and the Blackshirts. Pacifist writers have written in praise of Carlyle, one of the intellectual fathers of Fascism. All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty. The mistake was made of pinning this emotion to Hitler, but it could easily be retransferred.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
I feel like you're imposing very strict definitions on what is inherently a very ambiguous or 'loose' field.

>Beauty is the goal of art.

I don't think so. Lots of paintings are not beautiful, but are very meaningful and artistic. For example, I find many of Frida Kahlo's works to be extremely artistic but not beautiful.

>Lyrics are what diminishes music

So you think that a song like 'Hurt' (NIN or Cash) is diminished by the very well written lyrics? Or that lyrics with certain rhyming structures subtract from the musicality of a song?
please ask this kind of thing on stackoverflow and add a bit more example code when you do or nobody will know what you're talking about.
Some establishment Dems have tried to blame Bernie in spite of how little sense that makes.
Running your own email server is definitely not "easier" if you are actually trying to maintain any durability and availability SLA's with your average homeowners computer/storage/network.

And sure, you can use git by itself and send the diffs to each other over email. However, then you have to deal with coordinating where the head is which is a pain across every node since it is constantly changing. Thus, most people don't do it that way and instead use a centralized service like github.
This article actually contains the link to the paper too: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... — though behind a Lancet register-wall apparently

edit: though based on the abstract available at the URL, it's not clear to me which of the mentioned methods is the innovative one, if any (??)

edit 2: Found a youtube video with some actual description of how the machine is built, from the doctor himself, from 2015 (google keywords: "Chisti bubble CPAP"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1E8yMJd5Q
Because it's a post for hackernews, and we're mostly engineers and developers so we care to know what it's written in. Rust is a awesome new language with growing popularity and it gets hits whenever it's posted.
> But somehow this is the norm in law and regulations?

If you want to willfully misinterpret the comment to which you're replying, sure. Think of it more like this.

You write shit code not because you want to, but because the other code it needs to run with is similarly shitty and perhaps you have laws requiring it be a certain level of shit. You write this shit code for 60% of the salary of your former classmates, with albeit marginally better benefits than you could buy for that extra 40% on the public market. This shit code is used almost exclusively by one sector of the economy.

The companies in that sector of the economy have two choices when hiring people:

1. Hire someone like you who is intimately familiar with all the technical and business debt of the shit code you spent the last two decades writing. Because it's so complicated, and because you've made comparatively little money during your career, and you have a pension now, you're not really interested in doing this for less than $250-300k a year.

2. Hire someone else who needs to learn all this on the job. But everyone else is hiring people like you so "market rate" for this gig is at least $200k for the guys with no experience relying on a connection or two to even get the interview.

It's easy to say "well just do $x" while ignoring that $x is not realistically possible.
Ask HN: Best resources for learning Haskell interactively?
I've been working through 'learn you a Haskell', but even playing around with each example a bit in ghci I feel as though the lack of an immediate need to apply what I'm learning is reducing my comprehension. I found the functional programming exercises on hackerrank, which were initially great but quickly got to the point where I needed to handle IO myself (which isn't covered for several more chapters in the tutorial I'm using). Exercism.io isn't an option because I'm mostly working on a locked-down company machine (filling free time on an internship) and the setup fails due to some restriction or another I can't identify, and Leetcode doesn't support Haskell.

Is there a different site that will give me relatively simple (initially) problems to work through that handles I/O itself and just asks me to write a function?
This is quite cool! I do feel like the "code view" interface isn't the best default, the "Insert Notes" interface should be more than just a tool hidden in a menu, because that's more than likely the primary way people would prefer to write music. I would keep the code view to more of a "view source" option.
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For this case, it should not. It is not about whether someone is guilty or not. So the worst case scenario is that you need bail.
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How does it punish you for blocking ads? Honest question.
This gif should explain: https://imgur.com/6BnAFjh