skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A false flag is an intentional action that creates false justification for something.

A misrepresentation is just that.

So - if the US sent in CIA agents and planted WMD's in Iraq, and then had the UN inspectors show up and 'find' them - that would be a false flag.

Otherwise, say the inspectors find some WMD but it's only a small account, and then the government says "Look WMDs, therefore war!" - that's another scenario. The 2003 war was not based on false flag, more along the lines of misrepresentation of information.

Sometimes it can be shady, as I believe the gulf of Tonkin was a sketchy one. There was an incident between US and Vietnamese ships, but later, during a second encounter, the US knew it was unlikely there were Vietnamese ships (just misleading radar signature) but used it anyways as justification for escalation.

But consider that this is just populism anyhow - the 'good' reasons for conflict, are often at odds with the 'populist' reasons for war. WW2 being possibly a good example: it might have been much better for everyone were the Americans to be involved much earlier ... but the public was not down with it until Pearl Harbour.

Consider for a moment if there was no attack on Pearl Harbour. Consider if the Germans did not have to pull resources from the Russian front to fight in Italy, Africa and then France ... my gosh man that would re-shape world history.

As for Assange, I don't believe his leaks represent quite the malicious acting by the US that some believe, although maybe they are important, moreover, I understand that he has very serious character flaws - this from his relationships with his own allies at the Guardian and Spiegel etc. and his recent involvement with the Russians.
The problem is nobody has the balls to cut out the corporate tax perks for providing insurance coverage. It’s a local maxima that without a cataclysmic event will not be broken.
> excellent ides that push the boundaries of the unique features of each language

> Swift and ObjC have Xcode

Hard disagree that Xcode falls under the category of "excellent". Is this parameter a concrete type, or a protocol? Sure would be nice if they were color coded... that's pretty low-hanging fruit.

But that's looking at the trees. The important point is that the forest is rubbish. It is 2018 and our developer experience is still fundamentally oriented around the idea of _individual text files_. This has been the fundamental unit of organization for 50 years.

A typical developer task might require examining 7 or maybe 12 small pieces of code, all of which are in different files. If this were in the physical realm, you'd grab these pieces and plop them on your desk, arrange them this way or that, think about them for a while, play with a few ideas for possible changes, settle on one, and then start implementing the changes.

About the only affordance which Xcode offers to facilitate this sort of work is command+click to jump to a definition.

I literally resort to _taking screenshots of code snippets_ and arrange them in diagramming software in order to think through a problem. Why is my IDE not facilitating this sort of work?

Edit: though if we are stuck on text-file-oriented program organization for the time being, there's still a lot which can be done to improve upon that, e.g. https://youtu.be/0Vq2rcjWbTc?t=1429
Cry me a river. Stop charging obscene amount of money for services.
but when you shit where you eat, it all looks like shit.
Thanks for making this!

You should also post it to https://www.reddit.com/r/GraphicsProgramming/
Gretzky was also Robin Thicke's babysitter, though not so great at it

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/supe...
Don't be evil...

...except when helping the Chinese government oppress and spy on its citizens.
I went to Jenks! Not sure that helps you decide good vs bad though. :D
Fusion reactor development was slowed down by the problem of superconductivity, which seems to be close to solved now (theoretically, of course).
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Tulsa

Yeah...No.
Donation ware is a thing, but it rarely works well. Besides, hockey stick growth on a product that is free to obtain and use isn't a surefire means of proving future profitability. The easiest way to make money is the old fashioned way: charge for it.
Just go raid the BCIT GIS program. Find the ones who have management success.
This is especially valid for forms that accept non-US addresses. It is such a pain to deal with assumed formats, length/charset limits or other restrictions put in place by devs who clearly have no idea how addresses work in other countries.
I'd second CodeMirror - I've been tinkering with it (v2 - https://codemirror.net/2/) for a couple of weeks and it's pretty nice to use. I'm using a bit of simple syntax highlighting.

There's also a react wrapper (for versions 1 and 2).
Are there mechanical slicers out there that are affordable for home use? Last I looked the cheapest I could find was like $1,500 USD.
That's fine. You can't expect 100% of the taskforce to have the same morals. Thing is, there are enough out there so that immoral companies need to pay more or offer better conditions to have people who would work for less for an ethical competitor.

And actually it probably also means that some people competent enough to gain a salary they consider enough in ethical venues will just say no to Facebook whichever salary they are proposed.
>> Very interesting. Because she was in the room that meant she sent the team to kill Bin Laden?

> I never said that I questioned that in the slightest. Not sure where you get that at all.

You literally just questioned that.

And it was a CIA-led, ie. civilian led, operation, not a military-led one.
In 2002, you could buy a PC motherboard with a sound section amplified by a dual-triode vacuum tube. You can still find them on eBay: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/aopentube/
+1. This is the kind of software that makes me genuinely happy.
> At least try to approach this on an intellectual level and not be so triggered by feminist jargon.

Maybe this is why men don't feel like speaking up so often. If you can't fully conceptualise every concept thought up by feminist sociologists then your just not "on our level" and "so triggered".
On that note also the role of non psychopathic /sociopathic women driving men to suicide non-purposefully which I have seen too.
Black swans are rare.
If that becomes a trend, more exotic destinations will be far more attractive. At least, that's what happening with the young demographic of nomads.
long hair don't care.
> And we really needed to let the government sell the lie that there was a 'missile gap' to the US population? Or was that lie in order to hide that there were U-2 overflights? Who were we hiding the knowledge of U-2s from? The Soviets, who could see them on radar and were developing ways to shoot them down? Or the US public?

From memory the "missile gap" wasn't a government lie to hide anything but an election campaign lie by Kennedy to attack the govt and appear tougher on the "commies".
I don't feel the need to get married because anything a wife can do, I can do with appliances and without breaking a sweat.

It's more about sharing your life with someone than getting chores done.

one thing that might make it somewhat more appealing is if western culture could do away with the needless expenses around the tradition and the ceremony...If it was not a disappointment that people have modest weddings, perhaps a few more people might get married?

It used to be that only rich people spent $8k-$80k on a wedding. Most of the time in the US, it happened in the living room or in the local church, and the reception was in the backyard. Today's weddings are a fabrication of the wedding industrial complex. They're rich people's affairs sold to the common person as a necessity, much like the diamond engagement ring. Spending the equivalent of today's $300 all told on a wedding used to be the norm. The ceremony and the gathering of friends and community can be wonderful, even magic. I think the money and glitz get in the way.

I've been in some bands that would get hired for weddings, and the most beautiful weddings I've been at were DIY affairs done at home on the cheap, but with sincere feelings and meaning. My own wedding was pulled off on the low end of the price scale. We hired a waterside Chinese restaurant, got good fuss-free catering, and got the day-of coordinator and linens for free. I hired musicians I knew and we went and got orchids from a nursery and bought our own drinks from Costco.

The most beautiful wedding I've been to was a quaker wedding held in the back yard, completely DIY. Barely nothing more than a circle of chairs and home made decorations.
Author probably meant military health care systems.
There are a lot of videos from Robert Sapolsky on youtube that might give you a better understanding of biology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky
Considering high deductible plans are a scam and part of the reason why we're in this situation in the first place, I disagree.
> Every spy agency on earth does this and has done this since their inception.

They don't expose the information. They keep it and use it for themselves.

Even if Assange is a Russian agent, I'd rather have him exposing things that go on than not. If he refuses to publish dirt on Russia, the leaker can go to someone else.

By making an example of him, you're just giving governments of the world more control. I can't see how you can defend this position.
It's true - a higher proportion of cost borne by insurance companies and the private sector is very strongly correlated with higher healthcare spending - this is from OECD data: https://images.theconversation.com/files/44253/original/3y3h...

Full article - https://theconversation.com/private-insurance-reliance-means...
> No I mean strictly less willing to do hard labor.

That isn't a thing, unless you're saying that there is no price whatsoever at which people would be willing to do hard labor.
(disclosure: I work for a competitor)

These are actually very valid points and why most solutions tend to go for a sensor fusion approach that leverages the best of computer vision along with other sensor modalities. Using only ceiling cameras will not get you to the kind of accuracy that most retailers require to confidently rely on the technology.

Even if you placed more cameras (not only ceiling cameras, but also in the shelves and other areas of the store pointing at different angles), leaving aside the cost (which adds up), people will always be able to occlude the items from the cameras (even unintentionally). To put it in numbers (as an example): computer vision can get you 80% of the way in terms of accuracy / detecting items grabbed, for the rest you need other sensors.

The main benefit over other self checkout systems is the time customers wait in line. If you have been to Amazon Go, the experience of walking out without waiting is quite magical.
Looks really great! Seems like a solid model you can build out.

Red is a little strong. I agree with other comments. Good job!
Single payer cuts out an entire tier of administrative costs from health care delivery. This is not insignficant.

It also provide more control over wages, drug costs etc. For example, Canadian doctors make less than their US counterparts.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-doctors-still-...
I know. It's pretty shocking that we can load external CSS and JS files, but not HTML files.
Or cruise ships:

https://www.ses.com/blog/behind-scenes-royal-caribbean-cruis...
I'm also having trouble with this. On the face of it the quick and dirty "XXXYYY" test outlined above looks good but are these two following statements consistent? ie are the run times of X (new code) and Y (old code) really from the same distribution.

"is my new code faster than my old code"

"If X and Y come from the same distribution then all orderings are equally likely"
Great point, I wonder if you can solve this with manual identification like taking a picture of your face holding up a driver's license and paper saying you consent up password change?
School Punishes Male Teacher for Refusing to Watch a Naked Girl
You can also add Active Directory to that list. Stupid simple to setup, join machines and setup policies. Small businesses with tens of pc's are easily managed from a single domain controller and the licensing isn't that bad when you're revenue easily covers costs.

Oh, and Office 365 is a blessing. I never thought I'd actually like SaaS anything from Microsoft but it works really well Office. It's also much easier than selling a $6000+ purchase req for 15-20 new office licenses. Especially when the boss doesn't see why office 2003 is obsolete in 2011 if it "still works fine for me". ~$240 a month was an easy sell with "free" exchange email and upgrades. Yea small shops are fun to work at.
really? with no source whatsoever?
Whoah, hold on. This is very relevant to my interests. I'm in Chicago and the next big thing I want to do is learn Farsi (my wife is taking Japanese classes, which is not very relevant to my interests, so I can't really do it with her). Is there a particular set of books you'd recommend?

I'm actually hoping to find some place to take classes.
As creepy as it is to see detailed illustrations, I've always assumed they've been doing this for a long time.

IP address patterns joined with timestamps, tags, and other social interactions are too easy to link and beneficial for all sorts of targeting.
Nowadays I believe an at-home "study" is more common, cheap, easy, and non-disruptive.

They give you a little case of sensors to take home & show you how you should attach them before bed. Chiefly it's a finger pulse oximeter & something worn on the chest to measure sleep orientation, chest motion, and record snoring sounds. You sleep as normal, at home, and return the devices the next day for its readings to be interpreted.

So: your concern about being in an unfamiliar setting, or being offered drugs to sleep, may be outdated. OTOH, if you're not in general risk groups nor experiencing daytime tiredness, there may not be not much reason to dig further (unless your wife has noticed something else worrisome).
> If you store your data under /run (or /var/run) your district will probably put it on a RAM disk. You’ll lose it in a crash, but you won’t be writing to the SD card and provoking it to corrupt in that crash.

> If you then adjust your systemd journal to not write very often you have eliminated most of your SD writes.

The trouble is that the OS isn't the only one writing to flash in the card, the MicroSD card controller is erasing and writing to it at random times as well even if the filesystem is read-only, with no coordination between it and the OS.

As a result you can easily end up in situations where the card decided to run some housekeeping to manage the flash just milliseconds before a power cycle or a power loss, and seemingly all consumer MicroSD cards are not up to the task of keeping the data intact at the same time.
I am always surprised that the "support the troops" Republicans inflict socialized health care on the military. You should think that they would want to liberate the poor soldiers to enjoy the freedom of the free health care market.
if you are willing to pay for private email, why not any of the dozens of existing ones? e.g. protonmail or fast mail? there is little differentiation available for them here.
The military explicitly played a critical role in planning, leading, and executing this.

From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden#Opera...

U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) and at least 6 members from JSOC planned it in coordination with the CIA.
Software Development. I won't do fixed price contracts unless it's really simple. Always time & materials.

Home renovation. You'll get a quote, but the final price can be way higher. Any service when you are dealing with unknowns, the price is going to have to be flexible.
Moved from Oklahoma City to California. Never going back.

If you're religious, right-wing, and don't care about having outing options, then Oklahoma is the place for you.
Personally, I would gladly take a tax hike to avoid ever having to think about medical bullshit ever again. I don't want to haggle any damn prices for shit that I need and I don't want to have to deal with the corrupt and overpaid insurance industry squeezing me dry. The fact that my family's first response to requesting any sort of aid for their problems is an immediate denial followed by weeks of dealing with paperwork bullshit indicates the system is fucked beyond belief.

We're being wildly overcharged for basic services because ultimately that's exactly how the market is designed to work.
That only works if you are Messi. If entire tea starts to take that approach, you are gonna have big problems.
Smoke from the Camp Fire Forcing Bay Area Schools to Close
This is a fair and logical argument. However, in this context, I would still like to know the what the grand parent was referring to when they mentioned “war crimes.”

Btw, personal opinion: I am completely biased against Assange given his lack of openess against everyone but the Democratic Party. I used to think he was one of my heroes, now I think that he is just someone trying to save his own skin. His actions and reading his AMA’s on Reddit really changed my opinion regarding the idea that he might be an unbiased arbiter of truth. Assange is no Snowden.
I think if you read Chomsky you will find that we've been lead this way for a long time. It is modus operandi.. aka meet the new boss same as the old boss. It's useful to understand the world and why it is the way it is. And in fact the more interesting idea is that we the people can actually exercise our democratic rights to change the situation.
No, it’s about getting revenge for exposing them and sending a message.
Isn't the patent trivially contestable? Dont advertisers mine such data to infer relationships, such as parents/children? Don't people infer the kind of relationship just by looking at a (physical) photo of a couple in a house ?
We're 5 years away from this shit being regulated away in Europe for good. It's ridiculous. The only reason it's not illegal is that we never had the technology so no reason to worry about it.
I'm picturing a new mascot. Blocky in the way Spongebob is, but ninja themed and made out of canned meat product.
Is it naive of me to be completely fine with this?
If anything Robert Sapolsky is heavily "red pill". There's a video of him on youtube saying that up to 10% of children are secretly illegitimate.
Marriage is hard, so is starting a company. But both are worth it and incredibly rewarding; you learn a lot and you experience things in married life that you can't in any other way. There is something about the lifelong commitment which changes things, and that is amazing to me.
If there are no children involved, none of the current onerous obligations and financial ruin should apply.
The government should not be able to intervene and ruin one persons life by making one party an economic slave to the other.

The gov't should not be able to be so asinine as to say something like "ability to pay does not affect obligation to pay" -- in other words when a (typically father) gets laid off or makes much less money, they will not lower his support payments to be in line with his new pay. This is how we get working, homeless men living in vans -- some of whom later kill themselves.
RHEL 7 took 6 months to go from the first beta to the first release. Don’t hold your breath.
I think they are probably partly talking about VA hospitals, which aren't part of the Department of Defense (the VA is a cabinet level department all its own).

There aren't enough military hospitals to meaningfully support civilians. There's not enough VA hospitals to do it either, but whatever.
Well, if the expectation is that you work a standard 40 hours, then 'meets most expectations' sounds like a typical and expected outcome from working 40 hours.
Yes, there is plenty of bandwidth to watch Netflix on satellite.
Is there a real advantage for them to patent this as opposed to keeping it a trade secret?
Why would they patent this and make their intentions known publicly?
I don't believe citizenship is a requirement to be convicted of treason. There are a lot of members of the U.S. military who are not citizens. Surely they would be guilty of treason if they divulged secrets or aided a foreign country. People with green cards as well. Not that either of those situations apply to Assange.

I've definitely read several news articles that say he stands accused of both treason and espionage, though. I do wonder how that works for a foreigner. Has he ever even been to the United States?
is the 5 years some kind of future roadmap? Also, why should this method be illegal?
Was Ellsberg a terrible reporter since he managed to get the entirety of the Pentagon Papers (~4k pages) publicly released?
What someone's motivation is (in relation to the still unsubstantiated allegation that Assange is a "Russian asset" trying advance Russian foreign policy objectives) should be completely irrelevant to the legality of an action.

Is publishing leaked documents protected under the First Amendment?

Is publishing "propaganda" protected under the First Amendment?

I would say the answer to both of these questions is yes.
No, because once you download the js you don't redownload it on every page request. When you want to update contents you get the new data to be displayed. This is how any other gui application does server communication.

The traditional page based responses re-send all the html content over again. If the client can cache it then it doesn't have to be, but caching something like a git frontend does not work with page based responses due to the amount of new data.

Just because Facebook and Google abuse js to the nth degree does not mean it's automatically bad. It's how you use it, and you can infact do things without react and Vue.
Facebook and its properties Instagram are destroying the very fabric of modern relationships by creating an always hooked experiences in the name of connecting the world. The sooner people realize the better it will be for it’s wellbeing.
For pacific mole crabs it's dig or die
> Tangentially, we've started to notice that doctor offices will often claim that procedures aren't covered and we have to pay out of pocket. However, we keep track of these out of pocket expenses since we're close to hitting out of pocket maxes. Turns out most of the time, the doctor's offices will still submit the claim to our health insurance company even though we paid, effectively double dipping.

Let's not beat about the bush, this is _insurance fraud_, not "double dipping". The provider has to assert to the insurer that they have not been paid for that service rendered when they bill insurance.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/18/oklahoma-and-kansas-enac...

Thanks but no thanks
This rule of 3 may be a good example for reading books and finding typos. It is no where as good for estimating the chances of "something that hasn't happened". It's so random using this rule & claiming the result as an estimate.
Can this company just quietly go away?
Zuckerberg: I didn't know of Facebook ties to firm attacking George Soros
For just "gui-izing" a command line app written in Python, there's the package Gooey, which creates a Ui from an argparse object.
There's still a market for tube amps, although most are external for both aesthetic and practicality purposes.
If you're suggesting that as a justification for an assumed rise in rates of casual sex among youth, well, forget it: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex...
Also, being a "Russian asset", whatever that means, doesn't affect anything. If he refuses to release dirt against Russia, the would be leaker can go to someone else or just release it themselves. He isn't the gatekeeper of all leaked information.

Justifying it this way is just a ploy to punish the whistleblower and I can't believe how many people go along with it.
Beamforming?