skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iraq pales in comparison to the deaths caused by European colonialism in Africa (or pretty much anywhere else in the world).

Beyond that - Saddam killed roughly 10 [1][2] times as many people as were killed as a direct result of the invasion of Iraq - and most of those deaths we're as a result of sectarian violence - not direct action by the US Forces.

When it comes down to it, war is messy business - regardless of the causes of it - I was opposed to the war in Iraq - I rightly predicted it would turn into my generations Vietnam - but in the end, the die is cast.

In re your first link - I wouldn't call global research a unbiased or objective source by any measure, period. [3]

In re your second link - show me a single country that guarantees the rights of its citizens when outside of the nominal borders of its country, and when those citizens are committing what would amount to acts of war against their country of citizenship.

I believe strongly in the right of free speech, and I've seen very few cases in my own country where those rights have been abridged or denuded in any way.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count_project#Body_co... -
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein'... -
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalresearch.ca
>"It bothers me when ideas are presented without even a nod towards their history. I guess all writers are not obliged to do scholarship like journalists and academics, but I wish the publication would point out that we are not reading journalism right now."

I think it might be easier to just recognize that an awfully lot of the web isn't any kind of journalism. For instance, this is a reposted blog entry on a site full of "Top X" lists. The context is the disclaimer.

">Even if this guy developed this stuff all by himself, the fact that these are not globally original ideas should be acknowledged. Adams' book cheerfully points out that none of his stuff is really new apart from his personal anecdotes."

Why?

One is a 1300 word blog post, the other is a 257 page book with a major publisher.

It would make for an arduous life if everyone was required to research and/or acknowledge the first recorded instance of every notion they have before sharing.
I open sourced my article extraction library after my news startup failed
Looks like those credentials were disclosed in April of last year: http://turtle.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/linode/linode-abridg...

Something doesn't add up here. Surely Linode can't be that careless.
... in fact, that already happened once, a few days ago.
None of my info is in the file, and I was a customer before the previous hack.
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Have you actually ever integrated with a payment processor before? I have. I agree that this is magical.
And the default serif for a custom serif. (Or maybe just because my default font is serif?)
Apparently the password has been reused. Search of password cfr41qa turned up results from almost a year ago https://www.google.com/search?q=cfr41qa
Sneak into tech through the back door: a hopelessly limited how-to
The Economist's house price index for the U.K in 1990 was 628, in 2013 it was 2042. That is a 325% increase.
Between 1990 and 2013 the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of the S&P 500 market stock index was 9.46%, yielding an 875% return.

My advice: rent and be a fanatic about investing the difference in the mortgage payment for a property exactly equivalent to what you'd been thinking about buying. Over the long time horizon you're planning for you should be all right.
I've been thinking about the parent and grandparent comments for the last hour, and the longer I do, the wiser I think they are, as in one fell swoop you get a tangible way to think about what you should be able to expect from experts and their expertise. If you study a topic for twenty years, and even after this twenty years of study you are unable to predict fundamental and crucial phenomena related to that field (a global financial meltdown, say) then your "expertise" is of minimal value, however painfully it was acquired; similarly, if using your wide-ranging armchair internet quarterbacking you're able to do things (predictively; via engineering; whatever) that other people cannot do, then you're as much an expert as could reasonably be hoped for.

While I share the OA's disillusionment with a culture that seems to pride itself on stupidity, and to resent the hell out of expertise as traditionally defined, I think that the instinct can be thought of as a kind of intellectual and memetic antibody that has, for the most part, served this country well. A lot of the things that many of us value (GNU software; Linux; Wikipedia; Apple Computer) owe their existence to people who, by socially normative standards, had 'no business' doing what they were doing in the first place.
Haven't heard "Private Browsing" called that before, but well, the glove fits.
There are more people who don't know how to code than do.
With a "fixed-rate 30 year mortgage", your rate, and payment, will be exactly the same in the first year as the 29th. A mortgage where the rate adjusts after 5 years is a 5-year ARM.

(Edit: in the U.S.)
My experience raising money in Europe are the very low valuations you get from EU VCs. I've only raised for one company and probably talked to a dozen EU VCs and eventually got 2 term sheets where the highest valuation was a third from the deal we eventually got. This tells me that the amount of good/promising startups is low, hence VCs can invest at lower valuations and because of that the amount of VCs is low so there's less competition between them. I feel like its a perpetual downward motion where good ambitious startups and VCs relocate to other places (US) because of more favorable outcomes. This trend is hard to turn around and I'd argue that Europe does not need A large VC market as it culturally does not fit the region. I'd say if you're a EU startup you are not meant to grow fast and take gambles. Bootstrapping is the way to go.
My Startup Failed. F#*k.
The release is never officially "here" until the PGP-signed email is sent to the freebsd-announce@ mailing list.
Do these two things in parallel:

1. Demand help. "No, this is too large." Make it clear you seriously need assistance here, or it's not going to be done by deadline.

2. Prepare your resume in case 1. doesn't work.
Canada has been a willing participant in Afghanistan[1] and as complicit as most of the world is in relations with Saudi Arabia.[2] While complicitness is not the same a direct action, it furthers the argument that I wish to make - in international relations, there is no such thing as clean hands.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_role_in_the_Afghanista... -
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_rel...
I remember this from the 2000's Linux bubble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
Well corruption is a given, but at least there will be something to show for it.

The borsch was delicious as well, thanks for asking.
Can we get some sources that aren't from NYT on HN? I know I can search for the link on Google, but I've gotten tired of doing that. I'd rather see a "blogspam" source than keep doing that.

I don't even think NYT was the original source on this. I remember reading about it a couple of days ago.
Well yeah. And actually, I don't make six figures, so there. Point being, yes, doing something you actually love is a privilege. Most people work to earn a living, including most of the financially fortunate. We can try to change that fact, but we can't ignore it or wish it away.
I've just started looking into it, and as far as I can understand, you can't "push" a call to others. You will have to supply a web page and the javascript to connect to a "meeting room" or whatever (using ajax?) to "find" the other peer, and exchange connection parameters, before the webRTC stuff kicks in. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
very biased. why are we talking about victory for humanity when digital currencies is very much a first world phenomenon?
Take a look at comment #123 on https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692#c...

Its almost fixed, but then it needs to go through the "food chain" before it reaches every one of us. So, only in about 6 months that it might be finally fixed.
The world is more complex than that. Sometimes there is a hard deadline (those do exist for a large number of completely legitimate reasons) and even though the "must have"s are done and dusted, you know you won't have the opportunity to launch/go to print/present again for a good while, so you cram to really, really make the product shine and impress (any mildly intelligent and creative person who enjoys what they're doing will never run out of ideas for improvements, big and small, no matter how well a project is managed).

Sometimes an opportunity comes out of left field - "prestigious conference X just had a cancellation, so we got a slot to demo not-quite-there-yet feature Y. Do we cram to build it, or do we pass on the slot?".

Of course, as mentioned, you can't have this becoming the norm, and it might not be for all temperaments to work in a company where it might happen - but it's not in an of itself a bad thing.
To the extent that this is a popular idea, it wouldn't be a big deal for someone to come up with a commercial 'final logic module' that sat between the user interface and the furnace. It could do a sanity check on the requested operation before carrying it out.

(Sure, it would have to have most of the functionality of a thermostat, but so what.)
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> On the other hand a smaller average investment size should make the deals so much more lucrative

No. Small investments -> less startups -> less deals -> less profit. Also small investments -> small growth -> small deals -> small profit.
That's not exactly much evidence of a hack
This source does not have much credibility.
The biggest longterm impact that vr will have on humanity won't be entertainment, it will be on research. VR and brain machine interfacing enables navigating data/leveraging patterns in a way that current interfacing technologies (eg mouse, keyboard, gui) only hint at.
Could someone please explain something here,

If playstation 3 and 4 are a modified FreeBSD, and on the 4th version console the graphics are AMD that means they (sony and amd) have some sort of driver for this platform. And its not a bad one, because they chose AMD for play4.

Why that has not been release to the FreeBSD audience ? When is this expected to happen ?
Perhaps that's why it has a ditaa button to do the transformation.
That doesn't really make any sense. That's not a MySQL default, so you're saying they intentionally set the root user password to '*'? I'm not sure I buy that.
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And by that do you mean to suggest Feedly doesn't offer a paid version?

https://feedly.com/index.html#pro
I think those extra hours for free are his offtime. In other words, he's a contractor in a bad position. In his offtime, he's learning new skills and building an online presence in order to get a better position next time.

Nothing odd at all.
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Many Restaurants have their Google Places Profile Hijacked
The mysql dump indicates the mysql server version they are running is 3.23.49 which was released in February of 2002. I guess if it works...
Why would you rather see blogspam than reporting from a generally reputable paper? Perhaps if you give us a reason for why you seem to detest the grey lady, you'll have a better chance of convincing others.
decentralization is not a benefit in a vacuum, it comes at a cost.

to be taken seriously bitcoiners need to have a thesis as to why the benefits of decentralization in each of these applications outweigh the cost.
I highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Pro-CSS-HTML-Design-Patterns/dp/159059...
Linode publishes logs of their IRC channel at https://www.linode.com/irc/logs/,
but it's currently returning "504 Gateway Time-out". Does anyone know
offhand if that URL had previously been broken, or if Linode has taken the logs
offline following the attack?
It depends what do you mean by GUI: if you're asking if it is a desktop ready release, then no, it doesnt come with GUI, but at any point you can install XFCE/Gnome/KDE on it and turn it into a desktop system. However, you might want to look at PC-BSD which is a FreeBSD based desktop oriented release.
If you're asking if it does have graphical installator then yes, it does have ncurses based installator.
It's a Javascript version of artist mode in emacs - you can draw diagrams using ascii-art like you would in a vector design program.
MI still sends shivers down my spine, having spent time in the C++. Just say no.
Why do we still have forced ordering by arrival time?

When I sort my physical mail, I put it into piles and order those piles by importance. When I sort my email, I can't.

In my physical mail I can choose the importance order and ad to the queues as I wish. With email, not so much.

I want a gmail plugin that lets me order my inbox in order of priority.
I don't think it will be that big of a deal. "Android" doesn't really exist in China. All those Chinese Android users are really using AOSP with all the Google apps and services replaced by Chinese equivalents. The phones aren't branded as Android, they don't have access to the Play Store, etc.
Well it is a little unfriendly (many emails to remember?) but I think it does help. While in a small company we tend to have overlapping roles, slowly our roles become more concrete. When that happens, a mail to say payments@ will immediately tell the payments guy that he has to do something although many others may be cc-ed. Or it may tell the customer that sending a mail to the specific topic email address might get a faster response.

Secondly, like how we all know that company.com/about usually takes us to the team page, the press might try to hit up press@. There is always a fallback - the contactus@ but when the number of emails start exploding, it helps when tagging emails by purpose.
You are linking to 10-STABLE release notes, and 10.0-RELEASE is something else, than STABLE branch. STABLE's are a bit ahead of RELEASE's and are considered to be less stable than RELEASE's - the wording is a bit misleading.
Logs are in the same network as the breached mysql server.
You hatred of America is because of its core founding beliefs. You just don't have the courage to say it.
Ball lightning has been captured on video for the first time ever
Its like the real world but without the limits of the real world.

Except that you have lovingly recreated those limits by replicating an archaic paper-based office. The desktop metaphor was a horrible, crippling kludge to avoid explaining to people how their computer manages data. We can do so much better.
You're seriously attempting to imply that there is no value provided by a highly liquid and efficient derivatives market?

I'm not going to say these people are earning an amount commensurate to the value they provide to society, but pretending that they are just running a casino is equally naive.
Race and sex differences in AP test results
Wow, you make a lot of assumptions here. Ignoring all of that, what the parent finds striking is the mentality. It doesn't matter of this is a fight for civil liberties or a "miniscule" (sic) squabble, as you put it. The idea that a student can and will stand up against authority over something he believes in is not commonplace in every country around the globe.

Why you felt the need to use that idea to bash on (your stereotypical view of) ivy leaguers is beyond me.
World's most beautiful beach glows like millions of stars at night
What is the recovery procedure if you lose access to the AGM?

If I've understood correctly it is just to reinstall WarpWallet on another machine using the same passphrase.

But what if we also can no longer access WarpWallet? What then?
Derivatives help determine prices, moves risk to those who want it, increase trade volume, control speculation, and create educated predictions for others to observe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_(finance)#Economic_f...
If you don't graduate you don't have the brand. He might be able to establish an independent brand with his plugin, but that is certainly more risky.

I generally don't think the Ivy league tuition compared to the differential of quality state schools is worth it when you are starting out, but in this particular instance the differential between a Yale degree and any other degree would probably be less than having to go elsewhere and end up equivalently as a sophomore/junior.
general inquiries usually go to info@. if you are that concerned, use actionable verbs.

we're past the point where setting up email us trivial, so endlessly splitting up your email addresses is more self serving than customer centric.

PS: contact forms are way more important.
"but your claim seems to be solely on the fact you can commit libel from what seems to be the USA on a website not hosted in the UK."

We're sidetracked, but that's pretty much the definition of libel tourism, and the UK is notorious for it:

http://www.economist.com/node/12903058

The UK routinely finds libel judgements against non-Britons, outside of Britain, having essentially no connection with the UK. It's an extremely broken system responsible for widespread legal harassment outside of Britain (examples in article).

It's not enforceable in the US obviously. There's a US law that explicitly prohibits that, provoked by a particularly egregious case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act
https://github.com/mikolalysenko/ndarray-bit
This sort of realization is the first step to realizing that you really shouldn't be writing javascript like java/C++. It makes things feel a lot nicer when you start really thinking in JS. I'd recommend checking out Crockford's "Crockford on Javascript" series for some good intro on thinking about Javascript (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg). Section 3 is where you really start talking about JS.

For a good counter-example, check out a lot of google's JS libs (in all their giant module goodness).
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Even if it did translate to that, what happens when downloads_left is 1 and two updates were to run concurrently?

Unless the data isn't that important, it's better to use an RDBMS with SSI[1] support, and retry or bail out if there's a concurrent write.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/mvcc-intro.htm...
> When I sort my physical mail, I put it into piles and order those piles by importance. When I sort my email, I can't.

That's almost entirely a comment on how lousy the state of modern email clients is.
Jesus, the language is called Smalltalk. Not SmallTalk.

Btw., in a typical language supporting prototypes, I would expect that prototypes are nothing special. Every object could be a prototype for others...
You're overselling it. While you can call C code, the interface is often not very Nimrod-y and it's not automatic, you have to declare prototypes, and there are absolutely holes in the stdlib - the lack of any arbitrary precision/bignums library for instance.
There are downside to AWS other than reliability (a la Netflix). One of those is privacy. If you host with AWS Amazon has access to all of your user data, and with Amazon likely the NSA. If you want to maintain a free and open forum for people to express support for people like Snowden and Assange and question the NSA or military / industrial complex' percent of the federal budget (>50) then you have to run your own servers in a skilled, ethical, small to mid-sized ISP's facility.

This doesn't explain the penny-wise (IMO) allocation of hardware or dev/sysadmin resources of course.
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Google, Tell Me. Is My Son a Genius?
Sorry, nope. It's tripe peddled to high school and college students, who eat it up because, in fact, they have generally not had to make money to survive. So they wind up in ridiculously unemployable fields that are cool and interesting to them.

You also wind up - in SW development at least- with a pernicious workplace state where working more is glorifed; where the reality of business (exchange of goods for goods) is obscured by these foggy ideals and pressure is placed to demonstrate your personal devotion to the god of 'loving your job'.
Wasn't r260665 already an 10.0 RELEASE build?
Programming Style and Your Brain (2011)
I would say they provide little to no value to the average person no. Please clarify what they provide to society at large (meaning most people and not just large portfolios or predatory credit companies)?

Greater security and insulation against bad investments? (which to be clear the vast majority of people do not have enough money to make in the first place.)

Seems a lot like playing odds at a Casino, to use your example, to me.

And your edit is valid they do not provide the value (though there may be some, if little) that their millions of dollars in bonuses/salary would imply.
> It's just standard being-an-American stuff.

This kind behavior is probably more typical in the US than in Asia, but even more so in, let's say, France or the UK. I would say that many European countries have more individualism and freedom of expression than the US.
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Good advice. I work with groups (LSAT and SAT students) who almost inevitably end up in death marches in the weeks leading up to their exams. They need to be told this.

I would add: delegate those things in your life that are work, but aren't contributing to the objective of the death march. For instance, I work from home, and certain administrative tasks are a thorn in my side. I now have someone cleaning my place, and scanning documents, two of my least favourite jobs.

This has increased the hours I can work in a week without feeling worn out. This stuff can also be scaled up in a death march. I once spent a month writing, and produced 50% more than my normal output.

But I felt more relaxed than normal. How? I was staying somewhere where the hosts cooked, cleaned, and ran errands for me. I had zero responsibilties apart from work. I think I worked 60 hours a week for a month, but I cut out about 20 hours a week of tedious chores, and so I didn't notice the difference.
Does this mean global warming will be slower than expected/not a problem at all?
It's just lip service. The impression I get from reading Hacker News is that practically no SV company has anything resembling a work-life balance. And the "choose your own vacation time" companies are in reality anything but. It's completely disingenious.
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So C++ got multiple inheritance wrong... That doesn't mean it must be rejected in all cases.
My take on distributed social network
See r260788 and r260789.
It'd be very nice for someone to tell everyone about the implications and possible mitigations of this.