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I was looking for a short paragraph laying out a sane rationale for why Lugovoy might have killed Litvenenko. He either did it himself or was directed to do so. If it was the former, why? If the latter, who, and again, why?

That you failed to even come up with that and instead are wondering whether I'm trolling or not indicates that either you are trolling yourself or that the situation is so complicated that you need way more space to articulate a rationale and you're just testing to see if I'm worthy of that kind of effort. Which, when you think about it, is silly, because your audience isn't just me, it's everyone seeing this thread.

Putin is the obvious choice because shortly before Litvenenko died, he'd written several anti-Putin screeds for the British press. Putin might not have green-lit the murder himself, it could well have been someone in his intimate circle. Doesn't matter which, Putin's still the one to blame.

Litvenenko was also anti-organized crime, it's possible one of his many enemies in that sphere could have influenced Lugovoy to do this. I don't rate that as particularly likely though. Lugovoy himself has taken the outlandish position that British intelligence did it, hah.
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Everytime I go on holidays dude, what is wrong is you, it really not hard.
The good thing is that the 15" models have CPUs that are pretty fast, even today. The 2012's CPUs produce much less heat than the 2011s, so I tend to think that you're good beyond 2017 if you don't do anything that requires you to constantly get CPU speed bumps.
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As sibling said, this is very very cool. I'm happy that options are starting to pop up!
It's sometimes startling how major foundational tools and systems ignore bloat.

For example, I wanted to use C++11's std::array to return fixed-lengths arrays by value on the stack. This was in a minimal API that originally included NO other headers. In MSVC, std::array included a tree of 100 other headers including gems such as istream, exception, new, malloc, and float.

Yes, I'm aware that none of this stuff gets compiled into the binary, but it shows a disregard for lean dependencies that is emblematic of a bigger problem.
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Why do they always call him 'prophet' Mohammed? The only people who think that he was a prophet would be Muslims (and maybe B'hais?).
As said in the readme:

> you can use tc which supports some additional options.

$ tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 50ms 20ms distribution normal
$ tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem reorder 0.02 duplicate 0.05 corrupt 0.01

> To reset:

$ tc qdisc del dev eth0 root netem
This seems like satire to me. Could that save it like "Dumb Starbucks"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Starbucks
You might be interested in this utility app that calculates the probability of a successful hire created by an I/O Psychologist: https://morgan.shinyapps.io/utility_calculator/

It takes the base rate of successful performance into account.
She sounds like a woman that resents the fact that men can have fun without women, and wants to ruin that for them.
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I don't follow Polish media. I mostly read stuff on skyscrappercity and reddit.

Anyway, which part wasn't true?
Agree! I am tempted to show up with my 18 month old and have him run amok :)... or better still have the others take care of him while I show off my coding skills!
Thank you, I'm really tired of some high profile people as of late (ex: Elon Musk) who don't know much about AI making statements about how dangerous AI will be.
What's the weekly rate of the average freelance software developer? And how does that compare with that of a freelance bartender, nightwatchman or refuse collector?

Relying on a BI (at any feasible level) for even a fairly brief period of time is going to represent a severe drop in income for most skilled contractors, and thus people paying mortgages on their condos in SF are going to be just as worried about income instability as before.
100% agree. So many of the great tech success stories have started with someone deeply technical who knows how to sell. And not just to customers -- also to talent. Ventures with that kind of person at the helm are the ones worth joining.

Networking is important. IMO it's very hard to identify those people without a sufficiently large sample size.
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> From an end-user perspective, there's a significant difference between "browser that will play the music and the videos and show me the PDFs" and "browser that will not do those things". Chromium, while open source, is really not a viable end-user browser on today's internet.

I don't think so, because really it's a difference between "will show the pdf..." and "will launch a program to show the pdf."

As a full time Chromium user, I've had frustrations twice--once trying to figure out why Netflix didn't work after I had heard it "now worked on linux," and the other with an app called mightytext that was doing a very stupid redirect loop forever in Chromium, but not Chrome.

That's over the course of a year or so.
The latest episode of 99% Invisible does a great job of covering this topic. I highly recommend it.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/of-mice-and-men/

A great analogy used in the piece (spoiler?) compared PCs to bicycles and tablets and phones to tricycles. Anyone can just hop on a tricycle and go around the block, but you need to learn and practice riding a bicycle. The thing is, you cannot commute to work on a tricycle. The counter argument is that modern smart phones and tablets are closer to 3-wheel recumbent bikes than tricycles.
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Ask HN: Amazon killed the “People who viewed X ultimately bought Y” feature?
Does anyone have any background on why the "People who viewed this item ultimately bought X" Amazon feature was disabled? I recall using this feature extensively to find a "better version" of a product from an OK one. I could imagine that some vendors would not like to have a potential sale "pulled away", but from a customer point of view, it was a valuable feature. Would love to hear when it was disabled (the Amazon customer support person I spoke to did not know), and if they have any plans to bring it back. Thanks.
This is by far the largest reason for the delay. If you watch some youtube videos on your work computer, no big deal. But if you need to jack off at work, you had better use your own phone if you care about keeping your job at all.
Good piece in The Economist about how Facebook's "arbitrary and capricious" censorship policies are inconsistent, invisible, unaccountable, and affect far more people than, say, the US Supreme Court.

Should pages that advocate violence be removed? What if it's political, like "Death to Israel"?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/08/fa...
strangely, in my experience, people under 25 and over 45 love ipads, whereas everyone between 25 and 45 really don't have a use for them (including myself).

wonder if this is a wider trend or i just have a very self-selected peer group (i'm early 30s). everyone in my social circle is 25-45 and either needs to type very quickly or wants nothing to do with computers or gadgets beyond the basics.
I don't think Dumb Starbucks was saved. They just didn't ride it out long enough to find out. Who knows what would have really happened though
I'll go even farther and argue that the beauty and timelessness of good graphics depends on something else, different from whether they are bitmap-based or 3D or whatever.

Like you say, there are really beautiful sprite-based games; but also the polygon-based graphics of Another World are pretty timeless, and I wouldn't trade them for anything else. On the other hand, I agree the graphics of games such as the original Alone in the Dark haven't aged well at all. I can't explain exactly why I feel different about those two games, but I do. Maybe because the graphics from Another World are highly evocative, and its backgrounds sometimes remind me of something out of a Moebius illustration, while Alone in the Dark's are more tied to technological limitations of its time rather than to artistic decisions.
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Not to mention it's much easier to lie in bed or on the couch with an ipad than with an awesome general computing setup...
My favorite enterprise network pathologies:

- Randomly block specific ports "because security"

- Limit RPC port ranges to some random small number.

- Strange network optimizations. Example: Optimize TCP Window Size to support NT4 clients on 56k frame relay circuits.

- Very Slow DNS response

- Optimize core switching rules to fully utilize switch CPU. Avoid configurations that take place in an asic.

- Long DHCP Leases + Undersized DHCP scopes.
I was in the military then. I remember that morning vividly. Until then the Shuttle seemed a crowning achievement.
i am getting "WhatsApp Web only works in Google Chrome."
and i'm using latest chromium :/
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Thanks Patrick, I now have a url I can send to anyone who complains that $OSS_PROJECT they depend on isn't supported to the degree they'd like.
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Thanksgiving in USA, rural Florida. Then the power went out for three days. Time for fishing and fan-boats! It was awesome. I just deleted all the unread email when I got back online
My rack rate, when I was contracting was $150/hr. So yeah a basic income would have covered basically my health insurance maybe, if I didn't have a gig.

But with a rate like that, I didn't have to work but 3/4 time to feel flush.
Works for me (just tried it, was fun)

Try disabling adblock, it seems to break their html5 streaming.
SmartOS has this nice utility - ipdadm which does something similar.

ipdadm - administer the Internet packet disturber

https://smartos.org/man/ipdadm
>If they were forced to re-patriate and pay taxes on that cash, how could that not "help the poor"?

That would mostly benefit politicians and their beneficiaries, not exactly 'the poor'. Very little of the $$ spent by the government helps 'the poor', unless you're counting our severely underpaid military.
Not to mention liberalism, in the US, is generally unarmed while conservatism is heavily armed. Quack-pot conservatives tends to shoot people and quack-pot liberals tend to bomb or deface things.

The most prominent liberals I can think of are alive and well, or died of natural causes. Ted Kennedy for one. Bernie Sanders. Nancy Pelosie. All of these people actually passed liberal laws and were powerful characters. If there was some liberal conspiracy then I imagine they would have be the forefront for assassination.
The second week of the last August, on vacation thorough Turkmenistan. Not that they don't have Internet but there was no WiFi in hotels and I didn't care to go to Internet shops. I survived well.
Slow: coming up on being a full year of only dialup Internet at home
Tor also provides censorship-resistance, through bridges. It is one of the only consistent ways to access the open internet from Iran or China.
The link you provided suggests it is a 'simple maze'? What is a true maze by your definition?
This looks fantastic! We are already using BeagleBone Black, so I plan on looking into this very soon.

A couple questions from a potential future customer:

* What are the bandwidth requirements for your agent?

* Has your agent had any issues with restrictive firewalls?

* How long until you think you'll have the container diff functionality finished? (We are on cellular connections mostly, so bandwidth is somewhat expensive.)

* How much funding/runway do you guys have? What would happen if you guys had to close down the business for whatever reason?

* Pricing? (Couldn't find it on your site.)
I'd rather you be measured and balanced in your criticism.
This is great - having a fullly fledged, containerized device ready to go is awesome. How do you keep the underlying OS & container mgmt layers up to date?
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So legal question, when's the cutoff point? How many packets do you need to get before you've broken the law?
Hollywood Video's corporate office had a guy, one guy whose job it was to just watch movies. He'd watch them, make sure it was categorized properly, then create associations with other movies that "you might like" if you like this movie, and vice versa. All kept in a spreadsheet that we later plugged in.

We also thought there should be an algorithm, but he was pretty dang good at what he did.
Ask HN: How do I move from always stressed perfectionist to pragmmatic?
Currently I'm probably a mix of the perfectionist and the theoretical programmer from this post http://stevenbenner.com/2010/07/the-5-types-of-programmers/

I spend far too much time moving code back and forth trying to fit some mythical ideal, I feel like a sub standard programmer if I'm not using the latest tools or I don't have X% code coverage and I'm tired of it.

It doesn't produce anything of value, causes alot of stress and long working hours coupled with overdue projects.

It would be a great help if anyone can provide some blogs/books/resources or advice which might help me move towards a more realistic approach to programming.
Not that you aren't frequently a victim of the same, but you're rewriting history a bit here -- I was actually one of the most vocal proponents of x86 within Sun, especially with respect to trying to get the SPARC guys to understand just how deeply non-competitive their microprocessors had become. And to give you my decades-old Rashomon-like account of the day you're referring to, it is my recollection was that I tried to convince you that technologies that we were developing like ZFS and DTrace had technological merit, but you felt so venomous towards Solaris that you simply couldn't hear it. So perhaps we each heard what we thought we wanted to hear. ;)
I know from experience the hassles of point and click testing when a previous company tried to skimp on QA...my job was to write the user stories, but ended up testing half of them myself. Not enough testing at all, especially considering it only consisted of 4 devices, all of the same model. (PM, developer, a secretary and one QA guy later in the process testing on a company given device). The worst part was that even on the same device model, different results were happening. That ain't right. All in all, would have killed for some automated testing on that project. On a side note, wish I could provide some info (a warning)on what the company was that operated in this manner, but I can't.
I used to work for Gazelle, a company that buys used iPhones, iPads, etc. from consumers. We found that the iPads we bought were generally in much worse shape than the iPhones. We believed this suggested that people were using their iPads quite a bit. Anecdotally, among my friends and family iPads are in almost constant use. So even if we don't know what iPads are good for we seem to use them a lot.

I wonder how much of this is just that people are not upgrading their iPads as often as they upgrade their phones. I'm still relatively happy with my iPad 2 and I've had three different iPhones during the time I've owned it. A lot of my friends are in similar situations. I think we all kind of agree that iPads are too expensive to justify frequent upgrades, especially when they're still useable.

I bought an iPhone 6 Plus thinking it would replace the iPad but found that, while I still really like the 6 Plus' size, it doesn't really work that well for prolonged reading or the lazy internet surfing the author mentions in the article.
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The market for pads has peaked, right? Means people are using other things, not upgrading/replacing pads. Maybe because phones are bigger?
Interesting. Would make it much easier for me alleviate concerns and be able to use React for projects. Thanks!
Yes it is, I'll grant you that. However, it's also not like I just came up with them on a whim. They're more of an amalgamation of things I've come to enjoy and eventually require on a portable machine:

> 11" screen computers

Because I want to be able to throw it inside a small/medium backpack without it being kludgy. 13" is the maximum.

> with giant trackpads

That was actually the reason for why I bought my first Mac. Life changer.

> full aluminum casing

Now anything else feels cheap and brittle. Also, harder to clean.

> around 9 hours battery

Or more! But 9 hours is already enough for intercontinental flights once we take our the time spent sleeping, etc. Less time, however, won't do.

> backlit keyboard

Not necessary because I touch type, but still nice

> which go for less than $ 899

And that's the killer feature, because you can get any of the other features with zero hassle if you don't mind throwing money at it.

Sibling post mentioning the Dell that fulfills all of that is exciting for my pocket! :-)
Putin with his actions has brought a nasty war to the doorstep of the western world. His actions are perceived (both in the US and EU) as harmful to the stability and peace in the western world. A stability and peace that took huge amounts of effort and time to be built. Putins actions are believed to go against every principle on which this stability is based: democracy, cooperation, no redrawing of maps (especially not without consensus), no raking up of old claims and disputes, etcetera.

Now, you may not agree with all this (you probably don't) but you should understand that lecturing on the selectiveness of moral outrage is not going to change the fact that this is how current events are perceived in the west.
This article looks at single point in the industry with regards to automation. But i believe the important point is whether the addition of data provides more efficient movie production, with less failure , and by how much.No need to automate a movie you don't produce.
AI safety is more of a game theory problem than an engineering problem. Obviously understanding how the thing is implemented could help a lot in understanding how to handle the thing being embedded in a society, but they're not quite the same thing.

"I'm really tired of sociologists and economists who don't know much about biology making statements about human behavior."
I thought my comment was more relevant to yours than the OP's since you mentioned the frequently-cited claims against the platform. I meant to add to the discussion, not critique your post.
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I literally wrote an article about this in Wired more than twenty years ago and nothing has changed.

My basic argument: machines will achieve life long before they achieve consciousness. They have evolved with us so far and will continue to do so. The worst-case scenario is that they will eclipse us in importance, and obviously this has probably already happened with corporations - we are their gut flora and they trample us with impunity - but when you build a vast system, you tend to keep the components in place.

The story that the design constraints of the Space Shuttle were ultimately shaped by the size of Roman roads is a myth, but it communicates an essential truth: systems tend to outlive their intended purpose. The Roman Empire turned into a church when it couldn't survive any other way, and in its church form it remains to this day one of the biggest property owners in Europe.

If you think a new life form will soon exist, the bad news is you probably don't know jack shit about AI research, but the good news is that the best possible way to survive in this unlikely event would be to make yourself part of the new life form. These "life forms" need us to procreate and function in the same way flowers need bees. AIs will certainly kill some people, but humanity itself is in much more danger from its environmental irresponsibility than its ingenuity.
That article could be summed up as: "Look at all of the ways that the language doesn't protect you from yourself (or the creator of the library you're using)!"

It's possible to write shitty code in every programming language. Of course, the specific methods of doing so differ, but I've yet to see a Turing-complete language that makes it impossible to write buggy code.
Don't forget jitter, and simulating an ISP that will shut off your DNS traffic at random (literally anything DNS, not just their own servers).
A few notes for anyone who hasn't seen it before: This game is not very "good" in the way it's put together. It's easy to get into an unwinnable situation without realizing it. (For example, if you don't take the screwdriver from the first room all the way through to the end of the game, you can't finish the game.) But it has an incredible sense of humor, and the way it responds to your bungling is definitely funny enough to be worth playing for a while. There are lots of hidden funny things that you'll never find without a walkthrough, so here's one: http://www.eristic.net/games/infocom/hhg.html

Edit for clarity: I recommend exploring and trying out each puzzle without the walkthrough, because it's funnier that way :)
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I know nothing about gaming, gaming culture and gamergate. So I can't speak to any of the underlying issues involved.

I am only speaking to the manner in which presumably a few people decided to address a women online.
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I wonder if this can be used to simulate speed-of-light delay for a Mars mission.
MacBooks come with built in HDMI and/or displayport - what about that precludes an external monitor?

As for the keyboard/mouse combo, bluetooth has worked well there for ages...
>> iPads are computers and don't have a 2 year repurchase cycle

If you regularly update to the latest OS release, you will barely get past the second year. In my experience, "the final major version OS to run on any iOS device" is generally annoyingly slow.

It might be better these days, but it wasn't the case with my original iPad, iPhone 3G and 4. I'm glad I told my wife not to update her 4S to 8 (i.e., the final major version that will be available for the 4S), because updating to 7 had already noticeably slowed down her phone.
I think recipes are another example of something where it's considered acceptable to copy.
No, but their data allows filmmakers to gain a better idea of what the consequences of certain decisions are likely to be. It's not so much as allowing algorithms to dictate creative decisions as it is enabling those decisions to be better informed. As for targeting film festivals in particular, I've no doubt that Netflix has sufficient data to look at sort of festival-goers (and those like them) in particular. While it can't provide a guaranteed formula for festival success, it should still give a filmmaker another tool that helps them do their work.
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That's probably worth an entire essay, but I don't think I'll be the guy to write it, as the topic makes me positively volcanic.
From TFA :)

> On Linux, we use iptables and tc. Comcast is merely a thin wrapper around these controls.