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I would pretty much buy anything Stephenson writes, but I wasn't all that happy with this book. It's very depressing in that you get a look at the deaths of billions of people, something they all know about well ahead of time. I found myself reading it the same way Cory Doctorow describes here: http://boingboing.net/2015/06/03/neal-stephensons-seveneves....

> Stephenson builds up a sense of brutal inevitability, of humanity's insignificance in the cosmos that had me putting the book down for hours at a time, unable to read on (but my curiosity always overcame my sorrow).

The final (future) part of the book was more fun; I could have gone for just that with some references to what happened in the past. Indeed, there were various things that didn't feel wrapped up at the end, and I wonder if there's a sequel coming or he's just going to leave it like that.

Perhaps because I didn't care much for the first part, I found myself more critical of some of the science fiction too.
"xenophobic"? Is that really the word you're going to use here? Bit ridiculous.
Can't see any relevance to the core graphing meme here at all.
Providing women access to contraception and pregnancy termination services is what I personally identify as one of the best charitable causes.

Helping women prevent the birth of unwanted children who will, on average, lead worse lives than wanted children but who will still put additional strain on the world's environment seems a very clear case of a worthy cause to me.

An example charity in this area is Marie Stopes International [1].

[1] http://www.mariestopes.org
I don't think that any but the most naïve lawmaker believes that these laws will stop the behaviour they criminalise. Rather, they simply further the "3 felonies a day" state of being (http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.asp... I will set aside (because I honestly don't know what I believe) whether that is an intended or unintended effect.
One has to note that NATO is not "expanding to the east".
None of the new members were lured into NATO. To the contrary, those are all sovereign countries who wanted to join NATO and escape Russia's bullying. No formerly occupied country wants the Russians back.

(-3 points from RT, how lovely!)
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Argentinian here. Yesterday i received a package of six books from Amazon at home. The package arrived 2 weeks later than Amazon's estimation, but besides that everything went smoothly. No extra charges or anything of that sort.
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Yes. You're missing the chapter in your economics textbook titled "externalities".
Just build it. I learned the hard way that worrying about other people is useless, just execute. If you focus on executing and they worry about you, you will win. So make their goal to focus on you and yours to focus on clients. In the end clients will choose.

Rarely is the market so small only a few can survive, and if it is that small, you are thinking too small. Markets worth going after can support multiple companies.
> crime [has gone up] as well.

Despite what the talking heads may have you believe, crime has dropped significantly in Seattle since its population and economic growth.

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Seattle-Washington.html
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This is a joke, right? Assange himself admitted to telling Snowden to flee to Russia in particular, not just as a waypoint to Havana...

But yes, since 2010 or so Wikileaks has been co-opted by Russia. In October 2010 Assange had crowed that "The Kremlin had better brace itself for a coming wave of WikiLeaks disclosures about Russia" and within a month [1] was meekly "revising" his comment to state instead that "we have material on many businesses and governments, including in Russia. It's not right to say there's going to be a particular focus on Russia". And indeed, the world still has yet to figure out what Assange was talking about in October 2010.

In fact Assange has been quite close with states intertwined with Russia since then, e.g. http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/belar... (what really boggles the mind about this article, which pre-dates Snowden, is the idea of Assange railing against "his enemies at the Guardian").

[1] http://www.russiaprofile.org/international/a1288285095.html <-- Want to know what changed Assange's mind?
When I made that comment, there were 3 others in the thread. Next time I'll put a timestamp to add context (I'm not being sarcastic, I genuinely recognized the ambiguity)
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> "If murder advocacy is never beneficial, why do we need to protect it?"

If tasteless hyperbole isn't beneficial, why do we need to protect it?

If offensive comedy or idle chatter on facebook isn't beneficial, why do we need to protect it?

If pornography (which includes nudity in classic artwork to some people) isn't beneficial, why do we need to protect it?

If insulting the Prophet Mohammed isn't beneficial, why do we need to protect it?

If advocating for the overthrow of the government isn't beneficial, why do we need to protect it?

I hope you see the point here, because I'm running short on ways to explain it. I couldn't give a shit whether woodchipper-murder fantasies are a "benefit to society", and guess what? The constitution doesn't give a shit either. It's protected speech because, in the absence of a clear threat, harassment, or defamation (or espionage, etc.), we as a society have decided that it's none of our business whether your speech is "beneficial" by any criteria.
Is it not accurate? Portraying the democratically elected EU as 'undemocratic' because it is in contrast to a national government suggest to me that the source of the misrepresentation is due to them not being English (in this case).

That, and a very long track record of such sentiments being aired by those who are more transparently xenophobic. I don't see how it is ridiculous.
Argentinian here. The bitcoin is not that big around here, there are some enthusiast but it's not something you see every day.
And yet not as close as they used to be. It's not coincidental that the U.S. DoD has just recently signed agreements with India on exporting carrier technology and know-how, among other defense cooperation projects.

Russia has supplied many of India's defense needs for some time, but that's less from any special Indian affinity for Russia than because the U.S. had kind of forced their hand decades ago by aligning with Pakistan, which wasn't helped when the U.S. later sanctioned India in 1998 due to its nuclear weapons testing.
Are you going to share analytical results?

Like, does countries who adore football, score higher.

Do IPs who regularly read NY Times sports section score better?

Or people who actually seen the game on TV, do they score better?
Skip the measurement and do something real.

No. If you care whether a donation to a particular charity will be either helpful or wasteful, then you need measurement.
Amazing to see you put so much effort into reviews! Thanks!
Thanks for noticing that. I cut and pasted the Arabic text in google translate and the results were just complete nonsense. I suppose much less effort has been spent on optimizing OCR for non-Latin chracter sets.
The EFF has a "very long track record" of being xenophobic?

Well, now I've heard it all.
To me this doesn't read as government support, but support by private interests within the country. The population of KSA is generally more conservative than the government (though the government is hardly progressive). ISIS is a threat to the stability of KSA and they're definitely not interested in supporting them.
This is the worst kind of anti-intellectual nonsense. Do something real? What does that even mean? Are malaria nets not real to you?

Instead of waving off the serious efforts of a large group of people to figure out how to do the most good in the world as "dick measuring", I would encourage you to consider why you find the idea of comparing different forms of altruism so abhorrent that you refuse to even consider it as anything other than a source of cheap jibes.

Perhaps you consider the lives of people in your community to be more valuable than others. Perhaps you are less concerned with the good you do than how good it makes you feel. Perhaps you believe that charity is only meaningful if aligned with some higher power.

All of those would be meaningful arguments, but instead all you've given is an invective against thinking. Why? What good could that possibly do?
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> Do they have anything?

Wikileaks claimed they had leaks that would offend the Kremlin itself, back in October 2010. Then the FSB made very public threats, and all of sudden Wikileaks was in no particular rush to leak anything regarding to Russia.

Assange later aligned himself with the Belarussian state (Belarus being, of course, still very close to Russia), the process for which apparently led to a great deal of relative upheaval in Wikileaks after 2010, until the new political alliances within Wikileaks settled out.
this is drivel. those rights are recognized because of treaties signed between bands of natives and the US government, not some nebulous conception of who was there first. if that were the case, americans of european descent would be ejected from america en masse. those groups were acting to respect the sanctity of their ancestors.
Well I'd probably fail that question, but then again they probably wouldn't want to hire me as a code monkey anyways.
>This is a joke, right? Assange himself admitted to telling Snowden to flee to Russia in particular, not just as a waypoint to Havana...

How does this mean WikiLeaks/Assange is allied with Russia? It seems to me that it is equally (or more) plausible that Russia is powerful enough to stonewall extradition requests for American citizens in this pseudo cold war of information, and Assange may have banked on that (smaller countries may have the desire but not the political power to make it happen).
Do you have some sources for these claims?
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One of the issues I'm having at the moment is the censorship with "flag" on discussions relating to political correctness.

This was taken out of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9747095

See "has political correctness gone too far" on my username: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=anon3_

These were extremely trending topics with relevance, it's just the people behind codes of conduct are able to get away with it by flagging criticism as "off topic".
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I'm in favor of anything that degrades the respect for the rule of law qua law.

We'll have direct democracy on this stuff yet! Look at the Swiss.
Also currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748746
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Right. The accelerator accepts the connection from the client as a proxy but connects to the myriad backends. The downstream side only sees one multiplexed stream with the responses from the multiple servers.
Sure. I think it started around here:

http://rt.com/politics/russia-ukraine-europe-pressure-440/

The funny thing is, I was reading about this and discussed with our friends but I cannot find any reference in Google about it anymore. It feakin' weird because I am 100% it happened. Right now it is happening again btw:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-warns-...

They did the same thing with Ukraine situation. I am still digging. I can't read Russian anymore though. :)
I may not be your target market, but here's my thinking. I tend to associate Groceries w/ JIT. Usually, I buy it just in time to get fresh produce and when things in my fridge reach a low threshold. So the idea of tracking prices and trying to optimize my buying process looks a bit much and there's too much involved. On the other hand, if you are able to compare the prices of most common produce at real time from nearby stores, that may be useful. For example, you could even fill in a sample grocery list for a particular family profile and compare the prices seamlessly, I would definitely use it.

My 2 cents.
Aside of the content, interesting things to do with both these and the state department cables would be to study patterns in the metadata like transmission date/time vs geographic location. Wikileaks has them sorted by various criteria, is anyone aware of a good platform for wrangling this to visualize it different ways? Most of the offerings at http://infosthetics.com/archives/2010/11/wikileaks_us_embass... are deprecated or dead.
Not in English available in Google apparently. I try to dig it up from the other languages + using duckduckgo.
712M is 0.15% of the entire yearly Medicare budget. Maybe there's bigger waste that we are still fighting, but that's a hell of a lot to be losing to fraud, and they doubtless haven't caught all the fraudsters yet.
No, I don't see the point. I never said anything about tasteless hyperbole, idle stupid chatter on facebook, criticizing others' religions, or advocating for sedition. Obviously there are times where those things are beneficial. (Since my reply you added some other things that I never brought up. Include them as well.)

I was just wondering, is it ever beneficial to advocate for murder? If it is not beneficial, why do we need to protect it?

So far as I understand you, your answer is: we need to protect it because it's the law. I know that it's the law. I am asking, why do we need that law, when it comes to advocacy for murder? Are you saying that if we ban advocacy for murder, soon we'll be banning other things that do have some arguable benefit? If that is what you are saying, why is there no middle ground where we can just stop at banning advocacy for murder?

Note (again): in the specific case of advocacy for terrorism, we did ban advocacy for murder.
This was the discussion:

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/10/22/rasmussen-no-n...

At this stage the NATO and allies knew that Russia is not happy with their plans on eastern expansion. I am trying to find a proof that they were aware of the annexation plans.
That's where it would be nice to be able to counter sue for legal expenses, under the theory that the C&D lawyer is abusing his position as an officer of the court in writing a baseless C&D letter (thereby causing the target to have to hire a lawyer to review the issue). So even if this wouldn't happen that often, it would be something they would have to consider prior to writing a letter with baseless claims.

Of course, being lawyers, they would probably put in some fine print that states that no legal threat is implied, or something like that.
It's fairly safe to say that it doesn't. The price wasn't announced, and does anyone here really care if eBay was suing Craigslist and vice versa? So it's a piece of financial news of interest to anyone following eBay's stock, but not really to anyone else.
Ask HN: Reward users for early upvotes?
Reddit has the Knights of New -- who take it upon themselves to curate the queue of New items. I don't believe there are any systemic rewards for such action or participation.

My suggestion is that the first person to upvote an article from 1 points to 2 points, when the article is subsequently upvoted by (say) hundreds of HNers, should get rewarded for bringing it to attention.

The person who upvoted from 2 to 3 should get somewhat less of a "reward". The person who upvoted from 999 to 1000 should get epsilon.

This is just the seed of an idea. It could take many forms. I'm sure it has been proposed before. Links to previous discussions entirely welcome.
They bought the stake for $12 - 15m in 2004 when CraigsList sales were estimated at $7m/yr (1)

Today CL's sales are estimated to be ~$335m and doubled year-over-year (2)

(1) http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/EBay-buys-25-stake-in...

(2) http://www.wsj.com/articles/ebay-sells-craigslist-stake-back...
The entire Cold War thing is quite funny. Also hilarious that documents discussing Saudi support for ISIS are considered anti-American, by some....
Well, for starters, this doesn't say anywhere that the Saudi government supports ISIS. I keep seeing variations of this reiterated mostly by western political analysts but this only goes to represent to their ignorance of middle-eastern geopolitics, as a matter of fact, if anybody knows two shits about the middle-east, he/she wouldn't say something like that. To clarify, ISIS is in itself a threat to most forces that are currently in power in the middle-east. By ideology, ISIS considers most arabic governments to be infidels "Kuffar" and allies of the west "Dar al Harb".

Regarding private contributors, this is undoubtedly true but as clarified in the linked article, it's not the large sum currently. Why are there private contributors you ask? Because morons "Sunni" governments fund morons -like ISIS- to fight other morons "Shia" governmets e.g. Iran which in its own right funds some morons -Hezbollah and its ilk- to fight the original morons, in dreams of having a moronic sectarian consolidated power dream.

[Edit]: I originally put the phrases "Sunni" and "Shia" in quotes because they're usually misrepresented by non-muslims. There are different branches of Shia and different branches of Sunna "Sunni". There are newer terms like Wahabism and Ahmadiyya. Each of these terms can be interpreted in a number of ways, the "academic" distinction is quite clear but the reality is quite complicated -in short, several groups, members with different ideologies claim one of the aforementioned terms to be the one that identifies them and that they fit the most accurate description of that term-. Note that this is a gross oversimplification.
Arguably so, but the European Parliament is nevertheless a democratically elected institution. The size of MEP's electoral districts is typically smaller than US Congressional districts and nobody questions whether the House of Representatives is a democratic body. You don't have to approve of how it works to acknowledge this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_in_the_European_...
That's because it's not how hard you work, it's how effectively you work. Writing software has a lot of leverage.
> Charity is about the donor as much as the recipient. Skip the pseudo-scientific horseshit and do something that matters to you.

If what matters to me is doing enough homework to feel confident in the choice I make, who are you to say that's "horseshit"? We're both trying to get out there and help people in the way that satisfies us best; you're the one making it a dick-waving contest.
Also programming skill is rare compared to the opportunity to apply it and this gives us negotiating power. In commerce, you don't get what you deserve; You get what you negotiate for.
Here's a mention of it in the 40s in VS Naipaul's autobiographical fiction.

https://books.google.com/books?id=A2bTQbKZRf0C&lpg=PA110&ots...
The single most important human skill is mastery of language. You wouldn't even know what the word 'labor' means if your ancestors didn't know how to use language effectively. And that's what software is all about.
That's not what the parent post says; reread it.
Well, I'm from Europe and I don't like most of the things that come out of Brussels. In fact, when polls are made it would seem majority share my view. Maybe then 'undemocratic' is not such a bad name for it?

It's tons of bureaucracy with very little democracy.
I'll have to look it up, but after ISO approved the 03 standard, the committee thought there was a waiting period before the next draft standard could be worked on, is my hazy recollection (there wasn't any wait period, but that took at least a decent chunk of time)
I would. For example, no matter how hard you work lifting a rock and setting it back down again, it produces no value and so nobody is going to pay you for it.

(Ironically, people pay to lift weights at the gym, they don't get paid to! It's pretty darned hard work, too.)
Because the Wikileaks party validated two allies of Russia that were being accused of war crimes. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/14/wikilea...
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This is a really cool service!

One nitpick, though: in the live demo of the circular cropped face, it appears that the face is slightly off center, whereas in the first promo image of the article [1] it appears more zoomed out and perfectly centered. I tweaked the url parameters a bit to try to mimic the promo [2], but the weighting of the image feels a little off -- towards the top right. If the auto face detection doesn't produce perceptually centered images consistently, that is an important caveat, and the promo should reflect that.

[1] https://assets.imgix.net/blog/avatar.jpg

[2] https://assets.imgix.net/blog/woman-hat.jpg?w=200&h=200&fit=...
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Not mainstream by any stretch of the imagination, but we still have the strongest Bitcoin userbase in the region, with Brazil in close second.
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If only.

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But you know, maybe someday it will be like this. You suspect heart attack, ambulance pulls up, does procedure on the spot, and you're back in business in 60 minutes. If they detect major tissue damage, then a quick stem cell injection plus you have to call in sick for a week.

All of today's medicine would have been impossible to believe even a century ago.
I voted online in the last nsw election as I had moved states and forgotten to update my details. To implement my civic duty while in underpants truly made me feel like I was living in the future.
Craigslist has no advertising on their site and doesn't charge for listings except for a few small sections of the site in major metropolitan areas (the funds from which they use for their business expenses). I think it speaks to the state of the bubble we're in that one of the "blue chip" internet companies has a business model of "be an ultra-speculative investment as long as possible." Of course Amazon too, but I'd say Craigslist is a more extreme example.
He cites a few specific issues, like random animal attacks that appear just in time to steer the plot, that are arguably grounds for calling it "bad." Well-written review IMHO.
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