skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed many of the Art Lebedev products seem to be neat ideas with poor or no implementation (apparently the Optimus keyboard was quite bad to use day-to-day, in addition to being absurdly expensive).

As for the trucks, it seems that once the idea is out there the implementation would really be up to truck door makers.
"I say war by its very nature is immoral. If you are going to prolong a war by using a lesser weapon, that is an immorality. But I do not see any special immoralities where it comes to using the best weapon to get it over with in a hurry."

That's a pretty unassailable statement.
A lot of hate for ghost here but I'm a paying subscriber and love it. Building a custom theme is really easy (found it much more pleasant than WP) and they give you enough hooks in to the core engine to largely achieve whatever design you need.

The interface and post editor is a piece of cake to use. The only bit that I think still needs work is the separate account management interface - lots of room to improve the UX.
Advertising is useful, at least until we find a better way to pay for things we don't want to pay for.

Unfortunately, history has proven we also need ways to steer their behaviour. I don't particularly miss having metric tonnes of dead trees shoved through my front door. Or having my phone ring all evening. I don't think pop-up blockers have destroyed the internet as we know it. And I don't feel bad for any business model that's suffered from improvements in spam filtering.

While it's obvious the money needed to run out favourite services needs to come from somewhere, it's also obvious that we need to be able to enforce some limits to the never-ending war to make your advert more visible than the other guy's.
I still don't really buy this whole trade-off idea used to justify dropping the bombs, massacre from above vs massacre on the ground.
The US dropped incendiary bombs in dozens of japanese cities, so an atomic bomb didn't really add much to the brutality of the situation.

Furthermore, if the objective of these bombs was to simply convince the japanese to shorten the war, couldn't they have been dropped off the coast of Tokyo?
I hope for your friend's sake that they just misinterpreted the origin.

Aikido has a Paul Bunyan creator that I would say is analogous to Yoda. He was from the stories I heard, from a direct student of his Roy Suenaka of Wadokai Aikido, pretty much a modern Miyamoto Musashi and I'm sure no one will ever get completely true stories today. He started his life as a farmer, served in the Japanese Army during WW2, and had a spiritual awakening eventually leading to the creation of Aikido. He's an interesting person due to when he lived and the life he lived.

Aikido has soft (spiritual) and hard (martial) techniques. A lot of sensei's only subscribe to one or the other and there are two major societies, Ki and Aikikai. When I practiced, we subscribed to both, so we even made use of things like choke holds and punches to initiate.
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The IOMMU hardware ensures security of the VM's raw device access while the VM is running. The only significant security risk I'm aware of is if the VM has a chance to update some firmware (like an option ROM) on the device you give it access to, which may enable it to do evil things when the host system next reboots.
Any attacker above a script kiddie (where they can/want to make money off you) will have someone not as good as Dennis, but with the skill to do what's demonstrated here.

It's not that different from lots of DRM breaks.
Probably related: The testimony of Charles Sweeney, who flew both atomic missions: https://eahnc.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/senate-testimony-of-m...

Both seem to claim they are the only one who flew both missions though, I can't tell if they are correct.

[Edit: Changed the link to a wordpress site for easier reading.]
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Some features :
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Most providers in most European countries sell pre-paid sim cards for data. In general something like Euro 10 for one Gig.

Personally I like a fee per bundle more then a fee per day. Some days I only briefly check my email, the next day something happens and I have to work extensively.

I came across this very informative website:
http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/
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He addressed this: "Later, another person questions using the atomic bomb at all. Why not drop it as a show of force in a rural area far away from people? Why didn’t America prove it had a superweapon then ask Japan to surrender?"

“What would be lost?” Beser says. “The integrity of your threat is gone … the ability to carry out your threat is paramount. You do not win a war by just threatening to do things and then go ‘poof.’
They didn't "rebrutalize" judo, although admittedly bjj stayed closer to the requirements of real-life fights in compare to modern judo which neglected less spectacular aspects (such as ground fighting) for the sake of more flashy stuff (throws look way better on TV).
Australia has some of the most expensive cities in the world. For example the Sydney median property price has just hit $1 million.

Many sources rate Australia as one of the most expensive places in the world.

Here is one example:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/why-australias-st...
If you don't do research, you shouldn't be buying stock. Most people shouldn't buy stocks, period.
Aye, actually Sundiver is my favorite of David's books. I think his writing is better in later books, but I enjoy the audacious technical ideas and the classic 'closed room mystery' plot.

I met David earlier this year at the NASA NIAC symposium, and spent a nice afternoon hanging out with him and Joe Haldeman and his wife. Very nice people! We toured the Swampworks and launch sites at KSC, and talked about practical methods for moving planets. It was a very enjoyable day.
I wonder if there are any HN-ers actually practicing bjj? Purple belt here
That's exactly what this whole thread is about: doing things that please the top level of the company but are hard to sell to actual customers.
Yes and yes. For all its shortcomings and challenges, bike sharing led millions to re-explore their city and question the role of the car in commuting.
Totally agree. That and have they planned on air dropping this behemoth? I've seen a HMMWV's with failed 'chutes lying on the DZ.

Or what about a deep fording kit for this guy?
I feel like they're trying to make an F-35 on land so they don't have to keep buying trucks.
> no longer offers a way to disable Windows Updates

While you may be in the 0.01% of users who can intelligently determine which updates to install, consider all the botnets and preventable security exploits that exist because people disabled windows updates.

The entire Windows anti-virus industry thrives mostly because of unpatched machines (also because of earlier Windows insecure by default settings).

So while I don't use Windows, I'm very glad that Windows is forcing the masses to update.
> Remember, if government is wrong, it will not be able to hide the truth for a long.

The truth that the NSA is massively spying was hidden for a very long time (or rather: Hardly anybody really believed those who told the truth).
Very much so. I found there wasn't a single sentence of that old man that I disagree with.
yes, mainly to access the corp network.
Total BS. I'm a big fan of limit orders (though most of my purchases are DCA). Since Robinhood can't do limit orders (or couldn't when I was using it—or I couldn't figure it out), it's useless.
Note the (not so retro) sexism in the advert: it's targeted at a man buying it for his wife due to his dissatisfaction with her home economics.
I'm not sure what walled garden you're talking about. You can install apps and app stores from whatever source you want, just like stock Android. You can't install Google Play, but that's because Google has restricted it, not Amazon. It seems like some kind of doublespeak to call something a walled garden when someone else built a wall around their app to keep you from planting it there.
I don't think the article makes it too obvious, but he died in 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Beser

A person who thinks they know lots, but actually don't. Especially with age they think they are owed respect, but no
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See all of the "why is Amazon such a terrible employer" articles on HN recently. They don't care about their people.
Well, Lua coroutines uses longjmp and they're not "fairly simple" in any way.

I don't think it is a circular reasoning. There's always the good and the bad way to use something, even C++ exceptions.
I hope you are joking!!

I started fresh out of college with an engineering degree back in 1987 and my starting salary was $AUD20,500.00 per year.

EDIT: AUD is Australian dollar.
The problem with "deadly" styles and moves is known as Kano paradox (after Jigoro Kano the judo founder, not the Mortal Kombat Kano ;) ), or alternatively a randori paradox.

It boils down to that: you can learn eye-gouging, but you can't really practice it, so it ends up less effective than more "modest" and safer techniques.

Learning to rip out throats without actually ever ripping it lacks lacks in the so-called aliveness aspect: https://youtu.be/imjmLWj5WCU
A leveraged portfolio is a bad comparison because you could also leverage this portfolio. Let's compare apples to apples. There is no unlevered investment right now that can give you such high returns, that I can think of.
Fanciness is often the opposite of functionality.
The only way to check is to verify the certificate,

Or use a U2F key as a second factor. Avoiding MITM fishing attacks is one its explicit design goals. In short: the MITM does not have the right key handle, so it cannot initiate the challenge-response.

https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/Overview....
https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/Key_gener...
https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/fido-u2f-...

U2F is supported by Google and Dropbox (since one or two weeks). Keys cost ~10-15 Euro a pop. Buy two keys, keep one with you, put the other in a fire-proof safe.
You are claiming they extract value, yet real returns increase. Therefore either one of the following is true:

A) The Federal Reserve actually increases real returns on investment, thereby masking the extraction.

B) Your statement that they are extracting money from the system is false since real returns have improved, not declined.

Like, I get you want to believe there is some massive extraction going on here but it just isn't the case. Inflation existed before the Federal Reserve.

If I have $100,000 today and $106,000 in a year, I'm not having money "taken" from me via inflation if in an earlier time I'd have only ended up with a $105,000.

You can't prove something like what you claim exists without showing an impact on the real return on investment.
When I think of "Obi" and phones, I think of this VOIP hardware company that has been around for several years.[0] This new venture really didn't do their due diligence on the name.

[0] http://www.obihai.com/
Fair enough, I did overlook that :) And indeed overall the OP is more nuanced than many stories like it are.
Exactly! PPL don't care for encryption before I hack their WA/FB communications or show them the content of their "personal documents" folder... This makes an approach to teach them such important stuff much more difficult because it's rather theoretical.

A real attacker wouldn't demonstrate that but just use the material he gains to make money in any way or destroy the lives/careers of the people.

The law is called "Hackerparagraph" (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbereiten_des_Ausspähens_und...)
I think that when the majority of people on the Internet are non-technical Android and iPhone users, browsing Facebook and Instagramming lunch, from that perspective, the NSA really is on every network.
Timeline seems to be missing Vienna, which tried it as early as 2001 and had problems with theft. The second iteration (2004 or so?) was a great success.
Are you a paying customer or paid evangelist coz I'm sorry this reads like an advertorial to me?
Your data points may differ, but eBay makes profits of 1B on mainly a Java platform. Other large companies use Ruby, PHP, Python and Java which all are based on OOP.

But I would be interested in your arguments.
It would be helpful to know at what interest rate they are discounting future payments. When you're looking 50 years in the future, even a few points makes an enormous difference.
Keep up the good work. Looking forward to this in a future pypy release.
I'd love to see EV certificates everywhere, and cheap enough that made them practical for small business owners who collect minimal personal information. Should you really need an EV certificate to have a newsletter sign up form? Probably not, but I wouldn't mind if it weren't for the fact that I'd pay over 200 pounds a year [0] for the privilege.

But absolutely, anyone storing serious personal information (credit cards, banking information, social security numbers) should be required by law to have an EV cert.

[0] https://www.geotrust.com/uk/ssl/
Seriously? He basically says that it's better that many innocent civilians die than that even more soldiers (but fewer civilians) die, over a longer span of time.

It's a pretty sane opinion to hold: basically, it boils down to "in war times, value(civilian) == value(soldier)". But I wouldn't call it "unassailable", and I'm sure many will disagree with it.
This is neat! I wrote something similar while learning Go a while back.

https://github.com/jroes/par
You should really improve the screenshots. They don't seem to be in correct order, the last screenshot with two different views in one is quite misleading.
Massacre from above minimized American losses.
I see a parallel here between tickers, which are extremely important given a fledgling ETF's reliance on marketing, and domain names.

Could an ETF company hypothetically squat on valuable tickers such as HACK, DATA, BDAT, GEMS, etc.? Not sure it would be worth the costs to do so, but I'm curious nonetheless.
Why do GUI designers hate sub-menus? Note that the new Start menu doesn't really have sub-menus, it's just one big expandable menu. It falls in this general trend of getting rid of sub-menus and replacing them with less efficient alternatives. It annoys me greatly.
No, but you could switch to BSD by way of Mac OS.
I also found myself agreeing with a lot of what he said, but at the same time, I can't imagine coming to the conclusion that the only way out is to drop not one but two atomic bombs on cities. It's easy to say "but if we hadn't done that we would've ended up killing many more on the ground" but that's speculation, even if it's well-founded. There's no alternative timeline that we can point at and say: look, this is what happened if we hadn't dropped the bombs so we had no choice. There was always a choice and I don't think I could ever make the choice they made.
What exactly is the point the poster tries to make? That there are online guitar tuners? Or does he see different results than I do?
Also if it's really using 100% of the CPU (not just one core), then it will affect the overall PC experience since it uses up all available resources and doesn't leave anything for other processes.

I personally dislike it when an application makes my "PC" lag every now and then. CPU time and RAM are shared resources, thus applications should make sure to not act selfish unless asked for (e.g. encoding a video, etc).
I don't think anyone is saying don't use objects, it's the OOP paradigm that is being critiqued.
Most users won't use tree strcutures. If you don't give them a flat structure, they won't use it. Look at how many people keep all of their files directly on their Desktop.
I'm not sure it is unassailable.

More quickly doesn't always equal less casualties, for instance. And even where more quickly does equal less casualties for your side, it could mean vastly more for the other side, or less military deaths but more civilian one. Or how about the potential for ongoing damage to both environment and survivors health.

This isn't to say that a nuclear attack, or any other weapon that could bring a war to a swift close, is automatically worse - just that's not automatically and unassailably better either.
I think he meant "if and only if" (iff): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if
The font rendering on Linux is so much nicer than on Windows, especially on web fonts. I use Windows at work, and it drives me crazy how bad the font rendering can be sometimes (and yes, I have used the cleartype tweaking tool, thanks).
> Not sure why you're being downvoted for this.

Because there's a way to communicate the point without casting aspersions on the commenter.
> Actually, being part of the ISO C standard, they are not platform-specific.

The standard doesn't define the full semantics, specially what happens when a signal, trap, OS exception and similar occurs.
Actually 2 died of kidney failure and 1 died of pneumonia.
Yes and no, any orders are information that you concede to someone else that competes with you for the same resource.

But stops probably more important that limits because they can be used to "buy cheaper" or "sell more expensive"

So a acting "spontaneously" instead of having orders waiting is probably preferable when mean-reverting.
I think front end developers - and I am one - are becoming increasingly lazy about testing in multiple browsers. Perhaps the improvements in browser standardisation have lulled us into a false sense of security.

As you say, the page is basically broken in Firefox.
£51 for four burgers and fries in London is a tad excessive :)
From the article

> 81% of funds account for 2.4% of dollar volume.

So the top 20% see 97.6% of all trading, probably with the top 10% seeing 90% or so. The ETF industry is a bit more brutal than the 80/20 rule of thumb.
Ha, no. I pay for it, use it and like it. They do a free trial - check it out yourself and make your own mind up.
The US actually did consider this, but were worried that it would embolden the Japanese if the demonstration ended up being a failure(i.e. the bomb didn't properly detonate, yield was less than anticipated, etc.

http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-15-3-b-...
Born and brought up in the US, been in India for the last ... 8 years. (Indian origin).

That's quite anecdotal at best. My experience has not been the same, I've seen ample violent elements in both places. Indians are generally subtler in our social cues, and that might make Americans "louder" (which feels like aggression), but certainly not more violent.

It also might matter which area of either country you've lived in. Boston(-ish) and Mumbai here.

An acceptable argument for India being more nonviolent would be the entire NAM movement among other initiatives, but there are still many, many other reasons why India's nonviolent independence movement worked -- Indians being nonviolent, if true, would be a small contributor to it, not the main reason. Besides, like I said, we had a violent independence movement and failed. Technically, two, if you count the INA, which actually managed to liberate many areas.
I'm not sure if you mean the guys participating in "Project Harpoon" or the author of the article, as the comment fits both, given the man-hating tone of the article.
> One of my favorite features that has come to Windows 10 is the ability to scroll an inactive window.

That's one of the things that annoy me when using Windows (on someone else's computer). That was fast, Microsoft. Linux had it for a long while already.
In various other articles, I've seen 2-6 soldiers/Marines listed as the capacity. Also, references to differing levels of armor and armament, though I haven't seen any details.

I agree that the L-ATV doesn't appear suitable as a "run errands on base" truck. I do not know what the Army plans to do for this need.
This article is totally wrong.
In 2004, Tokyo University sampled, and reported in detail.
Many Japanese believe this story though.
The report completely denied this story.

Japanese and Americans, there are no big differences.
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The era of 'equality of opportunity' is over. The left-wing want equality of results.
Tsarist russia did not hesitate sending prisoners (including revolutionaries) to Siberia or other prisons, but in the 100 years they probably killed less than early USSR managed in one year, and USSR had multiple of such years.

Where tsarism will bother to send you out communists will just shoot you, problem solved.

UK also was shipping prisoners to Australia where most of them died en route. Oops. Took them several decades to figure shipping out.
More details at wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_L-ATV
All new evidence points to the fact that the Japanese were thinking of surrendering and that the Americans new it, before the bombs were dropped. Also it shows that the bombs had little to no effect on their reasoning.
They whished to surrender on their own terms which they did, more or less, despite the "unconditional surrender" bs.
Off-topic: the cheapest home on zillow available in San Carlos, CA (where Prenav is located) is $698k + $458 monthly HOA fee for 1,040 sq st.
Apple has been selling closed-source knock-off of my GPL app for 6 months after acknowledging they've received my takedown request. They've eventually took it down, but they haven't notified users and kept the money.

I've asked sfconservancy and fsf for help, but they wouldn't take the case.
> for example the unity engine on linux doesn't seem to support vsync (it says it does, but it doesn't in practise)

It does technically support it. It's just that for some mysterious reason, it's turned off by default. Games that explicitly turn it on, or let you change it in the settings (in my small library that's only MouseCraft and JazzPunk) run fine.

Everything else maxes out my CPU. As a laptop user, this does not make me happy.
Part of the job description? How about conscription, how does that play into the equation?

The perennial "Bash the US for dropping the atomic bombs" really just needs to stop. You're judging actions that happened 70 years ago by your standards you hold today. The question you need to be concerned over is, "What would we do in this day and age faced with a similar situation?"