skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
two thoughts

1. In the 70's and the 80's our Soviet counter-intel was fairly compromised. Aldrich Ames and Robert Hassan are just the biggest examples. That probably does a better job explaining a Soviet CI advantage than 'we looked at the things agents did and looked for correlations.' I mean, every agency has been doing that forever.

2. There are a number of different types of cover, like the article points out. Diplomatic cover is the 'laziest' and for some (usually very low lever or very high level) people it's not really meant to fool anyone. There's private sector cover, with dummy corps and rented office buildings, and genuine P&L sheets. Private sector cover can be extremely clandestine, and extremely sophisticated. As AndrewKemendo points out, the things that this article points out are maybe not very impressive at all.
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Those who do not know how Flash works are condemned to repeat it. Badly. This is exactly what Flash is for. There used to be a whole design style of cel animations done with Flash. Nobody bothers any more because everybody now has enough bandwidth to load video.

Their site is jammed trying to serve huge SVG files. Flash did that better; the animation could start before the entire file had been read.
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Maybe he's calling a spade a spade but, if so, your comment is off base, too.
Negative interest rates are indicative of a very unhealthy economy incapable of growing, the same market "paying you to lend money" is actively taking away money from the savers by providing interest rates much lower than the actual rate of inflation.

Without real growth the debt will continue to grow, until more of the budget is devoted towards paying interest instead of the places its needed.
Thanks. I did put the link in the original post but here it is again. http://justfordevelopers.com

Let me know if you have any questions or queries and I will do my best to help :)
It doesn't presuppose. It asks the question: what is a sustainable public debt? Then, it goes on to answer that question. The paper referenced reaches the conclusion that three different models used to analyze debt sustainability raise serious questions as to whether today's public debt is sustainable.

They go on to suggest that, in the US at least, taxes on labor can go a long way towards making the debt sustainable, while in Europe, neither taxes on labor nor taxes on capital will do much to make the public debt sustainable (since both are already high in Europe). Additionally, taxes on consumption can help in the US just as much as taxes on labor.
I had sort of the same reaction. I just learned a bit of Vagrant recently. I needed something to set up a simple three-node environment for a tutorial I'm doing, and the best starting point happened to be a Vagrant project. It worked well enough that I've been thinking of other uses for it, especially as a basis for automated tests on the distributed system I work on (our current infra for that frankly sucks).

Then I read this, and it doesn't look like it's a Vagrant successor in any way that's useful to me. I don't want it to try and figure out service dependencies for me, because I can absolutely guarantee that it's unable to do that for the component I care about. I don't want it fiddling with DNS. I think using the same description but different commands for dev vs. production is a terrible idea. They say Otto does application-level instead of machine-level configuration, but machine-level is what I want. They say multi-VM is too heavyweight but that's also what I want. It's opinionated in all the wrong ways. Everything in https://ottoproject.io/intro/vagrant-successor.html makes it clear that Otto is fundamentally different from Vagrant, which totally belies their claim (at the end) that it will replace Vagrant in any significant way.

They should just come right out and say that they've created something different on top of Vagrant. Maybe it's cool, but it's not a successor. This brand hijacking just makes them seem fickle or shifty. Now I think I'll just leave Vagrant behind while my investment in it is still small, and learn one of the bazillion other tools that I could use to accomplish the same thing.
Agreed 100%. I don't mean to imply that we should just arbitrarily add to the debt; my intent was just to point out the fallacy of the "sky is falling" type of argument around our debt. Historically, however, inflating ones way out of debt has been common.

Additionally, the USA is unusual in that it is possibly the only economic powerhouse that is largely self-sufficient in most regards (raw materials, people, etc). We import most goods because they are more convenient, slightly cheaper or more tax advantageous to source elsewhere, not because we have to. One of the reasons the USA has tended to an isolationist attitude is because it could do so without much consequence. The world has much more to lose than we do should we should to inflate our way out of debt.
That wouldn't be Helvetica, so they would probably give it a new name. Given the ambiguous ubiquity of Helvetica, it's possible they'd have chosen a name like San Francisco anyway. Whether the feature is provided by hinting or a pair of fonts is moot.
I've been explicitly told by professors (who I would obviously prefer not to name) that they considered a C grade to be failing, and that more than one or two B's during your academic career is unacceptable, at least if you're planning on grad school. So I agree it to be somewhat hypocritical to then turn around and wonder why students react to their grades this way.
The limitations that will impact the decision-making of self-driving cars
I've been using Medium for writing, recently with the notes from the Stanford 183C class taught by Reid Hoffman >
https://medium.com/notes-essays-cs183c-technology-enabled-bl...

From the writer's perspective:
1) interface is clean and easy to write on - easy to format things, embedd video, embedd pictures, etc
2) easy to share drafts and get edits from others
3) 5%-10% of traffic comes internally from medium.com, so helps with distribution
4) SEO's well and works out of the box without me having to set anything up.

PS - I work at Greylock Partners which invested in Medium but I didn't have any say with the investment decision nor do I have to use Medium. I just like writing on there.
I think the difference is that in the case of web technologies there are a huge number of competing products: we've had everything from CGI to ColdFusion to PHP to Ruby on Rails to Node.js and we are always learning from what people got right and wrong in the past.
I think this is a "style guide" and not a "design standard".
"American debt" is a pretty vague term. I think they mean US public debt as opposed to debt held by Americans which could also be considered "American debt".
I'll grant that my points are in some ways controversial.

But the very fact that someone can come up with a study at all that disagrees with your argument is sufficient to prove that statements like what we're seeing in this thread - "if you're not in the top 1% you're doomed to a life of drudging misery" are absurdly exaggerated.

That 1% claim is hugely absolutist, so it takes only very weak evidence that broad swathes of the country are content and even happy, to disprove the chicken little argument.
Why Video Marketing so important to the Internet marketer?
Poll: How long do you think until the bubble will pop?
I'm curious as to if the wisdom of the masses can determine when the tech bubble in the Bay Area will pop, or even begin a slow decline.
18 months
24 months
36+ months
The misaligned comment head is over a blank space, and to the left of a column that doesn't have a head. So the "clean" web design results in a column head that's not associated with a column.

Interaction design is what it's all about. This page would work equally well with the browser's default fonts and colors.
http://yuml.me can do simple diagrams too
Now you said that, I agree. I am unable to "un-see" it.
Some civilians and journalists uncovered FBI spy planes by correlating generic, formulaic fake company names and shared addresses: https://storify.com/jjwiseman/tracking-fbi-aerial-surveillan...
It might be that in reading the teachers comment, he parsed the parentheses as part of English grammar, not the mathematical notation. Similar to how, if the comment said to write coordinates as "x,y", I would not include the quotation marks in my answer.
If you would like a specific, concrete issue with Scala, I find its documentation to be extremely poor compared to Kotlin.
Otto lets you create infra and deploy to it. So it covers production, not just development. On top of that it offers default stacks for PHP/Ruby/etc that will be maintained by the community. From what I understand, if you're demands aren't too specific, you'll profit from infra/os/apps all set up as a foundation for you app. It detects what app you have and hence you can even have an empty Appfile (similar to Vagrantfile, does more, requires less, hence the magic)
Does this work on Digital Ocean droplets? Vagrant doesn't.
> So maybe you can explain why review after review also said it was the first decent smartwatch?

Because many of those reviews are from people who haven't used another smartwatch. If you look at the dedicate technology press, they're at best lukewarm about the Apple Watch. It is the non-tech press that praise it endlessly. But as far as they know smartwatches haven't existed for years ahead of it.
This is so cool! Would also be cool to be able to find other hackers for carpooling and/or dinner :D
Until 1980 or so, graduation from college usually ensured not having a crap job, and usually provided some job security for decades. This is no longer the case.
Otto uses Vagrant under the hood. Vagrant isn't going anywhere as far as I can tell.
>Build up an audience on a convenient, erm, Medium, then...leave? How else will they make money?

Exactly! :)

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/war-is-boring-is-moving-417...
For many of the same reasons you'd stay at a regular Bed & Breakfast: location, amenities, personal touches, etc.
For UI code, consider checking out anko: https://github.com/JetBrains/anko
Yahoo spent $1.1 billion on Tumblr, so in theory you could see a similar deal. And of course it depends on what they do with the $57 million, but yes it feels very dot.com bubble.
My point was more along the lines of—failing a course is goes beyond being just a "minor academic setback" for a lot of people. It's really only that if one of the following applies to you: [there are multiple thousands of dollars available to you to retake the course, you don't need the specific course to graduate and have a GPA that can handle the F, you have some sort of future worked out for yourself where you don't need a college degree to make a living]. I knew people on scholarships where an F in a course was absolutely the end of a chance at a college degree (and thus, in their minds, the end of their shot at a middle class lifestyle) because of the terms of the scholarship and their inability to pay for classes otherwise. One girl was on a particularly stringent scholarship that she would have lost if she ever earned below a B- in any of her classes, regardless of her overall GPA—I could see her being hysterical over a C and I don't think her emotional fragility would be entirely misplaced. Her parents made too much to qualify her for government aid, but they weren't able/willing to pay for her classes.

Were people being entitled? Yes, definitely, almost everyone I knew felt entitled to a C- or above just for showing up to class every day, turning in the work, and paying the exorbitant tuition fees in the first place. But a poor grade was a multiple thousand dollar loss at best to people widely incapable of making more than minimum wage. I think the general emotional response is warranted in a lot of cases.
Okay, I'll bite. The thing is that this isn't meant to be revolutionary, that's not the point. The typeface isn't designed to distinguish Apple from others, that's not what this is about. It's not even about 'returning to functional and readable' either. Hell, this isn't even about Apple. This is about the fact that typography, a craft that is as old as written language, is adapting to the digital age and we're starting to see fonts become intelligent and tweaking themselves depending on the context they are put in.

To me, that's a very interesting trend. Type is traditionally designed for print first, with screens as an afterthought. The idea of having fonts that adapt to different contexts and are actually designed for screens first is something I think is going to become more common practice and we'll probably see some really advanced applications very soon. Generative fonts are already a huge thing in poster design and it's nice to see the idea of fonts becoming more context-aware extend into interface design as well.
Tribune Publisher Says Kids Are Going to Start Reading Newspapers Any Day Now
Does draft beer give you a worse hangover?
Dear web people: Linux could be ready for you
Interesting. Another place where I've seen something similiarly done is for the Canadian Gov't.

See https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew
> There is a common flawed view that if you can focus on hiring the best people then you won't have problems with performance.

I think, more specifically, there is a common flawed view that hiring the best engineers means you can ignore management and have them "self-organize". Related to this is the false idea that a room full of really smart people don't need dirty things like "process".

Nearly every time I get someone to give me a concrete example of why a false positive is dangerous I find a management flaw that is the root cause of the damage.
Check out Anko. It's a good demo of how to use Kotlin's features to extend native Java frameworks. For instance you can define the UI using a Kotlin DSL rather than XML.
Neural lace has been invented to organically connect your brain with a computer
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I was replying to someone who claimed that the American debt-to-GDP ratio was average among developed nations. This is factually inaccurate.

You are making a very, very different argument. Albeit one which is also pretty silly. The US is reliant on other countries providing it with very cheap finance, China most of all. The American military is strong, but it's not strong enough to force China to provide 0% loans. And that assumes that China even has the funds to do so; if China's economy has a major hiccup, then what? And you can't print your way out of a primary deficit, even if your debt is denominated in your own currency. This is very basic economics.

> The rate of change and the feedback loops matter far more here than the sheer amount of "debt."

Exactly. Hence the concern. Because if the US starts paying anything approaching its historical cost of debt for future borrowing, the feedback loop vicious. The only way for those feedback loops not to be activated is to argue that the US will continue to be offered ~0% loans indefinitely, which as you admit, they will not.

I'm open to the argument that the US's position is economically strong enough to weather the coming storm; I might even agree. But suggesting that there is no storm to weather (or that their debt-to-GDP ratio is not a source of weakness) is simply silly.
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I was starting to use YouTube like that until they went and totally hosed all their subscriptions to be based on some sort of algorithm that rarely shows me what I want to see.

I had organized my subscriptions into a series of groups, which was a pretty hidden feature that they subsequently removed.

I have since replicated that by putting everything into a series of folders in the google replacement RSS reader, innoreader, I have been using.

YouTube sort of gets me to stay on the site by autoplaying vaguely similar videos and randomly inserting totally off topic videos that match my previous
viewing history.

I feel like this scatterbrained approach to throwing videos at users does very little to foster go to the site out of the blue habituation, though it does make the site somewhat sticky once you are there.

I don't know if Medium can do anything similar to get the habituation working, maybe and editor's choice curation system, but that seems to fail compared to aggregators like HN or reddit. They could probably promote some stickiness by appending full stories right at the bottom of existing ones via infinite scrolling, if that even works better than just having the typical 'click here to see the top 10 secrets of X' junk at the bottom.
There's tools like JpegMini, which tries to detect when artifacts become annoying.

There's an open source re-implementation of their published algorithm on github, but they have patents, which might be part of Flickr's reticence:

https://github.com/dwbuiten/smallfry
I'm not sure I understand how solving this particular problem is different from solving say, the scheduling of production at a manufacturing plant or at a custom fabricator. It's been a while since I went through queuing theory and simulation but it seems more of a straightforward statistics and operations problem rather than something to be solved with "big data". It seems like this has been solved in other industries, so isn't it just a matter of applying the expertise in manufacturing and applying it to hospitals?
It's more a symptom of an extremely chaotic and uncertain global economy than a weak American one. Investors are willing to pay the USG to lend it money because American treasuries are seen as one of the few safe places left to stash your cash.

American growth is mediocre, but far less so than that of other developed nations. Europe is still scrambling to find ever-larger guns with which to blow its own feet off, Canada and Australia are realizing that building an economy on Chinese demand for resources is bound to end in tears, and the BRICS are suddenly looking much less lucrative.

The US is still the driver of the global economy, and is doing kind of okay while everyone else is a basket case.
No, a clear, objective measure on whether our debt is or isn't sustainable would require a benchmark debt to weigh against. In other words, if someone chooses not to invest in American debt, then will instead invest in other debt. The relative risk and attractiveness is where the cost and therefore sustainability comes from.

IOW, you can not buy American debt. But you would instead buy Chinese, or EU, or Indian, or Russian. There is no "pure debt" to buy as an alternative (gold isn't the same).
The creep-out effect depends heavily on whether you're a company with a reputation to protect (like Target)

As for the more subtle way of using this personalization will be to stick more ads in the faces of people that once signed up for a service but don't use it as much these days and don't open the reminder/newsletter emails that end up in their "social" or "promotions" tabs. I found this sort of badgering with traditional ad retargeting creepy enough to drive me to install an ad-blocker, but it undeniably works and is heavily used by companies that care about their reputation.
I seriously doubt anything at all will be found living on Mars, and if there is, it'll be primitive slime.

Mars becomes infinitely more interesting if it can become a host for terrestrial life.
I'm not sure many would agree that the Marine Corps is the best job they have held :P ...although it certainly teaches you a lot that most people don't get grounded well on & that the tech industry needs a lot more of (handling stress, good leadership, etc.).
>because many students would forego elaborate benefits in exchange for lower costs

Isn't this pretty much disproven by your previous paragraph? The reason why the arms race happened is because students chose schools that offered these amenities regardless of how much that increased the price.
Renting a spare room is a key differentiator. All these bad experiences in the thread here have one thing in common: they're all for a whole suite. That's basically renting from all these real estate tycoon wannabes.
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My line of thinking is, say it'll cost X to model C. elegans.

For even the simplest mammals (let alone humans), surely the cost is >> X. So might it be a decent idea to give it a shot with C. elegans first? Because if we fail with C. elegans, we're almost guaranteed to fail with a mammal. And it's not immediately clear to me that we currently have the ability to do it successfully even for C. elegans.

I am definitely not a neuroscientist so maybe I am misguided. I'm also not wedded to C. elegans as being the ideal prototype, and I doubt anyone is (except possibly the people already studying C. elegans). But the first attempt should definitely be on something as simple as possible.
My take: I think the notion is, it will make sense to use Otto directly from the git-go the way it was for Vagrant in the past.

They still work at different levels, with Otto more likely trying to satisfy needs for things like "Ruby" and "Redis" while Vagrant is still more explicit.
Recruitment to Resignation: My Four Months at Microsoft
> In the end, since it's not as simple as "less features us better, more features is worse" (otherwise we would all be writing assembly)...

Arguably, assembly is the most feature-full language - everything is possible. But those features are very expensive, which is why it's only used where there is no alternative.
There is somewhere to go, the way technology is going. Phones have done lot's of catching up even if they have long ways to go... Many people that haven't ditched traditional cameras yet could possibly do it now. But either way it's always nice to compare good cameras with convenient cameras.
I have to say that as an employer TripleByte's quality of candidates and the way they interacted with us has been absolutely amazing.

Many recruiters try to throw candidates at us to see what sticks so we end up rejecting a lot of candidates, but I think with TripleByte we proceeded with on-site's in almost 100% of the cases.
I know what you mean! I feel like I'm squinting at a typewritten page of text, or something fresh from the printer with maybe a little too much ink on it. It's beautiful, but such a departure from what I normally read it's always a little startling. Maybe my monitor isn't high enough DPI or something.
Fine, but C++'s "niche" is larger than all but maybe four other language's total market share. So the word "niche" doesn't really fit very well...
Biggest problems for Detroit aren't mentioned in the article at all.

1) Crime - Goes without saying Detroit continues to be one of if not the most dangerous large cities in the US.

2) Literacy - Only 50% of the population of 700,000 are functionally literate. If you can't read or write what kind of job can you get in today's economy?
I don't think it will pop. Instead I predict it will just oscillate back and forth a bit and stock prices will trend horizontally for a while. I don't have strong evidence for this, it's just my gut feeling.
This is probably SBT's greatest weakness and Gradle's biggest strength, relatively. I've never run in to this personally, probably because I'm use Nexus[1] as a repository cache. My understanding is that the underlying problem is a limitation of the dependency resolution library they use, Ivy[2]. Gradle used to use this but at some point wrote their own dependency resolution library. There are some improvements in recent versions of SBT but you have do a little configuration. See here[3] for more details.

[1] http://www.sonatype.com/nexus/product-overview

[2] http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

[3] https://www.typesafe.com/blog/improved-dependency-management...