skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be accurate for Gabon and debatable (but not inaccurate) for Angola.

Basically, we think about these blocks:

- West Africa

- North Africa

- East Africa

- Southern Africa

- Central Africa

Now some countries are "on the border" and the description depends more on cultural or economical ties than pure geography.

Angola could be southern or Central.
Zambia could be eastern or central (or even southern)
Uganda could be eastern or central.

It's complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union#Role_of_Regional...

But Gabon is definitely Central Africa.
Not heroin, but a completely unknown substance presented as heroin that probably consists of around 30% heroin.
Engineering a Safer World
I don't quite understand the swarm & compose workflow for production. I'd rather use a declarative language to specify what the systems look like, potentially with auto-scaling, health checks to replace containers if they go down, etc. I don't want to run one-off commands to launch containers based on local instead of centrally stored configuration, run one-off commands to launch the underlying hosts and to scale to more instances (which then isn't persisted anywhere), etc.

I feel like I'm just not understanding the "docker approved" approach. Which is surprising because docker itself is so great.

The networking stuff seems interesting though, I'm very curious how the rest of the ecosystem will evolve to take advantage of it or not.
Free PDF download... how can we not?

"Nancy G. Leveson is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT. An acknowledged leader in the field of safety engineering, she has worked to improve safety in nearly every industry over the past thirty years."
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The important metric isn't the ratio of what we spend on the military to what others spend. It's something more like a ratio of the effectivenesses of the militaries, however you'd like to formulate that.

I'd prefer a lower cost, more effective military.
Banks (in the US) can't just lend out however much "fake" money they chose depending on how confident they are.

There is a reserve ratio that must be met. That is the percent of deposits that must be kept on hand and can't be lent out. This rate is dictated by the Federal Reserve (the central bank) in the US. Adjusting this rate allows more or less lending and thus influences inflation. So in short... central banks have a lot more control over the money supply than they themselves simply creating money out thin air.
I struggle to understand why you've been downvoted for this. Perhaps HN has finally become the bastion of neo-oligarchs it purports to train?

It's all high and mighty to speak of taxes, but as the esteemed commenter above states, they mostly come from the wage slaves, not the capitaled elite.
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Your timeline is very realistic and I think you will succeed.
The web app runs in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. But nothing native yet.
I heard about the $43MM gas station (similar gas stations were built for a half million). At the scale of government $40 million is a significant miscalculation but not scandalous. To know the bloat goes beyond that to a staggering $800MM, nearly a trillion dollars, is very troubling.
Make bottles out of this, sell them, return a deposit to get them back. Wash them. Reuse.
I see they've given up entirely on the hard problem of "actually writing your data to the disk" and gone in-memory.
The footer on the website contains just the copyright notice, and it is not looking good, are you planning to add more content in the footer?
> "most of Washington was built across the low-lying terrain of a former swamp"

Not true.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/29/...
My parents use linux mint, which has a familiar feeling desktop (cinnamon) if you come from the windows world. It has a big enough user base in it's own right, and being an ubuntu (and derivatively debian) based distro, it's easy to find help on issues.
I agree, but why is U.S. subsidizing the whole world without getting as much benefit? Its not just this, U.S. is subsidizing the whole world's healthcare costs too.
Seems like retailers either accept this, or fail to.

For example, Best Buy, they knew people were coming in to sample goods and then buying it online. Their solution was simply to agree to price match Amazon, and that appears to have been quite successful, I know I have purchased things at physical BB instead of Amazon due to the policy.

They still make margins on their in-house warranties, and any goods sold not priced matched. I don't legitimately know if they lose money on some goods price matched on Amazon, or if they can pass some of it on to the manufacturer.

Just this week we were in Barnes and Noble, and we skipped buying things because they were cheaper on Amazon. It is sad but true.

PS - We did buy stuff on sale, and get coffee/cake at their little coffee shop, so we aren't complete monsters.
It's more of a threat to us than you describe. If a potential team of N people have k members who need a Linux client, then that might cost us N customers, not just k.
We know of examples where companies have wildly exceeded their hype, even though we later find out that the hype was unjustified at the time. There are also examples where it can be argued that shareholders did so well because founders maintained unusual levels of control through slippery methods, then made decisions that no one else in their right mind would have made.

I don't have a prediction about the future of Theranos, yet when new information confirms shadiness in one context or confirms that it is in the mould of other successes in another context, then thinking that it proves the context is the definition of confirmation basis.
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I think if you also added everything that individuals, families, and employers are paying for health insurance to the single-payer pool of taxes, the funding picture wouldn't look nearly so difficult. Sure, "taxes" go up, but we should end up with more money in our pockets in the end because we stop paying for insurance and uncovered medical expenses.
Yeah, I figured that out, it's just weird - as though an ad for a new car were bragging about its 45 MPH top speed, or an ad for a new cell phone wanted you to be impressed by its 3-hour battery life.
Thank you! Merged it in. It really does sound much better.
and so should an investor in a privately owned company.

the "shareholder" could be an employee with equity and no voting rights, in which case the article is just here to surf on the buzz surrounding theranos and adding to the bad press. Or it could be a meaningful investor, in which case he/she should be blaming noone but him/herself for not reading the fine prints/asking a lawyer
Understand your point - but you can split nuclear into smaller phases too and phase them in.

Solar and wind aren't immune to this either. You don't want to generally build things say 10MW at a time - that would require 100 rounds of planning, regulator approval, engineering design and the like for a big utlity scale solar and wind plant. You generally do it in big chunks too. And there have been big holdups especially in getting grid interconnect.
Wikipedia would have you believe that "parts per million" is a dimensionless coefficient, by a similar argument. It's not true; for example, grams of gold is not the same unit as grams of seawater.
This isn't the problem. Sick as it may be, burning $800MM is a rounding error. The problem is in that EVERYTHING in government is horrendously wasteful. The results we are getting for the taxes we pay and the money we borrow are equivalent to pennies on the dollar. THAT, is the problem.
I remember doing that in the 90s. There was the "password book" locked away in a location I won't disclose in case they still do it that way.

We all used SSH public keys (this was kind of new back then), so really only needed to consult the password book on certain reboots.
Sure, that sounds good. It doesn't really matter how you draw the lines in the sand. My original point still stands.
$800MM (800 million dollars) is nearly a billion dollars, not "nearly a trillion".
Or not. How about, other people work toward creating a benevolent AI, and I just chill.
Well, when I think of a cluster I think of load balancing and failover - for which you can use a reverse proxy such as Hipache. So I don't quite understand how this is not related. The way I understand Swarm, it could be just a higher level abstraction built on top of that?
Crazy how this went on. Nvidia started with a failed product in the business while 3dfx was the prodigal son. The 'deluxe' product strategy didn't sustain, 3dfx couldn't pull an Apple I guess.

ps: some facts I didn't understand before http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2386110 , sad end anyway.
Could you explain this to someone not as familiar with networking?
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This could revolutionize knife making. A steel knife is always like a saw on micro level. A glass (like obsidian) could get properly sharp. A glass with the properties of steel is a dream come true.
elementary is awesome, but chromebook is what you should be using
Apple Docs Website is bugging
Are we taking notes the right way?
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Substantially faster than 2, but somewhat inconsistently. Marty's brother started fading after only 9-10 hours. Marty doesn't start fading until nearly the week is gone. Old Biff starts fading after an hour or so? The tombstone fades immediately, and the matchbook and newspapers change within a few minutes of Marty stealing back the almanac for the last time, or possibly immediately after it's burned.
I could sum up mongodb this way : a product that want's to do everything but ultimately fails to do anything the right way.

Didn't they announce full text search a few years ago? like it would replace elastic search? well the result is mediocre.

They have core issues they need to fix yet they keep on going with these marketing gimmicks, which result in a bloated and broken product.
Hackers gonna hack, but why? Maybe Freud has the answer
> Amazon lead on cheap prices.

Perhaps for the mass-market titles but once you start pushing into the long-tail then RRP becomes much more common.

Couple of random examples from Amazon UK this morning:

You Save:	£0.72 (2%)
You Save:	£0.55 (2%)

I doubt many people will see savings like that as incentives. Rather, Amazon's advantage is that they actually offer such books for sale without the hassles of persuading a clerk to order a single copy for you, assuming their supplier carries it.
So you'd actually see through the monitor to the internals our out the other side? That would be interesting :)
I used to have exactly the same problem until I found that the shape of headphones bundled with Xperia Z works for me - doesn't fell out and feels comfortable. I believe it's a matter of testing different models.
I wish it were that simple too. It's sad it isn't. For one, can you imagine the PR campaign about how you hate America, the troops, freedom, the flag and everything it stands for?

I don't have any proof, but my guess as to why Kennedy was assassinated was because of his refusal to go into Cuba[0] and Vietnam[1]. I always saw him as the last 'real' President, the rest don't dare to seriously challenge the military-industrial complex. The message was clear enough with just a cursory investigation into his Presidency. I'd love to hear what high level, insider circles say and have said about it.

I've always convinced myself that if Bush didn't go into Iraq, he would've mysteriously met the same fate. Of course, he wasn't quite as insightful as JFK (to say the least), so there wasn't much chance he would put up a fight.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#Southeast_Asia
Great to see this. I've been missing Docker Compose on windows. Playing around with swarm for some time now I was hoping for it to become production ready. Does anyone know if swarm can now reschedule failed containers to another host? Couldn't find this detail in the blog post about it.
Actually, now that I think about it, why on earth can't you discuss future plans?
"Mole for mole" is completely irrelevant to the issue at hand though.
Create a kernel in 200 lines of code
Finally, we can keep humpback whales in our starships!
What is fascinating, how true can be description of the acts after 400 years? At the best its a legend. At the worst - Roman imperial propaganda. By the way I admire the codex layout. Calligraphy is astonishing.
Thanks for pointing out the down vote.

The thoughts I expressed above seem logical and clear to me yet I've seen very little discussion around this subject. For some reason, it seems to me that people find it acceptable for corporations to use every means possible to pay less.

I sure would like the option of not paying taxes on overseas income. But yet the US government is intent on taxing all personal income regardless of locale. How is that fair or ok?
The problem is that once he leaves 1985 to go to 2015, from everyone else's perspective he would have effectively disappeared. He (and Jennifer) wouldn't be around anymore to grow up and have a family, so there'd be no future Marty or Jennifer to visit. At most, Marty could visit his parents, who would have continued to exist the whole time and would be pretty shocked to see him after he went missing for 30 years.

In order for Marty to go to the future and see himself, he'd need to continue to exist in 1985 somehow. I'm not sure how to reconcile him getting into the DeLorean with Doc and yet simultaneously going back into his house to live the rest of his life normally.

A parallel universe seems like the only way for this to work, despite adding a bunch of extra complexity. It also conveniently allows old Marty to be unaware (to some extent) of young Marty's visit, because old Marty would have lived a life where he didn't take that trip.
Are you just looking for a profiler? XDebug and XHProf both offer pretty sophisticated profiling but are harder to use than New Relic.
I wonder now, should they have kept their quality level even at higher prices and keep some value in the brand (at the cost of shrinking sales of course). If you adapt by lowering the proposition don't you fade away faster ?
What caliber of company is this? How many people are there? Just curious.
Elon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future [video]
UAC gave Windows Vista a bad reputation for annoying prompts all the time, so in the interest of user experience and convenience, starting with Windows 7 Microsoft intentionally made it much less bulletproof: any Microsoft signed executable can bypass UAC. This includes common system executables which can be caused to load arbitrary dlls, this includes the control panel to turn off UAC entirely. It hasn't and won't be "fixed", it's just how it all works.

http://www.pretentiousname.com/misc/win7_uac_whitelist2.html
Thanks- looks good but unless i'm missing something, doesn't seem to really do what I was looking for (clocks to keep time of different task)?
Since systemd bind gateway/ to the main network gateway, everytime I have to operate my ISP box I think about them...

My parends couldn't afford Gateway2000 so I could only fantasize hard on magazines. A friend got one at christmas though, full with a Matrox Millenium (1M ? 4M ... can't recall) card IIRC. I was stuck with my hyundai monitor and generic ATX tower :) #nostalgia
Fedora is a nice desktop distro, but the versions are supported for 18 months and that's really inconvenient. Upgrades to the next version have improved, but is not as smooth as Debian/Ubuntu (in my experience).

For my mom, I use an Ubuntu LTS :)
Try each one!

I'm not sure if you are aware, but Linux allows you to run any desktop as a liveUSB. This means that you plug a specially created USB drive (that take 5 minutes) into your PC and boot from the USB drive. You get to try out the Desktop for as long as you like and it does not touch the OS that is installed on your hard disk. Its a great and addictive way to try out a lot of different Linux flavors!
I think the only hint of truth in gateway drug theory is that once you're consuming something that's illegal you are more likely to end up dealing with people who are also selling other illegal drugs which, if you're into that sort of thing, makes it easier to experiment with new drugs.

If alcohol was illegal and thus only sold by traffickers who also happen to stock cocaine, the same would equally apply. It's more about the markets rather than the substance.

Of course, the vast majority of pot is either homegrown or, if commercially produced, supplied into a chain of friends by someone who knows someone who knows someone. That's how I guess pot is commonly bought: "Hey, you had this friend of yours who uses pot, I wonder if he'd sell me a bit, too?"

The exposure to other drugs, for the average pot smoker, is very negligible in practice even if the original source is in the drug business that operates on the more serious side.
Ironic, I browse on Amazon and buy on bookdepository.com for the free delivery.
Exactly this.

Specifically you should read the findings of the MSRE (Molten Salt Reactor Experiment) at ORNL.

Wikipedia has a relatively laymans explanation of the state of the Hastelloy-N when the experiment concluded.[1]

It's worth mentioning Hastelloy-N isn't that expensive all things considered. It would probably come out to a small percentage of the reactors total cost factoring in R&D expenditure etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment...
My dad bought a 386 DX-20, 4 MB of RAM, 80 MB hard drive, from the original "Computers from Iowa?" ad in PC Magazine. I finally sent it to the recyclers about a year and a half ago. (The only old computer I kept was a TRS-80 model 1 level 2.)

Gateway 2000 was such a great company in that era.
I've gotten quite interested in EO Wilson's social biology approach.
I wonder if these principles can apply to software development and building robust software systems.
Yep! That's pretty much how I got my start in programming. :)
I love the little touches.
Guard: "hey..."
Sorry, But That New Glass From Japanese Researchers Isn't Unbreakable

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carmendrahl/2015/11/03/sorry-but...
Sorry, but That New Glass from Japanese Researchers Isn't Unbreakable
If the writers could actually see into the future they would have installed a LFTR mini thorium reactor instead of Mr Fusion(tm).
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>There's absolutely no incentive to do that though

But there is: Lulz.

>Every input is checked, every bounds checked

That would require solving the Halting Problem. The WebGL spec even says: https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/1.0/#4.4

>In the general case it is not possible to impose limits on the structure of incoming shaders to guard against this problem. Experimentation has shown that even very strict structural limits are insufficient to prevent long rendering times, and such limits would prevent shader authors from implementing common algorithms.
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I think the "containerless processing technique" is an acoustic levitator. My friend was on the team building one for a Japanese investor who wanted to make a wine glass that didn't break when you knocked it over on your fancy granite worktop.

See one working https://youtu.be/0K8zs-KSitc
For me, the (self-diagnosed) root cause of that feeling is an awareness that there's so much that I don't know.

When I read about insightful things or neat tricks/pitfalls is a different person from a different background, but it turns into a mess of "wow, all these people know stuff I didn't know -- and there's so much more I don't know!"

So even though I do the best I can, there's still a feeling of "Oh, geez, I bet someone else could do this way better. I'm probably missing so much or doing this in a fundamentally bad way."
Hi Kyle, thank you for participating in this conversation. I am sure everyone here appreciates it.

It is true that as an android dev one has to implement many things themselves. It's an unpleasant part of developing for Android that Google does very little to address.

The simplest approach you could take would be to copy and implement the design patterns presented in Google's material design guidelines. Yes, it is unfortunate they are guidelines and not SDK. However, there are enough patterns to provide a superior experience to the jumbled mess of an application that it is right now.

https://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduct...

- Use the FAB for "search" since it is the most frequent user action.
- Use the navigation drawer https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/navigation-drawe...

This is just a 1 minute recommendation and of course open to argument. However, simply redoing the app in a generic style adhering to these guidelines would be a drastic improvement.

Thank you in advance for doing an android app in the first place.
Reuters [1] and BBC [2] reports without autoplaying video.

[1] http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/uk-volkswagen-emiss...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34712435
aluminum is a known neurotoxin
This seems to be a typical case of science marketing BS.

From the original publication [1] it seems that a new stiff (i.e. high Young's modulus) glass was synthesized, comparable to other known stiff glasses. Nowhere is it mentioned that the glass is tough, i.e. breakage-resistant.

Unlike metals, ceramics and glasses are brittle [2], they will shatter on impact instead of deforming. An "unbreakable" or even just reasonably tough transparent material would therefore be a major breakthrough. This is not it though.

Another nitpick: the chemical formula of the new glass is 54(Al2O3)-46(Ta2O5), i.e it contains 2/3 tantalum by weight. Tantalum is a rare and expensive metal. Practical applications of the new glass will therefore be limited to very specific niches.

[1] http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15233

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture_toughness
As another commenter pointed out, the title of this article is heavily editorialized. And I think that's the most interesting part of this link. There seems to be a growing appetite in this country to stoke the flames of class warfare. Perhaps it's because, despite the Great Recession and those two wars you never really hear anything about anymore, our generation truly does not have any great struggle to arm ourselves against. Poverty rates are dropping precipitously around the globe as is violent crime. We have an embarrassing wealth of food, technology, and luxury. Our life expectancy rates are ever increasing. I think we Millenials are, more than any generation before us, desperately in search of our great cause. As we continue to see American wealth "trickle down" to developing nations as labor is shifted overseas, it brings into starker contrast the wealth inequalities between us and our 1%, ignoring of course the irony that we Americans collectively are the one-percenters of the world.
Then cover that "unwelcoming" area with solar panels. Win-win.
Oh the US gets a lot of benefit. Europe buys American stuff and generally does what the US tells it to.
At my current company, I am the only 'data scientist'. Until recently they had no idea I could build classifiers and such. I was just a data warehouse engineer. In a sense I created a job opening and requirement for myself.
Isn’t the solution to long haul transport electrification of the rail network? An alternative would be a swap and go battery network for the road system. The nice thing about a swap and go battery network is we have storage to even out demand and production.
Fingerprint unlock is good. Material is good. But this part is important: Get search into the toolbar, and out of the menu.
What do you gain from using accounts payable software?
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I can confirm it still works in Windows 8/8.1