skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We killed the draft and a generation has been inoculated with the attitude military service is for poor people without other options. ... Fewer and fewer people serve.

The US hasn't been militarily threatened since the end of WWII, nearly four generations ago. Put the US in a realistically threatened position and watch the numbers swell.

And while the personnel count is lower than it has been for a few decades, the budget is still phenomenally large. For example, the US has as many aircraft carriers as the rest of the world combined, and their smallest carrier is bigger than everyone else's bar Russia's single vehicle. Given that you have to get over giant oceans to even start to demonstrably threaten the US...

Rumours of the US's impending military demise are greatly exaggerated.
(The google link is simply a Google image search for Hoverboard fires, not extra info on the topic.)
Years ago there was a project to redo the site, which I even participated in. Why did they abandon that effort and go with this?
The educational tshirt (http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/ins...) is quite wonderful. Selling them in the West would help raise funds - I would want one!
Almost all of these seem staged for safety demonstration, not real fires.
"Having a political view" contra SSM might not only take the form of "non-heterosexual marriages are icky." Engaging in caricature doesn't help advance the discussion of PC in the workplace. People might believe that homosexual marriage isn't morally or ethically legit. That a company or large numbers of people disagree doesn't mean the people that have these views should be punished for thoughtcrime or for expressing their opinions, or donating to a non-PC cause.
> I'm hard-pressed to think of any good excuse for keeping a thing secret for twenty years.

How about technical papers on the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb? Or the name of cover agents who were active twenty years ago and either are still active, or at least alive and could be targeted in retaliation?

Don't get me wrong, there needs to be a way for people to expose illegal or immoral actions of the organizations (government or not) they work for, while protecting them from retaliation. Wikileaks serves that function. But no secrets with a longer life than 20 years? ever? I don't think I really agree.
The Bronica RF645 Rangefinder Revisited
I think the vouching system is working well. In fact, in Terry's case, it is allowing the reasonable posts he sometimes makes through.

Terry's condition is awful, and I think most of us have sympathy, but the comments are mostly pretty awful so it's a good thing they are flagged.
All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Javascript they know?
She does mention:

> each request was taking 6 / 60 = 0.1s = 100ms of time using-or-waiting-for-the-CPU.

(emphasis mine)

In my original read, I thought her core count was greater than her load, so that would also be her direct time-on-cpu. Now I'm not so sure.

And while time-waiting-for-cpu might not be important to optimizing the codebase, you probably still want to know that your serving processes are waiting for CPU; after all, it is that number that your user's browser is seeing (at least, between the two it is moreso that one). Such a result might indicate a larger machine or more machines are required, for example.
They call them flashbacks and I suspect there's probably a large amount of urban legend going on. Anecdotally, I know many people who have taken psychedelics and have never heard a report of a flashback. That's not to say they're not a thing.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5951972/could-you-actually-have-an-ls...
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A search in Google images reaches the front page of HN. That's quality content right there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_in_the_United_Sta...
Low quality doesn't automatically follow from cutthroat competition, at least not nearly as automatically as it follows from a lack of competition. "Too much" competition might result in shipping too quickly to capture market share, but how bad the product that is shipped can be and still make profit is limited by what people will buy - they might as well decide to wait for a competitor's product instead, and typically the wait isn't very long. "Too little" competition, on the other hand, means you don't have a choice; it certainly gives vendors more time to perfect the product, and more money since they can ship later and charge more - but it also removes much of the incentive to improve the product since now it doesn't have to be better than a competitor's, it must only be better than nothing, which is not a very high bar.

Now it'd be nice if we could have an amount of competition that is "just right" - just enough to improve the product, not enough to ship half-baked stuff while desperately trying to conceal its problems. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to get there, and since all arrangements that I know of overshoot in one direction or the other, we have to pick one of the extremes, and I think "too much" is way better for the consumer than "too little."

Would society be better off if programmers managed to restrict entry into the profession as did lawyers and doctors? On general grounds, I rather doubt it as described above, but those programmers who're already in the profession would most certainly benefit from it!
Pioneering discovery leads to preventive treatment for sudden cardiac death
Would be interesting to see which process tried to open the connection as well. Does he have Skype installed? Is MSN Live tile enabled?

Some of these could be Windows checking if it is connected to the internet, NTP, malware filters, certificate revocations, windows update, ...

You can't really expect to install a computer switch off one setting and expect it to not connect to anything in 2016.
So they're recognized in the same way as, say, a Jewish court would be, or in fact essentially any body would be?
I use Windows as well but I'm thinking about upgrading :)
Pretty much. If you want to get fancy you can make assumptions about the distribution of request arrival times and use the mean queue length of 6 to estimate the fraction of the time when the queue length drops to zero; you probably come out somewhere around 10% CPU idle time, so each request is taking 15 ms to process rather than 16.6 ms.

But cpu-time-per-request is definitely the number you want to pay attention to. If you cut that by a factor of 2, you won't decrease the load average from 6 to 3; you'll decrease it from 6 to less than 1.
A tale of two offline Chrome UXSS vulns
I really enjoy the stuff in Redis Watch - anything and everything about Redis: https://redislabs.com/redis-watch-archive

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Slightly off topic: How is voat .co able to copy reddits design almost 1:1 without being buried under a mountain of expensive lawsuits?
The most likely risk are not the majority of psychedelics themselves, but the quality of the substance you are getting as well as potency and "therapeutic" window. As they are controlled substances, what you are getting is often synthesised from reagents that are known carcinogenics and poorly purified. In many cases, it is not the real substance but a replacement or a mixture of various other chemicals that is supposed to mimic superficial effects. In addition, some psychoactive substances are active in the ug range and therefore have a high likelihood of leading to severe side effects because of overdosing. Also, the dosage window and thus the difference between hypnotic and anxiogenic/severe side effects can be in the range of mgs as well. Therefore one should be cautious if you cannot get access to them in a controlled/legal environment and certainly should not try every research chemical or analogue that appears on the internet.
IBM's trick was to recognise that nerds are bad at selling stuff. Even up to the 90s, sales + support + okay product > great product. Then nerds took over IT (the world?):

> Nowadays, developers regularly make the purchasing decisions

Oops. Suddenly, you can't just cover over product weaknesses with sales. I want a slick, downloadable, preferably OSS demo which I can evaluate (and fix), not a slick sales guy. They just lie.

> IBM is way behind on automation and lacks the talent, so they've had to make acquisitions and "strategic partnerships" to buy it.

... and then they constantly scare away that acquihired talent by e.g. not using `git`, but their own SCM called "Rational Team Concert" (which is worse than `svn`). Suddenly, the avg. day of a dev became 1/3 as productive and x5 as frustrating.

It isn't that they treat developers horribly, they just don't know how to please them. You end up with dev teams of barely average "enterprise" developers, who are put under pressure by flailing managers and executives to "deliver". So they simply add to the decades of technical debt. Now most products are "rotten" to the core in this way, so you need ever bigger support and manual test/QA teams. Release cycles elongate, features take months to develop in a fragile code base. Sales, assuming they weren't douchebags to begin, have nothing good to sell. So management "incentivises" them instead of investing that money in a good product. Thus, the cycle continues.

In this way, it's also insidious for your career unless you want to move out of tech (because IBM's general reputation is okay). If you want to stay in tech you really have to be keeping up with the outside world, otherwise you'll get a nasty shock in that interview when it turns out you don't know how to use `git`.
Or use the (excellently tested) Xiaomi battery packs? Make very sure they are the real deal though!
I actually teach a German course to a group of recognized refugees, including Syrians and Eritreans.

From what I've seen, the ability to handle the culture shock varies wildly from person to person and is strongly correlated with age.

The younger a person is, the better they adapt to the new situation. IMO the two main reasons for this are that younger people are more flexible intellectually, and that a significant number of them (but not all!) have had more exposure to other cultures due to the Internet.

I also get the impression that frustration and language skill are correlated. The ability to learn a new language is obviously also correlated with age and educational history.

Note that there are outliers in all directions, but these are the trends that I observed.
Should Twitter ignore its users?
That's true for the opinions against accepting refugees, but there's also plenty of people who find ridiculous the mere suggestion that it may cause problems.

I support the acceptance on principle, but I'm certainly not sure of the consequences, good or bad.
That's pretty much the same for me. Actually, I wished I did it before having all the responsibilities I have now - I really couldn't afford the consequences of a "bad trip" at the moment. Who knows, maybe in a few years...
Eolab Concept Car Eolab Renaults Hybrid Runs 100km on Just a Litre
>Western democracies could be substantially better than they are, but they are still leagues beyond any other functioning system of government on the planet that i'm aware of.

This is a common misconception, but one that does not hold water. I am thoroughly unimpressed by European politics as compared to Singapore even though there are a few things in Singapore that are not as good as in Europe. Singapore has a democracy of sorts but is essentially a one party Corporatist system (most recently copied by China). On paper this is a nightmare for me but in reality it works quite well. In the end the systems importance is not as strong as that of the people who run it. I would much rather a smart benevolent dictator who makes good decisions than the joke of corrupt politics we have in Europe currently. We're so good at self-congratulating ourselves that we haven't realised we've lost our way.
They won’t be doing physics. They will be doing (in the broadest sense) empirical social research with a focus on gender and physics, i.e. why are people with certain genders deciding to go into physics or not.

Are you really surprised that universities are looking for researchers researching all kinds of things? Someone I know just got a (post-doc) job researching social comparison theory and she can pretty much do whatever she wants in that field. That’s not even socially relevant, it’s merely interesting (nothing wrong with that).

Given how socially relevant this topic is (i.e. why do women decide against going into physics or even leave physics? How can we attract more women?) I’m really quite confused why you turn your nose at some poorly paid social research job looking into this for two days a week …

Social research is not luxurious. It’s badly paid, the methods at our disposal suck, the topic and subject (human brains and how they interact with each other) is fucking complex as hell, we don’t even know how to deal with it … it ain’t easy. Just so you know.
Pinyin is just fine (or zhuyin in my case), but the parent is right about one thing. Structure based inputs like Cangjie and Wubi are really fast. Fewer strokes per character and zero need to select from a list mean more speed.
This is what you get by being extremely naive as a country, also fear of what others think of you
Keep in mind that, in effect, what wikileaks actually advocates is "forcing people to keep someone else's secret is bad". The leaks have to come from someone, arguably someone who a) knows the secret, and b) doesn't think it should be a secret.

People and government need secrets, sure, but do they really need gag orders? (this is not rhetorical, I really don't know what the answer should be)
Not necessarily in Australia. It could be considered unconscionable conduct, which is illegal.
Custom elements no longer contentious
As long as it doesn't include "vaping" i'd be fine with it
Ho Chi Minh's successes against the French and then the US stirred a wave of anticolonialism across the globe. If you're arguing "domino theory!" as a political win (which is questionable anyway), then you should also account for the rise of many NATO-hostile nations from anticolonialism as well.

However, since you apparently think that death count is the only thing that matters, that must mean that the South won the US civil war, since the North lost more lives.

I must say though, it is disturbing that you count civilian dead in the South as being a point towards US victory, given that the US involvement was supposed to be defending those people.
I'm amazed they manage to write this article without mentioning Nixon's "most dangerous man in America", Timothy Leary... who apparently pre-dates William Richards in the therapeutic study of psychedelics.

Garcia-Romeu described the model in simple terms:
“Basically you give someone a really high dose and
they have a really transformative experience. And
you’ve prepared them for that and then after the
fact, you help them integrate it and they get on
with their lives.”

This sounds pretty much like a re-run of the 1961 Concord Prison Experiment (but with hopefully fewer methodology issues).

There's a big question mark over Leary's science in my mind, but he's a fascinating character and would add a ton of colour to this kind of story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....
Parallel downloads are available, albeit via a 3rd party tool, `Powerpill` [1]

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/powerpill

Personally though, I've never had an issue with the performance of `pacman`. Even without parallel downloads I've found `pacman` generally outperforms most other package management tools I've used.
Why aren't they using LiFePO4 batteries like we did for ebikes?

They are extremely hard to catch fire.

But more expensive and less energy available per square inch.
When your christmas tree catches fire, you probably won't want to stick around to take pictures.
I'd like to point out that there are responsible players in this industry.

My buddy has one of these: http://onewheel.com/

It's very well constructed and it's his daily transportation to and from work (weather permitting).

The problem units all seem to be inexpensive products built to fail. The same is true with second hand batteries for laptops and has been covered by the media.

http://www.howtogeek.com/172680/danger-why-you-shouldnt-buy-...

The trouble is with Hover Boards you get shoddy quality electronics gear with dangerous power sources. It's a terrible mix.
How it is even possible to "open" a hedgehog? I thought these guys are nearly invulnerable, unless rolled in the water.

(No, I won't be looking up the gory details in Youtube...)
Turns out, when you build electronics using li-ion/li-po batteries that don't have the proper protection circuitry built in, you get fires pretty easily.
The point I'm making is that the Greek subjects of Alexander didn't make any accommodations for the benefit of the foreigners he conquered, since all those foreigners were far away and hard to talk to. His army (and his court, the generals) had to make accommodations, and they complained quite a bit, but his subjects just sat around at home. The army had to be on location.

The empire split after Alexander's death into the Macedonians proper, the Seleucids in Asia, and the Ptolemies in Egypt. The Ptolemies certainly kept a lot of cultural continuity with the Greek / Macedonian world -- so much so that the last Ptolemaic pharaoh, Cleopatra, is believed to have been the first one who was able to speak the Egyptian language (after ruling Egypt for 250 years!). They did set up syncretistic temples, which was standard practice basically everywhere in the classical period. That was an effort to get the Egyptians to accept Greek religion, not the other way around. The Ptolemies even set up a major new city for Greeks. Their accommodations to Egypt weren't particularly impressive.

To the extent that the Greeks and the Macedonians had a common cultural identity, it was because the Macedonians aspired to Greek culture (it seems safe to say that the Ptolemies eventually succeeded at this). The Greeks didn't think highly of the barbarians to their north.
If we are in a tech bubble, how can I protect myself?
So there has been some noise around if there is a tech bubble or not. I am not arguing if there is one or not, nor interested in that discussion anymore.

If there is a tech bubble, how can I protect myself? That is the question.
I am developer who has worked mostly in small businesses and startups, with a master in computer engineering. I am not the best developer there is, but not a terrible one either.
Should I move to a larger company? Start my own company away from investment? Just save money and hope for the best?

Thanks!
> So, you would prefer to live in a North Korea to the South?

1. That's a false dichotomy -those are not the only options. The unstated implication (western-style democracy = success, communism = failure) is also wrong because there are many other orthogonal dimensions at play

2. Is South Korea a puppet state or a colony?

3. I think what you are really asking me is if I would rather be Fed or Free. There is no correct answer, but I would prefer both. How about you; would you rather be oppressed and flourishing or free and impoverished?
Would results differ much between local and MS account ?
How else do you earn magic internet points?
The mistake is having no guards on the machine.
I think this is still a relevant topic for HN. There have been great discussions here about batteries etc...(Tesla) and some really knowledgeable people chime in.
Any decent web server shows the response time. This can easily be verified. I am not sure why such number isn't tracked in the first place.
Nasa has 90GBPS connection
The hoverboard industry in Shentzen has collapsed.

This is a classic "market for lemons" event. People might say that there is a market for safe electric skateboards, but since consumers have no way of identifying a safe one and all the safety markings are forged, they're not going to buy one at all.

People need to bear this in mind when asking for deregulation in general. Sometimes it's necessary to remove the actively dangerous vendors from a market.

(When life gives you flammable explosive lemons, what would Cave Johnson do?)

Edit: arguably this is already happening in the consumer IoT market. The default assumption is that a product will spy on you, be uninteroperable, insecure, and vulnerable to remote-bricking by the manufacturer. Each individual product has to swim upstream this current of skepticism. Hence the joke about at least the exploding skateboards not being internet-connected.
If sellers have knowingly sold hover boards that aren't safe, then as far as I'm concerned I think they deserve having their funds frozen so that consumers can get refunds.

These manufacturers are bleating that Amazon has been "unfair", but they say nothing about how unfair it is to endanger the lives of those who bought a fun electronic toy to make a fast buck.

So zero sympathy from me!
What is a "non-scalable industry?"
It also used to be about retaining mobility once you get old.

When you can't run around outside for more than a few minutes and can't ride a bike any more, a car becomes you sole connection to the physical world.

Today, I'd say it is more of a bet: "How certain am I that the 100% self-driving car revolution (as in: needs no license) will reach the place I live in before I get old?"
Out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, do you have a site/blog where I'd be able to find more of your writing?
> With that said, my choice was: embrace eating dog, or stop eating meat.

Why is that the choice? I'm not eating dog since there is no way I can ensure that the dog was treated with some minimum level of care before being killed. Probably a lot of the meat I eat was not killed in the most ideal conditions, but I like to think that I am buying better raised animals these days.

> The contradictory way in which we see one living creature's value over another is the reason I became a vegetarian.

My idea is that if we look at the economic value of animals it becomes less contradictory. Some animals taste good, can be put to work, give us enjoyment, provide materials we can use, are cute, are just fascinating etc. We're willing to bear the cost of keeping these around in some way. Others have really little going for them, e.g. the mosquito.
I ran FWTS from its live image which does everything automatically, you don't have to do anything but wait for the results.

I'll had some explanations.
Make explosive lemonade of course!
High-end products that compete with the hoverboard do have much more safe designs. The problem is that the market has been flooded with flawed products that have been pushed past what is safe to lower the price.
Around 2008 my sister got her 15 year old son a iPhone. Texting was such a problem with him that he was presented with a choice. Get a license and a car and give up his phone or keep the phone and keep using his bus pass. He went with the bus pass and only got his license last year and that was only because he wanted a motorcycle.
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I think you answered your own question.
How to Perform an iOS Unwind Segue Programmatically
The World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Is Now Under Construction
How is that news suddenly again? Dont run a monster like Apache if you dont know what you are doing, i thought thats party of any hidden service tutorial since the 90s
Indeed. This is really bad design
I think he was talking more about places like Luton, where number of times it was reported as a hostile place for britons with a message of 'this is a muslim place now' and unlawful enforcement of sharia laws on common people.