skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the OP, I found the captions extremely condescending. Especially the ones about China. The worst one for me was:

> At night, the elderly Chinese dance in the streets in unison avoiding any displays of individuality.

This comment would be the same as going to an aerobics class and saying "the gym rats move in unison avoiding any displays of individuality". These dancing grannies are not much difference, one of the main reasons they do this is for health and to stay active. Like going to the gym there is also a social component; health and social reasons are why the grannies dance. Actually each group does things differently and the moves are part of the tradition. It's as about anti-individualistic as going to an aerobic or yoga class.

Really, it starts going bad at the opening:

> The Koreans are one nation, but not unlike Germany, the country was divided between the USSR and the US following World War 2.

This is just factually incorrect. A more apt comparison would be Germany and Austria. Yes they are both ethnically Korean, but Korean has only been unified for about half it's approximately 1500 year history and when it was unified it was often unified in a similar feudal way that Germany and Austria where "unified" in the HRE. The reality is Korea has always been the primary location of proxy wars between China and Japan. The only unified points was when one of China or Japan was strong enough to dominate the whole peninsula. Even the North/South terms are very Western in origin with most surrounding Asian countries having completely different names for the two countries that are as related as "Germany" and "Austria".

On the ground within South Korea, especially towards the south of the country, there just isn't a sense that unification should even be attempted or that the two countries have much in common.

Finally, one of the main reasons China is willing to take a stronger hand against North Korea and support sanctions is because South Korea has been moving increasingly from Japanese/American sphere to the Chinese sphere of influence. Especially under the conservative Park. This more than anything else is likely to spell doom for North Korea.
> Staged or not,there is no evidence either way. But if the observer has already decided that anything nice is only for show, then this will be the only thing he sees.

I agree there wasn't much evidence presented for a lot of the slides, but I took it more as a travelogue than an exposé. While I would have preferred more commentary and evidence for certain items, I'm not going to fault the photographer for describing each image and the context as they saw it.

> This set of photos has gone viral and was presented "the latest ILLEGAL photographs smuggled out of the hermit kingdom" in many reputable media outlets.

Is that the media, or was the author/photographer also pushing that agenda? It's very poorly titled here on HN as of now. The author mentions recovering an image once or twice from what I saw, but the title here suggests they are all rare and special images. I guess the question is, should we fault and be overly critical of the author because of how others pushed his work, or should be try to assess the author on his own merits and fault the media for their part in the circus (assuming the author was not pushing this view, which I know nothing about).
It's ridiculous to think of the DPRK as a threat at it's current level but allowing such an antagonistic state to research ICBMs is a long-term threat. Personally I would rather us a take them down now then let them fall apart in 50 years when they have the capability to nuke Seoul.
Wait, you're comparing a commissioned body of work with those of tourists and complain the tourists don't take the same kind of pictures?

Is that like saying tourists who come to America and take pictures don't take the same kinds of pictures Robert Frank took?

Or that tourists to Russia don't measure up to Simon Roberts's photographs?

In fact they have a nice vernacular quality to them.
I wouldn't say the difference matters a lot. Instead humans and computers would just have different thresholds for when to stop and when to run over something. If a computer is less accurate at distinguishing them, then it'll simply err on the side of caution more often than a human. You would find there are more inconvenient stops, not that more more babies get killed.

I'm sure I've stopped for empty trash bags before because I wasn't sure if they contained something solid. That doesn't mean I failed as a driver. Everything went fine. Same if it's a computer but it might stop more often than a human.
Service discovery does not remove the need for load balancing.

For example, if you had three nodes, each with every service and round robin service discovery to overload the system is just a matter of receiving a difficult request every third query. No matter how good your front end load balancing is in a micro service system, if your intra-service requests are not load balanced you can have problems with overloading one node, while others are idle.
The time to make jokes about tinfoil hats is long past. It's no longer debatable that we're seeing either incompetence or malice on Microsoft's part.

I don't know which, and don't really care. Either way, there's a case to be made for disabling updates entirely.
I think they want to be the NSA or something.
OneGet sounds like a better name, IMHO. It's catchier, and thus easier to remember, than PackageManagement.

Was there a reason for the renaming?
>The other half is the fact that it spawns a session that can run persistently in the background and which you can connect to from anywhere.

I always thought this was the main reason to use tmux.
I've clearly demonstrated some knowledge on the subject so it is incorrect to characterize me as knowing nothing on it. The crimes of the U.S.government are many and some are morally reprehensible. My question was to icanhackit and it was regarding whether or not it is ever morally wrong to visit a country. I certain icanhackit did not advocate for or do business with the Khmer Rouge. As such your post doesn't really apply to me or to what I wrote.

One could argue that it is wrong to visit the U.S. and I have advocated that people refrain from visiting the U.S. for similar reasons that I advocate that people not visit North Korea. However, the crimes of North Korea seem to be at quite a different level than the U.S.
I am still amazed that NK actually tells people to look like busy travellers at the train station.
Society and culture has ingrained in us that beauty is equal to success.
(You should possibly have replied to the post above me)

> LXC stands for LinuX Containers, and is extremely fundamental technology in the containerization space.

Not exactly.

LXC was amoung the first pieces of software to take advantage of namespaces when they were added to the kernel; but LXC is not often used. Most of the various containerisation software now available does not use LXC, and it not based on the same codebase.
> The best way to avoid forming a tolerance is to use large, infrequent doses. In other words, drink a few energy drinks once a week for an all-nighter instead of cup of coffee every morning.

Not that you should do an all-nighter in the first place.
Why? What's so weird about hellbanner's comment?
More worryingly, they make glaring data errors, suck as poor sample estimates, not understanding extrapolation of data to a larger subset, or even knowing what a confounding variable is.
I'm not sure I'm understanding your position very well. Are you saying that people exiting the slow lanes to enter the "moving lane" constitutes a hazard, and by punishing those actors by not letting them in, you are minimizing that hazard? If so, i'm inclined to agree philosophically.

However, I don't believe anyone should impose their philosophy with 2 tons of steel.

RE: traffic science, here are some references http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/03072... http://www.edmunds.com/driving-tips/car-merging-psychology-d...
I understand your sentiment and sympathize with it. I would agree with it if tourists did actually interact with average citizens. They don't though. So I see no benefit to visiting the country. It does nothing other than bring money to their leadership and this is why I have the view that I do.
You'd never* encounter a piece of classical music set to a faster tempo than that, which also contained tempos slower than (say) 40, where you'd want to denote both extremes using quarter notes. Ultimately, it has to do with useful ranges of human ability and perception. By the same token, you can reasonably expect an article on clothing sizes to say something to the effect of "XXXS to XXXL", without needing to explain why the range doesn't go further.

* Excepting, of course, the handful of joke scores or works of postmodern classical that would surely be summoned to this thread if I neglected to include this caveat.
Redis pub/sub (which I assume you are talking about as an alternative) is fine, but you have to be listening when the message is sent otherwise you miss it.

Another problem is working out if where you sent it there are any listeners, which RabbitMQ deals with return queues. This is important for 404's when a client is trying to talk to a service that does not exist. In Redis you would just post to a pub/sub queue wait till nothing happens and timeout, rather than immediately knowing through a return queue.
The most obvious reason is cost per GB. SSD of comparable capacity would cost $200-$400.

Also, for some use cases, spinning HDDs are more reliable. For example, if you’re building a video surveillance server, i.e. you’ll be overwriting the whole drive 24/7 at several megabits/sec, you’ll soon wear out a typical flash drive. In the same conditions, a typical spinning HDD will be just fine, enjoying stable thermal conditions and the lack of spin up/down cycles.
Simple Blockchain Tutorial – Create a Bitcoin Burn Address
Definitely, the lege needs to do something here.
> Does anyone really care about IE 9 any more, though?

Not Microsoft. It's unsupported as of 2 months ago.
screenshots: https://github.com/truerss/truerss/wiki/screenshots
why not make a script to automate going from suspend to hibernate though?
Very cool. Might be nice for the example page to include real content--even a copy of the readme would suffice. But being able to click through various posts would give a better idea.
This effectively replaces all top search results for the keyword "metronome". Wonder how the sites' owners feel about this. For customers it's just one less click, I guess.
Which OS and FS the rust code is running on ?
Right, but imagine that you're the head of the DPRK military and you're reading this comment as the general attitude of America. Now you think that you have to get nukes ASAP, and you're risking US invasion at any time until you do (look what happened to Saddam!).

Once you have nukes, you think, you'll have a shred of leverage over the US since you'll have the capability to nuke Seoul. With that leverage, you can ensure that your glorious people's republic will continue to prosper without another devastating war. Who cares if you throw the economy under the bus until you're nuclear-armed - that's just the price you have to pay for security.

I personally don't think that the DPRK has any real intention of starting a war - they know that there's about five minutes between hostilities being declared and Pyongyang turning into a radioactive parking lot.
Apple fight could escalate with demand for 'source code'
I want to get two PQI Air Cards with WiFi and make a custom firmware to auto-sync the contents. Then there would be a continuous backup to a safe location (e.g. iPod + iFlash) with no additional software needed.
PHP7 is much closer to 5 than Python 3 was to 2. Aside of a few very clearly defined changes, PHP 7 happily runs php5 code.

Python 3 made huge changes, especially to string handling and input/output which is what most applications do all the time.

And perl 6 is practically a completely different language. I wouldn't count that.

What is interesting about php7 is how much effort and how little complaining goes into porting the C extensions: that API has changed a lot and the documentation is still spread all over wikis and blog posts. And yet there is a php7 port of many third party extensions already

But I guess the huge performance improvements are a strong motivator even there
You bought a fake drive.
It only has a few GB of flash memory.
Try to fill the drive with some data, then read that data, and you'll see.
My point was that Knuth wasn't considering that possibility when he wrote the quote. In those times it was assumed that if you were writing software, there was a darn good reason for it. The idea that you might write software that doesn't fulfill a compelling need is a rather modern invention.
Exactly. Pain evolved as a guide to improve survival but it also can also create deadly stress when it gives chronic, false positives. If suffering is life-altering, it's on the patient or their advocate/s to keep on their medical providers to eliminate causes and manage pain, hopefully without causing more problems like addiction or surgery complications.

Looking at it from the doctor's viewpoint: Does this patient complain a lot? Is this complaint important? Hard to answer, expensive to find out with current technology and discoverability of relevant knowledge, techniques and advances is an everyday battle that hasn't been addressed consistently.

Some patients, like my grandmother, avoided complaining to not seem "fussing" when she dismissed heart disease as indigestion, ultimately had to have a quintuple bypass and coded three times in the OR. Slowly, she came back but it gave her back more energy than the previous decade and she's still alive.
Wait, NK women are sold off to the Chinese if they're caught in China? Is this well known?
He forgot to break the Back button.
Godwin's law has come full circle to the point where it's invoked even where the comparisons make sense. The Nazi party of WWII and the atrocities committed by them are not entirely incomparable, even if they are often used hyperbolically. Reserving a special place for those actions and refusing comparison invites us to ignore when the comparisons are apt, and to see the connections where they are relevant.

In some respects, North Korea is far worse than Nazism ever was (such as in its fanatacism), but in others it's nowhere near (such as the Holocaust, unless the situation there is far, far worse than anyone knows).

> Drumpf

Ha! Someone likes their John Oliver. :)
That's cool, thanks for sharing about the Polish and the impact of secrecy on the public's understanding.

Secrecy in government sucks.

I know Turing had a team, but you're right I should've written it that way. I was simplifying for the sake of a shorter title. HN only allows 85 characters =)

> It is up to use to educate them and remind them that encryption is important to keep our data safe and that a backdoor in encryption means weak encryption.

It is! Would you care to join me in some effort there? I have a few goals,

a) come up with more concise messaging that is understandable by a non-techie,

b) back it up with facts and primary sources, and

c) seek out public figures who can share our message

> They see encryption as a threat to their power and want to eliminate it.

Yup. And as you know, at this point if we try to block it on the iPhone, we'll only put users at greater risk, and criminals won't be affected since they'll just change to use a different encrypted messaging app.
There are plenty of options for 256gb thumb drives on Amazon right around $50-$60.. I buy that one won't last as long as a platter but in the year or two that it lasts you'll probably be able to buy a TB for the same price.
They already have the capability to nuke Seoul. Don't need an ICBM for a few dozen KM.
Sounds like you got scammed then.
Thanks for the advice. I think it's sound advice. Appreciate it.
This is a great example of a modern looking website, that actually performs in a way one would expect from today's computers and browser optimizations. Instead it seems to be more important for developers to use the coolest new technology, even though it actually hurts the end-users.

React is all the hype right now. And it is a nice system for creating dynamic single page apps. But there is little reason to use it for static websites, which could be cached easily, instead of rerendering the website on the client with Javascript. And instead of having automatically cached static website, we use local storage and such to get something resembling a cache.

I would love to see some mechanical sympathy in modern web development, instead of cargo culting all the new tech.
Sarajevo in Pictures
Explaining the Bermuda Triangle mystery
I'm sure they'll get over it just like the online calculator site owners got over it. /s
I went to North Korea with CYTS back in 2009. I wasn't allowed to take a laptop or mobile phone at all.

My group only spoke Chinese. But they weren't drunk all the time, nor intimidating. They were surprised to see a Westerner in that group, but continued as normal. I think that some of the choreographed activities (e.g. train station actors) were skipped for my group - what little movement I saw on the street seemed pretty legit.

I used data recovery software to get a photo back of a North Korean labour camp in Chegdomyn after a Russian guard caught me and told me to delete it. Maybe I'll upload it some day.
There is noting lazy or bad about using bootstrap. In fact it has made HTML far more readable and maintainable. It has also made web in general more beautiful than it use to be.
Looks quite nice, at a glance. What am I missing?
How come this didn't highjack my scrollbar?
Do you remember what the Internet looked like before bootstrap?

I do.

I'll take it.
Except that optimizing cold code is writing software that doesn't fulfill a compelling need.
NFL acknowledges, for first time, link between football, brain disease
A lot of good and smart kids have disdain for authority and status-quo. I will not be surprised that this students will be harassed by these government policies.

We need to take schooling back from government.
Far better, too.
How to Develop HIPAA Compliant Mobile Apps – What You Need to Know
The cloud wars of 2016
Can you explain why she should?
Aye, but even off the shelf 3ph 50A 208v circuits gets you a lot of power. That's enough for 7 or 8 4U storage nodes with 70 drives each.

Then again, I don't really like putting too much weight that high up in a rack that already has 2600lbs of gear in it.
What's it like working with Rust full-time? Is it similar to using any other language for a job? Do you find yourself enjoying coding more? Do you get unnecessarily caught up in micro-optimizations for things you wouldn't blink at in Go/Java?
Looks like Bing's will do a larger range, and has some more flexibility/options as well. Nice!
But 208 is such an exact number. That still hasn't been explained.
I can relate :)
That's exactly how I use Bootstrap, and 2.3.2 at that, since it's too much of a waste of time to upgrade what just works already. I get a not dog-ugly app with easy directions on how to implement 99% of what I want to accomplish and I don't have to spend 12 hours twiddling CSS for a design that I think is barely passable and everyone else thinks looks like crap, which allows me to focus on features? Sold.
Short Stays for Corporate Travellers in Dubai
Let me know if you have ideas to make the react website faster :)
Wow, that actually does feel fast. Loads quickly and scrolls with no frame lag on my low end laptop.
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ageitgey.github.io/amplify/20...

Of course this is in comparison with Medium blog posts which take 10's of seconds and scroll at 5 fps. Plain HTML with no CSS works for me, which is super fast if you get used to the plain style.
Where is the parallax effect?
Seems a vast amount of new, tech websites look identical to this one as it was a bootstrap template. So it's making fun of those who use the same template, tweak a few things and boom it's a "super awesome website that we worked hard on".

Bootstrap has its uses. Being non-creative and using the same template over and over like everyone else just comes off as unimaginative.
Pyongyang will almost certainly never be nuked by the US, even if the DPRK used nukes first. The reasons are manifold, and include the political costs (domestic + international) of using nuclear weapons against a captive and largely innocent people, as well as the actual nuclear fallout that would effect nearby neighbours.

Tom Nichols delves deeper into the topic in both article [0] and book [1] forms.

[0] http://nationalinterest.org/feature/if-america-could-rebuild...

[1] http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15090.html
Seoul is next door, you don't need an ICBM for something that's as close as that. ICBM stands for inter-continental ballistic missiles and they are made to be able to strike anywhere on Earth.
Any references for this please.
By that logic, why not stop at 207?
Depending on the type of tea you drink, this could be due to the calming effects of l-theanine [1] in tea.

I have the genes that extend caffeine half-life. If I drink an American large coffee, I get anxious. I can drink a whole pot or two of green tea and feel a nice lift in mood.

As others have mentioned, any coffee after noon and I can't fall asleep until around 2am. I avoid caffeine most days except for the occasional morning kombucha.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nootropics/wiki/faq#wiki_l-theanine
Meet PeekPop – Swift Framework for Backwards-Compatible Peek and Pop
No filesystem - the rust codebase directly handles the disk layout and scheduling.

Our previous version of the storage layer ran on top of XFS which was probably a bad choice since we ran into a few XFS bugs along the way, but nothing serious.
I think it looked just fine.

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Actually even 500GB SSDs are cheaper than this.
Mokriya works this way. We work with companies like Intel, Google, Twitter, SanDisk, Salesforce etc, with workforce spread across the globe with no set timings and very little management or bureaucracy.
Microsoft continues accepting Bitcoin
Nice project. I wonder how much work it would take to extend Lektor to build AMP pages.
I can understand the part on the "more beautiful" but I for the html part I suppose you don't have to deal everyday with things like :

<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-3">
<ul class="list-group">
You don't need to nuke Pyongyang to put them on their knees in no time. Intensive bombardments with B52 are pretty effective as well.
I'd say this less a Bootstrap problem and more of a 'every site based on a cheap theme' ever.

Sometimes clients are unwilling to pay for real design and see more value in that $20 theme forest theme, especially with cheap Wordpress sites being turned around in a day or two.
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I already use a crippled browser for my day-to-day browsing: Tor Browser. I'd be happy with a browser that's as non-leaky as that. Tor Browser works fairly well, but I'd prefer a lighter browser if I had the option.