skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Cuban crisis: "First, Perry writes, the Soviet ships approaching the blockade imposed by the US had submarine escorts that were armed with nuclear torpedoes. Because of the difficulty with communications, Moscow had authorized the submarine commanders to fire without further authorization. When an American destroyer tried to force a submarine to surface, both its captain and the political officer decided to fire a nuclear torpedo at the destroyer. A nuclear confrontation was avoided only because Vasili Arkhipov, the overall commander of the fleet, was also present on the submarine. He countermanded the order to launch, thereby preventing what might have started a nuclear war."

Another one of these 'almost nuclear' stories. There's only so many times humanity can roll the dice and come out clean. Scary stuff.
Google Maps API team wants to get paid more
I built BugTower (https://bugtower.com/) as a lightweight bug tracker. I find it useful :)
If you're a company making Veblen goods, the last thing you want is to make something that's worth all that money. Then it's not a Veblen good any more!
And what exactly was the benefit to India of the Mars mission?

Did it benefit the middle class? The poor? Hell, even the rich?

One of the most powerful (perhaps the most powerful) technologies to master is nuclear power and energy. India has had this for a solid 50 years now. Where are the benefits?

Please don't hide your nationalism behind a "tech is good, regardless" veneer.
Wireless charging would help with that though as you won't be using the USB or lightning port for charging.
For cars a phone holder with a wireless charging pad built in would be a good idea. Actually that would work with old cars as well connect the phone holder with the USB charger and connect the phone using the auxiliary USB jack
"Milked" is seriously loaded. AAA console games cost $60 and up - do you know how hard it is to get a paying freemium user to even $10?

Yes. There are people that spend thousands. They also spend thousands on $60 AAA games as well.

The idea that players get "fleeced" is ridiculous. Spent $15 on Candy Crush, a game that you spent months playing? That really doesn't seem like a lot to me.

Edit: I should acknowledge that certain games, like Candy Crush, do play on psychological weaknesses. Not all free-to-play games (hell, I'd say vanishingly few in the sea of free-to-play games on the App Store) do. Free-to-play is the new shareware and try-before-you-buy. It's also the only real path to sustained revenue, and anyone that runs a game studio knows what I'm talking about with the roller-coaster that are games that take 1-2 years to develop and have an earnings bell-curve of 3 months.
On the subject of bothering to look, I built this service to answer that: https://ctadvisor.lolware.net
>> "Forged Composites (FC) carbon fiber looks more like marble or burl wood versus the traditional black woven fabric carbon fiber"

Not that I'd ever buy a supercar, but personally think the look of FC looks cheap compared to the woven carbon fiber.
I live in SF and have the 100mbps Webpass. Over my wifi, I get pings of <5ms to AWS us-west-1.
If advertised as such, such transparency would not create a problem. Most driver-oriented advertising quotes far higher numbers, e.g.

http://hubbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/uber-facebook.jpg

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/53eb7ef6eab8eab3507...

http://seattletimes.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/opinionnw/files/...

The situation, I suppose, is not that bad, as most people are still free to sign up, drive for a few weeks to calculate their personal take, and then take it or leave it, but those who are leasing their car through Uber can't exactly break it off cleanly.
Why would that make a difference?
Someone will probably roll something like this out in the metro areas and it will eat the NBN
New therapy keeps HIV at bay without daily drug regimen
I don't think much is understood about how linear externalizations of language are deserialized into symbolic structures, what those structures are, and how those are symbol structures are mapped into mental representations.
Predicting exact temperature is impossible. Rather, we look at previous measurements (both direct and indirect) then use our knowledge of basic chemistry and physics to do what the dinosaurs could not: envision the future.

1. Experiment. https://youtu.be/kwtt51gvaJQ?t=36

2. Measure. http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/

3. Extrapolate (from rate of change).
The point is to broadcast your economic status.
Japanese entrepreneurs face a special challenge: the ‘wife block’
Malkovich.

Malkovich, Malkovich.
Webpass only serves multiple dwelling units AFAIK.

You can already order microwave and fixed fiber links in Sydney CBD, Pyrmont, etc but they cost a lot more than $60/m.

The NBN was a solid idea. Execution is always kind of the issue though.
i barely know some java, and i have heard of concurrency and locks, and probably understand the idea of thrrads. yet, i found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable and mysterious read!
I recently tried for about 10 minutes to find a game that met my criteria, using the iOS version of the App Store. I wasn’t asking for much (at least, so I thought): I wanted a game that could be purchased once (no In-App Purchases), and I wanted a particular category. The search was practically futile; every single match was In-App Purchases. I even decided to stop caring about the category and it was the same.

The browsing experience was almost unbelievably inefficient; I found myself scrolling through handfuls of games when I should have been able to rule out dozens. Apple likes to show you “only the icon” most of the time, which is really quite a terrible way to browse; you keep having to go in, out, in out, to learn anything about what’s in the list.

I ended up buying nothing at all because I couldn’t even tell if there were games that supported buy-once without any of the usual bullshit gem-buying tactics. Despite having simple goals, the App Store just failed me.
> Sounds like dependency hell.

Random mutations are like that. It's almost like no-one was planning out how these things should work, and whatever did work stuck.

Weird, huh?
I'm a lifelong gamer who's entered a bit of a rut these past few years. I would love to pay to play great apps on my phone. But I don't have the slightest clue as to how to find them. The top grossing lists are all complete F2P junk, and there's nothing close to the cottage industry that's built up around PC and console gaming. Every time I try to go look up good mobile games I get hit with lots of dodgy top-10 compilation linkfarm spam sites. I don't even know where to go to find the best mobile games, and every so often after investing another ten fruitless minutes of research (into what should be fun!) I'll give up all over again.

Contrast with my recent gaming experiences on the PC -- Civ V, The Witcher 3, Kerbal Space Program, and Faster than Light. All excellent games well worth their price that I was able to find out about easily. I don't know if anything comparable exists on mobile gaming, or if it's all just shit, nor do I even know how to find out. Back in the day Sony and Nintendo owned and published official magazines that were excellent sources of finding out about games, and many other non-official rags filled any potential void left over (I'll forever look back fondly on my afternoons after school spent reading issues of PC Gamer, PSM, and EGM cover-to-cover). Nothing comparable exists for mobile gaming, and Apple and Google could be doing a much better job of curating their gaming content.
See that's my point: you can buy a track car for a fraction of the price that is objectively more bleeding edge. The track car has faster lap times, which is the reason one is buying the car. You can argue it's the fastest car that also has an air conditioning unit, I suppose.

Hell, I saw someone running a '94 F1 open-wheel car around COTA last month. He said he purchased it for less than 100k. No supercars would come close to those track times. Probably more fun to drive, as well.

Make no mistake, F1 and automotive racing is high tech goodness. Supercars are just overpriced.
You become a recruiter.

Identifying dev talent is one (very important!) part of the job for dev managers, but not enough on its own to be successful.

The only pure application of that skill would be as a recruiter.

That said, you're almost certainly wrong. I can't find the quote/citation right now, but distinctly remember that over a decade of data at Google showed that only one person at the company was really individually exceptional at predicting performance as an interviewer (and he was a special niche case).
I'm not against this at all. I don't want to survive as a studio on people paying $10k/month. $10/month I don't mind.

For what it's worth, "rewarded video" is, IMHO a nice middle-ground. It's a trade of time for value that doesn't require an out-of-pocket spend, and is user-initiated, and still allows a studio to survive.
It's closer to losing ECC; if you need it you can get it and if you don't need it you don't even need to know it exists. You're being rather alarmist, don't you think?

> Has anyone actually seen malware spread this way in the past 10 years in the wild

Yup, had several IR cases (trending up) where this was determined to be the initial vector. Related: stop making this argument. Nothing is seen in the wild until it is (go back a few years and realize this argument was made about cryptowall-style malware).

I think you should re-read the end of my first paragraph; isolation should have an off switch. Give people the option and let them choose. Sorry if that's bad for your business model.
You probably know that our mutual friend and mentor Jerry Bruner died peacefully in his sleep a few weeks ago at the age of 100, and with much of his joie de vivre beautifully still with him. There will never be another Jerry.
> in fact are not even fun to drive on the street because of speed limits

Well, race replica sportbikes are not fun to ride on the street for the same reason.

However, get out of the city and seek the lesser-known winding roads up in the hills, and suddenly the bike is a ton of fun. I guess for some folks the supercar is the same (not for me, though - for me the fun ends as soon as you put me in a closed cage on 4 wheels, no idea why).

Source: I've a sportbike and I play with it once in a while.
I lived in Tucson for four and a half years and will note that Phoenix has many obvious downsides. But this is a good sign:

this city’s ... mayor, Greg Stanton, hung his re-election campaign last year on a push to raise the sales tax to pay for the extension of a light-rail system linking downtown to other parts of the city and beyond. Voters approved it.

The focus on downtown is a good sign. The Phoenix area has at least one excellent bookstore in Changing Hands. It's also way, way less expensive in a TCO sense than many hot coastal cities, including SF, Portland, Seattle, Boston, and others.
Scala is light-years ahead of Kotlin.

Kotlin spends a lot of time promising things and talking about things they plan to ship – and then never ship it.

Scala devs are honest, tell you exactly what's planned and then ship it. Tooling is great, the library system is amazing, and people get things done.

If you are happy with Java, keep using it (or try Kotlin – which is nothing more than a slightly less verbose Java). If you want a better language–use Scala.
Yeah. It's a great library. I use it now, there are some things to clean up cross OS from my experience, but in general it's an excellent multi-os async library.
React is 1 hr at the most to fully learn and get a good grasp...
In a lot of forums and imageboards[1] people definitely always have the "same taste", unless the forum is huge.

[1] From what I can remember, 4chan's music board users have their own "accepted" artists, though a smaller group of users go against them and choose to listen to more obscure, random music (I used to fall into this category—I was a silly 17 year old). But in general, you can assume a frequent users know and likes a set of albums.

Reddit might be the same, but the general subreddits are too large and the smaller ones are well, focused on a specific genre.
Twilio Raises More Than Expected in IPO
Still does for some languages. Just last week I was looking for the lyrics to "I'm a Little Teapot" in Japanese, and the translate suggestion was watashi wa sukoshi tiipotto desu: "I am slightly teapot."

(As to the search, it seems that unlike many nursery rhymes, I'm a Little Teapot has not been imported.)
Contract-based creation of LaTeX templates
It might not have referred to anyone. She was trying to derail his bullshit, not have an engaging conversation.
A few things:

Monitor the temperature in my office (I run a few servers)

Check the temperature outside. I'm close enough to a major city that everything uses that location, but often it's different from where I'm actually at.

My garage. Sometimes I have paints/stains/beer/etc that shouldn't be above/below a certain temperature.

I'll look at it more then email you
after like 100kbps speed does not matter for gaming. you need a good quality connection (stable latency + no packet loss)
What stacks would you recommend for starting a React Native application of low complexity (like single man operation) and low-to-moderate complexity (like a several man seed-funded company)?
> That means with out loosing comments or spaces you can have scripts go and rewrite hundreds of pom files or even just do a sanity check to make sure that they are consistent.

I'd rather just change a single file instead.
This is IMO one of the most important things that next to nobody pays attention to. People toss around "use a nuke" or "because we have nukes" as though they're like any other conventional weapon. I'd venture to guess that none of those people have been around a large conventional weapon exploding, which pales in comparison to even a small nuclear warhead.
The gushing flattery of Perry in this review is gross.
What type of game are you looking for? Do you believe there's a untapped market?
I have webpass with 1gb for 550 a year. I've had it for 7 years or so.

The bummer is- it's actually cheaper than Google charges in other cities- hopefully the price does not go up.
The article is talking typefaces for UIs, not for body copy.

A telephone book, a phone screen menu, a novel, and a traffic sign all have dramatically different constraints on legibility.
Seems like that would be fixed by lining the molds with a layer or two of impregnated carbon fiber cloth.
I'd just use

ModuleID(organization = "com.foocorp", name = "foo", revision = "1.2")
A recent reddit thread had a lot of interesting material on taste:

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4oiqvw/dan_brown_don...
I can't say without more details, but if you can reach out to me privately, I'm more than happy to dig through logs on our mail servers (well, dig through our Splunk platform...) and tell you exactly what we're seeing from your domain.
Bagging Poachers with Data
It reminds one of that episode of Dresden Codak in which Kim reacts to slanderous online articles:

KR: I'm not a criminal; I've never even been convicted of a felony in this state!

BB: That's an oddly specific phrasing.
Tokyo Power knew about Fukushima reactor meltdown months before telling public
> I don't recommend learning Redux the first weekend you learn React.

Agree and so do others:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mjackson/status/74507491083006771...

Admittedly this may sound like "argument from authority", but I just mean that it's not an unpopular opinion. I've seen way too many people be too dogmatic about Redux. Core React is underrated.
EURUSD: Trades Below Trendline Resistance
Millennials+Start+Out+Behind+the+Curve+Financially
Obviously not the type of statistical model I was referring to.
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The article even talks about the difference between isolated words and longer sentences: https://viljamis.com/2016/typography-for-user-interfaces/#ho...
> Software contracts with conditions are license agreements.

That sentence is blatantly false. A contract and a license are different concepts and bound by different laws. That was my point.

In addition, they weren't confused. It looks like you were:

> They set conditions (we will keep it free) just like any software contract where you only get the software if you promise to adhere to some rules.

"keep it free" refers to freedom (as in they will only ever use free software licenses). In fact the FSF also states they will only ever use licenses that are in the same spirit as the GPLvX. It is a contract, because you are assigning your copyright to them -- you have to have an agreement in place in order to do that. Software licensing is a different thing. The FSF actually requires you to give them your copyrights if you want to contribute some code to a project they manage. Many other projects do not do this, so the structure for things like Linux (and some GNU projects) is different and is based on licensing.
The particular concern that sparked this with me is the concern of over-fitting to the data set. I don't know enough about ML to know how much of a risk that might be, but with a tool like this I wonder if that becomes obvious, or if you risk taking away false learnings just because you saw the output you hoped for, despite it being perhaps horribly overfit.

Again, that's just one example, and the instant visual feedback is awesome (I'm a visual learner, so that's huge). But at the end of the day, I know that there is a lot of math and code under the pretty graphics, and at some point I'll need to tackle that to make sure I am actually learning this and not just making assumptions based on what I can eyeball with some visualizations.
Great to see MS doing this. To be honest, I'm amazed they haven't been a bigger proponent of web technologies targeted at mobile - Web Push, Service Workers, the whole Progressive Web App. It's clear they have an "app problem" on Windows Phone and this would be one way to get more developers on board.
> References? I can't address a "supposedly" without something more substantive to go on.

Correct. I need more references. No joke.

I don't know much about Islam. Take dress codes: I don't know if the Burka is demanded in all Islamic countries, ..., and the same for the full list of what is said to be the case in, say, Saudi Arabia.

I've spent a LOT of time gathering information on politics since Trump announced a year ago. I've got a lot of info nicely organized on my computer, but I could have more.

I will have to leave the gaps in my references, details, etc. at least for now.

For Trump, I like him, a lot. He's convinced me. But, I have some concerns -- all IMHO:

(1) He exaggerates. Sometimes its harmless, but maybe not always.

(2) I'd like details, especially on the economy.

But here's the position I take: Trump's a big picture guy. Apparently he's done well with this in business. So, as the big picture guy, he delegates to others and, then, expects them to make the big picture real. Maybe that's really what the President must do. But his big pictures are super tough to evaluate for being good plans. All my best guesses and IMHO.

So, in the end, I have to trust his judgment, determination, seriousness, smarts, management abilities, leadership abilities, sincerity, ability to learn, etc.

There are some small topics where I have enough in references and primary sources to push back against some of the attacks on Trump, but no way can I do that for the full range of issues in the campaign -- that would be a full time job and I already have one, my startup.

IMHO your contributions here are exceptional, in particular way above the content of all the mass media I've ever seen.

For me, on immigration, I'd like us to enforce the laws and processes we have long had, e.g., the one Trump's wife Melania described that she followed.

For immigrants or refugees from the Mideast, for now, mostly for what I want just say no and otherwise be quite careful.

For the contribution Muslims might make to the US, for now I've lost patience and just don't see the gains as worth botheration to be careful, etc.

Or, the US has been essentially at war with a lot of Muslims since 9/11/2001, and I've lost patience. I don't want to hear about their Fatwahs, Jihads, violent Imams, car bombs, exploding suicide vests, IEDs, burkas, chopping off body parts, mutilating girls and young women, executing people for something they said about Allah, etc.

As a US citizen, I owe Muslims who are outside the US and not US citizens nothing and have a perfect right to want to forget about them or, if they attack us, defend ourselves.

You are hoping for more benefit for the US from immigration than I am.

But I don't think that Trump is racist. And I don't agree with Altman's post, and he didn't give much in references either. Your writing is much more solid than Altman's!
If you don't need a server then React Native should basically be your entire stack. :)

Since you do probably need a server, I don't have an incredibly educated answer for you but I use Node + Mongo on AWS because it's cheap, easy, entirely JS, and seems like it'll scale reasonably well (to some point).
I did read it, which is why I said " a few people with the right background". I counted less than half, but my point was that it's okay for people without technical background to sit on the board of well known crypto projects.
thanks camgunz. Like I said in my post, I knew this would be very unsettling for many people who have built their lives and identities on coding.
It's about software for people with accessibility problems. In NVDA's case (and for computer related accessibility in general), it means vision impaired/blind. From NVDA:

" It reads the text on the screen in a computerised voice. You can control what is read to you by moving the cursor to the relevant area of text with a mouse or the arrows on your keyboard.

NVDA can also convert the text into braille if the computer user owns a device called a “braille display”."
I agree with your "other hand".

I think the changes you cited (less damage due to high precision use of low yield weapons) make it on balance more likely they'll be used.

The real barrier to nuke use is gaining entry to the club. U235 enrichment, Pu239 synthesis, implosion, initiators, etc. In contrast, the entry barrier to precision delivery is small and diminishing.

If you're new in town (IN, PK, NK), your noob inefficient, unoptimized weapons can be really effective if precisely delivered. And it doesn't necessarily mean ballistic delivery. Moves the "unthinkable" threshold downward. It's worrisome.
I'm not sure if you saw this other thread, but I thought it answered one of your questions so was worth sharing. Sounds like Aurora wasn't stable when this migration began, so they did the migration with an eye towards the next migration (to Aurora).

Sorry about the c/p but I don't see a permalink on lapitopi's comment.

lapitopi 1 day ago
I work on the Netflix Billing Team.
PostgreSQL was indeed a very attractive option, but we wanted to keep a path to Aurora open. When we were working on the migration, Aurora was still in beta, so instead of going to Aurora directly, we decided run our own MySQL instances on EC2.

edit: begun/began
interesting mention of "namaste" - in many cultures the origin of words no longer play a part in their meaning anymore, but i don't know if this applies to namaste

'goodbye' has no religious interpretation. neither does 'jesus christ' as an exclamation - as far as i know both believers and nonbelievers use the term.

even something as recent as 'hi how are you' - you may be given this greeting in london, and the appropriate reponse is not an answer but also 'hi how are you'.