skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I've read that book (highly recommended, by the way, for anyone else reading this who's interested in the history of nuclear weapon control and accidents), and if these were the older PALs I wouldn't have any problem with that statement. But "control" seems to have won that fight eventually (for the most part... Navy nukes still don't have PALs) and I'd imagine that modern PALs are far more robust than those early ones.
While I am sure landlords in California do discriminate on the basis of race and national origin, it's illegal, and has been so for a long time. I'm assuming the article is about housing in somewhere else, like the UK

http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/discriminati...
Three days ago they had the power to the base cut off and a 'no fly' zone was created over the base. It has exactly one runway that would only take a few well placed bombs to put it out of commission. Yesterday they were still on 'internal power' (aka diesel generators).

Now, I'm sure the US would do everything they could to avoid those weapons falling the wrong hands but I think you're being a bit over-confident about the situation there, which even now is far from stable and the US/Turkey relationships are right now at a historic low.
So this means I may be able to hook my current fitness band up like a pokemon go plus? I hope it does; worth a try.
In this case you are using BGP only for it's ability to send routes from one place to another.

This isn't complicated, it's config management. You can ignore 99% of what BGP can do in this use case.
Sony doesn't support OpenGL on PS4. Vulkan is a different story. It will depend on their mood. Their desire to deal a blow to MS might outweigh their lock-in habits.
Alright, you hate bankers and financiers. I get it. Fair enough, that's your right and I won't argue the point.

However London is a global cultural and trade hub entirely due to it's finance industry. Take that away and what does London or Britain have economically? Every single London resident would suffer from that from lower wages, fewer employment prospects and higher taxes. Property would be less valuable and so rents might fall, but so would earnings to pay for it with.

I fully expect a 'we should be making cars (or whatever) instead of running banks' type argument, but why is that a choice? Anything else we could do to make up for losing Finance we could do anyway. We had a 3 term Labour government. They were in power for 13 years. If anyone was going to dial back the clock and 'save' Britain by turning it into a low-wage, low value jobs-for-the-boys economy they had the chance. Killing finance first then wondering what to do instead is kind of the wrong way to go about something like that.
Ask HN: Anyone have experience with data science competition?
I found myself enjoying Data Science and would like to know if anyone else had experience participating in the competition.
I remember sitting with John Dvorak at his private party in the Sands at Comdex in Vegas. John was buying and we got very very drunk. The occasion was a wake for the obvious demise of Wordstar, which we both preferred. Word Perfect basically out marketed Wordstar by giving away tens of thousands of demo copies at Comdex and Soft-Sell. Word Perfect had a half-assed WYSIWYG but John called it WISHYWYG (you wish what what you see is what you get). The doomed Wordstar was a better product in almost all respects, but Word Perfect was able to market them out of business.
> Both bring changes throughout the codebase, unfortunately.

That's where auto often helps. Lets you change types as long as you don't break the interface.
JS as target will always be slower and bigger(as payload) than WASM as target so my point is that JS as compilation target is no longer relevant once WASM is supported(i.e. most likely by the end of the year). It makes little sense to start a javascript backend now unless you are looking for very short term benefits.
I'd be surprised if they don't have the capability to disarm them and destroy the "interesting" components relatively quickly.

I would also be surprised if (besides initial instability) the expected outcome of a military coup is much worse than the status quo.

With the current situation there's probably not much good of saying "yeah, that place is pretty fked so we gtfo'd." Which exactly the message sent by loading up all your nukes and gtfoing at ~Mach 2.
I'm not a lawyer, but it does look like they need to include the original copyright notice with your credit.

Of course, if they do, then there's not much you can do.
Hi (author here),

I have a separate post on the "how to" aspect of it scheduled to be released later this week.
Ask HN: R or Python? I am a newbie
Unless this is exactly what they planned.
I'm thinking I don't have all my facts straight with this question, but:

A really successful bookstore in my town has been using a networked DOS POS system since as long as they've had POS software. I asked about it once, liking the look of the old monitors and antiquated user interface, and I thought they called it Wordstar. They gave me some more details like how there is still one support company that will actually help them from time to time when they need something looked into. Mostly saying that they've never moved on because it does (almost) exactly what they need.

But now I'm thinking I either a) misheard them, or b) I'm just confusing myself right now because the wording was similar.

Has Wordstar been used in addition to word processing for custom solutions/software?

edit: giving it some more thought, I'm now wondering if they were using Wordstar or otherwise for inventory purposes only, and using ANOTHER piece of software for the actual sales.

edit: looks like I am very possibly thinking of http://www.wordstock.com/o_view.html
Well, this is a company doing the appropriation, so doesn't it make a lot more sense to use the term "borrow"? It wasn't some individual stealing the intellectual property of a poor corporation. A corporation just trying to create jobs and wealth for the little people.

This is a corporation acting toward a government entity so steal is a bit harsh. Everyone knows companies are better than governments and individuals. Therefore Microsoft clearly borrowed fonts from the Turkish army.
To be fair, Apollo ran from '61-'72, developed the Saturn series of rockets, associated technology, landed six missions on the moon, and cost somewhere around $100-200B* (USD$2010).

*Sad context: Iraq War @ $750B-$1.1T (USD$2010)
I know Mesa. Python based, open-source framework for agent-based models.

https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa
How the httpoxy vulnerability could be exploited
I don't get this as well. The only reason i use Tweetbot instead of the official client is because it allows me to set a list as a custom timeline. This is such a wonderful functionality: i can easily switch between the 'firehose' of everyone i follow (around 700 accounts or so) and a custom timeline that has around 50-100 accounts that i don't want to miss. You get the feeling that the only thing Twitter cares about is building new features (e.g. moments) instead of improving existing features.
I was corrected on Twitter by Will Harris, who works on Chrome security, and it turns out that remote removal actually is in place for extensions that have been blacklisted from the official repository. I've added a small addendum correcting this.
I did this as well and, surprisingly, it has been effective at keeping me off of Facebook + Reddit (I'm find with Hacker News).
MH17: Two years on and what do we know?
I have a standing desk. So my monitor is visible to everyone in the area. Discourages me from doing anything other than work when I'm at work.

It's not like someone is going to comment that I've been looking at Facebook at work, but it helps trick me into not doing anything unproductive.
Interesting, I'm from Hungary (pretty sure that counts as post-Soviet), and I've never heard of such a thing.

I'm also pretty sure that the internal passports are 100% irrelevant to this site and one would get confused by this only if they really, really wanted to.
I enjoyed this article, because it's just a concise, interesting observation of open-source incentives. There's no grandiose point or sweeping call to action, it just states an interesting observation.
On top of that, I know actual companies that specialize in doing this for bigger companies. The companies want to move something from form, database, file, or whatever to another. Or merge several with some analysis into a new one. You'd think this would be automated or a simple job for one, on-site programmer.

Instead, these firms get paid big money to do that on a regular basis for the same companies. Mind-blowing.
3:30 is siesta time.
Right now it's more comparable to the X-37B. It's not quite clear what the further steps are going to be, India has floated a lot of concepts and seems to be still figuring out which can be pursued further.
I recently started scheduling my days using a paper and pen but this time with the 'bullet journal' system. I've tried many todo lists online that never stick and I've got stacks of notepads that I scribble notes in but never read again.

With my bullet journal I now have a system for reviewing tasks that, so far, actually seems to work for me.
The Philosopher of Feelings – Profile on Martha Nussbaum
i think whether or not a plane can actually get to the target is pretty fair use of 'equipped to deliver'.

new york times is not writing for a military audience, 'deliver' in lay person speak means getting it there, as in parcel delivery.

i.e. if your truck can only hold 1 gallon of fuel it's not equipped to deliver the package to a destination 1000 miles away. whether you can put the package on the truck does not imply any fitness for delivery.
That could be but there is absolutely zero evidence for that, it appears that they were caught flat-footed, the (Turkish) base commander was arrested.
Why would the weapons need to get out? Why wouldn't the weapons be equipped with a self-destruct, or self-disablement mechanism? Why wouldn't the US destroy the facility if there was a risk of the weapons being used?
Are you going to be writing a lot of statistical analysis programs (R) or web application stuff (Python)?
My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land
I understand that stationing nuclear weapons is a good way to ensure your allies of your support in case of an attack, but having them stationed anywhere in the Middle East in these chaotic times sounds completely nuts to me.

You can't know who will be in power in any of these countries in one year from now and what they'll do.

The Turkish military is probably strong enough to easily overpower the US soldiers stationed at that base. What if they decide to simply take the nuclear weapons by force?

Edit: The Germans have removed their NATO forces from Turkey some time ago (Turkey protested against that) and I believe that this is due to them viewing the situation in Turkey as extremely unstable.

They don't want to get caught in a situation where they might have to go to war to protect a government that acts unpredictable. (meaning: they might incite the war themselves)

First thing the Turks did when they shot down the Russian plane was to call for article 5 of the NATO treaty! (collective defence against an attacker)
Click the person who is listed as "Business Development" - it has his email front and center......
Not diminishing SpaceX's achievements, but like everything else they've been built on the back of a lot of basic science. One of NASA's primary goals is actually technology transfer (see: http://technology.nasa.gov/ ).
rakudobrew worked fine, thanks.
The macro is documented here: http://weitz.de/cl-who/#syntax

In particular, each list beginning with a keyword is transformed into an (X)HTML tag. It is an easy way to handle all current and future HTML elements without defining a function for each element and their attributes. You might be thinking: "we could generate invalid HTML", and yes, it is true. Other libraries exist to generate HTML, but this one is quite popular.

The other interesting thing is that by processing the tree at compile time, you can make some optimizations.
For example, the following form:

(:html (:body (:h1 "Hi")))

... is expanded as:

(WRITE-STRING "<html><body><h1>Hi</h1></body></html>" *STANDARD-OUTPUT*)

... because it does not depend on external data. However, if instead of a constant string, you place (str (something)), you have instead:

(WRITE-STRING "<html><body><h1>" *STANDARD-OUTPUT*)
(LET ((CL-WHO::*INDENT* NIL))
NIL
(STR (SOMETHING)))
(WRITE-STRING "</h1></body></html>" *STANDARD-OUTPUT*)))
I'm 50yo and am still learning new shit everyday...just a month ago I bit the bullet and learned enough javasc...excuse me ECMAScript, to be pretty damn dangerous :)

Over the past weekend I learned docker and am now running containers all over the place...these aren't trivial things and the speed of which I'm picking stuff up is as fast, if not faster, then it has ever been for me.

The point is I am 10 years older then the age this study targeted, and I find it humorous that they are telling me I am AT LEAST 25 IQ points dumber because I work 50-60 hour weeks.

Plus, where do I tick the box about my lifetime of pretty hardcore drug use and its supposed effects on my IQ?

Now I do get tired...physically tired...from the efforts required to keep up but besides that, my anecdotal experience goes against this research.
Yeah, this is why I open clickbait vids in a private window.
Nervana releases 'deep learning course' for neon and AI cloud
On both Firefox and Chrome, when I hover over either of the videos, the thin dividing line disappears, and it's not clear which video I'm looking at. Albeit they are "supposed to" look very similar, I still don't know whether I'm watching the original or the compressed one.

Typically in similar sites, I've seen a draggable divider that lets the user specify how to horizontally divide the frame between the two comparable videos.

Do you process an included audio track as well?
Is asking if whitelisting extensions is possible, possible?

you're an idiot.
Why beacons and not a GPS/geofence system? Is there some advantage to using beacons I'm not familiar with?
tldr: malware evolves into superintelligence. I'm afraid evolution doesn't work like that. Here's a good book (some math):

https://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Dynamics-Exploring-Equat...

The long and the short of it is that software can't evolve because too much of its genome space is lethal, and the non-lethal parts are non-contiguous, so the quasispecies decoheres -- if it survives at all -- instead of climbing to the top of the fitness landscape.
Getting Debian on a Lego Mindstorms EV3
What's a Mm?

Edit: Apparently it's 5000km, Mm seems a bizarre choice of unit given mm exists as something else entirely and km is far more common.
Thanks. If you have downloaded the app, I would love some feedback.
It would be more understandable and educational if your simulation had the following:

- A way of visually indicating the divergence between languages. Minimal differences are just "accents", but more make them dialects, and yet more make them distinct languages. Perhaps use color.

- A slider to change the frequency of exchange across islands. This would show that if interchanges were high, there would be little divergence (none if the interchanges were high enough). If interchanges were rare, divergence to distinct languages becomes inevitable. At some middle rate you get dialects but not languages.

- Perhaps another slider to change the mutation rate.

- Perhaps start with a small subset of a real language. This way people could click on an island and see the actual evolution, or the divergence between any two pairs. Instead showing the most used word, I'd show a sample of the same words (those with the same meaning) for each language, along with the original real language, so we could see, for example, how "tree" changed and diverged over time.

- I'm not a linguist, but I'd think divergence ends up negatively impacting interchanges -- i.e even if you had a bridge connecting the islands, fewer people would cross it if they can't speak the local language. If this is true, divergence would accelerate over time.
Looks like it'd be fun tech for a museum too. Instead of having those podium things where people read about the artwork just have museum visitors download the "Museum of Modern Art" app and use your beacons to transmit info.

Cool!
Show HN: Natural Language Generation, Emoji-To-English Translator
Once you've written a bunch of code in a language, you're pretty much locked in - without a massive effort - in any event.
> Does ARM get royalties even on custom designed chips like apple's?

Designing custom cores requires holding an architecture license which is ARM's highest-level license (beyond the perpetual multi-use — use a core in any product indefinitely — and the subscription — use any ARM product for a set duration). There are about a dozen architecture license holders.
Lol.

No government would buy unreliable weapons.
Kid díney
Are those the same PALs that were (allegedly) set to 00000000 for most of the Cold War?
>let alone the debate on whether or not the coup was staged

I don't understand why you are being downvoted for this. A decent number of military analysist and Turkish civilians have come to this conclusion.

-No government buildings were seized, only bridges and airports.

-Normally within the first 30 minutes of a coup a Turkish Military General was on TV directly addressing civilians as to why this had taken place, and what was going to happen.

-The past 5 coups took place in <2 hours.

-The Turkish Air Force established air superiority over Istanbul but never shot down the president's plane.

-Turkish troops weren't equip for crowd control, or even for fighting most were lacking body armor and helmets.

-Turkish troops didn't set up fire-hoses, or wear riot gear for crowd control like previous coups.

-More Judges have been fired from their posts in Turkey then Military Officers post coup.

-Most military units blatantly weren't involved. In the coup or even scrambled to defend against it.

Turkey has had 5 successful coups in the past 100 years why did this one differ so extremely from the previous ones?

Incompetence is a simple defense, but this is a NATO trained and drilled military. Officers education requires they be able to switch between nations, and officer sharing programs are common. Saying the Turkish military is incompetent is really damning to the whole of NATO, and it's attempts to standardize education/training across member nations.
What if the Turks decide to take the weapons and attack the Armenians who are protected by the Russians?

In addition to that the Turks view the Armenians as their enemy, they have basically sealed off the borders to them for decades because of that.
You would think, but it does take some upfront thinking about how to get data cleanly out of one system and into another. Most developers don't really care about that part so you pay big bucks later. If your report writers are struggling getting collection-style reports (e.g. "give me all open contracts"), expect to pay through the nose.
And sometimes you find out data file Z is itself a Perl script :)
Has anyone worked on these issues in Om or Om Next? I feel I'm coming up against exactly this wall myself, and I don't think my worldview is sufficiently Ommy to know which way to go.
I'm curious: If I understand modern software licenses correctly, companies have long ago stopped actually selling software. They sell licenses that permit a carefully picked set of activities that can be performed with a software.

Given MS' security model* described in this thread ("vulnerable to attackers with administrative access") I wonder if RT tablets and similar hardware are actually still sold. Wouldn't it - from the company's POV - be easier to just sell a license?

*(MS is by far not the only one acting like this, but they somehow seem to draw the most attention when locking down things)
> So the answer to your question is "Only if one of the crew packed a Game Boy and a copy of one of the previous games." ;)

That wouldn't be so terrible!
You mean the same intel which said Iraq / Iran / Libya / Syria has weapons of mass destruction? There is also a chance Israel or Russia would bomb the site, before those bombs get in wrong hands.
true enough, and I agree, it was just a demo hacked together, but i think the difference you are seeing is both a consequence of nibbles requiring qbasic, and nibbles being developed nearly 10 years later after basic has become quite popular.
So you are only allowed to point out problems that you yourself don't suffer from?
With Facebook ads, the price of impressions reflects FB's perception of the relevance of the ad to the targeted audience. It could be that most advertisers are just really fishing for that one in a million conversion that leads to a car sale, or a Viagra dependency (if that's even a thing).
Control of the intellectual property. Intel already controls what's in most desktops since Apple ditched PowerPC. No competition there across the globe. Tablets and mobiles were the challengers eating into that market share. ARM dominates there with its I.P. in almost everything that's mainstream with over 10 major companies licensing the I.P. for their own chips. If Intel owned that, they'd control the I.P. behind most of their rivals. Finally, there's the server situation where, although more ISA competition, x86 still dominates.

Letting Intel have ARM would certainly be an antitrust situation given the sheer dominance Intel's I.P. would have at that point.
As long as there are no premature detonations! ;-)
He may be a demagogue. But is his analysis wrong?
Indeed, but Betteridge's Law of Headlines is often related to somehow sensationalist headlines, whereas this headline seems more like a part of a "Reductio ad absurdum".
> If what you write is true they should have had clear warning about that coup attempt. It might have succeeded.

Or, the relevant intelligence agencies had clear warning, a good estimate of capabilities and what it would take to defeat it, and were able to intervene to assure that the Erdogan government was capable of putting down the coup

Or they had clear warning, sufficient intelligence about the intentions and orientation of the coup plotters that they were comfortable that the weapons would be no less safe even if the coup succeeded.

Or...
Nice demo! Feature request: I'd like to see the people talking, like display sentence of a random pair of agents, every 10 sec e.g. That way I would feel immersed into users discussions :)
Discovery Interface for the Iraq Inquiry (UK)
I agree with you as well. The enter/update/exit cycle is actually very intuitive although the documentation could do a better job of explaining what the functions are doing to the DOM.
The X-37 is launched by a conventional rocket as payload and just lands like a normal aircraft.

It's more analogous to a reusable space capsule than it is to the space shuttle which mostly launched itself.
Netflix Flixtape
This captures the role quite well.
Cops Have a New Way to Take Your Money: Prepaid Debit Cards
Hi Turing_Machine,

How should the other project retain the original project credit? How should be my project referenced?
Our target users are tourists, and tourists don't have internet connection when they travel, so the app is loaded with all the data when you download it, and the data is showed when you pass nearby a beacon, no need for internet, you just have to turn on your Bluetooth. We have tougth about using the GPS, and geofences, but withouth internet connection, it's not precise.