skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, I believe it is the Aleutians. It's hard to really see it well, but it looks like the blob on the right side is at the same latitude as the end of the chain on the left side. I assume the "edge of the world" for this purpose was the 180th meridian, which would leave some of them on the "wrong side."

Looking again, I see that Russia and Fiji also suffer from this problem, and those are the other two countries divided by that line.
"us" means Turkey in my comment, was unclear sorry.
Arizona's not a country, so not quite germane (unless you are talking about its southern border, which is clearly an example of the effect suggested.)

In the case of the borders among countries in the Sahara, my understanding is that lots of those were disputed borders settled by people pretty remote from the areas with the straight borders, so I'm not sure they provide a counterexample. "It's a desert" may increase the likelihood that decisions get made by people living far out of the region (since it reduces the number of people living close by), though.
I've read it several times.

Gross.
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SNS informing about down services would be too bad. So it must go down with others.
Yep - and they've asked for this in English, something the judge complained about.

I think I'm with the judge on this one. I found this really lazy and of bad taste on Facebook's part. The firm representing Facebook won't afford a translator for one of their top 3 countries (I'm guessing) in number of Whatsapp users? Really?
But the curvature of the Earth means Colorado is closer to a rectangle :)
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Yes, I suspect there may be Euclidean geometry underlying all of this.
It looks a bit like a joke project. There's only 70 images no possibility of filter (age / gender / face - non-face ) etc. It's a good idea but I imagine anyone who would find it useful already has more a more complete version they made themselves! Personally I have over 20,000 avatar images I scraped from various sites I use in prototyping.
"adding cloudflare would work much more reliably"

This can't work. The author requirement was to have self-hosted comments without javascript. So his html pages change every few minutes, and cloudflare is just not designed for this.
> since Tor always sends fixed-width cells

you send 1px of data or 500px tor always send fixed width cells. There is no question of padding here.
> won't also prevent emigration

Preventing emigration is rare for non-Soviet-descended governments, even the most authoritarian ones. Most governments are pretty happy when dissidents leave.

> has the means to leave

Not everyone, but as the Syrian and Afghan refugees that were formerly pouring out of Turkey illustrate, if you are in decent health, have 2 feet and have a way of acquiring sustenance along your way, you don't need much means to leave. Most people are kept back by attachments to community and property, not a lack of means.
"Success With Info" is something that just causes problems.

The number of examples we found of "Success with Info" going horribly wrong was abundant. Turns out checking return codes is something people have failed to do pretty much since the invention of the return code...
It's interesting to judge conflicts based on this ranking as well.
Check out #55 (Palestine) and #175 (Israel)
The effect will be exaggerated since tor traffic goes through three nodes and random jitter would need to be added for each. In general, beating traffic analysis in a low latency network is a hard problem. You could have perfect anonymity if you could add arbitrary delays but that would make the network unusably slow.
http://fanlore.org/wiki/

A wiki of nerd fandom stretching back to the 50s. I can spend hours just hitting "Random Article" and seeing the minutes of a meeting on Starsky and Hutch slashfiction in some hotel in 1978.
if he could expect that by using a company with experimental methods he should have taken into account that the results would not be up to par

No!

Instruments that have not been validated are allowed to produce results, but those results have to be verified against a validated instrument. An instrument that has been validated is expected to be correct. It doesn't get excused when it's wrong. It's not like a new treatment for a disease that has no other treatment available.

Now, instruments will sometimes produce bad results. It happens; nothing's perfect. However, the instrument itself is expected to check its own results as much as it can, and alert if something might be amiss.

Also, the lab's (daily/multiple times a day) Quality Control checks will usually catch a misbehaving instrument. When QC fails and it's not the lab's fault, the lab will inform the manufacturer. It's not something they take lightly. By FDA mandate, every manufacturer of a medical device has to respond to Complaints so it will be acted upon. Quickly!

Instruments can be recalled for evidence indicating that they might produce a bad result, even if it's never actually happened.
Wait, you are comparing 4000 lines of code to 150 lines of code? How does that make sense?

If you modify your example to 400 nested 10-line function calls, how does that change your comparison?
Turkey has a lot of rubbing points with the west and that has not prevented it to be a NATO member for decades. You need to compromise and obviate issues, and this can happen between Turkey and Russia.
The metric used doesn't really knock us for Hawaii though, because it's so small.
Presumably he's thinking of Czechoslovakia?
I'm curious what would work better. Reading and working for open-source projects or reverse engineering like you did. I noticed that my coding skills became better when I did a reverse engineering class, mainly because I needed to debug a lot more than normal.
That was the /anti/ colonialists, I believe.
I have a theory that newer borders more rectangular, whereas older borders follow natural wiggly features like rivers, similar to newer cities' roads being more rectangular, whereas older roads are more higgly-piggly organic.

The older ones grew; the newer were planned.

You can see it east-to-west in the USA states' borders.
I've read it. I don't support the gp's one word comment, but I do support the general sentiment.

The book is poorly written and full of absurd Objectivist philosophy. I found Objectivism over the top even when I was a hardcore ancap libertarian.
Actually it's not difficult to determine, this is not in the article, North Korea has VERY small allocations of publicly routable ipv4 space from APNIC. It used to be as small as a single /24. It's also possible they're using IP space from several of their upstream Chinese ISPs that they are dependent upon, in which case it would be much more difficult to determine than an IP is physically located in .KP rather than on the Chinese side of the border.
I was a little of, there's three: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba)
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https://github.com/leonardoruilova/costofliving

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Libertarianism is first about freedom. It's in the fucking name. It's not about "economic growth."

Obviously caste systems and totalitarianism are at ideological odds with libertarianism.
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For most companies instagram is just a fire and forget thing. I've asked questions on instagram posts before for some brands i follow and i rarely get a reply :( then again i guess it's not easy to sift through all the comments, some of which are spam
The missile shield in Poland was only begun years after Russia had made it very clear that it was uninterested in participating in any international institutions that would restrict its autonomy in any way.

The choice between global integration and conflict is a false dichotomy. There are many other options: political decentralization and autonomy, linked by mutually beneficial and voluntary trade arrangements, for example.

Besides, historically, the integration of diverse societies with vastly different cultural norms and expectations can only be done through the use of overwhelming force. It has never worked any other way.
I'm not sure if they're the same thing. I would venture they are not.
Fantastic resource!

Every new feature of the language is introduced with real, relatable data (family members, bill to pay at dinner) etc, along with a good dose of humour.

The human aspect of these examples make the series very easy to digest and helps concepts sink in better.

This is really good value for money - I highly recommend this course if you feel like you could do with some polishing on your ES6 skills.

Paying Wes Bos for his hard work not only is fair, but it also ensures he can continue dedicating his time to producing more quality courses going forward.

I for one really appreciate Wes' teaching style and how approachable he is as a person - and I want to continue seeing him release great learning material and make a living out of teaching.
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And that was it, just declaration, no armies attacked Germany when he was invading Poland.
Z could be seen as a visual representation of taking the line on the bottom and moving it to the top.
WhatsApp blocked in Brazil again
It turns out that uploading files is hard. Files come in a variety of sizes, networks sometimes don't work, browser processes come-and-go, some users expect restart semantics, some don't...
Is there some way to look at North Korea's network 10 IP space from the outside? There are tools which let you look at the Internet from inside the Great Firewall of China.[1] Is there one for North Korea?

[1] http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html
Twitter is a big one. Sometimes you just find that someone retweeted somebody else or that someone replied to them so you just peek into their page and you scroll down and occasionally find something interesting or funny; repeat until I'm tired of it.
Nah, pretty sure it was my ansible script. That I was demoing. Righhhhht as AWS came down like a house of cards.
> If you can internalize and understand the extremely concise and powerful syntax and semantics of the language (I haven't), you can do amazing things very quickly

Not to mention figuring out how to type APL -- that's where I got stuck.
Does that kinda throw off the whole concept about pushing language design if you can't do coroutines?

That's a pretty critical feature of Lua that somewhat defines it(along with it's low overhead + embeddability, both of with you won't get with the JVM).

It seems like engineers always want to build One Tool to Solve Them All(tm) and yet there are always tradeoffs to be made. The reason 90% of this industry is still employed is because we don't have these one size fits all problems that we'd so love to solve.
If WhatsApp gets summoned to Sharia court in Saudi Arabia over a case of suspected extramarital sex, do you think they should humor them and play along?

It is unrealistic to expect WhatsApp to 'correctly respond' to every little despot's 'court orders' worldwide.
It gets proposed fairly often. The tricky part is detecting enough neutrinos in a coincidence window to make a meaningful trading signal.

Such an experiment is also very expensive.
yeah java9/10/11 stuff is probably a little bit late.
> Global collaboration and integration

or said in a vulgar manner, becoming USA's b\*tch , because that's basically what Poland is :

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27973473

> Using vulgar language, he(Sikorski) compared Polish subservience to the US to giving oral sex.
I can't adequately convey what I think is Fielding's position on how machines should interact with RESTful systems, but I will convey my understanding of the purpose and intent of his thesis:

REST is a characterization of the Web architecture itself. It's not an alternative WWW, it is an abstract description of the principles behind the WWW. You can see this theme in Chapter 4 of the thesis in which Fielding characterizes REST [1].

> This chapter presents the requirements of the World Wide Web architecture and the problems faced in designing and evaluating proposed improvements to its key communication protocols. I use the insights garnered from the survey and classification of architectural styles for network-based hypermedia systems to hypothesize methods for developing an architectural style that would be used to guide the design of improvements for the modern Web architecture. [...]

> The early Web architecture was based on solid principles--separation of concerns, simplicity, and generality--but lacked an architectural description and rationale. The design was based on a set of informal hypertext notes, two early papers oriented towards the user community, and archived discussions on the Web developer community mailing list. In reality, however, the only true description of the early Web architecture was found within the implementations of libwww (the CERN protocol library for clients and servers), Mosaic (the NCSA browser client), and an assortment of other implementations that interoperated with them.

> An architectural style can be used to define the principles behind the Web architecture such that they are visible to future architects. As discussed in Chapter 1, a style is a named set of constraints on architectural elements that induces the set of properties desired of the architecture. The first step in my approach, therefore, is to identify the constraints placed within the early Web architecture that are responsible for its desirable properties. (internal citations elided)

[1] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/web_arch...
> vim is intuitive ( -ish?) once you understand what each character means

That is a much different statement than simply saying "vim is intuitive", which is the statement it appears you're arguing against. I doubt there's anyone in the world who would attempt to make such a bold claim as that.

I've found the "vim is intuitive once you understand what each character means" claim to be pretty accurate. Before learning what the keys did, it seemed like a laughably impossible-to-use program, but after learning what the keys do, it feels very natural and composable. Sure, some of that is due to muscle memory, like hjkl for movement, but a lot of that are things like "p for paste", "d for delete", "n for next", and so on. Those, to me, seem like very intuitive mappings.
Long, straight lines for borders usually imply that the territory through which they are drawn was neither well explored nor terribly important to the people drawing them. Sometimes that's because the territory is mostly uninhabited and nobody really has a strong claim to want their particular patch of land to be on one side or the other, but frequently its because the mapmakers either don't know or don't care about the cultural affinities and loyalties of the people who live on or near the proposed border.

This is one of the main reasons why a lot of central Africa is a shit show politically. Most of the modern borders were drawn during the colonial era without much consideration as to which tribes and city-states ended up in which countries, so there's not a strong relationship between "nations" (i.e. culturally similar groups of people) and "countries" (i.e. demarcated stretches of land) like there is in most of the rest of the world.
So make it a configurable option that you can turn on and off when you need it.

Having to wait a few seconds for a web page to load seems like a small price to pay to avoid government agents banging on your door because you're looking at "subversive content".
Google says government requests for user data at all-time high
I dont know. They were moderate, we said they dont belong to EU because they are muslim (lots of people said that), and they became fundamentalist.

It is true that fundamentalism is on the rise worldwide (also in christian countries) but my impression is that, in Turkeys case, it was the EU attitude which caused lots of turkish people to vote for a strong islamic president.
My exact thought. But I'm Portuguese, so I'm biased.
Delta queries are pretty easy, assuming you have a rich data store behind your data.

As others have said, your data store needs to be able to say, "Show me changes since XYZ". Most of the Big Apps can do that, and from there the problems is one of API Semantics.

This doc addresses the API Semantics, rather than the application design. To try to solve the design problem would be impossible as every application is different.
What about VPN -> Tor -> VPN?
> The USA and Europe should welcome them.

Maybe, but I'm not sure I see it likely with the current political mood that a wave of political refugees from an advancing Islamist movement in a country in that region will be welcomed with open arms in the USA. Just, you know, judging from recent history.
Funnily enough, they just shut off most of the USB ports on the SI Ferry because passengers were literally fighting over them...

I still feel like USB ports are one of those things that's really marginally beneficial.
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This is ridiculous. If that was the case the responsible parties should be charged with contempt. Blocking the service "out of spite" has no legal grounds. Furthermore, no judge claimed what you claimed as the reason. They asked for access to data WhatsApp has no access to, and then blocked the service when they didn't get it.
The problem, in my opinion, is that the Java community (generalizing, I know) decided to bless that abuse as a best practice.
"joke of a despot" good one. Probably he'd be offended.
That's not true.
Do you know Cyberduck? It actually takes less memory than most other FTP/SFTP etc programs. and probably feels a dozen times more smooth than most clients.
I like this metric better, although I'm wondering if the rectangles should be similar, not just having parallel edges. That should put Turkey and Portugal up at the top, if you remove the islands.
We could have had collaboration without submission, which is what Russia would have accepted, but the USA wanted to abuse its temporary strategic supremacy to force long term submission.

And now we are here.
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Of course it could have been. Look at the amount of money spent on hotels, look at the existing VRBO type options, look at how many people travel to places, try to take a guess at trends in airfares and travel preferences. You could certainly get some sort of order of magnitude guesses together. In this case you'd quickly get to "very big" and "global" and would have a nice answer.
As someone expecting a reply from my boss on WhatsApp, I care.

As a french man once said, Brazil is not a serious country.
Yeah, was going to say something similar. UHF/VHF don't have "line of sight" but if I've got a hill between me and someone else I'm sure as hell going to have a hard time hearing him.

They put repeaters up on tall areas for that reason. Same with cell towers, yes you can get through non-dense material but there's still a signal loss associated with it.
do you use or know cyberduck?
point being, you can trivially parse code of any syntax, just like any other language. What makes lisp different is that once you have a parse tree of sexprs, you can then traverse that tree very easily: Lisp has tools built right into the language. You can then very easily transform that tree: In fact, you can write a hook whereby the code being written can provide arbitrary transformers, which are called by the compiler when seen in code: This is all a macro is: it's an API for code to hook into its own compiler: much like Rust's compiler addons. Unlike compiler addons, however, they don't depend on compiler internals: In fact, if a Lisp implementation didn't have macros and readtables, you could write a preprocessor to add them in (but gensym/hygene would be a pain to do). However, this would all be very confusing if the internal tree didn't look like the external representation. This is why Lisp is written in sexprs. The reason you see so many DSLs in lisp being written in a lispy syntax is that lisp hackers, like all other hackers, are fundamentally lazy: Since there's already a lisp syntax parser built into the language, they don't have to write their own, and macros often suffice for the most common reasons to write a DSL, which means that they didn't even have to write a compiler, they just hooked into the existing one. Besides, sexprs provide advantages even if you are writing your own language, and you can overload lisp's syntactic shortcuts for your own purposes.
The death camps also targeted e.g homosexuals, which the allies were fine with. The allies didn't have any moral objection to the death camps, only against them being used for certain classes of people (e.g. jews).
Totally, Truffle is not nearly as easy as a simpler interpreter in a terser language, but unlike a Racket interpreter your code can actually run faster than raw Racket, and have incredible tooling and integration support.
It's not a leap too far; it just needs a few data points to confirm with reasonable confidence.

The DPRK has exactly one known ISP (Star JV, AS131279) and (as far as I can tell from various looking glasses) they advertise exactly three /24s out of their 175.45.176.0/22 allocation, via exactly one Chinese transit provider (China169, AS4837 which is China Unicom's backbone).

We can also see from registries and generally poking around that 175.45.176/24 is used for authoritative nameservice (e.g. the DNS servers for .kp and reverse delegations for the Star JV /24s are here) and website hosting, which makes it very unlikely to be used for non-infrastructure host addresses. Being an old ISP lag I might also guess that there'll be an pair of NTP peers in there, an MTA, and separate source addresses for DNS resolvers (although I'd concede that with the DPRK no guess is reliable)

That leaves a total of 508 globally reachable IPv4 host addresses for the whole country. I suggest that this is insufficient even for the devices allocated to the relatively small group of individuals permitted to access the internet, from which it is not unreasonable to infer that everything else is in RFC1918 (or equivalent) space behind a proxy, which this article suggests is 10/8 or (my guess) most likely some structured sub-allocations thereof.
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> I agree completely about C being the gateway to the computer. It really is the only way to go if you want to learn real programming.

Nonsense. That's as absurd as claiming assembly is the only way to go if you want to learn real programming.

> but I like C better and it's more fun.

Which is the only reason you think the above, nothing to do with reality, everything to do with personal preference.
Yeah, because 5,000ms latency is fun.
France sure acted like a vassal state during the Second Gulf War. I remember their vociferous support of US policy, especially one Dominique de Villepin. Same with Turkey; they opened up access for the 4th ID to attack through Northern Iraq. Let's see who else was a vassal; Germany?

This supposition of yours is silly. Europe isn't a vassal of the US. Each country follows its own goals and priorities.