skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, just no.

From: http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-timeline and the above linked Wikipedia article,

"8:40 am – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alerts North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) about the suspected hijacking of Flight 11. In response, NEADS scrambles two fighter planes located at Cape Cod’s Otis Air National Guard Base to locate and tail Flight 11; they are not yet in the air when Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower [at 8:46, the second plane hits at 9:03]."

The first report of Flight 11 being hijacked seems to be at 8:19am, given a lag of 21 minutes before the hijacking was reported to NORAD, and thus giving the F15's coming from Cape Cod to intercept and (possibly/probably shoot down?) the planes in 6 and 17 minutes respectively. And because planes don't magically leap into the sky, The F15's were not in the air until 8:53 (at which point Flight 11 had crashed 7 minutes previously, and it was just 10 minutes until Flight 175 hits the tower).

So yes, I don't believe there is any _reasonable_ proof that NORAD "dropped the ball".

If you really feel (like the OG author) that NORAD deserves some blame, great. But considering all the institutional failures of our intelligence services that occurred before the hijackers ever stepped foot on the planes, it's strange/weird/stupid/asinine/missing the point/whatever to blame NORAD for 9/11 (at any meaningful scale).

"Damn you NORAD for not having fighters capable of Mach 10 in the air knowing those planes were going to be hijacked at that specific day and already having a plan in place that gave a single fighter pilot the ability to shoot down a US flagged civilian airliner with the knowledge aforethought to know those airliners would be used as physical weapons rather than the traditional hostage taking that had occurred in the past!"
I thought loans are deferred in residency and fellowships?
But why is this pleasantry about "luck" and not something else? You don't hear employers say "keep studying" or "we wish you a good effort" or "we hope you build cool stuff".

Isn't the employer referring to luck an admission from the employer that interviewing has a lot to do with luck?
It's not an actual term, it's just some guy who keeps editing Wikipedia to try and introduce it.
Also, what if google has a rogue employee who works for one of the surveillance agencies?

Trusting all your private data to an advertising company that has root access on your
device in an app that is explicitly built around security and privacy is insane.

In that eventuallity they might be able to keylog or otherwise monitor the activity of applications anyway. I don't see how you can avoid that sort of eventuality aside from tossing the mobile phone and using snail mail and a OTP. Even then there could be someone looking over your shoulder.
What I really want to see is the Linux for self driving cars. Ubiquitous, open, verifiable, contributed from multiple orgs/experts kind of system.

I really want udacity self driving car code base to be solid enough that I can convert my own car to self driving. Someday
Here's a fun flowchart regarding React: https://github.com/gaearon/react-makes-you-sad
Yeah, this is what doesn't make sense to me. All of these people blaming the buyers for buying and the politicians for not passing laws to disincentivize them from doing so.

The solution is to build more housing. Full stop.
Really? Mortality is only a problem of the rich? Huh... interesting.
See the first color images produced by an electron microscope
>All that argument shows is that an embodied simulation of a human brain would feel pain (and BTW, I agree with you about that)

sorry, that's what most of my comments were about. the shrimp thing is less interesting to me, because I have a subjective knowledge that humans perceive pain. for me, I will give shrimp the benefit of the doubt due to our shared evolutionary background and their behavior.

I skimmed your link and found it murky - it didn't define "exist" to my satisfactin. with that said, I didn't define exist either and I don't now what I had in mind when I asked you if the nonillionth prime exists. I don't think I asked a well-defined quesiton, I'm withdrawing it.
The touch bar will be what finally compels Bloomberg to build a Mac-native Terminal. Mark my words.
The protocol you describe is a synchronous online protocol where Alice and Bob have to be online at the same time (and if they're doing this at Charlie's behest, so does Charlie). Signal is designed for asynchronous communication where both participants don't have to be online to discover each other or send each other message.

Also, how does this protocol even help? What's the use case? It allows participants to discover mutual contacts, but what then? Do we use Bob as a web-of-trust style introducer? What if Alice doesn't even want to talk to Charlie? Do we do this for all the friends Alice has in common with Bob? Do we do this for all the friends Alice has in common with everyone? Does Charlie initiate the process, only to have it only work if all three of them are online at the same time? Who kicks it off and why, and what would the user experience be?

You end your last post with "So, problem solved" but I'm not sure this protocol even solves any practical problems for the Signal use case, and seems like a mere first step of solving a much more complicated problem of actually trying to turn this into a useful feature with good UX.
You can't just say it's No True Scotsman without even knowing what my definition of socialism is. This is the kind of lazy conversation that makes the Internet insufferable. Socialism is a range of ideologies and goals. That's part of why everyone in this thread wholesale rejecting "socialism" isn't getting many constructive replies. It's like saying democracy is flawed because the DPRK held elections.

My definition of socialism is democratic control of the means of production by the people who use the means of production (i.e. the workers) for the benefit of all. There are plenty of socialists who even think that the existence of a State that manages the means of production directly contradicts socialism. Any serious examination of socialist ideas is diligent about relating the various ideas that fall under the term socialism.

> Also: the living standards we enjoy today are a result of capitalism and industrialisation.

The living standards we enjoy today are the result of labor doing labor and producing the fruits of labor. And, yes, industrialization. Marx developed historical materialism to analyze how industrialization allowed capitalism to develop.

I'm sure the dogma is that capitalism enabled industrialization to occur.
Debian release update: Transition freeze and other upcoming events
99.3% accuracy is not that great. Currently the best performer on this data set has 99.77% accuracy:

http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
Getting hired isn't always the point. TensorFlow and other tools make deep learning a fairly accessible solution for ordinary developers to offer to customers. It lets me say "yes" (or "maybe") to requests that would not have been feasible previously.
However, said model still has connotations of a specific actual user, which is
no longer entirely accurate in such applications of that model. It'd be nice to
have a sort of "subuser" system where - within, say, the user for my own desktop
account - I could further divide the software I run into "users" for things like
Firefox or Spotify or what have me.

I think you might be able to use groups for this.
"Is there any actual evidence that natural resource wealth is strongly correlated with level of development?"

Money can buy development of many kinds, so of course there is a link.

The question is - can the country organize itself in a manner such that it is able to extract the resource, make a profit, and spend it effectively?

That's the question.

Venezuela has problems:

A) A lot of it's oil is 'tar sands' - Canadians are the only people who can deal with this complexity right now. It's expensive and complex to extract.

B) Total disarray and corruption in governance and private sector.

C) Chavismo Socialism.

So, those things cause all sorts of other things to dysfunction as well, they're all interconnected.
A good book about Larry Ellison is “Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle” from 2004. It looks like Larry himself proofread the book as he offers comments and corrections at the bottom of some of the pages.

Oracle is unlike any other technology company in the world. The majority of their software offerings are not aimed at consumers, so many people (including programmers and IT-savvy folks) have a hard time understanding the company unless they’ve spent weeks studying one piece of their product stack.

I started working for Oracle in 1998. I thought I would be able to get up to speed quickly on everything Oracle. I was wrong. It took a long time to get a feeling of confidence. The main product, the Oracle database, is a vast monolith of technology and features that is constantly being updated. It has a documentation set that could easily fill a bookshelf. Taker a look: http://docs.oracle.com

Every so often someone takes at shot at Larry at a press conference or online, implying that Oracle’s time has passed, that some new hotshot company was going to overtake them in some way.

Spend some time studying Oracle and Larry Ellison, and you’ll understand why Larry always smiles at these questions.
That about sums it up.
Too bad it's not everywhere; a cheap ride home from the bar after this all blows over would be quite nice.
So the "source" the OP posted is based on something more like the doomsday machine from Dr. Strangelove than a real nuclear attack?
I've heard both a lot.

It's expressed as convenient to the problem.

For example, muzzle velocity is always given in ft/s in the US. So for ballistics problems (faster than a speeding bullet...), ft/sec^2 would probably be used.
Is this any better than SourceTree?
It depends on what your priorities are, but the tragedy of the commons is a real thing.
It's not the currency that is dying, it's that nobody wants the currency, because the entity that backs it has no integrity.

So, it's more like 'Venezuelan economy and governance is failing -> nobody wants Venezuelan Bolivars -> currency loses value rapidly
What can I, as a US citizen commoner, do to help?
The Complicated Science of Risk
Ah, the grand cycle of layering and integration. You build a machine that does a thing, modify it to do another, and another, and another, until eventually someone says

We could have a layer that did all of this!

The layer is introduced, applications are rewritten to target the layer, and people slowly lose touch with what the world looks like beneath The Interface.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.

As people target The Interface, it grows into a more and more general purpose machine. Layers of indirection build up. Once simple tasks must propagate up and down a big stack.

Until one day, someone stumbles across the layer beneath. Gosh, the underlying system does 99% of what we need, out of the box. Why do we need this layer at all? We can do most of what we need with a couple single purpose tools. And the rest of the complexity can be taken up by the application layer. I don't mind doing a little more configuration there if I can get a huge performance and complexity win.

And the developers, frustrated with how big and bloated their layers have been feeling, flock to this new simple tool, and they port their applications, with a little extra boilerplate and big complexity wins. And then they port another, and another. Until someone realizes

We could have a layer that did all of this!

And it might seem pointless, when I write it up in this snarky way, but it absolutely is not. This is the process by which we discover the fundamental building blocks of software. Each time we add a layer, and each time we take one away, we learn something new about what information is. I love it.
>Fear not though, they'll still happily lag behind current hardware for better margins.

They don't "lag behind current hardware for better margins". The CPU class they use in the MBPr line is still unavailable from Intel. Early "Kaby Lake" PC laptops use other, more power hungry, Kaby Lake models, and even those in limited runs.

If they wanted to achieve better margins in any way, they could use way worse construction and materials, not insist on high quality trackpads, not add the touch strip, add cheapo USB 2.1 and even Ethernet ports to keep everybody happy, and just put some early, 6-hour battery life Kaby Lake machine out there.
Yeah, Tower is legitimately the best GUI client I've ever used for Git, period.

I try to live on the CLI though so I've kinda forced myself to learn more about Git and the myriad of commands, but Tower was most certainly the best set of training wheels I could ask for.
I applied a similar principle to getting my first place in the Bay Area. I made a point to contact listings on CL that included phone numbers before other listings. I got lucky, and it worked out. :)
It's something I read in another HN thread
I've been using tower on Mac for a few years now. It's miles ahead of every other git client I've tried.

The UI is very intuitive and supports even advanced features out of the box.
Because "keep studying" would just sound condescending.
Xcode has a Touch Bar simulator you could have used
Because "keep studying" can be construed negatively: You're not good enough. Unsolicited advice isn't usually a good idea politically.

Saying "luck" implies several things:
- You just weren't the right fit.
- I don't wish to imply your skills are lacking.
- I hope you succeed, even though I wasn't able to help.
I think there are some good arguments to be made that economic mobility is much more important to a healthy economy than any other metric, and this seems like one place where China may have a handicap. India, though, depending on the way their social structures move in the coming years, may have a good chance at surpassing the US in terms of economic strength.
No what I was saying was its ready for today in certain use cases. But only if you look at it as a long term transition and not a short term project
Is that not what people mean when they say a currency is dying? Or is there some other meaning of a dying currency?
I'm on same boat. I have been mobile developer for 3 years and I'm on front-end web for last couple months.

This helped me a little: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/a-study-plan-to-cure-javascr...

And have some laughs: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
I feel that author is very enthusiastic, but there are some pretty serious errors:

"... fight between Docker and systemd is inevitable" -- this fight has been going for a while (at least a year): https://lwn.net/Articles/676831/

"... The reason why you'll do this, rather than compose everything yourself, is compatability. Whether it's kernel versions, file system drivers, operating system variants or a hundred variations that make your OS build different from mine. Building and testing software that runs everywhere is a sisyphean task. " -- kernel versions, file system drivers, operating system variants (in form of docker daemon version) are still going to be around and would still affect containers. So you traded "test on Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu" with "test on AWS docker, Tectonic, OpenShift". Yes, you no longer have to worry about .so versions, but there are still plenty of reasons to test in multiple environment.

"... the operating system is an implementation detail of the higher level software. It's not intended to be directly managed ..." -- yeah, so I have this proprietary SAN.. or a dual 10G cards which need to be tuned and bonded... or a mix of fast and slow disks... or even any non-trivial RAID setup... Those things are the most annoying parts of managing your own servers and unfortunately they are not going anywhere.
it would be much harder to implement such monitoring if they don't have root on your device.

There are degrees of difficulty. If you use Signal, you make it more difficult than if you use whatsapp but easier than if you have a rooted phone with open source software.

Also, you make it easier than it has to be with giving away contacts/phone numbers.
I would caveat this a bit. There are various kinds of "deep learning companies".

These can either be horizontal plays or product focused. For the latter it doesn't matter as much. For full stack developers domain knowledge is usually a lot more helpful there.

For horizontal plays this can matter a bit more. I run a well funded deep learning startup and we are starting to hire full stack developers next year.

I have thought about this a bit and we would be looking for people at a minimum who have dealt with some basic machine learning before. Much of the stuff in deep learning we do is displaying some sort of output from a neural network (eg: various ways of displaying a choice a neural net makes). Being able to do things like visualizing clusters is also important (this would be d3). The other part of this would be a basic understanding of being able to communicate with a data pipeline of some kind. We are java based but I'm imagining a lot of startups would be python based in this case.
Cylance Discloses Voting Machine Vulnerability
> So how will contributions from Google’s VP10, Mozilla’s Daala, or Cisco’s Thor be represented in AV1? Gabe Frost explained, “The baseline code in the AV1 project represents where the lion’s share of investment came from before the investment,” essentially indicating that code from VP10, by far the most mature of the three, will dominate. Frost indicated that AV1 will contain some of the best ideas and features of both Daala and Thor.

So will Mozilla continuing developing Daala? And what about NETVC? How does it correlate to AV1?
And then they can acquire more land and spread out. And then they can let people onto their land and dictate laws about it. And then we're back to feudalism. Fun.
How would using USB 2.1 be cheaper than the standard Intel and Apple co-developed?
Excuses for High Construction Costs
Is something that can be manipulated by foreign governments and private interests and fluctuates heavily based on industrial demand really a better alternative? Since you mentioned silver specifically, it's worth noting that the entire world's supply of silver was nearly cornered by the Hunt brothers in the 1970's. Wonder what that would have done to inflation.
If only the LISP syntax looked like a programming language and made logical sense.
> How can anyone "prove that no rape occurred"? It's impossible to prove a negative.

You find evidence that contradicts the story in its entirity. For example, if she claimed to have been raped on a night that there was evidence she was in a different country, that would be proof.

> No rape seems to have happened

You have no strong evidence that suggests that no rape happened. There's also no strong evidence that a rape did happen. Somehow out of that, you believe a rape didn't happen, which is illogical and cruel.
I've used Github Desktop [1] (previously known as Github for Mac) since its release (2011). I know it's not really popular, and never suggested on Hacker News, but it's personally the best GUI I've ever used.

It doesn't support any advanced features, but still covers 99% of my daily workflow (show diffs > cherry pick diffs > commit > sync). I also use it to create/delete/merge my branches. I just need a terminal for stashing. I've never encountered any problems.

It's free and you can use it with Gitlab.

[1] https://desktop.github.com
In practice you always get TLS. That's really all you need if you trust the server.

Something fairly significant has happened in the world of XMPP recently. You can get real certificates for XMPP servers under your control from letsencrypt. That means that things now work transparently between clients and servers and between servers. As a result, organizations that do things that some governments might not approve of can do transparent encryption simply by setting up a server or servers in places that such governments can not physically get at.
well there are ways to help but are somehow complicated and they dont really affect directly to the normal citizen, like for example you could send medicines or food to someone or even money but it does not help at all, the problem persist. Your best bet is to donate to some NGO like https://transparencia.org.ve/ that tries to implement a better transparency system in our country.

Venezuela problem is not socialism or w.e method, we actually had everything. Our all time problem was corruption and we had it during our whole story, is not something that came with chavez or with socialism, we had this very same problems 30,40,50,60 years ago.
Compile a custom kernel with only the hardware in the server and then only install packages you need. Boom done.
There’s Big Money to Be Made in Asteroid Mining
You can break substitution ciphers pretty trivially, just using a simple hill climbing algorithm see http://practicalcryptography.com/cryptanalysis/stochastic-se...

If your cipher is at least 100 characters this will solve it very quickly.
I am sorry, but what you said about the age at marriage is wrong, whether or not you can twist the argument about what wikipedia said. Really, you either need to read some books about demography or, umm, leave it to the experts. If you read some books about demographic history, you will be interesting to argue with.
Don't give anyone ideas.
Sourcetree has been going downhill a lot lately. The last releases are pretty buggy and the UI is getting worse.
What is the human accuracy on this data set?
http://scorevoting.net/GazillionTransform.html
A lot of people surprisingly don't make the connection.

Even among politicians and leaders.

They see inflation, then blame outsiders etc. - and then try to fix prices / grab private businesses which only exasperates the problem.
I wonder, is there a good reason why these accuracies are reported on a logscale by convention (say, as power of 2 from 50%)?
Pubs and temples can be a bit similar spaces, but this seems great in that it is not connected to a religion or alcohol consumption.

I guess this is what cafes are could be like, but somehow they have turned out to be places where you are expected to keep to yourself.
Random idea of the day: Nethack + Voxel Quest Engine

edit: an old idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6359100
Decrypting iCloud Authorization Tokens on MacOS
I didn't have to recompile my kernel to use microg...instead I used FakeGApps with Xposed framework. instructions: https://github.com/thermatk/FakeGApps