skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it can't take missiles, especially not the newer (last 10-15 year old) "Bunker Buster" style bombs.
For a Nimitz-class, it looks like ~90 aircraft, or in terms of squadrons, 4 fixed-wing attack squadrons, an electronic attack squadron, an early warning/command squadron, and two helicopter squadrons [1].

While it looks like the Kuznetsov may be capable of carrying twice as many aircraft as pictured, that's the equivalent of one helicopter squadron and one mixed attack/air superiority squadron. Then again, there's a reasonable assumption that Russia's main force projection is due to how much of the populated world is nearly immediately accessible via Russian-controlled land bases, with much less need for force projection across oceans compared to the US.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_C._Stennis
This is pure climate-change denialism.

The sun's heating and cooling cycles happen much more slowly than the current climate change. We can see the average increasing even over the past two decades when the data is quite reliable. We can see that the average ice at the poles is decreasing. There are certainly ups and downs but the long-term trend is clear.

You could at least do the bare-minimum and read the evidence at http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/. Seriously, that's the absolutely least you could bother doing before running around posting nonsense.
Explain to me how ice core sampling is a dubious science, since apparently the experts are it have been using it quite effectively to do science in many other fields apart from climate research.
Microsoft wants Azure to become people's first first choice. This could help that happen.
As they exist today, they're a large, vulnerable target, but then again they're fairly similar now to what they were 50 years ago: Basically a mobile airfield with missiles.

Fast forward 20 years and I'd expect them to have evolved into a mobile base of operations for swarms of autonomous (not just remotely operated) air and sea vehicles. Large arrays of independently targetable beam weapons and mid-sized cannon, huge reserves of long-range cruise missiles, a wide range of sensing, cloaking, and electronic warfare equipment, all in a mobile base smaller than current aircraft carriers but still much larger than standard gunships.
It's fleeting. There are lots of social phenomena in Japan that have never taken off in the States and vice-versa.

Remember when Zynga and Farmville were the best thing since sliced bread? Remember the dotcom days when companies were worth millions(Billions) based on potential? That is what is happening here. There is no hook to keep these users for the next 5 to 10 years. Something "cooler/hipper/awesomer/badasser" is being coded right now...
The original text states ２０１７年度.
Research shows that calling people racist doesn't help to reduce racial bias
Isn't that the point of the rating system? I don't want to be killed by my next Uber ride because you feel bad rating them appropriately.

I've never had a bad Uber experience but I have had some downright frightening cab rides and I'd love to be able to rate that.
Yes, Apple is getting rich selling books.
Which adjustments? If you want to trot that line out you should show where they are, why they matter, and how they are even relevant given the absolute, monstrous, and profound piles of evidence all over the world that the warming trend is massive all by itself without anyone needing to do any adjustments.
I wonder how this resurrection project is coming along
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1113874-the-frightening-disc...

Also, would anyone have any good theories as to why dinosaurs evolved feathers? and from what did it evolve from? was it hair?
Incredibly misleading title/premise.

Should be titled: "Traffic deaths slightly spike, but remain lower than 2008 or any other year after 1956."

It has increased slightly since 2011, but less than 10%. What we might be seeing is that vehicle deaths has plateaued. We kept seeing decreases because technology kept being introduced (e.g. seat belts, air bags, ABS brakes, crumple zones, partial overlap resistance, safety cages, better safety testing, etc). That kind of slowed at the end of the 2000s and is now picking up again (e.g. automatic braking, lane keep assist, blind spot warning, cross traffic alert, backup cameras, full automation, etc).

The whole article is trying to manufacture a story out of statistical noise. We'd need more data (more years) to even start to speculate on an actual increase in deaths.
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This looks well-designed and professional, bravo!

I am looking to do a simple iOS app myself. Could you tell me how long it took you to build and what resources you used to learn,get going ?
on that note: I really wish they would move the refresh button back to the modular interface. I hate where the refresh button is (so do lots of people) and just wish it wasn't the ONE thing on the toolbar you couldn't config. (yes I've replied to and opened a ticket)
A lot of the locations in Hitchcock's Vertigo look much the same today. Its much different in NYC as these images of Taxi Driver locations show:
http://www.scoutingny.com/new-york-youve-changed-taxi-driver...
This is an extremely interesting, non-silicon valley related article, and the comments and really informative as well. One of the best examples of why Hacker News is so great!
yes, this! I've tried so hard to like FF profiles, I really wish they'd make this better. I still refuse to go to Chrome, but I'm getting lost on these small features.
It's also a bit worrisome that the driver apps only give the driver ~30 seconds to accept a new ride request. The requests almost always come in while they are driving.

Drivers are forced to pay attention to their phone and try to figure out if they want to accept the ride, all while driving. It's incredibly distracting and they never have enough time to pull over and safely accept the request.

This puts the driver as well as everyone else on the road at risk for no reason other than some arbitrary response time for ride requests.
Lindsey Graham Calls for Senate Investigation into Whether Russia Hacked DNC
> 30 minutes per day

I don't know about you guys, but my friends spend probably upwards of an hour a day at least.
Army planning isn't about deciding if something is a good idea, it's about planning how they would fight if they were in that situation.
I think this is great, but is there going to be a simple "sign in" feature similar to Chrome? People just love having their bookmarks / toolbars / etc follow them wherever they go.
I have a pet theory, I'm not sure if it's even close to the right one, but my guess is that WikiLeaks (and possibly even Assange's PGP credentials, etc.) have been puppeted for a while by some foreign intelligence agency (KGB? China? Someone more nefarious and less well-known?) with the express intent of helping to destabilize and erode trust in the US government. I highly doubt this was a US hit job, even considering that what's been released is largely US-centric.
Quickview for YouTube! Allows you to quickly view videos from your subscriptions feed page without any clicks.

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The 'Dragon Age' and 'Mass Effect' series of video games has player choices -- that may not be apparent in advance -- which influence the fates of characters you bond with, and alters the ending. I have not finished a complete playthrough of any of these games, because I'm afraid that my choices will leave me with regret, and when I come back to make different choices, the novelty will be gone, and the suspense, the hopes and the fears, the genuine real-world emotions I feel wouldn't be the same.

In my case, having multiple endings to a book would definitely make my hesitation worse.
Both geometric motives and Feynman diagrams are difficult are graduate level courses. There are very few people who understand both. Can anybody here at HN give some advice as how one can pursuit the knowledge of both fields?
Why? Is building the wall going to mess up the "it's not possible" and "it won't work" narratives you've been been trained with?
Oh, come on. Nothing short of formal verification is going to be sufficient for testing something like this (and formal verification is far, far harder for distributed systems than it is for single-node ones), and even then it still can't validate your environment assumptions. DI isn't even a drop in the bucket. If anything, DI makes it more likely your tests will be off, especially if you're relying in any way on (even loose) global clock synchronization.
I'm not sure if the Portuguese->English translation just isn't as good as English->German, but it's certainly nowhere close to a fluent manual translation.

In fact, the main difference seems to be less tripping up on mostly inconsequential small pieces of English grammar. It seems to have the same trouble as the old version in translating the meaning of sentences.
Simply show your inner strength and delete your facebook account. Done.
Russia only has 1 Carrier. It is followed by a Ocean going tug since it breaks down quite frequently. The US would have scraped a like carrier 30 years ago.

Reading the article, it took the US 40 years, 12500 aircraft and the death of 8500 pilots to get the Navy and Marines to a point where carrier landings were as safe as land based landings. Russia and China have a long way to go. A very long way to go.
I may sound over optimistic but I feel this is very good for people who are interested in learning new languages. It will surely help people learn many languages with relative ease and low cost. Anyone can try out various sentences from new target language (e.g. German) and at least get a near-enough meaning from google. I can try many variations in simple sentences and get a good start, without having to rely on some human help, which is very costly in terms of money and (more importantly) time. A human teacher will get bored with me asking hundreds of variations to translate for me, but not computer. This is great, at least for me.

Some people are fearing that this means now there is no need for language learning. But I see it differently, it's like how Wikipedia/Internet opened doors of knowledge to all people who are "interested" in knowledge. Now with this tool, we have a door opened to learning other language right from within our home.

The only nagging feeling is all this is google, with google becoming more-and-more evil, this is scary.
It might be a challenge for Google to find big corpora to train on because of the somewhat restricted contexts Written Cantonese has been used in (but more power to them if they can make it work!).
Ever see something being advertised as "new and improved"? It can't be both.

I learned -- a long time ago -- to immediately ignore about half of anything in a press release or coming from a marketing/sales person. I skipped reading probably half of this press release just because I don't care that the VP of the division responsible for the product thinks it's great (of course he does, he's being paid to say that).

Give me facts: data sheets, technical specifications, etc. Personally, I have a (possible unhealthy?) extreme level of "contempt" for the average marketing/sales droid.
This looks very cool. I was so disappointed by Concorde never really gaining enough popularity to drive costs down to a reasonable level.

I wonder what they mean by "affordable"; the article says the Boom XB-1 carries 55 passengers at high capacity, but a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner for example can cram 335 passengers. Either way this is great and if it gains traction costs will inevitably go down, but I wonder what we are talking about price wise in the immediate future.
The only actors that can actually threaten the destruction of an aircraft carrier have nukes anyway. It's hard to imagine a situation where they're willing to destroy your biggest ship but not be concerned about MAD. I mean, it's a bit hard to do an "oops, my finger slipped!" with the kind of arsenal it would take to destroy a carrier (like the OP's thousand $1M missiles).
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Does anyone know what the cost will be for these? AWS is quite high for the K80.
With regards to space, I think your second scenario there is more likely. Dropping things from space is pretty easy, and most anything like that is going to qualify as a strategic weapon.
I missed the original post on the primitive core, cause I hadn't seen this.

Just tried it out, and it is probably the coolest 'Show HN' I've ever seen. Spent the last 2 hours playing around with some pictures and different configs, and I absolutely love what this is doing.

Also, really appreciate that you provided a value add to the product sold, without compromising the open source core. Thank you for that.

Anyways, good job, and good luck. Hope this sells tons, cause it truly is amazing.
Awesome news! The Tesla P100 is a monster, this will push ML development to new heights.
And yet, somehow, I sense a hint of relishment in your reproach.
I misspoke, I mean the "original author" not the OP.
This one is great too: http://regexr.com/
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I think parent assumes users send their confessions and sins to people after they die instead of clearing things up beforehand or living an honest life. Says more about himself/herself than the product IMHO.
Only other place i can think of that may have had AOL was UK, and then only because i noticed some AOL ads on satellite tv channels from there.
I also met my wife that way!
An unmanned aircraft carrier is a staggering, sobering and entirely realistic vision.
Elm – “Designing to infantilize a target audience is how we got Java”
> Well, a problem could be that you get a lot of noise if all the frames are rendered independently.

The site shows an example of what a still image looks like if rendered with the same parameters several times; it provides an interesting animated effect. I think that might produce an interesting animation style.

But for a more consistent style between frames, it'd help to have a way to seed the RNG consistently.
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I am trying to learn Finnish and I have found that the colloquial, literary and poetic registers of Finnish are poorly translated.
Somebody who easily looses their cool tends not to be a great boss in my experience.
No you don't, because this is a Mac, and macOS doesn't use the F keys ever.

If you're using Windows, the F keys appear on the Touch Bar. /story
It is amazing that the best business model of current era is - Build something that allows people to feed their ego (ahem social activity ahem) and sell ads, simple :)
Take a look at the customers featured at reinvent. Computing as "utility" is the future, and the future is arriving fast.
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Synthesizing via deep generator networks
I work at Mozilla VR on A-Frame (https://aframe.io). I talked to the Alibaba VR team in Hangzhou, and the top VR real estate project (iStaging).

They are obviously interested in eCommerce given TaoBao. I don't think Buy Plus went super well given it was targeting Cardboard. But they have stuff cooking with Vive and Magic Leap. Unfortunately, VR eCommerce is a hard problem. It's shiny-sounding, but it's difficult to provide actual value to consumers that isn't just hype.

And also VR hasn't entered mainstream China at all, not even for developers, so adoption is an issue. No one has space, and the VR cafes only attract super gamers.

iStaging created their WebVR viewer with A-Frame: https://aframe.io/blog/istaging/...this seems to be doing well given Cardboard is enough for this use case. 360 photos aren't really a compelling experience, but sufficient allowing clients to at least get a tiny feel for the place.

But the articles about VR becoming "big" in China, I am not sure about given visits there over the last couple years.
For what plausible reason would you invade and occupy a city with a population of over 10 million?

Surely this is a failure of imagination, rather than a complete impossibility?

In the last few years we have seen:

The US Airforce providing aircover for Iranian militias.[1]

Turkey shoot down a Russian fighter/bomber over Syria[2] and then become close (?) allies[3]

The Philippines win a ruling against Chinese actions in the South China sea[4], then decide to ally with China and accept Chinese ambitions in the South China sea[5], and then return to their original position (maybe?)[6]

The world's most populous Islamic nation has a Christian governor of its capital city[7].

The UK voted to exit the EU, but no one is quite sure how it will happen

And Donald Trump won the US election.

So yeah.. I have no idea why the US would want to invade and occupy a 10M+ population city. But it is entirely possible something like that could happen.

[1] https://warisboring.com/american-coalition-is-providing-clos...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo...

[3] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37045724

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_v._China

[5] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/philippines-duterte-ch...

[6] http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2016/11/13/ro...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basuki_Tjahaja_Purnama
In 1956, an Obsolete WW2 Drone Took on Two State-Of-the-Art Manned Jet Fighters
same here - I build a lot of home servers and base a lot of my HDD purchases based on these.
Reminds me of this company: http://www.calyos-tm.com/calyos-fanless-pc-workstation/
That youtube video is spot on. A very strong demonstration that, shot-for-shot, the pacing, dialog and camera blocking match up impeccably between the two.

It's pretty clear that the lineage is essentially undeniable.
Frankly that seems to have never changed.
Your takeaway from my comment was that I think everything Japan does will later be popular in America? I didn't say that. I do see plenty of examples of stuff that pops in the west years after it was a hit in Japan. However, the point of my earlier comment is that Japan (and many other parts of Asia) have been adapting their language to new media, and stickers are an important extension of that, and thus are tied to quite a fundamental aspect of human life.
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Indeed. Seems like a cobra effect situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Cities can grow, you know.

> future warfare
According to one of the talks I watched, they are moving towards using more domain-specific languages.
Ok lets try again.

It's not enough of a problem i.e. it din't affect the election in any meaningful way.

Not sure why that's so hard to understand.
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You wouldn't invade and occupy a city of over 10 million. An insurgency would threaten the city and the region and you would be invited in to help control it.

Imagine 1% of that 10 million joined an insurgency. That is 100,000 people. I think this is a distinct enough possibility for a military to prepare for. In fact, the US already works on both ends. Supporting insurgencies in Libya and Syria while helping fight them in Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan. These aren't mega cities but the possibility still remains.
There's a reasonably full featured plugin for Firefox called SQLite Manager that lets you open arbitrary SQLite files and browse / edit the contents.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage...
> most of your logic also 'proves' that aircraft would render tanks obsolete; yet tanks and aircraft have existed for quite a long time on the battlefield.

To be clear, it's not my logic, but what I've read from experts (I'm no expert myself).

Anyway, aircraft do render tanks 'obsolete' AFAIK. Tanks that operate without their forces control of the airspace above them are highly vulnerable.
Wow. I didn't even notice it didn't have a .com at the end of "blog.google". I have no idea what's so 'disgusting' about it though.
I am not taking his word for it. Thats my opinion regardless of what Zuckerberg says.
Holy crap I still remember my user number. I just downloaded the client and logged in!!!! If anyone wants to say Hi... 8335393.
This is absolutely fab! I've been trying to figure out an elegant way to 'pipe' query results to user defined filter functions[0] for my side-project[1]. Can't wait to give this a go and dig into it. Thanks for making this open source and writing it in Go(lang) :-D

[0] https://bytengine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/funcs.html
[1] https://github.com/johnwilson/bytengine
Video: Masha Gessen on How to Understand Russia Under Vladimir Putin
Just returned a "new" drive with 31k power on hours. I should've known when the drive wasn't in a standard WD antistatic bag.
There are a lot of excited posts here about this announcement! For someone that doesn't use GPU's in everyday life, can someone explain why this is great and maybe touch on the current landscape around GPU usage and the cost landscape?
> which attempts to mislead the reader

Even if you're right, assuming malice seems premature and pessimistic.
Or maybe we could give drivers tickets for that kinda stuff instead of almost exclusively giving tickets for speeding which I especially on the freeway believe to be a comparatively small problem.
Oh well, as long as you get a cheap ride, who cares if the asshole can't drive and doesn't care about other road users.
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The perfect harmless prank: deploying a shipping container of Hescos in a densely populated area.
A bus ride is cheap. A 20 dollar fare to go 10 miles is expensive.
As the author mentioned in the original article TLA+, ATPs etc verify the correctness of systems, they don't apply to the type of stability problems which have plagued CockroachDB. That emergent behavior arose from it's implementation, optimizations, etc. Just because a system is unstable doesn't mean it's incorrect (or correct).

That is why a simulator is useful. The entire point of building a sim is so you can run the exact code that comprises CockroachDB and control for any situation. For example, an optimization that works great at 10 nodes may be terrible for larger clusters. You need to find that out through testing because most humans can't look at a line of code and infer that.

A side benefit of this approach is that if you change some parameter and suddenly experience a big increase or decrease in db throughput you gain a sense for which parameters are most sensitive to the overall system and will then be able to more easily diagnose problems in production.
http://sourcecast.io/

Lets you share the content of a text file and stream changes to everyone who's watching.

Useful for live coding demos, teaching programming, etc.

Works without installation.
'make licensing more strict' is basically going to bring the standard up to the level of machines anyway... every time there is an accident, lawmakers will create '<victim name>s law', which tightens the requirements a bit further. Sadly, I also predict that this is the only mechanism by which requirements will be tightened.
You can sign in to a Firefox Account to sync your bookmarks, passwords, history, etc.:

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/accounts/
They have DIY variant without CPU and GPU installed. So you can use other GPUs. See http://fit-pc.com/download/airtop/documents/airtop-owners-ma...

Better contact their support for exact specification on the compatible size.
massive is an understatement. I have only dealt with puny GB sized data sets. They deal with vectors which cannot fit into main memory.
Unreasonable effectiveness of learning neural networks
That website is a very cool 'game' haha I like it a lot :)
Just did that a few days ago!
In Melbourne I've had Uber driver's actually point out other Uber drivers by their erratic U-turns and swerving, bizarre!
If you include the USMC attack ships that have Harriers and will take the F35 and helicopters - the gap is even wider.