skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that was ever really the case - there was a vast amount of over targeting where the same location would be hit tens or even hundreds of times (notably Moscow - apparently due for ~400 warheads in the worst days of the Cold War).
As far as I know, the post-nuclear world is most accurately described in the 80s UK movie "Threads". It's the bleakest and most depressing movie I've ever seen, like a never ending nightmare. Don't watch it, unless you like being in a bad mood for days.
Seriously? You're arguing that hobbies and doing what you want is "really work"?

The idea of Work, in a Capitalistic sense, is activities you do for someone else, that make money for them above and beyond what you are paid for, and that you are compulsed to do with the threat of "no money, no food, no home".

With what I am talking about, I can change freely to whatever I wish to do, right now. I have no specter hanging over me threatening "no access and utilization of basic resources". If I want to chill and do nothing, I do precisely that. If I want to develop stuffs with electronics, I can do that as well. And when I'm bored, I can walk away with not a care. Try that in a "corporate setting".

And my "frankly rude accusations" match up pretty well with the original stockholm situation itself. In the end, if you don't "play nice" with capitalism, it threatens to end you as well, albeit slower than what the bank robbers wanted to do. And yet, so many people bounce to capitalism's defence. Hence, Stockholm Syndrome.
It means you need know how to architect, integrate and hack/debug/write/patch whatever software, in the meantime you also need to do bitwise and shift of integers, balanced binary tree algorithm algorithms fast. The former you need for the real work, the latter you need for interview. You need cover both ends.
One of my favorite old tricks. Works with renaming a .csv to .xls.
And what does "Skookum" mean then?
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Gamification at its finest. I copmpletely agree with you. :)
I had an absolute beast of an algebra professor who impressed upon us the fact that things are defined they way they are for a reason, and we, as mathematicians must know them. It is not enough to be able to remember the definition of a normal subgroup, for instance. We must know why we define it the way we do, and what happens if the definition is altered in the slightest, weakened, strengthened, negated etc. It is not enough to know that quotient groups are defined modulo normal subgroups only. You should know why defining a quotient group modulo a non-normal subgroup is meaningless. Even for much more complicated categories, like manifolds, one must absolutely know why all the bits and pieces are needed. Why do we require the transition functions for real n-manifolds to be C^r? What if r=0? What happens if two charts on some underlying topological space are not compatible? Why do we need the atlas to be maximal? Why on earth do we need a countable base? Hausdorff? What is this business about needing manifolds to be Hausdorff? [0]. Why is it that bijective homomorphisms are the isomorphisms in the category of groups - i.e. why is it that its inverse is not required to be a homomorphism as part of the definition? Learning definitions by rote is the surest route to mathematical mediocrity.

"Don't just read it - fight it!" - P.R. Halmos.

[0] Yes, I know these can be relaxed, but this is the standard presentation in Kobayashi-Nomizu/Spivak/Lee/Tu/Barden-Thomas/Do Carmo/Petersen etc etc.
I think you want to be careful with that - you don't want to make the magic that we do look too easy. "Can you just quickly change all the fonts on our massive, complex site to Comic Sans? I saw you do it in the demo the other day and it looked like a two second job..."
If you read carefully you'll see the article says its from the ensuing fires-not directly from the fallout of the weapons themselves.
"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce, and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine." (John Adam, 1780)
http://gittrends.io/#/explore?page=1&language=All&domain=All...

The projects are sorted by star, it represents pretty well the size of the community.
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Can you run network stack at 40 Gbps on those ports?
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The client is not talking for the sake of talking.

They are expressing a desire, a need or a want

Almost always you can dig down to their motivation and get a better idea of what they are _really_ after, even if the clients proposed "solution" is technically impossible.

Your tone says something about your situation.
In part because the author is exaggerating the scientific results - click on the link for "mostly black" skies, and you'll get a gif/video showing (after equilibrium is reached a few months after the event) light absorption of 5-8%. Significant for the climate, for sure, but not what the writer is claiming.
It probably applies more to the Republican primaries, where Trump seemed to get as much publicity as the other candidates put together (and much more in international media)

Negative publicity from news sources the typical registered Republican had a fairly low opinion of almost certainly helped him greatly in what was arguably the more difficult contest for him to win.
Shameless plug: I wrote a little guide[1] how to use keybase.io and GPG to sign git commits. It was posted on HN a while ago[2].

"Ironically, only the first commit is signed."

[1] https://github.com/pstadler/keybase-gpg-github
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12289481
> Entire neighborhoods are no-go zones. There are "demonstrations" on a monthly basis in pretty much every large city in Holland [...] The amount of looting during those demonstrations is absurd (ie. walking through the shopping street on the day after has them looking like a warzone).

Really? In Holland? I'm from Holland, and I live near Amsterdam which I think qualifies for "pretty much every large city". Where exactly in Amsterdam are these demonstrations with looting you're talking about? How do you even define "demonstration"? Also, have you considered the news isn't newsworthy on a national or international level, but is on a local level? News from Amsterdam can be found on at5.nl, tho personally I hardly ever read that. Rotterdam has their own local newspapers and news website as well. Etc.

> There is a Middle African refugee problem, but "somehow" this has escaped the attention of newspapers).

This is plain bullshit. The African refugee problem (whom were mainly arriving in Italy) was well documented in Dutch media. It is just that such is not being reported much anymore because the other refugee problem is newer and supposedly much larger.

> Julien Assange

Julian Assange
Next he'll be saying the Zombies / Infected arent right in Walking Dead / 28 days.

This is a work of fiction, no ?
Yes, I've wondered if Parkinson’s Law of Buildings means this is a sign of peak Apple. Still, with so much cash they can enjoy a long, leisurely decline.
I've had luck with that one too for the times I actually need a real Excel file.
Would be nice to have this tool for local use.
Imagine assigning tasks based on the goal of increasing every projects TF.
What if you don't live in a city? Almost every argument for self-driving cars and the sharing economy collapses when you don't live in Silicon Valley or higher density areas.
Yes you do. When you want to connect to a device the browser UI shows you a list of devices and you have to select one and click connect.

Source: I've actually implemented a WebBluetooth-controlled device.

Also, Google. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/07/interact-w...
Carmack had T1 in 1996: He mentions it when he explains his decisions about Quake's netcode (http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/johnc-log.aug.htm).
To some extent, absolutely. A junior is more likely to not know where to start, or to get stuck on a wrong path. A senior is more likely to need someone to bounce architectural ideas off, or some pointers on how to get started with some new technology.

But ultimately, anyone can get stuck hunting for a typo causing an inexplicable problem. Sometimes you just need someone to explain your problem to, just to help your own head to solve it.
I believe 'idlewords put it best: machine learning is money laundering for bias.
>Apple could have kept the previous form factor and not made the battery 20% smaller which would have allowed them to have an energy sucking 32GB option.

More people like thinness though, than 32GB RAM (which would have been a built-to-order option that few would have clicked). Remember, Apple has those numbers too.

To quote a programmer on thinness:

"I’m have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to have done what Apple did with the Macbook Air – even several years after the first release, the other notebook vendors continue to push those ugly and clunky things. Yes, there are vendors that have tried to emulate it, but usually pretty badly. I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light. (...) I’m personally just hoping that I’m ahead of the curve in my strict requirement for “small and silent”. It’s not just laptops, btw – Intel sometimes gives me pre-release hardware, and the people inside Intel I work with have learnt that being whisper-quiet is one of my primary requirements for desktops too. I am sometimes surprised at what leaf-blowers some people seem to put up with under their desks. (...) I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room – by far – should be the occasional purring of the cat. And when I travel, I want to travel light. A notebook that weighs more than a kilo is simply not a good thing (yeah, I’m using the smaller 11″ macbook air, and I think weight could still be improved on, but at least it’s very close to the magical 1kg limit)"

Linus Torvalds, APRIL 24, 2012
Use of sewage for potable water is still pretty rare.

New York City famously has tunnels up into the mountains for most of their water supply. One of them was featured in Die Hard III, where it was used (while under construction and dry) to smuggle dump trucks full of gold.

Chicago draws water from Lake Michigan and discharges sewage into (artificial) headwaters of the Mississippi.
I've used openpyxl a lot for these kinds of tasks, and found it really useful.

One nice feature with openpyxl is that it can work together with excel template files. So I can create a template in excel with whatever looks and features I want and then use openpyxl to populate those templates with data.
They are in the same social circle: It's called the Internet.
Source on that? This article claims Crowther did play D&D, based on personal email from a co-worker (M. F. Kraley): http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009/000009...
My favorite was Q2 because of its campaing. I never played them online though.
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On launch it didn't. Then it supported a few odd chips. But by the time of Quake 2's launch (actually before that), it supported OpenGL, in the form of GLQuake. This begun id's trend of using OpenGL over DirectX (Which Carmack hated at the time), which continues to this day.
I don't know about the rest of the US, but I know in the midwest a pretty decent portion of the population get their water supply from the Ogallala Aquifer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer). According to that link it's as much as 82% of the High Plains population.
Consistently deliver things quickly and for less effort than competitors.
Ask HN: Any recommended readings on freemium mobile games' strategies?
Hello Hacker News, long-time reader first-time poster here!

Following the fact that Game of War’s paying players spent an average of $550 on its in-app purchases in 2015[1] and Candy Crush Saga made more than a quarter of Amazon's lifetime earnings in a year[2], I am trying to understand how the top-grossing freemium mobile games are handling the mechanics of addiction and competition to make people spend their money. I am aware my question sounds a little naive in regards to this broad field, but as I am fascinated by this economy, I have to start somewhere.

Thank you in advance for your suggestions!

[1]: http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/01/game-of-wars-paying-players-spent-an-average-of-550-on-its-in-app-purchases-in-2015/
[2]: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/candy-crush-addictive-game-incredible-business-horrible-investment/283891/
I think the judicial system ought to be free to expunge its records when they have outlived their usefulness in the judicial system. However, a mechanism to force another to expunge its records because a third-party objects seems to me an extreme position.
It is unsurprising futurists working on pushing their cars that allegedly self-drive would tell you that the technology is closer to practicality than it is.
Depends on what you mean by 'survive'. I'd call a backup in google nearline sufficient for the meteor scenario, but that's going to be very slow and unpleasant to depend on for milder problems.
You're right, the price point has shifted. I don't know about Xiaomi, but phones like the Moto G 3rd gen and comparable Samsung/LG/HTC/Google phones with 2GB are above US$200.

I'd also caution that the prices for US consumers on Amazon are far lower than what is experienced in smaller markets, which have much less competition and fatter telcos. Massive monoply power at work, most tech simply never makes it to many countries at all.
This seems to be just an argument for the Ensemble interpretation of this experiment in opposition to the more commonly held Copenhagen interpretation.

In the Copenhagen interpretation, a system stops being a superposition of states and becomes either one or the other when an observation takes place. Where as the ensemble interpretation states that superpositions are nothing but subensembles of a larger statistical ensemble. Where the state vector would not apply to individual cat experiments, but only to the statistics of many similarly prepared cat experiments.

So it's not that the author is incorrect; they're a proponent of an alternative interpretation.
So you see the biggest challenges in the machines and execution of the work, rather than in the planning?
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I tend to apply sphere of influence here..

If there is violence in my local community, then its realistic that I could affect some level of change there. For example, I could join a neighbourhood watch, work with local police etc. Help fund a youth club.

On the contrary, if I stay informed on as much snippets of murder, deceit and corruption that happen globally, pretty soon I will feel overwhelmed and rendered powerless.

Knowing about a drug murder in Mexico or a child slavery in north Korea, is not something I can do anything about, apart from feel depressed.
I use go-resource[1], it works nicely for embedding websites as well as scripts and other resources.

[1] https://github.com/omeid/go-resources
Negative publicity can swing both ways though, it could just as well sink him.

Maybe Ron Paul should have gone for that kind of infamy :-D
I'm assuming the poster has something to do with this project because they've submitted links related to it 21 times in the past 26 days, many of them duplicates.
Do you think that might be self selection bias then? You might be able to benefit from one or two specialists, but if you even make them an offer, it's as a 4 (or whatever), but another company might be willing to make them an offer as a 6 or a 7, because they have a place for specialists. Not that that's necessarily a problem if you do indeed need generalists, just an interesting possibility to think about if you ever find yourself needing specialists.
Wrong strip: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/11/22/funny-all-by-i...
Monitoring Amazon Cloudwatch with NetCrunch
Surprised that Berkeley got online later than several others UCs and LBL.
Fighting for the Poor Under Trump
When I read his comment I paused for a second and said to myself, "Wait, I thought I knew what reticent meant."
I see it more like freeing up you active working memory to do other things, similar to how you can only become a better driver once you aren't constantly fretting over exactly how much to lift the clutch as you accelerate. You can (and must!) understand what/why you do what you want to do, but you can begin to abstract over it and find other patterns.
...being a bit of a pedant (and Norwegian!) I'd like to point out that the first international link was precisely the one to NORSAR at Kjeller; the link over the North Sea to UCL was the second. :)

(Kjeller/NORSAR was hooked up in June 1973 using a blistering fast 9.6kbps link, if memory serves)
What a ignorant jackass. The quality of posts here has taken a sharp dive downward.

The observer collapses the wave function of the system. It's like he doesn't understand the original thought experiment, or quantum mechanics at all.
it's only secure if you can ensure that no one has tampered with your keys. if your keys are generated behind a service like this, how can you know that you are safe?
Fingernail sized engine made of paper
I can understand the impression, but having owned similar chips to what he described, at that price/performance point you are gonna get within 20min of the battery life of either of those chips with a good condition used Thinkpad.
ECOA and FHA act, among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act

Surrounding these laws is a bunch of regulation and agency interpretation - i.e. if an agency doesn't like your lending/free association choices they'll hit you with lawsuits/regulatory
actions that are themselves very punishing.

As a concrete example, see Figure 7 of this paper. This figure shows that lenders could avoid a lot of defaults if they did per-race isotonic regression on FICO scores. In non-technical terms, this means a black person with a FICO score of 600 is more likely to default than an Asian person with the same score, and this information is easy to use. However, lenders are legally forbidden from using this information; as a result, lenders must associate with people (potential defaulters) that they don't want to and Asian people must pay higher interest rates because of this.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-wQVEjH9yuhanpyQjUwQS1JOTQ...
Is there a truly private quality university? When I say private, I mean one that is not considered a non-profit and thus pays no taxes on the piles of money it rakes in.
fsync() in particular is usually only called on (well, after) disk writes though - I can see that being involved in all kinds of system API calls too, but hopefully the system makers would be savvy enough to use an actual write barrier instead of being fsync-happy.
Love the idea, but why use a custom syntax instead of markdown?
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Snowpiercer has a pretty, uh, critical take on going this route. (It's also highly factionalized, not hard sci-if by any means.)
Apple AirPods delay caused by audio sync issue
I suspect it is not the fsync directly that leads to lag. But that when a fsync comes through, Linux stops doing anything else for the duration.
That 100% support includes a research before purchase. You just cannot purchase random hardware and hope for the best.

For me, major distributions work out of the box. For example, with my T430s, everything works, including the fingerprint reader and WWAN.
That is true of sex,alcohol or food or anything else.

You could go on a "fast" , ie avoid it for a while to break a destructive dependency but avoiding entirely ?

No thanks.
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exactly - i don't care that it's a canned initial email from the CEO if I can reply to him directly.
Show HN: Mapping the past 17 years of pipeline related accidents in the USA
Following a nuclear holocaust, the world has become a desert wasteland and civilization has collapsed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road#Plot
The point of keybase is to distribute trust in them across multiple (social) trust-statements, so you don't even need to trust them
Their implementation is supposed to check all those twitter/github/dns trust statements to verify the message.
Globally, the planet won't run out, but local populations might.

There are many factors influencing availability. Salinity, as you mention, and water that's "locked up" in other organisms, or in the geology. And don't forget power/political structures that limit access. Then there's cleanliness: ensuring that water is safe is a complex problem requiring infrastructure, energy, transportation, education, governance, etc.

Increasing temperature will evaporate more water, forcing us to implement new ways to harvest it. If locations of water harvesting become increasingly disparate, then we are faced with an increasingly thorny logistics problem: transporting the water to where it's needed.

With these practical factors, accessible clean water may indeed become limited for an increasing percentage of the population.
In my area it's 10 years of experience and can lead a team or you work like you've had 10 years of experience and can lead a team.
The bacteria is benign, it says so in the article.
The place where I work has two separate 'tracks', Senior Engineer and Specialist, and both are considered to be on the same level. Employees can chose which level the want to aim for and then be evaluated accordingly.
Energy supply would seem to be a key to survivial in a nuclear wintr. Not just in water supply but food production (artifical light) and heating. Although use of coal and oil may be simpler than renewables.
For a geographic representation, try:

* ARPANET Maps || http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/history/arpamaps/
Thanks guys, yes this is the game I was looking for. I am going to keep trying twenex.org for a while and see if the site comes back up. I really appreciate the info!
Linus provided a TL;DR: A bit over two
thirds drivers (staging, GPU and networking are the bulk of it, but it's all over), with the rest looking fairly normal too: arch updates, documentation, generic networking, filesystems..
The harsh-truth line for situations like this is that these people have been living beyond their means. Right living doesn't just mean that you can cover your expenses day to day. It also means that you have set enough aside to deal with the inevitable occasional hurdles life sets before you. If you can't deal with an illness or a job loss or a serious car repair, you only think you're doing all right, and a hard rain is gonna fall.

Looking at that paragraph, I think it is basically true. Yes, you should set something aside for contingencies. But is it the whole truth? It is well known by now that people, even clever people, tend to discount the future heavily, to the point of unreason. It seems to me this is a case where some sort of institutional intervention is called for, to fight our own worst impulses.
Are you I/O limited perchance? I have a really low end x100e, and even that doesn't stutter. Your E1-2100 should be head and shoulders above it performance wise, hopefully it is less of a space heater too (tho the x100e gets 5hrs despite that)!
So if it was burning cities -- how much worse were Hiroshima/Nagasaki than the firebombing of Tokyo, Dresden and so on?

The years of WW II ought to play in the same division?

Edit: Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires#Oil_fire_smo...
In the sense that this talks about a devastation 10000s of times worse than some oil fires.
How about a clip?
Remember that this is not a theoretical number (see the SoftPear project, for example)