skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a history class, I heard or read that traditionally China never sought to become an empire in the Roman or the post-Columbus Western European sense due to their culture. I'm paraphrasing, but the Forbidden City was thought to have been the place where Heaven met Earth. Accordingly, it didn't make sense to spread so far from this Nexus, for the farther flung the empire was, the farther away it was from Heaven. Instead, it preferred to make all roads lead to heaven. In essence, by being the economic, cultural, and military center of the world, everyone would have to come to them.
Ask HN: Thoughts and experiences on third party router firmware?
Hi people of HN. I have bin a long time user of different router firmwares Openwrt, Ddwrt, Gargoyle and Tomato. For a list of router fermwairs see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_firmware_projects

I am now using a Linksys WRT1900AC AC1900 with Gargoyle on it and i have 2 APs that are TP-LINK Archer C7 flashed with LEDE.

The wrt1900 ac is set up as a router and the c7s are setup as dumb APs.

I would like to know if you use third party firmware and which one?
If you don't use third party firmware why not?
If you have thaught about flashing your router with third party firmware but haven't I would like to know why not? what stopped you?

I came up with the thought about starting this thread after reading a number of articles about attacks on routers.
Like this one:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/12/home-routers-under-attack-in-ongoing-malvertisement-blitz/

The reason I use Gargoyle on my mane router is for it's really good QOS and family safety features. Gargoyle is built on top of Openwrt witch is Linux baste. It has a plugin system witch lets you install plugins like it's grate addblocker and a ping watch dog.
https://www.gargoyle-router.com/index.php
Latest Gargoyle builds for the wrt1900 AC can be found here:
http://lantisproject.com/gargoyle_mvebu/newgui/

On my APs i use a build of LEDE from here:
https://kau.toke.dk/lede/airtime-fairness-builds/ar71xx/generic/

The LEDE build has new airtime-fairness patches for the ath9 and ath10 wifi drivers in it made by the guys over at make wifi fast.
https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/make-wifi-fast/
http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/make-wifi-fast/

I am Hoping to help any one who would like to flash there router out.
I am a mod on the Openwrt and Gargoyle forums. I have no vested interest in any project apart from helping people.
Thanks for reading and sorry about any spelling mistakes. :)
In germany, the maintainenance/repair costs for rails and bridges are mostly paid by Deutsche Bahn according to some 50:50 key - but if a complete replacement is due, they get a much higher costpart taken over by the tax-payers. So they drive them into the dust and shrink the railways to death.

Goes to show, that company's can be well-fare queens too. And of course, for the radicals that is just a proof that the market is not free enough. Okay, in free enough markets, those guys take the public hostage and demand money for their getaway. Privatizing the DB was a mistake. Public services, with large enough infrastructure decay in private hands.
Look at the US.
Look at Londons water supply.
To be fair, state can screw up too, but not in this way.
"Niemand hat die Absicht einen Flughafen zu bauen"
What if I'm neither a morning or night person?
> I find it troubling you present the context improperly yourself (China v. UNCLOS)

Disputes are fractal. Any summary will be incomplete to some observer.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which China is a party (but the United States is not) [1], ruled with the Philippines on the South China Sea's territoriality being drawn by UNCLOS rules. Others in the region disputing China's claims take similar positions [2]. The UUV was seized closer to the Philippine shore than to mainland China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t...

[2] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-and-Indonesia...
And fatherless homes by race?

EDIT: I wonder how closely that tracks marijuana use, and how much fatherless homes are caused by incarceration.
Possibly. However, I suspect the problems in Venezuela aren't just with hyperinflation. In any case, leadership that the people can trust will be a good start.
From near bankruptcy to profitability in 4 months
That's really neat
When I heard about this, I wrote a Python script to search allrecipes and find solutions (see here: https://github.com/sweeneyrod/three-food-problem). Unfortunately they seem to have changed their website format, so the code doesn't currently work. The most recent generated solutions I can find are: cheese, red wine, rump roast;
corn, tart, dill pickle;
hot pepper, cocoa, bun;
apple, spinach, cup;
cheddar, paprika, brown rice;
split, tomato paste, maple syrup;
crescent roll, cream cheese, apple pie;
taco, pie, peanut butter;
sour cream, honey, cup;
vanilla, maraschino, grape;

As you can see, there are some problems with what things WordNet classes as foods.
Manually or automatically upon update of the website?
Ask around at your uni. I was a part of a small scale server deployment to facilitate student project hosting :)

Friend of mine had a spare server lying around so we persuaded departmental sysadmin to host it.
Similar:

tea + lemon = good

tea + milk = good

lemon + milk = buttermilk

tea + lemon + milk = Boudica weeps.
The location is more than 200 miles away from the nearest thing that China claims is an island. But that's just for economic stuff; 12 miles is the limit for sovereignty.
well, it's not just interop, but many core language functions are currently handed off to Java or JS. e.g. string operations and regex engine immediately come to mind.
Companies like Amazon are more vulnerable than you think. The slightest disruption in flow impacts them hard.

You get a large bloc of people to act, they will notice.
What China has done in Tibet is nothing compared to the misery wrought by the US to the near entirety of central and southern America.
Galileo is a civilian project, though. It has features that are limited to police, border security, military, etc but it's an EU project. The EU doesn't have an army (its member states do, but the EU doesn't).
Or, "Sorry, we dropped it. Here are the pieces."
"Bogus" is a strong term. China seems to be breaching UNCLOS, which it agreed to. That said, it wants extraordinary rights similar to those exercised by the United States (which is not a UNCLOS signatory).

Ultimately, international law is a convenient fiction. South China Sea territoriality will be decided by the United States weighing the benefits of freedom of navigation against the cost of enforcing UNCLOS boundaries with force. Sending drones and forcing them to be returned is less risky (and less effective) than piloting manned ships through the area.
Slightly off topic but does anyone know of an example of a chatbot that is useful for something other than pissing off your customers?
I think macros can still be used for developing simple systems but it comes at a more difficult development cost. Unless you're used to macros, they're weird to write and there aren't many places to learn about macro design patterns (On LISP and LOL are good IMHO). There are examples of major projects that use macros effectively though. Look at core.logic, om.next, core.async, or many other large cljs projects.

If knowledge of how to use macros was better, I think some of the macro FUD would go away. If you're not using macros then you might as well not use a LISP. I'd agree though that using macros improperly leads to all kinds of problems.
The talk of simple geometry reminds me of the Ptolemaic universe for some reason. Layman's comment, I know, but I just couldn't resist.
Starbucks makes its debut in Italy
For those (like me) that prefer learning through talks and demonstrations, Jim Wierich gave an incredible talk on the Y Combinator at RubyConf 2012.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs

Code: https://github.com/jimweirich/presentation_ynot
I don't think it would simplify things that much. Having multiple users at the OS level is useful even when there's only one human user. For example, you can run a service as a user with limited privileges, to contain the effects of a vulnerability or breach.

Anyhow, sandboxing is just as necessary on a single-user OS as on a multi-user OS. And it's much more complex than multi-user support.
Aquatic drones can't have that capability.

It's pretty hard to transmit and receive radio waves underwater, so these drones are autonomous. They're given a mission, they go do it, and then they return to a spot to be manually retrieved. Apparently, while a group of drones was being retrieved, china "accidentally" snagged one. Back to the capablities though, since these drones are autonomous, you probably wouldn't know one was taken until you do a count after retrieval. Once it's gone, you might know where it is by GPS, but not who has it. Even if you can say, "Hey, it's in China", you don't know what it's immediate environment is. All of those things make self destructing a pretty dangerous/irresponsible thing to do.
Shills galore in this thread
> there has been an attempt to associate the geography "South China Sea" with the term "International Waters."

Yes, for the same reasons the "Indian Ocean" isn't India's territory.
> For runtime macros you need to also load the CLJS compiler in your app, which is heavy and overkill in the context of JS apps.

I agree, but with code splitting this could be done with 0 overhead for most use cases.
What should young college graduates look for in their first job--not just money
That's the understanding one would get reading exclusively American media coverage.

The long and short? The Qing Dynasty had territory over these islands before WWII. It was never a powerful naval power. The Japanese took them and more during WWII. The US (San Fran Conference, Cairo Conference, Potsdam Conference) demanded the Japanese remove themselves from these islands (including Spratlys, Paracels), and give islands back to China (including, notably, Taiwan). China, during the Cold War, traded some ownership back and forth with Vietnam of Pacific islands in SCS in order to avoid their being involved in Cold War disputes.

Now China is seeking, for National Security purposes, to build infrastructure (including civilian, rescue, emergency response, shipping and military) on these islands. The United States sees this as area access/area denial - it could be denied the ability to project naval power into this area. The Chinese want to be able to protect naval trade, and protect themselves from their historical vulnerability (embargo).

US has tried multiple ways to prevent or slow this project. A recent effort to get the Philippines to contest the waters failed when the Philippines backed off of their claim.

Western reporting likes to present the South China Sea as a consensus, but it's not. It's been very difficult for the United States to get Asian Countries - those involved in the area - to side with the United States about the waters and their future.
as a male, I'm sorry you had to endure any of it.
I notice that this incident was less than 50 miles from the Philipines (main Luzon/Manila Island) and Subic Bay, and outside of the "Nine Dash Line" of territorial waters claimed by China so if this article wanted to be inflammatory, it certainly could be.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Scarborough+Shoal/@13.7576...

Do I need to read more than 10 sentences before getting to this part of the article?

The overseas edition of The People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, said on its social media account Saturday night that the Chinese capture of the drone was legal because rules about drone activities had not been clearly written. “This is the gray area,” the newspaper said. “If the U.S. military can send the drone, surely China can seize it.”

In its statement, the Defense Ministry scolded the United States over what it called its longstanding practice of conducting “close-in reconnaissance and military surveys” in waters claimed by China.

It's true that quote is in the last half of the article, but it seems to provide the context that you say is missing, or do you think the article should be several times longer?
Laying 150+ bricks in 100 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuK_k980tk
> “I don’t know anyone who could tell you the plot of that movie,” he said. “The average person just says, ‘Show me the money,’ ‘You had me at hello,’ ‘The human head weighs eight pounds.’”

Sports agent Jerry Maguire has a professional epiphany that gets him fired. He enters serious personal relationships with his last client and one employee who left with him, and together they all achieve athletic success and personal happiness.
I think the FAA is an authoritative reference, and I linked to their claims about GPS III regional denial in my original post.
I agree with you that it is a common American sentiment that American propaganda is credible, and opposing opinions and facts are not.
They have a interactive map of latest earthquakes I've been looking at for a few minutes now. I have never considered how many earthquakes (albeit mostly minor) occur daily. There were 68 with magnitude of 2.5 or higher today! Really fascinating to consider.
I think I may be both. Perhaps I just hate sleeping and would rather be awake and living all the time!
Chocolate chip ice cream is very popular. Ice cream sandwiches are another popular combination in the US with chocolate cookie bases surrounding a wedge of vanilla ice cream.
Have you considered the possibility that low corruption in the U.S. is partly attributed to the widespread practice of lobbying and political donations, which serve essentially the same purpose as corruption but not counted as corruption? (Thanks Russia)
this is exactly the right direction, Linux needs to become a lot more like Windows = more user friendly
My hypothesis is that intermittent and alternate day fasting are closer to the lifestyle are bodies evolved in so it's less that they have health benefits as much as eating multiple meals a day may be less healthy for you.
> but I'm not very fond of the JS community nor the language itself. I've been wanting to get into C# for a while, but I'm not sure if the tooling and community is quite developed yet.

You got your answer, learn core

I'm not sure if asp.net core is production ready, I wouldn't use it right now for my projects and I also doubt ( someone correct me if this is wrong ) that established companies are looking for asp.net core devs, it might be quite hard to find freelancing jobs.

So it's probably a better idea to use node for freelancing.

Now combined, you actually don't like node, asp.net core is not production ready and companies are not using it (yet), what else could you do ? asp.net mvc, lots of jobs, solid mature framework and C#.

Edit: I also think that it won't be hard to switch from asp.net mvc to asp.net core.
That study wants to shed some light on whether UBI is viable or not, but limits UBI for two years. I suppose people are then less inclined to change anything in there life and just see UBI as a nice, not-life-changing win in the lottery. People are not behaving as with a "real" UBI. Can we agree on that?

There is some aspect of this kind of experiment/study to find out how individuals would perform if they didn't have the guaranteed income in the past but then suddenly do, but that's only meaningful for the transitional generation.

IMHO you can't ignore this that easily. When more people are quitting their jobs or switch to part-time jobs from full-time jobs due to UBI, the government loses taxes but now needs to pay for UBI. This is super-important to see if this whole thing is financially feasible.

IIUC you are arguing that people that grew up with UBI would behave differently compared to people that just switched to UBI? To be honest I don't feel this particular convincing, why should this be the case? There probably isn't any data on it either. Even if it would, the government/state still has to get through the transition period. One could with the same right claim that future generations are less inclined to work/educate than the transitional generation and thus make financing UBI even more difficult.
That's a straw man based on etymology. It's wasteful to argue a straw man.
Ahh, yes. It is confusing. MS makes you choose either "license by core" or "non core licenses + CAL per user". Then, the differences between Enterprise, Standard, etc.
I believe sighting of Russian fish trawlers (actually sig intelligence vessel) off Florida coast during earlier launches of space shuttles was pretty common. That didn't lead to nuclear wars.
I know they have Prime Now in the Dallas/Ft Worth area (Amazon has at least 5 or 6 warehouses near DFW alone) but I haven't seen any job openings for it. I did apply for Amazon Flex, but like many others, I simply never heard back from them.
A co-worker got a call back about it, but they declined him because his vehicle wasn't considered fuel efficient enough.
> in order to produce something you'll need to pay someone a lot more

At some point it becomes worth automating the work and that means no rising pay and fewer humans having to do jobs they dislike.
Thanks, nice to know.
That is sheer, baseless, unsubstantiated accusation and finger pointing. That does not help in resolving issues.
While this is true, it is the closest thing that already exists to a basic income, so it should be the first place to go for material to study before/while setting up a more controlled experiment (assuming a highly controlled, completely reproducible experiment actually can be set up in social/economic sciences).

Even in a UBI setup, it's the government's/public's money, not the recipient's, right up until the point where it changes hands. A wealthy family can (and often does) make just as strong of a guarantee for a stipend as a government can.
> My favorite is from Bill Gates:

> “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

Nice. And then we have Windows that needs dozens of gigabytes disk space and
can do nothing useful at all, while debootstrapped Debian chroot can easily
serve a dynamic website backed by a database and weigh two orders of magnitude
less (minus the data, obviously).

The analogy is quite apt, but the context of the author's company makes the
sentence hilarious.
I think you're missing the point. The US policy is symmetric. Here's the agreement signed with the USSR to try to reduce the possibility of collisions etc with the "trawlers" that the USSR had parked in international waters outside US naval bases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Soviet_Incidents_...
Easy Chocolate and Nut Cake 2017
I know that at least some municipalities in Sweden allows for earnings equal to ~25% of the social welfare payment, before it's reduced. So you can earn about $250 extra per month and get to keep it, instead of being stuck with the same income.
Cheap way to provide extra incentive for people to actually get out and work. Even if it's only for a few hours a week.
By essentially re-implementing Java. That doesn't apply to the rest of the world.
> when the Philippines backed off of their claim

UNCLOS ruled in favour of the Philippines. The Philippines are not willing to enforce their claim against an emerging regional hegemony. That's different from backing off.

> The Chinese want to be able to protect naval trade, and protect themselves from their historical vulnerability (embargo)

This is a fair thing to want, but it conflicts with neighbouring states' claimed rights to freedom of navigation. It is in the United States' and China's neighbors' interests to prevent China from achieving regional naval hegemony. Presenting this morally just serves to confuse the issue.

> It's been very difficult for the United States to get Asian Countries - those involved in the area - to side with the United States

India and Indonesia, amongst others, have supported the ruling [1].

[1][ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-and-Indonesia...
> Well, that's because it's international waters.

We're back to pretending opinions are facts, are we?

> There's also an attempt by China to associate the geography "Taiwan" with "China", when it's obviously a separate country.

Interestingly here, Taiwan's constitution and official policy does not claim there are two Chinese states. The United States and world consensus also recognizes the People's Republic of China as a government, but not Taiwan.

Do you explicitly disagree with ROC, PRC and the US about the status of Taiwan as a separate country?
That only means one person was able to implement hardware video decoding while others didnt, nothing to do with OS itself.
Self destruct doesn't have to mean a huge kaboom. "rm -rf /", followed by a high enough voltage to fry the chips might be enough.

I wonder if it has some GPS bad zones programmed into it, if it finds itself in e.g. Chinese territory, it could do the above.
US did the same thing with MiG-25 after a Russian pilot defected in 1976 [0].

Recently, after a NATO exercise in Europe, US sent an inert Hellfire missile through Cuba and Cubans confiscated it in transit. They returned it sometime after but everyone assumes that Russians/Chinese paid Cuba to have a look at it and have dissected it before Cubans sent it back. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko

[1] https://www.rt.com/usa/328303-cuba-missile-usa-accident/
Not for a week and not for free, but we converged to basically saying to every new hire that their 3 month probation period is their hands-on interview. You look at us, we look at you and let's err on the side of caution and assume it won't work. So far it worked well.
Silicon Valley may be popular for innovation centers, but losing ground to Asia
Article 298 of UNCLOS states is has no authority over sovereignty disputes.

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/uncl...
Finland's population is 5.439 million, It may work for 2000 people but will it be workable and scale up to 10-million, 50-million or 100-million people? I believe the "square cube law comes into play.

Square cube law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law
It seems to me this is more a chemistry question than a math question. Ignoring the subjectivity element, why is it ever the case that two things that taste good separately taste bad together? Maybe it's because they have a chemical reaction. So maybe what we should be looking for is chemicals that don't react as a pair (or react so slowly you don't notice), but will react in the presence of a catalyst which is pretty inert by itself. So I think one ingredient should be Platinumschlager (which is like Goldschlager except stupider).
Agree. I had a garmin XT but it looks like a teenage gameboy on my wrist. The apple watch does the same thing but looks sleek and professional.
Since Gradle 3, Kotlin is the preferred language for writing build scripts and addins, rather than just Apache Groovy. If you use Kotlin instead of Java for your Android coding, you can use the same language for writing your build scripts as you do for your system code.
It could very well be that way, but what is the evidence for that origin? Why not any number of other plausible explanations? It is not myopic to accept the explanation best supported by available evidence, until sufficient new evidence supports a different explanation. Right now, the Universe coming into existence as a solitary singularity is the best available theory.
China also seized South Korea's newly developed K21 IFV few years ago.

The static model had been shipped on Maersk shipping for display at an international arms convention.

The Maersk cargo ship made a stop in Hong Kong and Chinese authorities seized it on some technicality and kept it for weeks before returning it.