skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The logic of the nuclear war is: "if the rockets come to you, you have to send yours to them, because otherwise they won!" -- they think it's better that the civilization gets wiped out than to appear to be a "chicken." Even a kind of semi-automated response surely exists.

The semi-automated response is a good thing, it makes your commitment to retaliate even more certain.

This is because the enemy is typically expected to be aware of your capability, rational, and selfish. If they know that you won't fire the rockets back in response, they CAN win, and they might use their weapons. If they won't win, they won't fire the rockets in the first place.

Now, to be precise, the important part of the scheme is only that the enemy thinks you will fire the rocket. After the rockets are launched towards you, it doesn't matter anymore, and yes, you could (and should) nobly self-sacrifice your nation so that humanity survives. But any suggestion or expectation that this will happen makes it more likely that the enemy will call your bluff and destroy you.

Honestly, with this logic in consideration, it makes me wonder if some of the rumors and leaks about how close we have been to launching counterattacks are fabricated. Though given the risk of espionage, it's probably safer to simply not bluff.

All this falls apart if the enemy is either unaware of or disbelieving in your retaliation, so they might fire their missiles expecting you to not fire back. Or if they're irrational, failing to understand that they will not win. Or if they're not selfish (perhaps the scariest of the possibilities): Perhaps because they are suicidal, which could be considered a sub-class of irrational. Or because they think you will not retaliate against them, instead retaliating against someone else: For example, if through subterfuge the US could fire Pakistani missiles at North Korea, not being dissuaded by North Korea's retaliation against Pakistan because the destruction would be on a different continent, or for example the military or political leadership initiating the attack are in another country, or better yet, on another planet) and not personally harmed by their own country being destroyed.

I completely agree that the world would be a safer place if these weapons did not exist. Unfortunately, they do, and we're neither able to modify physics so that they don't, nor to unanimously agree that no use them, so we're stuck with this sub-optimal equilibrium.
They've solved all the technical problems, so now it's time to write some games.

(though seriously, I'm guessing this was not built by their core eng group -- ??)
I voted this up and then realized that in doing so I'm only feeding the beast, one click at a time.
Declassifed intel report on Russian hacking released [pdf]
It's an idea I have entertained, maybe some day will pursue.

Those I know who have bailed out tended to go in three directions:

- Teaching public school

- Diving instructors

- Owning a bar/restaurant in some touristy location

From observation, the teachers seem most fulfilled, and the divers seem to have the most fun.
1. That's a possibility - though any time you're sending off to a third party for content, there's no way of knowing what they're doing around cookies and browser fingerprints across their properties. A step up from running scripts loaded from those sites though. And yeah, the default will be serving the content locally until explicit consent is received.

2. I like that idea. I also kind of like the idea of just not using comments - when I used disqus years ago it was mostly spam - but I think I want to try again and see if it's worth it.

3. Also a good point, but that only accounts for those people who are aware of the tracking as a point of concern. Given that the blog will be technical with a personal bent and vice-versa, one or two of my ten readers may not be aware of tracking as a thing :)

On this front, though, I'm probably just going to start with log analytic tools. It's really the only way to get a fully accurate picture across visitors (server side logging can't be blocked, but GA and even self-hosted data gathering can), and I don't really care too much about the additional info that analytics can provide.
Bruce Schneier's security blog implements something like this, providing an on/off switch for each social network's "Like", "+1", etc.

https://www.schneier.com/
In general, it's a bad idea to wear gloves when working with spinning tools. If the glove snags the wrong way, it can pull your whole hand into the tool.
Nope. The reaction to floppy-less iMac was more or less a direct replay of the current headphone jack, escape key, and USB-C "outrage":

>Long-time users were outraged that they'd be forced to buy new peripherals and couldn't back up the 4 GB hard drive with a waist-high pile of diskettes. They also wondered about the wisdom of using USB ports, ports that weren't yet widely accepted by the industry.

http://www.applematters.com/article/may-6-1998-the-original-...
Google Hangouts API gets hung out to dry
In which case the cost of recalls would include the profit of insurance companies.
Um... I'm going to treat this as though you're serious. You're probably wrong here. Lettuce especially is pretty lacking in nutrients, and all of the good stuff in kale is locked inside thick cell walls that have to be broken mechanically or by heat. Moreover, you're assuming that someone is fat specifically because of chips, when they probably make a number of unhealthy choices that cumulatively lead to obesity. I'm not sure a 1 to 1 swap of kale for chips buys you much more than a sore jaw and very regular bowels.
1. Good point; I'm not really sure where I was going with this now; GitHub and another CDN are basically the same. I must've been distracted while replying!

2. Yeah, it's not ideal. In this case, it looks like Disqus are gonna fix stuff though (they've commented on my post; there's a link right at the top of the article now).

3. I don't have access to the server logs as I'm running on GitHub Pages, so something like Analytics is all I have. I do find it useful (given no server logs), it's nice to see the traffic to my blog; there's no point posting if nobody is reading! :-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13340085
Very impressive. I am manipulating huge amount of text data on a regular basis directly in the terminal, smoother exhaust experiment is a huge win. I wish I can give you some money right now to support the development.
I prefer FireGestures. I can right click and scroll anywhere on a page to switch tabs. I then organize these tabs via Tab Groups (Ctrl+Shift+E, I believe removed in FF42 or FF44 but has an add-on to restore its functionality).

The gesture, I believe, is under 'Advanced Gestures' and is called `[Popup] List All Tabs`. Honestly I wish this was a standalone add-on because it is bloody amazing and I don't really use anything else from FireGestures.

It gives me a context menu with all of my tabs. No need to move my mouse to some "tab area". Although it appears this functionality is broken in modern versions of FF, as it only lists the active tab instead of all tabs. :(
That's weird. It's totally normal for couples to run mom and pop shops together. Most businesses historically (and maybe even up through today) have been run by families. It's human. It's natural.
Where'd you learn how to sail?
Be sure to wear ear protection (the sound is loud enough to damage your hearing) and especially a face shield.

Don't work alone in the house, keep your cell phone in your pocket. I suppose this would be a great use for Amazon's Alexa, just yell for 911 (does that work for Alexa?).
True, but who will write the guidelines, what will they say, and how will they be implemented and enforced?
Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to Close by 2021
Bad journalism happens everywhere!

Some years ago my father was interviewed for a local newspaper about the stadiums that Portugal had to build to host "Euro 2004", an European soccer cup. He said that he didn't like that the government decided to spend a lot of money on it, etc.

A few days later the interview came out, and it was fully reversed, saying that he agreed with the stadiums and that it was a good opportunity for the country, etc. My father is not a know figure, nothing like that, but changing the content entirely??
Portrait of the Artist as a Case Study
Just an fyi, the closing tag of the Google Analytics script isn't correctly closed (bottom of the page).
Don't combining characters, ligatures or scripts that fuse characters lead to a combinatorical explosion?

can it handle zalgo?
The market went up 150% during Obama's two terms, the best eight year performance of all other US presidents except Clinton and Coolidge.

It's because the economy has done so well under Obama that it can withstand Trump's nonsense, at least for the near term.
Among other things: underpowered for the price, touch sensitive power button was too easy to accidentally trip, ports were all on the bottom so you'd have to tip it over to get at the USB/Firewire.
Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections [pdf]
One of the annoying websites forcing to login.
Is Web Real Time Communication the New Way to Retain Customers?
Thanks for the work that you're doing on this and answering questions. I had never seen many of the neat things mentioned in the blog post.

While the article did a good job explaining how pshtt works and how it generates data for the reporting, it didn't dive too much into the scanning itself. Since this is posted on Hacker News, I'd love to hear more about the nitty gritty of the data collection itself.

Can you talk about what sort of setup you run, and what sort of technical and interdepartmental challenges you run into scanning, storing, and obtaining data for 1,143 government websites?
I detailed some of the problems I saw in another thread, but one other thing that gets challenging is the CQRS side (if you choose to keep everything async).

For example, say you fire an "address change" event. That gets sent to the event store for eventual projection in to a medium you can actually query from (realtime querying of the event store itself is the road to very bad places, I promise). So now your event is sent along, but how do you know when it has been processed/projected? What if there was a conflict with another address change event from somewhere else? How does that bubble back up?

The typical solution is to pass back some kind of "receipt token" so you can poll to see when your event is processed, then do your read from the projected database, or whatever. Of course, this can be made to work, but once you start talking edge cases and the need to support standard UX paradigms, polling for every update and handling error scenarios in this way becomes painful.
I for one would welcome a top spec XPS15 for development. A more efficient Quad core Kaby Lake, gorgeous 4k screen on 1050 4gb GPU, 32gb memory, 1tb NVME - and a proper selection of ports including a Kensington lock as well as a full set of keys (FN+Esc). Oh and they bumped the battery to 97whr.
2. I use Disqus and don't actually get much spam (maybe 1 spam post every 6 months, and it always gets flagged by Disqus) but there is often useful stuff in the comments. I think my blog would be much worse without the comments (and I wouldn't get the occasional "Thanks!" comments, which help me know that my posts aren't useless) :-)

Given the option, I would probably also just parse logs - I don't think Analytics is adding much on top of that; I just don't have that option using GH Pages. The reason I moved from AppEngine to GitHub was to stop messing with the code for my blog in an attempt to make me write more posts instead! =D
I'm buying real estate in South America because I think the dollar is overvalued.
Yeah that's a great presentation, they did some pretty cool things as part of the Midori project!
Just finished listening to that interview. Drama aside, that was a great story.
Multiplayer games do not have a monopoly on the dot IO tld. I have several for various purposes, none of which are game-related.
Apple's yield is a little over 2%. That's not a high dividend rate. While it's true that a lack of dividends in a mature company can cause some shareholder dissatisfaction, dividends tend to not pay for themselves in increased market capitalization.

There are companies that use large (10% or more) dividend yields to inflate their share price, which lets them dilute their stock at better valuations. Small shipping companies do this. It's a strategy that's long ceased to be possible by the time a company's valued at a billion USD, let alone over half a trillion.
She's rich and will stay independently wealthy for the forseeable future due to this, however her name is heavily tarnished. Even if she does pull off the edison tech, she'll have a hard sell finding investors to the level she did for Theranos again.
I don't get it. Who are these characters? What is the background patterned after? I feel like I'm missing an inside joke.
Most startups offer lower salaries and compensate in other ways. This is a risk. If you work at such a startup employees and founders likely take on more risk than your average VC because the VC can hedge their bets. Employees and founders have no way to do this.

Edit: I wouldn't necessarily say each individual employee takes on more risk than the VC. But I would definitely say that, on the whole, they do. A startup that "almost makes it" can be a life & opportunity cost sucking endeavor for employees, VCs don't have to worry about that as much because they have their fingers in a lot of pies.
Disclaimer: I used to work in Venture Capital, I'm also EXTREMELY passionate about this topic, so excuse my zeal. :)

I agree. This is literally the reason I built Baqqer[0]. I got laughed out of conference rooms and pitch competitions because they had no idea about `autonomous intelligent agents`. Classic quote: "You're either brilliant or crazy." (Yes, they actually said this.)

I even went to some friends in VC and they thought I was nuts, but my friends in tech could follow along and thought it was brilliant. To match money to the risky, but good ideas is the biggest problem.

We're building a platform where validation is done by the community of experts that want to see good things come to fruition. Use the community to guide the money and support the ideas and product. That's what is important.

We're also looking for people interested in helping make this future a reality.

[0] https://baqqer.com/
2. I need to look into self-hosted comments; but I was hoping to make the blog portion of the site static to keep it simpler. Project pages may have demos/etc that pull in JS libraries. But you raise a good point in 1 that also applies to 2 - given that I'm probably going to be reaching only a handful of people initially (and perhaps longer), worrying about bandwidth is a premature optimization.

3. I've just about talking myself into going with log-based analytics here. I find ga's omnipresence too worrisome to contribute to it, even with consent.

Thanks for that link, that's essentially the policy in my head before I started thinking about things like comment support. It's way better written than I would've come up with.
> I'll take HN by a fair distance.

I understand where you're coming from.

That being said, I knew reddit will begine to wobble when it went corporate
I think ebay is the last place I'd buy pretty much anything. Especially when the price discrepancy between those listings and fully legit stores is so different. Just a personal observation.
> 3. If you need your ego stroked when you see you had xx visitors on your site

That's a bit harsh - wanting to know whether you get 0 visitors to your blog post or 2,000 yesterday isn't just about ego; it helps you understand the value of your posts (and whether you should bother). Knowing how many people visited isn't the same as bragging about it.
Time tracking. Like, the physical act of figuring out how much time was spent on X task for Y client and then logging that in. And no, cheesy little desktop apps that provide a UI and timers for this are not the answer I'm looking for.
I have actually been able to play around with a Hololens (AR vs VR but close enough) and it is extremely cool.

It honestly feels like only minor improvements in size/speed/usability will make it massively useful in normal life very soon.
Good for you, medicine is a noble pursuit. Are you going to specialize?
Yes, especially considering it sounded like they were a paying customer. Yes they were paying with fraudulent cards but they were still paying.

Wasn't the real Arbitrage here that the textbook money company knew where to get the data that the book re-sellers wanted?
https://www.upupgrow.com/blog/2017/1/3/how-to-validate-deman...
FWIW - Disqus commented on my article - there's a link to their comment right at the top of the article now.
We recently switched to holding the daily standup in Slack, using a simple

/remind Time for the daily standup! Say what matters and where you need help. everyday at 10 AM

(Before, the meeting was in voice chat, not a physical standup since we're at multiple locations.)
Political decision, not safety. No nuclear engineers that I know of have claimed there are safety problems.

The plant generates about 1/4 of electric power in NYC. Rates will increase, which is a regressive tax, adversely impacting the poor, and undoubtedly there will be more air pollution as carbon-based fuels will be needed to substitute. As far as I know, NYC is using as much of the low-cost hydro power from Quebec as they can deliver.
I never claimed earlier economic models for creative works were optimal either. :)

But I do think with today's increasingly short attention spans, the granularity of consuming creative works keeps going down, which makes the transaction friction more and more of a problem.
oh, apparently you can double-jump. figured that one out after too long.
I was told there used to be an article online documenting exactly how to fix the vibration issue in this manner, but the article may now be gone (or at least, my friend doesn't know where it is anymore). So it seems extremely likely that it is just a vibration shim.
i'm impressed by his decision to trigger by sound rather than trusting his eyes: it gave him the chance to set up a more novel shot ahead of time.

incidentally, it's pretty much the same that doc edgerton used for many of his bullet photos: you start a picture in bulb mode in a dark room and use a sound trigger and time delay to trigger a strobe based on roughly how long you expect the delay between the sound of the bullet firing and it hitting the thing you care about.

Once you have a rough window, you can spend the rest of your time fine tuning the delay for whatever effect you're going for.

now putting on my dan meyer hat, it feels like a fun exercise to determine his reaction time based on the approximate speed of the car (possibly derivable if we know the shutter speed?) anyhow, cool article.
pablo escobar is from their original Narcos. Music is adapted from show's theme. he is delivering cocaine and running from cops. Same with rest of them .
It's obviously in facebook's interest to load the SDK as much as possible. Even if you are not logged in, they can get a lot of valuable tracking information from the server logs, including IP address, referrer, any fb cookies other than login, etc. In fact, so long as a client loads the sdk on multiple sites, even if logged out, Facebook can still track that client across sites visited (simple list of referrers associated withvthis cookieset)
To my fellow Americans
>> I think the "perception" you are talking about is just from gossipy tech blogs and people on Internet forums who have made a hobby out of getting upset about things like this.

Well a lot of these things have made the rounds on late night talk shows, which are watched by normal people (on TV and on viral YouTube clips).

Colbert made fun of the book [1]. Conan made fun of the airpods [2] and even has an Apple Spoofs playlist [3]. Kimmel made fun of Apple fans [4] a few months ago.

While Conan doesn't get big TV ratings, his Youtube videos do get a lot of views. I'm guessing the reason why Fallon doesn't do as many spoofs is because he is in some iPhone ads.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63_N63Qy-w

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_wImaGRkNY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVL8S3lUHf0RCRdtpshOa...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfxmhZD-IZk
I predict that in the near future the overlap of psychoneuroimmunology and gut flora is going to have a lot to say about regular, well-formed, easy to pass, mid to dark-brown, sinking, bowel movements.
I can only confirm the first two, but they're the stars of their respective Netflix Original Series. The background and enemies are thematic to their shows.
Ditto rings, for the same reason.
I quit the industry, but IT doesn't know yet or maybe IT just can't tell the difference. Pretty much my karma goes up and down as I correct strangers on HN.
I've never understood how photography is still a viable career. Everyone is a photographer nowadays, and everyone takes good pictures, just look at Instagram!

Maybe if they niche, wedding or something?
At a fair market value -- except if it was an early stage startup it was discounted from market value, with subpar benefits, but with a "tonne" of (now worthless) equity.

It is in many ways personally more rewarding, but taking a job in a startup versus a well-established business is taking a risk, accepting subpar conditions today for a shot at a big prize later on.
French Connected Condom from Paris
I'm not sure about that. It seems to me that VR is ripe for a high-end offering that is vertically integrated and quality assured. The VR landscape is already a bit fragmented and it probably won't get less so.

They'll have to stick better graphics cards in their computers, but that's doable.

Probably their biggest challenge would be coming up with a headset that is "Apple-y", given that the design issues involved in creating them right now still create something fundamentally klunky. (VR is starting to take off not because anyone's figured out how to make it not klunky, but because it transitioned from intolerably klunky to tolerably klunky. Along with the latency improvements.)

I'm not saying they're going to do it. But they could.
There's also the often unmeasured benefits of the surreptitious Googling that many people do before meeting you. Bosses and clients alike will "look you up" after receiving your resume or a cold email, and that blog can make a positive first impression on someone who may never actually mention that they cyber-stalked you.
Do you mind if I contact you offline so I can pick your brain about HFT and how you got into that? hn@lj3.me
Show HN: Matterwiki, a simple and beautiful wiki for teams
My redesigned landing page is only getting 4% conversion, what's wrong?
If a completely untrained person bought an entire shop worth of power tools and just started trying to build stuff, the potential for injury is astronomical. However, there's a right way to go about it. Every shop tool has a simple set of rules to follow. Learn the proper and safe way to use things, wear appropriate attire and safety equipment, pay attention, and the risk is very low.

Powertools are made to cut/grind/drill/etc... wood, metal, and even stone into useful shapes. All of these things are significantly harder than the human body. Of course the tools capable of doing it are dangerous.
I think you're overstating the importance of tax rates here. They certainly play a role but interest rates are a much more critical driver. For a period of time it was possible to make 7-15 percent interest on certificates of deposit.
Let's make AdN a thing like privoxy, where it runs on the network and does all of this outside of a browser, and for all clients on the network.
Have you heard of nohup?