skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 90s really weren't courtesy of the West. I understand this line of thinking, and I don't want to suggest that the West's handling of Russia in the collapse of the Soviet union was ideal. I know that it wasn't.

But the idea that west successfully privatized Russia in the malignant way you describe would require the existence of institutions powerful enough to enact such a change in the collapsing Soviet union. This has no basis in fact. The West did not have this kind of influence, in large measure because the West did not have viable agents or institutions to mediate such power.

The truth is that the kind of plunder that occurred was a natural consequence of the Soviet economic order, as well as the lack of institutions (and norms) required to sustain a functioning market.

If you are genuinely interested in this topic, please do reach out to me via email – it's in my profile. I'd be really happy to talk more about this topic, and even send you a book or two on it!
Have you plugged in an external monitor and not had an issue? I think that's not the norm even for that setup.
another analysis that suggests this might be airplanes. scroll to the comments, where they plug in GPS coordinates from the video into google early, and superimpose the location of various flights from public records.

https://www.metabunk.org/explanation-for-chilean-navy-ufo-vi...
My immediate thoughts exactly (minus the schizo ad hom).

Are militaries of the world so careless as to advertise their capabilities and equipments?

FLIR Thermografie Kamera FLIR SC8000 Quantendetektor:
https://youtu.be/doQGWcHTCG8

Curious. FLIR demo video shows the (usual) color thermal imaging and the OP has grayscale output.

http://www.flir.com/assets/0/6618/6729/6733/6740//9e20a2b4-4...
3. Bitcoin
If you're looking for a good book covering Russia's attempts at harnessing/controlling/etc the Internet (both domestically and internationally):

The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Web-Struggle-Dictators-Revolution...
I do work around motivation and communication and would like to share some of my experience.

In my work I use the Nonviolent Communication/Maslow model: every action we take is a strategy to meet a basic human need. There are no "good" or "bad" actions. Some actions meet more needs for more people than others.

Extrinsic motivation (rewards/punishment, or, as I like to simplify it, punishment -- because withholding the carrot is just that), is not sustainable.

See Alfie Kohn's Punished by Rewards for an exhaustive list of papers and experiments.

The list you provided can be related to basic human needs:

> –Feeling like no one is scrutinizing your work to notice whether you're doing a good job or not

Unmet needs for appreciation, acknowledgment, contribution

> –Feeling like even if you do a good job, you won't be rewarded

Unmet need for appreciation. This is tricky, because corporations as entities want to pay as little as possible while extracting as much as possible. So showing appreciation through money is undesirable. Still, people who can easily find better paying jobs elsewhere, do continue working at SpaceX and Tesla despite being underpaid. Mostly because they have a strong sense of purpose and non-monetary appreciation.

> –Having to spend a lot of time on uninteresting bureaucracy rather than the work you enjoy

Unmet needs for efficiency, purpose

> –Being told what to do in extreme detail, without opportunities to think much for yourself

Unmet need for competency (being seen as competent), acknowledgment (of intelligence), autonomy (this is the one people start wars for)

> –The opposite problem of having too little detail, so you don't really know what problem you're trying to solve

Unmet need for clarity

–The office being too cold, noisy, etc.

Unmet needs around physical and mental well-being

> –Constantly working by yourself, when you want to work w/others more

Unmet needs around connection, belonging

> –Constantly working with others, when you want to work by yourself more

Unmet needs around solitude, efficiency, autonomy

Many of these can be addressed in simple, constructive ways, as soon as we can start seeing the needs behind the grievances and actions. It's like acquiring an x-ray vision, which is precisely what I teach.

Lastly, I'll leave you with a quote which I really like: Managers try to change people. Leaders change the environment.
Marshall McLuhan Can Save Humans from Destroying Ourselves with Technology
This is ME 208, a Stanford course taught by Jeffrey Schox. It has an associated text, Not So Obvious which is not so bad although at $40 it is maybe not so cheap for 189 pages.

https://www.amazon.com/Not-So-Obvious-Introduction-Strategy/...

Schox has a small patent firm in San Francisco as well.

http://schox.com/

They turn away 95% of their new business. I know this from experience :( But he's a good writer and a clear lecturer. Basically, this is everything an engineer/entrepreneur should know about the mechanics and strategy of patents ...

except claims! Which if you have a functioning neuron you'll leave to a professional. BTW, you should know these things before you need to know these things. Pressman is good if you're foolish enough to file yourself. Schox is good if you want to educate yourself on the patent system and then manage your interaction with an IP firm.
One of my lines I can ride into work is the N-Judah line. This line is the busiest MUNI line. It is faster to get to my work because it goes underground and the MUNI buses I have to ride go slower, especially when there are a lot of pickups.

It is the most frustrating experience to walk to the N line because it is such a huge gamble. It use to get so crowded that you had to shove in there like you were on a line going into Tokyo. Just wall-to-wall people. They alleviated some of that by having more stops come back earlier going the other way. Only took them 2+ years since I've been here to decide that was an actual GOOD IDEA.

Equally frustrating riding on the line is that the N-Judah is sometimes actually a J-Church train that comes back right before you enter the tunnel into Market St. The only sign it is not the one you want is the last car on the train is locked out, and the badging for the train still shows N-Judah.

So sometimes you get on that expecting to go through the tunnel except it dumps you right outside of it. Now you have to pray there is room leftover on the next N-Judah line. Or alternatively you can try for the J-Church train that is entering near where the N dropped you off. So N-Judah is the closest line, but 50% of the time I have to use the J-Church train to actually get into work.

And that's even assuming the tunnel into Market St. is not bogged down. Whose genius idea was it to have all lines converge into one line?

What's the point of all this and what's it have to do with this article? Well fucking MUNI that's what. They recently increased fees for cash payment/limited payment card to $2.50. It is still just "$2.25" if you have a Clipper card. When I arrived here 4 years ago it was $1? $1.25? to ride. Literally for the increase of $1 more per ride I have seen service get progressively worse. When this bug hit, it said 30 minutes 'til the next N-Judah train. I tweeted to MUNI's twitter about what was going on and it took them 20 minutes to respond. And all they can say is "technical" problem as though 40% of the population in SF doesn't know what that really means. It is an embarrassment. SF is suppose to be some tech capital of the world yet we can't even ride into work without pulling our hair out over getting there.

Sorry, ranting, but it is unbelievable how incompetent our public transportation is given how much money they have.
But that's my point. I don't understand every single line of code in Windows. When I run Windows, I'm deciding to trust it. If you've stopped deciding to trust it, then adding more untrusted code (code that relies heavily on undocumented registry flags and the behavior of Windows itself) is like trying to put out a fire with lighter fluid. And this script doesn't have to be malicious to be bad.
Fair point, perhaps we might get there within a decade or two. (OTOH, nobody has ever seen an actual driverless car, either: those cars are "driverless unless driver intervention is needed" cars - a circular definition if I ever saw one. "90% there" is not "done", never mind the marketing)
I think your definition of "good experience" and mine differ substantially then.

Because if getting 1/2 the battery life if I want CUDA support is pretty shit in my opinion.
Ah. I'm currently using a MacBook that I love and not looking at the moment, so I'll keep your suggestions in mind in the next few years. We'll see how Apple responds.
Another vote for Arch.
However you will like it if you want to embrace linux and by that I mean learn some fundamentals which you will need to install Arch.

If you just want to run linux, Ubuntu will be better choice .
If you don't have the resources as a country to investigate on your own, why not get an article published? I get the feeling information gathering in the internet / social media age is going to mess with the minds of a lot of people (and probably give some a bit of trouble).
> "I didn't realize how thick of a skin I have due to my arts background."

Unfortunately, I think this says more about the programmers today and the culture they expect, rather than your resilience.

(that's not meant to imply that you're not resilient, by the way).
It's no struggle; someone wrote a PowerShell script and posted it to Hacker News!

More serious answer: I do use other OSs. But I keep using Windows because I want access to the fruits of millions of man-hours spent in Redmond and elsewhere developing for the Windows platform. It's a non-trivial body of work.
This is so true.

I was really tired of not being able to find insightful content and discussions on so many other social networks and/or forums. Most of them are full of frivolousness, hatred, squable, swear, all that memes, gifs... etc. Then I came across HN, ~3 years ago. I am not a coder (trying to learn fundamentals on my own, though) and not so fluent in English either. Even though, it was (and is) like brilliant content filter - in terms of both news and comments. You cannot get a grip if you are not civil enough or if you are looking for some visual entertainments. You know, I guess it's all about text. You read. You get valuable information and knowledge from other readers'/writers' experiences. Text is not dead here on HN.

All in all, HN is like "The best content aggregator for humans, by humans".
The tiniest of examples: try to enable "advanced" typography features in a document, such as ligatures, small caps, proportional figures, mathematical equations – without having to convert your document into TeX.
What does it take to add real-time data for a new city?

I've been interested in trying to scrape the data from the transit provider here. They have what appears to be reasonably accurate arrival predictions which they display through an atrocious app, and electronic signboards at some bus stops. The busses have a terminal for the driver that displays how long they need to dwell at times stops and announces the next stop, so I assume this is (at an unknown interval) transmitting the locations to their server.

I haven't gone further in looking at it yet, because google maps will only add data sources directly from the official transit provider.
If the data is valuable presumably it would have a backup.

Many of these could be caches, or rebuildable from other sources.

Many could be disposable.

Since you can't really know which database is valuable and which not, you sort of average the price, since this is volume game.

Or maybe he want's to give the impression that this is not very profitable, to keep others from doing the same.
I haven't tried it but there's this: https://github.com/MycroftAI
This looks nice, but why does a bus app need to read my calendar? And photos? And identity?
during those 3 years, did you continue learning mostly at work? Or outside? (ie programming languages, systems design, etc.)? Or was it basically "I never brought work to home."?
Probably somewhere around the late 2000s or early 2010s, I'd say.

By that point, you could already buy a PC with enough power to do almost anything that most people needed. They ran Windows 7, which is arguably still the best version of Windows that Microsoft has produced. Everyone's major important software ran on Windows PCs first and anything else second. Everyone's hardware came with Windows drivers.

There has been some useful progress in hardware since that time, particularly in the areas of storage, networking/communications, graphics/displays and lower energy consumption. However, in terms of the fundamental capabilities and "shape" of a PC, things haven't really changed much since that time.

More importantly, there has been relatively little real innovation in mainstream PC software for years, it's just that often now you only rent it, it keeps changing itself around, and it tries to spy on you all the time. The interesting innovations in software are almost entirely in either the mobile space or online services today.
I haven't found a "best" distro yet.

Before I discuss specific distributions:

1) powertop is your friend for battery management

2) Pretty much all distros will let you run virtualbox and qemu-kvm so there's no real wrong choice for your use case.

A lot of people like Ubuntu, but I've had terrible luck with it. It somehow seems to be in the (for me) uncomfortable spot where it adopts certain things before they are ready for prime time while also having other things feel old compared to a rolling-release distro.

Debian "testing" tends to be more stable than Ubuntu and "unstable" more bleeding edge. If you want a middle ground between those two, give Ubuntu a try.

That being said, nearly 20 years of running linux has given me a strong bias for source based distributions. Rolling binary distributions (e.g. Arch) tend to have issues with DLLs, and release based binary distributions are often a pain to switch releases.

For non-laptops I use Gentoo, but you don't want to have to install or upgrade packages when not plugged in as you will be able to watch your battery usage go down in realtime.

My current laptop uses Nix, which is a source-based distribution with a binary caching system. I love Nix, but it's a small enough community that you are likely to find software for which no package exists; as a source based distribution, you can often write a package expression in a few minutes, and I've done that about 6 times in the past 6 months. It is a very non-FHS layout so a ./configure && make && sudo make install like you can do on Gentoo is unlikely to work.

Another upside of Nix is that it also has a lot of great tools for developers, letting you easily make isolated environments with different libraries and utilities in each one. All this being said, I usually don't recommend it to someone who is asking "what distro should I use?" since the small community and sheer difference of the approach makes it much harder to do google-based troubleshooting.
I came across that mistake (and it was pretty obviously a mistake to me, but that's because I already know quite a bit about the RH), and later was stonewalled by a different mistake -- the "Plot of the real and imaginary part of the Riemann zeta function ζ(s) in the interval -5 < Re < 2, 0 < Im < 60" plot is mislabeled; it's actually a contour graph of the condition "ζ(s) = 0" on the complex plane with real and imaginary parts plotted separately.

The problem for me is that my way of reading math stuff is to assume that whatever is said is being true and fit it into a growing mental model as I read. Many other students I know do that. Once you get into the flow of it this can get pretty fast without losing out on comprehension. When you come across mistakes, it leads to a speed bump, and you have to stop and re-collect your thoughts after this. This only happens to me for math and physics, not other kinds of technical writing, but it happens.

This doesn't turn me off an article, it's just super annoying.

Typos and stuff are fine, it's the "plausibly true" stuff that gets you. I suggest spending more time proofreading but not worrying more about it.
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Yeah, you're totally right. Just literally listening is not enough–you have to ask questions, trace symptoms down to a root cause, and then come up with a good solution for that problem.

For example, one person requested that we make standups earlier, because they wanted to get them out of the way before getting into the zone. Another suggested making standups later, because they preferred to start work later in the day. Obviously these solutions as suggested were incompatible. So I tried to figure out what value we were getting from standups, and figured that it was worth experimenting with making them asynchronous using Slack. That worked really well, and is what we do now most of the time. (Occasionally, the team likes having in-person standups when in the middle of a tough series of bugfixes.)
I know, but that doesn't change the fact that other languages don't have templates and still have containers, meaning maps, vectors, etc.
For this reason alone, I have refused to use Truffle. Consider the RPython toolchain, from the makers of PyPy; it does a similar thing (turn an interpreter with light annotations into a JIT compiler) but you are in no legal danger.
Fun stuff, and I wonder if the architecture of the future (where the climate is much less predictable than it has been) is houses, and perhaps communities, like this. A "two layer" architecture where there is an isolation layer between the wind/rain/snow aspects of the climate and the garden + living quarters. The folks over at earthship (http://earthship.org/) are of that opinion.
The age ol' "How Software Companies Die"[1] has much on this point.

The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa....

[1] http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/rants/how-comp...
That's the great part, my company matches my donation!
This started well before "social media" was a thing. Newspapers weren't done in by Twitter, but by their own online editions, and by Google unseating them as the best place to advertise.
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Tesla autopilot predicts a highway accident a second before it happens
The discussion is ongoing though. There are two possible candidate aircraft, but the distances and altitudes seem to be off.
I assume that's the case. Securing mongodb isn't rocket science, it's not all that different from any other database, so I can't imagine a business with any value has unsecured mongodb instances.

What I mean is, it's pretty ignorant that just because authentication isn't on by default you don't turn it on at all.

Even if you don't want to or don't think to configure mongodb itself setting up a firewall also seems to be common sense.

Thus, the only reason they'd be unsecured is they're either for random tests or hobby.
Lots of comments here about custom desktop builds being cheap. But what about the portability you've sacrificed? No big deal, the tremendous savings you just made can go into a cheapo use-it-for-travel laptop and you'll still have money left in the bank.
Mozilla has documentation on this, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

For the other projects you listed I’m not aware of such documentation, but I’d recommend you just go ahead and ask them directly :).
Indeed, bitcoin is the true enabler.

But the dangers are pretty high. You never know how ten years from now the digital trail you left comes back to bite you.

Cashing large amounts it's not trivial. Sure, you can meet in private locations with local bitcoin buyers, but when you have $1 mil to sell it gets tricky, there aren't that many buyers in any particular area. And then you have the problem of justifying how you suddenly have one million.
The 3 reasons why I ask about code patterns
> Debian: pain to set up and a lot of issues - there wasn't a bootable ISO I could find that would let me boot into a USB and test run the latest version with all of the (nonfree) drivers I needed.

Does this help? https://fiendish.github.io/The-Debian-Gotham-Needs/
the 'crossover point' is different for everyone. e.g., would you rather be a 60th percentile student at a top-tier, or 90th percentile at a second-tier? (for some fuzzy, ill-defined definition of 'percentile') everyone needs to decide for themselves. as one oversimplified caricature, maybe it's still really hard to get an interview at your top-choice company even if you're 90th percentile at a second-tier school, but even the slackers who barely crawled to graduation at a top-tier school gets that same job interview.
> So I tried Neon (the "new" Kubuntu) ... but they don't even have a working installer.

It worked flawlessly for me.

Now I wonder if I was lucky or you were unlucky.

Oh, and I live it: clean fresh KDE 5 built on a Ubuntu/debian base.
> your claim about GPO policies is blatantly nonsense, since that's what you use for Enterprise deployments.

It says right in the GPO policies which operating systems they apply to. For example in your screenshot you set "Do not allow web search" to quote the policy itself that only applies to:

> Microsoft Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01 or later

Doesn't do anything on Windows 10. So it isn't "blatantly nonsense." You are just playing with pro functionality you don't understand.

> Also, if you had actually researched before publishing, you'd known that Microsoft removed the disable option from the Hamburger menu during the Anniversary Update.

Nope. http://i.imgur.com/nzHBVex.png

As you can see I am on 10.0.14393 which is the Anniversary Retail Release and have the option.
Interesting idea. I think I may have read long ago (as a kid) that igloos have windows made of ice. Not sure.

Update: just checked this:

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

They can have windows made of ice blocks, says the article - see the "Construction" section.
Hypotheses:

- A/B testing of ransom prices will happen

- the person paying the ransom is not the company but an employee afraid for their job

- companies more likely to be able to restore from backup
There are some interesting statements that are equivalent to the Riemann Hypothesis. What "equivalent" means is that if the statement is true then RH must be true, and if RH is true then the statement must be true.

Here's one I find particularly nice.

Let s(n) = the sum of the divisors of n, for a positive integer n. For example s(12) = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 + 12 = 28.

Let H(n) = 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/n.

The RH is equivalent to the claim that for every integer n >= 1:

s(n) <= H(n) + exp(H(n)) log(H(n))

This is due to Jeffry C. Lagarias. Here's his paper showing the equivalence: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0008177
I would recommend David R. Hanson's "C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable
Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 1997,
ISBN 0-201-49841-3).

https://github.com/kev009/cii/blob/master/src/array.c - this leaves resizing on the caller, but that could be retrofitted in. Most importantly is how the book explains everything.
The article says that the possibility that this was an object reentering the atmosphere was dismissed. Why? There is no sense of scale here. It could be something very fast and far away, like a bolide leaving a trail of debris.