skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There would be no hard evidence linking the source of the attack."

If are willing to take seriously a movie, Sum of all Fears, then for each ball of plutonium, just take the distribution of its isotopes. If have a catalog of all such balls of plutonium, then, for any one ball of plutonium, its distribution, looked up in the catalog, will identify where and when that plutonium was made. Similarly for any bomb from such a ball of plutonium -- just get the distribution of the isotopes in the fallout from the explosion, look up in the catalog, and know the source of the plutonium. Maybe from the nuclear weapons treaties, the catalog was developed.

If all that is approximately the case, then whenever a plutonium bomb goes off, will know the source.

Next, it may be the case that,
if a missile is launched at sea, then US satellites will detect the launch and start a search -- e.g., by air, dropping sonar buoys with active sonar -- to find the submarine.

It may be the case that the submarine trying to get away is limited to a speed of only about 6 knots since going faster might generate enough flow noise for the submarine to be heard and located nearly anywhere in the ocean. If the submarine is limited to such a slow speed, then it would appear that the airplane and sonar buoys would be able to find the submarine easily enough.

Next, it may be the case that the US knows the location, 24 x 7, of every submarine in the world able to launch a nuclear missile.

Net, for a missile with a plutonium warhead to be launched at sea and the submarine to get away without being detected might be nearly impossible.
Yes. Given our history, mistakes and all, yes.
Right now it's not worth more than $1,000. When it was released it was competitive with other workstation-class desktops.

$3–4k is a normal price for that kind of hardware, it's not trying to compete with a Dell Inspiron.
Evil =/= stupid

He has absolutely nothing to gain from using chemical agents when he is already winning through conventional means. Even more so considering he probably doesn't plan individual strikes

Much more likely this is a false flag pushed by Israel/Saudi Arabia because Assad's regime is an ally of Iran - their biggest rival in the region.
Likely because the topic has been covered already on here multiple times over the past week. The general consensus is "what the fuck Drupal people".

I'm sure an announcement or a drama will come from the upcoming DrupalCon in Baltimore later this month, I'd like to hear some level of closure on this. It's disgusting that a company/circle of devs would treat one of their own like this (although, it's likely an excuse for some other reason).
There's also just the joy of cooking. It's a skill, no different than programming. I feel the same pride in improving my cooking skills as I do my programming skills. It's nice to make things, and make them well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056254

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056680
"There will be demands for high inflation to relieve debtors."

@ryanSrich: personal debt, reduced demand in a declining market . If you are in debt at a variable rate and have reduced or no income.
True. I do wonder if it may auto-flag rapidly rising submissions as part of astroturfing prevention or similar?

(Flamewar was a bad example, I admit. Sorry about that.)
Photographs of Ukrainian Buks Geolocated in Poltava Oblast, Nearly 3 Years Later
That's totally true as well. I didn't even think of that last night. People often think Asian megacities or US megacities as the most expensive. But that's not true. It's actually cities in Africa.

I guess another valid point is the problems African cities are dealing with are sort of indicative of what's projected that most mega cities will deal with in future. A huge income gap, lots of overcrowding and some kind of constant security and resource problems.
I'd say it's both.
I would buy two of these today.
That kind of "accountant" style thinking has brought them to the brink with developers and media pros.

Killing off the development platform for your successful products is incredibly shortsighted.
In Japan I found more events on doorkeeper.jp rather than meetup.com
Rest assured office space will remain a challenge even after this year. Take a spin around Mathilda and Maude.
In the age of fake news, denial and misdirection would work in Putin's favor. All he needs to say is let's send a team to conduct an “impartial, objective, honest investigation.”

Meanwhile, the US collapses.

I mean sure we can say we have hard evidence that the warhead was launched from a Russian sub, but RT will report things differently and half the world won't believe anything the US says anyway.

Honestly this is a serious risk and the only thing we can do is elect a batshit crazy leader who can convince Putin he's stupid enough to push the button. Oh I see...
I belong to the pro market, but I love video games. I am eager to hear some details around how they view Macs in the gaming world.

The limited gaming available on a 5k iMac was great while I had one. Civilization, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft... Jaw dropping, but barely scratching the surface of what Apple could do if they gave some love to the market.
Ask HN: What are the best ways to hire a data scientist?
We're sitting on mounds of data and we need someone to help us analyze and make this data useful.

We aren't even sure where to start when describing the qualifications of a great data scientist. What are the common tools used? Is data scientist even the correct term? Can anyone provide examples of great job descriptions for data scientists?
Ask HN: People above 35, would you risk your job and start a company?
Hi,
We've all heard the stories of whatsapp founders. I wanted to know if it's more of an exception than a rule. Assume you have a brilliant idea and you have the capability to execute it, would you risk your day job to start your company ? Are there any examples here , above 35, who've started a company successfully ?

By successful, I mean, you earn decent enough income to live just as good or better than what you did on a day job.
There is no propaganda like his propaganda. We won't know until the three government investigations are complete
Because much of politics is circular and virtue signaling is just as important to the libertarian-leaning HN population as it is to the 'snowflakes' that they loathe.
I watched a nephew go -- in one year -- from "I don't think we are going to see him alive again" to a man who you would utterly trust with your child's life.

I would expect similar transformations for you. You will not be the old @rickdale, just improved. You will be a completely new man.
With 82 million examples it learned how to spell each word and which word follows which in a sentence.

With the 232 examples it learned What bad sentiment sentences look like and which words occur in them.
Selling at a record low price for Twitter is probably not the most financially sound logic.
I believe this is their equivalent:

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/s...

Not sure if you can turn it off, or buy a decent cpu without it.
Professionalism is very political. It's just mainstream, so from the inside it appears to participants as apolitical. Ask someone whose accent or hair texture is "unprofessional" or who can't afford "professional" clothing whether professionalism is political.
Emailed resume!
> behind closed door meeting with reporters

...the link is to a full transcript of the meeting. Sure, you weren't personally invited, but hardly a secretive off the record briefing.

> Steve always ran things incredibly tight lipped, no need for transparency that's part of the Apple experience

After the controversy about the iPhone 4's antennas he did a very similar briefing to this with a number of reporters, and Apple pre-announced the Intel transition many months before it actually happened. Jobs would happily tell you what was coming down the line when it suited him to do so.
Twitter suing to keep Trump critic identity a secret
Except in controlled leaks and antennaegate.
please don't hit me, but i am on

hp elitebook 8440p 8gb/1tb hybrid ssd, dual boot, ubuntu / win 10, bought it back in july 2010, runs great, with only disadvantage currently being the weight, around 2.5kg

i moved to ethiopia with this machine and i am happy i paid the premium price back then, just one time i cracked the screen and it was within the warranty period and had a universal coverage so i got it replaced, the local hp rep though while replacing the screen messed up the one corner near the function keys of my keyboard, so it is kinda buckled, but all works fine

once or twice a year i get visits from abroad and i test flashy new machines, and i just can't convince myself to get another one based on what i have seen this far, it seems only the aesthetics are what is progressing, the new one looks undoubtedly sexy, and very light weight

but within a year or so, i might have to retire my dear one.
Shouldn't new chips with a smaller process be cooler?
You jest, but IMHO the state of a developer workstation (computer, desk, chair, room) speaks volumes about the organization.
> Even more so considering he probably doesn't plan individual strikes.

We don't know that, especially when it comes to using chemical weapons. And even if he doesn't, he definitely delegates to representatives he trusts.

> Much more likely this is a false flag

I'm honestly speechless.
Direction of energy is more important than anything else.

Who do you give energy and to what tasks? Make sure it's good.
Or eternal-september. Free accounts, although you don't get access to the binaries groups I don't think. I mostly use it for comp.risks, comp.arch.embedded, and some other things like that.
And exactly why the President has ordered this action (presumably). There are those who have demonstrated that they have no such restraints. They, Assad included, are the wild card that threaten long term stability.
I think Django Admin is another way of getting things functional first and then building UI, Web/Native for B2B apps.
I bought a 2015 mbp a couple weeks after the 2016 mbps were announced. Apparently I was one of many! Apple increased the price $500 (dongles, the stupid touch bar) while stripping out stuff I use every day (magnetic charger, usb-A, good battery life) and giving me nothing in return (32g ram?). Also, they force a dedicated gpu, which I've had die; for both battery life and reliability, you're better off without. Meanwhile we had smarmy folks like Gruber carrying Apple's water and doing the "nobody really needs more than 16g ram" nonsense. (This from a man who, um, writes a blog. Yeah, those kilobytes of text must really push a computer to the limit.)

Until this announcement, I assumed, based on the neglect of the mac pro and mac os, that Apple was basically going to just run out the mac business. I had started trying to figure out what my next computer was going to be after a decade of macs, and was pretty bummed by the options.

Hopefully they're serious about this.

If they're looking for other things they could do, may I suggest doubling down on fixing mac os quality issues. And hey, maybe even hire the homebrew folks.
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IIRC there is also a report that no Russians were at the target of the attack.
Now when will "The Verge" admit this is clickbait?
Former Google VP Starts a Company Promising Clean and Safe Nuclear Energy
Is spreading political propaganda a crime? I'm sure the US Government would have loved to have had your legal advice back during WW2 when it was spreading anti-Hitler propaganda throughout Europe.
Good thing he wasn't using clojure in anger...
A huge number of people still use Yahoo Mail, and some use their photo offering.

It does not put Yahoo's finances in a good shape, though.

If Twitter could slash their expenses drastically, they could be rather profitable. Maybe they could increase their income somehow, too. Likely the same applies to Yahoo, and is equally problematic.
> Assume you have a brilliant idea and you have the capability to execute it, would you risk your day job to start your company ?

Almost 40 here. I would definitely risk it, but on the other hand I don't have any kids or other responsibilities.

But I wouldn't quit my day job until I had a working produce and saw potential and good feedback.
Also, nothing in the Daring Fireball article (the author of which was actually present at the meeting with Apple) supports anything nearly as juicy as "Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess".
Claiming to be a federal agent, ex-military, a doctor, etc. is NOT a priori a crime. You can claim all manner of things. They may be unethical, but claiming something is very rarely criminal.

Spreading propaganda is not criminal. Many days I wish it were, but it is not.

You have to proceed to ACTION before something becomes criminal. So, if that account shared confidential information, now the feds can probably go get a subpoena and crack the identity.

Unless they have a subpoena, this is a fishing expedition for the purposes of intimidating others.
Javascript is less than ideal for this, and was never designed with this sort of thing in mind, unlike C/C++.

Plus, web assembly is here.
I believe the new Lexus RX design has created a severe shortage of grille components http://www.carworldinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2017-...
Here it is (from "Individualism and Economic Order")

"the freedom of the individual by no means need be extended to give all these freedoms to organized groups of individuals, and even that it may on occasion be the duty of government to protect the individual against organized groups."

https://goo.gl/JnftDO

You can see from the essay why a lot of right-wing American businessmen were disappointed in Hayek.
I think the Mate desktop aims to deliver just that.
FWIW Lyft's upfront pricing words the exact same way.

This is a non-story and just good product management. This feature solves the problem of presenting a surge multiplier to the customer. With a surge multiplier the customer has to guess how much it's going to cost. With this they just see the price and figure out if it is worth it or not. Reducing purchase friction and uncertainty increases demand and is good for drivers.

Plus, both Uber and Lyft are assuming risk with upfront pricing. They are guaranteeing a price. Sometimes it will be higher and sometimes it will be lower. The driver is accepting a different payment arrangement based on distance and time.

Both companies are classic middlemen and taking advantage of consumer surplus.
Not sure what I did to deserve a downvote on this - relevant sci-fi trivia #asshat
That's really not a bad idea. The Macbook I'm using now looks pretty similar to the Macbook I was using when those towers were still in production - even the G5 version.

I'm sure people are making FrakenMacs using this enclosure using old, broken Ebay'd enclosures and cheap off the shelf parts that creme the official Mac.
That is likely the intent. It seems likely that you would have different doses for different diseases, probably with some overlap (akin to Gram-staining, for example).
For Trump, those who are most vocal against him are equally more inclined to be against Assad and those vocally supporting Trump, will be almost celebrating. It also helps defuse Russian ties a little, as some will view this action.

So It will be interesting to see how his approval rating goes over the next few days.

I hope they are not rushing in without all the facts and that is my fear, and maybe they know something that is not public. Time will tell, as always.
Agree about no need for cars to have a grill.

However I felt the shape of the front nose on the original Model 3 unveil was aesthetically "incorrect" - like a streamline with an anomaly. It wasn't about grill or no grill, but wrong curvature (subjective of course, we can agree to disagree).

These new photos show a much improved nose shape.
Just bite the bullet and hackintosh. It's ridiculously easy. I put one together in an afternoon with parts I had lying around. It even had GPU acceleration for all those silly UI animations to run smoothly. There are lists of hardware that are guaranteed to work. I'm not a Mac guy so I scrapped the system, but as a bored weekend project it was fun.

I had no issues installing updates, networking was fine etc.
Brackets on new lines specifically get my goat, I think it's unnecessary most of the time, there are a few other things that piss me off as well but I guess it's nice to have a standard and I am just one dude who is used to doing it his way :)
I have code tidying stuff that happens on commit so I still just do it my way and then let automation handle the pedantry!
26, and feeling kind of the same as you. I don't really remember 1999/2000 too well (was too young), but I remember 2007/2008 quite well---my dad got fired from a very well paying job (he was a civil engineer).

All of a sudden, I went from being a reasonably rich high school kid (with a straight path into uni), to someone whose parents had to move homes (we were renting, and had to cut down on expenses, especially since I was off to uni) and whose dad was struggling with depression (even though he didn't know what to call it at the time).

I am still not quite sure how my dad's depression played into the surfacing of my own, smack back in 2010, right in the middle of my first degree (also in civil engineering), but I know the results: I quit civil engineering, and I have been on and off in school ever since, basically thriving on "passion" and my parent's money...

I am not sure if suffering builds character.
that's a great question! The main reason is that pix2pix works at a set resolution by default, and changing it is non-trivial. I'm actually not sure how to structure the Unet for a 5x1 image - if you have any ideas let me know (I'm a beginner at this)

Speed improvement also doesn't scale linearly with input size. Eg. there's only a 5x improvement going from 256x256 to 256x1
Yes. I always felt Lexus and BMW should merge - Lexus makes awesome interiors and BMW makes stylish exteriors. The new Lexus styling is just awful.
Haha. True.
Intent matters, but so does negligence & incompetence.
C++ was OS-native on some older now extinct systems, like Symbian and BeOS.
This site rootcause has an awesome format. what is it's background/context?
The ugly truth is that if you want to change a culture you must permeate it. This requires a multi-generational commitment. You can not assault an opposition into compliance. You must defeat its leaders and its men and then squat upon its culture until its children know nothing other than your own culture. This is what our grandfathers understood when they placed multi-generational bases in Germany and Japan. Today's metro-sexual culture does not have the understanding nor the resolve for such a commitment.

A civilized culture must abhor violence. But it must also be ready to use it when the alternative is to ignore the suffering of others.
We've always been looking at another 1929 event, though. In 1987 there was a flash crash and people were worried that we were about to have another crash of '29. In '97 there was the Asian Financial Crisis and people were worried about another '29. In '00 the dot-com bubble was bursting and people were worried that it'd be another crash of '29. In 2007 people saw what was happening in the derivatives market and said "We're in for another crash of '29". Then when the crash actually hit in 2009, people were sure we were in for a double-dip and 2011 would be the new 1929.
Whoa, whoa hold up there, buddy. YOU'RE not quite fitting the narrative.
Safari is probably the best bet Mac has for Gaming at the moment. As someone who has to update games which Apple breaks with every Mac release... it's the most brutal platform. If you thought linux audio was tough... try delivering games on a Mac that you don't want to break with the next update.

"But can't everyone just implement our Metal API? It's been so successful, it's the best, you'll love it" No. No we don't love it. Please just implement WebGL2. Thanks.

"But we neglected OpenGL for years, even though our pro users have been begging for updates, and we think Metal is the best, you'll love it".

No. We want OpenGL updates. We are pros, and you promised us for years OpenGL updates. This is why there are almost 0.0% of our apps released on Macos with Metal.

"But we released the new macbook pro with an AMD card. We haven't really been working on OpenCL, but use that. You'll love it".

No, we want CUDA. We are pros, and we told you we wanted CUDA. It's what we use, because you stopped caring about OpenCL.

"I know we said we were serious about pro models, and that there would be a new mac pro, but here is the same one with a minor update. You'll love it. It's the best."

No.

"But we're listening."

No, you're bloody not.
I'm not sure what MSFT thinks is a good buyer experience on this.
Buyer: I want to buy a CDN
Msft: do you want the Verizon or the Akamai one?
Buyer: um the CDN one?
Msft: due to some corporate deals we've made you have to choose
Buyer: %#]%^}^}%!!!1
Just because you shuffle the examples on a single phone/user doesn't make it stochastic.

The entire point of using stochasticity (ie: random shuffling) is to avoid similar and/or a same-ordered run of examples from redirecting the hill climbing in a globally non-optimal direction all at once.

A single user's examples will be very similar, so you can shuffle all the examples from one user you want - that doesn't make it truly stochastic in the context of gradient descent optimization.

The quantization / compression part is pretty cool though. I suppose that could obfuscate slightly what the original example was for privacy purposes? Seems like you'd lose on accuracy though.
Or it could be a message to Assad to stop using nerve gas.
Just a wild guess.

It would have made absolute zero sense for Assad to use nerve gas. Because the Assad/Russian coalition was already winning and Trump previously stated that it would be up to the Syrian people to choose their leader, i.e.: no more neo-con regime change.

I also believe there is no concrete prove yet that Assad is really behind the nerve gas. And I would be very septic about any proof from the USA (it would need to be really really substantial), because let's admit it: the proof of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in the end proved to be false.

Both the USA as well as other forces (the so-called white helmets that have a very questionable track record, Turkey, perhaps even Israel) in the region seem to be very interested in removing Assad, no matter the costs.
"solution"?

Maybe get all the parties to the fighting to get serious, sit down, shut up, listen up, and make a deal.

For the first part, the "get serious", have some bombs wake them up and get their attention.

Or may want a BATNA -- best alternative to a negotiated agreement -- to be much worse than so far. Or, call it making the parties motivated.

Or, maybe the attack with the 50+ cruise missiles was to "make an example".

Why try to make the parties more motivated -- could that help? Well, easily enough, there are enough people among the parties who are willing to have that several sided civil war continue at the current level of bloodshed for a long time. But, maybe by making the war more costly to selected parties, can get a deal.

I don't know enough of the details to have any idea if any of the above would be realistic, feasible, correct, etc. Instead, I'm just floating some of what might be part of the situation. Or as General Mattis explained, a war is not over until the enemy says it is -- the enemy also gets a vote. So, for a war to be over, all the sides need to be motivated to agree it should be over.