skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're being extraordinarily optimistic.

Here's [1] a declassified JCS report from 1961 estimating over 200 million deaths from a US attack alone, not including the counterattack. This was with lower target populations and a China which had yet to urbanize. And I don't think it includes the longer-term death toll, e.g. from starvation as transportation webs collapse.

Here's [2] another report from 1956:

> the authors developed a plan for the “systematic destruction” of Soviet bloc urban-industrial targets that specifically and explicitly targeted “population” in all cities, including Beijing, Moscow, Leningrad, East Berlin, and Warsaw

That one aimed 179 nukes at Moscow alone. You don't think 40 aimed at NYC was plausible?

Yes, many nukes would hit military targets outside urban areas, but many wouldn't. If you're right and the war was a relatively short affair that mostly targetted (and presumably decimated) opposing militaries, the long-term postwar strategic advantage would go to whichever side could rebuild fastest. That means aiming for economic advantage, which means that long-term nuclear strategy includes attacking economic targets, which in large part means population centres.

Would WW3 result in entire continents glassed over and the extinction of all life on Earth? No. But I'm pretty sure it would be a lot worse than WW2, and this assumption that "it wouldn't really be all that bad" strikes me as absolutely terrifying. Yes, "It's in everybody's best interest to keep the cash flowing." There was exactly the same consensus before WW1. Actors don't always act in their own best interest, even if they're rational.

[1] https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/u-s-war-plans-wou...

[2] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear-...
London or greater London or the city?
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Please stop posting unsubstantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To my disgust, the biggest thing most people seem to take away from it is "Yup, that's what happens when a woman is in charge of a business."

I'm a woman. I am fine with her burning. But, geez, I hate the idea that there is lava-like splash back spattering all other women in the world who are trying to be taken seriously.
What in the world does this have to do with hacking news?
No doubt there are many factors involved. Clearly from my point of view it feels wrong and from other points of view it appears correct.

A more interesting question to me is this: Those hours would allow me to have a more socially adjusted life. I would have more opportunities to meet women with similar views and personalities to my own (outside of work). I would have more time to date during traditional hours, for instance. So which should it be? Should society always optimize for the families that exist or should it optimize (in circumstances left for debate elsewhere) at least some of the time toward the possibility of new families? I'm talking the difference between pure strategies and mixed strategies. Usually mixed strategies work out best for everyone involved over repeated games - and this is definitely a repeated game situation.
Why is an active ecosystem with healthy competition a bad thing?

Personally, I can't stand javascript, and why you'd ever elect to use it for backend/server side code mystifies me. So I don't use it (or work in web development), and couldn't care less about what platform the hip web devs deem acceptable.
Nice comparison! Would be even better to see them all side-by-side.
Whoah, hang on, really? Do you have a source on this or somewhere I can find out more details?

This will completey break a lot of libraries, components, etc that rely on the React lifecycle contracts.. Certainly doesn't feel like a small change! :-/
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Just went to try it and was somewhat disappointed that it requires docker installed locally in order to run moby (I do not have it on my Win10 due to HyperV). Is that just for pulling the containers from the docker registry?
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> when I had to create a Twitter account as [an] employee of a company I worked at.

How does that work? Were you in social marketing? If not, a term-of-the-employment-agreement required this? If the latter, that's the most horrendous thing I've heard today (other than, you know, assault, rape, murder, mayhem, and war)
This is awesome. If you're deploying stuff with Python on Lambda, I highly recommend checking out Chalice (https://github.com/awslabs/chalice) and also an extension to it that I wrote for using Lambdas on SNS/S3/Cloudwatch events or scheduled events - https://github.com/kislyuk/domovoi (which I now need to go update to support this as well).
I agree. Bangkok is also one of my favorite places in the world. Because of the chaos, the heat, the street food and... Oh pretty much everything about it...

Sad to hear about this.
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In the video, why does Lath Carlson, Executive Director of the Seattle Living Computers Museum euphemize history by saying Steve Jobs "quit" in 1985?
Are there any possibilities to have "private" base stations that don't need a subscription? (Or in exchange for running a public base station, I get unlimited communication to my own base station?)
Oh? Seems like you still want to support old client versions, which means retaining the fragments that they reference. The question then is what implications that has on a server -- do old fragments need to be eventually garbage collected?
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is emission the only react-native app artsy has built/open sourced?
It won't, rule 1 for travelling in that part of the world is to walk past the nice looking but empty restaurants and head straight to the street stall where the locals are eating. The food in the street stall hasn't had time to go off because it was probably brought fresh that day, the food in the back of the restaurant might have been sitting there for far too long waiting for a customer to order it.
Number of "people" in the us: 318.9 million (2014) => more like 1 in 13. Also, I'm pretty sure that 24 million figure includes the military.
Hmm... I can name at least 3 people who don't even have a laptop who were enjoying themselves in the last 8-player Bomberman game I played on the Switch.

I like LAN parties, but the whole concept of them is kinda limited to the nerdy crowd. I'm totally a nerd btw, I go to conventions and play in those LAN rooms and stuff.

But opening up gameplay to my general non-nerd friends only happens through couch gaming. A lot of my friends straight up wouldn't get a chance to play in a LAN-party setup. But they come over and have fun with Mario Kart, Puyo Tetris, Smash, or most recently... Bomberman.
Does it offer forex card?
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You're already in hot water with a U-Haul. Anecotally, they have been the worst cargo vehicle rental business in my life. Get a truck from Budget, Hertz, or Penske instead. Every friend whom I have helped with their move has experienced a mechanical failure of some kind with a U-Haul vehicle that significantly increased the stress of an already stressful event.

Know your clearance and pay attention to road signs. Your regular car insurance may cover rental cars, but it probably doesn't cover rental trucks. So if you peel your top on a low underpass, you may find yourself in a world of pain and regret for a long time. Ideally, if you are in a rental truck, you should already know how to get where you are going without GPS assistance.
That's John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal's investigative reporting team. [1]

[1] http://www.wsj.com/news/author/1282
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Not the OP, but I expect the web to be a thing where documents (i.e. mainly text) don't have any issues rendering on my 5-year old phone or on my 8-year laptop (both of which work very well, still, and which I don't plan to replace anytime soon).

The recent web practices (I'm talking mostly of the last 2-3 years, since more and more people have started copying Twitter with its launch of its "every website needs to be a JS-app" thingie) have practically destroyed how most of the websites are displayed by the 2 devices I own. Sites like Hacker News or Wikipedia, which still work perfectly fine, are very far and few between. I sincerely deplore this.
Really? I'm very surprised anyone would blame malfeasance on anatomy.
Could we have a summary for people like me who are not familiar with them?

What's the case on Theranos? what did they do and sale? What happened?
Yes, indeed, it's an animator/modeler's dream ;-)
That is fair, I hadn't thought of that. I would argue the difference is perhaps the ease of tracking the different versions and their usage and the ease of collecting versions. Plus the client can fall back to submitting the full query.
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I enjoyed reading it, but I agree that the title is misleading to the point of being insulting.
The benefits you acknowledge (distribution) are not because of the tech but in spite of it.

At the end of the day all it would take is one of the 3 major browser vendors to offer an alternative. That alternative could be distributed to a large percentage of desktops in a relatively quick manner saving billions if not trillions of dollars in wasted productivity.

It will never happen though.

* EDIT: This comes from someone who uses React, Redux, webpack, etc.. daily
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As long as it is mutual consent, I don't see a problem about it. Also without that mai pen rai atmosphere TH would turn into another Laos/Vietnam and those countries are just sad.
It kinds of depends what your goals are: if your goals are to make a card game? sure, a small team should suffice.

But if your goals are to make rockets ? well having 500+ employees and having your product fail, as it happen to spaceX in 2008, maybe not so bad ?

And it could be that for theranos, in order to sell laboratory services(assuming their competitors bundle stuff), they have to offer the whole service array , meaning thousands of tests, so it takes a lot of work for their core product - altough they did already have product based on the same tech for pharma r&d.
Javascript fatigue fatigue.
They should had bought f7.com instead :P
Its actually pretty easy in the US.. Pay! If they aren't being paid in the top 1% then its unlikely they are producing that way. That is why like many things, I think a more "free market" solution here is in order. A requirement for a H1B should be an extreme salary band. That proves that they are actually exceptional, while simultaneously discouraging companies from using them for cheap labor.
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It's classist in that it denies the person seeking what the other person has the opportunity to progress. I would personally benefit from those hours in ways that include family forming. I'm not a member of the "family man" class and I'm being denied the opportunity to join it. My current work situation puts me in a very disadvantaged position for family forming. You, of course, have to take my word on much of this.
This appears to be the wrong link - it asks me for a WordPress login.
> My second takeaway at a glance is the giant problem that is Social Security. It's been said over and over, and the aggregation of more data into charts comes to the same conclusion. The way Social Security works is not sustainable. Period. Something has to give. A $405 B shortfall on SS in 2015. If that was at least half, we would actually not be running a deficit. We would have a budget surplus if we actually made Social Security/other Gov. retirement program replacement actually sustain itself perpetually. What. A. Concept.

We've literally spent the last 30 years building up the Social Security Trust Fund.

We have just under $3 TRILLION saved up for the expected social security shortfall. People are living a bit longer than expected, so we're a bit short on money.

But the USA has run a social security SURPLUS from between 1980 through 2014. Believe it or not, the US Government is actually very long-term thinking and we are somewhat prepared for the future.

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Yes, so thank Jimmy Carter in 1977 for coming up with the idea to save money for 2010+. The "Baby Boomers" are now retiring, so its natural for us to lose money until the Baby Boomers die out. The question is if the Trust Fund can last long enough (ie: until enough Boomers die)
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Ouija boards can affect outcome, for example one person can influence what others will see and if they believe it suddenly that person's opinion will matter much more than it should.

Instead of having a pointless arguments whether Ouija board can talk to dead people (see other comments), much easier is to assume it does and apply existing rules to rule it out.

I think there is no doubt that it can affect outcome.
You could say Theranos' core product was "released" - they were doing blood testing. Maybe badly. Maybe clandestinely on other equipment. But as far as the rest of the world was concerned it was "working".

Plus you have to define what "core product" means. Is it the bit that makes money? A lot of startups have slotted the money making bit in later and gone alright; others never really could figure that out.

And... relatively boring companies with real business can transform themselves into "house of cards built on lies" type businesses pretty easily, too. Think about Enron, or any financial firm that went heavily in on the subprime mortgages.
Counterpoint: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither...
Let's advocate the other extreme. Get back to mainframe and Cobol. No more fuckups dealing with endless changes. No more need to deal with youngsters and their framework of the year.

Of course, it comes with its own issues, but you'll be blind to them for the first few years while you enjoy the cure of stability :D
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> I recently joked with my dad "I guess I'm done trying now!" when I stopped qualifying for a certain tax credit after I'd negotiated hard for a nice raise.

If you are still talking about tax credits, you are no where near the top tax brackets. Note that income brackets extend to more than just your reported W-2s...
Have you tried both? Can you explain what you prefer in Chalice over Zappa?
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I think the comparison is going to be pretty different for Modern because Relay Modern has some significant changes in the approach.
Why the device-centric view? (Not that there is anything wrong with that, but, you know, it's just an incremental innovation curve). Why not:

- Cybernetics (incl. Szilard, Von Neumann)
- Information theory (incl. Shannon, Turing)
- Whatever you might call LISP
- Overlapping window based BLT GUIs

(for example)

?
You know, in hindsight, of course Komodo Dragons would have neat antibacterial techniques.

Interesting to learn that the "bite and sepsis" theory was debunked-ish years ago.

Also interesting to learn that they're hard to study? It surprises me that such a well-known species is still that opaque, and the article gives some hints as to why.
To be logically consistent, which things do you right now think are okay but will be regarded with horror about 50 years from now? Can you not imagine that one of your dearly-held beliefs will be widely regarded as terribly wrong in the future?
I went looking on fancy new google earth. Found some around the area.

Completely unrelated, but is it my imagination or do the concrete poles that all the telco cabling ride on flex under the weight??
https://goo.gl/0wv8Hh (sorry chrome only in fancy new google earth.. now I feel like a jerk)
I've read Contact and I don't think it had anything similar to this. In Contact the message was coming from a planet system a mere 50 light years away and was no way that powerful.
Good. Use Terraform instead :)
Monocultures develop because one tool is far better than all the others.

Javascript isn't a monoculture because all the tools are bad.
H-1B in charts
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Like people were doing during the great depression? Or England before social democracy?

Class is not about equality, it is about removing a power relationship. In the same way that the abolitionist movement removed the property relationship between master and slave, the Socialist movement seeks to remove the private property power relationship between bourgeois and proletariat in general.
The only non ambiguous term you gave is Greater London. Anyway when people say 'London' they mostly mean Greater London (or close enough to it).
Someone making $10 is going to miss 10% of that a lot more than someone making $100, and they're going to miss 10% of that a lot more than someone making $10,000. And someone making $1MM isn't likely to miss it at all.
It was strange that it ever supported Python 2 given how recent the AWS Lambda Python product is - they could have avoided the support burden of Python 2 entirely.
Or go a step further and don't pay for animal abuse at all, by eating vegan.
It may "work" for you, but it's certainly not working for the planet, nor for the animals you're paying to literally abuse and torture. This is called selfishness and it's morally repugnant.
Yeah, the omission of unpaid female labor at home as a factor to consider is glaring.
note: the expenditures and revenues suggest the net calc here is opposite what it should be http://usafacts.org/government-finances/government-run-busin...
Thank you AWS Team!! Can now look forward to moving ahead with python3 dev fully
Interesting, because most of the comments I've heard from friends and relatives is "Snake Oil seller updated for Silicon Valley". Looks has been brought up, but that goes both ways as you don't find many hucksters who are on the ugly side regardless of gender.
Of course it would be good! My comment was facetious... in part ;-)
healthy competition is robust and tested. A short fade that's gonna be abandoned within a year or so doesn't quality as healthy competition.
I don't think anyone sane would say Theranos problem was that the CEO was a woman. I feel like men are much more likely to pull off this kind of fraud than women, but all genders are equally capable.
That's a good idea. Travel time may be an issue (I'm looking to network with developers outside my company). Also I feel that the type of people who won't take a detour on the way home from work will also eat lunch at their desk so that they can leave a few minutes sooner.
> Please incite a civil war in an election before 2028

This is supposed to avoid WW3? Hmm.

Err... and have better results than our elections?
I'm already curious, if he will mention it in one of his next vlogs
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Minifying the code can also speed up the startup time ... Another trick is to auto-start the app and bring it to the background (invisible). Then when the user "starts" it, just make it visible.
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Agreed, at a certain point money becomes less important. The amount of extra money the rich could make by continuing to work hard or by working harder is less of a motivational factor than it is for people in the lower and middle classes.
Your first sentence does not track to me, you're conflating the observer's lens and the lens he's observing. "hysterical" is just editorial, the actual lens in question is just the current popular liberal worldview.

And yes, it's possible to believe that that lens has value while simultaneously recognizing that some people use it like a weapon to bludgeon anyone who doesn't conform to the party line. Maybe you think the first comment is in poor taste, but I encourage you to soberly consider: is cm2187 a chauvinist pig at war with equality, or is he a disinterested humorist pointing out an absurdity?
I watched the presentation. The most striking feature is that the avatar is created automatically from profile photos. It's probably possible to game the system, but the default is an avatar that looks like the real person. Compare this with Second Life avatars, if you've been there 10 years ago: they defaulted to some different 20-25 yo person. Not that the avatar of the speaker didn't look younger than she was, but it was still her.

I think this has to do with making Spaces a "comfortable place for everyone", where you recognize your friends and don't mingle with strangers. It means it's an extension of the real world and actually many of the Spaces in the video were overlays over the real world. It goes more in the direction of augmented reality than virtual reality.

They also presented some interesting stuff in the areas of object recognition, 2D pics to 3D scene transformations, interacting with objects in those scenes, simultaneous localization and mapping (setting virtual objects precisely at a position). Technologically they were the most interesting announcements, in my opinion.

The news about Messenger were somewhat underwhelming: smart replies, M suggestions, game challenges, chat extensions. Interesting but not ground breaking. I'm still waiting for end to end encryption to chatbots (encryption is granted on the network but FB's servers see the messages in clear) and for WhatsApp bots.
> Application development is complex, period. Posix development is complicated. Qt is big and complicated. Makefiles are complicated. Autotools is complicated. Big Java server apps are complicated. C++ is complicated. We've just hit the point where people are trying to do the same thing in a browser.

Actually, Java, C++,QT and co are going through great length to make development simpler and all the compilation pipelines easier. Let's take Java for instance, groovy, maven and war packaging considerably made Java server development easier. Java frameworks like Spring are trying very hard to make servlet development easier, by making complexity opt-in. Java is getting constructs like modules which will help with library development, C++ too, QT is streamlining its API ... So I'd totally disagree about your statement. The success of Go yet another proof of this. People are tired with unnecessary complexity and are ready to give up on "elegance" for the sake of simplicity.
I don't think that's true. The JVM is far closer to native code than Javascript, both technically and in terms of actual performance. Here's some synthetic number crunching benchmarks: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/javascript.htm...

Even on the I/O heavy workloads that Node/V8 should be able to handle best, Java is ahead: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

And yes, there are many Java apps that like to eat memory but I don't believe it's as bad or worse than V8/Electron and I don't believe Java is as inherently memory hungry as V8/Electron.
Right, but there's no excessive AOA here... except during recovery maybe but I doubt they let it go that high...
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https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Theranos&sort=byPopularity&pre...
Really? I have discussed Theranos with a lot of people, both on HN and elsewhere, and nobody ever referred to her gender. Not as if there's any dearth of unethical male executives. Fraud is an equal opportunity employer.
Any resources you can provide about how to use React without JSX? JSX is a blocker for me.
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No thanks I'll stick with plain html and jquery for the frontend of my small projects. Plain javascript works perfectly fine as long as you namespace your functions and separate them into different files. All these frameworks end up creating much more problems than they solve.