skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I would call the Detroit market hot, it took me about 3-4 months to find a new job. However, I'm not a software developer, so rhat could also have something to do with it.
> One thing I have never understood: why can't China and the US join forces and militarily overrun DPRK?

I cannot think of a regime changing American military excursion in the last 60 years that resulted in the scenario that America wanted, with the possible exception of Grenada.

That's a good reason to not invade.
>There needs to be parity within the matchups and across the season.

I'm not sure how widely known this is, but the actual matchups, not order and dates, are completely deterministic.

Teams play their division twice for six games. They play the other three teams in their conference with the same division standing last season (e.g. division champs will play each other). They play four teams from a rotating division in the other conference. And finally they play the remaining three teams from a rotating division in their conference.

I've always been a football fan but it took me a while to realize the NFL doesn't actually schedule rivalries like Brady/Manning every year, they just happen because those teams consistently win their division.
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You seem to be under some delusion that a vehicle purchased in the year 2017 doesn't have any software in it, and isn't fully electronically actuated (steering, brakes, throttle)

They sell these features as "parking assist" or "smart cruise control" or similar, but don't kid yourself into thinking that there's not a very sophisticated software system that could, if hacked, take over control. Has this ever happened? Have there been catastrophic bugs documented?

More advanced vehicles (i.e. Tesla) have enough hardware to be be nearly fully autonomous today. (i.e. they could rend control from a driver and continue to pilot the vehicle to an alternate destination if hacked)
>> professors are getting paid to do next to nothing

That's not true. They're getting paid to publish research in third-party journals you have to pay to read.
> linker∙d is a transparent proxy that adds service discovery, routing, failure handling, and visibility to modern software applications

One or more decades ago, these problems were proposed (and solved?) by IETF working groups. I could believe that linkerd offers some new features not considered by those RFCs. But it would be nice if it were extensions of existing protocols instead.

Having a transparent proxy could offer a level of convenient integration rarely found among disparate internet protocols. Then again, there might be really good reasons why collapsing too many features into one layer is a bad idea.
I think every CEO coming onboard would demand to receive a big compensation package like hers. I believe this is a norm. At the CEO level, you are guaranteed to have a beefy base salary, with a large stock option, and a termination package (whether it is a forceful termination or not). If you are ever considered for a CEO position, you won't need to shy away from making demands because at that point you are guaranteed to have a CEO job at some other company if not this one, soon or later.
> This whole thing has a huge assumption behind it: That you're someone worth being connected to.

Then make yourself worth being connected to. It doesn't have to be in a "the person who does X" way. It can be as simple as the person people want to take a coffee break with, or the person you want to go for beers with, or the person you ask to help when you move!
> America doesn't miss manufacturing, it misses unions.

A friend of mine has the idea that American politics is about what amount to kaiju fighting on the sides of different factions. Yeah, none of them are great, and your giant monster might step on someone's house every now and then, which sucks, but at least it's keeping the other one from burning down the neighborhood. Traditionally the ultrawealthy were strong enough to practically be their own monsters, massive corporations had their lobbies, "trade associations" and various means of wielding significant influence, and the working class had... unions, and even the nasty old "political machines" to an extent.

Now the working class has no effective kaiju. We've been convinced to give them up. So it's just the rich and corporate giant monsters running around smashing everything in sight, with different factions of them more-or-less running the two viable parties (which is not a "they're both the same" claim—though I wouldn't say that Democrats have a monopoly on pro-working-class or pro-poor policies, either, just a majority). Meanwhile we're to believe everything's fine because we can still vote. But we have no kaiju on our side, while everyone else retained theirs, and in this system that matters a lot.
I thought this was very weird, but interesting to see what some recruiters believe is effective behaviour.
When Fortune (or was it Forbes) introduced the list of 500 richest Americans (early 1970s?) many people on the list were angry and threatened to sue.

Now it's honor, a form a celebrity
for global coverage http://www.oldmapsonline.org/ is still the best thing round.
Interesting. But, the monthly Adobe-esque subscription fee is a turn off.
From John Oliver's piece on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner the other night:

Oliver then cited Ivanka’s 2009 book, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, in which she wrote: “Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true. This doesn’t mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don’t go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.”
USMC MCDP 1, Warfighting, is a good read.[1] It's a bit philosophical, but far less so than Sun Tzu or Clausewitz.

For small-unit tactics, read the classic The Defense of Duffer's Drift to get a sense of the problem.[2] Then read some of the military how-to manuals.

Armchair generals talk strategy. Real generals talk logistics. Logistics cannot win wars, but it can easily lose them. If the troops at the sharp end run out of fuel, food, or ammo, they're dead. Eisenhower was a logistics guy. Gen. Gus Patronis's "Moving Mountains" describes the logistics for the Gulf War.

Overall American strategy from WWII has been 1) accumulate huge resources 2) hammer. This worked in WWII, failed in Vietnam, worked in the Gulf War, worked in the Iraq invasion, and failed in the aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan. How to win today's diffused wars is much discussed in the military; there are endless papers in Parameters, the Army War College journal. There's no center to obliterate for victory. No way to force a decision.

Korea is a classic heavy force-on-force situation. If that happens, it will look like WWII, not Afghanistan. Massive casualties and flattened cities.

[1] http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/MCDP%201%20Wa...
[2] https://ia801000.us.archive.org/29/items/FMFRP1233TheDefense...
> Playing devil's advocate: How do we know Seoul is the operational objective? It seems obvious (capital city located near the border) but what if DPRK went for something not so obvious?

There just isn't that much else in the border zone that would make for an attractive target. East of Seoul is Gangwon province, which is relatively mountainous and sparsely populated. Mountains are hard for an army to move through, especially an army with tanks, and the sparse population (around 1.5 million people, compared to 10 million in Seoul itself and 15 million more elsewhere in the capital region) means that there aren't a lot of targets of high economic value there.

About the only military value of a move towards Gangwon instead of Seoul would be strategic surprise -- an attempt to shock the allied forces by appearing from a direction where they aren't expected, the way the Germans shocked the French and British in 1940 by driving into France through the (generally considered impassable to tanks) Ardennes Forest instead of via the open plains of Belgium (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sedan_(1940)). But that kind of surprise would be much harder to pull off in an age of high-resolution satellite reconnaissance and instant electronic communication, and it would mean forgoing the hammer blow on South Korean morale that the loss or destruction of Seoul would cause. So it would be quixotic at best.
I never mentioned redistribution but the phrase to me seems to mean that the intent was that the country should be governed in a way that benefits all and not just the few who have the money to pay for lobbying to get the laws they want.
I stand corrected, thanks.

Easy to understand summary of helicopter ground effect, with pictures:

http://www.copters.com/aero/ground_effect.html

I note that the rotary wing ground effect works to a height of about the rotor diameter, so it's not clear to me that this is a useful effect with these small rotors.
I played around with glibc's getcwd() some time ago. With strace one can easily see how getcwd() works. If the current path is larger than PATH_MAX then the getcwd syscall fails. Then as I recall glibc uses '..'s recursively so it never has to call a syscall with a long relative path.

If there is a non-user-readable directory in the path then the fallback method fails but the getcwd syscall works if the path is short enough.

Bash also "cheats" by caching the working directory and updating it on 'cd' commands.
Your immediate reaction to a non-jewish person having the temerity to talk about how their community suffered from Nazi forces during WW2 was to label them "anti-jewish". That's messed up. The fact that they mentioned "lobbying" doesn't excuse you.
Mmm. Yeah, I get loads of value from Univision and Home Shopping Channels like HSN, QVC and the others.

Can't forget Qubo and Me.tv. Good times, for sure.
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The thread is kind of off-topic since we're talking about the overarching propaganda narrative here, not cherry-picked publications. I'm not looking to assign a trust rating to anyone in particular. I'm sure every outlet has strengths and weaknesses.

The core issue is that Google's behavior indicates they no longer view themselves as a neutral, merit-driven internet index willing to accept the public's aggregate credibility sentiment. They now see themselves as a supervisor, an entity whose role is to ensure that the "wrong" things are not given publicity, despite the actual, reflected sentiment of Google users.

There are surely pros and cons to that, but it's a diversion from Google's original mission, and it's reasonable to be skeptical about it.
I'm mostly happy as a Soylent customer, but they definitely have some issues in their order fulfillment as well. I've had shipments charge on my card and show up as processing in the dashboard but never ship (usually they go from ordered to shipped in 24-48 hours). After contacting them a week later, they simply said that my order had "gotten lost". Others have discussed this on Reddit and it seems to be relatively common.
Hello, I work at Airbnb and helped Jon with this project a bit.

A lot of people when they first learn about this project have a hard time understanding how it would be useful - so you're not alone!

I tweeted ([0]) about this briefly and thought I'd copy here for the benefit of readers in this thread:

> the wild thing about react-sketchapp is that we can now bootstrap designs with the actual code that powers the product we are designing

> it took me a little while to realize the paradigm shift. we normally think of the code / implementation as the end of the process

> this allows us to use production code not only for our production clients, but also for starting the next iteration

> react being decoupled from the underlying UI implementation unlocks a lot of possibilities. this is just one.

> we are starting to view our react components for our design language as not just an implementation, but as the specification itself

[0]: https://twitter.com/intelligibabble/status/856941689029640192
This is very messed up. It's impossible to give benefit of the doubt when both founders react this way.

She seems to genuinely believe what they did was not wrong.
I don't want to minimize the North Korean regime, but you're talking about some of the world's largest armies engaged in a total war to the death in an area half the size of California with twice the population. You're talking about rocket artillery bombardment of a city of 30 million people, major tank warfare in population centers, and a serious risk of the use of nuclear weapons. This is warfare at a scale we haven't seen in generations.

"Allowing it to exist" is a negative action (in that we don't have to do anything for it to happen), whereas invading North Korea is a positive action. Framing "allowing it to exist" as a positive action makes it seem like a choice between two positive actions, which makes invasion seem more palatable. I'm sure there's a trolley problem about this, but people tend to view the ethics of positive actions more seriously than negative actions.

Oh, here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/doing-allowing/
> Rotor craft have a nasty ground effect, not a nice one, IIRC.

I was wrong about that. Thanks to nradov above for correcting me.
Ughhh, I cringed when I saw the word "Hack" used.
Personally, I feel no amount of money can compensate for a basic lack of charisma.

However, I wouldn't put it beyond any megacorp today to actually manipulate the flow of information during elections to favor the candidates who are likely to give them the best deals. They cannot become kings, but they can certainly become king-makers.
Would you please stop creating bulk accounts like this? Throwaways are legit when there's a specific reason for them but doing it routinely undermines the community and isn't allowed.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
And did he give you a speech about how he was doing you a favor because eliminating the resale market lowered the original price? Mine did.
Hey, I'm the author of the post. Happy to take questions, and keen to hear ideas about what else we might add.
While his arguments have some "merit" from an insular economic perspective, this be fear mongering:

> Photocopying of Assignments from someone else’s text is a violation of copyright laws, so please purchase your own text.

Apparently he has never heard of Fair Use.
I used to wear glasses with polarization filters - with a different axis (by 90 deg) for each eye. That way I could see polarization.

Though, it was fine for exploration, for longer exposure it was "blinking" and overstimulating.
It's in many ways similar to the first Iraq War in the sense that all the old eastern-bloc equipment is specifically what the following generation of US equipment was precisely designed to destroy with great speed. The US was worried about Russian tanks rolling across Europe in greater numbers than their anti tank missiles could handle so they developed the A-10 and various other systems to stem the flow and support such operations (anti-radiation missiles, etc). 40 years later, the US still comes up against those systems with some regularity.
Not sure I see the correlation; I have heard of similarly predatory behaviour at secular schools.
That is of course something that can change. What kind of pricing would you prefer?
> we could imagine putting enough sensors on the vehicle that it truly has 360 degree awareness and visibility. But we do see real cars in the real world that have surprising blindspots.

Not sure I see the point you are making... all cars have blind spots with drivers now. Human drivers are always blind to the spots they are not looking at the moment anyway. I can imagine cars being much safer than they are now.
Peanut oil is a weird one, as a lot of people with peanut allergies react specifically to a protein in the peanut. Most of the cheap oil that the local Chinese restaurant orders in 55 gallon drums from Sysco has been refined so much there is no peanut protein left in it. As someone with a peanut allergy I have had no problems with strip mall egg rolls that I know have been fried in peanut oil but needed to use an epipen at Manressa because something was fried in some sort of organic, unrefined peanut oil.
The biggest problem was she bought too many new startups trying to gain the mobile market, specifically to make Yahoo a place for your daily digest and entertainment. The Summly acquisition was a big noise, but I don't know what happened to Summly. Did it ever integrate into Yahoo? I know they did something to do. Think of it, Yahoo's new direction focusing on mobile was correct and was critical. Many of the Yahoo users go there for news and sport game like the Fantasy sports. Recently I have been taking FourSquare's data-selling focus very seriously. Perhaps Yahoo also could sell some of their data to developers and companies. As I mentioned on another post, Yahoo could build a end-to-end photography service business around Flickr, and even sell NLP and image recognition to various companies. They have Tumblr, they have photos, they could do something with that.

Tumblr acquisition was great theoretically, but the social interaction has changed to more rapid social platform like Instagram and Snapchat by the time the acquisition went through (I used to use Tumblr daily with my ex-girlfriend and it was our preferred social platform).
First, you should have had to implement a number of specifications yourself, so that you have experience about what kinds of things are unclear.

Second, you should have someone else read the specs you produce, to help find the places where what you wrote was clear to you, but not clear to someone who didn't already know what you meant.

And third, you need to make it very clear: If you don't understand, ask. Email me. Better yet, call me.
It was this incident:

http://www.newsweek.com/reds-rocks-178000

Other accounts did mention the agent was surprised that farmers would have a telephone.

He also did not or could not hide his North Korean accent, as the article states.
You can also look at places like South African. Where the government gave up nukes, transitioned to a different government​, and everything was fine (internationally)
Obviously the DRPK stands no chance of tactical victory in any sense. But they have a very good chance of just saying "fuck it", and causing arbitrary damage and mass civilian casualties on the order of dozens of September 11 attacks. It's basically the nation-state scale equivalent of the fact that a single lone shooter can hurt a lot of people before the police take him out.
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I completely agree, my only point was that a blimp really can't add much to existing surveillance measures that essentially capture everything. A blimp might help you target extremely paranoid people, that's about it. Even then, having actual human tails would be more effective, especially in NYC.

For foreign operations blimps are amazing though, since a place like Afghanistan doesn't necessarily have modern infrastructure or any shortage of people trying to hide.
'Flattening Seoul' is a strawman. Prior to the recent articles on the topic I don't remember anyone actually claiming that the entire metropolitan area could be reduced to rubble, nor that it was necessary or that North Korea would even desire it.

However it's a useful deflection from the fact that since the USA retired its enhanced-radiation weapons ( 'neutron bombs' ) in the 1990s, there is no prompt-strike way to negate several thousand hardened artillery emplacements linked by tunnels. Not without either hitting each individual emplacement or by using mass-effect weapons that in turn threaten Seoul.

Given that, I think it's likely that the USA-SK war-plan is to decapitate the North Korean command structure so quickly that the artillery doesn't even receive the order to fire.
> I no longer give a shit what anyone thinks about what I say

I don't agree. I think it's important to take into account what other people think, otherwise you're saying "I'm an ass, deal with it". However, It's important to say what you mean, even if you know the person you are speaking to doesn't agree.
Inheritance of fortunes is no less undemocratic than inheritance of aristocratic titles, estates, and privileges. Doesn't mean we can practically do away with it, but it's a noble (hah) goal.
Thanks for clarifying! I agree that this article could have done a better job of distinguishing between the subgenre and games that use narrative more minimally.
>Networking is definitely a skill, I'll give you that, but it has the sincerity of a sales pitch.

I mostly agree but there are two different kinds of networking. The kind you are referring to is what I like to call "ball gargling". This is when someone is just trying to pitch how relevant they are to someone who doesn't really care so all kinds of lame sales tactics have to be used to keep interest.

Then there is networking with peers, which can be a pretty enjoyable experience. For example, meeting other researchers at an academic conference or meeting other developers at industry conferences. These connections might not provide an immediate return on investment, but they certainly seem to last longer and have proven to be immensely useful years down the road (at least anecdotally for me).
really, you made my day^W week!! honored to be chatting with you, really.

BTW it's amazing this "virtual gathering" happening online in 2017. who could have been thinking, 30 years ago, this to be possible this way, so smoothly.. can't imagine where we are headed in the next 30..
B: your math is wrong. Yahoo has 9400 employees. If you distribute 100M to 1000 people (10% best) each will get 100K. A life changing event for many.
Now, which are the new and fancy textbooks that you've mentioned?
There's a weird, undefined use of "nihilism" threaded through this piece.
First new convex pentagon able to tile the plane in 30 years discovered
Eminent domain doesn't mean that the government owns it. It means that, if they have good reason, they can take it, and they have to pay you fair value for doing so. That's kind of the opposite of "the government owning it until proven otherwise".
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Lactose intolerance varies widely and is totally non-binary. Some people will just have a rumbling stomach for a few hours from the amount of milk in a latte if they forget to take a few lactose pills while the opposite end of the spectrum will end up in the hospital and lactose pills will never be enough.
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>>Waymo's driverless cars are during various points of the garbage collection cycle.

you can say the same thing for rockets. There is entire field dedicated to this, its called Realtime Systems.
Your lifestyle is being subsidized by the negative externalities your transportation causes that you don't pay for, so it's not a great argument against advancing technology, because your comfort only matters to you.
You live in the centre when you're young and single and changing jobs. You move to the suburbs when you have married, settled down and want kids, a garden, good local schools etc.

When the kids have moved out, you can downsize to that retirement place in Spain... except that may not work as well after the UK leaves the EU.
I fear that this will become a tool for SJW and whatever their right leaning counterparts are called.
It is very hard to wireframe conversation that doesn't sound contrived. We generally call people who do this well "good writers".
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