skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineering here had 200+ student enrolled on each class years ago, all managed by early 199x tools. It's doable and still delivered on education quality.
After reading the article it seems that DPRK is a relatively tamed threat. If we invade, they will undoubtedly do something extreme, where as right now they just /might/ do something extreme.
How would I go about using my own style?
I think one of the major reasons no one does anything about it, ignoring the buffer China enjoys from the US (via proxy), is the humanitarian crisis from the entire NK population after the war is over. Who is going to help them? China? SK?
airbnb/react-sketchapp: render React components to Sketch ️
It's 2017 and I still use my Flickr account because I can't find an equivalent service that maintains the level of photo metadata, privacy settings, and archive capability that Flickr does.

I have close to 11,000 items personal photos and videos in there (60GB), and it is constantly growing, yet searchable. I also have a myriad of tools to back up my Flickr photos and metadata to Dropbox, which I do periodically.

People love to nitpick about it, but I still find Flickr enormously useful, and have been paying for Pro for nearly a decade. I try to be proactive and open to alternative photo services, but migrating to something else at this point seems like be a huge hassle.

I wish they didn't have old and new UI mixing though. Yahoo could definitely polish that.
You're not looking at the whole picture here. What's your odds of being killed by a drunk/inattentive/inexperienced driver vs odds of being killed by randomware? Road fatalities are already the number 1 killer of some age groups, its estimated that over a million people worldwide die on the roads every year. Around 40,000 in the US last year. If we trade 40,000 road deaths for 10,000 ransomware deaths, it's a massive improvement.

Ignoring that, that ransomware wont' even exist for a number of reasons, the biggest being it wouldn't be profitable. Ransomware authors aren't going to get a payout, very few people are going to be able to buy Bitcoin in 30 minutes while unable to leave their car even if they wanted to. Not only that, it isn't remotely difficult to have a manual, physical, kill switch that physically stops the car in a life or death situation. Even if you didn't have a kill switch, you could simply call the police and they can lay down a spike strip.

>who are careful because they fear their own death just as much as I do.

LOL! That's a good one! Have you actually even been on the roads before!?! When I worked drive thru I had people who were so drunk they could hardly form a sentence come through my drive thru. That's just ONE example.

You share the road with these upstanding citizens who are clearly very careful and concerned for their own wellbeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcnuIWNv8lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hddt4bWNns
I actually like that some Windows APIs you pass a buffer to will tell you if the buffer was too small and the necessary size to accommodate the result, requiring a bit less guessing.
Had a class with a book written by the professor... only available at 60€ at a local shop.
It's really just the general prescriptivism of the workout-crowd that gets me.

I'm quite capable of handling maintenance chores on my own mind & body, thank you, but this newfangled evangelism keeps coming at me from all angles.
The poster above linked this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...

Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, says that while the 10,000 people tracked in the registry are a useful resource, they also represent a tiny percentage of the tens of millions of people who have tried unsuccessfully to lose weight. “All it means is that there are rare individuals who do manage to keep it off,” Brownell says. “You find these people are incredibly vigilant about maintaining their weight. Years later they are paying attention to every calorie, spending an hour a day on exercise. They never don’t think about their weight.”

That just described reddit subs focused on weight loss.
> Meanwhile the knowledge of what works is blatantly obvious: the energy expenditure must be higher than the intake.

This is like saying about the poor, "What works is blatantly obvious: Poor people just need to increase income or reduce expenditures. Boom! Poverty solved."

The secret is that this isn't the problem. The actual problem that fat people must solve is not what to do, but how to do it, both in the short- and long-term.

> Having a healthy diet and exercise regimen along that is highly desirable but not strictly necessary...

1,000 calories of cupcake are 1,000 calories of chicken breast are, in theory, the same amount of energy. In practice, diet and exercise considerations are integral aspects of the actual problem that fat people must solve.

Example: For some, exercise is actually counter-productive and causes more hunger. For others, exercise is a crucial part of success.

Example: For some, calorie restriction can be done with no particular attention paid to the balance of carbs, proteins, and fats. For others, a low-carb diet means lower hunger/higher satiation for longer and is a must for success.
Is there anyone here who forgot the Armenian genocide? I don't think so, and it's 100 years old. People stick to that kind of thing.

I'll be a happy criminal around you. Why not take advantage if I know I'll get away with it?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180152 and marked it off-topic.
This link https://www.usni.org/naval-institute-press/reading-lists has links to the US service branches reading lists - lot of leadership books but also strategy, tactics, and logistics books.
You're not the target audience for this article. It's the average, non-technical Gizmodo reader.

To that person, this paragraph conveys the insight that both code and coders aren't fungible. You'd be surprised how many non-techies believe that they are.
> the energy expenditure must be higher than the intake

I think you might be overestimating the predictive power of this statement. The reason that these fad diets and questionable research end up being so popular is that people have a huge amount of anecdotal evidence that this does not apply as a necessary condition for weight loss.

I think it would be hard to argue that it isn't sufficient; assuming that "energy expenditure" and "intake" are well-defined (note that even the model of "calories" in food is not a chemical notion, as many think, it's a heuristic based on a known incorrect model of metabolism), but people see evidence all around them (once again, anecdotal, and in some cases based on incomplete evidence) that people who neither restrict input nor expand expenditure can maintain a healthy weight.

People want there to be a magic bullet that will let their metabolism shift into a state where the body would simply stop storing excess calories as fat. I'm fairly convinced that we haven't yet found it, but I think it is a laudable goal. And, because losing weight has positive health and social implications, this is a place where people are desperate enough for a solution that won't involve unpleasantness that they're willing to believe unreasonable things.
Nice piece. I like this bit in particular:

“The beauty of the computer is it can do in seconds what it would take us a lifetime,” North said. “But it’s a machine. It will only do what it is told.

Always important to recognize that "the computer" reflects the values and the judgements of its programmers. It's not inherently objective.
Escher Erases Batching Lines for Efficient FPGA Deep Learning
"unethical marketing"? Please explain..
I would not used shared hosting for Django...it's not Wordpress...
This is a common misconception.

1) Artillery isn't actually that good at 'clobbering' a city.
2) North Korea doesn't have THAT much artillery, and even less of it is working, nor do they have the supply lines to keep them constantly resupplied
3) Seoul has quite a bit in the way of bomb shelters

Seoul has has 10 million people in it, and most experts think that at most 30k or so would die if NK was able to shell them.

That's certainly(!) nothing to scoff at, but it's not really being clobbered. The media likes to portray it as NK being able to completely level Seoul, which just isn't reality.

http://atlanticsentinel.com/2012/06/north-korea-cant-really-... is a pretty good article on this.
Pretty damn sure. Even if an engineer drives his normal car to work, hops in a waymo car, and drives 9-5, and then drives a normal car back home, they've already constructed a scenario that is heavily time-weighted towards lighter than human-representative traffic experiences. Even small biases that you don't even think are meaningful can have a big impact on outcomes.

But it doesn't stop there. Google hasn't tested snow at all. I'd be surprised if their testing locations represented rainy weather that is representative for more than 10% of the US. They don't test freeways, and by extension, do not test onramps and offramps. In California, they don't even go over 25 mph. Under those conditions they have been ostensibly pretty good at not causing accidents, but how good are they at avoiding accidents that are not their fault? This means accidents caused by other drivers and acts of god. Safety is far more than just causality.

But more importantly, their miles traveled very easily exclude small snippets of time where an engineer takes over, but still counts the rest of the journey where the computer did fine. How representative is that? How good are humans when we let jesus take the wheel the moment driving gets slightly complicated? If a human overrides the computer only 1% of the time, that could still be anywhere from 1% to 100% of trips with at least one human override.

It's very easy to catastrophically mislead yourself when working with averages [0]. Statisticians and Economists go through absolutely absurd lengths to make comparisons robust. Even if we had access to 100% of the data on Waymo's self driving cars, I don't know a single statistician that would be comfortable making a comparison to extremely coarsely aggregated data on human driving. Only through extensive testing in situations that are representative of how humans (and not just test engineers) drive will we be able to conclude that one is safer than the other. And that's why Phoenix is important to Waymo.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=the...
There are a host of obvious reasons why even a "simple" human will beat an L4 car hands-down:

* Lack of software bugs due to careless programming.

* Millions of years of brain evolution allows adapting to unforeseen circumstances.

* Vastly decreased likelihood of being tricked by vandals exploiting flaws in recognition algorithms.

* Inability to be hacked en masse and driven into each other/houses/pedestrians.

* Much harder to back-door.

* Can be judged in court if they swerve to avoid a pigeon and hit a crowd of pedestrians.

I could go on, but this should drive the point home pretty clearly, IMHO.
I would guess that the "action" of SV-ites would show up more online than in-person. Building websites that send letters to congressmen, things like that.
In dutch "linkerd" means a cunning person with an evil touch.
Sigh. Not a big fan of articles like these because it's different for everyone and there are a lot of variables that can make this a success or failure. There is not a play book for how to connect with people other than just not being a complete dick. There. I just gave you an awesome tip. Don't be a dick and people will want to talk to you. Be authentic. Not sure why people feel the need to write an article that serves as a reminder on how you can connect with people on a "real" level.
Same way any other business that has brief periods of high demand (electric companies, ISPs, restaurants, etc) does; you anticipate the demand and make sure you have enough capacity available at those times to meet it.

With a self-driving car fleet there are probably lots of other little tricks you can do too, like offer discounts for sharing a vehicle with another passenger, or use machine learning to predict what locations will have the highest demand during particular parts of the day and move portions of the fleet to cover those areas.
"Allowing the regime to continue to exist" is a backwards way of looking at things that serves to legitimate invasions. The US is a superpower, but that doesn't mean that other nation-states exist because we deign to suffer their existence—that's a very colonialist way of looking at the world. Invading the north (or provoking it with special operations) would be a positive action for which the US would be responsible. North Korea is a bad state, and bad for its people, but the unspeakable carnage that would result from major ground warfare on the Korean peninsula is something else entirely.
The space doesn't cost as much as it once did. In almost every market, the land is the expensive part, not the house. Modern building materials are cheap and energy efficient. I moved from a 1400sqft 1930 built house to a 3600sqft 2014 built house, and the new house costs half as much as the old one to heat and cool. For a builder, there's hardly any reason not to build the largest house that fits on the property, because most of the high cost components are the same if you have a small house or a large house.
It's not a question of whether either has the military power to overrun DPRK.
Both could in a matter of hours a few days. A lot of it is economic.

What happens to the ~24 million DPRK citizens who are very low skilled? Whatever country takes them on is taking on a gigantic uncertainty and costs for literally millions of people. During famines, North Koreans have literally gone to the hillsides to get grasses to eat. Many are malnourished, roadways are poor outside of Pyongyang because they need travel permits to travel within country (so the roads are not used much). To make anything of the country would require huge infrastructure costs. Many of the roadways are also suspected to be rigged with explosives so if/when a land invasion occurs, US and South Korean troops are slowed down significantly.

China doesn't want to do it because the buffer between the "US sock puppet" called South Korea is nice to have. They have had trade going with North Korea for years, and recently have gotten annoyed by the rhetoric and BS spewing from their buffer zone.

With Seoul very near the border, South Korea stands to lose many billions of dollars in assets from artillery once the invasion starts.
could someone explain the purpose behind this software? nearly all of the features it provides should belong in the HTTP client itself

it seems unlikely that you make your software faster or more reliable by adding more hops
For those who may be interested, Mealsquares do contain dairy.
> There are! Keep in mind that "filesystems" includes things like NFS and SMB...

Of course - I would call that "augmentations". But still each has to implement the dreaded POSIX modes to be compliant.

Thanks for the thing about there not being any state for open files in the filesystems themselves. I browsed a bit around the LXR and couldn't find any. That's insightful! (and I think it's a sensible design choice)
I think SAT-solvers and other constraint solvers might be a better fit. They can use clever algorithmic search technique like clause learning, non-chronological backtracking and so on to achieve big speedups compared to naive backtracking, which is what Prolog would do in this case. And we also don't need the full turing-completeness that Prolog provides.
It gets really fun for sports with lots of games and shared stadiums (NHL and NBA). The Staples Center hosts the Lakers, Clippers, Kings, and Sparks.
Holography Through Software Defined Light
If you want to know how it would feel if it was more consistent, the Flickr (partial) redesign was done by the same guy who did the Chow(hound) most recent redesign.

I don't think much of him.
Quick, what's the reaction time for Waymo's driverless cars? Support your answer with evidence.

For extra credit: describe what the reaction time is for Waymo's driverless cars are during various points of the garbage collection cycle.

People here have a tendency to imagine an idealized version of driverless cars and assume that actual driverless cars are the idealized versions of those cars, and then compare the idealized cars to very non-idealized humans.

I think that the real world is going to be more complicated than that.

It is easy to write code that takes a non-trivial amount of time to process to the point of output on any given hardware. I imagine that all of us have done that at various times. We can certainly imagine that reaction time could be a virtue of driverless cars -- even 99th percentile reaction time. Given sufficient hardware (and not just hardware on the core CPU/ram chips -- this is hardware out to the sensors and the subprocessors associated with each of them).

Similarly, 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.

There are cost tradeoffs to all of these things, and complexity tradeoffs. Is there a happy medium? I think that there very likely is, even without any fundamental advances in the state of the art. Are we within a year or two of that happy medium? Maybe.
Some time ago I read that no radiation exposure might actually be worse for organisms than low radiation exposure like background radiation. We know the effects of high doses and everyone just assumed that the negative effects go to zero as the dose goes to zero and extrapolated it this way from high doses to zero while in reality there might be a very different relation at low doses. I will try to find some sources, I am no longer sure how convincing the argument was.

This does not really change the fact that there seems to be no good evidence that walking around in a cave with elevated Radon levels does any good, but it would be less obviously a bad idea if what I mentioned above has any merits.

EDIT: Found it, it is called radiation hormesis [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
Beginner's Handbook to Next Generation Sequencing
Juno pledged to give away 50% of the founding shares to drivers via RSUs over a 10 year period [0]. I wonder how units many were issued, if they had accelerated vesting upon an acquisition, and if so, what drivers actually got in the transaction.

[0]
https://gojuno.com/drive/meet/
Over a period of ten years, we intend to distribute to drivers a number of RSUs that would give drivers the same ownership interest as our founders upon an IPO or sale assuming all such RSUs vest.
Ensure ingredients [0]:
Water, Corn Maltodextrin, Sugar, Milk Protein Concentrate, Blend of Vegetable Oils (Canola, Corn), Soy Protein Isolate, Nonfat Milk. Less than 0.5% of: Magnesium Phosphate, Potassium Citrate, Natural & Artificial Flavor, Cellulose Gel, Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Calcium Phosphate, Choline Chloride, Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Citrate, Cellulose Gum, Potassium Chloride, Monoglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Carrageenan, Potassium Hydroxide, Liquid Sucralose, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Acesulfame Potassium, dl-Alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate, Niacinamide, Manganese Sulfate, Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, Thiamine Chloride Hydrochloride, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin A Palmitate, Riboflavin, Chromium Chloride, Folic Acid, Biotin, Sodium Molybdate, Potassium Iodide, Sodium Selenate, Phylloquinone, Vitamin D3, and Vitamin B12.

Nutritional Facts [0]:
Amount Per Serving % Daily Value
Calories: 220
Calories from Fat: 50
Total Fat, g: 6 9%
Saturated Fat, g: 1 5%
Trans Fat, g: 0
Polyunsaturated Fat, g: 2
Monounsaturated Fat, g: 3
Cholesterol, mg: <5 <2%
Sodium, mg: 200 8%
Potassium, mg: 370 11%
Total Carbohydrate, g: 32 11%
Dietary Fiber, g: <1 <4%
Sugars, g: 15
Protein, g: 9 18%

Conclusion:
Drinking 9 of these a day to reach 1980 calories does not make the % daily values add up to 100, so it's not balanced/complete. By the way, one bottle is only 220 calories, which won't come close to filing you up.

[0] https://ensure.com/nutrition-products/ensure-original#vanill...
The food tastes too damn good! I've only been overweight because of binging and poor eating. I've never eaten in a normal, healthy way, and gained weight.

Calories are such that if you screw up once per week (birthday party, company event, family dinner) that could mean you gain weight if you eat regularly the rest of the days.
How can I find good problems to practice recursion?
It's so good that managers in many companies mandate that managers or support people read it. Another I liked was Lifetime Conversation Guide.
I think his point was that universities that are "teaching" like this shouldn't be accredited
4 Reasons your target market is the most important decision you'll make
this is at the top of the front page already...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14196077
NK's nuclear arsenal is very heavily surveilled. They are very unlikely to be able to utilize any of their nuclear armament on SK's population centers.

Russia also wants nothing to do with NK when it comes to military support. Not sure why you think they would support them in the current political climate.
Forcing a change away from C/C++ is easy: regulation. If a software error (or vulnerability) kills anyone, the vendor is to stop all sales and recall all cars immediately. Sales can resume pending an evaluation period, and the evaluation is to be made by independent experts, at the expense of the vendor. (We should heavily imply that such an evaluation can take months, killing the company in the process.)

Correct software is expensive. But if we make sure incorrect software is even more expensive, we'll get correct software.

Once the industry is forced to get serious about correctness, they will move away from the C/C++ minefield real quick —or at least come up with safe ways of using C and C++.
What Can Be Done to Improve the Episteme of Economics?
It's been talked about numerous times in the Korean parliament, with the most recent concrete steps taken a few years ago to move some government agencies to Sejong[1], 100 miles further south.

As with most forced urban planning efforts, the city is struggling to attract residents who aren't civil servants. The city is expensive to build, expensive to maintain, and due to budget cuts there is (still) no planned high-speed rail[2], although it seems they are at least connected to at least one existing "normal passenger rail" line that takes 90 minutes with trains leaving every 30mins[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_City

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/ba9646f6-4dc6-11e3-8fa5-00144feab...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_City#Transportation
This is disturbing, but this is how the buck stops, isn't it? All of these cryptographic dataflow concealer technologies have one very unpleasant failure mode: somewhere they have to interface with the physical overworld, where they're subject to all the unpleasantness of both their home jurisdiction (in this case, Russia), and in some cases, the jurisdictions of those who are intent on their laws applying worldwide (such as governments like the United States -- who are absent from this particular case, but not others).

No amount of condemnation on part of the EFF and declarations that "running an exit node is not a crime" is going to help Bogatov, where the Russian government has decided it will do what it takes to prove a point. This is how chilling effects work: when it endangers your own freedom and livelihood, you are forced to suddenly re-evaluate your priorities between big abstract issues like freedom of speech and whistleblower protection, vs. holding your head down and hoping you don't get caught up in something much bigger than yourself.

It also proves that these anonymizing networks only function in a free society, and break down in the exact situations where they would be most needed.