skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia is the more friendly country than China according to DPRK's own assessment. Russia has very significant vested economic and political interests in DPRK remaining in place. China and Russia are the two major countries that do not technically participate in sanctions against DPRK (although they may agree on "paper") and which is why DPRK is able to survive at all. It would be hard to think of Russia just sitting quite when US is taking over one of the major sized country with tons of natural resources right on its border.

See http://thediplomat.com/2017/02/russias-love-affair-with-nort...
This whole thing has a huge assumption behind it: That you're someone worth being connected to.

His distinction between the Hunted and the Hunters is great, but 99% of people don't fall into the "Hunted" category unless they are doing something exceptional - and even those doing something exceptional aren't typically hunted.

So while I think this is a good list, and it's pretty bog standard Carnegie/How to read people/HUMINT etc..., the most important thing you can do to become well connected is to be doing something that is worth connecting to.
Sounds like a job for Prolog. Maybe Prolog to make a list of schedules, and something else to sort that list?
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Sorry, but it doesn't seem to be their fault, it looks more like the usual case where the user doesn't want to take responsibility for their actions and blames customer support for it.
Yes, I was commenting on what I understood about the book review, not on the book itself, which I have not read.
That's really helpful, thank you!
Another trivia : their official parde suit is a butcher's apron
I don't see this taking off. Smart people don't buy single use appliances. Except for waffle makers. ;)

Only the well to do people would consider this (only because it's expensive, so it has to be bought), but even then, they'll probably stop buying the packets after a short time because they'd rather go down to the corner juice shop and let someone else squeeze them some expensive juice.
> If there's a war, Seoul gets clobbered in the first minutes.

Alternatively, that artillery gets clobbered in the first minutes.
I guess everybody's supposed to read Clausewitz and play wargames.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_War
http://www.consimworld.com/
And that was the beauty of JSON: There was no "format", per se. And you certainly didn't need to think or care about some friggen "spec". All you had to do was sort of take a look at it, say "OK", and get moving with the business of writing your application.
Sure, compared the the Midwest or South it's not great, but compared to other west coast cities it's not bad. Portland is cheaper than the bay area, Seattle, LA, and San Diego. It has good culture, great nature, and a mid-sized & growing tech sector.
Broadcast TV is still free. Movies always cost a fair amount of money.

An internet connection with youtube is $30 which is WAY more variety than "back then".
The truely humongous buyers, like Amazon / Google / FB, certainly don't buy dell anymore, also don't buy software from people like Aerospike.

Medium-size companies ( say, box, or AppLovin, or PayPal ) buy software, have some cost consciousness, and buy Dell.

I expect Dell will come out with some chassis closer to what Supermicro has been offering to the market, I also see some defection just like you do. However, that's all speculation.
>Them: "Activism is really important to me, especially around climate change. I wouldn't have gone to a school that didn't have that aspect."

Off topic, but this is so cringe-worthy...
Networking is one way of making sure people hear about it. And depending on what the message is, possibly the most effective.
I'm not sure I have the mental tenacity to stick with a degree program for 8 years. Knowing how I am, I would probably do well enough in the actual courses directly related to the major, but become disinterested and do poorly in everything else.

I am not saying that people are wrong for requiring these credentials, I'm just saying that that's what precludes me from a research job.
Look. Let's face the fact that there's been a class war since the 70's and the rich have won. The recent attempt to overturn Obamacare (which would take healthcare from poor people and give tax breaks to rich people) is only the most brazen, recent, visible thing that people can understand.

We are losing, they are winning. Infrastructure is losing, offshore tax havens are winning. People's healthcare is under threat, corporate earnings (especially after Trump's proposed tax breaks) are rising.

America doesn't miss manufacturing, it misses unions.
The artillery threat is well known so I can only assume that they have some cruise missile/counter-battery forces sighted in to destroy the current installations immediately. That just leaves lighter mobile artillery which can still be destroyed via radar counter-battery, albeit more slowly.
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I just tried low intensity audio workout. Some feedback: I quit after 3 minutes not being able to imagine any of the movements, crunch being an exception. It may be a neat idea for gym junkies, but useless for beginners.
What about roads? And cell phones? And paper? Should the public schools teachers be held accountable for everything they taught any criminals that they used in the commission of any of their crimes?
I consider myself reasonably outgoing, but I've always viewed "networking" as kind of slimy and insincere. At a fundamental level, population A has little to offer / little power and population B has a lot, and networking is the set of personal interactions that population A employs in order to have a shot at interacting/transacting with population B. The "hunter/hunted" relationship mentioned in this article is a key differentiator between networking and other forms of human interaction. All of the various tactics described in this article and others about effective networking just seem to boil down to pretty abstractions on top of that crass business logic. Convey genuine appreciation, listen with intent, blah blah blah--everyone doing the dance knows what the music is all about. Nobody is fooling anyone.

Networking is definitely a skill, I'll give you that, but it has the sincerity of a sales pitch.
Hi, thank you a lot for your feedback. There is an Android web based app out there - a native app will take time but is on our to do list.

Regarding the songs, yes, there are some that are difficult to understand but others that are very easy to follow up - just think of for example "Rather Be" by "Clean Bandit".
As far as I'm aware many companies are training new COBOL developers to help maintain systems written in COBOL.
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yet you argue against bigotry with our own bigotry?

bigotry: intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself.

seems you may be a sufferer too.....
It's stable right up until it is no longer stable just as much as a boat that has been afloat for 70 years can't sink.

The current leadership does not strike me as 'stable' in any way. But then again, that goes for more world leaders.
Sociology of elites looks at this kind of thing. One fairly easy thing to do is to do a network analysis of board membership. The ones I've seen tend to describe what you already know anecdotally, a small group of elites controlling a large number of central companies.
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How is this a terrible customer service? Sending easily faked pictures of documents is not a proof of account ownership. It's your (or your parents') responsibility to remember password or security answer, don't blame customer service for that.
local breakthroughs on the major routes towards Seoul—their first operational objective.

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? i.e. "Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected" (classic Sun/Mao approach)

Also, what if Pyongyang tries to draw in a sympathetic third party that would also give the US/ROK pause? China is the obvious choice, but there is also Russia ...

An interesting feature of this war is that since both sides look and speak more or less alike, covert insertion and operation is easier for each side—but especially so for North Korean agents who may move freely within South Korea’s open society.

In the 1990s I remember reading an account of North Korean special forces landing by submarine and trying to infiltrate ... and immediately being tripped up by unfamiliarity with modern technology. One of the captured agents had no idea every farmhouse had a phone, and was therefore surprised that the alarm was raised as soon as they were spotted.

There is still a huge technology divide, not to mention social giveaways relating to accents and other behavior. Sure, they can be trained, but it won't make them impervious to detection.
I wouldn't look at quality of tech from one (hardware) company and use that as a judgement on an entire continent.

My personal view on the Toyota software problem is that Toyota has the same problem as every American hardware company I've interacted with that went into software. Software was a necessary evil and outside their wheelhouse. Many of them succeed at software despite themselves until something comes up that forces them to reexamine what they're doing.
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To go the other way -- generating React code from Sketch -- you can use React Studio:

https://reactstudio.com

It has a Sketch plugin that does a rather competent job of converting Sketch layers/groups into components. (For example, you can prefix a Sketch group with "c:", and React Studio will interpret it as a component.)

Here is a live video demonstrating the Sketch -> React Studio -> React code workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfd7zmlFZw8
(It's in realtime with detailed explanations, so it runs about 40 minutes.)

Disclaimer: I wrote a pile of code for React Studio.
I like to think of networking as being loosely analogous to an optimization process like gradient descent [1]. You start with an initial "guess" of what your optimal network could potentially be. In practice, this will be the people you already know through school, work or through friendships.
From there, you follow an iterative process that improves that guess through successive iterations, consistently applying strategies like those described in the article.

It's hard to say when this process would "converge", but looking for an answer to that may be straining the analogy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent
> How to Become Well-Connected

> “If you find yourself keeping score in your professional relationships, you’re on the wrong track.”

Being "well connected" is an objective here, given it's lead by "how to". That intent leads to keeping score, so it's less than obvious how to resolve becoming well connected without keeping score.

Not giving a shit about what others think is the SECOND step to the enlightenment. The FIRST step is letting go of self judgment. Accepting self first allows one to realize that speaking for other's intent, even if they are blaming, may originate from their own self-judgements.

I no longer give a shit what anyone thinks about what I say because I realize I can only speak for my own choices and not others, not because I don't have empathy for other's thoughts. That's not to say I've perfected this technique however, I frequently catch myself blaming others when blame is going around. I can only set intent to become better myself. Others have the choice of doing the same, or not.
> In the span of a few months, the Valley has been transformed from a politically disengaged company town into a center of anti-Trump resistance and fear

Is this true? As a Valley-raised New Yorker who visits frequently, Silicon Valley seems politically sleepy. Conversations are vibrant as ever. But action is slim.
Please post civilly and substantively on HN or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is nonsense. It was nonsense back a few years ago when everyone though social networks were the entire internet and it's even more nonsense now. Flickr always occupied a different space than FB and could have leveraged that. They chose not to.
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I didn't see MM take any big risk here. Success -> large payout, failure -> still a large payout. Elon Musk is taking risks.
I guess in older homes. There's not a single home being built in the Minneapolis metro area (in my experience!) that doesn't have central A/C. This is a state of temperature extremes! It gets hot here in summer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Minneapolis%E2%80%9...
It might not be just psychobabble though. Amae may seem loosely connected to those non-cognitive skills, but if the author's right about it being widespread and so deeply embedded in society that it's applied everywhere, then I think it's a reasonable assumption that it does contribute to certain cultural traits, like grit. The author does need to cite studies showing the relationship between empathy/happy childhood and IQ/EQ though. Still, I thought that his opinion and what-ifs interesting.
+ a mechanical override.
Yes, modern Russia has economic interest in NK (specifically providing energy in return for hard labor). But pretending Russia is the patron of North Korea is simply disingenuous. USSR/DPRK relations were broken after the USSR/China split, and then again after the USSR dissolved Russia cut all ties to NK.

Do you have a source for USSR providing military equipment to NK? I'm skeptical.
Just read Maajid's section in SPLC's Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists[0]. This is ridiculous; tweeting out a picture of Muhammad is 'offensive' to many Muslims and is therefore 'extremism'? They must be totally unaware of the rich history of Persian and Ottoman devotional art which depicts Muhammad.

[0] - https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-...
Then you might like Matrix. From the IRC point of view, it's basically IRC, but updated to become a 2017 protocol.
And look at the cost of planes and those systems. Absolutely out of reach for 97% of the world.
Had to google to see this in real internet life. It is true. Insane.
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I feel like the question is not if "driverless vehicles = safety" but when. So, all other things being equal, the quicker we get to that point, the more lives we can save.

Obviously not all other things are equal, and potentially we could create greater loss of life by attempting to get self-driving cars on the road too quickly. But that is the nature of problem: how do we avoid moving too quickly while recognizing that the current danger that is human drivers should be removed from the equation as quickly as feasible.
Yes, I think there are clear user-level approaches you can ( and must ) take.

There are some interesting talks out there about NAND, how it works, and how to optimize - I saw something here on HN a few days ago about writing your own time-series database, which got a variety of the facts wrong but was an example of how to choose data structures that are NAND-reasonable. You can look up some of my YouTube talks and slideshare, for example - I've been talking this for a while.

At a high level, NAND has more IOPs than god, because they don't seek. An old enterprise spindle littlerally does 200 to 250 seeks per second. And Flash can read from 500,000 different random locations per second. That's so far apart that different user level approaches are called for.

In terms of XPoint, let me give you one detail. What does a "commit" look like in XPoint? What do the different kinds of memory barriers look like? What's the best way to validate this kind of persistence on restart, which you don't have to do with DRAM? Does that change your "malloc" free list structure, because you need to validate? Is it a good idea to chop up all the space available, so you can validate different parts independently, or does that mean you end up with the multi-record transaction problem? These are the kinds of things we consider in database design on new hardware ( obligatory: we are hiring ).
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There are also reports that Seoul has actively attempted to purchase the Israeli 'Iron Dome' anti-rocket system. Clearly, this would be ineffective against an all-our artillery attack by NK (which I've read could send >7000 artillery rounds a minute into SK) - but it might be useful to mitigate the effects of mobile artillery once known, non-mobile artillery installations are destroyed.
So, to be clear

Yeah, about that.

Are you saying that the "React Sketch.app" in the title is/should/will be "React Snack.app?"
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Or not to need cows and sheep any more for the reproductive part at all.
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Even if it's true that her management was better than previous management, I think everyone here is applying a standard where someone shouldn't get compensated for management that was provably worse than no management, because having no management is free. If the board of directors had just told everybody to go on without a CEO, the company would have done better financially than if they had installed Marissa.
I don't really get what you are trying to say here.
Unfortunately while googling your recipe.
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I had nightmares about self driving cars as a child. Am I the only one who thinks self driving cars are scary!?
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The moral dilemmas of life are incontrovertible. Everyone must make cost-benefit decisions that don't have an absolute or clear answer; situations in which any of the options hold both moral virtues and moral hazards.

These decisions become ever-higher-stakes as responsibilities accrue. Is your loyalty to your employees and investors, whom you can pay more if you charge more, or your customers, who are looking to keep more of their "surplus" and may very well already have that money allocated to other needs? You can cast such dilemmas about most choices.

Anyway, religion is the framework that has been formulated to satisfy your very natural yearning for a moral standard or compass.

But even in religion, there is no hard deterministic path. Much like law, there are some baselines, but beyond that, the decision falls back into the individual's lap. That is why regular self-examination through prayer and introspection are core components of religion.

Good luck to you.
How is flickr dead?

* I still have my 1TB.

* I can still upload straight from Lightroom

* I can still share private photos with friends via URL, or make them public, or hotlink

Seems fine to me.
There is a lot more to the Trump victory then the Trump brand having name recondition, as there was and still is a real trend in politics that makes it almost impossible for a mediocre well mannered insider to campaign effectively against an opponent that is willing to get emotional on stage, that is pretty symptomatic for divided societies undergoing change.

Trump ran as "angry man" at a time when the public was angry with the dishonest elites and was greatly aided by the fact that the democrats failed to offer an electable candidate as an alternative.

In order to beat someone like Trump when their message of anger and loss resonate with the public, you cannot really depend on connections and advisors no matter how well funded the candidate might be. Someone will still have get on the stage and follow through in a way that resonate with the emotional state of the public and that mean someone willing to go off script and screw up.
Here's a decent analysis of the artillery situation https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/how-north-korea-would-reta...

TL;DR; DPRK can probably get off at least one good barrage, not enough to level Seoul but it would hurt.
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I'm right in a similar place with my own project* right now so thanks for asking your question.

I think you have may have a cool idea with pipecourses but honestly the main page doesn't provide enough info for me to tell. Mostly, I have no idea what a 'pipecourse' is and how it is supposed to work.

(As best I can understand, it's sort of like Medium or Google+ but designed for more granular following. It's not really clear what it means to follow experiences/ideas/etc... instead of people. Obviously it's still people writing things. Do you just follow tags that anyone can post to? Or if you follow a given 'pipecourse' how is that different from just following a blog on RSS?)

An easily discoverable 'What are pipecourses?' page would be really helpful. At the very least provide a little blurb up top explaining what it does and what makes it unique, and/or a few use cases. "Pipecourses is a blogging platform designed to give users more granular, topic-based control over what they post and follow. (plus a 1-sentence example use case)"

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I'm not sure how much better their quality control is (they are another SV startup), but I have been eating Mealsquares (http://www.mealsquares.com/) for about half of my caloric load for over a year now and couldn't be happier. I also like the fact that they are solid food rather than liquid, just as a preference. I'm sensitive to gluten, corn, and soy, so Mealsquares are a huge boon when I am in a rush or need to opt out of eating somewhere (e.g. traveling).

(I'm not affiliated with them in any way.)
The free-flowing information is not exactly "free" flowing though.
All content is logistically tailored by the corporations and presented to it's user with the goal of maximizing profits.
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That's an interesting point of view. Sort of like, when it comes to wiring up my new house, I'm going to go with the guy who doesn't purport to be a licensed electrician.
The more the merrier. At this point, I'd hate for Uber to have a monopoly in this market.
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Why isn't Gone Home a serious game? It's a commercial success that was well-reviewed by critics and fans. It's even made by some of the same people as Bioshock.
>> it is most likely that blue collar jobs usually don't include great healthcare plans

obv anecdotal but my friend who is a skilled tradesman has THE best health insurance through his union that I've ever heard of.
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I don't know if it is their responsibility or not, but I don't think it will be effective.

I see the only effective fight against fake news, biased news, sensational news, or whatever you want to call it is education. And I lumped all those different types of news together not because I believe they are the same or even believed true by the same group of people. I grouped them together because each of them poses a threat to our country and each can be treated by effective education.

Many people who know content is filtered by an institution will discredit any info coming from that institution (and for possibly good reasons). To get people to generate trust in our institutions and their reported info, they need to be the one to make the conscious choice to consume or not consume that info. Coddling the info before it gets to people doesn’t create an empowered or educated society.