skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some things I consider quite glaringly fake / unrealistic.

The maps that show the progress of the invasion in the Eastern Europe: the area taken by the advancing Russian army is shown with just a bit too much precision. This is supposed to be real time broadcast, and everything is happening under just an hour. I doubt the BBC graphics staff would have enough information to produce such maps (certain areas neatly colored in red); the military command might supply such information, but later in the day, not immediately, and in any case, they would probably be too busy and there is such a thing as a fog of war. At best, you'd have a list of towns where there have been reports of fighting by the local media and confirmation by the authorities that invasion is happening.

Also, live video feed of fighter jets and bombers leaving RAF bases? I find it unlikely that BBC could obtain such a thing, and then decide to broadcast it.

Likewise, the NATO stock footage (especially the press conference) is out of place at places. Nobody is going to talk with mild words such as "sabre-rattling" if there's major fighting going on.

Actually, the whole thing going down in just one hour. While I can believe that things can escalate very quickly if tactical nuclear weapons are used (maybe even in a matter of minutes), I can't help but think that it's too short timeframe for the conventional fighting to even begin. (My guess is that the people who created this didn't have resources to create similarly realistic 48 hour long broadcast).
Dude. Be fair. You left out the part where he says:

> In other cases, operations have been made faster by changing the algorithmic complexity of an operation. It’s often best when writing software to first write a simple implementation, one that’s easily maintained and easily proven correct. However, such implementations often don’t exhibit the best possible performance, and it’s not until a specific scenario comes along that drives a need to improve performance does that happen. For example, SortedSet<T>‘s ctor was originally written in a relatively simple way that didn’t scale well due to (I assume accidentally) employing an O(N^2) algorithm for handling duplicates.

You'll never get anything done if you want to get it perfect the first time round. Or as they say, first make it work, then make it right, then make it fast.
> What might be helpful now is something like a MAX-JS-BYTES=n header that tells site owners that the useragent will ignore any JS beyond the first n bytes on the page, and will not request more once that limit is reached.

I love this idea. Web development seriously needs some discipline. Myself included.
>You can easily fool people into thinking they're talking with a person even though they're talking with a machine.

Citation needed. After 5 minutes of chatting with a robot, you conclude it's either an insane clown or a robot.
I received an email from macro@ycombinator.com this Monday, June 5. I don't think it's dead. The email I get arrives every Monday.

There is a link to view the email in the browser: here is the most recent:

http://mailchi.mp/a6c2597905d5/the-monday-morning-macro-1460...

* NB: There is a query param "e" = that seems to be a unique id for my account subscription, I've removed it from the link and it still works.
It's interesting to me that Norway is such a leader in deployed EVs simply because of their Sovereign Wealth Fund getting so much of its revenues from Oil interest. That would be like Saudi Arabia having 30% EVs, seems crazy.

The other fun number is that the US was only 160k out of the 2M vehicles. Much more in line with the US population proportion to the world. A signal perhaps of the US's waining global leadership. Perhaps in the next ten years America will shrink back into a regional superpower.
> The US is too geographically and culturally distinct (for good reasons, not just blue/red states) to implement proportional representation in a way that doesn't piss off everyone.

Candidate centered more proportional systems with multimember districts (e.g., STV) could be implemented without substantially changing the state based structure or apportionment of legislative power (if you go with fixed five-member districts for the House, you'd need to increase the quantum of apportionment to 5 seats, which would somewhat shift power unless you quintupled the number of seats.)

This would leave the regional distortions in place, but address the limited-time problems of duopoly.
Who has claimed that net neutrality is about allowing ISPs to censor and filter?

Regarding the ACA, affordable and expensive aren't necessarily opposites. You could make something more expensive (but still affordable) for those who are well off, but more affordable for those who are poor, and claim a net increase in "affordableness". Anyway, the PATRIOT act seem like a slightly better example of a disingenuous name for a bill IMO.
If the Paris accord were in fact a treaty, we would not have been able to withdraw, but treaties require a two-thirds vote in the Senate to be ratified as law. This has been essentially been impossible to achieve in modern times. Even crucial agreements such as the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which effectively ended nuclear weapon testing worldwide are "signed but not ratified." We have not, however, seen a unilateral withdrawal from a ratified treaty, so please choose your words with care.
Stories from Putin’s Economist
For all we know the blog is a work of fiction and they're running off a laptop...
Nice write up thanks for sharing! we have been building and selling similarly spec'd boxes in EU - if anyone is interested checkout http://deeplearningbox.com/ They come preconfigured with all the major Deep Learning libs.
The less oil Norway uses domestically the more they can sell on the market
Supply and demand. There are plenty of direct flights to hub cities (Dallas, Houston, Denver, Chicago, etc) but Albuquerque itself is not a hub city. So a trip to e.g. Boston from Albuquerque is an all-day slog.

As for the "international" aspect of ABQ, that's mostly wishful thinking. There might be a few flights to/from Mexico, but that's about it.

EDIT: Here's the list of nonstop destinations. Looks like there aren't any direct international flights, period.
http://www.abqsunport.com/flightsairlines/destinations/
In a sense you're right. But we also want to make sure WebRTC websites don't blow out your battery, and we went to some effort to make sure it uses efficient video encoding/decoding paths. That said, this was not a majority of the effort.
Is there any chance for Screen(or window or tab) Sharing to make it in?
Curious: can one train a single NN over multiple GPUs? Or is this useful mainly for parallel training of multiple NNs?
Thanks!

Oh, is http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t... yours? That's basically my favorite blog post ever.
At first I read this as "A Brief History of the IUD" - that's not the same thing at all :-)
Yes official policy is important. This is for several reasons:

1. Official policy communicates expectations. Others derive their behavior from, in large part, the official positions of others.

2. Official policy provides a mechanism of commitment. It is difficult to withdraw from or engage in something that is against public and officially stated policy (in both domestic politics and international relations).

3. Official policy is a mechanism to inform and constrain other national choices. It is difficult to have multiple official policies that clearly contradict, such as having an official policy of dismantling all nuclear arsenals at the same time as having an official policy to provide a nuclear umbrella over protectorates. When administrations transition and when new staff come into security planning, their choices on other policies are constrained by existing policies.

4. Cultivating an expectation that official policy is a good predictor of behavior provides a strong signaling function to other states, and for the building of statecraft. Countries that have no credibility often have none because of their misalignment of actions and official policy.

But yes, nations do sometimes decide to change policy or act against their policy. In the case of Russia or China as you've written in the above comment it is very highly unlikely for a large number of reasons. But it remains possible in slim margins, sure, and could be fun to speculate about.
This happens all the time on StackOverflow/ServerFault. "What sort of server cluster do I need? I have thousands of hits a month!" Usually the answer is "an average smart watch could do it".
We're not out of the woods yet: https://thenewdialtone.com/hold-apple-webrtc-ios-party/
I'd agree with a lot of what you said. The only thing I'd challenge is the implied notion that startups are inherently doing more cutting edge stuff than bigco's.

Right now I'm doing a lot of consulting/contracting at startups. Most of the companies I see on my travels are not really doing anything that falls into the category bleeding-edge-and-could-fail. Most are pretty boring and derivative. Especially compared to some of the stuff I saw worked on at Facebook.

I would argue that a lot of the cutting edge stuff that's being worked on these days is happening at bigco's (Google/Amazon/MSFT/Facebook).

Now their are some big exceptions to this but in general that's what I'm seeing while traveling around SV.

I would say that I prefer working with smaller companies for the sense of camaraderie and the relative lack of politics. That and the ability for my work to have a massive impact.
Do you really think that's how it works in any but the most abusive families?
We've already learned from our past mistakes changing the prototype of the standard library - the Ruby community learned the same thing with monkey patching their standard lib too. The maintenance overhead far outweighs any immediate benefits.
right, it depends on what the reward for high precision vs high recall is
Headline seems almost meaningless, and doesn't do justice to the importance of the story. It would be like saying "World population has another record year". What sort of disaster would have to befall the industry for the number of electric cars on the road to actually decrease from last year?

Hypothetically, I could envision growth declining or accelerating in any given year, both of which would be news worth pointing out. (And in a mature market like conventional gasoline cars with lots of near end-of-life "clunkers" out there, I could see absolute number decreasing, which would be worth knowing). But an increase in absolute number of EVs is so nearly certain as to just be noise.
Tupac was the master of this

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> given all of the research into the effect of social media on one's mental state?

Given that research, wouldn't that make Facebook be the best platform for an anti-depression chat-bot? That's where the users will be.
Tutorial: GraphQL Input Types and Custom Resolvers
I'm not sure "courage" is the word. They'd been assured by trusted authority figures that it was completely harmless. Maybe "naive trust".
Site loads to malware download...... Lame.
I don't see how having a long commute somehow diminishes the benefits of having a personal vehicle. For most people, having a personal vehicle means, partly, being able to live where they want instead of having to choose a home based on accessibility to public transportation, or alternately, to be able to take a job that may be lucrative but totally inaccessible by public transportation. A personal vehicle offers a good deal of flexibility and antifragility that I think you're ignoring here, given the way the real world is set up.

And perhaps all you do is drive around the countryside on the weekend, but that is hardly the only use for a personal vehicle. At least half the really interesting things I've done in my life would not have been possible without my own vehicle.
I like to call it the Hot Topic phenomenon.
I upvote things like this because it's a rare challenge that will leave everyone more enlightened. (sounds sarcastic but isn't)
The internet is a utility now, and America doesn't have a variety of providers. But facebook is also pretty ubiquitous, to the point of employers thinking you're weird if you don't have a page.
The book "Command and Control" spends a good amount of time on this plan.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5R7F8G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_G.g...
It seems that EV are on the verge or climbing the hockey stick curve. That is hugely important.

Exponential growth in renewables is the only real solution to climate change.
for full on functional style, as far as I am concerned, process() should be recursive (without all the overhead that implies in an imperative language). I'm being sarcastic because I don't like the list comprehension syntax.
Sorry, we're working on adding it now!
Thanks for all the responses! I've got quite a bit to sort through, so it may take me awhile to get back to you.
If I really wanted to, I could have built another browser using PNaCl and run it and distributed it on ChromeOS even before it supported Android apps where users trivially have access to other browsers. That remains impossible on iDevices to this day.

If you can't see the difference, you are only deceiving yourself.
Norway and Tesla sales:
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/03/11/288611696/n...

Norway's fund has actually start to divest from fossil fuels in a large way : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/05/norways-...
Are you an economist? This is not how economics works. It's frustrating to see overly-simplistic statements passed off as facts by supposed "experts" on HN.

The actual economics is way more complicated.

Some thoughts to ponder:

1) Why don't other countries oil-producing nations try to minimize their own oil consumption in a similar way?

2) Why don't other countries do the same with whatever natural resource they have an abundance of?
Agreed. That should be the headline. That's my point.

(I've edited my original comment a bit to make this clearer.)
It's going to be about both. It's >already< about both.

There are therapists, and there are books on CBT. This is an extension of the second, more than the first. It's really nothing more than an electronic version of a choose-your-own-adventure book
So much this. The one thing I wonder about is as our teams get more remote how do we do this.
> If the Paris accord were in fact a treaty, we would not have been able to withdraw

Many treaties (including the Paris Accord) have withdrawal mechanisms. (The Paris Accord is a treaty under international law, whether it was a treaty, requiring ratification, under the more narrow terms of US Constitutional law has been a matter of some debate—still ongoing as those who argued it was a treaty argue against characterizing Trump's action as a withdrawal.)

> We have not, however, seen a unilateral withdrawal from a ratified treaty

We have, just not under this President; e.g., George W. Bush's unilateral (but compliant with the withdrawal mechanism of that treaty) withdrawal of the US from the ABM Treaty.
The distinction I make is this: If Trump fired Comey in a clear attempt to end the investigation, then that's an action to obstruct but this does not seem to be the case, since Trump was likely informed the investigation would continue with or without Comey. Though I do find the talk of loyalty to be "unnerving" as some other commenter described it.
Nobody would ever advise you to take a large percentage of your income and buy options or even stock in a single company in the hopes that that company succeeds enough to make you rich. That's gambling.

Being an employee of the company in question doesn't suddenly make that a good idea. It's an even worse idea since your entire financial future is tied to the company's outcome.

They should pay you more to take that kind of risk.
Show HN: N-clark – a LUIS.ai wrapper for Node.js/browser
For small n: http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/jp-trutab.html
Yes, and that was iPhoneOS, not iOS.
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Does it support VP8 as required by RFC 7742 "WebRTC Video Processing and Codec Requirements"?
https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxredhat

I see. 4 steps too hard. I bet you're a Go code monkey?
OK, but the other side of that is all of us looking at resumes and going "wow, that's cool that this person built that" instead of "that sounds overengineered and silly".
Ok we took that out for you.
"electric cars on the roads around the world rose to 2 million in 2016" vs "160,000 total EVs sold in the United States in 2016". Doesn't take away from your point, and the article clearly states China is leading, but those numbers are not directly comparable (cumulative total vs 2016 sales).
Shazam, but for food.
Well, it will no doubt arrive at Union Station, which is at least another hour from the beach, sadly, due to traffic.
How not to build a ship: the USS Ford
I doubt many people would argue with the math behind modern uuid generation functions.
Those of us that have been around for a while know the problem can come from the implementation and the storage for the UUID.

For example: Bugs in code that may generate a unique ID once and then use it multiple places.

Imaged OS installations that may cause a UUID to be duplicated

Spoofing another ID for malicious reasons

Accidental database update statement

People tend to give UUIDs magical properties but it needs to be treated similar to an unique integer.
Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber
This is just incredibly impressive on the surface. I wonder if it could be used for compression of videos and pictures?
I don't think that's misleading, I think that's almost exactly the GP's point. People don't just vote on the issues, usually they vote one abstraction higher on the brand and the rhetoric around it.
With that level of traffic, they could run their entire frontend from a smartphone...
if i recall the galaxy nexus was dropped just after 4.3, if i recall correctly this was due to Texas Instruments dropping out of the modem game no?

that was the last android phone I owned.
Well, some land lords used to accept options for rent... http://realtormag.realtor.org/commercial/feature/article/200...
You need to checkout ClojureTutorials channel on youtube, where Timothy Baldridge goes very deep into transducers. But the videos are not free, I think there is a small subscription.
There is room for therapists, therapist assisting-applications and stand alone tools for therapy, just like there is today. This app is replacment for self-help books, not therapists.

Moreover, CBT and DBT, which is where therapy is currently focused for most issues, involves a lot of mental re-tooling and training.

This part of therapy is like learning any other process, and is approached and practiced like any other skill.
You're absolutely right. Totally missed that nuance (damn word ordering). It does change my point to be a bit less strong, but I guess I'd say that I'm still happy that the number is large in the rest of world. This is a global problem.
>First of all, I'm talking about the inequality of income between the super-high-earners (1%) and the rest. Those people are not the ones pricing everyone else out of housing.

>For one, we had and have a lot of real estate speculation

Who did you think was speculating?
You also don't see car manufacturers change their designs so that they will accommodate drivers who've decided to remove their steering wheel, nor do car manufacturers design their cars for some possible future world without gasoline.
Any time is the time to bike Hwy 1. Best few weeks I've ever spent. When we did it mid-June a few years ago we almost never felt like we were in danger. Not in the CA sections at least.
"Unfortunately"? I get what you're saying, but encryption will just mean that hobbyists will be completely locked out of everything. It's not like the manufacturers will go through the trouble of making it possible for a car owner to decrypt the bus traffic in their own car.
From an artist's point of view, lots of small details and imperfections and things like that. Many bodies have basically the same proportions - your hand is around the same length as the distance between your chin and eyebrows, eyes are an eyeball length apart, nose stops approximately halfway between the corner of the eyes and the chin.

But you probably have one eye slightly higher than the other, one eyebrow that is shaped different, or your nose might turn up ever-so-slightly. Your cheeks might show more "chub" when you smile compared to the next person, even though the weight is similar. I think this is why painted or drawn portraits sometimes don't quite capture someone's face, even though it seems horribly close and is obviously a picture of the subject - and weirdly, why simple caricatures seem to do such a good job. The folks that do them have trained themselves to notice and highlight these sorts of differences.

As a sidenote, I still find it amazing that the human brain is so quick to pick up such things, especially considering it takes training and practice to reproduce on paper.
I'm banking on ULID and surprised that they didn't adopt it, it's a much more approachable solution and battle tested.
I agree. I think social justice became an identity or a tribe, and each w̵a̵r̵r̵i̵o̵r̵ person in the tribe joined for their own particular mix of reasons (some were probably legitimately the victims of a prejudice and were overcome with hate for their aggressor and his/her racial/gender/etc group, others may have simply made friends with SJ-types in their formative years and taken on the identity, etc). Once an ideology becomes tribal, it's more or less impervious to rational thought. I think this is probably the case and not just wanton psycho-analysis because it mirrors social psychological work done about politics generally.
Tonal system
Norway is planning to phase out petrol/diesel cars by 2025 https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/norway-phase-out...

I suspect this is where we are headed.

However an EV car takes the same space up as an ICE car. EV cars do not solve congestion and if you move from a policy of maximising traffic flow to maximising road capacity you very quickly realise that the fundemental problem is the private car. So the conclusion is to ban the car https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/dec/09/car-free-city...

I believe Copenhagen now has only 9% of people commuting by private car and 62% by bicycle.
I think guimarin meant that the fund is mostly from the sale of the oil from Norway. Since Norway is making money from selling oil, it does makes sense to diversify and invest in other industries.
Show HN: L2: An experiment/programming language
This is a pretty impressive set of new features and fixes (i.e. things that worked in Postgres, but not with CitusDB).

In particular, the added ability to run `CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY` [1] for distributed tables is an important addition. I've run a pretty big Postgres database before, and this feature is absolutely _critical_ for bringing new indexes online for large tables without affecting users or other operations (without it, `CREATE INDEX` needs a lock that blocks other modifications in the table).

Its reverse, `DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY` is a relatively newer addition to Postgres and also pretty key. While running on pre-9.2 (when it was added), we had to stop dropping indexes from large tables because the operation would block long enough that we'd start timing out user requests while it was running.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createind...