skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying, but I think South Korea would bear that cost.

I personally know people whose family was split by the arbitrary North/South border divide. For them, I think absorbing and reintegrating the population of the North Korean means more to them than just an economic burden.

Given that the South Korean government were elected democratically, you would hope that they would be prepared to represent the interests of the population.
Seems Kim called the world's bluff on that missile "shield" touted ad nauseam whenever NK pops off a cracker. This thing flew basically through the middle of Japan's airspace and dropped in the drink on the other side. Getting the distinct impression that most of that American missile shield hardware is kept down with tent pens.
There is a law prohibiting what those dogs call "money surrogates".

Well, if somebody gets wind of somebody having 1m+ of what is effectively cash, that person will likely get raided by somebody anyways. Happens all the time
A complete evacuation of Houston to Dallas is like evacuating Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht most of the way to Paris.

Except the Houston metro area is physically larger than that part of the Netherlands (the populations are close enough to the same).
I haven't heard Coinye West in years. Biggest competitor to Dogecoin back in the day, if I remember correctly.
Thanks for posting; it was very informative. I'd been looking for a succinct explainer of the what and how of the flood disaster but kept running into situation updates instead.
That project is discussed in the readme.
At the individual level they're sprints.
3 best ways to do bulk emailing and build a massive list
Just 10 years before, achieving better than human performance on image recognition task was not even close.
Ethical Hacking Course: Module 03 – Scanning Lab Session
Doing the FizzleFade effect using a Feistel network
[caveat]: I'm not a pro, just someone interested in how my city works. If a real pro finds an error, please let me know.)

[Good link 1] https://www.harriscountyfws.org/

[Good link 2] https://spacecityweather.com/

[Good link 3] https://www.texastribune.org/boomtown-floodtown/

[Good link 4] http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/cctv/transtar/

[Sat pic] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIRoKVNVYAAuzPc.jpg

[Sat pic with drainage routes] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIRokT7UwAEr53H.jpg

[Freeway indicated on map] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIRpK4-V4AAephw.jpg

[Flooded freeway] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIRpUBsVYAA2Gld.jpg

[Tropical Storm Allison wiki] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison

[Aman Batheja tweetstorm] https://twitter.com/amanbatheja/status/901867083608285184:

The debate of whether Houston should have issued a mandatory evacuation is more
complicated than many probably realize. In 2005, the evacuation of Hurricane Rita was a bigger calamity than the hurricane itself: https://apps.texastribune.org/road-from-rita/taking-on-traff.... For days, major highways looked like parking lots. Dozens died before Rita even reached Texas.

> Of the 139 deaths that the state linked to Hurricane Rita, 73 occurred before Rita reached Texas. Twenty-three people died in a bus fire. Ten others died from hyperthermia due to heat exposure.

It was clear in hindsight that many evacuees would have been better off riding out the storm at home. Texas took measures to improve future evacuations but state officials admitted to me in 2015 that they weren't enough. 3 years later, the Texas evacuation ahead of Hurricane Ike went much better. But that's partly because of this:

> The Ike evacuation was also aided by tens of thousands of residents refusing orders to leave. For many, that decision was driven by the still-fresh memory of Rita.

Texas has grown like gangbusters since Rita. Growth in highway capacity hasn't come close to matching that.

> Between 2005 and 2014, the population of a 40-county area covering southeast Texas and the Gulf Coast grew by 20 percent, or more than 1.5 million people. Over the same period, highway lane miles in that region grew by just 5 percent, or 1,707 miles, according to state data.

Houston is the 4th largest city in the country with 2.3 million people. So as Houston Mayor debated evacuation, he had to weigh whether he was directing millions to sit in traffic as Harvey reached landfall, and also whether he might be creating thousands of new people who refuse to evacuate ever again. This is not a defense of Sylvester Turner's decision not to evacuate Houston. Just offering context of how complicated the decision was.

[Addicks & Barker reservoirs] http://www.swg.usace.army.mil/Missions/Dam-Safety-Program/

[Times op-ed] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/opinion/harvey-flooding-m...

[Michael Berry tweetstorm] https://twitter.com/MichaelBerrySho/status/90237864039826636... - not going to break this one out, lest I reproduce all of Twitter.
For example, the Japan is in the center. So it has this bias every world map has. "We are the center of the world"
Why You Should Work on Your Business, Not in Your Business
I thought Rails was the boilerplate.
The La Marzocco Linea PB Espresso Maker
I hope you're serious yourself in return.

Where in seeking the other (or same) sex for pleasure and sex only did you see a lack of respect?

It's just a limited goal oriented interaction. It doesn't mean you beat them or cuss at them or threaten them or make them discomfortable.

It's like in some people's mind there's only love and cuddling and/or relationships where respect is possible, whereas casual sex is some unsafe and dangerous realm, if not close to rape.
4 years ago I read this excellent comment on reddit explaining the same topic. (https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1etaxd/north_kor...)
The point is that the athlete isn't considered a criminal for possessing them in Poland, whereas in the US, they are.
Elixir in production
Lots of hype and for all the wrong usages of crypto.

There is exactly 0 reasons why BK needs a coin of their own. It's all about generating hype and trying to cash in on a fad. The worst part is this is the story that will make headlines and will drive up other bullcrap alt-coins and ICOs because "if BK is doing it then surely there are riches to be made!".

It's gross.
Battles last for hours, days max. Most of war is boring.
Show HN: OutRefer – Refer a colleague out to recruiters, anonymously
Trading compute resources for a service is a much better proposition than trading my personal data or behavior for a service. This is interesting.
Until we get a very generalized form of AI, I think cities will have to be remodeled to assist self-driving cars. Places like NYC ( manhattan ) can be easily converted into a self-driving car city given it's grid-like layout and I can easily see china building cities around the idea of self-driving cars.

I don't think the technical aspects are as difficult for the 99.99% of the cases. It is the 0.01% of unknowns that will be difficult to overcome. But we can minimize that by modifying or building cities specifically for self-driving cars.

The most difficult part I think is the legal/regulatory issues.

This is why I see self-driving cars taking off in china/asia first before the US. They'll probably limit it to city limits initially. And when the technology is mature enough, broaden it to the entire country.
Only Russia attacked them. What aid has the USA rendered?

This situation has shaken Japan's faith that the USA is willing to honor the agreement with them.
I am not convinced KJU would fear a nuclear fallout. He has nothing to lose. If he were determined to survive, he is sure to have bunkers to protect him and he could almost certainly smuggle himself out of the country.

If he really valued the lives of his citizens, you would probably expect a different means of governing. I don't think you can treat this person as a rational individual when negotiating...
You can find 20 people to give a talk for any odd language.

Can you find > 1 language confs for the same language? How does it fare in libs and Stack Overflow and GitHub?
That said, in some ways Goethe was the Shakespeare of German, so it's not unreasonable for it to use a slightly archaic style.
Is this just a vehicle for oligarchs to convert their money into crypto?
You see this for every skill though. I remember jobs requiring 5 years of Rails experience before Rails was that old and DHH commenting somewhere that he wouldn't qualify.
Tree-Eating Beetles March Northward, Lured by Milder Winters
Yes it does really matter. It wouldn't cost them much but would prove they are committed to the ideals of open source.
Because sometimes it's close to half the price? Some of us like saving $5 or $10 per ride.
Show HN: Bosket – Tree view components for various web frameworks
If the trajectory was measured and expected to miss Japan, there would be no need to use any defense system.

Those playing defense have a lot of incentive to keep their plans and capabilities quiet and uncertain until they are absolutely required. Once the defensive strategies are employed openly, the offense can more-reliably develop countermeasures.
Are there any enterprise-useful features provided by ME that couldn't be provided external to the CPU?

Since the boot process already involves some amount of hand holding from outside the CPU, any of those features could have been provided by a designed-for-enterprise motherboard with ME-like features in the BIOS/UEFI or even some sort of peripheral in the PCH (or wherever).
It's not super busy, but I'm not sure if it needs to be. There have been commits on it to handle 5.1: https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer/commit/7088e05e7... .

I'll be honest, I use it a lot if I want to spin up a new Rails application and go through a quick CLI picking databases/auth approaches/test frameworks.

The only other tool I would consider looking at for this is Thoughtbot's Suspenders but at this moment I have no pain points with rails-composer.

In case I'm not the only one who likes to use it, I've added it to CodeTriage just now in case anyone would like to be involved in supporting this project. https://www.codetriage.com/railsapps/rails-composer
My point is that no mechanism is even required if an effect can be documented. I let go of an object and it falls toward the ground - easy to replicate. I do more tests and find a constant acceleration - easy to replicate for dense objects (not feathers). And so on. For basic stuff I think showing an effect that can be replicated is way way more important than offering any explanation. IMHO even offering a tentative explanation gives people the impression that things are more understood than they really are.
I tried a number of simple Italian words and I kept thinking it was German and getting it wrong. I even tried "hola" and it couldn't get it.
Copy+Paste auto-convert from Java to Kotlin is pretty slick.
I didn't quite understand why this is guaranteed to reach every pixel coordinate? Is there something inherent about LFSR that generates complete sequences within the cycle? So elements are never repeated or omitted?
That's one example, but time is against it. The generation that was split by the border divide/war is dying out. The younger generation doesn't really care about the DPRK.
Cheap, reliable on-demand trips make it easier to avoid owning a car at all and use public transport 99% of the time, whereas if you have to buy one anyway, you're more likely to use it even if you could have taken the metro instead, since after sinking the fixed costs, the cost per trip is not that different.
That guy did a much better job then I, extra credit.
What do you mean by "batch processing" Personally i find that term to be confusing.

I believe if Kafka can do streaming then it effectively can do batch as batch is a subset of streaming.
Disclosure: I don't have a LinkedIn account.

I think the better advice is to figure out how to make your career better. I doubt anyone cares about a good LinkedIn profile, rather they care about you being successful. Suppose you were successful in some way three years from now. What would you have achieved? I feel it's better trying to go and do that than spend effort on your LinkedIn profile. Ultimately, LinkedIn is distraction to those who are extremely successful.

TLDR: Successful people will have LinkedIn, but being active on LinkedIn won't make you successful.
For the love of god can someone create a FuckedCompany.com 2.0 version for this cryptocurrency insanity? The world needs it.
I predict the price of whoppers goes up 1000% in Russia and you have to be in the Russian Mafia to even afford one. And even if you can afford one, don't let them catch you buying one. They will take over the supply.

Drive-through: I'll take a Whopper with... BOOM. Sniper takes out the civilian for ordering the wrong menu item.
> Run a lot of things, show a lot of numbers, but never worry about meaning (or correctness).

You've just described every single benchmark article that was ever published.

Yet, Phoronix stands out among their peers as their tests are actually scientific, objective and reproducible.
It's good. One thing I feel is missing is embedding images into the tweets. Are there any plans for that?
Most alerts are designed to. It probably uses the same underlying system as the Amber alerts in California, which do override volume settings.
>Is our only option to just surprise strike this guy into obvlivion and hope for the best, take casualties now?

This is why North Korea is dead set on developing nuclear bombs. As long as the US remains a threat North Korea has no other choice, it's not like getting rid of their WMD's would prevent the US from attacking.
I met a guy once who made a browser add on that had legitimate functionality that people wanted, but behind the scenes he secretly read all incoming html and searched for Google Adsense links and replaced the number that identifies the source site with the number for his own site that had Adsense on it. So, whenever anyone with his add-on clicked any ad on any website with Adsense he would get credit for it and earn the money from it. They were all legitimate clicks so it was essentially impossible for Google to detect. He was getting several thousand a month in income from this. Haven't spoken to him in a while so I'm not sure if it still works of if people even still use his add-on. My guess is that either his add-on became unpopular over time or some changes Google made killed his nefarious plan.

I keep telling my other friend it would be really great if we could get a botnet going to mine Ethereum via GPU since ASIC mining isn't a thing in Ethereum because of it's resistance to it. Although, if they ever roll out the proof of stake concept then all mining seems to just evaporate then. Of course I don't plan on risking felony charges to mine Ethereum, but it is fun to think about.
Source code to arcade space shooter game using machine-learning to train AI
If the missle had hit japan this morning, would you still think that?
Perhaps, or perhaps enough developers adopt a given project that it becomes a viable platform. I'm thinking of DropWizard, which is mostly an opinionated collection of libraries and which has a large impact. (Or at least it did... been a while since I've done Java.)

One problem I often find myself facing w/Python is that the ecosystem is so large that it's hard to keep up with the vast numbers of libraries. I have a list of a dozen or so in my head that for a large enough project I'd probably want to use. But personally keeping that list fresh is non-trivial. That, and of course, newer devs in an ecosystem don't have one.

I think these sorts of projects speak to that need.

Now, obviously as you suggest, people have differing needs/preferences, so there's room for competing visions, and in some cases this can become a sort of "now we have N+1 problems" meta-problem. But I don't think the fundamental impetus is misguided.
I don't think it's even that high. It looks like most GPUs are well under 1GH/s. If we assume 1GH/s, then at the current difficulty and exchange rate, if a page load gives you one minute of computation on average (wild guess, but seems reasonable), you're looking at about $5e-7 dollars per pageload. That's 5 cents/day if you get 100,000 people per day.

But this isn't exactly an argument that it can't be happening. They might have failed to understand just how futile it would be.
Yup, it's on my todo list!
> so far no one was advocating for them as a good repl feature

GHCi has this feature, if you explicitly turn it on (-fwarn-name-shadowning with -Werror). I agree that it's not a terribly useful way to run a REPL.
Or like in this remake of the classic Dilbert about sql database:
http://www.sytaylor.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/dilbert-c...
I've been told the same thing about Ireland and Northern Ireland - the younger generation of Irish don't care at all about Northern Ireland.
if the code hurts performance to such a degree that it is uncovered and uninstalled, then no
if the missile didn't break up, it could've made it there.
Just one data point, but I'm currently at school for Computer Engineering and we learn and use VHDL and Verilog for several courses. We use it to program Altera FPGA's.
Aren't most loyalty/rewards/points systems tied to one chain/vendor/... ?
Ah you're right. Yeah, I was referring to the Cross Current Air.
This will potentially kill companies like Codility and Remoteinterview.io.
Russian Intelligence: You're quite skinny for a guy who eats so many whoppers. Who are you working for?
The news has been showing maps of the areas the alert was sent out in all day, NHK has a list of prefectures in this article http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170829/k10011116461000.htm...
It went over Japan. ICBMs are capable of adjusting their target mid-flight. There's no way to know it wasn't going to hit Japan.
Sure.

Still makes the CC's fraud department do a lot of work.
There are variants of the prisoner's dilemma where you can check the 'rationality' of your opponent: the prisoners' decisions are chosen by computer programs, and each program is given the other program's source code as an argument. This is often referred to as "program equilibrium", and an optimal strategy is to cooperate iff running the other program with our own source code as an argument results in cooperation.

This runs into problems of computability though: if we run the opponent's code to see what it does, and it turns out that their program runs our code to see what we do, we can get stuck in an infinite loop.

Like most incomputable problems, we can take a conservative approach: try to prove that it cooperates, using some incomplete computable algorithm; defect if we can't prove it. One simple algorithm is to check if the source code is the same as ours; more sophisticated algorithms would perform static analysis of the code.
AutoCoin – the cryptocurrency that transport needs
This looks very nice!

I have something like this for my own projects, and my favorite piece is having detailed tests that I don't have to re-write every time: tests for Devise, tests for Stripe subscriptions, tests for many-to-many users and accounts, etc. I see this project has the same, which I really like.

I don't know why Devise doesn't have a generator to write all those tests for you, just like it will give you some starting views. Of course they won't match your app perfectly, but having the failures is helpful too, and probably it would be less effort to adjust them than to write new ones from scratch.

The idea isn't to "test the library"---Devise should have its own internal tests too---but to make sure that the features work as expected with your own configuration and customizations.

The other gem where a free battery of tests would really save time is Spree. (Maybe that exists; I don't know yet.)
I'm surprised this sort of thing hasn't happened more commonly. I suggested it, as I'm sure did others, some year ago.

While I doubt mining bitcoin is going to be worth the hassle currently, other currencies might be, other tasks might be (generating rainbow tables for hash attacks?), and if it is bitcoin maybe that algorithm was just picked as a test for the delivery mechanism.

As JS JiT compilers get better and other tech that might help number-crunching becomes commonly available (webassembly? does webGL allow useful access to GPU processing power?) this sort of thing might become common too.

For people doubting the idea for ROI reasons: if the time to code the mechanism isn't time you would have otherwise paid for, and the delivery network isn't one you run but one you've managed to secret your code into by surreptitious means, then the investment is practically zero and any return is a profit. Heck, for some he intellectual challenge and/or willy-waving potential might be profit enough!

Of course, without seeing the code in question I would say it is far more likely that this is just a really badly coded animated advert or advert cycling code, chewing CPU with unneeded DOM changes & redraws and eating 40Mb of bandwidth constantly reloading content for animation frames that could be cached in a better design. The link to crypto-currencies just because the user had a bitcoin related advert on-screen at the time is, while possible, quite a distant conclusion to jump to IMO.
An alternative approach that works for every resolution: http://antirez.com/news/113
Once you're away from your powerbase your days are numbered. He must certainly know that he'd be hunted till the end of days, like Bin Laden, like Hussein.
Still have not encountered anyone from Europe who is happy about having refugees up to they arse. Except those that benefit from transporting/smuggling them and government agencies.
Money grabbers love refugees, 25M refugees will give billions of income, of course, from the expense of common man.

And you can talk all you want about the outcome and best scenarios, lives. Warmongers will war, money grabbers will grab, you will pay for that!
Colonial empires and pretext?
Collecting Narratives to Clarify the Complexities of Your Product
I honestly haven't found NoScript on Firefox mobile too painful to use (https://noscript.net/nsa/latest/).

Maybe I'm just paranoid enough to put up with it though :)
Gnome-Pie: The pie menu for Linux
Google says "Starting from the transfer".
Skimming through the wikipedia page, it doesn't seem MA was personally involved in his death.

e: Never mind, I misread the original post.
Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like
This is also very true, and it makes a difference.
It's not just "this guy". The whole head of the government is like a machine. If he tries to bring it down the other elites will put him down. NK would not have been able to last this long by just one family having 100% power. It's a network.
I was wondering the same thing myself. I'm guessing they tested it and found that it hit every coordinate at least once and said "good enough". Meaning, I don't think it's guaranteed, they just picked one that did.

The interesting thing is that you're guaranteed to always have a different number because otherwise the cycle would restart. So you just need to find a sequence that's long enough.
I am sure you're right and I hope the old saying "where there is a will, there is a way" is true, but the numbers paint a very bleak picture. Even if the will is there, as GP said:

> South Korea doesn't have the money or the economic poweress help the DPRK like West Germany did with East Germany.

Realistically, a merger has to make sense for the chebols/conglomerates, right?

Edit: also where do China PR and Japan stand on unification? I've read claims that neither is very fond of it?
I don't see how it can be useful. Here for example, I just have to scroll a little (little) bit and all the bar are gone.
https://blog.mindorks.com/understanding-interpolators-in-and...

Am I on some sort of special version?
Ask HN: Is there any VPN api's available to setup a commercial VPN service?
I am looking for an api to start a VPN service of mine as I have a marketing background and I can sell the VPN service.

But I don't want to build a complex system. I just want an api to build my network upon.