skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half of the point of being able to spot each other miles away, is to make this a nonissue.

It seems obvious that if you ask a tanker to make a 90° turn, it's going to take them a few miles. But it's easy to forget that if they corrected course 6 miles away, a 5° correction would have been plenty.

This should be a solved problem. More accidents are caused by the failure to keep a proper watch, than anything else. (last number I saw was 40%.) We have the technology - it's been mandatory past 300tonnes for over 10 years. Unfortunately the navy regularly opt-out. Apparently even in busy lanes at night.
Even if we just remove the missile sites, and any sort of nuclear ordinance on the first attack, they don't really have nearly as much as they claim capable of hitting Seoul[1], and even then it can only hit the northern 3rd of the city, which is less populated. The city itself has put a lot of work into infrastructure in preparation, enough bunkers and shelters to house 20 million. Yes, it will get hit, people will die, but as long as no nuke comes down, I'd consider than a win, for eliminating such a dangerous tyrant.

Of course, coming to terms with China will be an entirely different matter.

1: https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/mind-th...
When you lease an apartment, do you get the details via WhatsApp/WeChat/TodaysChatApp or email? How about receipts, bank statements, anything where deliverability actually matters?

Email is infrastructure; people invest in it. If the only people investing in these chat apps are themselves people, these apps could be ghost towns in years.

In some sense you're right; in another sense, it still seems like email is likely to outlive walled gardens because there's no long-term reason to use them.

In particular, unless there's a decent way to ensure that nobody can take my received messages away from me, i'm unlikely to adopt it for anything but chatting with friends.
What happened to XMPP? Not trying to be snarky, I still use it. Is there an issue I should be aware of?
Yes they were also not charging their customer and thereby had no reason to offer customer support. These companies are more of the exception than the rule.
Once you pay the danegeld...
The camera's white balance definitely did shift.

To my eyes, close to totality (on either side) the light was a bit redshifted. Not much, but a little. The change seemed symmetrical before and after.

I've imaged the whole event. Looking at the disk of the Sun, the color is not the same everywhere. The edge definitely loses energy in the blue end of the spectrum - I believe for the same reason why blue light is dispersed more, compared to red, in Earth's atmosphere. So near totality, when you receive light only from the edge of the photosphere, it's normal that the spectral composition looks different.
I'm a longtime subscriber to Launch Ticker (their tech/startup newsletter). It lets me very quickly be kept abreast of fundraising and M&A activity relevant to my startup. Saves me about 30 minutes a day of visiting several popular tech news sites, so well worth $10/month to me.
Fun fact: KSQL is the code of the airport closest to Oracle HQ (San Carlos airport).
Unity for 3D applications. You can use UWP to make traditional 2D apps which you can also use in hololens
> (BTW this is what decentralisation people should understand: you need to build services using common protocols, not services which can be installed; mastodon is a bad example, activityfeeds or linked data are good ones)

Mastodon/GNU Social uses standardised protocols. ActivityFeeds is an attempt to unify the a different protocol as a W3 standard. With ActivityFeeds you also will need to install a service just like Mastodon. But the whole point is that you don't need to install Mastodon yourself, you can use one that's already hosted (similar to the early days of email -- these days you generally have to use hosted email).

The fact that the Mastodon craze still inherited the community from GNU Social is evidence that it is a well designed federated system.
We've already paid.
Guess the op is referring to federation
See also: https://github.com/fiatjaf/node-dependencies-view
It was well known by then even, from the Mythical Man-Month (1975):

> adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

More then 4 decades later it seems like we still have learned.
It is vital to note that you are going to spend a crazy amount of money on the JD, and startin salaries for lawyers are substabtially below IT salaries.

Be ready to be paying back well over $100,000 in loans while earning $40-50k/yr
"Mister President, there's been a launch. There's six missiles heading for California and Washington state."

"Not now, I'm busy."

"Put down the phone, Sir. This is isn't a drill."
I actually tend to agree here. While purism is understandable (email is, should and will continue to be the gold standard) reality is that no-one has 10 years to spare waiting for users to realize its value once more and migrate back in droves.

Also, who's to say communication won't become my-bot-against-your-bot kind of thing for instance? Given choice between standards and convenience people don't seem to think too long before going with the latter..
Intro to Mastering Chaos — Overcoming Conway’s Law – Josh Evans
Ask HN: Anyone interested in configuring a speech dictation module for OpenEMR?
Hi HN,

Open source Help wanted!

OpenEMR is the most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution. Our project administrators have recently put together a new and ambitious project roadmap based on global user need. One of these projects has to do with testing out and configuring a speech dictation package called Simon for medical documentation. Simon is open source and multi platform.

If you are interested in a career in QA and/or technical documentation, this project will be very resume worthy and quite fun! It is also for a great cause.

Reach out to me matthewvita48 (at) gmail (dot) com if you would like to work on this! I am one of the project administrators and would love to talk you through the system and the problem we are trying to solve for.

PS: If you are a developer, sysadmin, clinician, translator, documenter, graphic designer, etc there is always plenty of work to be done so feel free to reach out as well. Our community is very awesome.
Microsoft Clippy making a comeback as a browser extension
Ask HN: TN-1 to H1-B or Green Card
I'm a Canadian currently on a TN-1 visa. What's the best way to transition to H1-B or Green Card? Can I apply for an H1-B while being on the TN without any repercussions?

Thanks!
I've thought about not saying this, I intend no disrespect to anyone. Are there two militaries now? There is JSOC, with a budget, toys and gear, their pick of everything and they are a smallish, nimble ultra trained force designed to engage these terrorist groups and do special tactical missions, fighting dirty if needed. Then there is the greater navy and army and, respectfully, it is sort of a conservative voter friendly rural jobs program. I'm not saying this about the volunteers that sign up, but national policy. It only makes sense that they'd squeeze every dime from it like everything else. To top it off, there are the private contracting outfits that do stuff too, where does that fit in?

The idea that they're supposed to learn on the job is insane, you don't get a lot of second chances on aflight deck, you don't get to make a lot of mistakes on a boat twice.
Check out https://www.getrevue.co/
Being shelled so severely that Seoul looks like Pyongyang is not a win here.
you nailed it. dplyr is better the further you are from doing heavy duty data analysis or creating production code. if you're writing some simple transforms to put data into a report, fine. someone is probably going to want to look at that at some point and it's much, much easier to understand. but for anything else i stick with data.table.
> And it's also called "Autopilot" which sets an extremely different tone and expectation than other driver-assistance/safety technologies.

Only to those not familiar with autopilot systems in aircraft.

It's like the use of "hacker" - here on this site it still (probably) has most of it's original meaning. To the rest of the world it means a guy in a ski-mask with a russian/chinese accent who's after your bank account.

Unfortunately most of the world thinks pilots in commercial aircraft turn on the autopilot and can then go for a sleep, so when they see "Autopilot" on a Tesla, they think they can do the same.
> Shooting long-exposure slide film is a good way to confirm this (no colour adjustment possible).

Or shooting long exposure with a digital camera that does not automatically adjust the color balance. E.g. take the raw data from the sensor, instead of a camera-generated JPEG.
In what respect? I don't think i've ever gotten an important SMS outside of personal communications, let alone the 50+ emails I get a day that are considered "important" in some way.
Wonder if they're optimizing their routes
What is the issue with federation? It seems to be working for me between different domains and servers.
FWIW, Home Depot does this too.
Why would I want to cut the cord and ditch TV? Television is awesome. I wish I had time to watch more of it.
Understanding Tricky Joins and Multi-Table Updates in PostgreSQL (Using
Amazing and super sad that a government contract could ever be submitted for such an embarrassingly high amount. I hope more people buying gov software contracts read this.
I agree, but here on HN you'll get downvoted into oblivion for saying anything pro-blockchain. VCs (and other insiders) have long enjoyed the advantage of being the only ones that are allowed to participate in early funding, and thus reap the rewards. It leaves everyone else behind. This is one of several reasons why people who are already rich are the only ones who are becoming wealthier.

The old system is no different from how ICOs work. The difference is that now everyone can participate, not just those who are wealthy and have the right connections (i.e., insiders).

I don't think this will be the death of the crappy VC model as we know it, but I think that opening up the market to everyone is a wonderful thing.
I think your OP probably meant to constrain the point to messaging. HTTP, telnet, etc aren't really messaging, implying asynchronous delivery, they're socket protocols.

I guess in theory you could leave an HTTP packet for someone to pick up months later, but existing networks would time it out.
It has a better looking url: http://toiletswirl.com/

Actually, Veritasium merged the two videos into one because it is easier to watch on a smartphone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXaad0rsV38
Im not privy to the nitty gritty of the Coast Guard's Maritime Safety ans Security Teams (MSSTs) operations, but finding a nuclear weapon on a vessel is fundamentally a needle in a haystack problem. The best way is going to be intel driven - it is just too easy to hide from a physics standpoint.
TLDW;
They try toilets which dont work so they create a larger vortices in kiddy pools.

just lol, they are so excited... I do hope they realise that there was never any debate about the Coriolis effect being real, cos ya know... math. Only debate was that the effect is not strong enough compared to other forces acting on small vortices in fluids, i.e toilets.
That resolution only holds if you assume the other player to be equally rational in the PD.
So just add 20 bean-counters to your team and you can bid for the other state contracts :-)
Astronomers discover a new type of star: BLAPs
I don't really understand what's still so untold about that story. It's on all mainstream news channels? I think kids learn it at school in most Western European countries. Hamas is a great ally for the colonists on the West Bank, it makes Palestinians look like shit over and over again.
The difference is the approach — they look for the cause and sometimes the cause is the blame.

When you only look for the blame, you tend to be satisfied once you reach that goal and might ignore the cause.
What do you do with it when you get it to the gym?
Ha, yep! That was a great post and generated about 2,000 clicks.
Interesting. I whitelisted this site, and 2 of the 4 ads it displays on each refresh are from Facebook.

I've never had an FB account and they seem to know it.
The problem is that sports competition is zero-sum: it doesn't really matter whether the fastest run takes 4 minutes or 3:59, but it does matter whether you're a second faster than your competitor. This quickly generates a "race to the bottom" where everyone has to pay absolute costs for relative advantages.

This is less desirable outcome than is ideal, which is why there's room for making everyone better off through enforcement of norms against PEDs. It's a question of what everyone must do in order to be competitive.

That said, there should be a conversation about whether the cure is worse than the disease. If PEDs are safe enough, the costs of enforcement and allowing the cheaters who make it through the screens to win will outweigh the benefits of having the bar for competition lowered.
> The tests that start as attempts to evaluate and quantify effectiveness become the goals themselves, rather than measures of the true goals.

Is this a dank meme?
There are already companies that do something like this. Carahsoft is one that I dealt with in a previous career. You sell through them to the government.
Such blatant security holes are why Google resorts to measures like this: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/Titan-in-depth-...
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Googling for restaurant notes yields a bunch of relevant news stories about such information management.

Here's one in the New Yorker, from 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/dining/what-restaurants-kn...

Here's another from May of this year: http://nypost.com/2017/03/30/the-incognito-way-this-restaura...
We do have civilian control of the armed forces. The question of past experience in the service, though, is the same as experience in any other leadership position.

Also, in England's case, the big red flag was his close ties to the defense contracting industry.
No wonder it's so hard to talk about race, politics, etc. A conversation about editors is so quickly reduced to "my editor is superior to yours"
PipelineDB will become a standard, open-source PostgreSQL extension this year, enabling anybody using PostgreSQL to leverage continuous SQL queries in combination with all other PostgreSQL functionality.

https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/pipelinedb-0-9-8-postgresql-...
Just to add, a competition Jetsprint Boat can pull 7G's in the corners... And that's pretty intense.

https://www.knfilters.com/news/news.aspx?id=1444
I used to hear people saying all the time "well, the correct way to handle [messaging problem X] is to use XMPP" but more recently people seem to talk of it like a dead man walking.

Is it really so bad? Is there anything on the horizon that could replace email as an open messaging protocol?

I guess kilobyte-sized text snippets are probably a pretty good fit for a blockchain-based trustless messaging service. A million monkeys are hacking on that right now, right? Maybe that will just leapfrog everything else?
Don’t ask me why, but one afternoon I had the desire to prototype a vehicle-mounted license plate scanner that would automatically notify you if a vehicle had been stolen or was unregistered.

Don't ask me why, but something tells me there was a bit more to the actual Victoria Police project than just the image-scanning component. But the title makes for good clickbait, at least.
> The problems section isn't really convincing to me though.

It was a big enough problem that the language was almost forked over it.

> It would be great if

Rust is low-level enough that you can do this, and some people have. But then people have to use your package. std is only special in that it can use unstable code but be part of stable Rust; otherwise, it's just regular old Rust code. The community overall abandoned all of those other things and is coalescing around Tokio, which could also be considered this, in a sense. Or Rayon, if you want data parallelism rather than async IO.
It's too late to edit. If I could I'd change it to "the previous generation seems to assume..."
I personally worked on developing the Investigative Brochure for procedure in preparation for the Phase 3 clinical trials at MAPS. The concerns regarding neurotoxicity are mitigated through dosage and low frequency. The ideal treatment plan would only include one session with a therapist in which the patient is given a dosage of MDMA, over a six month period. During that session it's possible for the patient to receive a supplemental dosage dependent on the needs of the patient and the recommendations of the therapist. This can be adjusted and in previous trials some patients have had 2 MDMA-assisted sessions over 6 months but it is not common so far and other options are being considered.
I've got 13 years of emails in my personal gmail account, keeping track of everything from bill payments & receipts to valuable conversations. How does WeChat satisfy something very long-term like that? I don't see how any of the existing, popular messaging platforms can replace the fixed, archival value of email.

The majority of Internet users in the US - nearly 80% of US adults have a smartphone - are mobile savvy and were that way before the Chinese majority got there. Being mobile savvy has nothing to do with it.
Oh, maybe I shouldn't have given them the benefit of the doubt. Why would they talk about incompatible batteries? Weird.

You can get a four pack of 2800mAh lithium ion batteries for that price, though.
I know, but do you happen to have any data to reference that actually breaks down the % who do vs. those who don't? Obviously that would be messy data, but I'm genuinely curious as to what the adoption rate is for those sorts of things.

I actually don't know much about mobile app traffic analysis, so I'm not sure how easy that is to sniff.
That might be true for earned income but isn't true for things like capital gains.
It’s clear they know that. Now a lot of people who didn’t have a great way to learn both how the Coriolis effect works, and also how weak it is on smaller scales.
Not sure if this will show up since the parent is downvoted. Oddly enough the anniversary of a close friend dieing of a cardiac event is tonight. He was a similar age and definitely not a stimulant user. It's disgusting to go there when there is a perfectly rational explanation.

My condolences to this mans family and friends.
Even using unsafe I couldn't figure out how to pull it off in rust without doubling my heap allocations.

Each item in the skip list has an associated randomly sized list of next pointers. In C I store that list at the end of the node data structure, and dynamically allocate the struct based on how much memory I need (basically, size of static array of characters + size of dynamic nexts array). In Rust in theory I can make my struct unsized to do the same thing. (Well, it pushes the nexts height out into the pointer but that's not too bad). But there doesn't seem to be any syntax to initialise the values in my unsized struct array itself once I've allocated it - even in unsafe.

If you can figure out simply how to initialize a custom heap-allocated unsized struct I'll happily keep working on it. My conclusion at the time (and, still, after trying out tokio) is that rust isn't mature enough to replace C yet.
As much as I hate Trump, none of this is his fault. If we have to address this at the root, it's China, the pink elephant in the room. China, our biggest trading partner and also an authoritarian government (US is probably kicking itself allowing such a horrible actor to be so powerful), is propping up this vassel state and prevent any progress made in the peninsula. If China wasn't propping them up, North Korean government would have already fell long time ago.

So what happens now? Do we just let China keep protecting its puppet until the puppet has shipped a nuclear bomb to a port in Los Angeles? I hope not. I hope the world takes action before then.
Came here to post this... do you know if the code is meant to pay homage to Oracle, or were they just trying to make it sound like San QarLos?

Edit: Oh, the wiki page explains that it predates Oracle. So probably the latter.
A good admin weenie would have laid down the law and forced the ships in their fleet to step up operational awareness and training. Astonishingly whatever attempt was made to address the problem was useless.
While people are blaming sailor lousiness and training, I have to ask why humans are even controlling these ships? For all non-war maneuvers shouldn't these ships be self-sailing? Don't these high tech ships have basic obstacle detection? People should be blaming technology (or lack thereof) onboard these ships. There should be "sail-by-wire" equivalent on ship where humans with their limited sensory inputs and computational capability are only allowed to provide relatively high level goals. Ships computer should be able to deal with obstacles and remaining within safety parameters. I'm sure they have this system but it just didn't worked as expected and that should be the core of the problem.
A practical guide to containers on FreeNAS for a depraved psychopath
I am going to type "cd /; rm -rf *<cr>"
You're giving China too much credit. China is the entire reason why North Korea exists. Everyone knows this.
> they've now put a weapon straight through an ally's airspace.

Have you studied a map around NK? To get a missile to a target that's free of people in international waters, you have to fly through at least one country's airspace.
I don't know how many will self-identify as FB engineers on here, but there's no shortage of them on the Blind app who'll quickly answer your Q's.
full movie : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nzij8x-604
I think so. One of the best programmers I know types quite slowly, often glancing down. He's the author of some very popular open-source work. Many thousands of programmers build on his code daily.
So if I buy VIX, I make money if the stock market goes up or down by a lot, but lose money if it remains stable? Can someone explain how that works?
I have to say, this article comes off as pretty biased. Gauging the future of VR by comparing it to social / mobile gaming adoption is a false comparison and just makes the author look dumb.

First of all, the author mainly writes about mobile and social games, so she obviously has no interest in VR and has probably never even tried it. Unfortunately for those on the fence about VR, she's painted an unfair and bleak picture. That's unfortunate for them because they may miss out on something quite fun and interesting.

I was a VR skeptic right up until two weeks ago when I tried a friend's DK3 and have since purchased a CV1 during the summer sale event. I was not a gamer beforehand, but the immersion of VR has sucked me in. That fact that you have to move to play is what makes it fun.
One thing that I'd point out is that this comes entirely from the press rather than the startup - we see ourselves in a totally different sub-industry from Theranos (Athelas is a single type of blood test, at-home device, specifically for oncology patients, and a totally different technology). Really the only common word is "blood", but unfortunately I think that often gets drowned out in the media
The big companies gave up on it. Google, Facebook, etc.

Everyone wants their product to be the new hotness. See the copying of stickers, voice messages, and payments from Chinese/Japanese messaging products. Or how Skype became a Snapchat clone.