skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And recall, you're playing Game of Thrones with nuclear material, so there will likely be no winning that.

Best case would likely be China just annexing the whole country and imposing martial law for the next ~30 years. At least people would be more likely to get fed, and the nukes would be safe-ish.
First of all, if there's a regime change towards democracy, there's no business with China. South Korea will liberate and take care of their emasculated, starved, brutalized relatives in North Korea. Not China, the one that's been supporting the brutalization of all of the people in North Korea.
It's stretching into off-topic land here, but could you suggest any AWS SSL resources that are worth investigating?
Better to change the link to the actual press release from MAPS http://www.maps.org/news/media/6786-press-release-fda-grants...

Also better for anyone who supports this to donate to MAPS or another psychedelic research institute of your choosing!
China enforces real-name registration to regulate online comments
Hypercard Archeostackology
Metroboards - priced around or under boosted price. Built like tanks. Not as sleek looking.

Meepo - ~350 shipped, as fast as boosted. Not as much torque as boosted but at least one boosted owner on r/electric skateboarding has commented that it is surprisingly capable of climbing hills. Con - not much info about reliability

Pulse echo- another new seller with hub motors - uses high quality motor controllers ~700 bucks

Raptor 2 - priced under boosted for now I think. Beastly hub motors (about 30 mph).

The space is getting really competitive so there are many more great options. R/electricskateboarding is ok for suggestions but the real knowledgeable people hang out at electricskateboard.builders
That would be amazing.
Sure, if there never was something before hooked to a car battery. Or if the material would have to be kryptonite. $86 Million is just a way way way to high number for such a project. Of course the 57 lines here won't do it in production and I acknowledge a certain need for R&D but this number is just too high.
Maybe R needs transducers.

https://clojure.org/reference/transducers

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26317325/can-someone-exp...
How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (2015)
I don't know if such community exists, but it could be really fun to have weekly scraping challenges and have the possibility to compare them to other's solutions.
Yup. IN fact, our application was locked-in patients. SSVEP BCI "works", but only if you can foveate on the target, which means you can move your eyes, which means you should use an eye tracker.
What were the before/after performance and load numbers? Your post mentions that data-refresh frequency was an issue, but doesn't mention what sort of problems it caused. Would love to hear how the move affected query perf
He is afraid he has to answer to the Coca Cola company.
I used to use third party desktop & mobile chat clients for facebook and hangouts, both via XMPP. Then I guess they realized how much user data they were missing out on by not excluding third-party apps and dropped support.
Kim in the North: winter's coming!
Don't know right off

But for all the things he's done which we're pretty repulsive, what he was "caught" on reminds me of getting Al Capone in tax evasion...and not for murder, illegal liquor sales, etc
> sklearn does not claim to be a platform for computer vision models.

There are more than a dozen image classification and segmentation examples on the scikit-learn gallery:

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/index.html
The far right is losing its ability to speak freely online
Interesting may I ask location and positions you're looking at filling?
The "high" people experience at recreational doses can take any number of forms depending on the circumstances. Enjoyment of repetitive music is certainly among them, and so is intense enjoyment of borderline-sexual behaviour. But even in a club setting, many people tend to get intensely open about their feelings. I'm no expert on PTSD, but I believe therapy is almost always limited by our reluctance to open up, especially about personal issues that we consider embarrassing, shameful, or that could be considered vulnerabilities.

The really interesting thing is that these effects somehow persist beyond the acute trip. The experience seems to include learning, i.e. the patient experiences positive emotions while (and possibly because of) connecting with people, and sees that any fears they may have had do not materialise (i.e. judgement). As a consequence they tend to become more open in everyday life, and especially with the therapist they shared this experience with.

I'd love to read some therapists' experiences. For them, it must be quite an exhilarating experience as well–just imagine how you'd feel if you suddenly became 10x as effective as your job.
In addition, Navy ships are by comparison to container and tanker traffic, ridiculously maneuverable. They are by comparison, ridiculously overstaffed. The John McCain has a crew of 281. A tanker/container will have a crew of ~25.
I'm interested in getting an eboard. can you name some of the better competitors? particularly faster.
Building on this stuff is Scott Aaronson's "Eigenmorality": https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1820
If the fields are changing then you effectively have DDL and migrations in your code already... so decouple them and version the schema officially. Then record these schema changes as events in the same event stream.

Build a view on against these schema change events as a table of schema version by timestamp to allow for parsing any arbitrary event.
Homeland yes. I'm assuming they would attack somewhere in East Asia, almost certainly Japan or South Korea.
Less damage than Allison?????? I lived through Allison and currently going through Harvey. There is absolutely no comparison. In Allison it was localized destruction. With Harvey, every area of the city ( and well beyond of course ) has incredible damage.

In other words, with Harvey, all the same places have damage as Allison, plus many more.

Your comment just does not make sense on any level.
I'm not sure the license plate scanner is the one to blame here. Since when does stealing a car carry a death sentence?
Indeed - the more visible research papers about amphetamine-related neurotoxicity in rodents reported most effects when the temperature in the brain exceeded 40 degrees - contributing towards massive oxidative stress.

Is oxidative-stress the only mechanism of neurotoxic action, or are there other effects at work, such as dopamine-downregulation or exhaustion?
That's correct. Please be safe, and evacuate if the order comes, even if it's a voluntary evac order.
Why Men Don't Believe the Data on Gender Bias in Science
Better yet, allow identity checks for reference types only. Value types don't have identity, per se, so the operation should be meaningless for them.
I think a very significant risk of MDMA use has more to do with the difficulty of getting pure, uncut MDMA. Methamphetamine or some of the designer drug alternatives is frequently cut into MDMA to save money because drug dealers are drug dealers.
Even though they peacefully complied with the officer.

Oh, wait.
Author here, hi HN/Reddit.

I had hoped I'd made it clear enough, but by no means am I recommending something I cobbled together in an hour on the couch be rolled out as a competitor to BlueNet. I mean shit, I'm web scraping their database and using compressed footage from cheap dashcams. The algorithm is also untrained.

I was, on the other hand, hoping to promote healthy discussion and pose some good questions related to IT procurement here in Australia. There needs to be a happy medium between what I've wired up and an $86M solution.

For a full disclaimer, many many years ago I did work on various Victoria Police IT projects in a previous company. While our projects were delivered on time and on budget, we did hear some horror stories about what the multinational consulting firms were charging.
If the desire is to fill index-type ETFs at the market price, yeah, Robinhood is probably not smart. Vanguard is simply better for that. I wonder how the fills are at limit stops? Slower? Don't know who they clear through.

Robinhood seems like a great fit for the person who has maxed a Roth and wants a brokerage to hold on to ETFs across low-ER providers, like Charles Schwab and iShares ETFs + Vanguard ETFs as they accumulate capital.

Beyond that I can't see using it for trading or anything. If I was slanging options or speculating long/short through retail brokers, I'd be doing it on Interactive Brokers and nowhere else. (And yes, I know Robinhood doesn't do short-side work.)
The problem with that plan is that China has only marginally more control over Kim than we do. He's a rogue from their perspective too, and their ability to effect a "regime change" is limited by the same "don't poke the nuclear nutjob" problem we have.
Ask HN: How to Receive Critical Feedback Constructively?
Our company is moving away from stack X towards stack Y. A senior level stack X developer has been invited to critique our plan and to provide feedback. I will be the main contact for this and I feel this input will be the most critical and, as such, very valuable even though they do not have experience with stack Y.

I am concerned about emotions, dogmas, and other human things preventing this session from being as productive as possible. I plan to actively avoid becoming defensive and instead to focus more on asking questions.

What other advice can you offer?
Seems like you'd be revealing capabilities. That said if I were making decisions in Japan I'd give serious thought to just sending a missile over North Korea into the Yellow Sea.
The trouble with that analysis is that "self-sustaining" doesn't inherently imply large or bureaucratic or inefficient. It's possible for a large inefficient bureaucracy to be replaced by a more efficient self-sustaining system with less centralization.

The bureaucracy can fight but it can also lose. Blockbuster Video is no longer a thing that exists because of market pressure. Standard Oil was broken up because of political pressure. There have existed countries that, following the conclusion of a major war, actually disbanded the majority of their military forces, both voluntarily and due to external force. Countries have revolutions where the revolutionaries win and then exile or execute the previous ruling bureaucrats.

In theory the same thing can happen through the democratic process, although this is obviously less common because bureaucracies have a solid understanding of how to subvert electoral opposition.
Ask HN: What is your hiring process for developers?
We're a small team of 5 and want to grow our dev team by 2 (ideally local, but we're open to remote).

In the past, some of our hires weren't the best fit and we had to part ways, wasting everyone's time. I see this as a problem with our process.

What is your process? How do you ensure you're letting in the RIGHT people?
> A $90 eye tracker worked an order of magnitude better and three orders faster.

For VR, you could even just use the headset's forward-vector, making it like Cardboard's 'look to select' interface.
I understand. I asked for the "largest/most successful 'traditional' tech company that used an ICO" (totally outside of fintech) -- a company shipping products, like a hoverboard or whatever.

I take your response to mean that you don't know of a single ("traditional") tech company outside of fintech or blockchain-related technology that has used ICO's instead of angellist/VC's investors. But your response makes it clear that this will happen in the future.

I hope I have this right? Thank you.
Well as I see it, two trends contributed to it. Rise of high performance COMPUTING - Linux and C++ are growing and they tend to require C as well. Another one is Python and ML where you need to drop to C to get performance in tight parts of your application.
The Movidius Stick supports the Raspberry Pi now as a deployment (not development) option, so you can get low power and high speed inference on a single RPi. I have one of these on my desk and they're neat but I haven't done much with it yet. I did grab one because I had heard it would support RPis, though.

Granted, it's 2x the price of a Rpi 3. All together that's about $100 USD. And NVidia just announced the TX1 SE Devkit at $200 USD. I have a TX2, but the TX1 will definitely do better at a higher power/size profile.

The MCS only supports Caffe as well, while the TX1/TX2 will support a wider array of DL frameworks (as well as FP16 support since it's a Tegra).
>not update until input or app state changes

That's the hard part that callbacks try to make easier.
It sounds good in theory. In practice, I haven't heard much around running backwards migrations on a data warehouse / massive collection of events but I'm sure some out there already do it.
Growing up, you must have known people older than yourself - be they schoolteachers, coworkers, academic professors - who seems to be "with it" who accepted and embraced change. I wondered what made them to be like that compared to the crotchety elders we've known, who are very resistant to change.

Is it merely attitude, or does neuroplasticity come into it? I'm not even old yet (at least I don't think so) but I remember my mind being very resistant to adopting git over SVN and TFS because it was so different to what I was using and "if it ain't broken..." but now I love it. That experience has taught me to persevere: to not criticise something until I understand it, but what if I'm unable to understand something in future? Can I maintain a healthy mental state in that situation?
“iGen” by Jean M. Twenge: The kids aren’t all right?
I spent a bunch of time with design teams. Some SOC, some standalone memory, some memory compilers.

I could definitely see the value in having a plug & play design flow.
By the way, that's not a 10% increase in individual performance, but rather a 10% increase in relative performance for your weight. People on PEDs will usually move up a weight class from increased muscle mass.

Edit: See here for a really detailed comparison from someone who knows what he's talking about: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/steroids-and-strength-diff...
New Uber CEO Khosrowshahi Faces Daunting Fix-It List
Oh come on. Not all heavy-handed regulation would pass a cost-benefit analysis. Nor does it cost 80 million to run some POCs and QA on a project like this.

At nearly 400,000 AUD per vehicle, the question should be what better opportunities to help people did the Australian Govt pass up in order to engage this project?
Does anyone know where these trials might take place, and if non-veterans would be eligible?
And sufficient money and other resources.

I'm all for national governments making their own hardware not subject to backdoors installed by other national governments, but there's a huge difference in capability between Russia and, say, Lebanon.
> remember human vision is 570+ megapixels

This seems to come from http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html

But that number is a calculation of the maximum resolving power of the human eye filled across a 120 degree field of view. The fovea is the only portion of the retina that actually attains that acuity and it encompasses roughly 2 degrees in the center of the retina.

There are roughly 120 million rod cells and 6 million cone cells in the retina. The rod cells for color vision and cone cells for low light. As each individual rod cell is primarily sensitive to one of red, green or blue they match fairly well to the rgb channels of a pixel. So the eye could be considered to provide data roughly equivalent to a 40 megapixel color image and grayscale 6 megapixel. So ~5 times a 4k image.

Edit: And even that actually over estimates the amount of data the brain is actually processing. A 4k 60 fps video is handled by 6Gbps and the human optic nerve only has roughly 8.75Mbps of bandwidth.
Yeah, I think the big problem is trying to come up with the one big issue and change that, as if that will not have a whole bunch of issues.

People want one answer on what the problem is, because then the most amount of people can understand it in a tweet. They don't want complicated solutions. You say it yourself, it is one problem.
Then there's the 0 model for sharding - don't shard, just replicate everything, everywhere, with eventual consistency and MVCC
Also: where are the self-driving attorneys? A very constrained problem domain where all the answers can be looked up in books, prior cases etc. Vastly expensive human drivers needs at present. No chance of killing anyone. We should have armies of automated lawyers already, no?
But the tokens are not equity. Its not like "Kickstarter or your favorite JOBS act crowdfunding service" can't give you a little digital token (on blockchain or off blockchain) next to the equity or next to whatever you get on Kickstarter and then the business can claim you have a token to sell as protection if your not happy with the team's progress.
I found this book really helpful: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful...

Uses Design Thinking to help get a better idea of what you want to do.

One thing I took away is that these decisions are rarely a fork/black-white. There are lots of things you can explore these spaces. Find the smallest possible exploration, take a look and see if you get excited. Could be as simple as doing a course, talking to people in the field, etc. Build from there.
>I'm less worried about NK missiles than I am about a boat with an NK nuke on board, detonated in a harbor

How does North Korea benefit from an attack like that? The regime isn't suicidal, every move they make is to strengthen their own position.
Yes, the Greatest Generation were pretty hard core, growing up in a depression of which the only escape was to fight the Nazi and Imperial Japan war machines (and I guess Mussolini too).
> Retaliating with precision strikes takes too long.

The US has airbases in the area. Precision strikes won't take nearly as long as you think.

> Retaliating with massive force (the "Trump" option) is absolutely not an option. Like the previous response, it would be completely unacceptable to the rest of the world

I don't think this is true. See the US in the middle east.

> you would now be in a war with China who has to contend with a flood of refugees from a destroyed country.

China has stated that if NK launches the first strike, it will stay neutral, so no war with China. South Korea has planned for reunification for a very long time and has an enormous fund to help deal with it so though the flood of refugees is a serious problem, it's not unresolvable.
When I worked at DoD, it was explained to me with an analogy of monkeys and ladders. You have a ladder, and at the top is a bunch of bananas. You rope the ladder with electrical tape, so that any monkey who attempts to climb is shocked. Eventually, the monkeys will socialize and prevent each other from climbing the ladder.

What's interesting is that this will continue even after you remove the electrical wire.
Would it be possible to make functions generic over coroutines/async?

One of the worst parts of async is there's an infectious duplication of pretty much all library code where there are separate sync/async versions of everything. See C# DoXxx() & DoXxxAsync() everywhere, where the only difference between the two implementations are an annotation and some keywords sprinkled throughout. If rust can do the same thing without doubling the code/api surface/documentation across all libraries that would allay the fears of many opponents.
I don't know... I think the clarity with which we see the past is illusory and that it comes from reading the over-simplified accounts of the victors.
isn't it because the officer type wrong license? i thought the scanner purpose is to minimize human error like this
Exactly, the fault lies with the trigger-happy police, not with the software.
This sort of thing doesn't really happen in Aus. I could see someone getting arrested and spending a night in jail unnecessarily or maaaaaaybe tased (and to be clear, whether we consider this a fair price to pay is a different question), but police rarely shoot people here.
This is part of why I send email in plain text. HTML is probably not going away any time soon, but plain text has been around several decades longer at least.
Great article, loved it.
I have also been a long time vim user, who recently converted to spacemacs(< 1yr). It has good sensible defaults and i can still customize my emacs. I am also using it for email(mu4e) and some todo management(org-mode).

The biggest inconvenience with elisp(imo) is the lack of namespace, especially for an editor. If only it had something like common-lisp packages.
Edge of Darkness is superb. As dark as anything in, say, Breaking Bad.
What Do the Most Successful Open Source Projects Have in Common?
The government is still full of crazy people...
Ask HN: DevOps portfolio to impress
If you were looking to hire a DevOps professional, what would you be most impressed by?

A video showing an example for a complete CI/CD deployment? Articles? Cloud certifications? The interview alone?
The end of moores law?
Reminds me of rubber duck debugging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
But unlike the NTSB, the military still routinely blames "pilot error" to cover up problems with terrible aircraft designs.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/01/29/billows-of-dus...
That is it. China has full control over its huge border to NK. No way for them to import missile parts unless China is OK with that. Everything of value that NK has and that its elite enjoys is imported from China: Cars, buses, flat-screen TVs, mobile phones...

Plus, China could cut or reduce the oil/gas supply any day to zero.... if they wanted.
- Cheap omnidirectional treadmills

- Haptic touch feedback through gloves

These are the final two pieces, in my opinion. Well those and making the hardware smaller.
What, because East Asians are incapable of armed insurgency?

Are you forgetting the Viet Cong so quickly?
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that you should not be able to sell arbitrary securities to the general public.

If you assume that everyone is an informed, rational actor, then the rules are silly. I would argue that this is an incorrect assumption.
Well he already backed off on his Guam threats. How much credibilty does that gain him with his generals, and how did Trump misplay that exactly?
So do a kickstarter and offer a digital token in addition to whatever you claim to be offering, then the funder have a token to sell when they aren't happy or think you will fail to deliver. And I am not sure that is a selling point, "hey you have an immediately transferable token you can sell at floating prices on a secondary market, if or when you feel we won't deliver."

And what justifies these tokens you are offering having such a variable price? They aren't tied to the company equity or actual success of the company, but for your inability to launch when they would become completely valueless, in fact you claim they are a utility transferable for data but why would the price of the product/data being offered fluctuate other than speculation of a blockchain based crypto coin separate having nothing to so with the alleged utility.
inches-thick steel

Lead would probably work better.