skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WWII and the Korean War were not instigated by the military-industrial complex as such. (Although of course the Korean situation has been preserved and worsened by their constant input...)

The 1st Gulf War resulted in USA troops occupying Saudi. That was the pretext for 9/11, a decade later, and all of the ensuing disasters. I'm not saying that Iraq couldn't have been ejected from Kuwait in a manner that was on balance beneficial, but that's not what happened. Even deterrence is constantly undercut by decisions that benefit the complex while harming USA citizens (as well as everyone else on earth). Libya was for a moment an argument for deterrence, until we said, "thanks for getting rid of all your weapons Muammar, now here's a bayonet up your ass!" DPRK love to talk about that episode...

Wars are not popular, without massive media efforts to make them so. Fortunately, as we've seen in Syria, that button gets less effective every time the war pigs press it.
Tangentially related, but I am really disappointed in how little actual renewal the "revival" brought about. Except in extremely concentrated urban cores like in Manhattan almost every city is still by far dominated by 20s style row houses that stalled out the renewal process (because the yuppies that were moving into cores had no interest in those).

Gentrification and renewal came to blows right in the middle and left what was probably the greatest blemish on the urban unchanged... because those were where the actual poverty was all along in the first place. The urban cores that got "renewed" were never squalor and dilapidation - they might not have been as trendy, but city centers have too much general access to be that useless no matter the popular trends. Unless you have a city like Detroit they just cannot degrade that much.

Which really means all this hype about renewal is really just vapid air. Nobody is putting big money into actually innovating on the city concept, its all about buying politicians for favorable zoning over actually making anything lasting and meaningful out of the interest in urban renewal.
> Similarly, try and make a PV solar cell without coal in the value chain. You can't (I can).

What do you mean by "(I can)"?
Here is some research: https://wedocs.unep.org/rest/bitstreams/11700/retrieve

Page 93 has some specifics on recorded incidence of plastic ingestion among certain species.
Sure, instead of destroying climate indirectly by heating atmosphere, let's destroy it directly by blocking wind paths.

Last time it happened, it created the largest desert in the world - just look at the effect Himalayas had on Sahara.
> France and/or Germany would love a EU processor

I think a EU processor should use layered security[0]. And this is not really SoC silicon level but have a system with 3 cpu's(x86/64, arm, msp/avr).

This can enable a workstation/server(x86), firewall(arm), usb and other io filtering(msp/avr) "architecture".

Yes this will need custom development and the price will be higher. But what price can u put on the security of the state?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layered_security
I think that's both naive and wishful thinking. Like a BSD vs GPL argument, one can have many definitions of what constitutes freedom.

Is BSD more free because it places no restrictions, or is the GPL more free because it guarantees freedom to those further on in the chain?

I'm not going to attempt an answer because it's the stuff of decades of internet flamewars. Similarly I don't think that libertarian freedoms are necessarily the only definitions, particularly as they seem to enshrine ownership of land and property as absolute, which come at a cost to the freedoms of others to make use of land or possessions. (I'm not looking for a debate on why that may or may not be right or wrong, simply to establish that what makes someone or something the most free is not 100% clear cut)

So no, we can't really agree on a definition of free or freely.
> No API is non-opinionated.

It's the difference between AppCache and Service Worker.

AppCache is very easy to write, very easy to read, has a nice and simple API. It's just the wrong API, so it's functionally almost useless.

Service Worker's API is more complex because it has hooks for the user to efficiently express exactly what they need. It's less easy to write, and less easy to read, but it's flexible enough that basically every site on the web could make good use out of having a Service Worker.

Most people won't write against the Service Worker API directly, they'll use a library.

You might say that this is a flaw of the API, that it's too complex or verbose for most users to use directly, but I think there's another angle to it. There can be many libraries and those libraries can iterate quickly. There can be only so many specs, and those specs necessarily iterate slowly.
Are you talking about Obesity Code? I find it to be quite convincing, he uses many studies to debunk the calories in calories out paradigm and provides ample evidence that obesity is a hormonal problem.
Ok, this is reasonable.

However, it doesn't seem to be the central issue to me. The app could be rewritten to use the public (possibly undocumented) interface, that we all use on the web.

But it seems like issues would still exist then? Seems like Apple would still remove the app. Or is that not the case?
>LINQ

Ehhh...something as simple as a left-outer join is near ungrokkable for me in LINQ. Cross apply / lateral join on a table-valued function? Forget about it.

Not to mention - due to the way LINQ works a lot of errors that seem like they should be caught at compile time don't get caught until run time (e.g. you wrote something in a where clause that can't be translated to SQL).
Unfortunately there's no real downside to eating people's battery. 99.9% of people just aren't going to know why, just that their battery dies faster.
Custom elements is like an API of six methods `connectedCallback`, `disconnectedCallback`, attributeChangedCallback`, `adoptedCallback`, `attributes` and `register`. I don't see why this must nescessarily be compared with React or Vue any more than `appendChild` or `inserBefore` or any of the other DOM APIs. High level frameworks use the current DOM APIs now and they will surely use the new APIs in the future, but that doesn't mean that you have to use them, that's in fact the whole selling point of React and Vue.

You can use custom elements in React and you can even use React in custom elements, so they are not designed to be competing technologies. Quite the opposite.
I believe pdf.js is newer than the Chrome PDF viewer.
And then fund more loans on those loans. Like fractional reserve banking.
The issue you ran into is not specific to Cloudflare; in particular, Let's Encrypt will not help you work around it.

The problem is that ancient (pre-2006) versions of the TLS protocol provided no way for the client to tell the server, before authenticating, which hostname it wanted to talk to. So there could be only one certificate (and therefore, in practice, no more than 100 hostnames) per IP address, which made the use of HTTPS on shared hosting impossible. If you wanted HTTPS, you had to get your own static IP, which is what costs $20 per month (and you can't get it that much cheaper anywhere else).

Server Name Indication is a newer extension to the TLS protocol which solves this problem by letting the client specify, when initiating the negotiation, which hostname it wants to talk to. So HTTPS on shared hosting is now possible...unless you need to support truly ancient clients (most notably Windows XP) that are stuck with outdated TLS implementations that don't support SNI. Considering that XP doesn't even get security fixes anymore, and pretty much all clients newer than Windows Vista support SNI now, and running software that old is really not safe (Vista doesn't get security fixes anymore either), I don't think I'd have any qualms about telling those users that they need to upgrade.
You have a trailing * leading to a 404 on the second citation. Try this: http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/10/a-story-about-fish-plasti...
Kind of a sloppily-written article, tbh. The stats are good, but the shift at the last paragraph to "why we should care" is very weak. And while, yes, I'm sure the White House's policies aren't doing urban revival any favors, it seems to me that we collectively need to stop freaking out every time the wind changes direction. Who's to say that whatever artificial incentives we create to shore up city populations won't have unintended consequences of their own?
The only problem is variability. I know that many places have fairly stable wind 99% if the time, but it's the absolute lowest you need to worry about.

If we are to rely on wind as a power source, we either have to only rely on its lowest output or else rely on its typical output, but have a second source that can be easily scaled up and down. The problem is that the good sources of energy that can scale up and down well and cheaply are coal and natural gas.

Nuclear, by contrast, works best when is outputting constant amounts of energy.
Thanks igravious for helping a brotha out!
"What menu icon?"

I've tried; three parallel lines in a flat UI do not indicate "menu" to a great many users; including myself, at one point in time.
Donald Trump’s bad history lesson
You said dong energy.
Yeah tech people try all the same diet and exercise things that everyone else does.
I think it's about time I go public with my experiences in USA society.
Also, have you read Norbert Weiner's Cybernetics? I think he had parts of information theory there before Shannon

I want to understand his work on random processes too, have just kind of scanned the book and have tried to upgrade my calculus
Any market given the space to develop becomes highly vetted. Somalia's during its civil war didn't work because there was no central authority providing security and preventing raiders from pillaging markets, so markets didn't have the opportunity to become highly developed.

There is no chance that supermarket shelves would be stocked with toxic/fraudulent food products in our world of secure private property rights, with or withouy food safety regulations. There is an elaborate chain of private interests involved in food production/distribution that would self-organize to prevent such an outcome. McDonalds uses higher standards for its beef than the USDA for example. Automobile manufacturers have higher safety standards than regulations require.

>>That's just bullshit. You are a religious cult at this point.

I recommend some introspection.
Do you think solar panels also change climate by taking the sunlight away from the otherwise heated earth?
ok, to those who didn't get my point.
Everyone is certainly entitled to make up their own definition of "legitimate". However, as long as we are all speaking English, we can agree on what legitimate means. And it means the following:

le·git·i·mate
adjective
adjective: legitimate
ləˈjidəmət/
1.
conforming to the law or to rules.
"his claims to legitimate authority"

so, it's great to have a learned opinion on filecoin's tech, but its irrelevant to the discussion of whether filecoin is a legitimate business
Thanks, I was having trouble with italicizing things :)
Maybin's 3-run homer leads Astros over Mets 8-6
Is there any reason to believe that those factors would not apply?
pingdom's insight is interesting:

Other	43.1 %	20.36 KB
Script	30.9 %	14.62 KB
Image	15.5 %	7.33 KB
CSS	5.3 %	2.52 KB
HTML	5.1 %	2.40 KB

Split out between:

Image	25.0 %	2
Script	25.0 %	2
Other	25.0 %	2
HTML	12.5 %	1
CSS	12.5 %	1

So just 8 requests to build the page. 14.05 KB of the javascript is google analytics, so likely cached in the browser already.

Nice, small, simple = quick :)
Nope.

The original remark was made with the hope of getting someone else to read Foucault. Not so much a fan as a fellow traveler though, since my sympathies are more in line with the Jacques Ellul / Ivan Illych direction.
It was bespoke: a proprietary system that essentially used an append-only file containing each transaction request and response.
There are so many incidental factors that it's very hard to form a practical conclusion from such studies. I find the only way to approach this is similar to a neural network with a very slow learning rate: each data point nudges my understanding at a weight determined by how credible, objective, and applicable to me (because everyone is different) the study seems.

I see no other way than to ultimately treat this as a soft science rather than a hard one, focusing on qualitative takeaways, and sometimes taking away a "consideration" rather than a conclusion, e.g. "there's a chance eggs might ultimately be bad, best not overdo it; rice contains arsenic, it's probably best to get rice produced in low-arsenic places, and follow a soaking/rinsing procedure before eating it..."
There is really one one reason cities are not gaining population as fast (or they are losing it) as they have been relatively recently: the astronomical cost of living in major urban centers. The article points this out, but I think it's conclusion, that urban revival is over because of this, is pretty odd. Prices are so high because there are still way more people that want to live in central cities than there is housing. If the urban revival were truly over, so many people wouldn't want to live there.
> He said "Oh that guy - he was weird, always riding a unicycle around". Turns out my neighbor attended MIT.

I bet that most top science/engineering schools have some interesting eccentric characters like that. A book collecting the stories of such people could be interesting.

For example, at Caltech when I was there in the late 70s and early 80s there was a guy in his 60s people called "Renaissance Ralph" because he was usually wearing a tutu and purple pantyhose that put one in mind of some kind of jester. He'd hang around the library and sit in on lectures, and most people had no idea who he was. We just figured he was some local eccentric who enjoyed attending science lectures.

The school paper ran a story about him and told us who he was. He was Edward E. Simmons, born in 1911. He got a B.S. degree from Caltech in 1934 and an M.S. in 1936, and then continued at Caltech. In 1938 he invented the strain gauge. Caltech claimed the patent rights, but Simmons sued and won the rights.

That made him a lot of money, and he apparently retired to a life of just hanging around Pasadena and indulging his sartorial eccentricities until he died in 2004 at the age of 93 from prostate cancer.

Here's some information about him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_E._Simmons

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=79907...
We've updated the link from the second page to the first.
if they don't want to hold there are payment processors that convert instantly to fiat, that argument is invalid.
More high rises are needed. American cities have too low density. America should learn from Hongkong and Shenzhen
i was always wondering how a pin hole protects you, and i mean im sure i could have looked it up but just, really wasnt important. dude that tid bit made my day - the more you know
Scary stuff.

Also, can anyone tell me why the other reply to the parent is dead? It was a completely relevant response that, I assume, was downvoted because it mentioned something that Trump did in a positive way.
I think if you ask 10 people on the street which definition of freedom is correct, all 10 of them would agree with mine. But in any case, you know what I mean by 'freedom'. I've given enough context to make that clear. My conception of freedom, by any other name, would still be my conception of freedom. What word you want to assign to is immaterial to the essence of my point.

I don't feel this discussion can proceed constructively anymore.
Sure, at the start some of the weight loss will be glycogen, and later some of it will be protein. Those aren't as energy dense as fat, but they still have a significant caloric content.

The point remains: If you're losing more than 1 lbs/day and you're not running an ultramarathon (or equivalent), you're almost certainly getting dehydrated.
What other quality pen could one recommend if I would like to get one and not spend a fortune on ones like these? By no means they look and feel probably great, but I'm simply not in their target market. However, from my young years I remember owning few Parker pens, few Pelikan and one or two Waterman. I remember enjoying ones with a 'buttery smooth' writing feeling most (don't really know how to describe it other way) and hating scraping pointy ones. I don't care about gold finish at all, but solid wood or not-cheap plastic would be great.
When I tried to open a bank account having just moved to the UK, Barclays wanted me to wait two weeks for an appointment. HSBC had me signed up with money in my account on the same day. My debit card worked in a week.
Reminds me of those horror stories about PayPal.

You can always start a website like this one:

http://www.paypalsucks.com/
I fast at least 6 days/year for religious reasons. 3 are 12 hour fasts, and 3 are 25 hour fasts. It really does feel good, and I don't think it's harmful. I'm very consciousness about my weight in general, and this is accomplished by strict calorie counting.

You'll notice that the vast majority Silicon Valley CEOs are not overweight, and I believe it is an unspoken "filter" they use to judge a person (whether this is right/just/moral is another story). There seems to be a belief that if a person isn't disciplined enough to be in charge of his hunger, then he's not disciplined.

> At 5’11” and 165lbs, Woo doesn’t need to lose weight, although he did drop 12lbs over the week.

Well, I'm an inch shorter and 15# less. I don't think 5'11 and 165 is particularly skinny!
Linode credit card info has been hacked so many times that I'm not surprised that HSBC is doing this.

For any other service, I'd be upset if my bank did this, but Linode is quite literally the least secure paid service I've ever used. I've had multiple credit cards compromised as a direct result of multiple Linode hacks.
yes, but both latency and throughput are "performance", and microservices worsen latency.
The old counters recorded every visitor. FB likes record only FB users who are logged in, wish to share the page, and bother clicking the button. Huge difference, no correlation.

As a final thought... At least Twitter invented a word for their sharing action, "retweet". Facebook just stole "like" and "thumbs up". I don't remember those things being up for sale.
Adding to the 'from scratch' list...

- build a simple virtual machine (pair with compiler)

- build a distributed storage system (perhaps like S3)

- build a traditional file system, perhaps as a FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace)

- build a job scheduler (bonus: distributed cluster work scheduler)

- build a memory allocator and/or a garbage collector

- build a web server

- build a crypto package (for learning only; don't really do this!)
Hadoop and SQL aren't even in the same use case category.
As for SPARC, Oracle does seem to have invested heavily, in part because of the elaborate self-delusion that Ellison seemed to have that he could develop magical database hardware that would somehow repeal the laws of physics.

Any idea what (if any) the academic or other foundations of this delusion were & how far Oracle got before cutting their losses? Rock seems to have been suffocated before the ink on the acquisition was dry so I'm assuming that's not it.

I love reading about the dead-end roads of computer engineering, especially those that had a few gigadollars driven down them.
I have many times. Bank transfers can take hours or days but BTC shows up instantly and is proven permanently immutable after a few blocks (20-40 minutes)
"See those three horizontal lines?"

"Yeah"

"People are calling those a hamburger"

"Cool. I see it, buns and a patty. What next?"

"It's signage for the thing you do to get a menu of options and settings. Now click the hamburger...."

That's how I have always done it. Bring things up with context so they are always getting a little bit of UX culture along the way.

Frankly, I hate flat design. The visual hints are a very good thing, and I have found explaining them once multiplies through all future interactions.

This crap requires a lot more fundamental explanation a lot more of the time.

As far as I'm concerned, flat is a regression. Maybe it's more efficient, but just in machine terms. It's not in human terms.
Don't bury the lede!

> In the best cases the maintainers of the affected software take the bug triggering sample and use it in their test suite. I think this should be a standard practice.

> ... maintainers of parsers for common file formats could also take a look at their competitors and check their test suites.
> If they were so great it would have caught on in the US, but it didn’t.

The US is not at the centre of the world.
thats a really good question, unfortunately everything I learned was by working with people who knew more than I did. its pretty sad that alot of systems work is that way.

this book looks to be pretty comprehensive, and explicitly discusses on-disk structures, write ahead logging, and recovery.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html

relational languages and transactions get alot more playin the academy..i think its because you can make sense of them in some abstract way without getting sucked into involved discussions about caching heuristics and OS write guarentees, scheduling and fussy performance characteristics
We need to talk a lot more about fiction.

The Little Engine That Could and The Grapes of Wrath are good and all...
Welcome to the new world, where https only purpose is to prevent the browser from telling visitors your site is not secure.
> You are ten years too late.

As in, what I want has been working for ten years?

I'm obviously not late at all, since websites still won't let me delegate my auth.
Yeah, I remembered it as 4 turbines, but it looks like it's 5. So as I said, it's a test farm. But yes, it's real, production-size turbines, not small scale models. I should have clarified that, sorry.

I don't think anyone is going to build a major farm until this one has been running for a couple of years. And they've figured out how to cut costs. Happy to be proven wrong, of course. :)

Statoil isn't the only company working on floating foundations, by the way, although I think they are by far farthest along when it comes to actually putting a big one into production.

For instance, the former CTO of Siemens Wind Power is working on a design. He's going for standard components and as cheap as possible. I wouldn't be surprised to see that in a test production in a couple of years.
Why so many sites depend on JavaScript from external domains?
Browsing web without Javascript is sort of a blessing: there are almost zero advertisements and the experience is often noticeably faster. For sites that require Javscript such as SPA-s, I can always add an exception to my NoScript plugin.

However, many sites that don't work without Javascript, include scripts from other domains belonging to Google, Facebook and plethora of advertisement platforms. All of them are known for tracking and profiling users in order to exploit their data for monetary reasons.

My question is that what are the technical justifications of loading a script from external server?

I can see more cons than pros:

+ browser can cache the file and when multiple sites use the same file, the experience will be faster as there is no reason to download the file more than once,
+ it is easier to copy-paste the URL of the dependency rather than download and host it yourself.

- when the external service goes down, so does your site,
- external services can and will track your visitors,
- as a developer, you cannot view your own site in local machine when offline
- the external domains may be blocked by your ISP or country
- people with NoScript plugin have to review every domain you download your script from to see if it can be trusted ;)
I made ipconfig.exe into Serverless function with Docker