skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really should watch before judging. On the Gulf of Tonkin, this is how Burns describes the first incident involving the Maddox:

"The commander of a North Vietnamese torpedo-boat squadron moved to attack the Maddox. The Americans opened fire and missed. North Vietnamese torpedoes also missed. But carrier-based U.S. planes damaged two of the North Vietnamese boats and left a third dead in the water."

That pretty clearly states that the Maddox fired first - it doesn't even describe it as a 'warning shot', but rather a 'miss'. He also says that "Johnson knew the attack had been provoked by the South Vietnamese raids on North Vietnam's islands".

Then on the second attack, he says

"No second attack ever happened, but at the time, anxious American sonar operators aboard the Maddox and Turner Joy
convinced themselves one had. The attack was probable but not certain, Johnson was told, and since it had probably occurred, the president decided it should not go unanswered."

This is interspersed with tape of Johnson and McNamara discussing how to react to a second attack, and discussion about how the North Vietnamese command had never authorized any attack on the Maddox.

What story of the Gulf of Tonkin were you hoping he would tell?
A similar thing happened to a Southwest B737 last year: http://avherald.com/h?article=49d2d7e3
How Postgres could index itself [video]
How long does a battery last without a way to recharge it?
> "Arrest quotas" is a bit like voter fraud. It's talked about a lot, there's heavy speculation, but there's little evidence showing it exists in any systemic form.

This is incorrect. Almost every law enforcement organization in the United States tracks the number of arrests made by each officer, and there is ample evidence that this information is used when making personnel and staffing decisions.

Also, many municipalities track arrests by organizational unit (in NYC it is per precinct), and when management (police chief) requires that mid-level management (commanding officer) "get their numbers up", you have exactly the same incentive to commit fraud that you see in places like Wells Fargo.

Also, rather than taking my word for it, you should look at the many, many, many, many news articles that have been done on the subject. There's the first google hit (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/NYPD-Lieutenant-Say...), feel free to look at the first 200 search results for corroborating reports.
def add(a, b):
return a + b

In a dynamically-typed language, you can't actually know if this dead-simple function will throw an exception, until you know the entire call graph leading up to where this function was called. That's fine in small scripts, but really freakin hard if you have call-stacks 10 levels deep.
AWS t2 instances pricing cut
Show HN: Heupr – automated GitHub issues assignment and project management
If you make $7tn from thin air and inject it into the economy, consumer price inflation will drastically rise, which for the most part ends up being a transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the owners of capital. All you will have done is make the rich richer as the cost of living rises by about $12k/person.
Yes, these are the kind of references I’m into.

What a lovely show.
Typically, fan blades failing are due to metallurgical defects during manufacturing. Not sure where you are getting poor servicing from.
This[0] is a good sample of what Dan Brown's writing feels like.

[0]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/dont-make-fun-of-re...
Shouldn't the title be the other way around...
$20 Fan replaces a $8M process
Well, perhaps it's only a theoretical minimum.

It agrees with kT ln 2 when T=0 right?
>Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

Read that.
HTTP is not obsolete, it might be outdated, but words have meaning and HTTP one of the most used protocols there is, calling it obsolete is silly.
Every single item you mention is discussed in great detail through the course of the series.
> All of which are open source == independently verifiable.

Sure, sure.

Independently verifiable. That's why we had the Debian OpenSSL PRNG fiasco [1]. Your reponse to deterministic builds? "Not needed, its open source after all, independently verifiable." Of course it is needed, just because its open source doesn't mean you can trust the provided binaries. Heck, there was a time where Debian didn't even sign .deb packages. Also, nevermind the spaghetti of OpenSSL and Heartbleed which lead to BoringSSL and LibreSSL.

Yet, its important to realize we don't assume malice here. We don't assume these people who did this were evil until we have substantial proof. Their track record and positions suggest such as well. We assume they're innocent (albeit, ignorant), and that is BTW also in the HN guidelines.

> Hilarious when people speak down to you like this. You're inflating my (very clear, i feel) statement to mean something I don't think i said.

How so? You claim we should be suspicious of everyone.

At the same time, you provided no proof which suggests we should doubt Snowden's motives, generally or specifically. Only vague rhetoric.

> Its easy to demonize others whom you disagree with

No, stop shifting the blame. YOU are the one who is demonizing someone else (Snowden) without anything to back up your claims. Instead of this theater, put your money where your mouth is and show us your proof.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...
I want to setup something like this where I live as well. So the nodes are connected via 802.11s? Who provides the internet access? I'm guessing a few users still need access to the local ISP?
The alternative is not necessarily a planned economy. Consider a Georgist land tax, for example.
You are very clearly not aware of the current research.
The shadows would appear wrong when lit by headlights, which might be a little bit disorienting. The shadows are rendered as if a light was high overhead.

I think the illusion would still work fine, but feel subtly "wrong" to the driver. Probably good enough to get people to slow down, though.
> It's the lawyers that are out of control here. They are the ones who got the bad law passed, they are the ones who keep allowing prosecutions to happen, they are the ones who keep the law from being challenged

I don’t think you know what a lawyer is. You’re respectively describing legislators, prosecutorial administrators, and various forms of politicians. These people may or may not be lawyers.
We should be promoting therapies which lead to healthier, longer lives. Dependence on generational wealth transfer throws an incentive kink in that.
> - rediscover the arcanes required to save only what you want. Maybe I should branch and commit. Or stash. Or reset and add. Or do an interactive thingy ?

Here's something I'm trying:

1. Always branch and commit.

2. Push branch as a work in progress.

3. When branch seems ready to merge, make a new branch from that branch.

4. In the new branch, go crazy. Squash, reorder, whatever the heck.

5. If you screw something up royally in #4, delete that new branch and go back to step #3.

6. If CI succeeded for new branch, merge new branch.

7. Delete work-in-progress branch.

What kind of situations aren't covered by this approach?
There is no invincibility complex. We are acutely aware of the risks. I just believe I am good enough to get the project working and stay ahead of LE until we can take a more hidden approach and reduce our opsec surface area.
The idea the opposing EME and keeping EME out of the HTML5 Standard would have some how "cost lives" is moronic and hyperbolic to such a degree I will not even waste my time responding to it.

So imagine a world in which you get your way. Every browser is forced to un-implement EME, the standard is force-amended to not include it anymore, etc.

Now what? Well, what happens now is popular media stays popular, and continues to be delivered via big binary-blob plugins with horrible security properties.

What's the human cost of hacks? What's the human cost of the security issues those plugins open up? How many people end up financially ruined due to personal information being stolen? How many people end up on the street because their credit gets trashed? How many in prison because a plugin vulnerability turned their computer into a node for serving kiddie porn and murder markets over Tor?

It is nowhere near unreasonable to ask how many lives you'd consider an acceptable cost for defeating EME, because there absolutely would be a human cost to it. It's a human cost we're already paying right now, and the major argument in favor of EME is that it helps us reduce or eliminate that human cost.

And this is where single-issue "you are 100% with me or 100% my enemy" stances are proven to be utterly morally bankrupt. It's not just that you implicitly accept that human cost as a means to serving your end. It's that you won't even acknowledge that the cost exists. That puts you in the company of some very evil people, and should perhaps get you to re-think your position.
That's faster than you are moving when you are executed by hanging (about 17 mph for long drop, 13 mph for standard drop), so I would not dismiss the possibility out of hand.
Sure, but it is both exceedingly readable and exceedingly simple. It is pretty much pseudocode. Which is what we are discussing, not type safety in huge codebases.
Yep, plowing and speed bumps don't mix. My workplace bought removable speed bumps. At the first snow, they maintenance folks unscrew the speed bumps from the roads / parking lot that are owned by the college. When the snow melts, they put back the speed bumps. Also, speed bumps with ice accumulations are just nasty.
wow, interesting! Where can I find your project?
Attention should be drawn to pedestrians, not necessarily to the crosswalk itself
As an introvert myself I decide whether to be social on energy levels and a basic benefits/cost balance. Sometimes life’s too short for certain things.
> it's something unusual for them to hear in what is likely a repetitive job

I assure you that quip is not unusual in the least, just another repetitive part of the job.
Certainly there's plenty of places I've been a passenger in Asia and India where I would never try to drive -- but I think you're conflating 'remove signage' with 'keep signage (but assume all of it is ignored by everyone, all the time)'.
I'm amazed the trend in obviously too dazzling headlights has been allowed to get this far. I recently heard some industry expert defending them on the BBC saying, without a hint of irony, that they weren't brighter, they just looked brighter.
The conclusion of United Airlines Flight 232 was that although it was a manufacturing defect, the maintenance crew should have noticed the crack. Normally, cracks slowly spread over time until the part catastrophically fails, giving you time to catch it using various techniques (ultrasound, x-ray, penetrating dyes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
We are not doing an ICO. We are offering shares like any well-meaning enterprise should do. Anything less is disrespectful to investors.

We are using blockchain fundraising because tech is good enough to give us enough privacy to operate. That's all. We are not some guys in a basement thinking blockchain & Javascript will fix sex worker problems.
Just How Misguided Is the FCC Proposal to Rollback Network Neutrality?
I have wondered if anyone has studied the 'Dole light' which in the US was the additional brake light added for additional visibility and to cut down on rear end accidents.
5. It ignores entirely the macroeconomic results of printing tons of money, which doesn’t end well for society even if widely and directly distributed.
I have anisometropia even more extreme than yours. I wonder, have you ever tried contacts? For anisometropia, the closer the prescription is to the eyes, the better. I choose to wear glasses now, but I still have to go out of my way to find small enough frames (unfortunately out of fashion) that the lenses sit close enough to my eyes that the images converge.
1 kB = 1000 bytes.

You're thinking of the "kibibyte": 1 KiB, 1024 bytes. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
And they will spend it, on things they need to survive, like rent and food. Now the landlords, factory farmers, and Walmart have all the wealth. Oh, and massive inflation raises all the prices so your next check doesn’t go as far.

BI is extremely regressive in its effects.
> there's nothing Spain can do except murdering lots of people

That would be horrible, for sure, but don't worry. Using my disheveled imagination I think that asking the people responsible of breaking the laws to explain their behaviour in front of a jury could be one (very obvious) thing that Spain could do. It seems that they are doing it yet, in fact.
I think the point the parent was making was that the website was down. ;)
I've been pondering about how to get something like this set up for myself. I think it's what makes remote work most appealing to me. If I'm out of the office environment, there isn't a concern about "butt in chair" time, and I can work purely around productivity.

Sometimes I am at my desk and I can tell that I'm not going to get anything done for the next two hours, not because I'm in meetings, but because my brain is kaput. There's no reason for me to pretend to work. If it's 2:30, and I'm out of coding capacity, I could probably recharge with 1-2 hours of relaxation and rest, but that kind of thing isn't encouraged in an office. I'm supposed to work when I'm there. It's idiotic.
In fairness I (and I suspect many others) refuse to use Chrome on privacy grounds.
I've taken a lot of statistics classes. Not once were random forests mentioned. Boosting was. Gradient boosting wasn't. Linear and logistic models were mentioned, but those are day 1 data science.
T is never 0.
> Do you mean "avoid loitering at train stations" or "avoid using trains"?

Avoid using the major traffic hubs. No joke. Cops here will even fleece you on the spot sometimes if you're black. They seem to believe that all black or rasta wearing persons are dope dealers.
As interesting as it is to think about the limit, it's so pointless from a practical point of view since the cost of computation is dwarfed by the cost of data movement in modern machines.
Video gamers have an advantage in learning
"adj. Outmoded in design, style, or construction: an obsolete locomotive. "[0]

So yes, it's obsolete.

[0] https://www.wordnik.com/words/obsolete
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15348384
Standing too much can hurt you too. There is no scientific evidence for flossing. There is lots of controversy about sunscreens, ...
In my area, the flashing white indicates that there is a red light camera and that you will be photographed if you run the red light. The truth is that the cameras are not always there, but the effect is the same.
I met Art, the Sencha CEO, back in 2013 after having some positive experiences using Sencha Touch on iOS to develop consumer-facing apps. He said that the company was going to solely focus on Enterprise because that's what the investors wanted.

At the time that felt like it signalled the death of the company. I note that the successful JS ecosystems we have today are not enterprise-only or consumer-only.
>What design skills?

I think parent means the ability to create more than decent looking application UIs with a consistent theme for lots of different apps (file viewer, music player, dock and toolbar, editor, etc), implement them in html/css, and add interactivity and code the functionality they offer -- and graphics that niggles aside wouldn't look out of place in an actual end product by a major company.

The "ability to follow popular trends" is by itself a feat, considering it's a young student, he's also programming, and most programmers UI skills are something south of [1] or [2].

Nobody cares if they don't follow 2017's trends to a T, or if they overused some transparency in the result, it's the overall skills shown that matter.

[1] http://csis335.wikispaces.com/file/view/bru_main_screen.jpg/...

[2] https://www.google.gr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.37signa...
I'm talking about the GP's comment that disabling Pocket will speed up the browser.
> Reporters Without Borders is a 35 year old non-profit institution that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press around. It's incredibly respected and has local watch-dog offices all over the world.
Every time you are confronted with facts and you shift the focus to something else. Now you are discussing Julian Assange? But since you brought him up, he is another one who has taken up refuge in a country where censorship is rampant and press freedom is abysmal:

Newsflash Sherlock: Reporters Without Borders credibility isn't related to extradition laws with the USA. Those 2 variables are not affecting each other, yet the latter is very much relevant here for the freedom and perhaps even life of Snowden.

I already told you this once in my previous post, and you carefully dance around that cause it doesn't suit your agenda. What you say regarding RWB is irrelevant, as Snowden wouldn't be long in that country. He'd have been send a one way ticket to the USA instead, and he'd have gotten a secret trial. What matters is looking at the situation and facts as they occurred and being practical. Now you are going to tell us which country Snowden should've fled to instead of Russia. Go ahead, share the magic faerie-tale country which would've been better according to your one criteria of Reporters Without Borders. Then I will tell you 1) the plane from Ecuador didn't stop at that country (and Snowden got stuck in Russia thanks to US action). 2) Furthermore, he wouldn't been long in said country as I already described.

> I'm sure they both appreciate that your doing their bidding though.

And I am sure the US government is pleased you're doing theirs with your baseless character assassinations.
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I agree this specific post lacks any useful detail, and is highly unlikely to be anything more than vaporware.

That said the claim that one could develop a sub-$10 tracker consisting of a GPS receiver, LPWAN tranceiver, and a small ARM for generating signed messages isn't completely absurd -- such a device would have a BOM in the ballpark of $35-40 if cobbled together from retail priced dev modules. It's friggin absurd how cheap hardware has become. Look at the OrangePi Zero as an example. As low as $7 to the end user for a quad core board with WiFi, Ethernet, 512mb ram, and some SPI flash.

I agree with you on the intermediate server issue -- not because a tiny ARM can't directly submit messages, but because most reasonably priced existing LPWAN solutions don't provide internet IP connectivity to devices. If the devices were provided with full IP, there's no reason a blockchain client couldn't run on a cortex m0 -- keep in mind being able to submit messages to a blockchain doesn't mean you have to ever even look at, let alone store or process the chain.

I think it's wise to be sceptical about this project. I'm just less convinced that it's wise to equate blockchains with hype.
I think maven in the ecosystem around it is the biggest thing.

maven makes it easy to incorporate 100s of Jars into your projects, but then you get to discover the conflicts between 100s of Jars, create build processes that don't finish before your project is due, etc.

Master maven and then modern Java may seem like a lot of fun!
No? Heh... I sort of wish I'd had a public facing job at some time in my life. I feel as though I missed out on a lot of experiences and chances to learn more about people.

I am assuming there's some good with the bad.
If they are local officials I will tell them directly, myself.
You are of course choosing to ignore the first definition, which says "no longer in use"
I don't see any reason why you can't do both? Then the problem becomes one of how to "promote generational wealth transfer" while "keeping people health and living longer". I don't buy the whole "you need to work yourself to death in order to get ahead" stuff.

Also, no need to make your children "rich". Just make sure they have things quantitatively better than you had. Just having a home for their children to subsequently live in without worry is definitely attainable for most people if they don't do anything stupid.
From what I understand flipping a bit isn't necessarily subject to this bound. However setting it to either 1 or 0 is.

Of course if you can flip it without expending energy then reading it and flipping it if it's 1 necessarily requires the Landauer limit's worth of energy.
Does he present it as fact? The books are marked fiction, does he have additional responsibility beyond that? It is pretty easy to separate the non-fact/conspiracy garbage that he uses to drive the plot from the facts/history he uses to build setting.
I assume you're not talking about the mpd command line client of that name? At least I wouldn't know how it relates to video quality, though it plays music quite nicely. The other mpc I can easily get to does multi-precision arithmetic on the complex numbers. Also unlikely to be a match.

So there's your problem. Your software is hard to use and hard to find out about. Get it into distros so that installing it and trying it out is as painless as possible.

If I don't know it exists or have to hunt around the web for a copy, I'm unlikely to donate to it.
They've been caught not upgrading peering links that are saturated by Netflix. Net neutrality doesn't really protect against that.
A quick search on their website[0] shows a grand total of 1,602 jobs anywhere in the USA for which the word "cloud" appears anywhere in the req. Perhaps the database is corrupted?

[0] https://oracle.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobsearch.ftl?lang=...
Well I read that it had gotten the Gulf of Tonkin incident wrong in an article here. I stand corrected that sounds like a pretty good description of the incident.

I would like to watch it, I’ll get hold of it sometime.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/19/getting-the-gulf-of-...
Good thing you don't use any .com sites, like google, facebook, netflix, or even news.ycombinator.com.

Wow, talk about disconnect.
When my sister can open my phone, it is “more” secure than Touch ID? I think you’re caught in a reality distortion field.

http://bgr.com/2017/09/27/iphone-x-face-id-vs-touch-id-iphon...
TL;DR author's dad was silly enough to think that people who don't like wine are intellectually inferior. Author learns about taste buds and finds closure.
There are plenty of folks here for whom 'comfortable' money would be just fine when accompanied by 'make the world a better place, and avoid doing things that make it a worse place.'
Similarly, road signs are getting pretty dense in the area I live and elsewhere, too. There are so many warning and notice signs on the road in my new city I've found I've missed some of the more important ones until after more than a few drive by's.
It's interesting how Russia and Assange are backing every movement that weakens the West (Trump, Brexit, and now this):

http://www.businessinsider.com/julian-assange-catalonia-inde...

Russia wants to break apart the bloc with Germany at the center to dominate its neighbors. It's a replay of Russia's tensions with Europe that date at least to the Napoleonic wars, and include WWI and WWII.
you are correct.
if people get triggered by someone using the word "echo chamber" they are probably in one. It's hard to admit, I know.
Apple and Consumer Choice
The "everyone's always breaking laws" trope is a bit tired.

It's like saying "most programs crash on a daily basis because computers are soooo fast and there are soooo many crashing opportunities". You going about your daily business will probably not be breaking laws.

If you're running a grocery store, however.....
If things keep going the way they are someday JavaScript is gonna be optimized enough to get pretty close to C; specially functional scripts/parts (those with no side effects).