skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a realistic look at what an all-out nuclear war in 1988 might have been like: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nuclearwar1.html

Spoiler alert: about four fifths of Americans end up dead, and about one third of all humans on Earth. The survivors contend with famine and plague on a scale never before seen. Most of the world's industrial capacity is destroyed.

I find it fairly easy to distinguish that scenario from the world we live in, personally.
Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard has been traveling the country meeting candidates for races that professionals helped identify as underserved by the DNC, and came up with a "Great Slate", which is a good starting point:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate

But: if you live in a major metro area: you're probably in a D district, where just a few miles from you there's a suburb in an R district. Find that district and see who's running in it.

Here's who's running in the NM-2:

http://fec.gov/data/elections/house/NM/02/2018/

Just fix the URL for whatever race you're interested in.

Strong recommend on donating to the Great Slate.
@j_s: I replied to your comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910462
Ah. Yes. Damn. I knew it was a mag I read on the regular but didn't think to think The Atlantic would cover such a think.

Good catch. Cheers mate.
People did recognize this. In fact, they recognized it so well, that in the past they considered the workings of Mother Nature to due to various gods. Then we realized that we can use reason and logic to gather data about nature and use that to develop theories about how nature works. Once this happened, we ended up with the scientific revolution which gave us such things as birth control, low infant mortality, flight, long distance communication, increased lifespan, and even landing a human on the moon.
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>* the public transport is probably one of the best all over the world (even though the locals keep complaining), with completely driverless trains and accuracy that would make the Germans and the Swiss cry in envy.

Try Hong Kong trains. A notch better, serving a much higher density population. I also recently moved to Singapore and must admit I'm a bit disappointed with the low frequency, short trains that Singapore deployed.
Gene drive is a very scary thing from a strict biological standpoint. Just imagine a gene that must be passed on to all offspring, rather than randomly chosen. We could quite easily wipe out entire biomes with such a technology.

This should not be underestimated, or thought to be less relevant of a weapon than, say, the atomic bomb. It's just slightly more subtle than explosives.

Yes, there may be benefits if used well. And yes, nuclear technology can be (very) useful for generating power. I'm just saying that there needs to be more attention here. The particular uses need to be more widely understood and talked about.
I think this is already well understood. The problem is, there's nothing we can do to determine what this place is. The alternative is to change nothing and stop progress. If we end up killing ourselves as a species, so be it.

I would suggest this is different from denialists in the case of climate change however. Being faced with evidence is different from being faced with the unknown.
Many Republicans do support those principles, today. They simply believe that the FCC doesn't need to impose Title II regulations on ISPs to accomplish it. For instance: the Republican component of the FCC strongly believes it's already unlawful to block legal content to consolidate and exploit ISP market positions, and that the FTC already has the power to enforce that regulation.
Sounds like reverse survival bias to me. Experts are usually right, so people make financial decisions on that basis. When it turns out the experts were wrong, those decisions don't pan out. The worse the outcome, the more likely we are to hear about it. We don't hear about all the times that following expert advice doesn't lead to an economic disaster, even though it happens nearly every day.
Are you a fan of android gaming tablet?
Yeah, lots of courses pay lip service to the existence of fields of characteristic p during the initial few weeks, then proceed to ignore them completely.
Am I wrong in thinking that they're being a little hyperbolic with this?
I'm just imagining a terrible racist dystopia where totalitarian fascist regimes use gene drives and co. to weaponize the DNA of their population. Imagine the social effects of people who look a certain way having genes that make it such that their babies will inherit certain traits with 100% chance. You'd end up with actual race wars. Children would be raised to avoid interacting with other races. shudder
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This is terrible - the thing about cryptocurrency, as opposed to traditional investments (or just banks), is it's extremely rigid, which means if you misplace a digit, you can lose a lot of stuff. I would guess that you shouldn't really expect to get out much more, in traditional currency terms, than you put in, in traditional currency terms (and, stuck on Earth, what else is there). Imho cryptology has it's place in the privacy and security realm, so the real use case for playing with these things is as training to do work in that area (obviously feel free to disagree).
It might pay to revisit these negative comments in a few months time.

The iMac Pro is beautiful, and ridiculously powerful. I am back to the days of wanting to be able to justify the absurd price (that's what power costs) simply to have that icon on my desk.

I would not be surprised to see a lot of these turn up on senior executive desks, or as a status symbol from companies to their developers - showing that nothing but the best will do.

Retina iMacs are amazing - I'm currently using a maxed out iMac from 2 years ago, with a 4K screen plugged in too. It was impossible to justify the cost at the time, but now I cannot imagine anything less.
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Is there any work emerging on a standard environment/framework for serverless code? As it stands it all represents vendor-lock-in due to the comparatively high costs of moving between stacks. An environment that's deployable to any of the serverless providers would be ideal.
Eh - I wouldn't say an entirely new tech stack. The main difference is breaking your components into microservices; after that - you just need a wrapper for your serverless provider of choice. The majority of the logic should be reusable though.
It says it runs on every device. I am on an iPhone, and it complains that there's not enough RAM for an operation -- gradient on the default new document.

It wants 1640 MB I think.

That's the only thing, otherwise it's great :)
I suppose technically running something like OwnCloud with a plugin to fetch your content (text/photos etc) from the various social networking APIs would look near identical from the outside?
No one is stifling his speech because he is richer than god. But a plebian such as myself won't bring up current affairs with most friends and coworkers anymore though. It's not really a topic of conversation anymore. And I'm pretty confident that tolerance of differing views is a casualty of the last election. Propaganda campaigns on social networks mobilized the easily swayed on both sides and drew a hard line down the middle that no one is allowed to cross anymore.
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I'm not saying whether it is right or wrong. I am just saying that realistically, this is the calculation that many people will make.
Ah Symbian! I fondly remember my E62, the first mobile device I had with a real OS.
FWIW, declassified intelligence purporting to show Soviet nuclear targets in Australia suggest that large cities would have been spared direct strikes.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/secrets-out-soviets-did-not-target-cities-20120805-23ny1.html

Various other outlets and blogs at the time also made the point that, generally, both the Soviets and Americans avoided population centers as well as (IIRC) decapitation strikes.[1] They focused on strategic military targets, primarily those related to first and retaliatory nuclear strike capabilities. Basically air bases, naval bases (especially submarine bases), and related infrastructure--anything that directly supported the launch of nuclear weapons.

Continental Europe, especially Germany, was an exception because of expectations of immediate ground warfare and the likelihood of tactical nukes. But arguably that's less an exception and more a variation of the same logic.

[1] Decapitation means you've nobody to negotiate with in a timely manner, ensuring the enemy will resort to unleashing every last nuclear weapon at their disposal. Neither side was stupid enough to have unleashed everything at once. All scenarios I've read described an escalation in launches over 1 or 2 days, sometimes longer, with opportunities for negotiated or even unilateral ceasefires.
The most momentous discovery would be that it is indeed an alien spacecraft. Whatever we could have gained from a close inspection would pale in comparison.
Life gives us all different cards to play.

In some ways, I agree today's kids have it tougher. In other ways, there are opportunities that did not exist in the past.

I have hopes for today's recent grads in that things remind me somewhat of the mid 80s. (That's when I graduated college.) The economy was ready to boom for a good long time. Some jobs were going away, some were opening up. I was lucky enough to get a job in programming, the economy carried me forward to this day. I wish the same good luck to future generations.
Could you touch on what you find are the short comings of solidity?
From what I've read I'm fairly certain it is not affected.
This gets asked a fair amount on r/perl and on here. In short, because it's still a great language with yearly releases and a large library ecosystem (CPAN). It's built in to Linux and works really well there (although Python is as well), but also you can generally run 20 year old perl code in a 5.26 distribution of Perl without much issue. Performance is really good too. I'd say it's harder to learn than Python if you had to pick one, but if you're already good with Perl, there's really not a reason to go to Python unless you need to do numerical work (numpy/scypy) or data work (Pandas & Matplotlib). Perl has 3 good web frameworks. The language's base OO support is pretty sparse, but the Moose module on CPAN allows Perl to become supercharged with very advanced OO capabilities and the Moo module is a lightweight version of Moose that is a lower performance hit. Perl is much better than Python or Ruby for shell one-liners to do quick and dirty work as it has a lot of things built in to help there (see book Perl Oneliners). They spent 15 years designing Perl6 which is not the next language, but a new sister language that still has some work in the performance department, but is a very nice language. As a python guy, I would switch to Perl6 in a heartbeat if it were as fast as Perl5. A lot of things from Perl6 were backported to Perl5. All in all, y not choose it? It has a lot of neat developer tools as well.
Natural resources are the original source of all wealth.

Labor can only add value.

Government can only take value away.

If what government takes is significant, the amount must be bearable relative to the remaining resources and productivity of the labor, or collapse will be inevitable.

A benevolent government is sustainable.

A greedy or destructive government is not sustainable, even though the resulting collapse may be beyond any person's or institution's living time frame or vision. This can be exploited by design.
Have them invent it.
I don't think it does. Words are words.
Set aside for a moment your feeling on net neutrality.

We can all admire the way Pai is mocking the massive media machine that's been picking on him for months. I'm glad to see it, I'm sick of the monopolistic media machine.
A self-contained spinoff "Shelbyville One"
BTW, there is a github repo that lists every domain owned by facebook, they have ~900 domains now.

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
Maybe it just rotates to create artificial gravity.
this is about as generic as you can get https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/README.md
any process type on a swarm of k8s cluster
Amazon does something even more insidious. Apparently if you're selling a cable or something and doing really well, Amazon will come out with a generic version of that which is cheaper, and they will be able to undercut your prices.

Basically, they're letting you validate the market and then jumping in once you've taken the risk and created the market.
Clearly I’m not the guy to talk to about tor/onion. I’m wondering if a network could be set up across thousands of homes somehow and that network could purchase priority of its traffic. Basically there’s always a way to add another layer of abstraction to circumvent a lower layers restrictions.
You say in your experience, 'most liberals' act in the original statement. Are you willing to entertain the possibility that your impression might be mistaken?

You probably don't really think about the times a liberal person is reasonable and logical. You certainly will remember the ridiculous liberal who says illogical things.

Might that be skewing your impression of what 'most' liberals believe?
> Access that does not require authentication should never be a crime.

Linkedin is not trying to prevent access. They want to prevent information from being scraped, and then used to their detriment.
I beg to differ, I am a systems engineer for a Fortune 500 retailer, and my team has been waiting weeks, and have been told it will be some time next year, for some vmware instances we need.

That being said, not every organization is as dysfunctional.

I think the best approach would be a hybrid one, where developers could spin up instances in the "cloud", and ops would migrate them into the main infrastructure when it made sense to do so.
The market tells you what's interesting and innovative
Because it turns out it is too dangerous to be voiced, I guess? It confused me too—it's currently at +4, hasn't been negative (as far as I've seen), and hasn't been flagged. The HN mods have also not emailed me out of band to tell me to cut it out or to say anything else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> HBO is hamstrung by its lucrative cable tv deals in the US, which prevents it from competing effectively with Netflix in the streaming market.

What are you basing this on? They partnered with the same company that Disney just bought to create HBO Now, their video on demand offering. It has 2 million subscribers and is another revenue source for them.

The "problem" with HBO Now is that subscribership spikes when the Game of Thrones starts and plummets when the season ends. Now that the series is winding down, they need to find another one but with their history of great shows I wouldn't bet against them.
> More hardware still means better results — or there would be no need to cap the time per move.

OK, but AlphaZero essentially runs on different hardware so how are you suppose to make the comparison fair? You could give Stockfish access to the TPUs but wouldn't do anything with them.
Anyone who is interested in getting started in Ethereum coding may want to start with this:

https://cryptozombies.io/
Agreed. This is potentially beneficial to Netflix, et. al. at this point. It just makes it harder for startups to compete with them.
Then I’d need to find a computer with a SATA interface... looking 10 years in the future it’d be even less easy.
Lifetime costs for much of this technology is more people costs. Also, much of the benefit comes from what's on top of the hosting. (Not having to worry about old versions of software, containers, better security, no issues if the one person who knows what's going on quits, etc)
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Wow!! Sheetjs looks cool! What kinds of math libraries do you support inlieu of Scipy /numpy. I am looking to mostly do some Exploratory Data Analysis
Unless the Excel team somehow integrates Python with the existing GUI design tool already found in Excel, it wouldn’t bring anything new to the table. There are already existing solutions such as DataNitro, which allow to code Python macros and functions and make use of Numpy, Pandas and Matplotlib. Microsoft is so far behind the curve it’s not funny. Their integration of either Python or IronPython in Visual Studio has been a mess for years.

See Http://www.datanitro.com
They re-branded themselves to Softcard and then dissolved.
“Let’s just hope we don’t see a new atomspheric nuclear explosion (test or otherwise) before they’re done with their preservation project.”.... fat chance. North Korea will do an atmospheric nuclear test in the next six months, if not three
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So many podcasts are going to lose their shirts due to hugely inflated numbers based on downloads, not listens.
If you're interested in cryptocurrencies that use DAG like Iota, also check out Raiblocks. Raiblocks.net

Full Disclosure: I own some Raiblocks.
Again, the Mozilla CEO held a belief that some of his employees didn't deserve the rights that other employees had. Should he have remained CEO if he shared his belief that blacks and whites shouldn't be allowed to marry?

If your belief is that you want to deny rights to some people, you are going to be held accountable by society in the sense that you won't get to hold powerful jobs. You won't be arrested, but society isn't going to let you run a public company.
This seems like a last gasp attempt to tighten the monopoly, and it's doomed to fail. If nothing else, this will set the wheels in motion to bypass the established ISPs altogether, whether it's via node distribution or banking on Musk's satellite network. Or holding out hope that Google will pick up their fiber business again. Whatever happens, it's going to be interesting.
I had the exact same experience, joined a project which was relying upon Ethereum. Spent several days learning everything about it and messing with the technology. Every moment the interest slowly waned as frustration upon frustration added up into a realization that this tech is nowhere near ready to base huge important projects off of it.
How about bugs around privacy features? How about somebody clicking "save as" on your pictures and doing whatever they want with it?

Personally, I use an adaptation of the "an unloaded gun doesn't exist" rule and think that once you put something on the Internet, anywhere on the Internet, it is accessible by everybody for ever.
To pick a couple of examples more or less at random, last year Barry Diller of IAC said, of content available on the web, “It is not free, and is not going to be,” Steve Brill of Journalism Online said that users “just need to get back into the habit of doing so [paying for content] online”, and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp said “Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use.”

Was that dog whistling the repeal of net neutrality?
You clearly need more time to spend here, your excitement will definitely go down.

>> the public transport is probably one of the best all over the world (even though the locals keep complaining)

Did you hear what are they complaining about? There is a lot of thing to complain.

>> with completely driverless trains

On Circle, DT/DT2 and Purple lines only, so not "completely".

>> accuracy that would make the Germans and the Swiss cry in envy.

This is so LOL ) MRT issues are happening very often, can't remember any other country with such amount of MRT problems.

>> Uber is considered somewhat of a "luxury" service.

Excuse me, WHAT? luxury service??

Speaking of the main topic, I do believe that vehicle sharing is our future and definitely going to give BlueSG a try.
I used to defend Sonic as a scrappy startup fighting the good fight for good people. But seriously, it's tiring and old. They needed to raise money to roll out fiber to more than 25 people in the sticks. They didn't and I think a large part of it I was Dane didn't want to give up control in return for capital. OK, that's his choice, but I'm no longer going to laud Sonic. It's basically a cute toy if you're lucky, not a real company.
There were net neutrality regulations before 2015! The idea that neutrality is this novel thing invented during the Obama administration is as toxic as it is ridiculously false.

Pre-2015, the FCC still had regulations to enforce net neutrality, just different ones. It was active in punishing ISPs for violating neutrality under those provisions. Verizon managed to get a court to say that those regulations were inappropriate, but the court also pointed out that if ISPs were regulated under Title II, then the FCC would have the power to set the regulations that had been de facto in place for the past decade. The FCC under Tom Wheeler immediately did just that.

The problem with this vote is that it removes all protections without replacing them with anything else. All we have now is "yeah, the FTC might look at it if it's egregious... also the ISPs promise really hard to behave themselves." It's not just that the FCC has removed the rules (although that's still incredibly important), it's that they've totally abdicated their position as the regulatory body for telecommunications.
You might be correct that the country doesn't have a constitutional obligation to non-citizens (although courts have ruled that non-citizens do have SOME rights when they are in the country), I was saying the liberal position is that we SHOULD have obligations to all people of the world to be treated fairly.
Yup, this is true as well. I could go on and on about all the stuff I see happen.

What you're talking about tends to happen over facebook or wechat. But there are "Amazon Launch Services" which are far more pervasive in my experience. You'll find countless services like Viral Launch, JumpSend, etc. that find some way to make it hassle free to get those first few crucial reviews.

The funniest thing I've ever seen happen is one person was scamming the sellers. They would place the order, get paid via PayPal, and then cancel the Amazon order. It was cathartically beautiful.
It is a great framework to develop on, but we had some challenges using MetaMask with it. Lots of room for growth, has serious potential.
> The real life equivalent of this is "if I leave my door unlocked, should someone be allowed to walk in anyways?"

The problem with analogies is that many equally valid analogies that can be made, but with many different points. I would argue that the real life equivalent is "Have this free book, but you may not read Chapter 4."
It would take hundreds or thousands of years to play out. Not a very effective strategy for a despot.
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I have a secret plan of once I have >$10mm in free cash, doing gene drive elimination of the disease vector mosquitoes without getting any permission or notification by any states. I’m not sure if someone else will beat me to it, but I’d be perfectly happy to stand before the UN or whatever after having done it.
Unfortunately, most of the deplorables would just find new reasons to hate Democrats, because their party preference is rooted in tribalism rather than in policy, and you'd scare off lots of lefties who don't think the state should be outlawing important medical procedures.
Huh? If I have an S&P 500 Index fund, how is that an activity that looks like gambling, or has a limited kind of diversification?

It's narrow index funds that are gambling. Not all index funds.