skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not only did it happen before nuclear weapons

Both Generals LeMay ( USAF SAC ) and MacArthur advocated widespread nuclear response to the Chinese intervention. They were overruled by President Truman.

> For a thousand years or more China has been content to stay within it's borders

Are the Paracel Islands, Spratly Islands and Formosa within China's borders? To all of which China lays claim.
Ian M. Banks: "Money Implies Poverty"
Trying a hello, world (in lisp) with too much “garbage”
Show HN: Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts signed with your SSH key
"No, they don't have to. But I also don't have to refrain from saying they are lazy jerks that are breaking the Internet.
They are lazy jerks that are breaking the Internet."

Nope, you don't. But don't pass it off as different from vegetarians vocally espousing and touting their vegetarianism. It's the same thing. Which, coincidentally, was the point of my OP.

"Pointing out lack of no-javascript support is tantamount to starting every dinner conversation with 'I'm a vegetarian'."

Most of this conversation was you arguing your points about javascript whereas I was discussing why it's the same as vegetarians. To which you've agreed " in the same manner that vocal vegetarians"
> China has never been expansionist

Why they've attacked Vietham then?
I am not sure Twitter is "new news". It's like saying "everybody screaming at once about everything they want is the new opera". Surely, among that screaming there would be opera singers, and among Twitter noise there would be news. But Twitter is not news. Maybe something that could be used as raw source for "new news". There are several projects aimed at that, but mostly very National-Enquirer-like kind of news (more looking to shock and entertain than to deliver information).
Sometimes on my iPhone 6 it was laggy, but most of the time I had no issues. Now on a Z2 Play it's very snappy. So maybe it's your phone.
Signal now has the resources to compete with the IETF effort by Mozilla, Google, Cisco, Facebook, Wire, Twitter, MIT and INRIA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16325803
That's not an answer, that's a tautology.
A Binary Offset Effect in CCD Readout and Its Impact on Astronomical Data
Generally yes, but not always.. Sometimes they are just single family homes and can skirt distance requirements/setbacks.

Other times they are just side by side "duplex" that are self-managed...is you are responsible for everything and have to depend on your neighbor to have money in the bank when the roof eventually fails
Yes. Small companies take note. Getting "NetScaped", where a big platform vendor re-implements your application and gives it away for free, is 100% normal. It appears that Swype wasn't naive about this and attempted to patent their innovation, but that BigCos conveniently circumvented that. It's practically always going to be cheaper to lock 3-4 engineers in a closet for a year and have them re-implement your software than to acquire a company.

Software companies do not get acquired for the software. They get acquired because they offer access to something that BigCo can't easily replicate, usually a loyal audience in a sector that BigCo covets (e.g., Facebook and Instagram). Sometimes it can be about intellectual property, but as we see in this case, they have big fancy lawyers and you don't, and they'll work hard to circumvent you, so you'll have to have a very robust and thorough IP base to get them to decide it's better to just buy you.

Swype is by no means the first innovative phone app to get NetScaped like this. It happens all the time.

If you're building a company in this space, where the platform operators are also the main distributors and therefore don't need your audience, be very careful. It's dicey. [This may be a good argument for alternative app stores a la Amazon's Android offering.] Blockbuster anti-trust cases only happen for companies that are the darling of 1996 Silicon Valley and the symbol of the nascent internet revolution (i.e., not you).
Yep, I agree with those points. Thanks, I have been. I hope you have as well :)
You're simply wrong. Again. The rotor windings of induction machines are usually copper or aluminum, the stator windings are usually copper.

As for the rotors and stators themselves, they are good old iron/steel laminates and will hold some magnetism just fine (they're laminates to cut down on the eddy currents). If the rotors themselves would be made out of copper the motor would not function at all, it needs a ferromagnetic part there to focus the field.

Source: have done a number of induction motor to windmill conversions. Also: have you ever tried any of this or are you coming at this from a theoretical angle?

Here is some good info for you:

http://marineengineeringonline.com/tag/residual-magnetism/
You have to look for cuts to regressive taxes.

California, New Jersey, Florida, and Missouri have all recently reduced sales taxes. Tobacco and gasoline taxes have generally increased, however.
Uh, all those articles are about experimental stem cell treatment. Absent a medical intervention, heart tissue damage from a heart attack can't be reversed. You can strengthen your heart the same way a healthy body can with exercise, but you can't regrow lost tissue. No more than you can recover from brain damage.
Sure, but that's only if you actually trust the non-profits in question to do actual good with unrestricted grants. Consider the example of the UNH librarian who ate frozen dinners and vending machine burritos for decades and donated his life savings to the school, only for the school to squander it on a scoreboard for their terrible football team:

https://deadspin.com/how-unh-turned-a-quiet-benefactor-into-...
I have a question for anyone in their twenties, and thirties.

What percentage of your friends use Tinder on a regular basis?

Just a rough estimate.
To be fair; Matrix's crypto is fairly solid. The key management however is a mess, and we have run late on fixing it - but we're working on it currently. The metadata concern is bogus however: we designed Matrix to evolve into a hybrid p2p/decentralised architecture in future without changing a line of clientside code, so folks who want to store their metadata on their client rather than their server can do so - https://matrix.org/~matthew/2016-12-22%20Matrix%20Balancing%... has some notes on that. In practice, we think neither pure federation (like XMPP) or pure p2p (like Riocochet) or pure centralisation (like Signal) is desirable - you want to have a hybrid of decentralisation & p2p so you can get the best of both worlds.
What are the "undesirable side effects" to which you refer?
hey alex, your link is not working for me!
J-20 downed zero aircraft as well, as far I as I know.
It's really not a cartoon example. I've seen your point but in reverse: small shops that get big contracts go out and buy $500,000 machines instead of hiring 10 people to do the work.
Dive into ARKit on iOS with Swift and Twilio Programmable Video
On the face of it, your reductio ad absurdum is perfectly reasonable. Employees do their job, get their money, end of story. Right?

In continental Europe, nobody expects it to work like that. It's a different mindset. If you work in a large firm, the works council has a say (to some degree) in management decisions. It's not always perfect – politics are everywhere – but it is completely normal and expected by bosses and workers alike that employment is a relationship, not a transaction. And for the most part, it seems to be working.

To someone who grew up in that culture, your wild-west thinking seems a bit, well, primitive? Or uncivilized?
Reminds me of the ethics of the modern startup. "Whats the problem, its all legal"
Data management and sharing in neuroimaging
I'm the opposite; if I share the area I keep it clean, if I'm by myself it's a mess on the first day. Guilt is the only thing that beats my laziness :|
I read the book and really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed the Netflix series a lot. Theyre different stories, with one inspiring the other. At least with the Netflix series I am hoping that the next season will stick to the theme and atmosphere, unlike the IMO dissapointing book sequels
Fully agree and I want to elaborate. After SHA-1 broke, IETF's OpenPGP work group have failed the community by wrestling hand over what hash function should be in 5th revision of fingerprint protocol. When they couldn't reach an agreement, the development of the next standard was abandoned, leaving all users vulnerable with no date for fix.

And FFS, it hasn't even got anything to do with protocol, it's something the client can do by itself. Having worked on secure messaging apps, I would never go to federated protocols. Signal's infrastructure allows rapid improvement of protocol and fast elimination of insecure protocol revisions. That's where we need to be at. Just look at the history of TLS and the potential in downgrade attacks. Old revisions die slowly. Signal can easily monitor what versions are still running, push updates to users and ensure codebase isn't bloated by code that merely represents insecure protocols.

Signal succeeds because of it's "closed" ecosystem, it doesn't suffer from the tyranny of the majority that occurs when there's disagreement about e.g. seriousness of some attack, when some feature might be risky. With Matrix, I worry developers of clients can affect choices, and the protocol is already dangerous, to ensure (backwards) compatibility with older clients and (other) protocols, Matrix is not end-to-end encrypted by default. I will eat my hat with mustard the day I see all Matrix clients support only end-to-end encryption for everything.
Here's the full PDF from Intel, showing the status of microcode updates for what looks like CPUs going back to what looks like the first 64-bit Core CPUs -- https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/...

(Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but not on anything related to this and have no knowledge on the topic outside of this PDF)
For bad customer service, I'm curious if he meant services that the corporation can pay for to outsource quality CS, or a concierge approach where the user calls the concierge, who then messages the relevant company.
Hey — what browser / device are you using?
Did you read that Wiki article? War materials were given to support Tsarist Russia in WW1.
I'm using an aarch64 Chromebook with the A72 cores disabled. The low power A53 quad core is invulnerable, but I'm still disappointed in the lack of response by Google [1] on this issue with all currently shipping 64-bit ARM Chromebooks.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16433020
A few weeks ago I was abroad with a group of people from my company, I knew 3 of the 10 others. We went out to dinner - Awful time, very stressful. Later in the week it had dropped to 3 other people, only 1 whom I knew, far better.

(The other nights I had room service - that's the best situation, I can actually relax)

That said, I'm happy to
Make grunting noises and guesticulatr at milk bottles to the occasional stranger in a shared office kitchen. I guess part of the problem is it takes me a long time to remember a person's face - when watching tv I rely a lot on context. My wife often says "no that's not xxx, he's got the wrong colour hair". I've been known to get skin colour and sex wrong too, but most of the time context works. Took me about 2 seasons to remember the names of the 6 main characters in "friends".

When making tea, there's no context to build on. At university I wrote down names of people on my floor in halls, which mostly helped. At school I'd learnt the names of everyone in the class by the middle of the second year, and by year 6 knew about 80% of the c. 120 people in the year group. My children's friends are mostly a blur but I can get 4 or 5 of them with a little confidence - that's after 16 months.

In person conversations are far too draining, especially without context, and when there's nothing to gain what's the point?
Moore’s Law: Toward SW-Defined Hardware
I love Dashlane, and the Linux support is solid through the browser extension. Dashlane has the best interface across devices, of all the password managers I've used. The password sharing feature is great for business.

Sure, it's a cloud service, but it's polished enough that I can get non-tech people like my family and coworkers to actually use it. Lastpass did not pass that test.

I use Dashlane every day on Mac, Linux, Windows, and Android.
So, what are you using the 15,800 MB of RAM for?
Peer-to-peer camera rental startup KitSplit raises $2.1M
WHY STRUCTURED CABLING [pdf]
A warning about Cloudflare:

You cannot access their support in any way without logging in. Trying to contact them via their contact/sales page won't work. They won't respond.

This means that if you lose your phone (2FA) and can't log in, you're royally screwed and will have to go to your registrar to recover access to your domains/DNS.
Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011)
Does anybody have information about the details of the process of a supernova? How long does it take from the star collapse to the actual explosion or how does the energy output change over time?
Hey, thanks for sharing your (unpopular, at least in this thread) opinion. Would you care going a bit more in details about what you hate about it?

In my experience, good gear makes a tremendous difference, and it's a logarithmic curve; the first few hundred dollars get you most of the way. Maintenance also goes a long way, you'd be surprised of the friction losses of severely under-inflated tires, or a rusty chain/cassette. Finally, having the right type of bike is a game-changer, I am always amazed at how many people commute in urban environments with a heavy, slow, double-suspension mountain bike when they could be zipping around on a road bike and having some fun! I've also found that having a GPS watch to record your commute helps a lot with gratification.

At the end of the day, I think commuting by bike in an enjoyable experience compared to the alternative most people have in an urban environment: packed/slow/expensive/unreliable public transport, or traffic jams. Maybe you should alternate between the two to remind you of why you commute by bike ;)
I think the author is overly critical of the limitations of a distributed file system. With a decent incentive system (FileCoin for instance) there is no reason that distributed file storage won’t scale really well.

I for one have a stack of SSDs waiting for FileCoin to arrive. I am keen to leverage the 10Gbps fiber in my office to start ghetto hosting for some $$.
The discussion directly relates to a user typing google.com and knowing, via https, that they are talking to Google.

The CA preventing the local DNS trick is entirely relevant.
Nothing quite as urban as grapefruit water and side parts, right? ;) I haven’t caught up on Silicon Valley, but I do hope this makes it in. I live in a rather “urban” city and I’m sorry, but other than the zip code, there is nothing urban about WeWork.
Google Talk absolutely federated:
http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/01/xmpp-federation.html

Unfortunately they were the only major service provider to do so, and the capability was later discontinued.
>Maybe their job is useless or even harmful to society while yours is useful and helpful.

I think it's completely correct that income reflects this.

>Giving implies that it's voluntary. It's not.

A transparent society can show that sharing a fair portion of your income has a greater benefit to you than keeping it to yourself.

The point of my original comment is that it would be something I hope to see, where society moves in the direction of seeing sharing a portion of income with your community/country as giving, rather than as a tax to be taken. Your statement confirms that taxes are currently completely unwanted.
I've read the collusion articles about that, that have been published in the last few years. It's obviously pretty terrible. Do you have specific data on the claim you're making? Around 10,000 patent lawsuits were filed over ten years in the Eastern District, you're saying over 5,000 were filed just by the sons?
It really comes down to supply and demand. In areas where there is a shortage of supply of workers that have a particular skill that businesses value wages do rise. However, if there is plenty of supply for certain kinds of jobs then the market will not pay them as much.

I do think that automation/increased productivity plays a part if you automate things out where more people are now capable of doing a particular job it will deflate the wage of that role since there is a greater supply that can now perform that role.
LMAO this is so wrong!
Germany's Speech Laws Are a Raging Dumpster Fire of Censorial Stupidity
Yea, I would have left as soon something that bad happens.
Only the larger manufacturers are going to be upgrading plants with multi-million dollar (or very, very recently hundreds of thousands) equipment to replace a few hundred workers each (if that?).

Not really.

Bear in mind that when you're talking machinery costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, you're looking at stuff that farmers are buying these days.

It's not only the big companies that can do this. In an economy where a small house in SF costs $1M, a $1M machine is essentially a mortgage payment that you can depreciate.
Clearly, anything Loomer has said about Muslims is matched by anything Jess Zimmerman has said about men.

No, because one of these things is deliberately ironic, as it says repeatedly throughout the thing you linked and quoted. How did you miss that detail?
The short answer is that a great many techy's are working on decentralization because the present centralized model has a lot of serious problems, like Facebook et al making their money selling ads that may have malware, and also selling your data to who-knows-who.

There are many projects to decentralize the web. IPFS gets so much attention because it is such a broad platform that other technologies (like Ethereum) can operate on top of, and because in some important ways it is farther along than anybody else.
Makes sense only if he didn't spend the $19,000,000,000 on one go when FB bought WhatsApp.
"AI plays Dwarf Fortress" is something I'd like to see.
In my local bank (Germany) I get up to 2 rolls of any denomination for free, per day. I can also cash in loose coins (to my account) at an automatic counting machine (but not many branches have them).
For people who don't have an account at this bank, iirc there's some kind of fee for getting rolled coins, might be in the ballpark of 50ct per roll or something.
I document those reasonings in wikis (example: on github) or Markdown files checked in to the repository.

For normal stuff choosing the right names is enough. Example: number_of_customers leaves very little doubts, customers could be many different things. Autocompletions in editors helps because it doesn't increase the number of typed characters.
> you get the added benefit of being able to store 2FA settings

Don't do this. If you use a password manager with all the benefits this entails (long, random passwords, each only used for a single site), the only benefit 2FA really gives you is if your password manager is compromised somehow. If your second factor is in your password manager, you're screwed.

I use Authy with a long, secure password printed on a piece of paper. Yes, it is cloud and third party and everything, but it's on a completely orthogonal chain from my Keepass DB, so dual compromises are significantly more difficult.
Basically some motivation and how to use go + semver.

But is there a way to statically-compile dependencies? Is that even a thing?

(I'm not a go user so forgive me if I need a good RTFM session.)

It seems like a lot of these problems come from two dependencies wanting different versions of a third dependency.

Instead of just depending on a dependency as a semver string, I could (theoretically I think) depend on a statically-compiled version of the dependency so it's free to call whatever libs it wants - effectively eliminate the concept of transitive dependencies.

For projects with large dependency graphs, you may end up with relatively large binaries since you end up with lots of duplicate object-code for common libraries, but I wonder how much of a problem this actually is (and if simple de-duping may solve a huge chunk of it).

We spend lots of engineering effort to resolve dependencies as source just to end up compiling them into our executable anyway.

I'm sure this isn't a new concept, but it struck me as odd that go is fighting with it so much recently considering statically-compiled, "library-free" executables is definitely in go's wheelhouse - why not extend it to libraries?
Also, all growth that is not linear is exponential. Forever.
Ask HN: What would you like to learn about bio startups?
I made a comment a few weeks ago on the dearth of resources for learning about bio startups that a few people seemed to agree with. I wanted to follow up on that topic and see what information would be most helpful for those who want to learn about the sector.

As a side project, I've been offering free career development programs / resources to help PhD students and postdocs learn about bio startups and meet people from the startup / VC community.

I would like to create resources for non-scientists as well (I myself am a non-scientist but have worked in the space for eight years and love it), and some of the students have expressed interest in helping with this effort on a part-time basis while they look for jobs or start their companies.

So what would you be most interested in learning about bio startups?

For context, all of the students / postdocs have PhDs (or are getting PhDs) in biology, chemistry, bioinformatics or related fields from top-tier universities and have demonstrated interest / experience in startups. There are ~100 students in the network, all in the Bay Area. I don't have a science background but have worked with bio startups my whole career as a venture investor, venture-backed founder, and employee / consultant at startups and big tech companies.

The format of the services will obviously depend on what resources would be most helpful. I've heard requests for consulting engagements, recruiting of technical talent, part-time support for founders who don't have life sci backgrounds, deep technical dives / diligence, help with deal flow, exploring startup opportunities around a theme, educational content on biology and chemistry, industry overviews, etc.
Stop being amazed and start building! I think that is a great idea.
That's terrifying. Every project that aimed at "producing better humans" so far wasn't just terrible - it is ones that are brought up when somebody needs to bring up so terrible no discussion is possible after it, the ultimate peak of terribleness. And yet, there are people still dreaming of breeding "better humans". I hope at least this will be voluntary? Because the logical next step is if you choose "unsuitable" partner, your kid's healthcare will cost 10x (because it's your fault for loading the healthcare with unnecessary costs) and you face deep contempt from your social peers for not helping to improve the human race. At the best case, of course. We all know how worst cases look like.
Coupling sexism to snow clearing order. I have now seen it all. This is getting to be quite the stretch. The correlation is tenious at best from the data they presented.
I am not incorporated as a business and the guy painting my garage is not my employee. Otherwise, a spot on analogy.
This worked. Wow an old, old password that is fairly unique was seen 36 times.
Resonance Audio SDK for Unity v1.2.0 released
TPM is not the bios. There is a write protect screw in the motherboard of your chromebook. It must be removed to flash the RO BIOS.

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...
I thought Nevada was favorable as well. Perhaps only for certain types of companies?
Telegram is holding a secretive second pre-ICO sale
A self-taught astronomer spotted something no scientist had ever seen