skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been adding such improvements for as long as missiles have existed. Better nosecones, rearrange the interior furniture, new guidance software, etc. When the Cold War was still on, we made two-three foot shots (0) from Vandyland (1) per year. Each one was mined for research and used for tweaking. The two big changes were solid fuel boosters and multiple warheads. Everything else has been minor in comparison.

0 https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/amp9936/behind-the...

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg_Air_Force_Base
The term for that is NIMBY. Frankly, this is not news. The fact it has such an acronym means it is well established.
> why would they not put satellites in orbit that could detect the IR signature of a missile launch?

The article speculates that they do not have all of the capabilities needed (putting satellites in orbit is just one of them, you also need the detection hardware on the satellites, the ground stations to process and interpret the data, and people trained to use all this stuff properly).

An alternative speculation would be that Russia actually prefers not to have a better detection capability, because then they would be responsible for using it and would be less able to complain about the US. As it is, they can claim publicly that it is the US that is destabilizing things, while covertly they continue all sorts of much more destabilizing activities.
So no links to licensed gun dealers either, then?
Here's something that Theranos was deliberately misleading about: how many tests can be done on one prick's worth of blood?

Before the downfall, the website claimed that hundreds of tests could be performed with a single drop of blood. But, is that hundreds of tests on one single drop at once? Or is it one test per drop? Squeezing dozens of blood drops out of multiple pricks would not be easy or painless.

Nowhere on the website, or in any press releases, or in any interviews that I could find, did Theranos clarify this. If they could do 100+ tests on a single drop of whole blood it would be a revolution, and there would be no reason to hide it. But, if it was one 4-hour test per drop, that's actually worse than current state of the art, and they would have every reason to hide it.

This is one of the things that would have been clear if journalists had spent more time talking to lab experts, rather than Theranos' PR and laypeople in their offices.
How do you find offers when every resume submission is met with automated replies?
That reminds me of me after browsing HN's flavor of the month. Go -> Clojure -> Ruby -> Rust -> F# -> ...
> the U.S. could easily share early warning satellite technology with Russia

I strongly suspect that the US already has "shared" such technology with Russia, in the sense that they have obtained it from spies. There are other possible reasons why Russia might not choose to use such technology even if it has it (see my other post upthread).
Reddit AMA are terrible. They make it far to easy to choose the answers you want to answer.
Free Range Kids Bill Signed into Law in Utah
Strawman. None of those involved genocidal maniacs (unless you include Cambodia, where the U.S. did not intervene) nor plain old tin pot dictators bent on world domination.
You're talking about the same guy who said:

> Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

> Zuck: Just ask

> Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

> [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

> Zuck: People just submitted it.

> Zuck: I don't know why.

> Zuck: They "trust me"

> Zuck: Dumb fucks

If you actually do think he means well, you're a very nice person. Or incredibly delusional.
K Computer Accurately Models Aerosol Effects
I mean, the guy putting forward this theory is an expect in fluid dynamics. So I expect the answer is "yes, animals do make a big impact on oxygenation of the ocean".

Here's another study from 2014 that talks about the link between animals and oxygenation of the oceans. (This paper just focused on the mixing of oxygen in the ocean, it doesn't claim that more ocean-oxygen led to a higher oxygen world like the OP. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140309150540.h... )
I really hate that. It's a specific deal between Facebook and Amazon. You can't "block" it. Amazon willingly send your purchase history to Facebook.
Very sound advice, and I'd like to extend my extremely sincere thanks for you taking the time to write it.

I think the key takeaway is that HN is simply not the forum for political discussions, so probably the best strategy for me is to not open any comments on those topics.

Thanks again.
The difference is that more often than not, you can't go to the same level of detail and depth in a blog post as you would in a scientific article (and if you do, not that many people will read it). Reading science is hard work, and properly reviewing a "journal length" paper can take upwards of a day. I don't think you can have it both ways. If you write a good vulgarization, or technical blog post, and submit it here, you will likely get many eyeballs. If you post serious science, you'll get much less feedback, if any.
Machine-made video on selected Medium tags
What is the most secure and ethical messaging/broadcast platform?
I've left facebook, and so I've also said goodbye to Messenger. I already use Telegram and Discord (I know nothing about it's privacy/ethicality), but I'm open to alternatives that are even better that I can encourage my friends and family to use with me. What do you use and why HN?

Big thanks.
Bezos says, “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell six friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000.”

Tracking people makes them :(
Fear causes people to not make rational decisions. It's not a solution.
Writing a DNS Server in Rust
China Trails U.S. In Every Area of AI Development Except Big Data Report Finds
One other reason that density might have been more politically acceptable in Japan is that houses are not used as a vehicle for middle-class wealth accumulation.

On the spot.
How exactly did Belgium intend to enforce such an order? Facebook could just say, "OK, done" and change nothing.

It's not like Facebook was going to let Hercule Poirot pop over to look through the FB databases.
The parent comment said "Then measure values!", but didn't specify how. That was left as an exercise for the reader to imagine.

Mashing value metrics in to accounting practices seems problematic at best.

On the whole I think it's a tricky subject because we want to be careful not to stifle innovation, and sometimes problems only become evident after quite a few pavers have been laid on the road of good intentions.
Pirate Site Visits Lead to More Malware, Research Finds
Hey Zeroday,

I agree with point 5 and 4, it's a bit of a bandwagon.

However the article doesn't contain the quote you mentioned in point 3. Also, the only reported death due to Theranos that I can find is the sad death of the Chief Science Officer who killed himself.

I disagree with the premise that she should be fired. Reporters pitch stories all the time with specific premises... I'm trying to imagine taking what she wrote and putting into any kind of coherent narrative. It's not the kind of thing that would have made an impact, I don't think.
Yeah, jeez, why didn't we think of that.
In some fields, such as HCI (and research through design) I think there could be value in moving to a system where instead you version papers and also publish the criticisms that led to its refinement.

If you've explored a problem, designed a piece of technology, and taken it back to that audience to gain further insights into the problem, what I can do in reviewing it isn't the same kind of analysis as a maths proof. Even if I you were to give me the tech or the code, I wouldn't have the same people to test it with, and would not expect to get exactly the same results. Instead, peer review tends to criticise the writing, missing elements in the argument, pieces of literature that also need considering, aspects of the methodology, and suggest more things you could do.

All of which is very valuable, and sometimes peer review is the best (only) mentoring you'll get if you're in a small university. But it's not quite the same as "we have to review this or a wrong claim might get the imprimatur of being science". Design questions don't make the same claims of completeness or context-independence. It's more of an argument based in the kind of muddy evidence you have to put up with when tackling muddy problems.

Which makes me think that instead of peer review being a hurdle to publication, perhaps we should just make the whole argument and refinement public. Give the reviewers more kudos as instead of being invisible entities whose thoughts are only received by the author and editor, their role in the development of that idea becomes a published item too.
That's a different issue, though, and unrelated to this thread.
it's not a binary equation though, if data collection were illegal, content and service providers would be much more likely to try other solutions
Trump set for China tariff announcement on Thursday, trade war fears grow
You want to avoid those channels all together. Anytime you find a company that you want to work for or one with an interesting opening try to get in direct contact with someone at the company. Either at the manager level or in HR.

Simply asking for time to talk about the position is enough to bypass any automated process
I know the link title is supposed to copy the page's title, but I thought that would be confusing in this case. But I've since found news articles (e.g. [0]) that better contextualize what's going on, so maybe something like that would be a better link.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/reddit-bans-slew-of-communities-amid-new...
The dynamic range in the video is probably misleading compared to the sensor capabilities or what adjusted eyes would see.

If the car can't see things in time to stop, it's probably moving too fast for the conditions.
Who said anything about trust? It would certainly proceed in a lockstep process, with strict accountability and transparency, where the parties agree on a schedule to gradually dismantle all weapons and production infrastructure and supply detailed information at various checkpoints. You can't build a nuclear arsenal overnight.

NK joined an exclusive club and now Kim is rewarded with a visit from Trump. In this version of the world, possessing nuclear weapons is a source of legitimacy for any country. In a non-nuclear world, actions to obtain them will prompt imediate preemptive conventional attacks. Russia, US and EU could agree to maintain minimal deterrence capability against rouge actors like NK, but insufficient for global war.
Craigslist was self-bootstrapped, no?

No outside funding.
Not an answer to your question just a note: the "f-bomb" is not typically considered "sexual" in the US. (I'm assuming you're in the US/Canada/similar due to context clues.)
Yes, my admittedly limited exposure to Android has been negatively tinted due to this. Rooting and installing stock Android on a first gen Kindle Fire and later on, a Google Pixel C tablet are both sitting high in my list of most frustrating technical endeavors despite being a software dev and enthusiastically embracing technology for the past two decades of my life. I was shocked to find that the process was only moderately more straightforward on first party android devices.

If I ever buy another android device I’m going to treat it like an iOS device and not even bother with the tinkering aspect. It’s too much of a mess to be enjoyable for me.
Here in Los Angeles we have some of the most overvalued real estate in America. a bungalow in the city can go for millions, and is often torn down and replaced by a gleaming white McMansion because renovation is slower and costlier than filing new papers with the city. We cant just build more housing because traditional neighborhoods will fight to the death in courts to prevent multi family housing from devaluing their property or worse, competing for their rental income. The large apartment complexes that do get built are divided between anyone who can affort 10k a month in rent and fees, and "lower income" applicants who pay a fraction of this but are also held to strict terms and conditions. You wind up with millionaires and single moms living in beachfront Santa Monica communities, while anyone with a regular office job often commutes 40-70 miles in from the valley. Its often said you dont quit your job in LA, you quit your commute.

new apartments built are not priced affordably because banks and investors want their interest back quickly and have promised surrounding neighborhoods they will price accordingly to keep out the riff raff. in turn, dilapidated apartment complexes from the 60's go for about the same rates because these property owners know there is no "better offer" in town.

this doesnt even cover the 73,000 homeless people in Los Angeles county we cant seem to find a place for because no beach city wants to house their own unsustainable numbers of homeless, and no desert community is within a radius of health and welfare services required by many transients.

Then there are the haters. people like the Aids Healthcare Foundation who ran a 6 month campaign to defeat city legislation for new affordable housing. Why? Mike Weinstein doesnt want any development to obstruct the view from his penthouse.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aids-foundation-...

My husband and I live in LA and love it. but honestly, its bittersweet. We will never truly own anything more than a latte here.
>One other reason that density might have been more politically acceptable in Japan is that houses are not used as a vehicle for middle-class wealth accumulation.

How do the Japanese build wealth, then? Buying a desirable home in a solid market is pretty much the only way for an average person earning the median wage to make it into the middle class.
Basically, there are two different explanations for why black students find it hard to get into college.

(1) Racism. The white people in charge of college admissions just don't like black people, and let too few of them into college.

(2) Performance difference. Black students, on average, are less academically capable than white students.

A person who truly believes in meritocracy would say that if the explanation is (1), then it's an institutional problem that needs an institutional solution which involves supporting or boosting black students in some way. If the explanation is (2), then it's a problem with the individual student; black students need to improve their average level of study skills, talent, maturity, preparation, hard work, and all the other things that go into academic success.

The author's saying that he believes the evidence, in the form of grades by race, points toward explanation (2). If this is the case, and that evidence becomes public, meritocrats will turn against programs that help black students. Since they want to protect students from racism, but (by the definition of meritocracy) don't want to protect students from the consequences of their inability to perform academically, even if that means certain racial groups become underrepresented.
Hate speech and incitement to violence is not welcome in the UK, and quite rightly so.
I do think that swearing in public and by employees is becoming the norm. I think this is good as it allows folks to use natural speech patterns. It means that folks aren't getting reprimanded for using the word "fuck" when something goes wrong or something is dropped on their toe or when expressing heightened emotion and things like this. I don't think it to be bad to say, "I don't know what the fuck these people were thinking, but it means we need to change x,y, and z" is a horrible thing to say in such a meeting.

I do think if it was actually excessive, it is a bit weird in this context. Not bothersome (as my own speech is naturally peppered with such language at times), just weird because I think a CEO should have some sort of balance between normal speech and awareness of how others perceive them.

I might also add that I don't find the word "fuck" to be at all sexual unless one is talking about sexual situations. I would much rather hear the word "fuck" - or any common obscenity - when they don't mean it rather than the codes people use to hint around at sexual situations.
...guaranteed to lower your quality of life...

This is why many people (not me!) support draconian immigration restrictions.
If you're worried infill will cause cultural degradation, then perhaps your culture is not well suited to centralisation. That is, not suited to city living. Why else use Tokyo as an example of the success of infill? Japan is famous for it's low (petty at least) crime rate

The point of decreased property values is even mentioned in the article as desirable and here you are saying it isn't. The objective here is to make housing affordable, not the preservation of wealth centres.
Eventually working at Facebook is going to be something you downplay on your resume.
If the lot your house sits on in rezoned to allow for taller buildings your property’s value will very likely go up.

It is definitely less conveneient to have to move out of your house and wait for something bigger to be built.
Question. When are companies open positions with title names like "Growth Hacker, are" is their expectation to find someone who would deploy this kind of tactics? I ask because it seems that there's a line of thought that wants to legitimize some of these behaviors (voting rings, for instance.)
What are you talking about?

She came to the story with an expectation of the story she was going to write - a consumer-focused story about the finger prick stuff. You say "predetermined framing", as if she's covering a political issue and is biased, but what you're actually talking about is just the normal process of "reporter comes up with an idea for a story, and goes out to see if they can get it done". This is no more problematic than, say, a reporter going to the zoo with the "predetermined framing" of writing a story on a Panda bear.

She wasn't 'bribed'. I don't see any supporting evidence for that whatsoever. Theranos PR tried to get her to back off by threatening to pull the interview with Holmes, but the reporter didn't agree to that, so it didn't happen.

She sat on the story not because she "couldn't spin it the way she had intended" but because the story she set out to write simply wasn't there. She couldn't write a consumer-focused story about "less is more" without finding patients actually getting the finger prick, and she couldn't find any patients getting the finger prick. What she did find was a bunch of suspicious behavior, but the suspicious behavior alone wasn't a story.

Yes, she could have decided to spend a while digging in the hopes of uncovering a different story altogether about Theranos. But I can't really fault her for not doing that. Maybe (without knowing anything about the journalist) that kind of investigative reporting isn't what she does? Maybe she knew that kind of story would take a ton of work, if it even went anywhere, and she didn't have the time to do it? Maybe she knew her editor wouldn't approve that kind of story? Or something else entirely. Most likely, she just had some suspicious stuff, but didn't have enough to sustain the belief that Theranos was actually engaged in widespread fraud, and so decided that it wasn't worth spending a bunch of time tracking down the likely-innocuous explanation, especially since a Theranos lawyer promised her that more than 50% of test were done with a finger prick.
> But to see any user data you would actually have to be authorized as that specific user. I.E. a developer could test their app by logging in with their own FB account and using their own data but would have no capability to look at the raw DB entries of other users.

This is the status quo as of the 2014 platform policy changes.

The entire debacle is around the data retrieved (and saved) prior to that, which is what Cambridge Analytics has done.

> Or perhaps their could be a limited capability for developers to log in to their app as another user of it

FB Developer app has support for test users, who are marked as such.
First, I'm not reading the NYT editorial pages. I trust the reporting at NYT, WaPo, and WSJ about equally.

Second: if this concerns you, subscribe to the WSJ.

Third: the idea that you're getting exposed to valuable non-mainstream news sources from aggregators is pretty dubious. What I think is more likely is that you're being exposed to a lot of marginal stuff that doesn't hit WaPo because it doesn't pan out, and, much more importantly, that the selection of what deserves your attention is being made in a much dumber way than it is at a real paper.
With all the Sans typefaces that exist, it must resembles at least one of them.
What would happen with the similarities in terms of rights?
Obama Campaign Manager Talks Big Data at the Milken Institute [2013 video]
Investing in the stock market over the long term is both simple and accessible to almost everyone.
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Can you provide a link to this program? Is it on campus or online? Thanks
> That’s only because there’s no light on her until the end.

Yes, quiet true.

> The car hardware should have seen her. If it doesn’t work in the dark it shouldn’t be on the road imho.

I tend to agree. I think unfortunately this video indicates that the car did not perform worse than a human. It's still valuable to have cars that perform better than humans, even if they aren't perfect.
Good journalism? The story was nixed after the claims of the company couldn't be verified. This story - as is published now - would have been even better published years ago, when it was only suspected and not known that Theranos was a fraud.
This is the definition of "vaguely racist": "increased crime... and possible demographic shifts that marginalize your culture"

Don't want none of them other demographics moving here to increase the crime, and marginalize the culture.
There was an analysis on HN not too long ago that extrapolated real estate and stock market valuations back 150 years or so and concluded that the return on investment for both were roughly at pairity.

Buy an index fund.
Here’s a better video:

https://twitter.com/brianawhitney/status/976591851384745984?...

The car should have seen that.
Personally I have no expertise on the matter, but there are also other hackers who have been doing this for ages. Go to EVTV.me, a community about home built EVs, for example. You'll find plenty of documented projects of recycling laptop cells for both EVs and home energy storage.
Cities are built on network effects. It's the suburbs specifically that are conceived and designed such that growth and diversity destroys value.
Do you realize that journalists don't get to pick how they spend their time? They're just like other employees: a manager decides what they should be working on.

In this case, management had wanted the Holmes interview. The journalist couldn't deliver that, but came back with the seed for a different story: is Theranos actually doing finger-prick tests? We don't know who decided not to pursue that story, but it seems reasonable to assume it wasn't the journalist.

Now you want the employee fired for that decision. It's totally unfair. If you want journalists to be free from employment constraints, you should be donating to individual freelancers so they'd have financial freedom.