skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia had just as many accidents as the US if not more you just don't hear about them.

The launch code anecdote isn't actually true http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/21/air-force-swears-our-nuk...

There was never any time where any one could launch the missiles alone with or without the final authorization codes coming through the chain of command.

And in some sense you are making my point for me, even if we take the US as a bunch of drunk teenagers N. Korea would be worse, not only that they have complete disregard of human life anyone is too fucking scared to say anything that isn't "yes supreme leader the missile you've designed works perfectly".

This is the problem with such regimes that they essentially are biased against any shred of competence. That Sacha Baron Cohen movie was somewhat dead on the money in this regard when 'Aladeen' executes the guy incharge of the missile system because it wasn't pointy enough.

Both Saddam and Gaddafi acted similarly with their own weapon programs especially in the latter years which is one of the reasons they got no where.

The interference from Israeli, US and probably 20 other intelligence agencies didn't really help the situation.

However North Korea is an intelligence gathering nightmare it's a closed up ethnostate where local population has essentially been brainwashed there is little to no outside communication there are almost no embassies or diplomatic missions so running any humint assets in country is pretty much impossible.

Which is somewhat scary since there is little to no warning when N. Korea does something essentially all the intelligence is coming from either SIGINT intercepts or VISINT gathered from orbit which limits the insight one can gather this is quite different than what was going on in the cold war.
Ironically spying is on the top of the list of reasons to have a diplomatic relationship with another country because running any intelligence operation becomes much harder to near impossible without an embassy.
Why the down-vote? It is a simple question.
> high-reward

What was the reward?
Sorry, I was being silly. Our RR (is not unusual) in having a scoring system. We normally score from 0-9. There are two parts: "How likely is this thing going to happen" and "what will it do". Both parts are given a score of 1-3 and then the scores are multiplied together to get the Risk score (we use slightly different terminology but the idea is there). An item gets zero when fixed or considered not a risk but is deemed worth documenting.

So, on our register you get a series of items with weights from 0-9 that is a self ordering list of things to fix. It is pretty simple and you could add more dimensions if you like.

I'm just a simple Board member of my company - MD in my case. We try to create to do lists that have a reasonable chance of being fixed with a reasonably simple ordering of importance.
Same, but at a smaller scale. I have 3.
Hate to break it to you but you essentially just hid all that shit from the UI.
The shot generator feature looks unbelievable.

Scroll down and check out this text. Would love to get inside scoop on this.

"Storyboard Pro - Shitty software that costs $1000? Boords and other online software that just allows you to order images and costs a monthly fee?

Fuck those guys.

And fuck Sony Pictures. They make the worst fucking movies. What does that have to do with free software? Not much. Maybe use free software to make great movies and don't waste money going to a Sony movie? Fuck.

And fuck Dave Morin. And Gary Vaynerchuk. Ugh."
Intercom's new funding brings valuation to $1.275B
I suggest reading The Mythical Man Month sometime, you're not accounting for the complexity of running such an "n-teams" scheme.
Did she try having the pregnancy in parallel?

Doesn't sound like she was trying at all.
They perturb earth’s orbit in a way that will become evident in a million or so years.
First of all, a significant part your comment is ad hominem. For example, bringing up his dyslexia and sexuality in the context of his credibility does no credit to your argument.

More importantly, some very big players have decided that Wylie is very credible. Channel 4's investigation, which featured Cambridge Analytica's CEO bragging about conducting campaign bribery and blackmail on camera, was based primarily upon his whistleblowing to The Guardian's Carole Cadwalladr. Britain's libel laws are quite strict, so Wylie was extensively vetted before Guardian was confident enough to publish without fear of being sued. And Channel 4 approved the undercover investigation of CA on the basis of Wylie's information. Also, with these kinds of blockbuster investigative reports, the legal department gets involved in vetting whistleblowers.

Based on all this, along with Wylie's testimony to parliament today, as well as his willingness to testify under oath to the US Congress, I'd say his credibility is quite high unless specifically proven otherwise.
FBI engineered showdown with Apple to set backdoor precedent
I don't doubt you may have a point in general, but this article in particular is challenging material. Period. If it was much easier to read, I would become suspicious.
This article is incomplete. In another source (don't have the link here, sorry) he was deemed rude with coworkers, but totally great with customers. And this is indeed part of French tradition for people to be very rude and agressive in the kitchen.

I have a French friend who used to run a restaurant with his wife. They would be yelling at each other all day long in the kitchen, but be totally happy and great with each other at the end of the day. That's how he learnt it at school.

Edit: found the link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43507949
> at least he's willing to be held accountable

Not really. He refused to testify before UK Parliament. I guess he didn't feel
that he has any real choice in the case of his own country of origin.
Is this the first unicorn in the 500 Startups portfolio?
Fair enough, although I'll counter that GIMP didn't actually get single-window mode until 2011 (a full 10 years after that bug report), and it seems like the GIMP devs spent a lot of the intervening period trying to claim lack of single-window mode as a feature.

Like I say, ancient history now.
But some of us are good at holding onto grudges :-)
Nvidia to Unleash Deep Learning in Hyperscale Datacenters
I agree with virtually everything you have said, but I am still sensing an implicit prejudice towards men.

You claim to take issue with people blowing inequalities out of proportion:

>What I take issue with is people blowing the inequalities that disadvantage white men out of proportion.

And yet that is exactly what you just did, by cherry picking one of the "lesser" problems men face (disproportionate incarceration), ignoring the others (higher probability of getting killed), and then using hyperbole ("all the time") in favor of women:

>Since I'm a white man, my odds of being incarcerated are ~1/100. Small chance of that. If I were a woman, however, I'd be dealing with the problems I listed in my previous post all the time.
For whatever reason,

> "I've been able to track down some well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempts at fixing things that then blew up and became something much bigger. The folks who I pinged about it were amazed that I somehow had managed to "guess" that a specific member of their team had been poking at a specific box"?

read like "I didn't like what someone did on a machine I had to troubleshoot, and told their manager" to me.

I was also reading this prior to coffee, mea culpa.
The US operated reactors to produce weapons plutonium at the Hanford site in Washington state and the Savannah River site in South Carolina. The last Hanford reactor making weapons plutonium shut down in 1987 and the last of the Savannah River plutonium reactors shut down in 1988.

Commercial power reactors like those used for electricity in the US produce plutonium that has an isotopic composition unfavorable for weapons. It has more plutonium 240 than weapons grade material. The high spontaneous fission rate of Pu-240 makes it difficult to produce reliable weapons that reach full yield without pre-detonation.

It's fair to criticize the US for holding on to its old stockpiles of weapons plutonium. It's not sensible to criticize it for continuing to make weapons plutonium, because it hasn't done that in 30 years.
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No, when you complain about usability issues in GIMP to _me_, I actually listen and make notes. Some of these notes end up in the bug tracker.

But not, and I repeat -- not when complaints are made in demanding and offensive tone, without providing useful feedback.
Too many acronyms, couldn’t follow your train of thought.
The best solution is to just not use Facebook.

Better if you can get your account suspended for something that doesn't provoke a law enforcement response.
I'm eagerly awaiting a US bank that lets me review transactions and things programmatically. Even better would be webhooks for transactions, or in front of transactions for custom verification.

Oh the things I would build...
‘Redirecting' extremists away from radical content
Check out this book:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/obfuscation

Full of obfuscation tactics like that.
I love the lighting effects. Is that a diffuser umbrella showing up in the reflection?

Is it possible that the Hotspot version will ever contain a comprehensive catalog, or would that dig into sales of the main product? Could you add a back-catalog to Hotspot without impacting sales?

Can you handle phones with moving parts? e.g. QWERTY sliders like the Xperia Mini Pro, or addons like "Moto Mods" or the Essential PH-1 360 Camera.

Are you in discussion with any of these "websites that let you compare the specs of phones"? That sounds like a great match.

1.5MB sounds a bit large when most phones have quite simple geometry. Where does the file size come from?
I definitely had success with soundhound. No Rain by Blind Melon was stuck in my head but I couldn't remember the band.

Hummed the riff and had it in no time.
You are conflating two concepts. One is the ability to complete 100% of any ride and react to a kid running into the street, etc. The second is to satisfy 100% of current taxi service like rural areas or dirt roads.

100% safety on 90% of possible trips is a damn good business, let the taxis take the other 10%. That is “autonomous taxis are here.” 90% safety on 100% if possible trips is how you kill people.
I’m a recruiter – AMA
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I did a somewhat similar analysis a while back [1], and I found that many of the top domains either had a YC affiliation or corresponded to extremely well-known companies or organizations. This made me interested in finding lesser known blogs that also produce high quality content. I tried to identify these by putting a limit on the number of unique users who had submitted content from each domain. My thinking here was that something like the GitHub blog would have submissions from many users, while smaller personal blogs would probably be mostly self-promoted. Using this approach, I was able to turn up some pretty interesting blogs that I had never heard of before.

I think it could really increase the usefulness of HN Domain Leaderboard if you added some additional filtering capabilities. Filtering based on the category would probably be pretty easy because you have that information there already, but perhaps also consider some measure of how broadly promoted each domain is. The time range option is already pretty cool, and I'll bet that a few more options would make it even more fun to play around with.

[1] - https://intoli.com/blog/pareto-optimal-blogs/
There could be a number of things limiting the speed of an electric motor aside from limited torque/mass. The motors could be speed limited because of high material failure rates above a certain threshold or because the circuits can't be driven that fast for whatever reason.
Fi recently announced some changes for large data users:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/17/google-project-fi-bill-p...

Basically it caps off at $60 after 6GB, is free up to 15GB, and then throttles.

That's pretty great pricing especially considering it works anywhere in the world.

Disclaimer: I am a Google employee, Fi customer outside of work, don't work on Fi.
If you are in silicon valley you should check out

https://www.strategytmt.com/

The classes are great if you are a PM or an entrepreneur or simply if your company pays for these kinds of classes.
Bringing up his dyslexia and sexuality in the context of his credibility does no credit to your argument.

I pasted his own quote. That is how he describes himself in the media. That is the only reason I found it relevant - because he found it relevant. In the quote I copied, he also said that he is both Canadian and a vegan, but somehow you didn’t take issue with that. Is it now not PC to copy and paste exact quotes from people? The rules change so often...I can’t keep up.

With regard to the rest of your comment, again, my comment was in response to his Palantir claim. Did he present any evidence of his Palantir claim?
Yep, it _is_ a scam website now. The previous owner lost it and then failed to get it back.
What sort of QA would be doing memory access tests? Most I've worked with can't even do automation scripts.
You've said disingenuous a lot, what exactly is disingenuous about the current reporting?
As a shareholder in large companies I’m not sure I even benefit. The legal departments are going to have to have a bigger budget to deal with this, and new IP is going to be costlier to develop / buy / defend.
Of course you are right. But it just comes off as a passive voice, dismissive, "not our fault, sorry" kind of way to phrase it.
One of the problems with cheap one-seater cars is that they are better suited for short distances than long highway commutes. Being in a tiny car next to a semi truck at highway speeds can get dicey.
Yeah for sure, it's definitely got its warts. I suspect the import thing was far easier to code as an error than to compute whether they need to be pruned. Gotta love those go build times though! With vim-go and goimports, it's handled automatically for me on save so I don't find that an issue any more. Unused variables, on the other hand...
But they still get fined 4% of their global revenue. A few $1.5bn fines and they'll learn how to delete.
I was being silly and making quite a few assumptions about readers - which is also daft.

This is a really awful snag but it has all ready been patched if you apply them.
When I was studying jazz we’d play a game where somebody would improvise over the chord changes to a song and you’d have to guess what song it was. That could be an in app purchase for this.
Maybe they would get back to work...
If anyone wants more background on where the Federal Circuit came from and why it has caused so many problems, check this out: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appe...
I would really like to programmatically download my tracks. I guess I could make all tracks public and then scrape the my feed page, but a more elegant solution would be nice.
To the Cinematic and VR Community, Live Long and Prosper
That's vanishingly unlikely to happen. Nice thought though.

I think there is little argument that North Korea is worse by many metrics than the US.

Not that the US doesn't have it's own share of sins, it does, but at least it doesn't have dynastic dictatorships and provides some measure of freedom for their citizens.

Then again, I live in the US. While there are some things I'd like to see changed in my country, NK having improved military power is definitely not in my interest. Nor is it in the interest of most of the world IMOP.

I was not in support of almost any military adventures (or CIA adventures) of the last 20+ years my country has undertaken, very ashamed, wish it had not happened, voted against, protested against, did not support, it happened anyway. But I would support action against the North Korean regime if it came to it. They truly are dangerous to a world order that somewhat works for millions of people.
Unless oil is no longer the chief source of energy. Ultimately I think the US may do fine for itself so long as it protects its natural resources and researches (to ultimately switch to) alternative energy.
Intercom raises €101m in funding round. Most valuable Irish tech firm
> Setting up an iPad for coding is my greatest feat as a computer user

What's a computer?
do these zips represent what fb makes available to advertisers/app publishers/partners/researchers or is it just a dump of everything fb has on you as a user? seems there's at least a few different ways for your info to leak... what exactly is provided to an advertiser? what exactly is provided to an app publisher, assuming the user granted permissions to access the phone & contacts? certainly personally identifiable info in the 2nd case.

is there no safeguard against 1 idiot contact sharing YOUR info without YOUR consent?
Whatever, man.

If you're part of the project, your attitude is exactly what I'm talking about, so thanks for reinforcing my convictions.

If you're not, since I'm unable to process basic information I wouldn't want to waste your time.

Let's call it a day.
This looks really wonderful!

Interesting that there is a CLA, but no embedded license file? Rather curious for such a well executed application and launch page.
You could just not give any 3rd party app permissions to see your stuff and achieve the same thing?
That's an interesting threat model for this particular defense.

Cliqz has done some interesting research in this area of detecting (and stripping) unsafe data elements.

http://josepmpujol.net/public/papers/pujolTrackingTheTracker...
Liked his post on LinkedIn[0]. A level of detail and personal responsibility that I don't think we see too often in these post-mortems. Hope their learnings enable Kevin + team to build something even more useful next.

0: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-cant-wait-you-see-what-we-d...
Uh, no.

You don't need a facebook account for them to know more about you than your parents do. They get data from many other sources.

Also, poor analogy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08...

http://adage.com/article/dataworks/mastercard-amex-feed-data...

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-doesnt-tell-user...

https://analytics.facebook.com/features/omni-channel
Ask HN: What does HN think about adding “A” to STEM?
I have to admit, when I first heard about this I thought it was a clever joke. But at today's Apple keynote, Cook mentioned STEAM himself.

For those unaware, STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. It's the category of fields considered to be in high-demand all over the world. There however seems to be a group of people concerned with inclusivity, and so they are pushing the addition of "Arts" to STEM -- i.e. STEAM.

Thoughts?
I'm sorry it took so many days (11 - this is now on the third page of your userpage so you might not see this) to reply to this: you write extremely counterintuitive and challenging things. (While also supporting your statements with uncontroversial observations that are easy to agree with.)

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'll reflect on what you've written.
Amazon wishlist api
Is your code on github?
Testing to make sure you can't read from somewhere you are not supposed to read from seems like a pretty obvious test for an OS.
Maybe not the reason, but I see his level of abstraction as at an order of magnitude higher than just about any other mainstream tech writer. Making his long posts both unique and somewhat less practical.

I just haven't found anyone else digging in as deep with regard to the fundamental economic differences between Google/Facebook/Amazon and past giants of industry. His recent points on the privacy scandal at FB were very insightful in that he explains how Zuckerburg's problems originated in being in denial that FB is an ad company first and platform second. (If they'd realized that sooner, they never would have given away data like they did, goes his theory. They would have still hoovered up data, but would have avoided recent scandals.)

But can definitely see how it may not speak to everyone the same.
As I undestand it, there is a principle that legal contracts themselves cannot be copyrighted, despite the fact that they might well be the result of a considerable amount of creative work. The underlying principle here is that the legal effect itself cannot be subject to exclusive ownership, and the only way to get the same legal effect is to have the same contract.

I believe APIs can be considered under an analogous principle - that is, the ability to interoperate with a set of existing code shouldn't be subject to exclusive ownership, and you can't interoperate with the same existing code without implementing the same API, so APIs should not be copyrightable. (This draws a distinction between the API itself and the underlying implementation of that API).
[1] suggests that it is at least possible to do both simultaneously, and it would be a relatively cheap way to address suspicions to add the power lines even if they aren't being used (would a plutonium-producing reactor also require a connection to the grid?). I agree that without inspection you can't really say how it is being used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239 : "[C]ommercial nuclear power reactor designs [...] could have machinery added that would permit U-238 slugs to be placed near the core and changed frequently, or it could be shut down frequently, so proliferation is a concern".
Great work!

Could be a good idea to try draw some diagrams too =)
Nearly 1/3 of tech workers will delete Facebook accounts amid scandal, study
Patents/IP rights. Very strong team of eng. a lot of cool tech.
That or switch to unix.

Bad coding on one product isn't exactly the most convincing strategy to get people to try a different product.
Meh. Tesla has been within days of bankruptcy before.
My insurance choices as a Washington state individual:

- $900 a month, $1000 deductible

- $400 a month, $7000 deductible, doesn’t cover one cent for doctors or hospitals I use

Notice that the deductible gap and the higher fees equal $6000 a year in either plan. Three choices: A, B, or neither
It has been in common use for a few years. At my kid’s school in Mountain View we have had STEAM night for the past four years.
Seems low tbh.
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Do you mean the monthly cost of the data? I would totally do this, it's a few dollars to add on to my verizon plan, and something I already pay for for my hotspot.
The suspense demo is fantastic, and I really can't wait to get 16.3 into production code. The async rendering clean up and the new Context API make my heart sing.
Kubernetes 1.10: API Aggregation and Pod Security Policy Stability
This is genius! As a designer & storyteller I love this and I’d like to support you guys with my team’s UI design power (we occasionally help open source or charity projects for free). Reach out if you guys could need some UI design help. Details in my bio.
I edited the post to hide the annotations behind a gist: https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/pull/719

Hope this is clearer now!
Parent comment probably means access to the administration and administration supporters for Thiel and related companies. Much easier to be a voice in a room of 10 people than a voice in a room of 1000. Trump and his picks were more likely to support large defence projects and big business operations that Palantir could profit from.
Love this. Design and culture impact matters.
> You guys who think patents that slap "but use a computer to do it" onto the end of some existing process are bad? Google's trying to say the same thing per computer form factor.

This is ridiculous. An argument supporting a fair use defense in a copyright proceeding is a very different thing from a patentability argument. Google is not trying to claim patent rights to its Android API.