skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going a bit deeper, the earthquake took out most of the water supply to the fire hydrants in the city, and so the fire department couldn't put out the fires that started during the quake.

As a result, SF now has a backup hydrant system! Those big fat multi-colored hydrants are all connected to a fire-only water system that's gravity-fed from cisterns all over the city. The colors of the hydrants encode information about which cistern the water comes from, IIRC. And whenever you see a random arc of a circle made of brick inlaid in the road, that's outlining the location of a cistern.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-golden-fire-hydrant
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/05/the-sublime-subterran...
Reducing this problem to tribalistic "oh u mad because trump won!!" is infantile and absurdly counterproductive.

Which is of course why its brought up so much...
They detect CO2 and odors:

"Both Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes — which transmitdengue and malaria respectively — were much less attracted to the scented beads after being exposed to the chemical. These results showed that the receptor responsible for detecting carbon dioxide also detects skin odorants."

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-mos...

And thermal features:

http://www.caltech.edu/news/mosquitoes-use-smell-see-their-h...
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It's only a matter of time before their missiles do get good enough. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it. And its not going to do much good to wait until that day comes.

>As for South Korea, they have always been close enough to suffer catastrophic damages by traditional non-nuclear action, so why are they willing to come to the table now?

Just because that's been a risk they've lived with for 65 years doesn't mean they're happy or willing to suffer it. There's been multiple efforts over decades to try and resolve the relationship with the North and South, this isn't the first time or first attempt or anything. It's been a big issue in Korea for a long time.

>Unless they are preemptively trying to avoid retaliation on their own soil because of a US - led strike on North Korea.

Ideally. War is bad. It's bad for people. It's bad for economies. And look at it this way. If there was a problem in the U.S., does the U.S. want to solve their own problems or would they prefer China to step in and take care of it for them? Most countries want to solve their own problems and manage their own affairs if they can. National pride and such.

Yeah, if fighting broke out between North and South Korea, they'll take our help because winning is what matters. But if they can negotiate their own peace and own reconciliation that leave the U.S. on the bench, they'll be perfectly happy to do that.
I can't say. I have a lack of confidence that he could have kept it down to a final volume. It is of course impossible to say now. But his track record indicated that he was reluctant/incapable of finishing a subplot.

Did he intend to finish? Probably.

Was he capable of finishing? Previous work suggests not.
So much misinformation in the replies here.

Russians do make up a huge list of telegrams overall userbase. But most importantly, whatsapp and viber are end to end encrypted. Whatsapp uses signal. Viber uses a signal inspired encryption format. The common ground between both is that every single message is encrypted using a different secret key that is deleted after the message is received and decrypted on the device. Whatsapp and Viber have no way to give chat details even if they wanted to. Provided that they follow the protocol, and all accounts seem to point to the fact they do, then there is no backdoor or secret key they can give to any government.

Telegram in contrast uses a set of master keys to encrypt the conversations using RSA and aes256 as they travel through the servers. The keys are split across multiple servers residing in multiple jurisdictions so that legally, a government would have to seek permission to obtain each part of the key from a separate state.

Basically, this means that at the end of the day, if telegram ever forgoes its integrity (based off its public statements), every message will suddenly become decryptable.

That last point is what seems to really make telegram worth targeting.
I think part of it is the public lack of understanding of technology. A layman won't understand the phrase "Facebook API allowed access to data" as opposed to "There was a breach".
18M already
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/9/17100880/north-korea-republican...

Conservatives saying exactly what they did (condemn Obama) when he offered essentially the same thing as Trump has (with regard to talking with North Korea sans preconditions).

Fact, not opinion.
I think a much simpler and more elegant answer is "they didn't think of that, they just want to block Telegram."

As someone in Russia, the block pretty much only hinders use of the legitimate services, not of Telegram. Numerous services exist to allow it to continue, and the block is a hack-job to try to prove a point.
We know from Snowden leaks that Microsoft (Skype) & Facebook (WhatsApp) are already freely handing info to any government that asks. Search Wikipedia for: PRISM (surveillance program) Other programs have probably superseded it (and include Japanese ecom giant Rakuten who owns Viber), but you can be sure the user info still flows.

Telegram's independence is what separates them from other services, what allowed them to deny the demand for crypto keys, and why they were targeted.
Yes, we give them “a pass” to do their jobs. We elect them to manage all the affairs of government, including the easy ones.
I'm fully agreed with this. The question is then what are the ways we can improve the working/living conditions of people around the world. The way workers around the world have fought for better conditions is by using their ability to withhold labor and collectively bargain with the capitalist class.
Everyone hates when "their side" loses. Someone must suddenly be breaking the rules. There must be blame.
This is FUD.

The difference between the '90s and now is that in the '90s Microsoft spread FUD against Linux, and now segments of the Linux community are spreading FUD against Microsoft. FUD is bad no matter who spreads it.
Playing devil's advocate, it can be argued in some cases that even if your private homepage met that criteria, its purposes could be to advertise/establish/further your personal "brand" thus is for business purposes. For example, if you blogged about technical topics that could benefit your employment opportunities in the technical fields and get you speaking engagements. There's examples of people who have built careers solely from personal blogs/homepages.
Nothing of personal value is logged, when telemetry is set to Basic level.
How about "based on my observation of politics over the last few years I believe that if Obama had offered talks with North Korea he would have faced strong opposition from Republican politician in Congress.". Better?
It's not "screwing" them, you said it yourself. They can't provide adequate support to all of their customers (in this situation, customer is defined as a content creator), so they are reducing the number of customers that they take on (by making it so you need a specific number of views-per-month or subscribers before you are eligible for monetization), and are reducing the number of current customers they have (by demonetizing the videos and categories that advertisers like the least)
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount."

Kim Jong Un inherited his position atop the tiger's back. He was brutal, sure, but I do not envy anyone who inherits such a dangerous situation.

I've often thought of North Korea as the longest running hostage situation in history. What usually happens to hostage takers when they finally leave the building?
Deep Diesel: Using deep learning to detect diesel cars (DE)
Seems to be back for good this time
Fully Automated Space Communism.
None of those bikes we saw piled up in China were ebikes and they were all going to be recycled. The VW cars are awaiting regulatory approval for export or resale. The scooters on the other hand are difficult to recycle and weren't even designed for shared use.
It wasn't just FB. the trend was "openness", let the world know everything you do. It was actively pushed by all the media who are today accusing FB of going to far. When facebook was doing everything in and out of the books to grow faster and faster (such as allowing zynga to force-invite your friends to their games) , they were all looking the other way, because they saw a massive source of traffic that they could control themselves (facebook was giving untapped access to likes/followers back then).
One the machines I'm using at home and at work (Windows 10 Desktop + laptop, Windows 7 latptop, Windows server 2012 running in VMware), I've found that notepad is way slower than notepadd++ to launch. And adding tab support, syntax coloring, sane undo, restoring workspace on load and reload the file without closing the app, there's no competition between the two.
Are you o negative?
I wish you could sign up with your social media account or use more of a frictionless signup flow ala reddit or HN. The IRC 'signup' process (pick a name, start chatting) has always seemed to me the best option for messaging platforms, although it's not widely adoped.
18 millions now, things go crazy and out of control
... and get the worst possible experience? No thanks.
Meanwhile, The Linux Foundation decided that Linux isn't suitable and developed Zephyr [1] instead for IoT.

[1] https://www.zephyrproject.org/
You mean other than the fairliy regular coal ash spills?
You're probably referring to Gomorra, based on a novel by Roberto Saviano - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929425/
Yeah, and the current status quo isn't permanent. It's only a matter of time before their missiles improve enough. Whether it's one year or ten years, it's going to happen. It can't not happen.
Hardly unique to Facebook though. Isn't it a bit of a Valley cliché to be on a mission to change the world? To ask employees to believe in the company, not just to work there?
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I "loved" that too. Excepting having to find out that the problem really was a JS validation bug. To have to discover this in 3rd party obfuscated JS was not fun. :-) But hooray, I got it working.
Ask HN: Are there any books about failure (with no later success)?
I feel like the world of entrepreneurship, especially tech entrepreneurship, is suffering from history being written by the victor.

Everyone has a story about overcoming adversity and succeeding. It's the expectation. It's the hero's journey. But how do we know the failures weren't just red herrings -- that success was inevitable for these companies?

Are there any books that are post-mortems? Stories about companies who had every indication that they would succeed, but ultimately failed? I'd love to read about them.

Ones that come to mind that are out there:
- Kozmo.com
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things (sorta)

I'd love to read the history of MySpace, Wang computers, Atari, etc.
'A lot of me is fearful that the company is buying time until the founders can exit, and pass the problem on to the new owners.'

That is exactly what is happening. Leadership us under no illusions about their platform. However, an exit strategy like this is typical and not necessarily bad for anyone. The buyers often don't care about platform quality as they are going to rewrite most of it during integration.
18 millions now
Things go crazy
Yeah, the situation here is more akin to you go outside wearing clothes, but they've developed x-ray glasses and you're now like, "What? Just wear a lead apron everywhere you go".
I just can't get behind the article. Starting with headline.
It just tacks on the word - "startup". Companies re-orient and re-brand themselves routinely. Some companies are more adventurous than others but that doesn't make them a startup. They have a lot of legroom to make a mistake and still come out. But, if we follow the advice of this article - Google also acted like a startup when it created Alphabet. Or Coco Cola acts like a startup every time it tries to rejig the formula.

Secondly, Stock Value as a KPI is just wrong. There are many ways to manipulate the price - optimistic outlook, buybacks and dividends even if earnings aren't that great. Sure market does come around to the truth eventually. But as Keynes said - "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." So, finding out might take time.

The only thing which works for me is a description of Domino's digital strategy. The Pizza tracker has worked in Dominos favor. Though I am a fan of the tracker, over time it has become increasing clear it is just a psychological trick. Show some progress bar to make people happy. Many times I find the tracker stuck at "preparing" and only to update delivered directly.
SD has a very dark and disturbing history I think we can all agree to that but they have cleaned up and become a different party then before. They are now for example proponents of "open swedishness" where ethnicity have no bearing on if you are Swedish. http://www.lt.se/opinion/debatt/sd-ar-for-en-oppen-svenskhet

"Its overwhelmingly clear the main reason for the party is to turn Sweden into some sort of white nationalist fantasy where anyone with a brown face is not welcome.
"do you really believe this?

Maybe it wasn't clear in my original reply but to me it seems SD thinks the way to save the Swedish welfare state is reduced immigration.

Immigration can be good for the economy sure, but in my opinon you can't just state that all immigration is good for the economy as a whole.
Just today a report from Konjunkturinstitutet came that said that warns that if more immigrants don't get jobs the taxes will have to be higher. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/ekonomi/konjunkturinstitutet-darf...

In the paper Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden by Ruist, Joakim. The cost is refugee immigration and their family members is calculated to 1 % of BNP in the year 2007.
> why should the world trust Facebook or Zuckerberg to shape and manage this new global meta-society? Could Zuckerberg, who wields considerable power over Facebook’s share structure, develop the self-awareness and responsibility to manage it?

> it’s time to set real limits on Facebook’s power

Makes me wonder: who will be setting those limits, and how can we know they will have the "self-awareness and responsibility" to handle it?
Monitoring 700+ Japanese crypto discussions
Absurd. Users "consented" when they signed up for a domain. Don't like it? Use a whois service to anonymize.
North Korea have been trying to engage in talks for years. The US and South Korea have taken the approach that North Korea needs to give concessions - in the form of demilitarisation - before talks begin. Now they don't.

North Korea (quite astutely) pointed out that if they did as they were told, like Libya, they'd end up like Libya. They don't want to end up like Libya.
There are so many things to learn these days but learning morse code to fight against kidnapping sounds about as esoteric/specific/paranoid as learning shorthand so as to be able to transcribe important conversations quickly without having to rely on audio equipment. Survivalists probably have more practical tips at hand before needing to learn ham radio and morse. Heck, learning to run fast and long is probably more useful for most people.
The interesting question is not whether those are good things -- they clearly are. The interesting question is their value relative to each other and, more specifically, relative to correctness. To what extent are we willing to tolerate less correct decisions if necessary in order to achieve those and other desirable properties?

It seems like the answer to that question is situationally dependent.
Is there a difference between proxy registrations and not making the registrant information public?
I wish there was a way to distinguish between real forks and forks that were created for the sake of creating a pull request.
Ah, well, as long as we can redefine previously understood terms to mean something different, I guess all's fair.
This reinforces the fact that the internet is decoupled from geography.
Non-paywalled: http://www.antlr.org/papers/allstar-techreport.pdf
The Sound of 'Pink Noise' Improves Sleep and Memory
Is there any solution other than those 2 options?

Any resizing of a jpg to another jpg is going to incur double compression isn't it? Sure there are ways of mitigating it using various sampling and resizing algorithms, but it's not going to be perfect, and there is no "one-size-fits-all" best algorithm.

What would a "browser API" provide that you can't already get with canvas?The only thing I can think of is customizable resize algorithms, but I'd rather have the option to change that for a canvas, rather than a specific "resize this image API".
People sounded the alarm many years ago. EFF from 2009 "predicted" a CA-like event would happen as a direct result of FB policy changes: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/facebooks-new-privacy-...

Rest assured, not everyone in technology openly embraced the externality-disregarding "move fast and break things" ideology that took hold of SV in the last decade or so.
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I bet you don't even know half the time when you're using a hybrid app.
20,000 people doing support at a generous 10$ an hour is ~400 million a year. Which sounds bad but is only ~40cents per user.

However, 0.1% per day and 10 minutes per call is a very high estimate.
So if you want your data to remain out of scope for US warrants the only way is to choose non-US companies? Drastically reduces the options, I can only think of OVH and Hetzner that would qualify..

Or are the German data centres of Azure safe as they're run by a German company?
It goes counter to the idea of a globally connected internet though. Without a degree of oppression of free speech you can't stop the flow of culture and ideas no matter how big of a wall you build.
Consider using VeraCrypt instead of Microsoft's closed source BitLocker. Basically for the same reason's you'd use Telegram over Facebook's WhatsApp.
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A human powered scooter is perfectly fine on the sidewalk. Luxe used them for their staff to get around. I'd love to see a non-motorized docked scooter startup.
Yeah, it's a bit of a puff piece. The app, the social media push, none of that would have worked if their pizza still tasted like unwashed feet. The biggest thing Domino's did to turn the company around was to start making better pizza.
Well it might change the tools you use on the Apple platforms, as Intel specific stuff will deprecate. And some tools will be optimized for it, whenever that happens (having been around for the 68k->PPC and PPC->Intel changes) you will probably see some of your favorite programs either become useless on new systems or a rewrite that isn't quite in the spirit of the older versions (new dev team, new ideas/priorities, maybe not as savvy on some of the features that were in the older versions) Ive seen a lot of good software/features left on the wayside during those transitions, theres been some welcome advances too but I fondly remember what was possible but no more.
I'm sure there were plenty of people that had second thoughts about privacy in the early days; but, like the author, they probably chose not to question it and said nothing.
The paper has been around for 28 years, so you can probably find strong opinions on its credibility if you look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munhwa_Ilbo
For non-LTE models, yes. But if you are notified via your wrist, you still have to go through the effort of retrieving your phone, unlocking it, and then tending to the notification before you get to the “time wasting” stage, and I think its that’s a barrier to entry that’s causing people to use their phone less.
While I understand the sentiment behind your statement. I would have bet every penny I have that the republicans would have thrown a fit and I'd be retired at 36. It's about as safe a bet as the Sun rises in the east. But only because republicans pitched a fit about anything Obama had a hand in. It was predictability as constant as the Northern star.
And autoupdater with http links, sha-1 and rsa-768.
But I'm not 100% if I interpret sources correctly.
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/dev/Telegra...
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/dev/Telegra...
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/master/Tele...
>After Model 3, all major car manufacturers are changing their product development and production lines to make electric vehicles

This does not comport with reality. The Nissan Leaf, for example, came out a full 7 years before the first Model 3. The only thing unique about Tesla's electric vehicles is their willingness to lose many billions of dollars producing them.
I fail to understand how any of this justifies violence and threats against YouTube employees. Tying your income to an "algorithm" will always be a high risk proposition. The whole field of entertainment video itself has always been a very tough business to break into that carried with it lots of risks. People thought YouTube was easy money, and perhaps for a while it was, but it would be naive to assume that gravy train had any long-term potential.

The world of television is full of stories of pilot episodes that get picked up, are a smash hit for a few seasons, but get cancelled. The producers of those shows didn't have right to shoot up ABC, NBC, or Fox and many just licked their wounds and tried again.
In my view it reinforces that the internet is dominated by the US. All data stored at any of the large cloud providers falls under US jurisdictions.

EDIT: it also appears asymmetric. I doubt a French court can issue a warrant that forces OVH to turn over data stored at their Canadian data centre (similar with OVH and Finland).
This was a meta-study, not an actual study. So the studies used won't change, what might happen is that another meta-study will come along that will interpret the data differently. So for stuff like this it comes down to methods. There is no point to waiting for more data if you accept the methods used in this meta-study. There is lots of data, perhaps even too much...
He always had the option of just laying down the weapons, opening the border to the South

That's a pretty naïve supposition. Being a dictator is not like playing a video game, despite how fun and easy Sid Meier's Civilization makes it seem. In the real world you can be shot by your own soldiers if you alienate the wrong person.
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"But my startup is different!"
Not just “early”. If you talk to FB employees they do really seem to believe they’re “changing the world”, and that their product is a gift to mankind rather than an abomination.
I don't think #2 (Azure) applies.
Your best bet is to store cryptographic keys offsite and leave the data in the cloud. There's a market opportunity for someone who can wrap that up in a reasonable API/library for use on EC2/GCP/Azure.
> David neglected to mention that one can easily mark facebook.com as untrusted in NoScript.

but don't they use hundreds of other domains for tracking that you may not even know?
How can you prove a data controller gave away your information and that you didn’t falsely do it yourself?
Why not? Use comodity server to compute long running tasks dosen't seems a trend fading away anytime soon.

There are more solutions other than M/R now though (spark, presto etc) but they require high performance servers (presto suggested RAM amount is 128GB).