skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several reasons that your data isn't correct, and I'm not going to sit down and poke at every one of them, but let me point out some major things.

You have a strong need to separate out civil wars from great power conflicts, but many of them, particularly the ones that lead to lots of deaths, have very strong international involvement, and the destruction is driven in large part by foreign involvement. The Congo Wars and the Russian Civil War are good examples of this. Beyond that, you basically jump at the opportunity to classify wars as civil wars: the Germanic incursions into the Roman Empire and the Thirty Years' War [1] are in no way civil wars.

Placing importance of wars on the raw numbers of people killed is a bad way to go about things. First off, we have trouble establishing these counts even in modern contexts where sophisticated bureaucracies exist to keep track of everything (these bureaucracies have a way of breaking down in war); historical counts involve a fair amount of guesswork, and especially in list mode, you're not seeing similar methodologies being applied to ensure that the estimates are comparable. Even keeping track of wars with similar methodologies is difficult: why do we roll up all of the 14th century Anglo-French conflicts into the Hundred Years' War, yet insist on keeping World War I, World War II, the Russian Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Spanish Civil War all separate instead of a Forty Years' War?

Most importantly, however, is that raw death totals don't reflect the impact of destruction. The deadliest war in US history is not the American Civil War, but King Philip's War, which killed 10% of the population. The Thirty Years' War was hardest in Northern Germany, where it killed about 50% of the people, while World War II only managed to kill 17% of the Poles (and most of that due to the Holocaust). Raw death counts inflate the relative importance of Chinese wars, since the Chinese river plains were historically able to support far larger population densities than in, say, Europe, so conflicts in China necessarily involve more people even at a comparable level of technological sophistication.

[1] For most of its existence, the Holy Roman Empire was not properly a country as we would understand it in our modern terminology. Admittedly, the Habsburgs were trying to reestablish it as a strong centralized state at the time, but the Thirty Years' War was effectively the point at which they gave up. It's more proper to think of the HRE at this point as closer to a 17th century organization akin to the current European Union than the modern United States.
> 1) Is actually more expensive than RPi 3s; and

The RPi people quote this incessantly casually leaving out the fact that the BeagleBone already includes 4GB eMMC (a uSD card is at least $5)

> 3) Lower RAM;
> 4) Lower perf;

Less RAM but FASTER RAM. RPi3 is DDR2 vs BeagleBone Black's DDR3.

So, between the eMMC being much faster than uSD and the faster RAM (and the Ethernet on the BBB is way faster), I suspect that the BeagleBone Black probably performs better for most workloads.

In addition, people just blithely skip past the whole closed nature of the Broadcom SoC. If you are serious about creating a product ever shipping in real quantities, that's a killer.

It disappoints me greatly that people never seem to have a genuinely good answer for this when I ask.
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> Or even better

Well then the user would learn nothing. A better solution would be to notify them that this is wrong, delete their comment, and then prevent them from commenting on github.com for a period of time (1 hour? or more?)
Yep. That's what the embedded Tweet was meant to illustrate.
What's really fascinating is hearing about people that work there now that used to work with them in the early stages. I talked to a dude who was in charge of a database tool called Tango back in the day who was worried they wouldn't be able to make the yearly license cost and now he works for them.

Technology only grows more fascinating as the titans rise and fall.
I did. If they are in the U.S. then they will be exposed to other ideas too. That's a good opportunity to show them the value of different ideas. I doubt they are prohibited from having non Chinese friends or reading on the U.S. internet.

An analogy is - there are plenty of undercover Mormons, Jews, etc who keep up appearances for their family's sake. They've found a different way that works for them, so why wouldn't these people?

tl;dr People are complex and if you are trying to control minds, often your efforts can backfire.
For block level checksums there is dm-integrity :)

It's dm layers all the way down...
I'm not sure about the businessdirectory plugin but I can vouch for ACF. The plugin doesn't break if you remove the license key. In fact, you can actually give someone the pro version's plugin folder and they can use it for free(it just won't be able to update that's all)

Perhaps this used to happen in the past but not anymore.
Can anyone speak to whether PRNGs might be affected?
Cities got that way by fiat, not by choice, and the government engineered the system with no small amount of help from the industrial lobbies that would be best served by having a car-dependent population.

I would love for us to re-engineer the system. The first step is removing the entitlement.
Everyone should use whatever GlassWire uses. Can't remember now what it was. The creator answered that question here on HN.
Does anyone have a good tool for pixel-level annotation? I was thinking an iPad app with pencil support might be nice, but open to whatever is out there.
Where would it be useful outside of an automagically generated __init__ method?
Yep! And even rental car companies do take advantage of public parking: when cars are actually in use, customers are free to park them in any public parking spot.
So to contribute to this you have to sign the Oracle Contributors Agreement:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html

"The OCA gives Oracle and the contributor joint copyright interests in thre code."

What does 'thre' mean? ;P

They want it physically printed and signed.. sigh, I haven't printed anything in years.

Is this normal to require a scanned signature for CLAs? I noticed Apache CLA is the same (they want scanned paper signature), but all others I've seen are an online form.
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Congratulations on launching. I'm looking forward to trying it out, but on first glance I wanted to say that the design is very charming.

Edit: a Google account sign in, however, isn't that charming. I got a 404 on trying to log in. Oh well.
Yeah true. I'm gonna review Visual Composer in the near future :P
It would be unique because Sweden are attached to a continent where everyone drives on the other side of the road.

The other left hand sided driving countries are normally either in clusters together or are isolated by water and so don't have cars crossing the border.

Interestingly in the far east of Russia they get a lot of cars imported from Japan so the steering wheel is on the right hand side so they have the opposite problem.
Nothing stupid about it. The plan is to support the business with affiliate links to the plugins and get some sponsorship on the side.
I find high-rise buildings to be a straw-man. You can get amazing density with 3-story apartment buildings, but those are rare in a lot of expensive markets.
I used to work at Amazon as an engineer, and it is all about making meetings effective. Writing is an effective tool to thinking effectively. Six pages is actually about keeping things brief and to the point, and many people will cheat at make the font really small.
Hi all! My name is Terenig, I'm the author of this post and founder of Have A Go.

My friend messaged me giving me the heads up that this article was on Hacker News. I was really surprised!

I'll do my best to reply to some of the thoughtful comments.
But really your second example ends with "But when they do come inside you'll know I sent them and you can ask them their name yourself."

Same knowledge as your first example (names, expecting). I do admit you only get the information from people who come into the store.
Swimming along, sometimes at great speed, sometimes slowly and leisurely, sometimes resting and exchanging ideas, sometimes stopping to sleep, it took them a week to reach Amos's home shore. During that time, they developed a deep admiration for one another. Boris admired the delicacy, the quivering daintiness, the light touch, the small voice, the gemlike radiance of the mouse. Amos admired the bulk, the grandeur, the power, the purpose, the rich voice, and the abounding friendliness of the whale.

It doesn't get much better than William Steig — all of his books give kids the tools and analogs to confront complex emotions and overcome fears. Amos and Boris is my favorite, The Real Thief is excellent if they're a little older.
Although you can start with a bulls-eye of concentric ring-countries; once you start making enough of these isthmuses into the centre, then some of those countries must be broken up into "arc-islands".

You are correct that O(N) colours are needed if all the islands of one ring-country must have the same colour. But to encode that constraint graph-theoretically you would need "bridges" (edges) over isthmuses, which would make the thing non-planar.
Are you suggesting regulation could have helped in this situation? Do you believe the problem is with Facebook sharing data (which they did with the user's permission) with an app? Or with an app failing to secure the data? Or with a third-party taking user data without permission?
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You’ve gotta mean hardware. There is no way that arm chip could do h265 at any useful speed. The amlogic in the c2 can do hardware h265 (not hdr) and it works with Kodi. I use one this way and have been overall pleased with it though especially since I didn’t buy the board for this in the first place. It was a repurpose. I would only get something with 10 bit these days if media is the primary concern.
I think if you run the numbers, there aren’t many cases of malaria in the developed world. Treating the causes related to aging will save a lot more money.

There are major efforts to treat malaria, for example. Bill Gates is putting in billions.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-malaria-summit/glo...

There’s this great effort too:

https://malariaelimination8.org

I’ve even donated money for nets myself.

Part of the problem isn’t money but changing attitudes. A lot of nets, for example, end up being used for fishing.

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/mosquito-nets-widely-u...
Almost literally by definition, a webapp isn't going to be as good as a proper application.

If one of the advantages is "front end guys don't have to learn another language" I'm starting to be of the opinion that that's their reticence to use the proper tools, rather than the inherent superiority of JS.

People visit websites because many of them don't need to be apps. I don't need an app (webapp or otherwise) for each of the half/dozen sites I visit once a week. That's just clutter and wasted space, and in the case of a web-app, clutter, wasted space and a shitty app that's no better than simply visiting the website directly.
Yeah that's true. I'm redesigning the site currently and all these notices will be in new site.
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freecodecamp.org is pretty awesome.
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Anish Kapoor seems like a huge scumbag
>My first response to the article was Ctrl+F Delphi in the comments.

He he, I did the same.

>Because everything the author was complaining about was solved in Delphi in mid-nineties.

Related:

Delphi – why won't it die? (2013) (stevepeacocke.blogspot.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613543

I had commented a few times in that thread.
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> The real problem for Tesla is that their destiny is probably to be the next BMW - a good midrange luxury car maker

Tesla doesn't do well at the things a non-novelty luxury car maker needs to do well, and EVs are only luxury cars now due to novelty.
When we made a 10% better linux I doubled my sales. There’s really a compounding effect. When someone improves Spring Boot or Node/Express, we can publish dozens of new websites to address tinier needs – problems that wouldn’t even be addressed in the past.
There is a connection between the ad targeting information and the eventual anonymous click through though. You only need to connect that click to a real identity via either self disclosure (newsletter signup, social login, etc) or pushing your metadata through third party data brokers.

In the end you have a click associated with an advertising campaign linked to a real life (or even pseudo) identity.
I'd love to try Cockroachdb for a reasonably sized service but it's active-record adapter[0] doesn't work yet. I'm watching the repo to see what progress is made towards supporting Rails 5.

[0]https://github.com/cockroachdb/activerecord-cockroachdb-adap...
Did Savedroid steal 50 mio. from ICO or is this a clever PR Stunt?
No, the problem is that the local government where the train is stopped can't do anything either while all of its neighbors have given themselves the power to prevent the train from stopping within their borders via zoning laws that this particular government has chosen not to enact. (Not that the neighbors can't block it from traveling from within their borders; they can only block it from stopping and offloading the cargo within their borders).
I suppose I didn't consider the amount of additives in current leathers. What are the production costs (environmental, rather than monetary) of the waterproofing? It would be a shame to have something that has very limited impact on the environment being used as a substitute for leather, only to find out the post processing is also quite damaging.
The control panels have been in a constant state of flux since Vista... frankly it wasn't the biggest annoyance until after windows 7 (which at least had semi-clean breaks)... Win8/10 are horrible. I don't have a windows machine currently, running a hackintosh for my home desktop. I may give ReactOS a try in a VM to see how much I can get working.

Does the DOS stuff work? (NTVDM)
> Are you suggesting regulation could have helped in this situation?

Facebook doesn't give a shit about its users. And for that I don't blame them. They're fighters. When they went public, so many assumed they were dead for lacking a mobile presence. Time and again, they've been called out as moribund and time and again they've won. That takes--and develops--thick skin.

That thick skin is now a hard head obstructing their view of the truth. When they drop the ball, it is never their fault. Someone is mis-defining a term, users aren't reading fine print, lawmakers are being mean, et cetera. The onus is put on us, the public, to determine how our rights can be balanced with their business model. As if their business is a given.

If Facebook were liable for repeatedly losing our data, for repeatedly refusing to tell users what it does with what they give them, for constantly lying about what it's doing and going to do, this would stop. Or Facebook would stop.

Neither users nor advertisers can unilaterally disengage. Not in meaningful numbers. Facebook is too powerful. The only solution is for it to be broken up.
That’s very cool, thanks for doing that. As a complete outsider to all of this, I have to say that does help a lot.
The argument here is that wherever you go in a city, automobile parking is all around. From street parking, to business parking lots, to single family homes with driveways and garages, to large parking structures. Thus, the user experience for drivers is essentially go anywhere, park anywhere. That convenient user experience is what dockless is allowing for. So cities should strive to quickly figure out how to make scooter/bike parking as ubiquitous as cars. The fact that they haven't already done so shows their implicit bias.
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The issue isn't the zoning of the rail yards--the issue is that the surrounding cities and counties all amended their zoning laws to prevent the offloading to trucks of the particular types of cargo that the NY trash trains were hauling, which is within their power.
100M prime customers making 5B purchases a year is $2 per purchase for 2 day shipping that costs amazon 5-8 dollars to ship.
Considering amazon takes 25% cut from FBA products you can say any product sold for less than $15 is a cash negative sale for amazon.
I had Computer Intro! (The "!" is part of the name, I'm not that enthusiastic about it)

It was more machine language than BASIC:

http://www.ozyr.com/o2/o2comput.html

"Your Odyssey2 can make over 100,000 electronic decisions every second - and there are computers around that are more than ten times faster than that!"
LXD 3.0 is pretty usable.
The thing with mission critical systems is boring == safe. So conservatism is endemic in aerospace where stakes are high.
As a founder, Bill had a lot of Sun stock. Sun, Microsoft, and Oracle all went public in 1986 (which was the same year I joined Sun). Sun came to see Microsoft as the enemy in many ways, not the least of which that they were growing faster than Sun was and had more 'seats' in terms of people who used them to do work. Bill sold a chunk of shares, and I don't recall the exact amount but it was significant and invested them in Microsoft shares. This was a "big deal" around Sun because of the "message" it sent.

Between 1988 and 1998 Sun stock increased 10x and Microsoft stock had increased 100x. By converting 15% of his Sun holdings into Microsoft stock he outperformed his Sun holdings.
Thanks!

You make a valid point. A number of VPN providers for example use GCE/AWS/Softlayer to host their services. And these IPs do get reassigned.
One of the ways we mitigate this is by limiting the age of IP addresses in our lists to a maximum of 30 days. If an IP address hasn't been reported to have been responsible for malicious behavior for a period of 30 days it shouldn't be in our lists.

We're also mulling adding an is_cloud_provider field to the threat response object.
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Agreed. Kids need unstructured time too!
Maybe cities should organize to bus all their homeless residents to DC Union Station and Dupont Circle so those in the squaky clean Capitol can understand that this is a national issue. MLK tried to do something similar before he was assassinated.
Completely unrelated & not meant to replace the books, which I adore.

Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus, ios app is awesome. Exactly what I want in a kids app.
How much data size are you dealing with? For that price range, you can probably just get MemSQL or Clickhouse and handle real-time queries across all of the data.
Disclaimer: I work on GCP

Can you point me to the complaints? I will take a look.
I usually click the start button on my keyboard and type what I'm looking for... most of the time, it's the first option that comes up. It mostly works for apps too, excluding some annoying MS app placement issues. I've moved on... Windows 10 was the last straw. Not the telemetry, but the stupid integrated ads, especially the ones over the chrome icon in the launch bar.
Oh, I'd like to learn more about this. Do you have any good references?
In context - $140K for an experienced software engineer in a major metropolitan city isn't outrageous. A "software architect" often does hands on coding. For reference:

https://www.matrixres.com/resources/salary-survey/

If I can make $140K in metro Atlanta, where a newly built 3000 square foot house can be had for less than $350K in a nice neighborhood, why would I want to live in Seattle?
I feel like once a year something about this gets posted to HN.
True, although I'm not saying that the mentioned chips have the power of 1970's CPU's, only that their unique capabilities/configurations make them more interesting and fun to play with than a Raspberry Pi for example (for my purposes, which is fun).

For example the esp32 only has 520 KiB SRAM - that imposes constraints.
I think it's an important signal that in every thread like this rather than say "wow, I wish I had something like grasshopper when I was a kid", we start waxing nostalgic about QBASIC. (I'm right there with you btw).

A lot of us grew up learning with tools, not toys (except you, logowriter, you're cool). Then we went and made the tools totally unapproachable. So now kids get the opposite approach: toys, not tools.

Teaching software like grasshopper is an experiment, and we're about to see the results. The first version of Scratch came out in 2003. Obviously this is super fuzzy, but for the sake of argument call 2003 the border between the QBASIC/getting a Sam's teach yourself C book at B&N era and the Scratch era. So a hypothetical 8 year old who started learning with scratch in 2003 is now 23 years old. The kids who grew up on this stuff are about to start showing up in adult life, and it'll be interesting to see how they turn out.
She is tenured. She brings it up in one of the tweets: “I work as a tenured professor. I make 100K a year doing that. I will never be fired. I will always have people wanting to hear what I have to say.”

I'm always amused when these type of people tweet something offensive and stand by it; but, immediately make their Twitter account private. (I can tweet something very offensive, but don't be mean to me.)
Yes, I too read the article, and it came across to me as dismissing many GUI development options for one single reason or another, maybe without checking to see if there were any solutions or workarounds to the issues of each of them. Might be a perfectionist point of view.
>how many users it actually has.

I would assume a large percentage of this number are bots / automated content.
I'd like to apply it to the stock market.
It is ZFS, and is on by default. ZFS also offers gzip compression, and you can "turn up" the LZ4 from the default if you wish.

I've almost always left it at the default; on my home file server (slightly long-in-the-tooth 6 core xeon, enterprise-grade spinning rust), throughput is noticeably faster on compressible data.

(ZFS dedupe should only be considered for weird cases, like if you somehow have a ton of RAM but very limited storage. Frankly, at this point I think it is an attractive nuisance that leads beginners down a dangerous path and should be removed, or at least the commands to enable it should be given loud, scary confirmation messages.)
Credit where it's due. Customers love Amazon and that is what really matters at the end of the day. The people they serve enjoy the service and products Amazon provides. Bezos has very successful worked his way up to become one of the top dogs of capitalism. 20 years is a considerable amount of time work towards a goal, but Bezos was patient and hardworking.
Wait what? Amazon often packs multiple products into the same shipment. I assume each individual product is considered a purchase. And where do you get the $5-8 figure from? I can ship things for that much, so you’d have to assume Amazon gets a discount for massive volume.
Does your Atari 400 still have a working keyboard?
> Even in a dynamically typed language, you have to know what sort of arguments a function expects; otherwise, how can you write any code at all to operate on those values if you don't even know what they are?

Not necessarily...

If the value passed to function implements whatever functionality called then its type doesn't really matter. Really the whole theory behind duck typing.

>>> i = 1 + "1"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

while javascript (apparently) will assign "11" to i.