skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Anyway, the point of power-projection is that these bases are mobile. As we finish up our job in Afghanistan / Iraq, we can move these super-carriers elsewhere for support. Puerto Rico was serviced by a super-carrier Abraham Lincoln for instance (hospitals on board, + Helicopters delivered supplies), while the Super-Carrier Ronald Regan helped Japan clean-up the Fukashima Nuclear disaster."

I know that's reality but using aircraft carriers for disaster relief is an awfully expensive way to do this.
howdy :)
True net neutrality would be a good start for addressing the ISP lines problem, though the complete solution would have to be some decentralized thing.
It's directly relevant to your point that technology has a honeymoon period of being exempt from the rules before the rules adapt to reimpose the previously in place controls. I was saying that's not the universal progression.
> the crisis of overproduction

If something is overproduced, it accumulates and/or falls in price. There is no "crisis of overproduction," though there may be a "crisis of underinvestment in research" and "crisis of underemployment," both problems the American military budget addresses.
There are only three right now. The usual procedure is to have enough Soyuz capacity for everyone on the station, so when the station has 6 people, there are two Soyuz.
What part of fulfillment, though?

In my area, Amazon has its own trucks delivering packages, for the most part. That's not exactly something that can be automated.
FitMetrix user data exposed via passwordless ElasticSearch server cluster
Slightly OT, but House Of Games by David Mamet is a fantastic film that revolves around people playing confidence tricks on each other, and the film manages to play some pretty good confidence tricks on the viewer too. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/
Original paper here: http://www.umass.edu/preferen/You%20Must%20Read%20This/herrm...

The explanation in the linked article isn't fully convincing, IMO. The paper speculates about several more explanations at the end, and has some more data to support them, e.g. people seemed to be punishing low-contributors in an effort to make them contribute more.

If only the experimenters had conducted some interviews...
> there's a foreign disinformation campaign smearing the program

Do we have any evidence of this?

> Remember that time we bankrupted the USSR in an arms race? This time we're doing it to ourselves

The Soviets spent 25% of their national income on their military in 1980 [1]. Most years, it was above 10%. In contrast, the United States spends low single digits of its GDP on its military [2].

[1] https://nintil.com/2016/05/31/the-soviet-union-military-spen...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS
It amounts to about $100 million every single day, if that helps make the absurdity more clear.
I think you may be overlooking the challenges that the author is trying to tackle with their proposal.

First, the author is looking for a characteristic that can be monitored automatically - for example, alarm if P99 latency is over 2 s. Visualizations while useful don’t help with that.

Second, the author is looking for a solution that can run in soft real time, so that it can be used for system monitoring.

Third, they’re looking for a solution that does not have to aggregate the full raw data set from across the fleet. It is implied that they are working with reasonably large fleets such that full aggregation is impractical; or maybe just too costly or too slow.

If you were able to aggregate the full raw data set in real time and compute the Nth percentile, then that statistic would meet the author’s needs. Their point is that actually computing the Nth percentile is expensive and not commonly done in real-time monitoring (hence the statistic is usually an average of host-level Nth percentile).

The challenge they’ve proposed is to define a statistic that is more useful for alarming while still avoiding the need to aggregate the entire raw data set.

I thought this was a thoughtful article with a clever suggestion. “Percent of requests over threshold” meets these criteria. One criticism of this approach however is that the threshold needs to be known ahead of time, prior to aggregation.
Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek minister of finance during the height of the Greek debt crisis, believes that this type of redistribution (defense spending is a much larger amount) in the USA has allowed it to exist with a common currency without having the same level of problems that Europe has. There is no mechanism in Europe to move enough money to the poorer parts from the productive powerhouse, Germany. This is causing very large problems and a lot of people suffering in southern Europe. French and German banks got a bail out like US banks in 2008 to prevent an economic collapse, but the debts were not forgiven (more money was borrowed to pay the loans) and this problem come back again at some point.
There is no ignition on Soyuz, because they couldn't find a reliable way to ignite the engine when it was designed so second stage works from the start, it is the central part of the rocket, and 4 boosters around it.

Second stage was shut down because of the problems with a booster separation.
You're right! Costs savings, in isolation, will invariably go to highly privileged shareholders.

With that said, what do you think happens when a second company in the same sector starts to realize the same cost savings, and realizes they can move more units by using the cost savings to lower prices and ultimately return even more to shareholders?

Again, you're completely right. Companies don't lower prices out of the goodness of their cold, black, capitalist hearts. Yet, might there be other factors at work here?
In the US you pay more to freelance in taxes than you do as an employee (because the employer pays some on your behalf) but you can have other deductions as a contractor. So I think fairness is not specifically a sufficient motivator. The UK can have a tax advantage for freelancing but these freelancers lose out on employment protections. Dunno..
You can plant a terrarium bottle garden. No maintenance needed. There are bottle gardens that haven't been opened for 40 years. It will develop some algae though, and it does look rather wild. Aquarium plans and ferns are suitable contenders. I have a Progestemon erectus plant in a jar, Hemianthus callitrichoides mixed with Eleocharis pusilla in a rectangular plastic box, Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo' in another box and in an open bowl filled 1/2 with aquasoil that we keep on the bathroom window and mist regularly. There are also more beautiful plants such as Bucephalandra or Cryptocoryne but I've only planted them submersed. Bucephalandra will attach to and grow on driftwood and rocks.

http://theaquaticplantsociety.org/world-of-bucephalandra/

With bottle gardens as with tissue culture, your worst enemy is mold.
Misallocating labor is worse than throwing the money into a hole. The money itself doesn't matter, it's just an accounting tool.
Connected Car Development Basics with PubNub, Functions and the Smartcar API
As others have pointed out, there are some things in the article worth considering, but whenever people talk about "making the next Silicon Valley", I feel like they never seem to appreciate just how special and rare and fragile a successful ecosystem is. A million little factors all contribute to making something like that happen, the absence of any one of which tends to make the other factors disappear as well.
Interpretable Machine Learning with XGBoost
Chargify launches a new payment management tool for subscription services
That's my take on it.
> can't match the stealth bomber for ordinance carried

It's "ordnance", not "ordinance". Different words.
ISP isn't financing the transaction. They're financed by it
That's almost a hilarious statement.

The same rhetoric used against those from Mexico or the Middle East today was used against those from Ireland, Hungary, Poland, etc. 100+ years ago.

https://www.jaha.org/attractions/heritage-discovery-center/h...

Insular, bigoted, ignorant people is not a new phenomenon.
App Store generated 93% more revenue than Google Play in Q3
Means like a ball in the sense of 'cannonball'
New state-backed espionage campaign targets military and government
nice quotation.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

Here's an attempt to update that comparison:

The lowest estimate I could find for one F35 is about $110 million. One bushel of wheat has ranged from $5 to $6 recently. I'll use $6 here.

At these prices an F35 would buy more than 18 million bushels of wheat, or 36 times as much as Eisenhower's 500,000 estimate.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21776/f-3...

https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/wheat.aspx
> There isn't a one-size-fits-all

Spend an extra day and build your own. It will fit you exactly. No more, no less.

> but saying it's a poor tool because it has a lot of dependencies is silly and immaterial.

You're missing also the time it takes to customize it. For example: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/4583

How complicated can it be to have simple tree navigation? Turns out, it's pretty complicated...

I could role my own in 20 minutes without the abstractions, but no, I'm fighting uncessaray abtractions/layers/tooling that gives very little value when it comes to converting .text -> .html.

It blows my mind that people don't see this.

Read this: http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
given that GNU Emacs does not implement a file system, has no process scheduler, has no driver for Ethernet cards, doesn't have a driver for a framebuffer, ... the screen would be dark and there would be no i/O... whereas the Lisp Machine is a computer with a stack-oriented CPU running a relatively capable OS written in Lisp only (incl. disk driver, file system, NFS, DNS, SMTP, FTP, TELNET, graphics, processes, postscript printer support, users/groups/networks/sites, editor, graphics editor, file browser, process browser, printer dialog, screen shots, mouse handling, tape backups, cdrom reader, ...).
I don't have enough familiarity with this sort of research to evaluate it quickly either, but the fact that an ad hominem is the top comment, that no one on HN found any serious criticism is enough for me.
It's common sense that a free society shouldn't restrict what someone can invest in. You have no idea what insights I have in a potential investment so please do not presume to know. I do not need or want the government to prohibit me from making an investment before it has had a chance to vet it.

What you're advocating is illiberal and paternalistic, and your presumptions about the level of insight that goes into investment made into unregistered offerings are crude and baseless over-simplifications.

>>Nobody is going to take an argument like yours seriously.

That's not true and I don't believe you think it's true. You're literally comparing investing in a speculative instrument not vetted by a government agency with selling yourself into slavery to try to dull the appeal of my argument.

If you thought no one would agree with me, you wouldn't be going to such extreme lengths to counter my claims. You would be comfortable letting them stand on their own merit.
>High quality running shoes seem to max out at ~150

Huh? That's not even remotely accurate. There are tons of Nikes and Adidas way beyond $200, and even more so for "collectible" sneakers, and way more so ($1000 easily) for quality leather shoes.

E.g:

https://www.adidas.com/us/originals-shoes?sort=price-high-to...

https://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pw/mens-shoes/7puZoi3?sortOr...

https://www.colehaan.com/mens-shoes?pmax=351.00&pmin=251.00

https://www.thefryecompany.com/mens/boots?product_list_order...

And I'm not including any high-fashion brands...
Mystery at the center of the Milky Way solved
This looks old. It doesn’t include their Columbus data centers for example.
Dress shoes and hiking boots are often in that range. A good $200 pair of dress shoes or hiking boots should last many years, even with constant use, as long as you take care of them. You definitely don’t have to spend $300 but if you’re willing to spend $150 you have a lot of options available.

For sneakers I’m not convinced that spending $200 is worth it. For hiking boots I’m pretty skeptical of anything I see that’s under $200, or maybe $150 on sale.
a lawyer at their own discretion could charge a new client $1,000 to fill out the simple forms this app can create for you

another $1,000 to give me the speech you just did, instead of a free consultation

and thats a problem for people and this app helps with that
If you're truly paranoid, TOTP and HOTP are absurdly easy to implement if you've got an HMAC primitive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC-based_One-time_Password_a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_a...

https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-...
No problem. I've always found it fascinating that a military general turned President warned us so strongly against the dangers of the military-industrial complex.
> I want this but to cancel byzantine gym memberships and other reoccurring charges.

Ask your credit card company to issue a new card, and file chargebacks for charges that came after you attempted to cancel the service/membership. At the very least, that might get the attention of someone at Byzantine empire.
Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State
Given predictions of a economic downturn Amazon has done a lot of these workers a favor in terms of their risk profile by changing RSUs and bonuses to hard compensation.
Linda Petzold Recognized with Prestigious 2018 IEEE CS Sidney Fernbach Award
Made all the more impressive by the fact that the Smithsonian Museum could very well deliver a bomb in Afghanistan, if only they would dust off a P-51 Mustang, or, say, the Wright Flyer. The Taliban (or whatever today's antagonist is that we're using to excuse this pointless war) aren't exactly known for their extensive^W existent air force.
I'm not convinced the bill, or the political climate in general, led to this. I think the unemployment rate did. Amazon is looking at their holiday season staffing needs, and wondering how to compete against all the other businesses fighting over that limited labor pool. A big "$15!" splashy headline looks great then.

Then business does business, and attaches a bunch of cost-saving measures to it, and then it looks bad. No different than the normal corporate development cycle. Not enough leadership, a bunch of people doing what's best for their department rather than the whole company. Sad.
Prenatal gene editing shows proof-of-concept in treating disease before birth
"There is billions of spending on projects they don't need"

On the list of governemnt expenses... NASA is almost a rounding error ($18.4 billion in 2011, about 0.5% of the $3.4 trillion US budget). Perspective is important.
YOU WILL NOT GO TO SPACE TODAY https://xkcd.com/1133/
While I’m sure there are occasional counter examples, weren’t these largely from either war zones or with the cooperation of the host country?
If you register your phone nr your password basically get useless as someone can remotely (from another country even) steal your phone number and then reset your password.
Show HN: Namegine Monitoring – Protect your company name without trademark
At the turn of the century, the Wright brothers were building their bicycle planes.

Within 10 years, by the start of WW1 there were triplanes fit for war use. By the end of the war, Germany had metal planes with a single wing... not all that different from a modern crop duster.

Amazing what the competitive (and "save our nation") pressure of an industrial war can do.

Immediately after the great war, helicopters and all sorts of new planes were invented. By the time WW2 rolled around 20 years later, there were Spitfires & heavy bombers. Japan had floating airports. The sky became the place where land, naval and air battles were won or lost.

The pace kept up in the generation after the war. Jet engines. 3 generations of jet fighters, each outclassing the last. Airliners more or less like modern ones. The f-15 is still The Cavalary. 747s are not out of place in a modern airport. 1967 & 1977 respectively.

50 years of peace, 50 years of stagnation.

This is a lesson about people and a lesson about progress.
Yup. I’m always amazed when people say nobody saw the recession coming, because I distinctly remember multiple news stories about the subprime mortgage brouhaha for a year or two before the bubble burst.

People hear what they want to hear, and remember what they want to remember, I suppose.
well, 5 1/4" floppies were a serious let down after using 8" floppies.
Eh, not really. It's an impressive piece of technology, but in the end it failed to realize the goal of low cost access to space through reusability. It made so many sacrifices to get reusability and the crossrange the air force wanted that it had many single points of failure and very limited abort options. This in turn required a very high degree of confidence that components would function as intended, which drove refurbishment costs through the roof.
I'm unsure if any other sea-bearing vessel has a ton of helicopters that can deliver supplies to and from a remote area (ie: Puerto Rico once all the roads were wiped out by Hurricane Maria).

Helicopters need an area to land and refuel. The pilots need an area to sleep. Carriers seem like the ideal service vehicle.

And sure, the Nimitz class carrier, with two nuclear reactors and outfitted with enough weaponry to take on entire countries... is a bit overkill. But there are benefits to a mobile super sea-base.

The alternative is to build a ton of smaller carriers... but smaller carriers can't launch airplanes. You need a large area so that planes can land. Airplanes like Airborne early Warning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_early_warning_and_con...) can be launched from super-carriers.

Once you have radar-dishes in the air however, you now need to think about how to defend those radar-dishes from enemy fighters. And then we get the F35.
> I find them lacking when I just want to browse and see my logs in context.

Does this mean that you don't need charts - only usual datagrid for your Elastic index where you can easily filter/sort documents?.. My product SeekTable can do that. In addition to that, it can build pivot tables by ElasticSearch (say, you may get summary by log entry type, or group by date parts).
Ex-Netflix. I left right after my first child was born (this was before the 1 year of parental leave was added) and then I started a startup with some friends. Then we exited that startup and I started another one, which I work on now from home, which lets me play with the kids during my breaks.

The flexibility of working for myself at home is the main reason I do this instead of working at an office or cowering space, because it lets me do daytime events with my kids, like 10am gymnastics class and 4:30pm tap class. If it weren't for the kids I'd still be doing the startup, but I might not be doing it from home. I'd probably be digital nomading instead.

I suppose if the startup thing doesn't work out, once the kids are both in school full time during the day I'll probably try to get a job at another FAANG company and build up the savings again for another startup. :)
Associated studio discussion between Lofgren and Moyers
https://www.pbs.org/video/moyers-company-deep-state-hiding-p...
> For a time the Fed was buying over $2 billion of long term debt per day [1]; bonds that had no hope of finding buyers on the open market. They were directly funding federal deficit spending with QE

You're quoting a Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) statement [1]. This is the arm of the Federal Reserve which has always bought government debt. Without QE, the FOMC would have been buying huge amounts of Treasuries to keep (a) the money supply constant and (b) interest rates low.

QE's novelty was the Fed saying "we aren't only going to buy Treasuries." Complaining about the Fed buying Treasuries is complaining about the Fed per se. Complaining about QE is complaining about the Fed not buying Treasuries, and instead buying other securities.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Continuous Deployment: No Sprints Required
Many of these services, I believe google is one, still require mobile phone as a fallback option.
The blog version of regilero's HTTP smuggling is a really good read.

http://regilero.github.io/security/english/2015/10/04/http_s...
It's the "wishes to manipulate them" part that's the problem.
> QE did lead to rampant inflation in asset prices (housing

The housing market in the US didn't even stop dropping until about the time of QE3 and only recovered slightly by the time QE ended. QE certainly didn't lead to “rampant inflation” in housing except perhaps by comparison to the rapid deflation that would have happened without it out some other policy change directed at the same issue.
A broken one.

I find this argument deeply frustrating. C++ doesn't even try to make graph memory management safe. Rust has several different strategies for graphs, all of which have some drawbacks, but which are all nonetheless safe. But because they aren't quite as ergonomic as C++, C++ somehow wins. No. C++ graph management is unsafe, regardless of whether you're using the lifetime profile.
The budget cuts and (resulting?) move to "clickbait" articles and reporting has started to show pretty badly in the last year or two, the amount of basic errors and typos they let through is definitely far higher than it used to be.