skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the first ones on the list from 1992 had an interesting backstory that's still relevant today:

The Turkish government assassinated two journalists [1] [2] for uncovering the fact the Turkish gov (or likely intel agencies) were financially supporting and training Turkish Hezbollah terrorists in their special forces offices. Why? These Hezbollah guys were being used as irregular warfare militia to kill marxist PKK (they killed 500 PPK members), in between their normal terrorist activity of killing regular citizens for being secular.

Then in February 2019 [3] the government decided to let all 100 of them out of prison on some questionable legal grounds (that the old court who sentenced them was Gulen-connected). But when PKK fighters sent to jail by the same court tried to appeal, on the exact same legal grounds, they were rejected. So essentially the current Erdoğan gov's policy is to openly support one terrorist group over others.

This is a classic example of Middle Eastern authoritarian regimes at work, where each one secretly support any number of sectarian groups when it suits their interests, while they ignore any tangental atrocities. Which was the waters Americans/Russians both attempted to wade into and saw it backfire multiple times.

[1] https://cpj.org/data/people/halit-gungen/index.php

[2] https://cpj.org/data/people/namik-taranci/index.php

[3]
https://ipa.news/2019/05/22/100-members-of-the-turkish-hezbo...
Google’s Scientific Approach to Work-Life Balance (and Much More) (2014)
What does make you believe that documents “almost certainly” came through an intermediary of a Russian state actor?
Yes, but if you get deemed "malicious" it will be required: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48552907
Shipamax (YC W17) is hiring a software engineer with ML experience (London)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/appeals-court-tells-ge...

Basically there are annotations that are considered part of the law but they are behind copyright and can't be distributed in the way you expect public laws to be.
This is certainly a bold plan. I wonder (doubt, even) if PREPA will be able to execute it.

Segmenting the grid is going to introduce a lot of trade-offs. Smaller segments means that dips and spikes in load are going to create greater differences in frequency, and as such require faster demand response to create the same level of frequency regulation as a larger grid.

Renewables such as solar and wind are already not known for being particularly friendly to grid operations as their output can vary quickly and unpredictably. On a smaller grid, these variances are going to be magnified. They also can't be used for demand response by themselves - you can't tell the sun to start shining on demand.

Batteries can effectively smooth the load by providing operating reserve, but the proposed 940 MW of battery capacity (I couldn't figure out from the original report [0] how much MWh storage they are proposing -- there seem to be some numbers missing) is significantly larger than any other battery-based grid energy storage plan that I'm aware of.

I hope they can pull off this plan, and they are able to make it work for the people of PR as well.

[0] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oupTRdHXRHzc6UuKUdmFp9eWKP...
But it's the best Radiohead album!
Does diversification work? Analyzing the Sharpe ratio of my portfolio
> What does the F-35 actually offer in the field that couldn't be provided by a cheaper, simpler, more reliable weapons system? I've yet to hear a good answer to that question.

I think this line of criticism stems from confusing two mission types which are superficially similar, but actually have very different requirements:

- Attack missions like Close Air Support involve hitting enemy tactical targets on or near the battlefield. In recent conflicts the US has been involved in, these have mostly been in very permissive environments (limited defenses except MANPADs). This is the mission most people are thinking of when they talk about how great the A-10 is, or suggest buying the A-29.

- Strike missions involve hitting targets that might be deep behind enemy lines, protected by multiple layers of radar, air defenses, etc. This is much more difficult to do, and is getting harder as radar, fighter aircraft, and AA missiles improve. Doing it successfully against even a moderately equipped enemy requires aircraft with higher-end and more specialized capabilities than you would need for typical "Attack" roles.

You might notice that Strike is the second word in Joint Strike Fighter. That's not a coincidence - the strike capability is the major distinguishing feature of the aircraft, and what drives a lot of its requirements (stealth, decoys, etc.) The fact that it can also do a decent job at Attack missions is a bonus, but the US has a lot of F-15s, F-16s, and F-18s who can also handle that role in a permissive environment for the foreseeable future.

This blog post explains the distinction in more detail than I'd be able to: https://www.navalgazing.net/Strike-Warfare
It was frequently said that /at the time of release/ ie6 was better and more standards compliant than the other web browsers. Then it was left to rot for years.

Perhaps notably, it was actually faster and had lower memory usage than Firefox for a while (Firefox had many leaks). The issues were security, standards and NO TABS!

... Honestly if MS hadn't been so unbelievably deaf to users and web developers, Firefox and Chrome may have never succeeded. If Google doesn't completely screw up, Chrome won't go the way of IE. Maybe messing with adblockers qualifies?
What else could it possibly be determined by? Perhaps we're talking about different definitions of the word "race".

Are you saying that the phenotypic differences between an Inuit and an African Pygmy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Pygmies#Genetics) are not determined by those individuals' DNA?
You'd think that the meat industry would pay for debunking vegan nonsense papers, especially when the world starts talking about a carbon tax that would make beef a lot more expensive if they use the numbers I cited. But I'll read the links you provided and update my opinion. Thanks for looking them up for me.
Interesting demo, thanks! Haven’t tried on computer yet. On ios firefox it’s flashy but glitchy when animating through slides. JS based would be killer with no glitchiness.
What little visible support there is is manufactured. The supporting signs in the city are on the buildings of Chinese state-owned companies.
I use HNES, but the only feature in it I care about is tagging users. I very much wish I could turn off all of the other features, especially its custom styles. If you were to add the ability to tag users to RHN, I'd be one happy camper!
This is false.

You might be interested to read The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11584/1/2008bams2370%252E1....

Excerpt: "There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age. Indeed, the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer-reviewed literature even then."
2019 U.S. Open Live Stream: Schedule, Channels and How to Watch For
https://www.reddit.com/r/lancora/comments/c084et/officialgolfliveus_open_championship_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lancora/comments/c0857z/pgalivestreams2019_us_open_championship_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lancora/comments/c0856z/pgatour2019_us_open_livestreamreddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lancora/comments/c0855s/pgamatchthreadus_open_2019_live_streamsredditest/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lancora/comments/c0854p/officiallive2019_us_open_championship_live/
Even if parenting doesn't matter for long term outcomes very much, it certainly affects how parents and kids feel in the 20ish years that typically stay in the same household.
The main difference here is the goal. "O(1)" algorithm often means efficient algorithm out there in the field, but this paper has absolutely no intention of making anything efficient.

People are wrong with that (1) O(1)=fast/efficient (2) I'm arguing over the definition of "constant-time".
It inspects the code for the package a request was made for and polyfills features it used. You get the module + polyfills in one response.
Things tend to be more formalized in a business context but my experience with contractors, etc. at home is that it's often pretty loose, at least for relatively small things.
You only need to do this once. It establishes the procedure or lack thereof.
He’s not being charged with publishing classified data. That is broadly protected by the First Amendment and has been tested many times.

He’s being charged with stealing the information and actively supporting others in doing so. That activity is a crime.

Every US journalist knows if someone secretly gives you some secret document it’s fair game. If you go and steal said document then different story.
Good stuff! I agree with everything in that thread.

I think a lot about the comparisons to coding, because both writing and coding are acts of thinking. When we started Parse, for example, we hired folks who were naturally inclined to write. This gave us a huge advantage when it came time to communicate how the platform worked to a wide audience.
Correct me if I'm wrong: Telegram has been blocked in China mainland. So if normal Chinese botnets want to DDOS Telegram, they will be blocked by GFW first. So how these botnets succeeded? Does that mean they are "special"?
I've rarely had any pushback over clarification or refusing to sign as-is. A lot of the time a strike-through on a portion of a contract is sufficient. My bigger issue is electronic signing against versions that don't have the option of striking a line or two.

My biggest concerns are outside contributions and IP. Personally, I don't believe in Software Patents for the most part, and will not give up rights for stuff I build on my own time.
The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (2017) [video]
To compare those numbers - how many journalists are there worldwide?
Reagan and the black panthers not withstanding, having a gun hasent been very relevant the recent unjust murders that have hit the public consiousness. The police are perfectly willing to kill unarmed black men as well.
Ha. And here (India) I was asked to sign 7 pieces of paper by DHL/Bluedart to send a piece of package across the country and also asked to submit an identity proof. Even the government doesn't make me sign this much when issuing a passport and the Indian government is infamous for its bureaucracy.

Rules and the regulators enforcing them sometimes do not make any sense at all.
Checkout StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com podcast, it has a lot of great info, start with greatest hits and then the archives.

You can start out as a sole proprietorship. Get an EIN number from the IRS website so you don't use your SSN.

Use stripe for your payments, you could create a separate business checking account but not 100% necessary till you start making sales.

If your software takes off, then think about an LLC or other structure.
Counterpoint: http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2019/June%202019/L...
>There's not really much of a difference between the web today and the "Best viewed in IE" web

This is a shallow comment. IE was closed-source, cornered the market and then abandoned all development. They stalled the web for years.

Today all browser vendors are active in the standardization process, open or nearly open source, and collaborate heavily to implement the same features.

Any feature that "only works in X browser" is a result of one browser implementing a feature first, rather than the result of a browser monopoly. For instance prefers-color-scheme was introduced by Safari, than Firefox, and next to-be Chrome.

So yes, for a period of one to two months a site might have "worked best in Safari" as a result of this feature adoption. But drawing a parallel to a web dominated by IE6 is completely ignoring all context of the situation. It shows a complete misunderstanding of how the web has evolved.
AI mavericks want to build a better brain for industrial robots
> when Firefox was launched, it was still possible to develop a browser from scratch

Firefox began as a version of the Netscape Suite stripped down to just the browser. The Gecko rendering engine long predates Firefox. No one has launched a full browser "from scratch" in nearly twenty years.
They're being "exploited" in the sense the word is used in the critique of capitalism.

They're producing immense value but other people monetise that value while they're barely receiving any meaningful compensation if at all.

It comes more easily if you accept the definition that working as an employee is inherently exploitative as you need to produce more value than you are paid in wages for your employment to be profitable to the employer (who ideally profits so much from the difference that they are compensated for the economical risk they carry and their initial investment, i.e. capital).

Certainly calling it exploitation carries a value judgement but objectively this is how open source works: in a capitalist system, most labor is exploited and because it's largely uncompensated open source is being particularly exploited.
The tiny German island with a population of 16 [video]
> We dont know what the properties of nothingness holds in our universe or how our universe of stuff behaves around nothingness.

nothingness holds no properties.

I think it's more useful to ponder how can we even talk about it to discuss its precise nature. which it doesn't have, so is it kind of recursive? i.e its nature is its 'own' non-self? ugh..
Correct. The irony is that the GP claims I'm uninformed, but is apparently completely unaware that the USAF already has their fighter pilots performing CAS with the F-15E (Strike Eagle) while the Navy does so with the F/A-18E/F (Super Hornet). It's true that the Air Force won't risk their fighter pilots, which is why this happens fast and at high altitude, and this exact same same reasoning is why the Air Force is retiring the A-10C.

Furthermore, if combat is happening in an area too unsafe for tankers to operate nearby, your Warthogs won't be operating there either.
If you were a kid with a PC in 1995, you had one of these two childhoods
You are mixing up socialism (nationalizing the means of production) with the social democratic philosophy (leaving the means of production private but shifting tax burden to the wealthy to provide more social programs to benefit the poor). The Vox founders are not socialists, despite what the kooky Mises Institute might tell you.
Joining Logic, Relational, and Functional Programming: Michael Arntzenius
Streaming Data from the Universe with Apache Kafka
Use of naltrexone and different ways of using it in the treatment of alcoholism
NB: this post uses D for the input x and H for the output y. This confused me quite a bit since usually in ML we use D for the data (pairs of x and y) and H for the model (in most cases the parameters, the betas in this example).
Because ISO likes free money. In most cases ISO doesn't pay the authors and reviewers of standards, so instead of posting the document for free, it gets to indefinitely receive 100% of the profit from the work. It's a sweet deal for ISO, and a terrible deal for the rest of the world. ISO's paywall makes it very difficult to apply their standards. It's essentially an anti-standardization stance, not what you'd expect from a standards body. It's especially a problem because today's complex systems depend on millions of agreements that need to be standardized (not necessarily by ISO).

More generally: If a publisher charges money for a document, you should ask if the authors (or their employers) are getting paid a royalty on the profit. If the authors (or their employers) are getting paid a (decent) royalty, then that's a decent justification for the charge. If the authors/employers are not getting paid, then that looks suspiciously like an exploitative relationship. ISO is in the latter camp. Que bene?

I'll use ISO standards, and if my employer pays me I'll participate in an ISO process. But I strongly prefer working with standards organizations who have changed their processes to fit the 21st century. Today many people's expectation is that a standards body will make the standards freely available, since there's no excuse to do otherwise. ISO fails that test, and instead has a big paywall. The historical justification was to support a printing press, but that is completely unnecessary today (just post the PDF or HTML, that's all we need!). ISO will occasionally release standards freely (e.g., the Ada language specification and the Common Criteria were ISO standards that ISO agreed would be freely available even on initial ratification). But you have to work for it. Other standards-setting bodies, like the IETF, are typically wiser choices for developing standards.

I hope that someday ISO will change their policies. But as long as they're getting lots of free money, based primarily on work by people they don't pay, it's not clear why they would change.
For us (Truecar) we define it as the developers that work on our orchestration platform (Spacepods). So, we have an entire CI/CD pipleline now and our devops (developers) work on our orchestrator and networking. Our entire infrastructure is represented in code (Spacepods, terraform, docker,ECS,lambda, nginx, Postgres setup, ES setup etc) and our devops employees work on those tools.
Yes, they're rare because you're not sampling over the set of people operating them while drunk.
Here in the Northeast I'm lucky enough to have the regional Polar Seltzer, but even nationwide Poland Spring produces a far more compelling product than La Croix these days.
X Is For...
The sandboxing part isn't quite true anymore. You can use Desktop Bridge to package win32 apps for the store. These apps are not sandboxed in the way that UWP apps are though they are still kinda-sorta sandboxed (they can access any file the user can, but the appdata folder and registry edits are sandboxed).

There is also some sort of vaguely-stated plan to allow totally unsandboxed win32 apps in the store at some point in the future but seems to specifically only apply to games.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/deskto...
Human body communication can make data networks radically safer
I’ve done this with a bunch of “???”. Nobody has ever checked.

It’s also a habit to sign actual restaurant receipts with a signature that isn’t my real one but a specific one for restaurants.
One might argue that calling O(1) just "constant time" in asymptotic complexity theory is click bait itself! Calling O(1) bounded time would have been better terminology, in my mathematical opinion.

Sometimes people actually count individual operations to form a function T(n) depending on the input n (see, for example, Knuth's books). If T(n) is the constant function, then the algorithm takes constant time in a much more literal sense.

(The "constant time" terminology bugged me when I first learned about computational complexity.)

Edit: It seems "constant time" in this paper might actually mean "the running time is uncorrelated with the precise secret value, only its size."
Paul Graham, Sam Altman
IMO there should be a limited period of time for which nations can lay claim to 'artifacts', especially when considerable effort to recover them is expended by a private party.
Take for example the Odyssey group that spent years tracking down, and excavating treasure from an 1804 spanish vessel off the coast of Portugal (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/01/treasure-trove...). There's no reason that a judge in Atlanta, should be able to force a private company to return 200+ year old property found near Portugal, to Spain that was lost in a dispute with the British.
Counterpoint: Sovaldi was basically a miracle drug for a widespread, expensive disease and even priced at $84K, that represented huge savings for the US healthcare system.

At the time it came out, the destiny for a Hep C patient was a $1M liver transplant. And that's not even including all of the other costs and misery Hep C patients incur as their liver fails. Now those people are treated quickly, saving tons of money and time, as well as improving their lives.

Also, because of the high price, it inspired competition and innovation. Within a couple years of Sovaldi and Harvoni, several other improved and cheaper drugs appeared on the market. The cost dropped to a quarter of the price of Harvoni and with half of the treatment cycle and better cure rates (Mavyret).
Slow Down from What? – Panagiotis Michalatos [audio]
Polar isn't regional
Just got a used Dell, dual 8-core CPUs and 128GB ECC ... main purpose is for a NAS and it'll sit in the garage because of the noise. I may look into what CPU upgrades are available and maybe throw some heavier workloads at it.

For now, planning on just playing around with it. I haven't decided if I'll be running Windows or Linux as the base OS yet.
Because they've already proven that they aren't responsible enough for centralized control of any critical infrastructure.
They have a brand, but so does the CEO. He has a history of interspersing bizarre statements and conservative political views into earnings statements and other normally apolitical company press releases.
2 Important points:

1) In terms of financial remuneration, it's even worse than this. Consider Mastodon, which looks like it's doing pretty well. Well, according to his Changelog interview, Eugen also pays 5 moderators to help maintain mastodon.social.

2) Sindre Sorhus, statistically living in poverty, tweeted saying open source was the best decision of his life! Quality of life is increasingly diverging from income. And I hope it continues to, since mean income keeps diverging from median.
You're welcome! I've mostly tried it on PC/Mac with no glitches. Maybe iOS Safari can handle JS better than FF.
Projects can do this already. It's the reason we have licenses. The problem are people want to license under MIT, but want more than just recognition.

If you want to get paid, use the GPL, and offer dual licensing. It's that easy.

Oh, it's not "that" easy? So you are really just using MIT as a marketing tool until you get large enough where you can pull the rug out from under everyone and start demanding things?

The problem isn't open source. The problem is the expectation that the MIT license means more than it does. You got what you asked for.
and even if he doesn't spend life in us prison, he'll be passed around the other allied countries he "attacked" and spend time for whatever crimes they come up with.
Airbnb Adventures
The earliest gun control laws were pretty explicitly Jim Crow laws, intended to keep black folks from being able to defend themselves against, say, the guys burning a cross on their front lawn.

And even today, there's a disparate impact aspect to it. I mean, the neighborhoods where you're most likely to want to have the means to defend yourself are the poor urban neighborhoods, which are disproportionately inhabited by blacks.
I've heard that as well, that 2 - 3 kids are more trouble than any other number.

Some people feel that after the third, you just accept chaos as your life. But I don't think it's strictly a quantity.

I think it's a timing issue. Multiple infants and toddlers are a nightmare to manage. One is ok, because you can dedicate all of your resources to it.

When you're having your fourth kid, your first is going to be around 3 at the youngest. But typically what I've seen is that the first is closer to 6 to 10 by the time the fourth comes along.

At that age, the kid is ready to start taking on some responsibility around the house. Your burden gets lighter to some degree. They're more autonomous, you don't have to worry that they're just going to accidentally kill themselves as much.