skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first blush, the remarkable thing is that Putin can still get away with military aggression for the sole purpose of territorial gain in this day and age.

But the really remarkable thing about these events is that Putin, it would seem, enjoys a great deal of support, even from our native right wing pundits[1]. They wish that Obama was more "manly" and aggressive on the world stage.

The Fox pundits talk about war like other people talk about professional sports. And indeed, they do share one quality: they are both expensive pastimes for the elite. Remarkably, the Russian people are into it. They like Putin, they like his aggressiveness, they like doing something. Russian support of Putin implies that an entire nation has succumbed to simple human pride and greed, and they are collectively willing to kill (and be killed) to express it.

I want to shake the Russians collectively by the shoulders and yell: WAR IS EVIL. Don't send young men to die for your pride and greed. There are better things to do with your lives.

[1] http://www.mediaite.com/tv/colbert-happily-joins-fox-news-in...
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>the media could CREATE this war

Could they though? As far as I can tell the main consumers of media are barely capable of going for a jog, let alone going to war.
I'm rather sure that the turning point in medicine would've been the introduction of health insurance at scale and the consolidation of healthcare institutions over the past twenty years.

In a modern civilization, in a first-world nation, healthcare is a right--if it isn't, then I would like to have back the rights to monopoly of force I've granted to the government.

Also, HIPAA is not that hard.
I'm not in the US so the video won't play, care to transcribe it for us?
Related: video of a real life dice rolling machine : http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7n8LNxGbZbs

IIRC it was built because the founders just could not get people to believe that the dice rolls the generated in software were sufficiently random.
It isn't a hysterical idea, it is a retarded idea.

For starters her example of Poland circa 1938 completely ignores that the Poland in question was actually a re-incarnation of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and not Poland-the-country-of-Poles we have today (one which took close to a third it's territory though ethnically cleansing Prussia and Silesia of Germans, courtesy of the Soviet union at the end of WWII). One in which Poles were the minority population in the majority of the territory[1] and those territories would eventually become the countries of Ukraine and Belarus.

For comparison here is the same map of Ukraine today for Russian speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine_census_2001_Russi...

Who is shocked that regions with more than half the population being Russian want to get back into Russia, especially considering the first move of the new Ukrainian parliament was to ban the use of Russian in government (something the president himself vetoed so it wouldn't look like his cabinet was filled with right wing nationalists)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polish_language_frequency...
Comparing population distributions makes the distinctions even more stark. 80% of the U.S. population lives in an "urban area" but that definition includes towns of 2,500 people. My friend in rural Georgia that has to drive several hours to get to an international airport technically lives in an "urban area" according to the Census Bureau.

The population of the 20 largest cities (New York down to Memphis) is 33 million, or about 10% of the U.S. population. 9% of Sweden's population lives in Stockholm, and the next 10% lives in the three largest cities after that.

Half the population might live in the 20 largest metro areas, but American metro areas are structured very differently than European cities. Stockholm's 900,000 people anchors a metro area of about 2.2 million people. That 40-50% ratio is typical of European cities, but atypical here in the U.S. Out of the largest 20 metro areas in the U.S., only San Diego has more than 40% of the overall metro population in the core city.

The population distribution in the U.S. is very different than in Europe, even if you restrict your attention to large metro areas. In the U.S., much more of the population lives in sprawling suburbs.
The Semantics of Software
Agreed, if you're doing the same kind of work (or similar enough) over time.
This is cute and all, but completely ignores how useful strict semantic versioning is to both developers and maintainers.

Everybody bitching about semver is lazy, full stop. If you can't be bothered to bound breaking changes only into major versions, and can't be bothered to document properly the expected functionality of things in your package, you shouldn't be sharing your code with people.

And if your answer is "lololol I'll just stay at <0.x" so that you can Move Fast and Break Things, I'm going to mock you.
The 5 largest American cities all have larger populations than urban Stockholm and 4 of them have higher population density. None of them have better broadband.
'Anything in life is possible if you just say "Don't be a pussy"'. It's a real cultural thing.
"We're sorry, but this video isn't available in your location"
If it's Gnome, worse. Always worse.
The math teacher says "We have a famous saying here we live by: don't be a pussy".
thank you for that link.
Thank you Anand, you honestly helped me select parts for so many PC's over the years. Your work was filled with so much depth yet concise at the same time. I always looked forward to your intel chipset reviews on pins and needles back when I was in college. Your writing was literally one of a kind and really helped so many people, even if it wasn't the most important work in the grand scheme of things. I am confident no one can fill the void you will leave. This is reminiscent of the loss of Huell Howser, in the sense that your work could only have been done by you. Good luck with your future, and if you are ever in the north bay I owe you a beer!
Pretty sure that phrase is in use globally regardless of culture.
3G version to be announced soon.
War, or use of force to take or defend territory, is part of human nature. You cannot look at history and deny this. There is nothing fundamentally different about humans in "this day and age" than there was 100 or 1,000 years ago.
Isn't it the case that restaurants have separate lunch and dinner menus for this very reason?

I see further down that Antons is still in business, and still has a line - so perhaps we shouldn't second guess them - apparently they know what they are doing.
Super awesome!
Love the striated colors. I see this having a future. Possibly much more than 3-D home printers.
Key piece: "In the past few days, Russian troops bearing the flag of a previously unknown country, Novorossiya, have marched across the border of southeastern Ukraine."

There were ten Russian soldiers from the border patrol who were detained by the Ukrainian army. They have been just released and sent back to Russia. Strange reaction by a country who is apparently under an open attack by Russia, isn't it?

This BS is getting tiresome. I really hope this won't end like in Georgia where a Georgian attack was justified by Russian armored columns pouring the the Kodori gorge. Only later, when nobody cared a report of the Fact-Finding Mission dryly stated that the Georgian claims "could not be substantiated".
I really want Ukrainian (and not only Ukrainian) politicians to eat all the sh1t they have been throwing on the fan.
> Maybe worst for me personally was most all straight forwardly representational work was labeled "illustrative" and discounted as "commercial."

While I find the "deskilling" of arts to be troubling, and experienced frustration at the lack of technical education as a fine arts student, this line made me realise that what might be deep underneath this is a rejection by those in search of "authentic" art in the face of rampant commodification by advertisers.

In a world where the true human value of art is judged by the proxy of commercial value, and many of the greatest talents are using their abilities not to further human culture but to sell products, it's not irrational for people to seek art that cannot be commodified. It's a collective search for authenticity that's unfortunately flailing and grasping at straws instead, of unpacking the deeper causes caught up with larger social and economic currents.
The project form is disappointing. Unprecedented building methods should result in a building that looks like nothing that came before it.

Ironic too that the building was designed on paper with such romantic rendering of the elevation.
Off-topic indeed & for that I apologize - was just mighty annoyed at the time & the semi related headline trigger a reaction.

>Not sure why it's the top comment.

The new FB app is universally hated - see app store ratings. I wasn't specifically aiming at that but looking back it makes sense that my angry comment resonated widely despite off-topic.

Anyway - sorry for the derail.
everybody has an agenda. some are more obvious than others.
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presumably if you cancel your reservation, you get back your deposit

Yes, as long as you cancel more than 48 hours before the reservation.
Ask HN: API to pull bank/CC statement?
Anyone know of any APIs or services to pull a user's bank statement or credit card transaction history?
While I don't really disagree with most of your above points, I will say that when it works (Chattanooga) it really is fantastic. Their internet arm is already profitable all on its own and they've apparently leveraged it to MASSIVELY improve the quality of their electric grid as well. If there's a better ISP anywhere else in the US I'd love to hear about them since I currently believe they do not exist.
I am excited about it because when I play the whole world map, it seems like every single point is in the Australian outback! This adds more variety.
Relativistic arguments break down for Russia in my experience, they're badass.
The easy way to account for problems with the non-uniform definition of urban area is to consider population density. As I said in another comment there are several cities in the US that have a larger density (for whatever defined area) and larger population.
Perhaps making something familiar helps people see and understand the underlying technology better?
Now the question is, whether you would have overcome your phobia without psychedelics.
Treating Microsoft like "a" person, hmm. I think that works, but we have to consider that persons are rarely 'plain', exhibiting simplistic behavior. If we are to consider Microsoft as person, like we are, we ought to consider it can exhibit truly good and truly bad behaviors sometimes.

That being said, have Microsoft's past mistakes been too big that (what some consider) the good behavior exhibited lately regarding privacy issues is a drop of pure water in an ocean of oil? I'm not implying anything, just asking to provoke thinking.

Can people change? Can large companies change their character? Is Microsoft changing or we are seeing some schizophrenic good actions lately? Food for thought :)
Ask HN: Notification of responses on HN?
Why doesn't HN have the equivalent of the orangered envelopes that reddit has?

Seems like a bit of a fundamental flaw to me. e.g. I often get cases where I only realize days later that someone responded to my post. By that time everyone has moved on from the topic. On reddit I usually respond within minutes since the UI notifies me in a convenient way.
I assume GP meant "he's done all this at 32." It's pretty cool to semi-retire at that age.
>I can compare writing extensions to Firefox and extensions to Emacs and it's pretty much the same experience, if that helps?

Yes, that helps.

When I go to the Add-on Manager and select the tab labelled "Extensions", I see a list of things like Adblock Plus.

Are those things what you meant when you wrote "extensions to Firefox".

If not, then, well, an example would be great.
The advice I got was double the number, and increase the time unit. E.g. you think the project will take 2 weeks, estimate 4 months.
> completely ignores that the Poland in question was actually a re-incarnation of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth

Does that matter? That attack didn't have much to do with which population lived in Poland. It was supposed to be a quick move through Poland, rather than attack on it.

Even then, the area which was actually affected in the first days was actually completely on the current territory of Poland. And that's the population that could potentially take part in the defense.
It is absolutely dangerous. As is crossing the road.

The security community is culpable for failing to find meaningful middle grounds that are acceptable to customers and which generate the revenue that can fund the development of strong security. As a result, non-infosec people build "good enough for naive users", get traction and fix only when forced by a breach or failure.

There are two ways to find (in the Steve Blank customer discovery / product management sense) a profitable middle ground: (1) start out with a weak security posture until public breaches force improvements to a stronger "good enough" (2) start out with strong architecture and consciously weaken to find a "good enough" point that is usable by a mass audience.

What alternative do Snapchat customers have today? TextSecure is subsidized by Twitter, let's hope Twitter has a long future. VC-backed Wickr is going after the financial sector. We need more security people who are not offended by scenario #2, because their distaste for the option makes them most qualified to make difficult compromises and disclose the associated risks so that customers can make informed choices.
Last I checked I thought we were more closely related to primates not monkeys--not sure if that's of any significance.
I'm all for people owning their own last mile for all kinds of services, if that's what they wish to do. Cooperatives are a great thing.

And the marketplace where these coops buy their internet access, electricity or water can still be competitive. It would actually be MORE competitive than the monopolies handed out by governments that you cannot easily leave.

And the decision to grant such a monopoly or revoke or allow an increase would not be in hands of the few. It would be in many different collections of hands and be much harder to pay off all those hands for some sweetheart deal.
Cool! The case is super nice!

I posted my keyboard project on HN a while back. I decided not to do a case, but to split it like an ErgoDox. http://yager.io/keyboard/keyboard.html I've been considering the possibility of fabricating a case of some kind. Looks like I'll have to add wood to the list.
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Apes, I think you mean; both apes and monkeys are primates.
That justifications has been shot down multiple times.
There's also the fact that not all restauranteurs are thirsty entrepreneurs. Honestly, if you were, you likely wouldn't get into the restaurant business as it's hardly a great market - most restaurants end up closed and in financial ruin.

Many restaurant owners (and I know a couple) are quite happy to earn enough to live comfortably, and to be - for want of a better term - a cultural hotspot. I bet the owner of Anton's Pasta loves that his restaurant is that popular.
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It is perhaps worth drawing attention to this sentence in the article: "Though Bayes' theorem is where Bayesians get their name, it is not this law itself that is controversial, but the Bayesian interpretation of probability implied by the term P(F_true | D)." A widespread misunderstanding is that there is something fundamentally Bayesian about Bayes' theorem, or even that frequentists don't believe in it. It is rarely pointed out that this is not the case, and we should thank the authors for doing so.
Geisbert notes that about half of Ebola patients survive without taking ZMapp.

What is the actual mortality rate? I have heard reports varying from 40% to 90%.
Monkeys are primates.

Oh, let's see if I can remember the main groupings...

Primates ->

> Lower Primates ->

> > Tarsiers

> > Aye-Ayes

> > Lorises

> Lemurs & Red Pandas

> Simians ->

> > New World Monkeys

> > Old World Monkeys

> Hominoids ->

> > Gibbons & Siamangs

> > Great Apes ->

> > > Orangutans

> > > Gorillas

> > > Chimpanzees ->

> > > > Chimpanzee

> > > > Bonobo

> > > > Humans
Ask HN: “Go-to” employees: what do you go to them for?
From a soon-to-be student who is curious by habit:

Which of your specialties or areas of expertise have earned you respect and confidence in the workplace? Conversely, when you’ve had a “go-to” team member, what have you gone to them for?

I’m not looking for job-title specialties—front-end/back-end, for instance—just examples of well-honed skills that are not often so well-honed in the environments you’ve worked in, but are appreciated when they are. These will naturally differ from field to field and office to office; common answers would, for that reason, be of slightly more interest to me.

Answers could be directly related to programming and systems maintenance, but might be more general. Examples may include fluency in assembly language, a stronger-than-usual knack for prototyping or refactoring code, clarity in written communication, or all the hallmarks of a good soundboard.

In case I haven’t made my purpose clear, please note that I am not intending to use answers here as an excuse to over-specialize at the expense of general study. I’m well aware of arguments against this practice, and I am not in a position to agree or disagree with them. If this question has any actionable purpose, it is this: I can ask myself later, for those things that I’m good at or love to do, are they often in demand in the workplace? Should I indulge myself to “master” them? Should I remember them in interviews?

Thank you.
The primary reason you are correct about this assumption is the fact that the going trend is to package up applications and run them as a SaaS service. Those 'appliances' you are talking about will be web applications running a more highly decentralized hosting model, occasionally hosting it on the user's computer and more frequently on a neighborhood's deployment as a whole. This newer model of hosting will likely resemble true cloud compute than what we consider it today: 8-9 data centers running 80% of the public cloud in an offering called AWS.
Poll: Is broadband better outside the US?
Have you lived in the US and abroad? Have you paid for wired (Fiber/xDSL/Cable) broadband for your home in both regions? If so, do you think the US has better or worse broadband?

The answers are subjective. Your answer should incorporate price, speed, quality and anything else you think appropriate.

Not all regions are represented. Don't answer if you are comparing the US with Canada, Australia, Africa the Middle East or any other region that is not listed.
worse - Eastern europe has much worse wired broadband than the US
same - Eastern europe has comparable wired broadband to the US
better - Eastern europe has much better wired broadband than the US
worse - Western europe has much worse wired broadband than the US
same - Western europe has comparable wired broadband to the US
better - Western europe has much better wired broadband than the US
worse - Scandinavia has much worse wired broadband than the US
same - Scandinavia has comparable wired broadband to the US
better - Scandinavia has much better wired broadband than the US
worse - Asia has much worse wired broadband than the US
same - Asia has comparable wired broadband to the US
better - Asia has much better wired broadband than the US
Media is different. Until cameras could be used by everyone to distribute information about everything, people could only meet those who returned after a victory. People were recruited for crazy service for glorious goals before. These days everyone has seen painfully dying soldiers on all sides of recent conflicts.

Even now most real recordings from WW2 show running people, tanks, bombings from the air. There should be way more closeup dying and blood. The wars we get on the TV are way too clean.

I really wish that changes the minds of at least some people...
Just awesome. I tried custom shell scripts to upload to dropbox and other cloud storages but it never felt right.

The other magic is, on Mac you can see the upload status in the browser window if you keep curl.io open.
Ookla lists the US as #26. Akamai does not rank the US as a country.

But stifling the economy is not only a matter of speed. It's also a matter of how much you pay for that speed. Let me explain. I am a Comcast customer. When I look at a Netflix movie, Comcast gets money from three sources for that movie: my monthly subscription, the 200% overage fee that I pay, because - basically - I watch Neflix instead of one of the crappy channels that come with my subscription, and from Neflix.

The fact that Comcast gets paid three times makes internet pretty expensive for me. Because Netflix will have no choice but increasing their subscription costs.
React has a solution for that which actually automatically applies class names as components are inserted and removed: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/animation.html. It's not perfect, and it's better than doing it manually.
There's two separate issues:

1) What's internet services like in the U.S. at large levels of granularity?

2) What's internet service like in the U.S. in specific cities?

Re: 1, I think the available data shows that, at a large granularity, we can say that, e.g. the average speeds in big European countries like the U.K. and Germany, factoring in their rural and urban areas together, are comparable to U.S. cities that have similar density, like New York or Connecticut. I think that shows that the overall structure of our telecom market is not inferior to that in the U.K. or Germany or France.

Re: 2, the question is why certain European cities have much faster internet than comparably dense U.S. cities. And I think the answer to that is the same as the answer to: why do certain European cities have much better public transit than comparably dense U.S. cities?

The status of Stockholm within the political structure of Sweden, or the status of Warsaw within the political structure of Poland is very different than the status of New York or Chicago within the political structure of the U.S. Large U.S. cities don't have the political pull to get national-level infrastructure investment.

I've never been to Sweden, but I'm familiar with Bangladesh, where Dhaka (10% of the national population), is the center of political life. I imagine Sweden similarly views the infrastructure of Stockholm as a point of national competitiveness. That's not at all true of American cities. The bulk of the polity of the U.S. views our large cities with skepticism and derision. Instead of viewing investment into urban infrastructure as a point of competitiveness, the heavily-suburban American polity views it as a boondoggle to get poor urban votes.
Been a long time fan of the site. Content always surpasses my expectation and quality of hardware reviewed is amongst the best in the PC market.