skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a nice looking case! I love these posts where someone talks through how they tackle something that's new to them.

I didn't see any silica gel bags in there. Are you going to check it for condensation in a few months?

You may want to consider a suitable grease for the seals. Silicone O rings are nice, and you can get silicone grease for them. If there is a lot of temperature change (night & day; summer and winter) you might want to consider a conformal coating.

(I used to build machinery that would go down coal mines. These devices were in hostile conditions. Each machine was expensive, and the machines they controlled were expensive, and lost production was expensive, and there are human lives involved, so failure was not wanted, so I tend to go a bit over the top with this stuff.)
I'm surprised at the speed difference between parallel and sequential assignment styles. I prefer the sequential, so that's a nice bonus that it's also more performant.
Seems like it's a transaction brokerage service. I don't think the problem is the finance jargon, but more the fact the site doesn't show anything of substance (apart from the unexplained blockchain search widget). It doesn't seem you can actually try this service out yet - or maybe you can, but you have to talk to their sales team first.

I'm not sure how it's at the top spot on HN's front page though, so I might have missed something. Maybe upvoters have a piece of context that we don't.
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Exactly that. If it's some "policy" and not something objective you will sound clueless. Many people just sit in corporate environments waiting for the clock to hit 6, and do nothing until they leave. You don't want this kind of behavior.

In case his work is time sensitive, it's a different problem.
You posted this 5 months ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9174193 , with 10 comments.

In that thread I gave what I consider to be substantive comments, and felt that your responses were incomplete.

In addition to my concrete example of something useful named a "-reader", other objects that end with an "-er"/"-or" include "generator", "ParseTreeListener", "JavaLexer", "JavaParser", and "ParseTreeWalker". What are your proposed better names or better design for those?
The DNS is hosted by overstock.com, and there isn't any info about people involved on the site (or in the DNS whois). <sarcasm>Of course I will trust them with my finances</sarcasm>
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There are many arguments made to support the case of global open borders. The main premise for worry comes from waves of destitute migrants overwhelming the infrastructure and natural carrying capacity of rich cities and dragging them down; however, the megacities of the developing world are a case study in what actually happens in such a situation, and although it presents major challenges, it's not all bad. Cities and economies benefit when they get bigger, even as extreme dysfunctions creep in.

However, it's ultimately moot as long as leaders look towards questions of immigration, nationality, and origin as useful wedge issues.
Scam ?
Why didn't they contract the BBC? iPlayer works insanely well for live content with live rewind for all their channels, and they covered the 2012 Olympics with rewindable live high-def feeds for every sport.
That depends on whether he/she delivers or not. I've had people working for me that didn't seem to care about the clock but as long as they delivered their share (and sometimes more) I never cared too much.

What I do have a problem with is people that are there strictly 9-to-5 without delivering. That's a much bigger problem. (Obviously, just being there 9-5 is no problem that should be the norm, that people are only there for the time that you actually pay them.)
I often wonder if browser vendors, or anybody really, believes that this sort of thing makes our world better.

All it does is add a third case that every application needs to support from here on out. You need to do your sniffing, then register mouse events or touch events or pointer events as necessary. And write similar but different code paths for each case. And you need to maintain and test all three of those branches for ever.

It's that XKCD comic. And that Joel blog post from fifteen years ago. Implemented with no irony whatsoever by people who seem not to have read either.
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Ah, the end of the bathroom-mirror selfies ? :D
If the person is not working their full hours commitment that they agreed to to when they accepted the job (e.g. 40 hours for a regular full time job ) it is time for them to go. It is illegal (fraud) to bill for a full days work, but not work the full day for the hours billed.

If they are skimping on things like working a full day without using their vacation time and clearing leaving early with the boss. Then the person is probably skimping on other important things that will eventually come back to bite the team, themselves, or even worse the company.

People that do this are not trustworthy and should be distanced from those that do their full hours and bill their time accurately. Insure the boss knows of the illegal activity so he can work with H.R. to get the person out of there as soon as possible so you can get a more trustworthy replacement. How much work they complete or the quality of it is no substitute for committing fraud.
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"It's also a somewhat hilarious contrast to those companies who take away your vacation time if you don't use it within a certain time period"

This is pretty standard in the UK. If you're a permanent employee, your annual leave allowance (e.g. 4-6 weeks of holiday) covers a period of one year. If you don't take that leave during the year, you lose it (you're unlikely to get paid for the untaken leave).

Some companies may allow you to carry over some of that leave to the next year (e.g. a week) or may allow you to "sell" or "buy" some extra leave. However, this normally needs to be done at the start of the annual leave year so requires some pre-planning on the employees part.
> The world would be a better place if England and US had kept to themselves and never interfered in other countries.

I strongly disagree with that. England and US not interfering in other countries would not have stopped other countries, most notably the USSR, in interfering with other countries. And the places where other countries, not England and US, had major influence, generally had much bigger problems with civil rights, freedom and material well-being.

A significant indicator in this respect is the need to build walls to keep in the population in a country, because otherwise it would flee (and then call this "anti-Fascist protection wall").

Your hyperbole about "puppet Nazi government" in Ukraine pretty much proves the point: the Poroshenko government, elected with rather clear majority in what is a relatively free election, does have its problems in corruption and whatever, but not any worse than the previous one, which was an actual puppet of Putin.

The EU has many problems, but being "Nazi like" is not really one of them.
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That's still not "Nazi-like". There are plenty of undemocratic systems that are not equivalent to the Nazi regime.
> * I take more vacation now than I did when I had 2/3/4/5 weeks a year of stated, paid, vacation.

And how much is that?

When I worked at a BigCo (in Europe), our holidays amounted to around 10 weeks per year. Senior employees (with more than 10 years) would get even more (around 12). Which means you can take a week off every month. Now that is a lot of holidays. And these were enforced, you had to take all of these (for legal reasons, the company has to either pay the holidays to you, or force you to take them, and most of the time financial reasons dictate that it's better if they don't pay you).

Does unlimited vacation cover that?
Awesome comparisons. Extremely good to know. Would love Rubinius on Linux, and comma delimited or underscore delimited results. Maybe I'll run an post those that way.
I've used AnyChart and HighCharts JS and they both seem to be viable options. They look good and are very customizable.

http://www.highcharts.com/products/highcharts
http://anychart.com/
Another example is if I want to transfer something from server A to server B, without it going through my shitty little pipe, and without storing the private key on either server.
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Or rather, inflicted by the older generation upon the younger.
That's the challenge I am facing. We are very flexible with the timings. It usually works for us. We seldom find people misusing this freedom. But then, once in a while we come across this situation. I am not sure asking the person to stretch a little more will help the coarse. I want him to be motivated intrinsically.
One of those "gimmicks" has been working great for me the past 20+ years...
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Very cool. But one inconvenient is that the processing they do removes all moving objects from the image. Look at page 10 of the paper: the 8 cars present in the original image on the road are absent from the reflection-free image.
Mind you Italy bordered Yugoslavia which was not part of Warshaw block (it was non-aligned) and did not have Soviet troops either. Agree with everything else you said.
Another good way to deal with condensation is to have a small resistor based heater in the case.
You can check your server easily without doing the real attack. Because that would result into a denial of service. You just check the version of BIND in the linux terminal:
dig @google.com version.bind chaos txt

If that is one of the following (or higher), you are save:
9.10.2-P3, 9.9.7-P2, 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.4, 9.8.1.P1-4ubuntu0.12, 9.9.5-4.3ubuntu0.3, 9.9.5-9ubuntu0.2, 9.9.4-18.el7_1.3, 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.2, 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.3, 9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.2, 9.8.4.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2~bpo60+1, 9.7.3-1~squeeze16, 9.8.4.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6, 9.9.5-9+deb8u2, 9.9.5-11

Ofcourse everything is easier if automated, so that is exactly what following page does:
https://scan.patrolserver.com/bind/CVE-2015-5477
This research was partly sponsored by Google, so I imagine the tech will ultimately find its way into the Android camera app.
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You left out the important bit: Is he actually working less than 8 hour days (or whatever is the norm in your country), or is he simply working less hours than the rest of the team.

Only in the first case do you need to have that difficult talk with him. In the other case, the best plan would be to use him as an example for the rest of the team to emulate. Get your work finished and get out. If the rest of the team isn't doing that, it'll come back to bite you in terms of long term productivity and team happiness.
I agree, people are always saying they want to abolish borders but in reality, there are hard consequences to that, you need to have some border for countries to improve. Otherwise everyone is just going to move somewhere else with a better quality of life and this is providing a race to the bottom with giant slums in those places whereas some countries would be almost empty because everyone would move.
> While statically typed, Clojure is an aggressively dynamically checked language.

Not sure what that means, thought Clojure was a dynamically typed language with optional static types (via Clojure.Typed). If it were statically typed then it would not blow up at run time when you, for example, mke a typo.

Personally I find Clojure.Typed code far more readable, not to mention the added safety/performance. Any chance that will become the default? A statically typed Clojure + ClojureScript would be pretty compelling ;-)
Why Node.js?
I am a developer with a very strong PHP background. Experience over 5-6 years in PHP and related technologies.

For the past 6 months or so I have been totally working with nodejs and its eco-system. I do agree its blazing fast and has a very good eco-system. But I really don't believe that it is that much strong in web-development. I guess the only stable web framework is Express. But you have to do alot in it to achieve things. After researching I found Sails.js is gaining popularity and has many features out of the box. But after trying it for a month or so, I found that its very much buggy. The thing that works on my local environment does not work in production, however it has the same technology stack with same versions.

npm packages are outdated, dependencies not updated. I wonder why there is so much hype about nodejs and what it is really good at?

What would you say?
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The biggest problem with "unlimited vacations" is that companies that offer these kind of policies cannot organize and compute their employees' workloads without using an arbitrary number of holidays, which will probably be set to the minimum.

Your manager will give you yearly (or quarterly) objectives with 10 or 20 days of vacations in mind, so if you use your right to unlimited vacations to take more than that, you will most likely be off your target, and that will be reflected upon your pay raise at yearly review time.

A fixed (and high) number of holidays is the only way to go.
Another concern is a lower per capita federal tax base.
Two points:

1. I'm assuming that you mean a team member who comes in late and leaves early, but doesn't do any additional work outside of the office environment? I know of many people who leave the office early and work from home.

2. The key metric here is delivery - I'd much rather someone who works fewer hours but delivers results over someone who works long hours, but doesn't deliver.
Top comments are equally nice reading: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...
To the best of my knowledge, this thing takes snapshots of its viewing field every 15 minutes. That'll be tremendously helpful for calibrating atmospheric and ocean models of ecosystem dynamics.
>> The original co-occurrence system has access to all the data, including that from sessions exposed to the new algorithm.

This is obviously a bad A/B Test design. The original algorithm shouldn´t have access to the data generated by the new algorithm. Designing an adequate test for ML systems is often as hard as designing the ML systems itself. And this is my main concern with machine learning.
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No hypocrisy at all. That's the golden rule: Don't put things on the Internet that you do not want to be on the Internet. That way, there won't be anything you've put on the internet that you didn't want to be on the internet.

As true today as it was back in Usenet days (which also had no mechanism for deleting your entire post history).
Ohhh this is beautiful. I have this childhood memory of my father trying to take pictures of vases behind glass in the museum, struggling to find an angle at which the polarization filter would remove most of the reflections on the glass display case...
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The commission can be toppled by the parliament -- it has been a real parliament for quite some time. Not only that, the European Parliament de facto has the right to dismiss individual commissioners and each individual candidate commissioner has to be accepted by parliament before they can be appointed.

(One entire commission was dismissed in 1999, a candidate was not accepted a few years back -- I think she was from Romania. Might have been Bulgaria, though.)

I'd say that as quite good as democracy goes.
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I know it as a "jump host" or "jump box". Regardless, it's still not a good idea to have agent forwarding - what about the boxes you forward to? Do you trust them not to abuse the forwarding trust (Is there a way to limit forwarding trust to just one machine?)

Also, I used to add every jump combination into my .ssh/config file, but came across a wonderful trick that makes it unnecessary: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Proxies_and_J...
What an absurd article. Extreme lying by omission. It doesn't even mention Tito and Stalin, the people who were directly controlling the Greek communists. This wasn't about the British vs a genuine Greek uprising, it was simply one of the early proxy battles in the cold war. And the Greeks were extremely lucky that the communists did not win.

>But what the freedom fighters wanted, insists Glezos “was what we had achieved during the war: a state ruled by the people for the people. There was no plot to take over Athens as Churchill always maintained. If we had wanted to do that, we could have done so before the British arrived.”

What did you need all those weapons for, then? The truth is that ELAS had already taken over of most of the country, and only stopped because Stalin directed them to. Unlike Tito, he wanted to avoid confrontation with the Allies at that point.

Ultimately one of the most important events that led to the end of the civil war was the split between Tito and Stalin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_Split); Tito had been providing support for DSE (the military wing of the communist party), allowing them free movement in Yugoslavia and setting up training camps, re-supply stations, hospitals, etc. After the split, the Greek communist party sided with Stalin (they didn't even pick the "benevolent" dictator!) and Tito closed the border with Greece.

The idea that this military organization, allied with and directed by two communist dictators, had any interest in a democratic state is insane.
But open protocols still happen.

JSON-API[0] for example, is layered on top of HTTP and an open protocol.

[0] http://jsonapi.org
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> The main premise for worry comes from waves of destitute migrants overwhelming the infrastructure and natural carrying capacity of rich cities and dragging them down

I always wondered: are the people in the US asking for the establishment of closed borders to prevent people from moving from the poor Mississippi to the rich California?
Is there a (rather) easy way to obtain the MSG-4 images using SDR like it is possible for NOAA and Meteor-M N2 (http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weath...)?
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We don't follow any norms for work timings. We are flexible.

And I wouldn't mind if he finishes his work and moves out. But, it's not happening that way. I am concerned about others in the team who might be demotivated because of this person.
That blows a pretty significant hole in the narrative of the article! How seriously can I take the rest of the "eye witness" reporting that makes up much of this piece if that "specific" allegation was likely simply a convenient legend?

For example, how sanguine should I be about the claimed non-violent, non-Stalinist goals of the revolutionary forces?
"But, the argument goes, isn’t ad blocking the new stealing? "
No. No. No. Advertisers are the real thieves stealing your data and personal information all for the sole purpose of targeted advertising.
To paraphrase: "A implies B, now I'll write a bunch of stuff about why B matters even though that's not under dispute." (Your point of disagreement regarding questions of fact is A.)

Your weakness here (in arguing for B) is the possibility that A is false. That you take A as a premise is evidence enough that you know your belief in A is without basis.
I have no experience with Sails.js But I worked with Meteor.js framework.

I spent a little time to understand the framework and was able to develop a web application quickly. May be you can try that.

I have planned to post some regular blog posts / videos on my blog (h2labz.blogspot.com) in the future.
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Would you have any reference about the NATO covering terrorist attacks in Italy, please?
That protocol does not describe an application or aspects of an application but is rather of the 'transport' variety.
I think you just answered your own question. You want the person to be something other than what they are. Maybe they are valuable to you in other ways, hence your struggle over what to do. Do those benefits outweigh the potential costs to the team? Perceived inequity has a life of its own in a group setting.
Quite good? The people creating laws are still unelected. The EU has shown time and time again, that if they can't get what they want via the democratic channels (Referendums, votes, etc), they'll just steamroll it through anyway.

The EU is controlled by Germany, and its aims are to unite Europe into a single state. There is one winner in the EU project - Germany.

Hopefully in our lifetimes it will all collapse as the USSR did, and we will once again have a bit more freedom.
> not to mention the added safety/performance

I believe core.typed has no effect -- neither positive nor negative -- on performance. AFAIK, it doesn't affect code generation in any way.
Ask yourself a question: if she'd stay 9-to-5 and delivered the same result, would have you been happy? If so, don't bother that person, she does her job.

On the other hand, you might think that making her stay longer hours will deliver more result - but that's not always true. In fact, she might even lose her productivity and deliver significantly less than now.
"Extremely" is certainly a hyperbole. You can point out accountability problems in the EU governance system, which is based on a commonwealth of independent states tied together by the Treaty of Maastricht, and that some people want to convert into a federal USE (which I oppose), but "extremely undemocratic"? Bah.
nice work! what are the applications for that besides taking clean pictures behind a glass windows or a fence?

Security agencies applying that algorithms to see if they can obtain some extra information out of the reflected pictures?
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> of our treatment

Were you politically active in 1944?
Really, the weather satellite delivered a 1.4M JPEG?
Oh, so you're advocating more open standards at the application layer?
The linked page shows an image of the complete Earth. Is that really the viewing angle of this satellite?
"In absolute terms" -- you currently know, that there are more underdeveloped countries in the world than so called "first world" countries? And when you also count in countries like Russia than you get a feeling, what is compared to.

Once, the US prided itself to be the most developed nation, today it must compare itself with Uganda and other countries.

Compare tax rates of today with those after the 2nd WW -- the era, where the US flourished most. Today, only the banks of the US are flourishing. When you are no banker and earn below 7 figures a year, you should start to think.

The sentence about "honesty" I will not comment!
RFC 7159 is just about JSON itself.