skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick with capacitors such as these is that you are talking 1nm spacing between the layers. It doesn't take much to punch through a layer, and if that releases enough energy to get through the next, then you might have an exciting day.

The thinnest metalized, plastic film capacitors have a plastic film 600nm thick.¹

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¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_capacitor wherein you will also learn that the process of making the ends of the metalized plastic conductive by a "schoopage" process, named after Max Schoop who invented combustion spray method for the application of tin and lead. And now I am lost down the internet wormhole, "Detonation thermal spraying" is a thing! Explode your contacts into place!
Who went to jail for breaking the law?
OS X – All Features – Apple
(I work for Mozilla) It captures the page cropped to the bounding box of the element, so any background content would also be captured. The results would not contain transparency.
Unit Cell Diamond – 1mm/hour diamond film
In this case, new applications of the same law (Title IX) sit at the center of the debates in both '91 and today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#Further_legislation_a...

The room for broad interpretation and the administrative issues with this particular law have never been resolved, so we've been seeing the same complaints emerge over different applications over very many years.

"The more things stay the same" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, though :)
Anyone have a copy of the story that works for bad people like me who block ads on iOS? The link on this post is to a summary that asks me to click a link in order to read the full article. Unfortunately the button seems to be non functional for my ad blocking self.
Code Naming Basics
If this is what happened, I wish companies would just stop being so clever, cute, or deceivers.

I have gotten so jaded, I just assume I being lied to, or manipulated in some way. I have a feeling I'm overlooking honest companies, and even some people?

Is telling the truth that difficult?

(I just noticed HN gave me the option to down vote. I always wondered where the down vote button was located. Personally, I wish HN would take the button away from me.

There are very few articles on this site that are so important, I'm going to downvote someone? It's just not they way I was brought up. I think down voting is petty. A upvote is all I needed?

If anyone from HN reads this; take away my downvote button. I honestly don't need it. It's actually depressing.

I don't want to be hell-banned though. (Hate that lingo. It brings me back to 7 grade, when I pissed off the cool girls, and got a daily verbal beating, and then the silent treatment. I can still feel my knees buckling, from being kicked by Sue at 7:30 a.m.--while trying to get my books out of the locker. I got to the first number, and the elevator dropped. I held back those tears. It was all over the new girl Perry, that the girls thought I should be with. I was crazy about her, but I was just too shy, and couldn't get the words out. Off topic, but no hell-banning?)
Reading this article made me want to get a glass of Coke from the fridge.
The only limitation on the free version of the utm that I found so far is that you can't have more than 10 IPs active, but nothing stops you from using nat to get around that.

The utm itself actually hosts and serves the VPN connection by the way. My phone connects directly to the VPN on my UTM. You'll see a speed hit because of the extra hop unless you put your utm in the cloud.

I hope that's helpful :)
I stand corrected! Thank you.
> Students could live at home

The most valuable part of my college education was the experience I got living away from home.
I was done after the first sentence: "Capitalism is a coercive economic system that creates persistent patterns of economic deprivation."

Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.

I mean, I suppose that could possibly be a reasoned opinion. But you're going to have to do a lot better than merely stating it as fact if you want me to believe it.
The End of College Tuition Pricing as We Know It?
I find it the opposite. In my perception, the patent hatched buried was actually a good thing for everyone else, because the patents were fought against (with the likely outcome to be revoked as non-patentable bullshit that software patents are). With that peace treaty, nothing is against those patents and they are actually strengthened, which is not something to celebrate.

Of course, would the announcement contain something about dropping the patents (and not the lawsuits), my opinion would be surely different. But all I've read is that two giants won't touch each other and it's not something I do care about.
Tips for Dealing with Developer Stress
I have to agree. It reminds me of the strange little shorts MTV used to have between commercials and shows.
Oh brother.
Seems extremely dodgy. "African American" is pretty meaningless as an 'ancestry' label. Africa, even today, has more diversity than the rest of the world put together. What's the odds that fingerprints would be uniform across the whole continent?
Give 'em 5 years, then ask.

I had very little understanding of the importance of my college education the year after I graduated, but I think it's invaluable now.
Perkins Loan Program Expires at Midnight Thursday Without Congressional Action
Why wouldn't such a person that you hired ONLY pass along resumes of minorities (or edit and sabotage the resumes of the majority candidates)? After all, you've hand-picked them to be someone conscious of the struggles AND told them that you're racist, misogynistic, prejudiced, and an idiot...
Freevolt Harvests RF Signals to Generate DC Electricity
Such a fascinating article.

1) It makes the brain sound like a Kafka queue that kept growing but never had any consumers, until his tumor was removed.

2) It's interesting how there was a disconnect between his active consciousness and whatever other process was reindexing/reinterpreting his raw memory data. Sort of a nod to my napkin theory about the brain being a multi process machine.

3) The fact that the memories didn't replay in order kinda makes sense. It's like a natural fact of concurrency; you don't know what order the output is going to show up in, unless you sort the data afterwards, and by sort I guess we mean looking at the raw data and stitching it together (like a binary sort).
Agreed. The bell curve in the western world starts considerably above the rest of the world. What is relatively deprived in America, for instance, is already head and shoulders above most of the planet.
Nobody wants to bother questioning the numbers. The first line shows Zynga, $3545, $147K, 47%. First hit on federal income tax calculator using single standard deduction no kids gets a federal tax liability of $30K, leaving $117K or a monthly of $9750, so $3545 is 37% of after tax income, which is not too bad. And anyone making a decent income should put some thought and money into deductions: 401k+HSA/FSA being the obvious ones. But actually, the 30% of monthly is generally calculated before taxes, so at 147K the monthly rent could be up to $3675. Not that I'm recommending spending that much or approving of the astronomical SF rents, but any article on the subject should at least do math correctly.

No, what's really going on is a certain company is trying to justify paying employees 20% less, under the excuse that local cost of living is lower. So if I live in SF in my parent's house and pay little to no rent, someone can pay me less? What if I eat ramen instead of going out to eat every night? That's absurd -- we should be paid according to what value we bring and it's up to us how much we spend on cost of living. In fact, a company in LA that can't attract top talent such as presumably are now in SF should be offering even higher salaries.
Show HN: Free Letter of Demand generator – encourages slow payers to cough up
I agree to some extent. At the end of a day if you are a master of something that is no longer needed your employment status will reflect that.
But you said they'd have to raise taxes, which directly implies that you think it would hurt productivity.
All that's missing is Butthead commenting on all this.
I'm frustrated by comments like these that lump all of "my generation" into one bucket, as if the variety of people all around the same age can be combined into a single undifferentiated mass. Was your generation told this? The answer, as with so many things in life is, "It depends." Some millennials were probably given bad information that lead them to make poor choices. Some were given bad information but nonetheless were able to see past it to make good choices. Some just had rich parents so they were able to go to college without accruing any debt at all. Lumping 80 million people together (the majority of whom will never get a degree) is silly.
Most restaurants will serve a half serve plate, especially if you pay the same amount. Just ask for it.
Pingpad Launches Mobile-Centric Tools for Group Collaboration
At least with a shopping mall, parking & dorms they should make some profit off of these side businesses alone.
“The Ethnic List”
So, here's an interesting tid-bit. I just got an email from Google. I began the interview process with them last year, but stopped in order to pursue other opportunities. Well, they sent me a survey today, to see how they can do better with the interview process.

Welp...they didn't BCC everyone on the list. They CC'd everyone. Which means that we see all 500 people that this was going to. Much to my surprise, all of the rejects were "ethnic".

That is all.

(This is more of a 'lol' that an angry rant)
I'd argue that the new era was ushered in by the controversy-engulfed March 1989 release of Madonna's "Like A Prayer."
This article is basically an ad for a company that makes anti-tobacco and anti-sugar ads as a service. And somebody is paying them for that. Why won't they reveal the truth behind their anti-Coke propaganda?

Seriously, there's a difference between lying and product placement. Using Coke as an ingredient in barbecue sauce is completely different than saying "sugar helps me lose weight", and this article doesn't care. It's lazy at best.
You might say that, but after several months of a form of Tibetan buddhist meditation, I extended my attention span to well over five hours. I found I could retrain my mind to be silent and do what I wanted.

The form of meditation is detailed in the book "Turning the Mind into an Ally" by Sakyong Mipham and Pema Chodron.
Yup. Prestige is more important than a lot of people like to admit.
> "Businesses cannot be expected to put all their source code on github"

Similarly, businnesses cannot be expected to document every dollar of income and expense. Wait. No. We can and do expect that.
The new Chinese system font is an interesting one, and I wonder if it made it to iOS too.

I learned, when localising my iOS app, that picking the right Chinese font was really hard. I had to mock-up screens of my app in 6 or 7 different Chinese fonts, send them to my translator and was told they all looked pretty poor. He ended up picking a good looking font for me. In the end I started to recognise the aesthetic differences between Chinese fonts, it was a great learning experience.
At least they're trying...amirite?
Simple and Easy Executable JARs – Mesosphere
Because this is not some hypothetical exercise in bulletproofing the application process but some real world question where we can assume that the person I responded to is able to hire a person that understands what it is all about.
Here's a link to the non-paywalled article:

http://is.gd/5aMvOW
> You could write the same sentence about, say, physical abuse.

I'm not sure if we're in agreement here but yes, you could say the same about physical abuse. Perpetrators of violent acts are often found to have been recipients of violence or abuse themselves. We know this through counseling which is a form of dialogue. The more we can understand something, the better we'll become at preventing it from being exacted in the first place.

Understand and treat the cause, rather than ignore the cause and treat the symptoms.
I thought so too...

Very interesting read though... Dementia is something I hope to never experience and this sounds worse.. The knowing afterward about confusion or awkward interactions... My wife and I have a half serious suicide pact in case that does happen

Amazing story nonetheless
Weird to think that somebody may have learned that they weren't going to die today from a tweet.
> I feel like this move is hiding behind "technology wants to be free and open" while actually making a grab for clicks and views.

I agree completely. The post and publicity that accompany it are definitely more of the same.
I first heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on WUSB 90.1 FM: "The First Station of the 90s". Hacking connection: Eric Corley hosted "Brain Damage" on the same station.

Check it out: http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0991.html
I was actually reply to gp along the lines of "blame your user agent for not providing navigation help with rel="next"[1] links" -- but having a look at the html-source, apparently magicpoint doesn't generate rel="next" links anyway...

And the link to magicpoint[2] is broken -- so where would one submit patches? The first one should probably be a new "generated by"-link that actually works...

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-next

[2] http://www.mew.org/mgp/
Can you say more about the differences? I don't know what they would be at all - I thought they were very similar.
Would be nice to put pricing information and explain what you get with a free account on the front page. I won't sign up without that info.
Btw, generally, I would not consider sharing teaching resources between professors a bad thing. I actually think it's great in most cases. Stolen might probably be a hard word, if the other member of the faculty agreed to give the slidesor simply didn't care.
Let's take a look at the data:

"Texas earns C-minus, ranks 39th in nation on education ranking"

* 52 percent of 3- and 4-year-olds in the state are not in school.

* Hispanics had the lowest rate of 4-year-olds enrolled in preschool at 39 percent. Meanwhile about half of black, white and Asian 4-year-olds were enrolled.

* 64 percent of of 3- and 4-year-olds in households earning at least $100,000 or more attend preschool compared to 40 percent of those living in households earning less than $20,000.

* About 44 percent of those enrolled in Texas preschool attended a private school.

http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/texas-earns-c-mi...
Does anyone else feel like the new Asana reminds them of Basecamp.

(That's not a bad thing. I just find it interesting that the market of project management tools are getting ever simpler to the point that they all are essentially converging on becoming just todo lists. Eg wunderkist, basecamp, etc)
You could use bit flags to avoid the array issue. Your point about constants is reasonable although given that it's a one-time cost and there are already automated tools to do this for many popular languages, I don't think it presents a real barrier.

Edit: I see they originally use a bit mask and then changed to the space-separated string.

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/string-interfaces
>Technically, you do if you have the UAC enabled.

Interesting. Makes sense.
That's sorta the purpose of patents. Incumbent companies create a ton of valuable technology that new competitors would otherwise get access to only because the incumbents invested in them.

You can disagree with rewarding it, but it's not totally insane.
This was on Product Hunt like a year ago! :D
Apple Stops signing iOS 8.4.1
> why not disable it as needed

i am. ;)
The word ‘robot’ is meaningless
I actually had a similar incident with memory loss some years ago. It wasn't because of a tumor but from severe central sleep apnea, that as near as I've ever been able to figure out had been going on for about a decade and was taking a significant toll on my body and brain. The way he describes the memories coming back to him is much more eloquently put than I've ever been able to manage. I hadn't hit a point where I had lost the ability to reason, but it sounds like the memory loss was comparable. There was a period of about 2-3 years where I just hadn't been able to recall much that happened recently or long ago. I wasn't quite as fortunate (I think) as him with the recovery of memory, there are still people and relationships that I don't fully recall and likely never will at this point, but the things that did come back came back in that same kind of jumbled B before A kind of way. It was incredibly frightening for the first few months like that because memories would just pop into place and I'd realize that I didn't recall them before and feel like I just wasn't me during that time, I was some incomplete version of myself and had no idea that I was missing parts of myself. It's an incredible experience to get those things back but it's awfully frightening looking back onto the times when they weren't there and not being able to help the thought that a large part of you just wasn't there for years at a time, and if you're really the person that was there before, during, and after the whole thing. That did lead to a good deal of depression for myself during some of that, after realizing things that I did that just didn't look or sound like me because of everything I was missing. It sounds like he had a lot of help from his friends and family which was tremendous in getting him to this point. I also likely wouldn't have fared nearly as well without mine.
I don't know if this kind of comment is appreciated on HN, so I apologize in advance.

Why is rent so high in SF and the Bay Area in general? Can anyone recommend good reading material on this topic?
I completely agree with the noble goals you've called out, and I'll add two points:

First, when is it truly undesirable to broaden your skills, to develop intangible quality, to improve your abilities as a human being beyond a specific depth? I argue (and I know it's arguable) that it's always a positive. To some degree I think the market agrees with this and, without a clear answer to "what is a good education worth," has overvalued (or rather, overpriced) the unmeasurable intangible results of a college education, which is one of our problems.

Second, I completely disagree that the modern undergraduate university accomplishes neither of these things. It is obscenely expensive (needs correction), but it is not "grotesque," it is not "hyper-social" in the derogatory sense (simply diversely social, which is neutral/positive), it is not a "playground" other than the type that nurtures minds and enhances opportunities for learning, it is not "cookie cutter" except in the sense of being an effective and repeatable system.

The university deserves to survive, it deserves to flourish, and it is an institution deserving respect for the effect it has had and will continue to have on the rise of civilization and the improvement of society.

Because it is both difficult to measure and easy to understand such an enormous impact, universities have become expensive. That is regrettable and needs recalibration from a more powerful entity (public universities have it right, but they rightfully need support from society). But don't think for a second that the castration of the university to an austere intellectualized minority luxury is the way forward for the institution of higher learning or for society itself.

As civilization becomes more complex and more difficult to comprehend, we will only need more and better universities, and ones that continue in the tradition of the liberal arts—that we may continue to be human in the face of ever greater inhumanity. Save us all if we are required to measure that.
I don't like it. Personally, I'm of the opinion that all beverages should be basically sold in three sizes: a small refillable "I'm in a hurry" travel size (say, 0.5 - 1L), a standard refillable daily-use container (say, 2 - 2.5L) and a refillable family container (say, 5L). Additionally, there should be an option to refill your bottle. It could be even metered by 1ml or something. The pre-bottled versions should be adequately more expensive - taxed with a recycling fee, and then taxed again with a "we know you ain't gonna recycle anyway" pollution fee.

I think pretty much every kind of food stuff that you buy regularly - things like ketchup, or oil, or spices, or pickles, etc. - should be available this way.

Because if you step outside your daily routine and look at the shopping experience, you'll see that it's absolutely ridiculous how much packaging you buy and throw away all the time, week after week. If you know that you're using, say, a 500ml of ketchup every week, you should be able to get a 2L bottle and refill it once a month instead of having to buy and throw away 6 bottles a month like you do today. Now take that and multiply it by all the other things you use like this - sauces, sodas, etc., then multiply by the first-world population (say, ~1B) and divide by average family size (say, 3), and you'll get billions of bottles going straight to landfill every month. This is just wrong.

The absolutely worst offenders are catering companies, who far too often think: "hey, we don't know exactly how much people will want to drink, so let's go for the least common value and buy a hundred thousand 0.5L bottles". Or the standard catering/hotel stacking mug size which ensures your guests will waste a lot of bagged tea trying to quench their thirst.

The second worst is bottled water. Especially in big cities, where municipal water is often cleaner than the supermarket one, buying bottled water is pure insanity - and yet people keep doing it all the time.
Usually when I look at restaurant ratings, I see lots of perfect scores and lots of terrible scores, but very little in between.

This could be very entertaining.
Income taxes on hourly wages would go down.
You'd probably enjoy Nick Reboot or Toonami Aftermath, which are both community-generated channels that show that old content.

T.A. has a regular schedule, and have even managed to dig up old commercials and promos for the channel. It's pretty magical.
Who's to say the top 20 schools are really that good, though? They're on top thanks to arbitrary, 'commodity' rankings.
Which you could have done without the overhead of college.

Getting your first job in a town away from your parents would have worked too, and may have actually been a better experience.

Maybe, that was your point.
Yep, all batteries and capacitors amount to is electron storage devices.

Capacitors are much more prone to becoming coulomb bombs than batteries mostly because they are designed to discharge quickly, which is what makes them implicitly good bombs. It doesn't take much electron movement to make an explosion.

In fact, this is how alkali metals react with water. We learnt that only in the past few years.

http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n3/full/nchem.2161.ht...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8
that tube glow thing is awesome!
In principle, this should not be a question. College is NOT something that should be looked upon as an "investment" requiring ROI. Sure enough, in civilized countries like Germany, or Sweden, or Denmark, college isn't thought off as a significant expense that requires ROI calculations because it is free. That's how it should be, given that the market does not understand the value of education.

It is only in this corporate-run hyper-capitalistic country that we're having this ridiculous conversation. For US graduates, college may indeed not be "worth it".
I have always had this feeling that patent wars are only around to make the lawyers more money.

Imagine how many firms would lose millions if the major tech companies worked together

EDIT: (nothing against lawyers in general since they are obviously just doing their jobs)
Yah, see hacker spaces, and social dinners....