skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite right now is Looker. Dashboards are beautiful and ad hoc query creation is dead simple and on point. You will save yourself many "oh could you re-run this data but split it out by device type?" moments because your clients should be able to do it themselves extremely easily.
I don't see how the author can claim that FLIF is "unencumbered by software patents," only that he/she hasn't obtained patents on the work already. This has traditionally been one of the problem with so-called "free" image formats -- it's not that the standards body or creator asserts patent rights, it's that other inventors claim that their pre-existing patents cover the new format.
> For all the belly aching people have with corporate donations to campaigns and similar this is the same.

It's not the same at all. Every human being has an equal 24 hours a day they can spend doing things. If you choose to spend some of those hours helping a cause you care about, more power to you.

In contrast, corporations have hundreds of millions of dollars (more than all but the richest people) to spend on their interests. And a corporation can't "care" about a cause, it can only spend money to advance its interests and try to make more money.
Apple for the longest time shipped OpenSSL as a library that developers could link against in their binaries. Unfortunately OpenSSL even in minor versions could and would change function calls thereby making it almost impossible to keep up to date with OpenSSL for dynamic libraries because each new version required the developer to recompile the binary.

Apple thus stopped shipping OpenSSL and has officially deprecated it, these days you won't find headers for it anywhere in the stock system and there is no official way to link against it anymore either in El Capitan. It just exists for backwards compatibility.

If a developer now wants to use OpenSSL in their binary instead of the Common Crypto framework that Apple provides they will have to provide their own version of the library in their application, and they are then responsible for making sure users get patched in time.
Rather than use this, you can use a custom tool built for comparing websites, for reasons similar to your use-case:

http://responsivenews.co.uk/post/56884056177/wraith

http://bbc-news.github.io/wraith/index.html
They're tecognising an implied rather than imminent threat. Pretty much any animal will react to protect itself from a clear threat, but what these animals are doing is associating the death of one of their kind with something linked to it, but which itself on its own does not appear threatening or dangerous. They're making a cognitive leap most animals can't make.
Vision of helping towards sustainable nourishment of ever growing human population is the best argument for Soylent-like solutions in my mind.
In Washington, I've been pretty happy with Frontier. Well, "happy" might be a bit strong. Frankly, I rarely give them much thought. $60/month for (I think) 35Mbps up and down. Every single time I've actually checked it, it was indeed what they claim, and it rarely goes down. (About once every couple of months it'll go down for an hour almost exactly at 2300 or midnight; I assume some kind of maintenance.) I don't have to call them once a year to keep the same rate; bill shows up, I pay it, they keep giving me solid, no-bullshit service. Of the few times I've called for support, it's been a small wait and they quickly fixed the problem. My feelings about Frontier are about the same as I have toward the city water utility: I turn on the "tap" and internet comes out, I pay the bill on time every month, and rarely do I give it another thought. That might sound like damning with faint praise, but I think it's the highest praise possible.

Contrast to Comcast, my old provider. Fluctuating rates, horrendous customer service, advertised speeds that are nowhere near reality (I had 12Mbps package back in the day; it rarely was good for more than 3Mbps), and as reliable as an old Fiat. Oh, unlike the city water utility, do I have feelings about Comcast. The last time they were at my door I told the salesman I'd do without internet before I'd give another dime to them. Ironically, Comcast were the ones running billboards about how horrible Frontier would be when Verizon gave up on fiber and sold it to Frontier. Yeah, well, I've been a Comcast customer and I don't see how it could possibly be any worse. Turns out Frontier is just fine.

But you're not going to get Frontier unless you live in western Washington outside of Seattle, so this probably isn't much help.
I think JPEG's color transform is lossy, so even those basic blocks are somewhat lossy. A better approximation of the entire 8x8 block than the exact pixel at the top-left position of the block, which is what FLIF and PNG with Adam7 interlacing do, but still lossy. If you would take an image, magnify it by a factor of 8 in both directions so each pixel gets blown up to an 8x8 block, then convert it to JPEG, there is still some information lost.
What do you use for to do list?
More importantly, they have a special Octocat graphic!

https://www.yubico.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/security-k...
This is a really good idea.
Listen Comcast - It's not you, it's me ...
"friends and family killed and land stolen"

Well, the whole urban relocation resulted in a high suicide rate (90% in some studies), and land most certainly was stolen in the current generation. Look at the ongoing lawsuits against the Department of the Interior. So, no, it was done differently but it has happened again (ongoing) recently.

I too believe in the biological because its too many varied cultures to call it all cultural.
>it's not beneath what Apple or Google would do in their position.

Explain.
What exactly is your point here? That bad customer service is okay so long as the company is big enough?
Is it for you, or just a quizwall? :)
We have a laser printer at work, with an upwards-facing laser (eg, under the drum).

Because of gravity, toner eventually falls onto the laser lens, and causes low-quality prints.

Thus, it has a manually runnable "self-clean" procedure, in which an internal squeegee runs over the lens, cleaning it. For a bit.

If they had made the laser downwards-shooting, it would have avoided this problem altogether. The printer company's service technician, who showed us the self-clean, tells me that this would make the packaging larger, however.

The printer is a gargantuan office printer. (Kyocera TaskALFA 5550ci)

I don't think packaging size for merely the laser should have been a concern...

tl;dr printer hardware can definitely suck
this guy gets it. Whose gonna be paying for all this crap?
please be aware that w3schools is a terrible resource loaded with inaccuracies and misinformation. It's the National Enquirer of web development. I'd recommend using MDN instead: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/.
> This melody will eventually become a song with a chord structure of C, G, Am, F

<sarcasm> Thanking my lucky stars that someone has finally thought of this </sarcasm>

Axis of Awesome put it better : http://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I
Thanks for the reply.
I actually contacted Dan to clarify that specific statement. My guess is that he misunderstood "publicly available host" with production.
Indeed - I'd argue that's the most important one.
PCI is the regulating body. FDIC is just concerned with bank deposit insurance. Looks like they're using Stripe, so I'd suppose they're tokenizing those card numbers before dealing with them.
> 6. Prefer battle-tested tools over the “new hotness”.

Well, that won't go over well with the HN crowd, I bet! It's also the most important point in my opinion. Just because a new tool solves an old problem doesn't mean it won't have all new problems of its own. Can probably go even further:

For any popular tool or framework less than 1 year old, it has critical problems that aren't known yet. If it's not a popular tool, it will always have critical problems that aren't known.
Embrace IPv6 =)
Did alcoholism increase among Japanese that were forced into internment camps in the US?
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Let's not forget Dwarf Fortress, which has several mechanisms that are accidentally turing complete. My favorite is the logic gate using animal behavior.

[1] http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Computing
> "Real food" takes time.

And what's the problem with that? Surely you didn't travel via motorcycle complaining that motorcycles are "too slow" for the trip. It was an integral part of your traveling experience and without it it would've been completely different.

Eating is a normal part of life. Any inconvenience in it is exactly part of a human experience, much like what you wanted with the trip. If your bike broke down for that extra 100 miles or if it was too cold in camping it wasn't "an issue", it was just life. You could have solved those two issues by traveling by plane and staying in hotels, but that's exactly the kind of convenience that you wanted to avoid.
Wow; that's quite malicious.

Question for HN: back in the Napster days, were there likewise Napster clones ("napster"?) that purported to allow peer to peer music downloads but in fact had malware properties?
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They have "My First Errand", we have Dateline NBC and America's Most Wanted. What else should we expect?

I think Americans have an almost pathological reflex to gaze at sentimental stories that are sensational because they are exceptional, then use them as guidelines for how the world is now.

The sentimentality aspect, which drives interest, outrage and action, is what makes it so pernicious. Sentimental appeal is what drives our politics, media and fundraising. If there's no emotional aspect, our media is quick to invent one by creating angles like arguments between talking heads.

I know many on HN understand that there are fewer than 200 stranger abductions of children per year in the US. Maybe you even know that runaways have decreased by over 70% in the last ten years.

How would the US public ever know this?

In the emotional marketplace, that simple fact can't compete with these facts which, when conflated in the media, produce utter paranoia:

http://www.missingkids.com/KeyFacts

I have nothing against the work this organization does; they are as captive to the existing narrative as police or parents or anyone else.

I think the progress in this area is that through electronic media, we can actually measure pretty easily how informed the public is by the media they consume. Hopefully we can get closer to news that demonstrably informs people.
CloudSight – Image Recognition API and Visual Search Results
You are right that it was not relevant, and I modified my comment to "person" to avoid the insinuation.
You are essentially correct in the third paragraph. Let me elucidate and be more correct. Bear with me.

We have found four field theories (electromagnetism, weak theory, strong theory, gravitation)[1]. Each of theories have a domain of applicability in which, in principle, all the results of all experiments can be predicted using that one theory. Domain of applicability includes length scale, time scale, energies involved etc. This is not a satisfying situation because it is extremely common for systems to not respect this human-imposed domain. Therefore, we want a single theory whose domain is the union of the domains of all of these theories. Call this goal the goal of unification. This has been partly been achieved (electroweak theory), and work continues.

Then there is another goal. To find a theory that has a even larger domain of applicability than before. This is the problem of scale. The article claims that the problem of scale is never ending because finite experimental data (and philosophical claims not discussed in the article). String theory is an attempt at the unification goal but it comes with a larger domain of applicability as a bonus. I think this makes the two separate issues discussed in the article clear.

I make a third point that you asked about. I make the following observations. General relativity under reasonable restrictions reduces to Newton's law of gravity. The correspondence principle claims that quantum mechanics (typically) reduces to classical mechanics if your system has a large number of particles. Special relativity reduces to classical mechanics for low speeds. These are three pairs of micro-macro theories. In all of these cases the micro theory also works at the scale of the macro theory if you choose to use it: In other words the domain of applicability of the macro theory is a strict subset of the domain of applicability of the micro theory.

This subset business does not work so nicely for field theories. Or when looking at general relativity and quantum theories at the same time. There are overlapping domains but no nice strict subset. In that case there is not simple notion of micro-macro theory. However, returning to your original question you can sometimes use multiple theories at the same time to make predictions. Eg. particle physics experiments at CERN do this (multiple field theories), or that blackhole physics that keeps making headlines (quantum and gravity). This situation is of course far from satisfactory and work towards the goal of unification continues.

[1] All of these theories of fields assume quantum mechanics which is a theory of particles. Our universe is made up of particles and fields, as far as we know.
Local radar doesn't give IR, which among other things gives sea information. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_satellite#Infrared_spe... :

> Infrared satellite imagery can be used effectively for tropical cyclones with a visible eye pattern, using the Dvorak technique, where the difference between the temperature of the warm eye and the surrounding cold cloud tops can be used to determine its intensity (colder cloud tops generally indicate a more intense storm).[10] Infrared pictures depict ocean eddies or vortices and map currents such as the Gulf Stream which are valuable to the shipping industry. Fishermen and farmers are interested in knowing land and water temperatures to protect their crops against frost or increase their catch from the sea. Even El Niño phenomena can be spotted.

Local radar doesn't give condition more than about 100 miles off-shore. It becomes more difficult to figure out if there's a front or severe storm coming to land. Consider, for example, a small typhoon somewhere in the Pacific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Tracy was spotted by weather satellite on 20 December but wasn't seen on radar until 22 December. It hit on 25 December. With weather satellites, it's easier to route shipping and flights around a disturbance.

Weather satellites are also used to identify new volcanic eruptions and route around their effects (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140926091334.ht...), and detect wind patterns over the ocean.

At some point it depends on what "deep dependence" means. It can easily be defined to make what you say be trivially true, and therefore uninteresting.
Please don't start political flamewars on HN.

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Shades of gray. There's some significant gray area when it comes to more tangible things like servers, etc, but I think if you're having a hard time discerning between a group of individuals volunteering time and a group of individuals who use obscene wealth to derail the democratic process in terms of effects on democracy, we probably need to reframe the conversation somehow.

Would a celebrity endorsement be a dressed up pig? The going rate for a Kardashian tweet is absurd. But how would it be "fair" if they were disallowed from tweeting if everyone else could.

I think it's impossibly complex and nuanced, and trying to paint this kind of activism as equal to corporate and individuals buying elections is blatantly disregarding that complexity. There goal is to balance the contributions of individuals and special interest groups in a way that no single party is able to grossly tilt the process in a way that harms it. What that means in the real world is incredibly complicated and to be determined, but I can't see individual volunteering of time and skill as being the same as individuals volunteering millions of dollars.
Who would, when you get sent to the kind of underfunded, marginalized districts that are desperate enough to conclude that a liberal arts student who has no training in education, nor any student-teaching experience, is a reasonable option?
+1 you'll see that he regularly references other countries that have already done this.

I'm esp a fan of Germany's education track, and having worked in crunch-heavy industries having something like a working time directive would be a Good Thing(tm).
I had never thought of that... amazing how easily the eyes track the overlapped image if you move your head forward and backwards.. I have to stay exactly on the plane splitting the two images or else the illusion breaks immediately.
I did enable auto-recover but Qlikview has a tendency to bring up a prompt asking me if I want to recover files even when this wasn't necessary.

I'm very glad that YOU never experienced that issue. The issue occurred, for some reason, because Qlikview paused after a load and before it refreshed the screens and displayed a prompt that allows you to add select boxes. I thought it was ready, and I saved the file.

The fact remains that I saved diligently, and the software became unstable and lost all my work. But I guess you e never had that experience before, always fun though when some smart-arse tells you that something shouldn't happen but it does happen.
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A big part of Bernie's campaign has been an increase in the minimum wage. A lot of people were calling shenanigans when he was paying some of his own people $12/hour, while calling for a $15/hour minimum. Volunteering for charity is perceived as a very different thing than working on a political campaign, regardless if it's isomorphic or not.
addconnectionsettlement.com is having issues, here's the google webcache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aWJj9pD...
Okay, I was wrong again.

When I went to look for MailChimp emails, I found that I didn't have any. Apparently, MailChimp's servers are actually blacklisted on my server. And apparently it was done by hand by me about 4 years ago (yay for revision control on config files--boo for terse log comments).

Something major happened about 4 years ago with MailChimp for me to actually construct a permanent blacklist entry by hand rather than let the keywords filter, but I guess I don't remember properly what the issue was anymore.
Young Grape Picker Gives Sanders a Cash Boost
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> we conducted physical and visual inspections, along with microbial tests, of 2,000 bottles in our distribution center and found only two bottles with the same defect

Wouldn't this put them well above the industry standard rate of 1 in 10,000 bottles quoted earlier in the article?
Young whippersnappers. I actually had one of those TEAC reel to reel tape drives, maybe not that exact model---I don't remember it being able to auto-reverse, but I wouldn't have cared about that---but otherwise the same controls. It was a good device for its time, as were the reel to reel 7- and 9-track computer tape drives I used later and concurrently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape

(7 track was the standard for 36 bit PDP-10s, 6 bits of data and one of parity, and some earlier IBM machines as well.)
How could you possibly know this? Where is this comprehensive prescient list of "all the nutrients required for an adult human"?
Perhaps the lesson of Finland is that mono-culturalism achieves better educational outcomes than multi-culturalism.

Maybe it is easier if stakeholders have high levels of trust, and similar performance expectations, work ethic, language skills, etc.
In many cases we already do that. In the economic analysis of the author, poor people's time would be worth less. All other things being equal, then, they would be best served economically by the slow-moving local buses that otherwise lose out in an assumption of a time value of $20 per hour.

FWIW, simval advocates expanding rapid transit so that the marginal cost in time and money is favorable to all economic classes.
Spanish Soccer Players Ham It Up with Tasteful Jerseys
Wunderlist. I've tried Remember the Milk as well.
My recent Verizon cancellation went very smoothly. No "retention" specialists. Just said, "I'm switching to a competitor."

I'm saving something like $50/mo with the change. Verizon sent me an email offering me a $40 statement credit to re-up. I laughed in their virtual faces.
When I left the country I didn't cancel Comcast, I just closed the account that it was auto- deducted from.

Let's hope I never need a US credit rating for anything.
Now that is not only a scarecrow, it's a scarehuman.
I have to agree with this assessment. Qlikview does ETL very well.
Thecher compensation is a bit above the national average and they have long vacations.

What is also very meaningful to notice is that due to high income taxes, income redistribution, and generally flatter pay scale overall compared to most other countries, a corporate lawyer isn't that much better off than a teacher.
That's a good point: why are donations of labor not counted as (capped) political contributions? Or are they, and for what contexts? Why those contexts?

If I donate the use of my event center for a campaign rally, that counts toward the limits, but not if I help serve coffee at the rally?

Here's the FEC guidelines:

>The donation of office machines, furniture, supplies--anything of value--is an in-kind contribution. The value of the donated item (the usual and normal charge) counts against the contribution limits. A donation of services is also considered an in-kind contribution. For example, if you pay a consultant's fee or a printing bill for services provided to a campaign, you have made an in-kind contribution in the amount of the payment.

>If you sell an item or service to a committee and ask the committee to pay less than the usual and normal charge, you have also made an in-kind contribution to the committee in the amount of the discount.

>Under limited exceptions in the law, you may provide certain goods and services without making a contribution to the committee. These exceptions are volunteering, travel expenses and business services.

http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/citizens.shtml

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Ah well, at least there are SuperPACs...

EDIT: I can think of some arguments to justify no volunteer contribution limits: it's effectively already capped by the amount of labor you can give in total, and is thus inherently limited.