skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are the equivalent reams of standardized information for Electrical Engineering (circuits)?

Circuit topologies are like design patterns. Lists of components are like package repositories. Datasheets are API documentation - both are fields where the majority of details you have to deal with were decided by someone else.

It's interesting, when viewed through the lens of this discussion, EE seems like an early form of software - using specific materials for their ability to stay out of the way, seeking components that are a mathematical ideal, extremely reconfigurable, complexity is the enemy. Which isn't surprising - it's not like people were blind to the advantages of abstraction before computing.

Perhaps EE was the horse running out the barn door with the term "Engineer", but he's long gone now.

(Mechanical Engineering is in a similar position - there are many people that you would call engineers, but they're not PEs nor responsible to one. Safety is achieved by product regulation and testing, rather than a trusted creation process)
If you are concerned about grain size I doubt the only thing you use salt for is to boil things.
I think there is lag between the "Latest" AOSP build & what's actually available.
How much GPU ram does the g2.8xlarge have? For printing an A4 at 300dpi you'd want 2480 x 3508px. If that doesn't fit in the GPU ram, and you are just doing this for yourself/friends it might be a better idea to run neural-style in CPU mode.

An order of magnitude slower but you'll have a lot more ram at your disposal
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Prioritization is hell
tl/dr:

Feeding America [1] is a network of food banks that feeds more than 46 million people. In 2005, four professors at the University of Chicago helped replace their centralized distribution system with an auction-based one, allocating "shares" to each bank to bid on donated food.

From The Week [2]:

"Initially, there was plenty of resistance. As one food bank director told Canice Prendergast, an economist advising Feeding America, "I am a socialist. That's why I run a food bank. I don't believe in markets. I'm not saying I won't listen, but I am against this." But the Chicago economists managed to design a market that worked even for participants who did not believe in it. Within half a year of the auction system being introduced, 97 percent of food banks won at least one load, and the amount of food allocated from Feeding America's headquarters rose by over 35 percent, to the delight of volunteers and donors."

The end result has been an improvement over the centralized scheme, whereby "a lot of food rotted in places where it was not needed, while many shelves in other food banks stood empty."

[1] http://www.feedingamerica.org/

[2] https://theweek.com/articles/580341/what-happens-when-americ...
I don't understand why you praise NFC but condemn EMV on the basis of fraud. In both cases, the possession of some physical item is considered sufficient for authorization. Copying that physical item is sufficiently difficult that it's probably not an avenue for fraud, so you have to actually steal somebody's card.

If physical card theft is actually a big deal, then NFC would be just as bad. If it's not a problem and fraud comes from copying the information, then EMV is just as good. No?
Do they have a html5 version of that flash video?
The London that might have been
Try Ello. I love it's anti-ad tech stand.
If you can't say something nice, at least be specific about what's wrong...
"Really though, sift and ag are trying to solve different problems. [...] sift is meant to be more of a grep replacement."

This is true, and it's too bad that the optimistic benchmarks featured in the sift web page invite the discussion to center around performance, which is not sift's particular strength.
Is Customer Development Pseudoscience?
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So if I have a friend in Country B and I'm in country A on facebook, she will not be able to access my profile info without downloading the info from across the world because the data can't be replicated to her country leaving her with a horrible slow user experience? Sounds like turning the internet into a UX horror story and inefficient mess to me.
Whether or not a direct proportional tax would be optimal depends on whether or not the benefit one gets from having more money decreases in a directly proportional way. I have no answers to this question (which should be answered in a statistical manner), but I fail to see a reason for believing a priori that a fixed percentage for everyone is the fairest form of taxation.
The difficultly, strike that. The complexity occurs when you have setup auto payments.

One just has to handle it like any other transitional period.

You open a new account with a new bank or credit union and start funding it. You watch your existing bank account for recurring or auto payments coming out and work to switch them over to the new bank account. You have to maintain some money in the old bank account and possibly keep it open for several months or a year.

Treat the old account as a temporary savings account with enough money to cover any checks or auto payments that might get drawn against it. After you are certain all auto payments have been transferred or you feel safe and confident then you close the account with the old bank.

I primarily use a credit union but I do have a checking account with a regional bank that I use strictly for auto payments, this makes it easy to make sure there's enough money in the account and to transition away in the future should the bank displease me.
And don't forget about the adware- I mean "promoted sites" on the new tab screen.
You don't make the computer output "guilty." You make it show you a likeliness of violation and a history of enforcements along with the relevance mitigating factors.
I had to coerce a friend into getting mental help.

He had made some self-destructive statements and a mutual friend reached out to me for help. Several of us scheduled an intervention to try to convince him to go get help and the day before the intervention, he made some more self-destructive statements so that same mutual friend called me and I went to his apartment. He looked like death warmed over. He hadn't been taking care of himself and was extremely thin and pale.

When I asked him to go to a hospital for help, he refused. I told him that I wasn't going to take no for an answer. He had been talking about harming himself and that's all we needed to have him involuntarily committed for 72 hours. He still didn't want to go so I called the police and explained that my friend had been talking about hurting himself and I thought he needed to be committed.

He even threatened that if I followed this course of action, it would mean the end of our friendship. I said that I would prefer to be able to drive past the place where I was no longer welcome than to drive past the place where my friend died because I didn't help him.

The police and paramedics came and the officers explained to me that because of his talk of self-harming, he could be involuntarily committed if he didn't go of his own volition. If he was right and there was "nothing" wrong with him, he could be out of the hospital in the morning.

Their argument persuaded him and he went voluntarily.

He was in the hospital for over a week. Long story short, his problem was caused by the side effect of a medication he was taking for a medical condition. They were able to find a different medicine that helped his condition without producing the side effect of depression. He's doing well today and we're still friends.
As long as we can hire our own advocate/model to provide a defensive analysis, we might be ok...
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Because society makes the law, and the law benefits society. Given how the tax laws are structured, she definitely shouldn't pay LESS of a percentage in taxes from the earnings on her books than the average joe. But she does. And so does every other wealthy person who can afford to hire an accountant.
Circle – manage internet content and time across family devices
That is great. It's nice that people can be successful in a liberal arts career. I applaud it, but I don't think we should try to emphasize it when people are simply looking for a way to make a living. Sure, emphasize it in K-12, but don't structure it as a career path. Rather something which supplements a path to career.
The liberal mob will have its way. But it's of course not anything like any other tyrannies and controlling mobs. It's different of course. I don't necessarily agree with his donation either, but what he does with his own money should be up to him within the realm of the legal framework. You don't just smother dissenting opinions. You are no different than that which you feel yourself superior to.
I'm leaving SF to travel around the US for 6-12 months, which means I need to switch off the local credit union that I'm currently using. I may as well choose something that will work for the indefinite future, including whereever I land next (it will be in the US).

Any recommendations? I'd prefer an organization that was less culpable for the financial crisis.
Small quibble, Eich's departure was characterized both by Mozilla, and by him, as a voluntary stepping down, not a firing.
>In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

-James Madison, Speech, Constitutional Convention (1787-06-29)
Isn't this the entire point of the exercise? It certainly doesn't seem to be about consumers.
"I believe that an overwhelming proportion of items logged at error level are simple done that way because they are related to an error."

I think that is a desirable property. When something broke, there's a good chance that those comparatively few lines tell me what and why, and if I'm really lucky give me enough info to reproduce the problem without diving into the more verbose logs (which might not even be generated/captured, if performance concerns preclude).
That's basically what I do as mentioned in a comment to a sibling of you comment.
I'd rather be around people who have some understanding of the world they live in than a bunch of automatons who can code but are luddites in all other endeavors.
Emirates #Hellojetman
Nvidia had a prototype a while back http://lightfield-forum.com/light-field-camera-prototypes/nv...

That hardware adds variable focal length to each pixel. But, even without that, simply being able to move your head around inside the captured scene with the current tech is 90% of the effect.
Surely you're not suggesting that if only those kids didn't have a degree they would have a job instead.
> E.g. if you are raising pigs in Texas you shouldn't be allowed to label your product as being "Ham from Italy."

What happens when the name of the product _is_ the name of the region though. For example, Champagne or Parmesan? Giving your product another name clearly disadvantages you.
If you follow many recipes are use table salt instead of kosher salt I guarantee it will come out salty.

Serious Eats has an article and it really validates a part of both of our points[1]:

>"So long as your salt is going to be dissolved and distributed evenly into the final dish...there's no reason to use kosher salt...Just remember, check your recipes and make sure to compensate for table salt's density when adding it."

If you have access to Good Eats, Alton Brown explains it pretty well.[2]

[1]http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/03/ask-the-food-lab-do-i-nee...

[2]http://www.thekitchn.com/salt-101-alton-brown-and-the-p-1042...
How does the linux kernel continue to exist? How does busybox continue to exist? How does FreeBSD continue to exist?

Hint: none of them have signed bundling deals.
Blockbuster thought they were too big to fail too
You can technically use TLS with anything. All the certificates give you is a trusted 3rd party that authenticates that a domain is what it claims to be. So if you want that authentication for your NAS domain name, then of course.
1. For some value of "reputable," in 2015.

2. For some value of "reports," given the fact that this is a "he said that he said" story.

3. Given 1 and 2, can we really use a word like "actual?" As opposed to "alleged and uncorroborated?"

Thus:

4. It could well become a popular topic once there is some confirmation beyond "Oh yes, I totally believe that could happen."

Until then, many reasonable people might prefer to take an agnostic "wait-and-see" attitude. The conversation will surely be of higher value once this is either substantiated or debunked.

This leads me to suggest that a charitable interpretation of flagging the story is not "This should not be discussed here," but rather, "This should not be discussed here yet."
Twitter could actually charge people to have their accounts Verified(assuming they are using their real names).

If that idea is successful, they could let verified users limit their twitstream to show only Verified users.

Then, perhaps, you might stop seeing most of the random crap posted by trolls, who can mob you today, even if they don't follow you and you don't follow them.
Yeah, I can't wait for food automation where I can get things sliced -> mixed -> cooked automatically.
Man, so many comments, so many musings about individual freedom and whatnot, and I have yet to see one that mentions the actual, and IMHU perfectly logical, criteria that mental care institutions use to decide whether to intern someone against their will:

"Is this person a serious danger for himself/herself or other people?"

Note that it's not the institution the one to make the decision, but a judge. And, also, taking completely someones freedom away is a very extreme measure that will only be considered for really extreme cases, there are a lot of middle grounds, from compulsory regular visits to the doctor to home visits from the doctor. But all of this, is not usually necessary because most of the people that are mentally ill, know that there is something wrong with them and will voluntarily seek treatment.

It's at least peculiar than when people from the US are asked about mental healthcare, their visceral reaction is "OMG!!! THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM!!!". So much fear, so little idea about how an actual mental care system works.

Source: exGF psychiatrist in a western European country with a strong public healthcare network.
The ACME protocol is open so you (or others) can write clients in other languages. You aren't forced to use the official python one.
This just reeks of no-true-scottsman. Many engineers with the approved title 'professional engineer' do not build anything at all.

By PE I mean: http://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe
I know such a dick move, maybe they should use an actual photo of Eric Raymond instead. /s
Probably more important than probiotics are patents for biologically engineered bacteria, like those made by Ginkgo Bioworks. A lot of work goes into engineering bugs to execute specific chemical synthesis pathways, and it's trivial to reverse engineer.
Did more research - it seems like this article is wrong about fraud liability (in addition to QR tokenization). There are plenty of things wrong with CurrentC, no need to make stuff up...

To further protect CurrentC™ consumers, our zero-liability policy protects consumers in the event unauthorized or fraudulent charges are made to their checking account as a result of unauthorized ACH transactions processed through BIM.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcx-adds-bim-guaranteed-ach-17...
But... why not? Super-wealthy authors, actors, musicians etc all for more funding for arts education all the time. So let them put their money where their mouths are.
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I used a Jekyll theme and have made incremental changes over the past few months to make it my own. You can see the source on my github account
The huge problem with today's generation; they want everything and they want it now and they want it free. How dare they make money somehow because the same person complaining about the pocket and hello integration would also not pay anything for the browser.
That's a fairly high level of outrage, why?
The costs have also dramatically risen, so people view their education as an investment as opposed to an interest.
ps: also stronger transactional semantics. You can only switch to a new generation if all went right, and the old generation is still as correct.

Few times under other distro an update changed some dynamic library that then caused a crash when some already in-memory program decided he wanted to link to it.
Is your credit union a member of CO-OP? this allows you to bank at any credit union in the nation that is a member. Some stuff can be challenging, like getting a loan, or getting a replacement bank card immediately. I'm living a state away from mine, with very few problems.
Logical implication
I get at least 109 characters in my viewport (eg: your full post above). I get about 50 characters in the <pre>-box that hn helpfully renders for code/blocks.
It hasn't been signed by lawmakers?
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Mysterious electric car maker says it'll spend $1B on a US factory soon
Of course, maybe your plan is to be like Amazon, and lose money on that model to acquire customers, and then use the customer base to build a profitable marketplace.

I'm somewhat doubtful whether that can work, but its not entirely implausible as a strategy.
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> But splitting them out into external applications has other advantages.

Such as?
The U.S. approach to TPP negotiation was to try to attempt to protect the American jobs that are seen as high-value "jobs of the future," by exporting strong IP protections to our trading partners.

IP-heavy jobs in the U.S. tend to have higher salaries and better benefits. Think: software, pharmaceuticals, recorded entertainment, and complex machinery like cars, trucks, airplanes, turbines, etc. We hold competitive advantages in those industries, and export a lot of those things.

In industries with less IP, like textiles, hardware, food, and oil, the U.S. attempted to export some of its labor and environmental standards to other TPP nations. This was the right thing to do, but it also helps the U.S. competitive position because these are non-negotiable costs to U.S. companies.
What? No, safe harbour means the data can be replicated to different countries.
Is it possible for a foreigner to travel to these cities and take pictures?
Facebook's “Music Stories” – 30 second music clips from iTunes, Spotify and Others
Statistics based on classification systems are entirely ontological artefacts -- how many of X you have (or how many X you have) depends entirely on how you subdivide space.

In an earlier look at this story, I went through a set of occupational categorisation and census data dating back to the 19th century. As might be expected, there's been a tendency for the total number of occupational classifications to increase over time.

As might not be expected, the high-water mark of classifications isn't the present, but the classification scheme used for 1910 - 1920 census data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3832wx/occupat...

My favourite of all the occupations comes from the 1880 classification: #309, "Gentleman".
You can put a static webpage with an email form in the hands of an end-user.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product

http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product

> We thought we were taking the minimum viable product approach because we had only spent two weeks on it. Right? Where we had made a very early prototype and put it out there.

> But, if you think about it, going back to the definition of the minimum viable product, which is the minimum features that are required to learn what customers want, we had spent way too much time on it.

> What we should have done, and what we did for a lot of features thereafter, is started with a landing page that promised people that product. Then we should have taken out the AdWords we were planning to take out, drive traffic to that landing page, and offer people to buy the experience that we are talking about.

> What we would have found out if we were doing that experiment is 0% of people would have clicked through, which means it doesn’t matter what is on the second page.
Yes, now that you point it out it does seem odd. The physical presence of the card and lack of authentication are common to both methods but:

- NFC reduces risk by limiting transactions to $100.

- EMV is slower (much slower) and more cumbersome due to the requirement that a signature still be collected and the card be inserted into the terminal. This takes a minimum of 15-20s while exchanging receipts etc compared to NFC's ~1s.

NFC has the same level of security while reducing risk and increasing convenience.
There's probably a language factor involved as well. An otherwise brilliant programmer can scrape by with spotty English, but it's a lot harder for a founder or an executive.
> Having Pocket installed is the common case and the one that should be optimized for.

This statement is utterly wrong. Pocket has 14,000,000 users. Firefox has between 125,000,000 and 150,000,000 users. Assuming every single Pocket user is also a Firefox user, you're now optimizing for 10% of your users. This is clearly stupid.

It's also incorrect to claim that parsing and loading an addon would increase startup time. It's already loading the Pocket button; moving that code into an addon would not affect startup time at all. What it would do is allow users to disable or remove the Pocket integration -- which of course Pocket is paying Mozilla to prevent.

Don't pretend this is a technical decision. It is a business transaction.
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The Markdown story is out of context: the issue was not John's alleged lack of involvement in the project per se, but the fact that he disapproved of other people doing so under the same name. Im not sure if it ever came to a trademark threat, but he definitely wasnt happy.

That is not what was being discussed, here.
A lot of major web companies already cache at different geolocations, to lower latency.
Pocket is disabled by default (the code is only loaded when you click the button), and you can hide the button with right click → hide from toolbar.
> problematic viz. stack consumption

Not if one codes towards TCO (Tail Call Optimization): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/310974/what-is-tail-call-...
How is "not installing unused software" considered to be "outrage"?