skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And of course it's not a software issue

Funny thing though, but that AC/DC converter is manipulated by firmware activated by a wifi protocol. If the fire only starts when the converter is activated into its highest conversion rate in a particular sequence by certain commands sent across that wifi protocol and those commands are being chosen by a user of an app on a mobile device two rooms away, is that a software issue? It's certainly a gray area.
its simply a post hoc justification, nothing more
Often residential rents are protected. But if you rent out a space then its commercial so residential protection doesn't apply.
I guess everybody can find such examples in their lives, usually when looking back hard enough.

My example, out of few - breaking up with my longterm girlfriend (5 years, 6 months spent backpacking together in himalaya) seemed like a proper disaster. Few years rewind - I have the most amazing person imaginable beside me, to which I proposed (and she said yes) on top of Mont Blanc this May, after hard ski tour. Without prior hard breakup, and messing around a bit, I wouldn't be able to appreciate current one so much

(or another summary - looks is by far not enough for happy long term relationship, compatibility on many levels is necessary. but until you meet somebody with whom you "click" on almost all imaginable aspects, you don't even know how good such a state is, and how much peace it can bring to life)
As someone who has had some small disagreements with dang and I don't always see eye to eye with him;

* the moderators, I believe, really do what they think is best for the community,

* they work hard at a pretty thankless job

* they are pretty transparent and manage their potential conflicts of interest well, which is saying a lot, since action in virtually any thread could presimably be related.

So sure, threads can be disappered by moderators, it is what they are supposed to do. Keep the discussion in a few centralized threads and not 20 blogspam articles. Also, we should be thankful for what we don't see.

So while I thinm you have a relavent point, and they can't be perfect all the time, on balance their pretty sharp people and am thankful for their contribution,
Well they are trying to innovate: hbm, apus, vr.

The 22nm process node they wanted to use was cancelled, and now they're basically working to push it their 14nm products instead. Kind of such (edit:sux) for them to be fabless.
That people wondered is a fact. It is subject to verification.
A friend of mine in college had a very good saying about this that I always keep in mind:

"There's nothing like succeeding at something you weren't even qualified to attempt."
So how does his technology/software react on dangers? The video only shows how he keeps his lane...
Slack team did a great job with this.

Here's a fresh integration with Slack Button in Ruby, https://github.com/dblock/slack-bot-server serving a "Hello World" bot. Hope it helps someone.
Google Sheets is quite pleasant to use, and sometimes i even prefer it over Excel. For larger data sets, it's lacking though.
It's well known enough that the times did an infographic on it, which I learned about from one of Tufte's books:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
I think part of the justification is that people who donate sometimes donate to charities that they own or control and promptly spend the money on themselves to avoid taxes. This isn't even mostly true but there are cases where this happens.
> I'd need to check the lease to see if I'm allowed to do it anyway

Leases can be amended - it's not a law.
How is that a win-win? All the other tenants in the building have to deal with a small, unregulated hotel being opened in it.
This will be safe on the road for sure.
no its not. Rcpp is cpp syntax and semantics. Look at the Numba example..its pure python with one decorator.
> The preferred nomenclature is developing countries.

This term has always reeked of over-euphamism to me. I'm not arguing that "third-world" is any better, but what do I call countries that aren't developing? Right now, "developing countries" is used both to refer to countries that are actually developing (Kenya, for example) and as a polite way of saying "poor countries" (e.g. Somalia).

Seems like we should have a term that doesn't confuse the two. When I hear "developing countries", I mentally substitute an image of the most impoverished areas of our world.

Sorry if off-topic...
That is a "useful" code smell: if the code and the comments disagree, assume both are potentially wrong, handle with extreme care, and fix ASAP where possible.
> and so in a couple of generations we could be looking at something that actually could be impactful.

But battery technology in itself isn't new; you could make a similar package out of car batteries if need be. I think that if it was economically viable, it would've been done ages ago.

Then again I'm probably wrong.
> giving away to charity is the exact opposite of personal consumption, since a person is helping society, not themselves, in ways they find most meaningful.

A charitable foundation can be just about anything. Many wealthy people have their own that almost entirely further their own interests (e.g. an "art museum" next door to them, open only by appointment with them). Or a political advocacy group can be structured as a charity. Or something indistinguishable from an ordinary business (e.g. IKEA). It's very possible for charities to act against the interests of society at large.

If you really want your money to help society, tax is the best way for it to do so. I can maybe see an argument for a narrow class of charities being tax-exempt, but not charitable donations in general under our current definitions.
And by the 90s, I don't remember traders ever picking up a calculator, or even seeing one around the office with finance-specific stuff. I was at a small, tech-focused firm, so maybe it was different elsewhere, but I was surprised to read this.
There are women in the calendar.
There's a series of videos of 30 Linux kernel developers in their workspaces if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04VpdhLccqk
Let's admit it, we just want to see the pictures and compare them to ourselves.
Donald Trump just proposed closing “areas” of the internet
Looks like SHOW HN will be crowded more than often after this weekend.
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They'll have it. Zen will be 14nm process. I'm excited for Zen, AMD does good things when the wipe the board clean and start over.
Well, I think this was the point of all the complaints yesterday: people couldn't connect a 3rd party bulb to Philips' hub and assumed that the product (the hub) is terrible.
> US investment in developing a better theoretical understanding of the economy is very small – around $50 million in annual funding from the National Science Foundation – or just 0.0005 percent of a $10 trillion crisis.

Hey Economists... There's plenty of money > http://cagw.org/reporting/pig-book
The 848kWh is for winter, summer is 1800.

I'm guessing it's a ton of heating because houses are very badly insulated, both for historical reasons and because otherwise everything rots in hot and humid summers (and nothing ever dries completely).

Japan has the same issue (insulation is quite terrible throughout, central heating is also rare), I'm guessing Houston is even worse because people keep to western habits (light-ish indoor garments and heating the whole house).
That's the fear, though. If you say "We didn't hire you because X", people might think "I have X! So clearly you are unlawfully discriminating, and if I can make the argument that I do have X, then you must be lying about why you didn't hire me."

Besides, people apparently do make hiring decisions based on things like "culture fit", which is a pretty good proxy for race, age, and social status anyway, so...
That's the confusion...

Consumer Skype is still, to my knowledge, what it has always been.

However, Lync has been rebranded as Skype for Business. It's still Lync, and uses all of the same SIP-based protocols that it always has, since it was called Office Communicator.

I still haven't quite figured how they are going to mash the two together, or if they actually are going to. It is confusing having two completely different Skype clients on your desktop.
> So you can login in to the website with your original password, the keypad mapping of that password, or any text password that maps to the same keypad digit mapping, and they all work.

I'd have to see this to believe it. I would hope that they would at least store it as two separate entries, and only use the phone one during the phone process. And the person on the phone will likely still ask you some less-sensitive verification questions.
My problem is that instead of building FOSS tools to improve the interface to the tools we love and use daily (irc, gpg, irssi/erc, emacs/vim, screen/tmux, usenet, etc) what has happened is people like slack take advantage that the FOSS interface suffers and gives the standard user an easy interface in a proprietary system. There is no reason for slack to not be fully open and still offer the same stuff, my main concern these days is proprietary lock in, for a myriad of reasons including business and personal ones.

As the surveillance engine grows, those of us who have gone through the pains of open-sourcing our workflows will be way ahead of everyone else... but I fear we aren't addressing this main issue which is ease of use/adoption for general user cases.

And no, giving me an API does not make it open.

Short story; we need better FOSS UI/UX.
I don't disagree with that. I've worked with some very smart people in my 20s who sounded similar to Hotz -- enthusiastic, retrospectively naive about their understanding of a field, but above all, superbly intelligent. They did really great things, things that maybe didn't work perfectly or as envisioned, but still things that might scared off more experienced folks.

But also now that I am in my 30s, and they are as well, we frequently look back at that time and laugh about being that young. "Man, you were fun to work with, but also what were we thinking"

So I definitely wish Hotz all the luck. If nothing else, the more smart people working on the problem of self driving cars, the better.

My comment mostly stemmed from amusement of his quotes.
Whoa cool, is this new? I've been doing it by hand.

It might be better to just do a "site:" search, prepending "site:" to the url. In this case, the search is:

site:www.wsj.com/articles/big-landlords-airbnb-discuss-partnerships-1450200473

This brings up 1 result, which is the paywalled article.
> And giving away to charity is the exact opposite of personal consumption, since a person is helping society, not themselves, in ways they find most meaningful.

But see, for a counter example, Eton which is an exclusive fee-paying school and also a charity.
Peter Bourgon at dotGo 2015: A case for microservices in Go [video]
This is even more ominous than renters violating their leases to let places out on Airbnb, because it means the landlord is incentivized to screw over the rest of the tenants in the building by allowing Airbnb hotels in it; not only that, but they're disincentivized to respond to complaints about it!
Borrow an engineering student for your next project
What's your opinion of Arch vs Ubuntu? I've done Ubuntu for servers but haven't spent much time with Linux as a personal OS
Possibly, since California I think has specific laws governing self-driving cars, and it sounds like he wants to test it there. If he's in a state that doesn't have laws on self-driving cars, it'd probably be up to existing laws. Is he driving recklessly?
> As a little side note; with the recent release of LLVM 3.7, if we specify -target x86_64-scei-ps4 to clang, we can compile code with the exact same options that Sony uses to compile official code for the PS4.

I wonder if this will undermine the opensource strategy of Sony's LLVM/SDK team. I hope not.
Stable Release of Orthanc, Free Server for Medical Imaging [on Slashdot]
If you google matplotlib viridis there is a discussion of the issue. Using perceptually uniform colormaps(not to mention ones that translate to gray scale correctly) is normally the correct thing to do, but not always. Sometimes you want to highlight particular conditions. For instance, jet with radar data tends to nicely separate different atmospheric conditions if set up right. The same perceptual colormap version feels somehow lacking.
As I understand it, ContentID is notoriously over-aggressive in matching and only "works" in the sense that YouTube's interest in having it isn't particularly harmed by that, since its mostly a tool to improve relations and avoid lawsuits from big media interests.

Without manual validation, it probably wouldn't be a good model for identifying and removing ads from podcasts, especially using a "repeated in multiple podcasts" model, which doesn't start with known ads.
>At Google, he found very smart developers who were often assigned mundane tasks like fixing bugs in a Web browser; at Facebook, brainy coders toiled away trying to figure out how to make users click on ads.

I'm not sure those two are equally horrible though - fixing complex bugs requires using lot of skills and the high you get when you finally nail it is nothing to miss.

Getting people to click on ads though - that's genuinely depressing.
I think Lisa's post may be conflating the task of the critic with the task of the artist or designer. I don't think we'd try to argue that a band is responsible for making clear to a critic whether they're trying to be punk-pop or power-pop or whatever.

It's the critic's "job" to determine what sort of axes or factors are important to the work at hand, define categories, and make cases for membership.

"I can't tell whether this is data vis or data art" is a perfectly fine response to someone's work, and if the artist/designer was trying to accomplish or convey something that didn't come through, they'll probably take that feedback to heart and work on it.

I suppose "Please make this clearly either data vis or data art so I can comfortably evaluate/interpret it" is a fine response as well, but it's one that seems to ignore the fact that the work can (and may deserve to) be interpreted or criticized based on its own merits, and not how well it fits into one category or another.
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Or a technical co-founder.
A large enough random selection of low-income persons for both control and experimental groups should rule out genetic differences as the cause of differences between the two.
Ask HN: Is Experienced People in Software Industry Are Always Correct?
Hi HN,

I always have this question, I think its time to ask. I'm an senior software engineer in a small company. I have an Tech Lead and Tech architect in my team too.

The question is how we can believe or make sure what ever design or suggestions on the problem they give is correct?

Is it like we need to blindly belive what an tech arch says will be correct, because he / she is experienced than me?

How to handle this?
I'd be far more interested in a piece of software for my car put out by Hotz than either Google or Tesla. Because the latter two are almost certainly going to keep it proprietary as heck. (Tesla has notoriously actually called people to ask them to stop tinkering with their car when they detect the interface has been connected to.)
Their move concerned me, because now I don't know if this is "we won't close our ecosystem" or "we won't close our ecosystem YET". I don't feel like waking up and discovering that they've decided that they now have enough market share to be abusive and controlling. Most of my existing ZigBee stuff isn't as slick as the Hue stuff, but I know it won't get turned off.

I get that people make mistakes, but their original move showed that Philips has essentially NO understanding of their market, and that they are willing to casually engage in extraordinary hostility towards their customers. This isn't a winning combination.
Counterpoint - try user-defined types (classes) in Numba.
A friend in the Army was in some kind of team competition that also included a SAS team and he said he could tell who they were just by looking - "nails" as they say.

I did make me think that if these guys are so easy to spot then it must make undercover work quite tricky!
Read the comments here, many engineering types are falling all over each other to excuse phillips. There is a massive anti-sentiment towards open platforms there days it seems, likely driven by apple's success and the startup "industry".
been there done that. Tried Facebook advertising with a service gave up after zero leads where google was 10x cheaper. Ebay good luck they blocked me for saying my cases worked with ipads. even though I tried to explain that's not trademark violation. bought sites on flippa traffic slowly degrades(and adsense revenue) unless you pump money into it. tried building an affiliate site that aggregates Chinese wholesale sites(aliexpress,dx.com etc) and ebay so I could find the cheapast price. Tried monetizing with viglink.com made no money from them and a little from ebay affiliate program. spent couple dollars a day at 10 cent clicks wasted $300. my next idea will work for sure though...lol...
Phenomenal work! I live in a city known for its sporadic gusts and high wind speeds (no surfing around here, unfortunately!), so this will be quite useful! I'm also interested in an API, so I'd like to get in touch with you as well.
Those infrastructure projects don't sell Tesla batteries at scale, making future Tesla battery packs cheaper, making future Tesla cars cheaper.
It won't stop everyone, some people don't care, might be socially pressured to just going in anyway in a group, etc. But for customers who do care, it could actually work in the opposite way too.

If a club wants to take your fingerprints, it's usually after you've already entered the place, having possibly queued, at a point where it's very annoying and socially awkward if in a group to about-turn and say "you know what, no, let's go elsewhere".

If on the other hand there's a sign outside declaring "we use Facewatch here" then it's actually much easier for customers for whom that represents a problem to just continue walking past, and not be drawn in in the first place.

It may be that simply not enough people care about having their biometric data read and stored in databases etc, or that it'll be so ubiquitous that there's no alternative but to go along with it. But like I say, it's possible, if either of these things isn't true, that the market will suppress technologies like these becoming 'just the way things are'.

Again though, I honestly don't think that is likely looking at what's happened with web tracking, CCTV and the like. It's possible this, however, is a bit more 'in your face' (pun intended) and will spur a greater negative reaction in people.
Neuroscientists also believe that all mental behavior can be correlated with physical processes, but you will not see this belief justified every time it is brought up. In research level geometry you will not see the definition of manifold in the preamble of every paper, nor will you see a reference for each standard theorem used. All domain experts have knowledge which they do not attempt to justify to other domain experts, and someone on the outside looking in cannot readily discern what is widely-held and justified knowledge and what is widely-held but unjustified knowledge.

It gets even worse actually. Every scientific discipline has "folklore": Results commonly known by experts but not organized for pedagogical purposes anywhere. Unpublished theses, coffee table discussions, lecture notes that are distributed in private, etc. So even if one knows where to look in the literature to find evidence for a claim, it might not even be there. One may have to talk to an expert directly.
This technology, deployed, is without a doubt a political issue. Divorcing what we work on from how it's used is irresponsible. And I'm not saying don't develop technology, but we have to recognize and consider how it fits into society. We have to discuss.

The Stasi recruiting human spies from among the general population was both a logistical question and a political issue. The NSA weakening encryption, or parking on backbones or datacenters, is a technology and a political issue. The political urge to inflict both kinds of spying is just that, a political one. As technology improves, it makes the job of spies and other criminals that much easier, increasing the spy's reach, and changing the character of society.

The technology is fascinating, but it's not divorced from society. We're all swimming in the same soup.
Comcast using your domain to route it's own traffic
"Might some people see the data about poor kids’ brains as proof that these kids’ fates are set, and that they’ll never amount to much?

As neuroscientists, we believe that nothing could be further from the truth. We know that the developing brain is very malleable. We believe that the differences we reported are largely the result of experience, and have every reason to believe that by changing those experiences—through preventive measures or interventions—we can change children’s trajectories for the better."

Or how not to answer the question. Sure if the study is right it may be possible to apply preventive measures and avoid that, but that was not the question!

The question is: do you think that by growing poor, these kids are now "worthless". As in, is there no way to go back for the current poor children, not the ones in the blue sky future.
So its more a fancy autopilot than a self driving car.
kinda like best way to make a million dollars in a restaurant ... start with 2m...
Jurisdiction over which agency gets to do "cyber" stuff has been an open question for the last thirty years. You can make good arguments that it should be covered by the FBI, NSA, DHS, ATF, the secret service, etc etc.

(Yes, the Secret Service! The famous raid on Steve Jackson Games back in 1990 was actually carried out by Secret Service agents, who thought that GURPS Cyberpunk was an actual hacking manual.)
This is along the lines of what Mr. Money Mustache [0] recommends, minus the long commute. For anyone interested in early retirement through working hard and saving money, his blog is absolutely worth a read.

It could be a bit of a lifestyle change (or maybe you're already close and you don't know it!), but for people with software-developer-level salaries, early retirement is absolutely within reach.

[0] http://www.mrmoneymustache.com
How Bad Management Could Destroy Your Microservices
Depends on what country you're in.
Justice Ginsburg’s Ominous Warning About Creeping Corporate Power
Since it's been proven that most studies are not valid since not replicable, I don't know if there is much of a difference between the two :)
This is pretty cool. If it's yours you might get more attention by editing the title and putting "Show HN" at the start.

Some feedback:

- Pre-configured scenes would be a nice addition

- there's a typo "Adroid" in the app section

- it would be a neat desktop app
When JavaScript Doesn't Happen
Speech recognition and pronunciation assessment SDKs for most platforms
> Lets move on

Yeah, right? Inequality is so inconvenient.
Incorrect. Linux does not support alt codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code
a lot of shows get uploaded to youtube as well.

Dan carlin's podcasts hardcore history[1] and common sense [2] both get uploaded to youtube whenever a new episode comes out. Both excellent podcasts as well.

I'm sure it's not very common however.

Oh, i also might as well mention that you can have itunes download your podcasts and put them in your plex media server or kodi server.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/user/dancarlinpodcaster
[2]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3As7170z7TsHZ7-ShaRe1A
I think the focus is "pre-JIT Java," rather than the exact browser version, Netscape Navigator 2.