skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A colleague of mine has spent fifteen years on and off working on remote small-scale hydropower in Afghanistan. These villages (~ 100 families) can afford installations that give each house ~50 W. Enough for lighting, maybe some small electronics, but even a small heating element (300 W) is way too big. An induction oven draws 1200 W per element...

But lighting is a game changer for these people. For instance it means kids can read after sunset, improving literacy and education in general.

Another interesting thing he told me: they still use fluorescent tube lights in all new installations, and have no plans to switch to LEDs. The reason is that LED bulbs are compatible with incandescents, so whenever a bulb breaks, people will replace it with the cheapest bulb they find (i.e. incandescent), and that will not only reduce the efficiency, but overload the power "grid". So fluorescents win in the long run.
There are some regulations already - mostly on the side of keeping some of the data for tax/legal purposes. For decades.

(Makes me wonder how all those fly-by-night cloud startups are handling that.)
Drawing CSS Box Shadows in WebRender
We used to call that "public domain software" and it was big in the 80s from what I recall (I was a kid then). You'd release something to the public domain and people can do with it whatever they wished. Then GNU came around and ate everyone's lunch, for better or worse. I suspect for better.

Maybe GNU is just a stop-gap movement to get everyone on board the FOSS train, who knows. BSD licensing hasn't caused any apocalypse yet and arguably it provided a networking stack for Windows that was superior to anything MS could rush out the door back in the NT 3.5 days. There's something nice about being able to put the code into commercial products without worrying about strict GNU/GPL-like conditions.
Related: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-old-subur...
Hm... plenty of men have been publicly accused of rape by women (Duke lacrosse case, the Mattress Girl, Rolling Stone "Rape on Campus", to list a few). I don't recall any legal repercussions for those women. I'm guessing that's because it's really hard to prove they're lying (even though in many cases there is very obvious evidence that they were), but this fact doesn't really support your claim that calling someone a rapist ever results in legal consequences (let alone criminal consequences).
Open source that bad boy!
> It's not about "how strong is the force in you", it's about "how much experience and wisdom do you have in real world situations".

For someone without a CS degree, building side projects [and sharing them] speaks volumes too. This matters more at startups, small companies, or anywhere hiring is less formulaic.

To OP:

3. You could try fixing a bug on an open source project of interest to you and see if your PR gets accepted.

Another idea is to work on algorithmic problems in your spare time. Project Euler (https://projecteuler.net/) is my current favorite site for that.
Yes, but at least in China there is the political will to tackle environment issues. The US is still locked and highly corrupt :/
On the other hand you have the desktop/web thinking of rebooting often (or shutting down when not used, starting up before using) and being on the bleeding edge.

I actually find this line of thinking baffling... I don't remember the last time I actively chose to shutdown/reboot voluntarily. Spending time optimizing the boot sequence strikes me as a total waste of effort.

Modern computers support sleep and hibernate... why would anyone choose to reboot except to apply OS updates on certain operating systems that insist on a reboot?

I would much rather focus on uptime stability and flawless sleep/hibernate so we can encourage people to never reboot unless they're forced to.

That'd better serve phones, tablets, and other devices that share this infrastructure and need this capability, and it would cater to a public that is getting used to always-on, always-available technology.
+1 As one of the dokku maintainers, I would love to see any random issues fixed. Feel more than free to open an issue on our tracker[1] and I'll be sure to comment.

FWIW space processing in command line args is a bit... difficult given our mode of transport (ssh). This is something we're thinking about fixing somehow, though there isn't a great solution yet.

[1] https://github.com/dokku/dokku/issues
This is what's lost as everyone trips over themselves to race headlong into the cloud. The next Winamp may never be built because the easy interoperability files used to afford to every application by default isn't built into hosted services unless they invest in an API, something they may not do for ROI reasons or competitive reasons.
Well, it goes both ways with that one, the PPI (full disclosure here, I'm one of the founders) is keeping them on constant scrutiny which is good, imho. IMMI status is a mixed bag, the parliamentary committee is still convened however. As of todays date 5 out of 13 law proposals have succeeded. Like all law proposals it takes time and political will.
It's not only the living conditions that is promoting the use of antibiotics in agriculture. The use of antibiotics in agriculture is so high due to the idea of "growth promoters". Animals given long term antibiotics actually grow quicker, and therefore become profitable faster than animals not given background levels of antibiotics. The problem with this activity is that low levels of antibiotics selects for resistance as we have seen.

In addition, drugs are given "label use" directions for particular species (ie. ovine, swine, equine) but only for major economical species. For example, the farmer might have a bottle of long acting penicillin that says give horse X mg/kg of body weight. However, this farmer might be giving these drugs to sheep and the maker of the antibiotic doesn't have label use instructions for sheep. This results in what's called "extra label drug use" and the farmer has to basically guess at what dose to give. Too high could be harmful to the animal (toxicity, clearance rate etc), too low and you promote resistance.
http://spotiamb.com/
Sighm I wish they would reanimate AVS (Advanced Visualization Studio) ...
I think one response code is sufficient (more specific explanation of the problem is an appropriate use for the response body.)
It's certainly possible to work while attending university. I did it...
Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 1
That would reduce the profits of companies with large numbers of lobbyists.

Edit: and even if we did it in the West, China obviously doesn't care about making the inhabitants of its major cities huff heavy metals and coal dust so why would they care about this?
Having a hard time classifying to which science this research belongs. On one hand it deals with graphs so it must be math. On the other hand, you have people, interpersonal relations with all the baggage of ambiguities - so is this sociology?
"Well there are some things that a lot of computer software VSTs cannot do unless they are specifically programmed to do so"

That describes every problem that a computer might be called upon to solve.

The state of analog synthesizer modeling is very, very good, including emulating modular synths (Arturia, Native Instruments, and many others produce competent modular emulators). I say this as someone that has owned a number of analog synths, and, if I had the space for them (I live in a travel trailer) would still own them. Nonetheless, the notion that there are sounds unique to analog synths is mostly superstition at this point.

It is fun to play with it in hardware. But, it is not necessary to play with it in hardware.
I continue to maintain a local MP3 collection and use a local MP3 player. The main reason I haven't tried out more streaming services is that most of them require Adobe Flash which doesn't work well on Linux. The secondary reason is that streaming libraries often lack specific content I want.
Silex is hardly a "micro framework", it's basically Symfony without the configuration files. So it's a LOT of code. I like it by the way, always hated the Spring like insanity of Symfony, but let's not pretend Silex + all Symfony libs the framework has to import are small.

The irony is that for this very project, Both Silex and Symfony\Process are completely redundant, especially with PHP bloated core APIs.
South America is extremely problematic as well in that regard.
Infection control professional here.

This is being practiced, but not intentionally. Some drugs are just not used anymore because they have become somewhat ineffective against most organisms, so they are shelved due to the fact they are not economically wise to produce, not because we are saving them.
Or upload your music to Google Play.

Edit: Why is this an unpopular option?
Talko's Purchase by Microsoft Shows the Challenge of the Directory Dilemma
Agree that a more rigorous proof / non-intuitive strategy would be welcome, but all gifts could be of equal value. [eg if you go second]
This looks really interesting. I always love seeing new static site builders. Each one is a bit different, which is cool.

I'm working on making hosting for static sites easier. My static hosting service is still in beta, but we have a sign up form if people are interested. http://www.statichosting.co/
Founders are good friends of mine here, rest assured the one on paternity leave will keep going with it once again. I have no doubt in my mind, he cares passionately about providing this service and software to the community.
Is there a general principle here? Do loan subsidies lead to a condition in which the loan recipients are able to reap the benefits intended for loan originators through progressive inflation and risk transfer?
Bleepmic is a feed of thoughts and conversations. Post short audio notes (Bleeps) and listen to other people's Bleeps. It's that simple.
Doesn't tarball unpack only under current directory? Don't unpack it in $HOME (that's already asking for trouble). Try $HOME/tmp.

You can also check the contents before unpacking with mc or using tar directly if you prefer.
I couldn't ever work in an office park. When the startup I worked for was acquired, there was discussion of moving our office to an office park about 30 minutes north or south of the city. More than half of the employees threatened to quit, even though maybe only 25% would have seen a materially longer commute. We like having choice come lunch time and being able to do some shopping before, during, and after work.
Mappings at zero are used by legacy code like 16-bit Windows applications, if I remember correctly.
Correct, antibiotic stewardship is basically holding back prescribing rights for last line drugs like linezolid, daptomycin etc, and rightfully so. If you're a drug company producing the newest drug, and you know that for anyone to use it they are going to need an pharmacy or ID consult to get it approved, you can view this as a barrier to adoption.
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Please do not mock my analysis.
Log Analysis of Estonian Internet Voting 2013–2015 [pdf]
I think you have a typo in exist -> exits? Either that or I couldn't understand the sentence.
Wait, really?

The incremental lifetime earning from a Bachelor's degree is something like 0.5 to 1.5 million dollars[1]. The cost of attending college could double at least once before the ROI goes negative.

[1] https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/colleg...
Lets Now Praise the Data Engineers
People like to blame antibiotic resistance on farms, but human populations with high rates of infection and transmission who aren't good at taking the full course of (or any) drugs are a more immediate problem. Increasing rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis and STDs aren't due to farm animals.
Having had my son suffer from an antibiotic resistant eye infection, if its a choice between low cost meat and useful antibiotics I'll go for the latter every time.

It's not like anyone in Europe or the US is actually suffering from a lack of meat is it?

[He's fine - but we were terrified he might lose the sight in one eye for a while].
I didn't need much convincing.
> He shoots and develops his own film in a pinhole camera he built, and the imagery is intentionally motion-blurred.

Oh neat, I have a friend who develops his own pinhole photography as well! Here's one of his:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/12035849/Pinhole-Photography

I don't think he builds his own cameras, but he definitely tweaks the hell out of them. I can't really understand most of what he says about it, but he clearly knows his stuff.

> What's harder is building that explanation of what you're trying to do in what you're trying to do.

Oh, definitely. I have a really hard time with explaining my intentions in a way that promotes their strengths without it coming off as arrogance. And dealing with negativity only seems to amplify my desire to stress the strengths, so it's kind of a negative feedback loop.

Nonetheless, I gave it a shot and tried writing up another article about my niche. We'll see how it goes I guess.
There is a bundled cersion for osx with a ui. Just didn't have the time to do it for windows and linux.
Hmmm. This comment made me realize that I use parens and commas too much in my sentences, in emails, chats, etc. Now for how to fix that...
Amen. Similar to climate change in the sense that the world's worst offenders need to be on-board to resolve the problem and as a result, all other countries will cop out by blaming and scapegoating those countries
No, that's the weakest advantage, I've cited others. For instance, being able to rename the namespace is very important if you're using third party libraries which may have conflicting names.
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I feel like you're missing the point of the GNU GPL. The original idea behind the FSFs idea of open source was an ecosystem where every new development resulted in more open and free code. We're talking about people who truly believed in getting away from commercial software entirely. There were people who felt that one day, Linux desktops could replace Windows and even high end tools like Photoshop and Final Cut would have great open source replacements.

...but that never happened. Apple has tried to remove all GPL code from Mac OS. Where GPL code exists, it's only GPLv2 (like Bash; using an ancient version).

Even though all these companies are embracing opens source, they're embracing only permissive licenses. They're open sourcing the underlying tech stack while keeping all their offerings closed. If you're on Android, you are totally locked into Google services. I've met people who tried only using F-droid and running "open source phones" (minus the drivers of course). Their phones sucked. One of them switched back because she was tired of writing apps to do things she use to be able to do with the Play Store.

The dream of a GPL world where the software is free and you only pay for the hardware, is pretty much gone. We don't have federated systems, and where we do, no one uses them (GNU Social, Miro, Diasporia).

This isn't the open source world some of us envisioned back in the late 90s. I personally, will keep as much of my code under GNU GPL as I can.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3xi6o9/whats_the_fu...
Skepticism About Study Linking Antidepressants and Autism
Well, one is a superset of the other. Undefined behaviour is inherently unsafe.
iTunes search bar is pretty good for that. However the search bar is in a silly location.
Agreed. It makes me think of the amazing Guy Steele talk "Growing a Language."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Probably the former, for many, since even we in the west still cling to our fireplaces, even though most of us don't need them to stay warm. I have a friend who installed an ancient iron wood stove in her converted bus motorhome, against my recommendation. She loves the damned thing. She cooks on it, too, so she runs it regularly.

Part of the appeal for her is the perceived environmental benefits (though I've tried to explain the carbon and ecological footprint of a wood stove is much worse than propane, even though the propane had to be pumped out of the ground and transported). People are weird and stubborn and have odd beliefs about traditional ways being superior and safer than modern ways. The other part of the appeal is she gets the fuel for free just by roaming around in the woods. Propane costs $15/month, or much more during winter months, if you're needing heat.

Anyway, the point of that rambling is that immediate benefits probably trump long-term in this case for many people. Folks struggling from day-to-day don't have the privilege of thinking long-term. But, folks making decisions about how to help raise the people of developing nations out of poverty have to think of both.
"How can not for profit schools justify gauging their students?"

In the U.S. everything is for profit. It's just that some of the for-profits find it beneficial to file as a non-profit for the benefits it confers.

Look at just about any big American university or hospital. You have marketing, customers, revenue maximization, ruthlessly driving down labor costs, and as much cash as possible captured by the CEO (er, president) and other high level executives.

The great thing about running a business like this, is how the U.S. government earmarks massive amounts of the national GDP, which can only be used on your product. School loans, as others have mentioned, and Medicare/Medicaid for health care.
PHP has no namespace, inherits many C-functions and is quite popular.

It's easier to recall a function name than recall the namespace and the function name, isn't it? With modern IDEs this is a none issue anyway. Though from my experience with Mathematica 5-7, the language feels a bit weird. Nevertheless it's quite an achivement that WolframAlpha (the AI search engine) runs on Mathematica code.
Greenqloud as a VPS provider is no more Thor data centre run by Advania is still alive and well here. We also have a few more VPS providers like Orange, 1984, Icehost and Datacell.
My first thought on this purchase is it's to jumpstart a studio owned Spotify replacement.
> OS X doesn't have this problem: .app bundles are just directories following a convention of where to put binaries/resources.

It surely trades this with a bunch of other problems, such as excessive embedding of third-party code copies.

(This is particularly problematic for video decoder code given the number of exploits in this area.)
It should have one! This balloon launch was apparently a really big deal to to people back then.
I wonder if these systems would be imperfect (and they'd probably be - I have yet to see a perfect software) how soon people start exploiting them by putting language in the contract that autoscanner would miss but that would give the originator who knows where the language is some advantage.
I am not suggesting that antibiotics in meat are a good thing, but I am pointing out the reality that antibiotic-free meat is a luxury item.
What is funny is that Apple is even doing this for code that will never be in iOS, for example Samba.
Hmm, but this only runs PHP projects if I understand the code correctly.
Why do people treat a broken build as some kind of emergency, when you can just revert the commit? It's a trivial fix that anyone can make in about a minute.
What would a “manhattan-like project” cryptographic backdoor look like?
In the DNC debate on Saturday night, Hillary Clinton expressed that she wanted to work with Silicon Valley on a "manhattan-like project" to give government a backdoor into encrypted communication.

We're the silicon valley people that are being talked about, but I have absolutely no idea what this would look like, and I don't actually think that it's even possible.

What would that look like? I know of times in the past where there have been possible flaws in various pieces of crypto (there was a bad random-number generator being used for a specific implementation of OpenSSL at one point, for instance), but what would a government backdoor look like?

Everybody I'm reading is saying that just means writing bad crypto, and that there is no way of giving the government, and only the government, a key to the crypto.

If you were asked to create what Hillary Clinton is asking for here, what would you create? What would it look like?
Students are advised by parents and counsellors whose experience is one generation behind but believe they are current.

My wife teaches high schoolers and a huge percentage of their parents think admission to an out of state private school guarantees a solid career. She (an older millennial) is often the only voice in favor of a strong in state public school or picking a major that actually leads to a job.

Prediction: the problem gets worse until the leading edge of millennials have high schoolers of their own.
JSON Resume (https://jsonresume.org/) is a project that attempts to create a JSON standard for resumes. You also get total data control and ownership.

As far as the shared network aspect, you'd probably have to build the glue between it and something like AngelList or Stack Overflow Careers.
Come on now. Don't make it about that.

If you can't afford real meat, then you can't afford meat.

Nobody says that people who can't afford a catalytic converter deserve an exemption allowing them to spew more carbon from their cars. This is the same dynamic, but far, far worse.
History Books with Insight for the Future
I find MVVM very confused.

In MVVM you have the Model and View layers, which I get, and also the View Model layer, which I don't. The View Model is supposed to be UI independent, and that I don't get. The Model layer is already UI independent. There is no need for a second UI independent layer. In practice the View Model layer is written specifically to support the UI, so there is no point in making it UI independent. Some argue this is for testability. But you can already test the Model layer without the UI. Additional testing should include the UI, and should be through the UI.

The motivation behind MVVM appears to be to update the UI automatically when data changes. Modern frameworks are moving away from two-way data binding (React, Angular 2.0, Ember, etc.)

Also, data binding is best done in code (the jQuery way) as opposed to declaratively (the WPF way).
"I’d argue this is a much better system than what I read about the US tuition system, especially for the students."

As an American, it would be difficult to engineer a worse tuition system than ours.