skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
liked your concept. Is there any email alias where I can subscribe for updates regarding bots ?
No, that is not even slightly true. Historically they were on the forefront of hardware and software for business. Hence the name. In recent years, they have struggled to keep up. But their lagging product lines are a result of poor execution, not deliberate strategy.
Named after the ship Nimrod, that was Shackelton's ship for his 1908 South Pole attempt.

The Hawker Siddley Nimrods replaced the older Avro Shackeltons that were ultimately derivatives of the Lancaster.
> highly profitable industries

Those profits are not necessarily from AI.

> advertising, facial recognition

Yes, surveillance capitalism is highly profitable. AI may be enabling and magnifying that problem, but a lot of the profits at the moment are due to technology making it a lot easier to obscure business models and the difficulty in challenging "too big to fail"-sized accumulation of wealth.

The point being that while AI has some really interesting uses (with more being discovered regularly), it's profitability is probably somewhat closer to the fad tech of the 80s. It's the internet combined with very cheap, portable computers - and the shady business models they have created - that are highly profitable.
All right, so nowadays software engineers cannot read specifications, cannot program and correct their mistake without a debugger, cannot do anything without an IDE, cannot do anything without copy-pasting (from SO) and read their data from a database.

Jesus, please send me back to XXth century.
I really like this. It would be nice to see some benchmarks versus a quad based solution where the quad is tessellated in a geometry shader with a fragment shader drawing the particle or using a texture. My guess would be that the bottleneck might be pcie but my knowledge of the gpu performance is a little outdated.
for those whole couldn't get the anonymous cvs access working. I put the sample db on github https://github.com/morenoh149/postgresDBSamples/tree/master/...
This relates to a brief push for the development of such an OS back in 2014; it didn't go anywhere, and I'm not aware of any recent activity on this front.

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2014/06/06/digital-sovereignty-c...

It's a great use of Superdupont imagery, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdupont
I don't know what the actual numbers are but I wouldn't be surprised if he put up less than $50k of his own money and had the vast majority come from research funds, considering his history (wikipedia claims he received a $450k grant in 2011 from the EPA to study lead and copper in the water).

Whether or not he put $2k or $50k is not what we should be discussing but rather, the moral imperative to bring this important matter to the forefront to save thousands of lives..
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I looked for Oconee Nuclear Station and didn't see the blurring.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oconee+Nuclear+Station/@34...
>> What were the highly profitable industries built around expert systems and logic computers in the 1980s?

I'm not sure there were any industries built around expert systems, as such, but
don't forget that if there's a practical application of an AI system, it's not
considered AI anymore.

Accordingly, expert systems are widely used in the industry today still, first
of all because there's tons of legacy software created in the 80's and '90s that
is still lying around and being maintained. But also because the definition of
an expert system is a database of rules encoding expert knowledge about a given
domain and an inference engine to select the appropriate rules in any situation-
and that is exactly what most entreprise applications are that manage business
rules, for instance fraud detection at financial orgs etc (which I'm familiar
with).

And of course there's industries where you can't afford to use a machine
learning system to do your work. Think of jet engine maintenance for instance.
You don't want a system with 10% error doing that. So I'm told that this is the
kind of job that the industry, even today, leaves up to a good old-fashioned
expert system.
Well, do you need more lumens? No, seriously. Do you?

If not, then what is your point? Are you a SAD researcher with training and experience working with SAD? Or are you a SAD sufferer or have first-hand experience with SAD?

If the answer to those questions is no, then you are starting to sound no different from the arrogant ignoramuses who think people with depression should just "get over it".

This is HN and regardless of the scientific soundness of the post, it is a nifty hack. I might even make it. And use the affiliate links to show my appreciation of the person who made and shared the project. What's wrong with that?

Perhaps you should question your assumptions before calling bullshit. What else are you missing out on in life with such an attitude?
This is the GoFundMe page,
https://www.gofundme.com/flintstudyvt
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My theater's ETC Source 4s are lamped at 800W.

110V * 15A = 1650W. Room for one, at least.

This provides good illimination from at least a hundred feet. You need much less, so can lamp much lower.

Dimmers should not be in quotes, they do in fact perform dimming.
Control objects with only the power of your mind with OpenBCI
HAARP shut down years ago and the land and parts were transferred to the U-Alaska Fairbanks. There's an alaska science lecture series and one of the lectures coming up in a month or so is by one of the Fairbanks EE profs.

http://gi.alaska.edu/science-alaska-lecture-series/2016-lect...

Anyway the point is that:

1) Security theater never times out properly. Assuming this ever was relevant, it isn't now.

2) Someone can get a "good boy" checkmark on his annual review for committing senseless acts of security theater, but that doesn't mean whats being secured is actually important or relevant or worth securing anyway.
Consultant.
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Lander has financial ties through the Broad institute and Third Rock Ventures to Editas medicine, which is one of the companies hoping to profit from a CRISPR patent.
Also, some way to disable snap-to-grid. I'd like to be able to play triplets, or play with swing.
I can't quite put my finger on the reason, but I can see why people are sceptical. Few possible reasons, which may or may not be large factors:

- Non-obvious business model - It's not obvious how you profit from the raffles, whereas charging money is generally easier/quicker to understand

- Use of memes (e.g. http://muxme.com/giveaways/56-25-toys-r-us-gift-card ) doesn't inspire confidence (may be a personal quirk of mine)

- Layout/design - My initial reaction when the page loaded was "Oh, it's a penny auction site", which are known for being borderline scams. Obviously it isn't, but that gut reaction is difficult for you to overcome (I'm thinking of sites like swoggi.co.uk when I say penny auctions)
erin brokovich II, directed by michael moore, a netflix special to raise money.
thanks for moving the example!

This combines very well with https://hook.io/, maybe you could get them to put a reference to your project in the docs for people who want e-mail notifications.
Baby Steps -

You will be surprised how little knowledge people have about neural nets ( speaking as someone who did Applied Maths in school ).
Just about all of these are visible with about 30 seconds of Googling. Some of them are even the first image in the Google Knowledge Graph summary when you search.
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> The city council vote to switch was 7-1, with 6 Democrats voting "yes".

I don't know why you threw that bit in there but it's worth noting that the lone dissenting vote wanted to get ALL of the city's water from the Flint River, which wouldn't have helped anything. (and switching to 100% river water is what they ended up doing anyway, isn't it?)

> Many articles try to imply that the lead came from the new water supplier; in fact, it leached from lead pipes the existing system used as its water mains.

To be precise, the new, different chemistry of the water affected the existing lead pipes. The lead pipes were not leaching dangerous levels of lead prior to the switchover and there is no evidence they were in danger of doing so.
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Hey, muxme, stop trying to scam people by pretending you're a HN user! We won't fall for it!!!

(of course I am joking)
Interesting concept. The website makes a really scammy first impression to me too.

Firstly, because it uses the "count down to win something" mechanic that's primarily used by exploitative sites. People have to keep bidding in order to win, and loss aversion pushes them to pay more than they can intellectually justify for the product. If most sites that use the mechanic are evil, then the expectation is your site is no exception.

Secondly, the website looks really generic and based off a template. Like something that has been whipped up in a weekend to steal people's info. It would be trivial for somebody to create a scam version that's visually indistinguishable from your website. Having more content and a more polished appearance will help.

Thirdly, it's not clear what's in it for the operator of the site. If the products are given away then what's the catch? I understand you're giving away promotional items, but that's not enough to fix this first impression. You have to explain to people why the site exists. Is it a nonprofit? Are you getting paid? By who?

Finally, your explanation page makes no sense. Your target audience will never care about multiplexers. You've got to have at least a simple FAQ that answers questions like "Is this a scam?" "How does this site make money?" "Why is it free to enter?", and so on. A huge heading on the front page "Play for free to win promotional material. No catch." would probably help alleviate your visitor's concerns. But you'll have to do a lot more to make it seem less fishy.
>There is a lot of empirical evidence showing patents incentivize investment of resources into innovative efforts

Do you have any sources of this empirical data? In many cases especially with software the opposite is the case now. Legacy patent holders are able to obtain such broadly vague patents and then sit on them and do nothing but try to sue anyone who tries to actually innovate.
Makes sense. My bad, I tested with wget and compression was disabled.
France does weird shit like this pretty regularly. The culture defenders at L'Académie française invented a word for email, "courriel", to try to prevent the English derived word from becoming more common in France.

It's a vaguely creepy bit of nationalism and thought policing from an otherwise mostly reasonable nation.
Not really, when you consider that the vast majority of will take the path of least resistance, and that innovation is often a risky and expensive effort most would rather eschew.

There are many examples of innovation-by-forced-workaround happening. Consider the fact that development of Ogg Vorbis languished until the MP3 patents started getting licensed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis). This kicked the Ogg Vorbis project into overdrive, resulting in a format and codec that many consider superior to MP3.

Here's another example, from Stallman himself: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html - he recounts an example of where they had to work around the LZW patents, resulting in GZIP, which "gave better compression results". This further eventually led to the creation of PNG when the GIF patent was asserted. The clear implication, of course, is that they'd have preferred re-using LZW (as all good coders should), but then they would not have invented GZIP and PNG.
I read somewhere that they're putting chemicals in (phosphates?) to try to help fix things in that regard.
There are skeptic conferences, skeptic magazines, skeptic books, skeptic authors, skeptic web forums, skeptic TV shows, etc. I think this easily meets pretty much any definition of community.
I think we are seeing the infectious effects of capitalism spreading throughout what was once the free domain of knowledge. Until the internet, the stuff that cost money was usually 'stuff'. Ideas, algorithms and even software was free, Then Bill Gates showed how something ephemeral as code (arrangements of electrons?) code could build a business colossus. Then Google showed advertising could be used to monetize not just information, but the desire to find information. Then Facebook showed how to monetize our identities. In all of this, the staid academics saw the efforts of their lives (theses, research, papers, etc.) reprinted, disseminated and reused by others and they got NOTHING. Of course a few people were lucky, Wally Gilbert had his insulin gene sequenced, cloned into a bacterium and made billions with Biogen. But most purveyors of knowledge have been left out in the cold. All the searches that led to the knowledge they farmed has been monetized by others. And they get nothing. So now we are in the era of flourishing paywalls, content restriction and even browsers that subvert advertisements. And the academic administrators have gotten so jealous, they have raised tuition beyond the reach of most people. They want their piece of the pie, civilization be damned. And the cannon fodder of the education machine, the teachers, are the ones getting shafted as well. It's not just the New England Journal. It's all of education.
It's linked too the recent amendment that was made about it in the "Commission des Lois"
By making seals cry.
Nation by nation blocking is a thing, and apparently Australian dropbears are a significant national security threat. They are a quite dangerous forest predator; ask any Australian about them. Rubbing Vegemite onto your skin repels dropbears and also has some effect on mosquitos, 2 for 1, so I'd strongly recommend taking their advice and applying Vegemite liberally to all exposed skin.
Yeah, stovetops are generally wired to a dedicated 240V circuit or are gas.
Ask HN: Taking my rails knowledge to the next level. Trailblazer or else?
I've been working alone, as a contractor for about 5 years now and it's hard to keep with the times and best practices without engineers keeping you in check.

I want to take my Rails code to the next level and don't really have anyone to turn to for questions.

I've looked at Trailblazer:

https://leanpub.com/trailblazer

Are there any other resources you would recommend to take Rails projects to a better engineered solution as opposed to a mishmash of models/controllers/views?
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What they aren't saying is why Flint switched its supply: the Detroit system drastically raised its fees to Flint (the switch saved $19 million over the first 8 years alone), and Flint was broke as it is.

Detroit and Flint are both under management of the state government. So it strikes me that they are not really independent municipalities.
How+to+Quickly+Soup+Up+and+Shovel+Out
Bang Method Implementations in Rails
This is largely predicted by Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb, would love to see them cited more often.
> What does mypy do if you make a call from code with type annotations into code without? Or vice-versa?

It's not able to analyze across such boundaries, but as you expand the set of typed code you get better and better coverage.

> Has anyone ever gotten paid to add annotations to code that works?

At Dropbox, we're starting to add type annotations to code. We're confident it will catch many bugs at lint time.
Source: I work at Dropbox.

> Personally, I view type systems as like a safety line when doing work on a roof, and optional typing as having a line that might or might not be tied off.

At least it has the possibility of being tied off and catching you. Better than definitely not having a line.
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>> highly profitable industries

Something else. There's a problem with taking profitability as a measure of the
success of an AI technique, or anything really, if for no other reason than that
profitability is transient, and much more so in technology where today's cutting
edge is tomorrow's dull blah. Whether a given technology is successful or not
has nothing to do with whether it works well or not; it has everything to do wth
whether the way it is marketed works or not. Otherwise MS Windows would not be
the most widely adopted OS, yeah?

In the end, the only thing that having a profitable industry shows is that you
have a profitable industry, nothing else. So some folks make money with machine
learning systems and they hype them a lot. That's just marketing. If you
understand the technology you realise there's a big difference between the hype
and the actual hands-on results.
That's a really nice explanation of security topics. It concisely explains the tough stuff without being dumbed down or hand-waving away the complex bits. That's rare. A lot of exploit documentation has a "leet" feel to it, or at least a condescending and dismissive tone (particularly toward the developers of the software being exploited) that I find off-putting.

Also, nice map.
Curious, how innovative would you say were the open source projects you worked on? How much was it doing entirely new stuff (to the best of your knowledge), as opposed to re-inventing stuff that some project somewhere else already did? I ask because the word "innovation" has no meaning if nothing novel is being done, yet everyone constantly uses it to refer to any technical development.
> I've always countered with "So, you'd be okay if a government agent was watching you have sex with your wife? Every time it happened? For the next 10 years?"

That actually wouldn't bother me at all. I'd kind of feel sorry for them, though. Neither of us is a trained actor/actress for that sort of thing, and we're not in prime shape, either.
The linked location in the article has nothing to do with HAARP and is some random point in the Pacific Northwest that made some Alex Jones enthusiasts go wild in the year 2008.

On their forum they decided it "must be a FEMA camp or HAARP" because that's the sort of things Alex Jones enthusiasts do, but there's no evidence that there was ever anything at all at that location. Here's what it looks like now: https://www.google.com/maps/@46.0081454,-123.2584663,3262m/d... .

HAARP itself did used to be blurry on Google Earth (in the 2008 timeframe), but it was due to poor aerial imagery coverage of that part of Alaska (probably caused by an airspace restriction), not specific censorship:

http://www.newsfocus.org/images/haarp_sat_pic.jpg

And it's perfectly visible now:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/HAARP+Government+Research+...

Google Maps censorship is fascinating but this article is both low-value and incorrect. Does anyone know of a more well-sourced set of censored areas on Maps?
Show HN: Project Log – A simple work time tracker
Yes it is. Maybe I should have said "has many fanatics" instead of "full of" but they are absolutely as adamant and caustic as some religious fanatics. And on forums these people create the same kind of environment as the worst internet trolls. I'm not going to claim they are the type religious fanatics who would cause physical harm to a group of people, but they are as adamant in their beliefs as some extremely religious people and they preach their beliefs with similar aggressiveness.

10 years ago I would have never believed I would write the statement above. But after being on that forum and interacting with people in that community (e.g. at meets) for years there are most definitely people like that.
Even if you ignore all the other benefits of type annotations, merely being explicit about the types of parameters your function accepts helps people reading your code.

If you're going to make the argument that you can just add comments with the types - well then that's exactly what mypy is doing, but if you do it in the mypy format you get static analysis of your types for free.

Static typing and unit testing aren't mutually exclusive.
I remember back in the early 2000's when predictions for when it would be built was 2015-2020. 4 years to go.....
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I looked into the Baker Lake one, didn't see it, but then followed links from Dr. Boylan's (shall we say, alien... enthusiast?) page which could be some kind of sampling artifact like missing data.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gerstle+River+School/@62.2...

Anything can set these conspiracy guys off. Before you go crying alien monoliths, you really ought to have a picture of it, not just a map glitch.
Is there any reason why you couldn't retrofit a modern drill chuck onto a hand drill shaft? If all else fails, you could custom make a shaft which the old drill chuck could hold which you could attach the new chuck to.
Physicists have managed to tie a quantum knot for the first time
Nice work! I've been using base (http://www.basscss.com/) for a couple years now. Any idea how it compares to this other than being ~1kb bigger?
My drug of choice is placebo. The more I use, the better it gets. I recommend it to everyone
How Larry Page’s Obsessions Became Google’s Business
Wow, very impressive. Following this closely - thanks for sharing!
New technology is always full of naysayers and people pointing out the obvious defects. Real innovation comes from recognizing and realizing the potential of it.
Space elevator shadow wouldn't look like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra,_penumbra_and_antumbra
Hey all, I'm an eighteen years old software engineer from germany (learn more about me here: http://www.mpscholten.de/about/). Project Log is my first try on android apps. It's a simple material designed work time tracker. I've built it because I was unhappy with all the existing apps I've tried out. Happy to receive some feedback :)
Without the type annotations, you're expected to handle dynamic type checks yourself. With type annotations, you might think that tooling does it for you, so you might omit the dynamic checks. But the tooling doesn't necessarily check all your callers, and you end up with unexpected input.

This is partly what the Typed Racket writers mean when they say that most gradual typing systems like this one are not sound.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~fabianm/tpls/papers/20151110.shtm...

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/popl16-tfgnvf.pdf
"Weird shit" like trying to resist to American cultural imperialism? Why is it so "weird" that some countries would like to preserve their language? Or not be dependent on America's Internet? Or GPS?

It reminds me of the anti-France campaign when they were working on their own nuclear weapons. America couldn't stand to see another nation work on developing their own nuclear power instead of being just happy to be protected by the US and NATO.

Americans like to complain that they have to spend big money to be the world's policeman, but when a country tries to emancipate from American influence it is met with derision.
But does this have the durability discussed in the article?
Yes, people are still working on it. It's not going to get built if no one tries.
They also tried this with a search engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero
Multidimensional Arrays in PHP
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To be fair, the advances in space tech by the private sector have been nothing short of amazing as of late. It's really an exciting time.
Our concerns are that it becomes an anti-competitiveness tool. Another example of your injunction was Apple's attack on Samsung Galaxy's & Tabs in Germany plus Motorola's on Microsoft Xbox's. In both cases, they were dominant companies that already more than made back their investment for the patents in question. One was just leeching money out of a company while another was trying to ensure they were an effective monopoly.

These two positions have been the norm in the suits we've seen. Hence, the many like Mozilla taking positions against the system.
Ankit also explores Arrays in an earlier post: http://ankit.im/swift/2016/01/08/exploring-swift-array-imple...