skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So perhaps I won't have to write my own app for keeping an electronics projects logbook after all. There is a scarcity of reasonably simple apps that let you mix notes with images, without lots of clickery.

I will be taking a very close look at this app!
Agree! That'd be pretty cool
In a residential subdivision like I live in, speeding is much more dangerous than it would be on a county/city/township road.

There are various things that play against safety in residential roads marked for 25 MPH speeds.

In the winter, they're rarely cleared of snow and ice, making them a hazard to travel even at the speed limit. Cars are parked on both sides of the roads much like a typical city street, reducing visibility of pedestrians as they emerge from between cars unexpectedly. And then there's the children playing in the yard who are preoccupied with their activity and not always paying attention to their own safety.

My daughter is hard of hearing (she requires hearing aids to hear and even with them she doesn't have normal hearing) and very ADD. We've continually lectured her about "not running into the street" without making absolutely certain there are no cars, but on one occasion she was nearly hit chasing a ball despite my wife and I being out front screaming and running after her as she bolted into the road. The ball was destroyed by a speeding car who almost also hit the neighbors mailbox when he swerved to avoid killing her. He missed, thank God, but even afterward continued at his breakneck speed down the rest of the street. Since that incident, we rarely allow her to play in the front yard and never allow it between 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM due to the rush hour traffic using my subdivision as a bypass for a poorly timed intersection's traffic light.
Or, looking at even tighter bounds of GDP per working-age person, today the US is at ~$82k/year, and Japan ~$64k/year -- a slightly larger gap. I prefer this metric when talking about "the economy" in the sense that most people interact with it.
Because otherwise they don't look or behave nicely.
You are comparing oil/energy to a stock (a proof of ownership). They are too different things.

You can't simply buy "Oil". So if you buy an oil contract I'll expect, on the long run, to pay fees for storage at least.
I can imagine the Japanese thinking that the solution to Japan not having "enough" Japanese (for what?), is not to import more non-Japanese.
> Please take note that not all magnesium supplements are equal.

Could you elaborate on this, please? Would like to know more.
Some people just like it. It's not an addiction, there's no "reason", it's just fun to be a dick online. Why does nobody ever think of this? There always has to be some sort of grand underlying psychological reason.

You're reaching much too deep into it, even comparing it to Heroine addiction. Just, wow.
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That's a great question! My original plan that once I had extracted all the items from the plate, the app would then detect the average colour of the remaining regions and "fill" the gaps - that wouldn't work well with plates that have different patterns, but would probably be good enough for plates of a single colour.

Due to time constraints (and ultimately solving the majority of the problems I had originally aimed to with this project), the app replaces the cropped circular region with a plain white plate (a separate image contained in the app) before placing the extracted items.

Maybe I'll go for the more advanced implementation if/when I spend more time on this project!
Software that can program itself.
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This will make food cheaper for billions around the world, as price of food is strongly tied to the price of oil.

In US alone, going from $4/gallon to $2/gallon gives $400B/year (oil and food) more spending money in the pockets of consumers.
Oil industries favor relatively a few, but lower prices favor everyone.

On the flip side, the decade which includes heavy Iran sanctions and the Iraq war, Saudi's foreign reserve increased by almost $700B, in contrast the decade prior increased only by almost $20B.

The price crash triggered by Saudis wanting to make Iran a less interesting investment after Obama's Iran Deal (with a huge cash reserve, the thinking is they can last a lot longer) and the market prospect of more oil flooding the markets after Iran's sanctions were removed.

OT: How many know Saudis are the largest shareholders of Fox News outside of Murdoch family [0]?

[0] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1308161/0001193125133...
If you can find a copy of Herbert Simon's Models of My Life, have a gander at his remarks on Mies van der Rohe and assorted other architects.
IME the barrier is much higher now; if a kid writes a tetris or space invaders, he would be laughed at by his peers, when in fact either of those are significant accomplishments for a beginner. Expectations are so much higher now, it really changes the dynamic.
I don't drive and I don't have a car - but if 85% of cars are exceeding the speed limit, it sounds like that law doesn't have the moral legitimacy that comes from the consent of the governed.
I suspect, the oil money, was going to Saudis and then coming back. Making the economy run more. I've been to the middle-east a few times: Construction, Cars, Yachts, Electronics... were all financed by oil.
I used Code Blocks when I was first learning C++ for game development about 4 years ago. Solid IDE, not incredibly pretty.
Interesting concept.
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Cool! Needs 2012 tag though :)
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Since only a day has elapsed since the "Who's Hiring" post, maybe it is simply that the company you applied to is waiting a bit to get cvs on the pipeline to decide who they will interview.
Younger people are saving more cash than ever -- and I'm not willing to chalk it up to financial illiteracy. Even well-off individuals are sticking to plain savings accounts that do nothing other than gather dust with their 1% annual rate of return.

Why? Faith in the financial services industry has been utterly shattered.

The only exception is for tax purposes, eg: Roth IRA/TFSA, 401k/RRSP, etc.
Indeed. My email client of choice (Thunderbird) "died" this way last year. Except of course I'm still using it, and it's still being maintained by community effort for high priority bugs. So I don't see your point, actually.
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Or, the Saudis realized that they make more money in the long term with price swings than a steady increase.

At 100$/barrel people would just switch to something else. At 100-40-120-60-200, people are going to keep buying low mileage gas powered cars in massive numbers, building car infrastructure, and living in the suburbs.

PS: Don't forget you can manufacture oil for
~100$ per barrel, but if your factory folds when prices drop under 90$ it's a poor bet at those prices. It takes huge investments to create an alternative over decades, but you can kill them off with a few lean years.
This is from 2006: surely by now there is more evidence to support/reject this hypothesis?
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Because of the law that prohibits systematic surveillance and archival of your activities?
The point of setting magic numbers in that manner is the continuous employment of people tasked with explaining how discovering that this was how it worked all along was "unexpected" and "surprising".
Eh? Depends on the going rate. I bet that there are senior leads in, say, Fargo ND, or White Horse YT (or other places...) that would be happier with less than 150k/year.

Now, If you said $60k, I'd agree, though it is possible you could find someone with senior lead skills in an emerging market who might be happy with this.
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This is fantastic! I think I can use this in my laser projection work. :)
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Super lame. Is there a github list of those companies? Would be nice to have a blacklist to check against.
This one is probably the biggest one I've seen https://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/graph/c6f4dd89c208

Seriously, how do they deal with this kind of mess? And, do projects like these consider it as a complexity?
> They're not novel concepts, but they're hard to pull off at scale.

Citation needed. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proofs.

In fact statistical multiplexing and oversubscription are easier to do the more scale you have. The problems occur at the lower end of the spectrum.
Glad to hear. Let me know if you have any questions.
I don't even want anymore for my kids to win Nobel prizes or the equivalent in other fields. If it becomes their passion, sure, I'll support them. But I won't push them to be the absolute best, or wathever it is that tiger parents supposedly are doing to make their kids geniuses or CEOs. I'm pretty sure I don't even want that life for them, as the CEOs and the geniuses I've met either led very stressful lives or were downright assholes (but I'm sure there are many exceptions). I found out, soon after my first one was born (I have two), that all I wish for them is: a happy and meaningful life, health, and that they have a good heart. If they never amount to nothing money/carrer wise, well, so what?
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The Fomeko chronology is entertainingly batshit, with a history-rewriting conspiracy of crazy scope and petty motivation. It makes vanishing a few centuries look like small potatoes.

I think the touch that the New Testament actually refers to events prior to those of the Old Testament is particularly fun.
> If it detects 9.8g suddenly going to 0g then it parks the read head as it's probably just been dropped.

9.8g? Is your office inside a centrifuge? :-P
Yes, and the games you "buy" also shrink into nothingness if the distributor goes bankrupt or you are accused to violate somebody's ToS. I wish back for the physical distribution of game media and offline validation of serial numbers, if only to be able to play my old games in 20 years.
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You either make it look beautiful in one place, or make it look like ass in three places.

Or, option C: You use Electron, like Slack.
As noted I was basing some things on personal experience and observations, so while he might "just like" being a dick online there's this thing called biology which can influence why we like the things we like.

>You're reaching much too deep into it, even comparing it to Heroine addiction. Just, wow.

If you're going to talk down at me, at least spell heroin right or don't bother. I'm already familiar with the Greater Internet F-Wad Theory.
I believe Alpine is GPL licensed. Curious what companies are using Alpine? What ramifications does this have on the licensing of a micro service running in Alpine.
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I thought everyone was doing this already. The first thing I noticed when pushing my first test version of our Node server was that the images was way above what I thought it should be. It seems really odd that the "official" Docker images are this big. Perhaps to enable easy development within the VMs, and not meaning for these to be distributed?
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Thanks for the link. $50/yr is overpriced for IMAP hosting, but it's good to know that they at least offer the service.
I've been wanting to get access to the ThinkPad accelerometer in Linux but haven't yet found a way to do so.
Ever seen the story where the guy messed that up and they delivered the coal?

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery don't know if it's true and not that bothered as it's still fairly hilarious.

I think there would be legs in a Silicon Valley/IT crowd style show about market traders.
This link discusses the paper in question: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry...
Growing up in Houston, Ive seen the boom bust cycle that seems to have been a part of the oil business since Rockefeller was running Standard Oil. Just because oil is cheap right now doesn't mean that people are going to stop working on clean energy and a replacement for petroleum based transportation. It may slow things negligibly but people who are smart enough to be looking into that aren't really swayed by the price of a barrel of oil.

The Saudis are trying to sweat out the more expensive production methods,(tar sands, bitumen, shale) as part of a long term play to get the price of a barrel of oil to where they want it ~80-100/bbl. I don't think they anticipated that US and other producers would just make up for the lost revenue by producing more(again, something that goes back to the beginnings of the oil business). The government is at risk of making themselves insolvent in the next 5 years or so if they continue this policy[1] and Im not really sure why they(or any producer) are making such short sighted decisions. Its not going to get better until the reduce the supply side glut[2]. Most producers are reactionary to this type of volatility and cancel well completions which take many months to bring online. Once we have reduced the over supply look for another swing as consumption overtakes available of supply until new wells can be brought back up to speed. From the information I have being in the business, that will take about 2-3 years or more, which may cause some pretty catastrophic financial crashes as Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and other producers run out of money, which is already happening.[3]

keeping oil in the 50-100 dollar range is probably best for the world economy, but keeping everyone honest enough to produce the amount needed to get oil prices there is the problem. IMO, the blip in SUV sales isn't going to significantly impact the environment. Even SUVs are getting 20mpg hwy in real world driving now. This is easily 25-50% better than the last time oil was cheap 10-15 years ago. Government standards are still mandating better CAFE scores, and everyone will be producing electric cars in the next 5-10 years. Some of the supply glut could be blamed on the fact that most cars are more efficient now and are using less oil.

[1]https://www.rt.com/business/319465-saudi-bankrupt-projection...
[2]https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...
[3]http://www.businessinsider.com/nigeria-is-running-out-of-gas...
In politics, pushing the need to solve a problem into the distance for 30-40 years is a good thing.
I believe your distorting my original point, pouring your own prejudices into what I said, or I didn't explain myself very well. (Probably the last one)

Instead, I'll just point you to Deming's work on management. He transformed Japan's post war economy into the powerhouse it is today. He's also responsible for the much of the transformation here in the USA during the 1980'ss & 90's.

Long story short: it's the goal of management to make workers successful. Re-training is the absolute best way of advancing the company.

https://www.deming.org/theman/theories/fourteenpoints
Indeed, one may view it as the central banks' wealth tax to reverse (however small) income inequality which will lead back to more growth.
With the feminism thing, it was some other guy, won't help you much with that, sorry. I'm ignorant about that too.
Even cooler if I could figure out some general way of parameterizing & texturing the surface instead of just rendering the triangles. Any ideas?
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Other passive investment funds with similar or lower fees and appropriate target sector are available

Also consider whether you want to invest in oil related companies or in the price of oil itself (which is just as possible).

NB. I have nothing for or against Vanguard funds and have heard a few people supporting them.
I think that's true for everyone. I've found that working my way into an existing codebase involves multiple passes, and each time I get a bit more immersed in the code and my assumptions change. It's also good to write documentation in parallel, as you can capture and address all the things that were initially confusing.

(Also, hi Eric!)
Not all forms of magnesium are absorbed equally by the body. The forms mentioned in the article are absorbed well. Other forms, such as "magnesium citrate" are absorbed well.

Some forms of magnesium are better avoided. You can easily find more information by using google.
This exists and has been used successfully in a number of large consortia, like the Cancer Genome Atlas. It essentially says that the data goes live immediately, but the researchers who generated the data have exclusive publishing rights for 6 months from that date. After that, it's fair game for anyone.
1) Edit or remove the post
2) Keep the position open for longer than 24 hours.

Yes, it's entirely possible that an amazing candidate somehow saw the post, applied, and got hired in 24 hours, but more likely is that there was no open position in the first place.
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After 2013, things changed.

For the first time, there was an inverse correlation between oil prices and the US stock market.

http://energyfuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/crude-oil-p...
Its kill.

http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/nor/#Exports

Edit: yeah Norway is definitely going to go to the shatter unless they invest in high tech right now. Compare this with Canada for example.

http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/can/#Exports

Nor: >50% of exports are crude and petroleum based products
Can: ~25% of exports are crude and petroleum based products
In general, I agree with your points. In Michigan, with a few exceptions (freeway design limitations/residential roads), the speed limit is supposed to be set at (I think) the 85th percentile. Effectively -- county/city/township road speeds are set at the speed most drivers are driving. We're strictly set at 70 MPH on freeways with few exceptions for specific freeways not designed to safely travel at those speeds and the limit will soon be raised to 85 MPH for rural freeways. I've watched the city roads increase speed limits over the last 10 years where I live, which is a busy metropolitan area. It's really quite nice since it's less chaotic when everyone is traveling at around the same speeds on the roads. And it has reduced speeding.

I do not speed -- I had received a ticket in my 20s that raised my insurance rates so much that I just don't accept the risk. There's a road near my house that practically everyone drove 50 MPH down despite a 40 MPH posted speed limit. They raised it two years ago to 55 MPH after a traffic survey and as a result, I am no longer passed when I drive at the posted speed. It's an anecdotal account, but I'm on that road a few times a day many days and it's a stark difference. When the speed limit is set to what people drive, most people stop speeding.

That said, residential roads at 25 MPH is a rule that the 85th percentile rule doesn't apply to -- for good reason. Parked cars where pedestrians emerge, roads that are not maintained well or cleared for snow/ice, and children who do not have the proper sense to not "run off into the street chasing a ball" all make speeding in subdivisions dangerous.
Nobody owes you anything. You want something google it, or build it yourself. Don't you dare belittle a developer for only targeting one platform.
How about making the counter-argument that maybe all the energy is being spent on making the service good? If you had 50 hours to do something, and you either had the choice of spending 10 of it making your own marketing materials, or 1 of it for making a good looking page with a preexisting work, why not go with 1, if you want to spend 9 more hours perfecting the engineering side?
Oil trickle down economics. See, it does work.
And yet it still only costs $277 to fly round trip between New York and San Francisco. Whatever the surcharges actually mean, it sure is cheap.
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holy cow...just went looking for the origins of "yinz" and found out about "western pennsylvania english." My wife does the "needs/likes/wants + past participle" thing listed in the wikipedia article[1], and I never knew it was commonplace in some parts of the U.S.

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I do not get it. Are people really that shortsighted? Are analysts who only thinks, that people are shortsighted?

I get, that if oil/gas goes down, there is an incentive that I drive more with my car.

But I don't make a car buying decision depending on oil/gas prices. When I buy a car, I buy it for use for the next 3 years. But I will not know the oil/gas price in the next 3 years. So my decision depends more on the car price itself and not on the oil/gas price.
Qt looks very nice to me. But then again my preferred GUI is ncurse in my terminal (urxvt) with tmux in a tiled window manager (i3).
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That being said though, a number of potential applicants would probably be discouraged by the 10-14 hour work shift. I'm not sure how much of that is spent working, but that doesn't as much room for leisure, regardless.
Mac only? Not open source? Consider this a downvote.
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Yeah I posted this on Sunday and it seems to just have taken off this morning - is that normal?
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Haskell has newtype for this purpose, with the benefit that the compiler removes the added overhead of the additional data type.
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I used to use yelp to find the best-reviewed contractor in my area. However, that's no longer a tenable strategy, because in my opinion, those contractors are flooded with easy and profitable requests and have no need to prioritize a schmoe like me. It's genuinely hard to get top-rated contractors to give me the time of day.

Once it took me 2 weeks of trying a guy, waiting for him to not reply, trying the next guy, waiting for him to cancel my appointment, trying the next, etc.

I tried picking one at random, and I got a couple of jamaican stoners with super-charming accents who did a shitty job and then poured paint thinner on my lawn (poisoning the area for about 3 years) while cleaning their equipment.

It's a hard problem in some areas.
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Do you have a reference to that? I can't find any evidence that Carlo Bartz engaged in any retraining of employees.

Again, I'm not suggesting cost cutting. I'm suggesting a move from frivolous expenses, to those which help make the employees more successful.

As I commented before, Deming was all about training employees over firing them.

https://www.deming.org/theman/theories/fourteenpoints
What happens if all the rooms are full in Japan when you get there?