skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My usual goto for simple data viewing / manipulation (regex) is geany. I find it's search and replace to be a little friendly for me. Though I do miss some dialog keybinds that I can't seem to find anymore on Mac OSX (the ones for document only vs selection only vs entire session for substitutions).
Higher-Dimensional Category Theory [pdf]
You have a great response and it deserves a clarification of what I mean by direct democracy.

For the most part, the system set up by our founding fathers is a good one, for the most part. There is simply too much to governance that should be left to common folk to sort out.

However, it is clear that the average citizen is completely powerless to have any effect on the system. The system is run by representatives who are owned by special interests. We are often given the choice between a red Lego and a blue Lego with no discernible difference between them once they get to Washington and spend half their time fundraising for the next election.

That is why we should have direct democracy: not as the foundation for policy, but a citizen check on the tendency for concentrated power to corrupt. We should have the right to publicly challenge resolutions by referendum to keep congress from controlling all they see fit with no real consequence.

Voting for representatives is not enough to hold them accountable. It is no different from exchanging one dirty diaper for another.
Yes definitely tricky. It might give a heart attack to some high frequency system designers! I will investigate this topic in future: maybe someone can come up with a spin-lock or lock free solution.
Not really. I've been in that situation, and spammy recruiters are just looking at "Oh, he's got $buzzword in his profile, and $company needs $buzzword!" If $buzzword = bash, that's not really useful. It's used everywhere, and isn't really an exclusive skillset. They don't pay attention to company culture, pay, or even location.

Obviously YMMV, but IME, they pretty much just throw everything against the wall, to see what sticks.
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Since Danish agents were present when the plane touched down in Copenhagen, couldn't they just detain him awaiting extradition?

It's very clear Denmark was onboard given the article.
This article is using the price of crude oil as the denominator. In 1993 Brent Crude Oil varied between $13 and $20 per barrel.
What's SV?
Why we built Atoll on iCloud
Until it does, and judging by the row of analgesics at the supermarket dulling the pain is often enough.
Found elsewhere on his website are instructions on making paper planes from Fast and Furious.

Warning loud: http://hawthorne-press.com/THOR.html
I started out as a physics major. I remember the first time I had to do problem sets using the small-angle approximation or taking the first two terms of a Taylor series and dropping the rest.

"Here's how you solve it: the angle of the pendulum from vertical is sin(x), which will always be small, so substitute x..."

"Wait, you can't do that! sin(x) isn't equal to x."

"For the purposes of this problem set it is..."

I had a lot of trouble with this when I first started physics. I was used to thinking of mathematics as Platonic Truth, the eternal mysteries of the universe rendered absolute. But it's not - it's just a model, and it's a model that we use because in most cases it approximates reality pretty well. Contrary to the advice of many primary-school math teachers, sometimes it only matters whether you get the right answer rather than whether your reasoning makes any sense.
This was the complaint of the two girls in Sweden
Professional means you teach (notice the word root in "profess" as in "professor"). It really means you know enough that you can teach others how to do it right, not about get paid for it per se.
Fun fact: Drones can be disabled by blinding them with excess visual or IR noise, jamming their control signals, or applying a fast-moving chunk of metal of appropriate size.

Further, drones are still limited to mostly open spaces. You can't clear a room with a quadcopter (yet), and a Predator missile strike is just as likely to kill loyal citizens as it is to kill the target.

Tanks are easily outmaneuvered by humans on foot. Planes cannot take a building and leave it intact. Drones have electronic weaknesses in addition to the usual flaws. And nukes are practically a joke--the fallout, physical and political, would ruin any nation.

TL;DR: Drones make terrible soldiers. Why do you think ISIS is still live and kicking?
Actually, I believe Fusion 360 was around first. Having said that, trying to learn Fusion 360 was one of the worst experiences I've ever had learning software, while learning OnShape actually made me enjoy using CAD. Once OnShape gets to the level of maturity that Fusion 360 has, I am hoping they will be better at all levels.
With the rental model, you are in much the same boat as a person who rents a house, when the landlord wants to charge more you pay it or get evicted.

Except that in the case of software, if either your data is locked up in some proprietary way or there is no competing software with a similar feature set anyway, you get evicted and there's no other landlord offering you an alternative place to live.
I am making an actual abuse report.
You made me feel ashamed for being angry for a really petty reason. :-)

L-in bought Pulse for my iPad and closed it down to replace it with something else.

If they instead had extended the app with their social network, I'd have grumbled but started to use it. I'm hardly alone, so they shot their own foot, too.
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Collection of Examples of 64-bit Errors in Real Programs
​How to watch the 2016 Super Bowl online
Tableau is a visualization software that you can bolt on top of many different data sources, from spreadsheets to BI tools and even AWS RedShift to get awesome looking dashboards and interactive visuals.

They are/were extremely popular with many sales organizations for internal dashboarding and even some media outlets used their stuff for public websites.

Sad to see this state of things for them, as the product was true good at one point. That said, I have not touched it in 3-4 years, so not sure how competitive it is now.
I've found that some silicone lube makes for easier handling, especially with robots doing the work.

Not even a joke. A double entendre, okay, I'll grant you that.

I bought this cube (http://amzn.com/B008U6V50U) a while back when seeking a cube that I could use in my Lego Mindstorms Rubik's cube solver. The solver wasn't of my own design, but I wanted to experiment with different brick programs for solving, and needed a cube that would reliably turn with little effort (to minimize time spent resetting). Silicone lube was recommended for rejuvenating the lubricated parts, since that's what the maker used anyway. Apparently, petroleum based products could eat away at the plastics in most cubes.

Just thought I'd toss it in, in case someone searching for Rubik's Cube in the future happens across this thread. :)
You realize the FCC is almost entirely staffed by people from those corporations, right? And if they haven't already worked in the industry they have a standing job offer to do so.
Makes you wonder how private social media company valuations are doing.
I really want to see the code for how that works. My great aunt did not endorse me for python, because she has no clue what that is. I'm curious if they trick people into clicking that? or if they just purely make it up.
"dysphemism" - thanks for that.

It's like a zombie of the gold standard.
I just don't understand why they don't manage to bring more value with the wealth of data they. It seems like there is so much they could do...
I wish the whole making-cli-programs-in-node fad would die.
I have that quote on my guitar case. I always wore ear plugs at shows, hypocrite and I STILL got tinnitus!
For me, this is the most surprising missed opportunity:

"posting original stuff to groups with thousands of members and not receiving a single comment or click to some link"

LinkedIn had the chance to build some amazing forums. LinkedIn should be the place that you think about when you want to have a conversation about business. They clearly have the traffic. They could have done something amazing with their groups and discussions. They have wasted all of their chances.
A web tool to do what?
XSI was originally from Softimage. Softimage sold out to Microsoft, which had no idea what to do with a high-end product other than to make it run on Windows NT. That ended SGI's reign in Hollywood; between 1998 and 2001, studios moved off SGI onto PCs with lots of memory and graphics cards that rapidly got cheaper.

Microsoft sold Softimage to Avid. Avid wanted Softimage because they also had a good non-linear editor, Softimage|DS, which was a threat to Avid's business. Avid used to sell furniture; they built computers with lots of accessories for handling video into wooden desks. These were called "editing suites", and cost upwards of $100K. Softimage could do that on commodity hardware.

Avid had no idea what to do with the 3D product line. It was a product Avid was stuck with, and it had its own team in Montreal. In 2008, Avid sold that to Autodesk.

Autodesk had developed its own 3D system, 3D Studio Max, which is still around. They bought Alias/Wavefront Maya from SGI when SGI tanked in 2004. That's how Autodesk ended up owning the 3D animation business.
> Paving roads with solar panels is a classic example of a 'simple, easy, wrong' solution.

You are likely not seeing the same "problem" that the powers that be in France are seeing. When looked at through the lens of graft, corruption and cronyism, it's 'simple, easy, and profitable'. Whether it ever delivers worthwhile amounts of power at efficient costs is entirely secondary.
Mostly I find that it keeps me from worrying too much. My wife and I can just do our best and not be concerned that we are causing irreparable damage. (It also keeps me from caring about parenting fads like TFA. Whatever works for our family is probably good enough.)
> I've noticed a lot of user hostile behavior like this from all of the large public social companies (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc...)

It appears so. This is amusing to me -- because when I was involved in a startup setting 2 years ago, I remember distinctly having conversations with my coworkers about the frequency of emails we were sending. We argued against sending too many emails because it would waste the user's time, it wasn't right, etc. And in the end we followed through - we were very mindful of not bothering our users with anything other than what is very necessary and important. But Facebook et al. have more of a 'fuck the user' philosophy and they seem to be faring well for it. This is very much a trend, little players are playing strange tippy toe games while the big players selfishly and shamelessly mess it all for everyone.
The Risks Digest
And Gates donated everything he had and left Microsoft.
This is exactly what I was looking for this morning, and am extremely happy that it was posted on HN.
The guy was in the UK for about 2 years before he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy, the initial court hearing was in Feb 2011 (he was in the UK for some time before that) he didn't ended up in the Embassy till late June 2012.

If the US wanted to "abduct" him doing it from within the UK which is both a 5-eye country and a general close intelligence and law enforcement proxy of the US would've been considerably easier.

In fact he was under UK "custody" for several occasions during the hearings (and before it got to the Supreme court I don't think it even received media attention) he could've been easily whisked away to some CIA chartered jet as you claim at any point.

The US doesn't want to get him on BS charges, the US also doesn't want to put him in gitmo it would serve no purpose for them if they'll ever go after him they'll do it openly and with every smoking gun known to men and try him in public anything less than that is going to be utterly pointless and counter productive.
No, you're making absurd assumptions to be able to make a pedantic argument.
Your point?
The reason a LinkedIn competitor hasn't emerged is the same reason a viable Facebook competitor hasn't emerged: at this point the network effects are too strong, and it's extremely difficult to beat incumbents because of that.

Besides, think about how much flak some HN submissions get for being "just another social network." I think the whole social network market has fully saturated and there will be additional difficulty in convincing people there is room for more social networks (aside from certain niche differentiators such as centralized vs distributed, which 99% of users don't care about).
I paid for premium for about 4 months while job searching. Being able to deep-dive into some companies and directly contact people helped me get my current job. It was definitely a helpful tool as a job-searcher.

Now that I have a stable job, it has no value and I ended my premium account.
I agree with you. The slower start compared to ST is not a problem for me and a lot of the other things atom provides for me are good enough positives for me to have switched to it and not looked back.
They actually went back on that decision because Windows users complained so much that the text was antialiased properly.
The best way to find some other base?????? encoding that maps to unicode glyphs!
Can you dig trough the ditches and burn trough the witches with it?
I'm reminded of the "I'm with those guys" comic.
Digital Ocean sell 'Simple Cloud Infrastructure'. Server data might be transient, but most web developers aren't infrastructure engineers and will have no idea of this - certainly it seems to have come as a surprise to some people. Digital Ocean need to manage their customer's expectations - and upsell for people who want permanent storage - as a rude shock doesn't do well for their brand.
Not only did Snowden attempt to raise alarm, but so have others to little effect. Thomas Drake, and William Binney, for starters who were both much higher up in the NSA than Snowden. Neither had any effect on NSA lawbreaking and Drake in particular suffered quite a bit for his efforts. I think it was fair for Snowden to assume and plan for the worst when tattling on the NSA.
From the advertising standpoint, it seems to me that Facebook has a database of people's job titles which is almost as good as LinkedIn's, without requiring advertisers to pay a minimum $2.00 per click to reach them.
Humans Didn't Cause the Honeybee Pandemic, but We Did Spread It Everywhere
Demo works on mobile well. Nice.
Cost efficiency.

If your neighborhood only needs 50MW of power, but you want 1000 MWhr of storage (~20 hours at full power), a Redox flow battery would be able to do that. Or if you were building a Hospital (Lets say 5MW of power) and need to spec out 3-days of power (ie: 360 MWhrs of storage on 5MW Power), you just build a tank that can store a lot of the electrolyte.

I guess... the best way of putting it is that Lithium Ion batteries are like AAA batteries, while a Redox Flow battery could be configured as a larger D battery. D Batteries don't give any more power or voltage than AAA batteries, but are more efficient for energy storage.

It is very easy to imagine how to build a 3000MW-hr 50MW Redox Flow battery (just build a huge storage tank). It is almost impossible to imagine the same with Lithium Ion (I guess you can build massive Li-Ion cells, but note that the Tesla is powered by tiny 3.7V 18650 cells wired up together. So it really hasn't been done before)

Day/Night cycle storage is a low power (Megawatts) high-storage (Megawatt-hours) use case. Lithium Ion batteries are more useful for high-power / medium-storage situations (like frequency balancing, or maybe a couple hours-long storage).

Flywheels are exactly the opposite. They are high-power low-storage devices. Flywheels would be very useful for smoothing out power when birds / clouds come up in front of solar panels (for example). Its easy to build a 300MW flywheel with almost no capacity (only a few minutes of storage). Flywheels could be used when a power-source goes offline suddenly, while a few minutes need to be spent spinning up a new power-source. (ex: Main grid goes down, you need 30 seconds before your diesel generator fully turns on. The flywheel will keep very high-power for the next 2 minutes while things switch over). Although supercapacitors are also a promising technology for this problem.

Different storage technologies for different purposes.
It's absurd that this is still a thing. Without that charge there is plenty that he could be prosecuted with. Crap like "betraying your country" belongs back centuries ago along with imperial expansion, prosecution for speaking ill of the King etc.
I've lived in Addis for the past 10+ years. The article is spot on. You say everyone here (i.e. Addis) has internet access. Well, Addis' population is ~3.4 million-- just about 3.7% of the country. And if you moved outside the capital, you'd quickly realize how rare internet access is.

I read the article in its entirety, there are some mistakes here and there (the language is "Amharic" not "Aramic") but for the most part I found it accurate. Most certainly not "super overblown".
Facebook have 'clocked on' to Crypter
If your system's design results in your stable components depend on the non-stable (volatile) components, your system is complex. This is because volatile components change often and these changes ripple to your stable components effectively rendering them volatile. Now the whole system becomes volatile, and the changes to it become very hard to reason about - hence complex.

Avoiding this problem has been captured, among others, by the Stable Dependencies Principle (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StableDependenciesPrinciple), which states that the dependencies should be in the direction of the stability. A related one is the Stable Abstractions Principle (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StableAbstractionsPrinciple), which states that components should be as abstract as they are stable.
The 17 equations that changed the course of history (2014)
Is it even op to the font to decide this? It seems that there's some confusion about whether it should combine with the previous or the following character.
Tech Startup Diversity: Race and Gender Shouldn't Be Separate
Wow, this clears up a lot. Logistically, it wouldn't have made sense that the parent was implying most of the thread had gone to Buckingham Palace to receive wartime repreive in order to simply read this article. I was super confused.

Thanks for putting this into context for me and in context this makes more sense.

I guess I just had the wrong definition of pirate.
Seattle Supersonics...
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VCs end up holding public shares when their portfolio companies IPO.
First of all they have multiple apps, and they have a ton of products that a normal consumer-facing user just doesn't see. It sells to enterprise just as much as it advertises to causal users of the website.

Ask a recruiter or a sales driven org and they'll tell you that LinkedIn is invaluable for getting leads (through products tailored for this segment).
From our experience targeting job titles, LinkedIn is actually much more comprehensive than Facebook. ie targeting "Operations Directors at Company X". Facebook doesn't provide that level of granularity, and our audience sizes are much bigger on LinkedIn.
Why are there viagra urls at the bottom?
This app and Uber face similar regulatory burdens.
Creating a Document-Store Hybrid in Postgres 9.5
Giscus provides the comment notification system your Gists deserve
Tableau is a surprisingly good desktop application for business intelligence and analytics that, IMO, grew too big for its own good. You plug it into data (spreadsheets, databases, you name it) and it makes it very simple (drag-and-drop simple) to crunch some numbers and produce interesting graphs, visualizations and analysis.

Some clever stuff they had was (early-RoR-style) guessing of data semantics based on heuristics (Column labeled "date"? probably worth grouping by months. Number pairs like -0.3242,0.12345 ? probably worth plotting on a map).

I have used trial and educational versions in the past and was always pretty impressed with the ease of use and the results. The product itself was > $1k so I never actually purchased a license.

Even though I didn't follow the strategy very closely, from what I've run into it seems lke their offerings were all over the place. I saw a local newspaper using a hosted Tableau product to display data visualizations on their pages (the kind of visualizations made by a company whose DNA is desktop apps, so kind of underwhelming). Their website is all about Gartner and enterprisey lingo.

The product itself is, well, some advanced version of Excel. This means you either sell a lot of it very cheap, or very little of it for a lot of money. Website design suggests the latter. Too bad it seems to not be working.

I'm honestly sad to see them do badly as I think the product was really innovative and it really changed my way of thinking about report building and analytics tools.
Interesting that Microstrategy also is down quite a bit.
You've never been to San Francisco, have you?
> Startup CEOs are getting pretty young these days, has your niece been hitting you up for a seed round?

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/06/is-10-too-old-to-be-in-tech...
You know how people say, "No press is bad press." This is the counterexample. I feel really bad for everyone at LinkedIn today.
Not surprising. Shitty, but not surprising. They didn't allow OTR for XMPP either.
I'm not sure I get what that has to do with the comment I made.
They would be charged. You're confusing energy and power, by increasing the reservoir sizes you increase energy storage capacity but not the speed at which the total stored energy can change (power).
TSLA is getting hammered(incorrectly) by gas prices being at all-time lows. Sounds like a great time to buy some more stock to me :).
Putting solar panels above the road is better. It will also keep road cool.
this... I've refused to ever sign up for LinkedIn despite many peers asking me why not and acting like I should be on there.. I've thought their spam tactics were dispicable and harassing. I've unsubscribed but still get emails trying to get me to sign up. No one "has" to use LinkedIn or any other software for that matter...
Same here. I get an email when someone asks to connect but nothing else, and I get that because I want it. They have pretty explicit settings. Just checked and "Introductions and InMail" are only thing enabled. You can also adjust frequency for individual types of messages so you get batch updates.

LinkedIn is generally crappy at what is supposed to be its primary purposes, and they do shady UX stuff. But they have very granular controls for email and push notifications.
> It is very likely he has already been found guilty in abstentia in a secret trial.

The US Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that such a thing is not permissible. Zero wiggle room on this in the various decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_in_absentia#United_State...
>but as a well-known, professional network with a large userbase, I have yet to find a rivaling alternative.

That's their only advantage, that they are big and almost everyone is already there but it always feels to me like they are some sort of myspace waiting for their a Facebook to come and do it right.
The thing you're missing is that the $5 a month enhanced profile isn't the main product they're selling. They sell recruiting products, sales products, and more that you just don't have visibility into because you're not a salesperson or a recruiter.
The government should not be in the business of setting salaries.
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Here is the Blender hotkey chart.[1] All 9 pages. With the different hotkeys for each of 12 modes. Any questions?

[1] http://download.blender.org/documentation/BlenderHotkeyRefer...