skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the cost/turnaround time for a one-off prototype would be?

For these work piece sizes and materials, you can do it yourself for ~$3,000 USD one-time hardware cost:

* Sherline 3-Axis 5400 CNC-ready* [1] $1,300 USD

* Stepper Motors + Controller[2] $500

* PC + parallel port $500

* Measuring and holding tools $500

+ Materials

+ CAD/CAM software

+ Several hours/days of time for setup and machining

The cost of these materials is low, so I guess you could make a prototype like this for maybe $50 in material costs? As an added benefit you could machine some or all parts in aluminum, if preferred.

[1] http://www.sherline.com/
[2] http://www.omc-stepperonline.com/

* I would recommend retro-fitting limit switches onto this mill, which is relatively cheap to do
Tech stocks extend losses, valuations dented
(...And then, they came and ate the slugs from my garden, muahaha!)

Meanwhile, in Oslo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdi2AXC9c9Q
Apple iPad Air 3 Coming Soon. See What It Looks Like
Google Play Music does work without flash but it's a "Labs" feature.
I think that our fundamental point of disagreement has to do with investment. Given a field full of wheat, you want to eat it all. I think you have to reserve some of it, because even when the winter is bad and some people are starving, come springtime you have to be able to plant _something_ or else everybody will starve. This difference manifests in our approaches to social problems. You want to meet someone's immediate need, like adding oil to a car with leaky seals, while I want to address the underlying problem---fixing the broken engine, or even better, replacing the broken engine with something that works a thousand times better.

That's OK, because in reality, we need both short-term (just feed the guy!) and long-term (fix the engine!) solutions to the problems that beset our world.
Yeah you're not allowed to do this as-is. Trademark infringement is trademark infringement, and including logos is definitely not good. ("Legal challenges as a potential asset"? Really?)

And arguably copyright infringement with the startup data too. (no provider gives that data out without licensing.)
Ok, we took "micro" out of the title. Let's try to talk about the framework itself now.
Vancouverites -- Victoria is a very real option. You don't have to sacrifice ocean or mountains, and can afford to buy a home (and then some).

https://github.com/sendwithus/vic-startup-jobs
On a second thought, the utilities should have never been privatised.
Same place where France's Google, Germany's Amazon is at, they don't need it. China is wasting effort by creating things because they don't wanna use the things rest of the world uses, and the rest of the world doesn't wanna use their things because it would be giving power to a non-liberal democracy.
I was told a clause was unenforceable, and used the reasoning "So we can remove it from the contract?" and they wanted me to work with them so they took it out.

My usual approach with NCs is to reign in the scope of them. I've had some that could be interpreted I couldn't write any software for anyone else for up to a year.
Pages of Artists' Sketchbooks [Curated]
Radiation hormesis is still a debate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
This is not applicable to majority of mobile web users outside of US (Android devices for example) or non-Safari users (Chrome on iOS).
Words in the category "English terms derived from German" on Wiktionary[1] that contain "ss" instead of "ß":

ahlspiess, edelweiss, Federweisser, frass, Preussen, stoss, sussreserve, weissbier, weisswurst

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derive...
One Star
The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)
Which is why the very notion of consenting to contracts completely suspect when one side is a larger corporation and the other side is someone with an average IQ and education. You should no more honor their contract than you would a contract between the average child and the average adult.
> Can you get genetic material for bacterial transformation within a K-12 budget as well?

For a standard bacterial transformation experiment you'll need : An incubator, a pcr machine, taq, primers, pcr master mix, a centrifuge, petri plates, LB broth, agar, ecoli, a gel box. Honestly, half of this you could get as cast-offs from your local university for free. Universities are all about supporting K-12 science, you just have to ask.

Hardware is going to run you about 200-300 bucks. The real expense here is the used PCR machine. The incubator, and the centrifuge can be home-made or repurposed (ie a hand crank centrifuge, and a chicken egg incubator).

The rest of the cost is just reagents. The two big things you need to make yourself are Taq, and ecoli competent cells. Both of these are fun experiments in themselves are can be made for 50-100 bucks (resulting in years worth of reagents).

After that it's just buying primers (10-20 bucks a pop) and refills on reagents like agarose and LB which are cheap.

DIY lab doesn't have to be expensive if you are willing to sacrifice a little bit of time.
People who opposed coke were a minority, who weren't taken seriously by their own political representatives.

Slow adoption of technology had more to do with fear of automation and job losses, than anything.
Meanwhile, the HR flackey at Law360 who incompetent advise her still has their job:

When I signed the agreement, the HR representative who conducted my orientation called it a formality and told me it just meant I couldn’t freelance for a competing site while still working there.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10895347
Because of Android's more open nature, there are groups like CyanogenMod that will release updates for devices after the manufacturers have stopped. Popular devices can continue to get updates beyond 4 years.

The Android & iOS/Apple differences are interesting. Both are great, in my opinion.
As a molecular biologist, I think Bento aren't doing enough to pitch the possibilities of molecular biology. Amino has stuff that glows. With the equipment, Bento can pretty much make that stuff too, but they're not making that clear.

Also, you're right - different audiences. I think Bento is more about DNA barcoding.
Gave this a quick look. I'm much more a fan of Spring Boot (http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/). Like Pippo, Spring Boot starts with a lot of auto-configured defaults that can get you off the ground quickly. However, the full power of Spring and its related projects are at your fingertips and you can reduce the amount of auto-configuration as your project becomes more complex. Also like Spring's stereotype principles more than extending a base "Controller" (in Spring, you annotate a POJO with @Controller or @RestController).

As mentioned previously, JAX-RS really shines for micro services. The same interfaces can be shared between client and server, making client development a breeze. Spring Boot supports JAX-RS services as well via a Jersey adapter.
I'm all for the product, I like at home things. It was just a little weird sounding to me. But I suppose at home chemistry sets are probably way more dangerous.
Here is my problem with all these (pseudo)small request handling frameworks.... They seriously tightly couple your code with a relatively unproven library. Not mention most of them use a fair amount of singletons and static initialization.

Most web applications require an enormous amount of controllers and even micro services typically require a fair amount of routing and request/response handling. Not to mention security, the asynchronous model, future HTTP2 support. I'm not exactly comfortable using something like this for a moderately size project nor even small project.

I have also seen like 6 or so micro frameworks in the last couple of months. Just two of them offhand I remember:

* Rapidoid - seems to be smaller.

* Jooby - not smaller but seems more mature.

Most of them just build off of Netty (at least some project realize they shouldn't be redoing the low level).

I honestly think there should be a slimmed down modern servlet/jaxrs api spec that should be designed in a similar manner to how the reactive-streams api was designed (ie make a github repo, file issues, take pull requests and get the damn interfaces right).

We also have the same problem going on with Singles aka Promises aka Deferreds aka Future with callbacks (dozens and dozens of implementations exist). Right now I'm using rx.Single but just about every framework has its own (reactor, Play, Akka, JDeferred, etc etc).

At least streams aka Flow will be in Java 9.
You're probably better off writing an ebook on how to write an ebook building these apps.
Amino was previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10409433 .

It does look fun and educational! ... But, if you're excited about a "homebrew synthetic biology kit" you definitely want to read the specifics of this kit. It actually has very limited uses. Not to dismiss it though; it probably is the best thing you could currently buy in the area. And the kind of sequence-grow-repeat DIY synthetic biology that may come to mind is still, unfortunately, outside the realm of any realistic affordability.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005637 (275 points, 8 days ago, 149 comments)
Companies have a way of shitting their pants, and walking away from the employment offer if you question even a line or two of the "formalities" they expect you to unblinkingly sign.
Because the alternative is some kind of conspiracy theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
It's neither handheld or desktop, it's the pace of advancement.

In 2005, it was a frustrating and nearly impossible task to use software made for Windows 95. In 2016, it's much easier to emulate a 2005 environment.

Same for mobiles. As the relative gains from each generation to the next taper off, there will be less to radically change from the ground up.
Interesting, a friend of a friend of mine is the founder of http://saner.gy/

They've been very successful in Kenya.
Turn off Flash for YouTube https://www.youtube.com/html5
Also it costs over 18USD annually to operate, not an insignificant expense.
True. The problem with DIY labs I think is the barrier to entry. It's really hard to start from nothing to having a DIY lab where you have some idea of what's going on. Maybe an online lab (videos?) is the way to go? My microbio and biotech labs in college did serve me pretty well as far as knowing what the bands in my gel mean, etc.
The difference is whether or not you can detect it effectively.
Degrees of Separation: Modeling and Searching Human Networks
> It's easy enough to disable all these emails in FB's notification preferences.

Actually no, I don't think that's even possible. In the notification preferences, it appears you don't get a list of all notifications that you can disable, you only get a list of notifications you've already disabled, so they don't let you be proactive about disabling things.

I just tried clicking the "unsubscribe" link from one of Facebook's "So and so has updated their status. Please, come back, our algorithm misses you!" emails, and that added "Recent friend activity on Facebook" to my list of disabled notifications. Let's hope I still get emails for event invites and tagging notifications. They change stuff all the time, and I remember the last time I looked into this I was afraid I was disabling more than I wanted to, so I went with email filters instead.
Introduction to the Zig Programming Language
A GitHub repo with tools to generate human geographically spaced networks and search them to find degrees of separation between people.
I'm not nearly well versed enough to speak intelligently on the subject, but my understanding is that only quantum computers can do a "perfect" key exchange, because the detection of interference by a third party can only be detected by a quantum computer.
I don't mean to sound overly dismissive, but isn't this just part of being an adult

You would think so -- but many companies apparently expect that none of their candidates will really read (let alone think about the consequences of) the employment terms they're expecting them to sign.

As if they'd basically prefer to hire children.
"I also later found out that every editor in my section at Reuters had been well aware of the non-compete for years."

I thought she'd only been there for a month. What am I missing here?
My understanding is that it is not enough to just be a "qbit based computer" to be able to solve QBP (i.e. perform shors algorithm to break RSA).

These computers are quantum adiabatic computers which are indeed quantum in that they use qbits, but it is not clear that they can perform some operations required for QBP problems. See scott aaronson's blog for more info [1].

1. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400
As he notes in the article, if we want it to self-regulate, we need to reintroduce brown bears, lynxes and wolves.

Given that we've already eliminated them, but are still part of the ecosystem ourselves, "self-regulation" of the ecosystem is a pretty hollow phrase.
Also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomatia_tasmanica

"King's Lomatia is unusual because all of the remaining plants are genetically identical. Because it has three sets of chromosomes (a triploid) and is therefore sterile, reproduction occurs only vegetatively ... the plant has been cloning itself for at least 43,600 years (possibly up to 135,000 years)"
"If we make sure that certain groups can tell THAT there are secrets (without knowing what the secrets are) perhaps that provides an effective check on government abuses."

I'm a group of one, and I know that there are secrets. I have no idea what the secrets are. How does this help? Maybe you meant to say that the groups should be able to detect the presence of certain types of secrets without knowing all the details -- evidence of nuclear testing, evidence of crypto backdoors, evidence of mass spying on the public, evidence of advanced aliens... But how general should this detection be and what types and strengths of evidence should be granted to these privileged groups? How do you get a government with no intention of letting any evidence about their secrets getting out to go along with the idea of allowing other non-government groups to get a flavor of their secrets? (Come on downvoters, let's tease out the details of this way-too-vaguely-specified idea. For any given covert-but-shouldn't-be government activity X, how can we make sure X is done such that it leaves trails that could in theory be picked up by third parties to detect something is going on without knowing all the details?)
Also for large scale changes rebasing can be very difficult. Yes you can minimise it by rebasing often, but once you didn't manage to do it a merge can be easier.
This is one of those articles that sounds carefully sourced, but really isn't. To say that Hunsader is a controversial figure would be deceptively understating it: "a conspiracy theorist without the theories" is one description I've received. I've heard good things about Nanex data, but also lots of warnings about taking their analyses too seriously.

Meanwhile, the article sources nothing but pundits and advocacy groups that were predisposed to promote Hunsader's theories, regardless of how accurate they've turned out to be --- for instance, it includes a warm quote from Brad Katsuyama, who left a job at a giant investment bank to start a new exchange ostensibly designed to retard HFT.

It is far from clear that Hunsader was right about the Flash Crash, and Navinder Singh Sarao's spoofing operation is to HFT what... well, actually, let's just let Matt Levine's headline about Sarao do the rest of the work:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-21/guy-trading...
We built a Parse Replacement Service: http://nimbleparse.com
> Just wondering how you deal with all the extra noise in the diff. What happens when multiple people are working on the project, are you not constantly having to deal with merge conflicts? I feel like checking in the build directory makes the diffs pretty much useless.

Why would you ever bother merging a build artifact? Those files should always be rebuilt fresh before committing. Just quickly do whatever to clear it from the conflict queue, merge the source as necessary, then rebuild. Commit the rebuilt version.
I come back to this one time and time again. Blows my mind to think about the fact that all of A.D. time is just a tiny fraction of what this organism has lived through.
Maybe crosswalk[1], it takes about 50mb.

[1] https://crosswalk-project.org/
You're discounting the cost of the GC approach necessarily having more live objects at once. That will require hitting more slow-path parts of the GC's allocation algorithms (either finding free slabs, finding freed new slabs from a global cache, or allocating new ones from the OS), and it will have poor cache behavior. The manual memory allocator will be on the fast path for malloc and free, as long the number of live objects is less than that of a slab.

There may be a crossover point where the GC algorithms are better (say, a pathological case where you keep forcing the manual memory allocator to hit its slow paths by allocating just one more than the size of a slab, freeing all of them, then repeat). But I would also not be surprised if there never is a crossover point.
You can read about that here...at Law360!

http://www.law360.com/articles/558083/bdo-seidman-continues-...
What about the other side of the issue that doesn't plague third world nations: http://www.naturesplatform.com/health_benefits.html
Some creatures also survive, and that's also how evolution works. In fact whatever actually happens is how evolution works...

And I don't see why we can't keep regulating nature.
It is already priced in, IMO. The prospective buyer submits an offer incorporating all terms, including the assignment option just as much as the dining room chandelier.
Net metering has always been a subsidy for distributed solar. That's what it's intended as.

If you just wanted to account for peak pricing, you could just create a wholesale solar price that estimated average wholesale price for solar in a given area. You could get pretty damn close without having install smart meters.
Nothing really, but a lot of users may be stuck on older browsers. With government agencies or banks or the like, they tend to not upgrade until the last day that their current setup is supported. The cost of upgrading infrastructure is far too great to be justified by non-tech savvy higher ups who fail to understand security risks of not regularly upgrading systems.

So, developers are stuck programming for some ancient godawful version of Internet Explorer that barely even supports ES5.
L'exception confirme la règle.
I've had to negotiate scope of NCs at all but one job. I've had to change enforcement period length and industry scopes. So many times the scope has been interpretable as all software ever, and I've seen terms of 2 years. Generally I'll accept NCs for the same industry and for up to 6 months after termination.
Yes I was aware of the iPlayer HTML5 opt-in which is what I was hoping to see for the rest of the site. Given that they have all the content in HTML5-friendly video anyway it shouldn't be all that painful.
Same, I was hoping to see a picture of some kind of grade-separated hedgehog corridor with on/off ramps.
The toilet is sold with a service contract. Try looking at it another way. This is a toilet that has a fraction of the waste of a traditional toilet. The waste leaves the home in the back of a truck driving on a road instead of in a sewer pipe. This is for areas that do not have sewer and may completely skip sewer as a sustainable revolution happens.
They make a lot of noise, grunting and snuffling along.
The amino lab itself is useless - the apps are the useful things. The lab is basically the equivalent of a big glass bowl.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Net Promoter Score
The premise of this article and many like are based on flawed data. They only take into account the people with actual CS related degrees working in the industry. When in reality you have people with everything from English Lit. to psychology, to no degrees at all.

A more interesting study to me would be why so many "programers" seem to exhibit traits commonly associated with OCD or Asperger syndrome(some times both). Wired even called it "Geek syndrome"
http://www.wired.com/2001/12/aspergers/
> Do you ever run into merge conflicts in the build directory?

Those files should always be rebuilt fresh before committing. Just quickly do whatever to clear it from the conflict queue -- probably some version of "take mine" or "take theirs". Merge the actual source files as necessary, then rebuild. Commit and just blindly clobber whatever existed in the build directory, because you just rebuilt it and you know it's the correct version.
Net metering is stealing from those who BUY from the providers of the distribution infrastructure, full stop.

Net metering is a subsidy for upper middle class folks who own their houses and want solar panels because it's hip and cool.

The costs get directly passed onto the other consumers. The poor and middle class.
You keep using that word, API. I do not think it means what you think it
means.
LeapFrog jumps to be acquired by VTech for $72M
Report: Google to Launch a Gear VR Competitor, Build VR into Android OS
I hope DASH will remain patent free. There was some attempt to attack it. It's quite important for Web video.
These are _potential_ problems. They will become real problems when a significant amount of electricity is generated from rooftop solar. That isn't happening yet - according to the article, Nevada has already capped rooftop solar at 3% of peak demand.

Net metering needs to be phased out at some point in the future. Not ended abruptly today.
I fail to see how saying a clause who's only reason for existing is to prevent someone from earning a living in their field is immoral is odd.
I'm curious about your apps. Could you provide some links.

Thanks
Github says 11 494 gotos in the kernel:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=go...
It should be noted that the native browser decoders for h264 still produce worse color presentation than flash players. Also, the flash runtime's pseudo-streaming is faster than Chrome's http pseudo-streaming (it takes longer for the same h264 file to start playing back).

I love HTML5 video, but there are still huge areas for improvement that show up frequently.
If I remember correctly, Real Programmers use FORTRAN and
Quiche Eaters use PASCAL
I MUST MOVE AT AN ACCELERATED PACE.
Get human-readable error messages for Postgres database errors
>>Same place where France's Google, Germany's Amazon is at, they don't need it.

Germany doesn't have their Amazon. They have their BMW's and Volkswagen's. That's their Amazon.

>>China is wasting effort by creating things because they don't wanna use the things rest of the world uses

So why did Ford have to create his company when Volkswagen existed?

>>rest of the world doesn't wanna use their things because it would be giving power to a non-liberal democracy.

Democracy doesn't mean two hoots in a world where economy dictates everything from domestic policy to international policy.

Absolutely nothing wrong in being self sufficient. Being self sufficient has helped Asian economies more than we know. India and China both have nuclear programs, our own capabilities to run our space programs, and launch our satellite and take of ourselves and our economies.

If anything we should be building our capabilities than depending on other nations.