skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, power electronics have really come a long way since 1992, and that might make a big difference. For instance back in 1992, DC-DC converters were shit, most power supplies were still linear instead of switching, and the electronics needed for, for instance, driving a 3-phase brushless motor were big and expensive. These days, that stuff has gotten much smaller and cheaper. We now have power MOSFETs able to handle huge currents with ridiculously low losses, in rather tiny packages. A chip the size of your fingernail can handle over 100A with losses in the single milliohms, and the main problem becomes handling the waste heat (with 100 amps, even 4 milliohms means 40W!); usually these things are used for high-frequency switched applications, so the total on-time isn't that much.

Back in 1992, making an electric car like the Tesla probably wouldn't have worked out too well. Instead of an electronically driven induction motor (or a 3-phase brushless motor as some other vehicles probably use, also electronically commutated), they would have had to use a brushed DC motor which isn't so great for longevity or efficiency, because the electronics needed for the better motors would have been too expensive, bulky, and inefficient. Now, DC brushed motors are all but obsolete except for small, cheap applications like <$50 power tools.

The same might have been an issue with those camless valves: actuating those solenoids precisely probably required some serious power electronics capable of supplying and switching high currents at very high speeds. Modern power electronics are good at that now.

I wonder if one problem isn't control of the valve speed. If the solenoid is moving too fast, that'll wear the valve seat much faster (in a regular cam engine, the valves don't shut that quickly at low rpms because the valve profile prevents it). In a cam-less engine, the solenoids would effectively be going full speed all the time, meaning more valve seat wear from slamming shut so hard. This makes tuning engines easier perhaps (more digital-like operation: on/off), but increased wear is bad for something you want to last for hundreds of thousands of miles with no service. So they might be looking for a way to control the actuation speed of the valves, and vary it with engine speed as cams do now. That means even more complex power electronics.
To combat jet lag, try drinking a ton of water. I'm talking liters of water, I usually will consume a minimum of 3 liters of water while flying, in addition to water I drink before and after the flight. I also take at least 200mg of CoQ10/Ubiquinol each hour of the flight, in addition to extra before and after the flight. It seems to help a lot.
A Hungarian team mounted two MIG21 jet engines on a Russian tank chassis and sprayed water through them.

Concept was called "Big Wind". Here it is in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Ss3BMrscE
The materials used come out of mines.

The damage to the environment may not be egregious, but it is clear enough that it is there.
I'd be really interested to see something like this. YouTube probably is the best medium for showing content like this. I can think of a few examples of "expert" coders showing how they work through typical development scenarios, but can't remember coming across anything like this for postgres.
Ahh, ok thanks that's the connection I was missing.
You could possibly say the same thing about quality of life in the beginning. Lots of necessary medical care, making your parent's lives miserable, can't get up and make a sandwich, higher likelihood of death [1], etc.

[1] http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Risk/dyingage1....
I, and millions of others, say: "we are screwed, my contribution will not change anything"
Looks like it's just a bunch of .wavs, and sure enough the audio doesn't seem to work in IE, which doesn't do .wav.
Modernism
Amiga hostory: First model had number 1000
Well, the latter is simply not true, and if it is the former I hardly see how it would pose a problem. Not that you're in a position to make such a diagnosis.
I will, thank you.
Why? They're putting out more and more quality material, and it could be argued that they're getting interesting topics in front of a broader audience.
Those examples make no sense.
Eh, I have a Timex with a plain face that I can read without my glasses on, and the battery lasts for a year. I can check the time without having to carry the phone around or dig it out of my pocket and turn it on (a problem while jogging or driving). I can tell the time with a glance at my wrist.

I also regularly break my watch by banging it on things or lose it because the band breaks. But the watch is cheap, so no matter.

I guess I'm just old fashioned and out of touch :-)
That is a distinct possibility (but not that different to the current situation). On the other hand you could be reading something that someone wanted published without any thought of anything in return.
Neat. The landing page has some examples: http://allpriorart.com/

I don't think this is intended to actually create prior art that could be used in a patent dispute, but as an art project it's well-executed.
Timing of eating is also an input to circadian rhythm (at least in rats)--I'll try to find the cite.
Besides tuples, I mostly treat the standard data structures as if they were immutable, without relying on them actually being :) As for third-party libraries, very few of them actually mutate structures passed by my code, in my experience; if they do, I simply make a copy before passing it.
Or you can just `return (p for p in ...)`.
The argument is in the last two paragraphs, does Apple have these sleeper hit features, like for example extended battery life, waterproof, wifi and some killer app like facetime calling? It's already less intrusive then a smartphone for reading messages.

The iPod had a slow start as well and I remember the first responses to the iPad. The time of smartwatches will come I think, question is, just like in the article what will be the killer feature?
Jones was based on the classic idea that when the government does what would be a trespass if a private person did it, then a warrant is required. Observing someone in public is not a trespass, no matter how much you do it.
Here's my guess based on the following info:

- The article points out that the planes are typically only seen M-F, which suggests that what they are doing is usually not time-sensitive.

- They mention the planes have a very high quality camera on board.

- From the flight patterns, you can see they repeatedly circle the same location, but not apparently for hours and hours at time.

When Apple first released their Maps product, it was revealed that they also flew planes at low altitude to capture super high quality pictures of cities at different angles. They would then process the data later and create 3D models. [1]

Satellites are too expensive to use for this sort of thing, are affected by cloud cover and non-optimal angles, and won't be higher quality than what you can capture from a plane.

So my guess is they are doing exactly what Apple was doing: capturing high quality images of various points of interest and then creating 3D models in case they need to use them later.

Another thing they are probably looking for (from the mention of the FLIR camera) is people growing drugs in their basement or perhaps where people congregate in a building.

They probably find this useful for among other things, having very up to date photography of a particular area, and also in case they need it for some operation like a raid.

[1] http://www.applegazette.com/apple-inc/how-apple-creates-3d-f...
It's in the Win32 DLLs that Firefox links against.
Step by step Kaggle competition tutorial
>carried interest [is] not an exception -- it's just how partnerships work

Oh bollocks. Carried interest is blatantly income for the fund managers. Treating it as anything else for tax purposes is down to basically bribing politicians. The whole concept of calling it "carried interest" rather than income is a US only invention.
Tool choice may improve security. See again OpenBSD, which has specifically rewritten parts of the C library to avoid classes of bugs.

That said, Java has a markedly less-than-perfect record.
There are a couple of ways that connectivity can save everyone money:

1) Peak shaving. The utility pays homeowners to be able to change the temperature slightly during peak electrical load.

2) Short term adjustment. One challenge of integrating large amounts of wind and solar into a grid is that sometimes you get short-term fluctuations in power generation. Smoothing these fluctuations out by turning off a bunch of residential AC units can be very cost effective.

Utilities are willing to pay consumers in both of these situations. And both of these work better with 2-way connectivity.

Looking forward, if electric cars become more popular, it's likely that they'll have smart chargers which will optimize when overnight or at-work charging takes place.
And, in related news, Pwncloud:

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/880-Pwncloud-bad-crypto-in-t...
Torch: a new machine learning library in C++/GPL (2001)
Again, I don't see how pressing a physical recording is making anything faster. It's a step that's entirely unnecessary if you distribute digitally. It must be more of a tradition, or a desire to mix on turntables, or possibly a way to do a limited/controlled release that is not easy to redistribute widely as a digital media file would be?
This makes me want to play Turrican again, that game was _so good_.
1. These are most likely not front companies but ISR contractors.

2. FBI is both a law enforcement and intelligence organization.
How about a self-driving highway – from Canada to Mexico?
But there are chip tune bands who emulate 8 bit. That people pay money to see. So I can well imagine a niche for emulating flawed CDs.
Old fashioned: rational. Out of touch: capable of independent thought.
Digital distribution has brought back the feeling of the older computer games in a big way. Steam has some titles, but it still puts up some barriers. itch.io [0] is the hotspot for stuff too small to notice these days. Just last night I was linked to a homage to the ICOM adventure games [1] and it was hosted on itch.

Kids don't really seem to care too much about a high fidelity experience. Everything is new and different to them to begin with, so that stuff is just window dressing.

[0] http://itch.io
[1] https://grahfmetal.itch.io/infested
> wrist-chafing

You've been wearing your watch wrong, I think. A watch strap should be adjusted to give a comfortable fit on the wrist, I bought a cheap GBP 10.00 stainless steel band for my LG Watch R (Android Wear) that I then got adjusted in a small watch repair market stall by a friendly Russian gentleman for another GBP 5.00 and my watch now fits perfectly. The watch works just like an analog watch with always-on time and is a useful addition to my smart phone...
I love how people naively pass judgement on an aesthetic, as if everyone's tastes were like theirs.

Besides, it doesn't matter if it sounds human or not, that's not the point. Old hardware introduces a lot of weird harmonics that often affect future stages in the signal chain in a big way. Predictably enough that one can make art with it -- and it's hard to emulate that in software.
How to Handle a Dip in Creativity and Productivity
No threat of falling, perhaps, but open-water swimming (for example) isn't risk-free. My mother has hit by a boat during an open-water race, and was very lucky to avoid a spinal fracture.
Advanced usage of last branch records
Pitching a machine with 8GB of ram and 256GB drive for development is just not serious. We are not 2006. We need at least double that for "don't make me think or slow me down" comfortable workflow.

A modern development requires too much open virtual machines, browser windows, ide's and build-chains to be able to fit into 8GB.
> I think I'll still read the New York Times, but as entertainment; not as news.

I read all news as entertainment; the global pratfall.

EDIT: like this: "How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-n...

> During his initial appearance in a federal courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif., the prosecutors indicated a willingness to reduce or drop the child pornography charges if he would tell them about the C-17, said Sara Naheedy, Gartenlaub’s attorney at the time.
The fact that this is down voted shows what an elephant in the room this really is.
I think that exact capability also attracted a lot of great musical talent to it, who used crazy techniques and experimented with it continuously to get new sounds out of that breadbox.
It had a sense of evolution where you started with a beeping machine, then a game gets released with such a great soundtrack that you'd simply leave it running just to listen to it (Ninja, Traz, International Karate, Giana Sisters, ...), and then you get a demo that manages to play back the stoning scene of The Life of Brian - all that's still stuck in my head from my C64 days.
I feel pretty good with this new stuff every year in JavaScript world.

It feels like something new. I really enjoy this feeling!
Why couldn't this be used in court?
Let me know if you start thinking about selling that Ed White ;)
He did say this, but maybe it wasn't clear. It's faster because you can skip the meaningless bureaucracy associated with obtaining copyright permission for a tiny run - a lot of dance music samples other music. If you try that with a digital release, it can bite you if it blows up.
> This allowed Lee to study what recruiters actually valued in a CV, versus what they said they valued.

Inhouse recruiters or outhouse recruiters?
I'm in Orange County. Within about 5 miles of my place, there are about 2 dozen Asian restaurants (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, Mongolian, etc). I'm excluding the big chain restaurants.

There are two "Chinese" buffets, and there used to be a third. They've all had sushi sections. Maybe the businesses in this area have opted for variety rather than authenticity, or maybe one was a pioneer and the others followed behind.

My point is that I see a lot of specialization in my area, but I also see combo buffets, and I'm not sure how to account for the difference between my area and yours (aside from a hand-wavy answer of "demographics").
That's true—I only discovered this after getting two down votes and putting in some research. I suppose it's cool, this new content. And you make a great point about a broader audience; this is definitely needed.

The reason I wrote the comment initially is because it seemed off to me—like showing up to a business meeting at a law firm in a pink and yellow plaid suit.

I was wrong.
The Apple Watch had 50% market share among smartwatches within one quarter after it came out. That's insane, particularly since their competitors had a 2-year head start. Normally a company is lucky to get 50% market share at all, and it takes many years.

The problem with the absolute numbers is that wearables as a whole is a new market (in the Lean Startup) sense. You can't rush adoption in a new market: no matter how much advertising you throw at it, it still takes time for people to assimilate what the product category can do, to identify why they'd want one, and to make the purchasing decision. The best you can do is to establish a dominant position within the market so that as it grows, you grow along with it.
Looking at the examples, I notice that they are all rather long. I have often thought about the idea of algoritmically creating prior art, but simply by joining pairs of words. For example: Vibrating motor+keyboard, vibrating motor+screen, vibrating motor+mouse, vibrating motor+stylus...

To prevent patents like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_v._Sony
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It's great that you are staying in the groove. Resetting by taking time off is definitely easier with a supportive spouse/partner. I had to voluntarily take time off when I got sick about 2 years ago. My spouse is a CPA so she was able to offset my loss of income for 6 months before I was able to get back to work.

I learned to back off and enjoy my life outside of work. Life is just too darn short. I still stay relevant by learning at least one new thing each day. Will I ever use all of the tech I learn on personal side projects? Probably not, but I get a kick out of designing things on my own schedule without any corporate constraints by some manipulative middle manager.

So today I broke out my old electronics kit and taught my young one a bit about adjustable voltage regulators. Could have caved to the guilt of work and VPN'd in to code some stuff, but that just isn't worth spoiling my time with my family.
> Should you also manufacture your own chips as well to make sure there are no backdoors at the hardware level? How about for people who have no time for any of this (99.99999999% of the world)?

You should ensure that your supply deal allows you to audit the manufacturing, yes. Maybe you don't actually have the time or money to do so, but if they don't offer that capability that's a giant red flag.

> At some point, you need to trust somebody in this chain of dependencies.

You never trust any single party unconditionally. I mean sure, even if you get an audit done, your audit agency could be crooked - a sufficiently large conspiracy can defeat anything a single person can do by themselves. But you don't want to put yourself in the position where one rogue company - or even one rogue employee at that company - could entirely compromise your security. If that level of security is good enough, why even bother using encryption at all?
Right, and as far as we know, quantum mechanics evolves the wave function in a time-reversible fashion.
I just want to add a big emphasis to "YOUR OWN CRYPTO" with Dropbox. Stuffing data into Dropbox without encrypting it first for example with VeraCrypt is a bad choice. Even Dropbox says their own employees "need" access to your data "occasionally". (Also, I meant to upvote you but I fat-fingered it on my phone, sorry!)
> "But fine, let's say the malware installs the driver and deletes itself. What then? How are they going to get the browser to navigate to their site, and the user to click the authorization button?"

You could do it a number of different ways. For example, could edit the hosts file (a.k.a. etc/hosts) to point to an amended site for a popular website address, could configure proxy settings on default web browser, could alter the browser shortcut to run a script in the background when the browser starts that scans for WebUSB-enabled devices, could set the driver up to check for updates and disguise the authorisation as the driver update confirmation, etc...
This is excellent work, almost a whole book here.

At Code 4 SF where I've been volunteering a subgroup has been running a series of tests/challenges using design thinking. This is a hugely effective methodology for understanding problems, identifying opportunities, opening up the creative process in order to address them.

Design thinking works, but you have to really invest in it. If you don't want to make the full leap, there's also a large number of individual methods/tools emerging in the design thinking community that you can try out.

http://www.designkit.org/methods
This is a really great writeup. But CTR+HMAC is, in fact, a composed authenticated encryption mode. If you have a working system with CTR+HMAC, I'd recommend against spending effort switching to GCM, which is actually harder to get right.
I also played a lot with Fischertechnik when I was young, it was awesome! I was always dreaming of the robotics sets which you could connect to the PC but back then I could not afford one of those.
This is why many people, even today, take government jobs... not for massive pay, perks or fun offices but to build a stable life.
I put spaces after hyphens out of concern about linebreaks, not because I think it's grammatically correct. (I still shouldn't, since browsers will break lines intelligently anyways, but it's a force of habit).
The length is a pretty crappy way to compare cars; but that alone shows the Bolt is significantly shorter. A better measure is the interior volume (for instance, a car and an SUV from the same mfgr will frequently share the same chassis (the SUV is a taller derivative but with same bottom stampings, suspension, engine, subframes, etc.), with the exact same wheelbase/width, but the SUV clearly has more interior volume).

If you compare your link to the Prius (http://www.toyota.com/prius/features/weights_capacities/1223...), you'll see the Prius has larger dimensions for passengers (for instance, 1st row legroom is 41.6in Bolt, 42.3in Prius; 1st row hip room is 51.6in Bolt, 53.4in Prius), however less overall passenger volume (52.2 + 42.2 = 94.4 cu-ft Bolt, 93.1 cu-ft Prius, unfortunately the Prius doesn't list separate 1st vs 2nd row volume, but I suspect the Prius wins because the Bolt beats it in rear-seat legroom 36.5 vs 33.4, so the Prius is sacrificing rear-seat room), but the Prius has greater cargo capacity by quite a lot: 24.6 cu-ft vs. 16.9. (There's also a special "Two Eco" Prius which has a whopping 27.4 cu-ft cargo volume for some reason.)

Overall these aren't that far apart, but it does seem to me the Prius is a generally larger car, with more cargo space and a more spacious front seat but with crappier rear-seat legroom.

Also, the Prius has a much longer wheelbase (106.3 vs 102.4), and its height is much lower (58.1 vs 62.8). That explains why the Bolt gets similar volume from so much less length: it sits up a lot higher, sorta like a mini-SUV. Also, the Bolt's page even makes note that the EPA has no category for "crossover", so they call it a "small wagon", meaning GM itself would prefer to refer to it as a crossover. The Prius has never been called a crossover; it's clearly a hatchback car.
Exactly right. Facebook contains useful and visible content... But the visible content is not useful, and the useful content is not visible.

It's a trap they built for themselves out of short-term thinking in the past, and even if they manage to change their own behavior (unlikely) it'll be a slow process replenishing the base of "users who care".
There is no well defined definition of functional programming. Since almost every mainstream imperative language supports higher-order functions, I would suggest that criteria is inadequate. A better definition is programming without side-effects.
Flight of the frenchies
It's not exitinct per se, there are millions of jobs in government with great retirement packages. Some university jobs are basically for life too.
I'm sorry, as cool as this looks, I can't imagine it being as accurate or durable as a reprap build. I really doubt if those plastic lead screws and chains will hold up for hundreds of hours of printing. Also, I'm guessing it won't be competitive on price with the myriad sub-$500 reprap printers. So what's the selling point?
I guess because they don't really make sense.

"Provided is a system and program for automatically handling an error when retrieving a file for an application. The structure comprises a seat element which has a top surface, designed to at least partly contact a user, and a support element underlying the seat element and designed to be connected to the movable or stationary frame."
Jetlag definitely does get worse with age.
Totally concur on the comparison to a six month old. My daughter taught me patience and perseverance - from birth until present. I know some day she will return the favor.
I do a lot from this list BUT... then i look at China that has carbon emissions equal to EU + US + INDIA all together.. and i am really concerned.
So this is how Rudolph got his nose so bright.
The goal of scorched earth is typically to create a military advantage or cause lasting economic damage. The fires didn't keep the Iraqis from losing the war badly, and Kuwaiti production was back up fairly rapidly, so in those respects it failed.