skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's the area we are in. Doing smart metering type things, vaccine monitoring, all kinds of agricultural monitoring, from soil to water to weather. Then having the ability to stitch together various data streams and output various data streams.

And its one thing to have a IoT thing, but how you consume it and what you can do with it needs to be pretty good otherwise a lot of value is lost.

At the moment, lots of the IoT opportunities is where the value of the information / control is pretty high.

Consumer household and personal Gadget IoT is interesting, and yes, sort of fadish at the moment, but I think it will develop, manufacturers as standard will put in the cheap chips that allow their things to be connected. But the big thing is, what does it connect into? Ideally some open platforms, but more likely the likes of Google will start hoovering IoT info / providing control and incorporating it into their platform. It does a lot to try and understand your patters of behavior, so seems like a natural extension that it knows what info to tell you about from your IoT devices, and what kind of control you want
this is really cool. For a long time I wanted to make an internet noise machine that would make nsa surveillance too expensive/difficult. This feels like that same concept but for IP.
Most so-called fallacies are empirically effective (though not valid proofs in classical logic). Public statements from kooks really are false at a much higher rate than public statements from non-kooks.
The Intrinsic Static Site
"Swindle"
It should still be present in the EQ presets list, if the screenshot is reasonably up-to-date here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/equalization.html#manag...

One use the guide mentions is using it in inverted mode, if you want to undo the effects of incorrectly applied RIAA equalization (eg. when a 78 rpm record is being digitized with a different pre-emphasis method).
Yes, we'll do it :) Email me!
The problem with making public the methods they use to catch criminals is that criminals would then know how to evade the FBI...

You can't investigate a criminal/terrorist and simultaneously tell the public exactly what you're doing, step by step. It's not practical.

There are tradeoffs we all have to make. Idealism isn't compatible with the kind of work the fbi does.
Fire of Kuwait on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77BSBKvMJk
Any idea what is the altitude of these planes?
Ask HN: Getting harassed at work for my sexuality, what should i do?
Hey, I have found myself in a bit of a bind at my job over the last several months. A little backstory, I am a bisexual man in a relationship with a woman. I'm not sure how it happened for me this way, but it did, and I am honest about who I am with those that are close to me. So, here is my current situation:

I started working at a part of Oracle back in September, and over the next several months my coworkers one aisle over from me have begun talking about my sexuality in a very demeaning manner. They are I guess 'whispering', but I can clearly hear them talking about whether I am gay or not on a close to daily basis. This is also followed up with jokes about how I 'think' I'm Bi, and how thats a bunch of bullshit. I work in an area where I am one of the only engineers and am surrounded by a bunch of what I would call Prep School types.

I have tried to ignore it, and brush it off, but it gets in my head and makes me really upset. Which is then in turn misinterpreted as me having a 'bad attitude'. I have opened up to several other people at work about it and they have suggested going to HR. I have never really been the type to go to teacher, but I feel like I'm kind of out of options here. I also worry about the possible repercussions of it.

I guess I am wondering if anyone has been in a similar boat? And perhaps has some advice to share? Thanks
This is an older and more succinct implementation of that kind of idea: http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi
Fingerprints to be tested as ‘currency’ in Japan
I'm confused... Does she have down syndrome or is she unaware of capitalisation?
Live as if you will die tomorrow and learn as if you will live forever - Ghandi
It is far easier to glance at your watch than it is to pull your device out and turn the screen on turn it off and put it away. Neither is hard but I can check the time in 1/2 a second while doing other things rather than 4-5 seconds and interrupt what I'm doing.
it's a fairly standard c64 loading screen/border.
You're essentially right on the "no drama" conjecture.

However, once through the horizon you switch from the exterior to the interior solution to the EFEs, and find yourself inevitably and very quickly (in proper time) colliding with the singularity or whatever is at the centre of a black hole. You will notice very quickly (seconds to minutes by your wristwatch) that you are inside the event horizon of even a 10^10 M_sun SMBH.

That's one reason we can confidently predict we are not inside a black hole with a radius of approximately the Hubble length; we can't use an interior black hole metric to describe our patch of spacetime. If anything, because of the early hot dense universe, we look a bit more like a time-reversal of a interior black hole solution, but even that falls to pieces on inspection. Additionally, unless you believe that the universe is really really different a light year outside the Hubble volume, we also can't use an exterior black hole solution to describe that. (And if you decided for the sake of argument that physics just outside the observable universe is very different, the "outside" metric would still see an expanding surface, which is very not-blackhole-like. The "outside" observers should also be able to infer the spatial flatness of our observable universe; space is decidedly not flat inside a black hole, otherwise we wouldn't have the problem of the infinite density at the singularity.)

Unfortunately GR and QFT make different and conflicting predictions about what happens to a positron and electron tossed into a black hole once they reach the region where curvature is on the scale of their Compton length.
A good friend of mine has a 365x100 rectangle on his (high res) display. As a reminder that it is small, yet he has less days in his life than pixels in this rectangle. And every day spent not on a worthwhile project is a great loss.

A modern, sobering memento mori, I would say.
How big is a quark?
This sort of thinking that you have the power to make a change is a religious belief and a control mechanism our society has to prevent revolutions and evolution. You want change, it will have to be revolutionary with completely different economic logic than that which is the basis of our society. Short of that any action is a drop in the ocean of economic policy, human psychology, desire, consumerism, etc. The various forces that make us produce and consume at greater and greater levels and at greater and greater speed with reckless abandon to pretty much anything else. At best we pay lip service to these things the same way kids do to their parents when they know they're not doing right but enjoy doing it, stuff like sex.
Ammonia-as-fuel introduces numerous problems of toxicity and handling difficulties while being based on much the same process, particularly energy-intensive electrolysis, as other alternatives. Both Fischer-Tropsch and Sabatier process synthesis using seawater for CO2 feedstock result in direct analogues of present hydrocarbon fuels: petrol, kerosene, or diesel for F-T, methane for Sabtier. They have higher energy requirements than present fossil fuels, but are zero-net-carbon and infinitely miscible and compatible with existing fuel sourcing, transport, processing, storage, and utilisation systems.

Hydrocarbons are near-zero emissions -- the primary combustion products are CO2 and H2O. The problem to date has been that this CO2 is from fossil sources, and we've been reintroducing millions of years of sequestered carbon to the biosphere each current year. Sourced from the biosphere, that particular problem disappears.

You still need an energy source. Probably solar. Fuel synthesis would be a good application for soaking up excess supplies.
> If you don't have a clean separation between the remote UI and the local UI, you're creating the perfect situation for phishing attacks.

I don't know what you're imagining my computer works like, but I don't have a separation between local and remote UI. I have a separation between OS and application UI (e.g. the Windows Ctrl+Alt+Del dialogue) but everything else is untrustworthy, local or no. A local app can be executing untrusted logic "sourced from" the internet just as well as a remote app can. To say otherwise is to presume that all updates to all apps on your PC go through a third-party that verifies that they never add any remotely-accessible "extension points" that weren't there in previous updates. Obviously, this is not the case, even for the strictest corporate device-management release-engineering program.
Nice to see George Church advocating a SENS view of aging research more prominently these days - that the scientific community should be trying to reverse the progression of aging, not just trying to slow down that progression, for all the obvious reasons such as the one quoted below. More of the eminent researchers who support SENS (Church is on the SENS Research Foundation advisory board) need to do this.

"[Reversal of aging] is a much better target, in any case, than prolonging longevity because, A, it takes years to decades to even prove that you have extended longevity. Also, if you’ve done it on somebody that’s quite old, the economic consequences are dire; that’s the part of your life where you spend huge amounts on medicine and don’t improve the quality of life tremendously. If you can reverse it to an age where you essentially don’t use any medicine, this will be much more cost effective."
As an author of detailed e-mails myself, here are some other advantages I've noticed:

- The act of writing up a well organized and edited e-mail really helps to clarify my thoughts on an issue. If I'm e-mailing someone to ask them a question, I'll frequently realize the answer before clicking "send".

- Both the recipient and I can save the e-mail as a reference (even a "mini spec") of what we agreed to do on a particular date. For example, if we're writing code on different sides of an API, having a detailed record of our discussion will make it more likely that our code will work together as intended.
NASA Confirmed New Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Near Earth
[APP][Windows Store] Sentinelle – The app which walks you home
Hi there!

I've been developing this application for a while now, and it has just been released!

The idea of this app, Sentinelle, is fairly simple. Whenever you're coming back home alone, or you're going out at night, Sentinelle lets you invite your friends to follow your position in real-time and subscribe to your journey's events. They will be warned if something wrong is happening, such as you're being late, a swerve is spotted or you're running low battery. They will get instant notifications, and even better, they do not need the app installed!

As soon as you add a friend to your journey, he receives a text message containing informations to follow your route. These informations contain a link to the tracker platform which sums up the route details, such as network state, battery state, speed, position and more.

The app is free and is available for all Windows 10 devices, and it comes with English and French language support.

I would be very pleased to get your feedback! Tell me everything you want, so that I can improve the app as fast as possible.

Here's the Windows Store link:
https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh6cxkf

The official website:
https://sentinelle.io

If you have any other remark, please address your thoughts to contact@sentinelle.io

Thanks!
Output is a side effect.
I did that flight to Haneda last year. Slept most of the way there. Had a bit of caffeine and generally kept mobilising. I was in Tokyo time on Day 2. Fantastic flight.
Of course, the real way to do this is to optically scan the record and simulate a stylus tracking it. The Library of Congress does this.[1] They've even recovered records broken into pieces, by scanning the pieces and reassembling the 3D model.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/how-a-...
David Chang: The Restaurant Business Is About to Implode
#PYMWYMI – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
fork here, make it more alive https://github.com/some1else/life
> If you don't see the contradiction between these two statements, I don't know how to help you.

Just because it's in a browser doesn't mean it's remote access. Javascript APIs can be accessed locally.
It Is All About Being a Doer
Addition, as implemented by Python, is functional. There are no side effects. A fully imperative encoding of addition would be eg. the x86 add instructions. John Backus gave us "functional" arithmetic with Fortran, but realised all values should should be treated this way, not just numbers.
I take your point about the iterators being mutated and the loss referential transparency. That's certainly not functional programming.
What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?
Incentives as ideology
Absolutely true, that's why there is a dead zone at the bottom of the mississippi.

However there are literally tons of ammonia flowing out of places with high density and where that high ammonia still ends up in water ways after passing through a sewage system. In particular this has been true in Western Europe, and there are issues in various areas around the country here (Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, SF bay is weird so for now we seem to be not as affected on this particular front). In the US human sewage is thought to contribute 11% of the problem and in Europe 25%. Not everything, but surely it'd be nice to solve the problem. Also some of these technologies could be applied to other sources such as manure if treatment standards were imposed on agriculture. Runoff is harder for sure, but there we can maybe look at more targeted application of fertilizers. It helps nobody to pay for fertilizer that ends up in a river and not growing more food.

Useful Source:

http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/eutrophication-and-hypox...
Just wanted to say that Zen... isn't a popular presentation of any such theory, did you actually read it?
I immediately began marking some memories of my early teen, a period when I remembered being genuinely happy (memories of growing up in Central Africa with my heroic elder brothers). But then I began marking several squares in my late teens for doing things I regretted. I marked a few squares in my mid twenties for doing things I regretted. I marked more in my early thirties for things I regretted. All dumb shit, nothing serious.

I was about to mark a few more blocks towards the end of my thirties too for things I regretted ... I had by then realised that I was one colossal self-bashing negative joy-sapping son of a bitch. How do I stop this self-criticism, dear lord?

Nice tool! Maybe it can be modified to aid psychotherapy.
There's a popular static site generator called Pelican.

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
No, he means like if you write the flac to a flash drive. Just write it to a digital medium, rather than go to the trouble of pressing discs.
That's the third time you've posted that link in the past two days. Never mind chatbots, you're acting like a spambot!
It depends on the role. For our team, IMO the difference in attention is epsilon, since we already see so many applicants who have a minimum required exposure to ML.

Source: not the hiring manager but involved in reviewing candidates for a DS team.
I thought an RPG _was_ an EFP? The round is just a shaped charge with a copper liner that penetrates the armour. So the slatted armour stops both RPGs and EFP-based IEDs.
It also used to enforce the "$name is _________" format on status updates. You could put whatever you wanted in the box, but it was structured for posting about yourself / your life.

IIRC they went to the freeform timeline posts in order to imitate twitter's "share whatever at whoever" market, lest users who wanted to post other content go somewhere else with it.
this is amazing. It so clearly shows the human aging process and why 27 is the hardest year/color. But if you survive it, you break on through to the next color. I think around 87 there is another tough year.
Problem is, US Army procurement is sufficiently corrupt you can't trust testing of any physical item you hand to them, this goes back at least to the '50s when they caused the AR-10 to fail by replacing screws with wire springs....

That said, the design is obviously way too heavy without anyone even needing to weigh it.
Not in Haskell and other pure languages. Pure functional programming is used to construct larger programs from smaller ones, which only when finally executed by the runtime produce output.
Personally I take Naproxen Sodium (Aleve.) It has a long half life and high anti-inflammatory activity. One thing to note is that NSAIDs are best taken in high doses sparingly rather than a temperate dose daily. Inflammation is best defeated by impulse of NSAIDs. I suffer from chronic pain due to herniated discs. When I notice it is due to inflammation I take 2 Aleve extra strength gel caps. And the inflammation subsides for at least a week or two. I know this isnt totally related and slightly anecdotal but as hackers I figure that you guys would like to know from a fellow hacker that did the research.
When I go to buy a title from bands that I like, but never got around to buying back when they first came out, I now shop at discogs.com instead of Amazon or Apple. That way I can specify what release it is (typically mid 90's or earlier) and not get a super-compressed recording.
I would say that if you are open and have no problem with who you are (as you seem to be based on your comment), maybe a good idea would be to talk to them directly and address the comments... If that doesn't work, then go to HR... But that's just me, at this point I have no problem in telling people about my sexuality, and I have always been a very direct person that can't keep her mouth shout (which isn't always the best of things). I have not been in a position like that at work, so I guess it depends on several things, starting on how "friendly" your workplace is...

If you don't have people to talk about this, I invite you to join GPSGAY and further discuss.

Good luck!
Agreed. My comment asks why it's better to use a police station as the point rather than the chosen solution (mentioned at the top-level of this thread) of pointing to the middle of a large body of water.

The reasons given by the g'parent, for pointing to a police station, don't look like they would actually work in practice.
According to California v Ciraolo, you don't even have that expectation in your own back yard.
The usual RPG with a HEAT shaped charge doesn't destroy by forging a penetrator that then potentially travels some distance to the target, it produces an intense, narrow jet that'll cut through a lot of material.
A lot of points about the dangers of exposing a USB device to the internet. I'm concerned about a future where all my USB devices require internet access. Is network chatter destined to increase until nothing we own will function without phoning home? It's a firewall headache.
How Pelikan is used in Twitter's datacenter: http://twitter.github.io/pelikan/2016/04/03/caching-in-datac...
Protect your business, avoid litigation by using and adding to this SJW Name List
How strong is Oobleck?
> 1) It's the same, just with finer control in C#. `await` means you're waiting for the result of a method but not blocking the thread/CPU from doing something else.

Thanks. `await` in Perl 6 is blocking. I'm guessing Task.WaitAll maybe does (some of) what `await` does in Perl 6?

> 2) This is even easier and it's just talking about doing a loop over multiple threads. ... Parallel convenience methods

Are you saying ordinary synchronous C# code looks like this:

ForEach(somethings, i => { Console.Write("Number: " + i); });

And then, to parallelize it, folk refactor by prepending a `Parallel.`?
Portable Charger or a Phone?
How Far to AI-topia?
Why We Should Teach Kids to Code Biology, Not Just Software
Top Hacker News Submissions by Year: 2009–2015
Especially when they say “<Someone You Know> commented on X” and the only link is to a page with thousands of comments that doesn’t highlight your friend’s actual comment.
> An Apple watch is just a useless status symbol, like all watches this day in age.

This argument gets thrown out a lot and there is certainly some truth to it. However it is also a very sucky symbol as it is mostly hidden in sleeve and even when it isn't, most people can't tell a difference between a cheap ~200$ watch and one worth 100 times more unless it is laden with jewels or golden.

Apple Watch is certainly not useless even if you don't have a use for it. It doesn't fit my life either, but I can easily imagine a life in which it would.
Zika virus may cause broader range of brain disorders than previously believed
If you want a customizable life calendar like this as your homepage, I made one that's usable as a bookmark or Chrome extension: http://count.life
Keep string formatting separate from IO.

The simple POSIX write/read works nicely enough for IO. Very versatile and damn simple. No "oop" necessary.

For string parsing, people use all kinds of things from regex to deserializers. Sometimes we even use simple string tokenisation function. No one ever uses scanf or cin.
I remember at the time respected people in the industry were saying it would take some crazy amount of time to put the fires out - you'd read estimates like twenty years and think "how is that even possible?" Turns out it wasn't.

Saddam was trying to win a war, and in that he certainly failed.
More responsibility. I've taken it as a given that it's part of career advancement and I take on progressively more and more responsibility and authority to earn more money. There's nothing wrong with that, I'm just jealous some people can code and code and code and still have a successful career.
3. Money to rent a plane comes out of a different part of the budget than a capital expenditure to buy and outfit their own plane. And so it's easier to justify to the boss.
Thanks to all those who are concerned about security aspects of this spec. We must always be asking "what if". But do understand that there is no fundamental difference between installing a 3rd party app on your phone and granting a website access to USB. There is some code, you are granting it permission to mess with your life. The only thing difference here is the context, which you will get used to.
I like his update about using () for newline, i won't use this library probably though.
I'm getting a 404.
Hey bud, I'm not too far. Can I sit next to you? We can throw crumbs & seeds for the birds together.
The problem is that the complexity is O(n²n!)
Typically 1500-6000 feet AGL, the kind of altitude one would want for that kind of collection of signals.