skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar effort by Microsoft: https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion
Awesome... who wants to collaborate to build one?
The Managerial University: A Failed Experiment?
From the article: It generates just a small amount of force, expanding by 3.6 percent under an electric field of 17.2 millivolts per meter.

That's not much expansion. Why such a weak electric field? If you crank up the electric field strength (1 watt/meter is easy to reach), does it expand more? Muscle polymers aren't new; much more powerful ones were developed almost two decades ago.[1]

This is one of those press-release derived articles. The actual press release [2] is more helpful. There's a video.[3] The high stretchyness is unusual, and the self-heading is useful, but the artificial muscle effect is weak. They're thinking of this more as a skin sensor than a muscle. That could be useful. Robot skin sensors have been built, but they're too fragile or too insensitive or too noise sensitive or need to be made in an IC fab and cost too much.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=680638...
[2] https://news.stanford.edu/2016/04/18/stanford-researchers-cr...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0KsWHlW2U
Amazing considering they are being sued for GPL violations.
It was a pretty complex and sophisticated process.

First you need to get borderline drunk and start browsing AliExpress late one night, then forget all about it by morning. A few months later a bike wheel with a hub motor and controller unexpectedly show up by courier at work. This reminds you why you bought that lipo battery months back thats way too big for any of your quadcopters. Then you spend an hour or two the next Saturday afternoon bolting the wheel and ziptieing the wiring and controller onto the $50 eBay mountain bike you bought a few years back when you decided it was "time to get fit" - which had been sitting in the garage ever since after having been ridden only once or twice. You then notice the battery is an _almost_perfect fit into the drink holder, and you can make it into a perfect fit but putting the battery into a stubby holder! Win! A bit of work with the soldering iron having robbed connectors and heatshrink from the quadcopter parts bin, and it's ready to go. You then hop onto the bike and cruise up all the nearby hills grinning like a loon and laughing out loud.

Im pretty sure that covers all the important steps. If you need me to check my notes about exactly what you should be drinking to get the right sort of AliExpress ordering buzz going, let me know - it was _probably_ bourbon ;-)
Could you do a deep dream run and generate porn images from the training set?
I'm wondering if Slack will ever implement something like Sococo or teamspeak's always-on voice chat. If you have not seen these it's quite a weird idea. If you are in the channel your speakers are always-on. Someone can speak to you without dialing and without you answering. They can simply say "Hey Fred..." and start talking.

I have not worked with these, but did try Sococo briefly. The way this would work in slack is you could opt-in to voice on a certain channel for collaboration intensive work. Might be a horrible idea I'm not sure.

I guess you could use /call this way? Hmmm... didn't think of that.
Not if they backdoored it for money to aid nation-states in I.P. theft or murder of innocents. I'm not saying I recall above companies doing that. Just that it's one legit reason among many to sue or bring charges against a telecoms, semiconductor company. And we know more than one vendor that previously did exactly that.
Triplebyte (YC W15) is hiring our first designer
They have a Dollar Shave Club for 420 supplies and it's hilarious.
I couldn't agree more. Either ppl don't know or don't treat it of value to have history.
Hence why some giant businesses are run off COBOL and Excel documents. However given the affect of credit card theft on individuals I'd expect law enforcement/legislation to pass to require this.
I share the concerns put forth by user "Swedish Pete" in the comments section on that site.
Remember though that if not for US action, there would be no South Korea; there would just be a larger and more terrible North Korea, and millions more people would live in suffering and bondage.

Personally, I don't think the US should have intervened in Korea, for all the very good reasons that your founders cautioned against foreign intervention and entanglements.

But the intervention saved millions from enslavement. It was a net benefit to everyone in South Korea, then and now.
Apple refused China request for source code in last two years: lawyer
I guess the hard part is the self policing the author mentioned.

At my employer we are having the same situation. Some ppl are at the point they check Slack 3 times a day, come in, lunch, before end of day.
It's automatically installed when you type: brew install elixir
If my comment were the only one allowed, then I would agree with you. Thankfully, there is a comment box available for anyone else who would like to comment on his article. So, my comment will be simply one of many.
You must be new here. The ability to downvote is given after acquiring a certain amount of HN karma.
Two Haskell books have chapters on STM:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/ch10.htm...
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/software-transactional...
> the lessons of Nuremberg

Mind elaborating on that to people (like me) not deeply familiar with European history?
Also, it would be good if you could post the address and fact that you are broke with three children prominently on your blog. It's already buried here. I suspect there are droves of people who really want to help but don't know how. #justfkingdoit
Wouldn't that be a 6% economic gain?
I suggest abandoning centralized government planning through zoning and strengthen nuisance torts - if you want to build a big tower in the neighborhood, pay off the neighbors to like it or else they sue.
Have you ever had to try converting a large pile of pre-existing Tcl/Tk code to L?

Wondering how much work that would be...
Step by step process to make your Visitor management quick,easy&effective
Google Alumni Pitch Investors at Xoogler Demo Day
I think that's never a good excuse.

Arab states use Israel's existence as justification to military dictatorship. Saddam also used the threats from Iran (which were very real).

Meanwhile, Israel managed to develop into an industrial democracy despite being surrounded by enemies from all directions.
My mother was diagnosed with cancer in my final semester. I couldn't concentrate to study or do my projects. I asked three professors for extra time to complete projects or take exams. Two agreed immediately. One refused until I broke down crying in his office. I always thought he was an asshole. If the data in this joke paper is real and family members are 50x more likely to die before exams, that means that for every student with a real family death, there are 50 students lying about it. So I guess my prof was just jaded from so many students lying to him.
8-bit NY Primary Results
I've amended the guide to more strongly recommend the reader consult with a startup attorney, even if they plan on filing the paperwork themselves to reduce costs. FWIW, I actually had stronger wording in an earlier draft of my guide, but somehow it got lost in subsequent revisions :(.

Under the section for "When should I use a lawyer", I added the below (I also introduced "Finding a lawyer" as the first step of the Delaware corp checklist tab):
Though the formation documents are sometimes similar, mistakes can be made easily and are often costly (or impossible) to later remedy. I strongly recommend consulting with a startup attorney to provide guidance throughout the process and review important documents before you finalize them, even if you wish to file most of the incorporation paperwork yourself to reduce legal costs. Many startup lawyers will even do the basic incorporation for free of labor charge (passing through only the filing fees directly to you) in the interest of gaining your business as a long-term client down the road. Other lawyers will also/alternatively allow you to defer payment for legal work (up to a certain maximum, sometimes as high as the $10k range) until you've raised funding.

See here for a horror story involving DIY incorporation: http://bit.ly/incorporatinghorrorstory
And the corresponding HN thread from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399139
(I had to use a bit.ly link=>web archive because it seems the original link is now dead).
It's really important to use reduction of strength for lindex references:

set j [ lindex $red $i ]

set k [ lindex $green $i ]

set m [ lindex $blue $k ]

set x [ expr $j - $m ]
Good point except facebook is targeting 6k per eye. People are definitely going to buy hardware, but maybe not in huge numbers.
> Seriously, by that token, any grocery store should be forced to carry my shittily packaged and shitty tasting food.

If we had just 2 main grocery stores and each store acts in such an authoritarian fashion, then it's the duty of the people in know how to educate people about the situation. Over a course of 10 years, you will only get only "chips" and "biscuits" approved by them because they decided what is good for you. In fact, once biscuits becomes profitable enough, they will kick out existing players and make their own since they control the market (and Apple has much history of just merging existing products and calling it their own).

> Nobody cares.

Sure, if the above reality seems appealing to you, go ahead and not care. But many of us do and we are doing our bit to change it.
Why doesn't youtube show future frames when you scroll over a video's thumbnail? This feature has existed on many porn sites for quite some time yet youtube lacks it for some reason. Or is there a way to change this in settings?
No, not because of that. In case you did not know, the companies are obligated to pay H1b employees more than the prevailing wage for that position in that county. This is something controlled by the Department of Labor.
If we go back even further, Korea as a whole was under Japanese rule. If the US negotiated with Japan instead of going all out, Korea wouldn't have to be split apart to begin with.

Also, if there was no South Korea, then who knows, maybe the "larger" North Korea would just be like China today; kind of terrible but not so terrible.
I just got to this thread, but I figured all this out pretty quickly.
Saudi Arabia takes out $10B in bank loans
I have no idea why the answer to this problem is "using Basecamp!" - That doesn't make sense to me at all. For me the answer has been to turn off notifications and shut Slack when I need to go heads down, but review it multiple times a day and chime in where needed. It's still such a vast improvement over an email or email+issues based workflow.
Ars guide to building a Linux router from scratch
I think the question is bit biased. I think we should ask first if the idea of the fund itself is a good idea.
Information dropping into a black hole happens in IRC on Freenode all day, every day. The issue isn't just Slack.
It depends a lot on the person for me. Some people are very good at conveying (and understanding) nuanced emotion in text, especially if they're people you've conversed with a lot in text already. Others are better in person, in videochat, or even on the phone (though some, like me, are particularly bad at phone). A few people I know are significantly better to converse with in text chat than in person, because they're much more fluent, confident, and open in text, and comparatively not as good at expressing themselves in face-to-face chats, stumbling over words and being more stressed and self-conscious.

In personal life, I find the people I'm closest to are people I talk to quite a bit through both modalities. We have different types of conversation in text chat compared to irl chat, which end up being complementary in my opinion.
one day in our office slack was down from like 11:50am to 1:10 pm and it was perfect. It was like a big sign lit up in the office that said "TALK TO PEOPLE". Everyone took a much needed slack break and got lunch. Maybe the admin of a slack network should be able to enable that timeframe to be off everyday.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine [pdf]
Seriously, we evaluated it, what, two months ago, and it was missing some features. I check now, and it has the missing features and then some. I wonder if we were just evaluating Community edition and it didn't have merge requests or something...

I am super impressed with Gitlab, though. I am moving projects there right now.
Oh, but aren't all SFW pictures cropped pieces of pornography at the end of the day?
What makes you think we haven't started to hit physical limits of physics? A 4nm transistor is 7 atoms wide. Obviously, a one atom transistor is pretty much the absolute smallest possible, which would be about .5nm. Anything less than 7nm experiences quantum tunneling, which is going to really mess things up, and will get worse the smaller the size. [1] I imagine the interference between transistors will be fun...

Next, how exactly are you going to make these atom-sized objects in quantity? You can't be manually placing atoms. But lithography has a hard physical diffraction limit, forcing the use of higher frequency light. The higher the frequency, the greater the energy. Etching single-atom features will require hard x-rays, which we may not even have technology to generate. Even if we do, focusing x-rays is not trivial, as you can't just slap in a glass lens. Plus, the focal lengths may be rather long. And what kind of photoresist do you use? Hard x-rays are likely to blast pretty much anything, and the etching characteristics are probably not neat little troughs. How do you ensure you have your one atom stay put when everything around it is being blasted by high-energy x-rays?

I think the physical limits are looming pretty large.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nanometer
you can get the source and check it out yourself:
https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender
> You mean apart from the fact that the US Government doesn't operate a "Great Firewall of the United States"?

So, basically you're saying that even though Cisco has shown a willingess to work with a corrupt government in China, that willingness to work with corruption does not translate to the US, simply because the US doesn't run a 'great firewall'?
The argument "we can't fill all these open positions, please let us bring in foreign workers" then firing 10,000 people contradicts why they want the government to deregulate the system.
Would You Ride a Bus from SF to LA If You Had Your Own Bed?
Alt+tab

Screen real estate is like coffee. If you're addicted you need it. It can be wonderful in specific situations. But people who never start aren't really at any disadvantage.
I appreciate the idea of resolving a communication issue by removing a parking structure and, if that doesn't work, removing the rest of the company.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 is on a road trip back to Kennedy Space Center
Dr Henry Howard Holmes (and the Murder Castle)
Wow, your comment plus TFA's description of the working conditions for the "Heroes" (perhaps the most Orwellian nomenclature I've seen this month): I'm suddenly reminded of an SF short story I must have read decades ago (the title and author of which escape me) in which tourists visiting Vietnam have "fun" in a demented "Vietnam War" theme park, where they get to gun down screaming robot peasants. Inevitably, a gruesome discovery is made... it suffices to say, Benjanun Sriduangkaew would not approve.

In the future, will "I thought it was a computer program behind the interface" be something like "I was just following orders"?
Thanks, but yeah, someone else mentioned it and the playvid I checked out made it look a little more battle-oriented than what I think is relevant, like a hybrid of The Sims and StarCraft.
As a South Korean, you're full of shit.

Dictator Rhee Syngman was a fine murder who left us with, among other atrocities, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

Dictator Park Chung-hee was killed by his own aide (Kim Jae-gyu), while drinking with his servants, when Kim somehow snapped and decided Park should no longer live, for the sake of the country. Another aide (Cha Ji-cheol), also killed by Kim, reportedly remarked shortly before the shooting:

> "캄보디아에 서는 300만 명 정도를 죽이고도 까딱 없었는데 우리도 데모대원 1∼200만 명 정도 죽인다고 까딱 있겠읍니까?" (Cambodia was fine after killing 3 millions. What's the problem if we kill a million or two of those demonstrators?)

Oh, years before he became a dictator, Park was also a member of the Southern Labor Party (남조선로동당), a secret communist organization that worked toward a Marxist revolution in South Korea. Make of that what you will.

Dictator Chun Doo-whan came to power by shooting his own people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

Among his other crimes, he's also credited with Samchung Educational Camp (삼청교육대), which basically committed the same crimes reported in the "Brothers Home" in the article, but in a national scale.

Oh, by the way, Kim Young-Sam, who was a president (from a conservative party) before Kim Dae-joong, spent 3.2 billion dollars on North Korea... due to an international agreement (including the US and Japan) on building nuclear reactors in North Korea in exchange of NK giving up its nuclear arsenals. See: https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%84%A0%EB%AF%BC%EC...

> 재원분담협상 결과 대한민국은 실 공사비의 70 %를 원화로 기여(46억 달러 기준으로 3조 5,420억원)하고 ...

Apparently, the difference from Kim Dae-jung's "Sunshine policy" is that under conservative governments, we only do the paying, and let the US decide everything on how to handle the situation. It's supposed to make us feel more secure.
That was actually the original prototype. Little has moved on to have a pointer object type.
I think the point is to completely go cold turkey with the tool they know is good and tackle the problem with something they are unfamiliar with, disrupting existing habits. It sounds like they reached the point where modifying Slack (or more importantly, their communication habits) would just result in sliding back to the old ways.
Tcl is fine for big projects. Use OO as does Tk. Use namespaces. And type checking isn't exactly difficult in the language. Some combo of catch {} and scan usually does it for me.
Use the "web" button above
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – April 2016
It wasn't the US alone - it was a UN-mission under the lead of the US, more than twice the South Korean soldiers fought than US soldiers, and don't forget all the other coalition forces who also fought: the British soldiers, the Turkish, the Australians etc.
I've used TeamSpeak for that at an old job. We used it for pairing and team meetings. We couldn't all fit in the office at the same time (10 people, 100 square feet w/desks wasn't happening), so we had team meetings over TS. Was great. Would definitely do it again.
web link -> first link on new page
A list of Australian startups that you should know about (part 2)
It's all politics.

Of course. Actually they have had many invasions and multiple occupations from China over the course of the last 10-20 centuries. They are, long-term historically speaking, essentially a China breakaway, but similarly southward-expansionist state.
Best way for GitHub issue tracker to improve is to get GH engineers to use is on a complex, distributed project?
Chat is toxic to productivity. Teams need to get questions answered 'eventually' (exactly when depends on the team) without interrupting each other.
I imagine a chain of events something like this:
1) Some shady anonymous source (someone incentivized to see Theranos fail) provides them with some hints.
2) Being good journalists, they follow up and find that something sketchy is going on at Theranos, enough for a whole series of good stories.
3) At this point, even if the original anonymous source was using them, they've put together their own story. What are they going to do, kill it to avoid helping some third party by printing the truth?
I am guessing you are not in a distributed (remote staff) company?
Israel treats it's Palestinian population as if it were a military dictatorship.
I've never heard of a single institution specifying the kind of the diversity that they want. Just "diversity". What about intellectual diversity? Why doesn't Harvard accept people from a diverse range of SAT scores? It makes me wonder if these institutions actually accept the ideology they claim to embrace, or if they just use buzzwords and do the bare minimum so they're not labeled bigots.
Coolest afro I've ever seen
Synchronising Zsh History Over the Internet with Oh My Zsh and History-Sync
I thought type C was just a connector. How is this supported or (not supported) by the SoC? There are USB 2.0 devices with a type C connector. This is more confusing than it should be for me...
I agree that it's likely the majority of those people are in unenviable positions. I've been thru cuts, it sucks, but at the same time, as you say it may be untenable for Intel to keep carrying them --also, it's possible Intel should have been more cautious in hiring (and maybe some of those people would have opted for personally more stable jobs, or maybe they would have taken worse jobs --it's hard to say.
Properties-file, 1.0.1 released
We used (an earlier version of) this guide for our incorporation, and found it extremely helpful. Airtable as the medium worked well - there are other longform posts out there about the process, but having an actionable checklist of steps, with descriptions for each, was far more helpful for us.
Was South Africa really a democracy under apartheid? Or the US under Jim Crow? Or Turkey currently?

I don't think you can be considered a democracy if you are at war with half of the people within your borders.
Reading this article was honestly sickening.
As I went on I got a growing sense of something horribly wrong with the author/culture of the company. And then these paragraphs all out confirmed my suspicions:

> Slack forced me to evaluate things very fast and respond quickly, otherwise I would miss my opportunity to join a conversation before it moved onto something else.

> Then there was the fact that we had so many channels and direct messages and group chats. It multiplexed my brain and left me in a constant state of anxiety, feeling that I needed to always be on guard.

> And I had to read everything. I felt that I had no choice as often decisions would be made in Slack that I needed to know. And in other ways it was simply an addiction that needed to be fed.

Blaming the tool for this kind of behavior would be comical but for the fact that it's actually scary scary to see someone with this little self awareness. At least he got the "addiction" part right.

Reality check. My company of ~80 people uses Slack (sparingly) as a slightly better alternative to gchat/Skype. We have jira for issues and a wiki for persistent knowledge. No one here likes being interrupted or always being on guard for the next chance to participate in a conversation. So we just don't do it and Slack has yet to force us to.
43 exceeds 42.
AWS device farm – remote access to devices for interactive testing
It's actually much closer to the polar opposite theologically: Arminianism.
I think intel's core business has transitioned from desktop PCs to servers for the farms, which shows no signs of drying up.

Plus, Intel provides almost all laptop chips, and I'm guessing most businesses still have either a desktop or a laptop per person, which will still get upgraded every so often. I doubt workers are going to be using iPads for data entry, although I suppose you never know.
The Bruce Lee
Cool project, but gotta say that abbreviation feels a bit too forced....think it deserves more fitting name (no trolling, just thinking it would be easier to remember if the initials actually mapped to the keywords)
Yep. Digit takes cash out of the back end, whereas we focus on helping you squirrel it away up front before you see it.