skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, and GSM receivers all have to receive cleanly while the Bluetooth, WiFi, and GSM transmitters are transmitting. It's amazing that this works.

Um, yeah, about that, that would be really nice if it were true. Maybe sometimes for some hardware in some situations. For a 1st gen motorola droid X I can personally guarantee when the wifi gets unusually frisky the bluetooth drops out. Very annoying when listening to music on a BT earpiece. A hardwired headphone never drops out, but a main marketing point of USB-C is to get rid of headphone jacks because they work well and they're too cheap to profit off.

The cable leakage thing was true in the 80s, but the FCC wisely put pretty low transmit level limits on all the two-way gear (settop boxes, cablemodems, cable phone modems). To make a long story short if signals are getting out, interference is getting in and is measurable and is likely causing an upload/upstream problem. If you think microwatts of output power from a cracked cable is annoying to a fm radio listener, imagine a "miles long" cable with a crack acting like an antenna across the street from a 50 kilowatt am transmitter and consider its effect on modem upstream speeds. Problems will happen, but it'll get fixed pretty fast, unlike the 80s or something. Maybe a decade ago the journalists made a sport of complaining about digital phone service being unable to dial 911 and that was the end of unrepaired cable leakage problems.
There are substitutes. I'm not arguing that. I'm saying that many people will see gelatin itself as vegetarian or as some sort of "mystery" ingredient that they don't really know the source of. I didn't know the source of gelatin until I was iat university, for example.
Not saying they don't exist, but I don't think I've ever encountered a vim instance where that didn't happen.
>The utilities will fight (lobby) to give themselves the upper hand when it comes to buying solar power from consumers.

You aren't just whistling Dixie...
http://www.solarcity.com/newsroom/press/following-nevada-puc...

I doubt losing Nevada as a market did anything to help SolarCity's bottom line.
Probably not. The ECHR is formally part of the UK's law; simply exiting the EU won't revoke it. Brexit would mean that no part of Assange's case would be appealable to the European Court of Justice while Assange was in the UK, but that seems like less a big deal.

This probably has more to do with the UN working group findings from earlier this year, and with the fact that Assange has imposed on himself a longer period of house arrest than he probably would have faced even if he'd been found guilty in Sweden.
I'd rather have Bitcask or RocksDB - something that has better crash recovery capabilities. LevelDB was marked as being prone to data corruption. DETS has similar problems when not closed properly.
I'm sure what the poster meant was the Pico wasn't free/libre software.

edit:

> because Pico's earlier license was not a free software license, since distribution of a modified version of the code was ambiguously forbidden.
... because you don't have a sufficiently Unicode 9 compatible font to see ⏻, ⏼, ⭘,⏽, ⏾?

You can seem them as images at https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode along with a link to a font which supports it, and a chart which shows browser support.
What is never clear in these convoluted conspiracies is why the United "yes we'll go to war with Irak with you US" Kingdom would not extradite Assange so that it would be necessary to ask Sweden to do it.
The expressions for the field include terms of different powers of r. At large distances (compared to the wavelength) from the transmitting antenna, only the r^-1 terms (which dies off with r more slowly than the others) remain with any appreciable strength. This is called the "far-field". The power per cross-sectional area is proportional to E·B (or, equivalently, to E^2 or to B^2), and therefore goes as r^-2.
The government is staffed by people and the vast majority of it does work well and has real flexibility on a case-by-case basis. What you hear about are the problem cases: the NSA, the FBI, abusive police, mandatory minimums. What you don't hear about is everything else.
I'm on the GNU maintainers team; I want to clarify a couple things about this:

First, Nano has _not_ left the GNU project; GNU Nano still does and will continue to exist. The current maintainer of GNU Nano---Chris Allegretta---was hoping to add Benno Schulenberg as a co-maintainer, citing numerous contributions by him. Unfortunately, Benno refused to accept GNU's maintainership agreement, and so was not appointed. Benno also did not want to assign copyright to the FSF for his contributions.

Instead, it seems, Benno decided to fork the project. But he did so with hostility: he updated the official GNU Nano website, rather than creating a website for the fork.

It's early, so there's still discussion going on, but again, to be clear: GNU Nano has absolutely not left GNU.
While reading the wikipedia article, I couldn't help thinking about two things:
- the Big Lebowski scene when Walter jumps on the Dude's attempt to quote Lenin and mixes Lenin with Lennon
- one thing I recently read about natural language processing [1]: "NLP began in the 1950s as the intersection of artificial intelligence and linguistics. (...)
Early simplistic approaches, for example, word-for-word Russian-to-English machine translation,2 were defeated by homographs—identically spelled words with multiple meanings—and metaphor, leading to the apocryphal story of the Biblical, ‘the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak’ being translated to ‘the vodka is agreeable, but the meat is spoiled.’
[1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168328/
If that's the case+ and I have no reason to believe it isn't), what reasons could they have for leaving?

I have been listening to BBC world news, and whenever the subject comes up, the people speaking for an exit don't really seem to put forth a good argument( I hear a lot of 'keep our nationality" and 'we founded parliamentary democracy ' - but they don't seem like a good reason to leave).
How Much Are We Surrendering to Islam and What It Says About “Free Speech”
I recently soldered a board using a MCU with a 0.5 mm pitch.
> This is like saying that we need a rigorous theory of color in order to be convinced that black is darker than red.

You do, if you want to be right. The fact that you can get people to agree with you doesn't make you right, and red is frequently darker than black by some pretty normal definitions of "darker". Red and black are differentiated by the shape of their reflective spectrum, not the amplitude.
If he wasn't a mushroom then, he probably is a mushroom now..
Internal startups: there is no success, only failure
Trump is, as far as I'm aware, just as bought and paid for. He's just also not a career politician, but that doesn't mean he's not figured out how things get done at that level. Although best case scenario, all the career politicians decide they don't like an outsider and prevent him from doing anything he wants.
Possibly. However, if it was your life on the line, wouldn't you want assurances? I know I would. Especially if you look at what happened to others.

You state that Sweden can't extradite him to the US. Given the fact that most of the laws created in most western countries (ranging from tax law to civil law) are often not extremely well defined (or frankly not even well thought out / put together), and can often easily be interpreted in very different ways by different judges, I can totally understand his point of view.

At the end of the day, as long as Ecuador doesn't kick him out, all he has to do is wait for the statute of limitations to expire. He's got leverage. If Sweden really wanted a solution to this, they would've done this years ago.
Actually my read on Wasserman's quote (reproduced in another comment) is that superdelegates exist to promote the seating of grassroots delegates, the implied logic being that if the superdelegates weren't delegates, they would simply be elected in place of grassroots delegates with the result being a decrease in their representation (If I were the type to try and be a delegate, I really wouldn't want to run against Obama, Clinton, or Carter in their home districts)
Is Elixir/Erlang/BEAM a good fit to write small command line programs (the kind of programs you could write in Python or Go for example)?

I have three specific questions about this:

- Can you make your program executable directly from the command line, by using a shebang and building an executable binary?

- What about the startup time?

- Do you need a lot of "boilerplate", or can you put everything in a single file?
And you are here to preempt naysayers legitimate concerns?

It has nothing to do with third world achievements. It is more about Nehruvian style elites claiming glory in scientific achievements while day-to-day problems that vast underclass is facing goes unanswered because it is tough.

So Indian achievements are in categories where they punish or reward a small group because that is easier than tackling major issues e.g. banning smoking in public places because it is easy but not banning polluting vehicles as it has political repercussions.
I'm trying to find a way to discover this myself -- as a former journalist/journalism major, I can be best described as a news junkie.

I use Pocket to save longreads for my daily commute/downtime and it has proven to be the best way to catch up on things for me between devices. I know there are similar apps, I've just been using this one forever.

I try to follow journalists and writers I admire on Twitter, especially ones who err on the side of sharing news items/pieces worth reading, rather than devolve into the mudslinging that is trendy amongst writers #onthere.

I have only been reading HN for the past year but as a newbie to tech it has proven invaluable, and there's plenty of political/financial news that pops up now and then to at least keep me semi-coherent amongst colleagues and what is going on at work.

I find generally speaking the news to be really damaging to my mental psyche. Especially when I was in a newsroom at my previous job, it was not exactly a happy place to be reminded about every - single - mass shooting - and terrorist attack - and bad move by governments - daily, and eventually you either become completely numb to it or let it get to you. The latter happened to me, and other contributing factors led me to really question my involvement in media going forward. I'm definitely still addicted to my Twitter timeline, but I've found that, too, no longer makes me feel good, and am taking steps to only check it once or twice a day.
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/
I think you're conflating the role of a host and the role of a OSS license.

As with most hosts, the issue of liability rests on the owner. I couldn't upload 50gb of pirated movies to github and cry "github save me, I used you and now I need you to protect me."

Your software license dictates your liability to users of your code.

GitHub is saying we're just a host, and we defer to the software liscensors on how their code should be used
Here are my compiler resources:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/com...
Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been discredited for years now.
This is correct. To be fair, though, the standard terminology is confusing: calling a number only divisible by 1 and itself a "prime" already assumes the FTA.

In a more abstract setting, "p is prime" means that if p|ab, then p|a or p|b, and "irreducible" means only divisible by itself or a unit (in this case 1). The FTA corresponds to unique factorization into irreducibles, and the fact that irreducible and prime are the same thing is a consequence of unique factorization. (In an integral domain, every prime is irreducible; in a unique factorization domain, the converse is also true).
And this was just the first in the long line of hoaxes that included the world's largest pyramid (Ponzi?) scheme and legal homeopatics, which filled the faith vacuum left followed the dissolution of the union.

People had no clue that a TV can lie about "X happened" (rather than "X didn't happen"), what else you can do with money besides earn, buy and sell, and so on.

It was such a rich scam market.
Sharing or selling those carbon credits to the local utility seems like a way to make them less likely to fight installation of solar.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944858
Time Bars
Does anyone still need convincing? Don't buy anything that connects to the Internet that isn't built and maintained by a major software company. Even then, be careful. Duh.
>It's running Linux and includes Busybox and dnsmasq, so plenty of GPLed code. I emailed the manufacturer asking for a copy and got told that they wouldn't give it to me, which is unsurprising but still disappointing.

Has the GPL really lost it's power that much? I mean not responding to inquiries is one thing, but outright saying no?
I just hate when I'm in sublime and I hit ctrl+w to search and it closes the file #fml
Awesomness theme for Visual Studio
Oh wow you guys re-branded. You could do with a landing page knocking about somewhere mentioning your old name! I was trying to dig through the web fairly recently trying to find you (Knowing you'd survived hosting imgur for at least a time!)

Ended up with KeyCDN for now
> emacs is too big sometimes

"Zile Is Lossy Emacs"
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But if a or the driving force of a project takes things elsewhere, the users will eventually follow. If the disagreement was over GNU's insistence to require assigning copyright to the FSF, then I can fully understand the reluctance. It's the same reason many contributors cannot officially submit patches to side projects of Google employees, Ubuntu projects, etc.
When Is an SMTP Relay the Right Choice for You?
Every once in a while I'm forced to use it because it's set as default on some servers until I close it in anger and get vim installed :P
This site will automatically spoil 'Game of Thrones' for your friends
Not sure if software company helps. Nest has some issues.
Interesting. Which browser are you using? There should be web font support on that page.
India is also doing the same. Space experiments like these were pre-dominantly done from places like USA, Europe, Russia and China. India is not only doing this by themselves.
They are also helping their neighbours for mutual benefits. For example, they're building their own space-based navigation system to aid in their defence and other uses.

This helps India and also helps neighbouring countries instead of relying on archiac GPS system which US doesn't share with defense systems to countries other than Pakistan
Apt reference, but to be clear, it is Donny who jumps on the Dude's attempt to quote Lenin, and Walter who scornfully corrects him, "V.I. Lenin-- Vladimir Ilyich ULYANOV!"
I like for quick easy searches.

I always have a tab open with Google search with this added to the search box:

"site:stackoverflow.com"
I'm interested in this issue. As I understand it, Cockpit shouldn't be included in a minimal install. It is included in the default Fedora Server install.

If you like, join us on IRC in #cockpit on FreeNode, and we can work through this there.
I'm not even sure what the exact allegations are or include. E.g. consensual sex, but without a promised condom might be a different charge.
What else can you do with money. Save, invest?
Yes, I've had the same issue. I think that PayPal is now so complex it has become fragile.
There are always some naysayers. There were some for the US program too:

https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...
IoT devices can be fine, but there are lots of companies involved in it that don't know what they're doing and would be better off staying out of the market. I always advice friends / family to look for upgrading capabilities, ability to do useful work when not connected to the Internet proper, user control (do you own this device or effectively borrow it per licensing etc.?), and other similar things before purchasing any IoT device. Some IoT devices are great, but some are abysmal.
[Open Source]Material Preference/Settings Screen Library
The Pros and Cons of React and Redux
IoT is all about unsecured devices generally?
The first link is for static dipole, no radiation.

The second link shows that the for a dipole antenna there is a 1/r term in amplitude. It creates an 1/r^2 term in power so your intuition is right.
I agree - if he wanted to fork, he should created a new website.
Designing Tomorrowland
The Ups and Downs of Data Sharing in Science
US as well -- I'm going to start paying more attention to sinks. Maybe I do have to stoop and I've just grown accustomed to it.

> broad shoulders and something like a 50" chest

That explains the rest.. I'm a toothpick.
I'd guess it's gpg encrypted with the ASCII-armor enabled (which I believe is just base64 encoding).

https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/r1290.html
That's an interesting point.

Jacques Lacan insists on some ideas related to that. I've never been too fond on psychoanalysis either, but I've been known to be wrong often.
Here: http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_statem.html
Well yes, if there were actual mammal-mushrooms then it would make the proposition more credible, and rightly so. The whole reason why "a mammal can not be a plant" argument works is because it assumes we know that there is no such thing as a plant-mammal.

If you see a helicopter in the sky, but somehow believe it is an airplane, saying "it can't be an airplane because it has no wings" is perfectly valid. It doesn't somehow make the claim "a bird is an airplane because they both have wings" more plausible - it just means that a different argument is needed to refute it.
> Has the GPL really lost it's power that much?

It's up to the copyright holder to enforce it.
But proofs always come back to axioms, and on what basis do we accept axioms? That they sound intuitively right. So we've just kicked the problem upstairs a bit, we can't avoid using our intuition.

Personally I'm more likely to believe 2 + 2 = 4, something I can easily check to my own satisfaction using four objects, than I am to believe the Axiom of Choice.
> "When you open up hardware you have to be careful about electric shocks. I never received one, but especially power supply units (PSUs), which were the broken parts inside of my displays, can store a high amount of energy for a long time after disconnecting them from power."

I did some Googling a few months ago on this subject to clear it up for myself and found a bunch of information that strongly suggests the above line of thinking is very very wrong: it's CRTs that store massive amounts of energy for ages - they do this to store energy for future warmups, so the necessary surge of power can partially come from the CRT itself. So this is a design feature.

Most current PSUs have bleed resistors to drain the internal capacitors, and if I understand correctly, the short/very quiet high-pitched squeal you hear when you disconnect a PSU is the high-frequency oscillator circuit rapidly winding down as the charge in the capacitors is drained (I recommend a quiet room/environment to test this). This happens within about a second or so on the low-wattage PSUs that I have here.

If putting a screwdriver across the capacitors in a PSU produces an arc 5 or 10 seconds after that PSU is off, I'd be very very surprised.

The "PSUs KILL" line has been touted by CRT techs, probably from a time when bleed resistors and other safety measures weren't as prevalent. Well, it worked... and now we believe everything's dangerous. I personally feel a lot more confident eg swapping a fan in a PSU - I hear the squeak (in the PSUs I have) and know that it's now safe to work on.

With the above said, if I were tinkering with an unknown PSU, or especially a cheap Chinese OEM supply in a set-top box or similar device, I'd probably poke everything with a big insulated metal stick before I worked on/near it.

Of course, standard disclaimers with this type of info applies - definitely do your own research before trusting the above!

If any engineers/electricians/similar can chime in here and confirm/disagree that would be great.
Yes unless you can provide something Indian citizens cannot provide like expertise in some of the systems ISRO doesn't have proficiency in.
I don't say these in demeaning way. India is a 1.26 billion people country and pays less when you compare to salaries of NASA in USD. There's also the aspect of ISRO also being important research organization for defence. It's more like US DRDO and NASA both in a single entity. As a national security risk it's mostly Indian citizens with SMEs on contractual basis
I find it's more trouble than it's worth. For some reason it's just not as good at diffing as other tools I've used and has a hard time matching up both files. I find that other tools do a better job.
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Take a look at the Internet itself -- and then take a look at Dave Reed's 1978 PhD thesis at MIT (can be found via the CSAIL website) -- we used many of these ideas in the Croquet project
"You state that Sweden can't extradite him to the US. Given the fact that most of the laws created in most Western countries (ranging from tax law to civil law) are often not extremely well defined, and can be interpreted in different ways by different judges, I can totally understand his point of view."
=> It is not a matter of justice system (common law vs civil law) or law definition, but a matter of independence. And when it comes to independence, Europe has shown a strong will not to extradite people to the US. Add the media pressure around Assange's case and you get a good assurance that he won't be extradited to the US
I don't know why, but sleeping in a noisy room gives me tinnitus for the next day.
Actually if SolarCity used a realistic discount rate to measure the value of their future cash flows which extend 40 years out, the company would be massively insolvent. Ahhh, the beauty of non-GAAP accounting...
Urine (Not Chlorine) Causes Red Eyes in Pools
Current web trends you need to know about the Indian E-Commerce Industry
You're right, I just wrote too fast, I meant what you wrote!
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I was excited when I saw the Impossible Foods burger on Hacker News—my wife, who's Hindu, could finally enjoy a what I've been enjoying for years… I showed her the video and she said: "gross!" wtf lol
Thank you for posting this. I love HM but the conspiracy mindset here can get overwhelming at times.
I have been playing with Elixir for 6 months or so. As far as I can tell, if you do anything serious other than Phoenix (web framework) you will have to understand Erlang. Not necessarily be able to write Erlang, but you will at least need to know how to read the code and the doc.

So if the choice is between Erlang and Elixir, I would say go with Elixir, and on the way, you will learn some Erlang anyway.
Analyzing 5 Years of Police Call Data
Too much weight is put on ideas and this is what internal startups focus on. In most cases, either current employees or new contractors are brought in to run the startup. This is doomed to fail as those executing have no incentive or investment in the idea or it's success.
The main problem I see with this is that Mr. "The age of privacy is over" doesn't eat his own dogfood. But that's probably because his users are "Dumb fucks" (to quote him again).
Your use of the colonial word "Ganges" to refer to the river Ganga betrays your coloured view of that part of the world.
What. How. Wow. Haha.