skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those WW2 era photos are interesting, and I like the story about Taylor's analysis, but what really spooks me from early atomic bomb tests are the Rapatronic photos by Edgerton.

He took high-speed photography to the ultimate limits, at exposure times of 10^-8 seconds, and the pictures are absolutely eerie looking. Some are like gaping skulls of pure energy, like this one:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Tumbler_...

http://petapixel.com/2014/03/05/rapatronic-camera-atomic-bla...
> css icon has less code

this is just not true. using svg you can have a single string describe an arbitrarily complex path.

reply: unless you count code by lines, but that single line of string for paths feels really really long and not readable. see below

> the code is more editable

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vs. in css
http://cssicon.space/#/icon/mustache-solid

to change its shape you need to use illustrator for SVG vs. in css just some property change. Yes they are just text, but are you really smart enough to edit the above SVG code by hand?

> and managable

managable as you can have clean html, all you need is a div, vs. svg you have to insert the whole chunk of svg code in your html.(Using <img/> won't give you flexibility, svg has to be inline) you can have package tool to insert svg programmatically but when you just prototyping, not gonna do that whole process to just get some icon showing up. CSS ICON is grab and go icons.

> arguably better performance (because i haven't tested it)

It is not true rendering time wise, as someone else analyzed CSS need more rendering time. But you have less HTTP request comparing to icon fonts or external SVG files. Download time is faster
The touring test shows AI has little to do with image or speech recognition. An AI that operates in a purely virtual environment would still be revolutionary.
What about the normalization of hatred against an even larger portion of the population, those that support Trump? Speaking of uprising, ever think that Trump is a reaction to the marginalization and demonization of a certain subset of the population?
If the quote is about Wikileaks then I certainly see reason to doubt them. They have obvious motivations.
I've recently become pretty serious about building open source "micro factories" so that small communities can be self sufficient without having to spend all of their time subsistence farming.

I think it will take a few decades to achieve, but I'm working on it.
Fine, swap "vote" for "support". Allowing people to vote for candidates but not support them is just mincing words.
I prefer a conceptualization where they are AI, AI is a gradient, and our current tech level is somewhere on the gradient.
When Barbara Bush and I are on the same side of this it's not a political purge, it's a matter of basic human decency. The Trump candidacy is a litmus test of basic civil sanity. Supporting it is insane.
Python for .NET (pythonnet) allows to bridge CPython and .NET/Mono runtimes.
I think Amadeus is a popular one, matrix itasoftware is another one.

I know that for airlines like easyjet you need to visit their website to get fares though. (Or Google would have to build a site crawler)
Short Circuit
Current events with Project Include aside, I was under the impression that YC was working with groups like Dev/Color and CODE2040 to attract minority founders. Is that still the case?
>cap, caa, ci(

Except those don't make much sense as compositions, because they overload the letters. cap? What does change-append-paste mean? Oh it actually means change-a-paragraph? Okay...

Sure, there are some convenient patterns to vim's shortcuts, but I think the extent to which they're a "language" is overstated. And that's fine, since it's mostly about muscle memory anyway.

>I think that my very favorite motion in vim might be the `f` key.

Yeah I did miss that one for a while.

>On the other hand, regexes scale much much better.

If I want regexes, I can use find and replace with them. And I think the minimal (keyboard driven) GUI is a lot easier to use for that than s/// syntax.
The Ivy League is an anthletic conferrence, similiar to the Big Ten. The Ivy League schools excel at producing financial and business professionals, who then, as the other commentor states, are funneled to the most lucrative careers.

They are the most lucrative careers because of the way our financial system is the progenitor and final repository of money and value in our economy up until very recently, up till the age of Big Data and Big Computation. However, what's just as fungible as money? Data. A "New Ivy League" is emerging. One that does not produce business and financial professionals, but instead produces IT professionals. This new group of school similarly funnels their grads to the most lucrative careers in this new medium of wealth creation.

Ivy League: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League
What do you think are the opinions of the families of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, John Crawford, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, and countless others about the benevolence of the US government? say, compared to the millions of Chinese that have been lifted from poverty since Deng Xiaoping was in power?

How does the US middle class feel about the supposed superiority in "democracy", "freedom" and "quality of life" that the USA provides?

How many kilometers in railway and road has the USA built in poor countries recently, still compared to China? How many hospitals and stadiums? How many schools?
You need to tax wealth as well, not just income. Accumulated wealth is what results and continues the inequality, not incomes.
Magnet: Attraction on the Spot
The initial arrests are likely not the end of the matter. The call centers weren't just in India. Suspects were spread across a wide variety of other countries too, alas.
Video chat is good enough for me. I don't need to know about their posture or how long their legs are.
I don't get the sense that the rest of Spinal Tap is included, but I think if Derek Smalls wants to release a solo album called Smell the Glove Compartment, he should be able to.
Understanding it is key to making a diverse democracy work.
Here is my take on hiring: an active Git repository with a decent amount of non-trivial code/projects generally gets applicants I have to evaluate to skip the whiteboard interview and instead grab lunch or coffee with me. We then discuss technology/software engineering. I find this approach to have yielded much more conclusive results, though it probably would not "scale" well. You can quickly tell whether someone is passionate and resourceful by talking with them, occasionally erring on research-ish stuff but always focusing on the implementation rather than the theory.

Plus I sometimes stumble on the occasional gem that is very knowledgeable and from whom I can learn.

Whiteboard interviews, coding challenges, take-home projects. All of those things are so time-consuming for both the company, the interviewer and, of course, the applicant. And all of that just in the hope that the company will accept them... maybe? Of course when nothing else is available then it is the usual drill: phone, skype, on-site 1, on-site 2. But if other signals are available then to the trash it goes.
You never know... sometimes that will pique a child's curiosity. They are easily charmed by bodily noises and toilet humor!
"Remember the massive scandal about voting fraud and how widespread it was?"

Will need a citation for that one. Just saw a headline about a study saying about 13 counts of fraudulent votes were found over a period when 1 billion votes were cast.

Which shouldn't convince you (I don't even have a link right now), but I hope you understand why I'm not just going to take your word for it, either.

"I'ma gay guy who wants to legally marry and I'm not going to vote for someone who has denied me my rights."

Which is your prerogative, but aren't you also concerned about rights for other groups of people? (And if you're denying there haven't been any statements by Trump indicating he wants to deny rights to certain groups of people, you need to pay closer attention.)
> anyone who is going to be operating a registry really has the resources and expertise to manage this kind of thing

Broadly speaking, this only holds true for a limited number of large legacy gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net) and the largest ccTLDs.
> Both Altman and Graham believe, like I do, that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy.

I still can't think why a sane person would believe that. I mean not rhetorically claim it in a bout of electoral frenzy, but really genuinely believe it. Not that Trump has a disgusting personality or would be bad president or has this and that flaw, but that he will actually single-handedly ruin the democracy.

I mean, George III couldn't do it, Jefferson Davis couldn't do it, Nixon couldn't do it, but Trump will. Why? Which superpowers does he have that I am not seeing that allow him to singlehandedly overcome everything that is built to prevent it?

And more importantly - why literally nobody who proclaims Trump as such a threat pays any attention whatsoever to the fact that our democracy is so weak one blowhard TV show host can ruin it? That - if true - would be a hugely bigger problem than Trump yet nobody seems to be worried about that. As soon as Trump would be defeated, everybody that were screaming "the end is nigh!" would go on with their business as if nothing is wrong anymore.

> Peter Thiel, who is not just a Trump supporter, but an important part of the Trump campaign.

That doesn't seem to be true. Trump campaign has many directions but having Thiel does not seem to be an important point for any of them. And one million dollar, while a big chunk of money by itself, is minuscule compared to whole electoral spending - e.g., Clinton campaign was estimated to spend about 1.7 billions, and while Trump one seemed to be spending a little less, I assume the order of magnitude would be the same.

> after Trump pivoted his campaign as a crusade against the legitimacy of our elections and of the black vote,

I never heard Trump doing such thing. Are you sure you are not misinterpreting his words or relying on unreliable and possibly biased sources?

> But we are all very much entitled to criticize what Altman is doing,

Criticizing Altman in general is fine, of course. This particular kind of criticism, namely "you must sever ties with X because X supported cause I dislike", does not seem to be a good idea. Neither seems to be "you must sever ties with X because he supports Trump and you don't". Maybe Altman is entitled to choose his peer group by himself and other people presuming to choose his peers and partners for him are going a bit too far?
This is completely missing the point though.

She knows that her personal server is insecure, and doesn't need to know how it works to understand that.

The point is that you don't send classified information over an insecure channel, allow non-cleared people access to a system/device that contains confidential information, and when found out, you most certainly go to extreme lengths to try and delete and cover up what you did.

Read the recent FBI documents that were released. She repeatedly ignored security protocol and forced those people around her to allow her to do so.

Whether or not she understands how Microsoft Exchange works is completely irrelevant.
>Wrong about what exactly?

Unfounded reactionary conspiracies, at least that's the context to this thread. I don't think anyone is appealing to a universal morality of "right" or "wrong".

Just yesterday someone implied that the FBI was colluding with the Clintons to falsely blame the Podesta hacks on Russia, and I was downvoted for saying that without proof it's absurd.
Follow up. Another major thing with Seeed is that they have no minimum order quantity for assembly. They'll do 10 or 10,000 PCBAs for you. Lots of other places I quoted had large minimum order quantities. My main products might have met those requirements, but some of my accessories didn't. With Seeed I can do everything in one place.
I feel like this probably has something to do with Dawkins or Hitchens or something.

The history of witch hunts in the USA are reactionary and conservative (Salem, McCarthyism) but for some reason these days the left have been branded as the witch hunters.
Xenotransplants: How a Pig Could Save Your Life
The next interesting thing for the JVM is value types in Java 10. It may convince me to use it pre release.
Since I live a few blocks from Zuccatti Park and was present for most of the Occupy rise and fall, I'm pretty sure I know what it was about, but feel free to share. And yes, I personally feel that a clear parallel is shaping up.
Its frustrating when people assume any reference to AI means AGI or strong AI.
> We have ceded enormous discretion to the executive here

This is best exemplified by our nuclear chain of command. The President has unquestioned power to launch nukes. This applies irrespective of whether we are launching first.
Why didn't you choose Python/Django instead of PHP then?
What does Marco think of Islamic fundamentalists? Are they to be condemned for their sexism and persecution of homosexuals? None of these issues are as black and white as Marco describes. We need true diversity of thought in this country; competing ideas and a healthy discourse. We shouldn't attempt to silence dissenting voices. Marco represents all the Bolsheviks, Maoists, Fascists and Nazis stood for - one singular idea at the expense of all others. People like this truly scare me.
I do not know how to even reply to that. Bus drivers, post delivery people, municipal construction workers etc. - all have better salaries and benefits than similar private workers. I am not sure how any adult living anywhere in US could manage to not know that.
Mortal Combat to HTML converter
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For many (include myself) it's to do with self esteem. It's much easier for me to do something if I'm doing it for someone I care about than for myself.
Agreed. From article:

The complaint filed Monday in California federal court is packed with enough nuggets to instantly make this a must-watch "Hollywood Accounting" case...

Despite the film's legacy and Spinal Tap's enduring success as a commercial band able to sell out arenas, Shearer's company Century of Progress Productions alleges that the four lead creatives have received just $81 in merchandising income and $98 in musical sales income in the past three decades from the franchise.

Those figures are pretty remarkable. Especially when they were supposed to get "40 percent of net receipts"!

I suspect it is more the principal than the money for Shearer. I'm a devoted listener of his weekly Le Show radio show and the fact that he's been doing it the last 20+ years for little to no money, not to mention his public advocacy on behalf of professional musicians and New Orleans, supports this view.

I consider Harry Shearer one of the greatest living satirists, a spiritual heir to Mark Twain. (If ever someone deserved the Mark Twain Award...) I'm just happy he's made enough money from his more popular commercial endeavors to continue to fund his more elevated interests. If he did get $125M, I expect he'd put it to good use.
Let's not talk about the USA middle class, they are staying put. It is the chinese middle class moving to the USA, if the CCP is so wise, why can't they convince their own people to stay?
> He is openly calling into doubt the result of this election before it's even happened, asking supporters to intimidate voters, and suggesting the entire election is "rigged".

A) That's been done before (Gore, 2000).

B) There's evidence of voter fraud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs

I hope no one intimidates voters, though. That's not right no matter who does it or why.
> attention to detail was the single most predictive trait for good performance.

I think you just naively reprised the premise:

how exactly are you measuring "good performance"? The easily observable details they were good at attending to?

Of course, everybody wants an admin who doesn't make simple mistakes that cause outages, inconvenience, etc. But what about the one that provides an accurate asessment of the companies near-future needs vis-a-vis their trajectory, and recommends appropriate infrastructure upgrades?
Release documents, and only publicly comment on their own releases and their own business. Don't argue with people on Twitter, don't comment on Clinton scandals that have nothing to do with their leaks, don't speculate about the "ruling class" without evidence, don't offer a reward for information on Seth Rich with only "wink wink" as a reason, don't make vaguely anti-Semitic comments for no reason and then delete them, etc.

If they only used Twitter to make announcements and highlight interesting documents, I think they would be orders of magnitude more trustworthy. Let the documents speak for themselves, and let other people write the commentary.
> but anything less than a TB for $100 is infuriating.

1 TB SSD cards cost ~$300, and at that price I don't think they'd even fit in a smartphone. So if you get infuriated that you don't get 1 TB for your $100, you really need to work on your expectations & anger level.
Trademarks are only within a field. If Disney wanted to open-source something and trademark its name, they'd have to get a new trademark
JFK http://tinyurl.com/zvg25wj
What is the relationship between what is at stake here and the suitability of Trump as the person most suited to realizing whatever real and true issues that his supporters want realized? Does wanting those issues to be addressed mean wanting a man like Trump for president as a matter of necessity? Does the importance of the issues Trump speaks to or purports to speak to trump the quality of the man?
I figured as much, my knowledge of X509 certs ends at knowing "generate a CSR, get it signed, install it" and operating a couple Dogtag CA's as part of FreeIPA.

Having a secondary cert ready to be swapped out with an Ansible playbook (or whatever your tooling of choice is) and ensuring both intermediate roots are pinned seems to be the best way to handle this then. Good to know!
> People like Marco are ruinous to society

Yes, and ignoring people like Marcos shows integrity on Altman's part. We should never let despicable people like Marcos hold us hostage.
To be fair, memory hardness is a legitimate concept with proofs and everything; Litecoin just made a mistake in their design. ZCash is giving it a second try, taking into account improvements that have been made over the last few years.
> Does each airline have their own way of exporting this data? Is there a single entity that aggregates from all of them?

I work with a lot of smaller airlines, and from my experience I can tell you no. Many of them can't even tell you their actual route list or flight schedule or pricing logic. They typically buy a booking engine solution from just a few major players (Sabre, Amadeus, TravelPort) who do have centralized data, but access to them is slow, expensive (at scale) and restrictive.

I've been told by one of the GDS's that our use case doesn't apply for direct GDS access, and we have to go through the airlines' access method. I don't know if these booking engine solutions include access to an API or not, however most airlines have said either they don't have an available API, or don't know how to share access to one.

Some of the larger airlines do seem to have their stuff together. But we're just starting to work with them, and because of all the bureaucracy involved it will likely be months before anything happens.

The screen scraping method djhworld mentions is a worthwhile approach if you'd personally like to track a few routes. I've done the same to watch prices to NYC (I visit friends often) on a few of the low-cost airlines. It's nice because you can tailor the logic to your preferences. Such as don't bother searching flights that don't include a weekend in the trip; or set my alert threshold 25% higher when the trip involves a holiday or long weekend.
PyFormat: Using % and .format() for great good
Also, when you're changing tasks, it's important to reclaim your attention from the previous task, so it can be fully reallocated.

More than just crossing off a task and taking a break, I take a moment to really notice my progress---what I accomplished, learned, implications, etc---and then write it down.

This little bit of reflection feels good (a small win!) and helps me close the task out from my attention. So then, I'm refreshed and ready for the next thing (after a glass of water, play with the puppies, etc).

The long term result is that I can look back at any day and see what I actually accomplished. Which is pretty sweet.
Ask HN: Help DreamCoin
Hey, my name's Aaron. I created DreamCoin to help people make money off of their ideas, blogs, or whatever else they can put into writing. You can find it here: https://dreamco.in

I'm aware that the site confuses people and could be vastly improved upon. That's where you come in. I'm looking for people who'd like to either join my team or provide contract work to improve the design. I can pay in small amounts, but I cannot offer salary or wages.

As an amateur developer / designer with no business experience, creating the platform from scratch took a long time and hasn't gone very far. Please contact me at hackernews@dreamco.in with any suggestions or help you can offer.

Originally, DreamCoin was for individual, anonymous ideas. Users pay the price to view an idea, and if they like it, the price goes up by 1. If they dislike it, the price goes down by 1. So, you're paying to view content based on popularity. I now see this as a potential blogging platform where users make money off of quality writing.

I've had many people explain to me why this will never work. People don't like paying for individual pieces of content. They'd rather donate via Patreon or a crowd-funded method. Preferably, they'd pay nothing, and the webmaster would use tracking / advertising to make money. That's fine. I believe people will pay for content if the platform is set up correctly and doesn't violate user privacy. Amazon requires you to purchase a book before you can read it. Why can't the same go for ideas / blogs?

I've been at this for a long time now, and I'm not interested in the arguments for why DreamCoin can't work. If you believe it can and want to join me in taking it further, please let me know.

Thanks,
Aaron Hatch