skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
etymonline (not infallible, but generally where I go for etymology questions) doesn't attempt to trace "pita" back beyond modern Greek or Hebrew. It doesn't give the impression that the origin of the word is well understood.

I'm mostly with you as to bread (and certainly as to "pita is bread"), but I feel like noodles are generally not considered bread, despite being made from dough.
Wind power is already cheaper than coal, at least in Australia, even when you ignore the cost of building the coal plant (it's been way cheaper for a long time if you factor in the initial construction cost), and solar will soon reach the same crossover point.
Ask HN: Anyone know a contact person for Samsung Display, SDC?
Hi Forum,

I wish to use a Samsung OLED display, AMS361EP01 (alternatively, AMS351DP01), in a project I'm developing. However, I can't find a datasheet for the panel's pinout, and x-rays of an HTC vive are have too many copper layers to follow.

http://imgur.com/a/nRpTg

Does anyone here happen to know a contact person at Samsung Display Co, (Samsung SDC)? Their main phone number just loops a message in Korean before going silent. :-/

Cheers,

-Adam
Anyone here knows of solid FOSS alternatives to gluu? Is there is something that is close to okta functionality-wise?
Being at wrong place at wrong time
I think it's already been fairly well understood by a subset of physicists that F&P probably had demonstrated a legitimate, previously unexplained phenomenon and that the primary mistake was in overinterpreting the results and allowing the U's PR department run too far with it.

What I find interesting is that when confronted with that idea, many physcists just get stuck at the original claims and don't understand that there is likely a novel phenomenon of some sort, deserving of study.
To clarify: Did you put that you were looking for work? And someone contacted you off it?
Not my experience. They tend to get the orders almost 100% correct, but the special instructions are either simply not relayed to the restaurants or ignored by the restaurant (mainly for me this is indicating mild spice or low-salt as I'm ordering for a family).

It's an decent experience, though not "delightful", it's dependable. Take-out is always less tasty than dine-in.
The closest thing may be the work going on in "active learning" where the learning process is self directed, the agent adapts to limitations inherent in the data, and employs multiple techniques as needed, especially interactive Q&A to resolve unlabeled / ambiguous exemplars.

Until an agent takes some sort of initiative in directing its learning process, its behavior will remain scripted and passive, never amounting to more than a recognizer of patterns -- a rather low bar in the quest for autonomous intelligence, IMHO.
would like to point out that the author has not only built a tool that is making a bunch of people happy, but is also responding brilliantly to all comments with a super helpful tone. very cool all around.
Instant image processing
Does Amazon deliver from restaurants?
The radiation would die away pretty quickly. It would be determined by the cavity Q, basically. Think about a bell that takes a long time to fall silent after it's rung. With radio waves near c instead of physical acoustic vibrations, you'd need an insanely high cavity Q, well into the millions, to keep the energy from dying out in milliseconds. But cavities used in this type of experiment probably don't exceed Q=1000.

This kind of "ringdown" effect can be observed at human-compatible timescales at low HF frequencies in crystal resonators. But only a fast oscilloscope will let you observe it in a cavity.
Quantum erasers are a lot less impressive than they sound. They don't really "erase" anything. You can make a quantum eraser out of a few sheets of polarizing film. See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

around the 15 minute mark for a demo.
Why is that frightening as opposed to any other older web server code/api that is out there? Or even newer code for that matter?
You can use movie15 to embed video files that will play natively in the pdf, but it can be difficult to get it working--and you must store the video file separately.
The 6502's two-phase clock throws a wrench in direct clock speed comparisons, no?
The point is that this is wrong. It's hardware; hardware should be simple. It's operating systems, languages, libraries and applications that (if anything) should have the proverbial "wall of manuals", not the machine architecture.

Power on reset, shift, decode, execute, repeat.

Intel loves complexity, which is why they invented USB: another tree killer.

The processor doesn't do anything. In all that silicon and its pages of documentation, you can't even find a parser for assembly language; you need software for that.

In spite of 4000+ pages of documentation, printing "Hello, world" on a screen requires additional hardware, and a very detailed program. Want a linked list, or regex pattern matching? Not in the 4000 pages; write the code.

And this is just the architecture manuals software developers. This is not documentation of the actual silicon. What it contains:

This document contains all seven volumes of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual: Basic Architecture, Instruction Set Reference A-L, Instruction Set Reference M-Z, Instruction Set Reference, and the System Programming Guide, Parts 1, 2 and 3. Refer to all seven volumes when evaluating your design needs.

Instruction set references and system programming guide; that's it!

Note also that this is not the programming documentation for a system on a chip (SoC). There is nothing in this 4000+ page magnum opus about any peripheral. No serial ports, no real time clocks, no ethernet PHY's, no A/D D/A converters; nothing. Just CPU.
> For starters, why is that a problem? You aren't forced to use them all, you aren't forced to use any of them.

It's a problem because every time I need $tool I might have to evaluate dozens of choices, check for compatibility, investigate the ones that suit, hope to god the rest of the community is familiar with it, hope it is supported in future, etc. And then with the rate of churn you might have to do the same in a year. Make has been supported for 30 years, I know it's not going anywhere.

> In fact even in just the C/C++ world there is cmake, qmake, autotools, scons, ninja, bazel, premake, waf, shake, tup, etc...

So there's already dozens of tools, why reinvent them in javascript? Every ecosystem does this but it least most seem to settle on one or two tools, this doesn't seem to be happening in the javascript world.
I've got Bose QC35 and Jaybird X2's. I use the jaybirds to workout, Bose for everything else - never had a problem with either one staying connected. Including being across the room from both, with the phone in my pocket. That encompasses a Nexus 6P and a Pixel.
It's a zip file containing HTML/CSS.
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There are a few listed at https://alternativeto.net/software/zapier/?license=opensourc.... Huggin has a big community.
Given the way that Crawl is scored, you don't come in second in a Crawl tournament by wasting keystrokes. :P
Ask HN: Pivotal Decisions
Discussing my 'big decisions' with my wife and why I'd made them, I commented that we frequently don't realize the impact that decisions will have on our lives at the time we make them. The impact doesn't play out in some cases for decades.

That made me think that perhaps we'd all benefit from some real-life examples that might help us to be more tuned-in when those moments arise:

What are some examples of pivotal decisions you made at least 10 years ago, for better or worse, and what was your thinking when you made them?
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13126858
Pebble confirms Fitbit sale: Hardware is dead, software in maintenance mode
Science writing, especially the hard core sciences, has a collection of terms that are used among practitioners and have very specific meanings that are well-understood.

These usages convey fairly subtles signals about one's understanding of, and confidence in, a physical phenomenon.

This is typically only learned by people who write papers and have advisors who can guide them.

A really nice example of this which is also immediately readable is Watson and Crick's 1953 DNA structure paper.

http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/watsoncrick.pdf

It's a classic understated style, with a small amount of boastful brilliance. The passive tone is a bit dated, but you can clearly see little was known about how DNA worked, and they were very careful not to make any strong claims without qualifiers.
> Is that directed towards me?

No.
Why is this on the front page? People have been using CZ forever. I thought we were beyond this now
> This may be where our mindset differs, but I believe the best and only course of action is for people like you and me respond civilly and with reason, and to prove why hga is misguided.

Sorry, but I don't think hga is merely "misguided."

He believes I should be forcibly deported to Israel and, if I refuse, should be killed. This isn't a belief that you argue with people about. We fought a world war against this belief.

You don't deal with neonazis by arguing with them. Whether Jews are equal humans or not should not be open to debate. You deal with neonazis by ignoring and/or banning them.

As much as I hate the doctrine of safe spaces, there's also the fact that I believe I should be able to come on Hacker News and expect to not have people calling for me to be murdered. Sorry if that's too much to ask.
Well, reaction-less drives and free energy are roughly equally likely, and both are less likely than flying cars, so those claims haven't really changed my opinion too much on the subject.
Not that I disagree with you, but I would love to see examples where it would be the opposite and you would say it was a beautiful and well implemented.

Tends to be hard to implement a specification without any implementation to test it out together with it, but those who do work out, should be looked into why so we all can learn from it.
Hi, I'm one of the contributors to ReLayout. I originally worked on ReactJS, and ReactNative which made use of Yoga (then, css-layout), and now I'm working on Reason and ReLayout (which is a port of Yoga to Reason). I definitely wouldn't call ReLayout the canonical way to compile Yoga to JS. While we intend to keep ReLayout up to date with the Yoga implementation, we're ultimately doing this because we'd like to experiment with combining ReactJS's API, the new Fiber architecture, with a deeply integrated Flex Box layout algorithm. Feel free to message us if you're interested in tracking the results of the experiment, but but for now, I'm just excited to see Yoga launch. The Yoga project and team have been incredibly helpful with our experiment and I'm excited to see more apps integrate Yoga going forward. Congrats! I can't go back to not using FlexBox now that I've gotten hooked on it.
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... or a capacitor or other sink for current in the system slowly discharging? I remember old CRTs that would fade to black when shut off.

Just speculating.
> However, it has no costs in terms of whether your message will be understood as you intended it, or whether the audience will even have any doubt as to what you meant.

I'd be interested to know how well people with dyslexia or with English as a second language cope with it.
Two thoughts:

1. It should "just work" to load via NPM and then later include the bootswatch theme afterwards.

2. If you use the LESS/SASS file compilation it will work as well, the Bootswatch variables will just replace the base Bootstrap ones.
No test suite, but trunk is usually quite playable, especially since the devs are considerate enough that a specific player's savegame won't update to a new version of trunk if that new version breaks save compatibility. But do be prepared to deal with any goofy/unbalanced/unpolished features that the devs might be trying out. :)

Tips for noobs: press "?" for in-game help (especially useful are the list of keyboard shortcuts and the searchable in-game database of monsters/items/etc.), join ##crawl on irc.freenode.net, inspect every enemy that you're seeing for the first time, press "o" judiciously, and always be willing and capable of running from a fight!
Fusion or at a minimum fission would be more than enough.
This article is from 2014.
Not sure why you're singling out QM like this.

General relativity would also be incomplete in this sense. It fails to describe quantum phenomena.

A better approach is to say that, to describe fundamental things in nature, what we have now is a patchwork of independent theories that are not quite meshing with each other.
Nice tiny little project, but the headline is a bit clickbait.
I wouldn't really call it a C compiler, all it does is read a file, look for 3 or 4 hardcoded strings like "int" or "char*" or "return" and generate some really simple labels/movs in consequence.
Huh, the scientists that I know and studied with don't generally insist on putting ideas into one of two buckets. There are a bunch of buckets. Go ask an astronomer what a "two tooth fairy" theory is: a one tooth fairy theory is almost certainly false, but a two tooth fairy theory is that squared. And yes, this is how people theorize about what cold dark matter is.
It would be nice if Google helped to fix the bug which causes Chromium to crash on *BSD when presented with a U2F auth req.
(https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=451248)

Ever since adopting a security key, I've had to set my user-agent to Firefox (to prevent the U2F auth attempt) and fall back to Google Authenticator for 2FA.
Thank you, and the relevant bit of the HN guidelines for anyone unaware:

"If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."
Castro worked on all of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's manuscripts
Wow thanks. I've never been more ashamed to say I work with computers every day.
> localized conversion of gamma radiation to infrared radiation

How does that work? Gamma penetrates matter pretty well. It should escape to some extent.
That makes sense. I mean, I'm also frustrated by the inhuman and inhumane support provided by companies like Google, Amazon, PayPal, etc. I just don't like that the thing people fixate on is whether you can call the company. You can call Comcast on the phone, but nobody is going to say Comcast has good customer service.

Even for non-technical, non-complicated stuff, where going off-script isn't a concern, it's still such a tedious waste of time to have to call someone. I get angry at T-Mobile about once every couple of months (I've got a complicated and expensive mobile broadband habit, spread across two providers, so I spend a lot of time fiddling with my mobile data plans), because their website often won't let me change service without talking to a human.
I agree it was an impressive feat.

I don't agree that it was clear it was as far off as that:

I believe that a world-champion-level Go machine can be built within 10 years, based on the same method of intensive analysis—brute force, basically—that Deep Blue employed for chess

-- Feng-Hsiung Hsu, 2007, http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cracking-go
Used it for years doing desktop images, and never an issue. The setup can be a bit unintuitive at times, but that seems excessive.
You don't need more proof, just extraordinary proof. Totally different than regular proof.

:P
I had CF on my resume for quite a while as well, although I took it off to reduce the number of recruiters calling me.

Back in the age of classic ASP, Perl scripts and CGI scripts, Cold Fusion was a very decent technology choice. It was my introduction to a controller/view styled programming pattern (called Fusebox) back in 2000.

Then they (Macromedia) got bought out by Adobe and the whole thing descended into weirdness and MS came out with .Net.

Now get off my lawn you millenial! :-)
It's a dark pattern in my book. Once you've done one page of questions you're much more compelled to finish them all than if everything was put nicely on a single page.
scikit-learn's materials (amazing in general) has a nice overview of their clustering methods and how they perform with some test data sets: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html

How would you even cluster a power law distribution? There's nothing that distinguishes in two or more groups?
So if it was reacting with some sort of "ether" it would be a two way reaction?
Often depression is a side effect of harsh life conditions. Like moving to a new country where you have no social support or don't speak the language. I doubt a therapist can fix those problems.
Well you don't need to evaluate dozens of choices, a few at most. Hell if you just wanted to go by your search above 2 of the top 3 are the 2 biggest build systems in JavaScript (grunt and gulp), and the other isn't a build system.

Maybe it's me, but I've never looked at a list of tools and thought "this is too many!". The more the merrier IMO, and if they are good then they will rise to the top over time. If you don't want to choose, just pick the most popular and deal with it, it'll feel the same as another platform where there's only one to choose from.

But you could also just use make, it's all about your needs. Do you want your project to still build in a few decades with very little change? Then choose the tools for that. You just making a pet project that just needs to live until the domain expires? Try out something new! Afraid of change? Stick with make!

>Every ecosystem does this but it least most seem to settle on one or two tools, this doesn't seem to be happening in the javascript world.

For the most part JS has settled. When it comes to "stuff like make" it's basically gulp or grunt (or make and friends). Yeah there are other smaller players, but there's also a few dozen Java build tools that you've probably never heard of.
> The MacBook Pro introduction in October caused unusually
> negative reactions among professional users
> ...
> Perhaps that's a good moment to look at the current state of
> Mac hardware support in the kernel

Start by bashing the MacBook Pro, and still want to use the hardware. What?
Kudos for trying to think outside the box here.

I couldn't see any explanation on how this idea compares to one of the biggest issue with options, namely leaving the company before it gets sold.

So say I work at basecamp for 5 years, and then leave to work somewhere else. What happens to my 5 units?
My employer's website still runs on a ColdFusion CMS system. It's atrocious.
I was involved in the 1.0 Bluetooth specifications and can confirm it was "designed by committee". IIRC the original wireless specification came from either Nokia or Ericsson and they drove a lot of the initial development. They had already developed the RF technology before the Bluetooth SIG was even formed. The original stated goal for Bluetooth was "cable replacement". Features such as pairing a headset to a phone, or a phone to a laptop were an essential part of the original profiles.

A reason for the complexity was that the BT 1.0 profiles often leveraged existing technology, for example:

- RFCOMM was a way of sending arbitrary serial data, reusing RS232 comms which were very common.

- OBEX was a way of sending data which was previously sent over IrDA

- The "LAN access profile" basically said "use RFCOMM to do PPP over a serial link like you do with a modem"

If you tried to implement any of these from scratch then not only do you have to implement the BT part, you also have to implement the technologies that BT reused.

If you look at the initial SIG members, Nokia and Ericsson took care of the initial phone developments. Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Toshiba represented the PC side of things. I was working for 3Com at the time and we were interested in it as a short range network technology. 3Com developed a network device conforming to the "LAN access profile" but it was never released. 3Com also owned Palm and they were interested in incorporating BT with the hand held devices.

It is interesting to compare BT to Wireless Ethernet (IEEE 802.11) world. The IEEE Ethernet (802.3) specifications are pretty much only concerned with getting data packets from A to B at layers 0 through 2. At layer 3 and above they don't care if those packets are IPv4, IPv6 or some other protocol like IPX.

Bluetooth tried to define everything from the the RF communications all the way up to the application layer. The specification mentions how to the PIN code request should be presented to the user when authorizing a new connection. It also mentions which audio codecs should be supported for streaming audio. The BT profiles also tried to define how to transfer files, business cards or print documents.

These detailed application layer specifications simply don't exist in something like Ethernet. There might be an argument that BT tried to over specify things but it was attempting to give a level of interoperability which we still struggle to achieve over other networks.
this is a great idea. then maybe we can put an executive-executive layer above the executive layer. then we would be getting somewhere
22 heavily armed men post mannequin challenge on Facebook,to the delight of cops
Great idea. This could save me all sorts of wasteful dithering. Looks like it's broken right now. When I try to download, I get a file called "download.txt" which contains the text "Internal Server Error"
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In another 12,000 years it might grow back.
That is indeed a more interesting interpretation. Thank you for making this already great story even greater to me!
You'd expect the signal to dissipate even more quickly in a case like that, where it's being made to do work by pushing against an ether or otherwise interacting with something besides the cavity itself.

But it's premature to speculate on what might be happening at that level of detail.
I think it makes a lot more sense to give lower-level employees yearly performance bonuses than illiquid equity. Lower-level employees generally don't have sufficient information or perspective about the company's performance or long-term outlook to make an informed decision about exercising illiquid options. As a result, most low-level employees value illiquid equity at 0 these days. On the other hand, their individual, short-term performance can be evaluated according to objective standards much more easily than a similar evaluation can be made for management.

Asking an employee being promoted to management to give up the possibility of future performance bonuses in return for equity is also an effective way of making sure management is aligned with the long-term success of the company.
First of all, while BBT may sweeten the track, it is still filmed in front of an audience; people really do laugh at the jokes. It doesn't work at all in part because the actors pause to let the laughter subside, and if you watch without that, it just feels bizarre. Second of all, the show's humor isn't entirely verbal. The overbroad stereotypes and exaggerated reactions are part of a joke, and a lot of that requires a familiarity with (and appreciation of) both the specific characters and the archetypes they're playing on.

Of course some people just won't find the show funny, and that's fine. But a lot of very experienced, talented people put a lot of work into that show; it would be unfortunate to dismiss it entirely.

(And for the record, I personally don't find the show funny in the least bit.)