skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. When mirroring two Cleverbots against each other it's nowhere near as impressive.
"It's also difficult to find the 048Z available in single quantities"

Just ask Nichia for an engineering sample. :) Boom, free sample if they've got one for you to utilize. I don't know how many Cree, KingBright, Nichia, Osram, and Epistar LEDs I've got just because I ask to test them.

As for the 50V power supply, it'll run on a 48V 1.25A driver. You'll be fine and those are about $20 each.
Parallelism and Task-Decomposition: An Introduction
And spied, infiltrated and disrupted emerging political groups (Tea Party, Occupy, BLM, etc) around the country with Federal Surveillance programs.
>tabs and scrollback are unnecessary. The latter features are better provided by a terminal multiplexer like tmux.

I beg to differ. I don't really know whenever there's a project that's almost perfect, there's some braindead decision that cripples it with no good reason.

I'd understand it if some more advanced or exotic feature wasn't available, but scrolling?
The location is just 20 minutes away from where I live now so it would almost be silly not to go. :-)
In a tmux workflow, you're generally not spawning that many new terminal windows, instead you ^a+c to spawn a new tty within tmux.
From a technical standpoint there's no difference from javascript playing sound that the user wants and a "malicious" sound. Ultrasound only differs from "audible" sound in our ears, from the browser perspective both are just bits sent to your audio DAC.
Thanks for your reply - I'm not accusing you of malice.

I would love to see more of their raw data. I research social media and I have specifically investigated 2016 US election memes, so those data are extremely interesting to me. However, the DNI PDF states:

> This report is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment; its conclusions are identical to those in the highly classified assessment but this version does not include the full supporting information on key elements of the influence campaign.

So, irrespective of yours or my assessment of what the raw evidence might be like, DNI already stated that they think it's too sensitive. This probably isn't going to change for 10-20 years (which is a common lifespan for classified information) so you've just got to figure out a way to analyze this situation without the specific evidence used to create this report. It doesn't mean there isn't other evidence out there. Like I said: I research social media and I have my own evidence stack. Some of it is here:

https://iandennismiller.github.io/election-memes/

I am considering the events of the past 2 months as "moving the goalposts" - and this isn't a personal thing against you or any individual. Originally, we had statements from certain officials, but that wasn't enough. Then we had consensus among intelligence agencies, but again that's not enough. Then we had a statement from the president, but that's not enough. Now we have this report and it's still not enough.

On the straw man, the emails are not the entirety of the DNI argument, so reducing it to that creates the straw man, and dismissing the whole report on the basis of the emails is just how the straw man fallacy works, in practice. I am focused on social media, but you're focused on emails. It's okay to care more about one thing than another, but it is a logical fallacy to dismiss the rest of the report because you're not satisfied with the part you care about.

Lastly, I don't think it's extraordinary at all to claim that Russian intelligence managed hundreds of sock puppet accounts across Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Imgur, Twitter, and other platforms. In fact, I would be shocked to learn that the opposite was true. In fact, none of the claims in the report are extraordinary; it's all extremely plausible.

My (sortof expert) opinion is that I think the DNI social media conclusions are plausible.
Perhaps it isn't any different to a random Ludum Dare-style submission. Is there anything wrong with Random Ludum Dare-style submissions?
I've found boot http://boot-clj.com/ to be a better than leiningen for tooling. There's no magic, just simple scripting.
Is my computer hacked now? Does netflix.io actually belong to Netflix?
I guess the real purpose of the business is to make money for the investors not to make revenue. From that angle it makes sense.
I believe ghostery is one of those kind of adblockers that checks if the ads and trackers target the right people, no?

Sort of a meta-tracker. But maybe I'm too paranoid.
"Up to 50 miles away, anyone exposed to the flash of the weapon would receive third-degree burns. In short, a Tsar Bomba warhead would completely devastate the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area. In 1963, Khrushchev said the Soviet Union possessed a 100-megaton bomb that it deployed to East Germany. "

The late 50's, early 60's were indeed a crazy time. 3K times the effect of Hiroshima. Think about that.
It does run an ubuntu/GNU userspace, but not ubuntu Linux. WSL is a Linux ABI layer for Windows so no virtualisation is needed. It's more like WINE.
> They own it

Or, much more likely, they only own a part of it. Maybe even a minority of it.

> including firing the CEO

Maybe the can. And if they can, and they think that's the best course of action, then they should definitely do that. It's a must cleaner solution that waiting and then crying "fraud" over a difference of opinion on the future of the company.
Ask HN: If you did switch career, what did you do?
I'm posting this as a follow up to [Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?][1]. In that thread, I feel many top-level responses were formulated without too much consideration for the longer term, such as financial stability. This was pointed out by a lot of replies to these responses saying that the alternate career would drastically decrease one's salary. Since I assume a lot of people here are seriously considering a switch in their careers as indicated by the popularity of the thread, a natural question to ask to help some of these people:

If you quit your developer job in the past, what did you do? How did you manage the switch? Are you happy with the switch? Will you be coming back to tech?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13334480
> We're all learning this the hard way.

I'd be very disappointed if most HN readers are still learning this.
Each pixel is its own microservice. This is a huge leap forward for the industry.
Might be the best part.
Excellent list - I'd like to add my own website[0] which extract color palettes from images based on predefined palettes (such as Pantone C).

[0]: www.impalette.com
Porn star. No shit, either. I mean sex, drugs, and booze (or coffee) are prominent and if you have that OCD type behavior you are MORE than built for it. Why not, if you are gifted and shaved down .... Id do it
Another consideration/angle is this. Suppose I call a three-arg function with only two args. Why should that curry in the Haskell way? That is just someone's design opinion. Suppose I want that two-arg call to return a function, but not the ordinary curried one. For instance, I might want the function to curry to a transduce kernel. Meaning, I can pass the resulting function to reduce, such that the reduce now performs a mapping through the original function. In other words, this:

(map (lambda (x) (foo 1 2 x)) list) <--> (reduce (foo 1 2) list)

In mainstream languages that have implicit currying, we're stuck with the one and only currying semantics.
You didn't succeed at building a CQRS/ES system despite several attempts. Why aren't you asking "what am I doing wrong?" instead of presuming that your personal experiences are sufficient to render informed judgement?

> Additionally, domains are almost never completely understood. Even if they're well understood today, things will change tomorrow. CQRS/ES in your own words is not good when requirements change. Well guess what? That's every system I've ever worked on.

It's still possible to design individual components that don't require constant churn of their application state. Most software teams are incapable of this, and event sourcing is not for them, even in domains where it shines (like finance).

In my experience, when teams have solid leadership, you can get your software pretty close to the target the first time you build it. Minor course corrections are straightforward, if sometimes tedious. When the business experiences big pivots, much of what you've built can be reused providing it's modular and does not make assumptions about the overall system. The rest can be discarded.

That's a big departure from the topic at hand, but my point is that if your software isn't modular, event sourcing in particular will amplify the pain you feel.

I recommend that anyone thinking about doing CQRS/ES find someone who is an expert to help guide them or their team.
For those who rely on tabs, one great advantage of relying on the multiplexer instead is that your "tabs" live within the terminal, so when you ssh into your session, the machine has all your "tabs" ready and waiting instead of tied up in a non-accessible GUI.
How is this pure swift? What about the codecs?
Jetbrains (makers of Resharper) are making a C# IDE called Rider. It's free while in early access. I like it, but confess that I never got into Visual Studio.

It seems like a competent IDE with excellent integration of Resharper functionality out-of-the-box. It's also multi platform, which is great if you're not on Windows.
Languages
Rust
Ocaml
Matlab/Numpy/? Some form of numerical programming environment anyway
Haskell (maybe if I have time towards the end of year)
ARM/Risc-V assembler (as a target, see below)

More general.
I want to finally make a read thru SICP without getting sidetracked halfway. Then move to writing some toy compilers.

Have a few ideas for home embedded computing projects.

I want to work on some DSP projects too.
Arduboy: Solid 3D graphics rendering
The analysis had no finding on the effect of the leaked emails on the general election.

Indeed, all of the political analysts who are tasked with determining this have not made this claim.

In fact political analysts - knowing about the illuminated political corruption in the Democratic Party - still assessed that Clinton would win, and by a landslide.

Basically, it may be the case that Clinton lost the election because of this. It's not likely, and I know of no scholarly study making the claim that that's the case: including the intelligence community.

But I think what you said is absolutely right. Putin is only in power today because of political meddling that goes back decades. This kind of political meddling is nothing fantastically new. Though I fear we are on an escalatory trajectory. Hopefully Russia and the United States (and China!) can keep the peace and cool the state competition.
I have a Netgear router. Netgear has end of life'd it and will not provide anymore firmware updates. It has security vulnerabilities. There is DD-WRT firmware available for it.
However, Netgear has since modified their firmware to disallow installing DD-WRT.
I'm thinking of an elderly couple I know; they have no hope of fixing these problems and it's not reasonable to expect otherwise. They shouldn't have to fix them; the people who make the products should do it.
You can do that (or spawn in the background from the start, with &) while also using nohup.
Why OpenGL instead of Vulkan since that's where everything seems to be going these days.
I did an online boot camp about 3 years ago. It was a good deal, because the price was right and I viewed it at structure for my self learning. That program no longer exists, but the have something called LaunchSchool now. Something like Free Code Camp or Pluralsight would be a similar level of rigor.

If you aren't already technical, I would view a bootcamp as the start of developing a career in tech. Maybe equivalent to getting 25% of the way thru college. If a college student can drop out after freshman year to get that 80K+ USD/year job, that student were pretty close to being career ready before ever attending college.
Off-topic: I hadn't heard of Stephen Glass' [1] exploits, so I looked them up.

> After journalism, Glass earned a law degree, magna cum laude,[citation needed] at Georgetown University Law Center. He then passed the New York State bar examination in 2000, but the Committee of Bar Examiners refused to certify him on its moral fitness test, citing ethics concerns related to his plagiarism.[3] He later abandoned his efforts to be admitted to the bar in New York.[22]

Wow, it never occurred to him before enrolling and shelling out tens of thousands of dollars that he might not get to practice? Sure, most law school grads don't become attorneys but based on his subsequent court battles it seems like he wanted to.

Also: kinda funny that someone included "magna cum laude" in his wikipedia article, but a wikipedia editor challenged that claim requires evidence, and it's not satisfied. Then again, would we believe it if he published a photograph of his degree?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass
It sounds like your company should be the ones donating! Kudos to you either way and I agree, with how easy this has become compared to other solutions I have no problem donating to them.
I get that concern, and make no mistake it's mine as well. The Kickstarter laser razor can be matched, though, by venture-backed nonsense like uBeam. And that will happen. VC's aren't better, they are just fewer. We can't stop people from taking their paycheck to Vegas, but we can enable those who want to invest responsibly to do so to a greater degree.

And my point is that I'm really driven by the upside here. We're on the cusp of huge technological change and what's holding us back is the pedestrian way we're approaching it. We're facing 21st century potential with 1960's Mad-Men-styled cigars and handshakes.

This tide will lift all boats. (Yes, silly and fraudulent projects will get funded, maybe even more so, but so also will the truly innovative projects we didn't even know we've been waiting for.) This is the moment in history when we need to liberate innovation from the current gatekeepers of sweaty bald men in suits who are really just looking for Facebook and Snapchat clones, to the public to better unleash the potential of what's possible.
110yrs ago is only leaving the milky way

No, not even close. The milky way is 100,000 light years across.

Here's a graphic of the milky way with a dot that's 200 light years across (100 light years in each direction from earth.. how far our radio waves have gone).

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/3390.ht...
That's what I thought too about Satya's tenure. I had heard great things about win10, and then I saw the ads and freemium paywall ware that lines the standard install of win10.

Hard pass.
As connected hardware matures, investors pour more funding into fewer companies
That is not sparsity. In machine learning there is a very strong distinction between values that are exactly 0, and values that are close to zero (see: difference between L1 and L2 regularization).
Vi Hart: New Media and News Professionals
We built our (niche B2B) app on Bootstrap and keep getting compliments from customers about how good it looks. I don't mind that lots of graphic designers hate it; Bootstrap has provided tremendous value for us. I bought the templates just as a way to thank them :-)
Yes, it is like the GPL. But in this case, where the product is a standalone application, that distinction shouldn't matter unless you're actually planning on bundling it into your own product somehow.
While the edges of the Milky Way are not well defined, the solar system is about 25,000 light years from the center and 25,000 from the edge of the disk. The disk is about 1000 light years thick where the solar system resides[1]. Not sure where the Earth is relative to the Milky Way ecliptic, but odds are it is near it and that our radio broadcasts won't be leaving the Milky Way any time soon.

[1]http://www.universetoday.com/65601/where-is-earth-in-the-mil...
It's mentioned in the article as one of the yet-to-be-implemented features.
A possible reason: It's really hard to scale a scrounge-and-resell operation - as you train employees to buy books they begin to wonder why they shouldn't just do it themselves.
So it's basically wood that people put on their cake, never saw something like this. Is common in Canada & US?
Because he's a Pulizer Prize winning journalist with an unimpeachable record and the primary body responsible for getting us the mass global and domestic surveillance disclosures. And because his reporting has a tendency to be prescient.
I can really see both sides of the argument here. 100k is not permanently life changing for the recipient. But if it can be earned sustainably, it is a pretty big difference for the recipient's children, if any.

Ways in which it's not life changing: probably have to live in a more expensive area, which eats into the benefit. Still have to play the office game with people you may or may not like. Still have to save up and budget if you want to travel. You won't live in a mansion with a full-time staff. You still won't have enough money to trade money for popularity if popularity is something you lack and want.

Ways it is life changing: can afford more nutritious and more enjoyable food, which helps make life more sustainable. Can provide better food/clothes/schooling for any children (I have none of my own), which gives them an advantage when they reach adulthood. Can live two or three emergencies away from devastation instead of just one.
I sold my company a couple years ago. Just took some time off to have a second baby and did some reflecting on the whirlwind of the past 7 years. This article is the result.

The realization that I would not have been successful without the privilege I was born into and married into was not a total shock to me - I've always been grateful for the opportunities I'm given - but something about the process of writing this really had an impact on me. Enough that I'd like to devote the rest of my career to efforts that level the playing field for potential entrepreneurs a little more. Still working out the details of what that could look like. Open to suggestions.
Same here - my father's side of the family was from the country. Acres of farm land, crops, and animals. My father was one of the first to shift into a non-farming job. Growing up I always had chances to work on the farm or spend summers down there. There are times I dream about what life would be like for me as a farmer today. Also the reward of a hard day's work is under appreciated in today's society (if you ask me).
I love tmux since I regularly move between OSX and linux machines across several versions. With tmux I can create one .tmux.conf file that standardizes my tab/split behavior across all of the systems regardless of the emulator I use. This works a lot better for me than having to install specific emulators on each machine, several of which I do not have administrative rights over.
so this uses GPU-accelerated rendering with OpenGL. TBH I have never used OpenGL and when I read "GPU-accelerated XYZ" this still sounds like magic to me because I've know idea how this works. Could you point me to some resources where I can read up on this stuff? if this helps you: I am not a newbie, I already know C, C++ and Rust, but I haven't done any graphics programming at all yet. For example I only have a very rough idea what shaders do.
i understand what he is trying to do, but i think he should focus his attention on, i don't know, actually shipping his GNU operating system. or perhaps building compelling products that are free software. free software enabled open source to eat the world, but they, themselves, are not doing the eating.

i'm saying, shut the fuck up with this pedantic shit and make something that people want. our competitors are multi-billion dollar companies. we can't just promote ideas, we actually have to fight head to head. most people aren't ideologically driven, they just buy whatever seems best/most convenient.

focus on actual measurable things like marketshare. how many people are getting the four freedoms? that's the goal, right? so measure it. free software has benefits, but they aren't being marketed aggressively enough to actually reach consumers. we have all of the pieces, but no vision or marketing strategy.

strong copyleft provides equal protection for IP as proprietary licensing, especially when you consider AGPL. charge for shit. make it sexy. whatever you have to do to make money and spread free software. sue over license infringement. fight, damnit!
I like thinking about applications in terms of read-side and write-side. I'm not super enamored with async CQRS, but I am a huge fan of APIs and data models where the developers realized that how I consume the data is wildly different than how I update it.
How did they manipulate 30% to "95+%"?
So much this! The parallel-to-USB dongles for printers were ludicrously expensive and really flaky! For us old-time Apple users, this current round of caterwauling is highly amusing.
Sorry, I wrote GP with an extra thread in mind without referencing it, about how phones-as-desktops hasn't happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13333797

The problem isn't power. Phones have been powerful enough for about 5 years (since around iPhone 4s, as a means of dating it).
This is fascinating, thank you for responding. What an interesting way to engage with history. (I'm from America; anything here from the 1500s is an archaeological site.)
Can you share what you thought was the sum of the information about manipulation of US social media platforms? I read most of the report (stopped halfway through the irrelevant RT section), and missed social media.
I didn't realize there's no Windows version available yet, I was totally thinking about my Windows laptop. My Apple (work) laptop is much better about not turning on fans willy-nilly.
I've never done a coding bootcamp, so feel free to ignore my comment if you feel it is irrelevant.

My overall observation with coding bootcamps is you shouldn't do them. At my current company we have turned away a very, very, large number of applicants who have come from coding bootcamps.

The reason being they have a very narrow skill set and no actual real-life skills. They all build the same projects (this isn't always the case), and seem to always share their bootcamp projects as their own projects.

The best applicants we come across are simply passionate about building quality software. They build things just to build things, and learn because they're interested. They gain a very solid understanding of mathematics and algorithms through MIT OCW, Stanford Online, Coursera, etc...see a pattern? If you're looking to learn to code just to get a job, you'll have a really tough time.

The top 1% of software devs choose where they want to work, they don't ask for jobs and cross their fingers - they're actually very passionate about their work and it truly stands out.

The point is, anyone who is looking to do a coding bootcamp should really ensure this is not the only thing they have when they come out of it. Love coding and solving problems, that's priority #1. The skills will come to those who enjoy it simply because you're always asking questions and learning something new.
It's not just you. I also find it very difficult to make anything useful with Clojure outside of practice problems.