skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get both. I recently bought a twin pack containing one of each. The optical one is marketed as "toast proof" so you can put it near the kitchen and the alpha source one is claimed to be more sensitive.

Radioactive ones are usually cheaper but come with plenty of warnings about not disassembling or ingesting the source. Best to have a mix spread around the home. It's also well worth having a CO alarm if you have non-electric heating/cooking.
Anyone know if there's a connection with Mary Shelley? His early childhood, motivation, and preparation for travels (from the article and Wikipedia) reads similarly enough to that of the protagonist of the framing story in Frankenstein that, were his history widely known at the time, it must surely have been an inspiration for it. Either that or there was something in the air and that kind of story was (relatively) common.
Valve reveals its plan to replace Steam Greenlight
I had a subscription to the Economist for years and was reader for much longer, but the content has gotten much worse and they insist on displaying video ads right in the middle of articles even if you pay for a subscription.
What Are the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services?
The Filipino middle class is developing in the same way that the Philippines is a developing country...very slowly and incrementally. So, for instance, you're starting to see things like Ayala malls, iStores, and more upscale cars. But those aren't hugely popular or mass-scale because most people in the Philippines cannot afford to buy them or shop there.
I chuckled. I think OP and others in the thread completely missed the point.

If you use a language with references, you're using pointers. I never said pointer arithmetic, dereferencing etc.

Same with recursion. Yeah, implementing recursive calls in a language like Java is dumb. But tail recursion isn't. Nor is using an equivalent of a recursive algorithm using a stack or queue.

If you don't think about these things, or don't know whether you do... you may be writing PHP
I fully predict that the first one that does that will be decried on HN as the NSA. The hordes of privacy cargo cultists will descend upon it like a pack of angry wolves.

Before anyone claims that I'm being derogatory and dismissive of privacy claims, I'm claiming there's a loud minority of people that create a PR problem for companies by complaining about insignificant things.
If you're a Filipino man and reading this, please don't be tempted to take one of these jobs. Your health is something that you can't replace.
But isn't the fact of being smart and working at a big company selecting for exactly this trait?
That makes sense. But your pricing is unreasonable. I don't mind paying $10k for a Ferrari.
As far as the "wealth redistribution" goes, currently the 8 richest men have as much wealth as the poorest 50% (3.6 Billion) of the worlds population. [1] Capturing wealth is not the same as earning it. Wealth has already been "redistributed" to a wealthy few.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/01/16/world-richest-men-income-equal...
So one thing I just noticed: in Video 4 (Matrix Multiplication) when he shifts from just showing geometry to a walkthrough of the numerical operations he begins tracing the paths of i-hat and j-hat. This continues to keep the explanation concrete. In fact, it is almost as if he is a programmer debugging a set of functions and walking the path of a piece of data from through one function call to another.

You can follow this along here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkY2DOUCWMU&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
Silly flamefest this. Even back when I worked mostly for Windows/MS shops or clients, writing CLI tooling for business (not developer) needs were often the order of the day. Batch import/export tools and what not. Also prototypes of daemon-like Windows Services for client testing. All kinds of tools that weren't directly developer tools. Sure enough, we were interfacing with IT folks at the client end but still, no programmers per se!

There's a reason GUI starts with a G. Other than "graphical" user interfaces, "other" user interfaces will also always have their place..

In some ways looking at how much non-developer computer usage in the past decades has been in front of excel/access sheets and tables, these aren't so "graphical" either. They essentially end up evolving into (haphazard) custom CLI-like keyboard-driven power tools, half-programmable, half requiring intimate familiarity with its "commands" (formulas) or even "training" to use them fluidly.

But if you'd rather code out your CLI needs in a PL REPL (aka CLI), more power to you ;D
For rulings, yes, though they can be overturned:

http://money.howstuffworks.com/10-overturned-supreme-court-c...

Is what we're seeing here a ruling, or merely a dismissal of a claim before the trial starts?
The larger problem here is that unless they plan to have their Google search results all say "click here to pay" or similar, this entire scheme violates Google's cloaking policy and should result in their being deindexed. This has traditionally been the entire reason that sites offered this workaround - it wasn't out of the goodness of their hearts.

Here's hoping Google actually enforces their policy.
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> Just "feeling sure" isn't enough to certain of something.

Back when I was a teenager, I got interested in the idea of lucid dreaming. One of the suggested ways I'd read of gaining awareness that you are in a dream is to habitually ask yourself if you're dreaming -- sooner or later, you'll do it in a dream.

I tried that for a while, and sure enough, I did actually ask myself if I was dreaming while in a dream, and concluded that I wasn't in dream, because I just felt sure that I wasn't dreaming! Was rather amused when I woke up and realized that I actually had been dreaming all along...

What I should have done -- as I later learned -- was to try to do something impossible while anticipating that it will happen. For example, jump with the intention of levitating, expecting to just hover in the air. Dreams work on anticipation -- what you expect to happen is what happens next. (That's why nightmares always seem to do whatever you're afraid is going to happen next; you expect your fear to come true, so it does.)

Empirically testing reality on occasion is a good thing to do; sometimes you'll find out that what you think is real is just a dream.
They definitely don't fix the problem. As the sibling comment points out, diversity is a result of tons of factors - office locations, industry sector, compensation packages, pto, work life balance culture; and, most importantly, the diversity of the candidate supply itself (you're delusional if you expect a large deviation from graduation ratios).

It's sort of similar to hiring a "head of profit". Profit, like diversity, is the outcome of the entire company's operations.
PCI-Express bus encryption in 3, 2, 1...
The WSJ is a fantastic source of information. I no longer subscribe since I no longer live in the US but I easily made more money from the information in the paper than I paid in.

It was also very informative.

If you can't derive value from it, I understand all the trouble people go through to bypass it. It's just that I see that people's stated aims and revealed preferences are in contradiction. Everyone wants high quality news. No one seems to want to pay what it costs.
Same here.

No API means no automation, no Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Salt or other kind of scripts. Everything in the head of the person who clicked through the web interface.

Are there automation friendly alternatives?
You guys seem to think that Google is benevolent by giving engineers that 20%, while in fact they do that for very selfish reasons: it is all about copyrights.

They hire the smartest Software Engineers in the world, so it is only a matter of time that some of them will create new, disruptive product.

If they weren't given that 20% of time at Google they would do that anyway, on weekends, but since they do it in company-sponsored time then Google owns the copyrights to all of their work.
> - Teacher: It's unlikely any teaching will be done by an AI. Behavior management in particular is difficult enough with a human, let alone an AI. When an AI robot is teaching our students directly, we have bigger problems on our hand.

That already depends on the type of skill being taught. Learning a new language, for example, has never been dependent on teachers and I think I've been doing quite well with purely self taught English, and that was before methods like duolingo appeared. My mother is living in retirement and has started learning languages as a way to pass time, she has learned enough English through duolingo to achieve a conversational level and she never had a teacher. Is it really impossible for more sophisticated AIs to truly replace language teachers in schools, and have students do things through a computer? and possibly replace teachers in many other fields of studies too. I'd wager most of the less advanced courses in pre-college stuff could do well with modern, computerized, interactive methods of learning. I don't think you could replace the interaction with a teacher for more advanced studies, though.
Is WSJ not a political news source? They're owned by News Corp and at least in the UK that conglomerate is responsible for the most politicised and polarising media.
Upon further reflection, I think it's not so much about human vs physical capital (and I agree with your point), but about IT workers vs other types of workers.

If a company of 5 Indian software engineers is booted out of the US, they can get together anywhere else in the world and still develop a product to the same standard. By contrast, other workers have "stickier" skills that tie you to a specific country. An Indian aerospace engineer may find it hard to find work in India, for example.
> My guess at what happened: the natural hyper growth engine ran out, they tried a bunch of things to jump start it, none of them worked, so now they are on the slow growth path.

Sigh. No need to guess, the other co-founder wrote his own account on Medium [0].

The relevant part:

> Another reason emerged after Joel and I had a candid conversation on how we’re structured as CEO and COO over the last 6 months or so and recognized some challenges in it. Joel shared this article [1] with me, which I thought explains some of the struggles well of what’s been going on.

[0] https://hackernoon.com/after-6-incredible-years-at-buffer-im...

[1] http://organizationalphysics.com/2015/02/18/organizational-d...
I would be happy even if someone had anecdotes of success stories where these people fundamentally altered the culture of the companies to make them diverse. I have yet to see one success story that isn't some PR piece about the percentage of female engineers going from 15 to 18% (a.k.a they hired two).
I had exactly the same feeling. One of my friends was a doctor at a hospital and there was a serious mistake which my friend reported to the consultant. The consultant made a good point that it was never just one mistake that caused the serious mistake; it was a series of smaller mistakes that hadn't been checked or addressed. (the argument was that there were processes to avoid these kinds of mistakes)
If you read the post they also noted that they were also in the process of accidentally removing one of their own employees which make me think that there are other problems going on here.

Maybe part of the problem is that I think that the industry has a problem that it isn't willing to learn from the experiences of others? (I feel like we have 'just enough learning' and 'experienced folk who raise concerns are considered stuck in their outdated ways' and 'people who make a silly mistake like that must be an idiot'). I think that since we clump together those that have had formal training with those that haven't we aren't encouraging the value of this education. I'm also fully aware that some self-learned developers are much more competent rather than a college educated developer.
Sounds like a way forward. The current notion of wealth is toxic: an incongruent patchwork of ancient and modern ideas of what's valuable. It limits mankind's potential.
Yes, I've noticed the BBC quoting tweets as part of their news reporting on a regular basis. It really is an influential tool.
Never Forget Anything Before, After and While Coding
It might be worth noting that the original unix designers introduced containers to unix (as "Namespaces") in Plan9.
I might be wrong, but AFAIK the old testament Eden story features the serpent, but has no mention of Satan.

The identification of Satan with the serpent is a Christian and Islamic thing.
Yeah: the #2 thing I like about HN is how it is almost ludicrously lightweight.
Is it possible to access ipmi interface via the normal nic?

If so, I would hope they ensure access to that vlan is removed from the switch port as part of the handover process to the tenant.
Sorry about the delay, I didn't notice the reply initially.

> I don't understand why you started with z = 0.076 and then calculated proper distance at z=0.078. I also don't know what (a=0.928) there stands for

a here is the FLRW scale factor: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Scale_factor_(cosmology)

The two proper distances can be thought of as, for the larger, what a notional instantaneous (>> FTL) analogue of radar measurement would decide the distance to the galaxy we are observing is, and for the smaller, what we would read if we had optical telescopes that could read the display of such a measurement device showing a counterpart in the distant galaxy what the instantaneous distance to us is.

(Or instead of an instant FTL analogue of radar, you could use a pair extremely long measuring tapes with the 0 end anchored on the observed party; if we look at a telescope at their tape's indicator, it would read 969.4 Mly, but looking at our own tape would read 1043 Mly.)

The numbers are close because ~1 Gly is near enough that the metric expansion of space hasn't carried our galaxy cluster and theirs very far apart in the past billion years.

They would see similar numbers looking at a galaxy at z=0.076 in a different part of their sky than where the Milky Way is; we would see a different and almost certainly higher redshift when looking at that galaxy from here.
> there was a setting in 2007 or 2010 to change the default document standard but I forgot how it worked.

TL/DR: Badly.

OK, it looks like it has been possible to set the default file types to Open Document Formats for several years, I just hadn't noticed.

But I naively thought that with that capability would come support for more MS Office features when saving in ODF, or at least that features not supported by MS Office in ODF would be disabled or hidden if ODF is set as the default to keep users from shooting themselves in the foot.

How silly of me:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Differences-between...

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Differences-between...

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Supported-features-...

Basically, even if you set ODF as the default, if you use a feature that is not supported (such as putting a table in a presentation slide) everything looks fine until you hit save. Saving the file saves a downgraded version of your work (a table on a slide is converted to an image), and you probably only get one warning pop-up that says "some features may not be supported". I bet the still-open file continues to look and act fine. No, the problems with the saved file are only apparent much later.

Imagine the user's surprise when they re-open their presentation deck file (remember, created and saved in MS Office) the next day and many aspects of their work on that presentation were never saved or have been downgraded to uselessness...

And that doesn't even address the fact that many of these "unsupported" features are ones that ODF actually supports perfectly well, but that Microsoft just hasn't implemented for saving in ODF.

My, what an exceptionally lovely user experience that is. It just oozes good faith and sincerity of effort toward interoperability, doesn't it?
"ask the makerbot for kilograms of RDX or tabun instead of a gun"

I know the NSA and IoT get a lot of criticism here. But this seems like a good usecase for the always connected, phone home systems, with an all seeing eye. :)

"killers are pre-empted by omniscient benevolent AI oversight"

As someone who used to work in a warehouse, ai which can detect anomalous orders seems incredibly plausible. Considering they have all been storing data for years, you have plenty of training data. Making something that notices when certain substances are shipped to someone who is not a normal customer seems trivial, if it doesnt exist. I mean the conservation of mass means that the explosive has to come from somewhere :)
I'm like you. I would rather a tweet than email from a stranger. It just feels less intrusive and better for quick a back and forth with a bit of personality.
You can "cheat" on GitHub Pages and have a part of the app set as a 404 error page.
These pictures are taken on the same floor, but just one floor below in this building there is another computer grid, similar to this one but a bit smaller. At that grid, there are, if I remember correctly, more advanced (Intel's xeon, AVX512 etc.) CPU architectures are operating. In the very same floor there are also robotic arms that access offline/long stored hard-drives per user request, which always seems pretty amazing to me. (Disclaimer: I was intern at CERN.)
The ActiveGS Chrome extension required to run the games on this site is broken, and the code hasn't been updated in two years:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/activegs/nhndampaj...
In the United States you have plenty of holes that need to be dug (crumbling infrastructure) and a historically low labor force participation level and some people are still arguing that the cost of employing people to dig them is too high while arguing that BI will be necessary very soon because robots.
I don't actually think it has anything to do with education. I think it really comes down to common sense.

Any half intelligent engineer would always first research good practices, pitfalls and existing information which has been gathered from decades of other experienced engineers before doing anything stupid on their own. It seems that GitLab is lacking this attitude.
This is why I am never ever going on a cruise ship (or any resort in Mexico, Dominican etc). Knowing that the guy serving you is basically a slave working for pennies while you are supposed to enjoy your vacation and relax- I couldn't, no thank you.

What surprises me to this day is how little it costs to buy American congress. 1,000,000$ lobbying costs? That's less than a lot of houses in SF or NYC.

Shouldn't it cost more to buy American congress decisions? Like 50 - 100 million USD price range? 1 billion perhaps? Why American politicians are so cheap? Raising lobbying prices would seem a logical conclusion Here :)
The sad thing is that while he was able to earn $1,500 per month, he apparently didn't invest into anything. No financial planning as if he can do this job forever. Sure he must have known stories what's going on and could prepare for this possibility. I don't understand why he didn't.
Counter example: Almost everyone uses the Apache webserver when they browse the web, but hardly anyone even knows what that is. We could easily compile a long list of similar crucial infrastructure software that virtually everyone is using and that doesn't have graphical user interfaces.
> So who is responsible becomes less important in my mind as responding while we can with effective ways to live and prosper under different climates.

The hard fact is this: about a thousand politicians have the collective ability to make a large percentage of the planet no longer viable for humans for hundreds of years.

You likely know it to be true with regards to nuclear arsenal. Why would it be so hard to accept that the same goes for gas emissions?

Humans can burn or cut down phenomenally large forests — they have, and still do, at an increasingly faster rate, thanks to more and more sophisticated technology. Humans can, and do, drill into methane pockets underground, releasing large amounts of gas. And, of course, oil.

The second law of thermodynamics is a fact of life. There is no fully sustainable energy consumption scheme. Those we rely most on currently come from accidental geological events; primarily, the lack of bacterial enzymes able to consume lignin prior to the end of the Carboniferous.

Just like diagnosing a disease is necessary to get the meds needed to survive, understanding the mechanisms of our planet's viability is necessary for our sake.
Why introduce additional syntax when the native language works fine?

Elm is a functional language, and you build the desired DOM structure with functions. Why should it be any other way?

JSx looks sort of like HTML, but HTML isn't even the target here, just DOM nodes.
Bitcoin Miners Steal Electricity in Venezuela
Ummm living costs eating up everything? He did not have any disposable income to invest?
AVR was basically designed from the ground up to be a good platform for C. It's fairly RISC-like, registers are for the most part interchangeable, it has enough pointer registers to support a standard C-style stack and still have two left over for actual pointers, etc.
why should it be a good idea?
POSIX has been outdated since the day it was released. Talk about binding OS development to the absolute lowest common denominator, (requiring the presence of a fortran compiler - http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ - really?) and every additional release simply adds more bloat.
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Note that a high purity Germanium detector requires LN cooling to operate, and judging by the size of the dewar on his detector, would need filling maybe once a week to keep it cool all the time.

That is a bit onerous if you only play with it every now and then and don't have a 20000 L LN tank in your backyard.
Right, if it mentioned those, search would still be the version we saw in 2007. None of the other products would exist yet because they would still be conducting user studies based on wire frame mock ups of workflows designed by committees of behavioral psychologists.

That's a bit dramatic, but when your product development has a fast turnaround for fixes (git push vs 100 million dollar recall) and it won't kill people when it breaks, you should immediately throw most of that process shit out the window.

You can't be competitive in consumer SaaS if you get bogged down in 'real engineering' processes.
Why is it so bad? It seems incredibly effective for them and there are very good outcomes:

• no trailing dependencies so you never have to backport fixes, maintain multiple released versions, etc.

• extensive integration testing of libraries since they go live instantly

• forced library developer and library user collaboration

• deployed code is not out of date

What's the problem with only One True Version? All the complaints seem around tooling.
Six to seven foot tall praying mantis like entities are a common element in many alien abduction accounts. They're typically in the background, silently watching the proceedings while letting the little greys carry out the examinations.

In "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" author Rick Strassman theorises that DMT enables the brain to tune in to other parallel realities beyond "channel-normal". If the interdimensional hypothesis for alien abductions is correct, perhaps DMT allows one to occasionally tune into the source of this mysterious phenomenon.
I have zero knowledge about microcontrollers, so forgive my dumb question... But how do you program with 16-byte RAM!? I believe even ENIAC had more memory than that? (Though I'm not sure if ENIAC had such a concept like main memory.)

What useful thing did you conduct with it?
Interesting, I assume you do development? How do you handle scripting, moving files, grepping logs etc?