skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very interesting, but the headline is a baldfaced lie.

The headline "hyperspectral analysis with just an app" is unfortunately kind of bullshit. (And Fraunhofer seems to have realized this, as the current headline is just "App reveals constituents".) As highd points out, this will give you nine spectral dimensions instead of the usual three, or eight rather than two after you drop luminance, which will almost certainly be the first principal component. From eight spectral dimensions you can maybe get back to eight wavelength bands.

(And you do get nine spectral dimensions rather than the usual three, because the spectra of the light emitted from the display are not going to exactly match the response spectra of the pixel colors in the camera. But they'll be close, so some of those dimensions will have very little energy, so they'll be very noisy, and JPEG compression is likely to be fatal. And of course they vary from one device to another.)

An eight-band image is not a fucking hyperspectral image. It's multispectral, like Landsat. But that's still enough to do quite a bit of material discrimination. Probably not even close to enough to detect pesticide residue, though.

The only way you could get more information this way would be through nonlinear effects, where illuminating the object with twice the light gives you a scattered result significantly different from twice the original scattered result. Those don't contribute significantly to the spectra of ordinary materials except under extremely intense lighting conditions, although I've seen two-photon effects do interesting things with glow-in-the-dark paint and a red laser pointer, and of course there are devices (like green laser pointers!) that take advantage of the Kerr effect — by using exotic materials.
The time to start an independent ISP was 20 years ago.
I'm sorry but this is pure myth. There has never been a human society where primary political/executive power was vested in women, except some developed and recent examples.

The idea of tribes controlled by women just never happened; not once. It's wishful revisionism motivated by modern politics.

Pinker discusses this a bit in this speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw

And of course other have noted the male dominance in pretty much all the similar primate species. Human are brute animals, nothing more.

And no, just because (pre)historically it was this way doesn't mean I'm saying it ought to be this way everywhere and forever. Natural != ideal.
I've worked in the industry for 25 years. I'm not shocked. It's no surprise at all. The only people who are saying "it's unbelievable" are people who have worked VERY hard to not see disgusting bigotry and rampant unprofessionalism that is endemic in this industry.
> I was starting an ISP, perhaps the most capital intense business on the planet

Semiconductor manufacturing is literally a million times more expensive (~3B investment in a new fab). The sentence I'm quoting doesn't appear to be intended as a joke.
Personally, I find absolutes like "I will not eat period" or "I will eat only pre-packaged x, y, and z for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, respectively, every day" much easier to follow than more vague calorie-counting rules.
Well, I still love carrot almond halwa :)
Bingo! If the kid has any brains, he'll get out of the business or open his own shop within 5 years, typically. That or fall into meth and fuck his life up. The auto business, if you are good with the books, can be very lucrative. Most people are not,so it sucks. My Uncle sent my cousins to college with no loans, owns his house, and rents out 2 others. The current auto-repair business records my Aunt keeps were recently appraised at $5M due to the completeness and rarity of them. He has done well, but mostly because he is smart, hard-working, and got lucky. He has had bad business failures too, but he makes due through his brains and muscle. To me, he is the model of a Yeoman Jeffersonian.
Jch/html-pipeline: HTML processing filters and utilities
You're wrong: https://allipossess.com/products/macbook

He does, however, only seem to possess one pair of boxer shorts.
Not the poster, but I've personally found that old books from the 1950s and 60s about nuclear energy are very approachable. (Plus they have hilariously optimistic assessments of the future. It's cute, in a depressing way.)

"Principles of nuclear reactor engineering" by Samuel Glasstone is a commonly recommended text. If you do a little Googling you can find PDFs of it online, although out of respect for the authors I won't link them directly.

I have a 1955-ish print edition myself, and it's quite wonderful. The first third or so of the book requires no math and is the best overview of nuclear engineering that I've ever read, and then it starts to gradually ramp up the theory. At some point, unless you are coming directly from an undergrad physics program or a related discipline, you may find the math a bit daunting and decide to stop, but you'll still have a better understanding of the subject than probably anyone but a small percentage of humans.

The book does not, however, contain any information on nuclear weapons, such as you might find in a more modern text; at the time of its printing I suppose its inclusion would have gotten the book classified, since I don't think there was much available in the unclassified literature. So if that is an interest it may not be a good source. But this, too, adds a bit to the brave-new-world Atomic Era optimistic charm. I'd love to live in the world that Glassstone thought we'd be living in today from the vantage point of 1955.
Flights to Land Faster with This New Air Traffic Control Tech
No prosecution over 'Gamergate' death threats despite confession
Requiring Google Play Services is not the main reason Signal hasn't been on F-Droid; you can read Moxie's thoughts on the subject in these comments (and in other places):

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#...

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281#...
That's actually a good point. Everyone is incompetent; we just don't have a way of filtering that in our leaders. Possibly because the people selecting those leaders are incompetent too. It's incompetence all the way down.
The CEO is the problem. The fish stinks from the head.
I really don't think this is true. He would have no problem relocating and finding a job in the EU.
really? Surely not.

I hope not
I was looking for this. I read it over a decade ago in middle school immediately thought "is this Larry?"
NYU Prof. Damodaran Values Snap Ahead of It's IPO
Inverse relationship: critical thinking skills of the populace being led, and the presence of incompetent "bullshit artists" leading them.
With this tool you can move a window to a different virtual desktop with a customizable shortcut.
But does it remember app sizes and locations? It doesn't on mine.
Interesting; is there a font based on this style?
From disrupted to disruptor: Reinventing your business by transforming the core
GitHub/graphql-relay-walker: Walk the graph
Install a proper slide, safe and suitable for kids, that happens to end in the laundry room.

BTW, build it with the assumption that it will get soaked in disgusting things. Drywall isn't strong and isn't really washable. Non-stick coatings are best; metal is OK.
I have the exact opposite opinion on Slack.

Their new electron app is better in perf and memory and generally the experience is the best I've had (and I've used professionally pretty much every chat app there is).

Compared to alternatives like HipChat or Skype it's eons ahead.

But threads are useless indeed, I'll give you that.
In (3), are you describing what I've sometimes heard called tetrachromat? Is that now confidently considered extant? Last I'd heard, it was an exciting, but only slightly substantiated, theory, but I'd love to see more about it!
Fake "science". Vitamin A deficiency most definitely can cause night blindness. In the event you suffer from a deficiency, carrots most definitely can address it. I have personal experience with this. I couldn't see anything at all in low light, so I took up drinking fresh carrot juice in significant quantities, and within two weeks it was like a dark curtain had been withdrawn from before my eyes.

I have doubts that eating a carrot a day would do a whole lot of good, but I can tell you that 8 ounces of fresh carrot juice a day definitely does!
I'm not sure I agree with this. Are you saying all voting is rigged? Also not all incompetent managers are micro-managers, I have had problems with managers that are uninvolved as well.

It may be possible for a candidate to gain votes by promising free benefits (or even non-free benefits) to their constituents and then actually grant those benefits. I would not describe that situation as a problem because that's exactly how representative democracy is supposed to work.

I don't see how rigged voting implies incompetence or that incompetence implies rigged voting.

Also, I nave never seen a business setting that had elections, rigged or not. In the cases where I have been faced with incompetent managers their constituents (employees/reports) would have voted them out at the nearest opportunity. Is this the rigged system to which you refer?
I'm a heavy user of virtual desktops in win 10, I see how this makes my life a little better.

A feature that Win 10 has and I was missing in mac (maybe they have it by now) was that desktops doesn't share taskbar and open windows states. So if you Alt+Tab you see only windows in current desktop. Same as using taskbar.

A feature I'm still missing is to save the state of all opened windows, and to have different icons on taskbar and desktop per virtual desktop (like separate computers).

Also there's a bug where chrome windows from all desktops just to the first desktop after waking from sleep.
Bold move showing all his keys like that.
There was a much more extreme work along the same lines by Michael Landy where he destroyed all his possessions Over a two week period.
Next problem: Signal will not work without a phone number...

I'd vote for https://riot.im/ instead.
You might check out Conversations too (https://conversations.im/), it's a federated XMPP (with some really clever extensions) based approach that uses the signal protocol.
Art... or the most meticulous documentation of possessions for renters insurance coverage?
They didn't use plutonium at all: they used polonium [1]. The article refers to polonium in some places (correctly), but plutonium in others (incorrectly).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium
iTunes (on Windows)

-slow (other than playing content everything is just so slow)

-the GUI (inner window) just disappears if I maximize the application (or go over a specific height/width)

-terrible for searching/exploring [0]

[0] I generally search for a specific song then browse the artist's other songs but I would really like to also browse for covers or related content in a way that didn't lose track of the original search/artist.

Example: I search for a Korn song, then I view all Korn songs then I see that other people like System of a Down but I haven't finished viewing all the Korn catalog and if I go to S.O.A.D then I lose track of the Korn. Having a huge delay (compared to other computer functionality) between screens doesn't help either. Then I remember I wanted a cover of the Korn song but I had searched for Korn to compare with the original.

Honestly most of the time I feel like I am misusing it when it is such a chore to find more music. If there is a web interface I will gladly switch.
https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/5v4cq6/per...
There's also "architect handwriting" [0], designed to reduce potentially dangerous misunderstandings involving buying the wrong part. It used to be a required course in a lot of architecture schools before computers starting doing it all. It's cool that there's not just one, but multiple "profession-specific handwriting".

[0]: https://artdepartmental.com/2009/10/12/learning-architectura...
I have a /24 from Zayo and a /23 from ARIN for IPv4. For IPv6 I have a /32 IPv6 from ARIN.
Are you attending PgConf US? If not, why not?
LastPass.

It's amazing how bad the UI and user experience is.
Sterile protection against human malaria by chemoattenuated PfSPZ vaccine [pdf]
Perhaps it would be more informative to speculate on the reasons why Python would be displaced by any new language, rather than why any given language might displace Python.
>So what do the quantum superpositions add over mapping neural networks and simulating them?

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

When I read your comment I immediately recalled this article about an experiment that designed tone discrimination circuits on FPGAs by stochastic processes (genetic algorithm). The highlight is that at the end of thousands of rounds of controlled evolution, the researchers obtained a circuit that achieved unexpected efficiency through mechanisms they initially failed to explain. There were closed circuits within the overall structure which only interacted with the main structure passively. Its design was the product of its unique electro-magnetic environment to the extent that results could not be replicated on another board of the same type.

In other words, a circuit appeared to originate with properties that would not have been arrived at by applying the conventional theory of circuit design.

Considering that organic brains are made up of many trillions of unit neurons, which grow into networks that will be trained by stochastic processes, it makes sense to expect them to exhibit a similar level of exploitation of their environment. If that environment is one in which quantum phenomena can result in real effects on the behavior of the system, why shouldn't we expect them to be exploited by real brains?
My guess would be that simplest way to sync two threads is exit them both. ;)
The problem with federated approach is that it leaks metadata. When you take centralized system apart and expose internal communications to the Internet, you reduce anonymity. Extreme case is when everyone uses his own homeserver and information on who calls who and when is completely exposed.

It is not enough to make the system distributed, you need to exploit the fact that different parts of the network are controlled by different parties to build self-enforcing protocols that ensure anonymity.

For comparison, see how bitcoin is just distributed and zerocoin is anonymous. Gnutella is just distributed and FreeNet is anonymous.
I've seen incompetent leaders promote other incompetent people to serve them as their ideals are congruent. As in - they don't question the status-quo to make things better and alas their numbers grow stronger. It takes a good concerted effort to take this type of nepotism on.
Agreed. +1 this :)
I'd buy that. I'd go further and say a dumb phone that doesn't allow complex apps would be fine with me too. It has built in apps for a set of open protocols like the web, email, matrix/irc, vcard, ical etc. Updates these apps, but that's all you get. Pushing security on top of the Android ecosystem seems like a lost cause and building something with app ecosystem parity is a pipe dream it seems.
Yeah, one of these stories is not like the others.

'“It just kills me to sit here, and not work, and have the abilities that I do,” he said. “I call it a rainy day that turned into a rainy month that turned into a rainy year.”'

He's in Buffalo (NY presumably), not exactly Smalltown. Based on the calls/callbacks he says he's getting, there are employers that are looking for people with his skills ... who are young.
Yes it is:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Server

It's sure become fashionable to hate on Signal/OWS. The price of actually successfully bringing good encryption mainstream?

Edit: The comment I replied to originally included a question on whether Signals server is even open source.
Because an actor might save the session to his/her server for reuse from his own machine anytime he/she wants ( spy purposes ).

Sessions usually implement `touch` functionality, which will extend the session every time a request with it has been made.
And yet we became humans by being the most competent apes. Perhaps both are true.

I'm not arguing that tall people are better leaders than short people, just that we seem to have such a bias built in and it must exist for some evolutionary reason.
Correct me if I'm wrong but that's what <header> is for.

You can use this tag in articles, figcaptions, et al
Leads to many of 404 errors.
125% works well for me. I'm using a 22 inch monitor with a 1920x1080 screen resolution.
I didn't want to come across as advertising something.
We noticed that we weren't making use of much more than email support, so we switched to GrooveHQ. Their pricing is much more reasonable, and their story and the way they interact with their customers is great.
But really, there are tons of options out there.

My point is that if you're not making the most of what Intercom offers, then it's pretty damn expensive.
The Virtual Chicken: a detailed animation showing how eggs are formed
> Fuzzy logic cookers can deal with other kinds of rice and grains.

Like what? That actually seems interesting. Although other kind of grains are usually not that complicated to cook (but I always want my rice perfect).

Now that I think about it, it looks like you can't steam food while you cook rice in this fuzzy logic cookers. I often steam fish, vegetables or even sausages on top of the rice.

> Nice rice cookers have a warming mode that keeps the rice at a nice serving temperature for as long as you need it.

I've never seen a rice cooker without that.

> Fuzzy logic rice cookers do not burn the bottom and leave a little bit in the middle not quite cooked

Never happened to me, a friend had an old rice cooker that did also. But I'm wondering if it's because he scrapped the bottom of it.

> a nice fuzzy logic cooker (of which I have only ever used Zojirushi) is better still

I'm not saying it's not an upgrade (although if you can't steam food at the same time...) but rather that for the price, it's not worth it. The upgrade is negligible.

> My Zojirushi works fine after more than a decade of use

Crazily, cheap rice cookers last forever as well. And these are a real bargain ;)
Not surprising that adding refined carbs to a lifelong low-carb / high-fat diet creates problems. We here in the lower 48 have conditioned ourselves since birth to eat the stuff.
In CA, minimum wage for a mechanic without tools is 2x the state minimum; that's ~$20/hr now, right?

In auto-repair there are no young guns anymore, the High Schools got rid of shop, let alone auto-shop, about 30 years ago. Besides, chicks don't dig grease under the fingernails. Almost no HS grads have the chops to become mechanics, they really need to go to Tech Schools beforehand. Some of those Tech Schools are really bad, but some can be good (Las Modanas in the East Bay). In the end, the pay is shit because the owners can't charge the customers enough. Most shops, like restaurants, close quickly because people won't pay. Also, ~90% of my uncle's business is in credit cards. Pre-2008 it was ~30%. The economy has really never recovered for most people.
A dangerous line of thinking.... If someone were to take prescription meds that's legal in the country they bought and took them, why should they be extradited to a country that happen to not agree on the legality of those meds?
White things on white background, supported by shopify... sublime.
Automation isn't just a choice where you snap your fingers and it's done. Automation takes time and effort and adds technical debt and support burden; sometimes these are trivial amounts, sometimes they aren't.

I use a service that sends me a bunch of fairly trivial Google Analytics data. It costs $10/month for the equivalent of fifty lines of Python.

I know I could spend maybe two hours writing a replacement for it and set it on an EC2 host and probably never worry about it again, but those two hours are still non-trivial amounts of time: two hours of my time pays for more than three years of that $10/month. Plus, the API may be brittle, there may be edge cases I haven't thought about, and I don't want to add yet another thing to monitor and worry about.

Sometimes, yeah, you can automate things and roll your own dependencies -- and sometimes the calculus works out and it's a no-brainer. But I've found that homebrewing a $XX/mo dependency is rarely the best use of my engineering time.
> Just to satisfy blood thirsty "internet lynch crowd".

Certainly, you meant "Just to escape personal responsibility", or "Just to escape the bad reputation earned by bad behaviour".

Honestly, you're talking about a "blood thirsty 'internet lynch crowd'" but really, it's just ordinary people frowning upon poor ethics. Your answer seems to share responsibility equally between someone you yourself describe as willing to do anything to get what he wants, and people criticizing this behaviour.
Not exactly the usual fare for Hacker News, but as a regular eater of eggs, I found this surprisingly fascinating! Mostly CG, but contains a lot of biological details and a bit of inside-the-chicken video, so skip this if you want to think of your eggs as emerging clean and fully-formed without any squishy biological processes :)

I found this from the following link, which is a similarly interesting list of the different ways eggs can go wrong during their development:

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/common-egg-quality-problem...
This may be what you're looking for, though I've not tried it myself:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5990-dpi-scaling-level-d...
In a way I find the Dilbert Principle [1] more encouraging because it implies promotion is based on what will improve the overall productivity of the group.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
Really bad article. Not surprised its coming from HBR. No facts or data to back up what he is saying. How do you measure someone being incompetent? Since when does competence make you a good leader? Author believes CEOs should be selected by having them take a competence and personality test...

Trying to act and plan for an uncertain future as a CEO will make any human (male or female) seem incompetent.
C++ and Rust don't have garbage collection, Go's type system is very simplistic. Obviously, depending on what you do, this can be either an advantage or a disadvantage. My point is that there are clear differentiating factors.

The closest competitor for Nim is probably D, not any of the languages you name.