skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the very least, it could become an interesting science fair project for some enterprising kid

As that "enterprising kid" who couldn't wait until the SCiO was completed, and who was fed up with his 3d printed visible light spectroscope, I put in a lot of research effort figuring out how to go about creating a portable, financially attainable NIR spectroscope. I started out thinking it would be fairly straightforward since I already worked on creating CCD sensor driver boards in my early highschool years (after all it just seemed like you'd need a linear CCD with no IR-cut filter, a diffraction grating, a prism with 95%+ reflectivity, and an IR emitter with a peak wavelength of ~920nm). I invested about 6 months working through the various roadblocks I encountered until I managed to get half-decent results from it when taking the spectrum of various salts. Still never managed to fully refine it since I didn't have the budget to (Heck the Eagle schematics I sent off to a PCB fabricator were so poorly-designed that in order to get it to work correctly it required me to solder a wire across two traces to prevent the sensor from blowing up). It's still somewhere in one of my drawers and is a fun novelty item (and it did win (second?) place at my junior science fair) but at least with my design, it really wasn't the portable tricorder I was hoping for...
Big respect for your achievements. I guess at some point it just becomes the question of "where do i get a 1000 nodes" vs. "how do I run a 1000 containers". Or, more the justification for that amount of hardware - I mean, the one dream job which I would probably want is getting paid to cut out all the hardware use while keeping reliability/availability/functionality. Like these guys who cut their AWS bill by $1mil/year in about 3 months - https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem/. The thing is that I'm not exactly sure where I'd fit in more - running this thing, or just fixing it for somebody else. I definitely know that I'm mostly dealing with pets and not cattle :)
Parent never implied that it was inherent. That was all you.
Methane naturally breaks down to CO2. Transforming it to CO2 faster is unambiguously better.
We use Gusto for payroll, and they offer a simple tool that does something similar, with no additional cost beyond what we already pay to Gusto. [1]

I looked at your site, but couldn't really see any feature list of what it actually does, or why it is better.

[1] https://support.gusto.com/hc/en-us/articles/235063588-Survey...
Your offspring still would get any equity left after paying the remainder of the note.

It's not like they confiscate the whole house because you still owe $100,000 on a $250,000 home. But the survivors do have to keep the home out of foreclosure (as in, keeping the payments current)
Those are places where people buy their vegetables instead of growing them.
I just checked on Windows 10, an empty instance of VS Code with a blinking cursor uses 0% most of the time.

Is this a MacOS only issue? Does it affect Atom?
For anyone interested in learning the logical rules that dictate the more confusing parts of Japanese grammar (which were, as others have pointed out, dramatically over-simplified in this article), this is a decent starting point: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/kobun-reading-introduction/

I've personally been happy with the following books as well:
Bungo Manual: Selected Reference Materials for Students of Classical Japanese
Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary
Classical Japanese: A Grammar

Many of the confusing rules we have today (i-adjectives vs na-adjectives, different verb conjugation classes, etc.) are subsets of much larger rule-sets from early in the language's written history. Bound particles are probably the most confusing of these rules, which were too convoluted to survive over time, but still inform common usage patterns today.

The Japanese language (particularly its written form) is very young, so it's actually feasible to gain an in-depth understanding of the language's entire history without spending a decade on a doctorate.
Here is a good video about the arctic methane emergency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9ed5E54s4

Some summary points:

- Total amount of methane in the current atmosphere: ~5 gigatons

- Amount of carbon preserved as methane in the arctic shelf: estimated at 100s-1000s of gigatons

- Only 1% release would double the atmospheric burden of methane

- Not much effort is needed to destabilize this 1%

- The volume currently being released is estimated at 50 gigatons (it could be far more)

- 50 gigatons is 10x the methane content of the current atmosphere

- We are already at 2.5x pre-industrial level, there is a methane veil spreading southward from the arctic.

- Methane is 150x as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2 when it is first released.

Here is a longer video for those who have the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPdc75epOEw
I will also say that this is not an academic argument for me; I am in the middle of writing yet another immediate-mode GUI right now, for the game editor I am working on. Every day I am freshly glad that I am doing things as IMGUI instead of RMGUI.

Here is a (somewhat old) video explaining some of the motivations behind structuring things as IMGUI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qyvQsjK5Y
There used to be one called Visual SlickEdit that was a good IDE that ran on Linux. My ex-Microsoft friend, who had recently switched from Windows to Linux, was a big proponent of it.

edit: Looks like it is still around!

https://www.slickedit.com/trial/slickedit
Trefethen & Bau's "Numerical Linear Algebra" is a pretty good primer, though the last few chapters I remember being a bit lacking (it's been about 6 years though).
This version does not provide an ISO. However, they support creating your own like so:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create...
Not directly, but this is very nearly a web version of the Handbook of Mathematical Functions by Abramowitz and Stegun [1]. There is a pdf of this book (at the link).

[1]: http://people.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/
>One of the worst problems I see for the new JS developers is the tooling-overload. Being an experienced developer, I know why that tooling is required

Being probably even more experienced (or at least older in the business) developer, I don't. :-)
> Bash is not always /bin/bash. On some systems (BSDs) it is /usr/bin/bash.

Nitpick: on every BSD system I've used, it's /usr/local/bin/bash. But I definitely agree that using /usr/bin/env bash is the preferred solution for when you want to use bash (although I don't think it's even installed by default on most BSD's); as an Arch user (where /usr/bin/python is symlinked to python3 rather than python2), I appreciate those who go out of their way to use proper, portable shebangs.
If a site with an EV cert is being spoofed using a similar-looking domain name and a DV cert, how realistically is the user going to remember that the real site is supposed to have an EV cert? (Besides just maybe remembering it for Paypal in particular.)

See also the Nordea section at https://hsivonen.fi/bank-idp/ . How is a user supposed to form a mental model about multi-server org who don't use EV consistently?
Cheap Flights from Paris to Rome
All of those pictures - except the one with the pile of tangled bikes - look like a very, very calm day in the Netherlands :)
Ask HN: Why the heck do we now say that functions are microservices
.. when taking about serverless
I'm curious how much the internet has helped bridge this gap today

Based on internet comments, I'd say it has made things worse.

I've read that statistically today's schools in the US are even more segregated than even before the civil rights act.

Do you have a pointer to that data? I find it hard to believe, but I guess it is possible given that communities tend to be highly segregated still.
+1 for MerlinWRT, it's great. Easy to install and let's you do some awesome things vs. stock ASUS firmware. The OpenVPN client is pretty powerful too. Using policy-based routing, you can send some traffic to the VPN and other to your normal WAN.
Saleae also has better ESD and voltage protection on their units than this EVB does. I'd be afraid to see what -15VDC does on some of these GPIO pins.

Plus the newer units can also have 1 or more analog channels.

While having a live view of the data would be nice, I've found that 99% of my work with the Logic doesn't really need it.
...which can be filled by AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast who use their lobbying firms, teams of lawyers, and war chests to destroy anyone else who wants to run fiber through them.

FTFY.
With an RBF Kernel, you are stuck solving the dual problem which has O(n^2 * m) complexity. With the linear kernel, you can solve the primal scales with O(n*m) complexity.
Sure, but I'll only pay them for the minutes when they are checking out a customer.
Well, they could just make a C extension to Electron that draws a blinking colored line (that's all it is) using the OSes arbitrary drawing facilities.

No need to have an official OS caret function (especially if you're not a native text field, and caret aside, the rest of your text editing will be different/broken in subtle ways compared to the OS).
That might be because they're the CA underlying Cloudflare's automated SSL issuance - at least for free tier customers.
Announcing R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2015
Yes, instead of the students learning anything, when you send a student to the university you're returned a new student which is almost the same only with more knowledge.
Correct, I don't believe that human extinction is in the cards from unchecked GW. Though it could well still be the greatest and most prolonged disaster in recorded history. There is an enormous gulf between minimum thresholds for, respectively:

- "Not a big deal"
- A catastrophe, comparable to World War II
- The greatest catastrophe in recorded history
- The extinction of industrialized civilization
- The extinction of the human species
- The extinction of multicellular life
- The extinction of all Earthly life
- The destruction of Earth as a planet

It can be tricky to push back against hyperbole comparing AGW to some of those later-stage events without being mistaken for someone who doesn't worry about AGW at all.
Define a lot. Every plugin I use on Atom run on Linux fine.
Ease, not completely solve.

By far most last mile areas do have sidewalks, if you consider population served as opposed to geographic area.

Which is by far the most reasonable metric, because only humans use the internet...
Not true:

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...
Interesting perspective.
Best Solutions for Window Condensation and Mould / Mold in Greater Vancouver
Sorry, nope. The climate community pretty much agrees on this. How we will deal with the changing circumstances is wide open though, so there is some hope there. Given our history though..

edit: Here's a comment I made for released carbon due to permafrost melting (with literature):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13769896
Introduction to nginScript
> sort of digital ice-nine

This perfectly captures how I feel about the proliferation of JavaScript. Thanks!

The way I see it, people try to push JavaScript everywhere, no matter how the domain is ill-suited for web technologies. We have even JS frameworks for microcontrollers and embedded development, for goodness' sake! What I fear is that this steals the mindshare of younger generation, and we'll be flooded with half-assed JS non-solutions to everything, while saner approaches fall off the hype train and wither away.
Well, I'm certain my eyes are real so I am certainly not living in a computer simulation.
Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940554 and marked it off-topic.
GIMP is pretty easy to pick up if you've used desktop apps before. It follows the sort of conventions you'd expect.. Blender, on the other hand, has a very unique approach to UX.
The opposite of a state school?
We need a service to check if your certs could be flagged as bad. Especially since this spans so many brands (Symantec, Equifax, VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte, etc). Something like, plug in the domain name, and it'll tell you if you need to update the cert.
Yes, in fact that is how it works. If multiple independent contractors work for some firm, they each get their 30,000 exemption (if eligible) as individual sole proprietors of their individual businesses. They have their own business numbers and GST accounts which are considered individually.

Contractors are considered employees in some ways and not in others. This is mainly under labor ("labour", here in Canada) law which is there to protect workers from being exploited by being reclassified as contractors. Like you can't ask people to work in shit conditions just because they are contractors, and such, or deny them a lunch break.
Can someone draw a schematic for simulating Universal Basic Income?
Some functions implemented using serverless frameworks (e.g. Lambda or OpenWhisk) are microservices.
A shell could, and I'm going out on a limb here, check whether it's interactive or not and just enforce the -e in the appropriate case...
Yeah, I added another predator species, and I'm pretty sure the escalating cycles of feast and famine should have led to ecological collapse.
Much of the funding behind the tea party movement, right wing media, “think tanks”, the armies of pundits on every cable news channel, “grassroots” conservative issue-advocacy organizations (including Citizens United, for instance), anti-Democrat conspiracy books, and so on comes from completely unaccountable and often anonymous billionaires.

Campaign finance laws actually have significant influence on how much money can be spent, how transparent the funding must be, what money can be used for, etc. Media regulations also have a large impact.

A particular fringe world-view doesn’t just pop into significant numbers of voters’ minds out of nothing. It is deliberately tended and promoted by folks with large amounts of money with specific policy goals.

See e.g. this interview with Jane Mayer about Bob Mercer from yesterday, http://www.npr.org/2017/03/22/521083950/inside-the-wealthy-f...
Which is completely fine for automation of things on said phone, or that are only accessed from it.
Car2Go is quite popular in Amsterdam, several friends use it as their main mode of transport for rainy days / long distance. Being able to park them for free, in a city where parking is extremely limited and expensive, is a big plus.
Maybe you missed this paragraph, it talks about your point:

Makefiles are more versatile
Ah, sorry. You're right. Income is a bad proxy for the real source of the funding and availability of debt is far more precise.
Australia has laws about this: eg. If you do >80% of your work for one company, you are an employee for all tax/employment law purposes.
Brave, which is based on Blink.
Lager – AWS Lambda and API Gateway and Swagger
I can't find a good solution for the problem and that's a bit depressing...
This feels a bit more accurate to me though: http://bit.ly/2nsIOXc
They already support collecting HST (drivers who make more than $30k have to). Occasionally I take a ride and see HST on the receipt, but most are dodging it.
It is a bit more complicated than that.

There are two classes of problems in spectroscopy: qualitative (trying to identify what the sample is) and quantitative (deciding concentrations of one or more analyte in sample).

Qualitative is quite simple: each material have quite unique fingerprint and you match it against dataset.

Quantitative is very very tricky. You have to pick good region of spectra and you have to pick good features (say peak areas or peak high). For complex solutions you will get a lot of peak overlaps and then you have problem with matrix effects for most samples (non-linearities caused by combinations of various compounds and so forth).

Good news is that a lot of interesting things can be found in near infrared region, so you don't really need expensive diffraction gratings and delicate optics.
Uber is essentially just a matcher and payment processor that takes a cut, they don't own vehicles or employ drivers - will they only have to pay taxes on their cut?
I'd be interested in people's views on these two product lines, as they're more or less what I'd settled on as a shortlist for my next machine.
>Except for the startup time --- with which I can live with --- I never felt a difference in speed between native text editors and VSCode. There is one, but I don't notice

Try editing anything larger than a simple program file (from a large JSON to a CSV as devs often do) and you'll do. Try hex editing a large binary. And many other tasks.
Phone rooms don't work. I can't predict the future, so I have no way of knowing exactly what time an incoming phone call will occur. Maybe you can do that, but most of us can't.

Blowing noses? Isn't that what you're complaining about? Or just sniffling? If someone's sick with a cold, they're going to be doing a lot of both. It's not like you can blow your nose once and be good for the rest of the day; if it was like that, then you wouldn't have coworkers sniffling all day long. People get sick. Deal with it.

As for tapping fingers, how's that any more annoying that key clicks, foot tapping, or constant movement? People do all those things too. The fact is, people move. They cannot sit perfectly still and use the minimum necessary motion. Deal with it.

You're asking for people to be super-human. That isn't reasonable or possible. People are what they are, so you need an environment which accounts for that. If you don't have that, then it's management's fault, not the peoples' fault for just being what they are.

Honestly, you sound like someone complaining about cats licking their butts and dogs drooling.
Forum voor Democratie [0], a party that can best be described as the Dutch New Right [1] party, used Cambridge Analytica for their campaign. As a party that joined they elections for the first time, they suddenly got two seats, while many other small parties like the Pirate Party have been struggling to get a seat for years. They described their tactic as being "inspired by Trump social media tactic". [2] I was skeptic at first but this event showed to me that at least they're a bit successful in manipulating potential voters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_for_Democracy_(Netherlan...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Droite#Beyond_France

[2]
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/thierry-baudet-net-als-trump
Yes, Uber is much better. The drivers all have smartphones with GPS and they know where you're going before you get in the car. So even if their English is limited, it's much less of an issue.
This doesn't make any sense. It ignores so much, including obvious things like gender (white women from the US are still disadvantaged in our field, despite having the same language, ethnicity, and nationality of the most privileged class).

It seems like you wrote a reactionary comment, rather than a well thought through one.
It's not just label confusion, it's an active contradiction in the principles most of them constantly espouse vs. the actual policies they enact.

But it is a little silly to have a "republican" party in countries (USA, France) where the monarchy is long gone.
> good for the people

The White House seems to be full of people compromised to the Russians. But the voters are happy to have defeated the real enemy, their fellow Americans.
microservices. the struggle is real.
Local automation on a mobile device has a limited set of use cases (and arguably most of them are also included in the use cases of cloud-based automation), but it's not useless or completely subsumes by cloud automation.
Actually the parent did, I think the reply is a legitimate criticism as the op also simply gave one anecdote then proceeded to strawman an entire populations gender.
I know babel is always required if the coder lives in the future and struggles with todays state of things.
I fully suggest this, but also some other things.

Try different media. I've found, at least for me, sometimes just reading it won't click. I pull up some ocw or a random video on youtube and presto. It is important to remember that when it clicks that what you've been reading makes sense and to reread. Sometimes I'll go through like 5/6 videos, it is just finding the right one.

Try problems. Struggling is the key to success in mathematics. There is no doubt in my mind that this is true.

If you REALLY have problems look up a professor at a local university or community college. Find out when their office hours are and send a polite email asking that if they have time you'd appreciate the help. This will be hit or miss, but many are glad to help (no one does academics for the money). Many will even let you sit in on their classes (less will grade your work).
NSA spying is far, far, far different than having all your info available to the highest bidder.
It's a Brave New World!
Ok, thanks! We'll get back to you asap.
lol, all that asterisks!
>Uber has made a business out of exploiting legal loopholes.

I find that kind of argumentation silly. They brought to the taxi industry, what is common in other industries, like construction, tech, etc. Stated differently, Uber has been able to provide a competitive service by legally structuring themselves in a way maximizes return for the themselves, for the driver, but still keeps costs low client due to say structuring.
Make it available S&S only on Amazon. People are a lot more comfortable setting up subscriptions through Amazon, and Amazon allows you to skip a month, bring forward, cancel, etc.
We can't do that; we don't have the culture they have in Japan. These things are a product of culture. Japan has a culture in which street crime basically never happens; the US does not. The US has a culture where the politicians are thoroughly corrupt, especially at the local level, and the voters like it and re-elect them happily. You can't just will culture to change.
Bekenstein bound
>Symantec is at the clear disadvantage.

I'm not sure how they are at a disadvantage if they have supplied 30% of in-use certificates, and are responsible for 42% of all validations.

While I don't condone Symantec's behaviour, I think google is being a bit hypocritical here. Have you ever tried reporting gmail spammers to google?
Excellent point! Let me first quickly explain that the only reason I appear fixated on content-creation is because the vast majority of "save the ads" crowd use the "but the content creators will stop" argument ;)

The answer to your question is simple: it doesn't matter. Replace "content creator" with a more general "service provider" and my point remains exactly the same. There is no good reason why we need to defend ads, specifically, as a business model, other than "it's already in place". And while "being in place" is a rather strong force, more and more people are using ad blockers. I would consider that a pretty clear indicator that we need a better system.

There's one last thing I would like to clarify about my argument: no matter what systems we have or lack, the question is always who cares for something enough to pay for all of part of it. Ads try to take that question away, but they don't -- they merely make it seem like they do. But even if we didn't have the ads, there are always ways to shift the burden of payment away from the totality of the consumers.

For example, the service could be sustained through a donation drive. Wikipedia comes to mind right away, but so does the PTSA of the public school my son goes to. Another source of funding might be the service provider: there are people out there so passionate about what they do, that they'll pay the costs out of their own pockets. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying everyone should depend on altruism, but it's also an option that doesn't get brought up enough.