skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may work like this: Imagine a series of three steps.

On the first step, they either don't go to your Google Group, or they go, look around, say "meh", and leave. No upvotes.

On the second step, they go, look around a bit, register, and come back to the HN comment that led there, and upvote it.

On the third step, they go to the Google Group, look around, register, get engaged in the group... and because they got too engaged in the group, they forget to come back to the HN comment and upvote it. The result here is people join the group, but nobody upvotes the comment that led them there.

Is this what's happening? I have no idea.

(BTW: Michele, you're one of the very few people on HN that, when I see a post, I read it just because of who wrote it.)
The language is obviously graphic, but what he's describing is what every company would do. Why would they help a competitor? They have a responsibility to the shareholder to grow the business.
This is because not all Chromecasts are created equal. If you have a "normal Chromecast" it works great, if you have an Nvidia Shield that comes with "Chromecast built in" it does not integrate with Home at all.
The new capture mode with no glare removal has much higher resolution, still does the cropping and rotation.
I didn't realize this, but yes, this is absolutely true. I wonder how many people would actually be willing to pay a premium on having their clothes warm when coming out of a dryer.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/06/venezu...
> US (and Australia a bit, though less) has like 100x as many posted instructions and regulations as anywhere else.

I'm guessing he did not visit Japan then.
Thanks for elaborating.

> At some point the machine fact-checking relies on data input by humans.

But so does nearly every ML model? In the case of a spell checker it is using corpora made by humans. If the majority of humans start spelling words differently, then facts about the correct spellings change with them.

> Or does the machine interpret data directly from cameras on the street to determine, e.g. that suspect A shot victim B with weapon C?

If the military gets their way this will happen sooner than later. It is not technically infeasible to do activity detection from drone footage.

> Does it interpret a historical textbook and assess the veracity of its sources and claims?

Yes. Just like a journalist would when fact checking an article about WWII.

> Or does it build a time machine to go into the past and acquire raw data to verify claimed facts?

Raw data is both an oxymoron and a bad idea. Data is brought into existence by human-made measuring devices.
I Robot (movie) is just horrible. Really irks me to see Will Smith on the eBook cover.
USFA ZiP .22LR (2013)
Coinbase are nice people, and I hope Token is a success. If you'd like to compare the two products please do check out the tech stack - Status is completely decentralized, so doesn't rely on any centralised servers :)
There actually was a fork of node.js that used SpiderMonkey.

IMHO, one of Mozilla's greatest failures was its decision to more or less give up on embedding (for both SpiderMonkey and Gecko). They effectively killed off embedding in the process of moving to the train model back in 2011, 2012, but back then, the expectation was that they would have their 2 years of "let's kill our broken architecture." Instead, it sort of ended up dragging on how long it would take them to stabilize some APIs for embedding, and they certainly never bothered to try to maintain any documentation (I briefly attempted to maintain some client application that used SpiderMonkey in 2011, and it was a headache trying to find any sort of documentation on how to fix each incremental bustage, since everything that was found on MDN was woefully out of date).

First, there was to be some sort of IPC-based embedding mechanism in Gecko. Then that idea was nixed in favor of just XULRunner. Then Mozilla decided it didn't want to maintain XULRunner anymore. For a period of time, they had a XULRunner-like setup called something like webapprt (which was basically a Firefox sans normal Firefox UI), but that too was killed off within a few years.
Raw Linux Threads via System Calls (2015)
Buried lasers will sense Earth's spin and quakes doing the twist
1914 is pretty modern.
How does the work with malls?
Like I said in another comment, there was no bug in Ethereum, there was a loophole in the DAO contract script. In my mind, this is somewhat akin to creating a new currency, and then when a major bank trading in/holding that currency gets robbed due to lax security, the bankers decide that everyone needs to round all the currency up and rewind time and pretend like that never happened as a solution. Who's to say that won't happen again? I know that the DAO is instrumental to the early success of Ethereum, but what if some other major third-party is attacked in a similar way in the future? Are we just going to hard-fork every time something like this happens? What happens if/when Ethereum takes off, and eventually is used for elections or something? Will undesired election results cause hard-forks by the dissenting party? It just seems like a slippery slope to me, with no solution other than "well let's hard fork it now and reserve the right to hard fork it again in the future".

It also concerned me that it sure seemed like nearly everyone who was in favor of the hard fork had invested in the DAO and nearly everyone who was against it had not.
I hope it's more like the trilogies and less like the first Lynch version.
Fancy models will have a "warm" cycle that heats the clothes for the last 10 minutes.
Thanks so much for trying it out! We're also completely open source so contributors are most welcome (https://wiki.status.im/contributing/development/introduction...) - also feel free to come say Hi on our Slack (http://slack.status.im/), we're friendly people :)
Wish I was kidding about this.

My VP once e-mailed me at 5:30am with a question. He then CALLED my boss Director at 7:00am asking why I hadn't responded.
I am not the owner I am just a dev, I think glassdoor puts an avg for Senior in 130 +/- range (north VA) which seems to be +/- right especially considering they are flexible about remote work, there is also stock signup bonus which prob varies. To my knowledge the pay rate is not tied to visa status the work is pretty cool. I have no clue whar others have to do with this my comment was about people complaining they can not get a job because of H1Bs.
For what it's worth, I like the proposal, in large part because it is a rewrite with an aim to implement a full-featured cross-platform mail client. Something fresh but with the spirit of Thunderbird and consistent with the Mozilla credo appeals to me.

But to answer your question, I and several others I know whom use Thunderbird consider it a "least awful" choice. It's less complicated, opinionated, and buggy that Outlook. It's cross-platform unlike some of the other top-tier options. And it's less centralized, surveilled, and inverse-productized than third-party web-based email such as Gmail. It supports multiple accounts, through add-ons it supports GPG, it blocks bad HTML in messages, and for the most part it works well enough.

However, yes, I do have a lot of problems with Thunrderbird, ranging from daily annoyances to minor pet peeves. Reviewing my Bugzilla votes would be exhausting, but some highlights:

As others have pointed out, the search functionality is poor. It's slower than alternative clients (e.g., Opera Mail) and less accurate. It also opens to a low-value "search results" view rather than a list view. ( See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580252 ) It's not easy to quickly execute a search on the current folder only. The full search is so frustrating that I am in the habit of using the quick-filter bar (control-shift-K) because it works as I feel an e-mail search should work, but woe to the user who has "Body" selected in that UI control since the filter function does not use the search index. Also, why does ESC hide the quick-filter bar?

Addressing is slow even on extremely fast workstations, to the point of routinely causing me to need to correct addressing errors. However, they recently fixed bug 1012397 so that resolution will occur after a blur of an addressing field. Yay! ( See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1012397 ) Though other composition / addressing quirks such an improper initial focus on the composition pane still remain. ( See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329482 )

The email composition window is often slowed by activity occurring elsewhere within Thunderbird. If Thunderbird is working on moving a bunch of messages, for example, it can sometimes struggle to keep pace with typing in a composition window, on workstations with 8 or 16 modern CPU cores and NVMe SSDs.

All told, I would also be more or less happy with ongoing improvement to the existing product. But I understand that may not be viable if the underlying technologies start fading away.
Doesn't it raise an eyebrow that this one kid had such a litany of rare diagnoses? Maybe one or two of those things, but all of them?

I can't help wondering if the true diagnosis here should have been Munchausen syndrome by proxy (on the part of the parents) plus opportunism (on the part of the doctor).
For a debugger I usually run gdb in a terminal it initially had a pretty steep learning curve but I find it to be extremely powerful I mostly use it for analyzing core dumps rather than stepping through breakpoints. Being able to backtrace and step through stack frame by frame is really, really useful.
Must every appliance become "disposable"?
I wanted to be a priest. At some point, my relationship with faith soured and I no longer saw it as a calling.
"I'm basically a very honest person, but if I have to, I will lie."

Very honest indeed.
This is an incredible book. I'm a visual thinker, and while this book lacks all the glossy pages of illustration found in a modern Calculus textbook, the writing style helps develop that visual intuition. In the same vein of concise Calculus books, Serge Lang's Short Calculus is also great (if you need a refresher, or if you're just starting out).

https://www.amazon.com/Short-Calculus-Original-Undergraduate...
Looks like they calculated the optimum as ~500-600 Hz? That's in human hearing range too.
Wonder if they could add a quick warm cycle at the very end. Still use a lot less energy but still get warm clothes.
Or you could have zero cards given that everyone trots around with a supercomputer in their pants these days..
As I'm sure you're aware, the better language doesn't always win the popularity contest. Typescript, being a superset of js still has a lot of its warts. Dart is more of a clean break.
Indeed. Water cooled machine guns, fabric skinned biplanes, and vanguard communism were about to change everything...
I guess we all have our opinions but if you are composing long emails with intricate formatting I'd suggest you're doing it wrong. Email messages should be short, and preferably plain text. You have a little more leeway than in a tweet, but more than a paragraph or so and you lose the reader. I see this so often -- people will send me a treatise in email and I simply cannot comprehend that much text on a computer screen. So it's either print it, or skip it. Guess what happens most often?

If you need to write something lengthy and heavily formatted, do it in a Google Doc or blog post and put a link in your email.
The career advancement of the scientists and engineers working on the project depend on publications and outreach like this. Source: I was a post-doc at a DOE lab.
Take operating costs into account also.
I dunno man. Peet's has never failed me latte wise or even coffee wise. Starbucks can be a little burnt. And straight coffee at McDs is watered down for the senior citizens.
The sci-fi take is basically "what would the future look like if we had interstellar FTL travel and enhanced humans, but no computers, lasers, or bullets?"

It's hard to imagine any kind of modern government where your armies have to be trained in hand-to-hand rather than conscripted with rifles, and where you can't have computers to keep track of records.

I can understand why you might not buy into it, but it is very much a speculative fiction type book.
You said the difference was "/initially/ amazing"; did something change later?
Lots of good advice, Vimux was the killer for me I think. I have a common workflow of edit -> run -> edit and that will make that workflow seamless.

I also tried out vim-arpeggio but kept seeing "Arpeggio is not defined". Looks like the project hasn't been updated for a while.
It fundamentally undermines the trustless automated nature of smart contracts.
They likely will sonically baffle any outlet for humidity to avoid this issue.

I'm curious if the ultraound causes increased wear of the fabric at the thread ends, for example.
That won't help. Concatenate needs to know the total length up front. It will evaluate all the input items at once.
Betterexplained is right up there with the Khan Academy and Wikipedia. Between those three there aren't many subjects you can't improve your knowledge on from your livingroom.

tx kjhughes
I don't remember it being this bad maybe ~8 years ago.
You may want to investigate CentOS. They offer 10 year LTS releases.
The books don't rule out computers altogether do they? They ban "thinking machines", but it looks like calculators are fine.
Also people in US are in the habit of handing their card over to family members to use, which works with signature because the POS operator never checks the signature, but won't work with PIN because PINs are supposed to be super-secret. Hence requiring PIN would reduce the spend on credit cards (no lending and spending), hence fewer smaller boats for credit card executives.
Thank you.

I have terrible, terrible baggage over getting compliments in public and I have no idea whatsoever how to handle them. So, I feel like I am botching this, whether I reply to it or not. But I did want to acknowledge that I read it. It seems rude not to acknowledge it.
This is an interesting idea and probably would be useful but would only address people in single-family dwellings that don't share driers. I'm guessing that there is a reasonable use of clothes driers in commercial settings (laundry services) and shared driers in multi-family/large residential complexes (although many modern upscale projects have in-unit driers) where driers are shared.

Probably the best solution is a cultural shift to air drying. I was very surprised that when I was in the UK, a place not known for sunshine, many air dried their clothes, while when I lived in the desert of Eastern WA nearly everyone used a drier.
Why is trash ending up in the Arctic, that's my takeaway.

Half a kilo of plastic per square kilometer is a lot for water that shouldn't have any plastic in the first place. I guess it is all about perspective.
Why didn't any one tell me about this book when I was younger! This is so good. :)
It's configured with an account at setup. You need to reset the phone before logging in with another account.
Dang, you are right.
Show HN: Devilbox – all-purpose dockerized l[ae]m[ph]p stack for web development
Conventional driers also cause significant wear to clothes.
AI was banned, but I don't think computerization was. They had mentats to do what we'd use a neural network for today.
We did that, right up until we had three kids and full-time jobs :)
I read it twice because I was convinced I didn't understand it. I was right. I didn't understand it... but I also still don't understand it. I don't know why this is on the front page of HN...
Give it a try: "600 Hz Sine Wave Sound Frequency Tone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERHcqYNLHyg

and 500: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlEfshsoyZk

If that really is the range they are targeting, this product is doomed. That will be one heck of a noise to cancel. "Soundproof box" is right up there with perpetual motion, zero-point energy, and spherical chickens in vacuums.
Well, the other option is to explain how it's like existing methods of delivering online functionality, but decentralised - a thing that nobody really values - plus also incredibly slow, fairly complex, and you have to pay for everything that happens, and also the entire ecosystem is centred around a volatile speculation-rife currency and an approach to financial transactions which has been full of real and significant security problems - including the theft of millions of dollars from the flagship implementation right under the noses of many of the core devs, despite paying corrupt levels of money to other core boosters of the platform for completely hopeless security reviews...
Does anybody know how to get themes working properly in iTerm2 on a Mac? I've downloaded all kinds of themes and some look good, others look bad, but not one of them looks like it's "supposed" to look like from screenshots online.
The logical next leap is to cook food with ultrasound which will hopefully be somewhat faster than conventional cooking and less harmful (no protein denaturing [1]) than microwave cooking

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11088227
100% disagree. Building something to scratch an itch is by far the easiest way to proceed initially. Many, many tools and services were built to scratch an itch.
I keep picking this up to try and help and then dropping it. I wish I had more time in the day.

It looks like deserialization is mostly there, but not serialization.
This device is supposed to be eco-friendlier than a hot air dryer.

The benefit reduces if you have a consumable component that needs changing, especially with the amount of e-waste that goes to landfill.
This is exactly had the Sc-Fi channels trilogy did it. It's a much more faithful adaption.
I upvoted the article because I like Dune and think that discussion of the books/movies is interesting.

I disagree with your take on the original article in that the point is that Dune fails as a sci-fi movie partially because Lynch didn't get the genre and didn't understand the original novel all that well.

IMO, Lynch had the deck stacked against him from the start as the studio didn't know what kind of budget and planning it would take to get everything right in the movie and both the studio and Lynch learned some expensive lessons from this. So the movie was a failure, but an interesting one.
Depends on how you use the microwave and moisture content. But, 5 minutes at 20% is significantly different than 1 minute at 100%.
Mozilla already has a mail client written in Javascript and HTML 5 - the one shipping in Firefox OS.

And it worked decently.

Start by tidying it up for Android and then port it to desktop. One code base - for mobile, tablet and desktop.
Assuming by "email server" you mean an SMTP server, that's not quite what I'm talking about. What I'm looking for is more akin to a mail store, an IMAP server, and functionality for sending and receiving via actual SMTP server(s). That's a separate set of responsibilities to reading or composing messages, which would just need something like an IMAP-compatible client. And all of those are separate responsibilities to a full SMTP server with all the administrative overheads that comes with.

You could do the back office part of what I'm talking about with tools like Dovecot and fetchmail today, running on a Linux server with a standard Maildir backing store, and then you could run Thunderbird purely for its IMAP client capabilities as a front-end, but setting it all up and maintaining it is a horrendous hassle and it's far too technically demanding for most users anyway.

However, separating the receive/store/send responsibilities from the read/write responsibilities would mean you could have a single store on any server with relatively straightforward set-up to actually send and receive mail, which you could then access from any device on your network (or over a VPN or the Internet if it's running on a remotely accessible box), without the risks and overheads of both running your own SMTP server and trying to get mail from it actually accepted anywhere else these days.

Now that everyone's got PCs, laptops, tablets, phones, and who knows what else, I think this is probably the single most limiting problem with traditional offline email clients compared to all the hosted webmail services, but it shouldn't be necessary to incur all the downsides of those hosted webmail services just to access your mail from different devices.
Xcode and Interface Builder. I can bare up under Xcode, but I dread using Interface Builder. It's a huge energy sink and frustration piled on top of frustration.
I didn't know they even had PDF files were as old as that!
I have nothing to say other than that I adore this book
>A decentralized cryptocurrency is a lovely ideal, but in the dirty real world, Ethereum and its ilk will win out.

So basically you're saying centralized, institutionally backed and controlled currencies are better, or at least you're saying that hard forks are ok. Ok great. We have the dollar for that. Why even bother with cryptos.
3 characteristics of startup ideas that are likely to work
It seems to be pretty strict, eg.

Example of prohibited advertising:
The Rappido Company is advertising a remote-controlled toy car like one seen in an
animated film. The advertisement is broadcast on Saturday morning on a TV channel for
children during a cartoon program. The ad is in animated film format and shows a young
boy who is thrilled to be operating his high-speed car. This ad would be prohibited.

But there's no mention of product placement. I imagine that would be hard to account for.
They have lasers, but if they hit a personal shields it explodes the the shooter, the victim and anyone near both.

They also have computers, but they're limited.
My current job requires us to use base ClearCase. It might have been bleeding edge technology at one point in time but now it is so painful to use compared to something like git. Unfortunately there are so many scripts / processes that are tightly coupled to ClearCase that it may take forever to move to something else. What makes it even worse is that we use it in VMs and the performance is woeful.
Indeed that's what it says. That's neither ultrasonic nor easy to block with reasonable quantities of sound dampening materials.

They also directly mechanically couple the transducers to the fabric. You need as much area of transducer as fabric you need to dry, unless you have some automated way to place the fabric on the transducers sequentially.
That would be extra processing analyzing frames trying to find the right ones. Again, the biggest problem with this is doing it on the phone at a reasonable speed.
These numbers refer to microscopic and otherwise extremely small particle size. You're still in "a couple of kg per square km" territory in the denser regions for these other (more famous) patches.

Again, this is not a good thing and has important negative ecological effects. This needs to be studied and mitigated. But we're still not walking on top of floating islands of garbage.
In London, the barriers automatically charge the maximum fare if you forget to touch in or out of the system. It helps because you can jump the barrier to get into the system but you never know if ticket inspectors/security will be present at the station where you plan on alighting. The penalty for being caught jumping the barrier is significantly higher.
Have you tried it again recently? The new update allows for higher quality.
Could simply be habituation; where, like with HDTV, it's amazing at first but you get used to it and it simply becomes "the normal".
Spring

Hibernate

maven

KDB+ (but now I love it)
I'd be interested to know how much of a problem this is in Canada.

Maybe it's different here because debit cards are so common that we've been trained to remember our PINs. My bank even uses Chip & PIN as the first step for an in-person transaction at a teller.
I didn't mind the House * prequels, but the ones covering the butlerian jihad were pretty awful.

The sequels were ok, I was just happy to have closure.