skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Music...I've always loved music but never learned to play an instrument, the few times I tried I got so frustrated because I'm always hearing melodies/rhythmic patterns in my head and could never replicate them with my rudimentary skills and terrible hand coordination, and growing up I never had enough money for lessons. In my 20's I was working and studying full time so I had no time whatsoever for hobbies and now in my 30's I have money and time but no energy or passion for music like I did when I was younger.
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Luna Park: Fun Rides, Kids Attractions
Configuration, asset management, interface config and documentation are included under things to automate and always have been.
spinningrust.io the new web 2.0 tech start up that performs data science statistical arbitage techniques on your customer data.
> Eventually, in such an effort, there would probably be zero lines of code from the original project left. That's okay! It was there to bootstrap the project and inspire contributions, not to be good code.

The Web doesn't need "bootstrapping" and "inspiring contributions". It's 20 years old!

> Keep in mind that, if there really was just one impl that everyone used, there'd be more than one megacorp influencing it; Google would have no more say than anyone else, and would probably be "at arms' length" from the maintainership in the same way e.g. Apple is with Webkit. If Google didn't like an idea, but some other corp (e.g. Mozilla) did, sponsorship would still happen, code would still get written, and things would still change.

No, the organization that didn't like the change would fork the project. This already happened with WebKit!

> See: the Linux kernel.

Linux gets forked over and over and over again, every time some organization wants to ship a device running it.
You don't solve the cyclist safety problem by putting them on sidewalks. It makes pedestrians less safe and makes cyclists little or no more safe than they are now. A huge percentage of fatal accidents happen at intersections and those actually get worse when you put cyclists on sidewalks. Seattle allows bikes on sidewalks and last I checked, it didn't solve the problem. In fact, last I checked most cyclists in Seattle recommended riding in the street because it's safer.

If your only solution to the problem is to blame pedestrians for not walking in straight lines then you have no practical suggestions and you're no better than the people you say just blame cyclists. Pedestrians will not suddenly become vigilant as they walk, nor should they. Sidewalks exist specifically so that pedestrians have a safe place to walk.

Edit: Just for fun...

> Again I'm not saying that bikes on sidewalks is a good idea. But it's a hell of a lot better of an idea than bikes on roads. You can make up a million reasons why it won't work, but all of them are overshadowed by the huge amounts of motorcyclists who get killed or seriously injured by motorists every year.
PhotoScan [1] seems quite fancy. I wonder if they have super-resolution and post stabilization flow de-blurring in the pipeline for "simple" photos.

[1] nice initials btw
Do you know prior to paying for your discount fair?
Typing this on Carbon 3rd Gen. Linux works perfectly, out of the box, and always has been. Its a fantastic laptop, much better than the XPS. The keyboard is a different league, with proper travel and feel, and the build quality is much better. It feels solid, yes very light.
Apple's Goal to stop mining, use only recycled materials
I can never remember the Latin, but in my mind, I usually substitute i.e. to mean "in essence" and e.g. as "e.g.xample" to remember which means which.
Agreed. I have worked with FPGAs at multiple companies, both on the logic side and on the software side interfacing with them. Verilog and VHDL are not the problem. The problems I have seen, over and over are:

1. Improper clock domain crossing

2. Improper timing constraints

I have never used ASIC quality verification tools. But to me a free tool from Xilinx/Altera like valgrind or clang sanitizer would be huge for FPGAs.

Or even just a way to "diff" two bitstreams, one that is "bad" and one that is "good" that were from the same source to see what makes the bad FPGA bad would be huge. I mean bad in the sense that some probabilistic/annealing algorithm used during FPGA synthesis on a net with an incorrect timing constraint lead to a FPGA that doesn't work as intended.

I went from logic to doing software. Can't say I miss the FPGA world. Seems so much easier to get software right.
via https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/19/apple-recycled-material...

Is this economically possible? You'd have to somehow separate the old phones into component parts
I had similiar problem. I called them, got to the real person, who fixed issue within 2 minutes. Total call time was about 5 minutes. That included time, I was searching for invite and so on.
I found MS Office Lens a tad better when I tried both a few monthes ago. Something in gPS bothered me but I can't remember what. That said this upgrade seems quite serious.
Activists, cannabis industry team to open first public bank in a century
Mastercard has a new credit card with a fingerprint scanner in it
On my personal laptop, Skype forced me to update to the "new" skype version that's styled like the windows 10 one. I could no longer log into the old one. This new one is objectively worse.

+ chat history seems to work

+ dark mode

- no cross platform video calling (except to web)

- way less settings (like notification configuration stuff, all sorts of settings)

The only thing I really use skype for is skyping to family members. Now I can't do that, because cross platform video doesn't work. The old skype worked and had more features and settings! Why force me to switch when the new version isn't feature-complete!
Virtually every business model involving the internet relies at least partly on Google, so while your comment may be true it isn't particularly helpful.
That wouldn't represent a support commitment from Canonical. I'm hoping for less of "this worked last time I tried it" and more "We've found this hardware fairly easy to support, and we're willing to commit to making sure that this specific combo works flawlessly in all cases, and will have functional upgrade paths".
Any example of a radically different social structure that has worked for humans in the past?

Btw I agree 100% that change is necessary and "natural". Vacuous hippie statements are not "it" though -- rational discourse and careful simulation is. This cannot be another "Oh, I had an idea in the bathtub, how about we try this ideology on the entire world's population?".

Given the room for disaster, and history's record of emotionally-loaded ideologies not backed by facts leading to such disaster quite reliably, that rhetoric is utterly unconvincing (as well as scary).
This. I ride not-particularly-reliable motorcycles. My personal philosophy is to always have access via at least two different financial institutions and their computer networks to sufficient debit/credit funds to get myself and a possibly broken bike home from the most remote place I could possibly end up on a trip.

(I did once end up having a tremendously fun weekend in Melbourne thanks to a broken down bike and a weekend long outage of my then only bank's ATM network - but it would have been even more fun with more than the cash in my pocket and relying on friends for somewhere to sleep until a branch opened on Monday morning...)
Awesome write up, I've only made it about 1/4 the way through.

It's a huge article and wonderfully approachable.

Loved the image of the speed of signal transfer with and without mylin sheath and how why that causes the issues that MS patients have (it's under note 13) [0]. A friend has MS and it's great to be able to better understand the condition.

> Multiple sclerosis is caused by a glitch in the body’s immune system that causes it to destroy the myelin sheaths of neurons, which as you can see from the GIF below, would seriously disrupt the body’s ability to communicate with itself. ALD, the disease in Lorenzo’s Oil, is also caused by myelin being destroyed.

[0]: http://28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
CorelDraw is really nice for vector editing. The included PhotoPaint has languished on the vine but its unique object interface makes many things that are obtuse in PS or Gimp easy to handle.

That being said it's hard to beat Inkscape's native SVG support. You don't get surprised by fills and filters bloated into bitmaps like the legacy tools are wont to do.
> there is just not a need for […] authoring graphics in said fashion

You say that like Adobe Illustrator has existed without reason for 30 years.
How Poverty Changes the Brain: Early Results Out of a Boston Nonprofit
I don't agree with your assessment of the comment, it seems very clear that he thinks temperature does not affect the flavor.

Also, maybe I'm the only one, but I think (some) food tastes entirely different after a trip through the microwave.

Off-topic: How can HuffPo not know the difference between effect and affect?
>This paragraph is awful from a purely grammatical perspective.

Poor grammar doesn't necessarily mean poor writing.

See: Cormac McCarthy
Opens you up to a spiritual realm. I was not prepared for this. I was never the same. My life is basically a failure and I'm on the brink now.
Are you asking what a dodgy URL has to do with the article?
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I wish they did a better job describing where their gains were. I tried to pull something interesting out of the changelog but it wasn't obvious.
eSports as olympic games is nothing but, problem filled. Games are the intellectual property of private companies. What's a popular game doesn't stay the same in olympic time frames.

Games change over time for commercial reasons so unlike 100 meter dash being essentially the same as the greeks, next week's CS:GO or DOTA can have a balance patch or new features that make the game essentially different from this week's game.
While IATA codes do not require a consistent prefix, all the Canadian airports start with Y:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_by_IATA_code:...
D'oh, I meant statically typed. I blame only getting 3 hours of sleep... :)
As hard as it seems to acknowledge, but i think you are right.
Greed and individual(or corporate) growths always had the biggest influence on the planet.
We are indeed doomed should this trend continue.
I see no signs this trend will stop.
Also try out Figma. Switched to it a few months ago and it's been mostly awesome (some meh stuff like shoddy offline support)
That's weird. I have a Sony Bravia 4K 2015 Android TV as well, and it sure has an on-screen keyboard, navigatable using the normal TV remote. Not sure what's going on inside your TV, but you might want to contact someone about that.
I thought in Panama (and anywhere else outside the US) you have to pay income tax on earnings over $100k. I think you have to pay into Social Security too?
American Lung Association Releases List of the Nation’s Most Polluted Cities
I am libertarian and I think US immigration system is a glowing failure of central planning. It is something that people on left, right, center and under the ground can very easily agree on.
While certainly not definitive, I did read one study suggesting that software developers do have a higher than average suicide rate.
How likely are my pages to still work in 20 years?
So you use your old address as your billing address? Aren't you worried about the new resident of your old address receiving official communications intended for you?
This is neat. I've got a ton of these "pics of pics" of old family members so this definitely appreciated.

Who's the guy in the sample pic? One of the researchers?
Cyclists are less safe on sidewalks. While traversing a segment of sidewalk uninterrupted by driveways, alleys and streets, they are quite safe, of course. During those driveway, alley and street crossings, cyclists using a sidewalk are less visible to an emerging driver. Due to obstructions, the distance at which the cyclist is visible to an emerging driver is shortened; literally the cyclist appears suddenly "out of nowhere" in the path of the driver, which isn't the case if the cyclist is on the road, or not with the same abruptness.

On a road, you have room to intuitively swing out and away when approaching a "blind corner": a situation where a car might emerge, where visibility is bad (tall fence, bushes, whatever). You glance over your shoulder or into your rear-view mirror, then pull out into the road more to be seen sooner if a car pops up.

Cycling on a sidewalks with the same safety as on the road requires you to slow down to an almost complete stop at any driveway, alley, or street where visibility is bad; you're taking a big hit in your travel time.

The surface of sidewalks is often not of the same quality as that of the road; sidewalks are not suitable for cycling at 30 km/h and above, even when you have a decent stretch of side walk to be able to do that safely. Sidewalks are often concrete slabs with gaps between them and misaligned.
> If arguments about C++ are "technical bullshit", you should easily be able to explain why virtually no large-scale C++ project has been free of memory safety problems.

Way to generalize there. No C++ project has been free of memory safety problems because they don't have to be. C++ is not optimized for that. Sure you can optimize for memory safety but then real hackers (not on "Hacker" News) will find something else, and then all the internet idiots will crow on about how {LANGUAGE} doesn't sufficiently protect them from {SCARY THING}.

Maybe if we stopped adding every feature under-the-sun to our browsers, memory safety problems wouldn't be so prevalent! (But we can't have that, not if there is less money to be made!)
All the stuff you're complaining about is stuff that isn't really a python problem. They are definitely valid complaints, but they are with nonstandard things. Numpy is not really Python, it's magic on top of Python. Same goes for OpenCV, which is really just a bridge over to native stuff.

Python is very popular for the use cases you describe, but I have long felt it's akin to using a Honda Civic that has been souped up to be a specialized race car. You can definitely make a Honda fast around a racetrack, but that's not what they were designed to do. You're better off using a purpose built machine.

That being said, a purpose built racecar is harder to drive, doesn't have AC, needs more maintenance, has more expensive tires that wear out faster, etc...

Nothing in life is free, there is always a trade off.
I think you have to be careful to separate those who will buy your product versus those who will talk about the industry.
I think one of the reasons why "Jodorowsky's Dune" is such an amazing documentary is that it describes an impossibly ambitious film, something so awesome that you're drawn into believing in it with the director himself.

If it really _were_ made however, yeah, it could _only_ have be a disappointment in comparison to what the documentary about it suggests.

Jodorowsky's version of Dune is perhaps the greatest film that was never made and, ironically, it is better this way.
Flying cars have arrived. Here’s how people feel about them. – Vox
I recently upgraded my Linux PC, and had to reinstall Skype.

So I sign in to the new Skype, and can't remember my password. That's OK, I'll just get them to reset it. Oh, my email address expired while my PC was sitting on the junk heap? That's OK, I'll follow their prompts, this shouldn't be too difficult.

"Unfortunately, we were unable to verify your ownership of this account using the information you provided. [...]

Please submit a new account verification form
At this point, your best option is to submit a new form with as much accurate information as you can gather."

I've provided the details of six different users who were on my contact list, the complete email address I used to use, and there is nothing else I can do. No email address I can contact, no phone number to ring.

Oh, and most importantly, there's no "Import old account settings" option.

Screw you, Microsoft.
Thanks. It's good to have an understanding of the scale involved here.

That said, I'm not just talking about the plastic accumulated at this location but our waste plastic globally. That carbon might be considered "sequestered" in plastic for the time being, but that might not continue to be the case.
That your solution to the problem is a truly hideous hack, speaks volumes.
PayPal co-founder expected to invest in herpes vaccine maker
Had a similar conversation about that just yesterday. Our company is using 12.04 and I was nearly floored to see it is soon entering end of life... A quick test of 16.04 says, wow it is not going to be fun for us to upgrade...
Both make a list of the naughty and nice boys and girls. One substitutes brimstone for coal, nebulous "eternal happiness" for toys, but they seem pretty similar to me.
Search is complete garbage, basically unusable.
I disagree. This is the classic, let's rebuild it from scratch blackhole. You'd probably end up with much the same spec.

The one thing that does need to be done to svg is to work towards simplifying it and depreciating some of the more edgy features. It's a really broad spec that's complex to implement.
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Does trash really have a $ value? ;)
Grants are dangerous for society, because they encourage private businesses to cooperate with current-term politics, and they take money out of the market. Last year, our federal government gave nearly $400mm to one company expecting the creation of just 1300 jobs. There are federal tax incentives for any company that does essentially anything novel (SRED) and that somewhat works, since acceptance is only conditional on meeting the criteria. Grants are preferential.
Scientists Once Nuked Beer to See If It'd Still Be Drinkable After Atomic Blast
Interesting. Definitely some novel use cases to be explored here! I agree the rules get a bit glass-housey.
>being "transparent" isn't so easy

It isn't about being easy. It's about doing what is right. I don't care that it's not easy. Why would I, if I was a backer and you took my money?
VSE = Vancouver Stock Exchange. Pump and dump is a market timing strategy where you ride an inconsequential stock's rise over a relatively short time and then sell. I have no idea how that relates to parent's last sentence.
Maybe you just weren't doing it properly, or not focusing on the right market(s)? I have made plenty through both the iOs & Mac app store as an indie dev.
$60,000, that's it?
Old logo much better than new logo. Website looks not special like every website. older website better.
I am very thankful to people who take the time to share their tips for email management or other such tasks in enough detail that others can implement.

A lot of people have absolutely no strategy for managing email. A simple blog post like this could seriously benefit someone's life.
> All of that means you have to code to it differently.

> That requires new coding, we're on it.

Can you give a rough example to guide my thinking? I understand OSes are considering ways that this has both traditional disk and RAM properties, and are sorting out storage subsystems of drivers, but I assume you're talking about something closer to user-level structures and algorithms?
> I don't think you'll find anything in that bug list that's even close to the severity of a missing feature that's supported in every other browser as far back as IE8.

Yes, you will. Take the border-collapse bug I mentioned: it doesn't affect other engines, to my knowledge. Border-collapse goes back to, like, IE5.
The old American indigenous civilizations were way more prolific with the slashing and the burning than we are.

"It's the industry, stupid" - William Jefferson Clinton 2017
Ask HN: What software are you forced to use that you hate?
For me it's Rally (nee CA Agile Centra). It's dog slow, it has an interface cluttered with a million fields that we never use anymore (if we ever used them in the first place), but management loves it because they can generate a bunch of different reports from.

What's yours?
Hah... no that's rust, not docker ;)
Illustrator is a graphical editing tool. It outputs vector graphics, but it is not an authoring tool for the vector representation. At least, not in the way that requires knowing the spec.

Which is my point. Few people that are using Illustrator know anything about SVG.

I think you just misunderstood my sentence, so I apologize if that is the case. By "authoring graphics in said fashion", what I mean is authoring using text. Directly specifying the vector primitives, which is what SVG is ultimately for. Is there a better way of saying that?
The main factor is the market for this unused CPU time, a bid of 20% could be vastly different on each service. The GCE pricing model in a way has a sort of step function applied to the pricing, whereas AWS you can bid however you like, how this effects consumer usage I would guess is higher cost on AWS due to perceived competition. This is all assuming the CPU time on machines is constant.
> As did Firefox, kinda, and they keep flip flopping on it. It used to be that if you type any string, it does a "I'm Feeling Lucky" search. Now, on my FF, it does a Google search. So it still works...

The mozilla suite had it long before firefox too. This kept me on it for years after firefox was released.
huh, nice! I hadn't noticed that before either.
Great article, I'm wondering if Shinsuke's 'I'm dead' joke was wordplay on his name? If I'm not mistaken, 'I'm dead' translates to 'ore wa shin da', which sounds similar to 'ore wa Shinsuke da' ... then again, I could be way off :-)
Or, looking at it from a different perspective, the fine is maximum fare by definition. Then you can pay the posted fare or decide whether the expected fare based on fine x probability of capture
Capital Factory founder responds to criticism of unpaid internships
It's a per-card setting. Issuers here in the UK default to PIN for both credit and debit, but both are available with signature for those who need it.
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Maybe so, but they can certainly be ignored - and I say that thinking Stossel is correct in his opinion on this matter.
Ask HN: Ideas for IT-based articles in industry newsletter?
I have been asked to write monthly IT-related articles for an industry (direct-sales) newsletter. The articles are to educate the industry's businesses without being overly 'techie'. The first one I wrote was "Systemising Your Business", and I was thinking of the next one being "Understanding the 'Cloud'".

Any other ideas?
> I have yet to find a better system for rapid application development. XUL is wonderful, extentable, everybody know CSS and Javascript these days, XML is very well suited for such tasks. It's one of the best technologies for power-users I ever came around!

It also looks awful and ignores desktop themeing. Or is that just firefox?
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No recruiters plz.
When I was a teenager I heard 17c for the cup, < 1c for the soda.

Of course they go for like $1.50 so no matter how it breaks down, it's a nice ROI.