skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we will someday, the kilogram and ampere are a bit higher on the priority list right now. Also remember that S is not a quantity that we can directly measure, so 1/T = dS/dE isn't so useful for measuring T.

The effort to redefine the Kelvin would probably use an acoustic thermometer to measure the speed of sound in a gas. This would fix the Boltzmann constant. It seems a bit silly to do this when the definition of the kilogram is expected to change, though.

In the meantime, triple-point cells are pretty convenient, much more convenient than the international prototype kilogram, or the infinite length of wire used to define the ampere. Also remember that laboratory temperature measurements tend to be much less accurate than voltage or mass measurements. ITS-90 is apparently good to within 100ppm, but 1ppm or better is no problem when you're measuring voltage, mass, or length.

Here's a presentation on thermometry, the acoustic thermometer described is what's used to accurately measure the Boltzmann constant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irr8fOLtiWc
The greed of those already dead will kill us all.
Why would I want this over plain HTML and JavaScript? This should be crystal clear from reading the website for a minute but this is the second time reading it, since I believe there was already a topic last week on this library, and I still don't get the value of this.

Real world examples should include at the least a TodMVC implementation so users can compare this to other choices.
> learning and building.

This. And also, continuing to earn and giving it away to the needy.
Yep, but they couldn't do fresh produce that well.
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In my opinion the basic income idea is the good way to go.

In my mind UBI means stability, stability means better, thought out choice choice of employment, better work choice means less abuse by employers (who happily exploit people on the edge) AND more happiness, therefore less stress and higher productivity.

It's not a perfect solution, as there will be people who will refuse to work, but those would in my honest opinion use their time to socialize with others, and less stressed people who actually work would, at least in part, happily resocialize people left out through socialization and natural integration. Social circles mean opportunity, opportunities mean chances of success in finding work.
> DHL shipping is another 20-25USD + VAT on import makes it closer to 50.

I pay $14 total, shipping is free and customs here doesn't bother with small packages.

> just buy a nice set of drills with larger diameter shank and a small vertical drilling machine

"X is not a problem, just buy a machine that does it" can be applied to everything. I don't want to spend that much money/don't have that much time/space.

> The problem is connecting both sides of the hole together

Yeah, vias are going to be a royal pain. For through-hole vias where components go, I can just apply enough solder so that it touches both sides.

> On the other hand, it makes you gravitate towards SMD parts more

SMD parts are fantastic and I use them as much as I can, but they aren't always feasible :/ (Think DC connectors, SMT antennas, etc).

> As I gained more experience, the boards started to work with less revisions

Definitely, but my problem is that I always find something I can improve, even if the board works...
We should start angling for the contracts to build the seawalls that big cities are going to need over the next 50 years.
Sea ice comes and goes. Land ice is much more important. There is an acceleration on land ice loss.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/land-ice/
Who would you give to, out of interest?
I'm surprised passport offices don't care more about photo quality. I submitted a reasonably clear photo with good contrast correct colour balance, and the image on my UK passport (both printed and on the chip) is blurry, washed out, and badly tinted yellow/green.

I guess they scanned it in with crappy settings and didn't care enough to fix it.
Those are all just headlines. In reality the world is getting better (for humans).
That's a record extent, not a record volume. Volume is how much ice there is. Extent without volume means the ice is more spread out, i.e. thinner.
Poor compatibility with C extensions is often an issue. That hurts if you're building something large that interfaces with native code that's expensive/practically impossible to replace (stores, custom network transports, scientific libraries...).
Batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
There is such a tremendous amount of contradictory research on diet that I wouldn't be too easily swayed by one study or another. I would step back a bit and consider that red meat is definitely bad for our habitat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...), and it's definitely bad for animals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death).
Discrete Computational Methods for Robotic Additive Manufacturing (2016) [pdf]
I do have to inquire exactly how far you think this logic extends. Lets say I am BMX biking with a friend, and there is a tricky jump we are considering doing. I advise him to try it, he does and breaks his neck. Am I guilty of assault and battery on my friend?
Tech giants are predicting widespread, permanent unemployment. Jobs that currently pay something like $20k to maybe $50k are supposed to be replaced with basic income paying more like $10k. If large swaths of the population are going to take a de facto pay cut over jobs that in some places are already considered poverty wages AND then they have little or no hope of securing paid income to supplement their UBI, this sounds like a terrible nightmare to me.

I would much rather people be working on new ways to spread the work around while improving quality of life for the masses. You know, the policy they pursued during the last Industrial Revolution when automation was threatening to eliminate jobs.
That's a great point, and I think that Instacart will have a much easier time developing those partnerships now that Amazon has implicitly validated grocery-delivery as a major market.

I think the real risk is that Amazon enters the market and quickly enters into a relentless price war that makes the ~20% premium compared to in-store prices that Instacart puts on every product untenable and sucks the entire market into an unprofitable quagmire from which other grocers will struggle to escape, because Amazon can afford to subsidize its grocery business for longer than its competitors can survive.

IMO, the Instacart bull scenario is that they manage to survive Amazon's arrival and gradually take on a larger share of the consumer grocery market, turning their grocery partners into urban warehouse/distribution center operators with vestigial storefronts attached.

The Instacart bear scenario is that the entire non-Amazon grocery market collapses in the same way bookstores did over the past 20 years, leaving behind only a few specialty stores that cover niches that Amazon finds unprofitable to enter, and that Instacart's potential partner base is too sparse and fragmented for them to survive.
In 1900 a world expo was a great way to find out about new stuff you never had heard about. With internet and TV I don't think there are any new things to be learned from an expo. Same for trade shows. In 1990 you saw some real surprises. Not anymore.
Because nobody pay for this.

This is the ultimate truth.
I'm no historian but isn't the sky always falling according to some highly respected sources?

I mean, yeah, let's always work towards fixing problems but is the end really near?

Edit: I'm unsure why the parent comment is now flagged.
A rebound? I remember reading somewhere(probably HN) that McDonald's makes most of its money from franchise locations rent, so I assumed as long as franchisees are keeping up with their payments their product line is not gonna affect the bottom line that much, I am not an expert on the subject though.
This is a joke, right? Warm water occupies more volume than cold water. Also, ice that is on LAND and running off into the OCEAN will raise sea level. Also water from melting ice caps that evaporates goes back into the ocean and refreezing on polar caps is slowing down, so more water in the ocean. It does not have to melt straight into the ocean. Sea level is rising due to ice melting. It is a fact.
An old family friend of my Dad's is a franchisee, he has the only two stores in the country town I grew up in.

He says it's literally a license to print money, and he is now obscenely rich.
"Alaska among top states in illicit drug use" [1]

"A new report from the state health department shows a dramatic rise in heroin use in Alaska. The number of hospitalizations for heroin related causes nearly doubled in the state from 2008 to 2012" [2]

"Alaska had one of the lowest four-year graduation rates in the United States in the 2013-14 school year...That year, 71.1 percent of Alaska's high school seniors graduated in four years -- the rest dropped out or needed more time to get their diplomas." It was 68% in 2011.
[3]

[1] http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/alaska-among-top-st...

[2] http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/07/14/report-heroin-use-is-...

[3] https://www.adn.com/education/article/despite-steady-gains-g...
What makes D3 more flexible?
Used ublock v0.9.5.0, no issues with ads or popups at all.
I get that it wasn't funny...glad someone at least saw the context.
This thing has some real potential if it matures. I think it's easy to get excited about the direction this could take, especially as a build environment tool. It could be much more efficient than Docker. That being said, it certainly needs to mature, as voiture points out. You have a neat idea but your platform is not really even complete yet. Open source is a good choice.
There is a marked difference between someone who has a terminal, painful illness and has made a cold, rational, and sober decision to end their life and someone who has a mental disorder/abnormality or is facing a major crisis and makes an impulsive decision.

The vast majority of suicide attempts are caused by temporary, immediate stressors that recede with the oassage of time. 70% of people who commit suicide do so within an hour of of making the decision. 90% of people who survive suicide attempts do not try it again.[1] It is an overwhelmingly impulsive act when people, caught up in the emotion of a major crisis, cannot see any path forward.[1]

I'm not sure if this is the legacy of religiosity, but modern attitudes towards suicide are clinically shaped that understand the fleeting nature and temporary sway of many suicide crises. You present a romanticized view of it(a sober, rational decision made over a period of time, perhaps due to a legacy of classic greek philosophers, that is inaccurate and dangerous. I say this as someone who had a friend commit suicide in 8th grade in a typical dad pushes son too hard academically and athleticly, son feels depressed, finds dad's gun and ends life scenario. He couldnt see the options in front of him... running away, seek emancipation, put up with shit for another 4 years before finally telling his family to frak off...

Public suicide should be illegal for the often melodramatic way in which they choose to end their life and the extreme trauma that witnesses suffer. Watching someone as they jump off a bridge/building, splatter on the sidewalk, or blowing their brains out leaves scars no amount of therapy can heal.

[1] New England Journal of Medicine - Guns and Suicide Rates in US => http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0805923#t=article
This is one reason I love Firefox's Reader View button.
Sure, here's a few I quite like:

Nils Frahm, Phillip Glass, Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds, Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O'Halloran

A few highlighted tracks:

"Eyes Closed and Travelling" — Peter Broderick

"20:17" — Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm

"Opus 20" — Dustin O'Halloran

"Improvisation for Coughs and a Cell Phone" — Nils Frahm
You've completely missed his point. He is asking why they are not widely adopted, not why they not exist (which they do).
Well, I live in India. :-)
And there's way more to it than that. Waste water will have to be pumped out of storm water systems rather than flowing. Salt enters ground water and causes changes. Things like underground car parks become problematic. Rivers don't flow the same and may need gates to keep high tides and storm surges out. The flow changes cause silting and river travel can be affected. Storm surges should be handled by your wall, but they are terrifying for low lying areas.
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I'm not sure why people are downvoting the above comment.

Many people think the same way and we have a long way to convince people that their attitudes and behavior need to be modified --both here _and_ in the developing world. It's likely more acute in the developing world since their governments have fewer resources to dedicate to the issue so the populous is on their own to modify behavior and attitudes.

Ignoring this issue (that this kind of attitude exists) just compounds the problem. We need to work knowing people think this way and keep that in mind when developing policy.
To be fair, if you see what they turn it into on the card itself, "quality" is not a selecting criterium. It's pretty much purely "contrast" and "framing" to make sure your entire face ends up on the fact, with enough contrast that a two-tone presentation still looks vaguely recognizable.
Why is finding talent from mech and thromofuids students so odd of cause the college race cars arn't that fast so the aero side isn't as important.
on avarage you should be getting 1$/month per unique returning visitor. but you need some volyme so you can sell directly to advertisers or be very lucky that your ad network can match you with buyers. if there are no good matches you'll only make 1 cent or less per user. you need 10k+ monthly users or they will not talk to you. there are other ways to make money though. instead of selling your users you can sell to your users. ask around what they need and want, then sell it to them. you do not have to produce what you are selling yorself.
I suspect nothing will convince you, because you've decided that you don't care who suffers for your actions - people in poorer countries, or future generations. This is a rationalisation on your part, not a failure of the scientists.
I'm a huge fan of McDonald's, just not a big fan of their food.

> McDonald's exemplifies the role of small businesses in Americans' upward mobility. The company is largely a confederation of small businesses: 85 percent of its U.S. restaurants -- average annual sales, $2.2 million -- are owned by franchisees. McDonald's has made more millionaires, and especially black and Hispanic millionaires, than any other economic entity ever, anywhere.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12...
There's a NASA study from 2015 that concludes that mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet are greater than the losses:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...
History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Techdirt
...people ask these questions and tend to assume that all answers are supposed to be about some personal passion for making the world a better place. The assumption is that no one is going to honestly answer "Are you kidding? If I didn't have to work for a living, I would just play video games all fucking day."

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/10/ancient-wisd...
Specifically Python is just a very problematic language to re-implement, since CPython has leaked internals literally everywhere. Last time I looked into Pypy (to be fair, that's now a few years ago) that was the main pain point.

Implementing a sane subset of Python is not so difficult, because, well, d'uh, it's sane. Implementing all the leaky details, the insane data model (slightly less insane in Python 3), all the invasive interpreter APIs which are frequently used by frameworks and extensions, is a whole different story. More importantly, if you implement all those, there's not much to gain in performance any more. Pypy has made tremendous progress there, but I'd expect that it still suffers from this — bottom line is, there is no way to efficiently implement what CPython does, and I'd be surprised if Pypy is significantly faster than CPython in code that uses all this shit. I expect Pypy produces a lot of gain as soon as code doesn't use that.
Yeah, well that's kind of true...so you could say I'm still on reddit ;-)...
Lots of outbreaks come from home cooks making a big batch of rice and then saving a portion to make fried rice the next day.

If it's a large portion of rice, and you don't spread it out to allow it to cool, the temperature of the rice will stay in the danger zone for hours--even in a refrigerator.
This topic is an open ended debate. How will we reach to a conclusion? Certainly more research is a way..
My team from TU Munich's self driving racecar (TUfast Driverless) are some of the best engineers I've worked with, including during my time in industry.

This is no surprise to me, and the sooner tech companies start tapping this well off talent, the better of they'll be. For now only the auto makers have caught on, but it's a matter of time.
Is the author JH He of the #1 paper in computational mathematics a self citing spammer?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/selfcitation.wordpress.com/2011...
Memory-Alpha[0] lists that rule as "Knowledge equals profit" so probably a mistake.

[0] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition
Maybe the US cars. Our cars in Germany go fast enough that Aero certainly matters.
I wish there was a way to exclude rss-like subreddits with loads of automated submissions and almost no comments/votes, like /r/willis7737_news/, /r/AutoNewspaper/, /r/Raytheon/, /r/TheColorIsBlue/ (they come and go each year, these are the ones I see around recently).
If you had read the article you would see that a) they also take a cut of revenue, and b) if no one is willing to franchisee (e.g. fund) a restaurant what happens to it?

The product line is the value McDonalds provides to it's customers (the franchisees) if that value decreases then the money it gets paid by it's franchisees in aggregate decreases.
"Chinese hoax"!
Just because things have turned out okay in the past doesn't guarantee that they will in the future. There really isn't much of a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to climate change.
It's a different kind of minimalism, but I've found Philip Glass' Akhnaten (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAiv-LU82t4) and Piano Etudes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pe7Lelts8g&list=PLVyiUXw5ED...) to be excellent background listening.
Ask HN: What do startups do with the excessive funds?
Let's say a Startup raised $2Mn and they're going to use only half of it in their first year of operation, and the rest the next year. What do startups do with the other half which is left during the first year?

Do they get investment in tranches? What're the other benefits of dispatching the investment in tranches for the investors and the startup.

Also, roughly, how many startups get the whole amount in one go and what do they do with the amount which they're not going to use for a while?

Thanks!
A UBI that allows citizen to surive on it is simply unfundable; Let's take Belgium, 1000eur/month per citizen; That's 120 billion eur/year. The Belgian state revenue is 227 billion eur/year, and Belgium has the highest taxes in the world. How does the discussion on UBI goes past this simple mathematical fact ?
i believe it was 1030 for mcdonalds and the reasoning was they needed to start prepping for the 11am/lunch shift and there was only so much grill space for burgers/buns vs mcmuffins/toast/pancakes. i don't know what changes mcdonalds enforced to keep it going past 1030 now (just mandate now?)
I'd love for people to answer this honestly, and in that vein. I just can't ever picture myself playing that many video games.
Note: As of version 1.2, TensorFlow no longer provides GPU support on Mac OS X.
No. There's a whole body of law that deals with this subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence is a good place to start. It becomes criminal negligence when a "reasonable person" in your situation would have known that he would get hurt if he tried it. As in the jump was so risky it was obvious it would end in injury. Does that make sense?
Mythical Creatures of the Startup World
I'm not sure it is possible to convince someone who has all the facts and still doesn't give a fuck. Only new facts will do the trick, facts which, even if not adding to the body of knowledge, have a high fuck giving factor. Like, a tornado destroys their house or such.
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>having the passport office make the photograph

That sounds just fine to me. It's currently a stressful process of trying to follow all the composition requirements and hoping they don't reject it. Might as well have them do it themselves. More work for whoever has to take the photo, less work for everyone else.
"I don't fully understand why more effort is not put into a hardware solution, where roads are simply marked up for self-driving vehicles, e.g. magnets lining the lanes or something like that."

Volvo is plugging for magnets in roads in Sweden, so they can find lanes in the snow. It might happen, because it can also be used for snowplow guidance.
In heavy-snow areas, posts, poles, and even over-road arrows (Japan uses this in Hokkaido) are placed to provide guidance. It's not intended to replace vision and LIDAR, just as additional guidance hints for bad conditions.
I've found the coverage of this Larsen C rift to be disquieting since I read that the people studying it don't link the event to climate change:

>"The team say they have no evidence to link the growth of this rift, and the eventual calving, to climate change."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170602112819.h...

It seems that everyone in the media or commenting on the internet suddenly knows better than the experts on this topic.
Python 3 has, more or less, just renamed unicode() to str() and str() to bytes(). unicode() support was already complete in Python 2. The rename is not a user-facing feature.
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I think the series never mentioned all of the rules. Memory Alpha (already linked above) is strict in adhering to canon and has a list of rules that appeared in the series:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition

Guess the rest is made up or from non-canon publications.
more like sorting bird sounds, not visualizing...

The tiny images are just spectograms/fft as far as I can tell.

edit: it's very fun though to click+drag, haha
Yes, it is melting and some of the before/after photographs are the most devastating evidence.

There are some famous photos of Patagonia 100 years ago and today...anyone remember them?

I managed to find these before/after photos of glaciers in Alaska.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2972130/Globa...
They didn't even say "homeless", they said "poor". Nothing in that comment connects to yours.
According to Aaron Patterson (tenderlove / ruby and rails core committer) this maybe Ruby 3x3 branch [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/875467599290613760
Judging by the references I think it's supposed to be said in a Trumpian tone.