skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for me it helped me land a gig working for NHK as local staff during one of the Olympic games. I was able to access all venues, make invaluable contacts, interview famous athletes and celebrities, be beyond the front row for events and ceremonies, learn interesting skills and have an amazing experience that would have otherwise been impossible to have even if you were willing to pay for it. Oh, and I got paid great as well.

tldr: it opens doors that would not normally be open to you
Well, pretty much all headlines here are click-bait. In the common case, the scope the article actually applies to, is blown out of proportion. I think its because we're hardwired to ignore one-offs. "One person used a curved metallic bowl to cause a fire" sounds kinda boring.

Another one thats on the front page - "How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists" is actually "A serious of unverified tips that might help you become somewhat familiar with a limited subset of scientific papers whose jargon you should already familiar with" Scientific papers are written for other scientists, no "guide" is going to allow a layperson, who is completely unfamilar with the topic, in understanding the paper. If you are not a physicist you simply can't grok the theory of the alternating-gradient synchotron. You might become kinda-sorta-familiar in a wikipedia sense by looking up each term and reading the paper but you're never going to be able to field questions on the topic (usually possible only for someone who understands a topic).
You might be interested in this:

https://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/solar-prototype-...

https://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/23/solar-ball-lens-improve...

Not solid glass, though (I don't know what it is, but I imagine there's an upper limit on size of solid glass spheres that can be made)...
Fun story: we're doing a project at work to do with agriculture.

We bought some pot plants to keep alive and some cheap soil sensors; they're just two electrodes and you pass a current through the soil, measure the resistance and get a proxy for soil moisture. We left the sensor continuously logging on Friday, came back on Monday to find the plant very unhappy and the probe contacts almost completely corroded. Within a day or two it was a stump, never recovered.

Turns out you're not supposed to leave these things powered on 24/7 and capacitative sensors are a much better solution. TIL you can electrocute plants.
Vinegar isn't pure acetic acid so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up. I mean I know why, because then you can argue against a point I didn't make instead of the point I did.

A teaspoon of regular vinegar a day is not going to have any lasting effects on your health other than making you despise anything that tastes even remotely like vinegar.

Saying "salt + vinegar is more toxic than glyphosphate" is only true if you bastardize the definition of both and willingly forget for a moment that one of the chemicals is specifically designed to kill things.
Yeah that's not what happened.

People were very happy indeed with Microsoft products. Back when Netscape Navigator was better than Internet Explorer in all respects, people were very happy with NN too, and would have been happier if they could have bought Windows computers in which the software preinstalled by the OEM included Netscape. Do you know why they couldn't? MS told the OEMs "you put NN on your computers, you don't get any more Windows licenses at all".

People were also happy with the Java applets NN could execute, but MS made its own incompatible version of Java so that they wouldn't be cross-platform. Same with their version of web standards in IE.

All this is publicly documented by the courts, including the internal communications in Microsoft about it being a deliberate strategy to preserve Windows' monopoly. So, please, don't go up in arms to defend that cause, or imply that history made them justice.
Look for videos about the reactor on YouTube. Like this one.

https://youtu.be/lyqt6u5_sHA

Also search HN for previous articles.
Viewing the video I see that the paper smolders, smokes and burns, but I see no flames that consume the paper.

So it does not set things on fire.

Maybe change the title to "An IKEA Bowl Has Been Burning Things"
Under New York State's net metering rules residential solar panel owners get 1:1 retail credit for excess power put back onto the grid. The only way I could see a seller coming out ahead by selling to a neighbor vs selling to con-ed would be if the neighbor is willing to pay above retail. And even in that case NYS has solar power collectives and private third party energy producers selling solar power through the grid.
I think maybe you're operating at a higher level of abstraction than I am. Electoral distortions like the allocation of two Senate seats per state regardless of population share, or failure to keep representation inline with original intentions are definitely things to carp about. They might even have a similar effect as gerrymandering in some cases. But unless you're redrawing borders for purely electoral reasons you're not gerrymandering.

Is this really debatable? Are we actually arguing about something that can be settled by referencing a dictionary?
Once there are wasm native APIs you'll be able to do everything without touching Javascript at all, so it can improve all workloads.

Some may not get a lot of improvement, if the bottleneck is in the browser engine, e.g. DOM manipulation. But there are many where the browser engine doesn't really do much - OpenGL, audio, any internal computation, etc.
i said this before and it was met with mostly hostility, but im still wondering... bitcoin has enabled ransomware, so its a boon to crooks. what has it done for non-crooks? i dont mean conceptually (no fed! decentralized! etc. etc.), i mean since its come into being, what has it done for you personally? for me: i bought a vpn subscription, anonymously. probably not able to do that as easily without btc. but, i would personally trade that for not having ransomware attacks. thoughts?
Actually, I believe phishing / malicious attachment was debunked as the infection vector.
Subsequent research found that WC starts scanning hosts and IP's on port 445 to try to find other machines to infect.

Source:https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-132A

"Once the malware starts as a service named mssecsvc2.0, the dropper attempts to create and scan a list of IP ranges on the local network
and attempts to connect using UDP ports 137, 138 and TCP ports 139, 445. If a connection to port 445 is successful, it creates an additional
thread to propagate by exploiting the SMBv1 vulnerability documented by Microsoft Security bulliten MS17-010."
The TPR Is Dead. Long Live the CRD: Custom Resources in Kubernetes v1.7
it _is_ depressing. but you can work your way up from being nothing to being a second-rate hobbyist. just find a medium that doesn't feel like a chore to you and keep challenging yourself to do better. that also sounds a bit sad, but I think its worth it, even if a bit late.
re 2. Or one which only looks mutually beneficial, but only benefits Google in reality.
> The same phenomenon occurs with glass spheres.

Also clear water bottles (filled with water). In 1991 there was a brief period where homeowners all over Japan were putting clear PET bottles (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) at the edge of their properties because it was asserted on some talk show that the sparkles would keep animals away. This ended abruptly when a series of fires were started by the bottles.
No. You might be thinking of three people who resigned from CNN after an article retraction related to news of a POTUS ally having connections to a Russian investment firm which is under investigation (That investigation is separate from the election interference one).
+1. While adding billions to their coffers may not be the motivation, there's a ravenous appetite to figure out how to distribute wealth of this obscenely rich generation of multinationals. This reeks of an ineffectual political institution grasping for one of the few solutions it can implement.
Well then it's a good thing we're talking about vinegar, which is 4-6% acetic acid, unless you're talking about wine vinegar (we're not), and not talking about 100% pure acetic acid, which is what you linked.
That sounds extremely interesting, do you have a write up or source code somewhere?

I'd be interested to hear about more applications of adaptive/genetic code to network security.
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I think you mean Flatt's "Binding as Sets of Scopes" [1]. Yeah, that's definitely something he's working on. There are a couple PhD candidates in his group who are also working on macros and hygiene, but I don't follow their research directly (we're just often in the same room so I hear about it).

[1] http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/popl16-f.pdf
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At the very least you have no requirement to use Google. You don't have that option with the EU if you're in an EU country.
To me, this question sounds absurd. That's how much real value I got learning Japanese. I'm employed in a Japanese company, speaking Japanese with my friends, eating Japanese food which I love and generally enjoying my life. It wouldn't be possible for me to do what I do speaking only English.
Heck - if you purchase a new F-150, a simple engine fire can melt the entire thing to almost nothing (the truck is mostly made from aluminum - one of their prototypes a year or so ago on a test run caught fire to amusing results - no one was injured, fortunately)...
Google is building YouTube Connect, a livestreaming app to take on Periscope
you should play dwarf fortress.
A more apt criticism would be against the use of whataboutism and false equivalencies in the above post.
Deep sleep is definitely the way to go :).

For Sensor Comparisons, check out this site. Someone from a previous post on Hackaday turned me to it a few months back. Very comprehensive and is what led me to go with the BME280:

https://www.kandrsmith.org/RJS/Misc/Hygrometers/calib_many.h...
In case it fails? A bunch of expert systems would be close to general AI.
My calculator's a computer, but I don't call it that. My game systems are all computers, but I don't call them that either (and never have, unless I was discussing semantics).
welcome to having even less ability to resist the government
It looks like there are 4 months this year with 5 Fridays in the month. I don't think its pedantic. That messaging could confuse the hell out of somebody.
That's true. That's a pretty complex effect, so you'd need some decent data to estimate its magnitude. But you're right it should be above zero, unless there's some other effect to suppress it.
Cookies don't imply tracking - that is just one use of them.
> I switched from using RoundUp to a vinegar/salt/dish soap solution this summer and can't believe how well it works.

Yeah, salting the Earth is rather well established as a herbicidal practice known for millenia; increasing soil and runoff salinity has rather negative long-term environmental consequences, though (though, I guess, desertification can be a rather dramatic solution to the “plants I don't like grow here” problem.)
You're not the only one who thinks the idea of wearing a tin foil hat when you use Windows because the NSA only knows how to attack Windows is demeaning to the intelligence of other tin foil hat wearers.
Because now we can watch those funds and know how much money they made, we can watch them to see if they make a mistake.

If every address was different we'd have no idea how much money they're making and only funds paid by people who also reported them would be tainted by the long eyeball of the law.
this was really annoying
Angular vs. React: The Framework Way or the Library Way?
This site seems like Class elitism and smells of Class warfare. It seems quite bitter too.

A few of her architectural points are correct: a missing column here or there, perhaps some matching windows. But, most of her commentary is reaching and snarky. She might have fared much better if she put a positive spin on it and told people how to improve there architecture rather than picking apart every minor flaw, to which otherwise would be a great mcMansion.

I found most of the houses and pictures shown on there quite good looking. I would be really lucky to live in anything posted on there. I don't think she's seen bad looking architecture yet. Obviously, she's never looked at housing in CA.

And criticizing a house for having too small a lot - that's just really low. That's like criticizing a poor kid for not having any money. People don't get to chose the cost of land in their area. It's decided upon by voters and government. If she has a problem with lot sizes, she ought to blame voters not the house.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLsKQfjbYNg - "Right now the way the utility grid works, you don't know where your electrons come from and there isn't really a way for you to account that those electrons are making it to you, and no way to account for who touched the electrons on their way to you. That doesn't have to be the case."

I may be cynical here but the problems described in the above either don't seem like problems or they don't actually solve them. I've never wondered "who touched my electrons". I've never thought "I wish I could audit my electric utility's transaction history through a blockchain". They talk in the article about about having backup power if the main grid goes down, but there's no new wiring here so it doesn't do that.

I just have no idea what value this company provides other than a box that tells you who touched your electrons.
> I also think it would bring ~10 years of extreme societal
collapse as we would realize that most of our social
norms make no sense, and those things that we demonize
are actually quite common.

Like racism?
For tracking concepts while learning, this is a fun app, but no Mac version: http://www.mindscopeapp.com
Demonstrating a knack for learning languages and lots of soft skills required.
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This seems like it's just a pitch for this company - what's the actual value of the article?
Similarly, with regards to 666ing: https://www.reddit.com/r/SheepMarketplace/comments/1rvlft/i_...
It looks like AI can do everything,but is speech recognition good enough now?
Blockchain! Blockchain! It's how you know something is a gimmick.
Depends on where you live. I doubt you'd have faced any repercussions for buying that VPN subscription with your credit card, but the governments of other countries might not be so understanding.

Bitcoin should exist for the same reasons Tor exists. Just because Tor is used by child predators and of little practical use to the average Western citizen doesn't negate its positive value.
I'm wrong, it was the EPA, and Cornell just cited them (thanks for calling me on this!):

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-05-01/pdf/2013-10316.p...

The WHO ultimately walked back IARC's glyphosate assessment:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-who-glyphosate-idUS...
Flink is listed under `Unified Processing` as it supports both batch and streaming (Kappa Architecture)
A New Chapter for Electric Objects
In every single language-learning related thread in HN, we can see this question. I learn other languages for fun. It's simple as that.
Yeah. I was looking about a year ago and it appears that this project was operational then. Pretty sure I never came across it. Maybe this initiative will make it more discoverable...

Edit - And it creates a bit of a conundrum for a project like the one you cite, too (was just looking at your link). You want to support new developers, but you end up with a relatively long list of supposedly easy to attempt issues that no one takes.
FTFY, Bloomberg: "A shift in China toward less toxic coatings for containers has shifted costs from health care costs for employees to shipping costs for customers"
Amount of money collected != scale of attack. Number of machines + importance of companies/systems = scale of attack.
I was pretty certain I knew which bowl they were talking about before I clicked thru. While I didn't know the exact name of the bowl, I've been to Ikea enough to have an idea when I'm in the kitchenwares department.

Something I like to do when I'm out shopping is to look at products and figure out how to repurpose them into something else; I've often looked at this bowl and said to myself "That would be an almost perfect solar concentrator".

Usually, I'm looking to repurpose things for solar power usage or for robotics; Ikea actually has plenty of products to satisfy both.
Web Assembly (and also asm.js) are "closer to the metal" even though they run in the browser. The execution model is meant to map pretty closely to assembly, not to JavaScript. The browser is supposed to be doing static verification for security purposes, but not much in the way of optimization.
My experience was just that the wax buildup is gross, and the popping sound from the headphone losing, regaining, and losing seal was really loud and uncomfortable. Now I just use high quality over-ear headphones, which sound better to me anyway.
Bitcoin is a neutral technology, think of it like cash. Buying illegal things is always done with cash but it doesn't mean we should get rid of cash altogether.

Regardless even if we came to the collective decision that we wanted to get rid of bitcoin, its not feasible due to its decentralized nature.
> we reinvest our own profit into new projects that we believe are going to bring about real social change.

So what? Why is there an implicit assumption that if someone is trying to bring about "change", that it must be good?
TypeScript 2.4
The point is for everything to have a warning on it, to obscure the actual dangers. (At least, if to wasn't, you'd expect the groups that pushed Prop 65 to realize the problem and push for a fix.)
Wouldn't two temperature sensors tell a bigger difference for wet soil, as the wick temperature is lower in damp soil. If it's little difference it's probably dry.

That's at least partially how my finger works as a sensor. A finger test probably picks up sponginess too.
First, research is showing it has sub-lethal effects on many species of animals, particularly pollinators like bees where field-realistic doses can significantly reduce colony performance. Second, glyphosate persists and drifts easily from 'controlled' plants to nearby wild habitat, destroying and eroding critical forage.

Glyphosate is hugely responsible for the conversion of massive amounts of land into corn and soy cropland, where reduced pollinator habitat actually reduces crop yields (or requires more agricultural abuses like migratory honeybees).

To say this is a useful chemical is misleading. It's designed to kill things and like all such chemicals, there are significant tradeoffs, regardless of whether it is directly carcinogenic to humans.
I vaguely recall learning that the collective ownership of the First Nations lands was at their own request. Before Europeans, First Nations had no concept of individual land ownership.

Your point still stands of course, I just thought that should be pointed out.
Last I checked the Google group of services did in fact include a shopping service, and a mapping service etc... so I'm not sure what you mean.

They have a dominant position in many markets.
Yahoo Mail rolls out a rebuilt, redesigned service, incl. a new ad-free option
I hear this a lot from people who have little or experience building large applications in high level languages. If you manage your code properly you can have strong/static typing in JavaScript. The difference is that nothing yells at you when you mess that up. Instead the application just runs a little bit slower.

I have written large parsers and code beautifiers in JavaScript that blow the shit out of anything I have seen written in other low level languages. There are a couple of advantages that JavaScript provides for this.

First of all you get immediate execution without a separate build or compile step. You can see that execution (on really large applications) is a bit slower the first time due to JIT compilation, but successive executions are faster because the code is already compiled in memory.

Secondly JavaScript runs almost everywhere. I don't need a special run time or execution context. I can run JS apps on the command line or browser without having to push data to a server location and await a response.

Finally, JavaScript is fast now. It executes almost as fast as Java and is only about 4x-8x slower than C++.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

The biggest limitation I have found with JavaScript is memory management. Trying to parse a 180mb (or larger) XML file in my JavaScript application can result in an application crash due to excess memory requirements.
What is the real value of learning math? What is the real value of learning to draw? of listening to music?

It lets you experience things you could not have otherwise.
I actually found Google way better before it had all these integrated advanced features. It was technically never a "directory" though (like Yahoo ... Categories, or something?), it was a web search engine.

And it really sucks at web search today, compared to before (~10-15 years ago).

This is personal opinion of course but your argument depends on all this innovation always being an improvement to society. But Google innovates to improve its profits, which sometimes aligns with public interest, and sometimes not.

If it doesn't necessarily improve things for society, why would a company have a right to innovate despite everything else? Especially if you have to weigh it against the abuse of market dominance power to stifle competition (also deterring innovation, btw).
For someone who doesn't really game nor overlock CPUs, why doesn't CPU manufacturers use the same technique out of the box?
Can you show how you have established that there is a pattern? I was actually looking for a list of all the entities fined by the EU Commission. Seems like you have some data.
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Maybe this is the year of Linux on desktop.
Climate researchers abandon models all the time.
Yes! It's called profiling and there are many ways to do that. Python has built-in profiling tools (profile, cProfile), there are also whole-system profiling solutions like DTrace (sadly, that is not available on Linux). No fancy GUIs AFAIK, you'd have to RTFM a bit.
The value of the article is the advertising - I could tell just from the title that it was almost certainly written by someone employed by a "tech co-op". I've never seen an article like this introducing a concept and why it's so great without it being written by someone financially motivated to do so.
Petya claimed to move laterally via authentication reuse
That's interesting, but you're rebutting a bunch of arguments I didn't make.
Love the idea of micro grids. Why does it need to use blockchain?
Title is pure clickbait. Delidding is super easy with right tools, brain surgery is not easy.
I'm currently learning Japanese and what I've found is most apps designed around helping you learn focus around memorization of words out of context, and often the definitions provided are wrong, or the words antiquated.

I haven't found an app that revolves around reading words in the context of example sentences, or a narrative. I find this to be the best way to learn a language.
Anyone give this a try? How'd it work out?
Nice work, but if a site uses @import or use javascript to render elements, you will miss out on these elements. I would imagine you would need to use headless chrome or something like phantomjs to be able to download all css/images/etc. as mentioned.

I could be wrong, but that was what I was thinking when I read it.
I'd say cost. All the author did was remove the cpu lid and replace the cheaper thermal paste with a better after market brand.
Mobile phones and home machines after working hours.
(nevermind)