skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a washing machine, it needs to be hooked up to a pressurized water pipe anyways.

There's an Aqua-Stop (with multiple valves, including a passive, magnetic one that works even in power loss situations) right after the water pipe connection, to avoid water damage in case the pipe or a valve inside the machine breaks.

Automatically filling the tanks is dangerous, because it will lead to issues in case e.g. the air-outlet gets stuck due to rust or lime particles from the pipe entering the tank with the water.
I thought you were always supposed to take out the concrete block before moving the thing. It's usually very easy to do.
Does existence of bi-sexuals dimmish existence of gay or straight people?
>Compared to these problems, the choice of input mechanism is trivial

I don't know why you think the visual/aural problem is trivial. The biggest achievement of AIs so far in this field is classification of static images
Working for Mozilla would be a dream job IMO. Who cares what Glassdoor says? It's one of the few techie corporations out there actively working to make the world an eensy weensy bit a better place. Go work there. Go go go go.
I think "10x" is just bad shorthand.

If you want to talk about it from a financial perspective, talk about the rate of return.

Can one developer do ten times the work any other developer does during a week? Probably not.

Can one developer have a rate of return such that they get ten times more valuable work done? Almost certainly.

So developer A delivers 3% improvement per year and developer B delivers 6% improvement per year. Across a career, if you start with 100 units, developer A delivers 245 units at the end, and developer B delivers 2008 units.
Redundant elements at the system or circuit level are usually part of radiation hardening.

>Why not just

The problem with 'just' is that it's usually not true. Hardening versus redundancy is typical safety engineering problem where details and balance between different requirements, verification and maintenance are important.
In bulk you basically per 40' container which are usually kept under ~45,000lbs* and have 67.7 m3 volume. So, you are either volume or weight limited, but not really both.

Note: there are a few different container sizes, but 40' is by far the most common. Weight limits also very by location.
> So you're saying it was wrong to assume 9/11 to be a terror attack before 2006?

Osama Bin Laden claimed credit for 9/11, verbally expressing his intent.

> Because until then, nobody had been convicted, and, by your logic, everyone would have been obligated to act with the assumption that no crime had been committed, right?

A crime is something that may be punishable by law. You can know that a crime is committed without knowing who committed it, or what their motivations are.

You appear to be reaching for a way to be right here, but speaking in legal terms, you are plainly wrong. A charge is not proof. An allegation is not proof. You may or may not be right on what his intent was, but the charge doesn't make that case for you, so you can't use it as proof for further arguments.

Paraphrased, your argument is:

* Bobby (a compulsive liar) says that he intended to do it, so we know he intended to do it.
* "unlawful": Intentionally driving a car into a crowd is obviously unlawful
* "violence": yes, equally obvious
* "in the pursuit of political aims": He was a participant in a white supremacist march, and drove into a group of people opposing his politics.

Your second claim fails because intent has not been proven, as it relies on the first claim, which is not provable.

By all accounts, it seems that it indeed was his intent to commit murder by driving into that crowd. I'm not arguing with that. I'm only arguing with the hole in your logic that gets you there, as it is fallacious.
I think the time to address the "staving Nazi" problem is when there are staving Nazis. Until then, keeping them out seems fine.

I'd note that I'm pretty sure by the time Nazi's owned the government in Germany it was too late.
Just a quick grammar tip: "A beautiful screen capturing app you can trust on" should say "you can trust" or "you can rely on."

For that matter, I'd probably refer to it as a "screen capture app" instead of a "screen capturing app."
Top 6 Upcoming Smartphones of 2017 – SuratNow
Because they have unlimited access?
I've been at Mozilla four years, working on operations security, and I still consider it the best job I've ever had.

I worked in banking and a few startups before joining Mozilla, and neither the culture or technology were ever great. Mozilla has both of these things, and a mission statement that still makes me want to get out of bed in the morning (work for mankind, not for the man).

Is it a sinking ship? Only if we're not up for the challenge of fighting back corporations that want to lock the web being walled gardens. Time will tell, but someone should fight the good fight, even if it's a lost cause.

Plus, you get cool t-shirts, and work from home, which is definitely a lifestyle improvement for me.
A big, successful trial of probiotics
Build your leads with customers smartphones. Campaigns, too
Sometimes it can work. More often it starts innocently and mutually as you describe, but it very quickly becomes a game of firefighting and drains innovation within the product line. Next thing you know, you're selling based on roadmap features and don't have control over your own product anymore.
Assembler Source code of 50 Amiga intros has been released
>We need to move beyond the obsession with anonymity and refocus the goal as being privacy.

You mean "we" == a dozen of first world countries? There is strong demand for anonymity all over the world.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15023766

(thanks for the reminder smcl, I'd meant to bookmark on desktop! :)
Why You Can’t Trust Yourself to Match Photos of Strangers’ Faces
Yes. You're right. Didn't pay much attention as it was supposed to be a dummy text.
I don't think web technologies are the main problem (perhaps with the exception of CSS but that's a productivity issue)

The problem is that we're not actually running applications on the web platform. We're running them on advertising platforms.

I'm pretty sure that roughly 99% of my browser CPU usage goes towards loading and running ads. And browsers are optimized for that task, which has consequences even when not running ads.

We have a business model and payments processing crisis, not a technology problem.
And how do you know they are not nazis anymore?

They may stop looking and acting like nazis, but still believe the same ideas.

What do you really oppose?
Nazis?
People who look and talk like Nazis?
People who perform horrible actions like the horrible actions the Nazis did?
- Javascript sizes and number of requests doubled

Corresponds to a shift from jquery + some manually added plugins to npm / webpack pipelines and using a massive amount of (indirect) dependencies.

You are blithely ignoring the reason for all this bloat: unwanted adtech surveillance.
Then you need to pay to ship sand. The upside is it would probably be easier to install, downside if it breaks you need to deal with sand.
Does anyone know the history of why allergists assumed this just wouldn't work for decades? I'm assuming they initially tried this at the dawn of the allergist specialization but gave up due to bad practices / deaths?

I only ask because it seemed to have been general knowledge that this was impossible / couldn't be done up until recently. As a outsider looking it, it seems quite obvious, but that's just due to naivete.
> So all you can really do is try to convince the majority about what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'.

Unless the people who own all the infrastructure disagree with you, and refuse to accept your money.
What would you call the exact same functional piece of software with a more effective user interface besides better software?
> So yes, everybody is afforded equal protection under the law

This is contradicted by 'protected classes'.
Many times I've had to explain to electricians that you can't "figure out" what's happening inside a PLC or other programmable device without having a copy of the program. It doesn't matter whether turning on input A turns off output B the first time you try it, or the fifth, or the hundredth. Maybe it also depends on the time of day, or some data coming over the network, or maybe there's a counter that turns output B on permanently after 100 rising edges on A. You just. Don't. Know.

"Yeah nah but when you turn on input A, input B turns off so we know how B works."
Thanks for the link, but this sounds the same as Kubernetes' Service NodePort.
Surely it depends what you're working on there? There'll be projects that are mostly-ignored and slowly dying, and projects which are core to the organisation's goals.
> The evidence is fresh. You will have free speech - as long as you only go to the right places, say the right things, wear the right clothes, have the right colour skin.

Applies to recent Google memo leak pretty well. Or other left-leaning cases. This is a problem with people who can't have a civil discussion and tolerate different point of views. Rather than left or right issue.
Well, I don't know about your house, but in my house I don't have hoses with free-flowing sand guaranteed to be right next to my washing machine when I install it. A washing machine that required you to buy sand too would have a hard time in the market; it may be irrational in some sense, but that would be perceived as a huge installation burden by the market and it would not do well.
Somewhat tickled to say I thought of this about 10 years ago, told everyone who would listen, and many who wouldn't.

As I was not remotely interested in developing it myself I was happy to tell anyone. Got an audience with a designer at Dyson, gave it to him straight in the clearest most open terms imaginable, to be met by nonplussed disinterest.

Just kept it for cocktail parties since then.
> there's no team element and there's no competition

I don't think that this is true, considering all the other humans on/near the road, that can influence the system by making actions of their own.

> There's too much action going on, too many visual/aural cues to keep track of, team cooperation/coordination, fog of war, etc.

I dont see how this is different from a car at all.

- too many visual/aural cues to keep track of -> everything you can see, car horns, etc.

- team cooperation/coordination -> as I said everyone else on/near the road

- fog of war -> blind spots & people hidden behind objects

From some experience in the AI world, I can say that I've seen systems that are good enough that they should be able to solve most of those subproblems in the limited system that is Dota. Yes, fog of war might also be interesting given that you have an agressive opponent. The real novel things lie at the strategy level, like picking a hero, buying items, etc., because, like AlphaGo, they demonstrate reasoning in systems with a large action space and delayed payoff.
I can't load the webpage; is it down for anyone else? Google cache returns 404.
Main project is a sinking ship (cf. % of usage), most of their big projects have failed and closed in the last years (mobile, email client, persona, etc), they are caught in a major rewrite of their main project that may never end. It's a matter of time they stop getting funded.

This is my opinion; it is what I believe will happen, based on past and current events. Of course I might be wrong, or not.
You are technically incorrect (the worst kind of incorrect).

See, for example, the [Communist Control Act of 1954][0], various [state laws][1] [that prohibit communists from holding office or working in state jobs][2], and [exclusion from anti-discrimination laws][3]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/anti-communist...

[2]: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/repeal-the-anti-communist

[3]: http://employeeatty.blogspot.com/2012/12/time-to-repeal-anti...
This is exactly what I was hoping to hear. I have frequently been looking at careers.mozilla.org
I have nothing to say really about your first point where you do nothing but speculate about police motives, but the second one doesn't prove anything either.

The second case is not a slippery slope because it does precisely what's codified in German law, nothing more and nothing less. The lawyer herself denied the holocaust and that's punishable in Germany. So the law was correctly applied. That has absolutely nothing to do with the slippery slope discussion.
Has anyone even heard of this website before all of this? What's the point of all this free publicity for them? Streisand effect is real.
> And, oh yeah, there was that time they threw a lawyer in jail for defending a Holocaust denier.

That's not an honest reading of the article you linked. From the article, "[the lawyer] also signed a motion during Zündel's trial with "Heil Hitler" and shouted that the lay judges deserved the death penalty for "offering succour to the enemy" -- leading the court to dismiss her." She was a neo-Nazi herself.
Also, people arguing that companies should be required to serve and even create safe spaces for particular marginalised groups usually do so not from a "First Amendment" standpoint, but from the point of view that a sex life, gender identity or religious belief has higher inherent value than any particular prejudice against it.

If people would like to make the argument that Naziism also has higher inherent value than prejudices against Naziism, they are welcome to do so explicitly...
I have been told the opposite. Kids should learn to do chores as part of living in a house, not to be paid.
All this "we make the world a better place" is actually the most annoying thing for me as a user. Every time I open Firefox (not so often anymore), I get some "save the world"-spam on the frontpage.
That level of success is on par with figuring out that IoT devices run on electricity and use some kind of radio waves to communicate. Maybe that they store binary data somehow.
I thought this was about the present.
It's at best doubtful that tanking a country's economy will make it less authoritarian and more open to foreign influence.
Server crashes... ! Just restarted. it is live again.
Take the vibration amplitude over time in all three directions. Take first and second derivative per axis. Send that to something mechanical to counter it.
> I hope to see the downfall of scientific publishers during my lifetime.

whoa - all scientific publishers or just closed-access ones?
React's Ecosystem is a flexible Framework
This is often an information problem. To find an expert or specialist takes a lot of time. While it would be nice to always have an expert solution, sometimes we don't have the luxury of time.
FWIW Germany still allows for parties like the NPD (Nationalist Party of Germany), DVU (German People's Union), REP (The Republicans) and AfD (Alternative for Germany) to exist, despite having pretty strict laws about actual nazis.

The NPD is closely tied to neo-nazis and always on the verge of being banned.

The DVU was almost identical but much smaller and eventually merged with them in 2011 after several alliances.

The Republicans are a more moderate right-wing anti-immigration party that is mostly insignificant.

The AfD are populist nationalists (similar to UKIP) who try to keep some distance to actual neo-nazis but share many of the same ideas and affiliations (although much less prominently than the NPD does). They currently hold 24.4% of votes in Saxony-Anhalt, 20.8% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and are represented in every state parliament except Hesse (as of 2013, though that might change with the upcoming election this year).

I think on an absolute spectrum the AfD is the closest thing Germany has to the US Republican party but most Germans consider the AfD literal nazis (albeit in sheep's clothing).
"Thought crimes" is right-wing-speak denouncing what used to be called political correctness or ... not being racist, sexist or a bigot.
I don't think that megatextures are bad in fact I am kind of a fan of John Carmack and id software.

The rationale behind megatexture is that storage capacity increase exponentially but our perception doesn't. There is a limit to what our eyes can see. In fact for his future engines, John Carmack wanted to go even further and specify entire volumes in the same way (sparse voxel octrees).

And sure, the way megatexture is implemented is really clever, and yes it is for a good reason, but it doesn't change the fact that it makes some of the biggest games on the market (Doom is 78GB)

When I said no compromise, it is no compromise for the artists. The whole point of megatexture is to free them from having to deal with some engine limitation. They don't have to be clever and find ways to hide the fact that everything is made of tiles, they just draw. And yes, this is a good thing, but a good thing that costs many gigabytes.
If you're really curious what Inception is doing, you may enjoy this essay:

http://filmreadings.com/2015/12/31/a-skeleton-key-to-incepti...

Shortest explanation? The film combines Christian symbolism (Matthew 7:24), the Platonic theory of the soul (anamnesis), the Fisher King story from the Grail Legends, and the Greek legend of Theseus in the Labyrinth. The four parables intertwine effortlessly: Mal is simultaneously the Minotaur in the labyrinth, the Platonic negative (who falls into the world and forgets the truth she once knew), and the faithless temptress who chooses to build on sand.

The film then does to the audience what it shows the heist team doing to Fischer ("your mind is the scene of the crime"). So it is a meta-heist film that discusses how art communicates with its audience, all the while following the convention of the heist genre in showing us exactly what it is doing and then surprising us when it pulls it off.
Cheers, it's back up again.
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
That's a very cold and unforgiving worldview. You have never broken a law in your own country that you felt was ridiculous or unjust?
POS Angel – Point of sale and inventory system for mobile users
Hello guys, I'd like to have some feedback with my web app. Currently, I'm porting it to android and iOS to be used by SME (Small Medium Enterprise).

Web App: http://posangel.com/
Username: admin
Password: admin
TFA doesn't even load without javascript. I use noscript and this HTML file won't display anything unless I allow JS to load from a different domain. Perhaps the author should practice what he preaches. Then again, I don't really know what he preaches because I can't be bothered to allow the JS to load.
Show HN: IP Sidekick, geolocation API with additional metadata
One thing I want to do with IP Sidekick is to include additional information about the location it resolves to. For now, the result includes the national public holiday of the country it resolves to.
This should work for the next few hours of Aug 17:

$ curl https://ipsidekick.com/5.189.201.130
{
"countryCode" : "ID",
"country" : "Indonesia",
"holiday" : "Independence Day",
"timeZoneName" : "Asia/Jakarta",
"ip" : "5.189.201.130",
"gmtOffset" : "GMT+7:00"
}

I'm planning to add more data types. Welcome any feedback.
Formatting Scala in Visual Studio Code
They've made some bad decisions, but it seems that they've managed to right the ship again, with the latest releases of firefox getting rave reviews and some really exciting technologies slowly taking shape.

Firefox has been widely panned the last few years, but that may have been somewhat harsh, and ungrateful to Mozilla as an organisation.

Yes, Chrome has been running laps around them. But that's mostly the result of Google's willingness to outspend them.

There are currently two platforms that have/had the potential to significantly harm Google's cash cow of search ads: iOS and Facebook. A lot of the time that was previously spend on the "open web" suddenly moved into these platforms. Sometimes, apps replaced search, such as for purchase decisions, where people started searching in the Amazon app instead of google.com.

That made Chrome the single most important technology for Google: they needed to push the browser to be competitive with iOS and whatever Facebook was doing. Playing a game, or streaming movies needed to be as fast, easy-to-use, and safe as doing those things with native apps. Developing for the web needed to be as attractive as developing for native platforms.

In that situation, it's no wonder that Firefox lagged behind–the world's best, and richest, software company was developing a browser, with what is likely to be a budget limited only by the diminishing return of ever-larger teams.

There's really no guarantee that Google's incentives will forever remain to be aligned with the users' as they are now. To pour all this misguided disappointment on Mozilla and gleefully cheer their demise is foolish, because sooner or later, it will be important again to have an independent, open, OSS browser.

It's also somewhat illoyal, considering Mozilla's past accomplishments for the web.
Looks good. I'll have to try it out. That you struggled with some of the stranger Unicode glyphs shows this probably has more thought put into it than diff tools that are much older...
Doesn't matter if it was tongue in cheek, it was still said, and that's not the kind of thing CloudFlare really need associated with their name.

Of course it's going to be dragged through the mud anyway now, but at least it'll be for something they actually did.
- Bouncing a developer from task to task without ever finishing a task

- Letting whatever customer screams the loudest dictate product behavior, and then effectively alternating product behavior based on which customer is angry this month

- Deferring technical debt until a customer screams

- Hiring unreasonable product managers who have unreasonable expectations. (This just leads to a lot of time being burnt in haggling and a much worse product delivered.)

- Treating software as an art project, getting obsessed with pixels and fonts instead of functionality

- Not paying enough

(edits)

- Interrupting programmers constantly for trivial matters

- Allowing the entire organization to interrupt a developer at any time because he's unofficially become a "go-to" person

- Not backing up critical processes when departments interact. (This is the information needed when there is a bug, support escalation, ect.)

- Expecting developers to handhold people in other departments

(more edits)

- Micromanaging task priority, assuming that a developer jumped on a specific task and completed it instantly
> I'm happy they're offline for the moment, but I wish it was because of a court order focused on specific actions

but

> you can't operate systems as big as the internet on a case by case basis.

So - you want such pages to be impossible to persecute for illegal activities in practice?

Anyway - having a website on a particular server is not a human right. If I come to your newspaper and demand you put my stuff in there - you can say "no" and don't have to explain yourself, and it's not a violation of free speech.

The violation of a free speech would be if somebody forbid you to print your newspaper at all. It's not the case - daily stormer can put servers in basement and publish their propaganda from there. So - free speech is irrelevant to this case.

It's simply about people refusing to do business with assholes, and I am quite confused why would anybody oppose that attitude.
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