skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um. I guess it depends on what you are optimizing for?
Literally the same rules I was taught on day 1 of my engineering co-op 23 years ago.

We also added, "no external capacitors can be used for timing," because people would try to fix things that way.
VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case
Yup, that's something we have to monitor carefully. That's why the backbone to our business is actually IoT devices that transmit data to monitor different aspects of water. We're starting with data around water withdrawals, and moving to using devices to monitor groundwater levels. We think we can collect enough data from our devices to model groundwater aquifer health, something that very few people are doing due to lack of data and overall costs. Once we can monitor aquifer health, we can make sure that we are not overdrawing, and recharging effectively.
In chemical physics, many of the most influential papers (tens of thousands of citations) have been published in The Journal of Chemical Physics, an absolutely non-flashy publication with impact factor ~3 and a myriad of uninteresting papers.
eating 14 large egg yolks per day doesn't seem feasible. this daily value seems pretty hard to reach without supplementation.
...unless you are in Europe, where it's an almost required gate to upper management.
What no one likes to admit is that the benefits of networking are highly dependent on your demographic. Young white dude with excellent credentials? Great! There are plenty of other white dudes who will hear you out. Older lesbian Latina from an unknown school? Not so much.

Therefore, if you're more like the Latina and less like the young White dude you should focus on technical ability more and networking less. That being said, everyone should maintain their relationships at a minimum, for no amount of technical excellence can defeat irrelevance.

People will definitely try to shush this blatant reality, but anyone who's not White will definitely tell you for themselves. For what its worth, it's less about being White and more about the fact that all of the incumbents in this particular industry are White. For basketball you could easily replace "young White" with "young Black"
I can't add this to Opera it seems, though there is a button that shows me i could.
All extensions disabled, latest version.
Chrome works fine.
My stance is that if society has decided it's serious about CO2, it is necessary to put a whole lot more effort into next-gen nuclear than has been done so far. Even so, small companies like ThorCon, Terrestrial Energy and others are making good progress. The next step is a plan for a major, worldwide rollout of (mostly modular) nuclear reactors.

That avoids the issue of a possible decrease in the standard of living, and provides an affordable mechanism that doesn't involve coal for India, Indonesia and other countries that need to build out their electric grid.

Lots of good info here:
http://thorconpower.com/news

Video from ThorCon CEO making his case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4xjQWBw7i0&feature=youtu.be
In California, I believe the state actually does subsidize the price of water for farmers. However, as a result of water being significantly under market price, farmers are not incentivized to undertake water conservation efforts -- even though in times of drought, that aggravates the water supply.
They discovered Discourse, which uses Ember.js.
1) I remember reading about you some years ago. I think you were working on telling people/govt(dont remember which one it is), when water is being released. SMS based I believe. How did that work go? Was it profitable/scalable?
2) Can you comments on how profitable it is to sell data to Indian government organizations? Is it VC-level business or Lifestyle type of business
3) I believe you have to be in Bay area for 3 months as part of YC. For a business like yours(which requires on the ground presence), how does being in Bay area help?
4) Most important, how do you expect to take on politicians who control water mafia?
Can I just mute Google? So tired of seeing it everywhere.
Ask HN: How do you stay motivated as a single-founder startup?
I've been doing the single-founder startup thing for a year. I've had great luck in supportive friends and casual mentor relationships, but coming upon a big deadline and new product release (as well as a social enterprise fellowship application), I find myself getting demotivated sometimes without the usual back-and-forth of regular collaboration. I'm usually pretty self-motivated, but I do enjoy having accountability towards others (employees under me, external collaborators.) I try to use my users as my motivation for keeping myself going through hard patches, but sometimes they seem so far away (just emails and tweets to go by).

How do you find motivation as a single-founder company?
Here's a case where a guys boss instructs him to write code that lets the company cheat emissions tests and to keep quiet about it. I wonder if he's thought that it would have been far better to have refused, even if it meant losing his job.
> such as when a psychiatrist told me that her patients were being recommended to one another, indirectly outing their medical issues.

Facebook keeps recommending to me (I'm over 45) a bunch of young women with anorexia. It's creepy as fuck, and I hate it. They do this because I visit different mental health hospitals.

It should be obvious: don't use hospitals as part of the recommendation algorithm.
> You're right, I was quick to judge and patronize the previous comment, which isn't helpful. My b.

No offense taken!

> I think what irked me, specifically, is the way the question was phrased, as though guilt was the default assumption, which is absurd to me.

I tend to ask a lot of open ended questions on HN as I like to read and gauge the variety of responses. While usually driven by my own opinions of right and wrong, I don't uniformly stick to asking it from my particular angle either. In fact, I'm generally more interested in the responses on the other side.

> Has there been any evidence linking the users of this site directly to this riot? My core issue is that this seems to me to be a case of attacking political opponents through the legal system.

In this situation my understand is that there were rioters who were using the website in question as a means of congregating. I don't see this as going after political opponents. I see it as going after violent anarchists. I don't care whether they're far left or far right, I don't want anyone like that operating with impunity.

> What evidence do they have that there is relevant information in those records directly tied to someone who committed a crime? I fail to see anything in this article that actually mentions a valid reason for this search.

I'm not sure but if the site was used by rioters to conspire to riot, I'd imagine it could be useful in tracking down how they communicated, who they are, and where else they were plotting or targeting.

> Their original request covered over a million users. How could that possibly be reasonable?

The website in question lists out[1] organizations that are listed by government agencies as domestic terrorists[2]. Does the number having six zeros in the number of people involved make it unreasonable? If a website pledges to commit anarchist destruction, a million people create accounts, and then some large number of people show up to commit said destructive acts, why wouldn't the full list be fair game?

[1]: http://www.disruptj20.org/event/disruptj20-protest-the-inaug...

[2]: https://www.njhomelandsecurity.gov/analysis/anarchist-extrem...
This NSF report [1] has a lot of interesting data.

It seems in particular we're seeing (1) more people get PhD's (see page 3) and (2) a lower proportion of PhD's securing post-PhD employment (see page 9).

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2016/nsf16300/digest/nsf16300...
My kids are the kind with the attitude that "rules are made to be broken", which I like. It's like the hacker's ethos almost.
Although Analemma_'s concerns of post-company sales are also on my mind, my major concern is alignment of interests.

Similar to Google, 23&me as a viable business operation is predicated on monetizing genetic information. They're performing testing at a loss in order to collect as much as possible.

Consequently, whatever their policy may be, I have little faith they'll make a privacy-centric decision for me as an individual when faced with a business choice. Their valuation essentially depends on their not doing so!
BitPay’s Perspective on Segwit2x
https://vine.co/v/5hBviTJuHj5
GRPC-Go Performance Improvements
Discussion from the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656397
Not necessarily. You can do great networking without having built anything.

Say you are a student. Some startup founder starts a business where she targets college students. You like her business. You then reach out to her telling her you are emailing all students in your dept via internal dept email list or FB groups to let them know about her startup.

That's great networking. That person will help you in future for sure. And you haven't really built anything yet.
White House Leaves Asian/White Boys Out of CS Education Funding Discussion
No, unless you are running a real estate business that is employing people.
Because the article just offers a single example, and seems to center on the lack of available tenure track positions, I'm going to take a more holistic view that gets at the major issue: is current research funding at the appropriate level?

What would happen if we increased research funding by X percent? How did we settle on the current funding levels? I would be curious to see a reasonable source for this. A cursory google search mostly returned opinion pieces that we should increase funding for science. I agree, but hard(er) numbers would be better. It would be great to see a back-of-the-envelope ROI for X percent funding increase in T time. Obviously funding can be applied in many ways, and the ROI is difficult to measure, but someone must have studied it.

For the immediate future, the US remains the best place for research. But dominance can begin to change before the effects become obvious, like a large company that's still profitable long after it's become irrelevant.
Kinda surprised DC isn't represented here.

Could be doable. Just a quick flight from Quebec to DC, then train from DC to NYC for the NYC meetings.
Yeah, there are explicit "networking events," which are generally horrible because there's no subtlety to them.

Then there's tech meetups or conferences, where you and I might nerd out over common problems we've had to solve, and in the process realise that we might enjoy working with the other person.

The thing is, one has to put in the work and put themself out there. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Show HN: Play Framework Init.d Script for RHEL 7
My attempt at a proper init.d script for Play Framework. Could use some peer review please.
Scientists thwart shoulder surfing using new keyboard
I put this in another thread, but this study claims the last rapid warming phase 11000 years ago had nothing to do with frozen methane releases, and human caused methane releases now are probably underestimated, does not address the possibility of frozen methane releases causing warming phases millions of years ago.
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/natural-methane-time-bomb-unli...
The main reason to do a PhD is for your own personal drive and satisfaction. Unless you value the work for its own sake, it is unlikely to pay off.
You can get a web version by editing urls: https://www.whatruns.com/website/google.com
> Starbucks coffee is a trustable experience

I stopped reading after that...
FWIW 23&me reserves the right to sell anonymized aggregate data.

Also, when you say "I have little faith they'll make a privacy-centric decision when faced with a business choice", you make it sound like you think they'll intentionally violate their privacy policy in order to make money, but, and IANAL so maybe I'm wrong, I thought privacy policies like this were in fact legally binding, and if they decide to start selling PII info we can sue them?
I keep a separate chrome user profile for testing extensions. You are right that chrome extensions can read all browser data.

Here is how to set up a separate user profile

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824
We do it anyway. It's easy enough to filter those types of emails. I think it's a huge plus for customer service to be able to say "Have a problem or question? Just reply..."
I'm on firefox and just checked it sends proper user agent (for firefox 55)
Degree-less person here and vehemently disagree. Maybe across the field in general, but some of the most interesting areas of work have Ph.Ds and/or significant levels of domain experience as gatekeepers.
Good to know is that odd minor releases by GIMP are, like GNOME's, considered unstable. In other words, 2.9.x could be seen as beta releases for 2.10 (which is why things like the parallel stuff might explode in your face).
It shouldn't be a trade off. You can get a pay raise and get a great work-life balance.
> there are entire teams dedicated to developing risk models that attempt to identify merchants that will end up resulting in a loss before it happens.

And yet they are unable to distinguish a legitimate and widely popular blog hosting site which does not intend to defraud anyone but allows people to host erotic fiction, from a shady porn site. Makes you kinda question what those teams are doing the whole day, doesn't it?
you can do it right now through food. the gut microbiome tells the host what it wants to eat or not. Different diets cater to different bacteria, that's the reason (for example) that people that now eat healthy but before could eat as much junk food as they wanted without side effects can't simply "switch back" to their old habits without getting bloated or just plain sick.

Anecdotal evidence: I lost about 50kg thru dieting, during my old days I could eat as much McDonalds as I wanted. Now if try to have anything but the smallest burger there I get sick, my system simply does not accept it anymore ;)
I think you could argue up front and ongoing costs for either scenario.

The duplication of an app for each install is technically very low cost (although you could say that the app store taking 30% is a cost there), that doesn't mean there weren't large up front costs and ongoing ones as well.

What about maintenance, support, infrastructure like servers/services/bandwidth. For anything of a decent size you probably have to do these things, which means you probably need staff, which means you probably need an office, benefits, insurance, all the usual business costs. That's not even bringing up the constant updates, new features, and supporting the ever changing platform or environment it runs on, which is all completely expected by users.

Apps are as much of a regular business as anything else, not some magic special case.
That is part of the definition but USCIS rarely accepts it. This would somehow mean control of the board of directors of the sub.
18 USC § 2703(f) - A provider of wire or electronic communication services or a remote computing service, upon the request of a governmental entity, shall take all necessary steps to preserve records and other evidence in its possession pending the issuance of a court order or other process.
The actual article title is "What People Who Want Innovations From Apple Just Don’t Understand".
How to buy MacBook for $1, or hacking SAP POS
With async/await now landing in mainstream engines, Koa instead of Express, the new Turbofan+Ignition optimization pipeline "evening out" V8's performance characteristics, and ES6 enjoying reasonably broad support, I feel like JS is now crossing a threshold into being not a completely sucky programming experience, which is a sentiment this article echoes.

I'm probably being overly optimistic, but I look forward to a future where a "naked JS" movement rises up, similar to "vanilla JS", but rebelling against tooling complexity instead of jQuery bloat, in which your website's /js/ folder contains pretty much exactly what's in git.
yes, but we were talking about passing an anonymous function as an argument and that was the example used.
Trump's DC hotel, by the numbers
Separately, it has been reported in the last several years that the U.S. Postal System has implemented imaging every single piece of mail it moves.

They have already OCR-ed addresses from mail, for years. If they are now retaining the raw images, does this mean that they've inadvertently collected and are holding the HIV status of all the Aetna customers affected by this information leak?

So far, it seems the USPS is not selling what it's collected. (Although I'm sure some of the "make a buck any way you can" crowd in DC and elsewhere would not be above enabling and pushing them to do so.) But, next year? And in case you thing this is far-fetched, many state departments of motor vehicles (DMV) already make their drivers license photographs commercially available, IIRC.
I see! Actually, her assessment was preliminary so I will research further into EB1. Who knows :)

Thank you very much for your time and response.
Have a great day!
How Did Hurricane Harvey Become So Powerful, So Quickly?
It's actually very easy, just feed the responses to your customer support service. Since it's an email you know, it will be associated to the customer account.

Not only it's good for the customers, it's good for you because you definitely want customers to contact you when they have a problem (or when they believe you're sending too many emails). You want them to contact you to give you a chance to make them happy customer who stay with you, not grumpy customer who quit your service before even giving you an opportunity to fix their problem.
Is this iOS only, or maybe I'm very bad at searching? I don't see anywhere in the Play Store to view the top in-app purchases for an app.
The thing about networking is that good networking is extremely important, but that's not what "Networking" is.

In every job I have, I try to grab lunch with people everyday so that I can talk to them and get to know them. I also try to regularly meet new people in my field and get to know them. I've found that to be extremely valuable.

However, I've found going to networking events to be an extreme waste of time. The people who go usually aren't the successful professionals, which is who I want to meet. I've found going for drinks with friends- and their friends- to be much more valuable.
> Do not use an asynchronous reset within your design.

This is flat out wrong. Registers that drive output pins should always be reset asynchronously. If you're not careful with your board design, it can happen that your FPGA is powered and configured before your clock signal is available, especially if it is generated by a PLL. An asynchronous reset on the output IO registers ensures that you're not inadvertently driving external electronics with bogus signals.

For internal registers it usually doesn't matter whether they're reset synchronously or asynchronously. There are some cases where the synthesis software cannot move async. reset registers from flip-flops into built-in hard IP cores like DSP elements or block RAMs, so a sync. reset can make sense here for performance reasons.

There's one caveat, though: An async. reset signal must be released synchronously to the clock, or there will be timing errors. However, this is a tiny, simple construct easily written by any non-beginner.

(source: I design FPGAs for a living)
Not only is this workable, but there was a whole movement around these issues in the 1960s called the civil rights movement. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is one of the results of that movement, and this law makes it illegal for a store to refuse service on the basis of race, for example. This is why you don't see signs saying "No Coloreds" in stores any more.

Other laws, like the ADA and FHA, have expanded on this, and individual states have broader protections. Look at the case of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Oregon, which was fined for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex couple.

For emergency care, look up the EMTLA. There are many other regulations centered on discrimination and health care, that's just one of them.
Certain parts of the world/USA that are not suitable for farming now would become suitable for farming if they are not currently occupied. Parts that are not suitable for crops would either no longer be suitable for crops at all or need a different crop selection.

We also theorized that changing the global temperature affects weather patterns like a spring so that extremes in temperature changes/weather patterns will accompany the rising temperatures, and see it happening so it's a pretty solid hypothesis. This is overall a negative except for fans of extreme weather.
The parent's post makes zero reference to how long they think this has been going on.
Unfortunately the app store has turned a huge percentage of people into those customers. As addressed in the article, the app store itself contributes to the "uncertainty" of the entire app buying experience...
That's a great question. Right now we manually take water samples and get it tested in a lab. Over time, as IoT devices get cheaper, we believe the water quality testing will be done at the source, online, and in real time. This makes it much harder to game the system.

Additionally, we track the GPS location of the truck with the water to make sure clean water is filled up at the source and the same water is delivered to the consumers.
Isn't this just math?

Networking is a system for making connections. Desirable connections are relatively rare. The pool of people networking is full of people trying to make desirable connections but has a small amount of people whom are desirable to network with. The more people there are "trying to network," the fewer desirable connections as a percentage of total connections there will be, assuming an even remotely chaotic coupling.

I've met a lot (a lot) of people who I would have no interest networking with. I'm sure for more valuable targets, the number is orders of magnitude higher.
Check all IP addresses of servers – Letsencrypt “IPv6 preference” troubleshoot
Depending on who your distributor is and your relationship with them, you may be able to get Xilinx to waive the training fees too.
Still waiting for Ricochet VR.
Well, I eat 4-6 and drink raw milk. I wonder how our predecessors survived without supplements... In general, the daily values are not very precise! In some cases, they are too low (vitamin C and D), and, in others, too high. It's very similar to the recommended water intake - can you imagine people not living near a stream getting 2-3 liters of water a day?
How to prepare and apply machine learning to your dataset in R
I've worked almost a dozen jobs and internships. Starting from mowing lawns in high school, every single one was at least partly attributable to knowing someone.
GAPS protocol is a quackery and its creator is antiscientific and dogmatic.[1] Your wife's eczema cure probably had nothing to do with GAPS protocol. Even if it was the reason it may not work for others and other diseases.

[1] - http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/08/01/gaps-in-a-docto...