skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For practical purposes there's no difference at all, the outcome is the same. Someone puts down a list of requirements, and the school will comply - if they don't there's consequences.

If a school won't comply to licensing requirements they government will levy a fine. If a school fails accreditation students will run away, they rightly think that employers won't take their degree seriously. There also won't be federal student loans.

Sometimes professional bodies approve degrees. There are no consequences at all, except that the more capable students stay away from unrecognized degree programs. At my department they are actually moving away from adjuncts because the professional body requires that courses be taught by full-time lecturers or professors. Leadership has decided that the extra expenses for full-time faculty members with benefits are justified by the improved quality of students.
Ah yes, a book for the plebs. Not for the hardcore stalker who has studied every shred of information to ever have been published about Jobs.
Two column papers are the worst format. They emphasize compact printability in a world where no one buys proceedings.
Sorry I still don't get it :)

> To express a ratio of 1000000:1, you need at least 20 bits.

You mean to express all the integer factors in the range 1000000:1, you need at least 20 bits. With 20 bits you can represent 1 times brighter, 2 times brighter ... 1000000 times brighter.

But there's nothing special about those coefficients. 20 bits does not allow you to represent 1.5 times brighter. That's still in the range 1000000:1 but 20 bits isn't enough to represent it.

If we're happy to skip 1.5 times brighter, why can't we skip all the even integer times brighter values, and use 19 bits?
Things got a lot more accurate on the Wii with the MotionPlus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_MotionPlus
Brainfuck is the sanest choice.
I bet there would be A LOT of 'rm -rf /'-ing going on. I'll admit it was about the second thing I tried.
> adjusting the color in an image, as you might do in Photoshop or whatever

Photoshop is a very basic tool for this. Color grading tools used in the industry are far more advanced than the options offered in PS, take a peek at Resolve (free).
Interesting, but Tab completion seems broken:

cd Foosball/
cat r<tab>

Selecting text (on Firefox) doesn't seem to work either.
I’m inclined to believe you. Can you share a source? Homeless populations move around the city in response to police, etc., so the total number can be completely opaque to the average city resident.
I guess my sloth is slightly more entertaining. http://yeukhon.me/
I used to be on the teengrid, and even some of those guys were insane. I used to know someone who had built a javascript version of the viewer. There was no viewing but you could access everything else (inventory, chat, map).

Teen grid also lacked the ability to get items from the main grid so the average build quality of anything was pretty bad. I wonder how many of those builders went on to work in 3d animation or something similar. Pretty much everyone I know who used to play it either ended up in coding or some artistic career.
It failed on all three papers I tried it on. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05313
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06689
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07508
Zonal OCR software that can do data extraction as well as the stupid expensive offerings from ABBYY and Nuance.
It's probably more likely due to the fact that codecs for videos on YouTube tend to have lower resolution in the red and blue channels, which leads to very bad blocky artifacting around bright red and bright blue areas.
So the head of a science department should be snubbed because they're supported by a team doing work for them? Since when did science become A Pursuit Of The Lone Hero?
No America was not complicit in Genocide in Indonesia
WhisperList
The title of the blog is literally "vent[ing] space".
As long as it doesn't crash as much as it used to.
I honestly don't understand why people use VIM or Emacs. I'm much more productive just with notepad.

If you think lowest-common denominator stuff like Notepad equals productivity because it's easy and "discoverable", then I got nothing for you.

There's a reason why the subtitle of Drew Neil's book is "Edit Text at the Speed of Thought": https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Vim-Thought-Pragmatic-Progr...

Because when you're reasonably proficient with Vim, you think of what to do and with a few keystrokes, you've done it without the interruption of reaching for a mouse, selecting a menu command, etc. For many edits, in the time it takes to grab a mouse, orient where the pointer is on the screen and begin the process of selecting a GUI command, etc., you'd already be done using Vim and you're off to the next thing you want to do. Anyone who's been in the flow of coding doesn't want something that interrupts that and Vim is great at keeping you there.

And because Vim uses a language, it's composable in way that VS Code, Notepad, Emacs and all of the rest of editors aren't. Once you understand how to delete a word (`dw` in Normal mode), you also know how to delete sentences, paragraphs, etc. Plugins can add their own text objects to extend the usefulness of the language.

More at "Why Vim Can't Replace Emacs/Sublime Text, etc.": https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-43385...

Forget about vim and emacs, those were for times when people were coding over SSH.
Apparently you're not a systems admin, web developer or in devops, where people have to connect to servers via SSH and edit configuration files, scripts, etc. pretty much every day.

The beauty is you can use Vim on your desktop or laptop for local editing tasks (especially gVim) and for remote editing via SSH, FTP, rsync.

Finally, I've used over a dozen different editors over the years on macOS and other platforms; I decided I wanted one editor that had enough headroom that I couldn't outgrow regardless of the task at hand.

Even though I've been using Vim for 4 or 5 years as my primary editor, I've barely scratched the surface of what it enables me to do.
Traffic on the weekend? Sure, but that is distributed aside from the typical choke points on 101 and 880.
So is this just JS or an actual terminal is behind? Looks like just JS... I would love to see someone actually expose a shell.
It's amazing what comes up. A lot depends on your deposit. If you can swing a total cost of ~$750-850k home price then you have a LOT of options in the East Bay.

There are some really nice places that show up in Rockridge that are reasonable and if you're ok with a little less nice of an area the NoBe area is good too. In Oakland you can do surprisingly well near Highway 13 in the foothills or nearish Mills College.

If you don't mind the commute (I would) then Pleasanton is affordable (just) for large single-family homes, but it's a long ass commute.

There's a ton in the Fremont/Hayward area if you're doing a South Bay commute tho, and that opens up Pleasanton a bit more too.

If you're already driving to work then look to neighborhoods nowhere near BART as reasonable proximity to that can add a 1.5-2x multiplier to the price.
Sorry to not include those guys, I think there's a trucking logistics company over by there as well? And a GSK lab. And Lolo Peak Brewing.
I seriously wanted to like the Pixel, I think Apple's business model is entirely harmful, but the lack of a headphone jack on the flagship Google phone is really the last straw. We've lost so much good tech over the years to reduce costs, that I just can't accept a premium phone dropping such a global standard for no good reason at all. Next time I buy a phone I'll vote with my wallet and go with more consumer friendly options.
Convenience and Security Alone Will Not Save the Day
I worked on a slab gell dna sequencer contemporaneous to the humane genome project. It's actually worse than described, because the dna isn't cut randomly. Instead, restriction nucleases cut the dna at certain fixed sequences. Of course you can use multiple restriction nucleases, either in the same (subject to their chemistry being compatible) run or over multiple runs. When everything went well, our tech allowed you to read 800-ish bp with good quality and perhaps up to 1.1k if you were willing to to get dodgy quality at the ends.

So you have two problems. The first is, you never read anything longer than say 1k bp ever. The second is say your nuclease cuts at GAATTC. You will have great difficulty counting runs of that sequence.

this is the technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyacrylamide_gel_electrophor...
There's also a burgeoning AI Hub coalescing. Although it has yet to assume critical mass. Facebook FAIR lab, Google Brain, Cornell Tech, NYU Futures Lab, Two Sigma, and hundreds of fintech experiments as well as a deep bench of VC activity. Many of the world's foremost AI researchers enjoy doing a stint here. Marinating in the frenetic, and admittedly neurotic, intellectual cross-pollination only NYC affords ;)

If any are interested there will be an NYAI Meetup tomorrow night, 6pm Tues Oct 24 at Rise in midtown with IBM Watson's Ruchir Puri presenting on "Reinventing Businesses with AI". Who knows? You may even wind up meeting your future YC team mates ;)

https://www.meetup.com/NYAImeetup/events/244178308/
You'd probably be interested in the metastable isotopes of hafnium, too. Most notably 178m2Hf.
The Importance of Visual Consistency on Social Media
It was back then too! :)
So... I can just view source and see all the available data. That is a lot faster then typing in commands.
have already been using this for a while.. great improvement and easy to use.
I can't stand editing more than a few lines on a VPS because of the latency and uncertainty. Some letters appear fast, others take a second or more, it's maddening.
Our state GIS guys are pretty amazing IMHO. https://www.magip.org/
"Ask HN" sounds like a great idea.

I think Python is the much better choice to start out, but Java is pretty great too. It's hard to find languages that are actually bad choices... maybe COBOL.
Re: "I don't think the people in the bottom 60% really care about this because they are becoming increasingly segregated..."

If they can get a decent income to raise a family under "civilized" conditions, I generally agree. Factory jobs usually provided that, but they are drying up without a clear alternative replacing them, at least in certain areas. There are "low skill" jobs like fast food or Uber driving, but it's difficult to raise a family on that.

It looks like either socialism and/or subsidization of higher education will be needed. These may require taxing the rich. Automation and offshoring are eating into mid-skill careers. (They may eventually eat into more levels.) I don't buy the right's "float all boats" theory, except under a short-term boom cycle.
problem with the site is that since it only implements a subset of what one would expect from a shell you're constantly inputing things that do not work.
Thanks for your comments. Useful insights. One or two could be subjective, but I realise the people reading the resumes will see things differently too. It reads like the ATS you've used / seen can ID resumes and not kick them out. In Australia, this is rarely the case. Even though it's 2017.

I'll review point 12. Good advice. Thank you.

It's still a work in progress and I'll be trying to reach 100 tips by the end of this year.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Really appreciated.

Mark
how about running OpenSSH inside docker with bind mounts?
Geez, Eudora? Outlook Express maybe? I haven’t used POP3 in a decade.

It used to delete from the server after downloading locally. This was when most email mailboxes had a capacity of 10MB.
Show HN: DietManager
Really hope Australia gets this some time!
Guy Creates Super Realistic 3D Self Portraits and Internet Is Having a Hard Time
Tusk: Featureful open source Evernote desktop app
Cool site that doesn't run like a dog, I'm impressed! I actually spent a few minutes fiddling around trying to see what I could do on the terminal, can't say that for many other sites.

If I could offer one little bit of feedback; some labels on the menu at the top would be kind of handy, a few icons are easy to recognize but some aren't (at least for me).
It's telling that Microsoft has opted to integrate Neovim in VS Code to enable its Vim plugin to have perfect Vim compatibility: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim

Integrating Vim makes it a no-brainer for those projects where I have to use VS Code.
Looks pretty broken for tab completion... Also you can't cat the .ai file? or open it? Whats the point.
Yes, try www.mudconnector.com or www.mudlistings.com
That was only a small fraction of Crazy Eddie's fraud schemes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie
I mirrored the file at http://ul.to/w9qk8fhh

md5sum 83588bfb709f5fc548ef8fcc3bdaf459
Using DNS66, also very happy with it. Thank you for the recommendation.
The number one reason I dont pay for cable, but I do pay for Amazon prime video and I dont get adverts there, I assume Netflix is the same. If I was paying £50 a month for sky TV I would be annoyed at advertising being shown to me. I put up with adverts on free to air TV and am happy to pay a licence fee to the BBC for advert free television and radio. It's possible to provide a service that charges for access and doesn't show adverts as these options prove, however greedy media firms want to have their cake and to eat it.
You mean like some embed like Scribd? I've never really liked that sort of stuff, always works wonky for me. Text is great.
This is the cheap go-to method for fusor enthusiasts to check for fast neutron production.
I promised myself that I would post this on the eve of my YC rejection so here goes...

Note: I am setting it to upgrade all accounts tonight so tomorrow you will be able to do everything except order food (because that requires you to enter your CC). So if you sign up tonight you should get a healthy breakfast nudge. I have stopped the billing jobs so no subscriptions will be charged until 1/1/18.

Here are some answers to things people (current users) have asked me.

1: I used diet books and Meal Plans for my training data (Meal Rec's)

2: The Restaurant and Menu data I scraped myself and am mapping to items that I have nutrient info on when I make food log entry. (Yes I know this is risky; and it is why I am not supporting serious allergies right now)

2: What can DM do

a) Goal coaching (12 Goals work as of now)

b) Order food (LA/SF Postmates)

c) Shop (Amazon)

d) Track stats (WiiThings Scale & GH Activity)

e) Manage your food log ie: Take a pic of your food and the nutrient info is committed to your food log.

Dev. Note: I releasing a new version of the chat engine that uses neo4j so I apologize in advance if you get an odd response to your message.

Spam Note: DM cant spam you because its not allowed to send you more than one message w/o getting a response.

Other Notes: If you like this idea but just think I am doing a horrible job of it (please be patient...its getting better by the day or you can try eatwithava.com. None of my current users liked it but it is further along than I am.
> If we're happy to skip 1.5 times brighter, why can't we skip all the even integer times brighter values, and use 19 bits?

Things get wonky if you don't have a linear scale with a true zero; in such a scale the low end of your N:1 contrast ratio (in the smallest representation) has a value of 1, and the high end has a value of N.
For modern Illumina sequencing the shearing process is typically sonication, or some other method that's far more random than a restriction enzyme.
Ask HN: What fun iot/microcontroller projects have you been working on?
I see lots of saas based side projects here. Do many people have hardware based projects? Anyone have any fun iot or micro controller based projects that they are working on?
I would guess this isn't a priority for the industry because gamers themselves don't care. Case in point: gaming monitors. Gaming monitors advertise high-refresh rates and low input lag but rarely color quality. What percentage of gamers use wide gamut monitors or even perform color calibration?
Thanks for that. I didn't see that paper when I was quick googling for Concord levels. That's not bad, 7.8hrs/day is the max (given the 7uSv/hr dosage they are estimating). So no flight crew is going to undergo that.

Though it still begs the question, is Boom going to get that. As I understand it, Concord had nickel-aluminum throughout its body, which has better shielding properties than CF. They are also introducing more flights. Transpolar flights means more dosages.

But given that paper I'm less concerned with the radiation dosages now. I'll still be interested to see what the data says when they start gathering it. We've also learned a lot more about radiation exposure, especially in flight since '96 [1][2]. And note that these values vary quite a lot.

The real interest here will be in solar storms. I also wouldn't be surprised if NASA straps detectors to those planes, if Boom becomes commercial. I'd be very interested to see that.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/AGU-NAIRAS.html

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/airline-rad...
But life had up to now evolved to function at a sustainable level.

It can't go on forever indeed there's a thing called the heat death of the universe, but it is sufficiently far in the future that I don't care about it.

The shit that happens now means that my kids won't be able to have children in good conscience (I already feel sorry for them for the mess I put them in).
> I think it was the crappy auto-generated wrappers from back then that was the downfall. Both in c# and Java, there was too much magic, where they tried to hide too much and make it look like regular local function calls.

I'd expand this a bit further too: they tried to make them look like regular function calls in an age where asynchronous/callback programming in general was a nightmare.

At least in C# today, a lot of the debug pain I recall helping other developers through with the old SOAP/WSDL WCF auto-gen code would be solved with async/await. Practically no one understood the Begin{FunctionName}Async/End{FunctionName}Async pattern that the best of those wrappers used at the time and so many developers settled for synchronous blocking and deadlocking anti-patterns instead.

Which again leads to the more general problem with such things that: when they worked right they were magic, and when they didn't work they were (practically) impossible to debug.

There is something to be said that, too, that no one wanted to write a WSDL definition file or a SOAP wrapper by hand, so you were always fighting your tooling to produce what you needed and had a hard time correcting it when it did something sub-optimal.

I don't think swagger is a terribly huge step backwards as in general what I've seen of swagger is lot more descriptive than prescriptive. I've seen some swagger-described APIs that are heavily hypermedia and take a strong REST approach, and I've seen some swagger-described APIs that might as well be SOAP for as much as they resemble "proper" REST and/or hypermedia. It certainly feels more pragmatic than SOAP/WSDL, in trying to describe a lot of the variety in how people build REST-ish APIs, and maybe in that way it's a step forwards from a once-sized-fits-all prescriptive approach. (In that way it too is a step backwards in that sometimes a good prescriptive approach might lead people more easily down a "happy path" of best practices, but that's always the hard balance: pragmatism versus theoretical purity. The pendulum swings.)
Yes, it’s a “hey everyone this person has the keys to the kingdom, target them” indicator.
Most would use the transit option, especially since the proximity to transit would be included in the price.

Other potential nudges would be to waive parking requirements for such development, thus denying parking places for the residents.
Parking lots for the nearby hiking trails are already overflowing on weekends and holidays. Squeezing in more people has a very direct negative impact on quality of life.
I suspect not, since the X will only be available in limited quantities.

My guess is that it was a mistake to not release both at the same time. If they had done that, people that couldn’t immediately order the X are likely to just go ahead and order the 8 if it isn’t that big a deal to them. But now with the 8 having been out for a month, I think a lot more people are likely to just decide to wait. Net result will be a huge drop in sales (though higher ASP).

I guess we’ll see if I’m wrong many months from now, but this just seems like a huge error on their part to me.
on the mark, lots of "pivoting" going on in the bootcamp scene.
We took this approach at 99designs with aws-vault and bastion accounts: https://99designs.com.au/tech-blog/blog/2015/10/26/aws-vault...
Given how destructive we are at 20 TW, I don't want to see what will happen when we consume more.
I can get that. This relies on another Python package which does all the SSH stuff, and they seem to be well maintained. But I'd still say you have to be careful when you try this wild.
FWIW, this has been around for a couple of years and has felt pretty solid, i.e. no obvious rate limit when bulk data gathering. For example, I believe that if you want to collect stats at the census tract/block level, you'd have to loop through every state, which is not a problem. County-level stats can be gathered in a single call, IIRC.

The API seems to be the basis for the Census's new data platform: https://data.census.gov/
The volume controls used to be better; they didn't try guessing which volume you wanted to change by context. They've changed things for the worse since then.

My battery's pretty small (2150 mAh), and I've spent about half an hour today playing games. Pulled the phone off the charger at about 8:30, and it's 16:00 now. Power's at 81%. The iPhone 6 would be a little higher, granted.

I wish Android were better, but out of the available options, it suits my needs the closest.
Securely store and access AWS credentials in development environments
> Now to find out what kind of applications are greatly benefited from this.

The common applications are scientific computing usually, here's a quick overview[1] of the kind of algorithms ran on supercomputers: PDEs, ODEs, FFTs, Sparse and Dense linear algebra, etc.

These are usually used for scientific applications like weather forecasting, where you need to know about the result on time (i.e. before the hurricane reaches the coast!)

[1] https://www.nap.edu/read/11148/chapter/7#125
And is quite terrible with Chrome on Android.
symbolics genera / http://www.symbolics-dks.com/
> ProtonMail takes the opposite approach and by default, does not monitor or record user activity, not even IP addresses.

Hrm, where's the pricing? Oh, it's based on "Messages per day" and "Folders / Labels"...

This doesn't detract from the meat of the article, but when user activity is involved in the pricing, you clearly can't claim 'no activity monitoring'.
I think the entire tech that I worked on has been superseded by better technologies. However, I (think?) the limitations are still of interest because they influenced the original sequencing and probably a lot of the early data.

The other takeaway I had, as someone who came to this with a CS and stats background, is that chemistry sucks. None of it is deterministic, and when people say some chemistry does X, what they really mean is it generally does that. Most of the time. Subject to conditions and a reasonable amount of stochasticity. We're built on a pile of random muck hacked together.
Can you search protonmail email quickly? Search is pretty useful.
"It doesn’t necessarily mean that their scientists are better, it’s just that when they say, ‘We need a billion dollars to do this,’ bam, the money comes.”
More than that, when their scientists approach the government they aren't treated with scorn, told they are 'fake news', and ignored.