skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most well-written portable interrupt code needs to pass an explicit context anyway, so... it's not as bad as it sounds.
There is money in AI so everybody claims to be in AI right now. Most claims i have seen so fare are smart list pickers.
You should make a " you are not alone" voting button instead of comments
It's against the rules to post something in Show HN that isn't ready for people to try out.

Having said that, I read your blog post and looked at your home page, I still have no idea what this product or service does.
You can represent all colors on three axes. If you choose each primary color so that it stimulates exactly one of your three color receptors, it is possible. However, there are no wavelengths of light with that property, so in real life, it's not possible to produce a monitor that can show you all colors you can see (with only three primaries, that is).

You can see the various compromises that people have developed. sRGB has real primary colors (your monitor is probably using them right now), but there are many colors that it can't convince your eye to see. (There are also colors you can see that don't actually exist as a single wavelength of light; magenta for example.)
Adobe RGB picks different primaries and you can see more colors. DCI-P3 picks still different primaries and gives you even more colors. But in the end, there aren't three points you can pick that will give you all colors.

You can pick more than three primaries to get more colors. CMYK for printing is an example of this.

If you want to mathematically represent all colors, that's easy. CIExyz does that, but the "primaries" can't even be called that because they have no relationship to human anatomy.

This Wikipedia article is a good starting off point for understanding color perception:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space

(As for computer use, I tried a wide gamut display once and it's a disaster. 99.99% of all content is sRGB, so you might as well have your monitor using sRGB primaries. The metadata situation is too broken for browsers or the OS to know what color space an image is actually in -- displaying an sRGB image with Adobe RGB primaries makes images unreasonably vibrant. Displaying an Adobe RGB image with sRGB primaries looks ridiculously washed-out. Adding to the fun is that browsers like Chrome will convert so that things look right... but assume display colorspace if there is no metadata in the image. And all the photo and art sharing websites I checked a couple months ago actually delete that metadata, so if you compose your images in a colorspace other than sRGB, most people will see the wrong colors. It sucks. I took up black-and-white photography. Everything can display that :)

I would say I'm surprised that there are no monitors that use more than three primaries to display color... but the reality is that even wide-gamut 3 primary color is so broken that it's probably not even worth trying. You could see more colors, but nobody else would see the right colors. Why even bother, I guess.
Agree. But to be fair to ACA is was very ambitious legislation. It would be naive to expect any such thing to be even close to perfect out of the gate. It should be evolving. It is not. Given their oath this falls on both parties. They don't work for their parties as soldiers against the other party.

They. Work. For. Us.

I don't care who is in charge. I want results. Where is the fine tuning? Where is the sense that they work for us?

That being said, and not to get too off topic, but there isn't a healthcare system in the world that can support our collective dietary and lifestyle habits. Obama blew it becausr he failed to tie (personal) health to health. He failed to explain how there are things that can be prevented (e.g., Type 2 diabetes) that we all but refuse to address.

Furthermore, these preventable gateway diseases - again let's stick with diabetes - significantly increase the risk of cancer, Alzheimer's, etc.

Cost are increasing...as are waistlines and age. How are costs going to decline if more people are in need of more and more serious treatment? They fact that a fair amount is in fact preventable only makes the current disconnect even more confusing.
I meant specifically the word with both characters.
>for many of the uses that people have for "bitcoins", BTC and BCH are close substitutes

Sounds like nonsense to me. Practically nobody accepts BCH.
Almost 250,000 Google accounts compromised each week
Senior engineers are, by definition, survivors in the engineering trade. We weren't driven out to open pizza shops or become midlevel product managers.

Most of us senior engineers have made our share of mistakes. We've had people help us understand and correct our mistakes. "rollback!"

The job of any engineer is to work ourselves out of every job, so we can do other jobs.

Our job as senior engineers is this: give junior engineers the power to become senior engineers. Help them use their fresh-out-of-school knowledge to solve real problems in sustainable ways. When they make mistakes, don't punish them. Instead help them correct the mistakes, learn from them, and move on. They will have to live with the consequences of their decisions

Help them gain perspective on broad systems and industry issues. In this article's example, that might be by asking the question "PERL, huh? Maybe you should take a quick look at job openings for PERL folks. When your system becomes totally mission critical you'll want to hire somebody to help you." You could say the truth: "PERL sucks, I know because I hacked PERL for three years when I was a wee little lad." But saying that doesn't help somebody beccome a senior engineer.

This all is especially true when we have the privilege of following the rule, "never hire anybody unless they're smarter than you."
Received August 27, 2013.
Revision received October 23, 2013.
Accepted October 24, 2013.

Sounds like a trashjournal which would explain pretty much everything.

Correction: not a trash journal, still the review process was super fast
Are CA property taxes higher than Texas? This article says the effective tax rate in Texas was almost double that of California’s two years ago:https://taxfoundation.org/how-high-are-property-taxes-your-s...
Does that work in Android? I've never seen anything look right really. And for apps I don't think it's even an option.

Either way it's annoying to set people up to screw up in this way. And the unification also means it's quite difficult to get multiple variants into the same text.
Do you have a source for your claim? Particularly, you're suggesting that the stroke order for the top left part was once different in China. I'd really like to see a document on this.
Implementing APL rules for broadcasting into Numpy
Intel ME firmware now glimpsed, fingered via USB
GPS III explained: Everything you need to know about the next generation of GPS
The moment Snap started talking about "enterprise version" of their app, they were zombified by their investors.
The problem is not the creating the software but the advertising and subsidies needed to gain consumer market share.
Inside of one coin hashpower makes the winner, because the chain with the most accumulated difficulty wins. It makes sense to transfer this to the relation of different coins. currently BTC wins, but if miners would stick to bch this might change.
>I don't believe a majority of the holders or users want transactions costing $5

You might be right, but keep in mind that there's also a significant chunk of people mostly sending amounts in the tens of thousands. $5 doesn't feel like very much then.
Continuous Integration for React Native with TestFlight and TestFairy Deployment
To the extent this is true I'd say it's because Korean people only occasionally use Chinese characters and the default is almost always to display Chinese variants, and not because Japanese people are uniquely particular.
I have a project called DNSDigger.com that could be used as well.
I'm a fan of thoughtbot's open-source stuff, but Crystal already has a pretty good web framework: https://github.com/crystal-community/amethyst
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>In practical terms, the problem with learning songwriting, vs learning Go, is that the number of board positions in Go is finite whereas the number of songs that can be written is infinite.

There are about 10^170 legal positions in Go. We think that there are about 10^82 particles in the observable universe. The space isn't infinitely large, but it's close enough.

The space of enjoyable songs is remarkably small. There are only 12 notes in the chromatic scale and 8 in the diatonic scale. The human range of hearing only covers about nine octaves. There are a relatively small pool of rhythms and harmonies that sound pleasing to most people. Accidental plagiarism is a very common problem in popular music - it's easy to unintentionally write a song that's almost identical to another song. The most common defence in music plagiarism cases is simply to find lots of prior art; the song that you've allegedly plagiarised is probably extremely similar to a lot of other songs.

Jazz musicians can improvise over unfamiliar chord progressions precisely because most music isn't particularly original. If you understand music theory, you can make fairly accurate guesses about what's coming next. Practically all music follows a similar set of understandable patterns, even across cultures.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/music-pl...
I suppose this was inevitable given Godot’s editor and engine are a single binary, and it already supports WebAssembly as a target. The future is exciting!
Circulation is not a trash journal, but one of the most important publications in Cardiology. It's surpassed in impact factor only by JACC: http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=2705
> 1. ...sponsored hyperlocal recommendations.

> 5. ...sponsored recommendations,...

i.e. ads and ads. One of the most depressing aspects of the current tech bubble is how most "entrepreneurs" are not making new things, but finding new ways for others to advertise existing things. If they win the lottery and become billionaires, they start building rockets.
Game editor for https://godotengine.org/
> "Star Scientists" (defined as 99th percentile income earners, 300K+)

No! The definition they use is "95th percentile of patents awarded", then they assume that these people are probably in the 99th income percentile. But they present no data to validate this assumption (at least in this summary of the journal article).

Personally, I'm not convinced that the assumption holds.

Edit: Also, the figure of 300K+ doesn't appear in the post, and a very quick poke around Wikipedia didn't confirm that number for the 99th income percentile. Do you have a source?
The authors note that shifts in migration patterns follow, rather than precede, shifts in top-rate (but not middle-rate) taxation.
> But we can't just go around letting junior developers do whatever they feel is a good idea because "it's a learning opportunity".

I don't think anyone wants junior developers to do "whatever they want". That's not really what's being said, so refuting it doesn't mean much.

But these days, with deterministic deployments, virtualization, and containerization, there's a heck of a lot a junior developer can do in a harmless way. If they want to try applying a consensus algorithm instead of locking a database record, give them some VMs, express your concerns, and wish them luck. Most importantly, let them know what would make the project successful and what would make it a waste of their time.
7 of the Most Expensive Insurance Payouts Ever – Astroligion.com
Scraping Russian Twitter Trolls with Python, Neo4j, and GraphQL
A review process shorter than 2 months is an extremely rare thing in scientific journal from CS fields to Nature journals. Most often it happens with shitty journals and / or when the editor has a horse in the race.
Amazing escape room like book game
Sales tax also puts a larger unavoidable burden on the poor, which I suppose is preferable to some. Then consumer spending among groups who have no room to save leads to them buying cheaper products, increasing numbers of which are cheap or shoddy alternatives, and in the case of non-food items, cheap imports.
Node Color Log – The more powerful logger for Node.js
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But you can't order Pizza (or drugs) with Bitcoin anymore. And I don't see much of use case of a currency that can't do that. Without adoption a fiat currency like bitcoin is not worth anything.

Even gold can do that better.
There a long history of planned towns and cities, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities. The USA appears to be one of the most innovative but that is hardly surprising given the availability of land.

In the UK, planned towns have a long and venerable history as a means of social improvement. If you look at smaller communities then there are good examples of corporate involvement, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Sunlight.

There is always a dark side to this. Brora in Sutherland, Scotland was subject to a number of improvements for the betterment of the population by George Granville Leveson-Gower, the first Duke of Sutherland, http://www.scottish-highlands-explorer.com/brora.asp which also included https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Sutherland#Clearances
First approaches are happening for this now:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/prometheus-users/wO5...

- https://github.com/Percona-Lab/prom-migrate (requires old Prom server to run for reading out data)

- https://github.com/juliusv/prom-data-migrator (operates offline on old and new storage dirs directly)
Sales tax is like inverting the income tax brackets.

Suppose the rich can buy everything they need with 1% of their income, sales tax is 10%. Then, the rich are paying 0.1% income tax. If the poor have to spend 20% of their income on the same necessities, they are paying twenty times more tax per amount of income.
This seems like a very generalizing claim, do you have evidence for it? The AlphaGo paper in Nature ( https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16961 ) also has less than two months between submission and acceptance.
> I don't believe a majority of the holders or users want transactions costing $5.

I can't speak for others, but above all I would want the costs to be predictable. There is no reasonable way to divine transaction fees at the moment.

BitPay certainly doesn't help. They handle the payments for most sites where I sometimes pay in Bitcoin. After submitting a payment they'll show a page saying "we saw your transaction, but the fees you specified seem pretty low". That's not helpful. What would be helpful would be to tell me before I pay how much they recommend as fee. If it's $5, I may be willing to pay it if I'm sure that will placate the BitPay gods.
Those who did not buy into the sunk cost fallacy allowed their houses be reclaimed.

Wait, are you saying it was actually financially rational to do so? Wouldn't they be better off by waiting it out until it the market rebounded?

I'm not blaming anyone, just asking what would have been the theoretically better decision.
PowerPC Notebook Block Diagram
The BCP's scope is broader than state actors: "The motivation for PM can range from non-targeted nation-state surveillance, to legal but privacy-unfriendly purposes by commercial enterprises, to illegal actions by criminals".

Also, the BCP does not contend that an technology end-run around law exist (or that it is desirable). The BCP is about mitigating, not entirely preventing, the threats described: "'Mitigation' is a technical term that does not imply an ability to completely prevent or thwart an attack. Protocols that mitigate PM will not prevent the attack but can significantly change the threat."

Surely, given commercial practices such as HTTP header injection by Verizon and the Pharma saga in the U.K., a BCP that promotes privacy/security thinking in the design of new protocols is a good thing. Which is not to say that attackers, commercial or otherwise, will not find other ways; but let's at least try to increase the bar by weeding out unnecessary attack surface and information leakage.
Maybe in an ideal world, sure, but in this world, nobody is going to add those features to the text layer as long as there are perfectly good Unicode characters right there in the character layer. So we may as well use them.
I think you mixed up Circulation Journal ("Official Journal of the Japanese Circulation Society", http://www.j-circ.or.jp/english/cj/) with Circulation (Journal by the American Heart Association, http://circ.ahajournals.org/)
The latter is the source of the coffee article.
So you think that it was equally possible that they could have been classified as au pairs? These things have a legal framework.

And the low number could have easily be do to the disproportionate power of the company over the drivers. You can't claim that if 68 people are taking action those who don't take action are against those 68.

And "Libertarian" has to do with the way the relationship between the businesses, the workers and the clients is regulated. Your argument about demand and supply is invalid because UK doesn't function purely on libertarian principles so the state has the right to say if these people are contractors or employees.
The Code Runner looks like it just runs a script and puts the output in a VSCode panel, which is not the same thing. VSCode is written in something that compiles to Javascript, right? So, while you're running VSCode, there's a JS VM that's running the VSCode code. So what I'm missing is a way to be able to run your own code inside the same VM that the editor's code is running in, giving it full access to all the objects and state that the editor's code is in.

You can use this to write ad-hoc extensions that disappear when you quit, or just experiment with the extension functionality. This is typically how you start and then iterate on extensions in Emacs.
You might want to read the books by or listen to the talks of Robert Anton Wilson, here he talks about about the Subgenius in relationship to the Principia Discordia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qn1kilKVIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7N6TOFyrLg
Do you cycle the modafinil ? and How ?
>Social media is a shit show of shills and propaganda from all angles. So really only time will tell.

The r/bitcoin and r/btc sub-reddits really went to trash recently. Everyone's been bickering about their own opinions. Worst of all, constant front page vitriol about each other.
Income tax may disincentivize earning at the margin but also incentivizes investment because businesses can deduct expenses. In any given tax period a business will have a strong incentive to re-invest earnings which is the easiest way to avoid paying income tax.

From a theoretical perspective it seems to me that income tax would favor economic growth while sales tax, which can't be avoided, would depress economic growth.
Depending on the future of blockchains, Consensys might be a good place to look.
I saw a conversation where a diarist asked what a historian wished to find in someone's diary—like, do they wish for nuanced analyses about current events? But the historian said the most interesting stuff is that which you don't see in official chronicles or books: daily little things, relationships, habits, food, all the minutiae that still paints a picture of the world from a specific point of view.
It [chalk] forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite shells (coccoliths) shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores. [1]

Not that much different from anything we produce. When our active time as a species is over all of our leftovers will remain as a natural resource like everything else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk
Ask HN: Should my site support Windows XP?
I'm using Cloudflare's universal SSL on Nazdeeq.com, and a ticket was opened about Windows XP support.

Windows XP was released in 2001, and reached EOL on 2011.

My SSL certificate gives a handshake error on Windows XP, but gets an A+ rating on SSLLabs.com

Adding support for Windows XP means switching to LetsEncrypt certificates that would reduce my rating to an A.

Is this a wise decision to make?
Let me up the ante, not only can we detect single photons.

A pioneering study at the interface of biology and physics found, that isolated rod photoreceptors of frogs are sensitive to differences in the light sources statistical properties, e.g coherent (laser) vs thermal (sun, light-bulb) vs sub-poissonian (resonance fluorescence of quantum dots) light statistics:

"Measurement of Photon Statistics with Live Photoreceptor Cells" (2012) [1]

"The results indicate differences in average responses of rod cells to coherent and pseudothermal light of the same intensity and also differences in signal-to-noise ratios and second-order intensity correlation functions"

It seems Lorentz hypothesis in 1911 was right, that the boundaries of our perception are set by basic laws of physics, and that we reach the limits of what is possible.

===

[1] [pdf] https://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRev...
Both really. Companies face fines if they keep calling people after they request to be put on a do not call list so it's a big deal. That's how I remember my experience at a call center anyway.
it could disqualify me from consideration even before I get a chance to interview and make a good impression..

I'm not going to waste my time interviewing if they can't meet my minimum salary requirements. I know my market. I doubt that I would be off by more than $3K - $5K.
thanks for pointing out, I corrected it
I feel like I should point out that Firefox won't be getting backported to Debian stable[1]. Until the next Debian stable, it seems that Firefox ESR 52 will be the only version of Firefox.

[1] https://mozilla.debian.net/
Being legally free to leave may not mean you're also financially free to do so. In a hypothetical designed dystopia, your wages and employment would be such that you couldn't afford to leave the machine that makes the designer rich.

For example, you wouldn't make enough to save more than $5/week, the rest would have been spent on food and power and rent. So, if you missed a weeks work you'd miss a weeks rent. You'd have nothing in the bank to travel to an out-of-town interview.

Just a theory I don't expect to happen any time soon, but an interesting thought exercise when a billionaire buys a town.
Ask HN: What are some good (programmer) jokes that you know?
Whenever I find a poorly writing marker somewhere I just throw it away (and replace it with one of the extra spares I keep for these cases).
Everybody is always just relieved and happy with that - no complaints.
Oh and some other rich guy (crown Prince of Saudi Arabia) announced NEOM, a plan for a sustainable, connected and automated city in which he will invest 500 BILLIONS (not a typo, Google it). Of which 93 are scheduled for R&D in a fund comanaged with Softbank.

But yes, this bill gates thing is nice too...
Is it a phone or on-site interview? If it is a phone interview, then keep in mind that they call up thousands of people every year and only a small percent of all candidates pass through.

One thing I know from experience is that overconfidence is a big no no. For example, if you claim that you are an amazing Python developers, then they will probe you with questions not even Guido van Rossum could answer. It's better to only claim that you are fairly good because then they will ask you easier questions.
The amazing part about this is the blocktime is now 1.5~ mins and going down.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin%20cash-confirma...