skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing (or something), right? So some politics are a pinch or a slap but others are a hammer to the head. What's wrong with taking a stance about, for example, children in cages? This isn't just a protest over whether trickle down works or if taxes are too high/low.
At large technical companies as well unfortunately. It’s insane. never knowing who is talking, who is on the line. And that’s not talking about audio quality
Girls and minorities break records in computer science as fastest-growing groups
Whenever I read articles like this these days, I just sort of automatically mentally strikethrough any mentions of climate change so that I can, you know, concentrate more on the real problems.
Struggling to find out what the right next step in my career is.
I can help you overcome the first part of that, right now: it's spelled "narcissism." :)
People also sometimes cherry-pick or carve up data so that they can find a "surprising" result, to use one of ~pg's favorite adjectives.

Your coworker had the impression that wildfires are becoming larger and more damaging, and that climate change is a principal cause of this, due to widespread coverage to that effect (examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]). (Which I suppose was your point.)

And many of those journalists are repeating each other, but eventually you find that a lot of those statements originate from the National Interagency Fire Center [7]. There, the raw numbers pretty clearly show an upward overall trend from, oh, about 1953 or so. Before 1953, the numbers look a lot different, and if someone were to just casually plug all those values into a graph, they could make the point that wildfires aren't getting worse after all. That person would be completely ignoring the massive increase in wildfire suppression efforts over that same period, of course, but they wouldn't want that to get in the way of their surprising finding.

Further investigation into the subject would start to reveal all kinds of neat subtleties that would be missed from a quick glance at numbers, both from non-climate-related factors like increased habitation in the wildland-urban interface areas [8], as well as climate-related factors like the massive number of dead trees in western forests as a result of increased bark beetle activity [9] [10].

And then someone might begin to be in a position to have a more interesting discussion on the subject. :-)

[1]: https://www.usnews.com/news/data-mine/articles/2018-08-01/wi...

[2]: http://www.climatecentral.org/western-wildfire-trends

[3]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/14/wildfires...

[4]: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/634369281/wildfires-could-be-...

[5]: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/7/17661096/california-wildfires-2...

[6]: https://theconversation.com/wildfires-in-west-have-gotten-bi...

[7]: https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_totalFires.html

[8]: https://www.wildfirex.com/2013/07/25/population-climbs-in-wi...

[9]: https://www.fs.fed.us/research/invasive-species/insects/bark...

[10]: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-sierra-dead-tr...
Are you implying that google has always rigged their searches and trump is accurate?

I was not aware google did that (nor am I sure that they do), but if they do actually rig searches - their business will become less viable all the time.
I think they were just trying to make it rhyme in English by choosing approximate translations. The original says “[don’t cry] [girl], [don’t lament/wail], [when] [(there) is] [drought], [field] [spray (water)]”.
China's Silicon Valley Threatens to Swallow Up Hong Kong
It seems to return blue for pretty much anything ("cat", "man"), maybe because of blue sky?
I think it's the latter - Coltrane exhausted jazz. That's my reading, anyway.
You're either popular among your friends, unaware of your current social status, or aware and okay with it. Social media, acts a quantification of popularity metrics. The most attractive and popular people get the most engagement on social media, and the least attractive or least popular get the least engagement. For teens, it's a lot harder to ignore your own social status, since all of your socialization takes place in what amounts to a closed system (school and clubs).
No, it was dumb, and I didn't stutter. It's an extraordinarily short-sighted move to switch to Slack. IRC may not be for everyone, but clients like The Lounge and alternatives like Matrix are quite friendly to non-engineers.
Why whooping cough is making a comeback
Wonder if there is John Doe around facing these problems.
Qt has a web assembly target now though, so it could be.
I hear in the next Windows build they're actually going to replace Control Panel with a copy of Eliza that's been hooked up to a magic 8-ball

I thought Cortana was already up and running since Windows 10?
https://picular.co/love returned a nice color palette

pretty neat to search for the planets as well (e.g. https://picular.co/jupiter)

I also like that the favicon changes colors. Nice touch.
People who still believe climate change is a myth aren’t reasoned or reasoning people.

His position is ideological not logical.

More info in a Bloomberg piece won’t help, and it’s silly to pretend otherwise.
The New Old Age
Loved the idea and well implemented. Is it open source, like to add a feature to it. Could you also care to share about the underlying algorithm ?
"and it doesn't relate to residential broadband" yet.
In a way, it's personal. Any client that makes you really stressed out and leaves you feeling tempted to avoid their calls and ignore their messages is a bad client for you. With practice, you'll figure out why that is and whether it needs to be that way. Sometimes you can even turn a bad client into a good client by adapting things on your end.

In a broader perspective, a lot of people have trouble with clients that

- don't communicate

- don't listen

- don't learn

- don't respect boundaries

- don't pay
ML/AI-ready servers. Better features than Paperspace and AWS for half the price
I'd sympathize with the lady if there were more information about that intersection. Is there a stop sign? Is it an uncontrolled intersection with poor visibility?

Since this is a evidently a news story on CNBC, and not just someone's blog rant, it is reasonable to assume they are presenting the best evidence that they are able to come up with in support of its topic.
I can't stop to underestimate myself on my programming level so that I'm not applying to some cool jobs because I think that I wouldn't make it, while knowing in my deep mind that I could totally do it.

I've been programming since ten years, I'm 23 now, I've finished my Msc in embedded software engineering. Programming is my biggest passion. I've created and sold websites for companies of my city and cities around mainly when I was ~16yo and even from time to time until now. I've made and sold multiple mobile apps, some that have currently thousands of clients by subscription. And I have always since 13yo at least a project in my hands.

I'm really not good at selling myself for companies where I'm applying for a job, it's terrible
There's not, because there wasn't any.

It's like an angry drunk complaining that all the bars he's banned from are coordinating to ban him. It's like, no, you were an angry drunk separately at all of them.
Many people can't even enjoy the real world without caring how others will judge their car, clothes, and credentials.

Caring about likes on social media seems pretty minor compared to the mountains people were already moving to feel good about themselves, so most social media criticism feels empty to me because they ignore the elephant in the room, like OP's suggestion that they need to be regulated.
Che Guevara gets new followers regularly too.
I'd love a better-performing, less memory-intensive and, well, more native Slack app; I'm all for that part. The "harder to mess with" part is a little more concerning.

(I didn't catch the original mention of BetterSlack a few days ago, so ironically, your "Welp, gotta withdraw this!" message here is the first I've heard of it. This seems to be my usual timing with such things, though...)
Looks similar to https://picular.co/hate
Yeah, great example of this is "freedom of speech" being contorted to mean freedom of expression through any means, including spending money. Protecting other forms of self-expression by calling them "speech" is a good end by strange means. Money as speech is a unique bag of worms.
I love that Chris O'Dowd [1] does the narration. Great mix of calming accent and my enjoyment of the IT crowd.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_O%27Dowd
Go modules proxy
Or simply read their work. For example, some of Einstein's original papers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers
I understand the naming issue but from the look of it the extension only works locally, where's the issue with that?
Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling
> I think we should have a de facto standard element class for legal notices with no required user action, like legal-notice-no-action-required. Webistes use the css class, uBlock Origin makes it a built-in default element filter. Website owners can fulfill their legal obligations and users that proactively shape their browsing experience are all set.

Sounds like P3P ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P )

> Neither side wants these things messing up the browsing experience so, unlike the ad wars, we can work together.

Personally, I absolutely want to know when sites are trying to spy on me and sell the data. Despicable crap like that should be forced out into the public, not quietly agreed to by the browser. That's exactly what GDPR is for.
As a counter point, imagine if the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac, Notorious BIG, etc. had an unreleased album and it was released this year. If that happened, I would guarantee that the same thing that happened with Coltrane's Album would have the same thing. Does that mean Rock, Hip-Hop, Rap is dead?

I do think jazz as a genre has an issue, but it is a much different issue. Personally, I think Jazz is way to inbred, and most Jazz artists only play to other jazz artists, and most like to keep it a niche genre.
you are only as fast as your slowest segment...
if you are moving single bits there is no problem...
if you are using pulse width modulation or some other method of signal fidelity to stream packets then you will have to explore latency issues...
if you are talking about single photons transverting to single electrons...you will have issue due to quantum interference...
...optocoupler latency is important and must be considered in your design, if you are working at circuit board level...

im wondering just what your implementation is, are you talking "audiophile" equipment, are you talking digital data transmission...
is it a human eye/ear noticing latency or is it an electronic component, that will consequently influence the smooth operation of the circuit?
Unlikely. Even if it was easy and convenient to mine and transport as moonrocks (it isn’t) the helium would have to be more expensive than gold to be worth the cost.
I am pretty sure China cities do need electric buses. But that could be anecdotal.
Luckily not all self driving approaches are trying to hard-code rules into their algorithms. See comma.ai , they use ML to have the driving agent learn from millions of miles of human driving data.
I struggle with imagining the second act of my life. In my first act - my 20s - I got more exciting jobs than I could hope for, started two organizations I am proud of, made friends for life, was popular enough that people knew who I was before I knew who they were. For various reasons, I left this first act - both mentally and geographically.

Today I have a family, emotional and financial stability, and job prospects I didn't have before. Yet whenever I talk to people about what who I am and what I've done, I always refer to things from my first act, all 4+ years in the past. Nothing happening in my life professionally or creatively now betters what I've achieved already. Being still in my early 30s, this worries me.
Remember when people were apprehensive about using React because Facebook might weaponize your usage of it? This project is explicitly stating it can: you might not be on this list today, but there's nothing preventing you from being on it tomorrow. So do you want to commit to integrating it to your stack?

While I'm not against their stance at all (at the end of the day, they've gotta do what is going to help them sleep at night and if it is barring the usage of their software, so be it), I really worry about the possibility of this becoming prevalent. What happens if libraries start restricting usage if you support the work of ACLU or Planned Parenthood or any other number of things? Now, I may be able to work with a specific library because I check the right boxes. But what if a collaborator can't because they'd violate it? This just feels like a slippery slope leading to a net negative for everyone
I think you can safely ignore this cease and desist. Just change the name and add a disclaimer so your users know that by using your extension they are violating their acceptable use policy.

This is no different than any user writing a Tampermonkey script to modify any website they want to modify. Even further, this is no different than a user opening the Dev Tools console and modifying things there.
As far as some people are concerned, it was ~8–10% of the Earth’s entire history ago, instead of 0.0000001% of it.
Unfortunately [T] is also ambiguous with the current Go syntax. The parser can't distinguish an array declaration from a generic type.
While I completely understand your decision to pull it; both their decision to flex their legal arm and your decision to not stand your ground are equally disappointing.
You should apply for some junior jobs. Finish up your portfolio and have your code (clean it up if you need to, but don't waste time re-architecting ) available on GitHub.

Start applying at places with small software teams (<20) and something will stick.

Maybe get some kind of online cert (AWS dev?).

Good luck!
Could they really sue you for creating a chrome extension that modifies their webpage? That would be a very dark day for the internet. I can't imagine there's any legal basis for that, but it would be very interesting to hear a lawyer's opinion.

Well done on what you have achieved, keep fighting the good fight!
It's def something that the security folk in sv are looking at. see: https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/packs/unwant...
Problem is that it's currently only reactive.
they don't want people injecting javascript on their website. That's all there's to it. I'm not sending anything anywhere. I'm not storing anything. I'm not profiting from it.
Yes. I'm on a conference call about 5 hours every day.

I absolutely hate google hangouts.
You seem to be trying to make an anecdote about personal use.

This website is mimicking corporate conference calls.. and yes, companies take regular phone calls because they are collectively aware that expecting everyone to contact their business using Google Hangouts would be silly.
One step at a time. It's certainly a natural extension, and I don't think anything in the current design draft precludes it.
I would like to. What is a good video conference solution? To replace zoom (which works great for us so far) for example. Thanks.
Thank you WayBackMachine, https://web.archive.org/web/20140315082440/https://www.makeu...

This app has a long and storied history. And I'm releasing it once more given that it solves the issue of connecting Twitter and Facebook.

Literally every other solution doesn't work. Including every IFTT recipe for example. I already reached out to IFTT and am hoping to work with them on a solution.

Happy to answer any questions.
I highly recommend going to see a therapist.
The atmospheric noble gas concentrations, in ppmv:

Helium 5.24

Neon 18.18

Krypton 1.14

Argon 9340

Xenon 0.087

http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/Fundamentals/AtmosphereComp...

Krypton is rarer in the atmosphere than helium (by molar/volume concentration), though more abundant by mass. Krypton is commercially produced by atmospheric separation. I would therefore expect helium sourced by air separation to cost roughly 1/4-1/5 the cost of krypton production, per liter, or 4-5 times as much per gram. A quick search on Google shows krypton at 65 cents per liter in the early 2000s (according to an article about windowpane gas filling). An Alibaba search indicates that 10-15 cents per liter may be more typical now.

If those krypton prices are accurate, and I haven't made any major mistakes with my helium ballparking, I would expect that applications like helium filled hard drives would see only a tiny cost increase should they be forced to use helium separated from the atmosphere. I think that most cryogenic cooling applications would have to move to closed-cycle reuse of helium. I don't know about welding and leak testing.

EDIT: "The Energy-Related Applications of Helium", 1980 report from Los Alamos National Laboratory, specifically considers helium production from atmospheric separation and from lean natural gas streams in section X.

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5141581

A.W. Francis has discussed the recovery of helium from the atmosphere by conventional methods. He predicts that, for helium produced from the atmosphere as a by-product from air separation plants, the cost would lie in the range of $200 to $300 per Mcf in 1973 dollars (over ten times present
cost).

...

To go further and separate helium by similar techniques but with helium as the primary product would raise the cost by more than another order of magnitude to about $7000 Mcf in 1980 dollars.

Apparently one Mcf is 28,317 liters in SI units. That's 24.7 cents per liter of helium from the atmosphere in 1980 dollars, or 80 cents per liter in CPI-adjusted 2018 dollars.
>The problem the company had was a split in comms networks.

My new team is going through this. For comms, my machine came equipped with Skype for Business, Slack, Stride and Bria. It's a fun game rolling the dice when you need to ask someone a question figuring out which comms tool that person uses.

A game I've avoided playing altogether by just sending an email.
It just depends on the game you are playing. Currently you can make more money selling the emotion of owning a piece of something great to investors, than selling the actual product to customers.
Perhaps this book could help as well: https://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World-ebook/...

I'm just reading it, and at the very least it may help recognize the various trap we're in and a way to forge a path to get out of them.
CompuServe had their own pet PDP-10 vendor after DEC discontinued the line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Concepts

They were still running PDP-10-compatible systems from SC up until the original Compuserve service ended in 2009.

You can still buy a brand-new PDP-10 compatible in a certain sense... XKL, another SC-like company, still exists, and they make specialized network gear. As far as I know, all the control planes still run a TOPS-20 derivative on a PDP-10 compatible architecture, even today.
That's a lie! There were lots of "Quack" and "Meow" as well.
Is the temperature semantically different from 'yet another input' into the model? Asking as an ML noob.
I don’t see your point. Why shouldn’t this be on Hacker News?
Neat! No greens returned in https://picular.co/christmas but OTOH I just created palettes called Retro and Grunge for a recent project and they were quite similar to Picular’s choices
Thanks for asking this question. I was reflecting on this lately:

I specifically struggle with 2 things:

-- With adulthood and family. I'm not really sure how my parents did it, I feel I'm still not an adult ( married 2 years ago).

-- I did my undergrad in CS, got hired into an IT consultant company, and started working as a developer implementing tool platforms. ( imagine SalesForce, AWS etc., ) for customers. Now I'm working doing the same thing in one of the top 5 companies in the world. I don't like this anymore. I want to branch out and do full stack development, ML, AI OR ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT THIS. As I mentioned it's becoming impossible to change my career because 1/ I'm on a visa 2/ I'm married and my wife's doing her graduate courses in the location I live in.

I'm doing my masters on the side, but really at the end of the day I don' have enough patience / will power to do anything else apart from my current work and that's killing me everyday.
Practical Apache Spark in 10 Minutes. Part 6 – GraphX
As a father of 6 month old twins and two toddlers it's nice to see there's light at the end of the tunnel :)
Seems to be doing a google image search and take the average color. Meh.

EDIT: My "meh" is not bashing on the author or anything, at least they actually made a project, all I've done this past while is browse HN and make half-baked terminal apps. It was more of a let-down because I thought this was a very cool idea and was interested in a sophisticated implementation of it.
Those people should feel free to invest in low lying real estate. They’ll make a killing if they’re right.
I guess I took away a different set of lessons when using lambda as a kinesis source/sink for streaming, high volume, time-sensitive data. Which is you may want to rethink it and use the KCL/KPL instead. You lose a lot of application control when using kinesis and lambda together.

A record that spikes your memory footprint? Lambda will fail and continuously retry the batch.

Have a record that unexpectedly takes a long time to process? Lambda will time out and continuously retry.

You also have no control over when the lambda execution context recycles. Which can make a big difference to your datastore usage.
> There's always a different resource that you can substitute if you look widely enough at the big picture.

What is the different resource that can be used for studying low temperature physics?
* Abolishing ICE doesn't require abolishing the border entirely, just abolishing a police force that gets as much funding as the FBI even though it is dedicated to one small subset of violations.

* It is OK to have ideals that you work towards while knowing that you won't necessarily reach them.
Ask HN: Those who signed up in 2007, what do you remember the most?
Can't believe I made this account on April 30, 2007. When did HN first debut?
If you'd like to move, my company is always hiring every kind of developer. Most roles are in the US, but there are others elsewhere. We also sponsor visas.

If you're interested, my email is in my bio.
Wow that was downvoted. I guess these people aren't aware of Nimoys extensive practical jokes with Shatner.

But even so, why would anyone downvote this?
I view Alex Jones as relevant to the prediction of future elections not because he is vulnerable to criticism of being a "conspiracy theorist shock jock", but simply because of the scale of his influence. That's what makes him far more relevant as a conservative voice than Rush Limbaugh, Bill O Reilly, or Steve Bannon.

And if you're viewing President Trump as an anomaly, then you have to view this whole period as an anomaly, because Trump-like candidates are bluntly replacing low energy Jebs. I remember one recent advertisement where a candidate teased how different they were from Trump with an imaginary childhood rearing situation involving building a wall, and learning language by talking about making America great again.
Ahh much simpler than I thought (fancy NLP and such :)