skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was even a whole pop-sci book -- Hubbard's "The World According to Wavelets" (1996) that was a bit like Mandelbrot's "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" in that it predicted an amazing future for the technique and claimed that science would be revolutionized by it. But it is nice to see that wavelets, like fractals, do have their uses even if the revolution never came.
They can't skip to the end, as solar, wind + storage is still not economically viable compared to burning things.
Illegal on the federal level (1935 National Labor Relations Act)
New Bluetooth Knob Flaw Lets Attackers Manipulate Traffic
The Muted Group
Mindful context switching: multitasking for humans
This looks much more germane to the Web than the other frameworks du jour. Will be interesting to see how it develops, but this was a pretty interesting look at how it works.
You've ignored microplastic pollution coming from clothing, and you've ignored industrial pollution from eg fishing nets.

> Virtually all environmental plastic contamination comes from third world countries in Asia or Africa

This is so wrong there's no point trying to rebut it. But it is very wrong, and the fact you say it shows you do not understand the problem at all.
> I’m going to have to take time off work today to go home to find an effective way to put some tape over the light.

So the young child is at home alone? Is that legal?

If there is someone else there, surely they could put tape over the light? Sounds like a 10 second task?

I don't see any scenario in which you would be within the law, but still need to take time off work to resolve this.
How do you play three-way chess?
I remember reading about one large consulting form whose answer was always "lay off 25% of your staff" regardless of what the question was.

Of course, companies would have to pay a huge amount to get that answer - but it was always the same answer.

This was from the book "Rip-Off":

https://www.leadershipreview.net/business-management-consult...
Yes, the tag confirms it
This is all good, but I'm not a fan of my browser being remotely controlled by anyone to modify any of its expected behavior to do special/specific things on different websites without my informed consent.

Even the browser vendor has to be held to the same high standard (or even higher) of being completely open and transparent about what they and when they do it.
> you cant completely turn off acceleration/interpolation inherent to particular sensor package.

You can. All the avago (and clone) sensors I have seen output in units of 1/16th of a pixel, or are adjustable via config registers - and even then, it's still linear. It's your operating system which does acceleration, and thats the reason the mouse feels 'different' on windows/mac/linux.
Computers are part of automation, just like chainsaws. It's not a new phenomena. It's been sweeping through all industries the whole time.

The thing is, efficiency unveils new possibilities, and possibilities induce demand, consumption. We are much more efficient than 10 years ago, but also consume at a much faster pace.
All the best for your project!

Just these days I was wondering which tablet would be able to run Ubuntu Touch or something alike and while support for "real" tablets seems to be quite rare, there are quite a few tablet projects based on the Raspberry Pi. I hope this will continue.
The reality is that France is the only country in Europe who converts most of it's energy through nuclear. So in that reality it's definitely an advantage to be a net exporter. This advantage becomes even more pronounced as other countries switch to non-continuous power sources such as wind and solar. Those sources have production drops around the same times (at nights and cloudy days with little wind), where France can charge a nice premium to produce nuclear for them.

"and storage to meet" --> There is currently no economically viable way to store electric energy from "sustainable" non-continuous sources at a large scale. If there was, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now.
SSL Pinning for Electron
I'm not a doctor, but christ, you're an arsehole.

> Why tell me you are a doctor (I can tell you: without the appeal to authority, there is no argument)? Literally, in the post you have replied to I have said...doctors in the UK tell you straight away...it took you ten words. How little self-awareness do you have?

Uh, the fact that they noted that part and explained why they mention that so quickly shows self-awareness, not lack of it. You can't lampshade something you're doing without being self aware.
Also, what's wrong with mentioning your career? It's an important part of your life? What person in a respected profession doesn't?

> Why tell me you are a doctor (I can tell you: without the appeal to authority, there is no argument)?

Because a discussion about a profession should have the input of people from that profession? Because otherwise you're just attacking people and giving them no right to reply?

> And great...you have wasted your life writing a paragraph

Says the person who's written a much longer screed. How little self-awareness do you have?

As someone with multiple mental disorders who is in a constant struggle to get properly seen by the NHS, I'm glad my experiences haven't turned me into as much of a cunt as you.
I feel like im talking to the borg
This looks pretty cool. One thing I'd like to see that could make it really useful is oembed support, I'd love to be able to embed a sort of mini-tutorial on my own blog post.
From $0 to $15,000 in 10 Months
Why are you not making them yourselves? If it's because of economics, it clearly indicates unsustainable growth. The only thing immigration would support is below-livable wages.
Tumblr has the nicest Feed API out of all the social networks, compared to Twitter Firehose, Facebook Public Feed, and Instagram (we built our own ghetto feed for Instagram by scraping with tons of api tokens).

It would be pretty amazing to have a streaming API of the wp.com universe.
Victorian public transport privacy breach
I've worked remote. It was depressing be stuck in the house all day. On the flip side, a 3/2 remote/in-office week would be nice I think.
PostgreSQL Query Plan Visualizer
>It's still an ally, more than the Chinese will ever be.

The US has no concept for Africa, because unlike China which uses infrastructure projects and investment as a way to offload its export surplus the US is an overwhelmingly domestic economy.

There will never be an American 'Belt and Road' because it just doesn't make much sense for a country that has so little international economic exposure, whenever the US forms alliances it is towards purely political ends. In that sense one could indeed characterise the relationship with China as more stable. No Chinese leader is suddenly going to go isolationist over the next two decades just because they feel like it.
Minimum Times Tend to Mislead When Benchmarking
General note to naysayers: before you present yet another "obvious" argument why Zubrin's proposal can't possibly work, you may want to check how it applies to this:

http://news.mit.edu/2018/first-ionic-wind-plane-no-moving-pa...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0707-9

It's essentially the same thing, except it has to ionize the medium (air) on its own rather than just pick up the ions from its surroundings.

(Yes, it does so in front of the vehicle, so on average stripped-off electrons get less work done on them by the electric field than positive ions, but the electrons would carry less momentum than the more massive ions even at kinetic energy parity, with the difference going to the vehicle, as Zubrin correctly says - please let's not beat that dead horse again.)
> repair parts (is that the correct term?)

"spare parts" (more common) or "replacement parts" (more formal)
The Skype engineering team is an acquisition with relative autonomy, and is always making weird choices. Wouldn't take that too seriously.
Yes, that's the recurrent loudest noise I experience in my life. Not so many times per year obviously, but more than concerts or disco. I should try bending knees to put my ears below the top of the bin.
Not sure there is a direct equivalent but Azure App Service will let you deploy a docker image and autoscale. The configuration is more analogous to AWS Elastic Beanstalk but they serve similar purposes.
>I could ask it and a handful of people would either give you the answer or would talk you through the problem and help you come up with an answer.

The best times for me are when members help me come up with a question. I'd have a problem I could vaguely formulate in long paragraphs, and then someone from the #python channel would write down my problem in one concise question of technical writing that is so spot on that I immediately think of the correct solution.

The #python (and mailing list) crowd has done this to me so many times.
"They must keep this information secret. Warn them or even sign NDAs prohibiting any talks about wages, bonuses, compensation plans, etc"

That's directly illegal, at least in Denmark, so I assume in the rest of the civilized works as well.
That surveillance economy strongly reminds me Tobacco industry. It was cool and trendy until everyone woke up and regulated it to death, as it should be. GDPR is just the beginning.
Been though that once on my last job in Canada.

After 1.5 years on the job I was quite elated to promoted to "work directly under a C-level" in a quite sizeable company when I was just 25 years old.

That was in a sourcing company that works for BestBuy, Target, LondonDrugs, WM, Amazon, and other top tier retailers, delivering OEM stuff on demand for their captive brands.

The man... happened to be a totally textbook case of "pro-manager:" net worth of few millions, few cousins and brothers in similar corporate positions, black lambo, and a mistress secretary.

I quickly understood that I became the only "general" in the business that keep things going on the technology side, and that the business will not be able to keep going unless they can customise products beyond the paint job and silkscreens.

We came to an eventual animosity, and few months after the "promotion" we had an argument in his office where he tried his cheap pressure tactic, and he made me to slam the door. As I was going through the parking lot, I saw the guy running shouting "how much you want!?"

I returned to the building and had him talk it over with me not in his office, but in the middle of cubicles of the team, to everybody's amused looks.

In the end, it was the LMIA rules update that made me leave Canada and that company. Been working with in an engineering consulting company in China for nearly 3 years now, and I can't be more happy now with Canada kicking me out.
https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/a5ab44faca75d...
I'm pretty sure Beanstalk predates Heroku. I'm curious how you think it misses the mark though. I've found it to be really easy to operate although that's mostly low-traffic systems.
I've been hearing this for last 3 decades and this is so patronizing. "Kashmiris don't know whats best for them so we'll rule them instead, because obviously they are incapable of Governing themselves". That is not for India or Pakistan to decide. Stop patronizing an entire people. 16 million of them.
'Woke' social media network is a covert UK counterterror programme
I agree with that as the best fit to Quine's categories, but it is also paradoxical (though not a logical paradox) in that one might think that such a result would have far-reaching implications for cognitive science and AI, but, on reflection, it is not a disruptive result.
Amazon allows sellers to sell scam “Anti EMF stickers”
>If you pump natural gas through liquid nitrogen you get ... slightly colder natural gas.

I am not proposing to bubble raw natural gas through liquid nitrogen.

>It's not like people haven't thought of these things before. Thermodynamics is well understood.

I don't claim to be the first to come up with the idea of using liquid nitrogen to liquefy raw natural gas. I am entirely open to the idea that using liquid nitrogen to liquefy RNG is somehow uneconomical or infeasible. I was hoping to get a more constructive reply: not references of how expensive or hard a smaller scale liquefaction plant is, but rather papers detailing why specifically using a heat exchanger with liquid nitrogen is infeasible, if as you say "It's not like people haven't thought of these things before."

What is raw natural gas? Predominantly methane, and some slightly longer alkanes, with impurities (H2S, CO2, N2, He,...) see [1].

What are the atmospheric boiling points of the alkanes? see [2]:

alkane, boiling point:

methane -183 °C

ethane -183 °C

propane -190 °C

butane -138 °C

pentane -130 °C

hexane -95 °C

heptane -91 °C

octane -57 °C

nonane -51 °C

decane -30 °C

undecane -25 °C

dodecane -10 °C

eicosane 37 °C

triacontane 66 °C

Observe that the lowest boiling point of the alkanes (the fuel in natural gas) is for propane at -190 °C.

The atmospheric boiling point of liquid nitrogen is −195.795 °C [3], wich is colder than the boiling point of any alkane!

What does this mean by definition? that a balloon filled with gaseous alkanes, when submerged in a heat bath of liquid nitrogen, and left to equilibrate temperature, will fully liquefy.

>Thermodynamics is well understood.

^ indeed

(This is my first order interpretation, assuming the mixing entropy does not decrease the boiling point of a mixture of alkanes, if however this is the case, I would like to see an explicit reference to a paper describing this for alkanes.)

So essentially heat exchangers and a supply of liquid nitrogen should be able to liquefy raw natural gas.

Now what about the economics of having to generate liquid nitrogen?

Let's take a step back: domestic natural gas pipelines connected to the gas grid doesn't contain liquid but gaseous natural gas. So at some point the liquid natural gas is expanded to a gas, and this absorbs heat at a low temperature. (I don't know at what point in the distribution chain this happens, but it necessarily happens somewhere.) This is the ideal point to colocate the liquid nitrogen generation plant: use the evaporation of LNG to gaseous natural gas to help the heat pump liquefy air/nitrogen, so the energy required to liquefy nitrogen is largely recycled.

The storage of liquid nitrogen at the gas well should be an entirely solved problem: at the exact sciences campus (de Sterre) of the Ghent university, at the solid state research block, there is a large (fenced off) tank of liquid nitrogen, and once in a blue moon a tank wagon comes to refill it...

[1] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/fsc432/content/natural-gas-c...

[2] http://chemistry.elmhurst.edu/vchembook/501hcboilingpts.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen
common in Australia. I've been warned about having conversations with other people about salaries. Not sure if it's illegal, but it happens anyway.
Show HN: Homer – A Text Analyzer in Python
Homer is a Python package that can help make your text more clear, simple and useful for the reader.

It provides information on an overall text as well as on individual paragraphs. It gives insights into readability, length of paragraphs, length of sentences, average sentences per paragraph, average words in a sentence, etc. It is based on work by Pinker and another research study [1, 2].

This software package grew out of a personal need. Since I am not a native English speaker but am interested in writing. I write OpEds and a blog. So I designed and have been using Homer to improve my writing. I hope others will find it useful. I am aware of other tools (such as ProseLint) but I built this thinking this would help me improve my Python. :) Also, over time I plan on improving this.

References:

1- Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style:

2- https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet9.pdf
Taking a page from Indira Gandhi and calling Muslim refugees anti national (preventing rehabilitation) is not worthy of respect
DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Well said! Thanks for the gold, stranger!
The web as a knowledge disseminating medium will neither disappear nor suffer if or when the targeted ad industry wilts away. The physicists, mathematicians, programmers, computer scientists, biologists, chemists, ... of the world will still need and want to communicate and collaborate, not to mention the variety of hobbyists and people with odd but passionate interests. And they will do so freely, because this is the only way it makes sense. This is only beneficial for those who value knowledge and discussion since the interests are then actually aligned with those activities, instead of being only tangentially hitchhiked on top of something else.

What would fail is the likes of the fashion industry, such as Instagram influencers peddling Nike sneakers and cosmetics.
Perhaps a larger electric grid would solve the issue? Power consumption varies greatly by time of day and even greater by local climate. Or perhaps we should put the excess to good use, desalination and pumping of water is very power intensive but would allow us to green the Sahara. Where there is abundance there is innovation, I'm sure we could find a use for it.
It seems odd that this process bans before investigation. It seems that a process that values value would want to not block content until it has been reviewed by some reliable machine or human system.

I like to try to figure out the principles of processes and systems and a process that blocks based on automatic flagging seems to me that it values preventing harm from people not liking something over preventing the harm of people not knowing from the info’s unavailability.
How Startups Pivot Gracefully
Why is a pram falling on baby boy's head from height not logged as an incident?
I see the other side in my family. They subject themselves to a nonstop firehose of seething Trump outrage and Russiagate. They hate the president but are obsessed with hating him. I’m no fan of him either but this doesn’t seem healthy. A two minutes hate that lasts 24/7.

It’s all a heinous mess. Just an endless stream of low-quality trash that addicts people of all stripes.
No it just means I don’t like it.
> And there's nothing preventing Google from leveraging Youtube/Gmail/Search to push out other browsers which have tracking protection.

Nothing except antitrust laws...
If your container feels to even run, then no logs are generated. Logs are only generated after your container spawns. So if you get errors in your `ENTRYPOINT` or `CMD` commands, the only way is to override these commands with something like [1] and debug why it's failing.

[1]:
`command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "sleep 36000"]`
All good points. Why can Japan and China do it? Are their politicians better than Euro-crats?

Reading a bit more on this, seems EU had proposed already 1996 a common European signaling system as you say to integrate the various railroad companies diverse ssytems, and a bunch of other directives for a EU high speed rail. And yet in 2019, France still of course runs their own, Sweden their own with a ERTS type 2 on some lines, and many others not advancing at all since 1996.

Different signalig/control systems, different electrification systems, and some small gauge differences in Ireland and Spain.

> Thus, the upfront investment cost of unification, planning and building such high speed tracks

How can we put pressure on EU to do this despite high cost? Tax the air-lines and put the money in pan-european high-speed rail, from Lissabon to Tallin, Amsterdam to Athens.
Well, i guess it's true: cash rules everything around me.
> if you want an orwellian mass surveillance system

I think this misses the point. Countries like US or Israel are perfectly capable [0][1][2] of offering such systems. And they do because it gives them another solid "string" attached to the regime receiving it. Their problem is that now the string (and all the knowledge, power, influence that come with it) could go to China. Hence the campaign to discredit them simply by suggesting this behavior is limited to them. Putting the facts in perspective would undermine this.

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-israel...

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/report-saudi-arabia...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/17/how-us-sur...
Not supporting free speech proves your not a journalist and techcrunch is just propaganda rag
You must have taken the standard RIPE therapy which consists of 4 powerful drugs: rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol. Plus sometimes doctors add some other pills to control specific side effects a patient may be having like nausea or dizziness.

I really appreciate you adding your personal perspective. A big problem in TB today is that the “western” world sees it mostly as a “not-my-problem” kind of disease. What people forget is that TB is airborne and that the world is getting smaller. It will start impacting everyone.

TB is everyone’s problem and more investment should be made by the wealthier countries toward it’s care.
What's the background to this comment? At least for me, this comment, together with the calling out by name of a specific user, is context free—besides why anyone, or this particular person, would do this, I have no idea what the significance of 'this' (the substitution of a different first name) even is—and seems not to contribute much to this conversation except for casting aspersions (possibly well deserved or possibly not; without context I have no way of knowing).
I would just like to point out that people have been hitting all sorts of things with other things for millennia and the only people getting hearing damage from it were the ones doing it particularly loudly for decades as their day job (i.e. people in loud factories).

This is below the level of terrorist attacks and shark bites in Kansas on the things to worry about list.
I have a few problems with hubs; you need to store the physical thing somewhere, and as a house with difficulties in getting a wifi connection to corners, I can't guarantee that the coverage will be good enough before committing to a whole system. Then there's interoperability - I don't really want to be locked in to Phillips bulbs (though I'm sure some are a little more interoperable than others)

So I'm left thinking: I already have a wireless signal hitting most of the house, why complicate things? I'm not sure ability to reset is worth it...
If you have a family and a small house having the TV on can provide some much needed privacy that you do not have in a dead silent house. A lot of it may be habit from having kids, something a good number of younger journalists can't relate to.
> 1. Amnesty International is not a UN organisation.

I never claimed it was.

> 2. India didn't Annex Kashmir, it has been an Indian state since independence.

> 3. Kashmir special status was given and revocation according to the Indian constitution.

India literally annexed Kashmir 11 days ago by sheer military force. It unilaterally torn up the legal instrument on the basis of which Kashmir's Maharaja joined the Indian Union. Literally in one move nullified the constitution of Kashmir and their parliament without even consulting the Kashmiri parliament or people. India's own politicians, activists, journalists and Kashmiri Pandits have cited the move as illegal and unconstitutional.

> 4. I cited the oldest communique from a reliable source.

And I did not deny that source. I just pointed out that Indian Government does not actually abide by what you pointed out.
The farmers who worry about our phone batteries
Indeed. At the time the paradox was proposed, there had not been much progress in natural language understanding, so the scope of what it considers to be AI has at least one important part missing.
Heroku was 2007. Beanstalk was 2011.

Salesforce purchased Heroku in 2010 for $212MM in cash before Beanstalk was even announced.