skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't get a picture of that in my mind. Any more details?

One advantage over a CRT is that there is no need to view the "screen", so equipment can go under the Si target. Maybe a very sharp probe, meaning it has a very high electric field intensity at its tip? The probe could be shifted x-y using piezo actuators. If the ion source has a very small physical extent, there would be essentially a "single"[1] electric field line running from the ion source, though the target, to the under-target probe. (Does Si allow E field lines though like this?) The emitted ion would follow the electric field line, crashing into the Si target before reaching the sharp probe. Moving the probe would scan the electric field line, and the point of impact across the surface of the wafer. Alternatively, keep the ion source and probe stationary and move the wafer x-y.

[1] small meaning that the spread of the field lines is less than the desired feature size.
Learning how to use Photoshop or Illustrator is not the same as learning how to design. One is learning how to use the functions in a program, the other on how to solve a certain problem.
we could also look at the semiconductor capital equipment companies, which are just as concentrated and sometimes even more so. applied materials, lam research, tokyo-electron, kla-tencor, etc. iirc kla has over 60% share in the defect analysis equipment sector.
I speak Portuguese, which allows you to use websites like easyquarto to rent rooms at market value. R$1,000 is a typical monthly wage in most of the interesting parts of Brazil ($500US), and cost of living in Brazil has outpaced Chile and Argentina in recent years, although I'm not arguing I'm exempting Rio & BA since the cost of living is somewhat inflated. I've been to every part of Brazil on that budget (Outside of holidays), including airfare (Once you learn the pricing system), Even the super expensive island of Fernando de Noronha. We all cooked our own meals, with enough left over to splurge 2-3 times per week. In most places, travelers pay a steep premium for inexperience.
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It's a bad situation to be sure, but it's still rude to denigrate the entire country like that.
inotify consumes resources (ram), which a hook into a package manager does not. you cannot watch all subdirectories within /etc with one handle, so you will have to recursively setup handles for all subdirectories. then, you might run into the max_user_watches limit (see sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches).
That's indeed a bad idea. etckeeper creates a local repository in a protected .git directory inside /etc, don't confuse git with github or other hosting services. I use etckeeper on various machines, just to track changes in configuration files (both those caused by people and package updates). On top of that I use a conventional encrypted backup solution. I never push or pull the git repo anywhere, and I think that's the normal way of working with etckeeper.
How "The Ugly Indian" cleans Indian cities
It's also important to understand that suppressors are not silencers. Most movies depict a suppressed handgun as sounding like an air rifle: that's just not the case unless you're talking about specially built firearms (integral suppressors, no leaks for gas) with sub-sonic rounds. I am going to guess that very few crimes have the monetary pay-off to justify such an investment (and if they do, the criminals can certainly afford to purchase a CNC machine and manufacture a supresor themselves).

On the other hand, a regular 9mm handgun or a .223/.308 rifle with a suppressor will still be very loud: comparable to a car's engine back firing, a tire blow out, or a firecracker. That's definitely a reduction in noise compared to a regular gun shot, but while one such noise might go unnoticed, a rapid succession of such noises certainly will.
> Just think "firefox" and you get firefox.

My dabblings with BCI were nothing like that. It was more like spend 10 minutes ensuring you're properly grounded, then try really really hard to relax, and then discover that the slight movement of your leg muscle is swamping the signal.

It was very hit and miss. I'm sure that given enough time and effort I could learn to control it more or less reliably, but it's a far cry from 'think firefox and get firefox'.

In fact, what I found interesting was that more physical measures, like blinking, or even the x coordinate of your eye gaze were picked up fairly well. I could imagine using those as triggers for something with the same equipment, but I doubt I would get as quick with a BCI as am I with a keyboard until they improve markedly.
I wrote this article (same title as HN post above) 27 Apr 2013 02:40 PDT.

Here it is in its entirety with updates as of ten minutes ago:
http://www.zdnet.com/alert-skype-account-hijack-technique-ma...
Yes, Japan has its own way of developing members of society. CBC (Canadian Broadcasting) did a very cool mini series on Japanese schools called "Children Full of Life"[0]. At the very least, I highly recommend everyone to watch part one.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armP8TfS9Is
The Four Lead Nurturing Stages Every Business Should Know
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/r/Reynolds:J... Wow - he really didn't stop doing what he loved.
I think we Indians are still trying to overcome our false sense of cleanliness. We keep our own houses clean but expect divine intervention outside. Partly due to the still-existing caste system, where the lowest castes are responsible for clearing the muck, associations with this work is looked down upon. Therefore the uninterestedness of the typical Indian in solving the problem. Public toilets are few and far between, and most go unmaintained for lack of people willing to do the job. This attitude is changing fast though, thanks largely to improvements in technology and pay which make it safer to engage in and survive doing such work.
The computational complexity is nowhere near what you'd think if data is available in nicely categorized and indexed form. Any random SQL database does this kind of thing for a living.
All of these are quite reasonable for founders, but not really for employees.

I'd consider more-equity, reduced-pay in a startup which was bridging between rounds of financing as an employee, but only if I had a large personal buffer and had high confidence in the value of the company. At that point, you're essentially an investor. Most people who work for startups, particularly as non-founders, don't have enough net worth that startup equity should be a large percentage of their net worth, particularly purchased equity in a single company who is also their employer and who is having financial difficulties (which is why they're asking you for concessions...)

Now, something like "we need to raise more money, so we'd like you to work part-time for the next few months at a reduced wage" is totally reasonable, if you can swing it -- either do highly paid contracting, or look for a new job, or take a vacation.

Working 20h/wk for 50% pay seems like something a lot of people would like for 3 months, honestly.
Source is here...

https://github.com/bnolan/nice-map-urls
Weird bed--szyms22szyms.com(pipe racking system)
What about cross domain restrictions?
Tricks For Your Upholstery
Make him sysadmin. That was the only way me and my classmates were reigned in while in high school.
Just because he created UNIX, does not make him right in every technology decision he takes.
I don't get email notifications if someone I don't follow favorites me.
A lot of people don't want MS accounts. And for good reasons.
These recaptcha CAPTCHAs are becoming ever worse. I've seen many people struggle with them and even ask my help to decode them (because, hey, a computer person probably knows how to decode the code). That can't be the purpose? If you're using such a captcha, you're losing legit users, not spammers. Spammers are the more persistent, likely.
Yeah, lots of Czech characters get omitted - anything with an accent on it. So this

Na baště Svatého Jiří,
160 00 Prague-Prague 6,
Czech Republic

becomes this

http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/czech-republic/hlavn-msto...
Neurocriminology: Inside The Criminal Mind
When you work in science as a post-doc or research assistant, you (usually) have a 1 or 2 year contract, tenure is just for a select few professors. If you cheat, that's the end of your contract. Where do you see corruption in this?
NSF bill to replace scientific peer review with funding criteria
Are you writing that they should have been pro-sterilisation? They could just round up and shoot all the slum inhabitants so they wouldn't need to wait an entire generation to be rid of them.
Good job on the URL and on the site as a whole.
"would we pay for this?".... and as a cash strapped startup we said no.

Thank you! I'd come to the same conclusion myself - it's reassuring to hear someone else say it.

The important thing is to see from your customer's point of view. Dog-fooding is just one technique that helps that. There's also: listen to them (and facilitate that); imagine a day-in-the-life; work in their industry; visit them; watch them using your product.

But remember that the rare and beautiful insight is of a problem they didn't know they had.
sure but they could have easily replaced all the problematic characters by "simpler ones" like é,è->e, œ -> oe
having an address (in France) containing some of these characters the deletion make it barely readable, therefore useless since the goal is to have understandable urls
I agree with you on feature phones - but if you have a smartphone and use it as such, not having control on it can be really frustrating.

It's not just about gaining root and tinker, it's about using it as a smartphone. Then again if you use your phone like a feature phone (smartphone or not), it's probably fine for you.
I agree with Filipacchi that it certainly seems wrong to remove American women novelists from American novelists.

I admit I am curious how she feels about contests, prizes, scholarships targeting American women novelists. https://www.google.com/search?q=scholarships+women+writers+a...
That's a good point, regarding whether, or not, FB actually deletes user data after we "opt out."
Another consideration is how, when Facebook started out, users were supposed to actually know, IRL, the people on their "Friends List."
I adhered to that rule all the way until my account deletion last January, but now a great number of users have people on their "Friends Lists" who they have never even spoken to in real life.
This point is illustrated by corporate entities being on people's "Friend Lists."

As for FB allegedly tracking me subsequent to my account deletion, could someone explain to me how it could be so?
I never posted my actual DOB, nor my cell phone, the email address I used to register hasn't been logged into for many months, and I'm using a new ISP - which uses dynamic allocation addressing.
Simple, but clever, love it.
Reminds me of that old Trek debate: "If those were really stars in the warp effect you'd reach the other end of the galaxy in a couple of seconds".
There are also tons of companies around the world that perform various sub processes in the microchip manufacturing industry. It's just these couple companies are big enough to do almost everything on their own. But Intel and AMD still rely on external suppliers for lithography machines for example.
Memdiff: BDD style memory leak hunting tool
I was looking into https://github.com/KDr2/redis-leveldb a just a couple days ago, same concept.

I'm confused about Edis current version being 1.0. Is it production ready or just ignoring semantical versioning?
Interesting idea. It reminds me of a project that was presented by someone in a research lab in Paris which was an full blown version of your idea.

That project took screenshots every few units of time (or a full movie kind recording). Then it did some optimization in storing it (since the is very little chance of a lot of difference between consecutive images). Then it did image to text on those images and made it searchable.

Interesting idea and if you can make it searchable, it will be amazing.
no support on IE 8,9
so yes - I would definitely use a hash to make it ajaxified
I prefer Conformal's Xombrero browser.

https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero
The problem of the captcha is not the efficiency, it's that it 's a horrible user experience.
"Contract? Are we taking about business or science?"

Are you living under a rock? How do you think research is funded? The people actually doing research are funded through short-term contracts with "Tenure" being dangled in front of them as the proverbial carrot. However 1) most people starting out on this track never get tenure; and 2) those who do, mostly give up the nitty-gritty of research, because of a combination of reasons.

Sometimes I find the apparent lack of understanding of how academia actually works (as opposed to how undergrads and the general public with a university degree but no real exposure of the behind-the-curtains of academic research think it is, or feel it should be) just as jarring as the way things go on universities.
Half his examples start with "my student", which also makes me highly suspicious - one student does not make a representative statistical sample.

One can also just look at the media being produced in Japan to see that they too value and admire characters that rebel, go against the grain and question the status quo in their books and movies. They're obviously a different culture, but you can't abstract away their difference with some high-level statement like "more obedience"; it's subtler than that.
What can be more powerful than the collective power of masses? Neither can the government be blamed entirely nor can people just wash their hands off saying we are not powerful enough.In a city like Mumbai there is a wide diversity of income classes. There are people who see open defecation everyday on their way to work but they do nothing about it. The least they can do is go talk to the people in the slums about how open defecation is bad and how they should avoid it. It is better to take some steps and do something about problems than to wait for government or any other "powerful" body to come help you out. It is not just the slums that are suffering, diseases can be easily caught by anyone else who does use proper toilets and sanitation.
Of course most of the things can be found everywhere. After all, humans are humans everywhere. However, different cultures place different emphasis on different things, and it’s the overall picture that is interesing.

I must say I find most things in this article very strange.

I went to school here in Belarus. I can’t imagine a teacher asking which road should be taken and asking to re-think it. Teacher usually just said what we should do, and never pretended to give them choice when there is no choice. (In fact, I think such behaviour would be considered lying.)

And if we were expected to solve a math problem in a specific way, the way we should use was always stated. (Though I must admit, this applied only to match or exact sciences, much less to literature, and never applied to history, where ‘correct’ answers were always given.) And I can’t imagine that arguing about the mark can make it lower either: in fact, I've resorted to it quite a lot.
"using some small slice of functionality"
Knowing when your code breaks is invaluable and trumps any potential big picture problems. You can have the big picture correct but it is worth nothing if your product doesn't exist because your code doesn't work.
Fashion Faceoff: Jennifer Aniston vs. Allison Williams
And: http://mebe.co/pipe.jpg
The form on the front page doesn't seem to be submitting:

Chrome Version 24.0.1312.56 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Desktop)
Blackberry user here: Can't you just root the subsidized phone and install a clean version of android?
Guitar players who can also play drums are at a big advantage, just like composers who can write lyrics or sing. Graphic designers are often illustrators too, but copywriting, photo retouching and photography skills can also be very useful for a designer — and not every designer necessarily has them.
Most captchas look like that to me.

I frequently have to click reload half a dozen times or more before I find one that I'm able to decode.

I think there is an opportunity for user experience improvement when it comes to stopping bots.
Doesn't Mercurial also maintain version info in one file below .hg per file in the tree?
> the supervising goroutine now looks a bit odd:

This is totally valid:

select {
case <-doneChannel:
//
I work in the DOCCM (Document Output for Customer Communications Management) space, which in a certain light is just generating PDFs (well, perhaps a bit more complex than that...). Enterprise deals in this space will have 6 or 7 zeros, so yes, there is a market for generating PDFs. There are already some cloud providers out there (like exari - it's been a while but I remember their stuff being pretty cool.)

That's a bit different from vanilla PDF generation, but perhaps a good portion of that is down to marketing. How you position this could be important. You've got your salesforce version - nice :-) That should mean you're selling direct to a business user, so have you worked out what their pain point is? Do they think of it as "generating PDFs" (you've branded it as "Great Reports", so obviously you think they don't!) I don't know anything about report generation on SF, but I'd be shocked if there wasn't already some competition - have you looked in to that? What's your point of difference?

Down to your assumptions:
1) I've only ever used FOP & yes it is tedious, but it gives you a lot of power, and that power is going to be hard to replicate.

2) Generating large no of PDFs is hard to scale. For a cloud service, though, you need to work out how you're going to deliver a large number of PDFs over the wire. (You'll easily be able to generate more bytes of PDF per $ of CPU than you'll be able to transfer per $ of bandwidth.)

3) That sounds like a safe assumption (almost a tautology).

4) I'm not so sold on this. If I can get equivalent functionality from a library, I'll use the library. I don't want to add a dependency on an external service (making my own service more fragile) unless it offers a significant benefit. Stripe saves me SO MUCH TROUBLE it's a no brainer. There's is no way I would even think of trying to replicate what they've got. The barriers are significant. What are the barriers to me using a library instead of Pagify? Not nearly as great.

Gut feeling, the SF report generation product is much more compelling, but check out the competition in that space.
That's because they are talking about the pinnacle of chipmaking tech. There are many more companies that can make chips on a larger scale.
The points are good, but missing the elephant in the room: when you are competing with the best companies in the world in software (where the marginal cost is 0), you simply can't afford to compete using anything less than the best stuff. You need to go 'deep' (specialist), rather than 'wide' (mass-market) when it comes to the tools you yourself use. (Even though what you're creating is probably itself wide.)

That's why Microsoft doesn't use it's own source control solution (SourceSafe) internally. It just doesn't cut it.

That's why Apple doesn't design the next iPad on an iPad.

That's why McDonald's executes don't hold their business meetings in a McDonald's, to close important international deals etc.

You just can't afford to. This guy says "At BugHerd, we build a project management tool for web projects. BugHerd is, itself, a web project."

Imagine you just wrote the first version, and you realize that it sucks. How will you track the transition to the second, non-sucky version? If you're using project management software - the one you've just written - that by your own admission sucks?

That is a formula for disaster.

But the very same argument (for not using a disastrous tool) applies for the continual marginal improvement that better tools can give you.

It makes ZERO sense to 'bootstrap' any tool using that tool except for some special exceptions.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't test it :)

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Some exceptions:

1) The tool is the only one that exists. Even a buggy version that takes 10x longer to produce a halfway decent result would still be the only thing that exists.

Perhaps the first compiler was like this: i.e. the first time someone translated paper into a compiler, it made sense to use that buggy version to recompile itself with optimizations. But that's because it was the only one to exist.

2) if you are now the best on the market, period. So, if you so happened to create the best tool on the market, sure, go ahead and use it.

3) if you are on par with the best. This is tricky. You can learn a lot from the competition. It hink in this case you should use both. Gimp might be 'on par' wtih photoshop, but I really think that Gimp developers should use both on a daily basis. It's amazing what kind of a perspective access to being an occasional user of your competition gives you.
Quite true, every single feature can be traced back to 80's and 90's languages that for whatever reason did not manage to become mainstream.

Maybe one could make a table stating the language feature and which language provided it for the first time.
I went to school there, also as an outsider. I completely agree, however there is one thing he missed.

Another very large difference is the focus on memorization vs creativity. This happens physically, aswell as mentally. In Japanese "art" classes for example, students strive to copy what the teacher created, those who come closer, are better. In other classes, it is mostly a work of memorizing vocabulary or formulas. Very little goes towards thinking, at least in the early stages of education. This trend is encouraged by their third character set, of which you are required to know about 2000 ideograms before graduating high-school.

That being said, realize that all these traits have advantages too, sometimes more so than in the western world, sometimes less.

EDIT: Oh, and a another important thing I would like to add. Public shaming is used quite effectively because of these traits. Grades are for example hung out in the hall, in a leader-board kind-of fashion.
I live in Japan , your app doesn't work for me

I tried searching 日本東京都足立区足立２丁目　(google suggestion) and your app doesn't accept.

we're able to get all the computers in the world to be more or less on the same network but we still can't figure out encoding problems from 1982

edit: I messed up writing this, should have been 足立区六町２丁目. Using http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/japan/tokyo/adachi/rokuch... I get the right spot, but the search box doesn't seem to work for me(but I am behind a very high-latency line, it might be my connection that is borking)

second edit: seems that the resolution is around ward-level(even when searching romanised addresses like "2-10-3 Honkomagome, Bunkyo, Tokyo", a search which works in google maps) From an intuitive standpoint, there should be no reason for this not to work, there's nothing particularly weird about the address format. I dunno
Right, and which is perfectly useless to prevent what Stapel did. "We encourage them to make <etc>"? Instead of spending 5 days fabricating coherent data, you spend 6 - an additional day to come up with a plausible reason for not having to divulge raw data. I'm not a proponent of requiring everybody to submit their lab notes with every paper submission, in fact I have no credible solution to the whole problem at all - but feel-good policies like this are no more than something for editors of a journal to point at later when fraud is found, to be able to say "yeah but we did something" (i.e., the classical politician's fallacy).
yeah would be nice freebsd support.
Old stuff being repost:
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=crapcha