skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also what I was tought during the 90'ies in NRW. However, I know from my parents that during their time (somewhere late 60'ies) it was possible to take an additional course in “Schönschrift” (nice script) which translated to the handwriting Germans have been using for centuries before: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deutsche_Kurrentschr...

My grandparents have letters that are written in this script, and I’ve seen it used in official documents from around 1900. I fell in love with this script and try my best and learning it currently. Just looking at it will make it obvious that it’s pretty impossible to write with a ballpoint pen.
Google Hangouts gets its own site
Thanks. That is a bit higher than I would expect but not too bad.
Sorry for you and yours:

Did you attend or find any support groups and were they useful to you? If they were can you point OP to them, as you know the ones in the domain. I know that in my personal case they made a big difference.
Came to see if this used LLVM for parsing, found node...
That is pretty cool, it looks remarkably similar to something one of the Google Energy projects was doing. I tried something a bit different which was to make an actual parabola but to build a mirror reflected the Sun into the same point all the time. (basically you take advantage of the fact that the position of the Sun in the sky for all time/seasons can be calculated for a particular latitude, and then build a reflector where it has a surface for each calculated point.) It works ok, and as a bonus you have something you can put in your lawn which is always annoying your neighbor :-)

The real magic in the sunflower though is that its a dual cycle system harvesting both thermal and electric energy from the system. A lot of "off grid" solar installs will have both PV and Thermal panels as burning electricity to create hot water is really wasteful.
On “dumbing down” the Democratic debate
You missed two things:

1) I wrote "take into consideration". That means that this is something to consider, not something that proves my thesis conclusively. So your criticism is misplaced.

2) You also miss the fact that bombs are designed to cause as much damage as possible, whereas reactors are designed to contain damage as much as possible. A candle contains much more energy than a stick of dynamite, yet the former is far more damaging.
Don't call it hunger, call it : "the sensation of weight loss"
I think it's more fun with at...
You just need a telescoping pole with a hook on the end, that will let you pull power from the overhead power lines when you park along the street.
Talk to oncologists. They will contextualize the material, explain it to you through the lens of actual experience, and they will be happy to refer you to doctors with a different approach or opinion. If you're up front with them about wanting to geek out over papers, they will geek out with you and give you valuable perspective.
Did you simply google maps with south at top and post the links, as with anything throughout history there are outliers, but for the most part Western Civilizations above the Equator View North as Up and South as Down because that is the way the water generally Flows towards the equator, because of gravity.

Do you find it at all odd the maps you provided are almost all of cities and regions and not a worldview? Also those maps especially your Chinese, Spanish and Anglo Saxon Maps are oriented to the flow of the water source they are representing....
To See and Not See by Oliver Sacks (1993) [pdf]
OS X ships outdated versions of Bash and Git for example. The 10.10.5 version ships Bash 3.2 and Git 2.3, while Homebrew gives you Bash 4.3+ and git 2.5+.
I agree, 36% ain't too bad. But,it requires that any literature you use in your research should have been reproduced a few times by other researchers.
It makes no sense to "take into consideration" the long-term radioactive contamination caused by 150lbs of fissile material when considering the potential damage from a reactor accident. I stand by my statement.
I like the idea of an underhanded JS content, but I'm not sure if this is a good way to do it. It's hard to see how to build a short snippet of code that sends data off somewhere when it isn't supposed to use any network access at all. Not to mention that you apparently need to write a "good" key generation algorithm for an undefined purpose.

To really do something like this, I think you'd want to pull in a big, complex JS library where the average developer isn't as familiar with the normal usage patterns. Speaking of which, you could probably provide a modified version of some major library that does something sneaky - who ever really checks that the copy of JQuery loaded on a particular page is actually identical to the official one?

It's going to be a lot harder to hide from the dev tools network tab too. You'd have to already be sending back and forth some pile of data that you can hide stuff in somehow.

Maybe something better would be that they provide a JS function that returns a public and private key, and the intention of the site is to send the username and public key to the server and let the user write down or copy out the private key. Then you have to write JS for the page that looks like it just sends the public key, but actually somehow sends the private key in a way that isn't obvious from reading the code or watching the network traffic.
“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.” -- Oliver Sacks

Oliver now gets to take all the elements he borrowed, and that he loved so dearly, and return them back to the stars from which they came. His spirit has dissolved now into it's new form as a complex abstract of memories, ideas, and collective appreciation, where it will now live alongside nature; it's original muse and creator.
Please don't block everything but Googlebot in robots.txt
> There's no way to whitelist inline code

That's not completely true - the nonce attribute (specify a nonce in the CSP header, have nonce=that on every script tag) or by sending the hashes of the inline scripts upfront in the CSP header.

It doesn't give you inline code in attributes (e.g. onclick) but it's a big help for migrating.
A “Formula 1” Interpretation of the Computer Language Benchmarks Game
I'm terribly sorry to hear about your close relative. Given that it is diagnosed as a stage IV GBM, you are likely looking at some combination of clinical trial based and standard of care therapy. Do not attempt to sort through the confusing web of information on the web or from publications. Many of them need the kind of context that only an academic oncologist can interpret and dont always translate to an increase in individual survival rates in a clinical setting.
First and foremost, find an academic cancer center near by, preferably an NCI certified comprehensive cancer center (http://www.cancer.gov/research/nci-role/cancer-centers/find).
Secondly if your relative is willing and understands the risks, find them an applicable clinical trial to enroll into.
The biggest obstacles to effectively treating GBM are the location of the tumor(s), the existence of the blood-brain barrier and the highly aggressive nature of tumor growth.
All the best and I really hope you and your relative can find the strength to get through this difficult phase.
Imo the non-English voices speaking English aren't that useful as accented voices, because, at least for the Latin-alphabet ones, they're dominated by spelling-to-phonology mapping errors, like misreading diphthongs. It's an okay representation of someone who really speaks no English trying to sound out written English as if it were German, but it's not very similar to what a German accent in English sounds like, since a typical German accent isn't dominated by misreadings.

If it were open source you could probably get better results by hacking it up to parse in the "right" language and then only realizing the phonology in the "wrong" language, instead of both parsing and speaking in the "wrong" language.
It is not that P-values are now bad by definition. It's only that they are many times wrongly intepreted. Putting too much confidence in P-values only might result in some wrong conclusions. And this is what some meta analyses discover. Many scientists try hard only to reach the "golden" <0.05 in order to claim discovery and publish it. This is why there is so many papers that misteriously cluster around 0.05...
You lose credibility when you don't realize that the DC Circuit (the one in this story) and the CAFC (the target of your misplaced jab about patents) are completely different courts.
Enter the disease name in google and one of the first results will likely be the medical association that deals with the disease. Check out its web site. Others in the same situation are a good source of info so google for the disease name along with "support group" and also try the disease name and "forum". Abstracts of the medical literature summarize the state of the art and recommended protocols. Abstracts to all medical literature can be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed . Enter the disease name in the search box on that page and then in the left hand panel click on Reviews to get all the abstracts of review papers. Registered clinical trials are shown at: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov . In the search box on that page enter the disease name.
Lynne Jolitz: The Curse of BSD and the Four Mistakes (2005)
Great list, not a big fan of homebrew personally, or its creator who seems to be full of himself. I'd recommend pkg_src from joyent[0]. homebrew seems to have a lot of the hip webdev packages, but pkg_src and joyent's repository is the real deal when it comes to hardcore UNIX package management. Some friends have a nice bootstrap for pkg_src on OS X called saveosx[1], too.

[0]: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/

[1]: http://www.saveosx.org/
Using ⌘+K will not only clear the screen, but will also delete the scrollable history buffer in Terminal or iTerm2.

I find this useful before printing text that I want to search using ⌘+F.
So ubiquitous that Google can't define it for me, either, it seems. What is it?
Change your state, change everything – how I became a relaxed consultant
Was Dropping the Atomic Bomb Necessary? Considering the Context
They don't actually know how to speak English. If you listen carefully, what they are doing is sounding out English using the pronunciation rules of their "native" language. It's not an accent at all, just a literal parsing using different rules.
Go version 1.5 on the Raspberry Pi
Dark Matter May Be More Complex Than Physicists Thought
We're not so much looking to replace the Standard Model (it works very well), but rather trying to figure out if there's something more, and preferably less complicated, under the hood. There are lots of hints that there's something more, and everyone is looking hard in lots of places to discover the next scrap of the treasure map.

If the tau were indeed found to exhibit substantially different decay properties from the muon, it would be major news within fundamental physics. The stated statistical significance of the result is quite low, you'll want to wait for more data (which are imminent at LHCb).

A different experiment, BaBar, also sees a similar excess, and the experiments roughly agree. Taken together, the results are near the threshold for "evidence for", but not "discovery of" a new result.

One upside to experiments with leptons (electrons, muons, and taus) is that they're simpler to understand. Anything involving hadronic physics (quarks, gluons, and the zoo of particles made from them, like protons and neutrons) is comparatively difficult to understand.

TL;DR: Stay tuned. The result is of potential importance, but not yet, and could fluctuate away.
I agree that the summers are moist and rainy, followed by heat that can kill. But I don't think you are right in describing the winters as snowy, in six years I remember about four instances of snow. Also, it lasted for at most two or three days. The Tokyo winter is horrible in that it is grey and windy, but certainly not snowy.
This seems to be the current location of the museum: http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/
>First off, there's no need for all-caps. This isn't 4chan.

Oh man, it looks like I missed something priceless.
This is a personal favorite of mine.

For me there are a lot parallels between this and how older people see technology. Its a great read and even if you have read it, its worth going through again with the above context in mind!
I feel like this is arguing semantics. Drug addiction is a problem that you can seek help for and should. There are physical components to it and psychological components. The author doesn't seem to be describing anything fundamentally different from how the addiction community already treats addiction. It's certainly not true that you can just snap out of an addictive cycle by choosing to not be a drug addict. But it's also not true that behavior isn't the primary think you need to treat in most cases.
Speak, Memory
I don't see the argument that EVs or even hybrids would cannibalize their traditional lines. EVs are simply impractical for most people, so having them would not hurt sales of their traditional cars. They would however offer something to buyers who might otherwise go for a Tesla or other full EV.

Hybrids are more accepted (I myself wouldn't buy one, but most car makers have hybrid versions of all their popular models) so again I don't see the problem. If anything, having hybrids would open up their markets to a larger consumer base.
Ask HN: State of the art for JS/HTML/CSS iOS development?
I've had a "million dollar idea" and I want to build a small prototype that works on iOS. I don't have a mac, and I've never done any iOS development, so I figure my best bet is to write an app using one of those PhoneGap, Ionic, etc etc things. What is the the latest and greatest?

Can I even do it without a mac? Maybe I could build it on my dev machine and rent some time on one of those "cloud macs" to publish it to the app store?
We see another pushing of 'the great programming font' from time to time. But rarely see innovations like special glyphs from multi-character tokens, +=, ++, /*. We see the same, boring, single rendering glyphs for parenthesis and brackets without regard to the depth level of parenthesis. You would think a more savvy font designer could do something eliding color and font rendering to produce a font the would help quickly understand code.
Totally agree. I would just go a bit further and days that beyond just a basic behavioral problem it is a neurological mental disorder that is either hereditarily deposed and/or triggered through behavioral issues.
When internet first appeared many years ago, it was labelled the "bad" thing too, still is in many parts of world. The "think of ..." is not new and has always been in human history every time there is something new.

Back then, Internet literally made many bad things easier and harder for law and law had to adapt.

You get the point. Why do you think internet today is going back to Aol, technology is always a result of culture.
White House releases visitor records
I don't think you can so easily dismiss the differentiation based on semantics. You should be clear on the differences and the difference in approach to a solution each demand.
I'd never heard of it either. This is one of the results my search yielded: http://longform.org/stories/web-dreams-the-story-of-suck

>HotWired's Flux, a weekly gossip column from the pseudonymous Ned Brainard, was close. The column was the first example of what the Web magazine Salon (www.salon1999.com) dismissed as "snake text," meaning the story ran in one long, narrow column.
Who's talking about cycling with children? I'm talking about kicking them out on their bike and having them cycle to school on their own.
I think this is an AND, not an XOR. Someone graduating with a degree in a technical discipline should have both up-to-the-minute skills in that discipline and also a sophisticated understanding of the theory of the field.

If you have only the former, you are a technician, who understands what to do and how but without a deep understanding of why. (And there are plenty of programs that turn out such people in the software field, typically through two-year degrees in community colleges.)

If you have only the latter, you are a theorist with a deep sophisticated understanding of hard problems in your field, but without the skills to build much of anything right now. You known the why, but not the how. But if that's really what you want, try a degree in math or maybe physics.

Technical undergraduate degrees are supposed to bridge this gap by teaching both the how and the why, producing people who both understand the subtleties and can do real work right now. That's really useful, which is why these graduates are so sought-after. A university that neglects either side of this span is producing people who are a whole lot less useful, and that's what Gelertner is pushing back against in his article.
"Bruce" triggered the English response? That's a weird ML algorithm.
Getting C-compatible structs in Go with and for cgo
Its not that easy, I have been through this in Ontario, Canada. Use to call in every month with actual meter reading and still get crazy bills. I then started taking pictures of the meter every month and told them to fix the issue or I will contact local media. It turned out the issue was systematic

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hydro-one-react...
I use asdf.com for that. It's just a simple HTML page without a lot of trash and there's nothing there that I care about visiting.
Do you mean they turn off while rolling in neutral or with the gear in? Sure, the injectors turn off when you're decelerating in gear, but that's true even if the car doesn't have a start-stop system.

However, I was talking about the case of decelerating in neutral with a car having a start-stop-type system. Rolling in neutral is always more efficient if the fuel is also cut off, but often even with the car running on idle.
Two Minute Papers – Deep Neural Network Learns Van Gogh's Art
How to Fix San Francisco’s Corruption Problem
Agreed. I saw a demonstration of a unit very similar to the one in the article, that had vacuum-focused thin film reflectors and a sodium-cooled sterling engine. That was in 1997.
Supercookies are back, and they're very unappealing
Well even the big limousines are actually quite fuel-efficient these days. For example, the series 7 BMW 730 with its 250 horse powers uses only 5.6 l / 100 km (http://www.bmw.com/com/de/newvehicles/7series/sedan/2012/sho...).

BTW coal makes up for only 20 % of the electricity production in Germany, and most of the coal-based power plants are quite "clean" in the sense that they make good use of the available energy (in most cases the heat waste is used industrially and emissions are heavily filtered).

As I said before, adoption here is mostly a question of availability, cost and efficiency, all three of which need to be improved before customers will see electric cars as a "reasonable" choice.
The Guardian joins the 'cryptic developer job ad' bandwagon
Seems like a harmless prank to me.
Gliomas make up 80% of all malignant brain tumors. High-grade gliomas are fast growing, aggressive, and difficult to treat. Of these, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and the most fatal, with a reported survival rate of less than 10% in the first five years.

Interestingly, while GBM and gliomas have been highly resistant to traditional treatment, much of what is known about the demonstrated ability of cannabis to fight cancer comes from research conducted on GBM and glioma tumor cells.

Scientists hypothesize that because brain cells have the highest concentration of cannabinoid-binding receptors in the body, brain tumors also rich in these receptors may respond best to cannabinoids (chemical compounds such as THC and CBD as found in cannabis).

http://www.cbdfarm.org/glioblastoma-and-cannabis-oil.html

See for yourself how THC selectively kills GBM cells while leaving normal cells alone by watching this time-lapse video taken from an actual human tumor.

http://www.cbdfarm.org/blog/medical-marijuana-news/cannabis-...

http://www.medicaldaily.com/cannabis-shrinks-brain-tumors-as...
And today is Sunday.
What Students Don't Know
Security requires a threat model to rise above theatre. If there are operations threats to your organization, then you need opsec to mitigate those threats. Is China or someone else trying to steal your trade secrets?

If so, I would hope the responsibility for setting opsec policy isn't resting in one sysadmin.
Wow quite interesting, thanks for pointing this out!
On a certain philosophical level you can never be absolutely sure of anything, and p-values are meaningless.

On a practical level, p-values are the chance that a correlation is reported where 'reality' does not have a correlation. This is not the same number as the chance that the result agrees with 'reality'.

You can reject the concept of objectivity, but you cannot reject that logic. So I have explained the alternative understanding fine, just go back and replace 'true' and 'false' and 'correct' with a philosophically-hedged version.
[Let's ignore string theory...]

I think that "looking to replace it" is a wrong characterization. The idea is to "tweak and improve" it. If this experiment is right, it means that at very high energy there is a small correction due to a new force. (At low energy, the correction would be still there, but it's negligible.) It's not something groundbreaking like "the electrons actually don't exist, sorry".

(But this experiment is only a 2 sigma, so it may disappear when more data arrive.)
That's a shame, because if I were to ask that question in an interview (and I would be unlikely to merely because of the fact that too many people dislike those kinds of questions), that last discussion would be precisely what I would be hoping to hear.
Perhaps better to take the economical perspective than moral perspective. The coin miner is the backbone of bitcoin, or where all the resource of encryption needed come from, by moral supporters?

Any distributed web attempt must learn from bitcoin and understand the economic ecosystem is required and essential. It beats all pointless endless arguments and find it way to success.
Minor correction - that's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, not Boston Women's
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Every selfie on instagram would soon turn into a Picasso masterpiece .. lol

Great post - thanks for sharing !
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10142835
Most practitioners already tailor their treatment to what has been found to be beneficial to drug use and even the drug specifically. Heroin users can die if they go from heavy usage to no usage and prescriptions are needed. A user who drinks to forget, maybe infrequently, but intensely and who has no symptoms of physical dependence needs a different kind of therapy than someone with no history of dependence who has become hooked to percocets following a surgery. That is, people already recommend treatment based on what the problem is and whether or not it is technically a disease or if it's something different; it's a point that's contentious for many people, but I'm not sure how relevant it really is.
This advice is just to check out personalized medicine, in which they determine the exact cancer you have and clinicians employ a medical database to put together treatments to target your exact cancer.

Check it out: http://www.foundationmedicine.com/

-Warren
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10142835
There are types of wireless communication other than wifi that are still unlicensed. Not having access to SDR makes it much more difficult to develop those. Also, locked down chips cannot be trusted in security sensitive settings.
Web Developer and More (last paragraph is hysterical)
Breaking up parameter name, and parameter type into two separate fields will be a good update.