skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a lot of trouble around the Buckyball magnets a few years ago, with the U.S. CPSC saying that they were unsafe for children because if a child swallowed two, they might attract one another from different locations within the child's digestive system and cause injury. (The manufacturer of Buckyballs was apparently very upset about the outcome.) It's interesting to think that swallowing magnets was seen as a serious threat to human digestive systems, but here is used to protect cows' digestive systems.

Is the difference just in the cows' anatomy and the size of the magnet, so that this magnet is guaranteed to stay in the first stomach and not go any further, while human anatomy doesn't work that way?

It seems like having cows swallow very small magnets (that can advance beyond the first stomach) would also tend to injure them, because those magnets could attract metal objects from one part of the digestive system toward another, as the CPSC feared with the Buckyballs.
Or, you realize that your processes are so minimalistic and well structured due to lack of options, that you only have to write a custom request router over the weekend to migrate.

Also, Lambda-like options are available with most PaaS providers now.

It is not much different and might be easier than migrating web app from a custom PaaS. The only issue is, and has always been, the migration of data. And I don't see that getting solved until some startup writes a bunch of layers on top of a bunch of providers. It's very tricky, for good reasons.
The F-keys are sunk with respect to the other keytops. Reaching them quickly and reliably is hard. And as an Emacs user, the escape key is out in comic relief territory.

Considering how often F-keys are used in Windows applications, I really wonder how much user testing the keyboard group did past "does this look cool?"
WOW! This looks like a great project!

Am I the only one though that tried the Duang Duang Sheep demo game at the bottom of the frontpage, and couldn't even pass the first pipe?
Yeah, they're pretty nasty. My model is from 1993. I've been using these rests since ~ 2011. That's what happens after intense use every day for years :(
They might not work everywhere, but they often fit in better than a bare antenna array. Along NJ's garden state parkway is an example.
I agree and used to flag them for that reason. Dang disagrees though and s/he's the moderator, so I stopped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9717601

The recent trend in paywalling is a negative one but it's not easy for any one aggregator (who isn't google) to punish the behavior. Consequently, a lot of a great content is paywalled.
There's also a not-quite-subtler point: many of the "crimes" in question are nonviolent and do no harm to anyone other than the supposed "criminal". The article specifically mentions "possession of a single joint" as something that can lead to life imprisonment if you do it three times. What kind of sense does that make?
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This would make good corporate mail footer
Gee, I'd never make it past voir dire!

I'd give the word of a police officer
"special weight" -- assume he was
bitterly, hatefully, fraudulently lying
through his teeth, even if just for the
fun of it.
I have some melatonin I was thinking of taking with me. But this is just stupid (My transit is in Dubai):

> Cat Le-Huy was arrested in Dubai for carrying Melatonin jet-lag tablets, which are sold over the counter in the US and Dubai
Can anyone comment on the relevance of this in modern CS or related fields? As a non CS major, whenever I see material from Von Neumann, I can't help but be amazed at it. Yet I get the impression that while many people appreciate his work (he presents very compelling concepts in my opinion), it didn't have the impact on CS or other fields you would expect. Am I right or wrong? Where are these ideas of Von Neumann applied today?
Author mentions IDEs like Guitar Pro, etc. He referred to them as "distracting."
To add a strong counterpoint, I suggest that you read The holocaust in American life by Peter Novick. It's a rather controversial book and entire chapters piss me off in unbelievable ways, but Novick creates an interesting lens through which to view the Holocaust.

One important thing to consider is that the holocaust has become a singular concept of incredible horror that has shaped large swathes of foreign policy for fifty years. But, if you really want to understand the American populace's war time response (or lack of) to the holocaust, it's important to look at the holocaust from a 1940s sensibility.

First, while there is very credible evidence to suggest that while many westerners knew about the holocaust, there is equally credible evidence to suggest that even the best informed had little understanding of the scale or method of the death camps until the liberations started. At the time, speaking in terms of overall military might, it would have seemed unthinkable to kill off a potential work force. Second, and perhaps more importantly, even if the scale of the death camps had truly been known, it happened in the midst of a war that killed about 70 million people. It was another brutal dimension in a global war.
I was going to say "I was thinking of OTC sleeping pills, not prescription", but then I read the article you linked to. Yikes!

(Though that describes Dubai in particular -- I don't know if there are similar concerns elsewhere.)
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Mainly because it cannot be trusted enough for this kind of application.
It is not Open Hardware. The processor used is very closed, even the data-sheet is not accessible to the public. (It's very problematic for a device like Own-Mailbox very sensitive regarding politic.)
The Raspberry Pi is provided with non-free software and the hardware needs non-free driver to work. (Also problematic.)

Raspberry Pi is bigger and less energy efficient.

On top of that, we don't use it for prices reasons, people have already tried to sell all-in-the-box devices based on Raspberry Pi and the end up being expensive.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1547898916/own-mailbox-...
Patreon allows for incentives for subscribers.
I don't think most countries would arrest you for carrying something that isn't a controlled substance there!
The cheap Microsoft Natural has really shitty keys. Even if the ergonomics are perfect, somebody coming from Apple keys is really not going to like the mushy Natural keys. I couldn't pawn my Microsoft Natural off to anybody at the office. (I'm not saying Apple keys are that great - I use Cherry switches myself - but that's how bad the Natural ones are)
1. Taking a pillow

2. Pants + tshirt

3. Will try for aisle seat

4. Snacks

5. Too expensive to upgrade

6. Movies, books, articles, music all on my tablet now

7. ...
You know what? I read the s6 page and found this: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/

I found it rather enlightening and found myself agreeing with pretty much everything. Trying to argue for or against systemd is a waste of time, so I will stop.

All the time spent debating would likely be better used just spreading knowledge about your preferred methods so that people can make informed choices when solving their own problems.
I appreciate your enthusiasm and upvoted you. However, this is not how most jury members think and assuming the police officers had good legal representation which they seemingly did based on the fact that they were either acquitted of the felony charges or not charged (sorry for repeating)

From http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/two-fired-h....

> Pressley, a Hollywood police officer for 22 years, and Francisco were fired in January. So were three other Police Department employees who were at the crash scene: Sgt. Andrew Diaz, Community Service Officer Karim Thomas and crime scene technician Andrea Tomassi, none of whom have been charged in the case.

It is more likely than not that you'd be excused from jury duty by competent defense lawyers acting on behalf of the ex police officers. It is in their interest to put people of a demographic that is likely to put the words of a police officer (or ex-police officer) above the words of a civilian and even above their own words on video tape.
> Gymnasium" (grammar school) to attend university

first: there are different types of Gymnasium. I started not at a Gymnasium and then switched to a technical gymnasium.

Second: there are many other ways and an entire education industry devoted to get one to a University or similar. The 'Zweiter Bildungsweg'.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweiter_Bildungsweg
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Not entirely related but just reading this brought back a lot of memories of the PSP homebrew scene. I miss those days. Idolizing Dark_Alex was what got me into software.

##psp-programming represent!
I am sure his reason for leaving academia is multi-faceted. His publication record (it's not that bad really. Maybe not competitive enough for a tenure track position) and his other scientific communication activities probably are part of it. But I don't think it detracts from his complaints about academia.
People barred from flow often experience intense anxiety; I'd imagine that the "addicted" programmer not experiencing code flow would just replace that need with something like a high-complexity videogame.

The author's scope is maybe too narrow by focusing only on programmers. Perhaps this problem can be generalized to a type of individual that requires the flow state to the extent that their other behavior is perturbed or dysfunctional. Compare Richard Feynman's explosive rage when distracted from calculus or drums...
I'd like to add to this discussion by mentioning the ChucK music programming language (http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/). Here is a TedX talk by the co-author, Ge Wang, talking about the joys of digital instruments (http://www.ted.com/talks/ge_wang_the_diy_orchestra_of_the_fu...). In the talk, Ge Wang talks about leading the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, which uses ChucK to program all sorts of crazy digital instruments, and also talks about "Ocarina" iPhone instrument. Cool stuff!
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> 4 papers in a second lab since 2013

Out of those 4 papers in his postdoc lab, two are reviews[0,1] and one is a peer commentary[2], so only the second-author paper I linked before counts as original research.

Similarly, one of his (three) first-author publications from his PhD lab is also a review[3]. He does have two first-author publications from that lab, including one in PNAS[4], but neither of them seem to have been cited that much. In any case, you can't coast on your PhD publication record once you've been a postdoc for several years.

0: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12315/abstra...

1: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2014.00...

2: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...

3: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21111208

4: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/2/E84.long
The Sound of Cracking: The “Crisis of Man” of the American Mid-Century
Point # 2, the complaint that grades are based on one exam at the end of the course is actually a feature. At my lovely State College I'm teaching a course with weekly graded lab reports. You grade the blasted things because each of them counts towards the final grade, but there is no time to review or critique them. From the shape of what the kids hand in, they need much guidance and critiquing, and we are failing them by not giving it. They are clearly incapable of independent study at this stage.
get hammered, then go to sleep
I'm one week older than the Unix load average!

Or perhaps: my reported uptime is guaranteed to be longer than any Unix system's. :-)
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Why isn't it legally mandated that the budgets for the District Attorney's office must be less than or equal to the budget for the Public Defender's?

I'm sure there are valid reasons and what I'm suggesting may be unrealistic, but it sure seems like it'd nearly guarantee that we're upholding the intent of the Constitution if we did that, eh?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10177477
New voice transcription feature in Google Docs censors (some) swearwords
Well skilled people in Germany are found in many professions.

In the UK less so.

For example apprenticeships are not widely supported as in Germany. Go to Siemens, these people will work with the latest machines, materials and processes. They will get a dual education: work and school. If they want they can make their 'Meister' and go to the University:

http://www.hochschulkompass.de/studium/suche/studieren-ohne-...

That there has to be ways for people to go to University who have not been at a Gymnasium, this idea is not unknown in Germany. ;-)
quite simply, britain overspends massively on higher education
"Open Link in Incognito Window."

(Though I agree that paywalled content is a nuisance, albeit with some granularity regarding the necessity of paywalls to continued access to quality reporting.)
i would contend it makes very little difference because of the naturally limited fraction of the population with the ability to benefit from post secondary education.
Personally I don't like the aisle seat because the carts that the flight attendants push sometimes bump into my foot or knee (my legs are relatively long). This might depend on how big you are and whether you want to keep a bag under the seat.

I'm sure "window or aisle" is one of the most perennial debate topics -- I could imagine thousands of posts about it on FlyerTalk.
Regarding d) - how much do you think the researcher, much of whose work was presumably funded by taxpayer dollars, should get?
> why it is our brains have evolved to be "tuned" for notation

I'm not sure they are tuned--is there any reason you say this beyond personal experience? Music notation is noriously difficult to learn for most people, and many non-classical musicians avoid it entirely.

Maybe it's just self-selection. Those with a natural gift for reading are likely to become classically trained musicians, and those without it are likely to find other means of creative expression.
> The editor later proceeded to explain to us why he was inquiring about the reputation of these scientists: "I'm asking to make sure that I accept articles from reputable people. Because you see, at , we want to do real science, not Richard-Dawkins-type science." I remember discreetly crying for an hour that night at the conference's bar, not because that man was unjustifiably mean to one of the most intelligent scientists in the world, but because I had come to the realization that our system of scientific publication was governed by people who have no idea what knowledge is.

It's not just the people governing it. It's the system itself: you are vetted by the only people who understand what you write - the other members of your own little tribe. The editor is not supposed to understand what he publishes, he just asks the opinion of your colleagues, anonymizes slightly the responses (you can still tell who's who by their style) and gives them to you so you can reply. Afterwards the music starts again, you switch chairs and it's your turn to review your peer's article. Is there any wonder why this lead to heaps of useless research and widespread enhanced interrogation of meaningless data?

And no, Richard Dawkins is not "one of the most intelligent scientists in the world", he's just somebody you like and you extended your character judgment to every aspect of his work because you took the same shortcut as that editor: he's in your opinion one of the good ones. And your opinion is that of someone using Facebook as a blogging platform ;-)
When you check in something that breaks the build, the tests can drop an image of battered, bloody Doomguy directly into your terminal instead of having to go through something like http://squarism.com/2010/05/23/watchr-unit-tests-growl-doomg....
I like this strategy because the airport restaurant meals are usually better quality than the in-flight meals, at least for me flying in coach.
As a lay person, it was pretty ridiculous and slightly horrifying to learn how much time and effort my scientist friends have to put into fulfilling irrelevant academic criteria just to be allowed to work on the research they are incredibly passionate about.

In 'Scientific Progress Goes "Boink!"', Calvin and Hobbes build a duplicator machine out of a cardboard box. If they were researchers, they'd first have to go to school for X years, graduate, apply for a position at a research institution that kind-of does research into duplicators, get accepted, and then spend years working research around how cardboard boxes work, spend more time writing grants and trying to publish their cardboard box research, and maybe one day a board will green-light them for actually being able to research how to duplicate something.

How can we tell the people with money to stop funding this stupid system?
Maybe this statement will date me, but I don't really like this trend of having to deal with less things. I mean, sure, it's more simple to get started. But when things break you are screwed because nobody really knows what is going on.
I don't really see, what people mean when they "agree" or "disagree" with this article and the likes of it. Aside of expressing his own disappointment the author points out what is wrong with the academic research, that's true. But point out what is wrong, though isn't useless, is a lot easier than suggest (even pretty lousy) better alternative.

It's easy to imagine how everyone should be free to explore whatever he wants in his own free time, with his own money, at his own home lab (although even this isn't true, because currently even the most basic stuff needed for research in chemistry or biology is illegal to freely buy and sell, as it can be used to produce drugs or bombs or because of some other "national security" bullshit). But what the author is talking about isn't his own time and money — it's expecting to be provided with all stuff he needs for research and for him to live and prosper. And if someone is about to give you all that, your promise that you'll discover something great eventually isn't really enough for him. Quite understandably so. So ideally he would like to make sure that you, both: won't use all money and lab equipment that's given to you to smoke crack and do nothing; and that you are actually able to discover something great. Which, I guess, even you yourself won't promise, because you don't know.

So, in fact, even with all that bureaucracy we cannot have any guarantees. And author wants for the system not only to work, but to work without putting too much pressure on him and his colleagues. How he imagines that? He doesn't explain clearly enough.
“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.

— Richard Clarke
While it's a cool read, the lack of inline citations in the article make me lose faith in it. There are some citations at the bottom, but they aren't inline wiki markup.

The actual effect seems to be written in the form of cause (task interruption) and effect (overestimation of time) but then takes a leap to say that the overestimation was due to frustration and failure.

With only two studies, and both showing different traits associated with interruption, it doesn't seem to be a universally accepted correlation.
The download sizes do suggest you're downloading a whole game, or at least most of one. This does not, however, imply that the game is ported -- just that they pull the game from the server rather than the disc. This makes sense even if they're emulating, because most Xbox 360 games will have received a lot of updates compared to what's on the disc, and Microsoft have probably only tested the emulation against one specific version.
Did you complain to the university? Which university? Sounds like a low grade institution to me. When I studied physics at Exeter in the mid 70s there was a lively trade in second hand books and I don't think that any of the books specified that they had to be the absolutely latest edition. Nor did the faculty write a book and demand that we bought it; I think that might have caused a lot of trouble then but students now seem to be more docile than we were. We mostly didn't do exercises from textbooks, we had tutors who set work so it didn't matter which edition you used so long as the contents were correct.
it's not a problem specific to germany, but he makes a legitimate criticism of the classic lecture format. it is an antiquated mode of delivery, an extremely poor use of students' time, and really should not be part of university education any longer. i suppose it is one way of limiting cost...
Exactly. It's almost like recreating the pseudo-efficiency that newer developers seem to possess (I only know one way to solve this, so I'm going to do it that way, and do it fast). In your case, the loss of choice is artificial, but it reaches the same result (getting it done).
Ask HN: How do you people with food allergies deal with  eating outside?
I'm looking for people with food allergies (even if it's to a small extend). I'm curious to learn how you manage your food choices when you're eating outside at a restaurant or fast food location. Thanks!
Is there a particular reason why Amazon chose JavaScript? I'm seeing more and more PAAS services going nodejs first/only and am wondering if there's an underlying reason.
The cow are gets a single capsule (either a single alnico magnet or a plastic capsule with smaller ferrite magnets in it, but the same size) about the size of your thumb. It never passes from the first chamber.

The Buckyball magnets are rare earth and much stronger than cow magnets. A kid who swallowed one might follow it up with another, or some bit of metal, after the first magnet entered the intestinal track and those two might snap together and cause damage.

I think the problem is there whether it is a buckyball magnet or a stack of discs for some craft or hobby. Kids love those kinds of things. You just need to watch them like hawks and be careful what you leave laying around.
indeed. people like to imagine an idealised world of highly able, motivated and disciplined students. why design an education system for a set of students that doesn't really exist?
I'm assuming that he'll be recruited by Google next.
One reason why there are so few people studying in Germany is that we still have a really big apprenticeship system where in other countries most people go to university for (nurses, preschool teachers, there's even an application developer's apprenticeship).

One reason why Germany can allow itself to have no fees is the language barrier. Sweden offers lots of English master programmes and has introduced fees for non-EU citizens (EU citizens have to be treated the same as own citizens in this regard under EU law ). The Netherlands and Austria already complain about the masses of German students flocking to them. I guess there's some anxiety that there would be a storm of foreign students at British universities if fees were dropped.
This technique is very old -- it goes back at least to Pascal, IIRC, and probably to Algol 60. It certainly was used in Scheme implementations in the late 1970s. I haven't heard the term "upvalue" before, though.
> Your Classicist will find it harder than your CS guy to write good OO code

True but in my US & UK corporate experience we found that someone with a humanities degree and a Masters or Diploma in CS was by far the best hire for any technology position that had end-user exposure. A mixture of analytical, deductive and soft-skills that the inverse combination never seemed to match.

Perhaps found it harder to write good ( smart or super-efficient ) OO code but could usually write decent code to better-researched and specified requirements.
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