skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobel Prize in Medicine 2015: Therapies against roundworm and malaria [pdf]
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As soon you look at any details it all fall apart if you try compare a husband and wife with a farmer and his horse.

How many farmers raise, feed or pay child support for horses which the farmer doesn't "own", and rather was deceived about? How many farmers pay spousal support to horses that has left the farmer? How many farmers are expected to go to war and die to protect their horse or the horses home, food, and way of living?

It is important both acknowledge that the problems that we inherited from the last few centuries had causes (if you feel like it, call them unjustified), but also that modern technology and policy can eliminate those. War and service can be conducted by both genders, paternity testing could be made standard so both parents know 100% whom the child came from, and any healthy adult can work and earn a living to support themselves and offspring. Gender differences could be removed permanently by society with enough effort to eliminate differences in gender competition.
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"Partnership" means in these contexts (TTP, TTIP, ...):

Countries are partnering to work for the interests of the big corporations and (potentially) against the interests of their own people.

The thinking, that with a stronger industry (and maybe) more jobs, everything will be alright, is plainly wrong. In Germany, we have more jobs now, because we followed this route, but less people can live from their earnings -- and the social system has been undermined to reach the optimal state for "more jobs" (and more profits for the corporations). So, the result plainly is: More really poor people, that either work their ass of (some with two or three jobs) or are living in extreme poverty, strangled by a ruthless social security system. And of course: The rich people get even more money. For the shrinking "middle class" nothing is left.
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I am referring to the practical reality - we don't do it enough. Fraud is defined in such a way that lets companies still get away with blatant lies and abusive behaviour. The laws are also not enforced strongly enough.

Case in point: want to bet that VW will actually get hurt by the emissions cheating scandal?
With Dave McClures 500 Startups arriving here, it's probably a good indicator things are taking off in Japan.

Article is a good read.
In Poland, you're supposed to only use 4-function calculators both at local and national exams - to the point that I was accused of cheating by using my graphing calculator (and, in hindsight, it was cheating).
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While I agree that it's ridiculous that this is the case, I side with the students who were given a choice and chose the physical calculator. The thought of doing Numerical Analysis problems and long calculations on an app sounds excruciating, and I know that Accounting classes would have taken an order of magnitude longer without tactile feedback.

The replacement for a $100 problem is to buy students iPads and use an app and touchscreen? That's not a viable solution whatsoever for the vast majority of schools. The real solution is for schools to simply advocate using a cheaper and similarly functioned calculator. I used a Casio EL531 all through school and college and while it didn't graph, it covered me for everything in an Engineering degree.
It's fundamentally different than Ripple. From wikipedia:

Ripple relies on a common shared ledger, which is a distributed database storing information about all Ripple accounts. The network is "managed by a network of independent validating servers that constantly compare their transaction records."

I don't think any system that relies on a global ledger is workable for micropayments like this.

Edit: I spoke too soon, Ripple is more complicated than I thought. It is somewhat like Ripple.
The catch-all means I don't have to create an address - just make one up on the fly. Everything to that sub-sub-domain (aside from those addresses blocked because they've attracted junk mail) are forwarded on to one of my "real" accounts.
In China your freedom or even your lifespan might be affected by your political opinions.
> that the horizontal axis of a graph will get scaled by a factor of 2 if the window is displaying a square section of space.

Yes, exactly. But you can adjust the axes of the graph to get an 1:1 display (ie. x is -10..10 and y is -5..5, not a square space). And that is the default in the TI graphs IIRC.

So as long as you set up the projection to match the screen resolution aspect ratio, you'll get perpendicular lines correctly.
Yepp. Saw that :-)

Edited your domain name, and restricted www so it can't happen again. Thanks for pointing it out so we could correct it :-)
Business Lessons You Can Learn from the Godfather
If I ever find the time to mature KnightOS [1] to a state that's usable for the classroom, I hope to make my next project a calculator whose hardware is open source that can be sold for much cheaper, running KnightOS.

[1] http://knightos.org
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Any chance for a more readable font?
Ahhhhh!!! I've just got everyone onto trello after a bitter fight. This is too much!
This reads like a bizzaro nightmare of a workplace for introverts. Seems like a bad long term strategy to be this "peoply" (and make it an uncomfortable place for a good chunk of the workforce).
Any good OS X terminal commands tut for beginner?
Hey,

Some weeks ago, I've seen here a very promising and complete OS X terminal/shell tutorial but I haven't bookmarked it. Anyone has a link?
That's a web-based model. I was hoping it was going to be the Sweden Solar System. http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/10/world-largest-scale-mod... , at 1:20 million scale, with the Ericsson Globe arena in Stockholm (110m diameter) as the Sun.
If you could compare/contrast with Tahoe-LAFS, that would be cool.
Please just stop using it? It's the feature no one asked for.
Hi jnardiello. I replied to garrensmith who also wanted to know this. You can read my reply there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10330518
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Such programs being successful was initially due to more graphical options not being available, and later due to the graphical ones being impractical if you had older hardware (and of course because you were used to the text based app and hadn't found time to learn an alternative).

I doubt the niche for rich-UI text based apps like that and it's ilk (Lotus 123 anyone?) exists for enough people to make writing/maintaining one worth while - you'd either be happy with less (markdown and a post processor) or end up wanting more than such a UI could practically provide, I expect.

Though I'm sure you'll find a WordPerfect mode for emacs somewhere, if you are feeling nostagic!
Thanks for pointing that out. Funny :-)
We chose the ninja-logo as the product was codenamed ninja in the beginning and we kinda liked it.
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scholars for Parasite-Fighting Therapies
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10 Questions to Promote Metacognition Among Teachers
He invented emoji, and the stock photo[1] of emoticons they included in the article proves it! /s Apparently this is one of his apps[2] (via his Wikipedia page's link to an app store charting site.) And the fingerprint app pivoted to a password safe[3].

[1] http://www.thinkstockphotos.ca/image/stock-illustration-coll...
[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emoji-2-emoticons-art-app-fr...
[3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fingerprint-security-pro/id3...
Upvoted. It's a great quote, stating the obvious truth that somehow still eludes great many people. The market rewards things that are effective, discriminating against any value that hurts the profit. If honesty is effective, it will be rewarded. If it hinders profitability, it will be discriminated against. Thus in time the optimal amount of honesty will be found.

Given the obvious information asymmetry between the seller and the buyer we shall not expect that amount to be high.
Sure, but in both cases if a mark needs to be changed 'the whole byte needs to be read modified and written back', bitmaps or bytemaps.
I remember reading about a village that actually brought in large numbers of cats to deal with their rat problem, believing that the rats were spreading the plague. The cats did a fairly successful job of killing the rats off and, as a result, they had a huge plague outbreak. The scholars at the time concluded that the rats and the plague were unrelated.

With the benefit of hindsight, we know that the plague is spread by Yersinia Pestis, which is carried by rats and transmitted to humans through fleas. The fleas generally prefer the taste of rat blood and only bite humans when they get really hungry. Of course, when a bunch of cats kill the rats, they have to make do with what's available and the fleas start going after people, vomiting the bacteria trapped within their gut into the human blood stream, spreading the plague.
But you can search.
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I know that this is a long shot...

Is there any chance of having the sort of features that would be needed to manually tidy up the results of segmentations of 3D images (from CT scans). The sort of things I'm thinking about are.

1. The ability to overlay two voxel images in the same editing space (e.g. one for the original image and one for the segmentation with added alpha channels).

2. The ability to draw arbitrary sheets of voxels by e.g. selecting 3-4 voxels as the corners of the sheet.

3. In terms of image format one would need to handle images with e.g. float32 and int32 greyscale voxel values. Import and export of raw binary images would be nice.

Just wondering. Some of the proprietary 3D analysis suites have these editing features but as far as I know the FOSS solutions for 3D image processing don't include any editing functionality.
I don't mind if powerful people are being questioned. However, there's a difference between questioning someone, and making them lose their job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRzYJullFOs

Max Headroom, Season 2, Episode 13 "Lessons"

Have you any idea how suc-suc-suc-cessful censorship is on TV?
Don't know the answer?
Hmm...
Successful, isn't it!

Before something can be considered a threat (or even worthy of strong opinions), they must first realize it exists. Systems that depend on people forming such opinions - such as democracy and capitalism - should really consider anything that blocks or corrupts the dissemination of knowledge as an existential threat.
"But China has already announced that it, or something very like it, will become mandatory from 2020."

Any source besides this? http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/china-rates-its-own-citi...
> 4. Owner of information must stay in control of Information

Once you put something on the Internet, you no longer own it.
I have been using Blendle nearly since the day they launched for reading Dutch newspapers. It is absolutely great: I can cherry-pick articles without subscribing to a newspaper, I don't have to shop around on different newspaper sites and they have this great feature where you can request a refund if an article is not what you expected quality-wise.

Also, they have this nice feature where you can register your newspaper subscription to get unlimited access in the Blendle webapp.

The only thing that I find lacking is an Android app - the webpage is sometimes slow on my nicely spec'ed ASUS tablet and I'd like to save longer articles for offline use.
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Fine, but those are failings of the state, not of the free-market or competition.

The whole point of the "free-market" is that there are repercussions or effects for what we determine to be bad behavior (with or without a state). And currently, individuals are being misled (a tad bit ironic) by the state in the sense that we all "assume" that bad market actors are being punished, when in fact they aren't always.

Additionally, people bought VW cars under the assumption that they were thoroughly regulated and tested by the government.

VW won't get "hurt" as such, probably. But they should be mandated to submit a model that doesn't cheat, have it be tested, approved, and then give that model to all the recalled cars.

Ironically, discussions like these are what eventually drove me to consider non-state solutions to the problems around us. I looked around and was presented with really countless scenarios/problems that are "bad" or "unwanted", and the state not fixing it despite claims by them that it is a problem. E.g. car accidents/fatalities, 100+ years later, and still happening even in civilized countries.
Am I the only one who wants to see it all burned to the ground? Or at least I wouldn't care if it was.
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Oh, thank goodness. I was looking for a solution like this less than a month ago and couldn't find ANYTHING usable.

Much appreciated, added to my list o' useful things.
"it appears cats weren't universally hated, a quick Google reveals"

Or you could copy&paste from the linked-to article:

> Not all medieval Europeans hated cats. There are many accounts of cats being kept as pets, including by nuns.
Nice application! Task management for teams is exactly what we have been doing at http://tasksinabox.com/ . Besides streamlined task operations, we aim to accommodate and sync your tasks across different applications and sites, such as O365 and Outlook, and integrate with your files and calendars on Microsoft and Google platforms as not having 'one more task-list' was something our users were very keen on. We have a free tier so you don't have to take my word for it. Uservoice is integrated in the app site, and all feedback is more than welcome!
Thanks! I'm glad I could help :)
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Of course I have asked to search engines... But they haven't found it... that's why I ask now for human memories.
So... does anyone else finds it funny that on that list, (2) is true and (1) is getting close?
I don't want another physical calculator but thanks for pointing me to Xcas. I haven't heard of it before, I must give it a go.

I've been using Mathematica for most of my computer algebra tasks, but it's not free. I've dabbled with Maxima and SymPy but neither are as easy to use or as powerful as Mathematica.
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This is all very "something will come up" without any kind of technological foundation. It's not a simple process of money in, changes to the laws of physics out. This is why we've seen only small incremental improvements to batteries over the years rather than doubling every 18 months. VLSI has been very lucky that a single process parameter, lambda, can be incrementally refined to give such huge benefits.

The MHz race has already slowed dramatically. There's now a push to software developers to take advantage of multicore, which is advancing only very slowly. Remember that many HN readers write single-threaded (but maybe asynchronous) Javascript.
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A review of a draft IP chapter, http://www.freezenet.ca/an-analysis-of-the-latest-tpp-leak/

"... breaking a copyright protection system (i.e. DRM, TPM, etc.) would land you in hot water ... if you need to circumvent a DRM for personal use, you are now liable for criminal penalties. Traditionally, for many jurisdictions, circumventing DRM is typically reserved for civil penalties. Criminal penalties implies that the government would foot the bill for enforcement. In civil cases, it is typically rights holders that go after individuals.

... civil damages do apply. How much are civil damages if an alleged infringer is found guilty? Well, that is up to rights holders, not a judge. Prosecution is able to determine the damages and a judge would have to accept whatever number comes out regardless of evidence to the contrary. A good example might be that a song may be sold for 99 cents, but the damages sought could be in the millions for all the prosecutors are concerned.

... an act of copyright infringement as set forth in this “trade” agreement doesn’t actually have to occur before the authorities are sent after you. There just has to be evidence that infringement is taking place or is about to take place.

... if you have a cell phone, and you have something on it that could be considered infringing, authorities have the right to seize it because you are suspected of trafficking. Of course, you could also be liable for civil and criminal penalties as earlier outlined and could be fined any amount copyright holders feel like.

... you could be fined on the spot because of your cell phone on top of it all. No need for a judge here. Also, no, you may not get your cell phone back. It could be destroyed ... Who gets to pay for all of this? According to page 77, you do."
Not San Francisco not San Francisco not San Francisco ;)
Signed up to take a look but apart from the lovely interface, it seems to be lacking in unique features that'd turn my head away from Trello.

While I do love Trello, I find it is missing support for some aspects of Kanban such as swimlanes and list limits. If something out there could match Trello on the majority of features, add in the classic Kanban stuff (optionally) and have a nice looking interface + mobile client, I'd be sold.
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During the financial crisis - everyone and their mom blamed the whole thing on the big bad wall street bankers.

And during this one its again being blamed on a individual company.

The real blame lies with government. why did the US govt fail to properly test a car made by a foreign company ?
I'm running NoScript, and I scrolled all the way to the bottom, read the whole article, and was not interrupted once with any popup adverts. Maybe install NoScript?
This article doesn't actually directly address the question in the title. It observes that Texas Instruments calculators are still in wide use (due to network effects and some specific advantages over competing technologies), and that the calculators are a very high profit-margin product for TI. What I find somewhat more interesting is that TI is evidently in a monopoly position and has no real incentive to seriously lower prices or to produce a new, cheaper, and improved version of their baseline model.

I also find it interesting how relatively little attention is given to the advantage of tactile buttons:

> Plus, she says, her kids love the fact that the calculators are clunky and tactile, an opinion anyone who misses the tactile, QWERTY keyboards of earlier smartphones shares.
> "The learning curve is higher, but the buttons... they love pushing 'em," Yenca said.

Frankly, I've never seen a touchscreen interface for anything that could effectively compete with a well-designed physical interface for experienced users. Touchscreens are excellent for their flexibility but have serious drawbacks when used over a long period of time, when precision is paramount, or when there is a large space of inputs.

What's really needed is more or less the same physical input layout but with a larger, high-resolution screen. I would think the market in the US is sufficiently large that even if TI doesn't see the need to produce newer, cheaper and improved models, there's space for another player, say from China, to produce a better product.
Surprises like that have become increasingly common in this "endless scrolling" era.
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:D

How about Proxima Nova? (http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/proxima-nova)
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Love how a nay-sayer (www.mondaynote.com/2014/11/02/the-new-york-times-and-springer-are-wrong-about-blendle/) got converted to a believer. Kudos to Blendle for changing the proposition and to the author for taking another look.
Unbelievable bullshit.

They are bullshitting the world.

Any politician that signs this, should be held liable for it.
http://www.mitchchn.me/2014/os-x-terminal/?x
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It's a different use case, but I love magic wormhole for directly and securely sending files to people:

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

It's file sending from 1995.