skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human made machine produces largest machine made waves ever?
Is that ok for you =)
clojurescript is starting to look like a potential successor isn't it ?
CIRSPR requires a method to deliver the nuclease complexes to cellular targets in a living organism. I believe the only methods tried so far used adenoviruses.
I noticed the same - the "explosion of tables" when I was doing the actual designing. But, almost accidentally, it also turned out that the tables were almost all either 5NF or 6NF. So I thought this is just a highly normalized setup anyway - something traditional databases are supposed to be designed for.

The list of Postgres-basd extensions mentioned in this thread turned out quite relevant actually! I'm still going through them all, seeing if I can reuse something..

Many thanks for the inputs, quite helpful.
This made my day! Thanks, I will check it!
Which browsers fail to render html if it's missing <html> and <body> tags?
Star Wars Movie – The Forces Awaken
Ask HN: Help with picking a restricted license for a project on GitHub
Hi, I'm having a hard time finding the right license for a project of mine, so I'm hoping to get some pointers from folks here.

I want to put a software project on Github. The idea is to put it on Github and have people use it as a tool in running their business. I plan to also make it available as a SaaS product, so I don't want others doing the same. The public should use it as a tool internally, not sell it as a product externally. Finally, I'm not sure what to make of redistribution rights.
I think I'm going to use this comment for friends asking if they should start programming. Especially the do it every day think is quite important I believe. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for the links. Glad to know there are more experienced people pursuing this seriously!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latanoprost eye drops can prevent/delay diabetic retinopathy
Game Maker, Security, and Freedom
Compared to USA Norway has a very high living standard and an extremely good social care system, USA is ages behind that, really very much behind. Also participation in politics and society is much better organized and more effective than what we see in the pseudo-democratic system that USA represents today.

So free eduction may play a role in producing positive results for the whole society. Also maybe the poets are more important to this than a person from a country where no free education is available can understand.

Please also read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Even more important than low-IQ jobs, I think there are many jobs where EQ is a bigger factor - and EQ can be trained, unlike IQ. Jobs that involve caring for people, old and young, jobs that involve just being there and being a loving and understanding person, jobs that involve mediating between two parties that are having a dispute - basically, jobs where your main function is to give a shit and be able to show it even under difficult, dramatic circumstances.

We could use a lot more of those people who spend the time and energy to care about each other. I'm more worried about the fact that there's zero school/educational investment in EQ, than about the rising tide of "too low IQ to be able to work"...
Awesome project.

May I suggest a complementary feature?

Turn the estimated date of death into a countdown timer of days one has to live before they kick the bucket.
So change your User Agent so the website renders the way you like. That is the entire point of HTML; the client decides how to render the page, with the HTML (and CSS) optionally providing suggestions.

In the case of this website, the author has decided to leave the question of how to render the page almost entirely to the client,

Even in the early Netscape days the Navigator browser supported setting the default font sizes and colors. These options are still available today. If you want more control over the default rendering, you may want to submit a feature request for your browser of choice, but you may be able to simply edit the default stylesheet.
Super! Thanks, I needed that!
This is a useful [white]paper in the sense that it has everything in one place, but the disgusting overuse of "software-defined" means I had to overcome a fully pegged internal B.S. meter while trying to read it.

What I mean is: surely a "software-defined" battery would be some kind of redox/flow battery where you can literally adjust the physical properties of the battery to suit the current SOC and current/anticipated system demands.

Don't get me wrong, we need more work like this, particularly if Tesla powerwall home batteries and the like are going to become a thing that we don't want filling landfills with avoidable charge/discharge cycles.

But wow, SDx. I mean, SDR is obvious; software-defined radios clearly replace fixed hardware with programmable IFs and tonnes of DSP. Similarly, networks can be software-defined if they replace discrete stand-alone equipment with fewer tiers of more capable hardware delineated more by connectivity/performance than function.

When it comes to this paper though, nothing is being replaced. And again, it's useful work, particularly in the context of consumer applications (cf. aerospace which has already had to produce systems that do funky, adaptive, predictive, cooperative load/charge management across multiple battery chemistries).

I don't know what I'm saying. It's an interesting paper, but as someone working on low-power systems and exploring different battery chemistries for different things, the whole SDx angle somehow cheapens it... but perhaps I'm just weird.
The site ist broken for me. A click on "go" doesn't do anything. Tryed with firefox, dwb and midori on Linux. Neither does it work on Android and Opera with and without turbo and not with Chrome aswell.

There are no javascript errors in the console, only some css parsing errors.
If you just want to capture your screen, you should try Open Broadcaster Software.
Indeed.

The most important realisation with Buddhism I had was the idea that you can't know the truth but you can be it. That changed everything for me.
The "books and supplies" section would be interesting to break down. How much of it is due to needlessly churning out new editions to cut off the used book market? In the age of the iPad, shouldn't someone be producing first rate, open source textbooks in core subjects?

It's a pittance of the total, but that $1,200 (x4) could still add up to a lot with interest.
Instagram: A Very Powerful Branding Digital Tool
Why don't you use Open Broadcaster Software, which is a dedicated screen and game capture software with capabilities to record to disk and stream to various streaming services.
Agreed. This story didn't provide any examples that made sense to me about why there would need to be different charging strategies in different situations. If you have your device plugged in overnight, then it will be fully charged no matter what strategy you use. If you have it plugged in for only a short time, you will have wanted it to charge as fast as possible during that time, so the battery should choose whatever charging pattern maximizes energy storage at the current charge levels.

I had expected this story to tell me that different battery chemistries react differently to different drain patterns, ie that low-drain usage might be better served by battery chemistry X and spiky high-drain usage by battery chemistry Y, and the OS could switch the power source between the batteries depending on the predicted near-future discharge pattern, based on what app was foregrounded or whatever.

But the idea that your battery would benefit by knowing your flight schedule seems to be reaching pretty far for a justification.
Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal
Remote volunteer and internship opportunities at Zidisha (YC W14)
Prosthetic Limbs, Controlled by Thought
$0.55 per watt from SolarCity’s new solar panel
Early designs of Instagram's icon
AFAIK:

A proper graph db is almost mandatory if there are complex, ad hoc queries that need to be made on real time data.

Using an RDBMS is great if the graph query types are going to be known in advance - so they can be prepared for using materialized views and indexes, and if they aren't too complex - so one doesn't descend into JOIN-hell.

But most applications aren't like that, and not all applications can be completely satisfied using only a graphdb. Hence the rise of the new multimodel databases like OrientDB and ArangoDB. So I think it is a question of what risk one is prepared to tolerate.
On first glance yes, but I would argue that living in a city in 1910 or 1920 was not that much different than living in a city today, look at photos or read newspapers from that time. I'm convinced that you can take a time traveler from the 1910's and he would get around in a modern western city within a week. All the basic things like electricity, sanitation, public transport, commerce, entertainment, fast communication via telegrams or phone already existed. One big difference to today is that poverty was reduced drastically, and access to these things is much easier and cheaper today. But there is a 'good enough' barrier beyond which things don't improve anymore, since they are good enough (see trans-sonic flight).

I think there have been much more drastic (positive) changes during the 19th century for the western world than during the 20th century.
The existence of Quirks Mode is not an excuse to write sloppy markup.
You, or anyone, don't get to tell people what concerns them. If they care about it, it's a concern.

The cause of the concern should then be addressed, not the person having the concern.
http://skepdic.com/craniosacral.html

> Craniosacral therapy (a.k.a. craniopathy and cranial osteopathy) is a holistic therapy that involves the manipulation of the skull bones (the cranium) and the sacrum to relieve pain and a variety of other ailments, including cancer.

[snip]

> Craniosacral therapists claim to be able to detect a craniosacral "rhythm" in the cranium, sacrum, cerebrospinal fluid and the membranes which envelop the craniosacral system. The balance and flow of this rhythm is considered essential to good health. The rhythm is measured by the therapist's hands. Any needed or effected changes in rhythm are also detected only by the therapist's hands. No instrument is used to measure the rhythm or its changes, hence no systematic objective measurement of healthy versus unhealthy rhythms exists.

[snip]

> Skeptics note that the skull does not consist of moveable parts (unlike the jaw) and brain cells lack actin and myosin (the things in muscle cells that make them move). The only rhythm detectable in the cranium and cerebrospinal fluid is related to the cardiovascular system, but craniosacral therapists deny craniosacral rhythms are due to blood pressure. When tested, therapists have been unable to consistently come up with the same measurements of the alleged craniosacral rhythm. (Dr. Ben Goldacre says there have been five such published studies and "in none of them did the osteopaths give similar answers.")

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/cranial.ht...

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/alas-poor-craniosacral/

In case anyone else was curious.
You are older than NaN people on the planet.
> Also I don't want tax dollars to pay for someone to study poetry for 4 years for free.

In a certain sense you already are, by indirectly bearing the costs of widespread loan defaults. At least the government is in a position to effectively address the overabundance of worthless degrees being issued.
Why are students now cheering about the massacre at Charlie Hebdo?
Typebase.css: Simplified typography for the web
Hey,
I'm having the same problems. Does anybody have a suggestion for which rights to choose for a project like this one: https://github.com/p1g30n/Podcast-Annotations ?
Thank you so much for this list. I am looking into these... Maybe there's something I can reuse, but at the very least I can get some inspiration from checking them out.
Build Your Business by Accentuating Your Positives
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Naturopath...

> Naturopathy, sometimes referred to as "natural medicine," is a largely pseudoscientific approach said to "assist nature" [1], "support the body's own innate capacity to achieve optimal health" [2], and "facilitate the body's inherent healing mechanisms." [3] Naturopaths assert that diseases are the body's effort to purify itself, and that cures result from increasing the patient's "vital force." They claim to stimulate the body's natural healing processes by ridding it of waste products and "toxins." At first glance, this approach may appear sensible. However, a close look will show that naturopathy's philosophy is simplistic and that its practices are riddled with quackery [4].

[snip]

> Most of the things naturopaths do have not been scientifically substantiated; and some—such as homeopathy—clearly are worthless. In many cases, naturopaths combine sensible dietary advice (based on medically proven strategies) with senseless recommendations for products.

Again, for the curious.

Oh, and a blog from a former naturopath: http://www.naturopathicdiaries.com/

> Naturopathic medicine is not what I was led to believe. I discovered that the profession functions as a system of indoctrination based on discredited ideas about health and medicine, full of anti-science rhetoric with many ineffective and dangerous practices.

http://www.naturopathicdiaries.com/about-me-2/
I've been a very happy user of ShareX ever since I found it.

It sickens me a bit however to see so many comments complaining about the OS support. Yes, it's Windows only, but it's a free and open-source tool. Many of us are developers and even more know what it means to create a product. Do you think it's fair to complain about OS support on free software? Do you actually do something to change it? It's open source after all!
Teaching Concurrency (2009) [pdf]
The Extensible Non-Interpreted Game Maker Augmentation
Notable quote: "Process algebra is algebra, which is certainly math. Category theory and temporal logic are also math. These esoteric forms of math have their place, but that place is not in the basic education of a computer engineer. "
15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes
Statistically though, these approaches can really reduce cycle count - even if they sometimes get it wrong.

But it's not just anticipating demands by learning past behaviour. There's also the problem in any multi-battery system (which is what they cover), let alone with multiple types, optimizing what should take charge or load at a given time. Most people don't realize that many battery chemistries actually don't have a flat efficiency rating with charge: often, the closer to 100% charged you get, the less efficient (more loss) you have compared to what you'll be able to extract later.

For example, charging from 0 to 100% might be 85% efficient for a given battery type. But charging it from 80% to 100% full might only be 40% efficient.

And this variable efficiency also applies to discharge as well. And the variables all change with what recent battery demands have been, let alone the current loads - but also cell voltages, temperature, age and cycle count.

Even planning to cope with self-discharge over days, weeks or months might benefit from smarter BMS. Some battery management systems even take into consideration thermal management (taking into account the cost of ramping up active cooling or throttling charge rates to keep batteries at a temperature efficient for taking charge).
I have to be honest, if some kind of student-loan amnesty ever goes into effect, I'll be a little pissed that I prioritized paying mine off with my earnings for the first half-dozen years out of school. Just imagine what I could have done with those tens of thousands of dollars instead...
> Use of the Cloud Shell is free through the end of 2015: you will not be charged for any resource utilization.

Would be nice if they could have stated how much it's going to cost later on. We're less than three months from 2016.
Gentle warning to people thinking of getting chiropractic on their neck: it's associated with increased risk of stroke.
Hour of Code Kicks Off in Chile with Dog Poop-Themed CS Tutorial
I did the same in FF/Win - web fonts were a huge step back in my opinion - but immediately discovered a bunch of sites (including GitHub) abusing web fonts for button images, which made them pretty much unusable. Have you found a selective workaround for this?
That's not good: We don't
want to have to use words
such as endowed and structure
that are not precisely
defined in the context and, thus,
are conceptually fuzzy.

Some intuitive overviews, clearly
labeled as such, are fine and can
be helpful, but "idiomatic language"
just is not. Won't find such in
the writings of W. Rudin, P. Halmos,
J. Neveu, or any of a long list
of authors of some of the best
math books. In a good math or
computer science
journal, a reviewer or the editor
would likely reject "idiomatic
language".

The
definitions I gave are the accepted
ones.
To me this is no different than patenting combining anything with a computer like booking hotels on a computer or reading news with a computer. I also still think that combining two things that themselves are not patentable should not be patentable. When it comes to discoveries in a university setting none of the work should ever be patentable at all.
I feel your pain.
Maybe a year from now:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=link-rel-preconnect
Neural Network Library for Node.js and the Browser
Wait, so this runs in a browser? Is the idea that you can then use a machine like a Chromebook to handle your development?
Let me answer that with a statement and an anecdote.

The statement: The proportion of costs I outlined, from my point of view, have always been true. I finished my first degree in 1997.

The anecdote: All the professors in my computer science program (I'm not going to name-drop, but I had some great teachers that insisted that I learn scheme, then Java, then C, then assembly) either had no required text or gave syllabi that referenced several versions of their listed texts. The context was that we were free to get the best deal possible on the texts.
At first I thought it was a crack about spelling or something. I like this better.
Some Details on Indian Mars Mission
I wonder why the Makefile builds everything with -O0
Well, it's a micro instance. At most it'll cost what a micro instance costs.
The animation at the top seems like it just randomly names countries, there's no way that Kiribati or Kyrgyzstan is having a new baby more often than India or China.
Been watching it for 2 minutes now, and still no birth out of China or India, the two most populated nations in this world.
I also have the same feeling that thin fonts look ugly on my humble LCD screen with dismal resolution and low ppi.

I was once complaining to a friend how ugly site X is and he said it looked right to him; later when I saw his machine it has a nice display that made site X look twice as better on my shitty display.

Lots of sites are designed on (and for?) high density displays and it ends up looking awful on low resolution screens like mine.
10 years ago there were no smartphones. 30 years ago nearly nobody had a computer.
Ribosome – Generic Code Generation
You get slightly more power in that you can post malformed multipart stuff.
People often take ego as an indicator for status or intelligence. If you're not asserting yourself, you don't know as well, or you're not as smart as others.

Once me and colleagues were discussing some technical issue with our customer. At one point I suggested a solution which I wasn't really confident in, but I liked to hear his opinion anyway. The guy listened to me and then, in split second, resumed the previous thread of conversation as if exactly nothing had happened.

I didn't even feel offended, just spent the next minute silently amazed by this weird glitch in human psychology. His reaction looked so automatic that I felt he wouldn't even be able to consciously recall this event afterwards.
Crypton – A framework for creating zero-knowledge mobile and desktop applications
Almost. I believe that half of the people that approach Phoenix coming from Rails stop when they realize there isn't any registration and authentication framework as good as Devise. The closest match is Addict but it covers only the basics and requires too much work. If one has to write his own product that could be OK. If one has to code for a customer it erodes the profit.
A basic RESTful JavaScript/MongoDB web application to learn an tinker
I like this, and it feels "Google-y". Worried that a handful of us will use it, lean on it heavily, and then Google will do what Google does and pull the plug on it.
If you can bring yourself to get past the SDx marketing bandwagon, the paper covers multi-battery and multi-chemistry systems. Laptops aren't the obvious use-case for this. Given that Tesla is involved, they're thinking more along the lines of cars and home/office energy storage, where you have a large and diverse set of batteries to manage, and interesting real-time pressures you just don't see in a laptop.

BMS in a laptop mostly just has to keep the battery safe and avoid unnecessary charge/discharge cycles. In a more complex system trying to salvage every joule of energy and maximize lifespan of each cell, the fact that batteries are less efficient to charge (or discharge) the closer they are to full (or empty) might be taken into account when deciding which to charge/discharge (for example).

A car might dump sudden regenerative braking power into high-C batteries if the main batteries can't take that charge at a given instant.

Satellites often use exotic batteries able to fully charge and discharge 10 times a day for decades at a time, but these have enormous self-discharge rates measured in days. Every chemistry has a unique set of compromises. There is plenty of room for smarter BMS in consumer systems that manage complex battery storage arrays responding to thermal, aging, cycle count, charge and load pressures more intelligently.
0.005 p/h ~ $3.60 per month for those who were wondering.
Well, you can learn something if you read the code at least.
Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
I know right! Someone else would be better off without making you worse off... The horror! If I can't have it, they can't!
Mission Playground Is Not for Sale
The way I read the article (have t read the paper) the methods are very similar in concept, in that they are using word embeddings.

Basically instead of training on Wikipedia, they train on the categories assigned by Flickr users. And using a different word embedding algorithm than word2vec does, but the principal is similar imho
Hey @jenandre, I'm one of the founders of CodePicnic.

This is pretty awesome! Would love to chat some time. We're thinking about open sourcing some extra stuff (since we've built our own in OSS as well) and would be greatly interested in your take on that.

Let me know if I can reach you or ping me (alvaro AT codepicnic DOT com).

Awesome work!