skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We (I include myself here) can learn so much from this post.

First, let my convey my deep sympathy to Jeffrey for going through this now - a roller coaster of hope and fear as death approaches. I have some experience of it myself.

The first thing that strikes me, is why do we (I guess I really mean here, I) undertake these huge projects? What are our underlying motivations, and do they make sense? When death overtakes us, will they still have value to us? Will we look back on them as time well spent? I know I like to dream that my projects will be a success, that they will be recognised - that one day perhaps _I_ will be recognised? But recognised for what, and to what end? As a long time python programmer I used to use some of PJ Eby's work such as python eggs, now he is a kind of 'thinking' consultant. Reading his early blog posts on how to think he is constantly questioning his motivations. I sense in them the snake eating its own tail, because in the absence of a fundamentally recognised base motivation for all that we do, his quest is doomed. Myself as a thoughtful muslim, I consciously strive to overcome my inbuilt motivations and instead focus on 'the good' - I recognise the problem of knowing where the desire to do good comes from, but at least I feel I have a general intellectual framework to build on without disappearing down my own navel. I value the background force in my life that pushes me to do good (sure, even though I ignore it far too often), before that last day arrives and it's too late.

Secondly, whatever grand scheme we work on for our own edification, and for whatever reasons, the recognition it will receive is only partly dependent on the quality and utility of the work in question. Other factors such as marketing and simply being in the right place at the right time come into play, probably with much greater effect. As an experienced developer that knowledge, perhaps regretfully, functions as a huge source of 'stop' energy - I don't have the naivety any more to think that I can easily complete the very difficult.

Thirdly, reading more of the detail of the work he has done on Mythryl and his future plans for it, the project seems to be one of fighting the good fight of what he believes is the right way to code applications. However, the flavour that is presented to me smacks of a previous generation (my generation) and doesn't feel as if it is paying attention to the current tide - to mobile apps for instance. As someone who loves to do it the right way himself and ignore the naysayers I see the temptation - but I ask myself, if it ends up unused as a consequence, what is the point?

As for Jeffrey himself, I sense disappointment - of course, it's right and natural. I'm at a crossroads myself in life, I hope to learn a lesson from what Jeffrey is telling us.
You care about a given piece of hardware's status on backdoors, so that you can run Android and use Google services?

ayy
The reason for mobile banking being explosive in growth is linked to network speed and availability. Mobile banking in countries I've visited are operated by the mobile networks. Therefore, they don't suffer from round-trip issues as bank apps. Plus ease of use. They have more in common with PayPal than normal banking services.
i first thought it is by birth/or death date. some relation to "now" might make this more interesting, like the astronomy picture of the day. if there are two on the same day they could simply be shifted.
Are there good self-publishing platforms, where the scientists can go, though? If there are, then yeah, they have no excuse.
Maybe ResearchGate is a way to change that?

(Not affiliated with. Just discovered it recently and found out, that 2 of my papers very cited without my knowledge.)
I like the fact that WhatsApp's lawyers required the guy to preserve any digital evidence so they can use it to screw the guy later .. Yeah, let me help you screw me
It makes me feel so sad that the "state of the art" in front-end development is apparently rerunning your render code on every little update. Yes, I know there are shortcuts to making this more efficient, but in essence the technique remains inelegant in the sense that it does not extend well to other parts of the code (that runs computations that might also partially, and not fully, change on an update).
John Resig (jQuery creator) is one of the chief architects at there, and yet you see, this line:

Never use jQuery for DOM manipulation

Nice.
Will that be on 2.1 or the upcoming 2.2?
Im kind of unsure as to how to interpret this, but there appears to be no particular ordering just an influential cs person posted for each day of the month.

Theres definitely pleanty of influencers missing from the current set, McCarthy, Hoare, Dijkstra, to name few. If this were my list, I wouldnt have Lovelace or Gates on it, but most of the others seem warrented enough (in my opinion of course) :)
They should try 'Prompt' for iOS, it's really very good. https://panic.com/prompt/
Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler tax deals 'illegal' in Europe
Many illegal drugs are actually dangerous, so you need legalization and some mechanism to shield them from liability.

They also already sell many analogues to illegal drugs under prescription, so you have to look at whether a legalized market would be a better business than the one they currently have.
Thankfully there has been a movement to reduce the number of road signs in general - see the 'Reducing Sign Clutter' [1] advice released the the DfT in 2013.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
on the start page (http://www.giantsofit.org/) you will be redirected to the person of today. i just posted here the first person because the person of today (jack kilby) has no image.

or do you mean more something like to have the person show on on her/his birthday or day of death?
Lost me at "Sign in with Facebook".

You can't do a demo without trying to slurp up my social network?
This is great. I'm using Pi's for a similar purpose, a bunch of monitoring dashboards all over our office that pull from webpages. I'm using a combination of a central server to configure which web pages are shown, and a chrome extension on each Pi to periodically ping the server.

It's really hard to find a decently new version of chrome for Arm. Raspbian stable is on an ancient Chrome 22.0 and even testing is only up to 38.0. So I'm excited to try out this method with Qt.
it was the same with typewriters; one could track the exact typewriter model by patterns on the printed text.

In the Soviet Union and other communist countries the state security service would have samples of the print on all typewriters in the country. So they had the ability to track the typewriter if you would get an idea to write a flier or manuscript against the government. (In the movie 'The lives of others' they had a Stasi man who could identify all typewriters in east germany)

Now i thought that that was all due to the paranoid nature of Stalinism; it never appeared to me that western typewriters could also be identified by their type and that this was probably an intended feature, not just a bug. Now the same principle was later applied to laser printers ...
Not the way it should be
> but the paper needs be printed and reviewed. This is not free

The reviewers work for free. Printing is almost free, and dispensable - nobody actually uses the printed journals and everyone prefers to print out PDFs themselves.
That's a shame :( It'll be interesting to see if Marshmallow with its official fingerprint API changes the behaviour as handset manufacturers are implementing fingerprint support themselves in Lollipop (and so its going to be a bit all over the place).
"Nobody is denying cannabis is not addictive, it is, very"

Can I get a source on that? It flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
It's common, and I like them a lot.
You're right. As long as there are limits to access to drugs, there will be some market for getting them illicitly - even if for convenience reasons (say, getting prescription drugs without a prescription). The question is, whether that market will be big enough to support organized crime the way the war on drugs does.
hi. indeed it is just a list of persons in no particular ordering.

The persons you name are of course on the list. Lovelace already visible the others will appear in the future. So every day one person is added.

If you have other persons you want to see on the list you can submit person with a link in the footer of the page.
For the display they use a vibrating optic fibre. At least according to their patents. The fibre spins vibrates in a spiral pattern and uses a modulated RGB light to build up an image (like a CRT).

The latency on this demo looks pretty bad though.
6 Ways Panasonic Tried to Make Back to the Future II a Reality
The Dolorean used to shoot the movie is in the Miami Auto Museum.

They've put it on a the Boxes website here:
https://box.es/item/original-back-to-the-future-delorean/sD5...
Why the Drone Ban in Kenya Hampers Social Good
Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
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> What is the difference?

Both [legalisation/treatment-based approach to drug addition and fining drivers parking in the wrong place] are about reduction of harm on society and the individual, and effectiveness of that treatment.

The driver addicted to "parking my car in the wrong place", is not potentially going to die if he suddenly can't park inconsiderately, so a gradual reduction strategy of "parking with just one wheel across the pavement", then progressing to "staying just a few minutes over the allotted parking time" is not required.

The rehab program is the fine.
Why Does User Experience Matter?
Why is it considered inelegant? If you make your 'render code' stateless, then your issues lie elsewhere other than your render code.
Getting a full PDF from a DRM-encumbered online textbook
Personally I'm very happy with ConnectBot for Android. I'd like to know why he considers this a better option.
To quote @GSElevator:

"Wearing a Rolex is like driving an Audi. It says you've got money, but nothing to say."
You'd have to fuck up pretty hard on your taxes to ruin your life the way being caught with certain drugs can do. I'm not sure any drug offense can compare to a parking ticket.

Legalization itself is partly a moral issue, as the state doesn't really have any business telling me what to eat or smoke or inject, or for that matter what plants I grow on my property for personal use. Coupled with drug treatment programs it is also a practical issue: the cost of treating an addict is lower than the cost to the government of keeping him in the justice system for most of his life, lower than the cost to society of keeping him on the margins for most of his life. It's also cheaper solely from a health perspective. It's good policy because it saves money so you don't have to pay so much in taxes and parking tickets in the first place.

So there's your answer: we don't have treatment programs for people who can't figure out where to park, or how to pay their taxes, because those are dumb ideas with low ROI.
I'm starting to think that the principle that "ignorance is no excuse" may be wrong.
I've had over 100% luck emailing papers' authors directly asking for a copy of a particular paper I've been interested in reading. I typically get a PDF emailed back to me.

I say "over 100%" because several times I've had hard copies sent for whatever reason with hand-written letters thanking me for expressing interest in their research and letting me know they'd be happy to answer any questions, etc.

I've generally found that some researchers, especially in relatively arcane areas are very pleased to find people who are genuinely interested in their work.

I only appeal to authors directly if I'm unable to access a paper online through my library's JSTOR access which is fairly extensive.
Many holes were discovered in Native Client. Difference is that Google was willing to fix them as they were discovered.

For example, https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/community/securit... lists 20 holes. I think the actual number of explicitly discovered holes in CPython and Lua bytecodes are each less than 20, and that was enough for them to give up.
It doesn't have to be a new one, nor does it have to be a 40 foot luxury model. His truck is nearly 10 years old and he certainly overpaid for it. I've window-shopped for good used RVs and a small model in decent shape can be had for under $10k. Even with improvements like solar panels and new upholstery, he would have come out spending the same amount and been more comfortable for it.
I feel like the point on "Set a Conversational Tone & Sign from Real People" is reaching a bit of over-saturation currently. As soon as I get such an email from a company, it leads to my thinking that "they're trying to deceive me into thinking someone is actually sending out these automated messages. Do they think I'm an idiot?" It feels very disingenuous.
This is a React style guide; which implies that React does all (if not, most) of the DOM manipulations for you. jQuery, as a library, have useful utilities that that do not do DOM manipulations.
I support this change - and am glad it became legal here in Paris a few months ago, since most people here already went through red lights - but it clearly is more subject to interpretation.

If a vehicle is already in the junction as you speed through at 30mph on your bike and swerve to avoid the vehicle, you could argue "I got through so clearly there wasn't anything in my way so I didn't need to yield". In this example sure we can all agree the cyclist is in the wrong, but for every metre further away the car is, and the slower the bike is moving, the more reasonable the cyclist's argument to continue becomes.

<Comment transitions here to personal anecdotal experience>

Personally I'm pretty good at keeping an eye out for pedestrians, I always slow down for stop signs unless I have a literally unblocked view of everywhere somebody could step/drive out from (in 6 months living here and cycling at least once most days I've only fucked up once, and even then I was perfectly safe avoiding people, just possibly gave them a slight surprise to see me curving around them as they crossed - and that was completely a case of mea culpa, I fucked up). But many cyclists here are pretty terrible road users, even when not going through red lights.

Then again, pedestrians here are just as bad - if I'm cycling near them I am constantly paying attention to where they are and whether they might step out in front of me, I've never known a city so full of people willing to walk backwards into a road without looking around first, it's astonishing. And drivers are even worse... and motorbikes are the worst yet. Seriously, it doesn't matter what vehicle / lack of vehicle you use in Paris, the majority of people seem to follow a "fuck everyone else, I'm the priority" mindset when it comes to getting around.
Your question actually contains a bug portion of the answer :) User experience is not limited to the the graphical user interface, it involves all the aspects of a person interacting with computer and its infrastructure. This involves hardware and software. We could've done it with just software (although it's not just UI, we had to significantly change OS internals too) but that wouldn't allow us to achieve our vision of human-computer interaction.
Disclaimer: I work for Solu.
> [Y]ou could be Jack Ryan, Jack Sparrow, or Jack the Ripper. Any one of those is equally likely.

What kind of paranoid or hell world is this supposed woman living in where 1 in 3 men is a violent slasher?
gotcha. nice job btw :)
Because they more than doubled the value they can now deliver?
> Some close to Mission Motors said it had reached a point of no return by last fall, when departures to Apple, and other companies, accelerated after a long struggle to find funding and a sound business model.

So is Apple really to blame here, or is this yet another case of 'who needs revenue strategy anyway?' On the part of Mission? You can't blame the engineers moving to a much higher paying - and likely just as exciting - job at a large company which has less risk.
Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.
We put the login with Facebook as the only option because we use the information about movies the user liked to provide better customized results. We realized that this was potentially going to lose us some users, and we kind of put it here on HN as a test, to see if somebody was going to complain.

Anyway, we are going to have a "normal" registration/login feature very soon and both options are going to be available.

Thanks for taking the time to comment!
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I know :) It's a trap! (And the real authors are in the list too, but will show up later this year)
Visual Studio 2015 Professional is available in the meantime for free (as beer) under the name "Visual Studio Community 2015" for private developers and small companies:

> https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-communit...
Who wants to learn mailChimp fast
That's great, but it is not the universal experience (at a minimum, many past authors are now dead). And of course many scientists need to read a lot of papers. Having to go through the rigmarole of emailing authors, waiting for a response, is a pointless waste of everybody's time. #icanhazpdf is valuable because it's usually very fast. Sci-Hub and libgen are even more valuable because they are even faster and allow search+discovery without waiting for a third person to act.
I think he meant kinetic energy, not mass. (E=mc^2 of course but probably not what he means here.)

A 180lb cyclist going at 20mph has the same kinetic energy as an 8000lb person walking 3mph.
You can replace colordiff with vim's less tool (/usr/share/vim/vim74/macros/less.sh ) or vimpager (https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager).

icdiff is also nice to have a side-by-side colored diff (https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff). And of course, you could use meld, vimdiff, kompare etc. with the same bash anonymous pipes indirection.
Static typing doesn't have to require typing substantially more characters though (ML-family languages are good example, other examples I can think of is Nim), the syntax choice is quite orthogonal to this but it seems like C-syntax appears in new languages mostly due to its familiarity.
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Starbucks' new 'coffee theatre' makes play for London market
I would love to buy an electric car for my next vehicle. But if the operating cost, including repairs, is higher than a conventional car, then that's not a good deal for me. I'm certainly not going to pay a premium just for that.

I also don't like being stuck on the side of the road. Frequent powertrain repairs like I hear being reported on this page greatly concern me.
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I also like it and it is sufficient for me, I use it to make tunnels for VNC to get to a GUI on the server to get status updates (I have RAM to spare). Tasker[0] is also a nice option for doing things via SSH.

[0]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....
If I understand it correctly a polynomial time algorithm for coloring perfect graphs has been found in 1984 [1] but the algorithm is no good in practice, i.e. it suffers from numerical instability. So this is probably about the search for a practical algorithm.

[1] http://www.zib.eu/groetschel/pubnew/paper/groetschellovaszsc...
The fine isn't to punish you so much as to dissuade you from parking illegally. It's to steer you in the right direction. You won't lose your job, you won't lose your self esteem or right to travel, you'll just look for the sign next time.

Giving an addict a criminal record and stuffing him in jail with violent criminals isn't going to steer him in the right direction at all. Rehab might. Plus, it's cheaper than jail anyways!
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True, DOS was purchased as Q-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, and was adapted to become MS-DOS which was also a copy of CP/M, (http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/qdos.shtml).

As far as BASIC goes it was designed in 64 at Dartmought College (http://www.jake.dk/programmering/qbasic/dk/historien.html). I think Gates did develop a dialect of it though...
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This patent? https://www.google.com/patents/US8950867
I think the implication is not that jQuery is bad for DOM manipulation, but that you should leave DOM manipulation to React to have a 1:1 relation between the held state in React and the actual DOM. In other words: Do not manipulate the DOM outside of React.
strathmeyer, that's a good question. I've never heard of that practice...
Probably on the 2.1 branch, but it shouldn't matter too much -- the clustering codebase is very stable and there aren't any major changes to it between releases.
It would be interesting if degrees of separation could be shown between all of these giants.
That sounds a bit different, since this case is talking about printers that are specifically enabled in order to provide tracking capability, rather than tracking capability being developed independently. More sinister, less clever.
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The Argument for Public vs. Private Cloud
I can't claim to know across the world, but in much of Europe you can get a 'visitor' subscription to university libraries for some nominal fee (50 euros or so in my nearest library; hell, enrolling in a Belgian university as a student costs 70 euros per year, which gives you access to the library, e-journals, email, Eduroam, the whole shebang).

I get a little irked every time this topic comes up, and people go on and on about the $30 for every paper. Nobody pays that. Who pays sticker for a car? Yes yes publishers are evil, down with the system, bring out the pitchforks - in the mean time, nobody except a very tiny but very vocal minority in the research community gives a shit. If you'd ask 100 people in the offices around me which one they'd prefer: all journals in the world 'open access' and no more big publishers, or a less crap coffee machine in the staff room, 95 of them would go for the coffee machine.
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