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"took so many years and thousands of papers... due to the sheer volume of information. That time wasn't wasted sifting through irrelevant stuff - you're now an expert. On the contrary, I think the writers and organizers of all that material did a great job; both of us owe nearly everything we know to them."

I agree there's a lot of material, the learning process was worth it, and there's even more to gain. That said, the learning process taught me that a tiny, tiny fraction of those papers taught people 95+% of what they need to know for their sub-field. We need that information packaged, well-presented, and widely distributed for each sub-field. People wanting to learn more can volunteer time to do so. All I'm pushing for is that baseline packaged and ready for newcomers with few to no obstacles. Right now, it's hard enough to find that most don't. Gotta change that.
Agreed. My first thought when I saw the article was: "Yay, scientists are finally able to do some legitimate research on marijuana"
Have you had success at Web Summit or similar events? What did you do?
Show HN: The best of your search results in one post
A Very Short Wrap-Up of Getting Things Done by David Allen
Hi this is Matt, cofounder of popsnip, we have made popsnip so that you can put the best of your search results in one place for creating highly informative articles. Popsnip allows you to collect the best content you find in the form of text snippets and images and organize them into a wiki like UI.

Here is a quick intro on how to use it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YhHWVMLpGU
If you want to start using it, you will need to use the chrome, because it requires an extension.

Please let me know what you think. Any feedback is welcome.
It's slightly more complicated, seeing as how shooting them down with nets is a bit difficult (although we may see widespread application of serious DEATH RAYS, excuse me, lasers for that (hey, I want the future that was promised to me in the '60s to come to pass)). There's also the ECM approach, or maybe even EMP.

Rather, follow the drone until it lands. If the owner is stupid enough to bring it back to him, you can go quite a bit further.
If you target the intersection, leaving out features in the difference, your code will work fine.
I think he meant intersection as in using only features supported by both of them.
That's exactly the way the PR engines work these days, though.

You pay for a column to advertise for your company, you get your column. You pay for a column to criticize your competitor, you get your column. You pay for columns to introduce new concepts that your company will use in the future so that the public has been primed for what you're going to put out there. All of the major companies do these things in order to stay in the public consciousness, and stay favorable.

Sure, these columns will admit "alternative viewpoints" in passing to maintain their veneer of credibility, but that's no threat to their actual purpose. The editor is going to defend their process and integrity until he is fired-- and firing him would represent a concession that mistakes were made. This spat with Amazon is good for the NYT, as it proves that they're willing to "stand up for themselves", which is the perfect trait for a proxy to have when you're paying them to go after the other guy.
Is it? When I was a kid second hand cigarette smoke was considered harmless. It certainly isn't today. We just don't the research because of restrictive laws banning it for the most part and the pro-pot acitvists disingenuous commentary about how "safe" it is.

I feel like any politicized recreation substance will go down the path of cigarettes. Fanboys will claim its neutral, if not good for you, and then eventually the science and bias will shake out about its dangers. For example, we do know there's an increase for mental illness an decrease in IQ in kids who habitually smoke pot:

https://today.duke.edu/2012/08/potiq

Among a long-range study cohort of more than 1,000 New Zealanders, individuals who started using cannabis in adolescence and used it for years afterward showed an average decline in IQ of 8 points when their age 13 and age 38 IQ tests were compared. Quitting pot did not appear to reverse the loss either, said lead researcher Madeline Meier, a post-doctoral researcher at Duke University. The results appear online Aug. 27 in PNAS.

The key variable in this is the age of onset for marijuana use and the brain's development, Meier said. Study subjects who didn't take up pot until they were adults with fully-formed brains did not show similar mental declines.

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So yes, pot can be harmless for a 21 year old, but not for a 15 year old. I'm all for legal pot, but only at age 21 or higher. I don't think the especially libertine attitudes we're seeing via web culture are helping. Its not harmless for certain age groups. We don't know enough about the brain and pot to make these types of assessments. Erring on the side of caution is the only rational path here and that includes making sure pregnant women aren't exposed to pot smoke.
Can you tell me what MCN stands for?
Replied here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10420017
I find Spark almost as easy to use on S3 as it is on HDFS. I mean you add your keys to the config (or use an instance that already has an IAM profile), and instead of typing hdfs://namenode:8020/ you type s3a://bucket/. Done. I haven't tried running Spark entirely without HDFS, so I don't know how well it works to have application log history, etc. go to S3. But certainly for some use cases HDFS doesn't bring anything to the table. If you need stronger consistency guarantees or the higher throughput is a big deal (e.g. very large MapReduce jobs or sequences of them), then there are still teams for which heavier use of HDFS makes total sense.
I don't see why they didn't just have them consume food with oil in it, this seems like a highly unnatural delivery mechanism.

Relevant comment from Ars:

> Interesting to note... If you look at the study

> "THC (THC Pharm) was diluted in 0.9% NaCl
(saline) solution containing 3% (vol/vol) DMSO and 2% (vol/vol)
Tween-80 and administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) at a final dose of 3 mg/kg to pregnant females for 5 consecutive days, from E12.5 to E16.5. Control mice were injected with vehicle solution."

> DMSO is TOXIC to developing brains. Its actually recommended not to use it in studies because it causes too much damage.

> "The in vitro results suggest avoiding the use of BeOH (which also is more toxic than the other solvents in the in vivo test) and DMSO and using PEG400, EtOH and DMF even though the latter induced a body weight decrease in the B6D2F1 mouse strain. "

> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8011014

> It would seem as though they purposefully paired the THC with a solvent that would cause the relevant brain abnormalities.
It's not because he got in early and worked for a year, but because he got in early, worked for less (or no) pay than he would have gotten at a more established company. I.e. that developer took on risk, and with risk comes (sometimes) reward. And, his investment may never pay off, the company may never be successful so all of that time and effort spent at low pay may have been for naught.

Not all developers can work for companies poised to take over an $800B industry. For every developer in a disruptive company that's going to earn huge rewards, there's 100 developers writing a web backend for a struggling publishing company, or writing integrations for an ERP implementation. (and though that ERP can save the company millions of dollars, that savings is only due in a small part to that single developer's efforts)
Hi jerf, Rachel from Medium here. That's an interesting insight (I am actually in grad school for this very reason). Feel free to repost this as a response in the original Medium post - we'd love to get more perspectives from the HR side.
NetSurf seems to support SSL to the extent that it connected to my site, which scores an A+ on the Qualsys SSL Labs test, without any issues.

On the other hand, I agree that not being able to hit Command-L to jump to the address bar as with every other graphical browser (as well as many other browser-like applications) just… doesn't feel right.
OK so then why isn't the Constitution copyrighted? I mean, surely the government could charge plenty of money to access the text of it to all kinds of different parties. If you wanted to sue someone for breaching your rights, you'd have to pay! We could cut down on all these spurious "you violated my rights" lawsuits that tie up the Supreme Court every year by just charging $1mm and then only the most egregious violations would make it there and everything would run much more smoothly, right?

What is the tragedy of the commons whereby everyone uses the information contained in a map? There is no "commons" in ideas because a "commons" is absolutely a real tangible thing whereby when one person uses it, another cannot. The "commons" is originally a piece of land that is overgrazed because nobody has any incentive not to use it and every incentive to overuse it.

If you and I both have digital copies of a map does that somehow preclude another person? No, it does not. Since it does not, how is it in any way a tragedy of the commons? How is it possible for information to be over-used?

Using analogies to physical situations totally falls flat because in this case the thing is non-physical. It's the same "you wouldn't steal a movie" argument because copying a movie is not the same as stealing one!
Wait, so you're making only ~5% more than the threshold you don't believe exists?

You don't think that among the many thousands of people working at Google, perhaps someone has 10% worse negotiating ability than you, or someone's background and experience impressed their interviewers 10% less? Or work in an area of the country with 10% less cost of living?
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I think a lot of HN commenters are being too quick to dismiss Amazon's objections - either because they have heard similar anecdotes from friends or because they distrust Mr. Carney.

Amazon's core objections are that A) the NYT flat-out lied to them about the nature of the article they were producing, and B) the NYT failed to subject their sources to the usual standard of scrutiny.

Reading between the lines, it appears to me that Amazon is accusing NYT of deliberately producing a hit piece on them in response to Jeff Bezos's purchase of the Washington Post.

Does Amazon have serious cultural problems? I'm inclined to say yes, and Amazon's reluctance to admit as much is troubling. But I'm also inclined to suspect that the NYT article was indeed a hit piece that greatly exaggerated the issues at Amazon and that this came from a place of business strategy and not genuine journalistic investigation.
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> if Apple found a way to produce the iPhone for cents on the dollar wouldn't it make more sense for them to just give it away

I'm reminding of TNG every time I walk past the electronics section at Costco.

On the show people just give each other their tablets, like it's not even worth bothering to send the file or explain where to open it. They treat their computers like we treat paper. Here's my report sir, right here on this worthless piece of computer.
This is a highly repeated post on HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=httpie&sort=byPopularity&prefi...

That said, I use curl and httpie. I am a casual user of both and love them both. I first heard about httpie on HN.
Auntie Player: An Apple TV app to access on demand programmes from the BBC
Not so much sparring as debunking.
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Hi Leroy, Rachel from Medium here. That's a really interesting point - I've definitely experienced this kind of tension before. Feel free to repost this comment as a response on the original Medium post.
I think a lot of developers wanted mobile web performance to catch up with desktop and mobile native that we believed it would happen, and much faster than was ever really likely. We're used to things getting better quickly when it comes to technology.

Flagship phones improve things a little each year, but to quote William Gibson, the future is here, but unevenly distributed.
That's a sketch, but this is real (a funny classic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWRhhvf60Y
Fortunately a lot of what these libraries do is spin bloated wheels so there is a lot of opportunity to do less without losing features. This is why I write mobile web apps with vanilla JS only. It takes a little more time up front, but the result is vastly superior to what any library can offer.
Oh, well, it was worth a try!

What was the porting experience like? I have a non-ARM low-end microprocessor it might be interesting to port MicroPython to.
A similar study was done on chimps in the late 50's. Chimps were setup with a "oxygen mask" where, instead of oxygen, marijuana smoke was present. Ultimately they reported that the marijuana smoke killed the chimps rather than asphyxiation.
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How would you find the drone owner and/or operator, exactly? I can see this being used to further erode the right to not be stopped and frisked without probable cause. Now, a drone flying overhead in a public place is probable cause to stop and search everybody in sight.
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The revival of sensory deprivation tanks (2014)
Ah, I'm sorry about that.

Product of sadly declining ambitions: first for SVG toys, which I'm incompetent at; then yesterday I was looking into converting the text into an iPython notebook to provide an easier way to interact with the code, and that turned out to be too hard under the deadline. I ended up pushing the article's code into this repo shortly after the article went live.
I know _ad hominem_ is generally uncalled for, but he's not known for doing anything else. As the Guardian tech editor he had a reputation for showcasing (i.e. Boot Up, which got pretty toxic) and writing articles attacking Android. Most of it based on tedious market analysis.
An interesting comparison, I think, can be made with the Microsoft bad culture article published by Vanity Fair in 2012:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lo...

This article received a lot of exposure at the time, yet I don't remember MS hiring political hacks or trying to (at least overtly) discredit sources.
Yeah, that trick doesn't work for going concerns. It wasn't threatened before the 13 senior people at a startup I worked at faxed in a group resignation to the devil investors that had taken over the company, but they sure did fight trying to not give us our back pay, or all of it.

But the state, Virginia in this case, takes a very dim view of such stunts (hey, on top of everything else they lose tax money), has an office staffed with no-humor people who've seen it all, and all we had to do was to wait and accept only the full amount.
Hi Ed, Rachel from Medium here. You have a good point - getting the job done is ultimately what interviewers are looking for. Feel free to repost this as a response on the original Medium post!
It's a matter of personal opinion, but I don't think anyone has the right to give out a death sentence. Yes, even to a child rapist. As a society we are so rich we can easily keep those people in prison for life, and spare ourselves the moral implications of actually killing people.
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> it took over 13 years for it to open.

Construction began on One world trade Center in 2006 add 13 years and that's 2019.

Construction of below-ground utility relocations, footings, and foundations for the new building began on April 27, 2006 On May 10, 2013, the final component of the skyscraper's spire was installed, making the building, including its spire, reach a total height of 1,776 feet (541 m). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center#Plannin...

PS: Now, if you want to start the clock from the first idea we might want a new building (Sept 11, 2001) then the Empire State Building also took a lot longer than 1.5 years.
Very cool. I always find myself wishing for something like this when I'm researching new startup ideas
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And, hey, Ballmer is gone, and stack ranking has officially been stopped.
Adding a late comment to appreciate the MVVM synopsis in your blog post. The pain of tracking lots of callbacks and cascading updates is a lot of what Pete Hunt was talking about in Be Predictable, Not Correct [0], but there's not a lot of discussion applying that analysis to MVVM as for other forms of MV*. I find it's a real concern in WPF apps with much of any complexity.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3KksH8gfcQ
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This was a terrific history; I learned a lot. Thanks for writing it.

Consider turning into a small blog post?
This is good. Many frameworks are just too freaking huge for mobile but even when you use tiny frameworks and you dump a bunch of images into them you're going to have similar issues (at least on load).

Honestly using the DOM API isn't all that hard. Yes it awkward, verbose and sometimes cumbersome but it's still pretty straight forward. I'm actually really liking react lately but if I want something done well for a mobile I almost never use a framework.

Another thing this article didn't touch on was latency. When I was doing work for vehicles that had poor internet access via satellite every single http call just killed the load (this included fetching css, javascript, etc). I can't stress enough how much better your page can load if you combine as much stuff as possible, even images if you can display them as backgrounds.
Most of the performance issues people see on mobile (and desktop!) with javascript isn't with javascript performance itself anymore (unless you're doing some crazy stuff), but with the relatively expensive repaint/reflow browser operations.
Why shouldn't women have some alcohol when pregnant? Where's the evidence that small amounts of alcohol are harmful?

The total ban on alcohol during pregnancy is based on the precautionary principle - we know alcohol is harmful, but we don't know what a safe limit is, so we set a limit of zero.

This causes guilt and stress in mothers, and that is probably more harmful than letting pregnant women have a small glass of wine every so often.
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It is probably worth noting that Google still owns a huge chunk of the advertising ecosystem on mobile, so if people are living inside of apps, they still make good money as people discover information and use computers.

I think it's a different model and user behavior.
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I'd use the word "induced" rather than "made" in that context.

Maybe offered to forgive relocation expenses he'd otherwise be on the hook for?
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Hi there, Rachel from Medium. This is a useful insight, especially about how potential hires treat others. Feel free to repost this as a response on the original Medium post.
Welcome to basically every "do x in y lines of code" post.
Why is it a problem for Google if people aren't searching on phones? I'm not searching from my smart tv either. Smart tvs are in millions of homes and nobody is searching from them. Is that a problem?
> If you lack the judgment ability to decide when you want that, fine, never do it.

The choice in question is whether I want code that breaks silently when I add a field to a struct (named fields in initializers), or code that breaks silently when I swap fields of the same type in a struct (positional fields in initializers). Please tell me more about how "judgment ability" makes this anything other than a choice between brittle code and brittle code.

> And the noob that is so noobish that they change code and don't even compile it to check to see whether it works is a menace well beyond this issue. That's an overpowerful argument; the real problem is the noob that isn't even running the compiler. The noob doesn't "break struct initializations" specially, they break everything.

Compilation will not catch all situations where struct fields are reordered. Consider the rather common case where two fields on a struct are of the same type. If a noob swaps the order of these fields, it will compile just fine using your method of struct initialization. It's even quite possible that if unit tests initialize the structs in the same way, this could get past unit tests as well.

This is a pretty obvious case, and the fact that I have to explain it to you is yet another example of having to dumb things down for Go users who don't know the first thing about programming language design.
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I know GWT isn't the most popular framework (it isn't really a framework, is it?), but I've been a fan of it for a while. It solves three critical problems that have plagued web development:

1. Cross-browser compatibility.

2. Code performance.

3. Code organization (there are many JavaScript frameworks whose selling point have been making JavaScript more organized).

But in regards to this article, one often overlooked feature of GWT is that dead-code is automatically removed from the compiled JavaScript:

https://www.quora.com/How-fast-is-GWT-compared-to-JavaScript...

Thus you don't have to include the entire Angular/React/Ember/JQuery whatever library just to get a few features for your site.
I'm developing a transit mapping application for Android. OpenStreetMap in place of the standard Google Maps components has been far easier, much more hackable, more flexible, and overall much more fun to work with than Google's MapView. As an added bonus the libraries for Android (OSMDroid in particular) have total interop with the Google Maps API. It really has been a pleasure to dev against.

I think OSM is an accomplishment on the significance level of Wikipedia and I'm glad it exists.
Not all developers can work for companies poised to take over an $800B industry.

That's the point of managing your own career and your own life, isn't it?

Nothing gets handed to you. You have to position yourself for success.

that savings is only due in a small part to that single developer's efforts

Not if you quit, make it SaaS and sell it to 3,000 companies for $100/month (or even $1,000/month).
Noon to 8 covers most of the core working hours, I've never seen this cause problems.
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nice! this would be super helpful for sending around all my research and notes from different articles in one place instead of sending around a google doc
HDFS has never been a good idea or implementation, it was just first and rode the fad wave to wide deployment (also see: mysql, php, javascript, ...).

If it were stable and scalable to begin with, there wouldn't be 5 different billion dollar companies offering professional services and customized "fixed hadoop" distributions against the openawfulsource versions.

(from ~3 years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4298580)
Unless I'm on wifi doing searches on my phone seems to take too long to be worth it.I'm impatient so I don't feel like spending 10-15 seconds per page load. When I'm on wifi I'm also close enough to a desktop that has a full keyboard so there is no longer a purpose for me to search on my phone.

I probably do less than 10 mobile google searches per year.
Fantastic suggestion- I enjoyed this immensely. Thank you.