skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper books and CDs are an expensive pain when you move to another home, plus they take space and make you spend money in bookshelves. I'd love to be able to zip all my books :-) At least I can't lose the right to read them (unless very bad things happen).

Loaned books and not returned: same thing with files if cloud service will ever let you do that and you can't make a copy for yourself. However they could let us set an automatic return date. That will solve the problem. The point is: why bother if they won't make money out of it? Pay a little fee to borrow or to lend?

Accidentally burned vs accidentally deleted: same thing. Only the ability of backing them up is going to save you. Or a cloud service unless we are ruling it out for the rights issue.

Degradation: hard to say. Ebooks haven't been around for enough time to say how many of them I could lose in the next years. However I still have files from the mid 90s so if one really cares about them it's probably safe to say that they won't be lost. I can probably read some cassettes and floppy disks from the early and mid 80s if I bother to switch on their original hw (and if it works). However it's a vastly larger pain than reading an old book on aged paper. My parents have some of those books from the early 20th century and we can read them. Obviously they might have thrown away other books and it won't be the case if those books were bits.

Still: without cloud services are we going to be able to read epub or mobi in a 100 years? And with cloud services how many books won't be available anymore by then because of policies, politics, commercial rights, censorship?
One way to think about it is JSX is just another templating language that happens to be a superset of JavaScript. You are free to use as much or as little logic as you like, but the trend is definitely moving towards keeping most components simple and free of complex logic.

With "stateless functional components" (added in React 0.14) and ES6 you can have "templates" that look like this:

export default ({ title, author, body }) =>
<div>
<h1>{title}</h1>
<h2>By {author}</h2>
<p>{body}</p>
</div>

I wonder if anyone has written a linter to enforce a "logic-less" dialect of JSX? Perhaps allowing specific looping and conditional idioms like:

{ array.map(object =>
<div>{object.whatever}</div>
) }

and

{ foo ?
<div>yes</div>
:
<div>no</div>
}
> Lifespan, disease and the human race is at stake.

CRISPR is just one tiny replaceable part of any therapy-driving genome editing technique. The frenzy around it overstates its importance.

Cas9 is significant as the first RNA-guided nuclease that we learned how to manipulate, but there are probably many more in nature. Hopefully we will be able to construct our own in short order.

We have had very high quality programmable nucleases for a long time. Nucleases are not the principal expense in genome engineering. Further, if you want to be sure that the cuts you make are correct and on-target you might want to take the time to use another system than Cas9/tracRNA.

However, dCas9 (disabled Cas'es) and friends are amazingly novel, in that they allow us to make huge libraries of targeted DNA binding complexes that don't cut DNA, but let us pull particular things to particular places in the genome. This is an incredible boon to certain research threads. For example, see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867413...
It's probably a project car from someone who loves immaculate interiors but has some serious engine trouble. Just guessing. There's a complete working model for sale right now for $39,000.
Five quick tips for submitting conference talks
Not so much the 'middle class', more like top ~15% of people.
Nipples
Hg worked on Windows from the beginning because it was written in Python. Python best practices make it pretty easy to avoid Windows-specific quirks (use os.path.join for directory munging, and don't use hard links). Git was a bit of C at first, which got wrapped in successive levels of bash and Perl, neither of which were particularly well supported on Windows 16 years ago.
There are plenty of frat boys that aren't assholes. There are plenty of assholes that are borne of other stimuli.

I can agree on "disgusting," though. The wage gap's prevalence at Wall Street is unforgivable and needs to be fixed.
Ahh, well I never claimed it was logicless. I claimed the templates were logicless, and they are. The logic is kept separate inside the processors that you bind to the template.
I'm pretty confident that all the people here have human good and knowledge as their highest priority. They just differ on how to achieve it.

If you are Eric Lander, you've already tuned the Broad Institute towards what you expect to be the most fruitful paths of research to improve humankind, and the best way to have it improve humankind is more funding. Michael Eisen might have different opinions on the best paths of research, and you probably have some things you think will pay off that he doesn't, or he thinks will pay off that you don't. It is entirely rational to look at the amount of money available to fund research from public sources and the amount available from private industry, and determine that the best way to save the world is to get that patent and license it aggressively.

And, if you're Michael Eisen, you know that your colleagues are doing excellent work and only one person can own the patent, and that patent going to the Broad represents a significant loss to your colleagues' potential funding, so it's entirely rational to decide the best way to save the world is to contest the patent aggressively.

If we, the onlookers, want to fix this, we need to fix the funding problem. I rather doubt that either Lander or Eisen were driven by desires of patent ownership or denying other people patent ownership when they originally entered the field.
Most things are not worth taking care of due to planned obsolescence.
How not to run your company: Top 4 leadership buffoons from TV and Film
It's an interesting distinction here. I would argue that the science is already free. The Cas9 protein is a natural product. The guide RNA can be synthesized easily. What is being patented here is use of Cas9/CRISPR to edit human cells. In a general sense that is actually the product, and not merely "the science." In other cases, where the Cas9 protein is engineered to achieve things like lower off-target cutting rate, that is a pretty classical case of human invention.
Ask HN: Why aren't there partial static generators?
I stumbled upon these old comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896744

I was wondering why there aren't partial static generators where everything from blog names, subtitles, author, articles, about page, contact page, and anything else that is not changed often can be made static, but sections such as comments, and possibly often updated galleries remain dynamic.

I personally haven't seen anything like this(or at least I don't think I have). Does anything like this exist? If not, is there a reason why it doesn't?
What an unfortunate name.
The Collision Sport on Trial
Clickable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896744
Not everything is about ROI.
Further, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth distinguishes between:

> Use of [myth] by scholars implies neither the truth nor the falseness of the narrative.

and

> In popular use, a myth can also be a collectively held belief that has no basis in fact according to the speaker. This usage, which is often pejorative,[5] arose from labeling the religious myths and beliefs of other cultures as being incorrect, but it has spread to cover non-religious beliefs as well.
How to Deal with a Narcissist: 5 Secrets Backed by Research
> Ouch, yet another way in which running on Windows can lead to poor technical decisions.

Are you implying that choosing hg was a poor technical decision?

Or are you just making the general observation that if you include non-technical requirements when choosing a tool (and if we accept that running on a specific set of platforms is not a technical requirement...) then you might not end up with the choice that would have been best if all the requirements were purely technical?

If the former, then you should elaborate. As far as I was able to determine when I evaluated both hg and git is that they are essentially equivalent technically. Git's default interface makes some things visible that hg keeps behind the scenes, but these are all a quick hg extension installation away for those who want them.
Top Twitter executives to leave company
I'd like to see more writeups on Turing-completeness in a certain situation and a usable alternative that's Turing Incomplete. There's a lot of discussion of the problem with little of the solutions. This is important as busy IT people or even hobbyist coders Google for solutions they can incorporate into their code.

I'm doing my part working from someone saying System F was Incomplete along with its Haskell tie-in that removes that. Collecting papers on extensions, transformations, certified compilation, FP compilation, etc. for people trying to build on that in the future. Still push state machines with interface checks for imperative style as that worked in high assurance development.

Other than that, what can I do about the problem in all its manifestations? I'm not a domain expert in the problem or the spots it appears. Don't see much in solutions outside LANGSEC teams or prior work from high assurance (eg interacting FSM's). Need more work on alternatives instead of just spotting Turing Completeness and developing demos of it.
Yes, and China is in the middle of the map.
Uber’s virtuous cycle. Why drivers are key
They aren't binary. They don't have two values, they have a multitude of values (theoretically infinite if it's truly continuous and not stepped between the minimum and maximum).

If neurons only responded to each other at the min and max value (or a couple thresholds/ranges rather than strictly matching values), then it could be seen as binary. But they respond differently along the range of their inputs to produce a range of outputs, so not binary.
The rating system is under fire because it encourages fashion over merit. It's scale is based on what I want to play and think is good right now [0]. I mentioned Pandemic: Legacy because technically you cannot play it a second time (and personally I don't think I'll want to). It's a good game but I'm going to rate it highly today and probably lower once I finish it.

It seems to me that the rating system on BGG is skewed towards what the community thinks is presently a good game. I think Monopoly would rate much higher if we were rating based on merit instead of opinion.

I think most game enthusiasts and critics can see the importance and position Monopoly has had in gaming history. But in terms of what we like right now I don't find it very surprising that Monopoly or Checkers rank low in BGG's system. It's a system that favors novelty (over a longer term than "The Hotness" but still... flash in the pan games like P:L have been rising high, quickly, and with greater frequency)

[0] https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Ratings#
Chaos Communication Congress: A Very German Hacking Conference
NAMM 2016: Recording equipment sales were up in U.S.A. by 213 percent last year
As outdoorsy-oriented businesses in this general vein expand, there are also a lot of forces seeking to turn them into more or less general purpose retailers with the thinnest of outdoor activity veneers. Some seem to navigate this better than others. LL Bean, in my experience, still has solid customer service and seems to still have a pretty decent hunting/fishing department (although their hiking/camping is relatively week). But brands like Eddie Bauer are just, well, brands at this point. And, fun fact, Abercrombie & Fitch started out as a high-end outdoors store. REI seems to have threaded a reasonable path.
Show HN: Devops Interview Questions
> When is that the case? When is it not?

Can you name some specific thing where you think this would be unclear?

> Are medical devices that run software excluded? Are all kinds (read most) imaginable consumer electronics also excluded (they also have some software)?

Do they consist of only computer software and a prior art computer?

It doesn't say the device has to contain no software. If you come up with some new light sensor for a camera which is only useful in combination with a particular algorithm to interpret the output then you would be able to patent the sensor (hardware) but not the algorithm (software). If it's just a new algorithm to interpret data from existing sensors then it's a software patent.

I don't see what part of this you find so perplexing. It is a software patent if running software is all that is required to infringe it.
If you ever see this, Thank you Matt. It helped me a lot to get away from subversion by working with hg at the same time.
Nipples. See, the world revolves around creepyfuck, so the girls have to plan their lives around creepyfuck because if he sees nipples he will have no choice but to be a creepy fuck.
Yes, lay back. When I rent at the airport, I always try to get a VW Bug as they have decent visibility. VW has seats that adjust pretty low, then push it all the way back, and I'm good. That's fine if it were just me, but my kids could never fit behind me. Used to have a VW Corrado when I was young and single, and that was a good car for tall people, as long as you didn't need the back seat.

Next vehicle will be either a Tesla Model 3 (assuming they well be roomier with lack of engine) or a Mercedes Sprinter van. The later has good visibility and I can sit straight, which is good as my back is giving me trouble; I hate stooping to wiggle into cars.
Some rules for the modern scientist
The Police Use of Force Project
There is data on this everywhere. It'd be hard to miss if you looked at even a handful of funding rounds (though the industry is getting better at this). Clarity came up at the top of the Google search: http://blog.clarity.fm/why-women-founders-matter/

It shows 4-9% of VC funding goes to companies with female founders, roughly tracking the percentage of women at top VC firms.

People need evidence to accept this blatant reality of the tech scene, but making assertions about young, attractive women being blindly handed billions of dollars...
I grew up in what was almost certainly a post-ASCII world (my first OS was Windows 98; I was 5). Despite this I still have a weird fascination with ASCII and terminal-based stuff. I played a lot of MUDs/MUSHs when I was younger, and recently made a game engine for the terminal (https://github.com/JoelOtter/termloop).

I think people will always find relative primitiveness a novelty. Look how popular 'retro' gaming is amongst those far too young to have played the titles in their original form.

(Off to see if my Avalon character still exists...)
This is an essay, in the opinion section. It's not journalistic.
Analysing and Exploiting the Mantin Biases in RC4
You can send to him "The Phatom Edit" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Edit. It is already widespread all over the internet (even in youtube) and has the same objetive of your edition (Jar Jar binks is gone as well).
> When Google shuts down Nest, people are left with non-working thermostats, and have to spend money and rebuild their systems to continue on.

No, they are left with a normal programmable thermostat with a nicer interface than most.

> Even worse, if just the internet goes down – not that rare in areas in the US only served by one ISP which doesn’t have to fear competition – one is even left without heating.

This is not true. The Nest operates perfectly fine without internet.

> The reaction of the people on the recent case where Nest went down itself, and people were left without heating

That's not exactly what happened. What happened was there was a bug in the software that had an issue when their server became unavailable. But this could happen with any device that is controlled by software. And even if they had a totally open and accessible API right on the device, this problem still would have happened.

I don't like the fact that they lock up the data, but we should probably try to stomp out the myth that the device is totally useless without their servers.
> Have you ever been kept awake at night, desperately feeling a burning desire to do nothing else but directly import JSON files as if they were python modules

I almost died laughing at this. Feels like the author is aware that this scenario is probably the only one where such library can be mission critical.
My favorite part of the article, and a good intro point, is this 6 question questionnaire of which of his outlandish exploits are true: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/22/nyregion/bob-b...
There was a real suggestion buried in this piece. Ban mandatory arbitration. I'm most interested in knowing what HN thinks about that piece, since I have no informed opinion of working conditions on Wall Street.

Mandatory arbitration seems like a generally bad idea that employees should be protected from. Does anyone have a good argument counter?
The Malibu is quite big on the inside. I owed an Aura (same platform) and there was enough room in the back that they could have easily had reclining rear seats. It had a good 28' of leg room with me driving.
Starting a Company Was Less Risky Than Staying at a Big Company
Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock have been on the Joe Rogan Experience a few times over the years, together and separately, and have explained their well documented theory about Atlantis.

The short of it would be, before the Younger Dryas period when the massive ice sheets over North America melted, the ocean levels were approximately 300 ft lower than they are today. When you look at the mid-atlantic ridge, the lower sea levels would expose an area now called the Azores Plateau. This would be a large habitable island off the coast of Europe. This becomes especially interesting when you take into account the timeline of Plato's account which exactly lines up with the beginning of the Younger Dryas meltdown.

I apologize if my interpretation of their discussions is inaccurate in any way, I am now just digging into this theory and it's truly fascinating.

The most recent episode with both Randall and Graham was especially intriguing, since they both brought their unique studies together into a more unified theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDejwCGdUV8
At the very least it's given American cars a chance at being family cars. For a while it really looked like Volvo was set to dominate that market.
That's some serious revisionist history, right there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed#Industry_r...
Warp-CTC implements one specific model (or at least, one specific loss function), it's not really a general framework in the same way as the other libraries mentioned.
Ah, I see, thank you for detailed answer.
I joined in 1985, when membership was free for the asking...they offered an REI Visa way back then, and I took them up on it...a couple of years ago it transitioned to a Mastercard...so, I've been carrying an REI endorsed and embossed credit card for 30 years, as well...

I buy almost all of my outdoor gear from them and have absolutely no complaints...although I'm actually more of a "customer", as the article points out, I feel the vast majority of my interactions with their staff leave me feeling like a "member"...the service is that great...

I love the co-op model and always look forward to my yearly dividend...one thing I really appreciate is that the company structure effectively discourages a buy-out, which the article mentions...

In the early days ballots were sent out and answered by mail around dividend time, if memory serves me...haven't voted since then, but follow co-op news in a few places...

Can't recommend them highly enough...
I've actually converted a git repo to hg just to use revsets.
I do not think they do yet. There are some plans for GPU based VMs on Azure though
'Merican Fatsos – Double Chin Dhani (punk)
This is a really cool and usefu. It seems like there might be some overlap in use cases with Theseus (https://github.com/adobe-research/theseus), with the added benefit of not forcing you to use Brackets (not that I have anything against brackets).
Producing electrical power with cardboard, tape, and a pencil
TypeScript doesn't do any runtime checks, AFAIK. In fact, that's one of their stated goals: "Impose no runtime overhead on emitted programs." https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
hg came before git, you have your network effect backwards.

The reason git ended up overtaking mercurial is because git is more flexible. Programmers for closed-source enterprise projects worldwide flocked to git because git can be massaged into any existing development process almost painlessly.

Mercurial, in contrast, is "opinionated".

(Before you mention github -- the timeline here is also backwards, github became the de-facto standard riding on the coattails of git's success.)
Yes that's why they specifically said web applications not pages. You cannot create web application without JS.
I don't know about REI in particular, but in my experience when many companies tell customers that they're "members", they don't mean it. They seem to want to create engagement ('you're part of something, part of our growing, exciting family / movement') and want their customers/members to sacrifice money or time, even volunteer, and to put up with bad service.

But when it comes to the benefits of membership - sharing in the profits as well as the sacrifices, or having some influence and communication - you're a customer, or at best a customer with a free branded t-shirt.
The hardest, shortest lesson becoming a manager
Have you considered using NSCoding to persist state?
Mapping Religions in the US
I feel there's more to this. I've suffered from chronic depression throughout my entire life. The last bout caused me to quit my job and move back to our family home.

Early in my life when I hadn't experienced failure, I used to aspire a lot and actually did achieve quite a bit despite my shortcomings. Programming whilst depressed isn't an easy task. I've been actively trying to get back into the rat race and trying to pursue something achievable yet worth doing.

So while we cut back, we define our limitations and make further goals achievable (rather than moonshots). I'm not going to be the president or a CEO of a $100BN company anytime soon, but it's not like I couldn't cut it as a dev at a decent company.

In failing we realise our limits and rediscover humility.
Why would I make such a statement based on TV shows?

It's no news that South Korea is one of the worst countries on earth regarding internet freedom, probably only behind their northern neighbours.

The gaming thing is just used to push even heavier censorship and controls on the internet.

And yeah, forcing kids to go to a rehab camp because they play too much videogames sounds pretty horrible.
I'm assuming you're trolling so I will stop responding. CRISPR isn't my field and I'm not going to dig into supplements to disprove your theory, which is that CRISPR is not real somehow? I work in the Church lab. I know tens of researchers personally who use this technology. I am confident that CRISPR is real. However, attempting to prove this to you is a waste of my time.
Something that polled trending news in categories like "Entertainment" and pulled key phrases, and then filtered for said phrases might be a good start.

Heck, considering how much of news is just re-posted AP wire content, you could block entire redundant chunks by simply filtering by a string long enough to be a unique phrase (surprisingly short, as little as 6 words [ https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2012/07/03/how-long-should-a... ] )
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Agreed. Fortunately the dev(s) look to be in the process of renaming to "Nom" (https://github.com/alexanderGugel/ied/issues/29)
How did I not know that existed?

I named mine "The Gungan Minus". We watched it together on Christmas Eve.