skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why for Heaven's sake should iOS users ever adopt Android's so-so Material Design?

My perception is that iOS users—both developers and users—are rather 'hostile' against Android and its ecosystem. They believe that if there is one design authority, it must be Apple, so again Why?

I had Android phones for 4-5 yrs and I still like Android, I think there is a lot innovation on Android. It's in some parts more advanced than iOS but I've still switched back to iOS for 2yrs. I waste now less time with tweaking every tiny detail of the system (what I loved about Android).

Material Design is ok but not stunning. Everything is big and if you have a 5.7" brick every piece of Material Design gets even more bloated because most manufacturers have wrong ppi/scaling settings which you can't change. All the Notes from Samsung have this problem and people root them to correct this. It feels like if the MyFirstSony product head designed the UI: you can easily hit the baby-buttons with elbows and closed eyes. Again, Material Design is not really bad but not something I would upvote on Dribbble. It's a careful design that wants to be liked, not brave, a happy and randomly colored design language that doesn't want to hurt, with an impersonal and indecisive personality. Even Windows Phone's design is way more bold and daring, with a mind of its own, it doesn't want to be liked.
The reason the efi's boot list was broken was because I wanted to replace a HDD. The laptop has 2 HDDs, I removed them and booted with the new, empty disk for an experiment before adding back my system disk. UEFI thought is was appropriate to remove the non-existing disks' entries from its list and thus I couldn't boot anymore.

Anyway, I don't think this is a systemd bug. The /sys interface comes from the kernel and whether you will access efi vars depends on your kernel configuration.
There is the older module (I believe _efivars_ if it isn't compiled as built-in) and the newer (I believe _efivarsfs_).

I've done my fair share of systemd bashing but here we have:

1. Broken and/or naive EFI implementations
2. Linux kernel's default choices (expose efivars as rw)
3. Distro's choices (compile kernel with said modules as built-in)

And we give the fault to systemd. Every other init system out there does the same.
Not true. Managing OS images is the killer app for containers.

Containers power the Heroku platform and it supports millions of apps by containerizing OS images.

When both the bamboo stack and cedar stack were available, we would:

Run a base AMI and update it frequently for kernel, security and performance updates.

Download a bamboo (Debian) OS layer

Dowbload a cedar (Ubuntu 12.04) OS layer.

Layer app slugs on top of which ever stack the customer wanted.

This was amazing for long term support of apps and backwards compatibility.

There are infinitely more rails apps out there that deeply depend on the OS layer than there are static binary apps.

Docker deserves and gets all its credit for making this technique available and easy for everyone.
Check out Dave on his EEVblog on YouTube he has a scathing Solar Roadways review. Solar Roadways is a similar concept only they wanted the panels in the road itself not off to the side but the same mistakes apply to both.
Let's do this Jeopardy-style.

Answer: "Roads."

Question: "What surface or environment -- by virtue of having no control over shading or solar angle, and by maximising dirt, wear-and-tear, and difficulty of maintenance -- is more or less the worst place on earth to mount photovoltaic panels?"

I mean, I know that roads occupy a stupid amount of surface area, and I understand the desire to do something better with that area. (Tip: just build less of them.) But seriously, as far as solar panels are concerned, they have nothing else going with them.
"If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months," he said. "And then if we discovered, oops, we made a mistake, there aren't any aliens, we'd be better--"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/paul-krugman-fake-a...
AI applied to understanding the hidden relationships linking epigentics and extending human lifespan via algorithmically engineered diet, nutrition and longevity genomics:

The precedent:

Laura Deming: Making a business out of fighting the ills of aging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbYgza4NNk8

Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives

(Cynthia now works at Google's Calico Labs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V48M5j-6zdE

Now connect this:

Nutrigenomics, Epigenetics, and Stress Tolerance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvNLNl7oJnM

Now combine with:

What is Epigenetics? with Nessa Carey

The last 10mins are very important, in particular minute 35:06

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DAcJSAM_BA

Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span -
Blei DM1, Franks K, Jordan MI, Mian IS. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533868

Combining the worlds variants of pattern recogition, machine learning and AI with data associated to epigentic and standard genomic experiments and information, we should be able to discover hidden relationships that will enable advancement in extending human lifespan.

Revenue is something we'll need to focus on and that may come in the form of consumer applications that algorithmically engineer their epigenome with data from companies like 23andMe, Navigenics, Ubiome etc. connected to Nutrigenomics including plant compounds, phytochemicals mapped all the way to the consumer through foods connected to apps connected shopping and recipe experiences.

Finally connect to CRISPR and Gene Therapy

Jennifer Doudna, inventor of CRISPR: We can now edit our DNA. But let's do it wisely

http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_doudna_we_can_now_edit_our...

Include:

At some point we'll need to enter the Breakthrough Prize on longevity:

https://breakthroughprize.org/Prize/2

Along with collaborating with

The Buck Institute: http://thebuck.org
Berkeley Lab: http://www.lbl.gov
SENS: http://sens.org
Calico Labs: http://calicolabs.com

Why biomedical superstars are signing on with Google

http://www.nature.com/news/why-biomedical-superstars-are-sig...

‘Your Genome Isn’t Really Secret,’ Says Google Ventures’s Bill Maris

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-20/-your-geno...

The companies competing to help you beat death

http://fusion.net/story/169777/ancestry-calico-life-extensio...

Longevity Cookbook:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/longevity-cookbook#/story

http://www.psfk.com/2015/08/human-longevity-lifespan-io-huma...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/beyond-resver...

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/ancestrydna-and-googles-cal...

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3k8br7/plos_scienc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/3ocsbi/ama_my_n...
With state lotteries not just a matter of making available safe-ish gambling that's not controlled by organized crime and the like.

It's also a matter of having the State spending millions of dollars advertising gambling at its citizens, reaching out to recruit new potential-gamblers from among the poorest citizens (+), promising them money beyond their wildest dreams, instead delivering them variable-reward reinforcement schedules (well known as the hardest addictions to quit) and a small extra dose of Poverty every time they're exercised.

There is a massive conflict of interest if lotteries are to be evaluated as a solution for social ills.

(+) Have you seen how many lottery advertisements there are in Whole Foods? Have you seen how many there are at a convenience store in a poor neighborhood, or on public transit, or the like?
Longer life, better solar angle, less shading from vehicles and surrounding trees and buildings, less deposition of sunlight-blocking dirt and grime, easier access for cleaning and maintenance, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
8 Essential Attributes of a Successful Mindset
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup
Funnily enough Chomsky is implicitly assuming that government spending has a crowding out effect, which is an idea popular with economists who are "hired to develop capitalist theology," as you label them.

But, probably not. Even "social spending" opens up lots of procurement opportunities for the corporate manager. There might be some crowding out in real terms (government having political authority to exclude activity it deems to be an interference), but it'll be offset by the likely benefits of ensuing expansion, corporate welfare grants and workforce mobilization.

The problem with Chomsky here and many others is that they have the causality backwards. They see corporations as evil entities that spontaneously emerged from the ground to usurp the state, when in fact they were explicitly cultivated by states looking for economic growth.
OT: are there any modular Material design CSS frameworks?

I can't use material-ui (no react).
I'd imagine it's similar to how YouTube works. You're self employed/independent contractors and need to sort your own taxes and everything as you would in any other similar position
That's really funny, considering how in my family, white cheddar was always the "realer", more high-quality kind, whereas we assumed yellow cheddar to be highly-processed and made of whatever.
Smarter agriculture. How to make Permaculture commercially viable while keeping it as ecological as possible.

The current agriculture is quite bad for soils and puts many chemicals into our food.
I think there should be some sort of subsidized insurance program for hiring ex-convicts. No one wants to hire former criminals, which is clearly a problem since unemployment among them increases the likelihood of recidivism. But if companies where protected against the risks associated with employing ex-cons, then they would be more likely to hire them, especially since ex-cons are very willing to take lower wages.
After reading about the quality of the patches produced by these in "Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Overfitting in Automated Program Repair" (https://www.cs.umd.edu/~tedks/papers/2015-fse-cure-or-diseas...), I'm not so interested. One has to have a very awesome test suite to not risk that overfitting.
I found it an interesting interview, a little different from the usual Kurzweil presentations.

It was interesting he started programming in 1960 age 12 on an IBM 1620.
The Gang of Four Is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation (2012)
Yeah, if just full-screen Java Applets had prevailed instead of web pages we would be much better off! Seriously, the html/css/js stack has its share of haphazard design, but it has shown to be much more robust and adaptable than any of the proposed "better-designed" alternatives.
Interventional radiology (IR). Most people don't know it exists until they need it. IR procedures range from acutely life-saving (strokes, heart attacks, DVTs, etc.) to cancer (burning/freezing tumor lesions). Other procedures have a major impact on quality of life - embolizing the prostatic arteries for BPH treatment, embolizing uterine fibroids, and draining abscesses.

From HN's perspective, this is some of the most technologically advanced medicine. If you've never seen an IR procedure, I encourage you to see an aneurysm coiling. The patient is situated on a table that moves in 8 directions (up, down, left, right, forward, backward, tilt-left, and tilt-right). A C-shaped X-ray machine surrounds the patient to help the physician guide the treatment. The X-ray arm itself is able to move circumferentially to generate 3D images. Note that X-rays have minimal radiation delivery relative to CT scans. The physician will construct a 3D model of the brain's vasculature, find the aneurysm, and stick a reinforcing coil at the out pouching. The entire procedure is performed within a vessel from a single needle prick.

The common analogy is, "It's like a video game." Here's a picture of the setup:

http://www.polytechae.com/consierge/docs/images/882_polytech...
I lived two streets down from there. High Park has both very posh houses and not-so-posh (as in: derelict) ones, it's very much a mixed bag there, especially on the North-East side.
That was surprising to me as well. Having had it since I was 4-5 years old (28 now), it did alter my schooling/friendships. I suppose depression did set in for a while. Some of the medicine's would cause my face to swell up which made me a target for name calling (Prednisone).

College was different though with most people being much more mature. My diet has changed and I'm on a light dose of medication that's kept it at bay for almost 10 years. My last flare-up in 2008 was a killer because I also had the flu at the time, double whammy!
Adam Liaw: five simple dishes, and the mistakes you’re making with them (2015)
Making data a public asset through infrastructure
Indeed. You can measure boat and rail traffic, but what about the digital economy?

http://www.aei.org/publication/its-official-a-lost-decade-fo... :
"One potential explanation that reconciles these observations is that structural changes in the US economy may have resulted in a statistical understatement of real GDP growth. There are several possible areas of concern, but the rapid growth of software and digital content—where quality-adjusted prices and real output are much harder to measure than in most other sectors—seems particularly important."
they’ll teach you, correctly, that if the government
spends n dollars to stimulate the economy, it doesn’t
really matter what it’s spent on

Forgive my ignorance on these matters - I know that if the government pays a work crew the work crew ends up with money in their pockets regardless of what specifically they build; but surely if you pay a work crew to build a useful freeway or a bridge (or a rail system if you prefer) you also get the economic benefits of that freeway, bridge or railway; whereas if you pay the same work crew to dig a useless hole you don't get those economic benefits?
It's disinformation. It's like when the meteorologist shows a map of temperatures across the region, not mentioning it is the 'feels like' temperature, an arguably useless and misleading number made up of the actual temperature and the wind speed. Just tell me the temperature and wind speed - let me be the judge of what it 'feels like'. Maybe I wear a windbreaker.
How to open it in an open sourced way? GIMP?
But building / updating bridges, roads, rail networks, dams, lead water pipes etc. would have the side effect of being useful to the economy once built / updated.
The Volvo chart clearly shows that it's seasonal. Q3 has a big dip each of the last 4 years.
Of course you should use more than one indicator... like commodities getting completely crushed across the board:

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=ENERGY&p=w1

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=SOFTS&p=w1

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=METALS&p=w1

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=MEATS&p=w1

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=GRAINS&p=w1

Usually plummeting commodity prices are not a sign of economic activity, although they are priced in dollars so maybe a stronger dollar has something to do with it... but a strong dollar itself might suggest a flight to safety instead of global economic activity:

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=BONDS&p=w1
I think death is probably a selective evolutionary advantage for a species.

A species is basically self perpetuating genetic code stuck somewhere in an evolutionary local maxima. In our case there may be an advantage in adaptability by having individuals die and genetic code mix/change more frequently.

This still sucks and if we could figure out how the brain actually worked to prevent it that would be cool, but we'd start getting into identity issues (what makes you you? how does consciousness actually work?).

Sleep is interesting to think about here since it likely has something to do with re-calculating weights in a neural net, garbage collection, persisting memories etc. Though we don't consider going to sleep dying and waking up new because of the sense of continuity. If a copy of you was made and the original then killed though we wouldn't like that.

Sense of purpose difficulties still exist in our relatively brief lifespans, but at least we get an easy out with the biological one - we'd have to think more about this with death out of the way. Also the drive to have sex and reproduce would probably still be around since it's core to our existence, not sure how we deal with that.

Though I'd still prefer a star trek future where we're colonizing the galaxy and the goal is to learn.

Mostly rambling thoughts.
s/native/OSX/
It looks like you have an incomplete understanding of the meaning of 'mislead'.
U.S. taxpayers give the American defense industry billions of dollars every year.

There, fixed that for you. Almost all of the "aid" to Israel is earmarked for military acquisition grants for U.S. equipment. It's welfare for American manufacturers.

publicly disrespects

Someone in the White House called Israel's leader a "chickenshit".

bought and paid for

Yes, the Arabs say this all the time. Citations?
Ancient Babylonians calculated Jupiter’s position using forerunner of Calculus
What is this calm science bullshit that keeps popping up here?

This is yet another retarded opinion post with nothing to back their claims.

So fertilisers are bad? And lack of nutrients in food is bad too? If there is not much nutrient in the fruits, it only shows that enough fertilisation was NOT done to the soil.

It is absolutely possible to increase yield while maintaining nutrient contents. It is done by fertilisation with increasing yields. Unfortunately, people don't check the nutrient contents while purchasing fruits and vegetables. So, investing in more fertilisation does not give them return of investment.

The ONLY thing customers care about is looks. So, the producers are optimising for looks and looks alone.

It is possible to optimise for taste and nutrition. But when there are more easy and more retarded ways to sell products like calling them "natural" or "organic" or "non-GMO". As long as retarded cuntards like the author are alive and purchasing such products, this is not going to change. The world will just have to wait for these imbeciles to die out and new generations of intelligent people replace them.
Did they name this website for this one story ? As crunch is what will happen to those solar sells underneath the wheels of these vehicles.
Very relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds

Many of you probably know EEVblog. In this video he does the math.

Spoilers: as common sense suggests, those roads are not such a good idea (at least with currently available technology).
Okay, I'll bite :) I was hoping to get some inspiration, but it's a website full of identikit flat designs. What are the designers going to do a year or two from now when "Flat Design Considered Harmful" articles start filling up the front page of HN.
Very true! Yet another reason why so many economies are absurd; they do not have properties we'd want an economy to fulfill.
Wow. He workwd for Google, Project Zero. 2014. I missed that.
I think low hanging fruit would be a system that backs out commits and system updates until tests pass again. Has that been done.

That way you could at least keep a system running until you can fix it.

What do you guys think?
A stronger dollar combined with a lack of a middle-class that can actually use the dollar's strength to consume more stuff means trouble.
This is something I'm trying to address with my startup, Krewe: https://www.gokrewe.com/about. I want to make it easy for people to quickly form strong, lasting friendships and relationships and become connected with their local community. It gives people access to a small social group in their neighborhood and gradually allows them to expand that group. Since everyone lives so close to each other, it makes it possible to get together often, even everyday if they want, without having to deal with extensive planning or traffic.

If YC or anyone else wants to fund me, I'd be fine with that.
Making the Firefox Developer Tools Accessible
There are a few that don't require using React, Angular, or Web Components. Check out Google's Material Design Lite, Materialize, and Surface.
Making better rope.

Seriously. The Space Elevator guys are working with micro-fibers to come up with some kind of rope/scaffording that would support its own weight and that of an elevator all the way out to GSO, but it sounds like there ought to be some early victories where you could take microfibers and create super-light rope and cabling.

I have no idea what the impact would be but it sounds like something very interesting and somewhat useful that the commercial sector wouldn't develop on its own. It could also lead to a bunch of other stuff that'd be neat, like new textiles. If nothing else, we'd learn stuff about what was feasible and what wasn't.
I have skimmed the book and it presents a skewed picture and is selective about its 'facts'. And some of it is about how the economies are not 'sufficiently' libertarian, which is part of the point.
Very interesting, are you the author? If so, any chance of publishing the raw data afterwards?
Actually I was supposed to attend that party but didn't for some reason that I can't recall. But these guys are usually quite serious about their parties. Last year they hacked their elevator for their space-themed party to have a tablet with controls for going up to their office. Ground floor was earth and their office on the top floor was displayed as the moon. They also ordered custom made Daft Punk helmets for the DJs.
Figures Hacker News would want to spread false propaganda against Israel.
It has existed on Windows for a long time - in fact, as far as I know, it was the only non-original version of Bolo to have received Stuart's blessing... http://www.winbolo.com/screens.php

It's popularity was severely hobbled by the fact that it was a $25 copy of shareware.
>It's a great way to waste an afternoon!

Even a little web browsing wasted a lot of time. It lead me to read about word dividers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_divider

IMAGINEIFWEDIDNOTUSESPACESATALL!
OR·WRITING·WITH·INTERPUNCTS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct

Also Zlango was going to be the new writing system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lango_%28app%29

I seems smartphones have killed it.
My notes from the lectures:

https://leanpub.com/how_to_start_a_startup

(Just use $0--any proceeds go to the EFF)

Like others I also really enjoyed the legal and accounting lecture. It was outside of the scope of the usual startup advice you hear (technology, sales, marketing, etc.).
This is satire, right?
Yeah, I've already heard something like: "Life is just like Tetris: there's no way to win, you can just stay alive for longer or shorter time"

I enjoyed the read, thank you.
I agree, if the interesting range of truck orders was 40000-50000 and the fluctuations between those values is the interesting information. However, here the article just mentioned the nose-dive to nearly zero at 2008, and then shows the graph where the number again dives to the x-axis. Then you take a second look and note it's a minor dip compared to 2008. The "interesting" range of truck sales had already been established in the article as 0-50000.

Arguing that axes should never be cut is silly indeed, but axes should also show the relevant ranges for the context (here the 2008 values for both x and y would make today's fluctuations look minor).
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