skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the continued use of caffeine (even only to mitigate migraines)

I agree with that statement. It would reduce them by about 80% but during the fall/spring when I would get many in a row, they'd be more intense and caffeine would work less effectively.

Unfortunately, with pain, there are a lot of variables at play, here, so I'm not sure if it was tolerance and worse headaches or if it was perception that they were worse as a result of fatigue from the "OMG, another one?!" For me, it wasn't such a dramatic difference that I could convince myself that the caffeine was not working any longer. It was never "nearly gone" vs "barely helps" for me, but a feeling like they were getting, maybe, 10% worse each time. Duration was also, unfortunately, pretty consistent around 2-3 days (with day 3 being nearly symptom free).
That's pretty much my personal approach to writing code (with special devotion to the "how can we avoid building it" part). I wish everyone I worked with had the same attitude.
> Which version of Babel, 5? or 6

I'm not really familiar with any popular build toolchain libraries written for 5 that haven't been updated to work with 6. It's not like a Python 2/3 scenario, or even an Angular 1/2.
When was the last time an existing application stopped working because of new JS features?
You are missing headings in Row 2 & 3.

I think you are talking about Column E (Privacy->Logging->Activity->"DNS Requests") ? Since it falls under "Logging", you want it to be Red for YES & Green for NO (you don't want your VPN provider to log DNS Requests, etc). You will notice that everything within the "Logging" columns (Col D-H) follow this color coding, whereas for Col J-M (which are still under "Privacy", but the subsection is "Activism") it's opposite.
What's the meaning of cell color?
Some red cells say "yes" while some say "no"?
I see no meaningful distinction between the San Bernandino shooters and the "lone wackos". Cultural background influences how an angry, mentally ill person will brand and target their particular act of violence. For Dylan Roof it was racism, for Anders Breivik it was Christianity, and for Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, it was radical Islam. So far even the FBI says they acted alone.

It's undeniable that whether or not a person is Muslim influences how their violent act is framed by the media and politicians. Also worth noting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik#Links_t...
In Canada we can send money electronically through email and literally every store is using a debit terminal, so I'd like to call bullshit.
Because the USA did so well when it came time to pass the USA PATRIOT ACT, its extensions etc etc
We're not familiar with the behind-the-scenes details of those cases, but we're not competing with Nuance in the transcription game. We are doing really killer audio search and view competition through that lens.
Many of biologists stick to word file, especially the review/communet function. It is often because the collaborators stick to word and you have to follow up with it.
Do some people actually think Apple is in the wrong here?
I take a less optimistic view on it - we're in this limbo state where the technology exists but no good application has been found or developed.

Now, it can either achieve its Eureka moment and blossom into something really useful.

Or it can continue to wallow in obscurity finding at most a few niche applications.

Not every technology that is invented is destined to become world-changing like cinema or antibiotics. There are plenty that become the Betamaxes and Segways of history. At one point the Segway was also heralded to be the Second Coming of transportation.

Part of the problem is that the groundwork has been laid but nobody has the slightest idea which direction to go in. To be clear, it's not that we have a wealth of choices ahead of us and can't choose which one, it's that we have so few choices ahead of us that look genuinely promising.

- VR workspaces/entertainment spaces (see: 50 foot theater screen in your living room!)

- Cockpit-style VR gaming experiences (flying, driving, etc)

- Room-sized VR gaming experiences ("experiences" might be overselling a bit, all are tech demos where the room-size motion tracking feels more like a bug than a feature)

- ???

It seems pretty likely at this point that #2 (cockpit style gaming) is likely to succeed, at least moderately, but all of these other things are being tried but just aren't that interesting.
Wait really? I could have sworn this wasn't true... Must have gotten confused somewhere
Apparently yes if you believe the polls in the US.
This case should really be open and shut at this point.

The real question is, what happens next in Obama's office, the DOJ and among the American public?

Obama has already tried to get Congress to give him legislation that would force tech companies to be able to give user data to the government [1]. It's slow going. I don't think we'll see that bill this month. Presumably, after that bill was delayed last year, he then directed the DOJ to go to court over these issues with Apple. I predict that fails.

The President has already alluded to the future in his remarks at SXSW. In his view, after the next terrorist attack, Congress will rush through legislation and it will be ugly.

At that point, we will be depending largely on the public's understanding of computer technology and encryption so that we can respond with an even hand. If people support encryption and let their representatives know, then we are good. But if they remain uninformed, there is a possibility that they will feel passing an anti-encryption bill would make them safer from terrorism.

Let's examine a possible future where the case is won by Apple and in the future there is a terrorist attack that used encryption to accomplish its goals.

What will happen? Will law enforcement point the finger at technologists? Will they claim we enabled the attack by blocking legislation that, in their view, would have solved the "going dark" problem they claim they face?

Further, how will the public respond? There is still currently 42% of the population who believes the government should be able to compel Apple to write software, which they do not want to write, that aids the FBI [2].

The clock is ticking. We don't know how much time we have to educate the public about encryption until the next terrorist attack. In my view, we need to,

1. seek out public figures and media who can share our message
2. come up with more concise messaging that is understandable by a non-techie
3. back it up with facts and primary sources

John Oliver is not enough. All the tech companies is not enough. This is as big as or bigger than SOPA. When we fought SOPA, we didn't have the possibility that people could blame us in the future for terrorist attacks if that bill did not pass. If and when we fight an anti-encryption bill, we will be fighting that alarmist view. We will make it much easier on ourselves if we seek to educate the public about the issues and let them make up their own minds.

[1] http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2016...

[2] http://www.dailydot.com/politics/apple-iphone-doj-fbi-wall-s...
I don't know what the new proposed regulations are, but, for recreational use, I think the current set are fair and appropriate:

Don't fly outside your unaided line of sight.

Don't intentionally fly over people.

Stay away from sensitive areas (Stadiums, etc...)

Don't fly near an airport without contacting the airport.

Stay under 400ft

Register it and label it, so that if it does fall and hit someone on the head, they can find you and let our legal system handle the repercussions.

Given the lack of inspection, that most of these rolled off an assembly line in China, have Lipo batteries that are prone to instantly shutting off if malfunctioning or overloaded(to prevent runaway thermal effect) meaning that these likely might fall out of the sky at any time, the restriction on flying within line of sight and not over people seems reasonable, along with the sensitive area restriction.

I can't think of a major recreational use for flying over 400ft AGL, besides wanting to snap a picture of your neighborhood from the air.

The most heavy handed one I can think of (and this one is enforced in DJI firmware) is the airport restriction. The official line is 'Don't fly within 5 miles of an airport without contacting the airport' -- There are enough airports that this covers a good bit of area, and, if a plane is below 500ft more than a mile or so from the airport, drones are probably not going to put it at any more risk.

A DJI drone will not leave the ground if it detects it's within a couple miles of an airport's radius, and there is no way to override it, even with the airport's consent.

The commercial regulations, as I understand them, are a bit more ridiculous. I haven't found the relevent text in the CFR, but I'm told that to fly a drone commercially(say, for a photographer to take pictures at a wedding) actually requires a full blown pilot's license, at least a 'sport pilots license'[1]. This seems a bit ridiculous for a photographer flying a drone 10ft above the ground. I hope some changes to this portion are coming.

[1] http://uavcoach.com/drone-certification/#pilot
I think it's referring to the fact that certain details (traffic, DNS requests, timestamps, IP addresses) are logged. Ideally you want a service that does not log anything, that's why "Yes" is red.
Private Tor => no crowding => useless

Saying that Tor is just a LEA honey-trap is just plain FUD.

Evil exit nodes are a risk. And websites are increasingly blocking Tor IPs. So run a VPN server as an onion service. You look like a simple VPS. And the VPN protects your traffic from evil exit nodes. And you're hitting that VPN server through seven-relay circuits.
Just to clarify, is it possible to use the VR headset as a TV/monitor replacement? I live in a super tiny studio and this would actually make owning a console pretty feasible.
If you've been following VR for 20+ plus years, then why do you have no clue what your talking about?
I've stopped using fancy framework or tools and stuck with pure JavaScript, CSS, HTML5 for personal projects and I'm loving it. I know that isn't always possible, especially with legacy applications, but it's incredibly liberating to have full control over a page and not have to dance with shitty partners.
A loss leader is one thing, but imagine a restaurant that only sold 40% of their meals above cost, and the 40% that are above cost only have enough margin to cover the minimum wages owed to the waiters.
It's one of our favorites :)
I don't think it would be so bad to record our lives. We would be more efficient scientists, journalists--explorers of information. We could focus on the here and now instead of taking notes.
Read job descriptions for the companies you're interested in. Learn as much as you can about the technology and terminology they use.
Perhaps the server experienced javascript fatigue and quit.
are they enough? no, they are not. but, they do provide a rock solid foundation. working with someone more experienced and / or hiring a tutor for a bit is also very helpful. there are a few but very important tricks that courses don't teach and that will take you lots of time to figure out on your own. programming, like any other job, has its own way of thinking. online courses don't teach it either. so, that's where being seated next to someone who knows their stuff is of crucial importance. if you can't afford a tutor, look for an unpaid internship or offer your free help to a more experienced developer

can you become a developer with no CS degree? sure as hell you can! my formal education lies in philosophy, economics, education, fine arts and spanish language and literature. i never took a single computer science university class. at least, not formally and on campus. yet, i have a decent career as a developer, serial tech entrepreneur and i was even teaching programming and CS. but, i was reading a lot, had my share of tutors, worked a lot, worked a lot with some of the world's best developers, took some online courses, tried many things, failed many times, some other times even succeeded

before becoming a developer, i had a successful career as a graphic designer and a photographer. luckily i was always a geek and loved technology. i've literally faked my way into my first developer (front-end) job at one silicon valley startup more than ten years ago. i was doing plenty of web design work and even more corporate identity work back in the day. my coding was rusty and definitely non-web given i previously fiddled with programing in the 80's and early 90's. the above mentioned startup's cofounder liked my visuals. he asked me can i do their UI, coding included. i said ''yes''. while making sure he liked what it looked like, i was studying CSS and HTML pretty hard. front-end back then was a pain in the ass to deal with. but, boy, did i get it wrong. so i literally had to rewrite all front-end code two days prior to deadline. well, somehow i've made it. was offered a job. accepted it. then i was hanging out with some of the brightest programmers, learned from them and on my own. as business grew up and they were onboarding designers (very few designers could code back in the day and transition from print to web was painful, while majority of developers had no clue about design. there were no tools/frameworks/libraries/templates/themes available either), i helped designers understand tech concepts, while i was helping both developers and designers communicate with each other

except for some hardcore computing stuff, you really don't need a CS degree. for stuff more advanced than developing database-driven websites and apps, having domain expertize is way way more useful than holding a CS degree
I think Apple is legally in the wrong. What the law should be is a different issue, though I also side with the government in this particular case. I don't think the government should be able to force Apple to ship backdoored phones to customers. But I think that the government should be able to require Apple to use its capabilities to hack particular devices with a court order. In other words, Apple should be free to make phones they themselves cannot hack, but not to refuse to help hack a phone that the government has a warrant for.
All Apple, Google, and Facebook, need to do to get public favor is add a loading spinner for 3-5 seconds on every refresh/page load and make it clear the government surveillance is the cause. I for one look forward to the 2nd American Revolution.
this is why the cyberpunk future we've read about is coming
The Founders probably couldn't comprehend mobile phones and the internet, let alone modern corporations being granted personhood.

So, who knows.
What makes you think cash is anonymous? In China, ATMs record the serial numbers of the bills they dispense.[1] 80% of ATMs in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou had this feature in 2013, and it was supposed to be rolled out nationwide by the end of 2015. There's no secret about this; you can ask the ATM to print the serial numbers of the bills it dispenses on your receipt.

Now being rolled out in China: ATMs with face recognition.[2]

[1] http://hkmb.hktdc.com/en/1X09V6YK/hktdc-research/ATMs-to-pro...
[2] http://en.yibada.com/articles/35951/20150601/china-worlds-fi...
I don't even know why people then write papers, do research or discuss things when they could call someone dummy or label what they are talking about as 'pseudo-X'. What is 'pseudo-philosophical' about the questions asked? It is your reply that is a diatribe devoid of any substance.

'We can define greatness however the fuck we want, because as far as we can tell we're the only self-replicating assemblage of molecules that knows or cares what greatness even means.'

Hmm, this is not cool. I sense emotional rage from the beginning. 'Greatness' or 'great' is actually well-defined. What you're writing is that many humans can use language. That's obvious. Fish can swim, birds can fly, some fungi inhabit radioactive space. It's all shuffling of particles.

'So if, during whatever time we're not spending making more copies of ourselves, we decide we enjoy shuffling molecules into a particular arbitrary pattern, who the fuck is going to tell us that isn't greatness?'

It's not greatness, because greatness cannot apply to almost everything. Imagine that every email you ever get is labeled as 'important'. Well, if every is important, then labeling it as such become useless and just clutters you subject line. Same with the word 'special'. If everyone is special, the no one is. These words, like greatness apply to minority of things or otherwise they become useless. So, since shuffling atoms is done all the time everywhere, labeling that as greatness makes no sense.

'When you ask why we should bother making copies of ourselves on a different pile of dirt than the one we're currently on, you might as well be asking why we should go on making copies of ourselves at all.'

Yes... and?

'There is no endgame. There is only doing interesting shit, doing boring shit, and death. I choose interesting shit.'

These 3 activities and events are also shuffling of particles. So, fundamentally, there is no distinction between them in the end. Since death requires the least amount of effort, it would be the best choice for creatures looking for an easy way out.
Can't they compensate by providing a better salary package?
No need to write redundant code for notification, use this library/module
What isn't being said, and is painfully obvious to me, is that almost everything the article talks about wouldn't be happening if a. Browsers had a decent UI capability, and b. Javascript wasn't a piece.

And to what end? What website have I gone to that just knocked my socks off because they used framework X or library Y. None. And one year from now they'll toss it out for whatever else catches their short attention spans.

So much wasted effort.
As usual, however, the US Government's side is accompanied by a disinformation campaign to fool the public into supporting the excesses.

Even Obama made remarks which included the word "fetishizing", etc.
If they were to lose and lose all future appeals and Apple still didn't wish to comply, what would it take to get around such a request?

Would Apple have to re-incorporate outside of the U.S.A?
My startup failed so I rapped about it
I'm sure it's simple for someone who is familiar with the technology, but what about everyone else?
How would your average Joe know which DigitalOcean plan to sign up for, or which settings to apply?
I worry about that too... I tried google goggle and even with galaxy's fairly high pixel density, individual pixels were too visible.
Did Big Data Create Trump?
That would be nice. It's often really hard to tell with long conversations in novels who is speaking. There's a tenancy to have the speaker implied rather than implicit for long conversations, and color would be a good solution. I wonder if this is ever used in cinema and / or theater.
When you say adjuvant chemotherapy 'seems' to be useful in breast cancer, what exactly do you mean? How does a meta-analysis of 20,000 patients in randomized controlled trials showing a persistent reduction in risk of recurrence and death equate to 'seeming'?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25917869
"aside from the one comment"

"How was this discrimination?"

You mean, aside from the discrimination, how was this discrimination?
In these sort of comparisons, I always kind of assume that the people in question are suggested as being immortal and have aged through time to today.
The arXiv serves to unbundle the dissemination part of journal publishing for the filtering and certifying part. The arXiv is only trying to disseminate, and it is happy (for now) to let traditional journals and other sources do the filtering and certifying.

Let me reply to your points in particular:

> Discoverability is a big part of it as well, at least at the user end...If there was a geoRxiv then I would probably browse it more regularly because the chances of me finding something relevant would be much higher.

Are you just talking about the individual subject areas (ecology, genetics, etc.)? The arXiv has those as well, which you can subscribe to. Few physicists subscribe to the entire thing. (Incidentally, folks may find https://scirate.com/ filters a bit better.)

Of course, the arXiv doesn't have a dedicated biology section, much less sub-divisions, but this is because there hasn't been enough interest.

> The second reason, which is not unrelated, is that–at least with peer-reviewed journals–the quality of the work in field- or subfield-specific venues is often far higher than in the sort of pan-scientific journals like Science or Nature.

The main point of the arxiv is to put everything in one place which is permanent, searchable, sortable, freely available etc. Filters generally come from elsewhere, such as the aforementioned sections or SciRate, or by simply looking at arXiv papers published in certain journals (without needing journal access).

Obviously, in the absence of additional filters, the bioArxiv won't be useful as filter either.

> If I write a paper and send it to Tectonophysics,...

You'll find that there are plenty of popular-level papers on the arXiv sharing space with highly technical ones. This is generally noted in the abstract. While the arXiv is not meant for public consumption, there are plenty of filters that try to pluck out accessible papers, e.g., the Physics ArXiv blog (which isn't as official as it sounds) https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog
I'm nowadays using a theme in Emacs where everything is black on white and keywords and comments are bold, whereas code regular. I'm happier with this than syntax colouring nowadays. I've also removed some colour from Org, namely headlines are bold and black. Again, I guess the less the colours the better here. I use colours with parens, they're pale by default, then highlighted with highlight-parenthesis mode, denoting nesting via tones of red.

I'm even doing some html-css-js-m4 work for a relatives business website nowadays, and I did not miss highlighting even with such complex mess, instead, I'm happier.
Civic Hacking Group at Penn: Hack4Impact Bring Social and CS Together
There are some problems that a union can solve which seem to be unsolvable otherwise, such as age discrimination, which is rampant in private sector tech but not so much in public sector tech (surprise).
I shouldn't have said always and never. .. how about "most of the time"?
Crytek Unveils All-New CRYENGINE V and Community-Centered “Pay What You Want”
We can have both, you know. They are not mutually exclusive.
It's okay if the physics run at 30fps, the key is that head movement is instantly tracked with a new frame.

It'll be interesting to see what quality the PS4 can support on this, but we already know good games are possible with simpler graphics.
I never like the appeal to founding fathers argument as if it carries any weight.

(1) They could barely agree on anything, so it's not like they would magically agree today

(2) They would also be appalled by women's rights / civil rights, so I don't think this is a good test
I'm curious what you guys think the government should do differently here. There's a valid court order, there's a clear reason for this order to be executed, and the request is restricted.
They do not, for example ask for the private signing keys for iOS. That would be less work for Apple, and actually well within the rights of the govt.
An unpopular argument I realize, particularly in the post-Snowden era, but I would be curious to hear some considered reflections on how the govt should go about this differently. Assume for example that this is not Apple, but instead Enron protecting the laptop of their CTO
Are Group Chat Apps Repeating the Same Mistakes of Email?
CSE341: Programming Languages by Dan Grossman

http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/13wi/#lectur...
Desirability. Green=good, red=bad.