skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Derek Lowe -- Of the fantastic "In The Pipeline" blog with Science disagrees with the FDA approval;

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/09/20/sar...

He's an excellent read if anyone wants to keep up with things in the Pharma and regulatory world. He's probably more famous for his "Things I Won't Work With" series that I've seen linked to a few times on HN.

> And he’s just getting warmed up, if that’s the right phrase to use for something that detonates things at -180C (that’s -300 Fahrenheit, if you only have a kitchen thermometer). The great majority of Streng’s reactions have surely never been run again. The paper goes on to react FOOF with everything else you wouldn’t react it with: ammonia (“vigorous”, this at 100K), water ice (explosion, natch), chlorine (“violent explosion”, so he added it more slowly the second time), red phosphorus (not good), bromine fluoride, chlorine trifluoride (say what?), perchloryl fluoride (!), tetrafluorohydrazine (how on Earth. . .), and on, and on. If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
I think it is, but lync 2011 and SFB seem like very different products.
As far as I can see, ScrollyTelling offers as a base service, an editor for creating content and hosting of said content. This template and editor allows a non-web-dev to create scrolly-format multimedia stories fairly easily with the additional convenience of online hosting.

The journalist has to come up with the content and multimedia assets themselves, unless they hire ScrollyTelling to do it. I'm assuming that's not the case here as most independent journalists who cover these kind of stories are capable of collecting video/photos and writing text themselves (I mean, that's the whole damn appeal of being such a journalist).

So this journalist "sold" the story to one outlet who already had a hosting deal with scrollytelling. Then the journalist sent the story over to Al-Jazeera -- I'm not sure if anything was really "sold", per se, as Al-Jazeera has a syndication relationship with the original outlet. Either way, someone at AJ thought this meant that the assets that the original newspaper paid for was fair game, and then apparently decided to copy some and hotlink other assets from the newspaper's site.

Neither the newspaper nor the journalist nor Al-Jazeera realized that the CSS design (like the little dots used to navigate) and cloud storage was meant to be redistributed. Sure, that's on them, and AJ and the other parties are definitely at fault for not acting sooner. But I could easily see this as being a case of each stakeholder thinking that it's the other parties' job to deal with what seems like a confusing technicality. And this is a case where the stakeholders are a freelancer, a Dutch newspaper, and a global news network, three entities that normally have communication problems.
I've been using discriminated unions on TS 2 to do this, and works quite well.

Example:

const INCREMENT: "increment" = "increment";
const DECREMENT: "decrement" = "decrement";

interface Increment {
type: typeof INCREMENT;
payload: {
inc: number;
};
}

interface Decrement {
type: typeof DECREMENT;
payload: {
dec: number;
};
}

interface State {
count: number;
}

type Actions = Increment | Decrement;

function reducer(state: State, action: Actions) {
switch (action.type) {
case INCREMENT: {
const { inc } = action.payload;
return { count: state.count + inc };
}
case DECREMENT: {
const { dec } = action.payload;
return { count: state.count + dec };
}
default:
return state;
}
}

Once TS figures out the action type is INCREMENT, it can infer the type of the payload. You don't need the Actions type either, you can just receive action: Increment | Decrement.
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I've driven through most of these in various parts of England and many variations on them. I think it's safe to say there's usage data to be consumed.
I think newer chips have the option for CortexM companion. This goes bit beyond my skillset, but I think the point of proprietary PRU ISA was that they could ensure super specific and regular instruction timings, every instruction being executed in single cycle with no pipelining or other stuff that can make real-time programming more tricky. That is something that afaik you simply can't do with Cortex M cores.
We do though if we are to believe automation leads to more niche pursuits due to the availability of labor. This is the market behaving exactly like it should. Whether the goal is noble is a different thought exercise about where we place value in society.
While I understand that "programming is not visual" is a common point of view, I strongly disagree with it. See here:

http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
Apparently late 2008 iMacs are cut out! Too bad! :(
"Only things that are directly useful to me should be made. Nothing else is permitted!"
Hackers Hit ‘Some’ Cisco Customers with Leaked NSA Hacking Tools
Heads up for anyone using Karabiner to remap their keyboard-- it's not updated for Sierra yet.

I figure that's a more popular app among HN crowd than most places, and losing it is really painful.
The only thing worse than someone creating a smartphone-controlled candle is someone else writing an article about it.
Do you mean "seL4 is great"? I agree it won't do much for application-level security without adding some formally verified code on top (perhaps as simple as setting up isolation between VMs), but it looks great if you do want to use formal methods. For the simplest thing, just starting out with a formal semantics of the OS and reason to trust that semantics would save a lot of work (of course, a lot may remain).
How does slack fix the concerns addressed above? Isn't it a closed-source app that routes everything through it's own servers?
Seems the actual open letter is here: https://www.freshbooks.com/new-freshbooks-launch
>It's the "less than 20 people" that rubs me the wrong way. I think something along the lines of feeling bad at having to do this would go over much better and sound sincere. Writing "less than 20 people" makes them seem insincere.

Being insincere is a professional requirement for writing a press release. A press release is meant to reflect the company and make it look good in its actions, not reflect the sincere feelings of the person writing it.
I didn't realize that solar+storage was already so cheap.

If there's a mix of say, 50% Wind + Solar, and 50% from stored solar (or wind), then at worst that's an average electricity cost of $83/MWh. That's already cheaper than nuclear, which I didn't think would happen this decade.

Natural gas produces .61 tons of CO2 per MWh [1]. If you take Exxon's planned tax amount of $80/ton of CO2, that would put natural gas at $101/MHw. This is Exxon's estimate, so I think we can safely say that $80/ton is a lower bound on the true cost of fossil fuels to the rest of the economy.

So in reality, renewables+storage are already cheaper than fossil fuels. We're just subsidizing fossil fuels by ignoring their negative externality.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=74&t=11
"Siri makes its debut on Mac"<- because cortana received such positive reviews?

Siri has been in iOS since 2011 and still can't handle basic parsing/questions.

There was that demo of something that looked a lot better, but I've never seen it actual rolled into the product.
From what I've seen and heard, the modern glare screens Apple uses on the Retina models has less glare than the predecessors.

However, I see Retina-quality screens from a few other manufacturers, and those are offered in non-glare variants.
We're not even remotely close, but if it makes you feel any better, people have been speculating about an end to physics for... well... you're in centuries of good company at least.
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How can we build a machine vision robot easily? Do you share the tutorial or guideline for beginners?

I think the Livera Robot kit is affordable, I will try to back one.
> Indians have been speaking English for a real long time now!

You might be right, but not the ones on my BigCo support calls.
Eh, Cuba after the Spanish-American War, Panama immediately after their revolution, and of course the Banana Republics of late 19th - early 20th century fame.
You should hate anything that isn't testable and falsifiable, that's good hatred.
I'm not sure how Stripe implemented it, but it would be possible to do by partnering with several ATM network providers. If you have a debit card, look at the back and see which networks it supports.
Assuming this isn't a roundabout way of saying you've replaced your battery a few times then you have been exceptionally careful and have been lucky to get and exceptionally good battery. Your situation is going to be experienced by a statistically insignificant amount of people.

For most users a 5 year old battery is going to be completely useless and it's going to be attached to a screen that has been shattered beyond usability.
While they're at it, can we make paste and match style the default? I can never remember the four key chord to do this and as a result send emails that look like ransom notes because of mismatched formatting.
This has to be fake
I'm with you on the title and such. I thought it was a port of Linux to 8-bit with something like uCLinux. Then I saw it was a project emulating a 32-bit CPU to spend 4 hours booting Ubuntu. A cool accomplishment but not what title made me think.
Why is this so important to you that it's one of your "saddest things"? People should be free to work on what they want to work on. Maybe these brilliant people you want to subjugate have no interest in whatever it is you deem important.
Honestly, I don't much care about the formal verification of L4; it's the L4 design and implementation strategy that I find compelling.
> There's only a single button (I Agree), and clicking the X in the corner to close the modal causes the button to be pushed at the same time.

Huh? No it doesn't. It just closes the modal. Pressing the button does a different thing.

Try it out in a fresh Incognito window, or equivalent.
Stacks of Tokens: A study in interfaces (Go)
Quora is down
Some would argue there's a difference between having fun and dumping billions upon billions of dollars into unequivocally stupid shit.
Tesla Model S was hacked remotely
Having I iCloud access to your clipboard is scary ( unless it is encrypted E2E).
Now your data, that was otherwise not meant to go to cloud, will endup being there.
Wow, this is terrible. I already knew I didn't know JavaScript. But I didn't know the extent to which I don't know JavaScript.
Oh, thanks. That saved me from a lot of trouble. :) This is the Github issue if anyone needs to subscribe to this issue:
https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner/issues/660

EDIT:
I read the comments at above issue; the version for MacOS Sierra is being developed as "Karabiner-Elements" [1]

And you can make a donation to the author here[2].

[1] https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

[2] https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/donation.html.en
"And does that just move the violence away from Bolivia and into Peru, where the paste is made?"

A more accurate way to put this is that the violence is being moved into the industry by the USA wherever the industry happens to be. Bolivia won't play so the USA focuses their violence on the producers and sellers in other countries that will play along with the USA.
>Though some laws are so local sometimes it's impossible for an out of towner to know the local laws like going right on red is, as far as I know, illegal in NYC but legal... Everywhere else? How does someone from Texas supposed to know that?

You've pretty much picked an outlier. And I might be inclined to argue that someone from Texas trying to drive in Manhattan for the first time has other problems :-)

There are a few other things like whether you can pass on the right on an interstate and the aforementioned when headlights need to be on (though I often see this last point signed). But these are usually getting into corner cases and don't really affect how the average person has to approach driving.
Average person is better off without a fitness wearable, weight loss study finds
Search for the "unconstitutional conditions doctrine". Government can't get around constitutional limits via contract requirements.
So you're claiming that people are working on smartphone-controlled candles for fun? Because LuDela seems like it's a startup trying to make money, not a group of people trying to have fun.
Is it a voice/accent thing? Siri and Google both do fine with my general questions and commands. If you have some list, I would love to test them.
I'm too stupid to see how this is either practical or relevant in a loosely typed language. The example was making assumptions that it is an array with integers. It was also making an assumption a hacker is not hijacking your code to put strange values into your array etc. This reminds of John Resig's super complicated tricky JavaScript examples only a very small number of people would even care to try to understand but slightly less purposeful. Probably good for that type of crowd.
(Ben was involved in the design of Roughtime.)
Apple patents bold new innovation – a paper bag
Yes - because investors, potential employees, potential partners read tech news
Uber finds a partner with some public transit systems
This is perhaps a poor backup claim because I can't give a relevant citation, but back when I was in Neuroscience / neuroanatomy in medical school, I remember feeling deeply impressed at the level to which we do understand the visual processing system in the brain. Its far more comprehensive than simple imaging studies -- we know where the wires go, how the photons are transduced and turned into patterns of neurons firing, etc. There's of course plenty to learn but our depth of understanding in regards to human vision is impressive.
As with a lot of such corrections, the fewer/less dichotomy is wrong:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/myl/languagelog/archives/003775.ht...
There's no "Car neutrality" law so far.
Point, however, I think its pretty clear a bluetooth candle is frivolous on its face....that said if you could control over the internet that could be a useful product feature. i.e. left your candle on and ran out? Extinguish remotely. My wife has done this before (the leaving on not the engineering a internet candle...unless she's hiding that from me)
Hard work and habit are far more ephemeral than motivation is. Motivation is at the core of all and any activity and anyone saying they do not have any motivation and are just working hard are manipulating semantics. Motivation is absolutely paramount to take care of to do anything because if you don't have it your hard work will instantly evaporate.

It's a very fundamental condition. You can't do away with it. Being low on energy doesn't mean you're not motivated.

Hard work, habits, etc., are extremely relative things from what I've seen, and it's still not well understood what they mean and how they work.

Can we please stop worshiping someone's conviction from a book?
Meh, you make it sound too hard. Here is a perfectly adequate A/B testing regime.

Assign visitors into buckets randomly. Track conversion counts only. Declare the winner of an A/B test whenever one gets 100 conversions ahead, or whichever is ahead after 10,000 conversions. Do this with every test. As long as there are no obvious interaction effects, you can run multiple tests in parallel.

If you wish, you can replace 10,000 with N where N is however many conversions you expect to get in a month. Replace 100 by the square root of N. Real differences below 2/sqrt(N) are basically coin flips. Even after many tests, you are very unlikely to have ever made an error as big as 5/sqrt(N).

If you want to do something more sophisticated than this, you need competent people. But this is worlds better than what most companies do. (And yes, it is better than what Optimizely does for you by default.)
what I find interesting is the amount of computing power that it takes to calculate.

Edit: As an after thought, there are recordings of million digit prime numbers: http://www.primegrid.com/download/SR5-180062.pdf
No? How about a "smart" wine bottle?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/28/11317518/kuvee-bottle-keep...
No, I'm claiming that making smartphone-controlled candles isn't Serious Productive Work that Contributes to Society, and they should Feel Bad.
Wheeled electric trains are already limited in their acceleration rates by passenger comfort, so we don't need superior acceleration or braking. Sound level is the only one advantage that really seems plausible.
Stop sending out boring text messages
Greentea is the codename of the internal CRM application at Google that spawned Angular.
How to Bootstrap a Business to $100MM+ in Revenue with $6,000
Well said but a few details are a bit off. The alternating plates of metal and detector is actually the hadronic calorimeter, which the muons also go straight through (but which stop almost everything else). The muon detectors are outside of that, and are just various types of spark chambers that get zapped as the muon passes through them. Generally the muons neither stop nor decay in the detector.
Twitter is a supportive employer. Employer being the key word there.

If you're no longer employed by them there should be no expectation of support. Especially to spend resources to find you another job.

Nothing needs to change in the industry. Thats how the world works. You get fired, you find another job.
If you're doing anything big with the BeagleBone's PRUs, it's also worth checking LEDscape (https://github.com/osresearch/LEDscape).

It provides a good reference on how to do complex tasks on the PRU.
OP here. OT, but I came across a post on HN saying macOS Sierra was out, and it gave instructions on how to navigate to it from the App Store for download.
So I did, then I copied the direct link and posted it. Now I'm on the front page. HN is funny.
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> 1) a thicker phone, so I can grab it without the grip feeling precarious, and because it has a super-sized battery that easily lasts ll day and all night.

I'm dreading the day my lame-o iPhone 5c with a slowly-dying screen becomes unusable, because it can go over 3 days without a charge provided I don't use the GPS. If I charge it at work Friday it'll usually still have ~40% charge Monday morning, having been unplugged all weekend. I barely even think about the battery level.

Sign me up for thicker phones with a bigger battery. And no stupid, ugly, scratch-attracting camera bump on the back.
Ancient skeleton discovered on Antikythera Shipwreck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain_prime
Vote with your wallet. Put your billions into unequivocally useful progress.
I think it's beautiful that we've reached a point in society where we can work on trivial things, and I hope we can bring everyone along for the ride.

My wife purchased about a dozen LED candles. I like them because they're atmospheric and simulate a real candle without me having anxiety about burning my house down. They're fairly annoying to turn off and on though - I've often wondered if there were a slightly more expensive LED candle with remote control.
Could you provide some examples to issues related to application scale?
I don't know about governments, but I remember netmon for Windows was susceptible to exposing kernel. A coworker had to run netmon for analysis of network traffic for some application, and he forgot to isolate his network. Within a day someone on the corporate network had hacked his Windows computer, crashed netmon, downloaded all his data and destroyed the windows installation and data.
No one sets out to make "frivolous" things. We're all just chasing applications of something that we think will be useful (in this case the IoT) and sometimes something comes out that other people think is ridiculous. It's possible that this person's next project really is to use embedded processors to cure cancer.
I mean food and accommodation can be cheap but for the rest you pay "western" prices which makes it less appealing. You have to save for a new piece of technology longer and when going to places like UK stay in hostels and eat tinned food or again save longer...
I'd rather see updated Mac hardware. According to MacRumors, it's been 490 days since the last MacBook Pro Retina was released.
A physicist might think of that as static vs. dynamic friction.
If you ever do it, I promise I'll be one of your first 10 customers.
Commenting on said article, however, is virtuous.
There are a lot of great solar projects going on, but I don't think it really helps to bring up Elon Musk.
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Great, I'm so looking forward to apple having access to all of my porn links.
Ask HN: doesn't the iPhone already have bokeh?
I've seen Apple's sample images of the iPhone 7 Plus, taken with the (as yet unreleased) Portrait mode. The shots look great, to be sure. But they haven't shown any side-by-side shots to demonstrate how this setup differs from a photo taken on an iPhone 7 (not Plus).

Seeing as how current iPhones already have some measure of background blur, how are customers supposed to make an informed decision about how great the Plus's new cameras are? I'm sure it'll be better, but I imagine I'm not the only person wondering if it's worth $100+ and a huge pocket bulge to go for the bigger phone.
Thanks for correcting me. And agreed about production vs investment tax credits.

It's unfortunate that the first "victim" of renewable energy is going to be nuclear (another carbon-free energy source).
The intermittent nature of solar and wind require other energy sources that can be ramped up late in the evening and early in the morning, and turned off at night.
Nuclear plants take days to ramp up, so they can't meet this need.
Marc Andreessen on Product Market Fit
>Virtual DOMs bring huge performance boosts with very little work.

Do they? In most tests I've seen straight javascript / jquery on the DOM is faster. eg. https://objectpartners.com/2015/11/19/comparing-react-js-per...
I agree with you in that inspiration is not something that just happens. It comes from a variety of avenues...from you doing many different things, from you going outside your comfort zone, hearing a new idea, going deeper into a subject etc. And it's probably your own responsibility to put yourself in a position where inspiration can strike (e.g. doing things!).

What I meant to express is that chopping up your week into a pre-defined routine that you do every week for years under the guise of discipline is the wrong way to approach it.

I think we're mis-communicating because neither of us defined what "process" means to us. Perhaps we really agree with each other.
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A new low-speed maglev started operation in Changsha last May.[1] This is China's first maglev built with Chinese technology. The Shanghai airport maglev uses the German Transrapid system.

Few countries can build a maglev. A US company tried and failed to build even a simple, slow maglev.[2]

[1] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1941693/china...
[2] http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-586439
This doesn't really work if you want to do more than one thing. Many of us find the highly specialized life incredibly dull.

I guess that's the tragedy of the human existence.
We'd all like to see new Mac hardware but it's not like the OS X team is pulling engineers from the hardware team.
Here's a community of people who make things that you probably find useless for fun: https://makezine.com/

Here's a company that makes money off this community, which is probably made up of people who think making random crap you can control with your smartphone is fun: https://www.adafruit.com/

Things you don't understand can be fun, including make interesting gadgets that you don't find useful.