skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have a bad rep at my last job for always being a negative nancy about animations in our UI. In my opinion it's extremely easy for people to get overzealous with them and abuse them, which just makes an interface feel sluggish. It's especially annoying when a common action is animated and I'm sitting there waiting for the animation to finish over and over.

Animations can be useful to prevent disorientation during a transformation of the UI - hinting at something disappearing or perhaps showing the difference between two states when that difference in important. But I find all too often people simply put them in because they can and I feel like I'm back in 4th grade watching my classmates' Powerpoint 2003 presentations.
The idea here is that the acid is made from elements already floating around in nature, and thus the exhaust do not introduce more than the production initially removed. This unlike petrochemicals because the exhaust gasses is in addition to what is already out there.
I think, after the election and the billions spent on advertising and air time supporting one candidate and either ignoring or negatively covering others, and then all that ended up being for naught, there was a realisation that that somehow the traditional manufacturing consent machine has broken down.

And almost immediately Google and Facebook issued a press release about how they will be filtering Fake News. While there might be some genuine altruism and desire to make the world a better place, it was also a brilliant business move. They effectively jumped in and filled the void left in manufacturing consent market. They are signaling they instead of companies and political candidates investing their billions in CNN and NBC they should come to them now.
Might explain baby boomer behavior
Was he really though? In this presidential burger, he is a far cry from both Bush and Trump.
This assumes that compensation should be directly tied to value created.

In practice, value created is merely the ceiling for compensation. The floor is the best alternative for the employee. People get paid somewhere in between. Neither the floor nor the ceiling can easily be generalized across multiple people.
On the same PSLV C38 rocket was Aalto-1, a 3U cubesat that has electrostatic plasmabrake that is a different de-orbiting experiment. It uses 100 m long hair thin wire that is electrically charged and brakes the satellite by interaction with the ionosphere. https://www.electric-sailing.fi/papers/Plasmabrake.pdf

It has an advantage of not needing any propellant and being very light weight but it doesn't work above the ionosphere. It should work for de-orbiting small satellites in LEO. The same principle should be possible to be used as a solar sail for interplanetary travel by interacting with the solar wind.
Well the EC looks pissed off. Whoever gets the contract, it's going to be stormy out there.
Fiat currencies certainly beat gold/silver when it comes to avoiding depressions.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...
>I strongly suspect that Europe would be spending more money on defense particularly against Russia and maybe China if America weren't backing them.

And I strongly suspect that Europe has absolutely nothing to fear from both Russia and China.

>And really, you can't think of countries with more moral responsibility for the planet's current state? Not China, not the Soviet Union, none?

China absolutely none at all. USSR a little, but that ended in 1991 (so close to 3 decades now), and most of it was a piss match with the US in the first place.
"If your job ... depends on feeling empathy for others, you might want to reconsider reaching for the Tylenol"

I'm afraid many "competitive" jobs depend on the opposite.
The really popular companies have people seek them out.

How tightly that correlates to "good" is pretty debatable.
Outside of New York, I don't see Democrats being gung ho to crack down on bad behavior. However, so long as the Republicans are in control, it won't happen at all. (Even if they wanted to crack down, they could not, because they don't have the staff.)

Political risk is only one horseman that threatens the recurring payment dark pattern. Another would be improvements in the payment system.

Credit cards are not really designed for recurrent payment, in particular, you cannot ask your credit card company to turn off a recurring payment without getting a new card number and turning off all of your recurring payments.

Even legitimate companies, such as the New York Times, will make you talk to a customer retention specialist who will give you a hard sell to turn off their service. Other companies are not responsive at all.

If you could go to your payment provider, see a list of all your recurring payments, and cancel any ones you want to cancel with a button press, that would go a long way towards legitimizing the business model.
This isn't really an answer, but likely the same way we've evolved systems to raise us from sleep when we need to switch positions in the night or stop breathing due to sleep apnea.

If a dolphin were studying a human, they'd probably be asking what sort of brain function can magically wake us up when someone pinches our nose closed in our sleep.
This is worthy of my first comment: Hahahahahaha
Honestly nothing can beat gasoline up front.

but here we have something that can match li-ion, but that can be refueled as easily as one refuel a gasoline car. Can be stored for long periods on simple containers. And can be produced from atmospheric gasses.
I only wish this comment was higher up. Thanks.
+1 rust needs more reference types and now I have more ammo to say why.

-2 alias types and especially ephemeral types. Anonymity should be no big deal (e.g. lambda is boring, closing over variables is interested). This seems like a monkey patch over not respecting that principle.
It's an excellent language for interactive data analysis but it totally sucks as a programming language, easily surpassing PHP and JavaScript in this respect.
>but I think that the main purpose of making a mindmap is really that you study the subject while making one.

Yes, but you can just as well study it while writing the Markdown list version of it.
Here's a video on Noam Chomsky and manufacturing consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU
The reckless child in me wants to jump for joy at the absurdity of having a long-held tenent of my understanding of the universe shattered. The quiet pragmatist is begging for the reserved "Well let's wait and see". I didn't expect an article on recent developments in computational physics to render such an emotional reaction. Either way, a very thought provoking article!
An offer that does not require an interview is a massive red flag.
tldr, the conclusion:

This paper has presented evidence that making wages public compresses the top of the
public sector wage distribution. The evidence assembled is more in line with a “populist”
response to visibility of top salaries than the effect of making public officials more accountable:
salaries are cut because they appear excessive, regardless of whether or not they actually are.

I did not spend enough time on the paper to comment on the measurement details, however I would rather trust the public's opinion on what is excessive.

Also I find it a bit ill posed to study the effects of making public wages transparent. They should be by default.
He waited until halfway through his lame duck term to "evolve" his views on marriage equality, only after critical mass has obviously been reached. You're shocked that he didn't also stick his neck out for marijuana legalization, which didn't consistently pass the 50% polling threshold until just last year?

Every time a Republican wins the White House, people instantly put on rose-colored glasses regarding the previous Democrat in office (e.g. Bill Clinton was Jesus during the Bush administration, and it was two decades before people started criticizing his criminal justice record).

No, Obama didn't embrace drug decriminalization. He was too busy bombing Syria and expanding the surveillance state. "Better than the current guy" does not mean a politician was on the right side of everything.
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Anecdotal but I believe this happened to me...I took maximum daily dosage for 2 years and most likely other factors resulted in this, but I wouldn't be surprised if this did too. I used to feel awful about people's problems, depressing stories used to make me want to do anything to help, seeing homeless on the street near a fast food place made me often buy them a meal, and I used to care so much about friends' problems but I 90% stopped caring. Honestly can't say it's a bad thing either, I finally am focusing more on myself but it is a huge change in my life.
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May I ask for your no. of years of experience ? Also, would you kindly direct me to your LinkedIn profile? Would love to see how you did it ? Would you kindly suggest some Ljnkedin job hunting techniques?
It's very avoidable. This whole thing of taking non-peer reviewed works seriously is very field dependent, and even then only a decade or two old. In physics and computer science it seems to be common, but for example, in biomedical research it is basically unheard of. People have been trying to get a bioarXiv started or post biology papers on arXiv itself, but they have very little influence because people think rightly or wrongly that a non-peer reviewed work must be flawed in some way.
Nice istock photo there.
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I am also not sure if this a limiting or enhancing factor.
But in general, I think, sleep, and 'how much of it' -- was reason (not consequence) of human's cognitive development.

I will admit, I have not found a set of repeatable studies to verify the above assertion. So just a thought.
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The same story without an ad-blocker-blocker http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/popular-painkiller...
The article doesn't make clear whether the study participants were given acetaminophen to relieve pain (e.g. a headache), or whether they were simply given the drug regardless of whether they were currently experiencing pain. So I looked up the pharmacological procedures in the study itself, which confirms that it's the latter case. The drug was administered regardless of whether the subjects were experiencing any pain for which acetaminophen would be an appropriate treatment.

I would think it's at least conceivable that the body reacts differently to acetaminophen when it's used to treat pain, versus when it's administered even if the subject is not in pain. And especially since most people take acetaminophen for some pain-relieving purpose, rather than for no purpose at all, I would think it's important to try to emulate those real-world conditions when designing studies like this (although clearly it's difficult to control for something as subjective as pain).

Side note: I absolute hate when articles about scientific studies don't even name the study so you can look it up. In this case, the study appears to be titled "From painkiller to empathy killer: acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces empathy for pain" and the full text is available here:

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/9/1345/2224135/From...
My rule is this: give it 20 years. 40 is even better.

We are just now getting able to look at the Nixon and Ford administrations. With any president, there are a ton of people who love them and a ton of people who hate them -- no matter what they were actually like. To be able to dispassionately talk about their strengths, weaknesses, and legacy requires some time. Most of those folks have to die off.
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Wow, pretty crazy find. Seems like a decent sample size too. I hope someone tries to reproduce the results!
When will it be enough with the "Beautiful" nonsense in webdev titles? It seems "beautiful" has become clickbait for the webdevs. Anything is "beautiful". Please set the title to something a lot less click bait, such as "Animations in React".
Having tagged along with Knuth when Jobs invited him over for a personal demonstration of a pre-production Macintosh, I can attest that Jobs was knowledgable about, and cared strongly about, typography. And having been in the room when Jobs pitched the NeXT cube and printer to Frame, to convince us to do a port of FrameMaker, this was again clearly the case. So, no way he would have allowed this slide in any stage appearance of his.

For further evidence, remember that what (once) saved Apple was the the Jobs-driven pair of Macintosh and Apple LaserWriter (the first PostScript printer). This combination sparked the desktop publishing revolution, as it allowed the masses to get typographically reasonable output semi-affordably. He made both of these devices happen, and good typography was a core goal.
I didn't make any statement about the catalyst's attributes but I indeed mistakenly attributed its creation to this team.

The catalyst was developed in EPFL and is renewable.
I believe this is the one: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5017
BTW, I agree that you want to differentiate between bytes and text, but the underlying representation should be utf-8 bytes, not some constant time indexable utf-32, which is a semantics and performance disaster. It's much better to mess up in not having a clear distinction between bytes and text (annoying, but mostly easy to work around) then to mess up by having constant-time indexable utf-32 as python3 does (not at all easy to work around and even the bits that are easy to work around, like pretending stdin or stdout and sys.argv are unicode on unix are still super-annoying).
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why do you think people stupidly expensive luxury cars as daily drivers?

Because life is more enjoyable if your car doesn't make your commute suck more than it absolutely has to?
I'll keep on writing Rust and Haskell until I learn more about why I should love the actor model, but I hope this could someday kill Erlang and Elixer.

Good job for being much more interesting than your average new PL post.
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There is this

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.htm...
Breaking down offers into pros and cons and comparing them against each other really helps. But you need to have a clear idea of what you are looking for and more importantly, what your dealbreakers are.
Perhaps. However looking at why people expected and hoped for and what they got from his presidency I can see how he gp's point stands.

It kinda makes me sad the best we have to say about him after 8 years is well he is not Bush. I had really bought into the whole hope and change rhetoric. But maybe it was my fault for being so gullible...
Erlang puts all binary data on a heap which is shared between actors
Other post from this author providing some background on mathematical typesetting is interesting:

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2017/07/math-without-latex/
Jump cuts in UI can be very disorienting however. I think animations are at their best when they're short and help tell the spatial model. Otherwise only used when the UI will take a while anyway such as loading in new content, or as small cue to get the user's attention. Agree that many people use it gratitously for no good reason however.
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Drudge and Breditbart may peddle a narrative that's more pleasing to you than mainstream media, but it's very biased and sensationalist.
I did some reading on the Wikipedia page [1]. Before going in, I was aware of two things, namely that they don't accredit universities but individual programs within universities, and that the engineering professors at my school cared about the accreditation process a lot (which has to be redone periodically).

ABET only accredits schools that are already accredited regionally (as you were talking about). ABET itself is a federation of 35 technical societies like the IEEE, ASME, AIAA, AIChE, etc. An ABET accreditation does two things for your school. It represents these societies saying that your program is rigorous enough, and it allows your graduates to become licensed professional engineers [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABET

[2] There are two other accreditations that allow professional licensing according to wikipedia, but they are defined at the state level.
I think the non-cash uses are more interesting. Smart contracts, public ledgers, etc.
Fair points.

I think obviously it depends on specifics of the role etc - I'd not expect (nor need!) a web developer to know how to write a command line app etc. Just needing bums-on-seats developers to just churn out MVC code and who dont know how to do "javac -help" if all they've ever used is maven or gradle etc might be acceptable, but I might lose a bit of faith in humanity along the way (...and maybe I expect too much!) :-)

Perhaps it would be better to have a very, very, very simple application (like a simple calculator, or a simple web app, using the framework(s)/libraries you're using and the person is applying for (i.e. they should know it)), then show them a failing unit-test and/or a simple bug report and see what they do to resolve it.

Basically, I want to see someone actually do something realistic and actually produce something tangible for me to judge my decisions on. I've been burnt a few times in the past hiring people who were good at the "book smarts" during interview, but were bad when it came to actually doing stuff.
Thanks for addressing this specific issue (and hey, Hixie!) Obviously, I don't know much about the APIs so I'll take your word for it.

I guess my first objection (doesn't unify web development) stands, but that can be addressed in future (and presemably Dart will work just dandy with Web Assembly).

I assume my other objection can be addressed by simply building layouts directly and not using the autolayout stuff if you don't want.
Can't say about kangaroos, but many (did I say many?) years ago I was on a car when we hit a wallaby by accident.

Wallabies are like 1/5 or less in size/weight when compared to kangaroos, they are small animals I would say comparable in size/weight to a large rabbit.

The car was a not so small car, a Holden Torana, a V8 4.2 liters, if I recall correctly, still the hit was very hard and the australian guy that was driving didn't manage to keep the car on the road and we ended up in the field nearby.

No physical harm to anyone on the car, but the fender and front of the car were seriously damaged.

I wouldn't have wanted to have hit a full-sized kangaroo instead of the poor little wallaby.
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I wonder if other pain relievers do the same. Has there been any work with aspirin, ibuprofen, or prescription pain relievers along these lines?
> everyone else letting the ATS do it is going to harm our efforts indirectly.

Yep, this. I actually see this as a future competitive advantage for us. I want us to be known for having a really positive experience for anyone who wishes to work with us, no matter the choice/decision that ultimately happens. It will take time to get there, but consistency builds reputation.
And we have even MORE evidence that companies ALWAYS mishandle these cases with BLATANT conflicts of interest.

You're basically arguing that companies should become their own units of law enforcement with their own punishments as they see fit, with no oversight. That is clearly not going to work. It clearly hasn't.

If the law is unfair, we have the power to change that law. Exceptions always exist but we can not make laws on exceptions. Meanwhile companies continue to allow harassment on a daily basis, Look at Fox News. Multiple cases. Imagine in other corporations?
Having worked on a project that tried to implement "Watson" in one of our use cases, I can say with some certainty that it is worse than a joke.

>“If you call IBM Watson a joke you call the hundreds of companies and startups that have built on it a joke.”

This quote would be damnation by faint praise if it were not meant in earnest.
Why not?

You can call them over racist discrimination. There's no difference here.
Under 16KB and no javascript, fantastic.
If I read these pages (1,2) from ebooks.com correctly, you need to read their PDFs in Adobe Digital Editions:

"As our books have Adobe DRM applied to them your device must state that it is compatible with Adobe DRM or Adobe Digital Editions"

Some time ago, there was a big fiasco with Adobe (3,4) "On 6 October 2014, Nate Hoffelder reported in The Digital Reader that Adobe Digital Editions version 4 ("ADE4") was sending extensive information about eBooks back to Adobe, including ebooks read by a user as well as eBooks stored on the same machine but not opened in ADE4."

I tried Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) a while back and considered it very poor experience. Originally it was based on Adobe Flex, and the font rendering was grey scale anti-aliased and looked terrible. I won't try it again to find out if they improved it.

There was another fiasco, but Adobe backed down (5). A contact from Datalogics confirmed that Adobe was going to force everyone (publishers, users) to upgrade to the new version of DRM (ADEPT) and that your old titles would be unusable if not!

I avoid ADE like the plague.

(1) https://support.ebooks.com/hc/en-gb/articles/213875366-Guide...

(2) https://support.ebooks.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206061173-Readi...

(3) https://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/06/adobe-spying-users...

(4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Digital_Editions

(5) https://the-digital-reader.com/2014/02/03/adobe-require-new-...
Acetaminophen

Hate the click bait headlines, totally degrading to a paper like Washington post that presumably wants to maintain respectability. But you won't believe what happens next!
Demos look good, and at first glance this might be the most easy to grok animation api I've seen for react. Excited to try this out!
And Ubik too, a masterpiece.
Some of the commuter rail systems in the US do have class-based systems. Heavy rail (rapid transit aka "the subway") does not, but that's more about the particularities of how heavy rail works.

We tolerate different pricing for various classes of seats in concerts, trains, buses, airplanes, pretty much everything imaginable. I don't see why commuter rail would be any different.
The default typeface is called Computer Modern but if you do not like it there are plenty of options:

http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-1/hartke/hartke.pdf
Maybe you could hit study participants in the head with a stick.
Wow, what an interesting article. Here's a great tidbit:

when diving, marine mammals' blood travels only to the parts of the body that need oxygen--the heart, the brain and the swimming muscles. Digestion and any other processes have to wait.
Did the dosage cause a permanent shift in your behavior?
Maybe animations are a good idea, maybe they're not. It depends on the use case, obviously. But this is still a nice bit of work, and we ought to just recognize it for that. After all, if practicality were a strict prerequisite half the world's hackery would be disqualified.
Looks like it's up to about 10x better than li-ion.
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The truth is, opiate receptors are a lot more binary in reality than this analog "theory" proffered by the purveyors of opioids. As with either substance, controlling the dosage obviously changes the level of effect on the recipient. In the U.K. they treated heroin addiction very similarly, with heroin. They'd give you enough to prevent withdrawal but not so much that you'd get high.

PS working the 12 Steps would likely help you with that self-righteous condescension issue that has survived your chemical addiction.
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