skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2004 I went to Ars Electronica[1], it's a really interesting art/technology event where technology, academia, and art scene meets. If you haven't been you really should.

Anyway, one of the sessions was with an artist who did interactive art installations which included both software and physical elements.

One of the discussions he had which really stuck with me was the idea of a sofware update/upgrade. I.e. a customer buys a piece which includes software. Now do you actually sell the update or do you provide that for free. The thing is that with that kind of art installations is that they are fairly easily copyable the software can be copied. This is even more true when you look at what Casey Raes and Ben Fry was doing with processing.

Digital normally means abundant which means that it's hard to know if you have an original (which means artists have to invent other types of monetary models to pay their bills).

Using blockchain would allow for two very important things IMO.

1) It would allow the artist to sell "the original"
2) It would allow the buyer to resell that "original"
3) it would allow for price of the original to increase.

The real power of blockchain is the ability to create a secondhand market (not secondary) for used digital goods completely isolated from the original sell from the artist.

[1] https://www.aec.at/
I can't tell if this is satire about the current state of AI and its hype cycle or not.
It could pop the curb and hit you
The luaJIT compiler[0] is stupendously good. Bob Nystrom, one of the developers for Dart, once said "Mike Pall [the developer] is a robot from the future"[1].

[0] http://luajit.org/luajit.html

[1] http://wren.io/performance.html
Quite true, I also prefer Vanilla JS and look forward to Web Components becoming more mainstream.

The pure Web stack skills stay, while framework specific skills are only good until the next JS Framework hype cycle.

Where are Dojo, MooTools, YUI, Promise.js now?

In a couple of years React, Angular, Vue, Polymer might join them, but VanilaJS, HTML, CSS skills will stay relevant.
What about OpenShot?
Tracking My Travels from Space (with Pics)
Yeah I'd envisaged this for local second hand websites to better crop and auto categorise images.
There is one basic flaw in this.. The 2nd avenue subway is too deep underground for cut-and-cover to be an option for building stations.
Carl Icahn is Xero's biggest shareholder with nearly 10%. Can't really imagine him putting up with such nonsense.
I pay $60 a month for 23 gigabytes of 4G on Virgin Mobile - it's almost impossible for me to use it, and I avoid work wi-fi and casually watch video. A year or so ago, I got 8 gigabytes for that $60.

Admittedly, Virgin is a bit of a value leader, but the world is headed toward extremely cheap data, so it's savvy for a startup to make a product geared toward that.
Always find it a bit disappointing that Alexander von Humboldt's influence on Darwin is rarely mentioned. One would think that Andrea Wulff's "The invention of Nature" had changed that
Obviously not as important as the main cause but I wonder if a similar thing could be used to treat warts. I had a wart once and successfully got rid of it by applying a trick I read on the internet which is putting a little square of duct tape on it. Surprisingly it really worked. The Wikipedia page used to list the method with dubious citations and said that one theory for why it worked was that the duct tape stimulated the immune system and caused it to attack the wart when it normally wouldn't.
My "go to GUI" is a web app -- I can't imagine anything I'd write a GUI app for these days.
Sorry to know of your situation. If you want to learn more about a trial in this space (currently enrolling) let me know, I can help.
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How many hundreds of thousands pass through American borders with little hassle every day? That is not news (but maybe it should be as well).

Also, one cannot paint with such a wide brush as "The USA." It is the same mistake as any American visiting London, Paris, and Berlin -- and then saying they have seen "Europe." They didn't see Europe -- they saw globalized mega-regions that happened to be located on the European continent.

Unfortunately, Baltimore is an outlier when it comes to violent crime, corruption, and poverty. It is an urban center in decline and in need of all kinds of help. (This is where I stop, else it becomes political very quickly).

Compare Baltimore to places like Denver, Dallas, or Phoenix, and you will see very different cities. The US is huge in geography, population, and economics. Pinpointing an outlier and concluding that the entire country is poor and dangerous does not make for constructive conversation.

We would do ourselves a favor to talk more about the specific problems Baltimore faces, and then look at the broader American context to see which sister similar cities have tackled similar problems.
I chuckle at the "negotiation leverage". It's not a negotiation it's the gov't setting payments by fiat. Healthcare workers in the US clearly have concerns with that.
Replied earlier, same to you.
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Sorry to know of your situation. If you want to learn more about a trial in this space (currently enrolling) let me know, I can help.
Maybe people buying new IPv6-capable devices at the end of the year during the holidays and then fewer buying them over the next few months?

It's also interesting to note the difference between weekend and weekday IPv6 traffic (~18% vs ~20%). Businesses are apparently far behind consumers in adopting it.
Serious question: does anyone still care about Web Components? They still don't work cross platform, they have substantial limitations, and they lack many of the important features that React and others come with by default (event handling, anyone?).

For real, try to build a form with React, then try to build the same form with Web Components. It's a nightmare going from controlled inputs to manual DOM fiddling. Even just telling the parent component about the form submission means creating and dispatching your own event!

Is the point of Web Components to service frameworks? I really don't see who the intended audience is, because any half decent framework is infinitely simpler to work with.
Never knew I needed that until it appeared on the HN front page.

On a more serious note, I can totally see the value this adds. Everything is so fragmented these days. Nice. Franz did something similar for chat, but never really took off, I'm afraid. Hopefully, those guys will fare better.
A different monoclonal antibody treatment successfully treated my grandfather’s lymphoma 10 years ago. It had spread to occupy large portions of his lungs and this treatment was nothing short of miraculous. We watched in awe as the tumors shrunk away.

I hope it works as well for her.
Nah. enord's saying that they'll all sit down together and realise that they don't know very much about intelligence after all.

So all the current excitement around super-intelligent AIs, and whatnot, will go the same way as it has the previous times we all got excited.
I wonder how much it would cost to compensate the business owners along the construction project. The reason cut and cover is usually avoided is because of business NIMBYism as they're concerned the construction will harm their business. Since it's so expensive to do these other methods of construction maybe the construction should just pay the businesses to relocate out of the savings from using cut and cover.
The people that want to make criticisms about how this association is not causal can start reading halfway through the first column of page 1252. The authors are careful to phrase their finding as an association, not a causal relationship.

They discuss the confounds you might think of (sleep a lot because of undetected major illness? depression? etc) and their efforts at controlling for them.

They then acknowledge that there are still enough unknowns that they can't make a causal link, and that there should be more in depth and controlled experiments to investigate this phenomenon.
If I was a passerby I'd say hell yeah I want to watch. And I definitely don't want to live in a smelly polluted city.
My god, I have the privilege of paying $60/Month for 4Mbps - not symmetric
Ah, just two processors without clock syncronization. Fast-forward 6 years and we have ways to explore memory that was cached for instructions that won't be executed, and leak the hell of the processors' hearts.
That really is a fascinating read. In the past I collected a few minor books of similar vintage with an emphasis on collating knowledge, but it never occurred to me that collating colors would be important, particularly to naturalists.
The art market certainly has aspects best described as a "Keynesian Beauty Contest"[0], and so do Cryptocurrencies.

But while the latter is almost pure "beauty contest", art retains a far stronger connection to the real world: art buyers are very rarely motivated by speculation alone. And even if they want to brag about the $X0,000,000 painting they bought, it helps if they actually like it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
“OAuth2 spec is long and complex”.

One of my 20% projects at Google was addressing this very problem. I built an OAuth2 and OpenID-Connect client library for the Web that is written in TypeScript. The library supports web apps, Node.js CLI & Electron based apps.

https://github.com/openid/AppAuth-JS

There are sister projects for Android and iOS as well. Hopefully, OAuth2 complexity will not prevent you from consuming a service going forward.
Do you have any reason to assume they are? Of course, other than the fact that the founder is _RUSSIAN_ gasp
English Collocations
kdenlive is unfortunately also using the MLT Framework, which is terrible (does basic things like scaling horribly).
I do want to ask why you are building this? If just for fun, then it's a nice project.

Building the site won't be the hard part, though I'm sure you'll get plenty of feedback here.

Attracting a community of scientists that foster real discussion will be. Any ideas there at what will set you apart and properly entice them?
People are spending less time on Facebook–and Zuck says that’s OK
Unfortunately peanut butter I think you are right about that!
Stop telling such outlandish tales, Stop turning minnows into whales

What a piece of bull c* article.. Amazon tax amazon this amazon that and I predicted that. Really you need to get back into your complete senses that there are limits to what can be achieved by any organization. Its for articles like this that paint a rosy picture and contribute to a bubble like stock price. Can you also predict the collapse if that happens.

And to you all intelligent readers this is gonna take a long long time to change the current system. For heavens sake don't fall for this guys crap.
India Vows to Eliminate Use of Cryptocurrencies, but Interested in Blockchain
The first thing you mentioned, annotations, or maybe even inline Q&A/discussions, was my dream in grad school (math). I imagined something like a separate MathOverflow for each paper.

The basic problem is that I was constantly finding myself struggling with a tricky part of some paper from the 70's ("Why is this sentence true??"), and I knew many students before me had struggled with the same section, but there was no way for one really great expositor to clarify it, get upvoted, and be done.
I think that businesses should really appreciate the foot traffic that Metro station would bring. It's three years of losses and then 30 years of profits.

If we're talking about renters, they can move out if they don't like the hassle, and landlords will surely compensate losses with sweet deal they'll get once subway is open.
Crumble? AFAIK, there are no known attacks against any version of TLS. Only SSL. Heartbleed was an implementation defect, not a problem with the spec. Same with Snowden. They basically just opened the front door to him.
Building them that far underground was a design choice. Partly as a result of deciding for the expensive and unnecessary full mezzanines and partly to avoid having to coordinate with con-ed and other users of the sub-street space.
Did you ever try cinelerra[1]?

[1] http://cinelerra.org/
swot seems to be restricted to places of higher education, leaving out research institutes, such as the MPG association in Germany or the national labs in the US.
HAPICloud – Open Data API with smart contracts for the hospitality industry
I wish I could upvote this comment more than once. I'm getting sick and tired of all the "blockchain is the solution to all problems" hype. Not only is it becoming exceedingly boring, but it's total nonsense.
Connectionists and Symbolists: Learning Rules from Noisy Data
Well ...

The Institute for Advanced Study is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel, after their immigration to the United States.
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founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld.

Why not Johns Hopkins?
Yes. The right answer is to fix JavaScript so it doesn't need 5000 frameworks that have their own spin on how to organize code.
Commercial leases are generally ten years long. The landlord ends up capturing most of the increase in value, while the current lessees end up eating most of the costs.
That's actually not true IMO.

Blockchain is great as a secondhand market for things like art as it allows the buyer and seller to both know that they have the original and it allows for a digital art (and even assets to increase in value)

This is a real problem where a non-centralized version actually is the only viable solution (because you can include other things than just digital art).

You don't need a specific token for it you could use a satoshi or some token but it's definitely important if you want to see a digital art market that allow you to have unique items. (You don't have to want that but if you do it's definitely the only solution i can think of that would make sense)
Wow! This seems to be connected (in my mind, anyway) to another story on Hacker News this morning: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/health/heart-disease-muta...

Couldn't the mutations in stem cells be linked to this 'mutational timer' in DNA?
a site that fosters real, thoughtful discussion requires moderation - if you compare the amount of clickbait on Facebook vs the general helpfulness of articles on Hackernews, one is moderated, one is designed for maximum interaction.
Google Parent Alphabet and Aramco in Talks to Build Tech Hub in Saudi Arabia
You can learn React in a day. The API is composed of less than ten functions.

To answer part of your question, Promise.js has become formalized in the ECMAScript standard, so maybe not the best example.

These frameworks emerge to make it convenient to solve problems that JS does not offer an easy way to solve. I don’t see anything philosophically wrong with that; in fact, I would argue it’s a big driver of JS adoption. Prototypical inheritance makes it very easy to bend javascript to your will.

If you don’t like the frameworks you don’t need to use them, but it’s going to harm your career if you actively avoid learning how to use frameworks that are deployed with increasing frequency on new projects.

The other advantage of frameworks is that they provide common idioms and enforce procedural standards, both of which make working on a team more productive as everyone has the same base of understanding. They also make it easier to hire for that team.

Try implementing any sufficiently complex app in vanilla JS and you’ll likely end up recreating many of the aspects of popular frameworks, except your “internal framework” will be messy, undocumented, and unique to your project, severely reducing maintainability and increasing onboarding time of new developers.
I haven't used wx but at least one of the advantages is when exporting a project to .exe I assume you don't need to include the Qt libraries (i.e. .dll files) separately to conform with their licence, it can (legally) be in a single executable.
While I understand the frustrations that some experts may experience when someone who writes "11 lines of code" claims they understand Neural Networks, at the end of the day why does it matter? If anything its really cool that more and more people are getting excited about this technology, and that it is becoming more accessible.

While the author of this article seems to have decent knowledge of the work in this space, his rant really came off (to me) as "Hey look at how smart I am that I can dismiss people who are trying to learn" and made the author appear really insecure.

I believe we should be promoting and fostering a more inclusive environment for those looking to learn ML/AI, in fact if it weren't for some of the (user friendly) tools and friends who taught me a lot, I might have not been so inclined to attempt to write "11 lines of code".
They are stopping at the lower end of Dunbar's number.

Smart guys.
A better deal than investing a lot of time in recovering from crashes and redoing the same editing project with different software.
Cheap, fast, coverage. Pick two.
Oh, so you weren't actually being direct, but instead were being intentionally rude for the sole sake of being rude and offensive.

Hmm...

Do you even realize there is a difference?

To me it is actually kind of ironic that the continual equating of "plain truth, even if it causes offense" with "intending to cause harm by intensional bullying masquerading as being truthful" has "progressed" [sic] so far as that people who hold these views truly can't tell the difference any longer.
Well, Perl back in the bad old days (4 and earlier) was very similar in terms of limited "minimum standard" facilities, but tons of people used it as a general purpose scripting language and hacked together some really huge systems.

It's definitely easier/safer to write longer programs in other languages, but with proper discipline it's also possible to write really big, robust programs in Bash/shells--people have done this, and some of that code is probably still running today.
Not answering the real question but we have a lot of little wxPython GUIs driving big engineering design software suites at the advanced nuclear design company I work at. Engineers (mechanical, nuclear, etc.) can grasp it fairly quickly, get their knobs on the screen, and be back to doing their mechanical and nuclear engineering. We got started because the original python guy (me) learned it from a grad student in 2005 via the excellent wx docs and demos collection of examples. Works great and we recently went all Python 3.
That man is honestly the most entertaining and informative tv-show I've ever watched.
Wasn't that what the US had with DSL? Copper lines had to be made available. Locally, cable was always faster so that's what we went with. DSL was cheaper though. Anyone recall what the experience was like?
The art world (the selling and reselling of art) is purely history + speculative and most of it IMO is definitely motivated by speculation.

A piece of art can go from 20USD to 20.000USD in no time.

My wife works in the auction industry so at least from having followed the world through her it would say it's mostly speculative.

I think there was even an article recently about how manipulated the art world is.
Distributed systems for the blockchain skeptic
Text editor, video, audio editor, system widgets and settings, web browser, terminal emulator, git GUI client, crypto coin wallet, chat client, games, document editor, security focused software a la Keybase client.
These "React is just this month's JS Framework Hype" comments are really starting to look silly, considering React is coming up on 5 years.

And it's not like "Vanilla JS" isn't a moving target itself.
Cats kill birds; pets should not be roaming around like wild animals.
The problem with Franz is it's literally just a browser running each chat service in its own tab.

For anyone who's known and used well-integrated multi-protocol IMs like Pidgin or Trillian (or heck, any of the browser-based ones from the past), it's incredibly sad how far we've fallen.
Sorry, our focus is completely on payroll.
Major build outage: a postmortem report
I agree. I think publication of studies/experiments that don't find anything particularly interesting should be encouraged not condemned.

It's much more of a problem that there's a bias to publishing to a headline. I'm, slightly irrationally, more inclined to believe this than a lot of papers.
I realized it's a great tool for quick prototyping, especially internal software, but I was wondering if anybody took it beyond that.
OpenShot is far less crashy in recent years than it used to be.
> You can learn React in a day.

Maybe React itself, but everything else that goes into doing react development; design patterns, gotchas, testing, webpack, native and so on? That takes far longer than a day, and is what most would expect when being able to really say they "know react".
They specifically mention that their previous face detection-based algorithm didn't work as well as they'd like. E.g. for animal faces.
I'd guess that it uses the API: https://share.osf.io/
The landing page has soft scrolling or something like that. I'm pretty allergic to anybody hijacking scroll.
How I coined the term 'open source'
I'd love to join - can you please share the link?
I'm a trail runner, and I _always_ wear knee-high white socks, sprayed with repellent (I will look into Permethrin now).

In NY, VT, ME, and NJ I find ticks on my socks almost every single time I run in the woods. The white socks make them easier to spot.

The socks are not exactly stylish, but I've embraced the look.
Honestly; engineers '100k/year' salaries are also distorted by the false floor on the job market. I'm honestly not sure if actually for the higher or lower, though I do know goods/services tied to minimum wage are too cheap currently by far. The min wage has allowed employers to utilize business models relying on arbitrarily-cheap labor as, 'that's what everyone pays' functionally keeps all entry level work low through collusion. The biggest flaw with the Big Mac Index IMO; it's too cheap in the US.
People definitely still care about Web Components. They have evolved quite a lot over the last couple years, and there are some very nice helper libraries that have come out for them (skate.js, stencil.js)

I agree that state management/binding is hard, in general, but I'm sure that these Web Components helper libraries will be more and more sophisticated as time goes by. Also, isn't it pretty much standard to use redux/mobx for state management with React? Why not use these kinds of tools with Web Components? In the past I've used slots and symbols to communicate between parents and children without exposing all the guts of my components.

Aside from that, there's not really any good reason I can see that React itself couldn't/shouldn't support Web Components at some point soon.
how about the very browser you are using to read this?