skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"“You make a beautiful magazine for the iPad, and then you dumb it down for Android’.

That meant removing movies, sound, interactivity and content."

Interesting, I wasn't aware that Android devices can't play movies or sound, and don't react to touch.
Aaron Swartz: Teenager in a million
About selecting CFP ( from a conference geek)
People would rather blame something with a face (blaming the suicide on his lawyer, blaming videogame developers or the NRA for mass shootings, etc.) before admitting that the answer may lie in some science book that was too boring or dull for them to pick up and read. I'm glad this article actually addresses the problem directly: mental illness
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Still, the US has more people in jail than any other country however you look at it. The fact that this is due to longer prison terms is relevant but doesn't change a thing does it ?

I wouldn't suppose that citizens of the US are more criminal than the avg citizen of the world.

It's just that you have the Prison Industry and legalized corruption (see lobbying)
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I've never heard anything but criticism of Hockfield on any front.
First came across this blog post via an interesting tweet from Audrey Tang:

In which @shadowcat_mst reflects on affective & interpersonal neurobiology with candor and wisdom

https://twitter.com/audreyt/status/291197318198349824
This is actually pathetic reading.

> “You make a beautiful magazine for the iPad, and then you dumb it down for Android’."

and then you read

> "we pick movies from the iTunes store"

So essentially, it was about being lazy in the first place and opting for a close ecosystem.
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Cost comparison for HIV therapies is deeply flawed
There is very strong evidence that the engrafted cells last a lot longer than 6 months and it is more likely to be a one in a decade treatment and has a reasonable possibility of being a once in a lifetime treatment.

CRISPR technology is still under development and far from proven. The actual GM is only a small part of the total cost: most of it will be separating patients immune cells from their blood and replacing them . The actual costs are likey to be once in a decade or lifetime and a very small part of retail cost. ZFs are more expensive ONLY IF you don't have the computer algorithm that SGMO has to design them with (so SGMO does not have that problem!). SGMO has a considerable advantage from the large scale production developed by SIAL's custom zinc finger service. TALENs or CRISPRs are not cheaper than SGMO's costs for ZFs. Making ZFs by anyone OTHER than SGMO takes a long time because there is considerable trial and error involved, but not for SGMO.

No data on CRISPRs or TALENs has shown that they are more effective.

The costs quoted for SGMO includes its profit. But the whole discussion is indisputably about actual costs. To quote figures for retail costs for SGMO's is grossly misleading.

Comparison with costs of autologous cells vs generic stem cells is totally irrelevant 1) use of generic stem cells is still only theoretical and has never been demonstrated 2) There is no reason whatsoever that SGMO could not switch to such a method IF and WHEN it ever became available.
Well that is the whole point - if the case is shaky (i.e., the accused is likely to be innocent), then the case should be either dropped or go to trial.

Any system that results in accepted guilty pleas for such cases is broken and evil, and should be destroyed.
Very cool - we may be able to help with that if you are interested.
I think it is rather interesting that diskmags now are mainstream stuff
My take is similar: I prefer XIBs, but I avoid storybords.
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yep, i think that too. funny story but is it true?
edit: the source http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2013/01/14/case-stud...
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Sarcasm aside, are there any metrics whether a blocking automated popup actually increases any kind of conversion? Because from my experience it causes confusion and it hides the content you are trying to see. It's just annoying. I usually close the tab immediately instead of closing the popup, I don't expect any useful content from anyone that tries to force me into signing up to their lovely newsletter or something this way. It just shows you're stupid and don't give a shit about your users' experience.
Sooo....it sounds like they have a serious tooling problem, any recommendations on what they should be using either on Android or for cross platform publishing?

side comment: the oddity of a site called "the next web" focused on dragging the paper magazine format onto a digital platform cannot be overstressed, what's wrong with their great website that people need a magazine app?
Don't worry about it, this article is obvious Apple-fanboism combined with Android FUD. (And I say that without any emotion attached, as I own neither Apple nor Android devices.)
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FWIW, I highly doubt that this has anything to do with the Aaron Swartz petitions. It's more likely because of the recent petitions to build a Death Star, secede from the Union, protect the Sasquatch as an indigenous species, and (I shit you not) petitions to "stop white genocide".
I think this is because a lot of the content was downloaded from iTunes, and they just didn't have the infrastructure to support that on Android.
Yes. Completely agree.

As another example, take Mohamed Bouazizi. He was clearly a very sick man, to light himself on fire like he did.

But the sensationalist press decided to focus---not on his mental illness, which was the only thing to blame for his death---but instead on scapegoating the Tunisian government who rightfully confiscated a few pieces of his property.

EDIT: I'm afraid people aren't understanding the tone of this comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fNvi6xG-5Y
Its been a while since I tool biomedical electronics, however suspect the current research is still fairly much the same.
Muscles are basically ionic pumps. when electricity moves through the skin this transfer from electric to ionic energy happens. originally sodium chloride (salt water) was used to help with this transfer with some of the first ecg machines.
The frequency that current can be highly felt (and and also interact highly with the heart) is between 50 and 60 hz.
I remember a discussion in class that happened during a lab where the students were wondering why 1000hz wasn't used instead since the chance of biological interaction would have been much less dangerous. At the time I believe the ad-hoc conclusion that was arrived at was that until switching power supplies were invented the transformers for that frequency would have been too large and expensive comparatively and motors and lighting of the day would have required these kind of transformers to work properly.
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Certainly a sensible decision for their usage, but it's worth noting that pretty much all the reasoning (apart from the fact nobody on Android actually downloads the thing) is only an issue because they're moving from the iPad to Android.

None of the technical reasons given are actual issues with Android, they're just differences between iOS and Android. If you published a magazine solely on Android and tried to move it across to iOS you'd have the same issues (unless you found a functional platform-agnostic media store, which may or may not exist).

They are of course completely justified to stop producing an android version. Not many people used it, and I don't doubt that there's a lot of work converting between the two. Why is there a lot of work? Because the starting point is an iOS specific magazine design, not because Android is inherently limited.
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RT is seemingly biased yes, mostly on the Russian issues.
I think ALL reports from ANY news source should be taken with a pinch of salt, but if anything, you want to read about your nation from non national and possibly independent news outlets.

But how can you blame them for criticizing US foreign policy ?
Informed people usually see the US foreign policy as very bulling, strong armed and imperialist, and rightly so IMHO.

And don't get me wrong, I like many aspects of the US and many people from the US, unfortunately is very hard to be informed and as such the administration is influenced by the few for the benefits of the few.
Essentially anything that mentions fragmentation is about spreading FUD. Let's not forget that you can limit your app/mag/etc to any devices you want. It's disappointing as the TNW are fairly reputable.
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That took longer than I expected.
Most 'black hat' hackers don't get along with those that started like them but turned into what nowadays we call 'security experts', working for the big companies against hackers.
Good points.

With number 3, if you just ask your friends, there's no chance for advertisers to get involved in that transaction. Facebook is a business where the things you express to friends and family are the currency with which you pay for the service.

"Free and always will be" is a lie when factoring in your personal views, information, recommendations, and content are the currency used.

You can always leave FB, but you'll be losing connections you depend on for emotional and social reasons. Facebook knows this, that's why they have you by the balls.

As an outsider, I'm seeing a new wave of business-reliance on FB which will mean the FB logo spreading to every shop, ad, website etc. From the local bakery to bike shop, "Find us on Facebook" posters clumsily displayed in big fat graphics. More than ever, I'm not interested in joining.

This new business-reliance will alienate those who joined to connect with people.

Future generations hopefully won't tolerate such a blatant sellout of personal connections, a stupid hi-jacking of the word "like" - which once belonged to people who liked things.

Marketing and search engines don't belong as an invisible force underlying your communications with close friends or family. That is so wrong it's poisonous.

Zuckerberg said it best: "dumb f--ks".
Oh sorry. The way you spoke of MIT was probably meant to be the tell but I hope you don't blame me for missing it.

(I do know some disturbingly brilliant people from MIT... I also have had occasion to meet some people who are disturbingly not brilliant, but no worries, they had ample levels of the Dunning-Kruger effect to make up for it.)
how the fuck could they not find a laptop connected directly to an Ethernet switch? What a crock of shit. that laptop should've been discovered within 15 minutes.
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Do we know what the augmented reality part will look like from the user's perspective? The skydive jump looks like it is basically a head mounted video camera - and while there is no doubting that was technologically very impressive, full video feeds in that wireless environment, I've not seen what it looks like for the person actually using the glasses.
To me, the biggest problem is "magazines as apps". Magazines should be in a common file format that won't lock you in to a particular platform.
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See previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4991267
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I feel that it has been widely acknowledged that Aaron had problems irrespectively of the trial.

The anger you see is about the trial having him pushed over the edge, which is almost certainly true if at least to a certain degree.

We'll never know whether Aaron would've taken his life without the trial as well, but now we will never get to find out.
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Old, outdated, funny. Sort of.
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Agreed. They could, you know... Try to find a proper cross-platform solution. I also love their logic here:

"To give you some insight in how little uptake we saw on Android here are some statistics: for every Android user that downloads an Android magazine we have 80 iOS downloads."

Which is funny, because it's also possible that the Android/WP users are just going to http://thenextweb.com/magazine/ instead of downloading a dedicated application to provide "movies, sound, interactivity and content"... Last I checked, my web browser is fully capable of providing all of that already.
The exact H.264 profile supported by different devices varies greatly -- it is not an issue with Android the OS but with the range of different devices in the Android ecosystem. With only a few iOS devices, you can test them all with your encoded media (in fact most media encoders have presets for iOS devices) and offer encodings that support all devices.

This simply isn't possible with Android. Either you lower the quality (because your video must all be H.264 Baseline 3 for compatibility) or you'll simply get pockets of oddball devices that can't play media (because they don't support the entire set of Main or High profile video features).

Additionally, the magazine is probably using HTTP Live Streaming to handle media (the ideal protocol for streaming to iOS devices). While Android technically supports this in Android 3 and 4, there are differences in supported features. Specifically, most of the features in version 3 of HTTP Live Streaming (which came out in iOS 5) -- including multiple audio tracks, closed captions, frame based indexes and more -- are not supported in Android.
You lost me at "See, we pick movies from the iTunes store that people can download right to their iPads. We pick music the same way and books too."

I chuckled and closed the tab when I read that. Consider not relying on proprietary methods of content delivery if you want interoperability.
I've had breakages in Cygwin's emacs (missing GNUTLS dependency), Fedora's node.js (mismatched version of v8), GCC 4.7 (C++11 ABI regression, widely reported), Fedora 17's sssd (broke network login after upgrade), and perhaps most galling, Fedora 16's cron (which completely failed if you upgraded from 15). That's just in the past year. I don't think any of those packages are particularly niche or stale. I used to think maintainers were making miracles...now I think they're doing just OK.
Thanks! I've long understood that the centrifugal "force" appears due to an accelerating reference frame, but the comparison to an accelerating car makes it much clearer.
34,995 and counting.

+50 in 30 minutes

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat...
> But even then we had to deal with frequent crashes, a less intuitive interface and a platform that is even more fragmented than iOS.

Frequent crashes? Sounds more like an issue with the app than the platform. You can develop unstable code anywhere. The remark about Android being "less intuitive" is also a classic among Apple fans, but I don't really understand why people keep saying this. It's just not true anymore.
I completely disagree.
What Aaron did was fully moral but partially/potentially illegal (see trespassing maybe).

In my mind, nothing more than a month of social work is the justified response to his act. I'm sure most people would agree.

However this is not what happened. He faced up to 35 years in prison, he faced being financially ruined by the case and he faced the option to unwillingly 'force' the people who love him (friends and family) to also face financial issues to help him fight this case.

This would cause problem in any reasonable person.

Why are you both you and the parent suggesting that it is crazy to kill yourself ? It is not crazy. Suicide sometimes is the best way out.

I would rather face death than 35 years in prison.
I also understand why someone wouldn't plaid guilty when they are not guilty, in particular if that still means I have to do up to 6 months in jail.

I heard many times people saying I rather die free than live as a prisoner.
Sounds like they have a team of iOS developers who created a very platform specific app, and don't want or know how to port it to other platforms.

They created a half-assed Android effort and didn't bother advertising it properly. Now, instead of doing a proper job, they have just abandoned all cross-platform development? That's very short sighted.
Whether the threshold is 100K or 100M, nothing has happened yet as a result of a "successful" petition. Sure, the stupid petitions give them a chance to giggle at the rubes. The most reasonable petitions get essentially the same reaction, however. ["Legalize pot? I think we can guess what they were smoking when they signed that one! Hahahaha!"] As much as I wish it were otherwise, I expect the same for the current "fire the prosecutor" petition. Ortiz might be reassigned to a different state, but only as part of a promotion: she's been "playing ball". They want federal prosecutors to be tone-deaf automatons of sovereign vengeance out of any sense of proportion. This petition is proof that she is what they want. She'll probably print out the page and have it framed for her new office in New York or DC or wherever.
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You make an interesting point. Would it not be possible though, to host multiple encoding profiles on a server somewhere, and have the device download the best match for its screen and decoding capabilities?
OK; foxnews... should normally yield no further comment. But, knowing, that in Botswana you drive on the left-hand-side, it really looks like the Google car approaches a lying donkey.

Some clicks, before you meet the donkey, it can be seen standing in the dust next to a jeep, driving in the opposite direction.

Then, it looks like the shadow (aka the donkey) lies down. A sensible driver would then lower his speed, what might explain, why the approaching car vanishes that fast - and why the donkey appears to be standing some meters of , after the Google street view car has driven by (not driven over).

So the explanation from Google seems to fit the images on "Street View" quite good - not as foxnews.com tries to make it look.
Hope it's not too offtopic. PR 101: Facebook launches Search Engine? Better tell something tech-pundits love to make them talk about us.
Organisations such as the Samaritans in the UK (which runs an emergency help line to support those feeling suicidal) explicitly do not denounce or avoid debate on suicide.

I haven't got a pro-suicide position, I have a rational position that accepts suicide as an option. And in my life it's been an option I've considered at times.

Yet, you would have people who have had suicidal thoughts think that they were irrational, and that they must adopt an anti-suicide position.

The very best thing that anyone can do with those with suicidal thoughts is listen. Not judge, not prevent the debate... and my point now very strongly and bluntly made, is that people are fundamentally unwilling to listen, or have any real debate.
display:table- is exactly the kind of hack the parent is ranting about.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Using_CSS_flexi...

[2] Firefox supports only single-line flexbox. To activate flexbox support, for Firefox 18 and 19, the user has to change the about:config preference "layout.css.flexbox.enabled" to true.
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Why would a developer move to Android? Even today it's harder to get sales on Android. I would expect devs to move to the web or possibly make a bet on one of the other platforms.
> they're just differences between iOS and Android.

Lots of them (the main ones) are issues with the prop product they use for targeting android
To those of us who grew up with the Internet as our hometown and BBSes as our place of birth, it sure seems to have an inherent ideology just by its very structure.
Killed my other account last night as I swore again I'd stop posting to HN... that didn't work I suppose.

Do you not understand that raising the threshold 4x is going to reduce the chance of the little man getting his concern addressed by a factor of 4?

My point was that the petitions I've seen on that site getting to the top are too often just joke petitions, and yet there are many legitimate petitions that don't get enough votes to meet the thresholds but should be addressed. Joke petitions have given them a reason to not address serious issues, and the more the threshold gets raised, the less of a chance that serious issues will get addressed.

If you seriously think that you can get 0.52% of the voting age population to sign an online petition, think about how much money and time both political parties had to spend just trying to get people to vote for president and how they were pouring millions into swaying 1% of the population. 0.013% vs. 0.52% is a HUGE difference even though it might not seem like it.
Indeed. One wonders how their interest and monetization would have gone if they'd partnered with Amazon or Google for content on Android instead of pointing at iTunes.
This artificial mentions "I " 39 times. What about watering down the self-promotion, and give us some great examples instead?

For example: "How do I look for intellectual horsepower in an interview? ... I’ll ask a discrete question that I expect the candidate to solve". So you ask questions the candidate shall solve! Everybody dos that, and everybody know that everybody dos that :) What about some nice examples I can adapt for my own use?
Is it really dynamic if you have to enter a bunch of stuff to create the elements?

I was expecting from the title some kind of tool that would create the form on the fly. I guess I should have read more gooder.
> The first thing I thought when I saw this post was that it was a response to the success of the Carmen Ortiz petition.

That's because it was the big topic in the HN echo chamber recently.
His dream was to improve and help this shitty world.

Aaron had depression regardless of the trial, granted.
I think it's quite natural to be depressed given the state of things.

Suicide is another thing altogether, I'm depressed at times but I've never thought of suicide but as I said in other comments in the same situation I would probably be at risk.

And rightly so. In jail I'm not going to help anybody and with my (and perhaps my beloved ones) life financially ruined with a criminal record doesn't really allow anyone to continue any quest to improve things.

His death maybe helped more than him going to jail and everyone forgetting about him. I wonder if this was his plan.
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This project scares the hell out of me. This is going to cause eye problems and distract people and cause injury and accidents.
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I've outsourced a lot of programming work to various countries such as India, Philippines, UK, Croatia, Romania and to be honest the best coders I found were in China.

I've been recently been using a team of 2 guys who write beautiful Python code and also know Objective-C back to front, plus they have access to pretty much every generation of iOS device to top it off. The best thing though is they are charging less then $10 per hour, speak perfect English and are extremely reliable.

Though finding a good programmer to outsource to is still a bit of a mission.