skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have relatively poor attention span, and have trouble maintaining good sleep patterns. What I've found is that there is a sort of "Ballmer Peak" ( http://xkcd.com/323/ ) when I'm slightly under-slept where I can focus far better than when I'm fully rested. Of course it is a narrow zone and not really sustainable.

I wonder if that is the general experience in our attention deficient generation, and if that might be a contributing factor in people preferring to cut their sleep.
In good HN spirit, instead of praising the great quality of the article, I'll point out a minor nitpick:

> Geirfinnur Einarsson may have shared the same surname as Gudmundur but the two were not related.

Einarsson is not a surname, but a patronymic. It's weird that later in the article it reads:

> Erla is longing for peace, so that future generations, the sons and dottirs of her grandchildren will know she was innocent and didn’t take part in a murder.

Here the author seems to grasp and even make a clever pun on Icelandic patronymics. Weird.
Why we fear Google.
also don't forget to set noscript.firstRunRedirection to false after installing NoScript to prevent it from opening its homepage after every update.
I see no reason why it isn't real, unfortunately a trial of 1 does not a cure make, however it does seem very hopeful, even if there is a long way to go with more extensive trials.
Thanks for that, services I've used force you to around 30-40 cents, which is ridiculous. Good to hear it will be lowered.
My wife has peer-reviewed a number of articles and she doesn't just provide a Yes or No. The final outcome is one of four choices. Publishable in current form, Publishable after minor revisions, Not publishable in current form or not suitable for journal. In addition to this she is expected to provide at least half a page of critique and feedback that is (anonymously) passed on to the authors as justification for her decision.

For example the last paper she just reviewed was the third revision of paper she rejected the first time around. The authors had obviously taken her (and others) comments on board and produced a better paper because of it. Had instead the paper been published online in its original form, but with a very low score, neither the authors or the readers would have benefited.
I don't know if there's an equivalent for OSX but if you're running linux you can use x11 forwarding to do this:

ssh -x example.com
cat /var/log/syslog | grep event | xclip -i

Your X clipboard will be shared with the host so the output will be placed into your local clipboard.
> I don't need to worry about some app stealing my private files or similar

This is highly unlikely. But I estimate a probability of 0.7 that you don't have notable security protecting your computer and your top secret files, even though your machine is on the net.

> If it isn't good, I can leave a review that the author probably reads and cares about

Most (any decent) 3rd party software developers have some kind of feedback channel.
Seems so?

"Within the next several years, it is likely the technique will become a standardized treatment for cancers such as myeloma or pancreatic cancer, Tanios Bekaii-Saab, a researcher at James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Ohio, told the Star Tribune. Still, the study must be confirmed in large randomized clinical trials.
“Unless we get to the third stage of development, we are cautiously optimistic,” he said."

Source of source: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/pb/assets/raw/Health%20...

More on reddit/science: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/25j3je/mayo_clinic_...
Here's one that i read last week. It relies on HIV.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/05/07/is-this...
OK, how did you discover that?
The first company I worked at hired a fairly poor developer, who eventually turned into a quite talented programmer.

When he joined his front-end knowledge was shocking, and he was entering a mainly .NET office with knowledge of PHP, so he spent most of his time on our smaller sites that run PHP. He struggled with many of the basics, and even though I was a good friend of his I was asked by the Managing Director if he was capable enough to stay with the company. I said yes, solely because I didn't want to see a friend sacked on the opinion of a dev with only a few years experience.

As a bit of back-story, the dev process when I first joined was shocking. The "Technical Manager" would help with phone lines and was my direct boss. As he didn't trust me with files I had to give any files I wanted FTPed to a server to him. There was no source control, and we were running from free versions of the Microsoft dev tools. When other people needed Photoshop for basic designs the company abused the 30 day trial across different VM's.

After the above conversation I had become Lead Developer after the Technical Manager left. With this new responsibility I had set up Continuous Integration, automated delivery to the servers, and had bought Visual Studio licenses for the devs. Amazingly, the Managing Director was fine with this, and had no idea that we didn't have the tools we needed. Now that the .NET side was sorted I had to move onto what we'd do with the PHP dev, who had basically spent six months modifying basic WordPress sites with forms.

Since we were looking to move some of our smaller PHP sites to larger sites, I decided to try and steer the development of his projects towards tools that would make him a better developer, and would ultimately force him to adapt. Instead of WordPress for these soon-to-be complex sites I suggested he find a framework (he chose CakePHP after we looked through them). From there, I decided to integrate him more with the .NET developers so that he would have to look at how we do things and then think about how he'd implement things for his tool set. We introduced weekly code reviews for all devs, and I think that helped him out the most.

It took a while, and carried on after I had left, but he moved from Windows to a Mac, managed to set up TeamCity for use with his PHP projects, moved some of the sites to PostgreSQL during the new build phases, and over time his code has improved significantly. It's been a number of years since we worked together now, but he's gone from someone that could barely work without WordPress to someone that writes good code and can deliver. Ultimately, it makes me believe that a bad developer is just a developer that needs direction.
I am always happy to see advances in treating cancer. Lost my dad to cancer a few years ago, it would be great if people in the future have a better chance. I know there will always be new diseases, but nipping this one in the bud would be awesome.
>Two patients in the study received a single intravenous dose of an engineered measles virus (MV-NIS) that is selectively toxic to myeloma plasma cells. Both patients responded, showing reduction of both bone marrow cancer and myeloma protein. One patient, a 49-year-old woman, experienced complete remission of myeloma and has been clear of the disease for over six months.

From the link mentioned in "According the clinic’s statement released Wednesday" line.
Contact-form Gone Awry Because of Poor HTML Attribute Naming
I think it depends on how young your 'babies' are. They will both require a lot of your time so if you are trying to be that super star dad, husband, entrepreneur, you'll burn yourself out quite quickly. You just have to prioritize and live with your choices IMHO.
Is there any static site generators for photos? Something like "host your own flickr"? Something that uses exif tags, directory hierarchy, etc to make a static browsable list of your photos?
Typecache reveals the best typefaces of 2013 
Typecache, the online index and showcase for type foundries and font sellers, recently celebrated a big year for type design and type literacy as they declared their top picks out of the record 550 releases announced in 2013. We’ve been browsing through their selections and here are our highlights.
i wonder how what proportion of people with natural immunity to the measles virus die of cancer?
Aren't all PoS systems a "rich get richer" system?
Show HN: FLIN – Minimal Netflix "player"
Very much fun and procrastination driven Chrome extension which creates a new popup (or panel) window for Netflix without all the unnecessary clutter.

I was very much surprised that nothing like this existed, so I made a simple one. Hope someone besides me enjoys this!
At roughly the same time in the UK there were the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven cases:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Seve...
Lesser-known Homebrew features
From what the article says I think the original virus works by attacking tumors which then explode and spread the virus all around the body. If they use a version of the virus that is safe or that the person is immune to then it would target the cancer and cause it to explode but afterwards be harmless.

That's just the impression I get from the article. I know literally nothing about this do if anyone with actual knowledge can explain properly please do!
Historically it was much the same across Scandinavia.

Most surnames end in son (sen in Denmark) or dotter (daughter), although people started using their parent's surname some time last century.

Its fun to see the tradition survives in Iceland.

In Sweden its becoming slightly trendy to give your children surnames ending in YOUR-FIRST-NAME+possessive+son/dotter again.
has that ever worked? (honest question)
Google Extends Knowledge Graph To Google Maps
I use gulp with gulp-nunjucks-render as my static-site generator. It offers the most flexibility to me and in the end any static-site generator is just rendering templates.
There doesn't seem much mystery about the first death. A drunk man walks 10 km through freezing cold and snow late at night in winter. Didn't anyone think he had just fallen and died of exposure, and his body was lost in a snowdrift?
Yeah, saw that but couldn't edit any longer. Oh well... IBus was not to blame this time.
Hi everyone! I just saw a bunch of tweets linking to my site and traced it back here -- I'm the person behind this site and if anyone has any questions, I'd love to answer them here!
Blender is GPL and sadly Apple's T&C forbid publication of Free Software in the App Store.
Let the spies spy, let the cops chase terrorists
You could probably squash the 'ssh localhost -p 19999 pbcopy' into an alias too, to reduce the typing further.

EDIT: oh wait.. remote host.. ok, maybe, maybe not. depends on your environments I guess.
For "failed to ship" I understand, but I wonder how "shipping" can be equivalent to "death"? Post mortem is always "after death" not "after birth":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_(disambiguation)
Which cloud services?

http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1455

iTunes is another large cloud service which is cross-platform.
I got Pike's point on that, and love go overall, but this is really the topic on which I can't agree.

The biggest problem with that is that throwing exceptions has a purpose : it makes errors interrupt program by default.

With errors in go, that's the reverse : errors are ignored by default.

Maybe it's just I'm too new in go, but I feel like I'd rather have my errors taken cautiously by default, with the possibility to ignore them (catch) than having to use variable and put if statement everywhere I care about errors (which pretty much means everywhere, in my current design style).

Am I missing something, here, than can allow to avoid this verbosity ? (as for panic / recover, that's good for functions you implement yourself, but you still have to deal with errors from core / lib functions).
From my understanding, the hard part with cancer is that it is not a single "disease" but rather consequences of different root causes. So this is doubtful we will find a single cure for every type of cancer, what we can hope however is to increase our arsenal, but this will likely be a slow improvement during the next century, rather than something as definite as the discovery of penicillin.
Cautiously optimistic is the right wording. Seems like the patient has a severe reaction to the injection - if they get patients with even worse reaction or even dying from it, it could kill the therapy for good in Phase I.

Even if they get to Ph3, cancer trials usually take several years to enroll and to reach results, and it wouldn't be a therapy before 6-7 years down the road at the earliest, since you'd want to demonstrate PFS and OS improvement and that takes time in certain forms of Cancer.

EDIT: Patients experiencing complete remission is not completely exceptional in Phase Is. it happens, but it's usually very rare that it occurs in MANY patients. So, effectively speaking, this is n=1 datapoint at this stage, unless demonstrated otherwise.
So, another way of looking at it is the app store/app upgrades way. You pay using smaller increments, but have a view of the goods that you are buying. So instead of a future commitment, its more about paying for what you want now.

If its seamless, then micro transactions work. It also implies you are distracted enough not to do a future projection of the longer term aggregate costs incurred :).
A European Court Just Did Something U.S. Privacy Activists Have Wanted For Years
> If they had chosen NaN == NaN, then the test for NaN could be simply x == NaN...

There are many NaN values. Should they all compare equal to each other?
I wonder if it's possible to make OS X to say "As you request, Stan" in Lexx's voice.

That alone might be sufficient reason to migrate from ubuntu.
Very sorry for your loss :(

I might add there's no such thing as "cancer", cancer is caused by numerous kind of mutations (from various origins, including viral infections) and there's no single bullet against cancer. There are already many good treatments for several types of Cancer but not all, and cancers discovered late have usually bad prognosis no matter what. This being said there are exciting new treatments coming in the 2010s using antibodies instead of regular chemotherapy, which may improve survival for many patients.
Does not work with utas.edu.au either.
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2+2=What? Parents rail against Common Core math
And I still don't know what is actually meant under the "tab animation." That when I click on the "new tab" it slowly appears? Or something else?
Thanks for the clarification. Still, a quick Google search seems to indicate that this does not solve all related problems (symlinking, overriding, etc.).
There aren't many tools like that.

Personally I like and use `lazygal`:
http://sousmonlit.zincube.net/~niol/playa/oss/projects/lazyg...
Source: https://bitbucket.org/niol/lazygal

It's live and maintained. I also contributed some code fixes and theme to it.
Simple answer: these are aqui-hires, not acquisitions.
The website having an .edu is one thing, but that doesn't give you a usable .edu email address.
In my own experience, in the "short term" it really comes down to motivation / inspiration. If you are sufficiently motivated, overworking yourself seems to be far less painful, and productivity doesn't really seem to be impacted. I've certainly pulled all-nighters before with code going into production pretty successfully.

I specifically put short term in quotes because I'm not sure how I would define it. It probably depends on a lot of factors, but I wouldn't stretch it past several weeks. Way past that, motivation also seems to be highly impacted, and you become the kind of tired, error prone zombie who stretches out their 8 hours of work over 16.
Jalbum http://jalbum.net/en/software/features

It's been about 10 years since I last used it, but looks like it's still basically the same thing; reads your photos directory, creates html pages with thumbnails and links to bigger pictures based on the directory structure. Can display EXIF data next to the images if you want.
Mesh Transforms for iOS
How much overlap would it have with my digital subscription to the FT?
His demo app is extremely impressive: https://github.com/Ciechan/BCMeshTransformView
California is a magnet for criminal gangs
Please don't! Software patents are not good for our society and community.
Over the years I've found that I definitely need 8 hours sleep but didn't often get it. I would normally manage about 6-7 hours and would soon build up a deficit. This had a definite impact on my well being and performance at work. Recently I've started using a timer instead of an alarm clock to ensure that I always get eight hours. If I go to bed later I get up later. On the rare occasions that I go to bed substantially later (e.g. attending a concert) and so can't allow eight hours, I still cope well because I'm already well rested. Ditto for when my young son wakes in the night - previously this would have killed me.

I know this isn't viable for everyone but my employer allows flexible working hours.
Their wallet service can be used by anyone, anywhere. If you want to use their brokerage service to buy bitcoins, you need a U.S. bank account.
> We now know that Simple was incredibly overhyped. It wasn’t a revolutionary un-bank, it was a regular banking UI layer with maybe a couple more budgeting features and a more modern design.

Simple was indeed overhyped, but your characterization is too far in the other direction. Aside from having a truly great web and app UI in a field with across-the-board atrocious UI, Simple provided three killer features that I never found anywhere else:

1) Link other bank accounts and push/pull money at will. Yes it still is slow going through ACH, and yes it still feels like the dark ages compared to European banking, but it works.

2) Immediate push notifications to my device as soon as charges hit. I know this should be trivial, but other banks I've used do not seem capable of this. Heck they don't seem capable of creating an app that won't crash my phone, but still, Simple does it, often within seconds of the physical transaction occurring.

3) Free incoming wire transfers. There must be some other bank that does this right? Well, I haven't found it. Heck, even when I wired money to my company's bank account to exercise stock options some mysterious fee was taken out somewhere and no one at any bank ever owned up to it. I mean I was literally in international branches and on the phone for over an hour and no one could explain who took a cut and why. Well, with Simple I can wire myself money from overseas, and true to their word, every penny shows up unmolested.

They may have failed in their stated goal of revolutionizing the bank industry from the ground up, but also when they said that they probably had no real idea of the regulatory minefield they were getting into. In the end the product they created may be less than we hoped for, but it is a damn good product regardless.
That's what I'm thinking about too ...

"please install our browser extension or iOS/Android app to read the article"

"become a pro user today and for just $4.99 read up to 30 articles a day without intrusive video ads every 10 minutes!"

I feel like we've opened Pandora's box and are on our way to turn our web browsers into an equivalent of smartphone operating systems and the internet into apps.
I wish all these books did a much better job of positioning the language and explaining when you should choose to use it. That seems crucial information, and hard to find out online. The introduction in Go by Example isn't much use:

"Go is an open source programming language designed for building simple, fast, and reliable software."

So that's opposed to all the languages designed for building complicate, slow, unreliable software... OK, I'll bear that in mind.

There are so many viable languages out there now that any introduction needs to give readers informed advice on when it's worth using, and therefore when it's worth learning.

Is there any online resource that does a good job of this, for a wide variety of languages?
What is the Mathematical Significance of Penrose Tiles?
Did you need to write any URL generator, or was it able to identify all URLs by itself?
The Most Bizarre Match Ever
I don't like the lack of information density.
I do hope you never use the word 'sinister', which of course comes from the old belief that left-handed people are somehow the spawn of the devil. Or refer to someone getting "their pound of flesh", which is Shakespeare's quaint variant on the blood libel. Etc, etc.
Yeah this alway made for fun holidays when I was a kid; my dad last name is Ólafsson, my mom's Magnusdóttir, my sister's Hlynsdóttir and mine Hlynsson. Hotel staff often could not get that at all.
I'd add installing zsh+oh-my-zsh. Impressive autocompletion, fuzzy matching, shortcuts, themes (I think agnoster is great), plugins... It's really great and I wouldn't go back to bash. Some resources:

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Cheatsheet
http://www.quora.com/zsh/What-are-the-cool-features-of-zsh-t...

I'd also install autojump https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump to jump quickly between directories instead of using symlinks. Instead of cd ~/project, you just do j project, or maybe j proj is enough for autojump to know where you want to go.
This is too similar to how I Am Legend begins.
Build your own. I've written something like that. It's not static, because I don't want to have to rebuild everything just 'cause I added a new photo, or fix a type. However, you do literately just use the file system to add and manage photos. I won't link to it because I don't want to link to my real ID.

But it's pretty simple. You just have to recursively go over the folder, and get each photo. Make sure there is a thumbnail, and build your HTML.
We do agree, but its been tough trying to get the broad investor community to see value/ability without building fences around your core tech. Some even see this as validation. We don't.

Not too sure how others feel about this, this specific advice has come from fellow entrepreneurs who have managed to figure things out (i.e. raising, team, etc).
South Korea Officials Enact De Facto SOPA Regime to Block Foreign Websites
Sure, but not at the ultra low level that the article linked goes into. The article comes at it from an approach that if you're building (for example) scientific software then you need a deep understanding of how rounding will be performed so that the results are correct.

Don't get me wrong, understanding FP representation and arithmetic is useful for web developers, but the comment was on that actual article that was linked which goes into it in a level of depth that most web developers won't ever really need to dive into.
I never used the word "faith": not once. You kept using the word "faith": I insisted upon using the word "trust". These terms are related, but are quite different. I guess a really important question becomes: how can one ever remove "trust"? You seem to believe that it is possible to have something that doesn't at some level rely on trust: as far as I can tell that only works if every single person ignores everything everyone else ever says and instead learns everything from scratch via first-hand experimentation (and even then I would maintain that one must trust your equipment, though maybe one could build their own equipment as well). Even if every single person in the world is an expert in statistics: you still have to trust that the things you read and are "verifying" were reported accurately. :/