skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a biomedical engineering graduate student at a research university. While I haven't investigated Transcriptic's pricing in depth, based on a conversation with one of their employees about collecting some basic growth curves (https://www.transcriptic.com/guides/3-growth-curves.html), their prices were simply far too high (even with the steep discount they offered) for repetitively collecting a large amount of data - precisely the situation in which you'd want to use something like Transcriptic. This is especially true for labs (such as mine) that have already made the upfront capital investment for the equipment used to take these measurements. As for the repetitive labor, you can usually find undergrads to do that for far less (often completely free) than what Transcriptic charges.

However, a service like Transcriptic may make sense if (a) you're in a company (no free undergrad labor, though summer interns may be a suitable alternative) or (b) you don't already have the equipment and just want to do a one-off collection of a large amount of data. Also, maybe prices will significantly drop as Transcriptic scales up and streamlines their operations. I'll definitely be checking back in the coming years to see if they ever reach the point where it makes sense to use their services.
Is a point-to-point Internet just wishful thinking? If we all just get some good antennas [1], we could point our antennas at each other multiple times a day and exchange large quantities of data asynchronously (within a small geographic area). My old TV antenna used to rotate internally when you changed the channel to locate the signal, it's just servos spinning antennas. I think there's value in both network designs. Reading articles like these gives me a hunch that fiber will never be secure, ever again, so an Internet that doesn't run on fiber is one I look forward to.

[1] anything on the order of 1Gbps, 10-100km: http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5/
As someone who deliberately left behind suburbia and its mandatory car ownership to find a better quality of life in a traditional city i find it saddening to hear you argue against human-friendly urban planning. I find your arguments unconvincing.

* Just because apartments are small doesn't mean you hear your neighbors, or live uncomfortably. I've lived in three different apartments the past decade and the only time i had noise issues was with a neighbor who played techno at full volume at 3 am, which would be an issue in any city design, dense or sparse. The notion that hearing three crying babies every night is just how it works is only true in hollywood movies which fictionalize poverty in the inner city. In real world apartment life you have a mixed habitation pattern, and soundproofing.

* suburbia is even less dense than any sort of city. It's not the density that's the issue, it's the ability to commute. In a city where commuting can be done on foot or through public transit, like many european cities, it's simply not an issue. I walk 5 minutes and then take the tram to work, reading HN while commuting.

* There's no such thing as a traditional city, yet you're arguing against it. The article was quite clear on what is meant by the traditional city.

* Having low density at the edges is a feature, not a downside, because some people prefer the isolation. Anyway, if we built all cities in this pattern, there would be a better density distribution. City edges would blend. In high density urban construction everybody struggles to reach the center and get back out again, every day during rush hour. Having ten smaller less dense cities without suburbs instead of one big dense one with a lot of suburbs seems like it would have fewer traffic problems and a better quality of life. Maybe it's just my personal preferences talking though.

* I've been to NY, as a tower city with low car ownership it is impressive, and i was glad to visit, but also glad to leave. The best living in NY is in traditional city areas like greenwich village. High rise is not the answer to quality of life in urban planning.

* The cost argument is a red herring. We don't know how to build traditional cities cheaply because we haven't done it enough recently. It would solve itself. Business finds a way when forced to.

Anyway, whatever design is used, there is a sort of universal understanding what a city that is nice to live in is like, and it's one without cars. Cars simply don't belong inside a city where people actually live. I hope urban planners everywhere eventually realize this and force cars to remain at the edge, where they belong. Usually the people who want to drive their car inside the city don't even live there.
I still use it to fill out PDF files with forms. What other linux PDF viewer can do that? I heard that KDE/Okular can do it, is there any KDE independent software that can do it?
What PDF readers on linux are 'best recommended'? I compared acroread with evince and kpdf in the past and found that acroread was the most parsimonious in use of resources (especially RAM on large documents). Have not repeated the comparison recently, so will be glad to hear about recommendations with more recent experiences with large documents with images.
I would like to call for the establishment of a Department of Liberty, with 50% of DHS and other intellifence and law enforcement agencys' funding being diverted into its formation. Its function would be twofold:

1) an army of civil rights defense attourneys to counter the DOJ, DHS, etc.

2) a force of federal agents who have the authority to interefere with any federal, state or local law enforcement activity, but completely lack the ability to touch citizens. Their sole mission would be to detain law enforcement officers suspected of abusing their power, raid illegaly acquired/held state confiscation staches, liberate detained civilians, confiscate/destroy/release government secret records, interfere with unlawful border patrol, and execute on the spot any law enforcement agent caught in the act of violating person's civil liberties.

They will watch the watchmen.
I remember hearing about how 1L of water weighs 1kg or something like that and that that was one of the links between SI units, but the definitions seem to be different.
Tell Me, Wave, Where Did You Come From? Who Made You?
Robots play football too
Some Adobe Air apps, like the one to fill the tax forms in Poland, require Adobe Reader for form support.
And go! Tomorrow this game in full will appear on the Google Play store with the exact same colors. In 3 days this game will be rewritten in Swift, Erlang, and have a community based variation. In 4 days someone will find a way to merge this game with 2048 and Flappy Bird. In a week there will be 20 variations of this game including one called Dodge Squares on the iTunes App Store. I'm not psychic, I've just seen this script before.
Yes. Paris is reasonably dense, low-height has some small streets. This matches some of what the article discusses, but not all. I don't think these of themselves are the most important positives of Paris though, which for me include its great metro rail system, 19th century boulevards (such as the famous Champs Elysee) and beautifully designed buildings (even some of the most mundane). Its not a city without fault, either.
No.

Firstly, ignore the 44k. Promises like this are useful for you to get an idea of abstract expectations of the company, but its not real money :)

Secondly, at this stage you're trading wage for equity, and 2% is essentially nothing. Let's say there is a 25% chance of the company existing in 4 years with a valuation of 500k. That's .25 * 0.02 * 500k = £2500 over 4 years. sadface

Don't forget they they're asking you to build it, so you should be looking at massive equity (>=25%) or a competitive wage... probably even more so since you can expect a higher than average expectation of your time.
Yet nobody seems to care about reducing the initial hiring pool to some statistic and only hiring college graduates who think HTML5 is a programming language.
That's what the judicial system is for.
actually the study looks at other searches which would get them in trouble with friends, neighbours and colleagues. So yes it has been researched, partly.
Wasn’t it stuck at version 9 (or 10?) anyways, when all the other systems got 11 already?
Of course we always want things to be as safe as possible, but the longer lived an isotope is the less radioactive it is. At some point this waste is going to be less dangerous than naturally occurring uranium deposits. Maybe that is the 10,000 year mark they're shooting for and I'm just ignorant but if it's only 100 or 1,000 years then it's possible we're being more paranoid about this than is reasonable, especially since all of this material is sitting in temporary storage now.
zathura is lightweight PDF reader with vim-like keybindings and vimperator/vimium style navigation.
Especially for enterprise uses, there are a bunch of things that are only implemented in Adobe Reader, especially when it comes to forms, interactive elements, workflow etc.

PDF is only open in the sense that .docx and other MS Office formats are open - there is a spec, and you are allowed to implement it, but it is almost impossible to implement 100% of the features. Programs like Evince (Poppler) and Sumatra have come a long way. They are really excellent and read 95% of PDFs, many even faster and with less RAM usage than Adobe, and almost 100% of static PDFs ("print to PDF").

But for the occasional PDF form, if I don't want to print it and fill it out by hand, I have to use Adobe (Poppler sometimes gets the font size wrong so you don't see when you are overflowing a field, code that checks whether you filled it out correctly doesn't work, and highlighting that tells you which fields are for what kind of user to fill out is also often messed up).

Actually what I just do is to run Adobe Acrobat Pro in wine, which allows me to actually save arbitrary filled out forms.

Finally, one ironic benefit of the Adobe Reader is that it is distributed in binary form. If you are stuck on a Linux distribution a few versions back, you can just download and extract it to your home directory and run it from there. I realize that from-source or package manager purists might cringe at that thought, but it actually saved me a couple of times when I just had to print out a stubborn PDF (and couldn't ask the admin to kindly update my distribution at work...).
Have you looked at pixi.js?

http://pixijs.com
If this is generally true then this is yet another reason I'm flabbergasted by the housing bubble
'Ten thousand years that is a long time'
Key word: required.
If business spamming is an issue for a twitter user then I think you are using in twitter in a wrong way.

Personally, I get high signal to ration by following friend(less spammy) and any new source which I am interested in.

If you are getting any new source from multiple places then, it is not worth following them at all. Those news piece most probably you will get from any news aggregator.

Twitter can go down the way like google news, where it aggregates the tweets/trends which matches your activity( what you follow and tweet stuff) but that should be done as alternate view. May be tweet trends will be going in that direction.
App stores are just download managers now.
Still a huge win - remember how hard it was to get your software into a users hands, free or not, 10 years ago?
What does it mean to be a modern patriot?
not working chrome 38 dev-channel (win8.1) either... works fine on lastest chrome for android beta tho.
I use Gimp to to edit PDF files. Works amazingly well.
Git guilt, blame, and code review
Other way to say the same on the answers on this thread:

Because MS own the enterprise/market and more exactly, the market for developers. So, apart of MS, what was left? C/C++?

Back in the days, the push of MS for developers was huge. Even in a latin america country (where I live) the MS conferences in a secondary city were huge. Everyone meet there. Even the people that do mainframes, netware, and be part of other communities like delphi, sybase. etc.

So, Java was the first concerted effort that intent to do the same. IBM/SUN/Others start to push for the community (because: How take of C/C++? Nobody). It start to show some kind of documentation, books, examples, etc. And provide a alternative, like everyone else explain here.

In short: Java explode because try harder to be the pepsi of the MS coca-cola.
Firefox's builtin pdf.js reader has really matured and I switched to using it as my primary reader. It's even good enough for me to read books since it remembers the location I'm on, even if the browser process dies horribly.
Electronic aura could be answer to lost passwords
Thanks for the explanation and the link!

> In any case, forfeiture was done to people who were not even charged with anything, much less convinced of a crime.

It looks like that isn't changing under this reform.
ISV Stardock: 2014 customer report [pdf]
Isn't this type of attitude what holds Linux back from being a viable desktop OS? Average consumers would want popular apps that they know. How is that harmful?

Just because Linux is open source, doesn't mean every app on it has to be. It needs popular apps to ever be a real desktop OS. No different than why Windows phone OS struggles today.
It was originally defined that way, but the definition was changed to use physical constants for this very reason.
Someone might be interested in an interactive version I made here http://callum.com/apps/threejs_app_template_interactive/inde...
> execute on the spot any law enforcement agent caught in the act of violating person's civil liberties.

Surely this rule would create a rather suicidal agency? Or is due cause no longer a civil liberty?
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Buying BTC for 2500 AUD on https://anxbtc.com/ right now would net you 3.875512102 BTC, which can be sold for 2302.054188836 USD on Bitstamp. At current exchange rates that's a 2% loss on the transfer alone, and you'd incur the wire transfer fee anyway, when sending the USD from Bitstamp to your US bank account.

I think the bottleneck is currently the BTCAUD market, where the spread is 1.43% (http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/anxhkAUD.html), and also liquidity on US-based exchanges where you can avoid the subsequent international wire transfer.
The kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight. Mass is independent of gravity, so the standard is the same on earth, on the moon, and in null gravity.

The weight of a kilogram would change depending on your gravity. That happens on earth too, just at a smaller scale.
yeah, I use the valet key that came with my car, or I take the regular key off of the key ring if I don't have the valet key available.
> Just because Linux is open source, doesn't mean every app on it has to be

No, but every app being open source (or rather Free Software, which is usually the case) can be supported easily by communities of users who can then bring it to tons of different architectures. That's why you get Evince on ARM, for example, and not the official Adobe Acrobat Reader.
I'm not sure if GP's suggestion is actually viable (the whole "who watches the watchers" problem, and there is no way funding to the new department could match the existing departments - ie at best, it will not be that effective).

However, I've always thought that judicial system is a mean to check the legislative branch (rather than executive). The reasons being that judicial system has no mean to enforce/ prevent wrong doing (legislative can cut funding), and they also have no way to proactive prevent any wrong doings from happening (you can't do investigation, and anything that reaches the court necessitates a lawsuit).
I hope that there is no secret that the company is Adobe doing everything to ensure that its products were not released under Linux systems.
My 15 year old Honda has locks on all of those things, that you cannot unlock with the valet key. There is a lock on the trunk lever, a lock on the shelf in the back window for the seats, and a lock inside the armrest cubby in the back for the fold-down cup-holder stowaway door thinger.
Yes it is up to date. The info/about section is a great read -- he talks about the reason he created this site, the source of the data and also explains the software stack: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/about.html
In a month, someone writes a QBASIC version with random map generation and a month later, someone writes a javascript AI that can play it.
> Millions of consumers may use Stripe/whoever to send $$ to millions of other consumers, but that might all be handled by a (relatively) few BTC flying back and forth in batches on the back-end, which doesn't necessarily require a large per-BTC price.

That depends on what you mean by "large per-BTC price". It requires a certain minimum BTC price to move a certain amount of money when settling in bitcoin. You can't move $1M USD in one Bitcoin transaction if a single bitcoin is worth 1 cent and there are only 20 million of them. So the bitcoin price measured in a certain currency limits the maximum transaction volume for that currency when settling in bitcoin.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it requires great liquidity/market depth. One must be able to buy or sell a lot of bitcoins without affecting the price. This is the essence of money: a high-liquidity commodity.

> I guess I mean "valuable" in the intrinsic sense, not the financial sense.

When settling in bitcoins, they need to have value in "the financial sense". That's a requirement.
Half (50%) of iOS developers and
even more (64%) Android developers
are operating below the “app poverty line”
of $500 per app per month.

Maybe it's because there are so many clones and one-off experiments on these stores. For example, how many versions of Piano Tiles / Don't Tap the White Tile are there??? I can't even tell which one is the original at this point.

Also, some people will just write an app as a hobby, or to pad their resume. At least for the App Store, if you make $9 per month, you've already paid off your yearly subscription fee of $99, and can safely leave your apps up forever, even if they are below the "app poverty line."

I would be interested to see what percentage of developers who are actually trying to make a living from their apps are succeeding or failing.
It is fun. How does the maze is generated ? i.e. Can you generate the maze using a program or do you have to design each of the maze manually ?
Something like Amazon Matchbook is a better solution in my opinion.
I use both Okular and Google Chrome for filling PDF forms.
Science lesson from Gujarat: Stem cells in Mahabharata, cars in Veda
The Hot Seat: One child too many
> "But we should expect, and demand, better of the people who are tasked with keeping us safe at night, who are supposed to be the best of us."

The vast, vast, vast majority of people who serve in the armed forces of the US do so honorably and with a level of commitment that belies the importance of their jobs. They're young kids, not even old enough to drink, and in large part they come from circumstances where they had little opportunity or were surrounded by an environment that didn't respect following the rules, doing good work, and working well with others.

SO when you talk about the cultural problem you believe exists within the military, I'd like to remind you that the military is largely composed of people who are not far removed from the civilian culture they grew up in. You get former gang-bangers in the Army, religious nuts in the Air Force, and so on.

So if there are problems in our military culture, it's because there are problems in our culture as a whole. The military doesn't change points of view, correct deep psychological problems or reverse trauma, eliminate racist leanings or homophobia. It does NONE of those things. What it does effectively is train people to work as a team and follow rules to get things done. It's VERY effective at that.

To take one of your examples: Guantanamo. When was the last time you heard the actual voting public railing to get that gulag closed? Did you hear about a write-in campaign to Congress? How about a media blast to educate the public about what it's really like there?

You didn't. That's because the public wants it to exist. Congress made it impossible to close Guantanamo based on the politics of giving people actual trials in the USA.

You seem to labor under the idea that the military goes off on its own and decides to do things that shock the conscience. It doesn't. It follows orders from the civilian leadership. The CIVILIAN leadership. And that leadership often sucks ass. From the President to the Congress, getting good leaders that care about how the military goes about doing its job and HOW it does it is so rare as to be an anomaly in my country's history.

edit: spelling.
It took me a long time to realize that articles related to a topic can be seen by clicking on the year. This instruction is hidden below the screen fold. It'd also be nice to see actual numbers (along with the %) for each year during hover.

It'd also be useful to see a curated list of topics to select from, instead of just randomly picking some related topics on page load. Hopefully they harvest some interesting suggestions they receive through @nyt. There are some fun topic-suggestions in this thread already.

Overall, a nifty tool that I wish existed for all news sources in the world and worked across all languages.

Thanks to the creator(s)!
Qualifying programmers: How to cut through the technobabble, voodoo and fear
there's nothing stopping him and any other rich person he can convince to make that kind of contribution to the public debt right now.

https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454/
In Chesapeake Bay waters warmed by summer sun, a deadly pathogen lies in wait
I like the comments. I look forward to them after each level.
Why Killing Cash is Key to MasterCard’s Competitive Strategy
The risks associated with a launch accident are far too high.

I googled a little to find a reliable set of launch success statistics but found nothing I was willing to include herein (it's Sunday morning, I got up late and am lazy right now), but overall success rates are in the high 80% to mid 90%. Failing to launch a satellite is one thing, having radioactive material spread atmospherically by a launch failure is quite another.

Then there's the cost. Yeah, that would be high. Especially with adding containers to protect against the risk described above.
One that's easy to overlook - just open in google chrome.
Nowhere nearly as shocking as his first Xiaomi shocker, which was that in the actual product photos for the phone, the camera lenses were the Apple Aperture logo.
> Accounting for 47% of app developers, the “have nothings” include the 24% of app developers – who are interested in making money, it should be noted - who make nothing at all.

This kinda implies they're filtering out people releasing apps just for fun, but I'm not sure how "interested" you have to be to qualify as an "interested in making money" developer.
Can you explain more about that? It's just a PDF - it opens without problems in my version of Firefox, Chrome, and Acrobat.

Are you running any extensions or scripts? Do you want to help me trace the problem? Does anyone else have the problem?