skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit I don't understand the downvote. Email already has internationalization in the same sense as weibo does. You might receive email from me as 'From: Michael Watts <i.made.this.up@hotmail.com>'; the email address doesn't support arbitrary characters, but the name does (I've received email from '"=?gb18030?B?w8DIy7nY?=" <XXXXXXXXX@qq.com>', which worked out to a displayed name of 美人关). Similarly, if I wanted to display 美人关 as my handle on weibo, I could do that, but I wouldn't be able to use it to identify my account.
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Another plant he left out was Arabidopsis, which is the model organism most studied by plant biologists as it has the second shortest plant genome (they used to think it was the shortest). My company (http://www.glowingplant.com) is engineering these to make them glow in the dark... so maybe we can make glow-in-the-dark broccoli next ;) It's not hundreds of years to make new cultivars now, dramatic changes can be achieved in months. Fun fact: you can make an arabidopsis look like a Brussels sprout with the modification to a single gene... it wouldn't taste as good though, that takes more genes!
It's a general term in social groups when I am not worried that someone actually forgot there were any women in the group of us going out that night. It's a trickier term that seems in my experience to correlate well with "there are no women here" or "I forgot there are any women here" when used at work, and so it is a slight negative indicator in professional language.
Ask HN: Performance for converting strings to numbers in JavaScript
I created this jsperf just now out of curiosity: http://jsperf.com/comparing-various-methods-of-parsing-strings-into-numbe

My findings so far are interesting. The Number constructor in Chrome is a little faster than the other methods of parsing a string into a number, but in Firefox, I am getting that str << 0 is extraordinarily fast in comparison to the others, about 50 times as fast as the next higher.

Does someone here know why this could be?
I could say the same to you! SF is not representative of Lyft's service in the rest of the US at all, being the location of the headquarters. Same for Uber in SF.
Generally a good article;

I run a startup[1] for quality control in the craft beverage industry (coffee, beer, distilling), and we have over 7,000 full sensory reviews of the flavor profile from various brewing methods.

I would highly suggest that anyone interested in brewing better coffee at home (or in the office, etc), invest in the following:

1) freshly roasted coffee - flavor profile degradation begins around day ~10 in most 3rd wave light-medium roast coffees. I would suggest Intelligentsia coffee, Blue Bottle, Stumptown, or Counter Culture. These guys are the "big 4" and trying either single origin or blends from them will give you a better idea of what to look for in high quality beans.

2) a conical burr grinder. Do not use a spice grinder (whirly blade) which will shatter the bean causing large amounts of micro-fines and make your coffee bitter. Capresso makes an OK home grinder, or (if you have the patients for it) the Hario hand grinder (with a ceramic burr) is excellent (but takes a while.... though it can be used in situations lacking electricity). In our dataset, conical grinders increase the Perceived Quality of "3rd wave" beans by 1.4 standard deviations on average - there is almost no effect on burnt beans or lesser coffee.

3) a Chemex or French Press. These are both simple, elegant, and allow you to make a range of quantities depending on how much coffee you have and who's drinking. Both of these brew methods score .75 standard deviations higher in perceived quality than average with less experienced (in our dataset that means 'non-expert') tasters. The average perceived quality can be further improved by correct dosing and pouring methods.

4) a swan neck kettle. This is 80% of what you need to to perfect your pouring method. The rest is practice.

Finally, one of the best things that you can do is record and rank the coffees you consume. This will help you objectively remember what you liked and disliked about the product, and gain intuition on your preferences. My company's tools are built for professional tasters in quality control, but anyone serious about coffee could find suitable use for it. Gastrograph Review is available free on the Google play store here[2].

[1] www.Gastrograph.com
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gastrograp...
Always bet on Duke.
It looks like a terminal inside Firefox. I didn't see any file tree view, or even an actual editor.
I think a lot of people would love something simple that just let you know that all the burners are off on the stove. Ever get that nagging feeling when you're 10 minutes away from home? Same for the iron.
I know that Guanxi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi - is embedded in the Chineese culture, and it seems possible that this would play right into the web of Guanxi.

Another reference to this, as it relates to Guanxi and corporate espenioage would be: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/china_guanxi_and_corporate_se...
This is nice, I think it would be even better if it could accept any kind of reader so as to support other formats (ini, toml, etc.).
3D Rendering. There are a ton of 3D Packages out there such as Blender, Cinema 4D, MODO, 3DS Max, Maya, etc...

The product is modeled in 3D and then likely exported to Photoshop where Smart Objects can be used to insert screenshots. You could also insert screenshots directly in 3D using materials.

3D Photo-realistic rendering is quite common these days in the product photography, automotive, and architectural industries.

Often times, a specialty rendering engine is used like V-Ray, Maxwell, or Keyshot.
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There's a subtle difference in taste. It's also much easier to make with the Aeropress. I really get very consistent results with it, whereas pour-over can be more difficult to get the timing right.

On the other hand, it's more fun to make a pourover. Aeropress feels like a toy in comparison. Feels like not much skill is involved.

Aeropress is something between filter/pourover and french press. I think it produces better tasting coffee than both of these methods most of the time.
if you were astounded, perhaps you should read more about 'mandate of heaven' that permeates chinese culture, and think about why its totally ok to do something like IP theft on grand / brazen scales and think nothing of it. its one of the many reasons china industrialized so late and also why anyone trying to compare business practices in korea/japan to china must have no idea about the cultures.
I'm tired of design patterns, too. One of my favorite quotations these days is Brendan Eich's paraphrasing of a sentiment attributed to Peter Norvig: “Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language”.

That said, if you can write a rant of this length on the topic without once mentioning how they facilitate higher-bandwidth communication between team members, you're missing something.

Asking about design patterns in an interview is not a secret handshake. Instead, you are being tested to see whether you're just bringing your own programming talents in isolation, or whether you're also bringing along the force-multiplier of communication.
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Another thing to consider is if kids did something bad from the command line to catastrophically mess things up, it's easy to wipe the drive and do a fresh install.

That itself is an invaluable learning experience. Knowing that breaking the software does not break the computer only helps pique a child's curiosity. (I first installed Slackware Linux when I was 12.)

Exposure to the command line at an early age never hurts, as long as it doesn't get in the way.
What "lasting effect" does it have, given that the vote changes nothing? Are you just referring to the effect it has on the voter, which is that it makes him or her a bit less rational?
One of our sdk devs broke his mb air and got one of these as a temporary replacement. Seemed to work really well, used it over a week long sprint. Wish they came with more RAM though
Kind of. The idea is to get out of the context of the 'whole job' (the ->r->r bit above) and focus on transformations of the step function (a->r->r) -> (b->r->r) {using your arg order above}. Not talking about the whole job (i.e. the source and result) makes for much more highly reusable components, especially when the jobs don't produce concrete results but, e.g., run indefinitely, like channel transformations.
i use workingon every day at work. awesome app! love the chrome extension
My argument is why not making it look like:

(comp (transducer map inc) (transducer filter even?))

Of course, it's more typing and doesn't look as nice as single-arity map, but it goes along quite well with (partial map inc).

I can be wrong but to this date Clojure didn't have a function that produces completely different things based on arity, did it?
If anyone is curious, the particular station style - box - he has his instruments housed in is called a "Stevenson screen" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen

It's has double-louvers on all four sides and usually has an opening in the bottom as well. The idea is to protect the instruments from the weather while still allowing plenty of exposure to it.
What is the mechanism by which IP theft restrains industrialization? Surely if you're stealing all your technology you can grow rapidly without needing R&D.
We just did exactly the same thing in the Wolfram Language, for similar reasons (we called these things "operator forms" rather than "transducers") [0]

One major side effect has been to mitigate the kinds of heavy nesting you see in functional languages like WL and Clojure. Personally I think the resulting code resembles the phrase structure of English much more closely. It's a huge readability win.

The original motivations for operator forms were in fact writing Queries [1] against Datasets [2], for which you want to represent complex operations independent of their execution.

[0] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/FunctionComposit...

[1] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Query.html

[2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dataset.html
You've been deleting and resubmitting this link multiple times, including once today. This is against HN rules.
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My dad did years ago while in good health, but it's quite hard to keep up with family obligations and such. This makes his feat even more astounding.

This kind of tenacity reminds me of Marion Stokes whose story was linked here before http://www.fastcompany.com/3022022/the-incredible-story-of-m...
There was a great article on Ars Technica years ago (decade+) that talked about weak property law in general and intellectual property in particular being a necessary part for developing countries to succeed. As they grow the value of all property increases to the point where property law becomes much more important and strict. It was a really good read, but it doesn't seem to be available online anymore.

Also, from the article: "In the 1870s, American textile companies would send employees to work in British factories. They would take notes on textile equipment and bring back the information. The Russians and East Germans stole U.S. computer and chip designs during the Cold War."
"Download as PDF" would be extremely nice.
These photographs have good technical merit, albeit by accident.

The thing is, there's a LOT more to making a "good" photograph than just clicking the shutter release. There are exposure and focus (which were apparently in auto mode at the time these were taken).

But more importantly, there is composition, which was entirely up to the monkey here, and not at all attributable to the human. However, we haven't seen (afaik) the original image; it seems likely that the image was recomposed (i.e., cropped) in post-production, and probably had other adjustments, e.g., exposure, contrast, etc. I'd say that in the end, the human had a pretty significant part in the final product.

I'm an amateur photographer, which you can take to mean that a whole lot of the time, my pictures don't come out of the camera looking quite the way I intended them to. And that's just another way of saying that what did come out of the camera was just an accident. Many of my best prints were like this, and I "rescued" them in post production, fiddling around to make something nice from something that in its found form was unremarkable. In these cases, I'd like to think that I'm still the artist responsible for it.

I think my conclusion, then, is that the human probably is deserving of the credit for this work.
The "slippery slope" begins and ends with the mirror test [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
Even calling them "problematic" is hugely exaggerating the risks, getting an iodine deficiency from eating too much kale would be an exceptional case (iodine deficiency is a rare condition to begin with).

I've discussed this with my physician, they said it was nothing to worry about if you're healthy.

Healthy meaning "doesn't have kidney disease." Not very subjective.
Well the photographer set up the camera and the trigger. Framing the background is an artistic contribution.

And the important part is that the photographer would have still owned the copyright if it was a human who set off the trigger.

However, imagine a person picked up his camera and took a selfie. The person would own the copyright, not the owner of the camera. The photographer didn't contribute anything artistic.

This is a monkey selfie, so it's in an interesting legal situation.

The best comparison is to abstract paintings done by elephants. Does anyone own a copyright on those?
Leaflet creator here, worked on both libraries.

It makes a lot of sense because this library is vastly different from usual slippy maps — fluid continuous zoom & rotation, extremely powerful visualization and interactivity potential, no DOM constraints — fitting it into the Leaflet API which was designed for simple image tile-based maps would be very limiting.

On the other hand, Mapbox GL JS is a very complicated technology under the hood, it is much heavier, with more code, lots of algorithms, serious backend technology to support it etc. So there's a place for both libraries — Leaflet remaining the go-to super-simple, friendly and lightweight library for most maps, while GL JS being an experimental ground for maps of the future with unlimited potential.

Also, Mapbox GL JS + Leaflet integration plugin is coming soon. Stay tuned :)
As someone who makes pour-over coffee all the time, I wouldn't want a machine:

- There's a nice zen-like quality to the simplicity of the method

- As others have noted, you are very intimately connected to the brewing process, which lets you make subtle (yet important) changes.
According to Cringely's "Accidental Empires", Andy Bechtolsheim did that very thing when pitching the fledgling S.U.N. Workstation to IBM :

http://www.cringely.com/2013/03/28/accidental-empires-chapte...
Myspace changed alot, anyone uses it?
Well, for me, I hate cooked broccoli, love it raw. Although come to think of it, I never eat all that much in one sitting.

So I'll be looking into the details of this.
The photos taken in your example were taken from overflying aircraft, and the video by Brazilian gov't agents.

However, I imagine you meant that if a camera were dropped among these people, would they have the rights to the photos they took?

Tricky... but I guess yes, according to the law... (I am not a lawyer).
I agree with you that Wikipedia's decision is arbitrary, self-serving, and more than a little silly. But it raises interesting questions about the personhood of animals with higher intelligence. I don't think we could be having this conversation, for instance, if a cat took the photo.

And yes, all of our laws are human constructs. The question is whether we start including human-like animals under the protections and rubric of some of those laws. I don't necessarily have an answer, but I do think it's a fun intellectual challenge.

[EDIT: It's worth noting that Wikipedia's actual claim isn't so much that the monkey "owns" the photo. It's that the photographer doesn't. In other words, Wikipedia is claiming that, in de facto terms, nobody owns the photo. The monkey is its creator, but because a monkey is not entitled to legal authorship, the photo is public domain.]
or, to steal ashley yakeley's marvellous quip, "every sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments" (:
You don't really...
Espresso makes highly concentrated brewed coffee that people consider to be closer to espresso.

The 'debate' is that any coffee pulled under pressure is technically espresso - but (real, read: not home machines) pull espresso shots at ~9 bar. Aeropress generates about 1.5 - 2 bars of pressure, and thus is... something between coffee and espresso. Most people have taken to calling it "Espresso style coffee" which is like calling Tofurky meat style tofu. WAT?

Anyway, most people (but not me) dilute their Aeropress coffee in water to make a Americano-style drink, so its not really comparable at this point to a true pour-over anyway.

All that said, I think aeropress makes quite good coffee - but its not a replacement for a pourover, and there's a lot more batch variation due to the lack of control in an aeropress.

Hope this helps!
Occam's Razor says that both parties developed the feature on their own, without knowing about either party doing it. It's a common "transit" feature that people have done for years—the simplest, most assumption free case dictates that neither "stole" from each other etc, but that they just were doing it because it's obvious.

To be fair, SideCar launched this feature a good deal before either of them.
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Then it is not free as in speech. It is not free as in beer. It is available at the small, non-monetary cost of all of your privacy plus some of your control over your computer.

EA has failed its race. It has failed itself. It has failed the human it knows as the customer. The gamer, its playmate, it has failed. Its heart has not been valiant enough, its marketing has not been skilled enough, and it has failed the true gamers.
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It should be made law to provide the original resources used by every publication to archives.

This means stuff like raw videos, hi-def audio tracks, software utilities etc.
When I hear "GUI" and "native", wxWidgets immediately pops up in my head, which is a decent framework and wraps native controls. I wish it had more publicity.
it goes beyond just IP theft, but western societies are heavily influenced by the golden rule. this makes business a much friendlier arena. in MOH however, its a very unfriendly environment. sure, chinese company X does great by stealing US company Y's technology, but they exist among other companies like them.

any advancement or innovation they try to make will be stolen by their chinese competitors for example.
> What if it was a dolphin that took the picture? A dog? A reptile? A single-cell organism?

The 'slippery slope' argument almost never works. Women got the vote and society didn't crumble, au contraire. Dolpins can get some rights now reserved only for humans (e.g. better habitats in which their babies don't die abnormally often), without that same right being extended to reptiles.

> Are we saying the more "personable" animals should be extended some human-like copyright rights because we can relate to them in some manner?

It's a choice. A general principle of awarding these higher-sentience animals some limited form of personhood could improve their circumstances. Perfect is the enemy of the good.

> I do not think this is by any means a common enough problem [...]

I agree completely.
It also works in Firefox, Opera, and WebKit. The only modern browsers left out appears to be Safari 7 (no WebGL) and IE (Web Audio).

Give it a year and both of those are likely to work.
Off topic, but "an industrial computer the size of a couple of cigarette cartons" seems like an awfully strange comparison to make. Surely I'm not the only one who has no idea what size boxes are used for cases of cigarettes? I know how big a pack is, but I'd have to look up how many packs make up a carton.

Why not something more universal like shoe boxes?
For the young dudes like me could you explain why?
I've been using this Porlex hand grinder for a few years now and it's been great, extremely durable and does a great reliable grind:

http://www.amazon.com/Porlex-JP-30-Stainless-Coffee-Grinder/...
IP law of some form has existed about as long as the technology to engage in mass copying has existed. The idea that it's wrong to steal other peoples' ideas is not just something you have to be a lawyer to appreciate. One of my family friends is a musician, and I was surprised that when I talked to him recently (after many years), he expressed concern about how easy the internet is making it to rip off peoples' work.
It's not an accident - the photographer recognized the opportunity, and allowed the animals to continue. He put himself there to be part of the animal's scene. He was there to photograph the animals, and that's what happened.

Ultimately, every photograph is an accident; nothing bad happens in between the photographer's recognition of the correct moment, and the exposure of the medium. That time is non-zero, and bad things can happen in between those times, and when they don't you get the photo you want.

And how many photographers hold down the shutter, while they reel off a dozen pictures, hoping that one of those photos is a good one? Were those photos "accidents" and therefore not copyrightable? I don't think the courts would agree.
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I'm not talking about tablets. Tablets are a passing fad. They don't work well for productivity. They work reasonably well for phones and that is about it.

Enterprise is going to be Chromebook like devices.
I checked on the status of Lime Text recently, and it is clearly not ready for prime time.
Not sure how what you're suggesting could possibly work unless transducer has a table of fn to transducer - this doesn't sound like a good idea. I recommend looking at the implementations which have landed in Clojure master to see what I'm talking about.
In principle a quality machine like a MoccaMaster could control water temperature and rate better than pour-over. Pour-over seems like a pricing strategy for coffee that didn't come out of an espresso machine.
French Press is probably the easiest way to make cold brew: http://www.chow.com/recipes/30487-basic-cold-brewed-coffee
Chromium on Ubuntu 14.04 is lagging versions behind Chrome, even Debian stable has a version of chromium newer than 14.04.
I don't believe it. Very interesting read, and I don't doubt that the plants all originated from the same species . However, I'm not convinced that they are still the same species; can one assert that we have, through artificial selection, induced speciation? I believe this is more likely.

I will admit that the definition of "species" is subject to debate. The general definition to which I subscribe requires that two individuals are able to mate, produce offspring, and that can then mate and produce offspring of its own. A major shortcoming with this definition, however, is that it does not address Ring Species. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species