skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these probes can be visualized by standard fluorescence imaing instruments including fluorescence microscopes, TIRF, gel scanners, flow cytometry, optical animal scanners, clinical cameras etc. They also have long fluorescence lifetimes and so can be imaged by fluorescence lifetime instruments. What the article didn't delve into is that because of an additional magnetic sensitivity that the nanodiamonds have, we can improve image quality and imaging deeper into tissue with an additional hardware piece that we can add on to existing systems or in a stand-alone system that is cheaper to be tailored to n=only nanodiamonds. if you want more info on this, I can elaborate or have a chat with you
The Macintosh IIci came out in 1989. Pretty good for a 24 year old machine! I pull mine out every once in a while to remind myself that we haven't advanced that much in a quarter of a century.
Link is a 404 for me.
I had a Commodore 64 with GEOS as a kid. It always amazes me what you can do without umpteen gazillioplex levels of abstraction.
The researchers found that more affluent white men in the study reported the highest frequency of drug abuse and binge drinking, yet they still had the most upward mobility.

"The extent of what we refer to as problem behavior is greatest among whites and less so among African-Americans," Alexander says. "Whites of advantaged background had the highest percentages who did all three of those things — that was binge drinking, any drug use and heavy drug use."

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interesting
Those three opinions are heavily oriented towards an acceptance of totalitarism, and that's probably why most of the HN crowd is not fond of them.

- Snowden is a traitor: all hail secret laws! Burn the dissidents! All hail totalitarism! We should never be able to say to anyone what's wrong when we discover illegal and illegitimate actions!

- Piracy is not okay: leads to "we should stop piracy", which leads to horrible things like either "trusted computing" and willingly or not willingly executing malware on your own machines, or censorship and total global surveillance.

- The NSA snooping is not so bad: you discover that some government agencies have more power than the president of those countries (the intelligence community have the ultimate power to blackmail anyone and their mother), but it's not so bad, they are obviously "good people" so they don't misuse it.

When you are a hacker, you know that anything has flaws (especially humans) and that we don't live in the teletubbies world, so you can't trust an entity that has so much power.

Yeah, no wonder those opinions are shunned on HN.
Remarkable story about a remarkable man. If not on HN, I don't think I would have stumbled across it. Thank you.
Why numbering should start at zero (2008)
I'd recommend reading "Escape From Reason" by Francis Schaeffer. Even if you don't buy his conclusions, it gives a very insightful look at where we are and how we got here.
Airware (YC W13) is hiring web engineers to work with drones
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To address your concerns about privacy: we request an OAuth token from Gmail. While this token expires after 1h, we actually use it only once and we never store it anywhere. We analyze your email habits exclusively by looking at metadata, not at the content of emails.

Now, the app is mostly an experiment on email: while most modern communication are shared by default, emails is still completely siloed. We are allowing people to compare their email habits, without, in fact, exposing private information.
Exactly. The 120 MHz Pentium servers were state of the art when we bought them. Some of the fastest we could get our hands on. And way too expensive (I seem to remember we spent the equivalent of about $16k/piece on them - driven up by the absurdly large 128MB RAM, and the huge diskspace of a few GB - but I may be mistaken).

I was primarily an Amiga user still at that time - happily using an Amiga 3000 quite similar in hw specs to the Mac in the linked article as my primary desktop.
Pinterest Has A New IM Function
"We will be building 130 miles of brand new, passenger-only track. While we will not begin high speed service on that immediately, the current Amtrak trains, rolling onto our track at Madera, will be able to open their throttles and go 110-120 mph with existing equipment, shaving 75-90 minutes off the trip."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/californ...
Transformer Paper Turns Itself Into A Robot. Cool
Having a simple todo list has helped a lot, both for keeping myself on track and giving me a sense of satisfaction whenever I can cross something off of it.
Tearing down the teardown
Show HN: Open source clone of Heavybit Library player in Meteor
Did Valve just soft-launch the Source 2 engine?
Hey Show HN,

I built this over 1 weekend and I am not a good front-end developer so it was a really interesting experience for me. What I like about this player is how the transcript is synchronized with slides and playback.

The original version from Heavybit is here: http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/2013-10-15-marten-mick...

The code for my clone: https://github.com/Slava/talk-player

Blog-post: http://devblog.me/talk-player
Philosophy of Language graduate here (though a linguist may be more appropriate).

First off, discriptivism is the only logical way to view language. Rules are meant to be broken, slowly, over a long period of time. You use "hopefully" (an adverb) completely incorrectly all the time. Get over the schoolmarm rules.

Secondly, this usage is purely fashion. Dostoevsky used them to excess, Hemingway did the opposite. Hemingway is cool these days; Dostoevsky is about as cool as that semicolon i just used.

Thirdly, proper writing is important, you should consider your audience more than you do these flame wars about adverbs and one or two spaces after a period.
Let's try to see it from another human perspective.

You've been living in Oakland for the last 10 years. You work at a local place making $15/hr. You have built up a lot of friends and enjoy your life. Suddenly the tech boom hits. A year later your landlord decides to sell the house. You go out and try to find a new place but its twice what your last place was and over half your income. But that doesn't matter because the market is so competitive the new landlord wouldn't rent to you anyway. So now you go into a desperate struggle to save the life you've built for the last 10 years. Calling and emailing everywhere trying to find a place. You have 20 days left. 10 days left. You have an old friend in Oklahoma City. He says you can crash for a couple weeks and that there's plenty of jobs and cheap rent. You know you have to go and leave behind your life. You know that if the tech boom didn't show up none of that would have happened. Sure you're not going to die on the streets. But I would probably be pretty pissed.
'For instance, one cannot really say something "snobbishly" because that isn't specific manner of talking'

What a bunch of pedantic nonsense. Nobody who speaks English actually views the word "said" so narrowly.

'the content of the speech and the speaker's attitude may be snobbish, but that doesn't mean that the speech is executed in some manner that can be identified as a snobbish way of speaking.'

Yes it does. What planet are you from? An angry person talks in an angry way. A sad person talks sadly. A snobbish person will probably talk snobbishly. Did some English teacher who told you you can't end sentences in prepositions trick you into believing this?
FYI Manning identifies as a woman.
It is incredible, the equivalent of the "Oceans" movies but electronic instead. For everyone one of these sophisticated attacks there is a huge number of smash and grabs.

Really interesting stuff. It is only getting better as well (imho). I am honestly not noticing any increase in security aptitude in the average engineer. People are still making the same mistakes.
Thanks for the props! We plan to offer a few different sizes of the brightest diamonds possible to our customers. The sizing and separation of the nanodiamonds can be accomplished a few different ways, the challenge is always in preventing aggregation. Bikanta's secret sauce is in our process to stabilize and functionalize the particles, irregardless of what the size and initial residues are on the surface.
All very well to clown around, but here's what the article (literally) says:

> Good writers go back and consider each adverb to make sure it's needed.
Locative and temporal adverbs are a very large, very useful class of adverbs. I admit that the author does mention adverbs ending in "-ly" as being particularly troublesome, but she doesn't say why just those are so bad.

I assert: the mentality I exhibit in this thread is actually (!!!) that of someone who's read far too many ignorant, knee-jerk justifications of ill-thought-out (!!!) "rules" formulated and propagated by people who just don't know what they're talking about. As I said in a different comment, she even admits that she'd never really thought about the reasons behind the rule she so happily promulgates, and when asked about it she didn't even wonder, well, ARE adverbs so bad? No, she just ginned up some examples of bad writing that also employs adverbs.
You can check https://frontapp.com/checkup/30c7a55ba3011356dce if you want to see how the results look.
Including surfing the web: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/surf-the-web-...

And some people have run web servers on C64's too.

Contiki OS runs on C64 and provides a full TCP/IP stack for the C64 as well as a simple browser: http://www.contiki-os.org/
(This site will apparently create a customized image: http://contiki.cbm8bit.com/)
1 awesome way to get actionable landing page feedback
Yahoo to roll out end-to-end encryption option for all Yahoo Mail users in 2015
Exactly right, it's the potential abuse in the future that's scary. In 30 years time I see it playing out something like this:

Potential Politician: "I want to run on a platform of reform, government transparency and freedom of speech"

NSA: "We have these emails you sent to a friend in London when you were a student 20 years ago, where you intimated how you slept with another woman than your girlfriend, now your wife..."

PP: "I resign to spend more time with my family"

All it takes is for one bad apple to come along and really screw things over for everyone. Almost everyone has something that could be used against them in the court of public opinion. Mass surveillance just primes the pump for abusive individuals to blackmail the world.

Do you want your government run by elected individuals or the unelected intelligence agents who are blackmailing them?

PS: Pre-snowden, I'd have said this is crazy conspiracy theory talk. Nowadays, I dunno...
In the same spirit , Christensen talks about incumbents improving their performance more than customers care about. It doesn't seem to describe the voice recognition industry ,at all. I'm not sure even today's voice recognition systems can be considered "good enough".
If you use a Mac, iTerm2 has nifty Cmd+D binding to split windows vertically, and Cmd+Shift+D to split horizontally, then Cmd+[ and Cmd+] to move around. It actually has an advantage over splitting Vim since you can actually split off a whole shell.

You can achieve the same thing with tmux of course, this just feels very natural and is available out of the box with no configuration required.
I just tried it out on an email address that doesn't contain any sensitive information:

I think there is something off: gmail lets me browse to 50k+ emails (or conversations?), your tool reports around 1k emails received. I'm not sure that 50k number is accurate, but there are a lot more than 1k.
It's a fundamental problem with bitcoin in that it hugely incentivizes computer hacking. The more widespread bitcoin and blockchain becomes, the greater the incentive. There will be a lot of collateral damage from all this.
Windows 9: Goodbye, Charms bar, hello virtual desktops?
> It should be, "do not use vague, semantically empty or inapplicable adverbs".

Which more properly generalizes to: "do not use vague, semantically empty or inapplicable words"; there's really nothing special about adverbs in this.

> For instance, one cannot really say something "snobbishly" because that isn't specific manner of talking

Certainly such a description is not factual but a description of the subjective feeling created in a particular observer, nevertheless this not vague, semantically empty, or inapplicable in all cases (it might be inappropriate if the situation called for a simple factual description, but descriptions of events which include references to a particular observer's subjective reaction are not always unintended.)

> the content of the speech and the speaker's attitude may be snobbish, but that doesn't mean that the speech is executed in some manner that can be identified as a snobbish way of speaking.

"Attitude" is a subjective external interpretation of the internal motivation beyond the manner of doing something, the actual concrete way in which an "attitude" such as snobbishness manifests well may be in the manner in which speech is executed (it may also be in the content of the speech, or in the combination of the content and the manner.) So I would say that "saying X snobbishly" is both potentially valid and, while still subjective, one step less removed from a factual description than saying that the speakers attitude was snobbish at the time of the speech act.
Yes, it is pretty noisy. My assumption is that PNG is pretty good at encoding 2D patterns too, and there are some patterns: https://github.com/liuliu/klaus/blob/master/ccv/ccvResources... This is a big hack though. I am pretty sure there are better dictionary-based compression method at the last step, but pngcrush gives me some nice small gain already :)
Those numbers are also for a current average $1k computer; a faster computer would naturally lower those numbers.
We only look at the last 100 days. The global ranking is based on the total number of conversations you engage: threads where you and someone else write.
> What bothers me is not that the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich. That's pretty much the history of the world, and it's unlikely to change any time soon.

I know that was said in passing, but I want to point out that it's not true: Economic mobility exists, and the amount of economic mobility can and does change.

Economic mobility has decreased recently in the U.S., but let's not accept that as a fact of life. We can do better, and we can innovate ways to do better than ever (e.g., by providing quality education to disadvantaged children).
Of course the subject is bound to rub some people up the wrong way. What I will say is that science should not be viewed as a substitute for a religion, they're separate areas of human endeavour. Science frequently used as a tool by atheists to justify their position to non-atheists, but in the way it's used it's almost followed as a matter of blind faith. Just stop trying to justify your position, you made your choice and that's it.
gccgo sometimes produces faster code than gc, but not always. So no, there's no plans to replace gc with gccgo.
To me the most interesting part is the equally spaced wood platforms. They went pretty deep and if it's true they were there before the digging began, I can find no real explanation for them.
Thank you. I never knew that.
This Image Fixes Hacker News
Texas to get shinkansen system
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My main thought when looking over PayTango was "Is there any reason I would want to switch to this from Freshbooks?" From what I can see, the answer is "no."
Tried it. Seems OK. Not worth the access to data it required.

This post would do better on Reddit in dataisbeautiful or something.

Here's an example scraped from Google:
https://checkup.frontapp.com/9df36f035e474281931

More:

https://checkup.frontapp.com/ef2358ade51b29fb9fe
https://checkup.frontapp.com/1b68de2c4523717ee8a
https://checkup.frontapp.com/189bdd53fc517dcd1ee
https://checkup.frontapp.com/72dd67265b3244f5b37 (Rank 9)
Re: "How likely is it that a valid transaction that is seen by a large part of the network won't be included in the blockchain?"

My understanding is that if you don't wait for multiple confirmations, then it's not particularly challenging to double spend bitcoins. That's why vendors don't accept a transaction as "good" until multiple transactions have occurred.

And waiting for 30 minutes to pay your restaurant bill would kind of suck.
There's tremendous value in having the mental freedom to break off your roots and just go. That's something very precious and rare. Feeling the freedom to build and create something wonderful is, in and of itself, wonderful.
I mean, I could just as easily have come to the conclusion that nouns and adjectives deserve close scrutiny with the following examples:

Nancy yelled to express the anger she felt whenever someone questioned her.

It's hilarious, incidentally, that she contrasts the adverb-involving sentence "Nancy yelled angrily ..." with a much fuller scene of several sentences containing dialogue between two characters. Big surprise that there are significant differences there.

"Well, I guess if you had grown up with it, you would understand polo", Minx said. Minx was a snob.

A dumping ground for what? Let me give you a hint, she replied as she doted on her wife. Did you get it yet, he responded, showing his zeal.

... looking at the article again, I think support for the contention that she doesn't know what she's talking about can be found in her description of "thanks so much" as involving an adverb that modifies an adjective.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Variance is terrible for games. We're at the cusp of a VR renaissance where frames are ideally rendered every 11ms (90fps), and VR is way broader than video games! STW is basically a non-starter in this environment.
A process to change any area of your life
the main problem is putting democratically elected politicians in charge of state finances - of course they are going to get as large an immediate payout as possible, and not worry about the long term consequences: that is exactly what you would expect from someone on a four year election cycle.
Facebook Upgrades to v2.1 API
This is a good way to think on an individual level: ie. taking control of one's own destiny, but it's not adequate on a statistical/societal level. We know for a fact that there are number of correlating factors to success beyond an individual's ambition/discipline/chutzpah. If we ignore this as a society and the rich people from advantaged backgrounds (ie. the majority) continue to pat themselves on the back for their work ethic, then the growing divide between rich and poor will accelerate and destabilize the very status quo which the self-satisfied rich depend on to maintain their wealth and privilege.
Reminds me of Square Invoices
https://squareup.com/invoices
RISC-V is looking very hopeful, I hope I can get in on some chips soon.
Grammar rules should certainly be descriptive, no argument there. But the proscription against adverbs is a stylistic rule, not a grammatical one. Arguing descriptive vs prescriptive on a rule of style doesn't make much sense to me; isn't the point of style rules to be prescriptive?

Other than that, I largely agree with your broader points. Even when used, this should be a 'soft' rule and not a hard one. It can be ignored or purposely broken depending on the audience and tone of the work.

I think it's a good rule (or challenge or constraint) to give students who are starting to write, because mediocre authors can reach to adverbs as a cheap way to beef up their descriptions, and this becomes a crutch that prevents them from exercising other descriptive methods. I'm a fan of putting on other constraints as well (e.g. no 'internal' descriptions of emotions, only inferences from actions) in order to force them to develop other skills.
If Snowden had only ended up engaging in whistleblowing it that pardon might even be pre-signed and sitting in a folder somewhere so Obama can wow his base.

As it stands Snowden did so much more than whistleblowing that I figure Obama will be content to let him stay in his padded gulag with Snowden's FSB friends for years to come.
It's risible to single adverbs out for this treatment.
Google's AdSense Police and the Folly of Appeal
The same thing can be said about credit cards. If there is a problem with Bitcoin (and I'm not sure that there is) it is that unlike with credit cards there is no possible recovery of stolen coins.
I have to respectfully disagree with some of this article, based on my experience with an accelerator. The point isn't necesarily to raise money. For us, we met lifelong connections and mentors who taught us stuff we knew nothing about. For example, in a week we learned how to do inside sales effectively, which would have otherwise taken us months.

And yes, it is easier to raise funds this way. But you don't have to raise funds at the end. Most accelerators give you barely enough to live off of. If you go through a prestigious accelerator, you will have a lot easier time raising funds in the future from the connections you make.

Finally, interviewing customers works great for some. It works terribly for others, since it can be misleading. If you're in a good accelerator, the mentors will help guide you on delegation of time spent coding vs bus dev vs talking to customers.
Is there an equivalent term to "vote with your wallet", only for jobs?
These kind of injunctions do more harm that good, I think. Style is incredibly variable, changes with the tides, and rarely follows any well defined set of rules.

I've always resonated with the way Robert M. Pirsig describes it in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – good style is hard to nail down, but you know it when you see it. Better to show your students examples of (what you consider to be) good writing, hone their instincts as to what makes an enaging read, and get them to write as much as possible, in as many ways as possible.
Toxicity concerns are always utmost to consider when developing tools for the clinic! Thus far, all studies regarding nanodiamonds have shown biocompatibility and non-toxicity. Coming from a research background and having done a number of in vivo studies myself, these studies we plan to repeat with each targeted version of the nanodiamond (particle + ligand such as antibody) before reaching the clinic. To clarify, we are at the pre-clinical level currently.
Right. Exactly what the tag-line says :-)
No, (a) not all exit nodes and VPN IPs are effected (b) not all servers have that option enabled. I use Tor and am very frequently blocked from using reddit, imgur and other sites because of it.
Detesters, Phasers and Dean Drives
> I like to see it as ISPs and butt providers increasing their security and patching vulnerabilities thanks to Bitcoin's growing adoption :)

They'd have every reason already to increase their security. So I'll take the other approach, and continue to enjoy popcorn when I read about yet another one of these heists.
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal" - Richard Nixon