skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cancer’s Super-Survivors: How Immunotherapy Is Transforming Oncology
Seven Years in the Arabic Game Market
How to make Evernote work for you
Apple Retail Store – Hour of Code Workshop
Day job? Sun 4 and Scientific Linux 4.5 (it's REAL painful).

Side project? LAMP + cPanel

Hobby projects? MEAN + Playing with docker & AWS. I'm pretty excited about Docker HUB as if I can get a firm grasp on it I might be able to convince my day job to abandon our current setup and go with a much faster AWS/EC2 setup.
The Political Bias of Workers in Each Profession
'Colossal cuts' needed after General Election, warns IFS
Learn to Code for Free at Your Local Apple Store
Barnes and Noble should ideally end the entire Nook business as well. Every month I spend around $50 buying books at a physical B&N. I am just happy to buy their books on a standard Android App. Not sure what purpose the e-reader serves.
Who isn't, really?
Pieper was not a comp sci professor. He was a professor of eCommerce. I followed some of his lectures during my CS master. The sloot story caused quite some giggles among us students. It was obviously bullshit. But nobody had the guts to ask him about it during these lectures.
You can use Django as swappable libraries. I worked on some projects at Google that used Django for the request routing, templates, and helpers, but completely swapped out the ORM for Google's own RPC system. Jinja2 is basically the Django templating language pulled out into its own library; before it existed, people would just use django.template. Some folks just use the ORM and request routing and then stick a JSON serializer on top to send data to an Angular SPA.
Hostmonster, AWS (Java), Gurobi Optimizer, FrontApp, Sublime Text, Github, Grunt, Google Docs, Hangouts & Skype
There are still Dreamweaver like tools, they are just terrible and produce completely unmaintainable code that doesn't work with anything other than simple static sites. If anything tools like Dreamweaver/Frontpage were made obsolete by Wordpress and services like Squarespace, etc.

Also, I'm not sure what you are really referring to in your first paragraph or what the fact that you can only rent Dreamweaver (true for the entire Adobe Suite) has to do with anything.
Amazing! You can actually see the laser pulse bouncing off of the material!
Also keep in mind that does not include benefits or equity.
A New IDE Interface: Patchworks [pdf]
Just yesterday I was looking for a simple C based javascript engine. Thank you.
Terminator Genisys Movie – Official Trailer
Show HN: WebGL based 3D browser for all 1,400,000+ photos taken from the ISS
I read it differently. I read it as: "it seems you have a key issue but I disagree with you. However, if you clarify your issue I will stay here and discuss it in the open right now."
I'm curious what the major expenses for Uber are. Do new investments mostly going to dealing with regulators, or marketing/promos to simultaneously bootstrap a critical mass of drivers and users in a new city?

If it's the latter, there's a silver lining for Lyft: Uber's breaking into new markets for them. Otherwise, it just means Lyft is falling further behind. Network effects make this industry somewhat of a natural monopoly, right?
Pyzo – free and open-source computing environment based on Python
The thing is (from my experience): The things you list are actually not that important.

VisualVM: Great, surely any VM should provide all of this through metrics or profiling? I can count the number of times VisualVM has told me anything I didn't already know or diagnose through other means on one hand.

Mission Control: Can't speak about it yet, haven't tried. (But I will!)

IDEA: Meh. It's a Java IDE. (Well, it does Scala too and some other stuff, but the thing is I don't actually miss that when programming in, say, Haskell. I do have some auto-compile stuff in my Emacs, but frankly I get along fine without it.)

Graal? Experimental at best. AFAIUI it's actually quite a lot slower than State of the Art JS engines. Don't get me wrong, it's still great to have, but it's not exactly a game-changer if I could just shell out to another JS engine and communicate via sockets. (Don't get me wrong, it's great research. It's also a new thing. I've been hearing this "JVM is great" meme for years and years.)

SceneBuilder? Seriously? If you've got OpenGL, why would you bother?

Yes, it's all in one package, but at what cost? You're having to program on a VM which lack even such basics as tail-call-optimization, value types, etc. (I realize some of these things may be coming, but I'm talking about now).

Standardization, I'll give you, but frankly, has the level of standardization actually been tested seriously? Can you take any old compiled-for-1.5 app and run it on Azul's JVM? Can you do the reverse? (I'm not actually sure what kind of guarantees the TCK does provide. In any case and in my experience, most "ordinary" admins are running the unverified OpenJDK on their servers.)

EDIT: Sorry, my spelling and grammar are atrocious when slightly drunk. I can only apologize.

EDIT#2: Sorry, if there were any ninja edits. I'll try to stop now.
Nice to know that. I already signed for your mailchimp list. Hope things go well and have something ready for testing soon. It should be interesting project.
dammit you beat me to it.
Shipping Basecamp for iOS 2.0
Type classes are pretty orthogonal to FP as far as I can tell. It's probably more that it gives it a "Haskelly feel".
Oh, no! Pointing out that a corporate power structure is overwhelming white and male is so unfair to those that are white and male.

I used to be this author's editor and that lede is very Wired.

Sad to see this "tone policing" comment is the top-voted comment on this thread.
Research movement to help people recover from paralysis
Using Gratitude to Get What You Want
> to have a simplified, straightforward experience in one instance and not the other is a huge source of frustration

I fail to see how "simplified" and "bland" relate to each other here in opposing ways. Leaflets to join a gym and tax forms don't really have to share the same design goals, and anything beyond a landing page on the "home" interwebs tends to gravitate towards a more unified, "boring" appearance, too (standard desktop GUIs for the longest time, facebook, almost anything by Google -- or, well, this site).

It would seem that having less colorful, unique splashes would actually run contrary to that, culminating in the abominations we've seen done with Flash in the past (or game GUIs, "unique" and/or cross-platform mobile app). Or the dreaded skeuomorphims we're just growing out of.

Could you give any examples of common webapps that would be the right way to approach e.g. a corporate CRM?
Here's a link to the supplemental videos for the article:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v516/n7529/fig_tab/natu...
Why You Should Always Dream Big
Some thoughts on Eric Garner
I'm in university for engineering right now, and this is an industry that I have been considering going into when I get out of school. What are things I can be learning/studying/reading/doing in the interim to give myself a head start?

I am already a good programmer and my mathematics ability is not lacking. My weakest point is probably finance, as I only have a rudimentary understanding of economics.
The Hacker News of Cryptocurrency
Deis is using Ceph to store persistent data for containers. I don't know if it will be suitable for databases, but I like the idea. http://deis.io/deis-0-13-0-ha-data-store/
Just do it. If your app gets big enough, you've got their attention. Which means, you probably are on to something.
Should I Leave This Meeting or Am I Stucked in It [Infographic]
Yes, the history of web development is easily forgotten. JavaScript was basically considered pretty useless by many web developers before Prototype and jQuery came and provided a compatibility layer that fixed browser differences. It was not worth the effort to add javascript to your html because no one had any confidence that it would work in all types of browsers. It's less than 10 years ago.
I'm surprised, how Assange is at all relevant. Frankly, I have a growing suspicion, that he's a sham.

Does whistleblowing really need a gatekeeper?

Most of the leaks, the really ground breaking stuff, was done by other people more worthy of praise: Maning and Snowden. Assange is basically in the business of running a website and promoting himself, whilst antagonising people who actually support and believe him.

What bothers me the most, is how biased Wikileaks are. Sure, the U.S. does a lot of f'ed up stuff, but they are by far not the only players in the game.
Sooo pretty much Borges' Library of Babel. http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html
The essence of the Assange and WL strategy is to force their opponents to build elaborate defenses against leaks. These defenses will then degrade the effectiveness and potency of their opponents.

From the source[1].

The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks
induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie.
This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications
mechanisms (an increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent
system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability
to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption.

Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust
systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems.
Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in
many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves
them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with
more open forms of governance.

[1] http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
The supposedly incorrect uses of the term are also correct -- even with the blessing of the original creator of the word:

"""In 2013 Dawkins characterized an Internet meme as being a meme deliberately altered by human creativity—distinguished from biological genes and Dawkins' pre-Internet concept of a meme which involved mutation by random change and spreading through accurate replication as in Darwinian selection. Dawkins explained that Internet memes are thus a "hijacking of the original idea," the very idea of a meme having mutated and evolved in this new direction."""
I heard that at GS Rubin pushed
algorithmic trading.

Sure, would've been great to have met
Simons. Heck, I never got around to
working in differential geometry but
at one time did get the notes of
S. S. Chern! And once tried to understand
a seminar of an A. Gleason student!
But I did cover exterior algebra,
from both Fleming and Spivak. Now
I have Cartan's book, now in English!

I have no idea just what Simons did
to make his $12 billion or so,
but likely it had to do with algorithmic
trading in some sense.

Once I did get an interview at
Morgan-Stanley, showed them some
work I'd done in mathematical
statistics, I later published,
and mentioned that I'd like to
work in the applied math of
trading but got no interest.

The people on Wall Street made plenty
of money and didn't need me.

So, I decided to go where I could
make money just by pleasing users/customers --
do a start-up, i.e., hire myself.

From headhunters, I got a lot of
just hostility: The main reaction
was that in looking for a job I
was doing something wrong. For
another, my resume said I'd been
a professor. Right, I had been.
So, the head hunter got all twisted
out of shape suggesting that I
claimed the title of Full Professor.
Nope, I claimed no such thing.
The headhunter was eager to be
nasty. Bizarre. Dysfunctional.
Destructive. Nonsense.

I don't know what Wall Street wanted;
I have to doubt that much of Wall Street
knew what Wall Street wanted;
whatever they did or didn't want,
they didn't want me.

It's a very old problem: If working
very high up, then are almost certainly
(Simons is a grand exception) are
working for people who, net, don't
know measure theory. Then a person
actually making use of such math
will have a huge interpersonal
interface problem.

Quite broadly
one of the main bottlenecks in
getting value from technical work
is the problem of the awkward,
often bitter, interface between
a good technical person and a less
technical superior.

I have heard that the lawyers have
a solution here: A working lawyer
is supposed to report only to
a qualified lawyer.

Really, then, a technical person with
some valuable technical work should
just start their own business.

Or, how many people on Wall Street
working as applied mathematicians
and not for themselves
earn money enough to live
in a nice Manhattan townhouse
or apartment? My guess is, not many
and that, instead,
the big bucks, say, for a $20 million
townhouse, are going to
non-technical people, management,
sales, IB, trading, firm ownership, etc.
HTTPS Everywhere is security theater. Encrypting everything creates pressure to cache encrypted content, using "caching services" such as Cloudflare. If it goes through Cloudflare, it's decrypted at Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a man-in-the-middle.

HTTPS Everywhere means MITM Everywhere. It makes interception easier.
Near-collisions between drones, airliners surge, new FAA reports show
There's two ways of interpreting that result, though. Maybe it shows that mathematical brain teasers aren't a good way of testing for mathematical ability.
I'm glad it's a native feature.

I attended a talk by an FT engineer and I was amazed by what's possible.

Update: Mistakenly thought that FT uses Polyfill for service workers.
Webtex: Science should look better on screens than on paper
It may not have to do with your money, but it has to do with your life. And the future of society too.
Giving
One man's "forward looking" is another man's "swept up in the latest trends." This framework seems to be pushing back against trends on the design front, so unsurprising it's pushing back on trends in the architecture front as well.
Show HN: Astral – organize your GitHub Stars easely
Also, Microsoft worries about Google, Android, Amazon cutting into their business. Like most large corporations, some investments are defensive. If Nook had gone better, it might have given MS a toehold in that camp.
Thank you for this. I thought this-week-in-rust stopped a while ago. Very useful!
Good lord. I was ready to be disappointed by another streak camera, but this is insane. If I understand it correctly, it bounces the image off a micromirror array with a pseudorandom patterns being shone on it for sub-nanosecond durations, then collects the composite image by sort of scattering it in a known way over a CCD, and the original image can be sussed out of that once the data has been pulled down.

10^7 frames per second! Anyone have any ideas what we could watch at a rate like that? You only get 350 frames, though, it seems, and the spatial resolution is probably only a handful of pixels.
Larry Page explains why dominant tech companies falter
The exact same could be said for CoreOS :)

I'd love to see what you're doing if you're open to sharing.
I definitely think that it's useful to point out the over-representation of white and male voices in powerful positions (which seems particularly relevant in big media corporations, since it's such a cultural driver), but in this case it's kind of stuck in there without any follow-up or relevant thesis.

But, yeah, it's definitely silly that the top comment is just complaining about that sentence.
>it appears no Docker employee has ever contributed a single line of code to the LXC implementation itself (that would be hard work, rather than bikeshedding userspace tools, after all)

You keep using this word, bikeshedding. I don't think it means what you think it means.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bikeshedding

TL;DR; it's about discussing/debating trivial details instead of the important characteristics of a system, not about working on easy stuff vs more hard programs.
I... can't... quite tell... you're joking, right? Right???
Thats just not true in clojure. Good librarys in clojure have a data interface, function to produce that data and maybe a thin macro layer to make it a little more easy to use.

While 'On Lisp' is a cool book, I rarly find the really advanced macro stuff usful. Once in awhile, you want to have something like a really good pattern matching compiler, and then your macros come in handy. But day to day, you dont need them much.
Thanks for the followup dang. Appreciate the thoughtful answer.
I don't disagree with it; I just think it's suspicious that people are publicly acknowledging that now rather than at any other time.

That said, marijuana is certainly less benign than you're making it out to be. I know several people who started using marijuana in high school and became interested in basically nothing else. Anything can become addictive, but biological components that have tolerance factors are especially effective because they cause you to increase your dosage over time.

It's not like doctors in the 60's thought that marijuana was actually lethal, though. The propaganda about marijuana has been divorced from truth basically the whole time, but it's been scheduled anyway.

I find it hard to believe that this is simply a miracle story of the long work of activists finally paying off. There are no free lunches. If we're getting legal marijuana, we're losing something else. So what is that?

Well, what else are we losing?
80GHz doesn't leak in every direction the way 5GHz does. The antennas have 9 channels (each 500MHz wide). Also, you can reuse the 9 channels by using a horizontal polarity instead of a vertical polarity.
*Mounting your database that doesn't properly support NFS

Oracle runs just fine on NFS. In fact, some of the largest implementations in the world utilize the protocol.
A small group of organized criminals can terrorize a pretty large number of ordinary, unorganized people. You can see this in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Moreover, everyone having guns just makes criminality risky, and there are a lot of people willing to take calculated risks. To get the kind of peace we enjoy in the first world, you need to make engaging in violence irrational, not just risky.
I'm generally putting extjs in the swing/MFC/Qt corner, no the angular/dojo/react/etc one, and yes, compared to that in a client/server setup it's not that bad -- at least it suggest a more sane communication setup and is only godawful when it comes to deploying, not outright hostile.

But quite often, some corporations would've fared better keeping their old mainframe terminal apps. With mobile apps, both setups don't really fare too well, although with the recent influx of Windows tablets and styluses, I fear that we could be regressing to shoddy Visual Basic-ish apps with homegrown comm/sync protocols again.
As a person I find Assange to be detestable
Science Exchange (YC S11) enables researchers to tap labs worldwide
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What is the alternative? Haskell has a ok compiler and some fast weblibrary (I hear) but everybody agress that it cant compete on library and tooling.

What else is there? That compets in performance, langauge and tooling?
I suspect I'm going to get downvoted too, for saying it like this, but you obviously haven't seen any of the latest season of Homeland.
NASA just showed the world that listening to data and showing restraint is far more important than grabbing a good headline. Kudos to them for doing the right thing.
Some Comments on “Do We Need Hundreds of Classifiers”
>comes across as an attempt to wrest control of the conversational dynamic

And why shouldn't he do that? He's the one who sweated his ass to create the program, the other guy is just some random user who got it for free (and open source) and complains for something.
Numbers like these (also for Whatsapp) only show that the US$ is way overrated and a massive crash is probably due in a couple years.
>[...] could do their work even after the page is closed, provided the user has given permission.

I'm really glad for the second half of that statement.

While I could imagine a few use cases, the last thing I want on my smartphone are arbitrary bloated sites draining my battery after closing them. I even consider it a feature of websites vs. native apps.
It doesn't allow free crossing between an (imperative + mutable) world and a (value-centric + immutable) world, no. It, instead, allows for clear boundaries to be set between the two and each to be embedded into the other.

The ST monad also does exactly restrict the scale of effect of mutability which can occur. It's not a license for the imperative programmer to do whatever they want---it's a license for them to solve problems in the way they prefer within a particular ensconced region.

If you want, you can write a program where everything lives inside of a giant ST monad layer. You always do this if you replace ST with IO, in fact. Each bit which can be made purely functional will be embedded into this monad and, for sake of sanity and testing, those functional bits ought to grow and grow.

But it doesn't really demean the IO/ST segment. An imperative programmer can live happily there without much trouble at all.
There are more US jobs in solar industry than coal mining
Duck duck go does not share search data with any open search database e.g. YaCy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

It'd be pretty great if they did!
Nice gallery. Weird license:

>> The script is free to use for personal and commercial projects. It falls under the MIT license with one exception: Do not create a public WordPress plugin based on it, as I will develop it.
My immediate problem is that my software is running on a dedicated server hosted on-site; I have Internet access, but everything is hosted and run on a single massive VMWare ESXi server. I don't have the benefit of cloud-based services like RDS. I could modify my architecture to utilize that instead, and that's something I've thought about doing.

As it stands, the VM server is UPS-backed, but does not run on SSDs. There is no SAN. If I were to fix the existing implementation, I would:
a) Add a secondary VM server as a redundant backup.
b) Add a SAN

However, I don't think I can justify the capital expenditures for that. So what I'll likely do is replace the NFS server with a dedicated PostgreSQL server (VM), and perhaps start thinking about moving the majority of the infrastructure out of the building and into the cloud to take advantage of things like RDS. The latter is even more important for scalability as we add more customers.
Very interesting. I was working on renormalization theory in the context of self-organized criticality - https://dobots.nl/2012/02/27/the-renormalization-group/ and swarm robotics.

I didn't think of it to apply to deep networks, but it makes a lot of sense.

What is not so likely in the brain is that these topographically mappings are the only ones. There are probably some mix-and-match schemes that allow integration of information on longer distances on scales different than that of the most coarse layer. Just my two cents.

Oh yeah, and although physicists like fractal-like structures (the fixed point in the renormalization flow can be seen as having the same mapping between every two subsequent scales of granularity), people with real-life machine learning problems probably would like to study more temporal and dynamic aspects. When time gets introduced, things become complicated.
seems the C interface is modelled after Lua. Is there any inspiration there?
A Quick Write-up of Docker Conf Europe Day 1