skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Death is all those things and more and atomicly less. It is part of any healthy life and how we handle it, in those cases where we have time to handle it, will reflect who each of chooses to be.

Cheri spent more than 20 years as a hospice social worker helping people cope with quality of life by discussing death, and what I know I know mostly through osmosis as "a hospice spouse." Hospice is usually better than the alternatives. Too many people in the US are discouraged from enrolling until the last ounce has been squeezed from their insurer. This means that palliative pain treatment is weighed against the textbook possibility of addiction and other long term effects as well as the risk of an audit for prescribing opiates. Hospice doesn't prevent suffering but it does prevent a lot of needless suffering.

Yesterday I was thinking about my friend Ryan who endured the four horsemen of the oncology apocalypse for just a few extra moments with his son. I am saddened to learn of your grief.
As a sidebar on epidemiology, a superbug 200000x more contagious and deadly than Ebola would result in a circle around the initial infection wherein everyone inside is dead, and everyone outside avoids entering it.

It would be much worse to have a less deadly and more contagious pathogen. Airborne transmission, plus long linger times for surface transmission, plus long incubation periods, plus low survivability, times zero treatment options, times international airports, equals annihilated species.

This might connect with government secrets somehow if there were a secret project to develop a weaponized virus, and a vaccine for it, then to sneak the vaccine into a multivalent vaccine commonly given to the domestic population, but not to foreigners. The revelation might startle another bio-capable nation into pre-emptively releasing their supervirus, relying on quarantines to save a portion of their population from the American weapon.

There are practical limits on the downside. The worst we could probably do at our current tech level is kill everything on the Earth's surface except for the extremophiles like D. radiodurans, and even that would assume that a lot of people have been telling a lot of lies about existing stockpiles of cobalt-salted nuclear weapons or other types of salted nukes.
My personal favorite poorly designed part of the body is the sinus cavity.

When we used to walk on four limbs, our heads would naturally incline to an angle that allows full drainage of the sinus cavity. Now that we walk upright, there's a dead spot in the back of the cavity where mucus and bacteria can pool. This is why if you're experiencing sinus pressure but you haven't reached the stage where nothing in your head is moving if you tip your head forward you can often feel an immediate lessening of pressure.
He's the one that travels through space (and sometimes time) through superconducting rings, right?
>Information geometry is the study of 'stochastic manifolds', which are spaces where each point is a hypothesis about some state of affairs.

First sentence and I am already lost.
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I would attempt to throw him off by asking "you mean true north, geographic north, or grid north?"
Speaking from experience, the working out of a polite understanding does not work fine. All humans have practice at being human around other humans, and given a multi-year situation, they will have time and incentive to sort it out.

But not all humans have practice giving detailed instructions to temporary renters on how exactly to behave so as to be indistinguishable from the actual resident. The property owner's absence breaks the key feedback loop driving the polite understanding. And further, as I already explained, the temporary residents have much less incentive to follow whatever micromanagement has been ordered. I understand that you think it's the same in theory, but people are living not in your head but in actual apartments.

Of course, we are treating short-term rentals just like we are treating other home-based businesses: we are regulating them. Zoning laws are the general-case solution to this, and some cities are applying them here.
Usually either QR codes or just plain old bar codes. This isn't new technology by any means.
I hope my idiocy is immortalized by my kids like this.
What shortcut are you speaking of? Backspace works, as does cmd + [ on a Mac, AND the swipe back gesture works.
> Quantum computation is the same. You figure out how to build gates (there are dozens of competing ideas), and then it's just plugging them together in the right way.

Not exactly. Quantum computers are a kind of analog computers based on quantum mechanics and there are several different models for doing quantum computation ---only one of them is based on gates.
Annealers such as D-Wave aren't based on quantum gates.

They instead slowly anneal the system to its ground state (while avoiding states corresponding to a local minima in energy), and the usefulness of this lies in the fact that calculation of ground state of a system is often an extremely difficult problem, and that you can map your NP problem onto calculation of the ground state in certain cases.
I guess it depends on how averse you are to risk and how long you can go without getting paid.

Never forget that a contract is meant to be negotiated - a contract's first draft typically contains a bunch of unreasonable or vague requests and wishes from the party that created the contract. Don't sign a contract until the vagueness has been clarified or defined.

It's up to you to negotiate the contract in your favor. To put it plain and simple; unless you negotiate a contract in your favor, you're going to have a bad time. Like the video said; if you have no contract, you're left with the sympathy card and that rarely works.

Another bit of advice: Keep track of all communications and have all word-of-mouth agreements put on paper (before you commit to anything, like signing the contract). I keep a projects folder per client containing communications, documents received etc.

Hourly billing only works when you keep a detailed log of what was done. It's definitely a lot easier to get paid for work if you provide a breakdown on what was decided and done. The descriptions should prove as motivations of why the work was necessary.
Improving kernel string handling
From http://kmcallister.github.io/papers/2015-servo-experience-re...

> Ras Bodik’s group at the University of California Berkeley worked on a parallel browsing project (funded in part by Mozilla Research) that focused on improving the parallelism of layout. Instead of our approach to parallel layout, which focuses on multiple parallel tree traversals, they modeled a subset of CSS using attribute grammars. They showed significant speedups with their system over a reimplementation of Safari’s algorithms, but we have not used this approach due to questions of whether it is possible to use attribute grammars to both accurately model the web as it is implemented today and to support new features as they are added. Servo uses a very similar CSS selector matching algorithm to theirs.
Yep - that's totally possible. Actually, now you phrase it like that, I see what you mean about using it that way for a CMS, and it's an awesome idea.
Wego: a weather app for the terminal
How do you think we spent our weekend mornings, when our parents where still asleep and A-Team just finished?
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The reason most conferences are crap for sales is because most conferences are 90% vendors. Chances are anyone you talk to is looking to sell something of their own, not buy your stuff.

The Internet has made it too easy for people to keep up on trends that buy side of most conferences has evaporated. I'm not going to fly for 2 hours to listen to some guy give a speech that I can watch online, which used to be the draw to get the buyers to the conference.
ok, so haversine distance is a thing on a sphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance

You are a bit over a mile from the south pole (how much a of bit requires math i don't feel like doing, but is very important)
You walk towards the pole, turn and walk west in an exactly 1 mile circumference circle around the pole (this is why the "bit" was important) and you walk back north to where you started.

There is only one valid point on the northern hemisphere (the north pole) and a ring of points at the south pole.

found the math I need! https://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/whittle/astr553/Topic16...

C = R sin(r/R)
R = radius of earth aprox( 3,959)
C = 1 mile
solution is r+1 distance from the south pole
print links generally don't use the print media css. Usage of print media css means the site prints something different than is what is seen on the screen.
I've been enjoying Black Mirror but pretty much everything I've seen so far is sufficiently dark and dystopian that I really need to be in the right mood to watch an episode.
> I don't think Rust can either.

Rust has no defined ABI at this time, just like C++, but by adding the 'extern' keyword, and a '#[no_mangle]' attribute, you get the C ABI, and so then it's easy. We also support a few other ABIs as well, then it's 'extern "fastcall"' or whatever.

(This still doesn't mean "Rust will kill C" or something silly like that.)
Mocton is a hereditary peer. It's worrying that those people have some power, but it could be worse.

The previous English minister for energy and climate change (Matthew Hancock) is a climate change denier who refuses to discuss anything related to climate change and who accepts large donations from other prominent climate change deniers.

http://rt.com/uk/248605-climate-skeptic-donations-hancock/
Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome
My favourite flaw is that you can swallow (without problems) pieces that are so large that they can get stuck in your oesophagus further down the line blocking it. You can't even swallow your saliva when that happens.
Not really. I read that as moral censoriousness combined with patriarchal idiocy and class bias. It's people who think they have superior morals thinking "lesser" people have deficient morals.

This is people who think they are smart assuming that anything they don't understand is dumb. So I suppose the common thread is ego and false pride leading one to underestimate others.
Interesting analysis; I would like to think that there are smart people working at/with the dam over the years that have already put some effort into mitigating any effects in the event of low water levels, but who knows.

Minor gripes:

>> To see this, you can zoom in the chart using the widgets in the bottom left

Please don't make the user zoom, adjust, or work to understand your visual..the whole point of the visual is to make complex things simple.

>> I did a quick projection analysis based upon historicals

Would love to have a link here to the data for the water levels as well as the documentation that shows the max and min levels for power generation.

>> What's worse is that once the dam ceases operations the plan is for Vegas to receive the remaining water via an underwater aqueduct. Like a blood sucking mosquito, Las Vegas is ready to suck the reservoir dry leaving nothing for the rest of the South West.

Seems a bit biased when it was previously mentioned that "the increase in population levels in Las Vegas and other dessert cities is not the sole contributing factor to the decline to in water levels".
A direct democracy is not entitled to secrets. But a democratic republic can agree to delegate secrets to a capable representative. The representative would then be responsible for determining whether the public would be better served by keeping a secret or disclosing it.

Of course, if the public cannot have effective oversight over its representatives, it's not a democratic republic any more, but an oligarchic or aristocratic republic, and the representatives are acting on behalf of the elites rather than the general public.
> Why can't all of discrete websites be like this.

Because most people never turn javascript off OR use links to browser the web.

Of course javascript-less websites have many advantages: easier end to end testing, speed of execution, loading speed,work on a wider range of browsers without hacks...
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How about driving a car that needs to be relocated for someone or some company from west to east, for free? It will take some time, but it looks like you have that.
I was talking about grade inflation, not winner takes all. So getting straight As over there might be the equivalent of getting straight Bs over here. And this doesn't say anything about which place is harder to study or to get respectable results; obviously people's expectations rise with the inflation. But there is a downside to inflation though, namely that it is easier to get straight As, which means that you can't differentiate the academically gifted from the academically brilliant. Not unless you bring in other metrics, but I guess having other metrics is healthy according to some opinions.

Life is probably less winner takes all over here, but I don't think it has anything to do with grade inflation or lack thereof in high school or college.

For that matter; where you are accepted into higher education over here tends to be determined by a score which is your average grade plus some points for age (maybe for "life experience"?), and other things. Which ends up meaning that if you don't have near perfect grades out of "high school", you won't get into medical school (I guess this is the hardest one to get into). It is my impression that since the US has more privatization, you can at least find some university/college if you have money or connections even if you don't have stellar grades.
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We spent most of our energy to feel full, why would we want to not feel full?
It depends on the site, but it's really not that much effort for any site that a viewer would WANT a text-only mode.

Sites with lots of text content invariably use a CMS to manage that content. It's not hard to build a text-only template, and in fact many sites actually do this - if you browse on mobile Safari, it's called "Reader Mode". I don't know if Android has an equivalent, but I would assume so.
Just played around with it a little bit!

Super interesting, can certainly see a couple of applicable use cases! The way the tutorials are setup will actually be handy for education, certainly if it would be possible to create your own tutorial.

Edit: Typo
How does this differ from the app released by Instagram last year with the exact same name that appears to do the same thing ?

https://hyperlapse.instagram.com

http://blog.instagram.com/post/95829278497/hyperlapse-from-i...

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id740146917
Don't think about it as "language learning" or "language study". That is not how humans learn languages. Think about it as "language acquisition", something you will pick up over time. There is a bunch of research about this, much of it focused on classroom methods, however. Search for books on "second language acquisition"; but the only popular science book I know of isn't coming out until August: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262029235/

All humans learn languages by interacting with other speakers, constantly attempting to communicate more successfully ourselves, and trying to understand the communication of other people.

As adults, we have a harder time perfecting the target language's phonology (or perhaps this just tends to fossilize), but we have a huge advantage in learning the grammar/syntax of the target language, because we already know about such things in our own language. We don't have to make the massive cognitive leaps that children do—we've already done that. This is what all the emphasis on grammar exercises is about: trying to supercharge our language learning ability. But it has to be built on a foundation of interaction, comprehensive input, and effective communication.

Learning a language to near-native fluency levels is a years- or decades-long process, and most people will stop at a level that they find "good enough" and let their second language fossilize. And there's nothing wrong with that, it probably is indeed good enough!

It's a question of continually finding new motivations, and motivation over a long period of time, of setting new goals, and especially establishing an identity as a person who speaks that language. Just have fun, keep it interesting, engage in it constantly (or intensively). You'll be more likely to keep at it if you enjoy it and don't look at it as "miles of crawling through the shit".
yes, yes [i assume you mean either getting spit out, or closed out on]. drones are starting to make inroads here too, but it is still mainly remote stuff, taken from afar and manually controlled by someone on the beach. something like this at jbay would be amazing.
Doesn't that mean giving up old browsers though?
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I was in a similar situation a few years ago, before the 2008 housing bubble crash. I grew up in a beachside Florida town, where the prices had literally never gone down since the founding of the town. I was worried that I would never be able to buy here. I was really worried that what looked like a bubble in 2003-2007 was going to turn out to be permanent, and lock me out of owning in my hometown forever. I felt stupid for not buying into the rapidly rising prices as early as possible. But I worried and waited, and rented and saved.

It turned out I was correct to do so. The housing market crashed and I was able to pick up a large house in a great neighborhood for $200k. The two things that really convinced me that the real estate bubble was indeed a bubble were these: a) I had friends who were able to make a better living flipping houses than I did as an industrial physicist, and b) the rental rates were not growing nearly as fast as the housing prices were, which indicated that all those houses bought as investments were unlikely to pan-out as good investments long-term.

I don't know much about the Toronto market. But I'd recommend keeping an eye on the difference between growth in rental prices and growth in property prices. They are rarely the same. Yes, foreigners are willing to take some losses to keep their money safely out of their home country, so the situation isn't the same as in 2007. However, the purpose of their investment is to keep their money safe, and so like all bubbles, when the prices start to fall there will be a rush to another safer asset class.

So, you probably aren't screwed long term, just short term. If you see the bubble, so does (almost) everyone else. You can buy and try to time the market if you want risky returns. Or you can rent a house for now and then buy a nicer one after the crash if you want to just get a good deal on housing for your money.
The problem is that outside of our niche of people who really care about tech, most people just care about the contents of the webpages they visit. They aren't reading/understanding the warning and have no context for making that assessment of safety and responding appropriately. They just know that they want to go to their bank's site or play the latest Mafiaville or whatever.

These changes in Chrome are teaching them that the red marks on the location bar are just a normal part of those interactions.
The movie "In time" from 2011 was inspired by the ticktockman btw.
That's not the way to help people with low bandwith or very high latency connections. They need more javascript, not less.

SPA designs can actually make CRUD apps significantly more useable on slow or unreliable connections.
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I'm glad all the MSFT research initiatives are getting attention and/or the development stage. There's so much new amazing things to make the future so shiny and great.

As Steve Jobs pointed out, MSFT's overall design and communications have and are still... astoundingly nerdy. Yet this new MSFT, one that notes they made something with WUV!, is such a departure from Micro$oft of yore.

This is almost... dare I say, embryonic of an earnest attempt at something new? Almost as if this new MSFT is a startup of a corporation in a landscape dominated by the most valuable corporation on earth (AAPL) and the most useful corporation on earth (GOOG) and the most cutthroat corporation on earth (AMZN).

I imagine in another year or two there will be a major overhaul of Microsoft's design process to bring about cohesion. I'm hoping the likes of hiring Andrew Kim (http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/2012/7/3/the-next-micro...) and other young talents will greatly influence that as it is sorely needed, much like how Google invested much into Matías Duarte and Material design.

Wow, imagine that. When the old question was can Apple be Google faster than Google can be Apple and now it's can Microsoft be Google faster?
(Playing devil's advocate marketing guy) Why would I allow you to see my product being website, web-based service or simply my advertising without the full experience? If I offer options to see a stripped down version then I am creating a consumer that will talk about the stripped down version and it will taint my brand. If you were to go to my site then when people ask you about it then I want you to tell them that your actions gave a non-optimal experience. (Non-optimal being my opinion of what I think you as a customer should be and not you a reasonable person should be)
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