skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imageboards implement such system, by having plain hyperlink(s) to parent(s) in post body, and JS to produce backlinks and convenient navigation
Just to clarify: that is a total lifetime duration in space, not continuous. The record was broken just a few weeks ago, at least two people have stayed in space for more than 800 days.

Longest human space flight was 437 days (or in that ballpark). There are no plans to attempt breaking this record currently.
"Don’t say “Hello”"

Proper typography solves all.

My toy programming language uses “ and ” for string literals. It counts nesting, so you can write “Don’t say “Hello””. There is no escaping. In fact, you can quote any piece of code by simply enclosing it in “ and ”. Code is commented out by turning it into an unused string literal.
Or at least you should be able to open the windows a bit like the old buses...
OLE the technology is rather fundamental to custom controls and a whole load of other things. You could probably remove all OLE embedding from Word documents and not break too many use cases, but in other applications it may be more important.
I understand the power of confirmation bias. I believe it to be natural for anyone. It's perfectly normal to seek an explanation that fits the already built cognitive structures, developed through experience. It's unreasonable to simply jump into new paradigms everytime we encounter a new fact. It takes time to prove that it doesn't fit, and then we start looking for new explanations.

However, the test simply required a possible solution. There are plenty solutions and it's absurd to think they have the simplest one. The simplicity of the rule is subjective, in that is evaluated differently by different people. The famous 'simple but no simpler' is relevant here. As long as we were not told to look for the simplest solution, ALL solutions are equally probable. That being the case, I started to with the first solution that popped into my mind. I sticked with that because of my psychological state. Some searched for other solutions.

I don't think that getting an YES was the main driving force. Of course it feels good to get an yes. This is fundamental in human relations. But it's not the whole story. People do not disbelief globar warming because they want to get an YES. The reason is much deeper. Just as many, so many people go to the wave of climate change because it's fashionable, it makes them feel good, accepted , part of the mainstream. Being a climate change denier is being a disident this day (not my flavor of disidentism), and being a disident is not for everyone. And perhaps disidents picking their fight have complicated reasons for doing so.

I went with the doubles.
Eternal september; lack of moderation combined with massive trolling / spam / sporge / hipcrime flooding, etc; ISPs stopped offering Usenet access as part of their packages; to most users it's baffling in comparison to something like Imgur or Reddit.

An nntp2 / nntp3 could be brilliant.
Can anyone help with Mike D's charity (Beasty Boys). Thank you
Flagged as a bullshit article from that hateful troll, Louise Mensch.

This is a better version of the story

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/07/01/tim_hunt...
The miniature accelerator
> it's 'powerful' women that get the most hate

On the contrary, compare her reception to that of powerful men who behave badly, and she seems to be benefiting from favorable treatment. Powerful men who have attracted the internet's ire by abusing the legal system with frivolous lawsuits, such as Darl McBride, Jack Thompson, or Charles Carreon, have attracted a lot more hate than Pao, and that's just for their legal hijinks, not to mention that they didn't do anything approaching what's happening to Reddit.

Furthermore, I have a hard time seeing why the powerful deserve special sympathy, especially when compared to the non-powerful.
the userbase affected by or overly concerned by [1] is a fraction of the overall userbase, and not one they care for
I think it's feasible to have a domain with certificate for resolving any ip, using dnsmasq as DNS resolver for that domain, combining this

https://pfigue.github.io/blog/2013/12/06/configuring-dnsmasq... (but without --server)

and this

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28204678/dns-service-to-... (specifically, the "synth-domain" parameter, maybe limiting it to LAN ip addresses)

I haven't tried it.
This is called a Zooming User Interface [0]. Parallax scrolling refers to a 2D CG technique [1] that has also been used as a scroll-hijacking effect. It doesn't refer to the general case of scroll-hijacking.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_scrolling
I remember "credit card generators" - they'd create a credit card number to pass luhn checking.

For a few years people could get Compuserve access by using a fake number and fake details.
The concept of artificial gravity is well known but trivial it is not. It would either take a giant ring or dumbbell station or require spinning very fast. This will cause significant engineering problems when dealing with gyroscopic precession in a gravity gradient environment.

It's definitely a project worth studying, though.
Indeed. Much of what I see from the UK GDS is bang on; there are clearly some very bright people there. Take a look at their guidance to other government agencies on exposing APIs: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/making-software/apis.html

It's concise, in plain English and very cleverly avoids using the terms REST or RESTful even though they're basically describing RESTful architectural constraints. It's clever because they avoid getting dragged into religious wars about API technicalities and provide flexibility for situations where fully REST-compliant APIs are not practical.

I wish more public servants (and politicians) understood web APIs and the economic value that would be unleashed if governments exposed more (both data and transactional). But instead, most are obsessed with building 'portals' and 'mobile apps', because those are 'innovative'!
Reasonable how? Nuclear power is insanely expensive and no private investor would fund a nuclear project without a myriad of government assistance in the form of insurance guarantees, subsidized loans, etc.

The time horizon for a nuclear plant alone makes them inconceivable as anything but government white elephant projects...
Reddit in uproar after staff sacking
Thanks for the tip! Now linking to a Bokeh-based version as well.
Sir Nicholas Winton, Saved 600 People(YouTube)
I wouldn't call it a zoomable UI as I can only go in one precoded direction.

It has essentially mapped the vertical scrolling onto the zooming in and out of the page.

Impressive effect but not very useful.
There's also AppLocker in W7+ :

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd548340%28v=ws.10%...

and I would guess it's very closely related to SRP -

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424371%28v=ws....
As part of the DARPA NMRD project, we hired two Yale computer science professeurs to write Isis, a message delivery system that provided virtual synchrony: messages were delivered in order. This software was put in the public domain and I used it a few years later when I was tech lead on a fraud detection system for PacBell.

Good stuff!
London is becoming a capital of the engineering screw-ups. First the underground trains that won't open doors unless there is a stable GPS signal, now this. I should stick to walking.
The Tube is absolutely brutal at this time of year, too. Glad I don't live in London anymore...
I have no idea who this person is (both writer and Tim Hunt) but the original article is the only one I see with an (alleged, since I have no way to determine who is right) transcript of the speech and a timeline.

The article you linked to starts with a bunch of uncited accusations and most of the links again link to articles with no actual transcript of what he said.

Thus far I am given to believe the article here rather than your link.

(Even assuming he did say these things, the behaviour of the others described in the article is still unacceptable since it appears no due process existed but immediate twitter shaming and witch hunt based on second-hand, incomplete, information...from scientists, I sort of expect better)
It looks like they reserve double quotes for JSX attributes:

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/tree/master/react#quote...
I wonder how many people will pirate Taylor Swift's music since she's exclusively linked to Apple Music? I'm willing to bet a lot of Spotify users will dust off uTorrent (or whatever people are using for torrents nowadays) and just download the album she has restricted her fans from listening to legally.

It's all about ease of access, surely? The introduction of Apple Music is good for music, but if it means that Spotify and Apple Music are going to further fragment accessible libraries of music then piracy will probably rise.
> Finally, someone linked this on a vaguely similar thread recently: https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html - I thought it was great.

Feynman is a lovely example to follow for anyone wanting to become an engineer. The book is one of my all-time favorites.
The scrolling is very jumpy for me on a macbook pro, it's almost impossible to zoom to a specific 'frame' of the animation, the whole thing just jumps around everywhere.
First Driverless Bus on Public Roads with Passengers Launches in Greece Today
Ruins of the Soviet space shuttle program
> It's the future

I've heard that too many times to not be cynical about it.
>> "I don't have a TV"

You can't watch a TV show because you don't own a TV? /s sorry couldn't resist.
Smartphones can tell if you are pregnant: Study
TLS Client Puzzles Extension
Write code every day
Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tricks
Productivity, staying on focus, fighting distraction and procrastination and so on are often addressed in "Ask HN" threads, but it is difficult to find and keep track of the nuggets and best tips and tools mentioned in the responses.

So, let's use this thread to collect and share YOUR best tips, tools and ressources for personal productivity.
The author's assertion that this is not anthropogenic is laughably ridiculous. Robert Scribbler writes (https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/strong-west...) that since the last El Niño of similar magnitudes atmospheric CO2 has increased by 45ppm. Global ocean temperatures are much higher and it is definitely causing shifts in air currents all over the world. The Pacific Northwest is just one area out of many that is experiencing considerably higher temperatures.

The fact that we're having two mega El Niño events in the past 17 years is indicative, amongst hundreds of other observations, that the climate is changing at a speed we should be terrified of. The number of global temperature anomalies going is pretty staggering.

Sam McNamara has written (http://arctic-news.blogspot.nl/2015/07/east-siberian-heat-wa...) about 20+ degree anomalies in the Arctic. This is the part where we're playing with the possibility of destabilizing underwater methane clathrate reserves. If that happens, we can just call of all climate change prevention efforts, because that's extinction-event level shit.
Julian Assange Asks for Asylum in France, France Rejects His Request
I had to wait about 15 seconds for it to load, on fibre it felt like a lifetime, that said the experience delivered was great, crisp and fluid, worth the wait. As this is targeted at people with a rich appetite for visual content and well used to content heavy sites, the experience seems appropriate and well executed, it's not a bus timetable or directions to the A&E!
Here's One:

It's 4:30 AM. I am going to go to bed RIGHT NOW.
Great dicision! Silverlight is so buggy and was never a replacement for Flash. Going HTML5 is imo the best decision!
Please don't download our music, they said.

As you wish. I won't ever listen to your music, I responded.

It's their choice and their loss, not mine.
> this is an issue with money/banking/credit cards and the various regulatory frameworks in this area

No, this is an issue with streams of bits being considered goods that have to be traded differently depending on the region, and that responsibility lies entirely with music distributors. If there was a single global license for selling a given piece of music, it wouldn't matter what you're buying, how you're buying it or where from.
>We've seen this happen time and time again : USENET, Compuserve, to some degree .. AOL .. slashdot .. kuro5hin

What exactly is the same about what happened to those forums? All I can think of is that they declined in popularity, but maybe I'm missing some history.
In search of quality content? 11 lessons we learned from ISO9001
Wow, I have no words because I've just eaten them.

I wonder if there's anything that would stop a European country from copying the Eiffel tower?
The Cerebral Cortex Folds Like Paper
It's the future

http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/
There should be emergency exit hatches at the top of the bus that can be opened...
You're not alone. I suspect we're roughly the same age, and I go through that same anxiety on a daily basis.

We'll figure it out, like our fathers before us.
Nulla Dies Sine Linea.

Never A Day Without A Line.

Advice given to Roman artists. Create art every single day of your life, even if that art is but one line.

I myself compose for and play the piano. I enjoy it but it is tough to make forward progress; if one plays only for pleasure one is unlikely to advance.

After someone said to me "Nulla Dies Sine Linea", I used Adobe Illustrator to draw an 88-key piano keyboard, then placed that on a poster with the advice, a neat border around it, printed it on pale grey cotton resume paper, framed it then mounted it on the wall just above my keyboard.
yea.. in the 90s it was much better
It's far too early to know what's going on - but Reddit will need to get way out in front of this to defuse things. When there's an information vacuum, and a community of passionate users involved... things can only snowball.
> Isn't this what we have all been waiting for?

God no. It's just backwards.
Over 15,000 academics and researchers have already signed a petition boycotting Elsevier. The effort is but a drop in the bucket in terms of what's needed. http://thecostofknowledge.com/
I like to take walks.

Sometimes when there is too much going on, I'm a little too restless or I just can't focus. I'll just get up and go for a short walk, try to clear my head, maybe tire myself out a bit. Usually gets me a little more relaxed.
Visualizing the 2015 NBA Finals Using D3.js
I find it interesting that sending a probe more than 200 million kilometers to another planet is a lot easier than launching multi-ton payloads into the geosynchronous orbit.

I am referring to the fact that India still relies on the ESA to launch its communication satellites.
My Andela Mentee did a great writeup after a practice interview
>>Your statement completely ignores evolution and the human body's ability to adapt to its environment.

Maybe so, but how useful is a human body that's well adapted for space for any other environment?
Why would I want to compose native using React?
What is the real advantage of this over clicking on the page ?

As i see it, usual scrolljacking implementations give the illusion of a more immersive experience with the following tradeoffs over clicking navigation:

- interferes with the inherent perception of what the scroll does (moving a page up/down)

- harder to navigate (you have to scroll a lot to trigger a section change)

- harder to understand how much more is left to see

- harder to implement and to debug potential bugs

- needs a menu to mitigate all of the above (defeating the purpose of scrolling)

and probably more stuff that i can't think of right now
New book: Thing Explainer
I completely didn't notice the loading time. Fibre is beautiful.
Sorry dsego - this was already posted yesterday. :(
Startup Investors Spreadsheets [Europe]
Evolution requires selection. Or in other words, having humans evolve into surviving in microgravity would require letting the least adapted people die of it for tens of generations. This doesn't seem like something that potential space colonists would be exited about.
Her wording should be.

We want to be a profitable platform and some of you have to go for that to happen.

The timing of the iAMA admin's removal coincides all to well with the recent Jesse Jackson AMA that went exactly as AMAs do and not how politicians want things.

Most celebrities can handle abuse and such, but there are certain one's and definitely more politicians who will not tolerate it from the rabble. To them they are royalty and damn if they will suffer humiliation, rudeness, or the like, from anyone. So likely we will soon have amusement park reddit, where there is a hint of roughness but everything is policed, scripted, and shadowbans go out like candy on halloween. AMA will likely come back as service to "the important people" Ellen and her like want to associate with to the point all posts will be so filtered it should be renamed "Ask Me Approved Questions"
I think he's referring to the intuitive idea that how bigger the deviation the less likely it's caused by a small thing. Why should a 0.1C overall increase in temperature lead to a 5C degree difference this summer and the one 5 years ago? Much more likely is some larger timescale larger force dynamic. (Unless of course someone has proven a mechanism for the former).

In the long run yes, warming of the earth will cause more extreme weather. But it has little relation to that of today.
I find it interesting that you choose to extol textual aesthetics with a sentence that finishes without punctuation. It just goes to show how subjective these matters are.
> This is, however, not true with a lot of non-tech companies, where keywords on resume, a professional-looking attitude, and some good sales skills will usually get you better positions.

By the way, these things are hackable, too. It only takes a bit of practice to become a better salesperson than most programmers, and only a small amount of effort to look more professional, too. (And a good suite can even be comfortable.)
Teenage Inventors Just Made Trips to the Bathroom Much Less Gross
This is what happens when GitHub is accessible inside the CLI
I remember the Fark 2.0 backlash for Jeff's comment.

Yesterday, Ohanian appears to have made a similar comment, beginning to snowball in infamy:

Ohanian: "Popcorn tastes good."[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riam...
Though, having at least two or three makes for a much stronger bargaining position.

You don't need loads of offers, though.
Avoid multitasking as hell. Very few people can really afford it without going mad in the long run. At first it's very demotivating because you feel like stalling but then you'll naturally learn what (and how) you can micro-improve in your daily life to make the whole pipeline of TODOs more productive. I might not look very productive in the eyes of multitaskers, but at least I'm happy and totally not burned out.
Coding Challenge: Luhny Bin
Mobile experience is completely different, but the desktop version is really impressive.
They could at least have run it through PNGquant...

Original image is 1MB:
http://www.madogatari.jp/teaser/images/s06_illust4.png

PNGquant version is 250kb:
http://i.imgur.com/4R0hZkQ.png
I wonder what they mean by scalable source maps? The last time they proposed an alternative to source maps they basically proposed shipping down an AST structure which was even larger. Current source maps already tax the debugger for large programs, so much so that for GWT we had to implement optimizations in the source map generator to avoid generating nodes that are not helpful for debugging but which cause bloat.
What specifically do you refer at when you say "fundamentals"?
Nailed it. This was all about 2, not 1.

>tension 2 can fester as organizational debt for years before exploding

It has festered for years, we're watching it explode right now.
Here's the better fuel: tea and bananas. Actually Pepsi instead of tea today, but only because I'm in a hurry.
I'd like to take your word for it but I'm not a statistician. With what confidence do 2 mega ninos in 17 years reject the hypothesis that anomalies are happening at their usual pace? (Should nt be hard to calculate right?)
Rebooting the Automobile
An amusing lintian error – Lenna
Yes, that's what I was playing at. Other languages have things similar to design patterns, too.

If you are in luck, a language gives you first class support for abstracting new patterns. (Eg in assembly a procedure is just a pattern and convention, most modern languages help you by providing procedures. Same languages are very good at being extended. Lisp is a good example, and so is Haskell. Even Python is great in that respect compared to, say, Pascal.)

I am still trying to figure out what dependency injection really is. It's seems like only the Java guys have a need for it, but they rave about it.
The reaction of the French president is the right thing. It's not like he would be a political prisoner or something. There is a European arrest warrent against him. In Sweden, he would get a fair trial at a european court. If his case even would go to trial.

I think we need to believe in Europe and that also means that we have to accept european arrest warrents. We can also reasonably believe that all EU member states have acceptable standards when it comes to human rights and fair trial.
This does not hold - the test uses Javascript's numbers, which are finite. So it's theoretically possible to test every combination of inputs and convincingly answer what a possible rule is.
I'd say its best to try and find out what level of multitasking you can handle without becoming too stressed and/or unproductive - it does vary a lot from person to person.

Once you understand your own capacity for multitasking then fight to stay in that zone (and before anyone calls something like that a "comfort zone" its more like an "efficiency zone").
What made IE6 IE6 wasn't the technical choices it made, but the fact that whatever were its views, those were forced on the world by its market dominance.

The browser that is closer to that position now is Chrome, not Safari. The sad fact that Apple does not allow other browsers in their platform in fact may be overall a good thing if it keeps Google from owning the web alone.

Apple may need to do something or risk losing some of the appeal of iOS. But calling Safari the new IE is barking at the wrong tree.
Nah, if you don't want to change, you don't have to. Just pick the right tools.

If you don't mind selling your soul, COBOL programmers get paid more and more because supply is dwindling. And I bet you dollars to donuts that COBOL will be around for longer than anyone's career.

If you care about your sole, it's a bit harder, but C will probably be around, too.

Some languages are worse than others. PHP is definitely in the worse camp.

Fully agree with the last paragraph.
Conde Nast is not part of the ownership structure of reddit. Conde Nast is owned by the major owner of reddit, Advance Publications, but reddit has not been part of Conde Nast for years. The ownership also got more diffuse last year:

http://recode.net/2014/09/30/reddit-raises-50m-plans-to-shar...

Advance notes that they are affiliated with reddit, but that is aboot it:

http://www.advance.net/
Use a language that allows you to be productive. For example, if you are using C++, and feel the burden of maintaining header files, then, if possible, switch to another language that doesn't need header files; or use a tool that automatically generates your header files.
The first time when I scrolled through it felt like automatically pulling through each pages taking away the control from me.

So I am not sure, if the well designed parallax scrolling really does mean anything.
... like HN in a nutshell.
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