skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money was issued by the state; the wealth that it measures was not. Money is a store of value; it isn't value per se.
RadioLab had a great episode about CRISPR:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/
They're also terrible in RAID environments: http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb
I find it ironic that the iPhone itself probably got a significant number of people out of the habit of wearing watches. Once my phone could tell me what time it was, that was the end of my watch-wearing days. Though, I never really liked them anyway.
A lot of HN dwellers with high HN achievement points are getting a little sensitive here.
Citizens in uproar at librarians for keeping unanonymized decode long records!

p.s. I do not know who actually makes the decision to keep records....is it law in japan?
Net neutrality rules protecting Netflix, YouTube face court hearing
I never looked at SciLua till just now. I have always liked Lua and have made several scripts for my desktop and servers. Just never thought of Lua for Data Science. My main issue is I haven't hit a data set to big for R in my own use cases.
For the most part, the fares seem to gravitate toward uber. Drivers likely do better with uber than with local taxi cos who at times act like extortionists (kickbacks or no dispatches, car rental charges, medallion charges, etc.)
"We want to see HTTPS become the default."

Sounds fine for shopping, online banking, user authorizations. But for every website? If I'm a blogger/publisher or have a brochure type of website, I don't see point of the extra overhead.

Update: Thanks to those who answered my question. You pointed out some things I hadn't considered. Blocking the injection of invisible trackers and javascripts and ads, if that's what this is about for websites without user logins, then it would help to explicitly spell that out in marketing communications to promote adoption of this technology. The free speech angle argument is not as compelling to me though, but that's just my opinion.
GitLab 8.2 released
Update on recent outage: Details on what happened, and what we’ve learned
Great info. This site has compiled a quite good numbers of database designs. Thank you.
I'm having a hard time understanding why this is bad.

If people experiment on themselves, then it seems the worst that could happen is they injure themselves to such an extent they require expensive ongoing medical treatment paid for by the rest of society (if they die, they just win a Darwin Award).

There will be charlatans (as with stem cell treatments) who try and sell this to desperate people with terminal diseases, but that's already covered by fraud statutes.

The upsides from human enhancement are pretty limitless and exciting in the long run.
The interesting thing is they are still in the mailing DVDs phase of their Netflix plan. The company will almost assuredly be completely different in a decade or two when self driving cars are prevalent. Although it seems that exciting potential future is already priced into these valuations.
This Dell XPS 13 Bug Fix Adds 2 Hours of Battery Life
- Early Uber branding beat the hell out of early Lyft branding

- Uber has no moral compass

That's pretty much it.
Disagree that "most people Uber" is the reason Lyft is losing so much money.

I'm not exactly sure when Lyft stopped focusing on international markets to double down on the U.S., but I feel like much of the losses are from "failed" international experimentation.

With my experience in Ohio, I use both preferring whichever can reach me quickest (a 15-20 minute wait here is not abnormal).
I'd appreciate if Dan would chime in, but I think it likely triggered the "Flamewar Detector". I think this is based on a ratio of Upvotes to Comments, possibly adjusted by flags, but I don't think it's been fully described.

This isn't a perfect system, as sometimes contentious conversation can be better than non-discussion. But overall it's probably a good to have a temporary throttle until a moderator can make finer grained fixes.
What are the constraints on the official client that motivated you to author simp_le?
Bootstrapped startup company disrupts text review industry with video review app
HDR monitor do exist. BrightSide Technologies was showing them at SIGGRAPH over ten years ago. Looks like consumer OLEDs are starting to get on board [1]. And, they did really want 10 bits per channel. But, even that seems lightweight.

10 bits per channel will carry us for a while. Apparently Dolby bought BrightSide and now they are pushing for 12 bits. 16 bit ints will probably be enough for home use in practice. Internally, most games that do HDR rendering use 16 bit floats for their intermediate frame buffers. That format is popular in film production as well. I would be surprised if consumer display tech ever bothered to go float16-over-DVI. But, maybe it will get cheap enough eventually that we might as well have the best :)

[1] http://www.avsforum.com/forum/40-oled-technology-flat-panels...
I didn't think I wanted one until I saw someone else using one. I bought one and used it for a week before returning it. I didn't keep it because: the screen was unusable when damp, the connection to my phone was really slow, the watch itself was also slow. The strava app was particularly bad.

It was good for pausing music and choosing podcasts with the overcast app.

I've now got a Garmin 235. It's much more comfortable, has a GPS, better battery etc. It also does all the health stuff and has an HRM.
Google's latest app can turn Android phones into VR cameras
SuperMicro has 72 drives in a single system, with 10TB drives you are hitting 720TB in a single 4U package.

Dell also has their DSS7000, which is 90 drives in a 4U system, so 900 TB in a single 4U package...

9 Petabyte of storage in a single 42U rack...
A helping hand for high-tech firms
Microsoft spreads the spirit of the season on 5th Ave
Why not a Platinum sponsor?
Well if you're blogging about something important, you don't want the government to MITM your page and edit it without your permission. Imagine if the government did that for a major news site - lots of control.
But that can change quickly, history has lots of examples of how asymmetric power relations between the owners of the means of production and the workforce can end in conflict and a heavy push for a regulatory framework.
git clone git@github.com:apple/swift.git swift

Works for me.
That's a rather difficult argument to square with Buddhism still including two entirely separate traditions, and arguably its "purest", least syncretic and most devout forms being in those parts of the world least affected by the West...
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/files/2015/05/HTTPS-FAQ.pd...
The title is a quote from Fogerty, so I think it is appropriate. Additionally, I took the correct impression from "sounding like."
What is App Indexing?
Do you mean cost of the overhead for the client or the cost for the server?

One way that it is advantageous for clients if they can afford it is that it stops e.g. isps from inserting ads into webpages, which is good.

If a client can't afford to use the https, they can opt out I would think?
Is there any license that prohibits this then? If not, should one be created?
It allows memory/performance analysis of C/C++ applications under OSX, Android, Windows, Linux. Free and open-source, it leverages the power of OS specific and 3rd party trace viewers / profilers.
Sun Microsystems released the Solaris operating system source code, but required all contributors to handle the copyright ownership on their code to Sun.

Then, shortly after Sun acquisition, Oracle closed the Solaris code and got away with all contributors' copyrights.
It's hard to ignore the footage outside apple store in that video.
This is excellent. Keep up the good work and please give a talk at the next Clojure Conj!

Any plans to use Alda in your recorded music?
Charity, Leverage and Crime
For comparison, I enabled HTTP/2 via CloudFlare on a dev site. Results: http://blog.adamowen.co.uk/deploying-http2-using-cloudflare-...
The internet is scary. I'm concerned that people will use computers to commit crimes.
I did the same thing as well. They kept claiming the promotion was about to expire, and then just created a new one. I'm waiting for another one to show up.

I am curious how the promotion will work out for them long term - I'm sure some people continue using the app after signing up (stickiness), but a lot of people likely switch back to Uber since it's cheaper.
It was our opinion that it's harder to write code that will be shared with a bigger team. Some of the factors were the simpler type system, lack of generics meant lots of copy and pasting of common patterns. The package system seemed less comprehensive and flexible in comparison to Java's. These are just subjective issues of course, but I think it's reaching a bit to say that Go and Swift are the best two languages you can learn.
> And then it's also brought up because the naive way of adding it to a theorem prover makes your logic degenerate.

Well, I'd argue that disallowing non-termination in your logic doesn't help in the least[1], so you may as well allow it. :) But we already discussed in the past (I think) the equivalence classes of value-based models, and I think we're in general agreement (more or less).

[1]: There are still infinitely many different ways to satisfy the type a -> a (loop once and return x, loop twice, etc. all of them total functions), and allowing (and equating) all of them loses the notion of time just as completely as disallowing just one of them, their limit (I see no justification for assuming a "discontinuity" at the limit).
That ridiculous: "started cargo-culting the(totally unnecessary) CLA process"

It's so they can re-license in the future. There are some projects with so many authors that it is impossible to re-license because you need sign-off by every single person, even if it makes sense to re-license.
Just curious (I'm a nobody in the security field to doubt anything): What is the process to vet the correctness of the description of the severity? I imagine these notices are pretty important so when they describe subjective things like how difficult and likely it is to take advantage of this loophole, is there a standard for how to assess such things?
No single man should wield so much power

They don't. Only the state can legally pull a gun on you and force you to do things or go to jail.
The Tesla Model S’ heated seats and steering wheel through an IR camera
There's something to be said about the advantages of rapid expansion and being the first-mover.

It might be a shit show internally as any growth spurt might have but by the time Lyft tries to enter some of these cities (and that's an if) Uber will have already captured the entire market and it might be a very steep uphill battle to try and gain market share.
> All a GC does is free the programmer from ...

Not only this. It also forces the programmer to implement RAII by hand.
I believe it is meant as an abstraction layer for non-OSX systems.
Without HTTPS, any MitM could inject ads, malware, or simply manipulate any content on your blog. TLS isn't just useful to encrypt private data, it also makes sure what you see is what the site owner wanted you to see. With http/2, the overhead is minimal and with TLS 1.3 it might soon be gone completely (since it's probably going to add a mode that avoids multiple round trips for the initial TLS handshake; encryption itself isn't really an issue nowadays with AES-NI, etc.)
From the point of view of someone who wants to use CRISPR in more mainstream research, that's not the worst that can happen. Worse would be that someone experiments on themself and the result is so horrifying that it generates a movement to ban CRISPR or gene therapies in general, and that that movement is successful, so your research career is over — along with the possible benefits of gene therapies to humanity, condemning, for example, hundreds of thousands of children to horrible deaths each year from curable genetic illnesses.
No, they don't. There is only natural gender here, not grammatical gender.
Ballmer was there since the earliest days of Microsoft. Only a fool would somehow think he just came along for the ride.

Gates chose to give him a large slice of equity because he saw that he wanted something that Ballmer had and as far as I can tell that worked out extremely well.

I won't argue that Steve Ballmer was the technical creative genius that Microsoft needed but to suggest that in some way he stumbled in and rode the gravy train, well I don't buy that.

The new generation probably have little concept of how absolutely and totally Microsoft dominated the computer industry, in a way that no company does now (nope, not even Apple dominates today anything like the way Microsoft dominated in the 80's and 90's). It was Microsoft's world in a very real way. There were two men behind that complete domination - Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. The cynical (and there are many) might say "well it's Ballmer that lost that domination", but I wonder if such ongoing utter domination was even possible in the greatly expanded industry post WWW, regardless of who the leader was.

Steve Ballmer is more than worthy of admiration, if you were smart you'd try to learn from him rather than portraying him as a buffoon sidekick to Bill Gates. To evaluate him in this way just displays ignorance.

I think Gates brought on Ballmer as the business partner he needed, not the business partner he started with (Paul Allen). I'm not knocking Paul Allen but Bill Gates felt he needed Ballmer as his partner and as far as I could tell Ballmer and Gates were a powerful team, not Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

And when compared with Steve Jobs, it's worth remembering that Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates comprehensively beat, pounded and dominated Steve Jobs' Apple until "Steve's return". Apple was on the brink of going out of business when Steve returned and stayed in business because Gates and Ballmer provided Apple with $150M to stay in business - a wise move at the time because Microsoft was in trouble with the justice department and needed to ensure that there were companies still in existence that could even vaguely be argued to be valid competitors to Microsoft.

Many, many entrepreneurs tried and failed to get the better of Gates and Ballmer until eventually a perception formed that you were an idiot if you tried to compete with them. VC's wouldn't invest in anything that was even seen as potentially an area that Microsoft might be interested in being involved with. Ballmer is one of the most formidable and, in his time, feared businessmen ever.

Ballmer is one of the greatest business people of all time even if he doesn't have the romantic and charismatic story of Jobs or Gates.

Respect is due.
Place where I used to work had large NetApp array's using HGST's Helium filled drives.

During the time that I was there (1 year, these had been in service longer than that), out of the 250+ drives in service we didn't have a single failure.
The big thing for non-login websites is the threat of the information being tampered with on the line. Someone could easily MitM your http connection and insert whatever they wanted into the website, making you think that website had said it.
No, diabetes insipidus can be caused by hormonal problems, kidneys failing to respond to hormones, and pregnancy.
I just tried it - works fairly well but the 3D images could be clearer
Ideally, CloudFlare would allow you to route specific paths to different backends so you could just aggregate multiple services within your single domain for the fewest connections and DNS lookups.

Feels crazy but this makes me think to proxy imgix, which uses Fastly (not supporting SPDY or HTTP/2 yet), through CloudFlare. I'll just set up CNAMEs on my imgix account that are subdomains of my main domain, then add them to CloudFlare with acceleration on - but no caching (since imgix serves images by user agent). This adds an extra datacenter to datacenter hop, but hopefully that's really fast and upgrading the client to SPDY or HTTP/2 would outweigh that.

Anybody else tried something like this?
"n squared plus one"
I would put > 50/50 odds on there being a human alive today with at least one CRISPR-edited germline variant. I think the question is now how can we regulate/control CRISPR germline editing; not how can we prevent it.

Human embryo gene editing was reported in May 2015 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13238-015-0153-5). It's reasonable to assume that the editing took place significantly before the submission date, especially given reports that the paper was first rejected from several other journals on ethical grounds (http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-scientists-genetically-mo...). I'm not trying to suggest that these particular scientists have performed experiments on viable embryos also, but I'd be very surprised if someone hasn't.
The diets most keto advocates support is not high protein; rather, it is high fat, moderate protein, very low carb (< 25 net grabs daily). The science to date supports that as being a very healthy diet, especially if your fat source is not omega-6 polyunsaturated fat, but is instead dominated by monounsaturated, omega-3 polyunsaturated and yes, saturated fat.

http://authoritynutrition.com/23-studies-on-low-carb-and-low...
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An interesting, related article was posted on HN not long ago: "Better Babies - The long and peculiar history of the designer human" - https://aeon.co/essays/the-dream-of-designing-humans-has-a-l...

I think it's probably a good idea to keep in mind that we don't know nearly as much about editing DNA as we'd generally like to think.
A whole GC sounds like a lot of unsafe code!
Striking Fintech Gold
How Software is Made
Mozilla are a registered charity, Facebook are a for profit company.
If your business is enhanced storage, your margin in storage infra is directly relevant to your COGS. I got to learn this the hard way, having once worked in the field. (SpiderOak)
The significant change with CRISPR (compared to other ways that transhumanists might accidentally kill themselves) is that it can make heritable genetic changes. Experiment on yourself, sure, but to pass your untested experimentation along to children is a totally different ethical question.

Recent news: http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/01/crispr-inventor-calls-fo...

> A three-day international summit on the ethics of making permanent, hereditary changes in the human genome begins today in Washington, D.C., the fruit of an informal discussion organized in January by Jennifer Doudna, the inventor of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology that makes such changes cheap and easy.

AFIAK this should only come up if people are messing with sperm/eggs, but it's definitely something to be aware of. Can CRISPER change existing DNA that would alter future sperm production? (am not a biologist)
http://bfy.tw/36aT
Helium diffusion is probably negligible next to the likelihood of puncturing the assembly or breakdown via normal use.
I believe you're meaning to allude to refined carbohydrates, like the ones found in soda drinks. "No carbs" would mean consuming no fruit or vegetables, at all - not exactly a practical strategy for healthful eating. (Note: grapes are especially high on the glycemic index and not an ideal representation of healthy carbohydrate, so your likening them to a can of soda isn't entirely inaccurate)

> The vegetarian diet (~60% of energy from carbohydrates,15% protein and 25% fat) consisted of vegetables, grains,legumes, fruits and nuts. Animal products were limited to amaximum of one portion of low-fat yogurt a day.

> In conclusion, a vegetarian diet led to a greater improve-ment in quality of life and mood. Patients consuming a vegetarian diet felt less constrained than those consuming the conventional diet. Disinhibition decreased with a vegetarian diet. The decrease in feelings of hunger tended to be greater in the vegetarian group. All these results suggest that a vegetarian diet is sustainable in the long term and may exhibit desired improvements not only in physical, but also in mental health of patients with Type 2 diabetes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050853
Thanks for the information...I would think Google would make sure they don't use their name by taking them to court as it affects their brand.
5 open source web apps, alternatives to Google Drive
"You are mimicking the rhetoric of the worst, most extreme segment of your opposition,"

No, we're not mimicking the rhetoric of the "worst, most extreme".

To suggest that is hyperbolic, and ironically itself represents the exact rhetoric you're trying to accuse me of engaging in.

The worst and most extreme segment of the opposition says "lets use violence to terrorize those who disagree". This level of violent discourse is far worse and more extreme than the rhetoric we mimick.

We're not engaging in that rhetoric, rather we're engaging in the mainstream popular rhetoric of people who don't agree with those extremists.

"Whoever fights with monsters..."

Honestly, the hypocrisy of you engaging in unfettered hyperbolic bullshit for the sole purpose of demonizing me as a monster is hard to overstate. Talk about monsterous, you should be teaching me how to distort words and demonize others, as you clearly are my superior in this area!
One of the quoted "transhumanists" is labeling those opposed to CRISPR as "bioconservatives", my first encounter with this word. Let's just keep labeling people and calling them names, this is going to advance the discussion in positive ways I'm sure.
Head of Let's Encrypt here. Our #1 expense is salary/benefits (we are hiring, letsencrypt.org/jobs). Other major costs include hosting, auditing, hardware, and legal/administrative.
Lexer.cpp:
int X;

Interesting that they started with git, instead of even a very small section of working code first
You are again conflating that society is synonymous with the state.
I have a couple of Pis running at home. To be honest, I've had enough SD card corruptions across a variety of models that I've moved to running the root directory off of USB. Has anyone else experienced this, or is this likely closely tied to my use case?
It's interesting that new devices always have a ratio of "cool factor" vs dorky, show-off or elitist (partly due to jealousy as well as actual dorkiness). The iPhone for example, I'd sa initially had about 90% cool factor, and about 10% of the negative. It's evolved to where probably only a tiny minority of people consider an iPhone to be dorky.

Google glass, on the other hand, seems in my observation to have launched with about 25% cool factor and 75% dorky, show-off, elitist kinda vibe to it. It devolved from there.

Despite Apple's reputation for coolness, the watch seems like it's at about 50/50 on the scale at best. I love technology and probably have a reputable score on the dorkiness scale myself. But, when I see Apple watches, they even seem a bit much for me.
Linux Mint suffers disk failure. Has been down for 3 days
HN also has a rule about it:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Borobudur ceased to have religious significance because the Javanese switched to Islam
It is an older article but it seems more and more relevant lately.
Confessions of a Car Salesman (2001)
He'll always be known for being an also-ran, but most of us won't even get that far.
How do I use it with Google Cloud HTTP Load Balancer?