skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I am not so sure how universal this is if it varies between 7ms and 470ms, the article says "there is variation but it's minuscule", to me a two-order of magnitude variation is all but small.

Only if we are comparing it with itself.

If we compare it with the times involved in the general context of speaking (the time to say even a small phrase) the variation is insignificant.
Why not, because he attaches his real name to his internet commenting history?

Max seems like a smart guy to me (and apparently also to Apple, where he's worked for multiple years). I find his comments to be amusing, and writing them is clearly just a fun activity for him, just like posting on hacker news is for us.

I'm not sure why the fact he comments all the time on TechCrunch causes you to stick your fingers in your ears and shout "lalala I can't hear you."
This article is absolutely hilarious! I rarely laugh out loud when I'm reading stuff, but this line just got me.

"Because I’m overeducated and insecure, I package my banal observations in semantic finery, so I feel a kinship with lines like ‘‘Earthling inserts to chalice the green cutchie/Groundation soul finds trust upon smoking hose,’’ which is a fancy way of saying ‘‘a guy smokes some weed.’’ The thesis of ‘‘Dopesmoker’’ may boil down to ‘‘smoke dope,’’ but first-time listeners should be forgiven for wondering if it’s actually an anthropological study of Qedarite tribes in the pre-Christian Sinai Peninsula."

Totes hilare. Any song with lyrics that complex and earth shattering, deserves a listen. Plus - metal. Ya. Rocking out to the epic tune now!
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Please link to one/some of the papers you are referring to. From what I have seen, they always detect edits in the controls or fail to report enough information to say either way, eg:

"Although rare (∼1–2%), edits were detected with Cas9-only control treatment, including at the predicted CXCR4 cut site, potentially indicating trace amounts of experimental contamination of the Cas9 RNPs."
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10437.full

Note the curiously missing rows in dataset S1.
She doesn't think that the small gesture helps the patient form a therapeutic bond with the therapist, and is part of treatment?
Could You Sell This Dump(ster)?
The Resynthesizer plugin (Heal Selection, Heal Transparency) and Liquid Rescale work well as alternatives to the Content Aware system, in my experience.
Deloitte chief’s new year memo is a classic in demotivation – FT.com
Your life is Tetris. Stop playing it like chess
>Perhaps he wanted to be remembered for doing something good.

The man is a war criminal. He doesn't deserve to be remembered fondly for outsourcing an app, he deserves to die in a cell.
I think this is mostly a consequence of how the clients work. When I download something with BitTorrent, it goes into a Downloads folder. Then I want to move and rename the files to fit into an organized collection, but then the client won't be able to find it anymore. If my client were able to track files across moves and renames, I'd be much more willing to seed things permanently.

(It would also need to have good upstream-bandwidth management, use a number of TCP connections that's less than O(n) in the number of torrents, and offer a few bulk operations like "stop seeding torrents with more than N seeds" and "resume seeding torrents with fewer than N seeds".)
Visual Studio 2015 has started on this road. I dont know if you get notified but you can see when the last change was, and in theory if changes are incoming.

No idea how well it works because it was really slow because it seems to come bundled with other features that require indexing of your entire project so I disabled it
It is announced as an "image processing tool". This is a field mostly interested in raster images usually.
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There is an easy solution to the alignment problem: don't align stuff.

I haven't used column alignment in at least 20 years. I don't miss it at all, and I'll never go back to aligning things.

Column alignment causes far too many problems. Once you give it up, any advantage of spaces over tabs disappears. Code written without alignment reads the same whatever you use for indentation, and it is even perfectly readable in a proportional font!

I've written a few comments on HN about the problems with column alignment and the advantages of an alignment-free style. Here are a couple of previous discussions with specific examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10206860

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9469713
Skype now hides your internet address
Also Microsoft's DMTK: http://www.dmtk.io/
A small 2009 car demolishes a 1959 Chevy in a crash test [video]
It will take millions of dollars of research to turn this basic bioengineering technique into an approved (safe and effective) human therapy. How do you motivate investors to fund this research without the safety net of a patent to protect that investment from free-loaders?
A list of fledgling languages is a very different thing from a list of fledgling language implementations. Haskell is 20+ years old but the Android port might count as "fledgling". Python is similarly mature but PyPy not so much.

If you want to maintain a list of fledgling language implementations/ports that would be very cool. Probably a lot more work than just a list of languages though.
Isomorphic Experience and Moneyball
I suggest Google Compute Engine https://cloud.google.com/compute/
Something to keep in mind:

In each case, the FBI injected the site with malware to crack Tor’s anonymity.

Those hacks, developed with the help of outside contractors, were a technical milestone. When the FBI first realized it could break through Tor, Hosko said the agency gathered counterterrorism investigators and intelligence agencies to see if any of them had a more pressing need for the software. “It was this, exponentially,” Hosko said.
Ah yeah, my mistake.

I actually knew that as well. My sleepless brain isn't working today.
>It pains me to see my "right" and "left" leaning friends blame one side of the coin while completing ignoring the damage wrought by the flip side.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and many others explicitly warned about this.

>The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

-George Washington, Farewell Address

It's the age old strategy of divide et impera. It couldn't work if the masses weren't arguing futilely among themselves:

>Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.

-MLK, I've Been to the Mountaintop. Last speech given the night before assassination.
Along similar lines, though on a longer timescale, people on IRC or similar text-based chat mediums commonly take part in many real-time conversations simultaneously, and don't have any trouble mixing them up.

In theory, if you didn't mind breaking cultural norms, the same thing can work with speech.
Definitely not the case outside SV. It's easier to make fun of the overly optimistic than the overly pessimistic, so it's safer to criticize. I'm glad there is a place like SV where over optimism could even be a problem.
How do you use AWS Aurora?
Here at GoGuardian, we use it to improve scalability by decreasing replica lag and bypassing limitations inherit in enterprise-grade relational databases like AWS RDS.

How do you use it?

If you're interested in how we accomplished this, please visit: http://blog.goguardian.com/nerds/using-aws-aurora
>Would that be why they are drowning in higher education debt?

I think by 'easy college money' they meant student loans.
Yeah... Though I think an analysis of the lyrics would suggest that they weren't in a sober signal-analysis kind of mood when making this record..

Drop out of life with bong in hand
Follow the Smoke toward the Riff filled Land
Drop out of life with bong in hand
Follow the Smoke toward the Riff filled Land
...
Creedsmen roll out across the dying dawn
Sacred Israel Holy Mountain Zion
Sun beams down on to the Sandsea reigns
Caravan migrates through deep sandscape
Lungsmen unearth the creed of Hasheeshian
Procession of the Weed-Priests to cross the sands
Desert Legion Smoke-Covenant is complete
...

Plus, if you've spent all your advance on custom amps and weed, you might as well put them to use.
I'm on Xvim so I'd prefer to have non-indented blank lines for navigation with { and }. But I wouldn't suggest this guideline for projects where multiple devs since Xcode defaults to indenting blank lines. IMO you want to set yourself up for success as far as consistency goes, and that means sticking to defaults where possible.
If CRISPR gets/stays patented, the part of the world that respects patent law is going to get left out of whatever innovations it yields. Or maybe not completely left behind, but the groups that will be able to license it will number few.

I generally agree that discoveries like this should go in the public domain as quickly as possible.

The pissing contest about "who invented what, when" is fine and good, to a point; nobody cares if "Cancer Immunity 1.0" drug has a tagline "brought to you by Lander's Finest". To the extent that success and notoriety determine careers, and so we should "get it right" so that the "right" people get credit... I think most researchers will persevere and continue to do science (for the benefit of humanity or for personal glory, or whatever) even if they get shafted for credit.

But the technology itself.. get it into everybody's hands and let the thousand flowers bloom already.
The main problem is that hospital administrators and doctors have very different incentives. Administrators want to bill as much as possible, whereas doctors want to take care of patients. However, administrators are the ones who make purchasing decisions so EMRs are built for administrators, NOT doctors.

People say that EMRs are awful (And I used to think that). But the truth is that they're just not built for doctors, they're built for the hospital. And they're doing a great job at increasing billing, to the detriment of doctors productivity.

As an analogy, imagine a tenant / landlord relationship with a sink problem. The tenant asks the plumber to change the whole sink whereas the landlord asks the plumber to find the cheapest hack to fix it. The plumber has no choice but to listen to the landlord. The tenant and their friends blame the plumber for doing a shit job. But hey, soon after, a startup knocks at the door of the tenant and offer to change their sink for the best-of-the-market.. but the tenant would have to pay himself so he politely declines and stick to his old shitty sink.
The title made me chuckle... my first thought was as opposed to illegal immigrant scientists? :)
The way it was done before patents -- government funded research institutions whose only motivation was to provide scientific breakthroughs so they could continue to receive government funding.
My sister was sent by Brazil's government to MIT so she can bring back CRISPR technology to Brazil public universities to speed a research here about using gene editing to control stem cell expression.

I've seen plenty of people and papers where dna was edited in across entirely different organism realms, bacteria dna in animals, animal dna in plants, and so on...

I honestly don't understand how the technique ins't about editing, the only use I saw for it is editing.

EDIT: I asked my sister to give me links to some papers, I will post them after she replies.
Once again, the reply button is missing, so to give the answer of where fear responses are necessary in the modern world:

A large fire. An angry tiger. A busy street.

All of these are situations where a particular response--namely, distancing oneself from the threat--makes survival much more likely. Fear happens to produce that response, in a much faster way than higher-level cognitive processes, even in children who haven't got enough experience to reason about the danger.

Also, seriously, get a therapist. It's been shown in psychological studies that trying to suppress emotions (of any kind) tends to lead to depression.
Don Tapscott on How Blockchain Technology Can Disrupt Uber and Airbnb [video]
Too much of what gets called "criticism" comes from people who aren't really qualified to make that criticism, and is expressed in a way that is not civil or objective or relevant, let alone constructive.

Some critics are just sniping at their competition. Many critics are just trying to show off and look smart. Many critics have the crab bucket mentality. A few critics are the kind of people who entertain themselves by pulling the legs off of animals.

That is why we have the word "haters" to describe those kinds of critics. It's a useful word.
I have been hoping someone writes the digital equivalent of a 'tidying up' book. How to organize your files (or how to enable efficient searches), how to keep track of your digital possesions, whether to discard them or just store them on Amazon Glacier, proven strategies for storing logins & passwords, etc. Preferably written for techies.

We all have some sort of either adhoc or (rarely) a well-planned system of digital organization, but having a nicely written guide would be great for some things we haven't thought about (e.g., useful scripts, clever tricks, backup strategies, etc).

I've looked online for tips and tricks, but I haven't come up with much.
I'd be interested to learn about the software that created the ASCII version of the movie.

Is there a simple way to do this, or would they have made something custom?
>Well played. You took a dying app, and managed to bring it back onto the radar by spinning a story that has nothing to do with the app itself.

It's a story about the launch of the app, the reactions to it and its course in the app charts.

It doesn't get any much more about "the app itself" -- except if by that you mean he should only be allowed to review the app and/or write about its feature specs, menus and gradients used in the UI...

>There must be some sort of pro version of the Hype Cycle circulating in the Valley. "Okay marketeers, we need to begin the 'underdog' portion of our marketing campaign. If that doesn't work, then we may need to engineer a scandal to boost traffic".

I don't see any iota of proof (or even a hint) that he wrote the story to build hype about the app.

This accusation borders on tin foil conspiracy theories...
Oh my God.

That's quite possibly the worst reason to divide up a paragraph that I've ever heard.
Lest we forget, Mercurial was offered as the other solution to the Bitkeeper problem, as mpm was a kernel hacker at the time. It got a usable UI at version 0.1, two weeks after the git announcement. Some git users relied on cogito for another year or so, as simple things like `git-commit` still had to be manually handcrafted out of `git-commit-tree`.

I wasn't there to witness this, but I repeat it because it's actually kind of hard to dig up this history. I don't know of a single place that neatly chronicles the whole transition from bitkeeper -> git/mercurial.
I agree with you completely. I think there is definitely a minimum project scope before a PM becomes a good investment. But I also think there should be a multiplier for how scattered/non-technical/crazy the client is.
Autistic Savant Helps to Create a More Autism-Friendly World
Can it really be blamed entirely on millennials?
Xiaomi Mi 5 will be Launching in February
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isn't that div unnecessary?
Agreed, I put on my noise isolation headphones and started listing to it near the end of the day. When I stopped coding and the album was almost over, I realized I was last one in the office by probably 30 minutes.
It's not clear to me what you are saying. Cas9/CRISPR unambiguously cuts the genome at a target site determined by the guide RNA sequence. In the presence of a DNA oligo with partial complementarity to the cut site, the DNA repair mechanism will sometimes incorporate the "payload" oligo, causing the genetic locus to be engineered from one sequence to another, predetermined sequence.
Project homepage: https://www.eclipse.org/collections/
The barrier to that is the shared medium - when two people speak at the same time, neither can hear the other clearly.
Why is context needed when the first sentence is "Here it is 2016 and it's been almost 11 years since I started Mercurial." ?
I feel like if you use a lightweight node/express setup, you feel really productive because you're spending a lot of time coding, but you're actually far less productive than someone who uses an actual full fledged server side development framework (Rails/Django). For toy projects I do enjoy node, but if I was throwing myself into a startup, I'd use Rails without hesitation.
It depends on what circles you're in. I'm in your boat - most of my friends talk about startups and tech and are routinely skeptical, if not brutal, in our assessments.

But I also know a few people who are much closer to the money side of the business who don't ever shit-talk startups, no matter how crazy and dumb they are, or no matter how scummy their behavior.

I would say that the social acceptability of criticizing startups is proportional to your professional distance from a VC. Accordingly, the social acceptability of criticizing the meta-aspects of startups (fundraising, investing, etc) is the square of your professional distance from a VC ;)

There's definitely a "cone of silence" effect around VCs/incubators. Everyone walks on eggshells around them and criticism is extremely muted. Forget optimism/pessimism, even criticism of downright unethical/illegal actions is largely nonexistent.
Here's a (currently incomplete) list of Deep Learning frameworks : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XvGfi3TxWm7kuQ0DUqYr...

There are many :)
Oh please, so critics have to be credentialed now? We're not THAT precious around here now are we?
Basically, Theranos is the Jet.com of blood testing. Use VC money to order it from someone else for more than you're selling it for.

This is what we call a bleeding unicorn.
They may also have internal apps written using Swift which are not public. However it's also nice to have a public style guide.
ffmpeg can output ascii videos
The Internet Archive might be a good host for rare (and not copyright infringing) torrents.
I got a very strong Wittgensteinian vibe from the structure, which I'm guessing was their goal.
What this article doesn't mention is the vast amount of people that knowingly took out a home loan that absolutely did not have the income to pay it.

I can remember when things were crashing, they interviewed many people on TV that said they had no responsibility because it was the 'bank's job to check if they had the income'. A couple took out a loan on a $500,000 house and both had minimum wage jobs. It's not like they lost their jobs. They only ever had minimum wage jobs.

Everyone got greedy. The banks were forced to take on really risky loans because the government thought it was a good idea that everyone should have a home. They bundled them up and tried to make even more money on them.

People figured out pretty quickly that you could get a home with virtually nothing down and many banks didn't even check to see if you had the income.

It's easy to put the entire crash on the big, bad, bankers, but there are multiple groups to blame here (bad government policy+greedy bankers+greedy people wanting houses they can't afford).
aalib + mplayer would be my guess.
For an apparent Objectivist, you have a very poor understanding of Rand's ideas towards intellectual honesty, and her respect for the US Constitution. Rumsfeld made a career out of flagrantly attacking these two virtues. Rand would have foamed at the mouth if she were alive for Rumsfeld's many lies.

You don't have to be a Marxist to know that Donald Rumsfeld is an immoral man and a war criminal, who was directly implicated in the torture of innocent civilians of the United States and other allied nations. You ought to read OPAR and IOE a bit closer, next time. You also may want to read a newspaper that isn't owned by Rupert Murdock.
This particular piece of IP is probably worth billions of dollars. I think that's a little better than applause.
Right on. I've implemented that sort of pattern in a couple of jobs in the last few years and its seemed to work out well. The abstraction between 1 piece of code needing to know & understand oauth vs. every piece of code is a total win in my book.
You'll have to link to the exact evidence and methods you are referring to.
This article has a little more background: http://www.statnews.com/2016/01/25/why-eric-lander-morphed/
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To me those statements feel like they're covering their ass for being positive on the rest of the article about an app that's ho-hum at best.

Fresh? What exactly is fresh about it?
> At the very least users that bought a FFOS phone are to be without any kind of support ever appearing

FWIW, support has always been the role of the people actually selling the product: the OEMs. Mozilla never did end-user support for Firefox OS devices, similar to how Google doesn't do support for Samsung phones.
Agreed. I'm not sure why you were downvoted. If we are speaking strictly about iOS, you are 100% right. Swift is king.

Swift is set to replace Objective-C and it has risen in popularity and adoption at an insanely rapid pace.

Everyone is adding swift to their code base. Our watch-client for example, is written exclusively in Swift. We have a ton of C++ code too. It's not a problem because it's all wrapped in an Objective-C API anyways.

Besides, Swift brings a lot more to the table than just saner syntax and less boiler plate. It also includes: a good type system, optionals, functional constructs, excellent OOP support, excellent error handling, scripting support, a repl, a great intermediate language in SIL, cross-platform (freeBSD soon) native code.

Sure, it's not purely functional by any means, but it's neither is Rust. It's a good (not perfect) multi-paradigm language that can and will eat up a lot of the domain space C++/Go/Rust share for native applications.

I even predict it will go a step further. Swift will, in my prediction, eventually allow for safe, zero-overead memory management abstractions similar to Rust (and to a lesser extent C++). This will make it a head on competitor with Rust and C++ for virtually all their use cases (except legacy support).

My speculations is based on comments from the language's creator expressing desire for these features in Swift [0] [1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3vadg8/swift_is_open_...

[1] https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...