skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's seems confused about who it is pitched at: the founder's personal site refers to it as "the tamagotchi for synthetic biology" [0]; but the main landing page [1] says that it enables "anyone to create and grow living cells for research, education or domestic life", and the about page [2] refers to use "at home, in labs or in schools" and says it "can be used in pro labs too".

I think it would be better to market this as a purely fun thing, rather than as a serious, useful tool. I doubt many will sell: this may have been better left as an art/design project, without an associated company.

[0]: http://julielegault.com/amino
[1]: http://www.amino.bio/intro/
[2]: http://www.amino.bio/what/
I only use Facebook from the desktop, and run Facebook.com in a dedicated app via Nativefier. The beauty of that is that this keeps all cookies and tracking completely separate from my main Safari searches.
https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier
I think I am on safe ground in saying that Dijkstra was well aware of the use of jumps in asm, but that is beside the point he was making in the body of the paper - as opposed to the point, taken from the title of the paper, that most of the argument has been about.
I think a free burrito is always a good share. Seriously you could be interviewing the most important person in the world and bringing up a free burrito as an anecdote wouldn't be looked down upon.
They kind of are like this: there are real-time electricity markets in the US. One issue is that a lot of demand is inelastic because price signal transmission is very hard. Grandmas don't want to be adjusting their Air Conditioner on a second-by-second basis due to price fluctuations. Utilities effectively buffer this movement by aggregating demand and purchasing enough to meet that demand.
This is a ridiculously hard question to answer correctly.

At best I can point out that theres 2 parts to this - the internet infrastructure and the regulatory frameworks.

Till now, we've worked without having to explicitly state the philosophical underpinnings of the web, nor convert that into a law/legal framework.

The slow lumbering leviathans have finally caught up to the nimble minnows of the 2000s. Telecom operators and other incumbents, including governments now know how the web works, and how to make it work for them (to the detriment of the commons).

We can limit the damage of the second, by help build and maintain transparent regulatory frameworks, and in particular - be able to mobilize rebuttals or examples to future papers released by TRAI, or other GoI institutions.

Whats learned here and other countries over the next 5 years, can be used to push for a stronger global framework.
> So, what is the spiritual successor of 0mq?

0mq seems to be the successor of 0mq.
Show HN: Better team wikis with slack integration and chrome extension
I'm curious, why wouldn't you include Safari and Spotlight?
There's a lot of that in there:

> Today's programming resembles design and construction of large mechanisms a lot more than word processing. The majority of women just don't find these things as interesting as men do.

Do the majority of men find those things interesting? Do women like word processing and menial tasks?

Is it possible that as the job of software engineer garnered more money and status, women were shut out?

I don't know, but this article doesn't answer these questions.
> I would guess that a fair amount of the potential cloud growth is in migrating all of that to the cloud, either as an actual migration, or as some new solution built in a cloud that retires an in-house hosted solution.

Depends on the workload. If your workload is predictable, and you don't need "scale to infinity on a dime", buying your own hardware and amortizing over 3-5 years is typically much cheaper (~40% savings, roughly) than what AWS offers.
I deleted my Facebook account 4 years ago, and I still don't have enough time for everything I'm interested in. Please send help.
Why Expert's Advice Gets You Nowhere
I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to, but they also don't allow you to embed a custom HTML5 player, just Flash. So, if you're a content producer or platform that wants to use your own player, your only option is to embed a SWF.

The irony is that I'm pretty sure the reasoning has security in there somewhere.
Eagerly awaited. I wouldn't be surprised if something else comes up around May, or December again this year.
I wonder if they could have used git differently to prevent git from becoming a bottleneck.

Instead of the landing strip approach, why can't they be OK with deploying configs from a snapshot of git from slightly in the past?
Cleaning the Imagenet Dataset (collected notes)
Why Self-Driving Cars Aren't on the Road yet [infographic]
Yup, that's exactly the behaviour.

Also a reason I deleted cookies, history and saved credentials and just use incognito for FB nowadays. It also stops the habitual browsing that gets you hooked.
True. Hopefully this is a test and once they get it working they'll roll it out across the BBC sites.
I get that the legal ownership is not literally changing hands multiple times (mostly because of the comical inefficiency of the real estate market and the effect of transfer taxes).

As a seller, you agreed to price X. As a buyer, I contracted with you (the hypothetical you) to ensure you are paid X. I then do some legwork and find another buyer for X+P, and assign the contract to them. At closing, you get ~X; I get ~P; new buyer gets the property, and a bunch of do-littles in the process take a bunch of fees, expenses, taxes, and commissions off the table. I don't see the problem for you or I. You do and I acknowledge that.

You can feel free to insist (in the contract) that, under those circumstances, you are due X+P, and what you'll find is that the subset of the buyers who wish to assign the contract won't deal with you (you've taken their economic value add away), but you'll eventually sell the house. It might be for X - L, where L is the loss you take by excluding that subset of buyers, as remember that X was the highest offer you were able to find otherwise and that was from a buyer that you've now excluded. But at least you can feel good that you got the "full value" of the transaction.
What are some of the pitfalls of this approach over the regular 24/7 Apache/Nginx server approach?
$50 Kindle Fire Teardown
FWIW, I'm pretty sure Popcorn has been abandoned, which is a shame.
Lovelock's work at NASA philosophizing about the possible chemical processes which might go on on other planets led to his considering life+atmosphere as a combined system, which directly drove a lot of scientific investigation of the effect of human activity on the atmosphere and the atmosphere's effect on life, and therefore to much of our current understanding about global warming. This kind of research is not isolated, it helps us understand planetary dynamics and find other examples of planet-scale atmospheric systems which help us learn more about our own.
The article states that the AEC knew radioactive iodine would contaminate milk and enter the population, but is quite vague on the state of knowledge of the dangers of that contamination at the time. Skimming the 1998 Senate hearing linked in the article, the link between radioactive iodine ingestion and thyroid cancer was apparently unsure even in 1998, although considered likely by then.
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Brain to Brain: The Therapist as Neurobiological Regulator (2010) [pdf]
I documented an alternative model in http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/gitlab_flow.html
Yes, I saw a presentation from the Bento Box people at a conference a couple of weeks ago. It seemed to be a much more polished product than Amino, and they were clear about the use cases and limitations while Amino seems to be a lot more hand-wavy.

It's still nice to see more competition in this space, though.
I don't have much faith in Consumer Reports may be they wanted to be in good books of Mr. Musk.
They don't work reliably (some things still autoplay), and sometimes they break the media entirely or don't discriminate between things you actually want to autoplay. For example, the one I currently have installed also blocks "gifv" files from autoplaying in the browser, even though there's no play button to click on. Every time I click on a reddit link that turns out to be a gifv file on imgur, it stays frozen on the first frame and I have to click on "view image", manually change the url to "gif", and reload it. As others here have mentioned, they also tend to break youtube in odd ways. It feels like there are a million little annoyances like that. Back in the "flash era", click-to-play was effortless.
Same here. Unfortunately most people either don't take the time to think through the consequences or do not have a choice about work that allows them to push back.

I have similar feelings about binding arbitration, another area where corporate lawyers have gone crazy in recent years.
Can you elaborate on the issues with iTunes, Wifi, and Xcode? I know the app store is just a wrapper (which makes it pretty bad) but Xcode is a wonderful (but buggy) IDE, I don't understand how you can make WiFi bad, and I really have no idea where they went wrong with iTunes.
In GitLab EE you can use a merge request to review code and then rebase it, see http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/rebase_before_merge.html
Maybe downvoted because both links were about the company I work for - so it's kinda spammy.

I originally wanted to link steel and textiles, but I don't have actual sources for that. Both steel and textiles went overseas for price considerations, but I think that if US management and labor would have focused on improving quality and cost for each of those they would still be in business in the US (and Britain, etc).

In the 1970's GM and Ford started the steps of getting out of the vertical integration business. This meant that their components could come from anywhere - competition was based on cost and quality; but mainly cost. Some perverse metrics here meant that internal suppliers drove themselves out of business because they did not improve quality.

For example: for a very long time, automotive components were produced on an Inspect and Reject scheme, where a large lot of material was built up at one site (internal or external) and then inspected at point of use. The manager at the component production site was compensated based on number of units produced, effectively driving down quality. The manager at the point of use was also compensated based on number of units produced, again driving defects into production units as bad material was used in production.

People who work mainly with code would do well to remember that physical production is hard. Also, incentives will always have perverse outcomes over a long enough timeframe. There's no way to list all of your assumptions when you set up incentives.

Anyway, I'd love to hear stories like this from other physical products (like textiles and steel for instance).
The dangers of acute radiation poisoning were certainly well known by then. Two Manhattan Project scientists died in 1945 and 1946 from radiation poisoning, and of course there were a lot of Japanese civilian deaths.

The long-term danger of lower doses is a rather different thing, though, and that took a lot longer to be well understood. There are a lot of things which are dangerous in large doses but harmless or even beneficial in small doses, after all.
You pick the lawyer yourself - they just send their invoice to your ex-employer, after they've advised you.
Yes, as a person from UK you should absolutely be worried about US government's shady and unethical practices and put pressure on your government to pass various laws that would protect you.
I have autoplay disabled in FF. The trick in Youtube is to double click the play button the first time. After that all works normally. (For some reason double clicking the video area doesn't produce the same result.)
I agree - was definitely poor stewardship, but also there was a perceptual problem for developers. Flash was created for designers and artists, the coding part was secondary and thus traditional developers found it extremely frustrating.

The internal team became obsessed with changing it to something more focused towards developers with AS3, Flex, Flash Builder, and Flash Catalyst. Instead of improving something successful, they tried to twist it into something it wasn't.

The final straw was Jobs, not because Flash was bad but because iOS was extremely locked down. There was no way he was going to share his new platform:

"We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform."

Without iOS, there was no future for Flash (Android was still in it's infancy) so Adobe pulled the plug. Just a few years later Apple will go on to hire Kevin Lynch, former CTO of Adobe, to be VP of Technology at Apple focusing on the Apple Watch.
The (closed-source) security software Microsoft ships with modern Windows is quite good. I don't think OSS/non-OSS is the real dividing line, but rather motivation of the vendor is.

In the case of Microsoft, their motivation is to make Windows work better, in the case of OSS the motivation is often to scratch personal itches, both of these motivations trend towards positive results.

In the case of 3rd party security software vendors, their motivation is usually to upsell you from whatever version you are using to a higher level of "security", so it is in their best interest to go nuts with false positive reports (eg. finding some browser cookies in a scan, posting up such severe looking warnings that you'd think your system is rooted), bog your system down, etc.
The article provides a lot of interesting questions, but occasionally without enough data to answer them. But maybe the questions are a good starting point, from the perspective of logical deduction.

On an additional note, I find it odd that software always gets so much focus: for example, 99 percent of construction jobs are held by males in many countries (and a large portion of these jobs do not involve heavy physical labor, if that is a concern - i.e. heavy machinery operators, foremen (forewomen?) etc ).

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/07/27/where-women-work/

See link above. I think we might be asking the wrong question, focusing on too narrow of a field. The better question might be, why do certain fields get dominated by women, and certain fields are devoid of them? I think there is a much broader hypothesis here to be tackled then one concerning a single field.
That would not work. Suppose Bob offers $1M for your house and you accept. 10 minutes later Charlie comes along and offers $1.2M. Why would Bob get out of that contract, when he knows that he can resell it to Charlie and make $200k minus the transfer tax (assuming you cannot reassign the contract). The only difference between allowing or disallowing reassignment is how many times the transfer tax is paid. Or if you're a sentimental seller and actually care about who buys your home.
Because your phone's web browser can include an ad blocker, while the one in the native app has to make all those extra requests?
Be careful with too much french press. It has been linked with increased blood cholesterol levels[1]. I made the switch to filter-based coffee brewing methods because my levels were high. Obviously not a problem for everyone, but for those with a family history of high cholesterol levels (like myself), it's worth being aware of the potential impact.

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070614162223.ht...
Believe me I've looked. As far as I can tell, there's no way to make one that works for everything because the HTML5 standard* doesn't have a clear distinction between things that autoplay and things that don't, the way there was between "flash content" and "everything else".

*I'm not a tech guy so I may be using the wrong terminology here.
Releasing an app – Windows Phone
"Boosted" brand powered skateboards use lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, which are inherently safer than ordinary lithium-ion batteries. The LiFePO4 chemistry doesn't have the thermal runaway problem. That was a good decision. They give up some range, but don't have fires.

Thermal runaway in LiCoO2 cells is the cause of most battery fires. Overcharging or cell overheating starts a chemical reaction that raises the temperature, which accelerates the reaction further. This continues until the battery catches fire or explodes. In battery packs, this can cascade, with one cell forcing adjacent cells into thermal runaway.

There are other safer battery technologies. The A123 Systems cells[1] don't have the thermal runaway problem and are supposedly resistant to fires due to physical damage. They pass the "nail test", where a nail is driven through the battery. Price is about 2x low-end cells from China. A hoverboard powered with those should not catch fire.

A problem with "Boosted" skateboards is that they can easily be taken over via the Bluetooth link.[2] Worse, they support over the air firmware updates. Unsigned over the air updates. There's an exploit for this, called FacePlant.

[1] http://www.a123systems.com/lifepo4-battery-cell.htm
[2] http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hackers-can-seize-control-of-el...
What is Relay and GrapQL
Try installing it and deleting it again.
Sun's propose-built, native Java processor (picoJava https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava — forgive the direct link because I am on a mobile platform) absolutely stank and they clearly lacked the incentive to invest more resources into producing a special-purpose part when general-purpose devices (traditional CPUs) would have always had the return-on-investment advantage.
Releasing an app – Android
Google CEO Pichai Receives Record $199M Stock Grant Business
> If I were the buyer in the first transaction, however, I'd be very upset with my real estate agent though

Presumably the first buyer is aware of what the agent is doing, and is okay with it. The first buyer gets $300k out of it (but no house).
Implementing your own JSF tabview component without Primefaces
> Give me 200 bucks and an ebay account and I can buy a lab that will run circles around this crippled mess.

Could you go into more detail about this? I'd love to know how to build a lab on the cheap. Can you get genetic material for bacterial transformation within a K-12 budget as well?
I've been using a Chemex since mid 2015/12 and love it so far. I highly recommend giving it a try!
A bit disappointed that "superhighway" means making a few small holes in you fence.
Just try using the Elm compiler to translate an ES2015 program to ES5 and you'll quickly figure out why it's not on the list.
Sweden collect statistics on peoples job titles as a part of the process of collecting taxes, and based on that I find it slightly odd that there is such focus on programming. Only about 10% of professions is considered gender "balanced", and a profession with 80% balance is quite in the middle. There is a bunch of professions which has 90%+, with several that has 99% of a single gender (primarily female professions, with some exceptions). The top one, never spoken about in gender politics, had about 4000 working females professionals to 1 male.

Since the article provided their personal theory, I will provide mine. I do not think its the work activity itself that matter, but that a person who picks between multiple choices of potential future professions, the deciding factor when everything else has been considered is the amount of people with similar life experience that one is likely to find. If you are a young parent, you have a minor preference for places which employ a lot of other young parents of the same gender. When everything else is equal, such preference can have a huge impact on gender statistics.
It's not. The energy production market is nowhere near a free market, thus these pricing absurdities for net metering.
Looking forward to Prof. Scott Aaronson [0]'s response to this.

[0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/
> And you think enabling tens of millions of people to access these resources will make them....worse?

Nope, just saying that non-English Indian language internet sucks. Yes it gets better when more and more people are using it, but that still doesn't change the fact that millions of people currently don't have internet in a form which they can use to make their lives better.

> What do you say to the Indian coder who today is working on his WhatsApp competitor? tough shit, facebook already bought the internet in this country?

Same thing you're going to say to that 18 year old kid in the year 2030 whose life could have been different had he lived in a more connected India.
Microsoft has strategic reason not to suffocate the other AVs completely. It's better to have multiple companies attack viruses on multiple fronts. If McAfee and ilk went away completely the onus would lie entirely on Microsoft.

Laptop manufacturers are also to blame because product bundling and bloatware are nothing new.

Microsoft on their part could make it so that Defender worked alongside McAfee but that might encourage users to buy McAfee even more, arguably (double the protection or not knowing they are already protected).
They should be able to. Embedded Safari allows you to define JavaScript APIs to interface with your app, and the app can register for push notifications.
As you seem imply, the trade-off here is between the costs of distribution and economies of scale. However, without numbers for the various costs, I don't see how you can make a prediction.
What is this supposed to represent? Colors used on the HN board or was this a user poll?
Aside from the other links provided, if you want to find that macro, you can search for "sup son" which seems to be its origin.
stdlib do have this:
#include <setjmp.h>

longjmp(BACK_TO_MAMA,1);

Never used this though.
Micro framework that just pulls the world using Maven. I'm not sure you understand what "micro" really means.
I may have to switch to Chrome (from Firefox) and see if actually works as described.
StyleCI – Because coding standards matter
It's heartening to hear you think it's a good idea, because I actually run a foreign languages learning site which uses bilingual crosswords for vocabulary memorization, and until now it has experienced an extremely lukewarm reception from teachers. Well, I had a hunch this kind of learning puzzles were a better fit for autodidacts anyway.

If you care to check the site, its URL is http://panagrama.org

Comments very much welcome!

(And as this is HN, I should also mention that the crosswords are written in BiwaScheme.)

EDIT: mistyped URL
My understanding of flipping was what I thought to be a common-sense one. However, upon researching it further I stand corrected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipping#Wholesaling_and_assig...

One part of that article that stands out is that this is possible because the seller is generally not getting market value, which implies that the seller's agent isn't doing a great job of representing them:

"This practice is often frowned upon in the real estate
community since it seems unethical or illegal. In practice
there is nothing illegal about wholesaling or assigning
rights to a purchase contract even if it is multiple times.
It is important to understand that the reason there is an
opportunity to wholesale is because the original seller is
selling the property for substantially less than market
value."
Article seems to look at the gender gap only from a few angles - a natural inclination for design and mechanics, and gender specific marketing of computer devices, and curriculum changes in CS programs. I think there is more to it than that. The salary element, the odd job hours, the gender gap leading to a bigger gender gap as women feel like the odd (wo)man out in programming circles are some causes that need to be examined further. In my opinion to think of early programmer as people who corrected typos and worked on word processing is a biased view.