skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a different argument than OP was making. Clearly if "never having a cold" happens to also mean "dies at 50" then it's not a good idea. But OP was arguing that the experience of having a cold makes you a better person, and thus we perhaps should not edit colds out of our genome.
This is a post to my corporate site, but I created a list of case studies / blog posts of folks discussing how they've moved over: datawire.io/microservices-stories.

I have a bigger list that I haven't had time to put on the site. If you'd like them, I'm happy to create an open google sheet for you.
They can do favors for such people.
People have been using eclipse for almost 15 years, and if they stop using it, it will be because there is a better IDE (see: IntelliJ). Things like smart auto-complete, click-to-definition, history/diff merge views and integrated build support/dependency management are a huge productivity win.
This is awesome. Are there any other projects like this out in the wild?
The 3 Pitch Decks a Startup Must Have – And What Should Be on Them
Slightly harder to understand, it is. But incomprehensible, it is not.
The part about him as a kid being unable to play with the other kids because he may be an insurance risk really struck at me here.

At least today, it shouldn't seem to be the same as not having immunization shots and being a risk to others.
> Will they still be able to run new VR games in three years? That's another barrier

This is one of the biggest problem actually, glad you mentioned it. You can spend a big load of money, but if you get some lags in games in a few years then VR is down the toilet for you.
The Dropcam Team
Reverse Engineering Sublime Text’s Fuzzy Match
Okay, it is subject to side effects, since the input from the original method call isn't the only point of intersection/input, the async call is part of it...

Just the same, the exposure is still minimal, and easily testable.
>Evolutionarily speaking, it seems likely that depression/anxiety are there for some purpose, and yet we treat them both like meaningless pain meant only to be banished using drugs. I believe both are signals that something in our environment is not working for us. They indicate emotional or physical needs unmet---needs for safety, autonomy, connection, etc.

Yes, that's all true IMO, but the problem is that many times, it simply isn't feasible to change your environment. So antidepressants are a good way to deal with the problem.

For instance, suppose you live in the ghetto and are constantly struggling to make ends meet. How do you change your environment here? Well, here in American, you don't. You just suffer. If it were that easy to get out of poverty, most people in that trap would do it. Indeed, many things in society seem to be actively designed to keep people trapped in poverty.

What if you're lonely because you're single and have never had any success dating, and the reason is that you're cursed with being extremely unattractive? There again, there's only so much you can do to change that. (Or worse, you have a serious physical disability, which really limits how many people are willing to date you.)

>but I believe the depression/anxiety are there to force our conscious self and the people around us to acknowledge that something is wrong.

Sounds like an interesting theory, but in reality, at least in this society, it seems to have the opposite effect: it makes you an outcast. No one wants to be around depressed people, so they're stuck being lonely, which feeds the depression, it's a vicious cycle. Antidepressants can really help a lot here, by giving you a short-term boost to jump-start your social life and just to help you cope with life in general.

>This is a completely different paradigm that explains depression and anxiety as meaningful signals of underlying problems rather than as inexplicable suffering to be numbed through prescription medication. I believe it will prove the more robust and also the wiser way of looking at these experiences.

I think the problem with this idea is that this seems to require some gigantic changes in our very culture and how we deal with people who are depressed.
But when the only thing he trolls about is white supremacy, what do we have to back that up? All we can really do is look at things at face value.
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Yea, unit tests for messy logic and algorithms.

Integration tests for complicated scenarios.

Extensive dogfooding for the UI.
Sure, I think that would be revealing. I think it would be a pretty large amount of work to make that list though, and it might not lead anywhere.

(like, did the daughter go there quietly for 4 months under an assumed name because the Senator was friends with a doctor...)
Colleges Spending Millions to Deal with Sexual Misconduct Complaints
It really depends on your field; as far as I am aware (I am a PhD student in theoretical CS) even Elsevier and Springer do not go against preprints on arXiv.
I would have considered it if I had a PS4 already, but I think I want the "real" experience if I need to buy the whole thing from scratch.
The only reason IVF isn't always successful is goverment regulations or medical issues. In a healthy mother we can expect a 15% success rate for each embryo, so you can just implant a bunch and remove the extras. Unfortunately, regulations, in particularly in the EU, limit you to a few at a time and I'm not aware of any human fertility specialists that will remove excess embryos. It is a numbers game that could easily be won with a change of attitude.
That is only true if you are not simultaneously creating new money to replace the money that has been effectively been withdrawn from the system - which is precisely what the fed, the Bank of England, etc., do when they churn out new currency.

If there were a constant and fixed supply of money, what you say would be true - but there is not, and therefore what you say is false.

Cars in driveways will not explode, crops will not catch on fire, but the incremental benefit from increased efficiency will never be realised in any tangible fashion.

Also, nice stoop to the ad-hominem - I'm no communist. Are you a primitive randroid?
For the most part, I think people are talking past each other. For sites that are document-based toward a wide audience, progressive enhancement makes the most sense. For application-centric sites (For example, an internal admin app, or a B2B application where SEO and phones aren't the primary interface) why would I spend the money for the extra work?

It's almost as if your use case should determine your strategy.
Not openly, but let's say some powerful people have powerful friends in government, who both have troublesome enemies. If those troublesome enemies were no longer a part of the picture, things would work out so well for everyone, don'tcha think?
I don't think the downvotes are trying to mask real discussion. OP does not create real discussion, just a paranoia without arguments: "this is caused by X", being X the left (in this case), but it could have been the right, the media or whatever and I think it would have been downvoted equally.

And, by the way, I don't think calling the police when seeing these kind of fliers is an overreaction. Yes, it's just a piece of paper, but the people who print those pieces of paper tend to be, let's say, very non-friendly if you are a minority (black, homosexual,...), sometimes getting to the point of beating them.
Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds
Intellij IDEA is remarkably Spring-aware if you set it up properly. Static checks across schema-specified XML and Java is tight. That said, I couldn't imagine working with Spring if I weren't using IDEA.
I think you're on slightly different thread than we are.

We were saying that $5M is easy to turn into $10M, but $5 is impossible to turn into $10. We were referring to the fact that good investment vehicles are only available to people with large sums of money.

As a result, a poor person will be more inclined to blow the $5 on a lottery ticket because she has no investment options. It's still not a rational choice, but in her mind, she has nothing better to do with that $5 than take a chance at winning $10M. In her mind, that's how she gets to be a millionaire and no other way.

We weren't suggesting that a lottery winner will be a smart investor.
Transformative paradigms driving toward sustainable automotive transportation
It's really hard to take an objective stance with the article when the opening statement feels that outrageous...
I'm struggling to find the right way to disagree with this. On one hand, we do know the downsides, provided there is no immunization. We don't develop the antibodies needed to fight the disease, and we're at greater risk for an outbreak. Polio was defeated largely due to immunizations, but there's still outbreaks that are devastating because people don't get vaccinated.

I'm also not sure we can vaccinate against the cold, I think it's like the flu, it mutates too quickly.
My comment didn't take a position on morality, but was illustrating that the choice is not the simple (false?) dichotomy presented.
Airline competition is local. When I lived in Denver I had tons of choice and prices were low. Now that I live in a smaller city, I have fewer choices and prices are higher. Jet Blue finally came recently and caused prices to drop across the board. But, if they leave I'm sure prices will go back up.
"Destroyed" may be the wrong term, but the purpose of money is to facilitate transactions.

One dollar that changes hands ten times in a year has contributed more to the economy, and created more effective wealth, than ten dollars that spend the whole year lying in a safe.
Personal Thoughts on the LambdaConf Controversy
I feel like Auth0 is pretty mainstream. I teach it to students at this point.
Indeed. See for example the horrific state of Reddit over the past few years, as racist "jokes" became the norm.
I honestly don't see how the $10 price point can be considered anything but affordable. When individual songs are over $1 each on iTunes and other digital music stores, and one album bought digitally or physically is more than a single month of renting 30+ million songs for a month, the thought of considering $10 to be expensive seems crazy to me.

I still have my student discount with Spotify so I only pay $5+tax, but even when I lose the discount, $10 is not expensive to me. Especially for what I get.
Only with respect to generating events, not with respect to detecting and analyzing them.
This completely ignores the personal aspect of having children, which is the desire to have a child with your loved one. Adding a scientific way to pick a different child seems to me to be comparable to adopting... You are just doing so at a very young age. So the idea that most of humanity would jump to this mechanism just because it is possible seem to grossly misunderstand human nature.
Linux at 25: Q&A with Linus Torvalds
They only cause deflation if you don't have a central reserve bank churning out currency to replace that which has been withdrawn. If this did cause deflation, you would be seeing deflation in the markets right now - but you are not, you are seeing inflation due to Q.E..
Are you saying that SJWs and the left in general are the ultimate cause behind a hacker scanning for open printers on the Internet and sending Nazi propaganda to them? If yes, how does that work?
Taking on Spotify seems like an odd choice to me. To me it would seem that Spotify has a huge fight ahead of it, even though it has raised well over a billion dollars at this point. They're fighting against the platforms that already exist: Apple Music & Google Play. Apple Music offers basically the same thing except with tighter integration with their hardware (and iTunes for buying the songs that artists don't allow to be streamed), as does Google Play.

It seems to me that Spotify is fighting an uphill battle saddled with an enormous valuation ($10b-ish I believe?); SoundCloud really wants to fight against them for whoever is left after Google & Apple? And, through all of this, Spotify & SoundCloud are paying a huge chunk of their mobile revenue directly to their competitors (Apple/Google stores). It doesn't sound like a space that I want to be in!
My wife has endometriosis [1]. IVF didn't take until our 3rd cycle (using at least 3 embryos each time).

Also, we were given the option every cycle to selectively reduce [2] embryos if too many took (luckily, that was never necessary). This was in the US.

/u/gyardley mentions that its not easy, convenient, and painless. The most expensive procedure in IVF is where you stimulate a woman's ovaries in order for them to overproduce eggs for ultrasound-guided retrieval (using an extremely long, large bore needle); as soon as medical science is close enough to converting stem cells filtered out of blood into reproductive tissue (and we're extremely close, believe me; I have done my homework), IVF will be an outpatient procedure no more expensive than an expensive dental appointment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endometriosis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_reduction
Right. I meant overreaction on the part of having fliers printed. Not the calling the police part. It was a security breach after all.
> If there’s drawing we have an app that we use where anyone can draw and anyone can see what’s being drawn.

somebody had success with such draw apps? this is a missing piece for us
I haven't had these problems.
https://xkcd.com/678/

4th row.
4chan is a shithole without a visible record... reddit on the other hand not only has a record it has meritocratic system aka karma that promotes harassment and internet trolling "just for the lulz and karma"
It's probably just that more people have heard of reddit and can easier relate to rather than 4chan. Although it's probably unfair - I am using reddit for a few years and they have tons of amazing communities and le reddit army (swatters, Boston bombers, etc) are amazingly easy to miss unless you're looking for them.
Is the Oculus Rift a Hit or a Flop?
It seems like more and more companies' business model simply involves setting up a "toll booth" on the internet.
The initial ones could come from the lungs of the person.

When you do a free dive you pump your lungs full of air and gradually release that air over the course of the dive. A trained swimmer can easily swim without breathing for 50 meters, producing air bubbles all the time. (EDIT: active swimming, aiming for distance. I had to do this when I got my lifeguard certification - IIRC 25m sufficed to qualify, but everyone did 50m).

That video is unfortunately way too short to prove anything.
I had really good luck with the one built into google hangouts. I think it depends on what you're trying to convey. Sometimes just sharing mockups works really well too.
Show HN: More menu, a jQuery plugin for responsive menus
Sprizzy Launches a New Advertising Platform That Caters to Kickstarter Campaigns
Nice job!

Here's mine: http://www.leonardofed.io/google-cloud-next-impressions.html
Can a Startup Be Good?
I'm not sure I'd take that assertion at face value. It seemed to read more on par with something like "I took my moms car for a ride, if she finds out, she'll kill me" kind of hyperbola. Could be wrong, since there are arms dealers involved, but still, I don't think they rub people out like that and risk exposure.
Haven't had success here either, generally I'll use a whiteboard or a piece of paper and show it to my web cam.

If I have more time I'll throw something together in Illustrator. Would be nice to have something more collaborative.
Uncertainty can cause more stress than inevitable pain
I agree but I don't understand how that relates to Dart (has a standalone VM of decent quality) or Mojo (IPC API language - basically abstracts stuff on a OS process level - cross language/VM/process interop being transparent)
Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing
weev can be a true believer and still be pulling stunts like this for the lulz. It's certainly motivated his actions in the past[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/2...
> most people in developed countries will stop having sex

It's probably more telling to look at the people looking forward to that scenario than the scenario itself.
"Shortly after TrueCrypt version 1.0 was released in February 2004, the TrueCrypt Team reported receiving emails from Wilfried Hafner, manager of SecurStar, claiming that Paul Le Roux had stolen the source code of E4M from SecurStar as an employee. According to the TrueCrypt Team, the emails stated that Le Roux illegally distributed E4M, and authored an illegal license permitting anyone to base derivative work on E4M and distribute it freely, which Hefner alleges Le Roux did not have any right to do, claiming that all versions of E4M always belonged only to SecurStar. For a time, this led the TrueCrypt Team to stop developing and distributing TrueCrypt" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4M
Yes but from a teenager in Krugersdorp? And South Africa did not have such easy access to the international telephone market. The country was in the middle of economic sanctions at the time - international calls had to be placed through a switchboard with the government run telecom monopoly provider - Telkom. They also cost a literal arm and a leg for a couple minutes and were heavily monitored by the Apartheid regime. An actual police state.
> If you try my car/house door and it's unlocked it doesn't
> mean you can enter it.

If you have a publicly available web server and I make a "GET /" request on it, am I hacking? If you have a publicly available print server and I make a "PRINT flyer.pdf" request to it, am I hacking?
And how would we know which mutations are broadly beneficial or not? What if humans of a future earth or larger society have needs we couldn't imagine, like radiation resistance or anti-autoimmune protections?

Besides, sometimes there are trade offs with no clear winning picture. Sub-Saharan Africans with sickle cell syndrome are also more resistant to malaria. What's worse? What's more necessary? How do we know malaria won't be a bigger problem tomorrow?
Thanks for the book recommendation! The books I'm looking for don't have to 100% focus on failure, but just include it in the overall story.
Hi HN. Canvas lays the foundation for some great long term plans. Long term is great, but why use Canvas today?

- Focused on flow. Folding to merge preview and editing modes. Markdown to keep fingers on keys.
- Absurdly easy sharing. URLs are magic. Start up a meeting, share the URL in Slack
- Hackable. Make it easy to integrate into your workflows and systems. No lock in.

Love for you folks to try it, and give us feedback. The quickest way to get a feel is to hit the try button, share the URL to write with friends, then append .json to the URL and see what happens.
I think you're conflating Java the language and the Java Virtual Machine. Android does not run the JVM, it runs Dalvik and now ART. Android is going to continue to do this. But it has and will continue to use Java the language, not some language based off Java, as well.

And in fact Oracle's lawsuit is about neither the language or the runtime, it's about the APIs. Yes, they were taken from Apache Harmony. Oracle insists that Android's use of them infringes because Google created a derived work, incompatible with the full Java API, from the Harmony implementation of the Java API. Google, in fact, is replacing the Harmony code with OpenJDK[1], Oracle's official open-source implementation of the Java API. (Which is one of about a billion reasons why your claim that Android uses a language based on Java instead of actually using Java is so baffling -- it's so based on Java that they can replace their code with Oracle's official Java implementation!)

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switche...
This isn't as crazy as it sounds.

Look at a typical main street business: retailer, car dealership, restaurant, etc. There is no "R&D". Profits scale linearly with revenue; it's not so crazy to jump from "profit is down" to "business is failing".

In fact, the very definition of a "high-technology company" is one that reinvests a large amount of revenue into development. The exact threshold varies, but 20-30% and most people agree you're into "high tech" land. For comparison, consumer product goods companies like P&G spend some 10% of their revenue on marketing/advertising. http://adage.com/article/special-report-pg-at-175/procter-ga...

The real issue is that "Business" doesn't yet understand the economics of software companies. They have no tangible assets, their cash cycles are vastly different from most other companies, and they grow in discontinuous, sharp, nonlinear ways. You'll see this bias all over the economy if you look.

"Silicon Valley companies are overhyped, THEY HAVE NO PROFITS"

"That company is failing, it's going under"

Amazon is the grand counterexample, look at how much of a head-scratcher that company is to Wall Street to get an idea of how puzzling this is to Joe Business Guy.
So just googling around I found this and it seems to work pretty good.
https://awwapp.com/b/u21itcedr/
Date: 2003
Do you know where I can find a compiled version of bootstrap 4? I am on boostrap 3, but am about to roll out a site in a few weeks, so I might as well put 4 on if it's that stable.
> Second, a lot of people actually like reproducing via sex.

This is something I thought of. We're biologically engineered to desire sex, and most forms of birth control deprive the pleasure we get from the act. Unless you're one of those people who are into karezza, I'm not sure the author's idea is going to appeal to you.
Wow, I dislike Token Ring. You just gave me flashbacks to my first network admin position way back in 1993.

Thanks. ;-)
Are we really already far enough along in understanding genetics to do a better job than the process of natural selection? Given, we've been manipulating it well for over a century now, which makes me wonder what percentage of the global population would not have survived to reproduce even two centuries ago?

Modern Medicinal science is amazing, but in this field I could easily imagine a scifi future where humans are no longer able to naturally reproduce. Is there any concern with this in the scientific community or is this just my writer's imagination on an unfounded basis?
#3 Encourages Bad Behavior ... I was in the middle of Silicon Valley at a hotel that barely had a medium 3G signal and a weak LTE signal in pockets... and that was outside the building facing the bay. If not even SV can muster good signal strength that point is moot.
So it's just a PR problem. All it takes is some non-invasive technology to enforce that the woman will ovulate the right egg and the man will shoot the right sperm and it will "feel" natural enough for anyone to be ok with it.
I think it's funny that both of those sites seems to get represented by a more vocal and publicly visible subset of their users, and in 4chan's case by a slightly unfair-seeming set of associations between anyone using the term "Anonymous" (despite the fact that Anonymous is simply a name that one can take up without it implying any real link to a group), the one board out of many that is apparently implicated in anything "Anonymous" does, and the site as a whole.
GitLab Runner 1.1 with Autoscaling
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I like The Economist, but as a subscriber I notice two common trends:

1 - They really, REALLY, love to criticize America.
2 - They often have a really crappy understanding of micro-economic theory.
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