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> conservative stories which aren't corroborated by mainstream sources.

Conservativism is mainstream. Part of the problem is that many people who are not conservative have been lead to believe that it is a marginal/extreme ideology. It is not. It may be a majority ideology, but it is at a bare minimum a the second most common.

For what it's worth I don't consider myself a conservative.
Every new language has someone claim it's faster than C. I'll believe it when I see it.
The About page says, "The 1000 Genomes Project developed guidelines on ethical considerations for investigators doing sampling, outlined in the Informed Consent Background Document and the Informed Consent Form Template. All collections included in the Project followed these ethical guidelines and model informed consent language."

Here is the consent template: http://www.1000genomes.org/sites/1000genomes.org/files/docs/...

The post I responded to sounded like the genomic data would be uploaded without consent to a giant public database.

Even with consent the greater concern is that employers, medical providers, national health services, and health insurance companies could, by sequencing part of your genome, match it to a public database identifying you and your entire genome. This could then be used to raise prices, deny health care, or deny employment.

De-identification is not enough if the material is indicative enough that efforts to re-identify it can succeed.

Kudos to those advancing science by making their genomes public, but it's a risk I would not take.
Being a blob of fat is a great thing: you're contributing a ton to GDP, you're completely dependent on others for physical tasks, requiring more services, contributing to GDP even further and you'll die before retirement, thus saving society from having to pay you Social Security.

It's not for me, personally, but I'd love if we had more blobs of fat! I'd maybe even start a fat blob washing company!
> The author is in a situation now where she knows she is profiting from her parents crimes by continuing to live her life.

The author of this article? Do you mean her G-G-Grandfather? How is she continuing to profit?
Source on that? I don't know anyone who uses it that way, though it is one of their selling points
Except some of the decision making is being performed by amateurs.
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Creating a reddit account takes less than 10 seconds, I just tested it.
"Disgraceful" is not the inverse of "graceful" in modern English, the former meaning "shameful" while the latter means "elegant".
Not sure what terms to use. Each loan is funded by multiple lenders, sometimes more than 100. And each lender loans to multiple borrowers. It's not a one-to-one matching.

It would be more precise to make the statement in terms of dollars rather than 'borrowers and lenders'. I don't know whether the average lender has invested more or less in Lending Club than the average borrower has borrowed.

In dollar terms, the total dollars being invested is less than the loans being offered, which is a shift as of January, 2016.

I did edit out 'investors', perhaps that was what you meant. Thanks.
There are too many projects named 'swift'.
But isn't it worth two or three years of income to save your life? It seems absolutely worth it to me, frankly a much better value than almost anything I spend money on (I mean, Netflix?).
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Also this one I submitted first...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659278

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/business/dealbook/lending-...
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Yes they are a private publicly traded company and they are within the law to manipulate news or whatever they want with their platform in most places at this time. However, if they were to become a clearinghouse for information I would think eyes of scrutiny would descend and look at how they attempt to manipulate news and opinion.

It's not clear who (in the hierarchy) is behind the decision to shape the news nor is it clear why they would mainly suppress conservative stories over liberal stories. Are liberal sources less prone to exaggeration? Or would they simply upset their audience less?

Interesting never the less. And certainly this could have serious repercussions on how news is consumed and perceived.
It is, but many times, I end up using Pocket or Instagram because the text is presented in a way that is simply unreadable for me, and neither Firefox's Reading Mode nor Clearly (when I use Chrome) help.
I think there is a stage where a genuine innovation is in a regulatory grey state because society simply hasn't processed its effects yet. That wasn't the case here... but it is in many other situations. Sometimes ex-post-facto the innovation is ruled against regulation and sometimes not.

Take Tesla as an example -- a company who has tried to sell cars online. Since many states hadn't seen that before, they tried to rule that it was illegal due to dealer-sales regulation. Do you fault Musk for hacking this (bad) regulation by trying to work around it? Is he not proving its spuriousness by innovating in this manner?

In some cases its considered hero's work, and in other's villainous greed.
From http://americangut.org/our-results-so-far/ - "The American Gut project has many more samples representing more groups of people than other studies, such as the Human Microbiome Project, Global Gut, or Personal Genome Project."

No hard numbers on their site, but there's over 7500 contributors on their sample collection kit fundraising page.
Which doesn't and can't apply to Android, because Android won't even run standard Java programs.

I keep seeing this as Oracle's defence, but it is neither here nor there. There are countless APIs in the world used where the result is not compatible with anything else that uses that API, or a subset of it, or whatever. The C world is full of incompatible compilers and those that use various subsets.

Oracle desperately wants to try and box this up into nice, neat exceptions and use cases and anyone with a single ounce of technical knowledge knows this is pure nonsense.
Right. And what about the people you hurt on the way to the top?
A tech startup with this domain would be sick
I don't use a shared hosting server.
The trust values depend on the configuration of GnuPG and the trust model which is used. In the "web of trust" model, it is possible that one or several intermediaries sign a key and this key can become trusted. This is, of course, not perfect, but an approximation.

It is true that the usefulness of such indirect links quickly becomes much weaker than a direct link. What the tool tries to solve is to make an assessment for software, where direct signatures are often not practical.
Swift is still really young. Now is the time for these breaking changes. As someone who has been working with Swift since its public release, I haven't found the "moving target" to be that disruptive to my development. Even the cases that the migrator fails to handle have taken me less than an hour or so to fix myself on a fairly large Swift app.
It is illegal.
No loadable kernel modules for OpenBSD either.
Steve Jobs and LBJ are not giving you license to be a jerk
Thanks, will check in the next hours.
Minimum wage argument is a little fruitless, in my view. It's just moving the yard stick with no real gain.

If you said on 1st of Jan the minimum wage was $50, businesses would raise product prices to cover the overhead. That leads to inflation. Suddenly a Big Mac jumps from $2.25 to $14.51. Nobody is better off because the ratio has stayed the same.

Of course you cannot peg the price of the Big Mac because you end up in the same situation as Venezuela.
This was excellent. Thank you for the link.
Right on. The masses that can't be bothered to willingly switch on a couple neurons every now and again are the real problem.

We "the People" have unbelievable power once we unite behind an issue. Only problem is, the vast majority can't be bothered to unhinge their eyeballs from their newsfeeds for a moment and try and understand the world.

Capitalist corps are only happy to feed that behaviour with more happy-hormone-releasing crap.
I haven't fully decided yet but was thinking of using py2app. I have to see.
I wanted multiple times to study the OpenBSD source code and I've downloaded it but I never managed to navigate through it, to find the "head and the tail" or to find a reasonable "map" of the source code. I would like for example to follow the execution path in the source code, from the boot up to the login prompt. Does any documentation like this exist or could anyone give me some hints ? Thanks
…but they do show why harmony in the workplace is overrated. How do we learn from their lives and try to make things in our time that are even cooler than iphones and medicare without using their bad behavior to justify our worst impulses?
Interesting - but today's news story is claiming exactly the opposite:

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/279192-report-facebook-...

http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-supp...
Last I checked (can't find the stats on mobile), conservatives represented 65+% of the vote in the U.S. However, they are significantly less likely to vote, many living in a rural area.
> the presumed arbiter of what constitutes "free markets" or "economic freedom"

This assumption is ludicrous. I can't even imagine the thought process that would lead you to think that that makes any sense. Being the loudest proponent of your vision of a concept doesn't make you a good arbiter of what constitutes it: in fact it makes you a terrible one.

Not that I have as low an opinion of Heritage as I do of them, but do you think the Westboro Baptist Church is the "presumed arbiter" of what constitutes Christianity, simply because they shout the loudest about God?
Oh, nice! I'll take a look at that when I next get the chance. I assumed that Closure's Long library, which is based on GWT's Long implementation, would be well-optimized, and never looked into an alternative.
From the article:

> Other former curators interviewed by Gizmodo denied consciously suppressing conservative news, and we were unable to determine if left-wing news topics or sources were similarly suppressed. The conservative curator described the omissions as a function of his colleagues’ judgements; there is no evidence that Facebook management mandated or was even aware of any political bias at work.
Of course there is "conservative news" and "liberal news". Liberal news is things that happened, things that will happen, etc. Conservative news is a made up stories, things that never happened, etc.

Example of trending "conservative news": Obama bans the phrase "Merry Christmas". E.g. http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines-2015/barack-obama-bans-...
You missed the part about making them the top priority after you reclassify them.

After that, you are right, it's that simple. I even state that in the article that it's not complicated. Yet, not many seem to do it.

Click-bait? Not quite. I'm someone that is writing to genuinely provide my experience to others. In the article I discuss why it works and what it does in the long run. Where the origins of Zero-Defect comes from etc etc.

Sorry you didn't find it useful, I hope that some do, and I hope that you and your team are the type that don't need this advice.
> How long did it take us to build The Machine in Asimov's 'Contact'?

Do I need to dig out this story or do you mean Carl Sagan's 'Contact'?
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The problem is that devs are putting more effort into making websites bloated. They'd have more time if they got rid of cruft
The problem is, as a private company, should Facebook choose to manipulate it's news feed algorithm to promote one candidate or the other, or for whatever reason, this would be its prerogative under the First Amendment.
I personally choose to not use Facebook specifically for these reasons. Even though I know many Facebook employees personally, I don't trust it's employees to divorce their own interests and their powerful position as Facebook's curators.
And https://play.rust-lang.org/ can be used to test snippets of Rust code w/o having to install compiler. The best feature is you can make a link to your code for others to review.
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You may have missed the announcement where MS bought out Xamarin and is now giving it away for free. You owe it to yourself to at least give it a try while waiting for actual cross-platform Swift.

90+% of your mobile code can be shared between Android and iOS. Not sure if that's something currently possible with Swift or not, but it was worth keeping C# around for our needs.

We're more of a "mobile app is something we also offer" and web is our main presence though, so your mileage may vary (especially if you're mobile-only or mobile-centric).
I think that's an overly broad and biased characterization. I find it hard to believe that an entire half of the voting spectrum is made up of liars and charlatans.
Can you elaborate on what the alternatives are? The more we all know, the better!
The more I hear about what Facebook has become, the less I like it.

Previously we heard that they run experiments to alter users news feeds to see if they could alter their mood, now we learn they're engaging in what is basically propaganda by suppressing certain viewpoints. And all this for what? So that you can be advertised to while you waste your time on the internet. What a terrible company. Speaks ill of humanity that it is so popular.
Well when your company leadership proclaims how they lean it certainly lends direction to those who work there. As for why would the suppress, those in power will tend to use it and many will justify it as fixing the system after all they are the smartest people they know so how could they be wrong?

Really the media has been slanted off and on for some time and most techies are very one sided if not blinded by altruistic claims that can never be delivered. Its the only song and dance of "its for the children" - who is going to say they don't like children
The example are meant to be edited and re-executed, a desktop would provide a better experience.
You're making a travesty of what equal opportunity means. It's not about getting things without earning them, it's about getting the same shot at earning them.

Redistribution of wealth to provide equal opportunity is a fundamental principle of many countries and societies. I'm arguing that if you are for this principle, then how could you argue it should stop at a border? And if instead you're in favor of abolishing all income redistribution, then in essence that is also an implicit argument for abolishing government, which again makes borders meaningless. Either way, rationally, i see no objective defense for the principle of borders restricting what people have access to.

Compare the US and mexico. A child may be born 5 miles south and lose an incredible amount of opportunity. Why is that fair? What did the child do to earn that station in life? Why are castes accepted when they are cross-border but not inside a country? Why should poverty be inherited? (I'm not arguing against inheriting wealth, just against inheriting poverty and not getting a fair chance at making your own wealth as a consequence.)
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>That's why I don't believe that thought policing, "forced tolerance" or 'safe spaces' will amount to anything. We should think pragmatically and find a way to live non-violently, in a not-necessarily-tolerant world.

Interesting, I believe exactly that but I've never heard anyone else express it before. The idea of social constructivism, the notion that everything is a mere social construct, has been so ingrained in (western) societies that people assume every problem is one to be solved through social engineering. It just puzzles me why anyone would be so adamant to put naturally conflicting groups together. What is the goal? What are the benefits that are worth the hassle and friction? Maybe it's nothing but a naive attempt to achieve some utopian fantasy, or perhaps there is a less innocent agenda behind it. I honestly don't know. If you wish to expound on the subject or have any literary recommendations, I'm all ears.
I agree. Microbial flora also sounds pretty, because flowers.

About the analysis... it's not about analyzing your poop, it's about analyzing how your digestive system works on what you intake.
If your meeting is not interesting or relevant, I don't need to have my laptop open to ignore you.

I rarely, if ever, attend a meeting where every single person is expected to pay attention for the duration. On the rare occasion this happens, people DO pay attention. Maybe it's the meetings and environment that need changed.
There is a specific defense for interoperability.

Which means absolutely nothing.

So yes, you might be able to use someone else's design for something like a hose connector or an electrical plug but not improve on it - if you're using their design to interoperate with their stuff.

Again, total nonsense. There are countless implementations of various development software out in the world right now that renders that load of extremely wishful thinking null and void.

Like I've said elsewhere, lawyers might think they can package these cases up into nice, neat boxes but they can't.
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In the case of Ad networks serving up malware I don't know if that's a real defense. Yes, proactive regulation is often far more effective, but reactive regulation can often catch the worst offenders.
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I might be interested as well. Could you email at hobodermo at gmail
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If the laws of physics are universal (fingers crossed), then this factor gets canceled out. Obviously organisms which evolved under our physical regime can only function properly within our physical regime. But this doesn't add any information as to why one set of genes manifests itself differently than another set of genes, since the physical laws are the same.
If some citizens renounces their citizenship and move to an island, is it a moral obligation of the home country to save the emigrants from an approaching hurricane? What if the emigrants never asked for help?
By http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-... Swift's performance is similar to Java's, but quite a bit faster when working with many objects: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html On a few benchmarks it's faster than C as well: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... though not most.

I suppose they were able to do the binary-tree benchmark so much better than Java, because Swift supports 'UnsafeMutablePointers': http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

Edit: This Quora question mentions the performance of Swift before and after unsafe programs were included: https://www.quora.com/In-terms-of-performance-speed-is-Swift... The memory safe version used to be about 24x slower than C.
The highlands have a pub every few miles! Which is excellent when cold wet and tired. You would have to try quite hard to get really remote.
People are people. In a way this isn't news at all.

The problem is that these companies are hiding behind the "But it's all just an algorithm" defense, when, in fact, as we all suspected, there are real people behind the scenes slanting things.

My gut tells me that a lot of tech companies are subtly controlling the types of news their consumers get. Overall this is probably a good thing -- helps keep the quality high. But I'm a libertarian. If a bunch of left-leaning folks start controlling what I consume from a political angle and not just quality angle -- and then lie about it? Really pisses me off.

Yes, you're a private company. Do whatever you want. It's the lying that's the problem here -- and the implication that the electorate needs people better than they are to control and guide what they're allowed to talk about.

I bet we continue to hear about this, and in places most people would never suspect, over the coming decade or two. This is unacceptable, and something is going to need to give somewhere.
The removal of prefix and postfix ++ and -- operators and the removal of C-style for loops are mistakes, IMO.
This discussion is specifically from the mods of /r/technology.

Will other parts of Reddit follow suit? Maybe. But right now it's just /r/technology.
Since many states hadn't seen that before, they tried to rule that it was illegal due to dealer-sales regulation.

I don't see what being online has anything to do with it; the spirit of the rule - preventing the manufacturers from competing with dealerships - is valid anyway. I personally disagree with this rule, but the "online" part is just Tesla trying to get off on a technicality.
This is not true.

All of the browsers are on board to ship Web Components and have been actively engaged in the standards discussions.

Safari just shipped Shadow DOM v1 in Safari Technology Preview. https://webkit.org/blog/6017/introducing-safari-technology-p...

Edge are actively working on Shadow DOM and Custom Elements support https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/07/15/microsoft-edg...

Firefox is working on Shadow DOM and Custom Element support as well.

The odds are good that other browsers will begin landing these features in their stable releases in 2016.
They place an emphasis on Github star count, but that is a terrible usage metric. Leaf got a lot of stars because it got a lot of HN exposure, but at the same time Leaf had no users. Assumedly that's the real reason why they are stopping development.

Here are the metrics that matter.

Over the lifetime of the project:

- 14 contributors

- 40 issues opened

- 161 forks

In the past month:

- 7 issues opened

- 6 PRs opened

In the past week:

- 0 issues opened

- 0 PRs opened

In other words, a ghost town. The lesson here is that a lot of HN exposure does not automatically convert into a lot of users.
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The 'conservatism' espoused by a plurality of Americans is not necessarily the 'conservatism' of Breitbart and Red State. The activist left and right on the Internet are a small minority of even politically involved people. It is dangerous to assume that these outlets represent a substantial proportion of voters.
Those are more for archiving and reading later rather than about the UI.

Otherwise we've had RSS readers and "reader" mode for browsers for a long time but they dont have significant usage.
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