skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the 90's I took a class in Visual Basic, where one of the assignments was to write a rules-compliant tic-tac-toe game. The teacher apologized for the amount of repetitive code we'd have to write to implement it in Windows forms (or whatever it was called back then). I got it down to one printed page.
Personally, I'm a big fan of "Baby Steps" by Dr. Leo Marvin. It means setting small, reasonable goals for yourself, one day at a time, one tiny step at a time. Just set up long range plans and when executing, focus on the immediate step you are facing. Baby steps.
> He's making a factual statement: those social groups that do demand that women's role is primarily in reproduction will outbreed everybody.

That's not even close to what I read when I saw:

> will rule the world

That seems extremely normative to me.

In fact, I honestly fail to see any facts presented in the one sentence I responded to.

There are a lot of debatable nuanced points between the factual statement of having more kids and the conclusion of ruling the world. There are no connecting-the-dots arguments in the post I responded to. If Animats wanted to mean the fact you bring up, she/he would have just said the fact. But that is not what happened. Taking the simplest interpretation of Animats's one entirely-normative sentence, it is an extreme opinion that expresses a large contempt/disdain for organized religion.

I really hope you examine your post, and evaluate how and why you took Animats' opinion and managed to somehow extract a fact from it. And that's whether I turned agnostic or not.
At the time it was in my favor to switch, plus it looked weird and jarring to me to have several ads for office furniture and then one for that thing you bought on Amazon 3 months ago.

Re: traffic spikes, no. There are limited spots which can be purchased so adding more spots whenever I want wouldn't seem right to my current advertisers who bought based on the limit in place.

Edit: I also get contacted by ad networks from time to time saying I could boost my revenue, but I always ask which advertisers they have who are relevant to my audience. It is always none. So at this point, I'm relatively confident that I don't need an ad network to service my particular niche.
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Google is "just advertising". What's your point?
HP has been hyping memristors for a while now, and it seemed unlikely then and even more unlikely now given their corporate woes. Unless there's something new like a shipping product, why the submission?
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This is weird:

>Until the late 1930s, stomach cancer was
>the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths in the
>United States.
What challenges might you have if you wanted to implement something like this inside a game framework like Unity or MonoGame with C#, where it renders everything via DirectX or OpenGL?
Whether it be desktop or mobile, there is no single cross-platform solution that's really all that great.

In terms of "viability", young Android devs and iOS devs grow on trees... including those who are comfortable writing both Java and Swift. In contrast, finding a competent C++ Android or iOS developer is much more challenging. And he or she would still have to manage a codebase with completely different GUI frameworks crammed into it.

I'm not arguing that "X" is a better cross-platform panacea than "Y". I'm arguing that the underlying premise is misguided.
I don't feel particularly happy seeing a private profit oriented corporation having the DNA data and the results of analysis for millions of people and establishing a market dealing with this data.

In the end it's your life, your defects that could be on sale and determine your worth in a capitalist society. This is scary because you fate is determined by your birth and some algorithmus that may or may not be correct and some statistical chance that you suffer of certain diseases.

From a capitalistic "I want to minimize costs and maximize profit" perspective it's a perfect fit but the results on society are scary.

On the other hand there are clear benefits to have the possibility to prevent the harm caused by diseases or to adjust your life on informed data about possible risks.

However if you life insurance can buy that data from 23andme or your employer you are fucked and all the talk of equality before the law is moot because some DNA data from you prevents you from closing contracts due to "risk mitigation".

I don't know why anyone would belittle criticism in this direction - it's something that needs to be debated.

I thought about using 23andme but this problems stopped me from doing so. This shouldn't be a for profit but these are the times.
Yes, but I don't think progman was suggesting that. Rust doesn't prevent code from having logic errors, but it does protect you entirely from certain classes of errors (e.g. use-after-free memory violations) as long as you stick to safe Rust. These are some of the most common bugs in C programs which have resulted in highly publicized vulnerabilities, so Rust will take a program a very long way towards being safer than any C counterparts.
> Yes, but this particular CPU/SoC has a parallel bus with the NAND flash connected to it. Which would be the more traditional way to connect an FPGA.

Absolutely.

> As one can (typically) configure very relaxed timings on these busses, it's much, much easier to interface to and sufficient for everything that doesn't have to be super-fast.

"super-fast" is probably the keyword here. In an oscilloscope you normally want a very short trigger re-arm interval. Which means that you want to get the data out of the acquisition buffer as fast as possible. At the sampling rates the used ADC supports the regular parallel bus timings might be to slow, but by implementing a DDR2 interface a very quick transfer could be implemented.

Actually if I had to design this (actually only recently I did design something like this) I'd not transfer acquired samples to main system memory at all but instead present the FPGA attached DDR2 to the SoC in a double buffered manner and even do things like averaging, envelope tracking and similar acquisition tasks in FPGA on the backbuffer memory.
Any idea if that includes Type I, or only Type II?
wow - I have no clue (obviously) but possible reasons :

- better home heating (less open fires, more heated bedrooms)

- increased time from atmospheric nuclear bomb testing (and the various dispersals of plutonium in the 60's and 70's)

- better nutrition in general

- higher genetic diversity in breeding populations; not many peoples grandparents all come from the same village in the developed world now

- less pollution in the west; import of finished goods rather than local manufacturing
Foodies claim that, but in blind testing, McDonalds does quite well.[1]

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/10/23/358324106/don...
Can't think of any potential cons or just don't want to? Insurance companies would benefit from this data, all kinds of public and private institutions would like to research it, and as per tradition, advertising industry will find ways to monetize it, as it has done with all information for all of history.
It's more about 23andMe advertising that by being a paying customer you will advance science, when what they're doing is selling your data to pharma companies.
> It's also expected that people don't want their wages depressed by imported labor.

Which is a myth. And especially in the case of Japan where the only people willing to learn the language are going to be those who are more educated/successful.

And from all accounts Japan is going to start suffering from the effects of an ageing population far quicker than it will take humanity to develop robotic technology capable of cooking food, caring, cleaning etc to a level equivalent to that of a human.
Dismissing the argument that "more immigrants could make the country vulnerable to terrorism" as xenophobia is naïve.

E.g. look at the nonexisting problems Japan has with Islamic terrorism or non-integrating foreigners forming ghettos v.s. say France.
IANA physicist, but my layman's understanding was that under many-worlds the universe doesn't actually fork. Rather, the superposition of states observed in things like the double-slit experiment applies to all particles all the time, including the ones in our brains. When we observe a system undergo an apparent collapse of the wave-function, what's actually happening is that we/our brains have become entangled with that system, so each of our brains' states becomes correlated to one of the system's states. To a consciousness generated by one of those brain states, it appears that the system under observation has undergone a collapse; however, the result of that collapse appears different to each such brain state.

At least, that's what I took away from this:

http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/10/q-copenhagen-or-man...

and this:

http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/11/q-according-to-the-...
Is your DNA is now the "intellectual property" of a company?

The company sells rights to access sequence infromation from your DNA, i.e., their intellectual property, for up to 60 million.

Do you get any of that "up to 60 million"?

And why should you?

It's not like it's your DNA.

You sold it.

Well, actually you paid a fee to some company -- that has been threatened with being shut down by the FDA -- to take your DNA.

Who started this company? Ex-wife of Google founder.

According to Wikipedia the fee has jumped from $999 down to 99 then to 199.

So what's the service worth?

I don't know but I have a feeling it ends in 9.

Personal genomics is a great idea that has been around for a long time. Well before Google and Facebook.

But this company, applying "the Google approach" to biotech, was never a good idea.

That's only my opinion.

It's quite possible each of the 1 million or so donors was happy to donate their DNA "to science".

The issue I have with "the Google approach" is that the company is not doing much except collecting data and running cheap tests -- and of course marketing.

There's no world class research at 23andme. God only knows what they'll do with the money they get from selling people's personal information.

They are just middlemen, selling off people's personal information for a easy profit.

Very innovative.
I keep this on my desk, in a spot where my eyes land whenever my head starts to wander:
https://bwitzenhausen.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/butler-wal...

"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice."
Does that take into account refrigeration? Maybe it's totally unrelated --but prior to refrigeration a lot of meats were cured.
We didn't know they would do this when we signed up and gave them our DNA years ago?
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Your genetic data is nearly worthless, even to you, unless the aggregated database exists. The real cost is in the analysis and interpretation not the collection of the data. Thus, for your own benefit (i.e., clear knowledge of your genetic risks), they must monetize your data (i.e., find someone to pay them to perform the analysis, whether drug company or charity, e.g., American Heart Association). As long as they are up front about what they are doing and protecting your identity, your interests and theirs are fairly aligned. I know a study funded by a famous non-profit (you have heard of them, I am sure) that advances the field of study substantially, but it is not yet published (and I am not directly involved).
Exactly at the heart of the problem. IANAB (I am a physicist though) and from what I understand, it is a question currently being researched. I mean, great example is if it is so easy, why is there homosexuality in the animal kingdom where they don't have social push for heterosexual mating?
"Going up" usually just means in percentage, as more serious diseases decline below that percentage.
I find it useful (essential, really) to understand how my todo tasks relate to my longterm goals. If I can't draw a line from my task to my goals, then it's less motivating.
Personally, I'll be much more interested in Windows once it has standard UNIX tooling available without needing something like cygwin. Especially if it ends up allowing me to replace the new Windows shell with something like xmonad and dmenu.
Most people are missing that by only making this info available at market rates, rather than as a non-profit, it doesn't benefit the general good/public equally. It benefits incumbents asymmetrically.

Furthermore, by only collecting data from those with excess income, afflictions of the poor will remain less diagnosable.

There will be some trickle-down into poorer people, but if you think it "doesn't hurt to help people get healthier," try to see you're mainly helping wealthy people get wealthy people better. It's a slow-motion form of eugenics. We all know how well trickle-down theories work.
I'm pretty sure >95% of the UK population would support the existence of the police.
> The thing about hyperloop is that none of the technology is new...or even recent!

...or even works.

It's quite clear that all this hyperloop hype is a publicity scam targeted at states with deep pockets and whose governments are gagging for some propaganda talking point. The people behind hyperloop dedicate themselves to one thing only: generate hype around the project and jump from publicity stunt to publicity stunt.

The end goal is to get a government to shelve a wheelbarrow full of hard cash for them to waste the money building a prototype for propaganda purposes.

In short, it's the Simpson's monorail episode.
Yeah I would love to see this too. Some differences:

- R has lazy evaluation semantics (with caveats), and Python is eagerly evaluated. The ggplot library in Python recently posted to HN sheds some light on these issues.

- R has like 2 or 3 class systems; Python has a C++-like class system (without static typing, but gaining it in Python 3)

- They differ in semantics with respect to closures (Python 3 changed things a bit)

- R's built-in types are all vectorized, but that might be a good thing, so you can use Python semantics for scalars and R semantics for vectors/data frames/matrices, etc ?

- Python has decorators, generators, coroutines, etc.

I tend to write my Python and R in a pretty small common subset, but yeah they are in fact quite different.
Let me expand my objection, homosexuality not only exists in humans but in many other animals, many of which do not have social stigma of homosexuality.
>while as soon as any new data that can potentially unlock new drug targets

Unlock new drug targets is a low bar. Unlock new affordable and publicly available, patent unencumbered drug targets is what we want.
I'm a single founder. We do ~$150K / year in revenue right now.

We did $15,000 in 2011 (our first year in business). $55,000 in 2012. $96,000 in 2013. $157,000 in 2014. Dropped to $133,000 in 2015, our first year of negative growth.

From 2011 to mid-2014, I worked constantly to improve our basic product. But in 2014 I realized we'd never compete with the big guys in our industry, who do $10MM to $30MM / year. So I started attending summits with those guys to pick their brains, and hired a marketing coach. And I stopped working on improving our core product, just maintaining it.

Spent ~$35,000 on marketing training since late 2014, and I've spent $20,000 (and about 8 hours a day, 7 days a week) on new product development this year. But in about 2 months we should have a product that can put us up there with the big guys and get us out of the middle-of-the-pack revenues we've been stuck in for a few years.

The hardest part of being a single founder, at least in my business, is the need to maintain your current business to keep the income flowing and the customers around while you build the product that the business needs to leap forward. At that point, you're basically running two companies, the old one and the new one. And you can't just throw money at it because you're bootstrapped and only have revenues + credit to play with (assuming you haven't taken funding).
I found a chart showing the prevalence of multiple forms of cancer over time: http://i52.tinypic.com/r9euci.jpg.
This is fun and all but it has nothing to do with my point.

Someone upthread provided a short list of African Americans who were murdered as a result of their notability.

In an attempt to refute the argument that to be a notable black in America is dangerous, Abraham Lincoln was introduced as an example of a notable white leader who was killed. There were any number of white leaders that could have been introduced as counterexamples, but, amusingly, the commenter chose one who was murdered because of white enmity towards blacks.

The question of whether Lincoln had any ambivalence about freeing slaves has little bearing on the question of why he was murdered. Had Lincoln not emancipated the slaves, he would not have been murdered. His death clearly belongs in the tally of "people killed because it's dangerous to be a successful black person in America".
They'll keep buying out competitors. It's the smart move.
OpenBSD devs recommend using binary packages, even for the ports tree. Even if you compile from source, it generates a binary package then installs it.
We are witnessing evolution in action. Most humans are genetically unfit for modern life. That is, their fertility drops below replacement level when they grow up in a developed country.

But some humans seem to be immune to the reproductive trap of modern life, and they take advantage of the abundance available in developed countries to have lots of children. These people will make up the future of post second demographic transition[1] humanity.

It seems like a lot of these people are incredibly religious (Amish, Haredi, Hutterites, Mennonites). But perhaps there are non-religious people in this group as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#Second_...
ADA already 'prevents' job based discrimination based on DNA.* https://www.ada.gov/

An employer buying DNA on potential job candidates is opening themselves up to a world of litigation for little real gain. Similarly, health insurance may no longer discriminate based on prior health conditions due to the dreaded 'Obama Care'.

We can debate if that's enough, or if these things should be rolled back. However, at a practical level it's currently a non issue.

PS: While most of this is not a significant disability. If people treat DNA condition X as an issue then it fall under "or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment. "
I don't think Putin has said anything about teleportation yet.
Been giving this a spin as I write quite a bit of SQL in Atom. Finding it pretty useful so far.
Right. But still makes it to the top ;)
Ha, that's the starting premise of Idiocracy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Pictures of bears or boars roaming schools or shrines would have been a great addition to this article.
What do you mean "anonymized"? It's your DNA, it basically is you. Much more than your name, email address, or whatever you consider de-anonimization.
There is a big issue with disclosure and marketing in food production. Big food producers have got wise to the desire of people for good tasting food and now package with the signifiers of craft production. For example a major supermarket in the UK packages it's food as "Rosie Farm" (similar brand) when in fact no such farm exists.
The other thing is that industrial production really damages craft production. I had some pigs a few years ago and I had to get them "leasehold" from a producer with the licenses, there is a decent amount of paperwork and some strict rules about feeding and care which are aimed at preventing outbreaks of disease that might get into the industrial facilities (and cause millions of pounds of damage and much animal suffering). I'm all for this in the context of risking causing a cull of 10k animals, but it does mean that small scale producers bear costs to protect large scale producers.
Awesome. When I saw all the things it could do in so little code, I assumed a higher level language would be used. But, nope...plain old C with the usual standard libraries.

The parser for the syntax highlighting is super cool. Concise and declarative definition of the syntax (well, the keywords, anyway), in HL_keywords, and then maybe 150 lines of code for the parser. I doubt it would work well for a much more complex language than C (say, JavaScript, or Perl), without a lot more smarts. But, it works really well on the C I looked at. Colors are handled in a cute way, too.

All around, I'm just astounded at how concise this is, while still being entirely readable and comprehensible. This isn't clever/tricky golfing code, this is actually human-readable C code.

Edit: Also, I'm struck by how nice/simple the editorProcessKeypress handling is. Trying to do something like this in JavaScript/HTML5 is crazily more complex and verbose. Seeing something like this reminds me how messy user interaction still is in the browser, compared to old CLI and desktop paradigms.
> A successful tube transport system could be technologically ground breaking. Theoretically they'd be faster than airplanes and use a fraction of the fuel/energy (once they're constructed of course; not counting development costs).

The track would also be far more expensive to operate and build than high-speed rail in pretty much any aspect of the project, the tolerances that need to be complied with for safety reasons are orders of magnitude smaller than the ones in high-speed rail, and it's impossible to ensure a human-tolerable ride.

It appears that everyone is caught in the romantic vision of the future that the Hyperloop salespeople are dedicated to sell to the public, but rarely are the fundamental problems even mentioned.

There are plenty of good reasons why maglev hasn't caught, and the concept being sold by Hyperloop's sales team is far more limiting and expensive to pull than the maglev concept.
Salt, sugar and msg help a lot.
Maybe your decongestant needs are abnormal, but you certainly can buy effective decongestants. Pseudoephedrine
isn't outlawed; its purchase is simply rate limited. If you weren't already aware: you can simply walk up to the pharmacy counter and ask for it.
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Flix: functional/logic programming language
Yeah, it's shorter and it doesn't touch any other registers.
> Does it matter? He's seriously stimulated a market that has been fairly stagnant for decades,

What market exactly are you talking about?
Zurv/Zurvanism (Dexter Cullens)
Dexter Cullens of Florida, an unidentified individual known as "Zurv" or "Zurvanism" in online chat logs. Zurv owned a botnet used by him in his distributed denial-of-service attacks. The botnet is reported to have consisted of about 350,000 infected computer servers. Zurv was involved in several high-profile attacks under the group "gn0sis". Zurv also may have participated in the Anonymous operation against HBGary. Zurv reportedly wiretapped 2 CIA agents in an anonymous operation. Zurv was also involved in the 2010 media outrage under the Skype handle "PRlSON" One of the men behind the handle Zurv was identified as Dexter Cullens of Florida, arrested, and indicted on conspiracy charges on 6 March 2012.
>Your genetic data is nearly worthless, even to you, unless the aggregated database exists.

It's not about stealing from X or Y individual -- it's about privatizing and locking down an immensely useful and valuable global resource -- that "aggregated database".