skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Various national level projects have begun. The Scandinavian countries have begun taking biological samples for later sequencing, which can then be cross-referenced with their fantastic population-level databases. The UK Biobank has been doing that for hundreds of thousands of UK people, and has been responsible for many important recent genetics papers. The Obama administration has been funding a similar project which is planning to collect 1 million genomes and has gotten press recently.
This is nowhere like a Mac other than in the fact that it's a computer with a screen, keyboard and mouse: http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-resto...

Read history, then comment, okay?

The PARC machine barely scratched the surface of what could be done, and it was far from being packaged in a way that could be marketed to consumers. It was inspiration, and any engineer knows that's a long, long way from a working product.
Aside from comments in a HN thread, is there a formal mechanism for requesting - and then tracking the progress of - truly cross platform support?
How many people are genuinely choosing between a Mac and a Chromebook. In round figured I'd say approximately zero. In which case they're not a threat to Apple.

You do make an interesting point and a good one, but Chromebooks aren't really an OS platform ecosystem. Its more like a feature phone OS for desktops. They're minimal single purpose browser runners.

That's a huge advantage because it's allowed them to completely bypass the incumbent advantages of OSX and Windows, but it makes them a product but not a platform. If they switch to becoming a distinctive platform in their own right then things could get interesting but there's no real sign that they will try that or if it might work.

I am not saying it's impossible for a new platform to establish itself, I'm just saying its a ridiculously hard task to pull off and refuting the idea that a disruption like that is trivial or even inevitable. Just ask IBM (OS/2), BeOS, Sun (NeWS), Microsoft (Win Mobile), Canonical and dozens of others.
I tried listening to the RP1 audiobook, but the non-stop barrage of 80s & 90s nerd cred references seemed too forced. It may have been Wil Wheaton's delivery, which seemed to emphasize each and every reference. I gave up after a chapter or two. Does this continue throughout the book or does it ease up?
Let's say this discovery leads to a drug/treatment for the disease. What happens to it? Does a company get to patent it and then sell it back to the people who paid for the research (with donations)? Does it become public domain? This ambiguity has prevented me from donating to similar causes in the past.
But if someone happens to be the best and being the best is valuable then why not reward them?
I doubt whoever runs the wikileaks twitter account was unfamiliar with the history of the 3 parentheses thing. The 3 parentheses people are not doing this to overcome unicode issues.

Also who knows who runs the wikileaks twitter account. I find that a little creepy.
You can't turn off Cortana in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
All the things you've listed fall squarely in the category of "we've lost the hosting war, and nobody's going to ship proprietary .NET binaries on Linux distros".

The further you go from that sort of thing where they've already lost the market and either have nothing to lose or the writing is on the wall (how long can paid-for languages truly compete with free ones?), the less they have open sourced.

E.g. even Visual Studio which would be the next logical step is still for sale starting at $500 on their website[1], maybe that'll be fully open one day. After all how long can the paid-for editor wars persist?

What I was pointing out is that there's no sign of them opening up anything that would truly make them an open source company. I.e. things they make real money on, or would threaten their established lock-in.

1. https://www.visualstudio.com/products/how-to-buy-vs
We're building a secure cloud storage, sync and share Dropbox alternative with local, end-to-end encryption built in:

https://www.sync.com

> Why do none of the big cloud providers offer local encryption?

- They want to police your files

- Free services typically monetize you through data mining your files (eg. Google Drive)

- It's difficult (not impossible) to build in usability features that might need to access, scan or manipulate your file data, when you don't have access to the file data server-side in the cloud (everything has to be pulled down locally first which adds overhead).

- Browser support for local HTML5 saveAs() etc. handling is still all over the map (Safari is almost a showstopper).

- Easy account recovery options are limited

The tech is getting better though, and there's certainly a number of good options in terms of cloud storage with local encryption built in, including Sync!
I must say I'm similarly perplexed by this notion.

Every time I've witnessed a "debate" where people "constructively challenge" people who have opposite views, it ended in a shouting match.

I'm happy to avoid any such "debate." In my experience, the kind of debate you describe tends to happen far more often between people who have (paradoxically?) similar views, and who just like to explore ideas and challenge each other.

That intellectual trait is completely orthogonal to the views themselves. The closest thing I tend to compare it to is the charity principle, but that may not encapsulate everything quite right.
> That's because 20% is based on the current appraisal value of the property, not the purchase price. With Bay Area and other real estate markets appreciating so much, it's a ticking time bomb to get out of PMI.

I think you have that reversed. If values are rising, you have to do less work to get to 80% LTV (loan-to-value).

Example: I put $10 down on $100 worth of stuff with a $90 loan, giving a 90% LTV. If the value of stuff jumps to $120, then that $90 loan is now at 75% LTV, with zero payments made.
There's about a hundred of these services but somehow none of them support linux. Even if they do it's with the most half-assed software. I hope these guys invest in it now that they have capital. They are missing out on some critical early adopters to promote their software.
I think this is a very fair comparison. One important way that I think people miss is their demographic similarity. Fascism was largely a movement of young people, especially men. This is true of ISIS.

To be clear, I don't think how you deal with ISIS is the same as Nazi Germany because they are also quite different in practical and ideological terms.

It's worth considering that ISIS is at least nominally a globalist, not nationalist movement– they have a vision of umma/Islamic community that means to include all races. This is not true of the Third Reich.
Yes, that's left over from an earlier alliance that appears to be pretty defunct. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors#Daimler_AG
Who Owns the Moon? – Space Law and Outer Space Treaties
> I think no reasonable person could disagree that showing an ID is a reasonable requirement for voting.

Ok here is some reasonable disagreement

Voter impersonation is a very rare type of fraud [0] and ID laws tend to make it hard for some but not all voters to vote [1] meaning they don't prevent fraud, they just prevent democrat votes.

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-com...
1. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/measurin...
What I Learned from 10 Years of Doing PR for Apple
I went to a college which was a five minute car ride from an airport. An airport which is used for mixed civilian/military use. So we had fighter jets flying over campus almost every day along with the regular coterie of commercial jetliners.

It was really bothersome at first but eventually your mind can block it out. Now I live next to a rail track and the train noises don't bother me at all (although they are definitely much less severe).

YMMV though. It probably helped my brain was younger then.
In Fulham, they're just under 3000ft.

In Richmond, about 1800ft.

In Hounslow, around 1000ft to under 200ft as they cross the perimeter of the airport.

Many of these planes are large jets, 747s and similar. You can usually see the next plane before the first has disappeared from view, and hear both. Between 270,000 and 700,000 people are affected by the noise, depending who you believe.

After renting a house directly under the flight path as a student, I tried never to do so again. Places under the flightpath are slightly cheaper, although anyone new to the area probably doesn't realise the extent of the problem until it's too late.

I didn't think about it for my employer though, and worked for several years directly on the approach path. On some days it wasn't possible to hold a conversation outside. I felt it led to constant stress. On a rare day with no noise (e.g. after the volcanic eruption in Iceland) everyone seemed so happy and relaxed ­— as if it were the first day of nice weather in spring after a month of rain.

The airport publish this map: http://myneighbourhood.bksv.com/lhr/ which shows that in many areas, there is noise (by some definition) for more than half of the day. (Make sure to tick landing approaches at the bottom.)
I followed Jack Dorsey's morning routine for a week
Yeah, sure: blame it on the Russian hackers.

Was it their fault in Florida in 2000, too?
Party declaration in the primary is public record. If you hold a politically sensitive job, and your state requires a declaration of party affiliation, you might not be able to safely vote as you please in the primary, because your employer might examine the voter rolls and use parallel constructions to fire the people with the "wrong" party affiliation.

All the adults in my family felt the fix was in for Clinton since 2008, as we assumed that she made a deal with the DNC regarding Obama's candidacy. If he lost, she would go ahead in 2012, and if he won, she'd go in 2016. So now it's 2016. I presume that the Clintons and the DNC have mutually-assured destruction levels of dirt on each other by now, so they must honor their deal. We never had any expectation whatsoever that any other candidate would get a fair shake. Nothing that has occurred since 2008 obviously contradicts the hypothesis. Secretary of state is #5 in the line of emergency presidential succession, and a perfect resume-builder for someone who didn't snag an elected office during the previous cycle.

We suspected that O'Malley was offered something in exchange for being Clinton's foil through primary season, and that he was able to bow out early, because former independent Sanders stepped in to fill his role as the token opposition, blissfully unaware as a party outsider that the fix was already in.

I am even now unconvinced that D. Trump was not a secret co-conspirator in the President Hillary Clinton plan. I'm not sure anyone expected the R party to actually select him, either.
Interesting. So you have good benefits, good vacation, and some equity (of questionable value, since it's not publicly traded), but nothing that adds another 30k in value to the package over your competitors. If the numbers from the calculator are accurate, I don't know how places like Google aren't vacuuming up all your senior+ devs. A principle dev at Google in NYC must get paid at least $200k. I'd bet the bottom end there is more like $250 with bonus and (tangible) equity grants.

Good for you guys for managing high retention. Something is keeping your devs happy and it's not the money.
The difference is Tesla owns the factory and therefore there isn't a profit layer being skimmed off. That could be passed off, or even just a portion, to the end consumer who buys Tesla products; this has similar characteristics as to why Elon wants Tesla to buy SolarCity.
Rose Rocket (YC S16) eliminates paperwork and data entry for trucking companies
Question: it seems to me like you could get a long ways with a hidden service simply by placing the same key on multiple servers with disparate physical locations. Wouldn't this provide a sort of randomized load balancing, since different connections would find different servers with the correct key first? I can definitely see the need for more sophisticated load balancing if your usage gets large, but for smaller services it seems like this would give a good amount of scalability.

I'm not well-versed in how these work though, so I'm curious.
Rana Foroohar on Apple, Brexit, Uber, Basic Income, Trump, and Our Future Economy
> So make 4 the limit

You are confusing 2 things. The salary is (effectively) determined by the average skill rating of a person. The single skills can and do go up to AAA+++, and this raises the average and thus the salary.

While having an average of 5 is very difficult, having a super high maximum is actually meaningful. Some people are special in some area and we recognize that.

EDIT: clarified terms (see https://stackoverflow.com/company/salary/skills/web-develope... for the formulas)
The motivation is generally that Electronic Design Automation software sucks .. for black hole levels of suck.

EDA software exists in a weird reality of a small number of people who use it and an even smaller number of people who understand, really, how to program it while being excessively valuable to a very captive market base.

A small number of users combined with an even smaller programmer base results in a large number of features per user. Consequently, if you aren't using the absolute, bog-standard central features, you are going to hit bugs. And, if your feature is even slightly esoteric, you may be 1 of 2 users of that feature worldwide.

Add in to this mix that the programmers of EDA software often don't actually know how to use that use that software, and you have an absolute nightmare of misfeatures combined with bad usability with a whole bunch of bugginess on top.

The only way around this is open-source. Sure, your open source version is worse. However, a sufficiently motivated user can pull the code and fix a bug. A sufficiently motivated user can pull the code and add a missing feature. Open source can accumulate the effort of the very small number of individuals who can both code software and design hardware over a very large block of time without interference from market pressures.

Finally, EDA tools have software lifetimes of decades. We are still using SPICE decks that trace to late 70s FORTRAN.

An example of all of this coming together is software I wrote probably 15 years ago. I once wrote an HSPICE reader in Python. No big deal you say? Well, it could read 15 years of HSPICE files--some of which had been transferred from strange things like fixed-record file machines. It was WAY better than anything any HSPICE vendor ever coughed up. I released it open source.

And about 10 years ago, somebody found it, and extended it to even MORE HSPICE formats. It is now even better than any commercial HSPICE reader will likely ever be. However, had I made the code closed source, the person who found it would have created his own code that only dealt with a couple of formats that he was interested in.

So, the fact that I made that code open source means that if I ever need to come back to it, it is now fundamentally better than anything I could have written and is available to me regardless of what company I'm working for.

So, not only does my itch get scratched, it gets scratched better than I could possibly have ever done myself.
What problem is lowering the barrier to entry for the balloting process solving? If someone has broad and genuine support, they will be able to either apply their own resources or raise funds to completing the paperwork necessary to get on the ballot. Party-supported or not, registration is a relatively small investment of time, compared to what it will take to mount a successful campaign.

The public has a vested interest in having a ballot present only those candidates who can demonstrate a minimum-level of popular support. Otherwise why have a qualification process at all -- we can give voters phonebooks to take with them into the booth, and they can find the name of whichever citizen they feel should be elected.
I fail to see how this differentiates from what I currently get with iCloud Photo + iTunes Match. iCloud Photo is cheaper ($2,99 vs $4,99) and is officially supported and integrated by Apple on iOS and macOS.

What's the difference? Why would you choose a more expensive third-party solution?
Yes we agree on library part. Copypasting management code is extremely annoying and also leads to version control hell. I hope this will be changed at some point and they will allow personal libaries.

About "stages" I'm not sure I follow - the "algos" are just plain python code so it's up to you how you want to structure your code.

Python is fortunately quite far from commodore 64 Basic which I also happen to rememeber.. with all of it's gotos, pokes and peeks..

(sidenote: I'm not sure if you have ever created your own framework to trade with IB with their api or fix, if you have then you should know how big improvement something like quantopian is.. especially when their costs are basically zero)
Even worse, "love interest doesn't think she's pretty but only the protagonist is a nice enough guy to see past that." The whole book was a bunch of wish-fulfillment fantasies, but I found the romance the creepiest.
> What all forms of fascism have in common is the glorification of the nation, and the exaggeration of its humiliations, with violence promised to its enemies, at home and abroad; the worship of power wherever it appears and whoever holds it; contempt for the rule of law and for reason; unashamed employment of repeated lies as a rhetorical strategy; and a promise of vengeance for those who feel themselves disempowered by history.

What is the difference between this, and North Korean or Soviet Communism? Is there a difference?
Seriously. Can someone please explain what this means/comes from?
Also just wanted to say thank you for the library. It was, and has been a huge boon to many of my projects.

Thanks so much and good luck in your future!
The completed Tesla Gigafactory area will be bigger than the town I live in population 50,000 people.

Comparison overlay https://i.imgur.com/ixHBkyw.png

Each side of the red square is approx. 3.75km
Maybe I'm a bit too much of a STEM-headed engineer but I think you are making a false comparison.

UX is fleeting. Even the best UX will grow stale over time as styles change, and it's style propagates (as it will if it is truly revolutionary) it will become mundane.

Technology breakthroughs are hacks in the laws of physics. Humanity hasn't fundamentally redesigned the Steam Engine since James Watt. It just can't become more efficient. Nobody cares steam is mundane, or well understood. We still use it in nearly ever power plant.

So no I don't stand why people feel the need to own something as fleeting as a singular moment in the pseudo-cultural-artistic space Product/UX design fits in knowing that it'll pass and forever be looked on as an out of style relic of a by-gone age. To do so honestly and earnestly makes you sound like a diva.
From a layman's perspective, it certainly sounds like the legal system needs to be changed, not replicated.
Are aes instructions new in aarch64 processors? I'm surprised this doesn't work magically "out of the box", but I'm not up to date with this stuff.

Also, this is another really good reason never to use a sha2 as your hashing algo for password storage.
There are multiple legal reasons why plebiscite was never held. Primarily, it required the return of Pakistan occupied kashmir to india for a re-unification of the two kashmirs, as a precondition. Needless to say, Pakistan refused to comply. Additionally, the plebiscite was to be applied to whole of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir, which includes Aksai Chin territory that China occupied. Besides, Ladakh and Jammu regions would probably be butchered in Pakistan as they are Buddhist and Hindu majority respectively. So there is no question of 2 of the 3 regions accepting to even participate in any plebiscite. Within the muslim 'majority' valley, past surveys have pointed to both possible outcomes -- staying with india or joining pakistan. Too many kashmiri muslims have profited immensely from Indian rule, and fear a punjabi muslim takeover of kashmir were it to join pakistan. Punjabis and Kashmiris are very different people.
metaphorm, I think the post wasn't about you. Generally, as a rule I have learned that it helps to assume people aren't talking about you. Mostly they are more involved in their own lives and ideas. the [grand]parent post is interesting and useful, and I'm sure not aimed in any detrimental way at you.
Electric trucks were common in cities a century ago. The truck museum at "The World's Largest Truck Stop" has a couple of well-preserved examples.

https://iowa80truckstop.com/inews/iowa-80-trucking-museum-to...

http://earlyelectric.com/carcompanies.html
Tim Sweeney from Steam cranks the paranoia to 10 over Windows
I wish I didn't have to say this, but:
Statistical significance != Success

We will have to wait a decade to find out if this was actually a significant development that should be counted as a success.
Browsing through the career offers: "Expect no pay until you prove your value."... Hmm, nice, let's go to Malaysia and see if I'll get paid...
Satellite map pictures are not a measure of size. And yes, I misspoke, it will be the largest building in the world by footprint/square footage, not the largest factory.

VW's plant is still in the conceptual stages, but if it ever happens it will indeed be impressive. But none of that makes the Gigafactory less impressive, especially once completed.
I "safely" follow the @theRealDonaldTrump comedy show.

I don't like him or think like him, but it's sure fun to have a firsthand view on the dumpster fire that is the 2016 election.
You completely missed the point of my comment. "Objectively better" means that it's better in all accounts, as otherwise someone with different priorities could perceive it as worse, making it therefore only subjectively better.

And UWP is not better in all accounts. It grants Microsoft more control over the ecosystem, which is seen as negative by pretty much anyone who isn't Microsoft. Therefore someone who doesn't care so much about the advantages that you listed could perceive it as worse.

So, UWP is not objectively better, it's only subjectively better, which is why yes, people can very much justifiably complain about it.
... by moving from a software implementation to a mostly hardware one. ;)

Still a worthwhile article but the title seemed to make me think of implementation/algorithm changes.
The Pause Command in Selenium IDE
Does the e-mail (appear to) give you a way to contact the person who sent it?

I'm not saying you should or shouldn't, but several comments have suggested contacting this person; it's not clear that that's even possible.
Seems interesting and reminds me a lot of the Nextbit Robin - a kickstarted android phone that can offload less-used data and apps to the cloud.
It's all about resource efficiency. If you do that (bundle), you're not resource efficient (memory), but the resulting solution is easy to use (no dealing with dependency conflicts where A depends on X-v1 and B on X-v2, and you need A and B running in the same system). How important is resource efficiency, and what it even means today vs. yesterday varies wildly.
I'm currently looking for a new smartphone. Requirements: Cyanogen Mod support, changeable battery, close to 200€, at least 2GB RAM. Only the Samsung Galaxy S4 seems to qualify.
> In other words, why not quit or scale back involvement much sooner, before the downside(s) become so severe?

In my experience, burnout (and depression) is not something you realize you have until you are already deep in it. You may see symptoms of it, but it is easy to dismiss them as something else and completely miss the fact that you are burned out.

Hope that helps you to understand and be more sympathetic.