skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listening to CS people talk about biology is maddening.

"CRISPR... is to genomics what vi (Unix’s visual text editor) is to software. "

This terrible comparison between DNA and code has been happening for years. In 2012, Thiel did the same thing in CS 183. We get to look back and see that he was wrong, but we'll have to wait a while before the 'DNA is code' group will admit this essay is bad. At least its not a TED talk and at least its better than Aubrey De Grey.

"Each VC on the panel made 2 predictions about technology in the next 5 years. The audience voted on whether they agreed with each prediction. One of my predictions was that biology would become an information science." -PT
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While I find it wonderful and charming that the two Lisa's finally met, and became good friends, one has to wonder at what point does such a problem become so great that simply changing one's name is the better solution?

At some point, you have to ask yourself whether continuing down the same road is going to become a net loss in your life, and make the change to prevent that. That's part of being an adult. While it isn't her fault that this is happening, and it would be unfair to her that she should have to change her name to fix it, it would be the best and quickest way to prevent this issue in the future.

Especially why there are warrants and other things going on which could lead to permanent life-altering events (for instance, what if in the future one of these Lisa's is wanted for murder, or something else, that sends a boatload of SWAT agents to her door in the middle of the night?). Heck, what if her new friend dies, or has something else major happen to her, and the records get mixed?

With such possibilities, I know I wouldn't think twice about getting my name changed.
Wow, after all these years let the record state that 2017 was finally the year of the Linux desktop.
"We don't take Itchy & Scratchy Money"
if you give a flying (sic) about solving medical issues, and actually know a thing or 7 about curing disease, check out Kaggle's competitions. The cervical cancer competition is of particular interest.

If you happen to disagree, step away from your doubt for a sec and listen: we can, and will cure these diseases with AI. That's the whole point. We imbue our intelligence into a machine and voila, the machine does what we ask it to do with greater expediency and more acumen than an individual can do alone. We don't garden with machines and say" wow, this took fifteen thousand people to build, should we use it so we can do other stuff instead?".

Nope. We say, thank you John Deere, I'll take 2. While we are at it, let's look a little deeper and think about how civilization functions in general. Is that not what we do? We connect, we decide to work together, and next thing you know, we improve our quality of life: otherwise known as a corporation (or conglomerate if you wannanother version, ya heard?).

So, is AI good for medicine, yes: it is.

Here's a free thought to prove my point. Using my intellect today I deduced that anxiety is absurdity masked as truth. Imbue that into some AI, you'll heal the minds of the world, ok?

Peas in the ground, head in the air, thoughts with the 1.
-Love
Agreed. Don't use real PII for test environments. If you absolutely need to, find a way to create several hundred real functioning email addresses which are dedicated to testing purposes at different domains/services, as widely spread out as you can, to verify that your outgoing email is actually being delivered from a test environment.

You need to be able to verify, by looking at the receive headers on the individual email accounts, from a widely disparate set of receiving SMTP daemons/services that your emails are passing SPF, DKIM, DMARC checks, your IP block is not in some peoples' RBLs, etc.
I Used to Spoil My Kids. Now That I’m Divorced, I Teach Them the Value of Money
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Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
I'm not terribly shocked.

Most communication happens either at serial, SPI, or i2c busses. If it's cars, CAN.

And if you can plug in a wire somewhere, you can damage or pwn it. Most things don't have security, other than software security and physical locks. And even when there is other types of security, like cryptokeys and such, physical wires can usually bypass even those.

If they wanted something that was secure, they could do that glass mesh thing the ORWL does, and have some sort of black dyepack on the money that explodes everywhere. Go for "we ruin so you cant have". But then again, I could see criminals pissed off and taking a hammer primarily to ruin their money, and cause customer consternation.
I don't know what this is meant to mean.
Abortion Is Legal in South Africa – But Illegal Clinics Are Thriving. Why?
> I respectfully disagree as does the economists

With all due respect to you and the economists, "developers under-building to preserve high housing costs" is an ongoing event I'm witnessing live. The opinions of skilled economists is valuable, but I can't value their opinion higher than events I'm actually living through, witnessing in my own life on a daily basis.

> Just curious if you read the articles referenced, for they mention large US cities where the prices have not increased because they don't have the zoning density restrictions.

Your article mentions Atlanta and Houston, two cities which are cheap because of their vast suburban sprawl. Which I agree does lower prices, sprawl is great for keeping costs low. (I can only afford housing myself due to suburban sprawl).

But it is decidedly not urban, and the sprawl development model carries with it lots of bad side effects -- too many to list here. And I'm aware that these cities aren't entirely sprawl, but looking at Zillow listings, the areas of Atlanta and Houston dense enough to be considered 'urban' are almost entirely areas where housing isn't affordable at all.

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It sounds like you might be very focused on NYC's housing problem. And, in NYC, zoning might be the biggest holdup to housing solutions (it is in SF). But affordable housing isn't just a problem in NYC, it's a problem in 99% of America's urban environments.

Atlanta and Houston, for example, both have affordable housing problems right now too, despite having the zoning changes your advocating for. (I live in the Midwest, which like Atlanta and Houston, has most of the zoning changes you advocate for already in place, but is still unaffordable).

That's why I continue to say that zoning alone isn't the fix for this problem.
Vulnerable Wi-Fi dildo camera endoscope. Yes really
If the number of unfilled positions is increasing, that would tend to lower the requirements, not raise them. If the number of filled positions is growing at the same rate as the number of unfilled positions, that would be evidence that the requirements are staying roughly the same on average. (Except I'm sure there some small amount of average improvement and widespread knowledge increase every year that everyone benefits from.)

In any case, it still makes sense for companies to come up with interview strategies for inexperienced devs, and the article at the top is once such way. It doesn't mean companies will interview experienced devs the same way, and in my experience, they don't.

(EDIT I had written some other junk based on me misreading your comment, apologies if you had to spend any time on that.)
I don't think Kafka was ever proud of bureaucracy.
Thanks for reminding me of Plug'N'Pray. Some stuff worked but a lot didn't, likely the cheap rubbish hardware I bought with lame drivers. And trying to load a mouse driver for DOS and play a game that needed himem. Or trying the set the right IRQ to get the DOS game to believe you had an Adlib or SB16 compatible card....

The kids today don't know how easy things are with unified drivers for audio on Mac OS etc. I mean, even USB coming out was amazing instead of serial devices and guessing the COM port? Which LPT1?? And dial up etc etc so easy now.
If you're measuring my design ability in the interview, you had better give me an opportunity to use that ability after being hired.

Too many times have I been asked questions that shaped my expectations of the job, only to be disappointed later on. The worst offender in this respect put me through a technical screen that could only reasonably be passed by someone with a bachelor's degree in CompSci or equivalent work experience, only to later tell me that the code I write "should be understandable by a kid fresh out of high school" (actual quote). I applied to 12 different job postings that night.

The interview led me to believe that I was being hired for my expertise, and the job expectation was actually to be a warm, brainless body in a formerly empty seat. That's why I don't like questions that act as proxies for some other metric. The questions you ask me are telling me about you as much as my answers tell you about me. When you cargo-cult interview procedures from another company, you are actually misrepresenting the nature of your own company as being like the company you stole your interviews from.
It's embarrassing how long it took me to realize that the word is O-a-t-h, not O-a-u-t-h. I suspect I've been irreparably scarred by internet security technologies.
Can anyone point to any concrete benefits theyve gained from learning Category Theory? I've used Haskell and I see some value from that (mostly in getting more comfortable with functions and typings I suppose), but not sure if I should spend any time on Category Theory.
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Spending hours to set up container monitoring? Start Netsil in 10mins
Sure, today. But they're "concentrating on the licensing business".
That's a rather loose definition of requires.
I don't see how ongoing cold war tension between the US and Russia constitutes a form of Lebensraum.
It runs like crap, but still saved an hour a day over doing it by hand.

Does the fast version save you more time than it cost by not being available?
Maybe this is tangential but this is a theme that seems to have infected schools themselves as well. I was recently swindled (yes, straight up swindled) by my university. I go to a uc (not riverside or merced) and the student health and wellness center literally swindled me out of almost a hundred dollars by using fine print. To protect my anonyminity i wont go into details but rest assured a called every authority i could and nothing was done. Consider that and then look at the swelling administration, lack of class availability, the sheer cost of attending and finally and most importantly the lack of meaningful learning. Its all a huge scam. But you need a degree if you want to have a high quality of life (unless youre exceptional in some way which the average dude is of course not) so nobody can do a damn thing about it. Fuck this shitty sytem.
The sub-brand still messes with their marketing. Why do you think there is so much anti-Tesla astroturfing? There's no point in starting a sub-brand if you're just going to have to astroturf it.
The opposite is also annoying.

My name is quite unique, and people are not sure what is middle name, and what is last name. So often they cannot find my file and sometimes they create a new file, so they believe I am multiple persons. Well, at least I think that is what my health care insurance is doing. My employer pays 600€/month to them, the insurance sends me newsletter snailmail every month, and when I go to the doctor, the insurance says I am not insured with them, they have no records about me; or that the insurance had not been paid for months; or they send me a e-mail that cannot send me letters, because they do not have my physical address ...
Wow ... an actual stand-up guy! (or gal).

I tend to be anti-authoritarian myself and constantly have to remind myself that societies folkways, mores (and laws, regulations, etc) have a purpose other than to inconvenience me. Fortunately I've learned to drive more slowly and am not constrained by an HOA.
Linux Mint is also "Ubuntu without Security". That's right -- Linux Mint does not install Ubuntu's security updates, nor supply their own.

Stated another way: 100% of Linux Mint machines in the world are either:

(a) already pwned

or

(b) vulnerable to multiple CVEs and will be pwned
> Even though he was clearly alive and well and way taller

That's not relevant, because they probably weren't suspecting him of being the Supreme Leader, they were suspecting him of having a reason to conceal his identity (or possibly of being mentally ill).
No, of course not. But They'll pay $0.10/mile for Tesla mobility services.
This article by Ben Horowitz seems relevant - he mentions his history of managing teams by metrics. I like this quote:

"Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers—it’s strictly for amateurs."

http://a16z.com/2011/07/19/when-employees-misinterpret-manag...
DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discriminate Against US Workers
It's funny you mention memory because the Von Neumann bottleneck is a real thing.... and is a BIG problem...
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For those who were curious like I was:

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/266932/why-does-s...
Prostitution can be difficult to prosecute. "No, no, officer, the money was to play checkers. I only touched his wiener by accident." Catching someone soliciting generally requires a sting operation, which comes close to the line of entrapment. In that sense, loitering laws are more clear cut. You're in the park or you're not, and they don't usually station undercover cops nearby trying to entice pedestrians into the park to bust them.
well, the problem is professors lack the motivation or ability to properly to administrative tasks so somebody else needs to do them instead.

however, installing a massive and expensive and authoritarian bureaucracy seems like an extremely bad solution as well and yet that is what we've got.

I'm suggesting that that bureaucracy ought to be dismantled and be replaced by a smaller number of more focused administrators who have the authority to do administrative work (i.e. are allowed to sign the payroll) but are not members of the managerial class that is strangling the life out of the academy.
To be fair, drilling a 3 inch hole in a modern ATM is no easy task. We are talking about high-grade steel, a layer of fiberglass, etc. Hence "portable power drill" is a bit misleading.
> Cost of ownership is especially high in cities (parking), and the market for ride sharing is highest. So probably many fewer city dwellers will own cars.

If it's really self-driving it can go park wherever. Not very good for the environment, perhaps, but it completely solves that problem.
>The latter is saying that they had bad intentions.

Does it really? Sometimes good intentions can end up with objectively terrible outcomes because nobody can see into the future. The proverb "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" comes to mind.

I think there's a lot of truth to that proverb because the vast majority of people don't think of themselves, or the reasons they do things, as "evil" or bad. In their internal logic most people act for "good reasons", but "good" can be a rather subjective thing, so the internal reasoning doesn't always translate properly to the outcomes in external reality.
I am not familiar with front end development at all. It does not seem fun.
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They aren't directly linked. I just like the idea of cataloging all of the time bounded limits in CS. Reading the wiki entry and having forgotten the exact date for when Unix time comes to end, although knowing it is close, i figured others might enjoy seeing the 2038 date too. Based upon voting, I was wrong.
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> Aside from the murder of the prime minister, the attempted coup d'état came to nothing, and the rebellion as a whole proved a failure. The participants took a taxi to the police headquarters and surrendered themselves to the Kempeitai without a struggle.

Did they wore clown shoes too? This seems almost to silly to be true.
I'm saying that the sentiment expressed (vacuous complaints about "wrongthink" when the "wrongthink" in question is complaints about people choosing not to associate with fascists) originates from Stormfront and their ideological brothers-in-arms. Whether he's an actual white supremacist or someone who got suckered into repeating their propaganda is immaterial.
If it's so easy to solve why don't you share the solution?
From what the author explained, the router only sends an event to the server when it detects a user entering/exiting the network range and ignores everything else. There's nowhere on the article where he says he's permanently logging their WiFi activity.
How this South African ICT company was started and got acquired for $200M
A good job and a good family life are eminently achievable goals in tandem. I personally spend my time out of work learning things outside my field just for the fun of it.
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The Dalvik system that runs on top does indeed put apps into their own named processes with restricted access etc, quite a good idea imho!

But the entire system as a whole doesn't get updates to lower parts. E.g. Updating your java app doesn't solve the problems in the underlying C libraries the system uses. We're at the mercy of vendors for that, if ever.
Refactoring a JavaScript video store (2016)
Don't do it - fashions change.
The only beneficial thing that trump has done is to make things that seemed fine while under a "nice" administration show how bad they can be if under a "nasty" administration.
>> But Hitler wanted a genocidal war

That is the easy answer. The west, due to cold war realities, has placed far too much on hitler's shoulders. He was evil but no comicbook supervillain. By blaming everything on the core nazis, most all conveniently dead, we can more quickly forgive everyone else. The reality was that they each stood atop a large social structure. They were products of history, not super-evil monsters dropped into the scene deus ex machina. It is too far to say that "Germany" wanted genocide, but the answer has to be somewhere between the bookends of "Hitler wanted X" and "Germany wanted X".
I think those royalty payments are more of a silver lining to Microsoft's complete failure to capture any mobile market share. Google is still the "platform holder" and has the biggest advantage of Android's dominance.
You can likely get car accident coverage that will cover anything you want, if you're willing to pay whatever premium your insurer decides is appropriate given your desired coverage amount and probability of a payout. These companies aren't buying off-the-shelf mass market insurance plans; it's up to their risk management people to figure out what the true cost of an accident is and negotiate appropriate coverage if they don't want to eat the risk themselves.
From a technical viewpoint, Amazon Cash is a private currency, pegged to the USD. The currency is spendable across multiple companies (Amazon, CVS Pharmacy®, Speedway, Sheetz, Kum & Go, D&W Fresh Market, Family Fare Supermarkets, and VG's Grocery). Amazon can "issue" it by crediting Amazon Cash accounts. Etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_currency
He's illegitimate to the extent that he attacks the democratic order itself. Even if Trump had actually won more votes, it wouldn't give him the right to ignore the constitution--by, for example, violating the Emoluments clause or interfering with congressional investigations. This isn't the normal ebb and flow of popular support, it's an attempt to fundamentally change our system of government.
Is there any evidence of Hitler's true, innermost intentions? Did he admit or was he even aware of his lust for power for power's own sake?

I know it's often a mix of both with demagogues, but I wonder how much he saw the fight against supposed enemies (Jews, Communists, Slavs) as a virtuous and net-positive goal vs. a means to an end.