skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Craig Venter, the first genome sequenced and first promoter of shotgun sequencing, disses CRISPR. He claims its not reliable enough. Nor can you prevent from altering unexpected parts of the genome.
I dont know how much is not-invented-here and how accurate he is.
Yes. I've interviewed "developers" who failed FizzBuzz, and one who took 20 minutes to come up with a solution. I've never even specified a required language for it, and generally accepted pseudo-code.
It's not, but notice his wording. He has no clue if it's possible or not, he wants a mandate for the tech companies to "figure it out".

There have been voices from the tech industry saying it's impossible, but Comey doesn't want to hear that. He's literally called that response "emotional" and believes tech lovers simply are clinging to encryption and privacy irrationally.

He's not going to stop until he can hear what he wants to hear. I think the only thing that will satisfy him is a beltway bandit lying to him about their technology.
Why You Really Need to Stop Using Public Wi-Fi
Yay for change tracking and special characters!
There is currently a discussion including some of our customers on diydrones: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/sky-drone-fpv-2-now-avai...
It's more of a weight issue, an inch thick but cheap e reader that was 4 oz would be plenty usable.
"living in a gross tasteless suburb as your primary residence"

People buy houses in those "gross, tasteless suburbs" by choice. No one is putting a gun to their head.

Their tastes are not yours.
Just to clarify: I'm talking about the font color being too light against a light background :O
I've said it before and I'll say it again: too much focus is being put on how backdoors can be abused, and too little on why mandating them is a terrible idea in general.

If we decide we don't have the right to conceal our digital correspondence from the government, what else should we not be allowed to conceal? The conversations you have in your car? In your home? Besides the right to privacy, what other rights make fighting terrorism harder? Freedom of association and movement? Freedom of speech, which is regularly used for recruitment?

Finally, if they really want someone's data, in a covert way, they're already able to plant hardware keyloggers, or spy on someone as they enter a password, etc. But it all requires manpower. What backdoors would let them do is monitor encrypted communications covertly and in bulk. To build up a database of all your chats and forum posts, and mine it for any anti-current-politics sentiment.
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>they should not be ashamed or made to feel stupid for taking advantage of a legal option that has been priced into their loan via their interest rate.

This was well-said. Without the risk of default the loan would be worthless for the lender.
>If they don't want to deal with the possibility of bankruptcy, they shouldn't lend out money.

Except your pension fund probably lent them money too - how would you like it if you lost your pension because they decide to default ? This is maybe less true in the US but in EU mandatory pension funds are basically proxy for buying government bonds/funding government spending with a hope they will pay out in the future.

I agree theoretically - but the reality is people don't like to see huge defaults - it breaks confidence/trust - and lower trust increases cost/slows down growth and this is not politically acceptable - therefore politicians do everything they can to eliminate corrections and create distortions to preserve confidence.
Every time I stumble upon something like this a little wannabe-programmer kid in me wakes up and screams: "WOW!!! This thing is PROGRAMMABLE! I can CONTROL IT!". Good job, guys! It seems like you've hit the right spot :)
From Thompson's paper:

> The press must learn that misguided use of a computer is no more amazing than drunk driving of an automobile.

That's a silly thing to say, especially considering that there is a different and bigger problem: a software system with broken security.
You are right, we indeed had some problems with our first product "Sky Drone FPV 1". Our new products are on stock and shipping though. Some background of what happened: https://www.skydrone.aero/blogs/news/the-sky-drone-journey-s...
Again Riddle
I like it, but I personally like microframeworks that just style everything, and maybe provide a grid, like Wing [1]. (Disclaimer: I'm the author).

Having some styles provided by default, instead of having more classes to remember would be nicer. That's just my style.

Overall, it looks great!

[1] http://usewing.ml
I'm sure they'll do a post-mortem and come up with additional protections, they just take longer than the immediate fix.
Facebook will show memes according to users' interest and geography
But nothing about the story will actually change. The second reporter will use editing to make the the actor appear to go in the left and come out the right. Then when they go before the judge there's no difference between the real and fake tapes so it's again unconvincing.

Since the author allowed the use of video editing in the story anything that isn't seen in person is unconvincing.
There wasn't a protocol change either.

The hardfork that came after the burning failure of the DAO moved account values from the DAO to a new contract.

The protocol remained the same.
They need to maintain their customers' perception, which is not so much about trying as actually having an effect...
"Only because they haven't actually lived in it yet."

There are multiple generations of people who have willingly lived in suburbs.

I repeat: their tastes are not the same as yours.
Tech funding trends in France [pdf]
The cost of software maintenance is not even close to zero. Unless you are someone like DJB (or even then) your software will need to be updated and bugs will need to be fixed.

TFA specifically calls out the assumption that a one off (essentially micro) payment entitles you to lifetime updates and I think that is a very fair criticism.
Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li Want to Liberate AI from Guys with Hoodies
> There is a mechanism for a paid update, which is to simply state end of life for an app and release a new one

This is really a workaround to the problem that Apple doesn't support paid updates - deleting the old version and buying a new version (which has to have a different name) is not a great user experience for updating an app, and who knows how many users you might lose in the transition.

I think it would be much better if paid updates were part of the App Store, with a simple way for users to see that a paid update is available and to buy it if they choose to.
Deported by Google
> don't get a 'smart' television

Will that prevent ultrasonic beacons? I assumed the speakers were the same on smart and 'dumb' TVs.
Ah so far it works only for macOS. I wanted to give it a test run but I'm on Windows at the moment
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"Musk himself has stated the goal is to make money to help pay for colonizing Mars."

Which I continue to misunderstand ...

You can go to Mars ... you can have an outpost on Mars ... you can have scientists and tourists and so on go back and forth to Mars - all very positive and exciting.

But you can't live on Mars for an extended period because the gravity is 1/3 of earths.

Your teeth will decay. Your bones will weaken (even with hours per day of resistance work, which will be mandatory). Your heart will weaken. Your organs will malfunction. You will get cancer from a weakened immune system. Red blood production goes down.

Your body is built for and tightly coupled to Earths gravity. I fail to see how one could actually live on Mars without sacrificing 30 or more years of lifespan.
I think it's more like who to permanently allow into your home, rather than hiring. After all, you don't just work in your country, you live there too.
"Backdoor" is such a loaded term. But it could be done relatively securely with a dual key system. Apple (or you/your device), has one key; the government has some other key. Either one unlocks the phone.

But then you need the government to securely store a few master keys. Given the latest CIA, NSA and OPM leaks I doubt this is possible long-term. However, maybe changing the devices keys based on year of manufacture is a reasonable step to have some sort of safeguard.
The smart televisions are far more likely to have code (or be updated with code) that can be used to emit unique tracking signals of some sort.
I'd rank the ability of terrorists to properly utilize OTPs as relatively low.
India's controversial national ID scheme leaks data for 130M people
Seymour Cray would sacrifice maintainability for performance every time. Example: The Pogo Pins used on the Cray 2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2#/media/File:Cray-2_modu...

The Cray 2 also had to have the Flourinert drained before repairs could be made.
Ha! Thanks . Good one. XD

Just played it again now and got one I'm quite fond of.

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When HFT firm Virtu went public they announced they had one loosing day in 6 years.

A physics professor explained how this was possible by using the law of large numbers and some basic assumptions.
If used properly they are, but many times people get lazy and reuse pads or use pads that are too short.
True, LTE modem protocols are a bit of a mess. You can get a good overview here: https://aleksander.es/data/FOSDEM2013%20-%20Mobile%20broadba...
> It's quite possible somebody has even already reverse engineered much of it, rendering it even less valuable by itself, even to copy-cats.

Starcraft reverse engineered to run on ARM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372414
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Friends and I went to a store once in California. Their sticker on the counter - YOU MUST BE BORN BEFORE [DATE] - was out of date. The clerk couldn't do the math or accept that the sticker was out of date. That was a bizarre experience.
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Why Doesn’t the Surface Laptop Have a USB-C Charger?
RMS Supports Language Server Protocol Integration into Emacs Core (and GCC)
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it ^_^
Technical term is overkill. Just use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_average
Puerto Rican here. Basic dignity I think. We should be an independent country, but most Puerto Ricans are frightened of independence.
Sorry if I'm missing something, but television programming usually doesn't require code in the TV in order to emit audio. Is audio in ultrasonic frequencies a special case?
As a starting point, would it not make more sense to remove the chromium dependency and still include Node?

I saw your comment yesterday and it really gave me something to think about. I swear if you don't go down this path I will as soon as I get a chance!
Yet, right in the middle of this Vice article when I loaded it, is a video ad for an overpriced vodka with beautiful model staring back at you and making eyes with the camera.

(The point is: don't act all high and mighty about companies using models to sucker you into buying stuff when you're doing it yourself. I reloaded the page and now it's a semi-famous DJ talking. Strike two.)
Yup, like Lord of the Flies, and in specific:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

This is also why the Electoral College exists, as annoying as it can be, it makes sense.
"but inappropriate to cut obligations to creditors we call 'bondholders'?"

The part where I said bondholders should be held harmless is a fiction inside your head. When the gears finally strip the bondholders in these cases (Detroit, GM, etc.) take epic baths, and I don't shed any tears for them either. $7 billion in bondholders’ obligations in Detroit were erased, for example.

So I suppose there is little difference between supposed "creditors we call pensioners" and actual creditors; everyone gets wrecked.
> Such a tape cannot be faked by the fake reporter.

This is where I disagree. The second reporter will just tape the actor going in the left, editing magic, and observe him coming out the right. Both tapes will be indistinguishable.

In the original story the second reporter couldn't produce an unbroken tape between successive trials like the first reporter, so that can't be the litmus for proof.
> Imagine your government made it mandatory to leave keys in a certain place so police could enter a property in a hurry.

I'm sure this actually happened somewhere in the US... it might just have been proposed but I distinctly remember reading about mailbox-like containers at the bottom of drives locked with a master key. Does anyone else?

Edit: More than once apparently, "lockbox" was the term I was missing when googling earlier:
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http://archive.northjersey.com/community-news/2.4225/rescuer...
Pretty cool! As a developer who's currently quite lacking in design capabilities, it's nice to hear about the more product-focused side of things. Will definitely be following this site & the interviewees on Twitter.
Um, what? You have linked to an explanation of why it's not fine. This mistake is getting more and more common, even among educated people. It's quite embarrassing/funny because it stems from a belief that "I" is inherently more "educated", and the result sounds anything but. I know us English speakers can't speak any non-English languages, in contrast to the rest of the educated world, but it's really not too much to ask for us to be able to comprehend the concept of subject of a sentence. Our parents' and grandparents' generations managed it fine, in fact would have been mortified to make a mistake like this.
I think he meant retro-reflective properties of normal roadsigns. Merely being paper-like is not the same.
Being able to try apps is something I've always been surprised isn't widely available right now. There's a sheet music writing app on the Microsoft app store for $60 - I really want it, but I can't justify paying that much for something I can't even try out. What if it just doesn't feel right?
Where do you see anything about the antenna size? All I've seen is that this will be for Enterprise customers, and the antenna will be very large.

By the way, a very small phased array will be very low gain, thus using more capacity on their satellite for the same speeds. Unless they've invented a new type of antenna...
That's my point, if you have high gain in a particular direction, wouldn't interference coming from a different direction be mostly rejected? The point being, this could offer internet to people in repressed countries that can't practically be blocked or tampered with. If they coupled this with a free tier with low bandwidth it could be huge, assuming people could smuggle in the equipment to make it work.
Nice work! I wrote a very similar engine back in 2014. Mine has a platform-agnostic API:

http://scribe-src.github.io/scribe-api/doc/

Support for OSX (with ObjC bindings exposed):

https://github.com/scribe-src/scribe-platform-osx

And could work with just MachO binaries (not .app dirs) by shoving data into a loader segment.
Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li want AI to be more diverse
Predicting the death of Debian in 10 years is a odd call since I have not seen any indication of decline in the use of Debian and its derivatives.

Last time someone checked, projects in debian where around 90% GPL.
Here is a patch I just did:

DISCLAMER: Works only if you set WP_HOME explicitely.
if you define it dynamically based on $SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
this won't fix it. (using a switch with $SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] is fine, except if you set a default)

------[ wp-includes/pluggable.php before ]------

...

if ( !isset( $from_email ) ) {
// Get the site domain and get rid of www.
$sitename = strtolower( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] );
if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) == 'www.' ) {
$sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 );
}

$from_email = 'wordpress@' . $sitename;
}

...

-----------------------------------------

------[ wp-includes/pluggable.php after ]------

...

if ( !isset( $from_email ) ) {
// Get the site domain and get rid of www.
$sitename = strtolower( WP_HOME );
if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 7 ) == 'http://' ) {
$sitename = substr( $sitename, 7 );
}
if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 8 ) == 'https://' ) {
$sitename = substr( $sitename, 8 );
}
if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) == 'www.' ) {
$sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 );
}

$from_email = 'wordpress@' . $sitename;
}

...

-----------------------------------------

edit: please test this on your setup before deploying it.
edit2: fixed with the help of apstls.
That's not true. Wsj got their revenue projections for 2020+, and the bulk of it was satellite internet revenue.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/exclusive-peek-at-spacex-data-sh...
This is why you should apply separation between not so serious stuff and serious stuff, e.g. a second email account.
Slight aside: what are the performance impacts here? I've been wondering for a while whether JSX is a little dangerous in that it makes repeated, huge, nested calls to React.createElement() look like plaintext.

For example, I could easily just run element.innerHTML = "<svg...>" to add SVG content to my page. If the SVG isn't being dynamically updated, doesn't making JSX like this incur a large and unnecessary overhead?
I should've added more background to my earlier comment. Our wordpress sites are hosted on ec2 and by default mails sent from there end up in spam so we use SES. For that we need a plugin like wp smtp. I figured I'd give an ease of mind for similar use cases. I agree that a plugin is not the right solution especially if the provided functionality is not needed(smtp).
Makers of new libraries are free to chose how far they go with testing and support in different browsers. Of course you might be forced, by you client base (or intended client base) to support other browsers and if so you have three choices: don't use libraries that don't support the browsers you need to work with, test yourself and maintain your own branch if changes are needed for those browsers, or try nag people to share your pain and support what you need them to support.

Option three is likely to fall on deaf ears as the decision of how much time is worth spending on compatibility testing has already been made, so unless you can give a really compelling reason the won't want to. Option two is only viable if you (or your team more generally) have both relevant experience and time, which is often not the case. So this library may not be for you...

Not supporting at least IE11 is rare currently in my experience but I suspect it is a condition that will steadily grow more widespread. You may find that everything in the library works well enough in IE11 and the developers try to not intentionally do something that would change this, but don't feel they have the time to test (and fix as needed) sufficiently be able to make such guarantees.

Of course existing libraries that support IE11 are generally expected to keep doing so at very least least up to the next major release.
Hum, no.

Robbery and bankruptcy have completely different effects on society. That's why one is legal, and the other isn't.
Average Joe looked at your post, enjoyed the colorful icon at the top for a brief moment, and then his eyes glazed over.

If you really want to resonate with him, publish this in comic book form. I'm serious.
"It implements a minuscule portion of the APIs available in Electron" - I wouldn't really call that API-compatible.

For most apps I'm sure this is fine though.
Couldn't a municipality/HOA/whatever put in place restrictions on what kind of satellite dishes you may setup on your property?
Any patents? Not at all.

It's of course possible that they have (or will have) some that would be covered by an implicit grant - though you'd need to go to court to confirm that.

But it's quite possible that they could have many patents
that cover non-substancial parts. Guess what? You're now in violation of those if you haven't already licensed them.

So, again, even in the best case the implicit grant still requires you to go to court to maybe get clear of some liability.

Explicit ones have you covered from the start. More rights for you, broader coverage for you.
> these kind of "behind your back" shenanigans that will quickly force governments to move to regulating the industry

These kinds of things have been going on for years, and yet the U.S. government, for one, just reduced privacy protections for consumers.
Thanks. Author here, could you please expand on

which to me don't look enough like buttons

Perhaps I could add some sort of 3d effect/animation on button:hover.
Pointing out "virtue signaling" is nihilism? I learn something new every day.
They reportedly knew about this since 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260298
But next year's is going to be awesome and hey, the tix are 2 for 1 if you just be-leeve! The essence of a good scam is that at first, you have the dream and they have the money and at the end, you have the money and they have the dream.
> but are there any cases that a programmer wants to join a company and he can't even write a FizzBuzz program?

It's not even restricted to pogramming.

I've been involved in some recruitment for an English NHS trust, and people just apply whether they're qualified or not.

Some jobs have a hard requirement for a particular professional registration (you have to be a registered nurse, for example), and that will be clearly stated in the ads and job spec, but you still get people applying who are not nurses, and who don't even have any registration (allied health professionals).

You'll see someone who's done the equivalent of band 4 admin work, with maybe a bit of managements, applying for director level positions.
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I like my IDE's color suggestions though. Does your b&w system also have that?
As another commenter pointed out, there was a face drawn on the pieces, which made it pretty straight forward

https://intelligencegroup581.wikispaces.com/file/view/feat_p...
You think that's a waste of brain power? By 2014 humans had collectively spent 200,000 years playing angry birds. That was 3 years ago, and I'm sure pokemon go has at least tripled that record by now. Between than and all other video games we've probably spent in the tens of millions of years button mashing, if not the hundreds.

But yeah lets stop people trying to make JavaScript faster
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Sweat is enormously varied in composition. Some guitarists can corrode a brand new set of strings in a matter of hours, while others can play for weeks on the same set. Some people have sweat that's acidic enough to turn a silver flute black or strip the lacquer from a violin.
The time of CSS frameworks has really come and gone. There were four use cases, and all of those are more and more obsolete:

- "The Grid", which at this point has migrated to the browsers with Flexbox and (soon) Flex Grids

- A pretty skin replacing the browsers' default rendering of elements. These have improved, albeit only slightly. CSS has also become easier and you can easily do this yourself in 50 lines or so

- Fixing browser bugs/inconsistencies, which have diminished to a fraction of where we used to be

- "Components", which may the last remaining use case, but which have also become much easier to do yourself due to sane grid layouts
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Did anyone else read that as revered _dictator_? Current political climate is clearly having an effect.
Well taxes and social welfare are distributing the money of the rich to millions of poor people.
Why would I use this over Bootstrap 4 (if it's ever released)?

BS4 seems to include everything here and more (I can comment out what I don't need before building). BS4 also supports IE10+, where a non-trivial amount of my conversions come from. The flexbox grid/naming convention seems identical at a glance.
It's because swift doesn't have ABI stability yet.