skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, if this data has been obtained via a service such as 23andme cloning wouldn't be possible anyway, as the identified SNPs are only a small subset of the full genome.

However, lets assume that this is a full genome - in regard to cloning there may be some interesting legal consequences in some countries: For example, in European countries there have been some cases where sperm donors have been sued to pay alimonies. It wouldn't suprise me that if someone clones your DNA, one of those courts would define you as legal father and force you to pay alimonies.
Obviously this is fake. But this is a brilliant PR stunt.

If you watch the follow-up video, the guy gets interviewed on how he comes up with this stuff. He says he uses NZT - the drug used in the upcoming movie, limitless. Also the video that he "hi-jacks" on the big screen is a preview to that movie.
Where exactly were you mixing integers and floats? In my experience it doesn't come up too often, and if it does (e.g. writing area = 2 * pi * r) you'd be better served changing the 2 to 2.0.
Orly? Granted, compete data is far far far from reliable, but: http://grab.by/grabs/70bf6fda125dad336eaadd829f2739f3.png

Look like vrbo has (and has been retaining) about a 10x multiple in traffic over airbnb. Granted, this isn't (again) reliable data, and also does not in any way speak to revenue, but this doesn't smell like unadulterated "lunch eating" to me.
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Some banks have had this ability even in credit for a long while. The reason it has taken so long for the likes of VISA to join the crowd is the ironing out of issues like money laundering.
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http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

http://railsforzombies.org/

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Note that Iñigo Quílez is big in the demo scene:
http://www.iquilezles.org/prods/index.htm

It's amazing what he can do in realtime.
Link re: Kauffman jobs - http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/firm_formation_importa...
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As a new programmer I felt blessed when I learned OOP.

I could actually write long and clean pieces of code, without spending double time on restructuring them. Clean and coherent structure is important for understanding, while understanding your own code, and remembering what it does, creates a more fruitful development. Since new programmers often work iteratively by adding new features to their code, this is rather positive, than negative and that extra learning effort is always rewarded.

By knowing OOP you can access other's libraries in the language you recommend. By using other's libraries and by altering them, you can create more cool stuff faster.
"Thinking further about this, I am not against the idea of design considerations that should be kept from the beginning programmer. But OO isn't really a design consideration, it's a metaphor."

I would think of OO as just another tool that we've created over the years to help make programs. It's a big tool, with a lot of history to it, and that people used to think was the ultimate all-in-one tool that you needed to use for everything (nowadays less people think that).

But it any case, when you teach someone something new, you can't give them too many tools at once.

So while I agree with a lot of the sentiments you expressed, I don't think that what you do or don't teach new programmers has that much bearing on what you should or shouldn't use. After all, in your first lesson you probably won't be using loops either.
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The author should've at least defined what kind of design was he talking about. Almost every person is a designer on daily basis, when we are cleaning our rooms, preparing a dish, or even when we are communicating with our peers. Unless we are copying everything and do everything as our friends are doing, then in fact we are in a design process. The difference comes in when a person is confident enough to write a cheque for his work that he and a client both think is a design. This distinction should've been clarified in the beginning of the article, or else we aren't even able to have a discussion about it.
I'm guessing non-profits routinely save many tens of thousands of lives every year at least. Wouldn't you count that?

By the way, does anyone have any actual numbers on how many lives are saved by non-profits in aggregate?
Comparative advantage is generally not understood. It does not mean that countries only manufacture those things that they are best at. From the piece:

>But those of us who would be here would be pursuing our comparative advantage and
exporting fish and fur. That's what economists tell you is right. Pursue your comparative advantage. That was our comparative advantage. We certainly wouldn't have had a textile industry. British textiles were way cheaper and better.

Comparative advantage allows for trade even when one country has an absolute advantage over another. Even if British textiles were better and cheaper than the American ones if America started to produce textiles it could make sense for the British to reduce their textile production if there are other goods they can apply the same resources to that have a higher value than they will pay for the American textiles they are now buying.

The wikipedia page is pretty good at explaining this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
There is a big difference between convergent evolution and wholesale copying.
I don't think so, because it never goes any further than those initial harrassments. If someone had got a loan in my name, I think I would have received escalating demands, culminating in a court summons. That never happens - they just keep calling wanting to discuss a loan application, or sending emails saying that a payment is overdue.

I suspect they hope that they can just get people to talk to them, and then convince them to take a loan.

If it is "honest" identity fraud, then they obviously don't have the checks in place to deal with it - either way, they're not good companies to deal with (IMO).
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I like Dropbox but i use it less often. What i am waiting for is the same solution from Apple. Their cloud facility has been just finished and they will probably offer similar service not later than this year. It might not start as pure storage facility but will start by account and device activation from cloud, iphoto & music backup and then after figuring out how this cloud thing work will probably offer similar subscription fee based service. After all why they still didn't buy Dropbox? Probably they are working on it.
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Probably, if it's officially registered as a non-profit.

I worked for a film festival for several years, and our non-profit status let us use google apps for free, as well as reasonable amount of adwords credit.
The rule is like: It's really really hard to make startups without the open-source Unix-based systems/tools
I'd rather first do what I want to do most today. Life's too short..
Or, if you know you won't be running applications that allocate more than they use, you can disable overcommission entirely.
Here [1] is an alternate dispersion forcast based on NOAA's HYSPLIT trajectory model [2].

Even the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which had a far more serious release of radioactivity, was unable to spread significant contamination more than about 1000 miles.

[1] http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?en...

[2] http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/
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See also mlock and mlockall for an approximation of this:

http://linux.die.net/man/2/mlockall
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And here's a more recent update [1].

[1] http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?en...
0.9 recurring equals itself.

You prove above that 0.9 recurring equals 1 (the final step does not follow from what you write before), not that 0.9 recurring does not equal itself.
On a more technical note regarding the described background, "Kayla" apparently started by learning how to break software and exploit bugs by her dad and grew up learning about the Linux Kernel... then moved to SQL injection.

That last bit makes absolutely no sense. It's easier to learn SQL injection than the many, many different ways that memory management can go wrong. References to her memorising Windows Opcodes sound like a random phrase thrown in for credibility (you do after a while remember certain functions - 11 years after writing my first ARM shellcode I still remember it, even though I'll probably never use it).

The whole description of how she progressed just doesn't sound right. You can be up and running with SQL injection in less than an hour, learning buffer overflows and understanding them properly probably takes about a day and a bit at best (and that's assuming that you know C, how to use a debugger and how a compiler works). The Micro-SD strategy also seems a little extreme (but is viable, our testing gets done under a VM, there's no reason why that couldn't go on a micro SD card).

I'm calling BS on Kayla being a girl, mainly because the story just doesn't fit right compared to the application of Occam's Razor - that this is someone else trying to cover their tracks.
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> What amazing things are we prevented from realising as a result of restrictive law and the practices it supports?

If you look at open source software, there's a lot of very good stuff out there, but it's not some amazing new world, really, except for the people who take it and use it, and give nothing back. They get a ton of value for free. That's ok, open source producers signed up to that world voluntarily, and in general, it sort of works out.

By taking away IP, you would force everyone to contribute their work for free to zillions of other people, thus collapsing the market - plenty of people contribute to open source for fun, but if they were forced to, a whole lot of people would get out of the software business.
FTA: In mice, when Dr. Isenberg and his team introduced a drug that prevented a protein, thrombospondin-1, from binding to a surface cell receptor called CD47, the animals could endure almost unheard-of doses of radiation with virtually no ill effects.

This is from late 2009. Does anyone have an update on this research? Would obviously be a great boon if it was equally effective in humans.
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So what you're saying is "Best Practices Considered Harmful"?
Well, I mean I've never been wealthy but I've run the range from upper middle class to dead broke and if I can extrapolate the data I would say that a predilection for free beer is probably universal regardless of income or social status. It's the common thread that binds the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
No wasteful redundant resource management. It might look like that, but for every data structure in the kernel there's a use-case that absolutely needs the corresponding lookup/access to go fast. A bunch of examples from memory management:

* You need your pagetables for the cpu to find your memory.

* You need your vma tree in each struct mm to quickly go from virtual address to the backing store to handle missing pagetable-entries. People routinely allocate insane amounts of virtual memory and just use a few bytes, so prefilling all the pagetables is a no-go.

* You need the struct page for every physical page to the backing store (file or anonymous memory) and keep track of it's state (e.g. locked into place due to i/o, dirty and needs to eventually be written back to the filesystem).

* You need the radix pagecache tree to quickly go from file-offset to it's cache page (read/write and page fault handling). Also you need to walk that tree in-order to write back dirty pages efficiently (i.e. avoid tons of random seeks).

* All the connections are used, too. E.g. when shrinking the size of a file, all the vma's that map it are looked up via the file's address_space to shoot down these mappings (and deliver SIGBUS in case userspace access these now invalid virtual address).

* Anonymous memory (i.e. not memory mappings of a file with the pages in the file page cache) also neds to be tracked in a similar way. It's sligthly different because anonymous memory has a few different corner-cases with Fancy Behaviour (tm) like the shoot-down-all-mappings-on-truncate dance necessary for file-backed memory.

And often-used data structures are insanely optimized: Fields that are not used at the same time overlap (struct page is the most obvious example). And because pointers are always aligned to 4 bytes, there are 3 bits available in each that are used to store some information or the type of the object pointed to (e.g. the color of the red-black tree implementation is stored like this). Further structures are as often as possible embedded into each another to avoid the cache-miss when chasing a pointer.

Because it's all extremely optimized, it's easy to assume all memory access is O(1). It's not, and every time someone blurbs that his hash-table has O(1) access times my brain immediately goes "BS! ... not on any real hardware and not on any real kernel." Of course, you need pretty big hash-tables to notice the effect ...

EDIT: layout fixes.
This is probably one of the best descriptions of Linux memory management I've ever seen:

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-the-kernel-manages-...

Great find!
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I just moved to the UK from the US. The concept of sending people money via PayPal is more or less non-existent within the country. Why? Because you just get someone's bank details and transfer the money. I pay all of my bills via bank transfer. Oh, and it's free. It astounds me how easy it is to do. From Barclay's to HSBC for example (I pay my flatmate this way) it transfers it almost in a few hours.

Why can't the US do this? Too much money in it for the banks?
any product that installs growl per default on my system can not be mentioned in the same sentence with the terms "elegance".
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I was also doing project management and software development before going for an MBA--although my motivation was different. The MBA opened doors to routes unimaginable to me before and was giving me time to think about what I really wanted.
A lot of people go for MBAs to switch careers. If that's what you have in mind, I would hardly know a better way to achieve that.
I didn't even know this was a big, controversial issue still. Coming from a PHP, Ruby, and Obj-C background (and having taken C and Java classes in college), I always saw it as "use objects when you want things to be easy, use C when you want things to be fast".

Of course, being primarily a web developer and not having implemented a linked list or a bubble sort since college, the anti-OO people probably wouldn't consider me a "real" programmer anyway.
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What makes you think Google would be any less evil than Paypal?
We have. We've chosen the government, because they're probably more neutral and objective than a private entity, and that's more important than them probably being less efficient.
>By the time Kayla was 14 she could fully program C and x86 assembly.

FML, I have a CS degree and still can't program ASM.
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The way humans conceptualize the world is miles away from how computers work. We (or at least I) conceptualize the world in terms of relationships between things we encounter, but the focus of OOP is designing individual classes and their hierarchies.

But note that, in everyday life, relationships exist mostly between objects that would have been instances of unrelated classes in OOP. For example, my SCREEN IS ON TOP of the TABLE; I (a human being) AM SITTING on a CHAIR; a CAR IS ON the ROAD; I am TYPING on THE KEYBOARD; the COFFEE MACHINE BOILS WATER.

We think in terms of bivalent (sometimes trivalent, as, for example in, "I gave you flowers") verbs where the verb is the action (relation) that operates on two objects to produce some result/action. Contrast that with OOP where you first have to find one object and tell it to perform some action on another object. The way of thinking is shifted from actions/verbs operating on nouns to nouns operating on nouns, which is highly unnatural for me. It is as if everything is being said in passive voice, e.g., "the keyboard is being typed on by me".
The WoundFactoryFactory will take care of it.
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A big company does some PR. Is there really nothing better for the front page?
Selling stuff to people and convincing them they need it has always been important for a startup.
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By the way his blog is now really at http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/03/music-officially-begins-toda...
There's always someone trying to make everyone out to be a hypocrite. It is not a conflict to both have a belief and not act within that belief. If the world suddenly started working the way he described and he still tried to sell things he expected others to give away then it would be hypocritical behavior.
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Modularity is a fundamental design principle that pre-dates computer science: complex systems should be broken down into independent components that interact through formal abstractions. It's very simple and obvious. Everyone understands it on some level.

OOP is really just taking the principle of modularity and making it a first class language feature. There's no reason not to teach it to a beginner. They are going to be using the concepts right away anyway.

Also, OOP is ubiquitous in the real world and rookie coders need to get involved with the real world as early as possible.
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Having just come back from SXSW, the (disappointing) hour spent chasing parties is more about a notion of who you should be socializing with than the free drinks.

Abandoning the night's most popular venues almost guarantees magic will happen.
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Great resource. It shall aid me in writing a book about this!
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Umm, so, shouldn't he be selling event tickets or hotel rooms instead?
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How am I supposed to mutate into a superhero if radiation has no effect?
I don't really buy this. There's simply no way that messing with the NO pathway can prevent DNA degradation resulting from radiation exposure. I'm not familiar with irradiation units and how they correlate to DNA damage, but all amounts are harmful to the molecule. Ionizing radiation damage can be fixed via repair pathways, but it's simply a function of probability as to when this machinery fails in a critical location.

The paper might be interesting to read, though, especially if it got cited. As always, news articles tend to inflate claims and miss the point entirely.
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It doesn't matter. Just pick a topic that you are currently interested in and start reading. Go to amazon.com, type in the subject and find a book with the highest ratings that sounds interesting.

Sometimes I read about new languages I want to learn, sometimes about a tool I'm currently using but want to know more and sometimes just about programming in general.
I recommend an MBA. More for the exposure to the motivation behind organizations than anything else. Since no one individual can make lasting impact alone, the world is ran through organizations, whether political, for-profit, or non-profit. The MBA gives you the tools with which to understand how organizations run, and being a creative individual, you will find ways to apply your natural talents to these new tools. For example, my background before MBA school was semiconductors. Very creative, but very technical. Then I went to business school, and soon decided I wanted to apply my technical creativity to a more artistic endeavor. So I enrolled in film school. Now, I am an independent filmmaker. Considering how pragmatic an individual I am, I would never have made this transition if my MBA hadn't provided tools to understand this new industry and how to position myself to benefit from it. the bottom line: your world just gets bigger. How far out you want to go is up to you. Hope this helps.
I am hoping you are hinting that this story is an exact replica of that behavior... pulling off a social formula, on a slightly bigger scale. Even if you are not, having gone through a similar phase back in early years with that exact same motivation, I am!

This is a text book usage of social engineer. Putting in divorced parents, single child getting all the attention from the engineer dad making the kid an above average amongst his/her peers, and then putting in a girl, so to make you focus less on the flaws in the story and drool over the hot-geek image more... evergreen combination.

I would doubt though that Forbes came up with this on their own. Rather, it could very much be someone from anon, just having little more fun.
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Not all the transitions are linear. In the cases where they are, it's obviously a design choice.

It might be that because they're moving fast that you perceive it that way. But most of the animations have easing. Ease in and out on almost all the animation styles.

http://mozillademos.org/demos/planetarium/css/style.css
Not exactly sure, but Wikipedia says 2 of the reactors are not yet built? Not sure. Looks like if there is a meltdown both plants would not be habitable, so at least 6 reactors lost! How much does that cost?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Well to be fair Visa isn't responsible for some the of the crazy credit card stuff. They provide the network, fraud detection etc. Blame the lenders for the bad terms.
Nice article, but I felt it skipped over the most interestig part. What specifically is happening on the click fraud sites "click.mygeek.com, ppc.rolenews.com, feed.bizclick.com, and others"?

Kinda bummed that I'm stuck in a hotel room with nothing but my iPhone else I'd take a poke around myself.

Anyone else care to fill in the blanks?
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There's always lab explosions and alien/mystical rings.
thats what I am wondering, how is sending the actual click? does he have access to a PPC feed (from who?) or is he somehow getting the links for the link via javascript and for what ad networks ??
This is a serious question: is there ever an occasions when someone working on a real-world project should be implementing linked lists? I've no experience with C, but surely this stuff comes from libraries now?
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I've started Chrome with WebGL enabled, but nothing happens when I press the playbutton? How can I verify that WebGL is truly enabled, am I just not using the app correctly?
Look to nature surviving so well in Chernobyl?