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The problem with eugenics is that it necessitates a central authority over the human genome. No unified standard will fit all people, and human rights and reproductive freedom must be pushed aside in order to accomplish such a goal. This is ignoring the racism, social Darwinism and genocide most people associate with eugenics.

However, the distributed method, where individuals choose to have children with people whose hereditary lines they believe should continue into the future, has been going on successfully for millions of years.

The best I could support would be more information and control. Educate people about genes, inform them which genes they possess, and watch them use that information to their benefit. Sort of like people with Huntington's disease often voluntarily refuse to reproduce, due to the likelihood of their children having it too.
I dunno, I've had some pretty epic hack sessions in my life, but none of them even compare to when I get sucked into a video game.

Diablo 3 came out last week, and I literally had stretches where I didn't even go to the bathroom for 12+ hours. I got severely dehydrated when Mass Effect 3 came out to the point that the effects lingered for a couple of days.

That sort of complete absorption has never come to me while hacking. I might forego sleep, but I've never forgone basic bodily functions while programming, whereas I find it dangerously easy to get into that mode with games.
How a procrastinator faces a todo list: you read the first item, realize that its a hard one and you should game for a little while so your subconscious can work on the problem and generate creativity.

(But I always end up realizing that conscious effort/thinking about the damn task gives better results).
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Social media works for personalities, not businesses, as your own experience confirms.

So what would be the right approach in that case?
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I'd say Backbone is a library. Ember is more of a framework.

For example, create 100 todos in their demo app, then check the select all button. Notice the instance response. This is because Ember consolidate actions and executes them once at the end of the event loop. This is not possible in Backbone without basically reimplementing that functionality.

I believe this is what they mean by "ambitious," because it's designed around issues that will arise in an ambitious Backbone project.

Backbone:Sinatra as Ember:Rails for a rough analogy.
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Slightly off topic, but looks like toemetoch has tripped one of the hellban filters, isn't a spammer, and has no contact info in his profile. Might want to sort that out if you're reading this toemetoch!
Your bandwidth delay product will be astronomical.
What I find interesting about Facebook pages is the brutal honesty that consumers can sometimes share (as the brand watches frantically and tries to do damage control on comments). It's like the opposite of smart advertising: giving every prospective customer an easy place to go see what people really think. For example some new diet beverages set up pages, and after reading enough comments about how horrible the drinks tasted I never needed to buy even one to try myself.
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Technically, there is already an IP address outside the solar system... I guess that's InterStellar Internet?
# nmap -v -v -Pn -O -sV --version-all -p 1-65535 -oA output 192.168.0.1

The above would be great. All 65535 ports is probably overkill. But if its your device and you have the time why not? Rinse and repeat with UDP if you are feeling especially charitable.
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Bunch of first class assholes in here. Guy loses his friend at an unnatural age from a disease that is fantastically mitigated through eating well and regular exercise. Then he posts a warning to people saying don't be consumed with something that lends itself to eating poorly and being sedentary. So everyone gets up in his grill that he dared imply that an overweight unhealthy 32 year old probably should be doing something else with his time than sitting 18 hours per day at a computer.

Look, when you're young, exercise is optional. Sedentary lifestyle will not kill you when you're 25. At 30 though, the worst offenders will start dropping off. More at 40 and then downhill from there.

God forbid this guy try to make something positive from his friend's death by reminding people of this simple fact.
It's not simply a matter of checking an option unfortunately, but you can still get Pageant to load keys at startup by creating a shortcut to it in Programs -> Startup:

http://jameschens.com/blog/2010/05/24/starting-pageant-durin...
Can you elaborate why Redis has supplanted Memcached? Is it because Redis occupies a space in between Memcached and MemcacheDB? (in the sense of Redis can be both in-memory and/or persisted on disk?)

(Not that I care about starting the holy war of X vs Y, just out of curiosity why)

You have a point regarding your last statement. Perhaps I've been here far too long to notice more of the 10% and less on the 90% :)

... which is true ... last I read someone is making almost $1M revenue developing Windows desktop app in 2012 and another company is making $60k/monthly revenue developing BB apps using in-apps Ads. I think I'm going to sign-off on HN and go to the other side... :D :D :D
Essentially what you're saying is that you understand it; therefore it's simple to understand.

Obviously GitHub believe there are people who will benefit from using Git who can't be bothered understanding setting up ssh.

Seems reasonable to me.
There's an app for jailbroken iphones that does something along these lines, basically a self-destruct button that would try to wipe everything if it was ever activated. Can't remember the name of it though, unfortunately.
Sure, and knowledge is more important then intelligence, I suppose... Subtracting data from algorithms makes no sense; while I understand the economic relationship that's being drawn to data, without intelligence, a brain is just a dumping ground for useless weight.
What's the problem?

Have you reported it on the nmap-dev mailing list with packet dumps?
No. I think what he is saying is that they will extract the data anyway. Whether they are allowed to or not. If it's that simple they will do it. Better be safe than sorry.
You shouldn't compare the benefits of getting exercise from rock climbing to the chances of dying from it. The choice isn't rock climb or be totally sedentary. You can get exercise in ways where you can't fall and die. What you should compare is the marginal benefit of the additional exercise you end up doing because you enjoy rock climbing more than the next best activity. And, then compare that to the death rate.
I think you're right and I guess that's what I'm beginning to realize. I just kind of assumed that in that case... Git is the wrong tool for their job. If you don't need the "power of Git" (I swear, I'm not in love with Git), then use Dropbox or SVN or something simpler. Seems easier than fighting with keys, and then fighting with git's distributed nature and then fighting with all of the complexities of merging and conflicts.

Haha, maybe another of way of putting things from my perspective, I found keys to be the least of my concerns once I got into projects that really used Git and I have a hard time seeing people be successful with Git if the keygen steps throws them off.

I hope that explains things from a different perspective :)
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Ignore the Scribd link; no idea why that was provide when I have added the direct link to the PDF.
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First thing you can do is to
1. Contact few bioinformatics professor/researcher from your university (If your university has a bioinformatics dept) or other universities and ask what are the problems nagging them for a long time. You will have an idea.

You can also contact industries (23andme).
For more info go to http://bionet.awardspace.info/company.html and see what bioinformatics companies do and what interests you.

2. In healthcare it is just an open field.
You can take open data from data.gov and analyze and if you can develop an algorithm which can predict the likelihood of hospitalization post surgery in a patient then insurance companies will be drooling over that.
Some have questioned whether it was gaming that killed him, obviously playing video games won't give you a heart attack. However sitting in one place for hours on end could give you one (or a stroke). Playing games, coding, flying, in all those cases you should be getting up every now and then.
The curve isn't that big, and once you give it a try you won't go back. I never did. ;)
Nobody's specified the browser where CSS3 animations look bad yet. I'm not a web developer, but I use Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to varying degrees, and I don't see single-browser breakage going on.
There are two types of people.

When seeing other people who have problems and difficulties - one group only feels righteous indignation; while another group sees a business opportunity.
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As a gamer myself, please understand that I don't have anything against gaming in general. However, I can think of an objective way in which producing "useful things to society" is better than gaming, which is that if everyone chose to spend all their time gaming, we would die from lack of basic necessities such as food, water, sanitation, etc. This would, of course, cut short the amount of gaming we could all do.

So, obviously, we have no choice but for some people contribute to society. Is there a fair way to decide who has to contribute, and who is allowed to opt out and play video games all day?

On an entirely different note, gaming probably causes a very significant number of deaths, due to its sedentary nature. Being sedentary is perhaps more dangerous than smoking: http://www.naturalnews.com/001547.html .
They need to tilt the iPhone holder more towards the user, being flat against the guitar face seems like a horrible viewing angle to me.
I think this does the dead man a disservice. He was unhealthy, had unhealthy habits, and he played video games because it was easier to do that than other leisure activities. If he were still alive to be offended, would you have said he played too many games, or perhaps that he didn't exercise enough?

There are people who have real, legitimate behavioral addictions to things. There are sex addicts, video game addicts, gambling addicts, even fitness addicts. However, the great majority of people are unhealthy for a large number of subtle and difficult to address reasons. If you've ever known someone who's struggled with their weight, or their general health, you shouldn't be as ignorantly reductionist as the person who posted this.

Video games (almost certainly) didn't kill, or even harm, your friend. His poor health killed him, and playing video games gave him a way to enjoy his free time. I understand the idea that endemic boredom would have saved him, but I think that is the result of a fundamental misunderstanding about motivation.

Also - if he didn't play video games, but was a voracious reader, would you have posted, "Please don't let reading consume your life?" "Writing?" "Programming?" Etc.
All hail the RFC. For nostalgia's sake, I took a moment to read RFC 1: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1
Well this is probably become the standard in the USA within a few years.

Also I could imagine the rise of planted phones - take a drug dealer's prepaid phone and plant it in your car if they want to frame you and make your life hell even if a conviction is eventually overturned.
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That's a good point. The health-risks of overwork seem to match well those of having too much 'fun'.

My guess is that the hidden psychological motivation is the same: to avoid addressing personal problems.

Exercise can help but even there, it depends. If you keep moving your body around forcefully for extended periods you risk heart disease and stroke, e.g. dancing plague of 1518.
Make sure your sdcard is wiped too. Test this scenario. Under Android the wipe external storage sometimes does not work.
I'm not a libertarian, but I do find laws to be applied arbitrarily at times. For instance, I live in a place where sharpies are banned in public areas. Local police use anti-vandalism as an excuse to stop and search anyone who looks like they are under the age of 20.
I've had conversations on similar aspects to this many times. There are many psychological issues involved but the highlights are:

1. People eat for many reasons, sustenance being only one. People eat for enjoyment, because they're happy, because they're sad, to deal with stress, as a substitute for something else arguably more destructive and so on. The sooner you can adjust your mental view to treating food as nothing more than fuel, the better off you'll be;

2. American cities with their car addictions make it incredibly easy to lead a sedentary existence. Biking is a somewhat hazardous option that's not always realistic. The ideal exercise (in times of reward-for-effort) is probably walking. I live 7 minutes from work and the absolute minimum steps I could take in a day is probably 5000, maybe 6000 (I have a pedometer). 8000 is more common, which is still a bit low (10,000 is recommended). Live 10-15 minutes from work and walk to and from work every day and you massively better off;

3. People treat diets and, to a lesser extent, exercise regimes as a transitory effort to get back to some goal weight or fitness level, at which point they seek to return to the previous behaviour. This is a mistake. You're getting older. Your metabolism is, all other things being equal, slowing down (it requires more effort to keep it up at any rate). You should view a dietary change (in particular) as a lifestyle change, not a temporary adjustment;

4. Psychological addiction may not be as "obvious" as physiological addiction but its effects can be very real.

I'm sorry for your loss. It may sound callous but ultimately we are each responsible for our own well-being. If someone chose to die that way, it's sad but there's not much you could do. You have to choose to be helped.
Being a B student bringing me down...
Hey

As the title suggests, being a B student throughout university has really been killing my confidence. I think to myself, if I can't do school right, how can I ever do a startup? Or even contribute at a successful company? I remember while reading Steve Jobs' biography his insistence on keeping B players out... And for good reason I figure.

My history is as such: deemed "smart" in high school, I decided to do engineering, not really knowing what it was. At least I've come to very much like it over the years. My first year completely took me by surprise, I didn't really try (that oh-so-useless self excuse) and ended up with Bs. Second year came around, and I really did start trying, but still, same result... Third year, same thing. Due to my marks I was never able to get good summer research opportunities (why not choose the A students?) which I feel is really closing doors for grad school for me.

But I don't even care so much about that as it really drains on me mentally. I need to drastically reframe this somehow, and come up with a plan of action to get myself going. This summer I'm trying to work on a side project at least, but I'm also tied up between trying to pre-study for other courses I could take in my last year to try and raise my grades. I honestly can't decide what the right course of action might be.

Yeah there's kids who don't get to go to college and kids who are starving and all that... But if anyone were to try and give me some other perspective I'd be very appreciative.

Cheers
I didn't know that, thanks for pointing it out. I suppose it's an important feature (there would be a lot of drunk people wiping their phones otherwise). At least I can now avoid an awkward situation if I am ever arrested :)
Direct customers (e.g. not the Mac App Store) can upgrade for $75. Recent purchasers (via the direct channel and after April 10, 2012) can get it for free. In addition, every one can get it for $50 (half-off) for the first 24 hours, which is a great tactic if you want to elicit impulse buys through a channel that doesn't support refunds—I'm looking at you Mac App Store.
disclaimer: they said this jokingly
The analysis of the DMCA Safe Harbor status in this article is incorrect. Subsection (a) -- "Transitory Digital Network Communications" -- is just one of four distinct ways in which a service provider can qualify for Safe Harbor status. (The author is correct only in that it doesn't apply to Pinterest.) Of the three others, the most relevant for Pinterest is subsection (c), "Information Residing on Systems or Networks At Direction of Users".

In any case, links are not copyrightable works, so the fact that Pinterest is modifying them to alter or remove affiliate tags is most likely irrelevant.

Read the whole thing for details: https://images.chillingeffects.org/512.html
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I own Rocksmith and I can say it's definitely good. The game started me playing real songs right away. The difference is that it limits what you play as well as the speed. As you progress, you get to play more and more of the song. There are some really fun mini-games as well.

The game with guitar USB adapter runs for about $70, while I got my electric guitar for around $100. Of course, you need an Xbox 360 or PS3 and that runs from $99 - $299.
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The demo shows PHP and the feature list mentions "Improved Ruby," although I am not sure what that means. It's been years since I used Coda and I wasn't doing a lot of hacking back then.
Umm... the US Bureau of Justice isn't the name of a federal agency. This dump is actually from the Bureau of Justice Statistics[0].

[0]http://news.yahoo.com/computer-hackers-access-u-justice-depa...
I don't understand how the author can separate data from algorithms.

He advocates stock piling data but apparently not doing anything intelligent with it?

I really have a hard time viewing this as a credible source on algorithms or data.
> Depending on who you ask, 0.2-0.4% of the population is considered deaf. That's not a very big potential market.

It's definitely not a very big potential market, but it's a substantial sector of the population that's very, very underserved. I think that there's a lot of potential to make a decent chunk of money while doing a lot of good. I've been thinking a lot for the past year or two about technology for the blind (both in terms of assistance devices and games) and I've come to the same conclusion there, largely.
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I would go further: Any intellectual property funded with taxpayer money should be put in the public domain.
I didn't see Appirater in the link nor did a search on website reveal anything. I am concerned that my users may feel requesting a review in the App Store after 10 uses and/or 10 days to be unethical, but I cannot figure out what reasons they may have for doing so. Do you have any reasons this may be unethical?
So, if you look at the numbers, the risk of death from climbing is very, very low. Really, it's extremely low. You'd have to go on two outings a week for 3,200 years for the probability of your death to have an expected value of 1.0. Or, if you stick to top ropes, a lot longer than that.

Compared to how much you can benefit from the exercise, the risk of falling and dying is really insignificant, to the point that I don't think it's worth debating between climbing and any other common form of exercise.

[EDIT]: Fix an incorrectly worded statement about expected value.
I've used ember for a little bit. DS is the root namespace of ember-data (https://github.com/emberjs/data), which if you look at the github is pretty clearly still in Alpha and not recommended for production use. I've asked on IRC but haven't been able to get a straight answer out of anyone as to whether ember-data is ready for mass usage or not...

edit: kept trying on IRC and got an answer. Basically Tom Dale said that if you're using rails and ember you should be using ember-data now - should also be using Active Model Serializers gem too.
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Mediawiki is by far the most accurate representation. Wikipedia is on the top of most searches, and targets most demographics.
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I'm sure you'd love to still be programming in assembly, but some of us prefer to spend our time actually, you know, not mucking around with stuff that is an utter waste of our time.
everything in tech is an iteration of something that has come before. still new technologies can be revolutionary..

before the internet we already has arpanet, tcp/ip, newsgroups, telnet. there is nothing revolutionary about the internet? or is there?
Already being done in at least one important domain: http://fold.it/portal/
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Most lawyers disagree - you can, and it is. In fact, even converting from cassette to CD is.

https://w2.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php

Although the legal basis is not completely settled, many lawyers believe that the following (and many other uses) are also fair uses:

Space-shifting or format-shifting - that is, taking content you own in one format and putting it into another format, for personal, non-commercial use. For instance, "ripping" an audio CD (that is, making an MP3-format version of an audio CD that you already own) is considered fair use by many lawyers, based on the 1984 Betamax decision and the 1999 Rio MP3 player decision (RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia, 180 F. 3d 1072, 1079, 9th Circ. 1999.)
Making a personal back-up copy of content you own - for instance, burning a copy of an audio CD you own.

If you own it, you can "pirate" it all day long. If I have a legitimate windows product key, it doesn't matter if the ISO comes from the pirate bay, microsoft, or usenet. I have a license, and format/distribution medium isn't relevant.
The thing with rock climbing is that it is not just "excercise". It's a hobby, it's fun for those of us that do it. (And if it isn't fun, why are you doing it?). I don't climb to stay fit, I climb because I enjoy it, because it is a challenge. I have a fear of heights, so I get a huge adrenaline rush when climbing. There is nothing like abusing your fears to produce thrill ;)
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The ability to answer calls within your app. You can build call-aware mobile apps that know who's calling, and present relevant information to the user.

Cleverly, I've got a prototype app that does just that with the Twilio Client for iOS - I don't think the Twilio part was more than 10 lines of code :)
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A 'gym' addiction is less likely to destroy your life. It's rare for people to go on 36 hour gym binges.

I'm sure a few people die rock climbing, but it's mostly going to be people who get confident, and put themselves in positions where a mistake (or even bad luck) is fatal.
If you are familiar with this device. Do you know where to get a list of devices that can be read out with it?