skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some minorities should be eliminated. That's kind of the whole point of genetic engineering. Personally I'd be happy if the surface differences between humans were really just nothing more than cosmetics, rather than a non-negligible statistical correlate to other quite desirable/undesirable traits. I think the real danger of genetic engineering is humans creating an existential risk for themselves by doing it wrong, because maybe we're not smart enough right now to do the really cool stuff that goes well beyond simple, long-term projects like controlling who breeds with whom that we're already pretty good at with other lifeforms. Furthermore, having "minimum reliance on an external authority" would increase this risk, so long as humans as a species remain at the same general intelligence on the cross-species intelligence scale. It is a good thing that things such as nukes or highly contagious, highly deadly research viruses are entirely, maximally dependent on an authoritative process within each country that has them that you nor I have any influence over. It is a good thing high-energy physics experiments are restricted to the elite. Authority, and maximal reliance on it, aren't necessarily always bad. When humans become transhumans I'll likely think the average person should have far greater power--and therefore responsibility.

By population control, I'm not so much concerned about overpopulation being a problem as I am of people in general giving birth when they probably shouldn't. All things equal more life is better than no life--an example of unequal being no life better than a life filled with 30 seconds of torture then extinguished--so nested in that I prefer "better" life over "worse" life, which I'm purposefully leaving undefined in the specifics (partly because I'm not certain myself about whether certain traits are better, worse, or insignificant, and whether and how much that value changes depending on the number of people with such traits). The earth can support many more humans, it's a shame highly intelligent people aren't having more/any kids. And when the earth does reach its limit, neighboring planets and beyond will be able to solve that problem.
The Single Arity (or Why I Quit Email)
I up-voted your parent and would down vote you if I could, here is why

(a) Defense deals are not the domain of the home minster, their oversight is the responsibility of the defense ministry.

(b) There have been 2 home minsters in the last 10 years
Shivraj Patil
P Chidambaram

Shivraj Patil and his children, Shailesh Patil and Archana Patil have faced regular accusations of corruption. The reports of their corruption are in the domain of land acquisition and obtaining permits for business that they would not otherwise have likely received. This was largely done using their fathers name and listing their home address as the home ministers residence in New Delhi. But neither of them are involved in the business of arms.

Chidambaram has 1 son Karti Chidambaram, who likewise has benefited from his fathers association. Chief among which was accusations that he received 5% stake in Aircel as kickbacks for other approvals from his father. Quote from wikipedia "according to The Pioneer and India Today reports, documents show that approval to the foreign direct investment (FDI) proposal was indeed delayed by about 7 months by P Chidambaram.". This was during the time that Chidambaram held the position of Finance minister. It would be likely that Karti benefited later from his father holding the home portfolio in the same manner as Shivraj Patil's children.

(c) From your own admission in this response, your father was to only make recommendations for purchase of equipment which is vastly different from have the authority to make purchase, which is what you claim in the first. I take it from the 2 comments that he recommended their purchase. Your comments show poor form for claiming something that is clearly not true.

(d) Last but not the least, your father spoke about matters that he had no reason to be addressing outside of his work place. The exceptions could be his role as a whistle blower which is definitely not the case here.

As someone whose father worked as director of DRDO organization and had purchasing authority for research equipment for a lab that employed 100000+ employees and 1000+ scientists, I can assure you my father never even in passing mentioned any work related information outside of work for obvious security implications.

EDIT: edited for formatting.
I'm hopeful that driverless cars will be a boon to cities, particularly to the many second-tier American cities whose formerly vibrant cores have been decimated by the need to supply parking for suburban workers.

For the past sixty years, suburbanization has increased demand for parking and fed a feedback loop that's destroyed urban density. More people driving means greater demand for parking, which means buildings get torn down for lots and parking structures. Nodes of activity spread farther apart, so more people drive, and drive more often, further increasing demand for parking. The result is a country of paved-over cities with more parking spaces than people [0].

Driverless cars have the potential to break the feedback loop by decoupling destinations from nearby parking, shifting parking out of central cities and freeing land for all the things that make urban living great. Perhaps the feedback loop will start working in the other direction.

(I don't think driverless cars will lead to a redoubling of suburbanization, by the way, because I think big houses and wide open spaces are far down the list of reasons most suburbanites live in the suburbs.)

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/arts/design/taking-parking...
Tony Hsieh’s Zappos Gets It, Customer Service is King
Sorry, maybe my original post was not entirely clear. Let's take tapestry, for example. On dedicated hardware, the peak throughput in responses per second was 75,002. On ec2, it was 3,901 responses per second.

So, in responses per second, the throughput on ec2 was 5.2% that of dedicated hardware, or approximately 20 times less throughput. The use of the word slowdown was possibly a bad choice, as none of my response had to do with the actual latency or roundtrip time of any request.
I was wondering, how old are you?

At 24 years old I can answer most of the questions you asked, and I know exactly who to ask for advice on the one question I don't know the answer to.

My dad taught me the basics of home building/improvements. I can drywall like the best of them, look for studs, hang stuff without issues, know what type of anchors to use. I've built many a desk from 2 by 4's and plywood, built shelves and a lot of other things.

My friends were always playing and working on their cars, I learned more about cars from them than anyone else. I have rebuilt an engine, I have changed timing belts, oil pumps, water pumps, A/C systems, spark plugs, wires, changed timing on older cars, changed sensors, figured out why a car wasn't running properly. Even today I still have the ability to listen to a car and with almost 80% accuracy know what is wrong with it. I can hear when a car most likely needs an oil change, when a belt needs to be tightened (before it does the whole squealing thing), I can feel when an engine mount is due for a replacement, I know what a failing automatic transmission feels like, or a bad clutch...

Yes, these are all things you learn over time, but to imply that even a basic knowledge won't help, or a basic toolbox won't get you far is just flat out wrong. Not only does it give you the ability to fix things yourself, it is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself. It is extremely satisfying.

Being a weekend handyman/car mechanic? An absolute blast, would highly recommend it to anyone!
Everyone might customise something. Very few people customise everything.
Not that I don't agree that Switzerland loosing its finance industry would be a big blow for the country, but let's get some perspective: Banking is less than half the size of Switzerland's manufacturing industry in terms of income - in terms of workforce it's more like a third to a quarter. In international comparison, Switzerland's service industry isn't excessively large. I'd argue the country's economy would somehow survive it.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Switzerland#Internat...
Edge.js: run node.js & .NET code in-process
Experts say nobody knows. But Mr. Adee, who said he had long scorned environmentalists’ hand-wringing about such issues, said he was starting to wonder whether they had a point.

That's encouraging and frustrating at the same time. Encouraging to see that minds can change; discouraging to see another illustration that it so often requires being screwed over personally to change it.
Every day exotic new compounds are created, used in various products and disposed of by being burned or deposited in landfills with little or no safety testing when we know very well lots of substances are biologically active at a few parts per billion. This scares me much more than climate change.
Just another attempt of the (liberal, regrettably) media to morph the story in something that is not.

The incident name (by consensus) is not "Female activist is exposed to techies' hate" but "Grandstanding blogger doxxes fellow developer, falls on own sword." Shifting focus and sweeping inconvenient facts under the rug is not going to make them go away.

http://t.co/Be9d7ISHlu
There are many issues at play. Anyone who wants to discuss only a single one of them is going to think that someone else who wants to only discuss a different single one of them is "off-topic," "derailing," or "that's not important."
The description of work the author performed growing up in the article is a little more than just what a 'handyman' performs. Where I live most of this work would require (by law and for insurance) extensive permitting and professionals with accreditation's and licenses to perform the work.

I'm not saying the work couldn't be done by a handyman, just that with current codes there are many obstacles for a homeowner to perform their own home maintenance and improvements.
I think we need to call in the A team.. Art Bell.
Thanks!

I've had a bit of feedback regarding opening up the site and allowing community editing/submission automatically. While I definitely see the value in this approach, I personally believe that the top-down approach is better with regard to quality, consistency and ease of use. I don't want to start a debate on the topic, but lets just say I am happy with the way things are and prefer to keep everything under my control, at least at the moment.
Those two concepts aren't as separate as you want them to be. At the end of the day you're still suggesting a link between a mode of thinking and a mode of dress - while at the same time objecting to that link being drawn for yourself.

You can't make a post complaining about people stereotyping engineers, while stereotyping "business types" in the same sentence.
This is something to aspire to (for me). I rely on a core subset of vim commands far too often, and need to expand my vim vocabulary. It's a matter of investment in one of my most important tools. Unfortunately I'll probably need to do it a few times so it sticks, or review everything but only focus on integrating into my daily routine a subset of that each time so there's a chance it sticks.
Korean Words for TOPIK Beginner 06
Finding your passion....is possible
How expensive is the painting? Does your male friend have a stud finder or know common building measurements to locate a stud? If there's no stud did he buy the right wall anchor to support the weight? I'm saying most of this in jest, but sometimes simple jobs are anything but.
What, you mean, unless you're doing something useful like trying to write a web app?
God dammit. On my Apps accounts it's still try or convert. Thinking it's probably a good time to switch.

Good thing it's a long weekend - going to backup and migrate a couple of my smaller domains over to Outlook...
> Feminists do not want you to be maimed or killed in industrial accidents, or toil in coal mines while we do cushy secretarial work and various yarn-themed activities. The fact that women have long been shut out of dangerous industrial jobs (by men, by the way) is part of patriarchy.

> Feminists do not want you to be drafted and then die in a war while we stay home and iron stuff. The idea that women are too weak to fight or too delicate to function in a military setting is part of patriarchy.

Sounds cool. Look at your local voluntary fire brigade or so and tell me how many men volunteered to join and how many women volunteered to join. Even better, tell me when you joined said fire brigade. We can discuss quotas in boards of directors when we establish enforced quotas in said fire brigades.
Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It
Nothing inspires confidence like a filesystem with a 0.61 version number.
An Evening with the United Kingdom's CTO
You don't need to be a member of the tech community to see that. All you need to do is read the comments at any of the sites listed in the article. Yes, that includes HN.
When I was in college I used to work on my own cars, these days however I am time poor and money rich. For me it has made more sense to go out and buy a brand new car that I can drop off at the dealership for warranty work or anything along those lines, rather than spending 4 - 5 hours dealing with whatever issue has cropped up.

It's a something you have to weigh off, and decide yourself. I'd rather pay someone to work on my car now and be able to spend that time working on projects and making money than work on my car and spend those hours on that (although I do miss it tremendously, that's what getting a project car is for though ;-)).
Fred Wilson says: The first is the "slog it out" scenario. This one is in many ways the most painful. It means that there is a business that can be built, but it won't be one that makes the VCs much money and because it takes so much time and money to "slog it out", it doesn't make the entrepreneur much money either.

This, in a nutshell, explains the problem with uniformly applying the VC model to all tech startups. Some tech startups -- often the ones involving creation of substantive new technology with deep intrinsic value -- require many years of slogging. There's nothing wrong with startups like that as long as there is a way to fund them to completion. But how to do that?

The problem is that the standard VC model doesn't really fit well for these startups, because the VCs by necessity have fixed, relatively short time horizons.

The VC-funded startups that do work well despite involving slogging and deep innovation generally seem to hit some vein of gold along the way -- e.g., Google "discovering" the psychological fact that consumer click-through rates are vastly higher for search ads than for other online ads, despite initially targeting enterprise search sales. This "gold strike" propels these companies to very rapid, hockey-stick growth that funds the vast investment required to build the new technology. But they seem a priori unpredictable, which is troubling if you're looking for a repeatable model of success.

At ITA Software we "slogged it out" from ~1997 to 2010 and created $700M of value for shareholders; in contrast to the typical scenario Fred describes, it did very well for both entrepreneurs and the VCs (as well as for many of the employees). But we'd likely have exhausted the patience of our VCs had we raised money in 1997 rather than in 2006, and come to a rather different end. (We actually did look into raising from VCs circa 2000, but the terms offered were so bad we declined.)

Likewise, imagine trying to make what ultimately became Siri with a VC partner. SRI spent tens of millions of dollars on that project over a very long period of time. (I remember seeing a talk on it at AAAI in 2007, at which point it was already pretty mature, and had cost -- if I recall correctly -- $40M, but was still years away from being acquired by Apple.)

To be clear: I'm not saying the VC model is bad; I'm just saying it's not universally applicable. And I honestly don't know what to tell entrepreneurs who want to create companies that don't fit the model well, unless they are already rich enough to self-fund, in which case I ask if I can invest. :)
We always fall into the "well there's one powerful interest group that wants this to not come out" Guess what? There are multiple powerful ($billion industries + government) desperate to get to the answer. For that reason I would worry more in this case that we'll try and find a scape goat and not do the deep dive than be the victim of some pesticide cover up.
JVM can use many cores at the same time node/rails only use one core. The test is totally nonsense.

You should show us the cpu usage. If you had done so, you would have found how absurd the mistake you had make.
Well, it all started with a major earthquake + tsunami + nuclear disaster ... depressing from the start.
That statement also has no supporting evidence. So no, it's not worth noting.

Specifically the statement says one kind of pesticide "could be" an important "contributing factor". It's no smoking gun.
Also what about the kids that would bebefit from vocational training, but because they receive none are forced to take minimum wage jobs after high school, or after dropping out of college.

Also i graduated with honors from a state university, and only wish i could earn the type of income those in vocational jobs do.
This is now my Terrifying Alternate Future of the Week.
The death of peak oil
Agreed. Owning a car, let alone two or more for a family, is currently very difficult or prohibitively expensive in an urban setting. If you can have the same access as owning, but without the hassle, this removes a barrier for many people. In fact, car-sharing would likely have higher availability and therefore lower wait time in densely populated areas, in some ways increasing your "travel freedom" compared to an exurb.
Can anyone tell me if a driverless car hits and injures someone and it is the fault of the driverless car. Who is really at fault? Does the victim sue the driver, the software writer, both.

I can see data logging and pervasive monitoring will be needed in order to prove who was at fault, or what exactly happened.

In anyway I see somewhat of a legal obstacle more than a technical at this point.

EDIT: clarification, removed "hits me" reworded for clarity.
We tried using it in the previous startup I worked with.

It was pretty hard to make everyone use it and soon we ended up installing redmine for issue tracking.
I had to use this command:

arch -i386 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python main.py

Someone should update Pyglet... Why does it need QuickTime?
What has a calculator to do with a home computer from the 80s?
Hi Feng,

Great work! I know it's quite complicated, but how are the plans for https support coming along?

Kudos to you and Peter on a great library!
Why I cancelled my conference
Yeah I could see his point but saw his analogy break down. It was probably better to say "You can have one shot a night and live a long time but if you have one shot on the hour....."
Yes, that's the one. It's the project the book Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg (2008) is based on. It's a shame the project folded right around the time of its 1.0 release -- it looks really promising, but definitely not there yet. So I was surprised to see Joe Armstrong uses it.
> So what happens with the other two-thirds? ... Sometimes an entrepreneur will take an early exit. ...That's maybe 10% of the total outcomes. So at least 50% of the outcomes are not a win for the VC or the entrepreneur

In the past, VCs used to say about the portfolio: "3 go north, 3 go south, and 4 turn into the living dead."

I think Fred is saying that 3 go north, 5 go south, 1 turns into the living dead, and then there's another that we just will agree to ignore.
How many countries have you visited in one day?
Faille critique sur BIND9 via les expressions régulières
Il a été révélé qu'une expression régulière malveillante peut provoquer un déni de service d'un serveur BIND sur les systèmes Unix et Linux. D'autres programmes utilisant libdns de BIND sont aussi potentiellement vulnérables à cette faille.
Public Sees a Future Full of Promise and Peril [Pew]
ZFS needs no fsck. Period.

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6071-No,-ZFS-really-doesnt-...
Smart move. And this fills a big need in the Android world. As far as I know, there's nothing quite like this on the Play store at the moment. I had thought about building this type of app myself but realized I'd probably never recoup the costs, since a significant amount of time and effort would be required to build a really good text editor tailored specifically to mobile.
point (D) mentioned by you is the exact reason, I first doubted him. This is not something someone of that senior level usually does, nor does any of his family members do the same.
"<" on strings is lexographic.
Yet we don't even give a lot of these people the opportunity to be trained and find their niche, if they might be best at working with their hands.
>> Perhaps "quirks" isn't the right word for things that are idiosyncratic but legal either by standard or de facto convention.

>I still don't know what you mean, can you please say what concretely in the spec you are referring to?

You're using a subset of JS as an IR, which is something the language was never designed for and not inherently good at. To make that performant you have to hack in things like manual memory management and use type coercions to game existing engine behavior. To get full performance you need significant engine changes including a mode switch, validation step, and special purpose compiler. And of course, the JS as IR doesn't really qualify as human readable in any meaningful sense.

And I happily admit that type coercions and similar tricks are a very clever way to structure your IR while simultaneously maintaining compatibility and improving performance in existing JS engines. However, in doing so you're already relying heavily on unspecced implementation details of existing engines.

So, my point is that it's a hack... a really brilliant hack that might actually be the best path forward for a universal IR on the Web. But it's still a hack, and it brings with it some serious pain points that still need to be resolved.
Why are all of you commenting out of complete ignorance and near absolute lack of domain knowledge? Taking sides and making accusations from this frame of reference is just plain wrong.

It's like watching a bunch of bee-keepers engage in a heated debate about a memory leak in your iOS app after reading an article and a Wikipedia page --not one of them being a programmer.

I'd love to hear from bee biologists or someone otherwise scientifically qualified in the domain. Everything else is just noise.

As an aside, I pass through Bakersfield a few times a year on our way to one of our camping destinations. It's interesting to learn that all those beehives are rented and trucked in.
I think your blog looks really nice, has some nice transitions. It's good to look at but I couldn't read more than a paragraph without getting distracted. I would put the text on a solid background, having the stuff moving behind text while reading it breaks my concentration.