skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lovely article, but it would be easier to follow the tutorial if you provided the assets (images etc.) along the way. I realise that there is a full zip halfway through (and further down), but in the beginning of the article it's missing.
Why is it extremely disturbing?

Researchers can take human cancerous (cells) and transplant them into an animal to study. So the animal has human cancerous cells growing on it.

The human DNA doesn't change the animal, it grows on top of it.

See: http://emice.nci.nih.gov/aam/mouse/transplantation-mouse-mod...
It's available for me, and I'm not signed in.
> Rebase is not a lie, it is the developer explicitly putting commits in this order.

See my comment on the post - rebasing absolutely is a lie. Sometimes it's a good idea to lie; sometimes the lie is only the tiniest of fibs. But it's always a lie.
I'm not sure how your cond example is related to vector syntax. The decision to use (partition 2 ...) style pairs, rather than extra brackets is orthogonal.

The more important point of literal syntax for composites other than lists is the fact that they are resolved at read time. This means you don't need a macro to have grouping. With (some-macro ((f x) (g y))), you need to force expansion inside the parens. Quoting (some-function '((f x) (g x))) requires forcing evaluation in your function. You could use (vector (f x) (g x)), but now that means some-function gets a vector argument and some-macro would get a list argument with first element 'vector. In Clojure, (some-function-or-macro [(f x) (g y)]) both have a vector as an argument because of the read-time behavior of data structure literals. Huge win in my book.
There is such a preponderance of FUD about how livestock are cared for that it boggles the mind. People that have never once talked to a farmer or rancher have these huge opinions about how food "should" be produced based on some bullshit they saw in an article or some agitprop documentary.

In this instance the inference is that livestock are just fed mountains of antibiotics indiscriminately. Are you kidding me? Why would anyone do that? While not as expensive as meds for humans, veterinary medications are not cheap and no operator is going to waste money treating a whole herd unless it is absolutely necessary.

Furthermore, take some time to read up on the FDA website about how livestock production is regulated. It is far from the free for all that is so frequently represented.

If you are interested in a very educated and thorough perspective on how livestock are cared for at a feedyard, check out this blog by a Dartmouth educated operator in Nebraska:
http://feedyardfoodie.wordpress.com/

On a semi-related note, can you name the product that was responsible for the last three E. coli outbreaks here in the States?
Today CA votes on a fix for retroactive taxes on small business owners
I have no control.

There are angels who brutalize me. Fuck em. I don't fight. I go least resistence. I go limp. Degrees of freedom are an illusion. My life is very constrained. Why do you think people do prostition?

We follow the water channel of our lives and we probably will encounter forces that push us back.

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It would be dreadful to have a huge ball and chain! God is just, though... not sure what to make of that.

I am right where God put me. He could prod.

Yeah, it's bizarre speculating on the nature of my past jobs. Contrived. Red Team?

Some people try to eliminate work. The rulers in India pride themselves on making jobs. Not that it matters, but lots of jobs don't matter.
Animals, healthy ones, are able to produce enormous defensive mechanisms to counter many illnesses.
Nuff said.
I know this is totally off topic, but why does File Expert need to read my contacts? Would be better if Android was able to install apps while selectively denying certain permissions. Another option is to prompt, e.g. "send path.com your address book [yes|no]?"
I always read "I could care less" as "I could care less ... but that would require expending actual effort and no."

Then again, I'm not a knee-jerking grammarian prescriptivist.
So how many weeks after a major bombing would it become OK to do that?
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Just gave it pi squared over 6 (1.6449340668482264), which is the sum to infinity of 1/n-squared, and it identified it as zeta(2) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_function). Impressive.
Then shouldn't that be the case for _every_ TLD? Then surely we shouldn't go on a TLD by TLD basis, when we should 'petition' Google for revising their country bias per TLD.

Although, doesn't .de domains appear on Google.com given the right search (e.g. 'Der Spiegel')?
https://bitmessage.org/
I've heard that the vast majority of antibiotics that animals are fed are not of a type that has ever been approved for humans.
I've worked on too many projects where I've received a spec and concluded that only a room full of people arguing without reaching agreement could have produced something so bad.
Doxing Me1000 is incredibly uncool.
RAD tools always serve a limited goal - which causes the inflexibility. When your goal changes you will be stuck with this tool and RAD turns into SAD.
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Recognizing numbers
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Definitely cool, even though it's overloaded at the moment.

The HP-48 series calculators and their successors have commands to convert from floating point to the approximately equivalent rationals or fraction of pi, but not exponentials or radicals or anything else like that. The tolerance for the approximation is determined by how many digits of the floating point number the calculator is set to display, so if you know the denominator is supposed to be small, you can force the calculator to produce the right answer even if you have relatively few decimal digits to work with or if there's a lot of rounding error.
I've heard stories of employers using Google, but seems to me any company that did that would be opening itself up to a bunch of lawsuits. There are plenty of things you're not allowed to ask about at interviews because they are potentially discriminatory (for instance, asking candidates - particularly women - if they plan to have children), but you could potentially discover this information from a Google search.
Python support! Thank you Chris. Will certainly give it a shot.
I disagree that Numbers are relatively uninteresting. In fact, I think any language designer would tell you that numerics are one of the hardest areas to get right. It's also the area where Clojure is weakest in terms of interop, I'd say. ClojureScript, for example, only has host Numbers (ie double-precision floating-point)

The main thing that Clojure does in terms of being designed for interop is to require the use of host values/objects. There are no wrapper/proxy/delegate/whatever objects. This has big implications. It (unfortunately) means that there is behavior you simply can't have in core, such as reflection or continuations. That's a big part of being interop friendly: Intentionally specifying fewer things. If you have very strict rules for how something like strings behave, then you might wind up in a situation where you need to create a ClojureString class or something like that.

Additionally, the '. (dot) special form is like a giant "INTEROP HERE" sign, which is extremely useful when porting code from CLJ to CLJS. You can literally grep your source for /\./ and find platform specific code.
" That is a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. " - Charlie Munger ( http://ycombinator.com/munger.html )
"She made a bad choice."

Jesus. No, this interested student made what, to any scientist in the history of the world, would have to be considered a good choice - mix some stuff and see what happens, outdoors and well away from anybody.

This is the new American culture of fear. It's what will ruin America - is already doing so.
Actually, a lot of those "people" are, at least in my social circle, actual veterinary doctors and agriculture technicians. As for large-scale farmers, this is a debate against their economic interest, boo-hoo. And there's economic reasons for feeding livestock antibiotics, and at least in legislations I know anything about it's only illegal for "organic" farming (though it does require veterinary supervision — but it doesn't have to be for health reasons unless it's "organic").

And if you really want to speak about regulations in US, an appropriate page is one Google away:
http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforc...

Notice the wording about "voluntary", and it's 2012. It was actually developed due to that "FUD" you're writing about. Note "Increase production by making the animal gain weight faster and by improving the animal’s ability to convert the food it eats (improved feed efficiency)."
Yes, if anything the fact that she brought the chemicals from home makes the case even less serious - chemicals brought from home aren't all that likely to be dangerous, whereas chemistry labs can have some unpleasant chemicals in them.
I made gun cotton as part of a 6th year Chemistry project (this is Scotland where we had strange exams) - I was making a variety of early plastics and we had a lab and access to the chemicals store with hardly any supervision.

When the Head of Chemistry found out he called me an idiot, got me to go to the groundsmans store and get a spade and go and bury the gun cotton somewhere.

Then there was the time I wasn't paying attention when I went to get some sulphuric acid from the store and was doing something and wondering "why is this acid viscous and why are things getting so hot?".

Probably wise that I didn't do Chemistry at University.
My understanding of jury nullification is that it applies to a different scenario, typically that of when the jurors share the sentiment that the law the defendant is accused of violating is unjust (or is being unjustly applied). I don't feel like looking up the exact phrasing of the laws pertaining to "possession/discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device" in florida, but I would guess they mention intent, or culpability [1]. So unless it comes to light that she was aware the chemical mixture she used would create an explosion, I think the charges will be dismissed or she will be acquitted by jury, without having to apply jury nullification.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpability
What an unfortunate name to have in this field!

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And for Pete's sake, I do note that I agree with her wholeheartedly on the substance. It's just the name that struck me out of left field ;-)
80% of antibiotics produced in the US are used in agriculture.

30 billion pounds just last year. That's half a billion cubic feet, or a pile about 800 feet high. And while the more or less official definition of "mountain" is 1,000 feet, I don't think it provides much solace that it takes 2 years instead of 1 for America's livestock to consume a literal mountain of antibiotics.
What's different about the EU flavour? There's nothing obviously different about the cookie options.
Ask HN: Are you still using a CV?
last time I applied to a job I used linkedin as my resume. Are you still using a CV or you are now using new info (github, stackoverflow, etc...)?
I guess the word "lie" is too negative word to be used here. It's as much or less a lie as not including all the different revisions of the code written before the final version.

As you said, sometimes it's a good idea to refactor the history, or not comment on algorithms that was not chosen for the problem at hand. But there are times when that information might have some value.
If you had a better idea you should have started with it in the first place.

It should work equally well as a creativity trigger, and if nobody comes up with something different you still end up with a choice that's not so bad.
"Designing for mass manufacturing is essentially impossible to learn without actually building several products."

I'm sure that is true. Possibly because the people with experience of this come from a different community (established consumer electronics) than some of the new people coming onto hardware via the startup scene.

Bunnie Huang recently wrote a series of detailed blog posts about how to take prototypes to manufacturing in China. There is a lot of hard-won knowledge in them.

Part 1: The Quotation (or, How to Make a BOM)
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2812

Part 2: On Design for Manufacturing
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2831

Part 3: Industrial Design for Startups
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2850

Part 4: Picking (and Maintaining) a Partner
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2911
Because your hand-waving and appeals to authority are so much more relevant?
I'd recommend the screencast to anyone interested in frontend dev. Of high quality and very informative, taken at a good pace, well worth the $12.
Hey, so speaking as someone who has tried and failed to get support from Google in the past, can you tell me the right way to complain to Google about such things?

(Who to email, which webpage I submit the request at, or whatever the official process is)

I'm asking here because what you said sounds great, but unfortunately Googling for "google gpl request" and the like didn't turn up anything.
> The ones who feel shame would take the Hippogrammer Oath. Those who revel in manipulating others and standing on their broken bodies will rake in all the profits while the good guys just sit around and "play nice."

I think it is important that we should realize this kind of mentality won't work. You might see bad people making money, but eventually it will be no good for them. Either they don't sustain, or the money is no good for them, or they can't sleep with all that money under their pillow. You will see lot of examples of this from history.

I have seen people who are ethical and right also make a lot of profits. May be not in the short term, but in the long term. The idea is, you don't go behind money, instead you do what you do best, and money will come behind you.
I was making a quip about data science techniques being more frequently applied and/or computers becoming self-aware, not a judgment on females in programming.. I apologize if this was not appropriately placed.
I keep getting - Failed to load resource: .lighttable/img/connectingloader.gif when I try to evaluate Python code. :(
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Interesting, but I think there's are poor assumption about fixed costs there. What is getting married going to cost? Kids? A house for the kids. Tuition.
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While I can agree with the spirit of your message, OTOH...

> Not only do private corporations buy shiny buildings, but they also have a legal obligation to make as much money for their shareholders as they possibly can.

This seems to be a popular belief, but it's simply not true. Private companies have no legal requirement to make profits or pay dividends. Even public companies, do not have to by law, maximize profits ("make as much money").[1] Corporate officers do of course, have an obligation to act in the best interests of the company, and have maintain certain fiduciary duties.

[1] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-com...
Would be great if not for the CPS. I end up doing something similar except with Clojure instead of Node.js for my projects lately.
Don't take it personally, it's more of a general observation that a problem with your post in particular
Actually, it does:
http://cl.ly/image/0j383w2d0t2v

Open this test image if you don't believe me: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/824493/layertest.tif
The concern here is not that a URL is embedded in the block chain, but an actual resource itself. Obviously a URL can be removed, but if the raw data is encoded in the block chain, it cannot be removed. Some people are balking at the fact that you can only encode 20 bytes at a time. However, it's already a reality that a multi-part message[0] has been embedded in to the block chain.

So the real concern becomes, what happens when someone encodes something illegal in the block chain. As a trivial example, what happens when some sort of copyrighted material is embedded in the block chain. Can a country's court prevent it's citizens from participating in the bitcoin transactions as they hold a copy of the illegal material?

So the call is for a system whereby we bypass any legality issues by ensuring that encoding information in this way is not possible.

Is it an overreaction? Maybe it is, but since there may be real legal consequences to letting it continue, it seems prudent to put steps in place that prevent or hamper this possibility. Particularly as it has already been proven[0] that system has been used to store data in larger quantities.

[0] http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BUB3dygQ
> I am astonished by the letter from Bernadette Dunham, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, especially since she told a House committee on April 9 that she was unsure how antibiotic resistance develops.

I've posted this before, but some people may have missed it.

"Defeating the superbugs" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ms5c6) has a segment showing bacteria developing resistance to antibiotics.

(http://v6.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=24goih4&s=6) (Sorry about the lousy host; YouTube's content sniffing detects this as BBC property and blocks it.)

They have a slab of jelly. The jelly has sections of differing strength of antibiotic. There's a section with no antibiotic, then 10x, then 100x then 1000x. (They cannot dissolve any more antibiotic into the jelly at that point.)

A time lapse camera shows the bacteria growing, and developing resistance to each section.

It's an excellent bit of video.
If you're going to start with a comment about FUD, could you enlighten us with the rest of the comment instead of rhetorical questions?

Cattle raised on corn (aka, most cattle raised for human consumption) require continuous use of antibiotics in their feed to prevent rumen diseases. The rumen was "designed" to digest grass and cellulose, not corn. But we feed cows corn because it's cheaper than grazing, and the cows are meaty enough for slaughter after just 18 months.

That link you provided is very feel-good-family, but can you provide some science?
This is a well known psychological effect. The "powers that be" use it all the time to force their will on an initially resisting population. They first propose an obviously draconian and unfair legislation, which is then, after a public outcry, mellowed down to the originally intended form. Hey presto, everyone is now happy about "the concessions and safeguards", forgetting that in the process they got something that they never wanted in the first place.
As a grad student working with communication systems i can verify that. In fact, most communication and signal processing systems involve pretty sophisticated algorithms, and these are almost always implemented in software. In fact, the performance differentiator in these products boils down to the quality and implementation of the signal processing algorithms, and that is where most of the research effort at university labs is directed at.

An exception with respect to some communication systems would be ones operating at extremely high frequencies, where it would be impractical to process signals in software due to memory constraints (higher operating frequencies -> more samples per second). In these cases, the mixing/modulation functions get implemented in hardware.
I'm an anti-vivisectionist, but I'm not sure how your comment is relevant to the article.

I do wish there was a scientifically-literate anti-vivisection group.
I'm currently in the process of interviewing for a new job. If there's an option to import my Linkedin data, I'll do that. Otherwise I'll send links to my personal site, Github, and Linkedin. If someone specifically asks for a resume or C.V., I'll politely say that I don't have an up to date version and to please refer to my public Linkedin page. I have not noticed had any negative consequences from not having a CV or resume.
Or, maybe that's where the power of TDD comes from, and not from tests ;).
I totally meant to link Bunnie's blog posts in that Quora bit! Thanks for the reminder-- he's awesome. :)
It's tangentially related because it's animal experimentation that has/could have led (at least in part) to bacteria being able to resist antibiotics.

Watch the documentary I linked, it includes a bunch of scientifically-literate people.
It's more like they choose not work, most of the time, and live off society.
Law dictates that information on the breech must convey the type of data that was breached and the format which the information was stored in. If you say encrypted, legally it must be.

Reputation.com has an affiliate program they therefore have a presence in all states.

As a noted hacker, security expert, SEO, and Analyst. Short of posting the place to buy it. Yeah, I am the definition of a credible source. There is a reason I speak to the ACLU on such matters. And yes I already reported the where to law enforcement.
Standardizing a format/API upon a tool like SQLite was something that was proposed in the web world as WebSQL but scrapped due to not wanting an entire standard to rely on a specific code base but rather wanting to have the standard be possible to reimplementable by others and thus creating the IndexedDB standard instead.

I'm not proposing that an image format like this one should use IndexedDB, but if relying on SQLite means being reliant on a specific code base that has to be used by anyone that wants to read the file - then it's probably not such a good idea.

When discussing this I think one should also have in mind eg the move to web apps as well - a reliance on SQLite will make it hard for them to read the format. A standardized simple base format that can easily be supported in new languages would be preferable as I see it - but I'm no expert in the image processing area.
Can someone post the command to create these messages or at least tell me what portion of the transaction this is being stored under? I am curious. My chain is a bit out of date, but I was able to generate the messages http://pastebin.com/wdpF4L4k

~/.bitcoin/blocks $ ls | xargs strings -n 20 | tee ~/Downloads/hiddenblockchain.txt

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls...

Are they just sending coins to an invalid address (their string)?
Within the first 60 seconds your site does not answer the question "why would I want to use this rather than Github?". I'm not sure most people will spend even 60 seconds trying to find an answer to that question, so you might want to figure out a way to show/tell.