skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For simple organisms, we could probably consider what would happen if we put their DNA in the nucleas, letting it be transcribed by the 'standard' process. This is exactly what viruses do when they inject their DNA/RNA into a foreign cell so they will be cloned.
That heap of verbal diarrhea reads like any random enterprise reorganization effort I've seen in the last 20 years.

What do failing, bloated organizations do when they have no other ideas? Reorganize!!
StoryLine is my pet project. If you have any questions I'm happy to answer them. It's still in early stages and I'm keen to hear your feedback.
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In general, rules are for under to average performers--to keep them from causing harm. If you're a true expert, you can break the rules in your areas of expertise to get a good result.

If you break the rules and get a worse result...probably you weren't actually the expert you thought you were. So practice some humble introspection before breaking all the rules.

NOTE 1: A "good result" can include a failed experiment, if you learn something and the failure mode is predicted and mitigated. Surprise disasters are always bad though.

NOTE 2: I said "in your areas of expertise." Being a top engineer does not mean that you can break other rules like expense reports or sexual harassment. Too many people make that mistake.
Also see the follow up with responses from Judea Pearl: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/guest-post-judea-pearl-on-...
Well I am selling pick axes as my time and skills. If you believe there is gold in the river upstream why do I have to bet on it ? If you really want employees to believe in your mission , you are looking for founders not employees.
Yikes! Thank you.
The funny thing about drugs is that they don't effect every person in the same way. Any parent that would hand their kids medication and not do their very best to monitor how it impacts them is asking for trouble.

Glad you are able to function in life without the drugs. I've tried it. I was able to control the variables in my life somewhat to function for a reasonably long time but eventually I became overwhelmed and fell into a very deep pit of dysfunction.

They may not work for you but don't contribute to an already difficult stigma that makes it very difficult for those of us who have an actual need. It's hard enough to engage a doctor in this conversation given the "street value" of the drugs you're asking for.
That's all true, but you also have to recognize the fact that the market for people like you is essentially saturated.

I don't accept that premise, and moving to Creative Cloud in Adobe's case is a great example of why not.

As it happens, I use Creative Suite for work myself. My company paid a lot of money to buy it. There are plenty of things Adobe could have done that would have made it more valuable to us, and we would gladly have dropped the same money again to buy an upgrade that did a few of those things. But in several years, they haven't managed to do any of them, and so we haven't bought any of the most recent pre-CC versions.

The fact that Adobe's Creative Suite revenue stream dried up in our case has nothing to do with buy vs. rent, it has to do with not adding anything of value to us in several years of development and therefore not being worth buying again. For exactly the same reason, plus the fact that we would never allow our data to effectively be held hostage, we aren't subscribing to Creative Cloud, so Adobe will probably never get any more money from us for that product line.

PC vs. web is only a proxy for buy vs. rent if the purchase really was a one-off. For almost every piece of commercial software I use, that wouldn't necessarily be the case, and in fact the developers could easily add enough value that I'd pay them more money for an upgrade. The fact that they are pushing for the subscription model instead, even while doing funny maths that assumes I would have upgraded regularly to try and justify the cost, just demonstrates to me that they aren't actually confident that they know how to add that value and keep me paying them.

And, like it or not, the "buy" option is slowly being driven from the market.

I don't really accept that premise, either. Companies like Microsoft and Adobe have held near-unassailable leads in large and lucrative software markets for years. Of course they can abuse that position for a while to price gouge those who, rightly or wrongly, feel that they absolutely must have the latest versions of things to be able to work properly. It's even worthwhile for the software companies to offer the first hit for free, but in the end, what they're doing still isn't in the best interests of their customers. Sooner or later the market is going to figure that out, and sooner or later someone with a smarter plan is going to start providing a real alternative.
I welcome people constructively criticizing the study, but this kind of anecdotal response is really not useful.
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"
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This was a fantastic article and a wonderfully complete software and hardware task spanning many disciplines. Nathan's done a great job on this. I'd love to hire him.

Circuit design, soldering, graphic design, firmware and even a standalone website.

If you've worked on electronics and software projects like this please give me a call (details at http://gridspy.com) because we need you.
Every FOSS project has the possibility of creating fragmentation, but it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Greater software selection allows more choice and offers a better environment for competition.
Some will win over others, some will find a niche market to cater, and others will be in continual completion with each other with an almost split marketshare.

And while you may feel as though Mir's only aim is to fragment the Linux community, keep in mind that Ubuntu will be using QML extensively and that will be compatible with Wayland, and through the use of libhybris both Mir and Wayland can target the same display driver.
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The Crystal Programming Language
Ruby-inspired syntax.
Never have to specify the type of a variable or method argument.
Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.
Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.
Compile to efficient native code.
> window management is tightly coupled to display management.

Yes, it is, both in general and in Wayland.

Specifically, what would once have been called just a window manager now needs to be a compositing manager, managing window contents and compositing them onto the screen. That compositing manager also needs to handle input, since input depends on where, how, and if windows are rendered. And once you're handling all of that, there's nothing useful left that corresponds to an X server other than graphics memory buffer management, which is the kernel's job these days.

Wayland handles software modularity by providing a library for use by prospective compositing managers. Moving the compositing manager into a separate process from the thing actually doing the rendering does not add a useful form of modularity.
A world where Ron Paul gets elected president and/or gets any of his legislation passed is a substantially different world than the one we live in today. Hugely different.

If it were possible for the general population to somehow wake up and realize that Social Security is a ponzi scheme and that it's not sustainable long term (not good odds that will happen, mind you) then it's ENTIRELY conceivable that said people might listen to the "income tax isn't constitutional" argument as well.

The political landscape would have to be so incredibly different for social security to go away I can't even really comprehend it. You can speculate that people wouldn't both abolish social security AND the income tax. I speculate that such a thing could reasonably happen. We'll never actually find out who's right.
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I think this is true but "working with the community" from the giant's perspective is often different than the community's perspective.

Perhaps, but it would be a more natural alignment in the case of hardware companies that wanted the best possible software available to drive adoption of their platforms than in any previous case I can think of. Sun's business model for several of their technologies, including Java, was never entirely clear to me. On the other hand, a consortium of big hardware vendors spending a hundred million dollars to develop the best desktop software in history and then just giving it away to anyone who wants it for free has a pretty obvious business benefit if the result is changing market trends and protecting their multi-billion-dollar revenue streams.
This user name has several other posts on other sites:
https://www.google.co.in/search?q=cusinemakaty

The message as well is common to other posters:
https://www.google.co.in/search?q="мy+coυѕιɴ+ιѕ+мαĸιɴɢ+%2451...

The text doesn't seem machine generated in any of the comments I checked but this is certainly something organized. As other posters have said, perhaps malware.
No, not weird. A mission statement is a "calling" that can be fulfilled through a variety of business models.
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Western Union would never allow their service to be used for instant buying of bitcoins, if they find out you're using it to trade any kind of digital currency they seize your next transactions and block anything going to your service. This is to prevent scammer MITM auction fraud, credit card fraud on their online transfer sending service, to comply with anti money laundering nonsense and to crush competitors.

MG is the same. To reach critical mass, you'll need to sign up existing stores or prepaid card distributors to sell vouchers for you much like how Ukash works. Then you can walk into a corner store and buy with cash a voucher to plug into the site and get coins immediately. For this not to fail like bitinstant you need a huge amount of VC finance to float between collecting cash revenues and fronting coins to buyers.

Ukash still isn't allowed into the US market, Paysafecard was only allowed in because they sold crippled vouchers that can't be used for online gambling. Bitcoin can be used for anything, so unlikely the feds would greenlight this either and not end up seizing your company and jailing everybody whenever Nevada government complains about your service enabling gambling that doesn't benefit them, or copyright lawyers cry it is being used to pay for one of those automatic torrent download services so you don't reveal your US home IP.
Been programming since I was 13, a hobby that became my Job. Yes, love software.
Citation for, "it has health benefits that far outweigh other suitable grains that can be used as a rice substitute." please.
http://youtu.be/CwQfYG8Bm6U?t=32s
(wayland, weston, multiple GL clients on top of the GL rendered desktop)

http://youtu.be/eWfxJWA0Rwg?t=3m28s
DirectFB on crappy tablet hardware, putting stuff to shame like it's BeOS all over again.
A compromised CA in a client cert PKI world, like the DOD one I was talking about, is effectively an end-game scenario. Every machine in the org. would have to be updated (root CA's don't have CRLs, afaik).
The big risk isn't a mitm attack - that's a risk with traditional server-side certs. The big risk is that all of a sudden there are unlimited legitimate users with no control over identities anymore. It's like getting write access to /etc/passwd.
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October is hell month :)
The way I heard Mark state it, it sounded like you don't lock the phone and sounded specifically to me like you can't lock the phone. He mentioned C/C++ within milliseconds after mentioning QML. If QML is sufficient for achieving what Java can great, for those people who want to go back to Qt. I think Qt went out with Nokia. Why didn't they choose Gtk? Why not Java for the language? Why re-invent the wheel with their own thing like Google is trying to do with DART? Java and Gtk rock and should be at the center of Canonical's universe.
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Wayland requires stuff like KDE (QT) and Gnome (GTK) to be ported to it to be useful.. or to bring their own stuff.

Qt5 now works on Wayland - and KDE has a release coming up (the dev code already works on Wayland)
I had some trepidation over this when deciding whether or not to post my own anecdotes. In the end I decided that while it's not useful as a criticism of the study it's absolutely useful to curb the conclusion, that ADHD drugs are broadly ineffective, which this presentation of the study might suggest.

Edit: As an example the caption of Dr. Farah's photo reads "Dr. Martha Farah and colleagues found no cognitive benefit from Adderall taken by students." Finding no correlation to grade improvement is very, very far from finding "no cognitive benefit."
Oatmeal prepared with soy sauce and green onions is awesome. It's a bit like a savory congee.
I doubt he is, it has been hard to get FreeBSD working on any laptop that isn't specifically supported by someone.

You can see many non-working things here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ from no sound to can't boot. Power management is also notoriously bad so you need your laptop to be plugged in.

It is reminiscent of Linux a few years ago when everyone with brand new laptops tried to install it.

FreeBSD is still fine on desktop systems and even works quite well for a desktop in some cases, but Linux is just so big at this point that it supports more things, while FreeBSD has always seemed more server oriented.
Most phone users want walled gardens: it's hard to get lost in one.
Why Lisaac is broken and why I no longer work on it
Lisaac is a programming language with kind of an unconventional looking syntax (or at least not "mainstream looking" I would say) that used to be featured on the The Computer Language
Benchmarks Game, with impressive metrics.

I was wondering what happened to it since it seems to have "dissappeared". Anyway. I found an interesting article by someone who worked on it and later found Google's go lang more appealing.
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Same exact comment. Definitely not giving them access to my contacts.

I rather pay for an app than spam my contacts.
I eat quinoa because of verity but thats just me.
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Mix 3 c. cooked quinoa with parboiled broccoli, cauliflower, or some other veg in a casserole dish. Combine 1/4 c. pesto, 1/3 c milk or cream, and one egg, mix and pour over the quinoa/veg mixture. Top with chunks of goat cheese. Bake uncovered for 30 min at 350.

A go-to dish for me. Really easy and tasty. Measurements are basically guesses, I usually just eyeball it.
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I always think that whenever a new rule or procedure gets created there should be sufficient reasoning as to why it had been created, what conditions prompted it, and what it's designed to solve.

With that information people can see why something needs to be done a certain way, and additionally they will know when rules and procedures should be eliminated. In my mind this would allow people to deduce when exceptions to the rules are applicable, and hence be more effective.

Unfortunately I have not actually seen this happen in real life.
All you are basically saying is that it is not ok to discriminate based on employer if the person has no idea what their employer is doing.

Presumably this is not the case if it is known what an employer is doing, although when it is not known what an employer is doing, discrimination based on employer would seem uncommon.
Your summary is my sister in law and her mommy group friends. They would totally buy this stuff if they thought it would make them "better" than the other women in the mommy group or if it were more socially conscious in some way so it could be a talking/bragging point at the next mommy meeting.
A 12 cell battery lasts a long time on this little netbook.
But you're right, I'm not most people.
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How did we get into employment? Is it legal to reject neo-Nazis from a parade?
Before you think about opening up your own microwave, you should know that microwaves contain high voltage capacitors that will seriously shock or kill you even when they are unplugged. I knew a guy who got thrown across the room and was in serious condition for months. He didn't even touch anything, but he was wearing a wedding band and his hand got too close. Microwaves are serious business.

That said, I HATE the UI on my microwave & would love to fix it. Do people really eat that much popcorn that it deserves it's own button??? For me, I want exactly 3 controls: a time wheel, power up/down & a start button. Hit start for a quick minute, twice for 2 minutes, etc.
Anyone who knows this stuff can provide additional feedback on apps like ChatSecure and Gibberbot? Are they considered to be good crypto implementations?

Update: I installed ChatSecure on my iPad and it's very easy to set up. So easy in fact that I'm thinking there must be something wrong with it, because otherwise it would probably be recommended more often in these types of threads...

One of the things that seems problematic is that the background session expires after a few minutes, so if someone tries to just randomly message you, chances are you won't be logged in, so this can't be a replacement for IM.
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And iirc, they said they'd get night blindness from eating only millet (presumably from its lack of vitamin A?).
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If they looked really different, or were really different in some other way, than I could see them being ostracized. Of course, it is also possible that primitive man couldn't tell the difference between themselves and the others.
No shit. Is anyone advocating plain rice or plain quinoa or plain anything?
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Great use of d3!
It's becoming an bigger and bigger stretch to wrap that mission statement around what Google does. Reader was a great tool for organizing information--they killed it. Cell phone hardware has very little to do with organizing information, but they spent $12 billion on Motorola.
Encryption is only half the battle. NSA et al. could still get metadata - whom is communicating with whom and when. Unless they carefully engineer a solution to this problem into their app, it's useless.
Their routes are mostly useless anyway. Just look at the map and figure it out.
The parent seems more like a comment on the reaction to the study rather than on the validity of the study.
Ha. I love Linux and use it as much as possible but Linux has been dysfunctional on every laptop I've ever owned in some way or another. I've owned a Toshiba, Lenovo (I know, right?), Apple (actually was the best supported, by a decent margin), Chromebook Pixel.
Hard to imagine how anyone ever got anywhere before smartphones.
No amount of correlation seems to imply causation. Suppose there is some event X that always causes two other events, Y and Z. Let's also say that Y and Z are exclusively caused by X. Then Y has a 100% perfect correlation with Z, but ex hypothesi it is not caused by it.
When I go and get my ADHD prescription filled, I always get a look of judgement from pharmacy workers. I've struggled with a lot of shit throughout my life that has caused a lot persistent anxiousness that has always made it difficult to focus. I don't know what the exact issue is, but I was physically/sexually abused as a child, had overbearing parents, and so on, so it's hard to correlate just exactly what's behind it. Anxiety went hand and hand with all of this, and coping became harder and harder (I didn't have a girlfriend/sex until much later in life, failing college, etc). Things got real bad in my early twenties, and meds saved my life. I could do my job, and people could see I was good at it. It helped me calm down. It worked for me, and it may not work for everyone, but please leave that option open to the individual and his/her doctor. I was unmedicated most of my life, and still keep it a secret from every single person I know. There's my anecdote.
It's only "abusing" if it's not idiomatic.
They're running it in XMir. Which has it's own implications/possibilities.
I have had oatmeal (steel cut) prepared as risotto. It was delicious.
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17 person team! That's a lot of payroll.
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I share your criticisms. This article isn't worth the bits it's stored on.
Why has it replaced rice at your home?
You'll want to read everything written tptacek and patio11 on consulting. I'm off to bed, but I'll dig up some links tomorrow.
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But he did got the superfluous part right.
I thought the NIST definition for cloud computing was fairly succinct. The five essential characteristics are:

1. On-demand self service
2. Broad network access
3. Resource pooling
4. Rapid elasticity
5. Measured service

I'm fairly certain Openstack as well as Eucalyptus and Cloudstack all meet that definition.
Lucky for coinbase is now prepaid credit cards you buy in stores have an activation delay for unknown reasons, here it is a 3hr delay and they don't bother telling you except for tiny fine print, and everytime you try to use it before delay is up, it resets all over so seems like your card never works.

So if people are still buying PPD cornerstore visas then they'll wait for bitcoins, especially since bitcoins are used for niche items like drugs (lol), VPNs/hosting, speculation or cheap remittance
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Re: french fries

I'm afraid you've forgotten about what is, likely, the most critical piece of dietary advice in the past 30 years. Specifically, that unnatural trans-isomer fatty acids should never be consumed. Glutens, saponins, oligosaccharides etc are irritants; elaidic acid is basically toxic. Unfortunately, while some stable non-hydrogenated oils like palm oil have become popular, it seems that popular opinion at large generally forgot trans fats existed after 2009. They still exist and they're still really bad for you. So don't eat french fries, is what I'm saying. Or other deep-fried things from restaurants that haven't eliminated hydrogenated oils from their cooking. In-N-Out is ahead of the curve on this. Five Guys is as well.

>"Probably better than processed food"

Originally that sentence just said "probably better than rice", and was modified until it sounded silly...
Or the pythonic replacement grin: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/grin
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I could do with 2 types of up vote, one for "Entertaining" posts and one for "Ideas worth spreading" posts. Then I could filter depending on my mood. (Or maybe stack exchange style tags?)
Anecdotes are real information. I have enough anecdata and knowledge of neuroscience to believe speed/adderall/caffeine/nicotine are really effective in increasing focus and other dimensions of work quality for some. This study suggests teachers and parents want kids on adderall because it makes them more compliant, easier to deal with. This is not really surprising if you ever went to normal schools.