skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk. There -are- no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals.' - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Nonlinear Genetics"
Laws against healthy babies are problematical. That's why this problem is unique. It demands we practice enlightened self-interest at a pain-point we are ill-equipped to support- hurting our children.
Can you expand? What's tragic?
I actually originally titled it "FizzBuzz using only bit twiddling" but a mod changed it...
Well, that's a nice way of spinning it. The simple fact of the matter though is that Apple want people to pay through the nose for AppleCare because it does wonders for their bottom line. In the EU they and all other sellers are required to offer certain minimum warranties with their products, but in order to make more money from AppleCare they lied to consumers about what was covered without it and got into legal hot water over it. This looks like another repeat of that pattern of behaviour.
>"Here in Venezuela, it's much better to go in to debt (get loans to buy stuff like refrigerators, TVs, etc)"

That is pretty much true in most countries but for different reasons. Over there, inflation rate is usually higher than the controlled interest rates. On the other hand, in other countries stores give you cheap loans to impulse sales.

In any case I am agreed with you that you have to spent some time over there to understand the distortion of a economy with a high inflation. Also you would understand how easy is for a government to manipulate economic metrics and give a different impression from outside the country.
Do you realize that 'people are collecting X founder's profile' is essentially nothing highly significant in and of itself in this day and age (much thanks to Zuckerberg&co, ironically enough)? -- because this information is out there anyway and will always be there, anyone who's interested can cull that information with considerably little effort with some clever scraping scripts. What's offered with this initiative in particular is the convenience of not having to do that from scratch, instead letting you get straight to the searchin' of juicy bits.
I remember reading that D-Shape[1] had clogging problems with their printer. Perhaps CC has the same issue.

[1] http://www.d-shape.com/tecnologia.htm
As it states in the title, it's very opinionated. Vagrant is nice, but it doesn't replace MAMP for the functionality that I use it for, which is mainly virtual hosts.
New web app for listening to music for free: MusicNectar
A new web app recently launched to allow you to discover and listen to music for free. It's just been launched and there's loads more features on the way!
Sure, if you are content with the way the compiler lays out the information. Personally, I am far more efficient with vim and a CLI than Visual Studio/Eclipse/$FancyIDE precisely because I can live in my head and not in the IDE.

The day we can replace the mental process required to fully understand a problem is the day we can put down our keyboards and let the computers do all the programming for us. Until then I assert that you will not produce the same quality of code without doing the hard work in your own head.
how exactly does it just 'plug in' the plumbinb and electrical systems?

Lays them in as it builds presumably. Pick and place is easy with a big h-crane robot.
I think you may have responded to the wrong person. I'm just making a point that who you credit with a discovery can change many times if you are willing to point at the owner of the shoulders that the inventor was standing on.

Transistors discovered by a private lab? A private lab with government funding? A private lab building on work done by individuals such as Faraday? Individuals who in many cases received government funding in the UK? Individuals who were building on work by Benjamin Franklin, a self-made and self-funded man? Benjamin Franklin, who doubtlessly was enabled by early work on the scientific method itself by Roger Bacon? Roger Bacon, who was supported by the catholic church? Roger Bacon, who built on work of earlier Muslim scholars?

If we want to play the "who gets credit" game, we need to decide beforehand how many times we are going to go down the "who funded who" tree, and "who researched the prerequisites" tree.

I'm not talking about politics; I am pointing out that you people are talking past each other because you all have different ideas of how to assign credit.
I do believe that the fact that give "handouts" only to people whose kids attend school (which really matters because there was a lot of child labor when they started) shows they are at least trying to address some of the problems. I think they did a lot of things wrong, and there's a lot of things missing, but calling them out in what I see as one of their most effective policies seems wrong. The contradiction between protectionist policies and search for investment, the alliance with groups opposed to the improvement of infrastructure, the blatant corruption and the stuff wslh mentioned seem more accurate to me.
I wouldn't pay too much attention to what they are doing. I am more of a fan of an organic co-founding team. Nevertheless, sometimes it does make sense to join other startups (only if you make friends with them first)!
upvoted despite linkbait headline because the actual issue raised of inappropriate deportation is worthy of discussion.
>>> Brew is not must-have and you can end up chasing a lot of minor issues it creates

I rather chase any minor issues Brew creates than clean up the mess MacPorts once created..
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of web sockets a persistent connection to the server, to facilitate sending updates? You assume the battery life hit in using them.

It'd be interesting to see the trade-offs between web sockets and persistent polling.
Actually, it already was. The fastest Super Mario World speedrun is now 1 minute and 40 seconds. For more details see http://tasvideos.org/2380M.html. It's even more complex.
I'm not surprised given the companies name...
This Video Shows Just How Beautiful Mathematics Is
Great point, my iPad doesn't even have an addressable kernel, let alone a terminal emulator or command line! Why bothering to learn how to drive a car, I'm not even in a car right now, what would I drive?! Is having the freedom to move from place to place REALLY worth it?
Class: Genetically-clean babies will grow into a new class of their own, automatically favored by government, hiring practices, schools etc.

Racism: The external indicators of race will be under the parent's control. Look what rich people do to become more whitebread; imagine what parents will do to make their babies more acceptable. The entire process will enable racism on a level beyond any in history: prenatal genocide?

Cruelty I mean by the prejudices 'natural' babies will endure simply by being born into a world that favors others. They will be branded even before they are born, as inferior, through no choice of their own.
The value of information depends on how that information will change your actions.

Current prenatal testing, in essence, warns you about some (not nearly all) harsh diseases, and people may choose abortion after finding that out. There are some diseases where it actually allows a cure/therapy even before the embryo is born; but currently that's rather rare; so in general, if someone has already decided that they won't do an abortion, then doing those tests has no practical value at all.
A dystopian novel about some hip Silicon Valley company finding the secret sauce to objectively rank human beings with software, because of the difficulty in hiring good programmers, is just too painfully apt to imagine.
I'm exactly the same. Back in southern Brazil, where it's
"summer" during most of the year except for a few occasional weeks of ridiculously cold weather - the temperatures drops then rises again very sharply - during the "winter", I felt physically ill most of the time. The actual summer, which goes from December to April, was unbearable - imagine months straight of very warm (100F+) and extremely humid weather, with torrid sunshine during quite long days. My wife has the same problem and so does my father-in-law, for whom the problem is so critical that heat might be fatal to him.

Now I live in Seattle and it's much more bearable. The summer is still kinda too warm for my taste, but at least it's much shorter than it is in Brazil. Besides, night are cool.

I have a really hard time understanding people that enjoy warm weather. I just can't relate to it at all, can't put myself into their shoes. Heat makes me ill, grumpy, depressed.

I love cold weather. It makes me feel alive. My productivity goes through the roof when it's cold. I actually like the sensation of really cold weather on my skin. Sometimes its 32F outside and I go out with a T-shirt just to feel it on my skin. My wife and I open the windows when it's cold outside. And I can't understand how people don't enjoy it. Maybe we have really odd physiologies?
how does that make the 1980's gold bubble "questionable"?
Sometimes it's about both. When I watched Gattaca, I was really impressed with how well they tied together a broad social commentary on the present with a more literal warning about the impending future.
- Out of curiosity, who's your current registrar?

- I don't know if you're talking about a ccTLD or a com/net/org but if it's the latter I don't think a non-US registrar can help you since those TLDs are directly under US control.
New WordPress plugin to create MailChimp signup forms
I do. I wrote that in my comment if you read it.

But it is still quite "creepy" to see someone making that effort to collect all your public appearance and put into a profile, shared on HN when you wake up (although you have to send in an email stating your goal).

And this is normally a job the public relation firm has to do.
Except for the ridiculous time of June gloom. For those not in LA, we get no sun from 8am-1pm mostly the entire month of June.

What ends up happening is I see most people sad in the mornings until 1pm. I used to make fun of those people when I realized I was one of them.
> So hibernating is not an option

I've been complaining about this lately. I would love to just wake up in March, walking out, blinking, into the sunshine.

Maybe I'll try one of those lights, that looks like a good idea.
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But now we automate it, and only for the rich.
It could just charge while the iron is on, and do everything else while the iron is off. As to being affected by heat, there are parts of the iron that can't be hot (i.e. the handle), so you can move the install away from the hot parts.
Let us imagine a hypothetical scenario. Two identical shipments are weighted at the same scale during customs. One of them is consistently 0.05% heavier than expected. Then you notice same pattern with a few more shipments. An inquiring mind might wanna open a few boxes and see what is up. *Typoed
Why is it scary? The other side to our society rewarding you with billions of dollars is that you are now a public figure.

Not only that but he's the CEO of a transnational corporation: their public pronouncements are always examined for any sort of securities edge.
When the iPhone launched, Apple had to have their own apps on there because there was nothing else. Now, the author is saying there's better alternatives to the defaults. That's true in his case. But not everyones. The App Store is full of crap. Like full of it. While Apple doesn't need to lock you into their apps, they are still selling the iOS as a great experience. They have to bundle their own apps on it to guarantee a level of quality for the user. Not all users are going to find replacements for those apps. Not all replacements are going to play ball with the Apple - iCloud - iTunes ecosystem in the way Apple wants/needs. And that last reason is perhaps why they don't let you delete.

Also, the whole Apple design ethos is that they never, never make mistakes (Of course they do, but they still act like they never do). If they allow you to delete these default apps, it's tacitly admitting that they don't belong there and/or there are better alternatives. Sacrilege!
Challenge accepted.

domainregistry.com - not cheap ($30/year), no .io (.com .net .org and .info only), run by a guy name Larry.
You should try to get included in a mainstream distro like Arch.
I agree that squatters can be unreasonable or downright insane. I think that my main argument is that owning a ".com" neither helps nor hinders a startup and its quest for eyes. I could never remember how to spell del.icio.us, but it didn't matter, I bookmarked it. If I was on another computer, I googled it.
You know, 100 years ago, there was a saying "as rich as an Argentine", like we might say "as rich as a sheik" today. By any reasonable means, they should be enjoying wealth on a par with any First World country. Corruption killed it stone dead, and judging by their current government, the people never learn. We went to war to save them from Fascism (and, umm, to liberate our islands), they had a chance to start over with a clean slate, but that has been squandered now.
fizz = [nil,nil,'Fizz'].cycle
buzz = [nil,nil,nil,nil,'Buzz'].cycle
(1..100).zip(fizz,buzz) {|a| n,*fb=a.compact; puts fb.empty? ? n : fb.join }

I can't claim credit for this one. Very elegant, I thought when I saw it.
Barack Obama's Twitter links got hacked today
This is not creepy, this is an academic pursuit of rounding up information of one individual who is incidentally spearheading big change of privacy in a society. This is one of the things that happens to you when you become a public figure. Is a 'biography' creepy? History researchers do this themselves when they're writing history, when they're writing biographies -- some work is made easier for them with this kind of stuff.

I think Zuckerberg's doings are a lot creepier than this when you really get down to it.
It's incredible that he's able to do these by hand. Most glitches of that nature are tool-assisted. Tool-assisted game-play[0] is a true artform.

[0]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXCLNnj8OBY
> IE9/IE10/IE11 dont even render the same page the same way

One could argue this is because each version is better than the previous. "Better" being relative here.

> they make money by making their os obsolete

This touches on a possible source of the problem. Their insistence on tying browser upgrades to major releases of Windows proves they care more about the revenue from the OS sales than they do about not breaking the web.

I'm encouraged that they have automatic updates now but the jury is out as to whether they'll make use of it in the way Chrome and Firefox have.
I'm not sure what Bret Victor had in mind, but the second part of Skiena's text The Algorithm Design Manual already does a good job at this. Similar write ups are available online [0], in less detail than the text, e.g. [1]. They all open with a pictorial representation of possible input and corresponding output to aid in scanning when you have a problem to solve. There is also the Encyclopedia of Algorithms [2], and the NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [3], history of at [4].

[0] http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/

[1] http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/files/dictionaries.shtml

[2] https://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+scien...

[3] http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Algorithms_and_D...
Huh? How do you map a city? Or what do you mean by mapping a city. We know a city's approximate lat, long and we know lat and long of various locations except we don't know exactly what is at a particular coordinate, or the road condition.

edit downvote without a comment is a crime.
Your quotation from my post doesn't reveal an argument of any kind. It's simply a sourced fact stated plainly.
Note that you shouldn't use the algorithm in practice (unless you need certain guarantees) since the average performance isn't that great. This is just like Mergesort vs Quicksort where Mergesort guarantees O(NlogN) yet Quicksort is usually much faster. The constant for the number of comparisons is quite high. Compare this to the average complexity for Quickselect with these pivot strategies:

- Random pivot (ie Median of 1) has 3.39N comparisons

- Median of 3 has 2.75N

If you want the fastest possible algorithm you should follow

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2012.2197394

which proposes to choose the median of N^{2/3}1/(4pi)^{1/3} elements as the pivot and then also uses a different strategy to choose the second pivot (close to the median yet "safe").

Another fast algorithm is Floyd & Rivest's SELECT (yes the same crypto Rivest) which is also asymptotically optimal and implementations exist. (Paper title: "Expected time bounds for selection")
How is this different than an editor compiling commonly known knowledge into an encyclopedia and selling it to the public?
Thank you for amazing me.
"Suffice to say that 8 controllers are required to get this to work."

You weren't kidding.
Prefab needs a factory to make the prefab sections.

Also, you can lay down multiple materials by making the head swappable. I would also say plumbing and electrics are nowhere near as complex as they used to be. Everything is available as clip-on fittings these days, which is perfect for automation.
Just finished commenting on the post about the failure of science. Can't help but comment here on a post about SAD. And I am by no means making light of things. I myself struggled with SAD while in college for a few years. It's no fun at all.

That said, you know how I get through winter now? I live a lifestyle that is surprisingly similar to how my Northern European ancestors would have. And a big part of that is diet:

1. Seafood
2. Pastured animal meat/fat

Along with being a software developer, I am also a hog breeder. If you raise animals, but especially hogs, on open pasture exposed to the sun, their lard becomes saturated in trace elements like vitamin D3 [1].

1: http://www.vitamindwiki.com/%22Free+range%22+lard+has+500+IU...
A Botnet of Irons And Kettles from China infiltrates Russian networks
Russian news channel Rossiya 24 showed footage of a technician finding a “spy chip” included in a batch of Chinese irons delivered to Saint Petersburg. Its correspondent said the hidden devices were mostly being used to spread viruses, by connecting to any computer within a 200m (656ft) radius which were using unprotected Wi-Fi networks.
The 2nd Symposium on Research in Grey-Hat Hacking - aka GreHack
I get the best results from just asking them to describe something they've worked on that they're particularly proud of, or was particularly difficult. And keep prodding for more details to get a real feel for how the person works. Basically, pretend you have just taken over a project and are trying to get more information on it from one of the developers on your team. You'll find out a lot about the person in a conversation like this, far more than from purely theoretical or "the answer is B" questions.
Glad it boots to desktop, not metro.
Not to diminish Cosmo's skills or his excellent explanations, but the tricks used in these speed runs were discovered and improved upon over many years by many different members of the speed running community who all deserve some credit. [1] has a list of techniques and usually notes who originally discovered them. There are some speed runners who are very good at discovering these kinds of techniques but they are not always the ones who are the fastest at running the game.

1: http://zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/
The mysterious barge in the San Francisco Bay
Great use of the same example under three different dependency injection mechanisms.

One issue I see with the Reader pattern, however, is that anyone using one of these injected methods has to deal with the monad stuff of using for comprehensions to extract the values, et cetera, whereas with the other two patterns they get to use normal functions.

Put another way: having to distinguish between the "normal" functions in a class versus the injected Reader functions, and not be able to use them in the same way, feels like it would get old fast. I wonder if the author has found this annoying or not.

I do really like how purely functional the Reader approach is though, no state!
Since the link is to phoronix I assume this is blog spam, could someone link the original? I've given up trying to find the number of technologies to disable to make phoronix and its multitudinous tracking bugs usable.
Is it income-generating though?
Conway’s law but for software: Salesforce and SAP
This is interesting. I have applied to YC and have not written code first. I have talked to customers and found out they need. We will see if these quotes hold true because in interviews I read YC likes when something is already coded a bit.
Who it is coming from makes it seem all the more whiny. And hyperbolic.
I really don't understand these statements. I agree that the code isn't particularly elegant and violates some best practices but who else should have written it? I see so many comments be it here or Reddit or anywhere really from know it all criticizing work people have done. If it's so easy for it to have been done the way you say then why does it never seem to be done that way.

It seems that the devs available to build these projects for the government aren't the best ones. The best ones must be at Facebook refactoring the Poke code.
Ask HN: Working as a web developer in SE Asia
I'm looking to relocate from the UK to SE Asia (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia etc). I keep updated on the 'Who's hiring' threads but just wanted to tap HN's collective knowledge as well.

I'm 23 and have been working as a PHP Developer in London for a large fashion brand for the last 2 years but also have a lot of experience with front end technologies.

Just wondering what the best areas to look for work were, what are my realistic chances, any good resources to look at? In advance, thanks!
Windows 95 definitely had Protected Memory (386 style, not NX bit) and Pre-emptive Multitasking [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95
VAT is explicitly listed on every receipt I have (and you are legally required to list it, I believe), so I know perfectly well that it is 19% at the moment (while it was 16% just a few years back…).

But even if it was not listed, I check the menu or price tag to learn how much I have to pay for an item, not to be educated on taxes on checkout.
> Open-ish.

Aka closed :)
Try moving to New England from San Francisco.

Part of the difference is that you don't realize it's winter in San Francisco. New England winters make you very aware that it is in fact winter, and thus very legitimate about how you feel during said winter (crappy, lethargic, cold).

It also makes you supremely appreciative of life, spring, summer, and the fall that precedes it. I truly believe living in a place with seasons has made me a better, more self-aware person.

I have no doubt that SAD can strike you anywhere, but seriously, I highly recommend moving somewhere with a real winter. It will harden you and give you an invaluable perspective, and surely SAD will not strike you again in California.
Cross-Channel Usability: Creating a Consistent User Experience
Funny, I just watched that run again last night. My favorite stages are the ones where enemies are killed after the stage is finished. That technique shaves a few seconds off the overall run.
It happens in the movie business! The screenwriters, the actors, all have their guilds. No studio would dare to take on Equity.
Seriously! Just find something wintry you can enjoy (and with skiing, enjoy more than almost any other activity) and you'll never dread the great white winter ever again.
Very cool. This really makes me want to get better at Haskell. I know enough of it to understand what's going on here, but not enough to be able to come up with something like this.