skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not exactly disagreeing with you, but humidity makes a HUGE difference. I've been in 100+ degree heat with low humidity (115, actually (46.11 C)) and it's downright pleasant. I've also been in 100+ degree heat with high humidity and it's almost unbearable. The difference is, in low humidity your body does a fantastic job of cooling yourself, while high humidity prevents your body from dissipating as much heat since your sweat doesn't evaporate. I'm not saying you're wrong, but temperature does not describe the entirety of a climate, nor its safety.
If you have a hereditary genetic disease risk that you need/want (depending on the disease) to screen against, then the process is about as follows:

1. Make up a few (say, 6) in-vitro fertilized eggs;

2. Extract a cell (or multiple cells at later stage, depends on the tech) to run the genetic tests;

3. Discard those who carry the mutation;

4. Depending on random factors, now you have 0-4 potential embryos. If you have many, you need to choose which one(s) will be put in the mother.

And this is the interesting part. At that point you already know quite a lot about each of those genomes - at the very least you definitely know all of their genders, but you do know (or can easily know) much much more already with the current tech. You have to make a choice anyway from that 'menu' of the few genomes that were just created. And absolutely any choice other than complete randomness will be biased towards something. So, the question to society, what amount of choice is 'acceptable'? Is throwing dice ok? Is looking at simulated extrapolated portraits ok? Is looking at statistical data allowed before making the choice?
I'd say it depends on what you wish to accomplish.

Based on experience, you can deploy 'something' out there and build that 'something' really fast with Grails. GORM instantly takes care of persisting to DB with minimal effort, there's not much to configure. If you're planning to just create an API Server, the latest Grails 2.3.x releases have specifically made that easier too.

Can't say anything for Play since I haven't used that, but if you face growth problems with your Grails project (scaling), just piece off the heavy parts and create separate services written in Scala. First hand experience, Finagle is a good choice for this. You can easily be productive and quickly create services with this RPC system.

Conclusion: In my opinion, your best option for creating an MVP/Prototype is Grails.
How is this not a "how many ping pong balls fit in the empire state building" sort of estimating question? Am I missing something about it?
That's exactly the pitch of the doctor in Gattaca.

The world is harsh and unforgiving, genetic is only a tiny fraction of all the possible problems, why would you not give your kid the best chances with the things you can control ?
What do you mean by 'a non-religious moral reason'? A moral reason that's grounded in a shared cultural consensus rather than a 'religion'?
Nope, toaster pictures
Wow, what a misleading title. Has Obama started deporting citizens as a policy? Um, no.
Going from Kickstarter to Business
Only around 5K were legit new enrolls, the rest were transplants from the state medicaid system
23andme got my eye color wrong so it must not be perfected just yet.
Wow, remember when you had to hold the mouse button down to select a menu item!
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A few thoughts on this:

Firstly, maybe the cable is part of the antennae, thus negating this issue?

Secondly, maybe there's a heartbeart, the absence of which triggers an alert?

Finally, in practical terms, this probably won't become a problem until all bikes have upgraded. To deter a thief you don't need perfect security: you just need better security than the next potential victim.
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I googled 'prenatal testing' for you:

http://www.webmd.com/baby/guide/prenatal-tests
Sorry about that. It's free for one private dashboard and unlimited public dashboards. Pro accounts are $99 per year for unlimited everything.

We'll be sure to get a publicly accessible pricing page up ASAP.
I wonder if say 50 years from now, we'll be like those religious conservatives who don't want to let women do whatever they want with their bodies (mainly talking about abortion here).

Will we also be the ones demanding that the new generations have no right to design their children, while they'd argue that we should just "mind our own business" and that it's not government's place to decide how to effectively "create" their own children.

I think this century will see a lot of interesting changes, and not just technological, but also societal. Can we design our own children? Can we marry robots? Can we change our gender? Should the government be able to monitor our thoughts to protect us from terrorism? Will we still have the nonsense "war on terror" even 50 years from now, or will we end all "war on abstracts" by then, just like we are about to end the war on drugs?

A lot of new questions will need a lot of new answers as new technologies start making all sorts of new things possible.
I assume you're including yourself in that - I bet you're in the top 1/10 of 1% of income globally: http://www.globalrichlist.com/

I am far from asserting that we have a fully equitable system, of either opportunity or outcome, but remember that inequality is an unavoidable result of private property and freedom of choice. (For example, give everyone $100,000 and freedom to spend or save as they will, and check back in ten years.) If there can be any voluntary spending for the benefit of your children, then inequality will persist and be magnified across generations.
Some people need more than just magic: A look at the iPad and the Surface
This is TED. The majority of stuff presented there requires antimatter spherical cows in vacuum to work. At best.
Addition and comparison will suffice: https://gist.github.com/garethjwilliams/7202128
What a linkbait title... the woman gave a false name, and was deported because that false name was from someone in Colombia.
That's per dyno, per second. 6,000 per dyno total, which seems very reasonable. As timdorr mentioned, Pusher's largest (publicly available?) plan only allows for 5,000 connections.
I hope it all worked out for you. Much of the testing has results that are not actionable (short of abortion) so that helps decide what's worth doing and what's not.
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This is really exciting. This looks like a great way to get minimum functionality for your project onto these given platforms. Yes, you'd probably want to have a real, natively developed app at some point, but this is looking good for prototypes.
The functions emulate deterministic finite automata that read binary strings and determine divisibility.

See:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15330027/regular-expressi...

http://ugccomputerscience.blogspot.com/2012/02/dfa-of-binary...
I launched JobBoard.io any so far haven't encountered too many issues with "normals" being confused. Some ask what it stands for, but that's about the extent of it.

I felt it was a better option than buying super-awesome-hyphenated-job-board-software.com
This looks really neat, but as a parent, I have no desire to introduce technology to my son at the age of the kids in these videos. I think that physical and social skills are much more important to develop earlier. The part of the video with the boy sitting by himself with an iPad at a playground while children run around him made me feel sad.
I agree that this guy is a hacker, however I just want to share what a hacker on steroids playing a game looks like.

Have you seen bortreb's pokemon hack?

http://hackaday.com/2012/11/24/programming-a-game-boy-while-...

"Realizing this ROM hack is able to control the CPU with only the player’s inventory, [bortreb] wanted to see how far he could push this hack. He ended up writing a bootstrapping program by depositing and discarding items from the in-game PC, and was then able to reprogram the Game Boy with a number of button presses on the D-pad, select, start, A and B buttons."
If you buy a consumer electronics device from Google this is what you'd expect though. Apple users are promised to never have to think for themselves again. Apparently it takes Geniuses to do that, available at your nearest over priced retail center.
My attempt to explain the idea of map vs. territory
Something like this should work to allow access to /usr/local without changing the traditional Unix permissions:

chmod +a 'user:YOUR_NAME_HERE allow add_subdirectory,add_file,delete_child,directory_inherit' /usr/local
One of the problems is that it will create an environment where individuals are strongly encouraged and pressured into pursuing a particular type of career or avoid XYZ other activities. Reminds me of the stereotypical asian parent forcing their children to become lawyers or doctors, when the individual would much rather pursue sports, arts or something else entirely. One of the most critical aspects of success is motivation and desire to accomplish X. When everyone around you is saying you should do Y because of your genetic makeup it could lead to a lot more dissatisfied human beings.
While this applies to many things people do, i don't think it applies to programming. Programming is a continuous activity of concentration done over the course of 8 hours, 5 days a week, roughly 45 weeks a year. Meanwhile fighting of many kinds is something that happens in short bursts of extreme focus and excertion.

In fact, programmers have to "fight" too, and it is highly different from their daily work: It is when the software is burning cash and they have to find the problem and implement a fix right now. Most programmers find that they deal with that extremely well, though it usually happens at the cost of the rest of the day.
Taxonomies make the law. Will folksonomies change it?
All you have to do is turn people into a feature vector then KNN them. Perhaps once you're in a smaller neighborhood, you can do more intensive analysis for high probability equality matching.
This... I've met them, I've seen them. They are scum.

I've noticed they tend to ingrain themselves into startup news and blogs or similar things.

I know some MBA's that run some startup news site in Stockholm/Sweden as well as their own startup. Really disgusting personality.

Really fits into the mild of "superior social polish and exploitation".
First thing that comes to mind is that no one would suspect an iron. People are gonna beat their heads over these intermittent spam issues for quite a while before any correlation pops up. Second, if you add a battery to the chipset, then you can charge while the person's ironing and out spam throughout the week. Irons are pretty high power devices, so no one's really going to notice an extra watt or so.
Thanks for putting this into perspective.

I say the same thing when people complain that diabetes is an issue that needs to be addressed. Sure, it's not a good thing, but what about cancer? People with cancer would love to trade it for diabetes. I firmly believe that everyone working on non-cancer research should quit their jobs and work on more meaningful problems.

Also, people working on social apps are wasting their time. Why not work on delivering clean water to third world countries?

And why do people complain about not being able to find jobs here in America? I mean, life isn't that bad, is it? They really should quit whining since there are others in other parts of the world who are dying of starvation.

And isn't it sad that millions of people spend millions of dollars a year on Starbucks coffee? Why don't they instead spend all that money on donating to the homeless? Or donating to the Red Cross?

Anyway, thanks for bringing up this important point. There are so many problems in this world that just aren't worth our time because there's always something much worse out there.
I can imagine someone saying something similar in the early days of the computer.

Could you watch the video? He already addresses these issues, and they are clearly researching how to do this. This is just a giant pick-and-place machine working with larger components. They already show that some human effort will be required in the assembly process, but hopefully will be much safer than what is done today.
Perhaps that's the news here.
Is choosing a boy to carry on the family name ok? (never mind there are no/few girls to marry any more)
That may be part of the reason. Common household item with somewhat unpredictable usage sounds like a good way to mask the activity.
Is it more dangerous in terms of injuries, or in terms of deaths? I would expect injuries to be very frequent, but frequent deaths would surprise me.
Why do you think IE9 performance numbers indicate that claims about IE11 performance are lies?
The companies making money "off of cancer" (http://www.texmed.org/template.aspx?id=16518) have saved and improved the lives of quite a few people. Why do you have a problem with that?
> I'm not loyal at all to any browser.

I don't see why you need to point that out. It's not saving your credibility after writing "Micro$oft" anyway.
Would it help in this case? Sure, you'd prevent signals from leaving the house, but the signals in this case are all internal to the house, so the wifi would still work internally. All you'd prevent are outside services from pinging in and vice-versa, not much help for internal devices connected through broadband internet wired or fiber.
Except that it isn't.
Would be cool if you could download the data for your city to your Android phone and use the location service without sending your cell towers and BSSIDs to anyone, not even Mozilla.
I am glad to see your justified skepticism of 3-d printer mania.

The real breakthroughs will come when people stop fixating on "printing" (extrusion) and realize it's the 3-d (4-d, 5-d, etc.) gantry that's the super-useful part. Fitted with different tools, such as painting, gluing and sanding tools, a 3-d gantry can be extremely useful.

There will however continue to be a "last mile" problem in Computer-Assisted Manufacturing (CAM) applications. These are the details, such as stripping wires, screwing in electrical boxes, etc. where the robot to perform these tasks is prohibitively expensive. The breakthrough is the 3-d gantry form, due largely to the reduction in prices of microcontrollers and power transistors, but it does not extend to all robotics, such as detail work.

For example, I've been watching videos on building guitars. I would love to see a 3-d printer friend explain to me how it's going to build a guitar from scratch. The economy of 3-d printing doesn't extend to the large number of distinct tasks, requiring different tools, techniques, process and forces in most objects that are useful in the real world.

This entropic mixture of difficult processes, I would argue, is the very reason WHY particular artifacts, such as a guitar, television set, couch, etc. are valuable in the first place. It is because no quantity of single, unskilled process (like shoveling coal) can produce them.
“There were 17,000 YouTubes before YouTube”
Good ol' plausible deniability. What is interesting, is that this is the exact same construct and "excuse" for lying as in the case I noted above. In both instances, the senior executives claim to be caught unawares.
If only we had some social context information available to differentiate the three other faces that look like mine...

...oh wait. Fuck. :(
The main reason I wrote this was after seeing a comment on HN about unusual FizzBuzz solutions.

The f[0-4] and t[0-2] functions emulate the state of a deterministic finite automata which determine divisibility of binary strings. The bits represent the binary strings. The left shift operator is used to "eat" bits.

See these two DFAs for an explanation:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15330027/regular-expressi...

http://ugccomputerscience.blogspot.com/2012/02/dfa-of-binary...

EDIT:

For those showing ways to do it with just addition and the like, I originally titled this "FizzBuzz using only bit twiddling" but a mod appears to have changed it...
Yes, but one would hope that deportation would require a slightly higher burden of proof than that?
Show HN: What is CommonJS in relation to node and how do I use it?
Uh, $11 per pizza is plenty enough?
I think you should always start with users by having a deep understanding of their problems. That may come from domain expertise or from talking to them. But if you don't start there, you're going to make a lot of incorrect assumptions.
Perhaps this could be good to introduce a little at a time. Like musical instruments (drum kits) or building blocks (legos). As a parent, I agree, that surrounding children with technology all the time can distract them from learning more important social skills. At the same time, I know my son is going to be asking me all the time "How does this work? How does that work? etc." And, unlike a software program, this provides a tactile experience which I think he'll be able to relate to when I say "Self driving cars work like your little robot".
It's a rule of thumb that the more optimised your code is, the less readable it is.
Gubbamint is keeping the hungry from these bushels of bread not fit for human consumption, why can't they see the harm they're doing? Isn't bad food better than nothing?

>realizing that something done poorly is better than nothing and requiring something better leads to nothing

Oh my god you actually typed it.

Or we can adequately fund our social programs so that they are held to a certain standard and don't depend on the whims of the middle and upper classes.
Not only do they have face models. But they have immense details about those faces. Location, relationship connections, product endorsements, work and school connections...
After the last few revelations about the NSA that have come out. I think you should assume that it is all being used.
I love this idea, but where would this be useful?

Is there really a shortage of single family homes anywhere? Maybe in some sort of disaster area or 3rd world, but I imagine there are better/easier/cheaper alternatives for those situations.
Ah, but I do, by offering up my time and sometimes money.
Dealing with Ideas
(See http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/04/my_n... — "I’ve noticed that a lot of people, if not most, have sharp disagreements with what they hallucinate to be my opinions.")
It's also at least as safe as downloading and running a binary executable.
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Didn't they nix dedupe across accounts, as people realised they could "transfer" files that way, and DropBox didn't want to deal with DMCA issues?
I wonder if finding this is the result of post-NSA paranoia.
No problem, I see what you mean now.
I dont think it's an issue that Apple is slower at making the iPad closer to a PC. It's not what they want. If you want to take a quantum leap in productivity AND be mobile, they have a product for you. It's called the Mac Book Air.
We need to be pragmatic and deliver content to whatever device and software our users use, not hold grumps and use stupid nicknames like "M$".
I'm more afraid of computerized toilets, to be honest.
In other news the NSA has possible backdoors in real computer devices.
The distortions these kind of controls generate cannot be explained to someone who lives in a normal economy.
Here in Venezuela, it's much better to go in to debt (get loans to buy stuff like refrigerators, TVs, etc) than to use any unexpected or larger than usual income to pay off your debts because of the high inflation rate.

Only in Venezuela can a car cost more the minute you drive it out of the dealerships (if you can find them), than in the showroom floor.
It's not terribly relevant who he is, but here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig
There a bunch of cases where we definitely know that it is significantly different than random chance. There are embryos whose expected lifespan (because of their genome) is, say, a year, or who are expected to die soon after or before birth; and it is definitely not a great part of what makes us humans. We can do better, and eliminate a lot of suffering for families.
I noticed it was both obvious and trivial to add a web page to your home screen. Is that also the case on windows phones? Is it the case on any other phone? Or are webapps treated as second class citizens still on phones?
I used my own app in the demo video; as you point out, it is hardly a paragon of responsive design! I think you'll find that properly written apps will behave a lot more as you hope/expect
In Ruby everything is an object with methods and attributes.
In PHP object orientation is an after thought and not a very good one, PHP is so broken it is a joke.

There is a reason why modern web development was invented with ruby and why all modern web frameworks try to copy rails or sinatra. Because Ruby was designed the right way.

One doesnt need interfaces and abstract classes if one uses duck typing and message passing the right way.
Yup, all you need is a brief window to dump the malware on another box. Finding a malicious device is much harder if it's intermittent.
I am not an experienced interviewer, but since I'm in a position to interview someone whom I'll work with closely I've been facing this challenge.

We're looking for a more junior level developer. We want to gauge their skills, but don't want to make any questions that are too domain-specific. I like the problems from places like Project Euler or codewars.com, but some coworkers feel they are too difficult. Solving a variation of FizzBuzz, allowing any reasonable language, even pseudo-code, shouldn't be beyond my expectations, right?
That's exactly what the're saying - law enforcement has had that ability (DNA -> likelihoods of visual properties, not 100% accurate of course) for some time already, and they can use it on embryos as well.
The 'science' in Gattaca is just an excuse for segregating human beings based on some arbitrary criteria. As others have pointed out this is nothing new.

What is extremely irritating is that people actually think that genetics works the way it is portrayed in the film. This is patently false. Yes, some portion of what an organism is is determined by the primary sequence of its DNA. It turns out that the contribution of primary sequence alone is quite small. Look at all the naive genome wide association data sets that have revealed that primary DNA sequences are in most cases very poor predictors of phenotype. This should't be surprising to anyone who has even a cursory understanding of evolution and the interaction between ecology and development. Yes, this is classic nurture vs nature stuff.

The fact that people want to claim that science could actually give us a universal, deterministic and predictive answer about the future should quickly alert us that the principles on which they are basing their predictions is not science and not predictive, but instead an ideology based on prejudice rather than evidence.
"We tried to port-scan the rogue device, but it flushed the evidence."

I'll just show muself out...
I prefer the Enterprise Edition[1], this looks like it doesn't have enough boiler plate code.

[1] - https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...