skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's absolute true, but like plastic surgery, cosmetic genetics will be a byproduct of genetics for medical reasons.

I fail to see how you can only have the one without the other, you can just wait for 'designer eye colours' and other fashionable items such as the ultimate breast implant (simply encode for that perfect breast size) and so on...
I expect whoever posted the title didn't even realise that it was a niche set of tutorials - if all you code is web, it's easy to forget that not everyone else does the same. Can it be relabelled?
The article is [speculating] about liking and wanting something being controlled by different areas of the brain - like an id vs. ego sort of thing - the title is trying to sex up the research to get pageviews. The research was about food and the title is about women: whether you want to eat a particular food at a particular time is likely to elicit the "meh" response. Most men (the major viewers of HN) would like to think that women like them but are inhibited by some quirk of brain chemistry, hence the title.

But you knew that already right.
Gattaca is a well-done movie in general. My wife liked it, and she prefers art films and usually does not like science fiction.
It's because they have a tracking script that is overloaded and thus can't redirect you to the mirror url.
There used to be one of these in my toolbox:

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/images/library/range/large/0104...

The small remaining bits at the corners were pushed out by the pointed segments by feeding the bits of leftover wood into the rotating bit.

Worked wonderfully, I wonder during which move i managed to lose it, I always thought it to be a pretty ingenious device.

Mathematically not as clever as the one in the article but definitely simpler and it did the job.
It's not just useful for terminals, but for readibility - though I would put the limit a bit further out, at maybe 100 or 110.
This is what excited me most too. It is a very similar approach than what we did in a project when we had to add multithreading later on, namely to use tasks and hierarchical queues.

But with GCD, it has the knowledge of the number of cores and running threads and processes so it can allocate the whole system's resources much better.

The other thing I like is how well it is integrated with other new features like blocks, OpenCL and Clang. I expect to see something similar on Linux soon, or (wishful thinking) if the GCD interface was ported to other unices so we could write portable multicore application in a sane way.
I still do.

Ok, virtual terminals (though I did use a VT220 for a good while). But I do still stick to an 80x24 screen. My theory is that if my code is too complicated for me to understand without expanding the screen, then it needs to be refactored or reorganized.
> Do not place spaces around code in parentheses or square brackets

The violation of this rule in Mono code is probably 60% of the reason I'd never want to contribute to it. I simply can't stand the abomination of looking at method calls like:

foo.bar( baz );

Ugh.
Infinite Jest (DFW)

Trading and Exchanges (Harris)
That book caused me no end of confusion, when I read it as a teenager. By the time Lila came out, it was no surprise to me that in it he repudiates much of what he said in ZAMM.

People should avoid reading it, because it's useless, and if they do read it, they should take it a lot less seriously than it does itself, because it's clear from the sequel that the author himself does.
I recently read _Cryptonomicon_ after having put it down last year. It was fun, and overall it was definitely worth it. I'm reading his _Snow Crash_ now. It was published in 1992, before the Web, and it predicts a time close to present day. It's interesting to see what he got right, and what he got wrong. It's also a fun read if you are generous with the disbelief suspension.
Thanks! I had this idea last night of how to output a tree from a flat database in one go, sorted by a score.

More efficient than 'mptt' in terms of updates on write and more flexible than the 'path' method... it was a late one, but it worked.

Apparently I need more than 4 hours of sleep...
120x43 for me, thanks. 120 is a nice width, and I inherited 43 from the old EGA mode, and together they make a reasonable aspect ratio for cascading on the desktop.
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My wife was very patient with technical explanations for about the first year of our marriage. I think she finally realized at that point that I'm ALWAYS explaining technical things and that if she seems interested, I'll keep going. So now she cuts me off.

She couldn't give two hoots about ruby or linux or some whiz-bang piece of hardware I'm all amped about. Sort of like how when she talks about women's life in the Victorian era my eyes glaze over.

Part of marriage is that sometimes you find each other boring.
I want to echo the other reply -- I've discovered in my life that whenever there is something wrong with a system, it's never a cabal deliberately undermining it. It's always some perverse incentive for a group to act badly. Look for the underlying perverse incentives.
Good for you on Varghese. Let us know what you build.
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Skype is a dead end technology anyways. Go open or go away.

edit: and just to give some 'meat' for the downvoters, Jingle is being built as a true open p2p voice and video signalling, without being restricted to a proprietary protocol or walled-garden service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol)

And then there's SIP.
Why go so high-tech with fake DNA? Just take an actual DNA sample of your intended stalking horse (e.g. their saliva) and place it in the crime scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6yCinSlZk

Great interview for those who haven't seen it.
You are very right, but the fact of the matter is that money will probably be the deciding factor in who gets access to this kind of technology and who does not.

It's not as though our current status of 'defending' the rights of the people in tight spots on this planet gives us much hope that in the future we will suddenly become a completely different race in this respect. History is littered with the corpses of those who were taken advantage of, I fail to see how the future will somehow be magically different.
The other style guides are worth a look too: http://code.google.com/p/google-styleguide/

Does anyone know if Google has a Java style guide?
I wonder how the author's wife feels about being presented this way? For programmers to judge?
Wow. I saw the 23 pages and closed it, but after seeing comments here I'm reading it and I've learnt a hell of a lot. This isn't your everyday review!
Posted this course content up a while ago. More material from this course can be found at:

http://pentest.cryptocity.net/
I found some aspects misleading, when applied to some specific problems. It's not in the reading or understanding (though that can be hard!), but in the applying.

But on reflection, this is very often the case with theoretical approaches: they can be misleading when you apply them to some specific problems. By "apply", I include the conceptualization of the problem, not just implementation.

Thanks for asking, but unfortunately I can't talk about the work at the moment, except to say it's more application than theory. I shouldn't have mentioned it when I'm not in a position to disclose, but I didn't realize the extent of the connection when I commented. Sorry - I feel really bad about this.
I will. I took GEB and leave it 200 pages from the end, it is great but i keep feeling im not getting something. Im starting over now. And "le ton..." would be next.
Great interview with him on Marketplace of Ideas podcast (Google it).
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What do you think about IJ? Where are you at in it? I'm ~400; was doing 75 pages a day during my summer break last week, but now that I'm working I'm down to 5 or 6 a day.
Thanks again Amir, I appreciate all your ideas.

What do you think about this : http://www.querycell.com/captionMe.html

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Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:

I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Oh, how we've forgotten where we have come from.
still useful advice, I always have two source files side-by-side. (At 1024x600 my eeepc has just enough room for a 160 column terminal in a font-size I can read).
For that you need access, for this trick all you need is access to the data, which will be in some database somewhere waiting to be 'lost'.

Just a couple of hours ago there was this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797655 link which argues that is perfectly ok to share your genetic data.

Genetic data is currently used in two different ways, on the 'consumer' end of the spectrum there are services like 23andme and a whole bunch of others that deal with 'markers', genetic configuration bits if you will. These markers are unique, but not as unique as your genome would be. On the other 'end' is your full genome, all 4 billion plus base pairs of it.

Your full genome would allow an imposter to create evidence that would match exactly from data alone.

It's like manufactured diamonds vs 'real' ones. They're both real, in fact the manufactured ones are usually identified because they are 'too good'.

Once you reach that stage it is not too far fetched to imagine that someone would be able to fool the tests (according to the article based on 'methylation') that currently distinguish 'real' dna from 'fake' dna.
My wife actually likes me explaining technical things. She says it helps her get a good sleep.
One cannot simply focus on the corpses without also seeing the wars that caused them.

I would hope that there are a noble few that choose to stand up to such a development.
How does this really differ from what we've been able to do for a good while now with openMP #pragma statements?
A degree is worth what you make of it both during College as well as after it. By all means it is not necessary in order to be 'successful'in terms of business a.k.a. money. If you have a passion for something by all means don't go to College and follow your passion being a start-up idea or any idea for that matter. What the author is advocating is that you can actually do so much more by just 'collaborating'. You can network during your studies as well.

I personally benefited tremendously from having a University Education and have had numerous businesses of my own over time. For sure College Education might not be relevant to 90% of the work I do, but it has enriched me as a person.

Between choosing to keep my College memories in my brain or my my money in the bank I would opt for the first!
by selecting for some traits that are clearly visible to us we may be inadvertently introducing major trouble down the line

Do you have any reason to believe we will be introducing more trouble down the line than if we'd continued procreating in the usual fashion? I don't see any actual argument. Genetic techniques can even be globally beneficial in the long run by counterbalancing the dysgenic effect of modern medicine that helps genetically disadvantaged people survive and procreate.
>Egan had an amazing life, encompassing involvement in the Apollo space programme, the US Marines, starting and building the most successful storage company on the planet, and becoming the US ambassador to Ireland. Finally, aged 73 and facing a lingering death, he ended the battle decisively and on his terms. He was never a shrinking violet.

Would you do the same? I would!
Well, what if genetics were predestination? Would it be okay to judge/exclude somebody based on Minority Report-type information about them, as opposed to Gattaca-type information? Is there a difference? I wonder what people here think.
I don't think it's that at all. She's not vacuous, and the explanations are probably not needlessly complex.

She doesn't care (to the extent that the husband does). She has other interests and areas where she is the expert. I'd experience the same thing with my wife. I would start talking about something I'm working on, and she would follow for a while. But after a certain amount of time or level of technical depth, she would lose interest. Not because she's stupid, but that I had passed the point of her interest.

At some level, our work is just plain boring to other people.
It was to do with applying a particular aspect of the theory to a particular problem. I guess the lesson is the old one that theories can't always be usefully applied to every problem in practice, even when the theories are perfectly true. "There is no difference between theory and practice - in theory."

I'm sorry, I (mysteriously) can't disclose specifics. Actually, I think it would be of interest to vanishingly few people, and as I explained it, even the remaining ones would quietly slip away.
I loved RR as a kid.

However, that being said, can we keep in mind as we reap our scorn on the powers that be that this is a tv show that talks about books.

There is a much easier way to foster a love of reading in a child. Here's only one of many starts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottes_Web
Sole introverts make terrible founders - startups are very social activities, if they go anywhere.
Something interesting in the comments:

"The screen on my Macbook Pro was trying to auto-adjust its brightness in a semi-dark room. Because as the screen darkened, the light sensors sensed darkness, it increased the screen brightness.. and so forth. So the screen was basically glowing bright and dark on an interval.

She asks, “Why is your computer breathing???”

Which is interesting because Mac laptops are designed to appear is if "breathing" when in sleep mode, and this "breathing" is communicated via a pulsing light. It appears she'd picked up this subtlety better than her husband.
>In this paper we suggest that a reinterpretation of market efficiency in computational terms might be the key to reconciling this theory with the possibility of making profits based on past
prices alone.

Is there some longer research accessible over the internet that describes these computational terms in a way that one can turn them in an application?

(I found the methodology fascinating, worth delving deeper into it!)
//jQuery one liner rather than long tree transversal?

var z=$('*').length;alert(z);
Misleading title - it should definitely include the fact that the clojure implementation was GPU based.
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Ignoring the fact that, as mentioned elsewhere this comparison is not like-for-like, clojure and java won't compile to precisely the same thing. Much like common lisp and C++ compilers targeting x86 won't compile code doing the same thing to exactly the same instructions (I know the JVM JIT means this isn't really fair comparison, but the basic point holds). The runtimes are completely different, too.
History also shows that people are often willing to stand up to great evil and oppose it. I don't disagree that humans have been pretty awful in the past and will continue to be in the future. We are not on some Hegelian march towards a preordained future. The decisions we make will decide whether we live in a good society or a dystopia.
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Is this news? Didn't Ariel Rubinstein work on the nexus between bounded rationality and the complexity of computing Nash equilibria in the 1980s?
His point is that Google won't be able to achieve their own goal of solving the next Big Problem if they only focus on looking for Big Problems to solve.
Cutting the pics of the girls and sticking them on the wall in my garage :)

Seriously, calendars are overstated applications and very few people really have a 'strong need'for it. Busy people's calendars are normally kept by their secretaries and I think there is potential in the opposite direction, providing calendars with less features.
> I don't see any actual argument.

I'm afraid you've got me there, this is speculative in nature, only time will tell.

Let me try another angle then, to me evolution is not about individuals, individuals are merely the current vessels holding a single copy (with possibly some local variations if you want to be very precise) of the status quo in contemporary genetics as perceived by that individual.

Sexual reproduction is in the majority of the cases the way in which this genetic material gets mixed and slowly, over generations these changes + mutations introducing new variation have converged on the diversity that you can observe around you.

To find the 'keys to the kingdom', to get 'root' on this system is of course a very powerful tool, but if you don't know exactly how powerful a tool is or how it works you would be wise to meddle with it as little as possible until you do have that knowledge.

Keep in mind that we will be selecting for phenotype only, what's going on under the hood is a question that your great-great-grandchildren might be able to answer, and if our luck of the draw runs against us it is possible that we introduce some effect that will only become apparent to them, we'll be long dead by then.

Those effects could be worse than the things we are trying to cure today, and I'm merely cautioning to be careful about unintended side effects of over enthusiastic modifications to our 'imperfect' genome.

It has served us well, let's give it the benefit of the doubt until we have solid proof that we are not going to create a larger problem.
> Why should Snapes be in the same sentence as Facebook or Twitter?

You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of programming. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering data model with its shimmering algorithms, the delicate power of liquids that creep through data streams, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses ... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.
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On a slightly related linguistic note, I find the following sentence annoying:
"Put yourself in the shoes of that Early Adopter. Does she want to see useless garbage phrases or does she want to hear about how you totally understand her pain?"

It's safe to bet that among the early adopters of a version control data mining tool there are overwhelmingly more males than females. Probably the poster feels that using she will somehow compensate this inbalance. I see the he/she problem as a bug of English, but using she in all technical text where a he would be more probable is just fake.
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I read voraciously as a child because I respected and modeled my parents and they read voraciously. As single-income, lower middle class Americans we couldn't afford a lot of popular luxuries but they would never turn down buying a book--the only exception being cases where a used or library alternative to a new book were readily available.

So, from my point of view, one thing missing from the equation is a focus on increasing adult literacy. Parents who sit around watching TV all day tend to have kids who sit around watching TV all day. Parents who read and write tend to have kids who read and write. And the associated creative and mental talents are sorely lacking in modern middle management in a way that I'd really appreciate seeing corrected over time. And there's room for both liberals and conservatives here: regardless of the argument as to whether government should promote such behavior or it should be entirely a private initiative, everyone can agree that maybe it's a good idea either way.

Sorry if that came off a bit snarky. Sore subject for me.
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Yeah, I was wondering if you need Apple's approval to pull an app, too, but that seems very unlikely.
I recently explained how speakers and microphones work to my wife. We were on a long drive and the topic of bluetooth headsets came up. I have a Plantronics 520 headset and the audio quality is pretty good. I casually mentioned that it's amazing how these tiny devices are able to create sound in such a wide range of frequencies and barely use any power. She asked me what's the big deal. I asked if she knew how speakers and microphones (dynamic) work and she said no.

Aha! For the next twenty minutes, I went over the basics of electromagnetism, diaphragms, and sound waves. I explained how so many different components work together to make sure the sound is captured and recreated exceptionally well. I felt pretty excited explaining something I had known since I was a tinkering kid to someone listening intently. After I was done, I said "Isn't that amazing?" and she said "Not as much as you" and smiled. That made my day.
That will make for another good rant when he'll try to contact Google about it and get no response :-)
Relying on Alexa? Especially in the US Compete.com is the way to go. Alexa is incredibly inaccurate these days.
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Some people care about how computers and software work, and some don't. Don't assume that someone is 'vacuous' just because they're not at all interested in the gory details of the classmethod you just refactored.
I hope they fixed their automatic update. I can't switch it off but each time it does update my interface customization is gone. It happens every few weeks.
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Sony PCs to have Google Web browser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus
Even as someone who loathes pretty much all versions of IE, this is something I can get behind. I can bitch all I want about slow javascript, no rounded corners, and other css bugs in IE8, but its still 1000 times better than IE6. Upgrade away people!
Keep in mind that we will be selecting for phenotype only

Ordinary natural selection, including human sexual selection, works this way too. I still fail to see why you worry.
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. Always a delight, the two prefaces for the collection written decades apart are a must read (Amazon Look Inside hasn't got it. Don't know why.).
I wonder if the unsolved problem of drilling a triangle hole is related to the geometric problem of dividing a line into three equal parts with just a compass.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797695
FWIW, Your site didnt seem very professional until I got to the pricing page. Both the content of this page and the pricing level of the product sent a clear signal that this was a "serious", enterprise-aimed product.

The rest of the site made me confident in your technical abilities but not the longevity of the company. The pricing made me feel more comfortable that you would be around for a while yet.
guy (astonished): Wait.. are you serious? In Linux? Really?

What a shame people still react like this. Three of the 5 best programmers I ever met are women. They're out there. Just not here.