skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Maybe they're playing into a popular "nerdy smart" stereotype? Knowing a lot of useless facts would be very nerdy indeed.
Sleep apnea and various sinus disorders are not rare.
I wasn't talking about "making demos". I was talking about native support in the platform to limit usage of an app to a certain time. The developer just clicks a checkbox "make 24 usage hour demo available" and that's it.
It's not cut and dry like that.
It's not uneducated to use Occam's razor: if someone tests as not being the mother, they almost always are not the mother. This is an every day occurrence.

Chimerism is a possible explanation but vanishingly unlikely. Two identified cases, ever (i.e. none before this).

This is news because it's exceptional.
They don't need to even do anything new feature-wise; they need CS that doesn't suck goat cheese through a coffee stirrer.

If I call in with a problem, give me someone that can both answer my questions and put fingers on the keyboard and fix said problem.

Not really that hard. No more indian call centers, no more useless CS, no more hiding need-to-know information behind the all-consuming veil of "fraud protection" (something its competitors don't seem to have that much of an issue with).

That's 90% of your problems fixed right there. The other 10% would be the inconsistent enforcement of rules.
Lucky you. Many people suffer from a deviated septum, which restricts airflow. The airflow in one of my nostrils is dramatically less than the other, and if the good one is blocked, for any reason (cold, allergies), I'm a mouth breather.
Sure, if the game isn't properly up-front about being a limited time demo, it rightfully feels tacky. But if you "bought" it by clicking a "try for a day" button, why would it feel tacky?
Random thoughts:

They are supposedly now banning keywords in titles so you won't be seeing more title like Floopy Bird - incredibly fun additive threes 2048 game. Good.

As for banning incentivized social actions: that really sucks if you aren't one of the companies (like King, Zynga, etc) that have really benefited from the growth of using those incentivized actions. Developers that came before you won't be punished and you are now going to have to spend your way to the top. Good luck with that.

One rumor is that they are banning some incentivized video ad networks because ads were coming up with Google Play logos. Oops.

Anyways - the long and short of it is, while the policies are probably net positive for the consumer, the people that gamed the system early still win.
I'm not disagreeing with you in thinking the scam is more likely at first glance, but as soon as there was compelling evidence it was not a scam, the professionals involved should have shared their awareness of the obvious biological possibly.

The smoking gun in this case that there was not a scam, but something more going on is the fact that she was her kids aunt.
At least make it tense and exciting:

(((RANDOM%6)==0)) && rm -rf / || echo Click
Do all of her ovum contain the same DNA or will some ovum have DNA A while others have DNA B? Would testing the DNA of her ovum (instead of blood, hair follicle, etc.) definitively shown a genetic relationship to her children?
Poaching:
Making a significantly more enticing offer to a deserving professional within a free market.
While I realize that one is going to find droids in government departments like social services, the mindless robotism displayed by government agents in this case were rather disturbing. To be absolutely certain that the child is hers, they had an officer there in the room to witness the birth. And yet despite actually witnessing the birth, it was decreed that the child must not be hers because of the DNA mismatch.

I can think of a scenario besides chimerism where this could happen: in vitro fertilization using eggs donated from another woman. But if someone has the means to have access to IVF, it strikes me as implausible that she'd try to scam welfare. Such implausibility should have occurred to the government agents on the case as well.
If I were to chat with a random person online, and their conversation starter was "Which is bigger, a shoebox or Mount Everest?", I'd probably ignore that - and disconnect after a couple more "witty" questions. Eugene is just trying to be nice.

As someone said, it gets better if you try having a normal conversation.

I'd like to see what would happen if the people who created this let a real 13 year old boy chat with people, but announcing it as the supercomputer version.
Thanks for those videos!

I've read/watched similar things before about habits but something just clicked for me that I'd like to try. I'm going to set my main goal as to simply creating the habits, rather than doing X amount work.

My goal for the next month is to create habits! This might change everything...
As a maintainer, I never found it particularly useful. Open source projects aren't generally democracies, and clicking an 'upvote' button is so low-effort that it wasn't really a good signal anyway.
Apologies for editing my point above.

Chimerism is well-studied because it's biologically interesting, but most social/medical professionals are not expected to come across human chimerism in their whole career.

Chimerism not often documented in humans and the other possibilities (e.g. surrogacy scam) are hugely more probable explanations.
IMO the goodness of Docker is the build system, images, layers, and the index. lmctfy has none of those features.
Source?

According to Merriam-Webster, to poach means "to attract (as an employee or customer) away from a competitor". No indication of illegality here.
I think they have a few things to fix before they go public, like the insane amount of money they've been spending on marketing.
Dang, I want those interactive plots with IPython notebooks
You're spot on. The wikipedia page has this to say on that subject:

"The key design principles within JavaScript are taken from the Self and Scheme programming languages."
>This is usually the collateral damage of an app growing within the overly tight conceptual confines of model/controller.

Well, you're supposed to have a different controller for every major view.

And said controller can always delegate to some object model specific to your app.
so by the same token no DNA evidence gathered at a crime scene would match her?

But I did think it interest if not distressing to that the authorities could witness a birth and totally discard her as being the mom because of a test.

Hopefully it drops the hint about all sciences, just when we think we know something there is always something else
There are lots of other things you can do to resist capitalist oppression - e.g. Unionize, or create other kinds of social support. A strawman isn't very useful.

I'm sorry you've chosen to be accusatory instead of reasonable.
Tetragametic chimerism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_%28genetics%29#Tetraga...
"People over Process" shouldn't be only for Agile software development.
Some loss can be stopped with better enforcement of laws/treaties (e.g. overfishing, destruction of reefs, poaching). The countries most responsible (e.g. China) do not really care or do not have the resources to do enforcement. The US used to be in that boat, though is doing better this millennia.

Some loss could be stopped by political means (e.g. capping greenhouse emissions), though honestly that will probably never happen in time for most species at risk. The human impact (e.g. trillions of dollars in loss, hundreds of millions displaced) will eventually push those policies, but it hasn't happened yet.

The rest... we can try to sequence and re-introduce. We are unlikely to get to the majority of species, though, since somewhere between 1-500 go extinct each day.
I think for many people cost is the most important factor. People who bought the RPi did so because it was so cheap that it was practically an impulse purchase.

Disregarding the actual device price, the other issue here is the expensive module pricing. Let's face it, if you're buying this because you want to do things the simple way then you're going to be buying modules. Ambient light + MicroSD card? That'll be $50 please. Too many electronics outfits shaft consumers like this and too many electronics hobbyists put up with it.
3 Reasons to Outsource Software Development to Eastern Europe
I discovered Nix recently while searching for a _build_ tool that isn't limited by binary-only or source-only dependencies. If anyone is interested here is a collection of my thoughts/findings.

https://bitbucket.org/cofarrell/one-build-tool/src/master/RE...

Would love to hear any feedback people have about the idea.
Is HN upvoting articles now because it has a go.com domain? This Go craziness is getting out of hand.
What if I told the humans there was 1 AI, but there were really 15 AIs and just a few humans. How many humans would volunteer, "There may be only 1 AI, but many seemed just as inhuman."
Yes paypal 'sucks'. But the problem is not that it sucks. The problem is to do better. And it is quite possible that anybody that has ever tried to do better ended up with something that sucked even more than paypal.

Combating fraud is hard, at scale with half the worlds petty criminals seeing you as the obstacle between them and their victims you're in for a rough ride.

I wouldn't judge them too harshly. (Even if I personally will never use them ever again I do appreciate the kind of issues they have to deal with.)
Except to make this analogy complete the store would make you wait 30 minutes to check out even if there was no one else in the store. In other words, the wait is artificial to begin with.

Paying to be prioritized in a system with limited resources is one thing, paying to get rid of an entirely artificial restriction is quite something else.
2nd China Army Unit Implicated in Online Spying
There's helpscout that let you reply directly from gmail but still use their team inbox. However I find it very pricey.
So, I had tried to submit a "Show HN" a couple of times, and it never worked.

A week later, someone else submitted the link to my project and it made the front page of HN.

Thus, I suspect there is a great deal of variance/chance involved.
How much new can they really do as a payment processor?

I'm sure there's some little things they could dabble in but realistically the only things people want from Paypal are less fees, less account closures/theft from account holders, faster transfers and overall better customer support.

Paypal doesn't need to innovate, they need to fix the obvious issues that relegate their service to a "barely workable until the instant someone better comes along" paradigm.
Cool, but is it free as in beer?
Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see Docker VS VM's.

https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/
Surely it's a little late for an IPO from GoDaddy. They've been around for a long time, they're already established as a market leader, there'll be little to no hype.

Forbearing a massive success with the new TLDs that seem to be given out like candy, I can't see any huge growth areas for them to move into. Maybe China, but that's always going to suffer from preferential treatment to incumbent local competition. (If the Chinese allow free DNS registration at all?)

The only way I'm seeing this is that the owners want to sell, but the financials are so bad they couldn't find a private buyer. I'll give it a pass unless anyone knows different?
Typos and no sources. Why not just go to random Wikipedia pages?
The level of meddling by the government is absolutely incredible. No-one complained, they had a bunch of witness to the contrary, but still they had to go through with their procedure. Frightening times we live in, when our lives may hang on the whim of some bureaucrats.
If this happened in the US they'd be slammed to the concrete in handcuffs, tried as an adult, and thrown in prison for 10 years for various wire fraud, hacking, and probably some sort of terrorist charges.
I had assumed GoDaddy was already public. Seems like the sort of company that would have gone public ages ago when it was still growing aggressively.
This is a change I wholeheartedly agree with. The prompts in games to make you watch advertisements or download other apps for game credits was always to me a bit iffy. I am glad to see Apple officially forbidding these kind of moves. Developers of free-to-play games will just find other clever ways of making money off of free users, whether that be prompting you to spend real money on in-app purchases or even forcing you too at some point: who knows what will happen.
What tabs wouldn't provide you is the separation of resource management. Your little tabs would die, refresh, reload with the rest of your main browser (there may have other limitations, e.g. cookie size limit). Is that a good thing? Not always, at all time, at least.
How to become super, super wealthy - Income inequality in America
Good. Start with Angry Birds Star Wars telepods and don't let them back in if they remove it. Rovio really ruined the good thing they had going by getting way too greedy.
It depends greatly on the programmer, and how much time you allot them. GCC will produce vastly better code than any human programmer, given a specification in C and a time bound of 1 second. Give them ten minutes? An hour? A week?

At the extreme a sufficiently adept assembly programmer (which probably still exist) will still beat the compiler, given enough time, though that can be helped by the ability to reference the code the compiler is generating.
This reminds me of Doc Daneeka from Catch-22:

For those who haven't read it, he's a flight surgeon who hates flying, but since he's attached to a bomber squadron, he's required to get a certain amount of flight time a month to get flight pay. He hates flying, so he bribes the guy in charge of the flight log to just say he got his flight time. The problem, is the plane he was officially on (but not on in reality) crashed killing everyone onboard. This is the official record for the government, and since the official record says he's dead, he must have died.

This causes all sorts of problems when people in the bureaucracy notice that he's not dead. Instead of accepting that their records don't match reality so the records are wrong, they reason that reality doesn't match their records so reality must be wrong. His wife realizes that it's financial beneficial for her if she acknowledges his death, so she pretends he's dead as well.

It's a brilliant satire on government bureaucracy and how members of the bureaucracy take it as being fact, and until I read this story about the woman murdering her twin in the womb, it was hilarious to me. Now it's a bit more frightening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Daneeka
The ova all come from the germline so IMHO it's overwhelmingly likely they would have the same DNA but it's not exactly guaranteed: it depends if her ovaries are chimeric.
The article mentions surrogacy (in the context of fraud), so I wonder why the theory of her having used donated eggs was not mentioned. Would accepting donor eggs disqualify someone from receiving benefits?

Also, it is a MUCH more likely explanation than chimerism.
>The state was still so suspicious of Fairchild that when she gave birth to another child, a court officer stood in the delivery room to witness an immediate DNA test.

If you go as far as that, why wouldn't you test mitochondrial DNA? Using Ocamm's razor myself, I will speculate that she wasn't able to get a very good lawyer.
there is no Occam's razor when you're doing an in depth investigation. Either they do a cursory DNA test or they try testing the father too, and then everything is in depth.

(well I come form a country where the judicial system is inquisitory, not accusatory, so maybe I'm biased in my point of view)
When did you first learn of human chimerism? This story is from 2006, about a dispute in 2002. Social workers aren't the most scientifically-literate, and bureaucracies are often under the spell of folklore-beliefs in the certainty of genetic science, picked up from TV or state prosecutors. (Even medical 'professionals' aren't always up-to-date on topics that were considered only vanishingly-rare curiosities, when they were in med school decades ago.)

Awareness of chimerism has risen a lot in the last decade, and if you learned about it yourself in the last 10 years, it might have been due to followup coverage from this and similar cases.

And while this 2006 article describes it as a 'rare' condition ("only 30 documented cases worldwide"), in fact the more scientists look the more they find it. There's since been evidence that on a small scale, cells pass from mother-to-child and child-to-mother in the womb, and these cells are still present in blood or brain decades later... meaning almost everyone might
be a chimera.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take.ht...
CS is expensive and the margins on micro-transactions is small.

Think about the order of magnitude:

(1) An average 2.5% transaction fee on a $100 dollar e-bay transaction is US$2.50 in revenue.

(2) The cost of sending someone a "paper bill" in the mail (fully amortized) is approximately US$2.00, or 80% of the revenue from a $100 sale.

(3) at $8.50/hour, a minimum wage worker would expend >80% of revenue by spending 15 minutes to help you.

(4) A "quick fix" with a paper-trail (2+3 above)quickly turns the transaction negative ($2+2=$4>$2.50) at the margin.

(5) Since every fix is an instant loss, profit maximization implies "fix minimization"--at least as one component of strategy.

(Disclaimer: This is all made up math.)
This is a problem with most large companies. Once you reach a certain size, you encounter problems with scaling. Paypal is such a big company the only way they and other companies like them innovate is by acquiring other companies and teams because it's cheaper and easier.

The amount of friction within a company like Paypal I would imagine is quite high. Not even those at the top of companies like these can change things at the flick of a switch. Things move very slowly in large companies, this is why smaller startups are able to come along and shake things up so easily before being acquired. It is how it is.
It's the very next definition of the page you are quoting.

Poach (verb) "to trespass for the purpose of stealing game; also : to take game or fish illegally"
Sofar bomb
GoDaddy's advertising is horrible and their policies are questionable. I personally find myself hoping that the IPO doesn't go well.
[[citation needed]]

I would like this site more if I could click through to a Wikipedia article or something containing the fact.
Bob Parsons pulled the IPO back in 2006 because of market conditions: http://www.bobparsons.me/archive_article.php?entry_id=121
Garden Organic Nature's Way
Will We Still Have Fruit if Bees Die Off?
Consider this another data-point in the case against means-testing for welfare and for basic income. I fail to understand how the parentage of the children was at issue at all: the children were her dependents, she (and they) needed help. Why was parentage an issue? Did the children magically not need help if she wasn't their biological parent?

We can shake our heads at how the machine we all fund chews people up and spits them out, and try to improve that machine, the better solution is to eliminate an entire class of "chewing" through simply eliminating means-testing and having something like a basic income.
Taking into account the value of one's time, maybe paying $50 for a pair of modules rather than taking the time to discover how to build them from scratch is a worthwhile spend? Enough hobbyists seem to think so, based on the success of these businesses.
> Inability to compile Docker from source without using the Docker Project's provided "black box" binary Docker.

You can compile it from source (assuming you have a go environment and set GOPATH properly):

$ sudo apt-get install libdevmapper-dev libsqlite3-dev btrfs-tools

$ go get -u github.com/dotcloud/docker/docker

docker will be in your $GOPATH/bin

> GO Lang is still pretty obscure for most developers, and an interesting choice given the language's youth and likely-hood to change rapidly as it matures.

Go1 promise will be kept by Go team[0].

> Docker is built on-top of existing Linux technologies, mainly LXC, making it more-or-less disposable in the future (as someone else figures out how to abstract/manage LXC better)

No, docker right now is built on top of libcontainer[1].

0. http://golang.org/doc/go1compat

1. http://blog.docker.com/2014/03/docker-0-9-introducing-execut...

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"half git-syntax/half package manager-syntax is cumbersome to me."

Offer them some suggestions on how to clean up the UI.

"Inability to compile Docker from source without using the Docker Project's provided "black box" binary Docker."

Addressed in a different comment.

"No formal explanation of how to create your own base image from scratch (ie. not using a Docker Project provided base image)."

As usual, documentation rarely keeps up pace with the rest of the project despite best intentions. Mind you, despite some holes, their documentation is quite impressive.

"Defaults to storing images in the Docker "cloud" repo."

This will probably change now that Google is embracing it.

"GO Lang is still pretty obscure for most developers, and an interesting choice given the language's youth and likely-hood to change rapidly as it matures."

Addressed in a different comment.

"Docker is built on-top of existing Linux technologies, mainly LXC, making it more-or-less disposable in the future (as someone else figures out how to abstract/manage LXC better)"

This is a benefit of Docker! I'd rather see them build it with existing components wherever they can.

"Docker is mainly built by Dotcloud - a for-profit company. Dotcloud has been very generous in their effort... but, being for-profit, what is their take out of it? (It can't be "just for the goodness of Linux")."

They're following a tried-and-true pattern for generating revenue off an open source model (giving away the product for free and making money on support and consulting). Companies that try to throw out a crappy product and charge for support quickly find themselves with no customers. Also, now that Google is on-board, you can expect the product to improve significantly as they contribute to the repo even more.
That's absolutely what our stats say.A tiny portion of players will spend a crazy amount of money in IAP,while the great majority will never pay anything.The "free" app is kinda subsidized. Doesnt excuse dirty IAP tricks,you can choose the IAP model and still let most users have a great experience even without paying.
I hope so, too. Whatever the case, I've noticed far better reception with T-Mobile than I've ever had with Sprint (and this is way up in the Sierras, up near Tahoe; good cell reception is pretty much unheard of up here), plus I'm paying $20 less than what I was for Sprint even with the phone payments factored in, so I'm pretty happy with the switch, too.

Haven't tried international roaming (I've never left the continental U.S.), but having that available makes me less nervous about being able to get in touch with someone if I'm abroad.
I'm not claiming typeclasses are classes, but more like modules and that modules achieve at least some of OO. Entity-like identity is a notably more difficult thing to pull off, but still is easily embedded in IO or ST.

I'm not saying it's a complete OO implementation, but instead that it's not so far as to be completely unconfusable, though it might be hard to, say, do Smalltalk-in-Haskell.