skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Said primate could potentially avert its own extinction

There is no reason to believe that a mass extinction of other species would effect a human extinction.

Even now, with only a few decades of genomics under our belt, we could probably replace every single food source humans currently rely on with genetically engineered algae/fungi/etc.

That is the worst-case scenario for mass extinction caused by habitat shift, and doesn't result in the extinction of humans.
I don't see that as a problem. I read books and narrate them to myself in my head. Sometimes I even develop voices for the characters. If they're talking fast, I read it faster. If the action is slow, I read it slower. When the author describes something, I take the time to visualize it in my head.

The downside to this (other than sometimes slow reading) is that by the end of the book I am so deeply entrenched in this world that I don't want to leave it. It really feels like I'm leaving something behind forever when I finish the last page. I had withdrawls from Wool and its associated trilogy by Hugh Howey. Such an engrossing series and such relatable characters that with my reading style, I was devastated. And then I moved on to the next book.
To go on, they're a result of two competing philosophies regarding natural areas and conservation from the early 20th century. The two schools of thought were essentially embodied in John Muir[1] (National Parks) and Gifford Pinchot[2] (National Forest Service). It's a really interesting narrative if you're at all interested in these distinctions and protected areas in the United States. It's the sort of thing that can be traced all the way through to attitudes today, and provides a nice context for why these systems exist.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir#Activism_and_controve...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot#Forestry_policy...
Capitalism is cancer.
I cannot stress how much exercising to exhaustion daily (read: Crossfit) and eating healthy (Slow Carb / Paleo) impacted my depression.

Please try them before you medicate.
The earliest life forms where not photosynthetic. Further the change was slow enough to give life plenty of time to adapt.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_photosynthesis
Related: https://github.com/tybenz/vimdeck
Show HN: A website that uses D3.js and Three.js to present data from PubChem
Here's the website: https://www.chemplore.com

The search box has autocomplete functionality, in case you need ideas for molecule names. I also created two demos (one short and one detailed) which are available in /blog.

It's best viewed using the most recent desktop browsers especially Chrome or Firefox. There are still some rough edges including one single point of failure which I'm working on fixing it. This is my first website so your feedback is very welcome!

Chemical and biological data are typically huge and complex, and many molecular features can be hard to extract, interpret or predict. I personally have created some tools to make some aspects of working with molecules a bit easier. This website originally started as one of them, and then I thought to extend it and make it public so hopefully others find it useful too.
I believe Rails5 will require Ruby 2.2.x (which does garbage collection on symbols).
Ditto for academic finance - so many sketchy results get advertised, and billions if not trillions of dollars get invested based on false or uncertain hypotheses... Sometimes I feel that 90% of my job is to be skeptical of all results, and convince managers not to do anything stupid - a sort of "first, do no harm" philosophy.
> Can somebody explain to me why every startup company(or at least every one that articles are written about) feels the need to raise as much VC as possible ASAP?

1. It pays the bills.

2. Raising money is a strong signal of success both from a personal entrepreneur perspective and for the success of the team (whether you disagree with that notion or not, it's simply true). Whether that translate to success is a different story.

3. Raising money means your business exists. Many people (especially B2B) don't want to do business with vendors who aren't going to be around in 6 months.

4. The speed at which tech startups are created, also exists in reverse. Startups close down all of the time.

> Neither of them had to resort to advertising before their companies got big.

> I don't believe its a stretch at all to think that me and a buddy could build something like Snapchat or Instagram in a couple of weeks and throw it up on App Engine.

Heh, if it's that easy then, ummm, go build it? Chucking millions of dollars at these startups isn't necessarily about building the product, it's about supporting their growth to get network effects ASAP. Achieving "the network effect" means you've got a nice big moat around your business, which VCs and entrepreneurs love. You're right, they didn't have to do advertising, but they did have to pay for shit-hot SRE people to make sure 1bil tweets could be sent every week (or whatever).
That makes sense.

According to the download page (http://rubyonrails.org/download/), the current Rails version requires Ruby 1.9.3 or newer.

Hopefully testing with Ruby 1.9.3 and the newest (Ruby 2.1.3) will give enough assurance that it works on all the versions in between.
+1 for Reagent. A lot of curious HNers seem to find Om first, but Reagent is a very simple straightforward way to get going with React and Clojurescript.
As neovim matures I think the opportunities for rich extension and scripting are going to blow away anything vi/vim users have ever had. I think ex-mode could be reimplemented as you suggest, or we'll end up with other awesome approaches that were simply unthinkable in the old architecture and codebase.
That is so metal.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
There was zero chance of the UK letting them go, though. Everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence (and anyone associated with them, and on into a pretty wide net) was guaranteed to be executed for treason if the revolution failed.

They were getting taxed a lot, but they were still quite well off. George Washington had a huge estate. Most of the founders owned lots of land, and many of them owned lots of people. They were far from desperate, but still risked their lives.

Imagine if, say, Bill Gates decided he didn't like giving the US federal government billions in taxes and decided to lead an armed insurrection to make Washington (state) an independent country.
My RSS feed lists the post as "NFL announcers keep mistakenly calling Surface tablets iPads" while coming to the page i see the title as "Apple intercepts Microsoft's Surface tablet NFL play". I'd assume the RSS feed has the original title before it was changed.
I'd also like to know what you use. I want to only blacklist as well, but I can't find anything with good support for that.
Your post could be called "Why the company culture where I experienced scrum should die in a fire"

It is all about the implementation. Just today I had a manager, remind the developers who were talking too much that the meeting needed to be over in 15 mins. Horrible long meetings is a culture thing.

Blaming someone for something because they left early is a culture thing.

Managers sitting everyone standing is a culture thing.

Scrum is a tool. You can use it badly, and horrible cultures will use it badly.
ha, thank you! I wasn't offended by your comment, and in fact agree with you that most products in this space aren't really keeping the user in mind.

Just wanted to show you that we're not ALL user unfriendly :)
This is complete speculation, and not even good speculation.

Gmail for iOS is essentially a single-site web browser, whereas the Mail app is a full iOS app utilizing the full CocoaTouch frameworks. A native app is going to have a faster experience.

Also, use objdump or something, like a professional -- not strings.
I can't imagine us doing something like this for animals when we can't even do it for Ukrainians. From a political perspective, aggressive nations will always be seeking out annexations/territorial control and limiting the amount of land for human use would only encourage this. I mean, we're already discussing oil territorial disputes in multiple locales as well as upcoming "water wars" as unavoidable.

I don't think humanity is up to the task. This proposal sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel where everyone is a Marty or Mary Sue or some benevolant engineer dictator is running the show. In real life, guys like Putin don't give two shits about life and will march troops on a whim to obtain resources.
It's not true. Some still uses it extensively in the case of editing the last commands. But there is alternative way.

I am happy that they will remove this mode in the future :)
WALP (We Are Lazy People)
emscripten/clang?
It looks like tarruda explicitly says, "As for the ex command-line utility, that can easily be implemented as separate program that talks to nvim via msgpack-rpc".

This seems like a reasonable separation of concerns.
I hope this is not meant to be serious.
What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Talk About
Of course it's the draw of easy money. Isn't that the whole point? If you want to cut down on crime, make legitimate money easier to obtain (and/or make criminal money harder to obtain).
http://soiledearth.com/organic-living/organic-vs-conventiona...
That's my biggest problem with bitcoin. If someone figures out how to reverse sha256 they could just mine blocks here and there without attracting too much attention, but in reality the whole thing would be on shaky ground and truly worthless.
Save Time and Legal Fees: Tips for Raising Seed Money
What names are allowed on Facebook?
this is great!
ncurses never dies.
Ants Are Cool but Teach Us Nothing
Related: DeckSet
http://www.decksetapp.com/

Can't make your own themes yet, but does a great job with everything it does.
"There's a lot more depth in US equities markets than you think."

That's a keeper!

Liquidity is a high-velocity component to markets. There's more depth that the sub-OP credits the market with at the present instant. But it really can disappear fast. I think there's actually a lot less depth to US equities than most people think, over the long run.
> paddle "as far round the coast as we can" in an inflatable dingy and a crate of beer.

That seems incredibly dangerous to do. It is good to hear you survived.
But uh, with the python, ruby, golang, lua (or whatever else has been chosen) integration do you really need vimscript any more?
Keep in mind that there's a difference between a negative result and failure to find.

I don't know enough about your field to understand the results you're talking about, but in machine learning "failing to reject the null hypothesis" generally indicates failure to find, not a genuine negative result.

I find strong negative results to be compelling, but have little interest in wading through failure to find.

Aside: In NLP + ML, there was a now defunct publication called the Journal For Interesting Negative Results: http://jinr.org/
Well, you're not the only one. I have been depressed for nearly 10 years and (voluntarily) socially isolated.

My work (in multiple jobs), which wasn't difficult, made me exhausted and put so much additional strain on me that every day I felt closer to suicide. While I haven't been suicidal since I left I still think it is more likely than not that my life ends that way.

I no longer have friends, I don't talk to anyone except for polite chit chat, and have lost my libido but unlike you none of these things bother me though I know this isn't healthy.

I don't have any advice to give. Books, therapy and exercise didn't work for me and I'm afraid to take drugs because of the permanent or long term side effects.

PS: I'm also not looking for any advice or empathy from the armchair psychiatrists here.
I agree with you but that has little to do with swedish style welfare. Too many prisoners is due to draconian drug policies which are thankfully changing
Anatomy of a Feature: Push Notification Architecture
All those things are fanciful nonsense if users either avoid entering data, delay entering data or fudge data entry because the system is heroically terrible.
To be honest, there are no real different experiences with self-taught engineers compared to university grads-

It's difficult to say what makes a good engineer, but in my opinion it's more the tinkering and curiosity kind of stuff that really matters. Some may call that soft skills, so odds are it's equally likely to find those characteristics in both autodidacts and grads.

Maybe that's the reason why Facebook is on PHP: They they: We need a personality kind of guy as developer no matter what he has learnt or not, so we take PHP as we can teach him that very quickly.

One thing which is more common in self-taught people is humbleness and modesty.

So, what you should do is display it prominently: Being a self-taught guy highlights the curiosity you need for being an engineer at most, in my believs

hth
I guess I'll be the only person to comment on the actual Moz business struggles rather than the depression side of this post. Moz raised their money at a really tricky time because it was right before Google essentially bent over the SEO industry. When Rand mentions the Content tool that hasn't even started being developed, that was something that was supposed to take your Google Analytics keyword referrer data and match it to your content and your rankings and your links and your competitors and basically help you spot keywords and content you can easily rank better for.

The timeline seems to be matching up where they had this plan for this tool before any of the Google SSL stuff started, so as they started working on the design and UX of it, Google started rolling out the SSL stuff and it basically ruined their idea. Moz ended up adding tools to try and guess what keywords made up your "(not provided)" data but that's a far cry from what they were originally planning.

I'm basing this entirely on being heavily involved in the SEO industry around the times mentioned in Rand's article and having even run a successful SEO SaaS product (which is still going even though I've moved on to other projects). I just remember seeing screenshots of what they wanted to build and thinking "wow, if they can nail this, it will be great". I wanted to build a similar app. But when Google started hiding all organic keyword data in analytics, I distinctly remember saying "Well there goes Moz's whole new product".

Google really fucked the SEO world up with their (not provided) move. Think what you will about SEO but it's still a legitimate marketing channel and I really have never been able to understand why Google thinks it's ok to not share your organic keyword data but your paid keyword data is totally fine to share with site owners.

But not much anyone can do about that now I suppose.
This will only become possible when a couple for important milestones are reached --and they a biggies. First we have to get rid of a lot of the roads. And that can't happen until personal flight becomes common place. Second human population has to stop growing, in fact it needs to shrink even now. We are already reaching upper limits on agricultural and water availability. Unfortunately, while the former is difficult enough, the later is near impossible due to the dominance of infantile religions.
Very cute, but where is Ruby?
This should be a series: if Javascript frameworks were cars, if mobile development were pop stars etc.
Protect your Node.js before unleashing it to the Wild Wild Web
I don't think it's possible to rely solely on genetic engineering for natural substances at the massive scales we consume them.
Even with a company Amex and with the receipt app, it still regularly takes me hours to submit a report for even a short trip.
Unfortunately, you can't pay your rent or student loans with underwater stock options or "cool company vision". Most companies have something interesting or unique about their vision or product, so that's rarely a differentiator. And, the equity portion of a job offer usually ends up being close to worthless unless you're employee #1-10. So, at the end of the day, cash is king.
> That was the theory pushed fairly successfully by many social reformers in the 60's and early 70's. The net result, or at least the concurrent event, was a massive crime wave.

It wasn't even a concurrent event, it was a preceding event -- the rising crime wave began roughly concurrent with the end of WWII, rose in a fairly smooth unbroken trend (With a few interruptions -- which started in the 1970s.) If any result in crime rates resulted from social reforms advocated in the 1960s and 1970s (which is questionable), its more like it was the interruptions in the long-running trend of increasing crime rates, not the increase that started more than a decade before the reforms were advocated.

Demographics in the key criminal age demographic -- both from the demobilizations after the WWII and Korea, and then the Baby Boom, is probably the key factor driving the increase (and subsequent decrease as that demographic bulge passed that age band.)
There is the question of vanilla iOS being susceptible to attack from NSA and any other malicious attacker and then there is the question of is the security design sufficient such that even apple could not backdoor your privacy should they desire. The latter is what the original commented was addressing. I think the statements from apple do not clarify this matter and we should assume they can backdoor should be required by warrant. I need to see detailed technical specifications for their claimed security measures before I would trust these statements (if someone has a RTFM link, much appreciated).
Reading slowly makes me drowsy. I think that's a sign I need to get more sleep!
What does religion have to do with it? It's just evolution, isn't it? If you choose not to reproduce, your less conscientious neighbors who choose to have 7 kids will simply replace you. We are all descendants of a long line of individuals that reproduced successfully.
Yikes, should not have asked friends who didn't have accounts to vote for us. Thanks for the insight :-)
So how do you get from the commit message to this headline?
Does ZFS on Linux support ARM? I'd like to give it a spin in Arch Linux ARM.
I see twitpic, imgur, Facebook, and even services like flickr as temporary methods to share photos online.

These are really not the same types of service.

* Twitpic was for posting photos incline on Twitter in the days before Twitter added that feature. This is a very specific function: it's not a photo storage site, and never has been.

* Imgur was originally for sharing photos on reddit, but not inline: you go to Imgur to view them. But there's no guarantee that your photos won't be deleted for one reason or another (as the celebrity nudes were deleted).

* Facebook is for sharing photos with friends. There's every expectation that they'll be available as long as you have a Facebook account, and you can download them. However, there's no guarantee that your original photos will be saved in their original resolution. Again, it's not an archival back-up site.

They are different sites, set up to provide different functions.
I spoke with my UberX driver about unionization the other day; it's honestly the only way forward for the drivers.

Without unionizing, the prices will continue to be cut and they will continue to lose out. Going even further, lots of people are talking about the job creation boom associated with the sharing economy. However, in the case of Uber and Lyft, that's short term. In 10-15 years, does anyone actually think people will be driving cars for Uber in San Francisco? With the way things are going, auto-driving cars will take their place.

Unions could lobby the state legislature to make for auto-driving cab or ride services illegal without a driver in the car. Right now, they could make a serious case for that as a safety thing, since the technology is unproven. In 5-10 years, that won't be the case.

So yes, from the driver perspective, they have to unionize. If they don't they're finished sooner or later.
Have you tried using rvm under Cygwin ? If you can use rvm and Cygwin, you should be able to use the latest Ruby version.
BackOffice: Uber for online office employees
We use this at work and it's awesome. Solved a lot of big problems and a lot of little problems, like "works on my machine but not prod" and rebuilding your dev env when you switch machines. etc.

The one thing that became a problem was managing vmware (the plugin is a closed source one, so it was hard to debug any issue that came up with it - easily solved by writing our own open source one)
The question is not can we.

The question is what standard of living do we want for species in the long term.

We can always live more comfortably today by consuming non-renewable resources that make our world sustainably enjoyable, but at the loss of the benefit that resource would later give. Slash-and-burn farming does this. As do putting up a mall over untouched land, burning fossil fuels, and overpopulation, for example, all of which do the opposite of setting aside part of the planet.

Business people know the concept better than anyone. They know a company is in trouble if it sells an asset whose operation produces profit to pay for current operations.

We can set off as much of the planet as we like and live in as much abundance per person as the planet can sustain indefinitely, though not as much abundance per person as we can today by consuming non-renewable resources. Using up those resources today only impoverishes future generations.

We can do either. What do we choose?
Great article although I think it’s worth mentioning the pattern of checking the iOS system version for method availability (e.g., `if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 8.0)`) should be avoided.

I think it’s a better practice to query the object in question if it responds to the desired selector. This way, if the method ever goes away (in say iOS 10), you won’t send the wrong message to the object/class.
How do AWS Certifications work?
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Drop Test
>Enough to mostly eradicate poverty.

What does that mean? A homeless person today can afford food, often (temporary) shelter, frequently a cell phone...

I'd say poverty has effectively been "mostly eradicated" already by production technology.
How about sources of oxygen? What if we kill off species that are vital to the reproduction of plants? I highly doubt that we're scientifically advanced enough to replace anything we rely on considering we've yet to be able to replace fossil fuels.
I have an intuitive understanding that these "socialist" publications about the danger and perils of sharing economy are absolutely useless.

Either developed countries implement some variation of basic income or the social order will go down in flames. Unskilled labour, such as taxi drivers, will be commoditized and become interchangable. If anti-Uber initiatives and quasi-unions will get more power it will only increase the incentives to getting self-controlled cars on the roads. The automation-worker conflict can't be won by humans and can't be wished away.

Socialists (an outdated term for the society to come) should choose their battles much more wisely and concentrate efforts on developing and implementing of sustainable models of creating and redistributing wealth geared towards 90% of population.

Anti-Uber sentiment and the likes aren't sustainable and will fail.