skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More to the point would have been:

Does popular understanding of evolutionary theory need more depth and nuance?

The concepts of co-evolution and the symbiotic relationship between an organism and its environment are both established and obvious. The growing body of information related to non-genetic inheritance is very interesting, but it's not really a broad "rethink" of the core concept of evolution.

Still, it brings forth a few concepts that don't really get out of the classroom and into the mainstream such as the roles of behavior and teaching on reproductive success. When the subject comes up in the coffee house you'll hear appeals to `intelligence` or `strength` as intrinsic traits. Many successful organisms accumulate advantages through life (e.g. knowledge, immunities, strength). Some of these accumulated traits can be passed to offspring (knowledge through teaching; immunities through mother's milk); others simply aid the individual in achieving greater reproductive success. This isn't new information nor is it surprising to folks with knowledge of the subject, but it is missed in a more secular setting.

Unfortunately, it's hard to get to even this level of nuance because the public hasn't got past "survival of the species" and "nature vs nurture."
Apologies, missed that detail when posting.
> I thought that these were already generally accepted ideas within evolutionary theory.

They are. See e.g. epigenetics and the seminal studies about how grand-maternal environment can affect children.
I don't think that's accurate at all. The DNA has no effect on the cellular soup - the RNA etc - that are the bioreactor. That you got from some ancestral Eve. It changes perhaps over time, like anything else through random chance. But its independent of the DNA, which is a tiny part of the whole.
Ha.Ha. :) Pun (not) intended.
> Swift only has value with the Mac OS X and iOS ecosystems

And .NET only had value in the MS world before Mono which very popular.
I put the "ln -s" commands in a shell script.

git clone ... ~/.my-config
~/.my-config/setup-links

Done.

Some servers at work don't have Git installed (and certainly not Stow), so I rsync ~/.my-config from my workstation to my home directory. (There's little need for me to edit my .zshrc on a server.)
Seriously. Unfortunately OpenSwift appears to be taken [0]. It would have been the obvious choice.

[0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/openswift/
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So the new domains have been out for a few months now. What are you using them for? I have seen a few cool ideas, like http://vart.institute and http://registered.today - this is what I'm looking for. Also general sentiment around expanding the internet namespace.
dental hygiene and creating good habits.

Tooth removal is an avoidable problem, but a significant cause of hospitalised children in England.

http://www.child-smile.org.uk/parents-and-carers/birth-to-3-...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10964323/Tooth-...

> Almost 26,000 primary school children were treated for tooth decay in the past year, making it the most common reason youngsters are admitted to hospital, research shows.

> Nearly 500 children aged five to nine were hospitalised due to rotten teeth each week in 2013-14.
Notwithstanding the golden "correlation != causation" adage, I found that only two things are truly consumed in much larger quantities in America than any other country I know: soda and high fructose corn syrup...at the same time being the only country with a 35% obesity rate...hmmmm
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I was diagnosed with Lyme disease when i was in elementary school, ~5th grade. No rash was noticed. It wasn't until days later than my knees had swollen so bad that I couldn't walk without significant pain that my teachers and parents actually did anything.

Antibiotics and god awful syringes to extract the fluid in my knees. Even though I've been without pain in my knees since, it's left me with a life long hatred for high impact things like running.

I'm now 27. I'd generally say that I feel just fine. But on the other hand, "foggy brained" is also something that i'm pretty sure my Mother, and close friends would pin me as being.
Hey folks, just wanted to say that it’s very early days at the moment (as WoodenChair commented) — and we’re changing the button to "Sneak Peek" to reflect this. Poor Greg has been working his fingers off to get it ready (he’s pulled three all-nighters and that can’t be healthy so he’s been told in no uncertain terms to get some sleep now) and we should have a running compiler within the week.

If any of you want to help out, please do get in touch.

Ideally, of course, if Apple opens Swift up, we can contribute to that instead of duplicating effort :)
They are actually on 1.1 since yesterday jetpacksaway
I would be curious to know if the authors of this feels that there is something that Swift can give them that some other ML-like or whatever language can't, if we disregard any ties to the Apple platform and ecosystem.
I think the majority of the cost is the packaging The concentrated soda and carbonation isn't free, but a tiny fraction of the cost of the cup, lid and straw.
> Those people complaining about Google caring so much about their engineers being able to deal with basic algorithmic, instead, should wonder why every Google service is so fast.

I imagine it has little to do with algorithms and everything to do with infrastructure. Most Google services (and even outside of Google - most services, websites, mobile applications, etc) are simple store data/retrieve data services. When it comes down to the source, fast data access is thanks to the database, and very few developers develop database systems.
I have very similar setup to yours, but my solution is to use a bare repository. To set up dotfiles on a new computer is just

$ git clone --bare git@github.com:mbudde/homedir.git .homegit
$ git --git-dir=.homegit --work-tree=~ checkout -f # Overwrite existing files
$ echo '*' >> .homegit/info/exclude

And then I have a simple git wrapper script [1]. I moved from using an alias to a script for some reason I can't remember (and of cause I didn't write it in the commit message -_-).

[1] https://github.com/mbudde/homedir/blob/master/usr/bin/hgit
Congrats to the Firebase team. I remember stopping by your offices when there were just 4 people in a tiny office at 153 Townsend. All of the work you've done to help the community and build your product has been an inspiration. Wish you the best on the next leg of your journey.
"I've even started wearing boxer briefs just to keep them out of there at least."

Sadly, doesn't work. I've found two attached under the elastic band. Maybe they like the heat?
Don't the ticks get it from humans though?
How many years have to go by without Apple even talking about open-sourcing Swift before you consider it unlikely?
Raise our averages and lower our standards. Great.
There's also a Coke Zero Splenda version that substitutes Splenda for aspartame, but it's a separate product from the normal Coke Zero.
Sorry I meant shuttering down various sites after buying them. Not talking about support.
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the other weird thing is how hard it is to find carbonated seltzer in America... in Western Europe you basically trip over container loads of the stuff at every supermarket's entrance. Makes you wonder if carbonated seltzer is what might help change North American soda consumption habits
Indeed, I believe there is some internal conflict on this. Hopefully Phoenix will help sway the debate.
The aim of HeyUpdate is to get teams to reflect and write down what they accomplish at the end of each day (or after each task). The automated activity feed helps make everyone aware and provide more context. So far we've integrated with GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, Jira, Pivotal Tracker and more. People can be reminded to post a quick update via email or even in direct messages on Slack, HipChat, et al. We want to help people get things done and not get in the way. It's worked for our team and we hope it can help others too.

We're still early stages but have a growing number of early adopters who love the service.

Looking forward to some useful feedback!
Windows developers have fully embraced it since the early days, most of them don't care about Mono.
Nutrition doesn't work like that- there are too many variables. It could be something that fruit juice has and soda doesn't, it could be a confluence of factors that require lateral thinking.
Water? Like out of the toilet!?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/quotes?item=qt1722899
You're right that OpenRC only replaces the layers above init, but that's where most of the interesting stuff happens. In a traditional sysvinit-based system, all the actual work of setting up the system, finding and running the correct init scripts, etc is done by shell scripts started by init. OpenRC replaces those shell scripts with a proper service management layer, with init's only jobs being to start OpenRC, spawn getty processes on terminals, and reap orphan processes.
Here's why I implanted an NFC chip in my hand
Wow! It's good to hear stories like this to balance out the usually euphoric stories around startups. Hopefully this an aberration, not the norm
Also remember that Swift is already starting to be taught in schools. Imagine if a natural language that is taught in schools was tied to a single company. If, for example, you needed an Apple pen to write English. How much of literature would we have missed out on? Would Shakespeare have been able to afford an Apple pen? Thankfully, we never have to find out ;)
In scientific disputes where there are no obvious complaints about unscientific practices or pseudoscience, I simply go with whichever side is less emotionally invested, on the theory that those who are invested have a personal interest at stake. Such a thing is, of course, unlikely to be related to the truth of the matter and that is the point of this.
They have expressed interest in open-sourcing Swift pretty much immediately after announcing it. Both on Twitter and later (?) on the LLVM mailing list. No official Apple announcement and far from a guarantee that it will happen - but "they have not even expressed an interest" isn't true.
you're a programmer, but you're certainly not a computer scientist.

you like design! design a puzzle where the game is to optimize features for your end users.

how many wonderful algorithms have shitty interfaces? i know because I have written them - and nobody uses them because the interfaces suck.

i promise to keep an open mind to design, if you try a jigsaw once in a while
As it turns out, the URL of the pdf is cite-able.
What if the headline were "Does this headline conform to Betteridge's Law of Headlines?"
Why You Can’t Find a Taxi in the Rain [pdf]
There's more than one kind of sugar. Juices have both fructose and glucose; the former is more likely to be stored by the liver, the latter is deployed more widely around the body. Soda has much higher levels of fructose than glucose, thanks to all that high-fructose corn syrup that has become so popular with food manufacturers. There seems to be mounting evidence that high fructose intake is correlated with increased obesity. Here's a recent article on the topic: http://www.theguardian.com/society/the-shape-we-are-in-blog/...

If you head to YouTube and look for Dr Robert Lustig, a researcher at UCSF, there's a 1 or 2 hour lecutre he has delivered on this topic which goes into great detail ont eh different metabolic pathways different kinds of sugar take within the body.
Governor Snyder signs a law to ban Tesla direct sales in Michigan
Link to the full paper - http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/bitstream/88435/dsp01fx...

TL;DR version of the paper - http://qz.com/283886/this-is-why-ubers-surge-pricing-works-i...
Currently working for Kapost. It is pretty kick ass.

What's your stack? shoot me an e-mail erik.mingo at kapost.com
Number of eggs a woman has predicts heart attack risk
Is “have some backbone” also your response when someone complains about phrases like “That’s so gay” or “You’re such a girl”? I hope not, since there’s a reason certain words and stereotypes are not socially acceptable.

Note: This has nothing to do with the actual service, and everything to do with the terrible stereotyping in the branding and sales narrative.
That's a bit like saying "I'm a nutritionist. How could not think most of the aisles at the grocery store are out to kill you?"
Specifically, when going into tick areas, no open toed shoes, no shorts, and wear long sleeves. Tuck your pants legs into your socks. Most ticks climb up from your feet. Another tip is to treat your outdoor shoes with permethrin on the first of each month in May, June, July, and August.
I'm the guy in the interview who says, "Only one person can make it across. The 1 min guy, realizing there is only one torch (and given that one must hold the torch to cross)makes a grab for the torch and runs. The rest get eaten by wolves in the dark".
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You can test the Samsung VR, awesome give away (hint hint, its easy to carry), PM me if you want 20% off.
First off, I've read most of your books. Great job with them!
Now, your response seems fair enough and I completely understand what your trying to say.

However, without going into specifics. How does an interviewee handle/convince an interviewer with a preconceived solution?

For example, Interviewer A has an interview tomorrow and plans on asking this really slick problem that has one way of being solved well. A looks this way up and knows the ins and out of it. Now as an interviewee,if B were to come up with a 100 ways of handling the problem (starting from brute force) but fails to reach the "cool" solution because he has only 45 minutes of time . Do you think the interviewee would be considered a good candidate?

I'd say that the interviewer has hardly learnt anything about the candidate by asking such a problem. But then again, I could be wrong.
"It will be a full day of work, like an extended interview, and unpaid."

Screw that noise. It is clear from just that they don't respect people's time.
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> Even assuming sociopathic tendencies, it doesn't make sense to renege on the pledge and be branded a money-grubbing liar.

But that's just the same incentive for a company to continue providing the same level of service after being acquired.
You explained correctly. It is like constitution is subordinate to laws.
That's interesting - I've never come across it. Thanks for the explanation.
Progressive Reduction (2013)
Yes, the legal route sounds at least plausible. I don't know if there's any precedent or how reliable such a contract could be made.
Hostile subdomain takeover using Heroku/GitHub/Desk + more
That picture of her neck at the top of the page is pretty creepy: http://www.shopwithagirl.com/shop-in-amsterdam-special.html
Support sinit (http://tools.suckless.org/sinit).

Look at the source and you understand the whole system within a minute. All of it.
When we learned about Gene expression[0] traditional evolution was more or less out of the window. While creatures don't appear to share mental knowledge between generations they MIGHT share their generic tricks (by selectively activating/deactivating genes).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_gene_expression
Here is another one today.

http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/21/rapidweaver-6/
> Now? No, not really, just avoid GNOME.

You don't have to. Someone apparently implemented the logind interface(!) so that GNOME could function on non-systemd systems. Just use that.

> This wouldn't be an issue if the systemd people weren't notoriously hard to get along with. [...]

Are you kidding? I've been following along the mailing list for at least two years and I've never seen any of the unreasonableness you claim. (I'm not in any way connected or invested in the systemd project, just as a little disclaimer.)

If you're going to pull this stunt please at least give us concrete references.

> Say what you want about upstart and sysvinit, but I don't recall a point where the maintainers of it were told off for hijacking kernel flags...

Ah, I see. You're just another troll recycling talking points. Oh, well.

Oh, and btw: Complain all you want -- in F/OSS the people doing the work get to decide. Deal.
You can also see an example of it in action here: https://twitter.com/DroneDeploy/status/524649622631759872
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He threatened to kill Gabe Newell on Twitter: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/10/indie-game-pulled-off-...
> I want others to have access to UNIX, the best OS in the world, just like I had the opportunity.

Thankfully, there are several alternative free unix-like operating systems these days. Are they are popular as Linux? Do they have as much big business/corp backing as Linux? No and No. However, if Linux implodes there are great alternatives these days. I personally use and quite enjoy FreeBSD. ymmv.

* Linux (topic of discussion)
* BSD derivatives:
* FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonFlyBSD
* Illumos (opensolaris) derivatives
* SmartOS / OmniOS / OpenIndiana
* Minix
* more[1]

[1]: [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems#Unix...
There are a couple of incidents mentioned on the LKML that go directly to their bug tracker - the ones I refer to is where Linus gives Kay Sievers an earful for hijacking the kernel flags (and subsequently writing off the perfectly reasonable complaint). I'd link you to them directly but I'm mobile now.
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The phone is several years away… we’re concentrating on building the platform at the moment — starting with a lovely way to share stuff you care about between your devices and with other people (without any Facebook-like creepy uncle in the middle — thus, peer-to-peer). Once we get the UX right on the core, we’ll go from there. If we fuck up the UX, none of the other stuff matters. That’s really where we differ with Openmoko, etc. :)
Interesting. Not that I have anything against art or music, but you outlined some of my initial fears of checking out a Sudbury-type school. Still, I'll look into my local chapter. Thank you for the anecdote.
> The next step in the process is a tryout day. It will be a full day of work, like an extended interview, and unpaid. Could you come in tomorrow?

I liked this until the unpaid part. Maybe there are just too many impossible laws and logistics to get around, but I've always thought it would be cool if more companies tried something out like a 10-day contract (paid of course) to make sure the job is a good fit, and so both parties can make an initial decision without as much risk.
I will. It looks like my local chapter has been very successful and has had to move three times to larger accommodations. I have read their list of rules and it definitely reads as though children voted for them, but they are very sensible. I look forward to visiting next year!
On the contrary the Neo900 phone shows that even very small batches of open-hardware phones can be made. The difference with open source projects is the passion that makes them work (even if just for a few people) :)
How about the pain-in-the-butt that is organizing, packaging, and releasing an organic network & development environment when you have other bigger things on your plate? I'm sure there are a few companies here and there with everything already nicely packaged. Yet, most places I've worked, it would be a herculean effort to pull the tangled jungle that is the internal network & development environment into one halfway-functional package.

It's less than ideal, but it is usually extremely low on the list of priorities as well as virtually untestable, unless the business model involves a large number of functionally identical VLAN's.

Also, names of people are usually not very strongly attached to products.
> He would be terrible at a company like Google.

I don't think you can adequately back up that statement. Google is a massive company with very broad needs in each engineering discipline they hire for. My most significant criticism of Google's hiring practices is that they feed every software engineer through the same sieve. The sieve is calibrated as you describe, and that calibration is appropriate for many of their core positions. But, they need some developers like the one you describe as being a "terrible" fit as well. They need some developers who have a foot firmly planted in another engineering discipline, or various non-engineering domains. There are a whole lot of things they need that they don't test for because they spend all the available time testing for traits that are only critical to a portion of their business.
On a purely technical perspective (I don't care about people not getting along), what is reproached to systemd ?
No the ticks get Lyme from the deer mouse, which is the reservoir species for the bacteria. After they feed on mice, they can give humans Lyme as nymphs or later as adults. http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identification/deer_tick_l...
I'm pretty certain this is illegal and a violation of the Fair Labor Standard act. http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/
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I'm easily amused by domain hacks, as I suspect most people are. I currently own http://jules.codes and I'm not doing anything interesting with it.
US constitution was created before it became rich. Same lack of resources argument is used for not providing healthcare also.
Not unless you've seen something I haven't. Chris Lattner said that although he was personally interested in open-sourcing it, Apple had no intention of ever doing so at that time. To my knowledge, that is the last we ever heard of it
When I interview, I mention that I have to give my present employer 2 weeks notice, whether it's true or not. Then I carefully watch their reaction. Anything other than supportive is a deal-breaker. Either they have integrity or they don't.