skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Evolution isn't direct manipulation... part of what has evolved in the genome is the ability to be evolved in the first place.

What on earth do you think breeding does? It selects for increasing proportions of genetic variants in the phenotypically above-average members of the flock. What difference is there between creating a predictive score for an embryo and choosing to implant the highest-scoring one, with making the changes predicted to increase scores with something like CRISPR?

> You can't take a sedan and just Push Everything To Eleven (individually, one criterion at a time, with no attention paid to integration) and expect a high-performance vehicle to result.

Organisms are not cars. This is remarked upon by everyone how biology designs things in a very different fashion from humans, and yet this knowledge gets thrown out as soon as inconvenient...

> In math terms, we have a function f(x, y) -> IQ, and where we are now, we know going in the positive x direction will raise IQ and we know going in the positive y direction will increase IQ. We have no guarantee whatsoever that x + y will result in an increase in IQ.

Please, look up the twin and GCTA studies and what is meant by 'additive'. If there were those complex wiggly interactions, they would not show up as hits from the GWAS studies since they're not additive, and they would not contribute to the large additive fraction of heritability but the other parts.
The amount of writing and access to that writing has only gone up over time, and that's almost universally seen as a net positive.

I just don't see the positive in a world where actions don't have consequences since the collective unconscious can be selectively edited by legislative meddling.

The idea of a "right to be forgotten" is so fundamentally alien to me, as someone who fundamentally believes in the rights of freedom of speech and free access to infofrmation, as if the subject of a given piece of information somehow has ownership of it, rather than the person who created it.
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Bunnie Huang is definitely one of the Good Guys. One of the signs that he really "gets it" regarding open source software and hardware is at the bottom of his web page: "This work by Andrew (bunnie) Huang is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported."

Also see:

Wikipedia: Novena (computing platform)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novena_(computing_platform)

Wikipedia: Andrew Huang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang

Wired: The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/novena/

Laptop Magazine: Novena Helps Hackers Build Their Own Laptop

http://blog.laptopmag.com/novena-open-source-laptop

Crowd Supply: Novena Open Laptop

https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop)

Crowd Supply: Novena Open Laptop Stretch Goals

https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop/stretc...

Note: I have no connection with Bunnie Huang or Novena other than as a fellow engineer and interested potential customer.
>> Actual development is so slow in most large industries like machining or IT coding, that its not hard at all to keep up other than anecdotes and complainers and people who've basically retired on the job.

This is not a popular view, but I do agree. If one learns the basics, the javascript framework of the week becomes much less intimidating as an obstacle to professional success. There are rarely new things in software development, but the do come along (big data and machine learning).
Not sure why the article hasn't considered this, but after moving /usr/local to another location and doing the Yosemite upgrade... you can always move the newly created Yosemite files/directories in /usr/local to your old local, rather than deleting them.
We talk about complexity a lot, to the point where "simple" often really means "I like this", and "complex" often means "there is something about this I do not like, or do not understand".

About the reference to "Go is a shop-built jig", it seems to me one way of reading that piece is that Go offloads the complexity to you to deal with, rather than offloading it to the toolchain (all the Ruby Gems, rbenv, etc stuff the author mentions). If you like to work that way then cool, but I would question the conclusion that the overall complexity has really changed.
The case the phrase is from was about placing limitations on blatantly political speech. It was a truly reprehensible decision.

"A unanimous Supreme Court, in a famous opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., concluded that defendants who distributed leaflets to draft-age men, urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft, a criminal offense." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

From it's very inception, that phrase has been used to justify the restriction of political speech. Nothing has changed since 1917, people still use it to argue against political speech to this day.
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What could possibly be driving this process though? What is the update actually trying to accomplish?
If your job is special enough that your old employer would enforce a noncompete, then your new employer would buy it out.
3 very good (if minor) points here - it'd be great if the go team looked at fixing things like this for a go 2. I've heard talk they don't have any ideas of what might be in a go 2, but a few grammar tweaks like these plus pkg dependencies would be a good place to start. There are definitely some rough edges to the language and some decisions which in retrospect they might not have made, but since it's frozen at go 1, there won't be any changes for the foreseeable future. In some ways that's comforting if you're building real apps on the language, so not at all a bad thing.

I'm not even sure if they need a := operator, is the additional complexity and wasted time worth the benefit (compile error on redeclared variables, most of the time)? It feels a chore having to type out := most of the time and, as you point out, confusing where there are several variables assigned at once.

Another area which is unnecessarily complex is allocation:
http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#allocation_new

You might use:

func () (t T) {}
var t T
t = T{}
t := &T{}
t := new(T)
t := pkg.New()
t := make([]T,5)

Though the pkg.New() option is really just an optional convention. It all makes sense eventually, but do we really need all of these options? I'd rather have something like:

t = T{}
t = &T{}
t = [5]T

Still, these are pretty minor niggles, which can mostly be overcome with conventions, except perhaps the use of nil everywhere, which is a shame. There's a lot to like, and the emphasis on simplicity (at the cost of features) definitely is a feature of go, even if it does have some rough edges it is significantly simpler than most other languages both to learn and to use.
ISTR that the Internet Archive was fine honoring takedown requests.
No it isn't. You can still do research and publish stories like 'John Doe, running for office, was convicted of littering 20 years ago...' You just won't be able to rely on a search engine to gather all that information for you; you'll have to research your subject a more old-fashioned way, looking through all the stories from the period. The only actors constrained under this regime are search engines, and I'm not sure algorithmically generated search results rise to the level of political speech as they're not expressive of an opinion.

I have no idea how the EU justice system works

Then why not inform yourself before making grand pronouncements on what counts as error? There are other legal philosophies besides the one you adhere to, you know.
"What will your children do all day long while you're at work?"

I'll never forget how it felt to hear that. It was similar to the time I got hit in the stomach with a softball. Or the time I landed on the sidewalk after falling down the stairs. The wind just kinda went out of me for a moment.
A Portrait of the Whistleblower as a Young Man
Stocks Plunge 460 Points on Quantitative Easing (QE) Exit
Maybe you're forgetting that the auto industry received bailouts that were two orders of magnitude greater than the loan that Tesla took from the government. And, unlike the rest of the auto industry, Tesla paid back its loans, and did so ahead of time.
Off topic:
The font rendering is very wonky for me, Any one else getting this, http://i.imgur.com/LkuHUYX.png
(chromium on nixos)
I'm an AirBnB host in NYC, and this report makes clear that there is rampant abuse in NYC by landlords acting as hotels. This drives up rents for residents as it reduces supply of long term housing and inflates landlords expectations on what they can charge. I like Airbnb for how well it enables buyers and sellers to come together and transact. I don't know what a good solution is. Either charge hotel tax or get rid of hotel taxes for actual hotels so they can better compete on price? I don't know.

I'm not sure Airbnb is doing themselves any favors by not cooperating with the AG, however. The 'Commercial Users" are operating secret hotels and getting away with it.
The firecrackers aren't speech.
According to "neutrons make other things radioactive", does it make your water with borax radioactive too?
I thought he was trolling, but holy crap:

"In contrast to the cathedral-building style of the Emacs C core and most other GNU tools.." -- http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-...
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That package could install some other dependencies, and those dependencies aren't pinned down.
No problem. It's a few bucks a month.

Some may reply that is a legal risk as well. I believe it is clearly within the bounds of the law. If the police shut then down I would fight to the extent of my ability in the courts to have them restored.

I believe strongly in our system, and that all men and women (including law enforcement) are bound by the same set of laws, and are equal before them. Tor is legal under those laws, and the courts stand ready to vindicate my rights if they are violated.
And what is old, is new again. For reference, the System R database used this technique of compiling SQL queries to machine language in the 70's:

"The approach of compiling SQL statements into machine code was one of the most successful parts of the System R project. We were able to generate a machine-language subroutine to execute any SQL statement of arbitrary complexity..."

See: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/SystemR-comments.pd...
You think about this and you realize this is how most gender discrimination goes down. No fireworks, no court cases, just quiet demoralization.
parallel_test by default divides your tests by your number of cores and runs them each in parallel. There's a startup cost, and some contention, so I find that running on 4 cores is a little better than 2x faster than running normally.
Email apps@ycombinator.com with questions like these.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> While generating $72.4 million in revenue for hosts

Revenue, not profit
Sublime Text isn't free; it's sold on the honor system:

"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use."

The developer could try to enforce this rule by building in DRM or by threatening legal action, but those things would make for a pretty crappy user experience. Instead, the author chose to do the right thing by users and provide an evaluation version with no restrictions.

Legally and technically, you can certainly use Sublime Text without paying for it. To me, though, using Sublime Text for your everyday work without paying for it is the ethical equivalent of using a cracked version of Photoshop.
Show HN: Black Hat Europe: Hijacking Clicks with Same Origin Method Execution
I've tried a half dozen and found MiniHack to be the best.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...
According to "neutrons make other things radioactive", anything that carry by that fission 747 "might" be radioactive after a flight.

True?
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*en masse
I did click around, a lot. There are indeed many references, especially on the supplements pages, but I couldn't find any external links about carbohydrates and insulin.

And, regarding "for a normal person it's a non-issue" – How do you think those overweight people got overweight? I was once at a healthy weight, but my terrible diet got me where I am today. If I'd eaten differently, I wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
the site is full of references? How about the page and "Myth" in question?
TL;DR Luxuries cost much more for those who might not pay for them.
Winter driving in Norway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxR99bGYEAQ
Electric Cloud’s ship.io tackles mobile continuous delivery
It seems like a bunch of people are using docker + CoreOS, is anyone using Docker with Marathon in production?
Show HN: Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in Cyanogenmod Open to MitM Attacks
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1205/
In fairness, this time it was submitted by the author and he is responding to comments.
AOL had vast numbers of SGI machines of all types, both servers and workstations.
DevOps + IoT
Yeah, local SFTP would still be horribly inefficient; presumably you'd be aware of the leaky abstraction and use it lightly, whereas things would get messy if Coda tried to abstract it for you.

> There's no technical reason why Coda couldn't run those commands on the remote host and return their results to you.

The other obstacle I see is Windows-based S/FTP servers, which presumably lacks grep, et al.

(One other little gripe: I wish I could open remote files directly from Coda's terminal, which would sidestep half the inconvience of remote searching. If it's not in 2.5, I'll have to remember to submit a feature request.)
I see what you mean. I'll poke about and look for a less-bright color :). Thank you!
There is a tendency for some US commentators to totally ignore the European attitude around freedom of speech and to talk about the slippery slope to totalitarian states.

Sometimes those people will mix up "first ammendment" rights with what a website owner is allowed to do; or they appear to be unaware of the very many cases of people in America who lose their jobs or are arrested because they wear the wrong t-shirt or have an innocent poster on their door.

We often hear these people when there's coverage of twitter trolls going to court. They'll say that it's ridiculous to prosecute people for being mean on twitter. This is intensely frustrating because -and this should be fucking obvious- no-one is arrested for being a bit mean on social media. People are arrested for making credible repeated threats of violence. But that happens in the US.
This goes for anyone who bought it before seeing this code - email me and I'll refund the $10 right away!
> Perhaps she could have saved up the money on her own, but whenever she has tried to do so, her stash has been wiped out to handle daily needs.

I...what makes you think you can handle payments on a lease if you can't save what you'd be paying on those payments otherwise?

People are really bad at managing money. The proliferation of credit has done immense damage to peoples' abilities to conceptualize what they can afford.
Interesting that you say that the Dockerfile was out of date - I've found that this is a common problem; the vast majority I try are buggy.
The real mystery is what do you do when HN is down.
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Part of me is disgusted that this business is allowed to operate in this manner.

However, the sensible side is frustrated that these people aren't doing basic math. These people are choosing to buy something that they can't afford. Do they need these items? Does anyone need a couch? Does anyone NEED a TV/wedding ring? No. You can live without it.

End the end: All I got from this article was: "Look at these people who don't realize where they stand financially and refuse to accept that it's not where they'd like to be."
Then why isn't the government going on to BBC servers and removing those articles? Don't they violate somebody's privacy?

Is there even a right to keep private something everybody knows? A right to have milk on the floor be in the glass it spilled out of?

Free speech wasn't an absolute right in Soviet Russia either. And, yes, they too had ways of avoiding naming what they were actually doing.
Any time I design a laptop into, say, a robotics system, I have to buy at least a dozen spares and store them away, because five years later when the laptop dies and a $500,000 machine that generates $1,000 per hour in profits goes down, that model of laptop will no longer be available. With open-hardware like Novena, I have a good chance of being able to make a new one that is compatible five years down the road, and can get by with two spares in storage.
Docker explicitly violates the principles of the Twelve-Factor App. Docker apps don’t rely on any external environment. In fact, Docker demands that you store all config values, dependencies, everything inside of the container itself. Apps communicate with the rest of the world via ports and via Docker itself. The trade-off is that apps become a little bit bulkier (though not significantly), but the benefit is apps become maximally portable.

In essence, Docker makes almost no assumptions about the app’s next home. Docker apps care about where they are even less than twelve-factor apps. They can be passed to and fro across servers—and, more importantly, across virtualization platforms—and everything needed to run them (besides the OS) comes along for the ride.
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> I write Go all day every day and have since before Go 1.0, and I see this troll/complaint at least 100x on hacker news for each time I have to do it once in real life

I suspect that there is as much trolling in people who complain about generics, as there is survivor bias in those who reply they haven't needed them in X years of go. If you felt that you needed them, you wouldn't have lasted long using go!
But do those library functions actually exist or did you write them just now?
It should actually be TL;DR It's very profitable to exploit the poor.
This is a straw man, the laws are much more specific in what they would forget.
I would say the top languages are Python and R. Many enterprises use SAS and/or SPSS. Java is often used in production settings or when dealing with Hadoop. Other less popular but still useful languages are: Julia, Octave/Matlab, and Perl.

Somewhat related: Statistical Languages
http://101.datascience.community/2014/07/07/statistical-prog...

Here is another list:
http://101.datascience.community/2012/12/31/5-free-programmi...
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So ..... he ended up doing far more work than he would have done had Go been like any other modern language? Without detail about what these refactorings were and why he didn't write the code that way at first, what lessons he drew from it etc this anecdote is not very useful.
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> Part of me is disgusted that this business is allowed to operate in this manner.

I understand this sentiment, but it's risk mitigation. As the article points out, there are no options for these people outside of this. It's serving a market and it's doing so in a way that reduces the risk - in some ways for both parties.

Is it a smart move on the part of customers? I think it's hard to argue that it is, but I don't know that it's necessarily the fault of these businesses. If anything, it's a better move than going to an Amscot or getting a subprime credit card, because you're not wrecked financially nor is your credit ruined necessarily.
About the 2FA thing, Authy is a Google Authenticator alternative program that allows you to keep several devices, including computers, with the ability to generate those codes. Might be what you need to both use 2FA and not worry about having the phone always with you.

Although, sites that uses 2FA usually don't ask for the phone code very often. They use it more to authenticate the device you're using. If it's your home computer, you only use the code once every month or so.

2FA feels like a chore before you actually uses it. I know because I resisted it for a few years. Now I complain when a service doesn't have it. :P
It does not publish actual URLs
not sure why i was downvoted, but oh well.

really? you don't RAID your SSDs?
Immediate gratification. It's easy to walk into Rent-a-center and come out with a TV, couch, iPad, laptop, etc without realizing that for those weekly payments, you could buy one of those items each month. In a few months you own them all outright.

This isn't just for low-income people. Plenty of people making a decent salary will go out and overextend themselves when they get their first apartment as well. Rent-a-center comes to take stuff back from people that make $60k/year just as often as they do from people who make $30k/year.

I'm also not sure I'd classify people as 'poor' who have $300/month they can spend on renting these items which are mostly luxury items. You can argue that you 'need' a TV or laptop to live, but you can get a $200 laptop or $200 TV, instead of $1,000 models.
From 2012: Apple: Too smart to go MVNO
"If you are in a room with 100 good ninjas and 1 evil ninja and the lights go off, how do you save all of the ninjas?"

This is my favorite because it made so much sense and clearly illustrated my problem solving skills. I said "Leave" as I got up and left.
So a kernel panic. Do people seriously see those often? I could count on one hand the number of times Mavericks panicked.
>> As the article points out, there are no options for these people outside of this.

Going without a 60" TV or iPad isn't an option?
Because you don't need to save up as much to make payments on a lease. Those are, let's say $50 a month. As soon as you get your paycheck, you send that $50 to the rent-to-own agency, and that money is gone - they're "saving" it for you.

Whereas if you keep putting that $25-per-paycheck into a savings account (or a shoebox, or a hollowed-out book or whatever), there will probably come a time when being able to fix your car's transmission, or buying food to make sure your kids aren't starving, or having just one dinner at a place with cloth napkins, is going to seem more important than whatever you're saving for.
> as if the subject of a given piece of information somehow has ownership of it

And yet the law in some places has this idea already - if somebody takes a picture of a person in some countries and in 27 US states, that person has some rights over the use of that photograph under the concept of "publicity rights" or "personality rights". There's stronger concepts of this across some of the EU. This is why model releases exist.

So the concept of the subject of a piece of information having some ownership of it is not that foreign, although rights to the extent required for the right to be forgotten is something relatively new as far as I can tell.