skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A heavy-hitting list of authors recently put forth[1] the following recommendations regarding human germline genome editing (verbatim from Science):

"In the near term, we recommend that steps be taken to:

1) Strongly discourage, even in those countries with lax jurisdictions where it might be permitted, any attempts at germline genome modification for clinical application in humans, while societal, environmental, and ethical implications of such activity are discussed among scientific and governmental organizations. (In countries with a highly developed bioscience capacity, germline genome modification in humans is currently illegal or tightly regulated.) This will enable pathways to responsible uses of this technology, if any, to be identified.

2) Create forums in which experts from the scientific and bioethics communities can provide information and education about this new era of human biology, the issues accompanying the risks and rewards of using such powerful technology for a wide variety of applications including the potential to treat or cure human genetic disease, and the attendant ethical, social, and legal implications of genome modification.

3) Encourage and support transparent research to evaluate the efficacy and specificity of CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering technology in human and nonhuman model systems relevant to its potential applications for germline gene therapy. Such research is essential to inform deliberations about what clinical applications, if any, might in the future be deemed permissible.

4) Convene a globally representative group of developers and users of genome engineering technology and experts in genetics, law, and bioethics, as well as members of the scientific community, the public, and relevant government agencies and interest groups, to further consider these important issues, and where appropriate, recommend policies."

1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6230/36.full Baltimore, David, et al. A prudent path forward for genomic engineering and germline gene modification. Science 3 April 2015: 348 (6230), 36-38.Published online 19 March 2015 [DOI:10.1126/science.aab1028]
GitHub allowed users to host critical code behind keys that were trivial for bad actors to compromise.

End of story. They should have blocked those keys. They didn't. The majority of the modern open source software movement is centred around a company that couldn't be bothered to lock down the cryptographic keys that protect millions of people from intrusion.

And when I point this out I get downvoted. Completely contrary to the HN guidelines of what deserves a downvote. If people disagree with me that it is gross negligence (which I still 100% view that it is) then they are more than able to voice that, but I'm not some new user shooting their mouth off or saying a dumb inane thing. I'm legitimately concerned about how seriously Github takes software security.
This was discussed here last week, with contributions from the owner of the image forum:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9614993
It's interesting that the Wired article mentions the recent controversy about claims that aircraft systems can be hacked, but explicitly ignores the incident last week as having any possible relation to these events, where a bigoted employee denied a Muslim passenger an open can of Diet Coke because it "might be used as a weapon", while giving the passenger in the adjacent seat an open can of beer.

The response from United was unapologetic and absolutely disgraceful: https://hub.united.com/en-us/News/Company-Operations/Pages/s....
What is ISE? A link would be nice too (please?)
They are based in India, so the spelling/grammar aren't surprising to me.

Looks like they are cheaper, but do less than Automatic. So if monitoring your car is all you want I guess this fits the bill.
FBI surveillance plane documents
Ireland's largest game studio is hiring
Comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508235
I'm not sure about reading, but several distributions (notably, Gentoo and Slackware) encourage (and in the former case, require) users to configure and compile Linux from source instead of relying on a binary installation.

Of course, this doesn't do anything against a malicious install environment or a backdoored compiler, but it's a start.
You CAN export the event log data of course, even remotely. But it's rather ugly and I agree that some standard aggregation (syslog or anything) would be great.
Ever moved and thought "Damn, where did I put <one little thing that you just tossed into a box because you had a little bit of space left...>"? Instead of writing every little thing (which could be dozens, or a hundred small ones!) you can just say what it is as you place it in. Less work, less remembering when you're done loading up a box. Don't have to sit and read 30 boxes to find the right one -- just have to find the right number.
Why not make leap seconds only apply to Stratum 0 devices. Everything else will just correct themselves as if they had drifted. Shouldn't there already be procedures in place for drift?
Valid point. But then you're left with a bunch of crap in the UI that is unnecessary and annoying at best.
Representing a hex grid as a data structure
My theory predicts that even big players will have bugs (if only due to my last point: complexity). But I insist that small players will tend to have even more bugs.
Yeah, consider that ISIS is a product of the last time the US decided it needed to do more to rearrange the political situation in the region.
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We should definitely start with the necessities of life. Food and clean water, hygiene (it sounds dumb, but being able to bathe is a luxury in some places), dental care is probably more important than medical just from the standpoint that more need it...

Shelter would definitely be on the list. Energy probably.

Transportation probably not.

How to define the minimums... not entirely sure. Simplistic formula are liable to be downright unpleasant (daily calories) if distorted in situations like the "lowest bidder provides". Anything more than simplistic will soon turn into a designed-by-committee mess.

Clean water is the only easy one to define. Measured in gallons or liters, no contamination from toxins, no contamination that makes it unpalatable to a reasonable person.

Even energy can take many forms... electricity, cooking fuel, heating. If you live on the equator, no need for heating, but in northern climes it is a matter of survival. And the exchange rates between various forms of energy aren't constant, not even within a single locale.
I have hacked my tabline to be a list of my open buffers. It still functions as a tabline, for those of you who use tabs, but it's kinda nice to see all my open buffers in a nice list across the top of my screen.

https://github.com/yramagicman/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/aft...
It's completely unrelated. It's like if there was an article talking about a flaw in Yosemite and you went here and pasted a link to microsoft.com, talking of how reliable Windows is.
Isometric Experiment
As mentioned in a previous thread on this topic - they don't have to register surveillance blimps, tethered or free-flying. Based on altitude I think.
As a Windows admin and long time GNU/Linux / BSD user, I would totally love to replace every single Windows at our company with a Unixoid system. But there's a lot of software we use that either is not available on non-Windows platforms, where no decent replacement exists and/or migration is considered to expensive. If, say, Autodesk ported their software to some free Unixoid system, that would go a long way. But AFAIK, that is not going to happen anytime soon.
I am surprised they haven't mentioned Crucial SSDs. With cheap drivers like the MX100 having features as power loss protection and Opal 2.0 support, I preferred these over the slightly faster Samsung products at the time.
The versions are all pretty reasonable and not significantly different outside of the one thing that defines their SKU.
The FTL runs much faster on a 3GHz Xeon core than on a 150MHz ARM core. Of course, the cost and power consumption is also much higher.
It's not too much of a stretch for smart TVs to start including cellular connectivity (and advertising it as "zero-setup").
I would suggest you go look at iTerm2, because an example is worth all the words in the world. tmux integration, multiple panes in a window as well as tabs, easy buffer search, instant startup, everything.

A shell host should open and do its absolute utmost to get out of my way. ISE does not do this. It's just...it's what I expect 2008 Microsoft to think a terminal should be, lacking empathy for me as a user. And maybe that's intentional--maybe I'm not the target audience. Maybe it's for mouse drivers who are forced to the CLI in extremity. But it's tasteless and it's hindering where it really must not be.
The Devil’s in the Details: How to Transition from a Big Company to a Startup
GitHub actually won't let you use the same pubkey in two places, but I get what you're trying to say.

I'll reiterate - you should assume your public key (and any comment on your public key) is already public information, even if GitHub hasn't published your pub key. Anything else is not good security practice.

As far as I can tell, this is not a concern to anyone in crypto -- revealing public keys, that is. Obviously if you're a crypto expert reading this and disagreeing, feel free to chime in, but as far as I know, there are zero concrete crypto reasons to obfuscate a public key.

It's your fault if you put private information in a public key's comment field.
Ask HN: How to switch careers and become a programmer?
Hello HN,

I work for a consulting agency in southern Europe but I'm fed up with my current job and I keep daydreaming about switching careers and becoming a programmer.

I lead a small team and we provide consulting for a number of high profile customers in my country. My day is more like juggling 100 balls than climbing a mountain. I'd like this to change.

Problem is, I feel I have nothing to show on my resume that is relevant to what I want to do. No, I didn't write 10.000 lines of code I'm embarrassed of, let alone 10.000 lines that I'm proud of. My github is full of half finished toy projects that I created to explore programming languages, libraries and tools.

So I wrote down this plan and I'd like to hear your thoughts about it:

1. look for companies that hire remotely (I cannot move because I'm married with children and I'd like to try remote working)

2. look for technologies that those companies want and I don't have experience with, choose one

3. build and finish a small project on that technology, publish it and post it to HN or reddit, gather feedback, get experience

4. figure out how taxes work when working for companies in a different country

5. apply for a job

6. goto 1

Plan B: stop daydreaming and keep the current job. Most safe choice, but regrets may lie ahead.

What would you do or what you have done in a similar situation?

Could you warn me about any pitfalls or dangers I should consider and I overlooked?

Or just wish me luck! :)
You shift between using "I" to express your opinion, and "you" which seems to assert your opinions effects are general. It's very confusing when it's in the same sentence, and possibly not your intention.
> If you do not die and plan to stay on Earth,

Where else could you possibly go? Sending you anywhere else (like a terraformed Mars) might cost more resources than would keeping you alive on Earth for hundreds of years.
No, death is a travesty. While it may be true that overpopulation is worse, death is awful. Painful, slow degeneration over decades as your body systems shut down and your loved ones watch.

What a gain it would be to have people continue their productive lives for decades or centuries longer.

The costs: we would give up having children. The replacement rate for an immortal race must be very low. The weight of old, bad ideas might be harder to shake off.
I have been intersted in Taoism and Buddhism for the last 10 years, mainly because I practice Taoist Tai Chi.

I can recommend http://zenhabits.net/lg a book about letting go, a concept so hard to do and so easy to say :)

Edit: the best book about Taiosm that explains Lao Tzu's words is http://www.amazon.com/The-Tao-Speaks-Lao-Tzus-Whispers/dp/03...
Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Remote: Nope.

Willing to relocate: Yes! Looking to relocate to: Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna. I'm open to possibilities and have an EU passport.

Technologies: Javascript (+ Ember.js, jQuery, Backbone.js, Node.js, Express, Sails), HTML&CSS, PHP (+ Laravel), MongoDB (Mongoose), Haskell, OCaml, MySQL, Python, C++, and more.

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z-O-H4xPMk_hUXGSN5RikWRM...

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/ale316

Github: https://github.com/ale316

Email: amarin [at] uwaterloo [.] ca

I'm looking for a full-time position starting in September 2015.

My name is Alessandro and I'm a Full Stack developer with a sense of design. Made in Italy and moved to Canada to pursue my dreams and an undergrad in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. I speak javascript better than English or Italian and have extensive experience writing efficient and elegant apps using Ember.js, Backbone.js, jQuery, SASS, Node.js, Express.js, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, MySQL. If I don't know it, I will learn it today. Seriously.

I'm especially interested in working with functional languages, cryptocurrencies, security. I enjoy being challenged, experiencing new things and stepping out of my comfort zone.
Yeah, but chances are you won't use the functionality often enough to configure it in the first place.

That's the real problem with the Internet of Things: most of the things we own are not all that useful when we're not in close proximity to them. Thus, not only are users and manufacturers unlikely to update them in the future; users are just as unlikely to connect the thing in the first place.

Home automation through things like light switches, etc. has a use case, but those products have been available and Internet-connected for over a decade and we still haven't seen wide adoption. I recently priced it out -- it would cost me over $5000 to swap out the outlets and switches in my house for Insteon devices. And that's just the hardware; not the electrician required to connect it all or the time I would spend configuring everything. Home builders aren't going to spend that kind of money building this into anything but the most high-end homes -- the IoT hardware alone blows through the fixtures and appliances budget that most home builders allocate.

People want systems that "just work". IoT does not "just work", and none of the current or announced implementations address the big problems around configuration (namely, every house is different so every implementation is custom). And in some cases like a stove or a refrigerator, any amount of configuration is going to be too much.
So do you volunteer to stop taking vaccines, treating bacterial infections with antibiotics, reject medical intervention in the case of acute injury, etc? I rather doubt it, even though we take all these radical inventions in the prevention of death for granted.
I think his point is based on the (very reasonable) assumption that an equivalent quality Smart TV is going to be more expensive, which isn't worth it in general since you're not using the features that cause the difference in cost.

There of course may be realities of the market to cause it to not work out this way, but it's a pretty sensible assumption.
Steam Refunds
you're completely clueless about what it takes to bring modern medicine to market. you argue from a moral high horse that has no bearing in reality.

developing a cure for cancer costs real fucking money, gobs and gobs of it. you think clinical trials and FDA approvals come for free? ramping up a supply chain around it?

ever developed any product? ever?
Eh, I think Apple is doing ok with Macs and iPhones at least.

I'd guess the typical hardware replacement cycle for a computer is 3-5 years. My 2009 MacBook Pro is on Mountain Lion. It runs just fine, and the OS continues to receive security updates. Both 10.9 and 10.10 also officially support my machine, I just haven't bothered to upgrade. Rumor is that support for older machines is one of the areas of focus for 10.11. We'll see in a week or two.

The typical hardware replacement cycle for a smart phone is probably 2-3 years because of contract upgrades. My iPhone 5 is running 8.2 and runs just fine. 8.3 supports it as well, but I need to clear some photos off to make space to run the installer.

Looking at the entire Apple installed bases for computers and phones, Apple users seem to do a very good job of keeping up with supported OS versions.

I don't know as much about the iPad. At work I have an iPad 2 that is running iOS 8 and seems to work fine.
They're over at /r/sysadmin.
Companies like Micron are looking to reduce their exposure to the commodity hardware business by getting more into services. This platform still looks pretty complicated to use, but Micron/Convey would probably be happy to take care of that -- and that's probably where most of the profit is.
I do think it's strange that when Israel promotes nationalism in it's clearly more controversial status -- being defamed by all of its neighbors and a large segment of the western left and right -- suddenly this is a bad thing. If we had (serious) pressure to dissolve the U.S., I think we would see a backlash of equal or greater measure. Your use of language here also clearly shows your position: 'army' is a very harsh word to use for some students posting on social media.
Item is no longer for sale either.
In Sweden (which is where the employees in question were), most workers are entitled to unemployment benefits of 80% of their full salary for 200 days, after which it's reduced to 70% for the next 100 days [1].

So a Swedish programmer will definitely be making much more than $350/week for almost a year while unemployed. Like someone else said, Mojang's employees did not take any real risks.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits_in_Sweden
I'm surprised the UK government are pushing this, it would only legitimise other countries asking for the same kind of unfettered access.
Heroku - Python Systems Engineer - San Francisco (Remote OK)

That’s right, Python! Heroku still runs lots of Ruby, but we also run production services in Go, Erlang, Node, and more. We’re seeking a systems expert to join the Heroku Connect team.

See more here: https://www.heroku.com/careers/37
I sent you an email a few days ago for the same position. Have not heard back since.
@grhmc -- that's really cool. I wish I'd had something like this a number of times. "Now, which one of the 10 boxes labeled "kitchen" has the peeler in it?" :-)
I agree that some of the possibilities of such tech are scary.

However, putting on my optimist hat, they are only possibilities. Of course it will be possible to do such things. The question then becomes: why would anyone do them, and (somewhat linked) what are the chances that anyone will do them to you?

> I tell your boss when you lie about being sick, I tell your insurance how often you do risky things when not driving, I tell your ex where she can find you at the club.

All of these things were possible 50 years ago. They are possible now. They will be possible in 50 years.

Increasingly advanced technology reduces the amount of effort, and to some extent, the prior knowledge about you required to do these things - but that doesn't automatically make them more likely to happen. For the vast majority of people the motivation to do such things remains extremely low relative to the motivation to do other more interesting things.

> I mean, I'd know everything about you -- where you lived, where you shopped, where you worked, where you ate out, where your friends lived, what you did with your friends, when you did it, etc.

Again, this is not far off being trivial with today's technology. Yet you can't imagine (at least I can't) what benefit or pleasure anybody would get out of knowing such information about a person today. Therefore it's extremely unlikely anyone will care enough to do it - evidenced by the fact that practically nobody does. Why will this change in the future?

Taken to the extreme, ask yourself even if you could retrieve this information about any given person instantly, for zero cost or effort, would you even care enough to do it? Are the things you could do with that information more exciting or interesting than what you were otherwise going to do today? For how many people is that answer going to be yes?
This story pops up regular as clockwork, going back before 2012. It's propaganda in its' own right - no doubt, with equally depressing regularity, I shall be downvoted into oblivion for having the temerity of actually pointing it out.
More importantly, I think they are trying to avoid giving any incentive to hack a plane mid-flight. The policy also stated that criminal actions may be persued in cases of attempting to access these systems.
No SQL => Not Only SQL => Not Yet SQL
Even the choice of outputs (of which remote syslog should be one) would be a great addition to the Windows event log.
David Rittenhouse’s teenage almanac for 1747?
Show HN: A timezone converter with sharing via link and a widget system
You're okay with scummy advertising that probably breaks false advertising laws?
Aren't the collection programs that are related to the pause concerned with phone records?
I actually thought I would join the military out of school and jump out of planes and shoot people, and somehow I ended up getting a job writing compilers instead.

Life is weird.
Powershell doesn't support interactive console apps (those that want user input), so it's really not much of a cmd.exe replacement.

http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2012/12/12/block...
Plugins aren't installed until you call :PlugInstall

You can also use .nvimrc instead .vimrc, so only nvim instance on server gets plugins.
Walmart is a cultural sickness
Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing. Who knows if things would have actually played out differently, but it seems like the next institution that Uber comes to partner with will be given pause by this news.
I think this is why bookstores even still exist. I know they've reduced greatly in number, but every time I'm in one, I see people sitting with friends, drinking coffee, browsing books.
How can "legal" and "secret" be in the same sentence? If something like this passes in secret without the people's support, that's clearly an illegitimate law.
"I've always wondered why the PowerShell developers ..." Think about the beginning of that sentence. They invented a new console language, when bash has been around forever and C# is a better programming language generally and can be run as a scripted language with a little finagling.

I don't think the PS team is bad (or PS itself for that matter), I just think there was a lot of re-inventing of the wheel for no reason, and that started way upstream of remoting.
Wow, if I end up moving to Vancouver next I should get advice from you. That's awesome. What's the tech scene like in Vancouver btw? I am visiting again in a couple months and am curious.
How can parsing and string manipulation be easier than just compiling C to Javascript using Emscripten? The interpreter already works in C. Wouldn't translating it manually to Javascript be extra effort?
They signed a contract. They made a deal to work without having that kind of cut.

We can enter in the sympathy realm after this, but no one was entitled to anything. If they didn't like the job, or felt underpayed, they should've done what everyone else does: Try to find a comfortable solution with their company, and if that doesn't work, leave and find a better job.
Only accepting American customers; disappointing. They should make that clear on their landing page.
>It also common sense.

No it isn't. Any Schmuck has no authority to enforce laws.
That looks amazing. Thanks for the link.