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The opposite is true - transportation has increased diversity. The American Indians suffered due to a lack of exposure to diseases (smallpox) common in Europe due to their relative isolation

I imagine that (at least for the foreseeable future) genetic engineering will only be targeted to modifying SNPs (and other mutations) that unambiguously cause diseases.

When they remove the keyboard entirely and replace it with a giant trackpad with a keyboard section. They will do this when they can make the trackpad sensitive enough to do so.

I think it’s the former. Not wearing corrective lenses (glasses or contacts) when needed causes additional eye strain.

That’s an extreme comparison - there’s no such thing as a healthy level of cigarette consumption while there is for social media (at least a non-harmful level).

Plot.ly now has Dash, which is RShiny for Python (which uses Flask) and appears equally capable to RShiny.

More work to maintain and there’s a risk of getting stuck in the mud after a rain.

What an irritating article. If you do anything pleasurable you don't normally do in the morning (like eating ice cream for breakfast) you're likely going to be in a better mood.

What happens when someone eats ice cream every day? I'm sure you will lose this effect. In fact, when this person skips a day of eating ice cream for breakfast they're going to be more irritable - classic response to addiction/habitual use.

I haven't read the original study and it's not to necessarily suggest that the author is pushing stupid science, it's the annoying pop science article posted here that people will pass around in semi-joking defense for eating more sweets.

It doesn't take much time to be equally comfortable with vim/emacs as you are with your normal editor. Anything you learn after that is a bonus. It's hard to say how much faster I am using vim than a normal editor, but I'm a hell of a lot more efficient and comfortable doing it.

What about fish? I use it on the terminal but still write my shell scripts in bash so they work across systems (including windows with minGW). I think a big issue with new shell adoption is the prevalence of bash basically everywhere.

I don't think this is a good idea. There are many high school graduates that are woefully unprepared for college. It will be a huge waste of time and resources. No point of throwing students in the deep end and let them sink or swim.

At a local community college I worked at previously, the most popular math course was college algebra. Many kids right out of high school were in this course with very weak math skills. Now this is only one subject, but I think education needs to be addressed earlier.

And just to add, local community colleges are a fairly cheap avenue for just about anyone to take college course (and remedial high school courses like algebra). It shouldn't be the job of a four year college to devote extensive resources to re-teaching material that should have been learned in high school. Let's focus on making education better before college so more people are ready and qualified to enroll after high school.

I smiled as I read it and took it to be a joke, but it might do the writer some good to be a little less subtle here. Admittedly I'm not very tall myself.

Is there a reason you decided to single out the NYT at the end of your post? Is it due to its frequency of its reference here on HN?

I like your idea of archiving and summarizing articles you find interesting and meaningful. I've thought of doing something similar but, like many things, have never gotten around to it.

The time it would take to port code from 2 to 3 would likely be less than the time it would take to port to another language. And using the scipy stack makes numerical computing incredibly fast (fast enough for me considering it takes me longer to figure out how to analyze the results), though your use case may differ.

My parents hardly ever use a desktop computer since getting tablets and smart phones, but they still need and use one for business activities (self employment Excel entries, scanning and emailing documents, taxes). So while I wholeheartedly agree with you, I don't think the tablet can necessarily 100% eliminate the need for a desktop computer.

For what it's worth I find discussions centered on the same topic here to be much more civil, informative, and engaging than on most platforms (including /r/politics).

I believe money is definitely a big part of it. If you have the skills needed to help manage and analyze "big" data (big as in too big to realistically handle in Excel, which is the limit of most biologists), you can easily earn much more somewhere else.

Sometimes I work at home and hook my laptop up to my keyboard, mouse, monitor, and outlet at the same time. Admittedly I don't do this very often but it's nice to be able to do this as I need to.

A lot of the basics work in both, or with some minor tweaks.

Are there many ML frameworks that only work in 2.7? Scipy and numpy work in both 2.7 and 3.x, so I'd imagine (without being heavy in the field) that any new development using these scientific computing packages could be Python version agnostic as well. Is this generally not the case?

You can turn off notifications in iOS on a per app basis. I do this for emails.

I personally only see the utility of the notebook as a demonstration tool of a finished product. Kinda goes to your comment on the notebooks and code maintenance. It's a good teaching or presentation tool but not (IMO) a development tool.

There's a strong difference between gerrymandering and outright election rigging / vote fraud, the latter of which is what Donald seems to be suggesting.

It is mentioned as an issue on the github page.

It feels like he's trying to stay relevant and retain as much public support he can get.

I like using github and stow. I use stow to easily symlink from my cloned copy ofy config files to the proper directory. It's simple and easy to set up.

Nice intro to making writing in latex easier. Some other good stuff about latex on this blog too.

Just curious, why do you dislike Mac OS so much? I use an MacBook Pro laptop and have Debian based OS for work and I find the transition between the two computers almost negligible. Using the brew package manager on OS X lets me install anything I've needed.

Though to be fair I primarially do data analysis and not heavy application development.

Flux is blocked now? I installed it last year no problem.

Edit I remember now that I didn't install it through the App Store.

Using the brew package manager makes Mac feel like Linux. I've never had a problem installing what I've wanted with it.