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Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
- sabat 16y agoLiterally laughing outloud at this.
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- cubicle67 16y agothat's not a smartarse, that's quite genuinely funny (ymmv)
- sliverstorm 16y agoIs it funny because it's funny, or is it funny because this will probably happen (in all seriousness) for real one day? (rhetorical musing question)
- pavs 16y agoYes.
- kuroir 16y agoIt is going to happen. And also we'll see more people asking for changes on appearance than health.
- ramy_d 16y agoit's funny because I bet this is how the Eugenics Wars/World War III started in Star Trek.
- idknow 16y agowow; that's a blast from the past but that war was middle-asian, wasn't it?
- tmachinecharmer 16y agoNot funny at all. I have copied everything. I will now make his CLONE. muhaahaaaa!! (and malicious grin ;)
- snprbob86 16y agoThis issue is smartarse: "No instructions on how to build" https://github.com/msporny/dna/issues#issue/2 https://github.com/msporny/dna/issues#issue/2
- bravura 16y agoHere are some edits that are not humorous, but would actually improve the DNA: https://github.com/cariaso/dna https://github.com/cariaso/dna These edits were proposed by Michael Cariaso, whom I met recently. Mike runs a cool site called http://snpedia.com http://snpedia.com. SNPedia is like 23andme, except every night SNPedia reads PubMed abstracts to see if it can determine information about more SNPs. So, I believe it now gives information on 10x as many SNPs as 23andme, because it groks a lot more medical research. SNPedia has a mode where you do not even need to upload your data to them, instead you simply download the program and run it locally. But, regardless, you need to get your DNA, and 23andme is the cheapest option for doing so.
- zapnap 16y ago<insert joke about natural selection>
- nkassis 16y agowith proper TDD (tests representing the environment) it should be possible to generate random commits and only commit them when they pass the test suite.
- po 16y agoWhat do you do when there are serious ethical considerations with running your test suite?
- jrockway 16y agoRun it in a Virtual Universe with the ethernet cable unplugged.
- nkassis 16y agoI would say it should make us realize we are no more than mere simulations in some huge computer about to have the power cable pulled by god's boss before he tells him to get back to work. (scifi book idea )
- mbreese 16y agoI'm pretty sure that was the plot of a fairly well know scifi book cough hhgttg cough. Except it wasn't God's boss that pulls the cable - Earth was demolished to make way for an intergalactic bypass.
- swolchok 16y agoThat's kind of a stretch of an interpretation, don't you think? I always thought that the Earth was still physical in the way that we usually think of it, and humans were just part of its physical operation rather than being simulations.
- epynonymous 16y agoignorance is bliss, i had to look this up since i use mercurial. http://help.github.com/pull-requests/ http://help.github.com/pull-requests/ makes sense now, pretty funny comment about the nipple.
- undees 16y agoGitHub and Mercurial aren't mutually exclusive; hg-git works pretty well.
- po 16y agoYou know... what would be interesting is if he convinced his parents to submit their data and then he had his data as a merge commit.
- wallflower 16y agogit blame
- kuroir 16y agoAnd then we could have the usual talks every parents has with each other: "That ugly nose is your father's" "Your mother is the one that gave you X disease."
- orta 16y agoshame, I did this a few weeks ago: http://github.com/orta/dna http://github.com/orta/dna
- timmorgan 16y agoManu said [1] he was the first to do so, but looks like maybe you beat him. [1] http://manu.sporny.org/2011/public-domain-genome/ http://manu.sporny.org/2011/public-domain-genome/
- po 16y agoI would say you dodged a bullet. This guy's repo is fast becoming a gag: https://github.com/msporny/dna/network/members https://github.com/msporny/dna/network/members Also, he explicitly released it under the Creative Commons Public Domain License. Incidentally, I wonder if that has any patent implications? Does having genomes in the public domain prevent pharma companies from patenting their "discoveries"?
- eru 16y agoThe public domain shouldn't matter. Publication could.
- jarin 16y agoAren't you not supposed to be able to patent facts? Seems like your DNA structure should be classified as a fact.
- flipbrad 16y agosee the BRCA1/2 (myriad) debacle. horrible mess.
- ErrantX 16y agoHeh. The GitHubt default text on that page is accidentally funny in itself ;) msporny created dna and everyone else forked it. This is the family tree.
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- gsivil 16y agoSometimes I do not understand HN. There is the original post of the guy that posted his DNA on github.com (with the link of course) and a decent discussion on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211334 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211334 (5 hours ago) and still this post is the most upvoted
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- schwa 16y agoAnd the poster here just plagarised my original tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/schwa/status/36618789894361088 http://twitter.com/#!/schwa/status/36618789894361088 Lame.
- mbreese 16y agoWell the original is the blog entry, this is the actual pull request. Plus, this title is a lot funnier. What do you expect late on a Saturday night?
- iofthestorm 16y agoI don't read HN much, but I thought that in theory that's something you would expect of reddit and not HN? Isn't HN supposed to be above that kind of stuff?
- machinespit 16y ago"Eyelids now close in proper way. Fixes issue #42." I find humor in this.
- solipsist 16y agoIf only we could truly activate noprocrast mode in our genetic code by simply changing 3 base pairs... Imagine how much money the people who discovered it would end up making!
- nostrademons 16y agoI thought they found that the ability to delay gratitude is largely genetic? That's still a long way from identifying the particular gene responsible (or even knowing that there is a particular gene, and it's not a combination of a large number of unrelated genes), but it does make it plausible that this will be possible one day.
- w1ntermute 16y ago> Imagine how much money the people who discovered it would end up making! And they'd start making it right away ;)
- barmstrong 16y agoThis just blew my mind - mostly because it could totally happen some day.
- adulau 16y agoMaybe "genome" should be replaced by "a part of his genome". For more information about the raw format used by 23 and Me: http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/23andMe http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/23andMe
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- creativityhurts 16y agoI'm sure he's not worried about Facebook privacy.
- razzmataz 16y agoThere's a huge difference between releasing his fully sequenced dna and the data from a genotyping chip.... I went to the github site expecting to see several large fasta files for each chromosome.
- pdenya 16y agoThis guy made real changes to the genome: https://github.com/cariaso/dna https://github.com/cariaso/dna ie: removed increased risk of coronary artery disease at rs1333049 Pretty awesome
- drdaeman 16y agoI find those commits to be more fun (because they seem to be real thing): https://github.com/cariaso/dna/commits/ https://github.com/cariaso/dna/commits/
- dnautics 16y agoI don't see why Github couldn't be used to version track actual genomes of engineered small organisms... It would be great, you could curate changes that are 'virtual', changes that have been made, tested, and validated.
- IMBild 16y agoFunny, now! In the future, common practice.