skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there are some individual in the population with the particular phenotype you are selecting who are not infertile then selective breeding can increase the frequency of that phenotype in the population. In the case of GCA we know that there are fertile individuals with very high GCA so we know it is possible to selectively breed for high GCA.

Of course selecting only for GCA may well increase the frequency of other phenotypes, but unless GCA is directly linked to that phenotype then there is no reason you can’t select against any undesired phenotype at the same time. This is done all the time with the selective breeding of animals and plants. I know of no phenotype shared by all individuals with a high GCA so there should be no phenotype that would inherently be a consequence of selecting for high GCA, certainly not infertility.
This would be an argument against using any site that allows user uploaded content, such as this site.
Neither is evil, both are great. Both have pissed off some monied interests though.

Uber gets more bad press because they're actually an existential threat to the taxi industry. Airbnb isn't an existential threat to the hotel industry because even though I use airbnb sometimes it hasn't stopped me using hotels -- hotels are easier and more convenient, airbnbs are cheaper and sometimes better but riskier and more trouble.
The future! serve binaries instead of web pages!
Cancer cells can be turned against themselves
It does, at least on TV series it autoplays the next episode. Definitely does that on the Apple TV.
Ah. I misparsed your sentence.
Are you honestly saying that latches, screws, and glue each have human-noticeably different form factor consequences?

I'm claiming that replaceability, durability, composability, these things no longer made the cut in the design.
At least back in 2012, Google research seemed to suggest that distributed CPU training of large models could sometimes be preferable to fitting within the limits of GPUs:

http://research.google.com/archive/large_deep_networks_nips2...
First of all, I didn't mean my FUD remark to be vitriolic.

I disagree that it is more work in total; I don't think you're taking into account the work that will no longer have to be done, namely work spent searching for cross-module bugs introduced when a security proof for one module relies on a condition which cannot be expressed in the underlying language.

I agree that it is a new type of work though.

Edit: easier for the mathematician who wants to prove that system X has security characteristic Y
>It could however increase the likelihood of precipitation.

Right - because warming increases mass of water vapor that air can hold. Which there is plenty of in the ocean, so then all the slightly warmer air melting the exterior ice allows the air to pick up moisture. Then as the air moves over the interior, temperatures drop and snow falls leading to the accumulation of snow mass that has been observed.
This is also not quite right. Models whose parameters are too big to fit on one GPU can be trained by splitting them across multiple GPUs, as was done here, for example: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5346-sequence-to-sequence-learni...
I don't think that's fair. I strongly doubt PG considers spamming, or (falsely) naming & shaming customers, as "naughtiness". That's something very different.
This is incredible. I've never seen anything like this in my entire life.

A company blatantly pissing off much of its would-be userbase and sticking to its grossly incompetent guns, obviously not caring at all.

I literally cannot imagine a way they could handle this more poorly.
Movies just stop, but TV shows will flow through to the next episode within a season on many Netflix platforms (including Chromecast).
That's the name of the operator, sure. One of the use cases of the flip-flop operator is selecting a range of lines in a file.
JRubyArt, a ruby wrapper for processing-3.0.1+
> and Ukrainians started revolutions to win "freedom and prosperity" through eventual accession to EU.

Do you really believe that accession to EU brings "freedom and prosperity" to its counties? Looking at Greece and some other EU countries it seems quite the opposite
You might be interested in Optar:

http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
This isn't real. Livecoding.tv is Frog Fractions 2.

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.
There are many issues that prevent us from easily serving your use-case, unfortunately. I'm not completely sure about the details around this specific case, but historically we've had to restrict connections from similar software that makes N:N connections (or even N:M connections) to our network due to our connection limit rules quickly becoming unmanageable. We've recently implemented new software that should make this a little bit easier for us (and we've accordingly started being a bit more lax about it), but this is a fairly recent development.

Additionally, we hesitate to cater to this use-case as it often ends up turning into "we want your network to relay messages between our bots" instead of "we want to talk to other people". We've found that channels used for such bots are typically not sufficiently staffed and frequently a target of abuse, which ends up taking network staff time to resolve.

Lastly, we've had a number of technical issues supporting certain pieces of IRC client software. Older versions of EiraIRC in particular have some nasty bugs; the worst of which is that they tend to get stuck in some state where they hold multiple connections to the network open while continuing to attempt to connect again and again, with no delay. While this doesn't impose load that our servers can't handle, it does generate a lot of administrative log traffic that is bogus and dilutes important log traffic.

Many of these use cases can be covered by IRC, but our network isn't configured to handle such use easily as it often looks very similar to the sort of abuse we usually deal with. The common denominator in most cases like this is that it's taking too much of the staff's time and attention to support the channel and its clients. Our time is finite, and for the health of our network, we'd rather say "no" to a few channels than to make all channels suffer from thinner network staff resources.
But then you can't have the dynamic web 2.0 monkey punching experience that the guys in marketing insist on having to keep up with the hottest trends.
> I sympathize (and would therefore avoid this size community in the first place, I think) but I'm curious: what would you have the customer-neighbors do

Throttle traffic, such that if there's more traffic than the total upstream bandwidth, everyone active at any given time gets a proportional share of the bandwidth.
Curated new app
Bigger Data: A Case for Voting
>>basically an electric motor (or 2, or 4...) with virtually no serviceable parts.

With bulk of the people out there having no infrastructure to charge their electric cars. And needless to say if we know we are generating enough electricity to have countries full of electric cars.
How to Run Your Business More Like Taylor Swift
CenturyLink sucks in general. Poor service and poorer customer service. That company is a joke. Seems their whole purpose is to drive people with wired phone service to other companies using wireless.
"sell or give away our trade secrets to the competition."

That's an entirely different question.
Yeah, I thought this was really weird, too. I'm actually in the process of building out a small WISP outside of Georgetown, TX to serve an area that's right now /only/ being served by cellular, and I've gone with Ubiquiti gear. Not only does it allow traffic shaping but the practice is encouraged. There shouldn't be any need in a PTMP Ubiquiti setup to call people and tell them to lay off the Netflix.
Travelopy Android App: Discover Place, Capture Moments
"neovim now follows the XDG spec"

Speaking as someone who only runs straight window managers and Xterms, I hate that XDG bullshit.
You can run untrusted code in an iframe (possibly with the sandbox attribute set). I think this would be what you're looking for.
Fuzzing FFmpeg for fun and profit
IRC's userbase is consolidating around the OSS crowd, hence Freenode exploding in popularity while other networks falter. Unlike regular consumers, OSS people understand the value of minimum-common-denominator networks, interoperability and openness.

When most people will do all their chatting in Facebook or Slack, OSS developers will still use IRC.
>>The people who would build car brains for Apple would be hired from Car manufacturers.

From the perspective of the car makers they too can hire software brains from software companies.

Do you seriously think, a motor, chassis and four wheels are all there is to make a car? Or its easy to manufacture cars in bulk.

By any reasonable argument, learning how to write software(skills for which are common place today) is far easy than learning to build and manufacture millions of cars.
SINGA provides an abstraction for defining all known models,a neural net structure that is easy for model and data partitioning, and a parallelism model that supports both synchronous, asynchronous and hybrid training frameworks. Processing at each node could the be CPU, GPU, or CPU-GPU based.
The trouble with climate change deniers is they turn everyone else into an equally unreasonable proponent. Look at these reactions to two pieces of evidence:

Antarctica is losing ice from its ice sheets - It shows global warming is happening and things might get worse.

Antarctica is gaining more ice than it's losing - We speculate that it might lead to another consequence that we haven't observed or modeled which would mean things still get worse.

That's bias if I ever saw it.

The fact is, we really don't know what will happen. Predictions range from 10m sea level rise in 50 years to nothing noticeable. It's a risk. A risk of things that might go very bad or might not. So we need to worry in case it does go bad. But the general public can't understand risk - they need black and white certainty which doesn't yet exist in this field. Proponents fear that people will choose black so they try to convince them it's white. Even though it's wrong, at least it seems like the safer choice of wrong.
Yep, Axel Springer have been pushing it across all of their content sites.
WebAssembly binary will be syntactically (almost) identical to asm.js, which is a subset of JS. So all are equally transparent/opaque.
Thank you for balancing the conversation. I don't think the article is bad for portraying the Russian point of view. A lot of times when I speak to people about Russia they have a heavy western bias (not a bad thing) and I think it's important to see both sides. A lot of times any Russian centric piece gets shot down.

As for your first point about Kievian rus being Russia: I think it's different as up to the communist revolution, peasants in Russia had almost no idea of the change of powers and many didn't even know the language they spoke was called. Most identified through Russian orthodox instead. The same kind of hold true today. I believe that if you asked most people in Russia, Ukraine (except I think modern day Ukraine would answer different than 30 years ago) they would say they are directly descended from the Kievian rus empire. I don't think that's the case with Rome and that is what makes it different. In the long term history of Russia, the current Ukraine is a small blip and Russia views itself as a thousand year old empire and wants to last another 1000 years so a decade or two of unrest is nothing it took nearly 40 years of mass starvation and hunger before the communist revolution overthrew the czar. As long as people are fed the aren't going to do anything.

But what they are doing is still pretty shitty.
It's hard to find whats worthwhile and what isn't.
no worries, was clear when I posted that the downvotes would come in heavy - this is HN after all.

big fan of this ideology, especially personified by the likes of Peter Thiel, who went on record stating that letting womenfolk vote in the US was a huge mistake and has doomed his perfect vision of a society. wonder how his seabase is going?
yeah, can you script tcl into slack?
Not so much that it's "insecure" in general; more that upstream has made it infeasible for Debian to provide backported security patches for a stable version.
I may be jumping to conclusions, but this reddit comment by Jamie Green may shed some light over his situation...

https://www.reddit.com/r/timferriss/comments/3g2mjg/tim_ferr...
You might be interested in looking at Gabriel Gonzalez' Morte ( http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-10-16-internet-of-code.html ), which started off as a supercompiler project, but seems to be moving somewhat in that direction.
Show HN: A simple API to store and retrieve JSON objects
SIL isn't open-source to my knowledge, so no. Maybe once/if Apple open-sources Swift, though? (They claim they will do that later this year.)
Using a Neural Network to Train a Ruby Twitter Bot [video]
Mate: you need to move out of the basement, go to some bars, get solidly drunk and go home with a lady.
I don't quite understand this idea of YC companies being somehow immune to idiocy. I've been approached by multiple YC companies about early-stage roles and been stunningly unimpressed by each. That it's publicly foolish now is maybe a little funnier, but I don't get the surprise of it.
To be fair, I suspect that content blockers aren't puzzled as to why you would want to block ads. What they're trying to do is make it feel morally/ethically unacceptable to block ads.

This is an example of them failing to live up to their role in the their preferred moral order (i.e. "you don't have to block our ads out of safety concerns because we'll safeguard them for you").
> how is increasing ice mass not a mark against the theory of AGW?

This is explained in the article.

The article explains that there are two competing processes affecting the total amount of ice in Antarctica. One is the process of formation of ice mass from snowfall, the rate of which has been steady for the past 10,000 years (this study has now measured it at 200 billion tons per year). This affects the total amount of ice across Eastern Antarctica and the interior. Unfortunately, this process has not _increased_ either.

The second process is the thinning of the glaciers. The rate of _this_ process has increased since 1992-2008 by 65 billion tons. As the article points out, if this continues, than Antarctica will begin to see a mass decrease.

I'm not entirely sure how this can be interpreted as a point against AGW, or what it has to do with the anthropogenic part at all, nor do I see how it can seen as evidence against simple GW (regardless of cause), as the melting process is still increasing. At best, it can be seen as evidence that things haven't gotten out of hand yet. Now, if the Antartic snow growth was accelerating, then we could start arguing that we don't need to worry about CO2 increases, as the planet will just compensate any shift with some (unknown) homeostatic counter process. However, as it stands, this report provides no evidence for that.
I don't think getting to list only one rental is the solution, but perhaps an owner can only list one property as their primary residence.
>E.g. it is much better than "work with the intent to cause as much harm as possible to yourself and those around you"

The badness of advice is surely also a function of how likely people are to actually follow it. Nobody's going to follow your shitty advice, but a lot of people really do follow their unrealistic passions all the way to a minimum-wage gig while they wait for their music/painting/acting/whatever career to take off.
> Safe Tcl does not attempt to completely prevent annoyance and denial of service attacks. These forms of attack prevent the application or user from temporarily using the computer to perform useful work, for example by consuming all available CPU time or all available screen real estate

So in other words it wouldn't be a good idea to encourage people to post and run demoscene Tcl programs on 4chan. That's the kind of safety and security I'm talking about.
In yacc the generator will tell you about shift reduce conflicts. Once you have debugged the grammar the parser is likely to work. With parser combinators you have no such assurance - you don't know if your grammar has loops, the parser might get stuck easily while parsing. However for a simple and regular input language like sexpr everything is fine.
Greece largely benefited from being in the European Union long before the eurozone. They relied on free money way too much. You dont build a developed economy with olive oil and tourism.
Randomness and the butterfly effect
> For example: I don't understand why Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, and so on have not delivered tools that ease the path for those who wish to write applications designed to run code from untrusted sources.

Probably because it is stupidly difficult to do robustly, especially when the language and standard libraries weren't originally designed to do that.

Lua is perhaps best positioned for this given how tightly you can lock it down (you can remove the 'require' function that loads other modules). But even this is considered not robustly secure against untrusted code.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/SandBoxes
If you want to be super-paranoid, only accept BMP or TGA with a specific color depth and no compression and validate the header before parsing. Or even accept only raw RGB data, 3 * width * height, and require the size be passed separately.

Then convert it to png yourself.

You can't prevent exploits from all angles, but you can prevent exploits from some angles.
Automated encrypted swapfiles
Well, at least in Germany that is a lot easier – big ISPs have to rent you their lines at just above cost if the lines are older than 2 years.

Which led to people often having dozens or more ISPs to choose from.
According to http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/ you are asking for ~$30k/week when consulting. I just read some of your year-in-briefs, and it seems like the most you ever made consulting was $150k in 2012. Is that correct? How much income are you making per year consulting? Because I'd want to make much more than $150k in order for it to be worth it.

The numbers I'm going through right now show that, even if I can make a lot of income consulting, if I just join the right startup I could earn stock options worth effectively more than I'd ever be able to make consulting (assuming I don't get stock consulting).
Scientists rely on faith too; hypothesis testing being the most obvious example. New beliefs are always conditioned on faith(:= prior beliefs).
>how can it be the worst if it makes 1/3 of the advertised formula?

Same way that "keep your face in the water and breathe every fourth stroke" is good swimming advice but if you leave out the last bit it becomes terrible advice.

If that's too silly an analogy, then just remember that shooting for a random point on the "stuff you love" portion of the Venn diagram is unlikely to land you in the region you want to be in, and the part of the Venn diagram where you're doing stuff you like but which nobody is willing to pay you for is a really terrible place to get stuck.
If you are claiming that "new scientific truth" in that context does not presuppose new evidence disproving an outdated theory (or a simpler explanation for existing evidence, which falsifies the outdated theory by making it superfluous), then what does it mean? Just any old idea from someone who happens to be younger?
Homejoy would not have succeed even if every one of their customers were to fall head-over-heels in love with their cleaner. Homejoy’s business model was fundamentally flawed and no tweaking or pivoting could ever solve this. There was no problem that could be solved with technology. No solution = no business.

The only interesting thing out of the whole homejoy experiment was in exposing the shallowness of some VC’s business acumen. I wish we would see a reasoned explanation from the investors of why they put their limited partner’s money into Homejoy.
Tour into the Picture: Make Animation from a Single Image [pdf]
This reminded me of Eli the Computer Guy's rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66PNIUtaaE
Apologies for the rant -- I usually don't do them. I just get tired of the same arguments over and over again.

Agreed that the many/most of the tiny pieces of climate science are about as settled as you can get. Nobody's debating the absorption spectrum of CO2. Everybody knows what the temperature of the Earth would be if it were a black body.

But, as you note, this ain't Newtonian physics. If you think about it, the Earth's climate is the most amazingly complex system we could possibly assess using science. We have myriad chemical processes. Add to those a plethora of biological processes. Throw in a heap of meteorological processes. Finally don't forget the astrophysics of the thing. And if you want to have the discussion to the natural conclusion, don't forget geo-politics, economics, demographics, and a pile of other human-oriented sciences.

Geesh Pete, that's a ton of separately enormously complex systems, many of which have huge knowledge gaps, many of which we cannot model well worth a hoot, all working together. To do what? I'm not even sure we understand the question, much less have any clue on how to model the answers.

You also make an excellent point about unplanned consequences of mankind taking various actions. I am reminded of an archaeology article I read a while back about a Roman village. The village was home to a large silver mining industry. As such, the people there prospered. The empire grew. But at the same time they poisoned their water supply. There was much suffering.

I doubt it would be possible to remove most of the ecological changes (I will not use the loaded term "damage") that economic growth has caused without us all living in bearskins and dying of measles by age 30. That's not acceptable. So it's always going to be a discussion about appropriate trade-offs. It's been that way for all of recorded history, assuming the sky gods remain happy, all we have is this reasoning by induction to use on the climate question.

I am honestly at a loss to tell you what the stock market is going to do over the next year. I cannot tell you how the economy will fare over five years. I have completely no idea what changes technology will bring over the next decade or two. Asking for political consensus about what some folks _guess_ might be a few inches of sea level change over the next century? It's simply a non-starter. I don't mean that in a pejorative way. I'm sure folks mean well and are acting in good faith. It's just the entire line of argumentation is far too tenuous, shaky and relies way too much on emotional verve for me to get any traction on it at all. I see a lot of anger, haughty condescension, and political ugliness, but that's just a terrific reason for serious scientists to have nothing to do with the advocacy part of this. There's no there there.