skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you hear something about a field you know very little about, your default reaction should be skepticism. People say bullshit stuff all the time and pass it off as fact.

I don't know much about cancer biology, but what you heard sounds wrong. I don't see why, as you live longer, your body gets better at fighting cancer. If anything, the opposite sounds more likely.

One possibility is that someone is citing data with survivorship bias. That is, the people who make it past 65 have good genes that generally lower their chances of getting cancer. Even if this were the case, obviously it doesn't imply a causal relationship where passing 65 years reduces your chance of getting cancer.
One of my good friends is a CoE Vicar, but I do really struggle with the fact the organisation in some aspects is really backwards.

It's one of the only institutions I can think of that seems to be allowed to openly discriminate against homosexuals and until more recently women in some regards as well.

I hope you didn't take my comment as me jumping on you, I'm just curious because I don't think I could call any church in the CoE liberal when the leadership are so conservative.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/03/health/tooth-decay-causes/

> About 60% of the risk for tooth decay appears to be due to genetic factors, says Mary L. Marazita, director of the Center for Craniofacial and Dental Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3267319/

> Twin studies provide the opportunity to dissect the relative contribution of genetics and environment on dental caries variation. Accordingly, these studies can often suggest, but not prove, biological inheritance. Current evidence supports the notion that there is an inherited variation in enamel development that is associated with increased occurrence of dental caries. At present, these results are limited to specific populations with overt recognizable syndromes.

http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=19115

> Personal habits, fluoride and genetic factors all play a role in the development of cavities. Age is a factor as well, said Vieira, who has devoted some of his research to uncovering which genes have an influence.
The Roku remote app allows exactly that for their TV appliance.
I don't know about Vancouver BC. But I'll give a highlight about my country capital (Tunis) which is a third-world.

Home prices in the good places go from $250K to $2M and the infrastructure is not as good as you'd expect. The average salary is from $3k to $5K. Here is the thing:

1. Lack of good places to have a home. This means you have to bid for land.

2. Lack of good places in other cities, which means rich people in other cities moving to bid on these places.

3. Lots of people make money abroad (foreign salaries) and return after 15 years of work to buy land and construct a home.

4. Older people who would not sell or rent land/homes they need (my parents and some relatives) aka as land/homes hoarding.

5. A good portion of these homes are owned/inherited through generations and they are not interested to sell because of the lack of new/better opportunity.

There must some similar reasons if the price holds for too long.
No need to wait. A few decades ago in Russia, anesthesia wasn't used during dentistry. That was a fun time period to grow up in.
So you sit there waiting for someone to be rude so you can pounce on them? I'm sorry but that's petty. Don't you have anything better to do?

And that's not going to make for good neighbors. Now they know you're that guy that acts like a unreasonable person.
I grew up in a wee Scottish village that had a population of barely a thousand and had (when I was a kid) six heavily attended churches of various denominations of which, I have to admit, the Church of Scotland was the most light hearted in its own miserable and dour way.

Edit: I'm pretty sure we had Wee Frees and Wee Wee Frees.

Edit2: I'm pretty sure "church" isn't the right word...
what would be really awesome is if Andrew Ng or Norvig build a course around Tensorflow. It is really not useful to a beginner to be learning everything in matlab.
Right, I wasn't saying it didn't. I was saying that it's silly to exclude all of the major cities and then say the South doesn't have good jobs. No matter what region you're talking about, the good tech jobs are in typically in/near cities.
Unfortunately for them (as others noted) they do fade-out at the end, which makes the noise audible on even a decent set of headphones.
https://www.tutum.co
The community around it is really helpful and amazing
There's no real "how you do it" other than having friends with money. I've seen LOIs with an idea range anywhere from $10k to $1M.
Sorry for the harshness of my tone. There's unfortunately a lot of people draping their tech in the mantle of "mesh" without actually introducing any innovation. I had taken this as such a project mostly because I saw no mention of routing protocols. I will take a look at your main work.
Wouldn't the government approval issue be more of a socialist factor? Would a socialist government, who's dental representatives want to protect their slice of the public pie be more or less powerful than a capitalist leaning government who wants to limit interference in the market? For instance, is the teachers union more or less powerful than the dental lobbyists?
Amen! (Disclaimer, I am the person running AudioCheck.net)
Wait a couple of hours, to forget your responses, and try again.
I like the idea and would like to join the discussion.
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Well I wasn't trying to criticize Americans, so no argument here. I think there are good reasons for this imbalance.

But I think it goes farther than French people knowing who Obama is. Yes, for every French article about Obama, there's an American article about some world leader. But French newspapers also have articles about a scandal at the University of Missouri, local police shooting stories, and again this Keystone stuff that frankly nobody should care about. US news doesn't carry that kind of story about other countries, because frankly I don't think anybody would care.
“Monkey see, monkey sue is not good law – at least not in the Ninth Circuit.” [pdf]
The Bing driver was more bold:

https://www.bing.com/mapspreview/?&cp=37.848938~-122.49187&l...

What an awesome view
If it were on a national hotel chain then maybe; but I think with something like that part of the appeal is the freedom it represents. No metal and bolts, just an old tire or piece of wood strapped around a tree branch. I don't think it's reaonable at all to assume it would be inspected. (if you're looking for that kind of security I don't think you'd use airbnb)

I think it's just a tragic accident, yes it could have been prevented, but what accident couldn't be? There are risks everywhere, and trying to remove them all isn't possible or efficient. We go after the low hanging fruit because it saves more lives. If this were carbon monoxide poisoning or a fire (with no smoke detector) I'd be with you blaming the property owners - but this wasn't something they should/could have prevented.
I wasn't suggesting that anyone should.

There will always be a lawful reason to not hire a person, therefore any unlawful reasons to not hire are simply unenforceable against any employer that wisely refrains from opening its big mouth and confessing to any of them.

Essentially, such laws merely instruct potential employers to never give prospective employees any reason for anything, and they suffer the unlawful discrimination anyway. The legislators thought only of their intent, and paid no heed to detection and enforcement.

They can't fix the problem shown via experiment and statistical analysis in the article with a new law, because they law they would pass to do so already exists.
This is amazing talk. He has many other very interesting ideas.
I'm done ranting about Google and GPUs at last. From a technical standpoint, I believe TensorFlow vindicates my viewpoint and that's enough for me. This is closure I really needed, OK? And besides, now I can concentrate my energy on asking WTH happened to Android performance between 4.x and 5.x J/K?

And from a professional standpoint, I moved on and fixed the damage I let them inflict on my career. I eventually built exactly what I was told couldn't and shouldn't be done with GPUs.

But back then, the argument Google made to me was that too much of the workloads I wanted to run on GPUs were serialized (hence brawny versus wimpy). And from a classical parallel algorithms perspective, they were correct. The problem is that from a GPU programming perspective, they weren't even wrong(tm). And at the time, I had ~5 years of CUDA programming (very early adopter) and 30,000+ lines of CUDA code to back that up whereas the people I tried to convince had zero such experience so there was just no way. My argument boiled down to TLDR: O(n^2) or higher probably belongs on GPUs. Would anyone disagree these days?
Yes.

Example: They recently did a massive reshuffle on their Jira product lines. Now instead of Jira + a set of software dev plugins, it's two separate products. Jira Core, and Jira Software, which bundles all the software dev stuff that you used to have to buy separately.

If you were a Jira license holder before this change, you basically got bumped to Jira Software (i.e. you got access to the dev stuff) for the same price you were paying before.

I would not see this happening with a public company.

Going public exposes you to the toxic "growth at all costs" mindset of short-term, quarter to quarter thinking investors, which pressures the company to screw their customers to make the balance sheet look a bit better.

This isn't going to happen immediately, but they're on a clock now. It will happen sooner or later, mark my words.
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No need to even go that far, in 2006 I had a root canal in Germany with no anesthesia or pain killers given. Made worse by the fact I didn't understand what it was being done. My German was terrible and the dentist's English was worse.
Because "cartelling up" is much, much harder and more rare than people think. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel#Long-term_unsustainabil...
I honestly couldn't tell. I'm guessing if I tried again I'd get anything between 4/10 and 7/10.
Vitamin C is easy: there are no benefits, assuming you've already reached the amount you need.
It's not that the cancer chance goes down significantly, it's that the highest risk for death after 65-75 is cardiovascular related.
Sea Dragon [1] is slightly similar to that.

Fuel is a small part of the cost of a rocket, most of the cost is in the engines and structures. Cheap production of hydrogen or oxygen is unlikely to make things much cheaper.

Also, any mass left over at engine cut-off requires a large quantity of fuel at lift-off and possibly necessitating a larger more expensive rocket. This would make re-purposing of boosters in orbit less likely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)
I've sent one off, let's see what happens. I've done quite a few before. If they don't reply, it's often worth trying again but rephrasing or targeting a specific detail.
I don't know what xdg is. Can you provide a link? Is it a better technical solution than what editorconfig has set out to do?

I think that you were just being snarky, but if there is a competing standard that is actually something I'd like to hear about.
People still get their wisdom teeth taken out without being put under. I heard one person describe the process inside your mouth sounding like a tree trunk being snapped in half.
Great article, but I think it minimizes the 4K video option in both the Fire and the Roku.
"The Fire TV now also supports 4K video, if you have a television that can get up to that resolution. So does the Roku 4. The Apple TV and Chromecast don’t support 4K. You can decide how much that matters to you. Offerings of streaming 4K video are pretty limited right now, but are likely to increase dramatically in 2016."
I don't want to hear "the world's top creators", I want to hear a few people in a basement with instruments and a MacBook.
This sounds like the people who need to announce that they are trans everywhere.
Over a summer I lived in "intern housing" at a university in the DC area. They wanted $150 for parking for 2mo, yeah, nope. A little bit of research told me that the parking services were a separate entity from the school and that the school would put a hold on my student account and transcripts if there were unpaid charges. I also found that they supposedly boot you after 3 tickets. Tickets are $100 minimum and go up by $50 for every unpaid 30 days. As someone who never took and classes from them they didn't have much leverage over me. I just pulled my front plate, got a few spare plates from the junkyard and slapped one over my real plate when I got home for the night making sure no one plate had more than three tickets. For ~$3 day it was well worth the hassle. They're still sending me notices every two months about my unpaid fine for the one time they ticketed me with my real plate.

Seriously, the easiest way to abuse (private) parking systems is usually to make them write the ticket to a plate that doesn't come back to you.

Another "hack" was that the parking gates at most public garages in the DC area had a rubber sweep on the bottom and were tall enough that most 90s compacts could squeeze under if you retract the antenna, saves about $6 per usage.
Scientists explain why Moon rocks contain fewer volatiles than Earth’s
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All it really proves is that English spelling rules is ridiculously inconsistent. It almost seems like an strange cousin of numerology. Where numerology applies significance to to arbitrary numbers, this applies significance to arbitrarily spelled English words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_economy

First section.....Capitalism. Capitalism is certainly a type of market economy.
Even more interesting. If I were to look for irony, perhaps the speaker who uses this word might be seen as an ass of a different kind.

A: "Truly this is the Pons asinorum of the matter."

B: "There goes A, being a pretentious ass... again."
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Imagine a device that can be powered and cooled by the oxygen and blood sugar in human blood. It would permit the creation of embedded medical devices that would be nearly permanent. No need to change battery--just eat more!
If your function isn't a mathematical function (i.e. its output is not completely determined by its arguments), then it's a little confusing to figure out what isolating a root would mean. But even in that case, bisect_root terminates, because it always halves the interval at each step, even if your input procedure is returning nonsense. Witness

julia> bisect_root((x) -> rand() - 1/2, 1.0, 2.0)
(1.1980511149266218,1.198051114926622)

julia> bisect_root((x) -> rand() - 1/2, 1.0, 2.0)
(1.595600613503659,1.5956006135036591)
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I did 10/10, but that's because I knew exactly what to look for, and how to listen to it. I didn't use my expensive open headphones, but some cheaper closed headphones that passively block external noise, and I used a far louder volume than usual.

Of course the source is specially selected to make the test hard. With music with real dynamics, that hasn't been compressed to death, the test becomes trivial. 8 bit gives you 48dB of SNR, that is lower than vinyl and tape.
Mostly because I also do personal stuff during work hours.
Ancient brains turn paleontology on its head
Switzerland to introduce fully autonomous driverless buses in Spring 2016
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That's risky because they may be able to look up your car by VIN. You'd probably need to randomize it by parking in different locations every day, hoping that you get different meter maids who wouldn't recognize your car. Your car would also have to be so generic in appearance (not just model/color but also condition) that it didn't stand out.
The author is pretty clear.

> And don’t forget about the importance of compound interest. I will remind you that $2k per month saved on rent for one year is $24k. Invested for 50 years averaging 6% interest comes to roughly $450k. Freedom. HTFU.

$450K towards retirement for one year of living in cramped, expensive SF sounds like it could be a reasonable payoff for many people.
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I'd argue that capitalism is what causes the entrenchment of industries that get addicted to their profits and don't care about the customers.

No, this is human nature. People with power and wealth act to protect it. This is true whether they get their power and wealth because they are high-ranking politicans, party officials or bureaucrats, or whether they earned it in the private sector.
That's terrifying; I'm guessing that the language barrier resulted in a serious miscommunication?
Well a WhatsApp like service can provide real users without duplication and phone numbers are pretty good source of identity.

Such service would not reveal the number to anyone or won't need number to connect but to just verify profiles.
10/10 using the fade out, with cheap ass gaming headphones, and not knowing the first goddamn thing about sound, bitrates, what to listen for, or anything in this thread, except seeing your comment first.

The fade outs just seemed fuzzy.

Edit: I also have no idea if this goes for or against audiophiles. Maybe both? I know they're largely ridiculed.
The researchers say the device can also whiten teeth. So the dentists will be fine.
This might be too much of a newbie question, but how do these types of data stores (such as "data lakes") get populated?

For example, and again I might be too uninformed here to ask the correct question, do you use ETL-type tools to get and store data? Or is it usually scripts that pull in (and process) data from various sources?
It is a library for the optimization of machine learning algorithms, similar to Theano. You write a model you want to optimize as a graph of symbolic expressions, and the library will compile this graph to be executed on a target platform (could be CPU, GPU). This is really neat because you essentially wrote your program in Python and now it's going to be running as optimized C++ code (or as optimized kernels on your GPU).

The fact that you defined your model as a symbolic graph means you can derive gradient equations automatically, hence ridding you of a rather tedious step in optimization. With such tools, the workflow for a practitioner is much simpler: 1-code models as graphs of symbolic expressions, and 2-define objective functions (ex. for a regression problem, your objective would be the root mean squared error, plus some regularization). Disclaimer: I did not look at the code, but from what I understand it is pretty much the same as Theano (which I've been using a lot lately).
> Whereas companies like Splunk or Hortonworks it's pretty much predictable how they will keep making money...

Huh? Neither Splunk nor Hortonworks are profitable.
I went to the US for the first time a few weeks ago, and even coming from the UK I was surprised by the pervasiveness and deep saturation of advertising.

OK, Times Square is a special case, but it didn't seem to get much better elsewhere. Pretty much everything that could be held still for more than five minutes seemed to be sponsored, co-branded or had an advert stuck on it. I was surprised the pigeons didn't have little logos stuck on their wings.

I just could not get my head around the TV ads for medicines. They were some of the most bizarre things I've ever seen, beyond parody. One advert had an elderly couple laughing, drinking wine and standing around on boats, while a voiceover quickly listed all the terrible side effects of taking it. For about three minutes.
That would be Europe. Sounds awful indeed. Especially if they won't budge and an extra tool is placed under the wisdom-tooth to be used as a lever… Root canal is done with local anesthetics as well by the way...
Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
stop renting and BUY property. Something BELOW your budget.
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Dental device promises pain-free tooth repair
Pretty sure that court case is for a different fence - the one in the Geograph pics is new and completely isolates the Archerfield estate from the sea. Even when the estate/hotel has properties right on the coast there is this fence (without a single gate) between them and the coast - along which there is a public path from which you can get a good view of the fence....

NB It's not really a gated community in that access to it from the landward side is easy - you just walk or drive in.
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Syria (and specifically the Assad regime) is friendly with Moscow, and provides a friendly port on the Mediterranean. The US hasn't taken out Assad for human rights violations because they don't want a war with Russia. But ISIS is also clearly a threat to the US, so we can't support them either. So we basically tried to invent a third group of non-religious radicals, but without the fervor that a radical ideology provides, many of the individuals that make up this faction give up and flee to Europe after a few months of fighting.

Basically the US would like to see Assad deposed like Gadaffi or Saddam, but Russia is propping him up, and we dislike the other option more than we dislike Assad. The only other realistic option is the Kurds, but an independent Kurdistan would throw the region into chaos (and likely drive Turkey towards Russia, because the Turkish government views the Kurds as being terrorists worse than ISIS).
https://www.faradaybikes.com/

plus its already used for an electric vehicle.
Huh, that's actually pretty accurate.

In fact, 'normal' molars sound the same.

In a former life, a nice American chap yanked one of mine out whilst in Kandahar and it sounded like that - only he also broke a part off the jaw too, so that could have been some part of the sound.

He informed me with a slightly embarrassed: "I'm sorry but I think I just broke your jaw bone."

In a later development, the bone began to be rejected by my gum and was pushed up and out. Broken bone is surprisingly sharp and rather than carry around the little calcium razor one of my Corporals kindly volunteered to pull it out with a pair of needle nose pliers.

Happy to say the latter operation was a complete success.
I hope bitbucket stays the same. Great service for private repos with git and mercurial support.
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Also overly simplistic: "The West".

Remember there were often multiple competing powers each eager to sabotage the others if they couldn't get what they wanted.

Sometimes a corrupt government was a sort of "area denial" on resources. The old "If I can't get them, then neither can you" approach.
They list their source as this: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-primer-on-snapchat-and-its-...
Like it or not, it is very much not dead.
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imo, on of the possible answers would be to make the teenagers some in a situation where they are not under peer-pressure.

What I suggest is that we take, let's say 14yr old kid, take them to the recess area, and give them 2 cigarettes. Then ask them one by one if they enjoy it, while they are all heavily nauseated.

No one likes their first cigarette. You just have to put them in a situation where they are free to admit it unless of being pressured to 'be a grown up and enjoy smoking'.

Might also be a stupid idea though.