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> I saw a video recently that said if we can select 1 in 10 embryos, we can gain 4 IQ points. If selection is 1:1000, we gain 20 or more IQ points. This process can be repeated between embryos, so there is no need to wait 20 years and convince them.

Something like that. It sounds like that video is echoing Bostrom & Shulman's paper. The possible IQ gains depends on whether you're assuming you have a polygenic score which explains all of SNP additive heritability of intelligence (and how much you estimate that at) and whether you take into account the losses in the IVF process which mean that the best-scoring embryo will probably not yield a live birth. If you are interested in the details, I've written it all up and provided R code so you can simulate out various scenarios in my http://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection page. My best guess is that a realistic gain at the moment is closer to 0.4 IQ points than 4 IQ points, but iterated embryo selection could be a huge gamechanger and I'm really surprised that people aren't taking it more seriously. Embryo selection is the present; CRISPR is the next 5-10 years; but iterated embryo editing/selection may be everything after that...

> Also, they said that when we have completely scanned a few millions of people's DNA we will have the data to discover more complex dependencies. The company in question wants to scan 10 million people in a decade.

Yes, I'm sure. I think Venter's company might be the one in question, but it's focused on rare diseases, and may not be collecting psychological phenotype data like IQ or personality. (Hard to run a GWAS for intelligence if you have a million genomes without any associated data like IQ test scores or educational credentials!)
From what I've seen, all backend duties are implemented in a server acting as another client to Firebase. Usually a Node server since Firebase has provided a JS SDK from the start, but I've seen implementations in all major languages.

You either implement some cron task in that server that periodically makes stuff with Firebase, or you use an endpoint in Firebase and use it a task queue for the server.

I'd would be great if someone with more experience could provide more info on how these backend duties are performed.

Edit: see this for more info https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/r4d5H7...
Those are usually called medical trials. And the people participating in them have reason to believe their participation may not be dependable. This is not what Theranos was selling.
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I think such a child would be effectively a clone, but I may be misunderstanding the details.
The website is down now. For those who want to check it out, here's the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160518173022/https://home.goog...
JavaScript doesn't run on the JVM.
The only solution that is worth its name is the utter or virtual absence of the problem (loneliness) it is intended to solve, otherwise it is a second-rate one.

Withdrawal, no matter how "valid" and "normal" as deemed by a segment of society, does not fall under that felicitous characterization.

Do the people that withdraw generally demonstrate bien dans ma peau and joie de vivre?
That would imply 50% non-carbon.
>> A single language needed to solve all problems is a fallacy.

> Has that been proven and do we have pointers to any peer reviewed papers on that?

I agree with you and can't stand it when people say things like: "All languages have their strengths and weeknesses" or "you just need to choose the right tool for the job".

I can't see any reason a clean and simple language can't have high level constructs when you want them and low level performance when you need it. It's just that no one has done it well enough yet.
> I still believe in the idea of Theranos

Several studies suggest that small volumes of blood have too much variance to yield useful test results.
A new mobile friendly testing tool
Sucked in, anyone who bought a Nest.
That is fair. It stings the most because the medical industry is known for it's transparency and rigorous testig standards. The FDA, famous champion of public health, was able to successfully stop 23&me (information terrorists) from providing harmful information to their patients as well. It makes sense tha Theranos should be singled out and villified for the failure of one of their beta devices that was i active development. Obviously, lieing about it wasn't super cool, but again their product "figures out and produces medical tests" so messing up your product(or procedures involving it) is === messing up medical testing.
If they balance compute to memory better than GPUs, you could definitely see a 10x. GPUs have large off chip memory and small caches (like 256kb). Cost to going to off chip memory can be 1-2 orders of magnitude more than on chip memory. You can certainly fit 4+MB on modern processors, but they likely bought designs from a company like Samsung because designing high performance, low power memory cells is tricky. I'm surprised they were able to keep things a secret.
Honestly, don't knock it until you try it. Sure I can accomplish the same things by pulling out my phone but it's relaxing to not have to.
Clearly the DAO's first investment should be in getting Augur up and running, so DAO token holders can hedge against a DAO hack in the prediction markets...
>means you can actually live at entirely carbon zero

That's not enough. You need to also do something to offset the carbon dioxide that went into manufacturing everything and the transportation for it. Make sure you plant a few hundred trees if you want to be at carbon zero. You also need to plant trees to replace the wood you burn. And you need to offset the CO2 from process of making any food you bring in as well. Otherwise it's an unjustified feel-good exercise to claim you are living at carbon zero.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-05-13/caesars-a...
I'm wondering how forest fires being a natural thing fit into your viewpoint. I don't think that fact entirely negates your point, but it does seem to dampen it at least.
visualising random variables:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6Dihkrvus&list=PLm5k2NUmpI...
FYI, the leader of the Good Judgement Project is Philip Tetlock, who many consider the world expert on concrete techniques for forecasting complicated future events.

> The Good Judgment Project (GJP) is a project "harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to forecast world events". It was co-created by Philip E. Tetlock (author of Superforecasting and of Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?), decision scientist Barbara Mellers, and Don Moore. It was a participant in the Aggregative Contingent Estimation (ACE) program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in the United States. Predictions are scored using Brier scores. The top forecasters in GJP are "reportedly 30% better than intelligence officers with access to actual classified information."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Judgment_Project
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It's not 'we have no idea how to do this' impossible, it's physically and technically impossible?
>But considered to be normal stuff at the higher levels of the game.

Does the company in question lose business when this comes out?
Dam you wikipedia
Yeah, I suspect the idea is that "public APIs are forever," especially in hardware. They probably want to be able to collect some real user data, make a few mistakes and get a better idea of what role the product is actually going to fulfill before committing to something that they'll have to maintain indefinitely.
I share your concern about jenga!

Evolution makes blithely shortsighted errors. We're about as intelligent as we are required to be in order to survive.

We're stuck at local maxima at every level from the personal to the political and that is a problem.

That is why using artificial aids like books for recording memories and genetic splicing is the right thing to do. Biology should not be accepted as Physics. It is alright to cheat and interfere.

I will now sound like I'm contradicting myself but I'm not.

Evolution has accomplished results with brute force that we do not comprehend. Some of those results appear stupid to us but there exist secret underlying patterns that are not available to our minds. Our instincts contain heaps of responses that we often regard as stupid e.g. blushing, jealousy but they are likely adaptions that helped us survive so we will require an understanding of their function.

This is the great truth of conservatism and complex systems. Things are the way they are because reasons. That the proponents of this view can't explain themselves articulately is not relevant. The reasons are real. You are not your frontal cortex. That's just the Speaker in the house of parliament.

That's why jenga is a problem. Jenga gives us the FDA. Jenga eventually produces a caste system. The great project is to somehow open a third door nobody has noticed. Let me know if you figure it out!

Uncoincidentally I like Patri Friedman's idea of constructing seasteads. I don't want to sound like I'm allergic to work but real change is hard work! It is like everything interesting happens at edges of things.
3 years is the basic cursus. You can do it in one year if you are able to. You can also Just take the skills you want and leave. Its on your own
I have TWC in Brooklyn and for a while was on the phone with Level 3 support often. Every time they had me use speedtest.net. So even their network engineers trust that site more than their in-house one.
That's why we need SaaSaaS. That'll fix it.
None, but it's important that people know that the trending topics are not what's popular on facebook, but rather what facebook employees have decided to promote on facebook.

Other than that, it's their platform and their company. They can run it however they want.
>the main one being I can't imagine using a browser which doesn't support the blocking of ads

This hasn't been true for... ~6 years? And even then, it could block them, it just couldn't block their network download until... like 6 years ago or longer.

>I have no idea why chrome doesn't support plugins on Android; they said they'd do it years ago.

Chrome is removing all support for all plugins [see the deprecation policy they're about to introduce for Flash], but I suspect you're talking about extensions. I suspect they're coming very, very soon. They've been changing the desktop extension UI slightly and slowly and I suspect it's about enabling extensions on other form factors.

Not to mention this discussion is about using an app written for Chrome, not about somehow being forced to use Chrome for day-to-day browsing. I could (and do) use Chrome apps at times without actually using Chrome. I flip flop between Chrome and Firefox for months sometimes.
If you are at Holberton you are In a great place so no worries :-)
I believe I'm entitled to the same benefits we give to the bottom 40% of the population and I believe I'm entitled to think this based on my reading of the equal protection clause of the constitution.

Creating housing where only the poor can live is not equal protection under the law.
Economies of scale[1].

A simple example is, imagine making pizzas for your neighbors, and it takes you 15 minutes to make dough for 1 pizza, and at a $10/hr wage, that's $2.50 per pizza in dough labor costs. Now, imagine it only takes you 20 minutes to make dough for 5 pizzas. That's $3.33 in dough labor costs for 5 pizzas, or $.66/ea.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
If you have no money and from far away you can apply and ask for the dorm. They are Free also. Only expense will be the food and what you do outside the School.
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Can you please add an option to collapse comments. I find comments very interesting and there are so many responses to each comment that it's difficult to find the second most voted comment
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I'm way out of my league commenting on what criminals would or wouldn't do, but I don't think _casual_ muggers would resort to cutting fingers off.

More serious, organise, full time muggers might, but I would suspect those are more rare (and you're probably in a whole lot of danger with them anyway. missing digits probably isn't your biggest concern)
Embryonic VR was the Virtual iGlasses tethered to a Pentium tower PC. Worked surprisingly well. Alas, the $600 price tag and similarly embryonic graphics tech was beyond the interest of most developers. Still have mine...
I've used NW and electron based applications and don't have chrome installed. Why is Chrome needed at all for those to work?
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I love my Echo but it has a couple weak points, all of which could be solved by a competent platform. I can't, for instance, just tell Alexa to play new podcasts from my lists or directly from the net (except through TuneIn, which sucks.) It doesn't work with many home automation devices. It's AI is not that great when it comes to non-Amazon services.

I'm hopeful the Android platform will make this a better device.
the finger has to be warm. cutting off a finger won't actually let someone have unlimited access to your device. the mugger may not understand this though...
Would you mind including those? As a non medical expert, nor physicist it doesn't seem implausible that medical testing can be improved 10x from where it is and many other competitors to Theranos seem to be raising capital (Healthtell >25M recently) so the consensus doesn't seem to be insurmountable && obviously scientifically impossible. Again, I am not favourably comparing Holmes to Musk, but it is narrowly physically possible to go to mars, certainly we have a bit more clarity on local testing of blood.
Nop. We have already funding solution for now or after.
Predicting that a company will fail without giving a date is not foreshadowing, it's stating the obvious.
Actually, sufficiently aggregated health data is generally fine to release publicly since it can not be tied to an individual. Anonymized data you must be very careful with, since individual data elements can frequently be combined to re-identify someone.
> In a just world, their assets would already be frozen.

Who would one contact in the federal government to ensure the right folks were looking into this?
> They say it accelerates TensorFlow by 10x

They say 10x performance / watt, nothing about performance per unit time.
Trump University anybody?
Interesting claim. I don't drink bourbon, Scotch is my preference. The difference between Highland Park 12y and 18y is almost night and day. They're both lovely, but 18y is smoother and much more complex, with far more taste of the oak. 25y is almost spicy, and most definitely a sipping whisky that you want to last.
> And the odds of this happening are....?

About 50% of all New York bike accidents, according to the article Jean_Claude linked.

> Maybe we should stick kids in suits of armor Faraday cages too, just in case lightning strikes.

I'm just baffled by all the people who think putting a helmet on is onerous and restrictive and destroys the experience of cycling. Why?
It's not just "broadly applied", it's the American motto!
I've had it. It's amazing and well worth the price. Hell, well worth a significantly higher price.
Aren't they by definition short any security they're selling you?
Yes, we have a few hundred trees.

Good point about the food though.
There are well-considered standards for patient anonymity. Saying "I had a patient with X disease" is not compromising the identity of the patient. Without that, doctors couldn't teach medicine to med students or explain their cases at conferences.
I'm not the person you're asking, but I don't think it's "entitled" to expect that government policy should at least try to address the needs of the average citizen.
...people commenting on this thread are using Mac, Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Android, iOS, and a few others...

Does that make total adoption lower and slower?
hang on, what? So in the USA the police can just take your personal possessions without providing any cause or reason?

That doesn't sound like Freedom! to me, that sounds like a police state...
That's why I use my toe.

While I usually try to stay serious while reading HN, That statement really made me lol.
I'm rooting more for Samsung's magnetic secure transmission (MST) to be more mainstream then these card replacements.
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I have yet to see a popular science article that discusses concepts like consciousness and free will that isn't junk. We can't even define these things in any scientific way so how can we talk about them in this context?
> No offense, but that's what will happen when poorly educated riders bike in the door zone.

What do you propose a well-educated rider should do, when all the bike lanes are in the door zone and bikes are legally required to stay in the bike lane?

> Oh, and a bit of luck that the people next to you in their steel cages aren't homicidal towards bicyclists.

Yup. Which is why you wear a helmet.
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See also: Aquavit Linie

http://linie.com
> I'm not buying you couldn't make a decent, self-contained, off-line speech recognition system.

I agree. It's not a problem of technology, it's a problem of incentive. There's no money in developing self-contained, off-line speech recognition system, unfortunately.
Firebase iOS engineer here:

First off, I'm glad you like the new feature additions. We'd love to hear your feedback on Storage and FCM :)

Secondly, I'd love Carthage support as well, but there are a few things (built into Carthage) that prevent us from adding this:
1. Carthage requires iOS 8+ (dynamic frameworks only). Firebase supports 7+, and we build static "frameworks", so we'd lose that (which is still relevant in a lot of our developers).
2. Carthage is designed for open source (git based origins only), and while we'd love to get there, we currently ship everything as a pre-built framework.
Appears to be a feature designed to handle accidental mistaeks.
Most of that is probably water.
"Off The Record" is a technical term to describe a cryptographic scheme for allowing deniable authentication (meaning that only the two parties involved in a communication can be sure the other sent a message - they cannot prove to anyone else that the other person sent them a particular message). The Signal protocol is based off a similar system (Axolotl) which provides similar guarantees.

It has nothing to do with "off the record" check boxes in some UI.
Bootstrap has better structure then most other UI frameworks, but is built around the fact that you will eventually change the css and images to create your own style. Some of bootstraps styles are pretty limited and bland.

Then there is materializecss that visually is more appealing then bootstap. The color palet alone is enough to consider it, especially if you want to build a flat minimal site. It's also ready to be your full UI experience, but lacks the amount of javascript plug-ins that bootstrap and it's community have built for it(i.e. carousels, popups and some other goodies).

I've never used getskeleton, but its also not necessarily the end all UI solution and is considered a starting point.

Here is a vlog site I built with ROR and materializecss to give you an idea.

http://dry-dusk-26762.herokuapp.com/

Boostrap plugins: http://www.jqueryscript.net/tags.php?/Bootstrap/

Materializecss: http://materializecss.com/
I agree to a point. If you use speedtest.net and show several different testing sites and the results are consistent, that should be good evidence. And you need to use a hard-wired connection because a lot of peoples wifi isn't very good.
It is NOT "false promise." (Or at least you don't yet KNOW if it will eventually be "false.") It may not be working well NOW, which is unfortunate.

Let's not forget how much people (like Marvin Minsky) crapped all over neural networks. And now they're beating professional Go players and doing Natural Language Parsing better than anyone else.
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Yes, I should have said "ignoring the embodied energy of the panels & associated equipment".

This is somewhat justifiable for the panels since they have a 25+ year life.

Less so for the batteries, which have maybe an 8 year life with good care. We try to burn power as much as possible (e.g. running the water pump) when the sun's up, so it doesn't have to pass through the batteries.
I do like bourbon, but not nearly as much as rye. There have been a number of new American ryes in the last decade. I'm not going to tell you my favorites, though. I don't want the price to go up.
Going to be awfully confusing for consumers searching for "daydream" looking for VR content or screen savers and finding both:

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=daydream&c=apps
> a passenger vehicle, dump truck, submarine, and airplane

The problem with using metaphors to make your argument is we generally have to argue about whether the metaphor is even appropriate enough that the conclusions apply to the original topic... It's simpler just to argue the topic.

Within a huge class of problems, I don't need to get a new computer to solve each new thing that comes up. That's a very general tool. Why do I need different programming languages?

> All-in-one compromise solutions only excel [...]

Who asked for a compromise? I could make a short list of all the features I want in a language, and while there isn't one single languages that currently has all those features, I doubt you could make a proof that creating such a language is impossible or would involve some horrible trade off. Your list might be different than mine, but that's not the point.
Contractors are usually treated differently from full-time employees. I would not expect them to receive the same benefits.
Maybe we need an open data initiative.
Until they implement it, there's some Chrome addons that'll do what you want.

If you have GreaseMonkey you there's a userscript that also works the same way; http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/288192
Heh, 1996. I'm suddenly nostalgic for the era when the Net was new and Wired was still edgy and exciting, instead of just one more content mill.
It can be done without extreme age though. Two of my absolute favorite whiskeys are Aberlour A'bunadh and Ardbeg Uigedail. Both are non-age-stated and consist of a blend of spirits, a majority under 10 years old - but they're both fantastic whiskys, and both cheaper than just about any 15yr old, much less an 18. Of course, both are bottled at full cask strength or near it, which certainly helps.