skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So on one side journalists lament lack of new drug development & just the shoddy state of healthcare tech, while as soon as any new data that can potentially unlock new drug targets (23andMe) or provider better support (Google DeepMind Health) is introduced, Such efforts are quickly demonized with spread of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

Rather than asking important questions such as at which level the "aggregate" data is shared, or what safeguards exists, the blog post and source "Gizmodo" article is quick to jump gun and spread fear (You are the product / you are being sold!!!). These posts are targeted to derive same emotional response that drive anti-vaxxers / anti-GMO nuts.
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These people should be seen as heroes. They are fighting a corrupt, anti-liberty system. Laws that require official permission (papers please!) to buy and use medication. You can get anything you want, from meth to morphine, if you can afford enough medical consultants, or are deemed worthy. If not, or if some medical-related person deems you an addict, enjoy your pain.

Run PSAs, perhaps require a waiver before sale. But people are in pain (both mentally and physically) and opiates are by far the most effective treatment. (Sure, they don't work for everyone, etc. etc.)

This abstinence mindset is as harmful as it is in sex education.
I've only ever heard it used in the context of an individual, along the lines of "does this guy have the know-how to lead the dev team?".
Have to be honest, I expected an article about the issues facing newspapers and media outlets, not trending news on Facebook.

Something about how hard it is to monetise news, or an article about the ever increasing issues of inaccuracy and politicial bias.

That said, it's depressing how Facebook's trending news list is basically the equivalent to those 'related' articles you see at the bottom of some news sites. The ones which have a ton of low quality blogspam without any real substance behind the headline.
This is going to sound a little pat, but if that's what you like in marketing, you're probably not alone. You could probably do well to try that exact set of behaviors on other people, with the outcome in the back of your mind, "will this person pay me to solve the problem I am talking with them about?"

If yes, then that's it, you're done. Take the money, give 'em the thing, and do it again. :)

For books, for getting a start in marketing, I like "Guerrilla marketing in 30 days".

Biggest shift, though, is just mindset; going out and talking to people again and again until you learn what matters to them. It takes a lot of time, and when you're not used to it, it feels like it takes way more time than you're actually putting into it. Eventually you do learn, this is what these people have in common (they're members of some industry, field, hobby, affinity group), this is where they go (online, offline, in-town, conferences), this is how they like to be marketed to (online ads, postcards, in-person events, etc). Just takes time and effort, more than anything. Pretend you're learning a language, and assume it'll take that long to get conversational. :)
Well...you are probably not going to throw a hard drive at a client's door and run. A delivery guy might, as it's just another cardboard package, not priceless data (might be easier now with SSDs).

Indeed, getting a trustworthy courier service is so hard that actually sending an in-house employee is worthwhile, even though their hourly rates make this extremely expensive: you are removing tens of abstraction layers, while preserving high degree of control ("Oh, we might have run it over with a truck. And accidentally put it on a plane to New Zealand on hop #3. And they can't seem to find it there.")
I would love to chat with the ARM guys and pick their brains. I suspect for a few things (like unfused branches) they wanted to match the existing micro-ops they were already generating since they would still have to support ARMv7!

But I'd also like to know why they didn't have things like AMOs (and instead had to add them in v8.1). And lastly, I would like to know why there is no Thumb for AArch64, and why it isn't the default ARMv8 behavior!
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I believe Felix has a special syntax to combine declaration and initialization (well, more like a shortcut; IIRC they have type inference for those cases). The code sample just shows that if you need to separate declaration and initialization, you can.

I don't know about Felix, but even the simplest C compilers I use are able to warn me when they can't verify that a variable is initialized before first use. It's not that hard. And, no, you don't have to solve the halting problem as long as you're clear what you promise to warn about. There are cases where you can trivially prove initialization or failure to initialize. Promise to get those cases right, and to warn on anything else.
I added riot 2.5, but I need help. Can you assist?
https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/issues/13
> You let that kind of bank go and bankrupt and you pay A LOT more for that.

Screw banks and introduce socialism. It can work.
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That's like say Uber existed because you could always call a taxi to come pick you up.
Our religious nut ancestors didn't have nuclear weapons.
Yeah but that is so much less usable. Quick, which one is up?
I recommoned BJ Fogg's tiny habits course: http://tinyhabits.com/. It's a really simple and easy free email course that shows one way of creating new habits.

How do you like those two apps? I'm currently trying out strides, but it seems like I only use it when I'm logging stuff. I'm kind of wondering if a paper calendar would be better to keep the logs right in front of me.
> Why didn't they mention the % of overdoses directly related to Oxy ?

When someone dies of an opioid overdose how do you know which opioid they overdosed on? How do you know they were using oxycontin or oxycodone?
Automation solves the problem of filling some jobs (including undesirable ones).

It doesn't make the population younger/healthier, nor does it expand the local consumer base.
Just some similar stuff in the asciinema, but I'm thinking that's also just for illustration. Thanks for the clarification!
> Because of the (implicit) assumption that it runs efficiently (as in, at most in polynomial time) even on "arbitrarily complex" inputs...

Uhm... I have no idea where did you get this assumption, because it was not
expressed in the sentence we're talking about. Even Turing machine doesn't run
in polynomial time on arbitrarily complex input with an arbitrary program.

The super AI doesn't need to surpass the Turing machine, it only needs to
efficiently emulate it, i.e. interpret its program. If the TM program was
inefficient and ran in exponential time, super AI may run in exponential time
as well.

> Otherwise the "superintelligence" would not be any different from your run-of-the-mill Turing-complete interpreter!

Oh. You mean that my mind is not any different from my computer? Because
I can run Turing machine (with a little help of external memory, like
paper). That's something new.
Did you work for the Game of War guys? That's what it sounds like! :-)
I will ditch my Xubuntu VM the moment this seems viable and I find a way to turn off Win10's spyware.

VMware has basically abandoned Workstation, and the gfx performance is terrible. A native X server on Windows talking to the Linux subsystem seems like it might be decent.

And if this means somehow I can end up using more XMonad...
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Tested / used for several months. Want people's opinions.
But that's not how how genotypes and phenotypes work for recessive alleles. Homosexual genes will continue to live on and propagate in heterosexuals so long as they aren't eliminated by the gene therapy as seen in sci-fi horror/suspense Hollywood films.

It doesn't require a homosexual parent to have a homosexual kid.
The Clock of the Long Now
I think the author has the unstated assumption that "humans will continue to work on smarter and better machines until such a god-like machine is eventually constructed, OR that machines will be created that can self-improve until this state is reached." It doesn't seem unreasonable to me -- the alternative is that at some point in the future, we STOP making machines smarter for good.
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My entire genome is publicly available through Harvard's Personal Genome Project. I weighed the pros and cons, and settled on helping contribute to progress was more important than my fear of the unknown future.
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Then you should have lots of kids! And encourage your intelligent friends to do the same.
Okay, finally I get it! As far as I know, Rust has a few types in the stdlib that are guaranteed to overflow, that you can use if that's what you want. C# has something even more interesting:

checked(a+b) // crash on overflow
unchecked(a+b) // wrap on overflow
a+b // use the default of the surrounding context

The global default is provided by a compiler switch. Here's the thing though: the default setting of that compiler switch is to wrap on overflow. Even in debug mode! And you yourself identified the cause: most of the time, you're not doing crypto and such; most of the time, you do not want wrapping. But if you make overflow checking "opt-out" instead of "opt-in", the program slows down.
Obviously Mongolia is not part of China, but Kublai Khan did twice try to invade Japan. Typhoons scuppered both chances (and from which the Kamikaze tradition was born).

For most of Japan's history they have had an isolationist stance to the outside world. Obviously this was not the case from between Commander Perry and the end of World War II. With respect to China, for hundreds of years Japan was considered a quasi-vassal state to various Chinese Emperors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12035522 and other discussions (see top comment there)
If you want to focus just on Android then don't bother to write portable code in first place.

No need to increase development costs.

My point was about those that care to write portable native code with minimal costs.
Pleasure. BTW 'install' is really useful, eg here for my home server setup:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-home-server/blob/master/S...

so I can port to Centos from Ubuntu pretty easily.

PS That's an example of a ShutItFile, which is still a WIP.
23andme has a very clear privacy policy on their landing page. So what's this all about?
Pounds?!
The xor is shorter.
> Wanting your culture to not drift is expected. It's built into humans to prefer people like ourselves.

Or look at America, the world's biggest melting pot. Just because Japan has a preference for their own ethnicity (like most other countries around the world, India, China, most of Europe, etc.) doesn't mean they aren't wrong and IMO not on the wrong side of history. People I know here in the US have no issue having real friends, people they hang out with and regard as equals, who are ethnically Asian, Indian, African. In other countries, this simply wouldn't happen.
Yeah, and that article was published last year ...
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Thanks for the testimonial!

For others reading - we have hundreds of examples like this - single person companies that have grown inside the Atlassian ecosystem.

From people like Bob Swift, who grew his company and was then acquired, to companies like Gliffy and Balsamiq Mockups who built multi-dozen person companies on the back of the Atlassian ecosystem.

Get started here:
https://developer.atlassian.com/index.html
Which can be easily solved via negotiations.

So keep repeating whatever you want you are guessing as much as the next guy.
The data has been anonymized (donor name removed), deidentified (records which could be used to derive the donor name have been removed or otherwise modified), and aggregated (grouped across multiple individuals). It's unlikely (although not impossible) to take that data and convert it to DNA profiles of individuals.
China is heading towards its own demographic time bomb as well.
What shit did I give anyone?
>Unlike DSSTNE, Tensorflow or CNTK, our deep learning library is neutral, and not designed with the intention of locking people into to a cloud service.

How do any of these lock you into a cloud service?
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>That's why Japan is exploring automation instead of immigration for its workforce.

The premise that Japan would rather automate than allow immigration seems to be kind of a false dichotomy, since Japan is exploring immigration as well[0].

Culturally, in general, it may be true that Japanese people would rather have fewer foreigners than more foreigners, but the actual policies of the government seem to be slightly more pragmatic regarding automation versus immigration.

[0]https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/06/national/social...
Any benchmarks you might care to share?
Which just proves my point of Java not being a viable monetary solution when going multiple platform.

Or one just decides to stick with the biggest platform, like the PC on the desktop, and focus soleny on Android.
How did you test it?
Are there official numbers that break it down by drug? I didn't see it on the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html

In this spreadsheet, the most granular category is Opoid Pain Relievers: https://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/overdose_data1...

Oxycontin's market share seems to be around 20%: http://www.jefferies.com/CMSFiles/Jefferies.com/files/Confer...

I don't think drug companies are held to account on whether doctors prescribe illegally...however they do get criticized/prosecuted for how they market their drugs: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/#__ffn_s...
> oxy is a much safer form than street level heroin where you have no idea what you're getting.

Just for clarity many people are getting oxycontin from the street, which leaves them open to counterfeit product. At $60 to $80 per 80 mg tablet there's considerable pressure to create counterfeits.
This is great! I love seeing how experienced programmers write small programs like this, especially "from scratch".
modern religious interpretations
do not dictate that

I'm not sure you understand what Animats means.

He's not making a normative statement that religions should place women in this/that/the other role. He's making a factual statement: those social groups that do demand that women's role is primarily in reproduction will outbreed everybody. This is an undeniable and empirically observable fact, whether you turned agnostic or not.

It's playing out already in the kindergardens and primary schools in my hometown already: most children are Muslims, with burka wearing mothers. Yet less than 1/3, probably less than 1/4 of the population is Muslim, the rest is white, highly educated yuppies, GLBTQ whatever ... who all have 0 children.
I do appreciate that there is a lot of public good being done with the information, my comment came off more doom-and-gloomy than I had hoped. It just seems a bit risky to me, its the sort of thing that can't really be anonymous and that gets my hackles up so to speak.
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I totally get your point, that getting stuck in a framework can make it harder to get out of said framework, but I also have every reason to think that the experts in the field (which may well include you) are aware of this trap and spend a huge amount of time trying to get out of it.

But I'd also expect that people making new theories be intimately familiar with the current ones, right? It would be silly to expect someone to come up with hamiltonian mechanics for the first time without having ever been exposed to newtonian mechanics, even though both give the same answers to every problem. Yeah, thinking outside the box is always super hard, but you have to at least deeply understand the box before you can know enough to replace it. I definitely don't understand this particular box, but I feel it's reasonable to assume that those that do are trying their darndest to escape it -- if for no other reason than fame if successful.
Use your platform to make customers come to you.

1. Identify leads (comapnies + the email of the person who would be in charge of server status)

2. Create alerts for their services

3. Your system sends an alert when their service goes down. They instantly recognize the value of your service.
For example:

I found a trivially exploitable buffer overrun in the Source game engine. The cause? Somebody used strcpy instead of strncpy... when adding an animated ellipsis at the end of a string.

You really have to try in Rust to get pwned adding an ellipsis to a string.

(And yes, tools should (and probably would) have caught that bug. But they either weren't used, or didn't catch it, so...)
You're right, and so far the only religious nuts to have used nuclear weapons are Anglican Christian Americans. When should Americans start protesting their presence in the USA?
http://envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-s...

https://research.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all...

Yes, you can asymptotically approach correct with testing, but it turns out that surprises can lurk for quite a long time if that's your approach. Of course, that's how most collections code works and what most of the world is built on, so yes, it is generally "good enough", but it is still worth pointing out that it is not necessarily correct, even after being out in the field for decades.
I have had 23andme for last 7-8 years; I've also paid for all their upgrades over the ye.ars

I've not gotten a single useful information out of it and I don't hope to in near future. It got a bunch of useless information like ear wax type, hair color ect right but overall its waste of time and money.

Privacy concerns over ppl exploiting raw data are overblown given its impossible to draw any useful conclusions from just raw data.

You can find bunch of raw 23andme exports on github.
The data is anonymized, who cares?

Good for 23andMe. We could learn very important things from that data in aggregate. We need more aggregated data in healthcare.
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Since I didn't get past the ad I googled for the actual study (or at least one that seems to fit he description for the most part), here it is (PDF):

https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/files/?whdmsaction=publi...

Abstract:

> We found no evidence that consumers benefit from government-mandated disclaimers in advertising. Experiments and
common experience show that admonishments to change or avoid behaviors often have effects opposite to those intended.
We found 18 experimental studiesthat provided evidence relevant to mandatory disclaimers. Mandated messagesincreased
confusion in all, and were ineffective or harmful in the 15 studiesthat examined perceptions, attitudes, or decisions. We
conducted an experiment on the effects of a government-mandated disclaimer for a Florida court case. Two advertisements
for dentists offering implant dentistry were shown to 317 subjects. One advertiser had implant dentistry credentials. Subjects
exposed to the disclaimer more often recommended the advertiser who lacked credentials. Women and less-educated subjects
were particularly prone to this error. In addition, subjects drew false and damaging inferences about the credentialed dentist.
And politically speaking, we still have a huge group that is very xenophobic.
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The pros of using 23andMe has vastly outweighed any cons, real or hypothetical.

Here is a pro: I was able to print out a 3 page report to give to my new doctor that described what medications I had a low / high tolerance for and what medical conditions to look out for as I grow older. My doctor was floored-- and as a result we do a few extra tests every year to keep track of a potential eye condition I am at a higher risk for.

So what is the potential cons? Perhaps my DNA data is used to help make drugs to help other people? Even if it's wasn't aggregated and my data wasn't anonymous I'm still unsure what I am supposed to be afraid of.
I think homophobia is the reason why non-straight genes are present in the gene pool. It is a strategy for parents and siblings to make sure that their non-straight relatives reproduce despite their natural inclinations.

Just a disclaimer though: this is not at all a justification for homophobia, in the same way that the (mostly) male impulse to violence is not a justification for said violence.
that's a fair point. I don't disagree
It is hard for me to spot the difference between the Americans moving in and expanding their overseas military, and the Chinese doing the same thing. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the expansion of any superpower is generally just bad news for everyone else.

An ideal scenario in my opinion, would be for the Japanese to automate a purely defensive military along with their workforce. Japan could go back to being that demon island that no one dares to invade.
Me too! https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu80855C

let me know if you find anything interesting. When I had it sequenced, the genetic counsellors said I had none of the common disease risk factors, which seemed a bit surprising.

I have a background in biology, have done extensive work with genomic data, and weighed the future risks pretty carefully. Ultimately I didn't see any real problem with posting my raw BAM files and I assume a dedicated person could identify me if they tried.
more like "why would you use this instead of fabric" [0]... ansible has a different focus, but fabric looks pretty much the same to me

[0] http://www.fabfile.org/
Wow, defensive much? Afraid of a little competition maybe?

Anyway, DSSTNE itself is not in any way locked to any cloud service whatsoever. It is an Apache-licensed library with dependencies on a C++11 compiler, a 7.0 or later CUDA Toolkit and Kepler or better GPU, a C++11-friendly MPI library, netcdf, and libjsoncpp. That's it. Please stop insinuating otherwise.

The article here shows how one could use DSSTNE with Spark for recommendations at scale. Speaking of which, how's your sparse data and model-parallel training support? Because as the author of DSSTNE, the poor support for these features in other frameworks was what forced to us to "roll our own" code in the first place. Everyone else was optimizing for ImageNet-winning CNNs (including NVIDIA). And there's nothing wrong with that, $25M+ companies have been built from that, but it just wasn't the use case here.

Finally, cuSparse is cuSlow for datasets at Amazon. DSSTNE's hand-coded sparse kernels stomp on cuSparse in the same way that Neon's convolution kernels stomp on cuDNN. And there's nothing wrong with that either. CuSparse is a great choice for other sparse data problems, just not Amazon's (and I suspect many other companies) recommendations problems.