skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are SO many areas you can go in to. Machine Learning/Non-knowledge based clinical decision support, genomics, 'big data', pharmacogenetics, clinical data standard creation, and the list goes on. You can check out the clinical informatics subspecialty if you're looking for a broad curriculum of medicine + technology, don't want to dive specifically into learning programming, and/or are trying to get CTO/CMIO/CIO jobs in the future.
Don't take my word for it, but actually as far as I know both in the US and EU data (including model weights) can't be copyrighted.
I am 100% sure that it is 97% irrelevant, 2% within Apple's creative agency and 1% tots ok 'cause no gun > a gun is a pretty good heuristic.
Your addendum is correct. A Faraday cage is much more like a passive mirror, or sound absorbing foam, than it is an active, powered, noise cancelling headphones.
Yeah the engineers love the process of calculating if that wire can carry the specified current. Because it's so industry friendly.

This is complete nonsense and sounds like musings of a desperate advocate.

If you want to believe something, you start to accept the lamest arguments.
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You would see many of the same comments no matter who claimed some kind of first in medical diagnosis. Expert systems have been coming up with diagnoses doctors missed for decades.

It's a fat target for automation because much of the expertise is available in diagnostic protocols and few humans can hold all that information in their heads and keep it up to date. MYCIN only used a few hundred rules and it could keep track of which antibiotics to use better than MDs.
“Our primary goal is to un-fork the Tor Browser”
I like JBot...

Other options:
bot4j
J4bot
Botsdk (pronounced botstick)
Bot devkit
Chatbot kit
Botlib
Shouldn't the headline be "Doctors use powerful computer to aid diagnoses." The article unashamedly dives straight into robot doctors.
Does "no saving of databases" include "no saving of binaries"? I patched a binary in the view to test but can't save it.
The Discord iOS app is built with React Native:

https://discord.engineering/using-react-native-one-year-late...

And it's quite good by most accounts.

They also have a showcase of other projects built with React Native on their official site:

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html
> There must be some sociological phenomenon going on that keeps the US from adopting modern units. Maybe can't admit a shortcoming and fix it?

There's a sociological phenomenon at play here all right... a deeply pathological form of envy that Freud called "denial of USA-number-one-ness."
To me, it sound like your auditor's objections are based on the availability of (commercial) support, and not the nature of the code's license or whether one can read or modify it.

There are entire vendors who specialize in selling open-source software with commercial support; Red Hat is the most famous example.
I'd like to see more information on this.

I ask because I'm surprised more companies haven't gotten into the market of licensing the data they collect (unless they do, in which case, sorry).
Agreed. I worked for the company that was infamously associated with FBI's 'Virtual Case File' fiasco.

Though I joined a few years after it was already finished, there were many employees still around who had worked on the project.

The reason the project failed was almost entirely the fault of the FBI project managers and other bureaucrats. Huge egos, technical incompetence, and petty politics were the biggest issues. This was coming from talented non-mgmt engineers, too, so i'm pretty confident in the veracity of their claims

Anyway, after working in gov. contracting for a decade, I've come to really believe that most Fed workers are actually pretty bright, but they become so fixated on politics instead of results, they end up doing far worse than their less educated counterparts in the private sector.

The more privileged the agency (i.e. FBI, other Intel agencies, State Department, etc.) the worse the politicking becomes as they are far more insulated from scrutiny and less limited with funding from Congress.
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Interestingly, the bomb, sword and dagger emoji remain in their natural form.

Apple should probably also thoroughly cleanse the iTunes Store for movies showing guns, lest some unsuspecting child has his purity irrevocably tainted by the image of a firearm. Such stimulation might lead him to commit homicide, such is the simple relation between the two. Sigh.

Edit: sarcasm guys, geeeez
Question for those who are fine with what Apple did: What if Apple had implemented a text filter which changes all occurences of the word “pistol” to “water pistol”. Would that be fine too?

Also, what if the Unicode Consortium later adds an emoji for “WATER PISTOL”? How should it be distinguished from the “PISTOL” emoji? Or should they be identical?
But 20x less demand dating back thousands of years. Weird huh?
On a mostly unrelated note, does anyone know of a good carrier like RingPlus in Canada? Specifically something with no contract where I can opt to get only data in bite-sized increments? This seems like it would be great for projects like this.

Edit: Petro Canada seems to have something like this, but with a somewhat annoying expiration policy.

https://mobility.petro-canada.ca/plans.aspx
Well, IBM Watson will be surprised to find this little girl, Brittany Wenger built a " Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer " from her bedroom computer around 2012.

http://www.qreoo.com/v/dheerthan/316
BIOS just runs whatever is in the first 512 byte sector.

Unless it fits in 512 bytes this is not a "kernel" but is just instructions to jump to another address, where there is more small bootstrap code that loads another program, maybe a bootloader that loads another program, maybe a kernel.

Those who multiboot Windows with some other OS that uses disklabels may notice that Windows expects to always be the first OS. Any other bootstrap code put into that first sector will be overwritten by a Windows install.
Unicode only says that it's a gun, and only recommends how it should look. IME's are free to make the emojis look however they want at their discretion. Note Samsung's saltines instead of chocolate chip cookies for "U+1F36A Cookie". Consistency is laudable, but we live in a world with multiple cultures, meanings, and contexts, so in the end consistency might actually be more harmful and reductionist.
This library is implemented for some use-cases. It calculates how many different characters or changed character on a string.

String similarity and distance algorithms are different with semantic similarity (knowledge-based). It calculates the similarity based-on relationship of word to another word (hierarchy/tree). So, If you need a library that can calculate semantic similarity instead of string and distance in Java, I would recommend this [1].

[1]: https://github.com/sharispe/slib/
I'd love to know who made this decision, apparently giving it less thought than what they were going to have for lunch. Whoever it was doesn't understand how communication works, and should probably not be in charge of decisions like this.

Interestingly, it's a giant middle finger not just to gun nuts, but to millions of people on both sides of debates about gun control, the militarization of law enforcement, etc. (Not to mention a kinda creepy form of infantilization.)
Been there, tried supercookies, found that the same users who are motivated and savvy enough to dodge browser fingerprinting are also able to dodge supercookies.
cause no gun > a gun is a pretty good heuristic

So you're into whitewashing over the realities of general human experience, in favour of feel-good-huggle-cuddly-numpkins?
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Damn, that looks like an amazing service. The dashboard UI is beautiful - demo here: https://dashboard.automatic.com/#/demo?_k=8tzrwi
Can we stop with this hyperbole anytime something is changed? What do emoji have to do with the iTunes store? You're assuming an awful lot about Apple's intentions with stuff like "such stimulation might lead him to commit homicide, such is the simple relation between the two".
How do I know you've never lived in flyover land? Because your mouth. Sit the fuck down.
You've been downvoted to oblivion, probably because you phrased your assertion wrong.

There is a large province of the Philippines called "Davao" which, 20 years ago (more or less), was a haven for terrible, corrupt people. Were you to make the mistake of going there, you would be kidnapped, held for ransom, and executed if your family/friends could not pay. This was pretty much a guarantee. So, more or less, you wouldn't go there.

Enter a man named Rodrigo Duterte. Mayor of the biggest town (also called Davao). He instituted martial law, brought in the military, and started executing police, drug dealers, and local officials who were corrupt.

Today, Davao is one of the safest and nicest regions in the Philippines. His daughter, now the mayor, carries on in his tradition, but since the corruption is largely gone, I don't think she gets around to executing too many government officials.

The country noticed this. In the last 12 months, he was basically drafted against his will to be the president of the Philippines, on the hopes that he would repeat the process on a national level.

He is doing so. He was sworn in sometime in June, and has begun executing the people responsible for corruption in Manila and other northern regions of the country.

Now one can argue all sorts of things in this case. It leaves an unsavory taste in my mouth and those of some very smart people I know. But at some point it ceases to be civil society policing itself, and becomes civil war. We simply hope that the chieftans disband when the civil war is over (Duterte is probably one of the few authoritarians who will actually do so, so I hold out hope).

I don't think the United States has quite reached the level of corruption the Philippines has, but I see it heading that direction. It's best to think what we will do if it goes that far. Maybe today the death penalty for being a corrupt government official is too much, but the status quo penalty of: "get paid leave until it blows over" is, I think, too lax.
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Probably came straight from the top, i.e., Tim Cook. (I say this without knowledge or evidence, but it is the kind of thing he would care about and do.)
No, that's not Little's Law. Little's Law describes the depth of a queue, not it's throughput.

In the original article, this assertion is wrong except under special conditions that aren't described in the article. In computer systems you can have a latency of X and a throughput of Y, Z, or any number with no particular relation to X. Consider for example if I have a system with a throughput of 1000/s and a latency of 1ms, which satisfies the given relation but for no particular reason. Now suppose I add at the beginning of every request a 1-hour delay. Now my latency is 3600001ms, but my throughput is still 1000/s. The only thing that has changed is the number of requests in flight.
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Hi author of xo! It is really a great library, and many designs of dgw is inspired by xo! And, yeah, I still think it is possible to contribute/extend xo, and would love to do it. However, since our project needs composite primary key/autogenerat key compatible SQL so badly, I created my own repo to just solve our problems. Plus, it was difficult to unit test xo, since it doesn't have *_test.go file at the moment.
I own a wifi-based OBDII adapter, but two things concern me about it that likely apply here as well.

1) It's always on, as the port is always powered, to my knowledge. I usually only drive on the weekends. Should I be unplugging it after each drive?

2) Security. The wifi adapter presents an open wireless network; I assume security on these bluetooth modules is also similarly lacking. What can an attacker do given the device's built-in capabilities, and what else can they do if they're able to compromise it?

To the author of this package though, it looks great. As others have mentioned, there's lots of room for growth here, and you've got the key data pipeline established.
> It seems Haskell gets criticism from both ends of the spectrum: it's either too academic to be practical or too practical to be academic.

How about “its abstractions leak in ways the community doesn't want to address”?

And “too practical to be academic” is bullshit. There's nothing more practical than an elegant language whose actual semantics matches the way you think.
Which is exactly why the War on Drugs is so contested.

Poll the population, and you'll get about 75% in agreement that it should be wound down or pivoted to a health issue. Even higher stats for the younger generations.

However, you still get half the politicians talking tough on crime, drug punishments, etc. The reason: big campaign contributions from local and federal police agencies, DEA, prison guard unions, and the lawyers and courts that feed off its misery.
Is there any question those functions would remain intact in the oil industry? Even coal mining is not even remotely in danger of failing to meet non-energy needs for carbon.
This is speculation. There are all kinds of examples we have of "ancient" technology that are still in everyday use today - knives, for example.

There's no reason to think that something else would abandon using EM as a transfer of communication.
I appreciate your interesting stance on this, but you're missing my point. I am not saying "ban cars and everything is fixed." I am saying "we will not fix our cities as long as we continue to invest in cars."

The best way I can think of to get people to divest from cars in a fair, gradual, legal, cheap, and realistic way is to eliminate parking over time.
How do I show the FCC that I care about this???
They've got a normal lidar unit they are shipping or at least offering dev kits for now (similar to velodyne puck at a lower price point and less scanning lines). So they are at least doing something in terms of real products.

From what I've managed to gather from poking around a bit, I'd guess they're using a very fancy waveguide based sensor similar to this, but a more simple emitter as a way to save cost on their first generation solid state product.

I've heard also 2017 as well... but also would be curious to see any actual progress.
A text filter is very different from the visual representation of an emoji which the unicode consortium gives a lot of leeway to IMEs to implement.

Everyone is only angry about this change because it was a normal pistol first and changed to a water pistol later. What if it was the inverse? Then we'd have people complaining the other way. My point is that people expect the emoji to represent what they've been taught it to represent, but in actuality the IME is the one who chooses how exactly it should look. Just look at the saltine cookie vs the chocolate chip cookie.

As for your last point it's quite unlikely that they would add that because it's too redundant to the pistol emoji. Though for facial expressions, the consortium gives specific recommendations on how to differentiate them and the IME would have to consider those.

Have a look at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf to see how much guidance they actually give on the looks of each. For most they list synonyms for searching and related emoji. For some they go more in depth on the look such as for U+1F4DE Telephone Receiver.
Or I'm just not completely ignoring the problems that cars cause, you know, in reality.

In which reality do you live, wherein cars are totally fine?
>nothing about any kind of controls or whether or not this was a one-off performance or if it would work at scale.

I thought the 20 million oncology studies Watson cross referenced was the control and I arrived at the opposite conclusion as you about the usefulness at scale.

For example, I immediately thought that under the Affordable Care Act, the number of patient Electronic Health Records the Government collects eclipses what Watson had to work with in this case so at scale the potential is huge. Admittedly, until reading your comment I did not consider there were likely a number of times Watson misdiagnosed (which seems obvious now). Therefore, it would be interesting to rerun against the Electronic Health Records the Government has collected so far and test if Watson could diagnosis correctly in less attempts than with the 20 million record it used (or what I call the control). Though at that point, I think it would be the patient that is the control.
Been using this for quite some time - psifertex and crew have really done an incredible job in a pretty short period of time. Highly recommend checking it out, especially if you're sick of the shittiness of IDA. Only thing it's missing is some solid decompilers.
What's with all these business owners trying to enforce their way of living on others? Why should I care if my patrons want to stare at their phones instead of talking to each other?

As long as they're paying customers not loitering for free I'm fine.

Better than a bunch of loud hooligans trying to start fights.

His only concern should be making sure his customers aren't sitting there for free or nursing their drinks.

The rest is irrelevant.
Pancreator deliver us, the suns fade.
IMHO the aliens will not be specifically seeking life that is intelligent. Singularities and interstellar traveling alien civilizations share a problem. If one is in essence immortal the only purpose that can endure forever is the pursuit of new knowledge. Even if alien entities are able to learn all there is to know about all the other sciences, biology will be inexhaustible as the novel patterns that can be produced by evolution are effectively infinite. The biosphere of just our planet where the latest estimates are that there are a trillion species if you count all the microorganisms, probably contains more information than all the lifeless planets and stars in the galaxy combined. The aliens will value biodiversity more than we do. And if they arrive they will oppress us "only" to the extent required to counteract our propensity to cause species extinctions (including our suicidal alteration of the planet's climate). I actually would prefer that the Singularity or the aliens arrive sooner rather than later as I have less and less hope of our species getting its act together on its own.
I think it would be more accurate to say one can often break a problem into a deterministic one with commuting stages, producing a fork-join algorithm that would be optimal if each step could be guaranteed to synchronously take exactly the same amount of time at each step, all hardware resources were truly saturated, and there was no communication overhead between parallel workers. For all of the above to be true, one would probably have to run the algorithm in serial on data that fit in L1, on a processor with no pipelining; in practice, a common strategy is to try to make the "horizontal" length of the stages larger (fitting problem instances into each stage, for example) to reduce the overall percentage of the time that's taken up by contention and communication overhead (or correlated problems like spurious aborts in the optimistic concurrency paradigm). Obviously, there are other tradeoffs that can be made to improve both latency and throughput (especially if you're dealing with a streaming problem and can employ latency hiding techniques like prefetching that exploit underutilized hardware), but I hope you'll agree that that particular sort of tradeoff (which is extremely common) does manifest as a latency-for-throughput-tradeoff; pipelining itself is a great example of that. Another way to say the same thing is that many algorithms improve throughput by deprioritizing fairness; usually extremely simple algorithms with small constants are going to beat more complicated ones with larger constants unless you make the problem sizes large enough, so to make those more complex algorithms useful you often have to "artificially" increase the problem size.

> the one with better throughput might do better on tail latency as well, but under the same load, which is more important than latency under higher load, that it can handle.

If algorithm A performs worse at "the same load" than algorithm B, what sane benchmark is going to say algorithm A has better latency? Either there's a point where that ceases to be the case, or we can just say B has better latency and throughput.
So, in other words; our universe is held together with one off hacks and local fixes. We're screwed.

Also, this is literally the plot of Star Ocean 3.
The problem is that the entire library ecosystem is built under false premises. It's annoying, because you occasionally stumble upon an abstraction leak, and then you need to take a really deep breath, climb down the abstraction ladder (which is pretty tall in Haskell's case!), and look for the exact place where something went wrong.
This is an anecdote and could only be meaningful as statistics. Landing a booster stage once is an accomplishment, you can't guess you way to a stable landing. Making one diagnosis is not news. Especially since we can be sure they've tried to make many, and somehow they're only promoting the result of one.
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Do you have a problem with this authentication method in general or for this use case?

Funnily enough a hard to guess URL can actually be perfectly secure. Google uses them quite a lot inside their services, facebook too I think.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/googles_ungue...
That's not even remotely true.

The Quantum Fund by Soros and others, returned upwards of 30% per year for over three decades.

Steve Cohen averaged near 30% annual returns for two decades.

Buffett's investing track record is similarly off the charts.

And lastly, a monkey couldn't do what John Paulson (or Burry and Eisman) did with the 'greatest trade ever,' producing a radical outcome from an extremely intricate concentrated investment (some of which required them goading the opportunity into existence to begin with).

If you had said monkeys with darts can sometimes outperform the bottom half of traders on Wall Street, you might have been close.
Example modified and released. Thanks once again for pointing this out.
Next up someone then sends an invitation to a pool birthday party asking people to bring some water toys. They look through list of emojis, pick what looks like a water gun. Everyone with non-Apple devices wonder why is their host asking them to bring guns to a pool party.
Can you give some examples of abstractions that leak which the community doesn't want (or hasn't wanted) to address?
Perhaps you should do a poll. That feature still works, no?
Perhaps DOI for your car is a better analogy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
Let's take a basic one: Haskellers would tell you with a straight face that `Either a b` is really the coproduct of `a` and `b`. It's not.

If you bring up bottom, they'll tell you “oh, let's just ignore it”. Well, the only way you can ignore it and not be wrong, is to arrange things so that a variable never stands for bottom - that is, to use a strict language.

Don't get me wrong, Haskell's abstractions are nice - or they would be, if the premises they are built upon were true.
Except, as person who doesn't plan on flying to space soon, but who will at some point in life need a good medical diagnosis, for purely selfish reasons, I would rather want the medical diagnosis to get more attention and improvement.