skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it. I suspect that for sufficiently complex creatures, sex is the rule not the exception. The benefits from genetic crossover are so powerful from an evolutionary survival point of view, that it very much outweighs the cost of coordinating said crossover. With asexual reproduction, one small shift in climate, and your entire species risks extinction. There's just not enough genetic variation to deal with all the possible ways that local conditions can change on you.

Crossover is so powerful from an algorithmic sense, that you don't even need spot mutations for a genetic algorithm to converge on a solution. And crossover algorithms will tend to converge on solutions much faster than algorithms using only point mutations.

Basically from the books I've read on the topic of Artificial Life, there tends to be a very strong pull to species developing 2 sexes in simulations. Rarely are there more than 2 sexes though since the cost of coordinating more actors isn't offset by the marginal benefit of having more gene diversity.

There was one ALife experiment I heard of that managed to converge on 5 partnered sex, though I'm not sure if that meant the species had 5 distinct sexes, or if you needed 5 genetic donors to guarantee reproduction.

I'm not near my library, else I'd link some of the books on the topic that I really liked.
Very good point. I definitely don't want (in the extreme case) suicidal customers who expect me to fix their problems! The "market research" I've done has been extremely informal and involved me describing the idea to some academics (mainly master's/PhD candidates and a couple of freelancers). I've had mainly positive feedback on the idea -- from people who lean more towards your "just need a todo program" than "need serious help". I'll definitely put some thought into screening out the latter group, as neither I nor the PAs will be qualified to deal with them.
Chomsky is a wonderful proof of the fact that it does not matter who the idea comes from, what matters is the idea itself. I.e. you can be an expert on some things and err on others. Nobody is an intellectual authority on all things. Many scientists are wiser than to meddle in political affairs with broad strokes and only stick to their topic of expertise.
I think in the documentary you refer to, the supplier and user were part of the same company. Upaa I think? They basically had a huge campus. I was also impressed by that documentary but just saying ...
The parent specifically noted:

> [...] and there are several researchs suggesting they serve no purpose on keeping the enviromental equilibrium (if they are gone, they won't be missed, the enviroment will be fine...)

I'd love to see a source on this. The best I can find is this, which does indicate that some species could go extinct as a result: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
As an engineer I ask for more cash so I can use options. I usually get it.

What about the non-techinical employee? I generally feel marketing, sales, etc are screwed in startups. How can a someone making < 75k actually use their options?
Utilizing contrived scarcity to drive demand
> If you prescribe heroin to addicts, a large proportion of them become productive members of society. Prescribing is incredibly inexpensive, because heroin is in fact a very cheap drug - it's expensive on the streets because of prohibition.

So you are saying if people get addicted to heroin... give them free heroin indefinitely until they decide to stop (or die of old age)? Why pay for it if your healthcare covers it? Why not extend it and prescribe alcohol to alcoholics and nicotine to smokers?
tl;dr

>I was free to observe “White Pride World Wide,” where every day 50 mostly anonymous teenage users, 50 mostly anonymous users claiming to be teenagers, or most likely some combination thereof, gather in a rolling discussion of the imperiled future of the white race, the nefarious influence of immigrants and hot-blooded interlopers dating back to Romans in Celtic Ireland, and the dangers posed by Jewish control of contemporary culture. They also discuss selfie sticks, steel beams, and rare Pepes. It’s 2015, and they’re teenagers.
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) says that the amount of baryonic (i.e. usual) matter cannot be much higher than what we directly observe. However, it accounts for only ~16% of the mass necessary to account for galactic rotation curves, gravitational lensing by galaxies etc. So the leftover must be non-baryonic dark matter.

One can of course say that BBN is wrong but that's very unlikely as it has been tested to high precision from CMB study.
What I've read on the topic is that animals that eat mosquitos have lots of small flying insects to choose from if they disappear, so much so that you'd never notice the difference. Their role as pollinators is a bit more fraught but again there are still a few replacements standing by in pretty much every case.
Not a paper, but I liked this related article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11813180
My understanding is that it is purely to improve the short term outlook on paper.

I agree that it does not seem wise for the actual health of the entity.
Already in progress. FAA is working with industry to come up with an unleaded aviation gasoline that will be "drop-in" compatible and replace 100LL.

See https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/avgas/
Although he's missing references to the studies he mentioned, the point was animals that eat mosquitos would be fine without them, as they also eat other insects. Spiders come to mind.
I would guess you have to be an accredited investor and have some history investing in startups.

Accredited Investor:

- net worth, or joint net worth with the person's spouse, that exceeds $1 million or

- income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year
See comment in this post in reply to Glyph. (And don't be a jerk.)
Please, don't be so quick to judge and generalize. They are almost always victims of some sort of trauma. Trying drugs doesn't lead to addiction, untreated trauma and other mental illnesses do.

Drug addiction is not a moral issue. When you find out that a now-adult addict was once an innocent child that was locked in a closet and burned with cigarettes regularly, would you still have so little compassion?

It's easy to blame someone and say they're a bad person, end of story. It's much more difficult to have compassion and realize that we are all, to some extent, products of our environment.

By the way, I'm a former IV heroin addict. Thankfully, it doesn't have to be for life.
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It has been confirmed that some mobile basebands are, in fact, remotely controllable even when a device is apparently off. It isn't a far-fetched scenario.

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/even-if-theyre-off-...

In this case it was a Motorola device on an iDEN network, probably using a Freescale baseband. But it is likely that most major vendors were persuaded to include similar capabilities and that network providers cooperate in providing special signaling to control these capabilities.
Step 1: Ban direct to consumer marketing.

Step 2: Ban doctor kickbacks including "educational seminars" in the Caribbean.

Step 3: Join the rest of the western world and establish a single payer system.
There is a method for doing this. I can't seem to find the original article where I heard about this, but it was tested in some remote area in Africa and had a 90% reduction in mosquito population with just one application. Here is a more updated Zika flavored article about the same technique:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/health/zika-florida-gmo-mosqui...
CloudFlare to Origin supports algorithms other the ECDSA. Sounds like you're having issues, not CloudFlare.

CloudFlare only support ECDSA on the free plan from client to CloudFlare. If this is what you're having issues with, then you're on an old browser.
Original source (with less bloat): http://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/article/t-j-max...
RFID tag maker Impinj prices IPO at $14, shares soar in rare public offering
From the article: "Funds run by Vanguard hold roughly 6% of total U.S. stock-market value."

So index funds are not eating the world.

Most Wall Street traders underperform the market. Even the hedge fund crowd mostly underperforms the market. "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" is real.
We hope too that more SaaS services will support GitLab. Please know that GitLab already has CI, CD, and pipelines. We're working on Review Apps https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20255
I don't really understand at all what that email exchange is supposed to indicate.

Chomsky starts the entire chain and every subsequent email with some equivalent of "we don't have enough common ground on these subjects to have a reasonable conversation, so let's not have a stupid back-and-forth in which we do nothing but loudly contradict each other's basically axiomatic interpretations".

And then there's a lot of back-and-forth that's frustrating to everyone involved (and particularly to the third party reading the exchange). It's frustrating because Sam and Noam are talking past one another, and clearly don't have enough common understanding to take part in a productive discourse, and one party is trying the entire time to just get out of the damned stupid back-and-forth of nothing but mutual contradiction.

To me this reads like a very common occurrence at parties I attended in college: two people who disagree, with one person trying to avoid a public argument that's bound to be fruitless and irritating to all involved, and the other one insisting on having the argument anyways. I never had much sympathy for the Sam character when the Noam character finally snapped and told them to change the topic or fuck off.

> so full of themselves that they don't entertain anyone challenging their ideas.

There's a HUGE difference between realizing a particular conversation is pointless and refusing to have any conversations with dissenters. The latter is arrogance, but the former is an important social skill.

> to a genuine offer of conversation...

1. Noam's primary complaint is that he doesn't believe this is a genuine offer of conversation, and that even if it were, he doesn't think the conversation would be remotely productive.

2. Noam has far more patience in this thread than I or most people would've displayed. I probably wouldn't have replied beyond the second email with anything other than "We obviously disagree on some pretty basic facts. Any further conversation on this matter would therefore be fruitless to both of us. Have a great day!"
We generally arent trying to cure diseases. I mean, individual researchers want to find cures (e.g. the dedicated clinician who went to med school because her mother had breast cancer, the passionate hacker who eschewed private buses and free lunches at some startup to work at a research institute) Generally though, the pressure of the overall system is to make as much money as possible.

If you cure someone's disease, they pay once. If your goal is to make money the optimal path is to manage symptoms but keep customers (i.e. patients) reliant on your treatments, ideally with their life depending on them.

Having said that, there are many people working to find new ways to control mosquito populations, especially with zika being in the news, especially with zika starting to affect the continental U.S. (No one cares when its just American Samoa and Hawaii but Florida is a little too close to home).

I just read an article last week where essentially researchers had designed frankenstein gigolo mosquitoes that would steal your lady, impregnate her, but the resulting bastard frankensteins would die before reaching maturity.
Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (2009)
Also German and I agree, too. When all other arguments fail, slap a stupid country-based label onto your product.
Shamir's Secret Sharing [1] for viruses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
OR maybe killing all the blood-sucking mosquitoes would actually just be a net benefit. [1]

[1] http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2010/07/scientists-go-ahead-kil...
Baryonic dust is ruled out by BBN.
You don't even need to wipe out all mosquitoes - just a few species (something like 6 out of 300) account for the vast majority of disease transmitted.
I think they should go one step further. Instead of requiring two or more of a given list of descriptors if race was mentioned, just require three or more of the given list in the example image (with the age, build, and race questions added) no matter what. Then everyone gets to think about what makes someone suspicious. There may be biases related to how people dress, or what hair style they have or what age they are or even what their build is that can also be reduced by this method.

Singling out the race question as one that needs to be handled delicately is the wrong way to go, in my opinion.
Well, in a 35-yr-old quotation
Ah, but you see, when well-bred people take drugs it is merely a diversion. They are of too strong a constitution to succumb to the base desires and temptations of drug use as the people of no birth do.
A month or two ago I sent them an encrypted (gpg) mail to their support address but they replied in plaintext and even citing my original request in full.
In relativity, gravity isn't a force that causes acceleration, it's a change in the shape of space which changes the path objects take. Thus, gravity affects the path light takes, but that's still a "straight line," because what gravity is really affecting is what a straight line is.
I am not implying it is the best option for everybody trying to come and set up in the US, but for hardware companies there are better options than the US. In fact there are US based hardware accelerators[1] that encourage and facilitate setting up in Shenzhen for a short while so that you can be close to your eventual supply chain.

Coming and setting up in the US is no easy matter for people of Indian or Chinese origins.

1. https://hax.co
Slack isn't treated that way. It's not the same as a hallway conversion. There's no record of a hallway conversation and no way to search or reference a hallway conversation. It's therefore impossible for anyone in a hallway conversion to think other people could do those things and therefore they don't act as though others could do those things.

Slack on the other hand those things are possible and because they are possible many people expect their conversations on slack will be/must be referenced. You can claim all you want that's not what they should do but it's empirically what a large percentage of slack users actually do
Most people are carrying racist/sexist biases. Very few are aware of it. It's really challenging to address.
Iridium handheld phones are already recognized by certain countries' customs for a similar purpose, they don't want journalists to have phone call and SMS access outside of the country using a system/network entirely outside of their domestic telecoms' control. For example when reporting on internal crackdowns on dissent, political opposition, etc.
Lots of people at this point basically ignore music unless it's on Spotify and fall back to youtube. I don't think anyone picks up Apple Music because of exclusives. Mostly it's a question of what platform people prefer.

I'm super happy apple music exists because it puts some movement into the space. Before it there was no real competition to Spotify.
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I'm not sure Node.js is a meaningful contribution, no. :)
If you have four times of visible matter as "dark dust", this dust would clump together, creating stars, becoming visible matter again.
So Apple has enough money coming in from other businesses that, if they want to (and maybe they do), they can simply operate their Apple Music service at a loss. Forever. Spotify can't do that so how do you combat against Apple, one of your biggest competitors?

Burying in the search rankings and not being featured doesn't seem like a good way to handle it. If those artists are among people's favorites if they can't find them as easily on Spotify AND if they can get exclusives with Apple, why wouldn't they just jump ship to Apple Music?

Obviously I don't understand all of the nuances of the music business so I could be completely off base here but it feels like, to me, this would have the opposite affect that they intend.
Isn't competition great?
Ah, I had neglected the effects of interstellar plasma.

I assumed the magsail operated in a similar fashion to a solar sail, depending on the solar wind. If the destination's solar wind was sufficient to slow us down, I expected that the Sun's solar wind would be sufficient to speed us up.

Thanks for the explanation!
I've actually been wondering, why isn't there a iPod touch style Android device? I'd much rather have something like that and have a standalone wireless hotspot for the rare case I'm off wifi.
Although I'm grateful that dwaxe is a fan of GitLab I agree that this is not frontpage worthy. Maybe our just released CD tutorial isn't either but I thought it was nice https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/26/ci-deployment-and-enviro...

For the upcoming stuff that might be frontpage worthy:

- Review apps https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20255

- Cycle analytics https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21170

- Merge request version https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13570
Epipen is a patneted standard. It's akin to patenting HTTP and the pretending we could all switch if we want.
> Even if one agrees this is true, that doesn't mean that they aren't also victims of drug prohibition.

Every criminal is a victim of the system, then. Had sex with a minor and now you are in jail? You're a victim of sexual prohibition.
This looks really great. Baking in support for test automation seems like a no-brainer and a welcome step forward for web development.

Are any other major browsers taking a similar approach to Safari in terms of native WebDriver support? I saw this Microsoft blog [1] on Edge support of WebDriver, but it's not clear to me what approach they have taken (you still need to download a separate server for instance).

Only one Safari browser instance can be running at any given time, and only one WebDriver session can be attached to the browser instance at a time.

One downside to this approach is that it limits the ability to parallelize tests on a single machine for efficiency purposes.

1. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/07/23/bringing-auto...
I am not talking about the current version about pokemon go. I am talking about the version suggested by the commenter above.
Remember, these kinds of racially biased reports can get people killed. That's not insignificant.
disclosure: Kubernetes engineer

> If by google's age and experience, you mean the requirements of the Google Cloud

Quite on the contrary. Kubernetes flies in the face of Google's cloud APIs, and has to take advantage of every dirty trick it can. But it does that because the result is better. I can say that without hesitation, having worked on the logical conclusion of port-mapping (Borg).

> Getting a built in consistent p2p routing mesh under every container is brilliant, and fixes one of the biggest problems with k8s

That's hilarious to me, because what Docker calls "routing mesh" is a feature that Kubernetes has had since 1.0. It's different in some subtle ways, but again, for really important reasons.
Tips to get the most out of a Product Hunt Launch (even if you don’t make money)
Now I wonder what the challenges would be to build a radar detector-detector-detector....
I don't have a problem with the affiliate links. If I buy one of these books, should all the money I spend go to Bezos & Co., or should a small portion go toward the person who took the time and effort to compile the weekly list of books?
Additional dust inside a given galaxy would both absorb optical light and emit infrared light (depending on its temperature, which is set by the Galaxy's ambient starlight among other factors); both effects are readily detectable.
Does each CPU have its own path to memory?
I've been wondering that myself. Maybe there just isn't a big enough market for it? Or maybe the licensing for it doesn't allow for non-tablets and non-phones.
Interesting that you used "leftist" as an implicitly derogatory term here. Think about it.
> Before it there was no real competition to Spotify.

What about Google Music (or is it Google Play Music or just Play Music or just Play under a music category? ugh)? They were earlier and have been really good especially lately. Their initial iOS app was awful but I heard it has improved. There is also Groove music (which I guess is now XBox music?) but the Apps are awful for it. I got a Groove music subscription for the heavily discounted black friday sale and stopped using it after a few weeks simply because the apps are all absolutely horrific.
How to create a free distributed data collection “app” with R and Google Sheets
Electric motors and alternators are mostly equivalent, the difference is that the diode assembly on a car alternator would stop you from using one as a motor. Otherwise, they are roughly identical.

That you don't find a 'traditional' alternator in an electric or hybrid car is simply because the electric motor doubles in that role when required.

Almost all electric motors when spun will generate power, you'd have to do some work to get one not to generate power when driven.
This problem is called causal discovery.

Learning causality from observational data is hard, but there are statistical methods to help with that. Of course, you want to verify statistical findings with experiments, but first you want to find most likely causal relations from large number of correlations.

Causal direction between the two variables can sometimes be identified by observation because there is more information in the data than correlation coefficient and it can be asymmetrical.

Here is nice intro:

Causal discovery and inference: concepts and recent methodological advances
Peter Spirtes and Kun Zhang
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841209/

Nice paper and method:

Distinguishing Causes from Effects using
Nonlinear Acyclic Causal Models
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/papers/Zhang09NIPSwork...
Is setting up in she Shenzhen any easier for foreigners? I wouldn't be surprised if it was harder.
Any idea where that picture of all the people looking at their screens was taken? Looks pretty depressing if it's a workplace, honestly, but I'm figuring it's not.. maybe a conference or meet up something like that?
Roughly 6% of state prisoners are in private prisons, and 16% of federal prisoners. All in all, private prisons are a minority compared to public. Phasing out the use of private prisons is a step in the right direction, but the private companies that service prisons hemorrhage money.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privatization...
Huh? Kubernetes can run just fine outside of Google's Cloud. It'll work on any TCP/IP IaaS offering out there. If you mean it demands a clear end-to-end connection model for the important moving parts, then, yeah; because of hard-won experience of what works. They found out that you want to spend your time on bugs in your app, not bugs in your networking infra.
He pulled them out of his arse, which is exactly how freelance/consulting pricing works.
I think people often try to avoid the generic version because teachers and counselors and others tend to be trained specifically with Epi-pens. You don't want people to be reading instructions when you need help.
How is it any better than ProtonMail? [0]

[0]: https://protonmail.com
What about the idea of mandatory vacation? If a company gives you 2 weeks, you must take it. If 2 weeks before the end of the year you have not used it, you can't come in then.