skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See what I mean? This survey got 1/10th the responses that a previous survey of the same cohort of experts did, and a 7% response rate overall. But here we go with a survey cited as "the majority of anonymously surveyed geneticists and behavioral psychologists".

Come on. Try harder. This rebuttal is practically in the abstract you cited.

But this is how it works. It takes virtually no effort to paste a citation to underpowered research studies, but a lot of effort to rebut those citations, which serve as appeals to authority in discussions. This works to create the impression that "HBD" is far more seriously scientific than it actually is.
1) Well for me it's more about being able to say whatever you want. It's up to other people to be offended by your words or not.

2) I guess if someone said something racist. (but then it would be more the racism that I find offensive and not really the words that they used)

3) No I wouldn't. I wouldn't give a shit if people of any age, including 0-5 year olds heard offensive language. They probably heard all of those words already. The only difference is that they will make a big deal about it, because their parents/teachers told them it was a 'naughty' word. There is no need to make a big deal about it, and that was what my point was.
I'm not up-to-date with nuclear. Is waste storage and disposal now a solved problem? Last I heard it had to be stored in hollowed-out mountains, walled in with concrete.
I have the same problem with these analyses from interview.io every time I see them: they are making many of their inferences by fitting linear models to data that is non-linear. Is getting a 4 twice as good as getting a 2? If not, don't use a linear model!
Debunking the Top 7 DDoS Myths
It certainly does matter.

In terms of texture and taste, white tuna may very well be indistinguishable from escolar for a lot of people. It's still much less desirable than white tuna. Japan has banned escolar in 1977, deeming it toxic.
Presumably a "species" should be an equivalence class, right? So the relation "A and B are of the same species" should be transitive, symmetric, and reflexive. Symmetry is easy (an organism shares 100% of its genome with itself) as is reflexivity (A shares n% with B iff B shares n% with A). However, transitivity does not follow obviously: for example, A and B could share 98%, B and C could share 98%, but A and C could share 96%. Which species(es) do the three belong to?
I actually ended up coding the hard stuff from scratch in matlab/julia. I wish I has seen a simple example on how to use Theano early on -- then I would have been off on my way much sooner.

Learning to use TensorFlow/Theano/ect isn't like learning another programming language or package. I think it is more like learning a new skill.
Sad to see Mesos losing steam. My understanding was that Mesos subsumes the functionality of Kubernetes thanks to its Aurora scheduler. But it has much more customized schedulers, for different purposes, that might make it more efficient to run complicated pieces of software.

For instance, it certainly is possible to run a Cassandra cluster by having each instance run in its own Docker container. My understanding is that it would be much more efficient to run this cluster with a dedicated Cassandra cluster instead.

Is this right? Or are the performance benefits of running a dedicated Cassandra scheduler on Mesos negligible compared to running them in containers?
University of California’s outsourcing is wrong, says U.S. lawmaker
So, youre nitpicking?
Suggestion: target other - freer - countries as well. i.e. the other 96% of the planet.
What do you recommend instead of RabbitMq on kubernetes? I use RabbitMq as Celery backend . I should probably switch to redis...
Three Flow Killers
The simple version: If a foreign government is unfairly subsidizing an industry, America will slap a tariff on it. This is good policy - imagine, for example, if Airbus could afford to sell their planes for $1, because they are being entirely subsidized by the French government. Everyone buys airbus, no one buys Boeing any more. Boeing(along with tens of thousands of jobs) goes bye bye, and now Airbus starts selling their planes for whatever they want, because there is no competition left.

So, that's what China was doing - they were giving this aluminum company tons of money, and it allowed them to produce and sell aluminum for far cheaper than should be possible. So America put a tariff on importing that aluminum from China.

Instead, they sent it to Mexico, and then pretended that the aluminum came there when shipping it into America. No more tariffs!
On the Linux side, has anybody looked at what installing Dropbox does?

I'm guessing it's not going to be different from what it does on a Mac, but it would be nice to know exactly...
Do you have the navigation animation on? When I turned it off the scrolling got much smoother.
I still don't get the point you are trying to make. In 1830, 3,776 free blacks owned 12,907 slaves, out of a total of 2,009,043 slaves owned in the entire United States. Many of those slaves owned by blacks may have been treated as slaves but many were also bought to be freed, as they were family members. Whites could be indentured servants but they were not slaves for life. By the 1700s indentured servants were scarce.
There seems to be a subtle misunderstanding. A focus on the mathematics, such as verification or high-dimensional convex studies, will show that there is some basis for WHY DNNs work. This would be equivalent to showing WHY Fourier Transforms work. It shows a sound basis for things like backprop and why iterated partial derivatives converge. It is interesting to know why kernels can flatten a higher space.

That is a far cry from WHY a DNN-based program works. That is like asking WHY I used a Fourier Transform, not why a Fourier Transform works. We will soon reach a situation where a self-driving car decides to suddenly slam into a parked car. Probably because the heat waves rising from the road made the telephone pole look like it "moved" and was "alive" so the car decided to avoid it, choosing the "inanimate" parked car instead. Oh, the joys of debugging THAT program... the weight on the third layer node 1273134 should be .077651 not .077650

There is a government Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) (http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/DARPA-BAA-16-53.pdf) that hopes to address this issue. It will be interesting to see if that research addresses the first idea or the second.
One thing that we've built[1] is a way to hook a Branch to a story (by including the story ID in the branch name, which also starts it) which causes all of the commits on the branch to feed into the ticket and allows you to use Pull Requests and Merges to change the state (i.e. "Open Pull Request -> Move to Ready for Review).

Ticket update overhead sucks.

[1] https://clubhouse.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207540323-Us...
When I last tried it the performance was abysmal, almost as bad as Google Drive. Also, no Linux client. I didn't use it enough to know if it has the same conflict issues as many of the other ones I tried — Microsoft may well have managed to get that right.
Here's another perspective on it, how often will you notice? If you don't then does it matter?

A few years ago I purchased some olive oil while overseas from an outfit that was literally running a large machine pressing olives in front of me.

Shocking, the oil actually smelled like olives vs the stuff in the bottle, which usually smells like nothing. That oil also had a sharp olive taste which is actually missing from the store purchased stuff as well. There is a bit of an olive oil industry starting in texas as well, and that stuff when purchased directly from a farm (orchard?) tastes like olives as well. Makes me wonder if 100% of the olive oil i've been purchasing in the last decade is fake, or per some of the articles strongly cut.

BTW: Its not a function of the age either AFAIK, I purchased nearly a gallon when overseas and it lasted me over a year, all the while maintaining the distinctive smell and taste.
The Magic of Miyazaki’s Literary Imagination
> The U.S. is relatively unusual in that its culture and political institutions have had to adapt to integrate a large minority population that, until recently, it viciously oppressed.

The US is relatively unusual in that these oppressed populations remain visible minorities. Without that difference lots of countries have similar problems, but if you are mostly only able to distinguish the oppressed group from the favored group by things like accent and elements of culture that blend with integration, you don't really have the same durable problems.
Probably, but it does have to pass through security. I suspect it'd be easy enough to do a closer inspection of items of a certain size?
I'm pretty sure the goal of the 50 character limit was to keep it possible to have descriptive names that go beyond a word or two, but prevent extreme keyword stuffing (ex. Car racing game - race cars, trucks, bikes, people, animals, temples, and run like the angry bird, or go with pokemon). Obviously not a real app, but I've seen a lot worse...
re edit:

No, that's just a terrible idea. It might work quite well in the sense that it prevents server security holes. But it makes for terrible usability, and potentially even security problems for the user. The user expects that their input is reproduced correctly, and if it isn't, that can potentially have catastrophic consequences because it might result in silent corruption.

See also: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...

If you think that it should be possible to have developers who don't understand this problem and its solution, you might as well argue that it should be possible to have developers who don't know any arithmetic or who are illiterate.

If you want to have some help from the computer in avoiding injection attacks, the solution is a type system that ensures that you cannot accidentally use user input as HTML or SQL, for example, or possibly automates coercion when you need to insert pieces of one language into another.
Same. I discovered a setting that brings up a little arrow pad on comment pages, so that I can swipe up/down on it to go to the previous/next comment at that level in the tree, and left/right to go out/in a particular comment thread. It's extremely useful for e.g. skipping over long comment threads I'm not interested in.
Glassdoor is blocking me out. Can you explain some of what went wrong inside Chariot?

From the outside it is very well run and I was amazed at how quickly it went from creepy white vans to a whole fleet of branded vehicles with a mobile app.
That's why I only eat blue whale meat.
> There is no public space on the internet, just a network of private residences.

Net neutrality/common carrier rules make the streets public space. But that means only open-source, authority-less p2p communication is free.

Everything else is under someone's thumb.
Did anyone else misread the title as saying that the "tiny" CSS library was 720kB in size and think "Oh God, why?!"
What would you recommend I use to evaluate the topic if not research studies?
It just counts as standard issue fraud, it's a basic laundering scheme.

He's, simply, laundering Chinese aluminum through Mexico.
Sebastian Markbage of Facebook recently posted about this. Essentially, hard but interesting prolems.

https://twitter.com/sebmarkbage/status/774016577033216000
Have used it already and it's pretty neat!
The included adapter is going the wrong way. I'd need female thunderbolt to male 3.5mm. I have to either buy an adapter or new headphones to use with both devices.
In MD, it's a combination of VDW and electrostatic. Typically VDW is just a cutoff (VDW forces beyond 8A are neglible), and electrostatic is handled by particle-mesh ewald. I worked on DNA and RNA, which have strong electrostatic interactions and my thesis work showed PME was critical for stability.
> I actually ended up coding the hard stuff from scratch in matlab/julia

I always find it easier to use and understand the higher level tools (like TensorFlow) once you've written your own rudimentary implementation from scratch. Most of my work is done Julia, and sometimes that code is fast enough that I don't have to use anything else.
You don't know how emissions should be regulated, but somehow you know the regulations aren't working b/c they are too lenient?

My hypothesis is that all of the diesel-powered cars sold in the past 20 years in the US could vanish tonight, and there would be no significant change in the planet's climate vs. had people continued to drive them.

The real motivation for strictly regulating diesels is their predilection to produce oxides of nitrogen and particulates, which contribute to smog and respiratory distress.

While one has to make allowances for the climate and traffic in a particular place (the LA basin is always going to be smog-prone, and probably should be able to set its own regs for mobile pollution sources), the point of diminishing returns for adding more pollution controls to cars probably past at least 15 years ago.
Your rules engine sounds interesting - definitely worth a closer look.
Can I ask what you like about Django? As a former Django user I've become quite jaded on the framework, and would caution you against using it if you need data integrity, performance, or a complex front-end.
Do you mean, to simulate the active site of an enzyme, or that people are trying to explicitly model known quantum biology, like photosynthetic centers? I don't know that anybody is claiming it's necessary for protein folding or DNA/RNA simulations.
by* itself (consider me triggered)

Agreed, I'd expect it to work that way as well.
Just mirroring doesn't change the retention policy (unless the term has
changed its meaning in recent fifteen years), so it won't do. But this is
moves the discussion to spoken language semantics, which I don't feel like
pushing too far.

My point with the packages is that you need your own copy that you have
control over, so they don't disappear unexpectedly. Pulling already-built
packages from some other repository would be fine from this standpoint, though
I prefer rebuilding them myself and keeping along with source packages.
Ask HN: Have You Ever Turned Down a Job Offer Because of a Non Compete
I am curious how many people have turned down a job offer because of a non-compete clause in the offer or other similar clause? If so why?
You know what is rather strange. Germany, the home country of VW, has been very quiet when compared to the US and other countries. One one hand, I think that they want to limit the damage. VW is one of the pillars the German economy. On the other hand, VW did admit to breaking the law and the appropriate penalty must be given.
PS4's API has nothing to do with OpenGL. It has more in common with Vulkan and D3D12.
> It's a social network with kids on it.

That's not a good argument. You can apply filters only for accounts used by kids, and only in jurisdictions where it's required by law.

Why do they do more than what is required by law or opted-in by the user?
I wasn't advocating it.
This even sounds somewhere between 2 to 3 levels above team lead. As a team [lead] in automotive you are mostly only responsible for a very small part of the system, and "diesel competence" sounds more strategic. Although titles are often manager, senior manager and then director of something, so it's hard to tell what leader is. But I guess it's far more an executive position with > 200 people below than an an "actual engineer".
It might seem small, but I'd argue that the difference in phrases is pretty stark.

Saying we "have a better model of"-something leaves room for further exploration and interpretation. It's admission that there's room for different possibilities, and its not taking an /absolute/ position on something.

But saying something "has answered questions" comes off as absolute and final. Is 1+1=2? Yes. Answered. Case closed. If you're going to say that "The simulation solves a decades-old mystery", then you'd better be damn sure that your simulation is correct, your interpretations are correct, your simulation correctly reflects physical reality, etc.
The stated intention of these bills is unachievable. I don't mean technologically - key escrow is certainly possible. I mean as a practical matter, given the makeup of the commercial sector in the US. The capability to render plaintext to authorities on request is incompatible with how large companies handle information security.

That being the case, why is this bill still being pursued, given that it's a dead letter?

1. By continuing the kabuki dance, legislators and regulators may hope to spook companies like Apple into self-regulating, to avoid public regulation. Good luck with that.

2. Legislators might be doing this mostly for show.

3. Legislators might keep pushing the bill until all the meaningful bits have been planed off (an option compatible with (2)), and further might not realize that their resulting product is toothless.

NB: I am talking my book a little here, since I'm a party to several bets that meaningful crypto regulation in the US will never happen.
A good argument for having replaceable batteries is that this recall could be done by just sending new batteries to everyone. Now, they have to replace entire devices.
I upvoted because I'm quite familiar with ML theory and like to read the latest tweaks, etc. but I've never used a tool like TensorFlow. Papers, blog posts, etc. usually give diagrams and/or fully-fledged code snippets. That's great for the high-level overview, and low-level nitty-gritty, respectively.

Yet minimal code examples like this let me see straight away what TensorFlow programs look like, without having to distinguish between fundamental aspects and snippet-specific ones.

My only remark would be to put a comment at the top something like "Fit a straight line, of the form y=m*x+b".

I guessed that the "m" and "b" variables were referring to these common usages, but was wary of this assumption until line 14.

For all I know, "m" and "b" could be common parameter names for some TensorFlow config or something :)
10 year old company, raised $165M in 7 rounds and now wants $75M more from the public. I'm guessing full ratchets are part of some of those private rounds and the news will shock employees when the IPO.
Well the first part wasn't a rhetorical statement.
> The girl had removed her burning clothes before the photograph was taken.

Removing clothes after the napalm had burned through them (which was manifestly the case here) certainly may reduce the degree to which you are being burned by napalm, but does not mean you are no longer be burned by napalm.

> If I were to recreate the image by hiring actors, that would probably be considered child pornography.

Be considered by whom? Pornography requires more than simple nudity.
I don't fully agree but you're making a rational argument and didn't deserve the downvotes.
I think it's a pun on the repo name, "NakedTensor"
Your rhetorical strategy here is to try to shift the burden for your argument back to me?

I'm especially amused by the fact that you tried to deploy this clever switcheroo after having your source shot down, and without acknowledging that fact.

My advice is: just give up on the argument. People are people.
What's the SI unit for suffering? How do you calibrate your measurement instruments?

If you have a genuine ethical objection to causing suffering to other living creatures, you can be vegan, lacto-vegetarian, or you can eat meat certified as jhatka by a trusted authority. It is never necessary for you to compare suffering ratios.

If you truly want to minimize the pain you send out into the world, it's zero. That is an easily achievable number. Go vegan. Be kind to everyone. Good luck on your path to enlightenment. If you aren't going for zero, why would you bother half-assing it?

For the record, I don't care whether or not my meal has ever screamed in agony. I can still respect the beliefs of those who do care. But I also don't wish to hear any of them preach to me about it, or let them trick me into enduring some sort of ideological sales pitch.
Sure, but I'm just pointing out that saying some strategy didn't work for Japan in the Pacific nearly a hundred years ago has little bearing on what that would mean for China, given the differences in technology, industrial strength, and military strategy.

For one thing, the de facto state of the world right now is that the US controls all the oceans. Being able to secure island chains and put area denial weapons on them would increase China's capabilities and also reduce the US ability to project power easily. That doesn't mean they wouldn't be swept aside in a real war, but they would impose a real cost on the US to get rid of, and that's the entire point.
Extensive list of VST plugins for Linux
Since the retailers are required to charge the same to credit card customers as to cash customers, when you use cash you are subsidising all the people who are using credit cards.
>Trying to enforce a tariff on element production from a subset of external countries seems sisyphean.

I loved fantasy books as well.
I Swear
Heroku totally releases postmortems for incidents that meet certain criteria but I can't speculate as to what this criteria might be today.

Here is a recent example: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/930

Source: I used to work at Heroku on the team which managed this process.
And, the book is -- legitimately -- available for free, in a variety of formats -- details on the author's blog:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached. In particular, you may not create derivative works or use the work for commercial gain.
Note that this trick is very hard to pull off in the long-term. China tried it with rare-earth metals, and production just started up elsewhere. In the short term it's annoying and causes disruptions.
Having a larger percentage of your total credit unused gives you a better score... and the older your credit accounts are also improves your score... I don't think that using your credit cards increases your score (check out creditkarma.com, they give lots of insight as to how your credit score is calculated)
That's just not the case for everyone, however.
this is cool! the more I use elixir the more I fall in love.