skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without disagreeing with your point, there are actually currently gene therapies to cure trisomy 21 [1] (a clever trick of affixing the signal that is used to silence a (female's)/the (male's) X chromosome to the 3rd of the 21st chromosomes). I don't think it's all the way through FDA approval, and is still very much experimental, but is exactly the kind of thing that is curable. And that is where your point stands: it is hard to know which unknowns are easy unknowns, and which unknowns are nearly impossible unknowns because both are currently of the same quality - unknown. The grandiose claim is fancy, and much will be accomplished in 80 years, but even ill-defined language of 'disease' and 'cure' belies our ignorance.

[1] http://www.biospace.com/News/down-syndromes-extra-chromosome...
Didn't mean to infer otherwise. I agree Norway is doing quite well, but when you look at the credits and debits it puts things in a different perspective.
During DOS days, standards or more often de-facto standards had appeared. So chip makers or board makers would make their chip or board compatible with another existing model, and you would just need one driver per kind of device to get most of the expected functions. I am thinking of :

-- sound cards being compatible with AdLib and/or SoundBlaster and/or SoundBlaster Pro;

-- network cards being compatible with NE2000;

-- video cards being compatible with VESA standards.

Then Windows took over, buses changed, the shitfest started and never stopped. And now the shitfest comes with NDAs too.
I'm glad you enjoyed reading the article. I completely agree on not really having a "right" way to blend gradients. For that reason I almost ended up omitting the gradient example from the article because doing it "correctly" in linear space does not always yield the most pleasant looking results. Generating perceptually fine looking gradients is another huge (and very interesting!) topic in itself, so maybe I'll discuss that in another post in the future.

Until then, have a look at this online gradient generator tools that can use five different algorithms (there's some explanation provided as well for each method):

http://davidjohnstone.net/pages/lch-lab-colour-gradient-pick...

I also recommend reading the superb 'Subtleties of Color' NASA article series on the matter:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/0...

PS: I'm slightly confused about your comment on the black to white gradient though. Are you saying the gradient on Figure 1 looks more even to you than on Figure 2? In that case, I think your monitor is miscalibrated, so try gamma-calibrating it first then have another look. Your opinion might change :)
Cash redemptions are usually one of the worst ways to redeem points. You can put a dollar value on your points by dividing the price of the flight when you book it by the number of points it cost you. 1 cent per point if you choose cash vs 2 cents per point for miles usually...
It's easy, it's not however usually affordable for anything but the best funded startups. Consider that the average cost of employee heath care would add 2-3k per employee per year. Very significant.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/cost-employee-benefits-employ...
The big software companies may not be able to figure it out, but the big hardware companies don't care. This is where the salvation of e2e must come from, and we're already seeing it with Apple, where iMessage has been e2e for a long time.

It's not perfect, Apple can still tweak the system to control the keys if they wanted to (not that I believe they would) but it's a really good start.
I often wonder how people reconcile such scientific reports with what religious texts say.

Some weeks ago, while discussing with a colleague about the human tendency for discrimination on any grounds, I'd said "After all, we humans were once apes in Africa". He responded with "Hey, I'm a follower of so-and-so religion, and our religious text says that God made everything within a week. So, please let's not discuss topics that are hurtful to me".
This might possibly be fixed by using PackageResourceViewer. It allows you to edit the package files for themes and have your changes stick. (I use this to change the font size for the tree on the left in the theme file, and I only had to make this change once).
its' pretty much free, but for the occasional alert
pepper = sha256(global_randnum + user_start_dt + username + global_randnum)

the above creates a per user pepper, and largely obviates the need for pepper rotation.

if only password db is stolen, all users are impervious to dictionary style attacks.

if only codebase is stolen, then they only know how to calculate each pepper per user.

if both are stolen, you are in no worse shape than just using a salted bcbrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2.
Sort of. The only issue with that interpretation is that either piece of data in isolation conveys none of the original information, even probabilistically. A better analogy would be sending two classical bits by different channels, with the desired bit being the XOR of the two, and one of the bits being chosen by a random number generator.
I have MS. People can't/don't/won't empathize with things they can't see or understand firsthand. I could give work examples of being threatened illegally while on FMLA but posting this under this username is dangerous enough.
Like most devs, I too bit the bullet and wrote my version - http://prakhar.me/articles/bloom-filters-for-dummies/
Alberta did spend most of the their oil money. Based on a Google search, it looks like the Heritage Trust Fund maxed out at ~$20B for a population of ~2.5M. So maybe 1/20th of what Norway has put away on a per capita basis?
If you need a study to tell you not to eat off the floor, you probably aren't going to understand the study.
It sounds like you're modeling the state space wrong. In a concurrent system, the state is not just one thread's (or one processor's, or one machine's) internal data (including program counter). That would be like saying a (single-threaded) program's state is the contents of the registers and topmost stack frame. The state in a concurrent system is the combination of every thread's internal state. And what actually happens is a sequence of such arrangements. One arrangement is not realized without replacing the previous one.
The skepticism is totally warranted, but you have to really consider the strides made in just 100 years. There's practically a Moore's Law of medicine happening.

We're still really dumb about a lot of things related to natural mortality, but exponentially smarter and more capable than we were 50 and then 200 years ago.
An open source version (remake?) of the game exists[1].

[1] https://www.openttd.org/en/
What is Lemonade's relationship with Goldman Sachs?
Yeah OK, after a little reflection I see where my mistake was. I wish there was a way to delete my comment.
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Their street address is the Goldman Sachs building.

And Geico's overhead is closer to 15%.

So... do what you want with that info.
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If you are on a highway at full speed, a sudden brake can lead to an accident (folks behind you not reacting on time).
Free is not libre. I am willing to pay with money but I'm not willing to pay with security violations and my morals.
Can I use iMessage from my non-Apple computer? Would Apple be willing to open up its protocol or to implement in other platforms so that it could be universally adopted?
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I was making an abstract defense in your favor based on the parent comment where someone appeared to be claiming you had neither the power nor the cash to have any say in the matter.

For all we know you might have billions or a machine for curing all diseases already working. (Or be MarkZ).

Yes, probably time for my bed, it's rather late. And far too late for moral philosophy.
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As arguably vision is the most important sensory channel in human-computer interaction, I'd say it doesn't hurt for all coders to have at least a vague understanding of gamma. I think it should be part of the "basic education". Of course, it's just my opinion :)
What about Earley's algorithm?

Unfortunately, given the extremely limited hardware of 1960s computers (not helped by the lack of an efficient algorithm), the parsing of an arbitrary CFG was too slow to be practical. Parsing algorithms such as LL, LR, and LALR identified subsets of the full class of CFGs that could be efficiently parsed. Later, relatively practical algorithms for parsing any CFG appeared, most notably Earley's 1973 parsing algorithm. It is easy to overlook the relative difference in performance between then and now: the fastest computer in the world from 1964-1969 was the CDC6600 which executed at around 10 MIPS; my 2010 mobile phone has a processor which runs at over 2000 MIPS. By the time computers had become fast enough for Earley's algorithm, LL, LR, and friends had established a cultural dominance which is only now being seriously challenged - many of the most widely used tools still use those algorithms (or variants) for parsing. Nevertheless in tools such as ACCENT / ENTIRE and recent versions of bison, one has access to performant parsers which can parse any CFG, if that is needed.

from: http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/parsing_the_solved_prob...

Featured here 6 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327313
My bad, I'm not really using Linux. I'll update the article, thanks! :)
Speaking as a dude who pays attention to things, I certainly do not feel discriminated against.
So if I can write programs that out perform Java programs I can make 250k?
And by almost all tracked indicators, they are happier and healthier.

> Conformity to the top-down bureaucracy's state declaration of what constitutes "virtue" is mandatory.

It's a democracy, isn't it? Therefore the people have chosen to live this way because the majority believes it gives the collective a better life.

The poor sod in the US who has to pay $15,000 to have a baby or put a cast around a broken leg would probably love to have the problem of expensive luxury goods.
$70 doesn't seem free. Personally VS Code on Linux has been rock solid for me.
> a devout Catholic and the LOTR is a pretty overt moral "pilgrim's progress" tale in the vein of medieval allegory

It's much more subtle than that. LOTR has characters who are deeply ambiguous, and do not fall clearly into Evil or Good in a traditional sense. Folks like Denethor, Gollum, and even Boromir have multiple facets. Even Frodo is tempted to use the Ring multiple times even though he is aware of the implications.

And let's not forget that, in the book (not the movies, which missed the point of that part completely), the Shire is ultimately destroyed even though Frodo was successful in destroying the Ring. That is clearly not your typical, regular fairy tale ending.
How would your position be falsified? You could always say that later someone will revert to the mean.
We've removed it from this title.
Another feature copied from gitlab. Not that that is a bad thing.
Not officially. That still doesn't negate the point that hardware companies like Apple have already started e2e encryption. The poster also mentioned it's not perfect; full cross-platform support would presumably be one of those areas that could get it more perfect.
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SharePoint, It's awful.

At previous places we used various wikis which were much better. Confluence is the easiest for non-technical people.
I'm not sure why Moxie gets so much grief on some of these issues. To his credit, he's released just about everything under a free software license -- with reproducible builds and all.

Ultimately, it's his baby and he can do what he wants with it.
I dont have pics, but insight. Typically these are funds exclusively for high net worth individuals. They are not advertised. They select who they let in and have limited pools of investment given they invest in areas/business that dont scale to trillion dollar levels type thing. They get to invest in business etc before the open market via their relationships which is I assume why they can get these returns. My source is a friend who is a partner in one of these funds. They average well over 20% return before fees. Typically they want people with $50m investable before your worth the conversation. And the sad thing for people like us is they are typically asked to preserve wealth (aka make sure I'm never poor) and and growth is secondary consideration.
Click bait. It's one interpretation masquerading as the truth while decrying the other interpretation.

Until Lenovo issue a proper, detailed, official statement we need to keep the pressure on.

Self aggrandising posts like this don't help.
I had the same reaction when I went through the things with my wife.
There is a paid version and a free version. I meant that the free version works fine, except you get an occasional alert.
That's basically what is done, on a piecemeal basis as things break, but it would be untenable to do it for the dozens of system dependencies, especially when I don't have the resources to set up a whole parallel bottling infrastructure.

In the end, most ROS Mac users still choose an Ubuntu, Debian, or Fedora VM— having a stable set of underlying packages is worth the tradeoff in convenience and performance.
True he wasn't supposed to be what he was, but he was definitely along the path, the golden path, towards the perfect person they'd be working for.
alcoholic ranting [...] hyperbolic luddites.

Can't imagine where he got that impression.
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It's actually easy to keep the lines out -- my challenge was to try to keep them in! Just a matter of shifting thresholds around.
You see the problem yourself by pointing out the required increase in computational capacity. Quantum mechanics can be described and predicted using fairly straight forward mathematics. Its descriptive complexity is lower than for a cancer whose functioning is a non-linear dynamical system not at thermodynamic equilibrium and changes in time. It's true that for QM, the computational complexity quickly goes up beyond toy harmonic oscillator problems but in a search for a theory, the descriptive complexity and number of fundamental parameters per observation is what controls search time.

We also don't know to what extent quantum computation would aid predictive modeling of protein interactions. It's possible that there are no leaks at the classical level of abstraction as to hurt predictability. But the problem still remains that experiments to fix parameters are hurt by the fact that the system is changing under you and interacts in a complex way with its environment which can't be known ahead of time. So the computational complexity is not necessarily easier (in a practical sense) even if we assume that there is no utility in modeling quantum effects.

One very theoretical idea of solving cancer (per cancer) would involve searching for a 'problem', an insult, outside of the learnability class of evolution which also does not harm healthy cells. This is computationally likely harder than BQP. Anything less, even if equipped with a quantum computer, would be evolved out of and with any survivors less attackable. Any way you look at it, it is a far harder problem than working out fission.
Thanks man, I'm a bit obsessed with these things and have spent way too much time on it. I'm glad someone notices and appreciates these details! :)
Joel Greenblatt's new funds that he set up since returning in 2009 haven't done well, they have performed below the S&P 500 Index from 2009-2015:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/07/31/value-gur...
Just setup a wordpress blog and fill it with aggregated data remotely related to the domain name. Since you've had it from before, you have the upper hand.

Read about Nissan's domain name. If a company that powerful couldn't get their hands on it, you shouldn't be worried.
Don't have the ref. onhand but read recently that African populace shows the greatest genetic diversity in Homo sapiens sapiens.

India comes in at second place, presumably because of larger migration to the subcontinent compared to Europe.
Spot on, thanks.
Scientists teach machines to hunt and kill humans
Halt! I see a problem.
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Seriously, though, talk to some Soviet-era scientists. It was a good gig. You might of course bring up Academician Sakharov. But his dissodence was actually a result of the high status scientists had in the USSR. He thought his status would shield him from his critiques of the government.
Disagree. The average user is not savvy enough to make this call. Secure end-to-end so I can have secure conversations with less technical people, and know we are both safe. It only take one party to escrow the logs to the server and all those conversations are no longer private. E2E||GTFO
I've watched both in their entirety (so far). I definitely agree that POI is more watchable with a non-tech person. POI had a few stinker eps, especially ones involving "baddy of the week" type standalones or the "very special episode" where we explore the hidden pain of main character X.

The upside is the ensemble is very strong and likable, the writers worked hard to preserve continuity and development of the characters, even a few side characters that only show up one or two times per season, and it rewards careful watching.

My issues with Mr. Robot are they have been overusing some of the tricks you saw in Fight Club for example, and the characters are much more Breaking Bad in that you can like them but not admire them. The portrayal of tech is amazing though, and the direction and editing stays mostly in the "clever homage" of Hollywood genre films rather than straight ripoff of them. The cast is also very good.

And let's not forget the other big genre series, Orphan Black, which I highly recommend.
The security conscious should be running noscript anyway.
Only if you have a single, constant remote. I've used osx fuse + Sublime a lot. It's not perfect. If you change something on the remote through not-sublime, sublime doesn't pick up changes for a long time (rather, your OS doesnt, not Sublime's fault).

That said, decent for the day to day. If you're hitting moving target servers, docker, etc, you still need to have some basic vim or emacs or nano knowledge.
Very cool to see a screenshot from servo's codebase.
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The idea is to interpret the larger point the text is making, and not get hung up on interpreting each detail literally.

As for your point, saying "After all, we're all children of God" means essentially the same thing.
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Sorry if you found the title condescending. In the intro section I also admit that I was ignorant about the whole gamma topic a few weeks ago. But I think it's an important topic, hence the title. Of course, 10 different people have 10 different opinions about what other people "should know". But this is a personal blog, and this is my personal opinion :) I guess you can't please everyone.
To get pedantic, humans were never apes, they share a common ancestor with apes.

And you could reconcile with your colleague, "I'm not disputing God created everything within a week; I'm just saying that all the evidence makes it look like it happened over the course of millions of years. Maybe God had some accelerated process, does your religious text talk about how God went about creation?"
They're targeting the wrong level of abstraction. I think people should use Whonix or Tails instead of Tor Browser.
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She in the trap inferredsso ft leakdakid
Simple, compare a large number of investors based on some criteria with the overall average.

AKA, if you think there are people that do better than average, then picking people who have beaten the odds for 10 years and see how they do over the next 10 years. Repeat over a few decades.

There are things that seem to work. The most common way to 'beat the market' is trading a low chance and ideally hidden chance of failure for inflated returns. EX: A 1 percent change of losing 95% of your investment should be worth lot's of money on good years. This is really appealing when investing other peoples money as you don't share in their downside.
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Yeah, Nim is my favourite language currently! The expressivity and succinctness of Python with the speed of C, plus useful metaprogramming constructs. I recommend everyone to give it a go!
Because we design around database tables and not workflows.

Quite often our underlying architecture simple mirrors the database structure with pattern like the Repository pattern and Active Record. Then it flows to the user. Instead of the user creating x as part of their workflow, they have to first create x on the "add x" page then go back to what they were doing.

Of course this only applies to some software, you couldn't make a word processor that encapsulate the user workflow, but for many apps, especially LOB apps, you can.
They run a credit check to determine your premium (in part).
So yeah, they need your name...

https://lemonade.com/faq#general
Do you use name and address solely to be delightful or do you use it in other ways, like to order insurance score, clue or prefill any other 3rd party data for additional segmentation?
Other people have mentioned some real languages, but I'd like to point out something different. Xcb, a replacement for Xlib for interacting with an X11 server, has a complete XML spec that describes the API. What's nice about this is that bindings can be programmatically generated based on the spec. You can do this in any language by writing a program that reads in the XML and outputs text that is the source for the target language that the maintainer would check into their repo. Guile's Xcb bindings[0] takes a different approach. It uses Guile's compiler tower to read the XML spec as source code and compiles it to Scheme. From there, the existing Scheme compiler is used to compile to Guile bytecode. I think it's a very elegant solution and a testament to the power of Guile's compiler tower.

[0] https://github.com/mwitmer/guile-xcb
1 measure all the things

2 regress variables until p < 0.05

3 publication!
Whatsapp is also e2e encrypted. And they aren't hardware at all.
Sure the investors pay for the fraud but...maybe the fraudsters make more money for investors than legitimate businesses even with the (proportionally tiny) fines?
Bonus fun: Steve Jobs announced that without telling anyone before hand, and haven't talked it over with the lawyers. Even if it wasn't for the patent suit I'm not 100% sure what would've happened.
I was unhappy about that too, but I wonder if some of it had to do with the actor wanting to headline a bigger series.
Help me better understand how any one in the past can have their exact words known. I am sure I am not the only doubter that thinks this way. In this case just how does one know these are the words Lincoln said.

Washington Adams Witherspoon anyone

Any reading that agrees with me?
If I have ssh access, I use sshfs to edit remote files with my local copy of Sublime. I also set up a Sublime build system that calls the compiler remotely over ssh. After I set my ssh config to cache and reuse connections, it adds virtually no overhead. Builds are one keystroke, errors show up in the editor just like normal, and small builds can still be done in just a fraction of a second.

The only problem with this setup is that sshfs is bad at recovering from network errors. If someone made a version of sshfs that could automatically reconnect after an interruption then this setup would be practically indistinguishable from working locally, even on moderately high latency connections.