skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my comment above. DNA can be commented in/out during an organism's lifetime. And these comments/silencing capabilities are in fact transferable to a child with some fidelity. And in that way those changes are heritable and genetic, if not actually altering the DNA of the child in any way. This capability is called epigenetics.

You are correct that the code of the DNA itself is not being altered, but there are other heritable mechanisms that affect the structure, capability and accessability of that DNA - i.e. gene expression, beyond the code of DNA itself. This enables capabilities encoded in DNA to be passed down to children without actually using them - or conversely, to enable certain latent capabilities under certain environmental conditions.

Life is a bit more nuanced than the dogmatic one-way flow of information we teach as 'the central dogma'. It gains its complexity by always having an exception to its own rules somewhere at some point if it physically possible so, as to hedge against some change in conditions where that exception becomes more powerful than the existing rule. The exception may be inconsequential and of little benefit - until such time as it is not.
"This item isn't avaible in your country" on the android play store.

Any plans to make the app available worldwide?
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At the end of the day, it's against site guidelines:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You may not agree with it (which is fine), but it's largely accepted by the community.
Zero or negative interest rates can still spur economic growth, unlike birth rates.
Having a crappy job or psychotic boss is more long-term than an "episode" such as bereavement, and definitely can lead to depression.
I'm probably stating the obvious here, but whatever your strategy for decrypting is you still must verify the ciphertext integrity, which unfortunately for you is calculated on the whole ciphertext. You may win some time by not reading the stuff before the block you're interested, but you will have to read the whole stuff anyway if you want to be safe.

I'm no expert of course so I don't even know if there's an AEAD that can bring you integrity on parts of the input; at least I know that minilock (https://github.com/kaepora/miniLock/blob/master/README.md#-m...) builds some kind of counter mode where each chunk is properly encrypted and has everything needed to check its integrity.
In the context of Russia and aggression, who is more aggressive, the West or Russia? I said Russia was invading and attacking, the west isn't.
I recently got my wisdom teeth out because everyone said I should.

Now my jaw is suffers from paresthesia because of it. Most likely I will never get sensation back in that area. Spent money to become paralyzed...

I don't see the value in going to dentist for slightly less tooth pain so this sounds amazing to me.
Introduction to Statistical Learning? It's free and has an available MOOC
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
The developer world isn't going to immediately switch en masse to Microsoft or Linux laptops because of this. They're probably just going to hold onto their legacy Macbooks for an extra year or two, and it's likely the used market for pre-2016 Macbooks will be competitive.

But gradually, as the imitators catch up to the Macbook in weight and usability, we will see some migration away from Apple.

I hope and believe Apple's not so dumb as to suffer major attrition among power users and developers. They're a big enough company that they could come out with a "Macbook Classic" that restores some of the lost functionality (function keys at least, maybe non-welded components).

If you examine a pre-2016 MBA or MBP, there seems to be enough real estate above the function keys to squeeze in the touch strip thing as an additional feature rather than a replacement. Why not provide both, and let the users decide?

I wish there were a new Retina MBP with optical disk drive, USB, USB-C, Thunderbolt, and memory card slot. Also, make it easier to upgrade internal components. Is this really so hard? I'd pay extra. Even if the masses are going another direction, there ought to be a power user's version that has it all, and price it accordingly.

There's a certain cachet in being known as the power user's platform of choice and Apple really should try harder to hold onto that.
In the long run, I tend to think it's better to have a good brand name rather than a descriptive domain name with keywords.

We all go on amazon.com to buy books, not on bookstore.com.
There were several rounds of diaspora following the Silk Road getting shut down, a couple of which essentially ripped off all their users. Last I read, there are now 2-3 major drug marketplaces on Tor hidden services rather than one central spot.

People are still getting their drugs in the exact same way. Shutting down SR had no mid or long-term effect at all.
Reading more into this point in the post than i maybe should but "Take advantage of our expertise operating MySQL." sounds like they have more engineers familiar and comfortable working with MySQL than they are with Redis.
Endless is bringing its cheap, user-friendly Linux PCs to the US
Good find! Thanks for sharing.
Do you use Taxis? How do you know that they aren't sleepy/inexperienced/a bad driver?
Classic HN :-)
Email Privacy Act Reintroduced in Congress
Venus scientists “just trying to hold on” after new NASA rejections
Movie Listings Application with React-Router v4
For what it is worth, the Gear provided better VR than the Vive did. The higher resolution was definitely noticeable and the distance adjustment worked properly, unlike the Vive. The lack of controllers was of course an issue, but none of the Rift demos made very good use of the controls anyway so it was kind of moot.
For emacs, recently released rjsx-mode solves the JSX problems.

See https://github.com/felipeochoa/rjsx-mode
Overcommit of resources, causing near constant thrashing to disk.
I love it.

> The Economist explains, man
That's fine, as long as you don't say your benchmark is just "regular browsing". Enabling developer options put you outside of what the vendor really tested and optimized for.

Also I find quite dubious your claim about `sterilized conditions that don't withstand the test of real world use` based on this.

This PR mess also likely 'justifies' the approach of exposing as little knob as possible to the users.
You are being downvoted because you appear to be trying to correct a mistake that does not exist in the source material.

I can make sense of your attempted correction by reading "thermal radiation" as "infrared radiation," but those terms don't mean the same thing. Thermal radiation refers to radiation emitted due to a body's temperature, but the peak emission frequency can go up into the visible and beyond if the body is hot enough. (Like the sun and larger stars.) Examples of non-thermal radiation would be e.g. excited state transitions in molecules that produce light in fireflies or the blue light from the lower portion of a candle flame. (The blue part of a candle flame is hot relative to the surrounding air and liquid wax but not hot enough that its thermal emissions would peak in the blue.) Fluorescent and LED light sources also emit visible light by non-thermal processes.
Hmm reading this article gave me closure about all those random people from India, Vietnam and certain South American countries that I sometimes get as a Facebook friend suggestion. A friend (a good source) once told me that if a person looks up you on Facebook then Facebook consider it as a "potential" acquaintance.
>> The CR tests raise more concerns about how CR runs their tests (and specifically how they run this test) as opposed to the MacbookPro.

Why? At some point, all of these battery tests are arbitrary and not 100% reflective of the real world.

If I'm not mistaken, previous Macbook Pro models underwent the exact same test and still got the "Recommended" badge. Nobody was complaining about the test methodology for those models.
Lecture Search
>So the pot shops are excluded from inter-state banking //

For real. I thought pot had been legalised in some states, how does that work - you can work legally in a field but you're not allowed to bank your proceeds, was that bill sponsored by organised crime syndicates??

Anyway, they should probably do one of those tax-dodge deals that big corps do, buy trademark rights [ostensibly from themselves] and then send the money from the trademark licensing out of state. Surely there's already a similar "method" in place, investing in movies or some crock??
Take it you're talking about the css bug but the free premium thing is only if you share it like crazy.

>The top 10 sharers get a FREE premium account FOR LIFE (you read that right).
Change your coding style to 80 chars per line and you can vertical split like a pro
Setting up the new prostitute classifieds site will require IT skills, particularly on the Bitcoin tumbler merchant and infosec sides.

As for pimps and prostitutes, they'll simply run Onion Browser instead of Chrome or Safari on their phones and go to a different bookmark. And they'll need to convert some cash to Bitcoin to pay for their ads. No biggie.
- However, depression is a disease independent of external factors.

What? No disease is independent of external factors. You even list a bunch of things which affect it. Depression is a pattern, subject to countless factors. I think what you mean to say is, there isn't a single cause of depression, and it can manifest when many of the factors affecting it seem to be "pretty good", and it can not manifest when those factors seem to be "pretty bad".
> my limited time to commit to it and being fairly different from OOP

If it helps, you can think of Elixir/Erlang as extreme OOP with processes as objects. Objects are truly isolated and won't break each other by overwriting each others' memory. They communicate only by messages. Inheritance doesn't work there as well. Composition is different. Perhaps supervision hierarchies provide that.

In general I found learning Erlang that I became a better programmer in other languages as well (Python, C and others). I think more about passing state around and making it explicit. Using functions more than deep class hierarchies. I often find it makes the code more modular, debuggable and testable.
> Apple decides what users want and builds that.

You have a point there, but that decision didn't use to be at random(s/random/internal politics/), the way it seems to be now.

"Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things" - Steve Jobs

I suspect that the touchbar and the applewatch would be 2 of the 1,000 things.
> Limited Alcohol usage (not abuse) has actually very little permanent effects on health.

Are you asserting that this is not true for marijuana? You believe that infrequent use is somehow definitively linked to cognitive changes despite even heavy use being poorly linked so far?
So, everything has to be Swift, except for the libraries that you personally have decided don't matter (such as libc)? That's not a very useful definition.
Ask HN: Why are doctors seen so highly, but engineers not so?
It seems like society overall looks so highly upon doctors, lawyers, etc.

But when you say you're an engineer, or developer its just kind of like "oh.....cool"
Razer's new prototypes stolen from CES booth
A transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material
1) Neural Network Loss functions are not convex. But that isn't the issue here.

2) When you use actual numerical optimization techniques with floating point arithmetic, you don't find an exact minimum (global or local). And you don't get exact zeros.

Have you tried this on a real problem? I wouldn't consider MNIST a real problem, but even there you will not get _exact_ zeros. Try it.
One thing that I don't hear talked about in many of these discussions about the genetic components of race is how the mixed racial ancestry of many "black" people in Europe and the Americas impacts these studies.

MANY blacks in the Americas and Europe have significant European DNA. For example, even though my family identifies as black, my mother and her siblings are almost 50℅ European according to DNA tests.

How does this factor in when making medical decisions based on assumptions regarding race?
Nanowire ‘inks’ enable low-cost paper and plastic-based printable electronics
The article clearly shows that in his case, his depression was caused/triggered by life events. Clearly in his case things weren't "going well", as he had just been fired from his job.
That wiki page has a pretty substantial "Criticism" section. The Rosenberg et. al. paper even says their paper "should not be taken as evidence of our support of any particular concept of biological race." Their study shows that genetic distance is roughly linear with physical distance, barring obstacles like mountains and oceans. The consensus in the field, based on citations on that wiki page, seems to be that human diversity is a continuum, so any dividing lines you try to make to partition it will be largely arbitrary. It's like looking at a rainbow at trying to divide up the yellow from the orange from the red and so on: you can do that, but your color categories don't completely capture the spectrum visible.
Depression is a sort of severe introspection where your thoughts (often negative) take over. The solution tends to be getting your mind off things.

Instead of asking "why sad," try to simply do things with the person that will get their mind off their own negative feedback loop. This is easier said than done, and if the depression is lasting for weeks or months, I suggest seeing a mental care professional.
Click on the battery icon in your menu bar, and see if there are any programs using "Significant Energy". Some programs will switch on the discrete graphics card without needing it, for example.
The tobacco thing is only really enforced if you ask them if it's allowed. We roll with tobacco and at the most they'll come ask you to hide your fag packet/filters in case the police come in.
- This is advice for sadness, not depression. This is the opening quote in the article: "Sadness is when you feel down because things aren’t going your way. Depression is when you feel down even when all is going well."

That just means you cannot identify the reason you're feeling depressed. If everything was going well (including your own health), you would not be depressed.
No idea, I got told green card - but I was 15 at the time (so not really involved in the process).

He worked for the WSJ and one of the requirements of him taking the role was that we all got green cards.
The most widespread way of using Salsa/ChaCha is in the "Chapoly" construction, which combines ChaCha20 with DJB's Poly1305 polynomial MAC; this is an authenticated construction. Pretty much every mainstream application of Salsa20 is in fact a Salsa/Poly1305 construction.

You can also just combine Salsa and HMAC.

It's true that you need to authenticate your data, but this is true for any cipher that you use.

It's a bad idea to implement your own cipher code, no matter what you're doing. If you're looking to include Salsa/ChaCha in an application, use Nacl, which refuses to give you unauthenticated ciphertext.
Just to make something clear: they remove "remaining time" and not remaining percentage.

In any case, this battery fiasco is not nice, especially concerning a product that earned its initial fame on few but distinctive things, one of which was the battery.
Why does Google need physical offices in the first place?
Tesla has buttons for all of the most-used stuff on the steering wheel, plus voice controls. The big screen is great for maps.
The handoff speed is an issue as is the fact that the vehicle would have to recognize a problem in order to ask for help. But, yes, some sort of remote assistance system would seem to be one solution to at least certain edge cases.
ZeroStack and the Complex Cloud Conundrum
Recorded history, perhaps. Doesn't mean we can't still figure things out about what happened before recorded history.

But don't ask me how we figured out that humans switched to agriculture in order to make booze, because I'm not qualified to answer that, all I can tell you is that I learned this at some point from someone else who is more qualified than I am to talk about this.
Also see the relative growth of /r/buildapc vs. /r/apple: http://redditmetrics.com/r/buildapc#compare=apple (click on Total Subscribers). March 2013 was the crossover point.

I'm trying to compare Apple on it's own turf here (tapping into the enthusiasm of retail / consumer folks). That's a lot of mindshare lost, IMHO, by defining themselves as the "Bose of computer hardware".

Important mindshare at that: young people. Once these young folks struggle with BSODs, fiddling with BIOS settings, NVidia drivers, screwdrivers and thermal paste, and get a rig up and running, it becomes an addiction. I find it ironic that it is the very opposite of what Apple offers, a trouble-free "It just works" experience, that is the appealing factor of /r/buildapc.

The one thing they should have learned from Steve is: everything has a context; it's OK to change your opinion.
Lexus offers the LFA because it attracts enthusiasts and media to enhance the brand and to ensure the pleb models have a higher perceived value.

Apple offering an extremely obsolete Mac Pro filters down from a brand standpoint, it hurts them by turning former ambassadors against them (such as myself), and by losing third party support for professional software when the customer base starts asking for alternatives because the hardware is too obsolete.
He might have wanted something written in a trendier language.
>Those techniques are what you called "short term solutions." I think of them as long-term preventative measures to stave off the chemical imbalance that can cause depression

What causes the chemical imbalances? Research on animals show that chronic stress causes depression, so it definitely can be caused by external factors. If your job is causing chronic stress then changing job is obviously a plausible cure for your depression.
Hopefully someone finds it helpful!

I should also note that the picture I painted is most applicable to block ciphers, but it does apply mutatis mutandis to hash functions and pseudo-random generators.

With hashing, you have an inherent loss of information and hence the linear functions in question are non-invertible. Linear hash functions can be expressed as a factorization into two parts, an invertible function followed by a projection onto the first n bits (for a hash function producing n bits of output). With hash functions you're typically trying to find collisions or first and second preimages. Both of these are simple for linear functions. Let me just paint the picture for collisions. If f is linear then its kernel ker(f) = {x | f(x) = 0} can be efficiently calculated by Gaussian elimination. Then you can crank out collisions like no-one's business: if k is in ker(f) then f(x + k) = f(x) + f(k) = f(x). In practice, you're not going to find perfectly linear hash functions in the wild, but if you can detect an approximate linearity on some subspace, you can calculate the kernel of the linear approximation and use that to generate perturbations (the k from earlier) for a randomized collision search with a much higher likelihood of success per perturbation than random chance.

For pseudo-random generators, you're usually trying to solve for the PRG's internal state from a sequence of outputs. The generator function for a PRG takes its current internal state and produces the new internal state and an output. Incidentally, this is a nice completion of the triangle of cryptographic primitives. With block ciphers, you had invertible (injective and surjective) functions. With hash functions, you had non-injective functions (fewer output bits than input bits). With pseudo-random generators, you now have non-surjective functions (more output bits than input bits). While we cannot see the private state output from the generator, we do have multiple examples of the public output. So if (x_n, s_n) = g(s_(n-1)) is the generator equation, then in an ideal case we have the sequence of equations (x_1, s_1) = g(s_0), (x_2, s_2) = g(s_1), ..., (x_n, s_n) = g(s_(n-1)), where x_1, ..., x_n are known to us. If we assume g is a linear function that is known to us as well (no security through obscurity), then this is just a system of linear equations. For a generator with a maximal period, if we have as many bits of output as there are bits of internal state, we may solve uniquely for the initial state s_0, and from there we can calculate s_1, s_2, etc, by just replaying g starting with s_0. As in our previous examples, things in the wild aren't perfectly linear, but it's enough for PRGs to be approximately linear to leak bits of internal state, though we usually need far more example bits of output than there are bits of internal state to make a dent.
Apache Beam graduated from incubation
Let's say you wanted to create a (nominally) covert channel to site X, you take your message text M and encode it with some forward error correction. Next you find a set of host IP addresses H which have as their last octet the values 0 - 0xff (or perhaps you use every other bit and find hosts where the last two octets are 0b0x0x0x0x 0b0x0x0x0x through 0b1x1x1x1x 0b1x1x1x1x. Now you take the octets you want to send in your message and your botnet bounces a packet of the host where the spoofed source IP is the real destination host. That destination host looks at all these errors that are coming in, collects the last two octets of the addresses, and reconstructs the message M. All while the world sees "oooh DDOS by script kiddies" but really its someone communicating with low detection risk across a deep packet inspecting firewall.
Introducing Uber Movement
Does anyone know if this is another Megaupload situation?

Are there records showing the site operators willfully colluded and incentivized street pimps and sex traffickers? Or is this another "save the children" chilling effect on free speech?
Yes it did, the Backpage executives were cleared of all charges.

And then the CA Attorney General and Senate apparently went after their credit card processors in an extra-legal way, applying pressure that forced Backpage to take down their sex services classifieds.
I went to the LLVM Developers' Meeting this year, and Chris seems still very much involved in LLVM (at least from a management perspective -- he serves on the board of the LLVM Foundation).
Show HN: Serverless Data Loader for RedShift
Clearly it's not actually a question then of what the supreme court decided in 1996, because marijuana is legal multiple US states now? Thus it is a classical state VS federal issue now.
As I remember it, something like 80% of people who we identify as African Americans(or black) have significant amounts of European ancestry.

Outside of Africa, that's probably to be expected.

I too am "black", with two "black" parents but my mother had red hair and green eyes. My son has blonde hair and blue eyes.