skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gene expression is partially inherited and partially a product of environment. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...

The classic example discussed is a study of children born during a famine. Children born during famine are going to be smaller than normal, but it was found that their children and grandchildren would be born smaller than normal, even though the famine has long since passed. This change has been attributed to a particular methylation pattern that was passed down.

It's known that things like exposure to famine and abuse can change methylation patterns, but this study suggests that non-traumatic things like your cultural upbringing can affect methylation.
Noise Monitoring for Airbnb and other short-term rentals
> lack of ports is beyond ridiculous

That's not gonna change with Apple hardware anytime soon :(
Amsterdam is one of the safer cities in the world - I really don't know where you got that impression from. I can only think of Tokyo at the top of my head for a safer "world class city" experience. You likely couldn't get into serious trouble in Amsterdam even if you went out seeking it.

Yes, the taxi drivers suck and should be avoided whenever possible.
Watch sexy dance
They've promised source code compatibility starting with Swift 3.0 and up. This means that in theory you should be able to recompile a Swift 3 code with the Swift 4 compiler.
Free hosts that could run Wekan exist.
Medical exams are voluntarily (sometimes not in the cause of a trauma, or where a patient is psychotic or something and a consent override has been obtained, but we already have legal protection for these cases) - if a person refuses to let a MD look at their legs because their spouse was beating them with a bat then they can do that.

Asking questions, however, doesn't require a warrant - even for a government employee. Once a MD sees bruises they are free to probe (and it's partially so they can treat other damage that may not be visible on the surface) into how they got there.
There are still some good domain names out there for niches. For promoting practical cycling, I bought http://familybikecamping.com http://bikemove.org (move you house by bike) and http://bikes-as-transportation.com/
Well said and as someone commented earlier about "building a table" I think there is some sense of accomplishment and utility you can get from that vs something in tech.
I believe he's referring to a situation where Wind River Systems, an Intel subsidiary, was found distributing the grsecurity patches with Wind River Linux. On its own, that would be fine, but they also stated their Linux disto was "using grsecurity" throughout its brochures, etc.[1] This was taken as a misuse of the grsecurity trademark, since they were not paying for it, and I believe the grsec/Pax developers were at one point willing to go to court with Intel over this. But it's currently up in the air. Trademark/copyright claims in this area are a bit weird (it all depends on how WR's use of the trademark is interpreted), and Intel also has more money than God, so there you go.

The situation with Wind River is one of the reasons why the grsecurity stable patch is no longer publicly available, though, TBF, Wind River wasn't the only violator. They were more like the last straw, after they (grsecurity) had dealt with a bunch of other people using their work in the same way. And regardless of how the court claim would have gone -- honestly it's all a bit sad to me, given the only thing they've asked is you just don't call it grsecurity or whatever if you're not paying. Distros like Alpine and CopperheadOS have been doing just fine for a long time this way, it doesn't seem hard at all to play nice...

[1] I believe one of the Wind River employees was even ballsy enough to go onto the grsecurity forums and ask for technical help with part of the patches, and debugging them. As you can imagine, this did not go over very well, at all.
I'd love to see that cost comparison. I lease a Fiat 500e for 100/month and insurance plus electricity costs the same for 1000 miles of monthly driving as one Uber to the airport and back, and I don't live in a remote area. Obviously urban areas with expensive parking are different but are already served by public transit.
By all accounts, we won't see another change on the same level as Swift 2.0 -> Swift 3.0 for some time. Having shipped production apps for all major releases of Swift, it definitely feels like the syntax and foundation of the language has settled in 3.0. Now it seems more focused on building on top of that.
Yes, but it's been managed as a separate product, in a separate category (mobile VR), and now — after the recent reorg at Oculus — in a separate division. It's also the one that Carmack has been focused on exclusively for well over a year now. On a day-to-day basis, he doesn't have anything to do with the Rift.
The joy of seeing Hidden Figures as a recent engineering graduate
I never said OP wasn't correct
Generally I've found them to be pretty good with the reviews. The testing is thorough and they explain what to look for when buying something (I've used it for appliances).

Its subscription only (they don't do ads), which means they're not beholden to the companies they're reviewing for money (a good thing)

They generally make a grid of the items you're looking at with dots indicating the ratings. Its very easy to nagivate and intuitive.

You'll have to pay for it (or find someone to give you their old copies, or many libraries have subscriptions).
Here's a popular track on his prolific SoundCloud account: https://soundcloud.com/treblesandblues/clear-skies-ahead
> "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."

Sadness is the feeling you get when something bad happens and you are upset about it.

Depression is the feeling you get from brain inflammation, which might feel qualitatively similar to sadness, but which is usually caused by one or more of: chronic stress, lack of exercise, nutritional deficiency, poor sleep habits, lack of sensory stimulation, infection, or twenty other things.

Once you can differentiate between them, depression isn't actually that hard to fix, at least at the early stages. It's like right now if I were to gain five pounds I'd get acid reflux, but I know that, so if that starts happening I just stop eating as much for a couple days and the problem fixes itself. Same deal with mental states.
An Interview with Haskell Developer Edward Kmett
Incidentally, Webkit is the hairiest pile of code I've ever seen.
Hm, it seemed to me like I was dying all of the time whenever I walked into somebody else. Possible bug? Maybe it should be more clear that you got "hit" and so you died instead of just insta-teleporting you somewhere else.
I used Python for 6 years, but whenever I go back, I miss the expressiveness and safety offered by other languages. I frequently "forced" into using Python when libraries in languages I prefer (Scala, Haskell) just aren't available, but I can't justify reimplementing them.
>Much worse than Rome or Paris for example.

Anecdotally, I think the opposite is true. There are far more noticeable scammers and pickpockets in for example touristy areas of Paris, or even its metros.

It's surprisingly hard for me to find concrete data on this, however. I'm curious to know.
"No, really, it's what part of America again? The _North_, you say?"

Mexico is usually included in the definition of North America: "[its usage] sometimes includes Greenland[11][12][13] and Mexico (as in the North American Free Trade Agreement),[12][14][15][16][17] as well as offshore islands." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America#Extent
Sounds pretty similar to Udacity's AI for Robots course! Good to know that they focus on intuition rather than rigor. Many professor enjoy stroking their ego with rigorous math, rather than communicating higher-level ideas and making their subject seem "easy".
I was thinking more generally of irrational escalation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment) sometimes called "sunk cost fallacy". The idea that you'll keep at something bad because you're already too invested, you have too much at stake to cut your loss now (common in Poker for instance, when you should fold rather than go down ever lower odds).

Also probably, as so often, a bit of Confirmation Bias here and there. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias)
> It's just that an HPS can make it much more expensive, and constrain you not to do things you want.

This is so true in Boston. A lot of HPSs specify that you can't change the exterior facing portion of a building, even if you make every effort to keep the appearance while, e.g. adding 4 inches of styrofoam for insulation behind the siding, or if the changes you make are historically correct, e.g. 4 inches of styrofoam + stucco on top of brick walls. They don't particularly care about the interior, so often your only choice if you want to insulate is to insulate on the interior, which, ironically, reduces the building's durability.
Monero Implements Ring Confidential Signatures (RingCT), Forks Smoothly
If you're truly worried, I would hold off just a little bit longer. Swift ABI stability is slated for Swift 4.
> Decent public transport is faster and much more comfortable over long distances.

Significantly! You can stand up and walk the whole length of a train if you desire without having to stop. There's food and drink brought right to your seat, and hot food if you walk to the buffet car or are in first class. In the UK, if you book a non-Advance ticket, you can get out of the train, leave the station, go wherever you like, and get on any later train. On certain routes, you can even get on the train one evening, have dinner, go to sleep, and wake up the next morning pulling into your destination with breakfast waiting for you. Train travel can be just as flexible as car travel over long distances, so long as the infrastructure exists and gets investment.
OLED TVs will finally take off in 2017
Is it possible to disable the network in iOS Simulator?
If the girls that don't sleep with their sponsors inevitably lose their sponsors, I think there is likely a legal case to be made that that is prostitution. The same could be said of canonical prostitution: some people pay prostitutes to talk and/or cuddle, but if they don't have sex, they will surely eventually lose clients.
Until the most recent batch, Apple laptops have just had straight up the largest batteries of everything except Thinkpads with batteries that stick out. E.g. the much touted "bigger battery" of the new HP 15" x360 only brings it even with the new Touchbar MBP, which has a 25% smaller battery than the previous MBP. Samsung's current 15" laptop has a battery that's about half the size of what is in the new MBP.

Non-Apple apps don't kill battery life. What kills battery life is shitty apps like Chrome (or anything based on Electron). VSCode for example will cut battery life to 6 hours versus 10+ for Emacs. Just simple stuff like typing and scrolling takes huge amounts of CPU. Even just sitting idle it's using 1% or so CPU.
Add to that the requirement to work without up to date map data, with inputs that require reading and understanding written text on road signs etc. To drive as a human in all situations you basically have to be human. You need to be able to understand the world like a human.

Example: a highway has one side closed for roadwork. It's dark and it's snowing. At the start of the construction work there is a sign that says "wait at this point for escort car". The text might be partially covered in snow. When the escort car arrives it leads the queue of waiting cars past the road construction, in the oncoming lane.

A human driver understands that the right thing to do is wait at the sign. If the sign isn't readable because of snow, the driver just gets out and brushes off the snow.

The human driver understands which car is the escort car because of its markings and behavior.

The human driver understands the reason the escort car is there is because traffic has to take turns in the same lane and there are no traffic lights. Even when a human driver encounters this for the first time, it will realize what's going on (it confused me the first time).

I'm not sure it would even be possible to teach an autonomous agent to adapt to any unknown situation where the information is lacking, incomplete or conflicting.
I used to like the style of space padded block statements but not object literals:

foo(function() { return {num: 3}; });

I used that a lot when writing code that used D3. But since arrow functions, I hardly ever use a single line block statements, so this style is obsolete.
I find this so incredibly ironic:

- The Netherlands chooses to (kinda) allow softdrug use and thus gains tourist income throughout the 90s and 00s (and maybe earlier?)

- The US pressures them to avoid full legalization and supply chain development

- US states then partly legalize two decades later, and quickly surpass the Dutch system in size, scope, and income

What should the Dutch learn from this?
No, as I've been in the Apple ecosystem for about 10 years and haven't shopped around. I used to have a Dell beast of a laptop back then that was 1) very heavy, 2) very hot and 3) would last for hours of development time.

I would actually trade whatever weight would be necessary to get my useful portable development time up to 3-4 hours.
"Only the investment part of Yahoo that will be renamed ‘Altaba’, while the main brand will retain its name"

This is nothing new compared to the earlier discussion on HN.
> Do you think parents should be allowed to sell both kidneys in exchange for, say, fully-funded college tuition for their kids?

Ideally no more than one parent, presuming a two parent household, but yes, I'm morally okay with that. The loss of a parent is sad. It will have an emotional impact. I think that the impact, coupled to the education the parent is seeking will probably cause the child to appreciate and succeed even more. Knowing that dad died to procure the college education will probably cause the child to work harder in HS and college.

The parents have agency. They can look at a situation to see if they can get an outcome they appreciate.

> Do you think the mentally ill should be able to sell both their kidneys? Why or why not?

No, but merely on the arbitrary like that I think agency matters. Agency underlying all things is a premise. I just state it as a fact. If that fact is wrong, all conclusions from it are at risk. I accept that philosophically. I also posit that mental illness precludes agency.
I quickly read this as Chris Laettner and then quickly realized there's no way he ever worked at Apple.
I put my MacBook Pros through a grueling battery test (basically build and destroy a VM successively, sustaining 100%+ CPU, tons of disk I/O, and maxing out WiFi bandwidth intermittently) for my blog post elsewhere on HN.

Worst-case, the 13" Pro with Touch Bar gets 3.5 hours. The Function Key model gets 4 hours. And the 2015 Pro gets 5 hours.

In light usage (e.g. while writing said blog post, and watching an occasional HTML5 YouTube video, and listening to some music in iTunes through AirPods), I can get 8-10 hours without issue.

1-2 hours sounds like you may have an app that's more buggy than the worst that I'd allow to run on my laptop...

Edit: Link to said test script: https://github.com/geerlingguy/macbook-pro-battery-test
Like many things in the law it comes down to intent. If the electrician is acting on their own initiative it is legal. If the electrician is acting because they were induced by the government then they are a government agent and the search is illegal.
This is somewhat of a good point, I like film's aesthetics too. But, grain and noise are two different inter-related things.

A digital full-frame sensor (vs 35mm film) at the same settings is going to have much less noise. I love film. But the fact is that silver vs cmos is a losing battle of technologies.

http://www.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/cml/opt307/spr04/...
Ideally, I agree. Unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world and we have to settle for the quicker stopgap, the point of which isn't to punish prostitutes but change the value calculation of people before they go that route.

This conversation makes me realize that I don't have much data, though. How many prostitutes are doing it out of some level of desperation? I assume most since it is so risky in so many different ways (the risk of legal punishment being near the least of it). But, I'll admit, I don't know.
>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."

There's no mention of that in the DSM or the ICD.

People with miserable lives can still be depressed; people can have miserable lives without recognising that their lives are miserable. There is no such thing as an "objectively great" life; attempting to define the quality of your life in reference to fixed external criteria is arguably pathological in itself. Part of living a good life is developing an individual and personal sense of what is valuable and meaningful.

The current gold standard of treatment for depression, cognitive behavioural therapy, is in large part a coaching programme to encourage patients to do things to improve their lives. The cognitive aspect of CBT is secondary to the behavioural aspect - cognitive and metacognitive skills are taught in order to facilitate behavioural change.
Populations in Africa are also genetically more diverse than the rest of the world combined.
People do that. I've done it myself. But all the math about SHA's security properties is about absence of collisions in the full result, not about relative frequency in a small part of the result.

Maybe SHA-8 works fine. I don't know. I've never seen any real mathematical investigation of that, and that's the point.
It's not a waste. It is developers reconsidering their investment towards a platform in the light of new facts and their own tolerance levels.

It also means that developers will start using a Linux based OS, which is pleasing to me.
This is Apple's battery life test:

>The wireless web test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing 25 popular websites with display brightness set to 12 clicks from bottom or 75 percent. The iTunes movie playback test measures battery life by playing back HD 1080p content with display brightness set to 12 clicks from bottom or 75 percent. The standby test measures battery life by allowing a system, connected to a wireless network and signed in to an iCloud account, to enter standby mode with Safari and Mail applications launched and all system settings left at default. Battery life varies by use and configuration.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
Summary: Consumer Reports turned off Safari's page cache to ensure the browsers download fresh content. This hurt performance a lot, presumably because Apple hadn't optimised this usage pattern. Apple has released an update which fixes the "bug".

My opinion: Disabling the cache as Consumer Reports has done is an unrealistic testing pattern. Since Consumer Reports run their tests from local servers [1] they have a better option available. They can use server-generated content to control how much content is served from cache and how much is fresh. They can make the workload 0%–100% fresh by using the servers to generate unique ids for URLs that they want to be served fresh or reusing URLs if they want them to maybe be in the cache.

1: http://www.consumerreports.org/apple/apple-releases-fix-to-m...:

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying the Consumer Reports didn't find something interesting here, I'm just saying they could make a better test for the future.
Swift 4 will be ABI stable, i.e. you will be able to use Swift 4 binaries with Swift 5. So, starting in September things will really settle down, or at least, upgrades are not a problem anymore. I guess that XCode will stay compatible with Swift 4+ for a long time in the future, and it might even mean that changes in Swift 5+ will only be additions, like blocks in Obj-C were.

UPDATE: Another comment here says that code compatibility is already fixed with Swift 3+.
I think he's responding to the line "harder sciences are proving that social sciences obsession with identity politics has hindered medical advancements" which I would consider false. The existence of genetic diseases that are largely present in a single race has been known for a long time. Tay-Sachs is seen almost entirely in Ashkenazi Jews, Sickle Cell is mostly seen in Africans, etc. I don't think "identity politics" is rejecting this notion, or if it is it's doing a bad job of it.
So Eglin AFB has a beef with /r/wikileaks mods? I'm not sure I follow.
Chandeliers, sconces, pendants, and wall-mounted smoke detectors take care of that problem.
alcohol and cigarettes are both much, much worse for health. And the PNAS study itself says that while they measured changes in the brain, the effect of the changes is not known from the study.
Is that expected this summer?
Idealistically, that's how the US is structured. Practically, the federal government has been centralizing control since the New Deal.

Since the article is about marijuana, let's use that as an example. If you believe the US is a federal republic, then you ought to be able to grow whatever plants you want in the comfort of your own home - the federal government has no business regulating that. That precise case was brought before the Supreme Court during the Bush administration, and even Scalia (who famously championed states' rights in many other decisions) consented that the federal government could regulate the private, intrastate growth of marijuana:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

The states that legalized marijuana could only do so because Obama is personally tolerant of it. Had he not been, he could have directed federal authorities to enforce the federal ban on marijuana - federal laws trump local ones.
I remember back when I was a kid my uncle told me a story about a night watchman who had a few drinks to alleviate the boredom of his job. He got really drunk and wondered off into the jungle ( back then the line between where the city starts and the jungle begins was shall we say blurred, probably still is ). Anyway they found his half eaten body the next morning not far from his post. I think my uncle told me that story to scare the hell out of me but, it had the opposite affect. I just said that that was the coolest thing ever and we should go leopard hunting.
Biggest difference seems that sites like SA emphasize ongoing arrangements as opposed to explicit pay for play individual meetings.
You can call it hubris, but my goal is truth. I don't have any financial or even emotional stake in WP and am just trying to make the best predictions I can. In my experience, you don't hone those skills unless you actually have the nerve to make the predictions and then follow up on them.

Your reasoning on DEC and Data General make sense, but were either of them open source? In a sense, betting against WP is like betting against GCC 30 years ago when all the alternatives were proprietary. Either way, I'm happy to check back in a few years and see if the hubris was my prediction or your armchair psychologist reaction to it (・ω<)
Your best bet is to have a laptop with detachable batteries that you can easily swap.
I don't do much serious JS. What's the problem there?
Comparison is the thief of joy. :)
The average movement speed of a car over a trip is ~22 mph anyway.

The gains from coordinated robotic driving could very well be enough to actually reduce speed limits by a significant value, which not only reduces overall fatalities (due to laws of physics), but also makes the equation better for the robotic cars, which might convince more people to switch, leading to a positive feedback loop.

That's an optimistic scenario, though.