skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The disclosure comes at an uncomfortable moment for IBM. Tomorrow, the company’s chief executive, Ginni Rometty, will make a presentation to a giant health information technology conference detailing the progress Watson has made in health care, and announcing the launch of new products for managing medical images and making sure hospitals deliver value for the money, as well as new partnerships with healthcare systems. The end of the MD Anderson collaboration looks bad."

About 18 months ago IBM acquired a massive amount of medical imaging.
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/ibm-completes-1b-ac...

MD Anderson is in a bit of controversy regarding how they order imaging (and other treatments) and insurance companies are deciding not to reimburse care at MDA.
http://blog.takecommandhealth.com/md-anderson-health-insuran...

Perhaps this has not been a total research failure but a political move. Watson Healthcare may increase the efficiency of imagine analysis among competitors of MDA. Imaging is one of the biggest revenue generators for a hospital.
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George Orwell: What Is Fascism? (1944)
I learned from the Iraq war that when leaders tell me I should want war I ought to be skeptical.
Dr. Aubrey de Grey and Dr. Rhonda Patrick Talk Aging
"is it possible to persuade them that they are mentally capable of learning it?"

Depends on why they think they are incapable of doing it. Whatever the reason, it is possible that they do not see value in learning it and putting in effort. It might be that they failed in the past - or never tried because they always assumed they can not do it.

However, if your worry is the kid, then talk about that worry with them directly. Don't go around trying to manipulate them into learning something they do not care about. Just say that you worry about the baby picking up the attitude and thus having less options in life (and growing up less capable as a result). Healthy kids are super good in picking up attitudes like that, so the worry is well grounded.

Your wife might be more open to not make herself less capable then she is in front of kid for the sake of kid then to spend a lot of effort on something she does not care about.
CNN’s Jake Tapper Blasts Milo’s Defense of Men Having Sex with 13-Year-Old Boys:
Show HN: iOS Library to Code Against Unified APIs
If you work for a company that has "reached a certain size", you should be aware that you'll have groups of people that make certain one-size-fits-all gifts inappropriate. Like pork products or alcohol in any country with a non-trivial number of Jews and Muslims.
Since when can employees in any non-governmental organization tweet with impunity?
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Yes--that is the post. As of right now, it is ranked #135 with 302 upvotes in 3 hours.

That doesn't make any sense. In position #137 is an article with 289 upvotes from 2 days ago.

Check out the votes/time on the first page. I'm asking why this article isn't ranked within the top 10.
I'll look into it. We should have an unlimited account.

Edit: it appears there is a 5 guest limit per paid account.

Edit 2: I think I'm going to set up a Mattermost server and push people that way.
Ah, so was the candidate poor because they had a bad attitude and refused to try to solve the problem at first, or was it because their technical skills were lacking?
Quantum physics dictates matter. Your consciousness comes from your brain. Your brain is ADC of matter. Youre the dumbest breathing faggot fuck you.
They can be. Doubly linked lists. Intrusively linked lists. Ring buffers. Linked Lists optimized for storage in CPU caches. B Trees (stretching the definition a bit). And so forth.
That's a great little demo - thanks for posting it!
It seems you're speaking to whether her staying has potentially positive outcomes for others. My read of the comments upthread is that they're viewing the events through the lense of what's good for her personally and immediately.
Which, as an aside, I suspect is how most Americans view conflicts with management of any stripe.

My read of this is that most on this thread would say that it would be commendatory for her to stay and fight for change, but 100% ethical for her either to stay in her situation hoping for improvement or leave for a better place to be, and that in her shoes they would opt for the latter.

To me this would not meet the plain language meaning of 'blaming the victim', but I recognize that plain language is not always so plain. I would like to better understand if it is victim blaming and, if not, if there are ways you know of to communicate the distinction being drawn above well. If it is, could you highlight what makes it so? Obviously it is not your responsibility to help me learn to communicate, but I would appreciate it if you did.

And just to make sure it's clear: the behavior of the other employees mentioned is illegal and unbelievably unethical, and I am not in any way condoning or making excuses for it.
I am not discounting it. But it is an equation: The questionable benefit of learning e.g. some publicly available datapoint pales in comparison to the damage to our nation. This isn't some banana republic. Why do you accept that it is? This isn't Turkey, thank God.

Executive is doing something illegal? Take them to court!

Why get fired? Why not send it to wikileaks? Why not pick up the phone and contact NYTimes? Heck, there are legions of representatives in congress and senate who would love to talk to you and give you immunity to boot!

These people -- /whoever they are/ -- are creating the perception of alternative governmental outlets. No one who cares about this nation would do that.
I'm curious, are you a man or a woman? I'm only asking because you cite your experience at 6 companies to support the assertion that this is not a widespread problem in SV. I assert that men would have a harder time detecting this problem.
We've thought about it, but Cushion is incredibly lightweight and doesn't need to be used constantly, so our load is very low. We've only needed 2 dynos since we launched and we're nowhere close to needing more than that. As much as I'd like to lower the cost, they truly take so much weight off our shoulders. I gladly pay what we're paying now, so it's not an issue for us.
Third-party social evaluations of humans by monkeys and dogs
I wouldn't call surge pricing a dirty trick, but fairly fundamental pricing mechanics.

High demand = high prices = more incentive for drivers to come online to solve demand issues.
I'm currently working with PHP and node on different projects, and I find PHP worse in the 3 criteria used in the article:

- Library: This is debatable, but I find PHP's library far worse than node's in both diversity and API design. The reliance on npm isn't a downside for me, and I find npm far superior to composer in usability.

- Error handling: In PHP, try-catch doesn't catch fatal errors. Handling fatal errors is very hacky and ill-conceived (they all get funneled into a single, weird, script-scope handler function). Inb4 you don't want to handle fatal errors: sorry, but there are many use cases where this is essential, such as self-respawning worker scripts and any kind of customized logging.

- While node forces you to think about async, PHP doesn't even have it, and I don't quite see this as a net positive. I also don't think node's async-await is very problematic on the server side (whereas client-side support is rare and its transpilation is pretty rough).
Thanks for sharing your story! I noticed your avatar at the bottom of the post looks like you're in Kalalau valley
I ran out of time to edit my post, I was speaking in general and I forgot the clear definition of absolute rights.

I meant that Apple as a company has obligations to protect you and your data at all costs. State laws should consider the impact of said forced lock bypasses.
I have a mail order steel-frame bicycle (Windsor Tourist) and I think it's the springiness of the steel frame that makes it so nice to ride. I bought the bike 5 years ago planning to ride it for a year then upgrade and have no desire to upgrade. There's nothing I would want to upgrade to because it's pretty much perfect.
Should I take acid to be able to write like you? Its so hilarious
At the individual level leaks are the most common 'fix'.

Importantly, the population does not care is someone leaks an FDA study demonstrating that water is safe to drink. They are inherently useful when people disagree with what's happening. Further, the government leaks constantly at all levels which is how the '5th estate' had all that power.

For more a more extreme example striking is mostly associated with working working conditions and pay. But, it's also one of the way governments can fall with minimal violence. Not paying the police for months just does not work.
I've been on both sides of the horror story style interview -- as an interviewer and an inteeviewee.

As an interviewer, if there was someone we liked, we were brutally honest about the company culture. We (myself and my manager) wanted senior engineers who weren't afraid to speak up and help shake things up in the larger organization. If they still accepted the offer, they were what we wanted. We had too many people quit out of frustration instead of fighting.

At another job I applied to as an architect, the manager told me all of the issues with the processes (and lack there of). He tried to "scare me away". I asked him one question. Will I be able to come in and make the changes needed and will he have my back if I inadvertently step on toes trying to do the right thing? He said yes and I accepted the offer.
I'd like to know more specifics on how the cars communicate with each other – is the event more a choreographed show than an actual race?

I follow motor sports to an extent, but don't feel too enthused about watching computers race each other (no matter if on track, or virtually), but it would further diminish the “racing” part of it if the machines actually told each other what they were up to next. A more humane way of driving might be more spectacular.
This does make sense in some way if we cannot figure out alternate ways for the state to make up for lost taxes that a human worker might have been able to pay if a human held the job.
H.L. Mencken was quite the observer. His "Bayard vs. Lionheart" is highly reckommended. Source of th "idiot in th White House" prediction.

https://amomai.blogspot.com/2008/10/hl-mencken-bayard-vs-lio...
It's funnier when you think of what many of them asked for and later defended as a response to terrorism:

1. Secret people with secret surveillance of whole country.

2. Secret groups watching, kidnapping, renditioning, and/or assassinating their enemies (presumably terrorists).

3. Secret court with secret interpretations of law regulating those secret people.

4. Secret programs (SAP's/USAP's) doing billions of tax dollars work of secret stuff decided in secret by a handful of people.

5. Effective criminal immunity for all these people if whatever they did was ordered by those secret programs, groups, and/or people.

There's no secret government, though. No no no. We have a representative democracy here. Laws are passed. Executive fairly enforces them. Courts test them. There ain't no deep state. Just some people that can't talk about what they do that's all legal or at least justifiable only hurting the right people. Maybe I'm slow or just don't consume the right kind of mushrooms. I just keep thinking... given the above... there's de facto two or more governments running in parallel each doing their own thing with some interactions (eg parallel construction) that should also concern us. That one is full of professional con artists and killers with secrecy and criminal immunity should be scary enough in a democracy but few worry about that either.
The price is zero, because the necessary information to do exactly the same thing yourself with plain old food is available in the papers and in the vast number of calorie/micronutrient information sites out there online, and it is really, really easy to just go and do that.

The point of Prolon is that it is a way to obtain money from the regulatory/Big Pharma system in order to do more research into quantifying the benefits fasting and calorie restriction. Not that it is anything special in and of itself. It is just food, less of it.
> Investment would be nice, but I have had zero luck with that to-date.

Hey Chris!

I'm interested in what sort of investment and the terms you'd be comfortable with (I've helped built and operate datacenters, a web hosting company, etc; I'm familiar with the capex and returns involved). Mind if I reach out via email?
Except the only lock Apple has placed is to prevent compromising your TouchID/secure enclave data, which is understandable. They're not locking you out of repairing other components like screens, batteries.
The typical way is some sort of homemade bone broth, since store-bought broth is usually just colored water.

Some people will use zero calorie sports nutrition drinks or some kind of magnesium and/or sodium pill (since it's not just NaCl you're losing when fasting).
I don't think that's the reason really.

The main reason I can see is that Comcast (or cable internet) has no real competition. I don't understand why that is. AT&T, Verizon etc seem to have given up on competing. Verizon stopped their rollout of FTTH a while back nearly entirely, though it has restarted very slowly.

AT&Ts VDSL based UVerse solution is way too sparse, with very long cable runs. Compare this to BT in the UK where most VDSL2 runs they are doing are <500m. They're now looking at GFast to push fibre even closer to customers, getting copper runs down to ~200m.

Ok, so this may be caused by low population density, but I'm not entirely convinced. It must be way cheaper to dig trenches in suburbia USA as many of the places don't even have sidewalks to dig up and then expensively refill, you could just trench along the side of the road.
Synchronize your front-end models your golang models
> Granted, part of the implicit bargain for the latter's relative untouchability is their apoliticality.

Apoliticality and silence are two different things.

See: the longstanding bargain struck at the EPA that "scientists can do science" but "only administrators make policy decisions"

Which, seen in best light, means that policy decisions sometimes need to be made against scientific advice, due to other priorities. In worst light (and more true), so that administrators can push whatever agenda they want regardless of scientific consensus.

Our government's relationship with actual facts has always been at the whim of politics. Trump's just making it worse instead of better.
Hmm. Anyone got a non-paywalled link for this story?
I agree, but only because questions so often go bad in titles that I now avoid them on principle. This is a rare situation where the question asked in the title is answered in a non-obvious way, so I can't actually point to anything wrong with titling this with a question.
Indeed - it's a term with a nebulous, vague and malleable definition that sounds good to people without any real specificity attached. That's why politicians and pundits love to use it.

Another good example might be a politician arguing for a particular trade deal by saying it will be "good for America" or in the "national interest". This intentionally glosses over important details, if in fact it will be good for some corporations headquartered in the US - and the senior executives thereof - while being bad for many more workers in the US.
Changed cable on my MX510 like 5 times, 10+ years in use.
The most obvious thing that nobody seems to ever explain is that a statistician can use both frequentist and Bayesian methods. In fact, most good ones do. Frequentist methods are generally better for finding the needle in the haystack, while Bayesian methods are generally better at proving that it's actually a needle and not a piece of painted hay.

Re: Where did the difference come from, that's down to different interpretations of probability. The frequentist interpretation says that probability describes the world, whereas the Bayesian interpretation describes our beliefs. Here's another common misconception: You don't need to subscribe to one interpretation to the exclusion of the other. People who use the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (a frequentist formulation if ever there was one) will also speak of fractional belief (the definition of Bayesian probability). It is important to be clear about which interpretation you're using at any one time, but you don't need to tie yourself to one interpretation, and it doesn't need to be part of your identity or world-view.
There's pathfinding and pathfinding, and then there's pathfinding. Social network analysis also requires route-planning for degree-of-separation computation, but since in those cases you just have a digraph, not a [continuous or discrete] metric space, all you get to use there is Dijkstra.

(Anyone who knows better, I'd be delighted to find out I'm wrong—for the sake of my own search runtimes.)
I'm 100% certain that users searching for content will still be taken to fake pirate sites still advertising non-existent downloads or hosting malicious files to hijack their computer.

Exactly like it is now.
6 Ways China Is Closing the Automation Gap; What This Means for the U.S
> Does a quantum superposition of a single molecule somehow make the nodes of this neural network any more powerful

I think you meant this question to be rhetorical but I think this is a reasonable question to consider. It's speculation without evidence but it is interesting (to me) speculation.

> Quantum mechanics adds no explanatory power

Occam's Razor indicates that we should prefer the simplest explanation that explains a phenomenon. Unfortunately we don't have anything like a good explanation for consciousness so discarding hypotheses for not being simple enough isn't necessarily helpful.

> No electrical activity, no consciousness.

It seems that this is necessary, but that doesn't mean it is sufficient, to explain consciousness.

> or we meet something we really cannot explain, it does not make sense to obsess over it.

Like the hard problem of consciousness? This is something we really can't explain with our current level of knowledge (unless you are in the "there is no hard problem" camp).

It may well be the case that consciousness can be explained within our current understanding of physics but given the uniqueness of the phenomenon it doesn't seem unreasonable to keep something of an open mind.
That is awesome, I am totally going to steal it :)
Of course; chris (at) nepafiber.com
I already deleted the shortcut off my launcher. We'll see how going Lyft-only for a while works.
Depends on how you set it up. I usually use the RainLab.Pages plugin to have a nice interface for clients to manage page content instead of having them use the CMS editor.

I'm looking forwards to the frontend editing component that's coming to October soon, it should make client interaction with the site much nicer.
I've been tracking this Roborace thing and they're spending a lot of money on bullshit. It's all sizzle and no steak. They have some very slickly produced videos about the passion and drama of racing robots and they're all hilariously anti-climactic.

Methinks the talent shortage in the autonomous driving space is severe enough that anyone capable of developing an (exciting) autonomous race car has more important things to do.
Israeli accelerator launched for Arab entrepreneurs
Neat! agent.js initially failed on my site, as it wasn't the last script on the page and siteId was set to null (line 14):

var siteId = scriptElements[scriptElements.length - 1].getAttribute('data-siteId');

Maybe that could be better documented?

Alternatively a change in the way that the script element (and the siteId) is detected could be helpful (instead of lines 13, 14):

var siteId = document.querySelector('script[data-siteId]').getAttribute('data-siteId');
I recently started a small project similar to goaccess, which brings up some quick statistics from nginx access logs, though nothing as polished as that!

https://github.com/purrcat259/peek/
All you're saying is models are imperfect. That's true. That doesn't mean you need a standard deviation or more than 1 sample.

In this case, the model of 1/36 odds of rolling 2x6 would have to actually be 1/20 (or smaller) to invalidate this test. Do you find it plausible that the bias in 2 die is that high?
Why not PostGIS?
> Don't forget the evidence that isn't public.

This is what George W. Bush said about Iraqi WMDs. The narrative was that there was a lot of evidence provided by intelligence agencies supporting the idea that Saddam had WMDs, but it was top secret and could not be shared with the public.

The truth was that in spite of claims of evidence, there was ZERO evidence of WMDs, and all of the claims turned out to be lies or significant embellishments.

Most fundamentally, they were major failures of SIGINT and showed us how clueless and crude our so-called intelligence operations were.

This wouldn't really matter, except that it cost us Trillions of dollars and close to a million people have died as a result. It's an atrocity on par with some of the greatest human atrocities in history, and it was possible largely because people adopted the view that you articulate in the parent post... that "they have evidence, but they are wisely keeping it secret".

If there were any actual evidence we certainly would have heard about it, either via a leak or via the publication of some kind of smoking gun.