skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RKO0KWM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...) concludes with speculation about the role of quantum mechanics in consciousness. He's clear that it's just theory, but the entire book paves a credible path toward considering the idea.
Nobody mentionned SyntaxNet or LinkGrammar. If you did not read the article from Chomsky about the two ways of doing AI you should read it. Basically it says there is statistical methods and logic methods in AI. Most of NLP libraries of today use the statistic approach. The other, the logic rules based approach was the most popular before now. Anyway, that's what does Link Grammar. I recommend you start with the introduction https://amirouche.github.io/link-grammar-website//documentat... to get a feeling of what it means to deliver meanings to sentences.

Also nowdays, word2vec is unrelated to the understanding of grammatical constructs in natural languages. It's simply said a coincidence or co-occurance of words. Grammartical interpretation of a sentence must be seens as a general graph whereas word2vec operate on the linear structure of sentences (one word after the other). If word2vec had to work on grammatical constructs it should be able to ingest graph data. word2vec works on matrices where the graphical representation of the grammar of sentence (POS tagging, dependencies, anaphora, probably others) is graph otherwise said a sparse matrix or a matrix with a big number of dimensions. (It seems to me machine learning is always about dimension reduction with some noise).

I am quite ignorant about the literature on the subject of machine learning operated to/from graphical datastructures.
So it's better when the media is inaccurate or incorrect?

They so frequently use half-truths, lies by omission, complete removal of context, and in many cases report on things without substantiating evidence or credible sources, that it's hard to think they have much value at all. And it's not just one outlet, it's all of them. Sometimes they'll be accurate when the story fits what they want to say, and when it doesn't they will either say nothing at all (see: Sweden, Germany, France) or they'll grossly misrepresent things.

The recent Felix Kjellberg incident is a fine example of what I've seen happen non-stop over the past 4-5 years. Every single week it's yet again the same exact thing, this time with a different story. It has never relented.

If the choices are: direct from the source which may or may not be accurate 100% of the time, or via a media known to be incredibly dishonest and inaccurate at an alarming rate, it's really not a hard choice here for me.
It's also untrue.
And that's why Allo is failing. I don't want to think about how I'm chatting with someone. If Google can upgrade that to a better experience than SMS with their Allo special sauce, great. But having three or more inboxes for the same types of conversations (Allo, Hangouts, iMessage, etc.) is just dumb.
I'm so annoyed that the awful Textmate 1 website is still the first result on Google, and has not been replaced. Every time I recommend it, I have to go into an explanation of how to ACTUALLY find the editor, so they don't just see the one from 2005 and leave.

https://github.com/textmate/textmate
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There are "Burner" apps out there that give you a different phone number.

I'm unsure if it'd be easier to maintain. But off the top of my head I'd think it'd be easier to spoof.
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>Like with a grating I can see how you can obtain a spectral pattern for many wavelengths, but with a bayer array, surely you can only distinguish R, G, B.

They inversed the principle: Rather than controlling the bandpass of the sensor (which a grating does passively, over the spatial domain) they are controlling the spectrum of the light source. You can produce a varying light spectrum by setting R/G/B on the display, and record the light reflected by the object with your R/G/B camera pixels, which also have a certain frequency response.

I have a feeling you can use this to recreate a coarse approximation of the full spectrum and then use it to infer some of the object parameters, like pesticides on fruit.
Infinity Multiplication – Optimised the Code – Ruby
I like complete tutorials like that. REST ftw!
while I understand what you meant, it's kind of funny that "web spider" could refer to both of them!
I agree with you in general, but there is also the specter of international competition that is a lot harder to meaningfully regulate (we've seen what protectionist policies do, to all of our detriment).

Those network effects of big cities are not intrinsically tied to oligopolic structures. They're also just bigger and more attractive to a big chunk of the population, yeah?
I live in a small town myself, which has its own struggles finding enough people for all the jobs. The biggest thing I've noticed when having conversations with out-of-towners is that those people do not believe the jobs exist at all, at any price point. Somehow we've collectively built up this idea that there are simply no jobs to be found outside of the cities, period. With that, nobody outside the local region even thinks to see what jobs are available in these places while on the job hunt.

I have a feeling this idea of no jobs really was, more or less, true at one point in time and the preconceived notions simply haven't kept up with the ever changing landscape of the world. This isn't the only example of where information seems to severely lag reality.
They're banned by some fire codes, or you have to install weird temperature operated closures.

There is also a conspicuous consumption aspect that someone who has a washing machine anywhere but the basement is wealthy and care free enough to do substantial repair work, because there's only two kinds of washing machines, the ones that will flood and ruin everything underneath them, or those that already have. Putting a washer on the 3rd floor by the bedroom seems very practical and convenient until the first expensive flood. Of course the trend to fancy up basements means a leak will cause $10K of damage and mold where ever the washer is located, so may as well located it conveniently.
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You don't deserve the downvotes. When Docker arbitrarily changes something important and pushes those changes to Docker Hub, CoreOS is dragged along for the ride.

We had our auto-updating servers move to Docker 1.10 over a weekend. Of course, this brought down our CI/CD process because that version of Docker changed something important. Our staging environment was totally horked, but our production environment survived due to an unexplained reboot lock. We were lucky.

Turn off auto updates.
NZ court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to U.S. for alleged fraud
Decades ago I was one of a handful of regulars in a Weird Al IRC channel. His drummer John "Bermuda" Schwartz (who is still a member of his band to this day) was also a regular and would set up occasional Q and A sessions with Al himself. Those were amazing times to be a Weird Al fan.
I went through two bullet pens before throwing in the towel. I understand that a permanently mounted clip would throw off the sleek, classic design - but it would be way more functional if the pen and clip would actually stay attached to each other.
The route of community building is interesting and I can see many people following that. If you see the latest development at Biz Stone's Jelly, their vision is to make a trust score on users and build credibility. The challenge is how quick a community can respond. Fake news is growing like the snowball effect the more it spread on the social media the more it becomes a problem. We need to put a filter before we share the news inside our network - like a verified posting :)
I've also lost a great deal of weight (~75 pounds) with intermittent fasting, though my hours were from 12pm to 6pm. The biggest benefit didn't come from the fasting itself, but from strictly adhering to the window that I had set. If I can only eat between 12 and 6, then by default I can't graze on food in the morning or the evenings, which was the biggest source of excess calories for me.
> Maybe the reporter didn't read the blog post, because it was beyond his attention span.

I know Mike and I assure you that (1) he has the attention span to read a blog post, and (2) he was not just "assigned." He's on the tech beat. He lives in San Francisco, not New York. And he's paying very close attention to this story. Go look at his Twitter feed if you don't believe me. https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac
Small town America is a market inefficiency, it's time to move on.
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Well I stand corrected, thank you.

I found this really cool map that agrees with you, even if I kind of wish it had names of particular schools along the arrows.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Bu...
@davelnewton
I do both personalization and construction. That particular design costs me 58 dollars - shipping, personalization, labor and materials are included in this cost.
In my experience until developers have to work extremely hard to create a security bug, disabling numerous defaults, it is never going to be a "solved" problem.

Prepared statements fix SQLi. Encoding HTML entities on output fixes XSS. Etc. etc. Even SPA frameworks that default to encoding entities get hit with XSS.

Unless it is completely stamped out by default or simply no longer possible I encourage solutions like this. And this is mostly just an XSS problem, but XSS that leverages simple CSRF vulnerable end points is still a problem. To be safer you now need 3 flags on a cookie (HttpOnly, secure, and SameSite).

This is a pain for developers and almost ensures weird edge case CSRF type vulns will still creep up on occasion. Similar to how memory corruption mitigations often force an exploiter to combine multiple vulns to achieve the effect of one old school vuln, this raises the bar, but does not eliminate the possibility.
What Happened at the Tensorfow Dev Summit 2017 – 1/3: Community and Applications
Cheap imports allow for cost savings so the money otherwise spent on expensive domestic goods could be made elsewhere.

We tried raising tariffs to protect local businesses and consumers in the 1930s and all we got was a lousy world war.

The only time broad tariffs genuinely worked in America's interests was under Jefferson, when his devastating tariff hikes jump-started the industrial economy.

I'm no history expert, but I think it's fair to say that a solution for a pre-industrial backwater might not work as well when it comes to a (then unimaginable) technological, military, and economic superpower.

To paraphrase Paul Krugman on government spending, trade is a two way street where your spending is my income and my spending is your income.
We can't convince voters to raise taxes/utility rates enough to fix crumbling dams, lead water pipes, and overflowing sewers.
Startup Money (and how much?)
Its not that simple. Remember the the predominance of American economy is not self-generated: it is a part of the world economy. Now, when you create artificial barriers like import taxes, American businesses become less competitive in the world market, as such tarriffs do not exist there. Over time, they stop innovating until they reach a crisis point.

e.g. see what happened to the big American automakers. They have a monopoly on trucks in the US and yet they became uncompetitive to the point of almost going bankrupt.
Sure. If anything that makes the OPs point even more ridiculous - "remember the non-Uber employees being fired when they criticized Uber's CEO on their named social media accounts?"
Thanks. Yes, the incentives should be based on building yourself a credible profile on the internet - like a trust button. A lot of community-based websites including Reddit, Jelly and others are moving in this direction but the challenge is how fast a community can move and how they can stop it in other networks such as facebook and whatsapp where this spread.
Great read! I've always wanted to start one too. How did you go about the addressing? Did you purchase IP blocks from Zayo? If you could go technical it would be great.
Uber to be sued for tax avoidance in the UK
Many municipalities disallow laundry chutes in new home constructions. They can create a chimney effect allowing a fire to travel faster between floors. Also kids like to play with them and not all kids are smart enough not to try and slide down it.
As I mused elsewhere in this thread, why isn't: secure, HttpOnly and SameSite a default for cookies that you have to take action to disable. Gravity and backwards compatibility mostly.
Show HN: Elastic Intranet – ready-to-go intranet for Office 365/SharePoint 2016
I've tried using other players, but I keep sticking to the light, versatile, and familiar Winamp.
I'd really like to see usage of Matrix/Riot instead. A federated, open network and you can easily bridge your existing slack channels.
When I was in college, I built a tracking system for our campus's bus system. What frequency are your vehicles reporting their location back to your central service? We decided to use the cell network and had no real issues there (the buses would transmit their location every 1 sec).
Apple reportedly buys an AI-based face recognition startup
120% on Macbook Air (Firefox)
Are you counting the UK as European? Because British prime ministers do this all the time. They get 55% of the house of commons on 40% of the vote and 25% of the electorate, and then proclaim "the people have spoken!".
Many frameworks have had and probably still have bugs in their CSRF handling. E.g. a quick scan on the Django security issues [1] shows 5 issues involving CSRF, the latest one in September 2016.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/releases/security/
I had the same situation. Use their online chat. I chat to a service representative and he was able to give me permission to re-install it.
A startup is developing an app that let you train your own intelligent assistant
> except that they are not and there is

And you are in a privileged position to discern these? As citizens, our role is not to trust our leaders, it is to be harshly skeptical of them and demand that they present evidence for endeavors that are costly (in terms of lives or dollars).

I dispute your claim that I make equivalences, and I would say that in this case there is far more likely to actually be evidence of wrongdoing (if any occurred). In the case of Saddam, we had very little HUMINT or SIGINT presence in Iraq with which to scrutinize Bush's claims, so intel analysts arguably erred on the side of caution.

In this case, we have unprecedented intel leaks (and surveillance capabilities), yet mysteriously no actual evidence, which, if it exists, would seemingly implicate Trump and members of his team in very clear treason.

What patriot would withhold these critical details? Our mental model of the leaker's motivations cannot both maintain that there is smoking gun evidence of significant wrongdoing AND that the leaker was concerned, but content to just stoke a rumor rather than reveal the biggest treason in the history of the modern world.

At this point, the story has so many tentacles that providing evidence about even one thing would do wonders to root it in reality. Yet we're seeing the opposite. More vague, evidence-free, sensational leaks, more promotion of rumor to truth by propagandists, etc.
Two thoughts:

1. I guess this is the origin of "lies, damn lies, and statistics". You can manipulate statistics to paint any picture you want, really.

2. They're probably pulling the information from the number of people who have an FBI number or an SID number. You get one of those if you've ever been so much as charged, regardless of whether or not you get convicted. Here's an example of a source that cares whether or not you even have such a number: when I legally changed my name a few years ago, my court petition had a section that said "Have you ever been charged with a Class A or B misdemeanor or a felony? [] Yes [] No. If yes -- write your FBI or SID numbers, if known: FBI #_______ SID#_______"
Just leave it to your distro. Don't bother with it yourself.
Probability is a weird concept. It's much more philosophical than it appears at first glance, but much less philosophical than something like the interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Ultimately, what is a "probability"? It's a number that can be used for making predictions about the future. Neither Bayesian methods nor frequentist methods are "ideal" in the sense of predicting (computing) the future — in fact, results from algorithmic information theory put the best bounds on what we can "hope to predict". Very loosely speaking, the best predictor is the shortest program that reproduces the data. But this is uncomputable in general, which means we use something like minimum message length (MML) or minimum description length (MDL) — which are also sometimes uncomputable, but a bit more manageable at least.

In some situations, Bayesian methods can be shown to be equivalent to MDL, in the sense that sizeof(model) + sizeof(parameters) + sizeof(residual data) is a log reformulation of Bayes theorem.

See this paper for more details: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/papers/mdlindbayeskolmcompl.p...
I was using Reeder back when Google Reader was killed, and it was super easy for me to switch to Feedly as the back end — just export the subscriptions and import them into Feedly. Just like I didn't use Google Reader in the browser, I don't ever use Feedly in the browser, either.

It's a beautiful little app. Great native app on iOS, too.
I don't doubt for a second that that it's true, but what is the likelihood that the New York Times was able to verify it in less than a day? Is that something Uber is going to fess up to? They can simply say "no comment", and likely have. For all we know they're scrambling to move women into that department so that when the actual verifiable statistics do come out they're not so bad.

To verify this comment well enough to publish it, the NY Times is going to have to go find enough SREs at Uber who are willing to talk to them (and likely risk losing their job if discovered) about these issues.
Also interested in you doing a detailed writeup on your tactics, costs, etc as an African ISP.
I believe it is exactly the mechanism described in the article: X-inactivation is incomplete. Some of the genes on the "inactivated" chromosome remain active.

What is new in this article is that they connected specific genes known to be active, to genes relevant for cancer. In other words, the theory was that the remaining-active genes helped avoid cancer, color-blindness, etc., and the article provides strong evidence supporting that in the area of cancer, the genes are the right ones.

Wikipedia suggests there are other theories too, like inactivating picking the "best" of the two options non-randomly, and the mosaic effect - it isn't the same X-chromosome inactivated everywhere, so e.g. some retinal cells might have one X and others the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-inactivation#Selection_of_on...
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I've seen several middle class houses that had the laundry room on the second floor (1st floor = ground floor here). Most homes have the laundry on the 1st floor here.

I would like a house with the laundry on the 2nd near the bedrooms. But I'd make sure it has a spill basin and drain for the inevitable massive leak.
Hm, okay, except 90% of my clients still have it :D
I don't believe any form of resistance is acceptable. If the president is medically unfit to carry out his duties, there is a constitutional and democratic process by which he can be relieved of them. If he is fit to carry them out, then there is no excuse for disobeying his orders other than that they are illegal. If they feel they cannot morally carry out his orders, then they should quit. Nowhere along the line should insubordination and undermining his authority as the democratically elected leader of their country occur.

>democratically elected leaders can do whatever the hell they want and the civil service should go along with it.

Isn't this literally the point of democracy? These people should have no say in what our national interests are other than the vote to which they are entitled.
government enforces competition laws at every level, preventing markets from being captured.

ROFLMFAO. It's government that causes markets to become captured. Ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

It's extremely unlikely for a true monopoly to form in the absence of government regulation.
Appears related to research done by Kopf and Lischinski[1] back in 2012. See parallax layers demo 2:33 into their video[2].

[1] http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/cglab/projects/comics/

[2] http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/cglab/projects/comics/comics.m...
It's just a function of when the aircraft was designed. The WC-135 aircraft are modified C-135s produced in the 60's. The C-135 was designed in the mid-50's. At the time, high-bypass engines simply didn't exist yet.
How is China able to be so protectionist and so successful?
Because "to lead" is their only scope. and since the number of seats is limited, its not about gender. Some men are just more equal.
> It's similar to conversations between conservatives and liberals.

This is a terrible analogy. We're talking about one group's lived experiences, not a political issue where there are equally valid opposing viewpoints.
I don't disagree with you - but deep state is still an antipattern. Another political pathology - a recless executive branch - does not make it any better.
Is there a way for the width of the columns to be set to the maximum length of a field? Right now when I interact with the data grid it seems weird that the widths seem to change as I interact with it.
> your mind constructed the patterns of meaning. Continually focusing on understanding itself actually gets in the way

For an engineer, who only needs to use the math, maybe. But what if you need an understanding too? Once you have "intuition" it's easy to stick with that, rather than challenge your understanding.
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/833448033635426304
Depends on many, many things. Most are fairly specific to the region in question (whichever it might be).
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I would say that the value proposition for any technical book is not the sales but is the prestige. I have had a few brief interactions with published authors and the sense I got was that writing was equivalent to a minimum wage job.
I told my doctor I didn’t want kids. She sent me to a therapist
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Unfortunately I happen to agree. Until a disaster happens that the public can be convinced is linked directly to a lack of infrastructure spending I think nothing will happen.
I was intentionally using sloppy non-clinical language. :) "Shut down" in the sense that the liver specifically is full of xenometabolizing enzymes, and those enzymes get replaced by the densely-packed mitochondria in liver cells as they get used up, requiring nutrients to feed said mitochondria. If those enzymes are consumed at a slower rate, those mitochondria consume your body's nutrient stores more slowly.
Just because someone asked what camera was used doesn't mean that person is implying that the photographer isn't talented. Maybe the poster is a kid who doesn't know much (or anything) about photography and wants to learn about these things; who knows. No need to be rude by assuming the worst about them.
Perhaps some sort of blockchain technology