skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the antithesis to the discovery of antibiotics is the mostly accidental discovery of Tabun: "In January 1937, Schrader observed the effects of nerve agents on human beings first-hand when a drop of tabun spilled onto a lab bench." (Wikipedia)

I think that one might stand out somewhat since I'd expect most accidental advances to be helpful to humanity. Or maybe I'm just an optimist. :)
What is new here compared to the linked paper from 3 years ago? https://phys.org/news/2014-12-gut-bacteria-worm-degrade-plas...
Link to the original paper: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(17)3...
Baseless claims, even if they somehow turn out to be right, are still baseless and add little but information to a discussion. This insistence that every thing is abstract and thus all "opinions" are equally valid is how we got in this mess to begin with. No matter how many neonazis shout it, there's no evidence to suggest their claims of racial superiority, no matter how many times it got repeated on fucking national tv there is no evidence Planned Parenthood harvest the organs of fetuses, every image macro doesn't have to necessarily match the caption no matter what Tumblr might claim, and not matter how much money Exon spends there's mountains of data suggesting anthropomorphic climate change.

If you opinion is so unsupported that it fails basic due diligence, it shouldn't be appearing with equal weight to the supported thought. And we should continue to hold aggregators responsible for letting that shit filter to the top. Googling "food that cures cancer" should result in "No food cures cancer go talk to your oncologist" not "list of top ten super foods" from blogspam site number N; Googling "did the Holocaust happen" should result in "yes" not a link to stormfront.

I agree there certainly is a grey area when deciding on public "fact" in developing issues or contriversal subjects; but there are plenty of things far and away from that grey area and to pretend they aren't is worse than censorship. By treating valid information with the same weight as invalid information you've removed people's ability to find the facts even more effectively than if you tried to censor them (given how terrible attempts at censorship have been in the past, I wouldn't be surprised to see tyrants move to this form of information suppression).
I think GiTS does a good job with its philosophical aspects, but GiTS doesn't only exist to sell a large philosophical thesis like SEL does. The philosophy is part of the over-all picture, and even then its a minority part. SEL is just a metaphor using computers for spirituality while GiTS very much is a traditional cyberpunk work. When Section 9 is called in to stop terrorists, its often not an excuse to pontificate on 'what is real,' often its about other themes like the weight of history and the causes of terror, the victims of a world where technology and politics changes so quickly, how hacking in a tech dominated world can be so disruptive, and how security forces and governments respond to these threats.

Also to be fair, when we look at the original movie, its more about AI rights than an avante-garde pondering of "dead waifus living in the ether" SEL is based on. I would classify these two things are completely different categories. One is a fairly rational take on the age old "Are AI alive" argument while the other is more or less fantasy dressed up as sci-fi.
The peer-review system, as very flawed as it is, protects us from a certain level of bad and in some cases fake science.

It's not very difficult to establish a peer-review ring when you use freely available emails, and journals are increasingly aware of this [0,1]. That's why I'm often suspect of journals who let this slide, because it's a sign they don't screen very well.

In 2017, in light of the widely successful and low-barrier ways to game the peer-review system, I don't buy your "leaving an institution" argument.

Corresponding author is more commonly the professor than the main author, and faculty at academic institutions almost always have "e-mail for life" privileges.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/1...

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1...
My point was, adoption in engines is relatively slow, but once it happens, things become easier. So current usage lists aren't a reflection of general progress. Unity for example gained Vulkan support in the latest version which came out recently, and Unreal is still not there (but already close). Same goes for Lumberyard.

Of course the tax on development imposed by lock-in freaks translates into that slowness. I.e. as you said, need for engines to support many balkanized APIs means slower releases to the market.
Yep, I agree, going out of one's way to antagonize the police is not helping with making police more transparent or accountable.

I was really just responding to the parent realizing the generally pro-LE attitude, which I do think extends beyond this thread, for the reasons I stated, in part.

I didn't mean it as a way of excusing the OP of the videos.

At the same time, if the OP didn't do anything illegal, they shouldn't have been arrested, even if it's "annoying." If this kind of thing interferes with the police, there should be some legal precedent set before you get thrown in jail for it (maybe there is, if so, hooray!)

edit: the shade of your text is getting lighter, to be clear – I upvoted your comment, it was completely reasonable.
They aren't different at all from "aiming to stop", but the difference from "aiming to kill" is enormous. For example, aiming at the leg can be just as effective as aiming at the heart.
On the downside, incomes have stagnated since ~1970s. Before Reagan, company mergers had to consider monopoly power in regions and economic distribution; after reagan, it became mostly about consumer price
In my (admittedly limited) experience mixing for both recording and live settings, I can say that the "sounds great" comes a long way before the "dramatic cathedral mode". If you can listen to it and hear reverb (unless you're going for that effect) you're doing it wrong. What you want is a bit of fullness, slightly softer edges at the end of words/sentences.

It's similar to the difference between 24fps cinema and 60fps home video. The video/clean signal retains more of the original information and is "more correct", but 24fps/touch of reverb adds a nuance that keeps things from getting too clinical. As to why we interpret clean signal == clinical == bad.... I can't really speculate.
I'm very well aware of that. I was thinking of a fictional scenario. Also, our modern electronics are not made of wood, many have plastic components.
It's the Register, the IT version of a tabloid. They are allowed to stretch headlines.
yes, coaching (and teaching in general) has great bang for the buck and tends to return as much as you give. it helps to have a good understanding of the subject (not necessarily expertise), but if not, in many cases, you can (re-)teach yourself the subject a little ahead of the students.

but the more important lessons come from learning how to manage a team. managing (much less leading) is hard. it develops your empathy muscles. it forces you to be nimble and creative. you'll feel a sense of failure and accomplishment at the same time. but children are so forgiving and watching them learn and grow fills you with a sense of pride (i volunteer coach basketball and i love it).

this sense of pride and self-esteem is a hidden benefit that not many people talk about since it seems so selfish, but it's real benefit to consider.
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No giveaways in the source code - will probably have to wait for the author to comment!
> Even correcting for income, education, and all that blacks and hispanics have a lower lifespan than whites and Asians.

Hispanics in the US (which even those who believe race is a real thing consider an ethnicity that crosses racial lines, not a race) have longer life expectancy than non-Hispanic Whites.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6335a8.htm
I'm not well versed on App Store TOS, but if this were done by an indie developer is this the response that they'd have gotten?

My guess is the app would have been removed from the store. Uber was able to get away with just a warning.
That'd be the IDFV [1], no? The problem is that the customer is supposed to be able to reset that by deleting all of a vendor's apps from their device.

If there's a fraud problem, I think it's reasonable to require the developer to handle it in their account system. Yes, this makes it somewhat harder to detect fraud because you lose one important piece of information, but privacy is worth it.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uidevice/1620059...
> And there goes Shakespeare. On average there's 15,000 words per play. I bet most readers do not have the education to know every single word in that 15,000.

In English (as I assume in Chinese) you can usually figure out what is being said in Shakespeare even if you don't know the exact definition of the word. You also can usually pronounce it correctly (at least for the modern pronunciation).
> I cannot believe that you are honestly saying a 2x increase to throughput in production is something you "shouldn't take seriously" because the code isn't as readable as it was before.

I've worked on large and old codebases for years. I've seen plenty of examples of where a "clever" programmer has optimised the heck out of a section of code, made it completely unmaintainable, and as a result forced a re-write (the resulting code, which was slower, was also easier to maintain and reason about).

"Production" is a meaningless rallying cry. Everything is production sooner or later. Not everything needs to be fast, although there are critical areas of a typical project that do. It is really a question of code quality relative to performance, unless performance itself is actually causing you problems. Typically these overeager performance fixes are done to code preemptively.

This is all fine for your pet and toy projects, go work on something enterprise grade. Big code means clean code. I'd take ten lines of clean easy to consume code over one "clever" line of genius.
There's a new Godzilla movie coming in 2019 which is supposed to be a series that revisits all the classic monsters.

Perhaps this could be the new Mothra original story.
but think of the business potential! advertising and propaganda can be streamed right into the brain, no way to block this information, this feature alone must be worth its price in gold.
The variable is just the lsd. Caffeine is constant in both control and experimental groups. Plus the organisms would most likely exhibit caffeine seeking behavior anyhow.
IMHO the most important thing for opsolutely to figure out is whether they're focusing on the Enterprise or the SMB space. The reason is that will dictate the direction of their product and the features, integrations and customer experience.

The requirements for enterprise are very different from the requirements for small companies.

I say this from experience running a deployment automation company focused primarily on the enterprise (https://www.distelli.com) and we made a decision early on to focus on the enterprise. Making a decision early on helped us focus on the target market we're going after and we have actively built stuff for the enterprise because of that decision.
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The second part[0] of Wait But Why's article (that this article seems like a poor response to) explains what we know and what we don't know about the brain in the great details before actually going to the whole braintech topic.

[0] http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html#part2
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Musk is leveraging constantly.

Part of his strategy is using his public personality and track record to lure more investments in. His is using financing as rocket fuel. Either there is a huge explosion or spectacular success.

What is admirable in him is that his risk taking is directed towards making new things that provide value even if his business totally collapses and he loses it all personally.
Do you have a reference for knowing the firearm was an AR-15? The original CBS Sacramento article[0] (which the above Ars Technica story references), a neighbor was reported as "firing up to 100 machine gun rounds at a home across the street". From this alone, it's pretty ambiguous as to the firearm involved. Granted, often journalists all-to-often misreport "automatic" vs "semi-automatic" and "machine gun" and "assault rifle", so that may be what happened here as well.

[0]: http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/09/11/bystander-with-cel...
> but be careful not to take down our whole civilization with it

We make lots of things from wood which is biodegradable, without real problem.
No, we'll still have Tinder... for our avatar-on-avatar VR sexcapades.

* Demolition Man sex scene - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80UQWWUIYs
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You could charge 99 cents to have Siri talk in your favorite actor's voice.
Apple usually provides warning before removal. For example, when they decided portions of Transmit were unacceptable, they asked Panic to change them before deleting the app.

https://panic.com/blog/transmit-ios-1-1-1/
>"If a single enzyme is responsible for this chemical process, its reproduction on a large scale using biotechnological methods should be achievable"

If they're right about the enzyme then the threat is possible. It's different from organisms that eat wood because we are pretty good at mass producing stuff.
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Which can be replaced with glass, ceramics metal and carbon fiber.
I can't think of a single component that uses plastics to function for any other reason than costs.

Also you always have fluoropolymers to fall back on partially.
Five years ago my balcony was invaded by fly larvae (maggots i guess) because my flatmate left some raw meat in the trash bin. While trying to contain the invasion, i put some of them in two or three nested plastic bags, but they ALWAYS found their way through the plastic after some minutes. They were literally making holes in them. I thought this was normal and well-known!
>What if your blog were blacklisted, because you were accused of being a "Nazi"

Why is the assumption always made that censorship will be applied in this crazy random arbitrary fashion. Is there any evidence that censorship always happens that way and isnt properly targeted to actual hate speech.

This may affect legitimate speech isnt a very powerful argument because legitimate speech can be differentiated from hate speech. I can tell the difference between a neo-nazi and someone who is merely critical of Israels policies and I feel sorry for those who cant differentiate.

As for public figures, if there are public figures who are actively spreading hate speech, yes censor them too. I would not shed a tear if Don Black and stormfront were censored from the web. In fact I think it would make the world a better place to be rid of giving their toxic views a public platform.
> it's a little extreme to call this click bait

Headline: CEO of ThinkPenguin is arrested for filming police

Reality: CEO of ThinkPenguin is arrested for disorderly conduct

It's like saying Al Capone was arrested for having too much money. I mean, I guess. In a manner of speaking.
I just want a phone where I can run linux. No chroot, I want the real thing, with all the drivers please :)
The C. elegans nervous system is completely different from that of higher animals. Its neurons do not even spike.
Is this (and battery gigafactory) how Tesla will continue to own electrical car market? AFAIK only Tesla cars can use Tesla chargers. Why would you buy other company's electric car if you can only charge it at home? Good for Tesla. Bad for consumers.
Next story: Caterpillars die from plastic poisoning :(
Uber's stories generate a lot of clicks, impressions and ads revenue. Everyone wants a piece of that pie.
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My understanding is that's standard procedure for Apple. If you violate the TOS, they'll block app updates, but it would have to be egregious for them to remove the app. At a company I worked at previously, we got hit with a copyright issue, and they just wouldn't let us push through a new version until we resolved it.

Also, for a company the size of Uber, having your app blocked for a month, and not being able to get new features or bug fixes out, is probably a sizable cost, when you factor in lost developer time.
Whenever I see a headline that has the verb "may" in it, in my mind, I add "...or not" at the end.
I was born in India, lived there until I was 27, and then lived in US for 10 years. These are my observations, written in a hurry without much careful thought.

The petty corruption in the small scale is pervasive in India. I find that not the case in US. Most people one interacts with in US are honest (except car salesmen :). But at the higher echelons of society, the corruption is at a much larger scale in US.

I compare this with driving in both countries. In India the number of accidents are much higher, but the fatality per accident is much lower. In US, accidents are rare, but when it happens, the likelihood of someone getting killed is high. I think this is because drivers in India each try to squeeze out small advantages, and as a whole the traffic never gets to gain much speed, so when the inevitable accident happens, it is often not fatal. But in US, far more people follow the rules, everyone moves faster on an average, but the one careless driver in the group can cause much more damage.

I think of corrupt behavior the same way - the average Joe is not corrupt in US, so the society as a whole makes much better progress. But that leaves the system vulnerable to the action of one sociopath, so at the high end you see much bigger scandals.
I'll be 75 in 2050.
The movable-type printing press was invented 400 years earlier in China than Europe, but failed to take off due to the high number of characters (amoung other complexities).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type

> The world's first movable type printing press technology for printing paper books was [...] invented in ancient China around AD 1040 by [...] Bi Sheng

> Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg made another version of a metal movable-type printing press in Europe

> The printing press may be regarded as one of the key factors fostering the Renaissance and due to its effectiveness, its use spread around the globe.

> The more limited number of characters needed for European languages was an important factor.
My guess is that it's Gnuplot. At least gnuplot has an SVG driver: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_svg_4.6/
React's benefits come through more at scale. If you just want to add a bit of interactivity to a page, sure, jQuery is going to be fewer LOC and KB. If you're trying to write a large full-blown application that's 10K, 50K, 100K LOC, with tons of views and lots of data to manage, jQuery won't cut it. React helps you build the UI in manageable, understandable, reusable pieces.
There seems to be some confusion. Nobody is antagonistic as its the officers who are confronting the correspondents (Chris, JP, etc). Chris crossed the street and was on a sidewalk between an east and west bound lane of traffic. New Hampshire does not require the use of crosswalks and he was not in a motor vehicle so the other requests to back up or otherwise get out of the street were legally invalid and intended to confuse. There is also no requirement for individuals to carry ID in New Hampshire. He was a pedestrian, and there were no cars nearby. You can be ordered to provide your name under certain circumstances. This is not what was requested and the officer only indicated he had given an order after the arrest thereby nullifying any claim Chris was violating a police order.

Chris who is the CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc does not yell insults or similar at police. The videos where you are seeing insults and similar are from JP. JP reacts in a militaristic style which can come off badly from a public relations stand point at times with the masses and even cause confusion as to his political affiliations (that is he is not republican, conservative, etc, he is pro-freedom). For example he is not homophobic, but does yell such insults when illegally confronted by police for recording, in part due to his age, background, and upbringing, but he's not actually a bigoted individual, and has friends who are gay- including ones which he works with as part of New England Cop Chasers.

Chris tends to remain silent during interactions with police up to the point where an officer comes to him and begins an interaction. Unless there is no incident that is and its merely a friendly interaction with police (going up to a police car to find out what the officer is up to).

Chris also does not interact with police as a general rule particularly when they are being the aggressor, but remaining silent can be difficult, particularly when you have to inform officers of things like ones rights in order maintain those rights. For example if you do not invoke your right to remain silent they can take that as consent to being questioned. Chris prefers to remain silent or otherwise invoke his right to remain silent. Chris will stand his ground however and ignore illegal orders or requests- which are generally actually just requests implied to be orders. An officer will say things like "I'm going to have to ask to search you". That's not an order. It's a request for your consent to be searched. If you do not object they can take it as you consenting to a search. You can refuse, but they will get angry and start yelling. They do this to intimidate you.
You're welcome to not use JSX. Really! Most people who use React like it though.
I think the claim made in the article, that minor social interactions like receiving a "Thank You" from the cashier instead of using a self-checkout booth, prevents loneliness is really dubious. In fact, the article also mentions shallow conversations as creating loneliness, so it contradicts itself there. I don't get what the article is trying to say.

Loneliness is a communication, information and anxiety problem. The first two, communication and information, are problems technology can easily help solve. Helping people getting over their anxieties is way harder of course, but technology used properly can help there too.

People/governments just needs to take the issue seriously and start doing stuff to solve it.
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Doesn't look like it, but it's besides (and in fact probably counter) to the point of the OS. Seriously, read that "Constructive Look at TempleOS" chx posted: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
Encryption at rest?
Backups and encryption thereof?
You're either assuming the person cutting your keys also knows your address, or that burglars are in the habit of walking round with a bunch of keys and systematically trying them all in the front door looks of every house that looks like it might be worth stealing from.

I'm not sure what is the point of mentioning that your physical security vendor uses PGP other than signaling how awesome your security practices are, but I guess since you're a vendor of security services you have a good reason to advertise that.

No doubt you have your reasons for feeling prejudiced about ex-convicts, and as a security professional you can leverage rational paranoia into cash. However, it would be interesting to hear what sort of jobs you do want ex-convicts to do. It's easy to think of security reasons to disqualify people from any given job, not so easy to furnish people with legit alternative opportunities.