skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's downvoted because its precisely wrong - the court ruled the search was outside the bounds of the law, and threw out the case. People fuck up all the time, but here, the system worked exactly the way GP wants it to.

Certainly the ISPs are at fault here, but the Canadian court system seems to be working just fine. The existence of the Anton Piller concept is troubling, still.
I really would like to see them try different learning sets that vary the "styles" of retouching. This example looks like it's strongly biased to the "make the images pop!" style of retouching, blowing highlights, shadows and contrasts.

What if the input set has more subtle retouching that pulls highlights and pushes shadows, but without the aforementioned issues?

What if they got their hands on the unedited and edited magnum photos? That would produce an interesting B&W filter, for sure!

https://www.slrlounge.com/magnum-photos-darkroom-magic-genes...
Currently there's limits on how long you can keep embryos going -- the '14-day rule':

http://www.nature.com/news/embryology-policy-revisit-the-14-...

Will be interesting to see the moral and ethical debate on any change here.
Uh, you don't know what the ex-con hasn't been caught for either. Maybe they got away with murder 10 years ago, but where only caught for their petty theft 5 years later.
There are probably some people careless enough that destroying a single data centre would damage them. Most serious contenders (e.g. My employer) have fully redundant active-active setups across regions, so you'd have to engineer a massive outage to take out real shops.

Of course, if you completely remove an entire AWS region you might induce very damaging stresses on other regions as people fail over.
Having an opinion which which you disagree is not "trolling".
> You're right, it's 7 points.

You acknowledge that you got the number wrong, which is good, but the smaller problem. The bigger problem is that the number was not, in either case, an impact concluded by the meta-analyses, it was merely the average impact of high flouridation in the studies included.

> However, that means there are still considerable issues (both medical and ethical) with the mass-ingesting of fluoride

No, it doesn't. Again, the source you cite does not conclude that there is any adverse effect. The meta-analysis, according to it's authors, indicates only that there may be an adverse effect.

Even the follow-up study by the authors (linked from your source; meta-analyses rarely support strong conclusions about fact, but often provide direction for further research) seems to indicate some effect, especially at high dosage levels but again, mostly is an indicator for further research, not a basis for concluding a clearly quantified effect.

Without a qauntifiable effect tied to actual flouride levels, it's not clear if there is any probl with the actual flouridation practice in the United States. Almost every substance is harmful in excess, even ones where moderate amounts are better than none.
Thank you! Make sure to install http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8... to allow 160-bit cryptography and use -e flag to be completely safe!

I also have a simple shell script locally, that wraps the java command, so I have to just type `btmagnet AF0D9AA01A9AE123A73802CFA58CCAF355EB19F8` to download to a pre-determined location (hardcoded in the script). I wonder if I should share it on the CLI README page
... and you don't think all the free marketing is a large part of that?

Ummm, no. It is people who are willing to pay more for the extra service, strong integration, and a business model that does not build on pushing advertising.

I pay the premium for a MacBook every 1 1/2 year or so, because if there is a problem, I can go to the Apple store and they'll typically have it fixed in two hours, no questions asked. I had a two-year leave to Android, but after the excruciating experience having to deal with Motorola twice, I'd rather pay a bit more.

Besides that, Apple hardware and software is typically extremely well integrated. E.g. I have a HiDPI screen, on the Mac it works without a problem. On e.g. Linux I had to hand-patch Mutter to get proper scaling and even then a lot of applications used the wrong scaling or UI elements are blown up and blurry.

Finally, let's also not forget that Apple is typically a company that pushes new technology first in an integrated fashion. E.g. a fingerprint reader that is not a toy and works across apps, 120Hz refresh rate on the iPad Pro, force touch.

tl;dr: people drop money on Apple because their product generally work great and they provide excellent service.
You have obviously never been to India. The smell.
Actually, the take away from this experiment is not that 'designer babies' are becoming more likely. In fact, when the researchers tried to genetically add synthetic DNA to the male genome it ended up rejecting it and took the copy from the female genome.

>> They injected a synthetic healthy DNA sequence into the fertilized egg, expecting that the male genome would copy that sequence into the cut portion. That is how this gene-editing process works in other cells in the body, and in mouse embryos, Dr. Mitalipov said. Instead, the male gene copied the healthy sequence from the female gene. The authors don’t know why it happened.
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My child was competently operating an iPad before he could talk or walk
It means you need to keep the learning tangible, tactile, and concrete. Simple robots are great for that. At that age with my kid, we did Logo+Turtle graphics, with a "be the robot" walk-through before coding. Also we got a Pro-Bot from Terrapin Logo, which is again create concrete, observable output from simple programming steps. Somewhere along the line we had a robot that I don't think is made any more, but it had a paper disk with two channels of information for driving the two wheel motors, and you programmed it with a black crayon.

The key is keeping a direct, concrete connection between program and output. Multiple steps of abstract thinking don't work well.
I work remote now. There's good points and bad points.

Some Good:

No commute. No noise. Fewer distractions. No open office floor plans!

Some Bad:

More distractions. I miss the physical presence of people. Time zones suck! I miss hallway conversations about the current sprint. Nobody makes an 1800 mile serial cable.

[-] Distractions. I don't have people walking by my desk trying to get me to work on their pet project. However, that stack of dishes that needs cleaning is very distracting.
"Weasel?"

I can see this is going to be a constructive dialogue. If I had wanted to "weasel" I would have deleted the post last night when it passed under the negative point threshold.

I have absolutely 0 moral and ethical problems with publishing any details I have on a person who is using my system to attack other users. I think in fact this is a responsible thing to do, and necessary. In this specific case, I might be careful about the timing of the disclosure to try and round up any nasty packages in other systems they might have generated.

But I'd publish it. Happily. Gleefully even. I have 0 moral or ethical obligations not to. I have a clear ethical imperative to do so.

I guess fortunately for this scammer, I don't own NPM.
I've been using it since launch and think it works as advertised, not only in cutting out the weird stuff but in actively directing the child to educational content.

It also has a timer built in, and when the time runs out an animated face shows up and "goes to sleep" which is incredibly effective in avoiding a tantrum when screen time is up.
If you do, let me know. Wish them all the best.
> They injected a synthetic healthy DNA sequence into the fertilized egg, expecting that the male genome would copy that sequence into the cut portion ... Instead, the male gene copied the healthy sequence from the female gene. The authors don’t know why it happened.

This seems like the most remarkable part of this entire article. It sounds like a huge discovery. There's a lot of ethical concerns that can be laid aside if the embryo is simply replacing genes from the other parent. That's still just a healthy baby, not a "designer" baby.
The naive answer would be to automate it: put up a Stripe or Paypal form and let them pay for your product.

However, if you're in B2B, the client would need to trust you, as in meeting you, the sales process, even training. What I would do is not automating the sales process, but the leads process: so you don't waste time in leads that are just passing by or checking out your product. With those you could arrange a meeting and then perhaps close the sale.

After you get some clients, you could hire someone to do the sales process you can't do. Or, if you have some savings, you can hire right away and ignore the previous paragraph.

Another option would be to have a sales co-founder, but that's another story.
Coinbase will either cave in on this or be sued and lose. Especially since they're sluggish about large withdrawals.

The real risk for Coinbase comes if they don't have 100% of the Bitcoins on deposit. If they don't have all those Bitcoins, like Mt. Gox, we're going to find out.
The practical reason is it's not clear how long they would survive. These embryos are in a petri dish, unless they were to implant them in a women's uterus I'm not sure how long they would be able to develop.

You might be able to develop them longer than five days, but then you hit the ethical issues. The entire moral argument for abortions is based on bodily autonomy of women, and that those rights trump the rights of an unborn fetus. But for raising a fetus in an artificial environment there is no body autonomy argument.

Another issue is murkier, and is based on the circumstances. Generally abortions are used by women who did not intend to get pregnant as a last resort form of birth control. When you're performing abortions for scientific purposes it's different, and there are different ethical standards to consider.
I don't like it, but I have to admit you're most certainly correct that it's only a matter of time before human genetic-enhancement is commonplace. Best case, we'll be living in a Gattaca-esque world before the end of the century.
>well in advance

As a customer, the first notification of this was sent to me was around ten day before the fork, I don't think that would be considered as 'well in advance'.
What about cases such as people who commit crimes against children? Would at the very least you say they don't deserve a second chance at working with children?
Good! For too long, we've been hampered by the limitations of a human nature evolved millions of years ago for a very different environment. All previous attempts at changing human nature have failed. Activism does not work. Grand social movements do not work. Policing language does not work. We now have a chance to succeed in improving ourselves using tools that actually work.
How about put a picture of source code above it then?
What do you mean? The reality is that African-American people are incarcerated and convincted at very high rates, in great part thanks to policies that very specifically designed to target them (re: war on drugs).
You absolutely need both. They serve different purposes because transactions provide ACID and advisory locks can be used to provide higher level ordering of application code.
I hear what you're saying. As a kid in the bad old days, pre-Internet, I used to play outside with my friends for hours at a time. Is that not an option anymore?
Not to mention, cabbies are often socially, ethnically, and even often genetically connected with each other, making the penalties for noncompliance high. If you're spotted driving when you're supposed to be boycotting for a surge, you may find yourself getting dirty looks from your roommates, your friends, and even your family.
Why stop operating when you can continue until bankruptcy and beyond? Serious question...if there's no reputation left to lose and everyone is still getting paid, what incentive do they have to stop?
One good thing about ZFS integrity checking is that when it finds an error it can repair the bit rot from another disk if you have parity or mirroring. Can dm-integrity do that?
It's really a basic engineering principle. Smaller and more distributed systems are more reliable.
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I am so naive. I've been asked that before by a Taxi driver in NYC I believe on my way to the airport and just said "Uh, shouldn't you?" I never realized what they were up to.
Economics isn't a zero-sum game. People with better jobs spend more money to buy more products, including a lot of the products startups would very much like to sell. An ex-con working minimum wage isn't ordering Muchery, using Instacart, or taking Lyft rides. An ex-con working in frontend development very well might use those services.

This generates economic activity across the entire chain, enriching everyone along the way. All of these people end up paying more taxes. Collectively the increase in activity can cause retailers, suppliers, and manufacturers to hire to keep up with demand further feeding the cycle.

IIRC the research shows ex-cons are far less likely to re-offend in the future if they land a good job. How many kids looking forward to $130k/yr jobs would choose to join a gang instead?

There's also the deadweight loss of criminal prosecution and jailing offenders. It generates a few legal and prison guard jobs but most of the taxes spent in the criminal justice system don't contribute constructively to society the same way building new bridges, subway systems, or funding science research does.
I would think a Whatsapp group should be sufficient.
Having set up ci/cd systems a few times previously by hand I've been happy so far with aws codestar.

It uses codecommit, codebuild, codepipeline, codedeploy, with permissions configured via iam. You can push to ec2, beanstalk or lambda.

I find beanstalk to be the sweet spot for ease of use with time saving abstractions. You can integrate jira too, and it enables cloudwatch for monitoring.

It's easy to set up. It sounds like Flexport's solution is more robust as they've done some great tweaks to their workflow, but for a quick ci/cd pipeline setup, codestar is pretty slick.
Right, but Amazon doesn't want to own businesses so much as own the business infrastructure.
This really stinks. on the syrian civil war there is very little news out of warzones but that released by Amaq, HTS, or one of many 'terrorist' organizations. And according to the US who is a terrorist, and according to russia is a terrorist is all different. Its sometimes hard to track down old footage of the war because they're all removed form youtube
This is my go-to for toy projects over the last couple years. Great execution all around. Be aware, if you don't like puns, this isn't the language for you.
At the moment, there are relatively few exchanges where you can trade BCH, and the only BCH on those exchanges is that which was distributed by the exchange itself during the split - as there is no way to move BCH for now.

On the other way, people who want to buy BCH can move their money to those few exchanges, and inflate the bubble, hoping in the greater fool. Ergo, the $700 prices.
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Cool! Will probably install it soon.
Also part of the first generation internet, definitely believe the internet was deeply harmful to my development, as well as a subset of my peers. Suspect that subset will grow larger with Ipad parenting being normal. Not trying to tell anyone how to parent, but I don't like how ubiquitous internet has become with so little good psychology done on it's effects socially.
I wish it was closer to Scala's Slick which is an FRM (Functional Relational Mapping), since Rust's syntax is so similar to Scala. Unlike ORMs, libraries like Slick or JOOQ (Java) have pretty much 1 to 1 DSL to SQL and Slick also provides compile time type safety which in my opinion is the main point of using it.
I make this same argument for today's Code Schools. They teach high-level language/frameworks like Ruby on Rails, and the graduates can do productive work, but often have no idea what's happening underneath. Take serialization for instance -- with a limited understanding, the DOM just somehow magically stores data and retrieves it later; but the operator has no understanding of a database, or knowledge of SQL, or a sense of the value of referential integrity, or foreign key indexes, or how to use explain plan to see where the time is going, etc. So when it comes time to tune/refactor/redesign for performance, the student is lost and goes off looking for some Gem to drop in and solve the problem.

Perhaps it's just a natural stratification of the industry, but it leaves me feeling uncomfortable and frustrated when a jr engineer doesn't understand what's happening underneath the veneer of Rails (not to pick on Rails solely, this could also apply with many other frameworks & languages - I just see this the most because it's the latest fad) and/or doesn't understand why reentrancy, interrupts, or parallelism with mutable items is dangerous and hard-as-hell to get right.

I would love to see more developers with at least a passing familiarity with the basic concepts of computing, of the sort presented in Chuck Petzold's book CODE (which I highly recommend).

[just read my post - I really am sounding like a grumpy old man these days, but I'm clicking "reply" anyway. Stay off my lawn. ;)]
The problem is that Wikipedia is a secondary source. If I cite wikipedia you need to go through the reference list in the end of the article to find the primary source for the fact that I cited. If I had instead cited that source directly you wouldn't need to go through this extra step.
You do realize Gattaca was a dystopia right? That Ethan Hawke's entire character arc was proving that an unmodified human is just as capable as a modified one?

That best case is still a horrible future.
Just contact Amazon directly they will give you your money back right away. Same exact thing happened to me. When the seller balked I went right to Amazon.

(Was this shipped from India by any chance? Mine was.)
Thanks again for the detailed reply.

I will definitely try Pharo and see how it all works. I've read a bit here and there about Smalltalk over the years, and the whole environment seems really cool. I'm especially interested in the whole "not requiring static types", because that may give some ideas on how to do a JS IDE without losing the functionality that we wish to maintain. The "liveness" of the Smalltalk environment is also very much in line with how JS/HTML are used, so there may be a natural fit there.
Recently they started sponsoring Kiwi IRC development: https://kiwiirc.com/blog/Kiwi_IRC_gets_sponsored_by_PrivateI...

Elsewhere in this HN thread, their acquiring of IRC networks was presented as a threat. I had not heard of the Snoonet deal so I went and looked and the announcement paints a very different picture: https://snoonet.org/updates/56-snoonet-joins-the-privateinte...

"Because I was about something more than myself, the owner, and director of marketing took a great interest in our mission. After speaking with them for a bit I came to learn that they grew up on IRC and valued it so much as it's where they started off, like many of us learning to program, network with others, and run our community live chats.

[...]

I then traveled to the owner's house with some slight expectations, and some doubt – do nice things just happen to us? To my surprise, I was blown away after playing endless rounds of Mario Kart, and witnessing them hard at work with what they believe in."
I'd also get testimonials from employers too: "70MillionJobs helped us XYZ"
I can offer you the perspective of a small business employee that sells a number of products on Amazon without Prime fulfillment.

In your view, how much should you have paid for shipping for an item that you didn't want? Nothing?

Should the seller be responsible for shipping the item both ways?

There is already very little margin in selling commodity goods, especially when you consider Amazon takes 15% of gross value as a fee. Shipping in many cases changes the order from profitable to money-losing. If you try and price it in, you can't compete on cost which begs the question of why bother selling on Amazon in the first place.

The crux of the issue is this, though: Amazon doesn't give a shit about 3rd party sellers, nor can the 3rd party sellers provide the same level of customer service as Amazon can, mostly due to economies of scale.
The whole 3rd party seller program is a testbed for Amazon, a research program to see how they operate and how Amazon can do it better and as soon as they realize how - the 3rd party sellers either get priced out by a race to the bottom with Amazon itself (they go directly to suppliers and cut everyone out) or by policies like these, which are ripe for abuse or eat further into seller margins to the point of operating at break-even or slightly in the red.

As a last note: Whenever I buy on Amazon, I buy Prime. The incentives of customers and 3rd party sellers are incompatible. If I were a customer for the goods that we are selling, I would never buy from our company.
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Tried it (am a big generals fan on desktop), swiping was way too laggy though. Takes 1-2 seconds for each action to go through on Android.
Only in Quebec is this allowed though, not the rest of Canada [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Piller_order#Quebec_.28c...

EDIT: turns out I'm wrong, disregard this.
This is not how economics works. Here's a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
It's so hard to know when something from your childhood was genuinely better than stuff today and when it's nostalgia talking, but on returning to it as an adult I'm pretty sure MRN is still the best kids' show anyone's made. And that Sesame Street was (way) better when the central character was the emotionally-more-mature but still-struggling-with-things Big Bird and not the chaotic neutral (but oh so lucrative) emotionally-a-2-year-old Elmo.
>If there was a more balanced weighting between superiors, peers and subordinates ratings, do you think these negatives outcomes would be avoided?

Not really because the stack ranking would still turn everything into a knife fight. It might even be worse because people would blame their coworkers for getting another 3 rating instead of everyone being unified in our hatred for upper management and the performance system as a whole.

We recently had a big Pres/VP management shakeup and the new crew is supposedly looking into changing the performance reviews but who knows how far that'll go. But they did sort out our crazy hiring requirements almost immediately so fingers crossed that they'll set some more fires before things stabilize.

>But I would like to be aware of any potential pitfalls with it (not just for me, but for the company also).

My only tip is to find a project lead/manager who didn't drink the kool aid.
Which school is this? (We are looking for a school for our kids - that's why I am curious)
Well, you'll have to wait for the genetics to catch up -- we know nearly nothing about the effects of variation on complex traits like intelligence or athletic performance. Even in known 'cancer genes' like BRCA1, we know what only a few of the thousands of single-base changes do. Without this information, things are going to be limited to known disease variants (a good thing)