skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought microwaves weren't high enough in the spectrum to disrupt DNA which is the main cause of cancer risk for gamma/x-ray? Individual waves don't have the energy to break bonds even for relatively high power transmitters, at least that's what I've been told.

I'm not a comms engineer but I've also been told the biggest risk microwave exposure is thermal burns. Especially to the eyes which have limited cooling ability and pain receptors
If you don't need GPU support, vigra is a great option for ND image processing.

conda install -c conda-forge vigra

python -c 'import vigra; help(vigra.analysis.watersheds)'

scikit-image ain't bad, and has more functions, but the functions vigra is faster if it has the function you're looking for.

Next on my list of ND array libraries to learn is xtensor.
Here's a study showing Metabolic and behavioral effects of a high-sucrose diet during weight loss: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9094871
It shows when kcals are equated,there is no difference in fat loss in high vs low sugar intake.
I find Layne Norton a good resource for science related information about nutrition.
I will say he is an outspoken critic of Taubes. Here is one of Layne's articles on sugar with references: https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/the-science-of-sugar-an...
Actually there is SSL, but it's signed to HostGator because it isn't set up correctly, mostly I think because HostGator would make it difficult for something like letsencrypt, which raises the cost of entry.

> You are welcome to provide us with the SSL and we will install it for $10, or you can purchase a 128bit/256bit Comodo certificate directly from us for $50.00 [0]

[0] http://www.hostgator.com/services
Where is this dystopia of forbidden trade advertising to doctors and pharmacists? Advertising for drugs seeks to mediate the doctor's expertise and knowledge. "Hey what does it hurt if people have information?" It's not the information, it's putting in the hands of unqualified people in an area where qualified people are the best judges. I'm not limiting this to Western MDs or anything like that, there's just really no use in patients asking about xeljanz or whatever it's called. If anything, it causes ailments by suggestion. Not hypochondria per se, but something, and induced.

Beyond this, I'm too lazy right now to look up drug company kickbacks to prescribing doctors, and I'm sure there's plenty, but it would probably still occur even if mass media advertising was banned.
Really? The FDA did a study with physicians and they thought it was quite useful![1]

- Many physicians thought that DTC ads made their patients more involved in their health care.

- The study demonstrated that when a patient asked about a specific drug, 88 percent of the time they had the condition that the drug treated.

Of course the study showed there were problems, but it was the ads had many more positive effects than negative!

[1]https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm14356...
I am curious about the prevailing fetish for adopting a hyper critical stance towards China's growth rate. Is it just me, or does it seem that when articles are posted portaying China in a positive light, the immediate tendency is to adopt a critical or skeptical stance? Of course a certain amount of skepticism is warranted, but I feel that these criticisms take on a bit more of a personal tinge, as if there is something ominous or threatening about China's growing economic influence.

If you feel threatened by the idea of a China that economically dominates, I would honestly like to hear your explanation. Or if your skepticism is ideological e.g., a general belief that undemocratic societies cannot prosper economically, I'd be curious about that as well.
Even if you've already graduated it's not too late to reconnect with people.
Are you saying it's bad when patients take an interest in their own health? Doctors aren't mind readers.
Not mentioned in the article is China's desire to develop the western areas of the country, which benefit from Belt and Road.

To manufacture a product in Hebei and ship it from Tianjin, or manufacture in Jiangsu and ship from Shanghai/Ningbo, or manufacture in Guangdong and ship from Shenzhen, is pretty cheap.

To do the same in western provinces is much harder. There's a big regional disparency. While China's landmass goes far west, (western) Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, the western provinces I mean are the shanxis, gansu, sichuan, yunan with large population bases.

Myanmar was also not mentioned in the article, but will also play an important role as support to southwestern China's access to the ocean.
If it's any consolation I feel like an extremely narrow focus on CS and related topics to the exclusion of anything else is a common affliction on HN.

But, anyway, it's never too late to start reading literature or history or whatever else really. I think I've read more stuff in the past few years than I ever did in school.
I do this with one of my domains. Setting it up was just adjusting some forwarding preferences in my registrar's web interface. Not sure how a separate service could make this easier, I'd presumably still have to login to my registrar to point an mx record at it.
You speak as if a human being shown Pacman for the first time and figuring out the controls doesn't require a ton of data. There's so much data that goes into that. You have tens of billions of photons entering your eye during that playtime. This is sensory information that your brain decodes and reintegrates on the fly, then relays to the required parts of your body.

Could you have experienced all of that without seeing Pacman? Probably not. Once you have seen and played Pacman enough, you can probably imagine an entire instance in your mind. That's because we are good at storing and retrieving certain kinds of data. The data was required in the first place, though.
That sounds like a recipe for delays and finger pointing along with massive overruns on the later parts "to fix what those other guys didn't do our way."

If you want separate bidding for separate phases, bid it out that way.
Are you saying the ideal state is when physicians are the sole keepers of all medical knowledge? Patients couldn't possibly play a role in their own health?
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> My counter-hypothesis is this: Computers, compared to humans, will always be more data-hungry (i.e. worse at making general decisions without huge amounts of data) and more data-capable (i.e. better at making decisions with it).

Counterexample:

AlphaGo Zero is currently the best Go player in the world. (It beat AlphaGo, and AlphaGo beat humans.) AlphaGo Zero learned to play Go entirely by playing itself; it was given no training set at all.
The thinly-veiled anti-Semitism of this article is abhorrent. Going after a family like this is shameful, the real people to blame are those taking drugs with solid medical uses and abusing them. Ever try to recover from surgery w/o painkillers? Pray you never do, you'll be thanking the Sacklers.
It's not a discovery per se, since its creation was deliberate, but it's a practice exercised throughout the STL (the C++ standard template library), and is a term coined by C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup himself. It could be considered a "standard pattern" in lieu of a better term.
Hey engineer at Uber here. I'm a male engineer started working at Uber two years ago. I'm seeing a lot of comments here that is discrediting Susan Fowler's accomplishments in taking TK down, and I would like to correct the notion that the culture/TK himself/Waymo is what brought TK down.

To preface I've work both at Google as an engineer, and frankly speaking the engineering culture at Uber didn't differ all that much. Both org had the same amount of soft misogyny, politics, and HR that protected its highest performers. In fact a lot of characters mentioned in Susan's blog post works at Google today. So what led up to the downfall of TK? Susan Fowler's blog post. What she described is what a lot of people go through in every company, but she was brave enough to post her experience using her real name. I'm willing to bet if she never posted her blog post none of this would've happened, and it would've been business as usual at Uber.

Susan Fowler exposed the weakness in our culture and it catapulted an internal French Revolution where every head had a possibility of getting axed. This put our executives in a disarray and naturally external enemies decided to strike at us when we were weakest. The Waymo lawsuit only happened when it did and only effective as it was because of the chaos Susan Fowler initiated.

So please stop discrediting Susan Fowler, what she did was really the catalyst, the trigger, for Uber to set course on a better path. It's just too bad she wasn't able to stay and see the real impact of her words. Ubers a great place to work now.
Please explain how to tell if some being "has semantics". Suppose we encounter some alien made out of crystal and metal, but arranged in organic looking structures. We work out how to communicate, rather roughly (like Google Translate). They won't talk about their ancestors so we don't know if they were built or evolved.

How do we find out if they have semantics?
> or maybe 20 seconds in the microwave

I'm curious to know the circumstances if you know what a skin burn from 20 seconds in a microwave looks like.
On the other hand, imagine a world with only one written and spoken language. Where everyone can easily communicate with everyone else, regardless of the accident of their nationality.

I for one hope that's where this trend is leading, as I think it'd be a worthwhile trade off against the loss of cultural knowledge that results from language death.
That particular implementation isn’t (FAIR research code, non-commercial), but are there known patents on the algorithms that would prevent a clean-room implementation from being used in a commercial setting?
"intelligence requires semantics and semantics is exactly what computers, by definition, lack"

This sort of assertion is experimentally untestable, not rigorously derivable from any axioms that people agree on, has no predictive power, and amounts to vague opinion passed off as fact. About a hundred years ago you might as well have been arguing about how "philosophically unsophisticated an idea like flying machines" was because flying is, strictly speaking, a behavior of flying animals.
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That deafening silence is hopefully encouraging you to reflect on why you decided to write this response.
Company project? Google's design sprint is good methodology.

Personal project?

1. Market research. If it's something worth doing, someone else has done a similar solution. Ideally, the competitor is a hacky solution, built off some forum, community, or an Excel sheet, and has become really tedious. If there is no competitor, there is no market.

2. Pull feature lists out of their feedback of that tool. A couple of hours reading reviews and Reddit discussions does a better job than focus groups.

3. Hack a disposable prototype. Key word disposable. It will be buggy and ugly but do a better job than the existing tool. The key is to gather information.

4. Get feedback from the prototype. Ideally do this in person - you want to see the point where people get excited.

5. Focus on the features people love. Think about suggestions and complaints. Don't implement immediately, but find out why they ask for it.

6. Iterate and improve.
Try talking to a few doctors. They would love it if their patients took an active role in their own health.

In fact, I'd goes as far as saying relying 100% on your doctor for your health decisions is pretty stupid.
> Coloured note heads are better at conveying pitch than note shapes - which are already used in percussion notation.

Shape notes are used in singing traditions such as Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony to help singers find the right pitch. It works very well. I don't know if anyone uses them for instrumental music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note
You do realize that if Purdue talked about any other dosing regimen other than 12 hours that would be illegal off-label promotion right?
Ouch. Wow :/

Have you considered (or do you) post(ing) this sort of thing to https://reddit.com/r/talesfromsecurity? This kind of thing would definitely be very well received.
When you state something like that, you must show us some sources.
That's not the story I got from that study. At all.

* 58% of respondents "agreed strongly that DTC ads make the drugs seem better than they really are"

* 78% of physicians believed patients understood possible benefits, however, only 40% believe patients understood the risks involved.

* 75% of "physicians surveyed believed that DTC ads cause patients to think that the drug works better than it does"

* "physicians felt some pressure to prescribe something when patients mentioned DTC ads."

So, patients are getting more involved and asking questions, which is great, but they don't understand the risks involved, the patient misrepresents how well the drug is working for them, and the physician feels pressure to give them what they ask for.

That sort of bias is a problem, especially with on-going therapy. If a patient is being misled by DTC ads about how well they are being treated, they can't raise questions that would allow them to get even better treatment. If a physician is feeling pressured to give a drug when asked, they can't try other, sometimes more effective, therapies.
(Irony that email is a federated implementation of a protocol, yet the website is called antifederal.)

I've had my own domain name since 2002. Many others here may also do similar. Many may not.

This federates you, and your mailing address. Freedom to change email providers, without inconveniencing those you converse with.

There are two sides to a transaction, however. Your mail may be federated, but the other side likely isn't. I'm incredibly disappointed how stuff like PGP has not been widely adopted.
This also sounds like IT. It seems that security and tech are considered to be nothing but cost centers. And then the world can't stop laughing at the string of things that happened to Equifax in a row....
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why down vote ? do you really want to use a library without tests ?
Yes.

curl --request PUT --data '{"on":true}' http://<local bridge ip address>/api/<your api key>/lights/<light id>/state

https://developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started
So you say the options were do you want democracy or we are going to resurrect Franco? hahahahaha

Nobody ever was beating for speaking Catalan. Ever.
Uploading files would become a chore, as you'd always have to copy them over from your actual Home-directory to that Firefox-user's, but yeah, it would add another thick layer that attackers would have to get through.

Mind that Firefox is also getting sandboxed tabs as we speak, so yet another layer that attackers would have to get through, which wasn't in place at the time of this attack.
>Trying to preserve this through translation is never going to work for many reasons, mainly because turning meaning from something continuous into discrete words is done differently in different cultures so a words true meaning can be hiding between several words of the language you wish to translate to. Therefore some things become hard to say which used to be common phrases. This has obvious consequences for culture but it also means that often when you as an individual move from one language to another you unlock more of your innate assumptions and see how your language defined your approach to problems in some ways. Gaining understanding of these assumptions gives more 'room to move in', perspective wise, I find.

I get what you mean, but you should give some examples, if possible. Nothing cements abstract notions in the mind quite like examples - in my experience, anything hard requires 1. an example that demonstrates the phenomena, then 2. the theory necessary to properly understand which aspects of the example you're referring to that demonstrate the phenomena, before you finally understand the phenomena as it acts in the example and 3. can model the concept in your mind independent of the example.
Are you kidding? Do you know how a democracy works?
I really like this, why not dynamic purchasing if consumers are increasingly confronted by dynamic pricing?

Are there reasons why this wouldn't work?

I am curious what would the legal challenge be if dynamic pricing on the sell side is considered acceptable?
I feel threatened by China, because I don’t trust them. There’s not much more to it. I fear that they might abuse their power or use it to destabilize the West. There’s a lot of hatred of the Us, and I don’t want them to try and trample our norms, culture, society... things which I care about and am deeply connected to.

That’s not to say they actually would do any of those things, the key point is the lack of trust, specifically trust that they would do anything to benefit us or protect us or that they care about us at all. I don’t trust them, and the specifics of what they could do to hurt us are not really something I consider (but as they become more powerful they have many more options... to the point where one day maybe we are dwarfed by them and have no ability to defend ourselves should we need to.) China is very scary to me.
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Maybe from cooking meat?
Your friends leave town as you get into late twenties and thirties, regardless of city. Your loss of community may be correlated with Amazon's growth, but it may not have been caused by it.
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It means all the Spanish people have a say when talking about sovereignty, not only a part.

That's why is illegal a election for secession with only a part of the Spanish census.
I expect this to have a large downside in that it introduces a negotiable element into the price. And as such you'll see it become mandatory that you negotiate (just as frequent flier miles became mandatory) and as a result margins will decrease.
Grandparent is right though since most of the blue and green light parts are reflected or absorbed in the top skin layers. Starting with red and infrared, deep tissue penetration is possible. The higher the frequency, the lower its ability to penetrate. That’s why RF can pass through bodies while UV light can’t.
Oh. Thanks very very much for this clarification; most helpful TIL.

Apologies for not replying sooner; I didn't see this until now!
Speculation, but perhaps it was a reaction to the short, negative response. Clearly, you looked at it enough to note a lack of tests. Did you see anything you liked? Something you might find useful? It's likely not your intent, but one could have read your comment as dismissive and unnecessarily negative. Then again, it's hard to know definitively why someone downvotes.
Is spam email still a big deal
Is spam email still a big deal? Does it really consume that much bandwidth? I can imagine in the past when computers were slower that spam was more of a resource hog than it is now.
I think it's the natural depression that eroded where the water first comes off the top half of the chute.
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Sure the patients don't understand the risks, that's what the doctor is there to explain.

I guess my point is that most people see DTC ads as completely useless and harmful overall.

The study seems to suggest there are a lot of positive benefits.

One point I didn't copy paste showed that of the 80% of patient who actually had the condition, 5% were previously undiagnosed! That means a drug ad potentially saved thei life if it was a serious disease!
Oh that's interesting. I do the same thing but treat it as an engineering process.
^ this. He's probably banking that BTC will at some point become the de facto standard for currency, and he will be able to simply spend his BTC.
So "girl" is a bad word now?

I loved the name. It often prompted me to put on one of my favorite Stones songs by the same name.

What is a more empowering image than "Rosie the Riveter", the quintessential Factory Girl?

My daughter would say "why can't we have more girl names?".
But doesn't mean that.

In law there isn't something like 'oh it seems this legal precept means...'

All legal precepts have carefully chosen words and a spirit in which they're based.
I remember when the Motorola Droid took this strategy... at the time, Android (and in particular Motorola's Android skin) was quite a bit behind iOS UX-wise. Although I guess you could ask why it didn't dominate among Android users.
I really like Trader Joe's that does not do all of this segmented pricing, sales, and coupons. I wonder if they can survive without all that in the long run. Maybe with having mostly store brands it will work out for them.
std::unique_ptr has a widely unknown second template argument called deleter. It is designed exactly for this purpose. You just do roughly like this(written from a phone):

typedef fdwrapper = unique_ptr<int, close>;
fdwrapper fdhandle(open(filename));
Problem is easy to identify - We are using waterfall for massive scale urban projects, and getting the known associated problems. Add to that massive corruption and cronyism.

The fix is not clear. Can't just drop in agile, every attempt to legislate away corruption fails.
> If you feel threatened by the idea of a China that is economically globally dominated, I would honestly like to hear your explanation.

Do you not see those articles where China build artificial islands and try to enforce the China seas as if they own all of it? They bully everybody, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, etc..

They're doing this because of the oil in the area and to exert dominance. USA on the other way just want everybody to be okay cause you know USA is all about money and business. If you lock that area like China is doing USA can't really profit.

I think in general I rather have USA ideology over China bullying.
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Indeed, setting certain rules can unify a market and reduce transaction costs. Calling a city, negotiating for rights to use public property, etc.

Setting caps can also reduce a municipality desire to give a 'monopoly', an absolute monopoly where you can't get comparable service elsewhere, to one provider in exchange for generous royalty rates.
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> I fear that they might abuse their power or use it to destabilize the West

Totally warranted, look at what happens during cold war, and the conflicts between nations with different ideologies. The mutual-untrustness cannot be reduced in any degree.
Are you really serious with those 'sources'?
Yes. This if a very old concept and everything used to be sold this way in the market place. No price tags or signs anywhere. Learn how to haggle and try and get the friend discount.
Right. That's the same point I was trying to make when I said that genes "care" about reproducing in the same way that water "cares" about flowing downhill. Neither genes nor water really care about anything, they just do what they do because physics.
China has little concept of human rights compared to the west. The planet would be much worse off for everyone with a Chinese hegemony, except for the Chinese politburo.
Unfortunately that appears to already be the case:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-news/32170-...

WiFi transmission power is almost always controlled by software, with no hardware limits. It’s very easy to override this and transmit above the legal limit, to the point where you could potentially damage the hardware itself.
About the blood-vessels-as-antennas theory, I just want to throw in that blood vessels absorb infrared light well (well duh, blood is quite dark), so at least at that frequency energy is very much absorbed, rather than passed through.