skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a structure-function perspective, the human vermiform appendix is simpy the terminus of the tiniae coli: the cords of smooth muscle have to end somewhere. Similar "I gotta end somwhere" constructs are the gubernaculum and the platysma. Appendices tend to have lots of lymphoid aggregates, but the entire gut has lymphoid aggregates. The fact that more are in the appendix per square inch of epithelium, is probably due as much to its dependent location (everything in the right colon tends to fall down) as any developmental specialization. I am also not aware of any appendix-specific transcription factors (I think most pathologists would agree such a thing would be useful if it existed, see Krukenberg tumor).

At a histologic level, there is nothing special about the appendix. The cell types in the appendix are found throughout the colon: colonic epithelium, smooth muscle, lymphoid tissue, vessels, nerves.

I think the term "vestigal" is being misinterpreted by many as a suggestion that it had some more important function earlier in evolution. I rather doubt it. They assert that an appendix hasn't been described in some species. Ok, but have you positively described the absence of tiniae coli as well?

The association with the Bursa of Fabricius may hold water, because the bursa apparently develops from the avian hindgut, however, unlike birds, when we amputate the appendix of a baby human, it doesn't develop an immune deficiency. Also, the bursa seems to be further down the gut than that appendix, although I have not done a careful examination.
I wonder if the AI overlords will come up with strategies that look completely non-sensical to humans but are otherwise undefeated. I'm think of the Alpha Go Zero style reinforcement learning.

I'm struggling to see how to run thousands of games programmatically in their documentation though
William Gibson's Zero History goes into a bit of detail on this, including a mission to track down a supposedly secret brand of jeans.
>U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government.

The US intelligence community also concluded that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
I used find "jobs" like that freelancer.com, you don't work for those kind of people you just steal their idea and do it for yourself.
* Unclear business model
* "Complex tech stack" for a photo sharing site
* Building a product against something that has been tried many times, and failed each time (crowdsourced brand identity)
* Unpaid "internships" studying under other junior developers
* Probably solving for a problem that doesn't exist (see point 3 above)

Man, where do I sign up!
I don't actually even see the real engineering challenge of whitisting queries, outside of documentation and communicating errors.

It just because a confusing and unhelpful protocol choice if you start whitelisting queries. Without the "query" part it's just a DSL for graph retreival.

Why not put that client side if it is so expressive.
> have you ever worked in a government setting?

Only for a little over 15 years.

> I would hardly call them the epitome of a highly functioning workforce

A mixed bag, IME, as are private orgs. But, even insofar as your claim is true, it would only be relevant as counterevidence (weak, perhaps, because of potential compounding factors) to the article’s claim that government agencies are an environment in which full pay transparency is not demoralizing and demotivating.
interesting.. wondering what it offers in contrast to using gryd (https://gryd.us)
> It is risky basing too much of a business on tax credits and rebates.

This is/was an open secret not only in the solar industry but the entire renewable/clean energy industry ( wind, geo, etc ). These solar companies existed solely because of government support and everyone knew that once the government support was pulled, these companies would immediately be bankrupt.

The first solar companies to fall were those based in germany/uk/spain when european governments pulled the solar subsidies. Followed by the solar companies in the US. Even the chinese solar companies are struggling now.

But the biggest problem going forward for the solar/wind/etc industry is low oil/gas prices. But even with the most optimistic projections, solar would be a relatively small portion of global energy source even by 2050.
2 months of using an e-cig/vape box, with a graduated decline in nicotine percentage.
Israeli electric jet startup could become ‘Uber in the sky’
It seems that I am unable to navigate the offerings.

There used to be forums, there used to be communities, there used to be journals if it comes to that.
Now it's nothing of that. It's awful tops from Google Play and even awfuler advertising. I don't understand how one searches for something of value.

With TV it's easier because there's at least IMDB.
It's automatic distribution (with the option to also trigger one explicitly if you want). I and many other of your visitors are just about as unlikely to donate to you as to subscribe (well, in my case even more unlikely, since I can't think of any comfortable one-time donation thing I use), so if we use Flattr you can choose to get a piece of our collective pool or nothing from us. Time will tell if it's worth it, but I don't think the framing as an alternative makes sense. None of the things currently in use do the same (except Brave, I haven't kept up what they are doing exactly).
>When you become a tenured professor, the amount of work you do is far less than the vast majority of other jobs with a similar salary.

If you're in a decently good school, this is not true.

>The only real commitments are the classes you have to teach and if you minimize the amount of teaching you do, you'll barely be working at all.

In both universities I went to, the only way to reduce teaching loads was to pay your way out of it. And the only way professors would do that would be to get grant money to supplement the lost income.

As for the history professor making $100K, what is the COL in that area? In my university, I just looked it up, and they average about $75K (which, to be frank, is decent for the little work they do).

In any case, most of the 80 hour/week work is in engineering and science...
If they wanted to live up to their civic duty, they would kick Donald Trump off for bullying, and kick Melania Trump off for trolling that she would do something to stop bullying.
Meanwhile, the plague of Twitter accounts that claim to be from Northampton but keep St Peterburg office hours continues apace.
It is far from certain these recordings were made with their consent. Remember these are people that refused to let you take their picture because they thought you would capture their soul.
No, but smokers are masters of justification and excuses. Almost all smokers talk about with each other is wanting to stop smoking, and how bad it is for them.
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This has several reasons, I think.

- Modern Germans don't really see themselves as descendants of those Germans, in the German language both are named differently. Modern Germans are 'Deutsche' - ancient Germans are 'Germanen'. English does not make this distinction. There are more annoying confusions like this, for example, the Germanic tribe of the Saxons has nothing to do with the modern state of Saxony, as the ancestors of modern Saxons spoke a different dialect. There are several breaks like this in between modern Germany and Germanic tribes which are masked by nomenclature.

- German (Deutsche) Catholics distanced themselves from the 'barbaric', non-Christian Germanic tribes.

- As usual, the Nazis ruined it. The battle was sometimes used for propaganda reasons by the Nazis, replacing Romans with Jews. Modern Nazis are also using it for their own purposes (replacing Romans with immigrants and the US)

Edit: the battle itself isn't silenced or anything, I do remember quite a few events when the 2000 year anniversary happened, including the cover of the SPIEGEL having it (IIRC?)
> so no, I'm not going to do free work for you.

My current employer, when hiring me, said "Have you ever looked at the Firefox codebase? No? Good. Here, take this Firefox bug. Fix it by Monday, or at least analyze the root cause, and let's talk about it during the interview".

Needless to say, they had no interest in Firefox per se. It was just a cool open-source project, and a good way to give me "actual work" while making it plainly obvious that it wasn't for their own benefit/ they weren't looking for "free code via tech interviews"
Yes, I'm a German and I didn't hear of it.

If you look at central Europe in the last 2000 year it isn't surprising I think, most of the time it looks like a giant disaster.
> most semiconductors have an anticipated operational lifespan of 5-7 years,

Funny, my 7 year old laptop seems to be running just fine.
Yeah, I am aware his diaries are not a reliable source, however (I should have said) his meeting meeting with Ariovistus is confirmed by other sources, check wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariovistus#Confrontation_with_...
there was a lot of interest in his work. we simply dont know if something was taken, stolen or appropriated by someone else.

FBI clearly stated in that FIA disclosed dossier that there was an outside entity trying to get access to his lab prototypes, papers, information. We do not know if and what was taken,
Yep. Too far down this road, and you arrive at Wolfram's observation that, hypothetically, the entire universe could be a simulation running as a cellular automaton with a single updating agent stepping the state of the universe interaction-by-interaction. It could take an arbitrarily-long time to run one "step" of the universe in that agent's timeframe, and life existing in that universe would have no way of knowing, because all of our processes for measuring time await the touch of that updating agent to progress.
Giving vote +1. It was time to switch already.
Bose Hearphones app annoyingly/invasively forces you to enable GPS location tracking (also a waste of battery), and they data-mine (send back to bose servers) every song title you listen to plus your contacts list :-(
> I can develop literally anywhere

Except on airplanes.
> even theoretically hold in your hand.

Yeah, if you were that strong.
both sides were going to great lengths including speaking to foreign powers in order to try to get dirt on the other, and one went as far as to use federal law enforcement for political gain.

Other than the one thing for which there is some evidence, all of these are conspiracy theories so perhaps you're making your point but not in the way you'd like.
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I think you are overestimating the need for the payoff to be ridiculously high for someone to commit a crime. For that to work the criminal justice system needs to follow through and charge and incarcerate the person. As an example, here in Chicago if you are caught in a stolen car, you are given a ticket for "Criminal Trespass", a misdemeanor(1). So, I would never ever sign up for Amazon Key here in Chicago when our justice system does not punish those who commit crimes like car theft, I have 0 faith in them charging or doing anything if they stole something while in the house, even with it being on camera. (1) source: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170913/near-west-side/ridi...
You're trying to support a popular DSL and paying extra performance, engineering and architectural costs.

Why not move the wonderful experience client side and use service workers?

People talk a lot about one-query turnaround time, but for websites this is not nearly the same concern or gain that it is for, say, a mobile API. I'm a bit out of the mobile game this year, but AFAICT they aren't rushing to embrace gql.
Why would it matter though? I read a analogy somewhere (in a Carl Sagan's book, I think) about how a goldfish in a convex fish bowl might create a set of rules for motion of objects that will work fine in predicting motion of objects as seen from inside the fish bowl but will be totally different from the true laws that people outside that bowl will formulate. As long as the rules keep working for the fish, why would the fish care if they are wrong? More importantly, how would you know that you are living in the outermost layer of reality? (not sure what the technical term should be)

As Vladimir Bartol famously opined: "Nothing is true."
Because the smartest people in the room got their asses kicked in the most public way by an adversary that they claimed is an incapable drunk.

Now they are embarrassed.
> I think work hours and salary have a bimodal distribution, driven by tenured / non-tenured status.

After I got my masters in Anthropology, I had been planning on a career in academia. At the time (early aughts), there was a huge backlash against tenure and there was a big movement trying to do away with it completely and it really turned me off. I subsequently left the field altogether in large part to the idea of having to "prove" my tenure, when, at the time, it was one of the few things which gave professors some stability in their role at a given university.
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Oh, so they're paying their users in Eposure™. Fantastic, I am sure photographers will be chomping at the bit to get on this new and unique platform that will allow people to see their work. Who needs to bother with monetisation when you have so much great exposure?
The Guardian or Spiegel don't pay for ads saying a candidate is planning to use FEMA to invade Texas and force all white people with guns to have abortions.
That's pretty cool. Never knew they're were so many. Thanks for sharing this.
The opposite of on-board. It's a ship metaphor.
I am surprised they aren't doing an ICO.
Have you read the rule that was proposed?
Good book, but a little on the repetitive side. It didn't do it for me, but I think that's because a lot of the points he makes are things I already thought of constantly.
It's circular-ish, but we also see alignment in observable cosmic phenomena that strongly suggest the constants hold (such as the periodicity of pulsars being related to how fast they are moving relative to us, which we can measure via redshift).
This shouldn't matter or even be remotely relevant. Walled gardens and silos. We know those terms, and we know we need to encourage people onto my decentralized systems. Twitter, Google, Facebook, et. al. know they dictate the narrative just as much as the major news networks; maybe even more so. And there is so little hosting today that can scale that the big organizations can effectively censor whoever they want:

http://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-c...

If we had more open platforms that didn't filter and sift through everything and run _fact checks_ (i.e. you're too stupid to do your own research so let's tell you what to think), yes we'd have a lot more garbage .. but we'd have a more unfiltered equal playing field where you'd also have much more of everything.

Twitter is just another example of a filtered world that needs to die off.
Whatever twitter. You still let the President threaten war and attack individuals using your platform. We still haven't seen convincing evidence that the Russian interference mattered, or even mattered more than our direct assistance to Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.

We have a sick and disintegrating society, blaming external enemies is way too easy.
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> Then in addition to that I spend a little extra time digitizing it (basically when my brain is mush and I don't want to think about things), so I have both the artifact and a digital copy of it for reference on the go.

That's why I use LiveScribe, it handles that step automatically.

It's not an either or...
> Google apologizing that you can find misinformation on the web?

Did Google run political ads that were purchased by other countries and intended to deceive the US electorate? If so then YES + a lot more than apologize.

> Paper apologizing for people writing on it?

There's no need for this. This is a major issue and I'm taking it very seriously. The "it's a joke bro" attitude here on HN, in your comment, all over reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc., is sickening. It plays right into the Russian books - make the Americans argue about it and make jokes and make fun of the people who care!
"I'm reminded of _______. [insert some words]."

Woo-hoo! Daddy Soro's just got a new wrinkle under his eye!
There's a difference between legitimate opinion pieces and fraudulent/faked propaganda.
That was Flattered 1.0. Peter Sunde let his connection to Flattered go to avoid issues with the PirateBay case, else there was the risk that the legal charges could have damaged flattr ... but Flattr 1.0 never managed to be really profitable (too few sites with a Flattr button -> not gaining many active users -> less sites with Flattr button) thus they sold out to those Adblocker Guys ....
Oh yeah?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clint...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/politics/fbi-dossier-carter-pa...
> 1-2 people

If you're less than 3-5 people and have no money, you're looking for a technical co-founder, not an employee.

I've done say, 1 day a week of dev on the weekend while having a dayjob to get a project started for a share of equity because I liked the project. (So have others I know.)

Just have realistic asks in terms of time/equity trade so people can balance their risk by having other work as well.
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There was a report sometime ago about companies in London (probably happening elsewhere too) asking interns to pay them to get an internship (if I remember correctly, it was in fashion and journalism). And many people did so, because it helps them get a foot in the door.

I guess with more and more automation, problems like these are only going to get worse.
Note that despite the PDF title and the declassification notes, this document actually came out of US Army Intelligence, not the CIA.
>and look so convincing to Americans

Have you ever considered that those so-convincing bots aren't actually bots at all and might be so convincing because they're actual people? Always makes me chuckle how quick people are to call others machines or paid-actors because an unsavoury opinion is held.
I just don't see this being worthwhile.
I think this is unrelated.
Journal accepts bogus paper requesting removal from mailing list (2014)
Thanks Jeff, I forwarded your blog post to our Chief Scientist.
Their management team is mostly non-technical. So it's plausible they are viewing their stack as incredibly complex.
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For our first-born I bought a cheap digital fish weighing scale (1 gram resolution, I think I paid 1-2 USD for it) from Taiwan because I found it incredible that the midwives/nursing staff was basing their assessments on either low-resolution analogue scales or a single readout from a digital scale. You can weigh the baby once or twice each day and track whether they're gaining weight or not.

But don't fret - overthinking this can lead to everything turning sour and frightening, even if the baby is fine. You don't want to be frightened, you want both baby and mother to relax and get some sleep so they are motivated to try again.

We've always had babies that were relatively awake the first week - that means relatively more grumpy that there isn't yet enough milk. Last time, my wife gave the baby a little bit of the breast milk substitution you can buy to get through that period. That really helped. Baby happy and asleep for longer and the mother didn't have a baby chewing up her nipples all the time.
This is called the "slippery slope fallacy".

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
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Tipping is this bizarre mess of a system
It's water cooled, so somewhat different from the heatpipe-based cooling systems in our desktops and laptops.
But the article says:

> Among people who smoke, the effect appeared to be synergistic, with B6 usage increasing risk threefold. The risk was even worse among smokers taking B12. Using more than 55 micrograms daily appeared to almost quadruple lung-cancer risk.

> There was no apparent risk among women—which is not to say it doesn’t exist, only that it wasn’t apparent.

Which would appear to rule out smoking as a confounder, except until you realise that people who smoke more might be more likely to take vitamin B6 - maybe because they are actually diagnosed deficient and not just trying to make themselves feel better - and that maybe B12 deficiency might be associated with higher levels of smoking as compared to lower levels (if higher levels of smoking are required for B12 deficiency than B6 , and the deficiencies are similarly diagnosed and not just feel-good vitamin supplementation). i.e. "smoking" isn't a binary category.

And the gender thing would be really surprising if the cancer was only caused by smoking - unless we know that smoking doesn't cause B6 or B12 deficiency in women, then that would also appear to remove smoking as a confounder.

In conclusion, maybe.
>you will also be working alongside one of the leading React developers in the world who will assist you every step of the way.

From the Reddit thread this is a guy who is still in college and brags about his 3 month internship at Amazon. Someone's gotta knock him down a peg, or two, or five.

Fuck it, just throw him all the way down the stairs, he really needs it.
Meanwhile I get bothered by some of the free work companies ask for in the interview process.
This strikes me personally as nothing more than virtue signaling.

Can someone help me understand what I’m missing?
is there a link to the full pitch deck somewhere? that tweet only has the cover
So would a box fan + furnace filter in the window work for the large smoke particles? DIY wood worker people make rigs like for dust in their garages.
There's a difference between having strong opinions, and actually conspiring to have somebody elected. One is posting news, the other is creating news (see entire Facebook groups from Russia posting fake news).

There is still the question though: have other nations participated in this creation of news? Probably so, so perhaps the spot light shouldn't be on Russia only, but more generalized into this problem. But, the problem exists nonetheless and taking action is reasonable.
no B12 but crap loads of monosodium glutamate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate_flavoring
> This susceptibility is likely not particular to Americans. It's this difficult-to-fix nature that necessitates taking an indirect approach to solving this problem.

There was a podcast where locals in a small town in Eastern Ukraine said they leave the area immediately if a camera crew (for tv news I presume) shows up because they think wherever there is a camera crew in that town, the chances of some kind of bombing or another becomes very high. I mean there are various degrees of "fake" news. One could argue that "suits are back" [submarine] is fake news as well.

[submarine] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Seems his theories on time and space were proven true, as he told the bellhop they may be worth something in the future, lol.
You should look up what Fascism actually is. Sad this has to be pointed out on HN. Really sad