skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
23andme and similar have a horrible track record of privacy... I would highly suggest against using a service that combines the sequencing and the analysis. I would suggest, however, if you are interested in this line of data based health investigation, to have the sequencing done by someone good at sequencing and then have analysis done separately (or in conjunction between the third party analyzer and the sequencer). The cost would be more, but with a smaller shop you are much more likely to be able to request stringent data secrecy or even deletion.

I say this as a person who sysadminned a genetics lab, so my scientific knowledge of the subject is limited, but I did see the practical issues around the industry.
Try it in Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/933753595174031361
How fast would it need to be? Would a Google fiber style 1Gb up and down connection be plenty for a single rack of servers?
Or, they make a really good product that people want. That seems to be their current approach, which is hard to argue with.
Eggs are insanely cheap. I’m not sure why anyone would bother to fake them.
I feel the same with not having Clojure around at work anymore after I quit my last job.

That said, at the new place that uses Rails we instilled a culture of avoiding stateful updates, preferring hash structures to mountains of object definitions, and use of functional transforms as much as possible.

Then we needed to ramp up to the next level and chose the JVM for writing concurrent code. But we started with Scala as something that has functional concepts baked in since it's "easier to hire for". Not the same, but there are other paths to dealing with lack of Clojure.

Oh, and the Scala only makes up for part of losing Clojure because we actually use it in a similar way to Clojure plus a bajillion type declarations. With the occasional workaround for a compiler bug (I've encountered three in the past 6 months).
> A user has the right to have removed all content they've produced regardless of whether it's linked with other posts.

What major sites behave in a way that you find acceptable?
Right, but you can implement atomic state transitions quite naturally with CAS.
You are confusing a recipe that you don't like with an ingredient that you don't like.
There are at least two orgmode plugins for vim. I don't know how complete they are, though.

Orgmode is plain-text formatted, so you don't need a plugin to read it. However, the plugin gives you the ability to fold headings automatically, format tables automatically, and handle indenting and insertion of headings more easily.
Awesome, thanks for responding so well to this request.
Questions to someone with more economics knowledge than me:

I understand the sentiment and intuitive reasoning behind this argument (I find myself thinking it every week when I go to the local farmers' market!), but is there evidence that "buying local" actually increases the local standard of living?

And a followup: if it does increase the local standard of living, would this behavior, if duplicated in all communities in the world, increase the average standard of living in the world?

Some conflicting (and probably all wrong) intuitions I have for different sides of these questions:

Pro local:

The notion of keeping money circulating locally makes sense. If money is a sort of proxy for productivity, then money leaving the community is productivity leaving the community.

Anti local:

If I pay more for Local Larry's eggs and Down-the-road Dave's cabbage (etc.), then to maintain my standard of living at a constant level, I have to charge more for whatever service I provide the community. And recursively, everyone else has to as well. It seems like, at best, we just wind up at the same standard of living we started at (and at worst, lower).

Pro local:

If money is a proxy for productivity, and buying non-local means trading productivity to some large corporation in exchange for some good or service, and that corporation will disproportionately funnel that money to the already-wealthy who can afford to save that money (productivity) for a rainy day, then we have effectively contributed to removing productivity from the economy.
Check this out: http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html?download

Specifically, scroll down to the "PDF Documentation" section, and open that. Then, search for the word "algorithm". They give a high level overview of how they perform the defrag.
I thought this was going to be about MMO currency. Very disappointed.

Really though, I'm not very surprised this is happening. Desk jobs can be pretty soul crushing. Sometimes I wonder how long it would take for me to learn Pennsylvania Dutch and join the Amish.
I think currently, market share isn't dictated by quality, but more by pushing stuff on users (Google is really obnoxious with it).

So it's not as much of a technical problem, as a marketing one.

May be mandating browser choice for mobile devices could help it, including forcing Apple to remove the ban on competing browsers, which really should have been tackled by anti-trust a long time ago.
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics (cipro, levaquin, etc) are dangerous and horrific, and irreversibly destroy gut bacteria. This article is about fluoroquinolones, which are well documented to cause C.Diff infections because they destroy most gut bacteria except C.Diff, allowing it to overrun.
Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/1919/
I imagine you would find it weird if you mentioned it in passing while commenting on a different topic and there was some pile on of people insisting you owed them more information about every face painting incident in your entire life because face painting is illegal in your country and also something done a lot by (insert salacious group description).

And even if you are totes cool with that, why do care so very much that I am not? Why do feel so compelled to insist that I owe people answers to personal questions merely because they asked?

Is that really a precedent you want to set? If so, I would like to know your net worth and the log in credentials for your bank account. Please and thank you.
It’s not psychosomatic- fresh vegetables taste much better. A salad that was picked the morning of is much different.
The biggest selling point for me with firefox on android is the ability to use an adblocker. There's no way I'm going to consider using chrome on android unless it supports extensions like ublock and whatnot.
Isn't it obvious they want backdoors in everything by now? Even nist is compromised.
So does Hitler in some parts of the world.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xd5bdd/nazis-chic-is-asia...

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

https://www.famouslogos.net/images/hitler-fried-chicken-logo...
Maybe they need to strike deals to come preisntalled with systems or other software? A browser is just a "the internet" to a majority of people.
Can anyone comment on how this would interact with gravity?

[The web page doesn't say and the full article is pay-walled.]
> In the event that everyone is overly scared of it, then the region will depopulate and the owner of the nuclear plant will be on the hook.

Right. I don't think there will be enough people in the region interested in repopulating.

> They'll owe much more than the damage they actually caused, but I don't see a problem with this. There's no inherent right to damage someone else's health without their consent and then insist that they're wrong about how much the damage is worth.

I disagree with you here. You're relying on some subjective assessment of what the damage is worth, which I think is uncontroversially an irrational overestimate.

Instead, I think it is entirely appropriate for studies to attempt to quantify, objectively, the real value of the damage.
I don't disagree that it has didactic value. I think in industry its time is probably going to decline.
Are you really so sure? It’s not an easy thing to maintain awareness of the workings of one’s emotions, especially for someone raised in a repressive, collectivist culture that doesn’t value the internal life of the individual, and especially if that individual is on the spectrum, in which case the emotions are “buried” even deeper.
>>At its peak, the company had more than 300 people and was in seven countries, including the U.K., India and Australia.

They could have been very successful but I guess wanted to become a unicorn...
> Lifestyle is something very different than principles and ideals.

Are you leading a lifestyle that goes contrary to your ideals and principles? Isn't that a rather depressing and dishonest way to live? Why would you want to live like that?

Sure, not everybody can "afford" to live by the ideals/principles they ascribed to, depending on what these might be, but that's not a choice by those people, it's a choice made for them by their circumstances.

If they had an actual free choice, I'm pretty certain the vast majority of people would prefer a lifestyle matching their principles and ideals, instead of being stuck in a place where they have to throw their principles and ideals overboard just to get along.

> Strange that you don't see the difference.

Even stranger that you didn't try to explain that difference, which leaves the rest of us wondering what you are actually trying to allude to.
I wonder if the EU will start to consider the situations with iOS and Android equivalent to Microsoft bundling IE ... giving users an obvious post-install choice might help a lot.
Pretty much like Jupyter notebooks. It's a great way to present research, especially statistical stuff. It's pretty much impossible to verify any statement about a large dataset without having it to hand and ready to calculate. Even having the data printed in an appendix is going to be discouraging verification.

Plus the stories you can tell with this sort of thing are much more vivid. If someone has a question about some part of the data, they can ask the computer instead of the author. For a lot of queries.
Simply put yes.
The big issue is I often switch between Browsers for work.
So I often switch between Chrome, Firefox, and Opera with custom extensions for my workflow.

With the amount of choice, I don't need to stick with a browser that makes my life harder than easier.

Chrome is my main browser now, it was already getting close to majority usage for me.
I can see how that mom in the comic would be a supporter of bullfighting - they tend to use similar justifications around the idea that, if it wasn't because the bull was raised and taken care (to ultimatelly be killed in the sports), it wouldn't have existed at all. I say that's BS, if you ask me.
... and pattern-matching. But yeh, patterns are a sign of a weakness in the language. And it's not infrequent that patterns really turn out to be anti-patterns.
In search of the perfect writing font
I'm not sure that's the right comparison. A heart rate monitor is not a mathematical model of human emotion, it's just a measurement tool. And it's one that is no more accurate or reliable than the tools we use to measure the price of a trade.

Real world markets are much more complicated than economic models, just as human emotion is more complicated than the author's model of no change heart rate = no change in emotion.
Would they have reacted similarly if she brought a big teddy bear? Or an alarm clock that didn't go off?
I hate the way this article is written. This is a news story, not an editorial, but it's clearly trying to tell me what to think.

Here's the correct headline:

"Japanese politician required to leave chamber after bringing her baby to work"

The Post has gone downhill very quickly since Bezos took over.
It's very true for most people, especially in the third world. And you can do exactly what you described for e-gold as well.
Weapon in Saudi Arabia’s War Against Yemen,
How is it good for the cows? If you want cows that are "loved like family", then please explain how milking a cow is worse than a human woman getting (well, being forced into) a job as a milk producer? (Which goes far beyond "wet nursing" in terms of milk production)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse#/media/File:Wet_Nurs...
> You still haven't told me how to design a technology to be "good intentioned".

Design.

Design simply encodes the values of the designer in the physical technology. A virtuous designer will design something which makes good things easy. A nihilistic designer will design something which makes their life easy. It’s unavoidable.

That’s why so much software these days is harmful, the tech world is largely populated with supremacists and nihilists.

(I don’t mean that in any particularly judgemental way. Supremacism is the norm in the wealthier slices of American culture, so it’s unremarkable that Silicon Valley would end up reflecting that. And the competitive nature of funding and hiring self selects for supremacists as well. And for those who don’t tend towards supremacism, nihilism one of the few ways to stay sane amongst supremacists.)
The new wireless keyboard had the problem, not the damaged keyboard.
Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code
To me, this highlights just how bad most infotainment systems are as opposed to demonstrating how great Alexa is.
ISPs can block all P2P traffic (bits flowing between residential IPs) and removal of Net Neutrality regulations will embolden them to do so, but it's also about the trend toward ISPs being giving the green light to do whatever they want, with eventually no regulation whatsoever.
Salt isn't dangerous, as long as you get enough fluids, your kidneys are healthy and you don't overdo it. In other words yeah moderation is key, but sausages (and other cured meats) can have a surprising salt content.

Sugar routinely gets added to a lot of foodstuffs you wouldn't expect it in. But if you're primarily eating home-made sausages, you're probably not going to have any issues, they're mostly in processed and ready-made foods.
Why not publish your own meta-analysis, then? Or if not publish, at least write an amateur meta-analysis?
You certainly need some kind of experience first but I wouldn’t say such a move is reserved to late in your career. It’s all a matter of learning and making connections deliberately.
Unfortunately I had the same issue on my Android phone - every time I re-opened the app I had to open a new tab in order to browse. I ended up installing and using Firefox Nightly instead (where the issue seems to be resolved).
SBA loans are guaranteed by the government. They are zero risk loans for bankers, in other words, it is just another way to subsidize the banking industry.
Not an expert, but I'd think the A-bombed cities provided numerous examples of all the range of possible radiation contamination in humans, from "negligible" to "fatal in hours" and possibly beyond.

(I'm assuming a 1-dimensional scale here, which may be a mistake)

Why would the total radiation of the event matter at all? All the radiation that an individual may receive beyond "fatal in hours" will not be relevant to their reproductive future.

(Except in the contrived scenario in which a male receives enough radiation to kill him in hours, but still conceives a child in these hours)
> she had asked the assembly secretariat to allow members to bring their children onto the floor

> her request was denied — she was told that attending a meeting with a child would “obstruct the operation of the assembly”

> she decided to take her baby with her when she returned to work anyway

> she was surprised to have her baby ejected from the chamber

I'm not sure I understand why this was surprising. I think she has a valid complaint that Kyoto and Akita provide child care facilities while her building does not, but it seems reasonable that children would not be an exception to the rules of the assembly.
For me, the biggest benefit of using Firefox on mobile is access to extensions. Full-featured uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger make mobile browsing a lot less annoying.
> When you pay more for better product, whether it be milk or chicken or beef or vegetables, you eat less and utilize it more.

That strategy works equally well for any product, not just "better" product.
The TLDR; is that roughly 2,000 more people in the 25-34 age group started farming, which is a roughly 2% increase. Doesn't really sound like news to me, not yet at least. I'd like to interpret it as the younger generation getting back to their roots and more connected with real stuff (where food actually comes from, getting hands dirty, that sort of thing), but 2,000 people doesn't make a wave. I hope this number continues to rise and that as a society we become more _real_ in coming years rather than less. I.e., I think our society has lost something important the further we've gotten from our roots.
http://language.chinadaily.com.cn/19thcpcnationalcongress/20...

This is the speech Xi delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It contains this sentence. If you skim the speech, you will find multiple mentions of '美丽', all of them environment related.

The other four words are related to other aspects of policies of China.

富强(prosperous) is related to economy.

民主(democratic) is related to politics.

文明(culturally advanced) is related to culture.

和谐(harmonious) which was added to the constitution by Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao, is related to society.

And 美丽(beautiful) is related to ecology or environment.

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富强, 民主, 文明 and 和谐 are the first words of the 'core socialist values' which contain 12 such words and which were laid out at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when Hu stepped down and Xi become the paramount leader of Communist Party of China.

'Core socialist values' are taught to students from kindergarten to college. And these words of 'core socialist values' are plastered over walls, buildings and flyovers at every cities in China.
Blanket statements like this are not helpful, every single jurisdiction has very different laws.

An state level overview is here: http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/raw-milk-regulations but certain local jurisdictions within each state may further limit sales.
It's a bit sad how network effects rule. If businesses weren't sold so much .net maybe there would be more jobs for other, arguably better solutions.

Now, as a side note, there were recent news about clojure CLR. Maybe some will accept having clojure code on top of C# ? (clojure is often used as a better lifestyle on top of Java legacy)
I realize the ocean is a hostile place but I can’t imagine it’s hard compared to AI driving challenges. A message in a bottle could potentially do this journey.

This seems like a challenge in construction/durability more than in control and navigation. I thought there must be some kind of limitation to make it truly interesting (no gps, no batteries etc) but didn’t find any mentioned in the article.

I’m sure I must be underestimating the difficulty but unsure how I’m underestimating it.
Browser share trends with bot traffic removed:

https://truemarketshare.com

We may post some daily numbers after the holidays.
All of them? Really?
Yes, but as long as nuclear reactors operate properly, and with more modern safety features, providing power to a single household will produce a more manageable amount of nuclear waste compared to CO2 (kilograms to tonnes). No source of energy is without risk.
Most farmers are producing a commodity and there efficiency will win out every time over the small farmer.

But farm to table restaurants are willing to pay a premium for a steady local supply. Some people are willing to pay a premium for organic and non-GMO produce.

The small farmer is able to do something the larger farmer is unable or unwilling to do and receives a much higher price for it.

Small farms are exploding in Detroit. But they're having a problem getting title to the land they're farming.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-30/black-farmers-detroit...
I am not too interested in ancestry, I'll probably just look at it out of curiosity and thats it. More interested in their health reports.

What do you mean by "ruined others"?
It is simple. In the future the Communism will be built, and all the people will be happy. It is absolutely certain. Every current event proves this statement, if you think otherwise, you should educate youself better by consuming mass media.

But the past is not so certain, because the past is under control of the government, and the past undego changes sometimes. The past has its blank spots, there are some unmentionable events in the past that do not make communists proud. So no one really knows what happened.

If you are interested, you might want to read Orwell's 1984, he described extreme case of such a world view.
It could definitely be clearer. But the more you have to explain a joke the less funny it is.
I switched back to Firefox from Chrome, because Firefox is now finally a better browser in every aspect.
The sugar industry was funding one of the biggest misconceptions in nutrition
Get informed. Don't talk out of your ass\:

https://www.coindesk.com/eroding-net-neutrality-hurt-bitcoin...
okay, any recommendations of smaller shops?
I decided years ago (2001) to not use a SQL database for a web based document creation/management app I was making.

My reasons had to do with document integrity and database complexity. The short of it is I found SQL to be an awful approach to store and manage documents. Instead I used a simple flat file database for each user.

Another important reason I didn't use SQL after reviewing it is that I felt that designing, implementing, and securing a SQL database that could handle the aspects of document creation and management and user management required a dedicated professional who's made that a career choice and I couldn't learn all that was necessary and create the app too. It would take years to become that proficient with SQL alone.

Two years ago I finally moved over to a NoSQL database, specifically CouchDB/PouchDB, because those offer Offline data storage, sync features, Read/write speed, and Security.

CouchDB is designed specifically for Documents and addresses all the issues I found with using SQL databases for document management, and it's built specifically for use with web apps. From the CouchDB docs:

"it embraces the natural idea of evolving, self-contained documents as the very core of its data model" (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.1/intro/why.html#a-better-fit...)

For your paper, I would start by looking into available database options to see what they say their products are best at doing.

My experience is that SQL users tend to avoid NoSQL because it requires a very different way of doing things that they feel they can do just fine with SQL. They're probably right, but for those just starting to learn about databases NoSQL may be the best choice.

Since I never got in the SQL boat my first look at CouchDB left me feeling like they designed and built exactly what I needed and moving over to it was incredibly easy for me.
That's a good point. But reducing a programming language ecosystem to one number isn't the statistic I'm interested in. I want to see the distribution in some way e.g. standard deviation. What's 'good' in each look like?
Well, it got my market share back.

I really like the new version. And I am glad to have switched back from Chrome, because I really like what Mozilla is doing - not just with Firefox.
This shows the joy of our profession; find a loose thread and pull it.
This Inquisitive AI Will Kick Your Butt at Battleship – MIT Technology Review
Here to all the folks who are A) not legal scholars but pretending to be from their mom's basement and B) unable to reason about the implications but still assert their opinions, there are a ton of references to this issue. Here is one:

https://www.coindesk.com/eroding-net-neutrality-hurt-bitcoin...
If that were true, than how is it even possible for a farmer to get a spot at the stall? Why aren't they crowded out by grocery arbitragers?