skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You would only be able to select from those 5 backgrounds, however, and the predicted heights for those embryos will be drawn from a normal distribution; you can only "design" from what you've sampled.

Yes, and this is cheap and does lead to gains. (Specifically: around 1 inch.)

> but this would be very expensive and basically impossible without synthetic embryos.

First, this is not remotely what you said. Second, it's not true: you only need more eggs and they don't have to be 'synthetic' whatever that means, and there's a lot of work on inducing egg development from stem cells so in another 10 years it may well be possible for parents to do massive selection like that. Third, you don't need millions of embryos if you just want a very tall person, as the advantage is cumulative over generations (which is the critical insight behind Iterated Embryo Selection: it's much more efficient to take a few hundred embryos through multiple generations of selection than it is to try to brute force a single selective step). That's omitting any gains from CRISPR or genome synthesis or other methods not yet thought of. Fourth, why would any parent want that in the first place as that's into the realm of potential healthy problems (even if we're assuming only male embryos) and beyond the useful level of height advantages, especially when they could be instead spending that count of embryos to maximize a weighted sum of all health and other complex traits? (Remember, just because everyone talks about doing embryo selection on a single trait at a time doesn't make that remotely a good idea; there are big gains to selecting on many traits simultaneously.)
English is an EU language; the UK is still in the EU, and Ireland is not expected to leave.
I just want to say, I love this tool. It's extremely fast, easy to use and is one of the most important tools in my code exploration toolbox.

Thank you for all of your hard work on this project as well as the other contributors too.
Could you explain what you mean? As far as I know it's the same process. Changing the architecture often involves a large number of small, safe code changes, many of which can be handled by IDE's and other software tools.
They link to the freely licensed source splatter image they used in the article. Someone else used the same freely licensed splatter in their photo, and they then got a claim because of that.
I can only speak from what I've personally observed and from what has happened to a few men I know. The gist of it is this: given a 'soft' role in a company, especially a tech company, those roles are in large part reserved for women. Consider a tech company - the people in the front lines will almost invariably be men. They were the ones who probably studied Computer Science or a comparable major in college, afterall. So from a diversity standpoint, almost all tech companies are stacked with men already - because they focus on tech and because the actual techies are almost entirely comprised of men. Then, when it comes to the softer roles in the company, such as HR/recruiting/administration, those roles will very largely be filled by women (who studied psychology, communications, english, or something similar). I suppose I can only speak about this as it applies to the tech industry, as that is what I'm familiar with. But tech is eating the world, so if it doesn't yet apply to some of the other industries, it soon will.
Did you just describe a possible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter ?
No, I am suggesting to do something about "it" - provided the "it" isn't a bunch of Facebook ads but a real espionage. So far it seems like real hacks and stolen data leads to nothing but people that post on Facebook get indicted. Which is also largely posturing because there's no way to prosecute them.
Zelle users are finding out the hard way there’s no fraud protection
No – the services will likely own the cars (much like Waymo owns these chrysler pacificas).
i'd like to see this question answered only by companies grossing over $100 million and less side-dev passion projects.
No--the only reason they can pursue growth into new geographic areas and pursue new business models (like Uber eats) is because they're burning through investors' money. That in no way implies that their rides would not profitable if they were not spending so much on growth.

But that's basically every business focused on growth.
At that point you're trusting the chipmakers to not have anything funny in there, and trusting the telco to not be doing anything funny with your location or voice information.
One thing not mentioned in the release note is that the plugin package now supports macOS: https://godoc.org/plugin

Also, "[this package] has known issues" was removed from the doc.
Poor poor redskins
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Russia is not a particularly wealthy country. If they can pervert our democracy with a few million dollars, we have much bigger problems that need to be dealt with structurally and defensively rather than piecemeal and after-the-fact.

It's like we shoot ourselves in the foot with citizens united, but instead of tending the wound, we blame Russia for startling us.

edit: and in response to JumpCrisscross, "pervert our democracy" is not my thesis. It was a conditional in response to parent comment.

My only point on this line is that it is kind of fucked up that money has as much power in the process as it does.
> Haha, you literally just came upon

This breaks the HN guidelines in two ways. First, it's uncivil. Second, it falls far short of this:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

Could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow those rules when commenting here? It does take an effort, but it's an effort everyone needs to make if we're to succeed in having a bit higher quality here than internet median.
Granted. (You're conflating the "intelligence community" with the "Bush administration," which is a little iffy, but I take your point.)

And if this were just one source, or just one agency, or even just one political party, I might be more skeptical. (My usual routine when a story seems questionable is to check a source with the opposite political bias. If Fox and the WaPo both say something happened, I'm much more likely to believe that it did.)

Not for nothing, but:

"The fundamental purpose of dezinformatsiya, or Russian disinformation... is to undermine the official version of events — even the very idea that there is a true version of events"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/europe/russia-swede...

Seems like it's working.
From the article:

> But it gets even better. You see, not only are they trying to get us to pay them for using a few ink splotches, but as it turns out, the ink splotches don't belong to them in the first place! Our cover artist happened to keep meticulous records (probably not something they anticipated) and traced the source of the ink splotches to a Finnish artist at this page. [3]

And as you can see below, the Loadus image (which is at least five years old) is a background to both our Spring 2012 cover and "Harry Potter in a Vest" or whatever Trunk Archive is calling their image (which also may not even be theirs).
New version of Skype RT and Opera Browser have no option to disable automatic updates. Probably they understand that nobody wants their updates that only bring new bugs and more ads.
The dirty argument is not a great one, though, because most illnesses (especially depression) cause changes to a number of networks, and not just one particular receptor subtype or subunit of that receptor subtype. I agree that more mechanistic studies (and more clinical studies) need to be done anyways, but having multiple action sites isn't necessarily a bad thing.

As far as the "jolt" and continued therapy with CBT - this is how treating MDD is generally supposed to be done. Policy issues making it difficult aside, the CBT + antidepressant combo is empirically more effective than drugs alone (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918025/ - there are more but this is a meta-analysis so it captures a lot of data).
Women are 52% of gamers, even if they don't like those particular genres and certainly don't like the nastier kind of competition: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/52-per...

Older men vs younger men: cohort effect? if you're over 40-50ish you didn't quite grow up with games.
Don't use it... what is the point of commenting rubbish like this? If you have concerns / bug reports, fine, but i bet you've never been in a self driving car.
The counts in the indictment include:

- Conspiracy to Defraud the United States

- Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud

- Aggravated Identity Theft

This is more about misrepresentation than what was said.
Just to meta-meta this conversation and the article in new and confusing ways, Wikimedia also hosts a map server, using OSM's data, @ https://maps.wikimedia.org/ :)
The United States of America is not a religious organization
Where do you have experience with OSM data anyway? Because your view of the project differs from mine as day differs from night. The quality in western Europe is equal to or better than commercial maps. And the one time I looked at a random, small village in the Sahara, OSM was also better: https://twitter.com/lucb1e/status/522491538912604160
That's why there is a (2015) after the title.
I just made a quick chrome extension to bring it BACK. Vote up so more ppl can test it:) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image-button/...
There are projects that need bodies in seats and that's a pond average people can be big fish in.

You're describing niches. Look at nature, it's a field of niches (among other things).
>Both carry current. But not power. Power is volts * amps, and the neutral is defined as zero volts (if you ignore the voltage drop).

What he has already pointed out is that voltage is a relative unit. Zero volts by itself is meaningless. It would be just as correct to say that the hot wire is at zero volts and the neutral wire and the rest of the planet are at 120VAC. Also earlier you mentioned that from phase to phase inside a house was 240v but phase to ground was 208v. This isn't correct and it's simple trigonometry to prove why. You can visualize voltage potential in any polyphase AC system as the distance between points on a circle. Ground is the center of the circle and the individual phase is a point on the circle offset by the phase angle. For a split phase system there is 180 degrees between the two phases and cos(0) - cos(180) gives you the fairly obvious distance of 2x the radius. This means for 120v from phase to ground you get 240v phase to phase. In a three phase system there's 120 degrees between phases so if you have 120v from phase to ground you have (cos(0)-cos(120))*120v=208v. For what you're saying to be possible you would need 98.85 degrees between phases which is obviously not a nice integer division of 360 degrees.
> is it possible to read the DNA out of sperm and egg cells non-destructively?

No. Who knows what the future will bring, though? There's already some neat new CRISPR-based methods for detecting DNA and viruses etc which were published the other day.
Certainly, but there are plenty of crimes that go uninvestigated due to lack of resources driven by lack of public interest. In fact even within the very narrow realm of election interference you can see that we are only directly pursuing specific forms by specific countries. It's hard to imagine this situation emerging in a scenario where the events of Nov 2016 did not unfold the way that they did. In particular, if there was no potential hope that the winning candidate could potentially be found guilty of crimes that would result in impeachment, I doubt you'd see anywhere nearly as much public interest in this subject.

Thought exercise: if Mueller cleared Trump of any wrongdoing today, do you think people would be waking up tomorrow with as much fervor to go after these Russians? Do you think people would not suddenly be searching for reasons to call into question the integrity of this investigation at that point, despite holding it up as of utmost importance to our democracy up to now? It seems obvious that public interest in these Russian hijinx would plummet if they were no longer potentially useful vectors towards achieving political goals.
It is in the way that alcohol use is bad for one's liver- the cases where it results in bladder issues are those of abuse where doses massively larger than the therapeutic psychiatric dose are used on an ongoing basis.

"A young adult male taking 1 g of ketamine could expect 85% of the drug to be excreted in the urine within 24 hours, and taking into account the average voiding rate of 6 × 300 mL per day, a urine concentration in excess of 1 mmol/L is theoretically possible, suggesting the scale of in vitro toxicity reported [in the study] and by others in cancer cell lines is relevant clinically,"

For reference, the dosages this is referring to are generally .5mg/kg, which of course is comparatively small
>> Should a sender of a letter have the right to say that the recipient can't put their address into their rolodex?

How is a global surveillance network and database like a Rolodex?
There's zero consent here no matter how you cut it.

Thats not true. You implicity consent to usage policy of that website which then gave permission to FB. Ofcourse GDPR makes it illegel but until May 25 its not.
I don't even reveal my real species on the Internet.

Apparently, the anecdata from the article backs this decision up, with compound interest.

If you can't be the perfect parody toy (for a girl or a boy), like me, be a moderately attractive white dude. And actually, we should probably all be pretending to be the same clip-art business guy that is pointing at the computer screen in all the stock photos. We're all him now.
That's part of it.

The is an old saying they enterprise software ends up mapping the organization that built it. If you have N teams you tend to break a large project into at least N parts.

Sharing code between teams works, but it's harder to share complex lisp macros vs functions. Which is really closer to my point, the larger the project the more tools get set aside too being to ~complex/risky to safely use.
I think what he means when he asked what you are on about is what is the difference between "protects" and "shields"?

You said:

> Faraday cage complete protects the interior from external charges but does nothing to shield the interior from the external charges

So you are saying that the interior IS protected from but IS NOT shielded from the exterior charges. Most people would expect "protected from" and "shielded from" to mean the same thing. Hence the confusion.
You make the point OSM should be a database and not a service, but that’s a false dichotomy as nothing inherently prevents it from being both.

The main point against a service seems to be that’s it’s an expensive thing to do, however I don’t see how we can draw any conclusion from that without weighing the costs against the upsides.

I don’t see how the expense argument can be made with confidence without first establishing some basic data points. For example:

1) How expensive is expensive?

2) Have the benefits and advantages been throughly explored ie what’s the value proposition?

3) Given this value proposition, what level of fund raising success would be plausible?

As an aside, the ineffectiveness of leadership and how it is seemingly blocking progress is quite striking.

Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any actively developed software with a non-deprecated api that hasn’t changed in so many years.
"Allocating enough resources" means everyone. It's an all or nothing. If you have a single team that says "customer service is not my job", you've already lost. It's not hyperbole. It literally is an all-or-nothing. Customer service shouldn't be a DNA thing, and at many companies it's not. It's just how they run their business, just like having lights and HVAC is not a DNA thing. At some other companies, though, customer service is someone else's job and it can be solved by outsourcing a helpdesk. That is a company DNA thing, and it's toxic.

Customer service is everyone's job because without customers you don't have a job.
I mean how can anyone not like a gentleman like Putin, right?
As an excel developer in the 90's, this brings up great memories. I wrote the Doom Excel credits in Office 95. I wish I'd had thought of doing this instead. Kudos.
I've contributed small-time to the Musicbrainz cd database, and I think they do it pretty well. New additions are automatically approved. Edits are accepted or rejected after a voting period (3 days, iirc). If nobody votes, they're approved by default; I believe (but am not certain) they are rejected in the case of a tie.

I think the beauty of this system is that it gives complete autonomy with no oversight to individuals dealing with obscure data that nobody else cares about, while more popular data is subjected to higher scrutiny.
It’s hard to tell what you think Hillary should have done better, can you elaborate?
Pretty doubtful. One of their original claims was to produce blacks, which is really hard in AR as you need to selectively block light. It initially sounds easy until you realize your light blocking mechanism needs to be in focus. If you use a lens to put it in focus, the things around it are now out of focus, etc.

If you can't produce blacks, things behind AR objects bleed though. Your objects appear as sci-fi holograms instead of real objects. Reducing pass through light by 85% reduces bleed through by 85% and makes your objects appear 85% more real.
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Great list! I've read only a couple of them.

Hyperion was intriguing but Fall of Hyperion was too slow for my tastes.

Snowcrash was great. One of my favorite audiobook narrations too!

You might also like Malazan Book of the Fallen and Discworld. Malazan especially is a masterpiece of world and history building.

Oh, and the Ghost in the Shell series would definitely be a great fit for you. A good start would be the original animated film from the mid-90s. If you enjoy that, jump to the anime Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
Insurance absolutely does not cover ketamine therapy in the US
Just relay it out via a trusted host, in addition to setting up DKIM, SPF, etc.; that solved all the problems for me. My email server is working excellent for many years now (OpenBSD, OpenSMTPD, dovecot) with Rainloop as web-based frontend.
Another Q:

It's been said about many things that they can't be taught, only learnt. (e.g. Botvinnik—founder of the "Russian school of chess"—said it about chess, I say it about jazz, Oakeshott's Rationality in Politics is about that)

Is that true of programming also?

Maybe that's what the article's saying—you have to learn for yourself. Well, there are typically a lot of Exercises in maths books because that's how you learn that stuff, by seeing for yourself, working things out, not from just being told it.
$400 is a fairly typical price. The ketamine itself is cheap, but operating a clinic doing off-label infusions that take an hour or two each is expensive. And nope... no insurance in the US that I know of covers it.
Never said it was.
I see the "spirit of the law" and "intent" being thrown around here.

Elizabeth Denham, UK's information commissioner in charge of data protection enforcement, had this to say:

"Having larger fines is useful but I think fundamentally what I'm saying is it's scaremongering to suggest that we're going to be making early examples of organisations that breach the law or that fining a top whack is going to become the norm. Our office will be more lenient on companies that have shown awareness of the GDPR and tried to implement it, when compared to those that haven't made any effort."

Now, whether you trust large bureaucratic institutions to use elastic, broadly defined, excessive powers granted to them wisely, applying self-restraint for the general good, is a function of your general political leaning and life experience more than legal nuance, I suppose.
We're not exactly a startup, but a small growing data science, analyst, and engineering team in a bigger company. You name it... but a typical data and web stack.

OS/Distros: FreeBSD and Linux (CoreOS and CentOS)

Languages: Python (Data Science) & Javascript (Front End)

Frameworks: Flask, Django, Angular, React, Bokeh, Tensorflow, Scikit-learn

Container Services: Docker, Mesos/Marathon/DCOS (currently testing Kubernetes in GKE - Google Cloud)

Databases: Redshift, Postgres, Cassandra/Scylla

Deployment Tools: Jenkins, Github, Gitlab (different team)

All running in AWS deployed through CloudFormation and Salt.

There's even a Windows Server 2016 instance thrown in there for good measure running Tableau. That's the most reliable part of our stack. </rolls-eyes>
I see nothing wrong with the people of Russia. However, the Russian state and Putin himself work very hard to undermine the USA and occasionally harm its people, and at other times, the people of other sovereign nations.

Truthfully I would hope Russians feel the same way about the USA. While United States citizens might seem amicable to Russians, the US government is not meant to be their friend.

Essentially, I don't get a vote in Russia's government, so I don't want it affecting my life
> Instead you'd want to remove or corrupt existing voter information. This would cause huge delays at polling places as people protest their inability to vote and go through the provisional ballot process.

Do you think if it really happened we'd notice it? So far I am not aware of any case of vote being disrupted to any noticeable measure along the scenario you describe, anywhere. So this appears to be pure speculation.

> This wouldn't be enough to help someone who is going to lose 83/17 but a 60/40 loss could be tipped your way and that's what most outcomes in the US are.

Yet there is, as far as I know, not a single case of election ever being tipped this way. By other forms of fraud - surely, though even then it's very hard to connect specific instances of fraud to specific outcomes - but this kind of fraud, never happened.
I don't have to compete with them globally from the start. I compete in one market, then two, then...

There's no lock-in here. "Oh, some other service cropped up in my area and the rides are 50% that of Uber's? Ok, I'll download a new app"

I don't think any of this nonsense is sustainable.
That's romanticizing the past. Before cars horses (and the infrastructure to support them) caused massive environmental problems, people had all sorts of physical ailments from riding, and their corpses occasionally littered the streets.
Also the name of a component of the old Unreal Engine some years ago. Not relevant today.
Seems there wasn't when I made the comment.
Before you said "spamhole", now it's security. In both cases it makes literally no sense to block Gmail and allow random personal domains. I suppose the setup could be based on whitelisting domains, and because Gmail is so big, they won't whitelist it, and it also won't receive emails from anything random, but from specific personal domains. But such a setup specifically isn't for communicating with the world at large, and not any kind of widespread practice.

Also, you should be using your own domain with Gmail (or any other provider) so you aren't tied to anyone, anyway.
I generally leave my clinic about half an hour after my infusion ends, but I'm taking the subway. If I were going to drive I'd probably hang out for 60-90 minutes. The dissociative and psychotomimetic effects wear off pretty quickly. But this depends on dose... my doc used to use higher doses before there was as much research around what works, and back then it would sometimes take a few hours before I felt back to normal in terms of cognitive and motor skills.