skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems to me like a 1.5% chance of dodging a death by cancer, and thus living an extra 5–20 years, is worth a single disrupted morning.

Counting the years you live always struck me as distracting from the things that matter: quality of life, and sticking around to see things that you might reasonably hope to see. In this worldview, bacon might totally be worth the extra 1.5% absolute chance of colorectal cancer.

That said, I was under the impression the problem was more the preservatives and the smoking part of bacon rather than the "red" or "processed" part of meat.
I regularly drive 50mph on unlit roads in a rural setting where a deer could walk out at anytime -- and I hope that I can swerve and brake to miss it -- or at least slow down.

No excuse for a modern car at only 38mph.
Ask HN: Program to upscale windows display?
I may be using the wrong term, but I sometimes need to view material that would be optimal in a higher resolution than the highest native display resolution my laptop has.

Example:

Say the screen max, native resolution is 1024x768. The target would be an integer multiple, say 2x = 2048x1536.

The method could range from simple, just drop every odd pixel, for example, or average the two together, for another example.

Has anyone done this? Can it be done?
Built a cool product but can't get traction?  Me too and I think I can help
I'm a developer who's always building (what I think are cool) side projects. Once I get far enough into the project, I run into the same problems (and I think there are others like me).

I don't have time for sales or marketing so the app doesn't get much traction and ends up in my github graveyard, never seeing the light of day. I want to help fix this for myself and others like me.

I'm currently building an app that let's you publish your side projects and connect you to people willing to help your project get some traction (sales/marketing).

Let's connect you to some people willing to go out, spread the word, and do some sales so you can focus on what inspires you (building cool sh*t). You can build, they can sell. Choose to split the profits or just do it for the love of the game.

Love it? Hate it? Dumbest idea you've heard in a while?

I'd love some feedback
Is there a convenient place to see the listings without installing the app?
Microsoft Policing Office365, Skype Content?
How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry
any source thats more reliable than buzzfeed?
I do appreciate the word of caution.

I've gone beyond the point where any given act of self-censorship is more beneficial than speaking the truth of the situation.

My position: over the next few generations, adoption of decentralized technology will result in an enormously more peaceful and prosperous humanity then the centrally-controlled alternative. If we take the path of reliance on systems that are controlled by a few powerful organizations then we are at their mercy. The alternatives must exist for those who want to opt out.

I can obviously be accused of naivety, but if I'm open about my motives and my expectations it seems less likely to be accused of malicious intent.
> a naturally-occurring mutation which is artificially selected-for by a grower

Actually plant breeders use radioactive radiation, and certain mutagenic poisons, to increase to mutation rate way above normal, in order to get more mutated offspring to work with.

What you write about "transgenically-inserted genes are mitochondrial" and "not part of a regulatory chain, and may produce arbitrary metabolites" is total bollocks and I have no idea where you got that particular misinformation from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
A downvote on a 4-day-old comment is unlikely to be a bot, since it's likely that no one will even see it. If you're seeing agreeable comments being downvoted after several days, it's probably just a grouchy misanthrope or two catching up on HN on their day off.
As a person trained in scientific thought and practice, I am against GMO research for the simple reason that it is one of the main factors enabling runaway population growth. The community involved in GMO research often cite the need to feed growing numbers of people (the author of this article, for one) as one of the motivators of their work, but they never seem to openly acknowledge the fact that they themselves are contributing to the problem they claim to help solve. Based on this alone I wish the entire field could be massively curtailed, if not entirely shut down. The earth needs far less people, not more, and this type of research seems to be making the odds of a future population crisis higher, not lower. Please note that I'm not at all questioning the actual science or the validity of the topic as a research area - merely the impact that said activities have upon the real world, impacts that I don't believe we can ignore.
Also. It's disheartening to see that no one wants to discuss if population growth is actually something desirable in the long run. Everyone cares only about the immediate economic necessities.
Your opinion makes me think of the things people were saying about SunEdison before it went bankrupt, and how many people utterly refused to believe the stock was worth zero afterwards.

n.b. I own a very small amount of Tesla stock, and I have no particular opinion of Chanos.
A Little Less in the Dark: Writeup on “A galaxy lacking dark matter”
Never used it before but will do so now, Thank you!
"Social norms" can be either descriptive or prescriptive. Descriptive norms are norms that reflect society as it is, and Google doesn't need to do anything about them, because the society that produces millions of web pages with cute pictures of puppies or helpful information about what not to feed your dog for every single web page with dog porn will result in a SERP that is overwhelmingly weighted towards that information.

Conversely--haven't these same people been telling us for years that we live in a racist society? So why are they surprised that a search engine of a racist society's web pages returns racist results?
>"This galaxy discovery, though, appears to be strong evidence against MOND or other modified-gravity theories since the dark matter is missing in this case."

What makes you say this?
Make sure any session/auth cookies are httpOnly too!
You can get perfectly acceptable results on everything except large BGA layouts with only a toaster oven, or for smaller jobs even a hot air gun is enough.

A lot of people will insist you absolutely need a massive multi-thousand dollar peice of kit, but its nonsense, and gear of that grade is only of much use if you are doing large batch jobs and you want to minimize your failure rate, for one off projects a few percentage points either way in terms of failure rates is completely irrelivant, especially considering you can just rework it anyways.

if you want to go the full 9 yards though, you could spring for something like this and get real professional level results, for around $300ish USD + a little DIY.

http://www.whizoo.com/

And in regaurds to the boards themselves, its true you cant very easily make 4 layer PCBs with Vias and other sensitive alignment constraints at home, however the good news is that they can be ordered even cheaper than it would typically cost a home maker in materials for even single sided boards!.

https://dirtypcbs.com/store/pcbs

https://pcbshopper.com/
What is this galaxy doing without a dark matter halo?
I hate-hate-hate-hate to be putting any doubt on this particular case, but we have to start prepping for the world when it's trivial enough to create complete faked videos. The tech is here already. So, at least in the future, it will be possible that even such videos as those are merely inserting completely faked words and gestures etc.

How will we evaluate truth in the future? It won't be by trusting videos. It will somehow go back to he-said she-said and figuring out who we can trust. But if different people trust totally different sources, then agreement about truths seems it will end up being limited to easily testable facts and predictions.

What is going to happen in a world where your comment could apply to anyone because such a video of unethical promises could be generated of anyone??
I don't hate the font so much but the stroke is too light to read easily and the "a" characters look like "o" characters. So it's more a couple of implementation details that make it hard for my old eyes to read.
Beguiling dark-matter signal persists 20 years on
you honestly believe the BS on that site counts as scientific evidence?
The Obama campaign did not break their contract with Facebook.

While I generally agree with the rest of your comment, Obama did in fact break their contract with Facebook. The developer TOS said that any data obtained through the API was to be used exclusively for the purpose of the operation of your app. Unfortunately, by all accounts, they used this data for purposes outside the app, such as campaign strategy and voter targeting. Further, this was back when targeting Facebook ads by ID was allowed. So they likely did far scarier things than either Trump or Hillary were able to accomplish. We don’t know, because the media was OK with his win, and as a result, nobody investigated the specifics.
You said you want a network that no one company or government controls, but it sounds to me like what you actually built is a network for trade that no one controls.

What about a network that people could control, but not governments or corporations? That's a technical challenge if I ever saw one.
The app is very easy to download and run:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases

But if you can't be bothered then there is a search engine as well:

https://blockbooth.com/search/
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1999/04/toxic-pollen-bt-corn...
Most of what I've read on this subject, from the scientific community, suggests that gene editing is safer than breeding for characteristics, because it's more targeted and controlled. If the concern is long-term viability of a species, then plants whose genes have been carefully edited are subject to all of the same evolutionary selection pressures as plants that have been altered through breeding.

Note that for instance the heavily-selection-bred Cavendish banana is currently facing possible extinction due to its susceptibility to a fungus. So on the one hand here you have exactly the problem you're worried about with gene-edited crops, and meanwhile gene editing is a possible solution to the problem.

I regret that I'm not well-enough versed in the science of this subject to communicate it better.
I don't want them to, even though I own a tiny amount of TSLA so it would technically be in my interest. SpaceX is doing things nobody else can, and it would be a shame if they were dragged down. Batteries and electric cars will continue to be worked on by many regardless of whether Tesla were to vanish tomorrow.
I'm sorry, I don't follow. Why is this a thing?

Is this a parody of the plethora of "utility" libraries on npm that could just be replaced with a few lines of code?
>However, some people find computers frustrating, stupid or boring. Such a person probably wouldn't enjoy a job working with them all the time - and it's difficult to build the skills that let you advance your career if you're averse to or bored by practising them.

It's funny really because I thought I was perfect for software development as a teenager. Already knew how to program, spent a huge amount of my free time on a computer, good at maths and sciences in general, etc.

Once I actually got into software development I found the whole thing rather irksome. The company I worked for was a great place to work full of really lovely people, free lunches, paid internships (yay NZ), etc. But software development? Nope. Awful industry. Computers are shit.

As soon as I got out of software, I immediately found my interest in programming as a hobby come back. Unsurprisingly people don't really like doing something as a hobby when they're paid to do it for 40 hours per week already.
In nature, venomous animals have bright colored fur as a warning of their toxicity.
Nah, it's the internet. This phenomenon started right after job websites went mainstream.
You know how Donald Trump says he doesn't telegraph his moves?

You know how Donald Trumps supporters talk a lot about 4D chess?

There are several people playing 4D chess with Donald. The Cambridge Analytica story is lining up a path to Donald's opponent's queen, to entice him into taking that queen. Once the queen is taken, Donald Trump is in check, possibly mate.

And its all because Donald telegraphed his moves.

You've been triggered so hard to believe the Fake News narrative, you don't have a snowballs chance in hell at detecting the difference in this story. Its the same for your boy.

Facebook is the Red Herring, the delicious smoked creature served up on a platter to those most likely to bite into it.

Donald Trump will be (already is) in check, because once he bites on the controversy that Facebook losing control of the data is the actual problem at the root of this story, he will gush to us all about his far superior data operation, that hardly relied on facebook at all.

It is as Donald spits these flakes of herring meat he will confess.

You know how I've told you alot of this story in the future tense. Well, it turns out some of the players confessed right away, but they still don't know it. Here's one now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fFbVwuU8bM
Hi there!!! Sean from the webpack team!

For a development environment this is great. However if there's any takeaway from this post, it is the reminder that all of the resolve, parse, eval, execute, graph traversal, and linking has to be done at runtime, so if you are okay with your app taking 1000x longer to load then if you bundle it, then I guess that's a personal preference.

However, we will continue to endorse for the sake of web performance that you bundle your code, and not use modules natively :-)
Satellites don't break significantly faster in orbit than in storage. Storage can easily cost $5 million a year, but on top of cost savings there's other benefits to sending your payload up early (assuming you've budgeted for a bit more battery wear, fuel consumption, etc.)

The most dangerous time for a satellite is by far the first couple months. This is when most design and QC failures become apparent. If you launch before you need your satellite, you can do your on-orbit checkouts and not be in a rush to deal with any anomalies. When your preexisting operational satellite dies, you can have one ready to go immediately instead of needing to beg borrow or bribe your way to a better position in a launch provider's manifest.
In the U.S. at least, in order to continue receiving unemployment in many states, you need to apply for a certain number of jobs to show that you are "actively looking" for a job. These leads to many applicants to entry level jobs who are applying for a result other than getting hired. Indeed, many applicants of this type have no intention of ever even answering the phone/email if you try to contact them. Though some will just so they can say to the unemployment office that they "Have an interview next week."
Bram Cohen didn’t go on Hacker News and invalidate every safe harbor a defense counsel needs, either. Just to be clear, you’ve said, in writing, on behalf of your company, that you are aware of illegal activity happening on your network, that you’re okay with it, and that you monitor the network on which illegal activity is taking place and have determined the legality thereof (enough to know a minority is illegal), and to ice that holy shit cake you even fired a warning shot at pharmaceutical regulators planetwide.

That manner of legislative and regulatory flout is a heat-seeking company missile, and can only end with your eventual incarceration.

Abort thread. Talk to lawyer about further HN commentary. Your discussion here is plainly legally actionable by any investors concerned about your fiduciary responsibilities, and this page will almost certainly be printed out as an exhibit in several legal proceedings, some potentially criminal. I appreciate and respect the change you’re trying to drive, where you’re coming from, and your optimism, but you really, really need to understand the peril you’re in, as unfortunate as it is.

I’m dead serious. DPR got life without parole. They’re not messing around.

Repeat after me: I have no knowledge of illegal activity taking place on the platform, and condemn it.
While Buzzfeed may have made its name on listicles, it now does a substantial amount of real investigative journalism.
> you can build a statistical model that targets your advertisement not to a user, but a set of criteria: "Males between the ages of 35 and 40 living in a mid-sized town in Texas who liked curling and Star Wars Episode I, but has never traveled to Australia". This is still perfectly possible.

Prediction: It won't be after the government is done with a new set of regulations, at least for election purposes. I continue to believe this is about the ability to wield political influence, not privacy. The privacy issues have been well known for years, and there's very little evidence of public concern over the privacy, other than newspaper article after newspaper article claiming there is, each one "coincidentally" making reference to Donald Trump, as if he was somehow personally responsible for this debacle, and almost no stories on the Obama campaign who did largely the same thing on a much grander scale.

If someone knows of any convincing independent public polls, with published questions (with the right questions, you can get whatever "answer" you want to produce) that shows that there are in fact widespread public privacy concerns, I'd love to read them. Until then, I'm going to continue to believe this is about the power to influence the public in the political sphere, and predict that the Facebook platform is going to be stripped of that power.
That's a social network in the same way the Pony Express was.
> In Bulgarian it the name spells and reads “Uran”

Uranus was discovered by British-Hanoverian William Herschel [1] and named after the Greek god of the sky, Οὐρανός [2], which anglifies to Ouranos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)
To answer your immediate question, "white boys" is not uncommon in popular usage. People might look it up in the process of looking up a lyric or obscure title/name for a song/group.

The phrase "white boys" in general seems to be mostly desexualized. You can call someone a "white boy", either as a mild insult (like describing something as "vanilla") or a term of endearment. I think that's predicated from most people (in the U.S.) realizing that white boys/men are the status quo.

I'll ignore race and just say that I think the word "girls" in general has far more of a sexual/gendered connotation in U.S. usage. "Boy/Man" is considerably more generic and all-purpose. I use "Boy/Man/Guy" in casual conversation regardless of audience gender, e.g. e.g. "Boy, that was fucked up!" or "Man oh man that's got to hurt". I can't think of a single time in normal conversation where I would ever say "Girl" or "Lady" without referring to a female.
In the USA, former executives from the companies being regulated typically run the organizations charged with regulating said companies.
I just love tech a lot more than marketing, probably primarily because I'm much better at tech!

I'm glad that RethinkDB seems to be headed toward a happy ineding as a community, and thanks for the pointer to the write up.
I thought I explained my usage pretty well. You should go back and re-read it, and also take a look at the Wikipedia page I reference, where it's explained in more detail.

Basically, you can name the exceptions off the top of your head, but you could never do that with the non-exceptions because they're so numerous. Kind of like how in your parking example, you don't need to name the hours that parking is allowed, because it's a rule. It's always allowed, with some exceptions. You only need to point out the exceptions.

I would take your charitable interpretation and say you're misunderstanding the phrase. Since there are examples of this usage all over the Internet and a very long Wikipedia page detailing the various forms, I hope we can move past this wildly off-topic conversation.
how are you coping with the hostile visa environment?

I have stopped caring. I too work for a leading tech company. The way I see is that if the US doesn't value my expertise or experience, there are plenty of other countries that will. For e.g., I should be able to find opportunities in Canada, Europe or Singapore. Of course, the pay there won't be as high as that in the US. There could be racism too against me, but I guess that's not so important because I've faced racial discrimination as a North Indian living in South India! On the upside though, I'll have more peace of mind and possibly better healthcare.

I know that moving to some other country from US isn't for everyone. It is doable for me though, because I was recently married and don't have a lot of responsibilities.
it's probably just a grouchy misanthrope or two catching up on HN on their day off.

I do this :)
There is no hypothetical scenario for ecological collapse caused by gene editing that, when critically examined, doesn't look like arguing for a flat Earth.

Conventional agricultural practices are already causing massive ecological devastation. Gene editing is a very good solution to that problem.
AV1 Is Finally Here, but Intellectual Property Questions Remain
Plural is the same O = Organisms
The way I look at things is, every numerical quantity in science has an uncertainty +/- applied to it, right? Well, the market price of something has a significant amount of uncertainty because it's based on future expectations. But we don't know what that uncertainty is. So if something declines 15% or 30% or whatever, it could be fluctuating entirely within the band of uncertainty and not reflecting any meaningful change in expectations, but not reflecting any error by the market either. Or it could mean something or be an error. Fundamentally we don't and can't know by looking at the price chart.
For people who had time to play with TF Eager, how does it stack up vs pytorch?
So I read the open letter linked to in the article.[1] The only evidence given there that GMOs could (potentially) save millions of lives is centered around 'Golden Rice', a crop whose beta carotene has not yet been proven to be usable by the human body[2], and which is not even available for sale yet because an effective crop has not yet been produced.[2] Also it is believed (if gut absorption could ever be evidenced) that a child would need to eat 27 bowls of the stuff per day to satisfy his minimum requirement for vitamin A.[3]

Also, a lot of the signatories are those who received the Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Economics, and Peace awards.[4] I'm not sure which Nobel award would be given for agricultural scientists, so many of those receiving the award could indeed be specialists in that field. But I could only find one agricultural scientist who received an award for anything, and he is dead now, so he couldn't have signed this, and indeed he did not.[5]

Best I can tell, this open letter was signed by people who aren't specialists in this field, who gave as their evidence for support a crop whose value (or even safety?) has not yet been proven. A lot of smart people to be sure, but not experts on this topic. I welcome evidence to the contrary.

[1] http://supportprecisionagriculture.org/nobel-laureate-gmo-le...

[2] https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/genetically-modified-golden...

[3] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/gmo-food_b_91496...

[4] http://supportprecisionagriculture.org/view-signatures_rjr.h...

[5] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970...
Or me ... I thought that was a roller-furling jib on the back-stay!