skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deep Space Network: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
I believe there are sequel MMOs to it and they likely didn't want to pay any developers to deal with the changes that they would otherwise pay to work on their new stuff.
The somatic gonad does not have adult stem cells (at least in vertebrates). The cells differentiate in the embryo and just stay differentiated. Nothing really needs to be inherited.

Epigenetics is not "how the genome is read" in any meaningful way. Epigenetics is more like encoding tone of voice transcription factors ought to use when they read the genome. Should they whisper or shout? Epigenetics does not do the actual reading of the genome, or change the underlying data in the base sequence. There are not "various readings" of the genome, no matter what you think.

So you haven't read the paper then. Perhaps you also don't understand the difference between mediates and regulates. KDM6B does not regulate the response to temperature. Temperature regulates something (unknown) that regulates KDM6B, which epigenetically regulates something else (in this case, DMRT1, a transcription factor) which regulates a bunch of other things (mostly unknown) that cause the gonadal soma to become testes or ovaries.

That epigenetics should play a bit part in some developmental process like this is essentially a trivial observation, and treating it as significant betrays a lack of understanding. All the genes in all the cells are wrapped around histones which are modified to make the underlying genes more or less active, all the time. So epigenetics a part of gene regulation, but it's hardly the most powerful or important one. It's like waxing poetic over the importance of uridine metabolism, because without uridine there is no RNA. It's true, but in a totally boring way.

As far as transgenerational epigenetics goes, essentially all of the literature in mammals is missing the key controls to rule out regular genetics. You should regard everything you read about it with extreme skepticism. It's a hot field with a lot of hype and pretty lax standards.
I had not heard of this project before and I ordered one after reading this article and I have to say that everything about their web UI/UX experience is world class. Possibly some of the best I've ever seen. Their simulator[1] is accurate AND responsive to even weird mobile form factors.

The web site is snappy and has zero cruft. I feel like their design was inspired by or comes from the same school as Teenage Engineering, who made the OP-1 synthesizer.

These cats are doing amazing work. This is a masterpiece.

[1] https://www.numworks.com/simulator/

[2] https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1
Proxy is nice but the scope is very limited if you tend to avoid metaprogramming.

One use I've found is for library maintainers - a way to expose a large API without taking a hit for requiring the whole thing. We use it to consume parts of that API without having to require all the dependencies and subdependencies.
There are problems that have clearer solutions when expressed as recursive. There are problems that have clearer solutions when expressed as iterative.

Having both tools in your toolbox and knowing when to use each is part and parcel of developing yourself as a craftsman or craftswomen programmer.

In addition, being able to know when to use memoing in producing your solution is another tool to be put in your toolbox.

Yes, every recursive function has an iterative solution, but the iterative solution can be far more complex. The best example of this is that lovely little function - Ackermann-Peter function. The recursive version is just a few lines long. The iterative version is quite a few pages long.

There are specific schemas in which the recursive form should be rewritten as an iterative solution. You can find these detailed in such old gems of books like "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
As they say, that means it’s working!
I have read the papers. Most people (ie, the "vast majority") have not.
How many people do you suppose an insurance company hires every time they sign someone up for a new policy? My guess is that it's a lot less than 1.
Can we stop with the "not complying means you're using data badly" meme? That's true for some, but most people who aren't the compliance officers for their companies don't know how much documentation and detail work this law involves that has nothing whatsoever to do with how the data is being used. Hell, I spent at least half my week sending out DPAs and guiding clients through the signature process.

The GDPR has massive costs, and the 90% of companies that aren't villains are going to bear about 90% of them.
It's more like a hall of shame, unless you were doing something bad with user data on purpose you should have covered 90% of the GDPR anyway.

A few things might have been missed because they are not super common:

1. Data export

2. DPO or DPO-ish person (which simply might be you, the developer)

3. Actually writing down somewhere what data you store, how, where and why (which is a lot easier to do than you'd think -- again unless you are trying to hide that on purpose)
A solid example of a site solely built to feed GDPR hysteria: https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria
Why should people who self-host repos not be able to benefit from the improvements in protocol 2? Especially if other future extensions to protocol 2 prove useful for self-hosters?

Git is a decentralized version control system. Its core networking protocol must remain useful for people who self-host.
Klout was already dead. They just expedited the shutdown to save money.
> A Giant, Purposeless, Unfocused Machine Learning System.

Timely, so very timely.
The USPS doesn't lose $1.50 per Amazon parcel. Legally, they can't price at a loss. Under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 they have to charge rates that cover their costs.[0] The number you're referring to comes from an analysis that suggested USPS charges $1.46 below market rates. That's not the same as saying it's a "loss" (as most people understand it--i..e, it costs you more than you make) or even a subsidy. The USPS and the independent Postal Regulatory Commission.

The USPS profits from these parcels. It's a smaller profit, yes, but that's because the deal involves trading a greater profit for guaranteed, predictable number of future parcels they'd otherwise likely not get. Such deals are common in the shipping industry.

Far from making it harder for the USPS to stay afloat, their deal with Amazon and e-commerce shipping in general are the main reasons why they've been able to survive the decline in bulk mail and the onerous regulations (retirement prefunding requirements, etc.) that have drastically impaired the USPS.

0. http://about.usps.com/news/statements/080117.htm
I'm sure that's true. But Ragnarok Online is probably the first GDPR affected business I've heard about that I would believe:

1) Paid some actual lawyers to look at compliance

2) Looked at the revenue they are currently getting in the EU

3) Looked at the engineering effort and cost they would have to expend to come into compliance

4) Compared 2 & 3 and decided to pull the plug

It's interesting to me because this is the first solid evidence that GDPR does have a real cost to a business isn't a bad actor in spite of what many people otherwise claim.
any of you actually for GDPR? if so, can you please list your reasons?
Go to your local police station and file a report for criminal fraud?
If the police/DA/whoever just ignores it, or measurably doesn't care what comes out of it, you should be able to start legal action against them for what basically boils down to 'too incompetent for this job', which by the way is even possible for judges, but the bar for it is high, and won't be hit unless the judge was careless in his misbehavior.
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The answer, of course, is hindsight bias. It says more about our inability to understand the probabilistic nature of the future than any sort of commentary about the downfall of civilized society.

Call to mind the Michael Dell letter about Apple.

Think in terms of your confidence about the current environment, right now. Would you bet something invaluable -- your children's lives, let's say -- that e.g. Uber will not be worth $10b on public markets in 5 years?

If not, we have to ack there's uncertainty in the moment. It's only after the fact that the probability density function collapses to 1, and we forget about the other options.
Let's say you're a small bootstrapped Indi Hacker style SaaS.

You have a few hundred customers and maybe 10 of those are in Europe.

Would that company need to worry about complying? How much should they worry?
I don't think so, it's an unbiased list of articles about companies shuttering some or all of their operations in response to the GDPR.

Sure, the companies might be "hysteric", but I don't think this list is aimed to spread that hysteria.

Edit: removed remark about reaction
What your opponent is saying is that the cost of false negatives is unknown because it's hard to calculate. So people only calculate the cost of of false positive because it's easy to calculate then compare it to the unknown value and conclude that it's greater, not dissimilar to the gentleman who had been looking for the watch under a streetlight.

Your saying "false negative is only a cost to you if you fail to hire well for that position" could be easily disproved with examples of people, who were rejected and started their own competitive business (e.g. [1]). IMHO, one of the goals of having 10Ks of engineers on staff is to keep them from the competition. But since nobody is tracking this and the extreme cases like WhatsApp can be hand-waved away it's easy to pretend that the false negative's cost is miniscule.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp#History
And, they sell salt on the prison commissary. Very common sight to see inmates bring their salt shaker to dinner.
Another resource in this kind of measurement would be the mean kinetic temperature -- often it's not entirely useful knowing that the fridge is 15 C or whatever after you open the door and get something; you really want to have a reasonable measurement of how much the temperature of the contents changed in that time and in the time until the fridge interior returns to the set temperature average.
Same thing is true for Apple's OS, which for many serves as an expensive several year pit-stop between abandoning Microsoft and embracing open source.
Can you point to the specific statutes that she violated? "Fraud" is very broad -- I am not clear that she did anything illegally, just unethically and deceptive. We aren't criminalizing how Reddit astroturfed their site. Is the only difference the scope? The investment monies? The potential?

I'm not interested in debating the moral aspects, as I suspect we violently agree. But it's crucial to be specific, against current legal code, when stating things like you did.
Again, who has ever caught Ebola on a subway?

Good question - how many times has there been a significant Ebola outbreak in a city with a subway system?

Mbandaka is not exactly a bustling metropolis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbandaka#/media/File:Stadsaanz...
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Here is an animation (thanks to Ian Rust) showing how the even values of n approach the GCD pattern (OEIS A054521) as the values increase https://streamable.com/l7r96 however the odd values of n are not equivalent to the GCD pattern.
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i read through this article but felt like there weren't a lot of new time ideas. a lot of it was the kind of thing they teach in a college physics class or just ideas that are out there circulating in the general milieu:

1. stuff that's moving fast relative to slower moving stuff experiences time differently

2. people in London operate on a different time than people in New York

3. time is just a construct within the human mind

i bet Carlo Rovelli has more insightful ideas to introduce but the journalist who wrote this piece didn't do them justice.

i suspect that the journalist talked with Rovelli, had their mind blown, tried to write a mind-blowing article and blew it.
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It's maybe hindsight that allows us to know whether the schemes of a huckster are going to fail, but it's not hard to see people who are hucksters. They make big promises and don't meet them, and when that happens they just make another promise (usually including excuses or distractions from why they were previously wrong), and people worship them for that. These people are either liars or just wrong most of the time, but people don't seem to care. It's not that it isn't obvious, it's that people don't want to admit what's right there.

Maybe it is from growing up in an environment where I've seen people who love power and control (even if that's only over a very small amount of people), it desn't shock me that ramps up with increasing power and fame.

There are a lot of people on the scene today which are obvious hucksters, but nobody is going to admit that (and some won't) until their lies actually ruin things. Again, see Draper whom even knowing what he does is willing to lie or be delusional about what happened there.

Consider that there's lots and lots of people who are willing to actually give up their lives for weird cult leaders. If that's the case (and those lies are very obvious to all but a small few), there's so much room on the other side of that where you can be equally as manipulative and fraudulent but because it's only business or politics and not religion, people aren't willing to apply the same standard and say, yeah, that guy is a liar who likes people talking about him (or whatever gender).

Usually people in positions of power have actively sought that power, and it attracts a very specific kind of personality.
> Holmes' weirdly low voice was an act! She's been caught using her normal register.

I dunno, there's no actual evidence of that though? He just mentioned an anecdote from one employee.

It seems a bit far fetched... How would the overhead of such an act be worth it? And in 10+ years she never slipped up on video? And what about everyone that knows her in real life?
This is a completely absurd claim - if you’ve ever taken a class on modern day systems, you’d know Google is the source of many significant papers that inspired several huge open source projects that power almost every company that needs to scale.

“All the AI stuff is a result of acquisitions” - woefully misguided. Google is hiring academia leaders left, right, and center and growing a collaborative environment that’s innovating. They’re discovering a lot of stuff in-house on this team. They’re building an incredible open-source library with almost 100K Github stars for machine learning.

@self driving, they hired people building projects and are making it into a production self driving car. The latter is a far less constrained problem.

@assistants, The Google Assistant can do way more than Alexa. Not seeing how this is a me too game
I'm torn.

We really need something like the GDPR, and it can't be opt out. There is far too cavalier an attitude by almost all businesses toward your information and they never really suffer any penalty for their recklessness. And there are quite a few genuine bad actors who really need to get reined in.

I also hope that once the GDPR is in effect, there will be some adjustments to it when everybody starts figuring out what works, what doesn't, and what's expensive.

However, the GDPR probably should have had some sort of "grandfather" clause that would have applied to something like Ragnarok Online. Bringing a code base of that age into compliance would probably require a massive engineering effort that completely swamps the revenue they are currently getting.
References are an excellent way to confirm someone that someone did actually work at a particular place in a particular role and that they are not a total asshole. Beyond that, unless you know the reference well, I think they can be unreliably.

The reference knows the candidate and likely feels a much closer connection with them than they do with you. Assuming the candidate isn't an asshole, they will want to help them out by giving them a good recommendation. If the candidate was let go due to downsizing or such, the reference may even feel pressure to help the candidate find a new job.

So it's a great data point to have and as you say, it can help weed out the straight up liars.

But any 2 given candidates with 5 years at Acme Inc are not interchangeable. Some candidates are just better at programming (or some subset of it) than others, and I think employers try to find ways to predict that at interviews.
> Then why does NASA consider it unsafe for mission critical code?

More like they're using an old Fortran 77 environment which doesn't support recursive functions.
Cointouch.com looks like it also could have seen some unwanted attention from the SEC, and any number of state securities agencies, as well as FinCEN, due to the nature of facilitating unlicensed financial services and unregistered securities. Looks like the site's owner was genuinely trying to help facilitate p2p transactions that help people, so I appreciate the conservative approach to minimizing further risks. This next month will be full of interesting examples of how this gdpr saga will unfold.
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I feel like the reference to the San Bruno shooting is detracting from your point. There was one incident still under investigation, and your commment pluralized and generalized from that.

I agree with the sentiment though, I remember during the 2016 election debates in the US, watching the YouTube live comments fill up with Unicode-art swasticas and depictions of people with turbans and bombs being shot at from behind a wall, and just incoherient expletives and slurs peppered in between.
Lots of people are, at least in spirit. The current American internet is a convoluted panopticon, and many want to see more transparency and simplicity around where information about them is going.

The costs may be large and many companies may leave, but China has shuttered out these same companies and they've done well to solve their needs from within the country.

Of course China's goals were much different than citizen's rights.
It is a drop in entropy encoder replacing Huffman. Just because the patent is covering dropping it into AV1 doesn't make it ok. It just restricts the scope of the absurdity.
Don't shower.
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It says it isn't officially supported by Google.
See this animation by Ian Rust showing how the even values of n approach the GCD pattern as the values increase:

https://streamable.com/l7r96

However, for odd values of n, it does not match GCD. So it's not simply a drawing of the GCD pattern.
It's generally sitting around 0.5-1C.

The relevant part from scuttlebutt:

@IBob on temp probe placement, I think I know why it was seeing such sharp swings when outside the water. I had the wire coming down along the inner fridge wall corner, touching it for a foot, and then the probe was pulled out an inch from the corner. So, it was both very close to the walls, and wire's contact would suck more heat away when the wall cooled down.

The spring thermometer I have mounted in there to measure the air temp now avoids this problem, and has been staying just above freezing during long compressor runs despite frost buildup on the walls
I haven't actually read Brodie, I'm just going on my memory from my strategic studies class. But my recollection is that he more or less fully fleshed out nuclear warfare theory in 1946. The tech wasn't there, but the logic of the weapons was.

MAD is less a strategy than a reality. As long as each side has weapons that can't be credibly destroyed in a first strike, you have MAD, whether theorists explicitly call for it or not.

Though of course submarines make this easier to achieve in practice.

I might be wrong about this though, perhaps there were significant differences between Brodie's 1946 theory and later MAD developments.
>Their CEO revealed they have 1.8b logged in users

That's what you get when you are logged in in gmail at the same time. It's not like people WANT to log in on Youtube, it's just a side effect of a google account login on some other service.
Here's a piece from NPR's The Indicator that discusses this in more detail

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

It is based on an article in Business Insider (paywalled) from Josh Barro

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-amazon-twitter-attacks-...
Both of them use the OStatus protocol, so people can follow anyone on any of the services. Mastodon is a new implementation of the OStatus spec.
Be careful clicking that link at work!

You might get an image of a testicle in an egg cup along with a caption claiming we're all money obsessed man children.

Of course he made his millions in the first dot so he's a bit of a hypocrite...
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I think, mixing of both technologies is a key to have a really powerful desktop app; just look at Publii app https://getpublii.com
The revenue listed in the article is per month. The above appears to correlate with the subset whose monthly revenue is >$20k.
This isn't about overfitting. Race is almost exactly the opposite problem: the signal in the data is so strong that you can't help but pick it up, even after you censor everything you can think of. If you try to predict any kind of consumer behavior from a racially heterogeneous dataset you will end up finding something that correlates with race, because practically everything correlates with race.
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Could you extrapolate a bit on that? I'm ignorant on the topic, so I have no idea how a tracking tag would work for a living organism.
What could trigger Apple to attempt killing it?
Youtube seems worse because the comments are public and global... but same folks are posting the same bigotry on Facebook.
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´concentration camps. For children´ - John Gruber

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/05/18/immigrant-child...
I thought >300C power MOSFETs in SiC were already commercially available? But I might be confused.
Cool project. He's loaded the fridge with some ballast (17 gallons of water), so while there isn't an electric battery, there is a reserve of another kind.
> They're also good general intelligence tests, if administered correctly.

And communism probably redistributes wealth if it is administered correctly.

If companies want to hire based on general intelligence (not personality, team work, communication and so on) then they should administer IQ tests, which are based on a century of rigorous research. That would at least give you a fighting chance of measuring G.

Why do you think white boarding can measure general intelligence?
Couldn’t disagree more. I hate whiteboarding and I never do it. Verbal explanations and pair programming work just fine.

I feel slowed down having to write out on a whiteboard when I could instead write some dummy code to get a point across. It just seems crazy to assume all developers everywhere must be good at white boarding.

I tend to move my hand faster than I can hand write, which is why I like typing for all forms of explanation.

Especially since I’m on a full remote team, whiteboarding would be really weird.
Probably not the sort of software the author has had a chance to look at (beyond, perhaps, Monster Hunter) but these are very common and often configurable in games these days. There are games (Crysis 2, I think?) where Pie vs Linear is a configurable preference. In a somewhat different but also gamey direction, there's also https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Naga-MOBA-Gaming-Mouse/dp/B006W...