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> For instance, in a profile of biologist Jill Bargonetti, The New York Times quotes one of Bargonetti’s colleagues saying that, “Jill makes a fantastic role model... because she is married, has two children and has been able to keep up with her research.” It’s hard to imagine anyone saying this about a scientist named Bill. The story’s subtitle piles on, reinforcing the stereotype that women are nurturing and selfless with “A Biologist’s Choice Gives Priority to Students.”

The paragraph hits on so many ways in which the popular (press) conception of science and academia is toxic, and sexism is only one part of that toxicity.

Yes, the disparity in how female scientists are described in a problem. But that fact that these attributes are absent from descriptions of male academics is also troubling. How are there so many profiles of Professors that don't mention teaching or mentoring even once?!

When new phd students ask for advice on choosing a Ph.D. advisor, I give them three strictly ordered criteria:

1. Is this person a good mentor? (Where are their former students? Do those students speak positively and also candidly about their advisor?)

2. Does this person have a work-life balance? (Family? Intense hobby? Good friendships outside of the department? Encyclopedic knowledge of their favorite TV series? An inappropriate percentage of their net worth invested in cars/wines/whatever? Literally, any non-trivial time invested in something other than work most weeks.)

3. Are you excited about the research agendas that they currently have (relatively fresh) money to explore, and do you think this person has the expertise needed to help you push those agendas in the way you want?

Those three questions, in that order. If you can't find someone who meets some minimum reasonable threshold for all three, maybe consider expanding your research interests or finding a new department.

Profiles of male academic scientists should go beyond individual contributions to discuss teaching/mentoring and work/life balance. After all, it's a profile of a person who is a professor! Teaching/mentoring is a huge chunk of the job, and the person is more than their work.

If there's nothing to say about the person other than some brilliant results? If their former students resent them and their family life is in shambles? That's a tragic personal interest story. If the person has a normal relationship with their students and a normal personal life? Then there's no personal interest story at all and the article should maybe just talk about the results instead of profiling the person.
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Being important, or something that people should be talking about, doesn't make an article on topic for Hacker News. What I'm seeing in this thread is a lack of focus on the specifics of the story, plenty of generic irritation, and not as much thoughtful and substantive insight. If we're not getting what we're here for—gratifying our intellectual curiosity—then users are right for flagging the post.
Does everyone in your company push to master all the time? Or is it different PRs being merged all the time?
> Damb right. Take away a patient's right to hold doctors accountable and things go south very quickly, at least in a for-profit systems.
The study cited in the article would seem to rebut that quite vigorously.

FTA: > They found that the possibility of a lawsuit increased the intensity of health care that patients received in the hospital by about 5 percent — and that those patients who got the extra care were no better off.
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The example in the article given was that Watson recommended giving a blood thinning agent to someone with "severe bleeding", so I think, at least in this example, that there's a long way to go until Watson is ready for diagnosing without a doctor's consent and review.
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HEllo,

just to let you know that I just installed Keybase,

and noticed that it opens permanent distant https connexion,

I dont find it very safe/secure.

My 2 cents
The other question is how does it compare to human doctors, they also sometimes recommend unsafe or wrong treatment.
Thanks Kristine for the link to my article...

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There is also deezer.com.

I don't know if the amount of tracks is the same, however, the service is fantastic. The app is super easy to use, and the Flow they provide (a sort of randomized playlist based on your likes) is great.
Cool! I wonder how much time alums will be willing to put in (unless you're paying them/charging applicants, of course). I imagine you'll get overwhelmed by applications around the deadlines, and I wonder if the individual desire to give back will wane after reading a bunch of apps. As a past (unsuccessful) applicant, a service like this sounds amazing. I just hope the alums are able to dedicate the time.
that is correct.

a little caution can also let the steam out of a really hot market like we have seen with Facebook's stock today.
What surprises me is the growth Facebook had even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It seems that investors still poured a lot of money in, which now reverted.
I don't know how much is impression, but on my side I felt like GCC was a crumpling mammoth. clang forced them to improve and at the same time it showed that gcc is not near death at all.
Actually, he had a different name and was a memory competition champion who practiced every day. Instead of mentioning that, he decided to blame his entire abilities on a fever he had as a kid. Not to put him down or anything, but a lot of it is PR.

Under the name Daniel Corney he even advertised PSYCHIC services. Definitely his abilities are incredible, but he also spent hours and years practicing them.
I can only speak from anecdote, but, being of academic social background, I've known many women — some of impeccable "culturally liberal" credentials — who would and do say things like:

"But all they did was talk about her work, and left out the obstacles she's had to overcome to achieve it!"

There are even those who would, from a more niche women's studies angle, critique a strictly work-substantive biography for the "masculinised" psychological priorities it reflects and that it fails to capture the "unique female experience" or what have you. These are usually allied to the folks who bemoan the "medicalisation" of pregnancy by male technocrats, and with it the suppression of ineffable qualitative experiences of femininity that come with pregnancy and giving birth.

These are real things. The matter of a reasonably universal and inter-subjective conception of gender equality is unwieldy.
University work tends to pay in different ways. Lots of opportunity for your own projects, cool toys, small teams that report directly to the owner.
We are standing in a Google hole and you’re complaining about how we would be getting somewhere faster if someone hadn’t put down their shovel.

It’s only a “political thing” if you don’t think that autonomy gives us diversity, or that diversity gives us more unique ideas to consider.

If we went with NaCL then everyone but the dominant player would be playing catch-up forever, worse than they already will be.
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The new url is paywalled though...
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You ate pizza, pasta, garlic knots, empanadas, redbull and more pizza and blame carbs for your bloating?
True, but it's still worth asking whether that practice is harmful to the goal of increasing gender diversity in these fields.

This could even be discussed without ratholing on whether or not this is a worthy goal.
Yeah it's as pretty as geometrical and even though we've seen the launch 32 times already it was first rocket perspective. Different perspective.

ps: Also the launch arc was known but this one has all steps
Winograd transform probably wouldn't be exposed at the framework layer. I wouldn't be surprised if cuDNN/TensorRT/TPU driver already use it internally.
Sounds like they prepared limited and bad training data for it. As usual, garbage in, garbage out.
I have to pay rent and for the infrastructure.

And at the end of the day, this is why IMO you shouldn't have to justify your pricing to anyone who isn't already a-or ready to commit to becoming a paying customer. It's their feedback that ultimately matters to your ability to pay rent and keep this service going.

Keep doing what you're doing-as a part-time community manager who operates in the Crypto space (a community that has almost thoroughly and entirely embraced Telegram), this kind of product I can forsee will go a great way towards creating community/customer support portals for developers and enthusiasts of coin n.
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Elixir is not even mentioned.

https://trends.google.nl/trends/explore?geo=NL&q=%2Fm%2F0pl0...
You see that line that barely moves away from the 0-line? It's Elixir.

Elixir is a great language, but there are hardly any developers to be found and creating an application in Elixir is just a not a business decision. It's a fun decision. But telling that on a platform that mainly consists of developers gets you downvotes for sure :)
To me, JavaScript is like the past, or a warped vision of the distant future. The interfaces people created had visual appeal, but that’s all they had. It lacked all of the usability that I was used to finding on webpages, and therefore made for a very frustrating experience. No bookmarking, no back and forward, no right clicking to open a new tab, frequent superfluous sound, major security holes, long loading times. I would hardly call any of this elegant. As a user, I was thrilled when people stopped using JavaScript.
Don't know anything about MS but I did exactly what you said on your 1st option and it worked for me.
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Banks don't have to accept overdrafts on checks either. That's what happened when someone says that a check "bounced". The person you wrote the check to won't be pleased because they don't get their money, but the account won't get overdrafted.

Allowing overdrafts because of pending debits is also just a decision that the bank makes. They don't have to do that.
"far too basic for real use."

For some, myself included, basic is all we want. IF something piques my interest, I will open it. Otherwise, I have a basic idea of current events in < 10 minutes and get on w/ life... sans cookies, tracking, ads, java heavy page loads, etc.

Engineering 101: Simple is the most advanced technology. It is not the most profitable, however. YMMV.
The fact that science as a discipline exists is a distinct counter example to this view. Without some degree of flexibility in humanities belief structure we as a species would never change at all, which is quite obviously not the case.
I use this feature for about a dozen or so sites with RSS feeds. It's nice to have essentially a dynamic bookmark that refreshes periodically to directly access articles and I'm saddened to see that this feature is going away.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else may be, so please don't post like this to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Incidentally, no one likes anyone who challenges their personal orthodoxy, and we all have one.)
I'm a paying customer but can anyone tell me why shuffle play is the default? If i'm listening to an album I typically want to listen to it from start to finish and the extra clicks to do that are annoying. But there must be a reason it is designed like that?
A patient can sue for any reason. They can be wrong and sue.

It's then up to the physican to pay costs for legal defense (i.e. medical malpractice insurance). If the patient is wrong, then the physican can counter-sue. This whole dance is very expensive and, worse, time consuming (which, for a doc, is the ultimate resource). This cost ends up on the patient ad the doc must raise prices to account for the new insurance.
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I've only really worn a "web developer" hat twice in my career so far (both for internal tools), once in 2011-2013, and another from 2014-2015.

The first time around was rails with HAML/sass, with a light sprinkling of jquery used like CSS, mainly to make things like sortable tables, search w/ typeahead find, and a few other fancy things work. The second time around I used rails as a REST api and wrote an angular 1.x SPA for the frontend.

Honestly, the first time around was far, far nicer from a developer ergonomics perspective. Just writing your HTML in nice reusable, composable templates, even though there's a lot of scary abstraction violations being able to access @variables from your ruby controllers, was a very straightforward experience. And the jquery was used mostly like CSS with something to the effect of `$("input.search").search({...});` to just apply a jquery plugin to all css-selected elements indiscriminately. And you know what? It was pretty darned easy! Move onto the next problem.

My angular experience was far more complicated, and building the SPA was a level of effort on par with designing an entire application from scratch, with almost as much time spent developing it as I spent on the backend code.

You can talk a lot about how jquery isn't necessary because you can do equivalent stuff without it, and I'd totally agree, but it was just the perfect tool for what I needed it for at the time. Lots of awesome plugins to enhance (with graceful fallbacks) the views that rails spit out, without me having to write anything. Angular had lots of cool plugins too but the level of effort was just too high.
You're right! This is a critically important conversation that we absolutely need to have within our profession. It's very often ignored and there's no support system for people who take ethical stands.

So. Let's talk about ethics. I, personally, subscribe to the ACM code of ethics.

I think Rekognition, as built and presented, falls fully within that strict ethical code. It can be put to uses that are unethical, but that does not fall upon the people who made it. Certainly, an engineer creating a system such as the one the ACLU created would be acting unethically.
You aren't disputing whether it's a justification, you're disputing my empirical claim that newspapers leave the Kardashians out of war coverage for principled reasons. But we can just pick some other news topic that is also dry like science yet newspaper feel duty-bound (or shame-avoidance-driven) to not enhance with celebrity gossip. (Otherwise you're claiming that duty/shame play no role whatsoever in news coverage, which I think is clearly false and am not interested in arguing about.)
I still feel like Pandora does the best job of finding similar new music to an initial set of tracks, but other than that I like most aspects of spotify better.
God, I hate books like that. In my youth, I got on a freestyle kick (go watch Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme) and bought a book called 'How To Rap' because it was well reviewed. I was hoping for some sort of insight from the greats. It was entirely made of just quotes from different rappers. Barely any structure whatsoever.
"We're putting a lot of faith in..."

OK. Back in the real world, successful AI companies build useful software products that inform human decision making but do not directly, unilaterally, unintermediatedly result in real-world kinetic action.
> But we're discussing whether free will exists

No, we were discussing whether the argument in the article was circular. It's not circular, because your assertion that influence requires free will is wrong.

> If the universe is deterministic you don't cause or influence anything. Those things would have happened anyway.

No, they wouldn't. Deterministic universe is like a compiler. You give it source code and it produces output. Given different source code (such that you aren't born) the output is different.

> But you can not be said to influence something to happen, because that requires that not influencing it was also a possibility.

No it doesn't. It's not in the definition you provided.

> Society stops looking for a root cause when it hits a person not as an "arbitrary convention", but because it does believe in free will.

Yes, and it's arbitrary, because we don't know if that assumption is true (and I might add it's very unlikely to be true - even if universe is nondeterministic. The rules of physics still work in our heads just as well as elsewhere).
If you genuinely don't know how to spell something (children, ESL) then auto-correct might cause you to accept a correction to the wrong homophone and fool you into thinking it helped you.

If the doctor doesn't know how to quickly and cheaply verify the machine's guess, they'll just rubber stamp its recommendations.
This one is: https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/eso1825g/

But mostly the actual data are interference fringes and the images must be reconstructed from them, so there aren't that many "real" images.
YC already relies heavily on alums internally for a first screening of applications. I believe many alums rise to the challenge each time, and invest many hours to review.
>From societies perspective there is no difference between someone with free will choosing bad (illegal) decisions from a bad entity programmed to make bad decisions.

Says who? Those strike me as different. Society could certainly choose to recognize them as different.

>Intent is exactly what is fair to punish someone for. What can be fairer?

It isn't fair if people have no control over their intentions, which they don't if they don't have free will.
This repo should grow each week, and eventually catch up to the real world in terms of NWSL data:

https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data
It depends on how doctors view IBM's magic black box. If they grow to trust and depend on it, that could become a real problem.

People have a tendency to defer, and have a bias towards deferring to machines that seemingly behave as accurately as a calculator would with basic arithmetic.

A true crisis can arise if doctors can shift liability by claiming to have just followed Watson's results.
Facebook events is probably the best after meetup.com, and unlike meetup.com it's free to use. With Facebook it's more about the way you and your friends using it (except privacy concerns). I just unsubscribe from everyone except people/pages who post always on-topic and rarely. I get maybe 2 new posts a day in my FB feed.

I waste a lot more time and witness a lot more drama on HN than Facebook.
Oh yeah, definitely. That's just the term I've seen other launch photogs use for it — I assume they mean underexposed relative to a normal photo trying to capture the rocket itself. (Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about photography outside of ~5 hours in a dark room in high school.)

e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/899jq5/jumped_on_th...
That would happen if the people in charge actually wanted Democracy to work.

In their minds; Democracy is a facade used to convince the American People that they have any say or influence on their government.

Actually; a form of "Security Theater".
My dad's second wife could draw photorealistically with a pencil from looking at something. She never practiced, never had training, never even showed any enthusiasm for it.

It was one of the most soul-crushing things to witness that. She once drew some animals in my notebook and at school the teachers grabbed it out of my hand and wanted to move me to an art academy. When I told them who actually drew it, and how, they were utterly speechless.

Imagine someone drawing monochrome photorealism as casually as scribbling some stick figures. She couldn't draw anything that she didn't see, but she didn't show any understanding of how incredible that ability is either. And she's now an accountant...

Unfortunately this was 15 years ago or I'd add one of the drawings. But here is something similar (even the detail on the hair):

http://www.remrovsartwork.com/uploads/7/9/8/3/7983811/380163...
No, sorry, I'm suggesting mental illness comes down to your own brain. Social behaviour is different and definitely influenced by others.
No it's not okay!

It increases the probability of (harmful) medical error. The "unsafe" is a big, big gotcha for regulatory approval. As someone correctly pointed out, this is relative to human error rates (can't view article because of registration).
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We're talking about using a tool to help doctors diagnose and treat more effectively.

A very expensive tool when healthcare systems are strapped for cash. Super unethical of IBM to try and extract profits here.
There has long been a calculus of using more risky or long shot treatments for the more deadly or hopeless diseases. Certain types of cancer are essentially death sentences.

Maybe it's counterintuitive, but it makes a lot more sense to use ML for cancer than say a broken arm. There are so many systems interacting in cancer that affect its progression that humans really are at there limits in trying to understand them.

And as others have said, no one is letting Baymax loose in the oncology ward and firing all the doctors. This is just one more tool in a doc's tool belt -- and far from the only that will give misleading results.
It's not society and nurture stopping a woman from deadlifting 800lbs, or a man from breastfeeding. Humans are a sexually dimorphic species.

My girlfriend and I were just talking about how it's pretty unfortunate that there are basically no top level female smash players, but the fact is that reaction time is such a huge advantage that only a fraction of a percent of men can perform at the top level, and the female bell curve just doesn't stretch that far. The opposite is true for some traits as well, like top percentile flexibility.
I admire their transparency regarding data sharing, something I suspect happens way more often than the products (users) are made aware.

> I’m an investor, can I access your user base?

> The short answer is maybe. You can drop us a line and we’ll take it from there. We’ll never share anyone’s application without their consent.
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surprised not to see morrison and boyd get a mention in the organic chemistry sector, at least as a contender. that was my pick for outstanding textbook across my entire academic career; they just presented the material so much better than i'd seen anyone else do on the topic.
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The some other other questions: how much does it cost, compared to training a human? Does it actually save any time / resources if it's outputs must always be scrutinized?
I'm not against them; I'm against the government enforcing such a thing.
Would it possible to list some demo blogs / accounts here?

I have just tried it with no success so far. But some demo page would help me decide how hard to try here
Until we sent a probe, this[1] was the best image we had of Pluto, taken by the Hubble space telescope.

Pluto has a radius of 1188 km. The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy[2] has a Schwarzschild radius of about 1e7 km, so roughly 10000x larger than Pluto.

However it's also roughly 50000000x further away than Pluto... which is why it remains a mysterious blob until the Event Horizon Telescope[3] delivers.

[1]: http://hubblesite.org/image/2686/news_release/2010-06

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*

[3]: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
Curious as to who the scientist and writer was that inspired you? Have you read anything by John Sarno?
Similarly, the difficulty in deciding whether or not Goldbach's conjecture holds shows that the concept of "prime number" might be silly sophistry.