skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very good and level headed response to the parent. I agree with both perspectives. I think the crucial point is that you seem to have thought through the implications of deciding for or against using 23andme and after weighing the outcomes, you made an educated decision. Perhaps the decision was right (fingers crossed), maybe it was wrong, but the important point is that you thought about it.

I took parent's post less as a blanket warning against doing DNA tests, and more of a caution to consider the implications.

I think there is value in services like 23andme, and even if there are risks that the information will be misused, the risks are worth it. I don't mean the risks associated with case of a specific person, but the research and services associated with DNA sequencing in general.

Maybe 23andme is not the way forward, and eventually some other (better) services will arise, but we (humanity) are in something of an uncharted territory here, so there is need for a bit of trial and error. Yes there be dragons, and occasionally we'll have our eyebrows singed, but advances in medicine and biology (as your case highlights) are vast.
Yes! She does exactly that too. And I do have to mention that my cat is deathly afraid of anyone that isn't me. So it wound stand to reason that she recognizes that it is the "me" that she knows.

That being said, cats don't have excellent eyesight. But it is hard to do the mirror test with a creature that is so sensitive to feels and smells. I wonder how they test it for cats. Because surely a little dot isn't good enough. Maybe a laser dot?
Could this actually be a profitable business, selling carbon offsets?
Corporal punishments don't even work on children, what make you think it will work on adults?
I remember reading in the past that Microsoft had corrupted the ISO standards body to publish essentially fake standards that were different to what MS Office actually produced, so software like Libreoffice would output files that didn't work properly in Office or visa versa. Are you saying that now this is not the case and they are full specified? I sometimes tell people about this so I want to make sure I have my facts straight.
There's also Android One (https://www.android.com/one/)
Wait, really? Is there scientific documentation of this too?
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As someone with a biochemistry background and a decent understanding of genomics I couldn’t agree more about not putting faith in the results.

From ancestory to health risks there is so much BS out there. Some crappy paper correlates a SNP with a health risk and people freak out.

People should take results outside of heavily validated studies with a grain of salt.
Does anyone use OmniGraffle to make final designs? I thought it was more of an outlining tool
Thanks a lot for the trick.
I once implemented a VM in Ada and just used a large switch. I extensively benchmarked it and it was blazingly fast at -O3.

However, it was only fast when I used packages very sparingly. In contrast to the usual advice given in the Ada community, splitting up the implementation into several packages slowed down the main loop tremendously. I suspect this wouldn't happen with whole-program optimization in C, but believe that the version of gcc I was using didn't support that for Ada. Also, my Green Threads were slower than a single thread, no matter which tricks I tried.

It's an abandoned project now, since the accompanying assembler was hacked together in Racket and at some point I simply lost track of what was going on where :O
We're using .NET Core, but not really. The tooling is much
better than what existed before, so we use it, but still compile against the full net471 framework - for now.
Strong institutional interest in crypto in S-Korea: 'New use cases will help'
The curious case of CLTQ instruction
I've always been upset about the fact that Adobe abandoned Fireworks. Fireworks always made sense to me when I had to cobble together graphics for my websites or apps. Adobe behaves like a company not interested in expanding their market, but just simply doubling down on it's existing cash cows until the day they become irrelevant.
Cheers - was hoping someone would :-)
I use Scwhab "high yield" (lol) as my primary checking account. I find it worthwhile due to the simple requirements/no worry of random fees, and because I can walk up to any crappy atm anywhere in the world and just get money without thinking about it. My experiences with customer service have been positive. But their approach to security is an absolute joke. They're an online-only bank, that stores your password in plaintext (and don't allow your passwords to be more than 8 characters/have any non-alphanumeric characters), regularly asks you to type your social security number over the phone, and have such poor fraud detection that I have their IVR memorized to just get them to leave me alone because they have cried wolf so many times.
Which is a result of being occupied by communists for decades.
Army's £113M recruitment website 'was 52 months late'
Neither Dropbox nor Google is particularly concerned with courting VC money.
You're essentially correct, but there is a bit of a problem with PyTorch and TF specifically, because you don't really have a definition of the model per se. You construct it dynamically using a Python or C++ program.

The Caffe .prototxt format or the ONNX model format are nice declarative specifications for what the model is supposed to do; so those are good input formats for the compiler. I hope more frameworks will prioritize ONNX, because it's really the wild west out here with every framework reinventing the wheel for model specification!
This page looks like http://hooli.com/ . Google does seem to have a sense of humor.

It is amazing how Google screws up any UI or explanatory pages apart from search. I guess common sense isn't taught in CLRS.
As a culture, we all signed up to participate in a business model funded by collecting our data and selling it. The natural outcome is that people with money would use that money to influence public opinion. We walked straight into this trap.
Regardless of how they answer? Like a trick question? Sounds sinister. Why would you want this I wonder?
They must be using a roadie for their product naming.
I don’t know about all that in all honesty. I’m not a language designer so I suppose I don’t care about the why. All I know is Java is really bad at fulfilling my generic typing needs. Pragmatism is really important for languages, because without it all you have is a complicated excuse for a bad user experience. It’s sort of like how if you were to optimize English by cutting out redundant letters and combining words instead of making new words, you basically end up with German, which many English speakers would agree is not as nice a language to look at. (Germans may disagree of course because they’re used to it.)
And today we have Adobe XD which is free. Actually I used it recently to open a .sketch file from a designer and it is the best free tool to open that files... what irony. Also a sign that Adobe really fears Sketch and now they are playing "here it is free" game :(
The short answer is that there are dozens of ways to use that GEMM to do convolution (convolution algorithms), and there are NUM_ALGORITHMS * NUM_LAYERS way to implement the network.

Our toolkit figures out which of those arrangements are the fast ones!
Contrast on the photos is cranked up and there are a lot of shadows (I think that's all natural for film, but dunno if also adjusted manually). Plus the photographer picked shots that look still, even frozen―more so when the objects have volume thanks to the contrast. Makes for an eerie and menacing mood.
Good.

Why would anyone complain about an imperialist recruitment site being beleaguered?

In fact, the only people who I expect to complain are citizens (who we now called "tax payers" in order to frame the conversation) who have been convinced this came directly from their wallets rather than being added to the U.S. debt.

4 years behind schedule is 4 years of lost recruits which is great.
This is a perfect example of how bonkers/stupid banking is in the USA. If the retailer allows you to do a chip/pin transaction (much more secure than a magnetic stripe) THEY are liable for any fraud. Whereas a magnetic stripe transaction (super insecure) places all liability on the payment processor. So there is a perverse incentive to stick with old crappy technology. https://qz.com/717876/the-chip-card-transition-in-the-us-has...
Markdown as format for digital preservation (Swedish) (2016)
> What is more (conceptually) difficult is concurrency, asynchronous processes etc.

Know any good resources for these?
...which means that the pictures have a bias, and they don't represent the state of the whole country at the time.

(not that there is anything wrong with it)
No, The Butt by Will Self.
The 3B1B series on Linear Algebra is by far the most welcoming and informative introduction to the topic I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
I doubt python or Java are easier than .NET it’s just a case of what you are used to. I’ve tried Ruby on Rails and find .NET easier. Probably because of experience.
That's not the distinction between investing and speculation.
The name Google Plus would have made more sense for this product in my opinion.
Show HN: A first ever tool for analysing contract owners, permissions etc.
Hi all,
We just hacked this thing:
https://showme-1389.appspot.com/

I think it's the first ever tool of it's kind.

It uses decompiled sources from Eveem.org API (e.g. http://eveem.org/code/0x06012c8cf97bead5deae237070f9587f8e7a... ), and using simple analytics on top of if, checks which other addresses are referenced by a given smart contract.

For CryptoKitties, it finds all the ceo/coo/cxo, and all the libraries linked through sources, plus information on who can change those links - e.g. that only ceo can change coo, and only cfo can withdraw money.

It took just a few hours to build it using Eveem's API, and you can check out how it's done here: https://github.com/kolinko/showmewhatyougot
Few economics Nobel prizes were essentially rediscovery of Lagrangian multiplier method, which is bread and butter stuff in optimization.
What are you talking about and why are you lying?
And constrained to the few souls that use macOS for doing design.

Which outside SV and first world countries isn't quite true.

Might still be enough for Sketch to keep an healthy business but hardly enough to actually hit Adobe's business line.
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I think you're right on there. When I saw the title, my initial thought was that Google had developed some kind of rocket! In other words, the name gives so little information about what the product actually is that it could be literally anything.
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Completely agree, it was the perfect mix of vector and bitmap graphics!
Does anybody really trust google with any of their services? It’s here today gone tomorrow.
"XBox One X". Maybe we'll start going with Roman numberals: Xbox One One, Xbox one one one, xbox One V, ... Xbox MCMLXXXVIII
The point still stands. We cannot allow to normalise such toxic language.
Sorry, this has little to do with what Poland looked like in the 80s.

Being born and having lived there for the first few years of my life, these pictures looks as exotic and strange to me as pictures from Yemen or Kazakhstan.

I'm not saying they're not real, but these pictures are clearly selected to be as far from what an average Western person considers to be "normal".

I guess it's like going to the US, only focusing on the Amish and extrapolating their way of life to the whole country.
Also: "One" has so bad SEO that Google One does not show up on the first page of Google Search results and OneDrive only on the third page. Google One was not on the first five pages.
As far as I remember, the option appears when you're checking out and choosing your shipping. It's per-order, not per-account.
I understand your point, however people complaining about Java are complaining about the language instead of the platform and the platform has evolved to support multiple languages.

Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, Eta (Haskell), JRuby are the ones I care about and they've been flourishing.

I'm a pragmatic at heart btw, but pragmatism sometimes leads to ignorance. It's important to see what's available on the other side of the fence without bringing the preconceptions bag with you. Because you can then actually use the metaphorical "best tool for the job".

It's what I'm doing myself, or at least trying and .NET is without a doubt evolving in a direction I like. And I can also write entire paragraphs of what's better on .NET, I just don't find the generics reification to be one of those things.
I do think it's misleading to compare the method to a general feed-forward network though, for two reasons.

First, to preserve the analogy between eq. 1 and 2, the thetas in equation two should have their own dynamics, which should be learned.

Second, even if Equation 1 doesn't allow it, in a general feed-forward network it's possible for the state to change dimension between layers. I don't see how that could happen with the continuous model.

Neat paper, but it'd be nice if they had tied the analogy more explicitly to RNNs in the introduction.
Ironically OneDrive used to be SkyDrive until Sky sued them. I guess everyone's switching to numbers because words are all trademarked, apart from the phoneme strings generated by the pharma industry.
Not sure how people can sit outside China for 3 days and gather enough evidence to believe "beyond doubt" that the organ harvesting thing is true.

Also, if you look at what Falun Gong teaches, the credibility of the believers should be at question. Per Wikipedia, the grandmaster of the cult believes that homosexuality is a sin, democracy and science are both bad things, and aliens are constantly interfering with Earth affairs.[1] If Falun Gong is not against China, but against, say Thailand, how many of you will blindly believe their accusations? What about Canada?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachings_of_Falun_Gong
I wish for once they would really offer a unified storage-solution. But Yet it's all just a colelction of different storages with different interfaces, rules and so on. Google Drive has integrateion into all their services somehow, and Google Photos has some bad integration into Google Drive. But what about Google Books? Google Music? Google Mail? Youtube and all the other stuff they have? At best they have some import/export-functionalitity, not a real "One-for-all" type of filemanaging-solution.

I haven't tested Google One yet, but it doesn;t seem to change anything there, just offering more space for them all.
Have been following you for some time, keep up the good work :-)
“Hong Kong is (not) China”
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Chlorofyl: Wat is het en wat kan het ook voor jouw gezondheid betekenen?
More than just CSS, we use Material UI: https://material-ui.com/
I don’t think there’s something so wrong with the practice that it needs to be justified.

If you don’t want to tip, don’t. Believe me, not everyone tips. I’m not sure what the real problem with it (the wage issue, at least for restaurants, is a red herring$ other than it makes some people who dislike social interactions uncomfortable.
Also known as "pure Android" for the curious ones.
OmniGraffle is more wireframing, low-fi.
That’s easy, photos have location metadata already. But does it also support searching for people and objects?
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You don't need to crack signal. You just need to log what the user enters on the keyboard. On android any third party keyboard (SwiftKey, Swype etc.) is already collecting this data and probably just a warrant is needed to get to it.
Networks are emergent properties of computers on all but the physical level.
the site disgusts me because it pollutes google image searches so thoroughly and combined with the mentioned required registration just makes it poison overall.

when I have to filter a site to get results I can use there is a problem and there needs to be an easy method to permanent filter such sites.
You're assuming roughly a 50MBit/sec connection. What about people on mobile connections or in regions where 1MBit are barely achievable? Drop them over the edge? Ignore them? Might be a valid decision for your project, but for some people, bandwidth still matters.
The pricing is interesting when you compare it to G Suite pricing. For $10/user/month (with a minimum of 5 users) you get unlimited storage space. a pretty roundabout way of getting unlimited storage, but then you'd also save yourself $150/month or $1.8k/year
Have a look at Nuclino (https://www.nuclino.com), essentially a real-time wiki for teams. We're eliminating modes the way you describe in order to speed up the workflow. It supports edit-in-place, changes are automatically saved and you can collaborate in real-time (like in Google Docs), but you also have core wiki features like easy linking and consistent styles.
Warsaw, with parts of family near Ciechanów and near Piła.

No, not everybody had a tractor - that would be ineffective, given how many small family-owned farms there were. But they did use tractors and combine harvesters. TBH I don't know whether they were shared between neighbors or just unofficially borrowed(#) for a bottle of vodka from the state farms (PGR).

(#)There's this Polish verb "załatwić" which I cannot properly translate to English. It means obtaining products or services using ones connections, cunning and possibly transfer of a usual token of appreciation as in "załatwić za flachę" (obtain something in exchange for a bottle of vodka).
I'm not sure what you computed. The interesting question is to pick a recessive trait from one of the parents and ask for the chance of it being passed on. The probability that it's being passed on from the parent who has it is 1/2. The probability that it's being passed on from the other parent is (1/2)*(1/128). The combined probability is 1/512, not 1/65,536.
That's basically what nextcloud is trying to be, although I don't think it's there yet.
FYI: I believe you have to use the flag -gnatn or -gnatN to inline packages with GNAT.

Optimizing your project: https://www.pegasoft.ca/resources/boblap/7.html

GNAT: Alphabetical list of all switches: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-8.2.0/gnat_ugn/Alphabetic...
Please note that disclosure for legal advice was not in the first reading, but added later.
The photo with the ship being pulled uphill.
That still exists to date:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RDx-QLW2Tk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal
curious Ones?
It has 2 rules (instead of rules think as them as highlights.
1. One is about comparison. Why? Because now we are more connected than ever and it is easier to fall in that habit, instead the Author argues that you should use this habit to have a look at the day before, basically compete with one self.
The other one is about telling the truth, I don't want to sound like an edgy 15 year old JP fan but this reminds me of Tim Ferris' quote about how a successful man can be measured by the amount of uncomfortable conversations he had in life. Also from a rationalist point of view sincerity is a virtue. I didn't said the number of rules from the book because even though the book starts with numbers (1) it is a good read book (worth the effort)

(1) this isn't an unhealthy book to read, quite the opposite the rule of N list of things applies to articles, JP has good wisdom for our lives in industrial society: http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html
You can just register a GSuite Business account, with unlimited storage.

They have a fine print that says you need at least 5 users in your account or something, otherwise they limit you to 1 TB.

However they are not enforcing that limit and on /r/DataHoarder/ you can see people with dozens of TB stored without issues. And even if they start enforcing it, if you pay for multiple accounts it would still be pretty cheap and you don't get this multi-account management overhead.
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> While we were building the model we also wanted to figure out what to do for these Pinners once we could target them. We thought it would be best to ask them, as they surely would know why they were using Pinterest less. So we did an in-product survey for a sample set, and found the most common reason for not using Pinterest was that they got busy.

They did mention contacting users and, as is usual, got only the symptom, not the underlying cause. Talking to users is great to understand why something happens is great, but it has to be translated through deep product insight to be useful.
i thought it is something to replace Google Plus :)

Speaking about bad namings - reminds me how back at Sun at one moment everything became "Java" (even stock ticker, no kidding). "We've got just 5 product boxes (Java this and Java that), just 5 boxes, that's all! Simplify things for the customer!" Lets just say that naming as Java various non-Java things simplified nothing for nobody.
I think the post missed a great opportunity to point out that rate distortion theory is the fundamental problem that we are stuck at -- be it viewed as a information theory problem, machine learning problem, statistics problem, signal processing problem ...

This. is. the. holy. grail.

Note for the lossless case with discrete alphabets we have polynomial time universal algorithms for source coding. No matter what the unknown distribution, these algorithm (eventually) guarantee the optimal possible performance had we known the distribution ahead of time. No need to assume a parametric family of distributions etc etc. We have not been able to solve this for continuous alphabet/ lossy / rate distortion case. We don't know of any universal algorithm that's efficient. If we knew how to do build this we would solve ML/signal processing/statistics etc., and gone home (to build other things). Even an impossibility result would help -- that says you cannot have an efficient algorithm unless, say P=NP.
And right at the top there's a link to the "diversity" initiative includecpp.org... whose resources happily teach about "Mansplaining", "White Privilege", "Inequality of Pay" and "GoogleBro - Google Memo August 2017 - James Damore". Wow
A relative of mine who is a doctor mentioned to me that the opposite is a common problem when children volunteer to donate an organ to a parent. They must test for DNA compatibility which often yields bad surprises. Apparently it is gradual. The DNA of the first child almost always matches, the second a little less, the third is where the odds reduce significantly.

Granted that was in France...
Still, it's attempting to normalize this term in people's dictionary.