skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lamarckism isn’t about epigenetics, nor vice-versa. Some people are calling epigenetic inheritance Lamarckism, but many (in my experience, most) colleagues reject this label as inaccurate. For one thing, although epigenetic inheritance on the single-cell level is a simple fact, and amply demonstrated, it hasn’t been shown to contribute to evolution in any way, and trans-generational epigenetic inheritance in multi-cellular organisms is a difficult concept to demonstrate (there are papers which claim that, but these are contentious, since they fail to demonstrate a persistent effect across several generations). The claims of epigenetic-inheritance-as-Lamarckism are on par with saying that a person’s nationality is Lamarckian: If I emigrate and take on a new nationality, there’s a high chance I’ll confer this nationality to my offspring, simply by raising them in that country. Yet no evolutionary biologist would claim that nationality is in any way part of my genetic heritage.

Here’s a more detailed treatment of these claims: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/7338/82
so that you don't have to give your CC info to companies who don't protect it and then have it stolen, so that some jack off in Texas can go buy 200 rolls of TP from wal-mart. That's enough reason. Push payments > Pull Payments
> For instance, themes and plugins for Wordpress, Magento, etc. are often de facto installed by their mere presence at conventional locations inside the project tree, and this is the only way to “install” them.

> In such a situation, going with submodules (or subtrees) probably is the right solution

As a Magento Developer, I'm afraid submodules wouldn't work for Magento plugins. As they unfortunately have to be installed to multiple top-level project directories. It is a nightmare (and is better served by the composer efforts for dependency management).
> I have mixed feelings when it comes to Dell. I use Dell U2713HM. Initially I got the first revision which had issues with a buzzing sound emitted when displaying a pattern on the screen. It completely died after a few weeks. I got a replacement (third revision) and haven't experienced any problems since.

I have the same issue. You got it replaced? When I called Dell they sent me a refurb that had dead pixels and buzzed as well. I sent that right back. My brand new display also had a dead pixel from the start. And actually all you need to do to get that buzzing is to display a lot of text on the screen i.e. Wikipedia or something. It's super annoying when you're working in a quiet environment and all you can hear is BUZZZZZZ. I'm still kicking myself for not going with Eizo because Dell was $100 cheaper. I vowed... Dell, never again.
Those types of cards aren't available in the state of Vermont. Not sure of other states, but Green Dot, Visa Reloadables, etc aren't available here.
There is a business model behind it but Layers itself will always be free and we'll be here to support it! We've been in the WP game since '09 and have zero intention of going anywhere anytime soon :)
So when you spell it with a big I because somebody else's rules say so, that proves you're the boss?
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That is basically it: Additional restriction applied to the token.

I was actually referencing this article: https://auth0.com/blog/2014/12/02/using-json-web-tokens-as-a...
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I like your "2." suggestion more, because the initial sentiment score distribution can be not normal.

So there is an option to try making it normal by taking logarithm for example and calculating mean, etc. after that.
Yep, happens to me too, random freezing is especially annoying.

Also, random weird black screen flickering, and grey/old-TV-like screen glitches are just ugly but not really a problem.
Strictly speaking, nothing can ever be confirmed or disproven, for random events in the universe can always spoil any experiment. QM, by its statistical nature, actually destroyed the definition of science. We can only speak of how likely we believe that something about the physical reality is true.
companies who fail to live up to their end of the bargin in a bitcoin world won't survive long. I've been shopping on the internet since the 90's and not once have I had to place a chargeback.. Chargebacks are mostly fraud and people wanting shit for free.. In turn goods become higher priced and that cost is passed onto all the other customers.. Anytime I have been unhappy with an internet purchase the company has always given me a refund. The need for chargebacks is truly minimal. Any company that wants to keep their customers is going to issue a refund. Companies that won't are shady and need to go out of business anyway.
This is something that some people has suspected in the field for a long time. I had terrible discussions as we made some software in the field and met people there.

The pure Darwinism evolution dogma has extended a lot because it was an easy answer, like the world being created in 6 days. But it was incomplete in lots of ways.

For example, considering all DNA we did not understand as "junk" DNA was incredible arrogant, when it seems like it is in fact software or other kinds of data.

You have comments on me on hacker news talking about that like 5 years ago or something.

Great job what those researchers have done.
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro that has this problem.

I called Apple this morning and they told me that I'd have to bring it in to an Apple store. The page on Apple.com offers a postage paid "Mail In Service" option if you are in the US but the customer service rep didn't know anything about that.
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While this SPA is specific to Durandal, the concept should work equally well with Angular or Ember etc as there are gulp tasks already out there for those frameworks and the rest of the post should be applicable then in that case.
It looks great, I will surely give it a try on of my parent-in-law's restaurant website.
Lenovo CTO admits company 'messed up' and will publish Superfish removal tool
A quick search on www.bloomberg.com shows inconsistent application of the style guide. iPhone is universally styled as "iPhone", while both EBay/eBay and iTunes/ITunes appeared in headlines.
Marvelous piece of writing.

I've been to Tokyo in past December and was renting an apartment in Shibuya via Aribnb. While searching for a good place to stay I noticed that a lot were listed either by foreigners living in Japan or by people who have close ties with the west (work with western companies or travel a lot).

I've also met new friend from the US there (via reddit) and unlike me, he did stay with the Japanese family in a guest room. But it seems like they too were more open in the matter of sharing living space because they also had another guest staying with them and she was from Australia (can't remember now, but I think she's a relative of said family - so that too could be attributed to closer ties with the "west").
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> Both are very likely to fail

Applies if the execution and luck of the founders is rather poor - something that will normally be true in all cases.

My question focuses on the likelihood of success based solely on the method of idea acquisition.
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Planning to include it? :D
> In my case it took 45% of my fortune to buy that machine.

Maybe that's not a great idea for a device that has a 3-5 year lifespan anyways?
Yes. I had the same problem and Apple did a free out-of-warranty logic board replacement for me.
I'm glad they took care of you! I'm curious: had you bought the extended AppleCare?

Reason I ask is because the general consensus seems to be that they cut you a lot more slack if you've paid for the 3-year warranty, even if it's expired.

That's been my experience, but... I'm not rich enough to buy two identical MBPs (one without extended coverage) and use one as a proper control sample. :)
I used to work with Mukund (Rangamani) and Veronika when I was doing my PhD at Durham Uni (2004-2008) -- it's great to see the work they and others are continuing to do on this. It formed the basis for my thesis (http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2906/), and Anti de-Sitter spacetimes allow for some great visualizations (I spent much time working in Mathematica to produce the one shown in the slide here: http://bethnalgreenventures.com/2013/08/05/guest-blog-from-m...).

You also learn something new everyday - I'd never come across the term "Fisheye Universe" for AdS space before! :)
We're talking about Japan, though.
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1.0.3->1.0.4->1.2.0->1.3.0

1.1 wasn't skipped:

$ nvm ls-remote | grep iojs-v1.1
iojs-v1.1.0
I agree. Many countries have mandatory military service. Hence the last line of my comment: it's not relevant to the technical problem here.
> My understanding is that under the Sale of Goods Act you are entitled to a partial refund

You are entirely correct, I'd misunderstood things and possibly got confused with a shorter timeframe (if it's very early on, you're entitled to a full refund). Thanks for the correction, I'll update my post to point out the error. (edit - oh, I'm now unable to edit the post :( )

> I believe that the new EU directive entitles you for a full refund for the 2 years of the warranty. In this regard, it's a stronger protection than the UK Sale of Goods act.

Very interesting to know, thank you.
Carbon fiber dust is nasty stuff, something like asbestos. It can not even go to landfill, so lets make children playgrounds out of that. Lovely.
I run 8GB now on my 2011 MBP but if I am search for a new laptop it will have 16GB.

Luckily, I run a remote VM most of the time and can get away with 8 but if I need to do anything locally that involves a VM I start running short.
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Does headline testing work?
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Thinking that Node is somehow more "stable" means you've fallen for Joyent's marketing tendrils.

When Joyent or other enterprisey Node users mean "stable" they mean it in the same sense as Windows XP is "stable". It means you have a bunch of dependencies designed to work with a specific version, and you don't want to do the work of migrating because you have bigger cheques to cash. Stable doesn't mean less features, less bugs, or a slower release pace. Those things just fall out as consequences.

This is also the essence of why io.js happened in the first place. The intened audiences are completely different.
You can try to find a dataset that contains the equal number of positive and negative documents (sentences, etc.) and use it as the validation set. I.e. to tune your hyperparameters on it.

In the simple case your hyperparameter can be α in

sentiment = (α * #positive_matches - #negative_matches) / (document_word_count)
Does that suggest they have an exploit in PGP?
I guess you missed all the giant data hacks over the last year.
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I like the design, but why do you need to be able to create Tweets for your users and follow new people?

I stopped when I saw that.
We used them for a few months and it was always painful. Always. We ended up writing our own composer installer plugin that let us put things in the various places we need them and it's been soo much better. Someone needs to make a dead simple non language specific git-tag package manager where I just specify github.com/blah:1.0.* -> folder/blah and it keeps it up to date. It's what we're using composer for but its a stretch.
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Why the 3 strikes system is failing to stop piracy
I think, Better to start a business like this in 2015? Lol
I would have to agree with the ease of loading vanilla windows. I've done it quite easily with both an Alienware 14 (2013) and a Sony Vaio that is 4 years old. I downloaded the proper copy of Windows from the MS site, which was Win 7 Ultimate 64bit for the Sony, and make a disk or usb stick. Then it was a few prompts and that was it. Instead of letting Windows Update load the drivers, I found my specific build on the Sony site with the correct drivers for all the bits and pieces. I did not install any of the free software, or Sony-specific software, which was easily to discern on the downloads page. Same for the Alienware. BTW, I have installed, used and programmed on OSX, Minix, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Backbox, and others. I find the Windows/Linux/BSD/OS X comments on usage to be about preference rather than actual steps involved.

EDIT: I had the OEM Product Key on the Sony and AW, and they both registered fine without a problem, no need for pirated versions or any taxes.
«Worryingly, it’s very easy to extract and use the encryption key run by Komodia, largely because the password to access all different versions of the certificate is “komodia”.»

No, the problem is that big subsets of affected systems share the same root certificate and private key. How or whether that private key itself is encrypted is less of an issue.
Agreed.

It should be noted that there are two confusingly similar concepts in the git - the subtree merge strategy and the git subtree command (which is, in fact a git command like git submodule, a point which seems ambiguous in the OP).
To a first approximation: zero in both cases.

It's not a place for meaningful optimization. See JustinTV.
Very true. At most we can say that these guys found a mathematical theory that is consistent with what the universe looks like. I imagine that there could be an infinite number of such theories, if you are creative (and good at math) enough.
hahaha but it is a good architecture you have to admint :D
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Ditto. Too fast. For me this isn't an exemplar of effective communication. It's a complete failure to deliver whatever that animation was trying to communicate because I only got 1 second each to absorb the text and the slide. Maybe I'm just slow, but a few stacked section tags with the same information presented statically would've been so much more effective.

Javascript for it's own sake, hampering effective communication; it's the Flash splash page all over again.
Do you have the gold standard labels of your dataset? Can you ensure that the amount of pos/neg labels is symmetrical?

You can heuristically tune the weights of your lexicon to fit your intuition, but evidence is necessary to progress adequately.

In case you find unbalanced amount of examples, apply an unbalanced effectiveness score like the F-measure to obtain a fair performance of your system.
Yes.

The most feasible interstellar communication is extermination, as you are just sending a starship and not decelerating it on the other side.

The killing star and the forge of god are science fiction and let's keep it that way.
The average user can avoid prosecution by setting their torrent client's upload speed to 0. No upload == no share, and besides, the folks 'capturing' IP addresses need to get a "clandestine" packet from you before they can put you on the naughty list (since they can't send _you_ a clandestine packet, for obvious reasons.)

Don't need a VPN, just don't upload.
> While this whole Superfish/Lenovo thing is certainly quite scary, let's not forget the very important fact that, currently, the user ultimately still has the ability to modify the software on the machines he/she owns, which includes among other things (un)installing software like Superfish, and also adding/removing trusted certificates.

Go into a room full of average computer users. Say what you just said here, and watch the blank stares and listen to the "what did he just say/what language is he speaking" comments.

You seem to forget this is on consumer laptops, not machines that will be bought by enterprise IT departments and wiped/reinstalled for company use. The affected laptops are ending up in Joe and Jane User's homes, where they will immediately begin visiting their banks, social networks, email providers, and any other sites people use daily, and will therefore be vulnerable out of the box. They won't know about a root certificate; they won't even know what a root certificate is!

THAT is why this is such a shitty thing for Lenovo and Superfish to do.
You should go vote for Obama. Everyone knows he was supposed to make things transparent. Too bad he went the other way.
Is my opinion that your dilemma could be better answered by reading: "Code Complete". Just read and apply as much of it every day, for next level :)
> Here repping enterprises, can confirm this is how things work. But we don't pay late out of malice. Often incompetence and apathy, sure, but we don't actively set out to cheat you guys.

This one really makes me laugh. Can I use the same excuse when I am late in delivering your order?
Nature is full of interesting goodies. My favorite is the discovery taq polymerase from thermophile bacteria that lives on thermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction

Another form of code reuse!

I also wonder what amazing things we could find in rare/niche ecosystems giving that in such a short time we've seen things like this and rapamycin.
Sure, let me explain.

First, not all my VMs are for the same things.

A group of 8 of them is a set of build/test environments for a piece of open source software I am the author and maintainer of. They host different combinations of Linux distributions and kernels (the software is the userspace layer for a set of kernel modules), so that whenever I commit enough changes, I can just mass-run tests, code build and package builds accross those VMs. This is just run by a central Makefile on my local machine, and is more convenient than remotely using the build environment I have on my servers when on the go, sometimes using 3G WWAN, because of better latency saving me many seconds for each test build or when having totally unreliable uplink (train and plane mostly).

Then, I generally have about 5 to 10 VMs which hold customer environments, from simple standalone servers or clusters that I am currently prototyping, to full-blown network topologies with Linux/BSD server VMs connected to GNS3-powered emulated Cisco devices. I typically have copies of those on my servers too, but again, on the go, it is more convenient to have them running locally, again to speed up development cycle.

Of course, anything that requires long-running tests goes on my servers, not on the laptop. When at home (home office actually), I typically only use the VMs on my servers, fiber internet connection making working remotely with the datacenter seemless.

The paradox is that I have more things running on my laptop than on my desktop workstation, typically ~10-12GB of RAM for the VMs on my laptop, when my workstation 32GB are barely used at all (but used to be before I could afford to buy servers and host them somewhere nice) :-)
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I understand the pain of having changes that should be innocent leading to breaks in production. What is your strategy around testing for upgrades like this? JavaScript is not my area of expertise.
Regular test runs down to zero unexpected failures on multiple architectures
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The purpose of speaking is to convey information to another person. As long as you are accomplishing this, your volume, enunciation, tonality, etc. doesn't matter.
To be able to share news directly by pressing the tweet button. Actually it's the basic read-write twitter access but since we implemented the front-end tweet button I just changed the required permissions to read only.
We could just bury the blades under Yucca Mountain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
(I don't have the experience you're asking for)

The one big pro/con item that sticks out to me is C2's lack of animations/transitions. That's always felt, to me, to be one of D3's core offerings.

Also, I'd be curious to know the sort of market share ClojureScript has in the web world.
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I would still expect it to tend towards the normal distribution across a large set of documents. If you model positive and negative word counts as a binomial distribution, you have the the difference of two samples from different binomial distributions which would still tend towards normal (I think, though I'm not 100% sure, certainly it's true within my experience). A logarithm would skew away from positive to negative sentiment and is undefined for negative values.
I'd also be a bit skeptical about their structural integrity. Composites usually have dimensional strength with weaves going in orthogonal and diagonal to each other. However, any holes, or stress cracks would make their recycled use for less critical applications. I would like to read further on how they inspect and possibly recondition them for less stressful use, but within the parameter of re-purposed, safe use.
Can you elaborate the New Zealand's system?
Most Firefox users switched away from those (or didn't switch to them) because it works better for them - including security wise. I suspect that won't be their first course of action.
The point is that even if you're credit card number is stolen, you are not responsible and get a new card. Compare that to the data hacks of bitcoin exchanges...
That implies making a cognitive activity out of a non-cognitive activity and thus defeating the point.
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Perhaps so, but at least it would keep some of the malware out.

Another option would be to put her regular use to a VM that you control (remotely) and can restore to a clean state at any time...
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I meant "50,591 times further".
Yes, this is a huge issue. We in the technical community will take the extra steps. We will reformat a system and install a new o/s. We will go through the steps to remove malware/adware. We will install our own web browsers and additional security software. We'll use VPNs. We'll use PGP keys. We'll use Tor.

But the "regular" users won't. It's not that they _can't_. It's just that for them Internet-connected computers are just tools. Tools to get to information and services... or to get their jobs done. They don't want to mess around with systems - they just want to order something online or communicate with family and friends.

And they are buying laptops like these because they are inexpensive and seem to fit their needs. They just want a tool they can use.

They are _trusting_ Lenovo and other manufacturers. And that trust is being betrayed.
I find it hilarious how Bitcoin cheerleaders say there aren't any downsides, and then spend hours every day posting "chargebacks aren't important" and "merchants will obviously pass all the savings on to consumers". YMMV.
So just a coincidence with today's xkcd? http://xkcd.com/1489/
I have a dream, that someday a science editor will read an article in which the word "average" appears and then suggest that the word "median" should also appear.

TFA: "Today's tiniest sea critter is less than 10 times smaller than its Cambrian counterpart, measured in terms of volume; both are minuscule crustaceans."

Presumably we're talking about Stygotantulus stocki, which is 94 µm long. That's already smaller than a lot of bacteria, so I'm not sure how much more it could possibly shrink? There is an effective lower bound here.

TFA: "But at the other end of the scale, the mighty blue whale is more than 100,000 times the size of the largest animal the Cambrian could offer: another crustacean with a clam-like, hinged shell."

Leaving aside the apples-to-rutabagas comparison of clams and mammals, is there any physical reason why whales are the largest animal we could imagine? They're big, but so is the ocean. There is no effective upper bound in sight.

Average is not a meaningful statistic in this case.
The author of CoffeeScript also created Underscore. He did the exact same thing there: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/1805

So bottom line: if you use CoffeeScript, Underscore of Backbone.js pay close attention to upgrades.