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I have Facebook blocked for the next week (because, you know, productivity). Can someone post LeCun's comment here?

I really can't explain why, but PLOS tries to: https://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/ They just increased the fees for their general purpose publication, PLOS ONE. Her…

> Mistake was on move 79, but #AlphaGo only came to that realisation on around move 87 That's cool to think of AlphaGo having "realizations"

Was it AlphaGo losing the game, or Lee Sedol winning it?

Yeah, if AlphaGO wins all 5, I'd next like to see some Blitz Go (if that's a thing).

As a result of this article, I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of groups engineering this bacteria's systems into something that could survive and grow at lower temperatures. Or maybe…

> What else would you use? Oh, no, I was asking mostly as a noob. I've since decided to have a go at learning Scala, and your answer reinforces that decision.

I'm curious, why Scala over all other options?

> So basically you thwack all the cells with something that pushes their lifecycles towards a similar schedule, and then later-on they tend to all still be on the same cycle? Yeah,…

> So, the only question is what people agree that it means The details make this more complicated, so we're never going to agree. Just like most people agreeing that alcohol okay, …

> Even n > 20 can be difficult for certain studies. For some expensive experiments even n=3 is difficult to reach. "Should we do another replicate and go from n=2 to n=3, or should…

It's better to wait for multiple, large randomized controlled trials to be performed before making claims about improved brain function. But maybe, for now, we can eat more chocola…

> As a white person from a white family in the middle of the US, no one that I care about values me based on my salary. As someone of the same background and also from the middle o…

> I live by myself and barely even speak out loud at home. Not sure how other people feel about talking out loud at home, but as someone who also lives alone (in a 250 sqft apartme…

> hot lead To me at least, this sounds terrifying compared to the liquid nitrogen.

That's true, I shouldn't have compared my experience as a grad student in science to a project like Varnish. > Code is a liability is not ab asset. That's a great quote. I guess th…

Pouring liquid nitrogen on your hand and letting it roll off is actually pretty fun (and safe). Just don't let it sit there.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect

>> And eventually I no longer think about code lines as an asset to be accumulated, but rather as an expenditure to be avoided. Maybe I'm a bit odd, but I got into programming with…

Will Hacker News be blocked? It looks like it's currently available: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.com