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> Don’t get me wrong: it’s a well-written article explaining the biology to a lay audience. But it doesn’t hold any striking new insights.

This "article" in the Harvard Gazette is basically a press release about an invited lecture that happened at Harvard. If it manages to clearly and correctly explain any science, then it's already going above and beyond its main purpose.

Edit:

* Here is Athena Aktipis' lab site: http://www.aktipislab.org

* Here is a 2015 NYT article about her work that goes into more detail than this press release: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/science/cellular-cheaters...

* This is the scientific article: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1673/2014...

I've never seen a spurious click with press to click, but I am still on a 2015 MBP.

You might consider turning on "Tap to click" in your Trackpad settings. Instead of pressing anything, you can just lightly tap a finger anywhere on the pad to send a click. There's another option for a two-fingered tap to count as a right-click.

I'm hoping for a future where the machines do all the work required to provide everything human beings need to survive, AND where we've figured out a reasonable way to distribute resources in a world where not everyone will be able to "contribute to society" by spending huge amounts of their waking time doing something they'd not otherwise do, in exchange for tokens that can be redeemed for food and shelter.

> Upon choosing a career, you should consider the longevity of that career.

Isn't it lucky we humans are so very good at predicting the future!?

When I was taking computer vision courses little more than a decade ago, self driving cars were pure science fiction. Part of me hopes software development is the next job we automate away, just so everyone in forums like this who are so impressed with their own excellent life choices can see what it's like to be on the other end of this.

How about "[men] are conditioned to hide our mental health and true feelings/emotions"

I'd be happy if such sites would just support more serious options than SMS, without necessarily requiring it.

> the whole effort was all about standardizing Lisp

There are more Lisps now than ever, so perhaps that was not as successful as was hoped.

> why not just say Scheme or Clojure when talking about Scheme or Clojure?

Why not just say "Common Lisp" when you mean Common Lisp, and "Lisp" when making true general statements that include other things that have always been considered Lisps? How are we to refer to Emacs Lisp without tying ourselves in knots if we refuse to say that "Lisp" includes it?

Common Lisp has CLOS. I'm aware some purists don't think Scheme is a Lisp but, regardless of one's stance on this, there are most definitely other Lisps than Common Lisp.

Is this supposed to be some kind of joke, or do you really imagine that lesson planning and grading alone for 4 daily hours of classroom instruction would take less than an additional 4 hours?

The SUNY system offers free tuition to NY state residents with annual income under $125K. That may not be too relevant for the children of HNers, but it's a huge proportion of households in NY state.

https://www.ny.gov/programs/tuition-free-degree-program-exce...

How about "eccentric"?

> Hope the explanation helps.

Absolutely.

> We can either adopt a norm of honoring what the writer intended or a norm of honoring what the reader observed. I think a lot of people who are most vocally pro-diversity use the later norm when determining if something is or isn't ????ist. If this is the norm I think it should be universally the norm.

Gods, I hope this does not become the norm. "Everything can mean anything!"

OK, I kind of agree with you. Logically, it doesn't entail that, but it would be insane to treat natural language as pure logic. Pragmatically, taking context into account, I think the original statement is more likely meant to imply that "All (or a vast majority of) bigots at Google are white men" than "All white men at Google are bigots."

> "If you want to increase diversity at Google fire all the bigoted white men" — this can be read as all the white men at Google are bigots.

It really can't.

> It also makes elections a more accurate reflection of everyone's preferences

The main preference this may reveal is a preference to avoid being fined.

> Crypto means cryptography

I hope that's considered obvious on HN.

The suggestion was that "cryptos" could be a suitable plural abbreviation for "cryptocurrencies" (unless it's typically used as an abbreviation for "cryptographies," which it doesn't seem to be). Anyway, I confess that seems likely to just cause more confusion.

How about https://matrix.org/ ?

"cryptocurrency" is a bit of a mouthful, so I at least understand the urge to shorten it, but I wish we could agree to at least shorten it to "cryptos," as in: "A Cryptos Website Changes Its Data..."

> Only run Javascript on domains you really need and trust, and even then the minimum amount required for the site to function.

This is so inconvenient that practically no one is going to do it. I used to use NoScript but found I was just constantly clicking "temporarily allow."

Just to add to your list, I recently came across Thyme (probably in some HN thread) and it's pretty neat https://github.com/sourcegraph/thyme

No, I'm imagining, and I'm sure we'll get there eventually, but BTC has a lot of inertia at present.

Well, for sure it's better than using your mother's actual maiden name. But I'd rather see security questions done away with altogether.

> Imagine the hash rate of the BTC network going towards some useful calculations.

Unfortunatly BTC mining now runs almost entirely on ASICs that can't be used to compute anything but SHA-256.

Sure, but you're not spending all day running customer service "DoS attacks" against people's bank accounts. Even if "it's gibberish, and I forgot it, can't you please help me out" only works one time out of a thousand, do you really want to bet your bank balance on a weak link customer service rep who's just a tad too eager to help?

I shares worries I've seen expressed elsewhere that this opens up a social engineering attack vector where an imposter gets through to phone support and says "oh I just typed a bunch of gibberish for the answer and can't remember it." Wouldn't a false, long, maybe hyphenated, but plausible surname be better for this reason?

I don't know about the cause, but I just want to say that it's extremely frustrating and at least a little distressing to deal with US banks in 2017 that don't offer proper 2FA, with SMS being the highest security option.

> in the future they might be marketed in terms of THC:CBD ratios

I don't know about marketing per se, but I was at a dispensary in a recreational state a couple of years back and the THC:CBD ratio was prominently displayed as part of each strain's description, and the staff seemed very well-versed with helpful advice for noobs on the expected effects.

OpenSecrets.org Influence & Lobbying / Lobbying / Industry: Pharmaceuticals/Health Products

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=h04

> If only those clowns could focus on making the absurd bit of theater they currently have even just the slightest bit more efficient.

Maybe efficiency is not the goal. Cui bono? We got all those nifty body scanners in part because Michael Chertoff, right after serving as director of DHS, went around promoting scanners on behalf of his consulting client, body scanner manufacturer Rapiscan[1].

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/airport-scanner-...