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This paper seems to indicate there is a causal relationship, at least in rats (I'm getting this from someone who knows more, not an expert myself): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/03/191791

Until you hear an outburst like this: https://youtu.be/33sUi8r-PDI?t=557

Is that funny? To me it just sounds racist...

It isn't piracy, all the publishers (in my experience & field of study) allow for free third-party hosting. Still agree with your second sentence though.

I don't see what tech savvyness has to do with it, many people use Google search. In fact, Scholar isn't even necessary, doing a regular Google search has the direct PDF links at the top of the search results.

So, I tried to see if I could read some of the articles marked "paywall" and I had no trouble. My methodology: Google Scholar search the article title, and click the direct "PDF" link on the right side.

Eg: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Tissue+sulfhydryl+group...

EDIT: My point here is that the statement in the article "the world’s most important research is inaccessible from the majority of the world" isn't exactly true. This isn't supposed to be an endorsement of academic publishing practices: if anything the fact that these publishers are effectively trying to scam readers out of money is all the more evident.

If you are considering no longer using Google or one of their products: they offer an easy way to export your (signed in) data for archival, or even wholesale delete your account and take all your data with you: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190

Not trying to encourage anyone one way or the other, but a good FYI to keep in mind.

> An entire generation has been introduced to video games through Minecraft.

Absolutely, but I would take it one step farther. Minecraft has introduced them to concepts beyond only video games: architecture, circuit design, and people management, to name a few.

This attack has been known since at least 2011: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotsec11/tech/final_file...

My biggest gripe with SMS 2FA is that it is prone to locking me out of my accounts on travel, if I suddenly need to log in to something and my phone number isn't the same abroad.

Mmmmmmm maybe not, this just went public: http://waymo.com/

Interestingly, four elements of the periodic table are named after a small town in Sweden called Ytterby:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterby

UC Davis has the Social Sciences building (aka the "Death Star"): http://www.predock.com/SocialSciences/UC%20Davis.html

While visually striking, it is a labyrinthine nightmare on the inside and almost impossible to navigate if you have to get to a class.

Gmail, on the other hand, has takeout which allows you to export all your mail in bulk if you want to leave and take it with you: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

(I think you commented on the wrong post, you want https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12607160)

This is a Youtube Red feature. Not sure why it isn't part of core Youtube (perhaps its related to not being able to show ads to users with the screen off?).

Also, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44 for another cool ML-Mario implementation.

Are you familiar with (the programming language) Go? What do you think of Go's approach to objects?

My question is: does the ratio of famale-to-male matter? What if the chance of a girl was 60% and male was 40%? My intuition is that it wouldn't, but I'm not sure.

I can't comment on Google's practices, but an honest ad network can generally detect accidental clicks and won't count them towards ad budget. This can be done by, eg, looking at how long a user remains on the click-through site before coming back.

You should, I would love to read that :)

In that case, way to go, that is very impressive! I'm surprised the bounty was so low, honestly.

In response to your first comment, I should clarify that checking for a valid HTTPS URL SHOULD be sufficient, barring implementation errors in the browser. Of course, if the browser is insecure, all bets are off wrt web security. Implications may range far beyond phishing attacks in that case.

Is the concern here phishing? Checking that the page is HTTPS and the domain is *.google.com should be sufficient to thwart phishing attempts. Of course, your attack would still work against uninformed users, but you can protect yourself by always being sure to check the URL.

I've always been curious how, in this business model, you protect API tokens if the users of the API deploy mobile apps. Embedding them in an app isn't secure: anybody could reverse engineer the app and use the key for themselves free of charge. And there is no way in Android or iOS to know which app makes a request from the server.

An interesting thing worth mentioning here is that many of these techniques work because x86 is a variable length instruction set. A fixed length instruction set (ie, ARM) specifies jump targets as instruction offsets, not byte/word, so you can't jump into the middle of an instruction.

This is super cool and fast, I'm impressed. Thought I would note, it looks like the catch rates of all the pokemon all incorrectly display 0%.

It is true that CS is more conference-oriented, however most top conferences require that a paper be submitted, reviewed, and (if accepted) published in the conference proceedings before you can present your work there. This does vary by discipline though: algs/theory is more traditional journal oriented, I believe.

Many CS researchers publish in conferences, not journals, so they tend to be pretty spread around. Each field usually has a major conference whose proceedings are worth looking into when they roll around. Of course, conference papers are behind paywalls, but you can usually find a free version if you search the authors/paper title in Google Scholar. The system could be better.

Open Computers is very powerful. I once knew a modded Mincecraft server admin who used Open Computers to receive and send text message updates about his base and the state of server when he was away from his computer.

"making it the first genetically altered animal to be cleared for American supermarkets and dinner tables"

What is the definition of "genetically altered"? I assume that cannot cover selective breeding, for example.

"The officials said the fish would not have to be labeled as being genetically engineered, a policy consistent with its stance on foods made from genetically engineered crops."

As an aside, what is your reason for not consuming GMO foods if you also trust that many biologists feel that they can be safe? Genuinely curious not trying to be snarky.