jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wait, the whole argument hinges on assuming P != NP correct? Which isn’t something that is proven... so by following the author’s analogy, I think left with the conclusion that there is definitely a possibility that there are people exponentially smarter than others.

The other assumption was based on the determinism of the machine. As far as I understand, the brain is not a deterministic computer. We don’t really understand how our brains work at all, but they definitely don’t work in any way shape or form to how we understand a computer to work, this leaving even more possibility for interpretation to an opposite conclusion.

Lastly, what about all the evidence of people who actually did accomplish exponentially more work than others? We have the benefit of the hindsight to check that real quick and, yup, I’d say 100% there are people who have done it. Elon, Jobs, Gates, etc...

However, I’d agree with the author if they argued that we can’t predict who will be exponentially smarter. To do that, we would have to simulate the future or have an algorithm that can tell us, which obviously presents some contradictions.

I think we all just sort have to wait and see.
I frequently get good results from Google/Quora.
Azure itself is pretty safe from Gruber's crosshairs. Google was less successful, but there is a common trend of companies paying their way into the good graces of Apple bloggers' inner circle (Squarespace, Backblaze, Everpix).
a cryptogtaphic digest, http://linux.die.net/man/1/sha256sum

The message is a joke intended to make people think about limitations of null hypothesis techniques. On the one hand, the technique I describe is statistically rigorous, on the other hand, it is stupid because it has no power and is always random.

However, in the Popperian framework of null hypothesis testing, there is no way to even express the fact that this test is worse than any other.
Sorry, neither the idea nor the execution impress me very much.

This seems about as useful as the "random radio" function in every existing music player. Except it is slow and cumbersome to use.

EDIT: Please note this reply was written when the submission title was: "A great execution of a simple idea". The title has since been changed by the 𝐦𝐨de𝐫at𝐨rᶰ𝐬.
According to Wikipedia he owned the largest vineyard in the world.
OO is more about naming and relating things than the fundamental truthiness of math (and likewise FP). They are just as much about communicating with humans when coming up with a solution as they are about actually getting the computer to act on the solution.

Algorithms don't even come into much play in many typical programming tasks, so the premise of Stepanov's observation is probably flawed (or assumes certain tasks).
This looks good, the animation on hover doesn't add any value though.

My favourite HN client on phone is http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/. It's lean, fast and looks like a native app on the phone. I've added a shortcut to my mobile's home screen, using the 'Add to Home Screen' option in Chrome, which gives me a nice quick launch icon.

The downside of both these clients is that you can't login or post using them.
With Android, they're preventing someone else from locking down smartphones and getting in the way of Google's advertising business.
This is a great feature. It's an example of a small, easy-to-implement change that makes their website just work better. I really like when things like this get done.
When people say "X is a gift, you were lucky to be born with it", they're probably trying to give themselves an excuse to not put in the effort needed to get good at that thing.
Each manufacturer seems to oscillate between building a very good drive and then finding out how far they can cut corners before inadvertently releasing a disastrous production run with huge quality issues. Seagate is the most recent to bottom out with their 1-1.5 TB drives.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,684...

My advice, check Toms Hardware. They're usually on top of things.

A trick I've learned is to follow the big name server manufacturers. If IBM puts a certain hitatchi model in eseries servers, its a good bet that this is a decent drive. The downside is that these drives are going to be far behind the curve as far as the latest-biggest capacity goes.

Never buy the latest, just released supercapacity drive at Best Buy. This is how they work out the problems before selling them into the "serious" markets.
This boy had higher than normal levels of testosterone, and was facing it with unusually little maturity due to his young age. Both factors bode poorly for self-control.
No matter where you start, you have to work really hard to become the best. Though it's a bit overused, the quote "Winners never quit, and quitters never win" does actually have a point: Never give up.
I've actually found that pitch and rhythm issues like this often come not from a lack of ability, but from a phenomenon where the person hears what they intend to hear, rather than what they're actually singing/playing.

Extremely focused, repeated work with a tape recorder will bridge the gap between perception and reality in a hurry.
Check out http://www.amazon.com/Copy-This-Hyperactive-Dyslexic-Compani... and don't be afraid to ask for help. You don't have to be a one man shop.
Huh? I think you and the upmodders do not realize that once the spouse gets the marriage-based green card, it doesn't get revoked in a divorce. AFAIK and IANAL.

Unless there is some other point to this comment that is going WAY above my head.
Interestingly, if you multiply 15 years by 365 days and the two hours a day mentioned at some point in the article, you get 10,950 hours, which is remarkably close to Malcolm Gladwell's claim from the book Outliers that it takes 10,000 hours to become a superstar at something.
I would say no. The strongest analogy between Tesla and a recent IPO I see is Clearwire - similar circumstances, large capital intensive business with some hype behind the technology but no real revenues to back it up.

Getting into an IPO on day one is usually not a good idea unless the company has reliable revenue and there is a reason to expect 20-30+% growth near term (Google, First Solar,etc). Many ipos will look like Clearwire (and for example, American Apparel, Isilon, and to some extent Rackspace etc.), a IPO price which stays steady then a significant drop.

Tesla won't have a reliable revenue increase until 2012 as far as I can tell, which is a long time of stagnation which the market will not take kindly too, IMO.
Interesting - is "average" noise level defined as a 5-minute Leq?

I'm curious to see how you expand this to other metro areas. Arup has deep pockets but I suspect not deep enough to cover even most metro areas in the USA, and (unlike the EU) we Americans aren't really big on noise-mapping our cities.
Probably as a means to reference the "white man's burden".
Whitney should have donated the capital he used to invent the cotton gin unsuccessfully defend his IP to the local orphanage.

Attributed to the Eli Whitney Museum site by Wikipedia:
"Whitney (who died in 1825) could not have foreseen the ways in which his invention would change society for the worse. The most significant of these was the growth of slavery. While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. In fact, the opposite occurred. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor. In 1790 there were six slave states; in 1860 there were 15. From 1790 until Congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa in 1808, Southerners imported 80,000 Africans. By 1860 approximately one in three Southerners was a slave"

So whilst there are many inventions driven by capitalist investment that have had a far more benign or positive impact on society than your unfortunate choice of example, I think it's fair to say that profit-driven innovation by the already wealthy is far from certain to liberate people from the bonds that hold them in poverty even if it succeeds. I also think it's absurd to suggest that charitable giving can't foster innovation. Imagine if the local orphanage had given some smart, self-sufficient kids a good education focused on entrepreneurial values...
Having recently worked in the nonprofit world (and for one that received Gates Foundation money), it's important to note that Gates shook up the philanthropy world when he started his foundation and again when Buffett committed to giving his billions to the Gates Foundation. Lots of smaller foundations began asking themselves why they were working in certain areas and if they could be as effective as Gates with Gates in that same space (e.g., malaria prevention).

Gates is not asking billionaires to do what he did, but he should have -- really get involved with the issues you care about and spend that money smartly to make a lasting impact.
UN needs to stay the bleep away from the Internet.

They will be as effective with governance as they have been in East Timor, or Cyprus; with all the compassion of the UN soldiers in the Congo (raping 12 year old girls in exchange for half a loaf of bread)...
OS X is not perfect, the real problem for me is that some people just think it is

My main problem with OS X is that Alt + D (plus Alt + B and Alt + F) just don't work as it should, like in any sane Terminal, there's no difference between Alt and Alt Gr on a Mac, sad, very sad. Also I would love to see a real package manager, pkgutil is horrible...
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

I'm not an "open source developer." But I do write code from time to time that I am happy to share with others. I run Debian on a desktop most of the time; essentially the only program I interact with outside of Emacs is a web browser. I do have a Macbook, though, that I use as a second computer when I'm away from home.

I am constantly frustrated by OS X.

The biggest reason is one of the `features' mentioned in the article: the `./configure && make && make install' routine seems to constantly break on OS X. This is a problem for me because much of the software I use (or try to play around with) doesn't specifically target OS X, so there generally aren't pre-compiled binaries available, and often the build instructions do not provide helpful hints for OS X users. I used to work in a lab that ran entirely on OS X. Compiling scientific libraries (e.g. SciPy) was frequently a recursive nightmare of trying to compile or otherwise install various dependencies (in SciPy's case, I remember the lack of gfortran being an issue).

Often, the problem has to do with missing libraries or figuring out how to set CFLAGS to cope with Apple's non-standard paths, both of which are headache enough. But sometimes the errors are just incomprehensible -- at least to someone without serious C knowledge -- and then I'm stuck.

Sometimes, Apple has done the hard work for you of properly configuring and installing popular Free programs (e.g. Emacs, Python) but the versions are Apple modified, can be difficult to get to work with outside libraries, and are often very old.

(I'm venting a bit here because I have been suffering from these sorts of problems fairly acutely in the last couple of days, but it really does seem to be an issue every time I want to use something on OS X: from Emacs to Python to Git to whatever else, something always seems to go wrong, even if it's not a dealbreaker.)

The bottom line is that OS X is a long way away, for me, from being an environment in which I can comfortably use all the software I want to without too much time lost down the rabbit hole of configuration. And I don't even spend most of my time programming! So I'd have to disagree with the sentiment of the article.
I'm an open source developer and I have absolutely no desire to switch to OSX. I don't really spend much time fiddling with my setup and I probably gain a lot of productivity by having an environment that is completely customized to my workflow.

Personally I'm running Arch w/ stumpwm on vanilla X. All I need is emacs, ff, and a couple terminal windows. No distractions at all; no windows hiding other windows, no tabbing through three or four windows to get to the one I want, nothing popping up in my face, no bloat-ware monitoring useless information. My fingers almost never leave my home row while I work.

I don't really know what this article was trying to get at. I'm sure there are lots of developers who do use OS X, but I don't think that choice really has much to say about open source developers as a whole and probably less to say about developers who do not switch.

It's just an operating system.
1) Can be changed through OnyX.

2) PITA; I agree.

3) Can be changed through keyboard shortcuts. http://guides.macrumors.com/Changing_Keyboard_Shortcuts

Et.Cetera:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder

So, one issue's not too bad, then?
The problem with this approach is that you can only remember a few passwords like this, which means that you are going to reuse passwords on multiple sites. One site compromise can compromise multiple accounts for you.
While the result is a big relief, I think it's not as decisive as I'm noticing some headlines (and commenters) are claiming.

It is even less decisive than you're saying.

The fact that the Supreme Court decided not to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that APIs are copyrightable means that binding precedent on every court except the Supreme is that they are. And for fair use, one of the statutory factors is the "effect" of the copying on the "market for or value of the copyrighted
work."

That said, this case does establish a precedent that if your copying of an API is primarily for purposes of matching an interface so that developers can reimplement it, you're in fair use territory:

The fact that one statutory factor points one way doesn't stop another from pointing the other. And part of their decision is the conclusion that Google's copying increased the value of Java. That will generally not be true when APIs get copied.

In particular if I am trying to create a product that competes with yours, and I copy your API for the purpose of interoperability, I'm going to have an uphill battle claiming fair use. Because my product directly reduces the market for your product.

To name some historically important examples, Microsoft copied the APIs for JavaScript from Netscape, Microsoft copied APIs from Lotus 1-2-3 for Excel, and Wine copied APIs from Windows for Linux. The outcomes famously were that Netscape went out of business, Lotus 1-2-3 was discontinued, and Linux became somewhat more viable.
hey yeah good point. I'll add a reference to the labels, which were added last minute.
> Predictive coding is the idea that BNNs generate a mental model of their environment and then transmit only the information that deviates from this model. Predictive coding considers error and surprise to be the same thing. Hebbian theory is specific mathematical formulation of predictive coding.

This is an excellent, concise explanation. It sounds intuitive as something that could work. Would love to try and dabble with this. Any resources?
Ironically the facts are essentially the exact opposite. It's Thomas who is mad about his candidate's loss and feels it's Facebook's fault for suppressing "conservative speech", and argues for common-carrier regulation so that it doesn't "happen again". Democrats and the mainstream media have nothing to do with this other than being things that you don't like that virtue signal what side you're on.

On the other hand if you think Russia isn't doing their best on social media, and that they're overwhelmingly pushing for Trump... you're willfully ignoring the facts, and the conclusions of multiple law-enforcement and intelligence studies. Of course this is only a temporary thing - Russia pushes for whatever will produce the most chaos both domestic and also in our international alliances and on the world stage. Right now that is Trump and that faction of his party, but they use the green party similarly, and hypothetically if the Republican party fractures and the democrats become ascendant on the US political stage then you will see them push unqualified green-party wacko candidates to do similar kinds of damage. The healing-crystals lady (Marianne something?) already has some suspicious stuff going on iirc.

Also, there is of course a point to be made here about the subtle acknowledgement that a large amount of "conservative speech" these days is in fact hate speech in political clothing, targeting immigrants, minorities, LGBT, etc, or violent extremism such as the capitol insurrection, advocating the overthrow of democratic governors (yet another incident last week from the leader of the Michigan GOP), and so on. That is what Facebook is taking down, and that is what Thomas and others choose to identify as "conservative speech".
Why would they notice terabytes leaving Sony? It's a motion picture studio. They surely have piles of film-related data flowing constantly in and out of all sorts of places. And it's not like the hackers sent it directly to Pyongyang.

As a member of the MPAA, probably the most hated organization in the history of the internet, I'm surprised that Sony wasn't under constant phishing attack. Given their total lack of internal security, I would have thought some angry filesharers would have broken in long ago.
O_o

It's not, nor should it be, all or nothing. The default state is that you can allow or not allow whoever or whatever you want. However there are a list of classes that protected. Race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, and a handful more [1]. Pets are not, and again should not be, a protected class.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
There's a slight difference between a git push and a full mirror operation. A git push only synchronises the current branch. Even git push --all doesn't necessarily push all reachable commits - tags, other named refs (eg. stash), the state of the reflog...
Well, your site is inaccessible to people who don't have TCP/IP stacks too.

Try writing one of those from scratch and auditing it. (No, seriously, actually do try, break out Rust, do some proofs; more secure code would be awesome.)
DPRK
> So, if you believe these estimates are reasonable, then you should be convinced that iteration by far dominates the performance of a Minecraft style game.

I'll believe it when I see the profiler results. A good article none-the-less.
There was probably some of that in the financing of the coup, but what little I saw of the actual people doing it sounded more like culture war - they wanted to suppress indigenous culture and bring back Christianity, things like that.

Note lithium isn't a rare earth element, it's actually pretty common but some sources are cheaper than others. As for Tesla, I believe they don't get lithium from Bolivia and have upcoming chemistries that don't use cobalt at all. Not sure about other EV or phone companies.
Either you report that income on your taxes via 1099 and then the IRS goes to the company that created the 1099 and asks them why the 1099 doesn't have a TIN or you don't report the income on your taxes and the IRS finds out and fines you for tax evasion.

Edit: I see that you are Canadian. Unfortunately for your aspirations of tax evasion, the US and Canada have a very friendly information sharing relationship.
For workloads which don't require persistence (e.g. web browsing), you can boot a PC from an external storage device with write-blocking firmware. Kanguru sells flash, SATA and NVME drives with a physical write-protect switch.

Are there good tools for anomaly/intrusion detection on Linux? Even something as simple as comparing current resource usage with a baseline record of disk/network/CPU utilization.
It almost seems like time can only be measured when recalling past conscious events.

If you've ever been anesthetized for a medical operation, it really feels like the moment you lose awareness to the moment you wake up again is the same event, except that 15 hours has passed in between.

I've heard people who fall unconscious from head trauma say the same thing. Suddenly they wake up in hospital not knowing what has happened.
I keep seeing articles about this, but none have included any examples of the offending "critical race theory" in question... what gives?
how are you eating these eggs?
The whole point of tech interviews is to see if the candidate actually has the requisite skills for the job.

Off-site contract work is NOT a solution. Hint: the candidate may not be doing the work himself; he may be farming it out to oDesk or Elance at a fraction of the price and playing WoW all day.
The problem is not whether you take notes on a laptop or a legal pad. The problem resides in TAKING NOTES! This might be just my opinion, but I hate taking notes, it's completely useful! If I'm going to a class I go to LISTEN to the professor and to ask questions to him/her.

Before every class I used to read the contents we were going to cover (superficial read). That way I wouldn't be caught by weird words, references or concepts. At least I knew something. Then I'd "use" the professor to "explain" and "dig" those concepts for me.

If you seriously need to take notes, the one failing is the professor. She/he should provide the content covered in the class in the form of pages of books to read, slides, etc.

If you're a student. DON'T TAKE NOTES! (again, just my opinion)
On a side note, has anybody heard of the LifeStraw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeStraw)? It seemed to have massive potential to combat this issue, but I guess it was turned into a consumer product instead..??
Is there a link to a job posting or a good contact email? Your "Contact Us" page doesn't really talk about gigs.
Look for reviews by reputable security experts. Look for use of a standard cryptographic library, preferably a high-level hard-to-get-it-wrong library, rather than hand-rolled cryptography.
OK going to College brb

Then maybe you'll allow me to comment, sir!
At about this point, I feel the urge to explain that basically Tony Abbott (our sledging PM) has basically helped kill off TAFE, but that's ok because his government wants to give students loans at high interest rates for private colleges to give an inferior education.

This is the PM whose latest innovation is to setup a ministry for science. Or rather, re setup a ministry for science because he formed the first Australian Federal government in 50 years that had no science ministry.

Turns out, that's a bad idea. headslap
The shift in the crime rates does appear to track childhood lead levels across countries with different dates of leaded gas elimination.

See Figures 7 and 8 in this paper. http://pic.plover.com/Nevin/Nevin2007.pdf
My impression from reading the article is that the gap between the lifestyles you can expect if you get into college or not is really wide in China. It seemed to mark the difference between comfortable white-collar work or being a laborer, with nothing much in between. If Chinese society were a hospital, it would have surgeons and janitors and nothing else.

Perhaps the parents who were interviewed for the article overstated the difference, but here in Canada the situation is a bit different for a couple of reasons. First, we send so many students to college that getting into and through the less prestigious colleges isn't particularly impressive. Second, the jobs available to those who couldn't quite make it into college are still pretty good. Electricians, mechanics, locksmiths, and paralegals don't come cheap around here. So there's a lot less pressure all around.