skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone else have a little bit of a problem with the assumption that the "benchmark test" is enough of a gauge of general intelligence to be determinative in studies like this?

Additionally, the discussion is mostly revolving around the physical size of the hippocampus, but instead of measuring that (arguably a difficult task), they instead rely on a "benchmark test" and base their results on that alone.

What are the indicators that the benchmark test and hippocampus size are closely correlated?
What a journalistic diarrhea.

Google l.a. population: 3.884 million

Google san francisco population: 837,442

also, hoards of javascript developers making 100k and more, so yeah...
>polite people who couldn't care less about you baldly lying with a smile; constantly appeasing you as if you're a docile imbecile

Same here. Was attempting to figure out if this was sarcasm or not. This is how I'd describe LA, with one small difference. In LA you're treated as if you're super cool, rather than a docile imbecile. Had to laugh.
You know what, you're right. I take back what I said.
Considering next 5 years, it will be interesting to see what will happen once Intel 3D Xpoint comes to market.
"Aha! I found it! It was in my pants' pocket! Which was in the dryer! And before that, in the washer! And before that, in that puddle!"
I've understood that while men are better at spatial reasoning, they are barely statistically better. And while women are better at language tasks, they are way better. So the conversation has always been slanted in that way.
Whenever I see this maximum password length nonsense, I realize that whoever is in charge of security at this company apparently doesn't know or care about password managers. And that speaks volumes to me.
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It's common to refer to speed ups in powers of ten as orders of magnitude. Maybe that's it?
i do the same thing, but not with dice. using random words concatenated is a good way.

Unfortunately, many systems insist on numbers, upper/lower or other symbols. in these cases i resort to a generator that makes up a stupidly crazy string just so it can't reject it again. if it does, i just give up and don't use the service anymore.
No, the most annoying is when you're on ios and the app doesn't integrate with password extensions and has decided to disable pasting in the password field.
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Hey me too! I grew up on a farm; went to state school; know hoards of rural folks way smarter than the average Silicon Valley nerd.

Better ways to live: Shopkeeper. Mechanic. Concierge. Furniture repair. Pet groomer. Now you try to add some more.
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This is just what I was looking for! Have you looked at the website? You get free webs craping hours every month and start out with 20 hours. That will take me som time to consume. http://cloudscrape.com/
> Some, maybe, and many eventually grew to serve taxi companies more than the customers. But not all and probably not most, initially. A lot of regulations and the monopoly taxi companies get exist, so that you:
- can actually get a ride if you don't live in the city centre
- can actually get a ride if you're sick, elderly or disabled, in a car that's equipped to handle you

Except taxi regulations don't actually accomplish any of these things. It's well known that if you want to go from Manhattan to Brooklyn you better get in the cab first before telling the driver that, or they'll drive away. Even then, they might demand that you get out anyway. If you look like you might inconvenience the driver, or if you're black, good luck getting them to even pull over in the first place.

You can complain of course, by sending a message into the black hole of the taxi regulation bureaucracy, but it's unlikely anything will ever come of it. With an app that allows immediate feed back and user ratings of each driver, drivers are far more accountable to providing a satisfying customer experience than they ever were under the taxi regulations.

> If you're the only provider of something your customers need, you can be as evil like you want to them, and they will still buy from you.

Yes, like if you've manipulated the local government into making it illegal for anyone else to provide your service unless they buy a multi-hundred thousand dollar taxi medallion.
And orcas have vastly greater social intelligence than humans, but that doesn't stop humans from separating mother from calf at birth.

Don't get the point of this article. "We slaughter billions of cows, but walk up to one, look it in the eyes, and they clearly are saying, to any human, 'Can I be your friend, human?' What gives?"

Maybe the news should be, "Animals. So Smart and Friendly, but We Just Can't Stop Killing Them. What Gives?"
Kafka was an insurance something-or-other...
Of course they would, that's how we've invented pretty much anything, scientific method included. People are pretty observant, there are lots of them and they've been taking notes for many thousands of years.
Don't forget Intel SGX, which arrives with Skylake over the next few months, https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/3nn33x/intel_to_b...?
There's plenty of studies that debunk the mental rotation myth:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100915080431.ht...

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelica_Moe/publication...

There's also a study showing the field of neuroscience having a tendency to make unsupported and untested claims to confirm stereotypes http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12152-012-9169-1
> It's to some degree security through obscurity: no, a
> cracker will not know your schema in advance but he will
> attempt to attack multiple schema types.

If you put it like that, then passwords are security through obscurity too, since they are only secure because the attacker does not know the password? It's really all about having your own, personal schema. Even a slight variation of a popular one will put you safely out of the path of that multi-schema dragnet if the resulting password isn't part of any of the schema spaces. Just make sure it really is your very own variant and not something many others would also come up with. Add a part of that old line noise password you still remember from university at a fixed position of the word list or something like that. Even a recycled ATM PIN might help, your word list just got 9999 words longer. Add those digits to the individual words? 9999 new dictionary schemas to process. To play on the old Clarke: any sufficiently high number of possible password schema variations is indistinguishable form requiring a true brute force attack.

> Always use a password manager!

Yay, a single, juicy target, synchronized to any number of devices of various levels of tamper resistance, maybe even with some user-friendly automation that will happily hand out login pairs to anything that has temporarily taken control of your browser. With local exploits empowered by such a big sign saying "this is where the good stuff is kept", do you know a good writeup of practical password manager risk mitigation strategies? Like adding a brain-stored suffix to the more important ones and so on, so that an attack script would also need to do key logging or mild individual brute forcing. I'm sure there must be an established body of expert opinion on this somewhere.
And yes, I've done both. Sitting in a chair in a nice warm room, writing code, is a considerably more pleasant activity that scrubbing out public restrooms.
It strikes me that most professions have extremes.

There are developers, then there are developers.

There are mechanics, then there are mechanics.

etc.

There some mechanics I know who are absolutely top-notch - they know their stuff, and have had a passion for it for years. Others I run in to at repair shops are really just... they have a job. That's it. They may stay, or move on to something else later, but they're just average.

And I see that in a lot of developers (probably moreso, as I have a more critical eye for that).

But I think it's probably that way in almost every profession - some are truly passionate, brilliant, dedicated, etc. And some folks just treat it as a job.
So, I don't mean to imply that there is a units equivalency -- 1 minute of exercise is not the same or similar to 1 minute of some type of mental activity. It's no good to say "this experiment doesn't use at least N minutes of intervention, where N comes from this totally different process and unit system having to do with the effects of e.g. bench presses". But that isn't what I'm saying.

What I'm saying is, if you give an intervention of thirty minutes of activity a week and see no change, it's a pretty reasonable to conclude "30 minutes a week for six weeks is not an effective dose" and not jump all the way to "This intervention has no effect". This is why I highlighted how low the 'dose' of the intervention was.

[I also am relying on my understanding of Dual N-back, language learning, and other mental tasks, and the turnaround time for them is substantially longer -- and thus requires a higher dose -- than starting from a similar place in exercise. This context is useful only for general dose estimates {{ even 10 hours a week might not be enough to learn a language, certainly not in six weeks }}, but not necessary for the comparison.]

Does that address the substance of your objection?
The problem is that those that enforce those rules does not read these articles :( its sad
> Segregated merchant accounts are the way to go...

Yes, I know all this, and it doesn't change what I say. Even with many merchant accounts, it's still going to happen. And again: It's the reason PayPal is so brutal. To avoid things like this.

> A couple of these instances and square will get shut down by VISA and that's the end of that.

Yeah, it's a bit more involved than that, and at the same time, segregated merchant accounts aren't going to completely solve the problem.

It's also the reason I stopped dealing with banks after 10 years of doing this. The only "rule" is money talks.
This is surprising. Are these databases not considered HIPAA covered entities? If they are not, is the state government itself forcing physicians and pharmacists to violate HIPAA by sharing medical and prescription information with a non covered entity? Officially, you can only share data with other entities for "treatment, payment, and operations". I don't see how law enforcement can access medical records without either a HIPAA release or a warrant.
I loved his critique of the recent hyperventilation about AI taking over the world--

"I don't work on preventing AI from turning evil for the same reason that I don't work on combating overpopulation on the planet Mars."

As he points out later in the interview, much of the recent gains have been due to a great increase in data and computational power. The history of AI is replete with incredibly overoptimistic predictions of achieving Strong AI. Andrew's focus on the current, important problems of the field bodes well for the future of Baidu's AI work.
Regardless of your personal dislike of the vendor, there have been plenty of buffer overflows and other bugs in coreutils/fileutils. The Mac/BSD user space is by no means an exception.
As with anyone in leadership, supporters want to spread blame to predecessors. We see it in politics a lot, certainly.
Does that affect regular OS X desktops/laptops? It makes sense for Apple TVs and iOS devices (well, as much sense as locking them down in the first place) but for OS X, the anti-TiVoization clause merely requires that the end user be able to replace those binaries. And there's always a way to turn off System Integrity Protection.

Or are they worried about something else, like the patent clauses?
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You might want to remove http://www.ideaome.com/en/phpinfo.php
exactly, it's unnecessarily long. And it's written in a wannabe-cool language, totally inappropriate for describing the technical concept.
Ever used spot instances? If you use "cloudy" strategies and shop your work to the cheapest AZ's, and only run the jobs when the spot price is right, you can run some pretty nice instances on AWS for cheaper than any other provider. However, if you just want a rack of servers running 24/7, regardless of utilization, you might as well go back to the colo.
You mean evolutionary psychology, not biology. The former is basically a pseudoscience and the latter makes no such claims.
To stay sharp, start and keep [drawing](https://vimeo.com/6986303) and teaching.
But why not just tax profits from sales instead of fiddling around and implicitly creating special interest groups?
How do you propose to do such an open-source firmware? If you do it by reverse engineering targeting existing hardware, you're continually vulnerable to obsolescence and (spurious but inconvenient) legal threats. If you do it by building new hardware, you discover just how small the market is for more expensive small-batch open hardware is.
Could you elaborate more? What are some of the differences she didn't understand?
Tim Cook can also be described as boring compared to Steve Jobs. As well as Satya to Ballmer. And I'm sure who ever succeeds Bezos too.
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Standard Oil also saved the whales, according to some. :-)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer/2010/11/05/the-man-w...
Lede is buried in the middle:

One reason the U.K. results were so lackluster might be that the Lancet study compared home-visiting to “usual care,” or the health care new moms would receive anyway. But since the U.K. has universal health care and the U.S. does not, it could be that there was less of a difference between the two British groups than the two American ones.
I use a passphrase on my Gmail account in the manner of "This is the password I am using for Gmail". Works just fine.
Doesn't change the fact that you have to do it to eat, and you're slaving away your life doing things you don't want. Not everyone is lucky to end up in a software project they enjoy, not to mention having a comfortable software job.
This is awesome, I already see tons of applications to this!
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Who is "they" ? Why don't you try yourself to cure death (by donating or something) ?
It's quite easy to decompile VB isn't it?
Googler for close to a year, so take this with a grain of salt.. I had heard of this exact reputation before I joined and frankly it was one of the things that worried me most.

After I joined, I kept waiting for the hammer to fall, to see the competitive mean streak in people and in my team at least, it was exactly the opposite. It's frankly the best environment I've worked in because they are genuinely caring people.

Now, it's not all rainbows and unicorns. I've also run into the aspergers poster child, into the competitive assholes, but I don't have to deal with any of these in my daily life. So, yes, there are assholes, but I don't think this is the norm.
I ended up just installing Arch on my MacBook. Runs surprisingly well. I'm able to share my home dir since its on a second partition, so I didn't really have to start from scratch. I haven't booted into OS X in weeks.
It would be great to have a decentralized relay network! Right now this is a centralized bandaid solution, which is unfortunately necessary because of many well-known vulnerabilities of Bitcoin's p2p layer.

E.g.

- Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions
in Bitcoin https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/578

- Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6079.pdf
You’re not learning too slowly
No, the author doesn't. On the other hand, you can quickly arrive at most of the same conclusion if you've spent extended time with dolphins.

I always chuckle when I'm told the Marine Mammal Protection act prohibits pursuit of dolphins. It is usually me who is being pursued. During one fishing trip we had 3 dolphins simply show up and start following us. When we would move fishing spots, even 20 miles or more away, they'd still catch up to us. Their cruise speed isn't very high, it is probably around 12 mph. Once at the fishing spot they'd dive and start scaring the fish. Many fish will bite defensively, so this is great when you are fishing with a hook and line. Any fish we couldn't legally keep we'd throw back, which the dolphins would immediately consume. They'd be right beside the boat looking at us as we removed the hook from the mouth of the fish.

Dolphins are pretty obviously intelligent enough to understand what is going on in the sea. Non-mammals in the sea react to a very basic set of cues to take action. A shark can easily be confused with a quick clap on the water surface. I've also watched sharks eat metallic items, which is flat out stupid. I'm willing to bet an octopus has some significant intelligence behind it, mostly because I've never seen one get caught on a hook. This means they are smart enough to avoid them.

I've never dealt with aggression from dolphins.

That said, dolphins aren't going to pull up a chair and debate the merits of presidential candidates. When someone speaks of a dolphin "mourning" for another dead dolphin, I think we are just inserting what we expect a dolphin to feel. The dolphin could just as easily be confused by another dead dolphin.

I've also seen what I can only call a dolphin "party". I came upon a huge group of dolphins, at least 60 or more. There were many species present. I was convinced there was a huge school of fish nearby they were feeding on. Nope, the dolphins were just hanging out. As we stopped the boat they just started jumping over the bow as if to say "Thanks for joining us".
Taxing sales doesn't tackle the misuse of land that has already been sold.
As esailija posted elsewhere in this thread, at least one study has shown that gender differences in mental rotation tasks can be eliminated through training.
Unladen Swallow was abandoned, but for Python there is now Dropbox's Pyston - https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
That's a very good write up. The dichotomy he describes between motivation and discipline is something that gradually came to me during my career. And some of the techniques he describes for "tricking" yourself into developing greater discpline are things that I sort of stumbled upon through trial and error. It would have been great to read something like this years ago, although at the time maybe I would not have realized its value.

When you've firmly established a new facet of discipline to the point that it is internalized and becomes automatic, that's when you've got a new beneficial habit. I like how Ng nails that in an almost understated way.
The story of the Killer Whales of Eden, Australia was interesting. These killer whales hunted their prey with the humans, shared the loot and the killer whales even protected a human if they fell into the water.

http://www.killersofeden.com
> and no-one sees it coming

Perhaps no one at the top, or no one outside, but I'd be willing to bet a lot of lower-tier folks can often see the writing on the wall. I've been there myself a couple of times, and have had family members in similar situations.
I am sure there are a few left...
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True for cloudformation , when spinning up multicloud systems it pays to invest in a tool like terraform.Currently we are running a hybrid Google Cloud AWS deployment and it helps to keep the infrastructure consistent.
I am learning the course of Machine Learning [1] at Coursera. I didn't know he co-founded Coursera. Can't believe this awesome course is free. Andrew Ng is really a good teacher. Thank you Andrew Ng and Coursera.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/
Or browser manufacturers could implement HOBA and we could stop worrying about passwords for the web. Just sayin...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7486
Study: An aspect of language looks to be hardwired in our brains
probably because people of both genders are most comfortable having personal assistants of the female gender? (Don't blame the messenger for the message)
Absolutely, use something different and more complex to 4 common words. That's pretty much what I am saying. My argument is that whilst you are switched on to the problem enough to do that, a lot of people simply are not. So stuff like the XKCD comic can be harmful.

To the second part of your post: sure it's a concern. But that wasn't really the subject of the post. You will never protect yourself completely, but I've always argued that if you're concerned about the sort of things you're concerned about it's already too late. We should train people to use the internet safely and be alert for compromise at the individual level.
Is there some article that better explains the subject matter? I would like to learn more but i dont want to read this article.
Hardware might be a nicer UX (though god forbid you forget your dongle one day and are completely screwed). But I fail to see how it's more secure without a second form of authentication.
Except, how can you be sure your password was stored securely? You should never assume that.

> You don't pick the words yourself, you choose them at random. That's the whole point.

Suggest: you're supposed to choose them at random. In practice (source: 5 years as a security analyst) this does not happen. People are predictable!
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What hypothetical actions would indicate to you that such a change were happening?
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FB engineer here. We did migrate slowly, to Hack http://hacklang.org/. It's a typed dialect of PHP, notably with full backwards compatibility, so we didn't have to rewrite all of our code as we converted over and added types. I haven't looked at the stats in a while, but last I checked, well over 99% of our files were marked as having some type information, and a very significant proportion of that was becoming fully statically typed. Basically all new code since the end of 2013 has been mostly, if not completely, statically typed.

I'm actually giving a talk at OOPSLA this week about how we went about actually doing the conversion (everything from how we approached designing the system to how we convinced engineers to use it), if you or anyone reading this happenes to be going. http://2015.splashcon.org/event/splash2015-splash-i-josh-wat... I think it will also be recorded.
Would be better if this supported RPN. After starting with an HP35 in like 1971 or 1972 I can never go back.
Is there such a thing as a drive controller rootkit that can intercept/process data? Something that can understand common FS such as NTFS and they "lie" about what is really there? Perhaps inject additional executable data into an exe that is called? Could it break hardware encryption on the drives?
I'd say mind-maps meet flow-charts meet wikis.

What looks very nice as a way to organize knowledge and discussion. But that would require some really well designed navigation, for example:

- where(in the graph) am I located right now?

- what will happen if I click this box?

- what should I do do get to X

etc. Hope you are already thinking about it :)

Also, I'd like to ask about all these labels on the arrows (indeed, answer, about, example, precision etc.).
Are they meant to be used in some automatic processing of the data? That would be really neat. Good luck!
Part 2:

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2013/09/thoughts-on-in...
The most annoying thing is when they let you log in with google/facebook and then ask you to create a password on top of that.