skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions Bevin:

"Bevin left school at 11 to take a job as a farm boy, and was subsequently a kitchen boy, a grocer's errand boy, a van boy, a tram conductor and a drayman before, at the age of 29, he became active locally in Bristol in the Dock Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' union."

And was Foreign Minister in the Atlee government, ardent ant-Soviet, arguably one of the founders of the Atlantic alliance and many other achievements. That route is pretty much closed these days.

My own personal favourite is William Robertson - who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1916-1918. He went from a private soldier to that lofty position. Richard Holmes points out that an equivalent rise would be impossible today - even with much smaller forces to command.

These people were successful because they were good - not on "merit" as is usually defined.
> "In The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994), Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray argue—pretty convincingly"

Anyone care to comment on that? I thought that taking "The Bell Curve" seriously was a big red flag?
The suggestion is to prevent apps reading the clipboard, not to prevent the user pasting their clipboard contents into the app.
I have certainly heard "liberals" dispute sexual dimorphism in humans based purely on ideological concerns. Some people tend to overcompensate when it comes to common biases. This also goes hand-in-hand with the thinking that the disenfranchised can't be racist/sexist/bigots by definition.
This basically only shows again what the tiny Netherlands can achieve. I dont think there is a single country that threatened by a force of Nature. But instead of giving up, you basically become the best Worldwide in construction in, on and around the water. Basically, if you have any problems with water at any Kind of level, just ASK the dutch.
Has the intent shifted? The 2001 article specifically called out the Blair government for , well, Blair tbought it was good intent, but that is the problem: Young argued that it was being used to negatively impact society.
Because it's stupidly wrong. He misses the possibility for average people to have high IQ children. The sentence parses as : 14% high IQ children are from lower IQ couples, 0% are from average IQ couple, 86% are from high IQ couple...

It also dismisses the existence of mismatched IQ couples, and highly intelligent men with a hot air head isn't unheard off, and nowadays women have their toy boys too...
Moore's Law is about transistor count. Not about frequency, bandwidth or "speed"... Is everybody ignoring this fact?
Meritocracy still has purely negative connotations among those who study society, and positive connotations among politicians or corporations who wish to justify their current practices. You won't hear the word "meritocracy" mentioned by sociologists or historians as anything but a joke, or, if they're patient, as a starting point of a dystopia.
What is Tokutek's Fractal Index actually and how the used COLA?
There are 3 kinds of write optimized data structures (not including LSM) mentioned in connection to Fractal Index (by Tokutek):

1) Buffered repository trees of any kind. Related publications with the same idea:
- http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bader/COURSES/GATECH/CSE-Algs-Fall2013/papers/Arg03.pdf
- http://cs.slu.edu/~goldwasser/publications/SODA2000.pdf

2) COLA (cache-oblivious lookahead (forward pointers) array).
- http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/sbtree.pdf

3) Shuttle trees:
- http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/sbtree.pdf

What data structure is actually called a "Fractal Tree Index"?

How COLAs used exactly in real software? Is COLA used as a small buffers for buffered tree or it handle terabytes of data in real applications? Why someone would prefer to use COLA instead of buffered tree?

Speaking of buffered tree by Lars Arge: as far as i understand, the "buffers" may be stored in external memory and the "buffers" may have size of entire RAM: the only requirement is to fit into memory for sorting before pushing one level down?

Why someone would prefer to use such a large external memory "buffers" instead of using smaller buffers of size B on every internal node?
It's still sold and supported on new hardware too; just look for eComStation - definitely not exciting, but I think they have a decent business.
> With http://www.ponylang.org/ its much better, it can export functions like C does it, but its fully managed.

You can do that with most "managed" languages. You can call Python, Haskell, Go or OCaml from C, pony isn't exactly special here.

One issue in all these cases is you're carrying a whole runtime with you, possibly one per library you're using, praying they don't conflict with one another[0] and limiting the portability of the whole[1]. You're also significantly increasing the cost of using the library in question as it now brings in megabytes of runtime along for the ride.

[0] with conflicting signal handling for instance

[1] if only because all those runtimes you're bringing in might be doing stuff like spawning their own threads and the like, so that needs to be available on the target platform
Freenet has a similar model, in a p2p context. Anyone with a link can access the file, but the person hosting it plausibly isn't aware of its contents.
Communicating via the C ABI between safe languages isn't inherently unsafe, as long as you drop pointers and other unsafe things from the passed structures. It becomes just another protocol that you handle in your safe language.
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Well on other planes a pilot error causing a hard landing usually doesn't end up with the wings falling off.
Extended list of accidents and incidents:

http://www.avherald.com/h?search_term=ma60&opt=0&dosearch=1&...
lmgtfy:

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/
http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/libraries
The Left hates TBC. The Right loves it.
The Left (who invented the word) believe "meritocracy" is sheep's clothing covering the wolf of privilege. The Right believes they have better genes.
There is no common ground, both sides think the others are unsound.
I'm still thinking on a good strategy how to get rid of them completely.
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> Desktop environments don't need that much sandboxing because there isn't that much crap going on

http://www.howtogeek.com/198622/heres-what-happens-when-you-...

You're safe if you install only paid-for software from big companies and open-source software that hasn't been bundled with installer malware. And never install Flash or Adobe Reader. And keep your browser, AV, and anti-malware up to date.

The plural of unsandboxed desktop is "botnet".

Yes, this is tragic and a real threat to open software development.
A psychiatrist that goes by pen name Scott Alexander, also known as Yvain on Less Wrong. He wrote quite a lot of insightful articles over the year; here's one reference[0].

My favourite work of his is Meditations on Moloch[1] - quite long but very good post about how various coordination problems make the world look the way it was, and how it may evolve in the future.

[0] - http://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexand...

[1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
They were talking about making offline & alternative OSS clients (via an open API) so that if they were legally forced to change the Javascript (which currently does the encryption) that it wouldn't affect the integrity of the service for those users.
IOMMUs might have been standard fare in the workstation hardware of the day. SPARCs had them at least.
It's more like the CPU has a multiplexing interface and the OS is managing that. Applications are not run in the same environment as the OS is.
I have no knowledge of C, but reading their code I was surprised to see some gotos ... is this OK in C to use goto ?
> I'm sure there's a rich seam of blogosphere material out there on these topics, maybe even some academic papers, would be very interested if someone is willing to share some links to specific arguments or discussions.

Check out the reference to SSC posts I linked downthread, and since you mentioned coordination problems, definitely check out Meditations on Moloch.
In probability , the fraction of the population at exactly 50%ile is approximately 0.
It seems like it uses polyfills to solve this problem, no?

From the documentation:

> Eventually we expect all browsers to implement these standards. In the meantime, Trix includes polyfills for missing functionality.
Because mistakes happen when people use systems they aren't familiar with, and the mistakes can be expensive, dangerous, and sometimes even fatal.

Here's one example: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm/case/293

If the nurse had been used to working in kilograms, she would have realised 25kg was a huge sack of coal / much bigger child / whatever. (She would have known that her own weight as a child was 40kg or whatever.) Or, if the country had been properly metric, the scale wouldn't have had the option of pounds.

(Hopefully, you see no reason to divide a child into 3, 4 or 6 equally massed parts.)
If you have a browser password manager, monitoring the clipboard will do nothing.
I'm no expert, but.

Consul is this: https://www.consul.io/intro/index.html

As you can see it does service discovery, health checking and configuration management. As I understand it, this is useful to automate if you run lots of small web services on AWS, azure, your own data-centre or elsewhere in "the cloud" and so have to configure lots of transient machines, find each other, have them register with load-balancers or get taken down if they fail, etc.

You'd need a library in on top of consul in this case since the makers, hashicorp don't work in .Net, and there will be a gap connecting it to existing .Net web frameworks such as WebApi and NancyFx.

So it's not solving the same problem as WebAPI at all, it's there to help you manage WebApi at scale. Extra need if you can claim the buzzword "microservices".

How well does consul work, and what does it give you that AWS or Azure does not? When exactly would you benefit from it? I'd like to know, actually.
I go home to see my mother on the weekends a lot at the moment (temporarily of no fixed abode). When I start getting ready to leave at around 6pm on a Sunday the dog will lie in the Hallway between me and the front door. We consider that he knows I'm about to leave, and that's why he's there. I spend plenty of time in my room without seeing that behaviour.

Am I suffering from brain damage in anthropomorphising his behaviour somewhat? Or am I simply choosing the explanation that gives me the most comfort?

The reality is I can't tell why any human being does something, regardless of the fact they can actually talk. I choose what to believe as the motives for them, and do the same for my dog.
This is what services like 0bin.net and zerobin.net do for pastebin.
It's a very common C error-handling pattern, essentially emulating RAII with forwards-only function-local goto statements. It's possible to do without, but that tends to yield much more deeply nested code (especially if it's complex) and possibly some amount of duplication.

See http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/04/27/using-goto-for-error... for a short rundown, or http://blog.regehr.org/archives/894 where regehr — who works specifically in correctness and verifiability — states:

> many people, including me, prefer the goto version
> But that particular "bad decision" is getting modified with every version into something more acceptable

True, but it definitely seems like they're only fixing the low-hanging fruit. They're never going to fix the insane type system.
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> It also dismisses the existence of mismatched IQ couples

Yep, IQ has a higher statistical variance in men than in women, basically guaranteeing that there will be couples with IQ mismatches, going both directions.
Business Insider copied that from another article in Gothamist [1] several months ago. It was even discussed on HN back then.

Most of the NYC subway signaling technology is relay-based from the 1950s, so it's not quite a century old. Those lever machines at West 4th St shown by Business Insider are rare; almost everything is electrical.[2] The 1950s technology from General Railway Signal is quite good; it's just high-maintenance. Here's a 1950s era panel, running automatically and unattended during off peak hours.[3]

That technology really is quite good. All vital relays are open in the stop condition. All broken wires result in red signals. This is a basic design principle of classic railroad signaling. The mechanism for stopping trains[2] is brutally simple; a steel train stop comes up at red signals which, if a train tries to pass it, will be hit by a valve lever on each subway car which will directly trip the air brakes. The position of those levers is monitored by circuits which insure that there are always train stops in the up position between trains. If a train stop lever won't go up (ice, mechanical breakage, somebody or something holding it down) the previous train stop won't go down, maintaining protection, and signals will be forced red until the problem is fixed.

One reason it hasn't been replaced is that the newer technologies don't have as good a track record. The old stuff is very rugged, and is known to survive dirt, ice, snow, vandalism, traction power, vibration, rocks, water, and idiots.

[1] http://gothamist.com/2015/07/28/subway_steampunk_video.php
[2] http://nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_Signals:_Train_Stops
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RStJ621auaU
For now, we have to rely on browser extensions (maybe in the future some services will integrate our scripts directly on login pages). Browser extensions are in JavaScript. The code is available to everyone for review. To reduce concerns we do not use any analytics or tracking code in browser extensions or mobile apps.
Thanks for the tip on bookmarklets, we'll check if it is technically feasible.
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With Protect My Privacy (http://apt.thebigboss.org/onepackage.php?bundleid=org.protec...) you can control which application can access your clipboard (and many other things) on jailbroken ios.
OS X 10.11 El Capitan is using LibreSSL: `ssh -V` How I patch this? ;) If anybody has infos when Apple is releasing a fix please tell me.
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Tldrlegal seems dead, unfortunately.
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From the document model standpoint, Prosemirror has a tree of nodes, while Trix has an array of blocks with a stack of block-level formatting. Mathematically equivalent, practically not so much.
Yes, that is the worst thing about it, there is no reporting of any kind, no errors in my logs, and not my email getting into a spam folder at outlook.com. If it would be in a spam folder my relatives could un-spam it, if I got an error message, I could act on it. In stead, some emails go through, some don't with no indication on either side what the system choose.
It's prose. When you say someone is of average height, you usually mean within a standard deviation of average, not that the person is exactly the locale appropriate average height... At best that sentence is very poorly worded, at worst the author is a shining example of regression to the mean.
Sure Brain, but how much budget will there be for spare parts when these robot worms start producing mating signals in those neurons ? Because they will.
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Pocket for iOS does this too.
So you have a full competing population, otherwise there'd be spare for the breeding cats. Then when the neutered ones die, existing breeders fill in the gaps, or, as the article says, neighbours come in.
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If it's really a rip of the Gothamist content, without much value added, I hope the link can be changed by admins. Such behavior should not be acceptable.
That's a good point. Challenging copy/paste behaviour with drag and drop is certainly hard and will likely not be adopted by that many people. However it is also the (only) way to sort snippets into lists - Maybe think of it as sorting Mails into different folders, which mostly happens the same way.

It is also kind of convenient to drag snippets into your editor, because you don't have to select the code (which would also happen via mouse). In any case it is not the only option to grab your snippets, so you can still go cmd+c / cmd+v. No harm done in giving the option imho.

I'm also looking into generally copying a snippet to the clipboard when hitting cmd+c on a single snippet page - That would probably be my personal favorite. Maybe even yours as well?
A [PDF] tag in title would be appropriate
Don't forget to add "scalable" buzzword.

Oh, there it is in the article. Never mind.
> Therefore natural selection would have time to take effect

Again, evolution does not work that way. Evolution doesn't care if a species goes extinct because it doesn't breed enough.

Plus, consider a 1% growth rate per year. In 1,000 years the population will increase over 20,000-fold. With 0.05% growth it takes a bit under 2,000 years for the same growth. But 2,000 years is nowhere near enough for evolution to influence humans.

> not a valid reason for population controls here and now

I never said it was. Not only that, I say that they were not incompatible, and used as my examples the many counties with full reproductive rights and a birth rate which is below what's needed for replacement and which don't have population controls.

> though would perhaps make them a scarcer resources

Yes, that's exactly my point. I'm glad you agree that these are scare resources.

> They are, for example, still available to people now, despite a world population of over seven billion.

No. Some of these scare resources are gone.

I gave one example, our buffalo resources which once numbered it the millions. You probably rejected it out of hand, but that's because you grew up in a culture which doesn't have it. But the US destroyed that resource in part to destroy the way of life for the Plains Indians, and open up the Plains for the expansion of the predominately white population with a very different culture.

You are repeating the same paternalism when you write "most living apart from civilization still benefit from a larger civilization to support their needs."

Who are you to say that everyone must live with that tradeoff? What ways of life will you want destroyed to support the 1000x large population you urge on us?
> So how about we spend a few minutes trying to solve those problems rather than just throwing up our hands?

If I were to solve it, I would just give people democratic rights (pretty much everyone the same vote) to decide how economic resources are allocated. But lots (if not most) of people are against that idea.
"Every signal on each line is mapped on this board, which looks more like a an old board game"

It looks a lot like a physical version of a new signalling centre in the UK [1], except that uses monitors, which presumably make it easier to update the "board". Many of the diagrams are visible online, since there's an open data feed [2] (this one is about half the London Overground in London, orange on the familiar map).

[1] http://www.railengineer.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sig04-online-9...

[2] https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/NLL
Is there reliable evidence that the IQ is inherited in quantities that actually matter? I know it's a popular premise, but this article takes it to sure-shot levels.
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Shameless self plug: YSPave (https://github.com/creshal/yspave) is CLI-based too, and has an interactive mode for cases like these.

(The database is also encrypted as long as possible and only decrypted on demand. Yes, it lacks a "clear clipboard" mode and shouldn't be written in Python, but other than that it addresses all the criticism this solution gets… Maybe I should give it a fancy bootstrapped homepage with an .io domain to gain attention.)
Both, really. I agree with your comments.
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Product is NOT enough. However, you need to look at marketing holistically. In business school they teach the "4Ps of marketing." One is Promotion. Another, though, is product.

You need all of them (price and place are the other two Ps) to have a successful startup company.
Were those terms presented as part of the offer before money (or other consideration) changed hands?

If not, who cares what an EULA says, it's not a contract.
The mechanism behind placebo can also create nocebo.

Whether religions are placebo or nocebo depends a lot on the settings, I hate the sexism&homophobia&children brainwashing that many religions have.
Absolutely. I do note though that headers (h1, h2, etc.) are not supported (unless there's a way to customize the format bar past what I saw in the demo). Switching from ul/ol/li to h1, h2 and back has been a MAJOR headache for us when we tried to offer text-editing features based on an older library called wysihtml5. Medium also dodges that altogether. Text editing is still extremely complicated.
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Even without the author's counterargument the assertion that one's genetics is an unfair advantage strikes me as absurd. Your genetics is not something you've got, but literally a part of what you are. Questioning whether one deserves to be oneself is like asking what's north of the North Pole - just because you can put these words together in a sentence doesn't mean it it makes any sense. Furthermore, intelligence is not a "good" in itself. You earn ("deserve") goods by being useful to others. If a "gifted" individual invents a technology that makes life more comfortable for the unintelligent, does he not deserve a reward regardless of what enabled him to do so?

On a different note, I don't understand how anyone can consider equality of outcome desirable, regardless of whether it's achievable or not. If your outcome is guaranteed to be equal to that of others then it by definition doesn't depend on your own choices. If it's not the ultimate unhuman antiutopian existence I don't know what is.
I've never understood that one, what does it actually mean anyway?
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Well I could ignore it, if it were not tied for ever to my github account. Something some future employer might have a look into. And maybe I suck at this thing and...

... well you get the point. If I want to have it on my resume, I will put it there. If not it should not be findable, because I once looked into it, but maybe didn't have the stamina to push through.

So maybe "ego-bolstering" was a bit harsh. But non the less - this requirement just killed it.
In polycythaemia vera, it translated to strokes and heart attacks.

Just like it does for the Tour De France.
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