skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But he didn't; he stuffed the entire meat of the paper into 'By analyzing the genes of twins and other close family members'.

To actually try to explain the design here:

we think intelligence is caused by thousands of common genes, each of which slightly helps or hurts. When you have thousands of independent genes, then they add up to a normal distribution like the one we see when we measure a lot of people's intelligence. The exception is that there are too many retarded people; if the normal distribution was the whole story, then retarded people would be as rare as geniuses, but they are much more common than that. We explain there being too many retarded people by saying that they have one or a few very rare mutations, mutations which are very harmful. But another theory might be that the retarded have very few normal intelligence genes, or that intelligence genes don't simply add up but interact in complex ways, or that they have very harmful environments. How do we decide which theory is right? Well, we look at the retarded people vs their siblings; if their parents were lacking a lot of good genes, or they were being raised in a toxic waste dump, then we would expect the siblings to also be near-retarded themselves since they also inherited few good genes or are affected by the toxic waste. But they're not; they are almost average! This is more consistent with there being one bad mutation and the retarded sibling had bad luck than the other theories. This theory has since been confirmed by finding hundreds of unique and harmful mutations in retarded people. So we conclude that the effect of intelligence genes is indeed a normal distribution, with an occasional bad mutation overriding that and making someone retarded.

This immediately raises a question. If we admit that on the low end intelligence may be controlled by a single rare mutation, why not on the high end too? Maybe there are special genius genes floating around. This would be important because it means that you can't make much progress by just looking at the genes of regular people, and it also means that SNP studies will be extremely limited in what they can find. How can we check this? We can do the same thing as on the low end: if there is a special genius gene, then geniuses will have much higher IQ than their siblings do, who will be close to average; but if their parents have lots of good genes and there is no single special gene, then the siblings will also be well above average and similar to their genius sibling.

Using a very large set of siblings and twins, OP finds that very intelligent twins/teens are similar to their siblings. So this is the opposite of the retardation findings. There are rare genes for retardation, but there are not rare genes for genius.
Most of the motivation of a password hash function derives from the attacker's resources, not the defender's. Realistic designs will nod to the defender's constraints (Argon2 is designed to work especially well from x86), but the bulk of the design work is in thwarting attacks launched from optimal hardware dedicated entirely to the proposition of breaking that hash.

So it's not entirely a great idea to try to find a password hash optimized for e.g. low-power ARM applications. You should just use Argon2 (in a new design, if the reference code works for you), or bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2 if you don't have good code for Argon2.
All the major webscale systems - Google, Facebook, Microsoft's cloud services.

At a lower scale, there are also services like Hacker News, Plenty of Fish, and Mailinator that serve out of RAM on a single box.
Because obviously the market won't be completely free: companies deciding on their policy in the proposed regime would most certainly be influenced by factors beyond the question of whether it's good for their stock price.
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In fact, for the time being, I'd still recommend new development use bcrypt or scrypt (and not PBKDF2 for the simple fact that typical APIs around it aren't specifically tailored to password hashing, don't handle salts transparently, etc.). Argon2 winning is great, and it's almost certainly an improvement over existing methods, but it's also still relatively new and should be approached with typical caution.
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It's not necessarily a survival instinct, crowds aren't inherently bad, and they rarely result in death or injury -- what if the crowd you're avoiding is the big line for fresh water after a disaster, waiting around until the crowd dissipates may mean that supplies run out.
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The IOTization of any available media output seems to be the goal of the Chrome team: Chromecast, Chrome Audio, Chromebit. I like it.
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Then what exactly did they ever mean by "merging Chrome OS and Android" if Chrome OS remains a stand-alone OS, as well? And I'm not just talking about the recent WSJ article, either. They've mentioned the merger multiple times since Chrome OS first came out.

Either way, I could care less about the "merger" (which nobody seems to be able to define anyway), but I do care about them being serious about making Android a real competitor to Windows on the desktop, by taking advantage of the huge native app and developer ecosystem they have there (which by definition is non-existent on the browser-based Chrome OS).

In other words: keep Chrome OS or kill it. Whatever. Just get serious about Android on a PC. And please don't begin with the assumption that the tablet interface is enough for that - you know, like you just did with Pixel C? Like that. Don't do that!
It's actually not that difficult to turn a multidimensional measurement into a scalar quantiry; just represent the measurement as a vector composed of the deviation from median on each axis, then find the magnitude of the vector

But you're right that this doesn't tell you much about any of the individual dimensions. Maybe adding a variance across dimensions, so two numbers, would be more useful.
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I prefer RPi or Pi myself, but why the fuss? Google at least is smart enough to match RasPi to Raspberry Pi, at least within my search bubble.

As for it looking childish...I suppose that's a matter of opinion, but I have to wonder if you also consider people who call Apple Macintosh computers "Macs" to be childish as well? My point being, even the folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation use the common shorthand sometimes. If they are okay with it, I'm okay with it.
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I do IT support in the small town I live in. I always advocate Kubuntu / Ubuntu / Gnome (I just throw them at it for 10 mins each and whichever one they like most they get) and they are no more capable of fixing something wrong with their computer on those distros than on Windows.

But at least I can ssh into their rigs after the fact and fix them remotely. Trying to get them running teamviewer every time there is a problem on Windows is a nightmare.

Also consider the #1 reason I get called is because people install some virus or spyware or clickjacker by clicking and running random stuff off the Internet. On any Linux based distro none of that stuff works so what ends up happening is my repeat customers every 2-4 months are Windows users and the dozen or so clients I have using some flavor of Ubuntu might email me once a year like "can I run X?" and I just go look on playonlinux if its supported or not. Libreoffice opens all the old Doc and XLS files fine, their printers work, their wifi works, they can use their crappy 1995 webmail client from their ISP no problem, and they even get neat perks like having their phone rings show up in their desktop notifications if they use KDEConnect.
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Is 3.65 GHz (mentioned in the article as a way to get away from crowded 2.4 GHz) allowed for unlicensed use in the US now?
> And it's easy for students, too. They don't have to do things, they don't have to talk to anyone. They can just listen. And maybe zone out for a bit.

I don't know about the other MOOC's, but on Coursera the video lecture is regularly interrupted with a little multiple choice quiz, to test if you understood what was just explained. There are automatically scored tests after each week's lectures, and some courses more than others encourage or even require you to be active on the associated forum, where students discuss the lectures with each other and with the professors and TA's. It's not just a bunch of videos online.
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People get use to Ubuntu very fast.

In my experience, the big problem in organizations are legacy documents and formats. Especially Excel. LibreOffice is good but it's not going to run the macros that were created 10 years ago by guys that are now retired in some beach.

The other big problem is specialized software (already amortized) that only run in Windows.

The funny thing is that kind of problems happens even between different versions of windows.
What are the other reasons?
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You are right, a discussion of inequality would not be propaganda. But this piece presupposes a solution for a perceived problem and appeals to the popular without supporting its conclusions. The Guardian has a long history of leftist puff pieces. Let's not pretend they are fair and balanced.
Right but that's the developer's fault for not understanding how to do multithreading correctly.
Myths about aid (effective altruism)
I don't think I've ever heard that from an official source. It's been rumored basically forever.
The interactive cube demonstration is remarkably well done Adrian. Love it!
GTA V's rendering engine has been fascinating to me since I bought it on the Xbox 360, then the PS4, and now the PC. It manages to improve significantly each time. Truly an incredible technical and artistic accomplishment.

This series of blog posts is excellent.
Onsite only at the moment.
Maybe things would be better if people didn't have such a myopic and defeatist attitude?
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Anyone in technology should read the whole chapter 3 of Wind, Sand and Stars, if they haven’t before:

http://pastie.org/pastes/10477072/text
See: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=the%20machine%20stops&sort=byP... (the many "The Machine Stops" entries on HN)
Personal toolbox I'm looking at, but it seems across the board:

UK Price = £199 + 20% VAT = £238.20 = $368.25
US Price = $249
= $119.25 difference

Granted, $60 of that is VAT (although they don't seem to charge US taxes on top...), but its still _another_ $60 more expensive!
We used to pay for compilers for any language, not just Ada.

You surely are aware that one of the reasons GCC became anything useful was the switch to paid SDKs on the UNIX world, which attracted developers not willing to pay for them?
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They controlled for environment by considering the difference between non-twin siblings (< 2 years apart in age), fraternal (two-egg) twins, and identical (single-egg) twins. The correlation in intelligence between non-twin siblings and fraternal twins was similar, and both are significantly lower than the correlation between identical twins. The most plausible explanation for this is the genes that identical twins share.
Technically this is a spin-off that is less than a year old in its current incarnation.
"- 93% of workers who died at work due to fatal accidents or violence were male"

Violence in the workplace is negligible compared to occupational hazards. Those killed by violence in the armed forces or law enforcement is most certainly a "workplace hazard" so that can't be lumped in with workplace violence.

Last I checked there weren't a lot of women working in close proximity to heavy equipment and industrial machines when compared with men. If you're not working somewhere dangerous you're less likely to be killed/injured on the job.

- 77% of males are genitally mutilated at birth (in the US), female mutilation is illegal

The CDC stopped recommending circumcision because it didn't have probable benefits, noticed bad results (increased chance of STD transmission) and started recommending it again. You're fighting an uphill battle on that one

"- 29% of male first-time offenders were sentenced to custody. For women, that figure was 17%. Men have a 62% chance of being bailed, while for women that figure is 80%"

Without information about the nature of the crimes this is useless. There's an infinite supply of anecdotal evidence that law enforcement treats women less poorly (more warnings, less piling on of charges) but that's not really admissible evidence in this sort of numbers debate.

I generally agree with your implied conclusion but pick better supporting evidence, when you have an unpopular opinion you need to be so convincing that even the dumbest of the dumb don't feels quite right disagreeing.
Nobody in this thread said that linux is unusable.
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At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, they could be trying to avoid an osborne effect.
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The theory of multiple intelligence you link to is in strong disagreement with the mainstream position of academia.

> Intelligence tests and psychometrics have generally found high correlations between different aspects of intelligence, rather than the low correlations which Gardner's theory predicts, supporting the prevailing theory of general intelligence rather than multiple intelligences (MI).[19] The theory has been widely criticized by mainstream psychology for its lack of empirical evidence, and its dependence on subjective judgement.[20]
IT excuse for being late due to the uncertainty of creativity is BS
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> The new series will blast off with a special preview broadcast on the CBS Television Network. The premiere episode and all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the United States on CBS All Access

> will also be distributed concurrently for television and multiple platforms around the world by CBS Studios International.

- CBS Television Network first, then

- United States - exclusively CBS All Access

- International, except United States - multiple other platforms
HP Split Marks Historic Moment for 75-Year-Old Silicon Valley Company
Trees will return, but the forest won't. The new trees will be very different than the old trees, they won't be sitting on peat domes as they are now, there will be a different mix of animal and smaller plant species, etc. We've already been through this, on both coasts of the US, where old-growth forest was cut down and replaced by a totally different kind of forest. Most people don't even realize that what we have now is far from a natural state, with much lower species and ecosystem diversity or the robustness that comes with those things. "New trees will grow" isn't enough.
Romain Guy and Dianne Hackborn were both be engineers that are responsible for the intents model in android. I think.
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> Ada still has it's niche though and if nothing else it showed that a language can be designed with safety in mind and it also prototyped many of the features that cropped up in later languages.

Algol already showed that in the mid-60s, check Burroughs computers for example.

It was the C designers that decided to ignore safety.
Immediately this makes me think of nightclub fires. If you are willing to chance self-induced PTSD take a look at the uncensored videos from the Station nightclub fire. Crowded nightclubs are deathtraps.
akimbo: hands on the hips and elbows turned outward

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