skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just said I would have been surprised if the result was anything other than they found, not that the study was not worth doing. For something as important as intelligence it is worth checking all of our assumptions.

This study does support what previous studies have found from when people looked for genes that had a large positive effect on intelligence and failed to find any.
Use evolutionary algorithms instead of gridsearch in scikit-learn
Indeed, Proxy always seemed like the more general version of Object.observe. It not only "tells you when state changes", but lets you write code to say what that means.

What's the state of Proxy? Are the people behind it still working on it? Are we going to be able to use it? Will it be fast?
I doubt it. Manufacturers, and especially ones like Porsche, routinely test the quality and performance of their subcomponents. If they didn't they'd be negligent.

The only plausible answer is that they used the same broken metrics that the engine had been programmed to defeat.
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Yeah a look into the Federation society could be interesting.

One thing that always bothered me was why people weren't basically just spending their time hanging around the food replicators and fornicating in the hologram machine. I can buy that the crew of a starship would be chosen for a strange combination of discipline and risk-aversion (not to mention Starfleet adding something to the water), but it seemed to me that there would have to be all kinds of exotic hedonism, resource intensive "art" projects and crazy philosophies on the surface of the planets.
Went to Salem for the haunted happenings this weekend and found Strandbeests: http://pem.org/sites/strandbeest/the_exhibition/ (Peabody Essex Museum is right on the Mall).

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It's a small enough phenomenon that existing enforcement is generally considered a reasonable compromise between combating "rolling coal" and excessively onerous emissions enforcement.

It's also very much a local issue that varies widely across the country, as emissions testing programs are generally administered at a county level.
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Yes, I own a VW TDI, I know the difference between the two. AFAIK, EGR adjusts the combustion temperature so as to avoid an overly NOx-producing lean burn. I was responding to the blanket characterization he made in this statement quoted below.

>Many equally horrible solutions to this problem are employed...Others require a separate tank of catalytic fluid that must be filled regularly. _One thing that all of the designs have in common_ (emphasis mine) is poor performance and piss-poor fuel economy. Many vehicles from multiple manufacturers have had trouble with catching on fire due to emissions control systems.
"Then, to simulate a real-world camera, a lens-distortion is performed on the image by using a small pixel shader. It does not only distorts the image, it also introduces small chromatic aberrations on the edges of the frame, by slightly distorting more the red channel compared to the green and blue ones."

Why would the engine do this? Is it to try and give a 'cinematic' feel to the game? Do our eyes suffer Chromatic aberration?
Containers shouldn't affect transcoding at all, might mean re-muxing but I'd guess based on what i remember for older apple tvs that pretty much only MPEG-TS and mp4 are supported as containers, and it has to use HLS for streaming.

Codec wise I wouldn't be surprised if it was only H264, H265, VP8, and MPEG2/4.

I'd give 50/50 on the MPEG2 support though, might be there just because the hardware had it and to ease releases from the DVD era.
Greg Clark’s A farewell to Alms is a very approachable overview to his research [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Alms
I'll go on the record and say that, as someone who uses SmartOS in production, I've thought about spending the time to try to coerce SMF to manage things running in LX-branded zones.

If nothing else, it would make building reliable services a little more accessible to some of the systems administrators that I support who aren't quite in love with the idea of using runit and monit over SysV init and cron.
Literally nobody. Sam is saying most people think tech valuations are expensive, i.e., they are overpriced.
Yup, it sounds all too convenient. Probably just an ad.
Sometimes the truth is depressing - thanks for the research
Of course it is possible that there are alleles with a large positive effects on intelligence, but is very unlikely because of the complexity of human intelligence.

Some years ago, I read something that suggested otherwise. IIRC, it suggested that we had some idea of what alleles positively influenced intelligence based on the fact that Ashkenazi Jews were something like 2% of the population but had won something like 10% of Nobel Prizes and about 60% of the population had one or more alleles for serious genetic disorders known to impact neurology.

I remember this in part because, although I am not Jewish, I have one of the genetic disorders they tend to carry.
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That article is from 2008.
>Shows on TV need to be mainstream to work, given how advertisement works.

Counter point, the extremely strong viewing numbers of ST TNG...
> Clearly it's the fault of those pesky engineers again

Well, in any case, it shows that ethical codes will probably not work for engineering professions (or any profession for that matter).
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If the I has serifs, then it's doable.
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So they expected major frameworks to switch to an unfinished spec without a clear ETA for approval and that didn't work out?

I think this is a major blow to web performance.
We are bound to perform O(every object on page) computations on every event, instead of O(tiny bit that's actually changed).
This is how having a device with gigs of RAM, close to ghz CPU we still measure FPS of a page with one table and 5 images
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People have been complaining about this problem for a LONG time.

Duplicate removal is essential for making a web search engine that works. For instance, together with a CS research group, I built a search engine for a major university library that had more than 80 web sites. We found huge amounts of duplicate content produced by various mechanisms (for instance, multiple people posted the same stuff to the web.) If your ranking is content-based, all of the duplicate documents are going to rank the same and form a "plug" that excludes other documents.

It has long (post 2006) been a common story that "I wrote a blog post but somebody else ranks for it." For instance, I made a blog post that got a huge amount of traffic in the day, but right now you search for it and you find a presentation from some fresher at Oracle that is based on those ideas.

There are many factors that make this hard to control and these include: (1) for one "real" origin there are probably ten or a hundred fakes, so if you are picking at random you strike out -- you have to not only outrank one fake you have to outrank all the fakes, (2) freshness... copies are fresher than the original, also they can be updated years later, (3) also the bad guys think a lot more seriously about indexation, Page Rank, and other variables they control than do most content creators.
An automatically curated list of changes made to various state and federal laws would be super cool. I remember reading a NYT article [1] that highlights the need for something like this to monitor changes that are being made to supreme court rulings years after they are issued.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/final-word-on-us-law-is...
Simplex had the advantage of being on the store day 1, had Plex had their app on the store day one I'm not sure I would've downloaded Simplex.

Nice to see this on the App Store.
Movies and TV shows will not get (much) cheaper. It's not equipment that's expensive. It's people. I mean, equipment is expensive, but that can be mitigated. People can't. You need highly skilled labour in-front and behind cameras as well as material and (again, skilled) labour to build sets. Lots of people for lots of hours. Skilled people. Hours. Lots!
> you can also see that the level of invasion is low with most telemetry disabled.

Regardless of their history, something along the lines of "We will invade your privacy and you can't disable it, but the level of invasion is low, and you have no choice but to trust us on this" doesn't sound reassuring to me.

I don't want to go there, but one can easy question if you have pro-Microsoft tendencies (or even sponsored by Microsoft ), because we're talking about invasion of user privacy at the hands of a corporation, and just because it's a "low-level of invasion [that can't be turned off]" doesn't make it OK for users, be it Microsoft or Apple.
Proxy has already been standardised (in ES6) so it should be coming into browsers soon. It's a little harder to polyfill than O.o though.
Since it was apparently a little confusing:

1) The Motion Picture: The one with V'Ger
2) The Wrath of Khan: The one with Khan
3) The Search For Spock: The one that fixed the problem caused by #2
4) The Voyage Home: The one with the whales
5) The Final Frontier: The one of which will not be spoken
6) The Undiscovered Country: The one with the Khitomer Accords
7) Generations: The one with both Kirk and Picard
8) First Contact: The one with the Borg
9) Insurrection: The one where Picard openly rebels against the exact thing he did in that one episode
10) Nemesis: The Wrath of Khan with TNG characters, by someone who didn't understand why The Wrath of Khan was good
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Not a single one with end to end encrypted DM's...

I use mumble for voice (encrypted to server, server is weakpoint), irc for chat on open networks (do it from a VPS, and use screen/tmux with irssi/emacs-erc for persistence), and am using bitmessage more and more. Haven't tried tor chat yet.

Tried Slack, and even for business purposes, adoption was horrible and it ended up being a wasteland. Honestly, I think this statement from the Slack twitter sums it up: "The idea is to have a public-facing channel that a user can participate in without being a team member!"

To me, webchat plugins for IRC accomplish this just fine, and to me, is more likely to get a user directly connected with a dev/engineer.

Maybe I'm just a leftover of the 90's though... I mean usenet is disappearing so fast, even though I still love it... but as a FOSS proponent, I will use a GPL product over proprietary even if it's harder, unless absolutely necessary.
Why would a set of engineers make such a decision? This is clearly a decision which should be taken only by the SEO?
What could their motivations be?
> I'd also like some non-defeatable indicator in the hardware/display/etc. that "box is in "good" state. The dev switch doesn't retain state.

Isn't the verified boot portion of the firmware not reflashable without hardware modifications[1]? Even if the dev switch has been flipped before, a verified boot is a verified boot and the machine should be in a good state.

I haven't looked at that since the early ChromeOS machines, so has something changed about that?

[1] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
> CBS said on Monday, in a new series that will be introduced on the network but will be shown primarily on its digital subscription video service.

I'd love a new series, but CBS showing it mainly on their streaming service and not even on network TV doesn't bode very well.
> "I believe this mode is used for meshes very far away or transitioning between LOD levels, it allows to save on fillrate and shading calculation by discarding certain pixels."

I think this is a better answer for why they use checkerboarding: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/47844/why-are-som...

Summary: Alpha doesn't work in deferred shading, so they use screendoor transparency instead.
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I agree and disagree. I agree that understanding quick sort likely isn't all that important as a means to itself and especially for most companies. However, understanding O(n) or O(log n) and coming up with the proper solution to a problem that is optimized when you are scaling to running that code millions of times an hour is drastic to some businesses.

It is always beneficial to learn something you don't know to build at least a basic understanding of it than it is to ignore it.

It's great you can admit you don't know how to implement quick sort. But the proper attitude would be to go find out. :)

Lastly, some advice for running a blog. Spell check before posting. If you don't care to read your own blog - why should I? For many users, especially the HN crowd, a blog littered with typos is going to be met by a closed tab.
It usually comes down to time management and a solid routine / schedule.

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From the conclusion:

It’s difficult to say exactly why 9 in 10 officers went with facial hair. Perhaps it was an opportunity to distinguish one’s self in an otherwise uniform environment. Perhaps it was an attempt at normalcy during the bloodiest turmoil in American history. Or perhaps there was a running bet among officers on who could grow the craziest facial hair (our vote: Judson Kilpatrick). __Whatever the reasons__, the diversity and abundance of facial hair will remain one of the more prominent postscripts of this War between the States.

The article is about the process they went through to make up a fun comparison of civil war generals and their battles. Drawing a conclusion they do not make and then finding fault in that conclusion is not a fault of the article, but of your own reading.
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I find it curious that having a pure JavaScript implementation including the backend is listed as an advantage.
I should have written “can’t" not “can" which does rather mess up my response.

Actually height is unlike intelligence since there is one gene on the Y chromosome that has a very large influence on height. There are no such genes for intelligence as this study and many others has found.
Porsche have a bit more go juice than a lot of the other stuff.

If they did a ECU remap (likely) coupled with some hw changes to the engine (maybe, maybe not), they would likely have at least suspected something.

Like, I can tune my Lancer Evo, with stock parts, to around 360 chp / 290 whp from 291 chp / 220 whp. This will put more strain on the parts, to nuke the little gas mileage, up the emissions (no CARB), and void the warranty on the drivetrain. In order to do that the ECU needs to be flash (by say cobbs tuning) and if there was a cheating thing they will need to be aware of it or else it'd be likely gone in the flash.

If I was to put on new parts and make it go even more... Then for sure you need a new tune to make it actually work properly.
I'd be very surprised if VP8 were supported at all -- nothing else from Apple supports it.

It will almost certainly have to be transcoded for the AppleTV.
Mustangs got more expensive, but that's only one data point :)

http://blog.caranddriver.com/are-cars-getting-less-affordabl...

Heavily salted states certainly have an easier time justifying no emissions testing. You start out with a "known good" (regulated by the EPA) and count on cars to expire quickly. Compare to California, which thanks to gentle climate still has a huge fleet of 1980's cars on the road.
"Relatively light level of privacy invasion" is still privacy invasion.
It can't stream (not transcode/repackage) mkv/h264 etc? No thanks.
This app is very interesting if you are a traveller.
7 years ago was the middle of an economic crisis, I don't think it's abnormal to be going up for a while after that.
I love computer science and have been attracted to all aspects of it for years. But I still continue to gravitate towards games and this article reminds me of why. Thank you to the author.

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nosh is by far the worst system I've used in the daemontools line. I experiment with init scripts on a vm I have and have run several variations of daemontools on it. nosh was the only one I couldn't get working, and so I looked at the code to try and figure out what was going on...

It appears that they have sacrificed readability of the code in exchange for never having to call fork(). After being unable to fix my problem, it is, in my opinion, not a good tradeoff.
Mercedes-Benz was in a similar position in 1997 when the newly introduced A-Class flunked the moose test. After a short period of denial they hired a specialist (Armin Töpfer), halted production for several months and retooled all cars with a different suspension and ESP. The ESP wasn't even necessary but put competitors under pressure to include it in their compact class cars as well. The crisis was eventually overcome and the car sold very well in Europe (1.1 million produced in 7 years). There's a fascinating book (sadly in German only) on this called "Die A-Klasse: Elchtest, Krisenmanagement, Kommunikationsstrategie." (http://www.amazon.com/dp/3472037997)
Actually, Coz lets you profile for latency and throughput. That's one of its main points.
The rated horsepower on the 3.0 TDI in the Cayenne is the exact same as in all of the other applications I listed - do you have any source that it had a different map installed? I'm kind of basing my whole theory on the concept that it didn't because the rated output is identical.
Certainly related, though this Anonymous "KKK dump" seems substantially less verifiable than the CIA director's dump, as another commenter mentioned (his comment was on general verifiability, but I think the point still holds).