skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have no obligation to persuade yourself "that the criticisms are entirely valid" without seeing what's being discussed.
I listed "cons" because they almost certainly affect the high rate of suicides among men - the very topic of this thread.

The statistics listed support the "deck is stacked..." statement. It is hard not to be frustrated by the media narrative focusing on women's issues, mostly ignoring men's.
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They wanted to know what accounts for the difference between the high-intelligence group and the average-intelligence group.

> (1) we conclude that high intelligence is familial, heritable, (2) and caused by the same genetic factors responsible for the normal distribution of intelligence.

The 1st part is simple to understand, what is confusing everyone is the 2nd part... As the combination of both parts does not make sense (due to the type of "interpretation" presented).

Here is the clearer version -

(1) They found that intelligence was mostly hereditary (inherited via genes passed on by parents).

(2) They further found that the top scorers could also be divided into their own bell-curve. That the high-intelligence group had there own distribution that followed the same pattern (which gives the bell-curve even more validity).

To understand #2 just imagine a smart kid (in high-school) getting accepted into MIT, and once in, that smart kid finding out that he is now just "average" compared to some of the others.

These conclusions are very politically-incorrect, especially for a progressive country like Sweden where you are not supposed to even acknowledge that different dog breeds have different behaviors.
> You can laugh at me here if you'd like

Why laugh? Different businesses, different requirements, different solutions. Horses for courses, as they say.
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I had a class with a similar setup for the homework. If I got stuck on a math problem, I could ask for help. The program walked me through it, then gave me a similar problem to solve. I could repeat the process, get instant feedback, and if wrong, try again with another problem. Video lectures were also available. Seriously the best math class I've taken and I wish such things were available to all students.
Rad. Let me know if you have any feedback.
Do not downvote the posts by cryoshon

cryoshon is addressing the elephant in the room. Anybody who downvotes his/her posts is unwilling to address the elephant in the room.

This is an important topic which warrants further discussion.
These people tend to be those with an abundance of time. It's not worth much to them.

They might say that there's better things to do with one's emotional and time resources than react to them or try to censor them.

It's effectively an subjective DoS, they can cause someone else to expend emotional/experience/effort resources disproportionate and larger than those they expended themselves.
Set guaranteed minimums for all users and only allow bursting for power users when there is spare traffic.

I'd rather have a mediocre d/l speed on a private connection than have my neighbors asking what I'm torrenting.
Ditto with Kali Linux. I noticed a huge uptick in seeders/leechers on the Kali ISOs I seed, after the show came out. And if I'm not mistaken, the distro was never actually named in the show, but the background image on Elliot's computer is the Kali logo.
Really neat to see a big hairy problem broken up into so many small chunks. Multi-pass rendering, level of detail culling, soft-shadow blurring. It reminds me of the Arthur C. Clark quote that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". There's a phenomenal amount of processing steps happening here, on a frame-by-frame basis. I feel old thinking of how many hours this type of rendering took running 3D Studio Max back in 2002 on a network of Windows NT boxes.
This reasoning is flawed. It depends what your cost of living is in the region of the planet you call home. Yes, I suppose you could move to a lower cost of living region, but there are issues with that as well (Oppressive government, Lack of hospitals, Sanitation, no English speakers, etc.)
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Also a big admirer of Whisper. They need people who can build software that doesn't suck, not crypto nerds.

In addition, you get to work with Moxie who's one of the most badass engineers I've ever met. Sometimes you just wanna work with smart people on good problems, and that's where Whisper is playing.
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Instead of just recommending one across the board, I wish they'd be specific about the requirements required for it to be considered the best choice. For example, is it the best choice for computing a hash on a RPi A+ that has a max of 256MB memory?

Also, the benchmark it includes only benchmarks Argon2. Would be nice to have a benchmark that compares it to a variety of commonly-used hashing algorithms that could be run on lower-end systems along with a way to report them, then those reports could be collected and published.

I also worry when I read something that sounds like whitepaper-speak in something trying to pass itself off as a scientific paper:

"Our solution We offer a hashing scheme called Argon2. Argon2 summarizes the state of the art in the design
of memory-hard functions. It is a streamlined and simple design. It aims at the highest memory filling rate
and effective use of multiple computing units, while still providing defense against tradeoff attacks. Argon2
is optimized for the x86 architecture and exploits the cache and memory organization of the recent Intel and
AMD processors."
Good quality ear plugs and a brown/pink/white-noise generating app for your phone. I have children who get up early and stomp around the house. Doing this (and a sleep mask) have radically improved my sleep-time)
Thanks! Looks like HN doesn't like entering URLs <http://like.this.example.com/>
Relevant: Between the Buried and Me's Parallax I & II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE8zQEShT7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUsiQqcG5bI&list=PLaY_oF0LS0...
I lock my cats up at night for exactly this reason.

I've tried and tried to get them to leave me alone at night and they won't, so they get locked into one of the bathrooms at night.

I don't necessarily like doing that, but the alternative is to get rid of the cats completely. I will not have my sleep interrupted to the point that it affects my daily life for a pet. I love my cats to death, but they are not worth that.
> You have a weird notion of fairness. Why reward investment in low latency above all other investment?

I didn't make that claim, best price should be ahead of place in line. But place in line is the next most fair thing.

> In any case, quantising to eg 1s, allowing arbitrary sub-penny bids, and fulfilling by prize and using time as a tiebreaker would be `most fair' in some sense:

Remove quantising to 1s and I agree. Quantising makes it in no way more fair and removes the ability to use time as a tiebreaker. If time is the tie breaker, you don't need to quantisize as it adds nothing.

> (I don't think the fairness of waiting in line is a fundamental thing. It's just one way for humans to allocate scarce resources, and it's not very economically efficient---it just works well with human psyche and social norms.)

It works well with the human psyche and social norms precisely because it fits our innate ideas of fairness, and thus fairness is a fundamental thing. It's so fundamental in fact that it's evolved into us as experiments with monkeys and fairness show it to be innate.
I never really understood the disdain for TMP.

Yes it is slow. But space is big and the slow pace gave the characters time to bond again and work-out the puzzle. I prefer the movie to the later ones because there is no fire-torpedoes quick-solution which wraps-up the story in time for the ad break...

The characters started off awkward and cold but slowly rediscovered who they really were, just as V'Ger did.
Most old guard politicians are not prepared to say "there is already a great community project out there - be it Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora / etc - we should probe which ones are interested in working with us rather than just taking their code and trying to go it solo.

Their answer is always take the product in the market and throw a few million dollars at it to make it do what we want. And then ignore the fact its software, and needs constant maintenance and vigilance and they could get that all for free if they were participatory rather than off on their own.
If theres anyone from Jetbrains here:

Why do UK users have to pay 50% more than US users for the same subscription?
How Instagram's Data Analysts Link Your Photos to Your Credit Card Purchases
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Lots of countries to pick from if you don't like how yours is governed. Vote with your feet if you want to leave, or with your time if you want to stay and change the system. I vote with my time and (more so) my dollars.
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Quite right, back on those days FP was Smalltalk (yes really), Scheme, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Caml Light (no OCaml yet), Standard ML and Miranda (no Haskell yet).

Which like you mention is where I point those hipsters to.

Then again, all new generations think they know best.
I don't think there's such a thing as general intelligence. You can be good at some cognitive tasks and poor at other cognitive tasks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc...

I also don't think you can separate genetic influences from environmental influences, i.e. one allele might make you do well in one environment and poorly in a different environment. This appears to the case for the 7R allele of the DRD4 gene: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/06/ariaa...

I also don't think any genes actually code for intelligence as it's commonly understood. Intelligence is, basically, knowledge (including knowledge about how to acquire knowledge). Genes affect brain chemistry, which influences intelligence in different ways, within a given environment.
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Well, it is an April 1st RFC, or perhaps he could be making the point that you can do things like make telnet work over UDP but why would you?
An update on Object.observe
Facebook relaxes 'real name' policy in face of protest
Yep, about the same as a modern budget cellphone, but much more open to experimentation. It can also be overclocked, and it does make a noticeable difference. The Pi 2 is more or less usable as a desktop PC at this stage, though it's not going to replace even a 10 year old workstation or laptop in that regard.
You keep spreading your misinformed FUD about scala every time someone mentions it in a thread. Do you really continue to maintain the position that scala is not used successfully by large teams?
I'd prefer a world where propaganda wasn't mistaken for journalism. I think it's important to label things what they are. Why is this piece propaganda? Because it presupposes a solution for a perceived problem and appeals to the popular. The problem is that the middle class and poor feel like they are struggling. But that's not what this piece says, it simply says that some people have more. Some people have too much. Way too much. It implies that the solution is to "fix" the income of the people that have "too much". See?
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Lawrence Lessig leaves the presidential race
Given this statement:

These truths apply to networking in general, and are not limited to TCP/IP, the Internet, or any other subset of the networking community.

Its not hard to come up with many examples particularly bloated one (ie pig like). For example... CORBA and SOAP.
I know how the tipping expectation dynamic works, and I know how to obtain cash. Was the condescension really necessary?

The question was how the random point about maids relates to the rest of your original comment, and why I'm supposed to throw cash at everyone I come into contact with who's doing their job (as suggested by the original responder), not "how does tipping affect wages?" or "how do I get cash?"

It didn't answer my question to tell me that they're underpaid. [1]

Second, the existence of the tipping expectation dynamic does not "seal the deal" here: it's well known that there is a large group of people who have no idea that "it's a thing" that maids get tipped. If you want to fight against the tipping system, this is exactly the situation where you should do it, where tips aren't reliable anyway -- just like tipping for takeout or at food trucks.

Finally, I really dislike helping people evade taxes at my expense.

I entered this thread thinking that people who confidently gave advice were familiar with the relevant dynamics and that I could learn from hearing their worldmodel. As it turns out, the responses are just repetition of what I already know (with condescension and moralizing), in a way that doesn't answer my questions. Fool me twice, shame on me. It was really too much to expect that someone who told me that I should tip "too be nice" actually has a self-consistent, scalable model to back that up.

[1] Remember, "underpaid" is not the same thing as "paid less in expectation of getting tips"; lots of jobs are characterized as underpaid irrespective of tips. You're not supporting the original responder's argument by repeating the obvious tipping dynamic; you're making a different argument.
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How is quoting the Palm CEO dishonest? The fact that he was so wrong about Apple is kind of the point.
'"This is something that someone in their early 20s or late 20s or early 30s can go do with their friends," Ressel says.'

I get that everyone still goes after the 'cool' demographic narrowly like sheep, but I hope he felt really foolish for saying that out loud. Of course, if his name is Kayden, he's likely very young and his dad has money and he may not have that sort of perspective/awareness at all yet.
50%?

In which subscription?
In practice, having a security clearance becomes a job requirement of the same level as experience and ability to perform the job. Since cleared jobs don't pay several times more than jobs without the requirement and there's no way for an individual to get a clearance without the sponsorship of an employer, job-related skill tends to suffer.

No, but they do offer career security, i.e. not having to become a consultant or whatever if you're not a superstar when you turn ~40. I've also have a couple of acquaintances with high level security clearances, and they can talk about the tools they use, and at least in their cases they're not radically different than what's normally used outside that world. E.g. Sun gear back in the '90s when it was the best, C#, Java, various generally obscure document imaging tools that are standard in the field, etc. And plenty of FOSS, the government loves it, or at least the intelligence agencies do.

If the people doing development are working on a cost plus basis, they're anything but an "expense", they're youe lifeblood. While working in a mostly commercial arm of a mostly government contracting smallish business (http://radianinc.com/) in the mid-90s, the money people were not happy in the first few months of each year when there are so many Federal holidays, the lack of the "plus" while paying everyone's salaries pinched cash flow.

I also did a lot of non-classified Federal government fulfillment work in the '90s and early '00s and it wasn't radically different than the commercial world. More legal work was required, different sorts of sales processes in some cases, but e.g. at my first such job, when our "closer" salesman took me to e.g. NASA or a commercial firm to explain how we were going to fulfill our proposed commitment, there was essentially no difference. (State government contracting, and I'm sure the stupider Federal levels are a different matter, and to be avoided at all costs.)
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