skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, but to get extreme outlier sub-populations for a mulit-gene trait like intelligence would require pretty effective isolation. For any sub-population to be large enough to affect the distribution of intelligence across the human population, yet be able to maintain this isolation, is very unlikely.
How long until NSA and China steal those designs, though? Two...maybe three months? I guess whoever builds it will also have the expertise advantage in dealing with those designs, though, which should give them at least a few years of competitive advantage.

Also, my guess is neither of these "traditional" approaches will work to create actual fusion power. My guess is someone else's out of left field approach that will totally shock the scientific community will be the winner.
Piketty is trying to describe a trend in the system.
His message is very clear:

If (rate of return on capital > rate of growth) then inequality happens.
This is not a so absurd thing to say.
In support of this, he contribute massive data where data was available.

You can agree with it or not, but it should discuss in its own merits and don't dismiss it because it is not convenient.
>You've substituted "accomplishment" for "enlightenment", which isn't the same thing.

No I haven't. I don't think enlightenment exists. I was also very aware that original U.S. constitution didn't regard Indians as human.

And I still think the author doesn't really present a good case.

He could have shown as why we currently need the concept of "enlightenment" for our current view of history. (Like why was GB able to beat china in first opium war with superior tech that all originated in China?) Then break that down, show what really happened and why. Then just point out that "hey, there is nothing inherently white about it." And that it's not really scripted course of action, but bunch of lucky accidents combined with favorable economic, political and cultural climate.

Instead we get: "this is too white. Enlightenment is fussy thing that none of you understands and I don't care to explain. But we should remember Haitian revolution!" What did anybody outside Haiti actually gain from Haitian revolution? What does that explain?

I think he has good hunch on what might be a big white lie. But goes nowhere with it.

PS. Politicians have always been able to twist history to justify their power-boners. If historians start to modify history to prevent this, then we have nothing trustworthy left.
Like kuschku which you falsely accused of being some "alex" ? [1]
You're not making yourself any more believable...
At this point its probably better to stop posting and reflect on all of this for a day.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10491132
They seem to have done most of the ITIL 2.0 taxonomy. Service desk, CMDB, service catalog, and it wouldn't take much more for a PPM document.
The Joy of Painting Marathon
>>> What actually happens is that people have a vague idea of the privacy issues but, because "we all know it" and "it's boring" it doesn't get discussed and we end up accepting it.

After the Snowden leaks, pretty much everyone on HN is aware of the issues. So some are strongly against it and are vocal, and others silently accept it and don't think it's possible to convince them otherwise.

But anyway, thank you for your nice, calm response to my semi-raging post :)
It doesn't say how many watts of power this machine would produce and what is the cost to produce per watt? It would be interesting to compare numbers and see if this machine would ever see mass production in next few decades.
Bit frustrating that you see poor behaviour that's hard to understand and leap to "mentally ill", rather than "scumbag".
I just fear that it will quickly become something that users just click "Okay" on automatically. A little like "Share your location". The minute something doesn't work as expected because the user didn't share a bit of information people will start just clicking on the "Ok" button.
Both yes and no. It can issue a directive but individual EU countries could still elect to ignore it. Very few do, and it happens rarely, but they can ignore EU directives.

It's as if states in the US could ignore federal law. The difference is that in US the federal government could actually send federal agents to arrest the governor and bring him for trial for breaking federal law, but in EU nothing would happen. The EU parliament might try to put sanctions on a country for not following a directive, but then again, other countries would need to agree to it. So if the issue is a hot one, not much can be done.
This is exciting!
Fixes to Java and Mac OS X compatibility will probably let me drop Java 6 from my machine.
And the new Gephi core comes with timestamp support, new GEXF, multi-graphs, and (eventually) a new Toolkit!

It's been a long wait, but December 20th will be an early Christmas.
So I have to ask permission of my friends to send the ongoing conversion to FB, if I want to use this feature, when typing my status surrounded by them?

Or every stranger in a bar, that happens to be around me, when I post my silly "I'm wasted beyond believe" status?

In my mind, there are ramifications beyond believe there.
And I am not really sure, what to make of this.
Which is why I use almost 0 application on my telephone. I prefer to use website which do not have creepy permissions to spy on me.
Texture Synthesis with Convolutional Neural Networks
Either he was replying to another comment or is delusional at this moment.
There are multiple ways to make a lock-free ringbuffer; most use some sort of similar trick with per-consumer atomic counters, though I hadn't heard of something as simple as the minimum-modulo trick described in the gp! Some implementations:

http://mechanitis.blogspot.com/2011/07/dissecting-disruptor-...

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_59_0/doc/html/boost/lockfree... - hard to find implementation details though

http://moodycamel.com/blog/2014/a-fast-general-purpose-lock-... (uses per-producer counters instead, and relaxes some ordering guarantees; see comments)
Editorial Team of Top Linguistics Journal Resigns Over Elsevier's Pricing Policy
Neat, but don't think its exploitable in reality, but neat indeed.

Did a bit of play around with it and it does seem to work on input fields but fortunately not on password type fields (which is logical, considering the browser is not rendering the actual characters for password fields)

http://lepunk.co.uk/font_face.html
> Sometimes I wonder if having children would be aggregately in my less taxing.

At least human children stand a chance of growing out of their crappy phases. Plus, when they get big enough you can give them a shovel and put them to work.

Cats, by contrast, tend to be life-long assholes.
It's like the quick login feature on mobile, I enabled it once to try it, I can't manage to turn it off since then. It means when ever Facebook App is installed it will always automatically login ... So I end up installing it just when I need it.
The headline is "The Artists Who Paint Dinosaurs"

Dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. The Paleolithic period was approx 3 million years ago to 11,000 years ago.

Bad op re-titling it! but nice pictures.
You can remove the pipe to awk by replacing:

--oneline

with

--pretty=format:"%h"
That wouldn't be a very useful phone anymore.
I hadn't heard of this one before, always interested in fusion news. 3 others I know about are

http://www.generalfusion.com/

http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/ (Focus fusion)

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm...
Sorry, didn't notice there were already a top post about this. Will post there instead.
It's unhealthy to choose to not be skeptical because you're annoyed that it's becoming popular to care about security and privacy.

It's a good thing that people care about privacy and security. It's a good thing that people question new free features and the motivation behind them.

Facebook exists to gather data about you so it can target advertising at you better than the rest and get paid more by advertisers using it's platform. Facebook will use this feature in any way it can to gather more data about you, and that's creepy and literally surveillance even if only for the time you're writing a status update.
To realize a complex design like a Stellator they actually also needed to develop a lot of manufacturing expertise, had to build custom machines for making tools and components etc., I doubt anyone would be able to copy that without significant effort.
Dude, honestly, you just need to stop.
The Worst Possible DevOps Advice
I think he's replied to three of my comments so far with these kinds of messages, it seems like he's not actually bothering to check which comments he's replying to.
The attempt to improve the mobile layout for this site seems to be underway but, like the previous aborted attempt, it doesn't seem to have started well.

In the images [1] and [2] below are the screenshots (taken on an iPhone 5 with the latest iOS) of HN homepage (where the changes seems to have been published) and article page (where it seems to be unchanged) to illustrate the problems:

1. There is a padding in the body (the white space around the content) that wastes precious screen real state.

2. The font size in relation to the screen width was increased without the proper adjustments in the layout. That caused:

a. The top links to become cluttered and disorganized

b. Both the top and bottom links to span multiple lines without the proper spacing between then, making it easier to click the wrong link

c. The article links and other information to reach the end of the line more often and, associated with the lack of right padding in that area, makes it touch and sometimes spill over the right margin over the white background.

It is very important to have a better layout for mobile devices on HN specially because it is very hard to interact with the site (upvote, click articles or submit) but IMO it should be properly designed, implemented and tested in multiple devices and OS before deployment.

This last point is the most important of all. It is very tempting to implement responsive design via media queries and to neglect tests in the bottom and top range causing screens too wide or too narrow to fail.

Apologies for the long and public post. Hope it helps

[1] http://imgur.com/4uPlzPB

[2] http://imgur.com/18mp2TH
You have accused minimaxir of being "Alex". Click on minimaxir's username on HN. You'll see he's been here for more than 1,300 days, and has information about who he is and where he is. Click his submissions link, and you'll see a bunch of his submissions. Not a single one is for any account to livecoding streams. (Although a stream of him creating on of his data posts would be interesting).

You probably need to apologise to minimaxir for that mistake.

You also need to find someone else to handle this thread, because you're not doing a good job at it.

Things you need to do:

1) Read up on your requirements under the various European data protection laws. You have to only collect the information you need; and keep it for the time you need it; and tell your users what you're collecting and why; and make the information you collect available to users when they ask; and make corrections when asked. There's probably a requirement to delete it when asked to too.

2) Fix your email. You must stop spamming people. Spam is any bulk, unsolicited, email. Bulk is "more than one". Unsolicited means i) You don't have a confirmed opt-in (and users not unselecting a box does not count in UK) ii) You don't include a single-click unsubscribe link in every email

3) Get someone who knows PR involved.
3a) Until then, get someone else to read your comments before posting. You don't need to post immediately, and doing so is causing you harm.
We have a record of you doxxing a user on your site. Even with wrong info.

Providing you with any personal details for any reason would be extremely unwise at this moment.

Neither in this thread.

Nor on your website.
Don't call it Schnitzel
It's a research reactor, it doesn't have power extraction systems, it's all about studying burning plasmas as well as plasma confinement.
> My generalization is as convincing as "all politicians are liars"

I didn't say "all politicians are liars". That's a straw man.

> A physicist might not lie when talking about physics, but might tell a white lie to make her husband or a friend happy.

I wouldn't call that relentless. Would you?

You say:

> We all lie, and all the time.

And also:

> A physicist might not lie when talking about physics

So, we don't "all lie, and all the time".
Conbini Diary: “There’s Nothing You Can’t Find”
I am indeed arguing the claim has no merit, rather than simply dismissing it.

Pikettys message (or at least your interpretation of it) is simply wrong. You need more than r>g as simple math examples show:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/piketty_and_inequali...

(Piketty does have a paper where he provides sufficient, albeit wildly unrealistic, conditions where it is true. I.e. you need a lot more than r>g.)

I'm also arguing that brankovics data is more complete than pikettys, and invalidates it.

This is precisely an argument against rather than a dismissal. Dismissal is what the op did to brankovic - ignore the argument rather than show why it's wrong.
European historic cities are usually very mixed. Shops, malls, hotels, churches and houses blended together, and it's a really nice environment.

Post-communist cities are usually not zoned. They are a result of planning but after that they had time to get mixed and indeed they are. If bland.
Probably because it's not a power plant but a research reactor and is not producing electricity.
This seems to be kicking up a fuss over nothing, and any controversy disappears once you read how to use the feature in question:

Using your microphone and music apps lets you share the TV and music you’re currently playing to your posts.

To identify and share what you're listening to or watching:

1. Tap Status on your News Feed or tap Write Post on your Timeline.

2. Wait for us to identify what you're listening to or watching. You'll know if we're searching for audio matches if you see [an animated icon] moving.

3. Once a match is found, tap [an icon] to select the thing you'd like to share and then fill in your status update.

4. Tap Post.

https://www.facebook.com/help/android-app/710615012295337
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What is the name of this dark pattern? It is very well executed by Google in Android these days.
Even better if they make a portable version and call it Mr. Fusion
Author here. I wasn't sure if it was bad etiquette to submit my own article to HN but decided in the end that it might actually interest the community.

For fans of metal and sci-fi, I should mention that Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen does much more than just write science-inspired metal operas for Ayreon. He also has another project called Star One[0], where each song is based on an iconic sci-fi movie, book or series (Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Dune, Alien, Star Trek, A Clockwork Orange...).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_1
Absolutely - while it would be very nice to have an improved mobile experience for the default site as it currently stands this seems quite a bit worse than many of the currently available HN-Reader Apps.
Zero watt. It's a research reactor. And they don't want to use tritium (which is apparently needed for power generation) because it would cause radiation. And radiation is bad when you want to do research on the reactor. Source: German wikipedia
What would the attack vector be for something like this?
Did you just wish for the simpler days when race was an objective and unpoliticized science?
According to wikipedia :

"The purpose of Wendelstein 7-X is to evaluate the main components of a future fusion reactor built using stellarator technology"

So I'm guessing it can't produce power as it is.
They also cooperate with authorities.
> considering the browser is not rendering the actual characters for password fields

Unless you've got a 'show password' checkbox (as recommended by Jakob Nielsen - http://www.nngroup.com/articles/stop-password-masking/).
I totally agree that RobustIRC is only marginally better than IRC, but that’s exactly what we were going for. We wanted to have IRC, just without these annoying netsplits :).
I believe you're not in position to explain us what is "honest" and "good".

You are destroying your product, your work and your name at the moment. This is very sad to watch, I really wish you'd stop.
Wow, I worked in mobile telecom billing in the early 2000s and we were talking about doing stuff like this back then. I'm surprised this might finally become reality over a decade later. Then again, we were saying that mobile payment would soon be mainstream in the USA back then, too. :/
'would require people of high intelligence to be a sub-population that did not breed with the rest of humanity' - which is increasingly what is happening with people of high ability & potential income of both sexes attending the same universities and mating. This polarization has been documented.
The app ends up screwing up on my phone. https://touch.facebook.com/ works pretty well - with Chrome on Android it can even send me notifications.
JQuery’s Relevancy – There and Back Again
This Ask HN just kicked me to write up something that I've been wanting to test for a while [1].

Basically, I write back a canned response[2] and forget about it. If they write back then we move forward.

[1] - https://medium.com/@unmgmt/my-simple-reply-to-unsolicited-re...

[2] - https://gist.github.com/undernewmanagement/c69c2378ca75f8882...
It's not like stealing a cookie recipe. Pretty much anything that has even a little bit of complexity can't be "stolen" just by having a blueprint.
Did you read http://robustirc.net/docs/adminguide.html? I thought it has a good description of what RobustIRC does.

There’s also a presentation and presentation slides on http://robustirc.net/docs.html

If you have a suggestion as to how to make it more clear/more succinct (?) what RobustIRC is, I’d be happy to hear it and improve the documentation.
Hyperboria: privacy-friendly network without borders
Google Prediction API – Predictive Analysis for Business Forecasting
It will be - I just connect a slider when I want it turned on
No, I'm not learning English. The test is functionally identical. The relation to chimerism is not unique for a father vs a mother. It's just came across as a silly headline to me. I read most of the article and didn't see the reference to the maternity case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkFBaqZULU

video

it's looking brilliant

for anyone thinking this could be used in games, someone has to speed it up a little bit more :D
Byrne is wrong too. It seems a lot of the entries are wrong based on people's comments here.
That's how Germans do it - they keep quiet and just do it. Respect!
Cjdns: encrypted IPv6, public-key addresses, DHT mesh routing
I find watching the assembly of these ultra-high tech machines to be super inspiring. It gives me all kinds of warm fuzzies to see what we're able to do if we put our mind to it.
This won't work. You only elevate the privileges of the curl process, while the redirected output was opened by your shell beforehand.

curl https://github.com/art-dot-git/80x40/blob/master/README | sudo tee /etc/motd >/dev/null
Also note that Apple wasn't just "PC guys" at the time of iPhone introduction, they had fairly high-profile experience building portable devices through the iPods.

Google first bought a software team and then partnered with HTC to get hardware for the first Android phone on the market - again it wasn't a pure "PC guys" "just figuring it out."

But the Colligan quote is well on its way to becoming historic out of context, like Olsen's and Gates's.
You didn't actually try it, did you? :>

It should be:

sudo curl -L https://github.com/art-dot-git/80x40/raw/master/README -o /etc/motd
He commented the same to one of my comments, even accusing me of online harassment and other things.

I'm currently at the post office buying stamps for an international letter, so I can send a C&D.

This is the weirdest exchange between a business and its customers I've ever seen.
Denemo 2.0 – free music notation program for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
I know of one community website that allows users to use custom third-party CSS and that shows a user's email address in the settings page, so I think you could at least leak email addresses through this (you can target a single input with the fake font, and email addresses aren't random, so the caveat of repeated characters not showing isn't that problematic).

This site doesn't allow password unmasking, but if it did that would also make it quite vulnerable on this front.
> these days the issue has been "resolved" by having an entire section called "ponzi scheme dispute" that consists merely of different pundits contradicting each other.

IMHO that is a good thing more often that not. It means that someone who has heard the rumour will check Wikipedia and find a couple paragraphs about the subject, with links to the most trusted agreed-upon references about who said what.

The alternative is not having the section and requiring those same readers to search their own way through the internet, without having any idea of what sources to trust, and likely getting only one side of the controversy.
My understanding is that this reactor is just a test to see if this can contain plasma for longer periods of time (from the current 6.5 minutes to a potential 30 minutes). It will not show a net-gain in energy, as it is not designed to produce energy, just a proof of concept.
Yes, probably.

This is extremely sad to watch. A real disaster going on.

You're holding good, you stay correct and calm all the time. Respect for that. Hold on, with this tempo this will be over soon.

Лёша
Any info on whether the new IE/Edge click-to-show password button exposes this vector?
The European Parliament can't issue directive on its own (it needs to be introduced by the European Commission, and also approved for by repressentatives of the governments).

If an directive has been issued, it can't be ignored by the member states. If they do, they can be forced to do follow it by a European court as they act against the European treaties they signed.

The European parliament can't issue sanctions against anybody, because that's not in their power as defined in the EU treaties.

What the EU parliament can do in this case (and what do actually did here) is issue a sternly worded letter. They can also try to bring the EU Commission or the member states to do something.
There are errata: https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=1925
Use Mac as an IDE
I filed an ICO report early this morning, but not sure how far that will get to be honest. I am not familiar with the UK's systems or what they will bother to do with this, if anything.
Recent Product Hunters and Makers on a Map
Wow - it looks like very Steampunk with all those valves and ports.
Ask HN: How do you focus and track your goals?
I am frustrated of not finding a decent app to help me set, track and achieve all my big goals. Everyone focuses on daily small tasks but not on big goals and breaking those goals into smaller steps.
What apps/methods do you guys use?
Well, if your friend is with you and he/she enabled this "feature"...
https://github.com/sociomantic/git-hub to the rescue!