skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"intelligence level between people with bachelor degrees and people with master degrees"

This is pure nonsense. Average IQ raises with years spent in education[1], but the distribution is still bell-shaped, just shifted to the right ever so slightly.

It sounds like the editor feels real good that they belong to the class of educated = high IQ people, or real bad, that they didn't get the next-level degree, and got stuck stupid. Disastrous belief either way.

[1] https://brainsize.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/iq-years-of-educa...
It's definitely a touchy subject and disturbing to the general populace, but such experiments are necessary for the advancement of the human race.
Manning and Snowden showed so much access with so little monitoring that they might not even need tradecraft. My hypothesis was a USAP doing this stuff with a cover story justifying secrecy. Could evdn do it with guise of protecting Congress from foreign attack.
I feel like turntables never went away. It's always been cool/fun to have one. I don't know what it has to do with "hipsters". Is my uncle a hipster? I doubt it. And I'm pretty sure Real Hipsters don't shop at Urban Outfitters.

Edit: In case the point of my comment wasn't clear, it was that I think broad-brush comments painting people as "hipsters" don't add any value. It's such a meaningless thing to say. Associating "hipsters" with Urban Outfitters is proof of that IMO, because that's where "normal" people shop. So, "hipster" just seems like a way to say "someone I don't like for vague reasons" without actually coming out and saying it.

For the record, I don't have a turntable and have no interest in vinyl.
Incorrect. Lets say I grant you that Shockley and Bardeen didn't know anything about quantum mechanics and constructed the first transistor purely due to "observable experimentation" (whatever that means), that idea is completely false today.

I use and write atomistic simulators and semi-classical (finite-element analysis based) simulators to simulate modern FET devices every day as part of my research. I literally use quantum mechanics to write the algorithms behind the simulator (DFT, NEGF in my case). Moreover, if you look at the manual for Synopsys Sentaurus (which is the semi-classical simulator), they have hundreds of pages describing the derivation of their mobility models and structural models from basic quantum theory.

In summary, modern transistors are most definitely constructed taking quantum mechanics into account because without it you wouldn't have transistors functioning at 90nm much less at 14nm. You wouldn't take into account gate-leakage, tunneling, stress, bandstructures, and a host of other properties of modern transistors.
Acorn no longer exists, but ARM does charge royalties for their processor designs. Around 1% - 2.5%. They have revenue was £795.2 in 2014, so yes, that pennies and fractions of a penny do add up.

Edit: The cheapest ARM processor I found on Digikey is $0.35, Digikey must be buying them for under $0.15 so that royalties would be under 3/10ths of a cent.
There's a great book called The Circle by Dave Eggers that features a scenario with representatives also under constant surveillance. It wasn't painted to be too pretty. But I would agree that accountability in the face of "corruption from special interests" is one of the greatest issues in government.
Thanks, that sounds useful. I'll look into that when the site is back up.
Exactly. The bit that is longer isn't much thicker than your garden hose. Those arms are barely arms, with so little muscle they are often severed when these things grab fish caught on hooks/nets. The latest theory is that they are more feelers than arms. The squid doesn't grab prey and pull with the long arms, more it grabs then swims/jets towards the arms.
Most founders go with no pay for quite some time. You can still be a co-founder and receive pay but being a co-founder conveys far more risk and responsibility than being one of the first x employees in the company. Even if you happen to be the person "building pretty much everything", it still does not justify being a co-founder.

If you wish to be a co-founder, you typically have to be willing to take more than 40% pay cut for much longer. You must be willing to defer your paycheck so that your other employees (who are usually on a paycut too) can get paid if funds get tight - this is even expected of most CO employees in the company but the first ones to go are always the founder's. You are usually involved in most fundraising activity in addition to your other duties, whatever they may be* and customer support early on.

The list is quite long, I was once a highly entitled "engineer" until I built a few of my own companies. The dynamics are so much more complicated and tailored to each individual situation that it's disingenuous to lay out blanket statements the way most people in these comment threads have been doing.

Being a founder is brutal.

I'm not saying key engineers aren't entitled to good or fair treatment or that it is impossible to become a co-founder if you're #3 or #4 or #5, but I do not believe you're entitled to founder status just because you're an early hire. Sometimes it can happen that way if you choose to take on those responsibilities and risk and negotiate that dynamic with the other founders - setting up achievement milestones and what-not.

Similarly: Just because you're a founder doesn't mean you're actually entitled to the role of C*O (though you may hold that position early on as it needs to be "filled" it can quickly out-grow you). Some can become those roles and some simply aren't capable of scaling with the needs of the company.
> And people with low paying jobs usually don't send all those kids to college.

Or if they do, they'll qualify for lots of assistance.
This video looks like it might be of the original game, rather than a re-creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PG2mdU_i8k.
That should apply but apathy prevails. Whereas elites and politicians stay active on legal issues that impact them. Hence, suggesyion to focus on getting their support instead of voters.
That's kind of my point. I didn't need to be "at my best" at those times. When I really need to figure something out at work, I do my best to eliminate distractions as much as possible so I can be "at my best" (I work in an open office). But even that's not needed 100% of the time.

Sometimes you're just doing grunt work that needs to get done, sometimes you're doing something you've done thirty times before. But sometimes you're figuring out one of the trickiest interlocking puzzle you've ever come across, and that's when I need to be at my best.
It just goes to show that there will always be a subset of people in all fields, regardless of the level of technology or sophistication, that think they know better than science and math.

I'm convinced it can happen with anything, especially if it's something that judging the results is largely subjective ("sounds better to me"). Take another example that's completely unrelated: mandolins. Do they "open up" (IOW, sound better) by being played over a period of time? Many raging debates on the relevant forums, and there are even devices sold in front of which you place your instrument, and the device produces sound so that the instrument will open up without you even playing it! Old school wisdom was that you set your instrument in front of your stereo speakers and play music of the style you wish to play (wouldn't want to "open it up" with Celtic music if you're a bluegrass player!). Repeatedly do it overnight, much to the chagrin of anyone with whom you share the living space.

All of this is backed by sound science, of course. Oh, wait, no it's not. It's backed by philosophical arguments about how the skeptics can never prove that "opening up" isn't a thing. Not a single person to my knowledge has so much as recorded an instrument when new, then recorded it ten years later (and even that would be fraught when huge, uncontrollable variables). Because it's largely subjective anyway, and unlikely that any lab is going to take the time do blind tests, the debate will fill mandolin forums from now to the heat death of the universe. (Me, whether it's true or not, I think you better like the way an instrument sounds now before you buy it. And I do fall in the skeptical camp.)

One can see the phenomenon elsewhere, of course, with such things as holographic bracelets (a rehash of copper bracelets from the 70s) that are obviously complete bullshit, but are claimed to cure everything from the common cold to a soft penis. People will believe what they want to believe, and vendors will stand at the ready to profit from it.
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I find it hard to believe that Wikipedia is "in decline" when the article I wrote about the niche area of CS I worked in during undergrad has a life of its own now. People continue to add to it and now it has a fair deal of content and information that I was unaware of. If that's what decline looks like, I'm fine with it.
Doesn't .NET Native address startup perf, particularly for UWP applications?

I'm guessing the reason why C++ yields lower memory usage than C#/.NET is because RAII and reference counting ensure that memory is always freed as soon as it's no longer needed, whereas garbage collection only ensures that memory belonging to unused objects will be freed sometime later. Is that correct?
I don't think this is true. The B-corp just gives shareholders a cause of action in court against management for not pursuing the social objectives of the company. A corporation is free to pursue any lawful interest. Here is a good article about this: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-cor...
> Is it really necessary to use mental illnesses in a pejorative way to make your point ?

He's not. That is, actually, the real problem. He's not just using it as some sort of insult but explaining the specific problem.

I've run into editors like that (they even proudly boast about it on their user page, so I'm not just projecting). I've had enough run-ins with them, and people like them, that I gave up on editing.
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You're missing the implications. How much foreign business did Apple do in the 1980s? Look here:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/MemoOnOff...

>The Apple case study examines how Apple Inc., a U.S. corporation, has used a variety of offshore structures, arrangements, and transactions to shift billions of dollars in profits away from the United States and into Ireland, where Apple has negotiated a special corporate tax rate of less than 2%. One of Apple’s more unusual tactics has been to establish and direct substantial funds to offshore entities that are not declared tax residents of any jurisdiction. In 1980, Apple created Apple Operations International, which acts as its primary offshore holding company but has not declared tax residency in any jurisdiction. Despite reporting net income of $30 billion over the four-year period 2009 to 2012, Apple Operations International paid no corporate income taxes to any national government during that period. Similarly, Apple Sales International, a second Irish affiliate, is the repository for Apple’s offshore intellectual property rights and the recipient of substantial income related to Apple worldwide sales, yet claims to be a tax resident nowhere and may be causing that income to go untaxed.

That's not some guy in his pajamas, there. It's a Senate report. For most US companies the whole point of the lowered Irish tax rate is to pay that on profits you've moved offshore.

And while most of Apple's profit would probably still come from other markets if it weren't playing these kinds of offset pricing games, Apple has moved billions of dollars in profits out of the US to avoid taxes.

It's not just Apple, either. This is why the effective US tax rate for corporations is 12.6% even as the statutory rate is 35%. I suspect that figure would be a lot lower, too, if only multinationals were considered.

This is the elephant in the tax tent: The IRS has wide latitude when determining what's reasonable for companies to charge subsidiaries for goods and services (and vice versa). But it's easy to arbitrarily complicate these kinds of arrangements.

And it's pretty subjective to start with - how much should Apple pay Apple Sales International to use a patent that nobody else is licensing? How would you even determine the fair market value? There are rules, of course, but even assuming there's no undue influence by corporations (and you can't assume that), imagine writing a set of rules that covers every conceivable business arrangement between multinationals that doesn't leave any grey area. Can't be done.
Here is the original schematic:

http://scienceblogs.com/brookhaven/2011/01/24/so-you-wanna-r...

There is a clone using a microcontroller, but I won't link to that abomination.
> should programming languages evolve

Smalltalk is more a syntax for lambda calculus and objects than a language; the language is all in the library which means it's constantly evolving. I don't have to wait for new versions of Smalltalk because I can add anything I want to it at any time. Smalltalk isn't legacy, it's just not popular; those are entirely different things.
Not always. I request 30% of the estimated amount upfront, when dealing with new clients. Once trust is established, I don't bother my clients with pre-payments.
Maybe you should refrain from trying to diagnose mental disorders by pretending to analyze Wikipedia editor culture.

That's not even a disorder, it's just plain stupid.
Yeah, but what about all the reflections that are bound to happen in untreated room?
I'm with you, but why stop at one character? Why not zero. My entire legal name is a single word. Is it my first name? My last name? Where it matters, I use it as a last name, for consistent sorting and searching. I attempt to use nothing for the first name, and I rarely succeed. Once in awhile I'll use Name Name, like Amorymeltzer's professor.

If there was a group dedicated to this issue, they might call themselves the Harry S Truman society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Early_life_and...
You are correct, and you know what happens? The people LEAST qualified to contribute contribute the most. Why? Because they have too much time on their hands, and can battle endlessly.

People with real knowledge usually have better things to do.
I for one am glad to know that dogs in a vacuum spontaneously deficate. I suspect there is a vacuum that develops overnight in the corner of my living room.
What sort of shape would you expect from the number of active editors?

I'd imagine an S-curve for editors. A few, early adopters in the beginning, then a surge of editors filling in the bulk of articles, then after the majority of articles have been written, a slow decline of need for editors.

I'd imagine the remaining work to be completed would be editorial defense of existing articles and the new amount of articles generated by current events/technology/politics.
It depends on the market you're in. Every market has different economics due to population, density, city layout, socioeconomic landscape, etc.

In many cities Uber is losing money, but in many others they are doing very well. They probably adjust prices to optimize for growth in the cities where they're trying to gain traction. In established cities (as in SF), they tend to raise prices slowly.
Many audiophiles and audio professionals have hearing damage for this reason.
Wikipedia used to be a large part of my web experience. Now I might end up on Wikipedia 2 or 3 times a week. That said, DBPedia (RDF data derived from Wikipedia) is useful and I rely on it.
Yes, in the US most corporations pay unemployment tax (apparently nonprofits and government agencies can get a special reimbursement deal where they pay directly for unemployment costs). As you noted, unemployment taxes increase for corporations with lots of former employees claiming benefits. The fact that it's not direct doesn't eliminate the cost.
The CloudFront docs don't mention SSE support and they definitely don't support WebSockets today.

That said, with CloudFront Custom Origins you can do "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" [1] which will cause CDN server to deliver content to the client as it is sent by your application. That seems like it would be compatible with SSE. Unfortunately it also has a 30 second idle timeout [2] which may be a showstopper depending on how frequently your app sends event.

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer...
[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer...
Thanks for clarifying, I appreciate it. I'm always a little wary of big edits on sites that don't show an edit history. (HN devs, why not??)

I agree that context matters. You're describing a different time and place, pretty far removed from the vast majority of Americans now: rural life, probably a couple decades ago.

In 2010, over 80% of us lived in cities. Six years ago, less than one in five of us lived in rural America--now I'm quite sure it's even fewer. The context of "let's walk around with guns" is basically missing from the vast, vast majority of our lives.

Like you said, living in a city, you'd be sketched out if you saw someone with a gun. And, indeed, we see this play out again and again. People going into restaurants with AR-15s, people wandering around neighborhoods with those big guns on their shoulders. Pretty consistently, someone calls the cops, because, in context of "I live in a city" that applies to 80% of us, this is sketchy behavior.

This is what gets me about the people that want to import gun attitudes from another time and place--from what is basically a distant and foreign culture for most of us--into modern city life.

As a thought experiment, let's not say "the rural American landowners who wrote the constitution 250 years ago felt a certain way about guns, so let's keep on going with that". Let's start from "most of us live in cities, what do we want city life to be like?" And it sounds like neither you nor I particularly want to see random people walking around with guns.

Heh, as a good for-example, yesterday I was downtown, at lunchtime, in a crowded part of the downtown area. Lots of food cards, hundreds of people gathered around. Out of nowhere, a mentally disturbed guy started harassing some lady's daughters. A bunch of us immediately started yelling at him to back off, and started putting ourselves physically between him. The dude was obviously mentally ill, but also possibly a threat to someone, just from flailing his limbs around like a crazy dude.

Well, we kept him separated from the lady and her daughters--just with our voices and our bodies--and he continued to have a freakout, yell, and after 2-3 minutes the cops on bikes showed up to keep him contained until, I'm guessing, some cop in a car could haul him to some kind of lockup. I'm sure, if he'd gotten more aggressive, me and a few other people (heh, even some in business suits) would have tackled him and sat on him.

What's scary to me is...what if someone had a gun and thought they'd be a hero? Best case is, they suppress that thought, pretend they don't have a gun, and we get the outcome like we had, with minimal damage to all. Worst case is, they start firing, and either shoot the crazy dude, or even worse, they shoot some bystanders. Odds are, here in the city (where 80% of us work and live), guns won't make ordinary people into heroes, they'll just make tense situations deadly.
My first equity experience is going to be RSUs. They seem better in every way: you don't owe taxes in cash (they're withheld), you can't go upside down (zero strike price), and you don't need capital to begin with so your compensation does not depend on how wealthy you already are.

Why would anyone take options if they could get RSUs?
Read the early experiments with crystals (not wikipedia, which most deals with stuff post-patent). They didn't start with physics textbooks. They started with odd electrical behavior observed in practical experiments.
My favorite quote from the C++17 specs (https://isocpp.org/files/papers/D4492.pdf):

"""

The note was written for committee members, but “escaped into the wild.” Here are a few comments
from the web:

• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/33us7z/what_wil...
up_on_c17_goals/

• http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2015/04/27/c_daddy_b...
ections_for_v17/#c_2500733

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9441245

As you see, people outside the committee also have strong opinions. Those opinions can depart radically
from the ones I hear in the committee and from reality.

"""
Isn't this more describing a typical s-curve with regard to the information being mostly filled out? Wikipedia isn't a news site.
I'm not seeing "the herd" express this vacuous sentiment.

Every time this topic comes up, plenty of people mention that digital is superior in an objective sense, and plenty of other people counter that the interest in vinyl isn't necessarily about that.

It's as much a meme that vinyl is "better" as it is that people think that other people think that it's "better" for stupid, non-scientific reasons.
Audience listens to music. Carwfully prepared turntable routine is more important, and a lot of laptop tricks aren't reproducable on bare turntables anyway.
right, and the problem is the people who are willing to engage in such a battle are a self-selecting group of people. the final product we see on the site, ends up being largely contributed by that group of willing fighters, and less those that have the most domain expertise.
I contributed to several Wikipedia articles over the years (~50-100). It's gotten to the point where it's pointless to improve even terrible articles like stubs as basically everything is automatically reversed. At best a mod may decide to add your content back, which means at this point it's basically stopped being a public wiki.

Which is fine, IMO they should just change the name to Webpedia or something if they don't want new edits.

PS: As to being 'full' they have 2.7 million stubs, that's a lot of missing content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics
Yes, the Lena tutorials are the industry standard, if you can refer to the cracking scene as an industry. As far as I remember they are targeted towards blackhat crackers but the information is still valuable even for aspiring security researchers or whitehats.
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