skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that people are being bred for a similar result, but that a variation in feed efficiency in people doesn't surprise me as a similar effect has been found in livestock.

However, I could imagine in the past feed efficiency was an evolutionary advantage.
There was a Russian inventor, called Genrich Altshuller, Who also worked as a patent examiner. And he invented a method called TRIZ , which is a systematic method of inventing things, based on highly abstract patterns evident in many inventions - a way you can teach every decent engineer to become highly inventive.

It is a highly effective method(mostly for the physical world , less for IT afaik) , used in many large inventive organizations very successfully and behind many inventions.

So in my eyes he is one of the most productive inventors in the world.

Also he was sent to the soviet Gulag , a labor camp deep in frozen sybiria , but still remained hopeful and in good spirit , and in the Gulag he and others create a group that taught each other various fields , like architecture, literature ,science, etc - as a way to keep their humanity and not be broken.
The Problem with Your Great Content [And the Data Behind It]
Uber recently launched here in Northern Ireland, and here they basically do as our laws are stricter than the rest of the UK, or the rest of Ireland

Uber drivers here need to have a private hire license, and even display a Taxi sign

http://www.u.tv/News/2015/12/11/Uber-taxi-app-launches-in-Be...
That sounds like a straightforward admission of cruel and unusual punishment. Is there any criterion the quote doesn't nail?
>If only physical persons could relocate to a better place with the same ease corporations do now the governments would suck so much less.

If physical persons could relocate to a different country with the same ease as corporations then the instability of their tax bases combined with the difficulty of ensuring compliance with their taxing regime might very well spell the end of nation states.
Emacs vs. WebStorm for Node.js Development
> I applaud the president for looking into an issue that is traditionally ignored by leaders in the US- the effects of our prison system on the population. I wish he hadnt stopped at solitary confinement.

I agree. Criminal justice reform is a primary plank of Clinton's platform, and Sanders strongly supports the discussion as well. I don't think we've seen this kind of focus in recent memory. I think this is going to be a growing issue in coming years, as access to information about our justice system becomes more democratized due to things like cell phones and Internet literacy giving more avenues for spreading experiences and information to people who previously didn't have them.
> then I was definitely eating 4000+ calories per day and not getting Fat.

Not true at all, you weren't even counting your calories you're just throwing out a number. And if you were counting you were counting wrong. That's a huge part of people who say they can't gain or lose weight. They claim to eat these vast amount (or extremely low amount) of calories when they really have no idea. People trying to lose weight will look at a burger and say "that's about 400 calories" and someone trying to gain weight will look at the same burger and say "that's about 1500 calories", when in reality its somewhere around 900. Do that for 3-4 meals a day and boom, you've got your "I eat 4000+ calories and can't gain weight".
So, they can train new folks with some of the brain that is still left. To be honest, they didn't exactly strike me with prolific creativity, rather their business enterpreneurship was working and they still profit from that. It's good but average engineering, at average, moving slow but steady. If innovation happens elsewhere, they just copy it. So they try to in
New Tech Depend on Graphene Improves OLED Displays Quality – Graphene Uses
> Fascinated by electronics and science, the young Mr. Minsky attended the Ethical Culture School in Manhattan, a progressive private school from which J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the creation of the first atomic bomb, had graduated.

Crazy to read this sentence while I am halfway through Cat's Cradle.
I don't know about frequent uses but I remember reading research paper which said that high doses are toxic, permanently damaging brain - so it's definitely not a good idea to take too many in too short time.
"Why do some children find Math hard to learn? I suspect that this is often caused by starting with the practice and drill of a bunch of skills called Arithmetic—and instead of promoting inventiveness, we focus on preventing mistakes. I suspect that this negative emphasis leads many children not only to dislike Arithmetic, but also later to become averse to everything else that smells of technology. It might even lead to a long-term distaste for the use of symbolic representations."

Substitute "Arithmetic" for "Interview Problems"
Another solution is to move from taxing profits to taxing consumption, i.e. through VAT, and then enforce it even for virtual services. That way, Apple's US tax would for example be proportional its US sales, which sounds fair.
Coding requires communication skills
Global GDP would double if labour was allowed the same freedom of movement as capital.

But the human condition is such that I do not think it's not going to happen anytime soon :(
All URLs are URIs.
I used to run through this (and on up to higher powers of 2) in my head as a kid in idle moments, well before I knew it had any relevance to... anything, really.
NBA Twitter Is Changing the Way We Watch Sports
The boomerang was not invented in Australia [1]. Woomeras don't allow you to throw a spear 800m (200m at most). These were not invented in Australia either [2]. Both are really ancient technologies.

As for different cultures sharing the same stories is no more surprising than people in England and China sharing similar stories. All pre-agricultural people have somewhat similar lives so we should expect they have similar stories and myths. Occam's razor should rule here.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang

2. http://www.donsmaps.com/atlatl.html
The Origin of Chernobyl's Most Famous Photo
So, in the long run they can train new folks with some of the brain that is still left. To be honest, they didn't exactly strike me with prolific creativity, rather their business enterpreneurship was working and they still profit from that.

It's good but average engineering, at average, moving slow but steady.
Google Trends for JavaScript libraries
This is awesome! I have always envisioned stuff like this for exercise equipment, and I'm excited to see that it's becoming a reality :)
Yeah, mine is a shameless copy of the Plaintext Offenders Tumblr (http://plaintextoffenders.com/) which I've known about for years, but I wish I had spotted the HTTP Shaming one earlier as I would have saved myself time and submitted the local sites there instead. Oh well.
> Doesn't the fact that GitHub makes the enterprise pay for usage make it more likely that GitHub will be around longer than Google Code?

Plenty of companies that charge for things have gone out of business.
Bug in Magento puts millions of e-commerce sites at risk of takeover
Remember When We Thought Self-Driving Cars Were a Long Way Off?
It's entirely custom but it leverages the d3 library so it's quite short/relatively simple in its execution as it leaves most of it up to d3.

Process for finding out is not fixed. Generally a simple "View Source", look at <script> tags, read script files and look for obvious clues is the best first port of call (and worked easily here). If there's a lot of indirection and pre-compilation being done it gets harder.
It may be that the girl happened to know 16+16=32 because she had answered the question before, and it stuck in her memory.
Bitcoin bites back at Davos doubters
What irritates me about the way math is taught, in fact, the way most subjects are taught, is that the ultimate goal is to become better at the subject matter rather than applying the subject matter to some ultimate purpose. Math is mental masturbation in the same way that Sudoku is. Some people love solving little puzzles for the sake of solving little puzzles, but without the necessity of applying those lessons to actual problems that exist in the real, physical world, there's very little value in it. I would really like to see the whole concept of breaking down education into neat little subdivisions go away and instead focus on what it takes to solve larger problems, whether that be creating great new works of art, advancing technology, curing a disease, doing social good, or even fixing cars. The curriculum for each of those myriad problems will be different but perfectly mapped out. There's very little calculus an auto mechanic or a dance instructor needs to know to excel at their chosen profession, for instance.
TurboTax's online tax prep software does this. You can just click the Next button as the slider animations slowly fill up. Maybe this comment will save someone else some time this year :)
They both said it. And no, Abraham Lincoln invented the internets.
Have you tried http://tnlgame.net/ and/or http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.html ?

This is looks interesting, too: http://www.lgdb.org/game/arma-3
It's also doubling. Like ashark, I tended to play with numbers like that as a kid. Plus, not sure how old I was but I think I was 7, perhaps 8, I was introduced to the question:

If I agreed to pay you a dollar today, and double your pay
each day. How much would you get paid after a week? After
30 days?

By a teacher (presented differently, but that's the question). The power of doubling just stuck with me (how quickly it grew), long before I actually knew the concepts of linear versus exponential growth. This resulted in certain arithmetic facts sticking with me better than other, perhaps more logically obvious facts. Random things like this will stick with kids when they can start to see patterns or features within the structure of it.
I've commented a bunch of time on gut microbiome before and I'll say it again here who may have not caught it. If this article is interesting check out "The Good Gut" by Justin and Erica Sonnenburg, PhD. I've been experimenting with an ad hoc restorative process through ideas in the book and reading/research around a myriad of pro/prebiotics + diet change.

For me the whole subject adds a lot of weight to the idea of "skinny fat" vs "fat". I'm glad we're in an age of companies like WellnessFX where I can objectively see the positive changes made by changes to a lifestyle... But, again, I can't stress enough how much great information and studies that have been broken down is in the book. No affiliation, but it's very powerful knowledge.

$0.02.

edit: "we're not in" to "we're in", whoops
It's not that it's hard to learn, it's just not easy. You can't take shortcuts (you can at first but it bites you later), you must do things in the correct order, you must be exact. There are lots of little things to learn and remember.

I think some peoples brains are just wired to 'get' math just as some people 'get' programming. And some people just 'get' art. Certain people just 'see' certain things and you can't really teach that.
MaaxMarket is now Microsoft's featured startup
SSRI's in my opinion are not the future of antidepressants. They work by indiscriminately increasing serotonin levels in the synapse, thereby activating every single serotonin receptor (5-HT). While you get the anti-depressant effect by increasing the activation at the 5-HT1 receptor, you also get the negative side effects of SSRI's since it activates 5-HT2c receptor (weight gain), 5-HT3 receptor (nausea), and sleep issues.

The future of the antidepressants lies in chemicals that increase serotonin at the 5-HT1 receptor (lowering depression) without affecting the other receptors. Drugs like mirtazipine and nefazodone attempt to do this by blocking certain 5-HT receptors (mainly the 5-HT2a receptor, which lowers anxiety), and as a result make serotonin levels higher and more available at the 5-HT1 receptor. That's the reason these 2 drugs in particular don't have the nasty side-effects of SSRI's.

The future of anti-depressants likely lies in the ability to find a drug that increases activation at the 5-HT1 receptors in certain parts of the brain, while leaving the rest of the brain and receptors untouched.
Note that each search is for the ".js" variant to try and keep it consistent across each term and limited exclusively to the library.

All in all, this seems to confirm the general feeling* among web developers: Ember has been on a long downward slide, Meteor has struggled to gain traction, Vue is in full hype mode, React hit its hype peak and is now stabilizing, and Angular has been rapidly declining in popularity since React stole its thunder (but is still up there).

* from my personal observations while trying to keep a pulse on things - I don't think it would be difficult to find people who would disagree for any of these observations
Lifehacker: How I Finally Organized My Messy Inbox with Sortd
What does help you distinguish between the correct site and an HTTP attack?
Yea, South Korea's control of the internet seems almost dystopian at times.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/south-korea-only-thing...
There are more articles on the eff about it.
Maybe you might view that as strength, something about your brain chemistry that lets you achieve deeper insight than your peers, and makes you a better innovator? I say this as someone like you, who replays events in the past or future, over and over to gain deep insights (or maybe confirmation biases), and i also wonder if it is related to my seratonin-dopamine imbalances (i have adhd), as it is very clear that my obsession with understanding the why behind the world is not normal and i wish i could just let it be
Somehow past looked better ;)
My CS department had quite a few bee hobbyists. A friend of mine did a MS thesis on tracking bees with computer vision... it's quite a bit more challenging than you might initially suspect. One professor was working on a capacitive system for tracking honeybees, but AFAIK has not had success with it.
Why is it corporations only pay taxes in one country anyway? That seems paradoxical, if they're selling goods in multiple countries then they must be using the infrastructure of all those countries, and isn't that one of the big reasons we have taxes in the first place?
To all of you seeking jobs: Take a look at www.freelancerworldwide.com

It is A new global job portal that brings freelancers together with firms. You can always just create a profile and upload your CV. Employers browse these profiles.
The Potential of Apple TV Apps
I'm interested in learning React, but brand new to front-end tooling (npm/webpack/etc). When doing this tutorial I got derailed by npm start, and the host of errors it led me through.

Does anyone have any advice for learning the tooling pre-requisites that go along with React development? I'm happy to buy books, pay for courses, whatever it takes.
+1 for Sufferfest videos.
Spinning at low intensities gets boring and requires lots of willpower. I've watched movies, tv shows, played PC games with xbox controller, listened to audiobooks, watched TdF stages, watched XC world cup events from redbull.tv, watched twitch, watched youtube shows etc. etc.

The trick that works for me is–raise the intensity and there's no time to get bored. You're focused on just getting through the interval. And workouts can be only 1-1.5 hour long, because you're working harder.

Sufferfest videos are all pretty hardcore. Through the winter I normally use trainerroad.com and their base training plans, and save Sufferfest videos for special occassions like 20-minute FTP tests ;-)
tl;dr: (everybody already know this) webstorm is better at debugging
The big problem is really the changes made to the US tax code during the Clinton era and continued by Bush and Obama. In particular, the ability of US companies to defer taxation on profits made abroad until they are repatriated. Effectively, these profits sit in limbo since they aren't taxable by the country in which they are 'made' (e.g Ireland) because they belong to a US company. Companies then apply pressure on politicians to announce tax amnesties that enable them to repatriate the profits with negligible tax.

Blaming all of the above on other countries by casting them as tax havens is a complete charade. The US could fix this problem today on its own if it wanted to.
It just needs to get its house in order and e.g. get rid of the deferral rules. The best article I've read on the subject was here: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-sc...

Edit: Another good article on this is here: http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2016/01/22/upsetting-th...

It's a little bit more technical as it's written by an Irish economist for an audience of economists, but it's interesting in that it gives a good overview of the situation from an Irish perspective.
This is a wonderful series of articles and I find myself nodding along with most of it.
However, these lines really made me cringe:

A child was sent to me for tutoring because of failing a geometry class, and gave this excuse: " I must have been absent on the day when they explained how to prove a theorem."

No wonder this child was confused—and seemed both amazed and relieved when I explained that there was no standard way to make proofs—and that “you have to figure it out for yourself”. One could say that this child simply wasn’t told the rules of the game he was asked to play. However, this is a very peculiar case in which the ‘rule’ is that there are no rules! (In fact, automatic theorem-provers do exist, but I would not recommend their use.)

I think interactive theorem provers would go a long way towards making children understand symbolic reasoning.
The way these programs work is that you have feedback available at every step of a proof.
Children can learn basic causal relationships by looking at the world around them.
By visualizing the basic relationships between logical formulae you can similarly learn to inuit the effects of reasoning steps.
Interactive theorem provers provide the visualization.

The game has rules, and you can learn them.
That seems like a very appropriate response to someone with a history of killing others.
Danny Hillis introduced Marvin at the MIT Media Lab's 30th anniversary in October 2015, where they both participated in a remarkable panel discussion.

Though not as strong and fast-talking as he once was, Marvin's humor and wisdom shine through.

Here's a link to the video:
http://www.media.mit.edu/video/view/ml30-2015-10-30-01

Danny begins his introduction at about 41:29.
Managing Multiple BLE Devices in iOS
Reverse engineering Weiyun cloud storage
It's an incoherent argument to suggest that Obama is both saving his most controversial actions for a time when he doesn't need to worry about his own re-election and working for the election of the next Democratic President.
This xkcd color name survey seem apropos.

http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Twitter Appoints AMEX Leslie Berland as CMO
God, when I log on to HN in the morning and see that damned black bar I know it's going to hurt.

But Marvin Minsky? My Tuesday wasn't ready for this. He has had such an impact on the field of AI, and even on the social dialogues about it. Not everybody thinks that robots are going to go Skynet on us, and a lot of us that realize that were informed by his work. Whether directly or indirectly, so much of his work has become common knowledge amongst AI enthusiasts and scientists.

I'd be wasting my breath to say that he'll be missed, of course. I wish I could have met him.
Most parties with few exceptions share 90% of Dansk Folkepartis immigration policy. Even under the previous center-left government most shared this view. They disagree on some very important areas but all the stuff you read about in the newspapers (much of it planted by danish politicians not in agreement) there is political consensus about.

But go back 20 years in Denmark or just a couple of years in Sweden and you will see a different pictures. They were the parias of society.

Despite the huge success Sveriges Demokraterne had at last election the other parties decided to completely ignore them and to keep them out of power.

Swedish police has not been allowed to put ethnicity into reports even when it was relevant.

Sweden (and Germany) invited immigrants and fugitives to just come. Now Sweden sobered by reality closed it's borders to Denmark because they can't have anymore.

I am not a big proponent of DF and personally I am an "open borders, but no money" kind of person. This is one of the things I believe works really well here in the US.

But they were wrong about it becoming an issue. Especially since Denmark have so lucrative social benefits as they do (which the fugitives and immigrants go after and I don't blame them)

But this is a much more complicated discussion than just right wing racist parties vs. the good people on the left.

The discussion in Europe right now really is about how the EU makes sure that it balances it's international obligations with it's obligations over it's citizens.
Navigating the Internet of Things
I think this is why integrity hashes should be included anytime a CDN is used to load a third-party library. Bootstrap does this, for example: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/

I'd like to see more lib providers, and even CDNs themselves, follow suit.
I probably should've specified 'most'.
Would want to share a cell with someone who has history of hurting or killing others?
You can't split-test human experience You can’t split test human experience
>Global GDP would double if labour was allowed the same freedom of movement as capital.

Really? And would global average wages double, or would the profit margins on ever-cheaper labor do all the growing?
Republicans to FCC: Even Netflix doesn't require Internet speeds that high
(Admission - I've only read the abstract)

I wonder if there is any/what the correlation is between the attrition rate of these females and pregnancy - is becoming pregnant a significant blocker to their survivorship rate?
Not sure I understand. This article is 35 years old. Its hard for it to white-wash anything. Did I mis-understand?
People look for a lock - that's the only thing everybody knows about web encryption. An open lock is still a lock, thus plenty of people will understand it as secure.

On what case do you want the open lock? If this is about the active mixed content warning, I do think it's worse than the previous version. But well, it can only happen by manual intervention, so nobody will ever see it.
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Partially offtopic. The author is doing

> "complex edits [in Emacs] using Vim macros"

This is a big surprise. I left vi for emacs in the early '90s when vi's macros were crippled, to say the least. I'm using vim for quick edits, mainly on servers or configuration files (sudo vi /etc/something). Did vim macros really become better than Emacs' ones?
Still no warning on HTTP sites.
That actually sounds like a cool idea for a new wave of mobile apps...

Anyone remember the "emotion wheel" from that Microsoft Comic Chat [1] app of old? If I recall correctly, when you typed something like "lol" it would automatically pick the laughing image, and so on.

Something like that, with reconstructions of your actual face based on how your voice sounds (after you've trained it with a few expressions) should be possible with current tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
Assuming inequality is constant - then yes. Your purchasing power would double, you could afford twice as much food, apple would produce twice as many ipads, etc.