skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If intelligence and success are truly largely determined by genetics:

- How will our culture ever allow us to even admit the possibility?

- If it's true and the truth becomes widely accepted, how do we prevent problems ranging from basic discrimination, to a push for eugenics policies, to full-on Nazi "kill all the inferior races in our glorious society"?

The answer since WW2 has been basically "that's not the way it works" -- but then that means we suppress evidence that points in that direction, and so blind ourselves to the possibility that it is actually the way it works.

If what the author's saying is the truth, are we better off being willfully blind to it, and avoiding the grave social problems such a truth could potentially cause if widely accepted? Or should we pursue the evidence wherever it leads?

We like to think that our modern scientific society is far more ethically advanced than the primitive, superstitious idiots who put Galileo on trial -- but it seems like this issue may be an example of the same forces at work, and it seems like a lot of the people might come down on the side of suppressing unfavorable evidence.

For the record, I don't really support the author's point of view. I'm just playing devil's advocate by asking yourself: If the author's right, what evidence would he need to present in order to convince you?
I've got an AMD laptop with AMD graphics and have to install the Catalyst software to get responsiveness from Ubuntu graphics. If I don't completely uninstall and purge Catalyst before allowing system updates, then reboot using a custom boot command, then shut down and reboot (with the custom command again), and then reinstall Catalyst, I end up with a machine that boots to a black screen and is essentially useless until I wipe the drive and reinstall from scratch. With 15.10 I thought this had changed with a new set of non-Catalyst drivers, but the problem reappeared.

I hadn't expected this, as my previous two Dells with Intel or Nvidia graphics hadn't caused any problems since years ago when wireless issues got sorted out. Linux has made a lot of progress with hardware compatibility, but if you find one of the weird issues it can be damn near intractable and user forums are a maze to sort through.
I wish it was possible for Apple to settle in and polish, competently executing on designs that are already very good and slowly improving their entire lineup (including, please, monitors!)

It's rather depressing to consider that excellent industrial design can only be supported on the exponential-looking part of the sigmoid curve.
Yes absolutely. However, at the same time if I'm understanding you correctly, if we take it one step further, even assuming we have easy access to court decisions, is the DOT approval process an absolute necessity to reevaluate each X number of cutouts in NYC?

Would this mean that a wheelchair user should plan weeks (months) ahead to google street view every cutout within a 10 block radius of his/her destination and make a request to have it become a DOT approved ramp?
I can say without the shadow of a doubt that HARC is working on a new language. Not your average spoken or programming language, but a general-purpose and interactive language. A language that can only be communicated through a computer.

Text and speech are inherently limited by their linear and one-dimensional nature. Graphics are much more powerful, and leverage high-bandwidth senses. Knowledge will be consumed by navigating knowledge hypergraphs and causational trees (how-why axis).

In English, you write everything from scratch. You start with a blank page, then a word, then a sentence. With this new language, you must start with something that exists, some kind of node/edge of the graph. Communication is mostly done by manipulating the knowledge graph. This means that you can't say something that has already been said before. You don't need to provide or explain context. You can instantly see the impact of your thoughts. You can't say incoherent or fallacious things. In most cases, you don't have to say a single thing, as you can find it has been said before. Most decent programming environment provide libraries/modules, auto-completion, and compilation/execution. This new platform brings all these things to communication.

We're talking about an universal language here. An homoiconic language, where the distinction between code, data and UI disappears.

This is nothing new. People have been talking about this for decades. The most important challenge here is not technical, but social. It is becoming clear that the application paradigm is not sustainable and cannot scale. Personal assistants (Siri, Viv, Cortana, Google Now) and Messaging/Bots (Magic, WeChat, Slack, Microsoft Bots Framework, Facebook Bots Platform) are clear symptoms. Although I've been trying to tell people about this future for more than a decade now, I don't have the resources of track-record to be heard. I am hopeful that HARC will change that.
One of the biggest challenges that Apple has, is what would actually be meaningful? I loved a comment I saw recently that highlighted that a 10 digit revenue item can be counted as largely insignificant to a company the size of Apple.

So, if you start looking at product spaces that have:

1. A meaningful market size (ideally all consumers)
2. A price that is significant
3. Enhances the brand image as chic/cool
4. Is global

You don't really discover too many spaces to play in. They're not going to move the needle with a new printer.

Frankly, if I was Tim Cook, I'd just buy Tesla and be done with it. Goodness knows they have the cash, and Elon has signalled previously that he'd be interested in handing over the reigns once the original strategy was delivered.
Tom Apostol was my freshman math prof. He made math a useful tool for me. He was a great teacher. Thanks so much, Tom.
I want to travel so I'll do your AWS DevOps for free (5x AWS certified)
Note. I'm using a throwaway account for this post.

I'm hoping this post will be more of a discussion about my plan and the pros/cons associated with doing something like this.

So here's the deal. I'm thinking of travelling as it's something I've never done before. I'm in my late twenties.

I love being surrounded by like minded people, especially those from a tech background and I love to party. Traditional travelling doesn't really appeal to me. I love big cities like London, New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, etc.

I currently live in London so I'm used to the cost of living in big cities. My plan is to rent Airbnb accommodation, funded by my existing SaaS. I'm pretty much location independent at the moment. So I'll move to where you are.

I have all 5 AWS certifications: AWS Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Developer - Associate, AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate, AWS Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional

My AWS experience to date has mainly been around scaling LAMP stacks but I'm looking to work on a varied number of projects that use different AWS services to get a good selection of case studies for an AWS Consultancy I want to set up next.

I'd like to spend a month in each city. All I ask is that you let me use your company as a case study afterwards.

This will probably be suited to startups in their early stages. First and foremost I'm looking for interesting people to hang out with, those who are good company and those who want to party. We need to be on the same wavelength. The plan is to enjoy everything the city has to offer.

The #1 sticking point for me is that you need to be doing all of this already, and I'll just slot in. I don't want special treatment.
Great post.

A keyword is missing - autonomous car - maybe the first couple of versions will be manual but they can be relevant in the long term only if they are working on bringing autonomous cars to the market as fast as tesla/google.
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I learned analytic number theory from his text book. Probably unlike most other HN participants, that is where I learned big-oh notation, in its original context: measuring the growth of arithmetic functions. I distilled what I learned into a short little undergrad paper:

http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/dirichlet-primes.pdf

Thank you, Tom Apostol, for writing a book on analytic number theory for me to learn from.
I've run Arista for 10 years now (since Arastra days), but I'm a lot more interested in whitebox switches running some sort of open networking software. The silicon designs are all coming from Broadcom/Intel/etc.

This is where stuff like Cumulus comes into play, and is a lot more excited than vendor lock-in on "open" technologies provided by Arista.
I've worked with C, C++ and VHDL.
Now a days mostly Python. It's much more productive.

EDIT@
Oh, you mean to actually do web dev with one of those languages, no, never did web dev with C or C++ sorry
Apple already makes the most popular camera and the most popular gaming device: the iPhone.
My house cat was often bullied by this other cat that visited just to fight him, once even damaging one of his eyes. One night, long ago, I decided to join my friend's side and swing a broomstick against the other cat as they fought clenched together. The other cat ran away for obvious reasons. My cat pursued him, stopped, turned to me with a "let's get him" nod, and after a pause he ran.

Where do we draw the line between antropomorphising actions and ascribing intelligence?

I hope we not only enhance humans in the future, but animals as well. The stuff of a sci-fi novel: cat cyborgs protesting for their voting rights, holding signs with opposable thumb augmentations.
It is state law. A municipality can't override it.
If we're going to go on history, it's quite likely that whatever Apple pivots to, lots of people will say "yeah, whatever Apple, that's a tiny market and there are already like four players in there and they're all more serious than you." Then within three years Apple will have taken what seemed not so consequential, completely dominated, expanded the market by several orders of magnitude, and left everybody in their dust.

That's what a successful Apple pivot looks like.

VR, electric cars?! Maybe, but extremely unlikely. Those are obvious things that everybody in Silicon Valley is thinking about and has overhyped to death. Apple would probably take some smaller category that people hadn't thought could hit the big time. IMHO, it's obviously not going to be VR, that's been completely overhyped, sounds cool to nerds but completely impractical and practically useless, and will have basically no impact on the majority of lives out there.
As much as I feel that I'm better qualified for the job than half of HARC's team, I don't think joining would help much.

They're 20 people already. There is no way they will agree on a coherent direction, unless it's a weak/safe one. I guess we'll see.
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They seem to be vague about the device and its batteries, but they do say they utilized an external battery.

With no mode of recharging, why bother with rechargeables?
Huh, kind of cool.
the human average is around 185 crashes and 1 fatality per 100 million miles, which is pretty damn impressive considering the huge variation in terrain and skill. I'll be very surprised if any self driving tech right now can even dream of coming close to these stats.
I'd just say that objects are more powerful constructs than structs, records and simple shapeless datastructure. They enforce structure on your data, and give you at least some clues what you can do with that data, among other things.

After writing and maintaining a bunch of code in Clojure, Erlang and functional style Ruby, I feel like OOP+FP gives me greater flexibility in my design options and allows to architect better solutions to my problems.
Cute. It's not an open protocol unless they make the spec public and free.
Apple needs a visionary. Google, Amazon and Facebook all have founders who are visionaries and drive the focus of the company. Tim Cook could be a great CEO, but he is not a visionary and does not drive products. Who is driving the vision at Apple? It's not Jony, I have no idea who is doing that. That is also something you can't do by committee. Apple seems to be really floundering and does not have any great visions for new products or focus to make people excited!
People have certainly slowly lost interest in the iPhone. Apple needs to spend its cash and bring Elon Musk onboard!
America's middle class is shrinking almost everywhere
Statistical analysis fails for small samples. In a single case, it is never possible to determine what would have happened if there was a human controlling the wheel instead of the autonomous system. With either of those, the accidents will happen, even if rarely. In case of a human controlling the wheel, the punishment meted out to the human acts as a signal to that human and others that they have to be more careful in how they control the vehicle. Therefore, in case of any accident by Tesla's autonomous system, Tesla(or any other autonomous control providing company) should be made to shoulder the blame. So that they are not only prodded to make their systems more robust, but also prodded to design the system to ask for human intervention in case it senses it cannot make a good judgement in the conditions.
The problem they're facing with the big bets is that they can lose big as well. With iPhone sales dropping 30%/year, they're losing about that much revenue also, since the company's revenue is tied so much to that singular product.

A broad product portfolio will always be more stable over the long term.
Is this a surprise? Isn't it well known that Apple is working on a car?

I think the big question here is not are they working on a car, but can they deliver a car that represents a significant improvement over what's out there. And that i'm highly skeptical of, unless they deliver full autonomy. But there is just no way Apple is going to beat Google to market with that technology.

So, I agree they're working on a car, but I feel fairly confident that it will be an absolute disaster for them. Though most times that's been said about their products in the past decade or two has been a disaster for the person saying it.
Any idea why they chose DV based routing? Looks like they have ignored about 20 years of Wireless Sensor Networks/cyber-physical systems research.
Added my email on my "about box" Thanks Matt - I will email you. "The cup is blue" feel free to contact me or ask me more questions here.
Misreading "Gizmondo" as "Gizmodo" made your entire post quite funny.
A small factual error - the article states N/A for unlimited users at bitbucket but according to their pricing page[1] unlimited users is $200/user/month.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing.
Find the money somewhere. Take it out of the police chief's pay for all I care. In fact, I don't think just returning the money is enough. The money should be returned with interest as if it were put into a municipal bond.

The worst part is that every time this happens, the taxpayers are on the hook. I think nothing will change as long as wrong decisions doesn't hurt the decision-makers. I don't know how to implement this but something has to give. When in doubt, officers should err on the side of not writing tickets.

Unrelated but our police officers need stronger protection from the insanity of things like quotas. Make it immensely profitable for an officer to whistleblow situations where they are required to collect $n in fines or write n tickets. Make it a federal law and take that money ($10MM per incidence per officer sounds like a good start, the point is it has to be high enough that there won't be peer pressure for an officer to "get in line") from the department. If they can't pay, too bad. The municipality/county doesn't deserve a police force.
This post is complete and utter nonsense in so many ways I don't know how to begin.

Relevant: I am a licensed pilot and am very familiar with the NTSB and similar agencies that do post crash analysis. They are among the most thorough and most scientific and objective inquiries that exist in the modern world.

You're making really serious allegations against actual people that are wholly unsupported.
> And then, on a national level, mean IQ has a much more pronounced impact (law of big numbers). Averaging down the intelligence of your population is an irreversible process. Once you mixed it down, the only way (for now) to bring it back up would be to be actively reproduce smart people for it. Even if you are not smart yourself, having high IQ people is needed to maintain and improve your surroundings. If I remember correctly, the US Army doesn't accept people with an IQ lower than ~85 because it's counterproductive to have them around.

I think the poster is suggesting making that decision for (presumably) his race.

Though implicit is the assumption that the natural way to group people is by ethnicity, but you could argue for grouping by country, social class, income, education, etc. For instance, I feel way more connection with techy/nerdy people who grew up similarly than I do to, say, a gang member who spent years in jail but happens to be my ethnicity.
Great article, Ryan. You characterize large enterprise sales as being on the order of "$1M+ deals"[1]. This seems a bit high for a startup with a newish product, but it's certainly achievable.

Do you have any insights into how startups can achieve $1M+ in annual contract value (ACV)? What differentiates their product and pricing strategy from a startup that sells software for say $100K a year?

[1]: http://themacro.com/articles/2016/05/enterprise-sales-for-ha...
I loved project.json but the justification was acceptable in my opinion.

There are literally billions of dollars of existing customer software built with CSPROJ files.

Moving forward with ONE file type and one set of build tools is the best for the long term ecosystem.

Even if it isn't the favorite choice.

Msbuild is open source, so there's nothing preventing a community member from adding json support back in.

Oh! I should add that they've committed to keeping "the good bits" of project json withing the .NetCore project files.

They'll be shorter, they won't require you add all existing files for compilation. Some other nice stuff (I hope NPM and SCRIPTS stays for example!)

Anyways, sad to lose it but in the end I think most people "get it"
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I'm pretty sure this is about controlling quarterly results for public companies. They play around with numbers a lot to make estimates. They can push payables out to the next quarter with net 90.
Look, I'm a big crypto fan myself. I appreciate what you're saying, but it doesn't match the real world. Put land grants on the blockchain. Crypto all you want, but the guys with guns can seize the land next regime change.

What you're saying is only true, AFAIK, for bearer bond type instruments.
Feature idea: can I take a previously-recorded speech and have it show me the filler words after-the-fact? Could be cool to track improvements over time.
In no way am I saying uBeam is legit, but there was a time when you had to buy a wireless adapter for each device you wanted to use with your Wi-Fi access point.
What do you guys think about Lightsail (http://lightsail.com/)? I'm not entirely sure how they can make an economical 500 KW CAES system, but I don't totally understand their tech.
Ha, our inner pun masters are in alignment.
Not by the officers.
There are entire classes of attack that 2FA protects against that you are completely screwed without. Some examples: You use a computer that has a key logger, or you get infected with a key logger, or a hardware key logger is installed inline with your keyboard cable. Someone shoulder surfs you while you log in. Someone points a video camera at your keyboard while you log in. Someone uses an RF vulnerability to wirelessly snoop the RF signals as you log in on a keyboard. You get phished (a good phishing page, not a pathetic one). You get tricked into entering your password into a popup dialog box that appears to be a "Log in with your Google account" dialog, but isn't.
Leave provocative statements as-is and censor succinct and appropriate responses? You should reconsider what effect that policy has given context.

Goodbye.

(Bug report: there appears to be no way to delete accounts.)
I wonder... Dogs are all the same speices, Canis lupus, yet some breeds are known to be highly trainable while others are not.

What else could this be other than genetics?

Dogs are mammals, aside from their proportions their bodies are nearly identical to ours.

Therefore, ought it not be possible to selectively breed for humans for traits such as trainability, calmness, and emotional stability? These are all traits some dogs have been selected for.
TLDR, our web pages are so bloated we want a new HTTP standard to deal with it.
Agreed. Zero tolerance (or 100% reliability) necessarily has infinite cost and/or takes infinite time. We need to be reasonable about our expectations for autonomous systems.

That said, what's the likely accident rate for a 95th percentile human, starting in a parked car, hitting another stationary vehicle parked directly in front of them? There must be a few "accidentally put it in drive instead of reverse" type incidents but I'd except it to be exceedingly rare.
Liberalism is a religion.
Not true, by a wide margin.

http://www.people-press.org/2014/04/02/americas-new-drug-pol...

As for three strikes, drug possession was one of the top offenses for which it is applied.

http://www.lao.ca.gov/2005/3_strikes/3_strikes_102005.htm

"Possession of controlled substances alone made up 12 percent of the state’s [CA] total three strikes population at the time — drug crimes in general accounted for 23 percent."

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/three-strikes-law-drug-addict...
The other depressing interpretation is that they're achieving less per dollar spent on R&D (becoming less efficient); they certainly seem to be achieving less per release of product now, so it would be consistent. Maybe there was a time when Apple got the most brilliant people wanting to work there because it was Apple; if that's no longer true, their efficiency would decrease.

(Arguably the same thing happened in K-12 education; when women were largely excluded from other professions, teaching positions were filled by the best women in the workforce; now, many of them would rather be doctors/engineers/lawyers/etc., so the quality of educators has decreased to the market level.)
Anyone know anything similar for Android?
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This is exactly the sort of thinking that leads to companies becoming irrelevant; almost nothing can move the needle for them, so they fail to see the next thing coming.

The initial theory of disruptive innovation from The Innovator's Dilemma is about this exact issue and how companies can deal with it.
I'd like to respectfully disagree. When done correctly, Google Voice can be as good as if not better than a traditional cell phone. I treat my email with more care than I treat my bank accounts. However, Google Voice is probably not as good as the app on your phone though.
There's a qualitative difference between allowing disabling of a safety feature (what I'm talking about) and adding additional ones (every example you just mentioned). In that light, do you have any response to my statement that it shouldn't be possible to disable safety features? Note that requiring the addition of other safety features is a separate issue.