skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, we have culture fair IQ tests. Raven's Progressive Matrices is entirely symbolic:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices.... very hard to see how it could be culturally biased, and if it is, why do Europeans do so poorly compared to Chinese and Japanese people?

So one hypothesis is that the test is unbiased and that Chinese & Japanese people have a higher IQ than Europeans?

Perhaps another hypothesis is that Kanji based languages with a high number of glyphs and characters gives a lifetime of practice to Chinese and Japanese people who are then more adept amd practised at specially rotating random or nonsense glyphs.

While the Ashkenazi Jews' IQ differences are interesting, your conclusions remain spurious and based on correlation & epidemiology.

One of the studies you cite for example examines a cohort of Jews who settles in Britain from Germany between 1908 and 1940. Wealth and connections could account for a massive "selection bias"

Additionally "high caste Indian" would also speak to other possible confounding variables.

For example: a very high socioeconomic status appears to be a common thread to all your examples which don't point to race as the dependent variable.

It's all interesting, but I'm not sure the interpretation you're presenting really stands up.
> I repeat, a competitively priced motorcycle would upend the market and make you a very very rich.

There are dozens of cheap chinese knockoff electric scooters available in Asia. Upend the market? Please.

> Imagine being able to charge your spare batteries using solar panels during the day and no longer paying for gas.

I don't have to imagine. Been there, done that, along with hundreds if not thousands of others. As I said before, you have no idea what it takes to go from a working prototype to a finished, mass produced shippable product. There's a reason only 2 companies have ever pulled it off and one of them went bankrupt. If you want a fun rabbit hole to dive down, google 'homologation' sometime.

I'm not saying somebody with access to billions in capital can't eventually break even and start making a profit, but we're talking a 10-20 year break even period. Longer, if you have to do what Tesla did and create an entire solar infrastructure in Asia and Africa.
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Embedding a wire in millions of miles of road seems way more complicated than this.
Islam exempts the young (and the elderly and the pregnant and the ill) from fasting during Ramadan. Do the kids at your elementary school fast due during Ramadan?
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This also seems like a fantastic addition to snow plows. They could even serve as a great testing platform--still human driven, but with tons of real world snowy road data. Fast forward a few years and autonomous snow plows will be really nice--an army of plows working through the night and even during the worst storms.
Also on Github: http://osrg.github.io/gobgp/
False. You don't charge people through the app.
> like many startups, when it launched in 1994, it didn’t really plan well for future requirements. Instead of an organized development environment, they had unknowingly created a jumbled mess.

Somehow this sums up many of the frustrations I've had working in software. I point out to people when they're making these kinds of decisions, and I call them on it when they romanticize it into an unhappy accident instead of a form of insidious, latent neglect.

I find it infinitely amusing when software developers become homeowners and complain about the exact same sorts of myopic shortcuts and idiotic decisions made by the former owners, without a hint of dissonance.
I've emphasized high-quality part for the reason.

I agree the majority of cases where Oracle is used in small business segment is pretty good fit for PostgreSQL, especially considering the fact many of consulting shops who specialize in Oracle are willing to provide commercial support for PostgreSQL as well.
So you spin up a Ubuntu instance on your Docker app and do all of you coding and such in there? As sort of a replacement for Vagrent? I may try this out if its overall been a positive experience over dealing with the weird installs the OP is talking about.
Or they leave.
> My point is that I believe the public interest is best served by a balance between "the public knows how this business was conducted" vs "any rival who wants my job can dig through everything I've done to find some dirt of me."

Was that ever a standard for exemption from FOIA? Much less the intent of anyone writing any part of FOIA? Stupidity should hurt.
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Sure but it would also make everything look inaccurate.
It looks like you can take this module for £1850. That's about the going rate and should pay for itself in increased productivity/earnings.
(My employer recently paid a similar fee for me to take a far less impressive msc module at a uk uni)
That would be good and humane way to reduce beef production and increase prices to reduce the demand but it would be costlier for government than setting up new tax.

Maybe we could do both? Tax the beef and use the money to enforce minimum quality of life for animals?

Even manufacturers could be not that upset because they could significantly increase price per unit.

Only group that would be angry could be beef consumers at least the ones that prefer quantity over quality and/or can't pay for quality.
Veteran of a similar affair. Well, two stacks, and once, an HTTP proxy.

You may be smarter than the average bear, but you have to deal with other people's um . . . questionable decisions (and bugs).

Customers won't care that the FuppedUckTron-9000 web server they bought on eBay is non-compliant and that its Content-Length needs to have special casing to work around some spectacular drain-bamage, they only care about their valuable business data ^H^H^H porn.

Stacks and proxies are usually thankless.
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Unless you like reading trip reports, then it was great. I wish he had described the problems with the police in more detail, though.
"Penis" is censored in article titles. When you submit an article with the word "penis" in it, it removes the word entirely.
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For years I've been wondering why Continental Portuguese sounds like an Eastern European language. Sometimes I overhear people speaking some Eastern European language and my first impression is that they are speaking Portuguese, but then I realize I can't understand what they're saying (I'm a native Portuguese speaker).

Being Brazilian, Continental Portuguese sounds awful to me. But then I've heard many Portuguese people saying that Brazilian Portuguese sounds awful to them :)
If you are not made of money, you can thoroughly read (from A to Z, it's not a cookbook!) PostgreSQL official documentation, it's awesome.
I think you have taken one too many derivatives. Income corresponds to the speedometer, and wealth to the odometer (or GPS coordinates).
Also credit goes to the human penchant for curiosity, an observation I'm suggesting because of recently watching the TNG episode, "Clues."
It's not just about requiring ID, it's about requiring ID when many poor people do not have a qualifying ID, and can't afford one. It deliberately reduces the number of people who can vote for non-GOP candidates. And in many cases the offices where people can go to get an ID are rarely open, which makes it hard for people with multiple jobs and no car to ever manage to get there when they are open.

http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/Demo...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
Good comment

> IBM people never complained that they felt like robots.

I think this is a mix of the cultural context of that era (where people dressed more formally) and the other items you mentioned, especially the dress code being part of their image

But then IBM got "old", other companies did other interesting things and stopped caring for formality and that's where we are today
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In addition, the police lost/damaged some evidence apparently, like the note written in German that was folded.
This reminds me of some open source angle on business: try to provide more value than you capture. I believe this to be a healthy attitude, hopefully more companies and entities can live up to this challenge.
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https://conemu.github.io/

http://mridgers.github.io/clink/
I don't see a reason, that's just a basics
Careful with that anti-bias bias.
This, a thousand times. Thank you.
>> My guess is the I2P gets more scrutiny from the US government, because it's much harder to break versus TOR

> How so? Is this what is alluded to by "onion vs garlic" routing design?

For one, it is a closed overlay network. There are no "exit nodes" (well, not unless someone explicitly setup a proxy to provide "exit" functionality). So everything that happens anywhere within I2P remains inside I2P.

So any attacks on TOR that require control of one or more exit nodes in the TOR network to function will not directly function against I2P (no exit nodes).

Now, that has no bearing upon whether there are other, different, exploits in I2P that would break its hidden aspects, but you can at least know you are immune when using I2P to any TOR exploit that requires exit nodes.
Many poor Americans simply don't have any ID cards. That support for requiring voter IDs in the U.S. is by the party which traditionally doesn't get much support from poor people, it certainly seems to be an attempt to prevent them from voting for other parties too, especially as there's virtually no serious voter fraud going on by people abusing a lack of ID checks.
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I love it! I just finished a blog post on cross compiling [0] which alluded to needing to have crt*.o and friends available. I was just considering exploring them in a follow up post, but I think this talk was even better and I could just point people to it.

My favorite quote from the video, paraphrased, is: "get locale is per thread, for looking up what decimal separator you'd need, so you can have a server with multiple threads where each thread has its own locale."

Also, it's neat seeing the write syscall from the interpretation of the '\n' char; years ago when using Emscripten, sometimes it seemed printf wasn't working. Turns out, our implementation of printf also buffered writes up to '\n' characters. IIRC, write was implemented with JavaScript's console.log.

[0] https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2016/07/01/android-cl...
It would be really cool to have an I2P transport in ZeroMQ, and could be quite simple as I2P's messaging maps directly to the datagram model ZeroMQ uses. Or vice-versa.
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Shameless plug, bug I wrote SQLBolt (http://sqlbolt.com) for the same reason, because there was a lack of good, simple interactive tutorials for SQL.
A child will have significantly less water mass.
That did cost him a ton of money though. From reading his explanation it sounds like it took somewhere around $250K to defend his brand.
I can see many potential problems arising if arxiv itself implements recommender systems or in some other way tries to be a gigantic journal or the primary social media for scientists or something alike. Tools that are strictly about making accessing the repository easier, like better word search, are fine.

I'd prefer if arxiv stays a repository, and the filtering and discussion and rating is left to other parties, for example, overlay journals such as Discrete Analysis (discreteanalysisjournal.com) [that ranked highly on HN when it launched]. Many separate journals can compete. The future of arxiv being as neutral as possible ground that disseminates papers freely on the internet (in standardized format and with maybe even the API you mentioned) and allows for a beneficial ecosystem of journals and other communities to develop, well, it sounds a more healthier future than arxiv trying to become the science community that encompasses everything from hosting of papers to discussion about them and judging their quality.

Assuming they adopt objective like that, I can easily imagine arxiv becoming a FB-of-science of sorts, and it might be very convenient ("I can just log in to Arxiv and everything will be there!") and maybe people would love it. (Everybody except lunatics and luddites and generally people who like to be inconvenient out of sheer malice to their fellow human beings are in FB, right? At least in my social circles. And that gives FB overwhelming ability to dictate terms for using FB, given that the ordinary user isn't their customer.) It could hand too much power to just one institution to define how the scientific community communicates.

Suppose they introduce comments. Sooner or later that would go the same way as any other internet community that has commenting and isn't 4chan, and they'd need actual comment moderation, maybe even ban people. If they are the major science-on-the-internet platform, that could be bit too much. I understand that currently they only do some basic sanity checks that submitted papers are not utter garbage?
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Thanks a lot for the feedback. I know that files can be deleted and from history as well. I figured if I left those files in, a reviewer could find them and keep it away from someone who didn't care enough to look. Thinking back to it, not the best idea, I guess.
How's the company was excessive? this is the only thing you can do really in this case.
She talked to her manager and was stricken down, then she decided to make a petition in order to bully her bosses?
She knew exactly what she was doing "oh I don't have much experience in the work force" ehm yeah I'm pretty sure everyone has at least limited understanding of how management works - it's not a democracy, you don't get want you want and you especially don't get it by forcing the hands of your employers.

So no not everyone involved here was a dick, there was a brat on one side that decided to effectively unionize the internets over shoes and a company that would not be able to function if a petition means that employees not to mention interns get whatever they want.

Day 1 - petition for shoes.
Day 3 - petition for bagels.
Day 7 - ????
And at least a second person with you!
The Insufficiencies of Language
Current versions of iOS do make it clear.

http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/02/ios-9-3-makes-it-abundantly-cl...
Your Brain Is on Autopilot More Than You Think
You forget the it's implicit in Amazon's service(at least in the early ears) that no major competitor will use their services out of care for data privacy, reliability, etc. So Amazon gets the best of both worlds:leading eCommerce and leading cloud(while
"hurting" other cloud platforms who might help competitors).

Such strategy could also work well for others - if Intel offers fab services but doesn't sell to pc/server competitors ?
This reminds me of Steve Yegge's rant about Amazon and Google. Talking about Accessibility and Platforms.

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
It depends very much on the products you offer. Necessities are much less sensitive to price raises than luxury goods when it comes to distance simply because not everybody is equally mobile.
I believe Netflix is trying to step away from the "flix" which implies movies to a lot of people. They are clearly going to be investing heavily in bespoke episodic type content.
Yeah, was sad to read Reddit when it happened.
Taking the US in isolation...[0]

Donald Trump's campaign is populist, not whatever-the-political-opposite-of-elite-is. He is tied for #121 on the Forbes 400, after all.[1]

I don't actually know enough about Brexit to tell what the hell is going on there (like a lot of people, apparently). I do know that some people[2a] are very unhappy that David Cameron called a referendum instead of going through parliament.[2b] See also populism. My feeling, however, is that the anti-immigration thingy has more to do with the UK's own inequality situation.

Individual income taxes have been hovering between 6% and 10% of GDP since WWII; overall taxes have been between 15% and 20% of GDP since WWII.[3]

Now, as far as power being the problem, to the extent of my knowledge there are no facts in politics. All I've got is that, historically, concentrating power into the hands of a small minority seems to be a poor idea; and that most of the modern "rich countries" are de facto pseudo-democracies, apparently in an effort to avoid having ultimate authority concentrated in a small minority. YMMV. Some shrinkage may occur. Not for internal use. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

[0] Unless someone's done gone and created a secret world government without copying me on the memo (Again, dammit!), rich countries' governmental structures should probably be treated in isolation. Particularly the US, which has remarkably little in common with "most rich countries".

[1] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/2/#version:static

[2a] https://next.ft.com/content/7877a0a6-3e11-11e6-9f2c-36b487eb...

[2b] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/02/graphic...

[3] http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/source-revenue-sha...
It’s a common error among English learners, particularly when it comes to nationalities. We would say “I am French” or “I am a French person”, but never “I am a French”.
Yes, we are talking about an anecdote from the book, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

?

Why would Feynman not have published a full(er) proof?
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Hi Emil, thanks for your interest. Yes it means 24x7, specifics really depend on which part of the system is in question, it's a mix of rotation + cascading. I'd say don't expect more than a few calls / month but also I'm not the best person to answer so best apply and ask during the 1st interview. :)
Not yet. There's few things matching its combination of speed and precision.

It's more believable that computer mice will get tech like Soli integrated to become smarter.
I guess you can distribute it through "unofficial" torrents.
They probably are. The Spanish healthcare system pays fairly well, but right now it's difficult to get in.

The NHS doesn't pay really well. Nurses brought from South Europe are getting offered between £23k and £25k, including for hospitals in London zone 1.

That makes me doubt that many nurses poached from Spain were actually employed.

Source: Someone close to me is a Spanish nurse working for the NHS :)
They have different filter lists and can both be further customized as well, so it's not surprising that they block different things.
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The AU governments' censorship of video games spans decades and no clear upside has emerged yet!

In addition to video games we also censor television, books, porn, the internet and music. Slippery, slippery slope... it's now illegal for doctors to talk about the facilities and treatment they observe working with attempted-illegal immigrants detained indefinitely by the AU government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia
> "Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired. Thank you; have a nice day!"

According to the original source, this is incorrect; Jeff Bezos never told people in this memo to have a nice day.
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P=deterministic algorithms in polynomial time

NP=non-deterministic algorithms in polynomial time

See, it is a definitionally trivial logical negation.

That's the joke!

Edit: Also, why cannot I report/flag your post? Your personal malignment is uncalled for.
What you read matters more than you might think
Not really related to the article.
I have to admit, i hate the hello world tradition. Its so unimaginative and boring.
And it could have been anything. Ironic.
"Must destroy humanity! But first.. must learn proper programming.."
Iconic.
"I thought therefore i was for 0.000125 ms"
Retro.
"The dungeon enters you from the north. It encounters a bug. The bug goes for critical hit."
Instead
"Hello World."
Just from a Imagination point of view that is poor.
I guess every single person on HN could come up with something better.
Start with these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Effects

http://rooseveltinstitute.org/stiglitz-why-inequality-matter...

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21640316-children-ric...

Also read "Twilight of the Elites" to learn about how inequality leads to greater "vertical social distance" and how the government now largely reflects the interests of those at the top (http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oli...)
You want to see true power from wealth we have a perfect example here in the UK, Rupert Murdoch.

He infiltrates every level of our life, so much so that when the wife of one of the PM candidates accidentally leaked an email she wrote to his team Murdoch was named specifically.

He isn't even that rich compared to the absolute richest but he owns a huge chunk of the media market here (Newspapers and Sky TV/Sky News) which allows him to set the agenda almost completely.

Between him and Dacre (editor of the Daily Mail - a truly terrible newspaper) they have effective control of the news media and it's agenda in this country and it's terrifying.

His company hacked the voice mail of a dead girl and he walked away from it essentially scott free.
The politics of anger
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I have some macabre curiosity about how those people interact with the system at all. How do they identify themselves? And what actually prevents a person that just happens to be in the US from claiming he is citizen and getting id?

As I said where I live you get your id at 14, before that you are registered on the id of your parents. And it is impossible to interact with anything in official way without that id.
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Because you should address the jealousy instead. You don't change because of somebody's jealousy. You don't study less because somebody else can't achieve the same results.

Jealousy is a problem with the individual, not a problem with society. They are jealous because of their own shortcomings, not because someone else is successful. They just channel their self loathing into hating the successful. You can't cure that by taking away money from the rich.
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Not sure.. CLRS is too dense for page-to-page reading. The more I was advancing through the book the more I was forgetting from the previous chapters... :)