skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't think athletes are the most intelligent, I think the stereotypes of dumb jocks is simply a type of bias. If you were an athlete with potential, you would put more focus on your sport instead of academics. If you were bad at sports you would typically spend less time doing them which would then allow you to focus your time on other things like academia. In America, when all you need to do to get As in like highschool is to put effort, the ones who weren't great in sports tend to get higher grades which is perceived as having a higher intelligence. Thinking that athleticism is negatively correlated to intelligence is just ignorant.
How we handle takedown requests in Switzerland
Also don't forget the fresh water pipes in your home are owned by Cleanly.io and leased to you, meaning you can no longer receive water until some other company acquires the remnants of Cleanly.io during their decade long bankruptcy proceedings.

The sad thing this, that is not even really satire - ISPs own the fiber in office and multi-resident buildings all the time, and their use is only available to others by lease contracts.
I think he's not talking about intelligence, but about muscle control which kind of makes sense..
Man who claims he invented iPhone in 1992 sues Apple for $10bn
I'm not dismissing the users, I'm just saying that nobody owes you a bug-fix. If they prioritize your bug, that's great, but if they don't - either submit a pull request or live with it. The knowledge developers put towards their free hobby-projects is hard-earned and shouldn't be treated like public property.
The site presenting it has issues but the library itself seems pretty decent. Keep it up man.
I'm a German wearing Spanish shoes and I had Arabic lunch and I can clearly see how this is HN relevant (hint: recursion).
Russian hackers may have found a crack in Denuvo’s (videogame DRM) defences
I bought a Clevo gaming laptop for bioinformatics work and occasional gaming. It houses a 4 core (8 multithreaded) CPU for which I am able to lock in clock rate at around 3.5GHz without hitting the 100C ceiling when utilizing 100% of all the cores, with stock fans. It also has 32Gb of memory, three internal SSDs, a CUDA capable GPU, and the total cost was under 1600$ (~2 years ago).

But that's peanuts compared to this: It boots CentOS with SElinux enabled and runs my steam games with a FPS comparable to what I had on MS windows.
No such thing. Every misguided thought deserves a rebuttal. Just admit you're too lazy to do it. That's fine.
Ask HN: Engineers, how do you share code with your virtual machines?
My team and I are all frustrated by the current state of things: when you develop your code inside a virtual machine, all code sharing mechanisms seem to suck.

What do you currently use?
WHAT DID YOU SAY? SPEAK UP!
Perhaps you are actually thinking in concepts, and in order to help organise and 'sequentialise' those thoughts, you translate them to words in your head at the same time. Therefore, you 'hear' the words, but don't notice the concepts.
funny

> I am not super-intelligent, I have ADD, and generally consider myself to be lazy and distraction-prone.

I'd say that about myself

> However, for some reasons unknown, I have excellent working memory, which allows me to perform feats. Multi-choice exams? Can prepare for anything in few hours. Learn Scala (and another 5-6 programming languages) in a few months? Easy! I don't use password managers, as I remember all my long passwords. And credit card numbers. And phone numbers. This multiplies my intelligence quite significantly.

And I'd say I'm the opposite here. My memory is terrible. Sure, I can study short term for a subject, but it goes away pretty quickly. And I have to study. If I want to "just remember" something in day-to-day life, I have to write it down and reference it later, or I'll forget.
That's called depression.
If a terrorist organization wants secure communications, they will find a way to get them, whether by an app with encryption by default like Telegram or something they make in-house. You can't stop or prevent that unless you intend to do so for everybody on Earth.

It has nothing to do with being Muslim.
I found the writing beautiful. I enjoyed the essay very much, including the sentence you quote.
Good idea, I've had good luck in the past with asking management "what does it look like if I improve?" then you implement suggestions that they give you. Management types love this :)
Business as usual.

The false statements are saying that "business as usual" is something else.

If BaU isn't something else then the statement isn't false and there is nothing to find (the paperwork will match the statements made).
Who has a value system where it's OK to lie and cheat on a person you entered into vows with? Regardless, it's not relevant what yours or my values are anyway on this. It's the person who is being cheated on that matters who obliviously doesn't have the same value system as the cheater so the behavior can only be seen as 'bad".
But they had a chance (and didn't) to bring that all in house with the Motorola buy, no?
What on earth would the government do with a stake in a privately held company? Buy and hold investment? How would they use the voting power?
How APIs Make or Break Success in the Digital World [Infographic]
> a conservative approach is reasonable

Many people argue that Bitcoin was designed with headroom in mind, and pays out handsome block rewards in exchange for subsidized bandwidth, so the "conservative approach" would not be to run headlong into the block size limit.
This reminds me of https://www.battlecode.org/ by MIT.

Both are AI games where you code your own player class, but MIT competition is PVP(player-versus-player) whereas in this one you play alone.
I created open source webservice which serves data in json format:
http://getjson.info

Hope you will find it useful
This is your regular reminder that it is dangerous that Google has a near monopoly providing free services like calendars and email.
I don't have the slightest idea if they pay dividends. I own Google shares indirectly via ownership of index funds.
>HN tends to downvote any political comments

This is, by far, the most political site I go to. The top comments are often politicized and the top stories are typical social media "outrage" stories.

I think you're painting a picture of HN that really doesn't exist, but did probably long ago. HN now suffers from the 'eternal September' many popular forums do. Techy forum participants are often high school and college students with far left anti-US views common in youth. Its no surprise that these viewpoints are the dominant narrative here.

I imagine there are people who downvote all politics, but they are clearly a minority here. The downvote button is just a agree/disagree button in practice and shows an obvious political bias.
always some drama in bitcoin land

its almost kind of weird how my transactions get mined immediately in the next block as if there was absolutely nothing different going on
Athletes aren't exactly a random sample. They are people who have self-selected to spend time on athletics.

I also don't think the stereotype is accurate. We tend to confuse interest in pursuits that are perceived as intellectual with actual intelligence.
A shame, definitely. It's unbelievable really. We've known how to properly hash and store passwords for years, the information is readily available, yet these big name companies still have these poor practices in place.
This may be the most futuristic thing I've seen. Thanks for the link.
At least in Verizon's case, they're able to keep that pricing structure because they have the best network. They're able to keep the blazing fast speeds because nobody can afford to use the network they built.
Is Semaphor focused on group chat (Slack) or are there plans to support private communications (text, audio, video) like Wire? Unlike Signal, Wire allows registration with only an email address (via http://app.wire.com) and does not force you to upload your contacts to their server.

Article: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/go-ahead-make-some-f...

Security: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2756350-Wire-Securit...

Code: https://github.com/wireapp/wire
Time Inc. CEO hadn't visited MySpace before buying company
Shouldn't blame the companies for lobbying and creating the tax laws either -- they're just acting rationally!

Maybe we can blame people for behaving unethically instead of believing this shlock?
SURVEY: “Ethereum Is Doomed” or “Ethereum Is the Forefront”?
I would be extremely sceptical about this startup.

"He also has never written a line of code, and has said he doesn't have time, but has said that he knows how to manage developers.

He wants to outsource all development to India.

He claims the product is "already designed", just step 2 is developing it."

This is to me highlights the fact he doesn't really understand how software products are developed.
Aside from that, the article is full of plenty of dubious claims. For example,

> In order to [generate novel ideas], you need both right and left hemispheres working in conjunction with each other.

The simplistic idea of the hemispheres being different types of thinking, or that originality requires them "working together", is not supported.

In fact very interesting things happen when the two hemispheres are separated, but it isn't something to do with the topic of the article.

> Efficiency is not your friend when it comes to cognitive growth. In order to keep your brain making new connections and keeping them active, you need to keep moving on to another challenging activity

Of course efficiency is not your friend if your goal is apparent growth and increased activity in the brain. But that's not the goal. The goal is to be effective. An effective brain is using less resources because it needs less. A chess master can consider fewer moves than a novice, for example.

Unless we had evidence that any brain growth is good for general intelligence in some way. We don't. Taxi drivers have growth in areas responsible for mapping and spatial location, for example, but no evidence suggests that makes them better at anything else.

In any case, the advice provided is badly justified, but still valid. The 5 principles are just common sense - which is why the author can find people like Einstein suggesting them many decades ago.
I've had discussions with several wealthy upper class Americans (who should know better) that are totally brainwashed into believing being poor white trash, pro gun, pro gay marriage or pro abortion is synonymous with being pure evil.

The ability to fail to understand the difference between a group and it's most visible members is one that is common across ethnic and economic subsets of the population.
Hi, a Github repository can be an "original contribution of major significance in the field." The adjudicator would want to see (1) your original work, explained in plain English, and (2) the work that others have created, based on your original work.

In this situation you're not necessarily proving popularity, but the influence of your work on the major creations of others.
NRA complaint takes down Surge's 38,000 websites
I think it's important to note that it's unclear that Bitcoin Core will ever allow for a block size increase to occur: several influential Core developers have publicly stated that that are still very much opposed to any increase, and the team uses a consensus process that makes it easy to veto change.
The Hitchhikers Guide to GitHub: 13 Java Projects You Should Try
Not far away from printers, which may refuse to print on an unauthorized cartridge.
A major difference is that most AM users were in committed relationships and were attempting to cheat on their SO without their consent or knowledge, and the entire idea of the site was based around this. (I say "attempting to" because one of the more amusing tidbits from that leak was the fact that the site was pretty much useless.) They're hurting other people, not just themselves, not only emotionally but potentially physically due to the risk of STDs and such.

There's no such thing here. I'm sure there are some cheaters using this site, but I doubt it's the majority, and it doesn't appear to be the whole point of the site. Most people there were harming nobody.

I see a big difference between adultery, which is a broad category including many victimless behaviors, and cheating, which is a much narrow category where someone is necessarily being hurt. Attitudes toward adultery are very cultural, but I have no problem lumping cheating in with emotional abuse and physical harms as something which is objectively bad.
To use The Deck a business would have to knowingly generate less revenue in exchange for user privacy. I don't see many companies doing this.
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> HN tends to downvote any political comments, especially comments that turn the discussion more political, even in a story that already tangentially touches on politics

That's... really not true. Case-in-point: look at any frontpage post that talks about health insurance, wage floors, guaranteed minimum income, etc. There's a clearly dominant opinion, and left-leaning opinions tend to be the most frequently-posted (as well as the most frequently upvoted). This is ignoring tech-politics (ie, net neutrality, digital privacy).

People do use the downvote as a signal of disagreement (which is a problem[0], because it just polarizes discussions even more by driving away constructive, dissenting opinions[1]). But the people who downvote any political sentiment don't outweigh the rest, as evidenced by the end results.

[0] To pre-empt the perennial debate on whether downvoting purely for disagreement is bad, here are dang's thoughts on the matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606517

[1] There are topics on which I have a lot of domain knowledge relative to the typical HN commenter. I used to be more proactive with sharing this information in HN comments when relevant, but I only do this a small fraction of the time compared to a few years ago[2]. There's nothing more discouraging than writing a 500-word comment with multiple footnotes and external citations to primary sources and peer-reviewed articles, only to be downvoted for expressing a contrary opinion, or even simply a more nuanced version of the dominant one.

[2] I won't say whether it's gotten better or worse, but I've certainly learned from those experiences over time, and from my observations, so have other users.
Introducing (Nearly) Unlimited Private Repositories
Do note there were multiple threads made on the same topic, and even within the individual ones, the responses vary over time (perhaps some of us didn't have our morning coffee yet).

I remember reading a lot over the people impacted adversely from the hack - who were not just failed adulterous men.
For the same reasons they teach everyone history, math, languages, and the arts -- you should know on whose shoulders you stand.
Unfortunately, law can still be complex in what seems like a simple situation. Statutes aren't exactly written with strongly-typed languages or run against integration tests before being passed. Laws are often vague and difficult to precisely interpret, and they usually have unintended consequences. This is true regardless of the complexity of the situation to which the law is applied.
One company says it can spot insider threats by reading all your workers’ email
There is nothing cut and dry:
is the person in the crowd stoning a woman to a slow and painful death virtuous behind the cultural curtain ?
Or part of a religious exploitation? Or part of a political exploitation ?
I'm gonna guess that, like KitKat, Nutella is trademarked, so there were, perhaps, some agreements to put in place first?
Yes, certainly.
Yes. And he claims he is the "founder", and he honestly still hasn't been able to tell me what it is he will be doing while I'll be working my ass off writing code for this thing.

Keep in mind this isn't yet a real company. Just a google drive with documents.
In the exact same way that mathematical notation expands cognition of math. By giving us a way to agree on and define ideas in a way that allows us to discuss, think about, and develop further, related ideas. As we grow, we construct a massive scaffold of ideas built on other ideas.

Some of the accounts of Pirahã subjects are really interesting: IIRC when shown two groups of (for example) 4 and 7 objects and asked to describe the difference between them, some people didn't care to answer or said they were the same. Others were puzzled; they could tell there was a difference, but couldn't articulate what it was. And you need to be able to articulate/describe that difference before you can go on to trigonometry.
Yes, those absurd tax environments are in no way created by companies and their money. Not at all.
What have you tried already? Do you have examples of mechanisms that suck? It would also help to learn which operating system(s) are involved.
That seems a bit like saying a CAD file describing a roller coaster is the roller coaster.

We have a model of our perception of the universe
Rsync or lsyncd
The phrase "maximize potential" reeks of corporate performance, not personal growth. At least to me it does.
It's also a shame they designed their own protocol instead of just using ACME[1], which is a standards-track IETF draft which has received significant security scrutiny. By ignoring ACME, they even managed to replicate my duplicate signature key selection vulnerability that was fixed in ACME nearly a year ago!

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/acme/charter/
Buddhism has the concept of "Right Speech". There are various takes on it over the millenia, but it might be a good starting point.
> You are not a leftwing nutjob just because you want companies to pay taxes for the money they earn in your country. A free market relies on a level playingfield and when multinationals can exploit loopsholes in this manner it distorts the competition.

How would you decide what money they earn in your country? It's a tricky question for multinationals.
There would not be fewer blocks, the creation of blocks is fixed to approximately one every ten minutes.
It's very easy to look at Alphabet's financials and see that there are no preferred or common shareholder dividends. Since you haven't done that, I presume you are genuinely curious.

There are probably a lot of reasons that people invest in corporations that don't pay a dividend. The "most obvious" is that you believe the company is growing. The organization will reinvest in itself -- instead of paying you a dividend -- and increase share price to a degree greater than you would have gotten with a quarterly dividend.
Rust still isn't around, so to speak.
"bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" Oh the sweet sound of lightning that only Joyce could've understood. Finnegans Wake's concept is great in terms of challenging language and structure, but the unfinished result is a disaster. If anyone dedicates time to analyze FW, then they misspent years trying to understand gibberish.
Yes, he meant to write 'centralization'
Law enforcement has specific tools that do precisely this. Google "USB mouse jigglers" for more info.

They also have gear that can splice into the power cord of a live machine without interrupting the flow-- the combination of these two devices allows them to seize unlocked computers and keep them accessible while taking custody of the machine.
There's an xkcd for that! http://xkcd.com/955/
Don't bother answering all these questions. Get rid of this guy. He's toxic and has no idea what he's doing.
I sync my Google calendar to my devices, so if it goes belly up, I can open a new account somewhere else and start using that with little issue.

I do think it's a bad idea to rely 100% on something business critical hosted by someone else, without having your own backup somewhere. Hosted services go down eventually. That doesn't mean we can't use them, just be aware of their limitations.
Designing Enterprise Technology with a Human Focus
Though of course (without passing a value judgment on such policies) minimum wages set an artificial lower bound on the cost of human labor here, and this kind of low-skill work is inexpensive enough that hitting that bound is likely (vs., say, automating legal work), especially as minimum wages rise. For some industries getting to the point that near-100% automation is cheaper than $15/hour for humans is totally plausible to me.
My printer refused to print on an authorized cartridge the other day. I say print but what I really mean is jam.
You keep saying "we", you mean "you". Not everyone thinks that way.
> Companies like Google not having to pay tax on revenues outside the US is essentially a government subsidy. One that creates a "slush fund" for US companies to acquire their European competition. We're essentially in a trade war, just that Europe hasn't realized it.

Except that "US companies" incorporated in Ireland aren't US companies. Can't European companies also incorporate in Ireland?
Don't be evil
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That was not included as a constraint.

That said, I do have a kid, and while he definitely represents a huge draw on my time and attention, I still manage to make and maintain technical connections outside of work.

Depending on circumstances, "we have kids of a similar age and both work in tech" is an easy instant connection.
To some degree, but if somebody wants to learn about AI in 2016, they probably want to learn current techniques like deep learning. Simple rule based systems like this seems to support aren't going to be very useful to other problems.
Blaming is of limited use. What we need is a solution to make things better. Something like a global tax office to deal with global companies might do it.
> my phone caches my calendars

The word you're looking for is "synchronizes". This has existed for decades, now.
What's he notable for?

This guy's writing reminds me of Bill Cipher uncomfortably.
I don't think that's true in the general case, maybe in your experience. Someone needs to cook, clean, do laundry, do dishes, take care of babies, etc, and this tends to fall more heavily on women (don't have studies offhand, but this has been researched).

Not to mention that taking care of babies, in some senses, has to be done by women, as men can't breastfeed. (I'm of course only talking about breastfeeding, but it is a significant amount of work that only a woman can do, unless you prefer to feed your baby from bottles, but this has been proven to be less healthy and therefore less preferred for the baby).
Google My Activity Shows Everything That Company Knows About Its Users
Or you can punish yourself [1], ala Pavlok dog [2]

[1] http://pavlok.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning
The inside scoop on Nervana’s Winograd kernels
I can't believe that they not only decided not to implement ACME (the protocol behind Let's Encrypt), but also not to at least reuse large portions of ACME, like the way HTTP ownership validation was implemented. It's simply mind-boggling how they would discard a protocol that has received a lot of attention from various security experts. What's more, this design could not have been reviewed by anyone familiar with how the web works - allowing users to chose the path for HTTP domain validation is so incredibly dangerous ... sigh.

If you're curious if there are any rules for CAs that describe how domain validation must be performed, the current Baseline Requirements can be summarized with "do something that's safe" on that topic. A working group within the CA/B Forum[1] is currently working on revising the document and adding explicit rules declaring which methods are permitted. I believe [2] is the latest draft.

[1]: https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/validation

[2]: https://github.com/cabforum/documents/pull/25/files?short_pa...