skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know how to measure the potential of an individual.

We are pretty sure that learning & hard work is important for everyone, no matter how genius.

We suspect that focusing on innate aptitude encourages laziness and/or learned helplessness.

And of course, lastly, you can't change it.

It just doesn't seem that productive to worry about how genetically gifted you are, one way or the other. Potentially even detrimental.
Interesting read, but I have one major qualm about this.

There seems to be a confirmatory bias among the academic community that a measure of intellectual success can be found in the percentage of individuals who earn a PhD. Sure, it's true that you need to be reasonably smart to earn a PhD, but I think that someone can have a lot of intellectual success (potentially just as much or maybe more) if they don't earn a PhD.

I think you could even argue that, depending on the field of study, a PhD is the "easy" route for someone who is intellectually gifted - it's a simply a continuation of what you have been doing. I would be more impressed by the intellectual who not only realizes that they can conduct their own independent research, but also has the creativity to come up with a use case that can improve and contribute to the world (and presumably, make a living doing so).

My point here is that, given two gifted cohorts, one which has a 45% PhD graduation rate and one which has a 50% PhD graduation rate, I don't know that you can conclusively say that one is more gifted than the other without looking at other metrics associated with intellectual accomplishment.
Yeah, that's a pretty horrible price. Usually at least one of the local pharmacy or gas stations will be running a special on coke along the lines of 3x 12pk for $12 or so.

Even at full retail a 12er is usually something like $6.99
Non-native speaker here, I would probably express my condolence in the same way ("I'm sorry for your loss"). What is so wrong with these words that they deserve WTF?
I would say it is this, combined with first-hand knowledge of what getting a "little" help at the right time can really do.
I love that the American solution is not to try to bring the municipal water up to standard but to spend 10x-100x on bottled water.
I go out of my way to buy DRM-free. I buy on Humble/GOG over Steam (and often filter games my DRM-free), I prefer bandcamp and buying real physical CDs at bars.

eBooks are problematic because finding DRM-free stores for current titles is near impossible and I hate that my notes and the book are tied to a B&N/Google/Amazon account unless I use tools to extract them (books + notes). I'm essentially paying near the same price as a used copy of the physical book, but I'm renting the book. If Amazon of Google ever give up their books service in a prolific blaze of fire, customers lose all those purchases.
Do they not have special classes to teach people Chinese? Like how in English speaking countries, there are normally resources to help people learn English.
Since it wasn't explained in the article, I went looking for what rules the British used to capture so much money from the 3g spectrum, and found this on Wikipedia:

> The auction was conducted in a simultaneous ascending auction, similar to the US format with a slight deviation. In the UK's version of the simultaneous individual auction, each high bidder is only allowed to win one of the five auctions whereas in the US, many regions have multiple licences which multiple bidders can win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_auction#United_Kingdo...
One section I found especially interesting:

> At the most basic level, for instance, districts with an even number of delegates, say 4, are far less favorable terrain, as she and Bernie Sanders were likely split them 2-2 unless one of them achieved 75 percent of the vote.

> That so-called “flippability score” was then layered atop which media markets covered which seats. If a media market touched multiple districts with high “flippability” scores, it shot up the rankings. Then the algorithm took in pricing information, and what television programs it predicted the most “flippable” voters would be watching, to determine what to buy.
Background: I work on products that are less than 3 years old.

Deployments are the #1 cause of outages. We don't write up fancy postmortems for the vast majority of these outages, because it's things like "We forgot to ship the config files before pushing new code, guess we should automate that now" or "We automatically pushed the config files before code and the code wasn't backward-compatible, guess we should code review for that now." They're easy fixes, the downtime is almost always small, and it's relatively easy to fix in production.

The main cause of multi-day, turns-you-hair-grey outages are cascading failures that start with a deployment. My worst one was a migration that happened at the same time as a bad IOPS day on EBS where we also ran out of disk space because we weren't rotating logs properly. That took some 18 straight hours to clean up, which sucked.

If you ask my customers, AWS issues are the main cause of outages. But really, deployments are the thing that cause the most loss. It's just that most people never catch that downtime because it's an extra 5, 10, 20 minutes of slowness or a maintenance page during off-peak hours.
Inside Eve: Online's Propaganda Machine – From Photoshop to DDoS
And on systems where head was not present (seen some earlier), but sed was, you could do:

sed nq file

where n is some positive integer, to print the first n lines of the file.

Also, body (the complement of head and tail :)

# body

sed -n $1,$2p $3
Interesting piece from one of the studies referred to by article:
"...many individuals who completed their degrees in non-math-science areas ultimately chose math-science occupations, and vice versa. Among mathematically talented populations,the leaking pipeline is not an appropriate metaphor. Upon reflection, this fluidity is not surprising for mathematically precocious females. In samples of males and females selected for mathematical talent, females display higher levels of verbal ability than males, and also more uniform levels of mathematical and verbal ability. Thus, mathematically precocious females more often than mathematically talented males are endowed with talents that enable them to excel with distinction in domains that require highly developed verbal-linguistic skills (these skills and the flexibility they lend could perhaps propel these individuals in varied directions, in part because verbal-linguistic skills tend to co-occur with social, or organic, interests and values)."
Yeah, but they can't close the Google Web Store account of someone who develops an ad-blocker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

They're both subjects of thought therefore they are both equally meaningful to think about. false
It can go around walls. I did not notice the concept to specifically mention prison yard drops.
Hi! I'm one of the co-founders of DigitalOcean. Our plan is to open the Hatch program up to bootstrapped startups around the world.

We've launched the Hatch program in beta to pilot the program to a small group of startups over the next month. While in beta, we're going to be working to refine the offering and eligibility criteria for bootstrapped startups to apply.

For now, we've included a call to action on the Hatch landing page for those bootstrapped startups who are interested in joining the Hatch program once we open it up to a larger group of startups.
No, it really isn't. If you have professionals on your team, they will be able to work together.

And once again, most places are using "culture fit" as a way to say, "Not like me", and using it to enable discriminatory hiring practices.
Should someone be allowed to sneak into a company's building, or pretend to be an honest employee, just to investigate potential wrongdoing? That's the government's job, not private activists'.

If someone wants to walk into your private property and research your operations, you should have the right to tell them to beat feet. If there is a legitimate public interest then the government should create an inspection scheme; there probably should be one but that's a separate debate. But allowing guerilla espionage by activist groups is not an acceptable alternative.
Inside the Fantastical Workshop of Inventor Michael Dubno
People also underestimate the market for baby name resources. It's true in the US as well, something I didn't realize until I had my own child. Add to that additional uncertainty about a different culture and language, and it probably amplifies the market appeal.
>this serial philanthropist spent around £3 million to get the vehicle designed, prototyped and much of the way to production. Another similar amount, its creators reckon, would finish developing the OX, and build the factory.

Sounds like a Kickstarter is in order.
I met someone like this once, he could also tell you the phase of the moon on the day you were born as well as all the celebrities born that day. It was pretty striking.
Funnily enough, Facebook is one of the sites where I've seen these non-technical users have to use the dev tools to make the site usable again!

I think it was a login prompt overlay shown on business profile pages. These users didn't want to log in to Facebook, yet needed to view the business' Facebook page. The overlay would cover a significant portion of the page, without any good way to get rid of it. So the users would use the dev tools to clean up the page, essentially, even if they didn't really know what they were doing.
True, and electrostatic discharge from your finger is no joke - it can be tens of kilovolts and carries significant, if not huge, energy. However, a discharge like that going right into a very small device, and the actual die of the transistor is tiny, is very different from interference/EMP damaging said device, where the small size actually offers protection. After all, a completed transistorized device from the 1950s is not vulnerable to static discharge - otherwise, you couldn't pick it up. With everything connected to ground where it should be, it is quite robust.
"Now I am not a genius, but.."

You know, I think you might be a genius dude.
Schedule I is for substances with a high potential for abuse and no medical benefit.

Even if we might disagree about the former, it's obvious that both MDMA and Kratom have incredible medical benefits.
> ways I've changed how I think about debugging:

> bug is happening for a logical reason. there's no magic

> be confident I can fix it

> talk to someone

Those are good steps. IMO "talk to someone" is a critical step but you'll get wildly different results based on the quality of your reference resource. Ms Evans likely has access to someone (or is someone) who clearly knows their stuff. eBPF and other debugging features enabled by modern kernels are not well known by many developers.

But "be confident I can [diagnose] it" is a great first step and if you're persistent you will find the help you need. Sometimes it may take plumbing the depths of SO or IRC to find that help, but it's out there.
My martial arts teacher told me a relevant proverb: people are like vessels, some larger than others, and the vessel with less capacity can still hold more water.
http://myapokalips.com/show/23
How left wing is Facebook?
Besides introducing systematic risk, the sale of this software by Goldman smells fishy. Despite the Blankfein quote about maybe selling for $5 billion back in the day, if the software is what they purport it to be, wouldn't selling it be akin to Amazon licensing their product distribution to Walmart?

I've wondered what these million dollar per month programmers do on Wall Street. This really puts it in perspective.

On that note, it's completely depressing to see many of the best minds of our time working on shit software that adds nothing to society. Another swath of them are working on getting people to click on ads for Facebook and Google.
In what ways specifically, from a bottom-line point of view at a software company, is an executive different from a programmer that justifies the executive asking for a more pleasant work environment, but not the developer?
Well to be fair, I think many people consider the snacks (soda, popcorn, candy) to be part of the movie going experience so it's hard to resist the urge to splurge. You're not wrong but there is a lot of years of marketing and persuasion behind "lets all go to the lobby..."
I cannot give this comment enough points so that is the top one.

But this is actually the single concern I have: conservative VC. It is sooo bad, you guys in US cannot even imagine.

If, let's say, 5-6 years ago you could get away with a broken demo and a nice paper describing the idea , plus a business plan, now unless you are having 3-4 customers and everything already works they don't even look at you. And don't get me started on the accelerators. Biggest BS ever.

All in all, above even connections, money matters. You can build your stuff in 50 languages, perform 1000s of studies how to market, etc, if you have the capital for this. This should not be expensive, but this is the stuff you need _before_ you can expand or even reach a customer. But at this stage, you are left on your own, or give away a big chunk of shares for some little change from an accelerator.
Pico 8 is based on Lua, so a relatively powerful CPU and lots of RAM are needed to run it.
"there's no good reason to buy bottled water if your water supply is reasonable"

You pretty much explained why many of us drink bottled water, since our supply is not reasonable. :)
If you keep reducing, I think you end up a Tegmark's mathematical universe.
I was hoping for an in-depth discussion of Global Climate change, and instead this is a long-winded blog post about what appears to be a failed recipe app.

How disappointing.
> Now, I'm not a genius, but there's a huge difference between my aptitude towards anything and the average person.

anything - I bet you just don't know how little aptitude you have at things you didn't happen to spend time with.

> It took me longer to graduate at that point, but it was mostly because I was expected to do work and I never did before.

Or - you're not that smart and good with excuses :)

> I was reading calculus textbooks when I was 10 years old. I struggled with it, but it was fun.

Reading is not understanding - maybe you just enjoyed the attention that you got from it.

> Then I'd read some physics instead because I felt like it.

Alright - very impressive!

> But not all talented people are focused.

This contextually implies you consider yourself talented - well, quite possible you are just pretty untalented at self reflection.
For different (historical ww2 reasons) I don't like the name and I wish ss had a more meaningful name ...
Latvia’s finance minister beats world chess champion
Highlight videos of before & after user tests.
Most aircraft make their initial flights without their first avionics suite (including radar and weapons control systems). Since the MiG-25 was introduced into service in 1970, and the radar it used was a development of another first used on an aircraft that entered service in 1964, I would hazard to guess that the Foxbat's radar wasn't delivered until 1965-1969.
I probably had a gifted kid but never had enough bandwidth to lead him, comparing to his siblings he just memorizes so well(e.g, mechanically memorized PI to 600+ digits in two days until I asked him to stop), doing high-school-level math at 4th grade, learn many things by himself and so on. Meanwhile he is bored, hard to make peer friends due to lack of shared interests, etc.

Everyday I have to work and care for other kids, I tried to home-school him but then you get the financial pressure quickly.

I wish there are some programs that can help kids like him, i.e. group them somewhere to study and learn from each other. We have quite some program taking care of the disadvantaged kids, what about the gifted ones? After all, they can potentially contribute to the society in some way that helps many others. We probably need a state-level or federal-level or even college-sponsored program for those really gifted kids.

No I'm not talking about the gifted class in the school district, those helps, but far from enough for those really gifted, you probably only have about 5 who are really gifted in each school district.
The transcript is very nice thank you for putting it together. You are right though, I hate the bold face. Luckily a quick trip to the developer tools took care of it. A better way to index large bodies of free form text is a topic index that points to the correct areas of the text for phrases and topics. These are sometimes known as concordances. That way the reader can decide what is important to them rather than letting you decide.
Some people like to be the first to try out and talk about upcoming new features and messups.
I've not went and read any of the actual studies, only the article, but it seems that they start measuring kids around the age of 10 onwards, is this not too late?

One of the themes seems to be that certain measurements of ability at this age were accurate indicators of future success if the kids were not discouraged (ie allowed to push themselves and learn more advanced stuff). But by age 10 surely most kids have already been discouraged? I was reading another article earlier today that I can't find talking about pre-school being more important for life chances than high school. Could it be far more kids than we think are capable of being 'geniuses' and that the majority are discouraged at an early age? I'm not read up on this so if anyone is please share!
Google Drive for random things

S3 for photos
In the UK tap water is free anywhere they serve alcohol, so yup.
The cutesy/manic writing style is a little jarring, but it seems like a lot of effort was put in to making a useful resource. Worth taking a peak at, don't let the style scare you off.
Bitbucket Cloud: 5M developers and 900,000 teams
Phoenix Todos – Static Assets
BitBabbler had one, too. Engineer said it was the simplest, cheapest, "dumb" product they could find for USB in that form factor or packaging. So, that problem is apparently going around. It might help if someone in open-source hardware would make one with similar attributes. It will cost money because ASIC's ain't cheap.
I have a friend who has an approach I like. He buys the Blu-Ray from Amazon, usually used if possible, then immediately goes and pirates it on to his home media server. When the disc arrives, he tosses it in a box that sits in the corner and never touches it again.

This way he made a legal purchase and exchanged money, but still gets a DRM-free high quality copy to move around to his various devices.
Are You Ready for a Data Breach?
Let them eat cake!

(With all the leftover sugar)
remove the ads and the sharing of revenue from ads.
"Desire paths". Also a form of least-cost, satisficing, problem solving / solution phenomena.
The Spanish siesta is a break in the middle of the day because of the high heat. Spanish workers are the ones who, in average, work the longest hours in Europe (38 hours/week) after the Greek (42 h/w) and the Portuguese (39.3 h/w). Please stop the prejudice.
People underestimate the energies produced by nuclear EMP. Car magnetos were dying in the trials, power lines and telegraph wires were getting shot through. Your nice tube amp would have no chance.
There are a lot of people for whom "math" means just the algorithmic computation drudgery they teach you to vomit out on exams by pouring it down a funnel into you in an ordinary American high school or UK A-levels math course. Doing a similar (or even the same) calculation a bunch of times to get the same result is, in short, boring, no matter how you dress it up.

If prior to college everyone learned how to visualize math and some of the cool things you can do with, say, something as fundamental yet "advanced" as the FFT (the "why" to go along with the mechanics of the thing) I think the story would be different.
chmaynard decided to retract what they had said earlier.
>So instead of engaging or debating with the ideas presented

The only real idea presented is that middle class people don't really have hobbies like they used to, and that maybe they should. I engaged that by saying it's unrealistic to make this blanket statement when people are struggling so much just to provide security and comfort for their families.

I am saying the principle of her article is poor completely independent of who she is as a person. I also mention that she lacks the perspective to genuinely make this argument because it's frankly pretty ignorant sounding.

>where ideas no longer are relevant without the context of the person delivering the idea

If dumb ideas are presented, it's worth analyzing why they were presented to begin with. Considering the person behind a piece of writing or speech is tremendously important. It's why we have inane quotes from famous people on posters. People care about context and always have.
Point taken, and I'm not trying to pick apart your post with pedantry, just curious how the numbers come out. 2% gives you 600K/year. If you go with the retirement fund concept of spending "only" 4%/year, that's 1.2M/year. I don't know how you're defining "upper middle-class", but I'll bet most would define it much lower than that.

Finally, a money market fund at 0.5% has an annual yield pretty close to what I make working 40 hours/week. And in my opinion, we live pretty well on what I make in an expensive city like Seattle.

All that, of course, assumes that one does not lapse into lottery winner syndrome because one doesn't have a concept of how much money $30 million is, therefore views it as a bottomless pit of cash, and blows it all on velvet Elvis paintings, bad business ideas from your cousin, and "helping" out your meth-head sister.

All of that assuming assumes the $30 million dollar offer is real. And I'm convinced a vending machine idea is worth a couple of orders of magnitude less than what is claimed.
It's not "unprofessional", but by far the the most annoying emails come from people who out of habit use the phrase "Please Advise" as the closing line to EVERY SINGLE EMAIL.
SecDB has been in a class of its own for years now. I've seen and heard of many other banks try to replicate it and failed. It's customizability and performance are very well respected in fintech circles.
> Yeah, in many places, it's pretty bad.

Can you please quantify that, because I'm still convinced it's mostly marketing [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water_quality_in_the_...
>> At this point it is easier for somebody from the EU to incorporate remotely in Delaware, setup a bank account through Atlas Stripe, do fundraising in the US through Angellist, hire globally through any number of online platforms, and close deals with ready made YCombinator SAFE notes, and travel with a visa waiver every quarter cheaply to the US, than to even try incorporation in the EU.

Maybe you can go into this in more detail because my understanding below seems pretty simple:

1. Register an LTD company in the UK online, in minutes, for £20 through the government website.

2. Hire anyone that lives in the EU with very little restrictions or paperwork. I don't see why most companies would need to hire from outside the EU and that is a huge talent pool.
Every Teenagers dream
Good old email spam rebranded from crime to Killer Sales Strategy. I receive lots of emails from such startupers, they send me lots of junk every day only because I registered somewhere long time ago. Not much better than penis enlargement.
What do people actually mean when they say "genetics"?

Is it some physical aspect of the brain (like more neurons, more connections among them, etc) or is it that somehow the ability to do Math or any other thing is coded into their DNA?

I'm confused.