skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't really matter if being "super smart" makes your kid happier or not; they are who they are. If they're "super smart, academic interests will likely have intrinsic rewards, and supporting that is going to increase happiness.

Telling one of these kids to shut the book and watch tv isn't going to make them happier.
I think they look good because they don't have what is nowadays called "design". They don't have excessive unnecessary distractive nonfunctional shapes. They don't have styling.
For many people, once you keep a certain weight for a while, your body will try pretty hard to keep you there. This means that your metabolism will slow down if you start doing the straightforward small calorie deficit.

Hence to lose weight you need to keep your calorie deficit at high levels and feel significantly hungry for a very long time.

This comes with a risk of yoyo-ing, which is much worse for you than keeping the same weight since it will put high stress on your insulin/lipid metabolism that causes insulin resistance and type II diabetes. Indeed most overweight people have gone through cycles of yoyo-ing and ended up heavier than what they started with.

TL;DR: if you think obese people are just unusually lazy or weak willed, you aren't getting the picture.
Intercepting a B-52 sounds like just about the easiest job in combat aviation. I always thought the idea that a bomber was going to strike the interior of the USSR was a patently ridiculous idea. Cruise missiles, ballistic missiles I can definitely believe. Maybe the Soviets were afraid that the Americans would revive the B-70 program, but that program had been cancelled long before the MiG-25 ever flew.
That was my thinking. But as most C++ developers already know this, I'll skip the C++ mentioning :)
No not free, free for first 3-4 months.
So it's a web dev agency with a webpage that doesn't use HTTPS. Woahh!
It's very unusual for girls, probably because it literally means "male"

No, it is from French: literally, "handsome," or the masculine form of "beautiful." Still an odd choice for a girl. The definition you quote is what it has come to mean in English, but it is really a shorthand.
They know what it's like to not have enough, imo
They're surely mining your data. Why else would they do this ?
Where in my statement did I say that Alabama is backward? If you're not from America, perhaps you're not familiar with the geographical and geopolitical distance Alabama has from the entrepreneurial strongholds of Silicon Valley and New York. I'm from a small town in the Midwest myself and can attest to how far removed you can be from what happens on the costal big cities.
Who’s Smarter, the Dog or the Cat?
Or in other words, diversity in cultures and languages that isn't as prominent in the US. The US has 350 million people with one language and a general shared culture, Europe has 740 million people with tons of languages and very different cultures between them.

But I think the article misses an important point. Namely access to venture capital money.

Put it simply, it's much easier to raise a lot of money for a startup (especially an early stage one) in the US than in Europe. So European companies often operate on a shoestring budget in comparison to the US counterparts. Heck, many of investments I've seen for UK companies wouldn't pay for a single engineer in the valley. Or at best, they leave a lot less cash available for marketing later.

Just seems like there's less access to money or a support network in Europe. So as a result, US startups can operate on a much larger scale.
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> The dev tools can be very useful to average users

I think you missed the GP's point. Bookmarks can also be very useful to average users. One man's trash is another man's dev tools or whatever.

Drawing a clear line between what's essential for a browser and what's bloat probably isn't possible for any decent sized group of users.
His motor used parts that were pre-built abroad. He himself admitted that there was nothing original about his design, that he used existing blueprints to build it.
With distributed learningprioritize what you want to measure
apply the same to "sexes" and "races", and you offend our modern pc sensibilities.
My Favorite Heuristic for Evaluating Relationships: The Antifragile Person
I do it every day, although my background in maths/physics is not enough to do it "the scientific way". There is one topic I'm constantly thinking about: "Where is the data, e.g. the mass of a planet, stored in our universe?".

I guess this question arise because of my computer science background (algorithms + data = universe?) and because even simple formulas like the Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation deals with data (e.g. the mass of a planet). So, where is that number stored so the universe know how to apply its formulas (laws, algorithms)? I know these laws we have are just models of our reality that are getting more precise over time, but I can't help but think that at the end our universe has to do "some calculations" and has to deal with data (numbers). I know three devices that can store information: our brains, our DNA, and our computers. The color of our eyes are stored in our DNA, but the mass of a planet is not stored anywhere?

As I've said, my limited maths/physics background doesn't let me think about the universe the right way. I'm just a dilettante. And sorry for my English.
The reason could be that in Europe investors are more conservative, too.
I can't imagine that a startup gets half a million dollar here in Europe because they let send you a friendly Yo to your buddies. (If I'm wrong here, tell me, I got some code laying around doing stuff like that). And with Uber and AirBNB don't tell me about embracing local laws and taxing.
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What we are looking for:

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• Excitement about thoroughly building a sustainable architecture

• Degree in Computer Science or several years of relevant work experience

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• Motivation to join our share-knowledge culture and to add to existing knowledge

• Willingness to work in an agile environment

• Motivation for DevOps tasks is a bonus

Our environment:
You will have direct impact on the product and see your code deployed to production within days after joining. We use Rails in the Backend on Postgres and ElasticSearch, communicating via a json API to the Frontend, which is written in React and uses related frameworks such as redux and browserify. We offer a great opportunity for professional growth in a multicultural environment. While having a focused work environment the doors to other departments are always open. You will work directly with and report to the CTO.

Our office is located in the heart of Berlin at Hackescher Markt: central, easy to reach and ideal to go out for lunch, ice-creams or after work beers. We take care of you by offering drinks, fruits, salads and cakes. If all the food got too much, you can use a bed for power naps. We also invite you to participate in our interdisciplinary trainings, our reading club or games / e-sports evenings.

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Ask HN: What are the top podcasts you listen to for marketing/growth?
I'm trying to constantly grow my knowledge of the industry and I feel I have some strong blogs I follow as well as Twitter influencers. I'm now moving towards podcasts and would love people suggestions. I'm really interested in marketing and growth tactics, but also startup podcasts would be interesting as well.
Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet
Hubble discovers rare fossil relic of early Milky Way
Aut Vincere Aut Mori, Ad Victoriam Aeternam - Conquer or Die, to Eternal Victory

This is the kind of guy I want on my team.
People with graduate degrees have higher than average IQ, but people with higher IQ do not necessarily have graduate degrees.

That is, intelligence is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to get a graduate degree in STEM. The other necessary conditions you mention (training, interest, etc.) are also important, but still require a baseline ability.

Even looking at undergraduate degrees, IQ is a significant factor in what degree is obtained. Physics and astronomy majors have an average of IQ [1] of over 130 -- that's 2 standard deviations above the mean. If interest, training, and hard work alone were sufficient to get a physics degree, we'd see a much lower average IQ among physics students.

[1] http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/average-iq-of-students...
I did have a concept of this at one point - but I was concerned that internet speeds would prevent that from working as well as it could.
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I'm pretty sure they're referring to SecDB. There isn't much known about SecDB outside of Goldman, but I think the essence is that it:

1. Is a distributed data store for market positions, etc.
2. There's a dataflow/spreadsheet-like valuation engine on top of the data store
3. It's had long-term and senior level support among management, and most/all of GS's positions and businesses are available within SecDB.
4. There's a large pool of internal talent that's well acquainted with SecDB and how to use it.

So... it gives GS an easy way to see where they are, and then run models to figure out where they might be under different hypothetical scenarios.

What's noteworthy about this to me is that while they may be 'giving away' points 1 and 2 from my list, points 3 and 4 are the bigger competitive differentiators for Goldman. Even if another bank immediately adopts SecDB, while they may get the technology, it'll take them quite a while to integrate it as fully into their culture and business. SecDB implemented for a small bit of a big bank and run by a bunch of relative newcomers is a very different thing than SecDB as it might be implemented at Goldman.
Cowboys have evolved. Many use ATVs and only infrequently have to use a gun. The hat has stuck around, though - great protection against the sun.

I've attempted to write Java using VIM. I've even been moderately successful. But it's still easier to do with Eclipse or Intellij.
This is why I almost always check the comments on HN before reading the article. A shocking number of times I can figure out what the article is about faster reading the HN comments than I can from reading the article. Do schools not teach the old thesis, body, conclusion method anymore?
Sex is not a dirty word. Just ask this startup
Unfortunately, as usual, what Intel says and what actually happens are two quite different things:

> Shortly after we learned about Intel’s Software Guard
Extensions (SGX) initiative, we set out to study it in the
hope of finding a practical solution to its vulnerability
to cache timing attacks. After reading the official SGX
manuals, we were left with more questions than when we
started. The SGX patents filled some of the gaps in the
official documentation, but also revealed Intel’s enclave
licensing scheme, which has troubling implications.

> After learning about the SGX implementation and
inferring its design constraints, we discarded our draft
proposals for defending enclave software against cache
timing attacks. We concluded that it would be impossible
to claim to provide this kind of guarantee given the
design constraints and all the unknowns surrounding the
SGX implementation. Instead, we applied the knowledge
that we gained to design Sanctum [38], which is briefly
described in § 4.9.

> This paper describes our findings while studying SGX.
We hope that it will help fellow researchers understand
the breadth of issues that need to be considered before
accepting a trusted hardware design as secure. We also
hope that our work will prompt the research community
to expect more openness from the vendors who ask us to
trust their hardware.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/086.pdf
All the code is on GitHub, so feel free! http://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery
That contrivance in the River Song story arc really annoyed me.
> Unless I'm misunderstanding your statement, it's actually the other way around.

You're misunderstanding my statement. And/or considering only the duty to retreat and not the threat aspect of self-defense.

> Most US states have a castle doctrine law of varying strength.

Right, key part being "of varying strength"; but, AFAIK, very few have a strong castle doctrine law that would make "you can shoot an intruder without liability" generally true; IIRC, the most common version is the very weak form where being in your home basically just eliminates the obligation to flee if able in preference to using deadly force in self defense, but does not have an effect on the level of threat (both subjective and objective) which must be posed before using deadly force.

> If you weren't the initial aggressor, and you are in your home with a licensed/legal firearm, you may shoot an intruder.

Generally, "licensed/legal firearm" is irrelevant to self-defense analysis (whether in the home or otherwise).
Most western countries are the same. I live in Scotland, and quite near where James Watt was born. That doesn't mean that I grew up around steam engines, or that I have been exposed to steam engines through my life. Like most places, the interconnectedness of global trade, plus the sheer complexity of modern devices, means that most people have no exposure to manufacturing.

At one time, the town where I live was a full of Victorian manufacturing, with factories clogging up every street. Few of those factories survive today. Both my grandfathers worked in a local factory, which manufactured ball bearings and other machined items. In their time, it employed a couple thousand people on a huge site. Today, the company still exists, and still manufactures products, but with far far fewer people (well less than 100 I think).

So the general population's exposure to manufacturing is far lower, as even where factories still exist far far less labour is required so that general cultural exposure is low.
Show HN: Mindpark - Playing Video Games with Deep Learning in Python
Civilization could "just" relocate. As for desertification, see this TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_worl...

And remember, the alternative is still glaciation.
Instead of super-smart they ought to say good at something, because concepts like super-smart got us into this mess.

I know of a kid who was responsible for a sheep herd at the age of 12. He'd live in the mountains and take care of sheep for weeks. Have some imagination.
It was also reported earlier [0]:

Privacy: An unnamed Jio executive mentioned “deep packet
inspection” to Reuters, saying: “It’s called deep packet
inspection, and what you can do with the analytics of that is
mind-boggling,” he said, referring to a practice that digs into
“packets” of data created by computers for efficiency, mining
them for information. If this is happening and Jio is accessing
data packets to develop patterns of user data consumption, this
is a major privacy violation. The company deserves to be taken
to court for this, as much as the India needs a privacy law.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/reliances-ambani-lays-out-plan-f...
Kirat and his buddy are now "Washington square partners", and working on the same product to sell to "the masses."

F9
It depends. How do you coordinate the work between the two computers?
I think that would be insider trading on Google's part.
So that makes GP's post OK?

I didn't comment on whether turning down an offer like this is crazy. It's irrelevant. Why do I have to explain this?
I believe the Casimir Effect is usually taken as proof that virtual particles physically exist.
About a single generation. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Disagree. They added a new feature requiring an external service and gave it to everyone by default. Now, Mozilla has opt-in experiments of new features that can be tested and seen by the community before they are integrated by default.
Amazon launches restaurant delivery for Prime members in London
I'm missing the rest of the tl;dr. What is this software used for? Why is it so valuable?
sounds like you been reading gladwell books lol

Finding "gifted" children does not contradict this. Nobody pops out of the womb a math genius.

Yes, technically no one pops out knowing trig or calculus, but some are born with the cognitive capacity, which later manifests in life, to readily master abstract and complicated stuff, and others aren't born with that ability so they struggle to understand concepts that smart people grasp easily. Although ability can be lopsided (some are better at math than verbal), the less intelligent tend to have no dominant strengths - they are just average. And that's fine. Most people are that way.

Gifted children are "gifted" with a laser focus on the unusual things that they find fun - math, music, what-have-you. They spend countless hours playing with numbers or with music, while little Johnny is playing with a ball.

Why don't adults play with paste, coloring books, and alphabet letters? Because they are too mentally mature for those activities. Likewise, high-IQ children have a higher mental age, hence they find these tasks tedious and boring, as adults do.

Anyway, point is, when people point to "gifted" talent, this is just another cop-out. They don't have an explanation. They are appealing to everybody's shared sense of magical outcomes.
But it boils down to the hours that kids put into their interests.

Well, there's something called an IQ score, and it does a pretty good job at predicting all sorts of things, such as socioeconomic outcomes, job performance, educational attainment, welfare dependency, and learning ability. The IQ test is one of great achievements of human psychology, is much harder to manipulate than EQ tests, and scores tend to remain stable throughout life.
For visitors from the future, the last post in the series is https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/struggles-continuum-c... . It links to the previous ones.
>not because of some single minded focus as she had ~10 AP classes and ended up High school Valedictorian.

So you're saying she did have a single-minded focus on school?
I just knew these comments would fill up with humblebrags from HNers who wish to casually and inoffensively proclaim their genius.
What does it mean to de-monetize something?
I am a native developer (and can do web).

This is a tech-preview release, and it first has to prove itself. However I think it is promising. And i would consider it for any app i would create myself. Professionally/production wise, its probably still to risky.. However you save LOTS of money on the short term...
19 unprofessional email habits that make everyone hate you
>In certain areas, hours might be enough,

There is no area where hours are enough. How you apply the hours is extremely important.
Not only it's not a failure, it's the optimal happiness zone. It's enough that all the basic needs are met and there is a decent amount of freedom and low stress, and low enough to be able to keep a modest mentality.
The concept of marketing to an international audience fascinates me. I head up a small web design + development agency in South Africa, and recently I've set my sights on finding international clients, specifically in the US. How do people generally go about this?

What kind of marketing went into this girl's business to do so well in a country that she doesn't even live in?
Great! It's had time for a lot of the bugs to get knocked out, and most of the rest to be well enough known for fixes to be pretty solidly understood.
What is the most absurd code you've ever seen?
Million more devices sharing known private keys for HTTPS, SSH admin
> My sister spent hours with a coloring book as a kid, and now has a growing IMDB page

Anyone in SAG can have an IMDB page. I know this because I have a child who has one after doing some trivial commercial and short film work...it really isn't a high bar, sorry.
To clarify, can we reduce your point down to "natural talent doesn't exist?"
> I hope this finally lays to rest all those BS accusations that Snowden's a 'russian spy' and how he 'partied at the Russian consulate in HK'

If simply presenting the truth stopped the spread of rumours, lies and conspiracy theories, there would be no rumours, lies and conspiracy theories spreading.
As much as it pains me to say it, that ship sailed around the time AWS Lambda was announced. "Serverless" now means "a server you don't need to think about".
> but a security system where I can hit an alarm button and then it'll deploy a loose carpet onto the stairs, would be just fine?

It may or may not be "just fine" in general (e.g., it might violate building codes, etc.), but if you deliberately used it in a condition where you were legally authorized to use deadly force in self defense, you probably wouldn't be liable for that particular use.
wtf is wrong with you?

Edit: commenter made a pretty robotic and insensitive comment. My comment is not constructive, however it can be important to let people know when their behavior or words will have a negative impact on others. A more appropriate response would have been "Wow, that's both insensitive and unnecessary. Perhaps you should reconsider your phrasing."
That would make sense, as Snap was based off Scratch, and Blockly (what I use) was also based off Scratch.
Pricing securities and position/risk management... Read the article!
Records are kept at European Antimicrobial Surveillance System (EARSS) or so it seems, at least. Last report (with freely downloadable raw data) I found (2014) is here: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/_layouts/forms/Publica...
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Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Linux, Python, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, C/C++, AWS EC2/many, Jenkins, Apache, Nginx

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I love automation and systems engineering/architecting.
The bottom right of the figure says, "[s]tudents were split into quartiles".

I don't get why there is a reference to the top 1% in the caption though.
> was replaced by the socialist market economy, the current economic system

You're implying that current Chinese economic system is a 'socialist market economy'?
A reverse image search shows they are stock images, but Chinese text implies that this is a picture of the founder and that is her team e.g. it starts with "I'm Beau Rose Jessup the Founder and CEO of Special Name".

> But something else doesn't add up. The 60p fee includes printing two certificates on paper

The 60p fee appears to be a mistake in the article. If you put in an order, you're taken to a checkout and the cost is 68 RMB, (about £7-8 or USD$10).
Mostly those, but there are some old conference papers and IEEE transactions (if memory serves) that are more explicit. I'll look them up when I have a block of time free.
They could do both.
This is a question of what it "means". It's origins can be traced to problems dealing with SO(n), and in this sense it's uniquely defined by the Lie-algebra of \mathfrak{so}(n), but in the Clifford-algebra world they become blades (more appropriate for CG).

I consider the cross-product to be one of the most abused objects in Physics; my first course in Newtonian mechanics was a nightmare, filled as it were, with the ghosts of all the characters killed so as to make the plot ostensibly "simple".