skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I skimmed the article pretty quickly because I was looking for the answer posed by the title and rightly expecting 90% background and filler stories

Me too, hate this type of article, couldn't find it either.
I'm not sure what those Q1-Q4 numbers are, but I don't think they are quartiles. I went to a TIP ceremony for kids who'd scored well on the SATs in 7th grade. There were a few hundred kids there (I think something like 1000 got you there?), a few dozen with 1200 something, and one kid up on stage with a 1400.
Dear hustle, happy 5th year anniversary
Google makes the laws now. Governments are mostly irrelevant.
And to accomodate lower quality of available technologies and workforce.
Being involved in the discussions about what features we are going to implement usually.

Right now we have a designer making mock up pages for me and we have a deadline. He is adding a fair bit of stuff that will need to be done with a mix of back end code and JavaScript. If we do things slightly differently I can code most of it in Django. If we do it exactly as he has done, i will need slightly less Django code, but the same amount of code again in JavaScript. Plus I find it better to have as much logic in the back end, rather than jumping between JavaScript and Python to work out where bugs are.
Ask HN: What Cloud storage provider(s) do you use?
Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, S3, etc?

Why?

If more than one, do you put specific files in one over the other?
The problem with labels is "gifted" vs "ungifted" is very often interpreted as "smart" vs "stupid"

Another problem is that there's a spectrum of ability/interest being turned into a binary. For those near the threshold of the criteria, this is especially problematic.
Thanks for sharing this. I had an old hackathon project that seemed cool but didn't really have a good application (essentially, end-to-end encrypted Socket.IO implemented on top of Keybase filesystem: https://github.com/lgessler/kbrpc). Maybe I'll try to get it to work with Cryptpad.
Reminds me of the Snap programming language: http://snap.berkeley.edu/
Is that actually the case? As far as I'm aware in the UK at least its not that you're outright forbidden to work as a contractor under conditions that would otherwise be considered employment, you just have to pay tax on that basis rather than pretending you're really an independent company.
Innovations of UX/UI in VR (slides – read notes)
Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Is the King of the Skies
Apple iMessage to Feature Circle’s Bitcoin Wallet in New Update
IQ measured while young predicts income later as an entrepreneur.

http://imgur.com/a/huYKk

http://ftp.iza.org/dp3648.pdf
My academic performance was average, but I did place first in a math Olympiad in my school. That said, I was competing with kids that didn't know algebra and I got basically every question right.
> Geometric Algebra is cool. It lets you say things like "the intersection of two spheres that don't touch is a circle with negative radius." You can't even represent a circle with negative radius in regular geometry.

For some notion of "regular geometry". Desargues could produce this result in the early 17th century by lifting the circles into right cones in three dimensions, though he would probably tell you that the circle with negative radius was meaningless.
I echo the other sentiments here.

It would be awesome for them to recognise someone who is bootstrapping their tech stack. Give them enough leeway to start turning a profit to pay for their stack.
What gave you that idea? Radiative transfer is physics. That doesn't change because we're talking about planet earth. I would guess that most scientists involved in climatology have a physics background.

Edit: for example, Radiative Forcing in the AR5 http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/climdyn2013/IPCC/IPCC_WGI1...

The main author is Drew Shindell, Professor of Climate Studies, PhD in Physics.
Also, this past year the morning of our anniversary, I had hidden 150 pokemon stickers inside easter eggs around our apartment complex as a surprise for my wife. We spent the day with me watching her find them and checking them off my list of locations. Fun things are fun.
Why startups should stop selling out before IPO
Maybe someone can chip in here but I was under the impression virtual particles didn't actually exist, they were just used to simplify our understanding of particle interactions.

The uncertainty principle hasn’t gotten in the way of learning the rules of quantum mechanics, understanding the behavior of atoms, or discovering that so-called virtual particles, which we can never see directly, nevertheless exist.

After recently getting to grips with QFT it seems there aren't actually any particles, just fields which are excited at certain locations giving the impression of particles.
Apparently yes. Some people are just more privileged than others.

Insisting that rich people must feel more existential dread than poor people (money can't buy happiness!) and smart people must be more sad than stupid people (ignorance is bliss!) is a classic symptom of just-world fallacy.
I'm an introverted nerd and I enjoy socialization. This is a bad example.
C and C++ share the same memory model and can be called quite easily form each other with the use of an 'extern "C"'.

It's a common practice to write libraries in C for flexibility, (many languages can ingest C) and use the 'extern "C"' for use in C++ code.

You can also write a thin C++ class wrapper for a more native object oriented interface.
You can click "web" which will provide you a link to the article without the paywall.

But just for you: "Called Securities DataBase, or SecDB, the system remains Goldman’s prime tool for measuring risk and analyzing the prices of securities, and it calculates 23 billion prices across 2.8 million positions daily. It has played a crucial role in many of the seminal moments of the firm’s recent history, including its controversial trading just ahead of the financial crisis."
Competitors can still collaborate.
You're probably one of those who also insists that India has the best teachers. Why I can't find any of their lectures on YouTube (but find a "shitton" of lectures from non-Indians) is interesting.

You also probably believe India has the most powerful supercomputer and the best space program (for its budget).

I'm more interested in the masses of Indians not having to shit on the street outside where they live, and having access to clean drinking water and refrigerators.

Also, could you name some Indian makers who can create a steam engine, or internal combustion engine, or electrical engine from scratch? Or any that have innovated in that sphere? OK, I'll make it easy for you. Can you name a single invention at any of the IITs in their entire history, an invention that is used by the rest of the world?

Also, you don't get to decide what I can post on here in which thread. HN has moderators for that purpose. And if they want, they can let me know.
The problem with "just getting good at the game" is that it may take even more time than theorycrafting that has some objectively better result (the usual term that WoW players used when I played at least). With action games there's a certain point when you can play more but you're at a plateau because you're limited by skill and have few means to even know what to improve. Focused practice matters for any activity involving skill, but I dunno what black abyss of learning exists between me flailing my mouse like an idiot and the dudes that no scope headshots on 20 pixels reliably. Industry marketing likes to tell me I need a new mouse (some 4000+ dpi thing), new monitor (144 Hz+), but I think I'm missing something more basic like basic hand-eye coordination that gear will not solve.
And 10k hours rule is just catchy name. Almost only purpose is just to be catchy! This[1] episode of freakonomics explains it well.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/
I'd be willing to sell tournamentmaps.com - displays tennis tournament information on a google map. I created this when my kids played but they are older now. Data is scraped yearly from the source and map links to source web site. PHP/MySql
> Unlike similar American jets, you can find Mig-25's in private hands today being maintained and flying.

It's hard to know where you came up with this. Starfighters Inc. came up in another thread recently:
http://www.starfighters.net/fleet/

They fly F-104s, which I'd much rather be responsible for maintaining than something like a MiG-25.

If you see a dearth of ownership of newer American jets, it's probably because they're still valuable to an air force somewhere.
> Most people have no desire to go to a theater anymore, so making people wait months to see a new film means they're going to try to find a way to see it sooner. If they released streaming alongside movie theater releases I would imagine you'd knock out 90%+ of the piracy out there.

Aside: Saw Pets with my kids this week; Large Soda is now more than a Bud Light at a Football game ($8). Consider me among those who would gladly stop going to the theater.
Who's on call?
The Lottery of Fascinations
They're spinning down the side of their business that requires using the postal service because it's less popular, and less efficient than the side that doesn't.
> There are many ungifted people who make their livings as mathematicians

They're still well above average IQ.
Why is everybody so binary about this? Are we really suggesting that some individuals are not capable of intellectual tasks at a greater capacity, or a greater speed than others?

If you understand that a human being has a higher cognitive function than a sea slug, a wasp, a mouse, a dog, a dolphin, an ape, by our genetics alone, then you have to accept that there is a degree of genetic variance between individual humans. It's not like the moment we all qualify as the same species all genetic variance in every regard goes away. Some people are taller than others, some people are better at abstract thought, some people are better at linear calculation.

Of course nurturing these talents is incredibly important, nobody is denying that. But the more studies that come out, the more it seems to suggest that the ability to produce exceptional results with the nurturing of specific practices is hugely magnified by genetic predisposition.
I don't see a good reason to make reusable systems 'disposable'. Especially as doing it that way means you need to carry one drone per package in the van!

I can see this being useful in various places if the landing question is sorted out, and I think the main one of those is the 'disaster' scenario. Plenty of rural situations would benefit too: you don't have to send a van up a narrow unpaved road, or on a circuitous route, just send a drone over the hills (can this handle non-LOS?) or across the fields. If roads are closed due to snow, you may be able to deliver from the main cleared road (assuming the weather has cleared up enough for the drone).

Some of the Scottish islands are within the one-way range of this drone from the mainland, which might be useful for mail deliveries. Rockets were once tried for this purpose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail
> Intel claims to have carefully shielded their thermal noise source, but without a thorough pubic audit of both the design and layout,

I sure hope you meant "public audit".

Edit: A few more typos in the readme, s/Analisys/Analysis/
makeup is drawing
I'm a strong believer in the idea that some people are born better, you don't have to convince me.

The extent of my abilities is still unknown to me. I know what I want to achieve and I will continue trying to achieve it until I succeed or I am dead. To accept anything less is equivalent to death.
I would like to know how she assigned personality traits to each English name

Elegant, Motion, Sensitive, Insistent, Confident, Honest,
Clever, Creative, Optimistic, Reliable, Keen, Have empa

And how many names there are in the DB?
between 1320=PERMUT(12;3) and 95040=PERMUT(12;5)

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He's 14. Your job as a parent is to guide your child into adulthood. If you let a child make a life changing decision like accepting $30 million without a backup plan at the age of 14, you're failing as a parent.
Just to continue on:

"Many of those tools are being offered in the form of
web-based applications that customers can customize and operate on their own."

Sounds like they are turning what used to be heavily guarded internal software into client-facing apps.
This is great. Mozilla experimented with a new thing, it didn't take off, and they killed it. Bravo both for experimenting, and for killing it afterwards.
The Genius bar is not really that high, so I suspect you qualify. I bet there is a bit of ADHD thrown in there, which often accounts for not liking structured learning as much.
There's nothing unique about his business. He's providing a commodity service that hundreds of people will replicate in short-order.

I think taking the money and using it to fund another business in a few years is the best course of action.
The question that comes to my mind is, are the European countries doing any better in tracking MRSA, etc. infections? They certainly exist. One might hope a more centralized health-care system, not balkanized like the USA one[1], would keep better records. Do they?
Aha! Thank you for this, I had forgotten that it existed!

Some further discussion is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12377393
The future is what we make it to be. All technology does not work inside a vacuum, it works in the society and society is made up by contracts, most importantly it is made up by laws and the laws are made, at least in democracy by elected representatives.
Oops. The article mentioned fronting your servers with a proxy that strips the HPKP header. Not perfect, but it's something.
Genius = creativity + intelligence

You can preserve your creativity (doing things your own way) if you are prepared to pay the social cost but intelligence is largely inherited.

And intelligent women are having fewer children nowadays...
I think there's a difference between a solo freelancer saying "we" and said freelancer presenting a picture of some random people in a random office as "his team".
I'm not entitled for support when I'm developing for their platform ... and I'm supposed to be a sightseer 4 years in the future.. I'm gonna stop right there...
>I didn't expend any effort on my studies

>I was reading calculus textbooks when I was 10 years old.

I suggest that you, indeed, spent effort on your studies.
Statistics on Cause of Crashes in the US (2008)
But our gov't is right on top of banning even more harmless plants... (Kratom this time).
>What hobbies do people engage in now?

This entirely depends on the demographic group in question.

If, for instance, you're wondering about the hobbies of single 20-40-something women in urban areas of the US, from what I see it seems to be lots and lots of foreign travel, especially to really backwards parts of Africa and the Middle East. And going to bars a lot. And having kids by IVF.

For single men in this age range, it seems to be working all the time, or being in a drug or alcohol-induced haze most of the time.
> Far better would be the snippet of Common Lisp that reads random from getrandom(), and then /dev/urandom.

Yup. Here's an example of the latter (I don't have getrandom(2) on my machine):

(defun random-bytes (len)
(declare (type (integer 1) len))
(with-open-file (rand "/dev/urandom" :element-type 'unsigned-byte)
(let ((buf (make-array len :element-type 'unsigned-byte)))
(read-sequence buf rand)
buf)))

N.b.: I dashed this off quickly. Do not rely on it for security-sensitive code. Do not bet your life on it.
Yes, I've only seen the same. Having children at the office for a work day isn't sensible. Except when it's actually provided for:

At a large company I was interviewing at they showed us an open-floor office for employees whose babysitter was missing on that day (or a sick spouse or whatever).

The employees could just grab their laptop, and take a desk in that office for a day.

In front of all the desks was a glass wall. Behind it a kindergarten, so that the parents could see their child and the children were occupied.
I think he means it won't happen quickly. If you have resources you'll be able to respond to the changing world.
I think the market would readily like to solve the problem, save for regulations, laws and cronyism...
>He may not have had a concept of what $30 million really is. I know I don’t, even at my age.

I would be shocked if he had any concept at all. Most adults have no concept of what it means to have that kind of money which is why most lottery winners are broke within 5 years of winning the lottery. You literally can live an upper middle-class/lower upper-class lifestyle without working another day in your life off that interest alone.
Those weren't my studies. Those were my hobbies. Give me homework and I'll run away screaming.

I used to HATE the language subjects. Now that I'm not being forced to do it, I enjoy linguistics.
Not much for encrypted data, but they can still get metadata out of it (which site you visited, how much traffic was exchanged relative to other sites you visited, what times of the day you visited, which days of the week you visited, usage patterns, etc.). For example, if you have a pattern of visiting say, an Amazon store, that information could be useful to have rivals of Amazon to target you with ads or special offers, even if they cannot find what exactly you did on Amazon.

The voice calls are also on LTE (VoLTE), and a similar DPI scheme could be used to get a lot out of that by recording and inspecting content and metadata. Legality aside, if they're intent on mining data, there are millions of people who wouldn't even know what http vs. https means or to use end-to-end encrypted apps for calls, etc. (or probably not care as much). I'm not implying that nobody will care, because there may be another prominent movement (savetheinternet) like the one that helped block Facebook's Free Basics initiative through campaigns and well crafted letters to the authorities.
At one point at least, internet.org wasn't supporting HTTPS (see https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/05/05/facebook-opens-u...).

Doesn't prove anything, but not supporting tls makes me think they want to inspect the traffic.
The ‘I Wouldn’t Mind’ Heuristic
>Perhaps the default behavior changes things? In wget, you download a file, in curl you display it. If you just want to download it, it saves you typing.

This. If you want to wean yourself off of wget, perhaps aliasing wget to `curl -O` will help. It helped me :)
I find there is a huge difference between the guess of people with knowledge, and people who are pulling things out of their ass. Considering I have held a number of CTO jobs, my guess'es are much better then most peoples.
swinging shouldn't be a problem if you are doing the russian swing (maximum shoulder height).

For the more advanced exercises military press, snatch and clean and jerk you need a room where you can stand up with your hands straight above your head.

I am training outside the whole year, but it doesn't get extremely cold here in winter -5° to -10° Celsius is pretty much the minimum. But I am under a roof and so it works for me (but I have to store the Kettlebells indoor so the handles are warm).
I recalled a fatal accident in San Jose a few years ago where the driver was suffering a hypoglycemic event and lost consciousness after reaching an exit on I-280. He did not reduce speed and crashed into another vehicle, killing both passengers. [0]

That led me to search for statistics on how many crashes are caused by incapacitated drivers, and to this NHTSA report from 2008 [1]. Page 30 shows driver-caused, critical pre-crash events involving "Heart attack or other physical impairment" as the cause of 2.4% of accidents where the cause is attributed to the driver (as opposed to mechanical failure, act of God, etc.), numbering an estimated 48,822 crashes from 2005 to 2007.

However, scanning the table, I note that 40% of crashes attributed to the driver are due to:

- Inadequate Surveillance

- Internal Distraction

- External Distraction

- Inattention (i.e. Daydreaming, etc.)

All of these are resolved, to a large degree, by the proliferation of driver assistance technologies that are coming into the market today.

From my perspective, the moral question is that some people will die because of this technology. Other people will be saved. In the end, it is like vaccination in that the peril is shifted from one population to another, but overall, life expectancy is improved. It's here to stay.

[0] http://www.protectconsumerjustice.org/two-wrongful-death-cas...
How could we design/modify our homes to receive these packages?

Santa Claus-chute for things to slide down?

Helicopter landing pad in the front yard?

How can we sort the packages/letters into their individual receptacles?

This could save US mail carriers a lot of effort.
Brilliant approach towards displaying configuration. I feel in love with the presentation. It just makes sense. Definitely "borrowing" the idea. :)
The recommendation for windows is hopelessly out of date. On Vista and up CryptGenRandom is exported directly from Advapi32. That said... just use the CNG functions (BCryptGenRandom[1]), which is what both RtlGenRandom and CryptGenRandom use under the covers. BCrypt.dll is going to get loaded either way.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
What's the correct word for someone who doesn't enjoy socialization?

What does introverted mean? Does it just mean "person who enjoys being alone" or "person who is not good at socializing, even though they may enjoy it"?
Why won't it solve any copyright claims against it? It did in the Safari Extensions Gallery ... It's quite easy to make required changes when the rules are clear and communication exists.
It's weird: all of the images are blurry beyond recognition.
>Companies that don't sell software, see it as a by-product and have zero worries about its quality

And increasingly, because of the 'go fast a break things' attitude, this is extending to companies that _do_ sell software.
You are approaching the problem from the wrong angle. It is not an engineering problem first.

And as a person who understands more about the problem, it is in fact your obligation to stand up and explain this to a fellow man, not just stand hands down in defeat.
Bradley Martyn Dead-Lifting and Bicep Curling at the Same Time
Absolutely! You only have to use 10 year old technology for that support.
Sure. It depends on what definition we're using for "gifted". Practice may not make you into von Neumann, but it may very well make you into a professional mathematician with stable employment.

My intuition is that if someone is interested enough in a career in mathematics that they begin putting regular practice into it, then they're already likely (but not certainly) past the minimum IQ threshold.
I agree with the article that spacial ability is an untapped resource, key to understanding and problem solving.

I think there is a pretty easy way of testing this, simply by finding out what they find funny.

Different kinds of humor tap this skill, and those drawn to certain types of humor, IMHO, likely have better spacial skills.