skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunate journalism.

Suddenly makes everything appear like an act of philanthropy.
Am I reading this right? This seems to be an alternate V8 with a slower JIT startup but faster JITted results for situations like running a Node server for weeks at a time as opposed to popping around between web sites in Chrome.
This article is a bit of a mess regarding who it is talking about. It hops around and changes it's target constantly.

Sometimes it is talking about people in the .01%, AKA, 1 in 10000, so actual geniuses. Sometimes discussing people in the above average range, IQ of 120+, which is about 10% of the population (depending on your test), as well as people in gifted programs, which again, depending on your test is the top 1 or 2%.

These are three different cohorts with different needs. The top 10% need to be continually challenged so they can find satisfying careers. These are your class president types, people who really excel within the program, I think society serves these types well.

The top 1% are your gifted people (again, I know definitions vary), and they usually need something extra. Depends on the person, but it might be extra math or extra latin studies, or the ability to do side projects, but they generally flourish with something special.

The top .01% though? I have no idea. Most here on HN are in one of the other two groups (sorry, me too). The article seems to say that they just need to skip grades. But it's hard to tell if they are right since they are talking about a moving target.

(Edit: Adjusted the % for IQ of 120 based on this chart: http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx)
Stop focusing on being special and actually dedicate yourself to something real.
A few months ago, I came across a similar project: OneRNG [1]. The device is open-source and one of their goals is to be verifiable by someone who buys the device. There was an article on LWN about this too [2].

[1] http://onerng.info/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/629714/
It's used for pricing & risk management. Considered the best in class for large banks and has been attributed (at least partially) for GS scathing away from the financial crisis relatively unharmed because of being able to quickly price things, determine risk throughtout the firm, and make quick decisions.
> Maybe successful people have lazer focus.

It's probably more fun or compulsive than laser focus. One savant was described as a calendar addict. He'd ask when you were born first thing when he met you. He developed an ability to calculate the day of the week for any given date in seconds.
This assumes people are going to spend a bunch of time in the same place. This dude must be from somewhere in the middle of the country.
I think you qualify as a genius. The technical definition of 'genius' is someone with a high-IQ (usually above 140), although the definition has since been modified to mean someone who accomplishes something of significant creative merit.
Open Source remake of Prince of Persia for Roku is feature complete
How have you established that they're random people?
Actually, I thought their website did a great job describing what the product was, especially compared to all the magical node/js* sites out there.
Uhh, I mean creating real movies like Big hero Six at Disney. You know the kind of thing that's shown a most movie theaters and you can find their name in the credits.

Yea, it's not curing cancer. But, I know a lot more failed artists than successful ones.
PackETH: Packet Generator Tool for Ethernet
Why do you assume that this is not the case?

Humans have a failure rate for repetitive tasks between 1 and 10% (depending on who you ask). So even (unrealistically) conservatively and including having two steps of appeal, you would need to assume a minimum false positive rate of at least one in 10K cases (you can even make that a million, if you want, by adding another layer) that get appealed.

Now, what do you estimate, how many chrome app store takedown notices, youtube copyright claims, android bugs… whatever, does Google get in any given week?

It is literally unavoidable that there will be a significant number of cases that fall through the cracks. And as long as it only takes one of those to post a blog post and get on HN, I don't see much value in increasing the cost for this any further, tbh (I just love how that article completely ignores any statistics when comparing this with the case of Apple btw. Not only is Safari only a tenth of the size, basic statistics should tell you that you won't be the unlucky bastard in both stores simultaneously).

The issue isn't algorithms or automation. The issue is, that we can't yet completely replace some jobs with them. And humans suck, especially at scale.
As a company, Mozilla is an open-source version of Yahoo.
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But they pivoted their business model to a different space. Surely those buzzwords alone are worth a couple hundred million dollars.

Now add a deep learning routing algorithm with a reactive architecture running in containers in the cloud and we're talking about a billion dollar exit. Easy.
I'd put Stand-Up Comedians and Auto-Mechanics in there as well. Though not 'traditionally' smart, Comedians are in a cut throat environment to see the world in a different and funny light. Mechanics, the ones not on meth or in the bottle, also need to use as many senses as possible to diagnose and cheaply fix very complicated machines with unknown histories. I have found that even the ok-to-good ones (and there are a LOT of bad comedians and mechanics) are very logical people and can easily grok any Calculus, it's just that their other personality traits (ADD, tactile needs, love of attention and 'the laugh') and circumstances move them towards their chosen fields.
How many percent of the population forced out and/or sent to prison camps do you think is a serious limit? Lithuania was at ~ 15% after WWII.

Or does it have to be mass murders of a large fraction of the population?

(And yes, 'grive' do have a point -- at the time, there were other problems. It was just not an alternative to continue WWII. After that, a new war would be nuclear. No way to win those.)
That wasn't Dubno but Kirat Singh who worked for Mike at GS. I thin kit was the first of the SecDB offspring with other attempts at BAML and Morgan Stanley. I believe Deutsche bank are also doing something similar.
But if everyone is a genius, then no one is.

Les time spend comparing, more time spend focused on the one thing you love => genius status, but you wont notice, or wont give a thing about it.
It's part of the article's clickbait strategy.

It's so distant from the truth that you can't even find information about pricing, plans ,conditions, etc.

It's a nice way to get investors' attention though.
Then let those 200 people pick from the email firehose? For example if the sender is a Chrome ext. developer with more than 10 000 downloads?
No, because if it were not possible to download them, it wouldn't be possible to watch them in the first place.
The Value of a Computer Science Degree
"Genetics" is the new God. Apparently people assign whatever they don't know or understand to genetics.

Can't play football? That's genetics!! Knows math? More genetics!!

Are actually there studies that claim a special ability is due to genetics only?
> Intercepting a B-52 sounds like just about the easiest job in combat aviation.

Chances are it was intended for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_B-1_Lancer, which entered service around the same time.
Great post, this was an old goldmine that is easy to forget and think it's just stacking dust.

Many thanks to everyone.
Reconciling Relay with Your Redux App
It's http://www.specialname.cn/
I think it's getting hammered at the moment
Technically, the girls named "Beau" should have been named "Belle".
Tech investors are funding software and analytics to reuse more of our garbage
Oh, I see it now; ridiculous bold dark purple anchor style on bold text is impossible to notice.
I have an extremely specific set of projects I want to implement.
This seems completely wrong to me. I'm guessing that the assumption 'European startups fail to scale' is in comparison to US startups. I haven't seen any US startups change branding colours or change UI for European markets. They succeed in spite of this.

We're also assuming that 'scaling' is the goal and considering the writer is a 'growth hacker' it's good for business to pretend it is. But if we're talking about cultural differences it's important to consider differences in the overall goal. Profit seems to be a much bigger driver in Europe - scaling to billions of users and then trying to squeeze some money out of them isn't as appealing. I don't think you can say one approach (scale vs. smaller but cash flow positive) is better than the other.
For those of you getting 500 or "Article not found", SA has blocked the ycombinator.com referer url. Just open the link in a new tab.
Snapchat is not a Facebook company. They were offered $3b from Facebook in 2013 but they declined.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/13/snapchat-spurned-3-bi...
So, is it data, a database, or a risk-management tool?

Sounds like something that could have been hard with constraints of 1990s hardware, but these days any old person could rent a cloud to do this.

Also, I suspect people who aren't involved directly in the technology talk it up a lot more than would someone who was involved in building it. The execs have bet on it with budget money, and they get to open or close the gate, making it seem more important than it really is.

At the end of the day, every financial form has a bunch of code that lets them slice and dice their data. GS didn't survive the crisis because they had this system, they survived because they had a system and made some wise choices.
With the whitening requirement already depending on an algorithm with cryptographic guarantees (they use SHA3), this hardware only seems useful for generating keys.

They suggest the following algorithm to generate N bytes:

> The Inifite Noise driver uses the reference version of the SHA3 "sponge", called Keccak, with a 1600 bit state. To make the state of the sponge unpredictable, it is initialized with 20,000 bits of of Infinite Noise data before any data is output. After that, reading bytes from the SHA3 sponge blocks until twice as many bytes of entropy have been fed into the sponge from the Infinite Noise TRNG.

In code, that is

repeat N / (block size) times:
raw <- output of hardware
output SHA3(raw)

They claim that the hardware outputs only log(1.82) bits of entropy per bit. Thus, they are relying on SHA3 to act as a cryptographic extractor.

Now, I don't think it's proven that the existence of an extractor implies the existence of psuedorandomness. However, I believe the usual construction would still assume that SHA3 was a psuedorandom generator. Under this assumption, then the following algorithm also outputs psuedorandom bits, but with only one use of the hardware.

let seed <- output of hardware
repeat N / (2 * block size) times:
result <- SHA3(seed)
seed <- first half of result
output second half of result

(Assuming the PRG is length-doubling. If it is less than length-doubling, we can still construct a length-doubling PRG wlog)

Does anyone know why (I'd accept cryptographic, philosophical, or practical reasons) the first algorithm would be preferable to the second?

Relevant reading (both highly recommended books in their own right!):

Arora & Barak "Computational Complexity" Ch 21 "Expanders and Extractors"

Goldreich "Founds of Cryptography I" defines PRG and so forth
How to build your better life
I really wish there was hardware of a similar form factor that ran Pico 8. The Pocket CHIP is a start, but it's a more general-purpose machine with Pico 8 support.
Related to your Chopin anecdote, numerous monster & legendary guitar players and song writers (Chet Atkins, Willie Nelson, & tons more) cited Django Reinhardt, the "two-fingered gypsy jazz guitarist" as opening their horizons more than any other. It was from his technique that his creativity could flow. As if the handicap was simply an augmentation - as you mention - and didn't terribly interfere with what he was 'destined to do' by way of art.

As both a passionate study of both guitar and writing (fiction, essays, etc), I do agree that reaching 'beyond' is part of achieving high personal success in either field. Sort of like the phrase "knowing the rules before breaking them" can acknowledge the role of both structure and rebellion. Both have important facets in growth, and I think a lot of times lay-people can mistake "broken rules" that accidentally work for "talent" and it is frustrating.
Don't worry, there are lots of us. Currently I chat with people on some twitch channels that are dedicated to space games. We watch launches together and comment and talk about space.
I do quite often. Sometimes when I think about the entirety of the universe (at least the one we are aware of) I start to wonder what I'm doing here at my job, or what are any of us doing existing at all? I can't help but think what's "outside" the universe (a very human and naïve way of thinking), what's the meaning of it all? I conclude there isn't any meaning, then I recalibrate my mindset and return to caring about all the meaningless things in my brief life.
Well in the article they say it uses Dart and is more equivalent to Java programming.

>Google is also using Flutter in order to develop their new System UI called Fuchsia as it seems if we have a look into their repository.

So it does seem to be something they will be investing in. Fuchsia at this time is still sort of an unknown but most people are saying its their new OS.
She wrote about it not long ago: http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/08/29/how-i-made-a-zine/

Short answer: she did the first zine on paper, and the second one on a tablet.
> Most here on HN are in one of the other two groups

What would make you say that? Since there is no actual filter and no one is actually forcing any requirement, it should be that most of any group are somewhat similar to the standard distribution of the population, so most on HN should be like most of any other group, bog standard average.

I know I am.
I spent this past weekend reading about Heat Death Of The Universe and Black Dwarf stars.
A great example of the charade of open source. Sorry you spent so much time on something that seems like it might have been useful, only to run into the black hole of corporate/legal red tape that kills good products. "Do no evil"? "Define do".
On Finding Our Calling in Life
Caffeine is a drug. Coffee has been outlawed multiple times in the past.
I'd certainly draw the line before it gets to a PDF reader and Google services. Chrome doesn't get shit for it because is expected to be part of the business strategy of Google first, and a browser second. Firefox has no other purpose, so the choices that they make simply seem bizarre.
> Ss has replaced netstat.

what about non-tcp/non-udp sockets e.g. sctp ? ss doesn't seem to support that (but i might be mistaken)
Parent is referring to the ODE \dot{z} = i z.
I'm 24.

My goal is to be one of the most influential video game designers of this century. I may not be considered the absolute greatest (rankings like that are very fickle anyway, and never universally agreed upon, even in the sciences). But I do want my works to be considered necessary for any future survey of the major works of this period.
Why Star Trek’s Prime Directive could never be enforced
You start a listening nc on the destination server, and push the file from the source server.

Destination: nc -l -p 1234 > foo
Source: nc destination 1234 < foo

Protip #1: You can also send directories:

Destination: nc -l -p 1234 | tar xf -
Source: tar czf - directory | nc destination 1234

Protip #2: pv for progress indicators (pv on one side is enough)

Destination: nc -l -p 1234 | pv > foo
Source: pv foo | nc destination 1234

Note: netcat (BSD or GNU variants) syntax varies across unixes and distros. Sometimes it's `nc -l -p 1234`, other times `nc -l 0.0.0.0 1234`. Check your man.

You can check for data corruption with md5sum or similar checksumming tools.
You're also talking about telling someone they either do or do not have a disease. The finger stick alone is not all the damage that you can do. Is that person pregnant? Is their spouse? Are they going to act on what you told them?
Most editors nowadays maintain a parallel structure to the DOM. And since the DOM is a tree, that structure is also a tree. Quill's is Parchment[1] and goes a step further by also having an API and allow defining new nodes, which ProseMirror (and maybe Draft) also does.

Deltas are a simple, iterable output format for Quill. In practice it is much nicer to deal with this in many use cases than the Parchment tree.

[1] https://github.com/quilljs/parchment
BrightSign Reinvents Digital Signage
This is pretty amazing:

"The last time the climate was this hot, around 100,000 years ago, the oceans were between 13 and 30 feet higher than they are today."
It is interesting that you make this statement, because I have sometimes heard that Einstein was able to make so many profound contributions because he had a multitude of interests which was generally above average with respect to his peers. Unfortunately, I don't have a reference, but I think it was mentioned in his biography by Walter Isaacson.

And not just that, reading that book will give you the general sense of a man who was quite the eclectic, intentionally creating masterminds with people from a broad swath of occupations.
Part of the issue is assigning "cause" (singular) of death. I'm still kind of shocked that there isn't mandatory reporting of bacterial vectors (when identified) the way there is for (eg) tumors. Sepsis is common enough that positive identification of the primary strain(s) involved could be a huge unfunded mandate, though, and judging by the way Zika is going, unfunded is being optimistic.
Reverse image search: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-160492445/stock-photo-portra...

Plus the text says "I'm Beau Rose Jessup the CEO and Founder of Special Name", which is clearly not the case if you look at the BBC article.
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Facebook could close the accounts of people who use AdBlockers.
Thank you. "Random working class girl with schoolteacher parents succeeds as an entrepreneur" is a very different story than "Already rich girl with an internationally well-connected businessman father and famous mother succeeds as an entrepreneur". Kind of changes everything.
What I like that you've done is that start CTA in the right nav menu. Not just that it's action oriented it just made me feel like I could start/play around post-login without having to deal with a lot of redtape just to start using it.

Which for any new tool is important. Good luck.
You are such a humble person.
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Depending on how you define it, you could say my research is in this general area. My sense of how to interpret these sorts of findings has changed greatly over time, and become much more moderate and humble. Discussions over these issues tend to be very heated and people oversimplify issues on both ends.

These tests are predictive, and as you point out, it's disingenuous to claim otherwise. They're measuring something valid. However, they're doing so relatively poorly, or rather, roughly. Even the quote you cite suggests that the total amount of variance accounted for was about 19%, which isn't too shabby by any means, but is also very crude when you think about implications for real-world consequences. Interpreting that 19% also becomes very murky, when you consider factors like teaching to tests, that tests like those are used for academic and career selection, leading to self-fulfilling prophecies. In rare circumstances where researchers have been able to remove some of these effects (for example, due to unusual legal decisions about acceptable use of test scores), the relationship between test scores and career performance has been shown to be very weak in the short-term, and almost non-existent in the long term.

Somewhere underlying the distribution of test scores is some distribution of ability that makes it easier for some people to thrive in certain settings. But ability is just one thing in a long list of things, along with practice, resources and other environmental factors that contribute to success, and sociological dynamics. Add to that test scores being very crude indices of ability to begin with, and you're in a very messy situation.

What's frustrating to me is that there's this sort of all-or-nothing attitude about testing, where tests are seen as useless, or as a perfect indicator of skill or ability. The truth is in-between.
Ask HN: How can I convince people that UX improvements are valuable?
I'm a product designer, so it boggles my mind on a daily basis that engineers and businesspeople don't seem to see much value in a UX improvement (whether graphic design, or better interactions, or what) if the "functionality" is the same as what preceded it. To them, UX is an irrelevant "fashion" that merely covers the "real" value of the product.

How can I convince them that all those little "superficial" improvements add up to potentially big gains? What are some huge success stories that will wake them up?
> European startups fail to recognize that they have to confirm to the rules and expectations of the new market they are entering.

While i agree the article makes it a bit sound that this is the delta to US startups. US startups don't recognize this neither and still grow insanely big.

> The United States is far from a homogenous market.

Consumer media and consumer market is cross continental in the US. And that's the big difference.

If you launch in boston there is a good chance people in portland will hear about it. If you launch somewhere in new jersey there is a good chance that somebody in LA will hear about it (worstcase via NYC media)

If you launch in portugal nobody in poland will notice. If you launch in serbia poeple in finland will never know.

That kind of launch acceleration startups in the US have enables them to "fall forward" while doing mistakes.

TL;DR: EU VS USA - Same downside (fail) - completely different upside (succeeding) [especially in form of early stage market pull] leads to different scaling patterns ("rocketships"), risk awareness (investments) and companies that are (need to be?) build
In this specific case? Well, it's a stock photo: https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-female-...
Paraphrasing Dweck's, but also matching my personal experience:

At the end to the day, hard work is what allows one to push the limits. A gift/talent is just a good kickstart that makes the owner's life easier, but people with talent are quickly limited if they don't work hard. the biggest issues are that people counting on their gift are afraid of exposing their limitation and become more and more shy of taking risk, they also often don't get into the habit of working.
Mercedes-Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch delivery drones
Why Email List Building Is the Best Killer Sales Strategy
Even emergency powers of it should be limited to Schedule II. Schedule I is for things known to be highly detrimental and dangerous.
Our Two Party System Has Failed, Just Like Our Founders Said It Would
Yeah, that's kind of the problem I mean. MMOVR promises vast and intricate human worlds, but past a certain critical point you wind up self-filtering down to a few dozen people so you're not overwhelmed by assholes.
There are extinguishers in the cargo area. I'm not sure who manufactures it for the 777. The general setup is fire, smoke, and overheat detection systems throughout the aircraft. This information is relayed to the pilots. Some of the extinguishing mechanisms may be automatic (more common in military and not so common in commercial). Cargo areas probably use halon or similar.
I wouldn't say sepsis is that common. More with the elderly and alcoholic crowds, but not generally speaking