skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the best article I've ever read of the subject of how you can improve intelligence: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/you-can-incr...

Kind of like how people have to be reminded that the best way to lose weight is to diet and exercise, the real answer for intelligence is challenging yourself frequently and putting yourself in uncomfortable situations that you need to think your way through.

At the end of the article there's a beautiful definition:

"Intelligence isn’t just about how many levels of math courses you’ve taken, how fast you can solve an algorithm, or how many vocabulary words you know that are over 6 characters. It’s about being able to approach a new problem, recognize its important components, and solve it—then take that knowledge gained and put it towards solving the next, more complex problem. It’s about innovation and imagination, and about being able to put that to use to make the world a better place. This is the kind of intelligence that is valuable, and this is the type of intelligence we should be striving for and encouraging."
Go from a company's domain to 30 contacts in 10 minutes
Forwardcache –  a distributed forward caching proxy for Go's http.Client
No, but purchasing it might be. Employers can mitigate their culpability by including health and disability insurance, and workplace condition standards. They typically only do this when required by government regulation, though.

And in the end there's a qualitative difference between purchasing access to a person's time and labor, and purchasing access to their mouth, vagina, and anus.
On a side note, is it just me or does the character at the top of the page look ominous/creepy?
It's awesome that it's freely available.
Indeed just having one region legalize skyrockets trafficking. Prices also go down, so prostitution becomes less attractive to locals as a way to make money which means foreigners in poor countries have to be imported, which leads to trafficking rings. Vice claims of the 500k prostitutes in Germany two-third's are foreign http://www.vice.com/read/a-visit-to-one-of-germanys-all-you-...

It's extremely difficult to stop gangsters from trafficking because they operate in the trafficked persons home country as well, so if you run to the police in Germany or Canada they can seek retribution on your family members back home in Ukraine, Vietnam ect. Thus the not legal nor illegal does a good balance of preventing super brothels opening up full of imported sex workers while at the same time being able to arrest pimps without relying on the testimony of the sex workers.
Netflow is a great example of the dual use aspects of tech between surveillance and defense. Making Netflow data more widely available looks like it is going to be essential for defending that Internet but at the same time Netflow data can threaten the anonymity of Tor users.[0][1]

[0] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/traffic-correlation-using-n...

[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/251...
Why, any training, it seems, has the same nature. Highly specialized task, such as joggling will make you better only at joggling (and, perhaps, will improve coordination of your hands) while training at, say, triathlon will make one generally stronger, more coordinated, with better stamina and endurance.

Similarly, mindfulness (awareness) and concentration (focusing) meditation techniques in general will make one better at variety of tasks, while specialized training, lets say, math tricks, will only affect specialized areas of the brain.

The training of a musician requires a lot of listening to the classical music, not just trying to play "mechanically" . All this is known for ages by Greeks and by Indians.
That's the sort of capacity planning and management an operations chief would do for you several quarters out, based on experience with shifting business needs that they have acquired over a career of dealing with highly specific use cases.

Think of it as putting an intelligent layer between your demand metrics and your server fleet. I live for utilization, just like you live for your product. Hire an operations nerd who does and your company will be much better off for it; based on description it sounds like you or the other engineers are already involved in operations anyway, so you probably won't need two. Hire one and let them tell you.
Thanks for the link. I love these.
That's all a matter of values. By hiring her, Dropbox gives the impression that they are endorsing her and what she did in the past, or that "her past does not matter". Which is a very sad call to make when you respect human life.
Zeno's paradox or Ship of Theseus?
Java-land has been going for about 20 years, and went through a bit of a house-cleaning about 10 years ago around the time the Maven project started.

Javascript, a la Web 2.0, has really only been a serious development thing for about 10 years. It's due for its own settling in period soon, I would imagine.
Off the top of my head:

1) An Stable "enterprise grade" version which receives fixes and minor performance updates for at least 5 years, maybe even charge extra for another 2-5 years round (just like Microsoft does).

2) Reports: Business love reports, if they add a way to generate reports straight from the DB (like Oracle and SQL Server) is a killer feature most of the time.

3) Customer Support.
Fallout from this: Companies will go to great lengths to avoid contact with people who submit resumes that imply they are old. No phone screens, no responses. It's going to be wintertime for folks in their late 30s now.
Why public libraries need to support open source
as you say, the LinkedIn acquisition hasn't actually happened yet, so I don't understand how what you're speculating could be possible.
I tried it with my favorite, Alex Webb. It didn't break 5/10 and received solid #mess and #boring tags on all of the photos. Fun none the less.
Where Top Talent in the Tech Industry Will Likely Work Next
I think they'll need to exclude all academics if they want advice on where they can put their heads that is suitable for publication.
To be fair, although many enterprise organizations use O365, the average customer size is quite small and reflects the fact that most businesses are SMB.
I totally agree. My hope is that because Matrix has an open protocol, there will be more competition in the client space which will lead (eventually) to good UX.
Though well intentioned, that's not really the right advice for someone on the autism disorder spectrum. It's kind of like telling a person with muscular dystrophy to try jogging.
> Nuclear program != nuclear weapons. See Iran

The parallel is easy to make. Repeat if often enough and people will end up saying they have nukes.
> Because rolling out a fibre network is very very very expensive.

For some values of very very very expensive.

Fiber to the home costs about as much as a MacBook Pro.
Some photography is presented as contemporary art, some isn't. "Fine art photography" is usually not credible contemporary art. It's often black and white, formalistic, maybe a female nude... I can imagine an AI that only understands formal qualities becoming pretty good at rating it.

What you might call conceptual photography, on the other hand, is "AI-complete". It's as hard as literature to appreciate, you definitely need a full human-equivalent AI.
Roland Barthes' ideas of the studium and the punctum start to open up the intellectual depth of that kind of photo.

This kind of project is possibly credible as a rater of formal quality against some ideal norm, maybe stretching to understanding composition in a crude sense. But everyone knows that it's the unexpected but visually compelling feature that makes an image good. (Or alternatively the significance of its content.) Standard strategies like the "rule of thirds" can only produce formulaic images.
Time to do some NAND mirroring: https://threatpost.com/researcher-proves-viability-of-nand-m...
I lead the team running the new Insight AI fellows program in Silicon Valley. For the past year, I've been providing guidance and mentorship for Insight Fellows doing deep learning projects as part of our data science program. My background is in applying current deep learning research to large scale audio and video data sets to understand animal behavior and cognition. I'm happy to answer any questions.
What is the biological definition of intelligence?

Is education so optimised that "inherited intelligence" has any actual significance?
Most people don't know that R has a OO and a Functional side to it. After I learned Racket my R programming changed. After hunting down why I found out that the authors of R wanted to add scheme into the S language when they created R. So you can do some very functional style writing that looks very elegant.
You don't hear about it, but it happens. There's awful (http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/awful), and Artanis (http://web-artanis.com) for Chicken and Guile respectively. CL and Racket probably have something, I just don't know what as I don't know them as well.
I was in Colombia in 2010 (what a beatiful country and people - I loved it). There were elections and I saw "De la U" posters all over. So I asked a few people what the U stood for. Nobody seemed to know. This is the party that won the presidency.

Did I just happen to ask the wrong people or is political awareness that low in Colombia?
It's more complicated than that. Even given that there is no demographically inherent advantage (something I generally believe), the hiring process is only one of the last steps in a long pipeline that can be damaged earlier on to skew the ratios.
There are some good reasons why caching might not have worked for Microsoft you know... The much smaller memory size of a typical PC being a bit potential reason.
"If a government wants to track me, they will find a way."

So just hand the data right to them?

"I'm more concerned about Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Apple tracking me, reading my private conversations, and selling my data to the highest bidder."

End-to-end encryption is the only solution to that problem. Open source software and decentralization is nice and all but to become a mobile app it'll have to be compiled and run on a closed platform and will almost certainly use APIs of that platform.
What can people do better than machines? The view from 1951
Why not, by the way? I've always wondered why the CL community hasn't come up with a new, improved standard for such a long time. Other old languages like Fortran and Ada are continuously updated. Why not CommonLisp?
Most movies have always been trash. It only seems better historically because we don't tend to remember all the trash that got released in decades past, while all the trash in the past year or two is still in memory.
Make some pancakes! That'll cheer you right up :)
> The story itself says further down the page, "Ferrer was arrested on felony charges of pimping a minor, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping." None of these are actually trafficking charges; they're run-of-the-mill prostitution charges.

Prostitution with anything other than free and full consent by someone with full capacity to give consent is sex trafficking; pimping a minor, therefore, is a sex trafficking charge.

> There are a variety of new state and federal laws on sex trafficking

Yes, there are a number of new laws that cover aspects of sex trafficking that were not adequately covered (either because they weren't already illegal, or because the specific lack-of-consent related aspects didn't enhance the offense beyond some base non-trafficking offense), but that doesn't change the fact that pimping a minor is inherently a charge that is based on factors which meet the definition of sex trafficking, even if it was already both prohibited and enhanced beyond the equivalent non-trafficking charge (simple pimping) prior the recent round of additional trafficking-related legislation.
It wasn't my intention to train my brain but I started using DuoLingo (it's free) language learning and I find my concentration has improved.

Maybe it's just because I do a different activity at a regular rate per day but I do feel brainy plus I am learning three languages.
We have Chibi through emscripten, and SPOCK compiles to JS. Both implement most of R5RS.
You can also enter the text from the photos of products others have uploaded.
Exactly =) The target is not professional photographers but pretty much everyone else taking pictures everyday with their smartphones.
Artsy photos are more often than not wonderful for reasons which are not way too semantic for us for now - situations, etc, and which are way beyond what standard photographers do!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Uploading this photo hangs the system...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nnbb_alf/3181106186/
It's worth noting that Black Rock City is divided into zones (radially, like a clock! Google for bird's eye images or maps!) and there's a zone for everybody, even you, gentle reader.
You didn't ruin my day, it actually feels good to vent every now and then. :-)

> your reductio was not working how you expected it to

Actually, it pretty much works exactly how I expected, and has for 25 years (I started down this road in 1990 when the EPRG paradox first occurred to me. It took me ten years to find someone who knew the answer.)

The problem is when people look at EPRG out of context and think that my thesis is that I've invented FTL and therefore I am the World's Greatest Physicist. (And now some moron is probably going to cite this very comment and say that I've claimed to be the Worlds Greatest Physicist because they saw that I wrote "... I am the World's Greatest Physicist" and they don't have time to read the part that they elided.)
That would be great! Insta-lawsuit. Age is a protected class in the US, and if it is discovered that your company did something like this you are going to be paying out bigtime.
Yes less suffering in just about every US city then SAN Fran in this regards.

Thankfully it's not seen that/as much in Nashville and Baltimore. More in the latter then the former.
If you include moons, plenty of water on Europa, though don't know if it's salt water. Generally I'm against terraforming though, especially because we've not shown we can be good custodians of our home planet.
What exactly is meant by desk-worthy?
4 Keys to a Clean Angular Implementation
Well if anyones being honest this is quite drastic (for example, even a dual citizen cannot participate), but one has to remember that the information these politicians needs to get has to be impartial and have no influence. While I know this is a terrible example because it's not a war, in a time of war would you hire people from the people you're fighting with/negotiating with to give you information?

I've seen tons of my friends argue for and against TTIP, and I just wonder the problems there about foreign influence in a trade deal isn't a problem?

They need academics to provide economic advice but it should be impartial right? Imagine 40 years down the line it comes out as 'hey that guy was actually an automotive lobbyist, but the laws set now'
Not that it matters a lot, but isn't this pretentious:

> Every spring, around 20 new kids don graduation caps, celebrate their nascent adulthood with a class party in a rye field, and return to the farm the next day to plant corn or milk holsteins.

It's like milking holsteins and planting corn is inferior to complaining about it. As if the author is the only one smart enough to complain.
My pleasure :-)
Another article I enjoyed on sub-cultures and tribalism: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/04/the-ideology-is-not-the...

Beautiful Adams quote ;)
The W3C standard is not about whether the DRM will exist - to some extent it will exist regardless of what decisions the W3C makes.

The W3C standard is not about making DRM supported by all browsers and other tools - even if included in the standard, many makers of web technology will be locked out of DRM support.

The W3C standard is simply about whether we (the "tech guys") ENDORSE the use of DRM. And it DOES make a difference: if approved, DRM will be more common than if not approved.
He's got the right to say it, and I've got the right to feel offended.

And since you ask, no, I didn't flag the comment. That was someone else.
In this case they shipped. The Windows Subsystem for Linux is based on the picoprocess design that originated with Drawbridge.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/05/23/pico-process...
I worked in a smaller, "high value investor" unit, within a parent mutual fund company.

It was very much not a tech company, although there were a few good people in the org. There was of course a big focus on buying supported packages, and off-shoring as much as possible. I understand buying "non core competency commodities", but the off shoring was dubious.

The custom stuff in my unit was very much neglected, except for integration projects when changing vendors, which of course have to happen when you move some of your dependencies.

Anyway, uptime was VERY important, which also implies a fair amount of risk management/reduction. In fairness, buying external services does make costs much more predictable. However, if you are on the vendor side of this, you need to make sure you build in pricing to cover what will be a very demanding customer.
take the 3 days off during thanksgiving or Christmas week.

http://www.tripstodiscover.com/14-of-the-best-places-in-the-...
It's basically because we allowed ISPs to monopolize vast swaths of the country leaving no real competition.
Hi! I'm the author of the blog post and maintainer of the discussed package.

As CurtHagenlocher notes, in R functions can access passed expressions without evaluating them. So, even though the name `sepal_length` may not be bound to any object in the scope in which `select(sepal_length)` is called, one can use R's non-standard evaluation to process the expression `sepal_length` without trying to resolve the name.

Julia does not have non-standard evaluation, so `select(sepal_length)` necessarily attempts to resolve `sepal_length`, which is a problem if `sepal_length` is not a valid name. Using a macro to an extent emulates the effect of R's non-standard evaluation, at least when it comes to being able to name columns as arguments to manipulation verbs without having to symbolicate them or wrap them in quotes.

The advantages go beyond name resolution. One could resign oneself to symbolicating everywhere, i.e. writing `:sepal_length` to refer to the appropriate column. But then one starts to run into issues when one tries to handle expressions involving function calls. For instance, suppose you want to implement `filter` as an actual function. Well, you could ask users to invoke `filter(iris, :sepal_length > .5)`. This is fine so far as name resolution goes. But the argument `:sepal_length > .5` will throw a `MethodError` when evaluated, because there's no method for comparing a `Symbol` object to a `Float64` object. Using a macro-based regime allows us to access directly the AST representing `sepal_length > .5` and generate a lambda that mirrors the predicate's structure.

One of the main points of the post, which perhaps gets lost in the verbiage, is that, while we're using macros to allow for unqualified (i.e., un-symbolicated, un-stringed) mention of column names in the context of manipulation verb arguments, we can perform a number of other services (such as "automatic" lifting over `Nullable` arguments) and optimizations (such as having the resultant lambda take a tuple argument to avoid splatting, which is costly).

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The practices focus on different parts of the brain.

The games usually focus on the frontal cortex development (http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/believe-it-or-not-comp..., admittedly with with mixed success https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20407435) while meditation seems to lead to an increase of brain cells in hippocampus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004979/
That is a fundamental part of being human. Anyone who thinks they or their culture is immune to it is deluding themselves. Anyone who thinks they or their culture is better at it than others needs to tread carefully, because the part of the very meme we're talking about here is about how your culture is better at things than others, so isn't it kinda convenient that one thinks so?
Sorry, articulacy is cool.
I don't think many (any?) people working at Burning Man think "this is my job" more than "I do this for the love".

I can't imagine it pays well enough to justify hanging around in the desert for a month with a bunch of burners, if that's not your thing.
Low-density materials surrounded by a thin shell are still going to weight a lot more than air surrounded by a thin shell. Also, you have to look into how this is going to be heated. For a hot air balloon to work, all the air inside has to be hot. If your balloon is filled with an amazingly efficient insulator....

Also, the reason airships use lighter-than-air gas is because then they don't have to carry lots of heavy fuel for heating air. Things like fuel, and pipes to carry heat throughout your aerogel, will rapidly eat up any efficiencies you gained.
You've probably never read the DPW handbook, well you're not supposed to, it's not for public release. The Borg staff organizations know what they're doing, and they do a great job. You don't ever notice it, because by the time you arrive it's already there. DPW and Gayte have worked hard to make everything run seamlessly. The portopotties have shade so they're not as hot and gross, there's a huge power grid, lines have been running smoothly for entrance and exodus the last three years. Arctica makes sure that everyone can have fresh food and cold drinks. HEAT ran 12 hour shifts 24 hours a day to make sure all the art projects could finish. Sign crew make sure that every street corner is marked so that ambulances and emergency services will always have a point of reference (that's what those pvc posts are for). There's many more departments that work hard to make sure that staff and volunteers are fed, taken care of, and that safety is first.

The borg is operating in their best interests, but the departments that make burning man happen work really hard to always improve year after year. So when that crusty DPW person flips you off, try saying, "thank you for your work".
I don't have time to read it in full right now, but a quick glance over that paper doesn't show any formalisation of data races, which is specifically what that parenthetical is about, not just general "concurrency safety". Having a detailed description of concept seems important because Rust is fairly precise in what it defends against, possibly giving the programmer more flexibility and power than in a system that attempts to solve many problems (but of course giving them less assistance when writing something that fits within the rules of the more defensive languages). Of course, it's possible that a language "accidentally" solves that problem without it having been formalised, it just seems less likely.
For everyone worried about software jobs going away, this is a good example of something which will create new jobs. Soon, some of us will be spending our time investigating why the green YouTubes [1] "is down for some reason" :-)

[1] https://vimeo.com/47311461#t=17m0s
No, although what it stands for has been lost to the ages.

They're functions whose args are passed unevaled.

It kills a whole variety of compiler optimizations, but in an interpreter, there's no reason not to have them.
I do think that collecting anecdotes from other fields can help you think better in your own field of work. I'm just not so sure that, for example, doing Sudoku makes you any better at thinking about things. Brain training exercises aren't general enough.
Nope, Studio will continue to work.
I had an idea to do exactly this, about the time Freelancer bought up the better freelance sites like RaC etc. Hold hands with the project owners to create decent, even good, specs - and then delegate the work in chunks to several developers. Sort of a freelancer production line...