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>definitively end the argument

Based on one study that has never been replicated ?

> small (S) with 13-17 pupils

Would a class size of < 10 pupils mean even more success in life ? Would your 1:1 attention at home mean even better outcomes ?
Fair point, really. There's a lot of games on PC that have micro transactions but sell no cheat codes, or at least have good enough game design for cheat codes to be pure luxury items, nice to have, but not mandatory.
I don't see how alphago changes the content of this essay in any way.
Of course, progressive politics of the kind you talk about is entirely compatible with neoliberalism. So to the extent that the Left is primarily focused on those things and demands that people subsume other concerns to them, it ceases to provide any opposition to neoliberalism. Which is why the Economist can be described as left-leaning - the world hasn't shifted to the right, though that's a convenient way for the people on the left who've abandoned these causes to shift blame elsewhere, instead the axis along which the two are divided is twisting sideways.
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It would level the playing field for all businesses. Incorporating outside the US wouldn't help the companies get access to US markets
> The snarky "checkmated by FACTS, you emotional liberal!" narrative doesn't work when STUDY after STUDY fails to find any meaningful correlation

I think you're the one constructing a narrative. From what I'm aware of, there IS a correlation between race and IQ, and it is strong. And it is borne out by study after study. Stronger than the effects of environment and education. Even in the famous Minnesota transracial twin study where adopted black children are raised by wealthy white parents, " the IQs of adopted black children reared by white families did not differ significantly from that of black children raised by their biological parents."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...
> Better concurrency than C++

That's... not saying all that much.

> Better performance than C

In 2014? Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.

About problems with C:

> Maybe a bug in GCC outputted the wrong machine code

And Rust compilers will never have bugs?

> Maybe a race condition in Linux gave an unprivileged process the ability to tamper with your program

And writing your program in Rust is going to save you? Nope.

Now, in the previous two points, the claim may be that GCC/Linux is written in C, rather than that my program is written in C. But a compiler written in Rust can still output the wrong machine code, and the borrow checker won't save you.
That some people are unfamiliar with computer security is not news. I have known a fair number of big-shot executives and politicians, all of whom I'd expect would click on suspicious links in their email (if they read the email) and double-click on attachments.

The news is why that particular person was targeted.
When people keep writing "aliasing XOR mutability", don't they actually mean "aliasing NAND mutability"? And if yes, is there a reason to use XOR here? And if no, isn't it the case that if it's worth communicating, it's worth communicating clearly?
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> not a lot of people

There are many Republicans.
Changing other people's flight bookings is too easy
If there were a physical law that proved that there is only physical law, you would have a valid argument. What there is, instead, is an assumption. A presupposition. If you will, a philosophical stance.
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> On the other hand, I can't not notice that most readers on HN are very well paid SW engineers that profit from this shortage, quite handsomely sometimes.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

It's the typical case of when you ask the guy next to you that does the same job and he's paid a lot less. Or when you ask you friend that are doctors/lawyers/finance guys and they all earned more than you.

There is probably some folks on HN who's on the very top end [in their respective locations] but that's not representative of the usual dev.
So are you suggesting we rip out (all but the upper-crust of) the brownstones, and put in glass boxes as high as we can build them? And that even if we did -- that there would realistically be any way to ensure that even a significant portion of these would be affordable -- without a good heaping dose of, you know, coercion (courtesy of your pals on the left)?

I'm not sure what you're advocating, actually.
For those interested in the nature of Reality and existence itself, and the possibility that our experience may in some way be illusory or "VR like," please allow me to suggest the Vedanta Treatise by A. Parthasarathy[0].

If you're going that route, read the last section of the book first and then come back to the first two sections (:

Edit: interestingly, it seems the Wachowski brothers (sisters?) were inspired by the Vedanta (Upanishads), mantras of which may be heard chanted during key scenes such as the fight between Neo and Smith. Of course the grandeur of the philosophy in the Upanishads does not need the validation of a pop culture movie, but it's an interesting reference.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/9381094160/ref=pd_aw_sim_sbs_...
It is not wrong when you benefit from it.

This is a human trait, people do not see the wrong on the things you benefit from.

For example, did you ate beef or fish lately? When was the last time you thought about the animals that were killed in order for you to eat them. Have you seen the sacrifice of an animal needed for eating it. In Mongolia or Middle East nomads will sacrifice the animal in front of you before eating so you know what you eat is the best they have.

Imagine that cows were able to think like humans, and remember what you did to their veal. As a children I worked feeding cows and they are not as stupid as people believe, and they like horses have emotions and personalities like humans have.

When humans personally benefit from something it is very easy to just rationalize it. Humans rationalize everything.

Workers on facebook are multimillionaires that are pretty happy about their life becoming the new central intelligence of the World. They will rationalize it as a good thing focusing on this service being needed and useful for the world, as it is.

The problem is that even when the best of intentions, Governments, and secret services of countries want to use this service for nefarious purposes in the same way that if you centralize money in one place, some people want to take it by force if necessary, if you place too much personal information in some place, some people will want to take it for their own use.
Thank you. I'll try it.
"At least one targeted individual activated links to malware hosted on operational infrastructure of opened attachments containing malware" - I pity that individual, like I'm sure he's getting blamed in the party like 'Hey, aren't you the piece of work who clicked a link'
They can? The way "purpose" was used in the original post, there just about has to be someone there to intend.
I'm curious, how'd you compile the list of stocks?
I'll stick to debating science, not religion, thank you.
Oh, you're a fucking Nazi. Take your phrenology back to Stormfront, buddy.

I am actually not, whatsoever a Nazi nor do I have any affiliation with or respect for Stormfront or other white nationalists, race essentialists and related genocidal nutters. I am frankly quite far left-wing.

I see from your other comments you appear to have done very little reading of the plain facts or evolving research regarding modern genetics, anthropology, intelligence, etc and your willingness to carelessly throw around the most vile names in bad faith means I have zero desire to discuss these topics further with you.

I am simply posting to say no, I will not be slandered as a Nazi by some uninformed jerk on the internet for an honest attempt at opening some debate on very complex and sensitive topics which almost everyone attempts to avoid because of how ugly the debate inevitably becomes, both because of people like you and the Stormfronters on the other side.
Same, I have a friend who works there, often tells me about how good his stock prices are etc, never ever heard him talk about ethics, it's just not even on his radar. The other day I installed messenger (in the hope I never have to login to FB web again) and received a message about 15 seconds later saying, "Good boy, that's good for my stock prices" ha.

I know what you mean though, it's like they're trained not to discuss topics with outsiders or something?
Perhaps. If that's the case, maybe they'll solve the problem using similar cloak-and-dagger methods, like retaliating by arranging to have a Russian government official assassinated or something.
How is primary rigging fake news? Its very obvious from reading the wiki leaks emails that the DNC was brazenly biased towards Hillary and against Sanders.
OP never suggested otherwise. Motivation matters for adults because not all adults are equally motivated.
Move semantics are so useful and powerful, but so complex. I've read multiple tutorials on them (all of them very long) and I still keep forgetting minor but critical details.

(You could probably replace "move semantics" in that sentence with multiple other C++ features and still have a valid statement.)
You can't blindly assert that Maoist China was not Euro style and modern China is Euro style, and also claim that Maoist China has nothing to do with modern China's economy. There's a near-direct line from Maoist China to modern China -- the next generation of the same Communist Party is in charge.
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Go has much lower memory usage, high throughput, std ssl/tls/http libraries, high performance GC and produce fully static binaries. I do not think Python/Ruby can provide required performance for containers, cluster scheduling, orchestration etc. Even Java with much higher perf compared to Python/Ruby is not suitable because of high memory usage.
This worked very well on me, as I just bought one of their developer licenses for a pro package... Beautiful stuff.
Not trying to be Peter Theil here but why is child labor considered inhuman and cruel? Aren't they getting a chance to learn by doing as opposed to sitting in the classroom and getting to the same place in another 10 years?
Until a Russian name or IP address is provided, the accusations fail to hold water. An incomplete proof is equivalent to "'cause we said so"
No, modern tanks are set often higher and the toilet has better flow.

What matters is how high the water falls and at what rate not the overall volume of the flush.

Modern toilets that flush about 7-9 liters for a number 2 flush are considerably better than the older ones that whilst flush almost double the volume do it over a longer period of time.

Toilet flush is basically a push if you do it with more force as in the water displacement in a given time frame is higher it would flush better than a higher overall displacement over a longer duration.

The other upside of modern toilets is that if they do clog they don't overfill.

That said over a lifetime of 30 years using only water saving toilets I never seen one clog in a residence I've seen a few public ones already clogged but who knows what they tried to flush there.

If you having so much problems I would take a look at your plumbing or diet you so won't need to use half a roll of TP to wipe your ass.
Point 7 is the one you're supposed to be trying to explain. The FBI, CIA, DHS and NSA have all said, in plain language, no anonymous sources, just regular old press releases, that Russia hacked the DNC. The reasons they might say this are a) they believe it due to some evidence they are not releasing, and b) ???. Theory a) seems pretty believable, and I haven't heard a b) that sounds remotely plausible yet.

Whether someone else also hacked the DNC would be interesting to know, but it doesn't really impinge on the question of whether there is or is not a vast-but-also-ham-handed-and-kind-of-contradictory conspiracy pushing theory a.
> Also, some SaaS/product success stories take the path of CONSULTING/AGENCY -> PRODUCT -> SUCCESS (e.g. Basecamp, SEOmoz, FreshBooks) but you rarely hear of the reverse.

There are a lot of people (i.e. @levelsio) who launch a career as a speaker out of products, I imagine part of that is consulting
That line of thinking is pragmatically equivalent to "let whoever spams the most win"
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That actually looks very good. They are supporting STM32F4, which is one part I use a lot. I see they are using the GNU linker (and presumeably binutils) which makes total sense. No reason to reinvent all of that, and that tool chain is robust.
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Whether or not Trump would do those things is immaterial; he's not yet president, so what he would have done if he was already doesn't matter. Executive orders, that's pretty common.
Republicans as such don't have a lot of motivation to prove DNC incompetence by them being hacked, now that Republicans won the election - that would be much larger claim that DNC is less than competent than being hacked.
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Well. The salaries are for experienced people, preferably with a bachelor/master.
Is anyone interested in developing an email-based VCS?
I think there is a gap in the VCS world. Git and TortoiseHg use similiar commands and are both kind of hard to use sometimes.

Despite the cult-like glee of vocal git users there is discontent out there. I've asked on different forums and its usually not hard to find people who do not like git at all if you explain yourself clearly. I'll also offer some of my favorite anti-git links. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeG4S-mJts, http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/enough-git/, https://stevebennett.me/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/

Without a doubt the majority of people who reply will defend git. I'm not talking to them, they do what they're told anyhow.

So the idea is really simple. It just uses your email as the repository. When you want to commit it attaches the differences and emails them to you. Configuration shouldn't be much more complicated than setting up an email client.

I want to copy how TortoiseHg does a lot of its work through the right click context menu. There will be no command line. Everything should be dead simple and out of the way. If it doesn't fit in the context menu it's scope creep.

Also it's got to work identical on Ubuntu and Windows. I think I can do all that. Where I could use the most help is with the diff tool. VSCode has a beautiful diff tool. A lot of diff tools are ancient. I'm not going to use an external diff tool. It's just got to be a simple text editor with red and green lines that doesn't look like it was made a hundred years ago. I'm not against reinventing the wheel if we can think of a better way to do diffs and merges.

Anyone interested?
This seems like the harder strategy of the two. What about simply having a small Windows 3.1 or 95 VM that gets run in the background under HyperV, with fresh VXDs written for it to allow it to use paravirtualized resources, so as to allow it to do the same sort of "infinite framebuffer canvas used to back native windows for the compositor" tricks VMWare's Unity mode and the like do?
It's telling you created a throwaway to post this.

Of course there's a good reason for that fad - scientific racism is a pseudoscience that was created in order to "prove" the inferiority of races and to justify colonialism, slavery, racism, social Darwinism, and racial eugenics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

The correlation between race and IQ is openly "admitted" right there in the into paragraph of the Wikipedia page! If academia is "hiding" it they sure are doing a bad job. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
Not sure why we even have money to spend on these kinds of research. These trials are always random and inconclusive due to the nature of sample sizes.
Specifically, do you think this would work?
https://github.com/vaibkv/weekend-whats-up-app

There's nothing in there yet, just a readme but do you think if I make it users will come?
C++ users would say that shared_ptr is the idiomatic way to handle this scenario, and it's no more unsafe than Rust is in general use.
It's a bit beyond me too, but here's my take from skimming: It's already known that you can do differential calculus in some pretty abstract spaces (not just functions from R^n to R^m). Automatic differentiation is a way of automatically keeping differentiability and computing derivatives when sticking other differentiable stuff together. This puts those ideas together, so you can automatically differentiate some more interesting things stuck together in some interesting ways related to programming. That was what I got from my rusty semi-layperson's skim, at least.
You can buy RATs. The several RATs used in this campaign were never for sale.

For example the RAT named X-Agent was one of several used in the DNC hack. It has never been put up for sale and it was used in previous Russian intelligence operations (for example tracking Ukraine artillery[0]).

>That's not what is usually called a rootkit

It doesn't appear that anyone has reverse engineered the PC version of X-Agent but the android variant (which may be very different from the one used in the DNC hack) does take some steps to hide itself. Granted nothing suggests anything like kernel syscall hooking but those sorts of rootkit techniques are overrated because they leave obvious and detectable patterns of compromise.

[0]: https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/...
I'm not sure "McCarthyist" is the correct term. Russia is, along with the US and China, one of the "big three" perpetrating state-sponsored cyberattacks.
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I think the question here is not assuming everyone is offline. The real question we should be asking is: are there enough users having access to internet while they are coding. If the answer is yes, this kind of project will certainly be useful.

While this is just my guess, I honestly think there should be more users with constant internet access than all emacs users(no harsh feelings, I use emacs myself, my point is just we are a minority group).

Really the problem we should solve when using this kind of editor is spotty connection(like in an airport or at a conference), it's not a use case targeting environment without any internet access.
Yes, we've run into 2 or 3 ZFS bugs that I can think of that were resolved in a timely fashion (released within a few weeks if I recall) by Canonical working with Debian and zfsonlinux maintainers (and subsequently fixed in both Ubuntu and Debian - and upstream zfsonlinux for ones that were not debian-packaging related). Of course your mileage may vary, and it depends on the severity of the issue. Being prepared to provide detailed reproduction and debug information, and testing proposed fixes, will greatly help - but that can be a serious time commitment on your side (for us, it's worth it). Hope that helps!
The research compared an original strain to a modified strain, to the modified strain with roundup. It is unsurprising that the modified strain, that is producing an extra protein in high amounts will be under a heavier metabolic load than the same strain that is not producing that extra protein. It seems the metabolic load showed up in a few particular places that haven't obviously been investigated before, and now we can more carefully probe those differences now that the team did a thorough screen to find them.

However, what the research did not do is compare the metabolic load in the modified strain to anything else. They did not compare it to an average corn strain, an 'heirloom' corn strain, a corn that is under cold/heat/viral or any other kind of environmental stress or bounty. Nor did they compare the corn metabolite levels to other foods. I suspect the difference in metabolic load between a strain +/- a particular resistance protein is likely less than the difference in metabolic load between various corn strains, much less the difference between fertilized/shaded/cold-conditioned corn, much less the original grass strain from which human-edible corn came from, much less from another food crop. The difference appears in the ratio of particular metabolites in the corn. And at the end of the day the difference in amounts of small molecules upon adding this metabolic stress is likely completely overwhelmed by the literal amount of material (ex. if you don't want that much of the metabolite, use 0.01% less corn. And if the corn is processed at all, this kind of difference becomes moot very quickly.)

The result is not surprising and is framed in a particularly click/news-bait worthy way. The nice part of the research is that it did a lot of hard work to find the variables that now can be looked for in those above cross-wise comparisons without having to do the major hard work of screening an entire transcriptome for each comparison. But it does not in any way provide evidence for any danger to human health at all.

Some math:

The modified strain's largest difference in metabolites was a 28x increase in cadaverine (btw, it's pretty entertaining how many nitrogen-containing compounds have fantastic names because of their odor). According to [1] the difference in the amount of cadaverine between dried and canned corn is 5.5x (with the low cadaverine in dried corn mentioned as nutritionally deficient). And the total amount of cadavarine in fresh corn is ~ 10mg/100g which is ~ 0.01% by mass. Most of the other large changes in metabolites were changes of less than an order of magnitude.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814611...
Anyone know if there is already a comparison of this to Knuth's DLX algorithm? I see they claim this approach will be superior to any backtracking algorithm. Empirical results would be interesting.

I'm also curious how well this generalizes.
You can't help it. You made a religious claim when you said, "These philosophies are irreconcilable with physical law." (Or at least a philosophical claim, but philosophy and religion fundamentally answer the same questions, though they do so in different terms.)

But you can't help it in a wider sense. You seem to have a view that science tells you the real truth about reality, but that is not a scientifically-provable view. It's a philosophical or religious (in the wider sense) view.
Aren't humans already doing this with supercomputers and the internet overall? We can already have a million pieces of hardware communicating. What makes this any more powerful for an AI or uploaded mind? We're already doing it. So either the recursive improvements is already underway, with no need for AGI or uploaded minds, or the future AGI and uploaded minds won't do any better than we are.
You should mention that the tank with the crew they have inside is publicly available to anybody in the malware archives of APT28/29. Anybody can plant it. Also both the powershell and the py2exe are completely reversible so you can take it, modify it and who's creation is that now? If there is kernel-level stuff then it would be a more solid case but not by much. On top of that, it's entirely possible other completely unrelated attack is responsible for the leaks, but the malware used cleaned up after itself, leaving only the less sophisticated trail behind. Clearly if 2 groups hacked them in the easiest way possible, it's in fact suspicious why haven't they been hacked by other groups. It's almost a certainty others came after it.