skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are strong reasons to believe that the observed genetic differences between races have profound phenotype effects. After all, the races are different, physically. It's not "just skin color". Can you really argue that Koreans and bantus have the same physical characteristics except for skin color? Facial structure, stature, metabolic diseases, hair texture, and even earwax differ markedly between different heredity groups. These differences persist even when koreans and bantus move to the United States and have children; it's the people, not the dirt. These physical differences are heritable. Mixed-race children usually exhibit some mixture of the characteristics of their parents.

If we don't agree that people from different races can differ across an array of physical characteristics and that these differences are genetically encoded, I'm not sure we can have a conversation. I bet you're also the kind of person who denies that men are much physically stronger than women.

But suppose you accept physical differences. Why would you then reject cognitive ones out of hand? Evolution and genetic drift act on the mind as much as they do the body, since the brain is a physical organ built with proteins encoded by the same sorts of genes that code for eye color.

The persistent very large racial gaps in IQ (one whole standard deviation) across different studies and population groups tells us that population differences are not merely physical. These differences are robust under twin studies and other measures that control for shared environment. Given that IQ is tightly coupled to life outcome, I'd call these differences quite "impactful".

I know that nobody likes to read a paragraph like the one I just wrote, but we can't hide from facts. We can't make effective policy unless we start acknowledging reality, however unpleasant it may be.
There are several Republican enclaves in California (particularly in rural areas) just as there are several Democratic enclaves in Texas (particularly in urban areas).

I live in Ithaca, NY. That means we have a very, very liberal municipal government, gerrymandered-to-shit knucklehead (mostly) Republican legislative representation in Albany and DC, and a moderately liberal governor (Cuomo). These layers matter.

But if you don't mind tyranny then by all means don't vote.
That is an interesting thought.

We do know Obama (like most presidents) is pretty cozy with the Intelligence Community. We know Trump isn't. I think a coup d'etat or shadow government is too much of a stretch, but this may at least let them work around Trump to an extent.

Also, we're living in interesting times where thoughts like "the intelligence agencies are covertly trying to work around the President!" are actually considered a neutral or good thing by many.
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For any kind of pointing/aiming/selection task, the SC is hands down the best I've seen (arguably even more comfortable than mouse/kb for some things).

Where it fails in comparison to other controllers is button-feel, IMO. The shoulder buttons for example, compared to those on the DS4, feel very clicky/hollow (actually I think this is true of everything other than the face buttons) and can be distractingly loud. The DS4 buttons manage to feel soft/gentle while still being precise (and quiet).

My uses tend to be almost entirely centered around pointing/aiming, so I absolutely love the SC and use it heavily, but I'm really looking forward to a second revision.
Personally I'm a fan of running unbound locally. DNSSEC verification on the same machine is pretty nice, but you lose the benefits of sharing the cache with many others.
People pull the "everyone knows" and "it's obvious" card all the time. It usually happens for two reasons 1) they don't actually understand the argument or subject matter enough to explain what's going on or 2) they don't want to spend the time arguing on something they are certain is true
Then again, God told Mohammad that Jesus wasn't dead at all, so clearly Paul and therefore Ananias are unreliable. Which just goes to show that when you base your chain of reasoning on believing people claiming God spoke to them, you get into all kinds of contradictions. Because lots of people claim God have spoken to them, and He does not seem to be very consistent in his messages.
If people are being tracked by the IMEI number, can't you patch android to just return a random IMEI number unique for every day or hour? The parts of the phone that actually use that number have it hardcoded in, the rest is just for display.
if it doesn't ensure accountability to the people its not democracy. There is now enough evidence that democracy is not serving the people and is increasingly looking like posturing and tokenism every 4 or 5 years while vested and special interests lobby everyday and capture the regulatory framework to further their interests. It has all the underpinnings of a ruling class.

Inspite of the Snowden revelations nothing has changed, no one is punished and folks like Clapper lie and get promoted. Obama may posture differently but he is the biggest supporter of security services and given his behavior against Syria and Russia an unrepentant warmonger.

Bankers tank the economy and are rewarded with bailouts in a country that worships capitalism and hates unearned benefits. And they get away lightly with attorney generals in one state after another unwilling to prosecute and more keen on fines which do not ensure any kind of proportional accountability.

This is not democracy as we understand it. 4 or 5 years is too long and there must be multiple processes along the way to ensure things are on track. Things like lobbying, revolving doors, political corruption and abuse of power, corporate interests over public interest and critical decisions around fundamental rights and war must be strongly secured with laws and processes that work.
Alexa, go unclog the toilet... oh wait, you can't?
ok, not asking for much, go fold my laundry!.. No?!

Is Pluto a Planet? Wait, I want a real home assistant, god damn it!
The suggestion is that you compile it with a flag to disable the feature. No need to change any lines of code.
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Those things do not look comfortable at all. I'll wait until the reviews come out, but it looks like I'd start cramping after 10 minutes with those.
Well, the question is less about speed, and more about availability of choice. How many ISPs serve your area, and how many of them have data caps?

That would be a lot more interesting to know.

The "in some areas you have two options to choose from" just sounds completely crazy, like something you’d hear in Soviet Russia, not in the west.
Never short a stock, use puts. You define your maximum potential loss ahead of time. By doing so you can entirely remove the solvency factor in question. Then it becomes a matter of giving yourself enough time on the puts to be right (assuming your core premise is correct).
You missed the 'Starting a Super PAC' part!
>But TV said all I need to do is vote.

I think you just unboxed jessaustin's point.
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Yeah, I think you are right, sorry about that.

Transventure appears to be the company offering co-work spaces. Guess that explains why there are so many companies on that address.

The suspension from ICANN for cyber squatting appears to be more worrying though for a company offering DNS services.
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You're right on the price I was going off memory. I actually value the entertainment of being disgruntled with a product sometimrs and talking to CS about it. I actually value new experience even if it's not really please tell. I was deposed once on pretty easy terms and thought it was very interesting.

And that $40 saved apparently got me 40 hacker news points as well ;).
We had to shift focus to the PS3 project, which needed everyone's full attention.
>“One day, I believe we’ll be able to send full rich thoughts to each other directly using technology," Zuckerberg said during a June 2015 Q&A. "You’ll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too if you’d like."

This sounds like a real possible future, but how could this be implemented so you only transmit the thoughts you want transmitted? Some sort of internal dialogue with an implant like "OK Facebook", "OK John, please end your thought by imagining a pound sign"?
Like the FBI spy planes registered to 13 companies... I don't imagine it is much of a stretch to register under a foreign company instead.

Also not saying I believe it is an NSA operation - just providing an example of another 3-letter agency registering fake companies in an attempt to mask their operations.
Polaroid increased sales by 180% just by using ordinary photos from social media
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If the problem is "too much downside in being distracted by people's opinions about my opinions", some options would seem to be:

* publish anonymously, putting the ideas in the discourse, albeit without them getting the signal boost of one's reputation.

* publish them in a format, such as a book, where you can explain them in such detail that you can ignore people misinterpretations, satisfied that you have explained everything to the best of your ability, and you don't have to worry about people's misinterpretations. This seems a lot of effort, and it's hardly certain one would succeed.

* It's unclear if the problem is that people will misinterpret across the universe of social and traditional media (which seems unsolvable) or simply within a particular forum in which the idea is shared. If it's merely within a particular forum, then one could have a private secretary (or sufficiently advanced AI, or grad student, or friend) cull through the comments for interesting responses, saving you the burden of looking at the rest.

* If, as is hypothesized, the successful are full of ideas that it would be a burden to share, presumably a credible third party could collect and publish these ideas. Politico, for example, had a panel of insiders from both parties who gave their impressions on the presidential campaign, with quotes not being attributed to any particular panelist.

*If misinterpretation comes from people "shooting from the hip" because posting first is rewarded, one partial mitigation might be putting replies in a lockbox and, say, displaying them after 8 hours, with the replies with certain characteristics (longer, more complicated sentence structure, less inflammatory words) being displayed more prominently. At that point more interactive commenter to commenter exchanges could begin.
I sort of agree. App.net lacked value at launch because of the way it intended to build value - through apps on it's platform. That's inevitably slow just when you need to build take-off momentum, and there is no way to "prime the pump" except by throwing money at the problem and hoping you get the right apps.

Moreover, Twitter has a problem with churn. It's free to start, but baffling for many, and troll-infested if you stick around. All ad-supported social networks have that problem plus the invasiveness issue.
Ah, that's something that I didn't see at all: google would be in charge of running the KT peer for google.com, yahoo for yahoo.com, etc...

Thanks for the clear-up !
Not public, probably just a local server for personal use.
"Not everyone should vote. If your views are substantially outside the mainstream there is no point in voting."

Voting outside the mainstream over time (for some definition of "substantially outside") can normalize and legitimize viewpoints that would otherwise be regarded as fringe forever. We've seen that with the Green party here in Canada.

That said, I agree (if you think this) that the fetishization of voting for the sake of voting is pretty naive.
A lot of information can be conveyed with body language, context and emotion, to the point where it's difficult to distinguish from telepathy. Most especially with folks who've spent a great deal of time together.

I'm maybe not the only one who's experienced bits of 'beaming' with a long time friend or partner?

Perhaps "I have a pretty good idea of what X is thinking" is softer language than "I'm reading X's mind", but I can see how the experience of telepathy is not greatly distant from something that's normal for many people.
I think the rule of thumb around here is that any system that is closed-source must be treated as inherently untrustworthy from a security standpoint. WhatsApp has therefore always been untrustworthy for the scrupulous, regardless of the relatively flattering PR.
Ahem. Don't they also have contact information? From https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/ and lack of future follow-ups on the subject, I believe they do. Possibly, hashed or obfuscated, but still recoverable.

Which must mean either I'm misunderstanding something (e.g. things had changed since the blog post was published and relevant GitHub issues were closed), or they had not disclosed some information they have to the US government, or they (or word of mouth, retelling the story) is misinforming users about what was disclosed.

(Upd: Yes, it would be a good idea to go through Signal source code and see what exactly is sent, before making any suggestions that may look like an accusation, but... sorry, the code is quite complicated and I don't think I can figure this out any fast. I found ContactTokenDetails class, but lost my way trying to trace its usage and how it's wrapped/encrypted/etc.)
The big question is how many people are willing to carry another device to play games vs using their phone with a good controller case. Are phone controllers at least standardized yet?
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It also didn't help that Congress is more and more doing absolutely nothing of substance. The last 8 years have been nonstop obstructionism, and the next 4 appear to be headed the same way. (note: this is not to say I agree with overuse of executive powers, I do not.)
Show HN: Intradrop
Funny this comes right after they released a brand new app, after they had the same old web app for more than 4 years it seemed.
Chances of practically finding a collision are indeed really small, though as you can easily calculate, there exists a sha256 hash value such that there are at least 2^256 different 512-bit long bit strings that map to it (and actually most of them should have this property).
Getting visitors from Hacker News doesn't seem like a high value business metric.
Ah, so it's basically a commandline for window management?
I'm really curious as to the outcome around this. The idea that a new planet in our solar system is discovered in our lifetime is exciting to me for some reason. I can't even really explain the feeling.

Even though for most people the discovery will make no difference, they might not even care about it, which is a shame I think.
Ask HN: Why Amazon doesn't restrict access to its Elasticsearch Service servers?
Round trip time for me to 80.80.80.80 is double what it is to 8.8.8.8. So I'm not convinced on the "fast" claim.
Yes. For starters, vdev and mdev exist.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11302557

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609980
In this case they were more afraid of their unemployment insurance rate going up if 20% of the company claimed unemployment. It was much cheaper to pay an extra 2 weeks. You're right you have to know the company, and in this case it was a great company with nice founders but the economy was tanking adyer the 2008 crash so they needed to cut costs.
> And not talking about the fact that Apple Maps are supported in just one platform and the market share in USA is very different than globally.

Agreed, Apple disqualifies themselves from the race to make the Universal Map.
Maybe he's running his own non-recursive DNS server..
Sounds good.

I think I'll try them :)

I guess the performance impact of these WMs is smaller than with full blown desktop environments?
It doesn't have to be public.
Sandboxie is nonfree and after a trial period only allows sandboxing one app at once. Firejail just had a local privilege escalation exploit, but I'm still using it (although more cautiously than before). Mbox appears unmaintained, and sandbox-exec isn't even for a platform I use.

I'm quite glad that Firefox implements sandboxing of its own.
So other people are just as bad and somehow that makes it better? Is that really the best that we can do?
If anyone is interested in this topic, read the book "Sapiens". It expands on how just 10,000 years ago there were 5 species of humans on earth.
I think you underestimate the ideological and political influences on science.
Chrome is getting the ability to play FLAC
"few people with _serious_ technical chops want to play on Facebook's side of the garden wall"

I fear you suffer from some form of bias. Or maybe I do; however, I know some folks there who, in the devops or data engineering world, get it. I mean you had Taner (who also lent his hand to building battle.net's infrastructure), Keith Adams, JPC, David Reiss, John Allen, eric huang, sam rash, etc.

Their largest hadoop cluster has _several_ hundred PB of data. You don't manage / run things on that without having some chops. Period. If you read the under the hood series, you might be able to see a different viewpoint.
Didn't they open source [sic] all their patents? [1] I'd call that being pretty open.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
Hi HN,

I am tired of mvc web frameworks, so for fun I am looking at minimal ways of making interactive web pages. I remembered CGI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface and I think it is sort of refreshing.

I have some Tiger Tech websites, and noticed they support CGI. Essentially you can drag and drop a script and it reads from standard in and out to produce a webpage. I created intradrop with a single python script, that references the cgi package. https://docs.python.org/2/library/cgi.html

Intradrop is a toy webpage/wiki where every word entered in a grid of cells becomes a link you can click. Also, any text which ends in a semicolon is evaluated as javascript. It allows the creation of crude web programs. See the "songs" page for examples.
#1, but not inherently as much as for the effect it had on the consequences of other decisions: they launched with a hard pay-wall for the first couple years and that made the identity crisis fatal. They got a good deal of initial publicity but the first thing anyone curious got was a requirement that they pay to use it. That's always going to be a hard sell but it was especially bad when the messaging was so confused about whether it was a platform to build apps on, a Twitter competitor, etc. since the cost was real and up-front but any benefits were largely hypothetical based on enough other people deciding to pay at all and some of them building apps.

I think a subscription model could be viable with better execution but it really seems like that would be best with a tiered approach so the social network wasn't held back by the payment requirement.
"First of all, it is just a simple microcontroller and the implemented RISC-V instructions are not that significant for the purpose. It's like expecting the SIM cards used in mobile phones to be equivalent to PCs because they run "Java"."

Who is calling this a PC? OpenV seems to be marketing itself as a microcontroller, it keeps comparing itself to Arduino.
Both of those are also not as mass-produced as the iPhone though; I mean they churn (churned?) out a million of those a day. That means there's thousands of people that get to see parts of it before the announcements, spread across multiple factories, and with people having financial incentives to smuggle pictures or even parts out of the factory and sell them to the media outlets.
A hash function takes variable length input and returns a fixed length output, that's all. Then there are sub-categories optimized for things like use in hash tables or building blocks in crypto, all with varying emphasis on uniqueness, output size and speed.
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> That in fact is the objection to many of the voter IDs GOP states keep pressing for

Tangential, but this is a great example of a fabricated wedge issue in American politics. The solution is so simple, just issue everyone a free national ID card. Passports should be free too and could also double for this purpose. Then the Republicans can stop complaining about voter fraud and Democrats can stop complaining about voter disenfranchisement (the latter of these I am legitimately concerned about, I just wish someone would actually follow through and do something about it).

Also, it's ridiculous that there isn't a national holiday at least on the day of the presidential elections.
You certainly could filter what you receive in the vector tile. However that vector tile is already a cached / filtered piece of the data. It limits what you would be able to do.
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I used Australia as an example, and yes, I have several Aussie friends who say, "Well we pretty much have a two party system now."

Do you have any insight as to why this is? Do people just not mark more than one or two preferences, given that they have more choices? I understand the "big" parties work hard to get there, and they'll work even in the limits of a system to stay on top.

I also had Australians tell me about the "top" and "bottom" of the ballot. The bottom can have a long scrolling amount of entries, and Australians who care will go to various websites where they can input their issues, get a list of which MPs agree, print out this list and take it into a voting booth to see which parties they should vote for. O_o I've been told most Australians only fill out the top.
I really hate landing pages like this.

http://imgur.com/a/lqban