skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is education and poverty are the biggest factors in IQ type scores. That is to say, they drive cognitive abilities in practice. Those two factors are tightly correlated with ethnicities and cultures, of course, so it gets very messy.

Anyway, my opinions are these:

* school k-12 should be free and available to all, with well taught and well compensated teachers, in facilities that are well maintained (posh facilities are pointless, but lead-free water is a must).

* Post-secondary education should span blue-collar and white-collar work and be free to all.

* Unions should be promoted and/or required for midsize and large employers.

* Strict regulations with relation to racist hiring and behaviors in the educational and job force.

The above will work to give everyone a reasonably equal starting point; if we can achieve that as a society as a stable fixedpoint, we've done well. I doubt I or my children will see that day.

I don't claim to speak for the Left, but I am a reasonable facsimile of a middle of the road Democrat in the US. I think that I rather like Churchill's definition of Liberalism from a century ago(slightly eliding the speech[1]):

* Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty.

* Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely, by reconciling them with public right.

* Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference.

* Liberalism seeks, and shall seek more in the future, to build up a minimum standard for the mass.

It's also the case that popular analysis of population differences has historically been channeled into racial theories, which tends to get very ugly in practice. So as a non-utopian policy matter in 2017, it's best to downplay this research, because it attracts Nazis like viscera attracts flies.

[1] http://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/legal-and-political-mag...
ITYM "offline backup of cloud storage"?
The reason CloudFlare encourages this is because it isn't meant for use as a traditional CDN - they're not a CDN at all really. You don't upload content to them. They're meant as a cache and anti-DDoS proxy more than anything else.

Look at what happens when anyone gets hit with a large scale DDoS attack these days, the first thing people will tell them, myself included is "CloudFlare". How do you handle a massive spike in load on a tiny, usually empty server? CloudFlare is the go-to tool for this purpose, especially for people who can't afford to pay Akamai, BlackLotus, Amazon or others. And they're impressively cheap for small businesses too. You can't hide from a DDoS attack or save your tiny DigitalOcean box if your web server isn't hidden away behind a service like this.

I have nothing against CloudFlare, they've proven themselves extremely trustworthy in many ways and even in handling of past security issues they've been very responsible. But this time that's not the case - the downplaying of the issue is really damaging their reputation in my eyes. I'm a paying customer and I'm quite disappointed to see this.
>"We can do something, but it won't be completely effective, so we shouldn't do anything."

Nice straw man. Again, where did I say that twitter shouldn't do anything?
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For journal-style writing, I'm finding using a physical notebook and bringing it with me is definitely the way to go. It's a constant reminder that I should be trying to keep it up, instead of being buried in the file system on my computer. I also like how I can easily add drawings whenever I feel like, or how easy it is to bring out while at lunch and write a few pages.

I personally haven't been able to make that work with writing stories, although I have found printing drafts and marking them up physically can work.
I don't get it. That seems perfectly pleasant. Not too hot, not too cold.
I've found it's best to just not think about it too much. CAPTCHAs are, after all, designed to "tell Computers and Humans Apart". You're a human, so just pick whatever seems reasonable and move on. If the system doesn't accept your answer, that's _its_ fault, not yours.
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This authors of this article claim that his employers were contacted to verify his identity. It doesn't necessarily prove that he was asked technical questions, but it was enough for me to believe the tweet http://www.recode.net/2017/2/28/14764064/nigerian-software-e...
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With the exception of CC0, of which there is no equivalent available and which they do say is suitable for software.
Bro, I don't care what this article is trying to sell you. Science is never cheap. It is awesome that these scientist figure out some creative way to cut cost. If everyone is starting to do this on the large scale, the human civilization will stop developing.
You mean "20 ExaFLOP". "20 ExaFLOPs" is a per-second measure.

FWIW, I work at Google, have a background in parallelizing simulations, and built an execution system that runs huge hyperparameter combinations. We called it "exacycle" because it exceeded 1 exaflop / second (no communication between tasks) using only idle cycles.

I think you probably missed my point: it's now pretty well established that for any physical simulation process, you can train a net using far less energy and get an equivalent quality result. The training itself doesn't require lots of communication unless the model is enormous.
Nice to hear. I would love to see more of this or at least low-skilled workers and high-skilled workers getting paid much more equally. I would ask for a pay raise if I had to switch from developing software to cleaning the office toilets, not accept a fraction of the money. Working full-time is working full-time, paying low-skilled workers small money just because they are easily replaceable is unethical. Ignoring some details for brevity like the time spend on education in which you do not earn money and for which you should of course be compensated with a higher salary.
There also seems an odd confusion between "illegal" and "in violation of the terms of service", which are very different things indeed, ...

Um, remember Aaron Swartz? JSTOR?

JSTOR and Aaron reached an agreement. JSTOR didn't want Aaron prosecuted. But that didn't stop Carmen Ortiz, the federal prosecutor, now did it?

See also "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Reform" [0] and "Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Should Not Land You in Jail" [1].

[0]: https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/aaron...
> ROTFL.

> Dude, you really need to learn some languages.

Please stop posting uncivilly to HN. Several of your comments are interesting but that doesn't make it ok to be rude. We ban accounts that do that repeatedly.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13766510 and marked it off-topic.
Ah, sorry, I forgot about that property of jwz.org :/
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I believe that Lua is significantly simpler than Ruby. Not in the language, but in the size and scope of core library. To make a Ruby application fast you also have to make a large number of core library routines fast. A real Ruby program is not much more than a chain of core library calls.

I'm working on techniques to optimise through the core library in Ruby, and it's requiring novel research techniques that clearly weren't needed in LuaJIT, as it was done without them, so there must be something extra in Ruby.
I mean, it's good that if there are horror stories, that they see the light of day. It's bad that there are more and more horror stories.
So people suggest moving to gitlab, what about bitbucket? it also offers free repositories. What makes Gitlab better. Ultimately centralising all the opensource in one service is a bad thing for opensource in general. Github shouldn't become the "defacto" custodian of opensource projects. It's like today the internet is "distributed but heavily centralized in one place". Look at the S3 outage recently, taking down half the internet.
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I hope taw24 can step back and appreciate the irony here (considering this thread's topic).

Thanks as always for the excellent moderation.
Provenance of data was not in scope, 'twas more of a standard datamining "see if you can dig up something interesting" project.
Like I said, there were scores of these - one of my colleagues wrote the famous soda vs pop thingy which once again put location stats to good use- http://blog.echen.me/2012/07/06/soda-vs-pop-with-twitter/
Because anonymized ads cost advertiser wayyyy less than targeted ones. so gmail profits would fall significantly
The survival of the open web, whatever that means, depends on a bit player (~15% marketshare, neck and neck with IE) with an abysmal security record, questionable leadership, and who's in the immediate process of disassembling their only remaining competitive advantage?

If this is the case, "the open web" did not go extinct, it committed suicide.
Well, okay. I can agree that the "go brexit yourself" was too much. I'm sorry about that. Noone should be accused of that kind of stupidity.

(To clarify: I really, really did not mean "exit yourself". I did mean go do something stupid and self-destructive - but not lethal - like Brexit.)

But is it really too much to call a particular company/organization incompetent (in this particular issue it was implied that the incompetence was in terms of sales forecasting, marketing promises and logistics abilities)?
Problem is there are updates every day. The dump is only good if you don't need the latest page.
I am the second responder in that thread.

I personally saw an oAuth bearer token for a user of Fitbit. It was there clear as day.

Maybe I saw the only one that leaked, but that seems...unlikely.
appear.in and talky.io are nice and simple video chat services using WebRTC.
Down voting a point of view that you don't agree with is the same as censoring.
You can really divide that list into two distinct eras:

Era 1: Nintendo is the head of the pack in software and hardware, and not afraid to try new things.

-NES

-Gameboy

-SNES

-Partly N64

-DS

Transitional period: Gamecube. At this point it's pretty clear that Sony is bringing things to the table that Nintendo is struggling to match. It's not a bad console, the GC, and it ends up being almost laughably affordable, but it's the slowpoke of the gen.

Era 2: Wii->Present.

-The Wii, as you say a pretty quirky and novel take on interfaces. This is the period when Nintendo makes a huge part of the fortune they're sitting on today, and expands to a truly staggering userbase. Traditional Nintendo fans (i.e. people who want Mario and other key franchises) are happy, new gamers are happy, people who want one console are not.

-WiiU, frankly stunk. It didn't do what anyone really wanted it to do, it wasn't as inexpensive and cheaply fun as the Wii or GC. The WiiU tried to be the Wii, and a mainstream console, and it wasn't.

-3DS. Not a bad thing, but I'm yet to meet anyone who really gives a shit about the 3D. Another gimmick that gets forced into things, but ultimately the portable brand is full of such incredibly good games that it doesn't matter.

-Modern portable: ... Fantastic. It's hard to argue against Nintendo's mastery of this aspect of gaming. Underpowered, still too focused on gimmicks instead of perfecting the core experience.

-Amiibo... brilliant business move, it's hard to argue against how happy it made some people, but it was also a manipulative money-grab. It was a case of Nintendo understanding how to maximize a fad, but it brought nothing of value to games.

-"Second Screen Experience"... again, it was something you could work with, but it mostly got in the way of developers and ended up being underwhelming.

Nintendo has lost sight of doing something simple, extremely well. The Gameboy was great because it was just a portable gaming machine, and it kept on that way until two screens and 3D gimmicks, and multiple iterations of largely the same handheld started to muck it up.

Hardware has made Nintendo rich, but it's the software that made them great. Mario as a concept and a game was much better than the NES platform and interface. The more Nintendo has made money on hardware, the more their software has suffered.
There is no standardized canonical fingerprint and never will be, because the audio features covered by the fingerprint vary with the use case.

For example a fingerprint might or might not need to draw these distinctions:

- Clean ("Walmart") and dirty (profanity) mixes of the same recording

- Amount of opening and closing silence (often varies across releases)

- Different masterings

- Fidelity of the source recording (e.g. 64K Real Audio vs uncompressed PCM)

In addition, fingerprint developers are constantly improving on their algorithms.
I know the author of that is huge Nintendo geek too, so that doesn't bode well for it. Although he does say most of these issues could be ironed out soon.
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> I'd have little problem watching their ads if Google hadn't been behaving the way they have and if they weren't making their ads more pervasive.

Google has that. It costs $10/month.
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For those that think this is a problem, is there a ToS and license that everyone would agree gives Github and users the legal right to do what they do today that is compatible with all the OSS licenses?
Section D7 seems to specify that they're talking about moral rights. I understood these to be intrinsic rights in some legal environments, e.g. France, that were distinct from anything that any open source licence might insist on. (As an aside, in the UK there are sadly no moral rights in computer programs, the only one that should apply being expressly excluded in sec 79 of the Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988)
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Them and Apple... two companies so swaddled in money that they can't even hear their consumers anymore.
And Virtual Boy :)
I'm curious of why you offer a free tier instead of just a trial period. Seems like this would be pretty valuable data for other cannabis retailers.
> Latvian for "independence" is "neatkarība" which itself is wrong pair, because "independence" means not being dependent, and therefore free, while Latvian word means more like "impossibility to take by force".

Interesting, the Latvian word feels like a cognate of Russian непокорённость (nepokoryonnost'), which means something like "ability to resist conquest". I wonder if kor/kar is the same Balto-Slavic root, or is this a false cognate?
Do you know about magnet uri[1]?

magnet:?dn=Anciients%2FFollowing%20the%20Voice&xt.1=urn:sha1: e577cce68a69735acccd5d8603b3e663f6aa5bc9&xs=nfs://example.com/music/ftv.mp3&x.dur=408.764081632

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Overreaction. Of course Github doesn't want this sort of thing. Just be patient.
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This is my subjective opinion...

Generally you can trust decent grades in a CS program no matter what the reputation of the school is. If someone can write a compiler, or operating system, or whatever else they specialize in, they can be free-standing with their learning. I haven't found this to be the case with "Non-technical degree plus bootcamp." Maybe the hit rate for boot camp grads is 1/3 that of CS? Perhaps it's not a fair comparison, but it's been my experience.
Are you a lawyer?

Isn't D7 saying you waive your rights so that github can serve the content?
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Any reasonable reading of these ToS will lead to the conclusion that they're merely asking for a minimal license grant necessary to provide their service. Maybe GH will add a sentence to appease the hair-splitting armchair-lawyers, but the speculation is no different than the 100 other, identical conspiracy theories targeting any other service with user-generated content that have made the rounds in the last decade.
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Text only compressed is even less, in the 10-15GB range. I used to have it on an SD card and used https://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/4755 to put in on a cheap media player.
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That is interesting. I wonder if there have been studies on occupation and heart disease. One contributing factor to the incidence of heart attacks in the tech field could be our propensity to sit still for many hours in a row to retain focus.
They are definitely a bit punchier as of today.
MD5 fails many common use cases and sees differences where there are none. The result will be frequent failures to identify potential matches between different files for the same song.
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