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I know you're being rhetorical but you didn't read the article:

In the new study, Dr. Posthuma and her colleagues limited their research to people of European descent because that raised the odds of finding common genetic variants linked to intelligence.
The title on this needs to be corrected to match the article.
I feel you. I've taught myself programming between 13 and, well, I'm now 23; so by the time stackoverflow came around I had figured out how to solve things myself. When I have a question, it's usually either opinion-based (bad fit for SO) or not a common question.

I'd say 1:20 is a good estimate if I ignore answers that didn't read my question (which is most of them), but indeed the facts disagree.
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What is nanomedicine and how can it improve childhood cancer treatment?
Both the military and the private health insurance industry are Keynesian jobs programs first, their stated purposes second.
> We are nowhere near computers creating art at the quality of humans.

This can change very quickly. Already google's machine learning with images created a sensation like a modern-day surrealist. There is technology that produces novel classical music that has been deemed undistiguishable from a human performance.

> Is this even a question? Go is a combinatorical game. There is a solution

Everything has a solution. There are no dice. With enough information you can choose what to roll everytime. With enough information you can have all the potential conceivable paintings. Perception is a combinatorial game. Physics is a combinatorial game.

Its more of a quest of identity: what can we do that bots cant, and why, and once we understand it we move on to the next thing, until we figure out everything.
Yes he did, in his tweet.
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Kinetic ability vs potential ability (should reduce the fear/hatred of differences in IQ):
People overestimate the value of Intelligence in comparison to motivation, delayed gratification. How many people do you living up to their potential? Is it because they don't know what to do, or because they won't do what they should? If the difference in results is traction, not horsepower, then don't worry so much about someones bigger or smaller motor.

Cascading advantage:
People underestimate the value of small changes in some types of intelligence. They cascade. If you learn how to learn faster, or better, it cascades across all the new learning. Imagine a bookshelf vs a stack of books. Some people develop tricks early on that are the the shelves. Hit a golf ball a little crooked and see how crooked it ends up 100 yards away.

Different is better:
This social programming to search for equality amongst men ignores the value of evolution, competition, meritocracy, and the resultant emergent fitness and excellence that results. Different, sometimes better, sometimes worse, is a requirement for robustness and progress.

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Measure mental ability more like physical ability. Look at the detail measured in the nfl combine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Scouting_Combine

When you create an IQ test, you use specific stratagies to avoid cultural bias, and measure useful traits, like memory, speed, visualization, rotating objects in ones mind, etc. Why not just declare the results by category. The test maker knew what he was measuring. There's no reason to mush it all together.
It wouldn't be "verified" if people went on the record either. Going on the record isn't some kind of magical truth serum. People can lie on the record or off it.
"Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe"

I have no idea what that even says :(
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>Ke Jie claimed he would beat AlphaGo [1]

He changed his mind after watching just one more match:

http://english.donga.com/List/3/all/26/527586/1

>But after watching three matches, he said, “AlphaGo was perfect and made no mistake. If the conditions are the same, it is highly likely that I can lose.”

>“As AlphaGo learns endlessly, all human beings could be defeated in the near future,” Ke said on AlphaGo’s capabilities.
One of the great things about natural language, is that we can create new words, in order to arrive at more fine grained meaning. I personally can appreciate a difference between a compiler that takes source code in one language and generates source code in another high level language, and a compiler that takes a source file outputs a binary.

Granted, there are a lot of situations where there is no need to make a distinction, but that's not always the case.

An analogy might be the use of the words car and taxi. Cars and Taxis are both vehicles. In fact, a taxi is often a car.

In some situations, I might say "I went there by car" - and that would be sufficient. But if the situation demanded I express the fact that the car that I traveled in was a taxi, I would say "I went there by taxi" (Not "I went there by a car that is owned by a freelance driver who charges by the kilometer")
I was looking to find a lightning cable replacement for my mother. I think first to look at Anker since I have two older battery packs from them and they've been working great for years. But I did find some reviews to shy me away from them so I naturally stuck with the Apple original. If this was a case for micro-USB, I likely would have gotten an Anker cable instead.
The gap between genes and intelligence is the same as between individual characters and poetry, or even bits of UTF-8 encoding. But it is fun to watch these "0.40 heritable" meaningless statements.

This is the same as to claim that a particular tech-process of a CPU and its particular instruction set defines what kind of porn would be watched on a laptop. While there are few statistical correlations, say, between the cost of a CPU and statistically significant preference to, say, MILFs, a direct causality is still rather difficult to establish, at least for people of some intelligence.
Like it or not, it's already done with cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, gasoline, and a ton of other stuff.

These type of taxes are the only way I'm in favor of government healthcare programs. Cigarettes, alcohol, and junk food directly increase medical costs, and people who indulge (and over indulge) in those things should be partly responsible for those increased costs.
>I dont think he wants to play alphago again. Go is a game that relies a lot on confidence: professional players almost never play amateur players casually, for example. Thats because if they lose to an amateur player, it will affect their mindset, their confidence, and they could then perform worse in the real professional tournament.

Sheesh, are their ego's really so brittle?
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Can you have public issue boards on private repositories (or private code repositories on public projects) with GitLab?

Trello is good for that sort of "feature request" behaviour.
"With sufficient computational power, the whole universe is a trivial simulation."

Sometimes, a difference in quantity is a difference in quality :-) P=NP and all that.

It feels like you're talking past each other. Conanbatt says Go will never feel the same to humans, especially humans who see Go as the purpose, the "main course", of their life. Some fundamental psychological quality is lost.

You're saying that people enjoy doing even silly, "pointless" (sic!) things for a living, like playing sports. And that you can actually make great money doing that. Money and economy are human constructs, "for monkeys by monkeys", not a physical law.

I don't see any contradiction there.
Sorry, I'm confused, does bounds checking mean index out of bounds? If so, most modern languages?
Once you have a mostly Black, and White (with no greys) image - it's relatively simple via basic electronics to colour replace those with alternate colours - much like the old analogue chromakey 'blue-screen' techniques.
> We're still reaping benefits of the Apollo project almost half a century later,

Care to elaborate about the benefits of the Apollo project?
If you know your opponent is significantly stronger that you, you can aim to make things more complicated and hope to bait out a mistake.
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There's a strong precedent for this in chess, though. I think human + computer is reliably stronger than just computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess
Well I'm past the edit period, but apparently it isn't available at this price anymore (although I swear it was this morning when I linked it, huh!)

Cheapest I'm seeing now is $80 :( -- bummer!

(My order: http://imgur.com/fUyKeIC)
My job exists only because a certain type of job has a lot more than average of people that can't write much. Mostly because of dyslexia or similar problems. My job is to completely remove the need for them to waste time on the writing part and let them do their job instead.
Neither do the players. As a player you maximize your chances of winning as well.
> ... that someone is hiding something if they don't have one.

We all have something to hide. It's called privacy.
I need an article written in plain English which interprets this article.
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That code did search-by-word from (IIRC before Google existed, ie Netscape 2) right up until Java applets were dropped, across all compliant browsers AFAIK. It did roughly what G's live search now does.
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In addition, they don't provide a figure for the amount of money that individuals put toward health care, only the amount that their employers contribute.

Considering that most employers don't fully cover health insurance (relying on employee payroll deductions to make up the difference) and that many people pay directly out of their own pockets for insurance, I wonder if there'd be a shortfall at all.
>The other reason (maybe the dominant reason) to prefer a TPU is to avoid paying for all the GPU functionality that is irrelevant to these workloads (FP32, FP64, graphics-specific functionality, costs of writing graphics drivers that gets bundled into hardware unit prices...)

Often bundling decreases cost. Bundling also has the additional advantage of producing more demand when selling excess capacity a la AWS.
Could someone "explain like I'm five" the article?
The counter-point being that you'll have people getting vanity tests, and harping on about their smart genes, even though none of them are the sort of gene that confers actual palpable intelligence.

Some of these are not smart genes, if they still result in dimwitted people you'd hate to be trapped in a room with. They may be good genes that promote healthy survival, and statistically stongly correlated with smart people, but if they aren't the crucial genes that result in the sort of person that quickly grasps complex concepts, has nice handwriting and can keep up with high learning curves, then they are helpful health and survival genes, not intelligence genes.
For actual communication (messaging) it is actually one of the best. It is fast, reliable, and has genuinely great value adds like group messaging, encrypted messages, expiring messages and photos, location sharing, rich attatchments, seen notifications, integration with facebook profiles means I can find anyone (who has a profile) even if I don't have their contact details.

Sure the app is a bit heavy with features I don't personally use (stickers, chat heads, games, stories) but it's at the point where it's easily the best messaging client I've used.
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Why Ke Jie doesn't connect stones in left-center groups?
But on the plus side I've got a lot of great words to use in Scrabble now
It seems that a better solution is to guarantee that each step of such an unbounded loop is bounded, and clearly distinguish these types of processes.

For example, a kernel's scheduler should run indefinitely, but each scheduling step should be bounded. Ideally we would specify the scheduler loop as a non-terminating yet "productive" process.
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And how would you define that crime, in a way that isn't so vague it just becomes a tool for either the government to arbitrarily prosecute people or for companies with solid IP lawyers to shield themselves from taking anyone else's IP seriously?
"Transpile" is simply more specific than compiler. You can refer to them in this manner if you wish to be more specific, but compiler is still okay, as transpilers are just a subset. (The C ASX compiler, when converted to .ast, was referred to as a transcompiler.)
Facebook's business model counts on erosion of privacy. This means their whole purpose of being is to constantly erode privacy as this means higher revenue for them.

This puts us at a dangerous trajectory as long as Facebook is allowed to grow its business unchecked.
Gustav Klimt painting as a 3d model, amazing
Fossils belonging to a species found in Greece showed similar features to the earliest known hominins (human species lineage), but were even older, shifting the "birthplace" of the modern human species from Africa to Europe.
They found some fossils, including jawbones and teeth, in Greece belonging to an evolutionary ancestor of homo sapiens sapiens that seem to be older than those found elsewhere.
You don't have to delete facebook. You can try to minimize or stop supplying new info to them (stop posting, disable news feed, and use Facebook primarily for direct chats).
If your universal health care system is some variant of "single payer", which is what I think is proposed here, then the fact that it is really expensive is largely irrelevant, and for a really obvious reason: You may be paying a lot of money for government funded health insurance, but you are not paying all that money to a private health insurer like you are now.

Essentially you are just writing a check to the government rather than a private company.
But then you're essentially talking about BAD code.

Bad code is bad; in any language or framework.

Don't blame the knife (in this case React/Redux or w/e), blame the person wielding it.
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> jobs for people without much education.

There is a small business for that. Nothing much, a food stall or whatever it was in 60s or 70s. Low-tech.
I'm not remotely an anthropologist, but my very-simple take on this is that it has no impact on the out-of-africa hypothesis which happened relatively recently (~60k years ago) -- this just suggests that ~7mm years ago, earlier human hominids were found in Europe.

(think, maybe Lucy's ancestors came from Bulgaria. or had a dead family tree which lived in Bulgaria.)
A photo of White: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_-DoMQ0CuAQ/VzzPgbjhjOI/AAAAAAAAC...

It is a rack of tensor processing units. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercha...
I know you're just trying to make a point, but...

> Can you recommend me a way to do that for a non-technical person?

1) Use IMAP with copy-to-local-drive for email; Thunderbird or Apple Mail or a variety of other applications will do this reasonably for a non-technical person.

2) Store your files and photos on your hard drive, or a hard drive plugged into your wireless router which can then expose it as a network drive (e.g. Apple's Airport Extreme can do this, as can other wireless router).

3) Use Crashplan for backups. This is fairly easy to set up, even if you're non-technical, if you back up to their server.

This does rely on Crashplan, but they're the backup, not the only copy of the data.

> I mean what would you do if apple/google wrote an update to their os that wiped all of your contacts for good?

Restore from the contacts backup I store on my hard drive every so often (and which hence gets backed up via Crashplan). This part is fairly rocket-science for non-technical people, unfortunately.

> just like your example of loosing access to my memories because Facebook decides to destroy it's own brand.

The real question is what happens if/when Facebook goes out of business...
They found two really old skeletons in Europe that are older than other skeletons. They are skeletons of a "modern"-ish human. They know because the teeth of the skeletons have a specific thing that the teeth of humans have but not the teeth of other primates.

The older skeleton is 1 million years older than old skeletons found in Africa. So now the oldest skeletons that we know about come from Europe not Africa, raising the possibility that humans evolved in Europe.
Had a similar one at my last role. It was a HTML5 remote desktop thing with websockets, TLS1.2 etc etc. Got a bug report from a user that it didn't work in Safari. We didn't have a Mac in the office to test with, so asked the user for more details.

"Oh no, this isn't a Mac, it's Windows"

This is a user of a highly secure system, containing user PII, who expected to use it on a 5 year old browser with XP.

~bangs head~
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> I mean, do people not realize that the money has to come from somewhere?

If You read some of the above comments, you'll see that the money is already coming from "somewhere", that Medicare and Medicaid already cost more than what Japan spend per capita, or that $400bln may be half of what is currently being collectively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14398948
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14398974
> Cigarettes, alcohol, and junk food directly increase medical costs, and people who indulge (and over indulge) in those things should be partly responsible for those increased costs.

They also, of course, decrease other costs due to the deaths of the beneficiaries. Is that a net win or a net loss, financially speaking?

And are you so sure of your analysis that you would use violence to take your fellow citizens' money?
This is #1 on the front page right now. 41 people have voted for it.

Please, someone explain this article; I like others have noted, have no idea what is going on and the title is a fairly large claim (at least from my understanding which is that of a high schooler's).
The title is misleading (as written on HN) because the meaning of "hominim" is more to do with what we, humans, and other hominim (like neanderthals etc) evolved from. See linked chart:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEUEavwMSCE/ULtMp3e_cVI/AAAAAAAAAD...

This isn't our specific species but rather whatever we and similar species evolved from.

I'm absolutely no expert on the subject.

I actually find the title offensive if I'm right but I'd happily be wrong. Mostly because I'm sensitive to how unlikely it is people are up voting this because they understand it and rather they want it to reflect their world views.

Edit: for those downvoting me, could you explain why? I'm happy to learn. It's just weird to see a sudden surge in down votes with no comments explaining how I am ignorant or wrong.
Don't worry, madmen rarely require real justification.
Which connection are you looking at? The only questionable connection I see in that group is the stick at the top (the four stones on the 7'th column); but the cut doesn't quite work out for white because after the cut, black can extend his two dead stones at the 3-2 point. By cutting, white shorted himself a liberty.
Here, try this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14399153

Edit: created a separate HN thread.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's being suggested that Graecopithecus is a species that modern humans are descended from. Late Miocene sounds like an era in the history of the world.
Look up Kumari Kandam for what (we) Tamils think as the origin of mankind.

Edit - Not sure why I am being downvoted. I didn't claim it to be true. It seemed relevant and a lot of folks around me believe it.
Really weird talking about how expensive this is. Whether you pay through it out of pocket or through taxes what difference does it make? Why do Americans think there is somethink inherently more difficult with paying taxes than paying other expenses.

Weird how these people talk about health care as unaffordable but somehow there are always money for wasting trillions in wars like Iraq and Vietnam.
Thanks for the edit. You did the math. The headline is basically opposite of what it should be.

'California cuts overall health spending by almost 50% by going Universal'
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How?

Aside from that, this are just the oldest known fossils with human traits, how will your world view change if we find evidence of an even older ancestor outside Europe?
California should be two states or it's own country (imo).
Not sure why the skeptics are all down on this - I think this is awesome. If nothing else it's a great POC product that will get imitated and integrated into other ecosystems (can imagine Google incorporating this into the next Home device), and opens up the world. No use case? Ever needed to watch something, or show something but lugging around a 30'' screen wasn't an option? You can make ANY surface an interactive input device and screen. From consumer to industry applications I see a lot of potential.

If they make this a key product it could grow, but if Sony licenses it out (yes I know they're not really big on that), it could open us up to a whole lot of applications and integrations.
Hmm. Isn't Mesopotamia like the "cradle of civilization," and Greece is far but not terribly far from Mesopotamia. While shocking news, maybe the first civilizations came from Mesopotamia/Mediterranean Sea area because people had been there the longest?
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We have chimps, and we have humans. But both of us share a common ancestor. At some point, we split into two different evolutionary lines. And it's _where_, geographically, we split that is under some investigation.

Current school of thought, we think that man originated in Africa. But this recent finding (based off of a partial skull fragment) shows that non-chimp pre-humans existed in Europe, possibly hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously theorised.

This means the split may have happened in Europe, as that is now the earliest evidence of pre-human remains.

(that's how I understand it, at least)
How is this supposed to kill jobs? Total money spent should be no different. It just shifts from out of pocket to taxes.
Ask HN: Why do we still need to “program/write code” ?
Of all the things programming has disrupted, the least impacted has to be the task of programming itself. I recently learned Swift after taking a break from coding for over a decade. And it took me just over a month to learn, because it is so similar to Java, which I had learned over 20 years back. I am still perplexed that so little has changed. Why do still have curly braces, and strange annotations to accomplish simple tasks ? Why do we still need to call strange methods like "letTouchesBegin" to achieve simple transactions ? Why do I need to implement Node.js + Mongo + Express + React + Postgres + Backbone + blah blah to send a message to another person ? In my mind, in the 21st century programming should have been essentially abstracted and behind the scenes, only a few experts need to know it and tweak it. For vast majority of us, we should be able to say to a bot like interface "create a payment app that sends payments between two friends" and that interface should be able to do the things that are needed behind the scenes. We should be able to create our business logic for our applications, not through complicated SQL statements and backend codes, but by simply training a model on expected behavior through examples or discrete visual rules. Why hasn't that been accomplished it ? And is there someone working on actively disrupting programming itself ?