skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be a valid criticism if epicycles were added to the model post-hoc to explain previous observations, and adding those epicycles to the model did not improve future predictions.

Is that really how you think epicycles were used?
TL;DR: They found some fossils in Greece and Bulgaria, the jaws and teeth of which suggest they belonged to an evolutionary ancestor of Homo sapiens sapiens, and which seem to be older than any other such fossil records.

"If this status is confirmed by additional fossil evidence, Graecopithecus would be the oldest known hominin..." where hominin is defined in the paper to mean "humans and their non-ape ancestors".

EDIT: phrasing and clarity.
I'll take a stab

"Evolutionary Ancestors of Modern Humans Originate from Greece Instead of Africa"
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Civilization happened long after humans came about
If you pay 200 dollars today per month for health insurance but instead have to pay 200 dollars in extra taxes tomorrow for health insurance, what difference does it make?
The delta between these fossils and "civilization" is almost ten million years.
an idea: Early humans walked a lot. We might have been season movers.
It's a little glib, but Python 3 (and Ruby, I believe) both has checked array access and vacuously has overflow checking given integers can't overflow (by default).
I've had difficulty eating lobster due to the whole boiling alive bit after reading this: http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
Good point. I didn't think through this terribly much to be honest.
> 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.

What is the "specific thing"?
Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa
Talk about a dishonest misquote!
I usually score higher when taking intelligent tests, but I dismiss all the intelligent tests I have taken. I know people who are more intelligent than me who can score higher if they are tested in their own indigenous languages and on subjects that are important to their cultural backgrounds.

For someone who lives in a remote area and survives on hunting wild animals, being able to tell where game is situated, is more valuable than matching some geometrical figures or knowing capital city of a country he will never visit. Such tests that take into account language and cultural differences don't exist.

Not knowing something you are not interested in, doesn't make one dumb. It is just not important to that person. I also noticed that the older I grow, the higher my IQ due to voraciously reading technical books and articles.
TLDR: It's Lemuria, the Atlantis of the subcontinent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumari_Kandam). It has about as much relevance as the biblical garden of eden.
Google is very committed to gender equality. If there is systematic bias, this would be huge news. The only responsible track to take is to own the narrative and fix it. For whatever reason, some people at Google have played into this by not releasing the numbers initially asked for before the suit.
Just read about this, it's a pretty cool origin myth! I had never heard about the legend of Lemuria before.
> But even with GC on, Nim is super fast....

This is what I experienced with GC enabled systems programming languages (Oberon family of languages) back in the late 90's, just with C++ as comparison on my case.

The main problem is the culture of micro-optimizing code without profiling it, that is so prevalent in those communities.
In such cases I usually change my negative review to more neutral (3/4 stars) and add a disclaimer that refund/replacement has been received.
For me, having a brain is a great excuse to walk a few miles everyday. My brain is like a dog: if I don't walk it, it just won't let me sleep.
Could you suggest a book that explores go history in a way a layman can follow? The way you explain it, it seems extremely interesting.
What is up with the resurgence of euro-pride among young white guys? I'm genuinely curious were it's coming from, it definitely feels like a new phenomenon in the last 2-3 years.
A lot of components library call these steppers:

http://www.material-ui.com/#/components/stepper

https://react.semantic-ui.com/elements/step

https://ant.design/components/steps/

I was trying to pick a react components library (for fast prototyping) and one of my requirements was having this particular component.
>I don't know what the solution is, but I seriously doubt that most people today would feel like someone with a 2nd grade education or even an 8th grade education deserves a job as they are

I'm less concerned with what people's feelings are than I am about results. The problem here is the minimum wage. We send people to sub-par schools in shitty areas, denying them the ability to get the skills to be productive. Then we require employers to discriminate against them if their productivity is insufficient to justify the minimum wage. Without the minimum wage that abysmally educated person would be more likely to get some amount of productive work and learn skills which would make them qualified for other jobs with higher pay.
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Yea, nobody seems to talk about it that way for some reason. If we 'save' on health care, it's either from making the system more efficient, or not providing care to people who need it. Maybe it's too complicated for a sound byte, I'm not sure.
UPDATE: Commentator thinks the Ke Jie has basically no chance at this point.
earth is the birthplace of mandkind.
I've heard from a friend who tried one at electronics store here in Japan where they're on demo that it worked really well, he tried 10 finger multi-touch and everything.
https://media.springernature.com/m685/springer-static/image/...
Yes, F1 students can only work on OPT up to 24 months. After that, they require a company to sponsor a visa for future.
Just so we are on the same page, I'm on about the feature superstructure, not the "implementation details for those of us that like java and always mean hotspot-like technologies when having a conversation about android language features".
Sounds like this behaviour would limit new ideas. Doesn't that produce a culture where the top pros try to execute the old ideas against a known opponent better, rather than be great overall?
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A lot is possible, even building a helicopter ;)

While simple pitch control is certainly easier than the phase-dependent pitch control required for a helicopter, a pitch-controlled multicopter would lose a lot of the mechanics simplicity that made multicopters interesting in the first place. But autorotation control code for a pitch-multicopter would be an interesting challenge, maybe for the hobbyist who wants to dive deep doing more than just reimplementing stuff that already exists.
Apple has a 250bn cash pile, a factor of 10 to 100 is not unrealistic.
This looks interesting. But I was hoping the website would explain more about how it works. How do you hire qualified taskers? How do you ensure you have enough of them? Are you paying them well and are you complying to employment laws (I don't to participate in immoral/illegal setups)? What are good instructions and what are not? How much creativity can I expect from a tasker (some tasks, such as prosecting, require a bit more thinking and creativity if you want accurate results)? Some taks require a bit of domain knowledge (e.g. knowledge of my own products), how do I ensure good results? These are just some of the questions that immediately pop up to me. I was disappointed by the lack of an FAQ section.
Haha, thanks. This is quite entertaining. A modern origin myth. Never thought I'd see something like that widespread uptake.

It says that textbooks as late as 1981 had this stuff in them. Fascinating. Boy am I glad they got rid of this stuff by the time I was in school in the '90s.
If you read the other parent comment in this thread, total expenditures on health care would actually drop by close to 50% overall (with a few fraught assumptions, of course). In the best/worst case, that's a $350B economic blow to those who rely on insurers for their employment. Given the complexity of the health care system around the US, I'm sure any move to universal health care will be extremely economically disruptive and render quite a few people jobless without competitive skills.
Ask HN: Which are good startups to join in Bay Area for software engineer?
identity politics is for everyone
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Yep, that was beautiful.
The world's first self-sailing, elec cargo ship to replace 40,000 diesel trucks
>Its not good for a professional to play a game he thinks he will lose.

That's interesting, any ideas where this attitude comes from? I feel like that's the opposite of a lot of other sports and games, where the ability to take a bad loss and come back improved is seen as an important skill.
However it was rarer in the past for the intermediate language to be distributed, as is the case with compilation to JavaScript.
It's push back against the toxic strands of SJW culture that have gone from "diversity is good" to "white culure is bad".

It's a small but very vocal branch of SJWs against a small and very vocal branch of counter SJWs, but both sides of it are in a meme war (using the scientific definition of meme: a mechanism to transfer ideas and culture) and the effects of their culture clashes are large enough for you and I to notice.
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Well, I am sorry for your predicament.

I wonder, is it the recruiter doing the age screening on their own or is it coming from above?
I see this all the time too. There's always some appeal to open-mindedness or an interesting hypothesis.

It's all horseshit of course, in the same vein as antivax.
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> Without the minimum wage that abysmally educated person would be more likely to get some amount of productive work and learn skills which would make them qualified for other jobs with higher pay.

Wow that is a very controversial opinion. With a higher minimum wage, that person would have disposable time they could use for whatever they want, including study.
Useless work to me is all the time and effort spent trying to possess things.
I just upvoted the article for unearthing more hominim, no need for an ad hominem.
7m years ago there already was Bulgaria? Didn't know!
Hmm. According to this https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents...

Most particulates are from exhaust but amount of this is falling and soon most contributing factor would be brake/tire wear.
Copyright for Australia that makes sense. That’s fair
Perhaps the earliest example of this was Felix the Cat, used by early mechanical television stations in the late 1920s to claim their part of the broadcast band [1]. They placed a wooden model of Felix on a turntable, trained a 120 line "flying spot" camera on it, and left it on. I read a contemporary account of watching an early televised prize fight which mentioned this as well, but I can't for the life of me find it anymore.

[1]: http://framemaster.tripod.com/Electronictv.html
Good is subjective. Can you be more specific on what you are looking for?
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Easy mistake to make, there is a reason they call it 'pre-history' :-)
Where are you seeing it now? Doesn't seem to be any in these comments or in TFA.
A scottish study found though a slight correlation between IQ and height:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-014-9644-z

The hot potatoe is of course "race" (what US-Americans equate for some reason with skin color), or more specifically shared-ancestry-ethnicity (northern european vs southern europeans vs slavs vs ashkenazi jews vs sephardi jews vs south eastern asians vs east asians … etc)
The magazine is funded by Snapchat. Just a fun fact.
How about hard wood floors?
Customization. Your payment app, for example: should it have a social feed, like venmo? Integrations with websites, like PayPal? Take credit cards, like square? What payment methods will you support? How are user accounts handled? Can they hold a balance in your app, or is it bank to bank? You could keep asking questions forever. Ultimately, we still need programmers to implement whatever answers we come up with to these questions.

However, much of it is abstracted away now - if you're making a payment app, you're probably going to use stripe, because that's a hell of a lot easier than bootstrapping your own credit card processing system. If it has a web version, you're probably going to use a js framework or two, to abstract away boring things like handling state and manipulating the DOM.

Until a computer can read your mind to know exactly what program you want, you'll still need to do some programming
Are you really trotting out the tired old taxation equals violence argument?
Look, a CVT semi-automatic probably would outperform me. I'm no master driver or whatever.

But a typical automatic transmission? Dude, I have a huge advantage as a human. I have eyes. I can see things the engine cannot.

It takes time for a internal combustion engine to rev up to its ideal torque band. The Ford Focus is a turbocharged engine, which means it only achieves maximum torque above 4000 RPM.

Since most automatic transmissions are tuned for fuel efficiency (ie: 2000RPM band or so), they will perform worse when you're trying to accelerate. The manual driver has the advantage that they can choose fuel efficiency (ie: 2000RPM most of the time), or in cases of emergency... kick it into (low) gear for very high RPM to maximize the torque band.

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ICE Engines are all about tradeoffs, and the manual driver can choose the RPM-band that best matches the situation.

Would a properly tuned automatic beat me in fuel economy? Probably.

Would a properly tuned automatic beat me in acceleration? Probably.

But no automtaic can be tuned to do both at the same time. Since high-Torque is high-RPM only... and fuel efficiency is low-RPM only... the computer cannot be tuned to try to do both at the same time.
I mean it is cool but how is it cooler than VR? VR can achieve the exact same effect as this and more.
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Rather than disputing the out of Africa theory, it seems to propose an earlier "into africa" stage. It may lend some credence to the multi-regional hypothesis though.
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>I also noticed that the older I grow, the higher my IQ due to voraciously reading technical books and articles.

I can guarantee you this is not the case. This comment is honestly so thoroughly full of misconceptions about the nature of IQ and IQ testing that it reads like a troll.
I tried to order an Anker power bank through Amazon but they don't ship to Sweden. When I found a local e-shop the prices was almost twice as high. I assume they don't want the Swedish market.
Time to add IFPS to 0bin.net then ?
Perhaps criticising the people who upvote the article is an example of the fallacy ad hominem. Or in this case, ad hominim. Those two words are homonyms.

In all seriousness, though, I agree that using prehistoric discoveries to support political views is misguided. We are all brothers and sisters, regardless of race or background. The current XKCD is appropriate.

https://xkcd.com/1840/
In unrelated to topic note, I am in a team making html5 remote desktop thingie, I have to now start making the linux agent.

If its alright for you to answer,

1. What would be the best/cross platform way to proceed?We now have separate agents for windows, mac which causes maintenance hell

2. Is chrome remote's way of streaming desktop images as video better than images + diff.

3. Is there any open source mirror driver kind of thing in linux?
That is a much more complicated question than you make it sound: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/5245/1802
Because the pictures are bullshit. You can't have a projector showing a white image on a dark surface, and they have a countertop example which displays white letters and a white picture on a black marble countertop. Physics literally don't work like that.
I don't see how the article being incorrectly titled is ad hominem. It does appear to reflect the world view as opposed to the science within the article.

Can you please explain further or qualify your statement so that I can learn. As I said in my comment I'm happy to be wrong but you provided nothing. I'd say your comment as it stands is ad hominem if anything.
Another option is to consider something that is even more abstracted from Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft - such as, https://www.floydhub.com/ (Heroku for Deep learning). Ultimately, someone like them may be quicker to switch between different providers than individual companies.

(I have no association with Floyd)
They did fancy 3D imaging of a jaw found in Greece and a tooth found in Bulgaria. The roots and interior structures of the teeth resemble human teeth more than it appears from the outside, so maybe these belong to early humans. The fossils are pretty old, from right around the time humans split from chimps and other apes.
Hello from New Zealand! I beg to differ about "well managed fisheries". NZ has regulatory capture, massive bycatch problems, and some species are near to collapse the way that orange roughy collapsed. The government talks it up as a sterling example of property rights, but the results are atrocious. It's a faith-based claim of success.

Sample shenanigans: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/313631/mpi-official-a...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry_Torkington/public...
"Start with one thing per page": https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/design/form-structure
> But statements like this undermine the cause by feeding fuel to the idea universal healthcare will inherently lead to more government intrusion into your personal decisions.

Is that worse than corporate intrusion? Does your health insurance not factor these things in already?
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That's because there are so few of us Type 1 diabetics and not enough political pressure to get the new stuff faster. There are some activist doctors and nurses that help in Germany, but we also got the G4 for free only on last November.

The insurance companies are conservative and see the systems as very expensive investments and the technology is something scary in a country which is still very suspicious about Internet and computers in general.
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Adding on to this:

The human ancestors before this single instance were all from Africa. This title picks one particular definition of human and uses that as the basis for its claim. The ancestors of this species were certainly from Africa, and many later human descendants were also from Africa. Africa has much stronger ties to Human kind's birth than Europe does.

Also, it's very possible that this species died out and left no descendants. There are many examples of this at many stages in humanity's histories-- Paranthropus robustus, homo neanderthalensis, and Denisovans. If a common ancestor of Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens really originated in Europe, we should be finding more evidence soon. Even if we find more evidence of that, we still can't say that Europe is the birthplace of mankind, because so much of Mankind's evolution (Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, etc) took place in Africa.

It's just silly to call Europe the birthplace of mankind.
Yes, Absolutely. I'm a firm believer that once social media platforms reach a certain size that they should be managed much the same as any public space: free speech is of the utmost importance.
>Hmm. Isn't Mesopotamia like the "cradle of civilization," and Greece is far but not terribly far from Mesopotamia.

That's not really relevant, as the Mesopotamian civilizations are still millions of years after the era of the skeletons found here.
This is a step in the right direction. Cargo ships are serious polluters at the moment, this won't replace them any time soon but its a start
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Is it really so toxic to point out that the average white male in American society enjoys certain privileges that are unavailable to the average member of any other class? Or that the average black male is subject to multiple disadvantages that members of other classes don't usually experience?

Also, the use of the term SJW might appear 'edgy' but its overuse has turned it into a marker of nothing but intellectual vapidity.
Actually it's the pitchforks that are an illusion. State control today makes subjects docile even when they have nothing to lose.
I feel like if Steve Jobs were alive Apple would've made this.
Genes work in whatever way is easiest for evolution to work, and linear improvements are pretty easy to find this way, so can you rule it out?
> The result was an extra 2 million orders a year.

Does the author actually believe that the change of the form setup was solely responsible for the increase in orders? Or was this just a poor choice of words?

It is a pity that they didn't study (or publish) the results of an A/B test on this change.
The internet happened.

It allows all sorts of people to gather in their own echo chambers, and feed off of their emotions. Echo chambers consume information that matches their biases, discards other information, and treats any source which argues differently as the enemy.

Rinse repeat for any and all causes. (Some causes may have inherent dampeners in extreme behavior, others will not.)

At least that's my understanding of the current dynamic.

(related reading: The spreading of misinformation on social media - http://www.pnas.org/content/113/3/554.full)
I said it before and I'll say it again: HTTPS is a waste of electricity.
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Hey,

recently I made currency conversion and foreign exchange API in Golang. It's similar to fixer.io (Ruby). Maybe it will be useful for someone.

Project page: http://goexrates.mikolajczakluq.com
Source code: https://github.com/Luqqk/goexrates
Please enlighten me about those misconceptions you are talking about. While at it, show me an IQ test that was compiled using my first language since you are dismissing facts I put on the table.
And people who have mismatched eye color? Totally predictable?

There's more to the output than the blueprint.
There is a significant number of people who vehemently disagree with what you (rightly) suggest should be an obvious truth. For them, the only racism is against white people, and that "minorities" (for whichever subgroup they care to categorize) have it easy.
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"So I keep on pressing myself to learn new skills, putting in 10-30 hrs a week, ON top of my 9-5 job. I did not I work this hard with this much focus in college. Honestly much regrets."

Maybe you could put this effort into building something for yourself? Because, the cruel reality is, the older you get the less likely it you'll get the break you are currently aiming at.

I worked in construction for most of my life but once I past 40 it became obvious that nobody wants to hire someone older and better qualified than they are.

Hope it works out for you.
How does floating point change anything? You still only have so many bits of precision, and the lower bits need to be rounded. In fact floating point has a lot less precision, since many of the bits are needed to store the exponent.
Which was fairly standard for science at the time, unlike the other fields this one get dropped entirely rather then corrected.
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