skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you're a dick, there's gonna be an upper limit on how far you go with your intelligence. I don't think there's value in quantifying that with some hokey quotient.

Take, for example, Shkreli. Major dick but pretty clever by the looks of it. Now found guilty of fraud.

Bill Gates was a major dick. Made tonnes of money but yet reviled and found himself in the dock because of it.

Steve Jobs. Really intelligent but still booted out of Apple due to sheer dickheadery.

Now they all found major success, hence why EQ means fuck all. It seems they, or some, found out they had to do some serious thinking. Bill Gates is arguably the most redemptive.

Imagine you had average intelligence or just above and you were a major dick? People like that get asked to leave more often than not.
I strongly agree that journalists should link to their sources of data.

It seems these figures were "obtained by BBC" through FoI request, not part of normal Met Police data sets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39328233

Here's an older FoI request, but it might not be the one the BBC are talking about: https://beta.met.police.uk/globalassets/foi-media/disclosure...

UK crime statistics come in two forms.

1) Police records, which is what this article is talking about. In general these are not seen as statistically robust because they rely on people reporting a crime to the police, and the police recording it. Police forces have improved their recording in recent years.

Here's a link to the Met Police stats: https://beta.met.police.uk/stats-and-data/

Here's a link to press release: http://news.met.police.uk/news/crime-statistics-for-2016-to-...

2) Office for National Statistics. These use a crime survey, and are seen as reliable.
I always had trouble with the term EQ or emotional intelligence, because it in my opinion confuses (at least) two things.

One is empathy, our ability to read and perceive emotions of other people.

The other is actual social intelligence, that is understanding of how other people are motivated, what to do in social situations, and so on.

There are plenty good people who have lot of 1st one but little of the 2nd one, and plenty of psychopaths that have the 2nd one but only little of the 1st one.

These groups of people are completely different.
Got any books you'd recommend?
He did, he did...

"Besides, Airmule talked to some professionals — people who are in jail for actually being drug mules or other drug-trafficking crimes. And they all said they’d never use a system like Airmule, Yang (CEO) says. "

See. It's perfectly safe (｢･ω･)｢
What's it with all the idiots replying "Source?" to every I-just-pulled-this-out-of-my-ass-but-I-like-sounding-authoritative comment on the internet?

Please stop. Thanks.
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Have you ever actually met any of these people in real life? Reading headlines about famous people doesn't mean you actually know them.
A UI library for a relational language
Quite a few companies operate in this space. This business idea & its risks have been discussed on HN more than once. I'm surprised that some of these are still around. A likely pivot for these could be to carry specific goods where there are no "dangerous" side effects e.g. importing smartphones, laptops etc. Although they still are not exactly legal.

- https://grabr.io/en/

- http://www.entrusters.com/

- https://backpackbang.com/home

- https://www.piggybee.com/en/

- https://worldcraze.com/

- http://www.canubring.com/

- https://www.manyship.com/
Initially we are focused on a broad subset of popular foods in Asia. The intended model is a wholly owned and operated network including the logistics system for restock and servicing, in order to keep costs down. Ingredients will be relatively numerous, with variety significantly upwards of the average restaurant kitchen.
It's became communist (or facist, or anti-capitalist or unpatriotic or whatever the buzz word insult of the week is) in some circles to have an ounce of humanity and empathy and to dare to suggest that not all humans are completely equal in the opportunities they have and access to all the necessary information so they might make poor decisions and it's not entirely their fault.
Agreed. It seems really silly to sit around and talk about how awful civilization is while you leech from it to survive. If the guy made his own tools and found his own food without the use of everything our society gives him (save maybe knowledge), his words would carry much more weight.
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if you think about it for 1 sec you will realize why it does not work like that.
Putting the quality of your work aside(which is really amazing), I applaud the self discipline required to develop such a big project on free time alone. Hope to get there one day.
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If someone threatens my life with a gun, there isn't much violence that wouldn't be appropriate.
What's the point of deducing something if you're not going to do anything with that information?

Beyond that, labels are hard for people to get rid of, even those we assign to ourselves. In the effort to categorise everything we grossly limit the potential of the individual. As Kierkegaard put it; "Once you label me you negate me.".
No, the harm comes from government agents. They are the guilty party.

One step removed from that, the decisions of the courier to take such risks.

Finally, AirMule.

You've doubly-undirected the responsibility for the harm being done.
It's interesting that the assumptions in the comments here all assume one thinks of this as a disk, as opposed to a non-volatile RAM disk.

No one thinks twice about having to "do something" with their RAM disk to upgrade the CPU.

It's time we realized the new class of nonvolatile memory hardware is a new entry in the storage hierarchy. One shouldn't think of it as RAM, but it's much, much faster than traditional disk (or even SSDs) and should be thought of something different.

It's a mistake to put the same restrictions on the potential performance of this just to make it fit our preconceived notions of storage.
Probably their target user is a poor undergrad/grad student taking a trip home, so they hope a bro at the bar is someone they can connect with. A suit from IBM --not so much.
How dare American government gather evidence on someone meaning the law! Despicable thing indeed.
Few years ago, I was in a PR show for a shopping center where Paris Hilton showed up. Everyone was interested to see her. It turns out she was not the true Paris Hilton but a doppelganger.
Have you stopped beating your significant other? I just need a simple, explicit "yes or no".

Not every question that can conceivably return a bool answer should be answered that way in PR.
How many primitives does it take to build a Lisp machine? Ten, seven or five?
The Bhavana Society Theravadins (roughly "Tradition Of Elders") in High View, West Virginia take ordinations. Theravadins keep the earliest known Pali Sutta scriptures. It is its own idiom but surprisingly similar to Stoic philosophical traditions with a Orthodox Ladder of Divine Ascent group study and meditation regimen. Great life option for long lived calmer wiser folks who do not want to raise families and enjoy reading nonfiction.
There is enough evidence out there to show they treated people they worked with less than well. Are you saying that Steve Jobs wasn't a dick to his staff and to the board? Are you saying that trying to stage a coup in the workplace isn't a dickhead move?
It's an about page. Not a resume. I don't understand what that has to do with their qualifications. It's just a random snide remark that has nothing to do with legality of the service.
Individuals with OCD who prepared a meal may not be able to eat their food because of thoughts that the stove might be on.

I have a coworker who told me that he used to take a photo of his stove before going out of the house so when he was at work, he could simply take out his smartphone and confirm that the stove was off. Engineers sure get inventive with their coping mechanisms :)
We have no reason to believe there exists a trait like intelligence for emotional/social skills, all we have is people establishing its existence post-facto like you are doing here (from seeing some people are good at multiple social skills and assuming the existence of a common root trait).

It's like seeing some people are on average better at sports than others and saying there must be a "sportiness" trait that determines how good you are at sports. Instead we know it's a combination of various different things, many of which are independent of each other.
I'm questioning the reasoning for the sarcastic remarks. They add nothing but vitriol to the discussion that should at most be a discussion about the laws surrounding the service.
That sounds fascinating. Any sources?
Are there any hints as to what the puzzles are?

Also, I only see "impossible architecture" as in very large structures, and floating elements, nothing that plays with perspective like Escher.

I appreciate that a teaser is going to hold back on some information, but I reserve the right to consider being teased a frustrating experience.
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You can use me as a source if you want to include it in an academic paper.
Nope, that's simply wrong; the important information does stand out.

Look at the original pass at the top of the post. What is the most important information? Is it emphasized more than the rest of the information on the boarding pass?
just to be clear, they're not dolls, they're action figures!
"It’s true that women are socialized to be better at paying attention to people’s emotional needs and so on — this is something that makes them better engineers, not worse ones."

Looks like the author of this blog post agrees with the author of the manifesto on his main point.
This was beautifully done! Impressive work! :)
Ask HN: What are you most excited about? AR or VR?
Just a followup on the question posted here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14930317
I posted this more than 2 weeks ago and nobody seemed interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807079
I disagree with pretty much your entire message but I'm surprised so I ask: how is it in any way the fault of the governments agents ?!? They don't even have anything to do with that Airmul scam.
"does suspects". These guys are extremely diligent.
It's assuming there first of all is a simple yes/no answer to the question. An extreme example: Is it legal to shoot a person? Yes or no? Give me a yes or no answer! The answer is "sometimes, maybe, no and yes". I think it's weird that all of a sudden everyone knows enough about Common Carrier rules or OBC's to know what the implications of either a "yes" or a "no" in that case would be.

I personally have no idea. And after reading the article I still don't. Does the writer know? I couldn't see anything passed the sarcasm that would convince me either way.

I would expect more substance in an article on the front page of Hacker news.
A comment from one of the devs says there should be no impact as long as the number of CPU's stays below the number of locks the filesystem was created with, which will be very high by default. If it goes above, there is a possibility of more lock contention but it will still work.
The article by the author would be a great place to add some substance, no?
What is type safety?
"Airmule strongly advises each traveler to inspect each item carefully."

But in their FAQs, they have this:

"Can I inspect the shipments?"

"All travelers have the right to inspect their shipment(s) prior to boarding. However, please note that Airmule manually inspects and verifies each item for safety before traveler handoff."

https://airmule.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004938167-C...
"Do the carrier has legal protection from the content of airmule bag", thus making him not responsible if it's filled with heroin, is a yes/no question.

Anything longer than that, or running in circle refusing a clear answer, should be interpreted as "no" by the users, which is what the article says.
This is a Pakistani Muslim problem. So avoid bigger cities. I lived for 10 months in Birmingham, I had to leave because even though I'm a grown man I could not tolerate the terror of people throwing rocks at your window at night. Besides the area around the main Concert Hall there is no particular "British" culture left in that city and acid attacks are definitely not done by local Brits. Nobody says anything because they are scared to be labeled as racists. It's a shame.
she now works for google
What if the galaxxy itself were a living being, but we are so small to grasp this form of life
nothing about jbp is indicative of /pol/
> Maybe you need to work in better shops.

Yeah, for example ones that don't use CM Synergy, ClearCase, BMC Remedy, Jira,
or Confluence (though I hear the latter two can be tuned to run sensibly).

It all depends on the definition of "enterprise class", but all of the above
are sold as such and you cannot encounter any of them in small companies. And
by the definition you cited, half of the software only sold to enterprises
suddenly becomes non-enterprise.

It's also a circular definition in this discussion, because we could learn
from "enterprise class software" how to treat "a lot of production downtime
and scalability issues", because "enterprise class software" is "performant,
scalabile, and robust", by your own words and quotes.
That's a trivial thing, you would simply categorically deny the implicit accusation. But his answer instead did not come even close, it was "I have stopped about the same as other people".
But if the biological innate differences exist, why must they be disregarded?
Deregulation and low tax rates created an outsized financial services industry that fueled a housing bubble which then burst and had to be bailed out by the state, quadrupling the public debt.

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/11/09/cultures-of-impunity/
In fact, it doesn't work like that in any country. For a good reason, when you come to think of it. What you bring in to the country is yours, you can't escape responsibility except by becoming a freight company which is then subject to entirely different responsibilities (and lack of rights).
"In the US"

Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
Make decisions. If someone cant make a decision, do it for them. There is nothing worse than not making a decision - it prevents progress, it lowers morale, makes everyone involved frustrated. If lower management gets into cya mode, make sure you fix that.
I always suspected there's a lot more than just that. Basically, an intensified inspection and whatever follows from the findings.
I would imagine an authority on Puerto Rico would know what country they were in.
Monty Python nailed this sort of thing perfectly in 'The Life of Brian' in the 'You are all individuals' scene near the end.
Every eastern state airport I've ever seen has fruit bins at the gate or on the airbridge, and there is frequently an on-board announcement near TOD that some states prohibit bringing in fruit.
Technically it's a possession and territory belonging to the of the United States, but not part of it.
Source?

Extreme poverty has been rapidly decreasing in the past few decades
We're talking about it on HN, so I'd say he did it exactly right :)
I think the key part is conrinuity here. What happens if you step into a device which disassembles you atom by atom then reassembles you (assuming that this is possible)? Relevant article: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/what-makes-you-you.html
I played it for a while, it was fun but a bit frustrating having to fight the people trying to turn god mode off.
Strings are usually represented as arrays (Haskell represents them as linked lists; it's the only exception I can think of offhand), which are a fixed length. To append to an array, you need to allocate a larger one and copy everything over. You can avoid that copying for a lot of appends by allocating more space than you need and using a fill pointer, and the realloc might be hidden away in a method, but it is still fundamentally a fixed-length data structure.

Linked lists are not a fixed lenth. To add an element to a linked list, you allocate a new cons, point its car to the new element, and point its cdr to the old list. There is no "and then allocate a new, larger fixed-length list, copy everything over, and delete the old one" step.

That's all language-agnostic, but in Scheme specifically, the interface it provides for strings does not simulate arbitrary length, either. The only way to add onto strings is using string-append, which returns a newly allocated string.
Thanks, googled those top 3 trouble spots mentioned and they all seem to be in east london.
AirMule are informing the second party (the "mule") that there is no risk. Exactly how is intentionally lying to your customers to the point that you can get them killed ethical? And how exactly is it the fault of the person you've intentionally lied to that they believed your lie?

The ethical thing to say, in big, bold writing, is "we check as thoroughly as possible, but we can't be absolutely certain there's nothing illegal in the bag, and you're responsible to the authorities - to the extent of a potential death sentence - if that happens". In fact, this is hidden away all the way at the bottom of the terms and conditions! Of course, if they did that then they wouldn't have any customers.

You can be ethical in the presence of other unethical actors - that the Government may or may not be unethical does not change whether your activities are ethical.
Thanks. I use it on a couple of my projects [1]. Happy to take PRs if anyone has ideas for improvement.

[1] https://github.com/arscan/pleaserotate.js
They do for Java-> C++, .NET -> C++ and Swift->Objective-C->C++.
Usually it combines one more thing - ability to understand and control one's own emotions. Which, at least for me, looks as a perpendicular dimension.
I think this is the TED talk that forms the basis of this article: https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_hallucina.... TL;DR: It proposes that the brain's main function is to predict both the outer and inner reality based on sensory electrical signals.
Unrealistic expectations.
Great! If you end up using it let me know.
He's the benchmark for undeclared suicides.
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Is Math is a science?
Buffet has spoken out on it as well, saying envy is what really drives the world, not greed.

Most people don't really want things until they think they are getting the short end of the stick.
All I see is entitlement. I also see nothing wrong with the copy on their website, 'All I read is SEO' is just a petty attack, and your tone sucks. If you really had problems with the marketing copy, there are other ways to say it or suggest improvements.

The reason for building cross-platform UIs is clearly so that a small team can reach more users.

The vast majority of users simply do not care about native look and feel. This app looks plenty intuitive, I don't see how you can reasonably complain about its behaviour, I'm assuming without trying it.
I guess 90% of Windows kernel developers learn on the job. So if you know the drill, you should be a step ahead of the competition in this space, hence cold-mailing recruiters is the best strategy IMO.

I would try MS first, then major MS partners who ship software for based on Windows, which is a market as big as any.
It was supposed to be a joke; of course I don't expect that. By definition, if it is undisclosed, then there is no source.
Driving a bike and easing a phone is a bad thing anyways. Just as bad as car driving and phone
If the answer "Are couriers covered by Common Cartier rules?" were "yes" it may have some caveats like: "Yes, but the protection cover only he items send by AirMule, not the personal items in the other bag. Also adding any item to the AirMule bag voids all the protection." [Just in case this is not clear, this is a fake quote.] [Also, check it with your lawyer.] I guess you can reduce it to 140 characters and get a proper lawyer to write it.

If the answer "Are couriers covered by Common Cartier rules?" were "no", the extension is: "No, totally no, 0%, zero, nada, zip!" [fake quote]

Their answers to "Are couriers covered by Common Cartier rules?" is something like: "They will get a seat in the plane and can use the bathroom." [Also, fake quote.] They are not replaying the question, only stating something unrelated.
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On Mac/Chrome the back button does not work, plus when clicking through to comments, I see comments for a different thread.
I think it's instructive to consider an article written by a bacterium about the possibility of living creatures at the metre length scale.
That's fantastic for them, I guess. It doesn't mean it was unique. It might just be me, but the idea that ancient peoples were so dumb that figuring out how to grow some plants was a miraculous idea that only happened once in one specific part of the world . . . come on. The ethnocentrism with that idea is glaring.
No ... since the elevator compartments were completely carpet covered, we wanted to make sure they didn't flip over when then went around the top and bottom (and yes it was taped to the floor).
I'm getting flashbacks to Nathan Barley...
The intensity of the beam could be modulated to counter this.
In the UK, reacting violently to any kind of attack is very likely to result in you being prosecuted for assault.
If anyone is wondering why anti-social behaviour and minor criminality is now so common here it is not that decent people don't want to do anything about it, it is because the Police are often perceived to be on the same side of the assailants.
You can make whatever you want “clear.” But if it’s on your ticket, it’s your bag.
> "Quite the opposite."

Consider the context. The subject under discussion is those who want to be alone. It's quite possible to be alone whilst still enjoying the fruits of human collaboration.
Tl;Dr red pillers can dream; if they work hard enough, they too can embarrass themselves while employed at top tech companies
Same on chrome/win10
Does this also mean that people tend to name their kids using letters from their own names? Would be interesting to check against some database.
You seem to be confused about what a measurement is. It is defined as mapping numbers on empirical phenomena. This is not a matter of Psychology, this is the definition everyone uses.

So, yes, "memory span" is a measurement of mental capacity: Following a clear procedure, it assigns numbers to a construct we call "short term memory capacity".

What you argue against is the validity of the measurement, which is another matter. I see your point about "IQ being about capacity", but your original claim was that it is a "false assumption that you can describe mental capacity with a number". A measurement is essentially a model of something, so by definition it reduces something complex to something more simple so that we can study it.

EQ was the work of a journalist who did not have the background in Psychology to understand that there never was a shortfall to begin with. Differential and personality psychology has been working for decades on these topics. EQ has added no insights.
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You're fine with the police using military surveillance equipment?
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