skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if anyone will point out that limiting their study to Mensa members was a mistake.

Oh wait, that is what most of the comments are saying.
So, like the US has been meddling with local politics all around the globe since forever, including supporting political parties, "NGOs" etc in Russia?
Are we ok with and/or easy to forget about mega corporations trying to sway the elections? Why do you think so?
The arrest had everything to do with his travel to Syria.
Of course there is a bias in this study with people in Mensa. There is also an added bias: people tested for IQ (in Europe) are tested because of behaviour issues usually.

the interesting question is imho what do you think (from your experience).

Are you/your friends with high IQ psychological issues? I've read previously that high IQ protects from such trouble
I think all of that is covered in Loving Common Lisp, by Mark Watson [0]. It's probably what you're looking for. Enjoy

[0] https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp
I am above average intelligence and nothing pisses me off more than stupid people (especially stupid people gathering in large numbers). I can withstand nearby gunshots or explosions without emotional stress (I am military), but stupid people proclaiming their awesome wisdom really alters my emotional state.

I had to stop visiting Ars Technica. Their news is great, but I wish I could turn the comments at the bottom completely off. Their comments (really from any news site) are a marvel in the study of stupid people coming together (commonly referred to as an echo chamber).
Is this academic extremism something confined to the USA so far? I don't remember hearing about riots at European universities yet.

It's actually fairly uncommon; most people are normal and most schools are reasonable: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/04/24/ninety-five-percent-of-pe... . But bad things are happening at a small number of schools, and, unfortunately, many administrators in particular are enabling or tolerating them, so those things make the news.

There are some genuinely bad trends, but there's also some inflation of the state of reality on the ground.
I am a dutch citizen and have a .nl domain.
Yet, that does not mean I am ok with the dutch government issuing invalid certificates for my website.

True, it's an improvement that only the dutch government can do this, and not the Hong Kong post office. On the other hand, it is a major downside that we are encoding the possibility of government dragnet surveillance.

In the end, certificate transparency logs will let me notice whenever anyone issues a certificate for my website.
>Secondly, I have concerns about the sample. This wasn’t a study of high-IQ people. It was a study of Mensans, a self-selected subgroup of high-IQ people

Sounds like a BS reason to dismiss the findings.

Any reason to believe that this "self-selection" has any impact on the people involved regarding "regular" non-mensa high IQ people?

>In other words, Mensans make up about 0.8% of high-IQs, and Karpinski et al. have data from less than 10% of Mensans, so the sample is seriously unrepresentative.

Again, BS.

0.08% can still be a perfectly valid sample.

The only valid reason to dismiss it would be not its size, but whether Mensans are for some reason widely non-representative of hi-iq people at large.
> That's red-green color deficiency, not "colorblindness"

from The Free Dictionary:

"Noun. 'color blindness' - genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue"

and from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

"Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color.[2]

[...]

Red–green color blindness is the most common form, followed by blue–yellow color blindness and total color blindness.[2] Red–green color blindness affects up to 8% of males and 0.5% of females of Northern European descent.[2]"

Your very specific definition of colour blindness (i.e. 'colour blindness' = 'Achromatopsia') does not seem to be represented in the colloquial usage. Thus the parent of you is correct.
"Karpinski and her colleagues developed a hyper brain / hyper body theory of integration. It posits that individuals with high cognitive ability react with an overexcitable emotional and behavioral response to their environment"

This is one of the main characteristic of diagnosed gifted people as it is commonly admitted.
What households would that be?

I took the bus to school, on my own, since day two of primary school. It wasn't hard, and I don't recall anyone ever getting lost. Even if they had, it's not the end of the world; they'll find their way back eventually.

It's a peculiar American-ism to assume that children are incapable of handling themselves, and one that's been repeatedly proven false.
VC and the marginal-dollar problem
Race is real. It's obvious when you look around. The major continental races show up on any k-clustered human genomic analysis. And any competent forensic anthropologist can identity race from skeletal remains.

We should treat people with equal dignity. Race should not be a factor in individual decisions. Left doesn't stop there, though. They go further, insisting that race is not only irrelevant, but unreal. They step beyond fairness and into propaganda and lies. It's why the left is now on the retreat in every institution of power.

I'm not the only one who's sick of having to parrot lies. By alienating people like me, people who would ordinarily be sympathetic to the left's causes, the left is guaranteeing a conservative backlash of biblical scope.
I was referring to chenglou's comment[1] where he said "It also prevents some optimizations and new type features."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15573956
What I meant by "values" is some kind of moral superiority that seems to be espoused by a lot of people I've met in academia. That somehow not pursuing academic research is "selling out".

This idea is implicitly ingrained in a lot of graduate students when they enter the program. In my opinion, this is all to justify the shitty treatment. And I find this mentality very similar to organized religions where you are expected to make personal sacrifice in the name of some abstract notion.

Of course, this also exists in industry. Big tech companies sell their "vision" and "culture" in the same way. But at least they pay their employees relatively better.

I am glad you have a rewarding academic career and I hope you continue to enjoy it. I personally didn't find academia that enjoyable. The science was interesting, but academia is not just about science these days.
I thought the only real limit for keto was on non fiber carbs? Is there typically a max ratio on protein too?
Can someone care to explain what infinite canvas means
I believe it was a per application design. File explorer could copy folder and files (windows too). But you can't copy anything out of the box.
Some Chinese kung fu movies do this. Not all. Jackie tends not to do this as far as I know. I'm looking at this one and I don't think it's undercranked.
True, as visibly in this comment section. Old people reading twitter flipped the election.

Yes, I see the irony.
* The institutions they are attending

* The ability to shape their own future by choosing which institutions to attend

* The idea that they should have any say in shaping institutions that shape ones future

Aren't these all privileges of being able to attend university in a country born of western Civilization? Wouldn't these all be things they would learn to appreciate more from this class?

> 13. The required freshman course should be reformed to represent the voices of people of color. Lecturers should structure delivery and analysis of content that is sensitive to and proactive for inclusive practices. There should be an articulated understanding that “foundational texts” are subjective and that the importance of the course is to foster student’s abilities to read, write, and listen/respond. Before this is accomplished, Hum 110 should be conscious of the power it gives to already privileged ideas and welcome critique of that use of power. This could be done by 1) allowing alternative readings that critique texts on the current syllabus, 2) making Hum 110 non-mandatory until reform happens or 3) alternate options for Hum lecture.

I'm super curious about these alternate texts... but of those 25 demands, almost all of them should be directed toward the proper administrative offices or the board of trustees. If they can't sway them, then they should probably transfer to a less oppressive college or go start their own.

Attacking educators for doing their job and reducing their effectiveness to teach those students that do want to learn is pretty weak and ineffective. I can only hope one day that they'll come to their senses and be ashamed of themselves.
In this case, it’s not clear who the fraudsters deceived. If it’s the advertisers, how do you demonstrate malice rather than, uhh, stupidity? If it’s the consumers, that just seems like effective adertising.

I guess, this is certainly colloquial fraud, but is there any evidence this could lead to a criminal suit?
This is a general problem for generative models, regardless of whether they are explicit latent density (variational autoencoders) or implicit density (GANs) or fully-observed (PixelCNN). To date no consensus has been reached in the research community on what the "right" way to evaluate a generative model is: e.g. Parzen Windows estimators, log-probability, ELBO, etc.

Yann Lecun himself (as of NIPS2016) was pretty critical of probability-based metrics, as those have strong dependence to the choice of model (e.g. if the model is poor the log-probability is meaningless).

In GANs, the critic and the generator are trained w.r.t. each other, reaching some kind of equilibrium. A recent proposal that seems to be "ok" for evaluating GANs was proposed by https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05263, which is to train a separate critic on the generator, for use in evaluation (the generator never sees gradient information from this critic). This evaluation critic approximates the Wasserstein distance. One could imagine actually training the independent critic on a validation set of images not seen by the training set.
Hmm, usually when I hear people talk about growth mindset, it’s not about ability vs effort. Rather it’s about the tendency to accept things as they are and try to work within those parameters, vs changing the parameters.
Wish I knew! One difference is that -80 had metaclasses. (They weren’t in -76 but I’m not sure about -78.) I’d say metaclasses are more complication than they’re worth.
Artificial lighting, white not yellow, and lots of it, can help with that.

Anecdotally, when I moved my clothes into the guest room and got ready for the day with all the lights on instead of getting dressed by nightlight, I was much more wakeful. Also made fewer errors with navy/black socks :)
> Any reason to believe that this "self-selection" has any impact on the people involved regarding "regular" non-mensa high IQ people?

Insecure people could prefer to counter their insecurity by hard to obtain status symbols such as Mensa membership.
The fact that it is cloud-based and therefore requires an Internet connection means it is the opposite of "portable" for me. When I go to client meetings and have to deliver a presentation, I can't assume I will be connected to the Internet. That's why I use PowerPoint.
The sperm-donation business
You know that, and I know that, but god protect you from the busybodies and CPS if you treat your children like they arent completely incompetent and made out of glass.
NDP have been pushing for no dst in canada recent years

Newly appointed NDP premier in BC last week just brought it up again.

While I don't agree with current party in power, I would vote for them if they did actually remove the annual time change.

Personally I don't care when the sun comes up, and same for most people I know.
I begin any day between 5AM-830 AM randomly.

I sleep with blackout curtains, the sun is not a factor with my sleep really.

I am sure waking kids while it's dark out is rough, but they will adapt...

This already happens in the winter months when sunrise may not occur before ~7:45AM in BC
> Without DNSSEC anyone can forge responses. With DNSSEC you limit that to the zone administrator.

Whilst that is an improvement, it is still bad. Specifically, I'd it is not good enough to build a secure system on. There is an argument to be made that it is nice for defense in depth, but it should not be stand-alone security.

There are other practical concerns regarding DNSSEC at the moment with failure handling.
It seems to be most people are focused on blaming Russian involvement instead of asking how much impact Google, Facebook and Twitter had on the election. It's the blame game and it's way easier to blame a foreign country.
I stay completely out of the realm of Twitter and haven't heard of any of this sort of thing short of the little spat with Tomi Lahren. Do you have any more noteworthy examples?
It's been a while so I had to search for it, but I think it's "10 things you need to know about sleep"
That particular caveat is actually mentioned in the paper:

With the self-report, survey method there is often a risk of selective recollection of data as well as potential over- or under-reporting. However, there are numerous published, peer reviewed articles in highly reputable journals that use a self-report method, including those that use data sets which rely heavily on survey data (e.g., Der, Batty, & Deary, 2009; Wraw et al., 2015; Wrulich et al., 2013). Additionally, empirical research has confirmed that self-reported health ratings are reliable and valid measures of health (Haapanen, Miilunpalo, Pasanen, Oja, & Vuori, 1997; Liang, 1986).
Why? And how? Could you explain that please?
Why a Wasp Just Cut a Bee in Half (and Left with Its Rear End)
I would just store any data in the Lisp system itself, you have hashtables built in.

Why do you need to host it somewhere else ? Just get it running on your development machine.
Retailers could do much more to compete against Amazon
>No one has been arrested for tweeting criticism of Islam.

You’re simply wrong.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sussex_police/status/877110502350...

https://mobile.twitter.com/wiltshirepolice/status/8895853592...

http://www.businessinsider.com/in-britain-police-arrest-twit...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-f...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-katie-hopkins-brand...
The Mercers and Putins of the world do this because it’s cost-effective.

An interesting comment if you think about it in the context of your prior paragraph.
I worked with an analyst a few years ago. I'll call her Alice. Alice wasn't very good at her job. She was ok and could get stuff done with sufficient hand-holding. The problem was she was really insecure.

Alice worried that she wasn't smart enough or experienced enough in this particular industry to do her job. She was. But she had the air of someone who was always worried about being found out. So instead of talking with the managers or users that she should have been talking to to get her work done, she would go to people she trusted, like me, who liked to be helpful when they could and who, as a developer or someone who had been with the company a while, might know a little something of how what she was asking about worked, but probably shouldn't have been the person she was talking to. This annoyed a lot of people.

What she was really good at was decorating her cubicle. She was a genius at it. She would do it for every major holiday and even some of the minor ones.

Alice's boss liked to gripe about her to me. She hadn't hired Alice, didn't really like her, and didn't offer her much support.

We had a lot of arcane business processes. I thought it would be nice if we could throw some light on these, maybe come up with some charts or creative visualizations that could serve as a general reference. Cartoons like this would have have been great.

One year, around Halloween, when the company sponsored a cubicle-decorating contest with prizes, Alice's boss was complaining to me about how much effort Alice had put into decorating her cubicle. It was impressive. She had turned it into a little haunted house.

I suggested to Alice's boss maybe trying to leverage Alice's cubicle-decorating skills to visualize some of these business processes and workflows.

A few weeks later Alice was laid off.
> Still weird to have a syntax that is at odds with the underlying semantics, and hopefully it doesn't sow more confusion than it initially solves in the long term

_This_, I do think, is a fair argument. It's indeed an accidental drawback of the syntax revamp. Though there are very realistic way to prevent the confusion: https://github.com/reasonml-community/error-message-improvem...

Regarding optimization: see the BuckleScript link on explicit uncurrying. The impact is very visible: the compiler analysis for specializing for uncurrying best-effort, and when it bails, it looks like this: https://reasonml.github.io/try/?reason=PQKgBA5g9lAmYGMCGBnAp... which calls https://github.com/BuckleScript/bucklescript/blob/2a66960b5a.... How many function calls did your curried call just turn into, in the second case?

Unless you introspect the output (which is actually viable to do in a compiler with clean output, such as BuckleScript), you wouldn't know that your higher-order function accidentally became pretty much 4+ calls instead of one. Now imagine quadrupling every high-order function calls or so. BucklesScript (and native OCaml) do a crazy good job of avoiding this when possible, more so than most, as shown in the snippet's first scenario; the manual even shows guaranteed uncurry if you put the right annotation. But if you want to take advantage of _that_ (and please do), there are other tradeoffs as well, but I digress. In general, the compiled code's speed is as good as you can get for JS output.

The perf point alone is not a pedantic argument as you can see. And you might start wondering about other languages' output for currying. Regarding your other comment: yes, from a typing perspective, currying indeed works out wonderfully for pure languages like Elm and PureScript. But OCaml's not a pure language; we've made other tradeoffs; and context matters.

Not sure about your comment about the AST, but I think you're saying that the situation doesn't get better/worse in the new syntax: this is true, since the syntax revamp is really just that: a syntax change. Which is why I said earlier that I was arguing beside the point. But currying seems to attract so much unbalanced attention in this context that I felt I should address it so that it doesn't overwhelm the rest of the syntax change's purpose. Looking at the rest of the threads, it still did, but I'm glad your reaction has been doubt rather than unreasoned negativity, so thanks for that.
Maybe consider a note app. You or the website might not be connected to the Internet. I'd recommend Evernote if they didn't suck so much. Pocket had a chance too.
Love how this was downvoted. Way to stay sane HN... I don't think that any conversations focused at further promoting child abuse imagery should be encouraged in this community, particularly when such misapplication of these technologies would profoundly derail existing investigations.

But fuck it. Downvote away!
> The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle

I have found [irrespective of this case] that this statement is just not true. Often, the truth is not in the middle but at one of the extremes, or even beyond them.
> Every scientific study suggests they’re wrong.

Which scientific studies? Interested.
Do these schools differ from the top tier private schools in the Northeast (Andover, Exeter) or are they just the West Coast equivalents?
The way these GAN algorithms work is precisely by building a network that discriminates reality from fake. That's why they become so good at this!
I feel like we took different values from an economics degree. I also have one, but it wasn't really the details about Macro or Micro at an intro level (which is where you get told all these laws, before more advanced stuff just tells you how they aren't quite right). It's more about a way to think about a problem or set of problems. The only hard skill that I'd say I got out of it was being able to do regression analysis (which has proved useful many times). But the more valuable skill was opening my mind to another way to look at and approach problems. Certainly the vocabulary and basic understanding of the area also helps when dealing with business. It's not the only lense to look at a problem, but as an entrepreneur, I think it's one I have to look through a lot and quite regularly. Something as simple as opportunity cost, that's a daily trade off at a startup. Knowing some behavioral economics might help you make better and more informed decisions rather than simply going with your gut in situations where you gut might be misleading you. That's maybe harder to quantify, but I think it helps more than you give credit.
That's a pretty disingenuous comment: First, your characterization is probably accurate if restricted to the "first wave" feminism (of a century ago), but, IIRC, I think we're on the "third wave" now. Second, in the American political context, feminism is highly correlated with progressives/left-wing, and the specific people I was talking about are very left-wing. Thirdly, my comment wasn't even about feminism at all, but about how people can change beliefs without changing a lot of things one might naively assume would change with them.
> Most will be sufficiently surrounded by intelligent people in their day-to-day life to be stimulated.

Totally independent of the discussion of Mensa, I'm somewhat sceptical of that claim.
The Ergonomics of Type Checking (2016)
A simple puzzle lock [video]
I don't entirely agree with your reply, but I think it's unreasonable that it's being downvoted. I've upvoted it to try to balance that, although it's not clear my vote will count for much, if anything.

I think what you've said is reasonable, although it doesn't really address the poster's questions.
That sounds counterintuitive to me. "People with anxiety are more likely to join a community."
Your canvas isn't limited to the screen size or any other fixed size, instead you can keep adding things on all four sized forever.
Great website!
I'd honestly be surprised if there weren't a correlation between distressed/disordered thinking of some kind and joining Mensa.
It may only be a coincidence, but I do have high IQ and exactly the kinds of problems they mention in the article. I'm not American or a member of Mensa. I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and inflamatory reactions to certain foods. I also have high anxiety. Strong emotions or stress can be overwhelming enough to give me gastritis or even ulcers sometimes.
No, the "methodology" of using a very self-selected group to represent the whole is certainly and unambiguously complete methodological bullshit. The problem is known as "confounding variables" or "common latent cause". For example, people with anxiety and depression may be more likely to join a club like Mensa.

There's certainly interesting questions to explore here, but we shouldn't settle for this extremely weak sort of study. The authors are doing the best they can, but we should take this paper as a indication that further research in this area would be fruitful, not as an accurate measurement of the nature of reality.
If Hillary won, no one would care. If they cared, the whole process would be under review for obvious corruption.
From November to March, the sun is always down before I get out of work at 5. If I'm going to see the sun, it's in the morning before work.