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> Biologists have long debated what constitutes an individual organism. The record-breaking A. solidipes clonal colony passes the test based on a definition of being made up of genetically identical cells that can communicate, and that have a common purpose or can at least coordinate themselves.

From the article, I'm unclear -- are all the cells physically connected to each other, or are they 1,000's of fruiting bodies which are genetically identical and can communicate somehow but aren't all actually connected to each other within the trees and among them, underground? (Even if some are connected?)

Because if it's the latter, it doesn't feel like a single organism to me, any more than communicating and coordinating with an identical twin would make two people into one.
however they want to spend their money. I just bought a 1969 Larry Csonka and 1968 Bob Griese. They serve no purpose, and there is a low but reasonable chance they are counterfeit.
one stock is the same as others, but you can have tainted coins that you obtained through legal means (it is just that the source was invalid). With BTC exchanges can block cashing out, for example.
You forgot the attribution: Douglas Adams, "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" series.
I suspect they also eat a lot of other spiders as well. I was looking at a couple of spiders on the ceiling the other day. A big one and a little one. Apparently nothing was happening, but as I watched I noticed the big one was slowly circling around and in towards the little one. Then at a certain point it suddenly started moving fast. But the little one was obviously aware of the danger. It made an "I'm out of here" rapid descent on silk. Until that point I thought the little one was an insect actually (so small I couldn't count legs at a distance). Another day in the life, nature red in tooth and claw. I like being at the top of the food chain.
There’s a market for labor too, so it’s not like most people have only the choice of one employer’s offer or starvation. And no one is arguing that we shouldn’t have a social safety net of any kind to improve the BATNA of employees.
What I dislike about the title of the article is that in pathologizes the use of social media. What I dislike about the article is that it does not back up the title with evidence or even an attempt at pure rhetoric. I'm kind of surprised to see Nautilus publishing an entirely clickbait headline because usually there is some nexus between its moderately sensationalist headlines and article content. This one is just a mediocre article about Capgras syndrome.
People Practices
Concealed/externalizer, then?

Still much less expensive than in the US, inarguably.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_h...
Tarski's undefinability theorem.
As a white man, I also objected to the US invasion of federally protected lands, both because of the legal contract we have with the remaining Native American tribes, and because I believe protecting nature is the highest duty of mankind, and there is not nearly enough profit in the oil industry to justify the rape of the land.

So, lets not try to be reverse racist, okay? This is HN, not reddit.
And also a very old one;

Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.

Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592.

(Still, Small Gods is one of the best revisions of the topic!)
It's like predicting an NFL player's performance based on stats--40 time，bench press, etc. They do these rather arbitrary tests, and over a lot of players there is some limited positive correlation with performance, but individually it does not mean very much. There are people with amazing stats that do not succeed.

Then for baseball players, everyhing changes.

Intelligence or smart are low-information, high-emotional-signalling terms. It means more about social status than anything else. Everyone has a mix of abilities. Some of the best engineers are terrible writers. Some are incompetent fathers (Steve Jobs). Some people are great at consuming and regurgitating a lot of info, but bad at original/critical thought. Some who would thrive in one life circumstance may struggle in another.

Academically, IQ is supposed to correlate with g, general intelligence. In other words，we're just creatures making up nonsense terms to, at face value, signal about ability, but it's often more of a social construct.
Britain's largest export, by volume, is waste paper / cardboard. It was going to China and coming back as cardboard.
Nobody's obsessing wastefully. It's just interesting to people who find numbers interesting. Stop being such a grinch.
Exchange gives you coin, and then have no way of telling what you did with it. Exchange just knows you are given 300 coins at the time of transaction, nothing more.
This is a very interesting visualization. If you adjust col2, you can see that the illusion basically has a step function. If both line colors are darker than the background, the two patterns look the same. If you slowly adjust col2 until it matches the background and then becomes just a hair lighter, they pop into existence with the full illusion. There is no transition whatsoever except insofar as you can't see the lines when they match the background color.
No, I'm good. Besides, Litecoin's capacity isn't bigger.
Yeah I figured you had Thiel in mind. He’s IMO the representative of an extreme position and should be contained....
Current and previous owners only? can it be traced back somehow, using timing attacks or something?
How to Celebrate 10,000 Followers on Instagram
Anything is possible, but it sounds like that would just create a dip for them to buy into.
To which I gave the example of 80's Thinking Machines as "older hardware".

I could also given Symbolics as example.

As 40 year old examples, in 20 years the use of Lisp improved a lot since the early IBM mainframes.
This is a domino we should pay attention to.
Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox?
It seems a little ridiculous that Google Hangouts video calling still does not work in Firefox 57. Why is it still not supported?
Do you have money saved for a six month emergency fund? If not, put this money in a bank account.

If you do have an emergency fund: don't ask on Hacker News, they'll tell you to do crazy stuff like buy Bitcoin. Head over to http://bogleheads.org/, or just read the extensive wiki.
Slightly off topic, but my favorite units for c are feet per nanosecond. In those units c = 1 (plus or minus a couple of percent).
Curious to hear - do you have a good resource?
The almost-invisible consumer habits of the past 100 years circumscribe virtually all of the greatest environmental disasters of the next 100, bearing in mind that "environmental disaster" has only existed since the steam engine or the logging of the Old Growth forests, depending upon where your measure of advanced development begins.

When you visit a grocery store, there's a garbage dump wrapped around most of the products. Some of it's biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable, much of it isn't. We can remediate and save some of these processes and luxuries, but that they are mostly unsustainable is evident to anyone who comprehends industrial engineering.
It's just a bit of fun. Just like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)

You are a clever person and I'm not daft either. We can have a laugh over how some numbers do silly things.
Well, yea, it literally is traveling back in time in some inertial reference frame. So far as we know, the laws of physics are identical in one frame, it's possible in ours.
125 is still in the top 5% of the population. Anyway Feynman gave the results of a childhood IQ test, and one that was taken before IQ tests were standardized. Feynman reported being exceptionally good at puzzle solving and math even at a very young age, so I am very skeptical of that.

IQ definitely matters. The average IQ of physics majors is like 2 standard deviations above average for instance. Suggesting some fields are very selective of IQ and low IQ people are much less likely to be able to do them.
There are going to be developments on this as i can gather.
Cycles appear in hindsight, sure. Where's the cycle in foresight if everyone always thinks the young appear selfish and without morals?
I think quotes would have made the tittle more readable.
Nice unbiased report

> A client jokingly told me that his biggest gripe with me in 2016 and 2017 was that I didn’t buy him any Bitcoin. I told him not so jokingly that if I bought him Bitcoin, he’d be right to fire me. Maybe I’m a dinosaur; but, like gold, Bitcoin is impossible to value. What is it worth?

I get it that you feel like you missed the boat. The boat hasn't left the harbor in the actually useful ecosystem of crypto currencies. Bitcoin is not the end-all
At least, properly separated, it degrades and can be reprocessed into more paper and cardboard. The US exports CRT televisions and chipsets for electronics with such minimal production quality as to be considered destined-for-disposal.

In some regions, pirated materials derived from metals, petrochemicals, and advanced dyes are immediately destroyed and shoveled into landfills: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/steam-rollers-c...

The brown paper bag and the Anchor Hocking jar are going to come back in a big way...
>""The Decentralized Web" is the WWW system Tim Berners-Lee invented and that we're all using right now."

I believe the context of "The Decentralized Web" here is meant to contrast the increasing centralization of content from FB, Google, Medium, login walls pay-walls etc.
It is one day according to our clocks; it has no real significance in when compared to an actual day which is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds- the time it takes the earth to make one full rotation.
I've never had it work as fast or accurately as Shazam, especially in noisy environments. There's also no obvious way to get the full history of the songs I've searched for (there probably is - it's just not easily discoverable). I had high hopes for the automatic detection that rolled out on pixel 2s but have found that it only works on the terrible music that my gym plays.
>Among other things, it can't measure long-term recall or the ability to rehearse/learn information and skills over time

The vocabulary battery would seem to measure long term memorization ability. It actually correlates with IQ better than any other test. Also SAT tests are often used as a proxy for IQ because they correlate so well with it.

>It's our need to have a single spectrum from mental retardation to genius-level that's led us to try to create a test which assigns a number to intelligence. But intelligence is multidimensional and an IQ test just fills in some of those dimensions.

No, it's not. Please learn what you are talking about. It was once believed that intelligence was multidimensional. But then scientists realized all those different dimensions correlated amazingly well. E.g. people with better memory were much more likely to be better at puzzle solving. And a single factor, g, could explain most of the variance. IQ tests try to measure g, which is very predictive of general cognitive ability.
For what it is worth, a PhD will probably open more doors than an MS. Both are credentials but the PhD is likely to make a stronger impression and make your application stand out.
As long as you have your current position (employment in my friends case or university enrollment in my case) you can extend the visa on those grounds, basically making you business a "side-business".
After you quit your job or leave university, your visa stays valid until the end of the term.
When the visa expires, you will have to apply for a Business Manager (経営者) visa, because you are not an employee (授業員) at your company, but an executive (役員).
An improvement over opium.
Ask HN: What is your experience with PythonAnywhere?
I've used it a few times in the past. Im releasing a big django application soon, so would like to know some positive and negative things about the platform.
No, you're not thinking big enough.

Think of it like this. You've got a dog. Your dog is very smart. She knows her name, she does tricks, she has a pretty apparent understanding several spoken words, tonal inflections, and body language, and can even catch a frisbee out of the air when you throw one. However, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you or she tries, your dog will never understand calculus. A dog is simply not capable of understanding what calculus is or what it is for or how it describes relationships of objects in Newtonian physics. There is a fundamental physiological limit to her intelligence, and topics like calculus are beyond it.

Humans are much more capable than dogs. However, humans are still physical beings. As such, they have physical limits to brain size, and physical limits to brain activity. We also have a limited life span, so if something exists which might be comprehensible to a 200 year old human, we may never know it. It is most probable that there are concepts, topics, and systems that are simply too complex for human intelligence to understand even if we had access to the equivalent of a Calculus For Dummies.

Worse, human brains are limited to their senses, and scientific understanding is contingent on both observation and repetition. A system can only operate on the data it has available to it. If something exists which either cannot be perceived or cannot be repeated, then we have essentially no capability of even knowing that we don't understand it. The fact that some of the most complex systems have been understood though abstraction, encapsulation, and modeling doesn't mean that all possible systems will behave that way or can be understood that way or, frankly, even that the knowledge we gain about systems that way can truly be called "understanding." How often do we say, "It wasn't until I experienced it myself that I understood"?

As far as AI, well, we don't even know if they're capable of consciousness or sentience, let alone sapience. They may just be arbitrarily complex systems good enough to simulate human behavior and fool a Turing test. No, passing a Turing test doesn't mean you're conscious or sentient; it means you're not definitely non-sentient or inanimate. And if the basis of everything an AI knows is what they learned from us using algorithms we decided to give them, what does that mean they won't be capable of just because we're the ones that taught them?

TLDR: The universe is not obligated to function in a manner comprehensible to human intelligence.
TLDR:

- Bitcoin is an "un-valuable" as an investment security.

- Bitcoin is only worth something because we agree that it should be worth something, and this consensus is fragile.

- Governments will outlaw it.
Why only consider within-country inequality (and, yes, I realize that the answer is 'because it's partly a publicity stunt, and humans are biased and parochial')?

The average American is incomparable wealthy compared to the average African, and you can on average save a life for only a few $thousand to one of Givewell's top recommended charities.
A Physicist’s Physicist Ponders the Nature of Reality
Ask HN: Should .io domains still be avoided?
A few years ago pg wrote a great article on startup names: http://paulgraham.com/name.html

The resulting discussion was equally as informative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030863

I'm wondering if this has changed at all. Are .io names to be avoided still? Have consumer/investor perception of them changed since?

This question comes as I brainstorm names for an upcoming project. The target demographic is generally a developer, and as such I picked up a relevant one word .io name. I am aware of available .com names which would suffice, but they're commonly two words and not as succinct. Would switching to a .com be advised?
Ask HN: Do we have to censor Julian Assange Wikileaks? Just because its CNN?
When there's an HN thread on IQ, you can count on two things:

1. There will be a number of comments saying IQ is outright meaningless.

2. There will be a comment saying Feynman only had an IQ of whatever it was.

Never fails.

Anyway, as I've said here before, Feynman's books are primarily collections of stories. What's presented in them was selected to maximize the impact and entertainment value of the story. And Feynman was very, very good at storytelling.
No. It is actually one person saying, that's a slave, and you responding, no you are wrong, that's a slave, and you are wrong because we disagree about slavery.

Hsu said there was a ceiling on the test, you said he was wrong, there was a ceiling on the test, and IQ is flawed.
I'm saying the survey results measure facts related to Mensa members, not people with high IQ overall. The top comments in this same thread point out the exact same problem, but what-the-fuck-ever.
Wow, what a totally original and fresh perspective.

Also, I don't like watching the author's face pop up every thirty seconds while I'm reading the article, telling me he's the next Benjamin Graham.
If you're able to get a salary of 100k, then you're that top 5% or 10% that I mentioned _might_ be able to do well in a hot market. There are lots of people who aren't so lucky and don't have that opportunity.
Yea! And I wish all these American liberals would stop complaining about Trump policies. Put your money where your mouth is and move to Mexico already! /s
Why is this shit being upvoted?
Leap year rules have to do with the actual length of the year being 365.24219 days - not with days not being 24 hours.
i'd fire him because he thinks gold is impossible to value.
All the kids from my high school still working menial jobs in my hometown 10 years later have been buzzing about buying Bitcoin all weekend up and down my Facebook feed. To me, there's no clearer sign that any money to be made during this rally has already been made.

I liquidated all my cryptocurrency holdings on Friday. When Wall Street steps in this week and shorts it, it's difficult for me to envision any other outcome than all those kids panicking and selling.
When did transparency become an issue?
Because most people here sadly do not get it. Hacker news isn't what it used to be.
Dad always gets pissed when mom tries to remove spider webs in out boat - it’s the webs that keeps it flies-free.

That said, last year we had ant infestation. Dad tried everything including chemical agents until we found there was 1 kilo of sugar in a paper bag. Nothing was stopping ants getting there. Removed the sugar and ants were gone days later.
I ported a WML based university department website to a custom python based stack in 2012, after having worked with the WML pages for 4 years. It was quite a relief, even though I hadn't had clear plans how to make the new system.

If I had to describe WML in a word, I'd say it's cruft. If I remember correctly it is up to 9 languages that you can use at once. (Lots of escaping!) With the exception of embedded Perl, which is about last in the parsing order, I don't remember any other of them to have even remotely usable datatypes. They have at most an ad-hoc macro system where HTML tags serve as function calls.
It's amazing that a "waste shipping industry" between parties on opposite sides of the planet can exist at all.

I guess it's possible because "developed nations" send back empty container ships which might as well be turned into dump trucks?
BTC Futures, HODL and Moving Funds into Fiat
Curious for those who own bitcoins ... how are you using it to enrich your life? Buying a lot of things on Overstock.com, eating at Subway frequently, buying eGifter gift cards (that looks like the best deal), selling gift cards at a small loss ($75 for $100 gift card) or other ways?

I was going to buy a bitcoin or two in 2013 when it was $400 and my co-workers at the time, but darn I didnt.
The type A viruses were 90 percent H3N2 and 10 percent H1N1pdm09 viruses.

That would mean that ZERO other A variants have been spotted in the wild this year in the USA. I disbelieve this.
How do you think inequality alleviation is more likely than removing the right to bear arms? The whole society is built on make or break as much as it is on owning guns. In that atmosphere the make part of this equation is conditioned to make sure they make more in the future and protect that. I feel these things are linked somewhat: the word 'fight' is used a lot. There is the seemingly constant struggle to get ahead and stay ahead. And once ahead this must be protected; with guns if need be.
Actually I was feeling pretty good about two years ago it is much worse now.
I actually bought this because of this comment, enjoying it so far!
My boss arrived at work in a brand new lamborghini.

I said "Wow that's an amazing car!"

He replied "if you work hard, strive for excellence and hit your targets, l'll get another one next year!"
Thanks for this ! Nice use of Ada and language restrictions. That was fun to read. Modular types, intrinsics, preconditions... The code looks clear to me. The writing style is fun :-D

If he wants to go the whole way on correctness (and bravado...) someone should introduce him to Spark2014...
> holding strong opinions and being decisive is extremely important

it is, and yes you can be wrong. but it's being strongly opinionated that matters, not being right (assuming you don't confuse that with just being stubborn). Many "meh" projects are just due to not being able to make strong, bold choices.
The Toyota MR2 was a failure?
It's a stunt to prove socialism is great. What it actually demonstrated is that charity works great. Charity is not socialism.
The truth is when it comes to life or death situations you cannot always wait for an official response to the incident. Especially in large scale disasters where the local government is not capable or disabled from responding with the speed or scale that is demanded to save lives.
Way too many project pages are like this. It really shows how nontrivial good documentation is to make.
Documentary Review-The Story of 3D Printed Guns
Ah, the old "private charity will solve all our problems" meme.
My company has customers who pay in Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies so at the end our employees and cofounders have a normal life based on cryptocurrencies use which are converted into fiat money.

Regarding the article, it is impossible to have an objective view about cryptocurrencies price (not technology) in general but it is creating a lot of millionaries down the road. I don't know if this will happen to the new entrants but it happened to the ones who bought and haven't sold Bitcoins for less than 4 years. All this have a strong economical impact in your life and the life of many others, probably more people are getting millionaries from cryptocurrencies than from startups.
Because we love to argue about Bitcoin.
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics [1] strikes again.

1: https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
Ramanujan’s observation about 1729 is actually quite interesting and not at all whimsical or silly. It was that is is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways:

1^3 + 12^3
10^3 + 9^3

Ramanujan probably derived this on the spot (by familiarity with the low cubic powers, and eliminating all the other sums of the low cubics [(n-2)^3 + (n-1)^3 only exceeds n^3 for n>7]). But he may have already been familiar with this property, since it was first found by Frenicle (along with 4 other, higher numbers expressible as such a pair of sums of cubes) as a solution to a challenge put forth by Euler.
Wait... all these people paid $15 to begin with? Are you really that poor if you can flip out $15 for any little thing that comes along.