skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, the quote for exhibit 1 actually suggests that intelligence is a better (but not "overwhelmingly" better) predictor than parental SES ("being born into wealth")--and reading the paper, that's in fact the correct interpretation:

> Meta-analysis demonstrated that parental SES and academic performance are indeed positively related to career success but the predictive power of these variables is not stronger than that of intelligence (see Table 1). In fact, intelligence exhibited several correlations with the measures of success that were larger than the respective correlations for other predictors suggesting that intelligence is, after all, a better predictor of success.

Since intelligence is just one of many personality factors that might increase productivity (e.g. diligence or conscientiousness are important for a successful career) the fact that intelligence alone is a better predictor of SES than parental SES is actually kind of surprising in the other direction.

(This is especially striking since "high parental SES" means not only "being born into wealth," but also "having the genes of people with high SES." If SES is correlated with things that are heritable--it is--we should absolutely expect parental SES to have a large effect on outcomes no matter what.)
I only purchased a series 3 because it was $120 through insurance.
Isn’t the most likely scenario here that another large media conglomerate (i.e. Sinclair Media, CBS, etc) buys their assets and makes the media landscape even more consolidated? I hope not, but don’t have much faith here.
By whom? I have not experienced this at all. STEM jobs are by UK standards well paid and would be considered solid respectable to enter by everyone I can think of.

Unless you're comparing the salaries in these to those of Bankers ... but that's a whole different kettle of fish, and there's the added complication that Bankers are actually actively disliked by an overwhelming majority of the population.
Can anyone who has used this attest to its utility?

If you have used Canopy, have you also used Jaeger (by Uber)? How would you compare the two?

> https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/
PHP5.6.34 and PHP7 *finally* support magic_quotes_gpc()
Analyze VPC Flow Logs – Security – Performance
Capitalism is way out of control. No corporation should be able to strong arm the government to get out of taxes. At least not until I can pit states against each other to get out of my income tax.
When you talk about deaths because of a cyber attack I think people also wonder what would the retaliation be from the nation state that was attacked? Would a cyber attack start a new real world war? Would more people die?

There is a reason the headline is written in this way. This is big news.
There's an old saying that goes something like, whether you will be successful in life or not will largely be determined by the following 3 things in the order of importance.

1. What country you were born.
2. What teacher and friends you end up having.
3. Your parents. ($, gene, personality, parenting)

Of course, I would add just random luck as 4th factor.

None of these, you have any control over.

We're all here mostly through our good luck. Yes, some of us work very hard, but so do most people in impoverished countries.

Let's take a minute to count our blessings. :)
Yes, yes. I agree with all of this (well, "grows sub-linearly" is grossly speculative, but matches the marginal utility of consumption, etc.) But you misunderstand my question.

To counteract the power of wealth, some other sort of power is needed. Doesn't this lead to power inequality again? Do we know anything about power inequality dynamics that lets us choose this or that structure of coercion?
Raspberry Pi Model B vs. B+ network performance (spoiler, it's a lot faster)
Ask HN: What are the best open source calendar APIs?
I am specifically interested in open source calendar APIs that connect to the popular online calendars: Google, Outlook, Office 365 or iCloud. It would be a an extra special benefit if the API also integrated with a free software or open source calendar. The API must offer the ability to query a user's availability as well as create new events / appointments.

I am aware of cronofy, but the pricing is a bit steep for my purposes: https://www.cronofy.com/pricing/
Poisoned BitTorrent client started malware outbreak, tried to infect 400K PCs
Most of this makes perfect sense, but allow me to disagree with one point "Those kinds of decisions are much more important than what stack you build" the most technical founder should never lose focus of the importance of this.
Of course, if you don't have a business it doesn't matter what stack you're using, to build a quick RAT (yes RAT, not MVP) you don't need to go deep on the stack, but once those experiments are moving forward you've to be careful. You've to pick the right stack and tools to build your company, focus on that even more if you are a technology company (not a consumer one). This won't only be part of the scaling plan of your company but it'll also play a big role on recruiting if you're using new technologies you've to train people if you're using more mature technologies you probably have a better hiring pool in one than another.

Plus, you need to be able to share with your team the importance of picking one stack over another, the cycle of development and the times to invest in refactor or why to re-build something that started as an experiment but now needs to scale.
That's hardly an unreasonable situation given that it very much depends on where you are in the world and what time of year it is.

The wider point here being that of course they don't agree on "basic" matters - neither does everybody within a single country.
This looks awesome, thanks for the heads up!

And thoughts on this vs newsboat[1] which claims that newsbeuter isn't being updated anymore?

[1] https://newsboat.org/
Sure, but for many embedded systems you have to use C. Plus C interoperates well with every other mainstream language. Every platform supports C, so by writing it in C you can support every platform (with very few caveats).
Often != Always, though.

Losing the ability to affect these European standards is a price to pay, Brexit being one big trade-off after all. But I'm still unclear on what the advantages are that make it worth it.
Even though we've all been thinking about self-driving cars for a long time, seeing videos of that steering wheel turning in the empty front seat is surprising. I upvoted this article just for those few seconds of video.

There's a whole class of things that are surprising when you see them for the first time, even if you think you're used to them. I wonder what properties this class of ideas have. Are they more exciting ideas? Do startups working on such things make more money? Or is the surprise merely an artifact of the degree and/or type of brokenness in our own mental models?
I agree except I think psychopath does translate into evolutionary advantage more and more now. People become more and more independent as everything can be bought by money. So only rules/laws can stop psychopath from parasiting on other people. But don’t you think that almost all politics are professional psychopaths? People just elect the best psychopath to allow him to do lawmaking for them all. I think no one should get politic power before he discloses his mental health or at least brain scan.
IHeartMedia finally files for Chapter 11
In that sentence he's talking about the risk of propagating flawed research. A few paragraphs up he makes it clear that he doesn't hold the view you ascribe to him:

> I care deeply about the issue of growing wealth inequality, and would love for research to be done that finds concrete evidence of how luck and privilege play a role in it.
Another note for people unfamiliar with linux: Even in the case of a kernel update you can just reboot whenever. There's nothing prompting you or forcing you to do it at any specific time.

Windows update is definitely my #1 reason to switch to linux.
Investigating a complex physical phenomena that isn't tied to either fundamental research or immediate application = little chance of funding. The article is all "oh gosh, curling is so complex" but the real thing here is the limitations of our knowledge, and the ability to apply knowledge across abstraction boundaries.
Vulkan compute is super simple compared to vulkan graphics. In the graphics you have to consider renderpasses, tons of GPU state, and whatnot.

In compute you just dispatch kernels and put barriers to prevent race conditions. Pretty much like OpenCL Out Of Order queues except the arguments are passed via descriptor sets rather than given individually.
I basically agree, Gregory Clark is an economic historian and he's published some stuff which suggests that advantages last for something like 10-15 generations which is absolutely mind-blowing. Check out that voicerepublic link, it has a take on inequality/meritocracy which is different from the usual attacks on meritocracy but I think a lot stronger, it at least gave me a lot to think about.
I know this might seem like a naive question but, is there any requirement for a driverless car to have windows at all? perhaps a biological or neurological dependency?
I wonder how many people press C-h t, get to the following:

C-f	Forward one character

C-n Next line

C-b	Back one character

C-p Previous line

...and close Emacs, never to open it again.

The tutorial goes on to say:

When you get used to these keys, they're faster than their more familiar equivalents in other applications (Home, End, Ctrl+Left, etc.) because you don't have to move your hands from the touch typing position.

That's such ridiculous micro- and premature optimization - especially given that, since Emacs predates modern conventions, almost nothing is natively familiar - that it boggles the mind.
>people, who frankly, are jealous of others and want more.

That's always what it boils down to, isn't it? The one argument the hardcore libertarians and FYGM people always fall back to is "well, you're just jealous. If you just worked harder, you could afford it too", which has been shown again and again to be blatantly false and a clear example of a just world fallacy.

Luck plays an enormous part in how successful you are in life. There is obviously also a factor of being able to do something with those instances of luck, and again being born into the right family, having gone to the right school or having had the right encouragement is a huge factor. Once again, it boils down to luck, especially being born into the right family, with resources and support and an already-in-place social network to groom you and give you those opportunities.

Do you think the son of an alcoholic single mother has the same chances in life as the son of a bank director?

Social mobility is possible, but the deck is severely stacked in favor of those who already have the most.
> At least not until I can pit states against each other to get out of my income tax.

You can by moving to any of Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, or Wyoming.
Curling Canada has a video online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50cSDUIDMuM) detailing the steps that a rink needs to go through in order to prepare their ice for a championship game. It's kindof amazing how many steps are involved, and I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
People have been saying that since the EU was created. Excuse my scepticism.
Failing can certainly be okay, but you seem to be looking at it as only failing yourself. When your business fails, there are others who are affected as well. Employees who need paychecks, customers who relied on your goods or services, competitors who you "disrupted" who somehow have to compete with an irrational company.
> The hypothetical 35-year-old Commodore, however, can't do most of the things I ask my 3 year old laptop to do.

No, but it can do all the things it promised to do when it was first sold.

By contrast, one of my old iPads is thinking about enrolling in a job retraining program to learn to be a trivet. This despite all of its components being in perfect working order.

I never suggested this was a conspiracy, just that it's a travesty.
A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act
I think all of your issues with markdown can be solved with a stylesheet.

Also, I would challenge your idea that the changes tracking feature is even remotely comparable to real revision control.

"Everyone uses it" is the best argument.
I think the implication is that switching branches shouldn't blow away your uncommitted changes. And one shouldn't have to stash their changes to switch branches.
Understanding the realtime web with WebSockets
I use it for:

* sleep tracking
* displaying todos on my watch face
* Creating reminders
* timers
* pomodoros
* step counting
* music playing
* phone calls
* Logging my weight with the workflow app
* apple pay
* music and volume controls

You can probably do all those? The series 3 will just be a lot faster in all transitions. Also has connectivity even if you go phoneless. (Though not all apps work)
If you only used to copper to change that one color, you can't get smaller than 8 low-res pixels width of the virtual pixels.

You can, however, use more bitplanes and then use both the copper and cpu at the same time to get more colors, but you'd be tight of bus cycles pretty fast and I doubt you could get more than 80 colors per scanline using this technique.
Does Tech Need Silicon Valley?
Toys R Us wasn't doing so well before the leveraged buy out either. Declining retail firms seem to turn to leveraged buyouts as a way to gain capital to give it one last big push, and then wind down in 5-10 years. Without the buyout, they would probably slowly dwindle over 20 years.
I recommend the interpreter book [https://interpreterbook.com/], which isn't entirely free of charge however.

On the other hand, it was enough to get me off the ground for my lexer and write a parser that wasn't entirely dumb.
Or for safety reasons?

Easier to get out of the vehicle in case of emergencies, when the door is stuck, or easier to see which side of the vehicle is unsafe to exit, easier for humans to take over in emergencies when they have vision outside of the vehicle.

Similar reasons apply to any vehicle which is not driven by you. Bus, airplane, train...

Yes, it is a naive question.
pretty much that.

They have gone round and taken a video of every street in a certain area, unpacked it, extracted salient points, reconstruct those points to get a 3d map.

From that, given any 2d image you should be able to extract a bunch of "salient points" or known points, which from their relationship to each other can tell where the camera is, and what direction its pointing.

The two hard parts are 1) collecting the data 2) searching the data in reasonable amount of time
As a series 0 owner, I'll be fine if Apple drops support from new watchOS releases, new apps don't support it, and existing apps never get another release that runs on it.

In fact, I'll probably be fine if third-party apps stop working on the series 0 entirely.

Third-party apps run so poorly on the series 0 that they're not really worth using. I'd rather developers invest in the work that will make later-generation Apple Watches worth the upgrade, than pour those resources into low-value results on a hamstrung platform. My current watch won't be any worse off than the day I bought it, and I'll have the option of a more compelling upgrade if I want one.

As a consumer, I don't expect a first-generation smartwatch, especially from 2015 when this was still a very new product category, to last 5-10 years. If it does last, I don't expect it to acquire new features every year. Other watches don't. Appliances that last that long tend to get worse over their lifetime.
maybe its harder than it looks
How to Break Your Phone Addiction
I do 100% agree with this, recognizing, of course, that merely being in a position to have choices to begin with is _also_ a factor of luck. (Parents’ socioeconomic status; your own intelligence; if you had someone around to have taught you this, etc)
Capitalism doesn't really work unless it can fight on equal footing with the state. If the state can just clamp down however it wants on private enterprise, then eventually all private enterprise becomes state enterprise. See China.

And there are US states with 0 income tax. And countries with very low income tax. Russia has 13% income tax, the state gets most of its income from its fascinating system of tributary taxation. (1)

It's certainly possible to vote with your feet for the system of government that fits your wishes best.

1. https://www.quora.com/Will-Russia-abandon-the-tributary-taxa...
The parliament did for example stop software patents. Yeah, one day there might be another proposal, but for now we don't have them enforced because of the EU parliament.
Here's the petition: https://www.pacermonitor.com/view/VV5HEOI/IHeartMedia_Inc__t...

and SVP Brian Coleman's Declaration with all the details: https://www.pacermonitor.com/view/RKX3SCQ/IHeartMedia_Inc__t...
"I'm not sure what to tell you, people who have built organizations that employee thousands of people have contributed more to society than average. If that needs further justification then I'm not even sure how to respond to that."

I hear that often but is it really true? Maybe they just have found a way to funnel money to themselves instead of it going to other businesses. For example has Walmart created anything or did they just take the money that would otherwise have gone to a lot of small businesses? For sure they were very smart but did they make the country better? I am not so sure.
As a Markdown-loving attorney: Yep. And not just word processors, but Word specifically has non-negotiable features I need, such as tables of authorities.

Yep, you can do any of this in LaTeX—but it’s just much harder, and generally works best with pre-set templates, not so much when you have to make small stylistic tweaks at the last minute without spending an hour debugging.
Ask HN: What paid email provider service
I want to move away from gmail to a paid email service. I want to use my custom domain and I am ready to pay around 50$/year for this service.

So far I have considered fastmail and proton mail. Any suggestion or consideration?
I have one more: Bit-rot resistance. If you've ever tried to work on an MSWord document that's been around the houses a bit and had lots of work on it by different people (using different versions of different applications), with font choices and colours and formatting changing on a whim, you'll know they can degrade over time and become cumbersome to edit.
Sorry if that is wrong, I'm just repeating the metaphor used by the more educated people in that other thread to the best of my understanding.
It could also mean "I simply enjoy driving cars with a lot of power and/or comfort, because the sensations are inherently pleasurable to me".

I love driving cars. Not to show off or because of prestige, I just really like driving, for some reason. I don't care if it's a 300hp grand tourer or a 60hp supermini, it's the act of driving that's enjoyable to me personally.

Not everything is a matter of "keeping up with the Joneses".
The state’s role is to enable the level of capitalism it desires. Capitalism doesn’t compete against the state, as the state can always control it.
Redox OS has `orbutils`, a bunch of simplistic GUI utilites written in Rust and somewhat cross-platform (it's possible to build and run them on other platforms) [0].

The most interesting and educational one for me is `browser`, which crudely shows web pages and is written in less than a thousand lines of Rust from scratch.

[0] https://github.com/redox-os/orbutils/tree/6764004b9f6f386af1...
I think Warren still would have done pretty well for himself. Maybe not richest in the world, but he was out selling all manner of things like gum, soda, and golf balls even when he was in primary school. He's a natural entrepreneur.

But Warren is an outlier among outliers. Bill Gates has said himself that he doesn't think he would have been able to become a billionaire with Microsoft had he not gone to a swanky private high school that had a computer back when no one had computers.
Ask HN: How should I structure a simple co-founder agreement?
I recently brought on a co-founder. I offered a salary and 15% equity with a one year cliff and a four year vest. I have not raised outside funds.

I'm thinking I write a simple document stating 15% equity with a one year cliff and a four year vest and we both sign it and hold a copy.

I'm thinking this will work to cover us both legally until the time of a funding event when we can have lawyers draw up something more official.

Will the simple letter suffice or should I go the lawyer route now?
What's missing from most articles (this one included) is any kind of analysis of whether tax breaks make sense for the states in question. It bothers me how it's presented as the state giving $5B of its own cash away to Amazon, as if that money could go to the homeless instead.

Presumably there are ways to estimate the economic effects of 50,000 jobs + tax breaks. Is there a reason they're not mentioned?
Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election
Seems like this is just measuring a natural effect.
The bigger the star, the more mass it has, the more it pulls towards it self.
Or the bible version "to those that have more shall be given"
The richer you become, the more opportunities you attract to make money.
Yeah it's a great resource. I'm eagerly awaiting this Vulkan version
It's pleasant to be able to see out, it's important for avoiding motion sickness for many people, and it helps you trust the vehicle is not going to drive you off a cliff or into oncoming traffic. So, no, it's not a hard requirement, but I can't see a windowless car being a success.
> But Markdown doesn't compete with Word, really at all. There's no strong reason to frame them as opposites or to suggest that one can replace the other. Word is an editor, and Markdown is a spec. Word is wysiwyg, and Markdown is not.

I'd say the big difference between word processors (Word, LibreOffice, etc) and Markdown (or LaTeX) is that word processors are the IDEs of writing. They provide an environment and tools for not just entering your text and formatting it, but also tools for helping you create your content and manage it and work on it collaboratively.

> Word is simultaneously an horrific beast and a beautiful program, but the list of features Word has that Markdown doesn't support is probably 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than the list of features Markdown even has. Word can do everything Markdown can do, but not the other way around, even if you allow for arbitrary HTML (which is cheating)

The amazing thing about Word (more so in earlier editions...it's not quite as good at this currently) is that they tossed in nearly everything that any given user needs, which resulted in a bazillion features since different users need different things, but somehow managed to make it so that you can mostly ignore the features you do not need.

Usually the kitchen sink approach results in a program that is totally unusable by nearly everyone.
Honestly, I think it should be illegal for a city or state to negotiate a tax break with a specific company. Sure, they can cut taxes across the board if they want, but everyone should get the same deal.

I'm even for banning "backdoor" tax breaks that effectively only benefit one or two companies and were clearly targeted at them (I'm thinking of the Delta aviation fuel tax break, as an example), or sweetheart deals to use infrastructure (like stadiums).

I think the most immediate benefit will be that the NFL will have to pay for its own damn stadiums in the future.
WHO launches health review after microplastics found in 90% of bottled water
Citizen Engagement in Finland Takes an App Approach