skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Annnnd... it turns out, it seems, the shared environment doesn't explain more than 1%~2% of the variance.

And yet we have the case of Lazslo Polgar who raised 3 daughters to be strong chess players, two of whom became world class and one who became the best female player ever [1]. How likely an outcome would this be if there had never been a chessboard in the Polgar household (nor a determined father to teach them)? Vanishingly unlikely.

Scott Alexander over at SSC has written about the Polgar household [2], even going so far as to arrange a community fundraiser to pay for Laszlo Polgar's book to be translated into English [3] so that he could review it. There is a lot to be said for the Polgar family's ethnic background being a major factor in intelligence, yet children don't learn chess (or anything for that matter) without exposure to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/30/hungarian-education-iii...

[3] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/31/book-review-raise-a-gen...
It is sad not having the original SimCity on something like the iPad. The version they offer is some abomination trying to be FarmVille begging for cash at every turn.
When you eat only two meals a day, every plate is clean. Trust me. You shouldn't eat anything at all outside of meal time.
HN may have come to the rescue again. OP got his account restored on the 24th at 4:48 PM PST:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvQ75bUX4AMLblW.jpg:large
The way you feel about your own body isn’t science.
> This should be fairly obvious, because the only thing NAT does is change the apparent source address on outbound connections. It does nothing at all to inbound ones (and you can demonstrate this to yourself by setting up a test network in some VMs and NATing traffic between them with Linux and iptables).

Absolutely. It's trivial to demonstrate how utterly useless a router configured with NAT, with routing, but without a firewall is. (Useless in the context of a home CPE device for the average home internet subscriber..)

As a side note, yes, packets arriving towards your router with a destination address on your LAN will be forwarded by the router piece of your router.. the firewall piece would prevent this. This is independent of the use of/absence of NAT though..
So you're eating 4-5 meals a day, I suppose? Eat two meals and you will lose weight. Simple as that.
LeBron James once again playing Christmas game at home of defending NBA champ
Thanks! Sorry, I haven't published anything. My inspirations are Jai, Zig, Ante, and Odin, if that helps.
Microsoft plans new 4K webcams to bring facial recognition to Windows 10 devices
Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters
The fraud algorithms between big companies are connected... If you've just been detected as a fraudster at Amazon, then doing pretty much anything at target will also flag you up as a fraudster, simply on the basis of "if Amazon has blocked this guy, we don't want to take the risk either".
Well, it certainly can be argued that you are a more successful business person if you're not getting ripped off by your negotiation counterparts as you fight your wish to sleep.

There's a reason I don't do the "fly to X in the morning, have meeting, fly back" racket. I always have either a night train or a sleepover in a hotel, when I have to travel for workshops or hands-on work - making me get up at 4 o'clock in the morning means my employer loses at minimum half a day of productivity or more plus either night trains or hotel are cheaper than the productivity loss.
What's say that's true...

what's the likelihood all the data over the last 50 years was faked?
Open-source Java library that checks class field values regarding defined rules
I see a potential in this for academic research work as well, are you planning to develop it further?
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> The timing is sensitive and unfortunate as local governments in China are cracking down Christmas celebrations.

I'd say this is the perfect time then. Governments cracking down Christmas celebrations should be fought back and ridiculed.
They already explained that they're in it for the taste.

I'm about the same. I frequently drink 4-5 double shots of espresso when my little one sleeps at around 11, and I head to bed an hour or two later.
Strongly dispute this ECE vs CS characterization. CS is preferred over ECE in India. Source: ECE graduate from India. There is some wierd kind of projection going on with parent post.
Even trivial technical requirements are a major hurdle for non-technical creators, and it doesn't include all the community features offered, but the biggest problem is that people want a central place where they can find everything while paying tiny amounts like $1 across many accounts.
We do have Window | IDE Tools | Terminal but since I'm always on macOS or Linux I never tested to see if this feature has issues on Windows.

I'll test this and see what's going on there.
Are you saying that epistemology starts from absolute knowledge and widdles it down to a mangled approximation in order to show it on a web page?
ML != Deep Learning.

Deep Learning is just a branch (or even a sub-branch inside NN) of many ML techniques. Not all of them suffer the same problems or are based in the same theoretical background.
Will Julia Replace Python and R for Data Science?
I saw a slider for transposing. Don't you need two? One should change the pitch, and the other should change the notation. I tried yours, and it changed both pitch and notation at the same time. (listening to the synthetic sound)

For music with multiple parts, it would be nice to transpose everything together in the most reasonable way. This would maintain relative pitch relationships, adjust the whole thing up or down to fit ranges of the players, transpose according to how the players will read music, and avoid excessive accidentals. A few alternatives could be offered: option 1 makes the trumpet player suffer really high notes, option 2 makes oboe player suffer lots of flats, etc.
Curiously the book Why We Sleep says the exact opposite: we all have natural sleep cycles that differ and it's genetic, impossible to change. What I've noticed is that it's possible to keep a consistent schedule and overcome all of that inertia, but if you slip up you'll find yourself back in your natural cycle. Interestingly, the cited reason for this is that evolutionary, it's an advantage to not have everyone asleep at the same time.
Why should you use microservices and containers?
Apparently a huge contributor was the complexity of their written language.

English can be easily typed with a keyboard and stored in a 7 bit character. This meant the early computers could still store a reasonable amount of English, and were accessible to people straight away.

Kanji on the other hand is exceedingly complex. Computers had to get much more powerful before the systems which allowed typing and reading it worked well. The barrier for entry was therefore much higher for the average person.

developers in the Japanese market therefore focused on the areas of computing which didn't require written language - video games.
I think what made me effective was the ability to deliver within deadlines. This is mainly due to planning and knowing the technology and its quirks.

My advice to junior devs would be always read up and understand a technology to know how you plan. Sure there will be times where something unexpected comes up but having multiple scenarios helps that way you don't end up in a rabbit hole.
plus a 30m unpaid break, at least around here
Still excited about matrix and riot and similar...

Still need to have methods for moderators and admins to have permissions to view details about other people in the chat rooms.

Things like ip address, server they are federated from(?), client used, etc.

Having run public chat rooms for more than a decade, I've found the need to give some people moderator powers to inspect suspicious users, log info, and ban via subnets and cidr being very important to lessen the flow of many issues.

It only takes one troll to ruin your chat room, and that troll can connect from dozens of ips from dozens of vpns in little time.

The more info we can provide to a few trusted people, the easier it is to detect these things and ban people / networks.

I know this is not a magic pill to fix all the problems with all the people. A combo method with things like having regular users move to a room that takes a certain level to join, and only gaining access to those levels if you've been a known member for x months for example can make a big difference in situations like that as well.

Other moderation tools would be nice too, but without the ip info and such the others are moot in my experiences.
This reads like an ad for paid servkces, which it most likely is.
For the benefit of laypeople like myself:

- IID: "independent and identically distributed", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_and_identically_di...

- OLS: "ordinary least squares", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_least_squares (I think)
there is huge with being done right now on the theoretical backing of deep learning.

classical machine learning has huge, sound theoretical backing.

scaling well is extremely important, and is the main advantage of deep learning. as planes don't need a bird's feathers to be useful, deep learning is already way sufficiently successful enough to justify their use.

no one serious claims that deep nets are biologically possible. they are still promising, and useful, powering translation, phone keyboard autocomplete, search, camera stuff like low light mode and cell phone portait mode, medical imaging diagnosis, malware detection, new planet detection in astronomy, plasma modeling in energy engineering, etc
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...
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I can't wait for it to render PowerShell at a blazing fast speed. /s
Adding USB-C to the iPad isn’t enough to fix Apple’s messy port strategy
No one is disputing that the environment plays a significant role.

The claim is that the differences are random and you cannot systematically manufacture environmental differences to engineer outcomes. At least not in a way that meaningfully generalizes across a population in any useful way.

In other words don't bother buying Baby Einstein.
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I'm not so sure: the internet has rewarded certain forms of art/craft over others (e.g. easily produced, low cost of goods sold) and it's given them a worldwide audience.

As an example, where food was a poorly paid profession before, there's lots of people making lots of careers in every little aspect of food, because their audience see pictures/video online and either orders for delivery or visits in vacation.
Ask HN: What are the best communities/blogs for hackers?
That’s a can of worms. Basically employees are traditionally measured by the amount of time they are confined multipled by a factor representing their relative worth. Such an arrangement encourages slacking off of course, so the typical 40h wotker might do 20h of real work but if they went home early every day eyebrows will be raised so they need to be present the whole day. But what happens when working remote? There are no appearances to keep up and so it’s probably cool to do 20h as long as you are typically getting through enough work. And if you can take on 2 of those, why not? why should amazon have so many customers rather than just serve me? Well amazon don’t lie about it whereas in the work situation you might need to, and therein lies the rub.
Can I add this as a zone program in zone-mode?
I thought I remember seeing this at the Game On exhibition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_On_(exhibition) but it must have been the SNES version.
I don’t think morals with respect to shared notions of fundamental human rights can be “put aside” for the sake of discussion.

What is the discussion worth if it doesn’t take into consideration fundamental dignity?
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The demo seems to be missing. I get a 404 on the link.
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On the contrary, I am expecting ML to evaluate all these seemingly random node weights in neural networks and come up with solid algorithmic explanation of what they really mean in step by step procedural perspective. Deep understanding :)
>put my money where my mouth is

I wonder if it is enough to NOT buy a device for a certain reason... How does the neglected company know why you didn't buy their device? Especially if you actually want that device and there is only one reason why you decide against it.

Maybe it is necessary to give ones opinion a voice and give feedback to those neglected companies. (Or a petition?).
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New York, midtown specifically, doesn't even come close to how disgusting San Francisco is. Hell, San Francisco's mayor — London Breed, told off the last tourist who complained to her about how much litter there is in San Francisco.
Same for Tetris, I just want a simple version for my kids to play.
I hope so. But investors being so hot to in invest in "the future" that it currently leads to markov chain being called "AI" will probably last for another quarter or two.

It's not as vaporware-y as blockchain, but I still see some potential for the bubble to pop. At some point people will hopefully realize that but everything that can be done with a neural network needs to be done with one (and tons of data).
Keep organised. I use onenote and outlook but anything will do. I keep my inbox zeroed, make task level personal notes on onenote, and share info on onenote and Jira as appropriate. I try to avoid using slack for any information I’d want to retrieve tomorrow or beyond.
> Mozart, Einstein, Perelman, etc.

That historical level of accomplishments requires the accumulation of skills as well as the opportunities to develop it for extended periods of time since childhood when neuroplasticity is at its highest. At the extreme end of the accomplishment distribution, both nature and nurture must be very high. If one of them is lacking, there would be many others whose work is as impressive and their names would not stand out.

It is likely that a kind of luck, defined as being at the right place at the right time in history that matches their particular mix of skills plays a role in such cases. There are currently many times more people in the world than at any time in the past, why don't we have significantly more geniuses, as defined by accomplishments? Situations external to the individuals contribute to their geniuses.

A lesson I took from this is to think strategically and work in an area you have the potentials to achieve world-class level, given your existing foundations and the possible circumstances you can choose to be in.

This also applies to skill development in kids as their options, though quite broad, are not unlimited.
Do you have some details on how you have done this?
What really happened to the software on the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft?
Not a lot though. I am still a junior dev, but a lot of senior devs have reminisced about how they wanted to continue dev work, but had to take up managerial positions for social reasons. Marriage is one side of it. Apparently, people look down on you here if you stay a dev for long because it appears as if "you weren't capable enough".

And then there's also money. As someone else stated, rockstar engineers don't occur too often. Pay plateaus after certain years of dev work here in most places.
How to optimize SaaS landing pages
These things are slow (by modern standards), yeah, but it was possible to get the model this far down ... how far can we go?
Yes, and it's a very important property of CNNs. You can do the hard computational work of training in the data center, but get results from inferencing at the edge. In a sense, you're using the trained network as an energy storage system, shifting energy requirements away from power- and cost-constrained devices.

Inferencing is also highly amicable to hardware optimisation, which we're starting to see in the latest flagship mobile SoCs. I expect to see low-cost microcontrollers with inference accelerators within the next couple of years.
You don't think having to clean up fine glitter everywhere would increase the effort and therefore the cost of participating in this?
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Are you conflating compression with image compression?

The abstract notion of compression is reducing the size of something by trading off some of it's other properties.

You can compress a gas, data, an image, audio, rocks can be compressed, brains can be compressed.
LinkedIn is very useful for getting gigs. Rates are pretty much market value.
It's the title of the submission though, and arguably one of the least interesting aspects of the project. I would be interested in the fact that it claims to be the fastest, and that it runs on the GPU.
This was a surprisingly fresh perspective of goals. Thanks! All I was thinking was of more time on open source stuff, research, writing etc.
Just goes to show that anti-discrimination laws are a ridiculous imposition of arbitrary social demands onto private contracts. We now have an enormous rule book on how people are allowed to exercise their contracting rights with other consenting adults, when the only rule that should apply is whether the terms are mutually agreed upon.
Golang security resources
A relevant question about tar and backups:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/333975/is-using-tar...
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Like wise.
Bingo.

That's the takeaway. Play to your strengths and nurture yourself. Help your kids find their strengths and help them nurture them.
I set my own and always work longer and do more.

There's no way in hell this fancy stuff could help me.

And I've a problem with "more productive". Of course if I work only 10 minutes I'll be "more productive" per unit of time or cost, than when I work 11 hours. But I'll get nothing done within 10 minutes so guess what will happen...

This idealism may work for some folks (ie to practice swimming 12 hours a day may be worse than 4 hours) and those in uncompetitive lines of work. Not for me, though.
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The chans have a disproportionate impact on current online communication. The memetic use of macro images large stems from chans. As well as the propensity for trolling has been massively driven by chans
you are now bringing up another feature you'd like in a phone (also a feature I don't care about btw, nor do most others). you'd like a phone with both of those features. how about an sd card and removable battery? I also don't care about those.

so, for whatever features you want, there is a phone. there are hundreds of phones. when you start combining them, you are personalizing a phone. products are made for target markets. that's why people customize cars.

get a phone with a jack, put your own android on it, update it when it's updated. done. If you want a large company to make something specifically for you, with the combination of exact features you want - they don't. same for cars. same for coffee makers.
Why an arbitrary three years?

I've largely stopped bothering with Android system security updates due to soft-bricking and just concentrate on keeping browser / e-mail and other Internet apps updated.
>> I end up deleting half of the file's contents.

Are you sure you're not using vim?
Do SMEs Need an Easy SaaS Integration Platform?
Hello there -

Recently we initiated our product start-up in the SaaS application Integration space. Our product is a platform that makes the integration of SaaS applications easier by offering pre-configured connectors/configurations and a chat-bot that sits on popular messenger platforms like Slack, Skype to make the interaction easier. Users of the platform can directly run pre-defined use-cases to exchange information between one or more SaaS applications. For e.g. a user can instruct the BOT exchange information between a CRM and accounting application.

We have been repeatedly bothered by key questions like (1) Is the above concept appealing & can a SME business will find it necessary? (2) Where can we find some beta testing customers? Even though our initial assessment feels this is a need for the B2B SME segment, we don't prefer to take a big step unless we get some positive signal. We have also set-up a landing page through our main & product sites(www.dot2globe.com, www.incox.net)

Appealing to this community to reflect on the above and provide us with any insights from your experience. Thanks and appreciate your time and suggestions.
Vim.

Vim's command-line is more alien to the last 4 or 5 gui-bred younger generations of programmers. Learning to master it is therefore more of a badge of hounour, and for that, more sought-after, than learning to master Emacs.

Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x
I was surprised it was a seperate library in Clojure and doesn’t seem to be something that gets used much. Puts me off that it’s missing one of the most attaractive features of functional languages.
As a someone who don't use Haskell: Pandoc and Detexify.

As someone who has written safety critical software where you are willing to pay big buck for verification tools and software, Haskell has done nothing. I would love to use Haskell type FP but people who work with Haskell are thinking about correctness abstractly and real world (and earning lots of money) is not their priority.

All talk about correctness, absence of runtime errors are futile when you limit your definition to errors you want to deal with and ingonre the rest.

Having sound type system means nothing if you can have runtime memory errors, can run out of stack, pause for GC too long, don't know how much memory you may use in the worst case, can't detect divisions by 0, or float/fixexd point range errors ... etc.

Writing MISRA C and using verification tools like Astree, or SPARK + verification tools are not as elegant, but their weakest point is stronger than Haskell's.

If I sound salty, it's not because I think FP is bad idea, it's because I think the potential is wasted.
Emacs is meant to be open all the time. As it is way more than a simple Editor.

You can do all the CLI tasks inside Emacs.

Emacs Vanilla takes less than a second to open in my t430(2011)
I worked as an employee for a consulting company. Then I quit and started my own consulting company. It took me a while to take the leap, but I did and have not looked back since. Good times these days.
Unfortunate name choice [1]

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gash
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Ask HN: What technologies you stopped using in 2018?
I stopped using JavaScript in favor of TypeScript (better suited for bigger teams) and Elixir (great language, but the job market is too small). It's a much better investment to learn the basics of Machine Learning/NLP or something only slightly related to tech like SEO than another programming language.
I have been looking for these kinds of things!
A month ago I started building a similar project: http://dsalaj.com/quirky-ux/

But now I realize these things should also be collected to a list somewhere. I linked your project in mine for starters.
Thanks for sharing! Cheers!
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Perhaps they will learn through code via boot camps and take your job. And then would you have preferred that their discipline- a profession that was not destined to be automated away- have remained viable?