skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Novel claims require evidence.

Here is another link: http://discovermagazine.com/2005/oct/sex

There are more genes related to intelligence on the X chromosome than on just the X and Y chromosomes. There are still 22 other pairs of chromosomes, which in offspring, are a mishmash of the father and mother's chromosomes. Genes on these chromosomes have been experimentally linked with intelligence (eg, http://genepi.qimr.edu.au/contents/p/staff/CV453.pdf)

Plus, there are sex differences in intelligence; there are more male dullards and geniuses. Men score higher on visuospatial ability, and women on verbal ability. Given that these are distinctly sex related, their genesis lies in differences between the X and Y chromosomes.
To continue the plumber metaphor: some systems are like black boxes with a lot of pipes sticking out - and they will route their raw sewage into your freshwater connector depending on barely documented and sometimes non-deterministic configuration parameters.

The API of 10 year old closed source enterprise systems that have grown over time by buying this solution provider and that and where documented methods may work or not... shudders, no, that's not plumbing at all, that is more like playing Minecraft in a toxic waste dump.
There's something missing in this article. Why do Microsoft need all these IP-adresses? I'm sure someone here can give me a clever answer.
This is like the best-documented vaporware ever. I hope they prove me wrong soon.
There are reports of Google and Yahoo leaving or threatening to leave the US Chamber of Commerce (a private lobbying organization, btw) because of its stance on certain legislation:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/04/361469/google-le...

http://www.fixtheuschamber.org/tracking-the-chamber/yahoo-jo...

Interesting progression of events in the last 15 years, given that anti-piracy legislation was originally written to protect software companies.
I get autocompletion and finding of references in every editor I've used for at least the past decade.

As for easy refactoring, I definitely found it useful when I was doing C#. In hindsight I think it became a bit of a crutch and prevented me from properly re-considering how I should approach the problem and instead ended up with essentially the same but neater code.
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Push until you fail - that last, highest place you got to is where you are best; to go one step farther is to enter Peter Principle territory, and you DON'T want to be there (at least not then). Then make the best of that position, and leap from there. The top rung of the ladder may be higher, but it's very hard to stay there - the next rung or two down is far more productive.
Sure I have plenty of them but more than my own stories and observations is that their is plenty of empirical evidence that supports the premise based on basic human nature. One only needs to look at every form of government, The Cast system in India, the Feudal system in Japan and Europe and Slavery to quickly identify that people view themselves as of a cast, whether we like it or not we do, you do, I do. VC's are no different and in some ways the worst offenders they most assuredly see themselves as VC's a distinct class. Now granted it is a generalization and not everyone fits the mold but measured as a whole people associate themselves with their cast in whatever social structure they interact in. Go to an large company and see who the Executives dine with, see who the technical people interact with it will most assuredly be, measured as a whole, birds of a feather. The evidence is in every social structure we participate in.

As for pitching VC's, contrary to being helpful it is not hurtful and that was my point, there are very few people that are going to go oh he calls himself the CTO, what an idiot. Sure they are not going to be impressed by the title either so you have a net of 0 there, but the demographic of idiot executives that will dismiss you out of hand for not being an executive is much higher. It's not a matter of helping it's a matter of hurting.
I second this.

It may seems odd to "hackers" that the system is so simple, lacking encryption, authentication, or human checks and balances, but thats kind of the whole point. If it actually needs to be activated, nobody is going to be around to press the big red button or verify encryption keys. They will all be home evacuating their families.
Unless I'm mistaken you're talking opinions. I'm speaking not only from experience but from facts gathered through working with local and federal agencies and public and private researchers and the studies all support what I said.

I might have used some blunt language but it's true. It doesn't matter how kids are brought up. It's a fact of nature that adolescents are hard wired to rebel against whatever they were taught at home. They test their upbringing and usually come out the other end believing what they were taught to begin with plus or minus a few beliefs but in the middle they almost always try to see what's up for themselves. You'd be surprised how many kids who grew up in wonderful moral families end up abusing or addicted to drugs. The founder of the organization Im part of is a retired Chicago PD officer with a number of degrees in education. He brought his son up in a well off upper-middle class neighborhood with good schools and strong morals. This family might as well have the Brady Bunch. But his son got mixed in with heroin and died after a long struggle with addiction. This was exactly the type of kid you say won't use.

See, that's the big problem. Everyone thinks its a moral failing and they take the attitude that it's the neighbor's kid but never mine until it happens to you. There are so so many families this has happened to and their afraid to warn others for fear of being labelled bad parents who didn't provide a solid moral ethic to pass down to their kid(s).

I am a smoker and I'm happy to admit that others done want to breathe in my second hand smoke. I'll also give you the rule on smoking 15 feet away from buildings is a good one too. But there's a fine line where legislation doesn't need to go. Banning it in public altogether is just ridiculous. We're all adults. We can say something if we want a smoker to leave the middle of the street. I mean cigarettes are legal and public areas are public. Leave the poor smokers alone when they're not bothering you. You can also choose to walk away. I mean, we not do it for 5 minutes at a time. You won't get cancer in those minutes. Please don't take my freedom away from me. What if I don't want your crying child or strong perfume or breast feedi near me? I'm not going to make it illegal because it inconveniences me.

But what really bothered me about that last paragraph was how you called it "drug addict" smoke. Yes, they are addicts technically but using those words in a derogatory way like that just perpetuates the stigma carried by addicts. We aren't sun-humans, bottom feeders, or somehow just some class of undesirables. We're your friends, neighbors, and family and we need help. Most of us are incredibly intelligent and have a lot to offer society if we could just get the help we need. I know how bad the behavior of an addict can be because I am one but all of deserve a chance to get better before being written off.
I use my credit card for almost everything. Before I explain why, it's important to state that I pay my balances in full every month. Anyone who has a hard time doing so should not be using credit cards.

There are three reasons why I use my credit card so much (in order of importance to me):

1: It makes my finances much, much easier to manage. If I were using a debit card, I would have to track every transaction to the penny throughout the month in order to avoid overdrafts. Instead, I just keep a rough mental tally of my expenditures to make sure that I'm not living beyond my means. If my spending happens to get front-loaded on any particular month, no big deal: I've got another paycheck coming before the bill is due at the end of the month. With a debit card, I would have to manage my spending by pay period (twice a month) rather than billing cycle (once a month). Also, if I did happen to spend a little bit too much by accident, I'm looking at a few dollars (possibly even just a few cents) in finance charges, as opposed to a $20+ overdraft fee on every subsequent transaction.

2: I have a rewards credit card, so everything I buy gets me points. If you aren't using a rewards credit card, you're helping to pay for my rewards: the credit card companies generally charge the merchants higher transaction fees for purchases made with rewards cards (otherwise they would lose money on people like me who don't carry a balance). Merchants pass those costs on to customers by raising prices slightly. If you're not using a rewards card, you're paying those higher prices without reaping the benefits. Some merchants charge lower prices for cash, in which case I will usually pay cash because the savings are worth more than the points.

3: Because I pay my balance in full each month, I'm getting an interest-free loan from my bank each month. That money sits in my bank account accruing interest for anywhere from 1 to 30 days (depending on when I make the purchase). With interest rates as low as they currently are, I'm only making a few cents each month this way, but that's still money I wouldn't otherwise have.

How many of these reasons would also apply in Europe? I know that #1 does, but what about #2 and #3? There are plenty of reasons for not using credit cards, which I didn't really get into, but are there reasons that apply in Europe which don't apply in the US?
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For the vast majority of users, things like spelling correction are a huge help. Roughly 10% of all queries are misspelled. Switching the default to "search for exactly what I typed" would hurt those users and lead to more spam and malware for the average user.

We try to find the balance that helps users the most, and searching for a term with "term" or the literal mode provides an escape hatch for power users.
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Does anybody else feel somewhat uncomfortable to live in a world where people who a) know how to spell and b) actually want a search engine to search what they are looking for are considered "edge cases/power users"?

I've always laughed at the idea of the internet and search engines making people dumber, but this seems like hard evidence. Most Google users are too stupid to have ever been able to use a library...
Not necessarily. They're more likely to go somewhere else where it is easier.

I didn't mean that everyone would just pick up and move, but enough might, and that could have an impact. Some people won't go anywhere, but they might stay and not start that business, which would have the same effect.
Your data is provided through rest but what are you using for providing the rest platform?

Do you see no compromise in speed not talking directly to the db?

For small applications I can see the advantage but I have customers with 1 million products?
The US has debit cards. These act exactly like the card you describe. The problem with debit cards is that the money leaves your account immediately. I prefer having the CC buffer for when (notice not IF) the card number is stolen.
And a youtube link to the DefCon talk mentioned in the article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmkTkWB40Q
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It's encouraging to me that Google takes users' concerns into consideration. I prefer this dialogue to Google just 'getting things right in the first place' in fact. This is one example. Gmail's redesign is another. And I'm sure more changes are coming to both. I hope Google never stops making aggressive changes and listening to feedback aggressively.
I'm 26 years old and I have never owned a credit card. Unless you really need to use a credit card as a short-term loan (which has always sounded to me like a really bad idea), they're just not necessary.
Today's 0.5% is tomorrows 95.5%. It just takes time.

It is the so-called power users who lead the way for everyone else.

Doing away with a traditional boolean operator for the sake of marketing (of a copycat "social network" website no less) is not the sign of a company with a clear, intelligent vision.

But time will tell who is the wiser.
If only Google had some sort of "account" system that could store user-specific preferences...
I would prefer lua, but completely agree I am buying one for every kid of every relative or friend of mine age 3+
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the SD card slot.
Your company exists in California, making it subject to California law; thus, any interaction between your company and the state of California doesn't prove anything. I still consider the law awful, but that aspect of it unfortunately does not exceed the scope of state law.

Unfortunately, until California makes the mistake of attempting to go after a non-California company with this law, the law won't get overturned on the grounds of regulating interstate commerce.

They can claim all the tax revenues and license fee revenues they like, but they'll find themselves sorely disappointed.
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A sincerely moving story. I'm already a registered donor, but this reminded me to update my address, which, like yours, was still a college dorm. If I were ever called up for a donation, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment.
You held your friends' unwillingness to return a favor against him and destroyed a friendship?

I'm sorry, but that's just immature, and it's possible that by disconnecting from you your 'friend' made a wise move. It's just three hours of time; your friend is a human being. I interpret social debt as a proxy to good manners, and nothing more. I freely <strike>loan</strike>gift money, time, and stuff to my friends and relatives, and I make a point to forget about it ASAP. It's just stuff! It makes me sad when people let transient stuff like 3 hours, a broken borrowed tool, or a $20 IOU get in the way of your relationships. If your friend hesitates to call you because they expect that you'll ask about "when are you going to teach me that/return this/refund that" then there's something wrong. Life is about people, not time you've spent in the past, the stuff you own, or the money in your wallet. Do something kind today.

A system to correlate helpfulness should be implemented to prevent help vampires[1] from draining the site's users, but it shouldn't be featured too prominently. Perhaps anonymous exit surveys could be used to determine reputation, visible on a users' profile? Something like "User participated in X projects and received an average rating of Y/5 for contributions", and users with extremely low ratings could get "You've been warned" annotations.

The system probably doesn't even need to specify whether the user volunteered help or requested help for the project; this tool will only thrive if there are plenty of projects to do, and it can be hard to come up with good ones. Unless, of course, I'm misinterpreting this and the project authors don't participate in the effort, which could make this difficult.

I don't see this as much as an IOU exchange center as an opportunity to work on stuff I love to do with people I haven't yet connected with.

[1]: http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/
You may laugh, but this is exactly the type of story we need to hear more about to balance the super hype around apps. Yeah, you could hit gold, but with a random roll you're much more likely to fire a dud.

Anyone else with a crap-app story?
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Spotting commercial opportunities is its own skill. Any experienced programmer could have made the v1 of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc... but figuring out that people need that is nontrivial.
And they did it in Iowa. Money and developers are not exactly growing on trees around here.
What if you just want some words verbatim?

You'd just use +word right? Oh wait.
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I'm assuming? I did the same course that student did. The curriculum hasn't changed towards 'we won't tell you what you need to score the marks' - quite the opposite. It was like this 6 years ago and it was like this a years ago when my coworker showed me his mark scheme for a similar curriculum-mandated ICT project.

> There's no indication of that in the article

Because if there was, it would severely weaken his whole 'I'm surrounded by idiots' argument, wouldn't it? Good for the kid for making a cool app, but he has to learn that you don't get judged on your merits but by how successfully you complete your task.

Have you had any experience with GCSE ICT? As far as I am concerned, there is one person making judgments with less information and that person is you. Let's not forget you are seeing one side of the story - don't be so foolish and pretend it's the whole truth.

You can even view the mark schemes online! Here is but one exam board that does this:

http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse10/ict/Pages/About_GCS...

It's amazing how I am ignorantly downvoted for something that is common knowledge among schoolchidren, seeing as they are given a mark scheme for every piece of coursework in every subject they take. I can only assume these people aren't from the UK...
I like "a boutique network of developers & designers". Sure, other explanatory text is welcome, but in general I hate the american way of writing prose which actually says very little.
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I'm guessing it's related to their cloud offering. The ability to have a big pool of IP addresses that they can offer to people using their cloud means they don't have to ration them quite as strictly. Amazon already limits you in the amount of elastic IPs that you get out of the box (you can request more http://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/eip_limit_request/ but you need to fill out a form). As things get more scarce, this could become a much bigger issue. Microsoft is hoarding early so that when things really get tight, their users don't have the same pressure.
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The Motion:

All base domain names (.com .org .net .info, etc.) to be abandoned and abolished forthwith.

The Reasons:

1) They are not fulfilling clear enough purpose and not being distinctive enough. Most websites provide some information (.info), allow some communication (.net), are associated with some organisation (.org), and maybe collect money in some way (.com). Thus these base names are mere noise words, creating confusion for users trying to guess the most appropriate one.

2) The base names lead to unwanted duplications, overlaps and mis-directions of the real domain names and the unnecessary disputes arising from this. Simply stated, the base names destroy the uniqueness of the real domain names. This is sheer folly.

3) Lest someone objects that there will not be enough domain names to go round, most main domain names can be differentiated more effectively and appropriately by addition of three or more letters of the domain buyer's own choice.

The Implementation

It is suggested that all existing domain names are converted to the new format protocol.uniquename by simple deletion of the dot before the base name. Example: www.somedomain.eu -> www.somedomaineu

This means that legacy compatibility of networks and browsers can be ensured with a minor parsing change and those who have grown attached to their base name (perhaps a geographical one which does carry some information) will get to keep it in this form.

No re-registration or change of any kind of the existing domains is necessary.

Summary of The Benefits:

1) Neat resolution of the major non-uniqueness problems plaguing unnecessarily the existing domain name addressing.

2) The changeover can be accomplished simply and with a minimal disruption, ensuring legacy compatibility.

3) New domain name creators become empowered to create many new unique and relevant names for themselves.
How do you tell the difference (for mis-spelled words) between people doing an actual search and people spell checking a word? It could be that a significant percentage of the 10% are not "search queries" but "spelling queries"
What doesn't look legit? The PCB silks look typical, the board size is about right for a small SoC-based design. You just need a lot of space for those large connectors like SD/MMC and HDMI.

There are other designs recently launched of the same size and capability like BeagleBone or the Gumstix line.
I hope they also add a way to enable it from within the query string itself, like 'verbatim: foo'. Much easier, and that way you can do it from search boxes and such too.
I've talked about this too. Sadly, this is what programming has started to become: slapping third-party components together and calling yourself a developer.

It's one of the reasons I tend to stay away from things like Django and RoR. It makes it easy to develop applications quickly, but I many times have to create hacks to make any changes that don't fit into the one-size fits all libraries.
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Microsoft bought 666K addresses. How many addresses does ARIN even have now, and how likely are they to assign such a large block to a single entity at this point?
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Excuse me, you're right. I am technically recovering. I choose to say recovered because not everyone understands that terminology and some might assume I'm currently in treatment or the beginning stages of recovery. I feel like saying recovered sends a message that now I've been sober for quite some time and totally stable and living the same kind of life anyone else would (job, car, family, what have you). I also tend to use the word sober over clean but many don't know the difference between those either.

In any case you're right. We do need to deal with them before getting addicted, not after. It's much cheaper and easier to prevent than anything else. Good education starts with getting real about substances and the process of addiction, not scaring people. The scare method just created a generation that assumes drug users have a moral failing and that's where the stigma comes from. Meanwhile the users are languishing in prison or on the streets not getting the help they need and deserve.
I think strategically it's a wise move. For MS 7.5m is a small sum. In case IPv6 will not be deployed at the speed we all want their investment will pay off tenfold because IPv4 addresses will be gold. They try to hedge the address exhaustion risk.
In my experience in Big Freaking Enterprise development, the issue is closer to "this little funny thing about B" x 100, plus "group Q doesn't want this project to succeed", "you have to be compliant with Regulation F which means, most relevantly, that all good technical solutions to this problem are legally forbidden", "your success with this will threaten the budget of the Z department -- be prepared for a knife fight with the VP", "group P will veto the project if it is delivered with property G and group R will veto the project if it is delivered without property G (bonus points awarded for values of P equal to R)" and "by the way, this doesn't advance an actual business goal."

The technical details are usually pretty boring. Data goes in, data comes out, if it weren't for all the bloody people involved it would be very civilized.
Anyone else get the feeling that all of this "hacker" stuff in the media is serving to raise the profile of "hackers" and position them as the new "terrorists" in an effort to create an environment of fear that will lead to support for upcoming Internet regulations?