skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not wave 'citation please' like a cheap flag.

Okay. Your right. Instead I am going to talk about the conclusions the article makes.

"Because reproductive success is the ultimate goal of all living organisms, so intelligent women are more likely to go against such evolutionary design."

If were going to go ahead and define the most important things in life as the most evolutionarily viable ones, then we've already ceded way too much ground. And even this argument doesn't take into account things like overpopulation, if everyone tried to maximize baby output, we'd fill the planet up mighty quick. So it may actually make sense to reproduce less, but not necessarily not at all.

"My theory would also predict that intelligent men should be less likely to become parents, but data do not confirm that. Some suggest that women prefer to have children with more intelligent men, but the data contradict this too."

If the data already contradicts your hypothesis, then why say it?

"Men’s income or education has no effect on their likelihood of becoming parents. Intelligence doesn’t allow us to do better what we are designed by evolution to do."

Designed is a misnomer, natural selection works because those who survive are the ones represented. We weren't "designed" to do anything. Were here because the people before us had babies. It is preferable that we continue to have babies so that people will exist in the future, but raw baby making isn't everything. Our "Evolutionarily novel" environment was made through the use of intelligence. On a societal level intelligence is important to create novel inventions which keep more humans alive long enough to make babies. If intelligent people don't reproduce, but the populations that they spawn in stay alive longer than dumber populations, then the people who have recessive intelligence genes that let them occasionally spawn a genius will do just fine, leaving intelligent people in the system and making them evolutionarily valuable.

Of course, on a individual scale this may not work out too well for the intelligent people.

With all that in mind, in the spirit of Fermi's Paradox: If intelligence isn't evolutionarily valuable, and is in fact negatively correlated with evolutionary success, then why are the smart people still here? (In non-trivial numbers.)
This is one place where I found myself to differ with Apple's usually brilliant UI norms. Trouble with this particular guideline is that it makes me (as the user) have to read and process the responses in my mind, making response slower. A Cancel/No/Yes with a question "Save and quit?" makes the same sense to me and allows me, to process the known buttons almost reflexively.
Should Socialcam's Spamming Be Blocked By Facebook
socialcam is spamming my newsfeed and my friends newsfeeds WITHOUT our permission automatically. Why is facebook allowing this? I thought they stopped Zynga from doing this.
How you deal with the frustration associated with learning programming plays a huge role in how far you'll go. You can't read a book to learn how to press on when frustrated. The best engineers that I've ever worked with had an uncanny ability to motivate themselves through those intense moments of frustration.
Qualcomm Demonstrates How “Cool” Their Snapdragon S4 Chip Is
I loved your example comparing the two guns. Just saying
With all the discussion about reddit blocking certain domains early last week, I find it interesting that this hour old post has 27 points and is surrounded by other posts that have between 1 and 5 on the new page.
Facebook to Pay $10 Million to Charity to Settle Ad Lawsuit
> It's a computer, it can do anything. Period.

Anything? I assume you mean it can compute anything, right?

So you could write a computer program that determines whether two distinct programs do the same thing? Or whether a batch job will ever finish? Or whether you could substitute the variables in a equation with integers in order to satisfy it? Or a hundred other tasks that have been proven impossible?
Good point. I think i'll do just that.
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I was just confused. So this is the owner of SocialWOD and a 'cohort analysis consultant'? After reading that I thought it was a guest post or something.
Here's an attempt at an outline of an argument that Stuxnet was used to kill or wound. Note that I don't necessarily hold this as my belief.

1. Stuxnet was designed to slow Iran's progress toward developing their own nuclear power (and weapons).

2. Nuclear power is a cleaner alternative to burning fossil fuels.

3. Fossil fuels are the cause of many deaths through pollution, mining accidents, and wars over oilfields.

4. Therefore, by delaying Iran's use of nuclear power, Stuxnet resulted in an increase in killing or wounding, via wars over oil and pollution.

That's where I'd draw the line: purposeful killing. So I'd describe this as a case of cyber-sabatoge -- not a case of cyber-war.

Sabotage can be a tactic used in an ongoing war.
An upvote is always one point. HN doesn't implement weighted voting. And the implication that he is dumb was quite unnecessary.
It's kinda funny, because I often think this way but in the opposite direction. How the hell does one build a socket anyways? (Yes I will go and google this now so save your lmgtfy links :))
> But on the other hand, the mod system has problems as well:

> 1. Nobody even knows what the mod system is

That is not a problem. This is excellent feature of a moderation system. Meta is death - really. I'm never going to make another meta post after this one. (Unless it's t help a new user.)

> 2. Nobody knows who the mods are.

Again, that's not a problem. It avoids turning moderating into character battles. A mod who makes a mistake anonymously has no investment of face-saving; they can easily undo the error.

> 3. There's no way to give feedback on moderations, for the ones that were incorrectly modded.

There is an email address clearly listed in the guidelines.

I really don't think the problems are as big as people are making out. Sure, some things are frustrating. Taking this video and post as an example: Don't link to the small part of the video where Linus tells nvidia to go fuck themselves, link to the entire video (and to the start of that video) and then give it a better title. Trying to attach blame to mods because someone made a weird sub-optimal choice when submitting a link is un-good.
Of course it can't do anything. The computer just hasn't found the person to tell it how to do it yet.
Wow, that is just pure evil! They're making a total mockery of the copyright system and I'm relishing the idea of someone exposing them for who they are. If they don't resolve this reasonably, would you consider taking them to court? Is it financially feasible?
I believe that TLDs with A records should resolve correctly if you add a period to the end, as in "http://ac.. As I recall, this came up when the "http://to. link shortener [no longer available] was discussed a while ago.
Never take GUI advice from a web site that hardcodes the width of its paragraphs to 600px.

Seriously, who does this in 2012?
"HN doesn't implement weighted voting for comments?
As far as I know HN doesn't implement weighted voting period.
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I am not an expert economist but I do think suggesting Google simply pay $200k for exploits would fix things is far too simple a solution. It would simply make the exploits even more desirable, and push the rewards of selling on the black market even more lucrative.
It wouldn't have been a big deal if the TLDs were at least more restrictive (maximum character length, protections for rights-holders), but as it stands, it's hard to see how this wasn't at best horribly conceived, or at worst, truly a corrupt way to wrangle money out of brand-holders.
wow this is awesome, should hopefully reduce the rather steep initial legal costs for early stage startups
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There are many problems with the north american intellectual property systems. The post certainly could have communicated in a far clearer manner though.

I will try in the orignal posters place.

1) Copyright law. It is indefinitely extended. Is this right? It is certainly true that the term "content creator" extends past the point where the actual content creator lived. Ok, so the law says that corporations are people. They own the content! But since they do not die, is copyright truly indefinite?

2) Lobbying in the US. Corporations can "donate" to politicians and essentially buy their positions on copyright and enforcement matters. This is a problem. The government should not be able to be bought.

3) Extortion. A combination of copyright and patent laws, that are perhaps overly broad, allow those with established positions and a lot of money to force innovative newcomers into the systems the incumbents put in place which exists only to funnel money into the incumbents pockets. Small companies do not have the funds to be able to adequately defend copyright or patent infringement cases, regardless of the merit of the claims.

None of these are easy problems, but they are none the less problems.
Nice thought until you spend a large sum of money to create something personal and someone copies it and starts stealing your potential audience.
So you are saying that USB in general wasn't taking of until around the the time of the iMac. That does not make it the iMac which drove this development.

Bluetooth, at least in my opinion, has severely limited use. Most my devices has it, has had it (apart from desktops) and on all of them I turn it off. It is a relic from ancient times.

Ditto with wifi? Seriously? No really? You are going to pick widely available products and just claim that some iProduct popularized it?

You're obviously seeing the world through Apple-coloured glasses and are unable to see general technological progress as just that.

And like I said in the original post: lets ignore laptops, because those are not what we are discussing. Someone wanted to know what Apple would do with desktop system since evidently the entire PC industry will copy that in 2-3 years.

I'm still waiting for a single example from you which holds valid. None have been provided so far. Only fanboy-cheering.

As for the PC business in general and all that innovation you claim that I say is happening there... My point is that there isn't. It's a very standstill market. There has been little to no innovation the last decade, except making things cheaper, more efficient, smaller, lighter and prettier.

You know... The general trends for all things technology. It's just evolving. And here you credit all that general evolving to one company without any proof what so ever.

I don't buy it fanboy.
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But Kanazawa's schtick for this piece is: 'humans are designed/evolved to do X, so intelligent tend to be more Y in contrast'.

He mentions paranoia as a 'designed to be' trait. He directly links paranoia as an explanation for belief in God, and says the intelligent are more likely to be atheist. That pretty strongly suggests 'paranoia' is one of the ancestral norms from which he thinks the intelligent are now tending to deviate.
> In America? First of all, I'm impressed that you're able to speak on such a grand scale as to paint a very large, very diverse nation with such a simplistic and sarcastic brush.

He's commenting on federal law, which indeed applies to the United States as a whole, or do you claim otherwise?
I'd be interested to hear (both from Youtube and from people caught by ContentID) about how hard it is to fix these problems.

I also want to know what happens to the ad revenue - do Youtube just keep it; or do they still pay it to the original company; or do they attempt to claw it back at some point; or do they pay it to the real creator of the work?
Because YouTube has been sued several times in both the US and Europe, and if it didn't offer this system, far worse more draconian systems would be legally mandated. YouTube recently lost a case in Germany where the judge imposed a less accurate filter on YouTube: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120420/11573918587/huh-to...

This is a regrettable situation, that the OP got caught up in a detection system, but YouTube must do this kind of stuff, otherwise, the courts will mandate it.
YouTube has been sued several times in both the US and Europe, and if it didn't offer this system, far worse more draconian systems would be legally mandated. YouTube recently lost a case in Germany where the judge imposed a less accurate filter on YouTube: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120420/11573918587/huh-to....
This is a regrettable situation, that the OP got caught up in a detection system, but YouTube must do this kind of stuff, otherwise, the courts will mandate it. Not having it just lends more ammunition to SOPA/PIPA backers as well.
For some honor may be worth more.

Though I imagine that if you want advice for how to prevent no shows, talk to the nearest college professor with office hours. The psycology department would properly have some novel ideas.
look at it this way, you need to persuade people into paying a dollar for and app that sends an sms, rather than composing their own poems/messages (which by the way is more thoughtful and special) and sms it for a fraction of what your app costs.
Don't forget that the yield halves in December this year. That can't hurt prices, let me tell you.
Perl6 version:

for <dog cat bird> Z <brown black red> -> $animal, $color {
say "See the $color $animal?"
}
...anybody else picked up the line where he basically says that WEB PROGRAMMING ISN'T [REAL] PROGRAMMING? I wonder what a community like HN, with so many people developing web apps thinks about this... :)

Quote (~min 11:30): "I have never in my love done any web programming because I'm not interested, I think that kind of stuff... there's MIS people to do that for you, right? I'm interested in programming"

[edited some spelling bugs]
Note Richard Hipp (of sqlite (among other things) fame) is a past member of the Tcl Core Team and still active in the community.
Link to the source (Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&t=61m28s

I've found it while watching the video after the "fuck you nVidia" discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121698

Edit: Actual quote: "I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended" (without the "the" before "people").
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I suspect it depends on the rationality of the parent you're speaking to. As a parent, that wording sounds fine to me.
Perhaps the OP didn't feel like learning new software when he had a mental model of how to do what was needed using familiar tools?
I think your example only works if Mercedes created the design and Kia came out with it first. Kia probably wouldn't be bothered with Mercedes copying them.

Also it has to be a copy, not a close similarity.
Crossfit gyms properly have more people who actually show up, and they may also have license fees to pay.
I doubt it. I think it's safe to say that most people pine for social skills if they perceive they lack them. Perhaps controversial, but I'd wager that most of the time resentment towards a social concept like flirting is really just a consequence of defeatism.
2) Lobbying in the US. Corporations can "donate" to politicians and essentially buy their positions on copyright and enforcement matters.

I often hear people in the US complain about this, and sometimes make reference to US Supreme Court rulings that allowed companies to donate as much as they want, and these activists want this laws repealed.

You note that political corruption is not unique to the USA right? You know bribery and donations can take many forms even if you remove 'corporate personhood'? Lots of countries have a problem with corrupt politicians.
The Case for Hiring 'Under-Qualified' Employees
"Having a word for blue seems to make the color ‘pop’ a little more in our minds. "

A lot to digest in this article. The quote above reminded me of 'categorical perception' of musical notes among musicians (without perfect pitch) and the rest of us. Professional musicians seem to 'bin' frequencies near a tone centre into notes with sharp divisions between them.
Well, ultimately it's the balance between your time and you user's time.
its simple:
try harder!
learning a language is usually much easier than learning to use a framework efficiently. it just takes time and a lot of motivation. so its completely normal that you get stuck.
I had the exact same problem as you, so I'm writing http://www.instahero.com. It will offer everything kissmetrics etc offer, but will give you the ability to easily program your own reports, without having to download your data or anything like that.

Think of it like kissmetrics having an "edit the code that generates this report" option. You can leave your email or drop me a line if you want to try out the beta.
The problem with Yes/No/Cancel is it requires the user to look at the question which can often be the opposite of what the user expects. Example

Save? Yes/No
Delete? Yes/No
Overwrite? Yes/No

Those all have very different meanings when answering "Yes" where as when you put the meaning on the button the button has meaning all by itself. No need to look at the description above it.
The best resource is building something you consider useful. Start small and make it a personal project. Don't even think about making money on it or else you will destroy the enjoyment of making it. It doesn't have be long term, in fact it is better if you don't plan on maintaining it but instead build it and evolve it with every iteration.
As you might imagine, the print industry put in a lot of research over the course of the 20th century to ensure that e.g. Coca-Cola's cans come out the same color no matter which factory makes them. As such there are a number of mathematical models, called absolute color spaces, that can be said to name any given color within its gamut precisely. Adobe RGB and sRGB are two that are RGB based.

A different way of doing it are systems like Pantone that has no particular mathematical model; Pantone basically numbers swatches according to some arcane formula and can work with you to precisely reproduce any color you happen to want. If you want a color that isn't represented in their swatches they'll just add another one to the end of the list and do something horribly complex behind the scenes so they can tell you, or more likely your ink vendor, what to look for and what an acceptable color match is. These swatches are frequently named as well as numbered; somewhere on that list is Coca-Cola red, and you don't get to use it. This leads into a bunch of very strange IP law issues that I am not in any way able to talk about knowledgeably.

CIELAB and CIEXYZ are reference color spaces designed to encompass every color an average human can see, and these can be used to define the above standards. CIELAB is probably the best known of these. One of the odder things about CIELAB is that there are colors in gamut for it that no human can see (for example, a color that stimulates only the medium wavelength cone cells).

As a matter of professional practice people who care about this use Pantone PMS references. Photographers, particularly digital ones, tend to just use sRGB or Adobe RGB and look at you funny when you talk about Lab spaces. And virtually no one else cares enough to distinguish between pinkish red and reddish pink in a formal way.
I am surprised that the collective hn memory seems to fail so terribly.

When Meteor was announced, people upvoted and commented like crazy. There was genuine excitement. A lot of people saw the potential for this being the next Ruby on Rails.

The commenters (including me at the time) only found two major flaws with Meteor: a) the license was too restrictive for a framework and b) security/authentication was still missing.

The Meteor team fixed a) right away and now they finally address b).

For me this means I am finally going to spend some time digging deeper into Meteor. And I thought people here would be similarly excited.

Do people here really forget that quickly, or is it just the weekend?
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Vietnam to celebrate citadel’s World Cultural Heritage recognition
To me this is an example of great marketing by Orrick. Making these basic resources available to startups raises awareness of their firm among new companies, some of which will grow and inevitably develop more complicated legal needs that require a firm of Orrick's size.
Focus and diligence are probably the most important tools to succeed as a software engineer. Also, having lots of mental stamina is helpful. You read the tutorial, write code, get stuck, take a break, re-read the docs, write more code, repeat. Only way to do it...

Possibly collaborate with somebody? Some people work best alone, but pair programming or working with someone else can help you stay focussed, learn and teach with others, etc. Good luck!
Well, I do own a black reader, so perhaps Square moved back to using white at some point. But there have been white readers unable to encrypt the data out 'in the wild', and I suspect this project used one of those.
i agree - there was definitely a bit of deflation at the end when i hit the plug for his services. i'm not saying kareem did anything wrong either, but there's definitely a difference in feel between "this is some cool thing i did that helped me with my job, and i'm sharing it so you can check it out too" and "this is some cool thing i did that is my job, and if you found it cool you can engage my services". it's not that the advice itself becomes suspect in some way, it's more that some subconscious sales resistance kicks in, so you lose the "cool" factor.
PogoScript - it's not for real programmers
Pogoscript is a programming language that emphasises readability, is friendly to domain specific languages and compiles to regular Javascript.
If you have no ideological preference then use OS X. It uses a real unix and XQuartz is very up to date. You can use Homebrew, but I had some major issues with in the past so YMMV. I personally use MacPorts as Fink is too out of date as I have a 500gb hd and I prefer the 3rd party software to have separate dependencies from the core Mac system software.
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It is debunked. Wikipedia states that Mehrabian's experiment included only women, and that subsequent experiment found contradictory results on the relative importance of verbal and non verbal cues. What remains is a collection of factors letting one build a theory of mind of the other person, decide the other's attractiveness or lack thereof, etc..
On Chrome/Fedora that PDF has no spaces between letters at all.
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What if someone offered you a million dollars for the jersey? Perhaps a billion dollars? Everything is for sale.
Marco Arment had a good quote about frustration:
"And there will certainly be hard parts: you’ll get frustrated, go to Google, find some guidance, bang against it for a while, then finally get it working and experience immense satisfaction for as long as you can go before hitting the next wall of frustration. Fortunately, as you get more experienced, you’ll hit those walls less frequently."

http://www.marco.org/2011/02/01/how-should-i-get-started-wit...
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I was merely suggesting that changing DNS servers does not always work well in real life, most unfortunately.
'diverse nation'? Last time I checked, America consisted of twentysomething nations, one of wich in the habit of speaking for all of them.
Core Data Editor + sandboxing = trouble
User Interface Design Examples for your Inspiration
Another type of user interface design contains various types of designing set specifically made for certain businesses and they even contain menus.
If there are no copyrights, who would be stupid enough to continue acting as though there was?