skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a broad enough cultural background, eye color is not a simple discrete trait either.

I was eavesdropping on the conversation behind me on the bus today:

"What color would you describe your eyes as?" a guy asks.

"Green-ish. Something like that," a girl answers.

"Good, you didn't say hazel. A bunch of people would've called them that."

And then followed a whole long discussion about how you can basically perform hierarchical agglomerative clustering on humanity's words for colors, if you follow the words linguistically back through a few thousand years. Apparently the first split happened between light & dark, and then broad colors like "blue/green" (as a single color) split off, and then modern languages broke blue & green into separate colors.

Some folks break them down even further, into "cerulean" and "turquoise" and "aquamarine" and "royal blue". I've heard (from sources other than the bus conversation) that women actually have significantly more color words in their vocabulary than men do; they make distinctions where men don't.

So eye color is a shorthand too. Some people just say "light" or "dark". Others say "brown" or "blue". Still others will break it down into "black", "brown", "blue", "green", and "hazel". Once in a while you'll get a poetic type who'll say "Eyes the color of a roiling sea, as you catch the last glimpse of sunlight before a storm rolls in."

Bringing it back on topic, intelligence is a shorthand as well. It stands for a bunch of directly observable characteristics, but which characteristics vary depending on who you ask. Some people think an intelligent person is one with a high IQ who always does well on standardized tests. Others think it's someone who accomplishes great things in the intellectual realm, another Tesla or Einstein. Still others define it as a talent, and claim there're multiple intelligences, each in one desirable realm.

Perhaps the meta-lesson isn't about race or eye color or heritability at all, it's to drill down and ask what we actually mean by such broad characteristics. When you make a statement such as "IQ has a heritability of 0.8", you're making a very specific statistical assertion (though even that's not ironclad: which IQ test?). But whether that lines up with the statement of "Intelligence is largely genetic" depends on what you mean by "intelligence" and "genetic", both of which are very broad concepts that hide a lot of subtlety.
For anyone that finds this interesting, I highly recommend "A Murder of Crows", which was made a few years ago and is where I first heard of the idea of birds holding funerals:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-murder-of-crows/fu...
It's not entirely clear to me why this matters at all.
They'd have to include in that the deal to licence your patent from you, which would give a lot more options to the creator on how they want to proceed, which would make sense if the purpose of a patent is for it to empower inventors themselves.

The model I am thinking of is that if the stated intention of the monopoly is for the benefit of inventors as people, then for one thing, those individual inventors are the best qualified to decide if they want to continue the monopoly, which does increase risk for companies, however we are talking about patents and they are supposedly there to empower inventors rather than corporations and this incentivises corporations to be a lot nicer to their employees.

Also, the originating inventor should also always be in a position to negotiate fees for their patent from parties that licence it, including their own employer, this however should be subject to fair dealing laws with those they choose to licence to so they can't suddenly price out a competitor that they have already chosen to licence to or bankrupt their employer or anything like that.
What kind of specific feedback are you getting? And what do your usage stats specifically look like?
The linux desktop probably hasn't suceeded due to pirating! Imagine if the developing world jumped onto Linux in a bigger way.

I think MS realise this, there's suggestion that they'll be offering Windows 8 for a reasonable figure for once. Then desktop Linux better beware.
..."I don't think the only, or even primary, value of patents is to encourage invention."...

I think it might be -

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Nothing there about it being a transferable asset to be treated as property. Is an exclusive right for a limited time for authors and inventors.

[edit] Otherwise it would presumably read:
"by securing for limited Times to Companies and Investors the exclusive Right to the respective Writings and Discoveries of Authors and Inventors." Which doesn't scan nearly as well.
Is the WSJ fully indexed by Google? I thought they hid lots of stuff behind the paywall.

(Not saying the quote isn't manufactured, but that a Google search isn't a good test.)
I'm reminded of the National Geographic story (and iconic photo) of the chimpanzees grieving over the death of one of their own.

http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/10/the-story-behind-o...
Your practice engine idea is really smart, but it isn't at all immediately apparent upon visiting the site. At first, your website looks like any "portfolio site" (deviant art, dribble, etc). To make the practice engine the focus of the website, I would consider a new homepage design that focuses on the "learn to draw" aka "practice engine" aspect of the website, as opposed to a portfolio showcase. There are lots of portfolio sites, but very few websites that teach you how to draw on a structured learning path. It is a great idea, stick with it!
In philosophy of science, when discussing what makes a good hypothesis, it is used as disprove.

As in: the existence of the Spaghetti Monster cannot be falsified, and thus to believe in it is an act of faith.

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.htm...
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غزل غزل های سلیمان   ترجمه احمد شاملو از عهد عتیق
غزل غزل‌ها یا نشیدالأنشاد (عبری:שיר השירים شِر هاشِریم به معنی «بزرگ‌ترین غزل‌ها») یکی از بخش‌های تنخ عبری و عهد عتیق در انجیل است. نویسندگی کتاب به سلیمان پسر داوود نسبت داده شده‌است. در این کتاب چندین اشاره به سلیمان و چند اشاره به داوود پادشاه آمده‌است. تاریخ نگارش غزل غزل‌ها را قرن دهم قبل از میلاد و در زمان سلطنت سلیمان دانسته‌اند.
Conversely, you haven't lost until you quit.
Usage: I have a very restricted core of regular users. Most new users quit after a few days or a week (I suppose the app did not deliver on the reason why they joined the website in the first place?). When contacted, these users basically never reply. Paid users also never reply when contacted for feedback.

The spontaneous feedback I'm getting is positive but unhelpful, in the lines of "this site is great, love the concept", etc.

Any idea? What's your first impression?
This is awesome. Good work. It'd be cool if you added some keybindings. space = start/stop, right arrow = next
I once suggested this for copyright terms, but someone pointed out a big problem: what is the unit that that "$1" fee covers?

I can write an entire book under 1 copyright, easily keeping it going for a decade with your regime. But a photographer produces hundreds or thousands of copyrighted works a year.

You might try doing your regime with the number of claims, and the company can decide how many to keep fresh, but it then leads to weird edge-cases like keeping a few things secret for now to patent later -- which is the opposite of what the patent system intends. Patents encourage people to publish their inventions for others to study, in exchange for limited exclusivity to market and/or use their invention.
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Blender is native on Linux since it is FOSS.

Really though, the only real reason desktop Linux never caught on was the Windows default. That is it. If brick and mortar PC realtors sold Ubuntu laptops and desktops next to Windows PCs with the same specs and a price cut of the Windows licensing costs the MS monopoly would have ended a long time ago.
This is awesome, I've been using it for the last couple of hours now really nicely done. Would love a blog post explaining the development process and the choices you made.
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A quote: "RadioShack, whose stock is down 75% this year, is playing down cables and connectors and refashioning itself as a convenience store for smartphone buyers."

So sad. I can remember when Radio Shack was ... I don't know how else to say this ... a literal radio shack. I was a pre-teenage ham radio operator, and Radio Shack had pretty much everything I needed to build the radio equipment I needed for my ham station.

This was back when people built their own electronic equipment. Yes, I know that's hard to believe in the context of modern times, but when people wanted a radio transmitter or receiver, they would build one.

My first designs were based on vacuum tubes because ... again, I don't know how else to say this ... transistors were just a laboratory curiosity. Later, when Radio Shack started carrying transistors instead of tubes, I began designing transistor circuits.

An early Radio Shack store was a small warehouse of electronic parts, and almost no finished products. Now it's struggling to compete with all the other me-too finished-goods outlets. Even though the name "Radio Shack" sounds like a clever marketing slogan for modern times, originally it was a simple statement of fact -- they were a radio shack. And the employees actually knew something about electronics.

Later I designed electronics for the NASA Space Shuttle, so Radio Shack was part of my unorthodox education. I'll be sorry to seem them go.
Thank you! So, are you suggesting to send any new visitor to a landing page describing the site's features, with a focus on the practice engine?
djb's "Cache-timing attacks on AES" paper includes the code he used to carry out his attacks: http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf
You should be aware that you made a grammatical error in one of your headings. "Get Advise" doesn't make sense as "advise" is a verb. I think you probably mean "Get Advice".
Seems like they are more looking for a straight out of college graduate with a resume to match a 3 year industry vet. I'm sure they will get one - I know I did CodeAcademy over the last year to learn basic JS while I was bored in my senior year of CS, and most of my peers at least know what it is.
As far as I know this is also true for key divisions (divisions making secret sauce) of "unsexy" companies (ORCL, MSFT, AMZN, IBM, INTL, etc.).

In other words, if you want to find a good job you need to be good.
Love the music so far, but it seems biased toward indie rock. Is that by design? I prefer electronic music, am I out of luck?
GPUs use dynamic RAM too (though discrete cards usually have GDDR rather than DDR, which gives higher bandwidth). The most fundamental difference between a CPU and GPU isn't the memory hierarchy (modern GPUs are growing cache hierarchies as well) but the core architecture (vector/highly threaded "small cores", vs. out-of-order/superscalar "big cores").
First impression: I'm intrigued by the practice engine thing, but I really don't know what I'm looking at.
> Feeding a junky drugs because it makes them feel better is an example of it done wrong

OTOH, feeding a junky drugs because a cold-turkey withdrawal would kill them (as is sometimes the case with benzodiazepines and alcohol) is pretty much the standard of care. Diazepam, trade name Valium, is the withdrawal benzo of choice for both pill-heads and wet brains, as a matter of fact, but they do sometimes give IV alcohol to alcoholics going through withdrawal.

On the gripping hand, you do have a point: Opioid withdrawal is very rarely life-threatening, and letting the dopehead sweat it out can really hammer home the whole Drugs Are Bad part, especially if followed by a massive lifestyle change.

And this further supports your main point that 'kind' and 'clever' don't really form a simple opposing pair.
that the full menu costs $300 and you will finish in 30min. also reviews of the his sons restaurant say they get angry if you dont eat everything...
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Anyone who works with these clowns knows they are full of crap. Facebook spam != real users.
Consider reaching out to a new in-person group of users. Bring the site to them, show it off, and ask what they think. Local uni art program, maybe?
If you are really into your craft and/or love sushi, this is a great movie for you.
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Lots of findings coming out lately about animals having empathy and demonstrating qualities us humans think we're unique for.

And it makes me sad. We're not considerate towards animals. We hardly give them a second thought. We eat them, cage them and experiment on them.

Humans need to be better "caretakers" of the planet. We need advances in compassion towards animals and the environment, not more advances in technology.
I know many startups don't link back to the original article because they don't want to drive traffic away from their site. It's not for any particularly nefarious reason at all. When people see a link, they'll click on it, and they often won't find their way back.
I don't know what it was but I was in awe of this guy and his family and the whole culture with the whole movie.
That sounds really good in theory, but in practice it's less good.
There are a number of different types of costs to consider:
1. The cost of server hardware
2. The cost of unused hardware capacity
3. The administration cost (people, skills, etc)
4. Opportunity cost

The Cloud(tm) excels at addressing some of these. You don't have to pay /as/ highly for staff to manage you machines and network (the provider does much of that for you). You can run smaller, cheaper instances much closer to their limits.

The downside is that you pay a premium to the provider (even if you are your own provider). Additionally you lose a great deal of opportunity cost. If you use the "excess" capacity on the weekend for hadoop jobs, and need to stop them because you have a large burst of traffic, you've hurt yourself.
Your non-production hadoop jobs can also have unexpected and unintended impact on your production web servers, causing your users pain.

Given these things, if you focus is on keeping the best experience for users then you should split things apart.

The actual gain you get from cramming as much as you can onto one piece of hardware is much, much lower than you might expect. It ends up being easier just to get more hardware and dedicate that hardware for specific tasks.

- Avleen Vig, Staff Operations Engineer, Etsy
It is a theory AND a fact, and it is not the least bit presumptuous to say so.
The headline of this submission is possibly the most irresponsible statement I have seen in a fortnight.

The linked article says "Some 10,000 visitors to California's Yosemite National Park could have been exposed to a deadly virus that kills one in three victims and cannot be treated" (Emphasis added.)

I wish people would resist the temptation to change the meaning of the stories they link to, by making up headlines that journalists wouldn't dream of writing.

There is no actual rule like this, but there ought to be -- don't rewrite the article's headline, copy it.
Why he was downvoted? It is quite good comment...
Can you give examples?

While I'm lucky to be way from the corporate world for the last few years, I'm still very interested in practises such as hiring and interviewing.
>To me it's almost as if someone asked me "in a math system where 1 * a is not a, what is 1 * a?"

Hmm, I think it's more like "a math system where 1 * anything is 1". It's baffling to my understanding of math but it still fully explains itself. "Like multiplication, but different" "like a normal country, but without camels" I have no idea why it's this way but I can still make use of it and answer the question.
which would give a lot more options to the creator

You are taking away options from the creator, most notably the option to sell his stuff. Please don't call that giving him options.

the originating inventor should also always be in a position to negotiate fees for their patent from parties that licence it, including their own employer

There are usually multiple inventors. If 3 people invent it, do each of them get a 1/3 vote on it? Do all 3 need to agree on a license? Do each of them get 1/3 of the claims? Can any of the 3 license it individually (which means that the price will naturally fall to $0 since you can always take your business to one of the other two)?

You are creating a brand new problem that was solved long ago. The solution is for those 3 inventors to assign or sell their invention to a company that they form. The company owns and licenses the patent, and those 3 inventors can sell or trade their shares in the company as they wish.

This desire to interfere in trade is very odd. If I have something worth $100 to me, but $500 to my neighbor, the ability to trade creates wealth. I'll sell it to my neighbor (a price of anywhere from $100 to $500 is a Pareto improvement) and then we can each move on with our lives, instead of trying to work out some license or lease agreement.
Ah, I hadn't even thought of it being a phrasing that is hard to translate. Interesting idea.
I would prefer set of experts - I don't see how lay person could be deciding in places where even experts can have problems.
agreed. I'd definitely pay 1.99 for the app and maybe even spring for in-app purchase / upgrades from time to time.

great job and looking forward to see this on the app store!
The "Hacker News Effect" is really not that bad. A modest Linux server runing WordPress with WP Super Cache can easily handle the traffic.
This will only work if the DeLorean is redesigned from the ground up in order to be as strong and light as the Tesla is. The only reason the Tesla has the performance it does is because the car is overall much lighter than a typical car, to make up for its very heavy battery.

A car meant for a different era can only succeed as an electric car if it's redesigned to accommodate the realities of battery operation. Based on online data, it's not easy to discover whether this is so about the electric DeLorean.
Great stuff! I've really been enjoying this--the interface is clean and it's a great experience. If you write up more about how you find the songs or the tech under the hood, I'd enjoy reading more.

Also, I'd love to see buy/download/more info links. It would be a lot of work to canonicalize band/song names, but might provide some good ways to monetize if you wanted to make this a bigger project.

Way to go!
That seems excessively skeptical to me. You don't know what an animal is feeling, in the sense that you don't know other minds exist, but I think when animal behavior makes emotional sense, it's appropriate to interpret it that way.

Nor do I think it's that farfetched that birds should feel grief. A lot of animals display emotions that I identify with. I've seen pride and humiliation and saving face in cats. And dogs obviously feel joy and worry and mourning.

I understand the need to distinguish between what's likely and what's proven, but I also don't see a reason for the explanation to be complex. It looks like grief. I think it's more likely to be that than some alien phenomenon that happens to look like it.
> Earlier you cited the fact that Dean Karnazes ran 3000 miles as evidence that we can go a long way.

I think you're confused about who you're talking to, I said no such thing.
One of these, at least, is supported by a pretty weird edit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reason&diff=51...
> The desktop is being left behind by mobile.

I don't believe that. I think mobile augments people's computing, but I haven't seen any data to indicate that people are actually replacing desktop with mobile.
I'm writing to beginner programmers. Please, please don't use Perl.

Use Ruby and/or Python. Other competing scripting might be good (like lua) but I haven't used them. I do know however Ruby and Python are better.

see
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ancient-languages-...

90% still holds true. This guy knows more than 99% of the Perl advocates on this thread (he's also smarter than me). Do another search on other famous programmers (like Rob Pike) and almost always you'll find negative comments about Perl. There a reason companies like google use Python and universities (like MIT) teach in Python.

For crying out loud Perl has pointers in it. Perl doesn't do basic parameter checking in functions. Perl doesn't come with a decent repl. The Perl repl doesn't work with readlines. Perl doesn't do sane type checking. print "abc" + 1; prints 1. It isn't a syntax error (like in Ruby or Python). Do some basic google searching. wantarray is one of most horrible things I've seen a programming language thats unique to Perl. You how know generally side effects are bad in functions? Well, I don't want to get into it... but just google it.

Perl has a weird cult culture to it. There are a few smart people who are really into it but it isn't because of the languages merits. This is well described by one of perl most famous developers:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html
No one with a OPEN mind who isn't lazy wouldn't move onto Python or Ruby.

Remember too at the end of the day it is how good or bad code theoretically is. Is what you see out in the wild. What you work with. The chances are you won't be looking at chromatic's code. Perl code is about the ugliest, most unreadable code you'll find on average. I recently saw something Brain D Foy (a Perl expert) acknowledging this. The average code is what counts.

Anyhow those are my 2 cents. I have to go to sleep.
I don't have that concern at all. I'm fairly hands off with my team so we can build and grow to where, ideally, other companies recognize how talented our engineers are. (I certainly think we're at that point).

Because there is mutual respect, if they want to leave for a higher paying job to be happy, that's fine. But everyone is staying because of the nurturing, trusting environment I'm fostering based on doing right by the person, and the company will benefit.

To me, and I think for them as well, advancement isn't primarily a paycheck or the company you're working for, but learning, being happy, and enjoying those you build awesome stuff with :)
IE only?
I don't know which kind of message they are trying to pass, but going from retro to irrelevant is definitely not the right one.
Another thing many of those animals have in common with us? They eat other animals. The cheetah uses its speed, the wolf uses its pack instinct, and we use our intellect to capture our respective prey. The environment is a dangerous, savage place.
Agree with other comments that at first use it's not clear what the site is for, but shows a lot of potential. Have you done any A/B testing? If not, check out https://www.optimizely.com/

Also, are you sending email to users whenever they get comments? Emails to people who sign up but never post anything? Welcome emails to people who sign up telling them what to do? Create sets of automated email campaigns and it will dramatically improve your usage stats. Articles from Patrick trend on HN all the time, but here's a link in case you missed it (+1 from my professional experience): http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/31/can-i-get-your-email/

Best of luck to you!
Is there any way to change the volume?
As long as you get the job done, we don't care where you are. I don't think many companies care anymore. Or maybe they still do.