skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heritability is very hard for a layperson (such as myself) to wrap his head around, because the meaning assumed by the layperson ("how much a trait is determined by genetics rather than by the environment") is superficially correct, and accurately sums up the intuitive idea that various technical definitions of heritability are based on, but scientific estimates of heritability usually differ from the intuitive definition in significant ways. For example, one common definition of heritability, the one given by Wikipedia as a matter of fact, has a very important twist: "The heritability of a trait within a population is the proportion of observable differences in a trait between individuals within a population that is due to genetic differences." In this definition, heritability explicitly depends on the choice of population. For example, if North and South Korea are considered as a single population, you will get a different result than if they are considered separately. It's easy to misuse population-specific measures of heritability to make inappropriate cross-population comparisons. For example, if intelligence is highly heritable among native-born Dutch and highly heritable among native-born Croats, it might seem reasonable to conclude that IQ differences between Dutch and Croats must be genetic. Yet the same argument would show that the difference in height between North Korea (where height is presumably highly heritable within the population) and South Korea (ditto) must be genetic.
3rd party US presidential candidate Jill Stein arrested
I assume by header they mean the semi-transparent section with the over-sized logo and highlighted quote, which remains static as you scroll through the list of people.

It really is a pain to use.
That American politics are a joke. I have no problem with gay marriage or marijuana. I choose to do what I want and hope others do the same.
Probably my favorite comment I've ever read on Hacker News to date.
I'm using rational reasoning--I'm getting different results from you folks because I believe I'm looking at other factors (societal stresses due to wealth distribution, overburdened school systems, convoluted healthcare system, etc.) that would serve to confound your good intentions.
We aren't going to see anything nuclear in the near future, sadly. The populace is just too afraid.

It doesn't matter that burning coal rains down radiation in the form of C-14- most people don't know that, and remain more afraid of anything with "nuclear" in the name.
Cliff notes: I don't feel comfortable raising money until the timing is absolutely right, and the timing was not right at 500's demo day since this online planning product hadn't launched yet, there was another weddings company in my batch doing something similar, and another two prominent wedding startups were fundraising at the same time too. :)
Sorry I'm late to this question. I wanted to answer this: "How do bootstrapped startups handle huge companies like Zappos?" From my experience, big companies like working with small vendors because they can push them around. That may sound negative but the larger company can ask for features and the small company will be happy to oblige. That is what I have seen and heard in my own time.

Also in my experience it has been a waste of time to think about scaling. Big companies do not simply look at your website and tell the lackey engineer to integrate your product into their production product and pray for it to work. There are going to be many phases of adoption which your ability to scale will be tested.

Scaling is a nice problem to have, worry about making something people want first.
Please don't do that. I left that tab open on purpose, I'm half way through reading the page - if the page refreshes I likely lose my position
How long was Amazon AWS "degraded" today?
So now corporations also have no-fly lists? Fantastic.
one day when someone will make a minimalist phone that meets my needs

That day was circa 2000 and the phone was the Nokia 5150 (didn't have e-ink, but the display was fine).

I had one - was a good phone. I'm glad times have moved on though.
I'm curious as to your reasoning behind spending 2 years developing this in HTML5? The art style is great and all, but you could have knocked up a game like this in an engine like Unity within 3 months and deployed it to iOS, PC/MAC, even Xbox Arcade.
U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance
Most studies find that marijuana use doesn't actually significantly impair driving ability. The increased risk is somewhere between 1.0 - 1.3x. In comparison, there are several other drugs with up to a 4x increased risk that are completely legal with no limits.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22785089

http://norml.org/library/item/cannabis-and-driving-a-scienti...

http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/10/04/ep...

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/40

It's a little bit counterintuitive since clearly you can be so intoxicated that you are whited out, but the results are very consistent across numerous different types of studies. I certainly wouldn't recommend driving after smoking, but epidemiologically speaking there is little to no increased risk when averaged out across the entire population.
I am more familiar with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics

In this case, it was created because the latin alphabet did not map nicely to the sounds in Ojibwe. Apparently, it was partly "inspired by the success of Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary."
> so medical users driving while on medical marijuana are not actually driving intoxicated, but the proposed law does not recognize the distinction).

Maybe they should fight that number over the proposition as a whole. As far as I'm aware (probably quite unaware), THC is the primary psychoactive cannabinoid. Testing for THC over other cannabinoids (CBD) is the way to go testing inhibition. Just because a doctor can prescribe certain opiates to me doesn't mean I should be able to operate any type of vehicle. I worry a little about medicated vehicle operation, not because it may be 'unsafe', rather in the event of accident you know what would be blamed.
Not really, a proxy baptism might make those still alive feel better about themselves or their ancestors, and of course it solves one of the theological conundrums of purgatory.

My point is that the dead are dead, no matter what anyone of any belief chooses to think. Just because a group of people think or believe something doesn't actually make it so.
Again what I said about different customer acquisition models.
1 - Smart phones have 2-4 years life at about $200 or so price point. They are not $60,000 cars that force buyers to buy a $600/year service contract from Tesla.

2 - Apple had the entire MP3 market with their ipods not to mention an army of long-time fanboys. Translate to a strong consumer brand loyalty. Tesla doesn't have any of these.
"You can legally be prescribed codeine, an opiate, by a doctor and take it, but this doesn't mean you can drive while under the influence."

There is no per se DUI for codeine. No one is objecting to the concept that marijuana users could get charged with a DUI if they are actually intoxicated. Rather they are against per se DUI limits, because the science shows them to be arbitrary and capricious. If the science supported per se DUI limits then I'm sure most people would support them.
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I've worked a lot from Live Linux USB sticks and the speed is not problematic. Typically in a Live environment everything is stored sequentially and on a compressed filesystem, which also helps. I've also run Linux completely from ram quite a few times which is really fast after the initial slow loading process (copying everything to ram takes awhile).
Thanks for all the great work! You've saved my at least 56 years from updating my autoinstall scrips. I don't need them anymore! Cheers!
My personal opinion is this: Don't use Amazon or AWS if you can't deal with, or you accept that there will be outages out of your control.

That's the very nature of what you signed up for.
I don't care if people smoke in their homes, but tell me how you are going to stop people from driving stoned and killing me.

Because people are arrogant about it and think they are perfectly fine and that it's not like alcohol - right now the fear of being caught with it in the car slows down that arrogance, once it's legal it's going to happen all the time.

Also there has to be some severe penalty for public smoking because I don't want you smoking it next to the playground just because you are now allowed to.
Heritability of something that so strongly is "nature versus nurture" is very hard to pin down. For instance consider a genetic trait that makes kids uglier. (In honor of this article, I'll state the negative version.) Those kids, being less engaging, will get less interaction. It is known that decreased interaction is correlated with stupidity. Therefore all else being equal, that gene will make you stupider. In twin studies that gene will definitely contribute to the heritability of IQ.

However stop and think about it. The fact that this iota of stupidity is heritable is a testament to the impact of environment on IQ, and the fact that the environment that you experience is correlated with who you are.
If you start looking at cars from the affordance point of view, all luxury cars would lose a huge sales percentage. Getting a brand out there in competition with the likes of BMW and Mercedes is no easy task, and these retail outlets would help people make up their minds about where they want to spend their life savings.
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Will you post links to some of the articles?
3 Things I Learned at Startup School 2012
DWI seems to be the go-to talking point on the fear mongering side. If somebody's driving is impaired (for whatever reason), then they can be cited for that infraction (the actual driving failure). If they want to "test" the suspect, have them take a test for response times and accuracy.

Sleep deprivation can be as debilitating as drunk driving, yet you don't hear people wailing about letting those with untreated sleep apnea on the roads. And how about those cell phones, eh?
The Best Ways To Fight Against Hackers
While we don’t want to admit it, the internet can be a dangerous place. There is so much information about us out there and with so many different locations that we use on a regular basis to access, share or edit our personal data, it’s important that we stay one step ahead of the game. Identity theft happens a lot more often than we would like to admit, and while many people go their entire lives without being targeted, this is mainly because they are doing what they can to keep themselves safe and out of harm’s way.
The registration setup was miserable, and the scanners didn't work. Who thought up that traffic flow pattern? We're going to come in, cross through ourselves to get in line, then cross through again to get out the same door, when the building clearly has front and side access?

Set up a bunch of stations, have a bank style line, and when a station frees up, someone goes to it. Or just do what Fry's does and have someone directing you to the next available station. People come in the front, enter the line, hit a station, and depart out the side door. This has the added side-effect of keeping people from coming IN through that door, which is what happened around 11:40 when people all crowded in because we all thought something was starting.

I definitely did not go to join an impromptu mosh pit, but that's what we had for a while there.
Only the part with the headshots is scrollable: http://i.imgur.com/TfaWs.png

It's 330px not 30px with the quote.
The tech industry is manufacturing its version of "Too big to fail" entity.
swappable battery is important for those who need to drive beyond the battery range or don't have a good option to easily charge their cars overnight. This could be for people who live in big cities like San Francisco (although you can imaging a plug every parking spot 20 years from now) or for people who maybe going on a road trip. Which would make you wonder if people would not have two cars. One for daily commute the other for extended activity that might be fueled by some form of biodiesel. Hydrogen might also be another good solution at some point. This is something I proposed a long ago as part of my high school science fair. Basically using electricity for electrolysis of water to get hydrogen. You can the use the hydrogen as fuel cell or in combustion form for these long-range road trips instead of swapping batteries.
Black people didn't have full rights in the Mormon church until 1978. In 1984 it was presumably still a controversial decision.
Driving under the influence and public intoxication are already laws.
+1, it's horrible.
As an avid Jenkins (Hudson) user, this looks very promising.
I assume this will happen relatively quickly. I'll pick one up as soon as they are available to the public; using ChromeOS in the meantime can't be all that bad.
If the current penalties remained in place for smoke-driving there would be no increased incentive to drive while stoned. In general, I think the problems you bring up are perfectly valid, but I see no fundamental reason society should deal with them differently than with alcohol.
>All of the advice given at these events are bullshit by this definition. startup founders literally have no idea why things take off and they have no idea why they win

So William Goldman wrote an entire book on this very subject - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade#...

That book has chapter upon chapter upon chapter with the same exact advice - "Nobody knows anything"

Goldman says after he wrote the book, his phone simply stopped ringing for four full years, because he calls everybody a liar - the director, producer, screenplay writer, actor, story consultants, everybody - none of them know why one movie works & another doesn't.
Finally, it was The Princess Bride in 87 that salvaged his reputation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(film) )

I used to be a Film Major and it was repeatedly banged into our head that "Nobody knows anything", so we couldn't say "your script sucks" when our classmates read their script ideas aloud in class.
I believe that public intoxication laws are already in place to prevent the people that insist on using marjiuana on playgrounds.

Also, I don't see how making the drug legal would affect the amount of people that choose to drive while under its effects. Being caught with alcohol while driving is almost (if not as) bad, and yet it doesn't stop people from drunk driving.
would be curious to know why you find the author's position idiotic? Certainly a year of experience at two different companies may amount to significantly different degree of added experience. Say a year's experience of 3rd engineer at Stripe vs 12347th engineer at Cisco.
Update: Simon Phipp sez, "Kindlegate update: Linn says her account was mysteriously re-activated after my article published."

via http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-d...
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Japan was never really very futuristic in terms of technology as far as I can tell, although an enthusiasm for futurism (as opposed to, e.g., the rather backward-looking U.S.) means that things are often more futuristic in appearance, and there's often less arbitrary resistance to change when it happens.

but this:
> because anyone who's actually been to Japan can tell you that it's not the least bit futuristic anymore
...
> the Japanese have by and large failed to understand or grasp the digital revolution.

... is quite silly.

Japanese society's adoption of tech advances, as far as I can tell, is neither particularly advanced, nor particularly backwards compared to other societies. The details differ, so from certain narrow perspectives it may appear as either. It's simply a different place, and simplistic comparisons ("more" or "less") don't capture much. I know when I visit my relatives in America (I've lived in Japan since the '90s), walking about town there's a definite perception that not a whole lot has changed since about 1950, even in the richest and most urbane areas, because American society is both rather conservative and kind of cheap; Japan is a whole different story, because they love "new".

In terms of industry, the stereotypical Japanese style of working, which favors continual incremental advances and attention to detail (sort of a "craftsman's" approach) over large but disruptive leaps and fixation on "the big picture", is fundamentally sort of conservative, and this is not well-suited to very fast-changing tech nor to software (where avoiding big changes inevitability leads to massive unmaintainable heaps of bit-rotting code...). This factor affect big companies (a mainstay of Japanese industry) more than small ones, because big companies also have the usual bureaucratic overhead, but it's a cultural artifact, and can be seen everywhere.

In addition, a big damper on Japanese software has been the relative isolation of Japanese software developers from the west, where much of the important research and development is happening. There's some interaction, but the Japanese are often a conspicuous absence in forums with otherwise international participation, despite a large domestic software industry. As far as I can tell, this stems in large part from a simple lack of confidence in English: Europeans are willing to participate even if their English is pretty shaky (it may be a chore, but it gets the job done), but Japanese are not, even when they have a fairly workable grasp of English. I know many Japanese whose English is perfectly acceptable when they're forced to use it, but they're absolutely loathe to do so unless forced.

The Japanese software developers I've talked to about such things are perfectly aware of these issues. But awareness, unfortunately, is not enough to change the system, at least quickly.

Things will work out in the end, I'm pretty sure, because the competence and work-ethic of Japanese software developers in general seems pretty good (many of those I know are top-notch); but before that comes the pain...
There was a huge hype around Twitter data one or two years back. Then it was followed by suspicion and criticism Now we should take a more balanced view. Twitter data or social media data aren't all-powerful, but I believe that if we look at it from the right perspectives, we still could learn something meaningful, despite its demographic bias. But certainly we have to be very cautious about any conclusion we draw. This is still a work in progress and we'll try to extract unbiased information from the biased source.
We really need some federal legal action to make sure that Tesla is not impeded. In my opinion, aggressive action of this kind would be far more valuable than previous efforts to invest in, say, questionable solar-panel companies.
"I don't care if people smoke in their homes, but tell me how you are going to stop people from driving stoned and killing me."

In addition to the fact that marijuana doesn't actually significantly increase driving risk, the overall driving fatalities may actually decrease if people switch to smoking instead of drinking or using benzos. Driving fatalities have actually fallen more in medical marijuana states than across the rest of the country:

http://ftp.iza.org/dp6112.pdf

That being said there is some uncertainty because driving after mixing alcohol with marijuana is significantly more dangerous than driving after consuming either alone, but so far all the data seems to suggest that if anything legalizing marijuana will actually save thousands of lives per year.
isn't this what rapleaf does?
As a start, be present in multiple EC2 availability zones (not just US-east-2, basically) and regions (this is harder). Cross-region presence needn't be active-active, just a few read-only database slaves and some machines to handle SSL termination ("points of presence") for your customers on the east coast. Perform regular "fire drills" where you actually fail over live traffic and primary databases from one AZ/one region to another.

"Building your own" is also something very few people (including Amazon itself up until fairly late, probably after the IPO) do: you can use a managed hosting provider (very common, usually cheaper than EC2) or lease colo space (which doesn't imply maintaining on-site personnel in the leased space: most colos provide "remote hands"). You can still use EC2 for async processing and offline computation, S3 for blob storage, etc... or even S3 for "points of presence" on different US coasts, Asia/Pacific, Europe, but run databases, et al in a leased colo or a managed hosting provider.

Yes, these options are more expensive than running a few instances in a single EC2 AZ: but that's the price of offering high availability SLA to your customers. It's a business decision.
As a start, be present in multiple EC2 availability zones (not just US-east-2, basically) and regions (this is harder). Cross-region presence needn't be active-active, just read-only database slaves and perhaps some machines to handle SSL termination ("points of presence") for your customers on the west coast. Perform regular "fire drills" where you actually fail over live traffic and primary databases from one AZ/one region to another.

This is what Quora, Netflix, and few others doe now I believe. Note, how whenever there's an EC2 outage there are almost always a few customers which are not affected.

"Building your own" is also something very few people (including Amazon itself up until fairly late, probably after the IPO) do: you can use a managed hosting provider (very common, usually cheaper than EC2) or lease colo space (which doesn't imply maintaining on-site personnel in the leased space: most colos provide "remote hands"). You can still use EC2 or EMR for async processing and offline computation, S3 for blob storage, etc... or even S3 for "points of presence" on different US coasts, Asia/Pacific, Europe, but run databases, et al in a leased colo or a managed hosting provider.

Yes, these options are more expensive than running a few instances in a single EC2 AZ: but that's the price of offering high availability SLA to your customers. It's a business decision: the benefit of "the cloud" is to enable you to quickly reach a point where you can afford to make such decisions rather than pay hosting costs up-front and risk running out of money before you fully understand what kind of infrastructure and SLAs you need.
Kindle user's account reportedly re-activated
Sounds enticing, and it might add another dimension to my research. Thanks!
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Building infrastructure on top of Amazon with global replication across multiple availability zones can sidestep such failures and guarantee uninterrupted operations to customers - www.pubnub.com is unaffected by AWS being down.