skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you disentangle upbringing from genetics? They are hopelessly intertwined, especially in your example of Ashkenazic Jews.

Athletic ability is especially sensitive to nurture as well.

Talent is fine; most of accomplishment is application and practice. I can completely believe that Feynman had an IQ of 125. Applied with a depression-generation self-discipline, it can (did) accomplish amazing things. It's disingenious to take a counter-example to an argument and pretend its supporting that argument.
If it only worked this way.

For one, a Windows designer has access to Office if he wants an office suite. Why would he use LibreOffice? The price wouldn't entice him much, Office costs less than what he makes in a day's project.
Browser testing: http://saucelabs.com
SourceTree for Windows beta
I'm glad to see ServInt on your list - we've happily used them for something like 7 years. Awesome host.
Is the number of invites limited ? If no,can you please send me one ? I'd rather use this over mibbit on my chromebook. (email in my profile)
I can be fun if you have your own server, I have webhosting with 1and1 but no virtual/dedicated server. So hosting everything myself would cost me money to take the server.

Also I don't find it very secure, you would need to have multiple backups to make sure nothing gets lost if your server gets erased.
>>t is also possible that his IQ raised significantly as he got older due to extensive study as it is also possible that his IQ test was simply poorly administered for whatever reason.

Which is why an IQ is useless. If it can rise then it is not really measuring intelligence. Rather it is measuring what you know so far. Which explains why kids from better income families have better IQs.

And yet people treat IQ as a constant. Glad I decided never to let a single number define me. To all you that believe the IQ is important I say ...
Google Now (Fred Wilson)
"forces you into more creative problem-solving."

Dealing with constraints is the essence of good design.

The interface kit creates a new set of design challenges, particularly with regard to color palette and materials - e.g. Kinects and Tinkertoys have map color to dimensions. Lincoln Logs map color to function. The connectors presumably have their own color. The challenge is expressing a design aesthetic rather than making a kludge.

The physical interface isn't enough.
Nice Try, Congress: The Internet is Here to Stay
Actually, that statement doesn't say anything about being rejected. In fact, it is phrased in such a way that induces you to believe that after 48 hours, your account will be "processed" or "functional".
I love this line. It made me LOL:

I found a few things I didn't think I needed, but I guess I do
Did you read the article? The Chinese government is involved in a vast, systematic and sustained cyber attack against the United States (and many other countries).

If the NSA or CIA were doing this, people would be just as interested in reading about one of them being sloppy and getting unmasked.
Here is a theory. Switches, specially push buttons, need debouncing in software. If a switch has problems then the characteristics of the debounce might change. Which could possibly be fixed by recalibrating.

(Not by holding a switch down of course, you would need to push and release the switch many times to see a debouncing change)
You want to buy something, and you don't want that on your credit card bill. BTC is the way to go.
Thanks for the feedback! Some folks love the header, some hate it. I imagine it has to do with the fact that on some browsers its a bit shaky...
Been looking for running OsX on qemu/kvm for a while now but could not find a place for current patches nor a description of its status at all. not even on Graf's page. Any hint where to go ? tnx in advance.
You can do what you want if not using Play's IAP or subscriptions. Google's trying to avoid "click OK to subscribe for $10/month or subscribe on our website for $8/month"
Tomatoes (http://tomato.es) - Time tracker and pomodoro timer
OP should really consider writing larger and allow zoom!.

Luckily there's still Readability...

Edit: well I'm not sure what just happened, but the whole layout has changed... everything is good now.
Travis (http://travis-ci.org)
Github
Bitbucket
Etherpad (http://etherpad.org)
As for Japanese Stripe clone, webpay is literary a clone. They offer using stripe gem for accessing their API.

https://github.com/keikubo/webpay-ruby
Many of these subtitles were poorly translated/mistranslated.
Travis (http://travis-ci.org)

Github

Bitbucket

Etherpad (http://etherpad.org)
BlackBerry Z10 Components Cost Around $154
As Families Change, Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide
Yeah but programmers are generally not bound to a codebase for life. A friend of mine who works at Google says that he generally works on projects in the "do it new and figure out what it needs to do" phase, while there's other engineers at Google who are very good at the maintenance phase and "keeping stuff running and adding slowly to it". I think that's a very nice way of wording it, but I'd definitely want to see myself in the former group, not the latter.
Well it's kind of obvious that you are not up and running in 48h if your verification failed don't you think?
Pilot's View: Airbus A380 approach and landing at San Francisco
Very nice list! If its not too much to ask, could you give a short blurb on each (assuming youve used it before, why you like the service)

Also, is there a reason you don't mention other services (e.g. Balanced payments)?
That looks like a fantastic product. You mentioned creating a freelance workspace and then projects for each gig, but don't you invite/share at the workspace level? How do you configure per project permissions to the applicable client?
works with IE9 and firefox 18, not with chrome 24.
> In traditional Chinese society each generation cares for the one before it.

That goes for almost every society! Pensions a typically paid out from the earnings of the current generation to the previous one, it's quite rare to have pension funds hold on to 'your' money long enough that it gets paid back out to you. Instead they pay it out immediately and when it is your turn you get it from someone that earned that money the month before.

If only pension funds would be required to be able to pay out at a minimum what you put in then the world would be in lots better shape.
>You mean someone will combine this with the netflix database and will proceed to de-anonymize this based on what they were thinking during the scan?

There is a saying on the web site Less Wrong that "nobody knows what science does not know." In other words, people tend to be too quick to leap to the conclusion that a particular feat involving science is impossible.

I also note that you have no personal stake in the question. If your scientific career or your ability to continue to win research grants were at risk, you might not be so confident in your belief that it would be impossible for anyone to misuse the data in a way that harms your reputation or the reputations of people you depend on or care about.

(There is a small chance I could be wrong in inferring that that is indeed your belief, in which case, ignore the above.)

Note that I am not asserting that the researchers should limit distribution of the data or that doing so would have net positive effect on society. I am just saying that is a rational decision for researchers who care about their careers to make.
Read the general terms and you know why your client was rejected. You wrote it's a 'dating website' and according to the terms 'Partner negotiations of any kind' are not allowed.
Librarians rally behind blogger sued by publisher over critical comments
What, exactly, would be the harm to humanity of a coming generation of hyper-intelligent Chinese nationals?

technology drives military power. Therefore, one's POV will be influenced by nationality.

Or in plain English, an American probably wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of Chinese drone airforce.
Well guess who just shot to the top of someone's "To be Hacked" list
I am no longer certain that the Singularity is near.
Billionaires Secretly Funded Vast Climate Denial Network
The name hellban is from Something Awful, but it's a much older idea. The basic problem with banning problem users is that they'll often just register a new account and keep making bad posts. Hellbanning tries to solve this problem by hiding from the user that they're banned; they can continue to post and everything appears to work from their end, but their posts are hidden from all other users. The hope is that eventually they'll get bored with getting ignored and just move on.

A lot of people find this distasteful for obvious reasons, but it's fairly effective. The occasional good posts from hellbanned users (which are the vast minority; most are terrible, spam, or at best noise) are simply a result of that moderators are not perfect.
Just a comment, you meant "who", not "whom".
Well, it just goes to show what most people know already: That there is a vast campaign by the Chinese government to carry out hacks on foreign (and internal sometimes I bet) targets.

Basically, the thing I took away from the article is that it's so wide at this point that no matter the hacker there that you cast your net toward, it probably leads back to the government. In most other countries I imagine that most of the hackers are either third-party actors (selling what they got for cash or simply stealing cash), or random 'kids' hacking for fun/profit.
Setting up my own Posterous site
The Secret to Building Great Teams is No “Guru” Problems
> Yeah but programmers are generally not bound to a codebase for life.

If you're young I can see how you might have that impression. But I know quite a few programmers personally that have been working on the same codebase for more than a decade, and even a couple that have been working on the same codebase for 3 decades.

The web is still young enough that most people that came into programming through building websites have no idea how long most code bases are alive.

There is a neat little proverb here: programs are like children, you can start one in an evening but you'll end up supporting it for the rest of your life.
The difference between a browser and a factory that makes say, steel wheels for cars, is that while the web has changed dramatically in 15 years, the basic requirements for a steel wheel have not. As long as your machinery can hold the required tolerances and make product profitably and while complying with the laws that apply (like environmental), it would be foolish to scrap the old factory.

If the market starts shifting to alloy wheels, and the reduced volume of sales for your steel wheels starts to affect the profitability of your factory, then maybe it makes sense to start looking at investing in updating your process to make steel wheels more cheaply at lower volume or to dump steel wheels entirely and start manufacturing alloys.

The Air Force Heavy Press Program made the rounds on the internet last year when Alcoa refurbished its 50,000 ton forging press in Cleveland [1]. It's been around since 1955, and it's almost unique in its capabilities within the USA. The idea that it should be replaced simply because it's old is, frankly, insane.

That's obviously a pretty extreme example, but the fundamental requirements for a metal lathe or end mill haven't changed in years. Yes, there are multi-axis CNC machines that can do vastly more operations before somebody has to change the setup on them than on a basic lathe or mill. If you aren't making something that requires a lot of steps, the basic lathe or mill might still viable.

Just because the rate of change in requirements over time is huge in software doesn't mean that it's true everywhere. If an old factory can continue to meet the requirements, it's probably hard to justify changing it just to be up to date.

EDIT: Forgot the link

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/iron-gia...
[1]
Interesting. Although I don't see how a dating site is partner negotiation, you're simply paying a subscription for a service which allows you to browse members. You're not paying for the relationship or negotiating on it.

Something which might have been relevant which I didn't add was my client wasn't provided a reason for rejection. They simply stated "Our acquiring bank will not consider your application". He attempted to follow up, but still no reason was supplied.
It is indeed racist in a minor manner. You see, we all have become adept to such a way of journalism. you ask how?

Well, going by common sense identifying where a hacker is based, if he is not working for the government, is of no use.
Do I care if the hacker, who hacked my gmail account on his accord was Indian or Chinese or even American? No I don't.

But, alternatively, I would only want to know if they are state sponsored. So it is assumed always, not just in terms of hacking, but also other criminal acts, like say terrorism.

Saying " A Muslim Terrorist " is of no use, and create un-necessary delusion and association between the words 'muslim' and 'terrorist'. Which could have been avoided otherwise by saying 'a Terrorist', because the fact is that a terrorist is a terrorist.

But the thing is, we have been hotwired like this for years, we want such unnecessary associations, which we can see through 'most' of the times (but not always, say when we experience something similar nearby).

In simple words you can say, we are used to letting journalist screw with our mind with.

'American Fraudster''Muslim Terrorist' 'Chinese Hacker' 'Japanese Pedophile' 'Hindu Extremist'

Pick a newspaper up some odd day, and you will find a lot of them.

PS: Indeed my reasons to call such articles 'slightly racist' are perhaps different for why the original poster said it was 'racist'.
Be honest, the U.S. did for years the same and still do it. The problem is now: there is a other player, do it better. The exient would be more believably if U.S., UK, France ... would stop do the same to their "enemies" and allies
These are tools (not just SaaS services) I've used in the past as part of a team or on my own projects.

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Collaboration

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1. Yammer (https://www.yammer.com/)

2. Basecamp (http://basecamp.com)

3. Limechat for IRC client (http://limechat.net/mac/)

4. Flowdock (http://flowdock.com)

5. Asana (http://asana.com)

6. Trello (http://trello.com)

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Deployment

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1. Chef (http://www.opscode.com/chef/)

2. Fabric (http://fabfile.org)

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CI

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1. Jenkins (http://jenkins-ci.org)

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Email

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1. Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com)

2. AWS SES (http://aws.amazon.com/ses/)

3. Gmail (http://gmail.com)

4. MailChimp (http://mailchimp.com)

5. Campaign Monitor (http://www.campaignmonitor.com/)

6. Fractal (https://www.getfractal.com/)

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Monitoring & Logging

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1. Graylog2 (http://graylog2.org/)

2. Statsd (https://github.com/etsy/statsd/)

3. Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/)

4. Geckoboard (http://www.geckoboard.com/)

5. PaperTrail (https://papertrailapp.com/)

6. Pingdom (https://www.pingdom.com/)

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Analytics

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1. Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com)

2. Segment.io (http://segment.io)

3. Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/)

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Issue Tracking

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1. Github Issues (http://github.com)

2. Lighthouse (http://lighthouseapp.com/)

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Others

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1. Silverback (http://silverbackapp.com/)

2. Wufoo (http://www.wufoo.com/)
Show database, table and indexes size on PostgreSQL
'cat' as a shell builtin function
Indeed. Thanks for calling out my grammar mistake so early in the morning ;).
Which is my point about it being misleading :)
I think that being careful with medical data is an excellent idea. At the same time I can't see any harm coming from releasing this particular data as long as it has absolutely no meta data associated with it. Just the raw scans should be enough to satisfy anybody's curiosity. If they need more for whatever reason then they should have their credentials and needs checked on a case-by-case basis.

Mis-use of such data would require at least a hypothetical scenario, and stating that would bolster the reason why the data was not released without restriction.

But better safe than sorry.
I'd like to mention:

Errormator (https://errormator.com)

For performance metrics monitoring/exception aggregation/in-app log collection
Startup I formerly worked for: Python/Django

Current fortune 500: Java/Dojo

Personal Project #1: Python/Django/Backbone

Personal Project #2: Node
I have a WordPress blog. I have a Twitter account. I don't see what this would do for me.
How about a garden with directions on the ground? Like Android, that gives you suggestions with most popular apps. If anything, it fits everyone.

In the example of the legos, you could include a document with examples of what you can build, and note that at any moment you can improve anything here and there.
It certainly seems that these startups have the potential of jointly keeping themselves alive.
Stripe is apparently in private beta in the UK now, I'm guessing they're going make their formal announcement at the talk their giving at the London Web Summit in a few weeks.
The only to-do list you'll ever need: http://workflowy.com
I got the story right in this HN submission two weeks ago by simply linking to Rakuten's About page:

"Buy.com renamed Rakuten Shopping: brilliant branding or massive mistake?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5176774 -> http://www.rakuten.com/ct/aboutus.aspx

As for the "journalist's" editorial, I was able to cover that in the submission title. Not much value add in this Inc article.

The rename did get me to give buy.com a new try.

I found something I couldn't find on Amazon there, and spent $300 on it. And two weeks later, I do remember the name. So, going with "brilliant".
from a hacker's perspective, Internationalization is a old word now. You either code for all platforms, or you code for specific people/platforms/needs.

Busted!
700GB, MySQL 5.5, NAS
Access is a mix of .Net, java, and bash scripts
It isn't that dumb from my perspective. I've never purchased anything from Buy.com. Now that I've heard of Rakuten, I will at least check it out.
The rename did get me to give buy.com a new try.
I found something I couldn't find on Amazon there, and spent $300 on it. And two weeks later, I do remember the name. So, going with "brilliant".

HN is discussing this change in this 17 Feb submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5234987
There was a post on LRUG a few days ago about a user integrating with PayMill only to find that customer banks were declining charges via Paymill for "trust" issues.
If you want to add a "PC" note, it should include an acknowledgement that the term "Retard" is highly offensive to many even tangentially associated with the mentally challenged community.
I must say I've never met anyone that uses "skrill" as slang for money, and if I did I probably wouldn't trust them to look after it. Similarly, Moolah is 4x faster to say and type than Bank of America but I don't see the rebrand happening any time soon.
self hosting an e-mail server is a headache.
You can make those associations in other contexts and I would fully agree with what you said here. A person can be a terrorist regardless of race, creed, religion, etc. The same for hackers. That said, the article is specifically discussing a Chinese GOV linked hacker, and thus he is a 'Chinese Hacker'. This can be said without being racist. That he's also of Chinese descent is inconsequential. I'm certain our spook operations have people of every race and background as long as they get the job done. If we say that someone was a 'Chinese Hacker' while they're sitting in the NSA office in Norfolk, VA... oh yeah, that's racist.
The problem is now: there is a other player, do it better^H^H^H^H^H^H cheaper.
Yes, it turns out the article is correct (see also frankdenbow's helpful comment below).

Follow-up question/observation: the article makes it see like only Dropbox and AirBNB were "winners", which I understood to mean they were the only 2 that gave YC a return. Here's the quote from the article:

'And even though most YC companies have no problems raising additional capital, the program has only produced two big “winners.” Dropbox and Airbnb make up three quarters of the value of Y Combinator’s $10 billion portfolio. That’s two huge successes out of something like 400 companies.'

Is this only true because Dropbox and Airbnb are spectacularly successful? E.g., if another YC company became the next Google next year, would the article have said "YC has produced only 1 success", and Drobpox/Airbnb would be relegated to "not as good as the Google-sized success"?
They could have made it a bit more interesting, by coding a secret short message into them (yawn).

But nonetheless, a interesting article.
Hadn't thought about it yet, since it's pretty tied to our workflow. The web interface itself is pretty basic CRUD.

Thinking about it now, it does tie together some interesting parts. I'll clean it up a little and put it out there as soon as I have some time. If anyone's interested in it at the state it's in now, just give me a shout.
Not arguing against the fact that old codebases exist and that people have to take care of them.

However I don't agree with glorifying old codebases or putting them as "equal" to working on new stuff. If you're happy doing that, then fine, no one's going to stop you from doing it, but I do think that in general, given the choice, almost anyone would pick building something anew over working on a legacy codebase.
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I can certainly relate to this. Living in Boston, it's very easy to drop $50++ just walking around the city for an afternoon, then to come home and spend $100 for half a week's worth of groceries at Whole Foods.

I definitely wish each raise came with the option to work less.. 10% more money or 10% less work. When you consider that, on paper, a 20% pay cut could mean a 3-day weekend, it makes a lot of sense until you bring it up in conversation..
The only ones my company uses that haven't yet been mentioned are Google Hangout and GoToMeeting. We use both because Hangouts have given us issues on some networks.

Also, our chatbot is critical to the way we work and lives on hipchat (but has adapters for campfire and jabber): https://github.com/markolson/linkbot
The interesting part is that so many HN readers appear to be too young to remember Buy.com as a brand. That, to me, says more about their inability to market themselves than the value of the brand, which was quite strong back in the day.
Cloudiff Server monitoring / Cloud management

http://cloudiff.com/demo
Indeed, i have the same feeling about it.

I even noticed that when there's a traffic jam somewhere on my route... It notifies me that i have to leave earlier :P

Pretty impressive.

As English isn't my native language, i can't use most of the speech recognition. But the integration with Google Calendar and Maps gives a lot of additional value! :-)