skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"An intelligence quotient, or IQ, is a score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess intelligence."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
I looked into that book, and I'll definitely read it. Thanks for the recommendation.
Turducken
So, the cure for the Great Sadness is basically... religion? Like a modern, high-tech version of the Wheel of Time.

You do have to believe in a cause greater than yourself. All your passions and drives die with you, so if you want life to be meaningful then you need to contribute to something that will last.
I would be very interested to see what the implications would be if this had happened to iCloud.

I'm sure Apple are as unhappy about whatever has happened as the rest of us (likely much more so), but I think at least some communication from them about it would be in order.
This book is actually amazing. It's fairly large in scope, and it has a ton of interesting outsider observations about Indian culture. Plus it's thoroughly enjoyable. I'm looking forward to GDR finishing the second book (you know how trilogies go)
Can you really speak with such authority about all of Europe?

In Sweden, where I live, alcohol and pregnancy are not suppose to mix. For example, translating from http://www.vardguiden.se/Tema/Gravid/Livsstilsfragor/Alkohol... : "Since no one knows where the border lies, the recommendations in Sweden and many other countries are to not drink alcohol at all during pregnancy."

Or translating from http://www.lakartidningen.se/07engine.php?articleId=12235: "It's been known for a long time that alcohol consumption during pregnancy can damage the fetus, and most women also stop drinking alcohol when they discover that they are pregnant."

I'm lead to believe that the other Nordic countries are similar.
Ubuntu forum usernames/passwords leaked
There's a chain restaurant in the USA advertising itself as genuine Brazilian cuisine. Looks like about $40/person or I believe thats about 100 Brazilian Real per person.

I'm betting that a typical Brazilian Cuisine restaurant in Brazil charges much less than 100 Real per person. That would fit my guess that they're a specialty destination which can charge pretty much anything they want... for awhile, while the novelty lasts.

(Edited to add, lazy me, I googled around and found an article online from 2012 claiming a single dude should expect to spend about R$350/month on food, so the local Brazilian restaurant in the USA is asking for more than a weeks worth of groceries equivalent, which would be pretty high end dining in my USA local experience)
Could you imagine if people could make the kind of money developing things for Linux that they do developing things for iOS? It would make comments like yours kind of funny and relevant.
As person from country that was in former Yugoslavia i can say that situation is not simple as Americans see it. Yugoslav variation of socialism (yeah, it is important to yell that it wasn't communism) had flaws and advances. In short:

1. Humans come first. Even before money.

2. But, but, lot of people exploited 1. due bad organization, nepotism, ...

Because of 1. people had, for example, health care and education for free (best universities included), but because of 2. -> system wasn't always in favor of people that actually work (even for others).

People, at one moment, voted for capitalism -> now we don't have free health care and education, but most of people from 2. are still here. Worst from both worlds :-( But when i look at Scandinavia it looks like they knew how to minimize 2. and also have 1. at the same time. So if i ever choose to leave current place it will be Scandinavia ;-)
This is more like if Ubuntu's package repository went down regarding accepting new packages for a few days.
Mostly highschool kids or students with subvention eat there.

Prices aren't considered low and you can actually get a quality meal for same price.
Ah, I didn't recognise Server Side Includes, I've never used them before.

There's a lot more weird around apple.com if you go looking. I'd love to hear the story behind their MX/SMTP hostnames (thousands of them) getting called "badger" and "msbadger".
A glance at where people are in an organizational structure will usually make the leaker stick out like a sore thumb.
Why is crack cheaper? Google and Wikipedia are quite unhelpful on this question.
Can you imagine writing desktop software for Linux? Inconsistent APIs, API breakage, ABI breakage, sizable variances between distributions, multiple desktops UI implementations, and you may as well just forget about mobile.

I'm not justifying Apple's ever increasing shift towards enacting strict constraints on their platform developers, but the comparison with Linux is pointless.
Second, it can very convincingly be argued that the taking away of such a protection is bad, regarless of if it was in the Constitution or not.

I don't think it's accurate to characterize it as "taking away of such protection", when such protection has never existed. Journalists being compelled to disclose their sources and testify in a criminal trial is not new, and they've been jailed in the past for refusing to do so. One of the more famous is probably Myron A. Faber, in 1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._A._Farber), because it led to extensive litigation, but there are many other cases both earlier and later. Another one got a lot of press in the early 1970s because it involved a reporter refusing to disclose who leaked him information from the Charles Manson grand jury: http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/06/obituaries/william-t-farr-...

I believe the longest such imprisonment was Vanessa Leggett, who was jailed for about 6 months in 2001 for refusing to testify before a grand jury: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/05/us/writer-who-was-jailed-i...

Maybe such protection should be created, but that's a quite different question from the apparently common, but incorrect, belief that it existed (even as a de-facto practice) and has recently been abrogated.
Caffeine is actually much more dangerous for babies than either crack or alcohol. After caffeine the second highest drug-related risk factor may actually be not smoking weed; that is, mothers who don't smoke enough weed during pregnancy may have a much higher rate of infant mortality:

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/100/1/79
>I'd question the competence of a fire-fighter turning up to fight a fire in jeans and a t-shirt instead of proper protective attire.

As you should, a fire-fighter's protective bunker gear is necessary to perform their job function.

A coat or tie OTOH does nothing to improve the doctor's ability to perform his/her job function. Deference to such traditional costumes might even lend credibility where none is deserved.
> or device provisioning and certificates (potentially very profitable)

Well, an `App'(, the name of which I would not like to identify, ) which was installed using Safari exploits and whose intended use is to help users search and install apps free of charge from AppStore, is still up and running.

I guess there exist various exploits up and down the App Store chains, till now.
Well, I want to agree with other commenters here, but the way I see the PC market is similar to a bicycle: accelerate or fall to the ground. PCs are an absolute necessity for maybe 20-30% of the consumer population. Whereas until now a household of 7 people would require 5-6 PCs, it's getting to the point of only needing one or two, and then only occasionally. This is, I believe, the fundamental driver behind the weak PC market.
Snapalicious for iOS is now open source
The £5.4billion Google love rat, Eric Schmidt
I get your point, I just don't think that "intellectual capacity" is really the limiting factor here. Education is a place where we really can make the pie bigger for everyone I think. And economics isn't zero-sum, we can at least try to make sure people can have 3 meals a day.

Also, I'm not completely convinced of the amount of importance of intellect by birth. But that's more of an opinion I hold, I have no evidence to back it up.
Microwaves run at 2.4GHz and mostly interrupt wifi in that band. This means they mostly impact b,g and n, but not a or ac. Upgrading to ac should help his wireless experience considerably.
The attack of the MOOCs
I second Snow Crash reco. I've read Kafka on the Shore and Wind-Up bird chronicle by Murakami and loved both. Wind-Up bird was very hard to finish at points but I'm glad I did. The more I think about the more chills I get. The book is truly a dream. I'm not sure what is largely about but I will never forget how it made me feel. It's impossible to explain.
Citation please.

As of February, it was about $130 billion off over 10 years (i.e. $1.3 trillion vs. $1.17 trillion). That is not 'severalfold'.

http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2013/2/6/cbo-up...

And insurance premiums on ACA exchanges are coming in 20% lower than expected:

http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2013/MarketCompetitionPre...

I do agree Republicans believe this thing is going to fail and are trying hard to encourage that.
All of the /mentioned/ analyses - those of the first program sound like something you could do in an afternoon, yet it's been worked on for 10 years. I think there are more, and more sophisticated methods than were described.
Some disclosure:

I've been born and raised in Canada and my parents are immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. I've taken many extended trips back home and I have to say that "working efficiently for only half of their eight-hour workday" is overstating their efficiency. Socialism destroyed work ethic in Yugoslavia amongst other things. The villagers and farmers were the only ones who had any work ethic left as they were primarily subsistence farmers on the "receiving end" of socialism if you will. They were the ones who left to work and settle in other countries.

People with money aren't viewed as investors, but crooks. Anyone who turns a profit is suspected of stealing. Almost no one understands the concept of looking for work or creating their own job. It's sad.
I can't speak with any real authority, but I would suggest its down to the fact crack is cocaine mixed with further agents, allowing there to be a higher yield from the same amount of cocaine.

You'd have to also consider whether smoking the drug is more intense than sniffing, which would possibly compensate for the fact theres less cocaine.

Not a source per se, but some interesting info here on consumption methods: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/deliv...
It is a unique experience at a young age when one especially feels that there is not a soul they can truly speak to, almost to the extreme that it is a luxury to feel understood.

Since this isn't your usual teenage angst, making friends who are older than you can help a great deal.

Realizing man has pondered the same things, for hundreds and thousands of years gives you a chance, to access their thoughts in the form of books, literature, poetry.
Lovely work, and it looks like it wasn't too difficult to add:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3078/files

If anyone wants to chime in on the pull request itself, input is welcome -- particularly about how to address the conflict with the usual "compiles to JavaScript that runs anywhere" ethos of CoffeeScript. If we're going to start moving past that, "yield" is a fine place to start.
If it weren't Sunday, I wouldn't speculate, but it is. My 2 cents: iOS7 updates galore. Just imagine everything that could be overhauled. Even the old gray textured background we see is not very much like iOS 7.

iOS is in a big transition here. You can't even update apps at all unless you now include 'widescreen' support, for example. If you don't, iTunes reports an Invalid Binary (no default 586 image, etc).

So I would guess a huge overhaul, and typical Apple, is taking care of that vs. arguing or commenting on theories.
Well anything that operates on 5GHz will avoid 2.4Ghz interference. So even 5GHz 802.11n will work.
Goldman will probably pump-and-dump the warehousing business onto someone unsuspecting.

1. Buy up metal warehouses

2. Stockpile metal, thus reducing market supply

3. Watch as market price increases and rental income holds steady

4. When market prices have risen enough (say 30-50%) and you have a giant stockpile of metal, put the whole business up for sale

5. A giant inventory coupled with high prices and increasing cashflow for the last several years makes the business very attractive to someone with money but not a lot of sophistication

6. Goldman makes a boatload and doesn't have to figure out how to unwind the mess

7. Unsuspecting buyer goes bankrupt within two years
IQ not intelligence. IQ is meant to be a measure of intellectual capacity. It is nonsensical to say that someone is unable to be intelligent because they are poor.

Let's talk about intelligence, though. Lets say that everyone had the same intellectual capacity, but we still saw the same descrepancy in how well they did on standardized tests. Having little to eat and poor schools do not keep a child from learning from others. There is ready access to the internet through libraries in the U.S. with a wealth of information online, and a lot of books on the shelves there also. If you take away all genetic factors (tendency towards aggression, lower intellectual capacity, etc.) and environmental factors (is the child worried about being shot, peer pressure to join a gang or get into drugs or alcohol, etc.), then in the end it is more about parenting and community, not about poverty. If we were able to teach good parenting skills, social skills, and ethics adequately in schools, and help them develop sense of community, then many of the problems (unrelated to genetics) related to intelligence being lower would go away. I hope if anyone takes home anything from what I'm saying, it is that you can't throw money at a problem like this. Welfare can make things much worse (misusing food funds for drugs, setting up a cycle of dependence on government funds, etc.), but welfare is a perfectly logical solution to lack of money. We made that mistake before, and can't have a whole new generation of people buying into that statist crap.

However, back to the study. Genetic problems with IQ cannot be solved by money, period. Also, being poor does not make you have lower potential for intelligence. That has been my point all over this thread.
Then there is Alberta Canada I think Edmonton where fast food workers get paid $20/hour due to the oil boom in the area.

But a small apartment rents for close to $2,000/month if you can find one.
Whenever I sign into something with openID it signs me into all google services on that account, that's a pain in the ass as I have multiple google accounts for different things.

If it's separate then at least I can rebind that account to another email address if I choose, such as one I host myself for example. Otherwise if my google account gets closed for whatever reason then I lose all of these other accounts.

You can of course use a different provider but you're looking at either using some other internet giant or hosting your own openID crap which I'd rather have to do.
I'd love you to check out Airdispatch (http://airdispat.ch) - we are hoping to solve both #1 and #2.

Any feedback would be appreciated!
That McD's in Belgrade is actually the place this American first tried a Big Mac. It was pretty good.

The trend of demanding more work for less money is hardly restricted to Yugoslavia, though - it's crippled America, for one thing, but Western Europe loooves to exploit Central Europe for cheap labor, even though Central Europe's cost of living has come up to Western levels now.
Yes, I think that after a huge success (such as Harry Potter), artists are under tremendous pressure to release something greater or at least equivalent. The same is true for startups btw.

Anyway, if you want to believe what marketers want you to believe, that's fine with me, I won't downvote you for that.
For some anecdotal answers: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090531181900AA...
Same in france. McD's is very popular even though for the price of a Big Mac you can get two delicious sandwiches from the corner boulangerie. Or at least that is how it was in the 90's.
It's highly unlikely they would repeal it unless they had an alternative. No serious proposals have been forthcoming (party because the ACA was actually the conservative proposal in the 1990's...)

It would be political poison, especially given the rollout will have had a few years to cement by March 2017 (the earliest anything could be taken to floor). Hard to tell what public opinion will be like in 3.5 years, but I'd wager it will be net-positive on ACA.
Excellent article.

I recently had the task of straightening out the default install of dotfiles we had at my job. Since we're behind a corporate firewall and require various HTTP proxies to hit the outside world I devised pretty much the same setup as explained in the article.

All of the environment exports are placed in .profile as, at the very least, I expect this to be sourced on a login shell. If there is a non-login shell, for the most part, most people tend to source it pretty early on in the process. The .bash_profile is kept around for diagnostic information for interactive shells such as the Ruby, Go, Node and Java versions of the machine you are logging into.

Because everyone tends to have their own dotfiles I hijacked the .bash_login to keep machine specific information which can be optionally sourced. This leads me to tell people to basically keep .profile and .bash_login out of their revision control and to source both of them relatively early on in the login process.

All .profile is for environment variables that are machine/network specific. If you have any overrides, e.g. aliases, all that goes into your .bash_login.

My .bash_profile:
https://github.com/johnbellone/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.ba...

My .bashrc
https://github.com/johnbellone/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.ba...
A 'premium' chicken sandwich is over $4. I can buy a larger fresh-grilled chicken breast sandwich with sauces and veggies of my choosing for less than $3, so I haven't had a reason to go inside.

Regarding the employees, the unemployment rate is relatively high, so there will always be some available.

Also, the wage of a younger non-skilled employee is less than $2/hour. (If McD's pays more than that, I don't foresee many quitting.)

It's common for people in their 30's to be living with parents.

Housing and food are cheap, while consumer goods are expensive.
Why I left my full time job to join a 6-month fellowship
I thought this was going to be something geekier like brewpi.com but alas it's for tracking sales. I disagree with the assertion that this "makes beer smarter," though it may make selling beer smarter.
I'm been using http://httpbin.org/ for this.
Yeah well its not like computers ship without OS so your point does not really make sense. And its not like Linux has marketing unlike all other OSes out there. When you want to compare stuff you got to have similar factors in place otherwise it does not make sense.
What happens when you request a non-existent URL at that site?
Well, to be fair, anywhere the Habsburgs ruled is like this because that's the way their empire worked. You could only get rich by exploiting others or engaging in corruption - or be born into it because your ancestors did that.
A single game as a life-long hobby
Since many people might not get the reference, this is a reference to the 90s "crack, not even once" canned media message. Related: Nancy regan's "just say no to drugs" from the 80s. In America, these simplistic sound bites seem to be our attempt at universal healthcare.
Wouldn't they offer a warning that the dev center would be down if it's just a design overhaul?
Ideally, in an experimental design you want to control all but one variable. In real-life human studies, you can almost never do this exactly, but you try to approximate a true controlled experiment as much as possible. In this case, the independent variable is cocaine exposure, and full-term birth is a controlled variable.
Why sales guys find it so hard to pay an engineer a compliment
Alcohol isn't really that dangerous for babies either.

So you're basically saying that it's OK to roll the dice with a child, since after all it's only a 20-sided die? That a mother's temporary gratification is more important than a 5% chance of your child suffering damage?
If you don't like reading idle speculation then you should probably avoid 95% of tech blogs.
Sterile-neutrino hunt gathers pace at Gran Sasso
How the FUCK do you manage to do this? As someone who grew up in Guyana, I can't even stand the memory of those things, let alone imagine touching them again. They can't climb walls? What kind of walls do you have? They climbed everywhere and happily flew into your face when I was a kid.

There is absolutely nothing I can think of that I'm afraid of, but those bugs give me the shudders! Ugh!

Props to you for being able to do that!
I work for a Canadian company and IP assignment is written in the standard contract boilerplate. AFAIK it's never been enforced, but it's there.
I didn't get the connection. What would that be?
There's a good point, the cultural one.

No, I really mind how excited children can get about everything - it's the first time for them! Their highs are incredibly high, and their lows are incredibly low, partly because they have no experience to know that after the high will come a low, and after the low will come a high.

But when my point was that the author seems to think only gifted children are intense, why do you immediately assume I'm telling you you're not? And feel alone? That's really kind of sad.
Amazon bas been down for as much as a half day in recent memory — and not dev stuff but their customer-facing money-making site, and mid-week too.
I think your #quickref_links click events need an 'event.preventDefault()' to keep the browser from jumping up to the top of the page when you switch between tabs.
Earnestly and dedicatedly inducing people to break their contractual obligations, fall afoul of local hotel regulations, and make life suck a little more for their neighbors.

They're not nice people.
T2K neutrino experiment reports new oscillation results
Alternatively you could use fibers. We've been using them together with Common Node (https://github.com/olegp/common-node) at https://starthq.com with great success - running smoothly on an EC2 micro instance with 300+ concurrent users on site.
Did you just pull "40 points" out of thin air because there are plenty of studies showing economic causes for smaller differences?
The average is misleading here. Where do you think those 1 in 20 kids mostly live?
The provided justification ("so the possible effects of prematurity did not skew the results") is written in a somewhat self-gratifying way I think; simplifying the experimental design was surely another factor taken into account.

Excluding premature babies of course limits the study's relevance, though the results may be remarkable even if they only apply to full-term babies.
It worries me that the flight to tablets and other not-PCs will cause a return to the $4000 PCs of the 90s (at least, I can remember my father paying about that for a 486DX)
I'd say that as of 2005's Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act our laws aren't so lenient anymore, specifically aimed at pushing most people from discharge of debts (ch7 bankruptcy) to being forced to repay a negotiated amount (ch13 bankruptcy). Theoretically it aims at snaring people who were bankrupting out of their credit card debt, but its definition of "consumer debt" is broad enough that if you took on any personal debt during the birthing of your business, odds are pretty good you can't bankrupt out of it.

It's not too bad, of course, when coupled with limited liability from the start of the business venture. In that case, the bankruptcy reform doesn't really touch you - it's only there to catch private consumers.