skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The narrow focus is odd

The author gave a quick nod to the fact that it exists in adults in the form of things like mid-life crises, however, suggested that adults have a much better framework for dealing with it. I tend to agree with him, however, like you, I also found much of the author's advice applicable.

I also believe that as we get older, we understand that there are so many others out there with whom we might relate. In our teen years, it seems that all the world is monolithic and that there is only on acceptable way to "be". It is also a time when we are constantly smacking up the pressure to conform. In some ways, this reminds me of what we know of gay kids struggling with their sexuality. Many face feelings of isolation and despair. A key message to them from adult members of the community has been "Hold on. It gets better".

With regard to what you write about "cosmic despair", and especially with concepts like "having a hard time coming back down to you", I noticed that some of it seems to flirt around the edges of depersonalization. Perhaps it may be worth having a look at that and how it intersects with your experiences.
Yeah, I forgot people living a better life in capitalism: perfect education and healthcare, pension after 40 years of labour and enough spare time to actually have a life. http://i.imgur.com/zAMkNCV.gif
Israeli Startup Is Making Beer (Yes, Beer) Smarter With The Beer Analytics
Does Warran Buffet need more money? Yet he's still trying to make himself richer.

"I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It is like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die."
Does the "+trace" example work for other people? For me, after it lists the 13 root servers, it pauses for a while and says ";; connection timed out; no servers could be reached".

So is someone between me and these servers blocking tracing, or is DNS more unpredictable and weird than the author claims, or both?
Please Bbe specific. I have never seen any real life load balancing code. We just used elb, it was mostly configuration. Drop box uses was AFAIK.
You can't study everything at once.
The results of IQ tests are strongly driven by poverty as well.
Yeah, I don't really get that part either. Prematurity is something that is itself heavily studied; prematurity with crack seems like the logical thing to study.
Yep and their market cap is almost as big as their neighbor, RIM.
Damn lies and statistics, though. Being poor does not cause lower IQ, nor does lower IQ cause you to be poor. However, you'll find a lot of lower IQ people at poverty level. You can't guarantee that any college candidate that is poor is not going to excel, so poverty, sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, should have absolutely nothing to do with acceptance into any organization, assuming that everything else is equal, which it isn't. Unfortunately clothing, shared experience and knowledge, language, etc. significantly influence testing and decisions.
Science vs. hysterical racism, yet again. There's a reason it's "crack baby", and not "cocaine baby". Helps imprison the right sort of person. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act)

There's a much more dangerous drug than cocaine, for babies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_cocaine_exposure) It's alcohol, a legal drug. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_syndrome)
There was a Show HN post a while ago for this kind of website: http://leanstack.io/cloud-stacks/ (discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736155)
Thanks. It's fixed now.

PS: Never deploy a new version 1 hour before you go on vacation :)
Pretty sure growing up in poverty can negatively influence access to mentally stimulating things. Not saying that the number on the bank account directly influences IQ, but tackling poverty would probably have ripples in the school system too.
I see your point, but I see an implicit either-or choice in it. I must ask: would it not better for team cohesion and efficacy if managers were doing 30% engineering, and engineer had the option to have their word in management? I have experienced that, and although it was maybe more tiring for the manager on the short term, he was a real part of the team, and decisions were never taken in contradiction with technical factors. Vice versa, engineering was more targeted towards real customers needs that if we had no manager. On the long term, it was less work per product, because the more integrated team ran more efficiently.
I looked and couldn't find anything indicating journalists had privileges beyond those held by other citizens.
Just to say that the TV series mentioned in the article, Dynasty[1], was really popular then. My parents watched it as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_%28TV_series%29
why aren't all these web sites using openid or some derivation thereof? It seems time to move away from sites trying to do security(specifically login credentials) themselves. As we've seen numerous professional web sites have been hacked and we have to go and change password(s).

What's stopping it? Are we developers too proud to admit that there is something that we can't do 100% perfectly and it is best left to someone else?
Related: Six Brain-Damage Scourges That Cripple IQ in Sub-Saharan Africa

http://www.amren.com/news/2012/04/six-brain-damage-scourges-...
Millions of SIM-Cards are "insecure like Windows 95"
Have everything tied to my gmail account? No thanks.
No, what I was saying was that is how the art of medicine handles the official label of "Doctor". That is country-specific. A doctor from the Caribbean != doctor educated in the U.S. Two different governing boards, and I would opt for not being treated by the latter, not because it guarantees that they are incompetent, but because I would have to question competence. A doctor educated in the U.S. could still be incompetent, but I'd have greater confidence in their education and certification.

My point is this: will we consider RMS to be a hacker when he is 98 years old after he has given up coding for years? If he was a doctor, we'd still call him a doctor, but I'm not sure that holds true for hacker. Now, if you call RMS a hacker and enough people do, maybe that is enough to show that he meets the definition still? Is creativity and the ability to write code in C enough when the language and environment has completely changed in the future?
They also had some of the problems with slow or non-existent emergency services, even much later than the '70s. As one cultural outgrowth of that, Public Enemy's "911 Is A Joke" was written in 1990 about poor emergency response.
The abstraction is the whole point, so I guess you either love it or you don't ;)
Sounds interesting, think I'll get that. There are never enough non-scifi fiction recommendations on HN for my taste
Perhaps it would be linked with variables, similar to how graphical debuggers can give you a "variables" window which shows variables in scope, and the ability to filter such variables. I suppose the idea is to extend the terminal to be more debugger/IDE like.
> the 'free' internet is definitely going away.

I really don't see that, we still have a huge number of free application. Maybe google is having some issues (google reader and gmail) but you still have a huge number of alternatives that are still free.
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they would likely run in to similar problems. metal matrix composites in general are hard to make and underperform. i just know the most about al/c composites.

also, aluminum and titanium are already really strong and light. the author wanted to include carbon fiber because "it's perfectly rigid and doesn't bend" and that "scratches are a thing of the past". i appreciate that he wants a bit of far-out flourish for his new design, but both of those statements are way off the mark technically, and would be poor and wrong reasons to pursue difficult to make metal-matrix composites.

and let's not even get started on the graphene...
Remind me where in the Constitution it says that "Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of journalists to keep their sources secret?"

Indeed, keeping sources secret cuts against the common law evidentiary practice that was typical at the time of the founding. Common law courts have sweeping powers to force people to hand over evidence in their possession using subpoenas, with just a few limitations (5th amendment self-incrimination, etc).

The Wikipedia page for an older journalist privilege case gives a good description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branzburg_v._Hayes

Floyd Abrams, noted 1st amendment lawyer, had this to say about the case: "[Persuading the Court to grant First Amendment protection to journalists regarding their sources] was obviously going to be a hard sell. Notwithstanding the strong policy arguments in favor of establishing this privilege and the serious harm that would be caused by its absence, no such protection had ever been held to exist. Not only was the concept that the judicial system was entitled to 'every man's evidence' itself deeply rooted in the Constitution, but merely determining the scope of the privilege (when would it apply?) and identifying who would receive it (only regularly employed journalists? freelancers? anyone?) were difficult matters at best."
I think the Calculation for Screen Size were off. ( Unless I am Wrong )
Assuming no changes in Resolution Scale to iPhone 5, a Display that is 5.86cm Width would be 4.7" Diagonal.

Which incidentally fits in with the latest rumours on 4.7" display. Um....
> tl;dr - "Poverty is a more powerful influence on the outcome of inner-city children than gestational exposure to cocaine."

It's a good thing to back up with a scientific study and facts, but I'd hardly call it surprising (the article did) except to those who have no idea what this poverty looks like.

Another interesting part of the bias might be that I've never heard the term "crack baby" (or similar) outside the context of US ghettos, while cocaine is used globally in many countries.
Introducing bashly-blogger
"Trained employees are quitting because they find they have to work like Westerners and get paid like East Europeans." That says it all. You always get what you pay for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zF... :)
> Being poor does not cause lower IQ

Down the page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078722 - we have lancewiggs saying that the results of IQ tests are strongly driven by poverty.

What basis do you have for your claim?
Truth be told this article is exactly why a lot of (mostly untraveled) people from the US have a really distorted view of the rest of the world.
I was just invoking Goodwin's law earlier rather than later.
Giftedness is misunderstood. That even highly educated audiences don't get this is evident in some of the comments here. Giftedness is terribly named. It is more affliction than blessing. Giftedness is rare. Gifted kids are not the same as brilliant high achievers. They have high IQ's but are also underachievers (by regular standards, not some elevated bar) and often dropouts. They should be highly successful but are not and often commit suicide. Gifted children are routinely dismissed as overly privileged or advantaged kids, and usually do not get any special needs attention in schools. People see their intellectual side and ignore their emotional needs and problems. I can say from personal experience that while gifted kids are exceptional in many ways, they also tend to lead difficult lives with many challenges because they are so deeply misunderstood. Even by their own parents.
What did you read instead?
My wife was a early-childhood development specialist at our local Easter Seals and the kids with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome were very sad. It's totally preventable, and the lack of understanding of consequences is devastating.
Regarding IP:

The important and hard part(if you want this to solve problems and create businesses) is to expose creators/entrepreneurs to good problems , and connect them with domain experts and the relevant knowledge.

This way, you leave the details of the solution(IP) private, which should help motivate the creation of a product and a business

By making it as a business creation platform, and highlighting the companies it started, or even the groups that that formed and are working through this, you create a very strong incentive to domain experts(which are usually very busy people, think doctors, lawyers, etc) to publish problems on the platform, preferably in some detailed, and interesting way.

And by having interesting content about really good problems, you gather high quality entrepreneurs and creators, which also post resumes and details about themselfs, to make creating good connections easier.

And by making you're content interesting, you could get much wider readership(which helps with marketing), also among people who are not entrepreneurs but might hold useful knowledge. If you'll figure someway to incentivise them to contribute, the better, but you'll have to be very carefull with signal to noise.

EDIT:also , by creating a different stream of important problems, you create stuff for bloggers/journalists to write about , which is great for marketing.
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Yea, the outcome can be summarized as "No significant effect of cocaine exposure seen in subset of fetuses that are not born premature." But all this tells you is that premature birth is a necessary condition for bad effects (if they exist).
MIT Trying To Block The Release Of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File
We recently noted that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly had ordered Homeland Security to release the Secret Service file on Aaron Swartz that had been requested by Wired reporter/editor Kevin Poulsen. However, MIT has now stepped into the case trying to block the release of the information. The judge has consented to putting a stay on the initial order until MIT can file its motion.
DRY: A Common Misinterpretation
Insects have brains more importantly groups of insects can have highly complex behaviors.

Also, AirBNB feeds off of the community at large by avoiding paying taxes. Consider, hotel taxes are often used to pay for the reason people want to visit in the first place ex: convention hall. That's not to say longer stays have the same issues just part of there profitability comes from people avoiding hotel regulations.
Bad story design... trying to talk about the typical result, then late in the article drop the bombshell "The team considers Jaimee and her mother, Karen, among their best success stories.". If they "have to" go anecdotal, they could have at least picked the median subject. Like doing a report on the health effects of smoking, and intentionally selecting the healthiest 99 year old smoker in the world rather than the most likely outcome.

The most interesting part of the whole situation can be summed up by one of the lines describing the babies, "nearly all were African Americans." Even since the first days, It never was about medical issues or science, just a sorta-stealthy way to bash black folks. You'll note there was carefully no outage at the time, or long term medical study, at white coke snorting suburban women, although the blood levels of coke the babies experienced probably were about the same in the end. By analogy it would be like creating a social meme and scientific study of the negative pregnancy impact of malt liquor consumption (by urban black women), carefully ignoring the consumption of fruity margaritas (by suburban white women). Because you can't bash black people unless you can "other" them first.

I guess the two startup lessons are if you're trying to make median situation analysis, policy, and decisions, and you must use an anecdote, don't chose an extreme outlier, use a median... unless you've got an axe to grind and you're trying to mislead people, in which case unusual sample selection can be a powerful tool to mislead people. Startup lesson two is one popular way to scam people is to play word definition games as a strategy for divide and conqueror, so look out for that gameplay technique, and/or use word redefinition as a weapon of your own.
I think the restriction to babies born full term is extremely important.

"Poverty is a more powerful influence on the outcome of inner-city children than gestational exposure to cocaine, conditional on being carried to full term."
I have two kids both starting at age4 questioned me about death. I don't believe in God so it's hard to calm them, but there is no better way to comfort them, so I say we will all go to heaven when we die.

One day we visited my grandparents cemetery,my boy started crying, and asked me why my grandparents are buried here while I said people went to heaven when they are dead. I had to say that our body remains here, but our soul/spirit go to heaven and we live there.

Then one night he tears again, then cry, when I ask, he said if it's just spirits/souls go to heaven, we won't even have a face there, our family will never be able to recognize each other, and we won't be able to re-unite in heaven.

I almost cried myself.
Incredible Quality
That's not really what I meant. A number of places support openid; we use that for logging in and password management. If something goes wrong we change the password in one place.
Gmail is just one provider; as is facebook. I'm sure that there are more.

As for your gmail account comment: since most people point their emails to gmail anyway, everything is tied to their gmail account anyway. (e.g. password resets)
The only reason people would stop working for macdonalds was because in other jobs, people were being subsidized by the state to do nothing most of the day (as shown in the article) which eventually brought down the whole communist block. So yes, jobs are more important than a minimum income as long as others aren't being subsidized to do nothing (which leads a country to ruin as shown by the whole communist block).
$ checkbashisms ./rfc
possible bashism in ./rfc line 74 (should be 'b = a'):
if [ "$COMMIT" == "$new_commit" ]; then

$ checkbashisms install.sh
possible bashism in install.sh line 3 ('function' is useless):
function __install_rfc() {
possible bashism in install.sh line 49 (unsafe echo with backslash):
echo "\n# Added by 'rfc' installer\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$HOME/bin" \

but above and beyond that, it requires GNU grep (uses GNU extension --excludes) to run the script itself
>Why Canada Has No Big Tech Companies

Here's an explanation:

Because Canada prefers many more smaller companies, that actually employ people, instead of few billion dollar tech darlings with a sub par personel and even less taxes paid?

How about: why California is bankrupt, as a state, and with large swaths of the population in utter poverty, despite having the worlds largest tech companies?
If you're using Firefox, try opening a private window first.
Attending college increases pre-college IQ scores a mean of just under 20 points (I don't recall the precise number from the study now, I remember it was between 15 and 20). That's not "smarter people get into college" - that's before-and-after on the same subjects.

Growing up wealthy entails a lot more advantages than four years of courses, at that.
No, there's actually a good amount of evidence that poverty does in fact cause low IQs. For instance the divergence between the IQs of East Germans and West Germans during the partition, and the way they converged again after the Cold War.

It is true that people with low IQs will tend to become poorer (though conscientiousness is often a bigger factor), but reversion to the mean should limit the impact of that in the children of poor people.

EDIT: Here's a rather in depth article on the topic: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/race-iq-and-...
There's tons of evidence that at a population level wealth is the main driver of IQ differences, though genetics does play a large role at the individual level.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/booming/revisiting-the-cra...

Great video from the nytimes on this story from may
> Twitter Bootstrap is not the reason why everything looks the same.

Except, Twitter Bootstrap filled that niche of a semi-generic framework distributed with a 'good-enough' design theme. In the web world I can't think of an example before. There were Wordpress theme frameworks that came without design and expected you to craft your own, and there were good designs created without thought for adapting the code.

Nothing said you're not a designer, but build with this and it'll look good before.

Now whether the 'Bootstrap look' became popular because of Bootstrap, or Bootstrap was buying into a design trend that was just starting I don't know. But both trended at the same time.
How about a "pay me to continue with my side project" ?
According to a recent domestic survey, average Yugoslavs work efficiently for only half of their eight-hour workday. The rest of the time is spent reading newspapers, conducting private business or having interminable private chats with colleagues over coffee.

According to a recent domestic survey, average I.T. managers work efficiently for only 10% of their eight-hour workday. The rest of the time is spent reading email, conducting pointless meetings, or having interminable private chats with colleagues over "best practices".
>*"By suggesting you don’t need project managers, you’re saying that you, an engineer, want to do this work and my question is, “Do you or do you not want to be an engineer?"

False dichotomy indeed. Here's my answer. Yes, I want to do this work, and yes I want to be an engineer. I think this work is an engineers work, and belongs with his other duties.
Also, I bet the food prices aren't correspondingly low. I remember when McDonald's started expanding in Brazil a couple decades ago, prices were ridiculous (like $8-$9 equivalent for a big mac meal) but people still lined up around the block for the novelty and addictive quality of the food.
In 11 years I've only worked with two that I thought were great. But those two have convinced me that they can add a tremendous amount of value.

Think of them as oil in an engine. The best ones know how to communicate extremely well, are paragons of organization, and know how to facilitate decision making.
Donwnvotes? It seems some people hate the scientific method, and only pay lip service to science as some kind of religion ("who needs experiments and proofs").

Which is kind of sad.
Wow, some of the reactions here are really petty-minded to me.

This guy just made mockups of a future iteration he imagined, of a product he probably uses and likes.
Something designers have published to the interwebs for years. It can be fun and a nice way to improve on your skills.

It don't get what justifies the hate some people here show up with. If you don't like it, just skip it and enjoy something else.
They wouldn't be able to tell which babies were premies because of the cocaine, and which were because of other factors.

A study of only premies would be interesting, but might yield the same result as this study.