skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the part about not seeing a relationship between crack usage and mental functioning. It's a very interesting result. What I don't understand is "Hurt and her team began to think the "something else" was poverty."

Is there any data referenced in the article to actually support that claim? It's the central thesis here, and I don't see any supporting argument. I see some text around seeing people arrested, dead bodies, and so on, but there are lots of poor rural kids who never see that. This is much more a function of urban poverty.

Maybe I missed it.
Author of the article here.

If everyone monetized everything our industry would collapse.

It's a balance. Innovation and monetization are different beasts. Some ideas are so awesome they just have to be shared. Techies are smart enough to think bigger if they really wanted and make computing better. I hope my example sets a precedent.

Sharing your idea may make technology better than if you kept it secret.
I felt like the 9% were unfairly painted as the victims of the way our economy works, but almost everything mentioned were vulnerabilities that the 9% deliberately opened themselves up to. By putting a deal on Groupon, they invited the locusts to swarm them. By opening up a cheaper coffee shop next to Starbucks, they made the business assessment that there was a market for cheaper coffee (or whatever experience they are trying to sell). If they were wrong, then they have fallen victim to what is normal business. If they can't operate without using a self-defeating service, they probably shouldn't be operating.

But there's plenty of room for smart business at the Jeffersonian level without making yourself vulnerable to swarms. It's one of the reasons my area has almost as many family owned diners as it does chain restaurants.
Yes, but how do define efficient work for an "I.T. manager"?
This is going in a bad direction for sure now, but here is this thing:

Some people, regardless of race, have lower intellectual capacity. That is what IQ tests try to measure, but fail to do completely because a lot is still based on education and experience that is difficult to factor out of the tests.

A greater number of those people that have less intellectual capacity are not going to be as financially successful. Unless you just make them. And that "making" them is as temporary as the funds that keep going to them. That is NOT to say that we should not feed the poor and hungry. We should! And, we should try to educate them more, because they need more help. However, that is charity. People deserve love, food, and shelter. But, we are not able to "bring up" people to a level that cannot be sustained because they don't have the intellectual capacity. That is why welfare fails and is taken advantage of. Unless you have some sort of medicine or medical treatment that can make people with less intellectual capacity have greater intellectual capacity to even everyone out, then it should be considered charity to help the poor- not some sort of way to make everyone smarter.
What is one lesser-known non-fiction book that you would recommend?
Rules:

1) It must be published within the last 10 years.
2) Please state your reasons for recommending it as well.

Thanks!
Alcohol isn't really that dangerous for babies either. The prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome is less than 5% for babies of women who drink more than 14 drinks per week during pregnancy: http://www.motherisk.org/prof/updatesDetail.jsp?content_id=2.... There's very little evidence that low levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy are bad for babies: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2023984,00.ht.... Indeed, the available data shows the opposite: babies whose mothers drink lightly during pregnancy have better balance and higher IQs: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57589867/moderate-drinki.... This is largely due to maternal predisposition; higher-IQ women are more likely to drink during pregnancy.

It turns out that the placental barrier is pretty awesome.
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I was just thinking, it's been a loooooong time since I've had a job that required eight straight hours of on-task work...the only jobs that fit the bill were in high school, working for a deli counter and as a roofer. Since then, it's been office jobs that were more like 6 hours of work, 4 hours of idleness/thinking time.
HTTP responses as a service
Oh good, I can use Facebook instead of GMail. I guess my privacy is secure, then.
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Here is the logic:

1. Given all of the smartest 50% of the people in the world.

2. Take all of their money away.

3. Give it to the other 50%.

Lets say we were able to do those three. Now do you think being poor causes lower IQ?

DON'T CONFUSE CORRELATION WITH CAUSATION!
So the kids in the study were selected because their parents were poor, and the average IQ of the kids in the study was around 80. That certainly signals a correlation, and since these are kids and don't have agency over their economic situation, it suggests a direction of causation too.
I finished reading Jaron Laniers on Who owns the Future and waiting for a copy of Eric Schmits book on the digital future. Jaron makes some very good points about inequalities in internet content economics, which I had not considered before. "Free" is not always free.
I heard Eric speak at Denver panel on Tuesday. He travels the world a lot as a google ambassador and has some interesting insights which I hope to read more about in his new book. no, he was not wearing google glasses on July 16.
So we should ditch decades of work and switch to less efficient formats and accept the enormous aggregate performance hit and lose hard won security and interop benefits?

Brilliant!
Must have been fun to implement 418 =)

It could help to link to some explanation/section in the RFC from the front page error code. Apart from that, this is very nice and potentially useful, thank you very much.
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If he is a fucking graphic designer, then he should stop talking about technical details like graphene, as if he knew how it worked.
PayPal long standing problem when you try to add a US bank
I don't think the author was claiing that, really... I thought it was interesting how he points out that men are in both the "top" slots in soiety (CEO President etc.) But also the lowest slots (prison, homeless)... in effect saying that gender dynamics can not be simplified to "male" or "female" dominated...
Man's Search for Meaning is about totalitarianism to the extreme; having no freedom except that in how you choose to react. The author was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.

And about first world banality - the book of Ecclesiastes in the the bible addresses this also:

"I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun."

I had the existential depressions when I was 19 - 24. I dropped out of college and all my parents knew to do (and did) was put me in a psych ward and 'treat' me with electroshock. That didn't work.
Agreed. Don't drink too much when pregnant. But, a short glass of wine once a week or so isn't excessive.
> That's not what was done with Al Awalki. He was on a kill list because it wasn't possible to bring him in alive, because he was hiding in Yemen.

Do we have rules about foreign assassinations and their legality?

I seem to recall in the Clinton years it was considered a big deal to snuff someone in another nation.

Often, we've relied on foreign intelligence services -- like Mossad -- to do it for us.

I have no idea what I think about droning, except that in my experience, technological ability always takes precedence over legal and moral fictions.

In other words, if we can do it, other guys can do it, and so we use it to keep up.
>It was amid that climate that Hurt organized a study of 224 near-term or full-term babies born at Einstein between 1989 and 1992 - half with mothers who used cocaine during pregnancy and half who were not exposed to the drug in utero.

>All the babies came from low-income families, and nearly all were African Americans.
I agree about the need for sharing, it's disappointing that those with profit driven motivation can ruin it for us though. Anyone with plenty of money could take one of your brief idea descriptions, implement the basic idea and apply for a patent on the idea - preventing you from using your own idea in future even. Those small descriptions do not serve as prior art in the US patent system. Putting ideas out there like you've done should automatically put them in the public domain, and void any later attempt for overly broad patents to cover the same ideas.

I put many of my own ideas out there, usually in discussion threads though, as I'm not a blogger. There's some overlap between ideas I've had myself and your own ideas, such as the package-manager for package-managers, I've discussed several times and experimented with implementation. It just demonstrates further that ideas that are ready for introduction aren't "inventions" at all: they're inevitable next stages of the evolution of ideas. Yet someone who has the money can claim they invented it, and use the legal system to prevent everyone else using it.
I was wondering closer to home why Harvard and Stanford skate circles around my alma mater MIT when it comes to billionaire dollar tech IPOs. Having attended all the three, the tech culture is deepest at MIT. The business culture is deepest at Stanford.

This may change as MITs Drew Houstons Drop Box is monetized.
I think it's important to note that Ruby was just one target of the many ports for ReactiveExtensions: node, jquery, mootools, vanilla js, Obj-C, etc.

The code very much looks like C# to me. It echos C# in both OOP style and organization: There are multiple classes per file (allowed in Ruby but not generally conventional). There are implicit Disposable interfaces everywhere -- I guarantee that somewhere there's C# code that says:

class MutableDisposable : Disposable

and so on.

Also, class variables.

This doesn't look like a good-faith attempt at becoming involved in the Ruby community, but rather a C# port that was assigned to someone who had just enough Ruby experience to pull the code over.

I supposed that makes it somewhat understandable? It's clumsy, but it looks to me like the result of some PM or tech lead up in Redmond deciding that not porting ReactiveExtensions to Ruby was worse than a clumsy port to Ruby.
Or he could just run some CAT-6 cable.
> Bash scripting in the style of hypercard.

It sounds like the Clojure library Stevedore [1] does what you're looking for there.

[1] https://github.com/pallet/stevedore
I like pure design concept, without regarding to technical limitation.

I like pure technology design concept without regarding to economical consideration.

This design is just plain form design plus some wanna-be technical terms.
I'm not sure how persuasive that is because those things happened without the claimed protection. The reporter can certainly gain trust by saying he's willing to go to jail to protect the source.
So someone stole your idea of working for money? That must hurt bad.
Logically money should have no direct affect on intellectual capacity (e.g. see my other argument about taking the money away and giving it to someone else).

In this case, I think the causation is in the other direction. Over time, people with less intellectual capacity will be less successful, and therefore poorer. That is rational. The other direction is irrational.
I was just about to post the Slashdot article on this. There is a link in the Slashdot article to a spatial ability test:

http://psych.io/spatial/

It's a very challenging test and was fun to do. It's for a University project, so I have no idea how legitimate it is. I did pretty well, so I choose to believe it's valid. The Slashdot coverage is here:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/07/20/2244231/spatial-ability-a-predictor-of-creativity-in-science
> prematurity with crack seems like the logical thing to study

It is a logical thing to study, and most likely is being studied, by someone else. After all, this study wasn't looking at premature babies. That doesn't prematurity with crack isn't a problem, only a different problem.
My dad worked in an environment heavily impacted by the crack epidemic. It was real, and the hysteria was based on the horrific situations that that existed.

Smugly determining that "crack baby" was some racist code word cooked up to imprison black people is missing the point. Crack lowered the price point of cocaine dramatically, and was devastating to inner city communities.

You should note who the study didn't look at -- premature babies or the rates of premature delivery of crack abusers vs the average.
The HN community could form an idea hub to host and protect ideas and monetize them as products to fund further ideas and products.
To me a hacker is a type of artist who creates something either software or computer/electronics. (The term "maker" is starting to supplant the hardware side.) We respect cleverness and creativity among fellow hackers. This respect is more important than monetary compensation.
I think if you take the babies of the smartest X% people in the world and raise them in poverty then yes, their average IQ will be lower than if they were raised in a middle class household.

Poverty means you have to skip meals, you can't afford books, you go to a school were there aren't enough teachers and so on... Those are all things that have an influence the intellectual development of a person.
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paying cash is better for travellers. so you have to see the room and agree with all without getting the complicated system of cancellation vai airbnb
If anyone is wondering what Powerline is:

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

Basically IP over the same wires that you use for electricity.

Seems pretty crazy!
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I think a minimum income is a good idea in a society where there's little demand for unskilled labor. As long as the basic income is priced below the average wage of skilled labor, people will still have incentives to find employment... but those that can't, still have a minimum quality of life that should be expected in the first world.
Whats the TLDR of the article?
Surely, they should have picked themselves up by their bootstraps by age 3.
A glass of wine a _day_ wouldn't be excessive.
It depends on how you ascribe causation to hereditary factors. Does it make sense to say that a 4 year old is poor because of his low IQ? I don't think so, because a 4 year old has no agency over his economic circumstances.
In other words, do I think the removal of something posited to be developmentally advantageous would lower IQ after the developmental period had passed?
I've only experienced this right after high school, college and PhD graduations. These were long term goals that dominated my life. There was bit of emptiness once these goals were achieved. Plus there was a dispersion of the social communities I had lived in for long time. This emptiness did not last long as there were always new projects around the corner afterwords.

I expect the same feeling after job "retirement" and expect it to last as long.
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Step 1 is more like:

"Given all of the kids who would grow up to be the smartest 50% of the people in the world."

The problem is we are not able to predict this first step.
No, because your forced to pay capital gains early thus having less money to compound. Try simulating it with 10% growth vs 5% dividend (which is used to buy the same stock) and 5% growth for 10 years.
After a generation or two? Yes.

Consider the elements of an IQ test: vocabulary, pattern recognition, mathematics, abstract logic. What kind of environment would you think is more likely to teach children the things they need to do well on an IQ test?
I second this. I was identified as "gifted" around 3rd grade, and from that point on, my teachers "guided me" (only allowed me access to) literature and texts they felt were "at my level". Third grade is way too young to be reading literature classics - they are all incredible tragedies, with the worse aspects of human behavior exhibited and analyzed to the extreme. By 5th grade I'd pretty much finished the entire classics section at our library, and I was as dark minded as an individual could get, with the vocabulary to support plus youthful piss and vinegar ready to debate anyone with optimism.

Thank god I discovered literary science fiction, and soon thereafter Phillip K Dick. I found reading "unhappy" literature was comforting, and U.K. post-punk bands like Joy Division also lent a sense of not being completely alone. Also reading Malcome X was hugely uplifting, as a white Iowa boy. And the cyper-punk authors were just starting then; I remember reading Neuromancer when it first came out and feeling completely at home in the reality painted by that novel.

About the only "good" thing that came out of my elementary school teachers only allowing me access to "gifted" activities was their taking me out of math class and leaving me alone with the school's first computer (this was the late 70's) for 2 hours every day.
You can easily run your own openid server:

http://wiki.openid.net/w/page/12995226/Run%20your%20own%20id...
1/4 of middle aged women in this country are on antidepressants. Is that 'existential' depression or some kind I don't know about, I don't know, but that's a pretty sad stat.
How could it not have an impact on intellectual capacity?

Good nutrition, stimulation, and education are all important during development. This things are all much easier to access when you have more money.
I don't think this article is claiming the PC is dead or that there's no need for anyone to do work at their desks using keyboards and large monitors. No, the irrelevance of Microsoft is they no longer influence the market. They are no longer perceived to be the leaders of change. This is quite different from the height of their influence in the 90's.
A somewhat different response is found in "The drama of the gifted child," which argues that gifted children, having been singled out for attention because of their impressive abilities, become dependent on validation from authority figures and then have trouble adapting to self-directed life as an adult: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465016901
This is why you can't have a CNAME on a root domain like petekeen.net, because you generally have to have other records for that domain like MX.

The issue isn't with an MX record which is optional, it's with the SOA record which is required. BIND also requires at least one NS record.
"can be trusted like a company and provide the services of a company. And once you unlock that idea, it is so much bigger than homes. ... There is a whole generation of people that don’t want everything mass produced. They want things that are unique and personal.” "

Failure of analysis. The reason why people want to trust each other rather than companies is not some weird cultural shift that doesn't exist WRT anti-mass production, its the death of trust in existing big companies. I want a coffee mug. I don't really care how many other copies exist, I'd just like one not made with lead, where the artwork isn't water soluble, and it hasn't been value engineered to fail rapidly. Because of crony capitalism and consolidation, and the careful cooperation of for-profit media also owned by consolidated crony capitalists (in some situations, the same individuals...), those options are not available in the big company mug market. So a system that rates individuals for their production is going to do well if the big companies are unable to provide what individuals are allowed to provide.

The TLDR is a monopolistic command economy (ours) is inherently inefficient. Computers and tech and stuff can make at least some inefficient things, efficient enough.

I don't really care if I'm sleeping in the most unique bedroom in the world... I'm asleep, what do I care. On the other hand, I'd like it to be reasonably clean, no bed bugs, and no one stealing my stuff. I'd feel more ethical if no illegal aliens were being treated inhumanely as part of my experience. And no customer service script readers. The big corporations simply can no longer provide that experience like they could in the past, too bad. Airbnb can provide some trust in that experience. Guess which is growing?
Gee, thanks Marco, we would have never known ourselves...
Brazilian here. It's still about that expensive, and still very popular.
My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss.

If you've ever poked around with the way that Apple's website works, you can see that the entire place is a huge mess. There's old servers running ancient (pre-2004) perl scripts alongside the brand new iCloud gear. I can't imagine how the authentication for AppleID is working as login details still work on the ancient pages (think pinstripes and glassy buttons). Depending what URL you hit, the webserver is using php3, php4, perl, python or maybe WebObjects (java).

At one point I wrote a scraper that was targeting one of their product pages, and kept getting random, unexplainable results. It turned out that one of their product areas was behind a round-robin load balancer, with three completely different apache versions on each server. The page was dying on one but not the other two. In the end I just had to repetitively scrape until I hit a good response.

Even the domain for the "maintenance" page for the developer section is telling. It's just a broken template system regurgitating a bit of the homepage.

http://devimages.apple.com/maintenance/

http://devimages.apple.com/

Truly a hacked together system. Some engineers at Apple must be having a truly awful weekend, no matter the cause and solution.
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The technology has been around for 10 years...