skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emailing someone seems extremely unlikely to be construed as accepting Google's terms - the average person wouldn't have a clue what Google does with emails, nor would they know if an email address is being forwarded to or collected by gmail, or gmail under a custom domain, nor have they been presented any terms, nor should they be expected to have sought out, read and understood the terms for the almost infinite number of services they don't use.
Any animal that touches this lethal lake turns to stone
I'm far from an expert, but I've definitely heard mention of those things.

I think what makes us non-Lispers romanticize the Lisp machine isn't that it ran Lisp per se or even a high level language. It's the Aston Martin flavor of a machine built to be one comprehensive whole by people who understood all the layers and wanted a coherent machine in toto. We still crave these things, and there's something vaguely upsetting about knowing that (for instance) one's Smalltalk image is running within a Unix environment and not natively, even though in practice it's better this way.
Here's my (long long) story: http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/why-we-shut-newstilt-down...

Am now doing https://circleci.com, so it has a happy ending.
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The Virality of LinkedIn Endorsements
You're right, it's basically skipping the JIT step for better performance for managed apps at the cost of higher initial load time (e.g. more to read from disk).
Gates, who kickstarted Microsoft by personally implementing a full BASIC interpreter in 1024 bytes of ROM, had infinitely more tech skills than Jobs, who if recent biographies are to be believed went to his deathbed still believing the Apple II invented the switch-mode computer power supply.
The studies seem to be confusing causation and correlation. They seem to assuming that there must be an environmental cause for the differences in people's IQs. This may seem like a stupid assumption to make, but a lot of people in the social sciences take this as a given, even though the weight of evidence is strongly against it.

Perhaps I have missed something, but I would expect that, if they did not have ideological blinkers on they would be saying things like:

"We are taking particular care to separate environmental and genetic factors here by including adopted children, [identical] twins reared separately, other children raised by other than biological relatives".

But I see none of this at all here.

You may be interested to read "The Nurture Assumption" for a detailed analysis of the effect of parents on their children. The basic conclusion is that if you do not seriously abuse your children you don't affect them much one way or the other. Steve Pinker's book "The Blank Slate" is also relevant.
Some people owe me up-votes for all those down-votes they gave me six+ months ago when I stated one must assume a zero privacy environment when engaging technology today.

I'm just happy I knew what the Internet was like before mosaic and the www emerged. It seems so quaint now.

Edit - How long until people ditch their Black Amex cards and go back to cash for some privacy restored? A short decade ago it wasn't so uncommon to carry a few bucks. How many people really want banks and the government knowing all of their consumption habits in addition to the timing of their consumption?

All in the name of fraud prevention! Just carry a few bucks and no worries again!
In fact a few people at MSR had that exact idea (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/).
Word Lens is one of those apps I show people to blow their mind at where technology is up to these days.

It's a serious "we're in the future" moment every time I use it.
> > What if Amazon Web Services simply assigned all unoccupied EC2 cores to this task?

> Nothing. EC2 rented servers are far too slow to attack the network at this point, that's the point of having a faster hashing speed and overall difficulty.
The point he's making is one that was referenced in the original bitcoin whitepaper. If one user were to amass more computing resources than the honest users, that person would have the ability to over-ride the transaction record. This however would incredibly difficult given the global hashrates are probably coming close to terahash/sec levels. If one extremely wealthy person wanted to, they could get butterfly labs' developers to sell them the design for their new 600ghash/sec mining card, then go on to fill a datacenter with systems that have several of those cards in each of their systems.

Consider what the following could do:

1) Supermicro X9DR3-F - server board with 3 pci-e x16 slots

2) Any 2U supermicro chassis

3) 3 Butterfly labs Monarch cards per server

4) 48U cabinet

Those cards mine at 600ghash/sec, put 3 of them in a single server, and the single system can mine at 1800ghash/sec, or 1.8thash/sec/server. Fill a 48U rack with 24 of those systems, you're mining at 43.2thash/sec. Fill 10 cabinets with these systems, and you're mining at 432.0thash/sec.
Check the first pages in your local phone book for "health and social services." You could also try searching DuckDuckGo for "______ County health services" or "substance abuse counseling" for links to local resources.

Finally, try dialing 211 on your phone, as many locales (in the U.S.) provide help now via phone. Good luck!
Microsoft carried out a research project looking into this, but an open source group is actively developing another implementation.

What they've achieved is really quite impressive.
http://cosmos.codeplex.com/
This makes your point about Vala being a better option than C# because it can be lower-level a little moot if the core is still C just like in Singularity.
This is discussed by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate.
Granted, this is a high-level breakdown of the virality of LinkedIn Endorsements, but still somewhat interesting. Would be much better if there was actual data showing the virality and engagement on LinkedIn, but no dice.

Some people love this feature and some people hate this feature. I think both work well with LinkedIn in that all people talk about it and some people use it a bunch. I don't really see a ton of value in that it's just a +1 for certain skills, so easily manipulated versus a written recommendation they offer, but if well-respected endorse you, that can definitely help. Thoughts?
...I don't believe there is more information in the human-society than the human brain can contain.

The Library of Congress would disagree with you. The most bothersome realization I had in college was that, no matter how smart I was, how fast I learned, how rich I got, or how much I studied, I could never learn everything I wanted to learn. There's simply too much knowledge and too little time.
I'm not sure whether you meant that sarcastically. If you did, I'm not at all a supporter of segregated schooling of any kind, be it class, 'abilities' or even neighbourhoods. There's value in kids growing up in a heterogeneous and diverse environment, and my comment was only meant to highlight how having an advanced vocabulary can sometimes hinder that.
You might want to wait for Rust to be ready, because this way you can build an OS that truly made for the future (very optimized for multi-core).

If you don't want to appeal to the general market, but more for a specialized market (like in enterprise or whatever), then you should probably optimize it for AMD's Mantle API, too, and take full advantage of the performance for both the CPU and GPU that you get from that. Also don't even bother with 32-bit.
Email is not like a letter, it's like a postcard, where the contents are clearly visible to anyone who ever handles it (including all the relay servers). Theoretically speaking your expectation of privacy in a FB message is probably hire than in an email.
> Quick calculations on bare avalon chips with a 100k investment

Does that include the electricity?
It does generate native code. What else do you think is what runs at runtime? .NET never has been interpreted (apart from Micro) so you either have the JIT or ngen and both result in the bytecode translated to native code prior to running. That it still calls into the CLR for things like object allocation, garbage collection, etc. doesn't change anything. You can do the same from C++ if you want.
That's not actually considered a good thing when it comes to currencies (as opposed to commodities).
The fact that something has been exploited for evil or trivial ends does not mean that the thing exploited is itself evil or trivial.
If I am understanding your argument correctly in context, based on what you quoted, you are saying that the impact of genetics on g was found to be insignificant in the Hart & Risley study. That objectively seems not to be the case. First, the measurement outcome of the study was language use. They didn't attempt to measure IQ or g except when the children were 3. As far as I can tell from references, without access to the primary source, they did not perform any IQ tests on the children at later dates. I verified this with google searches within the book which only returned mentions of a test given at age three, but this is not iron-clad given google books' search mechanism. As far as I can tell, any claims that IQ was shown to be increased by the intervention are based on the very high correlation found between IQ and vocabulary at that age three test. Second, they only evaluated children (for language use) until the age of 9-10, which would be broadly consistent with the consensus understanding of psychometricians, which is that the heritability of IQ increases throughout childhood (implying in simplified language that non-heritable environmental factors have lesser correlation with IQ at adulthood, even if they have a greater impact during childhood).

The study wasn't designed to measure the impact of genetics on g, so we shouldn't be surprised that it fails to measure it. It was designed to measure the impact of in-home language use on vocabulary acquisition, which it clearly does well. That effect has been further validated in meta-analysis, e.g. [1].

1: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sbneuman/pdf/marulisNeuman.pd...
Did it?

http://www.northeastern.edu/research/raf/files/NSA-Govt-Shut...
Substitute for Google's silicon assistant a human personal assistant of the intended Gmail-using recipient. "If any person other than X reads this proprietary poetry, they owe inerte big bux!"

The mail recipient chose Google to handle his email. He could also have chosen some random human to assist him with handling his email. There is no difference.

If you wish to correspond with such a user, you must trust him not to show your email to parties you find obnoxious. If he betrays you in that regard, your beef, such as it is, is with him, not the parties he hired to handle his email.
> Large agribusinesses are quite capable of taking subsidy rents and stashing them away as profit rather than using them to compete on prices if their market is more like a cartel and less like a perfectly competitive free market.

What does this have to do with a subsidy? You can do this identically without a subsidy (assuming you can do it at all). The subsidy just lowers the starting price.
Content that is actually worth sharing.
Children are not born smart in much the same way that children are not born strong. Of course, some children are born with more potential smartness, just like some children are born with more potential strength. But they still need the environment to reach their full potential. There are some outliers who become really smart despite the lack of help from their environment, but probably they would have become even smarter in a helpful environment.
I made a meteor app and it was one of the best experiences I've ever had making a web application. Even though what I made was fairly basic, the ease of creating a real-time application was amazing.
New Zealand has dramatically (dramatically!) simplified our tax for ordinary (salary/wage employees), especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Given the period was one of dramatic economic and social change I doubt most Kiwis could give you a remotely impartial account (myself included); a couple of key elements that appear to be completely absent in the US culture are:

1/ A willingness to accept loophole losses. I have almost nothing I can really claim on as a salaried employee - childcare and charitable donations are about it. There used to be more. I certainly can't claim deductions for "having a mortgage", for example. If I was a lot poorer or had a lot more children (7+) I could get a tax redution for that, but nothing like as generous as the US rates are.

Most of the loophole reduction went hand-in-hand with tax cuts, but we're talking dropping from a top rate of >60% by the end of the Muldoon government down to the 30s for the top tier.

2/ Much of the compliance burden and risk falls on employers, so business groups tend to support simplification, because it mitigates risk and reduces costs for them.

3/ There's more a perception of getting value out of taxes paid in New Zealand than the US. Mainstream political dialogue tends to be around fixing perceived problems in government, not nuking it to a smoking hole, pissing in the hole, and sowing the ground with salt.

Many US progressives/lefties I've spoken with seem to react with suspicion and horror at the idea of being able to have the IRS estimate your taxes on your behalf in case they swindle them out of their tax breaks, which is both a nice combination of 1) and 3), and illustrates the gulf operating. Mainstream left/progressive voters in New Zealand are not commonly of the opinion that accepting the IRD's estimate on owed taxes is going to stiff them out of thousands of dollars in loopholes.
Why are you using Excel and not .txt or .csv directly?
Interesting how you never bothered to ask that while reading the fraudulent book itself.

It's like skimming a poorly-researched paper on vaccines, taking it as gospel, proceeding to claim that they cause autism, and yet reflexively responding with "citation needed" to anyone that dare call into question your insane ideas.
The idea of Total Informational Awareness has been shouted about for years. there is only ONE next step: stand up against the NSA in entirety. We must make a move that is truly going to force reform.
'I was disadvantaged ipso facto I am simply genetically gifted'.

Could it, perhaps, be that those causal elements in your environment do not work precisely in the way you presume to work? That it's not simply a 'good' upbringing that raises good people? Do you not -- for instance -- have a drive to succeed because of your prior disadvantages in life? Is not the lack of early-life support a driver of your own ambitions?
Cosmos is more interesting. It is a toolkit to create operating systems in C# - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(operating_system)
If you care about such, you need to encrypt the content of your email. Then it will be like a letter instead of a postcard.

Alexander the Geek will still get to add your metadata to his haystack, but, FWIW, the body of your email will remain in a long, long decryption work queue.
A new display server under GPL3 with mandatory CLA would be an excellent way of making money if you got enough leverage that you could start charging hardware vendors if they wanted a private copy so they could avoid disclosing their driver modifications.

It's same relicensing model MySQL made money with.
Nice. But the biggest problem of spreadsheets is sharing and organizing data between multiple users, think github for spreadsheets. These visualizations are very good, but they are not a "hair on fire" kind of problem for most of the spreadsheets users.
If people believed the NSA was running the free porn sites, there would be mutiny fo sho!

Edit - No one cares until they're hit where it hurts.
how did you arrive at the term power training and how did you decide that this was jumping with weights?

Powerlifting is a necessity as most competent coaches will make sure one can squat around 1.5x bodyweight or more before doing plyo training (drop jumps), which is hugely effective for vertical improvements, but highly stressful on the joints, tendons, and ligaments.
Alexander must be indicted immediately for anyone to regain ANY trust in the NSA.

Alexander is a criminal, however, so is Holder, Pelosi, Cheney, Bush, Powell, Obama, etc etc etc etc....
Oh bull. We know intelligence has some genetic component, or else a sufficiently trained monkey would do calculus. We just don't entirely know what "intelligence" is well enough to measure its precise heritability.
It's well-defined in the academic literature, though I'm guessing you haven't bothered to look.
Yeah, this is probably the only thing Apple really introduced with the iPhone - a capable browser making it possible to use the internet just like you would on a regular computer, more or less (no flash). But apart from that, all other functions already existed, and while on Windows Phone you had tons of free applications and most people didn't really pay for software, Apple made it a habit to ad-support or sell apps for a fee. I don't see this as a positive trend, but that's just me.
TL;DR: It's great for realtime apps, but not so much for the traditional web app as compared to something like RoR.

My perspective as someone who has been using it since its release.
It depends on what kind of app you are building.

Coming from RoR, Meteor actually is more of a pain given that it still has edge cases that can eat developer time, especially once you dive past the initial levels of tutorials and documentation.
RoR also has well established best practices and norms, unlike Meteor and perhaps Node.js as a whole. This means you will be writing a lot more boilerplate code.
Meteor has some memory issues as well at times. You have to be aware of memory leaks and will frequent the profiler often, especially with large client-side applications. I've had some projects that I've worked on in Meteor hit 1GB of RAM client-side. Recent releases have been working on this, though.
Live reload and hot code pushes are kind of a moot point with something like the Live Reload plugin for Sublime Text or equivalent.

For realtime applications, Meteor is a whole different beast. Realtime applications are much easier to code. I'm comparing this to making a realtime Node.js application. Meteor takes care of the boilerplate for you, pushing changes automatically to the client. It's not difficult to do something like socket.io and node.js but it is nice to have that all handled for you.

It's great for getting an application off the floor - it has a lot of that magic RoR had when it was released. Once applications get more advanced, the structure and maturity of RoR make it easier to work with. These issues are things Meteor is working on, especially in terms of stabilizing the spec/API and working on fixing the edge cases. With 1.0, it seems they are bringing some more stability to it by making it production ready. Its strengths are much more apparent in realtime applications as compared to a traditional web framework.

Edit: As compared to other node.js frameworks like Express, Meteor is much easier to work with - I probably would not go back to raw Express after Meteor. It's been moving fast to 1.0 where many of the issues I've had with it should be resolved with stability and as edge cases are resolved.
Possibly, but those devices don't exist. Given ButterFly Lab's record (12+ months late), I don't expect them to exist any time in the near future. The Monarch cards are very much stretching what a normal motherboard would be able to handle anyway, probably up to the point where you could only have one per board.
There's lots of liability you can't skirt by saying it's implied that the other person consented. It seems like saying someone consented to waving the accessibility rights afforded under the ADA because it was a condition of patronizing the store.

And I don't follow why you think once you have a reason to use data for one purpose, you automatically have the right to use it for any purpose.
IBM came under a similar consent decree (European, late 80's IIRC) requiring them to document all their mainframe protocols to enable with 3rd party vendors to produce interoperable peripherials. I think it ultimately saved their business.
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Which with avalon gear is a huge cost; something like 8W/GH.
Worth adding that most expats probably want to live a 'normal' life in their adopted country.

That means using local bank accounts / credit cards, getting a mortgage, etc.

Being resident and working probably means the state will automatically open social security and pensions in your name.

Also, expats still have to do the tax return for their adopted country, and the tax year may not be based on a calendar year so they can't just re-use the same figures!
Tell that to the blind person who dreams of being a fighter pilot.
A better analogy is height. Given some minimal level of nutrition, a child's adult height can be extrapolated quite accurately from their parents' genomes. However, if a child grows up in abject poverty, all bets are off. See Judith Rich Harris' The Nurture Assumption [1] for details.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurture_Assumption
Yeah, exactly. I OCRd the first line of the text and manually decrypted the first line of the book just to verify that's what was happening. You could mitigate it by having more complex font files with multicharacter glyphs and include non printing characters in the stream. Probably a "good enough" solution to stop the copy/pasting folks. Anybody knowledgable enough to crack this is is probably not going to waste the time and torrent the book anyway.
Yes, if you're using DDP over sockjs instead of just over websockets (which Meteor currently does out of the box to support older browsers), you'll need to use a HTTP proxy with sticky session support.

This will be in the official docs at some point, but for now, Arunoda's blog post about this is a great starting point:

http://meteorhacks.com/load-balancing-your-meteor-app.html
We don't need any nix at all!

|pushes button to delete nix|

Hey, where did 60% of my favorite website go? Oh, I'll just google how to undelete *nix... wait... crap!
I admit that test stress some corner cases (at least some cases that the allocator designer consider as corner cases). That said, malloc has no choice but supporting that use case.

A use case for such pattern is a message-posting with workers: you queue some messages that are later unqueued and processed by a different thread. This is an increasingly common pattern in modern programs. In that pattern the message is allocated in one thread (let say the main one) and processed then deallocated by another thread.

If your implementation of message allocation is malloc-based, then you will stress the exact same code paths the benchmark is stressing.
To address these issues, we created special properties to guide our compiler. This enabled us to create special assembler directives when needed and looks a bit like this:

void EnableInterrupts() {
Native.Sti();
}

For libraries, we aim to use the mono implementation of the core libraries. Most of the code is no problem, only a few small parts need adjustments, for example with asm injected code or other workarounds.
Looking verbatim at the starting question, it's stll not comparable to Windows 7, in a sense of all built-in functionality in Windows 7. But it is a nice and smart research project.