skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google makes a good point: if it's illegal to scan emails to serve ads, doesn't that mean it's also illegal to scan emails to filter spam and prioritize email?
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Despite the fact that it may be "well established within academic circles", there is no actual evidence for the contention of the article - even within the article. In particular, for the study they mention, "The full results haven’t been published yet". It's no more than wishful thinking and a convenient hypothesis.
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Ask HN: Why do you work on what you do?
Things to consider: how efficiently it betters the world, personal connection, challenging, better options aren't practical...
In light of the whole NSA thing, it's difficult to see where this registers on the scale of importance/relevance. Let's say Google is guilty of scanning email text for ads. What does that mean? Judge then orders G to stop, and they do. G pays a big fine(which is nothing to them). Will people feel safer about their Gmail afterwards? I guess filters will be out of the question unless you opt-in for Google to scan your email, which I suspect most users will. Some big ol' wall of text EULA/ToS next time you login, you'll have to accept... or at first you'll deny and your emails will be a mess... then you go back and accept.
You touch your iphone's screen to use it, right? Getting a latent print isn't exactly difficult.
Harvard professor or not, he simply coined a term to refer to a new technology deprecating an old one, so much that it becomes the new market that companies compete in. Yes, the iPhone did that. Where's the debate -- it's a fact that everything became 'touch' since then. The term 'disruptive' just cheapens the discussion and brings it to a baseline level of 'startup culture' drudgery. The term is used so often around here that it's become something of a pseudo-intellectual discussion starter.
As an American that lives abroad, whenever I visit the US I make sure I always have traveler's insurance for myself and all my dependents that are traveling with me. Last year I was in the US for a over 100 days, and my traveler's insurance was valid for every second.

It shouldn't matter how many days you are in the US or not, it should matter where you declare your tax home.
Also watch the user groups, most of which run on google groups. Not a lot of Portland participation on HN, a few here and there.
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The study was primarily looking at language acquisition, not IQ. The researchers themselves did find that language mediated IQ somewhat, but IIRC the effects weren't especially noteworthy. I haven't read the book in a while though, so I can't remember the exact details.
Canonical is desperate to differentiate and this make money. However, when all the code is open and free, there is no way to differentiate for the better. It's like selling insurance. Everyone's product is the same.
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It's not about how much absolute time this brush saves, it's how much it saves relatively in comparison to the status quo and in that way it is just 30 times better. If you deduct the higher costs and whatever you might lose some of that, but you will still be above the magic "10 times better" threshold that a product needs to be to beat competition.
fsck doesn't run on a directory, it runs on a block device. You can't run it on /proc or /sys because those aren't backed by a block device. /proc only looks like it has a file system because the kernel "pulls" the "files" out of thin air when you try to access them.
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I guess poor children hear fewer words because they don't watch much television.
Just to add - for all those downvoting me - if you oil pull AND maintain a diet low in sugars, you won't have to really brush your teeth afterward. I am assuming most others you need to brush afterward in order to avoid potential liabilities. Great to see such strong bigotry here on HN..
Hmm i did not mean i am a deep thinker,just put on my quick thoughts after reading all the comments here,at least i dont down vote others by assumption
The answer is probably no, but does it work if you've got sunglasses on??

I know that Picasa's face detection works even if I am wearing sunglasses... thats the only reason I ask.
For corruption, sure, but rootkits can mess that up by changing the md5 binary to always give the tainted kernel a known checksum.

If a malicious attacker can modify a kernel, no process running within the kernel can check it for consistency.
Just give people the CSV file. Excel/OpenOffice will sort/filter/search it. Your friends are more likely to have used Excel than some web app or JS library.
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At my work they have allowed the TouchID to be used with our security policy.
I just haven't shelled out the money to buy a new phone.
This is a useless nitpick. It's not a scientific treatise, it's a public service message to try to change people's behavior.

I don't believe for a second that the doctor believes that intelligence has no inherited component whatsoever. She is dealing with a problem in the real world using what tools she has at her disposal.

Edit: Responding jamesaguilar's and true_religion's point about the title. Yes, that's true. I had just read the article and the title wasn't in the forefront of my mind. But when you get a title like that, you simply can't know whether it is meant as a bald statement or rather as something to pique the interest (or as link bait, if you aren't feeling charitable). So, if you elect to click the link, read the article to find out!
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Wasn't there an app that could do this on an iPhone a while back?
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It is a zero-sum game if you're hiring.
Indeed. Just because a founder helped get something off the ground doesn't mean they'll be particularly effective at a latter stage of company. Nor should we assume non-founders can't be effective at righting ships.
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Ask HN: What does being Agile mean to you?
I have spoken with more than 200 software companies in the last 6 months (while building Aha.io) and everyone is now "Agile." But when asked to describe what that means, the answers are often very different. For example, I was talking to a product manager last week who said that their team was "quasi agile." So, what exactly does Agile mean to you and what if any nuances do you think are unique in your own implementation?
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Congratulations, you've discovered the bell curve (plus a healthy dose of physical attributes that provide you with positive advantages in our society). We congratulate you for being on the nice side of it.
Those words are salon's, not the researchers, and they're a headline at that. I wouldn't assume that "it's nurture!" is the ultimate conclusion of this work. I'd suggest they're saying something more along the lines of, "Children who converse less then their peers are less likely to excel".

There is zero doubting that 'nature vs. nurture' is a complicated question (and a false dichotomy) and I don't think this article is making any claims outside of it's pretty narrow (and pretty interesting) focus.
I'm totally willing to buy that talking to kids is good for them ("massively positively" strikes me as overstating the case) and that screen time rots their brains and their ability to ... um ... I forget.

But, as a parent, I have experienced that children are born with a ton of individual personality that is highly noticeable within days. It would be pretty much defy logic (as well as genetics) if some sort of predisposition for intelligence weren't part of this.
There is evidence that full stack is hard to keep going. In general computing devices there are only 2 companies left doing it that matter. IBM & Apple.

The non-full stack companies that are gone have been replaced.

The full stack ones have been replaced by combinations of non full stack companies.

New non-full stack companies come in and get big. What new full stack company that matters that has been started in the past decade?
Any hope of writing/supporting meteor with python backend? :)
Is Imgur overtaking Reddit as the front page of the web?
You should write that up and submit it to Slate. I'm sure that they would publish it.
I'm not an American citizen, so please go ahead and take my perceived American citizenship away - I'm happy to give it up.

I hold dual citizenship but would expect not to pay taxes in nation B when I live and work in nation A. If I were to start working in B and stop working in A, I'd expect to pay tax in B as per B's tax laws, and cease paying taxes in A. If I earn an income in both, I expect to pay taxes on the portion of income in each nation, as per the tax laws of each nation.

Similarly, because I live and work in A, I do not get the social services that B offers - for example, if I were to become unemployed, I'd expect to only utilise nation A's unemployment benefits. If I fall ill, I don't expect to be able to (and cannot) pin the cost on nation B's national healthcare services.

The reason I don't choose to give up my dual citizenship is that I enjoy the ease-of-access to both nations, if and when I choose to move between them. That access does not cost the nation anything to retain.
A new display server does not differentiate an OS in anyway that would remotely make money. It is more likely they tried to use a technical solution to solve a non-technical problem (display server consensus on an old architecture).
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This isn't perfect, but it's a good start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008_Top1percentUSA.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United...
Could it of been the fact that you were in such an environment, and had such a desire for something different be the source of your inspiration? I am not even talking money necessarily here, but the lack of intellectual stimulation? That made the doses you received all that much more intoxicating?

All I am saying is that a particular environment can affect someone in unexpected ways.
Try it. I don't have any links that reference the technique I learned, though you want to only have so much oil in your mouth that you can maintain swishing it around (through your teeth, back and forth, etc) for the 15-20 minutes. I wouldn't start with 15-20 minutes either - you won't be able to maintain it, your muscles in your mouth will get tired.

You need to rinse after with a roughly half-water, half-hydrogen peroxide mix - after spitting the oil into your toilet (into sink could cause clogging issues) - and swish it around in your mouth for 10-15 seconds, through your teeth, etc.. This will help whiten your teeth too - most toothpaste companies add a bit of hydrogen peroxide to the toothpaste for this effect.

Spit isn't as dense as oil, and so it won't create as much pressure when being squeezed through your gums - which will loosen out anything stuck in your gums, that floss could otherwise get, and instead of floss jamming in say a piece of meat in further, the swishing and suction that occurs from a 'tight' vacuum in your mouth helps pull the stuck material away.

You don't have to swish for 15-20 minutes either, even a few minutes will do similar - though 15-20 minutes has added benefits, mainly related to the blood flow with your tongue, and the muscles in your mouth / throat, etc.. More so if you use sunflower oil because sunflowers absorb radiation (another thing you'll probably want to look up because you'll say "BULLSHIT!" -- Wikipedia doesn't have anything on it, though a search on Google brings up various results). P.S. If you oil pull with sunflower oil (can't remember if you want refined or unrefined) then after ~3 days you'll start to get a brown spot at the back middle of your tongue - you can gently scrap that off with a spoon. After a week or so that'll likely stop showing.

Anyway, try it yourself - is all I can really suggest..
I can't help but think that there's a whole segment of HN readers who are thinking as single men. In the context of a family with kids this is a very different thing. My kids have access to my phone and my wife's --which are not locked in any way. I have access to my kid's iphones, ipods and ipads. Having devices locked to fingerprints in any way would be a nightmare. If you have really young kids, its a logistical mess.

I can see it working just fine from the context of a single and otherwise unattached individual. That'd be OK.

...until you have an accident and someone needs to figure out who to contact...but they can't get into your phone.

...or, until you lose your phone and whoever finds it actually wants to figure out who you are in order to return it.

...or any number of other scenarios where you actually want other people to access the device.

There's also the angle of trust. What's your significant other going to think when he/she can't get into your phone without your fingerprint?

Again, I can see it being a really convenient tool for some people. Not sure it is a universally useful thing.
We've passed the point where superficial (non-technical) analysis of Bitcoin can add anything useful to the discussion.

Right now, we need thought put into the permanent, public history of the block chain and how that accountability, fully harnessed, will interface with the power structures of the world. It's an unfathomably complex topic.
Why do you think his other family members did not share this desire?
"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."

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Or the travelers insurance should count as health insurance in terms of that mandate. Does it?
I still hope at some point Canonical will come to their senses and will dump Mir for Wayland. Otherwise this mess will only increase in the future.

A related question. What will SteamOS use after X.org? Wayland or Mir?
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The title is bunk, but interaction is critical. Also, screenings (starting withe the Denver and going to something like the E-LAP / LAP) are an important item. Correcting an issue at the earliest possible age is important.

Kids are different and are individuals. Genetics, nutrition, interaction, and care all count.
Usually when people talk about the growing income gap they're not looking back as far as the early 1900s. Like here:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit...

If you want to look further back, you can probably find the data somewhere here:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
My guess is that they're doing it so they can have control over the pace of development and features. I think Shuttleworth got burned by the early-days Gnome Shell debacle--he felt that they had no input on or control over what Gnome Shell was to become, so he went his own way with Unity.

Mir might be his attempt to control the stack in anticipation of getting burned again. After all, supporting Wayland means working in a committee-ish environment, with principal developers not on the payroll and thus not able to be whipped at a certain pace, and without a dictator's say in the direction of the product. What if he wants feature Z included in the next dev cycle to support cool new mobile hardware? With Wayland, he'd have to play politics with the developers and pray. With Mir, he can just order it.

Not to say that I think it's a good decision. In fact I think it's one of the most ruinous decisions for the Linux community that Canonical could have possibly made. Graphics support has been the biggest thorn in Linux's side for years, and dividing the ecosystem at a time when Valve is poised to finally revolutionize things is pretty despicable. But I can see the short-sighted business logic behind it.
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Some of the best hackers &| hustlers I know come from average to slightly-below average backgrounds. The biggest challenge for anyone, given any background, is what they tell themselves they can't do.

In addition to talking, it's important that the parent is a decent human-being. An awful person interacting with a kid probably does more harm than good. I don't think there's much correlation with decency and socioeconomics.

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Some thoughts.

1) The ecosystem did not spring into life with the iPhone; a lot of vendors were unsure initially but there was obviously tremendous benefit to Apple due to the iPod industry.

2) Danger would not have been able to launch the iPhone for a multitude of reasons. Even as a part of Microsoft, they couldn't have done it. I could go really in-depth here, but Microsoft is really bad at Art and Politics, which I would argue were the keys to the iPhones success.

3) The iPhone is a triumph for a number of reasons, but I tend to think the social conventions the iPhone destroyed were the most interesting part. I mean, I was working at AT&T when the iPhone dropped.

Before the iPhone:

* Everything was free phone at the low end and $199 at the top end

* Apps were pre-loaded onto phones

* Carriers drove handset manufacturers choice of OS

* No one ever waited for a phone

* Manufacturers did not care about UI/UX

* Phones sold on spec sheets

After the iPhone:

* Most people forget that the iPhone launched at a price point of $499 with no subsidy. They failed but this was Apple's attempt to kill free phones, and they (sort of) did.

* App store (year 2)

* Manufacturers drove handset sales to Operators (and outside of operators)

* People line up for phones all the time

* Everyone cares about UI/UX

* Phones sell by Operating System (And UI/UX)

I could go on and on. There are so many things that changed because of design decisions by Cupertino.

No, Danger could not have done the iPhone. Not because of technical limitations, but because of politics. Wresting that much power out of such a reinforced fiefdom was a herculean effort with commensurate results.

Appreciate the insight though friend :).
1. It's a free market. If it begins to cost more to mine Bitcoin than it is worth (considering all costs into consideration), more people will start exchanging fiat into Bitcoin and fewer people will mine. This will reduce the mining difficulty while increasing the BTC/USD rates.

2. You got to be kidding. The fastest US supercomputer is about 18 peta flops. The world's fastest is about 35 peta flops. The Bitcoin network difficulty crossed 12,000 petaflops or around that range, depending on how you calculate it.

3. The first mover advantage is a disadvantage because you might think of a situation where some legal entity in some country might think of outlawing Bitcoin without ever figuring out how to enforce it?

4. If finance were about compassion, there wouldn't be thousands of people dying of hunger while we have bajillions of tons of food literally destroyed in other parts.

You've mentioned the 'bad' parts, without much merit, IMO. You didn't consider the better cases, let alone the best. Everything from escrow payments to digital identity to autonomous agents is encoded in the protocol that is yet to be implemented. Bitcoin isn't a gold replacement or a cheaper credit card, it's a fundamentally different way of thinking about finance and economics.

You should have your doubts about Bitcoin when there's a better competitor out there.
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How did the researchers determine causation? What if there is simply a gene for strong language which is responsible both for the parents' financial success and the child's academic success, and the extra words were simply a by product?
Everyone thinks replacing X.org is a clear and obvious win until they try and do it.

The only reason to think differently about Wayland is that a plurality of X.org developers seem to be involved.