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> So far the IQ boost from any known drug intervention is very modest.

Absolutely; if you look at some of my other pages, you can see for yourself how little I think of most claims to improve intelligence...

I take this unreplicated study as being more evidence for the stimulating effect of nicotine rather than any genuine peak intelligence boost, in the same way that monetary payment can increase peoples' scores on IQ tests - you wouldn't say 'the promise of money makes people smarter', but rather, 'the promise of money "enables" people to work harder'.

FWIW, I think the Nisbett review is drastically optimistic in some areas (I've criticized it on HN in the past, although I can't quite seem to find a link to my old comment in Google), so the true picture for IQ interventions is worse.
Or the deal took 2 years to go through. Not sure what this means for us..
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Again, why not find a solution which incorporates mouse+kb instead of avoiding it? Would console-ers really be too put off by an elegant solution?

And the problem here is not negligible. CoD series games will be miserable to play with a gamepad versus mouse+kb'ers, and those games would likely be quite popular on SteamBox.
FWIW, I frequently refer to the system I run as "Linux" - with the fact that there's a sizable amount of GNU code pretty much assumed by the fact that I'm running a Linux kernel and it's a server or desktop and not an embedded device or something. I just think the case for "GNU/Linux" is better than it is frequently made out to be, and (as mentioned) disagreed about Stallman's position on the issue.
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Fascinating.

I wonder if in the years to come as population density increases, will more and more people vote Democrat, or will the magic number of 800 people per sq. mile. simply increase?
>Early adopters are disenchanted with Scala.

Since everyone else seems to disagree, I'll explain why I agree:

-- Scala advocates a completely different style of programming. You have to rethink how you code to match Scala's functional style. This is not a trivial thing if you have a bunch of Java developers you need to convert.

-- I find the Scala documentation is less readable than Java's docs. They are cluttered with type conversion functions and unreadable operator overloads (the filtering helps a bit here, but it's extra work). Documentation is also split between the object/class/trait pages.

-- There's a whole class of immutable data structures whose performance characteristics I need to learn, since I'm supposed to be using them.

-- I'm not convinced that the overhead of copying immutable data doesn't outweigh the benefits of the ability to trivially parallelize the code.

-- I'm not convinced that a project preferring only immutable data is easier to maintain.

-- Programs seem to take longer to compile (sbt is especially slow).

Now that I think about it, Scala in relation to Java is a lot like C++ in relation to C. Scala sits on top of Java, so you need to know Java, and then you need to know all of Scala's features as well. However, (as someone who knows Java) I think C++ adds useful abstractions that are non-existant in C (templating, inheritance), whereas most of Scala's features are just syntactical changes of what already exists in Java.
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Yep, that's true. I think I've nearly taught our testers the difference. :D
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Wow, that actually sounds like a fantastic idea. I can see this being very useful, especially if you add the ability to pre-purchase prints in discounted packages.
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It'd be amusing if the FSF posted it verbatim to Kickstarter (or a "Free" participant in that space, anyway) now...
It varies month to month, but around 70-80% of my revenue is from MAS. Additionally, selling on MAS is so much easier. I don't really have a good reason why I'm even selling it outside MAS.
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Ask HN: What do you think about LinkedIn endorsements?
Recently I have been getting endorsements, by people in my network who don't know anything about the endorsement itself.

For example, a chef connection endorsed me for 'Ruby' even though he doesn't code Ruby at all.

Do you think the LinkedIn endorsement changes your perception on a profile you view?
Consider applying the r/K Selection Theory to politics. Makes a disturbing amount of sense: http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/the-theory/rk-sele...
What I always enjoy reading, from an intellectual sense and not a "ha ha" sense, is "awakening" stories when people are raised super conservative and follow that path - until they have a personal experience that enlightens them that it's not ideal.

Watching self-discovery instead of being hit over the head with it is always fascinating.
The density number will almost certainly increase. Both of the major US political parties are very pragmatic -- they're willing to shift their platforms as much as necessary to capture a bare majority (if they weren't, they wouldn't remain major parties for long). So while it's possible that ideals currently endorsed by the Democratic platform will become more widespread that only means that the Republicans will shift their stand to match the majority opinions.
>> A Bacon, egg, and cheese McMuffin has ~300 calories

And aside from the sodium and cholesterol that might be a reasonable breakfast. It's no bowl of oatmeal or banana, but it's not going to make you fat.

On the other hand, a sausage+egg+cheese McGriddle is going to be 500 calories, two hashbrowns is another 300, and an orange juice is going to be another 200. You've hit 1,000 calories, half your allotment for the day, and it's not even 7:30 in the morning.
>A number of people that disagreed with anthropogenic climate change were adamant that a number of scientists had decreed that the world was, in fact, getting cooler. I asked them for sources, and several sources were put forth. In every instance, the sources they provided were in agreement that the world was, in fact, getting warmer (I'm not sure of any scientist that would say otherwise when looking at the past 150 years).

Wait, what? Whether the world is "getting cooler" or "getting warmer" depends entirely on the timescale you choose to look at. On a million-year scale it's "getting cooler" - it was warmer 5 million years ago than it is today. It is also "getting cooler" if you look at a much shorter scale, say, over the last decade. Are you sure they weren't talking about one of those?

Here's the (cooling) trend for the last decade:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/last:120/plot/ha...

(the woodfortrees index combines several standard data sources into a single static metric; it is calculated as: mean(GISTEMP-0.35, HADCRUT3VGL-0.26, RSS-0.10, UAH).)

I think the problem is with your terminology. To say we've gotten warmer implies it happened over some specific (albeit unspecified) measured timeframe. But to say we're getting warmer implies it's happening right now. In theory we could switch from getting warmer to getting cooler in a single year. There is no objectively preferable time window to judge it. You're free to prefer 30 years or 150 years, but that's an arbitrary choice - the fact that you can find some windows over which warming has happened doesn't mean warming is happening now.

There's no inconsistency between believing "it has gotten warmer" and "it's not currently getting warmer". If they claimed the latter and you looked for evidence of the former, you haven't even shown a contradiction, much less "denial".
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You misunderstand me...it has to read and decompress (jars are basically zip files) those 50MB are so (just for the system jars) on every startup before it can even think about validating the cache
I have always felt that the TrackPoint (on a HP Elitebook here) is difficult to access from the right or left index because of its place between G and H.

I would use it so much more if it was between H and J.

How do you stretch your finger towards the middle of the keyboard with no issue? Stretching just to type a letter is fine for me (think Y, H or B), but staying on the TrackPoint is hard.
Is the frame pointer register really "dedicated" by the compiler? (I haven't had the time to upgrade everything I need to upgrade yet to install the new Xcode and check this directly.) With 32-bit ARM, there is a register denoted "fp", but with iOS 2.0 Apple started compiling without a dedicated frame pointer (instead using that register temporarily for some kind of thread-local storage variable, before moving that elsewhere and freeing up the register entirely). I was under the impression that dedicated frame pointers are only used when you have less-than-awesome compilers that are unable to keep track of the moving stack pointer target as it performs optimizations.
http://blog.zerotier.com/post/58157836374/op-ed-internet-cen...
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A great and funny pic that will show you which is the favorite movie for cats!
The difference with Somalia is that the Northwest passage is bounded up, down, left, right, by Canada's territory and not only passing near it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Northwes...

The northern islands have been part of the territory since 1880. Claiming the water in between them aren't part of Canada's territory seems odds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Canad...

Note: I'm no specialist in this domain and I've only done a cursory research to form this argument.
I'd like to know if more fine-grained data on population density is available. Congressional districts have a very broad array of population densities within them. I'd love to have access to density information at the voting precinct level and see if that correlation still holds.
I realized this a decade or so ago when digging thru election precinct maps and noticed how bright the "red/blue division" line was around urban areas.
Yes, which was why my original comment distinguished between the right to bar shipping and the right to economically exploit.

Even if Canada prevails on ownership of every single Arctic island, a passage more than 24nm wide would mean supertankers could come through, and Canada would not be able to forbid it.
That's likely the case. I remember some struggles with Linux in those days, but any direct comparison is clouded both by memory (I was pretty young at the time) and by a lack of any direct experience with HURD.
Or, just buy an unlocked (carrier free) phone, rooted. That's what I do.
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer was part of a marketing campaign for Montgomery Ward.

http://theweek.com/article/index/237421/the-origin-story-of-...
Here's a source to back up maggit's Wikipedia citations:

http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/Press_Release_715...

Dated 8/10/2000.
For those interested in the history of open-source "UNIX" clones but who weren't in the industry at the time, I stumbled across this last night and thought it worth sharing: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/. Read the "original comment", "follow up", "code comparison", and "rebuttal".
The huge amount of scatter around the line of best fit in the scatterplot shown in the article demonstrates that there is a HUGE degree of uncertainty in this model. I know plenty of counterexamples to this in my high-density townhouse neighborhood.
Additional ideas:

- There are some showstoppers that apply to all products: Reliability, security, trust, ease of use, speed, customer support.

- To find gamechangers you need to think outside the box. Most people accept things as they are. Most people run away from schlep work. The only way to find gamechangers is to question everything and add a question mark when you find yourself saying "that's not possible".
SteamOS should support a keyboard and mouse just fine if that's your bag. They aren't avoiding it.
> Scala sits on top of Java

That's not true. Scala sits on the JVM, and has some accommodations to facilitate interoperation with code written in Java, but it does not "sit on top of Java" as a language. You don't need to know Java to write Scala.
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Great effort!

Unfortunately, you're likely to get a bunch of requests for changes since there are a bunch of places where geo-political boundaries are murky at best.

For example, your map for India (https://github.com/djaiss/mapsicon/blob/master/asia/in/1024....) shows the boundary as the line of control with Pakistan and China, instead of the boundary which India claims (based on pre-war demarcations, http://www.mapsofindia.com/images2/india-map.jpg)
Reminds me of the old aluminium cutlery...
>Next up, oil platforms in the Arctic.

on that side. Other side is already full steam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0VgaMUm_c
I would say less so. Rock and Roll is the result of American sound moving east to Europe, then back to the US, and then back to Europe again, over the course of about 20 years. Rock evolved. Modern country music is closer to hiphop than rock these days.
What? I thought this was covered years ago. Extra people incur communication costs. Two people at half productivity will never be as effective as one at full productivity.

I believe Peopleware covers this pretty well.
If you point me at a market and say "build a product for this market", I'm pretty confident I could do that and be the best.

That's quite a bold statement! Any market? A social network, an online retailer, a search engine, a mobile phone, a browser, an electric car? Give me a list of those books you've been reading! But then of course, we could create a paradox - we can't both be best, can we? :)

I believe creating the best product has an amount of luck in it. The better work you're doing - the better are your odds, but at the end, like making an Oscar winning movie, like writing a top of the charts song, like writing a bestselling book, like a perfect storm, a lot of the right things need to happen. But that of course shouldn't stop us from trying!
Which country music are you talking about? The country genre itself was born at the Bristol Sessions correct? It was a gathering of traditional musicians from all over Appalachia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I guess that music got marketed but the songs and players themselves were about as authentic as anything I can think of.
Link to the original press release:

https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2013/Aug/NR-13-08-04....
The boldest of the officers resumed speaking. 'That one ship is ninety million miles long, Your Highness. It shimmers like fire, but moves so fast that we cannot approach it. But it came into the center of our fleet almost touching our ships, stayed there twenty or thirty thousandths of a second. There it was, we thought. We saw the evidence of life on board: light beams waved; they examined us and then, of course, it lapsed back into nonspace. Ninety million miles, Your Highness. Old Earth has some stings yet and we do not know what the ship is doing.'

[...]

The cabin was small, twenty feet by thirty. The control area of the ship measured nothing over a hundred feet. All the rest was a golden bubble of the feinting ship, nothing more than thin and incredibly rigid foam with tiny wires cast across it so as to give the illusion of a hard metal and strong defenses. The ninety million miles of length were right. Nothing else was. The ship was a gigantic dummy, the largest scarecrow ever conceived by the human mind.

(Corwainer Smith, "Golden The Ship Was—Oh! Oh! Oh!")
not everyone agrees
http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2010/03/in-praise-o...
"I don't understand the problem with traditional mouse+kb for couch gaming"

"why not find a solution which incorporates mouse+kb instead of avoiding it?"

It sounds like they feel the same way to do. Mouse + Keyboard is already viable across a very wide spectrum of games. They don't need "a solution which incorporates mouse+kb", because that already is a solution (as you note, there's no real problem there).

However, for those that want a controller experience, there's not a viable solution. Controllers work across a pretty narrow spectrum of games. That is the problem that they're trying to address.
I'm trying to understand the relationship between "Uber for trucks" and software platform, is this just some name dropping to get people's attention?
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At the close of WW II Canada had the world's second most powerful navy. It may not be able to take on Russia or the US, but there's no reason for the modern Canadian navy to be this weak.
And don't forget about the puppeteer "homeworld": 5 planets (or was it stars?) in an artificially-created rosette formation.
Considering that the "internet" was developed with the original purpose to make it easier to transmit information between trusted nodes (researchers), security seems like it was an after-thought[0]…

Even in the next step in evolution to meshnet's, from following forums like this[1], security still remains an after-thought (or not up for thought yet it appears in this case)…

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#From_A...

[1] http://forum.chicagomeshnet.com/
Oh man I know. I really struggled for some maps... should I include them or not? It depends on the current world policy, if the world is at peace or at war.

Anyway, for most countries, it's still ok :-)
Actually I would like to put forward a counter point that is does have the capabilities to enforce it. They could put the pressure on the US and EU through the WTO by threatening to cut off oil sand exports (which is already being disputed in public with the EU), Canadian wheat, and logging exports.

Canada could bargain with the US and seek to get backing for their EE zones and counter any claims by EU states. Canada and the US already have a close military relationship and the trade between the two countries is larger than any other trade between nations at ~$300B USD thanks to NAFTA.

Military warfare is a thing of the past when it comes to nations of our size and strength and what it would do to both. Economic warfare is the new way that Canada can fight.

IMHO Canada has a lot to negotiate with.
And certainly much higher population density might breed new political leanings and attitudes that another party could capitalize on.
There's an issue with Puerto Rico: https://github.com/djaiss/mapsicon/issues/1.
Thank you, that looks worth a read.
Side note: It turns actually out that if you announce how to achieve that goal, you're more likely to achieve it. Announcing without a plan is reducing the likelihood.

Sorry, no cite handy right now :(
I'm not sure that you know what the word map actually means.

This is a free collection of country images, or silhouettes, but only in the loosest possible definition of the term could these be considered maps.

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You'll note that the article carefully doesn't link to actual data showing the amount of heat that has actually been "trapped". (No, the IPCC report is not "data". I'm talking about actual data sets that are archived on publicly available servers with cryptographic signatures to ensure that it's complete and intact. You know, the sort of thing that is routine when you're downloading a piece of code, but which the climate science community has decided is much too difficult for data on which they want to hang the fate of the planet.)

Reading between the lines, their numbers for "trapped heat" are based on computer models, not on actual data; what they're basically saying is "the only data we have doesn't show the heat, but our models say it should be there, so we assume it went into the oceans".
ZeroTier looks awesome and that's a great post too.

I'd dispute the point about the CAP theorem slightly. Thing is, your data - Little Data - is naturally centralized. It doesn't have to be centralized in the same center as everyone else's data though! Then it becomes Big Data, where it's having this giant privacy-violating orgy with everyone else's data all day long.

The amount of traffic that your own Little Data has to serve, unless you're a celebrity in which case you can pay for serious hosting, is never going to require a giant cluster of replicated servers. So CAP just isn't that much of an issue.
I mean, the J Software app is basically that, although J instead of APL. The terseness makes for a pretty good programming environment despite the slow input speed of the virtual keyboard. You don't get the unicode APL customisation you're talking about, but it's pretty close.
Precinct data is available. Depends on your state elections department. Example data: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/Forsyth/42336/112...
Do you happen to have an example of one? Where do you find them?
They don't change my perception any more, now that I've realized how worthless some endorsements are. I used to work for a company that had Ajax in the name. I did 95% back-end coding in Java there. LI recently informed me I'm in the top 1% of people with Ajax endorsements. :-)
People are (literally) dying to get the data
Did this get a positive energy return? If I've understood past ignition attempts correctly, they too delivered tremendous energy output... but required even more tremendous energy input.
Unfinished work is committed somewhat often, especially if it's complex. Commits are sometimes squashed once a pull request is approved (PRs being the code review gateway), more often if there are a lot of uninteresting commits.

Some people use git add -i to be very selective about what they commit, and deliberately increase the number of independent commits, rather than have a single commit that has unrelated changes in it.

Other people have a lot of WIP commits.

We started out doing more rebasing, but do a lot less now, after having run into issues with having e.g. branched off of a branch that has since been rebased and merged (e.g. front end / back end feature split). You try to rebase, but the replay of commits continuously hits merge conflicts, and you spend about 30 minutes repeatedly fixing the same conflicts. And then there's the risk of your force push accidentally chopping off someone else's commit (though that's never happened).

We had one PITA case where a profanity was checked into the codebase, and branches with the offending commit in the history lurked in various places surprisingly long after the commit had been excised from the main trunk lines. Since we're a startup in the financial sector, our code will be in escrow situations, potentially examined by humorless auditors, we don't want profanities in.
It's anonymous until you exchange your Bitcoins for Euros/Other currency.
FYI, tf lacks several territories (it only depicts the main island of Kerguelen) but above all, Asia is probably not the continent I would have chosen for a collection of islands near Antarctica. It's usually (as in timezones, for example) put in an "Indian" group which also includes Madagascar, the Maldives, Mauritius, and other Indian ocean territories.

Another point: it's not actually a list of countries but a list of entities that have iso codes, ie. French overseas departements are listed separately from mainland, except for Corsica.

Looking at the France map, I find that the boundaries are a bit out of shape, as if they were a bit "deflated" (the Ardennes point, Crozon peninsula, or Corsica cape, are very thin lines, and even Normandy looks skinny). I'm not sure why.
God no! Please never let the water company switch to AC! Actually, it sounds like something Time Warner would do if they ran a water company....