skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the article is not saying that intelligence is not heritable. In fact it makes it quite clear that despite the controversy, the opposite is true:

> Although the exact figures have been the topic of much debate, the claim that IQ is at least moderately heritable is widely accepted. IQ may in fact be similar in heritability to the physical trait of height

What the article is saying is that intelligence cannot be tied to particular genes:

> We sought [and failed] to replicate published associations
between 12 specific genetic variants and g using three independent, longitudinal datasets

It just goes to show that there isn't necessarily one particular factor you can pick out to predict intelligence; it is a combination of many things.

(I shall attempt to avert the impending discussion about the word "intelligence" by clarifying that the sense I am using that word is in the same specific manner that the article is: as an objective measure that is statistically correlated with other measures).
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Okay if on the other end of the spectrum why wouldn't you have gone with a security/automation integrated system? As others have mentioned, Nest is clearly moving towards the home security space, where there are already many, many options for whole-home intelligence products that tell you remotely exactly what is going on, which fire alarm went off, allows you to control them from a touch panel (or a PC, smart phone or tablet), etc.

Ultimately that is what surprises me about Nest the most -- their products aren't doing anything new, but people who only ever made themselves aware of the ultra-low end compare Nest to a $9 smoke alarm and laud Nest for raising the bar...but the bar was raised years ago for those who are in that market.
As a Pixel owner I can confirm that touch on a laptop form factor is somewhat useless. There are precious few times I want to reach out to touch something instead of using the mouse.

The mouse really is a great tool. People need to stop trying to get rid of them.
It's complicated, and - as you say - there are aspects that can be interpreted differently. This is why even among professed libertarians, views differ on things like abortion.

For me, it all basically reduces to the idea that Bastiat articulated, that "government is just the collective extension to our individual right to self defense". So even as a radical individualist anarchist / anarcho-capitalist, I can still see a role for something like "government", but only if it's use of force is restricted to defensive use, and it respects the idea that "if an individual doesn't have permission to do something, then multiple individuals don't have permission to either".

IOW, voluntarily organized collectives, assembled for mutual defense, OR individuals acting in self-defense, are how the NAP would be "enforced".

But again, there's no "perfect" political system, IMO. Conflicts could still arise, but I don't think institutionalizing the use of force is a good approach.
What used to be Y! Plus (19.99) is now Y! Ad-free (49.99). Nice increase for less since they've made all other features available to freeriders as well.
This was kind of his point - that you can't possibly be fat, if you don't eat too much. The fat doesn't come out of the air - it comes out of the stuff that goes into your mouth.

So wire your jaw, get a backbone, do whatever it takes and you will absolutely NOT be fat. This is physics, not medicine nor psychology.
I think you're right. A relevant thread from Reddit if anyone's interested: http://www.reddit.com/r/SheepMarketplace/comments/1nsmzx/a_f...
Could always do <div class="triangle"><span>Hello</span></div> where the div has position: relative and the span has position: absolute. Should work everywhere too.
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I'm wondering if this will ever have the necessary density of use for any to get any texts at all (except in SOMA). Anyone have any ideas on how they might mitigate this problem?
You can do all of that on Android (assuming they've fixed the audio latency issues on 4.3 as they promised).

Unification of the two OS's keeps getting rumoured, but never happens.
The principle is the same wherever you set the threshold - earn enough to live, in as few hours as possible, then live in the rest of the hours.

As software engineers, we're paid enough to be able to do 4 or even 3 day weeks and chill out/hack for fun the rest of the time. When I escape my PhD (if I don't do a 24/7 startup) I'll be seeing how few hours I can work and still pay the bills.
Ordered. I absolutely love my ARM-based Chromebook, and have wished for the same specs with a bit better construction and build quality. This is absolutely perfect for my needs, and the keyboard looks to be marginally better as well.

I've hardly touched my MB Air (2012 refurb) since I got the Chromebook. Small and light enough to throw in any bag/backpack without care, cheap enough to not worry about theft.

I don't mind it being the same CPU and RAM specs as the original; I don't need much for the Chrome browser and a SSH session to the beefy server where I do most of my work.

Also owned the C7 Chromebook for a while; upgraded it to SSD and 8G of RAM, but it felt like an abomination with the fans, heat it put out, etc. Sold it to a friend, who absolutely loves it.
I had the exact opposite experience - our chromebook is used all the time while or tablet collects dust. Having a real keyboard is a big advantage. The features you list that a tablet has that the chromebook doesn't are all on our phones anyway.
CA like Verisign don't have the key though, this misconception is too common. If you're doing it right the CA is just signing a cert you've generated, they never see the key.
The part you're missing is the assumptino that your pre-judgements are the bigger picture.

I know you think you are being eminently reasonable, but it's really just another way of saying you intend to keep to those prejudices and not be distracted by treating individuals as individuals. That would be edge case thinking.
Looks nice but $130 is expensive. I have 9 detectors in the house to comply with code. This is going to get expensive.
Wow, conversations! They're introducing threads almost a decade after Gmail. I remember when I first made the switch from FastMail and Yahoo to Gmail. Gmail conversations were jarring even though I was somewhat used to threads from newsgroups, but after a few days I never looked back.
Sending unsolicited marketing to people is always hazardously. Not only do you have to worry about your email account and domain name reputation, but there are also national and local laws to consider.
Why did it need to be a stealth startup? It looks like they thought they had a great idea, but instead of being first to market, they went stealth and let facebook be first.
Hire for character. Talk to him about the 16 week experience. Can he recount everything? Is he excited when he talks about it? Is he enthusiastic about learning more? It's a great, focused, conversation point.

Skills can be taught. You can't teach character. True, there will definitely be some up front investment. But I think it'll pay off.
It's explained in an animation, going through the words describing it: players, galelries, and ends up on widgets. I believe that might work! :)
That's true for CO2, but CO is actually slightly less dense than air (1.20 kg/m^3 vs 1.23 kg/m^3 according to Wikipedia), and tends to mix with air or rise slightly above it:

http://www.ehow.com/way_5545497_proper-elevation-carbon-mono...
Yes it does. Are you trying to tell me, for instance, if someone suffering from the same disease as the author, didn't eat a single calorie then they'd still gain weight? Because that is simply impossible (yes, yes.. the body would go into starvation mode).

As someone else has pointed out, suffering from the same problems as the author has, doesn't make it impossible to lose weight, it makes it more difficult. If you provide your body with less energy than it uses, you're going to lose weight. Simple.

She says she's eating healthily, but is she actually?
Was it a bmp file on the CD?

I should read the article...
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I wonder how many of these people have actually built something and made a living from it? Or tried? Or spent months building something only to find out no one wanted it?

No, it is not something I would have done, but I really understand the need to have some idea of what's going to work, and could see how one might go too far in pursuit of that.
$129 isn't that much for a household product though. Think of how much people spend on furniture, or bedding, or fancy kitchen gadgets.
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I hoped that with products like the iPad and Chromebook Pixel we'd get back to taller screens again, at least 16:10. 1366 x 768 is not something I want to go back to.
I have a basic understanding of electrons and the electric field. Can I think about a Higgs particle like a particle with a mass charge? Does the field work similarly to the electric field? Do all particles with mass have a Higgs particle in them?
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I don't think it's disingenuous at all. It's a reply to their decades-old claim¹ that piracy is killing music.

Disingenuous is the implicit assumption in their argument that music and the music industry is all about them.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music
The email doesn't contain the headshot. I'm betting most people don't research me, but they do research the link in my emails.

However, if thats the only type of person your clientele will talk to, theN hire a smart, driven brunette, or blonde or a guy who walks some other part that fits the role.
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Never read the comments.
At 1st look this is depressing, but strangely enough they've already raised 16k out of the required 25k, AND there's still 24 days left to go until the end of the campaign.

Perhaps the backers are looking at it in a different way: time left to treasure.
Nest makes it user-friendly.
Since no-one reads newletters properly, I bet at least one of your "customers" thinks they are paying for access to some videos which they will intend to watch at some point in the future, and will be pretty pissed in the future when they discover they've been paying for months and those videos are still not available.

The shady part is doing the pivot without doing another opt-in. It's a classic bait ("Subscribe to get access to videos") and switch ("Continue paying to get access to a community and the promise of plans to make said videos in the future").
Re: enterprise version -- after joining forces with Twitter[1] they opened the enterprise version up[2]

[1] http://www.crashlytics.com/blog/crashlytics-is-joining-force...
[2] http://www.crashlytics.com/blog/crashlytics-enterprise-is-no...
That's backwards isn't it? CO should be less dense than CO2.
Had some traffic to my site from random places in the world (Brazil, Sweden, India) and had no clue where it was coming from until I saw this thread in my twitter feed. Mine is the Facebook Mutual Friends one.

You could also check out my slides from one of my d3 talks (with interactive examples):

notacog.com/d3/slideshow
> If we have to have corporate oversight to get a decent OS, then I'd rather one I pay (e.g. Apple for iOS) than one I don't (e.g. Google for Android/Chrome OS). I want to be the customer, not the product being sold.

For branded Android/ChromeOS, AFAIK, you are paying Google for it the same way you pay for prebundled Windows. Insofar as the OS cost is discounted because you are an advertising target for Google, that's not that different from Windows PCs where the OS cost is offset because you are crapware target for third-party business partners of the system vendor.

And advertising revenue, isn't, I think, the only motivation for the low cost of consumer ChromeOS; low-cost consumer ChromeOS is the lever for building acceptance, knowledge base, and build a base of apps to motivate institutional sales of ChromeOS (sort of the way that getting Apple computers into schools was always a way to build commercial consumer and business markets for them.)
At least judging by the UK account fees SVB are horrifically expensive and seem to charge through the nose for everything. I'm not sure whether this is the case for a US-domiciled bank account though.

HSBC have a decent international banking department and can open accounts in different countries last time I checked.
It may be useful for the discussion here to define what "heritable" means. I like what Eric Turkheimer, a psychologist who investigates the heritability of human intelligence, says about that.

"But back to the question: What does heritability mean? Almost everyone who has ever thought about heritability has reached a commonsense intuition about it: One way or another, heritability has to be some kind of index of how genetic a trait is. That intuition explains why so many thousands of heritability coefficients have been calculated over the years. Once the twin registries have been assembled, it's easy and fun, like having a genoscope you can point at one trait after another to take a reading of how genetic things are. Height? Very genetic. Intelligence? Pretty genetic. Schizophrenia? That looks pretty genetic too. Personality? Yep, that too. . . .

"Unfortunately, that fundamental intuition is wrong. Heritability isn't an index of how genetic a trait is. A great deal of time has been wasted in the effort of measuring the heritability of traits in the false expectation that somehow the genetic nature of psychological phenomena would be revealed. There are many reasons for making this strong statement, but the most important of them harkens back to the description of heritability as an effect size. An effect size of the R2 family is a standardized estimate of the proportion of the variance in one variable that is reduced when another variable is held constant statistically."[1]

[1] Turkheimer, E. (2008, Spring). A better way to use twins for developmental research. LIFE Newsletter, 2, 1-5

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...
Wouldn't I need one for every room? In my modest house that'd be $129 x 7 = $903!
Would this be less of an issue if you had a more sensitive detector?
When I install a new system, I always go through these steps in no particular order:

* change the appearance and the contrast color from "blue" to "graphite"

* disable the zoom effect and enable automatic hiding of the dock

* limit Spotlight's scope

* increase the speed of the mouse

* install Perian

* install Secrets

* install Slate

* install ClipMenu

* install QuickSilver

* install QuickCursor

* install MacPorts (and the required XCode)

* install Subversion, Git and Mercurial

* install a bunch of CLI utilities like cdargs or tmux

* install MacVim and clone my config
is there similar conversion degrees for other courses or is it pretty much always non-IT to an IT masters?
I think it's worth giving a shout out to the Percona Toolkit[1] as well. It's awesome.

http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.2/
There's no such thing as a carbon dioxide detector. It would constantly be going off.
Who is talking about pity? Why not just be polite? Is it so hard to be polite?

Your argument is "I'm morally superior so I get to be a douche." Making the argument proves you're not morally superior, though.
Source?

Everything I've seen shows that it generally tends to mix with air or rise slightly due to its slightly less dense weight, and all the sources I found say you can either use the ceiling or wall.
Nest is very adept at charging large amounts of money for solutions to small problems. Dealing with the shortcomings of modern smoke detectors is a minor annoyance at best, and (at least for me) isn't worth anything even remotely approaching what Nest is charging. Keep in mind that this detector provides no increase in safety, and if anything is a regression because it postpones alerting the user to prevent the annoyance of false positives. You are paying only for convenience.

Adequate smoke detectors can be purchased for $20. Is the minor increase in convenience really worth shelling out over 6 times that amount, possibly at the expense of safety?

(EDIT: as others have pointed out, this also serves as a carbon monoxide detector. The implication from the product page is that this product is designed to be placed on the ceiling. What could possibly go wrong?)
I keep meaning to take the machine learning course.

This is a great way of using metadata to search for patterns in student assingments. This could detect different "approaches" or "strategies"
AFAIK you can calibrate the compass. At least in iOS7. But using an iPhone 5 I always find the compass to be incorrect most of the time.
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Probability, not logic. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o...
Most fire departments will also give them to you for free. My brother is a professional fire fighter and always has a box of them in the back of his truck to hand out to people. They'll even do volunteer events where they'll come and inspect your house to make sure you have proper placement and they're not too old.

At $60 each I might replace the 5 I have in my house, at $130 I don't think so.
Would like to see a model more like Ninja Blocks (base device with inexpensive remote sensors) then the idea of buying several more expensive components.

Would have been ground-breaking if the Nest smoke detector was a $20 or $40 networked addon to the original Nest thermostat.
Sounds like a great idea for an add-on product would be cheap additional detectors for your other rooms
> I'm just curious if it's the security industry itself is particularly in need of better communication of best practices and things to avoid.

The thing is, there is no such thing as a security industry that would be interested in pushing such best practices. It's a little bit like occupational safety. There are companies that sell hearing protectors, i.e. solutions to some specific aspects of occupational safety, just like there are companies selling firewalls to protect against some specific aspects of IT security. But you cannot sell one product to protect against all IT security threats that emerge in a software company as there are security concerns in every aspect of an IT product. On the server side it is about protecting the user content against outside threats (firewalls, SQLi, password hashing, log protection and redaction, strong SSH logins, DoS, etc), on the protocol side it is about authentication and encryption (MITM attacks, content separation (think about the beast attacks), strong crypto, using the right crypto for the job, DoS), on the client side it is about folk security models and social engineering (strong passwords, password resets, two factor authentication, social engineering, UI design).

Occupational safety on a construction site has to be considered by every worker and in every part of the construction. IT security is just as much pervasive to software engineering. You think implementing a search feature for your website is not security sensitive? You might just have compromised your user login because of cross site scripting. Logging debug information is harmless? Not so much if your database password is output to the user in case of a poorly written exception filter. Heck, even simply storing some user data in a dictionary can be the cause of a DoS [1].

Basically what I saying is that IT security is not the responsibility of some specialised security industry, but of the whole IT industry.

[1] http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/attachments/2007...
Have you ever had your smoke detector do the low battery chirp? Because I will easily pay 6 times more to never hear that godawful sound ever again.

Especially when you have high ceilings, and the detector is the 120V AC kind and has no overly visible slot for a battery.
Of a similar thinking is, I suppose, "The Right to Be Lazy" by Paul Lafargue.

I read it some time ago and if I remember correctly he believed that there isn't/wasn't any need to work more than 3 hours a day because of the technological advances of the time (and to think this was in 1883!)

After a quick search I found it is available online at: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/
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It would be great if your security system could detect an intruder, then make the house uncomfortably warm, thereby encouraging the intruder to leave.
I guess LinkedIn messages are easier for lazy/busy people that need to contact lots of people.

If I get a direct email that is definitely not based on a template means that that person a) found my mail and b) spent some time on the process, so I usually reply as courtesy.

I applaud your approach, although I think it's difficult to get noticed in a noisy channel and LinkedIn messages are overused.
This sounds like Snapchat tailored for a non-photogenic userbase
The motion detector is a trojan horse for introducing other functionality. It could probably serve as a general alarm system as well, with a software update.

What are some other apps that can come from an always-on wifi-enabled set of sensors?
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Having CA access does allow them to create a silent MITM in the absence of certificate pinning.
And if I recall correctly their ex-CEO is now in jail on allegedly trumped up charges.

If true this is utterly despicable by the government. Alas, I'm not surprised.
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