skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ is highly heritable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Estimates_of... (estimates of adulthood heritability are 0.7-0.8, similar to height).

We can reject the existence of an observed natural phenomenon because we can't explain it. We still haven't unified gravity with the standard model, but that doesn't mean we reject that gravity exists (for practical purposes or otherwise).

The fact that a natural phenomenon might be socially inconvenient is even less of a good reason to reject its validity.

Finally, I don't even see why it should even be so socially inconvenient. Say the experiments are right, and intelligence is mostly heritable rather than a result of education, upbringing, etc. Why should that justify entitlement on the part of the wealthy? Indeed, it should cut across that grain. If its mostly heritable, being intelligent shouldn't be seen as intrinsically virtuous any more than is being tall. Moreover, the heritability of intelligence may very well imply a need for a change in our priorities when it comes to social welfare. E.g. maybe we need to de-emphasize education, and divert resources to building up social and family networks.
This article is sensationalist and inaccurate, and the site has full screen splash ads without any obvious way to dismiss them. This article should be removed.
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Refresh Gets $10M From Redpoint, CRV & Foundation Capital
depends on the person, I guess. Some people might think "not much time, so let me not waste it" and some might get stressed/depressed thinking about it, and waste even more time than before.
Yep. I'm hoping for a plausible 3rd player in mobile. I'd prefer it to be Mozilla but even MS would be better than a duopoly.
A(ttention)

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Or, more likely, disable the device and forget about it. Which is what the OP says the fire department blames for deaths in home fires. The problem is real, and this device addresses it. It goes much further, and the wisdom of that is debatable, but some change is certainly needed.
I recently moved my personal domain email to be handled by Outlook (since Google no longer has Apps for your Domain) and have been really happy so far. I don't know why I'm bothered by the ad bar in either Yahoo Mail or Outlook since Gmail has it too. Likely because Gmail's blends in much better to the interface?

The multiple smart inboxes in Gmail is a killer feature for me thoug
My mains powered detector has a disable button. It is interconnected to the other alarms in the building so it is essential to have a way of not waking up my neighbors when I burn toast. It works perfectly for me, but for an older person or someone who couldn't reach it could be difficult. A child proof button lower down would be better.
I think it just needs one more feature: Stream and play music. Then it would be totally worth it.
That's a nice safety feature. The other nice feature that most of the commenters here seem to have missed is that these devices are designed to improve your Nest's auto thermostat feature by knowing where people are in your house. You are basically putting an extra sensor for the nest in every room.
I bought 2 Nest thermostats and have been happy with them. The $500 price for the pair was a bit steep but it was not insane. This looks nice too and at $130 for one it does not sound that bad... at first. But then as I count off all the units I need to replace in my house... I get to 12. I have 12 freakin' smoke alarms in my house. I don't think I'll be dropping $1600 to upgrade my house with Nest Protect. :/
Yes I do completely agree with you there, they are just the ones that floated to the top, and I'm sure many writers of today will end up being revered like we do with Chesterton and Carnegie. I guess my hope would be that we were more inundated with this type of reading everyday than what we currently are inundated with
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This should get on the front page, the title is ambiguous, but the article itself is about a very abusive law enforcement request.
A Tiny Pronoun Says a Lot About You
I'm sensing you're being facetious, but not knowing the personalities involved, what does this mean? Is he a notorious publicity hound?
on the "less selfish" nature of individual capitalism, I simply mean that our economic actions when we deal with our own money are often motivated by many considerations other than the purely economic. Kickstarter is an excellent example of this.

But when I act as a fiduciary responsible for investing someone else's money, I have to maximise economic return by law.

By allowing the masses to invest in small businesses, we obviously allow them to participate in the economic returns from these businesses. But we also allow them to express their more charitable altruistic goals within a well-developed framework where they can be more confident that their money is being put to good use. If nothing else, as an owner I am entitled to receive regular audited financial reports.
Thats neo conservatism run for the benefit of "dodgy" barrow boys not old school one nation tory or even 50's republicans like Eisenhower.
In all legal documents we work with, "legal numbering" is like 1.2.1.3. Here's CSS for that:

http://lane.net.nz/blog/dave/creating-legal-list-numbering-o...

For your Digits, Roman Numerals, and Alpha numbering (mixed symbols), here's CSS for that:

http://css.wikidot.com/cssnippet:easy-outline

Use Markdown to make your list's HTML, use CSS to style it.
I wonder how much Mr. Russel was idle himself having written on average 2 books per year throughout his life and significantly contributing on so many levels.
I'm not sure if you are misreading the article or disagreeing with it, but in either case you're wrong.

The fact that a 'wrongness gene' hasn't been, and may not ever be, identified does not undermine my assessment, but rather indicates current models of the interaction of genes and wrongness might be naive, and the interactions are probably deeper and more complex.
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Hi andmarios,

GitLab co-founder here. Thanks for commenting and informing people.

For those interested a bit of background. Replacing gitolite with gitlab-shell in GitLab 5.0 was a painful step that we did not take lightly. It enabled GitLab to perform much better (100x faster on some operations) in larger installations (1000+ repo's). It also greatly reduced the moving parts and installation problems people experienced.

We tested Puma on GitLab cloud for weeks to see if there where issues but after the switch we ran into big problems so we had to go back to unicorn. The other transitions have similar stories. We try to be careful but we want to end up with a great solution so sometimes we have to make hard choices.

I'm sorry we don't have the resourced to provide official support for Gentoo, everything we have is in the user contributed gitlab-recipes https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/tree/master/insta...
Its already all sales.
Not quite - they're very dependent on your Google account, which is the login.

You can't run servers on the devices themselves, without something like crouton. They also miss features like Bonjour interoperability to make local service discovery just painful enough to force you into the cloud. The result of this is when you are away from the Internet, which happens way more often than a lot of people seem to believe, they become utterly useless.

The problem with Chrome OS is Google's larger strategic objectives are guiding their product direction. It seems like Android only became what it did thanks to Apple effectively forcing their hands, but as it stands Android on the same devices would be enormously more useful.
As an example of playing this the opposite way "The Practice of System and Network Administration", first ed. has a story about a woman in pink coverall that get everybodys respect.

The reason: everybody figures out if you can get away with that you have to have pretty amazing techical skills.

(Haven't come around to the second edition yet but the first edition follows me. Covers everything from cabling and datacenter layout to hiring, firing and salary negotiations.)
I'm much more concerned by the regular and reproducible MobileSafari crashes than minor localization oversights.

A bug is magnified a lot when it's multiplied by 200M users.
If your technology has reached the point where human error and negligence is the primary source of risk, you've succeeded. That is the goal of producing all reliable technologies. Of course, at that point, your system design primarily exists to prevent human errors from causing harm (for example, yesterday there was a news report that a Fukushima cleanup worker managed to engage a pump that would dump a bunch of radioactive water in the wrong place. He was saved by a backup system.")
Right, because people who don't have smoke alarms in their house don't have them because they are annoying. I suspect most of these people can't afford them, or are low on their "buy" list for money reasons. Not sure how an expensive smoke alarm will solve that problem....
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The future of these is interesting to consider. After a software update...

- Stream music across the house
- House-wide doorbell tone (after they sell you a $99 doorbell kit)
- Hook up to security system
- Remotely audio monitor your home (babysitter, cheating wife/husband)
- Siri type functionality. I can wake up and say "Weather" in my bedroom.
- Alarm clock

At this price point they won't be popular enough to really ignite further innovation of the devices though.
You're right. In my head "ignition"=fusion, so I was auto-translating as I was skimming. They're looking for something slightly different, and probably using energy output (among other things) as indications of self-sustained fusion, which we've certainly obtained in bombs (fission explosion sets off fusion reaction ☞ big bada boom).
Euler's Research Rules
It's not a joke. It's a controversy.

Haven't met a single person yet who doesn't smell maple on a fresh stack of hundreds.

Speaking of rubbish, you do know that cloth notes aren't damaged by water, right?

The polymer bills are a cost saving measure, and they're inferior (in term of resilience) to their cloth counterparts.
A Short History of the Highrise (NYT)
http://blog.netizencorp.com/2013/10/06/how-a-scrappy-startup...

"A scrappy little startup working out of a DC garage that completely influenced the course of how the web-facing portions of the Affordable Care Act were to be implemented"
"Don't try this at home?" I know it's a throwaway a line, but that's exactly what people should be doing!
The GPU is still an ARM Mali T6xx which is mostly unsupported, i.e. removing Chrome OS and running "pure" linux is going to be dreadfully slow for lack of 2D/3D acceleration. It's a shame that ARM hasn't released any technical datasheets for their Mali GPUs.
> But when I act as a fiduciary responsible for investing someone else's money, I have to maximise economic return by law.

No, you don't! That you say this just highlights how uninformed and unqualified you are to have written this article.
The Nobel Peace Prize was a joke before Obama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Peace
I'm surprised they don't have a separate system for their own staff to use when doing signups over the phone and in person. From all the articles it sounds like staff are going through the main healthcare.gov to attempt signups.

The biggest improvement they could make in the short term is setting up a light weight version so you can just enter the needed information to view your plans/options prior to the signup/verification process. Then once you've decided on a plan go into the signup process.

A lot of traffic is probably just people comparing prices, deductibles, etc putting unnecessary strain on the signup system.

It seems odd that you can't even view the log in page when you click log in on the home page.

Definitely looking forward to details about the site, backend, db, hosting, traffic, etc . . . once everything shakes out.
Sell before you build
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Agree. All I can ask for is a giant 'false alarm' button and maybe that the controls not be located on the damn ceiling. I think everyone hates smoke detectors because they're such a hassle.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I am sure you are right so the question is when?
The schedules of musicians do not align with the modern working world. Employers do not look highly on people who take 8 weeks off to tour. In order to make money touring, you have to be pretty well established.

I don't think it has anything to do with "schedules" - if that were the case, there would be no book industry, no training industry, or any industry in which it takes 6-18 months to churn out a product. Besides, with the rise of 360 deals in the past decade [0], the labels can get a chunk of touring/merch/etc.

Also, unlike software development, there is no 'day job' that musicians can work while saving to bootstrap their own venture.

Musicians for hundreds of years have used teaching, selling musical services/instruments, and wedding/event gigs as a day job.

Practice does not make you a good stage performer.
Practice does exactly that. Bands practice having "stage presence". They rent out massive venues, build their stages, and they practice the #($% out of their shows.

It is ultimately a dying art form and those that don't see that and in fact argue the opposite, don't have any inkling of what is actually going on.

Where's that "scratches head" forum icon I see so often elsewhere when I need it...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal
Except possibly AES.

http://security.stackexchange.com/a/25392
There shouldn't be any CSS-related drawing. Full-stop. Your analogy is accidentally very accurate, because it's like looking at a car, then a pile of bicycles, and saying "how can I get from A to B". The sane person would go to an auto parts store, get the appropriate parts and build a car as we understand it. The madman would weld two bicycles together, and then complain that it wasn't intuitive to do - bicycles aren't supposed to be used for creating cars. Likewise, CSS is not for drawing shapes: it's for styling things. As you pointed out, we have canvas and SVG for drawing, plus images for things like icons.

As for the compatibility thing, you're coming at it the wrong way. Don't tell Google et al. to support yet another standard for CSS shapes. Let them spend their time implementing SVG and Canvas according to the existing spec. Inventing a new spec not only doesn't solve the problem, it actually re-introduces it.
Really a charitable understatement of the case against.
> Heritability isn't an index of how genetic a trait is.

I am totally confused. My understanding is that heritability is a measure of how much genetics accounts for the observed variability in a given environment. I understand both that we don't understand the genetic recipe for height, but also that identical twins grow to be the same height. What is the author saying that I am missing?
I really wish we could shine a bright light on all the dodgy stuff banks do.
True, but that Chromebook has been at or near the top since it was released almost a year ago.

Also Acer has already said 10% of their shipments are Chromebooks.

> If Chromebooks sales are good , why don't they release real official numbers?

Who is "they"? Chromebooks are released by several manufacturers, some of which have released numbers.

And if Chromebook sales are bad why do more of them keep coming out, with more manufacturers joining in?

I don't see manufacturers jumping on board the Windows RT train, do you?
ActiveRecord.where.not(:sane = true)
To understand is to perceive patterns. Helping staff see them.
>> I really wish i could find a use for the chromebooks for my family

My family mostly browse the web. Actually, they don't call it the web. They call it facebook and google. This is the 99% use-case. For that matter, this laptop is perfect.
Are we better off with one entity that offers horrible funding terms and exploits/chooses artists for maximum profit? Or are we better off with an industry of smaller players that compete to offer the best terms to the most talented musicians?

Decentralizing the funding while messy, scary and potentially hazardous is a better path for all.

I also think there's room for both the traditionally funded musician model and the self-service or smaller label models. The problem is when there is no choice which leads to abuse.
A little background: the guys who sent the letter are PIPCU, a new department with funding for two years who are undoubtedly keen to get results quickly and cheaply.

A weirdness of PIPCU is that they're City of London police, not London Metropolitan Police as you'd expect for a department with such a wide remit.
I qualified my statement with "for all practical purposes". I have often claimed that there is no practical relevance and no reasonable way to use this "fact" in practical real world decisions. Nobody was able to tell me one that holds up to even superficial checking.

"Socially inconvenient" doesn't even come into it, because twin studies don't tell us anything about differences between two ethnicities. For that matter, genetic diversity within populations might have a larger effect...

The "intelligence is genetic" "fact" is often used to justify refusal to tackle socio-economic problems (like "under-achievement" in blacks or hispanics in the US, or the turkish minority in my home country) with socio-economic solutions. Because hey, it's all genetics, so we can't change it. Even if measures for improvement have been proven...
Oh whatever LOL. It'll be marketed as lasting a decade and value engineered to only last a year. You don't increase profits by making things last longer. By being sealed and making it chirp you'll force people to buy another instead of simply unpluging the battery.

The problem with a nanny state is eventually people rebel. The future of smoke detection is high profits for mfgrs and residents will spend an hour their first day in new premises disabling and disconnecting the devices. The overall effect on safety will be a profound net decrease, although theoretically on paper we'll never be safer.
99% of the messages I get in linkedin are spam, and their messages interface sucks. linkedin is the lowest thing in my list.
> TfL tried to ban it

Why would TfL specifically get involved? It's more likely this is an issue for the ASA, on account of it appearing to use the word ‘FUCK’, which is hardly controversial.
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Hmm this is the top-most comment and I have no idea what your issue is with the device.
Well, I think you're underestimating oil and gas, but that's another argument.

Nobody's denying fusion is a great energy source.

But your claim that there is a payoff for low risk is unsupported by reality: we have only ever invested money in fusion (risk) and have never received any useful power for it (payoff). At this time, the risk/payoff ratio is infinite.
Please tell me one "practical purpose" were "Intelligence is largely genetic" as a use...
I must emphatically disagree with your statement. There are plenty of very hard theoretical problems that experiments are regularly shedding new light on. The entire field of condensed matter and most of atomic, molecular and optical physics progress by both theory and experiment figuring out problems together.

Perhaps by "physics" you meant "particle physics"... but even in that field your statement would be hard to justify.
For a very approachable view of Russel's thoughts and work, you can try reading his own writing:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355

My personal favourite so far has been 'Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays' with 'Analysis of Mind' currently at the top of my reading queue. Not everything he did was like reading 'Principia Mathematica' and his writing is very open, readable and eloquent.
This article provides some historical context to today's prize.

http://profmattstrassler.com/2013/10/08/the-twists-and-turns...
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This is what happens to your body when you smoke
Jesus, $150!? For a smoke detector!? How hard is it to hit the little "mute" button on the cheap one you already have?
Music as we know it. Rock and roll and popular music as an art form. Albums, 3 minute songs. Things that were designed to fit on to a plastic disc and be played on the radio between commercial breaks. This is what made up the "music industry". Touring was a loss-leader to sell plastic to people up until about 10 years ago. You had to go out and make your sales! Come to town, have the local paper and radio do your marketing for you, people maybe come to your show or maybe go buy your album at a record store. That is going away. Hence, the art form will die along with the changing media landscape, because well, you know, The Medium is the Message.

I'm not crying about this, BTW, I'm merely pointing out that the death has started. For fucks sake, I don't even really LIKE making records as much as I like writing and performing music with a group of people, so personally I'm enjoying these transformations.

The point I'm making is, is yes, the music industry is dying. Something else will come along and replace it. Music won't die, but whatever we've become accustomed to over the last 80 years is quickly disappearing.

Again, claims that this isn't happening are misinformed.
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Microsoft Has A New YouTube App For Windows Phone—Same As The Old YouTube App
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Interesting... I guess I didn't find any packages that bundle private Ruby, or if it does it does it behind the scenes and I just don't know it. But what I'm fighting with now, is install some Gems that one of the tutorials has you install... when I run "bundle install", one of the Gems flakes out because it requires Ruby > 1.9.1, and doing a "apt-get install rubygems" earlier apparently made Ruby 1.8.7 the default on this box again.

Ran "update-alternatives" and set Ruby back to 1.9.3 and now when I try to install the Gems, I get failures like:

"in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)"

I think I'm making progress, but man, this is frustrating.

To be fair though, the basic Chef install is done and working, and I can run "knife client list" and see my clients. It's just that I'm trying to get through this EC2 tutorial and it has you installing this specific list of Gems, and that's where the problems are now. sigh
Higgs boson, key to the universe, wins Nobel physics prize
Tobin tax on all stock transactions. Problem solved.
What problem does this solve? For the 5 times a year the smoke alarm goes off because I'm burning something in the kitchen, I have to get a chair to push the 'hush' button?

"Wave to disable"??? Are you kidding me???
Sorry - anything could accidentally disable a life-saving device is pretty darn stupid. Someone, somewhere, will die because of this.
Trivia: And one of the people Marx was referring to when he said that if they are Marxists then "what is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist."
That clears things up — cheers!
> Should be doable and hence done.

OK, that's it everybody. Trying to do something? Is it done yet? Nope? Pack it in. All the things have been done.
Dart runs on top of JS? I thought it was a replacement for JS.
Sorry, but I don't know the context of this story. Can someone explain?