skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Douglas Adams may have been onto something.

> Now, there are certain attributes of the Riemann zeta function called its moments which should give rise to a sequence of numbers. However, before the Seattle conference, only two of these moments were known: 1, as calculated by Hardy and Littlewood in 1918; and 2, calculated by Ingham in 1926.

> The next number in the series was suggested as 42 by Conrey (now also at Bristol) and Ghosh in 1992.

> The challenge for the quantum physicists then, was to use their quantum methods to check the number 42 and to calculate further moments in the series, while the number theorists tried to do the same using their methods.

> Prof Jon Keating and Dr Nina Snaith at Bristol describe the energy levels in quantum systems using random matrix theory. Using RMT methods they produced a formula for calculating all of the moments of the Riemann zeta function. This formula confirmed the number 42.
America is a nation of immigrants, and genetics determine most of height, so comparisons that ignore country of family history are silly.
Really exciting connection, and I am glad I read the article. What I hate though is the box at the end of the article:

So why is this work so important?

As we have said, prime numbers are the basic building blocks of mathematics.
And primes are vital to cryptography and therefore to the ever-burgeoning world
of online commerce and security.

Nope, cryptography is not why this work is important. What a lot of bull.
How is that a cynical explanation? Gen-Ed requirements are stupid, particularly in the way they require you to take low-level survey courses marked explicitly as Gen-Eds rather than more in-depth courses. They create people with shallow educations excepting one (maybe two) topics of "in-major" depth rather than graduates with a broad polymathic education.
Life in Thailand can be much cheaper than you describe. I'll give another data point:

We are a family of 3, EU citizens, living in Hua Hin (a resort town 200 km from Bangkok). The city is popular with upper class Thais who own a lot of holiday homes here and visit occasionally as well as with foreign families and pensioners. Plus, the king of Thailand lives here. So, no bustling sex industry or crazy night life here.

We spend around 2000 USD per month:

- 500 USD for 50 sqm, 1 bedroom apartment in a secure complex with olympic size swimming pool, fitness and community office.
- 400 USD for a very good international kindergarten, nursery level (3 yr. old)
- 100 USD for a driver who drives us to my son's kindergarten.
- 600 USD for groceries we buy in the supermarket. It would be cheaper to eat in local restaurants but we like to cook at home.
- 200 USD for education visas (1000 USD per person per year, kids don't need visas).
- 200 USD for travel health insurance (don't go without it), occasional vine, massage, public transport...

Of course, there is no upper limit of how much you can spend, if you want to. It is easy to find 1 MM USD+ homes and spend 100 USD for a meal. I guess young single people would find it boring here, but for us it is the perfect combination of quality family life, good working conditions without much distractions and healthy lifestyle.

EDIT: here is the view from our apartment: https://www.dropbox.com/s/llqf4uw1nxjq8pj/Pogled__balkona.JP...
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I'll go ahead and assume that this comic is the reason why this has been posted: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3142#comic

Because, as we have learned, there are no coincidences, there is only the force, or some such...
Why Did the U.S. Government Recently Purchase 30,000 Guillotines?
I think the idea is to give the money to random people (not necessarily the ones who needed). A beggar is not exactly random.
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"When three men are walking together, there is one who can be my teacher."
>Sigh, what is everyone's obsessions with retrofitting a small amount of logical tools everywhere?

Most people don't like thinking. Even the people who do like thinking only have a finite capacity for it, and don't like spending their/our thought-power on things they/we don't really care about.
I don't get the point why someone would learn a new keyboard layout.

- It is very hard to learn since muscle memory is very difficult to change.

- I think it would take me a while to be as fast as on my current layout QWERT[ZY].

- I see no real advantage for learning a new keyboard layout. None of my friends and coworkers ever complained about keyboard layout and the urge to change it.

- When you want to get things done, learning a new layout would be the last thing you want.

- You may not have your new keyboard layout available at different workplaces.

So I think this is just a hipster thing. Prove me wrong :)
I'd also like to mention that you're not going to get many self-identified extroverts voting when you post the survey on Saturday night ;)
When I first look at the circular structure, it reminds me of two things: science fiction and secrecy.

Science fiction because in many SF movie secret agency are often in some circular dish-like structure. Imagine yourself walking from room to room, from lab to lab, when you open the door in one of the room you are on a staircase looking at hundreds of scientists and agents contacting an alien out there.

Secrecy because of the above and plus it reminds me of Pentagon.

Not a bad thing, but definitely a cool place.

Compare this to other HQs? Take Googleplex. Over time I find that campus a little more corporate. Maybe because it now houses so many people, plus a lot of the buildings are build like an ordinary office building.

I want to see the interior though.

One thing important to all HQ: lobby is one of the most crucial things. To me it has to open, wide, clean and crazy - that;s where actions should happen.
I believe even better chances in Lviv, in terms of not feeling so isolated.

The West of Ukraine is more orientated to the European Union, than the East of Ukraine, which looks towards Russia and has a large ethnic Russian population.

My, albeit brief, experience in Lviv was that enough people spoke at least basic English enabling me to communicate. Knowing German also helped in many cases, as did learning at least the basics of Ukrainian for simple daily situations.

Housing is expensive, if you want something other than a badly fading Soviet era apartment on the edge of town. Food and entertainment is reasonably cheap.
Absolutely. The problem with these kind of studies is how difficult it is to generalise from them. One of the cited examples concludes making people accountable for the money was less efficient even though accountable people spent the money better because it cost "up to $1800" per $150 loan for followup studies. That hires a well-educated person for a year in a developing country, which strongly suggests that you'd reach a wholly different conclusion if the programme was designed and administered 100% locally. Of course, there's also the issue that if a particular group doesn't have any followup studies associated with the research, then observations of how they spent the money are inevitably less accurate.

Then there's the simple observation that repayable grants can be passed on to others (less admin costs) and are sustainable on a larger scale in an economy. Teach a man to fish and his interest repayments can teach his neighbours to fish, provided those neighbours also reasonably expect to get a positive return on the rod they invest in. That latter bit is important in assuming the net effect doesn't involve very expensive fishing rods and depleted fish stocks...

Whilst loan based aid is not unproblematic (there's some hideously expensive administration and profiteering in some microfinance problems, and poor people many people do use them as expensive consumer loans) the same technology that earns Kenyan grants such rave reviews for their effectiveness can also be applied to strings-attached microfinance: M-PESA can potentially cut the cost of receiving microloan repayments even more effectively than it cuts corruption in doling out the aid. Just because the desperately poor don't spend all their grant money on prostitutes and alcohol (which isn't that surprising if you've ever visited a developing country) doesn't necessarily mean they can't be efficiency helped in other ways
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This is insane...
Although it is undeniable that China will become a world power and that there is a war on the horizon.

As a sidenote this page should be more mobile friednly
This article is unnecessary for most users.

Open the .dmg, drag the install .app into /Applications and run it from there. The upgrade works fine.
Yes I first found it from one of your previous posts in fact.

What is interesting to me is how you can create these tests in general.

You ought to make a post explaining how to invent a test. Or a website to do it, like a meme generator. That'd get more interest here perhaps.
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ICUG - that's fn team work.
I will join your movement.

http://sandwalk.blogspot.co.il/2009/03/profzi-scheme.html
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SCUG here.
Link: http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php (right?)

It's fine to link to your stuff especially if it's useful/educational/etc.
Meyers-Briggs: INTJ

Lipson-Shiu: ICUE
Isn't this essentially a description of the roles and responsibilities of an ESB, just with the majority of the attached services being the clients?
it's a really good book, no doubt, but comparing it to sicp is a bit much. if you don't program in perl already, it might be more beneficial to just learn haskell, and writing some functional perl could be a first step toward that goal, particularly if you're coming from a background in C. i read some of if while learning perl because i was already somewhat familiar with functional programming.
Not really. Giving beggars has the side effect of incentivising begging, which many people would not consider to be a morally neutral decision.

One can also reasonably judge that on the balance of probability, aid money will almost certainly have a significant positive effect on the lives of Kenyans. The effect of a comparable amount of cash on the lives of beggars in Western countries is much less unequivocally positive (potentially a net negative if its spent on substances that harm the beggar's health, or the income disincentives them from seeking programs that aim to help them with more than just their next meal)
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any idea how to combine this with vim/vimperator/pentadactyl?

it seems to work with ^ but with the vim plugins, following a link requires numbers. pressing shift every time is less ideal. and in vim you use numbers quite a bit too (for moving and editing).
ICUG here, I've got no idea how to interpret that.
Linux has already exploded, with Android!

Android/Linux has more than 500 million users!

(Perhaps it was meant GNU? But I would assume it was assumed this killer game would not be freedom software. Then how would that help GNU explode? No, what would help GNU explode, is more people able to program, and asking for freedom software).
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He is also a very good speaker, if you ever get the chance to hear him.
Excactly. But you can't compete if don't have enough (and the best) people and enough budget for recruiting.
I too would be very curious about HN's MBTI stats. As an INTP, I often feel like a straight up minority in here sometimes...

I also scored as an ICUG on that other test, which seems to fit my INTP description, lol.
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I had the same thought: One of the deepest mysteries of mathematics is important because.... of online e-commerce?

Nice to know we've got our cultural priorities straight!
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you are effectively stealing from everyone else who is being honest. unless the store is incompetent compared to their competitors at controlling loss the cost is passed on to the other consumers who shop there.
I am sure they will. Google, MS and Apple will all do that. Why would they spend money on building Siri and Siri clones in the first place? Why invest so much into tablet?

People have always imagined themselves able to talk to Jarvis (from IronMan) one day over speech with Jarvis just being a computer somewhere in the house - could jsut be your phone, your watch, something, a small but highly intelligent AI sits at home.

So one day your home automation market will be full of AI commands (well, conversation actually). The truth is how soon. Which market to take on first?
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I would recommend you to read "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain (if you already have not heard of/read it). It is not a self help book prophesying shallow slogans and quick fixes , and provides insights about how introverts can do well (cope up) in the seemingly extrovert dominated world.
Hi fit2rule, a good question.... i assume Scientology's metaphysical subject was articulated by L. Ron Hubbard in
"Scientology: A History of Man" (1952)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology:_A_History_of_Man#T...
I am not sure if L. Ron Hubbard actually believed in the things he wrote as it's so far out and contradicting scientific insight, or that he wrote it to create an artifical overarching framework (a sacred canopy) to hold dianetics together by rooting it in the transcendent (as such I think Scientology is a religion). The same uncertainty I have while evaluating Castaneda's work.
The underlying question remains the same - do they (and I was explicitly including Voynich) seriously interesting, deep, secrets on the nature of the universe or do they remain a fantasy and dream meaningful only to their respective authors?
I switched to Dvorak a few months ago. It's much better than I expected. The switch was painful and it took like 3 months to get fast enough.

Compared to Qwerty writing Dvorak is so much easier on the hands. I would say the strain is reduced by 50% at least and it's potentially faster to type (less movement, less way).

I will never switch back to Qwerty unless someone forces me to do so.
A great read!! What an article!
Arguing that student genetics have any substantial influence on student success is a load of bullshit. It's the same argument that has been used in favor of organized eugenics, and, just to fulfill Godwin's Law, also used in favor of the holocaust.

But seriously, this is detrimental to improvements in education. All this will do is push us backwards, and delay actual improvements.

EDIT: I guess I should've been more clear: I was being sarcastic with my comparisons to hitler, for the sake of fulfilling Godwin's Law early and being done with that stupid.
Its a reason the average person can see value in. Since it's the average person's tax money often funding this stuff, it makes sense that academics try to explain uses that benefit the people paying for it.

While I agree that its worth it just for its knowledge pushing value alone, academics and researchers do need to take the public with them, especially these days when finances are squeezed and more people are struggling to make ends meet.
I think the most popular social network is Facebook. But as others said, people are looking for small services to solve a small problem.

studiVZ wasn't cool anymore. We missed the point for a rebrand to open the plattform for other people. "studi" is a abbreviation for student. Our answer was a new brand called meinVZ (just another UI, same database). Together with the ability to provide new cool features (e.g. Apps, Activity stream, i18n) it was just a question of time until FB was getting the market leadership.
I find science and math really interesting without actually knowing anything deep.

It's just like magic. There are these interesting ratio, numbers, series, and functions appear in both nature and mathematics. Similar to how scientists praise Big Band, a lot of things are so well-defined, well put together with a precise amount (in the case of Big Bang a slight off amount might actually destroy today's universe). Sometimes I have to say and assume there is this powerful being God there writing this novel...
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Does the riemann hypothesis even have ground breaking applications to crypto?
It's not mine, it's by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu. In conversation with Andrew he said that he and Daniel put the test together in one evening, but had been chatting about it for a few weeks.

And it's very much in Andrew's style - the kind of thing he does well. I have no further insights to offer.
I'm not convinced either, but your arguments basically are: I don't get it, it's hard, and I don't know anybody doing it. If you read it like this, you should see such arguments don't make much sense :]
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He's not the CTO.

Specific title: Senior Director-Chief Technology Office

Via: http://www.joesdata.com/executive/Joel_Liu_421313008.html
I know WHY the box says what it says. But it is nevertheless bull. If you want to improve online security, the LAST thing you should put money into is research into the Zeta function.

So, if this is what you are telling the tax payer, then you are just telling lies to the tax payer.
Would a multi-layout keyboard be possible?
There's nothing wrong with it. My point was that a lot of people won't do that - they'll eat the portion put in front of them regardless of size. And in my experience American portion sizes were 2-3x what I was used to.
ICUG (Inventor)

The ICUG is given to solitude and shoe staring. He or
she loves little puzzles and is often a good source of
off-the-wall, innovative ideas. Best left to their own
devices with only occasional steering

(example: Leonardo da Vinci)

Seems pretty clear to me.

But don't forget to read the explanation at the top of the page - this has to be interpreted in context.
I don't go to Harvard but isn't that what a lot of people are hoping to get out of a university degree? The ability to land a good job.
There actually is an answer here. Namely, http://www.givewell.org/

The "effective altruism" movement attempts to compare all of the altruistic interventions available to maximize the amount of good done per dollar of your donation, and GiveWell is a part of this movement (although there are others you can explore). Currently GiveWell's top-rated charity is one providing malaria nets in Africa, and their second rated is one that provides direct wealth transfers to Kenyans. They have ridiculously high epistemic standards which are detailed in their published articles and on their blog.
Somebody who throws Singapore in with a list of other South-East Asian countries and goes on to state that laws are just a guideline clearly has no idea what they are talking about.

I can only speak for Thailand and Singapore and both are stringent on enforcement when it comes to visas. I've never heard of anyone walking away with a slap on the wrist or being able to bribe their way out of a situation with regards to visas.

In one of my first replies I said that if you are working alone and out of sight then yes you will probably get away with working in any of those countries.

My whole point though is that it's irresponsible to promote breaking the law here on HN and especially foreign laws at that.
The most serious problem with learning a different keyboard layout for hipstering purposes is not only that it requires a certain degree of effort, but that nobody can tell you've done it unless you tell them. Which you absolutely never must. Because you'll never hear the end of it. As this thread is demonstrating amply.
I work at Microsoft, we have plenty of laowai devs and PMs, though quite a small percentage compared to local and even haigui (returnee) talent. As I rise in level, my pay is becoming more similar to Redmond, combine with the fact that research jobs are rare in general, its a fairly good job for me. But the pollution in Beijing...is the biggest problem for me right now.
So I've sided with a troll. Oh dear.
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This looks like a mean rather than a median distribution,so our American here is probably heavier than than the "average" normal. Weight distributions are starting to skew to the right due to the existence of a small percentage of utterly massive individuals. 15 kilos under normal weight is extremely skinny while being overweight can go into over 100 kilos at the extremes.
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I don't know how much influence does genetics have on student success. There can be plausible arguments that it's 50/50 nature/nurture, 20/80 or 80/20.

However, it definitely is bullshit to claim "It's the same argument that has been used in favor of organized eugenics, and, just to fulfill Godwin's Law, also used in favor of the holocaust." as any evidence whatsoever about what nature/nurture proportion is the true one.
However, to argue the converse is just as difficult. Can we really reject the hypothesis that genetics has an effect on a person's mental ability? On student success?

In China, researchers are looking at mapping the genomes of 'geniuses' to look for potential genes that impact intelligence. (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/genetics-of-iq/)

While, you argue from a point of pathos, that is that pursuing such genetics-based arguments of ability is dangerous and leads to dangerous situations, it is important to consider that with increasing knowledge of genetics, it is possible that we will find certain genes with impacts on knowledge and ability. I mean, even now, we know at least of genetic bases to diseases that negatively impact intelligence. Who is to say the converse won't happen? In a question of science and ethics, I would argue that it is better that we pursue, to a) not end up in lopsided world power (imagine if only China were to successfully pursue genetic bases for improving education) and b) look at potential ways of improving education across the board. If we do know a genetic bases, that may allow us to better target education. Ability is clearly myriad and manifold, and likely impossible to fully be determined by genetics. There will still be better objective measures than genetics.

To shove aside genetics effects on student success just on potential ethical ramifications might not be a very good idea.
I don't think it is detrimental to improving education by taking into account the particular strengths of each individual child. This is why the use of computers in education is so important in my opinion, so that you can individualise each child's learning experience.
I don't need science to refute that the idea that achievement is 70% IQ is absolute horse shit. I've seen too many brilliant people who wasted their potential, and too many successful morons to discount the obvious effect of effort and motivation. It's self evident that brain power needs to be catalyzed to provide any real value.
The word for mind and heart are not the same in Chinese...
Thai grocery stores are more expensive than (or at least comparable) the states even for raw fruits and vegetables, or rice! And this is at bangkok supermarkets aimed at locals, not even the fancy ones. Americans just don't realize how food they have it.

The problem is that Thai taxes are high and there are price supports for farmers so their living standards can improve; they also aren't as mechanized than in the states.