skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, a related supposition is more interesting: if you put a human in an environment which minics closely their recent evolutionary history, will previously-missing environmental triggers boost intelligence (or any other bodily function?) to their optimum, perhaps via hormesis? Such an environment would include:

- higher amounts of exercise
- periodic fasting and/or malnutrition
- lower carb intake (sugars, grains)
- higher plant intake
- higher sunlight exposure
- sleep/wake cycle dictated by the Sun
- less sitting

... but might also include:

- exposure to rotted food and disease
- increased bodily injury
- increased exposure to the elements
It's called the Peter Principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
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I assume it says "forty" which is enough to avoid this kind of ambiguity.

Edit: Actually no, quoting the official website [1]:

> A candidate's 40th birthday must not occur before January 1st of the year of the Congress at which the Fields Medals are awarded.

[1] http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/fields/details/
But he did not treat it as a throwaway side project - he mailed, he built community and products, he pushed for a year.

That massively increased his chances of a profitable outcome - my lesson here is even treat your side projects as in need of proper marketing
Likely the humans will fail more often than the automation. I worked in a place where they didn't trust automation to copy 1000 files from one server to another so they had someone manually copy the files every morning. I bet he missed a few every day.
You really think that only happens in Silicon Valley?
Without performing "lessons learned" analysis on failures, how will we ever learn? Conducting this sort of exercise is critical to improving the capabilities of everyone who engages in clandestine activities. Dismissing it out of hand is remarkably short sighted.
BandHub is not real time, but rather async. You lay down a track, then someone else lays down another and so on. You record on top of what's already been recorded. It's like a multitrack YouTube so to speak.

EDIT: new tracks show up after ~30 seconds of being recorded by other users. so you can use it for real time production
We used graph theories to create this puzzle. Free today
What the CIA should have done is have phones which impersonate actual, "normal" phones when necessary and send messages which resemble normal messages. Not "PIZZA!" but whatever the local people send, e.g. "miss u". There could be a challenge-response that is not deterministic, e.g. "are we still on for tomorrow?" "looking forward to it" and then some normal sounding conversation (of course, tomorrow wouldn't be the day they would meet).

The key is to impersonate enough phones (tunneling over a trusted subset of the network) or use a network that won't identify the endpoints. The former is much easier.
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Trivia: 'die' is the singular form of the plural 'dice'.
Prohibition also created a significant amount of violence... which has all but mysteriously disappeared.

Eliminate the illegality and you eliminate the incentive for "hits" to prevent jail time or extortion.
"Considering the probability that" could be read to mean "Considering the chance that", since probabilities are the measurement of chance. I believe that it was written to mean that. The idea that reporting people to law enforcement usually means that they will be killed is an uncharitable reading of the sentence, in my opinion.
I guess it may be my experience in working with huge corporations, but that never works.
Also clever is the fact that the first clause acts as a password, so that the backdoor opens only if called with the supposedly invalid option combination.
pretty sure the implication behind 'limited' is that it is a limited production vehicle version and is thus more valuable because it has certain features that will not be provided in the standard.
clarified. Really it was Ben and Garrett who flew out there though ;) The first time I heard this story was reading this article today.
I've been half expecting for truecrypt to be revealed as an NSA funded honeypot.
I still use it myself to secure against petty criminals.
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Properly installed double glazing will block almost all sound, why not install them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated_glazing
Can I suggest to just start - there are going to be a gazillion suppliers to SpaceX etc - if you want to be in the industry, you can be in.

If you want to put your stuff in space or even orbit, may I suggest looking at micro satellites - there is going to be a vast number of things people will want doing that are going to be within the capability of a large lump of silicon. And the big boys will happily take a dozen iphone equivalents and put them in LEO in passing.

That to me is the growth area

Edit: sorry seemed a bit off dumped the hobbyist reference - just thinking of the issues of orbital speed - until / if orbital speed is achievable for an cluster of iPhones dangling from a weather ballon, then everything depends on huge great rockets. And SpaceX and it's ilk, for all the impact, is only expecting to see a halving of launch costs. It is going to remain a big government big industry game for a very very long time.
Incidentally, if this is intended as some sort of response to gwern's other post [1] as if he's never heard of dual n-back... please do read that FAQ. All 124 pages of it, according to my Firefox print preview.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521885
Not weak and strong, but rather big and small. If someone is 1.6m and another one is 1.8m; the second guy obviously has an advantage (being a bigger guy).

Sure the 1.6m can beat him. (exercise often, learn fighting techniques...) but if they both exercise in the same amount, the difference will remain.
Increasing your score on an IQ test is one thing; getting the benefits expected from more "intelligence" may be another.

In such matters, keep in mind Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

In the domain of IQ, we might observe a very high correlation between higher-IQ and certain desirable results, like a longer/healthier life, lower rates of victimization, higher incomes, and so forth. And we might have a strong case that the test is, at least at the outset, measuring some sort of "general intelligence", and that there is a causal link from "general intelligence" to the other correlated beneficial outcomes.

But, then you start aiming to increase "general intelligence", and your only measure is the IQ test, so your target for evaluating all interventions is the IQ score. Now you are quite likely finding interventions that only raise the IQ score, and perhaps skip any "general intelligence" benefits. Even if your IQ score goes up, you might not get the other benefits. Meanwhile, others still researching the correlation/causation questions may see the original correlations start to weaken, or the case that IQ measures "general intelligence" weaken.

And in fact the originally-valid ideas are weakening! Motivated action around that target has started to thwart whatever signal it once offered.

The problem is universal - in regulation, in education, in investment, in semantics. It's why a lot of high-performing organizations keep their true 'measures' secret... to slow their dilution through motivated optimizations.
Fair enough question. Here are the obstacles to that:

* In larger companies, senior management may be completely inaccessible. Not "officially off-limits", mind you, but busy enough that you've got to deal with their assistants merely to get onto their calendar; and doing so may attract attention from their underlings (still at least one level above you), who may try to influence things before your meeting if they're aware of your agenda.

* Management ego: if the senior management in question has been in their position for quite a while, they may bristle when informed that their master plan has some holes in it.

* Management ego, part II: if you're relatively new to the company, you may have considerable difficulty getting buy-in from the old guard.

* Drowning new management: if senior management has recently undergone a turnover, the new kids in charge may be drinking from the firehose and unable to grasp the enormity of what you're saying. Or, worse, they rely on the input of a longtime company veteran whose "contributions" over the years may have directly caused the problem.

* Out of sight, out of mind: problems for you and your peers may be not be seen as a problem for senior management, especially if there is a great disparity in working environments. Work in a cube on a noisy floor while senior management has large, quiet offices on a different floor (or a different building)? They might not be sympathetic to complaints about your inability to concentrate.

* It's all about the Benjamins: ultimately, management is guided by two things. The first is money; if it's rolling in at the same or greater pace than last year, there is no problem. The second is risk; if you can't specify a specific risk to future business...again, there is no problem. Worse, if somebody can provide a toothless risk mitigation plan that sounds good but does nothing to actually solve your problem, then senior management may still consider the whole thing moot.

This is why many folks -- especially the ones who have been around long enough to have burnt by one of the above a few times -- simply advise suffering employees to look elsewhere.

It's not about apathy, it's about preservation of sanity.
They could even transfer usual "miss u"-alike stuff over SMS, and encode actual message in the time delays.
Extra trivia, so is dice. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dice?q=dice
Cryptanalysis IMO is an on-going process and it needs to be done at every version. The funding will not last. True we need the first analysis, but who is there to fund the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc?

edit

I am not shooting down. Just thought we have to be explicit that this is not a one time thing. I do think once it is verified and studied, and people like it, the contribution will continue to come. We might be able to build new products out of truecrypt.
The delta changes on a modified truecrypt volume is basically the whole file. Still acceptable for smaller volumes generally though
Publishing a long list of misconceptions is a really bad way to destroy them. Readers will skim and just remember the headlines, all of which are false statements.

Spread facts, not "myths"
Agree. Especially since people are sick of signing up for services, especially when it requires username and password.
Most of us on HN have enough intelligence. Other qualities (focus, dedication, ambition, sociability) will have much greater impact on our success in life.
did my comment require disclosure? Were we not supposed to be excited for this?
What's your Internet privacy personality?
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An attitude "It's just a shell script" can be dangerous when you have software that is supposed to be built on multiple platforms. You can never be 100 % sure what your /bin/sh is, be it bash, ash, dash, ksh, zsh or even an ancient Bourne shell.
Indeed. Really the story could be, "How my side project landed me my dream job."
Heh. Literally this morning I had to use Node to pipe data from one process to another. Unless there's a drastic increase in the efficiency of the syntax, I'm keeping this at arm's length.
I'm moving on until I see a link to some open-source code.

With a test suite.
Couple of points:

1) Use it or lose it, neurons act just like muscle fiber in this regard. I'd be more interest if someone can prove that deep thought and learning can lower the chances of cognitive disabilities like age-related dementia.

2) If you want to have a high IQ just retake the IQ test until you do. Maybe one day someone will make a test that will indeed measure intellect across a wide range of contexts, including social and abstract thinking.
I also got an Open, planning on using it as my everyday phone, at least for a while. My requirements for this role weren't too stringent, since it's a new platform. So the only two things it needed to do was perform and receive calls, and allow me to manage contacts.

It fails miserably on the second one. The only options to import contacts are through Facebook, which I don't use, and from a SIM card, which is what I ended up using. Pretty limited, to say the least, but the real kicker is that it has no option to actually export contacts. So if you use it for a while and decide either to wipe the device, or to stop using it, you have no option to retrieve contacts you've since added. I've investigated if it was possible to at least back them up using an ADB shell (it is, supposedly it's an sqlite DB), but apparently you need root on the device to do this, which isn't possible on the default install. I didn't investigate any further when I realized I was actually using Android debug tools at 3 am to get my contacts out of a supposedly consumer ready device.

Needless to say any software updates probably aren't forthcoming from ZTE, since even the upgrade routine fails with an error on these devices (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/967817).

Another thing that bugs me is that while Mozilla are distancing themselves, and their branding, from the likes of the Geeksphone Peak+ (http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/25/peak-plus), which as far as I can tell receives timely updates and has a vibrant community, saying it's not a Firefox OS phone, they're also busy directing people to the manufacturers (ZTE in this case) whenever there is a problem with the officially blessed Firefox OS version running on the first consumer grade FFOS phone.

Next time I waste more time trying to get basic functionality working, I'll just build my own updated images of FFOS (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...) and see if things have improved by then.
I wonder how they took exhaust emissions out of the equation? Aircraft noise is disturbing as hell when you first encounter it, either because you moved under a flight path or because the flight path moved over you, but in my experience you just don't hear it anymore after a few weeks. It's one of the easier environmental sounds to tune out.
But it's clearly more than "no one" would would like to pursue this profitable opportunity without fines, right? (Maybe they're the kind of people who don't show up and vote at condo association meetings, but presumably they're not voting in favor of the rules/fines but then blatantly violating them.)
The open source comment has me puzzled. Where does it differ from Android in that regard?

Edit: I may have misread, I agree it is good to have more open source mobile OSes :)
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Informants are the greatest fear of all clandestine organisations. The reason for this is that they are privy to sensitive information that can be used to damage other members of the organisation.

Read the links I posted. Read this analysis of evolving terrorist tradecraft: http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/61952592764/evolution-of-terror...

Modern clandestine organisations use strict compartmentation to limit the information available to operatives so that informants have limited information. Examples of this exist even in the movies: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/03/11/opsec-lessons-from-re...
It can't be? When the container is 10 gigs and I change one file there aren't 10 gigs writes. It would last "forever."
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The GMAT as well. It's interesting when you work with little kids - you have to encourage them to guess. They're more likely to admit what they don't know.
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This might be a stupid question, but what is the point in acquiring a side project that is MIT-licensed? Was it just a means of acqui-hiring?
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Build build build. Get excited and motivated to learn more.
Great point! Anyway they don't even have to use SMS. Anonymity is easy: http://pastie.org/private/fkbu4qpsvwcwiocrdeang

Would you know who wrote it if I didn't link to it?
Focus!

Here I am wasting time/procrastinating. There certain days, that no matter what I do, consistent concentration is impossible.
If the instruction cache still contains raw, undecoded x86 instructions, I'd be amazed. That seems like the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
Use Freenet, it doesn't suffer from the same problems (one host taken down, site is down)
Inspired by redo, I'm working on a similar project that takes advantage of some of the nicer features of the Inferno OS: sh features like apply, <{}, and quoting rules; /env for shell-variable dependencies; and bind to overlay directories. Its user interface replaces build description files (eg makefiles) with a set of command-line tools to manage build rules and dependencies, an approach I haven't yet seen in other build tools.

https://github.com/catenate/credo
The answers may get better, but don't you want to find out which candidates are more likely to bluff when they're wrong? The point of the interview isn't for candidates to give you answers that are as correct as possible. If this were the case, you'd mail them a list of questions, and ask them to get back to you in a week. One goal of interviews is to find out how people behave when they don't know. This is why I try to take people to the end of their knowledge, no matter where that end is.
To anyone from Fundfill.com: I've tried pledging and authenticating via FB connect in both FF and Chrome with errors rendered with every attempt. The login screen hangs (stays visible) and yet the upper right says I'm logged in.

In either case, I'm unable to pledge using FB connect. Please advise.
Per user salt means that an attacker who has stolen the password db can't crack one password and unlock 100 accounts because they all have the same password hash. That is the only point of a salt it serves no other purpose.

I wouldn't say no other purpose. A single common salt can at least protect you from the guy who has a pre-computed lookup table of dictionary words hashed with a standard, unsalted function. (That is, it prevents a zero-computation attack.) Admittedly that doesn't gain you much these days, but it's not "zero benefit".
This is an absolutely brilliant use of LFSRs.
Or you could just run a middleman node. Then dummy traffic prevents this sort of easy correlation attack. (Actually, I'm not sure Tor does generate any dummy traffic these days. I suppose you could generate your own.)
We would currently have at least 3 undisclosed shills and 100% of comments shilling this submission if I said nothing.

Shilling isn't the best way to express your excitement. Disclosure isn't mandatory but generally people with ethics opt-in to it.
I'm happy with mine, I want to improve other people's. I'm sure you can think of a couple places where that might be handy today.
This is why we want to make it standard for the world over. If everyone uses OTR chat clients, you using OTR chat clients doesn't stand out. If the corporate world uses VPN, then VPN traffic doesn't stand out. If %70 of the internet is always under SSL, then you using another SSL website or email server does not stand out. If %10 of the country uses TOR to look at porn or whatever else in your country because you restrict it with your countries' firewall, then TOR doesn't stand out.
>very computation-intensive

This is a gross understatement and fallacious. Many of the problems being studied today would take millions/billions/trillions of years of computation in order to model... with approximations. Using even the largest clusters on the planet we can't even find the ground state of even the smallest protein (with ab-initio). DFT scales cubically with system size, and DFT is an approximation to actual first principles calculations that are impossibly enormous and can never be fully calculated.

The number of systems we can accurately model is minuscule, the number of open problems in computational chemistry and materials science is enormous.
Anonymity + One Time Pad encryption is sufficient

http://pastie.org/private/fkbu4qpsvwcwiocrdeang

But you have to have real anonymity! If I didn't link to the above, would you know who wrote it? Would you know what the message was?
in theory, it doesn't need to be. you could formalize the definition of the TrueCrypt cryptographic protocol in cryptol[1] and then have a checker run as part of unit tests that verifies the source code is still a faithful implementation of the protocol...

1: http://corp.galois.com/cryptol/
'I also hate how our smalltalk starts with "What do you do for a living?"'

I consider it a clear improvement over its primary competition in other cultures, "Where are you from?" and "Who are your parents?" At least this one, if you don't like the answer you're giving, you have power to change it.
Analyzing changesets is a much more manageable process than an initial audit, so keeping this going via community involvement might be quite possible.
No, it's not. Disk encryption products like TrueCrypt do not have the properties you expect from ordinary file encryption. Only a subset of blocks are modified. It's a tradeoff, but it's the only way to make disk encryption practical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory
Not surprising at all. If you read between the lines of any of this guy's public statements, it's clear that he's a manipulative black hat out for power and money and couldn't give a shit less about his customer's security.
The Holy One can elaborate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw
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I was going to counter this with gymnasts, since size past a point becomes a problem that can't be overcome by the larger man (it is better to be smaller), and then I realized that the idea still holds, there are certain limitations of which we cannot overcome no matter how hard we try.
Yeah, if I drink any form of caffeine, this deep sleep is less effective. I can tell if I am on a caffeine binge working all the time, my days blur into one.
Matthew Green is the real deal. Truecrypt is extremely popular and not already well assessed. If you're wondering whether this could be helpful for ensuring end-user privacy, the answer is yes.

I couldn't make any pledge input work (just kept getting errors) but I'm matching Matthew Green's own pledge.
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Apple fans didn't really like the idea of 5c, but are they really the target group in this case?
Of course I can. If I manage to stop drinking.
How much have they made total so far? Does anyone know? If they did $1 billion in 3 days, it's been almost a month now, perhaps $1.5 billion?
i use a fan too. don't go too modern with your fan or might not be loud enough.
Upper management in recent years doesn't tend to work that way: the time when an assembly-line worker got promoted up the ranks to Ford CEO is long gone. Instead there's a separate class of professional managers who hop jobs between companies, starting from VP-level jobs at smaller companies and moving up towards C-level jobs at larger companies. Same with universities, where the President is no longer usually just a senior professor. This has corresponded somewhat with the divergence in individual/management salaries, I believe, as it's a completely different class of people rotating between firms, not just a promotion up the ranks.

The advantage of that system is that people are indeed professional managers, not e.g. engineers who got promoted to management. But there are also downsides...
None of the evolution deniers that I've met would have the slightest interest in reading this list, but I suppose it's useful to quickly look up counter-arguments to their claims. A similar site with a greater focus on creationist claims can be found at http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html