skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge, there is no evidence for the assertion that oversized brains is based on sexual preference. We see brain size enlargement across many mammals, and our brains are about what's expected for a primate our size.

The title ("large testicles are linked to infidelity") refers to a trend across species, but cannot be applied to members of a given species. For example, the giant panda is taxonomically a carivore, but 99% of what it eats is bamboo. Just because a skull type and digestive tract is linked to being a carnivore, doesn't mean that the animal is that.

"The female has also an opportunity to filter out those who will be permitted fatherhood, for example by having an orgasm." There are dozens of conjectures about female orgasms. Quoting from Wikipedia's Orgasm#Theoretical_biological_and_evolutionary_functions :

> They quote primate sexuality specialist Alan Dixson in saying that the monogamy-maintenance explanation for female orgasm "seems far-fetched" because "females of other primate species, and particularly those with multimale-multifemale [promiscuous] mating systems such as macaques and chimpanzees, exhibit orgasmic responses in the absence of such bonding or the formation of stable family units." On the other hand, Dixson notes that "Gibbons, which are primarily monogamous, do not exhibit obvious signs of female orgasm.

These observations would suggest that the orgasm/permitting fatherhood hypothesis is incorrect.

"If you have all your children with one man, influenza may kill all of them. However, if you mate with the neighbouring male as well, perhaps only some of the children will perish."

Again, this is one of many conjectures. Another is that women find it advantageous to sleep with many men because men will help raise their own children, and will help even if there's only a 25% chance of the child being theirs.

(Also, I don't think influenza infections are genetic in that way.)

The problem with all of these is that there's no real evidence one way or another. As a result, it's easy for cultural biases to strongly sway our interpretations. Take the term "infidelity." That has two meanings: sex with someone other than one's long-term partner, and the cultural and emotional expectations, leading to jealousy, that one won't have sex except with one's partner.

The phrase "We can pledge our fidelity until we are blue in the face" implies the second is true, but on evolutionary timescales there's no justification for that belief that people 10,000 years ago followed the same cultural expectations. We know that different cultures right now do not.

It sounds like the goal of this exhibition is to get people to think about different possibilities. However, it's also likely that the suggestions proffered reflect too much of the presenters' own biases rather than the diversity of hypotheses available.
I agree with that point with respect to the host's fitness.
But the conflict here stems from the fact that those other constraints (such as the host's long term survival or reproduction) has little or no value in itself to the parasite, so there's a chance to have a mismatch of fitness objectives between the host and the parasite.
I might have used that if it was made by a company like Twitter.... which advertises, but doesn't meddle with the content.
But seeing that it's Facebook, most of the stories we see will be targeted towards our 'Likes' and the rest will be targeted ads.
He was talking in a 'naturalistic' way so I responded in kind. In reality if I found someone has stolen my home I'd call the authorities unless of course I feel a danger to my life in which case, had I not lived in the UK where guns are illegal, yes - shooting them would have been the first course of action. That is nothing to do with law or ethics, and lots to do with survival instinct.
Mission Bit – Free coding classes for SF students
Pretty. I like the UI innovative touches for flipping through content, panning pictures, etc. The video does a good job of selling it. Alas, not for me.

It seems to me a type of app better suited perhaps to the tablet format. Personally I'm over consuming content like this on my phone. In most cases I may skim something quickly and if it really catches my attention then I'll wait until I'm on a bigger screen to explore it further.

The Share section tries to make the point of "the most important stories… your own" and it's a good one, well presented. From my own personal experience though I believe that most of the people I follow online, whether prolific or not, will not dedicate a lot of time to "production" work as in selecting headlines, backgrounds for those headers, more than a couple of beautiful pictures (they never really come out as good as presented), etc. to create a flip-book like these. This will be a good medium for… commercial producers? as shown, the CNNs, Time magazines, of course the Verge, Engadgenet, etc, and that's what I'd end up consuming only to finally uninstall.

But I know, that's just me, and my 2 cents.
The radical trajectories of social networks
I don't see a lot of difference from Google Play Newsstand or Flipboard.
Sure, but it does matter how you present your argument, and that's not at all what the GP expressed, even if it might have been the intended meaning.
Anybody know how they kept the phone so still in those videos? The hand holding it doesn't move. Is there a pole underneath attaching it to a surface we can't see?
2 words: thumb drive.
Flipboard should be very excited about it :) #sarcasm
Lots of these comments are the reason I read HN. I love an educated discussion, especially as a response to an article with breathes pretentions like this one.
I'm getting weird video display issues on iPhone 5S:

https://posts.app.net/21220141
Worst info site ever. I can't even tell what it is.

An app? a model of phone? a website? a new facebook feature?
I hope they don't put ads in this app. Or those sponsored posts from the newsfeed.
I think the "By Example: Continuation Passing Style" post linked from the article does a pretty good job of this.
That's pretty awesome, sounds ideal for a RESTful API. In Scala I've noticed a tendency toward using NoSQL storage engines like MongoDB, which speaks a form of native JSON (i.e. it removes the BP required to marshall to/from JSON).

A few months ago I took a stroll through available Haskell libraries for web dev., found Yesod, HaskellDB, and a couple of other glue items.

What's the state of the art on the web framework front in Haskell? Snap looks interesting but incomplete, and HaskellDB is fairly ancient (LINQ-to-SQL lib would probably get me very interested in Haskell sooner rather than later). Assume email, PDF generation and other web must-haves exist in Haskell ecosystem.
LibreOffice 4.2 released
because what we need right now is another way to view our facebook feed
Nintendo working on non-wearable health monitoring tech
Have been to several Ruby conferences over the past year, and I've never seen this sort of thing during a conference.

The after-parties can get a little nuts, but those aren't handled by the organizers -- and it'd be more than a little asinine to tell a group of adults what they can and can't do in their spare time.
Somewhere around the age of 18 and 19, most people develop the ability to not care about what other people think about their activities and preferences.

Those who don't develop it before 30 or so will always suffer at the hands of those who do, and the latter group includes people who consider themselves inclusive and socially conscious.
It looks like most of it is an image, with an animation put inside: https://fbcdn-dragon-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t39.2365...
Typed Actors with Routing
How else would they make money?
Maybe it depends on specifics. Mint must have some heuristics that attempt to discern whether or not a transaction is a symmetric internal transfer and they work for some and not for others. It's not an easy problem, given the zillion variables and different banks etc. but after all these years and witnessing the choices they've made on where to allocate resources it's hard to give them the benefit of the doubt.
If you don't know JavaScript, you're really handicapped using any form of higher-level language wrapper. Coffeescript is syntax sugar. Run into problems or library incompatibility with other components and you don't know JavaScript...well...

BTW, for the record, I've never actually known a coffeescript dev who didn't know JavaScript, too, though.
You could use the open source model for your product (as the people answering are explaining).

Basically, leave all the code open to the world and have a hosted solution which people can pay for.

If you're looking for someone to join you guys or refine the idea, I would be keen to work with you (hopefully you are American and have access to the US market - otherwise the idea won't really take of).
> Come on, should we also have complimentary joints available? You know marijuana use can be linked to reduced stress and studies suggest it can be useful in treating depression! Please. This doesn't belong in the workplace!

And I ask, why not?
The key is if you can match the simulation parameters to the results, so you can say "if the disadvantage of having to produce hormones to control the host becomes less than X, then we see sex mind control appearing - we generally don't see this in nature, so it must be more disadvantageous than X to produce hormones". That's a real result.
Smartspender – designing a stylish app for tracking your spending habits
Because I don't trust them with my data.
In a hearsay battle between Paypal and a thief, why is the burden on PayPal to prove its innocence?
XMLUnit: Easy way to unit test your xml data (BSD License)
Why the 'Internet of Things' may never happen
There are plenty of mature workspaces in London, with people that take the job seriously and consider their role akin to engineering rather than playtime at the zoo.

Never have worked with the old-street set though, so I guess YMMV.
I can't see that being confusing at all. A little bit sloppy from Facebook to be honest, it seems like they've gotten around it as Paper (by 53) is iPad only and Paper (by Facebook) is iPhone only.

If anyone from Facebook is reading, Paperbook. Problem solved.

EDIT: There's a Universal app called Paper as well.
There was a science fiction short story I read about someone who was an officer in the pollution control agency in some random city in the USA. This officer was tracking down an illegal vehicle (it was petrol powered, and being picked up by city-wide microphones). It turns out the owner of the vehicle was the head honcho of the pollution control agency, who had seen the pollution from China reaching the Eastern seaboard of the USA and decided it was game over: no point complying with pollution regulations when the pollution from China was going to kill everyone anyway.

From memory the story was called "The Breath of the Dragon". I think it was in an Isaac Asimov "Analog" magazine.
Is this a native app or a web app running in a browser? I watched the video (at work, so without sound) and I can't tell. If its browser based then I'm extremely impressed.
That's good to know. I definitely did not mean to imply that the Ruby community was "the problem."
Why can't they release ONE app for increasing value than making money.
Does anyone have the compiled epub? make fails with a generic error for me.
What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene
I see this as more an iteration than true innovation. It looks as though they're taking your existing Facebook content and putting it in a different wrapper. A pretty wrapper, to be sure, but in the end I think it will still be filled with things like "pg said If I get 50 million likes I can be on the front page of HN."
Great! Yet another innovative way to view cat pictures and selfies.
It's funny how the users in the video aren't even reading their stories.
Author here -- thanks for submitting, xd!

Let me know if you have any questions. I do intend to keep up with this series, although my pace is pretty slow at about one article every three months or so.

There are already a couple of comments about running ML in JS and how JS and the browser environment isn't terribly suited for heavy calculations. First: you're totally correct; second, I chose JS because it's

1) accessible -- whether you're Python or Ruby or PHP on the backend, you're probably comfortable with JS and

2) it demystifies machine learning -- you have to write your ML from scratch, without the help of all those wonderful Python libs, and I think this exercise shows you that it's not so mysterious after all.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and I'll poke in here throughout the day if you have questions.
Bitcoin – a Keynesian Conspiracy?
X in JavaScript..... ugh

if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
No. these trends are legitimate. It's not everyone. Nobody says that. But it gets enough fans that it is a legitimate trend.

Just like ASMR is a kind of weird trend in America, and now around the world.

To me, it's not weird at all that many people find it interesting to watch. I certainly type up "Chocolate ASMR" into youtube and watch a lot of those videos of people eating chocolate quietly for fun.
>It'd be more than a little asinine to tell a group of adults what they can and can't do in their spare time.

I take it you haven't used this global network called Internet, and your comment was sent through some kind of SMS proxy.
+1. looks great, but I'd love to have a feed to follow. I tend to forget about this kind of thing if I don't subscribe.
How Samuel Beckett became Silicon Valley’s life coach.
Coinbase and Mint Announce First Bitcoin Personal Finance Integration
the OTHER videos are the context for THIS video.
Clarity of syntax is a matter of opinion (personally, I agree that Python is clearer than JS... Java, not so much.)

Implying that JavaScript can't "run at a useful speed" is wrong, using modern implementations. This is especially true for code that runs through lots of repetition as the just-in-time compilers in the JS engines do a remarkable job.

Not to mention that viewing JS as a UI-oriented language seems a bit out of date given the 40k or so packages for Node.js that are in npm.

JavaScript of today is pretty different than JS of 2007, and there are more changes coming with generators, iterators, destructuring, class syntax, arrow functions, promises, etc.
Note: these questions aren't related to the article, but at sourcing.io who's blog is writing content.

I'm trying to figure out how sourcing.io gets it's developers. As a techie, there was no obvious way for me to put up a profile or anything. There's an explanation that it uses the companies team's social networks, so maybe the employees have to share all their specific account profiles with the company (see below on more on this).

How does this differ from something like TalentBin that scrapes together peoples various social profiles and aggregates them into a single "report/summary"?

Also, do employees really give up their social graph to their employer? I keep mine pretty tightly locked away. I've built it, maintained it. I might or might not be with the company in six months (They might lay me off. I might get a better job.) Occasionally, I've dug into mine to find someone when one of those emails is sent around mentioning a hiring bonus for a certain position. Or when I need to hire someone directly. But I still don't openly share mine.
I'm 5'9"/Male and well while I was sad and depressed due to various circumstances, I was consuming around 5000+ calories. I would literally stay up late into the night consuming 1.25+ Large Pizza Hut Pizzas with stuffed crust. Add to that the free bread/cheese rolls you get for being the first time buyer. So I auto generated codes for myname+N@gmail.com where N starts at 0 and goes up to whatever you want.

Thankfully I was a heavy gym user prior to the period and I got some sanity back by the time I hit 225 lbs, my peak weight, and I've now again come down to 185 lbs.

During this period I'd just eat and I could eat a lot, there wasn't much to my day so I wasn't doing back breaking work AT ALL.

- Just another perspective.
There is Loader.io from SendGrid (http://loader.io/) that lets you load test your web apps with thousands of concurrent connections.
Chris King?
Those markets are not large enough to sustain a product like the Segway.
Godaddy.
I imagine that the thieves would likely treat this as an art theft, and hold it for ransom rather than try to sell it.
"My personal experience is that I'm sharper at 40 than 20 "

I think it is hard to judge oneself objectively, especially a self that is 20 years in the past.

It is better to look at other people.
My older colleagues usually seem to take more time to understand stuff. But analyzing this closer, during discussions for example, reveals that they think a lot more while they try to fit the new stuff into what they already know. Young colleagues accept things much faster and want to go on. As a consequence they seem to be less critical and farseeing in average.

Also, my smart older colleagues usually have really good and sophisticated solutions to problems. Judging by the degree of sophistication, I am rarely surprised, that it takes them longer to develop solutions.
The major flaw I spot in this is the so-called "intern-overwork".

Have you seen how interns slog their lives away on Wall Street? You'll face the same situation in your company as the interns will burn more hours and try to deliver a lot more than the regular team, with the simple goal of displacing the regular team (to either take up their jobs, gain rapid exposure and experience, use the success of the internship to promote themselves, etc.).

You should investigate the reason for stagnation. Sometimes laws and restrictions prevent existing companies from innovation, which an incumbent startup uses to his advantage and manipulates the interpretation of the laws (ie. Uber and other taxi service companies).

Your idea does have merit though. I remember reading about how FogCreek let their interns build a new product for them during Summer. The product was a success and they all got jobs (or most of them). If you are a software-product firm, it definitely is worth attempting. Just work out the kinks/flaws.
Have you read the article? I make it pretty apparent that JS is used primarily for its educational value :)
I feel the people doing heavy work with graphics APIs and 3D work with robots too will push this back into the javascript language given some time.
Google Announces Action On Another ‘Link Network’
I'm surprised Github lacks this feature. Good job!
> If you feel like the event is too immature, don't show up or organize your own events.

I don't know how you meant that, but it reads very much like STFU or GTFO to me.

> The reason there's so much alcohol is because it acts as a social lubricant.

Except that alcohol is more than just a social lubricant; it's a disinhibitor.

That in and of itself creates an exclusionary environment for many women, because they can't rely on physical dominance to counteract the dangers that come with a large group of uninhibited men.

Apart from that; the simple fact that it might not be appealing to a large group of people you wish to involve in your community should be reason enough in- and of itself, much like how insisting on things like dirt-bike racing for team activities might be considered exclusionary for certain groups whom this would appeal less to.
Their cache engine will love you for this!
It's native. Zuckerberg has self-proclaimed Facebook to be "a mobile company."
> A Common Lisp-style condition system is a pretty key thing for me.

What does that mean? I absolutely agree with you about using ! and ? (and other special characters too!) in symbol names. That's something I'd like to see more languages adopt.
if it's on paper, it ARE true
Your Pentest Tools Arsenal – Survey
Now I'm getting into it. I want to see him finish eating it. Simply because I don't believe he'll do it.
To be fair, OP makes it very clear that his concern is minor compared to gender/ethnic exclusion.
I would have done

var spacify = function (s) {
return s.match(/\w/g).join(' ')
};
> I've only cried literal tears once in the last ten years, over business.

> Don't code when you're distracted.

Same story here, I can't remember the exact scenario but I was concurrently acting under all three of my titles (Developer, Architect, Escalation Engineer/Critical Debugger). The customer (who was 7 hours different to us) had been battling for 3 months and we were getting nowhere (all thanks to a, since fixed, bug in WinDBG which essentially came down to broken stack traces in certain scenarios), for those 3 months I had been working 20 hour shifts (development by day, support by night).

Under that strain I eventually made a screw up with the dev and it cost QA time. The MD of my region had a sit down with me and I

> cried literal tears

Needless to say they were impressed that I someone cared so much and sent me home to sleep. The next day I came in and decided to go through the 800kloc codebase line-by-line and see what could be causing the issue - I found it in a few hours.

Lesson #4: Get sleep.
I think this is the correct response. If you don’t like it, don’t do it, and if it makes you uncomfortable, don’t attend. People are not doing Jaeger bombs in the convention center aisle during a presentation, and I feel like the author is trying to make that argument.

Nobody is being forced to drink, but I have a feeling that if the author were to make his own conference, drinking would be explicitly forbidden. That’s the biggest problem with prohibitionists of any type (whether it’s alcohol, recreational marijuana, or whatever). It’s not enough that something is optional and they’re not forced to partake. They must force you not to partake.
At the end of the video it shows a Apple app store graphic. So I would say its a native app.
In my opinion, the hacker who hijacked this guy's Twitter account didn't have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention. Just think about it, in just one email he puts the blame on both GoDaddy, for doing phone validation over unsecure criteria (like credit card numbers), and PayPal (for giving out the last digits of the card number to a complete stranger). There might be some truth to it (GoDaddy's phone validation sucks and GoDaddy sucks altogether), but I've read the original HN thread and the majority of comments are directed against GoDaddy or PayPal, rather than the real perpetrator. There are a million ways to hijack someone's account - including but not necessary by exploiting flaws of GoDaddy / PayPal - but I wouldn't trust the hijacker to kindly explain to me how he actually did it.
The underlying assumption at FB seems to be that people are interested in (something like a) magazine but one curated not by professional journalists, designers and advertisers but rather curated by uncle joe, grandma bessie, etc. I know which magazine I'd rather read.
I hate alcohol. It's putrid to me. I've tried drinking everything from some of the better brewed beers to sweeter wines, and I just can't stand the taste. So when I go to a social event that heavily involves drinking, I opt for a water or a soda. Not once has anyone treated me differently, or have I felt that my interactions with others were at all hindered by my lack of alcohol intake.

I think this is more a personal issue, both with the person not drinking, and the people who are. I imagine a lot of these conferences tend to attract a younger demographic than what I'm used to seeing in my field (medicine) where people have reached an age where they just don't care if you're drinking or not, and so perhaps there's a component of immaturity here.
I have not seen any of these issues at the meetups here in DC or the one conference I've been to (ng-conf). People drank some, sure (including me), but binge drinking wasn't on the order of agenda for most of us. Nobody was judged for not drinking either.