skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question I am asking is, do they really have the demand to make $1.5million a customer pay (or look like one day it could pay) for their expenses?

My guess is your estimates are really conservative.
Great reply :)

Your last two points are a little weak. Ultimately ZFS does more stuff, so on an SSD its going to be slower than a filesystem which doesn't have all these extra features if you aren't using them. I think there's a trade-off to be had.

All software has bugs, especially ZFS. You could argue it is easier to developer, test, and maintain individual device-mapper building blocks.
Anyone know a story behind this? Some of these have to know exactly what they're doing, so are they trolling or joking or something?
Ah, sendmail in the 90's. So many buffer overruns you might just as well enable telnet and change your root password to "hackme".
We spend long nights with my friends trying to reproduce the weird high-resolution Scorched Earth was using, and then playing it.

This game and Heroes of Might and Magic are the games I like to play with other people in the same room. So much fun!
I don't follow. How would that affect this phenomenon? Given that the cited correlation refers strictly to intelligence, looks (and for that matter, all other factors) are presumably already accounted for.
Every dollar we spend on a ritualized but ultimately pointless trial for a defendant who already knows they're going to be convicted is a dollar we aren't spending on schools. So no, the logic here isn't obvious to me.
That's pre reboot.
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Tim Ferriss just posted a detailed article by Shane Snow that goes into some detail as well: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/09/12/muse-interaxon/
That's what these guys do:

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4881-approximate-bayesian-image-...
> I gave a citation.

You clearly don't understand the meaning of "citation" among scientists. You posted a quote from a press release that didn't even pretend to be a scientific assessment of the work.

> The quote is more than enough evidence

Press releases aren't evidence. Were this not the case, Bigfoot would come into existence on the strength of his press coverage.

> They didn't give a p-value

So, which is it? "The quote is more than enough evidence", or "They didn't give a p-value"? They cannot both be true.

> ... but the reported effect size is quite huge to be chance, and the study included thousands of people.

I can see you have no idea how science works.

> ... to disprove your naive "the researchers didn't bother to test for regression to mean"

You are also not above inventing positions for other people.
https://blogs.oracle.com/richb/entry/my_first_blind_email

Here's a description of the process of sending an email by the creator of Orca, the GNOME screen reader.
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This is the silliest argument for why intelligence would be negatively correlated with number of children. FWIW, the original article very much did not assert that assertion; reproductive success (meaning having any children at all survive the parents) in fact may be positively correlated because the social status of richer/more intelligent parents translates to higher survival rates for their offspring.

Regardless, while the absolute cost of raising children may be higher for high-income families, the share of their total income that represents is much lower. Someone earning minimum wage will struggle to support even one child's basic food, clothing, and shelter; their counterpart making $1M a year could easily afford private school, childcare, and the best possible opportunities for a family of 3-4 children.
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Rankings can seem to be unstable if the absolute differences between the scores are very small relative to the likely ways those scores could change.

Example:

Rank,Score

1,0.81

2,0.541

3,0.540

..

40,0.538

Increasing the value of row 40 by just 1% will cause it to go from rank 40 to rank 2.

Edit: Improved formatting.
Yes, I'm very influenced by Bret Victor: http://akkartik.name/search_results?q=%22%26mdash%3B+bret+vi...

Yes, your goal is worthy as well. I'm interested to hear more about it, but maybe we should take it offline. My email is in my profile; feel free to get in touch.
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Such catastrophes would have to do a better job of isolating people than they've been doing so far. Humanity is remarkably similar from a genetic perspective when taken as a species. I don't think your theory stands much chance unless you're willing to go interplanetary or inter-stellar. On planet earth we are remarkably mobile, to the point where if we lose all shipping ability and even knowledge of other civilizations that we'll likely re-discover all this from first principles within at most a few thousand years.
> if you don't want it, it does not have value that you would seek out

Many people are quite happy with their unplanned children, so it is difficult to make this value judgment. It is also extremely difficult to measure as I suspect most of those who regret unplanned children are unwilling to admit it.

You are considering cost versus benefit without any reasonable estimation of benefit.
I have a question as a potential remote employee: If I live in a city with a very high cost-of-living, will it be difficult to find a remote position that pays reasonably well relative to my cost-of-living?

I assume one of the biggest benefits to hiring a remote worker is you can hire someone with a very low cost-of-living and pay them relatively relative to that. But if I'm living in a place with a high cost-of-living and the company can hire someone from any part of the world, why wouldn't they wait and find someone that's super inexpensive?
I just saw this reply. I remember thinking, doesn't she always have a vacuum cleaner? At least that's what I picture, it's been a while. You should mechanical turk watching the series :P
It's certainly possible if you factor in the social and geographic trends and take them to extreme conclusions. It's merely reproductive separation that is required. Whether this be due to geography, climate, mating calls or unattractive IQ isn't really of import. I'll agree that right now the barrier isn't sufficient enough, but I don't think that is what OP was saying (could be wrong).

That said, your point about the time scales is definitely on mark. It would take a long time and likely far more significant isolation than present (don't have numbers). Genetic engineering could speed that up substantially.

Of course social factors would likely prohibit any talk about separate species. From a pure biologist perspective there are many different animal species fully capable of reproducing but are speciated because their natural breeding behavior (or location) doesn't support interbreeding. Using the same measure/definition, one could objectively argue that uncontacted tribes and isolated peoples are a different 'species'.

I personally think scientists need to agree on some fundamental genetic/epigenetic (maybe even microbiomic) markers of speciation and move away from more subjective definitions. Reproductive potential makes sense when looking at speciation likelihood, but I am not sure it makes sense as a definition of different species.
You are absolutely right. I heard on one of the 9/11 shows there was a very limited number of dogs capable of working at that type of scene searching for people/bodies. And by limited I think it was like < 30 in the entire world.

At home I have a rottweiler(ruby) and she is really smart and obedient. She is driven by life. If that makes sense. My brother a has a doberman and the dogs hang out all day every day, but the doberman is driven by food. When we used to have the doberman at the junk yard she would run around through broken glass and other stuff and always be fine. I can teach both dogs any trick in the world, but the doberman has this innate unexplainable overriding intelligence through problem solving. It's pretty cool.
I think it's generally abbreviated that way because it's phrased "Shit Outta Luck"
Well, that's a Simpsons joke[1], so maybe it's popular because of that.

[1] http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Inanimate_carbon_rod
Regarding your last point (and also from the POV as someone who works in ticketing but not for TM) -- many organizations I work with (non-TM venues) and for are now transitioning to a lower unified fee structure. That is, a single fee that is the same no matter the sales channel. This trains our customers to expect a small fee at all times, we can keep that fee very consistent, and is often more in line with the nature of the agreement held with the performer regarding net adjusted gross income.
I'm a blind Windows user because general desktop accesibility in Linux is not great. I've attempted to set up Emacspeak under a Linux VM but installation has always been dificult. Seeing this article though has gotten me to look into using Vagrant to create a Linux Vm that will install Emacspeak.
> iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox

Any plans to support open storage, e.g. WebDAV on OwnCloud?
Why so many Tweets contain embedded images
That is a substantial assumption.
My understanding is that Chrome replaced Webkit in WebView's internal implementation in 4.4, so the bug should never appear in 4.4.
Many times the order item numbers will be sequential within the order, but each order will have a different number.

You can order three tickets and you'll get 08737401, 08737402, and 08737403, but the next person to order three tickets will get 08343201, 08343202, and 08343203.
I can't speak for the GCTA method, but the five main findings discussed in the review have all been known within the field for years: this is a review, rather than a research article.

If these findings are surprising to you, it is because there is probably no greater gap between lay and expert opinion than on the subject of intelligence. The psychological study of intelligence has a poor reputation among the lay public primarily due to the perception that it might support unsavory political conclusions. Hence, psychometric research must be intrinsically flawed crackpottery. In truth, the correlations between IQ and various life outcomes exceed practically any other effect observed in social science. Further, we have as much reason as we ever could have in social science--from a variety of sources all pointing in the same direction--to suspect that the causal arrow points from intelligence to good outcomes.

I encourage you to look into the issue for yourself, but my synopsis is that the picture one gets from the literature is unrecognizably different from the picture one gets from non-specialist media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellige...
> Tesla's been given a lot of taxpayer money plus a lot of incentives for buyers to make their product more attractive.

One could argue that by not taxing the externality of their business (CO2 emissions), auto manufacturer's that make traditional gas guzzlers have been given far more government assistance than Tesla. The incentives that you speak of are intended to produce a positive benefit to society (less pollution) rather than as a handout to help Tesla.
I'm sorry, i love talking semantics and that's what this discussion is, if you question the meaning of embedded. That word is not well defined, afaict, and i was just trying to add some perspective.

> I would be ignoring the majority of the software on my phone

I'd like to argue that the baseband processor is the biggest part of the phone, save for relaying and converting the microphone input. The rest is just a handheld computer. But that's the True Scottsman you made out.
In fact, Android might be a good example, just one that doesn't support your point too well, because the Scottsman Fallacy is working both ways. When we are talking true OS with services and drivers et al, android is relevant, ofc. Still, it might be chosen because of any other reason as well. The reference to Android is akin to an argument of authority.

You can run Linux on L4 as a hypervisor, by the way. I have no clue how that works, but maybe we have a microkernel running the Linux-kernel as a service. :)
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I just worked admissions for a festival in Seattle, and we have started seeing scalpers actually walk with the customer to the gate, and verify they get entrance. If the scalped ticket isn't valid, the scalper will refund right there. People have stopped trusting scalpers with print outs, because they often don't work. The resellers are realizing this and offering guarantee.

As an aside, many festivals and venues don't disallow re-entry due to TM implementation (I've been to enough TM ticketed events that have re-entry). They ban in-and-out so that you cannot go elsewhere to drink or eat without the festival surcharge and kickback.
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By that argument, we should eliminate jury trials and set the criminal burden of proof to be a preponderance of evidence.
My comment doesn't argue that intelligence is negatively correlated with having children, it argues that it is difficult to incentivise intelligent people to have children. Although looking at figures for 2010 it does seem that there is a negative correlation between income and number of births (at least in the US).

http://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fami...

Survival rate is unlikely to be highly correlated with income in a first world country because even the poor have relatively good healthcare. The group most likely to have children are those earning $10,000 per year or less, probably because at that income level the state will pay most of the costs associated with child rearing. In fact in some cases having children might make a person better off financially due to higher priority for welfare or public housing etc.
Being able to interbreed is the very definition of a species.

So if two specimen are capable of breeding and the resulting offspring is not sterile they are considered to be of the same species.

Being from an un-contacted tribe has nothing whatsoever to do with speciation.
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If Go would just give us generics and improve performance a bit more, then yea I think it has a bright future. Rust on other hand needs to do the opposite and find some ways to simplify things a bit.

Julia and Elixir are both promising too but they both have some quarks to get past if they want to hit the big time.
erm.. northern ireland?
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Is it really 'something in-between'? This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plomin - if there's a greater living behavioral geneticist, his name escapes me.
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I was thinking "catastrophe" as in a wipe out the dinosaurs asteroid hit or a global pandemic that takes out 95% of the population (think Ebola)or an EMP event that results civilization collapse, etc. So if Silicon Valley residents are the only survivors (god help us :-)and there is a higher IQ density there than other locations and if IQ is really significantly genetic, then the average IQ of humans has increased and can be maintained in the population. Other pockets of survivors would have an IQ density similar to that present in the general population existing before the catastrophe and based on our hypothetical case, lower than that in Silicon Valley. It is the geographic isolation and geographic concentration of a particular genetic trait that makes this type of selection possible.
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Australasia? Really?
The list is helpful but the truth is it's hard to believe that someone who says:

"There’s lots of advice on the internet, mostly bad. Our new series, “Tech Law Link Lists” picks out the more useful guidance for startups."

...would agree with everything that is being said in all of those links. And to me that's an irony worth explaining.

Further it says "This first installment is about finding the right lawyer for your startup. "

Installment of what? Curated set of links? Why not, if you are so good, take the time to pick apart and specifically discus what is right and what might be wrong and how your opinion differs. You certainly can't agree with everything that others say, right?
It was more a response to the parent comment. I was suggesting that an intelligent person may choose a mate that's less intelligent because they're prettier which would help resist some of the divergence.

They mention assortative mating is greater for intelligence compared to physical aspects like height and weight, but 'prettiness' is a more subjective harder to quantify measure that I would guess plays a larger role in mate selection than just height and weight. This is ignoring the fact that height and weight are probably opposite anyway (women wanting taller men, men wanting shorter women) - so there are some issues there too.
...what would you call constant prompts to upgrade coupled with the inability to restore backups if you don't, if not coercive?
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Ford (and other manufacturers) do put on demo events in public areas where customers can test drive vehicles with no sales pressure and pick up marketing literature. But if you actually want to buy they'll point you to a local dealer, and may have some dealer reps on hand to help.
http://www.ford.com/newsevents/events/eventsdetail/?id=351

The other model that some legacy manufacturers are working on is to let customers go through the whole purchase process on their corporate web site and then just take delivery through the local dealer. The dealers are happy with this arrangement since they still get to profit on the sale and don't have to do any sales work.
Yeah, you're right. People are actually willing to pay for minecraft instead of have it coerced out of them by government.
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Amazing. If you said to someone "Hey, I wanted to know where you went after the cab picked you up last year, so I called up the cab company and asked them where they dropped you off and they told me", they would be outraged at (your behavior and) the breach of privacy shown by the cab company. But the city released a dataset that allows exactly this query. What were they thinking?

Something else that could be mentioned in the linked article: if someone you were with got in a cab in 2013, and they told you where they were going, and you remember the approximate time and location, you can tell whether it was their true destination regardless of how many other people were being picked up at the time, because you don't have to find the exact ride they took, you only have to see whether any rides went to the place they told you.

This search is even extremely resistant to the differential privacy suggested by the post's authors. I'd be much happier simply stating that location data is not de-identifiable, and no-one should use a cab in a city that logs location data if they aren't happy with an adversary knowing where they went.
I'm actually quite surprised by this. I thought once the congressmen started complaining that it needed to be single contract[1] that NASA would go all Boeing. Good on them, I think they've struck the best balance they can do politically, financially, and technologically.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/us-house-pares-nasas-...
Years of someone's life versus government operating expenses?

Have you spent much time on jury duty? Hanging out in a room full of prospective jurors, some of whom are literally praying for the day's cases to get settled before they're compelled to spend days or even weeks in court, gives one a real gut-level appreciation for the court system's love of settlements.

It's not just a matter of paying more taxes, because the costs of a jury trial can't all be settled with cash. Jurors get paid a stipend in my state, but it's $50 per day, which wouldn't fully compensate a minimum-wage worker, let alone a doctor, a lawyer, or a consultant. Companies must pay their salaried workers for up to three days of jury service, but lots of people don't have salaries (see above under "consultants"), and backlogs and inboxes accumulate whether you're on the job or not.

And, even if it were a good idea, dialing back the right to trial-by-jury in the USA would be the opposite of a "straightforward" reform, because that right is in the Constitution.
As long as you are mentioning your company it might be a good idea to detail the advantages of why you are a viable option to the 3 choices that you list.

Next let me give you some marketing advice (which is one of my specialties). As long as you took the time to write this detailed paragraph on HN you should also have it on your website (somewhere) and make it the core of your marketing message right on the home page.

As in "LawGives vs. Big Firm" "LawGives vs. LegalZoom" etc.
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For windows to linux there is NSIS. I don't know how it works, but seems to convert something at some point.
This is a hell of a quote.
Most of the .el files are compressed as .el.gz files; also /sbin/.

$ find /usr/share/emacs/24.3/ \
> -name '*.el' -exec grep -E '/s?bin/' {} + -o \
> -name '*.el.gz' -exec zgrep -E '/s?bin/' {} + | wc -l
212
$ find /usr/share/emacs/24.3/ \
> -name '*.el' -exec grep call-process {} + -o \
> -name '*.el.gz' -exec zgrep call-process {} + | wc -l
400
Thanks for linking that lecture on negotiation! - it was an enjoyable listen and I especially liked the emphasis on fairness and even altruism to others in negotiations. I think humanity's a lot more fun to think about when people are good to each other.
As far as government coercions go, it's hard to understand how someone could have a problem with forcing people to give up money in order to develop the most important technology in the history of technology. Would you mind explaining your point of view in a little more detail?

There won't be a market for space travel until it's a reality, so this would seem to be one of the only ways forward.
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Actually, Russia being aholes helps guarantee their funding.

If Russia did a 180 and suddenly behaved itself and left Ukraine, maybe your scenario could happen but what is the likelyhood of that.
Two points about this. First, a consensus developed over more than a hundred years of study requires a little more than an off-handed dismissal-- do you understand _why_ a general factor of intelligence is acknowledged by practically everyone who has studied the issue, or why it is impossible to devise a test that purports to measure cognitive ability but varies independently of that general factor?

Secondly, I gladly accept your reductio of a "general factor of fitness". If you restrict yourself to the range of world-class athletes, I grant that performance in archery will correlate negatively with performance in sprinting. This is just Berkson's paradox, or the "restriction of range" phenomenon. If you consider the entire population, however, I would be very surprised if a "general factor of fitness" didn't fall right out of a battery of athletic tests. In general, people who are faster than average will also be stronger than average and probably more dextrous too, and it makes sense to call that factor "physical fitness".
What alternative are you suggesting? Any finite precision numbers will have most of the same problems as IEEE floats. Decimal numbers are a specific case -- assuming them by default would be worse in some ways.
Sadly, I am quite certain the story is that people are just naive.