skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Specifically human intelligence of the kind that builds internets and spaceships has evolved exactly once on all of Earth's history, in contrast to things like eyes and wings, which have evolved dozens of times.

>All of this suggests that specifically human intelligence--not dolphin or bird or any other kind of intelligence that does not build internets and spaceships--has an unusually narrow bottleneck to get through compared to most other capabilities, despite the ridiculous benefits available once a species gets through it.

do you place Neanderthals in the same bucket of internet building intelligence or not? If not, then is it because you believe that Neanderthals weren't capable in principle to get to Internet age? If yes, then where do you make a cut-off as it seems that we have continuous range of intelligence down through ancient human species to primates to racoons...
> But the point of "Only hire A players! Fire B players!" is simply due to the fact that most startups can't afford to sit around and move demotivated employees around until they find a good fit.

I think that is very much correct. However, a central point of Daniel's post, modified for this example, is that one startup's "A-player" is another startup's "B-player", and vice versa. Additionally, its kinda hard to figure out who is going to be an "A-player" for you in the hiring process.

> It's also the same reason why many startups don't train people for jobs and instead expect them to be already experienced.

I'd argue that many startups don't have a handle on what they actually need, and depending on how fluid their execution is at a given time such a handle may not be possible.
It's not like SpiderMonkey starts up instantaneously. Also, an interpreter is of course slower than the quick and dirty native code generated by V8.

JSC doesn't seem to have an advantage in the extremely short-running SunSpider benchmark suite.

Dart's snapshots are also something you just can't do with JavaScript, because the program structure is created imperatively with JS. You have to run quite a bit of code before you can actually run the program itself.

> Is it a meaningful amount that I should be worried?

Worried about what? Why would you care anyways? Do you also get worried if some game uses a Lua VM?

I use Dart for pretty much everything. Command line tools, web servers, and client-side scripting. It's an excellent choice for the things I do and the things I want to do.

It's a better fit than Java, C#, JavaScript, Python, or PHP. I still do use those languages occasionally, but Dart is my primary language now.
I used to feel that way. However, now that I am mostly retired, owning both iOS and Android devices does not seem necessary, and giving up some freedoms and jumping with both feet into Apple's little walled garden seems like a reasonable decision. I am almost certain to trade in my beautiful Samsung phone for an iPhone 6+. I have been running the beta of Yosemite for a long while and the new iOS 8 integrations with OS X, look good. I feel like making my life simpler.

I almost went in the opposite direction. I have been a Linux fan since 1992, and I still have several Linux servers I use for hosting my web apps. I thought of getting a FSF 'free' style phone, etc. and have fun with that.

But, I feel like a simpler life style now and I am willing to give up flexibility and, I hate admitting, some FSF style freedoms. #sellout
Over the years, I saw many presentations from Steve that I thought were bland or off in some way.

Pointing out Steve's statement that nobody would want a big phone, implying that a big iPhone isn't something Steve would have allowed to happen, ignores Steve's famous habit of dismissing something and then doing it anyway. I remember when he said nobody wanted to watch movies on an iPod, and then new iPods came out with the ability to play movies.

I often see complaints that "Jobsian Apple" would never release multiple versions of something, even though there was the iPod, iPod mini in several colors, and the iPod photo; later there was the iPod nano, iPod classic, and iPod touch. A watch is a fashion device, and it would be strange not to have style options.

Steve got too much credit. Apple was led by a team, and many of those people are still there. Some of Apple's most successful decisions were choices Steve opposed or had to be convinced of.
> Essential drugs are cheap because of not paying for R+D

Not sure I'd agree there. In the west, even mundane drugs that don't need all that R&D, like common painkillers, antibiotics, vitamins, etc. are expensive. I think the issue in the west stems from regulations that make it difficult for new players to penetrate the market, even for generics. Running a cartel becomes easier that way.

Compare [1] and [2].

[1] http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/tylenol/ID=957-brand

[2] http://www.medindia.net/drug-price/acetaminophen/crocin-500m...
I quote my first message: "Animals can only rearrange existing amino acids into other amino acids or into proteins."

Nothing has changed in what I said since then.

> Where will you move the post after you find out about niacin?

As I replied elsewhere niacin alone is not enough.
Before 9/11, the World Trade Center Through the Lens of an Immigrant Electrician
What about using MMS?
Because it's much more convenient to have one single name for it in all of Earth's languages.
BBC World Service .
BBC Radio 4 .

Those two alone are more than sufficient to fill your time and fill your brain.
Libraries for Android Developers
Very well written article that allowed a non-biologist but engineer like me to follow. Systems Biology is quickly becoming one of the most interesting fields, IMO.

The observations about organisms catching up and slowing down is consistent with (the regression to the mean)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean]. Although it's something I only recently read about in Daniel Kahnemnan's Thinking Fast and Slow, it's applicability is widespread; so much so that I was not surprised seeing it in action here.

One thing that I do not fully agree with (or maybe that I do not fully understand) is the final evolutionary endpoint was measured simply by it's ability to grow in specific lab conditions. While this is a necessary condition for equality of endpoints, it is in no way a sufficient one. It is very possible, and even highly likely that while that goal of fitness is optimized for, evolution changes the final organism's way of reacting to other phenomena. I'm not sure if there is a better way to quantify equality (or some notion of edit distance) though.
Uh, the issues with marketing terms being inaccurate has hardly been solved by regulatory agencies either in mainstream business. Especially retail. I'm not even talking about dangerously mis-labeling products such as in the pharmaceutical industry which continues to happen every year [1] resulting in billion dollar law-suits, I mean terms like 'fair-trade' and 'organic' are mostly bullshit in every industry.

I guess that aspect of these markets is more symbolic than a sign of concrete progressiveness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical...
Does anything use posix queues? Lack of support has never been an issue for openbsd afaik. Looks like somebody snuck it into FreeBSD, which I wasn't aware of until I just looked it up. Seems like a forgotten feature.
The Selfish Gene is a great and insightful book that I would recommend.
Markdown etc. solves another problem as well: HTML is a complicated system with multiple standards and different interpreters for that standard, which oh by the way most of them WILL parse certain parts of it as a Turing-complete programming language. There's a lot of reasons not to want untrusted users to be able to input HTML, which is why you may want to have users input a much safer language that you can convert to HTML.
I don't think you are, I don't think anyone else understands the appeal either.
My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)
This may seem weird in Silicon Valley, but even in the US, a lot of people don't have $200 to pay for a phone.
Stephen Hawking Tries Linux Powered Wheelchair Made by Intel
They have no way of making money or controlling costs.
Not Just Uber and Airbnb: Early-Stage Valuations Rising Too
Your thing, doesn't relate to his thing. Not one bit.
Watson is not God. Random numbers are God. I can get a response from a geiger counter.
The price goes down with volume. They should also look at alternative providers. Nexmo and Plivo both offer free inbound SMS and have APIs similar to Twilio's.
I made a little applescript application so I can open the system colour picker with spotlight. That way I can use the palette at the bottom to save a the colours, and the developer picker extension to copy the code.

To build it just put 'choose color' into script editor and save it as an application.
Connecting technology with emotion was the key to what made keynotes and Apple so special. But there's just one steve jobs. You need to be sincere when doing that or the effects are absolutely counterproductive. Tim Cooks looks like a cold man, it's better that he does it his way rather than copying steve and looking like faking.

But like many people I guess, I do miss Steve Jobs.
If Microsoft created and maintained both Linux and Microsoft, your analogy would make more sense.
In 99% of cases, the problem is not with the people within a company, but with the motivational, management, and work systems which surround them. That is the point.

It is important to realize subtleties in how people operate, but it's more important to realize that most problems are attributable to the system and not the individuals.

Critically important, in fact. That's why it's the right way to look at the problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
Agreed, the phone is 99 cents ON A 2-YEAR CONTRACT, not unlocked, which somewhat diminishes its value proposition.
That distinction is obvious to some people, and obviously invalid to others. In a gender-laden way. Which is the point of the article.
I know that the behavior of the Chrome and Android teams hasn't always SEEMED like they were part of the same company, but they are. Microsoft and Red Hat are two different, competing organizations. If Android and ChromeOS are two different, competing organizations (and at one point, that really did seem to be the case), that's a problem for Google.
From this article, it sounds like the (independent) venue in question was getting 20-30% of the fee as well.

http://www.ticketnews.com/news/Ticketmaster-fee-structure-ex...
Note that GNU Octave, the real thing, is available for Android along with a number of its toolboxes:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=octave&c=apps
It's not a "breach": http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/09/cleaning-up...

Nor is that tool needed for any sort of audit so stop using it to harvest addresses.
Mike Pall would disagree with you about interpreter vs compiler.
Did someone seriously down-vote that I merely pointed out most sites don't consider ESB's plot-twist to be a spoiler anymore?
That would be still an extreme skew, wouldn't it?
You keep linking to pages that refute your own point.

NAD is made of nicotinamide AND Adenine. Adenine is in turn made from the amino acids glycine, glutamine, and aspartic acid.

Are you going to acknowledge you were wrong, and actually learn something? Or will you keep arguing?
Robot capable of handling unfamiliar objects unveiled
And for the same reason: they've been bred for shippability and shelf appeal, not for taste.
The phone I got for $99 OFF contract is better than that phone.
The One vs The Sixty point is spot on.

It made me realize that I get an image of the Mickey Mouse watch face whenever I see an "Apple Phone" mentioned. Apple just absolutely royally f#cked up the introduction of the Watch. They look neither confident in it nor excited about it. It's just ... so disappointing. Apple seems to back to where it was before Jobs' return.
Apple sees voice messaging as the next wave of digital communication
Could this be NSA snooping?
Has anyone tried transmitting a QPSK-125 signal over a cell phone call? I wouldn't be surprised if it worked.

That by itself could get you up to about 0.5kbps for text with decent compression, with no other effort.
IMO it's hardly a spoiler. The ending was a poetic inevitability.
Is there a way to check for this other than brain scans? My son is incredibly clumsy at 2.5years old and he fell off the bed when he was younger, perhaps 1 year old, and had a nasty bang to his fore head. He is a twin and his sister doesn't have as many falls as he does.
Who cares? The show ended over a year ago.
On most plans offered in the US nowadays texting is included. All of the T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Straight Talk, Republic, etc plans have unlimited texting included.
i.e. when people start realizing that frivolous social media start-ups provide way less value then their inordinate valuations and the bubble bursts.
Perhaps you're thinking of taxonomy? English names for diseases don't set their names in other languages.
Yeah, I've seen a rare few that offer this, though usually not re-arranging which are on top. It's usually surprising just how biased the default display is :\

That said, it still surprises me that these map makers (all of them! not just this one) don't take the simpler approach of drawing all dots in a random order - e.g. get rid of this "first all blue dots, then green, etc" behavior, and pick the next dot's color randomly, while maintaining the distribution. Then you'd have an unbiased "top layer" regardless of the size of your dots (up to a point, obviously).

(hard to describe what I'm thinking of... basically `[red, red, ... * 25, green, green, ... * 10, orange, orange].shuffle.draw` rather than just `[].draw`)
Yeah.

I have attempted to make edits in the past and in my experience it is like slamming your head into a brick wall no matter how (verifiably) right you are and how uncontroversial your edits should be are.

I still use it to look things up all the time, but I haven't even tried to make an edit (even when I see known and easily verifiable wrong information) in years.
I don't get that outcry and panic inside the Scala community. We should give the 2 forks a chance and see what it leads to.
There is still the chance then to reunite the community behind "one" scala. Also they could have great influence on Typesafe Scala. As far as i know the compiler (which is not very much): The 2 forks will anyway not move away from Typesafe scala at huge speed.

Let's come here again in 6 months and see where we stand.
Steven Sotloff photographer who championed the human side of every story
Awesome event!
Here in the UK Accenture billed £10bn to the NHS for a computer system that didn't work and had to be scrapped.

The entire healthcare industry, in every country, is full of people who love to play fast and loose with other peoples money.
I really enjoyed the talks - thanks Dan for setting them all up and running them!
Then they probably don't have enough money for a subscription service, and if they do, they're better off with a non-smart (dumb?) phone.
"if there is a subtle, multilayered process by which information can give rise to meaning"

Because I lack meaning, and I am finding myself on this endless clicking hole without end, any ideas/experiences/advice, by people here about how one gets meaning? What's the process? How? Where? What? ..Thanks.
MMS goes over data on smart phones, right?
Price point does matter. There is a big market for the $0 phones (its what pushed apple to offer a budget iphone).

I think badusername's point was that price is a secondary determinant for people. The $200 phones everyone wants but not everyone can afford sell very well once they drop down to $0. However, the $200 phones no one wants sell just as well at $0.
Human Evolution, Life History Theory, and the End of Biological Reproduction [pdf]
Well, I'd read it as "this condition is known as failing to develop a cerebellum". Even if everyone was born without a cerebellum and you were expected to grow yours by the age of 10, not growing one would be sensibly termed "agenesis".

Also, "agenesis" is greek, like most medical terminology ;)
I'm expecting big things from this. the only thing faster than climate change is technological change. go on brave hackers - into the breach
Which goes to my point - that it would be even easier to do 3) on Android, than it is to do it now on ChromeOS, since Android has nice resolution scaling.
The Vignelli Cannon is a good read http://www.vignelli.com/canon.pdf (pdf)
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue 42
Even at good compression, 420 chars/sec is a little frustrating...

Still, major admiration from me for getting that to work!
Apple's always offered various style options for their devices, just not at launch. I get that the author is saying there could be more focus on the device's "soul" without the aesthetic options. That's a fair point. But with a wearable, I wonder if it's more important to have style options from the get go.
Model S is using NCA (Nickel Cobalt Aluminum). It's not clear if the stock Panasonic batteries have the same battery chemistry (they might but Panasonic doesn't share their battery chemistry), but we do know that the Tesla batteries are not exactly stock Panasonic batteries. They have casing modifications made to them for Tesla's purposes.
It's becoming common for Twitter to used for updates and coordination in disaster zones. And I guess if I wanted to let my friends know I was safe in such a situation, and didn't want to text them all, Facebook would be a good choice.
Chinese is an international language, and an official language of several East and Southeast Asian countries, most of which use Mandarin syntax in their written form.
twitter would like to borrow money from you. they will pay a reduced interest rate on the loan. in exchange, you will get the option to convert your loan into shares of twitter at a designated, unchanging price--likely near the current stock price.

this is a great deal for twitter, as long as their stock price does not go up. in other words, twitter is calling the top of the market for its own shares -- to the tune of 1.3B.

bezos did this to great effect with amazon in the late 90s. he did in fact correctly predict a prolonged stagnation in share price.
I'm a convert - a week ago didn't think much about this issue, but after hearing all the talks - We just gotta unite and do something!!
Puphpet, the vagrant online configurator
Geeks are the superheroes of our future
China and the (next) Dalai Lama (2011)
Why wouldn't a 1px CSS line, shown with 3 pixels on iPhone 6+ per, downsampled to HD (per the article) still look OK?
the burst of social media hype. who'll be the next?
LVMH exec: Apple Watch 'too feminine and looks like designed by students'
>What we want from Apple isn't new technology. We want human warmth—a possibility of living a more fulfilled, meaningful life

Perhaps you shouldn't go looking for it in a tech/consumer electronic company then?

Apple was never about "living a more fulfilled, meaningful life", which is something you can even do without any smartphones or even computers in your households...

>A larger screen size alone is a weak proposition for the company's flagship product. It's derivative of existing products and doesn't say anything differentiated from its competition.

So? Apple has always been about iterating and refining -- with the occasional new type of product (iPod, iPhone, iPad, MBA, Apple TV, Apple Watch, etc thrown in every 4-5 years or so).

Most iPod, iPhone, etc releases have had small iterative differences from the previous generation.

>The fact that it also contradicts Steve Job's original intent for the iPhone, "No one is going to buy a big phone", squelches the voice of the product and makes it come across muddled and confused.

Again, so? Jobs said many things, including that they'd never get into market X (e.g books, because "people don't read anymore") and then Apple went ahead and did it. And, of course, he also changed course when his team or the market convinced him otherwise, despite being adamant against something at first.

>The trouble now is that the iPhone 6 must depend on its host of secondary features to make the sale (...) Instead of: Apple: We have the perfect product that does X. You: OH MY GOD, I NEED THIS.

Some people have this magical unicorn idea in their mind that each time Apple presents some new iPhone people salivate and drop down for its advancements -- and that this time "it didn't happen", but in reality it just gets better and better iteratively.

That actually has been the case with EACH AND EVERY subsequent iPhone release. People and articles said the same things for 3G, the 4, the 4S, the 5, etc.

Heck, people even said that about the original iPhone, that they expected more, ain't gonna fly etc. Or even the original iPod "No wireless, less space than a nomad, lame".

>With Steve Jobs, there was no fear. There was an unassailable, almost divine level of confidence that he had something you will love. We had a crisp, singular exactness to why we'll be marching to the Apple Store after the keynote and buying that phone.

BS mystical thinking, and probably never having followed the original scene that well...

(The following fake-Jobs presentation is good though).
I'm generally not in favor of single-payer, but take this as an argument against my position.

My mom had some big treatments last year. My dad is a probably-undiagnosed-autistic guy who loves spreadsheets. He set up a spreadsheet for every single visit, correlating exactly how much was paid, exactly how much insurance (including Medicare) paid, and when each provider was marking the bills as paid.

He's retired, so this was his full-time hobby.

He still got continuously yanked around by every single provider, some claiming paid in full (which my dad filed dutifully in a binder) and then later asking for more money.

It's a freaking mess.
>That distinction is obvious to some people, and obviously invalid to others.

Anyone who doesn't see the distinction and complains about Wikipedia's inaptitude as a social network shouldn't be editing wikipedia.

Information sources shouldn't have to pander to <insert demographic> just for the sake of attracting users of <insert demographic>.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work:

https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy/issues/72
My guess is Ticketmaster was scared and bought them out before they became a big enough target to do big damage and creep into their main territory.

Eventjoy is less than a year old, probably received funding after YC and most startups raise for 18 months of runway which means unless something went terribly wrong they should still have a few months of runway before they raised their Series A. It's a perfect time to buy a company that's growing because after each round you have to pay that much more.

If Ticketmaster thought they were going to die, they would have let them.

P.S. I've also learned that there are usually two types of founder scenarios. 1.) the founders that are really passionate about a subject and have a lot of domain knowledge and they've made it their life goal to solve the problem they're going after. 2.) the founders found a niche or area that they believe they can solve but they aren't considering it their life's work. Yes there are tons of variations and exceptions but that's what I've seen the few years I've been around startups.
IMHO, Twitter provides exceptional value... but their ability to monetize that value is still catching up.
All the information I've seen says they use stock Panasonic NCR-18650A lithium ion batteries just like clumsysmurf said. (The "A" just means that it's the 3100mAH nominal capacity version - there are several NCR-18650 batteries with different capacities.)

It's a fairly common 18650 battery, lots of laptops use this specific model.