skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One finding that emerged quickly was that being the youngest student in a grade was an excellent predictor of having a high IQ. (This is worth bearing in mind today, when parents sometimes choose to hold back their children precisely so they will not be the youngest in their grades.)"

That's a very questionable inference (that it is being the youngest that results in a high IQ). It seems much more likely that, for kids near the cutoff point, smart ones get promoted to the higher grade, and dumber kids don't. Selection effect, voila.

I am not impressed by the rest of the article. George Lucas is interested in interior design? So are a huge fraction of the non-famous population. It doesn't count towards being a polymath, let alone a genius, in my book.
Isn't gambling extremely limited in most of the US? If you take away lotteries (which I personally wouldn't consider gambling) I wonder what the figures are.
This clears up a lot. The whole article felt dubious from the start since it was lacking any examples of the language or an explanation of how functional the language is. The paper makes it clear: the language is young and regularities already emerge and it is interesting because the phenomena has not been studied "live" yet.
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Sometimes I wish articles like this had a tldr at the start. Skimmed to the bottom and it concluded that the link between creativity and mental illness is a bewildering puzzle for experts
Nvidia sinks moon landing hoax using virtual light
The post is ostensibly about depression and race, but this quote really stuck out for me, "All this happened simply because, for once, I felt that there was someone who didn’t treat me the same way everyone else did." Who hasn't longed to feel that same connection? I've always loved the outsideriness of hacker culture and I hope we don't lose it. What potential would we unlock if we embraced our differences instead of policing the border?
The author focuses on why "No" would probably win but the determining factor should have been whether his assessment of the actual odds were better than the bookmaker's implied odds.
You unwillingness to base your thought on a broken and stupid basis is preventing you from thinking like the NJ AG.
If it is for JVM, the language is not "lightweight" by definition.
With SaaS, LTV is a more important metric than ACV since you need to take into account average retention, up/cross-selling opportunities, and more. If you take into account CAC even better.

Armando Mann over at RelateIQ uses Cohort Growth to measure LTV for each customer within a cohort to ensure the business is growing taking into account the bottom line.
Now also with current Intel CrossWalk support:
http://blog.chromium.org/2014/09/now-with-faster-dev-workflo...

GitHub Project:
https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps

Related StackOverflow answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23605751/do-mobile-chrome...
This just isn't true. Of all the amendments in the Bill of Rights, the Fourth is uniquely amenable to Kerr's argument, because it includes the word "reasonable" --- which meant the same thing at the time of the founders as it does today: the right to be free from searches is balanced against the interests of the state.

(I disagree with Kerr's argument, and obviously strongly support encryption, but his Fourth Amendment argument from what I can tell squares easily with the design of the Bill of Rights.)
I think they were selling-points for Shenmue and God of War. That was before most people realized they were pretty much non-gameplay.
Smaller scale ISPs did have shelves of external modems attached to remote access servers [1] which were often FreeBSD boxes. I don't know if they used regular POTS lines or channel banks [2]. Specialized RAS routers with multichannel soft modems [3] (e.g. from Ascend [4]) came out later.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Access_Service
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_bank
[3] http://m.eetasia.com/ARTICLES/1999JUN/1999JUN29_BD_NTEK_TAC2...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascend_Communications
I agree. While I'm training people on git at work (in Seattle), they often look up the term and point out the definition to me. I then direct them to Linus' intention, for it to be "a stupid content tracker".
looks VERY cool, indeed!

any idea which CMS i could easily tie contentbuilder.js to? i know i can THEORETICALLY use it with ANY cms. i do not have too much (php) programming knowledge, though.

my dream micro-cms should have the following features:
self-hosted, possibility to add new pages, automatically get an updated navigation after adding/editing a (new) page, have the ability to add metatags and edit some basic SEO settings, fill in the drag&drop areas on those pages with contenbuilder.js and finally save the website with one klick...

any idea which combination brings me close to this ideal conception?
It doesn't matter who makes them disappear, the fact is that it happens, which makes the convenience of an all-streaming in-the-cloud solution not that ideal when it comes to media.
FTA: for example, the sign for “lemon” resembles the motion of squeezing a lemon.

I wonder what the symbol for actually squeezing a lemon is?
This was news back in April: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2617275/The-m...

The important part is that they merely proved that the theory of pulling blocks over wet sand makes sense, but not how the pyramids themselves were built (blocks elevated, aligned, etc.).
That makes sense. However if you look at Linus' description of git, a "stupid content tracker", then the British English derogatory term makes sense.
The Lost Recordings of a Phantom Musician
Also going solo from the east coast.
American Entrepreneurship: A Sleeping Giant?
Early ISPs (before the mid 90's) had individual modems. I worked at one and we had stacks and stacks of modems - 100's of them - each with their own phone line, power brick, and serial cable.

By the late 90's, we had moved to digital modems using PRI lines. This provided the equivalent of 24 modems over a single T1 line.
Indeed. There are more poker machines in New South Wales, than there are in Las Vegas.
This guy keeps using the same arguments that fail in the pre-mobile security world.

> Maybe the crime is child molestation offenses involving child pornography, or maybe it’s a conspiracy to commit murder or to inflict violence.

First, I think that situation is terrible and should definitely be investigated lawfully. The challenge is that if a person molests a child and there is evidence in a car, the Authorities do not serve the auto manufacturers with a warrant saying "Give me a copy of the key to this persons vehicle so we can inspect it." The Authorities serve the individual. That is the point of crypto in this case. The consumer of the property owns the product instead of giving ownership to the corporation who makes the product.

Automobile manufactures don't give authorities back door keys to your cars. Lock manufactures don't give authorities back door keys to your home. So why should Apple give them back door keys to your phone?
This is the one thing that always amused me.

I live in Minnesota and they've gone to great lengths to minimize gambling. Any kind of initiative is met with derision and all kinds of attacks that "gambling brings in bad elements and gambling is bad, it destroys families". Meanwhile, I can go into any supermarket, gas station or convenience store and play a myriad of state lottery games.

The irony is incredible.
Pyramids: the first successful use of the waterfall method.
Free HTML version is here: https://leanpub.com/purescript/read
Sounds like High Fidelity: https://highfidelity.io

(No affiliation other than having tried it a couple months ago and written a little bit of code for it.)
Seems implausible given the incredibly precise dimensions of each block - dragging them through wet sand would remove a significant amount of surface area..."The accuracy of the pyramid's workmanship is such that the four sides of the base have an average error of only 58 millimetres in length".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza#History_a...
I don't understand why you use a "Moore-style State Machine".
I don't understand too why all the typed transducers which are shown here use a restricted version of reducers
(i.e. a step function of type `r -> a -> r`).
Rich Hickey points out that transducers must deal with initialization and completion. At minute 42:26 of his talk, he even presents a complete picture of tranducers type. They are reducer transformers where a reducer is rather made of 3 pieces :

data Reducer a r s = Reducer {
init :: () -> r,
step :: r -> a -> r,
complete :: r -> s
}

We may than write :

type Transducer a b = (Reducer a r s) -> (Reducer b r s)

But I think that we miss the point doing that. A transducer should be able to lead to a new reducer which use a different type to accumulate inputs. This opens the way to state management and the implementation of transducer like `taking` or `partition`.

Leaving Haskell for OCaml I'm more comfortable with :

type ('a, 'b, 'c) red = {
init : unit -> 'b;
step : 'b -> 'a -> 'b;
comp : 'b -> 'c;
}

let taking n reducer =
let init () = (0,reducer.init ()) in
let step (i,acc) item = if (i<n) then (i+1,reducer.step acc item) else (n,acc) in
let comp (i,acc) = reducer.comp acc in
{
init = init;
step = step;
comp = comp
}

The type of taking is `int -> ('a, 'b, 'c) red -> ('a, int * 'b, 'c) red`. The former `b` accumulator state has been replaced by a pair `(int,b)` where a counter is used to track how much items have been taken so far. Yes this should be improved with early termination. But the key point I want to highlight is that wrapping all the transducers into a single general type may imply the use of some sort of existential type (to abstract away the accumulation type). This general type is furthermore useless for the system to check the compatibility of a reducers along a transducer chain.

---

Another point I would like to say is that if transducers are undoubtedly an important and effective mean to build efficient transformation chains,
they doesn't deserve to be pushed forward of conventional transformers (map, filter, take, ...) to which we are used for long.

Based on collection definition as something whose content is reducible, we can define the 'map' collection transformation on the basis of 'mapping' reducer transformation

type 'a col = {
fold: 'b 'c. ('a, 'b, 'c) red -> 'c
}

let map f col =
{
fold = fun reducer -> col.fold (mapping f reducer)
}

So, we have the clarity of map/filter/reduce with the power of transducers.

https://github.com/didier-wenzek/odist
is a project where I started to implement these ideas some months ago.
This transducer discussion will undoubtedly energize me to work again on the topic !
I'd bet that it's just highly contextual. If you point to a bowl of lemons next to a pitcher, and sign "lemons", it would probably signify that the speaker wants you to squeeze those lemons into the pitcher.

I wonder what the sign for lemon juice is.
Pixelmator is the best photoshop replacement IMO.
> Here, Araq has taken an association that is generally viewed as slightly humorous and moved to a name with which no one has any associations, either good or bad.

That's not true; every mathematician knows the game of Nim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim (_asummers points this out below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8352021). I agree that it's a pretty neutral association, but, then again, did the name 'Nimrod' ever really have anything to do with the language? (I don't know.)
So does this mean that using a combination of Cordova and the recently-available ARChon, I could theoretically run an Android app packaged as a Chrome App running inside Chrome on an Android device?
Pidgins are like bridges, though - a common set of symbols to communicate between two otherwise incomprehensible languages. Here, the two languages are (presumably) spoken Arabic, and, to start with, nothing at all.
Like everything in the UK, it's a class issue. My dad's friends bet, but I don't think anyone in my social circle would. My impression was that sports betting is more popular in e.g. the U.S.; for all that betting shops have ads for football I don't think that many people would actually bet on it. Horse racing exists as a thing that people bet on, but I think it's slowly dying out, like greyhound racing did before it.

It's not seen as a big social problem IME; I've heard far more fears expressed about our pub culture than our betting culture.
CS:GO Linux available to download
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Many sign languages take form as a pidgin created through contact between many different forms of "kitchen signing" -- that is, idiosyncratic systems of signing created by deaf individuals and their families. While the languages involved aren't "normal" languages in the sense that the ones involved in typical pidgins/creoles are, the process is believed to be similar.
Each T1 gave you 24 lines. Generally, early ISPs were heavily over-subscribed, meaning there were many more customers than available phone lines. You might call in and get a busy signal!
Car and door locks aren't infinitely strong, so maybe that's not a good analogy.
Eric Schmidt to EU: Accept Uber-style Disruption or Face Unemployment
I had similar problems and moved to Google Play. They still have massive gaps, but at least for me they're less massive? Play also lets you upload tracks, which I confess I haven't done yet, but I should.
> Git is almost like a slang word that means get or got.

Perhaps more dialect than slang?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_Along,_Little_Dogies
Here's the the one and only question he should be asking himself: Why does Apple need to provide the key to the user's stuff? You want to charge a user? How about getting his keys? If the 5th amendment stops you from doing that - well, tough.

The Constitution is there for a reason, and it seems to me law enforcement have found this "cloud computing" loophole, where they can say that the data you host on other people's servers is not yours, and therefore they can get access to it.

The user seems to have much weaker protection in this case, and it's also very easy for law enforcement to just go to a one-stop shop. So they've gotten very used to that. And they'd very much like that to continue. I bet if there were no more warrants for say a decade, they'd be getting used to that, too, and they'd fight tooth and nail against reinstating the warrants.
There are two business models here: record shops and radio. These business models have existed for decades. iTunes Store mainly disrupted the record shop model. You could buy an album online, just like with the record shop, you could rip your existing tracks (for backwards compatibility) and as a disruptive move, you could also buy single tracks (initially DRM'd but later DRM-free as well).

Spotify/Rdio/Last.fm/Pandora essentially targeted the radio model - the disruptive feature of course, being that you got some control over what was being played other than "channel".

With cheap, pervasive mobile data coverage and smart caching (like Amazon/Google music), these models are more and more in contention, thus the Apple purchase of Beats music.

However, they are still separate. In one case, you own a persistent license for the music and in the other, you have much wider selection but have limitations imposed - sometimes you lose access to what you had before (not unlike Netflix's loss of Stars/Disney content).
Red Hat CEO announces a shift from client-server to cloud computing
I'd wager it's happened before in cities with a high initial immigrant population. Several families who don't speak a common language move into an area, and while the kids speak their native tongues at home, they might develop a private neighborhood pidgin to understand each other.
or the fountainhead to anyone
I don't understand how their javascript based miner is feasible.

Mining bitcoins with a CPU is an extremely futile endeavor, and on top of that, it is implemented in asm.js.

Even with thousands of workers, GPU and ASIC mining is anywhere from hundreds to over a MILLION MH/S while modern cpus top out at 20 with most around 5.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
If you want types like Java, TypeScript's probably a good choice. However, if you want the flexibility or the guarantees a powerful type system gives you, TypeScript's not going to cut it.
Not sure if he knew or not, but with so much juice on a "no" vote, he would've single handily moved the numbers too much in his favor.

The art of being a good bookie is making sure you have action on both sides of a bet - that way you never lose. By taking that much heat on an obscure bet would cause a lot of people to either move all of their money to one side, or everybody would be spooked and cancel all their bets.

If the bookie were to take that bet like he wanted to, it would have put him out of business either way.
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Just be grateful you do not live in Canada. Quite seriously, it is almost painful to have a data plan up here. :(
Why do you consider lotteries not to be gambling? In a literal sense they are clearly gambling.
What's wrong with centcom.mil's DNS records?
Flipping property like that is more like a job (with a big risk component). This was pure speculation.
Good idea, except when it isn't. In the countries that do have paid maternity
leave employers may choose male over female candidates, exactly because paid
leave for several months (even if it's not the employer who pays the salary).
In such case women will be in toughter situation.

The author apparently didn't do much research on the topic. Paid leave for
that long time is not all bells and whistles. It's not that simple.
Heatmiser WiFi thermostat vulnerabilities
Renaissance did not avoid $6b in taxes. They never owned the stock in the baskets that the politicians claimed they did. The payout to risk ratio of the options is most likely why they were invested. There can't be a social function to not paying because there was nothing to pay.
This is a serious issue with our "industry". Too much ego and dogmatic belief. Many developers keep to themselves and don't share for the fear of someone else knowing more or to maintain some perceived edge.
> There's no exception in there that can be read as "unless it makes the job of the government really hard."

Law is not like code, an algorithm that is followed literally and logically. The U.S. Constitution's First Amendment is equally clear, but you can't yell fire in a dark, crowded movie theater. The Second Amendment does not differentiate cruise missiles from handguns, but you cannot own a cruise missile. I would not want it otherwise.

The laws never will be written perfectly, so we need a system to deal with those flaws. Another way to think of it is that there are edge cases, many of which were not anticipated by people who wrote the code, some over 200 years ago.

EDIT: Another way to think about it: If the law permits something horrible (e.g., 'sale of first-born children') because it was written poorly or unclearly, should the courts allow first-borns to be sold until Congress fixes it? What if the law explicitly allows something, such as denial of voting rights to an ethnic group?
I don't mean to be pedantic, but it should be the "Scottish" referendum, and not "Scotish". If an admin could add the second "t" it would be greatly appreciated, at least to match the BBC article's title.
Knock Knock – Music Video on 14 Screens
I'm really shocked this didn't happen months ago actually. Seemed like a very logical fit for Adobe. I just hope they don't ruin Aviary now.
How Facebook Makes Mobile Work at Scale for All Phones
Given the long mathematical heritage of the game (check out its Google presence: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nim), I'm not sure that I believe that it'll be so easily upset. On the other hand, the first page of results for https://www.google.com/search?q=Ruby (except the image results) are all about the language, not the gem, so I could be wrong!
As mentioned elsewhere on this page: https://www.eff.org/cases/rubin-v-new-jersey-tidbit
If only the same rule applied for Government agencies conveniently losing evidence. See IRS emails, dashcam videos, etc.
The Kelly criterion applies for repeated bets. It optimizes the logarithmic expected winnings. I am not sure how it applies for a single bet. I guess it depends on one's like or dislike of risk.
The starter code I provided is a basic DNN structure for modelling complex non-linear relationships between five soil properties and 3000+ predictors.

In practice, I found that some of the properties require even more complex DNN structure to achieve better predictive accuracy. The 50-50-50 setup is a very solid starting point for the readers to begin their own experiments.
That sounds like a very good practice. Much better than here. However, there aren't enough political will to do something like that here.. The bars for getting into treatment, especially with "replacement drugs" are way to high.
I've seen a couple independent artists pull their music from Spotify due to the poor proceeds they were receiving, or from a dislike of the revenue model. That may have been the case once or twice.
Yes but does it achieve optimal tip-to-tip efficiency?
Surprising negativity in here, an observation to consider: HN tends to be biased regarding acquisitions. Some companies, like Google or Apple, are praised for sage decisions and invaluable acqui-hires. Others, like Yahoo and Adobe, get panned for similar moves as trying to eliminate competing products or otherwise flailing capital.

As i see it, Adobe identified a group of devs uniquely qualified to bring domain knowledge to their team, as well as mobile expertise they may have lacked. This strikes me as a reasonable strategic move on their part.
There is a reason for this. It makes no sense to make a photoshop competitor as this is not where we are heading.

Instead we are heading towards vectors as the primary asset which means toward visual editors that allow for scripting and much more granular control off assets such as animiation.

In 5-10 years ex. Sketch and other much more dynamic environments will be one of the de-facto standards as the older generations retire and the new ones come in.

Photoshop is the Quark of our time and it's heading for retirement I think.

P.S. I am part of the older generation and still uses Illustrator and sometimes Photoshop. I loved Fireworks but Adobe killed it.

However, having played around with Sketch I think I see where things are heading.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that encryption and data is not bound to a given country and their legal system or constitution or whatever.

My phone needs to be protected from all intruders, regardless of my own government, other governments, corporations, or single actors.
See also http://dangillmor.com/2014/04/25/indie-web-important/