skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You raise a good issue, the role of mobile phones.

Okay, I heard that point in the lecture and read it again
in your post.

Okay, now for me -- I'm slow this evening, and I still
just don'e get it on the crucial role of a mobile
pbone. A phone, sure. But what's the crucial role
of the mobile part?

A guess: For a given delivery job, the candidate
drivers typically are not close to a land line or
desktop phone. Instead they are out and about
typically in the car they will use for the delivery.
So, the fact that their phone is mobile, that is,
with them always, is what is crucial. A guess.

A second guess: The phone should be not just mobile
but also smart so that it has GPS to say where the
heck the driver is currently. Then, with an app on the
smart phone, could let the central office or
dispatching system pick the driver closest to the
location of the pickup. But this would meant that they
have an app, and I thought that maybe so far they
didn't.

Gee, I had heard that it was standard for taxi
services to be willing to pickup from a restaurant
and deliver the food.

And I'm confused: Where I've lived in the US, it
has long been standard for pizza shops and Chinese
restaurants to be willing to deliver. So, sounds
like the problem of delivering food for such
restaurants had long since been solved.

Apparently there's going to be more of this stuff
of a customer pushing some buttons and have some product delivered within, say, an hour. So, apparently one goal
of Amazon is to have warehouses in major cities so that
there can be same day delivery of orders. Okay, then,
Doordash could be looking to do those deliveries?

There should be some economies of scale here: That is,
for five pizzas, have two ways to proceed. First way,
just pick up the pizzas one at a time and deliver them.
The second way is to pick up all five pizzas and deliver
them using a solution to the traveling salesman
problem with six stops, the pizza shop and the five
customers. So, of the pizza shop is busy, get to
pick up several orders there within, say, 5 minutes.
Or, maybe pick up from several restaurants in the
town center and deliver to the surrounding houses
and offices -- one Doordash with nearly all the
restaurants in the town center would have an
economy of scale.

Doordash got such fast response from their simple
landing page that maybe a lot of taxi drivers,
some of which are just sole proprietorships anyway,
and, sure, now likely making heavy use of cell phones,
that they could just offer a service like Doordash
for any pairs of customers and restaurants
that want a delivery. I'm failing to see why
the taxi drivers in Peoria need Doordash to
follow the same idea.
SkyDNS adds support for exposing Kubernetes services via DNS
8 Resources to Growth Hack Your Early Stage Startup
> A graph is fine. The difference from a typical OO hierarchy is we get to start wherever we want in the graph and we can easily insert new edges anywhere in the graph, or hyperedges that relate multiple entities. It's not like a filesystem where you have to decide which property of the file is most important and gets to be at the top of the hierarchy.

Objects support references that give you pretty much the same thing. The ability to add new kinds of edges is more of a function of your object system. In a dynamic language where members are basically defined as a dictionary, you just add a new key-value pair to the dictionary.
Very Sad and Disturbing Video of Horrifically Deformed Baby or Aliens?
I seem to recall that posts from Tor-only HN users were treated differently, but I could be wrong. I can't recall the details, maybe it was that Tor posts were only visible to those on Tor? Would need to test to make sure.
I don't like that comparison, because when I think of San Francisco I think of lots of buildings complicating the search by requiring you to go floor to floor, but the comparison is just looking at land area, so it's easier than it sounds (but still really tough).
Show HN: Automatic Tracking for Metrics of Clients and Portfolio Companies
Sorry, mighta confused it with another Apple screen. Thought it was 16:10.

Anyway, point is the 5K was the result of finding the sweet spot among several pixel-count factors.
I care about my children and grandchildren, but for some strange illogical reason I still don't care enough about global warming to really do much.

I look around me and I see everybody else is the same.
No. I think thats very wise and I've heard it recommended by some smart people. I think the OP is overreacting a bit.
from the appeal: "My app helps people avoid pornography by monitoring their actions and reporting those actions to the person they specify"

from the features list: "...is hard to circumvent...", "option to remove the icon in the status bar", "Accountability partners are notified if you ever disable the app".

it's straight up spyware. it doesn't help you "avoid pornography" by blocking it like you would do if you actually wanted to avoid pornography, just by spying on you. Just because you put "for personal use only, wink wink, nudge nudge" in the description it doesn't make it any less of an app designed to invisibly and remotely monitor the activities on somebody else's phone. This is exactly what the Google Play guidelines forbid, and if you didn't read them before you published your app that's on you. Consider yourself lucky that you got away with it for this long.
I think you overestimate the rate at which skills become out-of-date. Industrial machines which are based on designs ten, twenty years ago are still in wide use.
> So, ya, the question is "How do you pass information between sub-routines".

Nitpicking now, but phrasing it that way supposes the existence of sub-routines. I would prefer to phrase as just thinking about control-flow and data-flow. Most programming languages have complex control-flow and constraint data-flow to follow along with control-flow. Most successful end-user languages have arbitrary but static data-flow and little to no control-flow.

> Thank you for taking the time to have this discussion.

If nothing else, I find that these sorts of discussions tend to be really useful to clarify my thinking and catch my mistakes. Civil disagreement is much more interesting than ideological agreement or disagreement :)
From the man himself (Robert Hirschfeld): http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_03/article4/
Non-scalable things usually can still scale to tens or hundreds of customers, and those first tens or hundreds are the hardest customers to acquire for startups. The hardest thing for startups is to get started (hence gain insights to what problems are most important to solve first), and these non-scalable things are the fastest/easiest ways to start. For typical hackernews readers, solving problems and scaling are usually not too hard (challenging but quite doable), but getting started fast and finding THE problems are very very hard and often not fun to do.
Poll: Correlation between GPA, salary, education, results in about a week
Back Story: I was in an interview the other day, I was heckled because my GPA was 3.35, even though I work 20 hours a week, work on side projects, and honestly don't care to study.

The heckle bothered me, I feel 3.35 is a respectable GPA given my circumstances, but I was curious if any stats on HN showed a correlation. I always assumed that HN would show the reverse, but let's find out!

I will make all of the entries available within a week (after I make some nice graphs).
> Doesn't your use of "self-servingly" here apply to anyone who acts consistently on their beliefs?

It doesn't seem that way to me -- the "self-servingly" is applicable because it's deflecting Piketty's general criticism away from Mr. Gates personally. I don't see how you generalized this.
You're not wrong. But it should be explicitly noted and let people reduce their arguments to "my priors say an invisible force has a terminal value of consuming drugs being bad".

Then instead of saying how people disagree, we can just note that people have flawed beliefs. Otherwise talking about agreement somehow seems like there's a problem with the correct side, that hey "both are valid" and so on.
The best way to fight this is to make the list of suspicious people so long that it's intractable to pay attention to any of us.
I'm more worried about the exit nodes themselves. If I were a well-funded intelligence agency and targeting, let's say, 'that guy who posts under the name "joeschmoe" (or some other identifier) that we only see coming out of Tor nodes', I'd set up a bunch of exit nodes, wait for you to connect through one and send back a browser exploit embedded in the web page.

Or, more likely for most users, if I were an organized crime syndicate I'd set up an exit node with some fake data, just sslstrip one out of every 500 or so connections to some semi-popular website, and just steal the usernames/passwords/credit card info/etc. until the node got caught and was blacklisted, then disappear. I get the impression that malicious exit nodes work better when the operator doesn't care who gets hit. Targeting a specific user would probably be a lot harder.

EDIT: I thought you made a decent point, and tried to give a thoughtful reply, but you apparently deleted your comment before I finished typing mine out. I don't know if you'd prefer to stay anonymous, so I've gone and edited your handle out of my response.
Sudoku – Offline Chrome Application
Correct. Thunderbolt 2 includes support for DP 1.2[1]. And in any case, only has 20 Gbit/s of bandwidth in total, which isn't enough for 5k even without taking overhead into account.

Which makes this announcement quite strange. If this iMac doesn't support Thunderbolt 3 (or whatever standard Apple is planning), it'll never be usable as an external monitor.

IMO, it would have been more Apple-y to launch this and refreshed Mac Pros simultaneously with TB 3, allowing Mac Pros to drive two (or more) 5k displays while the rest of the PC world is still tripping over 4k. But I guess this segment isn't a priority for them any more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_%28interface%29#Thu...
Here's an analogy: Have some URLs of some Web
pages and want to extract the links from those
pages? Okay, first do it by hand! So, have
a Web browser save the HTML and CSS, JS, files.

Then use a good editor to look at the HTML and
see how to parse the thing and extract the links.

Write some code to do this and try on some more
of the URLs. When see are not parsing the files
just right, tweak the code.

Finally, get some okay code and get and parse all
the HTML files from all the URLs with the code --
scalable!

So, start by hand and see how to automate the work
and then have a scalable solution.

I just did that for a collection of about 5000 URLs!
> It's mostly a way to send data in such a manner that you don't need to do the full 'call-setup-data-transmission-and-terminate' that would be required for other virtual circuit based protocols such as TCP when you don't need all that luxury. So for protocols that carry small amounts of data in a manner where retrying is not a problem and where loss of a packet is not an immediate disaster. It's also more suitable for real-time applications because of this than TCP (especially true for the first packet). Because of the fact that there is no virtual circuit a single listener can handle data from multiple senders.

It is possible that someone wants a virtual circuit but can do better than TCP for their application. I think the parent's explanation was more apt - it's a small layer on top of IP for you to implement your own protocol logic.
For mine, the topographical variations of the ocean floor (combined with the fact they're largely unknown, at least to any level of detail) are probably similar to a floor-by-floor search, but you're right than basing it just on area makes for flawed comparisons.
Looks interesting, is there any possibility of a "guest" account that can see a sample in-progress game?

Or some other way to sign in that does not require Google?
> We know Richard Feynman's IQ as a historical matter.[3] Feynman's IQ of 125 was above average, of course, but not astoundingly high.

This IQ figure is deeply dubious, as I have pointed out several times on HN and elsewhere. Oddly, your WP link doesn't include the context on that score which is in Feynman's own article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Education

> for the moment I will bet on Flynn's approach providing more long-term benefit for humankind than the approach of looking for genome-wide associations with IQ.[6]

So you want to bet on a improvements of a trait which hasn't even been nailed down clearly (much less shown to be changeable at all) rather than a straightforward approach which after incorporating that methodological critique (problem: early papers had insufficient alpha control and threw up mostly false positives; solution: genome-wide multiple correction + sample sizes 100x larger) has already had several hits? I think you may want to read up on these topics a little more...

> The uniform conclusion of ALL researchers who have looked at the relationship between IQ scores and scientific research achievement is that other personal qualities besides IQ matter a lot for research breakthroughs.

Yes, but if you want to select for Openness and Conscientiousness, you're going to need fairly similar sample sizes and GWAS procedures: personality traits seem to be highly polygenic too.

> Improving "mindware," the ways that people think and how they reality-check their own thinking, may have a more powerful effect for human progress than merely increasing IQ.

Uh huh. Call me when any of Stanovich's work moves beyond exploratory towards showing real-world benefits. I've read his books and the results are still tentative. In the mean time, GWAS/IQ research is happening now.
How to deal with arrogant developers?
I find myself realizing that some peers of mine in the workplace do not take constructive criticism well. They jump to immediate defense if someone else questions their idea / technique / implementation.

Have you dealt with arrogance?

How did you deal with an arrogant developer?
Be careful when backstabbing, it is not a good mid or opening tactic. It can be effectively used less than once per game since it is far more important to be honest and earn the trust of everyone. Information and trust are key, not just control of supply centers because it is very easy to lose your shit if everyone hates/distrusts you. Backstabbing is normally too short sighted, and a stigma can build and effect subsequent games.
Cool logo bro. I would scale it down a bit though, in my opinion. Also the active color for the top menu links seems strange to me and it definitely shocked me. The logo is great. It looks like a lot of thought / work / blood went into designing it.
> Wages on average at his firm, which makes compressors that power drills and other tools, are rising 4% to 5% this year, compared with 2% to 3% in recent years.

That doesn't seem out of line with inflation. If they didn't increase, that means they would be stagnant as the cost of living increased, which would be bad for the employees.
I'm not pointing out that everything can be structured in a hierarchy, I'm pointing out that everything needs to be structured in a hierarchy at some point to deal with complexity; these are very different observations.
Developing an app in boot2docker is questionable.

But almost always the module or service that you work on relies on other services and datastores. boot2docker can help you pull down an entire stack to your workstation and not rely on connecting to an external network. You can essentially work on Airplane mode.
Using Vagrant after upgrading to Yosemite (for beginners)
On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits [pdf]
yes, since Nehalem it was not publicly disclosed. Only the BIOS writer guide had these details. The Model Specific Register address and its bit value settings were not published, not all BIOS implementations exposed the 4 h/w prefetchers. In some CPUs they stayed disabled that way which made debugging more difficult.
Why assume that they are using Docker because they have a portability problem?

They probably like OS X as a workstation OS, and want to use Docker for the DevOps benefits that they gain from it. boot2docker is just a lightweight solution for running Docker locally.
> Interestingly, in order to keep atomic time in agreement with astronomical time, leap seconds occasionally must be added to UTC. Thus, not all minutes contain 60 seconds. A few rare minutes, occurring at a rate of about eight per decade, actually contain 61.

So the second should be a tiny bit longer? Like 1.00000015 times longer?
A paper by the author of the Nautilus piece that was on HN's front page earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464304
Thanks for the response. Being able to switch providers AND create a hotspot is pretty damn cool though.
You need to upgrade boot2docker CLI binary (boot2docker upgrade only update the iso image).

See: https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker-cli/issues/294
"A judge of course can do what they will. But their job is to try to interpret what the CURRENT congress intends the laws to mean, NOT what some previous congress did. The first congress formed by the framers is just one of those."

Judges in low level courts make decisions based on evidence and the law. Appeals courts take the constitution into account. The supreme court only considers the constitution (the facts of a case matter only insofar as to how the law is being considered).

In any event, a court will tend to place weight on the intentions of the people who wrote a law vs. the current congress. E.g. a law endorsing "gay parades" written in 1850 would be understood to mean something quite different from an identically worded law written in 1980.
it, in fact, doesn't

* Option to remove the icon in the status bar. The app will still run in the
background.

a choice quote from the very first review pasted here [1]

So far so good I love this concept, its a subtle way to keep yourself
accountable with your friends help. The best feature of this app is its
kinda incognito in the since that you can let someone use your phone and not
have them wonder why you have and "accountability app" on your phone and
judge you. Unlike every other similar app, they have an option to hide the
icon from the notification area, which is very important.

Yeah, it's a mystery (rolleyes) why google disabled this app.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SGy3goNVFC7zKWn0Rm10pOMb...
> If there was a genetic component to "super-intelligence" then we would observe it. How many of those great minds listed had parents or children that also made the list: zero.

High intelligence and other forms of talent certainly run in families. If you read bios of scientists and mathematicians (as I am doing now, actually, in reading the Albers compendiums of interviews with mathematicians, _Mathematical People_ and _Fascinating Mathematical People_), time and again you find that a great mathematician has mathematician relatives or family which were talented in other ways. Consider the Bachs, the Polgars, the Wieners, the Bernoullis, the Darwins... Remember one of the origins of research into intelligence: Galton researching English geniuses and noting they were often related. Such clustering is consistent both with environmental and genetic explanations, of course, but no one argues that there is no clustering at all!

> Also, would any of these (suspiciously all European) super-geniuses have been as successful if there were born in a small backwater village?

Many of them were. Murray in _Human Accomplishment_ notes that of his eminent figures, while they all tended to gravitate towards capital cities like London and Paris as young as possible and live and die there, they were often born in the countryside. (An extreme case of rural talent being discovered is Ramanujan.) This should be no surprise to you since urban populations have historically been a small fraction of total populations and so naturally a lot of great figures will hail from outside the cities.

> There are probably millions of people with Einstein-level intelligence around the world,

Maybe.

> but living in environments that are hardly conducive to the expression of their genius.

Yeah, no. Environments can't produce geniuses, but they can certainly prevent them. The mean IQs of places like India do not indicate many of their citizens are as far out on the tails as Einstein...
That's a very small part of it. I just hate the new look in some places, like the color-changing Safari toolbar, and it's just useless and annoying to me. Maybe 'completely unusable' was a bit of an exaggeration…YMMV.
I paid ~$350 for a used S4 that I got activated on PagePlus. Why would I pay $80 a month to a big named carrier who keeps charging me rent on the phone after its paid off? (My plan is $39 for unlimited voice/text+1GB data, I used to do 500mb+1.2k min+3k texts for $29/mo).
Thanks for that. Mines been stuck saying "About a minute remaining" but sure enough cmd+L shows it's moving all my homebrew files.
Google is notorious for doing shit like this, you can't talk to a real person, you're just fucked. All you can do is complain on social media.

They banned my game (http://clickerheroes.com) from using their ads, which ended up losing them (and me) a small fortune in ad revenue. In my case, I wasn't even told why. I tried to appeal several times too, got rejected through what seemed to be an automated system, and had no recourse. It's especially bad because they have an effective monopoly on things like this. (The CPI on any other ad network is complete garbage)

I've had better customer service on things I paid $10 for. It's ridiculous.
I believe it is the year that's off a bit in relation to the day.
Neither really. If I do either it's very rare (and if I'm searching I'm probably using Google). Most of the time the information I need can be found quickly through the sidebar.
I personally believe this is somewhere something like fig comes into play nicely. You can still have the isolated services, but with super simple setup: download the fig.yml and run fig up.
I was thinking the exact opposite after having plugged in all sorts of crazy numbers to see how they affect the results (incidentally the highest total cholesterol it accepts is 400, way too low for anyone who regularly cooks with coconut oil IMHO).
> Is longevity lower for the high-IQ? No, it is not. It is higher.

That's my whole point. I'm not sure you're following. It's mostly about health down to the cellular level. It's about a high performance immune system during gestation and development. It's about the absence of mutational load, not the existence of IQ boosting genes. Good luck if you think it's a simple matter of inserting genes a, b, and c. It's about how millions of pieces fit together exactly.

You seem to be saying we're going to be able to take a top notch, high end consumer car (person with IQ 120) and add a turbocharger, remove some body weight, and tighten up the tolerances and compression ratio to get more zoom. I'm saying that's just not going to work. The absolute best case will be you manage to make an F100 racer, which falls apart after 100 miles without extreme maintenance. But more likely the thing won't even run properly.

You have no idea and I have no idea how genetic engineering of mammals will play out. I am convinced that you are operating from flawed premises of the organism as a machine. Your focus on simple correlations belies the misunderstanding. In the organism we are talking about a chaotic, extremely complex system like the weather or an economy that will badly defy engineering attempts. Go read jurassic park, lol.

Time will tell.
I don't have the link handy but this reminds me of the guy who made a Gift Card to Bitcoin exchange that started to get a lot of traffic and he was surprised that this was a common path for money launderers.
Actually, CATIA V4 was never ported to Windows.
The next version CATIA V5 (and now V6) had Windows as one of its supported platforms.