skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"int myfunc(float x, y, z, r, g, b, a);"

This got me thinking of the old C ways:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/efx873ys.aspx
To be honest, I don't know Freshbooks that well and since we've started off in the UK, we haven't had much demand for it yet. That said, one of our developers started integration with their API, but it is on hold.

Where we typically improve on whatever the accounting system has, is acting more like a CRM system for credit control. We typically have a lot more customisation and control over who gets chased with what message, we enable you to automatically send hard-copy payment demand letters. Also you can connect your accountant or bookkeeper to us (or rather they connect to your account) if they are doing credit control on your behalf.

Lastly we enable users to anonymously report when they get paid vs agreed terms to see if they are getting paid faster or slower than other suppliers.
At the time I was in central NJ.
I much prefer a big tablet (currently a Nexus 10) to a laptop for several things, most notably reading-heavy tasks (RSS, Magazines). I usually use a Kindle for novels and the like, but I read technical books or illustration-laden books on the tablet as well.

If I were in a position to really have to sweat the $500 or so it takes to buy a good tablet, I doubt I'd say it's worth it just for the extra bit of convenience, but I do like it a lot, and as my Nexus 10 feels pretty ancient now, I'm going to preorder the 9 tomorrow.
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>> The hyperfocus on genetics as the source of IQ is probably wrong.

Substantiate this please because just the other day I read "We know from many decades of research in behavioral genetics that about half of the variation across people in IQ is due to genes." [0]

A lot of people want to believe that genetics doesn't play a big part in differentiation between human abilities but as science is not supporting that viewpoint it might be a good time to begin re-educating people on the limits of education.

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
> Each genetic variant slightly increases or decreases cognitive ability. Because it is determined by many small additive effects, cognitive ability is normally distributed, following the familiar bell-shaped curve, with more people in the middle than in the tails.

How do we know these genes have an additive effect on IQ?

The causal relationship asserted by this quote is very strange. They claim: Because these effects are additive, IQ is normal distributed. What...? IQ is a test. It's normal distributed, like most tests are.

They're referring to the central limit theorem here, I assume[1], which not a bad insight. However it should be obvious that this normal distribution phenomenon arises out of such tests being scored additively from a number of relatively independent questions (whose answers can be thought of as independent random variables of unknown distribution).

In any case, I don't see how they can justify a causal link (in either direction) between some alleged additive effect of genes and the IQ test itself.

Personally, I'm mostly interested in this claim on additive intelligence genes, since I'm not an expert on this. It would be fascinating and exciting if there were additive "intelligence genes". However, as someone working on artificial neural network research as a hobby, I'm highly skeptical of this. It seems much more likely that human intelligence is a delicate balance of many interacting factors relating to the architecture and "algorithms" of the brain.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
In some universe of pure forms, sure, but on the other hand: material reality.
Of course but the chance of that room to be changed, destroyed, dismantled etc is quite hight as it relies on owner's good will and luck.

Also, you could visit it !

Like the famous untouched apartment in Paris. Never really understood what it became except they sold painting they found in it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8042...

I visited the Getty Museum this summer and found the displayed rooms of European apartments quite great and interesting, as I was fascinated by the Napoleon III ones at the Louvre.
This is also what I use on a daily basis. One case where it falls through is where you are trying to capture a screenshot for something that has a certain UI state, like a mouseover. For those cases you can have PrintScreen set to capture your desktop and save it to a file. In OpenBox you would set up a key binding for Print that executes: import -window root filename.png
Well if you want to "Show all data" you have to be patient. For example it will take a lot of time to load the steps data. Eventually it will display a list item for every 10 secs of activity without any grouping. It looks like a student's first project.
I deployed my HKit aware app this week in the app store and there are some problems (HK freezes), but hopefully they 'll sort them out. It's still embarrassing for Apple though..
I took a look at an ad for an android developer but it sounded a bit too involved (I don't want to be his CTO, I just want a small project). My first impression however was that I couldn't write a comment. The person wanted an android app and maybe a website. I was going to suggest also advertising for web developers that have used phonegap or something. Comments could also help the person explain what exactly they require.
https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/ksnapshot/
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As a bracelet it will easily fit your harness rings.
Kudos to you, this outbreak is showing that very few assumptions should be made.

Heck, I keep reading such crazy, Onion level stuff in the "right wing" alternative media sources I follow that I've been going to the primary sources to confirm that "yes, the CDC director really said that". Not that I really distrust those sources, aside from Drudge, which gets a little too enthusiastic with their summary headlines. It's just the "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof". Which is seldom lacking.

On the "right wing" side I've caught only one case where my reading of the NIH historical budget charts didn't match the text claims (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/10/a-word-on-the-...): After a steady, overall near doubling in constant dollars from FY94 to FY03, extra steep after 9/11, it's been in a slow and moderate constant dollar decline except for some big dollops from the stimulus bill, but it's not gone much below its FY01 level as of now, and its 70% above the FY94 level (again, in constant dollars). See http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43341.pdf

Which make that NIH guy;s "we would have an Ebola vaccine today if not for the eeeeevil Republicans" a clear lie. The NIH's remit is genuinely and legitimately very very broad, whereas the CDC's shouldn't be, it's all a matter of priorities, and even to this day, real work on Ebola is not a priority. Or perhaps I should put it this way, per robomartin's long essay https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8463558 a number of people have some explaining to do.
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I haven't had any problems with import and compositing. My setup is very basic though: xcompmgr -c
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They would simply be averaged out by people elected to public office, a place where a super-intelligent human would never be welcomed.
The ability to take in arrays as request variables where users don't expect them is a giant headache with PHP.
SGI was never going to make a cheap desktop, though.

Not that a loaded Mac was cheap, but a pretty basic, but usable Indy was still like $12,000. My high school 'won' one from the National Science Foundation.

PC workstations weren't close in power and Windows was flaky but you could buy 5 of them for every 1 SGI machine ($5,000 PC's vs a $25,000 SGI)
I agree with this. I built a free landing page on unbounce built an adwords ad. Just to see if anyone would click the get started button. Ran the add for 3 days, cost was like $50 all in. Then added a free lead page with wuffoo. for people to sign up. still risky but you know people will bite then.
Smart meters can be hacked to cut power bills
I think the reason that you won't bother is that you already get it. This isn't a case of preaching to the choir, these slides are for those who don't get it; ipso facto not you. Once those people who don't get it become enlightened then they will understand that they need to be data driven, unique seeking, opportunity valuing people, and disruptive; just like you!
Isn't this just a Drupal 7 issue? Still will affect a lot, but I know plenty Drupal installations from that 900k+ figure that are on 5 and 6.
If your primary use for a second display is email, then sure I guess it could just be a distraction. But when you're working with several applications at once to accomplish a single task, multiple monitors are a necessity. If you have ever spend any time at all doing data entry, it's immediately obvious how much more efficient it is.
To my recollection, WinNT didn't acquire much of the unix server base at all - that pretty much migrated over to Linux, with the exception of massively parallel machines.
Possible to check this out. Society is polarizing and smart people are now tending to associate with other smart people to an extent that did not occur earlier. How are their progeny performing?
Just curious, what do you mean by anti-abuse?
This is... Not true. We HAVE attempted to educate apes after all...
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>> Each genetic variant slightly increases or decreases cognitive ability. Because it is determined by many small additive effects, cognitive ability is normally distributed, following the familiar bell-shaped curve, with more people in the middle than in the tails.

> How do we know these genes have an additive effect on IQ?

I came to post on the same topic. Some gene effects are additive but those are the simple ones and there isn't that many of them. In something complex like a human brain, there are going to be tons of interactions between genes, so that maybe genes A+B makes someone smarter and C+D also make someone smarter, but the combo A+C makes someone actually less smart. The interactions are likely to be insanely complex -- eventually solvable but it will be a while.

To use a computer metaphor, the optimization landscape is not smooth and it doesn't only have a single optimal peak, it is highly complex with lots of local hills (which are caused by the interactions.)

> The breeding of domesticated plants and animals has changed some populations by as much as 30 standard deviations. Broiler chickens, for example, have increased in size more than four times since 1957. A similar approach could be applied to human intelligence, leading to IQs greater than 1,000.

This chicken metaphor is very wrong in that that was achieved via artificial selection, not genetic engineering. Artificial selection can make directed fast movement through an optimization landscape, but it does this without actually trying to figure out the interactions at the gene level, rather it looks as the results and selectively breads for those. When you do this to human it is called eugenics, and, to put it mildly, it likely isn't going to come back into fashion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
IIRC they had a half-assed kick at it with the O2, but that was too little, to late.
Among twin-twin studies of the effects of nature/nuture, I recall mathematical ability as being the most highly heritable at something like 50%. Even eye color is not that high, and so it seems to be true that intelligence (at least in maths) is very heritable.
I've heard dozens of people say that about the iPhone 6 -- not necessarily about the 6 Plus though.

I'd say that 5" versus 6" is a qualitative difference. People don't buy a 6" phone thinking, "Eh, whatever". You don't hear a lot of people complaining that 6" phones are too big for the same reason you don't hear a lot of people complaining that Linux is too hard to use -- because you only got there by having already decided the answer to the question.
This is what we do and it worked great until iOS8 came along.
Read more about some problems here
http://www.raymondcamden.com/2014/9/25/IndexedDB-on-iOS-8--B...
I think we don't acknowledge just how much of the Human Hive Mind we already have. I mean, there are individual humans: and then there is humanity. In between, many, many hives and collectives and corporations and aggregates, and so on.

This, I believe, points to a 'higher, greater good' which is the species itself. So to answer your question, no: its not strange at all to be perpetuating human DNA in spite of ownership. Its the species which owns you, not the other way around. None of us exist without others.
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It leaves the whole market open to whoever else can do a better job.

I think social news/discussions/etc. is in weird place where it's not entirely clear what the job is. I kind of have a hunch that the deterioration many people feel takes place is a consequence of realizing we're going around in circles. before you've completed your first couple of orbits you feel like its heading somewhere, then when you feel like it's not you're disappointed.

If you're working on this are, what are your thoughts on the the centerpiece of something like Reddit (or HN). I don't think it's a list of links primarily. Do you?
It looks interesting but I wonder how it works if you have to filter or search for records when you have many records. I did not see any query language only iterating through all records and filtering in memory.
IRIX was how I got hooked on zsh. There was something beautiful about the toaster-like O2 that I had on my desk. That machine had some rather impressive graphics abilities (for the time) and was a pleasure to use. It was similar to modern-day Apple products in its beauty.
The 900k+ number is from the official statistics and includes only Drupal 7 installations (https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal).
Most practical use of iBeacons so far. Its more common to me to take my glasses of and leave them somewhere, than to leave my phone, wallet keys ect.
getting the same error.
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Take a look at gameloft games for starter. There are a bunch of great games out there.
The largest impact on our brains isn't our genetics. Our ability to recall information has become moot, I know I personally just store an index of all the information I lean in my brain. Then if I'm like, "Oh, this can be solved with <insert solution>" I just look it up, since I have all the worlds previous knowledge literally a few typed words and 2 - 3 clicks away.

Further, every gene we alter effects other genes, if we alter a large portion to increase our brain capacity we really have no idea what else will be effected.

Worse yet, we really don't have a "good" measurement of IQ to begin with. Is being able to do spacial tasks really intelligence, perhaps we should focus on memorization a bit more... it is really all arbitrary.

The only real genetic benefits to our brain come from improved wiring, i.e. able to complete concurrent tasks, storing memories more efficiently, etc. The only way I see any of this being improved are from significant advances in neuroscience and genetics, and we make the assumption that we can simulate all of this or experiment on humans (pretty large assumption here).

Everything is possible given enough time, but I do not think we are anywhere near close enough to do genetic modifications to improve the brain. Perhaps we could do some bio-machine hybridization, i.e. connect my brain to the internet or something, that's a bit closer, but still 20+ years out (if I had to guess).

FYI, I actually am trying to start a company to gather more accurate information and augment the brain: http://synaptitude.me/
Dividing this sort of knowledge between East/West is antiquated at best. New York City has a vibrant startup scene and Boston is the center of the robotics industry.
I found this book helpful: The HIPAA Roadmap for Business Associates ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1484067010/ref=oh_aui_searc... ). It goes through some of the basics of HIPAA, what kinds of policies you need to have and why, and includes some example policy templates similar to the ones being graciously provided in this article.
Shutter works well with my common workflows. It lets me grab a screen area, adjusting the captured area on the fly BEFORE capturing, then saves the capture to a file, lets me launch its editor with a single click to do basic stuff like drawing lines, circles, and labels, then lets me copy the finished image to the clipboard.
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Thanks for the reference! Seems to be precisely the sort of material I was looking for.
Hmm.. whats bigger than bigger from 5 to 6plus, apart from the screen size?
there is some caching going on because the patch is so new, going into the gui and clicking manually refresh fixed it for me
We really don't know the practical consequences of this systematic transmutation (for all we know, neutron liberating fusion reactors will never be economic). It's entirely possible the device will have to be replaced more often, I'm just pointing out the less mass in it, the less that has to be disposed of when that happens.
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You have to admit it was at least more fair, as Iceland punished those that are really to blame (bankers) instead of the innocent (citizens).

Whether it was "better" or "worse" is a discussion I'll leave to the consequentialists.
Now Jase can make it even more awesome.
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The depth of control over raw genetic material that occurs within each living thing is complex to an order not yet close to a meaningful understanding. Gene methylation alone can render a gene meaningless for you, your children, and theirs.

It is the scope of the remaining unknowns in this field that allow us to project our speculative hopes onto them.
Drupalcon happened during this time.
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> Many a slave in the past (again, excluding US) was in much better situation than your average friendly neighbourhood supermarket clerk.

Unless you are using some exotic definition of enslavement, there is a fundamental difference between slave an employee. A slave is a property of his owner [0], thus slave has no agency and is completely dependent on her/his owner decisions. Employee may choose to be dependent on her/his employer to any extent she/he chooses, but it is her/his choice. You may argue that both slave and employer may end up being completely dependent on her/his owner/employer, but from the point of view of the law and society the situation is always completely different.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
As someone who has interests outside code, and works on propietary software, I don't have code that I have open sourced. Does that make me a bad developer? (In fact, looking at my toolchain and libraries, I don't think anything I'm working with is Open Source at all... yay games)
Are there a lot of social connections between West Africa and Mexican slums? Is travel from West Africa to poor areas of Mexico something the world should actually be concerned about? Why?

(I think it is likely pragmatic to at least encourage people to not travel, for instance, I don't see why the nurse flew to Ohio in the first place, but I don't understand how the Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea->Mexican slum is a useful idea to focus on)
Wrote an answer on this on Quora last week ->

http://www.quora.com/Where-is-the-dividing-line-in-building-...

I just sent you an email too. Hopefully I can help out a bit.
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"Now, McCracken and Ewald have a chance to avoid Apple's fate." Since I was there at Apple while SGI was imploding, it's fun to read what people said then and see what happened. It wasn't fun at the time of course.
Checkout the Plan 9 from user space libraries. There is the basis of go, but in a set if c libraries.
Competition is good, though if Apple does put their fingerprint sensor on the iPads it will be hard to steer me towards alternatives. I have gotten spoiled with this feature, it lets me have the best of both worlds - long passwords and fast access.

That and I am still not sold on the apps on Android
7.32 is a one line change btw, so the patch is same difference.
> Further, every gene we alter effects other genes, if we alter a large portion to increase our brain capacity we really have no idea what else will be effected.

I agree completely. There are tons of interactions. It is a incredibly complex process to genetically engineer improved intelligence in any significant fashion.

> Worse yet, we really don't have a "good" measurement of IQ to begin with. Is being able to do spacial tasks really intelligence, perhaps we should focus on memorization a bit more... it is really all arbitrary.

I disagree. We have a decent measurement, but we do not have a good understanding of the neurological basis of it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

> The only real genetic benefits to our brain come from improved wiring, i.e. able to complete concurrent tasks, storing memories more efficiently, etc

This is pretty simplistic and I think wrong. Our brains wiring is the only real difference between us and monkeys (and every other animal for that matter), but that different "wiring" (more and different structures) makes a massive difference. To dismiss "wiring" differences like this is insane.

> Perhaps we could do some bio-machine hybridization, i.e. connect my brain to the internet or something, that's a bit closer, but still 20+ years out (if I had to guess).

Sounds like an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocortex
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> A more real world case is that hospitals are starting to create out patient monitoring apps. Whenever a patient uses their blood pressure monitor, the hospital app gets notified of the new reading, sends that data to the hospital computers, a doctor might then review it, see there’s a problem and call the patient in.

I don't see how doctors could rely on this data. There are so many devices that may use HealthKit, and many of them are (for now) nowhere near as reliable as the equipment doctors would use for the same metrics.

Take blood pressure monitors, for example. If you shop around for a good one for iOS, even the best ones are still questionable, at best. Some people claim they're very accurate, while others say they're way off.

It seems we have a long way to go before doctors could rely on the data from HealthKit devices.
What did the first ever computer program do?
I got an interview at a Rails shop a few years back, was given a 'take home' project, and found the print copy of this book at Borders. As I read the book I saw that I could get the full version online for free! Amazing.

I ended up getting the job, then I found out they used Rails 2 (not 3, which the book covered) so I had to forget a bunch of stuff for a year until we started doing Rails 3 apps. Also found out they didn't do tests so I 'wasted' a lot of time on those with the book. Rails was also a PITA to setup the first couple times, thank god for StackOverflow and Ubuntu Forums. Either way it was a great book.

I prefer dead trees and was glad to spend real money on the book. Borders, where I bought the book is closed now, so I at least hope the author(s) got a buck or two from it and it wasn't completely wasted.