skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same is true for something short in length. I understand intuitively what a millimeter is but start talking in meters for example measuring someones height and I have to do a conversion.
Wrong. TCP has a lot of behaviour you can't work around. UDP is what you write it to be. When experiencing packet loss not due to bandwidth, TCP will delay recovery compared to what UDP can achieve.

For games etc, you need to be able to hide 1-2 seconds of lag for TCP.
I had a great experience as a KPCB fellow. Interacting with other interns as well as KPCB partners and founders was incredibly valuable to my growth as a person in tech/entrepreneurship.

A post about my time with Coursera via the fellowship: https://tech.coursera.org/blog/2014/08/27/from-learner-to-in...
"there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors"

But you're totally right. I was watching my friend code last night, we both have the same # of years experience, and I was like "what does that function name even mean? How about 'FindNeighbors' instead of 'CheckNeighbors' ". I'm sure I do the same thing in my own code.

If you still teach, do you ever have your students do code review on eachother's code?
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Consider sending a dump to Internet Archive.
No, that only concerns intelligence test scores.
>Another one that you're due is realizing money is just an indirection for labor.

That doesn't imbue it with any special properties.

I am not vilifying money. Obviously it is a very useful medium of exchange. I just don't understand why it must be elevated to /universally/ useful medium of exchange.

>I wonder what other means of exchanging with other people you can think of that is not money.

Votes, for one. Favors. Time (that is not covered by labor such as Time Spent Cultivating Friendship or Mentorship). Kindness. Even most inter personal violence and ill intent. Extra-currency exchanges between people abound and it doesn't make sense in many cases to make them transferable by assigning some currency value to them.
To be honest it now seems you are arrogant on top of your ignorance.

Two people try to explain to you and you go on talking without reading.

Regarding reading comprehension: what part of eitlands explanation that you are often free to take iq tests multiple times didn't you understand? And so on.

And, regarding your example: if you are going to be arrogant, make sure you are right.
> I switched to an nVidia card

Which is where you demonstrated that you are a power user. Most consumer systems don't even come with discrete graphics cards anymore.

Consumer systems took a big backwards leap when integrated graphics became the norm again. They're running several years behind the discrete cards someone like you or I might buy.
I agree. As weird as it sounds I wonder what rate the desktop refreshes at.
My point was that they are incredibly high quality.
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It sounds as if you're talking about the difference between the average or the median. The prisoners were asked about the average unjailed person, and the findings are from the average response.

There might be more data that asked prisoners to say if they are better than most people, and from the data collected, I'm sure that you could determine if most prisoners thought they were better than the average person.

As it is, I'm assuming that prisoners answered from a list of characteristics about themselves, average prisoners, and average unjailed people on some linear scale.
Usually they do a rolling release over the course of the day. So it will probably be available by the afternoon and definitely be the evening (west-coast time).
> If you still teach, do you ever have your students do code review on eachother's code?

Yes, I teach. No I haven't done that. But it's a great idea. I'll think about it.

<ggchappell proceeds to think about it>
I see that Monument Valley is the "beautiful app" that both Google and Apple are showing off for their devices.

[1] http://www.google.com/nexus/new/images/nexus6/N6-moreeveryth...

[2] http://images.apple.com/v/ipad-air-2/a/images/overview/apps_...
Also: "Marijuana may cause low blood pressure".
[Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/marijuana/safety...]

And, of course, blood pressure is one of the four numbers.
Germany confirms.
This idea was well articulated by Hobbes, and in some senses, Legal Positivism.

The thing is, there are some great refutations out there, Rousseau and Locke and a bunch of people since then. The US Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence all draw from these refutations - in essence asserting that humans have certain inalienable rights which legislation should not infringe upon.

What weirds me out is that so few people seem to reference those ideas at all ... they merely articulate the position you detailed above, or some variant of it ... it is to my mind a fairly primitive world view and even otherwise intelligent and educated people seem to have no awareness of why it might not be a good idea to base government on positivist principle.
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This assumes all data is public
In fact, there was some study (can't find the link) showing that people with moderately higher LDL lived longer than people with LDL that's in norm. I'm also on a ketogenic diet and my HDL is over 100, triglycerides below 70, and LDL is a bit high, but total cholesterol is way high due to high HDL. It's totally unscientific to use LDL given it includes HDL and the higher the HDL, the better with no set up limit (unlike many markers). HDL/triglycerides is the only meaningful ratio in the standard lipid profile. Also, there's some truth in doing subfractioning of LDL, which almost nobody does as it's expensive and not part of official lipid profile testing as far as I know.
Edit: Grammar.
Just wondering did they show these off at the iPhone 6 announcement or did they gloss over them. I feel as if i am at a loss here.
Depends on how far away the monitor is.
I don't see how you can reach that conclusion. I want to buy a glossy monitor, not a glossy television screen. The only well known option is a monitor manufactured by Apple, but they're really expensive compared to typical quality matte screens. It's really hard to find even a single alternative. I found a single HP monitor which maybe has a glossy screen, but they don't state that clearly.
that would require a new gpu generation while the current one that is 4K capable (albeit only really smooth in SLI) has just been refreshed.
In fact, I don't believe it has NFC, so the Apple Pay is only for apps.
More like: A new generation of humans who think in a way that a previous generation of humans who are considered subjectively 'less intelligent' consider to be 'super intelligent' is coming. Many lolz will be had as they all perish due to their objective stupidity.
"where is the retina macbook air"

It's waiting on Intel to ramp up Broadwell production.
I'm from Mexico City. I thought that it was just that my Apple Id was only attached to the Mexican store, so I didn't had access. So, I was struggling for around an hour to change for my Apple Id to be one from the US and then I realize that the problem is the same regardless of the country. I lost my time and my previous purchases. FAIL.
Outside of criminal law, mostly your question would be answered by the contracts you signed or otherwise agreed to. Read them and find out.

Generally I would argue that businesses that provide contracts to the wide world would have termination clauses : both parties can end the contract, with no warning, with no explanation necessary. Since you agreed to this, why would you be opposed to it ? Go to a competitor.

Killing animals you don't own is entirely different (it is criminal) and I don't understand why you're comparing the two, or why you feel both should carry similar laws.
Agreed. The overwhelming public interest was served by The Guardian publishing it.
From the article:

"This means that there must be at least thousands of IQ alleles to account for the actual variation seen in the general population. A more sophisticated analysis (with large error bars) yields an estimate of perhaps 10,000 in total."

The odds that you can flip a few thousand genes without harm seem to me to approach 0 rapidly. None of these genes are, after all, coding for "intelligence"... they're doing some sort of chemical thing, after all. Heck even if it produces a viable embryo it seems more likely to produce insanity than superintelligence (assuming we could even distinguish the two).

That said, yeah, I'm just hypothesizing, but it seems far more likely to me that rather than some sort of monotonic increase in the "intelligence" factor that we can just pile on freely that there will be any number of incompatible additions, things that where adding either one or the other of some modification takes you to the optimal point but having both takes you beyond, and, well, all the other exciting and whacky things we see in the genetic world. In the arbitrarily-complicated n-dimensional space of "intelligence" just ramping all the available controls to "maximum" doesn't strike me as likely to produce an optimal result.

(I did, however, resist giving a8da6b0c91d's answer; a priori we can't tell whether the Ashekenazi Jews are made susceptible by their intelligence, or if they merely got something nasty co-selecting with their intelligence. Perhaps somebody somewhere has made that particular study, I don't know, but my point is merely that study would be required on a case-by-case basis. That can't be used as a general argument when we're discussing intelligently modifying genetics.)
The corollary is that you would not go out of your way to conceive more less "better" children.

Once you are responsible for a child, you stay responsible.

Don't make this weird.
All the author is saying is that it might be possible.

No; he doesn't merely say that it "might be possible." He says that it will happen. In fact he's so sure it will happen that it's basically inevitable. So sure that he takes great pains to say so, in bold letters (hundreds of pixels wide):

"Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming"
That makes little sense. Your counterpoint is that when a private citizen came around the corner carrying a gun, whilst civilians, cops and security were tackling the shooter to the ground, he didn't shoot, that means that it's impossible that two people carrying could confuse one another for the actual shooter at an MCI?

No, your example shows little in that regard.
Agreed. TCP stands for "Transmission control protocol" which started out as file transfer. These days it is exquisitely unsuitable for most things it get used for, even fetching web pages. The delays, retries and congestion controls are set arbitrarily and rarely adjusted. In this modern world of wireless roaming and streaming media, TCP has little or nothing to offer, except that its there.
I don't, and I see that I implied synthesis when I should have said that they only inhibit its reuptake, except for amphetamine, which also stimulates dopamine release.

Here's a general article on it:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC368179/

Good catch.
Yes you can, even on stock Android.

The developer has to set the option to allow it in the manifest when they submit the App however, which not all of them do sadly.
Many people have various political views. Allowing people with huge buckets of cash to use that cash to gain increased representation is fundamentally wrong. A representative government is supposed represent all of its constituents equally, but with the current pay-to-play/pay-to-propagandize/pay-to-astroturf regime it doesn't. We can't actually say with any degree of certainty that that the buckets of cash influencing politics are balancing out, since we haven't got a pristine state of thing to compare the current mess against, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest that huge buckets of cash have swayed things on many issues against the interests of the general public.
You're missing the Fusion drive, which is standard on the high-end and $200 extra on the mid-level.
The mainstream body of opinion in favor of legalization does not assert (or in any way rely on the hypothesis) that it is "harmless" or "non-addictive." Right away the author is making a (rather tired and puerile) straw man attack, and insulting our intelligence in doing so. It becomes very difficult to take an interest in anything he says after that.
"Creativity" is correlated with higher IQ.

I understand the urge to resist reducing humans to a single numerical measurement, but the fact is that "IQ" or "g" or general "cognitive ability" or whatever you want to call it is strongly positively correlated with almost every trait and life outcome that people value.
Agreed, I need to email them about that.
In fact, "cable TV" was invented to solve this problem. CATV=Community Antenna TV
Recently, I thought I'd give Hulu Plus a shot. I didn't realize I would still have advertisements after paying a monthly fee. I cancelled my subscription immediately. I don't need to watch those shows that badly.

I have been actively working on removing advertisements from my life and have found it has made my mind feel less cluttered.
Well, what is innovative is building an actual 5k display. Or the Intel processors at ever smaller size.

But a shim interface to make one component work with another? Thats the business of millions of companies out there.
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from http://blog.docker.com/2014/02/docker-0-8-quality-new-builde...

"One release per month. Every first week of the month, we release a new version of Docker. For example, in the first week of March we will release 0.9."

looking at https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md it does not fit very well
I've worked at fixing that, and it should be ok now.
Thanks Michael! I've been following every edition since the very first one. They get even better each time. Congratulations! Really impressive work.
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What is the status of user namespaces? Is this not one of the core security problems with docker?
Why should it be "illegal"? There's nothing wrong with things being forgotten.
I personally always go for a fresh install. I just rysnc my home dir away and copy it back. The rest is mostly setup in ansible land now so I don't really lose much by installing fresh.
Just an FYI on Anonabox, it might not be what people thought it was:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/2j9caq/anonabox_to...
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Wicked psyched about the in-window search for terminal. Finally. I like having terminal full screen but it screws up the popup box search.
You'd be surprised how fast you can run out of memory if you are mastering your own, non-professional 5k/4k video and applying some advanced non-linear operations such as video stabilization. It's not GPU accelerated, parallelism is limited by the nature of the algorithm which makes rendering farms useless. Do you need a power hungry and noisy server with slower single thread performance than a top end i7 just for additional RAM?

On the other hand, beyond 32GB, ECC seems to be very important so you probably won't have any choice but to buy a proper workstation unless AMD makes a miraculous processor on par with i7 (as they do support ECC in all models).
Strange, I guess I'm an outlier but I always do clean installs for a new OS.
Hi, it's probably an incomplete company URL (need the http:// part) and other such things. One immediate improvement I intend to add on is form field highlighting - so it will show you which fields are yet to be filled in correctly.
For a normal viewing distance when using a desktop PC 4k on 24" or 5K on 27" is pretty much the sweet spot and i am pretty sure Apple won't go above that anytime soon because the benefits are diminishing.
Check out https://github.com/docker/docker/releases

EDIT: Its slightly off, but still about one a month
This comment is really off base (and so is the pando story it's based on).

First, TOR is being funded by the DoD, which is not a US law enforcement agency. The US government conflates the military and police enough for everyone without its critics doing so as well.

Second, yes, TOR is funded by the DoD because having a network that enables US agents to anonymize themselves from entities other than the US government is in the interest of the US government. And yes, the US government is also trying to deanonymize TOR traffic because TOR users being knowable by the US government is /also/ in the interest of the US government.

None of this is surprising or strange or fishy at all. And none of it is evidence that the TOR developers have made any compromises on anonymity. The US government may be able to deanonymize TOR traffic; that's bad, but I have ever confidence that the TOR developers are trying to do something about it.
You can use a Thunderbolt computer (which are rare) with a DisplayPort display, but you cannot use a DisplayPort computer with a Thunderbolt display!
Could resources as a service work?
Hi,
I came up with this question while thinking about how broken the natural resources industry is.

Instead of buying natural resources and materials (only those that can be recycled completely (like glass, metals, paper, silicon, etc.)) to manufacture products, companies would sort of lease these from you.

Like that they can manufacture products like they used to. When the product has reached it's end of life, it will be returned to us and scraped of the resources or materials we still own (the ones we previously leased to the manufacturing company). Then we will recycle, refine and resell these.

The incentive to lease for the buying companies would be the cheaper price. We can lease below market value, because once the first leased resources and materials find their way back to us, we don't have to buy them anymore. Recycling is generally cheaper and environmentally friendlier. This strategy would definitely pay of in the long run.

I hope you understood the general concept!
Apple has a pretty poor track record in recent years on perf. Especially with iOS updates. If Yosemite didn't focus on perf then it seems likely to have gone down and older machines will suffer. Thats not necessarily wrong but it is important to understand before you dive in.
I see many posts here asking about the genetics of intelligence. Here is the best review to date (it is open access) [1]. The authors have been studying the genetics of intelligence for over 30 years. The tl;dr is that we know if no single genetic switch that can increase intelligence, there seem to be many little switches that give rise to the normal IQ distribution.

1. http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201410...
Probably the most interesting thing from Apple today, in my opinion. The ability to buy short term plans from different providers effortlessly can turn my tablet into a much more versatile device, and increase competition and reduce long-term carrier lock-in.

It's pretty sweet and if it can set a standard for phones then we'll see carriers become true utilities between which customers can switch easily if they get poor service. In short, pretty awesome.

Today's carrier system kind of feels like this dinosaur, like a landline... archaic and unnecessary. With so many people travelling, changing places, changing technology etc, it makes a lot of sense to move from subscriptions to short-time payments, and eventually, pay-per second of use on the fly, directly, without an account or monthly statement, with a push payment instead of a pull payment. (digital currencies being a key element here). Anyway, getting a bit too off-topic here, but cool first move by Apple for sure!
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Nearly every job I've applied for recently has asked for my github id - at least for web development it seems almost mandatory.
I forgot to put the world always, you can't always put apps on the SD card.
Anyone know what the bottom-left app is? It seems to be a puzzle game.
Tor Browser 4.0 is released
Mavericks is very buggy (locking w/ multiple monitors; finder bugs). I'd wait for at least update 2.

Oh, and the .0 release will, if the pattern holds, have shit perf in some common situations. I presume because apple doesn't test for that.
Sorry about that, should be ok now.
"Regarding reading comprehension: what part of eitlands explanation that you are often free to take iq tests multiple times didn't you understand? And so on."

I was tired of having to explain why assigning a number to intelligence made little sense, so yes I was a little rude. Besides, I addressed eitlands' assertion that certain numbers are beyond reach, just like any formal test you can train people to become good at taking the test.
Well, all the TwitPic data is public.
It would be interesting to see a form of "data insurance". Company pays insurance premiums by stored TB, and if they go bust, the insurance company ensures the data is kept hosted (be it themselves or by preparing the data and donating resources to the Internet Archive)
I can't wait to see these available from off-brand Korean resellers. I wonder how much cheaper they'll be.
There were a few points brought up on a panel discussion I heard this morning, the main ones being:

1) Freeze your eggs at 25, implant them at 35 or 40, and you're still pregnant at 40. You'll have a teenager when you're in your late 50s.

2) Why this, and not a year of maternity/paternity leave?
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This is great, brandonb, and I love to see people making tools that raise awareness. If anyone is looking for this in iOS app form, I made something a few months ago: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heartgram-physicians-cvd-ris... .
Whisper is valued at over $200,000,000.

As the CTO of this woefully "under-capitalized" startup, you surely must be living hand to mouth.

Forgive me, but the fact is you are working with the DoD while claiming to offer users anonymity.

So egregious are your company's violations of trust with its userbase that it warranted the Guardian publicly shaming your entire enterprise.

> This is not a scandal

You're right, it's not a scandal. It's a demolition derby.
Anyone else think it's strange that they sell 3 generations of the same device?

It feels like they're needlessly expanding their products beyond what they need. They did this before and ended up in trouble before Jobs came back.
Sure, but for someone using Facebook, LinkedIn, the web browser, gmail, Google Maps, and so on, the fact that one platform has Garageband and the other doesn't is meaningless, regardless of how well built of an app Garageband may be is.
Yo soy americano, but would not call myself American. There is no confusion, the two words mean two different concepts, even if they share the same root.

Formal translations of "American" would map to "estadounidense" o "norteamericano". Informal ones would just say "gringo", which is a bit fuzzy and (depending on context) may include Canadians - or any Caucasian looking English speaker - as well.
I'm surprised nobody is talking about the Apple SIM which personally I feel is one of the most incredible features they've shipped this year: no more SIM cards, just pick the carrier you want in the Settings app and you're signed up. Fed up with them? Switch carrier in an instant. Going abroad? Switch to a local carrier. Just wow. I really hope they bring this to iPhone.

http://www.apple.com/uk/ipad-air-2/wireless/ (near the bottom, search for "Apple SIM")