skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true, but "The Bell Curve" is a pretty poor book, full of questionable use of data. I wrote a fairly detailed critique of it, back in the day, which is now lost to history, but the gist was, "Murry doesn't do a very good job of making his case regarding IQ and race."

For one, "race" is a very slippery concept, and as a social construction is so deeply correlated with other determinants of well-being in the US that any imputation that it is an independent causal factor is problematic at best. Murry doesn't do a great job of untangling these effects.

For two, as applied to populations, IQ isn't necessarily more than a measure of general well-being. Alternative measures of IQ correlate pretty well with the Stanford-Binet, but you know what else does? Grip strength. The strength of your hands correlates about as well with your standard IQ score as various alternative IQ measures. The most plausible explanation for this is that all these measures are metrics of well-being, not "general intelligence".

The very notion that "general intelligence" is a measurable property, like height, rather than a complex multi-variate phenomenon that cannot be unproblematically reduced to a single number is worth taking seriously.

Murray seems mostly unconcerned by all that, and insufficiently aggressive about looking for ways of challenging his own hypotheses.
Look at your server logs. Look at the timestamps around the file create date, and grep the logs for that path. You might be able to see a request creating that file, or calling it (neither is good...)
Latest TPP Leak Shows US Still Pushing Terrible DRM and Copyright Term Proposals
These aren't monitors, they're full computers. You can't even use them as external monitors like the old iMacs could.
I feel like laptop resolution progress stalled in the early 2000s. Maybe mass knowledge of 1080p HD set us back. I guess consumers started thinking "1920 x 1080 is really good resolution" so they were willing to accept lower resolutions as "good enough" for a long time. I had a 1400 x 1050 14" Dell laptop in 2005 but it wasn't until the Retina Macbook Pro in 2012 that laptop resolutions got significantly better. 768 is an absurdly bad vertical resolution. Many serious content creation apps do not work well at all at such a low resolution.
Openport – A free reverse ssh service
We restored the submitter's title which made the Light Table connection explicit.
I know two people who "become women" to get better treatment at university. Dance around it as you wish, but today women has 60% higher chance to graduate compared to men.
OS X Yosemite released
Firefox is a house of cards, because all those billion tabs are sharing a single process and they all need to cooperate perfectly.
We post sys admin / "DevOps" roles on https://www.wfh.io -- but to be honest, the # of these we get (or see online) pale in comparison to development roles.
As a front-end developer who came up in the age of defining web standards movement, progressive enhancement and separation of presentation, behavior and styling, reading this makes me feel less relevant than I've ever been.

I haven't kept up with Javascript as I should have, seeing how it developed from a nice little add-on, to being incorporated in AJAX apps like Google Maps and now seeing it eat the industry alive as a full-stack language.

Plain old HTML, CSS and JS seem to be less defined today than ever before considering how much is JS driven and provided through popular frameworks like Bootstrap. It worries me that the entry to relevant web development and web design become more difficult as these approaches advance and what the end user becomes stuck with are one of many platforms and frameworks instead of an ease of creation with the raw code itself.
On Error Handling in Rust
I want 3k, not 4k. I haven't heard any 4k monitors that can downsize to 3k w/o aliasing and/or without first upscaling to a higher resolution.

EDIT: 4k on ~30" is too high resolution. 4k on ~40" is too big/wide.

Also, for the same price, you can get the same 28" 4k Samsung monitor from Amazon (search for samsung u28d590d).
2012: http://googlepolitics.blogspot.com/2012/09/build-apps-for-el...
Does each new Apple product really need a separate post on HN? Is there not enough media coverage on this stuff elsewhere?
I think that mentality could end up being the death of many companies. Though for certain business models the "slave" is preferable to any alternative. The great leaders of the coming decade though are going to be people-centric, just you wait!
BMI is itself fine for my line of questioning, because I'm curious as to whether excess quantities of fat impact cardiovascular risk in the general case. Determining things like this is exactly the use case of BMI, since across large sample sizes it is a reasonable proxy for what we are really interested in (i.e. how much excess fat the participants have).

Mainly: I'm curious mostly about whether excess body fat on its own impacts cardiovascular health, or whether it does so only indirectly by increasing the risk factors this calculator uses.
Yep, no one is going to want to pay $600+ for a phone(in the US). TBH, over $200 for a phone on contract is really high as well.
In using the beta, I haven't noticed any actual performance/battery difference between the two. Honestly, when I first installed it the first thing I noticed was the lack of sound when changing the volume.
I'm not trying to advocate one way or the other with this comment, just to clarify what is actually being argued about.
A followup:

Do you support the idea of "professional guilds" or other associations that delineate the "people who just learned to code" from "people who have seriously invested the time to learn the fundamentals of their field in a very professional fashion"
Well said King.

"Well, I freelanced as a cardiologist on some local homeless people and I watch a TON... A TON of House, so I feel I'm ready to break into being a surgeon"
I really don't like the sound of this. The SIM card is the one thing that keeps mobile service relatively divorced from the hardware. I can keep the same phone but change SIM whenever it suits. I can also take change hardware and just move the SIM.

I don't need to ask my provider or hardware OEM for permission. I have control. In the Apple scenario I'm giving this up. I vaguely remember some wrangling with GSMA over this.

Ultimately, as with many Apple products, we'll be trading control for convenience.
LTTng is closely related to liburcu (now on http://urcu.so/).

It provides lockless datastructures for screaming fast concurrency on multicore machines. You will be pleasantly surprised by the concurrent hash-map implementation that comes with it [1].

[1] here's the paper for background: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixatc11/resizable-scal...
I might be talking out my arse here but wasn't FaceTime initially touted as being released with a view to heading towards being an open standard?
You should be able to hold option and click the fullscreen traffic light to maximize, but I agree that it should be the other way around. It is rather ridiculous to take a user out of their interface if they forget to hold the option key.

The other major issue is that fullscreen actually renders my second monitor completely useless. It just fills up with grey. Why would anyone want that to happen? If I didn't want a second monitor I could turn it off.
Different cultures for sure.

I've had 5 mobile phones...some candybar in the early 00's, a flip phone in the mid 00's, and iphone 3g, 4s, and now 6. I've never even /seen/ a sim card in person. It's a piece of tech that I shouldn't have to every even know exists. I just want my phone to work. I shouldn't have to play around with a microscopic piece of plastic and metal for that to happen.
This is a great article. Tons of questions and not many answers, and that's okay. I'm glad to have places to look for inspiration when trying to celebrate my identity as a man in a way that doesn't marginalize anyone. I haven't found any good answers yet. It's really interesting to see how the student body is balancing their desire to be inclusive with a desire to retain an identity and common experiences.

I also appreciated how the author and editor did a great job of making complicated issues about identity and tense and changing pronouns and changing names very simple and human and readable.
Link is working now. Download away.
Until they work things out with the NFL it's not worth any money. The rest of the programming is available elsewhere.
"Two rational people cannot end up at [a] different conclusion"

Wow. I couldn't disagree more. There's so much ambiguity in this world of ours that, even given a universally agreed upon definition of "rational" (which usually is a stand-in for "people whose thinking I approve of") there is enormous room for differing conclusions. The belief that "rational" people must come to same conclusions seems like a basis for transferring the argument from the issues to the people. I.e. if you're "rational" and not coming to the same conclusions as I am then there must be something wrong with you.
Heh. Without knowing the images, I guessed that the old version was a blurry old 35mm photo and they wanted something higher resolution. That would be an interesting question - is a technically superior, but similar looking, image still a copy? But that is not the case here.
I disagree, but I upvoted because I think it perfectly highlights the real difference of opinion.

When you say "disarm", you really mean "disarm all but the state". That is very scary to any libertarian-leaning people, even if you are using the word figuratively. It makes sense only if you if you believe the government is so nearly perfect that other influence is counterproductive.

Imagine if only the government had enough resources for science? Or worse, nobody could afford to make their political message heard, so only incumbants are viable?

No large state has shown that it deserves that much power. I'd rather see a bunch of ads I disagree with than see no non-state messages. I'd rather that some non-state actors had enough resources to try an ambitious project that is politically unpopular (think stem cells a decade ago).
Big Data Suite Gets Big Props from Customers, Partners
The specs for the new retina iMac claim it supports an external display @3840x2160. But: 1. Will it be 60Hz? 2. Only one such display, right? Thanks.
I guess the sarcasm isn't appreciated, but HLS is a simple enough protocol that an intern could implement it. It trades latency for cacheability, which greatly reduces broadcasting costs. The only obvious reasons to not support it are political.
> Pot itself has no known health detriments

You can't say this. There's a possibility that cannabis causes mental health problems in some people who don't have underlying disease. There's a stronger possibility that cannabis triggers mental illness in people who do have underlying disease but who would not otherwise have had an episode.

It is irresponsible to suggest that cannabis is harm free.

People like you do great harm to campaigns that aim to legalise drugs. Please stop.
So they got rid of the 2 1TB drive option? Essentially the maximum internal storage on the Mini has been cut in half?
PAYG and contract both exist in the uk. Initially you had to be able to get credit to get a contract, so eg kids got PAYG. The carriers preferred contracts as it was guaranteed income. Its a bit more flexible now, people choose what they want.
Its an article headline, so absolutely intended to be click-happy and instigate two things:
1 - interest from as many people as possible
2 - discussions and disagreements like this!

To be fair, this isn't a sales pitch but a guest post on our blog! ;-)

We present a number of companies and bootcamp angles in the article, to each their own how they "sell" the mission, or as some would call it "the dream". In our case we paint a picture of the ideal but crack down pretty hard when on boarding potential students about their goals and expectations.

I could of course be "just saying that", but we're an education company. Drop outs and sucky results aren't really our thing!
It seems like a step back to me.

Want to change operator but the cheapest operator does not have a deal with Apple? Well you're out of luck!
Your profile name is awesome. The end.
Heh, me too - you can turn it back on in System Preferences though. It's a new sound effect.
The Sumerians, not the Babylonians.

The Babylonians were an Assyrian people who conquered the Sumerians and adopted much of their culture, much the way the Romans took over the Greeks.

The answer to why the Sumerians used base 60 is: nobody knows, although as the article points out, 60 is a very convenient number with lots of useful factors, including 12, which was the number of divisions of the night.
100% behind you on this!
So say TwitPic literally had no money to keep the servers running that housed your data, what then? Tell them to suck it and all get new jobs to support your data? Or give you a grace period to reclaim that data?

Number 2 sounds like a completely reasonable approach.
Whether or not jail time is the best solution is a tangential point, but people convicted of "robbery" under UK law have been proven guilty of using force or threats to steal (as opposed to less specific legal definitions of theft), whilst living in a society which usually provides adequate benefits (including medical care) for those with little or no source of legal earned income. Whilst some people's circumstances might influence or pressurise them into acting in this way, it's not exactly an inadvertent, victimless or no-real-alternative type of crime.

One doesn't need to have a particularly hardline attitude towards criminal offenders to assume that those guilty of robbery must have hugely transformed their outlook on life if their stated beliefs that they're more moral, kind, compassionate etc. than the average person aren't totally delusional. (Actually, they'd probably have a stronger argument for claiming to be as "law abiding" as everyone else since few people aren't technically guilty of breaching some law)

There are former criminals who are shining examples of people who are not only able to turn their own lives around but are also willing to dedicate huge amounts of time to convince others not to make the same mistakes; one might say showing more kindness, compassion or morals than average. But there are also plenty who think their only real mistake was getting caught.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Google.com.
whois Google.com?
8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4
> Of all the people at a multiethnic women’s college who could hold the school’s “diversity” seat, the least fitting one was a white man.

> “I thought he’d do a perfectly fine job, but it just felt inappropriate to have a white man there. It’s not just about that position either. Having men in elected leadership positions undermines the idea of this being a place where women are the leaders.”

I find this concept both depressing and distressing. Any person can be capable, willing, and qualified to take on a role promoting diversity. Their gender, sex, race, or whatever else should not disqualify them and should hardly be a factor. I guess this shows that prejudice is unfortunately still common in modern society. Discriminating against e.g. white men in such a role is just as abhorrent to me as discriminating against any other groups in other circumstances.

Certainly it's their right not to vote for him, but if the basis of their vote is simply his membership in some group, rather than his character or qualifications, then that's prejudice. It's sad and it needs to stop.

We need to cease over-correcting for past discriminating by propagating new discrimination and prejudice into the modern day.

> I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let's put discrimination to rest by selecting people for roles based on what we know about them as individuals: their capability, qualifications, and character. [Edit: minor rephrasing and added content.]
Have a citation for a risk model that uses triglycerides?

"Predicting the Thirty-year Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: The Framingham Heart Study" (http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/119/24/3078.abstract) reported that triglycerides were not statistically significant when added to a model that already contains total and HDL cholesterol:

"Standard CVD risk factors (male sex, age, SBP, antihypertensive treatment, total and HDL cholesterol, smoking and diabetes) were highly significant (0.01 level) in the multivariable model. DBP and triglycerides were not statistically significant and inclusion of LDL in place of total cholesterol did not improve model performance."
Don't get hadooped
So can I still use a regular sim card? If not, this is truly disappointing, not incredible.
Maybe I am not great, but many of us do not get to choose our tooling.

It is chosen by the employer/customer.
Our operating theory right now is that the best (and most useful) evaluator of developer talent (particularly new developers) is the projects they did for themselves. Or their solutions and learning through a single-dev job.

Thoughts?
Upvote just for mentioning this book! I purchased, started reading and have subsequently forgotten to finish this book after work got in the way.
I dug into all the bug trackers to find the current status and it looks like user namespaces can be enabled once Go 1.4 is released in December.
I think we agree. My intent was not to laud the market so much as to kill the hope of a perfectly-designed system by showing that the thing requires Elua to make it really "work out well" from our perspective.

We do a whole lot of stuff to satisfy Gnon---marketing, sales, firing people, etc. Sometimes that happens to also satisfy Elua, like when we get iPhones. But Gnon MUST be resisted sometimes, and I think philanthropy is one of those times.
> In other words, buy a Retina Cinema Display, get the computer to power it for free.

Funny thing, it was also the case for the first 27" imac
Cause of Joan Rivers death revealed
Hmmm. 3" tall, about 1.5" in diameter. Cooling air by around 10 degF. I'm not going to be so uncharitable as to say "impossible," but I will note that it would require the energy density of a bomb even if the entire volume were nothing more than batteries. Not something I'd wear around my neck!

I wonder where the hot air goes...
It's not necessary that most other drivers have had an accident for most people to have had below the average number of accidents.

Consider a population of 100 drivers, none of whom have ever had a traffic accident. The average number of accidents per driver is therefore zero.

Suddenly, two of them collide. Now, 2/100 drivers have had an accident, and 98/100 drivers have still never had an accident. The average number of accidents per driver is now therefore 0.02.

Since 98/100 drivers have had 0 accidents, but the average number of accidents per driver is 0.02, then 98% of drivers have had below the average number of accidents.
If you use fuse, you will have issues. Apple doesn't allow any unsigned kernel modules in Yosemite, and a developer certificate can't sign kernel modules. (You need need to apply to Apple for special permission.) There is a boot argument to turn this permissions checking off completely.

There were some issues in the beta with large amounts of stuff in /usr/local (I think Apple is building a new /usr tree and copying stuff over very slowly.) I don't know if it was resolved in GM3, but with Mavericks -> GM2, the last "about a minute remaining" took five hours.

For my laptop, I'm going to move /usr/local aside before I do the Mavericks -> Yosemite upgrade and move it back afterwards. (The installer doesn't seem to mess with /opt.)

It took out my java 1.6. Java 1.7 was intact, but I was surprised to find that the info.plist in (my copy of) IntelliJ says it requires Java 1.6.

I had to re-link some perl directories to get git-svn working again, I forget the details.

If you're dual booting, Mavericks will rewrite the spotlight index on your Yosemite volume, if it sees it.

I don't use zsh, iTerm works fine for me.
LG 65UB9500 with WebOS, it's a pretty great TV, I really like the WebOS interface.
I partially withdraw my comment and add: Apple has built a solution that people can use today.
They didn't manufacture it, they designed it. How many tech companies design and manufacture all of their own stuff? Any? They didn't "buy the whole thing from LG or Sharp" they designed and developed it and then used them as manufacturing partner to produce it.

You have really swallowed the Apple hateraide it seems.
What does "full benefits" mean?
There are tons of current gens games for mac thanks to Steam and Mac ports.
You know two men who became trans for better treatment? Considering the issues trans people face you are full of shit.

Interesting how accounts trying to claim that 'women have it so much better' are always green accounts. If you believe in your comment why not use your actual handle?

Why do you think women have a better chance? What can you do to help men?
I find that concept really depressing.

You're not the only one. Apparently even at what should be an enlightened women's college, sexism (and racism) is alive and well.
Have you thought about the children yet?

An isolation ward for one or two patients is easy to set up. It takes only a few hours, and doesn't require the President's intervention.

Edit: The article linked to by the OP shows how Ebola was contained in Nigeria, a place with many fewer resources in this area than the US.
If I remember my reading of A History of Mathematics well enough, they very much were into base 60 (sexagesimal) because of the numerous divisors (1/2/3/4/5/6/10/12/15/20/30/60).
> Either way, when you’re reading a linked page, you may still
> be “at” awesomestuff.com, as clicking the back button on
> your browser can instantly confirm. Effectively,
> awesomestuff.com has stolen content from newyorker.com, just
> as the compiler of “Most Thoughtful Essays” stole content
> from me.

"At" is the wrong word. The browser is requesting content. If it's requesting content from awesomestuff.com that only newyorker.com has permission to copy, that's a copyright problem.

This is a very odd metaphor for a journalist to mistake. It's as if any reference they make in a piece is violating the copyright of the referenced item. Is reference that difficult of a concept to grasp?
Wow this was actually painful to read it's so biased. To disagree with Gates' views is one thing. You might not even think he is a very good person. That's completely fair given some of his past actions. But to make the argument that what he did wasn't innovation? For better Microsoft change the world. The author is just taking shots at people and barely addresses the issues Gates or Picketty bring up
When I think of people who have it made in modern day America, "trans women" are right up there at the top.
That is a very nice chart.

But gee, one length (viewing distance) is in different units than the other length (screen diagonal size). Hilarious.
It's still there, but now you hold shift+vol up/down to hear the feedback. This is in contrast to earlier OS X versions, where holding down shift will mute the audio feedback.
s/ a while/ever/
I do not think that new image is a copy of an old one. Look at the flow of hair - totally different, and unlikely to be photoshopped from one to another. It is way easier to take another picture of the back of Rod Stewart's head and my guess would be - this is what was done. The picture and style is obviously a nostalgic reference to an old album cover art, but the picture is most likely _new_, not a copy or derivative.

I would say that Rod Stewart may get his hair photographed as many tmes as he damn pleases and case does not really have merit (IANAL etc etc).