skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation is not causation.

We don't know for certain whether the kids who are not beaten are smarter because they were raised in a violence-free environment, or whether they are smarter because their parents are smart enough to resolve their problems without resorting to violence.

So I would not say that refraining from hitting your kids will make them 10 IQ points smarter than they otherwise would have been if you had beaten them. But the fact that you are even considering it at all probably means you are already smarter than most other parents.

That's a bit scary, when you think about it. Spending even a single moment thinking about how you could be a better parent already makes you a better parent than some parents. And that is the reason why child abuse is a problem.

That leads into a philosophical question. How willing would you be to allow a possible pedophile to stop parents from hitting their kids? How willing are you to possibly lend a pedophile encrypted space on your hard drive to maybe stop a government from performing suspicionless dragnet surveillance on hundreds of millions of innocent people?

What if that surveillance included inspecting all the sexting messages that teenagers send to each other over Snapchat? How badly does the government have to act before we finally decide to rank Pedobear lower than Big Brother on our enemies lists?
Yup, just like growing up with roads and water in taps makes those invisible and boring - just part of the background.
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Thanks for the correction. I don't think that it is either positive or negative but it is true in general. In some cases it is useful but sometimes it annoys others.
Love it. I hope they're able to publish the data. If only parts of it are generated using Google Maps data (see the 'create' feature in the screenshots) then they wouldn't because it's derived work.

Here is Flickr equivalent http://code.flickr.net/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/ (downloadable). Foursquare also does similar work.

[edit: sorry, I thought Airbnb was analyzing listing data to find the extends of neighborhoods. They don't seem to do that.]
There's far too little bold speculation and question-asking these days.

It wasn't always this way. When I go back and read eminent scientists from the 50s and 60s I am pleasantly shocked by their fearlessness.

You can go further back too. Thomas Edison built a machine to experiment with electromagnetic communication with the dead. Silly? Perhaps. But I see that as evidence of a questioning and a questing mind that wasn't afraid to ask big crazy questions. No professional would dare anything like that today unless they were so independently wealthy they didn't need anyone else's support.

We've turned into a bunch of careerist cowards who keep our heads down out of the conditioned fear that expressing anything "far out" might offend some bureaucracy or ideological group. The irony is that the 50s and 60s were far more buttoned-up when it came to cultural norms, dress codes, etc. We've liberalized in one way but gone hyper-conservative in another.
The Art of Computer Programming, volume 4a: Combinatorial Algorithms...and I am not suggesting I understand a meaningful fraction of it. It reminds me of how little I know. And in fairness I've been reading volume I by fits and starts since the late 1980's.

Critique of Pure Reason for similar reasons in another of my lifetimes. It's another book I'm not smart enough to criticize meaningfully.

Fiction, clearly Cormac McCarthy's The Road. As a parent it's just brutal to find a place to put it. Not necessarily my first recommendation among his novels, either.
I've said my piece about attribution already. There's no new evidence I've seen (and there is not likely to be). I remain sceptical: Comey and especially Clapper aren't exactly what I'd call reliable sources. But they seem to have made their minds up, and that argument just goes round in circles. (The amused may wish to check out http://sony.attributed.to/ and reload the page a few times.)

I'm concerned about where this rhetoric is heading, for several reasons. One reason is that I know this evidence absolutely can be faked: one particularly good tool to fake it is called QUANTUMSQUIRREL. They aren't the only people who can build tools like that: doesn't even take a high budget. And the same people who built QSQRL, have built other systems which automatically respond with high-budget malware when they think they're being attacked.

I think we all know what happens in that endgame: the only winning move is not to play. But numerous countries, and non-state actors, are already playing it - if the FBI is to be believed, even psychotic despotic ones with relatively small budgets.

I want to get off Mr Comey's wild ride; but how? Technically, we can build stronger network protocols, write bug-free software... every bit as hard as it sounds, but we can try our best.

What can we do politically? Given how incredibly dangerous this could get, perhaps a treaty banning 'cyberwar' or 'cyberespionage' would be a good idea. (While we're at it, can we ban the use of 'cyber'? It sounds utterly ridiculous.) But the intelligence and law enforcement agencies already doing this would get very pouty at the prospect of their toys being taken away.

It's all very disappointing. Anyone got any bright ideas?
The title of the Engadget story is wrong, the FBI did not explain anything, and then saying "they don't see what I see." is fairly idiotic way of adding to the explaination.
The earlier set of IP addresses was pretty conclusively not North Korea. The new set of IP addresses is ... undisclosed, so until that changes, they can say whatever they like without any "danger" of being checked.

(Not buying "sources and methods" as a reason for failure to disclose in this case -- I may not know what IP addresses are conclusively tied to North Korea, but the North Koreans themselves certainly do, and they must assume that the NSA does as well. Particularly if, as Comey claims, the use of those addresses "unshielded" was an error that they immediately recognized as such, and rectified post haste.)
It's weird, it didn't always look like that. I'd been recommending it for years while it was a very Spartan HTML page with no CSS or inter-page navigation. The horrid new look came early last year.
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People under 18 also aren't allowed to watch porn, and people under 21 definitely can't drink.
Thanks for your suggestions.

In my point of view "Wiki Article of the Day" is not nearly as nice, I'm borderline about "Wikipedia of the Day" (note that in the feature graphic it's Wikipedia and not wiki), and in general I don't think anyone thinks it's anything but Wikipedia.

We are thinking about adding some domain-specific wiki (e.g. a Star Wars wiki) support soon, so the name might be more applicable then. :)

Btw, I think that in most cases it's obvious when people mean a general wiki and when people mean wikipedia depending on the context, so this language change is not too dramatic.
I felt the same way but his take seems pretty spot on for me, in Chicago all college students use yik yak and groupme when I mention whatsapp they don't understand why I'd want to use it over text or groupme.
aha, I wasn't aware of that.

I suppose it's similar to Wal-Mart doing the same thing in the 90's (I think? I'm too old).
Facebook wasn't even founded until February 2004, and at that time it was limited to only Harvard University. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=when+was+facebook+creat...
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Firstly, a really big well done for getting clean. That is no mean feat.
The last two lines of your comment really rung true. I lost a dear friend a few years ago, in relation to a serious heroin addiction (it wasn't actually an overdose that killed him, but a cheap, adulterated bad 'dose').

I watched a confident person struggle to emerge, only to recede every time lift dealt a blow, and end up trying to find things to remove the pain he felt in life.

I am glad that his story actually helped stop one more life being lost - I worked with someone who though life was all about experiences, after blissful weed, there was the high of cocaine, and finally he considered opiates. A trip to the grave, to the family left behind, to the doctors who actually tried to save my friend's life, worked. Sobered him up, so to speak.
I'm an alcoholic who's been sober for about 3 months. I would have been ecstatic if I managed to get by for $10 a day. I'd easily drop a couple hundred dollars at the bar on drinks for myself in a single night. Even if I was drinking at home, a bottle of hard liquor does not go for $10 in Canada.
Is the Closure Compiler specifically good at dead code elimination in Closure libraries? Theoretically I would imagine that it could be applied to anything, though I'm sure there are many Javascript tricks that would make dead code detection ineffective.
The UK establishment appears to be side with Christianity being openly mocked (viz a special show on Tim Rice choosing to lead with songs and artists mocking Christianity being scheduled for prime-time Christmas day). In contrast the BBC will not even mention that attacks were perpetrated by muslims [rightly or wrongly] 'in the name of Islam' in news reports.

>you could not do an equivalent of the mohamed cartoons using christ //

Something like Jesus Christ Superstar, Jerry Springer the Opera or The Life of Brian [which have all been featured on the BBC] are pretty closely mocking in the same way as the Jyllands-Posten cartoons; except instead of mocking people they are directly targeted at the subject of Christian worship and respect. An equivalent to the Mohammed cartoons would be something like a cartoon of John the Baptist.

Blasphemy laws haven't been applied here in living memory to "defend" against insult to Christians (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3753408.stm). Speaking about the message of the New Testament of the Bible in public can get your arrested though (eg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-p...).

Not sure what race discrimination has to do with questions of freedom of conscience and speech though.
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I went through college without a Facebook, but I made one shortly after graduating and I've been using it more and more (about 3 years).

I now realize that in retrospect it was a huge mistake as I missed out on a lot. I think on a certain level, if you don't have a FB, people won't make the extra effort to try and contact you. Its most important social function is turning acquaintances into friends

So just as a PSA, please please use Facebook. Even if you don't like it and you think they're a horrible company, you won't appreciate how much you're hurting yourself till it's too late
This isn't new. I purchased my domain through NameCheap and have been using custom domain email through gmail for a couple years now.
I think John Mashey's long-ago usenet post is still the best thing I've seen on the topic of what RISC is.
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html
That's a possibility, though it seems somewhat weak to me. I've read the theory in a few places, that Sony and the media were demanding answers, and so the administration gave them one. Conveniently, I guess, it is one that they assumed would not be believed whether they denied it or not (because who believes anything said by the North Korean government?).

I just don't know that Sony and the media industry carries so much weight that they can actually sway our government to make shit up. And, was a pleasant fiction even what they actually wanted? I guess George Clooney wanted it. And, I guess Sony wanted to be able to say, "See, it was a nation-state that did this terrible thing, not our horrendous security practices."

So, maybe it is this simple. And, others have mentioned reasonable theories about what the administration could get out of it being North Korea: Concessions from NK allies, the ability to ratchet up cybersecurity expenditures (as another arm of the military industrial complex), and redirection of attention from other issues. If the latter was the goal, it has certainly been effective. We're all talking about it, and many of us don't even believe them. So, it might not even matter if we believe the story, as long as we're not paying attention to whatever else they're up to.

I gotta get a new hat.
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The squashed commits is pretty awesome. Here's what someone on our team found about the performance based against `docker pull` on quay using the same images for various scenarios:

Okay I was testing this squash pulling method, and here's the performance results I found.

Below, the tag only has VIM installed, the update installs Emacs.

First column is docker pull the next is the squash pull.

Latest pull w/o Ubuntu base downloaded: 38.1s | 19.4s

Latest pull w/ Ubuntu base downloaded: 32.8s | 18.8s

Tag pull w/o Latest downloaded: 38.3s | 21.4s

Tag pull w/ Latest downloaded: 5.7s | 20.8s

Tag pull(up to date): 2.2s | 20.1s

Tag pull(updated commit, old tag downloaded): 13s | 34.2s

Of course these values all depend on the things being installed but time differences for the tag pulls make this seem bad because it always has to download the entire commit tree.
Relevant and possibly more in-depth:
"Multi Tiered Cold Storage Scheme"
https://bitcoinsecurityproject.org/SecureStorage/MultiTiered...

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I'm a lot more junior than you are, but I felt similar recently. I hated my job. Had a few offers that were tempting, paid more, but were farther away. It was a struggle to come to work.

Then, our lead designer walked out. There was a shortage of designers. I stood up and said "Hey, I know photoshop and I've got a good eye! If one of the designer give me a style guide, I'd be able to design this website!".

I did a very basic wireframe for a website, and ended up designing it all. This was FUN. I have not done any other design work since then. But it was enough to open my eyes.

What I hated wasn't the workload. It wasn't the projects. It wasn't the open office. It wasn't my coworkers.

I hated how monotone my work had become. Simply doing something new was like hitting the reset button. Since then, I try to go on the edge of my skillset. We need a video for the office party? ... well, I've done some video editing when I was younger... and my phone has a nice HD camera! Sure, I'm a programmer. I'm not a master at video editing... But who cares?

My biggest skill isn't how I can make awesome loops and how quickly I can connect to a database. My biggest skill is how I can take a challenge, research how to do it, and then do my best to do it perfectly.

Branson said it, but I hadn't understood it until this point. "If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!"

We humans aren't robots. You can't simply put us in front of a game and expect us to play it for the rest of our lives. We need bonus stages. Boss fights. Hell, we need to play a whole different game from time to time!
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all, or at least all that anyone knows about. NK has a single path/peer.
An hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852884
I hope they are not gonna use this as an excuse to pass new laws to increase surveillance.
I don't use them much myself, but genetic algorithms (and "evolutionary computation (EC)" more broadly) have become pretty big in some areas. In AI there seems to be a bit of a geographical tilt, with EC being bigger in Europe and Asia than North America. And in application areas, EC seems to be bigger in areas considered "engineering" rather than "computing" (in terms of publications, IEEE-affiliated rather than ACM-affiliated venues).
2015 is getting an extra second and that's a bit of a problem for the internet
I naively thought distance in 3d RGB space would equal to colors that "look" similar... but that really doesn't work at all. Found it pretty surprising.
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It's a damned sight better than tk, wxWigets, Swing, SWT, AWT, MFC, or any of a bajillion other things we've tried in the desktop.
Because it's hard to integrate facebook authorization with a new group app, right?
No it's not. That's bringing even attention to it. You example is more similar to deleting an unliked post, and then posting "Everyone please forget my last post. Just pretend it never happened."

Deleting a post from Facebook/Instagram/etc doesn't delete it from the memory of the people who did see it. It just prevents more people from seeing it, or those people from seeing it again. So it's almost exactly like making an unpopular statement in conversation, and then abruptly changing the subject.
It's not very hard to lie about your age - they don't ask for any proof or verification.

My middle school aged kids have no interest in Facebook at all. Instagram definitely, and texting constantly. I'm sure Snapchat will come soon too.
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This has been a tactic used for over 30 years now, but of course it's gotten a lot more sophisticated as of late.

Getting bacteria to do your dirty work is great for some stuff, necessary for others, but is definitely not going to be the dominant method of chemical production.

A few factors:

1. Bacteria are typically pretty slow relative to industrial chemical processes and their speed can vary immensely depending on a lot of variables. This is by far the largest reason why more people don't use bacteria to produce chemicals.

2. Bacteria take a lot of metabolic genetic engineering to do what you want them to do reliably, and can lose traits they are engineered for relatively easily due to natural selection against energetically inefficient (read: productive in this capacity) mutants.

3. Any chemicals derived from bacteria still need to be isolated, combined, and purified in an industrial fashion before they are actually useful.

4. Valuable chemicals which are extremely expensive to produce with traditional industrial methods (in particular, certain chiral molecules) can probably be produced more cheaply with a properly engineered bacteria.

As you can see, there are a lot of drawbacks, but #4 can be a colossal economic advantage for certain chemicals. In particular, recent FDA regulations have mandated uniformity amongst drug-grade chemicals, meaning that they must be purified in order to only contain one isomeric form rather than a mix. This is important because the different isomers of the same chemical may have different biological effects.

Isolating stereoisomers from each other is traditionally extremely expensive and slow, but a bacteria that could reliably produce the desired isomer would avoid this pitfall.
Or you can just forward all emails using your DNS setting to a @gmail.com account then add the domain name email as an account your own in the Gmail settings...
There's also M-of-N multisignature and HSMs to prevent private keys from being copied.
I made http://park.io last June

I got into this stuff because I am very interested in domains - especially .io domains

At first domains were just a fun hobby - to collect for future projects. But then I sold a few and bought a few more and scaled it out.

I created park.io to automate things.
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> Honestly this doesn't bode well for darknets. The problem is that even if darknets have a legitimate reason to exist, non-creeps will avoid them if they see much of this kind of thing.

Non-creeps shouldn't use cash to purchase anything. People will almost always use money to purchase drugs, because it's extremely difficult to trace.

Just because people use something for something illegal, doesn't mean that it shouldn't be used at all. In fact, if more people use darknets for legitimate activities, then there is less illegal activity going on overall (looking at it percentage wise, there would still be arguably the same amount going on).

I don't like the fact that these things occur on darknets. But these places are perfect for them, and I highly doubt these darknets would be created solely for the purpose of illegal activities.
Right, I've been programming for a living somewhere over a decade and while I certainly consider myself a professional, that's "enough of a professional to know I don't know nearly enough to write such a thing without expert help".
In some ways this modern hybrid is better than either. RISC CPUs were almost always internally more efficient due to the simpler decode and easier application of performance tricks; whereas CISC was always better externally as it had better memory/instruction density. So in some ways the CISC on the outside, RISC in the inside approach is the best thing that could have happened for a CISC arch. like x86.
Closure Compiler requires authors to write code in a very specific static style. It's somewhat tedious, but for some libs worth the effort. In the case of ClojureScript we can of course automate the tedium for you through the compiler :)

For random JS libs Closure can't really do much better than Uglify.
Removed anthropomorphising:

It's a highly unlikely thing, and virtually impossible to maintain over multiple generations without constant selective pressure. Bacteria are quickly out-competed by genetic variants with fewer expressing genes that they don't need.

BTW: do you have any links/data re the relative 'cost' of expressing unneeded genes?
A baby probably has thousands of times the environmental impact of this. Possibly millions.
I'm 30 and I use GChat/Google Talk/Hangouts (they're all the same thing) all the time. So does almost everyone I know. Haven't seen it mentioned here.

We don't really care if that data gets exposed to/by the NSA. It's mostly like "I'm off today whats up" or "Want to hit the bar after work?" type stuff.
It can work for e.g. theoretical physics. But for anything involving serious extermination you've got to take the word of the researchers that they honestly did and reported it. At the most extreme example, experiments done with the CERN Large Hadron Collider are not easily replicated elsewhere at this moment ^_^.

It could also work for the explanation parts of experiment based papers, but, eh, you're allowed to be wrong there. Just publish enough of the data allowing others to double check your interpretation.

It is left as an exercise to the reader what other fields are known for withholding data, and the likely reasons why.
Custom domains with GMail used to be free for the longest time, until Google started changing their pricing policy. The final free option disappeared in 2014. [1] This article points out a hacky way of still getting it free.

[1] All previously acquired free accounts are grandfathered, this is all about making new accounts.
Feeling old too. I do_not_get the need to post the highlights of your day throughout the day. It reeks of narcissism. I feel sorry for them, in my oldness.
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Her bringing books sounds great.
If you have access to a laptop, change room to take your notes. Or if you have big desk, more to a corner you never use.
This is supposed to be a technical forum, but any post now related to the US government or the NSA too many people here now throw all of their technical know-how out the door and everything becomes conspiracy theory. Yet somehow Joe Random bloggers repudiations of said government are not met with any skepticism. Confirmation bias in full effect in these threads these days.