skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outbreeding is one possibility. There are now more people migrating than ever before, and over long distances. In the past most people stayed very close to where they were born, which greatly increased the odds of inbreeding especially among lower classes. Today we have ubiquitous cheap transportation and more than 50% of the human population is now urban -- meaning bigger gene pools and lower odds of breeding between close relatives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterozygote_advantage

I also must point out that "hard selection" (differential survival) is not the only operating mechanism in evolution. In complex organisms that reproduce sexually, it might not even be the dominant mechanism. You've got sexual selection and genetic drift, which in a species with low infant mortality and low mortality in general (a.k.a. us) are probably the dominant mechanisms. Beyond those you have things like the Baldwin effect, which get very interesting when coupled with epigenetics. Epigenetics is unquestionably real but as yet is not well understood. There could be all kinds of interesting things going on here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
Hmm, about 5 min in and still waiting for a SMS verification message, I assume they are just backed up right now?

EDIT: After 20 min of no message I just requested another code (I had done this once or twice before) and it worked.
Seems like that would be explained from the caffeine withdrawal. Doesn't necessarily indicate she would need sleep more if she had less coffee.

Anyways there are many ways to ingest caffeine besides coffee.
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Oh, but they're already building a verified Coq compiler:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/certicoq/
It's not poor. Using REPORT will confuse the API users a lot more than using POST. Not many know what REPORT indicates and it probably will confuse a lot of proxies, and clients.

REST sticklers need not take REST as a bible.
I need an IDE for this.
Which endpoint (or resource locator) you hit probably shouldn't dictate the representation type you get back. That's what the `Accept:` headers should be used for. If you hit it with a browser, you'd expect to get back some html version of the same resource.

If you use "Accept:application/json", then you should expect to get JSON back. Etc.
The alternative approach seems like a very complex way of solving the problem. Given the choice between that and POST, I'd choose POST every time.

I can't imagine the REPORT method is well supported and therefore will practically have the same limitations as POST or worse won't work at all.
Also, the behavior of a GET can change based on the headers. (think: basic auth.) So no, it can't be purely linked to.
Especially when a good majority of APIs require you to pass something like an OAuth token in the header, ruining the bookmarkibility completely.
It doesn't need to be an evolutionary change, it could be that education, health, and societal pressure has created the change
I think it really depends on what you mean by 'a low end PC'.. if you mean a full desktop with an extensible (PCIe etc) motherboard.. I believe the answer is... way after you'd ever want to use the old PC[1]. But if you're moving towards the something in the vein of the Raspberry Pi, much sooner.

1. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2...
I hear you, I can hardly get by with less than 9 hours at times. If I do, I get really groggy.

In a way, it focuses my efforts while I'm awake, so that might be one benefit to this.
> but I'm afraid what if I don't currently have the skills needed to perform well enough.

What's the worst that could happen?

Here's a good overview by Tim Ferriss on deconstructing fear > http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_ferriss_smash_fear_learn_anythi...
He said: "It’s important to me that these changes are properly understood to be positive improvements"

I read: "It's important to me that you don't think of this as a bad thing"
I have found I sleep less the more I exercise and I don't have to exercise that much to affect my sleep pattern. At minimum I do 45 minutes of elliptical while watching netflix; current revisiting doctor who. If I am really into it I use the resistance machine.

While I know its different for many people that is the route I follow and at times I was worried about getting too little. I just find that daily exercise imparts an incredible amount of energy in my day. I try my best to take two walk breaks at work, usually a quarter mile. Others get smoke breaks, I get a me break.

Give it a try, it might work for you.
It is also important to note that you probably aren't a mutant. If you keep on having a very short amount of sleep, your body will stop telling you that you are tired, but you will still get the back effects of sleep deprivation.
Why did I wake up just before my alarm clock went off?
I heard a radio show recently where the host mentioned a study in the 50's where people were asked what rabbits and dogs had in common, and the answers were usually something along the line of "they both have two ears". The same question was asked some time in the 2000's and the more common answers relied on abstraction like " they are both mammals". I'm not sure if that is reflective of a shift in "intelligence" but I do think it's a shift in thinking.
There is likely a lot of reasons why investing billions of dollars is not comparable to millions. You stop becoming a participant in markets and become an influencer. I am sure there would be an issue with investing $76 billion in treasuries too.
> This means that if a POST request fails, an intermediate (such as a proxy) cannot just assume they can make the same request again.

If this is actually true for your API, then yes, there's poor API design involved, but it has nothing to do with using the POST method.

If there are really business rules that say some resource can't be created twice (for some definition of resource uniqueness), then the API should enforce that with a 403 that explains sensibly "duplicate entity" or some such error message. [1]

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.3
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32-bit is enough for a 4GB typed array, which doesn't seem too bad. I imagine eventually it will be limiting, but not in the near future.
I think it's that the tunnel isn't wide enough to have an express. They already run a shitload of trains on the L track, but there's an upper limit to capacity.
A fair point. I was referring to the api being separate from the frontend, not what the api is returning. But I could see someone designing their application the way you describe.
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Sure, but that's a different argument than the one 'zdean made about life expectancy in 1900.
I wonder if that's related to the frequent full-on outages (rather than just the standard sardine-tinning); last Monday evening the L was out completely due to a cracked rail - maybe the added weight of people on the train creates more stress on the structure?
Do you prefer it over KickAssembler?
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I can't understand this argument. There was not much extra stuff needed for mobile and most of the specs for it were written long ago. I suspect more people liked reinventing this easy-seeming wheel rather than XMPP was not ready.
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There are two ways to use us as a mobile game developer.

1. For optimally tuning the machine learning models you may have for predicting user engagement, churn, etc. We wrote a blog post on this last week [1]. More information can be found on our machine learning page [2].

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I think you meant 8.8.4.4
the whole LP64 vs LLP64 'issue' is a massive red herring.

even in the most despicable code bases this is relatively quick and easy to 'fix', its just one of those things that on the face of it looks like a lot of work, and is genuinely a brainless chore of find and replace with care.

its worth doing right anyway for plenty of reasons beyond portability, like readability and maintainability.

using long on its own imo is a code smell. except for android (and maybe linux, i can't remember otoh) long long is 64-bit and int is 32. but more generally you can macro it away or use some standard size type header and do the replacements to fix it.

the real problems i've seen with 64-bit portability are from bad serialisation code, where struct padding breaks things, and hacks that rely on pointer casts to ints etc. those are less easy because you can't find/replace them and so it requires thought, not just care, to remove those issues safely.
Sounds like FirefoxOS.
That fails for something like this:

def test(x, y=None):
return x

assert curry(test)(1) == 1 # fails
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Also note that putting that kind of money anywhere creates so much market impact in practice that the gains diminish considerably.

E.g. SPY, the most active S&P500 index (also the single most heavily-traded U.S. stock), had a total dollar volume of $275B for all of 2014. Buying billions' worth of it, even over long periods, would drive the price up in the process and make further purchases more costly.
Classic Warren Buffett: The unconventional, but inescapable, conclusion to be drawn from the past fifty years is that it has been far safer to invest in a diversified collection of American businesses than to invest in securities – Treasuries, for example – whose values have been tied to American currency. That was also true in the preceding half-century, a period including the Great Depression and two world wars. Investors should heed this history. To one degree or another it is almost certain to be repeated during the next century.

Buffett buys boring, but practical businesses. Also, because Berkshire Hathaway owns insurance companies, their "float" can be invested. It has to be invested in low-risk investments, which is just fine with Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway has such a delightfully boring portfolio.
Because it would be an inefficient use of their capital given their other alternatives.

Also, if a small investment in the space can spur the incumbents to increase their own investment, the leverage Google gets from their own small investment is tremendous.
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Yes, this is correct. This system is called Petrodollar (if anyone wants to understand why the USD is the global reserve currency).
It looks great, though light on documentation.
I've got a friend who can get by on ~5 hours/night pretty much indefinitely, without feeling the kind of awful brain-numbing fatigue and dangerous (for e.g. driving) levels of tiredness that I do with more than one night in a row of less than ~7 hours of sleep. A full 8-hour night is sleeping in to him.

The key to understanding why this is so great is to compare the extra time not to the total waking time that others get, but to the total time others get that isn't spoken for. Actual free time. Measured that way, he's consistently getting at least 50% more completely free time per week than I do on a good week.

The result of this is that he's pretty much a fear-of-missing-out[1] machine for all around him. While I've watched my hobbies and interests narrow by necessity as I've grown older[2] his have seemingly widened without any apparent ill effects.

That new TV show that's supposed to be really good? He's seen it. All those Criterion movies you've been meaning to watch? He's seen them all. Twice. This year's Oscar nominees? Yes. Even the documentaries and shorts. Video games? All of them that matter and most of the ones that don't. That one comic book series you heard good things about? He's read it. His academic field of choice? Keeps up with some journals. Writing, both fiction and academic? He has the time. Crafts? He juggles a couple of them. That funny thing you saw on the Internet? He was on the thread where it was first posted. Reading? Oh man. You don't want to know. It'd just make you sad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out

[2] Frustratingly, it seems like the most "productive" and useful hobbies and interests are the first to go, as when life demands more hours from you it always wants your most valuable ones, not your nearly-worthless ones when you're already drained and tired. No, those you get to keep, for what little good they do you.
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This is really cool, what's it built on?
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Standards going up play a big role in all of this, in my opinion. To clarify what I mean, could you consider track running or swimming? In these and other physical sports, it is evident that world records keep climbing year after year, to the now much-noted point that the best high schoolers typically are "faster" than the world best for a few decades ago. Obviously nothing has happened on an evolutionary scale in the timespan of a century, so what explains it?

It's almost like how a goldfish will grow to the size of its bowl-- new humans will grow to and exceed the standards of the last generation, it's just human nature.

It's a bit trickier to apply the principle to creative pursuits than it is to physical ones, but I think it may help explain why students could appear cleverer over time without anything changing biologically.

To give one final example that doesn't involve sports. I am a trumpet player and am pretty familiar with the phenomenon that the best of the best in trumpet playing goes up as the decades go by. Rafael Mendez, Maynard Ferguson, etc. will forever be considered as the all time great virtuosoes, but the cold hard fact is that their technical abilities were only good in light of the time-- exceeded by hundreds if not thousands of the best trumpet players today. It's all about context.
> Using REPORT will confuse the API users a lot more than using POST.

Yeah, this has been discussed a bit in the thread on the Dropbox explanation [0] for the decision, which this thread seems destined to rehash, but REPORT is a not-generally-supported-outside-of-WebDAV WebDAV-specific method whose specification includes WebDAV-specific behavior that other applications probably don't want, its not a generic GET-with-semantically-meaningful-body method.

HTTP should have such a method and, in its absence in existing spec, it makes sense for one to be proposed via RFC as a general-purpose extension (much as happened for PATCH).

OTOH, REPORT, while perhaps the closest thing in any existing RFC to that method, is not that method.

EDIT: It might make sense, however, for the new method to be called "REPORT", with a spec that generalizes the existing REPORT method in a way that drops the WebDAV specific behavior so that the existing WebDAV version is a special case: rather than a representation of the resource, REPORT asks for a report about the resource, and the specifications of the report are in the body. There's a lot of good ideas in WebDAV and its extensions tied up behind specifications that are too context-specific for general use isolated from the rest of WebDAV.

> REST sticklers need not take REST as a bible.

Taking REST as a bible may be a problem, but its not the problem being experienced when people are suggesting using REPORT for a generic GET-with-a-body.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9133469
i recall you needing to use the pointer to place a token on the character you wanted to select, on the very next screen.
It's also that there are fewer alternatives to the L, if the L is down, you are kind of screwed. Only the Upper East Side is so dependent on a single line, and that is changing.

Plus, the L has exploded in popularity in the last 10-15 years. It was not that popular 30 years ago. Demand has grown much faster than any other line in the system.
Sadly, it's been over a year since that post and the modifications to CyanogenMod and TextSecure haven't taken: I'm unable to unregister either CM or TS, using their tools or their website.
Apple makes hardware though, which takes quite a bit more time. I don't see that as a relevant comparison.
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That's not impossible, it would just mean that most businesses fail for multiple reasons. Lots of the reasons in the list seem like they could easily go together, e.g. "No Financing/Investor Interest" + "Ran Out Of Cash"? "Burn Out" + "Lack Passion" + "Lose Focus"?
It's actually quite well supported. In the same way that PATCH didn't suddenly cause issues everywhere. A HTTP-compliant actor must let through any method and most vendors seem to follow that rule quite well.
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What happens after .then? Does xhr get GC'd? Would the inner xhr be considered out of scope?
I've been meaning to read this www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Big-History-From-the-Big-Bang-to-the-Present but then found your comment for http://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-A-Brief-History-Humankind/prod... and now after reading the 1-star reviews from both, I want neither.

Suggestions for a purely subjective read?
That's assuming the cofounder/s are not dictators. More common issue than you think. Ego issue of Power. Hence why I dislike titles (labels) when one is a small team.

Market fit should be worked out ahead of the team by the cofounders. The great team will contribute to it and over time everything evolves. Should the market shift fruit when you have the team, team transparency will help everyone steer the ship in a different direction. Otherwise the company will run out of cash chasing the founders fixed mindset.
Looks like smile has 4G LTE, so is probably significantly faster.
I know, I left kwargs as a later exercise. You can still refactor with `partial` though since it accepts kwargs as the third argument.
because people are desperately wanting her to be successful, not because they love yahoo, but to prove that women can run companies.

also, any criticism of a woman in tech is automatically labelled "misogynist" by the internet hate machine known as Tumblr (which Yahoo owns), so where she might get more criticism, people are giving her a free pass.
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IIRC the iGPU's in the T400 era don't do webGL.

They are indeed close to the worst integrated GPUs ever made.
I've worked on use cases in both work and home environments.

Remember, a few years ago, not everyone had their own computer. For large chunks of the world (demographically and geographically), this is still the case.

Shared computer? You want to be applying autocomplete=off to sensitive fields. It's no guarantee, but it's one layer, assuming other layers (e.g. preventing keyloggers) are being maintained.

Only, I guess, you won't have this option, any longer.

At one point, I had to get one of my banks (big, "evil", you've heard of them) to apply it to their login web page. And I worked for another very big corporation that had at least in some people some pretty clueful in house developers. We applied it, as well. There were, and are, valid use cases. The setting alone won't save you, but it's one piece of a broader approach.

P.S. Oh yeah, and I seem to recall nudging a domain name registrar to apply it to the credit card number field on their payments page.
Also from that RFC:

> Naturally, it is not possible to ensure that the server does not generate side-effects as a result of performing a GET request; in fact, some dynamic resources consider that a feature. The important distinction here is that the user did not request the side-effects, so therefore cannot be held accountable for them.

I guess my point is that idempotence is the aspect that matters to clients - you can have side-effects if you really want, so long as the request can be safely repeated.
Yeah. I think the most important points from this article in identifying if you are, indeed a mutant are: she doesn't fight sleep, and she doesn't feel tired, on 4 hours.

When describing your short sleep patterns, if you use the words "I can function at...", you probably aren't one of these people. "Can function at" does not seem to be the same thing she is experiencing.
This guy for some reason posits that by 75, meaningful life is over. He says:

> living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world.

This makes sense, but I don't see why 75 is the age. One can become the described above shadow of oneself earlier, or can still be interested in life and actively contributing past this age.

It would be best to say "I plan to die when I feel old, decrepit, and useless, or right before it". Well, so do I. But I also hope that both medicine and my actions will keep pushing the age when this is going to happen.
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