skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Wikipedia, which has references:

'Fluid intelligence, like reaction time, typically peaks in young adulthood and then steadily declines. This decline may be related to local atrophy of the brain in the right cerebellum. Other researchers have suggested that a lack of practice, along with age-related changes in the brain may contribute to the decline.'
Not necessarily disagreeing with your core point, but your point about needing experts of all types in the world would be better served without a type of expert outright.
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Well in order to use password alert (for example) you need to use Chrome browser:

https://www.google.com/ideas/products/password-alert/

It protects by computing something from the way you type your password as opposed to knowing the actual password.

Edit: This raises an interesting question. Wouldn't it then be possible to use the same algorithms elsewhere on websites to identify who is even anonymously using the site?
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For me it scrolls ridiculously slowly. And they broke the side scroll bar and arrow keys, so I have spin the mouse wheel a ton to get it to move at all.

I don't see what the point of breaking scrolling is.
> But in my remote, the batteries are not arranged in serial; they are arranged in parallel

Are you sure? That's pretty uncommon. Are the poles oriented in the same direction or opposite ones? Is one set of poles connected to a pair of terminals shared by a single conductor and the other set using two distinct terminals?
thanks, I was a little hasty in my typing homophones responding to https://twitter.com/karlvanhoet
Then again, lottery organizers are known to give out more winnings to show people that You Can Win Too! The problem only happens when the public finds out that one person is consistently receiving the proceeds, and they feel that it's somehow unfair. But it's not really, since they're paying a much larger amount to buy all these tickets, not to mention the cost of processing the winnings, filling out tax forms, etc.
And it's 40% faster! .... Of course they forgot to mention that OGL drivers on OS X were about 30% slower than OGL/DX drivers on Windows on the same hardware running same scene. So instead of updating their OpenGL 3D performance they just kept it back and now you're forced to use a proprietary walled garden API for full performance.

This kind of behaviour makes me really really sorry to be an Apple customer :/
Thanks for the response. I suggest you advertise this a bit more clearly on the pricing page. I went there to see if I could try it personally and ended up not singing up because it looked like you had to pay to try it privately. I'm sure more than a few people are in the same boat because, at least in this thread, it's being compared to Trello which does allow private boards/orgs.

Going to go give it a second look!
I am in my 40s and think I was probably smarter in my 20s. What is your point?
But a good IDE won't make you take your hands off the keyboard. See, for example, IntelliJ. There are keyboard shortcuts for everything.
Apparently someone at YC un-killed it. I'm new here, but I had posted replies to some of the comments on the blog attached to the post here, and now I've duplicated them here.
It's a good idea to clearly articulate the two situations and how they interact, but it isn't like you can decouple them in practice so some mixing is natural.
See, this is a major dysfunction when combined with the unwillingness to give rejection reasons. How is one supposed to know when they get a form letter rejection if it was because this particular company is actually serious about their asinine "requirements"?
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Yea, that makes sense, since the company was founded in 2000
I was being slightly sarcastic: the point is that there are people who enjoy doing both (and indie games are for the most part a work of love/enjoyment). If Mac drops OpenGL (or never adds Vulkan) there is a chance that someone simply won't bother making their engine+game work on Mac - meaning lost potential on the platform. Who's to say the next Minecraft (which is an engine+game) won't support Mac because it doesn't support Metal and instead went the Vulkan route?

Apple can port Metal, it makes sense: there are tons of mobile games that would pose immediate value for the platform; adding Vulkan into the mix (or even fixing their completely broken OpenGL implementation) would have been a much stronger message.
I'm 50 and I'm far smarter than I was in my 20s. I find that's true of most people who keep their mind sharp and don't let life beat them down.

edit: A lot of people are beaten down by the time they're in their 40s. They feel like failure and they've lost hope, or they're stuck in a game of Prisoner's Dilemma. Those people aren't as smart as they were back when they were making the mistakes that led to their sorry state.
I've been reading some overviews - I'm already disturbed.

The assumption is that the difference in response times between the association of categories reveals preferences. And they tested by using groups that were expected beforehand to have certain preferences (boys liking insects more than flowers and vice versa for girls correlated with their reaction times).

But when faced with circumstances where these reactions DON'T correlate with self-reports, the conclusion is that the test reveals unconscious biases. If they confirmed their hypothesis about reaction times with groups that correlated - what entitles them to infer this further variable of unconscious bias to defend their hypothesis where the correlation fails?

Uggh... I can see it's going to take an enormous amount of time to find in the enormous literature a decent answer to this question. I can't be bothered.
There are attitudes toward cancer and death that are drawn from another perspective. The concern is that by describing another person's life as "fighting cancer" we ascribe that perspective to the other person without respecting how that person actually views [or viewed] their life.
I think that depends on what you mean by "actual impact on the world."

Some people might advise you that you can't do much, but that's not true.

Some people might advise you to try to do something uber-ambitious, but most uber-ambitious projects fail.

Some people point out that almost whatever you do, your labor contributes to society as a whole. That's very true.

I want to add: change the world into what? In what direction? Your question is like asking, "Can I travel far away by train or automobile?" Depends where! Are there roads or tracks? Do you intend to construct roads or tracks? Why are you picking out some destination in particular?
> Give the illusion of self-service, but actually have a very high-touch, highservice model

100% true.

We've used Zenefits for one year and it was very, very painful. It looks like self-service, but whatever you do in the UI is then processed manually. Out of 10 employees, 6 got big mistakes in their benefits. I had to delay a treatment because I was not sure I would be covered. It tooks 6 months to get everybody's benefits right.
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No, problem solvers that can implement solutions can change the world.
I think the point is, if Apple (or Google or whoever) would be the clear market leader, they'd probably show total count and be like "whoa, look, our last OS was the fastest growing from since beginning of time!!!!" (showing X units sold/year instead of percentage/months). And all fanboys would go "woohhooo, AppGooSoft is so awesome, everybody buys it!".
Your choices of what to quote are telling. For instance, one of those quotes is preceded by a lengthy (and thinly veiled) Derbyshire-esque description of black people as social ill. Shortly after it, we have these cheerful grafs:

This is the trouble with white nationalism. It is strategically barren. It offers no effective political program. You can be as smart as you want and think about white nationalism forever, and you will not come up with any productive strategy for collective action, white or otherwise.

At its best, white nationalism offers a sensible description of a general problem. [em mine] This problem certainly exists, and it falls under the larger category of bad government. (If allowing the old cities of North America to be overrun and rendered largely uninhabitable by murderous racist gangs isn't bad government, really, I'm not sure what is.)

He's not a white nationalist. He's something else.

There's also the historical context of this post, which is William Saletan's idiotic Slate posts about rational IQ variation.

I think a reader of this thread can understand why I'd say that it's you who were being misleading. I feel like that was probably unintentional on your part, because if you were trying to mount a careful bad-faith defense of Yarvin's writing, you probably wouldn't write things that would beg people to further quote it.
> introducing new terms, even?

We do, but you have to remember that mathematics is an activity invented by humans largely for their own amusement. This is especially true when it gets down to the foundations of mathematics.
I'm an engineer working for Change Heroes (www.changeheroes.com). Every Sunday night all I can think about is how excited I am to work on the product the next week. I've never felt this way before.

Change Heroes helps raise money for charities and non profits. Our impact includes 217 funded projects so far including schools, wells, and aid packages. Yes, as an engineer, you can make a huge impact on the world.
There was still the massive risk of the strategy being replicated by someone else and then both parties would lose money.
I tried npm shrinkwrap, but that only procrastinates on the problem: now instead of having to unravel a mess of dependencies on installation, you have to unravel a mess of dependencies whenever you want to upgrade a package. But now instead of having to solve a dependency problem that a bunch of other people have head to solve, you've created your own unique dependency problem. Not to mention that this completely bloats your installations.

npm shrinkwrap isn't a solution, it's a temporary hack and it makes things worse in the long run. Maybe you're only working on new projects, but I work on things that will have to be maintained.
Care to at least elaborate which tools you're referring too? That way you'd at least contribute something to the discussion but a snark.
Permutive (YC S14) is hiring our first engineers in London
Permutive is focused on understanding and recommending content at scale. We use machine learning and NLP techniques to algorithmically understand the meaning behind content and make sense of people's wide and nuanced interests based on their behavior.

Advertising supports the free web, but most of it is terrible. The most prevalent form of digital advertising is the display ad, a bolt-on that damages the user's experience and is typically irrelevant to their context. We believe engaging content is the future of online monetization, and our first product is an intelligent ad engine for revenue-generating content.

What is the job?

You'll be identifying, building and owning new and existing parts of our product. This can be anything from developing our data collection, processing, and machine learning infrastructure, all the way through to designing how we present analytics on our front-end product.

At least some of the following should excite you(!):

* Working extensively in functional languages (we mostly use Scala, with Akka, Spray, Scalaz; some Haskell)

* Building large-scale distributed systems (we run a microservices architecture on AWS)

* Designing and/or implementing proprietary machine learning models and real-time personalized recommendation systems

* Rapidly designing and building front-end product features

What do we offer?

We have a ton of interesting problems to solve. We're constantly ingesting vast numbers of documents to learn from, tracking millions of interactions with content, computing the interests of millions of users, and making personalized real-time recommendations. This scale impacts every engineering decision we make, and we're looking to build a company with super-smart people excited by the challenges it poses.

As our first engineers you'll play a central role in defining our tech culture and direction. There's a huge opportunity to effect change at scale through real responsibility and ownership of product. And because at this early stage there's so much to do, there's so much to learn and room to grow.

We're based in London, just off Brick Lane. We have our own office and you'll get a shiny new laptop of your choice, monitor(s), and your own desk. Both founders are technical so you'll be working with people who understand engineers and engineering.

Apply here: http://permutive.workable.com/jobs/72041/candidates/new

(Unfortunately we cannot sponsor visas at the moment so you'll need to be eligible to work in the UK!)
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Microsoft issues new Windows, Skype and online privacy rules
Thanks! If you are not satisfied with MooChat, please let me know:-)
You make it explicit in the system. I don't use React, but I do dabble with functional reactive programming. In an FRP system, you define a directed acyclic graph of values, where the edges are dependencies from one value to another. So, when an event enters the system at one of the graph's roots, only the things that depend on it will be updated.

Furthermore, you can avoid unnecessary re-computation via the usual techniques like memoization. One of the big advantages of the "virtual DOM" is that we get to build documents using a real programming language, not some HTML templating system.
Hi nartz, the link isn't to any customer experience, just a .pdf I happened to find online and shared.
No, my browser doesn't. Google's public DNS has little bearing on how I reach sites, unless I've specifically configured it that way. Either you really don't understand how DNS works, or you are simplifying to the point of just plain being wrong.

You could argue that the root servers are too centralized, and that their control constitutes centralized DNS control, but since the only reason they have control is that all the different DNS servers use them as authorities, an argument could also be made that their control is more be convention than anything else, and all it would take is a competitor to ICANN that added some value, and eventually we could have multiple authorities. Whether that would be beneficial or detrimental is another discussion.
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I can second this. We've been with Zenefits for over a year now and the issues don't stop. Many of their "integations" occur in meatspace: when a change is made on the Zenefits dashboard, a Zenefits employee then manually updates the related service(s). This has resulted in a number of errors over the course of a year.

Additionally their are still issues with validation on their dashboard. We had a problem where the dashboard allowed an invalid value to be entered for a monthly 401k contribution that was a big pain to unwind.
Deals aren't closed until the money changes hands. The terms and conditions of your offer should stipulate when payment is due in accordance with your goals. There are plenty of businesses that won't pay until the last minute, if you float them, you are essentially their bank. If you're in the banking business that can work. If you aren't it usually doesn't.

Good luck.
GCHQ still using surveillance methods banned in US
I understand what you're saying and I can live with your discomfort.
Huh? Flash has supported HLS since around 2011, if memory serves.
Thanks to both of you for correcting me
> As AI becomes reality, it would be ideal to mold (evolve?) an AI to help me address specific weaknesses in my capabilities to allow me to focus on "the problem at hand".

It's possible to do this already. Although working on application software at the moment which doesn't have any special assurance requirements, I've started making use of an interactive theorem prover to help sanity-check some complicated bits of logic. It's the future, from what I can see.
Low 5 figures struck me as a figure where a lawyer would be too cost prohibitive, but a debt collection agency might work. We're in separate countries though -- not sure if there's a debt collection agency which can help with that?
"but an awful lot of people don't want to take that kind of a risk"

I would agree with and extend your remarks in that its a window into how the company handles risk. There have been companies that have blamestorming meetings to punish the people who selected employees that didn't work out. I had an experience with that leveraging an inside contact for info, and I was pretty pissed off at that time, but now that I'm older and wiser I am so unimaginably happy I didn't get a job at a company mismanaged like that.
I use Divvy on Mac and Windows. It's fantastic.
Ask HN: White-label webmail for secure business-to-customer communication
I'm looking for the traditional answer to secure "bank/hospital communication to customers/patients". (unfortunately pgp is not terribly practical in this use case)
Basically you receive an email/text-message informing you that you have a message awaiting in the message center. You then get to login and see that the certificate is correct.
Ideally it would be self-hosted, customizable, and possibly let customers pick a little icon unique to them (to try to alleviate phishing).
So far I can't seem to find any quality product that fits the bill.
> This kind of behaviour makes me really really sorry to be
> an Apple customer :/

Well, don't be then.
I don't get this cry about walled gardens. Feel free to roam in the jungle if you don't like them.
I agree that in and of itself, it's perhaps not extremely useful in the modern world. However, training up to that level will have benefits in terms of bone density and core strength. It's not clear what you would gain by learning to spin a ball like that. Improved hand-eye coordination, maybe?
I'd rather watch on the PC that's plugged into my TV anyway and that's a Windows 8 box.
I look for consistency, someone who either has no contributions (doesn't make them a bad developer, just not working on public things) or has regular steady contributions. Anyone who has a bunch of green dots in the last couple of weeks and a bunch of green dots months ago makes me just discard the github profile as a useful positive signal.
> Well, my company doesn't, nor have other companies I've interviewed with and received offers from. I'd be very hesitant to join such a company. I've interviewed with "top" companies like Google as well and they've never seemed to care about this stuff.

My experience has been that the vast majority of non-software tech companies care quite a bit about these specifics. They are also much more likely to pigeonhole you.
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Just going to leave this here. https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
When Apple switched from the big cats naming scheme to "places in California" I predicted (mostly to my adult children, who all have Apple computers): "How much ya wanna bet it's gonna be a cold day in hell when they name a build after someplace in SOUTHERN California?" If I'm wrong, I suppose the first build named after something in SoCal will be called "Joshua Tree" -- nice tie in with U2.
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That shenanigan would be reason enough for me not to use Zenefits. How unprofessional.
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@lifeisstillgood IIRC all this happened way before Snowden.
Do you think that node consulting would be a better play, in terms of having fewer nickel-and-dime clients? We already have a bit of node experience on the team.
While what you are saying isn't entirely without merit, isn't that like saying that the success of the Apollo missions lie with the bureaucrats rather than the engineers and astronauts?
The late Hal Connolly, an American hammer thrower, told a sports reporter that from about 1960 on everybody in the field events was using steroids. The East Germans were extreme in their devotion to this, but they were far from alone.

[Edit: remembered from an article that ran in the NY Times shortly after Connolly's death.]
This benefits game engines in general. I fail to see why it would favour only DX 12.

Apple saved OpenGL from extinction when it was chosen as the iOS 3D API, as the API never had a foothold on game consoles.

Apparently now they are done with it and with no plans on adopting Vulkan.
Anyone who has a bunch of green dots in the last couple of weeks and a bunch of green dots months ago makes me just discard the github profile as a useful positive signal.

Ooh, you just more or less described me. What makes working on public things, say, one weekend every couple of months less interesting than not working on public things at all?
The latency increase for HTTPS actually causes a measurable conversion difference in the e-commerce space. It sucks but it's true.

edit: Downvoters--have you ever done measurements? Why do you think Amazon redirects HTTPS to HTTP for product pages? It actually matters and at their scale it's real money.
That's a good one, thanks! :)
Justworks is a good alternative.
Rapid mental decline with age is largely a myth.

Many of the intelligence studies that this myth were based on have been debunked. They were done in the 60s and compared young college students with a random sample of older people.

More recent studies have shown that, barring disease, there isn't a noticeable cognitive decline until well past 65 because experience more than makes up for declining abilities.

While, for most people there isn't a noticeable decline, some studies do show older people take slightly longer to make decisions, but the decisions are usually better/more accurate. However, this isn't noticeable in all but the most extreme situations (top tier competitive chess for example). Newer research shows that this extra time is probably a combination of conscious choice to trade speed for accuracy, and more available information to sort through.
Well, I already do own a Mac and I actually like using it. Are you telling me I'm not allowed to be annoyed and complain about having 3D performance crippled on the OS X as opposed to Windows? Are you telling me I'm not allowed to be annoyed about having to reboot my machine constantly to get the most of 3D performance?

To borrow your words - I don't get why are you criticising me when I express opinion about a one aspect of the product. OS X / Mac combination isn't just 3D - I do like other aspects of the combination that I will not get on other machines. I don't get why would you like to take away my right to express opinion about scummy Apple practices.
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Any word on minimum specs from people who've got the beta?

I'm guessing that moving the system graphics frameworks over to Metal will result in the minimum specs being bumped to whatever they've written Metal drivers for.
I believe this is the heart of the problem of all of the bias flamewars. I think we can agree that it is reasonable to make statements about the group as long as the statements are true (women are more likely to be recruiters). It becomes much more fuzzy when trying to figure out how to apply that to an individual. That is where I draw the line. When you say an individual is a recruiter because they are female, you are doing something harmful.
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