skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing IQ is, at best, a side effect of increasing intelligence. That is, IQ is just one way of quantifying intelligence in a single number. Its limitations are well known. Depending on how poor a mapping there is between intelligence and IQ for the specific individual, it is entirely possible that intelligence goes up while IQ stays the same (or conceivably even goes down).
People also derive pleasure from how their present is received. If she'd been creeped out or something then he wouldn't be as happy.

That said, she seemed to think it was a cool gift and he had fun doing it so more power to him.
> Wages are suppressed and other resources are spread thinner.

Sources? Any studies on that?
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I think that's the wrong argument to make. Generally speaking, I think it's wrong for others to force you to be charitable (in the very least, a tax break would be nice if it's about charity) but immigration shouldn't be and isn't about charity.

In fact, most studies point to the positive economic impacts of immigration over time (though there are a number of studies that also point to the short term costs).
Hi, Joel. I updated the title.

Maybe because I only recently moved to an area where Yelp has a presence, but I hadn't noticed this article until today.
Do you have any sources for updated info on this situation? I'm curious to see how it has played out.
If everyone else having one bothers you then maybe you'd be interested in a $5000 Vertu. For me it's a tool with 100,000 interchangeable bits.
Bad reviews -> self/friend posted shill review -> shill reviews removed -> "Yelp removes my 5-star reviews!"

I'd expect a little exaggeration from the frustrated party, and these conversations sound like they're just barely more than benign. I'll have to ask my friend in Yelp ad sales how pushy they get.
are there any other such interesting yet little known bugs in Windows 7?
That's Moxie Marlinspike, great hacker who had some recent SSL findings:

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/papers/null-prefix-attacks.pdf

and

http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-09/bh-usa-09-archives.ht...
http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-17-archive.h...
The comparison is flawed due to the failure to realise these are children!

Who cares if they fail?
If they do, they shouldn't - that's the lesson.
If you do, they will - you're a poor teacher.
Reminds me of Dostoevsky's "Idiot". Idle people are a danger to themselves, it'll do you good to have a purpose in life that's not entirely about yourself.
This is actually racketeering and not extortion.
The problem is that I don’t personally know of any “big-government” proponents who use QWERTY as an example of how regulation is necessary (only that they say it proves that markets can have path-dependency, and inefficiencies, &c., which is true whether this example holds or not).
Tell HN: On scratching your own itch
I watched Twilight with my kid last night. The music intrigued me, so I searched around and found the composer's site, carterburwell.com.

On the question of challenges in composing for a "youth" audience, he basically says he composes for himself, in part because he can't second guess all the different stake holders: director, producer, etc.

http://www.carterburwell.com/projects/Twilight.html#Youth

If you're doing your own site/project, i.e. not as an employee or contractor for BigCorp, a good part of knowing that you're doing it right is if it satisfies your own tastes and needs.
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Prediction: Google will slap them with a C&D for using their trademark and brand (the word "Google"), which will bring further publicity to this service.

Prediction 2: it will die anyway.
the disincentive to work is very real, it is not a bogeyman of the free market advocates. that said, it's also a common mistake of free marketers to think of a work disincentive as inherently bad. people would do well to remember that economic statements in themselves are value free: If you do X, Y will happen. it says nothing about whether Y is good or bad. That is up to the people Y affects to decide for themselves.
I was expecting to see something damning but this looks like what yelp has been admitting to do for a while now.
It's all about risk.

There is no scientific consensus that the brain is malleable in any significant way.

Aiming within one's apparent means will likely result in employment.
If you're awkward in person you're going to have a hell of a time overcoming that with indirect interaction, just because at some point you have to physically be around the object of your affection.

Also from experience being really relaxed around someone remotely in no way makes you less shy when you're around them in person. (Awkward nerd reporting for duty).
Disclaimer: I just finished reading "Don't Make Me Think" so I'm probably just being arrogant when I list all of these possible changes. I know it's hard to hear so much criticism so let me add this: I like it

Here are three things I would do right away:

1. Usability testing

2. Usability testing

3. Usability testing

The site is pretty good for usability but there were a few things that I didn't get right away. My list of possible changes:

1. Feedback link: I thought this would take me to a page of testimonials or maybe to a UserVoice page. I think "Contact Us" would be more appropriate.

2. About link: I thought this would be a page about the developers and who they are and where they're from. I'd probably change this link to "How It Works"

3. Too much text: as the maxim goes "Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what's left"

4. Add request page: If you have no contacts it just displays nothing. You should probably put a little field in there that allows you to add contacts directly from that page.

5. Contacts: Change it to "Babysitters". Contacts is kind of ambiguous.

6. Contacts page: I would show the "Add Contact" field above the list of contacts instead of having a link to it on another page. It's such a small form that it won't matter that much.

7. Editing contact: add a "Cancel" link

8. Editing icon links: I'd move them to right instead of the left just because I'm more used to seeing them there.

9. Home page: I'd change "Welcome to Sit4us" to something that tells people what the site does. Like "Organize your babysitters" or "Contacting babysitters made easy".

10. Tagline: Add a tagline below your logo

11. Make logo clickable. Should send you to the homepage.

Anyway I'll stop now. So far I quite like it despite my list of nitpicks.

What is your monetization strategy, if you have one?
Amongst other things, this is the 'lump of labor' fallacy - that there are only a certain amount of jobs to go around, and that none of those people from a poor country, when given a proper place to live, learn and work, will actually turn out to be good entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, engineers or whatever.

Edit and of course you're ignoring that having a failed state next door is probably a fairly negative thing, in that they're great places for drug gangs, terrorists, etc... and end up costing lots of money in any case.
Genius marketing, but risky, because there is a fine line between marketing the device as a tool for men, and a toy for boys. Once it's seen as a geeky toy - the GI-Joe action figure boy-doll phone - most normal (non-geek) people won't touch it, even though geeks will love it.
I'm sure this kind of thing is rare.~
The problem I see with this is that if all the Haitians who are motivated to help themselves leave, who's left? Haiti's problems don't solved and you've eliminated anyone who aspires to a better life.
Text Messages in China to Be Scanned for ‘Illegal Content’
Yes, but to be fair to publishers: libraries don't replace sales the way that piracy can. Borrowing requires a trip to the library, which has a limited number of copies of any book, borrowers have a limited time to read a book, they can't make notes in it, etc. Enthusiastic fans will often still buy. If they can get a permanent copy that's just as good as the paid version, without leaving home, for free, that's a different matter.

Not that piracy == lost sales in every case. But a pirated copy gives more of the value of the original than a borrowed book does.
I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree very strongly here.

First, it seems that it is by being ambitious and trying to do hard things that we as humans improve. I would rather try to do something hard and fail than set out to do something easy and succeed. Also, often failing at something hard will result in something short of your goal but still far better than you would have gotten by going for the easy goal.

Second, it is very hard to know what your means or someone elses means are, or even what is possible. A great many things that people used to think were impossible have been achieved.

And finally:

They will have very ambitious goals and will not settle for what they consider beneath them.

First, most people will eventually settle if they hit repeated failure (but perhaps settle for more than they would have gotten by aiming low...). I know one person who dreamed of acting and is now programming, whether this is "settling" is debatable, but it wasn't their stated goal. If a person truly refuses to settle, then they have a couple of choices:

1. They can refuse to give up and keep trying without end. This can be good. They may eventually succeed, and even if they won't, they will probably get further than they would by settling.

2. They can try to cheat and use unethical means to get what they want. But the answer to this one is not to make them less ambitious, but to help make the children more moral so they will never resort to this and stick with #1.

3. They can give up in some extreme way such as living on welfare or ending their own life. But I don't think many ambitious people will take this route, and again the answer is not make the children less ambitous but to make them more moral and more stable so they would stick with #1.

In short, I think it is a very good idea to encourage children to be ambitious and work to improve themselves.
Nice data. I'd like to see it updated for a few months. I suspect if you do that you'll see the numbers are even higher than this shows. I think a lot of people go in and out of activity as their off-line life becomes more or less complicated.
Even if this were true (which I doubt, but I am no expert) is it not better to use any and all malleability to improve yourself than to simply give up and achieve nothing?
Good comment.

Going to "work" is not the only way an individual can be beneficial to society.
A video demo would be excellent.
There is a fuzzy line between intelligence and functional knowledge. I see that you are a programmer. How much of that know-how where you born with, and how much have you had to learn? If you had to learn a new programming language could you? Is learning your third language easier than learning your first?
The karma inflation says a lot I think. There seems to be a rash of new users posting less relevant 'link-bait' stories that get voted up for being edgy/funny, but have little interest to hackers. I've noticed that i've been far less interested in the front page of HN lately due to most of the links on the front page being non hacker news or links I already saw on Reddit(!). This is purely anecdotal however.
IMO, I think the reason why they don't have LNP isn't because of technical reasons (meaning that they could have added LNP long ago), it's because Google Voice isn't ready. They don't want to see the horror stories of people committing to Google Voice and being disappointed - as it is, it has a low enough enter/exit friction that people don't feel bad if it isn't working right.

The Author is giving the Google a lot of benefit of the doubt here - Google can only ride their karma for so long before people start expecting a product that works.
Total transaction value of all ATM/credit card usage. Lots of money.
Because someone in ad sales would tell you the truth about business practices from which he derives a living.
Pressured by random Redditors?
Think about it. If Chinese Govt is willing to sell stuff to us dirt cheap by using dirt cheap labor, It is beneficial for us to buy them. It makes economic sense for us to buy something for less than what it's worth. We gain by doing so. The Chinese Govt gains too, by getting more than what they pay for the people. The real losers are those who work dirt cheap. So, end of the day, it's not our problem. If I can save 200 or 300 dollars on my iPhone because of them, I am glad.
Failure is necessary to success. You learn more from it, and it teaches patience. I'm glad I was allowed to fail a lot as child, I credit it with making me who I am today.
I've been doing this for ages now with a greasemonkey script I found.. http://steeev.freehostia.com/wp/2009/03/19/facebook_purity_c...
If it's on that site, it's always (as far as I can tell) an article arguing for free markets or less government or something like that. Indeed:

"Founded in 1968, Reason advances a free society by developing, applying, and promoting libertarian principles, including individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law."

So it's not really a serious economics journal (with varying points of view) or anything like that, it exists to promote one particular political view. I think that if we see articles from there, we can reasonably expect to see articles posted here from the other side, too, like, say, Paul Krugman or marxists.org or whatever. My desire is that neither one should appear here and that we stick to startups and hacking and things of that ilk, as those don't tend to produce the "SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!" reaction quite so much.
Takedown notice in 5.. 4... 3...

When I started reading, I though it was a genius move being done by Google itself, until I got to the word "they" and then scanned down and saw the Eric Schmidt quote. Yeah, confusing.

They might allow it to stay up for a few days to generate some discussion though... we'll see.
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Nice. Good questions in this specific instance, as well as a good example of what everyone running a web site should be doing.
Very simple, actually. They didn't even require a police report but I filed one anyway. The detective even sent me a picture of the suspect because they had the location and exact time of day. That's probably the end of it, though.
I think that this is all it really needs to be dominant for the time being.

I agree with that, but things get murky another year out. Apple's well-earned dominance is maybe 50% apps and 50% cool/fashion. A year from now Android will have most of the important apps as well, plus maybe a few fancy ones Apple can't support currently. As for fashion, well, that's fickle and not reliable.

Of course Apple may already be one move ahead, and next year we might be arguing about tablets or E-readers or two-way wrist TVs. Maybe then Apple won't mind competition in the phone space, having once again redefined the "must-have" product.
I've had GV since it was GrandCentral and I still can't make heads or tails of it. I have my GV number, SkypeIn number, plus my regular phone number. All three are using some form of VoIP yet all negotiating takes place over 10 digit number. I thought it would be a great way for me to recieve calls while travelling but the utility is limited at best. Fring is moderately useful in being able to link MSN, Skype, and SIP. But GV is left out.

I'm still waiting on one true phone number to rule them all. Until then I'll continue to use Skype and check my GV mailbox.
Does anyone trying to solve problems involving matrices with millions of entries not have some idea of the computational complexity of various operations they can do on them, given the nature of their matrices, etc.? I’d expect that either (a) someone has a small enough problem that the computational time is irrelevant and they should just arrive at the solution in whatever manner is conceptually clearest, given their current mathematical knowledge, or (b) the problem is going to take a lot of computation time, in which case it’s worth exploring to learn exactly what the fastest method will be.
I hadn't heard of this before, so thanks for posting.
The community will do as it will. If you want to keep something on topic you need moderators, like subreddit.
Yeah, like if he interviewed me - "My positive attitude to making profits had a downward effect on my profits". In other words, I haven't made a million, and I haven't got a success story.
By the same token: note enough ad revenue -> promise removing bad reviews in exchange for buying ads.

So why did you chose one narrative instead of the other?
Point well taken, but it must be said that at certain times in ones life, time is more readily available than money. Plus if he was learning WPF anyway, why not do something fun and, uhm, I guess romantic?
Kohonen's self organazing maps for dummies (with code)
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Would Apple actually store individual copies of each song, or would they use compression at some level so that if two users uploaded an identical MP3 rip of a song, it would "compress" down to only one copy on their servers?

Would it even be legal to swap one MP3 rip of a song for another(e.g. "upgrade" everyone to the 320kbps iTunes rip), assuming the source material was the same?
The year in which elephants bred like rabbits
If you really want the domain, then I would suggest that you go ahead with .net now, and later try to get the .com and link them to the same page.

To cite an example, Darren Rowse of Problogger initially started with problogger.net since the .com was with someone else ('squatter' as you call them). He started off the blog with the .net and later went on buying Problogger.com
Perfect metaphor for today's media: Stock & flow
USB thumb drives with hardware encryption no longer secure
Man, two 3D printing articles in one day. Good to see this tech getting recognized on HN.

It's interesting to see what Stratasys does now that their FDM patents are almost up. So many interesting things happening in this industry.
I'm a bit rusty on my linear algebra. Without inverting the matrix, what's the algorithm for solving Ax=b? Factorization is mentioned but I'm not sure what it means in this case.
The authors point out that the QWERTY example is currently the most favored by those arguing for government intervention. By attacking the QWERTY example, the authors are attacking the case for government intervention.

> Stanford University economist Paul Krugman offered the central claim of this literature boldly and with admirable simplicity: "In QWERTY worlds, markets can't be trusted." The reason that he uses "QWERTY worlds," and not DOS worlds, or VHS worlds, is that the DOS and VHS examples are not very compelling. Almost no one uses DOS anymore, and many video recorder purchasers thought VHS was better than Beta (as it was, in terms of recording time, as we have discussed at length elsewhere).

In an argument about government intervention, the burden of proof should always be on those arguing for government intervention because they are arguing that freedom should be restricted. To take a simple example, if you publish something on the Internet and I want the government to force you to take it down, the burden should be on me to show why the government should interfere with you. If I don't make a case that is more convincing than yours, you should be left alone. I should not be allowed to require that you prove why you should be allowed to publish.

This is an important distinction because freedom often depends on this. Many activities that free people engage in would not happen if people had to ask permission first-- either because there is no plausible reason why the particular activity should be allowed, or just because it would not be worth the trouble.

In a free society, government must have a good reason to prohibit. In a non-free society, people must have a good reason to get permission. The authors are assuming a free society, so they content themselves with attacking government's reasons to prohibit.
What often happens is that those who end up making a better life for themselves in a foreign country tend to send money back to their relatives who couldn't make it out, thus helping to raise the standard of living. Also, a lot of them would probably want to return someday or will see ways to bring business to their home countries that would have otherwise never come about.
Cite this, because it sounds like BS.
I'm a checklist fan. Here's the don't-break-the-build checklist I have posted on the wall beside me:

1) No ? in 'svn status'

2) Checkstyle accepts all changed files

3) 'svn update'

4) Unit tests pass

5) 'svn commit'

As you say -- condescendingly simple. And astonishingly helpful.
Both your share and the original were fantastic posts. Loved the worldview and how it can shape future successes. Life is beta testing ;).

Happy to have shared them on my twitter stream @victusfate, look me up anytime.
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Starting CareCloud has been the ride of a lifetime. If anyone has further interest I'm open for any conversations.
Sorry for the late reply. Here are two options I made quickly: http://imgur.com/F3V5d
Sunstein and Agent Provocateurs
Ask HN: At what time and how frequently do you visit HN?
At what time do you visit HN? How frequently do you visit HN?

I usually visit HN around 1PM(EST) and around 2-3 times a day.
Rumour – PS3 Motion Controller is called Arc
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Here are the actual traffic stats as of today: http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-19jan10.png
Sounds like a job for Rack, too.
I don't know that is true in all cases. For instance, if I were to pirate "ultimate programming reference book", yes what you say is true, i get far more value than borrowing it. On the other hand, if it is a novel I will read exactly 1 time, the difference in value transmitted is negligable.
So are there any reliable studies that show 1) the superiority of one over the other or 2) the superiority of one over the other for programming?
Google should have checked for this before offering these numbers.

In a lot of NPAs (area codes) there just aren't any never-assigned numbers left. My brother waited, for months I believe, for a GV number in 512 (Austin).
Favorite quote:
"a society based on fear is just another way to spell 'Afghanistan'"
Preserving the back button on Ajax pages
That was a good article. Generally I use Scala very little, but in the last few days I have written both Scala and Clojure wrappers for some of my Java code (I wanted idiomatic wrappers that feel Scala-like and Clojure-like - that is why I don't just directly call into Java).

Like Clojure, Scala could be a universal programming language for me if it was not for the learning curve: I have invested so many years on Lisp, Java, and Ruby that it is difficult to motivate myself to become proficient with 2 more languages.

Anyway, both the article and the comments to the article were interesting.
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They admit to letting you sort your negative reviews to the bottom if you advertise? Or to restore five-star reviews which were "flagged as spam" if you advertise?

Do you have a citation for this? I don't mean to call you out but I have no idea what yelp has admitted to.
HP enter the 3D printer market with Stratasys
7 times a day? It's a great place to find out the latest news, check the comment count to know what's really interesting, and only then click on the articles.
If you're dis-incented to work, that may allow you to lead a better life on less, say one partner earning instead of both, whilst someone who needs a primary income will take that higher paying job.

Don't underestimate the beneficial effect of one person being able to stay home, look after a house, cook fresh food, save on childcare, consume less fuel etc etc.
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