skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In 2006, David Lohman, a psychologist at the University of Iowa, co-authored a paper called 'Gifted Today but Not Tomorrow?' in the Journal for the Education of the Gifted, demonstrating just how labile 'giftedness' is. It notes that only 45 percent of the kids who scored 130 or above on the Stanford-Binet would do so on another, similar IQ test at the same point in time. Combine this with the instability of 4-year-old IQs, and it becomes pretty clear that judgments about giftedness should be an ongoing affair, rather than a fateful determination made at one arbitrary moment in time. I wrote to Lohman and asked what percentage of 4-year-olds who scored 130 or above would do so again as 17-year-olds. He answered with a careful regression analysis: about 25 percent."

Most people are surprised that IQ scores can change over time for the same individual. But this is a routine finding of most longitudinal studies of individual IQ. I've gathered other reports of this phenomenon in the psychological literature. For example, young people in the famous Lewis Terman longitudinal Genetic Studies of Genius (initial n=1,444 with n=643 in main study group) when tested at high school age (n=503) were found to have dropped 9 IQ points on average in Stanford-Binet IQ. More than two dozen children dropped by 15 IQ points and six by 25 points or more. Parents of those children reported no changes in their children or even that their children were getting brighter (Shurkin 1992, pp. 89-90). Terman observed a similar drop in IQ scores in his study group upon adult IQ testing (Shurkin 1992, pp. 147-150). Samuel R. Pinneau conducted a thorough review of the Berkeley Growth Study (1928-1946; initial n=61, n after eighteen years =40). Alice Moriarty was a Ph.D. researcher at the Menninger Foundation and describes in her book (1966) a number of case studies of longitudinal observations of children's IQ. She observed several subjects whose childhood IQ varied markedly over the course of childhood, and develops hypotheses about why those IQ changes occurred. Anastasi and Urbina (1997, p. 328) point out that childhood IQ scores are poorest at predicting subsequent IQ scores when taken at preschool age.

Anastasi, Anne & Urbina, Susana (1997). Psychological Testing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Moriarty, Alice E. (1966). Constancy and IQ Change: A Clinical View of Relationships between Tested IQ and Personality. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.

Pinneau, Samuel R. (1961). Changes in Intelligence Quotient Infancy to Maturity: New Insights from the Berkeley Growth Study with Implications for the Stanford-Binet Scales and Applications to Professional Practice. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Shurkin, Joel N. (1992). Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up. Boston: Little, Brown.
Paul, do you fault every entrepreneur that takes a novel business model/approach and tries to improve upon it or extend it? If not, can you explain what is special about this situation?

By way of comparison, do you fault Burger King and Wendy's for taking McDonald's idea?
so 2 items to explain this further:

1) financial sites have more secure / higher-friction password recovery techniques than non-financial sites

2) more inside-baseball point that i didn't get into -- PayPal security questions weren't in the acct signup flow, they were in the after-txn flow of email confirmation. HOWEVER, since many people either
a) intentionally or accidentally didn't provide the right email, or
b) even if they entered the right email, they didn't go thru email confirm, then

result: MANY MANY people -- i estimated at least 10%, possibly up to 25-50% -- never entered their security reminder Q's. this subsequently resulted in limited ability to recover password info without having to FAX IN driver's license or other paper info, which most users screamed about.

in short: it's a long story, but password recovery for financial sites is much harder than non-financial sites, and for PayPal is even harder still than other normal financial sites due to the way we had implemented mandatory acct creation workflow and security reminder Q'n workflow.

needless to say, this was a fucked-up situation that resulted in a lot of customer service hassle... which i got to experience first-hand on many occasions.

(sorry for the long-winder explanation, but you asked, so... but it's not your fault. even many people who worked there didn't understand this very well. it used to frustrate the hell out of me)
This document is more useful than any of the sous vide books on the market, and I have quite a few. There is also a wealth of sous vide information available on egullet forums.
In corporate sales (thanks dayjob!), you have the transactional sales and the relationship based sales.

Transactional: e.g. used car salesman. The sales guy promises you the world to convince you to hand over a boatload of cash, even if he knows the car is crap. Why? Because after the paperwork is inked and the money is safely in his bank account, he's done with you and moving on to the next guy. Nevermind if the car breaks on the 31st day - just 1 day past the warranty date. Because all the effort is on that single transaction. He could care less about why you actually need a car.

Relationship-based: e.g. System integrators, consulting firms. e.g. They sell you a firewall / router / set up your internal network, but it is in their best interest not to screw you over because your lifetime value to them as a customer is greater than the immediate gain (e.g. marking up the hardware or charging ridiculous installation fees). Plus, they want your respect and need credibility so that next time when you need something else, you will go to them first. E.g. Maybe aside from an email solution for your SMB, you now need, a simple internal collaboration tool installed. Granted there are also sleazy relationship-based sales people, but the difference is that it is not as transactional as a used car salesman.

The reason why I mentioned that is because I'm not trying to be the jerk who says "gimme all your goodies now now now" and then conveniently forget how I got there when I get there.

At the risk of aiming for too lofty of a loooong-term goal - just as Mark Zuckerberg said "these are my people" at the last YC SUS, I <3 startup entrepeneurs and I too, wish that I could one day be in a position to be like Paul Graham. To start a startup that helps other startups. But I realize that in order to do that I need to succeed at my own startup first.

pg started YC to help the small guy, and I feel that I should stand up for the even smaller guy amongst the other small guys, since single founders get easily drowned out by the majority of non-single startups.

Thanks for the opportunity to clarify.
Js.Fiddle - Online Javascript/CSS Experiments
Next Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Thursday, Feb 4 
Free weekly strategy roundtables for entrepreneurs to address positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture. Up to 1,000 people can attend each session, but only the first five who register to pitch will be able to present their business ideas. All attendees are able to join in on the conversations via a live chat.
Some other Facebook open source stuff: http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php

One that I liked a lot: http://phpsh.org/

It's an interactive shell for php like python's and written in python.
Travian bug s3
Hey, my friend was in the gamejam in WPI at Worcester, Mass. and ended up with this:

http://www.globalgamejam.org/2010/flickering-torch

One cool thing to do with yours would be to have 1-5 be hat switch keys
Fusion Garage files to dismiss CrunchPad lawsuit
Right, and that difference is to do with the experience of implementing the solution not consuming the solution. I agree the decision to choose an open source solution over a closed source solution that you can patch yourself if you come across a roadblock is very powerful. But to the end user consuming the rich media experience there is very little differences between the two implementations at this moment in time, both are buggy, overload the CPU and have issues with accessibility. To them the only perceivable difference is likely that one also works in IE.

I'm hoping there will be a big shift back to content just being content without the need for big shiny bells and whistles as well. That said, if after a user has read my piece, viewed my video, but still wants something else I'd like to give them the option of something "different" if there is a demand for it. E.g. http://www.thecoronabeach.com/ it bugs me though when the brand doesn't offer the more friendly traditional experience as the primary presence on the web... e.g. www.corona.com its just awful.

BTW, the only time I really get a browser crash due to flash is when I'm working with my own code in a early state if ever, its very rare. I see alot of errors on about 25% of sites as I run the debug version of the player, but they don't cause my browser to crash. They are just as annoying as those old javascript error alert boxes that older browsers use though. And I run flash alot!
I think it's YC's choice to favor teams with cofounders.

I have a number of friends that are startup founders both solo and with cofounders. The solo founders are just very likely to burn out easily because nobody else is there who understands their situation and can support them.

I applied to YC as a single founder last session and didn't get in. I don't plan on applying for YC in the future unless I find a cofounder.

That doesn't mean I'm not pursuing my goal. I will continue to work on founding a startup but as long as I'm a single founder, I will not be taking the YC route.
sorry, i'm sure with less insanity and a better editor i could have gotten there much quicker...

but between sleepless redeye blogging and my usual retardedness, "i didn't have time to write a short letter"

my apologies, and thanks for hanging in there if you got to the end. my condolences if you didn't
None of my personal scripts (which all use @require or unsafeWindow) work on this. I've been meaning to convert them to Chrome extensions anyway, though.
1. The Department of Energy appears in at least three places in the chart: once under "National defense", once under "General science", and once under "Energy". I assume the amount under national defense consists of the allocations for nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship and nuclear reactor production for the U.S. military.

I will agree that it is strange that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been categorized as "National defense"; the rest of the Department of Justice seems to have been catergorized as "Administration".

2. One could categorize Medicare with Health, but one can already do that with the chart as shown by considering those two rectangles together. It is interesting to see that Medicare, by itself, has a larger allocation than everything else in the Department of Health and Human Services (and there are pieces in the Health rectangle that probably belong in the Medicare rectangle, e.g. "Grants to states for Medicaid" and "DoD Medicare-eligible retiree health care fund").

3. The Department of Veterans Affairs is a Cabinet-level department independent from the Department of Defense.

4. It looks like the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury have been lumped together under "Administration".

I will agree that some aspects of this breakdown are strange, but I don't think it defeats the purpose of this chart.
Ahhhh unattended cooking really would be a huge difference. For some reason I was thinking you'd start it up, sit around for awhile waiting for the water to heat, throw in your vacuum bag and then wait for it to cook. The idea of starting dinner before you leave for work is pretty compelling (on top of having it uniformly cooked to a specific temperature).
Well, actually, the exact opposite is probably true: http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/

(Hello, Eliezer in this post's uncle post!)
Nanoscale silicon dioxide (like sand) if inhaled can and does cause diseases such as silicosis and bronchitis. There's also an alleged cancer risk. Biomechanically it might be dangerous in the same way that asthbestos is.
It's generally true for production code. For prototyping we can use whatever we want. Typically you don't want to build off prototype code, though.
It should be some measure of market-relative total return, including dividend yield, etc. As far as I can tell from the paper, they don't even adjust for market-relative returns, so if a bunch of unpronounceable companies got launched at the peak of the Internet bubble and proceeded to perform exactly in-line with the market, this would still be counted as underperformance even though it is completely untradeable.
I guess the full algorithm is:

while(potential cofounders available) {
evaluate using 90/50 rule
}

The article only focuses on the inner loop, it sort of assumed that you knew how to code the rest on your own :-)
Seems like that would be a counterexample to Sapir-Whorf, not evidence. You clearly had an idea but not a word; language did not bound your ideation.

(I don't accept it, at least not in its strong form, pretty much for this reason; one way of looking at my programming job is nailing down concepts before they have names, then giving them names only later. There's some useful idea there, but Sapir-Whorf overstates it.)
You need at least 30 point to see it. (The threshold can change and perhaps it is higher now.)

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853964
Yes, you're quite right that there is an important distinction to make there.

To clarify one point: Authors typically make their royalties on the wholesale price--that is, the actual cash publishers receive from booksellers like B&N and Amazon. For a printed book, that might be 50-60% of the list price ('sticker price').

The actual retail price, wholesale price, and list price are all related. A higher list price does result in a higher wholesale price, which in turn affects the royalty payment.
I guess if they're scared they might work together. But by woes it doesn't necessarily mean common enemy. (This is what I meant by a charitable interpretation.) If I'm having a bad day, I'm less likely to be nice to an enemy.
While it certainly seems that Facebook will release some sort of PHP compiler tomorrow, this article cited (and linked to) only one (questionable) source.

Are there any credible sources talking about this, because this speculation mostly seems to be based on the questionable interview from last month( http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-interne... )
sometimes it is a shame that NZ is nice and beautiful but far away ... i take there is nothing planned for NZ, is there? Wellington is a living city with many startups we only meet way to rarely.
There's three sub-wins to unattended SV cooking (warning: I am unlikely to ever shut up about this).

First, you can cook a meal for your family in 5 minutes before you leave for work. You can already do that with a crock pot (you don't know how amazing crock pots are until you have kids and a working spouse), but only for braise cuts, and only for braised applications.

Second, you can cook a meal, cool it rapidly, and store it in the fridge for later. In other words, you can cook a week's meals on Sunday night, and bust them out night after night.

Third, you can prep a meal, seal it, stick it in the fridge, and throw it in the SV when you're ready to cook it.

Unlike microwave, "boil-in-the-bag", or crock-pot meals, SV will do these things and produce a restaurant-caliber protein for you more reliably than if you cooked it conventionally with your full attention.
A Hyper-Hypertext Preprocessor...sounds fast...
It may be possible but it's very difficult: we can't afford to loose many of the neutrons or we won't be able to create enough tritium.

Engineered geothermal is at an extremely early stage, so I wouldn't count it out based on a few early failures.
> I don't believe for a minute that Apple is any more open than they are legally required to be, and even then only after some arm-twisting.

Too bad this was upvoted so highly because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Review the history of Apple's involvement in the project.
Ajaxian's also been bad, now and again, about just copying and pasting the entirety of a blog post as "their" content.
AMZN is down over 5% today with headlines like "Amazon shares drop on news of e-book price dispute"...
I do 48 hour dishes pretty regularly in a rice cooker (short ribs, duck confit [sv: the duck confit dispensing machine]) without event.

I'm really tempted to spring for a circulator; I just need to justify it to myself.
You're looking for this:

http://www.ymacs.org/
True. On the other hand, you can't be completely paranoid. You have to make progress and move forward. But yes, protect yourself.
First off, this is bad behavior on Ajaxian's part, and they should learn that people will appreciate them just as much (more, actually) if they send the user off-site to the content they're pointing at.

Second, shouldn't it be possible for Roman to prevent another site from embedding his IFRAME? Either catching the window.parent.location in JavaScript or only serving the IFRAME page if his own domain is in the referrer?
Doesn't a direct link cost more bandwidth? In which case does the one google ad on your site make the difference in cost/income? Further, does the ajaxian style hotlinking -- full credit and source link provided, constitute the same think most people think of for hotlinking (no credit, just images from someone else's site...).
A simple idea?
Yes, this is one of those times when the voting distribution in the discussion absurdly contradicts the facts.
Perhaps you can learn something from this. A software tester friend of mine couldn't figure out how to start a business doing software test, so he fell back on what else he knew: construction. He started a side business doing small jobs: small decks, internal walls, installing dishwashers & appliances etc. This was all stuff he could do in his free time after work and he hoped to move from that to larger construction projects.

The overriding complaint he heard from his clients about other contractors was not that their work was bad, or that their prices were high or didn't match what they quoted, but rather it was that they just never showed up!

Simply by making appointments and actually showing up to quote the job or to do the work, he got tons of business.
To your first idea, people have thought of this but unfortunately using ordinary plasma potentials isn't effective enough to drive a current, we have no proven concepts allowing for inductive generation, extraction using photovoltaics is a practical impossibility with decent lifetimes due to the temperature and neutron flux, and other methods of current extraction (e.g. alpha channeling) are very theoretical and still have huge amounts of science around required around them and are limited in efficiency due to a variety of entropy generating processes.

As to your second idea, it's already extremely hard to achieve break even with tritium, D-D fusion is even tougher and P-P fusion much much much tougher. We're now talking billion dollar projects, all to achieve an inexhaustible source of heat, which we effectively have in the form of the sun already!
This is kind of outrageous. I sort of look at ajaxian as a reliable and interesting source of info on webdev, but now I'm totally turned off. I'll make it a point to not visit. Shame on them.
Regarding your second point, I assume you store in the vacuum bag; but how do you reheat? Back in the SV?

I've seen these on a few of the Food Network reality shows (The Next Food Network Star, The Next Iron Chef), and they always talked about them as though it was some sort of rocket science. It's nice to know that it's just a temperature controlled water bath.

It seems like it's right up my alley. I have a fondness for cooking food slowly - barbecue by way of smoking and dutch oven / crock pot cooking. Of course, those modes of cooking are left for the weekends so I'm sure my wife would be happy if I found a way to cook more during the week.
Stephen Colbert and his iPad at the Grammys
Well, some things can be "abetted", which is similar.
Another benefit of sous vide that I didn't see in the article is that the cooking of items in sealed bags causes them to retain their volatile compounds. You might say, what's that? Every item releases volatile compounds that give it smell/taste. When food is heated the molecules vibrate and volatile compounds are released into the air, gone forever. In sous vide, these compounds are retained. This leads to increased flavor. The side effect of this is that you need to be very careful about adding spices and herbs to your food. In sous vide, a little bit goes a long way.

Have you ever wondered why foods go together. Like tomatoes and basil. The trick is that they share some of the same volatile compounds. That is how many high-end restaurants know to put seemingly strange combination's of food together and it works. There are volatile compound databases available for many food items.
Wouldn't it be easier to implement a browser in Emacs?
It could use some more detail for the mere Blub programmers, showing what these macros expand to.
This is supposedly one of the wins from cooking in a pouch (here's the old Good Eats transcript on that: http://j.mp/4EN80H), which is something I've never had any success with.

The flip side of this --- I think --- is the reason you can't put whole garlic in SV.
Hi, I submitted the post as an attention call. Actually, one of the published CVs was mine and the author of the post contacted me about the issue.

From my point of view any sensitive personal data (CVs) has been erased from the post. My hope is that nobody commits the same error I did (put my cv in the public folder with a obvious name, and then forget it was there).

I hope this makes enough noise so the people from Dropbox change the public URLs to use randomized names. Meanwhile I'll use unique, random names if I want to share a file with personal data and keep it published the smallest amount of time possible.
Please do go on. I, at least, am fascinated.
Get rid of rebills and you will get rid of about 90% of those ads. They exist only because (affiliate) marketers get $30+ per action to get someone to pay $4.99 for a grant kit, a bottle of diet pills, etc. The fine print, of course is the victim gets billed $80 in 7-30 days if they don't cancel (which is nearly impossible to do).

As a result, the marketers will jump through just about every hoop possible to get you to click. They don't care what you think, they don't care if you're offended, they want their $30+ and they will do whatever it takes to get it.

Also: I'm still pretty convinced there are huge opportunities in the ad space on the internet and in mobile. We're just getting started, which is why the whole online ad game still has a "wild west" feel to it.
As for code conventions, you can see some style guides here:
http://code.google.com/p/google-styleguide/

Not sure if they're the same as internal conventions, but I imagine they'd be close.
I always thought Google had a browser for the masses in mind with Chrome. Something that is easy to use, stable and fast: a good alternative for IE.

User scripts are something for power users, who will always prefer Firefox. Won't this create the risk that average users will accept installing all kinds of scripts without much regard for security implications? User scripts are a powerful yet low-threshold tool which could easily lend itself to purposes such as identity theft.
There was a thread on there a while ago where some admins answered questions. They said that it was.
You can do it in the SV, which is I guess what you're supposed to do, but I just unbag it and heat it through on the stove.

I do cook things SV and hold them in the fridge, but honestly most of the time I do that I do it for lunch. For instance, I've got a rice cooker full of cheap chicken breasts going for my next several lunches right now.