skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond Privilege Guilt, there's a case that people are a great deal more complicated than just a few character stats. High IQ is often taken as a declaration that an individual will succeed, and indeed, on the average, it is, but the average implies a large group, not a specific person.

I'm trying (and doing it poorly) to express that Intelligence isn't the only thing in a person which defines their lives...but even given the static, it will very likely affect the aggregate.
While this is a fantastic article, I kind of want to disagree with some of the points listed.

IQ tests are standardized in a way that you don't need to be a scholar or academic to know how to solve and/or answer the questions.

Look at it this way, in my opinion, the standard IQ tests of today are moreso a test of how quickly you can learn or adapt and solve, rather than of what knowledge you have.

For example, I bet that a PhD candidate (or just a "genious") would have much less difficulty learning about the insides of a car and how to fix it, than a mechanic would have in getting his PhD or equivalent to that level of knowledge

I find that people with higher than average IQs have more work ethic and learn much more quickly than people who have below average IQs, and I don't think this is a purely coincidental thing.
Alternatively, as some have suggested, a nuke will cause most of the oil field to spill into the ocean at once, producing delicious armageddon.
I'd wager than any such app that could help users migrate to a competing social network would be shutdown extremely fast.

Most users migrating their emails to another provider can do it through a desktop email client. At most it might require learning how to download an mbox file or some such. Pretty hard stuff for an average user, but not impossible.

Try telling a user that they'd have to program their own app on a proprietary third-party API and host it on their own servers and go through some sort of vetting process just to get a backup of their emails and... well I hope you can see where I am going.
>We aren't talking about the "rare" individuals.

The linked article specifically talked about a case where the woman's doctor told her there are genetic reasons for her obesity.

Also, there is a limit to where losing weight is an unquestionably good idea. I certainly have enough excess body fat that no one wants to see my bare chest. That said, I'm not clinically speaking overweight, and I have very low blood pressure, and I'm fairly active. I certainly would benefit from cardio (as would most people) but focusing on fat rather misses the point, which is primarily keeping arteries clean and your heart strong. This is actually quite possible for an obese person.
It's not hard to build a not too big but reasonable salary developing iPhone applications. I would take this route...
I mean, not for customers. You and the AppStore.

You are able to fully handle your work, you can work hard 15 days and relax the other 15, and so forth. Just don't try to build a success application that is hard/long to develop in the initial stage. Build a few small reasonable applications (I suggest the productivity area).

With one reasonable application in the productivity category in the US store, priced around 5$, is simple to earn $500/month. If you have a decent number of this applications, and keep pushing new ones from time to time, this is going to work well.
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To me his suggestion towards to end sounds the most attractive: "Do I pick up a bartending job to cover my food budget, and try to hack on my projects on the side? "..

Doing different types of mental work all day and the constant context switching really wears people down. On the other hand, after a few hours of physical work you really feel eager to get down to hacking.
If you want to put links into the end, that's ok. But please number them and refer to them by those numbers in the main body. Giving bunch of links at the bottom with no context leaves user guessing which one was the one he was interested in.
hmm the text width hadn't bothered me but that's an understandable critique. what i love about the app most is the playlist - so i can queue up any amount of audio and let er roll while i code.
I would add that the data mapper pattern gives you very fine grained control over what objects and attributes of the object are matched to which tables. So refactoring either your object layer or your table layer is easy to do independently.
Sounds like exactly how I use my netbook.
(Edit: when I can get it away from my wife)
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A "nuke" sounds like overkill and exaggeration

That's because the anti-nuclear activists managed to turn "nuclear" into the boogeyman in the 60s and 70s. A properly sized device used five weeks ago would certainly have done less environmental damage than the amount of oil spilled so far.
> The benefit of a highly expressive language is that you can make your code more obvious.

I completely agree with your point about the expressiveness of poetry. Yes, there is some high initial investment in understanding poetry (in spoken language or programming language). And in return, you get a higher level of expressiveness. People look at the high level of investment, and say that the poetry isn't worth it, because they mistakenly think that it will require that level of investment every time. But like any language construct, once you really learn it, it becomes natural to you and doesn't require that high investment each time.

I wrote a Turing machine generator in arc once. To me, that was the prime example of the power and pitfalls of poetic language. At the time, I was practicing lisp like languages a lot, so it just flowed out off me. It was short and very powerful, and I could read through the dozen or so lines and see the equivalent logic expanding in my head. It would've taken many more lines of C++ or Python to get that logic working. Now that I'm out of practice, going back and reading it makes the whole thing seem completely inscrutable. That doesn't mean the language is any less easy or less expressive, it means I'm less good at seeing it.
When parsing boundaries you know the first character is going to be a hyphen(-), and the last character is going to be a newline. Wouldn't it be easier to search for hyphens, and then read until you see a newline, and then compare to the boundary? Typically boundary characters are random printable characters, so you might be doing more work than you need.
No, I meant what I said. We use narwhal-jsc 95% of the time. Rhino is this unfortunate thing we keep around for compatibilities sake.

The flexibility of being able to switch engines as needed is also a major win in Narwhal. I suspect in the next year we'll end up moving everything to v8, which should prove to be extremely easy to do.
This is why I found distasteful for Apple to predict a gold-rush for iPad apps at their keynote. It was wishful thinking actually.
Yeah, but that just seems wrong. It's like "I have this function, but I can't actually refer to it, so I'll have to wrap it in this thingamajig just so that I can pass it around".
And why not?
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You're a hacker, as evinced by your posting on "Hacker News".
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I wouldn't want to post my ideas/business revenue that is virtually accessible to anyone other than myself especially a site that has no TOS.
And better, faster, cheaper.
I used this to nice effect on my Canon A590IS. It allowed me to overcome the 15 second maximum long exposure to get at least 64 seconds.(http://www.flickr.com/photos/allseeingcuttlefish/3469157079/).

I keep hoping someone will create a similar project focused on Nikon cameras.
You could even be more explicit about the whole thing, use futures and only allow them to block. The above example would go something like this if the reads can't be executed concurrently:

future_x = read();
x = future_x.wait();
y = read().wait(); // shortcut
write(x + y);

Or something like this if the reads are independent:

future_x = read();
future_y = read();
// one of a handful of functions that can "block", all operating on futures:
waitForAll(future_x, future_y);
write(future_x.get() + future_y.get());

Using futures rather than implicit suspension has the added advantage of being able to pipeline independent reads just as you can with callback-style asynchronous I/O.

You can already implement[1] an approximation of this in terms of callbacks, but it doesn't look quite as nice, e.g.:

var handler = new AsyncHandler();
// independent, pipelined reads
readAsync(handler.cb());
readAsync(handler.cb());

handler.whenDone(function(x, y) {
write(x+y);
});

It gets substantially uglier than that if the dependencies aren't so straightforward, e.g. A, B & C are independent, D depends on A & B having completed and the last part of the code requires the results from C & D. Futures do much better in that sort of situation.

[1] I've built a basic but usable helper for this purpose: http://github.com/pmj/MultiAsync-js/tree/master/src/ I hear the Dojo toolkit contains something similar.
Based on their track record for people copying the iPod and the iPhone, I guess the iPad has at least half a decade of reigning over personal computers, then.
Am I the only one who thinks it's premature to claim that we're entering a "new era of computing"? I'm still far from convinced that tablet computing is going to "revolutionize" anything other than printed media.
>Ahh voting, what is it good for.

Given that the Conservatives, at least you can be comforted in knowing that it won't pass Parliament.

Right?
There's DE Shaw, the Hedge Fund and DE Shaw Research. Different focus for each entity.
No this is not expensive, it's what all payment processors charge, and until you do 10k a month, it's so much better an option than anything else that everybody should just stick to a payment processor when launching small services. There is absolutely no way anyone on a solo budget/time frame can afford to roll their own solution (not even doing CC processing through a CC gateway).

(and yes I do realize that it hurts to see those costs the first few times you make a sale, getting upset over costs like this is the hallmark of the noob internet businessman - it'll pass. Wait until you get your first bill for a nonsense legal issue or pay a 100k settlement for which you know you're in the right but for which you also know that going the length will cost more. Those are the times when it will hurt even more than this.)
Agree re: Excel. Great product. Competitors don't even come close.
This seems like a derivative of the business model generation book
7 anti-Apple cliches that need to die
I copy features from other sites all the time. If you have a good idea, don't be surprised if others replicate it, especially if it's technically easy.

What do you expect? Facebook will see it, say "That's cool!" and then offer you a 20M buyout? Hell no, they'll just take a week, build it in-house, and move on to the next feature.
<downvote me>Facebook in it's entirety was copied from ConnectU.</downvote me>.

But back to the point of copying it's feature of associating related photos. Everyone copies from everyone else, or putting it politely as "getting inspiration from". This is the reality, no point whining about it. Take it as a compliment and move on.
So don't use exceptions. They're not needed and definitely make C++ code far more complicated, not less.
Hey, I work at Square and I'd say if you're passionate about it you should go for it. Startup life is a whole lot more fun than corporate life. If you've found something you're so excited about that you want to spend your free time building it that's totally awesome.

The one piece of advice I've got is to watch out for the business/regulation side. Dealing with the payment card networks is a seriously non-trivial problem.
This really surprised me.

It's not that I didn't expect the IPad to be a success. I mean, it's a sexy piece of hardware. The mobile processors mean that we finally have enough firepower in this small of a case.

However, hasn't anyone learned yet not to buy the first Apple implementation of anything? Next year will be a new IPad and it will have a camera, a faster processor, and who knows what else that will make everyone go, "I don't really have the money, and I have this one, but that's really cool! I wish I had waited."
Good; I hope Facebook copies more useful features.
> Simmons said the US government should immediately take the effort to plug the leak out of the hands of BP and put the military in charge.

In almost every movie, when the US government says "you can't do it, we're taking over" and assigns military guys to it, everything starts failing and only an imprisoned hero can save the situation. Will it work better in reality? Especially when I expect BP to know more about oil than military... Oh wait - that could've changed after the last war.
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I believe that the problem alluded to in this essay is not so much with the relationship between IQ tests and the value of abstract thinking, but rather the hegemony of such thinking in the modern world. Technical thinking is lauded in a society where production is the dominant measurement of value. This contributes to bias towards a certain type of cerebral intelligence.

I actually just watched a TED talk on a related note, in which Ken Robinson discusses intelligence bias: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_...
I'd wager that if you added up salaries forgone by ycombinator participants and compared them against aggregate payout it would paint a fairly bleak economic picture.

I'd take that wager at a 100:1 payout in a heartbeat!

My guess is that it takes 5-7 years for payouts to start happening from startups, so allowing for that much time, I have no doubt that the total payout will be much greater than would be from regular salaries. All you need are a few to hit it out of the park, and you've covered everyone.

Of course, we're talking about aggregates here; I could certainly imagine that for some fraction of the participants, it might be a net lose monetarily.
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This can be solved easily with a passphrase so you enter the passphrase on the page and then permission is granted, not the best but makes it more secure.

Still no TOS or anything saying that you ARE not giving up ownership of the data your enter.
They would have multiple codebases to maintain then.

I think they were the IE engine for the main explorer folder view in Windows 98 - all the active desktop and custom folder backgrounds and theming the sidebar which slowly vanished in XP and onwards was MS-HTML and CSS based.

It wasn't a stupid design decision, it was just a design decision.
I personally doubt it'll even revolutionize that.
" The core tenant is that alcoholism is a permanent 'spiritual' disease"

Well, what you hear may vary from one AA group to the next, but I don't think the core point is that it is spiritual, only that it is permanent. (Assorted official books from AA may say otherwise, but actual AA groups very in the application of the key principles.)

The idea is that some people keep chasing the idea that they can drink just a little then stop, yet fail again and again. If you can get them to just give up on that idea they'll be better off.

"AA's own self-published census shows that it is overwhelmingly an American and Canadian phenomenon, with some small sprinkling in the UK. It basically exists nowhere else in the world, except for expatriates from the US."

Do you have a link for this? These sites suggests otherwise:

http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aa_international.cfm?origpage=31

http://markybaby.com/legacy/book/links_index.php
Old thread: "Has anyone considered taking a day job that has tons of free time and no intellectual property constraints?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726621
That's cool, but it doesn't strike me as special or unique to the iPad. Surely any well-designed tablet would benefit from velcro like that.
Theoretically, wouldn't this be good news for waiters? Creating a 'human touch' value at restaurants?

I schedule my banking around the tellers' hours to socialize, rather than use the ATM outside...
How are you finding out people's IQs to put them in these "good work ethic, quick learner", "poor work ethic, slow learner" buckets?
Is there anything to suggest that they'll let the current development hell continue? They have a lot invested in Java now, they might actually get their act together and push Java forward. Both to make it attractive to the programmers that like C# better, and to add features to the JVM to allow alternate languages to thrive, e.g. tail-calls and coroutines.
Maybe it's just that I'm not a native English speaker, but this title seems very misleading to me. Though the BBC's title isn't much better.
You also can't do it with a mobile phone, DSLR, cisco desk phone, UPS, fridge, Palmpilot, firewall...

The "IT HAS A CPU THEREFORE IT MUST DO ANYTHING ANY DESKTOP LINUX COMPUTER CAN DO" attitude is ridiculous.
Author's wife's comments are the best.
By "cash cow", I was referring to the Windows and Office business units as defined by how Microsoft releases their breakdown of finances. I'll cop to forgetting about the Server business unit, not because I'm not familiar, but because I genuinely just forgot about it in my statement.

Of the products you mentioned, the only one I've never heard of is Dynamics CRM. I use all of the others daily.

But you are correct in your general summation of my statement. I made a generalization about Microsoft based on public consensus; that their biggest success is in markets which they've already saturated.

That statement doesn't hold up as well when you actually start to break down all of their products and services.
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Nokia sell something like 1.5 million phones a day afaik.
Jeff Hawkins has a good general framework for intelligence. X is more intelligent than Y if X can make better predictions given the same information as Y. X is more intelligent than Y if X can make predictions as good as Y's with less information.
Cisco bets on the future of video with contest
Ask HN: I'm considering selling my mobile app. from my site, any toughts?
I'm considering selling my mobile applications from my site as alternative, for users without credit cards, any toughts? I also have some concerns about Piracy, care to share your experince with piracy, how to do you deal with it?
This expert's name isn't Dr. Strangelove is it?
Huh? You can, but the sort method already takes a Comparator class. If it took a function you could pass around the function instead.

Anyway, the point was only that "(sort list #'string-lessp)" is nothing special.
Probably make it so you could only use Apple approved Petrol.
I'm sure that when hunting and gathering were the only activities that mattered, that many coders alive today would have been considered morons.
As a friend of mine said when it was mentioned to him that the next generation would be even better, "I'll buy that one, too."
I say we nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm

Smoke gets in one's eyes and that apparently affects accepting "truth".
One of Allan’s goals for TM2 is to speed up all of the core file IO/parsing/text drawing/etc. parts of the application. I don’t think your fears will be realized. :-)
The character is apparently known as "Ling Ling Qi" (007) in Chinese, although I'm not sure why. Perhaps "James Bond" is either unpronounceable or transliterates to "bite the wax tadpole?"
Hey, we're interested in telecommuters. What's the best way to contact you?
We're only on earth for a limited period of time. Waiting would have meant giving up the last two months of just a wonderful experience interacting with knowledge, entertainment, my pictures, and the web in ways that I had never done so before. Plus, I get another 10 months of this before the next one is released.

I look at it completely differently - In one year, my $800 iPad, which I've kept in pristine condition, will have a resale value of around $400. The question I need to ask myself is - Did I get $400 worth of value out of the iPad in a year. That's a no-brainer for me.
Dr. Strangelove specifically didn't want to send nuclear weapons down into the shafts, the shafts were meant for people. But I suspect he never anticipated the shafts would be filled with oil.
I think the Droid Incredible's on a par with the iPhone.
The concept of a commute wouldn't have been around in medieval times when many European cities were founded. Or even when American cities were born. People who lived in cities tended to work there, and rural communities worked the land. The concept of satellite towns is a recent phenomenon.
Me too.

Damnit, Apple. How do you do this.
Im not really sure how you the employer, knows what schools teach CS like mine did and which schools are Java schools. is it just a trial and error process? Should somebody like me, say that their CS degree is from an engineering dept on their resume?
The Junk Science site is scary, because it's so close to the truth. You really shouldn't take "may" or "possibly" as a statement of fact, and it's true that statistics can be used to manipulate facts and present false ideas. And yet much of the site is about denying ("debunking") real science, not pseudoscience.
Its only $499 and you can easily sell it on ebay for most of its value if you don't want it. At least that was my thought process when getting one.
This is a good point, but still, I'm sure a "properly sized" explosive that wasn't nuclear could do the trick too. I'm ignorant here: if a nuclear device were to be used wouldn't it irradiate the surrounding water? Wouldn't fallout plumes in the ocean would be more destructive than oil plumes? Or do you think it would be deep enough in the collapsed well to be insulated? Do I have any of this wrong?

Also, regardless of the explosive used, isn't there a chance it could ignite the reservoir?
Ask HN:  User Verification Suggestions?
1. Amazon's "Realname" (verifying name on CC).

2. Address Verification (sending code via postal mail, having them enter it online later).

3. Email Verification (obvious).

4. Asymetric, Public Key type system.

These are just a few examples I can think of. Basically, I'm trying to compile a list of ways to verify the person on the end of the pipe are who they say they are.
Any ordinary or out of the ordinary suggestions welcome!
It's certainly revolutionized how I interact with Magazines, Newspapers, Video, Entertainment and Books.

What I'd really like to do is see whether my new behavior sustains itself, or whether it's a function of the "New shiny thing" - my iPhone, Two (three?) + years later gets used every 30 minutes, every day, for _tons_ of functions - so clearly that was a sustainable technology shift.
This is a good point, but that kind of heat could ignite the reservoir too?
I'll bring the balsamic you bring the bread?
Business is NOT an exam. You can't call out people for "copying". Where did Lifeblob get it's "photo sharing" idea from? Nah, can't be Flickr.