skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author's conclusion that lowered admission standards are why IQ has dropped is suspect. Any number of factors could be causes for this (ex: the average amount of TV watched by a student may have increased over the last 40 years).
My resume got noticed at the last place I applied to because the guy who was making up the short list had already been talked to by two people who could recommend me.
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I'm skeptical of any pontifications and any claims in this area until after the iPhone application infrastructure is announced and deployed and in production.

The whole area is almost certainly subject to change.

These reports and claims remind me of the folks that once carefully scrutinized which notables were perched atop Lenin's Tomb for the big Moscow parades, seeking to determine details of the Kremlin organizational structures based on who was at the dais.

If Apple were running those Red Square parades -- and Apple clearly being quite good at marketing -- they'd probably throw a few ringers up there, just to get the chattering class chattering.
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if its a gaming-based startup, i'd suggest you look at kongregate. they've really hit the social community nail on the head for gaming, imo.

(mostly. some of their things are kind of lame, but it gives you a spectrum of things to look at)
There seems to be some governing dynamic at play here. Every social news site, regardless of its initial focus, eventually converges on sex, politics, and pictures of cats.
any X feature can spark huge Y sales. I mean that's supposed to be the point of putting out these features.
Length? Shorter or longer then?
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It might not be dead. It might simply be done.

web.py is meant to be anti-framework. Adding new features probably isn't high on his list since it's not supposed to be monolithic like that. The code is stable and complete for what it was supposed to accomplish. Is there something you're looking for it to do that it doesn't (that would still be within their anti-framework scope)?
Did you run any other tests, Anthony? Or just the binary trees test?
I know tons of designers and developers who prefer a wireframe before starting to work on a web app.

Omnigraffle and Visio both have great stencils for wireframing forms, buttons, and different UI elements.
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Agreed. I have a few features in Photoshop that I use regularly, everything else I use sparingly if at all. Chances are they won't change my favorite features and the ones they add won't improve my work as a web designer.

Photoshop CS3 was a nice improvement because it was a universal binary, but I doubt i will be upgrading to CS4 when it is released.
I really appreciate the feedback (I'm the author), I definitely expected this sort of response as I was writing it.

I think I got a lot right when I set the level but having seen it in the wild there are things I would have done differently too.

Mostly I wanted people to get excited and see that they could do this right now and that there were good reasons to. I never intended to compete with Norvig, more to create something that would inspire them to want to read it.
Indeed....a group is its own worst enemy:

http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
I think your confusing the "Global Worming Model" with the symptoms of global worming. Burning fossil fuels > increase in atmospheric CO2 > Increase in average global temperature.

There is extremely good evidence that global CO2 levels are increasing and so is global temperature is the model seems to be working. However, trying to calculate the changes in weather patterns, sea level, etc from global worming is a separate debate. Finding a refined model that tells us how much of an increase we are going to see and how soon it's going to happen is based on several other assumptions. There are a wide range new ideas and a lot of research into them but there is little evidence the basic Global Warming model is wrong.

PS: The reason for the 10 year old model request is science is based on testing ideas with new data not altering the model to fit the data and assuming it’s correct.
...Isn't that what the "up" arrow is for?
Ah, you're right. No one has ever been sued for mishandling private data.
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Compelling writing often forces one to take a strong position.
I believe they've already found a likely cure: etanercept.

It seems to make all symptoms disappear within minutes - undergoing large scale testing now. Should be approved for Alzheimers within a few years.
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Some Xs have disproportionately higher impact, which makes it news.
My intention was not provide a flip one sentence Leno-type headline to a resume, I apologize if the idea is offensive. I may have been in one of 'those' moods. I do think that you must grab the hiring manager's attention in a few seconds. Unfortunately, most people tend to bury their achievements, work ethic, attitudes, etc. Put them front and center works best.
I can't wait to start using this framework.
I've cared for several grandparents as they went through the stages of the disease. In one case there was severe paranoia and distrust. In the other it was the daily unfamiliarity which was frightening to her. In the end introductions lasted only minutes. The best we can do right now is to show love and care as they go through these trials. All I can say is to be strong, and remember the good times when life wears thin.
Kongregate has a great community. The only difference is theirs is more of a developer community than a casual gaming one. How did they begin to grow their users? Is viral marketing and press releases enough? Thanks for all your help!
"I DO give out keys to my house to a number of people that I trust."

Your house keys are less dangerous than your email password. As jeff points out, with your email password someone can probably take control of all of your web credentials. It's as if you have them your house keys, and then they use those to take control of your snail mail, and then they apply for new credit cards in your name, and order a new set of car keys, and so on.

And of course, we are not talking about giving your house keys to a friend staying with you. We are talking about giving your house keys to the bartender because he says he can help you invite all your friends to have a drink with you.
That is his opinion, and I doubt it would stop someone from buying the product. Mr Arrington bashed Ning on of his first reviews and said it was headed it to the Deadpool. Well, 560M dollars later, Ning prove that Mr Arrington opinion is just that. He can help you with a lot more traffic than your servers can handle, but he won't stop people from hitting BUY if they like it enough.
I really shouldn't have to. That doesn't look like it would do much anyway. The site has no structure, the logo is stupid, and the default user icons are ugly.

More importantly though, I'm not into the functionality it offers.
I've used every version of Photoshop since 2.5 (thats back in the day before layers existed!), and I've consistently been more happy with each version that comes out.

Often, it's very simple subtle things that improve my workflow, like layer folders or improved styles or non-destructive layers.
You totally missed the point. The functionality it can absorb is useless, it doesn't matter who absorbs it.
The real reason for the Obama win is that he leveraged a small competition (Iowa) and seeded and worked hard on an initial user group (his initial supporters, equivalent to a beta group of a product), and with that, he created an explosive first splash, which got all the media talking about him (equivalent to your killa product getting splashed accross techcrunch, wired, etc).

And after that, he followed up and built a huge social network around the brand. He concentrated on brand loyalty, creating a unique and quirky brand that made his users feel cool, and making sure the donation (payment) method was very simple to use.

And he used newletters very effectively. What Obama did was a perfect example of a seamless product launch and perfect sales and post sales service.

The key was his core group of motivated users and his excellent organisation of them,
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"and his excellent organisation of them"

I think people often underestimate his leadership skills. Campaigns are historically pretty messy affairs. His campaign organization was extremely well run-probably one of the cleanest and most efficient in recent history.
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AKA. Correlation != Causation.
Last I heard (a few months ago maybe?) there had only really been tried/injected into one fellow who did have that kind of result. Has their been some larger scale trials that make this promising case sound like a likely cure?
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True iff America is an IQ meritocracy, and college is an IQ measuring institution.
Why does that sound suspicious? The name isn't out of the ordinary in Germany.
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Pretty obviously he did not. As it says in the article, he ran just this test, and while you can't infer too much from a single test, it certainly sets the stage for the upcoming shootout.
I wouldn't exactly qualify Ning's funding as egg on Arrington's face.
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In a similar vein:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html

(point 4)
It's still common to give people the same names as Nazi leaders?
Drinking coffee and eating curry are great for the brain, hell on the bowels! ;)
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How insightful. Atwood states the obvious yet again.
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I think you have a valid point. The reason I partially disagree with it is that attitude plays a part here. 37signals comes off as though they think they need to tell people how to live; they love being up in your grill. The contents of their posts are often reasoned well enough, but their attitude says "you suck; let us tell you how to suck less."
Neither would I, however he offered other reasons for changing his opinion on the value and prospects of Ning well before their recent funding round.

Example: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/26/ning-in-full/
That's a pretty poor argument to support your thesis. There are plenty better ones out there, some of them straight from Arrington's mouth, i.e. he's basically said the key to techcrunch's success is that they don't have to go through the whole verification process that other media outlets do - in other words - take everything he says with a grain of salt.
Agreed. My point is just that 37signals doesn't have to go as far as they do. A somewhat milder position would aid their message.
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Just to nitpick: Valuation != $$$. The amount of money Ning raised in its last round ($60 M) is big enough.
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No. The up arrow is meant to indicate the quality of the post's content, whether or not you agree with it.
Because you completely missed the point. It doesn't matter why Yelp keeps that "feature". It's irrelevant, because his position is that there is no situation where giving a login and password of any sort, but especially e-mail, makes any sense at all.

You said that Atwood should have spent time thinking instead of just ranting, but then you kind of did the same thing....

And that's not to mention giving the "they're a company, anything goes" and "it was the only way back then" excuses; those are meaningless.
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I deployed a low-volume production service on webpy a couple of years ago, and haven't had to pay more than cursory attention to logs and patches since then. That's fine with me, especially compared to, I dunno, Rails or PHP, where you pretty much have to apply some critical security patch every 60 days, or upgrade to handle the latest RESTfulEncryptedAgileCookieStoreAjaxWidget API.
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The direction I've received from various employment consultants is to keep everything on a single page if possible. Two pages at the absolute maximum.
The mean IQ of college grads started out as higher than the mean IQ of the overall population. As you add more people from the overall population, you would expect the college grad mean IQ to get closer to the overall population mean IQ.
I used an early version of this to make my slides for startup school.
What! I was tricked into upvoting this story around the 8th paragraph before I realized that this is nothing but a commercial for a fresh-from-print book. I expected that it was an article discussing the Kamasutra itself.

Call it what you will, but a book review that disguises itself as a genuine news story is dishonest, and I find it very annoying.
To be fair, you should probably take everything anybody says with a grain of salt.
Agreed, but ultimately it is very difficult to educate people. Until something bad happens to them, most people will not learn.
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Ask YC: Would you commute with strangers to save gas/time?
We built ride4all.com to locate people with similar commutes as you. But we don't yet have a strong sense whether there would be a lot of people who would use it. Btw, it's hosted on Google App Engine.
Probably super valuable for receptionists and paralegals.

For developers though, the only purpose of a resume is to get an interview. Competant developers are rare. Everyone with a decent resume that is keyword-compliant is getting interviewed.

If you read this board, your resume probably doesn't need to waste time "selling". Just write what you've done and what you know. Save the selling for the phone screen.
What if CS4 is GPU-accelerated and offers the same (or more) performance as the jump to universal binary? Would that be an incentive to buy the upgrade?

I'm curious about how slow people feel Photoshop is; it works really quickly for me doing web-based stuff at 1 or 2 megapixels. Does it slow down working with 90 megapixel 300dpi images?
I wouldn't say pretty obviously. He never said he just ran this test, he said that this is the result from just one test.

I'm just curious if this is a cherry-picked result or truly the only test he ran.

Cherry-picked or not, the results are very impressive.

Edit:

After reading again he states he chose this specific test "because it’s the first test" (from the Computer Language Benchmarks Game) does make more sense to me. It just seemed like an odd choice to use for a sole test.
Again, I think the question continues to be: is MagLev really Ruby?
> or "think before your act" (I'm sure there's an elegant quote/prophrase for this in English. Anyone know?)

"Look before you leap" comes to mind.
obv if a bigger percentage of the population goes to college they wont be as smart on average.
i mean this is article is a bit ridiculous in the sense that is trying to state this as something alarming or weird and not something obvious.

secondly i dont think intelligence matter THAT much, obv it matters but other skills matters too.

more people are graduating because we need to, not letting people in wouldnt make things better.
I really like the interface and way it works. Well done!
> He thinks we inefficiently overeducate.

Maybe from a purely economic perspective, but in any society in which people elect their leaders, every citizen ought to have a firm grounding in civics, numeracy, critical thinking, history, and science.
I think the resume headline (from GL Hoffman) is a fabulous idea because, as a former corporate recruiter I had to read thousands of resume. A headline a resume would certainly get my attention and get me to read with greater attention.

Resume headlines can certainly apply to highly technical careers as well.

The reason the headline works is because corporate recruiters are famous for screening out exceptional engineers simply because the engineer did not have enough of the right buzzwords in their resume, hence the hiring manager never gets to see the exceptional candidate.
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I too have been told this from several leading firms.

Your resume is an invitation to interview. It should be used like an advert, short and to the point and highlighting your best features.

My 1-page resume always impresses people much more than my 2-page resume.
Damn impressive work with Javascript, guys!

We are rapidly getting to the point where it's almost difficult to tell at a glance if you are using a web-based app or a client-based app.
It is sad that these things need to be said.
I can't stand the new, delusional Arrington, but I agreed with every point in this particular article. I have the same digital camera, and had a flip. The canon is great, and super easy for video. It plays nice with both Macs and PCs and... also takes great still shots. The flip sucks balls in comparison, for all the reasons MA states.
Most interesting stat of the article: "people will buy about 990 million other phones this year, none of which can run iPhone apps."
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While I am generally very skeptical of half-assed reimplementations of existing tools with a stamp "now in the browser!!!", 280 was probably the first case when I said to myself "this is damn nice!"

Very well done. So much different from the typical crappy and laggy "online app" experience I've seen before.

And THANK YOU!!! for not using Flash.
Seriously.

If you know someone in the company, skip H.R. and send your resume directly.
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This is typical Arrington:

So I haven’t actually tried out the new Flip Mino. But I’ve spoken with people who have, and I used the Flip Ultra, which launched late last year, for a while before abandoning it. And I just can’t figure out why people like this thing.

So you're reviewing something you've never used? That's credible.

I assume the people he's "spoken with" here are the same people he's spoken with about twitter being slow because of Rails. I'm starting to think that Arrington has a lot of "imaginary friends."
Allow me to put my hater pants on for a minute:

Is every post to SVN gonna end up on the front page of HN? I don't subscribe to SVN or TechCrunch because I rely on the HN community to expose me to only the best submissions to those blogs. Lately, my filter has been failing :(

Also, a direct link to nytimes where the actual visualizer resides (and not just a lame screen grab of it) would be more apropos imo.

Ok, hater pants off. This visualizer is neat =)
I would use it. Nice implementation too. Maybe you could let people set start and end points using clicks on the Google map?
I don't know if he's conscious of it, but Gladwell is parroting Socrates, right down to the impossibility of transmitting "true knowledge". Circular arguments anchored by a mystery. As a philosophy it has no practical purpose except to waste people's time while appearing sage.
It's true. If someone asked me for Jeff Atwood's email password, I wouldn't mind at all.
A JavaScript application is a client-based app. The only difference is that you go to a url that loads your client app, versus having it already installed on your system.
Quantum mechanics makes me think we live in a computer simulation and at the lowest level (where the most calculations are needed), the world is implemented using a lazy-evaluation scheme to minimize processor usage.
Pretty fun, but pretty fluffy, too.

I have fond memories of working right next to the Harvard CRCT (Center for Research in Computing Technologies, whose building has been replaced by the Gates/Ballmer "cheese wedge") IMP late at night, and having someone from BBN call the phone on the side of the big rack, asking anyone around to reboot it. Gee, 56Kb/sec leased lines! Seems amazing, but it was fast at the time of 150/300 baud modems.
It may make no sense to you, to me or to any tech-savvy user. But it does make sense to those who use the damn feature. No one is forced to use that. If they are using it, it's because they think it might benefit them in some way.

The same goes for websites that do such thing. They know that some users might be annoyed by such "feature", but the amount of new users that will be exposed is much higher, so they keep doing it.

What I find hard to believe is that the ones that complain about these kinds of mechanisms don't understand that themselves are not part of the target of said mechanism. Instead of simply ignoring it, they feel "victims" of it.

And I'd like to know where I said "anything goes". If that was the case, I would say that scammers are right to do what they do because they never forced the users to give sensitive data. What I did say is that, if a webservice wanted to provide a way for the user to (semi-)automatically invite people in his contact list, the only way to do that required email and the password.

Better now?
Looked like an interesting article, but the phone rang so I never read it.
The sad part is Apple has the ability to refuse any application. I've seen the Loopt iPhone app which makes me wonder if Apple is going to allow 300 other obvious "broadcast your location now!" applications.

iPhone: nice platform, but still completely locked down for mass consumption.
May work for blue collar jobs. Certainly not for any 60k plus jobs. The idea sounds second only to making videos for getting hired.
It's a pretty big difference though from downloaded desktop software.
It doesn't respond to http://ride4all.com (or didn't... now it did... now it's just slow...)

Sadly, being in the US, I would plaster it with some kind of legal disclaimer about not taking responsibility for anything untoward happening. And maybe some plain English safety tips, as security is certainly in many people's minds.
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"He (Ballmer) restructured the company... ...and elevated people with general management experience into positions previously held by technology-focused executives."

Bam! And it's all downhill from there...
as much as i like the idea, i'd much rather find someone to ride with on my own, in person, from my own social circle. that removes the reliability and trust issues.
It's your choice to read their blog. The fact that you take their arguments seriously means that they're probably on to something.
With my house key, they can get to my email, so email permissions are narrower than house permissions. Someone with access to my house can definitely cause more trouble than someone who only has access to my email. It's not just friends either btw, I also give house keys to the cleaners, etc.

If your email is so super secret, then you probably shouldn't trust Yahoo or Microsoft with it either, btw. I'm not saying that there aren't security issues, but you need some perspective here. Facebook is just as secure as Yahoo, so letting them use your Yahoo password really isn't that big of a deal.
I don't think 37signals is necessarily a special case - there are plenty of customer oriented websites out there that have a look and feel, and don't require client buy-in.