skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the easy math has been done. People have been working on Mathematics for a long, long time. To "make meaningful and significant contributions to the field" is one of the hardest intellectual tasks a person can do. It is probably impossible for someone at a midpoint in their lives to suddenly develop an interest in math and make a meaningful contribution. Even people who have been immersed in Mathematics their whole lives often cease to make major contributions in middle age.

You do have to be inherently gifted to be a good Mathematician. You even have to be really smart to be a mediocre one. This is hard stuff, the Olympic Marathon of intellectual pursuits. Do you have to be gifted to run in an Olympic Marathon? Someone that was merely determined might be able to qualify for it, but the ones that win are definitely genetic freaks.

You can certainly enjoy math without being a super-genious. If someone were dogged and creative enough and focused on a new enough subfield, they might even be able to contribute a little, provided they've kept their analytical facilities sharp in a field like Physics or Engineering. But then again, anytime a new field opens up there's hundreds of PHD students across the world that jump into it looking for a new bit of math to write their thesis on. It gets fleshed out pretty quick, and the low hanging fruits are the first to go, and the people picking the fruits are PHD math candidates.

Please note that this is just my opinion from being around Mathematicians. I'm not a Mathematician myself, but I was around them when I got an undergraduate degree in Mathematics. That degree taught me that Math was really hard and I would probably have a more significant impact on the world if I pursued something else.
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Yeah, it's not a test of "does this candidate really want to work here". It's an attempt to establish a subservient relationship right off the bat.

There was another article on HN that I don't have a reference to offhand but it was something like, hiring an employee at a small company isn't like buying services from a supplier, it's like inviting someone to be a member of a community.
No-one can sustain crunch time indefinitely.
It is a very Western idea that people are poor because they don't have fast enough Internet.
>I am highly turned off by the idea that we can't "become smart" after an early age. I feel like I "got smart" after I started playing go, I feel like I "got smart" after I learned category theory.

The percentage of the population that can participate in the two activities you mentioned is probably less than 1%. You probably were smart at an early age.
Which should be 13.6% of total ad spend according the study. Anyway, is it that much?
Even if it is not a "major" bug, why has it taken more than a year to fix? Unless 37signals does not consider it to be significant?
Exactly. What do you need money for? Just get users to use the damn thing. Why are you so eager to give away a piece of your company?

I'm seriously flabbergasted at the whole "I need angel/VC money" mentality. You don't need money, you need users and revenues. If you need money from someone else, that might be because you're burning cash and need a slightly longer runway. That's a decent reason to go fishing for investments. But it's definitely not a necessary step in any business.

Also, angel investors have no heart. They have wallets. The only people who will invest in you because of their heart are your friends and family.
All languages and their libraries have vulnerabilities, many not yet discovered.

Instead of living in perpetual fear of being hacked, I'm out there doing what is more important to me: creating great web applications that users want to use, in a language I love using.
I just read 'A Mathematician's Apology' where Hardy touches on this at one point. If you want to consider someone's opinion on your question (besides cperciva), consider Hardy's (because he was a great mathematican and a brutally honest person). Briefly, Hardy thought the ability to make deep contributions to mathematics erodes after middle age. He cites Euler, Abel, Ramanujan, et al. Hardy mentions Gauss who was old (55, I think) when he made a major contribution but, Hardy notes, the idea for it had germinated while Gauss was young. I personally think Nature plays a bigger part than nurture when it comes to mathematical ability (of the rarer kind). Ramanujan is a classic example. He had pretty much no nurture. Way before anyone knew or cared, he was producing stunning mathematical insights.
The last couple of paragraphs are new, and are worth reading even if you read the original. Brought a smile to my face.
The classic book "Flatland" is a great read for anyone trying to wrap their mind around more than 3 dimensions. There was a sequel to the book written much later by another author, it was called "Flatterland" and I believe it touched on fractal and fractional dimensions and the like. However, I can't say how good it was because I didn't get through it.

Anyways, go read "Flatland" if you haven't had your mind blown this month.
here are some links:

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/
http://ajaxian.com/archives/so-you-want-to-write-javascript-...

video lectures:
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2007/05/programming-vi...
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-javascript-programming...

cheat sheets:
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2007/06/27/dom-javascript-cheat-s...
http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/95/javascriptajax-cheat-shee...

combined resources:
http://ajaxian.com/archives/lets-compile-a-list-of-ajax-dom-...
http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/quality-ajax-resou...
http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/weblog/comments/learning...
http://fresherswisdom.wisdomplug.com/free-tutorials-collecti...
http://www.jasonbartholme.com/70-javascript-resources-for-ev...

development tools:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-jstools/?S_...
I would be if I were smart enough.
On a related subject, the video “Not Knot” is quite fascinating.

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGLPbSMxSUM

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKwAS5omW_w

It describes the space created by a certain type of knot, or rather the space that is created outside of it (“not knot”.)
Yeah, but his answer is in line with what's known about cognitive development.
Your numbers are misleading since they only count wiretaps with warrants, and one wiretap in America averages several thousand intercepted communications. 'Presidential Secrecy and the Law' (Pallitto and Weaver) says that by conservative estimates ~3 million communications are tapped per year.

And that's only wire taps with warrants. The EFF estimates that several billion more communications were illegally tapped with the whole ATT/NSA debacle.

Not to mention they gave the government unfettered and illegal access to their 'Hawkeye' (records of all phone calls in the last 7 years) and 'Aurora' (stores thousands of terabytes of 'interesting' IP packets from the last 5 years) databases.
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What makes this particular distro "the perfect desktop"??
Dimension is a cardinality of a base.
must. have. more. coffee.

My brain is not ready for sponge-dimensions this early.

This page seems like an answer, but I'm not sure what the question is -- if it is "What's a dimension?" then I didn't get an answer.

Fun stuff though. The Flatland book looks like a keeper.
You're right, of course, that a mathematician is not the same thing as a cognitive scientist; but it's not completely crazy to ask me such a question. People are naturally interested in topics which touch on them directly -- this happens very frequently in medicine, where individuals having a particular disease frequently know far more about the disease than a general medical practitioner (but less than a specialist studying that disease, of course) -- so it's not unreasonable to think that a randomly selected genius is likely to have spent more time learning about the nature of genius than a random non-genius.
i think the root of all problems/evil in africa comes from lack of (bad.. very bad!) leaders. there's mugabe on one extreme and many other mini-mugabes who are "sly" enough to go unnoticed (they are not sly or clever or whatever but just downright stupid!), and worst of all, potentially "good" leaders will simply never get to lead because of the long queue of bad leaders waiting to get to the top and make themselves rich - and who , believe me , are ready to do anything to make sure that the "good" ones never lead - including murder.
kenyan example - yet its not the worst
1. MPs in kenya , one of the poorest countries in the world, take home AT LEAST 8000$ per month (it must be 10000$ by now) , much more than most rich countries. they vote for these salaries and block the parliament activities (hold hostage) if they dont get the amount they wanted - after all they are the law makers !.
2. Before elections, several women who wanted to become MPs we're beaten , raped etc.. in order to scare them.
3. Now , after elections, with the hard times and especially after a near civil war situation ( also because of "kenyan leaders greed for power" - that's another long story !) ,
MP revenue taxation was proposed ( i had forgotten to mention they are not taxed ) - they we're obviously up in arms against it and vowed it would never happen - even if they earn 1000 times more than the average kenyan, who pays taxes.
i believe african countries have their share of talent ( intellectuals, artists, good leaders .. all what you want) only that they never (and might never) get to exercise it.
many africans know this so they simply have no faith in govt and live like they dont have them - which is more or less true, this means living in some very chaotic societies where the strong survive and the rest are left to try and survive.
let me cut it for now but if you can hack the bad leaders and replace them with good ones - maybe that might just be the hack of the century :)
imo modern math requires years of study to reach the border of known.

You're right -- and modern mathematics requires more study than a field like computer science, simply because computer science as a field hasn't had enough time to accumulate very much content. (This is one of the ideas I mentioned as floating around but not fully crystallized earlier.)

But this doesn't contradict what I was saying: My point was not about doing original research, but merely about crossing the threshold to being recognized as a prodigy. A 13 year old attending university is certainly noticed -- but that doesn't mean he's doing original research (I didn't until I was 15).
* I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't want live the life of Erdos...*

Come on... travelling the world and couch-surfing for years on end, while having no financial concerns at all? I think most people would love to live that life.
See this is what I like about this community, I was going to ask the very same thing. Thanks, much appreciated.
"Unless 37signals does not consider it to be significant?"

That's the real disconnect here. It isn't that responding to secuity vulnerabilities needs a unique process, it's that the author considers this issue significant and 37Signals does not.
I am highly turned off by the idea that we can't "become smart" after an early age.

I find this notion rather peculiar. Do people get "highly turned off" that they can't "get tall"? I've known for my entire life that I could never become a professional athlete -- I simply don't have the physique.

What is it about intelligence which makes people get so much more upset than they get about physical attributes?
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The original is better--the order of the story and the emotion both work better. Probably has to do with trying to dumb down, sound more professional, and remove the swearing for Inc readers. Joel's Inc Magazine columns compared to his blog writing have pretty much convinced me not to subscribe to Inc..
Actually this isn't about what it's like to work for Bill Gates, it's about Joel Spolsky and reflected glory.
"When i graduated from college, in 1991"

Where's copyediting gone to?
Why can’t website forms be more intelligent?
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I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch
I'd have to agree with the first comment on the post: I don't think the confusion was real, he was just putting himself in the position of a user.

However, I think there is a difference between Jobs and Gates that this illustrates: Jobs would do his best not to allow that kind of thing to ship.
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This isn't necessarily true, as noted in the Joel's tale: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228298

Bill gates was very involved with the code and structure of Microsoft's early software and this article basing its judgement of the two people on one email from Gates isn't exactly solid evidence that Gates was necessarily like that in person.
Clients and Creative Control
It’s happened to us all at one point. You toil over the design of your newest website project, cross all your t’s and dot all your i’s and finally complete that mockup for submission to the client. The client is overjoyed! You hit it right on! Oh but wait, he’d like a small change. He has this cute little animated gif of a butterfly that he thinks would look perfect right next to his horizontal menu. Oh and that nice neutral color you chose, he wants it bright yellow.
Yeah, it was just a boring typo. Sorry about that!
Why was I expecting a discussion involving Star Schemas and Fact tables?
Apparently they consider XSS a feature. That's a first!
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15? wow! may i look at your papers?
Disneyland Transit Travel Nightmares - Associated Content
Visit the South Rim in the Grand Canyon - Associated Content
I would start with the Rhino book

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan...
How to write a business plan
Newly formed AlphaLab (YC Clone?) nurtures technology startups
The Tech Generalist Dilemma - Are You a New or a True Generalist?
Sorry, the Mouse is Not Dead
thanks for the link. It looks indeed cool. I am going to add it to my feed subscriptions.
Yeah, as in someone link us up the site ;-)
I don't know what the "experts" say, but I've always run my business with a principle that almost no one else agrees with, "Almost anyone can learn almost anything".

I constantly witness failures in business because someone said, "It can't be done," or "He can't do that," or "She'll never be able to do that."

I love proving them wrong. I'm rarely disappointed.

Given the right resources, the opportunity, and most of all, genuine encouragement and support, it's amazing what the human brain, at any age, can accomplish. Sometimes, all it takes to discover it is a little more faith in another than in onesself.
Education in America to Undergo Sea Change in 2009 - Associated Content
Legal, British P2P 'by end of year'
Hypermiling: The Physics Behind Hypermiling Your Vehicle - Associated Content
Why do browsers still not have file upload progress meters?
Google App Engine performance - Part 2
My publications are at http://www.daemonology.net/papers/, but this doesn't include the work I did when I was 15 -- that was a novel algorithm for computing polynomial GCDs over algebraic number fields, which I never published due to unresolved loose ends involving high-degree fields (professors encouraged me to publish it anyway -- but I didn't want to published something "unfinished").

It turns out that those "loose ends" are rather mixed up with the problem of integer factorization, which might be why I couldn't manage to tie them up. :-)
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I think you're being presumptuous. I'm not saying that I'm "turned off" by the -fact- that I can't get tall(1). I'm saying that this is not a -fact- at all. Even if it -is- a fact, it certainly is much more uncertain/open for debate than the question of whether you can get tall at a late age. I'm saying that the fact that you -claim it is a fact- is what turns me off. Perhaps I was slightly imprecise. I should have said "I am highly turned off by assertions to the effect that we can't become smart after an early age." This turns me off because belief/assertion creates cultural structure, and cultural structure changes the world. This point is too complex to go into here, sorry.

My claim is even slightly deeper/more provocative than that - I don't think that efforts by a lot of academics (including a lot of my friends) to propagate an idea of "general intelligence" which solidifies at a young age are entirely benign. I think that they are largely founded in worry and attempts to create an elite academic class. Once you're in, you're in (since getting in means that you have a "good" brain which is not really subject to change). It's self-reinforcing and (in my experience) always based in self-doubt.

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As an aside, the idea that "people get so much more upset" about the intellectual than the physical is completely absurd. I know a ton of people (girls and guys) who freak out constantly about their appearance. I know like 3 guys (including myself) who are the least bit worried about our intellects. Admittedly, most of my friends are academics, but my interactions with people outside this sphere indicate that the trend is not peculiar to my social group (and is probably even more physical-attribute oriented, in general). Seriously, I can't believe that you wrote this. This isn't meant to be mean or like ad hominem - but seriously? Do you actually believe what you wrote? Do you know anyone who isn't an academic?

To answer what I think you might have meant (namely: why do _I_ get much more freaked out about my intelligence than my physical attributes - which is also presumptuous because you have -no- idea how much I care about my physical attributes) I would like to observe that in modern western society "we are our minds." Your mind is essentially the limit of your capabilities in the sort of world I'm sure both you and I live in (the quote unquote information world). The mind is connected with the ability to create beauty (art), the ability to connect with other human beings (sex), the ability to experience spirituality (love), etc. In the academic world, at least, our physical bodies are a burden. They wear out. They get cancer. They die.

Did you seriously ask this? Were you being rhetorical? I can't tell. I don't mean to be mean, but sheesh.

(1) and I accuse you of attempting to employ an underhanding rhetorical trick in making this implicit comparison, I might add.
" if you don’t write code, aren’t a finance expert, or don’t do sales, you are probably in the generalist pool"

The attitude that "I don't know how to do anything useful so I should be in charge" is a major problem throughout the tech industry.
“You ended that sentence with a preposition…Bastard!”

-Richard Dean Anderson (as Jack O'Niell)
You're justifying a hypothesis circularly.

I was somewhat gifted at an early age, but I consider my intellectual growth over the past 5 years (17-22) to vastly outstrip my growth before that.
月经贴。
Spolsky is one of the best tech essayists alive. If he wants to graduate from college, in 1991, I'd let him.
QuirksMode offers a lot of help, especially on tricky cross browser issues.
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html
Smart Enough Not To Build This Website
General computer hardware :
http://www.behardware.com

These are good ressources about embbeded systems and computer architectures:

http://www.embedded.com

http://www.ganssle.com

http://www.professorandpat.org ( This one is more oriented for children learning so it's very easy to understand )
Images: Bill Gates' words of wisdom
I would think that there would be some initial fixed costs that you wouldn't have to repeat on your second time around. Also, it would provide valuable insight into some aspects of your company you haven't thought about (valuation).

Does anyone have evidence that costs diminish in this example?
It just goes along with the style of faceparty's copy.
from the comments:

The plaintext passwords are bad enough, but I think the biggest WTF here is that they give you the "Sorry, we don't recognize that email address." error if you enter an address not in their database.

I hit it about 20 times and it doesn't lock you out or add a delay. It would be trivial to write something to datamine valid addresses. Seems like a valuable mailing list to build!

Now that's a criminal mind :)
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ummm, i believe our sun is halfway through it's 9 odd billion year lifecycle: this article says it was raining on mars 6 billion years ago? 1.5B years earlier than our planet's existence? small typo you might say but still a glaring error.
Hey Vinz giving it a look...
I am actually a hardware/electronics guy. I am working on these stuff day in and day out, so just thought up to pry open the latest gadgets to see whats going inside.And thanks for the reco
The vast majority of web sites have this privacy/security flaw in their password recovery systems: they respond by saying if they have the email address or not in the database, which means, anyone can check out if you are a member of a service or not by trying out your email.
I hate to say it, but storing users' passwords in plaintext in your internal db/filesystem isn't that bad ... (relative to a lot of other snafus we've seen).

I'll of course grant that it is a far from ideal state of affairs and should be fixed. But, I think we can pretty safely assume that if an attacker has unfettered access to your server, you have bigger things to worry about.
I'm not sure that your experience of feeling smarter contradicts cperciva's point about intelligence being determined early in life. I can see that there could be a difference between intelligence as some kind of innate capacity and how that capacity is applied to various tasks.

You can certainly learn more stuff and so be able to do more difficult things, but your ability to learn and apply knowledge may not be changing.