skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original intent of the IQ test, as stated by the inventor of it:

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual
capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to
know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not
attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we
leave unanswered the question of whether this
retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall
limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard
to his present mental state.

— Alfred Binet

*Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon (1873-1961, French
psychologist) 'New Methods for the Diagnosis of the
Intellectual Level of Subnormals' (1905), in The
Development of Intelligence in Children, trans.
Elizabeth Kite (1916), 37.*

That attractive people are "more likely to be normal than abnormal" isn't a huge surprise, and yet isn't hugely significant. Especially when those attractive "intelligent" people do some very retarded things with their lives.
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I was going to say just get up and leave, until I saw that you had dependents.

If you leave and the pain of going it alone is more than you experienced at your 9-5, and you aren't feeling fulfilled, then you have gained a very valuable bit of insight. Same deal if you have the time of your life.

Only way to know is to just do it.

But as you have kids-- its not about you as much anymore.

Get smarter about your job, become indispensable, hold your nose and kiss up without shame, build your cushion, then jet.

You could also spend the time you have working on the idea and crafting a (tested) vision, then outsource the actual creation of the product with funds from your 9-5.
The original napkin business plan for Groupon/The Point
The best kind of quote- entertaining and instructive.
I even have a CD of Beethoven's Ninth which I've never actually listened to because the audio equipment I have can't do it justice.

My advice: Spend $50-100 on a good pair of headphones, and you'll find more justice there than in hi-fi setups costing thousands of dollars.
Wow. I don't have a PS3, but this news is gigantic! I hope this is a real trend.

This would mean you can continue your game while travelling.

Microsoft is in a position to do this sort of thing easily with Live, but they don't, and they didn't.
Pepsi is giving away lots of money for beneficial ideas
Could someone explain to me briefly the method with which a token would be used, either in GET or POST?
Facebook isn't popular in China, apparently.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002831
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Yes, it would make a great toy / embedded device.

However, as a phone I don't see how less than a back button and a home button is sufficient. It's a lot like the mouse debate. I need at least a couple hardware buttons.
Look, I know it's gauche to admit that you laughed at something on the internet, but the "modal dialogue" one got me fair and square. I LOL'd, Hacker News.

I LOL'd.
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Jebus H. I was trying to make a general point, not run a statistical survey.
Absolutely, I only get max three hours to work on my side projects in a day and there is no way I can increase that time span without affecting my day job. It gets really hard to balance both along with family. I guess once you are stuck in this cycle chances of starting a successful business become slim.
We should chalk it up to Facebook being blocked in China.
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to be honest I am fairly happy about the complete abuse of the html5 term, its a marketing term and people are beginning to get that.

html isnt developed like software and it doesnt have point releases, html4 / xhtml mean absolutely nothing more than a specification that browser developers are suggested to be compatible against. pretending that they are set in stone rules about how to code was just dumb. which is why html is now versionless.

hopefully this will also lead to the end of the "html5 wont be ready until 2022" meme.
Your portfolio on velocis.us looks impressive. How much do you charge your clients?
There was a time I did everything in a shell...
That is exactly what I am trying to do but it seems like building that cushion will take forever and by that time the entrepreneur in me would have long died.
Facebook lost in China and Russia because other similar products were already established (and in Russia the product is pretty much better >_>). The regions aren't actually less connected socially, or if they are you can't tell by looking at Facebook's data.
Electronic and signals warfare has an even longer history; RDF in WW1 and earlier, and of course Enigma/Colossus and the RADAR war of ww2. I wouldn't consider these unrelated to cyberwarfare.
That's just retargetting, quite common.
Well, what's wrong with your 9 to 5? You can try finding a higher paying or more fulfilling 9 to 5, if that's the problem (that's what I did).

I watched a rather regular guy launch a non-tech company in the middle of a divorce with primary custody of two very young kids. That company hit 5 million a year in just a few years after launching. Seriously. He just thought his current employer sucked and that he could do better, and he did.

Have I done anything like that? No. But my iPhone apps are making me enough money that it's like having an extra part time job. I started in August, with only a maximum of about 2 hours a night to work on them.

You need to think small. Really small. You need to actually finish those projects.
"as humans, with our puny human brains, trying to imagine what an artilect would think about is like a mouse trying to imagine what humans think about, using its puny mouse brain.... Deism I am open to, whereas I find theism ridiculous."

There's a disconnect there, and I've seen it for a long time. The reason theism is called ridiculous is that the author imagines what their millions/billions/trillions/more-times intelligent entity would do in our universe, looks out and observes this is not what is happening, then declares that there is no Theity (to coin a word). But there's a major fault in the logic, which is that one can be so confident about what that entity would do that the imagination step has any meaning. Researchers like Kurzweil who otherwise would never dream of claiming they can read the Theity's mind will, on this one point, declare that they can.

I can't prove the conclusion false any more than the next guy, but I can say this argument is fallacious.

I also remind you I'm not defending any particular Theity; consider the Riverworld scenario, for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld Perhaps the Theity only cares about the eventual creation of achilects and is indeed interested in us, but only to the extent that we eventually produce one. Maybe archilects inevitably resurrect [1] their creator races and the pain and suffering to get to this point is but a passing dream, and perhaps that pain and suffering itself has further impacts on the ultimate form of the archilect in some important way (a being with no concept of the perils of "evil", for lack of a better word, should probably not be trusted to build Utopia). Perhaps there's a theity that is interested in silicon-based life and doesn't care about us, but still cares about other individuals in exactly the way that Kurzweil declares impossible. Any number of possible scenarios. My point is simply that you do not have exceptional insight into these being's minds on this particular point; you are uniformly ignorant about them.

I really don't know what the truth is, even as I've put my markers down, but I am increasingly sure that it is weirder than any of us really can imagine. I only hope it is for the better.

[1]: Which in this context isn't mystical, either; "resurrection" is "merely" somehow obtaining a copy of the mental state of a being with sufficient detail to once again begin simulating or embodying that being again. If we're seriously talking creating universes, there's a number of possible avenues for this to take; an as-yet unknown way of reading the past state of the universe directly, simulation of the race up to that point with this level of detail (which need not be atomically accurate, just human-scale accurate), or most likely some approach we can't even imagine.
it's companies like this that make it that much harder for the rest of us to raise capital. Not that I know a lot of VCs, but the ones I do know all require a working business model before investing. How were they planning on making money on this?
alas, for every person that delete their profiles there is another 2-3 that sign up. I am not saying that is sustainable, but they are growing. This is especially true in Asia where in the last 2 years has quadrupled.
"The rise of artilects (artificial intellects, i.e., godlike massively intelligent machines with intellectual capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level) in this century makes the existence of a deity (a massively intelligent entity capable of creating a universe) seem much more plausible."

Um...where exactly are these artilects? Haven't heard of any recently. Pretty sure we would have noticed. Unless of course he's saying that they will arise in the next few decades, in which case - more of the same old gee-whiz-the-singularity wankage.
I know it's execution that matters, but it sort of disappoints me in an idealistic sense that Angry Birds got so widely accepted and liked when the concept isn't original; they just took another game and spiced it up a bit. Still a great achievement, but it makes me feel weird.
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I think that the big paradigm change is not for game consumers, of course GoW is both more expensive and has a very rewarding gameplay for almost every player.

The big paradigm change here, is for people who want to create videogames.

If I want to create games, I probably will send resumes to all big videogame companies and call it a day. But minecraft has shown me that doing indie game development is a much more rewarding path, both in terms of money and in the feeling of accomplishment.

So lots of brilliant programmers that could have ended making money for the big-budget AAA franchises will probably start making money for themselves.
To those who are doing this, I have a question. How distributed is your production environment? How is deploying the app, starting/stopping background services, etc... handled on multiple machines?
I'm a bit of an audio geek. What sets me off though is not digital compression (although I'm sure you lose some fidelity, I rarely/never notice any loss with 256kbps mp4s). What is really awful is excessive dynamic compression in modern CDs themselves - and it's far worse than digital compression. Music simply loses its punch. It can be hard to do an apples to apples comparison here, but if you compare an older album (Beatles albums come to mind) and a "remastered" version, one of the differences will typically be greater dynamic compression in the remaster.

Some resources on the topic:
http://www.turnmeup.org/
Some examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
http://mastering-media.blogspot.com/2008/09/metallica-death-...
Times New Roman headers on a design firm's site? Yikes.
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I imagine there's a chicken-and-egg phenomenon at work here - until there are a number of games with scents the gadget won't attract a large number of gamers, and until it attracts a large number of gamers there won't be incentive for a number of game developers to add scents.

If / When it works as a business, it will likely involve some kind of key relationship with a large distributor of either games or gamers. If Microsoft said 'the Kinect rocked, and the next thing we're doing is launching ScentScape' it would motivate developers; if Blizzard said 'we're adding ScentScape capability to the next WoW release' then a lot of gamers would go buy it.

Launching it independently of either channel is difficult.
>What we have here is a deliberate attempt to further blur the lines between separate technologies that have already become intertwingled in media reports.

Are they really separate technologies? Is anyone actually planning on using standards compliant HTML5 in isolation, apart from corresponding advanced Javascript and CSS3 features?
What no Favicon? or did I miss it?
I find it humorous that there is such a need to DEFINE Facebook. It's different things to different people. We really don't need one definition of what it is or a nice tidy list of the ways people use it, what the benefits are, what the drawbacks are, etc. Every time I read about somebody complaining about Facebook, I usually just end up thinking "I don't use it (exactly) that way, so this doesn't (completely) apply to me."

I have a lot of friends that I don't see more than once every year or two, but I will be close to them until the day I die. I like seeing their status updates, their vacation photos, their kids, etc. Facebook makes our connection stronger, not weaker. It doesn't replace the need to see them and talk to them; it makes those infrequent visits/conversations better when they happen because it feels like we haven't really been out of touch for so long.
or quietly build an alternative social network with the values we want.

There are quite a few of us doing just that. Here's my contribution:

http://opensource.appleseedproject.org
Weird. Gruber's page sounds like www.apple.com/pr , or like Apple's Blog.

Maybe he only owns options? :D (j/k)
http://urpc.dyndns.org/ocamlinterpreter

In german though.
If you have enough computing power to do it, so do the crackers (but usually even moreso)
That is correct, except that it puts unnecessary emphasis on perception relativism. We use mathematics especially extensively in areas where our perception is limited (particle physics, climate modeling etc.) In other words, we use mathematics to "augment" and to "test" our perception so as to prevent any kind of perceptual illusions misguiding us in our observation.
Logo's available in SVG - a reminder that I have no idea how to use SVG.
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That's a really bad attitude to have.

Does your grocery store pay its suppliers, or does it merely skim and give the farmers what's left over?

If Apple provided no value in the equation you might have a stronger case, but as it is they handle an awful lot, from payment processing to marketing to distribution.

Apple is providing you an audience that's ready to buy, that has cash in hand, and all you have to do is bang out an app they'll hit the "Buy Now" button for. Sounds to me like developers are the ones doing the skimming, at least by your definition.
My feature wish: I hope for ANSI colors. Oooh, I want pretty colors enabled by default.
Find a solid few people to work with and split the load toward a greater goal. When one of you isn't working on your project, another one will be. Go to meetups and start networking every way possible. With such little time, you'll need resources and catalysts in the form of smart, passionate people. These are hard to find, but they are out there. Most importantly _do not_ get discouraged. It might take a little longer, but dreams are too important to let go, and you'll be 90 years old thinking "What if?".
HTML5 Badges: The E-Peen of 2011.
I do have a really good job that pays the bill and leave enough money to lead a happy life with my family. But this is not what any entrepreneur would want. I want to start a tech company of my own that would be the ticket to my financial freedom. I myself have created two Iphone apps and two facebook apps, but to start something meaningful and more rewarding would definitely take a lot more effort which a day job does not allow. It seems like I am an entrepreneur that has to work with one hand as the other hand is ties down in other responsibilities and formalities. Can I really create the next PayPal in given circumstances, I doubt it but I can keep on trying till one day I realize it would have been better if I wouldn't have tried as I should have realized that success was impossible for me.
This is less about kick backs, more about the phenomenal cost of setting up new fabs.

Creating a new manufacturing industry is very expensive.
What a complicated explanation of a rather simple concept.
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Generally, whether or not the science that goes into a newspaper article is good the science that comes out is bad. "No feedstock" is very different from "no nutrients" but the way the article was written makes me think that the reporter didn't know or didn't care about that distinction. So it might very well be a hoax, but we really can't take the article as any sort of evidence.
I'm surprised no one has pointed out how subjective the term "beauty" is. How, exactly, did they measure this?

Or, is it just possible that smart really is sexy? :)
Exactly our point. If you clearly know that search traffic works for you, invest most resources there. However if you are a resource constrained startup building a community (like quora for example) you may wanna keep SEO as your second or third priority. Your number one priority, atleast early on should be to make sure people are interacting on your site.
It's a great model the game play itself was already a well-proven concept.

http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
There are dozens of these extremely popular flash trebuchet games.

I think Angry Birds nailed the promotional loop part -- the game play itself is really similar to existing popular games.
Except beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I like women with nice boobs / ass and don't mind them having a couple of pounds extra; but the media / teens today prefer anorexics. I also know a couple of women that prefer skinny / waxed males (metrosexuals), although the stereotype for attractive males has included for centuries muscles and a reasonable amount of body hair.
It's interesting, because my interest and understanding of social network is that it's precisely for managing my distant relationships. People I went to high school with, people I worked with 5 years ago, my second cousins, people I somewhat know who I may need to contact at some point.

People I'm close to, "the people I love", I've never had a problem keeping in touch with them. I have their number in my phone, I have their email address, I see them regularly, I know what they're up to, and how to contact them. That's never been a problem, and social networking hasn't really changed that for me.
"Personally, I think if science could come to the conclusion that there is/was a deity that created the universe, then that would be wonderful for science. It would open up a vast new arena for science to play in."

No, it would not. If science could "play in that arena," science will have solved the halting problem.

And have defined an algorithm for determining any possible busy beaver number. Which, of course, is related to the previous.
No. AI only makes deities plausible if you subscribe to a very narrow and particular Singularitarian school of thought on what AI is and where it's heading. The megaphone diplomacy of these people tends to detract from the credibility of AI research in general, by associating it with very unrealistic views and fallacious thought experiments which as far as I'm aware originate from the opinions of Terrance McKenna.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8v8mgwuubU
The logo needs more ponies and rainbows.

http://www.w3.org/html/logo/
"It is fundamentally different from the ad platform that is Google. People go to Google to find something they need, possibly ready to buy, which a good percentage of the time can in fact be solved by someone's ad. Facebook ads, on the other hand, annoy users. They yield no real value, and thus no profits. "

Err -- television ads also just serve to get in the way and annoy users, when they want to sit and relax and do something completely different from hunting-for-stuff-to-buy.

But last time I checked, most TV channels are still running ads, 50+ years on.
I'm pretty sure this would be a matter of having lots of genetically engineered microorganisms in tanks rather than in the wild. Hard to collect the oil otherwise.
If you want to stop the abuse of HTML5 you better suggest a good alternative. There's a real need for a term to describe this new wave of web standards and capabilities, HTML5 is as of yet the best we have.
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Ponzi scheme is overheated rhetoric. That refers to an investment scheme where new investors pay off old ones.

Nobody pays Facebook advertisers anything. They only pay Facebook. Its a pyramid scheme, but thats a horse of a different color.
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You don't have to be an AI researcher to give serious consideration to Kurtzweil's statement. We have already built machines that are hugely smarter than human beings, albeit in somewhat limited domains (Google search index is one big example). It is only a matte of time (and economics) before those limited domains become general enough that we will be able to say that, "yes, indeed, the computer so-and-so is generally intelligent." We humans are very good at being humans, so I think it is unfair to judge the intelligence of a machine by how similar it is to us.
> Oh my, do I have to put it even more bluntly to get the point across: These commercial whitelists are effectively extortion scams and affiliate rings.

You made a few points.

First is that nobody reaches out to get themselves whitelisted in advance. Lots of people do that and some ESPs even offer their own whitelist request forms.

Second is that none of the big ESPs look at third-party whitelists. AOL and Hotmail say they do.

Third is that even if the above is true, the impact on deliverability is minimal. I would guess you are right about that but I'd love to look at some data.

Intermediaries like SendGrid would be well within reason to be paying for such services. I don't think they have to signup their individual customers on the whitelists. They just say they are intermediaries and promise to vet their customers.

I think anyone sending low volumes of email is much better off using an intermediary. They get to use well-configured mail servers, IPs with good reputation, etc. Doing it yourself, IMHO, is not worth all the trouble compared to paying $20/month.
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My dad (58) just signed up and I got the friend request Sunday night. Right now, his friends list consist of him and some guy in his computer class, and me. But in a few days, I know I'll get a friend request from my mom and some of my aunts. I'm pretty sure this thing is still growing.
For the definition of "Shell" used by the author, isn't the title basically the same as saying "I Can Crack Your App With Just A Computer"?
TV doesn't run ads to the extreme right margin of whatever else on screen you happen to be watching. If it did, TV advertising wouldn't be worth any money, either.
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I'm afraid my situation isn't so different.

You could consider switching to contracting. If you are good, you can squeeze the same income into a shorter work week. Haven't done it myself, though.
Exactly. Something else scary that doesn't resemble a spider.
Does not work very well in Chrome, IE8, or FF. Does not allow pasting. Not really sure what it's good for except to show off an interesting hack, and the hack needs some improvement.

Ever wonder what the 200,000th Fibonacci number is? Last night with a recursive F# function I got it in FSI in just over 6 seconds. It would be cool if you could get this page to work well enough to do that.