skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what the author means is that g is a statistical necessity, and that being such, doesn't imply that it's an actual reality.

What you seem to be saying is that, in any case, g is a useful proxy for a reality that is difficult to know in detail. This doesn't contradict the author's thesis.

The question remains, does g exist beyond arithmetics, is there such a thing as "general intelligence". Maybe it's a useless question, in that we don't need to know whether g "exists": we only need to know that it works.

But there is a big difference between intelligence and thermodynamics: policies are implemented that impact the lives of millions of people based on an understanding of g that may be completely false. If g is only a statistical artifact and nothing more, then it's still useful for statisticians, but for policy makers, the underlying factors need to be identified and understood.
Qt was one of my favourite desktop development toolkits. After Nokia's involvement, the innovation curve has started to stagnate. Its not too late to save the Qt franchise.
The site's chosen because of its relative geological stability, and anyway, geology doesn't work that way. An example of a "major continental fracture" would be the Great Rift Valley, one of the few places on earth where you can watch a new divergent plate boundary being formed. It started about 65 million years ago, and has resulted in one major sea that is about 250 miles wide, and a few big lakes.

10,000 years is a blink in geologic time. Even on an active plate boundary, you might see the earth move maybe a couple hundred meters in that time period.
I'm not sure why it's OSX devs faults for inconsistent use of hotkeys. It should really be on the developers of those specific apps. It's not like Apple developed apps have this general issue. If Windows and Linux are dealing with this issue better, how are they doing it? I strongly suspect that it is simply app developers doing as they please (or how they see fit for their particular circumstance).

On the other hand I suppose they could stress that a little more in the HIG or other SDK guidlines.
I know it isn't likely to happen
but putting this refuse inside
the planet probably isn't a good
idea.

Where do you think Uranium comes from?
Virtual Assistant Is expected To Be Faithful
When you hire a virtual assistant you expect him to work in a way that is the best for your business, he is expected to be faithful to you, as your virtual assistant is privy to secrets of your business and also all the different things that you tell him about the competition.
Didn't QML arrive to Qt during the Nokia times?
Yes, I think that might be it. Unfortunately, there isn't much evidence any side can put on the table. Genetics will advance a lot in the coming years, so that might put an end to the debate and that ideology will be shattered. If that same ideology impedes that we study heritability in the West, I'm sure China will still study it.
We've been providing SaaS for about 5 years now and currently bill by invoice, from the UK too. I've been looking at credit card billing for a few months now and initially thought I'd use Chargify however now we've pretty much decided on using Recurly.

Most likely for us we'll use Recurly + SagePay + Elavon. Will end up costing about £60/mo in costs for our first few customers to pay by credit card but then its all worthwhile.

Why Recurly and not Chargify? Recurly stores CC data so if we want to change payment gateway we can. Recurly features VAT support and has a panel where customers can log in. Yes it doesn't look good when customers log into yourname.recurly.com. But what we plan to do is put this in an iframe, add an SSL cert to our site and using the auto login token from the Recurly API so a customer clicks on account and it looks like they're on our site. Custom CSS is all thats needed to make it blend in.

I would be very interested to hear what billing solutions other UK companies use that provide SaaS!
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I think you'll find lots of attempts at ths problem. We tried to do this with data from Faves.com, our social bookmarking service. In the end we shut down our public recommendation service because we couldn't keep up with the spammers.

Any recommendation engine is a honeypot for web marketing types. I love the concept, but the scalable execution is very hard. I think the best sites approach this by engaging a motivated community, like HN, Reddit, and the original Digg. You need some zealous moderators to keep the spam at bay.
That night we enjoyed each other's body
The Gettysburg Address without and with Powerpoint
The planet after Neptune?
That reminded me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211205
echo "1 2 3 4" | tr -s " " | cut -f1 -d " "

tr is nice!
I like to lay flat on my back - with my 14 month old son napping on my chest - watching some tech presentation video (or browsing, or even playing the LASW RTS. These are sublime moments that my laptop can't bring me.
> But patents did, and do, work in practice - in fields where they're appropriate, and for a couple of centuries.

Do they really?

Steam engines were pretty much stagnant until James Watt's patents expired.

Nobody in the US could build airplanes until the government made Curtiss and the Wright brothers cooperate with eachother.

Sewing machine manufacturers formed a patent pool that made their monopoly (oligopoly) strong enough that everyone pretty much gave up on innovating until the pool expired.

MPEG-LA seems to be trying to use patents to shut down VP8/WebM.

Electric cars are apparently being held up somewhat by patents on better batteries (so the best option they have is to use lots of laptop batteries).

Monopolies in general make things less available, because the monopoly holder can increase their profits by restricting supply.

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There is some effect whose name I don't remember, where the more different people need to agree to make something happen, the more each overestimates the value of their own contribution. So if I want to build something and need to buy land from one person, that's fine; if I need to buy land from 10 people each will want more than 1/10 what the single guy would want; if I need to buy land from 100 people each will want more than 1/10 what each of the 10 guys will want; and this very quickly makes it impossible to get anything done if people know what your doing since they'll all want more than 1/N of the generated value.

Applying this to patents, it's very hard to get anything done if multiple entities own patents that they can use to block it. So firstly this discourages innovation right off (since there's no point), but also it leads to the people who do have patents forming a patent pool. Which lets them build things covered by the patents, but means there's even less point for outsiders to try to innovate, which also means the insiders are secure enough in their oligopoly that they don't need to innovate either.

So there should be a cycle, innovation (for maybe a year or two?) => patent thicket => patent pool => wait for patents to expire (or something entirely different to come along) => ...
Anon claims that it has the source code to Stuxnet
Complexity is not equal because the hidden variables of g (I will use it as you do for now) is not equal to the hidden variables of pressure.

The term statistical myth is appropriate because g is a myth. It is not backed by any direct experimental evidence but arises due to manipulations of statistical techniques. The Gas Law you cite was derived from experiments not from muddled manufacturings of statistics. And the tests correleate because they are made to correlate - it is all quite circular. Your post misrepresents Shalizi. Shalizi's argument is not "macroscale variables which abstract away an ensemble of microscale variables are a 'statistical myth'". Rather, it is that the way in which the latent variable g is first arrived at and then subsequently used to drive conclusions is invalid and meaningless:

But now new tests are validated by showing that they are highly correlated with the common factor, and the validity of g is confirmed by pointing to how well intelligence tests correlate with one another and how much of the inter-test correlations g accounts for. (That is, to the extent construct validity is worried about at all, which, as Borsboom explains, is not as much as it should be. There are better ideas about validity, but they drive us back to problems of causal inference.) By this point, I'd guess it's impossible for something to become accepted as an "intelligence test" if it doesn't correlate well with the Weschler and its kin, no matter how much intelligence, in the ordinary sense, it requires, but, as we saw with the first simulated factor analysis example, that makes it inevitable that the leading factor fits well. [13] This is circular and self-confirming, and the real surprise is that it doesn't work better.

As I quoted Shalizi prior: 'I don't want to be mis-understood as being on some positivist-behaviorist crusade against inferences to latent mental variables or structures. As I said, my deepest research interest is, exactly, how to reconstruct hidden causal structures from data.'

I also do not understand how you use g, as explained it is not composed of factors. It is the dominating factor. While I do not know about Intelligence tests I did follow the mathematics he gives and have applied similar in machine learning contexts. And Considering the wide variety of data linear models fail to properly capture my intuition is that yes, linear methods and assumptions of a Gaussian is overly simplistic without a solid backing argument, which has been unable to be given for near on a century now.

p.s. you are right, my original post was orthogonal to what Shalizi had to say. This was just my argument agains't yours in that I don't feel generalizing to one factor for a system as complex as human intelligence will produce as meaningful results as generalizing to a simple law for a collection of atoms/ a gas did.
Enough with the strawmen: I never said anything about viewing. I keep saying "distribute" and you keep substituting other words like "possess" or "view." Please stop.

For that matter, I honestly couldn't tell you which statutes provide for prosecution of non-cleared persons who distribute classified materials. All I can tell you is that every classified document has a cover sheet, and that at least some of those cover sheets specifically state that you can be prosecuted for distributing the contents to unauthorized people, even if you haven't agreed to protect it. It's been a long time since I've seen one, so I don't remember the exact wording but the warnings were stern enough that I remember them being there. Maybe the cover sheets cite a statute, maybe they don't specify. Maybe the whole bit about prosecution is a bluff, but I somehow doubt that an anal-retentive government bureaucracy would print official documents with a bluff that audacious.
Google: "We're incredibly proud of you, Ghonim"
It's now at least $6.5 Million a year, for another 20 year so the maths isn't that bad. Particularly if it prompts H.265 and any other future codec to be royalty free. I guess the idea is to spur on web video and make money from that though.
No Linux isn't about choice, creating a new userland still ties you into posix, linuxisms and gnuisms as with creating anything in the kernel as well.
Indeed,

Everything from incentives to the attitude seems to make academic research groups act like sealed little islands of "brilliance".

Researchers should be strongly "incentivized" to make their data and source code available and immediately usable (ie, not in Matlab). And the only way to do that is to gradually devalue data-less, source-code-less research in the way non-peer-review research is now devalued. (and yes, it will be messy, embarrassing, fragile code sometimes but we'll have to live with that).

The amazing thing is that small, for-profit, private research organizations can still operate with this "what we produce is a pdf with a picture of our research on it" attitude.

Btw, one organization can and I think is help is PLOS: http://www.plos.org/
Actually, the speakers and the audience came from many different countries, not at all limited to Germany and UK. Sure, language can be an obstacle, but all of them were fascinated by technology and did crazy things with it. That is what counts.

If you argue otherwise, you might be missing the point, really.
> It's like saying we should get rid of laws against murder since if you are OJ Simpson you can hire fancy lawyers and get away with it.

No, it's like saying we should get rid of laws against murder because those laws are observed to make murder more common. (Well, except that I don't think that observation is actually correct for laws against murder.)
I'm going to contest the 2nd point. The government is trying to take your freedom, hence it provides certain protections. Just as you are guaranteed food while in jail, council must be provided. They are not positive rights, in fact they a stipulations required to enable the negative right. If they cannot be met, then you are free to go.

In short, you have no claim on anyone else; however, if others want to imprison you then they must act in a certain way - providing council, etc.
Justin captures the main thing I remember from seeing these guys early on. It wasn't entirely clear what they were doing, but they were just having so much fun, you knew they would figure it out.
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> Who would handle the hosting?

The university and/or the journal. Supposedly, part of their existence and social contract is to maintain knowledge archives for public benefit (even if its not free).
Microsoft also provides Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...
I think "innovation" and "creativity" are mostly empty terms used for marketing purposes and to boost one's image / feed the ego.

Show me a "disruptive" business (google, facebook, etc) and I'll show you 10 that came before it.

This method of international idea arbitrage is about as good as it gets and it should get more attention.

Building something up from the ground is extremely difficult as it is a process of iterating through a massive amount of failure to reach that end goal of success. When you copy someone else's business you get to skip 99% of the work, the sweat, the agony, the sleepless nights, the iterations. Just copy, translate, and maybe change things a bit around. You might not know why this part is the way it is, but you can be sure it probably works out better this way.

It's actually incredibly smart.
As I heard on the radio (I cannot attest to its truthfulness) -- the thief was trying to sell 'cranberries', or $25,000 chips.
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Perhaps, for predominantly commercial searches, the old 'goto.com' (which became Overture) had it right: top results should be blatantly (and honestly) paid-for.

Google could implement this by showing more paid results for commercially-motivated searches – while allowing users to dial this back down if desired. (They do this a little with the varying number of AdWords units above natural results.)

Pretending the top results are not going to the largest budget, simply because they're the result of massive investment in gray SEO rather than direct payments to Google, is in some ways the worst approach. It enriches some shady operators, and has negative externalities polluting the rest of the web.

At one point years ago someone – I think it was Yahoo – experimented with a slider atop results that let you bias your results in a more- or less-commercially-oriented direction. It might be time to try similar experiments again, with a new UI and the now-more-sophisticated searchers of today.
That is the most amazing soundtrack for a web page that I have ever heard.
Hi there! No its not. It might look like it. You are right! but that is because we've just upload an old version.

The thing is that it wasn't working that smoothly and we had to take it down for improvements. Furthermore, some IPA issues occured with several OEMs, and we have to clear them first before we switch on the new version.

Design follows form is basically a heuristic for order. We dont say that form is less important, not priorizin either. We are are just implying the logical design order; first you develop the core, then you make it look good! Its just another way more poetic to put it.

Good night from Munich!!
University members, even students, nearly always get free hosting space. The problem is not the cost of hosting, or even the time it takes to put it up. The problem is the competition between research groups. If you publish your data, the competition can use it to beat you at the next discovery in the often narrow field.
A way to get even older IEs working on, say, Linux with Wine is IEs4Linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

This package largely automates the process of downloading and installing IE5, IE5.5, and IE6, with beta support for IE7, IE8, and IE9, and support for IE1, IE1.5, and IE2 almost as a joke.

(Note: To install it on Ubuntu, update Wine using the PPA found at this website: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb)

So it's not quite overlapping, but it's a similar project.
I work with Doug Pierce, who is mentioned in the article. If any HNers have any questions about this story, I'm happy to answer the ones I can and pass on any that I can't.
At Etsy, our coffee pot is hooked in to our IRC bot so that we can ask how many cups of coffee are left ("?coffee"). Someone from the ops team just opened a bug report due to non-compliance with RFC 2324.

The IRC coffee service uses a Pelouze postage scale and https://github.com/morria/coffeed
I remember the sale of Kiko being a frontpage story in Reddit's early days. I'm still a huge Reddit fan but it's amazing how much the community has changed since then.
Why python?
i am not a blondie, but also not a hacker at all. why language soft is often written in python?
Interesting that the New York Times seems to have done all of the footwork in finding & reporting JCPenney in order to have a ringside seat to the public hanging. There is only really a passing mention of the NYT's direct involvement... I don't have any problem with them outing an obvious example of manipulation with paid links, but I wonder if they are unsure how some will react.
Google has every economic incentive to prevent paid SEO strategies from working. Google sells placement on the results page--that is their whole business. Gray- and Black-hat SEO is the only serious competitor; money Google takes away from those operators will go straight into Adwords.
Exactly what I was thinking. They have an API to mine the links data.

http://trunk.ly/developer/
PHP is the gateway drug. Welcome aboard!
The author seemed to think that more money would fix the problem as well. But the faith in money to fix things is pretty blind-- the only thing that fixes problems are people who care, and anyone who tries here will end up in a fight with the people who don't care. Pay them enough money and they'll start caring? Yea, right.
I don't think they're actually requiring Amazon to do anything, at least not until either party actually confirms this situation. Amazon can sell eBooks from their website to be opened in the Kindle app, just as long as you don't select the product inside the Kindle app. They could allow Amazon to use Apple's payment gateway free of charge, but why bother?

It's a simple separation of concerns: if you're going to initiate inapp purchases that are completed in Safari, then to prove trustworthiness you need to offer purchases via Apple in parallel; if you're going to avoid Apple then you lose the privilege of making the purchase seem sanctioned by the iOS ecosystem.

How big is 30% of Amazon's ebook sales to iDevices really? I'm betting less than what Amazon's presence means as a boost to Apple unit sales. The parallel purchase option is really a sign of more flexibility from Apple.
How did J.C. Penny's get singled out for the story?
Why not just put a bunch of spikes 50 feet below the ground, with a lot of scattered stones cut into the shapes of skulls. Most people will get that, and it will avoid having a prominent above ground landmark.

Although on the other hand, if there are above ground landmarks, then knowledge about what the place signifies is less likely to vanish.
"Pay them enough money and they'll start caring? Yea, right".

We should tell the same to CEOs and bankers.
Oops, I misread what he wrote.
Yutongo
Site: yutongo Open Ideation
http://ideation.yutongo.com
Contact: Sandro Morghen, Founder

Quick Pitch
yutongo revolutionizes the way we innovate. Companies, organisations and individuals can open their own idea challenges and share them with their friends, colleagues or even employees. Right now, we are a free-only, as is service.

While other open innovation sites don't offer a real ideation process (mostly just a form) innovators at yutongo go through a quick process and answer several idea-triggering questions and compress the material collected by forming combinations.
Gridlock.
You can use Python for writing portable code between multiple OS, no need for recompilation. Basically everything can be implemented in Python, in the scientific community it is used mainly as a glue code, meaning you keep your computer intensive tasks in C++ or Fortran and use Python for gluing the pieces.

If you want to see more, check the python website:

http://www.python.org/about/apps/
China is actually a very good example, you're just looking at the wrong industry.

Both America and China industrialized by misappropriating trade secrets from the reigning technical powers of the time (Britain and America, respectively) and then bringing that knowledge home where it could be employed by workers who were willing to work for less. The birthplace of the American industrial revolution are the textile mills at Waltham and later Lowell, MA. Francis Cabot Lowell spent 2 years memorizing how British power mills worked, and then came back to America with all that knowledge in his head. He then copied the design of that mill on the banks of the Charles River, and American industry was born.

China's manufacturing similarly depends upon transfer of knowledge from developed to developing nations, though in this case the transfer is largely voluntary, with American firms setting up factories in China. However, people then leave those factories and set up their own firms, using the trade secrets they gained while working at foreign multinationals. Software is the wrong industry to look at - think in terms of textiles or cars.
If you love the language you're coding in, the honeymoon may never fade. Get me working on some old school C or Python and I'll have the same problem. "Crap, its 3am...did I eat?"

Keep at it! I hope you keep enjoying it.
Poll: What APIs do you consume most?
Interested in data on what APIs HN users build against most for an APIs related project.

If I'm missing an API that you use, comment (preferably with a link to the API docs) and I'll add it.

Thanks!
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