skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I noticed all of the comments you contributed to this community are effectively unsubstantiated racism. I suspect I am wasting my time replying, so I will keep this brief.)

"foot speed and intelligence are inversely correlated...'[black people are faster and dumber and white people are slower and smarter]'"

You are missing the point entirely. While there is an inverse correlation between footspeed and intelligence in this extremely limited dataset, this evidence does not suggest there is a general inverse correlation because there are many many too many confounding variables. Look all you want, you won't find data that supports your conclusion.

There is a fundamental biological reason for this fact; no data suggests there are fundamental genetic differences between the races that result in the expression of differences in intelligence or footspeed or any other significantly complex trait.

This is because behaviorally modern humans evolved only 50,000 years ago. Modern humans were crafty and mobile enough to inhabit most corners of the world. We have not been isolated for sufficient period of time to establish the differences you are looking for.

We all are effectively the same version. (However, there are some uncomfortable questions that could be asked about Indigenous Australians because of their early and extended isolation. But, I don't know enough to draw any conclusions.)

I will gamble there is a significant inverse correlation between education and racism.

edit: I don't think we ought to tolerate racism here simply because it is dumb.
Google: We knew the web was big...
Thanks. I'd forgotten the name. That was it. It was a BHO for IE, right?
cglee, re lack of understand, high-level complaining/frustration and pretty much your entire post, I couldn't agree with you more.

The point I was trying to make was that the article author is only echoing the idea that's been around for decades, that China is a land of opportunity, without bringing any new insights into why internet startups will do well. Just stating the potential isn't interesting, informative or insightful any more than proclaiming that "the internet is the future of business"

I guess I sounded a little erh, racist when I called them stingy: I guess I meant more along the lines of "frugal" and "cunning". Frugal: compare a Linen's n' Things to a chinese houseware store. You don't find NEAR as many useless kitchen knickknacks. Cunning: if i can duplicate your idea with a low-tech solution, I won't pay for your idea.(5-sizes melon baller set?! Multi-purpose automatic measuring devices for dry, powdered, wet, sticky foods? it's called a SPOON. singular.)
I don't think you understand the problem here. The board works under Linux if the BIOS is modified to follow the ACPI spec, but under their own implementation it does not follow the spec. Thus at the minimum it is a faulty product that does not match the advertisement, and at worst it is an anti-trust violation. Certified or not, recommended or not, warranty or not, it does not fulfill the spec. The fact that Vista covers this up does not mean that it fits the spec when running Vista, no matter how you slice it, it is broken.
If anybody's up for it (my own CSS/JS skills aren't much use), you could probably build an online, non-Greasemonkey version of this with an app I've been working on: http://feedvolley.com/

(Basically it lets you take an RSS feed and present it in HTML templates, with whatever Javascript/HTML/etc you want. If you have any questions or need any help feel free to email me at niryariv@gmail.com)
cool, I didn't know they kept a tighter rein on porn than gambling.

What kind of internet-based businesses have done well over there?
How does this compare to SAGE?
http://www.sagemath.org/index.html
I believe quake live makes you install a browser plug-in that's basically the game engine.
Don't listen to him, OP. He failed to refer to you as "brah".
I reckon there's been a lot of different apps that do in-page commenting, but they didn't have the social infrastructure to make it stick. I think socialbrowse has the right approach because the comments and link sharing complement each other.
I think he means that of the small proportion of people who are good enough to make the NFL the coaches will have picked those that conformed to their biases.

I.E. QB A and QB B are both on the edge of joining the NFL for team C. The coach cannot pick between them and so he goes for QB A who does better on the Wonderlic test.
I don't think pg and 37s have different ideas about this. They are both very focused on the user. If 37s says no to many customer requests, it's because they think it's best for the user, nothing else.

When DHH says "solve your own problems" it's only because he thinks that if you do have a problem, it's very possible other people have the same problem. Hence, you are "making something people want".
Obviously they are not (despite their myriad problems). But nice link-bait headline anyway.
Aren't they using the same shortcode as chatterous.com?
Probably true, but it's good to see MS being open about their research, since google often isn't.
Minda ICT: Simple interests; Great uses: Show the Computer, Home, and Trash desktop icons
I'd be very surprised if Microsoft did not apply for a patent on this before disclosing it.
I might even pay more for a trip by Zeppelin...
The only comments I see from the parent's parent are the ones in this thread.
So how come and you noticed what you say you noticed?
They spend a lot of wordage to cover it up, but when asked about mods he pretty much says "No." That is disappointing.
I meant to say u get taxed at 15% flat on capital gain after holding the stock for more than 1 year (in the US)

in my country, the capital gain tax is only 0.1%, automatically included when one sells stock (0.15% fee for buying and 0.25% fee for selling any amount any time); however, income tax from working is 35% top

but the trend is ... tax on investment is substantially lower while it's much higher on working income ... social control perhaps?
I love philosophy and find it highly rewarding, but asking whether it's "valuable" might be the wrong question. Is poetry valuable? Certainly not in terms of anything practical that would get us a job or make money (other than in the English dept. at a university, I suppose.). But in the sense of enriching our lives and (perhaps) making them more meaningful, certainly. Same with philosophy.

That said, I do think there is a fair bit of practical value in doing philosophy. The ability to frame a logically coherent argument is still as important today as it was in ancient Greece. Why is "everyone does it so it must be OK" a specious argument, for example? A philosophical frame of mind is, above all, questioning and curious, and an open, questioning mind is a huge asset. Philosophy also requires imagination and abstract reasoning, and at a minimum the practice of it helps build these skills.

Perhaps it simply boils down to one's subjective level of interest in philosophical questions: "What is morality?" "What is Truth?" "Can we know anything with absolute certainty?" etc... Some of these, in their more specific forms have practical import:"Should euthanasia be legalized" "Is it OK to eat meat? If so, howabout Fluffy the Poodle, or Barney the Chimp, or your mom (where do you draw the line, and why?)" "Is 'knowledge' synonymous with 'scientific knowledge' (ie, if not arrived at via science, it's not 'knowledge'?" Etc...

If you enjoy thinking/arguing/discussing such questions, then you'll find value in philosophy.
Follow the link mentioned on the page. http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/06/itching-my-p...
Per folks in the know, Google doesn't give itself any preferential treatment.

Try searching for 'search' with Google. Google itself (perhaps the best known search engine) comes in at result #20 -- at the bottom of the second page of search results.
I knew a talented graphic designer who volunteered his services to a non-profit organization that he respected, and he did an awesome, bang-up job and from that got referrals for well-paying corporate work (annual reports).

"I started working as a freelance makeup artist in 1980, and I worried that I didn't have enough money. My father told me I'd just have to figure out a way to make more money. So I started looking through the Yellow Pages and calling agencies, magazines, photographers - anyone I could offer my services to. I'd work for free until I proved myself."

-Bobbi Brown, CEO of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics
Nonsense. Often your code will be ugly because some API in other code is broken or missing (see a lot of JavaScript), or doing something the right way is too slow or complicated, and you don't happen to have enough time to make a research project out of it. So then you add a self-deprecating comment to provide a little joy in the existence of the poor schmuck who will have to maintain your mess. Everybody wins. Kinda.
An amazing man from what I've seen in the video. It is really worth the 1 hour 15 minutes to watch it and I recommend everyone do so.
"I wonder if the reason behind them over words is so you don't have to put spaces around them."

Hunh, that hadn't occurred to me! That's a really interesting conjecture, touching on design trade-offs in neat ways. Thanks!
Python Information and Examples
PageRank (based on publishers' idea of relevance, though linking) can yield false positives, too. But, I guess someone who goes to the trouble of publishing a document will have a more considered opinion than readers of that document.

BrowserRank is a bit like Web 2.0 PageRank, in that it operates on user voting. It would be nice if you could nominate whose reading habits you would contribute to the ranking you see. Maybe a new job title could be "browser leader", where you sell your browsing data, if you are really good at wasting time. Average that over a million browser leaders, and you have an interesting dataset for Ranking.

The other problem is scale (as someone said). Modeling a web of documents is hard enough; modeling all the readers of those documents is a lot more data - but certainly possible to go some way towards it. Hardware gets cheaper and cheaper, but web adoption will saturate soonish, so we'll get there.
Philosophy in the Barnyard: What's *Really* Wrong With Bestiality
RedLasso: Why Its Dangerous to Rely on 3rd Party Content & Services
Don’t tell Tufte that I’ve used the radius, not the proportional area, of the circle as the value for each ellipse! A cardinal sin that I’m using in this case to improve proportion and clarify a point.

I don't understand why this is okay. I imagine he means it was hard to perceive the difference between correctly scaled circles, but that means the data is close, not that you should misrepresent it.

I can see he's written a book about this, so I should assume he has good reasons, but the ones he gave don't seem it.

The problem is that simply scaling the radius exaggerates the difference between numbers because:

* 26 is 30% more than 20, but
* a circle with radius 26 is 69% larger
than a circle with radius 20.

I just read an article criticizing this exact thing, but I can't find it again.
Seems a bit silly to compare spam page avoidance between PageRank and BrowseRank, when all the spam pages have been specifically targetted to get a high PageRank.
Whether or not it gets put in, I liked Carmack's idea of centralizing the mods and letting users vote on the best.
Architecting for Speed
Maybe perceptions of Chinese American immigrants taint your attitude towards Chinese people. Most immigrants have to be frugal because they're poor. Most immigrants have to be cunning because they're at a severe social disadvantage. It's being an immigrant, not Chinese, that's the difference (interestingly, this is also why a lot of Americans think Chinese people on the whole are really good at math).

I find that Chinese people run the gamut on frugality and cunningness. You'll probably find more cunning people in the business world, for sure, but not necessarily more frugal.
Well lets go over a handful of things Knol is missing.

No search results for: engineering, math, computer, internet or transistor. One of Wikipedia's strong points is it's ability to provide not historic information but technical information. Whether it's an mathematical concept, an algorithm or a definition it'll either tell you what you need to know or at least send you in the right direction. Until Knol finds a way to address some of these shortcomings in basic subjects, it will not be on my list of searches.

I can see both sides when in comes to licensing. I think Google's goal is to make experts in the business world participate. It'll be interesting to see what actually ends up happening.

Allowing ads and adsense to encourage posting seems to be equivalent to buying the information. For things that are subjective this is great because you know your moderator and thus the source of the information. But for most subjects, users don't want them moderated one direction or another. Users want to know facts or as unbiased an opinion as possible. Leave it to bloggers to create all those opinion pieces that everyone loves or hates so much.
Switching From OS X to Ubuntu: 10 Things I Miss
I wouldn't be so sure. In sports, performance is dictated by reflex. Mistakes are eliminated by constant practice, not by ruminating over past errors. So I would expect that the players who are most optimistic would have the best performance, because they derive pleasure from their successes, quickly forget their failures, and are thus most likely to practice.
Sell your company, keep your company. If you want to maximize your ability to work on interesting stuff, remember that there is a effective but unglamorous dual pronged approach to financial security. Require less luxury to be happy.

Learn to cook brown rice. Bring your lunch to work. Walk to your job (or to a bus stop to your job) and can the gym membership. Yoga studios tend to offer free classes on Sunday. Visit the library instead of buying so many books. In fact most libraries will even buy a book they don't have if you ask them. And if you really want to give your mind a break from coding, buy a repair manual and learn to fix your own car. This actually results in the satisfaction of an affectionate bond with your car that you can't buy at the dealership.

Two things have surprised me the further I go down this path.

1. Hacking the system by revolting against the consumer culture is so much fun, that I keep pushing harder regardless of my income.

2. While living like this, you'll even find low-maintenance (high-everything-else) women doing the same thing who find it attractive.
Disneyland Magical Express Orlando is Magical, but California Bus is NOT
Ballmer Has Secret Plan To Save Microsoft's Internet Business
Yes, I've been working quite a lot on various bits of the code this summer. In the last couple weeks I've been working on speed improvements and protection against voting rings and spammers in news. (The stories on the frontpage now seem visibly better, at least to me.)
An inspirational man. If he can deal with dying that well - we can all deal with living a little better.
The Real Dan Lyons on Fake Steve Jobs (and why he left)
And SciPy?
Imagine a couple of young ambitious Chinese hackers, sitting around asking themselves "what's unique about American culture that is in need of a technological solution?".
This is correct. It installs a browser plug-in which is the engine.
Google finds the web has over 1 trillion unique URLs
More interesting topic would be: how to do business in China and not be evil.
Interesting that you simply term this a "white/black" ratio of each position. Why didn't you call it an "advantaged/disadvantaged" ratio? Why not a "beneficiary/victim" ratio?

If you are trying to chalk up these differences to some kind of genetic disparity, that in fact Has Been Said, repeatedly, for hundreds if not thousands of years, continues to be loudly parroted by certain segments, and has been repeatedly shown to be uninformed swill.

Why don't we see any discussion here about differences in IQ scores of people from different economic classes, in a nation where opportunity (and even access to healthcare) is so disparate between races?
The only decent argument I have heard for U.S. farm subsidies is national security. If we were to allow most of our food supply to be imported, then it would be a weakness for the country in a wartime scenario.

I also think this is BS and this isn't the Cold War anymore, but it is the only reasonable argument I've found.
Psychological studies confirm what we all know: Long meetings are a waste of time
Actually I saw "Jedi Knight" once too. "plzadd kthxbai"
What else is new? They've been saying this for years and nothing they've done has significantly changed their position. It should also come as no surprise that this article doesn't give a shred of a detail as to how this is going to happen. I believe that's because there is no plan. This is just more hot air. It's getting to the point where many their efforts are just laughable, yet they still keep talking about how they're going to dominate the internet. Microsoft needs to put up or shut up.
Liquidity Preference Is Accretive
Sounds like an opportunity..

Why don't we design one that is foolproof? i.e. security is always enabled, and it requires a complex password? Perhaps there is even a readout + little keyboard built into it so the end user can go through a simple wizard to ensure security. The readout would give them the keys to type into their PC.

And on top of it there would be a large green + red indicators.. Red would glow if there was any security issue, with the error on the readout + sent to the end user as a text message. Green would indicate all is secure.

The only real question is what to name port forwarding. While I'm a huge fan of the obvious and clear "Applications and gaming", being a router manufacturer I would be obligated to create yet another new name for it, like "wormhole port" or "you fool, just call your geek nephew already".

Seriously, I have trouble going from a linksys to a netgear to a dlink, not to mention the OEM routers sold by ISP's now that often lock down features.. How can we expect these pieces of fail to be installed correctly?
It really is incredible that we're living through all of this (from a person that enjoys technology). Now the bigger problem is making these cheap enough to urge people to replace their now "energy efficient" LED products with "super energy efficient" OLED products in the future.

While on the topic of cheap green products, what ever happened to dye sensitized solar panels? So much hype of how simple it is to create and we've yet to see a public product.
Visit to the Creation Museum
On the one hand, you have to admit this is revolutionary.

#1 No it isn't. Remember Microsoft Passport?

The web will be transformed from the still (somewhat) closed system it is today, to a massively social experience

No it wont. See #1.
The existence of a racial gap in IQ is simply not in dispute. It shows up in SAT scores, it shows up in military IQ tests during times with a draft, and it shows up in numerous psychological studies. See for instance this paper from Brookings Institute, which is about as mainstream liberal as you can get ( http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/dickens/20060619_iq.pd... )

The only question is if the difference or environmental or genetic. I'm not positive what causes the difference myself. If you put a gun to my head and forced me to make a bet, I'd probably say a substantial portion of the gap is genetic in origin. For evidence of this, I'll point you to this article in Slate (a very mainstream news source): http://www.slate.com/id/2178122/entry/2178123/

no data suggests there are fundamental genetic differences between the races that result in the expression of differences in intelligence or footspeed or any other significantly complex trait.

Percent of body fat, physique, testosterone levels, and brain size have all shown to be correlated with race.

Men of West African decent have broken 10 second barrier on the 100m dash 134 times. No member from any other ethnic group has ever broken 10 seconds. Meanwhile, East Africans routinely monopolize gold medals in the long distance events ( 10,000 meters, marathons). Can you think of any non-genetic explanation for this? Examining the physiques of West Africans versus East Africans makes the genetic explanation pretty obvious.

Studies of IQ highly correlate with latitude. People of northern Chinese and Mongolian origin score higher than the Vietnamese. In limited studies, Intuits score higher than Native Americans from Central America. 60,000 years is actually quite a long time, and the skills necessary to survive harsh northern winters are very different than those needed to survive in tropical jungles.

I will gamble there is a significant inverse correlation between education and racism.

I'd agree with you there. But note that education is an industry. And just like Coke tries to convince you that drinking coke will make you cool, the education industry tries to convince you that there is no problem that cannot be remedied just by spending more on education. In academia, freedom of thought about the issue of IQ is simply not allowed (see Larry Summers and James Watson).

For the record, I am Ivy league educated myself. I would love it if the IQ gap was environmental, and we could figure out the formula for making it disappear. I spent a fair amount of time working for charities in the inner city. But I believe that we must try to get an accurate view of reality, even if the truth might be unpleasant. Willfully denying evidence helps nobody.

FYI, I specially created this account to post on this thread, because I was scared of being called a racist and didn't want that tarnishing my normal account.
"I know a bunch of really rich guys, and they're no happier than anyone else."

Yeah, but I bet they're a hell of a lot less miserable.
Well, the top-of-the-line LED's (the inorganic variety) have an efficiency of ~150 lumens/watt...
It is obvious that you have never played football. Go read "The Blind Side" and then get back to us.
I appreciate the readability problem, but what would you propose as an alternative? In my experience, combining the code and documentation in a single file makes it much more likely that developers actually will update the documentation. Besides, any decent editor will hide the documentation if you don't want to see it.
The way modern farming works, it's not very easy/quick to rapidly expand farming into non-farming lands. Farming takes expertise, infrastructure, equipment, labor, and a fair amount of biological systems to work together. The idea of the dumb hick farmer is popular, but not entirely accurate.

War isn't the only reason it's bad to get most of our food supply from other countries, though it is a pretty good one and it can be hard to tell in advance when war is going to break out.

Food is the foundation of any population of people. Without it, even more so than oil, people start dying. What farm subsidies do is keep farming profitable enough so that there is a surplus of food every year. If for some reason yields are low we simply have a smaller surplus instead of being required to look elsewhere for food.

I can't cite my sources, but I've heard a compelling argument that most/all great empire collapses happen during times of drought or famine. This isn't to say that drought or famine are sufficient or even required for a collapse, but it sure helps.

Also, all it can take is one bad year (without subsidies) for an independent farmer to go under. Farming is very expensive. The equipment costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and property taxes on 100k+ acres of land is a lot of money.