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"Hard" is a relative term, here. Surely physics is hard science. Most would agree with Chemistry. Biology? Well, okay...Psychology? No, now you're just--Sociology? The hell? How did we get here?

As far as people I mock--only those who think a liberal arts education will land them a good job with no other qualifications. The world needs historians (even of the art variety), anthropologists, sociologists, and even marketers. What it doesn't particularly need, however, is 70% of the college population pursuing those degrees when maybe 3% of the jobs out there are suited to them.
There have been several large studies of identical twins separated at birth.

Yes, and I am closely acquainted, through attending their graduate student "journal club,"

http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall10/psy8935/default.htm

with most of the researchers who have conducted the best of those studies. An earlier reply of mine here on HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2696680

corrects (with citations to current research publications) some of the overstatements seen in popular literature about what twin studies show. There is also not any single gene variant that has large effect on IQ, in the view of those researchers about what the most up-to-date gene association studies show.
notice I didn't ask about his/her/its preferences..
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I scored 38500 - seemed to be a test that would be helped by reading a lot of older fantasy literature, where 'terpsichorean' and 'turpitude' (to give a couple 'terp' examples that spring to mind) are the sort of words that authors like Jack Vance liked to wheel out in order to create a mood.

I'm not sure that the people suggesting that the failure to correlate with the SAT adds much; I don't think the SAT really goes all-out of the more flowery bits of archaic vocabulary in the way that this test did.

My 3rd grade son got 10200, and enjoyed discussing the words he didn't get. I think every 3rd grader should know "mawkish". :-)
19,600. I'm willing to accept this, although I'm not going to lie -- I'm very upset at myself. I'm used to scoring 99th percentile in every standardized test; it's kind of a shock to realize that I'm nowhere near the median of even my age group, let alone the general populace (I'm 20).

That said, I'm currently reading A Dance with Dragons and there are tons of words in this series (A Song of Ice and Fire) that I'm not familiar with. Most of the ones I missed are words I recognize from this series, although since I'm not 100% sure of them, so I left them unchecked.
Minority in Hindu majority ruinous?

Our last president was not Hindu. By the way, He is one of the most celebrated intellectual in India. Some of the most popular actors/actresses in Bollywood are not Hindu. People like Azim Premji are not Hindu. I can cite many more such examples.

I have bunch of my friends who are not Hindus and asked about situation like partition once again, they always say they will choose India come what may.

The whole idea of our neighboring country is based on the myth that in Hindu majority country no other religion can flourish. On contrary, every other religion flourished in India but same cannot be said about our neighbors.

Edit: Cleaned few grammatical errors
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Its only anecdotal, my brother in law is an Indian Muslim from UP. He says the 1-2 blow of being a communal society and being the largest minority doesn't create the best situation.

Minorities getting the short end of the stick in terms of education and opportunities isn't exclusive to India (see the US - arguably the best nation on the planet for minorities that still stuggles with this), its just a more central topic because of the sub continent's partition history.
I don't see what the fuss is about. A lot of seemingly offtopics have been discussed on HN recently. Like, Japan earthquakes, Osama Bin Laden death, Egypt/Libya civil wars etc.
The psychology of these things is interesting to me. My reflexive reaction was, of course, "I have to know!" and then my immediate counter-reaction was "This is just intellectual phallometry and is ultimately of no consequence to me."

Of course, I very quickly rationalized away the counter-reaction and took the test anyway, and then considered sharing it with my friends. What drives this?
I think Terrence on his blog does a decent job as coming across as someone who is really smart but has got to that position in maths by spending a lot of time in some pretty narrow fields. He openly admits, like for example when P/NP stuff come up a bit maybe 6 months back, areas where he isn't an expert.

He could probably easily make his knowledge look even more impressive but is humble about what he does and doesn't know.
I can't get this to work; low end laptop with low end gpu. But is it anything like what Rsnake posted on ha.ckers.org?

Link: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070623/hiding-js-in-valid-images/

Example: https://github.com/christopherwoodall/ImgJs
Hacker News is _very_ full of over-confident people, believe me.

During a discussion of 'whether open source contributions were being overly important to job seekers' a while back, a surprising number of HN commenters automatically put themselves in the role of employer, peering dubiously over their glasses at me. Many of these commenters were hilariously under-qualified to be taking on that kind of role with respect to anyone.

I don't think SAT verbal is nearly as intensely focused on obscure vocab. I didn't do it, but did do a GRE verbal back in 1994 to get into grad school. For what it's worth, my score on this and my GRE verbal were quite consistent.
I have a serious medical condition and have learned to treat it effectively with diet and lifestyle instead of drugs and surgeries. A great deal of what I do to stay well involves effectively navigating the social landscape, for lack of a better term -- ie people assume I should do things a certain way, I don't because it exposes me to germs/chemicals/whatever so either makes me ill or has a high risk of making me ill, and sidestepping the social expectations without getting mired in ridiculous, big problems is much more challenging than figuring out that I should avoid X because it makes me ill. I have fantasies of learning to code and writing a simulation (aka 'game') to teach other people how to get healthier/do some of the stuff I do.

Time will tell.
Yeah, on the more difficult words, it becomes a test of your ability to tell yourself you know what they mean.
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Well, I wouldn't have found it if you hadn't called me up on it. So thank you too.
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I'm 22 came in at 19.5k. I guess I need to use the dictionary in my Kindle a lot more.
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The blame for that lies only on those who believe and act on the stories, not those who wrote them.
Except politically and militarily, Indian Muslims have outperformed Pakistani/Bangladeshi Muslims in all fields. Just take as fundamental as literacy rate. Indian Muslims have better literacy rate (59%) than Pakistani Muslims (50-55%).
Absolutely agree. Too many conflicts come from sides that focus on their few differences rather than their many similarities.

This is coming from an Egyptian who realizes that Israelis (and Jews) aren't so different from my Arab Muslim self.

Now, if only more people agreed.
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It was one of the original promises of WS and the reason that browsers offer it to client-side JS.
Yes, that is why the fuss. Some of us do not appreciate the trend.
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>2. When the Brits found India, it was fragmented into several different princedoms and cities. To say that it was in any sense united is misleading - before the Brits got there and for a time while the Brits were there, wars between neighboring sultanates and empires were commonplace.

What do you think happened between when they landed and when they left? They landed as traders; they took sides between the warring kingdoms and sultanates for access to markets. They just played on the differences for their own gains - divide and rule. Read about the Partition of Bengal. This was the modus operandi of the empire everywhere: hindu v muslims in India, catholics v protestants in Ireland, muslims v jews in Palestine.

>When they left, they left a united India. Those are just cold hard facts that cannot be argued with - India may have been politically united in 300BC, but it sure as hell wasn't in 1700. At the bitter end, if the Brits had really, really wanted to leave India divided, it would not have been a difficult thing to accomplish.

Well they did not try to leave it united. The British never had direct control over all of India. Many regions were under direct rule, many still under princes. It was the Indian political will, after independence (and after the India-Pakistan partition), which united India in to a whole. India did not become a Republic until 1950.
Perhaps the results of this test don't predict academic success very well. I graduated at the top of my program (of about 30 graduates) last year and scored only 20.5k.

Maybe I fell behind my peers by only reading comp sci, math, business, and communications related stuff for 4 years. Guess I've got some catching up to do.
The lowest on this site has less than 14k words (guess how I reached this conclusion).
Improvements to education (expand the Khan Academy model beyond mathematics) - Khan Academy already has a great model with the videos and exercises for mathematics (go contribute at https://sites.google.com/a/khanacademy.org/forge/for-develop...).

The exercises don't extend past maths, and i think would need some conceptual tweaking to apply to e.g. languages or programming.

I'd love to get something up for this - anyone want to join up and brainstorm/rapid prototype a project? Reply to this thread or find me on Google+ and let's hangout.

Thanks wz3chen!
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I'm just a visitor here, but I can believe that Indian Muslims may have a raw deal in some areas.

In professional Mumbai or Delhi society, no one seems to care much. You are a banker, a lawyer or a programmer. For the most part, you get your job or start your business via your own professional connections. Personal and professional life is separated very much like it is in the west.

Outside of this fairly narrow circle, family/family friends/clannish identity is more or less merged with your professional identity. Want to start a business? There is a good chance you share a last name with your investors and business partners. Want a bank loan? Better be connected to the loan officer. It's also helpful if you are connected to the various government workers who's permission you will need to start your business [1], and you'll get better service if your supplier is your second cousin.

The value of your network is a superlinear function of it's size. If Muslims have a smaller network, they are probably disadvantaged.

[1] I recently met a guy who wanted to start a business selling eye tracking devices. He scrapped the idea because he needed 34 licenses.
Can you rephrase your last sentence? I've reread it a few times, and I just can't make heads or tails of it.

Thanks!
I got to be in the 1st percentile :-).
But well, considering that I have never read a book in my life I guess it figures.
12,900: http://testyourvocab.com/?r=39955

I am not a native speaker and I was happy to get more than >10,000, really.
If you want to go on anecdotes, my larger fam is happily Indian(from UP even) and Muslim.

Sure there is crazy poverty across India but I haven't seen anything that shows it being greater because of a larger conspiracy against Muslims in India.

Over the years, I've observed more and more of my Pakistani friends sound hopeless when speaking about their country. This is a distinct change from a few years ago when they would speak with nothing but pride.

It's humbling and sad to look at the state of Pakistan as an outsider.
Here is one that I put together a while ago:
Do you want to be a mentor/adviser to a startup?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmPJqmi...
haven't tried this feature yet. and don't expect to try any time in the future either. if my friend is hacked and keeps sending me email, i'll just block that person.
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this conflict is a waste of human capital. i hope the fog of ignorance is lifted very soon and the desire for profit brings people together.
Finally some use of the GRE English exam that I had to take before joining CS program!
Ah, that's why dictionary.com didn't know what "splarge" meant. Apparently "sparge" is a sprinkling - why would home brewers know this? Genuinely curious here.
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1. You seem to be one of those few liberal/secular Pakistanis living abroad. A vast majority of Pakistanis, in the attempt to justify the existence of their country, try everything to distance themselves from India, Indian culture and Indian history.

2. Agreed that there was mass migration both ways. But consider these things. Islam is the fastest growing religion in India and Muslims make up ~15% of Indian population today, whereas in Pakistan minority population has fallen from ~15% to less than ~2% since independence.

3. Predicted correctly? How do you prove that Indian Muslims are living worse than Pakistanis? A couple of communal riots in India don't prove anything, considering how big India is. Whereas, the daily bombings, drone attacks, ethnic riots in Pakistan don't give encouraging picture about Pakistani Muslims, the very bunch for whom the country was created.

And as I said in another comment below: "Except politically and militarily, Indian Muslims have outperformed Pakistani/Bangladeshi Muslims in all fields. Just take as fundamental as literacy rate. Indian Muslims have better literacy rate (59%) than Pakistani Muslims (50-55%)." To add to that, the richest Muslim in the world is Ajim Premji, an Indian software mogul, not some oil sheikh.
The author had daddy issues. BTW, what is this article even doing on HN?

My take: Kashmir == root cause. Fix that first, grant independence.
Wolfram was a child prodigy and is very smart. Even the very smart are prone to crackpottery.
People don't question 2 or 3 China articles a day. It's refreshing to see something written about another big developing country or (in this case, two).
Just to add this, I'd like to point out that the OP fails to consider the fate of the Mohajirs in Pakistan. It doesn't seem like migrating to Pakistan from India worked out all that well for them.

There is no doubt that Muslims in India lag behind on developmental metrics, but I sincerely doubt this is due to any large-scale systematic discrimination against them. Sure, there is a fair bit of casual "micro-discrimination" against Muslims but that happens to a LOT of demographic groups in a huge and diverse country like India.

This might be an unpopular and politically incorrect view, but I believe that the thing that is holding back Indian Muslims and (perhaps Muslims elsewhere) is their religion. Believing that women shouldn't step out of the house alone, or that women should wear a burqa all the time or that several important formative years of a child's life should be spent studying the Quran or an insistence on studying Arabic and Urdu instead of the local language are IMHO not conducive to succeeding in a cut-throat capitalist economy. My unscientific survey of successful Muslims that I know leads me to believe that the most successful ones are not that religious.

However, the OP makes a good point that Hindu fundamentalism might be polarizing opinions in the country. Unfortunately, you can get away with being a Hindu fundamentalist in India, but being a Muslim fundamentalist mostly leads to career suicide.
Wouldn't a multiple choice quiz with definitions be more accurate? Force people to choose a definition (or none of the above?) to show they actually know the word. You'd still have the issue of cheaters but at least you would know people just don't assume they know the definition of "like"
Most of the successful film stars in India are muslim. Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Javed Akthar, and the list is long. Bollywood represents India in most of the world and Bollywood is dominated by Muslims. Something to think about.
21,400. My native tongue is Tamil too. In the second list I was surprised at some of the words, which I've never ever seen before.
My bank says that too but it's really just 6 numbers because the characters map to the same numbers as on a telephone's key pad. So, if your password is ABC123, it's really just "222123", and both will work to log in.
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That's exactly what I'm looking for. I tend to shop in the exact same manner -- though for items under $100 I still have a process of determining the "best" one from the price I'm willing to pay and the reviews.

Thanks for your input.
Not always. I saw some long article about how outsiders can do better, when you need to be tough. Jews in Europe could lend money, and they would be able to put on their "bankers hat" much easier when they needed to collect debts. There were anecdotes of Chinese-Malays, who would wear Malay clothes when socializing, and traditional Chinese clothes when they were collecting debts; so that their debtors knew not to expect any sympathy.

A well-cultivated network might be valuable, but most people's extended social networks have a lot of deadwood.
It's worth noting the Taj Mahal and other Mughal architecture is not just Islamic though.[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_architecture
Same with me (SAT)... It says I have below the median vocabulary. They should have at least had some sort of base standard to compare the voluntary data with so that they could measure their sample drift.
"Meanwhile, this is a terrible outcome for the neighborhood."

Care to quantify that? No indication was made in the article that this guy is (for example) stacking junk cars in the front yard with a forklift, throwing all-night keggers, practicing his drum solos at 3:00am or setting up a meth lab in an unused bedroom. So how, exactly, is the neighborhood impacted? Hell, if he mows the yard that's a net gain...
I'm 23, I took this thing half awake and came in at 24k. I'm not an avid reader. The test seems to pull random words from a dictionary and not words used in a general mannor. Not only that but it messed all the delicious skill-trade grammar I know and love.

Bollocks.
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Great to hear this view applied to maths as well, and curiously enough from someone like Terrance.

I wonder, if you were to ask him if he was born with "an abundance of raw talent" in maths, do you think he would say yes? And if so, I wonder if he has found it partially harmful to his development (as he mentions is a possibility for those with raw talent, and what has been found to be a potentiality by experts). And if so, I wonder if he feels he has had to develop various means (or put forth an unusual amount of effort) in circumventing it?

Alternatively, does he explain his situation as a case of having put forth an amazing amount of effort over the years?

Anyway, this is very much in alignment with recent studies from cognitive scientists and social/developmental psychologists in all sorts of fields, which I'm sure influenced Terrance's view and article here. Cool to hear.
18,100 words, 24 years old, non-native speaker. I've never read a fiction book in English, only technical ones.
Then don't use it. As someone who has never had much experience dealing with Nginx I found this article to be very informative. Most people are smart enough not make public their third party apis. Those who aren't will quickly learn of the problems this may have. However, there are some cases where this could be extremely useful, such as an intranet.
I work, walk, and sleep. I'm consulting fulltime, working on my startup fulltime and have another part-time thing so I don't have a lot of free time. I usually spend weekends working on my startup. When my girlfriend is in town I relax more and take her out.

Lately I've found myself walking a lot around my neighborhood and riding my motorcycle to help clear my mind.

Reading this back to myself... it sounds boring, but I love what I'm working on and feel a pressure to get it out into the world so it doesn't feel boring.
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At some point in my life I was into NLP (neuro-lingustic programming - just few bits of practical psychology.

What I've found - many dreamers do not need to achieve it - they already experienced what they are dreaming about and it is the same as to achieve it for them. It's like watch a trailer for a movie and then get bored in the movie theater..

There is opposite side - people who never dream and find any excuse to not think about possible future..

I believe, right way is in the middle - you have to dream, but only so much to start wanting to get there. And never try to experience the whole thing in a dream.

So we should teach kidos to dream, but only enough to ignite the spark, but not to burn it full.. Have no clue how to do this tho...
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(a feeling not a fact backed by studies that i can remember)

Maybe you're thinking of the Dunning-Kruger effect? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)
29,500, non-native English speaker (but studied in the US). Retook the test and omitted all the words I could not define with total confidence on the spot; the original score was 31,400. The test is peculiar in that the distribution appears to be uneven. Subjectively there is a sharp break between words that one would know from Shakespeare, Tolkien and Dunsany, and words no one would ever know unless they studied the OED. For statistical significance they would need more words.
I was a bit disappointed with 23,700, but it appears to be good for a non-native speaker. My wife, a native English speaker, virtually lapped me at 42,600 words. :)
I grew up in a house like that, in El Paso. Old adobe houses are basically caves: dark, quiet, and much cooler than you expect.
hahah....daddy issues...FTW!!!
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