skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's some semantic confusion here.

1. There are degrees of mutability; "changeable" versus "hard-coded" is a false dichotomy. For instance, I can increase my arithmetic ability with practice, but I'm never going to be able to improve it so much that I can diagonalize huge matrices faster than a computer.

2. Whether or not a belief is depressing has no bearing on whether or not it is true.

So I would reframe the question a bit: to what extent can IQ be changed? How reliable are the tests? And if we can improve IQ, what's the best way to do it? For example, childhood malnutrition can lower IQ, so improving childhood nutrition can pay off big. The Flynn effect -- the rise in IQ scores over time -- suggests that there are other things that can raise people's IQ as well, so if we can find and exploit those, and they actually raise intelligence, then that would be great.
Correlates somewhat to academic performance, lifetime earning, SAT scores etc...
* now for preorder. Delivering on revolutionary hardware is often harder than expected. I really want to buy one, but am hesitant to put down full price without something shipped on a new company.
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Just a mistake I think. Finnish doesn't really have any "special" characters except ä and ö. (Torvalds is written just the same in Finnish; besides I think it's a Swedish name anyway)
They're working on an Android app. Hopefully it'll be out soon.
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Nice site, clearly written and straight to the point. However I agree with the sentiment that, if it indeed addresses a problem, it tackles it from the wrong angle.

The problem this introduces is that it's useless unless people only email you by replying. If they're replying to you it's probably important, and you don't want to tell someone not to reply or to reply later. And to expect someone to do that is unreasonable.

If someone emails you direct, they don't see your signature. So it doesn't fulfil its purpose then.

Finally, an overflowing inbox shouldn't be the responsibility of someone trying to contact you. Things like labels, filters and priority flags are all tools used by email clients to allow the user/recipient to establish a system to manage large amounts of email that is most suitable for them.

You can't expect the sender to help you manage your time better. And thus if this servie is useful to you, I'd be more inclined to think your email client isn't being worked hard enough.
With regards to #2 on your list "Yelp for Business Services" there is a company called Contact Karma http://www.contactkarma.com/ which aims to do something along the lines of what you're looking for. My company will also eventually be in the space and allow you to search and discover recommendations through friends and friends of friends in your social networks. For the most part we're restaurants, entertainment, and services for now while we perfect the data but you can see if you're connected in anyway by checking out http://www.cliqsearch.com
Not going to be cheap enough to do a plug here ;-) but I had exactly the same comment from someone about 1.9 Walkthrough today (that is, warts and all live coding with only minor editing). So perhaps there are legs to this approach! :-)
- facebook and/or google may not be around forever

- my account with facebook and/or google could get disabled by them on a whim,
severing my link with the Khan academy

- there is no upside to me to log in with a facebook
and/or google account

- there is a downside, which is that I have to sign up for a different service, that
I may have valid reasons for not wanting to join (in the case of fb that does not
require a whole lot of imagination)

And so on.

Really, when you only allow people to log in to your site by forcing them to become a member of another site first you are creating a barrier that need not exist.

I'm sure there are plenty of valid reasons for them why they do it this way (possibly, for instance because google and facebook do a lot of work to ensure that their accounts are only given out to those that deserve it, thereby cutting out on spam), but for me it does not work.

For sure that is a small minorities, but small minorities are at least still allowed to speak up. Good thing HN does not require a facebook or a google login.
Unless its 2001 and your company's documentation is stored on a shared drive. Heck, when I graduated in 2009, my college was still keeping all of its documents in a maze of ntfs shares.

You don't have to be the first to lay the groundwork either.
#1 reminds me of a reverse Selenium test :)
So the carrier phase is derived from the Cs/Rb clocks on the satellites? That's pretty neat, if so.
They do, via their services. You visit X site, and read it's content. Your browser makes requests for various files, and the server hands it to you. If site X uses site Y, and you fetch site Y files, you are still using site X.
It's reasonably obvious. The option appears on the screen you get as soon as you choose your passcode.
If you apply current legal precedents IRT torrents, then yes, they are guilt of drug distribution.

I think maybe you misunderstood my line of questioning, you proved my point exactly.
That was an AND, not an OR.
My straw polls (or "market research" if I ever needed to big it up ;-)) showed a general dislike (though not strongly) for live video throughout a screencast but including portions was OK. That said, everything Gregg Pollack does seems to have him in it the whole time, and he's doing OK ;-)

I avoid it mostly because it adds overhead to the file size. You can crunch down a screen / presentation only screencast to pretty incredible sizes with H264 but as soon as you mix in live video, you either need to sacrifice its quality severely or put up with large files.
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#1 - doesn't Clicktale do exactly this?

I secretly love watching the thought process of people as they fill out a form.
I HATE when a website tries to prevent me from leaving with the back button.
For example, I can deal with Apple's brushed metal, but who thought a faux leather GUI was a good idea??
Well actually, the N9's been promoted a bit around Australia, as far as I can see. I've been seeing ads for it on public transport, both in buses and at major train stations.

Makes me wonder why they'd be bothering with throwing these advertising dollars around if the N9 ecosystem is pretty much doomed anyway.
If I've understood #1 correctly, this year's node knockout winner does exactly this. http://observer.no.de/features

The demo appears to be buggy, but they seem to have something substantial in the works. From the website:

Please note that Observer was build during the Node Knock Out, a 48 hour coding competition. The commercial version currently in developement, this free service will stay online as long as there are resources to support it.

update: ClickTale does this perfectly, down creating playable videos. http://www.clicktale.com/
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I believe he is referring to people hungry for knowledge.
I second that the name "bing" is unfortunate. It sounds Chinese but the only words pronounced bing in Chinese are things like "being sick", "sad", or "nightmare"; it's not a good name.
My apologies - I thought apt started getting traction around 2004/05. Thanks for the info.
Symbian Belle. Basically, it's on Android level now. They did the whole interface from ground up using Qt and GPU acceleration. The earlier versions were really horrible though.
I'm curious. Out of the total amount of people you surveyed before building this, what percentage raised their hands and said they would use it?
In some places breach of fiduciary duty is a criminal offense. So you may very well end up in jail.

I'm not sure there is adequate compensation for a risk like that. Being the 8th largest shareholder of MSFT might do the trick for some individuals but that's just another version of 'every man has his price'. For me I hope I'll never learn mine.
The real Facebook.
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The contest starts from tomorrow :
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Believe it or not, sometimes we code for purposes other than selling stuff.
I'm sort of shocked that you're shocked. The rigid and inflexible architecture of systems like Rails and Django are the primary reasons for WP's success. There's a reason WP has more themes and plugins than these other systems, and that reason is ease-of-programming.

Every time I see some programmers advocating the use of highly rigid architectures or programming models, I'm forced to remind myself of Lisp. Lisp is the programming language. Lisp created most of the fundamental constructs you see in modern programming languages today. It's quite possible to do damn near anything in it, and it's arguably as close to the perfect mathematical construct of a computer language that can be made. It's a bit rigid and weird in it's syntax, but the list model is just great once you wrap your head around it.

On the other hand, the language that is clearly the most successful one ever is C, and it has often been argued to be the worst language ever. It has arcane syntax, it requires detailed knowledge of memory pointers and other oddities, and it's very much a lower level language. And yet it is clearly the most successful language ever. Why? Not because of its model or architecture (which are frankly terrible), but because of its flexibility. Programmers both inexperienced and experienced can use it to produce powerful systems. It covers the whole gamut of skill levels.

That's the problem with rigid architectures. Programmers tend to flock to them as they become better at their craft, because they provide organization and a system of management of the large scale code they're creating. But inexperienced programmers find the learning curve just a bit too steep.

You can't go from "Hello World" to creating a new WP theme in an MVC style. But you can go from basic HTML and PHP knowledge to creating a theme modification or a plugin. It may not be the technically best solution, but by god it'll get the job done for now. Speed of delivery matters, and if the choice is between doing-it-right and doing-it-right-now when you have a deadline and need to get paid, guess which path is going to get chosen?

Code has a limited life expectancy. It doesn't survive long in the wild, and this time is more and more frequently measured in years, not decades. So it doesn't make a lot of sense, in the long run, to spend extra time to build around a large framework when, damnit, we've got work to do. Every moment you spend learning yet-another-framework is a moment you didn't spend creating the next product and earning the next dollar.

Systems that are fast to learn and flexible enough to get the job done quickly always win over systems that are rigid and hard-to-learn.
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Congrats to ZeroCater on their first "X for Y" appearance
And at its worst, Apple gives us faux leather GUIs.
> It's reasonably obvious.

You know what else is reasonably obvious? Those checkboxes saying "Yes, I want to also subscribe to this other site for an addition 29.95", pre-checked on the final checkout screen.

It's not reasonably obvious that after turning the passcode on, that it effectively doesn't secure anything, and it's irresponsible to think that way.
It would be nice if the OS could expose at least a rough idea of how much / when data per app is used. People don't realize until they see nice graphs. Once they know where to look, it would put much more pressure on application developers.
The curse of not living in The United States raises it head again. I would gladly lay cash down today for the preorder.
But he was considered a "Microsoft Mole" for some things he did at both HP and SGI. Heck there's even an Urban Dictionary term "belluzzo" named for this act after him.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=belluzzo&...
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One of the few sites, where I don't need to use my iReader chrome extension to read the text. I love the font and the hyphenation using the sweet-justice JS script seems to work out great.
Selling data is not the problem; the problem is the emerging social norm whereby letting data about your life be aggregated and mined proves you are a trustworthy person. We are already at the stage where simply not having a social networking presence makes you suspect.

Eric Schmidt's "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" and Randi Zuckerberg's "I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away" are some choice quotes that should give anyone pause.

"Go ahead, sell my data" doesn't bother me. "How come you aren't putting yourself out there and letting your data be sold like the rest of us" bothers me.
in my opinion, "taught" seems to imply that siri can actively learn. though siri is an intelligent agent which does speech recognition (firmly planting it in the world of AI), i am under the impression that siri does not actively learn and so saying "taught" in the context of speaking about an AI could be construed as misleading. i could be mistaken about whether siri can do "learning" or not, as i'm not intimately familiar with the tech.
NYT: Groupon seeks $12B valuation
And #4 seems to correspond to http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html.
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#4 - Cloud9 seems to fit the bill http://c9.io
This is based on http://www.box.net/shared/static/a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3o8m.jpg
How does AngiesList not satisfy #2?

Seems to me that this article could be a little less manna-from-heaven and more inclusive of the unmentioned-but-existent.
Pencils vs. Pens
> recommendations through friends and friends of friends

So kind of like http://www.gigpark.com/ (which is arguably something like "Yelp for (Business and other types of) Services").
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"…once it’s available on devices"

Meaning: November. Basically, they won't hold it back like Honeycomb, this isn't a rush job.
I love the idea. Mainly because one of the biggest problems in our country (the US) right now is a complete breakdown in consumer confidence. People with money are sitting on it, afraid to spend or invest because they are afraid at any moment that the bottom could fall out.

Getting people to invest in micro-amounts at a large scale could unlock a lot of credit for small businesses that could use it to grow. I don't necessarily think that it is going to turn the economy around, but thanks to Howard Schultz for making a concerted effort to do what he can to help.
I think it is generally understood by psychologists, sociologists and statisticians that intelligence is not something that you can "measure". Nobody in the know even pretends that.

What happens is that people would rather put faith in the correlation between IQ scores and intelligence, rather than nothing at all. It's annoying as hell as IMHO a +/- 15 points doesn't mean anything, but that doesn't stop people making decisions based on that. On the other hand you can clearly say that somebody with an IQ of 240 is gifted or that somebody with an IQ of 60 is challenged.

The problem with SAT scores is that people doing well on it are the people fresh out of high-school. You cannot give a SAT test to somebody that's been 10 years out of high-school or to a 10 year old.
I really like their idea of a facebook app that lets my friends play with the focus. Stroke of marketing genius if you ask me.
That's one side of things. Knowing that you drink heavily on weekends might raise your insurance premiums as well... every little bit of data can go one way or the other, and it's not true that they are already assuming the worst about everyone, or we wouldn't be insurable.
I never got to understand all that maemo, symbian, meego operating system differences. Couldn't they just use linux and get some QML frontend in front of it. It seems really a lack of direction/duplication of efforts.
I guess this is a kind of Shopify with affiliates' data.

I think you're going to have to do a lot more with the designs, by which I mean you need a lot of good templates.

You could try to encourage designers to submit designs, you might have to curate them yourselves for quality, but some form of template structure would be required. It's going to be some "off topic" work to set that up, and you'll have to somehow provide an incentive for the designers to do something though.

Polyvore springs to mind, because actually it gives college fashion students a great way to experiment with colours, layout and design, I'm sure there's a complex engine behind that though. (Those guys are ex-Yahoo.) The point being, that students can be a great source of content, if you give them the right tools/incentive
I also think that it is an incredible marketing opportunity for Starbucks. For $5 million, they (rightly so) are viewed as patriots, and people (myself included) feel compelled to support them over their competitors.
Disco: a python/erlang implementation of the Map-Reduce framework
The best part is at the very bottom... if you think it's TL;DR, you could have missed a lot of points.
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Well, that's just experience. After a while, you lose your confidence that you are the new hawtness, and you start seeing all the ways things can go wrong... and ways you can avoid them.
Yes, I thought that might be the case - and I createda passcode after I typed this and this is true -- however it still does not allow you to access photos through the process I described. It shows you a locked screen.
There are two data sets, one from newrelic and one from gemstats.org. So, in short, no, it's not. It is, however, biased to the Rails community and web-apps in general, but this was mentioned. If you know a way to get a sampling of non-Rails usage, feel free to suggest.
"Money is simply a proxy for the value of the goods/services they produce for the society."

If that's true, explain drug money.

I'm being serious.

Money is a decent proxy, but not perfect. It's important to remember that. It's good at measuring quantity, not quality.
Dumping Symbian made a lot of sense. Replacing it with MeeGo seemed like a decent idea, but it was never clear if MeeGo was really ready to replace it (thought early reviews of the N9 made it look promising at least), and Nokia wasn't ready to dump Symbian. Ditching both for something else was a hard call, but probably wasn't the wrong one.

But, why announce when he did. The chosen OS wasn't out at the time, and Nokia had just gotten ready to ship their shiny new MeeGo flagship as well as a handful of new Symbian handsets. That announcement basically made all these new devices worthless. He could have at least kept the announcement silent for 6 months and see if the phones gained any traction. You can argue that they wouldn't have, but at least their sales numbers would have looked better. His timing was terrible; HP terrible.

And why WP? The OS wasn't finished and was missing some pretty basic features when it finally was launched. As countless people have said already, Android would have made a lot more sense here. They could have customized it and potentially even brought Symbian apps over and it had the added advantage of already having a solid foothold in the market.
A real IQ test is a decent measure of general intelligence. It does, however, take a trained professional several hours to administer - precisely because this is necessary to counter most of the criticisms levelled at "IQ tests are crap". Components of the IQ test can also be used to track individual aptitudes. But because it's so resource intensive to conduct, pretty much any time you've heard someone say "My IQ is -foo-", you can be fairly sure it's not from the formal test.

Everything else that calls itself an IQ test is really a form of pop science quiz and of course has flaws. Any test that you're supposed to administer yourself is not the IQ test - that's the easiest first step.
Flash ads are the moral equivalent of hot linking
Subjectively (I casually watch htop), since I recently installed the FlashBlock plugin in Firefox, my CPU use and therefore the fan use has gone down noticeably on my laptop.

I don't block ads, just flash. And I see that a lot of the ads, on sites that I tab up and leave for later, are/were flash.

I don't mind ads (much), but if you're going to over use my machine for your ad, just to make it annoyingly noticeable or to track me, well, that's just wrong.

FlashBlock: ask for it by name.
- the likelihood of Facebook or Google disappearing anytime soon is very minimal

- the stories of disabled accounts are vastly over-hyped, and the likelihood of it happening are almost nil

- there is significant upside for you to use your Facebook or Google account to signup/login with a service. Much less work, it's one click to login after you authorize it every time, no need to have another login/pass combo, and if you wish to no longer use the site, it's easy to disable

- most people have a Facebook or Google already, especially KA's market

The effort to create and maintain signups/logins separately for KA vs using existing drop-in solutions for both Google & FB makes the decision obvious. This is a much more convenient solution for both the users and devs of KA.

HN does not require but does allow you to use a similiar login scheme with Clickpass.
We're concerned about the upgrade path, but so far we've upgraded from 3.1 to current without any issues.

MTV can break a lot of plugins that filter front-end output. But it depends on how you use it. It doesn't have to.

We like having function exports be hard-coded. Making all functions available to the templating engine is unnecessary. It's pretty trivial to declare new functions to use in the templates, and it doesn't have to be done in the MTV plugin, you can declare those in your theme or plugin.

We are always involved with our end users and we design the templates. Our users can't install plugins or themes and we typically lock down lots of settings. So we don't mind if we break template tags because we have complete control over how our sites are used.

MTV has it's own template structure and supports all sorts of template inheritance. That all comes from Twig. It also supports child theme inheritance, if you're using MTV to build your themes all of your themes.

We've tried to get around the future-update-breaking-shit issue by making the core of MTV sit on top of WordPress. It's totally possible to build an app with MTV and no WordPress.

Again - MTV works for us, but won't work for everyone. And it's really only useful if you're gonna build a site from scratch.
4. An iPhone code editor with Github / Heroku integration

Can kind of be solved by using iSSH or any other SSH client for the iphone. If you've got a bluetooth keyboard then it's pretty handy.
They're just fricking phones, why do we care so much about this?
The problem with this approach is that I would not want to auto-reply to every message, particularly not group lists or important people who expect their stuff to be read on time. I think smokesignal is a lot more subtle.
It's unconventional, not low:

"Light Field Resolution: 11 Megarays: the number of light rays captured by the light field sensor."
Microsoft dishing out free first-gen WP7 handsets at its stores
at a conference i talked with some nokia devs, two funny stories.

1) the N9 (the meego phone) will never be released in an english speaking country as marketing fears the tech blogger will write even more crap about their strategy change - as it is a quiete decent phone

2) even though the code for the N9 they do not get any test devices, the code in a very rudimentary ide only, as there is a no Meego phone for devs anymore policy

on the other hamd, he was quiete drunk and frustrated so i do not know how mich of it is true
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