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Parental income and child intelligence are correlated, but the direct causal relationship is (I suspect) extremely weak except at the low-end extreme. The real relationship between these two variables is dominated by parental intelligence: smarter parents have smarter children (with a very strong correlation), and smarter parents earn more money (with a reasonably strong correlation).

Once the parents are picked, earning a little more money won't do much to make the children smarter. If anything it might make them dumber, since those extra hours spent at work are much better spent with your children.
here's the announcement for that:

https://plus.google.com/101560853443212199687/posts/BbbJc6tB...
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I wrote this visualization for simple, fixed rate loans to help me, well, visualize the payback schedule of the loan. I can't seem to resist writing small calculator apps, they are the 20 minute blog demo of data.
You don't have a right not to leave evidence. If you did, destruction of evidence wouldn't be a crime.
In my experience a huge .vimrc loading tons of plugins is not much. It's completely dwarfed by the overhead of starting X11 gvim, for example.
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This seems like an exciting decade we are about to enter where hackers can mess with actual physical infrastructure. Sooner or later somebody is going to do something really destructive with that power.

Fortunately it shouldn't be that hard to secure the systems. At the very least use a two factor authentication system, if possible the same way gmail does since it is pretty simple, or just store the passwords in a big physical folder and access as necessary.
That's kind of ridiculous to say that since Woz bought a Galaxy Nexus he's turning his back on Apple.

It seems to me that Woz likes technology in all forms.
These are well done, but the idea's been floating around social-media sites for a while now. I'm not sure where exactly it started, but it's been a meme on Reddit for people to find childhood photos and pose to recreate them. This is basically a professional version of that, it seems. Though, interestingly, it comes across with a different aesthetic, which I do like better. The Reddit ones often seem jokey, while these come across as oddly surreal/timeless.
It's easier to break fingers than it is to break codes.
The post is not very good.

Jobs was a visionary but he most certainly stood on other ideas that people already had. BUT THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. He took other people's ideas and made them revolutionary.

Macintosh was someone else's idea that he hijacked, and made better, but he also caused a lot of divisiveness because of it, and this ultimately caused him being kicked out of Apple.

He bought Pixar because of its hardware and software. Not because of the animation. He even admitted that if he knew that the hardware and software wasn't going to be successful, he never would have bought Pixar in the first place.

I could go on and on. Even the iPad was because of the dinner he had at some MSFT employee's house. And Apple Stores was still a store, just reimagined to make it cater to what people wanted.

Steve Jobs was an artist. He WAS an engineer, and he WAS a designer. People forget that he was into electronics just as much as Wozniak was, except Wozniak was better. He did design many elements of Apple products which is why he is on 200+ patents. His gift was being able to apply his sense of artistry to technology and make it truly beautiful, without much compromise in his vision. His artistry and unwillingness to compromise was also a curse when he almost ran out of money funding Next. He was wrong often and struck out a lot, but when he was right, they were home runs.
That's certainly true. If you're being held without trial, you're beyond the help of most technologies and pesky legal restrictions.
Creativity and effort taken to recreate the same situations on the photos. Personally I found this very interesting, and it certainly 'gratified my intellectual curiosity', so IMO it's on-topic by the rules.
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Yes, alas.
Exactly what good does "two factor authentication" do when every verb in the protocol was designed with the assumption that the protocol would only ever be addressed with an authorized client? These things are insecure by design, insecure in implementation, and insecure at deployment. Don't trivialize the problem; it's immense.

Maybe password theft was involved this time, but that's a trivial detail. I don't feel like endorsing feel-good measures. A lot of this code really needs to be forklifted out, which is a fact made especially painful because a lot of this code is already pushing the limits of the 8 bit TI microcontrollers it runs on.
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This is fricking awesome. For some reason, I really love 'back to the future' 'before and after' photographs.

One thing I noticed its how good the Argentinians age.
I think it lies in the the additional concerns we have as female entrepreneurs. I don’t just worry about my companies’ success, our cash flow, next steps and networking. I also worry about staying in close touch with friends, making sure I get to spend enough time connecting with my family, staying in shape and looking pulled together at all times, my personal brand, meeting a good guy and about a dozen other things that are floating through my head throughout the day.

because guys don't worry about any similar things? please
I did that with a $50 bill once on my company's big office copier just to see what it would look like (uh, I swear) and was pretty floored when I saw the copy come out with stripes through it. I tried it with every other denomination I could find, and if I remember correctly bills at or below $5 don't have that feature (at least not at the time).
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Solar Energy is a lawn technique of generating electrical energy.
World's youngest Mac app developer (12) scatters Angry Birds
They are. Handset sales don't correlate to app sales.
Both of you, stop it.

Take it to reddit/r/particularlyinaptandodiouspolitics
The real crime here is there is no documented law these companies are following.

They are obviously doing it under legal pressure - so where is the law on the books?

This means it's a secret law that (at least the) American public is unable to inspect and attempt to abolish.

Perhaps it's a secret part of the DMCA? What other laws do we not know about?
He is working on a cure for Malaria. Jobs did what?
The fate of MySpace suggests otherwise. The existence of radio stations exuberantly announcing "commercial free this hour!" suggests otherwise. The prevalence of adblock suggests otherwise.

Ads are inherently disruptive, most people DO mind them under many circumstances. And sometimes, even people who wouldn't mind them still have their experience disrupted by their presence. The other day I was trying to read an article, and some programming glitch caused a nearby ad to expand over the article text and I wasn't able to get rid of it without reloading the entire page. It's true there is some threshold of advertising under which people genuinely appreciate and show interest in the content. That threshold is certainly lower than you think.

Most people hate ads, they're merely willing to put up with them in exchange for the content. The question isn't whether someone who minds ads is an "outlier" or not, the question is how many "outliers" are there. My guess: you don't actually know the answer to that.
The first paragraph of the article is in conflict with the headline:

"The positive effects were seen only in older siblings, not in younger ones."

So the headline is false.

Your "kids" won't be smarter.

But maybe the older one will be.

Then the rest of the article just fills space.

It's linkbait, which is my expectation with anything from Freakonomics.

My problem is that their headlines are disseminated as gospel and repeated verbatim thousands or millions of times, until that headline becomes a truth.

And winds up in a parenting book.

And causes somebody to make a decision based on false data.

Maybe I have too active an imagination, but this just gets under my skin.
Well, I can't really respond to personal attacks with
anything other than 'NUH-UH!'.

We're just coming from radically different assumptions.

I've been there, thinking my vote mattered, thinking that conservatives just needed some enlightenment (if you prefer the converse - thinking that progressives just need some experience with the real world). Thinking that change happens eventually once enough people wake up and get the message.

But then I realized that we're all just fighting ourselves over surface issues. So much passion is poured into arguing to preserve the littlest bits of freedom while the pedagogues fan the simplistic tyranny of the other "side's" masses. Meanwhile, the organizations seeking increased importance and authority keep their eyes on the prize and offer their 'solutions' to the complex fundamental meta-issues. A battle may be won from time to time, but the system's invasion of and control over your life ratchets ever forward.

I certainly don't have a concrete solution to this whole mess, but the least I can do is avoid contributing to its legitimacy.
Ask HN: How did you start working from home?
I've been wanting to work from home for a long time, whether it be as a remote worker, entrepreneur, freelancer, whatever. The more I thought about it, the more I realized there has to be more people like me on HN.

So to all the people that are working from home (or have in the past), can you share how you got to that point (working from home) and if it was a positive experience? Looking forward to hearing how you did it!
Woz collects his Galaxy Nexus early from Google
I like that conceit in the abstract, but I don't think this site even passes that. Does is display a significant talent in that there are many pictures from many sources with all the same theme?

Doesn't this site just display an ascetically interesting element that is easily replicable.

That isn't to say it isn't nice to look at, but is it more than that from the perspective of HN? How does this differ from any other artistic tumbler blog.

(This is not meant as a dig against the creator of this site. Only a question of this sites relevance in regard to HN. After all it is friday, maybe I should just get over it...)
find the store_types such that at least one store of that type exists in at least one city?

this is probably nerd sniping :(
Contemptible.
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Sure, any anti-counterfeit measure can be beaten, but it is certainly possible to design banknotes in such a way that consumer-grade printers can't produce anything remotely resembling a real banknote. Then there will be no excuse for spying on citizens' everyday printing activities.

The fact that this alternative is not even on the table adds to the impression that the U.S. government, as usual, is trying to use Big Bro techniques as a quick fix instead of coming up with real solutions.

BTW, I'm not sure if anyone prints fake Canadian money, but a few years ago some dude in Germany tried to print millions of dollars worth of fake Canadian Tire money :)
Then there are two of us, as I don't ever, ever consider ads even if I'm (rarely) on the Internet to buy something. I mean... since when did we start to trust advertisements?
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Cost 600 bucks. How does that help civilization. Oh maybe a few well pampered hipster's children get access to it, but how does that work for the rest of the world that averages 2 bucks a day income levels?
As a Canadian I can't stand your attempt at humour (sarcasm++).

The Canadian mint actually produces a lot of coinage for other countries, is one of the most advanced in new techs, etc. They tend to sell out all of their collection coins, especially the large gold ones (including a 1kg coin).

The game of making it hard enough/expensive enough to have it not worthwhile is the goal of every currency. The new 100$ bill definitely succeeds.
I 100% agree. I'm basically finished the book (2 more chapters to go, but I skipped ahead to the last 2 chapters out of boredom). It reads like 2 different books: before coming back to Apple the second time, and after.

The first half really makes him look like an utter wretch, and almost suggests that his success was a mistake. It basically talks about what an asshole Jobs was, and how he would yell at everyone, etc, and it wouldn't talk about what actually made him a success in his early years. There was almost nothing on it, just anecdotes from people about how he smelled, he was rude, he cried all the time, and made people hate him. I would have loved a more balanced approach to hearing about how he was able to bring the Macintosh team together through inspiration. It basically felt like "Jobs was able to get the Macintosh team together by manipulating and exploiting them with his reality distortion field." I didn't find it very good at all. I also would have liked to have read more about NeXT and what problems he had besides overspending, etc. Were there successes?

The second half of the book was more interesting, because it stopped ragging on Jobs being an asshole and talked more about what he did. There were far more anecdotes, I guess maybe because he interviewed more people from this era. But at least I got a sense of what he actually did for Apple, vs feeling like he was more lucky than good.

Overall, I think the biography stunk. It's useful in that he did get access to Jobs in the final months, and getting insight into his illness, etc, was interesting and sad, but still overall I think he did a very poor job, especially about the early years.
Also in Australia, at a bare minimum. I'm remembering the banker gaffe from a few months ago.
We are not talking about evidence here, we are talking about information that at some point may be considered evidence.

That is a big difference.
We need another communication platform... fb/Twitter/email don't cut it
we have created so many ways of pushing/pulling content from friends/followers, but often these are closed networks - my friends are your friends... we follow the same thing. how do you reach actual communities - like your neighborhood?

we've tried to solve this problem with a website called http://skychalk.com, and we'd love your feedback.

ours is a new spin on sharing - you post something to a location - like fastening a flyer to a tree - and people view information by location.

please give us your thoughts / feedback - do we need to talk to our neighbors? do we already have too many avenues of communication? is there room for another platform?

thanks for reading!
I think a little of both.

1. She had no clue who this guy was suddenly staring at her 2. Didn't know Wikipedia needs $
My complaint isn't so much that Google+ isn't developed as what they are developing and releasing has been very underwhelming and lacks any cohesive path to increasing engagement.

Almost all successful social networks that succeed have relatively high engagement from the get go. Notice, I said engagement and not user-base(that usually takes time to grow and understandably so). Google+'s engagement sucks. And their user-base numbers are bloated: google can stick a call-to-action to any service on their homepage and claim millions of signups overnight. It speaks more about Google the search engine and almost nothing about Google+'s success.
Photos of topless women are usually not suitable in most western workplaces.
working from home is fun for about 4 weeks... then you start to go stir crazy. i've actually started having problems sleeping since there is no difference between work/rest spaces
Nah, its just arty creative, not hacker creative.
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Being a not-for-profit doesn't mean no adverts. If they went down the advert road, they could pull the ads as soon as their yearly budget is met.
I grew up playing a lot of educational games. Some of them were great, others not so much. My favorite by far though, was The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis [1]. It was fun, and it wasn't forceful in trying to "teach" things, but it did force me to think logically and consistently, and did a good job of ramping up the difficulty at appropriate times.

On the other hand, you have games like Jump Start Second Grade [2], which are incredibly forceful in trying to "teach". I can't remember learning anything from them.

I think the big difference between these games was that in one case, there is a finite set of actions that one can perform and all that the player learns is the result of one of those actions (jump start second grade). In the other case, there is a much larger set of actions, where there is not one right answer, but instead lots of correct actions, which are correct because they follow consistent and rigorously defined criteria (The logical journey of the zoombinis).

This may just be a personality trait for me, but I still have this preference. It's why I prefer Minecraft to Final Fantasy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Journey_Of_The_Zoombini...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart_2nd_Grade
This is really a silly article. I would really recommend that you guys read Gladwell's piece as it is at least well written. Gruber's Fireball is mostly thrown at straw-men.

Gladwell makes a distinction between "visionaries" who invent new things and "tweakers" who refine, perfect and make new inventions work. Gladwell proceeds to argue that Jobs falls into the tweaker category.

Gruber keeps talking about "innovations", a word Gladwell does not use, without bothering to explain what he means by it or how it is different from Gladwell's idea of "tweaks." But he has no problems claiming that Jobs "innovations" were not tweaks. He asks: "Does anyone really think Apple’s entry into the music industry was a 'tweak'?" Yes, according to Gladwell's definition of the term it was. It seems that Gruber did not bother to try to understand what Gladwell meant by the term "tweak."
That may be true but the assertion was that open systems tend to win. If you add the premise "except when there are external factors", there is really no argument left.
This was especially cool for me because I have an account with 23andme, and this SNP is sequenced with them. If you're also on 23andme you can see what your genotype is: https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/snp/?snp_name=rs53576

I'm AA, meaning I have the least empathetic phenotype.
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Actually, he's funding the work, not curing Malaria himself. And he's doing that in order to redeem his legacy, something that wouldn't be necessary (redeeming his legacy, not curing Malaria) had he not made Microsoft in the first place.

And, BTW, he didn't invent this idea of amassing vast resources with shady deals and then becoming a philanthropist and redeem himself with this. Andrew Carnegie did it first.
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I followed the link, looked at the site, enjoyed the images, then came back here and flagged the story.

Just because I find the site interesting doesn't mean it belongs here.
good, hopefully this can spell the end of these asshats digging around in everyone's data
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People do want this. You want this. It's a desktop and you use it every day. It doesn't do what you or your friends want exactly and is bloated ... you should be able to collaborate on the design (toolbars, icons, menus, trashcan, background, taskbars, etc) using universal stuff like HTML5 + Javascript (feel free to debate the "programability" of those). It can run locally just like your current system does ... it just needs to be completely separate from your browser. It's your brain, man.

Or let these people keep doing it for you: http://tinyurl.com/office-park
it's odd she'd want to give up equity considering she already has access (most likely) to plenty of sources of cash... and she should have connections...

very strange!
> Most people click on ads.

Never met one.

> Also it's kind of an antisocial thing to do, depriving free websites of income.

Personally, it saddens me that we have to put up with all this electricity-wasting advertising crap in order to have free websites. It seems that one of the most useful tools of humanity needs to look ugly just in order to stay alive. I'd be very happy if we ever find a better solution.
> Even the iPad was because of the dinner he had at some MSFT employee's house.

I call bullshit. Steve was interested in tablets since learning about Alan Kay's DynaBook concept in the 70's. The MSFT engineer angered him into pursuing the concept sooner, nothing more.
Unless you are in the same room as the computer I'd consider it rather unlikely that you will be able to turn it off in case of a raid.
Yes, absolutely - I'm not contradicting his assessment of it in his own eyes. I think if you've been fed a diet of continuous iPad for 2 years you're probably going to hate the Kindle Fire.

The only thing I disagree with is extrapolating this sentiment into any kind of prediction about whether the Kindle Fire will succeed or fail in the market (which is more related to what people are commenting on his post than what Marco says himself).
Although I really liked Graffiti on the Palm, I think I may be faster on the iPhone keyboard (especially with the basic autocorrect stuff turned on). I wish there was a way to try graffiti on the iPhone and do some basic typing tests to see for myself.

On the other hand, I get really frustrated with the autocorrect on the iPhone. It correct proper nouns FAR too often.
Seems actually pretty cool, though no-one near me using it yet.
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I don't know how or why this story got out, but I think it's completely inappropriate to call out a team for not making the cut. It's hard enough as it is to put yourself out there and apply, but making news of an unsuccessful application makes it that much more daunting for someone to even decide to give it a shot.

I hope this article doesn't discourage people from applying in the future.

-Arielle Zuckerberg
You are correct about the usefulness of advertising but I think you are wrong about people's perception of advertising and its influence on them.

Most people will not admit to being influenced by advertising and they'll rarely admit to clicking on them.