skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest answer I can give is that spelling and grammar are basically learned facts, sometimes they are single facts (how to spell a single word), sometimes they are rules ("i" before "e"... which ironically is a mostly incorrect rule, but hey it's just an example). As such, why is Person A considered less intelligent for not knowing how to spell "there" vs. "their" than Person B who doesn't know the date on which Hitler shot himself? Or Person C who doesn't know the triple point of water? Or Person D who never learned what the whole P vs. NP thing is about?

The second reason is, in my opinion, the most important: even if you simplify people down to two categories, "people who have fully grasped all spelling/grammar" and "people who have done their best but still fail to get it right", the only way to say that the second group is less intelligent than the first is to massively simplify intelligence, the same way IQ tests do.

If you're a mathematical genius but have terrible spelling, poor social skills, and basically no skills in anything outside maths, are you intelligent? What about if you're a literary giant whose best-sellers are praised by snobby critics and working class teenagers alike, but who couldn't square 15 without a calculator, are you intelligent?

Here's a quote I like:

"But there has always been something opaque about I.Q. In the first place, there’s no consensus about what intelligence is. Some people think intelligence is the ability to adapt to an environment, others that capacity to think abstractly, and so on."

That's taken from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/opinion/14brooks.html?_r=1 which follows nicely on from what I'm saying.

I think I've probably rambled on quite enough, but will just finish on a subjective note. I score high on IQ tests, I'm quick with numbers, I (until getting bored and dropping out of school) got high marks on exams without studying, yet I can think of many people I consider more intelligent than myself who couldn't say what I have just said about myself. Think about it yourself - I think it's unlikely (though possible of course) that you're the most intelligent person you know, even by your own judgement, and of those you rank above yourself, I doubt they all excel in every single area that could be used to judge intelligence.
What would suggest they should have done to stay ahead?
Convention for those wounded in love — Paulo Coelho's Blog
Show HN: Decode a GIF blinking in Morse code
Even internal tooling should be nice to use.
Changing DPI settings still screws up various applications on Windows 7 (fonts on various UI elements don't scale consistently, e.g. Visual Studio 2010 is messed up, games are usually completely broken even modern ones like Starcraft II, etc.) and overall make the system very frustrating to use (especially annoying since I have a pair of IBM T221s capable of 3840x2400). That being said it's still worthwhile when I'm in e.g. Lightroom.
The Prometheus movie website has a blinking star that's showing Morse code as a hint to more teaser content. Take that animated gif, break it into frames, pull out the primary color from each frame's histogram, then requantize the time-variant signal into buckets to finally back out a clean Morse code sequence and then map that into letters and numbers. Fun!
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$100,000k is a lot higher than you would get as a game programmer in most places outside of a handful of really hot markets (Seattle, Vancouver, SV, etc).

Generally speaking expect a 30% pay cut compared to a non-games programmer (varying on what kind of games, zynga-style stuff is highly payed IIRC).
Too high risk, and too costly, but mostly a huge risk. It may triggered an unwanted uncontrolled eruption. Which may destroy the local area, grind European flights to halt, cause global cooling, kill all life... etc.

Also that boiler you want to stick in, will need to be made of some exceptional heat resistant material. And probably be replaced very frequently. Not very easy and very expensive. :)

But Iceland do have a lot of geothermal steam based generators.
As an Indian, i am always envious & jealous of how govt agencies & systems work so much better in the US than in India.
So i was really shocked to see this blog post, after the said govt agency's credibility has been seriously damaged (by the viral video)

"... things that go BOOM"

Are you f*ing kidding me ? Is that how a govt official is supposed to communicate ?
Leave alone the content, but the tone of the post is very crass, insensitive & insulting.

Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly common, even in some of the most liberal cities in the US & the world.. San Francisco bay area.

Check out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890052 & http://bit.ly/bartisevil on the high-handedness of BART PD (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
on that note - "hobbie" should also be "hobby"
We would be able to reason if we had the other historic outcome for the comparison. But since we don't, we go with the "winners don't get judged".

So, as usual, the whole debate will be solved with brute force and whoever wins will get the right to speak like you.
Yeah I thought it was obvious.

Numbers are messy, it's better to have a product represented by its name and have its generation just be a property.

That's why they make the extra effort of saying "third-generation" rather than iPad3. They don't want it to be referred to as an iPad3, just as an iPad.

I was surprised they called the second one iPad2.
Uhh am I the only one here who isn't planning on reading too deeply into this? Seems like TSA got pwnt by lulzsec or anonymous?
I'm not so sure how relevant the economic strength of a nation is in this decision.

It was not that long ago that Ireland was seen as a booming example of economic growth. In a relatively short term that boom has turned sour.

The selection of a domain name is an integral part of your brand and that is LONG term.

Therefore short term fluctuations in economic success should play a muted part in your domain name decision.

The bottom line here is that the direct US controlled TLDs of .com, .net and .org are now slowly becoming poisonous in the branding decision for any company that may risk annoying the RIAA or MPAA with their new "fangled" business model that disrupts the existing media space or their profit margin (or perceived profit margin) in any way.

The US is shooting itself in foot, but personally I find that a good thing. I see this as a great step in reducing the prominence (and worth) of the core TLDs and ICANN.

I find it quite interesting that when it comes to .com names in particular we are coming towards a point where the saturation is so great, there are no viable domains left. Since land is not ubiquitous, saturation means that you are limited to trading those existing properties only, whilst with domain names, we can create a new TLD and start over again. It is like being able to create new land.

As a further analogy, we discover a new M class planet and some of us brave new worlders start moving there. Everyone living on Earth things we are mad (wtf, they have no Starbucks), but who cares right, we have a virgin planet to discover and plenty of new land to stake our claim upon. We get to choose the best bits of land for ourselves before all those Earthlings get fed up of living in their over-populated land and jump on star ships to join us.
For all the worries above, check http://protoapi.com instead :)
Why Visual Basic is Better Than C#
To clear few things up lets discuss why Bootstrap is here.

Bootstrap should be taken as a base where from we can start building our applications right away while being real agile cause it provides us with mostly used design patterns and interactions which if we require can differ from in our design iterations (!imp).
So again its essentially a framework providing some conventional patterns for development which I presume is bit like convention over configuration paradigm.

I would agree with the point that visual style matters as its is something which will molds into your brand identity and must be unique as all products are unique in one way or other. So yes its really a fail when most of the developers choose to maintain same Visual style in their sites which is to me is an utter disrespect of brand identity and something that must be avoided.

>Consistency is good for usability. Again, Button should look like a button, but not so much like other site that user confuses your site with someone else's.

As far as Usability is concerned to my understanding it is not affected in any way by fact that 2 sites have visually similar buttons but it is rather defined on the basis of content they provide and how it is presented(!imp). Difference between usability and visual appearance is quite understood I guess.

You might want to consider reading this post by Dave Winer "Why Bootstrap might be very important" http://scripting.com/stories/2012/03/07/whyBootstrapMightBeV...
and
Twitter Devblog - A brief history https://dev.twitter.com/blog/bootstrap-twitter
Ah, the A.A.Gill technique!

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/lami-loui...
History has proved that any ethic is ineffective by itself and needs to be supported with brute, unethical to others, force
How is it so different use cases? I think an average user would find it very similar. Think, for example, The Oscars photos or the british wedding photos, or AP photos. The only reason it hasn't yet created a stir is because photos are cheaper. Assuming it will gain enough traction, i think pinterest at some point will start some ad revenue sharing programs like youtube.
"I am not trying to draw moral equivalencies here"

Well - like it or not that's how it comes across and I personally find your comparison extremely distasteful.
HN Announce: Meetup in Munich
"We are proud to present..." the next HN Meetup in Munich. :-)

Based on the poll answers (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670514), several emails, and comments with suggestions, we fixed the date, time, and location as follows:

Date:	15 Mar 2012 (Thu)
Time:	18:30 - open-ended
Location:	Couch Club
Klenzestrasse 89
80469 Munich
http://www.couch-club.org/

The HN crowd will have the bar to itself until 20:00 when it will be opened to the general public.

Skoobe (https://www.skoobe.de/) has generously agreed to underwrite the minimum cover.

That means 6m of free pizza for everyone.

If you are interested in giving a short talk, please leave a comment or mail me at meetup@haija.net.

Hope to see you all next week!
Good stuff, thanks for the confirmation! I wonder if Apple will be a powerful new contributor to OSM (I really, really hope so)
CERN closer to probing antihydrogen atom structure
Apple iPhoto maps vs. OpenStreetMap
Opening in response to focus and not accepting focus itself means that it can't be controlled by keyboard (or other not pointer related control device) which could be an issue for disability access.

Admittedly a user forced to use a keyboard could just type in the date so nothing is broken for them other than "interface icing" so it isn't a massive issue, and other than that this looks very nice.

(FYI, I've used http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2011/10/11/unobtrusive-acce... and its predecessor in a couple of projects which is also very nice and is fully non-mouse controllable)
ACLU sues Minnewaska schools, Pope Co. Sheriff over student Facebook incidents
Minnewaska Area district sued by ACLU over student's free speech rights
This is a good point, but it should not go made without mentioning the fact that we need some standards around TOS/privacy policies. Just like for OSS we have licenses that are "known", we have the GPL (v1,2,3), AGPL, BSD, MPL, APL, etc. Many of us now know how these differ. I started believing in this idea when I first read it purposed in a comment here (i.e.on HN). Standards and git-like-versioning seems the only way to bring transparency to these large, seemingly-opaque corporations.

It might be interesting to put the largest internet companies' TOS and privacy policies on github.
Attention, John Carter débarque sur nos écrans aujourd’hui 
John Carter est né sous la plume d’Edgar Rice Burroughs, père de Tarzan. Le héros du roman va se retrouver propulsé sur Mars. Hollywood en a fait un film qui sort aujourd’hui sur nos écrans !
The way they explained the scientific consensus in the article, this isn't so much a selected-for behavior as a disorder in mechanisms that are generally useful, like chameleon behavior (unconsciously imitating others' mannerisms) and empathetic feeling (which helps in forming social bonds).

Evolution doesn't select for diseases, but sometimes it selects for generally-good traits that just happen to be error-prone.
Robot artist 'draws' crowds at world's top tech fair
How to Learn Certified Ethcial Hacking :free download courses ~ hack4urwish
Interesting read.. Assuming people would choose random words in their passphrases always seemed too simplistic and naive.
Hands-on with Apple's New iPad
How Apple squeezed all of that tech into the new iPad
What I found interesting was the neurologist's strategy for getting around this stigma - she would make the analogy to migraines (a common problem that people have no problem associating with mental illness) while reassuring them that she would keep checking for a physical cause.
The most interesting thing in that post was on what they focus. One would have that it was terrorism, but no, they spread their attention by looking for drugs with those body scanners. Feeling safe now.
eBay does this same trick. I opened an account long back, now I am not able to unsubscribe from their list as I do not know the password. To get the password, I have to give the answers to the security questions, which I have already forgotten. Phew.

I have marked their emails as Spam and it straight goes to spam folder.
I completely agree that it is time for NoSQL 2.0 - there are more than 100 different NoSQL datatastores and usually developers choose based on MARKETING - there are no good scientific comparisons on which one is better. This is why I founded the NoSQL alliance at http://NoSQL.org - to standardize and offer unbiased advice of which database to use and why. This is an open source project - please contact me if you would like to participate
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Not to mention the fact that any person alive today is potentially the root of a vast ancestral tree of countless millions of those future unborn, each of which is potentially the root of other vast ancestral trees, and so on...
Ill effects suffered by these people may well be passed on through these generations (sins of the father, so to speak). Or worse, if they do not make it to procreation entire continents of future lives will be snuffed out.
The moral weight of this absurd postulation, if anything, swings toward the past rather than the future.
Central banks are hurting your web business
Of course it has become more expensive to ship bits. More people are finding more uses. Are you deluded or what? How disconnected from reality and how entitled can one be?
It would be better if clicking in the gaps between day boxes would choose the nearest day box, so that the mouse would not flash between arrow and hand while sliding across it (this is a pretty common UX practice, I think it has a specific name).
Could Many Universities Follow Borders into Oblivion?
A real Brogrammer 2.0 uses a NoSQL 2.0 database!
Everybody is dancing around reality: passwords are incompatible with the average person. The best passwords are almost always difficult to memorize and once they are memorized it is costly for us to change them. It's an ill-fitting solution to a social problem.
I don't think this is borne out by reality.

Making a general contracting mistake such as accidentally compromising the structural integrity of a building by making a poor choice on where to run the plumbing can easily result in a lot of work having to be re-done, at significant cost.
Confidence Trickster Bob should go through a con artist scanner. It'd explode.
Can anyone explain why these scripts that do the exact same thing for different browsers are so different? How could one learn to write these things?
Why were you ever proud of something that just happened to you having nothing what so ever to do with any actions you took yourself?
It is a reasonably good hedge, a sufficiently intelligent / shrewd person wouldn't allow themselves to be put in such a situation. It is better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
You chose a poor analogy, barefoot long distance running is becoming rather popular lately. Many runners have completed marathons and clocked competitive times without shoes.
Spanx inventor squeezes on to billionaires' list
YouTube Restricts Video Of Engineer Proving How Useless TSA Scanners Are
You're welcome. There's a pep8 package on PyPI that implements validation against that recommandation and plugins for most popular editors that make it easy to check your code. Editors can also be configured so that pressing the tab key actually inserts 4 spaces.
And when usually the "things that go BOOM" kill people when they do. No context to make jokes about.
A meeting on a thursday... x_X next time please make it a Friday or Saturday ;/
The entire blog post is meant to be as colloquial as possible. What makes you think they wouldn't deliberately include spelling/grammar errors to support this?
See the number of people on HN who use it's when they mean its.

See also the people using English as a second language.

I agree that the blog was awful and reflects really poorly on TSA. There is a big difference between simple English or plain English and bad English.
Yeah! Looking forward to see you all there.
Range Rovers have that too and I think the Jaguar XF.
Excellent!

@HSO: Thanks a lot for putting that together!

@Skoobe, thanks a lot for the sponsoring! Btw, very cool idea your app! I'll give it a run later today :-) !
Google raises maximum size for Android apps to 4GB
It can't be bankrupt - all it has to do is print more money. As Dick Cheney said, deficits don't matter.

Of course, the resulting inflation might drive YOU into bankruptcy (if you're a US citizen). But at least Dick Cheney will be ok.
Why Consumers Pay for Covenience
The vulnerability probably also allowed the attacker to edit the created_at and updated_at columns in the ssh key table.
Why this story stuck out for me:

- Solving her own problem

- Hustle to get out and talk to manufacturers

- Stuck with it for 12 years and obviously learned how to be a (great) CEO

- Still owns 100% of her company

Software may be eating the world but we still need pants.

(edit: I mean pants in the UK sense - e.g. underwear)
The MBP comes with TN, not PVA. PVA is actually a fairly good technology. S-PVA has the darkest blacks of all panels, but is really really slow. You can see the ghosting when the camera pans in a movie.
I'm in a similar position as the grandparent - Java coding in Emacs. For various reasons using a smart Java IDE is a pain in our environment (multilanguage code with Java parts). Emacs just works.

Emacs has working autocomplete from Java, especially with Semantic. It's far away from being as smart as something like IntelliJ, but it works well enough. Most functions and arguments you remember after a while. I can type much faster than I can think, so less autocomplete doesn't slow down. In fact, not having to watch if the autocomplete gets it right frees the brain to think ahead more. Maybe it's because I'm used to this.

Import statements are one of those things where you have to switch to Google, though.
Friction on posting a review is a huge problem. On the flip side, you ask any of your friends "where's a good place to eat tonight?" no doubt they'll have a few reviews in them and promptly let you know some places you should try.

I think this industry needs more of a q&a (quora type) approach where I can ask the same question that I would ask my friends. That way I'm only recommending places (take that as a 4+ star review) and not criticising businesses.

This benefits both customers by show places that have been recommended multiple times as an indicator of quality and business that don't suffer as a result of a bad night or rouge staff member.

This approach makes it easier to actually find what you too because by virtue of the way that place is suggested ("where is a good spot for breakfast?") we already get a ton of meta data.
I've got no opinion on HyperDex but I could barely read that slashdot summary. Just marketing goobly gook.
> they all provide a similar API that achieves high performance and scalability by limiting applications to simple operations like GET and PUT

Seriously? Sounds like the PR firm didn't actually take a look at these other DBs.
>> Don’t read too many tech blogs... Part of the reason, he says, is that many of the bloggers are 23-year-olds who haven’t built a real company yet

Ha - I'm sure will ruffle many, many feathers around here. If we could downvote articles, I'm certain that many here would do so for this reason. And, although I'm sure I'll get downvoted for saying this, I'm pretty sure that those of us who are 35 or older who have built successful companies nodded in agreement as we read that line. I thought I knew a lot at 23 but, at 40 when I look back, I really appreciate just how much "naive exuberance" I had.
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No.

Speaking intuitively, if you can't judge someone's intelligence by their writing ability, what possible measure could you use? Grammatical deficiencies are symptoms of conceptual deficiencies.

Speaking technically, vocabulary tests are some of the most highly g-loaded batteries around:

Different tests in a test battery may correlate with (or
"load onto") the g factor of the battery to different
degrees. These correlations are known as g loadings. An
individual test taker's g factor score can be estimated
using the loadings. Full-scale IQ scores from a test
battery will usually be highly correlated with g factor
scores. For example, the correlations between g factor
scores and full-scale IQ scores from Wechsler's tests
have been found to be greater than .95. The g loadings of
mental tests are always positive and range from slightly
greater than zero to slightly less than unity. Raven's
Progressive Matrices is among the tests with the highest
g loadings, around .80. Tests of vocabulary and general
information are also typically found to have high g
loadings.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_%28psychometrics%29

It's unclear to me what your underlying premises are. We will likely go in circles about whether you believe intelligence can be measured, whether it is meaningful, whether g is a measure of intelligence, whether it differs between individuals and groups, and so on. So let's agree to disagree.

Yet whatever your definition of intelligence, I believe it is hard to deny that the TSA is run by morons.
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Cool, will be there.
US paper: Google to sell Motorola STB business
It's not really obvious you can edit the target URL. Only the page title suggested I could test some other URL.

Also, the output for http://mattkersley.com/ doesn't match in any way his responsiveness test at http://mattkersley.com/responsive/