skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two possible improvements, that I think may be original (thought I probably missed it in the article and comments)

1) A hit or miss of a letter tells you a lot about what the new subsequent optimal guess is. You could make a flow chart (a really big one) that shows you the optimal letter to call out next based on what has hit and missed.

2) the position that a letter has hit tells you a lot about the target word. if you have a computer, the regex becomes trivial to identify the next optimal letter to guess. an 'optimal' table could be generated based off this pattern, and it would be a huge table.

I kept feeling like every step of the way it was an infomercial, 'but wait... there's more!' and I like that, it got me thinking.

I'd love to have my hangman bot go head to head with yours on random words. that would be a fun little project.
If WSJ had a Mashable style Twitter avatar...
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No, Google didn't make 4x off the iPhone versus Android
wow this is really well made.
"...it is no longer a universal platform." Was it ever ?

When the PC had 99%+ of the web browsing traffic, it pretty much was as close as anyone has got to a universal platform.
> It just turns out that whatever IQ does measure correlates heavily with income

Yes, also with high job performance. Actually, IQ correlates with income regardless of family background. That's exactly why it's useful.

I tried to pry the source from JSTOR but failed miserably so here's a crappy pdf copy of "Income Inequality and IQ" http://www.aei.org/book/society-and-culture/citizenship/inco...
I'll try to think of examples and come back to it tomorrow.

For now: One thing that I'm still not clear on is when to wrap .get/.set.

Should I always write my own getters/setters and only use .get/.set internally? Right now I'm only wrapping them when the attributes need special processing, which leads to an inconsistent-feeling API.
It seems to me the problem for detailed drawing is more of a hardware than a software problem at this point. It's very solvable on both sides it's a matter of timing the solution to hit the market when the major players in the pad space get to the right level of support for detailed styluses.

Clever alternative input methods to take an end run around screen resolution would be amazing if they're accurate enough.

I'd love to see someone give paper this 1 paper-cut.
This story made me smile an awful lot. Thanks for posting it.

It would be even better if women and people from traditionally disadvantaged ethnic groups didn't have to jump through all the extra hoops, but it's nice to see that even the extra hoops didn't stop someone smart and determined enough.
I just switched homepage to https://duckduckgo.com/, my search engine/search box to HTTPS/SSL duckduckgo, and in about:config in FF, I changed keyword.URL (to allow search via url bar to use DDG) to: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=

So far, I'm happy with it. I'll keep using it for a month and see whether it interferes with anything. I'll have to add a bookmark for Gmail now, I guess, and I'll miss the links to the images and shopping searches, but I won't miss G+ or any of the other Google crap links.

I've been against DDG before on HN and I apologize for that, but I really respect that you've taken our criticism and acted upon it. I want you all to succeed. Google scares the shit out of me, personally. The have my email already and that is more than enough. I just hope that DDG really stays independent. It is so tough these days.
For this reason along with many others, I can't be impressed when Bezos spends money raising some rocket motors from the bottom of the ocean while potentially one of the greatest medical accomplishments of humans goes almost unfunded.
The first sentence is either incomplete or my non-native english parser stumbles and falls. Help me out, please.

Regarding the following statement: Your take seems a lot more sensible now. Still, I still don't feel that the matter's settled. If you claim that most people are worried about their petty problems of hiding their embarrassing search items from friends and family then I'd like to counter with the argument that the same 'most people' don't understand that removing one (the history listing) wouldn't remove the other (the data Google has).

Claiming that this wasn't the _intention_ is kind of hard. I'd say any layperson can expect that 'forget about X' or 'delete X' really purges the relevant data. That's what you're trained to believe. Even if the intention wasn't explicitly "I'm afraid of Google and want them to forget about my history":

Separating the data management like this is really just borderline abusive for casual users. Ask mom and dad if they expect that something is still stored and connected to their account if they remove it from the (browsing/web) history.
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>> Nowadays, it is illegal in the U.S. to give IQ tests to job applicants

>Citation needed.

Griggs v. Duke Power Co.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

"Good intent or absence of discriminatory intent does not redeem employment procedures or testing mechanisms that operate as 'built-in headwinds' for minority groups" - Warren Burger, Chief Justice.
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Well there are Google's papers they presented at the data center summit and the whole open compute project which touches on this as well.

Simply put the evolution has followed this path:

Machine Room -> air temp is 68 degrees 24/7/365

Modified Machine Room -> rows of machines are lined up alternately facing toward each other and away from each other, cold air is preferentially directed up from the floors in the 'cold' aisles.

Tolerance Limits -> Google and others establish that 'commodity' machines work just fine at an ambient temperature of 80 - 90 degrees F so they cut back on the level of cooling, substitute external air when its cooler than 75 degrees outside.

Full containment -> various systems to provide cooling just to the active hardware, places like SwitchNap in Vegas build structures around the rows, third parties put plastic enclosures around rows to contain cold air, or to force all hot air out of a plenum.

Most of the 'win' has been reducing the temperature differential between the data center and ambient air, and reducing the volume of air that has to be cooled.

Once you do that, alternate air cooling methods (like evaporation cooling) can be used rather than compressor chillers.

[1] http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/best-practices.html (they have additional tricks up their sleeve)

[2] http://opencompute.org/project_category/data-center-technolo...
> The $133,000 will be taxable income for this year in addition to any personal income I have.

I'm not sure about US tax, but wouldn't it make sense to incorporate a company to handle the money?
It is legal (at least based on the guidelines provided by the US Department of Labor: http://www.onetcenter.org/dl_files/empTestAsse.pdf) to give people all kinds of tests as long as (a) they do not select against certain protected traditionally disadvantaged classes more than it does for the average applicant or (b) if it does, there is a demonstrable link between the test and ability to perform job functions (so, for instance, a test of strength in a job that involves lots of lifting may select against women, but if strength is highly correlated with job performance, that is OK).

Imagine trying to apply these hilariously vague "guidelines" as a hiring manager. Then, imagine being sued for applying them wrong. Then, you'll realize why almost no one uses IQ tests for employment screening.

Oddly enough, the main exception I can think of is the NFL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_Test#Use_in_the_NFL_C...

For some reason, nobody sues the NFL for racism. Perhaps they should, though.
HBO works on subscription primarily and eventually, they make dvds and / or license the content.

So, the question isn't how many people watch, it's how many signup for the subscription, based-on the new show.
Likewise, I waited too long to rescue my 80's era diskettes. Wish I'd had that article to hand...thx for posting it.
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This is the problem... In the short run, DDG may be winning small victories. In the long run, they definitely need to build their own index. They need to at least start now, then turn the switch on when it's ready. Of course it's gonna require major infrastructure, but they are building a search engine, so that's a given.
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Don't spoil the fun!!!
I heard Yahoo searchers CTR on ads are higher than Google's as well, anyone confirm?
The math is quite simple:

The probability of winning millions from a lottery is greater than the probability of making millions from working (for most people).
It shows that he's entrepreneurial :)
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I don't see how GP post spoils the fun of playing lottery.
We just click a link

Comments.

No one is taking a tone with you.

Oh, the irony.
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Thank you. Your voice was missing here for a while.

32, married. As of yet I have no offspring, but that's going to be corrected. Still, I lurked and commented here, always with the 'Ahhh.. If I'd be without ties and responsibilities once more' thought.

I cannot tell you how glad I am to read that someone with arguably more responsibilities in life and a bit older than me (another point that is rarely coming up here) gives a damn about conventions and prejudices and just joins the otherwise ramen-eating, single, < 27 crowd.
I suspect Ze has some form of corporate entity. But that is unlikely to change the taxable nature of the income unless it's a designated non-profit organization.
GSoC 2008 participant here. arjunnarayan is correct, you're not applying to Google. I hung around the forums for months leading up to the application process. I had also created a crude prototype already. I mocked up some screenshots in GIMP of what I envisioned the finished product, which I think helped a lot.

Be passionate about the group (Twitter), as well as your project. Answer questions people have about your proposal.
That's fine when everyone everywhere uses the same OS or all OSs automatically connect to the same back end. But if I want to share files between a Windows box, an iPad, and an Android phone, it's unlikely that anything useful for my purposes will be built into the OS anytime soon.

And even if I insist on buying nothing but Apple (or whatever) products, if I want to share files with my dad or my next door neighbor, now I have to worry about what OS they're running too.

You install Dropbox once per device. After that, it's trivially easy.
Assuming this isn't a trick...

There are two likely scenarios:

1) The employers are racist biggots based on things that don't correlate with job performance. In this case betting against them is a winning strategy.

2) The employers are racist based on observed data from previous hires. Based on that they assume that a person with an Arab name is less able to perform. This may not be fair for the individual, but may be right on average. In this case betting against them is a losing strategy.

Given that the muslim world had all the knowledge the western world used to restore science after the dark ages yet have partially returned to them today, there may be some (tangential) evidence for 2.

And that is really scary.
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I think the user was just comparing Backbone to YUI3's MVC framework, therefore making the argument valid.
Ah, sorry - the 'couple of lives' was meant to refer to what he was doing now. Hope makes a concrete difference, but it's hard to estimate how much since. With 250k to malaria vaccines, you'd end up saving a lot more.
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Kickstarter is very much "just" a system for people to use. From my own experience with backing projects I back projects from people with pedigree and some sort of proven value. Anyone can promise something but when I'm backing a project I want someone I know can deliver, especially when Kickstarter provides no assurances or guarantees a project will be made, you're relying entirely on the project creator to be honest and stick to what they say they will do. If I found a project via browsing the Kickstarter website and there wasn't some sort of outside influence driving the funding of the project (be it the project creators twitter followers, a group of people that are interested in the same field and have worked with the project creator, a previous product the creator has produced) I would shy away because if this is a persons first project they are inevitably going to be issues.

Here's an example of a guy who walked away with $90k and didn't deliver anything but broken promises for over a year and only recently gone back and worked on the project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-op...
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Citation needed.

I've edited it to read "effectively illegal", but the essential point remains. In practice, any company using a straight-up IQ test in job interviews is practically begging to be sued.
The most memorable for me this year would be Path 2.0 and AirBnB. Both told a story. They got out of the malaise of screencasting demos and into the living rooms of its users. Not easy to do, and choosing the right on camera talent is essential.
That would actually work, I guess :). I'm pretty sure the memcpy, memmove, etc. implementations I've seen for this architecture all work by copying one byte at a time (argh!) though, but that problem can be solved with some smart-if-ugly hackery.

But, as you said yourself, it would be kind of messy, in that it would be hard to be certain if it works in 100% of the cases.

I think it would be easier to just change the toolchain code and make it think the processor is little endian.
Can you say they are not?

Granted before some, perhaps most, would be below their level but it seems rather impossible to assume that nobody has now been moved artificially higher than they should have.
Good reply from coldarchon. Unfortunately they've been hellbanned, so most people won't get to see it.
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grouping intelligence by state is way too broad a category to get significant results. intuitively we agree with the conclusion, but it isnt that simple [not all ads are the same] and the data doesnt back up the point
I am a bit put off by the totally incomplete discussion of the methodology in the paper. A majority of what is actually being measured is not stated. It is difficult to do anything useful with the result when someone says to you "I found that the responses to some questions were correlated with some other data, but I will not tell you what the questions were."
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If you want to raise your child to be successful look at the mars-mellow experiment. Unlike IQ they could come up with a really strong correlation to school performance and later success and it seems (at least partially) to be something the family has some influence over.
I disagree. Although there might be situations where I would personally chose passive aggression over being honest about peoples mistakes, I would strongly prefer it if people told me I screwed up instead of gently nudging me in the "right way of thinking". I can make my own mind about what is the right way, thank you very much, If I had missed something important and made a mistake i need to know about it. I trust others to do so as well.
That is a weak looking trend and doesn't isolate intelligence very well.

In a better statistical model it would adjust for things like age, or number of people with computers by percentage etc.

Even if there was a statistical model which was reasonable it could be entirely due to the type of ad. I know I don't click on most ads because they are for things like get rich quick or or online MBA programs or other dumb stuff
Bought this this morning. I'm a figurative artist, for over 30 years, and this is a very nice tool. Especially for a version 1.0. The stroke dynamics are very good, and I'm running this on a first generation iPad. I've been sketching with it off and on all day, and have really grown to like it.

Things it needs:

* Pinch zoom in and out. Gotta have this. It works great when you are drawing at the scale of the whole page, but detail work suffers as the sampling of the device isn't good enough. (Nor are my fingers! This is why artists and illustrators often draw and paint as large as possible.) When they add zooming, and they say on their website they are, they need to be sure and adjust the tool's scaling to match the view.

* The limited color palette is fine, but I need to be able to pick the colors.

* More tools are a given, especially since the program itself is free and they are making their money by selling extra tools. I've already plunked down my eight bucks for all that's available.

The minimalist interface is fantastic. When you are drawing, and I'm speaking as a person who draws observationally, you want the tool to be as spacial and object oriented as possible. This doesn't mean you have to mimic "real world" drawing tools, but it does mean that the interface needs to not emphasize numerics and linguistics. The organization needs to be very simple; from a drawing point of view, if I have to drill down through a series of hierarchies I might has well type in menu selections from a command line. My attention needs to be on my subject and my drawing, not on a UI.

YMMV.
We still give IQ tests, they are just IQ tests that have a cultural background required. When we ask an applicant to solve a problem we do not expect them to have seen before, we are testing their intelligence, even if we then proceed to expect them to turn this into code.
Even then, plenty of the Google interview questions aren't really any different from the test she received. IQ tests have sections that it doesn't sound like that test included, such as analogy tests or word memorization. The test she received was tailored to the logical, computational thinking required for programming, not generically designed to measure "intelligence".

The major difference between then and now is that they were willing to train people with no prior experience.

Even in this story, I note they were screening a very limited pool of applicants. I wonder what would happen if we went into high schools and conducted universal tests of potential: could we find (and possibly hire) large numbers of people with enormous aptitude who had never considered programming?
I could only find older (~2yr) anecdotal evidence. I could not find anything I would quote without a disclaimer. :)

(Ordered by higest CTR)
#1: Bing, Yahoo, Google [1]
#2: Bing, Google, Yahoo [2]

[1] http://www.thepicky.com/internet/chitika-ctr-bing-vs-google-...

[2] http://i.marketingprofs.com/assets/images/daily-data-point/s...
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I'm all for the use of non-traditional forms of education. I think that there's a lot of room for improvement in higher education in the US, especially in regards to making it more accessible. However, I think this piece is serves a good cautionary tale as to how it shouldn't be done.

The top comment is from an individual who taught at ITT tech for a while. When he realized that the material provided wasn't very high quality, and started using his own, this is what happened:

> Three classes into the semester the department head sat in on my class to evaluate the new instructor. Class went well and the students were responding but after the class I got chewed out because I had abandoned the textbook. Turns out that making the $125 per student on a useless textbook was more important than the student learning anything useful.
I'd lean towards never, unless you have a case with really special semantics.

For run-of-the-mill attribute massaging, I'd just define a new method on the model specifically for that purpose. eg.

book.loadFromAmazon(amazonJSON)
good luck :)
Good point. I have not read the paper in its entirety. I think all of these variables are very hard to control for which is why I take all studies like this with a grain of salt, especially if I don't read the entire text.
I'm trying to post, as I want to keep my MVP award (free MSDN subscription, what), but yeah, moderation sucks not just the time, but the will to put something back into the system sometimes.
Neat. Not currently seeing it in Urbana, IL, USA, though (perhaps it has already been removed).
Sort of. Current DNA sequencing technology breaks the DNA up into short pieces, sequences the pieces, and then uses software to reassemble them by looking for places where the fragmentary sequences overlap. It's basically the mother of all DIFFs. Telomeric DNA (the DNA at the ends of chromosomes) consists of many repetitions of the same short (<10) sequence of base pairs, so there is no pattern for the reassembly process to latch on to. So it's not the ends per se that are problematic, it's any long sequence that is devoid of structure. Chimps, for example, have telomeric DNA in the middle of one of their chromosomes. This is an example of "smoking gun" evidence for macroevolution. See http://www.gate.net/~rwms/hum_ape_chrom.html
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> Extensive research has show that IQ tests have equal predictive power for blacks and whites.

This says nothing about whether an IQ test is biased when used for other purposes than predicting future achievement (such as a job interview), and a supposedly-but-not-actually-objective test is a very dangerous thing; there's a lot of ugly historical baggage where science has met race in the past.
I dig this. However, unless I'm understanding S3 usage improperly, to use it you essentially have to clone that entire S3 bucket and pay for the monthly usage yourself of 200TB- correct?

Not the biggest deal in the world if you're seriously crunching on it... but something to consider.
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Supposedly these seemingly dull ideas are beachheads.

Are they really, though? It seems to me that many successful startups are simply bought over by another big company and their "beachhead" is eventually lost in the acquiring behemoth.
>...the comfort of having an organization is largely illusory. It still comes down to one programmer in the end.
Ask HN: What companies were rejected from YC and became successsful?
Some of us will get rejected by YC in a few weeks. Here's a thread to help you keep yourself in the game despite a rejection.

Successful is a relative term, but basically I mean they raised capital, had an exit, or are making significant profit.

If you could write what kind of success they received, that would be awesome as well.

Some examples I found

Storenvy - Raised 1.5 m

SendGrid - Went through TechStars after rejection. 21.6 million series B.
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