skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Daniel Willingham reviews in the submitted post, and the paper is a joint review article on the last decade and a half of research on human intelligence by an all-star group of researchers.

The original linked posts lightly implies that the points made are a consensus of the field. That's a bit like going to the Democratic Convention and concluding that politics aficionados have reached a consensus on who should be president next year.

For instance, that APA statement in response to The Bell Curve? There were several intelligence experts who signed a different document[1]. If you want an independent, randomized survey of experts in the field, there is also the excellent Snyderman & Rothman survey [2].As the Rothman study indicates, the picture the media painted of what many intelligence researcher believed, and what they actually believe, is rather different.

Turkheimer himself has said that he disagrees that "the possibility of genetic differences between the races for IQ, agree that the question is a legitimate matter for scientific inquiry, to be settled by cool-headed evaluation of the empirical evidence." [3] While that doesn't mean he is wrong, one should not limit your reading of the field to the likes of Turkheimer; one would do well to read some of the prominent 'opposition' such as Linda Gottfredson and Arthur Jensen. Jensen, by the way, is considered the most eminent living man in the field, and he favors the hereditarian viewpoint. Not that science should be done by consensus or a raising of hands, but it's handy to know what is and isn't considered tenable by modern researchers. There's more disagreement in the field than the linked post lets on.

In the third link below, the Cato Institute held a discussion between the 'environmentalists' Ceci, Flynn and Turkheimer, and the hereditarian Linda Gottfredson. It's worth a look.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellige...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyderman_and_Rothman_(study)
[3]http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/11/21/eric-turkheimer/race-...
Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought.

Both of them are terrible on mobile.
it's only been 3 days. I would hope that apple checks very carefully before they pull an app. False claims can also be made.
Actually it kind of is.
That's actually some really kickass feedback that we now have no choice but to implement! Thanks pfraze!
Not sure if this is related, but starting yesterday, I've had to switch from Firefox to Chrome for twitter - Firefox uses all my RAM and beachballs.
Probably that they're still trying to make it under $35 and get it out the door. Keep in mind that this is technically their first model, they probably wanted to keep things simple for a first release.

You can easily add wifi using this $10 dongle: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005CLMJLU (according to the rpi forums, it works out of the box with current kernels)
Google: Unapproved Chrome extensions require manual install
I've had the same issue with box.net a few weeks/months ago. I only signed up for their service and never really used it, and I used a one-off email address that is randomly generated and used only for the service. I do this regularly now. With each service I subscribe to, I first of generate a unique random email address, so if I start to get spam, I can either block this address only, or at least know where it was leaked...
seems like a no-brainer, interested in seeing where this goes in the next 6mo-1yr
We don't really know how long it takes for Apple to apply all the bans that we hear about (and the others we don't hear about), but it would be interesting to find out how this process works.

This situation reminds me of the notice Apple sent to retailers not to sell the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
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Sigh. We're drawing conclusions from Compete again?

I've said this before and I'll say it again; using Compete for quantitative traffic comparisons is flawed, particularly with social sites that utilize embeddable content. Their data has been proven wrong countless times. Until recently, Compete claimed Reddit (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/) had less traffic than Digg (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/).

I don't have anything against Google+. But lets hold off on the congratulatory praise until we're sure the growth is real.
Their Android flavor, MIUI, is fairly popular as an alternative to Cyanogen.
Concerning expiration [1], many NDAs distinguish between "trade secrets" and "confidential business information":

* Basically, a trade secret is non-public information that is the subject of reasonable efforts to keep it confidential, AND that is shown to provide an economic advantage to those possessing it versus those not possessing it [2].

* NDAs often say that trade secrets don't lose their protection until they're no longer secret [3], typically as defined by the "frequent five" exclusions [4].

* NDAS might also say that other confidential information (for example, pricing) loses its protection in X years [1], where 1 < X < 5.

* Keep in mind that some types of information must be kept confidential by law, such as protected health information, without regard to an NDA.

[1] http://www.techlawnotes.com/confidential-information/#outlin...

[2] http://www.techlawnotes.com/confidential-information/#outlin...

[3] http://www.techlawnotes.com/confidential-information/#outlin...

[4] http://www.techlawnotes.com/confidential-information/#sec-1-...
ShowHN: Hacker Tourist - opinionated ecommerce for photographers
But if it isn't objectively better than similar languages in any way, then why does it deserve consideration? "You can work around and/or avoid most of the horrible problems in PHP" isn't a compelling argument in favour of PHP when every other language just doesn't have those horrible problems to begin with.
If you compare it to things called web frameworks in other languages, PHP is a language and a web framework (or, if you like, which provides a highly integrated default framework).
You probably have a Google account in some way, then. I've noticed that visiting a Google Groups article prompts me for a login, which doesn't happen if I delete their cookies. It's a sneaky ploy to keep your session time up.
Like Mark Twain famously taught us... "only the dead can tell the truth in this country."
The Verge app released for Android and iOS
Using PHP on Heroku has never been straightforward. They don't even mention PHP in this post, and the instructions you've given are fairly undiscoverable. Ignorance of the possibility of running PHP on Heroku is more than excusable.
I saw it on HN a while ago, but I've been liking morphine: regulate distractions

You configure the websites to block, and when you try to access a blocked site it lets you create a 1, 3, 5 minute window to access the site.

really good for a 5 minute break.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fbnpehpbojenlldmfc...
Socialcam Acquired By Autodesk For $60 Million
maybe that's a business opportunity... order 1000, then sell on ebay for a markup.
Typical HN racism and misogyny aside, why not go to the top of the intellectual world and listen to Chomsky and Einstein? There's no end of opinions from them. Chomsky in particular answers emails quickly. So no need to ape some culture's forms, but rather ask their most successful members.

The problem is, their answers don't please many who'd ask such questions. Einstein claimed:

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career."

Or take Chomsky:

"A lot of the educational system is designed for that, if you think about it, it's designed for obedience and passivity. From childhood, a lot of it is designed to prevent people from being independent and creative. If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get into trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated. When people live through all this stuff, plus corporate propaganda, plus television, plus the press and the whole mass, the deluge of ideological distortion that goes on, they ask questions that from another point of view are completely reasonable...."

So let's turn the question around (because it's not about Jews being the Master Race or being culturally superior to say Africans): how do we triumph over dominant institutions which are out to turn us into idiots?
I'm totally eating my own dog food on this one. I figure that I can't sell something I wouldn't use myself, so here goes my best attempt at making a living with photography that doesn't involve babies or weddings.
I read the GP post as: "The discussion about the French McDonald incident shows that there might be a real clash between people wearing such aids and an anti-camera culture."

The above obviously contains a great deal of interpretation.
Thoughts on problem solving and endless possibilities
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New Screen Technology, TapSense
I worked at a company a year ago that was all gung-ho about front-commas for no reason in particular, leading me to believe there's a certain amount of cargo-cult'ing going on here.
create_function is not equivalent to a python lambda. It's just a function for creating other functions.

The key thing with a lambda in python is that it is defined at the usage site.

so you can do:

filter(lambda x: x > 42, mylist)

Whereas in php that would be:

$mylambda = create_function('$x','return $x > 42;');
filter($mylambda, $mylist);

Yes, the usage strings as code adds yet another level of WTF to this example.
What Kids Should Know About Their Own Brains
yes, a facebook list.

your clusters were perfect lists of family, different groups of friends who knew each other, my wife's family, etc.
A business around summarizing research?
The only person I know on Google+ is my brother who works there. It's a good product, but it'd be a lot nicer if more people I knew used it.
Move Over WordPress, There's A New CMS In Town
As lots of people have pointed out it can't do VGA directly. (You could use a USB video adapter but I digress). The number of 'cheap' HDMI video monitors out there is pretty astonishing too. You can do HDMI->DVI (this is just a plug change not a signaling change) and use many of those same monitors.

The challenge of course is that programming the video is dependent on getting support from Broadcom. One thing that has really pissed me off at them is I've got an InPulse watch that I can't get 64 bit Broadcom drivers for Win7 to use their SDK, how sucky is that? So getting support for their video blob in the RpI is probably not going to fly either.
Exactly.

More cogently: If PHP is where python was in 2007, why wouldn't I want to use the python of 2012?
Once they stop publicizing version numbers, this will probably die down.
So not that we'll "discuss" it, but is there an article link or a blog post available that explains the perceived rationale behind this most vexatious and utterly inane misfeature?
I think that's a good observation about how this approach differs: it's not just a technical hack, but a behavioral one as well--the user experience with the tool is to simply do the warmups that they want to be doing anyway. I like that a lot, but it still feels like the tool is missing something to really successfully accomplish that.
That said, one application of the NIF is as the ultimate incinerator. Using it to literally rip apart hazardous waste (either the nuclear or more mundane variety) into lower atomic number atoms which are not a problem.

How?
It is still an anonymous function.
oddly enough, thanks to the HN circle on g+, i actually enjoy using it.
The irony is that most people use Facebook (and LinkedIn) as glorified publicly-facing email accounts with automatic reply-to-all and attachments set to auto-open and display in-line. The only thing added is a rudimentary voting system.
...and which was why I clicked on the article in the first place. Because the title was, you know, helpful and descriptive.
This isn't likely to kill WordPress. Maybe WordPress.com, but not everybody wants a hosted, limited control site - some want to host it themselves. That's WordPress's strength (maybe the only one) and why places like Tumblr still haven't overtaken it.
Yes, there is a slight delay for new apps/APKs to show up in Google Play due to caching.

It should be live by now.
Sorry guys, I'm having an off day.

Can someone explain this a little bit? They were able to put 500 terawatts into this beam, I think I understand that part. But that's 1,000x more energy than the US is using right now.. so did they actually create that much energy to begin with? This is where I'm failing at understanding.
I'm on Google+ because I'm not cool enough to say I only know one person on Google+.
Thanks, will try that.

Shame this isn't made a bit easier.
It's akin to a grocer refusing cash and instead only accepting payments made with their branded store card, for the customer's benefit.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a legal challenge to this.
Felix Salmon: Why going public sucks: it’s not governance issues
The recently released Tumblr app for iPhone is not too shabby at all and is hopefully a step in the right direction for Tumblr on mobile.

On the flip side, the Facebook mobile experience is pretty terrible as well, but Facebook already has quite a large (and growing) user base already, so I wonder if mobile user experience is as important to growth as is existing, for lack of a better word, penetration.

EDIT: Just noticed this line from the post: "The Compete numbers are US only and desktop only."
Build DSLs on top of the JVM easily
I've seen this happen a lot of times. This case is more likely than getting them snatched out from a theft.
This move would be similar to Sanjay Jha moving from Qualcomm COO to Motorola Mobility CEO. Look at what happened now. Sanjay Jha not only got a nice compensation package from Motorola Mobility but also a great deal from leaving the CEO at MM after Google acquisition and another reputation to boot as being the one who revive Motorola from zero to hero (being acquired)
The answer is probably a lot. Certainly enough for one person to comfortably live on, and probably much more than that.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/funnyjunk.com/

Compete's analytics aren't great, but give you a ballpark (big, small). It's a pretty big site. Monetization against funny pictures probably isn't great, but given the traffic, it's probably doing very well.
Dropbox Users Targeted By Spam, Possible Address Leak To Blame?
A bit of a tangent but: I like Earnest Hemmingway's advice to only stop your work when you know exactly where to pick up again. I don't do great but when I follow the advice I find that it helps me get into flow more quickly.

"You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again."
I use Facebook to share and chat about photos.

I use LinkedIn for recruiting.

I use neither as "publicly facing email accounts".

At some level, any application can be described as "forms with some text inputs and some submit buttons".
Yes, an iPhone is in that price range and is a camera among other things. However it's different from a $500 camera in a lot of ways - people buy them for lots of other purposes (texts, facebook, apps, angry birds, even voice) and pay for them on instalments via the contract. Many people come to taking pictures without having ever thought they were buying a camera, let alone putting down $500+ on one. People who would hate how technical a DSLR is love how simple and fun instagram is.

The camera in a smartphone is comparable to a $200 mid-range compact ( http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-COOLPIX-Digital-Camera-Optical/d... ) but not to $600 low-end DSLR ( http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Digital-18-55mm-75-300mm-Telepho... ) In fact the compact will have better zoom, flash, more megapixels... It will win on most metrics except ability to upload instantly.
Nah, I think it was pretty solid already. I guess this is an interesting inflection point though.
I've noticed that viewing G+ posts on a mobile device requires me to log in, but not with a standard OSX/windows device. Pretty infuriating.
The iPhone screen 5 is much thinner
Cross plat native look and feel works through waxe: http://lib.haxe.org/p/waxe

The new java target and already available JNI usage targets Android.

There is also http://lib.haxe.org/p/hxffi and a established way to call iOs framework code with hxcpp, which is through the CFFI .
You should probably have a read (mostly for Cauê Waneck's posts): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haxelang/9_FHI5cDue0
SelfControl[0] is an OS X application that lets you set up a black list. It's free, and works great for me.

[0]: http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/
The DMCA goes further than you seem to think.

Without it, Apple is directly liable for copyright infringement. They are making and distributing copies of Torchlight's work without authorization each time someone downloads the app; the fact that some other entity provided it to them does not absolve them of liability for this infringement.

If Apple wants to shed liability for the copyright infringement they are committing they would be required to promptly remove or block access to the alleged infringing content, not simply put the notifier in touch with someone. If they don't remove or disable access, they don't qualify for the safe harbor provision of the DMCA and remain liable.

Even should Apple block access, they do not remove themselves from the equation; you are wrong to say it's now solely in the hands of the two parties as far as the DMCA is concerned. Instead, the alleged infringer now has an opportunity to file a counter-notice disputing the claim of infringement. When Apple receives this counter-notice, to retain their safe harbor protection from liability, they must now promptly restore access to the content.

This serves as protection against excessive damage done by false claims of infringement. Apple and other service providers are not expected to decide the merits of either claim. Simply take down upon notice of infringement, restore upon counter-notice.

Only then is the situation left to the two parties and the courts to resolve.
Why do we have to imagine and then speculate from there? This is trivial to inspect.

It's 1.34mb on disk uncompressed but still minified. The copy Twitter is hosting right now is 1409121 characters minified but uncompressed. I have to assume the 4mb mentioned is output from some middle step (closure compiler output?) I'm not arguing the merits of that filesize, just that it's definitely not 4mb.
I'm a little baffled by this report, but I don't at all suspect it's inaccurate. I'm on the same version of Chrome on OSX on a macbook air (where I developed the custom scrollbar). Programmatically, I'm using the "scroll wheel"'s delta increment to determine the distance to scroll--the same amount in both directions. If anyone with relevant experience developing JS interaction with the scroll wheel has any hints or related knowledge, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks for the thorough feedback and videos. Looking forward to making the scroll bar perfect!
Every format fights very hard to be proprietary.

yeah, they all can export to something common. But unless you can diff what was changed, this will continue to be impossible (very hard)
I liked his books, except for the fact that if one of the story's characters was an ex-convict, he did it. You just had to prove how.
I'm curious... how does this app handle secure key exchange?

There doesn't seem to be any details on the app's website.
I think G+ is going to worm its way in by offering add-ons that actually draw people in. The two major examples for me are Hangouts and the fact that G+ posts from 'important' people appear in Google News rollups about a particular story.

Hangouts are really the only reason I've ever seen a non-techie use G+, and they work really well. People seem to try Skype and then realize that there are weird rules about having to pay if you want group video chat, so people hop over to G+ and it just works.

And the news thing seems really interesting to me because it seems to highlight provocative things said by public personalities and then lets everyone with a Google account join the discussion as 'part of Google plus'. That seems like something that could get pretty sticky.
>Not to say that politics doesn't enter into it, just that it should be brought to the table and discussed by other actors.

How so? You seem to be distinguishing between politics actors (politicians?) and technical actors.

In a democracy it is not just important but essential that ALL have their say on policy, not just "political experts".
the app is deceptive, in that it spams feed of the user. I blocked it.
Grindr solves three problems:

1. Gay men want to fuck.

2. Someone close by.

3. NOW.

No one will successfully clone Grindr outside of the gay hookup space (nor will Grindr be successful with their non-gay-sex app) because there are no other potential applications with the same imprimatur, except sexual hookups in other scenes (i.e. plentyoffish, or justlunch).

Unless you're horny, proximity and timeliness simply do not matter so much, and any application outside that scene is simply a gimmick, unless you have an application truly unique and compelling.
The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She has two contrasting reputations
I find this very condescending. Not all of us get to work on fun problems, but the work has to get done nonetheless.
Yes, but I know dozens of people on LinkedIn. I know one active Google+ user and he's a bit of a Google fanboy to begin with.

Why is there the need to respond to data with anecdotes? If I give a Google+ growth anecdote, does that invalidate yours?

I have no idea why Google+ is being compared to LinkedIn. They have very little overlap. Even among Facebook and Google+ the overlap is limited.

Nonetheless Google keeps iterating on the product and it seems to be paying off. The Android Google+ client is now superb, and the content richness seems to be greatly improving, particularly in the tech field. Which is important because the tech field is what generally leads the growth curve.
Obviously anecdotal. One explanation might be G+ international popularity. A quick look at "what's hot" and you'll see plenty of center and eastern asian names on the comments. The Android developer relations team makes weekly public hangouts in different time zones. I tried a few different ones out of curiosity and noticed that both the Indian and Brazilian ones are much more popular than the american hangout (which is the only that is live from the Googleplex, so you'd assume this would be the most popular).

Maybe the bunch of google+ audience just happen to not be part of your social circle. Personally, I'd love to see some g+ usage statistics divided by demographics to confirm this hypothesis. (specially since the author explicits these numbers are from US only, not sure if that's right)

edit: G+ also seem to be extremely popular on very specific niches other than technology. Such as photograph and science. In fact, g+ developers make a big deal about their product being developed from and to photographers. You'll notice their mobile app focuses the whole experience on large beautiful photos because of it. Every day there's a different photographer-focused hashtag trending (today it's #TreeTuesday).

So yea, anecdotes, bad.
That's why users are flocking to xfce.

You have the ability to make choices with Linux. Despite what Ubuntu wants you to believe.

Shocking, i know. Choices. Who would have thought.
Not really. There is a lot of discussion in the first few results here: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+st...