skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much better.

Wasn't familiar with Krugman's "babysitting co-op parable". Interesting.

I'm not convinced that depression is strictly an issue of overproduction -- it's more a vapor-lock in which the currency pump between production and consumption seizes up. The Friedman approach is to encourage production, the Keynesian approach is to stimulate demand. Calling insufficient demand the same thing as overproduction doesn't quite seem right to me.

I've got to reflect on your cheap vs. expensive labor comments as well. The immediate problem I see is that expensive labor, in a world in which either capital or labor is free to migrate, results in either in-migration of cheap labor, or capital flight to less expensive markets. Which suggests possibly putting some controls on both, or addressing the labor costs part.

I suspect we're agreeing in at least part on the idea that you've got to have currency flows on both sides of the production/consumption cycle.

I'd also argue that right now both capital (in the form of interest rates) and labor (in the form of wages) are relatively inexpensive in the US. The dual problems are of stimulating demand, and on generating a real return on investment (equity or debt).

Overproduction is an issue insofar as (mostly) consumer goods are how we manage to generate fiscal flows. People buy goods for money. However if they either don't buy goods, or prices are too low to generate sufficient flows, you end up in a cycle where you're cranking out crap goods which people don't particularly need to consume but are strongly encouraged (by advertising, moral suasion, societal pressure) to do so: the "consumer economy".

We worked our way out of this the last time (Great Depression) with WWII.
i think the best answer to any google interview question i didn't know is..... "i'd google it"!

but seriously, why do i need to remember information about languages or algorithms i don't use daily? my memory is limited and i prefer it to be filled with the most useful information at the time.
Mac OS. Srsly? - Screenshotting OS X since 10.7.1
I'll just overwrite that partition with random garbage and use the Windows honey-pot OS for the duration of my visit, restoring when I get home. Well I might. Or I might not. Plausible deniability anybody?
Check out Autopatchwork. It de-paginates sites for you.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aeolcjbaammbkgaiag...
I second the reference to the book. It is a must read for all new devs at Crowdtilt. Excellent book @chromatic.
No need to engineer this yourself: http://preyproject.com/ has open source anti-theft apps for most platforms.
Yes, but the Stripe CTF isn't going to compare you to the entire body of humanity: just to the already-brilliant people who want to take a crack at it. I didn't know about the challenge, but I'd consider if I failed at it, that I don't have sufficient knowledge in a certain technology area, not that my ability to abstract and reason is measured to a global degree.
Two days ago, his mom found $600,000
Sure, on the server side we have jetty running an HttpServlet, which currently just applies the computations straight on the request thread. Yes, you read that right! It's designed to be run on remote servers, but we haven't gotten quite that far yet and were more focused on making a demoable app. But it's basically Java 1.7/Maven and your typical libs like Guava, Commons {Lang, Math,...}, and a few other bits and bobs.

Basically a file (currently .wav, but it ought to be .mp3) is uploaded to a the server, which processes it directly in thread and returns the results back in JSON. Really it should be fanned of to a worker pool and update the client with ajax but again, we're not quite there yet.
Interesting, makes a lot of sense- Appreciate that.
But not enough to make me use Facebook and definitely not enough to even bother with Twitter.
I think the difference might be from the social stakes involved, if an app spams your friends then you publicly look bad, if you get a spam email nobody knows but you.
TIL Wikipedia has a JSON API!
"As far as I know, Perl is one of the only languages that can evolve via 3rd party modules."

Ummm... What?!

There's a long tradition creating DSLs in the Ruby community. Lisp/Scheme/Clojure have macros. OCaml has campl4. I'm sure there are many others.
You can pay for it, just use Google apps for business as they call it. You get to use your own domain. I pay for it.
Except there's no autocomplete. I couldn't match Carly rae jepsen... but once you get it, it is much cooler.
For what it's worth...

I'm no rockstar, but I can honestly claim to be pretty comfortable in technical interviews. I chalk that comfort up to two main things.

1) A mentality that says something like...

"I'm good, I'm solid. Fuck this guy."

The point isn't the specific words, or expressing this outwardly, it's about getting into a mental state of calm confidence, pushing out the anxiety and concerning yourself only with the moment.

2) Talking with and being challenged by smart people on a regular basis. Ideally people who are smarter and/or more knowledgeable than yourself. I expect being the big fish in a small pond generally works against this.
Valve Employee Handbook 2012 [pdf]
> common sense and observation tells us that some people are more intelligent than others.

Yes, true, but the present discussion concerns why that is so. It was traditionally held that IQ was inherited and immutable, but this was before studies that show creation of new brain cells in animals placed in stimulating environments. And the brain's ability to repair itself after injury is only beginning to be appreciated.

So it seems that IQ is not immutable, and "some people are smarter than others" can be placed alongside "some people run faster than others" as an example of something that is to some extent under our control.
See, I have absolutely no objection when people speak positively of their Google experiences. A lot of people have good Google experiences, and they should. I didn't. I had a shitty one.

What I find ridiculous is that any time I say something about Google, people leap into ad hominem attacks without even reading what I have to say.

You know what I did to piss these people off? Absolutely nothing. I've never met most of them. I'm surprised they even give a shit about me or what I have to say.

It's never the powerful people getting indicted who crush whistleblowers most with the most fervor. It's other peons who want to stick their fingers in their ears and say, "nanananan-I-can't-hear-youuuuu!" in the face of depressing news.
App.net gets Annotations
I think you're aggressively agreeing with me.

Please find me the "races" on that chart. I don't see any. This is a chart of "genetic clusters". Which one does, say, Barack Obama (most famous mestizo I could think of, but frankly you could put almost all of the non-white population of the US into similar buckets) belong to? He doesn't fit. Most people don't fit. (Editted to point out: it's specifically a study of a small number of individuals of "pure" background.) Yet, and this is important, he does have a "race". Everyone, including himself, agrees that he's "black".

So where does "black" go on that chart? It doesn't. So "race" is non-scientific.
Facebook to Wipe Out Fake 'Likes,' Can't Do Anything About Fat Fingers
In python the readability come as a natural idiom, it is part of their zen!

Superficial readability, perhaps.

Neither PEP 8 nor PEP 20 get into interesting questions about maintainability like:

* How long should individual compilation units be?
* How do I factor my code?
* What metaphors do I use to name components?
* How do I know when to break apart components?
* How do I know when to merge components?
* How do I write effective documentation?
* Is this API easy to use?
* Have I sufficiently encapsulated this component?
* How easy is this code to test?
* Does this code match local style?
* Does this code follow the idioms and express the necessary elements of the problem domain effectively?
* Is it easy to misuse this API?
* Have I made too much information public?
* Have I made too little information public?
* Does this code make potential bugs screechingly obvious?
* Do I handle potential error conditions sensibly and completely?
* How much work do I face enhancing this code in the future?

PEP 8 concerns itself with far less interesting things, like why vertical alignment is annoying. In my experience, that's one of the least substantial elements contributing to maintainability.

As for readability, it doesn't really matter if someone who doesn't know the language can't read it.
"It's fine to have a jury full of people who have no clue about the patent system because the onus is on th lawyers in the trial to present the facts. If they fail to do so on either side then they have to deal with the consequences."

Except that once one lawyer screws up, the legal precedent is set, and the rest of the people down the line get screwed too.
I comppletely agree but my point was that since we can't have it both ways, a jury comprised of average citizens is preferable to a jury of elites no matter the profession or industry. I'm sure an expert jury would have made a far better decision but I'm in favor of the lesser of the two evils.
"Perhaps those who fail at math have simply never experienced anything that requires abstract thought."

I disagree. Most math classes are structured as far away from the abstract as possible. Math classes, at least in the US high schools, are simply students sitting down and crunching numbers on paper with 40 other people around you. How is that abstract thought? I'm not saying math isn't useful in the abstract, I'm saying the way we measure people's math abilities is too focused.
While I believe the author that it's measurable over the internet.. I'd love to see an example of the code on the attacking side, so I could test it for myself.

It just seems like it wouldn't be measurable, and I'd love to test it and prove myself wrong.
I'm leaning against (but not convinced against) "intelligence genes" existing, at least to the point where some people have them and some don't, because evolution would likely have spread them to everyone.

Why? What survivability/reproduction benefits does intelligence provide beyond a certain level, particularly in pre-modern society? If you were the daughter of serfs a thousand years ago, what good would a 150 IQ do you? Especially if there's some tradeoff involved, such as a correspondingly lower ability to socialize with your peers.
LocalWiki really is a fascinating project. I went to University in Davis right when the whole wiki project there was starting. This wasn't just a technical effort, it was also a social one -- regular wiki barbeques were held, and considerable unified effort was made to get enough content up before "launching" for additional publicity.

It is no coincidence that the modest city of Davis, California has quite literally the best town wiki in the world. If you happen to live in Davis, the wiki is more useful than Yelp, Craig's List, and Wikipedia combined. Local Wiki is the effort to extend that elsewhere.

I currently live in Woodland, a city right next to Davis. Woodland has a wiki too, and you can even share accounts between there and Davis. But Woodland gets maybe one edit a week on average, while Davis gets over 50 a day. I often find myself visiting places in Davis just because it's easier to learn about them than an equivalent local place.

It can't possibly be a technical issue -- it's the exact same software. To make a good wiki happen, I need to do what Davis did: organize a real community in real life, and work together to build something.
> So where does "black" go on that chart?

In the cluster on the left.
Yay, more data binding libraries. This one needs some better examples before I'll be able to understand at a glance how it works. I currently do my data binding with AngularJS.

Btw, this feature sort of already exists in jQuery. http://api.jquery.com/link/
Verbling (YC S11): Growth When We Started Spending More Face-Time With Customers
Washington leads the nation in concentration of tech jobs
Facebook has done a great job of ruining their app ecosystem. Many users are trained through embarrassing spam incidents to never trust Facebook apps.
In my experience, it's rare that all of these traits are active in someone at the same time. This is what he was getting at. One can still be a good engineer and lack some of these qualities, but that wasn't the point.
Economist: Would the world be better off with fewer patents?
Maybe you missed the humor tone in that headline. The meaning is the opposite of what the words say.
Looks like http://wikiloopr.com/Crystal breaks it (The loop has no other end)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=hacker+news&subm...

Seems to be a non-problem...
In fact, he had finished Euclid's Elements textbook at age 11 and had taught himself calculus by 16 (not an unusual accomplishment these days, I admit -- I also taught myself calculus at 15. I am no Einstein.)

In no way was Einstein deficient -- he would at least be described as advanced, just maybe not as a prodigy.
And what percentage of investors are actually in that top tier of legitimate value-add?
How Is H.P.’s WebOS Doing? Hundreds No Longer Work on It
This March "The Nature of Things" aired a good episode, "The Perfect Runner", on human adaptations to distance running, evolution, etc.. They cover everything in the article in more depth plus more, such as some possible reasons for the supremacy of Ethiopian long-distance runners.

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/the-perfect-runner....

(If you're really keen, the above link includes references under "resources".)

The article seems a big cribbed quite frankly in that it mostly talks about the a subset of the same things the NoT episode did, only in less detail. The man vs. horse marathon was not in the NoT though.

If you are interested enough in this to watch a 40 minute documentary then the NoT episode is highly recommended. It might be difficult to find for those outside of Canada unfortunately.
Workhorses are never fashionable.
Right now it appears to be looping between Natural Science and Physics. But they're really far apart so you might not seem them on your screen at once.
There's no blood test for "black", and I encourage you to cite one if you're aware of it.

Now who is strawmanning? (BTW, there is no blood test for autism, yet scientists are pretty darn sure it's mostly genetic.)

I'm sure you can come up with a definition of "Polynesian" such that genetic tests would be useless. That more shows that people can some up with useless definitions. However, someone else can could up with a definition of "Polynesian" that is useful: people whose ancestors inhabited Polynesia (say) 1000 years ago. And genetic tests for any individual in isolation would be very very very highly correlated with the actual answer of their ancestors coming from Polynesia. (There are, of course, people of mixed ancestry, but this doesn't mean that ancestral measures don't exist no more than hermaphrodites mean sex doesn't exist.) "Black" would need serious subdivision, but nothing that makes a person on the street drop their jaw and say "I never thought of 'Black' that way."

I suspect this is as far as constructive discussion has gone, so I'm going to stop here if that's okay.
I've been using Rdio for a while now and really like it. I think Spotify's library is a bit larger but, like you, I hate being forced to sign up via Facebook.
To not know the answer to "there are no camels in Germany so how many camels do they think there are in B, a specific German city? " is not a cultural difference, to think that other cultures are seriously that dumb is more a statement on ones self than anything else.

This is similar to statements engineers sometimes make that the Chinese are good copiers but can't innovate.

No, cultures are the same as everyone else. They have humour, art and like to tinker and have in jokes. If they don't publicly innovate it's more likely it's not economical in that environment yet.

The fact 'camels' was used has strong undertones to me, if this was an actually a study I'd be interested to know.
I also started using CodeIgniter and i also had, at some point , the feeling that it "just doesn't feel right".
If you want to learn a new language i'd probably go with RoR otherwise take your existing PHP skills and use Symfony 2 (http://symfony.com/). It definitly has a steeper learning curve than CodeIgniter but i couldn't think of a single point why i would prefer CodeIgniter over Symfony 2 now.
This is the post tonfa@ refers to: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

I believe some recruiters actually send it (or a modified version) to candidates who ask how to prepare. I'd also recommend the book "Algorithms for Interviews"
Yikes... Did you actually read what I wrote? Or the study? You're completely misinterpreting it. It's not saying that "everyone belongs to a genetically determined race", it's simply saying (duh) that these genetic clusters can be measured, and it shows some relationships between them that might be indicators for recent shared ancestry, etc...

This is specifically a chart of individuals with "pure" ancestry. People with mixed ancestry (i.e. almost all of us) have no spot on it. It doesn't tell us anything about our "race".

To get back to the example. If "blacks" belong on the bottom left than Obama (with his northern european mother) isn't black. So either he has a "race" or he doesn't. Which is it?

Stop thinking about "race" as a measurable thing, it isn't.
Perhaps this is just luck on my part, but I don't think I've ever had a "Sign-in with Twitter" app spam un-authorized tweets on my behalf.
Pump: A simpler Cascading Java API from Square
I thought we got past regional bullcrap in 21st century as well. But as long as all other digital music stores and streaming services greet me with "Go away, you're not allowed to listen to us from your countrty" I'm happy to give Grooveshark money.
I'd say most people have one username/password combination they use for every service. On mobile devices, having to sign up with an email and password is a bit of a hassle, and Facebook/Twitter login makes more sense.
nothing to do with knowing the sizes of things

You yourself listed the big problems of not knowing how many students go to a school or how large America is. All I'm looking for in answer to that question is taking the number of people in America [pre-knowledge unless the test-maker screwed up], guessing what percent are in high school [pre-knowledge unless the test-maker screwed up], and dividing the size of a high school [pre-knowledge unless the test-maker screwed up]. It's all about figuring out how to combine knowledge to get an answer. Which is also what you use a relational database for so I don't see how you can do one and not the other.

Also, "a lot" is obviously not an acceptable answer if "I don't know, there should be some there" isn't for you.

Well I'm only going to accept "a lot" as a final answer if they have no math skills at all. That depends on the culture. But it shows a basic idea that yeah, it takes a whole bunch of golf balls to fill it up. Just like saying "no camels means no camels" indicates an understanding of the dumb-but-simple question. Saying "some camels" is the answer I won't accept.
Actually, it is now possible to sign up with only email. Not sure if it applies to all markets, but in the US you can.
Glad to see that if Apple locks down OSX and I'm forced to go back to Linux, there will be machines that basically copy Apple's aesthetic to run Linux on that don't look like ass.
Nice fluff feel-good story.

Why's it on Hacker News?
Especially if there's some tradeoff involved, such as a correspondingly lower ability to socialize with your peers

If there's any reason for an "intelligence gene" not being completely wide-spread, it would be this. Intelligence would have to have some very significant drawbacks. Some people have theorized that autism is when you get "overloaded" on those intelligence genes. It strikes me as unlikely this would really provide significant pushback against the intelligence genes completely dominating the gene pool, but I agree it's possible.
I have not read Flynn's book yet, but he will have to do something amazing to explain away the twin adoption studies.

Do read his book. You will surely learn something. The references to recent publications on heritability that I posted as a second edit to my comment at the highest comment level in this thread (currently the top comment in the thread) include several publications by researchers who have worked on the Minnesota Twin Study and other twin studies. I join a weekly journal club during the school year with most of the researchers on the Minnesota Twin Study (one of whom, coincidentally, is my fifth cousin) and I rely on them to keep me up to date with what the latest research shows.

And what the latest research shows, after we look at all the twin study findings, is fully consistent with HN user Steko's quotation from the review of James R. Flynn's new book, the parent comment to your comment.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4461603
They just keep him in prison until he gives them a password.

Luckily he's not identified as a terrorist. Because those people are subject to extraordinary rendition and intense interrogation techniques, and detained without trial.
Posted 3 years ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760917

It looks like kapitalx appended a query param (s=1) in order to avoid the duplicate url check.
Well, we were competing against "free" service offered by big co. Average user doesn't want to pay. They would say us, "ohh we will go to free service by big co". And I learnt big lesson that you can't compete against big co's especially their free products directly.
Oh Make Magazine, please put your "close this slide show" button on the upper right instead of the upper left. I'm conditioned to look for X icons to close out of modal windows on the upper right not the upper left. Thaaaaaaanks.
Windows 7 on the rMBP defaults to 2880×1800 resolution.
How possible would it be to use something like Spark or Derby.js's Racer in a django site?

I like the realtime concept/behavior but I want to keep developing in django.
When I saw the title, I wondered how getting your laptop stolen could get you busted for drugs.

I can only suppose that, while I don't expect the average cop is a jerk, I did reflexively expect the average cop story to feature one.
Wait, people take IQ tests seriously? Really?

I was tested twice when I was in second grade, the first time by a psychologist in a class setting and the second time one-on-one to verify the first. I tested quite high, but even then I knew I wasn't noticeably smarter than others; I just test particularly well.

Frankly, it cracks me up when someone refers to their IQ seriously or boasts about being in Mensa. Other than testing for mid-to-high level mental retardation, subjectively, IQ tests seem to be terrible at measuring actual brilliance.
I have no way of minimizing your "toolbar" at the bottom of your web site either. Weren't you created by O'Reilly.com?
Full Show 8/30/12: Ryan Lies for the Corporatocracy
As far as the phone example, that's just disagreeing about tradeoffs. These people could easily see the uses, they just thought buttons were better.

Honestly, with the camel example, I think it was a problem of asking a really dumb question without explaining that the question might be so dumb. If you ask me the Atlantis thing out of the blue I might give a weird answer. But if you specifically assure me that you're not trying to trick me in your Atlantis scenario and you just want to hear my answer to the question then I'll say no people and wonder if it's abandoned or filled with robots or cats.