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"No, I was judging him by his accomplishments"

What made you think your LSAT instructor's accomplishments were limited to his job titles?

What do you know about this man apart from those two facts?

Kafka and Van Gogh were completely unknown and unappreciated during their lifetimes. Kafka even burned 90% of his work before he died.

There are countless other examples of people who were only discovered and appreciated after they died -- often long after they died.

Conversely, many (if not most) of those who achieved great fame and fortune during their lifetimes are largely forgotten now, or considered of minor importance.

"You were talking about [jobs as marks of genius], but nobody else was."

On the contrary, that seems to be exactly what you were doing. Your lack of knowledge or appreciation of someone's accomplishments and apparent eagerness to judge this person by the job they held is what I was responding to.
If you think there's a difference between hacking website X with ready-made tools and writing the attack yourself etc... you are not thinking like a hacker.

A hacker doesn't care what the way is. He thinks about the goal, the end result.

If there's a ready-made script that can help or do it for him? Sure why not?

Having said that I agree that it does require skill and it is not as easy as downloading some random scripts and typing in a website and pressing the 'hack' button.
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To be fair, that's 1 in 50 from a group that was relatively accomplished in an academic setting before the test. But I agree that it doesn't qualify as "genius."
>even personally and socially irresponsible substitutions like YOLO movement that have very little in common with the level of awareness and appreciation of being alive that OP has acquired (and lost, and acquired again).

I'm pretty sure YOLO is a joke. At least I've never heard anyone say it without at least a hint of facetiousness in their voice.
Did you see the bit where he walks among an orchestra?

How well would you work if I stood quite close to you, behind you, looking over your shoulder. "Ignore me! I'm just observing. Pretend I'm not here." I suspect many people would find that disturbing in a deep and hard to define way.

He's not doing anything illegal, but that doesn't mean he's not doing anything wrong. He is being rude, and he is confrontational.
You seem to be misunderstanding me. Maybe children vitamins are dangerous themselves, maybe they aren't. I am giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming they are relatively safe.

The damage done by children vitamins, primarily the ones that are dressed up to look like candy, is actually dealt out by the prescription medication that children swallow and die. The danger children vitamins pose would still be present if they were nothing but sugar pills (and sugar pills that look exactly like medication are dangerous as well).

How many parents of poisoned children have heard "I thought it was candy!"?

That you and the other parents you know are reasonably paranoid about the danger of vitamins and other medications is commendable, but thousands of kids are still being lethally poisoned. If the injuries to children from magnets are enough to concern us, then the poisonings should concern us even more so.
I think it has become a part of the hacker culture.

In a way the ugly page represents the ugly terminal screens that the hacker was probably staring at for some time.
Well, he clearly lives near me because I saw him the other day. Looked a bit frail.
thanks, shazam was pretty useless at finding it.
But it is worthy of being incentivized.

Defibrillators are a public good & a good candidate for a government incentive (or mandate).
For me, the answer was to relocate and move within cycling distance of my office.

Compared to driving, cycling is incredibly life-giving. I get exercise, and can maneuver around downtown with ease (I never have to worry about a parking spot).
If you want more general knowledge, then db-class.org is pretty awesome too. Going through even some of those materials has probably saved me weeks' worth of work, because not only do you get general SQL knowledge and practice, you get a grounding in theory, XML and NoSQL too.
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There are lots of things about Bill Clinton that I liked and just a few things about him that I didn't, but seriously, I don't think even the most incompetent person in the world could have left us without a surplus in the era that the internet went mainstream.

I do agree with the point you were making.
Desktop UI on a tiny device? They were always impossible to use and had vastly more tradeoffs than bonuses in actual use.

And Microsoft is making exactly the same mistake again with Metro on Windows 8. Only this time, instead of bringing the desktop UI to mobile, they're bringing the mobile UI to the desktop. How many failures is it going to take before Microsoft realizes that different form factors require different UIs?
I understand what you're saying. I just think that the benefit of over-protectiveness (no need for heavy-handed regulation to prevent some deaths) isn't enough to counteract the lost benefit from, for example widespread comfort with chemistry and chemicals. The level of risk-aversion is too high.

As an aside, I don't see much effective difference between a legal crackdown and one caused by fixing the social context.
How is WP8 going to break the web? They have something like 2% of the market, which is hardly a monopoly that can be swing around.

Also, are the IE shenanigans news to anybody? There does seem to be a contingent of fresh-faced webdevs who think Microsoft's reputation for evil is overblown. It wasn't; they certainly did a lot earn it.
still in his 30ies, like me, in good health, no smoking, not much drinking, some exercise, eats ok, and so on.

This is the problem. In the absence of proper diagnostics, people look at popularly touted risk factors like age, alcohol/smoking/drugs, exercise, diet, etc. But these are highly generalised factors that don't take into account: genetic/congenital/epigenetic conditions, stress/emotional issues, environmental factors, and other factors that are difficult to understand by themselves, because the human body is so complex.

The only way to truly determine the extent to which someone's health really is perfect is with detailed individual diagnostics.

As I said in the initial comment, we're only just getting started in developing adequate approaches to diagnosis that may become widely accessible, but I think it's the key to preventing unexpected attacks in your friend and Dustin's friend.
Please don't make drag and drop required. This is not a good trend. Oh and you left your S3 bucket and key in the source.
I find it odd that HN loves to upvote 'more women in tech' articles but never promotes any article related to increasing African American or the Latin American population in the tech community.
The helmet must be removed for unconscious injured. If the person is fully able to respond you should leave the helmet on unless asked otherwise, but you must remove the helmet when the injured looses consciousness. Not taking the helmet of may have the injured die of blood or puke inhaled or just his tongue blocking respiration. So you're damned if you do and more damned if you don't.

Be careful when you remove the helmet, always remove glasses first, open the helmet and pull carefully straight "upwards". Keep the spine straight. Just before you completely remove the helmet use one hand to support the head, so it doesn't bump down. If there's a second person to help, one supports the neck and the other one pulls.

Just refresh your first aid class and do the best you can. It's in pretty much all cases better than no first aid.
Some online tests change the difficulty of the questions depending on currently estimated intelligence. Valid point for paper tests though.
Didn't Apple make Safari/Webkit non-replaceable in iOS? Sure, we have "Chrome" on iOS but that's just Safari with a different skin..

Ps. I hate IE, and I'm an Apple user.
It's not trite. Especially when things aren't working, and it would be so safe and warm and simply to stop wanting to do extraordinary things and sink back into momentum, inertia, the rhythm of everything that has ever been or will be. Not that I wish any of you to have a huge loss, or near loss, but once you do it is galvanizing - if you let it reach you at the core. As others on this thread have said, memento mori.
If your argument is that parents are cavalier about medicine, and not just candy-flavored vitamins, I'm sorry to say I'm even less persuaded.

Again: I perceive your argument to be that if the government is going to regulate products, it should sort products by the number of injuries or fatalities they cause and proceed from the top of the list downwards.

My argument is that this isn't the government's M.O.; they don't see it as their mission to eliminate all risk, or even the risk of bad parenting. Instead, their issue is with products that appear to be much much safer than they are. Their concern is literally constrained to marketing, and nothing else. I do not see how you get around the fact that tiny round rare earth magnets sold in sets of 200 are, in actual fact, way the hell more dangerous than their colorful fun packaging makes them seem. Zen Magnets appears to suggest wearing them!
They deface sites because that's the aim of the "game" they play - how many sites can that group deface vs this other group?

Tagging - an ugly pointless form of graffiti is popular for similar reasons. It's easy to do, and more tags == more credit among a small group of peers.

It's a good thing that people want to deface websites rather than hunker down and learn the long game. We'd be in real trouble if all the people doing minor stuff turned to major cyber[1] crime.

[1] "cyber" feels so old to me. Neuromancer was written in 1984.
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I may not have been clear, my posts mix LSAT percentiles and IQ percentiles.

The Mensa cut-off is top 2% of the general public. 98th percentile on an IQ test.

For the LSAT, they accept 163 as meeting that cut-off. Relative to other LSAT takers however, a 163 is 92nd percentile. So the top 8% of LSAT takers are qualified to enter mensa, or roughly 1 in 12.
Not much besides SublimeLinter, that alone has improved my coding style a lot.

I use a theme called 'Tomorrow-Night' which I like a lot, it's also available for other editors too.

https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme
> When people look at these comics, they always assume, oh, the guy that drew this must have done all that. But for me, I just found a cool way to get to the result that skips all that, even if it’s not as general or satisfying. People tend to assume that I’ve done whatever the most expert way of getting to it is, and so they assume that I know a lot more about the subject than I do.

This reminds me of Penn Jillette's comments on magic. Oftentimes a trick really is as banal as "he practiced that every day for months and months", but the audience will never believe someone has that much time/patience.
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Key factor here is ergonomics of computer's interfaces that humans use. The size of the computer itself is much less relevant. It can be a desktop, a mobile computer, a super portable tiny computer. But the human interface is more or less of a constant, given that we, humans, tend to have certain physical parameters which aren't changing despite any technology advancing.

That's why computers with keyboards and wide screens aren't going anywhere, until other real alternative human interfaces will be developed. Touchscreens are good for what they do, but they are no substitute for keyboards, mouses and wide screens by any means.

Are you a writer creating your next magnum opus? Or student who rushes to finish some course work in time? Try doing it on the touchscreen. Are you creating some music or videos? You won't exchange your wide screen editor with tons of controls for any degraded touch screen experience. Are you a developer who uses IDE? Forget about touchcreen tablets - keyboards and monitors are your friends. Are you a hardcore gamer? You won't give up your keyboard and mouse and your high end GPU/CPU for any tablet for sure. And etc. and etc.

What I'm trying to say, is that tablets interfaces aren't replacing regular (i.e. classic PC) interfaces such as keyboards, mouses and wide screens. They are only complementing them. So all this talks about tablets killing PCs is nonsense.
People saying "www." before a domain when referring to a website.

People that think ".org" is still an obscure TLD and say every letter [oh-are-gee]. I listen to jazz at http://kcsm.org and they're a huge offender in my daily life.
Your hypothesis that Singapore's done so well because of its location is certainly a common one and puts you in good company.

It doesn't strike me as very persuasive though. For instance, here's a map[1] of ports and harbors in Malaysia. There are a lot of them. How come Singapore has almost the GDP (239 billion) of all of Malaysia put together (278 billion)?

[1] http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/MYS.php
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[Disclosure- my best friend immigrated to Singapore after his PhD in Europe]

Natural factors play a role, but only so much. IMHO, you are rationalizing. There are many places in the world that are strategically located and resource rich, but they didn't grow as much as Singapore did.

In Asia, if I was a villain, I would put my lair in Timor (if I wanted an island) or New Guinea (if I wanted land) - just between India, Australia, Japan, etc.

Water and coal are abundant in many places. Argentina has great fertile plains and a lower population. Coal was first mined in China, and in the UK which also had IIRC more coal and water than Germany.

Hell, following your explanation about the new world, Portugal and Ireland are even more at the extreme of Europe- they should have discovered America! They didn't (I know the story about Vinland, the vikings an so on - but they didn't do as much as Spain did)

It we are talking about geographic distance, southern Morocco or Senegal would have been at an advantage - but they didn't do it.

It's too easy to rewrite history. Education and investment are clearly driving growth.

Show me a country that is betting big on education and pushing for investment (preferably local, from savings), even if it has not much politically stability it is a country with a bright future.

Besides India (who will certainly be the next big thing after the US - not China IMHO), I'd put my chips on countries like Estonia, Kenya, Uruguay.
And get what benchmarks?)
Thanks for the input!

I've certainly considered the anonymous user approach to help users see the power of the interface before having to commit. I worried about anonymous users being turned off by an initially small user base and leaving the site without registering. I guess that could happen even if they register, so I'll definitely prioritize working on this. Thank you.

The site definitely developed with a problem statement from my wife: wanting to meet not just friends, but ones with which we could truly connect. This takes more than just a craigslist posting or random encounters. When it comes right down to it, great friends match on many axes. We figured -- why not make the axes truly rich. So we ended up with hundreds. Certainly might be just the type of people we are, so not sure whether it scratches an itch for a large population.

Also appreciate the UI links. I'm more of a backend guy -- so the UI has been a struggle.
That's a good way to put it. If you want to be mathematically rigorous about it, you could phrase it as a statement about probabilities: for any A and B, P(A and B) <= P(A).
Source code temporarly closed. I will publish soon.
Being an LSAT instructor is surprisingly remunerative. One of the big test prep companies pays $50/hour, which is about the same as what a first year associate makes at a big law firm (when you account for the fact the the associate probably puts in 3000 hours a year).
And that's why you need regulation: it ensures that interactions are indeed voluntary, and that both parties have access to the same amount of information.
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Luckily, that ship seems to have sailed.
I had a little issue. I chose The Walking Dead and new episode airs later today. It told me that the next new episode was in 7 days. So I had to go over to Wikipedia to make sure tonight's episode was a new one. It is.
> (competition, no foreign languages, science first)
> Parents urge their children to get the best degree they can in order to be able to take up the best paying job they can find. Money is the measure and not personal satisfaction. Arts, therefore, are not very popular.

> I'm highlighting here all negative aspects

It does not look like negatives to me, but a recipe for success - ie focus on the important and cut the useless.

(And in a country with as many immigrants as Singapore, I'm sure the issue of foreign languages is self solving :-)
Firstly, 2 wrongs do not make a right (your first logically fallacy is a tu-quoque)

Second, you used ad hominem directly (implying they're living in a fantasy world) and an appeal to the audience (bringing up MPAA etc) - another set of even worse logical fallicies. You may as well just call someone a cocksucker for all the intellectual weight this kind of argument carries, at least then you're not hiding behind some kind of faux intellect and moral superiority given to you by political choices.

Thirdly, if you have the ability to crack their security change their drivers and you don't like the price, you are free to create your own commercial version (or open source it). They did, and apparently they're doing quite well out of it.

Fourth, if you are able to pay $180,000 for a system and then $10,000 for the initial dongle, and you haven't budgeted for seemingly expensive extras (yet not in the context of a $180k system) then you've no right to criticise anyone else for their poor work practices. Pay the money and learn how to budget.

What you did (or advocate, I'm not sure how much I believe you) was steal from someone, regardless of their morality or character, and your argument to justify it is incredibly weak. If you can make it in a non-fallacious way then at least it will carry some weight in that regard, I'd invite you to try.
You would do well to assume the question isn't meant to be self-contradictory, and find a meaningful intepretation under this assumption. In this case, "before the others" could be extended to mean "before any other areas".
The author didn't name Occam's Razor, but she did touch on the idea that simplicity can be an unhelpful or ambiguous criteria to apply:

"Usually when you are asked to continue a pattern the assumption is that you are supposed to choose the simplest way. But sometimes it is difficult to decide what the testers think the simplest way is. Can you replace the question mark with a number in the following sequence: 31, ?, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, … You might say that the answer is 30 as the numbers alternate; or, you might say that the answer is 28 as these are the days of the month."

This isn't to say that Occam's Razor isn't helpful -- it often is, if for no other reason than the fact that model/theory with fewer "moving parts" is simply easier to work with than another with more (and a similar level of explanatory power). Just that simplicity sometimes can't help or that it can be a value judgment.
Why doesn't that happen now? Friday is the Muslim holy day?
put the administration of federal elections in the hands of an independent, professional, non-partisan electoral commission.

Wait this doesn't happen now?!?!! WTF?
I will soon be graduating from school and have accepted a job offer that I know will involve some commuting - probably driving.

My rationale is that I'll only do it for a few years, and it's worth it to have the company in question on my resumé. I think the fact that we all aren't working from home 2-3 days a week is frankly ridiculous, but the sea change is already in progress and can't be stopped. Eventually working remotely 50-80% of the time will be the norm.
Does it make more sense to say that intelligence is 'multi-dimensional' or to say that it's 'adimensional'? After all, IQ is a metric, not a direct measurement, as intelligence isn't itself directly observable. If we're defining 'intelligence' as being a quality of the human mind that's conducive to success at achieving one's goals, then it becomes something of a tautology to simply ascribe that quality to people who have observably achieved their goals.

If the IQ metric is intended to correlate success on certain types of tests with success in other contexts, then it may be reliable in certain regards - e.g. people with higher IQs do tend to hive higher incomes, as 3pt14159 pointed out below - but the actual nature of that common causality is still something that may not itself be understood sufficiently to describe it in terms of dimensionality.
Many people like to argue for political reasons that IQ tests are meaningless or fundamentally flawed. One of the typical arguments, repeated in the article, is that the questions on a test require some cultural background and a smart person can fail them if they were raised in a different culture.

Following a similar line of reasoning, we could say that the vision test your optometrist administers requires the cultural context, after all if you were raised in a culture that uses cyrillic then you might not recognize some characters, and you would fail the test even if your vision was 20/20! Therefore, all vision tests are flawed, and the very concept of vision acuity is meaningless.
Drag and drop doesn't work on my iPad or Android phone.
That it makes you easily recognisible as a prick.
Is there a particular reason for contributing this blog article, rather than just linking to the post itself [1]? It doesn't seem to add anything other than "read this comment".

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/internet_...
>Of course, you can bet that the writers of the test did not use anything related to algorithmic complexity when deciding the correct answers to these questions.

Allow yourself to entertain the thought that they did. Imagine programs in our brain. Things that are easy to decode/(de)compress and require little energy/instruction are of low algorithmic complexity to them.

Start writing down farm animals in your mind. How long before you get to "hen"? You may have written down "chicken", but that would be too easy for a Mensa question, so you'd have to substitute that one :P

Wrong or obscure "answers" to a test question take more energy to produce, they are more complex, more random, less orderly. For me, "Cow" is the shortest program that gets executed first when I think of farm animals. It was likely one of the first programs for the test writer too.
You're saying they're being heavy-handed, but to be clear, all they are saying is that you can't market rare earth magnets as a "consumer product intended or marketed by the manufacturer primarily as a manipulative or construction desk toy for general entertainment, such as puzzle working, sculpture, mental stimulation, or stress relief". They're not banning magnets; they're banning one specific marketing of them.