skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a rush hour subway, you may have room to read on your phone, but probably shouldn't use it without a wrist strap. If you're bumped (and you will be) and drop it, you'll never see your phone again.
Let's put it this way: he's not violating any legal rules, but he is violating some social rules. Whether that's doing something "wrong" or not is subjective, I think.
"Orientalist"

Pardon my French, but WTF?
I would agree that there is grey area, but I would compare this to some guy walking up and commenting on your grey hair, then you, offended, punch him in the face. If we take that to the extremes then maybe it would be harassment or disturbing the peace, but at face value I say your the only person committing a crime there.
My favourite: "Apples are not the only fruit." This guy has never seens this his site on an Android browser, otherwise he would noticed that his webfont does not work on the default browser.
LG is offering Nexus 4 at higher price than Google Play offer outside US
Having recently joined a startup as an early employee, I just can't think this is a good way to get anything really accomplished. We're running at full tilt to figure out our product fit, building backed systems we need, talking to prospective customers, etc. If we were lounging on an island some where, how could you possibly do those things well?

Truly successful businesses are not vacations. Coding on the beach with a mai thai sounds romantic, but comes across as foolish and a waste of precious runway resources.

Exceptions might include if you and your team happen to be native to a luxourious beach, in which case your environment might contribute to your success. This has not been vetted yet, so far.
LERN (cold fusion): is it real?
A properly _standardised_ test should at least have been administered to enough people that you were in the minority of the kind of people it was standardised against. Actually, a properly standardised test should have discarded questions like that if their answers weren’t reliable.

In any case, it is quite unlikely that the test you took could reliably distinguish between scores above 145.
Please look again at your original post. This whole business about "at one point in their life" simply isn't there. You didn't say those words. Just the opposite: in one of the later paragraphs, you talk about people "who lived and died in dire poverty". You seem to be moving the goalposts of the argument. Either that or your first post was very unclear.

> in Einstein's and Wittgenstein's case, during significant portions of their lives, though Einstein was certainly vastly more successful than any of the others during his lifetime

No, see, you're doing it again. Wittgenstein was regarded from early in his life as a genius. He was considered a very eccentric genius (that's putting it mildly), but in his own lifetime he was successful and well regarded. If anything, he held lower status jobs because he chose to run away from the world of fame and regard that he already had.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein#Teaching_po...
Absolutely. Lots of really intelligent people seem to fall into the trap of being too individualist and selfish. (Ayn Rand!)

While some of them eventually shine really bright, most fail to achieve anything significant.
Thing broken? 3D printing to the rescue
It's for sure that those tests are not good for measuring the top end. The post calls in to question that any test could do so, but its clear that in any event, that test is not it.
The OP article has no citations or sources either, do you take it at face value?

Edit: Another commenter linked to the original report.
Thrilling idea, but I have a hard time giving my email address to a service who can't even take the time to properly setup their root domain's page: http://startupparadise.com/
Nope all over this article.

>If you want to buy a botnet, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $700

Very vague.

>ZeuS source code: $200-$500

Nope, total bullshit. It is widely available. [1]

>SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100

Nope. "Socks bot" refers to the ability to convert an infected computer into a SOCKSv5 proxy

>Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25

This refers to exploit packs, which is obfuscated software sold on these boards that contain unpatched 0day exploits. Exploit packs are worthless after a week, unless updated since all the vulnerabilities (apart from Java[2]). They're available for free.

[1]http://www.multiupload.co.uk/P8QUNF4YJN

[2]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/30/oracle_knew_about_fl...
A year ago a "friend" of me hired a russian hacker, just for a joke, and he hacked my gmail, twitter and facebook accounts. And the passwords were random 10 caracters or something like that. He hired the hacker in free-lance.ru
FWIW Brazil has mandatory voting and many parties. Two of them are dominant, but there is a much greater level of awareness for other parties than here in the US.

If you don't vote in Brazil a lot of the things you normally do involving the government become complicated until your pay a fine and fix your status. Anything involving government issued IDs to social security and unemployment benefits are cut off until you "regularize" your status by paying the fine for not voting.

My biggest complaint is that the system forces even Brazilians living abroad to vote, which is a big pain in the ass when you are abroad since you aren't aware of elections (it's easy to forget) and you need to find the nearest consulate and figure out how to vote. Every time I've returned to Brazil I've had to go and fix my status by paying the fine for not voting in the elections that occurred while I was out of the country.
Starting a Blog with Node.js and Poet
Affected countries (according to the article and comments) are Spain, Austria, Denmark, Indonesia, Germany, Italy.
"- The number of total votes by email may not be greater than the margin anyway"

You're thinking about the presidential race, which, for NJ, should be decisive. What you're forgetting about are city and state wide campaigns which could be decided by a few hundred or even a few dozen votes.
fit-PC2i:

http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc/fit-pc2i-specifications/
From the link: One of the most noted uses of this plea, or "defense," was by the accused in the 1945–46 Nuremberg Trials, such that it is also called the "Nuremberg defense". The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the main victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany.
In git the patch process is the same but the original author is retained. Git stores the author separately from the committer.

Does anyone know if hg has a similar author vs committer distinction? If so, perhaps the tool is displaying committers by default?
Thanks for your kind comment. I've thought of Mr. Treese often during my life. Here's an anecdote about him that's always cracked me up: One time he called on a student who wasn't, as usual, paying attention, asked him a math question, and the student gave a rude reply, "Your guess is as good as mine."

Mr. Treese fixed his eyes on him, gave him that crooked grin of his and said, "No that's incorrect. My guess would be much better than yours."
Clearly, Google needs to be punished for such abuses of the power, power that is granted to them by consumers voluntarily choosing to use their free product.
Ask HN: - Game Design Mailing Lists?
Hello All,

I am in the middle of developing a game, my first real game that has many pieces and I wanted to talk about some game design theory but I cannot find a mailing lists that seems appropriate. Google Groups seem to contain a lot of SPAM. StackOverflow is not the right place to ask, etc.

Can anyone point me to some mailing lists?

An idea of what is on my mind:
1. taking generic pieces of the game (level data) and making it a static library.
2. Generic OpenGL pieces as a single static library.

etc, etc...
I've personally found that "internet journalists" will twist what you say regardless of whether or not you make any explicit links to your employer. Even if you do the opposite ("My opinions do not represent those of Foobarbaz, Inc."), they'll still do it.

You get burned once and then you move on.
You are making the BIG assumption that foreign languages, the humanities, teamwork, and learning other than rote memorization are useless. It takes more than knowing a lot of facts and being able to crunch numbers to be successful in a career, even in technical ones like science and engineering. Successful scientists and engineers not only have strong technical skills, but also strong "soft" skills, like the ability to effectively communicate ideas and work in a team.
Most stores that have surveillance cameras use them to deter shoplifting or robbery. So it's possible that if the stores were forced to remove their cameras, they'd have to raise their prices to make up for the lost revenue. Or, the store would just hide the cameras so the shoppers couldn't see them.
I'll have to disagree with you on that. Genetics is the wrong approach to dealing with all this and was a wild goose chase. Regenerative medicine is the correct approach, the body has all the mechanisms already to regrow itself, after all, it did grow in the first. Regrowing the body and keeping it from being a cancerous growth is the actual challenge. Noninvasive surgery like radiosurgery, focused ultrasound, and photoacoustic surgery is the correct approach along with floating growth factors. This is not really biological engineering but electromechanical engineering and well within grasp. A proper effort would get this done within a year.
Casual users need as good a computer as possible, proficient users can make do
The difference between Bayesian and frequentist probability, explained by gjm11
Well if you show people Bing;s results in Google's search template, they will prefer it over Google's own results.

It's not like consumers make rational decisions. They are habituated to use Google.

PS: Searchers are not Google's consumers, they are their product. Advertisers are their consumers - they are the ones who pay them.
It sounds like the problem is that a sales & marketing email took him to the wrong site.

To pirate the software he'd at the very least need to do a search on Google to find out how. A simple search[1] shows how easy it is. The first result is a warez site called "Official Apple Store - UK" where he can download it immediately with very little effort.

[1] http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=office+mac+uk
I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because the enterprises think the iPad is good for everything, so they don't need to pay for any other one. Panasonic has been trying this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLxZx_3zBc
https://github.com/pags/fields.js

Give it a look. As you described, it simply parses standard input tag params, including HTML 5 types. It's my first attempt at anything like this, so be gentle.
Insignificant little country that nobody really care.
The problem is that indicting an individual stops them, more or less. Whatever judgement they get regarding FRAND patents won't have anything to do with search. If all they had done was collect Capone's taxes without throwing him in prison, it would've been pretty useless.

I also have issues with things like tax evasion being used as a proxy to prosecute other crimes, but that's more of a romantic notion about how law should work. I realize it can't be that way.
Rankings are inherently mutually exclusive. Not everybody can be a winner.

Tell me how Bing is better at solving this problem.
Here's a couple:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/09/teen-millionaires-startups-...
How do you feel about a product like balloons? Balloons are responsible for the deaths of dozens of children every year. They are marketed directly to children, used primarily by children, and incredibly dangerous if swallowed.

Your argument is that Buckyballs do not appear as dangerous as they are. However, there are so many products that, if used incorrectly, are dangerous. They may seem harmless but once you swallow them or put them over your head, they turn deadly.

Where do we draw the line? Can the CPSC really hope to judge every product and determine whether it is safe for the general public to consume? Do you truly not see this as a case of selective enforcement?

I will admit I am biased. I am the developer who built and maintains the buckyballs website. This is going to hurt me directly, as I am losing one of my biggest clients. They are going to be laying off a number of other staff as well.
IQ is worthless in a vacuum -- much like a computer. Though they have magnitudes greater computational power than the smartest human, without humans, they have no purpose.
You guys are both right. The point really is that prior to hitting a career grand slam (a Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies") one can find oneself in a menial job where one is looked upon as an unfulfilled genius. There's nothing to say that this Target employee isn't writing the next great American novel in his spare time.

In summary, the "menial" job in and of itself should not be seen as a failing for the genius.
That's a very narrow-minded way of looking at success. The success of a state is much more than just attaining wealth — it's about serving the people and giving them all possible opportunities to pursue their dreams and live a happy life. Money is just a means to be able to carry out these tasks.

And there are enough statistics out there to prove that money is far from leading the list of things that matter most to the happiness of humans.

PS: (And in a country with as many immigrants as Singapore, I'm sure the issue of foreign languages is self solving :-)

The three ethnic groups in Singapore get in touch with each other quite well, that's true, but contact with any other culture such as European ones is rare (expats just stay amongst themselves). Furthermore, learning a language requires more than just knowing native speakers.
Grit.
There is at least one open font (Symbola) with emoji support and I thought Ubuntu had been adding support at some point recently.

More to the point, however, you could take the symbols you would have to create either way and package them as a web font - which would only be downloaded on devices without a better choice - or simply make your JavaScript do a simple search and replace on the Unicode character values to substitute the same HTML markup you'd need either way. Again, you could do a client side detection for this to avoid any overhead on browsers with support.
Hacker leaks VMware ESX kernel source code online
I remember lots of stories of people selling things on ebay at a young age back in the day. I'm pretty sure some must have made more than $1MM in revenue.

Recently there was a story about a 16 y/o who's converting a sports car to electric and runs a CAD business that seems to be doing pretty well.

Edit: I just dug up the car conversion thread I mentioned. This kid is making amazing progress: http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/975497-wait-that-isnt-an-f20... (that's the last page of his forum updates)
The jews did bro, amen.
"random .exe files from "HaKerD00dz" with animated gif avatars from some PHP forum that you have to trust"

LOL!
Not all "consumers" make rational decisions in all cases, but they do have the capability of doing so. Going by reason and reality (as opposed to whim or faith) is itself a choice.
Will it get the citizens that are brighter than your average crayon thinking and questioning the things they read?
In-person voting fraud is a non-issue because it's extremely risky and it's self-limiting -- how many polling places could one person possibly hit in a single day? Your time would almost certainly be better spent helping your favored candidate's (legal) get out the vote operation.
Countries which increased their investment in education tended to have slower economic growth, at least in the period 1960-2000.

Education policy has long been a research topic for me, and it is the topic that drew me here to Hacker News.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728123

The quoted statement is where equating "spending taxpayer money on schools" to "investing in education" leads to some odd policy conclusions. A friend of mine (a man in my generation, a policy analyst for the United States federal government) showed me that blog post the day it was posted (I think he is a regular reader of that blog) and asked me to comment about it. If the factual question is, is spending-as-such strongly correlated with results from a country's school system? we already know from multiple lines of evidence that the answer is no.

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/49685503.pdf

But what is remarkable about Singapore is that even when it didn't have the economic development yet to spend much on schools it was already spending wisely and otherwise getting good results for all aspects of its national investment, financial and nonfinancial, in education.

http://www.merga.net.au/documents/RP182006.pdf

I'm even more familiar with the situation in Taiwan than I am with the situation in Singapore, and EFFECTIVE spending and management (not lavish spending, and not school-favoring management) of the public education system there has to share part of the credit for the transformation of Taiwan in my lifetime from a wretchedly poor country to a prosperous country on track to be one of the wealthiest countries in the world in my old age.

http://www.globalpost.com/globalpost-blogs/southeast-asia/si...

I have seen the textbooks from both countries (especially from Taiwan). They are less expensive to produce, and thus less of a cost burden on the school system, than the textbooks used in the United States. But the textbooks are of much higher quality, especially in mathematics. In two generations, we have seen those countries transform into countries such that many foreign observers assume that people are "naturally" smart in those countries. I know enough people from enough strata of society and a broad enough age range from each country to know that today's appearance that east Asia and southeast Asia are full of smart people is because of smart policies that helped the two most recent generations in the top-performing countries gain exceptionally good educations at reasonable cost. Yes, some countries could spend less on their schools and do better than they do now, if only they would spend more wisely.
Also, just as an additional note: it is not just Russia doing this. Countries where extradition is not an option generally tend to have the largest amount of cyber crime. The list includes China[1], Germany[4], Russia, Japan[3] and France[2]. People in these countries generally target Americans, since USA has the second largest amount of internet users (245,203,319) [5] and has one of the highest GDP in the world[6]. Recently a security firm investigated a Facebook virus called KoobFace and found out its Russian authors, however, they were unable to prosecute them due to Russian Laws[7]

[1]http://www.gov.cn/english/laws/2005-09/22/content_68710.htm

[2]http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/content/download/1958/13719/ve...

[3]http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/loe-01.html

[4]http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.ht...

[5]http://www.internetworldstats.com/list2.htm

[6]http://exploredia.com/list-of-countries-by-gdp-2012/

[7]http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/koobface/
So what's an example of a flat file that isn't HTML? If you have flat files, what value does Varnish provide?

If you're accepting use input to write files, then you have vulnerability. I'm not saying you do or don't, but it's an attack vector. As for Disqus, sure, I'm at their whimsy when it comes to security, but they haven't bitten me yet, and I'd hardly consider them fly-by-night as they've been around for years now, and has been profitable since their first year.

For what it's worth, I wasn't considering the admin site as vulnerable, as those are generally disabled before deploying, but if you're running a database, or varnish, or Apache, or whatever, your risk is increased for vulnerability, but I suppose that's neither here nor there really, as I think it comes down to a matter of taste and, as you said, I'm trading system vulnerability for third party vulnerability. The upside though is that while sure, somebody could munge my site up, fixing it is just uploading another copy.
* slight nitpick. I changed the basis of the question to encompass the need to reassess driving style in the presence of a change in weather conditions, as opposed to choosing specific instances of danger. That is not a rephrasing as I originally contended. My apologies.

If all roads can be precarious, the answer is all of the above, thus solving the dilema of the test taker understanding the need to be more perceptive in colder weather. We cannot control for all variables that would make a road slick or dangerous, and therefore cannot test them all individually, but must group them together into a situation (ex: road conditions changed).
If we accept that driving in and of itself is an active activity, then we should not have to distinguish between specific changes in road conditions for any change in road conditions should be enough for the driver to reevaluate their driving.

This question on the test should then be changed completely to reflect the fact that a change in road conditions necessitates a reevaluation of driving style.

I would further contend that "hidden questions", such as the one described, test one's ability to take multiple choice tests. If I know A and B, I have no need for C and there is no need for me to even look at it. In fact, if there were 40 options, "All of the Above" still has to be the correct answer, even if I have no clue what the other 37 options are.

Teaching is not the intent of a test. Unless, of course, we are assuming that the test taker did not learn anything before taking the test; In which case the intent is not testing them at all but ensuring that they have some basic skills to get by.

However I agree with your intent, the creation of questions for a test is not a trivial pursuit.
As someone who started learning databases with NoSQL (mongodb), the familiar syntax (JavaScript) made learning higher order concepts much easier. SQL throws a ton of syntax at you that's only really useful in SQL, and personally put me off learning backend development.
I also find it odd when people equate a high IQ with being a genius. In how I view the concept, one has to be a genius at something. I don't think there is a general "genius" category. In other words, I don't view it as a description of potential, but of unparalleled achieved mastery and accomplishment in something.
Wow. This is a fantastic collection. Thank you!
This looks cool! There's a lot of hard things to figure out here (visas, internet access, pirates, funding landscape, and lots of things the naysayers in this thread are happily listing out), but if you can make it happen, it will be amazing. Best of luck!
But Instagram without filters is just a camera.
AFAIK, tests are prepared by some third party organizations (psychology departments?), scaled on representative sample of the population and are just bought by Mensa(and changed every couple of years). You should be aware that in different countries test with different SD (15, 16 and 25) are used. I heard from one guy who was responsible for testing in my country that about 25% of people taking the test get accepted
Have you seen the "What are the most popular services used by Y Combinator startups?" infographics? Mixpanel seems to be doing extremely well among YC startups.

http://blog.competemonkey.com/post/34661393079/what-are-the-...
Not a mailing list as such but there is a nice GameDev subreddit which is fairly active: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev

There is also the GameDev stack exchange: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/