skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ tests share this property of undervaluing creativity and overvaluing conformity with academic work in general.

Witness my favorite renegade intellectual, Robert Pirsig, from his Wikipedia page:

'While doing laboratory work in biochemistry, Pirsig became greatly troubled by the existence of more than one workable hypothesis to explain a given phenomenon, and, indeed, that the number of hypotheses appeared unlimited. He could not find any way to reduce the number of hypotheses--he became perplexed by the role and source of hypothesis generation within scientific practice. This led him to an awareness of a (to him) previously unarticulated limitation of science, which was something of a revelation to him. The question distracted him to the extent that he lost interest in his studies and failed to maintain good grades; he was finally expelled from the university.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pirsig

I score pretty well on IQ tests, but only by suppressing a constant incipient rage at many of the questions, and a constant effort to ask myself "what would be the most boring and conformist interpretation of this?" That is usually the "right" answer.
There are plenty of people doing "menial" work who have plenty of drive. The work is to earn a paycheck and their life isn't about that. The drive is centered on something that doesn't earn them a living (e.g. family, bird watching). Not everything in life is about work and money.
Interaction in Team Projects
hmm, thought ide get a response for this. I tried looking through the archives but no dice
I just wanted to give a counter-point here, to show they're not all bad. Microsoft saved me recently, when (due to my own stupidity) I was in a foreign country without my main computer and I'd forgotten to install Office for Mac, which I needed urgently to finish a presentation. Luckily, I had my license key so I entered it in on their website, and they gave me a link to download the full version of Office. No questions asked. I hadn't even bought it off Microsoft directly in the first place; I'd bought a student version off a third party.

This might seem like a no-brainer feature, but when I've bought software online in the past it's often come with a 30-day download link, and when that link expires you're out of luck. You have to have the forethought to retain the install image to be able to install it in future. So I was actually impressed and grateful to Microsoft for that.
> Tactically, if a stranger begins staring at me or targeting me in some odd way I consider them a threat to my life.

Are you serious?
>The current complex distribution and supply network doesn't have to pay taxes because they are already illegal, so they'll continue to charge the current price

This is highly unlikely. It's MUCH cheaper to obey the law than not; as I said in another comment, you may notice that, after the U.S. ended alcohol prohibition, almost no one sold alcohol illegally because it wasn't worth it.

Daniel Okrent's book Last Call is pretty good on this subject.
I believe its
Ewe / ram
Sow / boar
Yes! Training people to not be human is much harder than just maximizing accountability and minimizing opportunity for people to do the wrong thing.
It's actually an impossible solution, since Kolmogorov complexity is uncomputable. However, there are some related complexity measures which are computable, so that they are merely impractical rather than impossible to apply: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Algorithmic_complexity#O...

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. We can't show the exact complexity of the different hypotheses, but we can sometimes compare hypotheses. Imagine programs that generate answers according to the different hypotheses. Between the program that answers according to taxonomy, and the program that answers according to word length, which one requires a look-up table of animals and their classes?
Never quiet thought of it like this. There some things that would seem obvious to me but reading this realise perhaps not so much. Anyway IQ tests have long fallen out of fashion as they only measure a certain type of intelligence
I felt truly intelligent only after ending my membership in Mensa.
Let's try to list all the "correct" answers.

1) Hen - only one with wings / only bird / only non mammal / only egg-reproducer / only creature using 2 legs

2) Sheep - only one with more than 3 letters in name / renewable wool provider (eggs and milk are renewing?) Only plural without an S (sheep vs cows, hens, pigs)

3) Pig - only animal without renewing product (no milk, no eggs, no wool); only male name (cow hen and sheep are female);

4) Cow - only sacred animal
I'm not a mathematician, but I don't think that means what you think it does. It doesn't preclude being able to compute the K-complexity for some subset of strings, or for some fixed maximum complexity. Since the scenario here is checking which of a few relatively low-complexity options has the lowest complexity (eg generally could be expressed in English in <30 words), it seems it could be used in this context.
Probably networking (providing social proof to people who are "like you" that they are sufficiently "like you" that they should help you in some way).
Google Chrome is a Dog
Sure, but would that someone turn to HN in such a case? Still, I expect you'd be surprised, especially if the account is a few years old.

Hey but let's hope we won't have to find out, huh? :)
Ask HN: what is the acceptance/rejection rates for Mensa tests?
Everyone wants a slice of Raspberry Pi
Sorry it is a little off topic:

rampant taxation in the USA ? No are you serious... When you all talk about taxation in the USA you are talking about a joke for the European (Italian in particular 55% of tax) standard...
In any given day, I may have a number of meetings; I have to write any variety of documentation; get into discussions about whether or not a particular requirement is correct and stated properly; answer technical questions of the "what if..." type; investigate strange behavior to see if it's a bug or just normal, but misunderstood behavior; review other people's designs, code, or test cases, etc...

When all that's done, there's not a lot of time coding.

No, it's not frustrating: it's just part of the job. I mentioned in another topic a few days ago that my dept. won't hire people who are "just coders." We expect developers we hire to be able to take on all aspects of the job from gathering requirements though final test, if necessary.
FWIW Ned, I had to update my (generally lame) résumé recently and was a bit embarrassed to put CPython on my list of projects that I've contributed to due to the same type of thing: it was a small patch that fixed an obscure issue.

Anyways, I did it anyhow (with the caveat to make me feel better :P) but I felt the same way about the "accomplishment" :). So congrats!

(This is tos9 by the way).
Boar is a male pig. Male sheep names depend on if it got snipped (ram is for "intact" males).

// answers correspond to growing up in ND
I find these sorts of "micro" distributions academically interesting but I don't see the point for web development. There are great uses for distributions like this for small-scale stuff (I've loaded something similar on one of my RPi devices) but for web developers I'd look elsewhere because RAM is really cheap. The most RAM-starved machine I've had in the last four years has been 8GB; I currently have 16GB in my rMBP and regularly run a five-VM stack (frontend, backend, memcached, database, Puppetmaster--I like having them on separate machines because that's how it'd be in production). Each VM has a gig of RAM and runs Ubuntu Server and things are pretty peachy.

Biggest beef with VMWare Fusion is that it doesn't support Workstation teams...
I had the opposite reaction. Long articles are fairly easy to read on mobile sites that are designed well.
Seeking work: Bremen/Germany or remote

Toolsmith and bug hunter for Unix look like systems with more than 30 years experience in programming and more than 25 years under Unix.

UN/EDIFACT, data mining and machine learning expert.

See: http://kephra.de/dox/resume.html#en

I have full time in nov&dez, but likely will start my next research project in January.
This was featured on Reason.tv. Sad to see them lose this battle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KONkQx0wm1c
Hah. I always find it funny how the same people who are capable of hacking these high profile websites haven't updated their design, HTML and CSS knowledge since the '90s. Scrolling marquees and the horrible moving star background.. really? Plus the remainder of the page is totally screwed up.

Here's a screenshot for when they notice: http://i.imgur.com/UT4we.png
Using webscript.io to check your device status
I'm not sure what you mean by that. The length doesn't seem to cause a problem with the design on mobile, at least on all the devices I have.

edit: Maybe you're trying to say that the length makes the article unfriendly to mobile. In that case, it's worth pointing out that responsive design is not synonymous with mobile design, but a separate process. While responsive design may affect the mobile layout, responsiveness has very little to do with factors such as article length.
Email Confirmation, MeetUp Style
Apple will have a marketshare of about 5% in smartphones and 10% in tablets
Is there any news feed covering information technology innovations?
Like TED or KurzweilAI but mainly about information technology. I know there is TechCrunch but I'm mainly looking for ideas and innovations rather than startups news.
Ek chori upar se seena chori. saalon sharam nahi aati tumhe hn par gand daal rakha hai.ab utar gaya ye post frontpage se achcha hi hua kyunki ispar comments ne mughe bahut embarass kiya hai ye yahaan par.kar lo bkchodi saalon. indians se vakyahi mein kuch nahi ho sakta. bejatti kara dete ho sab ke sab dikha di apni akal.
The OP has posted it on the most credible forum online. Just do what you can do to help out and shut up.
The health risk of swallowing Buckyballs is more serious than just swallowing a marble. If you swallow two or more magnets, they can get stuck together as they wind their way through your intestines and pinch holes through your intestinal wall.
Scott Kim can make any of them symmetrical in multiple ways - that's not a distinguishing feature.
Nicely put, very much agreed.
The original article suggests ways of writing that will aid reading, and they give reasons why the texts they quote are poorly expressed. The article is useful because of that.

Observation: In the child comments in the post you link to is a comment from xanmas. This user points out the space constraints on much academic publishing. I remember papers in experimental physics where the list of authors took up more space than the text of the paper - however some re-writing always helps.
So you hash everyones' name, then you have a reverse mapping.
Office is over. Try Google Docs.
Buckyballs are extremely low quality and fall apart quite easily. Zenmagnets are much higher quality, and seem to be taking more and more of the market share away from the Buckyball guys. I think that may explain why Buckyballs folded while Zenmagnets are still fighting this ( http://www.zenmagnets.com/index.php?p=1_20_November_Update ).
I'm tired of people complaining about 'painting India in a bad light'. Corruption, abuse of power, cheapness of human life, poverty and massive wealth inequality are facts of life in India. If you don't like people pointing it out, address it, but we're not going to keep our mouths shut in service of the Great New Indian Propaganda Machine.
Seems pretty reasonable to me. I actually rather like the idea of taking the best of higher level languages that can't work for systems programming and stealing their ideas to the darker realms of C and C++.
I was fairly supportive of his thoughts until I read at the bottom that he works for Imagination Technologies, makers of the PowerVR chipset and quite possibly the worst company in the world when it it comes to giving any support at all to open source drivers.

After reading that I was struck by a couple of things -- one is that it is hard to feel bad for someone complaining about a bad actor in the software space when they work for a bad actor in the hardware space; two is that even if I have a bad opinion of an employer already, I still think it is bad form to post an article like this with your employer's name linked right at the bottom.

Even though he ultimately concludes that he won't pirate it, it is fairly easy for bad internet "journalists" to twist what he said and involve his employer since he names and links right to them at the bottom of his rant-post. Rant-posts where you invoke even the idea that you may break the law are best made on blogs that do not mention your employer.
Cow is specifically female, so it's not that. There are definitely a few different ways of cutting it, I went for sheep. It's a silly "test" of anything if it has a "correct" answer.
It doesn't seem to break it for me, but really, would you not use something just because the back button doesn't work? That seems so juvenile and pouty. Do you also stamp you foot and have tantrums a lot?

Lastly there is no degree if broken back button, it's either functional or not, it's binary, so superlatives like "so badly" just make you sound dumb
Ask HN: Please review my startup project
Hi Everyone,

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Here's the theory: take match.com (instant results) + eharmony (hundreds of matching criteria) + craigslist (completely free and beyond dating), and bundle it in a way that lets you find people for just about any reason. Whether for dating, friendship, housing, etc.

I've written an engine to do it and I would really appreciate HN's feedback on the entire experience (UI, usability, enjoyment, flow, improvements, ideas on how to bootstrap a user base, etc).

There is no user base yet, so if you want to see a match result, make sure to enable the 'Friendship' goal, and center your search in Cary, NC for a male. You should see me (beaglehoster)!

Many thanks HN!,
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* Canceling your account after signup is easy (look under Account/Help) and, I assure you, is a complete deletion of all information your have submitted.
Education shouldn't be about not doing drugs, but about not getting addicted to
them. It's perfectly fine to occasionally take drugs (you know, like CH₃CH₂OH
or C₈H₁₀N₄O₂, the former of which is a lot worse than a good number of illegal
and "dangerous" drugs like THC), it's not fine to be constantly
stoned/high/drunk/intoxicated. I don't want even more "drugs are bad, mkay
kids" in schools. Drugs are perfectly fine and have been part of human
civilization for thousands of years now. It's only been very recently that people got
the idiotic idea to crack down on them.
What is your damage?
Another big downside to intelligence tests is they can make you think you are just that intelligent. (More commonly known as pride / arrogance. We all suffer from this, but I digress.) I've had conversations online with people who have scored extremely high on IQ tests. Now interestingly, this person assumed because of their high IQ scores that they were great at deducing patterns and reading people. They ended up coming to simply outrageous conclusions about myself that they were certain were correct no matter what I said.

So, I personally think IQ tests are worthless. I don't see any benefits that come from knowing what your IQ is. The only thing they give is arrogance, and as Albert Einstein (may have) said, "The only thing more Dangerous than Ignorance is Arrogance."
DoS Algo's Effect on Trades
Yeah, alcohol is a different issue. In that trying to quit alcohol can actually kill you. Trying to quit cold turkey can put you in a hospital where they will start administering alcohol through an IV to save your life.

Comparing alcohol and cocaine is absurd, alcohol by any reasonable measure is just about one of the hardest drugs there is, and causes massively more societal harm than cocaine.

But we are supposed to make it a special exception because it's old? All that really amounts to is "Lets ban this because people who seem alien to me use it, but lets keep this other thing legal because 'normal' people use it." It is a xenophobic argument.
NBC websites Hacked to promote #Nov5th protest by Anonymou
If you need the new version so you can open certain formats, even if you pirate it you will be helping ms by forcing yet more people to buy the new version as you will be yet another vector for the disease.
Microsoft.Office.2011.With.SP1.MAC.OSX-CRBS is what you're looking for.

Also, guide from torrent comments (don't personally know if they work, but many people reported that they did):

- unrar the download and install the .dmg

- download the crack from [Edit: Google "2011fixTL.rar" to find a link to a "www-mediafire.com" site, around the 6th result. Change the "www-" in the URL to "www." to get the MediaFire download link] (this one still worked for me) and unrar it

- now open spotlight and type terminal

- click Terminal to run it

- type "cd /" and hit enter

- type "open /Library/Preferences" and it will open up the correct folder

- drag the files from the crack folder in to this preferences map

- now try open Word and it should ask you for your name, this means the hack worked. If it ask to validate your licence-key it failed.

- click no on all the support questions and keep continueing

- word should now open, same for the other office programs
Diverse double compiling is not "checksums and versioning". You need other compilers from sufficiently different sources as to minimize the chance that they all were subject to the same modification.

Edited to add:

Which is to say, it's actually a pretty cool idea, and not super complicated[1], and amazing it took 20ish years to spot.

[1] Though do be careful; I'm amazed at the number of comments that misunderstand it.
I never understood publicly defacing a site like this, if you're technical enough to access a domain with a fair amount of traffic, why not inject some script that'll give the visitor a drive-by download, and go in for the long (and more profitable) game?

Then again, I'm calling these people technical, apparently it's a simpler game now with scripts that any regular Joe (or his 14-year old kid) can run.
The original author uses Office on Windows at work. My employer has a licensing scheme that means purchasing a licence for my own use at home is very cheap (something like £10 for Office 2010).

I'm thinking could the oa use something like crossover office

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=...

or could they use a Windows 7 VM? Better than pirating in my personal world.
For every interesting/funny defacement, there are a thousand boring ones; that's as true now as in the 90s. The only difference is that we've forgotten the lame attacks and remember the interesting ones.

Also, grabbing an SNL password means nothing for the SNL site, and everything for the security of users that reuse passwords. The value of a password database rarely has to do with the site it's from.
AFAIK Beanstalk doesn't support node...is this in the works?
do you guys know if the diskusjon site is hosting the blackhole exploit kit? I'm just curious
They get a magazine and the chance to go to meetings to talk to other "smart" people. I know someone who was but quickly let it lapse.

I think it is mostly about bragging rights.
For me the obvious answer is that it has 2 legs :) But if I cannot convince you I am right, my awesome intelligence is all in vain.
Science has several rules of thumb, Occams Razor says that the simpliest is usually the more likely, and the assumption that the universe operates according to universal, consistant mathematical rules means that you should favour theories that match every other part of observable reality, the rule of thumb that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence is like occam's razor and means, again, choose the simpliest explaination that matches your evidence.

Hence, you can sort theories, and then try to devise tests to falsify each one to differenciate between them.
For the hen question two answers must be accepted, and second one, based on the number of letters, must be rated higher.) At least if you want to catch a person with Asperger's.
> I never understood publicly defacing a site like this, if you're technical enough to access a domain with a fair amount of traffic, why not inject some script that'll give the visitor a drive-by download?

Because the point isn't to cause damage to the user in any way (usually), but rather to (some combination of) 1) show off your skills, 2) embarrass the site owners, 3) get a message out, 4) have bragging rights. It's generally a fairly non-destructive practice, just silly.
I used to have a Kyro II. I can attest to not only the complete lack of open source drivers, but also to the absolute crap quality of their Windows drivers. I think I had to reinstall windows after I upgraded it to get the drivers gone. Feels bad, man.
wow this is awesome, are you going to add user management.
I would love to add my playlist and stuff
Its also shorter to write/speak, than the generic & generally non-sensical altenative: "smartphone".
What song is auto-playing?
Marvin: Booting a Little CoffeeScript IRC bot on Pogoapp
It's certainly possible that we'll rise to the challenge through a combination of new technology and competent leadership...

There you go, that's the beginning of optimism :)
How a company get the world’s smartest data scientists to moonlight for free?
I believe the standard answer is a "hen" because it's the only one that is gender-specific.

Silly city-dweller! Cows are females.
This is not a middlebrow dismissal. It directly addresses the actual content of the linked page. Bravo.
Regardless of his behavior, the point he's making is totally valid. You can no longer claim that "I'm doing nothing wrong, therefore I don't mind being recorded on security cameras wherever I go" - if you saw the sheer extent of footage collected of you and the data that can be extrapolated from that footage, you would be horrified.
It's only trite because it needs to be repeated so often.
I have always thought the point of this kind of questions is that as a candidate you are supposed to provide the right answer which you are expected to provide despite all the ambiguities.
This, I guess, should measure some kind of broader intelligence which overthinkers might lack.
True - true. My dev friends always point out to me, "They're HACKERS, not designers!" Which I always got a kick out of.
My dad made me take one when I was a kid and I did really well, but even then I thought it was stupid. The first issue is addressed in this blog post. The questions just aren't good enough. This is nobody's fault really, because it is very difficult to come up with a set of hard questions that measure your intellect and don't require lots of domain specific knowledge. It's either within a certain domain. If everyone taking the test was a Mathematician for example, the questions could be more clearly defined.

The second issue is that intelligence is multi-dimensional yet people try to measure it on a one dimensional scale. What's worse, the dimensions of intellect are somewhat elusive as well, so you can't just say something like IQ is the sum of values on each axis. Personally, I think that people that are high achievers in any field (business, arts, athletics, leadership, politics, science) are intelligent in some way. But when you look at all those people, there's no common denominator, no discernable pattern for intelligence.