skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question, because I'm certain somebody knows: is that story of 100 IQ - 60 = 180 - 140 in terms of relative intelligence true?

Not really. "180 IQ" is taken to mean two different things. Precociousness is the first; a 6-year-old with the cognitive performance of an 11-year-old has a "183 IQ". It's not terribly meaningful, though, because this says nothing about his adulthood performance, which will probably be closer to the average (usually 135-150). The second is extreme cognitive ability in adults or near-adults, on an "absolute" rather than age-graded scale, which we can't measure using an IQ test.

In general, IQ tests become less meaningful (correlating less strongly to what we consider "intelligence") after 125, and are unreliable after about 150. Many distinguished professors, even in math and the sciences, score in the 120s to 130s when tested. It's not that these people are "only" 98th percentile; the test simply isn't great at measuring the high range.

Also, for case in point about the diminishing utility and relevance of IQ: consider a relationship between a person with an IQ of 125 and one at 100. Someone at 100 is unlikely to finish college, and 125 is the average IQ of Ivy League students. Their relationship would be unlikely to last due to the extreme disparity of intelligence, as well as the different schools and jobs they would be likely to have. On the other hand, if the disparity were 150/125, they'd probably be considered to be well-matched; they'd have gone to similar schools and have similar educational/job experiences; although the disparity would be present, it wouldn't be such that the 150 would end up completely dominating the 125.
will you write something to your first love in a will?
Now, this I can comment on.

As others have pointed out, you should be more hesitant to call this a failure. You've learned a lot about your market, and you've also learned a lot about your vision, by exploring it "hands-on". Would you have gotten that if you'd instead spent 12 months developing your product before releasing it? Probably not. In short, it's best to err on the side of releasing too often than not often enough.

But the more important point is a clear demonstration that you can't replace a project manager with a motto. "Release early and often" is a good practice, but all practices need to be adapted and tailored to your specific project. You can't just follow them dumbly. A project manager's job is to understand the specific circumstances of your project, pick the right practices at the right stage so that your project goes as well as possible, then adapt and evolve those practices as the project goes along. No single practice is ever going to be always right.
Same response for most people. :)
Wouldn't that drain the battery too fast?
Interesting. What's weird is that polymers typically degrade under UV light. Think way back to when you used those play-school shovels and left them out in the sand for a couple days. I guarantee that you saw some cracks.

One of my favorite professors here is doing research on self-healing metals. It's pretty sweet. They're using magnesium alloys for structural self-healing applications because magnesium exhibits a martensitic transformation (i.e it changes shape when you heat it). Oddly enough, martensitic metals are used in bra-supports so that they return to their original shape when washed, yet still give good support.

I love materials science.
I imagine it would be disabled if you had a passcode set up.
It looks like several journalists need to read the new book Intelligence and How to Get It by Richard E. Nisbett,

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/winter09/006505.htm

which I am reading just now. Nisbett reviews the best recent literature on IQ testing and what it means, and punches holes in the fallacious reasoning used by many advocates of a strong hereditarian view of influence on IQ.

A really good book for background reading on IQ testing and how it works is IQ and Human Intelligence by N. J. Mackintosh,

http://www.amazon.com/IQ-Human-Intelligence-N-Mackintosh/dp/...

which includes very clear explanations of how IQ tests have developed historically, how they are currently constructed and validated, and what we still don't know about human rationality despite a century of IQ testing.
Yeah, they just added more info to http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers.jsp. Most of what streety said is correct; however, for the first three tiers, the provided storage is 10/20/40GB (not 20/40/60GB) respectively.
Is "Twitter for business" ruining it for the rest of us?
+ Tethering
+ MMS
+ Landscape mode for SMS and Email.
JC has a way with marketing, I guess. He knows the check will never be cashed and he will get tons more exposure for free. It’s also a way for him to get his apparently under-performing startup some free press by associating himself with the most buzzed about startup around today.
Iv killed the site, clearly lots of things i need to fix. lesson learnt.
Not to forget sharing google documents and sharing google calendars, both of which I regularly do for work. Oh, and then there's the http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ api, designed by google as well.
Thanks, I understood it uses hash tables - I've done the same myself, but never on such a large scale. This post sums it up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=513259
Never thought of it for that before. Thanks!
I'd love to see a better camera. I lately always forgo bringing an actual camera on vacations since I have a camera on my phone, but I'm inevitability disappointed when I get home and review my pics on the computer.
The test that measures this the best is Raven's progressive matrices which is culture and language negative.

I've attended a lecture by John Raven, the publisher of that test, and he doesn't make that claim.

The long, careful examination of what the Raven tests show, in conjunction with other evidence, can be found in James R. Flynn's excellent book What Is Intelligence?, which is about to come out in a new, expanded edition.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Expanded-PB-Beyond/d...

Also very good for reconsidering the importance of IQ tests is Keith Stanovich's What Intelligence Tests Miss.

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001238...

http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog...
Also, grown women are the stereotypical audience for "casual games" (match 3s and such.) Whether this corresponds to reality, I have no idea.
I use HTML and Javascript to mock up my site. Then I redo it a couple of times. I prefer just to talk it over, think it over, and get started.

Of course, I'm talking about a totally new start-up website, not something I have to spec for customers.

What's a wireframe anyways?
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You're absolutely right. While I don't hold a PhD in phycology or neurology or child development I don't believe in superior/inferior intelligence or natural talent: take this as a totally unscientific gut feeling that I'm sticking to, unless an undeniable evidence (something other than surveys or Einstein brain scans) emerges.

In my previous post I just stated an observation but I forgot to add that I don't hold it as an explanation nor proof. In this particular case I believe that older siblings enjoy more freedom and have an opportunity to grow up faster since parents become pre-occupied with younger brothers/sisters, thus older kids grow up being more independent.
Depends on who it is.

Cute girls, I'll usually say something to get a reaction, like "I have a technology company. You know, on the Internet." When they follow up with, "Like what?" The response is "Mostly porn." If they take me seriously, they're probably not going to get the real explanation, anyway, so I have a little fun with the porn explanation, making it more and more outlandish until they realize I'm joking. I often tell myself that this is merely for amusement, and that what I actually do for a living is not far more embarrassing (due to being really boring to most people) than running a porn empire.

Other technology people, "I started a company that builds systems management software for web hosting."

Regular folks, "Computer stuff." Very similar to vasudeva's response. The only flaw in this tactic is that every once in a while, you'll meet someone who also does "computer stuff" (or their nephew or son or cousin does), and they'll want to "talk shop" about their website where they sell their knitted dog hats, or whatever MLM scheme they've most recently signed up for that includes a website. Or ask me ridiculous questions about hacking GMail or facebook or something equally retarded (depending on age and demographic).
I give up. What's the difference between whining and critical thinking?
They don't seem to want information about their service to get out to the masses. It's stuck in PDFs behind some marketing sign up forms.
$480m / 300m people = $1.60 per person.

DST covers 2/3 of the work-year, or approximately 160 work days. So it buys us 160 hours of extra evening light. (I'm not counting weekends, because then the distinction between the hour lost of morning light and that gained of evening light is immaterial.) That means we're paying $0.01 each per hour of evening light. I'll take that deal.

In truth, I find that DST sucks for about 3 days, but after I've adjusted, I'm very glad it's there. I'm not a dairy farmer, though.
Was there a specific reason this story got reposted to the front page?
It's hard to tell if you're after learning or something to use etc., but if you haven't seen it yet, check out http://scrapy.org/ for ideas (or even something to use if that is what you are after).
Good point. They also don't mention the standard error on their estimate. The difference of 3 points could easily be swallowed by the standard error.
Meta-feedback:

To be successful, you need the tenacity to keep going and the humility to realize where you erred. Welcome to the crucible.

What could you do next time to avoid these particular responses?
"I write software" is typically where I start and if the other person wants more information we can go down the rabbit hole from there.

Funny story though, my wife and I are friends with Eric Meyer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Meyer) and if we're in a group and other people ask him what he does, my wife jumps in and says he fixes printers. You should see his face :-)
I run two such accounts starting several months ago. I'm infuriated by some quirks of their site management system,* but the reliability has been good. I think they've gotten better.

* Especially: It's impossible to move a site from one account to another, or even from one client to another client in the same account, or even from no client to a client in the account. Impossible. They can't/won't even do it for you on the backend.

Compare to telling the mail system that your mail is somewhere else. DNS you can do yourself, mail server you have to ask them to do if you want other mosso users to be able to send to you. That's a reasonable compromise IMO.
Agreed. Releasing early and often didn't fail them. It sounds like they found out a lot about their users, they found out a lot about what their application should really be and how it should really work.

They also found out that releasing early and often doesn't mean you have to develop and release every half baked new feature idea as soon as it pops into your head! :-)
Stop letting the Chinese buy American dollars, which would cause their currency to increase in value, by stopping deficit spending, thus stop allowing them to buy our debt and keep their currency artificially low.

Start paying off the debt that China currently holds and take American dollars off of the market, which would cause their currency to increase in value because of the peg. Continue this policy with other countries that peg their currency to the American dollar as well.

Enact the FairTax which would allow corporations to produce goods and services here with a 0% corporate tax rate instead of importing those goods into the United States.

Increase tariffs on countries who peg their currency to the American dollar, to produce and export goods cheaper, so that the United States can have the competitive advantage, with corporations, on the global market thus creating goods and services here.
My bet is 0. If anyone other than maybe PG went missing, I could think of at least 50 better ways to find him.

But again it begs the question, do we do this sort of thing for every programmer in one sort of trouble or another? If so, this site could easily be overwhelmed.
Here's a look at the new prices with different bandwidth scenarios: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514056
First let's teach college teachers of statistics (who usually aren't statisticians) how to teach statistics. One of my favorite articles on that subject

http://statland.org/MAAFIXED.PDF

is so thoughtful that I reread it from time to time just to savor the language. Another good article about how to teach statistics

http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...

is helpful in guiding people who have studied statistics before to rethink what they think they have learned. It is by a very eminent statistician.
Depending on the audience, I say "typist.. but this trick is knowing what to type." About 70% of the time, people will say something along the lines of "isn't that what most people do?", to which i smirk in that creepy self-satisfied fashion and admit "exactly."
Good point. I wasn't meaning to play HN-police though. I was just curious where the line is.
You're not being a dick. It's generally correct to say something short (eg "I teach high school") and to go for brevity over correctness. If the person shows interest then you can launch into the details (and probably glaze their eyes).
Doesn't DST make less light in the evening in the winter, in order to have more in the morning? It's the winter that's behind, right?
I can make no conclusive judgement in the example scenario until we're talking about specific algorithms and data.
Heart attack risk and daylight saving time:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507343
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The parent's argument is that it isn't news because he doesn't know Tony and questions its suitability on HN because it's not interesting for people who don't know him. Well, welcome to the Internet. Not everyone is going to find every article posted relevant or interesting to them; suck-it-up my friend!

Besides which, it wasn't news per-say; HN was used as a medium to which might help locate Tony or gather information that could be used to contact him.
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I just tell people I make the websites.

As a joke, I make developer and pornographer interchangeable. Too bad I don't do back-end work.
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I doubt this will become a common occurrence.
Yes, in that case the inner function has access to the arguments of the outer function. But you can go deeper -- e.g. declaring an inner function inside code inside the out er function -- which also knows about the local variables in the outer function.

Or if you're only doing it once use a lambda (with the same advantages).
Hi Matt.

Your comment makes you sound like an asshole. Sorry to have to put it that way, but there you go. I'm not saying you are an asshole -- heck, I don't even know you. But dang, that just doesn't sound right.

I understand your point, however. There are easily dozens if not hundreds of extreme distress situations that happen to programmers every day.

I think the proper thing is to wait until you see a pattern, then comment. And then only in measured language, for one day it may be you they are looking for. One instance does not a pattern make.

That's my opinion, fwiw. You don't have to care -- you just need to keep your piehole shut. A time for talking and a time for quiet, that kind of thing.
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Switch to an image-based system like Smalltalk or hybrid image/file-based system like Common Lisp. Seriously, a lot of the headaches of organization would go away if dev environments were more like Smalltalk.
The same study found that children's IQ was marginally higher if they were born to older mothers, a finding scientists have put down to those women spending more time caring for and nurturing their infants.

Maybe younger fathers are more nurturing.
This made me smile:

"I will respond to questions and comments as time permits, but if you want to take issue with any position expressed here, you first have to answer this question:

What evidence would it take to prove your beliefs wrong?

I simply will not reply to challenges that do not address this question. Refutability is one of the classic determinants of whether a theory can be called scientific. Moreover, I have found it to be a great general-purpose cut-through-the-crap question to determine whether somebody is interested in serious intellectual inquiry or just playing mind games. Note, by the way, that I am assuming the burden of proof here - all you have to do is commit to a criterion for testing. It's easy to criticize science for being "closed-minded". Are you open-minded enough to consider whether your ideas might be wrong?"
Correlation - xkcd

http://xkcd.com/552/
We've looked at them. There service is pretty slick, and well-backed, but you need to pay a significant monthly fee (with 12 month lock-in) to get started, so you would want to have a good turn-over before going with them.

They seem to be set up for this scenario, offering services to change over from your previous system.
If they look like they'll be remotely interested, I give them an actual quick description: "I run a business that sells websites to video game players."

On the other hand, if I don't really want to talk with them, I'll just give them the ol' "I'm a programmer."
Defense. It is so obvious how some people make fun of it because they are unable themselves.
No. Standard time is (in most places) closer to solar time.

The issue is that, when political time is fixed, most people naturally develop a habit of waking up around the winter sunrise, year-round. This means that 1-3 hours of light, during the rest of the year, are "wasted".

Some anti-DST advocates have proposed making DST year-round, effectively taking the time zone that is one hour eastward. The problem is that this would put the winter sunrises into the 8:00 am hour, which people tend to like even less than a mid-afternoon sunset.
oh come on, you've got to at least plug your comic!
What, you mean you don't want to talk to their nephew who is "also really into those computer things" (read: plays a lot of world of warcraft).

Yes, I'm bitter. It annoys me that people thing that IT consists of helping you with your num lock button, blocking them from porn, and doing lots of things with cables.
You could also map your mouse thumb button to Ctrl.
It is just me, or do the capitals in the title sentence make it really difficult to comprehend? (just curious)
Unfortunately, no.

In the spring the sunrise is getting earlier as time goes by. Then the clock jumps forward an hour, which makes sunrise an hour later, causing the repeat the op talked about.

In the fall, sunrise is getting later. The clock jumps backward an hour, which makes sunrise an hour earlier. This causes the same repeat, in reverse (aka, trending darker rather than lighter).

edit: Also, I have the experience to back this up. I've been one of the living west of my workplace people for too long.
anti-intellectualism often refers to being anti ivy league more so than actual anti-rationality.
The most important conclusion, in my opinion, is this one:

"there is a great deal of hostility toward [systematic and disciplined inquiry] by people who feel their values threatened"

This is the most widespread and most damaging anti-intellectual mindset in our country today. People do not take the time to understand their own values, what makes them so, and are too stubborn to flip-flop when evidence emerges or changes significantly.
So maybe they could say to draw an 'h' starting from the top left.
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Can you make a social networking site for me? You'll have to do it for free, but I'll give you some of the stock.

or

inquire_cost(build_social_networking_site);
while cost > 100 {
bitch()
moan()
ask again()
}
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About 8 years ago I was flying from the East Coast out to San Francisco for a programming gig. As I sat in the plane, getting started for my trip, I happened to ask the guy next to me what he did.

"I'm a dentist," he said, quite proud of himself, "and what do you do?"

"I do computer stuff mostly," I mumbled.

The guy -- I swear -- spent the next 5 hours of the flight telling me about how he wanted to computerize his dental office but his partner didn't understand things, how he was having problems with some software they had purchased, how he was looking to buy a new computer and didn't know what to get. For each subject, he questioned me at length for what I thought he should do.

Finally, at the end of the flight just before we got off, I opened my mouth as wide as I could and pointed to the back of my throat

"Doc," I said, "I got this sore tooth that only acts up when I eat ice cream, but sometimes the gum swells so I've been using a special toothpaste. Care to take a look?"

That was the end of that.
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For more super-intense Monopoly analysis, check out this math prof's page: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~hentzel/monopoly/homepage.htm...

This guy was doing computer analysis of Monopoly like 25 years ago.
What strikes me as weird is that for the past few years, the US has spent more weeks in the calendar in DST than in Standard time, thereby making the "standard" an aberration. Standard time has become a misnomer.
It's much easier to find 10,000 to 250,000 people who have the same values as you and can create a new culture. While I wouldn't be interested in a libertarian society, I might be interested in a completely secular system with full equality for GLBT citizens and a culture much like San Francisco without the federal impositions on the culture. (I wouldn't mind moving to the Netherlands either.)

Further, the laws can be more tailored for a culture when there are fewer than a million inhabitants. Common sense can work a lot better, and exile can be an option, making prison expenses much more managable. (After all, no one is saying that these would be granting citizenship.)
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