skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly Orange has no idea how the internet works...The ISP is just a dumb pipe to connect the user to a server, nothing more.

Yay! you go and tell them what the internet is and how to run their business since they have no idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_%28telecommunications%29

>> If their users are using too much bandwidth and the costs are higher than the profits they should start to rethink the price of their service, not go after Google saying that they are evil for transferring all that data.

That's one option, the other is to approach Netflix, Google or whatever and negotiate. NEGOTIATE is the keyword and you need to keep in mind that different countries have different laws.

Raising prices on everyone because xx% makes Youtube Orange's largest bandwidth hog could make the rest of your customers mad.
Glad to hear they made it though the pipes!
Custora is Hiring Engineers to Make Marketing Smarter
To respond to the title, having a high IQ does not make you less creative. Simple.

As for the Terman study, I think people with high IQ scores don't "go places" mainly due to laziness, lack of ambition (failing to see the point in it all), or due constant harassment by those envious of their intelligence or those that feel inferior, or those that see an easy target. After years of taking a beating many end up leading simple lives in which they hope to just survive.
Catching the next big wave
Ah, Thanks for pointing that out. I'll scrub the word out from the screenshot.
For sure, the ability to edit what you've pushed is something I'll be working on very soon. Right now it seems like Chrome extension would be a good next project as well...
Even with the background picture of the woman?
There are a bunch of systems with client-side encryption: Tahoe, SpiderOak, Secureshare, Wuala, etc.
I have some contact information in my profile, and I'd be happy to hear from you or anyone else.
He means one of these three things:

- No one will use your app and you will fail.

- Your app will be great, Mega will take the idea and build it into the service and you will fail.

- Your app is made to promote piracy using the Mega API and you will go to jail.

Not sure I agree but I figure that's what he means.
It that is true, you are in an abusive relationship.

Leave.
Buying the N.Y.S.E., in One Shot
you could make a facebook for white supremacists and say you weren't encouraging racism, just making the process more digital and secure.
Steelfeed aims to enable steel professionals (~2million people worldwide) to get access to news, prices and exchange offers and inquiries. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.
She won't let me she said she would kill me if I ever left.
Riposte for App.net
May I ask why? I actually am 14, and I did make this game. It says such in the credits page in my game.

Here is proof:http://cubegrinder.com/hacker-news-post-is-not-spam/

I just made a post on the official cubegrinder website.

I'm sorry if there has been a misunderstanding.
Nice article.

For users of AWS, Route53 supports anycast. https://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/#Route_53_anycast
> just spending five minutes on google or wikipedia researching the Googlebot will tell you about robots.txt

So basically your position is binary: Either don't allow your site to be indexed by Google or accept that they are going to profit from your content.

If you don't see why companies and governments see more shades of grey in this situation then the only person who is ignorant is you.
What a shameful attempt at surfing the dotcom marketing campaign.
Virtually nobody cares who was first, what matters is respect of privacy and secure encryption.
No, it just says that you "like" something. The tense works both in the past and present. Facebook never says that you liked something that you did not.
On the underline thing. While its not a need to have, it helps me recognize links without thinking.
We already know how. The political will just isn't there.
I think that the US is just really afraid to talk openly about our relationships with other people.
Signed up. I want to see this train wreck first-hand.
Malcolm Gladwell, who has said in an interview that he writes to try out ideas,

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122671211614230261.html

"Q: Do you worry that you extrapolate too much from too little?

"A: No. It's better to err on the side of over-extrapolation. These books are playful in the sense that they regard ideas as things to experiment with. I'm happy if somebody reads my books and reaches a conclusion that is different from mine, as long as the ideas in the book cause them to think. You have to be willing to put pressure on theories, to push the envelope. That's the fun part, the exciting part. If you are writing an intellectual adventure story, why play it safe? I'm not out to convert people. I want to inspire and provoke them."

is good, while trying out ideas, at crediting his sources. Any reader of a Malcolm Gladwell book (as I know, from being a reader of the book Outliers) can check the sources, and decide from there what other sources to check and what other ideas to play with. Gladwell doesn't purport to write textbooks, but I give him a lot of credit for finding interesting scholarly sources that haven't had enough attention in the popular literature. He is equaled by very few authors as a story-teller who can tie ideas together in a thought-provoking assembly.
In the late 90s the San Francisco school district was sold a PeopleWare system, whereupon they paid consultants millions of dollars to customize the package. 'Twas a failure; they tossed it all away.

I don't remember the details, though I was feeling their pain, having to deal with (a) the unbelievably horrid, steaming pile that is PeopleWare, and (b) the clouds of consultants that start calling you up and pumping you for money once it is out that you're doing an install of the pile. (Hint: You don't need any help from a high-price consultant to install PeopleWare. You need a can of gasoline and a match).

So the thought of a school district doing this on their own makes me smile. They could do worse!
>50 GB free at MEGA?! That can't be viable.

Why not? The cost of 50GB of live storage is not that high anymore. Doesn't gmail provide something like that much now already?

If you upload data and no one ever downloads it then there only has to be one copy in one datacenter on the entire internet, which not very expensive. And if you upload data that tons of people are accessing all over the place, they'll have to cache it closer to the destination and that will cost money, but then it generates ad revenue and pays for itself.

Moreover, I don't think anyone with a brain will be using it as a backup solution for anything important, because I highly doubt they'll provide you any kind of service level agreement. It's almost the opposite of a backup: If you upload something then it highly likely gets distributed to the world, but if they have a serious hardware failure (or have another encounter with corrupt law enforcement officials) then your data might go away at random sometime and have to be re-uploaded.
> This very page has over a dozen different click-able targets, and only one is a button with a shadow.

I remember initially HN didn't strike as a particularly intuitive site. It worked and I am using it because of the community and the content, I am used to it by now.

Ok maybe there some value in having users slowly discover cool features by randomly trying to click things. I don't know. But at least it, seems, the core functionality should be somewhat obvious.

Buttons on the web for every link don't work, but I like some special markup to show links (traditionally it is the underlining but anything else can work as well).

To me there is often a tension between making something looking cool and making it functional. I'll admit the look of the flat interfaces maybe cleaner (whatever that means...) but unless it is meant to just be looked at, it also has to be functional.
The History Of Distributed Version Control
BR Myers makes a good case in The Cleanest Race that North Korea is closer to a racist-fascist state along the lines of (pre-)WWII-era Japan. In brief, the internal propaganda sets the leaders as the mother (yes, they use "mother", not "father") of the North Korea people, who are so pure/innocent a race that they need protection from their naiveté.
Pauline is his mom, I assume. Nick: Congrats on releasing your first game!
Terman and IQ are also mentioned in "How Would You Move Mount Fuji" (http://www.amazon.com/How-Would-Move-Mount-Fuji/dp/031677849...). I recommend it to anyone interested in brainteasers and how Microsoft and a lot of other companies use them during the interviewing process...

Now back to the article: it was an enjoyable read, but I believe the title is somewhat misleading. High IQ does not make you less creative. However high IQ does not imply creativity. The converse is also not true. I am a bit tired of IQ being used as some kind of objective measure of capabilities, let alone success. Is there any other test that would be more representative of one's mental abilities?
Yeah sorry, apple is not a big fan of blocking devices off unless you use hardware requirements that older devices don't have.

Since, I don't use (for example) a front-facing-camera in my game per se. I can't block out iPhone3GS users.
You should make it very clear to the person asking that while you've been using it in non-mission-critical production scenarios for some time, it is still an incomplete and actively developed project with changes and fix bugs on a regular basis and that you provide no warranty or guarantee of fitness for any particular purpose (this is in the MIT license that you're using, but you don't want to promise anything beyond what's in the license which is "we promise nothing.").

Basically, Dashku is "incorporate at your own risk" software, with the additional note that the hosted version is absolutely not for mission-critical use, that it may become unavailable at any time for any reason and for any duration.

Basically, you want to be sure you're shielded from someone in a "sue everyone!" mindset coming after you just because you wrote a piece of software that was later incorporated into someone else's package where you have no control over how they use it, whether they apply bug fixes, whether they make changes, etc.

There's a reason that an awful lot of commercial software EULAs out there include language specifically referring to the software not being suitable for mission-critical, failure-critical, medical, etc. purposes.
Samsung’s predicament
I'm dreadfully worried that this is NOT satire.

tisk tisk pennApps...
Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
Wolfram Alpha PSY curve
Is this a fucking joke? Who needs this? This is not only classless, but from a purely objective standpoint, who would actually use this thing? With your target demographic in mind, it seems to me like it will turn into the greasiest, skeeziest, cesspool on the entire internet in no time.
The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is dying
I believe this is why artists tend to be more self-critical. They aren't making money(mostly) and so they're relatively free to consciously acknowledge their limits. The boundaries, when they're encountered, tend to come from social forces rather than market forces.

Similarly, a recurring phenomenon of financially successful artists is that they discard their old perspective and make work without the inspiration that powered their breakthrough.
Before we publish to the App Store, we will be finding a more gender-neutral but still eye-catching background image for the launch page :)
Just broke 100 signups.
More legible: http://gist.io/4568377
As secure as your best friends that you choose to add on the app are. You choose who has access to your stream of "plays."
There is where the federal government I think can help and step in to provide a hosted open source education system (wit a local appliance for caching and to survive outages). Not just for student registration and grades, but US-wide shared lesson plans, shared success stories, realtime metrics and for parents, etc.
Children who haven't learned to comport themselves with the baseline dignity necessary to live in adult society.
You should have only the minimum necessary commands and libraries in your chroot jail which minimizes the attack surface. For instance, I use chroot with rssh to only allow sFTP/scp/rsync and not allowing chroot users to get to a shell prompt.

In my chroot /usr/bin, there are only two files (rssh, scp). In my chroot /lib there are only 16 files.

Compare to:

1670 in /bin /usr/bin /sbin

50507 in /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64
Show HN: Mosaic - use multiple iOS devices as one large display
FaceWash: remove profanities from your Facebook wall
If you personally own the press, you can publish almost anything you like (in the United States and other free countries). The Hacker News siteowner owns Hacker News, and part of supporting freedom of the press is letting the person who pays the server bills for Hacker News decide what gets posted on Hacker News.
Thanks, finally some supportive words!

Really appreciated man!
You're correct. chroot works on a per-process basis by adding a relative fs root into the process (or process table? dunno) memory. If you're root, you can change it back to /.
This has been happening for quite sometime. I believe those pages are sponsoring these advertisements, and essentially are showing that your friends had previously liked them.

Nothing new.
I use http://www.hnshowcase.com/, although it only lists recent posts. There's also http://showinghn.com/.
Follow on Twitter with #PennApps
Right.

jQuery/Zepto $.data() was fast and easy to implement, rather than searching html5 attr.

I'll think about that ;)
20 top web design and development trends for 2013
> His fieldworkers actually tested two elementary students who went on to be Nobel laureates William Shockley and Luis Alvarez�and rejected them both.Their IQs weren't high enough. Terman concluded: "We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated."

Both just barely failed the cutoff, and given the very low base-rate of Nobelists, it's not surprising that there would be misses. This is the same logic as with terrorism-detecting systems.

> The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point. Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage. -

Wrong. The correlation doesn't go away in the Terman report, nor does it go away in the later long-term SMPY studies. What happens past 130 or so is that IQ loses predictive value compared to Extraversion (for income) or Conscientiousness and Openness (for discoveries).

> For your surprise an English researcher named Liam Hudson found that average students had much more diverse answers than students with high I.Q.�s.

And yet - to go back to the submission title - when you measure Openness, it's the only Big Five personality to show a correlation with IQ. The correlation is positive and not negligible (r=0.3 or so, IIRC). So why does one sample about divergent thinking matter?
The length some people would go to win internet arguments are ridiculous. Words fail me.
FDIC is a form of privatizing the profit, while socializing the risks for the banks.
I think if you have something that is "Show HN" there should be more to see than just a landing page. I'd like to see how you built it, what it looks like, something more than just "enter your email address and we'll notify you when it's available."
I'll take a look to url RegExp validation rule ;)
Hi guys, one of three Mosaic devs here. If anyone has questions please ask; also check out the source on Github (https://github.com/mosaicdisplay) and our LaunchRock page (http://mosaic.launchrock.com). Feedback very much appreciated.
I cannot find the link for the CEO tale...

It was a company that made security cameras, and the software crashed every single time they invited the CEO to see it, making the CEO start to believe they were full of shit.

Until one day, someone noticed that the CEO was the only person that entered every single day in the room wearing a checkered shirt, and that they used a version of jpeg for compression that disliked checker patterns.

The 500 mile e-mail: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
You're right-I was also thinking of conditional probabilities. I appreciate the correction-I'm trying to learn to be more precise.
It has been said, not quite accurately, that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Grand juries are almost negligible in their power to prevent prosecutorial abuse.
But the OP's complaint that there is no objective way to count 'ways to use a brick' still stands. IMO, it also may be the reason for the negative correlation with IQ. When thinking of this challenge, I soon started to abstract away solutions (throw, hit, shield, sink, etc). That, for instance, gives one 'kill an animal' way to use a brick, with subordinations 'in defense', 'for food', etc. If you don't spend time abstracting this, you can rattle of 'kill a mouse, kill a cat, kill a dog, kill a rat, kill a raccoon, kill an elephant, etc.) for an insane amount of 'different' uses. I would rate that lower than the single 'kill a plant' category that I thought of (as in 'use brick as a nutcracker' or 'use brick to mill flour')
Digilent has some pretty neat stuff, it beats the crap out of doing your microcode with 1n914s.
No love for JungleDisk, which was one of the first cloud backup systems I ever heard of?

I suppose it wasn't really for sharing, but still, the fact that neither amazon nor his server had the keys is one of the things that made me interested in it.
History will judge us very harshly for what we have all allowed to happen in north korea. Everyone should see Adrian Hong's speech: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4170683

He's co-founded a NGO that helps escapees from dprk.

One challenge I always have when I speak about North Korea is I run out of adjectives for how bad things are. And many of you that follow policy or human rights situations oftentimes get jaded with numbers,”

“It’s very easy for us to write off bad things because we just assume these are bad things that happen ‘over there,’ and many times they don’t necessarily affect us. And the challenge with North Korea in particular is that things are so bad on such a scale and scope that it sounds fake. It sounds unfathomable, it’s impossible to really comprehend.”
Just because people are already doing some sort of negative and disrespectful thing, that doesn't make it alright to build a tool to actively encourage people to continue doing it.
Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers: http://www.amazon.com/Puzzles-Answers-Kaufmann-Management-eb...
Except that Metro thing...
You may have missed it, but the article mentions and links to the NSA guide.
Right. The demo form is totally UX un-aware! :)
"Setting these to no-execute does not allow the attacker to execute code on your system". It depends, with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /tmp/script or bash /tmp/script.sh it may be possible to execute code on a noexec /tmp .

As you said, setting noexec still helps preventing automated attacks.
This article is rather low on substance, but it links to [0], which has been here before (can't find any discussion, though), and claimed exactly the opposite, namely that Facebook said you liked something you never liked.

[0] http://readwrite.com/2012/12/11/why-are-dead-people-liking-s...
> The next thing you know, you get OS UIs (Windows 8), websites and a whole bunch of other interfaces where you have no freakin' idea what to click.

Thank you! I feel like nobody is allowed to say it on the internet, because Microsoft finally released a phone UI that isn't objectively terrible, but I find Metro goddamn confusing on a phone. The "People" app is a disaster. Little bits of text hanging off the side of the screen, no indication about what's clickable anywhere. My mom is supposed to use this?
Not for profit means the organisation doesn't distribute funds to shareholders. The founders/owners are still free to pay themselves a wage.

That's what I mean about 'sounds nice and fluffy', actually it means very little in practice.
Yeah, going into it I didn't know much about the differences between the fonts but was curious anyway. After getting a few wrong I switched to choosing which ones I thought looked nicer and started getting Helvetica more times. That reminds me I need to finish watching the Helvetica documentary.
I agree with you completely. The problem is that I don't think the behavior you're encouraging solves that.

Talking about hookups is almost always about objectification: it's encouraging people to talk openly about relationships, yes, but relationships between people and objects of sexual gratification rather than between actual mature adults.
I think I started reading one of them, but didn't really connect with his writing style. I should probably give it another go though, I might just have been in a bad mood.
Agreed. I'd go further and say I would expect many here have successfully completed similarly complex projects single-handedly with a lot less time and money.

As I grow older, I'm increasingly starting to believe that many of the advancements in sophistication of software are actually somehow making it much less possible to successfully implement relatively complex solutions on budget - I am making this comparison to the relatively short era where platforms like PowerBuilder/Delphi/MSAccess were popular. If you mention on of those products now for literally anything, you'll be met with howls of laughter, but for the life of me I don't understand. Meanwhile, spending $2 million on a project that is laughably short on functionality and seems to take weeks to make the smallest of changes is considered (with grave seriousness and 100% infallible confidence) to be perfectly proper.
Yes, not very handy currently, but you could override all messages in Parsley constructor on each form..

I'll look definitely into a more handy solution soon :)
I think that the US is just really afraid to stop using the word "literally" incorrectly.

(yes, I know they changed the definition. I pretend it never happened!)
Mega spectacle at launch of Kim Dotcom's new file-sharing site
I had the same sensation. I think because it is off to the left, but he is staring to the center it gives the sense he's looking at you.
Hamilton - big up! Really like drag and drop canvas interfaces...
It's true that Facebook doesn't post anything that you haven't previously liked, however, I believe, in many cases people do think that somebody have explicitly liked that particular sponsored post rather than the page behind it.
This was by far the coolest app I saw from the first round! Nice job.
Love this hack, brilliant to watch in person: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t07rh0xdkkmxowc/2013-01-20%2011.42...
This is the most disgusting, gratuitous display of misogyny I have ever seen.
A Letter To The Guy Who Harassed Me Outside The Bar