skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do. It is correlated with all kinds of positive outcomes in life. Given a somewhat similar cultural upbringing, there is clearly something different about someone with a 140 IQ vs someone with a 100 IQ. This fashionable meme that IQ is meaningless has no basis in fact. It certainly doesn't measure innate potential exactly, but then not too many people would say that these days anyways. However, it does correlate with something regarding one's mental capacity, and this correlation also correlates with other important outcomes.
I've never liked the idea of IQ tests, but they do correlate quite well with future achievement like jobs, income, incarceration rate etc. That is why they are still used:

http://www.iq-tests.eu/iq-test-Practical-validity-800.html
Here's the weasl-ey straw man (sort of):

"..some thinkers cling to the idea that IQ measures an inborn intelligence that transcends culture and schooling. If that's true, one would expect that the most abstract, "culture free" elements of IQ testing wouldn't be subject to."

The evidence supports common sense on the idea that environmental factors influence IQ (and intelligence) substantially. I doubt many "thinkers" disagree.
The GPU doesn't execute Javascript. It runs small programs called "shaders", written in GLSL (the OpenGL shading language), which are compiled on the fly by the graphics driver to something that can be actually executed on the GPU.
Building a simple paint game with HTML5 Canvas and Vanilla JavaScript
Wit without measure.
Would it work if people tried? I bet it would. Will people try? No, because they don't care about this issue.

The refrain of democracy being broken in America is getting old. It's not broken--you just don't like that the majority has a long list of issues it cares more about than privacy. We are getting the things people care about: legalized gay marriage, continued access to abortion, welfare spending, social services for the elderly. We're fighting the good fight on issues that aren't quite there yet: universal healthcare, etc. Democracy is alive and kicking in America.
Yeah if everything is recorded automatically you are of course number one. Officially (what our government tells us) Dutch detectives actively 'tap' into and listen to more phone conversations a month than their American colleagues do in a year.
Source #1: Tweakers (Dutch) http://tweakers.net/nieuws/53705/dagelijks-bijna-1700-telefo...
Source #2 National Dutch newspaper: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detai...
Bush : wolf :: Obama : wolf in sheep's clothing ?
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How Hacker News feels like these days
What should you do? Quit. Sooner the better. It's like dating someone and hoping you will be able to change the things you don't like about them later - it will never happen. Get up, get out and go work for a smarter organization. Life is too short!
I'm in the UK and I've never encountered IQ tests as part of education or any work environment.

[NB For my own amusement I did sit a test as a teenager and got a stupidly high score, which I can actually explain pretty easily, that rather demonstrated how shallow the tests seemed to me]

I've also never directly encountered anyone discussing their IQ - which would strike me as very silly indeed.
Who are these "we" you are referring to?
Loads. But the real question is, what will the public do about it?

I suspect nothing what so ever. They are scared witless by terrorists and if you guys are like the UK, paedophiles. Oh, and of course, it wont happen to them, although, as we see, it already is.
Ask HN: Alternatives to HN
Are there other similar sites to HN which focuses more on technical topics, constructive discussions and other interesting things?
It was so disappointing when I realized it was not referred to the band
Six Dutch startups give demo night in New York
There are three particularly big problems in the US system today.

1) Lobbyists
2) Tort
3) The Federal Reserve / federal banker insider system

The lobbyists are powerful because of what they can buy, because of the nearly total power over the economy that the Federal Govt. possesses. If the politicians can't dictate economic policy, then buying them is worthless.

The desperate need for tort reform is obvious.

The Federal Reserve has failed, basically across the board over the course of its entire history. It has created an economy dependent on one bubble after another. It has devalued the dollar by 97% over its history, and particularly dramatically since the 1960s. The dollar used to be regarded as being "as good as gold," that's a bad joke now. It is currently, intentionally, inflating massive asset bubbles with trillions worth of debt monetization ("QE") because it stupidly thinks that's how you create prosperity (or they're really clever and intentionally trying to crash the economy). It has to be abolished, and the US monetary system has to be returned to a sound basis, rather than relying on dollar devaluation to fund the government (ie we need strict balanced budget laws).
Very nice, I'd love to be able to group my subscriptions in folders. Even better if I can navigate through all feeds in a folder combined instead of through individual feeds.
How do others cope with such a situation if

- they are no longer in their early 30's. I have a family to sustain.

- don't see themselves as rockstar developers. I constantly dabble in side projects from natural language processing to web development to building Android apps. I feel I provide a lot of "out of the box" input. But since I am a hard case of impostor's syndrome I don't feel like I could eg. lead a team. Or, heaven forbid, do a start-up.

I feel I am wasting my life here, but the market is not great for self-conscious devs.
http://firespotting.com/ is a Hacker News for ideas.
In my own life, I see more and more "evidence" that IQ, or academic achievement, is the wrong metric for intelligence. When I grew up, everyone was telling me that intelligence is in direct relation with how you perform at school. Someone who performs well at school is by definition intelligent, someone who is not good at school is not intelligent. Simple.

This went on after high school. Here in Belgium, the better students go to university while the less achieving students go to something directly translated to English as "high school". A "high school" in Belgium is a more applied type of study. For instance, you won't see any theoretical computer science course (decidability, complexity theory) taught at a "high school". Again, it was assumed that universities produce the intelligent people and "high school" the less intelligent people.

During the past few months, being part of a startup, I've worked with several people who in my eyes are intelligent. These guys can come up with creative solutions to problems, well into the realm of out-of-the-box thinking. However, they don't all come from universities. Some have a "high school" degree, or no degree at all. It made me realise that academic achievement is not a good measure for creativity. While for me, creativity is an important factor in intelligence. Many fellow students in my university computer science course were "intelligent" by academic achievement (after all they were able to finish an engineering university degree) but I wouldn't call them intelligent, just because they lacked this creativity. They were good when they were being told what to do but had a hard time thinking out-of-the-box. And I think that creativity is so important in the definition of intelligence.

I'm not saying that intelligence is all about creativity. Someone who can think creatively and think analytically is more intelligent than someone who is just good at thinking creatively. But I'm saying that academic achievement (typically related to IQ) is not a good measure for intelligence because it lacks that "creativity" factor. "Ken Robinson says school kills creativity" is a great TED talk about this (http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...).
What's the draw in using this over stylus with nib?
I'm working on a few things:

A 32 channel data logger, driver communication and information aid for motorsport and automotive testing

A kids education app with a Scottish 'teacher' character - this will hopefully be uploaded for App Store approval this weekend

and I have a few client projects on the go
If he stated so, it is clearly not in line with the title of his blog post [1]. Come on, the media preys on keywords like hacking, so if you don't see it coming be careful the next time is my advice to the "hacker" in question.
[1] http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-Sys...
You should show them this snippet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM7HQ_zbdIw#t=8m00s

But yeah, until they see negative results, I doubt majority is going to start caring.
expensify i found to be usefull.
It's official. I do not understand art.
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The difference between search and seizure of things in your house and your digital information is that the things in your house are on your property. Your digital information is on someone else's property.

I don't think you can accuse the public of not taking the "rational position" here. Indeed, I think technologists often take a romanticized position here, ignoring the mechanical nature of the systems in question. People rationally perceive that there is nothing private about who you call or what websites you visit (I mean, how well can Facebook track where you go?) This is quite different from say a conversation one might have in one's home, on one's own property, with the only parties to the conversation being those within one's circle of trust.
now $30/month (max: $120/month, about 1k visits/day)
imagine if everyone here owned up to their words?
well, um, yes, i think that would be a good thing.

on the other hand, your "asdfologist" handle rocks. :+)

-bowerbird
Nice idea for a thread!

I'm working on a new project management tool called Matterhorn.io its for companies who are design led and follow agile for development.

There are a million and one project management apps but none of them are a fit for us, we like basecamp but need a scrumboard, we like jira but find its too complicated. We are building a happy medium
XMPP is working fine with me, if you've activated the 2-step verification recently then you have to stop it before you can use XMPP protocol again.
Just pick a simple project idea, and have a go.

I'd recommend Django because the community support is massive, and the documentation is great. Actually the Django tutorial is a great place to start [1].

Pro tip: virtualenv will save you a lot of hassle.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/
I always find it bizarre the consistent need for a certain types of people to believe IQ tests are not real.

It's pretty much conspiracy sort of stuff.

A. It's quite a stretch that a whole scientific community can't create a test for IQ and get past the tired issues brought up 50+ years ago.

B. The concept brains unlike heights, hair, body shape etc etc etc are all the same is pretty ludicrous.

There is lots of stuff on the Flynn effect, I'm sure people can google it for themselves. But at the end of the day why is it so strange a test given to people in the 1960s scores differently for people in the 2010s. It is such a strawperson argument.

IQ's about relativity and ability in the current environment.
I'm sorry but this just doesn't ring true to me. HN is not a uniquely civilized forum, all same rules apply (are you really telling me people aren't trying to look smart around here?), the only difference is that PG founded it based on a set of principles carefully considered to combat the slashdot / digg / reddit culture as the site grew and seeded it with his fan base who naturally appreciate good conversation by definition given PGs essay style.

The problems facing HN today are not due to a few bad apples, to the contrary I think it's pretty clearly a function of size and there may be nothing to do about that short of pulling a Metafilter and charging for new accounts (something which brings its own form of elitism, but may be better than the alternatives).

HN has been often been likened to a mob, but that's not a good analogy either, because I believe 95% of HN is always in full-on critical thinking mode which is the opposite of mob mentality. It just feels like a mob because of the number of criticisms that you can be pelted with based purely on volume, each individual post tends not to be all that harsh, but the wall of text is overwhelming.
People from Iran would disagree. Something should also be said about problems of CAs security.
Well, when shit goes down the other party will call the "weak" so it is best to cover your ass.
Am I doing it right? [ PHP Facebook Authentication ]
I'm trying to fetch User Information from Facebook, and inserting it into the database. Is it the right way to do it? Is it extendable - Can I add more permissions later without losing the previous signups?

https://github.com/AbhishekBiswal/PHP-Facebook-Login
:) you caught me. Fair call.
What is it that is preventing us from creating tools that make creating animations even easier?

Probably the fact that this is a hard problem. Seriously, hundreds if not thousands of people are working on creating tools for animators, for 3D software companies, movie and game studios. If it was easy, it would have been solved by now.
I signed up and like it - after Google Reader died (and, to be honest, a while before that) I haven't used RSS much and just had a saved set of tabs that I religiously opened to waste away my time. This might .. help. Thanks!

Unrelated: I'd really be interested in a follow-up story/post from you about the load you're experiencing. You just pushed a free [1] service in front of HN. How's the thing holding up? Both code/stack and allocated hardware? I guess it boils down to general curiosity on the one hand, the question of whether you can do this in a sustainable fashion on the other hand.

1: with donations
> If you spend any time on the internet, you're quickly trained that discussion forums are places for combat. The goal is to look as smart as possible while tearing everybody else down. To have an unrefuted comment is to win, and nobody is going to let you do that so they'll tear your comment apart line by line. Naturally, that person is a moron and needs to be told so, preferably by turning his own trick against him and tearing his comment apart.

You just described IRC perfectly.
"You Are Probably Not Much Smarter or Dumber Than Anybody Else"

I've noticed that people seem to be completely unable to really understand that some people are actually smarter than them. Most commonly they will confuse aptitude for intelligence. i.e. they easily acknowledge that this person just likes intellectual activity. But can't seem to grasp the difference in intelligence.

The same [relative] lack of intelligence also robs people of the ability to understand intelligence in others.

It's easy to see when someone is less intelligent - it's much harder to really grasp that someone people are smarter. It's like trying to explain a red to a colorblind person who can't see red. They kinda get that it's another color like others they've seen before, but they just can't grasp that it really exists.

You also (less commonly) get the reverse - someone really smart doesn't understand why everyone can't do it.

An example: Srinivasa Ramanujan heard the number 1729 and instantly thought of an interesting property for it. This ability to do that for a number just doesn't exist in most people. It doesn't matter how hard they try or study - they just can't do that.
> IQ, or academic achievement

> When I grew up, everyone was telling me that intelligence is in direct relation with how you perform at school.

Your mistake is equating IQ with academic achievement. That's not what it is. It helps. But it's neither necessary nor sufficient. Academic achievement is something else.
He's got my vote.
I run the risk of proving your point but oh well.

"But we don't behave that way" – who is "we"?

There's only so long you can dismiss these people as mere "intruders" and declare that No True HNer would behave that way.

This is not a cocktail party. There is no guest list. In sufficient numbers, the "intruders" become the community.
Well, in this case there's no technology involved. The government simply told Verizon to hand over their records.

I like how ErrataSec put it: "Welcome to Echelon 2.0: Outsourced Edition"
I think you have to hang in there if this is what you really want. Perseverance is a key factor and from what I see you have it( you did it for 6 years ). Money is a measurement of success (it shows that you have made something people want and are willing to pay for), it is not the only measurement, your service could be free and still be valuable to others.
This might just tempt me ( a non css-y person ) to switch over from bootstrap to this while prototyping or otherwise. It makes things extremely modular which is what makes sense to a programmer like me.
Laravel4 languauge pack (12 langs)
Yeah I figured, but no css or images. Thanks anyway, saves me looking the cache up!
I'm the same. Technology isn't the zero-sum game it's made out to be --- there's a place in the market for both tablets and `traditional' PCs. There's also a not-tiny segment of the market that actively prefers laptops to tablets (I'm one of them).

When it comes to creating professional-quality work, I really think the tablet is a long, long way from being a viable replacement for the full-blown PC. It's almost impossible to imagine Game of Thrones being edited on iPads, for example. Taking it to the lower end of the market, even independent film-makers are likely to use a PC to edit their films, no matter how low-budget they may be. The same applies to music, too.
thank you for your comment, some more things i want to know that how to learn ORM and REST, other thing is which one you rate more Foundation or Bootstrap (i have worked in foundation) and does Go is worth learning as it is the latest buzz.
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User-centred API Design
If the result the user wants isn't returned, they simply refine their search. Refine (using a nice easy to use panel) rather than 'click next' endlessly.

These decisions are made by me, based on what I think users want, based on my experience and feedback from users. I don't think that is such a bad approach.
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Well the first one is the beginning of a comment thread, the other two are replies to the top one. If you click the top one you see that there are multiple replies and he appears to be a troll.
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Perfect timing! I have about 200 Google Documents that I've always planned to move over to a repository on Github. The only thing holding me back was the poor .txt exports of Google Documents.
Thanks for the advice. I think I'll give it my best shot and never use Elance again.
This won't stop. It will only get worse. We are the slaves of the system.. Ditch technology will reduce being spied on drastically, but we always have satellites & CCTV..
In the Netherlands we have this TV show called: "help! my husband is a handyman". It is about families living in a mess that should have been a palace. But the handyman had so much jobs to do he just could make up his mind were to begin.

I think this also applies to problematic projects like this toxic one. The mess seems too big to clean up. But it isn't. You just have to start somewhere and clean up little by little.

In the past I had to implement a feature in a toxic software project. While implementing the feature I also refactored some messy code and even deleted some functionality nobody every used (thousands of lines). By doing this I broke some parts on purpose and added some functionality to fix what was broken.
Now others who were also working on the project had to deal with the stuff I broke. Ofcourse nobody liked it, but when they knew I provided better functionality to fix the problems everybody was happy because they knew this had to be done.

Broken gets fixed, shitty lasts forever. That's why sometimes you need to break shitty things on purpose.
One of the signs say "Jenga is absolutely forbidden".
Or truly excellent.
This is a great article, and although it may raise the ire of some of the REST purists out there, I completely agree with the pragmatic approach. It prompted me to finally publish some of my thoughts on API design that complement the more technical ones in the article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5831253
1*7+2=9
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Just gave flatnik a spin and the concept looks pretty good.

Might be an idea to add an option to separate out the journeys into bus/tube/OG lines since the TfL Route Planner sometimes give strange routes when all mixed together?

Edit: Silly typo's
In an attempt to show that PC is still alive, I will point out that there no minorities in that picture.... Ok, bad joke.

Not sure why I want to make this parallel, but I feel like if a thing like Linux can last as long as it has, and looks like it will go on well in to the future, so will the PC.

Also, I find it interesting that while a laptop can do everything a PC does, even transform in to a PC with a docking station to give you a big monitor, keyboard, mouse, storage, etc, it has not wiped the PC out.

My worry is that PCs will begin to sell less and there for go up a lot in price. But, then that didn't happen in the face of laptops. So, Im not even slightly sure about that.
Brute force attack against restrictions code is possible on iOS
Working on a hack for the blog, I found a security flaw on iOS that allows you to brute force attack the code used for restrictions, despite Apple’s protections. Let me explain...
I wonder if 8:30pm EST correlates to a particular phase in a Hacker's daily cycle? ie it is when the folks is enjoying some downtime by catching up with news on HN, particularly for folks living on US's east coast.
Well it looks like a mess and you can't do anything about it so here's what I would suggest.
You already decided you want out so you have nothing to loose make a lot of noise and get everybody's attention, try to take the lead and make something out of that crap project.
One of 2 things will happen
1 you will take the lead and save the project and earn a lot of respect from everyone by doing so or
2 and most likely they will treat you like the new guy with no experience and ignore your or fire you because you see things they don't want you to see and are being disruptive.

From where I'm standing both outcomes seem favorable to you
1. you earn respect and maybe more
2. you get out of a failed project and dysfunctional community

Good luck
> if you told a Los Angelan your commute to work was 45 minutes each way, they would say "that's pretty good."

Malarkey. I live in LA & I don't know a single person who would say that.
America is democracy, you can bring about change with your votes. Unless of course you also have the same problem we have in Africa;democracies paralysed by idiots with votes
It's probably illegal to give IQ tests to potential employees. It is illegal in the States.