skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C.f. the cited book by Hart & Risley, Meaningful Differences In The Everyday Experiences of Young American Children.

"The more parents talked to their children, the faster the children's vocabularies were growing and the higher children's IQ test scores at age 3 and later. [...] [By age 4], an average child in a professional family would have the accumulated experience with almost 45 million words, an average child in a working-class family would have accumulated experience with 26 million words, and an average child in a welfare family would have accumulated experience with 13 million words. [...] Just to provide an average welfare child with an amount of weekly language experience equal to that of an average working-class child would require 41 hours per week of out-of-home experience as rich in words addressed to the child as that in an average professional home. [...] By the time children are 4 years old, intervention programs come too late and can provide too little experience to make up for the past."

The basic idea is that the best determiner of academic success is the number of words per day spoken to the child (listening to audio/tv doesn't work, and is generally thought to be harmful, especially before age 3.) Essentially by the time kids get to kindergarten, there is already a 2+ year achievement gap between wealthy kids and poor kids, mostly for this reason. In addition to being enormous on its own, this gap then compounds greatly because of tracking, which tends to be introduced in some form or another starting around age six:

"We found that first-grade ability-group placement can have persistent effects on children's achievement in school over a period of several years and may shape the expectations of children's performance held by significant others, such as parents and teachers. Whether these effects are instructional, social, or institutional, they are real, and they have implications for children's future schooling trajectories. [...] Instructional grouping may have the unintended effect of increasing inequalities in educational outcomes, largely by creating inequalities in educational resources and rewards." (I forget the author, but this is quoting in Riordan's book Equality and Achievement in the relevant section.)

Anyway I'd definitely recommend reading Meaningful Differences, in addition to being a great example of how science should be done in terms of robust methodology, it's also one of the most insightful and important scientific findings of the last hundred years.

The one thing I'd add though is that in addition to the total volume of language, which is the most important variable, there are a few other counterintuitive findings worth knowing about. E.g. reading aloud to your kids doesn't actually benefit their language skills, unless you purposely use certain linguistic constructs while reading to them. And there are other linguistic features you can use that are beneficial, that you wouldn't necessarily think to use without knowing the research, but I'll stop there though so as not to spoil it.
> The application form itself is an embedded Google Docs form with this unfortunate footer

That is the footer of every single Google form regardless of if it's from Google or not.
I do it with Turbo Tax for 50 bucks. The thing is not to open an account outside of the US. If you follow that rule you are fine and your return won't be longer than US return. If you really, really need that account in a foreign bank simply don't advertise left & right you are an US citizen and open an account using your local (German, Canadian, whatever) driver's license. I have lived in Poland 3 years so far with US citizenships it costs nothing. And the benefits outweight any issues that might be there in any case.
Just a quick note, the name "The Fed" generally refers to the Federal Reserve Bank, that institution currently being headed by Ben Bernanke. The US Government is referred to as, the US Government or the current US Administration (if you're trying is identify recently elected individuals as opposed to the institutions that compose the government).
I imagine it wouldn't work very well at all in your pocket. How do you get your face in there anyway?
the real deep thinkers, are not necessary good at conversation I believe, actually there is a saying "the _real_ smart people don't speak much, and they usually look dumb"
sorry I did not bother to read the article, the title stopped me from reading it.
> Perhaps you think that this attitude is somehow justified.

I think it is a complex issue, and should not be dismissed as "not making any sense" or the government wanting to screw citizens living abroad over. As I have already stated, it is clear that the purpose behind the legislation is to prevent unreported income from being stored in foreign bank accounts.

Like with many complex issues, I think the current solution is imperfect and could be improved. Stating that it is stupid is not constructive.
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Tens of thousands of rows for me. Though may be higher for some of my buddies.
I'm pretty sure there was a plan at the very beginning of the Jobs era, to get the Mac line profitable again just to keep the company going long enough to go after new and different product lines. About a year before returning to Apple, Steve Jobs even publicly outlined this strategy:

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
-- Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/0...
I guess Android has a different kind of sandbox than most typical software fault isolation based sandboxes (e.g. NaCl).

Its more reminiscent of plan9's per process namespaces than anything else. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/names.html

Regardless, the main issue that was preventing Go from running on Android was the linker's inability to link go pkgs as a shared library. Fortunately support for external linking on ARM is scheduled to land in the go1.2 release.

http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.2#gc_changes

When it comes to go support for NaCl, llgo is imho the most promising solution for that. http://github.com/axw/llgo
Hmm, but if you browse the older activities under "Recent Site Activity", two names pops up: Allyson Gee and Nilma Rubin... LinkedIn shows both of them as employees of Google.
I've seen DataTables which I may be able to set up but for non-technical data to be able to share data its simply unmanageable.
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So while I will be the first to admit that I certainly didn't predict the iPhone, some of the iPhone's success was based on Apple leveraging their success with the iPod. The existence of iTunes and an ecosystem of third-party accessories based on the Apple 30-pin connector certainly helped the iPhone, not to mention Apple's brand cachet which was on an upswing at the time.

it's an interesting thought experiment to consider if the iPhone would have succeeded if instead of Apple it had been put out by, say, Danger.
Ever heard of Turbo Tax? If I can do it in 2 hours each and every year a day before the deadline being US citizen in Poland, yeah you need a lot of bad faith to have issues.
It's a very leaky metaphor indeed... do not the millions of US citizens who neither earn income nor owe any tax receive far more benefits than the citizen abroad? Why should the working migrant be forced to foot the bill for a room for other people to inhabit?
As I read your comment I was afraid you were going to suggest an app that speaks to your child for you, but I was pleasantly surprised. I like the idea.
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Google fusion tables is somewhat useful. I think you can give them money if your data is too big for the free limit, but I could be wrong.
fetchmail for saving, notmuch for indexing/searching.
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Probably any conversation is good, but conversation that carefully fuels curiosity is fun and it also induces a self-sustaining habit:
http://www.jonathanmugan.com/CuriosityCycle/
Uh.

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination." — L.W.

But in the end, when you've got a government solicited to diminish your powers, nothing beats a Classical education.
your submission will just blend in with the rest of stuff that gets submitted.

Most people who "launch" on HN have informal upvote rings. Gotta take all the unfair advantages you can get.
>I did not bother to read the article

This is probably why you're not a 'real think er', and no I don't really agree with the article either.
I think it's also the same with pet dogs, at least with the intelligent breeds. If you have a border collie, talking to it a lot makes it smarter. At least it seems that way.
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My boss's son is one of the smartest 18 month old kids I have ever met. He communication levels are through the roof, and for words he might not be able to say, or things he might not be able to express, he knows rudimentary sign language to communicate, e.g., he has a hand signal for "I'm tired" or "I'm hungry" -- he almost never has to cry to show he needs something.

It's really quite impressive.
You seemed to imply that SGI, Sun, etc are gone because they were full stack. I just offered counterexamples of non full stack companies that are also gone. There are simply no evidence that full stack is inherently bad, or vice versa. It's all specific to individual companies.

> Non-full stack companies come and go. That's part of the strength

Or more precisely, that's a benefit of hardware commodity. From the business perspective however, it isn't fun to be a loser, full stack or not.
US is immigration based. 60% of New York City population wasn't even born in the USA. Wouldn't you think that in this circumstance a substantial number of them could avoid taxation by living more than 6 months abroad even though their income would be generated in the US? I'm a dual Polish/US citizen. Easy scenario: remote work in US for $100k+ a year while residing all that time in Poland. That's why they have it. There is no other country in the world that's that rich and is based on immigration, so people would have incentive to game the system. That's why the system is built that way that you have to _declare_ your income even when abroad. If somebody can't do this because of $3k lost, that's just shows for them not for the US.
I phrased everything wrong. I don't want to "hack" anything important in life. On the contrary, I want to set things properly in my life. I want sustainable growth. So pardon me for using the term. It wasn't fitting.

I've met people who've backwards rationalized not having success with women, and the way you can tell that I'm low on self-confidence, I can tell they're full of shit. But I don't think you are, I think you have a point, as do most people posting comments here.Also, because I have seen this "figure" of what a life without this burning desire for sexual validation is like, and it seems legitimately healthy. I've heard of the "cherry on top" expression, and it seems so ideal for love and sex to be the extra bonus that we all welcome and cherish.
Unfortunately, I see myself going full-circle with this philosophy and winding up anxious and unhappy. How do I NOT place importance on sex and love? It's essentially what I think of when I wake up, everytime I see a beautiful woman, and at night as I fall asleep. I'm not a romantic, but the idea of it all is just so awesome.

edit: i think i'm getting it.
lol indeed my friend.
Not necessarily. It was probably a good idea in Jerry Yang's case, for instance
Conversation or vocabulary? It seems to me they conflate the two simply because conversation time is correlated with higher vocabulary. Do the studies control for this?
You appear to misunderstand what I mean when I say I'm not interested.

I don't mean "I won't take you at your word". Being a polarizing political subject, I would take the word of not even myself - I can and have been wrong on such matters. Personal interest in reasonable arguments from both sides may lead me to entertain various arguments, especially if they're well conveyed, including on subjects which I do not feel personally affect me, but which do affect the rest of society.

In losing that interest, I've lost my only reason to entertain your suggestions as for what to look into, and so I shall not. Why would I be interested when you so willfully distract from the subject at hand -- that distraction being polarizing hyperbole about irrelevant fictional cookie baking, and arguments about how this is factual and relevant? This is not time well spent!

I will note presidential budget vetos can and have been overridden by congress. This budget hasn't even gotten to his desk, correct? If you wish to blame the presidency in this, you must also blame congress as a whole for failing to be able to build and reach the consensus necessary to override him, and you must also blame the electorate for voting for that congress. Your interest in hanging this albatross from his neck does not inform, entertain, or otherwise interest me -- discouraging me from informing, entertaining, or otherwise trying to interest you.
Certain Japanese cigarette vending machines had photographic age detection algorithms. Japanese children used photos of Bruce Willis to buy cigarettes. Getting a photo of your face would be much simpler than getting your prints.
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I've always believed smart (developed capability) is taught, and genius (typically narrow high level mental capability) is born. And that all people at birth, except the relative few born with mental handicaps, are capable of being smart.

A 100 to 115 IQ maxed out on potential and perspiration will get you very far in life.
Just because genetics is important doesn't mean that talking doesn't help - and the difference is that talking is in the parents' control.
I call this the "Kaiser Soze" bug. You spend hours trying to figure out what's causing a bug, only to realize you're the one who caused it.
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Not really. The point of the requirement is to subsidize the health care you will get if they find you unconscious, naked in a ditch without ID and can't tell if you are wealthy enough to pay or not.

Absent insurance, that privilege is paid for by the higher prices charged to people unlucky enough to need healthcare.

Now, if you can't get plans that consider the fact that you are only in the US for < 100 days a year, then yes it's harsh.
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That was the first thought that jumped to my mind too. I expected a completely different article.

To be clear I agree with what he wrote, but I didn't expect that topic.
It's weird how people are happy to say genetics plays a hand in the limits of human abilities, but when it comes to talk about intelligence, there are so many people in denial.

Perhaps it is just that you can't sell as many self help books if a lot of our brain's wiring is preordained.
Of course it's a flimsy metaphor. How do you make the choice to liken a country to an apartment with a long-term lease instead of a hotel that charges by the day or a club where you pay dues and can suspend your membership and due payment for a while?

If the US were an apartment, it would be a very strange apartment with numerous people entering and exiting it everyday.
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But run into problems when two separate businesses are located on different floors in the same building. Not to mention you don't need many lat/long decimal places at all to get tens or hundreds of possible points in a medium-sized building.
Can you add on a digitizer built into the screen on the Air?
My parents like to tell the storiy of my childhood. Basically, I used to think I was an adult (despite being 5) and talk to everyone. The best part, is that I _was_ treated like an adult, and am pretty intelligent these days as well :) More importantly, it gave me confidence from an early age. That's the best gift I think a child can be given, especially one that is into "fringe" pursuits.
iOS actually doesn't have a restriction as strict as this: you can take a page of memory and map it again without issue. This is the technique used by imp_implementationWithBlock, and current versions of libffi can generate closures based on the technique.

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/2011/04/index.html
Title is misleading. Someone emailed a spreadsheet with IDs (including SSNs apparently) of insurance agents to an individual insurance agent. That's an oops and a process problem, but it's not the kind of "glitch" alleged in the partisan blog.

There are a ton of new web apps being deployed. They will all have bugs. Some of those bugs might be security holes. This isn't any of those. It's just a mistake.
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Let us remember that every situation is different. While what you say may be true for many cases, we cannot blindly apply it everywhere.
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I'm not too sure if it is worth it. The talks will be posted online. The total amount of time that you have to network is only about 3 hours. I don't think the event is any more or less of a networking opportunity than any other meetup or conference in Silicon Valley.

I do think, however, that it's useful to visit SV and network at meetups and conferences in general. So I think going to Startup School requires a little more advance planning in the future. I think the best thing to do would be to plan a several week-long networking trip to SV that happens to coincide with Startup School (and for it to be affordable, the trip would have to be booked well before acceptances are sent out. That being said, Startup School is not very selective as long as you are an engineer).
Intelligence is a mixture of upbringing and genetics. If you're raised by a pack of wolves in the woods, you'll probably be rock dumb by all measures, regardless of your DNA.
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