skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paris Hilton has a 129 IQ and Andy Warhol's was 86.

For the reasons mentioned in the first reply I posted, I categorically doubt statements in the form of "Mr. Smith's IQ is X," favoring statements in the form "Mr. Smith obtained a score of Y on IQ test brand Z on [date of particular occasion]." But I agree with you in disagreeing with the submitted proposal as unworkable.
sorry about this, i know we're talking about humans and all that, but maybe its the intpness of me - but you didn't respond with any reasoning at all, but instead did exactly what was to be avoided - problems with the man, and not the ideas.

my problem with the excerpt is that it is not that meaningful. no one has ever been able to prevent technology from advancing, they've tried many times before, for whatever reasons - and i believe that if we can have a singularity, and if we survive, then we will.
"well said" if you don't understand anything about modern physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light

even if you figure someway of travelling simply very fast, humans could not survive in space for extended periods. and even if you could physically survive and extend your lifespan over the tens of thousands of years necessary to get anywhere interesting, you would go insane and kill yourself.

and if you did end up somewhere, the first plants or living foodsource would likely kill you. if you can't survive the water in mexico or food in india, how do you plan to cope with bok choi from a planet near proxima centauri? "advanced medicine"??? that only works by trial and error

r2d2 and c3p0 might be able to do interstellar travel, humans won't.
Perhaps not, but they do allow me to arbitrarily name URL routes! Hallelujah!
FTA:

"The best content creators will do just fine. [...]
The lousy content creators will disappear. "

The problem with this is, that most people don't jump from nothing to "best" in one go. The people who created all that lousy content, some of them learnt from their experience and got better and started developing better content. If fewer people are able to make a living creating bad content, fewer people are going to be able to climb the learning curve to start creating good content.
Do you want to read someone's facial expressions?
Interesting. So I guess, to generalize, the answer is "streaming HD."
The copyright stuff bothers me the most. Why can't they get Canada-focused Hulu ads for example? Or the ability to stream music in Pandora outside the US?
and that we'll spread throughout it within a few more decades

more like giga-decades
It just happened, about 3 hours late. Lousy planning, and if I'm not mistaking it is 5 PM Pacific/8PM Eastern, which isn't exactly during working hours for most people. So either the people responsible for some of these apps are working late anyway, or any breakage will not be fixed immediately.

Twitter could have easily planned this for a monday morning and communicated it a month in advance.
Wow you're clever.

But if you look at their CV's, they are much more credentialed as physics geeks than as math geeks. So why does the author choose to call them "math majors"? It seems like the choice must have been intentional, but I have no idea what purpose it would serve.

From: http://corp.tagged.com/management.html

"Greg holds an A.B. in Chemistry & Physics & Mathematics from Harvard University, where he served as a Director of the Harvard Entrepreneurs Club (HEC) from 1998-2000 and co-authored The Harvard Entrepreneurs Club Guide to Starting Your Own Business (Wiley, 1999). Greg is presently on leave from Stanford University, where he is pursuing the Ph.D. in Physics on a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship"

"Johann holds an A.B. in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard University. He is presently on leave from the Physics Ph.D. program at Stanford University, where he has studied with support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and the Hertz Foundation Fellowship Research Grant."
China's Filtering Software Contains Pirated Code
Also, here's the video of Brett giving the talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3TuRs9ANhs
Preorder and camp outside the store just like the other iPhone models.
Associated Press reporting on same issue:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hBwCrEGktm...
Thank you tokenadult - comments like these are why I keep coming back to HN. If only mainstream media would give me this much information on interesting subjects.
Every* web developer should be familiar with cross-site scripting (XSS) and how to prevent it. http://www.google.com/search?q=xss

* If you don't have a login system or any sensitive data, it might not matter much.
While interesting I don't think it is a topic for HN. Flagged.
It seems like the choice must have been intentional

It may just be what the writer recalled at the moment he wrote.

By the way, if I remember correctly, the physics and mathematics concentration at Harvard is distinct from majoring in math by itself and distinct from majoring in physics by itself. But presumably the concentration requires quite a strong knowledge of math.
What I hate about this piece is the anti-user angle. What a fucking prick. The only reason you're writing apps or working on frameworks/languages to write apps is for the users. Maybe you should listen to them once in a while.
I've seen a few people tag twitter posts with #brandminus, maybe it'll be worthwhile to search for that. Or... Any other keyword that people use #facepalm?
But air is compressible. And I am talking about air.

(Unless this post was answering my question, in which case thanks.)
Well the startup gave you a chance at becoming a millionaire and have lots of women. I don't see that chance on etsy.

There was an interesting bit (though a bit speculative) in "Why is sex fun" by Jared Diamond: it said that gathering was actually more effective than hunting. But men would hunt because if they came home with prey they were able to have a big party, share meat with neighbors and other women, and have a better chance at having more sex...

As I said it was a bit speculative (I think - they even said so in the book), but it seems to fit startup life quite well.
MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Than Its New Executives Thought
Yes a species has to be dynamic and chaotic enough to explore, yet docile enough to somehow live with itself.

Too chaotic and you have lawlessness and lack of trust in contracts -- the basis of economic performance. You can't trust the future. Too docile and nobody truly takes risks which carry great rewards, such as ocean travel. You stagnate.

It is completely possible that most species are unable to keep the right mix long enough to conquer deep space exploration. Instead they just turn into themselves and wilt, doing less and less and consuming more and more until the species itself is homogeneous and unable to survive natural challenges like plagues. I think we can see the beginnings of this already.
No because the odds for selling a beer cozy for a million $ is 0, but it is > 0 for the startup.
Oh. I thought you were saying that you didn't believe that those gender differences existed in masturbation frequency.
It's taken more than 2 hours to get my results - I'd love to get an email saying "After looking at your data, it looks like it's going to take N more hours to finish the results".
HD-DVD had pretty much the same DRM as Blu-ray, so that doesn't accomplish anything.
if an existing player doesn't honor the "no analog" switch, will the disk still work over HDMI, or will it just fail on that player completely?

It should work. These people are dumb, but not completely stupid.
From your first link:

"Nevertheless, recent progress in the cognitive science of rational thought suggests that nothing – save for money – would stop us from constructing an “RQ” test."

So extend IQ tests to cover more cognitive function such as rationality. I don't see any problem in that.
Pretty sure that's false. The enhanced DRM capability for Blu-Ray was always used as a selling point to the studios.
Second, no one knows his IQ exactly, so no one can pull rank this way.

The difference in IQ between, for example, well-respected evolutionary biologists and people who don't believe in evolution is probably rather large. So rough IQ estimates are sufficient here.

Third, a slightly different point from point 2), anyone's IQ can change over the course of life.

You can require testing at regular intervals.
That might be a good idea, especially for certain kinds of employment screening, but that could still fail to solve the problem you had in mind in your submission.
Wind can not move out radially in all direction from a point, unless air is manufactured at that point. If you thind of the wind as a divergenceless vector field, that situation is not possible.

If you heat it up, the air around the point will move outward. It will still not move out of the point, because there's no volume of air in the point that can be heated up, and (b) that's not a time-independent field either. It only works for an instant.
Ask HN: I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help?
Before jumping over to a PowerBook in 2005, I used an IBM Thinkpad T40 (http://bit.ly/OFdkd) during my first two years in school. I put the laptop in storage (in my closet) and decided to gut everything on it, including Windows XP.

I'm trying to decide between installing Ubuntu (which I've done before but feel I don't need all its features) and something stripped down like Good OS.

The laptop won't be my main workhorse like PowerBook as I'll just use it to connect to the Web, Gmail, Google Docs/Calendar and Dropbox.

What are your recommendations for lightweight, netbook-oriented OSes?
Some services/companies are very good at working internationally from the outset, some really aren't. As a Canadian, I get bit by this constantly. Amazon, Newegg, Grand Central (now Google Voice), pretty much all the big media video networks.. etc.

The funny thing is that American companies that engage in this kind of anti-cross-border behaviour may never realize just how much hostility they're brewing up against their products before they even finally arrive in Canada. By then there may be home-brewed alternatives. In the case of media, I think this will be particularly interesting because TV viewership amongst my demographic seems to collapsing in certain circles, yet people still want to jump online and view/share their clips. These are often blocked (or redirected to Canadian sites which have less content or use undesirable plugins/tech to show video).

So what's your alternative? Well, nothing! You go do something else. If the Big Media companies drag their asses on this issue I wouldn't be surprised if it had severe long term repercussions, causing people to switch to other forms of entertainment, brands, etc. One media market that never caved to idiotic lawyering (w.r.t US vs. Canada issues anyway) is video games. Perhaps we'll see that win out over time.

I find it hard to believe that a reasonably wealthy country with a population just under the size of California is ignored and blocked so systematically. It's actually the effort given to blocking our IPs that's the most surprising. I mean, don't Hulu's ad clients want me to buy their products up here too? .. Call it naive if you wish, I'll call it leaving money on the table.
It's too bad they didn't make more money. There's something about the App Store and a lot of other marketplaces of the era that is unnervingly volatile, irrational, fleeting, and unpredictable (and not in the same way markets are supposed to be these things).
> But ASP.NET MVC was based on ASP.NET. Which checks for the existence of a file before running any scripts.

This is not correct. When you configure an ISAPI filter in IIS, such as ASP.NET or PHP, you can choose whether or not to verify the presence of files. You can also do this via configuration for .NET HTTP handlers. Parts of ASP.NET itself rely on this feature, such as the trace.axd handler and the web resource handlers.

I don't have the option to verify that you can't create those routes, but if you can't, it's not related to that particular feature.
Yeah, that would be good. The main bottleneck is in sucking all the data down from Google's API - for a site with as much traffic as justin.tv, that can indeed take hours. Once that's done the processing itself is relatively quick. But that's certainly something we could notice and let you know about. (Consider this your notification for now...)
Fighting this problem from the doctor's side is noble (this is an uplifting speech) but it seems like it would only ever be drops in the bucket, impossible to get the majority of people to voluntarily act like the speaker's "positive deviants."

Most things I read say that the private insurance market can be disrupted by the introduction of a big enough non-profit offering insurance (be it government backed or not). It looks like it might even happen given the signs from Washington recently. And I have no moral problem with the government offering an insurance plan as long as it is voluntary to participate and the lion's share is paid for by its participants.

Sounds like there is a chance of something good happening but I fear the perversions. Like a lot of the government's food and health policies, this is going to get severely messed up, yet again bowing to powerful lobbies etc. instead of focusing on real public health goals like... health.
This would increase overall ignorance by forcibly assigning more importance to IQ than it deserves.

(This is not to say IQ doesn't mean something.)
<snip>The bottom line? It’s hard to quantify the COST of moving to a startup (months of distraction, expense, stress, loss of social network, etc)</snip>

The cost / benefit thing isn't entirely monetary.

It's one of those things where if you're crazy enough to just do it (move), it's something you can look back on and say "glad I did." At least in my experience it has been.

It's also one of those things where if you really don't have much to "lose," there's a lot of room for gain. Moving, yeah, expensive. Getting robbed, yeah, sucks. Cost of living, yeah, ridiculous.

But, I've viewed the experience as an extremely valuable extension of my University education. I've learned a lot: much more than I thought possible from the random spattering of techie-events I've attended. OSMCS 2007 is pretty much the reason I implemented Drupal on my site. :) And the social network here really is great.

So while I'm not endorsing a full-fledged "move" to SV for startuppers, it is the 21st Century. Travel. Experience life while you're young and can have fun.

After I founded my LLC, I "moved" it from Arizona to Utah (very temporary stopover there) to Cali in its first year. The portable nature of a web business has been one of the greatest things about the work. So my advice is: either go where you can participate in the synergy or go out and create some on your own.
I've changed the fulltext to allow for a wildcard after the actual query. It's not perfect. "cool" wont match "imcool.com", but hopefully people will use the tags category to their advantage.
I've added one here: http://domains.wiffin.com/about.php
Images of technical PDFs on the Kindle DX
You can now edit and delete your listings.
Also, I've implemented mailhide.
I've implemented http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/
that should fix the worst of things.
I disagree. People would learn very quickly that IQ has almost no correlation with wealth, happiness, and any other measure of success. Making IQ a public measurement like height, weight or skull bumps would show IQ to be useless as a measure of anything.
A lot of suggestions were made as to how this could be better. I've implemented most of them if you want to check it out.
"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart." -Kurt Vonnegut
You could run Ubuntu's netbook edition (Remix) or do an install of Arch Linux and only install what you need if you think Ubuntu carries too much.

You could also give xPud a shot, it boots in a ridiculously 5-10 seconds: http://www.xpud.org/
This might result in a caste system with numbers.
I'm not sure about DRM, but an interesting point which is often unmentioned is the VC-1 codec. Microsoft licensed it for HD-DVD, so they threw their weight behind it. When comparisons were dinging Blu-ray for artifacts in red colors, Sony also licensed the VC-1 codec. Microsoft then made a penny or so on both formats, since both were using their codec, so they pulled their army out of the fight. This may very well have been the tipping point for Blu-ray.
Messaging != A queue (at least the queue that Celery represents...)
How should you give the government a cut? Report the income on your tax return?
Heh. Well, I agree that it's premature to generalize definitively to humans in general, and this is a problem with psychology experiments in general: any particular experiment is necessarily very restricted in scope, and generally N is very small, so it's hard to have confidence in anything more than simple linear models.

Occam's razor suggests that it's more likely, given this one data point, that it's true of all people than that it's only true of the people that happened to be in the sample. But that clearly doesn't justify holding that view very strongly; it's based on a small amount of evidence.
Yes, that's what I thought too. The differences in strength aren't anywhere close to 10:1 either.
I should append that, Ninja Gaiden Black is the one you want. The AI was vastly improved, and the flying swallow trick (you know the one), was nerfed intensely.
Couldn't it also work the other way round, though? "Hey, they rip me off over the cables, maybe their players are not the cheapest ones either"?
From the article:
"An active user, as defined by HubSpot, may be a member 3 or 6 months old who has abandoned his account"

"What’s interesting are the population metrics stating that 44.5% follow 1 or more people and 47.29% have 1 or more follower. Firstly, they never took out “inactive users” (even according to there own erroneous definition)."
I know. It was just a way to visualize it.
The mock environment doesn't need to do anything other than accept all inputs and produce known outputs (presumably some with known error conditions). This can often be implemented using apache rewrite rules/aliasing and static content served with the correct MIME types. I've set up mock servers for my own testing of public APIs when I want more control over monitoring my application than using a remote service would allow. You make a request once to the real service, store the content in a file on your own web server, and change your app to hit your server rather than the public, remote API.
> One media market that never caved to idiotic lawyering (w.r.t US vs. Canada issues anyway) is video games.

Maybe because a reasonable chunk of the game industry is in Canada, and an even more reasonable chunk is outside North America all together (so that releasing in Canada as well as US isn't that big of a hassle as the hassle of going international from domestic).

Compare to entertainment (Hulu), where Canadians tend to import a vast (and to some disturbing) majority of the "culture" from the United States. Entertainment is much, much more centralized, and it's centralized in the US. Which is why Canada has Canadian content regulations (does Hulu have to abide by those? and if so, how do you define 'airtime' when it's on-demand? and a million other questions I have no idea about), and indirectly why nothing is ever available in Quebec (overall the asinine Quebecois laws are there because that's the price Quebec is willing to pay to maintain its own cultural and political identity).

For small countries, there is therefore a certain plus side to partially giving up sovereignity to join an effective economic superstate like the EU. Cross-border penetration of cool gadgets is just one part of this. Sadly, the only economic superstate bordering Canada is the United States which Canadians are, let's say.. ambivalent about joining.
It sounded like the problem wasn't Twitter, but 3rd party Twitter clients. They have no way of knowing if these use a 32-bit or 64-bit ID field, so if Twitter sends back an ID that can't fit in 32 bits - what happens? Do they crash? Wrap? Take only the low-order 32 bits?
Where do you think they get the 70 million monthly visits from? I don't know anyone that actually uses Tagged as a social network. It would seem to me that the simplest explanation is that their bad behavior is the only reason they maintain any kind of popularity. No one is going back to Tagged and continuing to use the site, so they'd lose everything if they stopped expanding.
DVI is easily connected to HDMI using a DVI-HDMI cable. I've had no problems doing this with a computer and an HDTV at 1080p resolution.
Lets be honest. This is the spin that many new execs give especially after the previous executives were fired.

If things are worse than they appeared, then the new execs look that much better when things improve and don't look so bad if they fail. If they fail, they just argue that it couldn't be salvaged
The MENSA newsletter used to have a section on Astrology. What more needs to be said about the imperfect correlation of IQ and understanding how the real world works?
http://www.ksrevenue.org/faqs-abcdrugtax.htm

No personal checks are allowed!
The article talks about New sales leadership. What exactly is there to sell?
If you're upset about this, wait until you hear about Google Analytics...
"If you can't run that site with 750 people, you don't know how to run a business,"

No offense, but what the hell do they need even 750 people for?
Note: The NWS is News Corp's stock symbol, not the acronym for "not work-safe."
Samy, Their Hero (2005)
I remember reading somewhere that Facebook has 400 employees (400 employees for 200 million members). The difference between MySpace and FB is striking.
No, Facebook has at least 700 employees (see source on Wikipedia for 11/08) and probably more like 800.
Canadian Property Management
It is a good idea to look up a few Canadian property management companies if you have any need related to the above. The breadth of services that you opt for depends entirely on your budget and need.
Loving Day
The reason for "all extensions" is because some (obviously important) DOS programs would insist on saving everything with a certain extension; it's be whatever.pbf, hello.pbf. So how do you write to 'lpt1' when you can only save 'lpt1.pbf'? Behold, the solution to one problem and the cause of many more.
Those selections come back to bite them in the ass ungodly hard, though.

They usually get abused and/or dumped (post pregrancy) by such chaps, so there is a dampening effect on this selection for the progeny as they are raised without the support of a caring father.
Just because you don't know anyone doesn't mean nobody is. Judging by their quantcast stats, their retention is decent, and a lot better than many overhyped sites beloved by the web 2.0 circle jerk.
It seems like there are some numbers there but w/o some key intersections.

For example CA is NOT just silicon valley, there's a large startup community in LA. Does the LA ventures bring SV down for the CA totals?

Also it would be interesting to also cross reference this with size of acquisition. Are acquisition's larger in SV?

Finally from looking at these it also appears that being in some sort of tech corridor is beneficial.

Same list sorted by acquisition rate.

The top 8 or so have large tech areas, VA and MD I'm assuming are going to be more gov't and defense related and then a huge decline as you get into the sticks.

WA	8.20%

CA	6.90%

NJ	6.60%

TX	5.90%

CO	5.30%

MA	5.20%

IL	5.00%

NY	4.90%

VA	4.30%

MD	4.30%

GA	1.70%

PA	1.50%

AZ	1.30%

FL	1.20%

NC	1.20%

So it looks like there is at least some value in being in tech related areas.