skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never taken actual IQ test, did one on the Mensa's website once and all it said was that I should consider taking the actual test, but I'm pretty sure that's just marketing thing.

The truth is that I'm too lazy and cheap to take part in actual IQ test. Plus I'm kind a afraid that I'd find out that I'm just an average Joe or maybe below the average intelligence as that's the only positive trait I (appear to) have. Maybe if I started to take care of my body and got fit I could muster the courage to find out just how dumb I am when I at least was healthy otherwise...

Just my random thoughts.
Very insightful.

"More benchmarks also measure throughput more than latency.":
Yup, latency benchmarks are really very hard, especially when humans are involved (UI/UX), due to biases and the way perception and cognition quite often try to adapt sparing us "the worst of latency" but at the same time leave us with a gut feeling of "lag". The journey J. Carmack undertook to find and work around latencies for the Oculus Rift is good example for all this, i think. You can't do this for each and every app to give all users this "snappy" feeling... especially when a huge system like "the internet" is involved.

I believe there is also "latency creep": even if "a system" has low latency at the beginning, operating it, maintaining it and especially scaling it will more easily accept increased latency than lower throughput... up to an threshold of course when the system becomes "apparently and unbearably slow" (still not the case for google, facebook etc. i guess)

Add servers to a farm because the median req. latency increased by 30%? Hmm...

Add servers to a farm because the number of users increased by 30%? Sure! ;)

So most probably facebook, yahoo etc. are missing serious absolute latency SLAs [1] and those huge organizations as a whole tend to neglect them until things break... they don't care about "slow(ish)".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreement

ps: it's "funny" to see the gaming big-biz industry fighting this: they are huge organizations willing to accept "slow" if the money comes in right, at the same time some of them are in a market where the customers are much more sensible to this issues than the typical facebook is slow poster.
Fun! A bit easy though. I had a flawless run. Maybe try reducing the timer? Or perhaps a game-mode that runs until you choose incorrectly?
Most professional investors and fund managers do have an advantage using it over naive/amateur investors and yet they rarely beat the market, and when they do it almost never lasts more than a few years. "Use index funds unless your name is Warren Buffet" would be a better summary.
All delivery technologies result in injuries. That doesn't make them "not good ideas".
Definitely performance is a nice benefit. I don't use AdBlock; I have a few thousand lines in my /etc/hosts that map various bad actors (vast chunks of Javascript that doesn't do anything useful, 1x1 .gifs, ads, annoying widgets, etc.) to 255.255.255.255 (NXDOMAIN), and use dnsmasq on that machine to get that benefit across to the rest of the local network, regardless of browser. The thing that usually triggers another bout of "block these hosts" is if I notice that my ostensibly idle browser is burning CPU. I don't want to wait several seconds for a page to render, and I certainly don't want to waste laptop battery time on refreshing an iframe with "what people are saying about this on Twitter" or feeding someone's analytics server. Half the time a site runs really slowly, it's usually doing some nonsense that I'd be happier without, or my browser is waiting to download something that I don't need to see.

The total amount of Javascript in kB is one issue, but you don't need to hit the level of opcodes, I think. Counting the nodes in the parsetree would be useful, as well as measuring the amount of memory that is allocated by the Javascript, determining whether it runs once or continuously or on some trigger (e.g., scrolling, hovering, mouse movement). If you ran a profiler and measured the amount of time spent in the Javascript bits of your runtime (e.g., how long to parse the JS, how long to eval it, how often it runs, throw in some memory profiling) you could probably get some interesting numbers.
+1 for lack of good IDE .. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6808936 for Vote For Official IntelliJ GOLANG Plugin
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Possibly but I think it's real. I believe it's the same guy from this: http://i.imgur.com/evPQL2S.jpg
I like that people are focusing more on the "internet of things" and developing products for it. In my recent researching and planning of my own home-automation design, I've found that there's a very limited selection of devices for controlling sources like this "smart bar" is. There are some products, but they are either badly documented, have limited or unportable APIs, very expensive, or simply not elegant. I expected a lot more than what I found. Sure, I can engineer or hack something that will work for me, but that doesn't work for everyone, or even most people.

I like the product in this Kickstarter, although I'd love for an pure socket replacement rather than just a power-bar.
Consider changing the TLD, as sites such as Facebook block sharing free domains for spam reasons. Tried to share this with some friends, no dice.
OP hasn't learned he is not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
Derren Brown used this approach to convince people he had a system for predicting the winners of horse races: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5OWh7luL4
Removing from any location is O(1), as is adding to any location you have a link to.

With a real linked list at least, not with std::list.
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Anyone had experience mining litecoin and bitcoin simultaneously? Does it make sense to do so on the same hardware?
Because: http://www.renesys.com/2013/11/mitm-internet-hijacking/
I hooked up with 2 other co-founders friends that i use to work with.

We worked in our spare-time to get out a really early beta, once we had that and some users I started asking around and networking to find investors.

Took around 3-4 weeks and dozens of meetings to find the right one. Almost took the first offer we got which was a quarter of what we settled for.

Although I used Angel List and F6S, in the end it was a personal intro from a old freelance client that got us the money
What, just a story to make sure Amazon dominates the media on Cyber Monday? I'd say your analysis is bang on.

The lesson to learn here, folks, is that this is one of those themes that just keeps on giving. Any time you need some quick publicity, reach for a drone...
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Reviewers and journalists are held responsible for their opinions to a greater degree than people operating purely as individuals. Cmdr Taco said it was lame, and some people were relying on him to have an informed opinion - and he felt this opinion was well founded enough to broadcast it to thousands of people.
Looking at the Pact Coffee page, it answers all the questions I have about their service (except for pricing, which was hidden away). Bonus points for being able to select that I brew my coffee with an Aeropress & get recommendations specifically for that. Gravity Coffee should probably take some inspiration from the Pact site.
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I don't have a problem with the research itself, I love that. But the presentation in this article is extremely sensationalist, using the word "memory" to make it seem like memories (in the human interpretation) are actually being transfered.

I have a big issue with using sensationalism in such a way that the average reader will read it in a way that's just completely wrong.
I'm sure you're overestimating the use of casual language here.
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This is wonderfully written, thank you.
The rotors can be made safe enough. It is more a question of the damage it can do by falling out of the air or causing some other accident.
I disagree. Will reply later, too long mto reply on my phone.
>I'm not particularly smart and only took the test as I was feeling intellectually insecure at the time.

How did you deal with this? I've been very insecure about my intelligence over the last year or so, even though everyone tells me I'm very smart and I do happen to pick things up quite quickly. I just can't see myself as the person they say I am in relation to where I am in my life, I feel like I should be doing something important if I am truly intelligent.

It's starting to affect my relations with people and my relationship with myself as I overcompensate more and more and have become far more competitive.
There is a science why some people are successful and some are not. Author of the Book ‘Rich People Think’ Steve Siebold makes some extraordinary observations on the difference of mindset of people who are financially successful than those who are not.
> a look at some lists of known ultra-IQ folks shows a list of comedians, some more porn actresses and models, actors, some pro-wrestlers, a bunch of fiction writers etc.

> There's very, painfully, few people who occupied their time with something that really moved humanity up a notch and even most of those are debatable.

You'd expect/hope it to be filled with scientists and great thinkers, wouldn't you? You'd expect Einsteins and Hawkings or something. But a lot of scientists don't actually have excessively high IQs. Above average, sure, but not super high. Turns out IQ and science are corelating skills, but not the same thing.

IQ corelates with lots of other intelligence-related skills, but in the end, it's just a skill like any other.
Well, no, that's not what I am saying at all. The beneficiaries of lower prices are the end customers, not the owners of the business. Most people live on (relatively) fixed incomes - a gradual lowering of prices for things that they buy simultaneously increases their quality of life by leaving a larger share of income for other purchases.

This is easily tested by most people - inflation adjusted, owning a device with the power of an iPhone is absurdly cheap by historical standards.

I would also argue that businesses are becoming less capital intensive in general. Sure, specific types of business require multi-billion investments, but many other businesses are launchable now with essentially 'zero down'. That's a combination of automation allowing previously labor intensive tasks, and of automation lowering the cost of capital goods. You can start a startup now with just a single laptop and some open-source software, the capital requirements are essentially nil. Ironically it is Amazon itself which carries credit for some of this - by automating virtualised computing resources, it has lowered the price of those resources and allowed more people to start businesses.

I'm surprised I have to post that on HN, but it's true.
Sounds good - let's do this :-)
I'd really like to see interviews with people who've been grouped by IQ.

The interviews would all use the same questions.
Agreed, SBT plain sucks _without IDE support_ to guide you. If you have IDE support for your /project/*.scala SBT file(s) then the various symbols and conventions make sense as you can click through to _discover_ the library -- huge difference between that and blindly typing away in a text editor; the latter is a recipe for insanity ;-)
Even if bitcoin dies the cryptocurrencies are a real thing now.
Whilst I can't speak for the OP, I got there on an aeroplane and left on a train. The means of getting there are pretty standard :)
>Even though we can process teraflops per second on home GPU cards, our websites load about as a fast as they did 10 years ago.

Well, they are also 10x the size of what they were 10 years ago, with all the new fangled assets, large images, etc.

>OS and whole software stacks are usually designed for improved throughput not low latency processing. It takes tuning (proc and sys params) or even installing a special kernel to get better latency support for low level code.

Well, I don't think that has anything to do with the web latency as perceived client side. 99% of the lag/slowness is (should be?) because of network latency, not because the OS/browser is slow to receive and render.
Sounds good to me, as far as they put some emergency delivery shortcuts in the header:
- ironed shirt
- phone charger
- toilet paper
Was the smog was there before LA started pumping out pollution?
If you take it too seriously, it's indeed not very good. I personally take it as a compliment for Haskellers: it means that people from the Haskell (and fp in general)community do think at a higher level than the average programmer, so much that it becomes for them difficult not to.

The FP model gives good tools to enable that, and encourage people to think that way.

I may also be biased because I feel more confortable thinking that way. Certainly programmers excelling at imperative programming might disagree, but I don't think that the latest trends of "functionalizing" Java, C++ or PHP are coincidental. Javascript opened the way by bringing back that paradigm to a larger audience, and these languages, which already have FP concepts available, but not in a very usable way, are now incorporating them to the core. That's a good thing.

Regarding the original topic, Scala is very much an experiental language in my opinion (because of the concepts it involves; the implementation is pretty good), so maybe there's a little bit of thruth in the article in that regard. Perhaps that's the "flaw" of academic languages. Also the comparison with Java is quite pertinent, Java being a language designed from the ground up for engineering: the grammar is fairly simple, which provided a somewhat good compromise between high readability (because of its similarities with C) and easiness at machine processing (not as easy as lisps dialect though).
Perl6 also has unicode operators - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4942377
Palm Pilot did not make this this, and that's a huge omission.
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But the specialised hardware for mining bitcoin cannot be repurposed for other uses.
> Although indexing is predicated on efficient markets, the higher the percentage of all investors who index, the more inefficient the markets become as fewer and fewer investors would be performing research and fundamental analysis of equities.

Burton Malkiel (of "Random Walk Down Wall Street" fame) responds [1]:

FORTUNE: What if everyone owned index funds? What would happen to returns then?

MALKIEL: There's a paradox about this. It's actually the professionals' reacting immediately to news that makes the stock market efficient. So it's theoretically possible that if 99% of the market were indexed, indexing would stop working. There'd be no one left to make the market efficient. But only about 10% of money is indexed now. I'd say we could have half of the money in the market indexed, and there would still be plenty of people to make it efficient.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/...
No, that wasn't my point - simply stating that any technology comes with its own issues, so dismissing a tech because it has issues is silly. We accept the perils of driving cars, we'll reach a point of acceptance with drones
Nothing you can build has any hope mining Bitcoin anymore. On the other hand, my pathetic GTX460 rig (~150kh/s) nets about 2LTC/month.
I realize this sentiment won't be popular, but I feel it must be said: I'm glad he's happy, but it's sad that this man didn't live up to his potential.

There is an unimaginable amount of suffering in this world. Around 150,000 people die each day. About 5 million children die each year. Millions of people are maimed or killed by accident, disease, and violence. Considering this man's talents, I would much rather live in a world where he devoted himself to solving important problems. I realize he wouldn't be as happy, but the expected value in lives saved is quite high.

Before anyone accuses me of hypocrisy: I follow my own advice. I've chosen a career geared toward maximizing my benefit to others, not my own happiness. This quote from Circular Altruism[1] reflects my views:

You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over the course of decades, is worth far more than your brain's feelings of comfort or discomfort with a plan. Does computing the expected utility feel too cold-blooded for your taste? Well, that feeling isn't even a feather in the scales, when a life is at stake. Just shut up and multiply.

If enough people choose to do this, who knows what might happen? Maybe one day humanity will have its shit together.

1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/n3/circular_altruism/
In one of the threads about this scandal someone said that it would be valuable to send known negative samples to a lab and check which ones come back positive, so that we can investigate whether misconduct was involved. This is basically equivalent to unit testing, since they are known assert(false) tests. Unit tests can be devised to test crime labs, district attorneys, law enforcement officers, judges, etc.

This makes me think if maybe this wouldn't be a worthwhile test for the justice system in general. Hire actors to pose as criminals in the system where the person is not guilty, but where most evidence supports a guilty verdict with a few smaller pieces of evidence that prove innocent. With this we find out how many prosecutors take the case all the way to conviction by willingly choosing to ignore evidence suggesting guilt and which decide to drop the case because they believe the person to be innocent. This would be the equivalent of acceptance testing the justice system.
It's a bit misleading.

Stocks are fine, but you won't beat the market, you'll just get it's better rate of return than the banks and many other investments.

Just buy safe stocks and sit on them.

And the important point is, you don't sit on them to out ride the ups and downs.

You sit on them to lower fees. This is the most important part, low fees (And tax advantages)

If fees were actually 0, then randomly(Coin flip) buying and selling everyday is the same as sitting. If you don't get this then you're just gambling(in a bad way)
It's slow because it's text based. I think there could be advantages to switching to compiled html or any other open binary page format. It would be less flexible, but at least it would be less abused: no more pages and pages of CSS, weird js widgets, blurbs of html. Compressing html with gzip is not that much efficient either.

I don't think it's a great idea, but in some case it would sort of force everyone to make content that is just lighter.
>and who'd choose to work for a company they don't believe will be successful?

Majority of yahoo employees since 2004-ish? Or Blackberry after 2009?
I took it out of insecurity too, early 00s, whatever type Mensa was using then.

I still tend to overcompensate too. That's probably not a big of an issue (it's also usually a male thing).

>172 (that 172 was the limit because of the not-so-big a sample)

There was no verbal questions, though. Only symbolic.
Ask HN: How do you know when you're ready to start freelancing?
I got fired last week, and have since been looking for work.
Being fired shook some of my confidence, which is why I'm asking here.

I'm a pretty standard PHP / MySql kinda guy, with some experience in JS (jQuery and Angular, together with some Nodejs) and knowledge about Java and C# and Linux.

My experience spans about 2 - 3 years.

How do I know the time's right (for me) to start freelancing? Either locally or remote?
If it's lying around, would you want to do that? Litecoin is criticized for minimal infrastructure... ahh okay you are.. it's not hypothetical.

.. I've read extra memory really helps.
If there ever will be one, someone needs to announce it first. And if the timing is commercially interesting for Amazon, that just reflect the fact that Amazon is a company with financial intereste, just like any other company.
Madness.

I thought perhaps this was going to be the term for when more than two popup notifications slide up from the system tray at the same time.
Exactly. So if the greens' claims about solar power are true, then the -major part of- the pollution will soon stop.

If they're false, it's a lost cause. People are not going to lower their living standard, especially not in India, to comply with new limitations.

So let's see.
I was wondering if the 10x was accurate, and it seems it is...

Complete assets of...

"google.com": 1,09MB
"bing.com": 332,95KB(!)
"yahoo.com": 1,84MB (1,47MB with ADblock)

I was actually estimating more than 10x, due to the heavy use of linked JS, CDNs and whatnot, but I would say it's actually quite correct (I checked other websites I use with similar results, so I didn't post it here).

I was actually quite surprised by bing here, though google adds around 300k (which is the size of the whole bing assets) for the doodle in my country.

Not to mention the background image in the bing homepage as well.

Well played bing...
Most graphers have that problem - detecting a discontinuity numerically isn't trivial.
> Even if you had infinite funds to fill this magical patent office

As an aside, I think that the funds should come from the patent applicants themselves, and should cover the level of examination required. If examination is insufficiently deep, then the depth should be increased and the fees increased to cover the cost for this.

IME, patent office fees are tiny compared to the amount that applicants generally spend on their patent attorneys, so there should be no hardship there.
Sure, and I meant it as a rhetorical question. It's just that that is the first question you need to answer for yourself. For me, I could not objectively (even with the most positive assumptions about boundary conditions) answer it 'yes', or even 'maybe'. But still, apart from the strategy, the question remains - what do you have that few others have. You can answer that for yourself even without having a concrete strategy worked out.
"Spedo Advanced Package" more than makes up for it, no?
Further, discovery of old discussion of topics is discouraged by the HN user experience. The only way for the OP to know it had been discussed is to have HN always tapped in. Since for most of us this is untenable (I hope most people here have better things during the day than to do than camp the HN trending board) the implication is incredibly exclusionary to most of the potential contributing population.
> A memory from my childhood: Toast with butter and sugar sprinkled on top. For dessert...

Weird. I thought this "delicacy" was exclusive to Russia (we didn't toast the bread, though).
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