skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it exists, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. This can be seen in the numbers at any top university, Noble prize winners, advancement in science, engineering, and and so on. That part isn't so interesting, what is interesting is how this elevated IQ came about.

There are a few ideas of why this happened. The slower, unable to adapt, were killed off over thousands of years. When finding a mate, it was recommended to marry the child of a scholar. Jews are one of the oldest groups to become fully literate, as it was required to read and study the Torah, which later gave them the name "People of the book". European Jews were regulated in the type of commercial occupations that they could hold, that being money lending. Money lending required higher IQ over other occupations. All of these compounded over hundreds and possibly thousands of years could have possibly affected the IQ of the Jewish population. There is one problem with this idea, in that most of that requires an elevated IQ to begin with.

I'll end with a quote from this article https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/jewish-ge...

>Insofar as I am suggesting that the Jews may have had some degree of unusual verbal skills going back to the time of Moses, I am naked before the evolutionary psychologists’ ultimate challenge. Why should one particular tribe at the time of Moses, living in the same environment as other nomadic and agricultural peoples of the Middle East, have already evolved elevated intelligence when the others did not?
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I am not a regular here, and not a coder nor business person, but isn't the whole point of Y-Combinator to find a place between $250k and $0? I.e. to let 20-somethings build their prototype on a shoestring? I mean the "if you can't code, bad luck" still applies, but I imagine there are tons of Y-Combinator projects which wouldn't have got "traction" without the breathing space that the small amount of money and tutoring provides.

Basically what I am saying is this guy is saying absolutely nothing of value from his blogspot pulpit.
I found this to be one of the more coherent and simple introductions to wave.
Not really - blacks from Africa and the Carribean do very well academically. It is only the American blacks that do poorly. They have the same biology and often a better starting line than the immigrants. Why is that?
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I'm in a death metal band. We're actually recording a new album right now; I'm off to the studio in half an hour. But our previous album is available free here: http://music.flamingtusk.com

I guess it's not a very hackery style of music to play. But when it comes to our web stuff we're very cutting edge.
The noise level just went up.

This is maybe a lesson for me to spend less time reading HN from now on. Perhaps leave the reading for the evenings as entertainment. :)
Do you think a threaded view would help? I find it can be tedious having to dive backward through a chain of "in reply to XXX" links.
I like the look of light boxes, but I've had some serious usability issues.

I had to train myself not to close my entire browser window when all I wanted to do was dismiss the lightbox modal. The first few times I saw one, I reflexively closed my browser window and then... "oops!".
It's a selection effect. Only a select population comes to America for college. Tellingly, the average population there doesn't do very well at all at home. And over here, they only do well comparatively. Compare them to say, Eastern Europeans, and it's a different story. Not many Nobel prizes per capita, I'm afraid.
Gosh, if only there were a place where people could post snarky little one-liners they overheard somewhere...
Study comparing apples to oranges ... Why anyone takes this seriously? Just because of thrill value?

From Wikipedia:

However, this study has been considered to have next to no scientific value, because it compares the irradiated population with the much older general population of Taiwan. A subsequent study by Hwang et al. (2006) found a significant exposure-dependent increase in cancer in the irradiated population, particularly leukemia in men and thyroid cancer in women, though this trend is only detected amongst those who were first exposed before the age of 30
The complicating factor is that mental rehearsal is both dramatically weaker at producing a habit than actual activity and also mindbogglingly easier to do. If you want to get into the habit of drinking a glass of water each morning you can think about this many times during the day, and rehearse it as you drift off to sleep at night, ready to wake fully committed.

What happens when you multiply the two efficiency factors together forming the product of the near-zero effectiveness with the huge frequency of repetition? More than one? Less than one? I think it is sometimes more than one, which means that research that look at habit as activity only, and discards thought, is confusingly incomplete.
It wasn't an article but a rant. That was even specified in the introduction:

> What follows is a rant laced with profanity. No apologies. Drag and drop deserves no better.
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A friend of mine made it to the end of a medical degree then switched to finance and is doing really well (a natural).

When people ask why he "wasted" all those years of a medical degree his response was simple:

"yeh it felt like a waste at first; especially as I knew for a large part of it I wouldnt ever be a doctor. But then I realised how far it was pushing me to my limits. I learnt much more about myself than I did about medicine"

He's in his mid twenties and easily the most successful person amongst his peers.
Isn't this always the way Windows is? Microsoft comes out with Vista and the first thing everyone wants to do is show you how to turn things off to make it run better. To fix bugs, Microsoft wants you to turn things off.
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So no chance for my kids because IQ is genetic? And no chance for US blacks?

Also, does your theory explain the high average IQ in e.g. South Korea?
Totally. I can't comprehend that anybody thinks that busy mess of frames, text, icons, is an "incredibly sexy client".
Maybe - I don't question that the case in question could be interesting, but surely it could be summarized in less than 22 pages of lawyer lingo?
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People that are 1/4th black and identify themselves as black, have the same issue on standardized tests as people that are 3/4+% black. If DNA was the cause you would expect a non uniform distribution.
Hi Mahmud,

Here I would say that you are right and that the article focuses on Rich students. Why do they need to worry about group-care? I cannot offer a complete response. The reasons are too many and different for each person, region.

I only sought to comment on one ingredient of the complex reasons. The Defense Mechanism is a economic-social reason occasionally dressed up in race-division garments. I wantedto disrobe some of the arguments so that they can be addressed properly when they are a factor of underacheivement.

Superficially, it would seem like racial tension would be the concern that needed fixing.
But if that tension is just a defense mechanism, then to spur acheivement the solution is to emphasise that your community will receive excellent care and no-one will be neglected.
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"Taking" the course myself at the moment and am just impressed ith the lecturer and how Yale has managed their Open Education Initiatives. Can recomend this course to everyone intigued by the subject such as myself.
'Lawyer Lingo?' It reads quite well and is a well organized document. The outcome also will set the precedent and give na idea on how the Courts are going to handle new technology.
No argument there.

Basically it's an infringement case, stating that removing stuff when asked isn't good enough.
OCaml and Factor are interesting and capable, but too far away from the procedural mainstream that is the C legacy.

Statements like this are patently absurd. OCaml is definitely close enough to the "procedural mainstream".
shouldn't that be "Collection of Recent Haskell Talks" ?
I would say that's pretty accurate. The spectrum of acceptable black "social personalities" seems to be smaller than for whites, at least in the high school years.

It is in part do to the fact that whites comprise a much larger portion of the population (70+%) in most areas, but also they don't necessarily (need to) express themselves as "white" as their defining social trait, so they may choose something else as the major one.
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Hello guys, just want to validate my idea with you guys and see what you guys think of this article.
You may not like the article, but your "shortcomings" are all wrong.

Person comes in, doesn't work out, and then goes to work for a competitor and can now (a) talk about your processes, (b) tell them who the key people are to target

If they aren't good enough for your team and your competitor ends up hiring them, what does that say about your competitor? Besides, I highly doubt that the candidate can find out anything remotely interesting about your team in just a day.

Person comes in and tells technical recruiters who your top talent is

Again, highly doubtful that a candidate will be be able to evaluate your top talent and even if they do, so what? All the good devs have contacts with recruiters anyways and if you aren't making it attractive enough for them to stay, then they will leave regardless of some noob interviewee.

Person comes in, explains (good/bad) reasons that this code sucks and whoever wrote it was wrong, and makes everyone feel like a fool for working there

If you can't take a little criticism, then you really need to get out of the game.

Developers A, B, and C love the guy yet manager hates him (or vice versa)

Easy, fire the manager. I've had this except in reverse and our manager heeded our advice. Do you really want to work for a manager who doesn't listen to his developers?
I wasn't talking about up-or-down monitoring. That's just last resort. But once you're down, you're too late.
Dolphins do sleep. But only with half of the brain.

One of the functions of sleep might be just inactivity but another much more important one must be associated with neurons.

I think sleep (namely REM phase) is needed for neural network to avoid overlearning. That's why sleep deprived persons hallucinate. Their neural network is overlearned to recognize stimuli from senses and it recognizes known patterns even if stimuli is week. Nothing better to avoid that is to disconnect neural network from muscles (to avoid hurting yourself) and discharge neurons randomly for some time.
I agree that the number of pages alone should not disqualify it. If somebody would post the "ultimate Erlang reference in 100 pages", it would probably be upvoted, too. But please at least give me a reason to start reading it. Should I really read through 22 pages to figure out if it is even relevant to me?
That's not being 'dead' though. That's just choosing the right tool for the job at hand.

It's like proclaiming conventional spanners dead now that you can get adjustable spanners.

Some jobs you want solid object based exception handling water tight programming, and other jobs you want loose runtime based functional stuff.
But the article is at -1 on such a scale, so I am a few steps ahead. You can't just "win" by bludgeoning your opponents with thousands of poorly written words. Some things do need to be laughed at and ignored.
The typical black American is 85%+ genetically "African". A tiny slice of people misreporting race wouldn't impact things much.

And I don't follow your premise that inherent differences wouldn't be quantitatively consistent. That's how it is with all the other measurable differences between races.
From nothing to something? Are you kidding me?

His entire product is just an HTML front-end to libpurple, which is 99% of his codebase. And that is FAR from "nothing"

And libpurple isn't even mentioned in the article, yet a ton of space is wasted on how he kept thinking about a "next great thing". What an asshole.

At least Pidgin folks openly say "we are GTK+ front-end to libpurple". Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?

There was something very right about Zed Shaw's rant regarding open source licenses.
Aren't the 0 and 00 (green spaces in roulette) responsible for giving the house its edge? It's definitely not a 50:50 for black:red.
The 'vexing question' is how to appropriately balance things so that people still have an incentive to create content.

BTW, I'd be happier to buy a copy myself if there were more sites in Italy. Between da Vinci, Galileo and so on and so forth (and don't forget the Greeks in Sicily or the Romans) there are quite a few interesting places to visit!
Did the author really just reference Wikipedia? If you reference that Wiki entry not only is it very poorly written, it doesn't cite many references either.
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Absolutely. Java is clearly not dead, and will likely never be 'dead'. It is clear that it has been integrated into the Enterprise and is in use for many long term projects. This ensures that there will be a need to at least maintain Java codebases for many years.

Java is being used to teach programming in many schools, so there are a large number of newbie developers walking around with a single hammer in their toolbox. They are going to be using it for any new project that they are tasked with.

And in general I think languages never really die. Look at COBOL, ADA and Perl (wink).
"The important question is, "Is Java dead for me?" "

Great Point,

"Is Java dead for me?" (and why or why not) would be an interesting question to ask HN regulars, vs the stupidity of trying to decide whether Java is "dead" or "alive" in general. The former leads a personal statement of intent, and consequently there is no real argument about any answer. The latter is undecideable and leads to plenty of unproductive argument.

As for me, I just transferred the leadership of an Open Source Java library I maintain to someone else, primarily because I am sick of writing and maintaining Java. That said, it is just a personal decision and I can imagine many scenarios where Java (not just the JVM) use would be appropriate. I just hope I am never part of those situations again! :-)

Personally, when I need to build something on the JVM I'll use Scala or Clojure. Else, I'll use Haskell, Python or C as appropriate.

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Slightly off-topic, but I'd love an answer here. Is there any language at all, outside of the .NET stack, that has the kind of tools support java has? I'm talking about IDE with automatic refactoring, a wealth of plugins, instant squiggly-line syntax checking, source crossreferencing of libraries, etc? The only reason I use Java is Eclipse. I'd love to see another language that addresses Java's deficiencies but still has the same tool integration as Java. And I don't want to go over to the .NET side, sorry.
Isn't Scala like Java++? Aren't both primarily aimed at enterprise server-side stuff? Any experienced Java programmers who have coded in Scala care to share their thoughts?
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The game is a two-player only air hockey game that uses both players' screens as the playing surface. I kind of envision it as a social bar game (or if you're not of age a way to kill time at school :) almost like real air hockey is.

We have already started working on version 1.1 which will include a practice mode and some other "social" features.

Review away!
It's disconcerting how many people are objecting simply on the premise of the article without actually talking about the content (which is quite good).

Headline writers take note.
WTF: I do not certainly see any value in torturing oneself.

If you're working too hard and bragging about it, good chance that you aren't performing terribly well and, certainly, rather inefficiently
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Is the noise going up or is it me?

Also when C is mentioned more in an article about perl, then perl, you've seriously missed the mark.
Well, some people seem to think that content isn't worth anything and people won't pay for it:

http://paulgraham.com/publishing.html
"I'm talking about IDE with automatic refactoring, a wealth of plugins, instant squiggly-line syntax checking, source crossreferencing of libraries, etc? The only reason I use Java is Eclipse."

wlievens, given those requirements, Java is a good choice (and I say this as someone who just gave up on java completely) and there isn't yet a feasible alternative langauge with that level of tool support afaik.
That theory isn't my own.

High IQ among East Asians is fascinating. The fact that they can migrate to the US, and perform as well or better than others, even if they are in the lower socioeconomic tier, tends to make me think that genetics does play a large part in IQ. I do not believe that it is the sole factor though.

This is my take on it. If your child has a really low IQ, then it will be a hard life for your child. If your child has an average or higher IQ, then IQ stops being a factor and attitude, values, and work ethic play a bigger role.
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> If you apply a magnetic field to the iron -- preferably a strong one ..... produce .... net magnetic moment.

> This is what the bacteria are doing. Like most biological things, they are capable of taking iron apart to its component atoms and then putting those atoms together again, so this isn't especially astonishing behavior.

That's what I was saying - how are the bacteria doing this? They don't have access to a strong magnetic field (except the earth).

Are you suggesting they are aligning the magnetic moments of the iron atom by atom? Is that really possible?
The author seems to be pissed off but nowadays web developers are more focusing on compatibility than on real design or user interface ...
In fact, it’s so outrageously bad that I’ve gone on strike. I refuse to do any more research on drag and drop. Go do it yourself. Or don’t bother. Whatever. I don’t care.

Well, writing such an article shows he does care. Also, a good rule of thumb is: if you are not proposing something better you do not have the right to criticize!
That's the trouble with videolectures.net!
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And more specifically, the defense industry. Ugh....
As long as idiotic articles asking that question are posted: Probably not.
you obviously do not need to read all the 22 pages... it is well organized and you can navigate the document very clearly. I looked for about a minute and was able to figure everything I needed. It's actually quite interesting and informative...in the time it has taken you to write all of these replies you definitely could have gotten some idea what this 'lawyer lingo' really was.
Not that I'm afraid of F words or anything, I just can't see the point of the rant (except that HTML5 drag and drop is a disaster) through "[...]" "-ing" pieces.

I'd be happy to read an article (or a comment here on HN) on this topic that points out the issues in a more readable manner. Any pointers?
Your comments about low achievement for group defense/satisfaction are also seen in Elton Mayo's Hawthorne Studies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_Mayo) in a contact that's not related to race.

As a Jew you're about as far away from "Underacheivement as a group Defense Mechanism" as it's possible to get. The history of the world is filled with stories of people who have lost their way, their identity and become bland (not least the ten tribes of the north, if you buy into that). Despite all the stuff going against them, people who know that they're Jewish (even when they don't have a particularly strong connection to the group) manage to pull themselves out of difficult situations and rise to become very successful in whatever challenges they set themselves.

Immigrants by definition cannot belong to the group-care mindset.

That's not universally true. There's a subculture in the UK (and probably other places) of Han Chinese gaining access as illegal immigrants with intent to directly benefit their family back home. Sometimes one half of a married couple will do it so they can secure education for their child. See _Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour (Paperback)_, Pai, 2008.
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>C is the most powerful language that attracts the smartest minds into its fold. As simple as that. I am sure nobody will get annoyed at the above observation no matter how political you are with languages.

Really? How is this not trolling? He's daring people to disagree with him.
People that are 3/4 "European" and 1/4 "African" and people that are 1/4 "European" and 3/4 "African" score the same on standardized tests. But, they don't have the same skin color / shade.

If there was a genetic based IQ difference you would expect the same shift as you see in skin color. But, that's not what happens, thus it's probably not a genetic trait.
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But this article is not about C. This article is about perl. But I wish to give C its rightful place. C is the most powerful language that attracts the smartest minds into its fold. As simple as that.

I am sure nobody will get annoyed at the above observation no matter how political you are with languages. But this statement may cause trouble. I will still say it. C++ is different from C. It is very different from C and I have good reason not to comment about it. I will leave it at that.

Uh... OK, fine.

The only real mention of Perl is that CPAN is pretty cool. OK, fine.

This article should not exist. And I love Perl.
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I grew up in Shaker Heights (SHHS '01) and happened to visit Shaker Heights High School for the first time on the afternoon in 1997 that The Shakerite released its article comparing SAT scores across races. It was pretty nuts.

I tend to agree with the conclusion that it's an attitude issue on the part of most (but not all) African-American parents more than any kind of funding or other issue. As I wrote about in my book, the cafeteria self-segregated and so did the classes for the most part. No one told us to--it just happened that way.

That being said, the notion that everyone in Shaker Heights is "rich," whether Black, White, Asian, or otherwise, is extremely misleading. It's a middle-class suburb. There are lower-income sections and $8 million mansions. Hardly anyone is rich though, and if they are, their kids are going to private schools like University School, Hathaway Brown or Hawken.