skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with a bad memory as well, I don't think you'll find a silver bullet here.

Think about it this way: I think almost everyone's done some form of exercise in school or online that shows how bad most people are about absorbing details unless they know they're significant when they see them. Imagine spending 10 hours walking around an unfamiliar mall, even if you took concentration breaks, and being able to answer specific questions about your experience. How many times did you go around? How many people did you see? How many stores are there? Can you list them? You probably couldn't answer any of those, but you probably would remember a few of the most significant moments. Someone who bumped into you, a crying child, a shoplifter, a beautiful stranger, a shirt you wanted.

If you tried, and knew ahead of time, you could probably actually answer one or two of the above questions by actively spending most of your limited attention--but I would bet you'll remember even less about the rest of your experience. You might not even notice the beautiful stranger.

You can, of course, train yourself to become more aware of your surroundings as they pass by, and if you saw something you wanted to remember you could practice some techniques to make it more likely you'd hold on to the details. Now, imagine being able to remember your answer to any of those questions about the mall trip two years later. Unless you regularly reference the mall trip and your answer, you'll probably forget.

This doesn't mean reading books you don't remember is useless. Our experiences still rub off on us, affecting who we are and how we move in the world. You don't say what kind of books you're reading, nor what you hope to remember about them later. I think those are where the best answers to your question lie. Some books have little more than one or two ideas worth remembering; read them as fast as you can (both speed-reading and skimming techniques can be of use, here). Others can change your life, if you unpack them as you go; you would be a fool to hurry through them.

Learning to understand the words passing under your eyes at a high rate of speed is a great tool, but be aware that you're reducing the life-surface-area of what you read when you do so. You'll make fewer connections as you go, so it gets increasingly important to use other strategies for making them. Engage with significant ideas as you find them. A summative note is a good start, but it's better to connect it with other ideas, apply it to a problem, expand on it, or talk with someone about it.
Between AWS, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and like I doubt I am alone in spending a ton of my time working around their various issues to run my tech stack.
The Decisive Moment in the History of JSF
Better to have this happen on a Sunday than a Monday.
While the case may be incredibly weak, the defendant may still be unable to fight it due to other factors (most notably cost and time), and therefore take the plea instead. Lawyers are expensive everywhere.

Generally, refusing a plea deal for ideological reasons is not a smart legal strategy.
Blackmarket: A fan-made tool for the F2P ARPG Path of Exile, uses good ol' swing
Hey Natch, this is the author of Dictater. Thanks for the criticism, I'd like to address a few points:

1) You're right it's not a replacement for the backend speech service. It IS a replacement for Apple's front-end speech service which is what I intended to mean. I should probably clarify this. I'll also update the credits file.

2) I'll add the Xcode project file immediately. This was an oversight.

Feel free to add an issue to the Github page if you have any other suggestions.
This sort of thing has to be remembered next time you hear that prosecutors need broadly worded statutes to have the tools to go after the bad guys.

When people bring up criticisms of laws as over-broad, I often hear that prosecutorial discretion will keep such abuses from happening. People who suggest that the law as written will result in such injustice are often ridiculed for imagining that any prosecutor would act that way, or any Judge allow it.

Turns out, anyone suggesting that even the most absurd interpretations are not possible are the ones who should be ridiculed.

Remember this the next time someone proposes a law, no matter how well intentioned, and even if it happens to advance a cause you care about. The abuses will happen, and how will you feel about that cost if you are the subject of those abuses.
"it" being --target? https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0131-targ... is the original RFC. Off the top of my head, I think that's it for now. Since cross compilation is getting easier in the future, I haven't invested a lot of time into writing docs now.
Explains the weird 500's i was getting when trying to do a review this morning.
Landlord's car payments go up and he raises the rent? Suddenly he has to pay more in taxes because his rental income increased.

Sewage/water costs of apartment go up and he raises the rent to compensate? Net zero increase in his taxes because the sewer/water cost is deductible against the rental income.

Guess which one he's more likely to do?
Building Spacetime
Upgrading from Windows 1.0 to Windows 8 on actual hardware (2013)
Former OAuth 2.0 editor releases alternative auth protocol
IIRC the system was then abandoned as unworkable?
I think you (unintentionally?) are proving the OP right. Because it's far easier to swallow and poop out a plastic bag with a microSD card in it than it is to put a piece of paper in your carry-on.</sarcasm>

Plus--wouldn't full-body scanners catch something like this?
Running multi-region services has associated costs. It's also non-trivial engineering effort to convert most services to a multi-region setup. It's definitely worth the investment though. Another option is to run multi-region on the same provider (like AWS) without using proprietary services like DynamoDb but maybe something similar like Cassandra.
> Turns out, anyone suggesting that even the most absurd interpretations are not possible are the ones who should be ridiculed.

Yep. See also: the CFAA.
Because the cost of the good that you are renting has gone up? I don't rent my landlord's car, I rent the space in his building.

Either the landlord has to eat that increase in price out of their profit margin, or it gets passed on to the customer.
Moving to FreeBSD
‘Quirkyalone’ Is Still Alone
I did not know this, do you have a source?
Next up: teen accused of being a peeping tom for looking at himself in the mirror after a shower.
So much for the right to face your accuser - was there a mirror in the courtroom for him to look into?
With regard to line of sight and commercial drone operations in the US, POTUS issued a memo for the FAA and related govt agencies to figure out how to safely integrate UAVs into the NAS (National Air Space). The most immediate result has been the FAA's issuance of Section 333 Exemptions.

Within the Section 333 Exemption there is language regarding being able to see the drones that specifically states: the UA must be operated within VSOL (visual line of flight) of the Pilot in Command and all operations must use a Visual Observer; the UA must remain within VSOL of the visual oberserver; and the VO and PIC must be able to communicate verbally at all times (precludes texting or e messaging) during the flight.

The FAA has gone even further by requiring PICs be actual FAA licensed pilots.

This language works well for most commercial uses (construction, agriculture and photography) but virtually kills Amazon's hopes for an unmanned delivery network.
There is a common misconception in your description or the return rate on bonds and equity. At some point, you need to sell your bonds to get actual money to buy things. When many older people sell their bonds to earn a living, they flood the market and bond price crashes, and they're actually no better than using the pay-go system.
in the end, retired people must live on the surplus created by those still working; the way you redistribute that surplus doesn't really change the equilibrium.
I'm not young (38), but my parents used to throw these kinds of open parties all the time when I was growing up. We had an open door policy, too, where anyone who showed up around a meal time was automatically served, too, and that provided a really awesome opportunity for us to build and strengthen friendships (being older and more worldly now, I know this is pretty common in large parts of the world, but it wasn't in central Virginia in the early 80s). We had a couple acres, and our house parties ranged from just a couple of folks over to hang out to large outdoor events with up to about 250 folks. In those cases it was always friends-of-friends-of-friends. As mentioned elsewhere, my family provided the venue and some general amenities (some drinks, core food) but it was expected that attendees would bring something to contribute.

As adults now, my wife & I try to have friends over regularly, too, but it's a lot more complicated in suburban US because of dual-income households, kids that either don't go to neighborhood schools or are involved in lots of extracurriculars, and generally antisocial neighbors.
And the "be a part of the #4 cause of death" (i.e. driving) becomes available at 15 or 16ish.
Definitely not free of digital surveillance

http://www.pcworld.com/article/118664/article.html
You can add Duck Duck go's implementation to your list https://github.com/duckduckgo/cpp-libface.
The original link instead of the brevity spam.
http://www.becomingminimalist.com/diderot/
Indeed! What you describe is the basic message of memetics field: evolutionary passage of packages of information through our brains.
Someone else's private photos. Taken on a stolen iPod. Using stolen credentials.

I fail to see how these photos are private.
I kept a close eye on Eran's blog over the past years after he announced he would be working on an alternative. Happy (no pun intended..) to see its release.
Nope. A human being with Amplified Intelligence is not going to be more powerful than Artificial Intelligence. Nor does the article do much to make a strong case. The author tries to talk about the psychological impacts of a radical increase in intelligence, but it's all armchair observations and guesstimates with little substance to actually digest and ponder.

Interesting topic, not interesting article regarding.

Could Amplified Intelligence happen? Sure. Would it allow us to be smarter? probably. But we wouldn't be able to outpace AI, because we're still human beings with finite space and time.
That "most people" only applies to a small part of the population though, that happen to live where their friends or family does - which I guess they do in the smaller towns or if you're still a university student, but it's not the norm. At least, not for me; anecdotal evidence here, one person. I have to travel by public transit for at least half an hour for social gatherings (to Amsterdam or Utrecht)
Dialog Semiconductor to buy Atmel for $4.6B
Super secure, except the information leakage:

<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97">
...
<META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\html.dot">

(Okay, probably not much use now but when this was published, that could maybe have been used to target macro attacks)
I have consciously tried to increase my reading speed on many occasions. This is what has helped me get better:

- One of the most common technique is to not read every word as such, instead, read a chunk of words together, and don't 'voice' them. It takes some practice to be able to do this, but to check if you are reading correctly, see if you can hear every word in your head while you read it. If thats the case you are doing it wrong. And when you start doing it right, you will notice the change in speed.

- I read non-fiction mostly, and find it very annoying when the author beats around the bush before conveying his point. Its a very natural phenomenon among authors to write an entire paragraph, when the point could have been conveyed in a single line. (Infact, I fear I may be doing the same in this comment ... :P). Agreed that most books are proof read multiple times by many people, but some loops still come in the final print.

- In most cases, we are expecting something from a book. Either guidance on something specific like finance, or motivation, or something else. There are places in a book where you know for sure that this is not what you are seeking. Skim through that part, and move ahead. Believe me, this will save a lot of your time, and you will come out with the same value in a lot less time.

- Writing something yourself also helps to identify presence of the above 2 factors. You will re-read your blog for sure, and most blogging time is spent on deleting redundant parts, than writing. In every iteration, you will find more things to delete. Be ruthless in this process, respect the reader and don't waste his time. Once you do this yourself, you will know whether the author of the article/book that you are reading has done it.

- As for your point about retaining what you have read, I wouldn't worry much about that. We feel that most of the information has faded away quickly, when in fact, it just gets filtered, and when a topic relevant to what you have read comes up, you will be able to access what you read, not exactly maybe, but the gist of it. Its a very pleasant surprise when this happens. (Daniel Kahneman has some interesting things to say about this kind of information retrieval)

- Lastly, read Paul Graham and Sam Altman's essays. they are precise, no wasted words at all. Also, Ben Horowitz's answers, and his book Hard thing about hard things.

- Measure against these benchmarks, and you will realise that you will have to really 'read' much less overall. For the remaining part, employ the advice of @SonOfLilit in the comment below.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Yo...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/118664/article.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography

http://seeingyellow.com/
It happens due to ESD protection diodes on the I/O lines. You can still see this happen in some of the current low power microcontrollers.
That was from my phone which is why it was sparse...but...

> The Datomic software consists of the peer library and the transactor

> These components connect to one of several storage service options

I'm pretty well versed in computer science and buzzwords - but that means nothing to me. That was from the overview which I expected a dead simple "this is what it does and why you need it". There are several important questions that don't seem to be addressed:

- I'm guessing it's a database proxy that's intelligent?

- Is it better than HAProxy?

- How is it different/better?

And most importantly:

- Do I need to modify my current code base to interact with this thing?

In case you think I'm being overly dramatic - here are 2 examples:

https://www.statuspage.io/

On the front page I know exactly what they offer.

https://slack.com/is

On the product page I can see exactly what slack is and offers.
CNNIC did not mis-use or mis-issue certs, but issued a cert to an Egyptian company which mis-used it, iirc.
Just don't use an inkjet (at least, with the normal cheap ink), any excess humidity will make the ink run, ruining your archive.
Kinda agree, same goes to AWS tools, Opsworks screwed us up back then due to AWS outage, and decided to decouple as much as possible from Opsworks.
That's really how I see that, as a joke. After all - who feels pressured by an anonymous internet comment?
From the linked article:

> The Fayetteville, NC 17-year-old, Cormega Copening, faced five charges of sexual exploitation after police found the photos while searching his phone in an unrelated incident at his school last fall.

There is a third-party accuser.
That's nonsense. The entire point of the bootstrap is that it does not require the either the original or the sampling distribution to be normal. (For that matter, due to the Central Limit Theorem, neither do analytic approximations like a t-test for comparing different group means.)

You misunderstand the point about the Cauchy distribution in the answer on Cross Validated. The Cauchy distribution is a degenerate case, mostly interesting as an academic toy because it has infinite variance. Of course that's not going to fare well.

Dependent data can be tricky to deal with, but you can bootstrap such data by removing the dependence, bootstrapping the independent data, and adding the dependence back in. This sounds hard but is usually as easy as running a regression and subtracting/adding the component (x*beta) that leads to the dependency. Alternatively, for timeseries there's window methods.

Of course a short slide deck like the one linked to in this thread is not going to teach you all the finer points of bootstrapping and you can definitely do it wrong. But compared to all the assumptions that frequentist statistics makes to generate confidence intervals and the fact that you need a different method for every different scenario, bootstrapping is about as robust and idiot-proof as it's going to get. "It has its applicability" is beyond selling it short.
wake up early and meditate.
helps you to focus on one task.
Time for vinyl to get back in its groove after pressing times
An easy one, how about the ongoing fiasco that is the veterans administration?
This is just the exact same thing as the Ahmed Mohamed clock.

Anybody who retain some sanity should leave the USA ASAP.
Usually these types of things are about punishing interracial relationships.
It seems to be a property not just of government, but any large organization that becomes driven by politics over results. I just quit a job in a large corporation where I had the displeasure of observing this up close. I have noticed several key dysfunctions in a political hierarchy.

1. You cannot be smarter than your superiors.

After several layers of this, this cumulative effect is that the people on the bottom (those that do the actual work) are not allowed to be smarter than a sea sponge.

2. Reporting bad news to superiors is punished.

Problems are covered up instead of solved. Reports up the chain must hide problems without being provable lies so they are incomprehensible - they must appear legitimate but be devoid of all fact. Using as much jargon and acronyms as possible is effective.

3. Blame for failure will be placed upon the least popular person.

Typically this will be whoever is drawing attention to problems. The reason for project failure will be because of "bad attitude" and not being a "team player" leaving the next project with a greater proportion of ineffectual suck ups.
> Some people believe multitasking is a myth. I'm one of those people.

I'm able to wash dishes and listen to an audio book quite fine. Going for a walk, or doing other things I normally wouldn't be able to do while reading. Can I multitask with any task? No. But I can effectively do two things at once.
Handy to know; thanks for the heads up!
Okay but aren't you implicitly assuming a sane set of specifications? I've seen it claimed that the input legislation was forty thousand pages. Can't confirm that of my own knowledge, but if it's true, far from criticizing the management of the implementation, we should be holding it up as a miracle that it was ever successfully implemented at all for any price.
The UK is in the middle of switching to opt-out. I am pretty sure that some people at my current employer are as apathetic about opting-out as they were about opting-in, so they will drift into having a pension (in which, as I mentioned, their money is going to be somewhere between doubled and tripled on day one). To some, this is the nanny state going too far.
DNA? You didn't mention price :)
Not a legal expert by any means, but my guess is: the authorities disapprove of teens sexting, there's no specific law against sexting (and probably no constitutional way to ban it), but the child pornography laws can be stretched to extend to it. Thus although the prosecution is facially absurd, everyone involved knows what's "really" being prosecuted here and is okay with it.
Unfortunately the US legal system is not defendant friendly. While the US claims "innocent until proven guilty" our legal system is structured opposite. The other, larger in my opinion, problem is that the focus has gone from using common sense to zero tolerance. This case is a prime example. I am not by any means support child pornography, but at the same time the sex offender laws in the US are out of control. Take for example a friend of mine who was drunk and got peeing in front of car on a dark street. A cop just happened to see him and he was subsequently arrested, charged, and convicted of indecent exposure. Because of the conviction he had to register as a sex offender. The US sex offender registry makes no distinction though between the individual caught peeing in the alley and the person who has molested hundreds of kids. The bigger issue is that no politician will touch correcting the situation for fear of being labeled as support child pornography. So while everyone knows the system is screwed up, and people continued to be punished harshly because of it, nothing will change because everyone is so scared to talk about the problem in the first place.

There are many other cases, outside of sex offenses, where individuals who may be guilty of a lesser crime take a plea deal to a larger crime to avoid the cost, time, and most importantly uncertainty associated with going to trial. I think, at least with sex offenses, we will see in the future a shift in dealing with the problem though. It is somewhat like drugs. In the early 1980s Reagan was hard-nosed on the war on drugs. He enacted stiff penalties and encouraged three strike laws. This sent a lot of people to jail for a long time on charges that were otherwise non-offenses. You see people in California serving life sentences for having three charges of possession of marijuana. Today though as a younger generation comes into power, and people are slowly changing their views on marijuana, we are seeing a shift in punishment for the same crimes. I predict that at some point there will be tipping point with crimes like this article highlight where people will say enough is enough we need to fix this problem. Until then though, you are going to see more and more articles like this.
What the article does not mention is that the guy and his gf are black ...

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223533/North-Caroli...]

Now one might righfully argue that this case is not just ludicrous but also racist.
>I find the whole US experience quite odd. Among everyone I knew up until my mid-late 20s (before I went abroad), the only viable options for nighttime fun were clubs and bars. Period.

Did you grow up in a big city? I grew up in the surburbs, went to school in a college town, and then lived in Chicago until I was 28. In all of those places, it was common to have house parties, backyard parties, and apartment parties.

When I moved to Washington, DC, I've noticed that those sorts of parties are less common because very few people have more than 500-600 sq ft apartments. I expect it's the same in NY and SF.

The public drinking thing is a cultural issue. English influenced cultures have a bizarre drinking culture. It's viewed somewhat shamefully, but it's also ubiquitous. The drinking culture is centered around binge drinking.

Drinking in public isn't allowed because we don't handle it well.
No?

That incident was caused by unfortunate racial stereotyping; this is caused by a literal interpretation of the letter of the law that hasn't caught up with the times.