skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cram to pass the test, then be okay with forgetting most of it.

1.) Is this something you really want to get deep into your long-term memory? Are you ever going to use this later? Special-purpose mathematical languages are not my wheelhouse, but is Maple something that is widely used, compared to, say R or MatLab or Python, or Mathematica?

2.) In any real situation, you will have the ability to lookup the details on any function or language feature in your browser or on your phone in seconds. If you have decent tooling, function signatures, parameter documentation, etc, should come up automatically in your editor. Memorizing this kind of minutia is not the best use of your time and abilities. Learn enough to know what is there, so you know what you have to search for when you need those details.
I've been transitioning to audio books as much as possible lately simply because I can multitask with it and I find I have a much faster through put.

They cost a lot more but its a small price to pay to get through the material in a way that I actually absord.
> plus the description of "Middle Eastern looking men" on the balcony wouldn't really fit with a "kidon" team sent to kill him

I would very much assume that Mossad, which primarily operate in Palestine and other middle eastern countries, has access to "middle eastern looking men" for covert operations.
This. Even just 5%, compounded over decades, can turn into A LOT of savings.
Plus health insurance costs.
I think the argument is that not even insurance can properly insulate you from this risk.
Democrats and Republicans both know that reducing benefits to the largest segment of society that actually goes out and votes would be political suicide. It'll simply never happen.

Instead, I fully expect both parties will keep doing what they have been doing which is colluding to slowly raise the retirement age. By doing that, they'll ensure that current beneficiaries continue to get their payments while also ensuring enough people die before drawing a significant amount of benefits to keep the pyramid scheme running just fine.
Can you predict a Startup's success based on the Concept alone?
Who owns my availability?
This is a free python gtk3 speed reading tool:

https://github.com/SFTtech/splash

It needs a lot of polishing but may be a good start for you.
Or just remember password and URL. It's not that hard if you really need to.
Nice chrome extension called UseClark: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/useclark/acjcihhai...
(http://useclark.com)
I'm not familiar with your system, so excuse my ignorance; can they do that? Take money from your pension scheme?
The trial in genetic programming is too random, compared to what a human researcher would try.
I live in Ohio and have paid off my home so for my wife and myself that would be enough. This assumes no expensive medical emergencies, no new cars needed, no significant international travel, etc. Wouldn't be a very luxurious life but we wouldn't starve to death. About all I'm hoping for any longer.
http://downrightnow.com/netflix
Read more information dense texts.
N3uro: A marketplace for brainwaves of people thinking about things
If down for longer than 18 minutes then they missed "5 9s" availability (.3 hours / 3.5 years). Not that it is supposed to work that way.
That's 43,200/yr- plenty to live a comfortable life in much of the US.
At least in the states with the 401k, everywhere i have worked it has been an opt-in system so you had to convince people to do the minimum paperwork to get get "Free money" and think of the future. Only recently have a I started hearing that there can be the opposite and 401k can be opt-out (some law change perhaps?). This was also shown with Organ donation
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282905.php how much better opt-out could be. I am only guessing, but the percentage of people that are in the system even after those that opt-out is probably way higher than here where most has to opt-in.

My sad example would be my 24 year old self didn't bother to bring the fully filled out 401k form upstairs to get the free money even though he vaguely understood it was the right thing to do. It was all set to go, I just had to carry the paperwork, but I didn't. Took a job change and another opportunity before I figured it out.

In startup land this is the difference between a 1 step funnel and a zero step funnel. Which would your company like to have?
Ask HN: Any pro-tips for a Unix n00b?
Started a job developing under unix (aix, solarix, linux). Any pro tips for a guy with tons of Windows development (c++/c#) but not much with unix? Particularly looking for tips and tricks to make your life easier on an every day basis (eg setting up your environment (we xterm from a windows desktop), editor tricks, etc)
Tesla Job on Craigslist – this real?
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10242987
Isn't datomic closed source?
It's even more complicated than that, since the cache doesn't have to cache encoded instructions, they can actually store decoded instructions, and a few of the caches on a modern x86 cpu actually does that, for example there's a loop cache after the decoders, so that small loops never have to be decoded more than once.
https://imgur.com/NNYLUZK
This really is the first major failure of DynamoDB since when I started to use it, when it was in beta over 4 years ago. Not sure many companies would be able to run a multi-million QPS scale database with such a great availability record. In any case we just moved traffic away from us-east-1 and into us-west-2 and all is fine still so you should design at least your critical systems for regional failures.
Ultra-fast assembly boxes
Pocket just came back up also. Issue might be resolved?
I expect the reason is because Heroku could switch to a new provider in the future and it would be a pain to always update every reference to their provider.

Parent seems to imply there's something wrong with choosing AWS. There is not. (forgive me if I mistook the tone)
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What is happening to stock price? oh; its sunday; forgot we can't trade.
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fetch people's dotfiles from github and experiment with them to help you stretch everyday tools in ways you probably hadn't thought of. hint https://github.com/gjvc/etc/ :-)
I really love how my employer gets to define the options I have for investing the money in my 401k. I'm basically forced into investing my money in the volatile equities market if I want to have any hope of living comfortably in retirement. :-/
Quick lookup says yes,
# host imdb.com
imdb.com has address 207.171.166.22
imdb.com has address 72.21.210.29
imdb.com has address 72.21.206.80
# host 207.171.166.22
22.166.171.207.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 166-22.amazon.com.
This is correct. To add to this, like most things in the US 401k plans are not equally accessible to all workers. A 401k must be run through your employer so if your employer does not offer one your retirement savings plans will be much more difficult. There are also IRAs (Individual Retirement Accounts) which do not require an employer and work like 401ks for the most part but the contribution limit is much lower than a 401k plan ($5500 vs $18000 + employer match). If you don't have access to a 401k you'll almost certainly have to use a regular taxable brokerage account to supplement your IRA at much greater cost.

Additionally, the quality of 401k plans varies from employer to employer. Some employers provide generous matches (I've heard of one that matched dollar for dollar up to the limit), most offer modest matches (up to 3% to 6% of your pre-tax pay) and some do not match at all. Some plans have very low fees (under 0.1% of assets annually) while others can have huge fees (over 1.5% of assets annually). To complicate this many HR departments (who contract for the 401k plans) do not understand how damaging high fees can be[0] and so choose 401k providers who shift the cost burden from the employer to employees (via high fees). Recent court cases have ruled that excessively high fee plans are actually illegal but it will likely take decades and many more court cases before they go away entirely.

[0] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/investingtruths/in...
I'm not aware of any; I was just referring to the evident more general contempt for security.
Maybe this doesn't answer your question, but I've always believed reading a book is not a race. In my experience, taking my time to understand, or re-reading, something has always helped me retaining knowledge.

I think trying to find ways to retain what you've read versus how fast you've read something will be more beneficial in the long run. In addition, by become better a reader and retaining what you've read, I believe your speed will increase naturally.

My issue was staying focused on what I've read without wandering off somewhere else in my brain. With patience and a little devotion, I was able to overcome that and find the true joy in reading.
1) some people have reading disabilities. The most well known is dyslexia but there are others.

2) when you read a fiction book have a pen and pad of post-its. Everytime a new character is introduced write their name on the post-it and stick it to the page. Maybe asterisk the margin to help you locate it quicker. You can add more info to the post-it as it comes up.

3) get someone else to quiz you. Have them do this onnce a week.

4) after every session close the book and try to paraphrase what you read.
Doesn't AirBNB also send an email copy of correspondence? I've always received emails (and text) when a host contacts me.
I've seen retirement make people unhappy. They become isolated and have to find ways to make connections with others. They are bored and start doing things like canvassing the neighborhood looking for minor HMA violations. Sometimes the lack of schedule and structure isn't the best for the health. Sometimes they feel useless.

Of course this isn't all cases but I've seen it. People generally want to feel important and connected and a job often provides that.

The problem is, as a persons mind and body starts to wear down there is less they can actually contribute. People talk about wisdom and experience and there is something to be said for that, but the world is changing so much faster than conceptual models which makes "wisdom" worth less than traditionally it has been. Besides, people start forgetting. So who actually hires old people? Who can afford too? It's hard enough to find good work when you are young and able.

I don't know what the point is. I guess I hope to actually never retire but to be able to do what I like at a pace I'm able until death. (With all the vacations I want of course). Even were I unfathomably wealthy I would want to live like this. Because sitting around doing nothing sucks. So does playing golf every day.
This guy is posting someone else's private photos on the internet, without the person's knowledge or consent. That's not cool.
To retain more, read slower.

Stop after every paragraph. Consider - do you agree with the author? Do you have past experiences that support or challenge his claims? What can this be used for? What else is interesting about it?

When reading a novel, try to identify clever things the author did here. If relevant, try to guess what the solution will be to the mystery.

When reading a math, physics or programming textbook (or paper), stop every time the author is about to present a new tool or solution. Spend a few minutes trying to solve it yourself before reading his solution.

Do all the exercises.

You'll consume less books per month, but will come out knowing much more (in total) than if you just ran through them.

A few years ago, I did an experiment where every time I read something online I had to post some thoughts about it. I read much less, and gained much more from every bit I did read. I especially like how the comic strips came out - I gained a lot of new appreciation for the relation between art and story:

http://iconcurandfurthermore.tumblr.com/
"Republican politicians () argued that many law-abiding families struggled to afford college and shouldn’t have pay for convicted criminals to get degrees"- while this opinion has merit, it shows again Republicans have no compassion, it's a paradox that many called themselves Christian when in the Bible Jesus explicitly commanded to help the imprisoned.
As I said.

And this is why I hope the current type of tracking becomes unprofitable very soon – it would reduce creepiness, and might actually improve ads to reduce tracking.
Reddit is down right now with a 503 - they're on AWS.
Acc. to the article, New York is the only place where they party.

Screw New York. Move to Texas. We have plenty of room to party.
> Increased land prices mean higher taxes for homeowners too.

Not in California:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%281...
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"set aside 5% of income every year"

At a 1 in 20 rate, if you have a 20 year career like your grandparents (although 20 year careers at the same employer disappeared generations ago, so you absolutely will not..) and with basically zero to negative investment return after deflation and taxation, one year after downsizing and offshoring you'll be down to the same $0 that the folks who didn't save at 5%, or were unlucky enough to get the economic death penalty a year before you. Meanwhile this happened 0 to 25 years ago and they have maybe 0 to 25 more years to live. Saving would have been a suckers game. You're not going to make it, you'll just be poorer along the way till you reach inevitable utter poverty.

Any medical condition affecting you, your spouse, or your child is a financial death penalty. All you need is you, your spouse, and kids, to avoid getting seriously ill or disabled for 40+ years. If anyone gets sick, all saving means in the long run is the hospital execs get your saved money before you go on the charity plan. You're not going to be spending money on around the world cruises or even a quiet middle class life; all that capital will be vacuumed up by the medical, real estate, legal/criminal, or educational sectors. Why should I save today to make some vampire fatter tomorrow? If I scrimp and save for my entire life, some hospital exec can buy a new Ferrari using my savings... whats in it for me? Surely I will not be permitted to actually keep or spend what I save.

Another way to put it is everyone in your cohort will get the economic death penalty and get the downward class mobility thing... but at different times. Many are banking on the idea that if they're happy, well fed, possibly educated, and entertained, they'll somehow get the economic death penalty more than a year after someone who has a bad attitude such that they'll run a net lifetime profit by not saving. They're probably correct... the guy who golfs and shares pro sports tickets with his boss is always the last downsized, the person who smiles the most seems the last fired, etc. Saving money does not necessarily correlate with maximized net lifetime income.
Except they can't take money from your 401k if it is employer sponsored. Just Google "401k bankruptcy protection"
I agree that retaining information is most important. I often suffer from forgetting everything I read. Do you have any tips on how to remember what you read?
Just understand the language and have a few generic code snippets available in your editor. They are called Code Templates or Live Templates in the JetBrain IDE family, but I'm sure your editor has them as well. I don't know if their is a standardized code template format (?). Here's an example:
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/live-templates.html
That and jshint/eslint (for my javascript).
That's what it looks like. And after 10 seconds of reading I couldn't tell what it actually does.
Amazon Echo doesn't work from 4am PST
Write code without any IDE, try and learn from it, repeat.
Its pretty interesting to see how much our internet relies on cloud services like AWS, and all that are brought down with issues like this.
Tim Ferriss created a video on "How to Triple Your Reading Speed"[0]. Eye movement is a significant factor of your reading speed. Simply using a tracer has immediately improved my reading speed.

[0] https://youtu.be/jeOHqI9SqOI
No, they can't take money directly from the "pension scheme". Social Security cannot be garnished to satisfy judgments from private creditors, and in most cases, retirement accounts are privileged and will not be forcibly garnished or confiscated by the authorities to pay an outstanding judgment. Also in most cases, you can retain retirement accounts through a bankruptcy. This is a good reason to make sure a lot of your savings is allocated into designated retirement accounts and not just a standard savings account.

Parent poster is commenting on the general expense of medicine, but for your typical retiree, it shouldn't be too out of control with Medicare.
Obama is a "compromise guy", so I wonder what he gave for the Chinese to accept this. Maybe he said he won't fight China on requiring US tech companies to implement backdoors? (which is actually something he may want, because first China requires them to do it, the companies build the tools for that, and then the US gov comes along and tells them to just "enable" those tools for US too).
That's the reason I'm reading here right now vs. time-wasting on Reddit at the moment.
Just a guess, but if he threw "median personal income US" into Google, it would've quoted from Wikipedia:

> The overall median income for all 155 million persons over the age of 15 who worked with earnings in 2005 was $28,567

Which, divided by 12, is $2380.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
This.

I also did little blogging experiments like that when I was in graduate school, with physics textbooks! Sadly, I didn't get far because Jackson was so, so far beyond anything I'd seen up to that point -- it was all I could do to keep up with the weekly 2-3 problem assignments, much less read and understand all the reading. But Jackson is a special case. :)

I would also add progressive-time experiments to this list. If you're reading something important, that you want to retain, ask yourself one day, one week, and one month later what you remember from it. Come up with ways to apply what you read: in writing, in conversation, etc.
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Slow reading and writing on it does sounds like a great way to retain knowledge, but it's hard to find a book that actually worth slow reading. What's your way of deciding if a book is worth reading?
I wonder how common/repeatable this is, and what the minimum requirements are for a device to get picked up and used this way. It might be an interesting art project for someone to plant a few tens of cheap smartphones around, assuming we could reasonably expect at least several of them to broadcast interesting slices of people's lives.
It is closed source, just like DynamoDB.

However - unlike DynamoDB - it has a quite usable free version and an even better starter version, which are good enough for production use. (The DDB local version is really only good for development)
By production use, I mean for example a non-replicated MongoDB/PgSQL/MySQL, which is what I see from many smaller companies... They would be already really better of with Datomic.

If you really need more features, like high availability and transparent query caching with memcached, then the cheapest paid version has a one-time cost of $3000:
http://www.datomic.com/pricing.html

You can easily save that amount of money by not spending 3-6 months developing tons of unnecessary queries, try to maintain that code and try to optimize its performance for scale...

On the "open-sourceness" note, I feel obliged to mention https://github.com/tonsky/datascript which IS open-source, and has a Datomic-like interface, but it's "just" an in-memory implementation.

But we are getting off-topic here I guess...
Understood. Thanks! Nice work.
I see the same warning in Firefox.
A few ideas:

- Get a book about speed reading. It should cover both techniques for reading the words faster, and for using the structure of the book to retain more during each pass. Do the exercises in the book.

- Pick stuff that has a high signal/noise ratio. That way, the limiting factor will be your brain's ability to process the content, rather than your raw reading speed.

- Only read high-quality books. Spend time reading reviews on Amazon for each book before you start, to ensure that it's a book that you will find useful/entertaining at this particular time in your life.

- Prioritise what you want to learn.

- In fiction books, go faster through parts which cover familiar ground. Sure, there might be some unique perspective that you miss occasionally, but you'll more than make up for the loss with the time you get to spend on new stuff.
And we never may hear the stories of those who were actually the greatest spies.
> in which the old are becoming just as healthy, active, and capable as the young,

a 75 year old capable of sitting at a desk and cranking out code as well as a 25 year old, sure, a 75 year old capable of working as a roofer or construction worker all day as a 25 year old I am not so sure...
A strange article. Many of the things cited as proof that the theory has poor predictive power are really dependent on how narrow of a scope you're willing to ascribe to industries and sectors.

For example Christensen stated that the iPhone wouldn't be a disruptive technology because it is essentially a very high end phone. This turned out to be a predictive miss on Christensen's part, not because the iPhone succeeded in spite of being a high-end phone, but because Christensen mis-categorized it: it's a very low-end personal computer.

Furthermore, the article uses the HDD market as an example. It states that 1.8" is not the dominant form-factor today as Christensen predicted it would be (instead 2.5" and 3.5" are). However, the article doesn't state whether the analysis took into account the SSD market (I don't have data on the SSD form-factors but all of my laptops have a 1.8" SSD, for what it's worth).

The main problem with the theory's predictive power is that it hinges on being able to accurately categorize companies/products as being part of a particular _industry_ or _sector_. Where does the cell phone industry end and the personal computing industry begin? Are HDDs and SSDs considered to be in _different_ industries, and why? What about railroads and air travel? The lines between industries are blurry at best.

Obviously everything is connected, and the theory is more about predicting the long-term macro-economic interactions between companies/players and the market. Instead of drawing S-curves and looking at industries and sectors (which are really just arbitrary, imperfect categorizations that don't take overlap into account) one should look at which players are stealing other players' low-end customers. That's likely to be indicative of a disruption-in-progress.
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There are many high profile companies down (airbnb, IMDb, tinder, ...) so apparently this is not so straightforward.
Because it is kind of awkward PR for Salesforce: come build on our platform! Oh by the way we haven't even moved Heroku, a company that we bought 4 years ago, over to it yet.
Because by "AI" we usually mean superhuman-level AI, which by definition is more powerful than humans.