skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I teach basic maths to adults mainly but also a couple of classes of teenagers in a further education college in the UK - the US equivalent is called a community college I believe.

This year, I won the timetabling lottery and got classes with fine art, graphics, fashion and media students.

Usual distractions (phones: Facebook, various instant messaging services &c). I gave each student a simple cardboard document wallet to keep finished work in and suggested that they put their name on the wallet and 'customise' it.

Silence: focussed activity for 15mins. I carry a box with a couple of sets of Sharpies of various colours plus Muji pens and pencils. Grabbed and distributed in a coordinated Mexican wave. Seriously, the full Csikszentmihalyi flow.

Now I have to find a way of channelling that into Maths... I'm taking Tufte's books in next week to see what happens.

TD;LR Digital natives can concentrate when they want to.
All facts are going to be interpreted differently. So (a) alone is clearly not a good criterion. But if you are saying that (a) and (b) combined imply that a statement should be forbidden, then my critique still applies.

If you forbid Larry Summers from forming one plausible opinion based on the facts, even though you allow others (e.g. the opposite opinion), then your reasoning still must be along the lines that I outlined.

Why can't the public be trusted with the fact that Larry Summers draws one opinion from the data, even though other people have drawn different opinions.

Whenever your reasoning contains something like (b), my critique is going to apply, because you are arguing against a viewpoint based on its consequences, not on its truth (even if you also doubt its truth).
The project is done when we add the "it works" feature ;)
The fact that it's locked in at startup might be an implementation detail that they don't want people generally relying on, but I personally don't know if that's the case.
darn! but yeah it's very old so might be broken on some systems :)
Can someone please tell me why I should be excited about these demos? Am I not just seeing an OpenGL wrapper in the browser?
The two records were actually on different scrambles (i.e. different initial states).

It's one thing if there was a particular scramble that everyone was solving faster than usual, but that wasn't the case here.
CP/M looked a lot like DEC's RT-11 operating system, which also owed a lot to earlier systems. Also, CPM-86 did exist on the PC alongside MSDOS. I used both, and MSDOS was clearly significantly better.

I'm not sure that CP/M was all that innovative or had crucial design properties.
Aakash Gupta: How I used H2o to crunch through a bank's customers data
Our post on building your first redux app has a github repo with the example code. It is a pretty basic structure. http://reactjsnews.com/your-first-redux-app/
Yeah I'd like to check it out!
Essential complexity is not bad; accidental complexity is.

The complexity of something that overlays or models a system should reflect the complexity of that thing.
Intel played with ARM for a while, then gave up on it for some reason. Really not sure why, their PXA processor series was really good...
There are several HTPC implementations (eg. RaspBMC). They're all pretty nice, but personally, I just use omxplayer, which is the command line package that powers RaspBMC under the hood. It's a command-line-only media player, but it plays anything I can throw at it, including live-streaming 1080p YouTube videos.

The command-line interface for omxplayer is a bit verbose, so I wrote a basic wrapper in BASH, so all I need to do is type "play <url>" and the video will begin streaming after a 10-second buffer. I keep a Screen session open on the Pi so I can drop in and command it from anywhere. At any given point, that little Pi can be simultaneously playing 1080p video, while downloading another two videos in the background. Incredibly capable little devices!
Even that view is Biocentric. Furthermore, the language of "the world is falling apart" is quite Geocentric, I mean c'mon, what year is it 2015 or 1515?
>The World Is Not Falling Apart

Or, why I don't read anything but industry news.

Reading headline news will quickly erode your soul. You have nothing to gain by reading it and just about everything to lose.

When I tell this to people, the typical response is: "But I don't want to be uninformed". Information that you can't act on is not information; it's distraction.

The only thing worse than distraction is thinking you CAN act on news from around the world. If news from 100's of miles away is changing your behavior, that's bad. We're not going to die in a terrorist attack, a shark attack, from climate change, a new flu, etc...

These are the things people worry about incessantly. But we are going to die of cancer, heart disease, in a car accident, of old age, etc... how mundane.
An example of a BITNET Relay session [0]:

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Not really. How can they figure out they love ice skating if they never tried it?

It is up to the parent to give direction to their child, not pressure them into something that they don't want but show them what is possible and out there.

Giving a child the freedom to do what it wants is probably not going to end up well in majority of cases.
He is part of the Go team.
Two speaking mountains reading aloud random Twitter messages oO Strangest thing I've seen today http://www.mountainsofmouthness.com/
>It's not unusual in my circles that kids are both playing football, taking piano lessons, learning french on top of their school and homework.

We are filling our kid's time with all these structured activities to "enrich" their lives. To give them a leg up in the adult world. To make them smarter and well rounded. We fill our houses with a whole bunch of "enriching" toys.

This is extremely misguided.

The majority of a child's free time should be self directed. They need to experience boredom for proper development. Only in boredom do kids learn to be creative and process their thoughts in a meaningful way. They learn to live with the anxiety boredom creates and channel it into new ideas.

Micromanaging their lives leads to very poorly adjusted and anxious adults. I am very sad when I see car trip filled with iPads and TVs. Kids need to learn how to deal with the boredom of car rides and sit quietly with their thoughts.

Structured activities are great in moderation.

*Adults actually require boredom as well but it is especially valuable for the rapidly developing brains that kids have.
Couldn't you say the reverse? One might say that depression is a symptom of internet addiction.
Sublime Text can do "go to definition" just fine, out of the box. F12 is the key you are looking for.
a: ask.fm
b: bloomberg.com/quote/SHCOMP:IND
c: ceneo.pl
d: developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/BluetoothGatt.html#discoverServices()
e: ezakupy.tesco.pl
f: facebook.com
g: gmail.com
h: hongkongpost.hk
i: images.google.com
j: friend of friend's personal blog
l: lastfm.pl/user/myaccount
k: kayak.com
m: maps.google.com
n: news.ycombinator.com/classic
o: olx.pl an ad about giving away my kittens
p: polyvore.com
q: a local social network
r: reddit.com/r/thinkpad
s: speedtest.net
t: tvn24.pl
u: underscorejs.org
v: videopress.com
w: wykop.pl
x: friend's personal blog
y: youtube.com
z: zapolske.pl
1: 192.168.1.254
3: 30000000000000004.com
none for other nums
Seems weird to not see Google's closure compiler on a list about JS dev tools that includes a linter.

I haven't gotten around to playing with Babel or ES6, and I want to. I haven't bothered to Google it yet, but anybody have experience with Babel + Closure compiler? Is it easy, or difficult and inconvenient, or not possible?
I think the problem is the private key is accessible AND machines were already setup to trust it (because of the cert). So what s_henry_paulson said is technically correct but it's conceptually wrong.
Show HN: City Run – Travel the World: My First Game on the App Store
Does TAB not work for you to drill into a directory? I never have to use C-z in helm-find-files, just a simple `C-x f`, type a few characters, TAB expands the directory, and ENTER opens the file or directory.
This is spot on. And if you think about it neurologically, changing patterns of thinking that have grown into your brain make it even harder, like breaking a facebook habit.

It's a process of learned helplessness: http://braythwayt.com/2015/01/20/learned-helplessness.html

The cognitive portion is only half the picture though, and I think wealthy people(especially moderately wealthy people) suffer from something similar(e.g. doctor just trying to get through the day rather than save lives and cure diseases.)

The other half is the social mechanisms that make poverty endemic. Going right to the root: it's the monetary system itself.
I think he means operating on data that doesn't fit in memory, and as mentioned I think R and Python both have packages for that.
I wonder why companies even bother open sourcing their software with all the critics looking for angle's to their motivation. Better to keep it private and not put up with the arm chair open source critics.
And so it begins. Anything is justified thanks to terrorism.
You do have some impact, as a voter. E.g. you might not be personally afraid of ISIS but the threat they pose to the region and Europe might be enough for you to think that the US should reverse its policy of trying to overthrow Assad.
Er, this is a cold fusion claim, is it not?
You should. I've had the same problem - subconsciously re-loading a site I've recently visited, realizing there is little/no new content on the front page, getting frustrated, and diving deeper in the hope of finding new tidbits.

By the time the cycle is done I've found nothing of value and wasted 3x the time normally spent.
> In general I think that the press and the general public only becomes aware of these things long after they have reached a dominant market position and are employed almost universally.

Exception being when it affects the journalists directly, as is the case with how the media followed Apple closely even when they were a bit player in the computer world. This because media production had for better or worse de-facto standardized on Apple.

Thus when Apple branched out into the consumer electronics world, they wrote about it. This even though Apple was hardly the first, and their offering very much wedded to the Mac.
Huh, that's really interesting. Truly land (and sea) mobile nuclear power plants - I wonder why they gave up on them?

Seems like an awesome idea for powering remote locations, for sure.

Maybe they were deemed unsafe for military operations?
The audio is fine if that tab is not active but distorts when I switch to it. Otherwise very, very smooth.
> I think it went something like Apple needed a chip for the Newton. That begat ARM as an Acorn spin-off.

That's correct: the spin-off from Acorn was part of the deal with Apple (done by John Sculley).

However, ARM had three investors: Acorn, Apple and chip company VLSI Technology Inc (VTI).
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Because it runs in any browser, even mobile ones and requires basically 0 time for compilation and no plugins as opposed to unity, unreal or other engines.
This is certainly not a popular view, and I might be wrong, but I don't think the current state of technology allows you to increase democracy, standard of living as we define it now, without the climate tradeoff, and I think that's ok.

Industrialization and the internal combustion engine has been one of the greatest drivers of prosperity in human history, and largely to drive subsistence farmers into less manual work and into cities. These shifts improve access to health services, networks etc... for all involved and has been the biggest driver of for example Chinese productivity growth and PPP improvement in the past 20 years. The downside is increasing carbon emissions. The biggest impacts of these emissions, in the climate sense, dis-proportionally affects groups like pacific islanders, current subsistence farmers and other groups on the boundaries.

Very few people look at this issue in terms of what we gain from industrial processes that cannot be cheaply implemented to reduce carbon emissions, and the gains in quality of life for the groups implementing them.

It's definitely preferable for emerging countries to generate power, do water processing, transportation etc... in a clean way, but right now the cheapest way to do that is through burning fossil fuels. If the alternative is to slow progress in these nations to prevent a few million pacific islanders from having to move, I think it would be more efficient for nations to assist those who are impacted from the climate externalities.
Is the music original?
Inside the Mind of a Caricaturist
Well, if you want to code it yourself, you can replicate it rather easily by:

- Creating a filter that puts all your mail in a label, skipping the inbox

- Write a cronjob that takes all the mail with that label and labels it back into the inbox

That's probably active procrastination, though. :)

Edit: formatting.
How is the battery life on mobile? Pretty much a deal breaker for all non-Windows/Mac platforms on laptops.
Here are the only two articles I can find mentioning Larry Summers

http://www.ams.org/notices/200810/fea-gallian.pdf
http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf

They do not address the question of IQ in any meaningful way. They only seek to show that women can succeed in mathematics. Summers in no way said that women could not succeed in math (or any other STEM field). The question of IQ has more to do with potential candidates rather than success of those candidates.
Use Divvy.
I agree. I was thinking more about "Emacs lifestyle" utilities like SX [1] as very similar to StackExchange's Android app. [2] Sure it's actually a repository, but a language community without an Emacs mode may not meet a significant segment of developers.

[1]: http://stackapps.com/questions/3950/sx-stack-exchange-for-em...

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stackexcha...
The US isn't a democracy and never will be until the rich and powerful are prevented from nominating our candidates.
That is one of my favorite ones. It was awesome to see the guys making it having fun with it and giving them the tools they needed to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOJl8gRPyQ

Steve Furber on the creation of ARM, quite interesting.
See sklearn trees with D3
Just for ergonomics alone you should use a desktop setup over a laptop setup for any prolonged periods. It's as good as impossible to use a laptop and not be hunched over.
For the last 50 years
Zero Knowledge Proofs: The Secret Santa Protocol
Thats because the computer as a mix of hardware and software is something fairly new. The home/personal computer didn't really happen until the 80s. Before then every device had a defined purpose, and if there was any software it was living as "firmware" inside the hardware.

Damn it, i still recall when people got hot and bothered about getting updates for their Nokia Series 40 phones over the air. Before than you only got it done if it was obviously broken, and to do so you brought it to the service desk of a nearby store or some such.
I'm rather partial to Moom[0]. Been using it and the same set of hotkeys (left half, right half, move window to next monitor, etc.) for a couple of years now.

[0] https://manytricks.com/moom/
I like it. Do you have a YouTube channel or something?
This came at the right time, I was toying with the idea of switching to FreeBSD from Linux, for my daily driver.
Also, I keep on hearing great things about i3. I'm currently using Xmonad and is pretty happy with it, except for the occasional glitches with some applications. The switch to a predictive tiling WM has hugely improved my work flow. should try out i3 sometime, just to see how it fares when compared with Xmonad.
> Just like it is possible to fix alcoholism by having someone remove alcohol from the house

It's different because alcohol withdrawal can kill you. It can give people seizures and hospitalize them for weeks. Telling someone to "remove alcohol from the house" as a cure is so left field for me it feels like you're missing the very real medical struggle long-term alcoholics go through. I'm livid but I know this should be a civil conversation.

I haven't seen someone's facebook+9gag habits tear a community, family, or person apart. Maybe that's my ignorance.
To be clear, the OP is talking about expansion of the platform itself, not libraries.

In my view, the real development burden is on the browser vendors, not the site authors. A site can always choose not to use some new feature.

Imagine if the web were designed so that each site were -- to borrow from Alan Kay -- a "fully functioning computer." It wouldn't be the web as we know it. A site could ship ship some fundamentally new behavior, and if other sites liked it, they could modularize and cache it. The focus in this alternate world is on building a system that is agnostic of its specific usage -- kind of like the Internet. A library system for the web would be the best possible outcome.

But that's not what the web is. It's a document viewer with featuritis. That's okay. It's ours. We're happy to have the curses of success.
What a strange tone that article had.

I'm still trying to work out the headline, where the strange tone starts. More wind power in Germany is bad because.... German miners will protest at the closure of coal plants? Because Germany only has very limited carbon tax? Surely a carbon tax would lead to... more renewable energy.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20Poor.%20People%20make%20...
Solitary downvoter: care to engage with my argument?
You can start by not inventing insulting nicknames. If you are in an at-will relationship you risk the other part leaving at any time, and you really shouldn't complain about it.
Linux Commandline: Process basics for newbies(part1)
You can install apps outside of the Google store policies pretty easily. I'd take a sideloaded open source app over a proprietary web app any day.
Soon ;-)

http://qbix.com/platform
Online content is spewed out by the ton, by terrible writers, on stupid topics, using psychological trickery and emotional manipulation to generate traffic so that other companies can use discrete spyware and invasive tactics to present you with an opportunity to spend money.

The best thing you can do is be as discriminatory as possible. A dog's not better because it sniffed every turd it passed on a walk.
That would be fine if the problems caused by climate change are limited to "a few million pacific islanders", the reality is likely to be much worse.
Even into the summer of 1914, post-assassination, there were articles like this coming up. The fact is we can't predict the future. Just because less people are dying in battle today doesn't mean 180,000,000 won't die in one year in a possible war in the near future.
CS354 (OS) at Purdue used XINU for the majority of the semester I took it in 2013
If you write a paper you also first cite what is state of the art. Before you go into details what Innovation you came up with. So researching SO first, before reinventing the Wheel. Resembles more the scientific way of problem solving. You can also learn a lot by reading and understanding all the different solutions that are often given to a Problem. Your time is better used if you solve new problems or find a better solutions than reinventing the wheel and you also learn as much if not more.
Just guessing, but it could have something to do with ARM not doing actual hardware. Instead they license either chip designs or the ISA to anyone willing to pay.

In a way it is reminiscent of the z80 clones that was all over the place in the 80s.
>This is demonstrated being that it was possible for the author to replace the "higher power" of the 12 steps with someone to unplug the Internet router.

And an alcoholic could just stop buying booze. Not so easy, right?

(Of course alcoholism is in a different league, physical dependence and alcohol withdrawal syndrome are no walk in the park.)
> "ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy.

Is that proven or just hopeful?
Isn't that what HN and similar link aggregations sites are for? You can usually get a view of what's coming up even before it officially releases.
There is no boredom in the modern world. The Internet is an endless cesspool of poor quality entertainment, expertly arranged to give us the impression that we learn something or interact meaningfully with other people.

Believing that a child will improve themselves and realize their potential without guidance and an appropriate amount of forcing is, in my opinion, misguided.
> Keep in mind that in 2007-2008 Intel was very seriously considering licensing ARM and other technologies to compete in the ultra portable and mobile markets and we are all better off that it didn't do so.

Actually, Intel sold a range of ARM chips from 1998-2006. It gained the DEC StrongARM design team when Compaq bought DEC and Compaq didn't want it. Intel then sold the XScale range of ARM chips, before deciding that x86-compatibility was the right way to go. That decision led to the Atom range.

Intel sold its ARM operation to Marvel for $600 million.

Intel still has an architecture license so it can design ARM chips if it wants.