skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a learning specialist and doctoral student working with students with learning disabilities in grades K-12 and I highly recommend Memorang!

I've used it for a vast range of content including teaching the ABCs, math facts, Wordly Wise vocabulary sets, study sets for 6th grade science tests, and studying for my own graduate courses and teaching exams. The program is flexible and easy to use whether you are in K-12 or in college or studying for post graduate qualifying exams.

Personally, I like using it as a teacher because I can check in on my students' accounts to see if they have been studying and what they know/don't know.
Awesome, I didn't know about that page. I've gone and fixed a few of the top ones.
> It entirely undermines the integrity of rating systems

Huh? I didn't know online rating systems had any integrity to begin with. Who actually believes these things anymore? Between the "paid reviewer" cottage industry, competitors (and the reviewed company) trying to stuff the ballot box, and filtering shenanigans from the ratings sites themselves, there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that an online ratings have anything to do with actual customer feedback.

For every company (and their competitors) whose products get rated online, you should assume their marketing department is all over all of the high-profile ratings sites (Yelp, Amazon, etc.)
They are not exclusive, you get both verbally abused and office politics. Being open is not the same thing as being abusive.
> Systems that do not follow the goldern rule: "treat others how you want to be treated"

This is a good first-approximation to an ethical system, but ultimately fails in many areas of the real world. I would prefer that the systems that provide me with food do so without demanding that I pay them money, but that is in direct conflict with the need to pay people to do the work to create and maintain that system.

I would prefer that there exists a system where I can store flashcards for studying various things and that that system not charge me money. That is in conflict with the need to pay people to create and maintain that system. One way to resolve that conflict is to only require payment for some features of the system.
Keep in mind that the IRS is the only government agency that can charge you with a crime that you are presumed guilty of until you prove your innocence.
Could the largest funding organizations, in order to get a much greater return on their investments (i.e., much wider use and re-use of the results), require use of some standard data format for projects they fund?

(I know very little about the issue, but this seems to be a problem in many fields of academia.)
It's useful for the same reasons that a 4yo can use the touch screen on an iPad but can't use the track pad on a computer: It removes one additional step of indirection and thereby reduces cognitive load.
Hi Valentin, great video!

Apologies I haven't looked at the technical stuff yet (so may be an obvious question), but I was wondering:

Are the "API"s (what an object can be programmed to do) for the devices/objects (eg the switches) accessible locally?

As in is there enough embedded within the QR-like code to understand the API (or at least connect to the device, and it can "tell me more") or will it require cloud-based interaction?

Example case: if I'm in a room I've never been to before, no internet connection, and see a switch - would Instill be able to reprogram it then and there? Or do you see the (I)nternet of IOT as necessary?
How do you feel about github charging money for private code hosting but not charging for hosting open-source code?
Competitive e-sports with a 25-year-old Amiga game
Thanks for the heads up, these look really interesting.
vim + vimwiki works well for me.
Why I’m excited for Vulkan
This is just as much a problem in India, where it is called "colourism" as well as S.E. Asia. While slavery is not unknown in these countries, there was no slave trade to "white" countries. So to blame the Atlantic slave trade for this cultural phenomenon is ridiculous.
That, of course was the whole thrust of the comment. That removing the incentive to use violence is the most effect means to lessen / discontinue its use. Conversely there situations which basically leave little other choice than the use of violence (extreme poverty or abuse for example). Therefore by removing the sources of those things, we can stem much use of violence.
Wow - a Dropbox competitor writing a critical article about Dropbox's future.
Any tips for how to implement that? I've tried org-mode for personal-information-management and I just get lost in all of the subtrees.
surprised to not find attic/borg in those benchmarks. rar, zip and obnam are not exactly known for being fast backup software...

still, quite interesting project!
Off by one decade. Shellac compound -> LP changeover occurred in the 50's in most of the world.
I trust that the vast majority of the destruction in the aftermath of the earthquake was caused by fire, but what I'm curious about is the death toll of the fires themselves, which I don't see in the article. The reason that it matters is because an earthquake can easily cause structural damage to a building that leaves it standing but renders it uninhabitable, forcing you to demolish it anyway. Even structures that are specifically built to withstand earthquakes aren't necessarily safe to occupy after the quake. From this (simplistic) perspective, wood is no worse than concrete because either way you'll be forced to rebuild the vast majority of the city after the big one hits.
Paywall...
it's also really funny that the founder of 'thefunded' is also the founder of 'founder institute' - which the OP and this HN thread both rail on
Kenhub looks great.
I recently completed the surgical primary exams in Australia, and before that knocked over a whole body dissection course.

I have some very different ideas about how anatomy could be ideally taught in some scenarios (which I am in the process of developing!) but certainly wish I had of had access to what looks to be an excellent resource you have developed.

It must have taken an age and a small fortune to get your own illustrations! would you ever consider a licensing deal?
Having a look around on my Windows system running Avast, I don't appear to have the same issue at the moment, but I have repeatedly of late found myself seeing security warnings in Firefox which I'd chalked up to my spotty 4G connection.

Looks like I need to keep an eye on it, which pisses me off because if this is true of the Windows version, it means at this point there simply isn't a Windows AV solution that isn't complete garbage from one standpoint or another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura
Very tempted to do so as well.
How disapointing that this is the top post on an HN thread: A thoughtless rant dismissing all of IoT in a few sentences.
No questions, but wanted to show my support. It looks like a great way to bring programming to the masses.
Large Bureacracies and Trading One Set of Problems for Another Set of Problems
The UI is the pitch - technology people can't use is useless to people (tautology).

It's a commercial-like video to attract attention - but fair enough if it doesn't impress you. It's hard for me to judge UI without using it myself.

It's cool that they're at least trying to solve the problem of a better UI because I believe that's a problem that exists. It reminds me of one of Brett Victor's talks.
Ah! This is awesome. Just subscribed :-).
IDE these days are more than that :)

https://emptysqua.re/blog/unittests-code-coverage-in-pycharm...

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2012/04/code-coverage-for-jav...
I'd say both of you are correct. Sure, it undermines the integrity of the system, but you should take all reviews with a grain of salt. There are countless Amazon reviews saying "I ordered this, and haven't it yet, but I'm excited, 5 stars!"
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Oh, don't get me started on Amazon reviews. Even the "Verified Purchase" tag is gamed by sellers. There's an entire cottage industry of providing products in exchange for good reviews. For example, look at the reviews on the "#1 Best Seller in Pepper Shakers"[0]. Most of the reviews (even the ones with the "Verified Purchase" tag will say "Product provided for review courtesy of sponsor" towards the end).

I'm researching and scarping reviews to write a thorough article on gaming the #1 spot in Amazon's many categories, and it's looking like it's much more valuable than the famous "Buy Installs" industry for #1 spots in the App Store. I don't believe there is much incentive on Amazon's part to crack down on fake reviews, since they are selling products either way.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Pepper-Mill-Set-Adjustable/dp/B00...
I think reading book about a programming language, or an accessible technology is indeed a waste of time (and a bit of money). Why not just follow a good online tutorial and try things straight up?

With hands-on from the start, you won't comprehend all the stuff early on, no doubt. But those holes in your understanding of the concept are really useful because it makes you more motivated to fill them, and feel rewarded when you finally get it.

Also, I noticed some sort of book-hoarding learning fallacy between people I know - when somebody wants to learn a technology, he/she sees ordering an Oreilly book on the topic as a valid part of the learning effort. As if the idea would be "I'll get a book, read it, ???, become a guru". Usually the person doesn't even get to read it (no time after when it's delivered; new obsession; ...). And even if, reading one book won't make you even a reasonable <whatever> programmer. You'd just make better use of the time following a good tutorial, and then perhaps hacking in a FOSS project.
It's not just the subscription model that irritates people. The software itself has become irritating in various ways. Creative Cloud is a multi-app hydra that feels like it attaches to your system like a facehugger. Lots of people are looking for and finding exciting alternatives like Affinity Designer/Photo and Sketch. I didn't realize how slow the Adobe apps were until I started using Affinity. Those apps are fast. Not only that, but they are fun to use and got me really excited about creating things again. Super bonus: you just drop the apps in your app folder to install. Boom. Despite moving to the cloud, the Adobe apps feel legacy compared to newer options.

One reason why Adobe continues to make a lot of money is that Photoshop and Illustrator files are like what Word and Excel files are in businesses and universities: currency. People trade these formats around, which makes them way more durable. But that durability can't make up for a more important aspect of some software — especially creative software — whether or not people love using it. Go to the Affinity forums and witness the fire in people's hearts. I imagine there was a time when people felt that way about Photoshop. It's not that I want Adobe to fail. I just want great software.

All I'm saying is: don't mistake Adobe's ability to make money as a sign of love for its products.
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The problem isn't really sounds, its the vibration and shock waves which travel thru the structure. I could never hear my neighbors, but I could hear and feel every heal strike. Loose metal attached to the structure would vibrate (air vents, kitchen items). Wasn't trying to tear down this technology or anything, I guess I just had a really bad experience living in a wood constructed apartment (constructed in 2013, 5 floors) and I pretty much vowed to never live in a multi-family wood constructed structure again.

Edit: page 9 in the parent link addresses this. Extremely poor vibration dampening.
Tunnelling IPv4 through DNS requests is brilliant. iodine is going in my toolbox, thanks. Just to be clear: you need to have an iodine server running somewhere, looking like a DNS server but acting as the equivalent of a vpn server, right?
I completely agree. I've been trying to figure out what's been missing in Anki for a while in order to improve my workflow. What do you think it is?
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Obviously it would require enough to blow out your brains to be effect. How do you propose to create a drone so tiny and light to also carry the payload required to do that? Just because the payload itself could fit into someones ear doesn't mean the delivery mechanism can, well, actually deliver it
Gravitons are usually formulated by perturbing the metric around the flat Minkowski metric, but you can do perturbation theory around any metric, include those that describe accelerating frames.

So, you might actually get gravitons in an accelerated frame. What you call background metric and what you call gravitons can get mixed together. However, because gravity is formulated in a generally covariant (ie. invariant under diffeomorphisms) the physical predictions must nevertheless agree when formulated in a frame-independent manner, much as they must in special relativity.

Maybe the best example of quantum effects being different for accelerating and stationary observers is the Unruh Effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_effect ). If an observer accelerates relative to a 0-temperature vacuum, they will see a blackbody background with T ~ a.
As someone who's spent a not-insignificant amount of time optimizing the heck out of a Sinatra benchmark[1] for TechEmpower's Web Framework Benchmarks[2] (TFB), and as someone who's spent the last four months or so building a json:api compliant Sinatra back-end and Ember.js front-end (for an MVP), this subject is near and dear to my heart. I definitely thrashed on language selection for a few weeks before settling on Ruby. It was an opportunity to learn a great language, but I wanted to actually learn the language instead of relying on a huge library. Rails had a lot of overhead for what we had in mind, Rails API had only recently been merged and seemed unproven, and the more esoteric Ruby web frameworks based on Celluloid (e.g. Reel) and EventMachine (e.g. Goliath) were too daunting.

I think going all (well, almost all) the way down to Rack, as suggested in the OP, is a little too extreme. One of the commenters over there mentioned Rack Server Pages[3], which is interesting. Sinatra appealed to me because most of its features come disabled out of the box (in modular mode), and you can selectively reenable them and incorporate other bits of Rack middleware to build up your stack. Some commenters here appear to be conflating Rails and Sinatra in terms of behemoth-ness, which is strange to me because Sinatra::Base is less than 2,000 LOC. Sinatra is not much more than a thin DSL for creating Rack applications as described in the OP! Anyway, it also seemed silly to eschew Rails only to pull in ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport, so after another round of research I selected the excellent Sequel ORM[4] to handle database abstraction.

There have been times when I felt like we were going against the grain. The Ruby community is oriented around Rails, and most of my early Ruby questions received Rails-specific answers, which was frustrating. Some pieces of Rack middleware and other things like json:api serializers tend to be implemented (and documented) in a Rails-specific way; getting them to work with Sinatra (or finding viable alternatives) has been time-consuming. More than once I've thought to myself, "If we're going to use some unsupported and/or fringe-y thing, we might as well have built this in Elixir or Luminus or Sails or ChicagoBoss or..." That being said, writing Ruby is fun, the community is great (MINASWAN), and we've discovered some amazing libraries. There is a ton of work going on to improve Ruby (specifically, JRuby 9K, Ruby OMR, ConcurrentRuby, etc.) so the language has a bright future. In the meantime, our solution is fast, stable, simple, and easy to test and deploy, so it meets all of our requirements.

1. https://github.com/mwpastore/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/sinatr...

2. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

3. https://github.com/migrs/rack-server-pages

4. http://sequel.jeremyevans.net
One has to be selective in considering what possibilities are credible here - but that is true about anything.

In my opinion, Eliezer Yudkowsky and those who follow his argument are not intellectually credible and should dismissed with zero consideration.

In looking at this issue, I would note that Yudkowsky's (Bostrone's) ultimate argument is exactly homologous to Pascal's Wager. [1]

IE, since there's a hypothetical small probability that some entity [A Future AGI/Christian God/Flying Spaghetti Monster] could exist and the stakes for ignoring the possibility are "infinite" then we must "rationally" labor now to deal with possibility regardless of not understanding the mechanism involved in that entity.

And the thing is that modern science and modern statistics pretty hinge on ignoring, uh, "guff", demanding that extraordinary claims submit their extraordinary evidence and so-forth.

Further, the other fallacious argument pushed by Yudkowsky et al involves treating an AGI as a wish-granting Genie - human make overt logical requests and the AGIs "twist" these in a world-changing/destroying fashion.
The problem is the over-request-format is identical to "logical specification" approach of gofai, the generally carded view that AI can be achieved with only the symbolic specification of how the world works (notably Yudkowsky and friend simultaneously acknowledge AI won't be based on symbolic specification/gofai and ground their argument on AGIs operating on explicit orders only, which boil down to symbolic specification. The Bostrone example is you tell the Genie "make me a thousand paper clips" and it turns the planet into paper clips "just to be sure").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish

[3]
Been using this for the last few weeks to start/stop Sonos speakers by talking to Siri on my watch. "Hey Siri, turn off the kitchen speaker." It works really well.
The CIA Won’t Reveal What’s in Its Secret Art Collection
Ahhh good ole Microsoft
>Can you elaborate more on what exactly memorang does that keeps people "engaged in vivo"

Between algorithm choices, learning modes, and other customization options there are dozens of ways you can learn the same material instead of simply flashcards like Anki.

For the other components, some of these are works in progress and others are already present. I would encourage you to learn a subject towards 100% and you'll see exactly what we mean. Part of the answer is gamification via scores and leaderboards, some is advanced study stats where you can compare your progress, gain insights into how you learn, and see how you stack against the global average. Another part of the answer is targeted feedback via the "tutor" which will introduce study tips and humor depending on your progress.

We also are launching a 2.0 version very early next year which will be a fruitful step in the right direction.

Overall, we have a pretty broad vision for what we think we can accomplish and are actively working towards getting there from a tech point of view (development) and via academic research with well known universities. The ultimate goal would be that you could just sit down, select what you need to know, and then be perfectly guided towards subject mastery in whatever way is most optimized for you as an individual.
oOoh thanks. I love Clojure. This'll be useful.
Can an algorithm help break the glass ceiling?
"But the extra hours don't come from nowhere... you need to compensate by losing a comparable amount of time at night."

I agree, but personally I find I am in the mood for being productive but in the evenings I tend to surf crap websits and not do anything useful.

Curious if others feel the same on this?
The GPU Clusters That Power Baidu's Neural Networks
You need to squeeze the earth to a much smaller size than that of a fridge magnet to make it into a blackhole and even then you'll get a blackhole with a pull of 1g which would be like a cute puppy.
the part about this that I think really hits home is ... SQUIRREL !
The Game Theory of Terrorism
All the actors in Hollywood are above average.
Lecture: The Ultimate Amiga 500 Talk
Yes, I do.

Yes, in practice, you want a lawyer to arrange one.

Really, though, I don't think you want a patent at all.

It will take many years from the time you arrange to have the patent filed (and those arrangements will take a long time too) to the point where you get the patent.

You'll get the patent; to a first approximation, everyone does.

But having the patent --- again, maybe 5-7 years after you file --- all you'll have gained is the right to one more way to threaten lawsuits.

Those lawsuits will themselves take years and years to resolve, and they'll be unimaginably expensive, even if you have an excellent case.

Patents and patent licensing businesses are a shitload of boring, depressing work. There are much better, much easier ways to make money.
Kowloon Walled City: City of Darkness Revisited
The first website I started was [SynbioSwag](http://www.synbioswag.com). My hail mary marketing strategy was to get Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory to wear one on the show, but that never happened. I usually sell a couple of shirts around Christmas though. It pays for hosting of the other sites I've built. About a year after launching SBS I learned to make web apps and built [TheMuse-Seek](http://www.themuse-seek.com) haven't made any money yet but slowly growing in users. So heres to 2016, hopefully Sheldon reads this.
You use that word thoughtless, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
It's so you can use the 'codes' presented on the objects and create these connections live. There's less steps and it's much more fluid than taking a picture of this code, saving that object, clicking on a features dropdown, and selecting another objects feature you want this to be attached to.
The quantum computing era is coming  fast
Pycon tutorials are held before the main conference at an extra charge for topics that are better suited to be taught over a longer period of time than will fit in a regular 30-45 minute talk session.
https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

Although at the moment it is far from passive (probably spend more time on it than my full time job), but it can be left alone for a little while and still generate income.
> No local admin nonsense and you mitigate 90% of endpoint issues.

According to Kaspersky [1] it's possible to mitigate 85% of threats by restricting administrative privileges, using application whitelisting and keeping the OS, browser(s) and applications patched.

[1] https://securelist.com/blog/software/69887/how-to-mitigate-8...
A new test measures analytical thinking linked to depression
I was thinking along those lines too (with contempt), and realized its the NpBFY factor is the sort of sensory distraction that I think doesn't help with creativity.

(NpBFY - nose-picking, burping, farting, yakking)
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Measure five different things. Use underpowered design. Compare everything to everything using many fancy-sounding statisticsl tests. Fish for p<0.05 (and the occasional "marginally significant" p=0.07).

Remember, most psychology research cannot be reproduced: http://m.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716
The funny thing is that InDesign was able to beat QuarkXPress in a similar way.