skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do and they don't. Flashcards and SRS are great for very discrete bits of information. They're a pretty good for things like getting a faster start with the most commonly used 500 nouns, remembering verb tables or memorizing Chinese characters.

They're pretty bad for language acquisition in general, though. They chop the language into decontextualized bits. Time spent doing vocab flashcards is time not spent learning how words fit together. Time spent on sentence flashcards is time not spent reading books and absorbing cultural stories and background.

tldr; use flashcards to drill the basic phonics / alphabet of a language and maybe the most common words at the beginning and then focus on extensive reading + listening and having conversations with actual people about what you're learning.

I've recorded a video about this topic before: http://toshuo.com/2012/spaced-repetition-systems-explained-i...
The U.S. is huge but it's also filled with a lot of people and a lot of local governments, state governments, and of course a federal government.

If you want one independent source of proof that U.S. water is safe, consider that almost every U.S. child has blood work done on an annual basis. If elevated levels of lead are a problem, they would be detected at that time, as they were in Flint.
> The galaxy isn't traveling faster than c away from us, but space is being created in between.

That's an intriguing way of phrasing, never thought of it this way. I'm aware that space is expanding, so space must indeed being created in-between.

I'm guessing this space has to contain no energy at all, so it must be made of absolutely nothing, right?
>A site that mixes ads in content won't be popular for long (it's bad content).

But what if the site is the ad? For example, a lawyer's blog would have lots of blog posts about law, but the whole purpose of the blog is to advertise the expertise of the lawyer and encourage you to buy the lawyer's service. Or maybe an artist wants to showcase his portfolio of his work online, in the hopes of later securing juicy contracts or donations.

Or what if the site is simply a forum for people to "network" and self-promote themselves (i.e, LinkedIn, HN's Show Me, etc.) Those sites can indeed be popular (as people may go there to willingly consume ads), but they're all basically vehicles for advertising.
That also strikes me as insightful. Even if I were forced to view ads, I would never click on them. Or even hover. If it's something that interests me, I might search in a different window. Basically, I just don't trust ads.
Sanders filed a bill to remove cannabis from the controlled substances act altogether, which would defer any decision on its prohibition or legal status to individual states: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s2237/text. It's not full all-at-once nationwide legalization, but it's not a mere decrease in federal penalties either.
For example, one such issue might be that you just finished putting a kid through 4 years of college.
Right, it punishes people for having a completely legal firearm present during another crime. Wouldn't you think that's to discourage guns just as much as to discourage trafficking?
Having to use a completely different abstraction instead of stdout is enough to just make people give up on outputting Unicode on Windows.
Google says 45% of bottled water is just tap water. I will never understand this phenomena.
Yeah, I just hate that this happens with some topics, especially where I can see validity on both sides but many people on each side have such a strong slant in the us vs them position that they simply dismiss anything and everything the "opposition" says.

There is a lot of discussion we should be having about the realities of protecting people from harm while protecting freedom of expression and much of the discussion is completely aimless now.

Also, out of curiosity, what name are you referring to? I must have missed something.
I think the added value in this is that by doing it then you can get back to the learning process going on in your brain at the time you wrote about it and this could resonate with many other stored but half-forgotten memories (for example that project that you were working on when you wrote that note, bringing in additional information).

Moreover, nothing is more useful to the understanding of a subject than trying to explain it to someone else, including your future self (you can only say to have fully understand Relativity when you are able to explain it your grandparents? :) ) That's why I guess it's being seen as a good thing.
This particular report cites a number of rather fringe sources as well as many non-English journal artiles that cannot be easily verified. Overall I find the author's conclusions hard to believe.

>It was thought that low-mineral water acts on osmoreceptors of the gastrointestinal tract

This is not how osmolarity sensing works.
You can make something that has previously been salient become yet more salient by noticing more in it; the two of you are not necessarily disagreeing.
Why should someone have to pay a fine to control their own cognition in the privacy of their own home at their own expense and risk?
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I'm all for opinions in opposition of the norm but if you could provide references to your claims that would be much appreciated.
Pretty much all the NHTSA enforces is whether or not a safety feature is present in a vehicle. They could, for example, require that all new vehicles be equipped with an AEBS, but they don't typically tell states that they must allow certain vehicles on the road, and in fact individual states are generally allowed to adopt extra standards on top of the federal ones.
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http://thisoldbridgestone.com/tag/mb-1/ - I had one of these from '92, I think, and it weighed 24 pounds, roughly. And that's a mass produced bike that was high end, but not top of the line by any means. Somehow I find it kind of sad that today, they weigh about the same because of all the stuff they've added to them.
The text on your homepage's above the fold area is absolutely unreadable, either add fading to the background image or change the image completely. It's really hard to read.
Robert Sapolsky makes an interesting point about the idea of "a" gene-environment interaction[0]: genes only exist in the context of an environment, and so "The problem with "a gene-environment interaction" is the same as asking what height has to do with the area of a rectangle, and being told that in this particular case, there is a height/length interaction."

His course on Human Behavioral Biology [1] is perhaps the single best science course I've ever encountered. If someone could only take one science course, I'd recommend this one.

[0] https://edge.org/response-detail/25536
[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7E21BF91F3F9683
Disconnect: what the hell happened to Apple?
“Very few drums or vocals” is one of the qualities valued by the Music for Programming podcast: http://musicforprogramming.net/?about
McCain Insists That He Understands Cryptography Better Than Cryptographers
Came here for someone to shout-out magit. It's amazing
It's mostly about the rider, but when you get to the elite guys, every little bit counts. You and I probably have 5 pounds to lose; they don't:

http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/16E6F/production/_84270839_froome....
McCain pushes for encryption legislation in fight against ISIS
I'm glad to see the tides turning against the established parties, even if I'm excited by neither person.

My prediction is that 2016 is the last year for the "republican" party. A new group will spring up that keeps many of the same principles but includes strong privacy and personal liberties. A few examples of ways this group will be differentiated from the prior Republican Party by being pro legalization And strongly against "freedom act" type legislation.
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We've been testing this out for our new work projects and it has been huge.

Finally, Docker is approachable, simple to scale, simple to add SSL to, and setup continuous deployment.

We tried Fleet and other tools before, but it took too much orchestration.
I'm waiting to see how Facebook's giant bullpen works out. They built, at great expense, one of the largest bullpens in North America. The largest single open office in the world may be be the call center of C-Trip, China's largest travel agency.[1]. They at least give everybody a sound partition.

[1] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2010-05/01/content_980...
A Third of Tested Restaurant Lobster Dishes Actually Contain Cheaper Seafood
Come, now. Everyone knows that the most common dying words of people these days are "I wish I'd spent more time engaging with my favorite brands".
http://www.amazon.com/First-Alert-WT1-Drinking-Water/dp/B000...
And, as I said, they are not profiting of the scanned book because they own the rights to sell the vook in their store.

Unless you're trying to ay that Google can only link to stores that are not their own, which is laughable
Or even for owning one that wasn't present at the time (the gun later found in his home).
This is totally correct. It is also not very applicable to drinking water & whole house systems that homeowners are interested in.

There are carbon cartridges with ion-exchanges resins blended into the block that seem to be effective for lead removal at low flow rates. They tend to have lower flow-rates and capacity than is ideal.
My company makes training content for people in the heavy industries. One of our main offerings is taking traditional paper schematics and bringing them to life with animation and interactivity. It's amazing for me to see a similar treatment given to a work of art — seeing it brought to life with software, but done in a way that's reverential of the original work. The sound design and voice over narration in this project is remarkably well-executed. Everything is done so tastefully. Even though I work in a comparatively artless STEM field, there's so much about this Bosch site that my team can learn from. Thank you for posting it.
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The long term trends have been overwhelmingly in the direction of more support for gun rights, not fewer.

This is one of those topics where US preferences and those of HN (which has drawn a more and more international audience over the years) have been moving in opposite directions.

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/ABCWashPostPoll_Banning...

http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...
I host with linode, and have had generally good results sending mail to gmail. They're definitely not the worst. Granted, I have had SPF enabled for about 10 years.
No one put a gun to the head of the judge in question and forced him to do anything. He simply could have chosen to not apply the sentence. Likewise the court above him, and so on.

This is a far cry from the guillotine (some might say the opposite).
This is refreshingly progressive news
"Officers later searched his home and found a gun." .... "and another 25 years for a third firearms charge, the gun police found in his home."

That's not one he had during the transactions. Unless all three are the same one? The article doesn't seem to have anything that rules that out.
I'm not so sure about that; I use a self-signed cert for port 25 TLS, and I just sent from google to my domain, and didn't see a warning.
Often people feel Agile can not be adopted while you are going with offshore development. What challenges you have ever faced with deploying agile methodology with your offshore partner.
Clojure (lisp) is even more fucky because adding a single outer form can re-indent (and therefore modify) an entire huge block of code.

At least on GitHub we have the ?w=1 URL parameter on PRs which helps a bit.
i'm not convinced that we're talking about a "smart executive" in this particular scenario.
This module is not built by default, it should be enabled
with the --with-http_stub_status_module configuration
parameter

I had to compile Nginx myself, because that module was absent. As you can read also on various community pages, boards, etc.

Nginx is the only server software that I have to compile myself, just to get a basic status feature. It's a way to upsale people to their NginxPlus which offer a lot more status data in the binary.
Steve Jobs on “Think Different” – Internal Meeting Sept. 23, 1997
This illustrates one of the serious issues with C++: numerous code files in a project authored relatively recently that are dedicated to basic application plumbing such as memory allocation/tracking and concurrency.

Its 2016. There are a number of performant cross-platform systems/languages that have good built-in facilities for these basic plumbing problems.

C++ is an outdated language, and the entire mindset and ecosystem is wasteful and constantly reinventing the wheel. C++ was still sort of relevant when I was playing with it in High School in 1994, but even then it was dated in most ways.

These are some very poor software engineering choices.

Educate yourselves about the Nim programming language.
What about requiring PTP sync or shutting down the node? I have no idea about the practical implications, just something I thought of. You can get a CDMA time server on ebay for a few hundred bucks that support PTP.
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Assembling a collection of someone's past statements to make them look bad is not "simply citations", it's a courtroom or political tactic, too aggressive for good conversation—i.e. for HN discussion—and because it breaches a boundary, yes, rather creepy.

You're not supposed to go around "confronting" people here. Let them add context to their own statements if they want to. Personal details or history shouldn't be brought in as ammunition.
I think that's why I find it particularly inexcusable. No company pulling in that much money, with that kind of tech muscle, should have a recommendation system that poor.
This article is a bunch of drivel.
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I disagree - I run a personal mail server and dkim+spf just took a little bit of research to set up, so I'm very glad this brought them to my attention because I want to do what I can to make my emails trustworthy.

If there are any potential downsides to these things I'm interested to hear them, but it seems like they're generally agreed good practices, and hosting your own mail means you're signing up for some ongoing learning and maintenance anyway.
Do away with testing [for the purposes of going to Uni] entirely. While you're at it, don't go to Uni either.

The real world doesn't have tests, it has continuous collaboration to solve problems.

This may sound trite but it was my experience and reflects many real-world data points of my friends. Tests and University were a colossal waste of time, and we would mostly be in better positions today [financially, career] if we had done almost anything else with our youth.
Bicycles are pretty amazing. They're the most efficient form of human transportation over a reasonable surface (road or trail that's not too rough). You can go 100 km on the energy in a plate of pasta that probably costs $2 -if that - in terms of the ingredients.
Why the Nasdaq is on the verge of a bear market
Skynet – A Lisp Machine – Demo 1 (YouTube)
> I don't see any evidence this is true on a national basis.

Here's a long list of survey results. It's not 100% in one direction or other, but the overall results are clear.

http://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm

> Most states seem to be moving in the other direction

I agree, but that may reflect the efforts of special interests and not most Americans.
Lead in blood is always a problem. A few years back one in 35 children in the US had elevated lead levels.
But Hangouts injects its own icon in the CMD-Tab bar and the Dock. I feel like it this really shouldn't happen unless the app can truly be treated separately or else things start breaking or behaving in ways that the user does not expect ("it doesn't work like everything else" as does in this case).
I'll tell you what I want: I want Google to help identify non-DKIM-compliant forwarders. As the operator of (yes, I know) a vanity e-mail domain with DKIM, SPF, and DMARC records, I have no problem sending mail to gmail directly; in fact, my outgoing mail uses postmark, so I'm not even directly responsible for my sending reputation.

BUT! It drives me crazy that many of my recipients get e-mail at hosts (schools, mostly) that forward the e-mail
with differences (encoding changes, subject changes, etc.) that invalidate the DKIM signature. Since they're forwards, the SPF check is going to fail, too, so the end result is that google shoves it into a spam folder.

I claim that google definitely has the data to be able to identify these bad forwarders--heck, even mail sent from gmail to these hosts will presumably fail DKIM checks on the way back into google--and I'd love to see them contact these domains, or even publish a list of known bad forwarders, so that I can push them to make changes.
My understanding is that this has been studied, and criminals are deterred almost entirely by the certainty of being caught, and almost not at all by the severity of punishment.
I imagine many folks who go to University, wasted their time and public money. There are some whom I would not want to skip that trial however. Medicine, Engineering, Science cannot simply be done by any set of folks in a study group. At some point, somebody in the group has to know what they're talking about.
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http://fortune.com/2016/01/13/google-self-driving-car-accide...
Ten of these would've been the Google car's fault. Given the mileage they've covered in 2015, and the number of accidents, they're terrible drivers statistically... to the point that a human is the safety device.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000022008&...
Congress, 2014 term. Many of the top recipients actually wrote letters on Congress letterhead begging the EU not to rule against Google, which is a fairly unprecedented action.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/09/04/two-googlers-take-top...
http://www.govexec.com/management/2014/09/white-houses-roste...
Googlers take up some of the top technology positions in the White House, including "Chief Technology Officer". Eric Schmidt and other high ranking Googlers also visit the White House nearly weekly.

Think they behaved themselves? Nope: http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/white-house-deputy-cto-a...

In case you're curious how Google's using their White House positions: It's to get money.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/265932-obama-pledge...

And some more of our taxpayer dollars. While this article carefully avoids mentioning Chromebooks, they're now the leading purchased portable computers in schools, they're pictured in the header of this blog, and it's written by their "former" Googler, who is the CTO:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/01/30/computer-science-...

That's a lot of strong government ties, but are they worried about regulation? Well... for the longest time they controlled the US's regulatory body too:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/ftc-commissioner-appear...
The FTC was basically run by a paid Google shill, Joshua Wright, for the last couple of years. (The FTC reopened their investigation against Google within a month of him stepping down last year.) His pre-FTC behavior wasn't much on the ethical manner either: He was paid as a university professor to write "academic studies" supporting Google's legal views.

One would wonder by the United States has been one of the slowest and most hesitant countries to regulate and pursue legal action against Google, until one does their research. Then it stops being much of a surprise at all.
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You already sort of can; 'sport mode' in most cars is effectively you, as the car's puppeteer, changing out the one persona for another of the AI "puppet" your commands execute through.
Varies. Texas sentenced petty criminals to hoe potatoes in the desert sun. Petty crime recidivism plummeted in Texas.
Warner Music Pays $14M to End 'Happy Birthday' Copyright Lawsuit
Thanks! I very much look forward to seeing this out in the wild.
> This is one of those topics where US preferences and those of HN ... have been moving in opposite directions.

I'm not sure I agree. Many posts that even mention simple facts (not arguments) that might be harmful to the proliferation of guns get immediate arguments and voted down. [EDIT: For example, my post above is down to -2.]

(See my post below for some more polls that might interest you.)
Ok, we changed to that from http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/02/09/what-....
Curious notion. C++ has perhaps the richest library set in the world.
Link to the opinion in question: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/9733
It's interesting that drug policy gets pushed to a federal level—because drugs "potentially cross state lines"—car safety policy doesn't. Are there really no states where the majority of traffic is from out-of-state vehicles?
Let's not forget retribution. We intuitively feel that it is wrong for someone to live well after having caused someone else so much suffering.
An isolated vote won't make a difference. If a bunch of people have the same reaction, that might be indistinguishable from a voting ring.
Sometimes it takes quite a bit of effort to get the results you need.

For example when you search for something specific that uses very common words. I'm not great at searching either, often I have to read through lots of results to get the answer I'm looking for.

Having a personal repository of curated results seems like a good resource to have.
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Opera gets $1.2B buyout offer from mix of Chinese firms
Not sure that typifies conservativism? That's generally exemplified by respect for institutions and office; strong sense of law and order. Personal liberty is set third or fourth in the conservative world view.
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> those proofs are notoriously based on fairy tales such as reliable networking

Raft isn't. (I actually don't believe Paxos or Zookeeper do either, but I only understand Raft, so let me speak for that one.) Directly from the link in the post you're responding to:

> Consensus algorithms for practical systems typically have the following properties:

> They ensure safety (never returning an incorrect result) under all non-Byzantine conditions, including network delays, partitions, and packet loss, duplication, and reordering.

This applies to Raft, as well: Raft-the-algorithm will behave correctly during these events. The paper linked to above provides a proof of such.

> The fact that a protocol (e.g. Raft) has been proven correct sets the floor but it is certainly not sufficient to assume correctness of an implementation.

These are two separate things, and you need both. You need to know that an algorithm is sound, that it accomplishes what it sets out to do. You also need to know that a particular implementation of an algorithm is correct.

(While I said I haven't read the ZK paper, it does mention,

> Paxos does not require FIFO channels for communication, so it tolerates message loss
and reordering.

)
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For many years I worked in a big tech company that had 2 and 3 person offices grouped into bays of 6 offices around a small common area where a secretary had a desk and files, printers and coffee machine were kept. The grouping usually corresponded to a "Section", the first level of the organizational structure, with a Section Head in one of the offices.

Yeah, old school, and it worked well, better than later work places with various cubicle themes and shared conference rooms that you had to compete for if you needed quiet or privacy.
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