skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sorry you can't λx→x, but you might be λy→y.

I remember when I was in primary school, I overheard an explanation from one of the teachers about the children in a gifted course: "[They're] wrong: They aren't smarter than you, [they] just learn faster than you."

After a week, my memory of my experience of a book is the same whether I λx→x or λy→y, it's just that one of these methods took less time in absolute terms.

I don't really know what the reading experience is like for you, and I don't know what you call these things, but if I experience books faster than you, you want more time in your life with no other downside that I can see, then I can tell you about my experiences.

Now I say this because I'm certainly biased: I didn't enjoy the article, and where's why I think I didn't enjoy the article:

Here's the statements in the article in "support" of λx→x

• Professor Treiman concluded that it’s extremely unlikely you can greatly improve your reading speed without missing out on a lot of meaning. What exactly do you mean by "greatly" and "a lot"?.

• Skim readers spent more time reading text that was earlier in the paragraph, toward the top of the page and in an earlier page of the document. These findings were interpreted as evidence in support of a “satisficing” account of skimming process. And?

• Have you ever tried listening to an audio recording with the speaking rate dialed way up? Yes, I used to read and transcribe legal dictation at +50% and I got done faster. What exactly do you mean by "way up?".

And here's the statements in the article in "support" of λy→y

• Participants in a 2009 experiment showed reading half the words distributed relatively evenly throughout the text versus losing the beginning half or the end half had better comprehension. No kidding.

• You can learn to skim strategically so that you spend more time looking where the more important words are likely to be, and if the words are presented in a stream you may be able to learn which words to focus on and which to ignore. Sounds great.

I was unable to extract anything stronger than these statements, but then I was λy→y. What I nonetheless got out of the article, wasn't convincing to me that I, doing λy→y am somehow missing out on something. Instead, I felt like this was attempting to console people who λx→x, and perhaps maybe they shouldn't feel so bad.
I use a chrome extension called jetzt [1] to read long form articles on webpages.

I find that I'm able to read and comprehend comfortably at 650 - 700 words per minute as long as the text is well written and on a subject where I already know all the lingo.

[1] http://ds300.github.io/jetzt/
Late applications for YC Summer 2016 batch: responses arrived yet?
Has anybody who submitted late applications for YC Summer 2016 batch received any replies or interview invites yet? (We're a first time applicant, and not familiar with how they do this.) Thanks for any help in advance.
So should we pay them less maybe, so that only those that care about politics run? Or does that leave them more open to bribery? A complex problem to solve!
You're confused about the term "high rise projects", which refers to lower income public housing - not luxury condos.
That kid didn't build a clock, he put a clock in a suitcase, thought it didn't look like a bomb and brought it to school. What a smarty.

I'm finding often when I'm learning new skills I realize I had some of this education in school at some point. I think that's the entire point of early schooling, to learn real skills as an adult, of any random subject, really fast.
The best thing about school is it being a forced social experience -- preparing one for life itself, and even having them interact with others even if that's not their "thing" (it wasn't for me either).

Not the learning.
Do those investments consistently outperform S&P 500 and Russell 2,000?

I think you can always cherry-pick some real estate deals or angel investments in Google, Inc. that were available to accredited investors and returned superb results, but through survivorship bias skip deals like Las Vegas Monorail, Greek bonds and angel investments in Fab.com and Color.

If you can find a way to consistently outperform the index funds, you can find a way to securitize it and make it available to smaller-tier investors. The fund have "absolute return" or "unconstrained" somewhere in its name and join a long list of funds that were unable to outperform index funds for statistically significant periods of time.
Ok, we changed to that from http://www.wsj.com/articles/t-rowe-price-marks-down-most-of-....
ZeGoBeast Electric – A Wooden Walking Robot
`Fuzziness' and FRP are pretty orthogonal.

Ie even in Haskell as it is, it's pretty easy to add an 'if' that takes 'truthy ' and 'falsy' values like in Python. Just use a type-class 'Booly' that include a conversion function toBool.
GitHub search for fucntion (typo of function)
I went to one of the better public high schools in my district, so not one of the best schools in the country.

I learned quite a bit. Both the US history and European history teachers were very good, the calculus and differential equations courses were an excellent base for college physics and applied math, the computer class marked the start of my transition from an avid hobby programmer to a software developer, and drafting changed the way I understand a building.

As it happens, I'm still interested in history, math, science, programming, and building design, so perhaps I remember those best because I found them interesting. You were interested in getting high and competing with your friends, so perhaps that's why you remember that part best?
I wish I had skipped high school. At best it was a waste of time and at worst it was a highly traumatic experience for me. I guess I'm doing better now but the first few years I spent in the real world were spent desperately trying to unlearn everything I'd learned from that experience.
When was this written? They quote an article from 1985 saying that programming languages has not been designed with human interaction in mind. I think quite a lot has happened since then.

I also think the conclusion that people prefer sets over loops is biased because the problem domain is a database table where it is more natural to work with sets.

In any case i find the study interesting to compare with how people write software requirements and not to how languages are designed. Requirements are often written in natural language form and are often written by product managers that are non-programmers. I found the answers to be extremely similar to user stories seen in requirements, in particular the use of end user perspective when describing how pac man should move.
Out of curiosity, I tried (and then immediately changed) my main user account password, and it successfully authorized my iCloud login on my phone. I am really curious what's going on here. I expected it to ask for a numeric code like you mentioned, but it just gave me a plain UITextField to enter the password for $my_macbooks_hostname

I do not have keychain syncing enabled in iCloud, just contacts/calendars.
I half did this: after sophomore year, I left high school for what's now called Bard College at Simon's Rock, a college specifically for younger kids. tl;dr if you think you might be ready for college you should look at it. There are scholarships.

I have no regrets about that. It's as demanding as you want. About 2/3 of kids there get an associates' to transfer to another school after two years; those that stay all four do a B.A. thesis. Some folks who transferred reported being bored at their new schools, but I don't have much of a sample. :) I'd probably have had a slightly shinier-looking résumé if I'd gone on through high school, but there's more to life than that. For me the résumé thing is moot (the Rock actually helped; I got work through a teacher referring me to an alum), and plenty of classmates have done well in tech or law, become doctors, gone into research (including in hard sciences), etc. It produces a good number of high achievers for its small size and high acceptance rate, probably because kids interested in rushing into college are a sort of funny pool already. Occasionally bureaucracy requires some grad to take a GED exam because they left high school, but that's straightforward.

For high-school me, the focus on the liberal arts and the beliefs of folks there really contrasted with how I looked at the world at the time. Same would be true for a lot of folks here I figure. The tension from being exposed to something different was productive for me. Sounds icky I bet, but what you need to learn is not always the stuff you come in wanting to learn.

Anyhow, the site is https://simons-rock.edu/. Hope this is useful to folks.
I often read counterarguments to buying that apply to our younger years, but rarely see them declared as such. Should a 40, 45 year old still be renting?
Man, having a 2:1 deleted:added ratio is pretty amazing, though.

Good luck with whatever you end up doing next though, seriously, whether it's libgdx-related or not. Y'all are good people, you do good stuff.
Sure, but as those debt instruments get paid down, you'd expect the market to return to its equilibrium.
The last sentence is obviously a reference to the statement by Woody Allen:

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
I tried the item-grab-through-a-solid-linedef trick in Zandronum on E4M1 (the same one as in the video on the post), but couldn't get it to work. Tried fudging around with the compatibility options (including "Doom" and "Doom (strict)") but still no dice.

Strafe-running definitely works though, and it's a trick I've used for some time, even in multiplayer.

(Also, if you're curious that Doom is still around, I highly recommend Zandronum[1]. An excellent port. And there are still mods coming out that are incredibly playable, which blows my mind.)

[1]: https://zandronum.com/
Are the codes 6 digit? Do they actually show a map? I just set this up, and logged into icloud.com from a fresh Chrome session (having set it up on Firefox and not wanting to futz with sessions there), and I've only had to use 4 digit codes, and no such map. But I've only tried authenticating on websites (I don't have other Apple devices to test with).

Also, I did have to add at least my iPhone manually at first.

It seems like you might have it backwards?

EDIT: My bad. I tried to set up 2FA, by following the "Manage your Account" link from the 2FA info page, but actually set up the old 2SV, with no 2FA options in sight... This is a grungier experience than I would (naively) expect from Apple, as a new Apple customer. Turns out you must set this up on a device, not through the website! They detail this halfway down the page in the "turn on" instructions.
I speed read a few books from Hemingway to find out if I liked the author. Not my cup of tea.
Ah yes, poor, poor Newscorp and poor Rupert Murdoch.
C++ is a straight-up awesome language, on that you and I fully agree. And I have been there with regards to the teeth-pulling pain of Xamarin projects when you want to do something nontrivial. So it kind of pains me to disagree with you, but I do. C++ is awesome. I love it. But I also recognize that I barely trust myself to write it, after ten years or so of exposure and a few years of steady writing it. I don't trust off-the-rack mobile developers to write it safely and correctly. To that end, something like Xamarin or the RIP'd RoboVM provide a significant benefit: by offering the kind of guardrails that C++ can't, they do significantly improve the ability of people who don't eat and breathe this stuff to get something out the door. (Whether or not that's a desirable trait...reasonable people can differ. But it is in demand.)

Sure, Xamarin has done a lot of that work--but that's also kind of the point in the first place.
Did you speed read over the first sentence?
Yes you can, it's quite convenient: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/pipelining-r-pyt...
I think you mean any startup with a limited liability structure!
I guess you could say the water comes from clouds!
The killer virtual reality apps are in AR, and will be for some time.
> I don't get why anybody would want to speed read a novel.

The bit about 'War and Peace' was a joke. Woody Allen didn't really speed read it :)

But even if it wasn't, War and Peace is a great example of a classic most people would be happy to speed read. It's not a relaxing novel like Harry Potter but it's perhaps arguably an important novel to read.

In today's society classic novels like that are often more about absorbing the knowledge rather than enjoying the story, which is people want to speed read... Fast knowledge absorption.

You obviously like Hemingway, you must realise for most people that's odd. Just like you think it's odd a small part of the population might speed read certain novels. It's great that not everyone is the same.
> ender's game is a photocopy of the haldemann book 'forever war'.

No, it really isn't. Certainly they deal with many of the same themes, and if you want to say that Haldemann does a much better job then I can probably agree with that, but accusing Ender's Game of being a mere rip-off just because they address similar topics is silly.
A conspiracy to commit crime is not a thought crime, it's an actual crime.

edit: where thought = imaginary
> You are a racist, sexist ass.

We've asked you many times to stop breaking the HN guidelines, and instead you've turned to outright personal attack. That's not allowed here, so we've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is really fascinating - our security folks are using even based history - must go talk to them again in this context

Thank you
Nice. Currently working with another probabilistic modelling extension of Clojure, named Anglican.

How would this compare to Anglican? (not so much in actual state of the library now, but in goals)

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~fwood/anglican/
> Sorry Mr. white male authority

Predictably, you set off a ridiculous flamewar with this ridiculous aside. Then you kept adding more fuel to it. You also violated the HN guidelines, which ask you not to call names in comments here. Please don't do these things on Hacker News. They're destructive of the discourse here.
Maybe because settling UX decisions that have become part of habits, documentation and shared visual language in one environment in favor of the complete opposite would by itself be worst practice in terms of UX?

(see the changes of Windows' Start button and its surroundings and how users appreciated it)
Inside the Fall of SunEdison
What telemetry has to do with private communication?

Not a rhetorical question.
what's wrong with C people? LOL
That last paragraph would sound unpleasant if it replied to me. :) That poster can take solace that they're in good intellectual company:

"In fact, I can remember a lot about elementary school, the work I did, what I studied and so on. I remember virtually nothing about high school. It’s almost an absolute blank in my memory apart from the emotional tone, which was quite negative." — Noam Chomsky (https://chomsky.info/reader01/)
Can you explain why they'd need to given the quantity of existing open source browsers already out there?
Pro-tip: slowly twisting the cork out of the bottle (as if it were a screw) would eventually cause it to pop out. No need for a wine opener.

I do this anytime I don't have a wine opener handy.
A friend of mine owned one of the latter Amstrad MegaPC models, same sort of thing but based on the 80386SX processor. It was pretty cool - http://www.segaretro.org/Amstrad_Mega_PC
Ask HN: Do you take notes when learning a new programming language or framework?
I only take notes when learning something theoretical or to a similar degree something which is more difficult to grasp. Lately I've been asking myself if I should take notes when learning a new programming language or a new framework/library. Does anyone do it and is it beneficial?
Show HN: Free Utilities App – Pdf Downloader and Reader
Unfortunately it's really difficult to produce cultural products (films, TV, books, etc.) in China because you never know when the censors are going to shut you down -- unless what you've produced is so bland there's no way anyone could find it objectionable.

This will have to be fixed before China can start producing its own export-quality cultural products.
2001
src: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/publications.html
Indeed. Perfect, noble, misunderstood and misused little boys are recurring protagonists in Card's work, and given the way that his public homophobia comes off more like a self-loathing closet case than anything else, that fascination takes on a rather different and decidedly creepy cast.
When I was a kid, I used to speed read each Harry Potter book when it came out, just to find out the plot so nobody could spoil it for me, and then I'd read it again later for enjoyment
Are there many examples of such organisations being successful startups?
You'll probably be interested in Let's Auth, a WIP spiritual successor to Persona meant to take 3rd party auth back from the grips of twitter/facebook exactly for the reasons you mention.

https://github.com/letsauth/letsauth.github.io
There actually is a way to get both: representatives for each geographical area, and a fair representation.

With mixed-member proportional voting, you have two votes, one for the local representative, one for the perceptual representation.
Even if so, the snark makes it harder to tell that this was the point.
Launch a podcast that is professional and promoted on iTunes
It's funny how, in this page, MHz has a deep ring. Probably remains of the emotions of a younger self. At that time all these console/* hybrids were amazing to me. Console/PC, Console/TapeRecorder, anything..

ps: internal pics http://nemesis.hacking-cult.org/MegaDrive/TeraDrive/Pictures... (from http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/sega-teradrive-pc-cpu-up...)
It can easily be ruled out by asking us. The highest karma threshold (that I recall, at least) is the downvoting one at 500. Pretty much all the others are 30 or lower.
And loose most of your customers because your products are too complicated to use. (Not saying there isn't market for it. But it is not the mass market Microsoft probably is after)

Easy web access etc don't work without the service provider being able to get the data.
I don't know whether to call what I do speed reading or not, but I definitely read faster than most people I know. I've spent a lot of time analyzing what things effect my reading speed.

I find that my reading speed is most heavily effected by how much my eyes have to move to scan the words in the line. The best for me is if a column is narrow enough that I don't really have to move my eyes side to side to get all the words in the column.

As an example, a Thompson Chain Reference Bible has about the perfect size columns (roughly 5-7 words per column) for me to be able to take in essentially the whole line at once, so I can just run my finger down the column and take in words about as fast as I can follow it with my eyes.

A related trick in this regard is one I believe I saw on Tim Ferris's blog which (if I remember correctly) suggested focusing on the 6 words at the beginning of a line and then the 6 words at the end of the line. For text that is too long to take in the whole line all at one glance, this seems to work pretty well for me.
I just logged in today and it's requesting $20,000 now. That part of the campaign alone seems really odd....
The Art and Science of Presenting – Episode 5 – Creating Slides Mindfully
'lack of liquidity' is just another way to describe the situation where there is no buyer at the price you want. I have an amateur painting that I really like and would not part with unless I was offered $1000 or more. However, nobody would actually pay that because it's not that great (it just has sentimental value to me). I don't pretend that the art market is just in a 'liquidity crunch' because I'm not able to sell it, I just recognize that the market value of the painting is much less than I'm willing to accept.

People in finance like to use this phrase to describe unpleasant market pricing behavior to help justify the losses they would realize if they had to sell in the current market. "there was no housing crash, just a liquidity lockup that made people desperately sell their homes!"
I think the jupyter devs are aware of this and trying to find a fix. There is an enhancement proposal on how to get diff to work with notebooks :
https://github.com/jupyter/enhancement-proposals/blob/master...

And I think that's the project that should implement this :
https://github.com/jupyter/nbdime
I've seen a variant of this attempted.

One of my colleagues put a wine bottle into a shoe, so the base of the bottle was resting where your heel would go.
Then repeatedly 'tapped' the bottle/shoe combination heel first against the wall. Apparently hoping the hydraulic rebound would cause the cork to back out.

The bottle smashed. The concrete wall was permanently stained, the shoe was ruined and the carpet needed to be cleaned.

Very entertaining, but not terribly useful.
> my phone in Airplane mode

OP was referring to Google Auth working on phone regardless of current internet connection, the computer being disconnected in unrelated.
> using past tense instead of state

Isn't Clojure's philosophical foundation almost exactly this? Adding the dimension of time to data structures? I vaguely recall a ConTalk by Rich Hickey from the early days about it.
In that case it would probably be written as North America, South America or The Americas. The single word America is overwhelmingly used to refer to the country amongst English speakers (and even a large number of other languages which have taken "America" as a loan word).
In WW1, the aviators were drawn from the nobility. Until they all got slaughtered. Then the lower classes started getting accepted into the flying schools.

This is the background of the movie "The Blue Max".
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Great tool for beginners learning machine code, assembly language of Z80 platform

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Rare piece of computing history and opportunity to learn in ways not possible today.

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> you seem like a dick

Please don't do this on HN. Personal attacks aren't allowed here, regardless of how much of a dick someone seems.
Funny, recently i posted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11506724
The problem is that's a small and selective school that only accepts a few hundred people. It's hardly a solution for the entire country, much less world. While it lists an 89% acceptance rate, that's out of only 199 applicants and with a total student body size of 329 (in 2015). It's an "elite" school for "elite" kids to basically start college early. Possibly a model for other schools, but it alone doesn't scale to the rest of the population.

Full disclosure: I applied when in high school, remember getting the full tour and sample class, etc, but was rejected, imo because I pretty clearly didn't hit it off with the interviewer. It seemed like a very nice place though, if you can get in.
I'm pretty sure that finished criminal investigations do not require secrecy except in very narrow cases of witness protection.
Umm, you realize a lot of people are motivated to graduate from high school because they have career plans which don't require college, right?

There are entire high school programs of vocational, technical, and career education for those whose idea of a "next step" is different from an academically oriented career that most colleges teach.

There are also people who graduate from high school because their goal is to enter the military, either as a career or for specialized training, and the military requires a high school degree.

Also, by the same logic, college does not provide motivation either.