skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, reading speed clearly isn't a constant across the population or even for one person. Some people read faster, and TFA article admits as much when it points towards experience.

A few hours ago, at 5am, while checking two weeks worth of email, I was very very drowsy and unfocused and couldn't read fast at all. I went to bed, slept a few hours, and now, somewhat refreshed, I can keep in zone again and read at a good pace. Reading speed for me definitely isn't a constant.

When I want to read faster still, I can make a focused effort to do so. Emphasis on focus. The faster advancing eye movement takes focus. As does trying to comprehend the larger amount of words or (short) sentences that the eye consumed in a pass.

Properties of the text have an effect on success; "speed-reading" a math textbook would be a complete waste of time for me, because the comprehension part requires so much more time and effort than "seeing" and "reading" the words. Same goes often goes for code or highly technical texts.

The layout has another effect. Back to the emphasis on focus. Give me the right font size, short lines, and likewise short paragraphs, and I can read much faster without stumbling. Yes, it is about eye movement, about anchors, about breaking the text into conveniently sized chunks that can be parallel processed. If comprehension for the given text is easy enough, then this can help speed up reading a lot. Still, it takes a bit of a focused effort, which I would call speed reading?

I read the linked article pretty fast. And my speed slowed significantly as I got back here, with the long lines stretched to almost full width of my display. First I stumbled a few times, and that was a sign to slow down.

It is fair to say there's a limit to how fast one can read without sacrificing comprehension, that's for sure. But you can totally make a focused effort to read faster.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem seems to be that a slightly indirect variation of bribery (aka lobbying) has been legalized in the first place, not that such bribery is hard to detect.

If there was any political will to solve this problem, it would have been solved long ago.
Can you solve all three questions correctly?
I'd be interested in seeing this post as well. As someone whose intellectual firepower is probably 50/50 on convergent/divergent thinking styles, it's pretty difficult for me to find a fit. Project Manager seems like the closest role I can find that can satisfy my skills and tastes.
It's no fun if you swat somebody and don't brag about it afterwards on Twitter/IRC/whatever which will lead authorities straight to them like it has most other criminals.
People are always gonna be getting video content from somewhere, and they're not gonna be paying for it enough to make it ad-free, so they're gonna see ads regardless of the medium.
Latest Intel HD graphics cards are doing really well. I have a Mac Mini and all games I tried work well on it. I had to reduce the quality settings for some (say Rocket League in 3 player split screen or Dark Souls 2), but every game is completely playable. Some games like Devil May Cry 4, the new Tomb Raider or Bioshock Infinite work well with default quality settings without downgrading quality.
So, for me, I read quickly and I read through books aggressively and without, as you say, savoring the experience: if it is a book with a strong character or event-based drive, I want to get at what happens to change them, or the events that drive the story, as fast as I can! But here's the thing--as you say, I do go back and read it. I'll read the same book three times, sometimes, and get more out of it each time. Once I know what the shape of the story is, I can more easily drill into it to appreciate the nuance. It's still faster than trying to read slowly to soak it all in the first time, and I think (can't prove, obviously) I get more out of it through the repetition than if I were to try to slow down and spend longer to do it only once.

YMMV, of course.
I think efficiency is the wrong term.

Palatte shifting and limited color palates were born from the necessity of effeciency. Now he has to use an emulated DOS program to edit them. He uses an experimental web app to display palate shifting projects he created years ago and looks forward to the upcomming release of a pixel editor from the same author.

Additionally, he expresses extensive configuration necessary, mostly disabling anti-aliasing within multiple tools, which makes his process possible in Photoshop. He also has removed the limitation of color palate to make the final product more pleasing, regardless of weight and efficiency, as the concern is minimal on modern hardware.

His technique in Photoshop makes heavy use of the pencil tool one pixel at a time and even falls back to antiquated software (or manual technique) when he needs to implement dithered
gradients.

I did not get the inpression that he was happy to be using Photoshop, but that it is currently the best option he has.
So, to say "I trust/distrust all media sources in equal measure" demonstrates a wilful ignorance, or incredible naiveté.
> Tools shouldn't be designed specifically to PRECLUDE beginners

I'm reminded of a lesser-known talk[1] by Dan Geer, in which he discusses cybersecurity maturing into its own field - its own science - using T. S. Kuhn's definition[2] as a rough guideline. One of the criteria used to recognize the transition into a specialized field was the use of jargon. Maturity as a stand-along field has happened when it becomes necessary to invent new jargon that is - by definition - inaccessible to outsiders.

To be clear, I completely agree that tools shouldn't preclude beginners whenever possible, but I suspect that my not be possible as everything becomes more specialized.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZJzkvgles

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
What slows things down for me (and for most people) is subvocalization.[1]

It should be possible to get in the zone and not subvocalize, but I can only do it for very brief periods. And it's something that I can only do for "light reading" rather than when trying to understand highly technical information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization
Of course not. However, in the past ~7 years, while running my own mail stack, I never had a delivery issue, though obviously this is small traffic.

At work, we handle pretty large traffic for mail, with self-hosted mail servers as well - those are exim. No delivery issues either, although these are only the real, important, not even remotely spam-like, core business messages. Spam-like newsletters are done via sendgrid there.
I'm not sure whether it happens "magically" or not, but the research is traditionally interpreted to suggest that classes of mixed ability do better on average.
Regarding audio they say:

> Doubling the speed, in our experience, leaves individual words perfectly identifiable — but makes it just about impossible to follow the meaning.

Wow, sorry but this is very misinformed. A lot of people me included can listen to audio at 2x. I constantly listen to podcasts (so not a slow narration to begin with) at 2x in English which is not even my native language and I understand everything and enjoy it very much.

Blind users listen at 4x without loss of understanding.

You just need to train it.
I think the real explanation is more prosaic. The USAF is a giant bureaucracy, and giant bureaucracies take care of themselves before they take care of other giant bureaucracies. In this case, the army.
Does anyone have one of these? - I've been thinking about getting one as a slightly "occasional" larger laptop for longer trips - I have an 11' air that I take to work every day thus I don't really want to shell out for a macbook pro just to get the 15inch screen

Speccing up the triton with the HD screen and a bit more Ram is GPB500, which seems quite reasonable for a decent machine for programming and the odd bit of web surfing.

The review linked here looked quite positive, but I'd been keen to here from someone that actually has one.
We've known this for a few decades at least. I guess history will continue to repeat itself.
Heh, I wondered if you were actually remembering such an esoteric fact about NetHack.

Looks like kestrel in NetHack dates back to version 3.1.0, released January 1993. The comment says "Rogue", so I'm sure it was done in tribute. They also added emu, xeroc, and venus flytrap as monster names from Rogue, used while the player is hallucinating.
“You as a lobbyist cannot buy me a dinner for $40,” Mr. Ackerman said in an interview, as he nibbled finger food at a recent conference on government ethics in New York. “But if you give a contribution to my campaign, I can take you to dinner, and we can discuss politics or official business. You, the lobbyist, can give my campaign $1,000, and the campaign can pay for our dinner. That’s perfectly legal, and it’s perfectly dumb.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20lobby.html
This topic used to come up a lot on HN, though I've not seen it for a while. My summary of reading those previous threads, where many people shared their personal experiences, is that what you are suggesting is the best idea.

Negotiate and/or move school and/or spent partial time in other institutions so that you can use at least some of your time to be exploring advanced topics that also give you real world credentials and projects for a portfolio while staving off boredom.
You would be surprised how much you can get away with by learning to work with the machine directly. The way that the human mind works without training is naturally ambiguous and chaotic. There are of course benefits to offloading some of the thinking and parsing to the compiler or interpreter whatever; that's why we have Python, because C and Assembly weren't enough.

But human beings have been inventing formal notations because they end up being the right tool for the job, most of the time, to guide thought, even if the upstart cost of using them takes some work. I suspect that being afraid of formality will gradually make you lose power over the computer, and will cause unpredictable results when it isn't crystal clear where the impedance to communication and understanding with the machine lies.

I'm all for the more declarative style of programming though, even if it doesn't resemble any particular natural language specifically (remember that papers like these still have a grand Anglo bias in their implementations – imagine the sparsity of a Chinese version of these studies, and the potential difference of the results!).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu

> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

A similar quote with disputed origins
I know that's the argument, but it doesn't make much sense to me. It's comparing to a fictitious alternative where rich people don't move in. Why wouldn't they? It's already a desirable place to live, so rich people desire it too, and by definition they can afford to act on that desire.

It is not hard for a rich person to outbid a poorer renter. I mean, this doesn't require a complicated explanation. Whether or not there's new housing, rich people can already outbid current renters because they have more money.

And when this happens without new housing, not only does a rich person move in, someone else moves out. By trying to prevent gentrification from indirectly causing displacement, you just cause the displacement right away.

This still sounds like supply and demand doing what one would expect, not doing the opposite.
I took away something different. He emphasized several times how Photoshop enables him to pull off pixel art style but without having to individually drop in pixels. He said that about the lighting templates, the dithering template, and the anti aliasing technique. I'd argue the mere mention of the word "template" supports this. In all cases, "not having to do one pixel at a time" seemed to be the primary advantage.

It's true he also said sometimes he still has to manually put in pixels, but that seemed to exception to me.
Mac-killing USB hub [video]
This. As an ex-freelancer myself I totally understand you are talking about and is one of the main reasons why we came up with the idea of Finch.
Apart from the collaboration (which comes in really handy when you work together with a nitpicky freelance designer), you can think about Finch as a browser developer tool with an UI that can save the changes you make.

Page colors, fonts and text styles already are on our roadmap marked as "must-have" ;)
"Your lucene index must be in memory"… holy crap!
As long as you strip outputs and prompt numbers, diffing works quite well. I've been using this commit hook for quite a while: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25178118/opening-ipython-...
I think I had this happen to me as well.

Wasn't an issue until I wanted to change my Apple ID password, for which the security questions are required.

Phoned Apple Support, and they took me through a dazzling array of security steps, involving my Mac, iPhone, payment methods, and the Apple ID website, before they allowed me to create new questions.
> to say a story is bunk because it appears in RT as a
> source demonstrates a wilful ignorance, or incredible
> naiveté

I didn't. I said an argument that relies upon RT due to the story not being carried elswhere is "bunk".

> All news sites carry a bias

But few are sanctioned by Ofcom for regularly broadcasting "materially misleading" content, called out by all manner of former employees for being propaganda machines, or widely derided by virtually every other serious media outlet. Attempting to cover that with a general statement of all media bias - having substantially misrepresented (or just not properly read) the comment you're replying to - "demonstrates a wilful ignorance, or incredible naiveté".
Buy a mac.
I hope the next Mac line-up includes Touch ID
> You must have discipline and passion. You must be your own boss and have a plan. You should enjoy learning on your own. Treat time as a precious resource.

Sadly, most of that is not taught at junior/middle school.
Getting out of the labor force factory that 'education' is in most countries, may not be the best idea even for the majority of 'smart kids', as you say.
The solution is to actually increase the number of politicians so that each district is small enough that you don't need money to get elected (you need districts of about 25,000 voters). The crazy thing is it doesn't even cost anymore money because as you increase the politicians you take away their staff.

If you want to know more about this idea see [1].

1. http://www.thirty-thousand.org
This is a nice tl;dr, thanks

The 3 elements make sense even as a programmer, but of course you would need to do them yourself in your program logic and might opt for something simpler
Party line (telephony)
The XP one makes an alert noise, and then the shutdown sound. As I understand it, the error noise is some program crashing or showing an error in the background, but you can't see it because, well, it's showing that shutdown screen.

Also, on the Windows 95 and 98 ones, you can double-click an option to do that action - instead of clicking e.g. "Shut down" and then OK, you can just double-click "Shut down" to shut down.
Lunatic Python
I immediately started looking for a before and after project link on GitHub... sadly not there. I would be very nice if all of the talks came with source(s).
This isn't mine (so no Show HN); I found it a long time ago and just found it again by going through my backlog.

Also of interest: "Simple Lua-Python Parser" for Lua structure deserialization: https://github.com/SirAnthony/slpp
I can see that interpretation. Let me try another way.

I remember nothing about my government or human health class, very little about my sociology class, I try to forget everything about my senior year English class, and I took Spanish only because there was a state scholarship where part of the requirement was to take three years of a foreign language, instead of the state-mandated two years.

I surely learned things in these classes. I've likely forgotten them because the contents didn't interest me enough. If I regard the brain as RAM, there was no refresh so the memories faded.

Just like I remember very little now about most of my college classes. I took numerical analysis, thermodynamics, theater, psychology, database organization, and more, but I've forgotten them. Even my analysis course, where I remember I adored doing epsilon-delta proofs, has faded into all but emotional tones. I've also forgotten how to do PDEs, but knowing that technique saved my butt a few years later when I took the qualifying exam for physics.

While I vividly remember my theory of automata course, my discrete math course, and a few others which are still so key to what I do every day.

It seems I remember best the things I like, and the things which I still use. I can totally understand that someone who liked high school because of friends and getting high might only remember that part. That doesn't have to mean there was no learning, nor even that the learning wasn't useful. Only that it's no longer recallable.
A beginner’s guide to Cache synchronization strategies
This security company is reviewing Retroshare: https://www.elttam.com.au/blog/a-review-of-the-eff-secure-me...
WhatsApp Retransmission Vulnerability
> you'd still get power law returns.

Yep. My scenario was told from the POV of an individual company. That's not a good way to explain the behavior of investors deciding between companies.
i'm 21 and still in high school
oh gods get me out of this.
I think the Win2k gradient bar is animating too fast as well.
Hackintosh.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, we are aware of this one, but the alternative would be to brake the interaction with the tool and disallow users to fiddle around with the design of the form :/
Lightpack – Ambilight for any TV or monitor
I agree voting from your IOT device is something that should happen. We will get there some day.

To get to that point sooner, we should elect more people who are knowledgeable about technology. If you disagree or feel that is an impossible route, you may be able to find others who feel similarly. Personally I think people who feel this way are part of a minority and that limiting your interactions to a certain group is isolating and not productive. I am always looking for ways to engage people with different ideas, both to learn and to share what I've learned.

Ultimately, I reject vox_mollis comment that participation in the democratic process is worthless or powerless. Just listen to This American Life's episode on "Take the Money and Run for Office" [1],

> Barney Frank: If the voters have a position, the votes will kick money's rear end any time. I've never met a politician-- I've been in the legislative bodies for 40 years now-- who, choosing between a significant opinion in his or her district and a number of campaign contributors, doesn't go with the district. [2]

Or look at how Lindsey Graham changed his mind in the encryption case [3]. Our representatives are not entirely useless. Similar to your day job or at your school, some people are good at what they do, and some are bad at it. That's no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water. We have the longest running democratic republic in the world. We should study it, contribute improvements by speaking up and voting, and be proud of it. Much of the rest of the world faces strict repercussions when they even speak against their government.

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...

[2] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...

[3] https://youtu.be/zsjZ2r9Ygzw?t=14m30s
But with less monetary potential and more pointless nitpicking.

Also you need to waste a lot of time writing a thesis (I'm talking about the nitty-gritty process of coming up with the words and fighting TeX or worse, MS Word) that essentially is worth the paper it's printed on.

(well at least Campus life is better than sharing a flat with 3 other people with questionable hygiene habits)
It's not the first time I'm mentioning this around here, but the WRK 1.2 is quite easy to find online. Surely, there are some license issues with that, but with a simple google query you run into something like this : http://gate.upm.ro/os/LABs/Windows_OS_Internals_Curriculum_R... .

Here you've got most of the kernel code of the Windows Server 2003. It's clear that Dave Cutler had a great influence on it.
It is unclear whether such an order can prevent someone from quitting their job on the spot.

Any real, public court of law would hopefully release someone of such orders once they are no longer in a position to obey it.
They're not going to raise interest rates in the teeth of a housing crash. You're going through exactly what I went through where I live, and I was able to pick up a house for half what it would have cost if I bought when I moved here.

The previous owner bought at the peak and still owed double what I paid. Don't be that guy.
Of course telling people how to attain special divinity through holy practices is proselytizing... sure, we can call it spiritual proselytizing!

Since you give me life recommendations and profound wisdom, here's my advice offered in return: forget about all this stuff and just live your life as an ordinary human on earth.

Through this simple practice of letting go of attachment to religious hope, you can find a sweet kind of freedom and simplicity—maybe even some kind of wisdom!
Be Like Bill Meme Generator and API in PHP
Which is utter crap, since no action has actually taken place and nobody has actually been harmed.

I've long held that "conspiracy to X" charges were just a way for the government to throw the book at someone they otherwise wouldn't be able to.
How to create a great Product and UX team – Digest
F is now tamed, thank you!
I don't know about the parent, but I have tried this - repeatedly, in fact, including taking a number of reading comprehension exams each way, just to see the effects. Something that frequently happens is that I'll mix up side characters. I can only juggle a few characters at a time when speed-reading. I really made a mess of The Hobbit, back in the day, completely mixing up several of the dwarves. And I miss a number of nuances of language - a clever bit of wordplay might pass me entirely. Really, it comes down to the author's style - someone like Stephen Baxter might be on the harder side of sci-fi, but I'm able to chew through his books in hours because there are generally few extra characters. Everything just kinda... proceeds linearly. There's little to track other than what's immediately available. On the other hand, your typical high fantasy fare has to be chewed over the course of a few days if I'm to follow what's going on.
پکیج تور کیش در هتل های تاپ ۳ ستاره ویژه ۳۰ فروردین ۹۵
>We don't have any control over the fact that medicine and physics are complicated because they reflect nature.

But doesn't the machine reflect nature for a programmer as well? I think this paper does little more than capture fantasies about the inherent capabilities of machines and recite general logic elements of natural language.
Well of course not, I've been speed-reading!
Haha. It's an opportunity, not a responsibility. At some point in your life you may feel more inclined to contribute in that way. Or you may not. Both are fine =).

Ultimately you shouldn't feel pressured by what other people ask of you. The choice of what to do and how to feel about it is always yours. When other people say it's your responsibility, like even if I had said that, that would just be me trying to convince you. That means nothing when you choose how to feel about it.