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I don't get why anybody would want to speed read a novel. (Outside of a High School literature class where you're being forced to read Ethan Frome and you just want to get back to playing Minecraft, of course).

When I'm reading Hemingway, I'll go back and read individual paragraphs three times to squeeze the last drop of juice out of them. There are only so many Hemingway paragraphs in existence, so wasting one feels like cramming an entire bar of imported Spanish 70% Artisan Chocolate in your mouth and washing it down with soda. Why would you do that???

Take Sordo on the Hill from For Whom the Bell Tolls. It's just a few pages about these guys shooting at each other, but there's so much crammed in there. You learn an awful lot about that guy, his feelings about this war, why he's fighting it, how he ended up on this stupid hill, and why he's going to go ahead and die there rather than any of his other options. He's a real person with complicated motivations and after a few pages you come away knowing pretty much everything you need to know about him and why he was acting the way he was earlier in the book.

Of course you could skim that scene in a minute flat and get the Hollywood Blockbuster version with the crazy local militia yelling stereotypical catch phrases and dying in a blaze of glory.

But then can you really say you read that book? Wouldn't you still want to go back and read it for real some time?
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Sorry, NYT, I can.

Of course, speed reading gets some meaning lost. But the very skill of speed-reading amounts to developing a sense of look-ahead: first, intuitively establishing fast anchors in text to actually read a few moments later; second, to expand on this anchors, absorb the information and introduce feedback corrections in look-ahead patterns.

All my reading is "speed reading"; I even can't follow the linear text word by word anymore, this is way too boring. But I can regulate the time distance between look-ahead and absorbing passes, and thus the ratio between speed and meaning extracted. This is invaluable to find something in technical documentation, or prepare for exams.

And I can't listen to audiobooks or lectures; they are sooooo slow...
"I hope he used python for this". Was not disappointed. Cool project OP!
I am not from America but I agree with many people here, especially in regards with the OP advocating dirt cheap pay for software developers.

I know of no other industry where the professionals constantly self-flagellate with regards to pay.
Very smart kids should skip multiple grades at least.

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf

"A 20-year longitudinal study has traced the academic, social, and emotional development of 60 young Australians with IQs of 160 and above... The considerable majority of young people who have been radically accelerated [skipped 3+ grades], or who accelerated by 2 years, report high degrees of life satisfaction, have taken research degrees at leading universities, have professional careers, and report facilitative social and love relationships. Young people of equal abilities who accelerated by only 1 year or who have not been permitted acceleration have tended to enter less academically rigorous college courses, report lower levels of life satisfaction, and in many cases, experience significant difficulties with socialization. Several did not graduate from college or high school."
Happened with very old accounts to me as well, where no security questions even had to be entered at the time. The solution was to call Apple Support - they could do it over the phone - I think I had to verify some account details like street address, etc.
The reason people want to read quickly is because writers often digress. Maybe the focus should be on writing text that can be absorbed easily and quickly and finding and promoting such text.
On the other hand, parent-poster's son probably saved enough money to buy a car. College credits are incredibly expensive, and if you can do them for free in high school, there's no reason to skip them.

On a broader level, I would very much like to disagree with people who say that you should take your time through college. Take your time through college... if you can afford it. Don't forget that you're paying a good ten to twenty thousand a year for the privilege of taking your time.
But that seems very difficult when the service provided is a black box of artificial intelligence.
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We tried that in the netherlands. Our approach did not work out that well. In all cases there's the maintainer of the hardware (cable) and a lot of "providers" on that hardware.

I'm not well informed enough to know why, but in all cases (cable, railroad, powerlines, ether frequencies) the system devolved into a state where the "provider" linked to the hardware maintainer is the dominant player still.

I'm not syaing it can't work, just that over here it didn't really work.
That is like saying that the person who came up with the conjecture did more work than the person who discovers the proof...
As someone with a definite and well-established viewpoint on CS education, I sort of expected to hate this paper... but I didn't. I thought it made some excellent points, and I very much liked the idea that people not trained as programmers might be able to point us toward new paradigms.

At this point in the development of programming languages, the problem is not really that we can't build languages that do what you want; by and large, for unambiguous specifications (and yes, that is a big qualifier), we can.

At this point, then, the conversation shifts from "how can I meet the machine's needs?" to "how can the machine meet my (programming) needs?" Another analogy: we're no longer just stone-age people looking for a rock that doesn't shatter when we hit things with it; we're can shape our rocks now, and we're trying to figure out what shape allows us to hit things hard without cutting our hands.

Go, functional and declarative programming! Oops, I gave it away. Sorry.
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None of the people asking have meant 1968 ;)
its used as a container for a lot of TV/film work.

Its notorious for not being colour correct, or stable.
There is always liquidity -- at a price. To give an extreme example...i'm standing ready to buy ANY startup at $1. Guaranteed liquidity.

I note this because il-liquidity is usually an indication of a decline in value. It means there are smaller numbers of uninformed buyers out there to buy something at an inflated price.
Given that I spent my high school years reading anyway, I feel pretty safe in saying that had I skipped high school I would still have spent the time reading. There's nothing about going to high school, or having any other occupation, that precludes you from reading.

I would have spent most of the time playing video games, as I in fact did during college, but I wouldn't have done any getting into trouble. This would have been largely unproductive, much like attending high school was.
I hesitate to describe myself as a smart kid, but I wish I couldn've skipped most of my formal education.

I ended up making a living from the things I was doing outside of school, and wish I had been able to pursue those things more, and with less guilt and shame.

I'm still unlearning a lot of the bad habits and dealing with the anxiety I developed when trying to deal with school. Sigh. It's not a huge deal, there are worse problems in the world, but it upsets me to know that there must be others like me going through this year after year.
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I skipped half of middle school and high school, I think it paid off. I have a great job and a jumping off point for whatever ambitions I might have.
Say you could accelerate a ~1g camera to 0.2c.

I don't know how to do general (hard) AI, but if I did, I can't think of a fundamental reason I couldn't shrink the AIs down to ~1g and make them able to survive 60,000G. So you could send a bunch of AIs on a 20 year trip to Alpha Centauri.

I would imagine Stephen Hawking has already put two and two together in this way; he often warns that humans should leave Earth to avoid extinction.

Even if we can't colonize other stars with people within this century, AIs could be thriving there within that timeframe. At least our "descendants" (the AIs) would be protected from extinction (by redundancy across stars).
StarOffice 5.1 run fine on a Pentium 133MHz on Win95. It come from a German company which got bought buy Novell and rebranded and open sourced as OpenOffice 1x.

Comparing StarOffice 5.1 and LibreOffice 4, lottle has changed. Well, the same can be said between Office 97 and Office 2016. The office suits were already feature complete in the late nineties, and conceptional issues still plague us 20 year later, as those programs saw only increamental improvements. While StarOffice was in good shape, OpenOffice was always in more rough shape, but nowadays LibreOffice cares more to deliver a more polished UX.
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Ok, so you notice you lose "some" meaning. The question is, how much? One way to find out is to read something the fast way and then the slow way and pay attention to how much is new the second time. Have you tried this, or perhaps some other way to see how much meaning gets lost?

As for comparing reading speed to talking speed (audio books and lectures): of course talking is slower than reading, even if you don't speed read.
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I agree. Despite going to one of the best public high schools in the country I don't remember learning much of anything. Looking back on it it was more like a very pleasant teenage internment camp. Parts of it were fun, the drugs and alcohol being a highlight. Going to school high or getting high at school was pretty fun. Sometimes competing with other students on the tests without studying or doing any of the homework was fun. But I imagine I could have had a lot more fun and learned a lot more elsewhere.
John Taylor Gatto [1] says that it's more important to skip as much of the early years of schooling as possible. If the child spends that time in the real world, nothing of importance will be missed. For me, kindergarten was incredibly boring... Nothing of importance to me was ever learned at school, that couldn't have been learned quicker on my own.

[1] http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
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It also makes it more expensive. A freight train is more efficient in terms of cost per unit of mass moved, but few can afford one, and you'd need to have a lot of things in need of moving to even bother. Decentralized power is cheaper, not on the per-"unit of power" basis, but in terms of absolute numbers for real (albeit small and local) problems that it can solve for a price.

Such corruption, because it deals with those small and local problems, is mostly contained. But if you happen to be within its scope, it can be just as much, if not more, of a problem, than corruption on higher levels (because it immediately affects the things that happen around you in day-to-day life).
>> Of course, speed reading gets some meaning lost.

The whole premise of this article is that it does not, that "speed reading" is reading faster without losing meaning, and this is precisely what most people cannot actually do.

The author calls the activity you are referring to "skimming", and says it is what most people do.
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I'm a Dropbox employee. Yeah, it's not fun to see your valuation go down when equity is part of your compensation.

But I was previously an Amazon employee (also compensated in equity) and got to watch the stock value change on a daily basis. Sometimes it would pop after quarterly results, sometimes fall, but more than either of those it would change due to macroeconomic forces that were completely independent of the company's performance.

Setting aside the market forces outside our control, As a Dropbox employee I actually feel pretty good. We have a business model that is based on people paying us for value we create directly with our products and I'm excited about what's in the pipeline.
The most superficial access, combined with the apathy of their constituents on an issue is more then enough to get a politician to support your cause.

Alternatively, you can always threaten to fund someone else in the next party primaries/election.
> the billions of dollars he has wouldn't exist

It's definitely true. No bill gates, no Microsoft. No word processors, no spread sheets, no Microsoft access. No desk top operating systems. No compilers, no IDE's. No internet.

Would have been terrible loss for humanity if the man had gotten hit by a truck in 1975.
I don't know that I 'speed' read, but I read rather quickly, enough so that I detest any kind of video explanation because I would have finished reading it by the time they finished mumbling some pointless introductory nonsense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11504102
That's a strange sentiment to hear, and somewhat disheartening. Minecraft servers are easy to set up, and can easily run in the background of an old server or PC.

I've been running one for over a year on my gaming PC and home internet connection.
That isn't what it's for. You can assume the government (really any government) has control over at least one CA.

What Let's Encrypt does against state-level actors is let people easily use HTTPS instead of HTTP without subjecting their users to self-signed certificate warnings.

A government could still MITM the connection but that requires an active attack rather than passive surveillance. And active attacks are subject to detection. So it protects against undetectable mass surveillance.
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Are you serious?

"X" is pretty great nowadays, you just need to enable some obscure option.

And that's the problem of linux. It's like that for everything.
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It may be better to let a task wait briefly on the run queue rather than bringing a processor out of sleep mode. That requires a cost/benefit calculation. That's a lot to ask of a scheduler.

Unidirectional interprocess communication forces this issue to come up frequently. The pattern "send on pipe A, wait for pipe B" to a process that is waiting on pipe A and will reply on pipe B implies that, for a very short period between the send and the wait, there are two processes ready to run. Starting one of them on another CPU is suboptimal, and waking up a sleeping CPU is even worse. You're really doing an interprocess subroutine call, but the OS does not know this. (As I point out occasionally, QNX, with MsgSend/MsgReceive and a scheduler that understands them, does this much better.)
Also, the part about not listening to stuff at double speed. As if all recordings (and thus people speaking) were using the same speed. Sure, there are people who talk too fast anyway, but I've had an online course where I had to move to 1.5x speed to even be able to follow along and not drift off constantly...
That would allow the government to issue new certificates, not to decrypt traffic to sites using letsencrypt certificates. Active man in the middle attacks are rather noisy, and things like HPKP exist to prevent such attacks
If you haven't already, please read Matt Taibbi's Griftopia:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003F3FJS2/ref=dp-kindle-re...

He covers the nitty gritty details on mortgage collapse in an approachable and enlightening fashion. His book lends weight to your assertion about coastal discord.
I gotta know where VC dimension is used in the real world.
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There have been times when I felt I would be more productive doing something else, at different phases of life.

Statements like this article's really depend on what someone's end goal is. If you are striving for some kind of above average monetary success ... earlier, there's nothing about this that guarantees it. If you aren't, then you need a different end goal to make this useful.
I feel you omitted one of the best parts of the talk. When he is explaining the palette techniques used in the X-Men Storm game where a single image can be clouds, trees or a cityscape with just a palette swap. I actually let out a small gasp when he went over that, really impressive.

(this part is about 12 minutes in)
Im going to take a different position. I think school is valuable. But only because it informs you about a curriculum and subjects you might not know exist.

People are smart. But people need to figure out what they can be geniuses at. If we remove opportunity in this way, we absolutely must find an alternative to telling people what they dont know they dont know about.
I've tried Ubuntu 15.04 for dev work last year and had two issues:

- I miss all the third-party Mac dev software. Git Tower, Kaleidoscope, Viscosity, Fantastical, OmniFocus... This is what has locked me into OS X for a decade now (starting with TextMate).

- The trackpad drivers for my MacBook Air are terrible. I couldn't get palm rejection to work. I think I wasn't happy with the Magic Trackpad either. I don't want to go back to mice...

The software issue sounds really hard to fix unless porting to Linux via OpenStep(?) becomes a thing.
In this talk he goes into detail about the Thimbleweed Park art he made and how he uses Photoshop to pull off pixel art techniques far more efficiently.
That's like saying that the obvious solution to foreign energy dependence is to make it easier to buy foreign oil.

The problem isn't unmet demand, the problem is dependence and the power dynamic that creates.
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I enabled 2FA, logged out of iCloud on my iPhone, then logged back in. It asked me for the "password" on my Macbook Pro. What? How would Apple have access to a user password on my MBP? I have multiple users on my MBP... what would happen if I were logged into the same iCloud account with two different users?
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Ask HN: Is tradepub.com in anyway connected to HN?
Is tradepub.com in anyway connected to HN? The reason I ask is that I stumbled upon this page:

http://thehackernews.tradepub.com/free-offer/2016-top-trending-government-technology-resources/w_bund15?sr=hicat&_t=hicat:1204

Which in turn brought me to this page:

https://thehackernews.com/
> Good point about macros, maybe I can have a look later. Macros and include feel like they fill the same spot in my mind in terms of features so I'd rather not have both.

You could always repurpose includes as imports, i.e. not generate any output from imports, but to allow their use as purely an organizational tool for importing macros.
No, the laser would point in the general direction of the sun and as long as Earth is within the cone it has the potential to detect the signal. The laser just happens to focus all of its energy in one narrow cone as opposed to all directions.
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Is this like saying "Rich people should hoard their wealth"?

There is something to be said for Smart kids being at school both receive and PROVIDE benefit to/from the other students.

But I guess, who cares about dumb kids, who had less opportunity than the smart ones? They'll get a better draw next life!
Terrible? Horrible! :)

Any how, the 3th world would still be poor in either scenario. People have been trying to solve inequality for a long time. There seems to be no real political solution like communism or the likes.

The only thing one can do is willing to share some. I'm from the Netherlands and pay about 50% income tax. I don't complain. We have good free education for everyone, good healthcare for everyone, and people without a job get their unemployment benefits.

In the US people seem to vote mostly on candidates who promise less and less tax. How can you get people willing to share? Why are some people never satisfied with what they have? Why is having a big car more status than having 2 happy children? I don't understand these things...
No phonograph or light bulb on the original list? How odd.
Just on this a+b issue. I think the +b is the most objectionable part of the whole thing and I wish people would not propose a return to shorter terms but include that as a sop.

My reasoning is this. If I publish something, and claim copyright on it '(c) yyyy' for example. Then, after yyyy+a years it could be known by all to be copyright free, because you have the original published document in your hand which states the start date and the term is known. With the possible +b included, it becomes difficult to determine what the copyright status is because you don't know if it has been 'extended' so you really need to wait until after yyyy+a+b. With the current system of life+b then its even harder to know if a published work is out of copyright unless the author is well known, and because this suits the entrenched interests I believe that it is at least partially intentional.

If pirate parties or anybody else want to campaign for copyright reform, then my utmost wish would be that they fix this issue at the start. Lets have a fixed term please.
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Interest rates in the UK are 0.5% and have been for 7 years now. These low interest rates, while necessary for the real economy with inflation near zero, support extremely high house prices. Mortgage interest payments substitute for rent so low rates imply high prices.

As a renter without much in the way of assets a high inflation high interest rate regime is really beneficial. Higher rates would mean lower prices (thus lower required deposits) and high inflation would mean quickly building equity.
Could I instead have had the curriculum at my own pace?

Really it should just be a national, fully open, stack. No expensive text books (there's a nice racket) / etc.

Not just high school, but all of it. If we need to have 'learning centers' where parents can warehouse their kids while going to work, lets just fund that with those results in mind, and have additional tutors (maybe other students for extra credit, based off of the realistic improvement rate in the grades of those tutored) for those who aren't advancing quickly enough.

Of course, full boarding that the kids can opt in to (for predictable meals and escape from abusive situations) could also help.
There's already a name for it: skimming
Yeah, listening is very different from reading. Most audiobooks I play at 1.5x-2x because narrations are usually super slow.
Dad and mom did this to me and my sister, and dad wrote a blog on it. Here is his post-mortem:

http://chapmankids.net/blog/why-not-skip-high-school-a-serie...

Skipping high school may not be bad idea, even for the not-extremely-gifted.
Interesting that they left Edison off the list.
It takes a long time to learn enough and accumulate enough experience to have a high chance of doing something new. Not saying you can't do it young since many obviously do, but this doesn't surprise me at all.

I also think that youthful rebellion is a bit of a myth. The youth often rebel how, against, and in the ways they are told to rebel by elder philosophers and polemicists. It also often takes a lifetime to genuinely critique your culture in a way that is truly incisive.

I think Tim Leary was joking about this with "don't trust anyone over 40." He was over 40.