skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Self-directed learning can take you really far, but it isn't right for everyone: mostly individuals who can truly direct themselves and have the kinds of interests that are condusive to broad understanding and knowledge.

I agree with the sentiment here, but I wonder if it wouldn't be more accurate to say it would be for everyone, except that some people have already had their natural driven curiosity ground out of them by sour experiences at school or poor home life prior to getting the change to try this.
These documents sound legit, but methinks Alan Nelson doth protest too much.

All Oxfordians (people who believe "Shakespeare" was a beard/pen name for Edward de Vere) agree that Shakespeare was an actor, ie, "player." It's also well-known that acting was a low-status occupation in Elizabethan society, explaining why people mocked Shakespeare's coat of arms.

Writing, especially writing erudite verse in the Tudor court style, was not a low-status occupation in Elizabethan society. Anonymity/pseudonymity was not universal, but common.

So an Oxfordian would ask: why is Shakespeare, as a social climber, awarded arms for a low-status profession that's considered basically artisanal in caste, leading to general mockery, when in fact he practices the high-status profession of courtly playwright/poet?

Social climbers were not at all unheard of in the Elizabethan world. What is unheard of is a social climber who is not a social lion, whose resume is well-attested, whose presence and personality is constantly documented -- like, say, Ben Jonson.

Doctors say: when you hear hoofbeats, think horses. Maybe Shakespeare wasn't a social climber at all, but remained a country bumpkin his whole life, as he moved from stagehand to actor to what we'd now call a producer? Maybe the plays and sonnets read like late Tudor court poetry because they are late Tudor court poetry? Maybe, like much Tudor court poetry, it was written pseudonymously, not for publication?

The one coincidence that Oxfordians have to explain is how Vere wound up publishing under the name of this real individual, Shakespeare. Who (like Vere himself, of course) was involved in the theater world. Pseudonyms are typical in Tudor court poetry, but "beards" aren't.

My guess, an idea I've never seen anyone else broach for obvious reasons, is that Will Shakespeare's first occupation when he came to London was... male prostitute. Again, when you hear hoofbeats, think horses. Maybe Vere just thought this week's boy had a pretty name.

Here's some Tudor court poetry, by the way:

http://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/what-is-desire-by-edw...

Note the second stanza, which sounds exactly like Shakespeare to my ear. No one else from the period sounds like this. An Oxfordian would call this Shakespearean juvenilia.
Personally I prefer a link to the repository instead of the README. I like to scan the project structure as I scroll down to the README and it also gives me a chance to see how active the project is since GH shows when each file/folder was lost modified.
I think the focus was on the temporary employment part. The government does not need fly-by-night developers who come in when things are completely broken. they need a strong technical core that builds things well and with low costs the first time.
I thought someone had found that while "fMRI showed motor signals arising before the cognitive / conscious signals" that they also had found that we could choose to negate/override that signal thus allowing free will. That is free will was expressed by overriding the default.
> It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD.

Ok fair enough, but the same can be said about manual v automatic transmissions, static versus interpreted languages, etc.

When something is harder to use then you're forced to think about it more and understand it better.
See Causality by Judea Pearl.
Traditional medicine is an official term: http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/definitions/e...

Vaccines are interesting, since they don't directly solve the problem, but aid your body in helping itself.

I concede antibiotics and joint reconstruction. However, we've only begun to scratch the surface of what's possible. As a society, we shouldn't limit ourselves to only what is taught in a medical degree.
There is an optical camera on board, did it send any close up jupiter pictures this first go-around?
Popular YouTubers and Valve caught in underage gambling scandal
Video discussing the situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0

Counter-Strike player files suit against Valve over ‘illegal gambling’ surrounding CSGO
http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/23/12020154/counter-strike-csg...

http://www.pcgamer.com/youtuber-admits-that-his-csgo-skin-be...

Previous Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11971880
If I am going to trust you my API I want to know that you have top notch SLAs on your service, and since I am providing the code you are going to want to monitor the heck out of it so that you know that in case of failure whose fault it is.
If facebook, google, twitter and others are able to run their world scale software on OSS solutions without being hacked, I am sure that OSS can power some national scale software as well.
According to the press conference, all non essential instruments were turned off 5 days ago.
>>What was her degree? Demanding maths when it's not needed by practitioners in a degree subject area seems perverse to me [I love maths FWIW].

Degree is inconsequential. I'd say "if she is a human, she will do better by learning math rather than not doing it."

How so?

Maths is more about "thinking creatively, clearly and critically about things that are complex and abstract" rather than about doing "arithmetic". And I guess, "thinking creatively, clearly and critically about things that are complex and abstract" is a very essential thing in human life. The entire human progress depended upon this skill and in fact, the very survival of humans depended upon this skill in the earlier world which was very hostile for humans.

Now coming back to the issue of having to do long division in early childhood: yes, it may be the case that you don't need to do long division (later) in your life even for once. Long division may not be that important but the concept of division (and remainder) is very important in our life.

Why is it important to learn division along many other complex (boring) topics in math? It's to hone your skills to "think creatively, clearly and critically about things that are complex and abstract".

Proofs in geometry and algebra help you more in this conquest. Sadly, most mainstream schools these days take out the creative challenges and motivational aspects from the math education and stuff it with mundane procedures to be followed like rituals. Sadly again, the much-tauted non-standard schools (like Waldorf, Sudbury etc) do away with the math almost entirely and which is very detrimental to academic progress of the kids.

edit: corrected some grammatical errors.
The thing about someone on their deathbed is that they have no skin in the game. It's the polar opposite of egotism.

I'm guessing you don't agree with his thinking. When you are on your deathbed, I'll give your opinion equal credence.
Makes sense, thanks. There are so many extensions where I could see this adding a lot of overhead for tooling.

Still, I love the experimental nature of the language which this promotes. A worthy tradeoff given Haskell is typically an experience developers language who (should) know how to handle such responsibility.
You did better than my domain finder(http://DomainKush.com) side project :) Btw, multiple names suggested by namebird could also be drug names(pharmas pay a lot of money in settling on the right name.)
Here I was thinking that it wasn't ridiculously out of line like some of these urban farming projects. Looking at the farms for sale in my area, there's a traditional land-based dairy farm in a rural area – with 50kg of quota (approximately 50 cows) – listed at $4M Canadian dollars, or just shy of €2.8M at the current exchange rate.
Your first paragraph perfectly captures how I felt when I attempted to work through Linear Algebra Done Right, by Sheldon Axler. It's an awesome book, and the derivations and exercises show the beauty of maths.

But I had no mental model on which to hang the various results, and struggled to keep it all in my head, particularly after a break of a few weeks. IIRC, I stopped around the point when eigenvectors are introduced.

Oh, and please share examples of your coding+learning approach :)
Interesting, but it doesn't mention Kuhn.

Also, there's seems to be some attachment to the idea that truth can be proven.
Didn't JCPenney try this? Didn't it go very poorly for them?
Show HN: BooksbrowserXYZ – First side project after career change
Published papers became the University's hire metric. So now work is focused on publishing.

The "hire metric" problem seems to have poisoned all jobs, science work not exempt.
What's the magic formula they came up with where every single member is receiving precisely the same cost/benefits, and no one is getting even the slightest free ride?
Yeah, the book is great! Thanks.
Yes, a little bit old but I condiere (modestly) a little bit opportune to remember ;)
In fact, some do not know :D
No, your comment is pretty clearly about modern medicine. Traditional medicine is a little more rooted in tradition (from your link):

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/66783/1/WHO_EDM_TRM...

Things like herbal therapies and acupuncture and so on.
"academics with a talent for research but not for teaching"

Apparently, good teaching doesn't require specific talent. It is a learned skill: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21700383-what-matters-...
I was a long-time FreeBSD user. Started using it in college and continued for a long time. I started using Linux because I had bought myself a new laptop and BSD didn't recognize the wifi card. I continued using FreeBSD at home for a few more years on my webserver before ultimately moving to dreamhost (I just didn't have the time to keep maintaining my own server).

I like using Linux, but I still miss the predictability of a BSD system - you know where things are, and where they are supposed to be. When I first started using Linux, I was absolutely flummoxed by the lack of distinction between the base system and add-on utilities.

Linux definitely feels more "organic" and "grown" whereas FreeBSD seems like it was architected and planned out. Not that this is a bad thing for Linux. My FreeBSD heritage still shines through when I use Linux; anything I install from source sits in /usr/local :).
James Blachowicz, professor emeritus of philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of science according to his Loyola page wrote "Of Two Minds: The Nature of Inquiry". I found 51 references to Popper searching the book on Amazon. I'm not a philosophy expert, but based on this article and wikipedia information about Popper and falsifiability, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest this guy actually knows what he's talking about and perhaps some of the commenters here aren't up to date on the science of philosophy issues he is addressing.
Got it, we will add this information and post it when it's up.
You are right, long division is not very fundamental but the concept of division is.

I have addressed this issue in a comment in a thread here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12034345
"Happily" may be an overstatement. I'm a Prime member, but some of the more recent changes have felt like they're designed to cheat me out of what I payed for. From "add-on items" (designed to avoid having to pay the cost of shipping them to Prime members for free) to wildly deceptive definitions of "two-day shipping", Amazon is more unpleasant to use than it's ever been for me.
Personally, though I find disrespectful, as a French person, that the two nations of the Triple Entente to suffer the most casualties are "available as a DLC", my major problem with the "historical accuracy not included" attitude is that I doubt most people who are going to play that know much of anything about WWI, and this will likely lead to the same kind of myth you have about WWII (ie, "the USA and to a lesser extent the UK did most of the job on the European theater").
The Real Windows 10 Tweaking Guide 2016 by Usb
I think you are making it out to be a lot worse than it is. Simply filtering your search to only products shipped from and sold by Amazon.com eliminates all the garbage.
This sentence turned me off: "While harassment is still common, women are banding together to expose it—and hold men accountable. ..."

I have seen man on man sexual harassment in the workplace and girl on girl harassment. (Entertainment workplace) In Ellen Pao's universe men are always offenders and are always crass, garish and guilty.
I'm proposing that Amazon merges the products, and for new products the sellers would be forced to tie it to the existing product. Amazon can enforce this without too much work, I'd think. Just do some image comparisons, have a "report duplicate" button, and a small team of people monitoring.
Right, but this wouldn't be as big of a problem for science if it weren't for the fact that the tradition of scientific journals was already focused on publishing positive results.

There are efforts underway that may eventually change this (Open Data, Open Publishing, pre-print servers, etc.), but it's a big ship to turn.
A consistently designed well-documented system is probably easier to use, all else being equal.
Juno enters Jupiter's orbit (NYTimes)
> when you hear hoofbeats, think horses

Ok. I think the works authored under the name "Shakespeare" were indeed written by Shakespeare.
Is it even interesting to worry about the mistakes novice programmers make? Novice programmers are learning programmers.

What matters more is the mistakes that people continue to make even after they are not novices.
In day to day use I agree, although it is harder to get exotic software to work on the BSDs.
But that's a video game that purports to celebrate grand theft auto (among other lawlessness). Is the OP's purpose to simulate the commission of a felony? Because those who believe in encryption for everyone believe that encrypted chat should not be a felony.
BSD has a wonderful, unified events system. That incorporates blocking disk IO. Linux has epoll.

https://www.nginx.com/blog/why-netflix-chose-nginx-as-the-he...
And chain even retains some connotations to "felon" ... ;-)

Seriously, though, "freechain" strikes a nice balance between being a new term, and hinting at what the use-case is.
Yes, in fact Torvald and community (in the other OS hand) understood it, but particularly I fun to play with Linux and BSD both options are strongly valid.
Hey Tejas, I see your name is in the screenshot ;)
I launched https://neocities.org about three years ago on HN. It's still going strong. I strongly believe the site would not have taken off without going viral on HN. That initial boost put things in the right trajectory for orbit.

Seriously, thank you. It was really helpful.
NASA is definitely hitting its stride on the PR side, considering the date. Good for them.
I see.

So are you opposed to accessibility laws, which require businesses to spend money to adhere to additional building codes, in order to accommodate the disabled?
Juno probe enters into orbit around Jupiter
Deep learning part 2: Implementing a retrieval based model
Finding a job where you're a good fit isn't easy either. I'm somewhat temperamental; in a job where I'm uninterested, it's easy to be the worst performer. In an interesting job (for me, these are often what others consider difficult), it's easy to perform several times as well as most others and be the top performer by a wide margin. Admittedly, my ADHD may give me a higher spread than most people, but I imagine it affects everyone to some degree.
I am working on a Reddit/HN clone (far more the latter than the former) written in Hack with XHP.

I don't have a target, I doubt many people will even like it or be interested in it. I needed to have more VM knowledge for employment reasons, and I wanted to play around with Hack for a while but couldn't follow tutorials for Windows without knowing Vagrant, so I decided to scratch two itches by teaching myself both Vagrant and Hack with a single project.

Technologies: HHVM, Hack, XHP, MySQL. Unfortunately, I can't find anywhere to host it, but I will probably post it either way once the code looks presentable.

Also, I've been teaching myself the fundamentals of game development in C++ and SDL. I started in January but progress on what is in theory a bog-standard 2d shooter is incredibly slow, because I take tangents for weeks working on all of the SDL and vector related libraries I've written around it. I recently got a camera and scrolling working[0], which I'm actually proud of (although admitting that here just shows what a novice I am.)

Technologies: C++

Target Audience: People who like simple, sprite based games. So probably no one.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxluEUEp_Po
Modern Activism – Travelling for Spite
Ninja Prison Breakout: Jail Fighting 3D
I feel this captures a lot of the feel I had for FreeBSD even back in 2001 when I used it quite a lot. It had a sense that you were chiseling out this solid system that would remain for eternity, along with an assurance of security and stability.

I run Ubuntu now on multiple devices. It often has a feel of flimsy binary patches. I don't know that I care too much though as it works well. I have family members too on it so it is good to remain practiced with it to help them.

I miss playing with FreeBSD though! Perhaps I should run it on one of my RPis? Anyway, this is a great site.
New based on what?
Linking to Amazon because...? Is this just a new way to browse Amazon?
From the paper:

1. Introduction

Knowledge about students’ mistakes and the time taken
to fix errors is useful for many reasons. For example, Sadler
et al [10] suggest that understanding student misconceptions
is important to educator efficacy. Knowing which mistakes
novices are likely to make or finding challenging informs the
writing of instructional materials, such as textbooks, and
can help improve the design and impact of beginner’s IDEs
or other educatoinal programming tools.

In other words, yes, understanding what types of errors novice programmers make can be very interesting and useful.
I think the best, and most traditional, comparison is the Cathedral and the Bazaar[1]. Pretty much every observation the author makes can be framed in this comparison. BSD has built-in libraries, and has a cohesive architecture. Linux is popular precisely because of its chaos. It is incredibly easy to hack some feature together in Linux. It will probably start out as ugly, but if enough people glom onto it, it will become great and maybe even secure. It is pretty clear that Linux became popular not because it was the best, but because it was the fastest development path.

Obviously BSD has its uses, but if you're looking to develop a new feature and get it out the door (in OS development) Linux is the easiest choice.

[1]ESM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

Edit:

I remember reading somewhere that Netflix uses BSD for all of its net-intensive servers as network performance tuning on BSD is, at least by reputation, better, but they use Linux as their workhorse. They employ some FreeBSD committers though (obviously not everyone can do that).
I thought some on Hackernews would enjoy my spiteful petty activism and silly adventure.
I know Linux (Debian) quite well and would like an excuse to try learning FreeBSD, but I just can't find any serious use-cases where FreeBSD would be of any advantage.

I run a small site on a VPS, so:

1. I don't have GBs of free memory for ZFS

2. I don't have GB of RAM, CPU and HD space to build everything from ports, and most importantly, no need.

Except for an Application Firewall for nginx, what does ports have over deb packages? All in all, how much MB of free RAM or free HD space will I win by compiling everything myself (taking time to do so, and pushing off security updates because I don't have the time to sit and watch the compilation, hoping nothing breaks (which _did_ happen once)

3. License - I don't care. GPL is free enough for me.

4. Base vs. Ports - Why should I care? Debian (testing!) is stable enough for me. Except for dist-upgrades, I never ran into issues, and then it may be faster to nuke the server from orbit. Now had BSD "appified" the /usr/local directory (rather than keeping the nginx binary in /usr/local/bin and conf in /usr/local/conf it would have kept everything related to nginx in a /usr/local/nginx) it would have been interesting, but now?

If anything, I like how Debian maintains both base and ports, so I can get almost any software I need from apt-get, and don't have to worry about conflicts.

5. systemd? The reason Debian went with systemd was (IIRC) because they didn't have the manpower to undo all of RedHat's work in forcing all applications to integrate into systemd (such as GNOME). I don't know how FreeBSD is doing in that regard.

I don't mind learning new systems. (see my username :) ). I actually understand what nixos or coreos, for example, bring to the table. But FreeBSD?
There is reason, though. For example, there is stigma against chiropractors [1]. Some nutritional supplements have been found a scam (rightly so), but the baby got thrown out with the bathwater [2].

Have you heard of sound therapy? Laser therapy? NLP? These are therapies you probably would never hear at a traditional doctor's office.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-are-chiropractors-not-considered-r...
[2] http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/altmed.htm...
It's not a security hole and it's not a bug. Wget even prints out all the things that are happening. Everybody seems to be grasping at straws right now just to be able to make the next branded vulnerability.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
Wait till you see a rust-style datatype polymorphic over 4 parameters, and use that type over and over again. Haskell syntax may not make much sense coming from algol-inspired syntax, but to express its patterns it makes sense otherwise you end up with scala type lambda madness.

Both purescript and agda have this
I was participant in a study in linguistics [1] that compared native Polish and native German speakers who were put into an fRMI and played speech sounds. Both Polish and German ones.

It clearly showed that speech sounds from your native language are processed in a different part of the brain than non-native speech sounds.

Yes, that does not explain much. But it leads towards all kinds of questions. And I found that fascinating.

[1] Silvia Lipski, Neurosci Lett. 2007 Mar 19, „A Magnetoencephalographic study on auditory processing of native and nonnative fricative contrasts in Polish and German listeners.“