skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> answer detailed questions in order to evaluate the percentage of your comprehension

Did you consider the possibility that they rigged the test? You read a difficult text at your normal slow rate, and you score 90% comprehension. Then they give you an easy text to speed read, and surprise-surprise, you score 90% on the easy test.

Or they could give you a difficult text but ask easy questions about it. There are so many ways to cheat the methodology.

I'm wondering if a speed reading course is going to do objective tests on its paying customers.

Funny story: I once saw a Rubik's Cube competition in which players were competing to see who solved it the fastest. There were 3 rounds to competition, and in each round all the players got a freshly scrambled cube (each players' cube scrambled the same way of course). In the 1st round, the fastest player took about a minute; in the 2nd round, 45 seconds, and in the 3rd round, someone solved it in 20 seconds!

It was obvious to me that the competition organizers had chosen highly disordered cubes for the 1st round and less disordered cubes for the 3rd round. They rigged the test because they want more drama for the final round.
"Every frozen corpse on the Himalayas was once a highly motivated person"
The authors seem to assume that there's a spiral arm pattern that rotates coherently. What's the evidence for that?
http://ledger-cli.org
Also check out pymux: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/pymux
I did that regularly. Twice per year I pruned my FB lists. Nowadays I have but 25% of max. friend-count left.

That for me works much better. Non the less does FB loose more and more appeal to me. Trivial BS being shoved down my throat is just not valuable to me.
Just skip anything that's on an .io TLD. You'll be fine.

It's probably a Heartbleed style GitHub Pages site for the latest bloat-free Rust rewrite of leftpad, anyway

@jpatters: if you care about this, move it to a .com. I winced.
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You're just arguing that dumping can be fought with dumping and hence it's not rational for economic agents to engage in dumping. When did a rational argument stop the market from doing something?
Unless you're building apps for iOS or designing things in Photoshop/Illustrator, any form of computer running Linux will do.
Bash on Windows might also become a thing once it gets stable, at which point you can choose any form of hardware you want because Windows supports literally everything.

I'm curious why you need a Mac to get things done? Unless your work involves iOS development or a lot of Photoshopping, a standard Ubuntu Desktop installation should do just fine.
Could "one recent paper" be http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04723 ?
+1, I expected some software toolset for managing natural parks or the wood industry, at most.
If you can find them, but not everyone can.

They don't usually dub shows here - so many adult shows are in English. I think a good part of the movies produced are in English, and they stick Norwegian subtitles on the screen, which most folks ignore. I've found that they aren't exactly word for word - instead they are adjusted for style and culture at times. I'd have had some thing completely wrong on my own.

Children's shows on the state TV channels (think BBC for Norway) were the best find. Clear language without heavy dialects (some norwegians cannot understand each other's dialects well) plus subtitles if I wanted, transcripts on the website, and simple language. And always dubbed - kids don't start learning English until around 6 years old. Video games are usually in English. I spent many hours watching Spiderman cartoons.

However, I've met plenty of people that learned English solely through television shows and movies.
Ontario has it posted prominently. The top Google result is the official PDF. It's only 76 pages.

BC's page has an FAQ saying public library and that its over 1400 pages.
ClojureScript, WebWorkers and WebGL
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I'm not mistaken about the meaning of teenager but eiter my writing is unclear or some people are obsessed with reading it as me recommending child labour.

The "work" part is about consultants.

The "friends" part is about mine and relatives kids.

No, I do not try to extract value from kids.

And the youngest person I have seen coding anything useful was a 16 year that managed to complete 70+ days of effective 9-5 work in 14 afternoons.

He got a nice job (at well above market rate IIRC) at the compiler division at one of the big IT companies after finishing his bachelors degree a few years later.
I've got a i7-2600K that's overclocked to 4.8GHz with liquid cooling. It's been running on that clockrate for about 3 years now with no issues, with stable temperatures.
I do it through a bank + spreadsheets. Even though I live in France currently, I mostly keep my money in JPY and USD since this is the money I get from customers. I used to have more Euros but got scared before the Brexit vote and decided not to have too much liquidity in Euros for now. I do own an apartment in a EU country so I'm still invested in the EU going well.

In term of investments, I tend to prefer long term investments rather than short terms one. I've bought some apple shares which I don't touch and I have invested in some index funds.

I do have an accountant to keep my company's book.

I do not expect to be able to get pension from my country by the time I retire so I save and make sure that I'll have enough to live by that time. To that end, I live well below my means and try to save 60% of my income each months.

This does mean that I have a relatively small apartment, that I do not splurge on restaurants and that I tend to not want to buy stuff (this is connected to the fact that I like not having much clutter in my life). I strongly believe that it's easier to continue having the same lifestyle as you did when you started working than returning to a cheaper lifestyle after having had a taste of luxury. So I avoid luxury for now.

In term of spreadsheets, I maintain two spreadsheets.

1. Recurring income and expenses. This allows me to track recurring expenses and decide or not to cut them. I make sure to review it every 2 months

2. Investment spreadsheets, this is a spreadsheet I use to track the different investments I do and the monthly return I get on them. I only review them once a month because I do not want to make impulsive decisions regarding my investments. I've found that it's too easy to panic and make bad decisions and it's also healthier not to worry constantly about one's investment. I probably leave money on the table because of this but it's the choice for me (and then again I have less risk of losing everything).

In term of credit card spending, I set a limit as to what I spend every month and will only really analyze my spendings if I near that limit.

EDIT: Quick hint for people who need to deal with multiple currencies, it's worth looking at a specialized service like Currencies Direct (but there are many others), they tend to give much better rates than banks. I've saved over $1000 this year by doing this.
I think people wouldn't comment on it if the author didin't decide to be obnoxious condescending dick about it.
> Edit: I wonder why this submission was flagged? Too contentious?

That, as well as the clickbait title, plus it's missing a (2007) tag. When it was submitted back in '07 the article received several hundred points and a lively discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589346

I was hoping there would be interesting discussion today but this time users are willing to flag it and move on, no time to leave a comment.
Good job. The UI looks really nice. The ability to upload it to lots of different endpoints allows for so much flexibility.

I've just uploaded a Jekyll site, but it failed, the error message could have been more descriptive.
I've been considering building a hackintosh again given the anemic status of Apple's desktops (the current Mini is lousy value for money). Only thing really stopping me is the rather bulky form factor (my current mini fits snugly under the shelf that holds my monitors).

All in all, things are vastly improved these days. Apple tends to use more off-the-shelf hardware, which means there's a lot less hacking going on if you hand-pick components (like a few others here, I ran OS X on a Dell Mini 9, but I also did that on Toshiba laptops, Dell desktops and a number of 'near-Macs' which had compatible motherboards and video cards). You can keep such a machine stable for years if you know what you're doing, but yes, things can go spectacularly wrong.

Then again, considering that I mostly did nuke & pave upgrades of most of my Linux machines due to accumulation of various kinds of cruft, a couple of those hacks were probably easier to maintain.
IIRC ARM TrustZone is not a TMP chip, just some software. And the other day we read that people managed to break it, possibly affecting many Android devices.
Yep. LibreOffice works... except when it doesn't. Similarly, getting Ubuntu 16's AMD drivers to work well is a clusterfuck and a half.

Linux fits 99% of my use cases, and the other 1% is unbelievably frustrating.
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Interesting. My friends in the Philippines also are among the most frequent sharers on my News Feed as well!
The Price of a Child (2013)
Because I want full integration with a Git CLI that uses the exact same plugins as I use in Linux. Git on Windows is a pain for me.
My reference to the american continents is what in science is called a demonstration by analogy. What about dark matter ? Is that mental gymnastic ? This is pure rational and objective logic.

Prove me wrong on anything and I will be glad to reconsider my actual understanding of things. My goal is getting closer to the truth without making errors. Rejecting hypothesis whose validity is UNKNOWN is taking a risk of making an error. And this is what I don't want.
The problem is, many adblockers also have a feature to disable certain DOM nodes inside websites, to avoid embedded ads or remove anti-adblockers. So you'd also need an API to filter out certain selectors... And the list of specialized APIs could continue on and on.
Note the may part of my answer.

Also note the answer that points out underhanded ways to leak data.

You then go ahead to recommend just the thing that gp was making fun of: printing and physically altering the document instead of using a software tool.

Basically violent agreement: )
It certainly looks like it... how weird.
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And annoyingly when buying "blueberries" in Denmark, what you expect and what you get a two different berries. We expect to get blueberries like the ones that grow in Sweden, instead we get "American blueberries".

There was a trend a few years ago, where the wonders of blueberries and their antioxidant content. I made people run out to buy blueberries in mass. They just bought the run one, because the claim was only sort of valid for European blueberries and everything in the stores was American blueberries.

I believe that technically they are suppose to mark them as "American blueberries, but no one seems to do that.
You realize there is not a small amount of data regarding racial IQ differences right? It is (was) one of the most studied social science fields before it fell out of fashion.

You also seem to want to reduce something to skin-color that has been scientifically identified as more than skin color.
Java EE was the child of a relationship between SUN and IBM. The latter contributed hugely. IBM and SUN were able to work with each other. IBM and Oracle less so.

IBM WAS used to be a key selling point for IBMs consulting force. But JEE skills and tools are now commodity and WAS is less critical to IBM. It is curious that IBM is investing these days into Swift also targeting servers (https://developer.ibm.com/swift/).

It looks to me at times that both parents are neglecting and considering abandoning the child in the long run.
I feel like unfollow / hide is perfect for this.

I realise that in an ideal world us humans wouldn't click a button and we'd get the prefect endorphin-releasing content 24/7 but at the moment we have to make a bit of a conscious effort and use the tools we are afforded to make the experience better.

If you enjoy Facebook and want to keep in contact with "aquaintances" just spend 20 mins unfollowing and you'll find Facebook is a much nicer place!
What the blockchain could mean for democracy in the digital age
I've been using tmux for years now, and the last time I had to use screen (because it was the only thing pre-installed on a server) it felt like going back to the Dark Ages.

Only gripe I have with it is that copy-paste can be fiddly, but that's terminals for you.
Beware the ‘empathy-washing’ of self-proclaimed caring capitalists
Database died. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5V0TMa0...

The gist of it is:

* Python spends almost all of its time in the C runtime

This means that it doesn't really matter how quickly you execute the "Python" part of Python. Another way of saying this is that Python opcodes are very complex, and the cost of executing them dwarfs the cost of dispatching them. Another analogy I give is that executing Python is more similar to rendering HTML than it is to executing JS -- it's more of a description of what the runtime should do rather than an explicit step-by-step account of how to do it.

Pyston's performance improvements come from speeding up the C code, not the Python code. When people say "why doesn't Pyston use [insert favorite JIT technique here]", my question is whether that technique would help speed up C code. I think this is the most fundamental misconception about Python performance: we spend our energy trying to JIT C code, not Python code. This is also why I am not very interested in running Python on pre-existing VMs, since that will only exacerbate the problem in order to fix something that isn't really broken.
Facebook weighs'share' more than anything else which I don't think is cool. I personally might not want to share a post or anything but it shouldn't mean I don't like it. Yes, interaction is crucial but narrowing it down to just sharing isn't a good measure.
The official explanation by facebook seems to hint at providing monetary benefit to the company by playing on business' money. It seems facebook is running out of funds and is coining out ways to weed out more money from businesses.
Thoughts?
Having spent some time looking at the code of popular Chrome extensions recently I was left really shaken about whats happening under the hood.

Google's position seems to be, if a website can track you and monitor your behavior when you are on the page, then an extension should be able to do so too. But the extensions have a whole lot more capability. They can look at my history, bookmarks, all the fucking tabs I have open and whats happening in each one and send nice reports of to god knows who.

If I download a simple task list extension and every word typed, mouse move, click etc is being sent to Google Analytics I would like to know that! Cause my expectation is its a simple list being stored locally on my device not being shared with anyone. Same goes for history stats extensions. Or reddit\youtube filtering extensions. Every single extension I looked at was hooked up to some analytics framework/cloud backup/sync service or the other. If some third party dev sitting in his mom's basement is collecting all this data. I want to know!

The best was the history stats extension I had installed. Very useful/pretty reports/code on Github/nice backstory about a benevolent developer building something cool for the world in his free time etc. When I dig around the story changes to the dev disappearing after selling it off to shady characters, who then proceed to do things like randomly redirect pages to ad sites.

At install time there is no reason Google can't say this extension uses Google Analytics to track where you are clicking etc and what data and how much data is being sent off everyday to god knows who.
This could be the case, but I do not know any of these people, their names and emails are nothing like mine, and all of these emails are not spam, just people talking to each other about home repairs or the latest one was a LinkedIn Password reset email.
There's also Ahab, who based a fantastic album on the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym[0]. It's sort of halfway between funeral doom and your Isis/Neurosis style stuff.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_(Ahab_album)
Hi Noah,

just a comment from my context. I deal with companies with large SAP and Dynamic AX bases, with telco's that have 30 years legacy systems still live. They will have a hard time to go CD, both cultural and technological.

They should I think - but until then, their problems are not solved with how google, facebook, spotify have built CD and automation in from the start.
Basically, but without the customization.
Symantec Acquires Blue Coat Systems Inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Coat_Systems#Controversy
>> And I will freely assert will accomplish, because humans are awful drivers.

If humans are such awful drivers and replacing them with automation is the moral thing to do, why is it not the moral thing to do to stop them from driving altogether, right now and for the time being, until we have automation that is better than "awful"?

If we're such rubbish drivers that we'll always kill others if we're driving, why are we allow ourselves to drive?
While what you say is totally true, but none of these emails are fishing emails, spam, or anything like that. It's just normal people emailing each other about home repairs, dinner, etc. The latest one was a LinkedIn password reset email, a real one, not a fake one. It was sent to an email address that looks nothing like mine.
I can't see it in the headers, it's possible, but unlikely.
Yes GENERIC has it! But 10.3-RELEASE doesn't have it by default yet, so I had to compile.
The title of the article itself is clickbait, and the article underneath "9 key rules for CEOs to live by" is also clickbait.

One quote from the article is: "The way I would define it is, it has a headline that tries to trick you to read the story and when you get to the story there's nothing of any substance."

And it ends with: "The results are clear: Clicky headlines attract readers. The responsibility of journalists is to make sure there's something worth reading on the other side."

Congratulations Chicago Tribune, you have failed.
Don't forget neercs!

It has the most useful feature of all: a rotating 3D cube.
I honestly do not understand the IoT hate. Yes, there is a lot of insecure devices: mostly the not-cloud ones which needs an open port. But IMHO they provide a lot of value, especially if you are a developer. At least it does for me.
ICBMs in Greenland: Project Iceworm (1960)
Poorly :/ I'm fairly nomadic, and it's a struggle to even keep a debit card that works globally, let alone optimize banking fees and exchange margins. My bills are in 3 different currencies. My backpack is cluttered with change, in currencies that I am unlikely to use anytime soon, but in quantities that make exchanging them pointless.

I really can't wait for digital currencies to penetrate further into mainstream.

Thanks for asking, hopefully I'll spot some good tips here.
This looks great! I'd probably only use it for a real project, if it came with more fine-grained permissions, though. I wouldn't want writers or editors to control pages and chunks, for instance.

Still the best Jekyll CMS I've seen.
> In the face of this complexity, it is not surprising that understanding natural language, in the same way humans do, with computers is still a unsolved problem.

I have the feeling it is not just an unsolved problem, but also an undefined problem.
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Python is high level glue between efficient C functions. It's blindingly fast if you are allowing those efficient C functions to do the heavy lifting. That's why you can do image processing in python, right up until the point where something you need to do doesn't have a ready made primitive and then your program will slow down tremendously if you don't take the time to write the thing you're missing in C.
I'm not sure. My colleague explained me that the main gain came from avoiding to do a malloc in kernel space and a data copy. But it's true also that many small reads in a single block implies many system calls. I don't know the real relative processing cost of these operations.
Have you seen Revolut? It allows you to spend money/convert between currencies very easily and the charges are minimal
Technically, my grandmother went to a camp that was west of proper Siberia. (Something about being family of a war hero in what they called the Polish-Bolshevik war.)
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Are video drivers just guaranteed to be shitty in all cases?

I can't use Ubuntu 16.04 because Radeon drivers cause constant, infuriating tearing on my screen and the computer hangs on startup every other time I boot up. fglrx isn't much better, but it's at least stable.
Yeah no. This isn't LTE that anyone can set up, like WiFi. It's more designed to improve the speed of licenced LTE by letting LTE femtocells use unlicenced bands.

Also only the downlink is done over unlicenced bands. There's a competing standard that does uplink and downlink, but the all just augment a licenced LTE connection.
Can't give a good technical answer to that. But I suspect that it should be a matter of driver mostly. When you mmap /dev/netmap from userland, the OS TCP/IP stack is disconnected and you get access to the card tx/rx rings. Obviously the driver has to facilitate this.
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The thing about free markets is reality tends to punish irrational business practices.
Imagine Carmaker X has a secret switch on their cars that a driver may pull to completely disable their breaks. The switch has no utility, eg it's not there for use by service technicians. It's only there so you can see how far you can go while driving without breaks.

Would it make any difference if the switch came with a big angry red sticker saying "DON'T PULL THIS SWITCH UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING"?

It's a setting that can get you killed. There's no other reason to have it other than to risk getting killed (presumably because some people enjoy this kind of thing). Warning or no warning makes no difference at all. There's no justification for having a thing like that on anyone's car.
Bernie Sanders Comments on GMO Labeling
Why is website architecture slow
Populism with a Brain: Ten old/new ideas to give power back to the people
Avoiding the logic of tcp stack processing does indeed come into play. My colleague process data sent through a tcp connection in a LAN. So he basically ignores all the tcp header of the incomming data. He simply checks the source ip.

He will test mTCP to get a full fledged tcp/ip stack so he will be able to measure it's overhead.
Ask HN: Would elite video gamers, given training, be the best military pilots?
I really don't understand how the solar system can orbit the galaxy faster than the spiral arms and be in accordance with Kepler's 2nd law?
Still, even if everything Windows-based was open-source, you'd still have to build out the shim layers in front like Wine does, unless you wanted to deal with the extreme tedium of converting all the Win32, DirectX, etc, etc, calls over.
Would you be able to provide the full raw headers for one of these emails?
Luxottica owns many things, but the most important thing any company can own are distribution channels. Then you can just refuse to sell your competitor's goods.