skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this, I'm finding a few elements matching my own learning process critically missing.

Yes. Memorisation and repetition are useful. But of and by themselves, they are not enough, at least not for a deep understanding. That Ms. Oakley is a linguist makes the omission particularly glaring to me: it's finding a systemic understanding, that is, understanding the knowledge's grammar.

I've picked up a few skills over my life. Some music (poorly). A little bit of foreign language -- not much, but enough in a couple to get by as a tourist. Sport. A great deal of spatial knowledge. Some physics and economics, at uni. Programming and systems administration, some data management and analysis. More recently, synthesising numerous elements looking at questions of sustainability, collapse, or various modes of splitting the difference.

Some knowledge is almost mechanical. Music, sport, spelling, multiplication tables. X comes in, Y goes out. But simple repetition isn't fully sufficient -- this is what a good coach, in maths, music, or sport, offers. They know what you should be doing, see what you are doing, and then offer the cues necessary to get you to where you ought to be. The cues might themselves not make much sense overtly, but are the adjustment necessary to reach the desired result.

Practice without that intervention, and focusing on the right cues, only drills in the bad practices. And unlearning non-useful patterns is exceptionally difficult.

I'm tempted to say that easy learners are all alike. At the very least, none of them encounter the limits or barriers to learning (though it's possible each has some particular fast track to results). It's when learning comes hard that it's crucial to identify where and what the fault is, and to either correct it or bypass it.

In my current studies -- economics, political theory, ecology, energy, systems, and more -- what I'm finding most useful is to cover a great deal of ground, much of which is essentially circling a central problem sphere, but giving views on it from different directions. I'm quite literally finding myself re-acquainting myself with concepts, lessons, materials, and more, from the past 40+ years, and both dis-integrating and re-integrating them. I've described it as "refactoring my worldview" (mentioned on HN in a comment recently, also at https://dredmorbius.reddit.com), more to describe what the experience is like.

But the crucial element is not simply to repeatedly encounter facts until they're memorised, it is to create the structure into which they naturally fall. Or at least that's what I've found.

Some "systems" are less systemic than others. Virtually all have at least some path dependency, so history, law, politics, and literature will, in aggregate, at least follow some sort of path of low energy, if not an entirely logical route. In maths, logic, physics, chemistry, and electical engineering, the structure is more overt.

Again: Oakley approaches this concept, but never quite gets there. I found that disappointing.
Would it be just as accurate to say the government is a proxy for the banks?
Are you suggesting that they minimized overhead and maximized profits, Mao is going to be livid!
I suggest you use one repo with sub directories, one directory for API part, one directory for front end part, one for the server part ...

Then, when you change the API, you don't have to create 3 pull requests across 3 repos, just ONE pull request and teams can review all the changes together.

And your problem of searching for issues assigned to one person across multiple repos is not a problem any more.

There are already many good examples of managing multiple modules inside one repo:

https://github.com/apache/thrift

https://github.com/rails/rails
Well from what I can tell, it basically said that it's good to let "genius" children skip grades if they're really bored in school. Also that it's important to give them chances to learn more even if they don't skip ahead in their regular class. So it kind of did tell you how. More to the point, it did not equate high achievement with intelligence all that much, it just pointed out that if you have someone who is intelligent and you want them to achieve alot in their future, you want to give them as many chances they can to keep learning.

That being said, if you want the child to grow up and be a well rounded and happy person, it's probably also good to give them the chance to do what they want to do even if that isn't the traditional definition of a high achiever. Although, being a complete slacker in everything isn't that great either.
>One recent example I saw (a colleague works on coaching teachers in common core) was a class of elementary students who could correctly multiply 4/7 * 5/9, but couldn't shade in 1/4 of a square. They memorized and rehearsed the procedure for multiplication, but never built understanding of what they were doing.

the author's argument is that you build understanding by doing.
learning the forms and perfecting your "doing" of them is fundamental to developing insights into what is going on

some students make the leap themselves, some students need it explained to them, either way, the student needs to know the HOW before they can understand the WHY
10 DO’S and DON’TS of UI and UX Design
Since drinking coffee is also a main cause of teeth-yellowing; if this substitutes coffee, then it could also be seen as another way of helping to keep teeth whiter?
Its true my life has been around metal field that with time my hands are rough and I can feel polarity
Turtledove was my favorite author for about 2 months until I was unable to tell any of his characters apart because he gave them all the same dry, ultra sarcastic humor and vulgar vocabulary. Still his ideas were very interesting.
The programs can be good or a complete waste depending on how they are ran. The study referred to in the article pointed out that children do better in the short and long run if they are given extra opportunities to learn more on their own. That's the entire purpose of these programs to begin with, really. The same way as other Special Education programs which may or may not be well ran, but often do more for the students in them than letting them try and teach themselves.
I feel vibrations around metal electrics. And it seems to follow wherever I go
> Beats plaque and tartar buildup like the leading brands

It's important to note that it's the actual brushing of teeth that does the heavy lifting. Toothpaste is pretty inconsequential.
Actually, I thought this was great. One tube for the morning with caffeine, one tube at night with fluoride.
Please elaborate on you Ether trading.
I am aware of Godel, thanks, and of course that choice / Zorn's / well ordering (not to mention CH) are independent of ZF (and in particular that's why I mentioned ZFC). I'm also willing to accept the existence of an inaccessible cardinal, which bears on ZFC's consistency.

Ultimately my belief is this: there was a very real crisis in foundations at the end of the 19th century and over the next several decades this was fixed as best as it could be. The edges of the foundation are not perfect, the edges of the foundation cannot be perfect, but the edges of the foundation have been pushed back so far that for nearly every working mathematician they're good enough. (and if the algebraic geometers need Grothendieck universes, I'm ok with that)
Modernism failed.

Post-modernism was the desperate attempt to avoid admitting that the classicists were right.

At some point The Artist will face up to it, and we can begin repairing the visual world.
Two in-progress apps, Santa and Little Flocker, could prevent Mac ransomware
I run a very small business metal fabrication facility in one of the most regulated and socialist of cities in the US, San Francisco.

We deal with hazardous chemicals, highly flammable gases and markedly unsafe working conditions.

Me and the rest of the people like me get an inspection once a year from the fire department to make sure minimum standards are kept (to ensure the safety of firefighters if they ever enter). tanks are tied up. flammables are kept in closed cabinets.

We pay the city around $100 a year in fees tied to volume of hazardous materials. Otherwise they leave us completely alone. We have to keep track of whether sales are retail or come with a resellers cert from the state.

When we have extra work, I bring in guys under the table. If I had real employees I would have to have additional insurance, and pay the city mandated minimum wage - which is a lot less than market value for a semi-skilled fabricator.

Its completely* anecdotal, but this boogeyman of massive regulatory burden doesn't seem to be universal. From my tiny little patch I'm free to fail or succeed without any state interference.
I understand you. But you're taking this way too seriously. People don't do things hoping it becomes the next Unity. Sometimes they do it because they can. To have fun. To experiment. And Ken Wheeler is definitely that kind of person.

In any case, these explorations are important. They are small experiments showing us new ideas.

Look at this: http://reactnext.surge.sh/

That _is_ React. mind blown

I won't be making a game with it anytime soon. But maybe I'll borrow concepts and ideas from it, and make something else.

So don't worry. Don't let it puzzle you. Just sit back, relax, and stay tuned for what's next.
If I can zero rate whatever traffic I want, what's stopping me from zero rating torents and download terabytes of content on lte with impunity?
How are they making this compatible with IE6?
Now that you mention it, I think that's actually true. When some adapter needs to be written to connect one system to another, nobody is doing it because that's what they are passionate about (I'm starting to hate that phrase) or because they are scratching an itch. They are doing it because somebody will pay them to do it.
What the ‘sixth extinction’ will look like in the oceans
So the chain will continue getting longer and longer, with no end, as I understand it. At some point this is going to be a problem because it will exceed normal storage sizes. Is there a solution to that?
What about it makes you skeptical? Stop holding out on us ... :)
It sounds like you use web languages or other bad programming languages? Aggressive refactoring is not a problem in statically typechecked languages, in fact it is common.

We test the hell out of our stuff, and it works way more reliably than most web sites I have ever seen. But we don't do it with unit tests, because unit tests are not very useful in complex systems, because they do not test anything hard!
Great now I have a mental image of Usain Bolt sprinting next to a Tesla production line with a wrench in hand trying to tighten a bolt.
I bet he has made one or more rich accountants.
Interesting, thanks for sharing that info!

The syntax around the requirements creates ambiguity but:

"Meet the following requirements:
Be a member of a recognized religious sect conscientiously opposed to accepting benefits under a private plan or system that makes payments in the event of death, disability or retirement, or which makes payments towards the costs of or provides for medical care (including the benefits of any insurance system established by Social Security);
Be a member of a religious sect that makes a reasonable provision of food, shelter and medical care for its dependent members and has done so continuously since December 31, 1950;..."

By my reading, the first bullet point would mean that you couldn't be involved in any health insurance plans. The second bullet point seems completely arbitrary; that the sect must have been active since 1951?
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No, they won't. It's more profitable for all of them to use cheaper and less healthy ingredients, and lie about what's actually in the food. Cost to consumers to figure out what's really in every package on our own would be overwhelming.
Jobs may not have been Promethean in the foresight department, but he made a pretty good go of it in the "having your liver taken out of you" department.
Are any of his claims even original? It's not like needing to spread humans to other planets is original, yet it seems like everyone's worshiping him over such statements as though it's a new idea.
That's not hard to understand for a few reasons. First, it's not a simple 10 second sound bite, it doesn't get ratings. Second, a lot of people don't want to hear it, they're still into the fantasy of "bootstraps" for everyone. Finally, the vast majority of media is owned by large companies who want no part in spreading such a message even if it did get ratings and appealed to their audience.

Which it doesn't.
That's two of us:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906999

Mobile phones aren't secure. Period. Anyone saying otherwise about theirs better provide convincing evidence that they mitigated everything on that non-comprehensive list. Then we talk about what I left off. When FBI said they couldn't get in, I knew they were lying to try to establish a precedent & technical method to increase their convenience. It was also only time Richard Clarke's pronouncement was relieving where he said (paraphrased) "I'd just ask the NSA to break into it." Because they or a contractor could due to risks not mitigated. Obvious.

Honestly not sure if I'll ever trust a tiny, slim smartphone for high-security INFOSEC given the effect of EMSEC on size and hardware POLA on power consumption. If their physical specs are Apple-grade, then they cut corners on INFOSEC and some government hacker has job security.
Yeah, this is beyond broken. On my DLink router at home, I had to literally click one "setup" button to get IPv6 working. That's how it should work: either be very simple, or work by default out of the box (preferred).
I said a "complete theory", but you apparently stopped reading after the word, "Complete".

You're going to have to excuse me now, this isn't a good use of anyone's time.
I believe someone has already posted this.
The ironically named Federal government should just finish subjugating the states , completely, so that these silly idiosyncrasies stop existing

We would be better off if we stopped pretending there is any form of federalism here as the states contribute nothing to the aggregate whims of the national government as it continues to tolerate their mentally challenged courts, useless evolving body of opaque case law, and patch work of redundant executive departments. Literally the only things states do is adversely affect interstate commerce.

The national government has complete leverage over every state, and will just as well sanction any one financially just as fast as it would sanction a foreign nation state, when it becomes interested in an outcome such that the 10th amendment is null and moot.

The consequences, politically, are very minimal, as these bankrupt states are reliant on the teet of the national government that long ago granted itself the authority to regulate all nuances everywhere.
I've been traveling for the past year. Mostly through South America, the Subcontinent, and East Asia. I'm also sitting on a novel draft that I put together over that time. Writing on the road is tough, but there's no magic to it. Keep a journal and write what you see. Let it bubble around a little bit and write something creative when you can synthesize it into a story.
That assumes no one meets over drinks to ensure that beyond a certain point, profits can be maintained.
> Whatsapp was not simple.

Maybe not 1-2 weekends simple but compared to 18 billion dollars the technical aspect is rather insignificant. It's a chat client hugely leveraging existing technology (XMPP, at least in the beginning), not rocket science.

> Angry Birds?

If you reduce it to the basic game mechanics, maybe. All in all it's surely not that simple.

I think Flappy Bird would be a perfectly fitting example here as it's so simple that it literally can be made in one weekend and made, if you believe the news reports up to $50K per day during the hype phase.
my theory is that Elon does not truly believe that AI poses an immediate threat but that he needs to spin it that way because people are more open to the idea of augmenting themselves (neural lace) in face of an existential threat, whereas without that it would more likely be spun by the media as being unnatural, "playing god" and all that jazz
I do something similar to @diggan, but expand with globbing because I'm probably lazy:

NODE_PATH=$(dirname ~/.nvm/versions/node/v6*/bin/node)
export PATH="\
${NODE_PATH}:\
...

export NVM_DIR="/Users/jbergstroem/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"

Also, the delay that a lot of you may be experiencing has to do with npm, not nvm.
Conflating "lawful" with "impossible to prosecute" definitely qualifies as doublespeak.
Build up.
"Boeing’s 757, the world’s longest single-aisle airliner with around 200 seats and a range in excess of 4,000 miles, has been plying the Atlantic for years"

Yeah, and it's a mistake. Never fly a 757 westbound, especially from continental Europe. I've been delayed in Goose Bay, Canada for refueling a few times because of a heavy jet stream. Any connections less than 2 hours will be blown to smithereens.

Here's the latest one, 9 hours ago. These poor saps aren't making any connections today.

https://twitter.com/AirlineFlyer/status/776488074633179137

The 737MAX looks like an identically bad bet.
The above commenters are making it out like AI will balance the bad with the good. That's probably true in the long term, but in the short term the instability caused by AI will probably be akin to the instability caused by the first industrial revolution --- perhaps worse --- and that's a lot of instability. Even if it only lasts for 1-3 generations, that's enough to cause some major turmoil with consequences that last well into the next century. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, all the predictions I've read about unemployment caused by AI go way beyond unemployment during the Great Depression.
Meet the startup that has both Uber and Grab as customers, and might outlast them
Having seen the results of a system that focuses entirely on memorization without comprehension, a balance definitely needs to be struck between understanding and memorization. Pure memorization is useless, but so is conceptual teaching without practical application (which helps to reinforce the concepts and ensure real understanding).
more importantly, why?
JavaOne 2016 Essentials: 7 Events and Sessions That You Shouldn’t Miss
Ports I've used:

* Thunderbolt
* USB
* HDMI

That's it! All my music is on my iPhone so I never listen to music on my MPB so I've never used the audio jack. Having said that, unlike the iPhone, I don't really see what's to be gained by removing the audio jack. Especially as some folks have pointed out they use the digital optical out to go into a DAC and then into their headphones. That's not how I work but having the audio jack there to support them for that doesn't hurt me any. In fact I would argue that's the case for all the ports I don't use: it's a PRO machine. It needs to be able to handle all kinds of diverse scenarios not applying to me. Let the MBA be the razor-thin, portless machine and leave the MBP alone.
D3 Version 4 has more utilities and examples of interactions with Canvas. Here's an example of a relatively small graph (~500 nodes, 10k edges) that SVG used to struggle with, but Canvas renders with ease.

http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/954b31aa8b8beb91b30ccb0c9e57f...

Notice the nodes are draggable, an interaction supported by the new simulation.find https://github.com/d3/d3-force/#simulation_find
Mode Media used to be worth $1B. Now it’s shutting down
Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid
Yes we do!

I live on a small island that's just above sea level and of course the main city and other towns are on the coast. We'd lose about 50% of the land here.
They should have stuck with their ad network business instead of trying the weak pivot to being a Buzzfeed like content portal.
Well this is just magic. I had set it up to Ctrl+Space since I speak Spanish, English and learning Japanese. I am not fluent enough in Japanese yet, but it becomes a burden when trying to write a website in Spanish.

You can just do this instead in Ubuntu: Text Entry Settings => click on "Switch to the next source using" => Caps Lock
The amount of .net apps enterprise runs is difficult to ignore by any cloud provider.This is a very good move by Google . But I feel they should also give a PaaS offering like Azure App Service (.net core on AppEngine may be) .Because enterprises who uses Azure IaaS VMs also need AD integrations most of the times and they will choose AZURE for that.
Reminds me of "mathematical maturity", that you can't understand mathematics on its own, but need much background. In this way, maths is more like an Arts than Science subject, and evaluated similarly.

And is perhaps a reason mathematics seems to simply and "unreasonably powerfully" explain the world - it's not simple.
"According to a Tesla spokesperson in a statement sent to Electrek today, Mobileye tried to convince Tesla to keep using its system for future generations of the Autopilot, but when it became apparent that Tesla was sticking to its new in-house system, which the company confirmed today is called ‘Tesla Vision’, they threaten to discontinue supply of the EyeQ3 chip to cripple the current version of the Autopilot."

The unreasonable demands Mobileye made are listed in the below article I lifted the above quote from.

https://electrek.co/2016/09/15/tesla-vision-mobileye-tesla-a...
How to Think About Intelligent Autonomous Systems in the Military
It's possible. I did a research report on Amazon many years ago since I kept hearing people gripe about them not being profitable. They turned a large enough profit on that year that they could've wiped out all their debt in 1 to 2 years. They could then just keep pulling in profit. It was clear they were instead re-investing all their money back into the company's operations for growth and dominance. They also had this growing business selling computing resources that had taken over a new market with projected long-term potential. ;)
Which means it won't be available for people that want to run their own IP subnets. I doubt they'll be splitting it into /24-/16s and reselling it anytime soon.
It's a very good way to make sure that if those clients need to route their internal networks to each other, they don't have to renumber. If two companies using 10.x.y.z networks merge, you are likely to end up with a mess. Heck, if you need to VPN to a 10.x.y.z network and your local network is also 10.x.y.z, you'll end up with a mess.

(The IPv6 solution here is Unique Local Addresses, where fdXX:XXXX:XXXX::/48 are all permissible local networks, and if you use a decent RNG to generate the 40-bit number XXXXXXXXXX, you're unlikely to hit a collision with any other actual, active site, let alone one you might want to route to.)
I wasn't saying anything against that - read my comment again ("It isn't an all or nothing. Snowden leaked information on lots of different programs ..."). What I'm saying is that Snowden leaked a lot more then just the fact that the NSA gathers data on US citizens. Some of that data was on legitimate NSA activities, which is why claiming he is purely a whistle-blower is a bit hard to do: Leaking the data on illegal NSA activities is a legitimate argument for a whistle-blower defense, leaking data on legal NSA activities is not.

All I'm saying is that it is not a black and white issue. The reality is that even if you accept that he should have immunity for blowing the whistle on illegal NSA activities he revealed (As I do), the other things he did are still serious and it is hard to argue he should be pardoned in full for it. He could have only leaked information on the NSA illegal activities, but he didn't.
IMO bad amateur acting often involves people reciting lines in a weird stilted way instead of just talking normally. I don't know how to act like someone else, but I can act like myself at least.