skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not defending the concept of "learning styles"; the scientists cited in the article are undoubtedly more qualified that I on that subject. I was responding to the claim that the problem is students who cannot learn from lectures, and the solution is to teach children to learn from lectures. That might be the case; but I was pointing out that another option to consider was changing our method of instruction (either away from lectures entirely, to a hybrid system, or even to a better form of lectures); and it is counter productive to dismiss this path out of hand.

I will also point out that the article is an attack on "learning styles", not a defense of lectures. Responding to some of your points:

>You're supposed to walk into a lecture already knowing the punchlines.

This was not my experience through high-school. Most of my class's in high-school and before would assign readings after the corresponding lecture; often times I would not even know what to study before the lecture.

Even in college my experience is different. Ignoring the useless lectures, I found that most of my lectures were more useful before I studied the material. This is probably heavily biased by subject matter: most of my useful lectures are in math, where the lecture serves as a broad overview of the material, which serves as a foundation for when I open the textbook to dig into the details. [0].

In contrast, in my linguistic classes, it is essential that I read the material before class: the lecture would simply not make sense without the reading, and what was being presented in lecture is often not present in the textbook. Having said that, and thinking more about those classes, it seems like my linguistics professors are aware of these issues: while textbook readings come before lectures, research paper readings are almost always come between lectures (eg. we would talk about an experiment and the results, then read the paper at home, then talk about the results again).

Again, the question is not lectures vs learning styles. The question in the article is "learning styles?", to which the answer seems to be no. This does not necessarily mean that the answer is lectures. And it almost certainly does not mean lectures in their current form.

[0] As an aside, this is probably a deficit in my ability to learn math. The "correct" way to learn math is to first go over the material once, then go back and understand the material in a second go-through. I have trouble doing the first step without the lecture environment forcing me not to jump straight to the second.
I've grown up cycling in a historically cycling-hostile city, I'm used to it, and several years ago when the city jumped on the bandwagon and got serious about cycling infrastructure, I was all like 'I don't need those', for mostly the reasons cited in the article. But I was just being one of those assholes radiating his toxic masculinity.

The lanes have a strong signalling effect, that's the real reason for them. They grant cyclists legitimacy in their minds, and in the minds of drivers. As in 'fuck you, I've got a lane now, I'm riding here, You can't fuck with me anymore!'.

They're working. Whatever myths and superstitions are running through the minds of tentative new cyclists, the lanes get them out riding and not driving. The number of cyclists commuting in and out of the core has visibly doubled each year for the past 4 years, and there is safety in numbers, one thing the studies all agree with.

Otherwise I agree, except on the last point - that lanes make drivers more hostile to cyclists. Driver tolerance of cyclists goes up when they perceive cyclists to be legitimate, and that's what the lanes do.
This is why I prefaced my response :) every one places different importance on different things. Glad you have something that works for you. Vim does show the age of its design from time to time. The worst has got to be Java, where you end up having to run eclipse in the background to make it work. Talk about a hack...
> I found the reading and especially watching experience to be sub par on the iphone.

Don't complain to the NYT, go complain at Apple. It's Apple's fault that in mid-2017, there is STILL no way for inline videos in ordinary HTML5 web sites.

But, I admit, there's one single huge advantage: iOS devices are not hit with sometimes dozens of megabytes of traffic due to news sites auto-loading/playing videos, or worse, ad videos...
Yea, and murder / violent crime rates have historically been going way down in the last ~4 decades over here in the US (like half of what it was a couple decades ago). You'd never guess it from watching the news.
The long, winding road for driverless cars
You can do even better with Qt support. Then you don't have any VM or JS tax and don't need the resources to do JIT or AOT.
Why is Bloomberg not mentioning that Google announced it was working on the same thing? They mentioned vaguely that Amazon and Google both were working on AI, but nothing about the seemingly similar TPU and how Google announced they were going to bring it to phones at I/O just a bit ago. Am I wrong to be thinking that's pretty relevant here?
>what is a delivery only restaurant?

Some restaurants don't have any seating area. Think Dominos Pizza.

>When you think about ordering delivery it's because you're trying to satiate a craving.

Or you just don't feel like cooking. Also you might want anything random - something different you don't dislike. And you don't feel like walking to a restaurant and sitting there alone waiting for food + paying tips etc.

Sprig/SpoonRocket/Munchery/doordash/Grubhub/Eat24/localpizzashop.com/any local place that is walkable distance and offers takeout are effectively direct competitors for me.
The problem is that the entire ARM economy tends to have rather spotty support as a whole. There are mountains of proprietary peripherals baked into the chips, so you can't just pick and choose better supported options like you can on PCs with removable parts.

And while a chip manufacturer may make a handful of refreshes, most ARM platforms tend to only last a few years before being completely abandoned in favor of new ones. I am frankly amazed they can still get the BCM2835.
1) crashnotaccident.com

2) Sucks, but unavoidable as a pedestrian too. Hopefully the next few years will see some decent gains in electrification of road vehicles.
Still using Qt Quick. Native QtWidgets would be blazingly fast on old smartphones.
Indeed; although tooling to easily get files on there is still pretty immature (way too hard for beginners)
Nowadays, browser is not just to render a page. The web itself is a platform. Try turn off javascript, and you'll see what I mean.

Mozilla is failing because they are being arrogant and don't listen to developers. It's not just on desktop, but also on mobile. At first, they refused to make a browser on iOS because they have to use "WebKit". Well guess what.. they missed the bus. After realizing it, they caved. But it's already too late.
Actually a PM I reached out to a couple of months ago did get back to me. I was disappointed at first because I heard nothing from Google Next could be uploaded online.

But Google did come through and they posted the images here: https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/

That had been my complaint...that the documentation was hard to get and that when I saw the images presented at Next I understood things that I had previously given up on.
This doesn't mesh with reality; The sea of torrent seedboxes in existence would be dropping like flies and not growing.
Low margin businesses like this with so many responsibilities won't work, unless you have limitless amounts of money. They simply can't compete on price, unless they can drop the price so low that it creates a new market, like Uber did.

Instead of $15 meals, they need to go up to $30 meals and have real waiters bring the food and serve it to them.

Margins are what you need to be able to survive.
I was half hoping they'd offer to send me one. I've wanted to play with a Kinect and SLAM but the upfront cost is too high for me.
It works pretty well if you turn off JavaScript entirely. I use the "Toggle JavaScript" Chrome extension (by "dsmith" in the chrome web store) for that.
Well, that happens when a dictator visits a wannabe dictator. Erdogan and his goons obviously thought they'd be let off without any consequences for this - and indeed they were right.

And I'm sure there won't be any consequences in the future - it's not a Trump thing to anger like-minded friends.
I agree with this. We have both here in NYC. First of all, cyclists need a way to get to their destination. Nobody is going to ride on the greenway and then walk a few blocks to their destination. Second of all, motorist behavior has really changed since the lanes were installed. The protected lanes are mostly like a separate route, but they still intersect the same road, and force drivers to mix in with cyclists on some turns. It can be hairy, but it's helped define space for everyone and increase safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers alike by reducing turn speeds.
It's harder to do in Europe, but it's still possible. Especially, as you say, if there's management determination that the person has to go.
The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation
How do cyclists get to their final destination, then? Do we have equal numbers of bike routes and driving, all the way from A to B? If so, that's pretty much just a protected bike lane.
Just FYI, in the rural areas, we don't have emissions at all. Also, my neighbor has 1947 Ford truck that he drives in the summer.
To make the encoding more compact while still having a large number of registers. A normal arithmetic instruction will have two 3-bit register fields, 1 3-bit effective address type field, and 3-bits that determine the size and direction (i.e. whether the effective address is the source or destination operand). Since an instruction word is 16-bits, this leaves 4-bits to select the operation type. This is a bit of a simplification as some instructions have more restrictions and move instructions are more expressive, but you get the idea.

Having a flat 16 register file would require two extra register bits in most instructions which would either halve the number of possible operations or require bits to be removed elsewhere. Since the operations required on pointers is typically much smaller than those required on non-pointer integers, this setup makes a certain amount of sense. The big downside is that as ajross points out, it complicates register allocation in a way that just about no other "mainstream" architecture does.

Other tradeoffs (larger instruction word, fewer addressing modes on "normal" instructions, requiring an extension word for more addressing modes, etc.) could have produced a cleaner architecture at the expense of code density. Code density was a big deal in the late 70's when the 68000 was designed due to the cost of memory.

EDIT: A flat 16 register file would actually quarter, not halve, the number of operation types since you lose 1-bit per register field.
Yup 24 hours of smallFFT or bust. And then a similar thing with any over clocked GPU.
It goes both ways. The average bicyclist actually rides on the sidewalks, and pedestrians are often injured by bicyclists. This problem has grown considerably as electric bikes became very popular the past few years, and new traffic laws now ban riding on sidewalks completely, so bicyclists must ride on the road, or on the bike lane (if it exists). As I'm writing this it sounds like this should be a given, but it wasn't up until a few months ago, and many bicyclists still don't know or care about this law. I will ride on the sidewalk myself in certain situations if I find it safer than the road.

Many electric bicyclists are very noticeably oblivious of traffic laws and their own mortality in general. They often enter intersections at a red light without even slowing down. They zig zag between the road, the sidewalk and crosswalks all the time. They take right turns at red lights (this is not allowed in Israel). They ride while using or talking on their smartphones. They ride in the middle of the road between two car lanes! I often look at them and think "where did they get the guts to do that?".
Why doesn't Sonic have a map like this on their webpage? They could even add a second color for "coming soon" streets.
In this video of the attack: https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov/status/865301089867923456

a bodyguard is seen talking to someone in the back of a car. That bodyguard nods to another bodyguard, who then walks towards the protest. The attack begins the second he arrives at the line.

Later, the person in the back of the car gets out. It's Erdogan.

This video didn't get as much press as it should have, I suppose since you can't say it's "proof" he ordered the attack. But come on.
It seems the gov of Egypt is starting to block ipsec vpns like it did openvpn ones. Any generic solution to add obfuscation layer? Wish more VPN software had such functionality out of the box
The only other $100k+ car I've ever driven is a Range Rover. So I'm not an expert, but I feel like the Model S is considerably "more for the money". Faster acceleration, no gas, large screen, etc. I realize that's not why people buy Range Rovers, but my point is that even with most things being subjective, you can't reasonably call a Model S "a complete rip-off".
It sounds like the problem isn't the existence of a bike lane, but the construction of a really half-assed bike lane. Here in NYC, we have some of those, and I avoid them like the plague. If someone doors me, I'm going flying into traffic. Ridiculous.

But we also have lanes that put parking between the bike lane and the motor lanes, and have a few feet of buffer between to eliminate the door zone. They're pretty fantastic to ride in, except when NYPD parks in them for whatever reason.
That's is what I think is one of the huge problems with GNU/Linux and OSS projects, design being an afterthought rather than one of the core features.

I mean there is a ton of linux distributions that run better on my PC, but I still rather Hackintosh it due to the linux distros interface design and I bet others do the same.

I know this is a new project, but in order to ever hit the mainstream, it needs to have a interface at least as good stock android/TouchWiz. Otherwise people will be driven away, I ask people about Ubuntu and they won't ever say "the design is bad". But they said they switched back to Windows because "they couldn't get a hang of it", because the interface made them feel confused.
The Pentagon is pushing speeds above Mach 5 for quicker access to space
> Why would a hotel want to pay 15% commission to Expedia or Priceline?

Well, they don't want to per se, but since you are in the hotel business then you know that a hotel room, like an airline seat, is effectively a perishable good. An unoccupied room is a revenue opportunity that is lost forever, and worse it is a source of costs not associated with occupation (interest, heating, fixed wages, etc). Like an airline, a hotel operator is strongly motivated to maintain as close to full occupancy as possible. As long as average room revenue is above occupied room overhead, the business is ahead financially. I suspect that, like airlines, hotels cover their overhead with "economy class" guests, and make their profit from "first class" guests who are not price sensitive. Hotels have a dilemma because they want full occupancy without conditioning consumers to expect discounted rates. Their solution has been to be to officially advertise "list price" while discounting as necessary through 3rd parties.

However, I'll remember to check roomkey.com from now on, thanks!
Really? What do they look like?
This tickles my nostalgia from the days of TI Calculator ASM hacking
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> It didn't help that were all Swedes

In the beginning, I mean. Quite soon we also had norwegian team members, and a few years later some polish team members, and so on. Language mis-match still was most certainly an issue though.
My son is very interested in attending uOttawa because of the bilingual atmosphere of the campus and the city. We are Americans, but the mix of languages and cultures in Ottawa really make it an interesting and cosmopolitan environment, while still having a very walkable scale.
Because Google's TPU is for servers and not for Mobile.
I think it says that about separated bike lanes themselves. I can't see any reference to separate bike routes that aren't immediately alongside roads.
Oops thanks for the correction
pretty abrupt email went out to some (not all) Tilt users, stating that after today, no new campaigns can be created, and after June 4, no more funds can be collected from existing campaigns. it had the feel a rude landlord booting you out of your apartment that you've spent thousands of dollars on, with 1 week's notice
> What even is a delivery-only restaurant?

90% of pizza joints. Yes, they may have seating area, but it's greasy, uncomfortable, and small. The overwhelming majority of their business is take-out, and delivery.

Every single hole-in-the-wall place. They either deliver, or they get you to pick up your own food.

Food trucks.

Having no front isn't some amazing innovation that will afford you margins that VCs and computer programmers expect.

Yes, optimizing your logistics and supply chain in the restaurant business is a huge problem. It's also a problem that successful restaurants, by necessity, are already really good at solving. You're not going to squeeze much blood out of that rock.
Its own, I guess? ConceptNet is really not so much about having an upper ontology, it's about relations between natural language words and phrases. Its set of relations is effectively a superset of WordNet's.
I think D.C. has some mixing zones that are gold standard: https://i0.wp.com/www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

Would love to see this in more places, because seriously, no other method is safe. For me, mixing zones usually mean merging over to the turn lane and riding to the right side of cars turning left (NYC puts bike lanes on the left side of the road).
If only they'd done it on the blockchain, then it would've been a guaranteed success.
Agree, could also have been written Tesla had lower than average safety incidents in ..2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016.. Nothing to see here
Usually its to the tune of 'by using this service you agree to grant Google a non-exclusive royalty-free worldwide license to reproduce and redistribute' etc.
Would Ergodan's goons (all 10 of them) go into this confrontation without his (or his lead security guards) consent? I know from various stories/documentaries that US Secret Service presidential protection details are extremely tightly controlled. There would never be spontaneous involvement in the protest unless they were immediately threatened. Which they clearly aren't in this video.
The buy box is based off of performance records and shipping nexus availability, not business partnerships.
I dunno why you are downvoted for such a valid comment. Exactly my point.
We can't change the past, but as an American, my question is what will my government do to protect its citizens and how will it obtain justice for them. Will it even try?

Let's hope the fourth estate holds the first three accountable.
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> And how are they hitting that person with a tracking pixel and associating it with the pseudo-account?

That's the easy part. There are companies that specialize in this sort of thing, as well as in merging profiles from several devices (pc, tablet, smartphone), you can bet that if two-bit advertising technology companies know about these tricks that Facebook does too, and they probably know a trick or two that has not become mainstream yet.

If you want an explicit explanation of how such a link could be made it's a hard choice: too many possibilities.

I've done technical due diligence on about 10 advertising technology companies, node identification in a graph gets easier through two things:

- more known nodes in the graph (Facebook has many)

- more activity by the unknown node (just wait and track)

Sooner or later there is a moment where just for an instant that node can be strongly associated with a real world ID, for instance, a contact in someone's address book, a tag in a photograph and some shared online activity or something as simple as a phone call. At that point it is game over, the contact can now be associated with the device ID on the other side for instance through some running app.

Apropos games, many games monetize by embedding a library supplied by an advertising technology company that wishes to gain access to devices without waiting for the user to visit a website. These libraries leak information all over the net.

https://developers.facebook.com/products/app-monetization

Is one example by FB, there are many more and some of those require permissions that make no sense at first sight until you realize what is happening under water. If you ever wondered why some shitty game requires access to your contacts, location and other interesting bits of data this is it.

It is very hard to stay off the radar of the likes of Google and Facebook, I have a pretty good idea of how this stuff works in the background and I have no clue how I could not leak enough bits for those two companies to tie my online activity to my real world identity in a single profile.
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I think the information from "Protect and Survive" (an old UK civil defense pamphlet) is still relevant in scenarios like this. It recommends building an "inner refuge" - a sort of fort of dense objects (cans, suitcases, etc) around yourself in an inner room of your home or basement to attenuate gamma radiation. The advice is based on experiments carried out in the 1960s:

http://www.atomica.co.uk/main.htm
Don't forget about Objective-C++! That's where the true powers of the dark side are.

Side Note: Objective-C is such a criminally underrated language. I often see people complaining about the syntax, but it's just syntax. Once you get over it, I find that the language makes the OOP paradigm a joy to work with.
There is no way I will go down that route. That's defeat and it simply will not happen with me being an enabler. If that means I'll miss out on the occasional party then so be it.
That's one great thing I like about RedHat. You don't even need to be their customer to report a bug. And you'll usually get some sort of a response in days.
>I spent about 5 minutes looking ... to figure out what version of office they had

Just in case anyone is curious about the product version. It is often under File->Account (->About).

e.g. http://i.imgur.com/nIo4d2l.png
Where is the money really coming from? Are you sure the amount you're getting paid is calibrated to the work you're doing? Are you making 10x because you're working hard, or are you working hard because you're making 10x (and are not sure it's going to last)? Like you say, there are a lot of variables.

A few years ago I got on an excellent, high-paying contract. Had the contract lasted a few more years, I probably could have retired early. But neither the start of the contract, nor its end, were entirely (or even mostly) in my control. And while my work history was certainly a factor in getting the contract (though definitely not the only factor), it did nothing to make the contract last any longer.
No, it doesn't. It has an MX record that will clue you into it being hosted by Google. It may be inconvenient, but "absolutely no way" is hyperbole.
Kinda. Shrinkwrap has been around for a while.

The new lockfile is basically shrinkwrap 2.0 using what's been learned since
Hmm i have to think about this some more but my initial thinking is that they are approaching VR research the wrong way.