skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree there are large classes of things like that, but I think there are also large classes of things where looking them up is fine--- and my guess, though I could be wrong, is that the things traditionally memorized in schools lean more towards the second. If you think of the kinds of information that comes in tables, I think it's important to know that the table exists, and what kind of information is in it, when you would want to consult it, and ideally even how you would recreate it if you needed to. But actually memorizing the table? Doesn't seem that useful, and I think that's the kind of thing traditional tests have focused on (say, memorizing a bunch of different combinatorial identities, or memorizing a bunch of properties of chemical elements).

That's especially the case when nobody in the real world would be in some bizarre situation where they're stuck on a desert island having to do things entirely from memory. For example, if you're doing big-O analysis of an algorithm, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that you'll have Maple or Mathematica, or at least a list of common identities, available to use when simplifying your result or solving recurrences.
There is no free lunch. Unless of course the government is providing it.

It is the government spends hundreds of billions keeping oil cheap and stable. And its doubtful that its efforts to do so actually work and may actually make things worse. We're fighting 2 wars over this right now.

I say let the market work and stop subsidizing oil.

And we should also stop subsidizing the automobile as well. If we paid the real costs of roads directly, we'd have made much better, less wasteful choices.

Regarding pollution, it is the proper function of government to protect individual rights, including the right to breath and not have pollution dumped on your property. And it is the proper role of government to keep people from destroying our ability to live on this planet. Its just another form of self defense, which is your right.

It is not, however, our right to shift the costs of our individual choices to other people. And that is what our government has been doing in so many areas. Doing it even more is not the answer.
Well being younger is sort of inherent to her - obviously her absolute age will increase, but her age relative to fleitz is fixed - she'll always be X years younger than him.
MIT's do-it-yourself Android optometry app puts new glasses in your pocket
For Galician (see [1] for the reason why this is relevant) speakers, Brazilian and African accents are easier to parse than "official" (not northern) Portuguese. Whatever the history there, it seems very clear to me that it's the central/southern Portuguese version that diverged the most from whatever was the original language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_language
"You're only as young as the woman you feel"
-- Groucho Marx
They specifically mention that the certificate size (and that of intermediates, among other things) impacts the message size and thus the TCP packet sizes used during handshakes. They actually explain all of this quite well, just read the entire article [specifically the "Certificates" section].
Yes, Cappuccino is an all or nothing framework, it's not meant for interoperability with other JavaScript libraries. You'd have to like the whole deal.

I don't have a big problem with switching between CoffeeScript and regular JavaScript, though. I'd regard it as some kind of shorthand for writing code, similar to what more elaborate template languages (haml etc.) do to HTML. It doesn't do weird transformations (last time I looked at it), so you should be able to debug the produced code.

Right now, I'm not using it in any production code, as for simple client-side programming with JQuery, it's not a big win. I'm seriously considering it for a future node.js project, though. I found myself using too many snippets when writing JavaScript code, which reminds me to much about my last Java projects…
I wonder whether Marco used OS X 10.0 (or 10.1)…
One of the things he doesn't mention is that all of these improvements in technique can be learned more easily by simply swimming long distance in open water. When there is no turning point and no way to rest you are automatically forced into longer, more gliding strokes. Also, the colder water forces you to focus on efficiency. I've been a decent swimmer all my life but when I started swimming in open water last year I first was intimidated by how much more challenging it was & then by how quickly your body and technique are forced to adapt to the new environment.
Has the subject matter stayed the same over the past 3-5 decades that you can usefully compare "the same mastery of the subject matter"?
The time and place for government action is when individual rights are being violated. A right is something that authorizes the use of force to defend it.

You have the right to live, to breath and to own property. You're free to buy insurance, promote education, bargain with people who are dumber than you, use substances or sell them to others.

You have the right to hire and fire, and capriciously change where you buy your gasoline.

But you don't have the right to force others to fund your pet projects or make their decisions for them if you think they're being dumb. And we gain no special right to do so just because a group of us get together and decide to do so.

Our system is stronger specifically when individuals are free to disagree and to try many competing ideas without a central approving authority.

But, yes, some things are inescapably shared like the atmosphere and we must cooperate on protecting it.
Still having trouble explaining video chat to your grandmother?
Makes a lot more sense to everybody, except for the majority of people who still don't quite understand what a folder is.

I agree, I like copying over mp3s and photos, finding out what folder they need to go in, if they have filename restrictions, that sort of thing. I have done that for a long time. I understand that, and find it easy.

What I have a problem with is people who think that everybody wants it that way. Do you not understand that the majority are not like us, do not understand computers, need point and click interfaces? Why does this always come up?
If you read the article it points out that the drop in time spent studying started before the major IT effects on colleges.
Curses, foiled by skimming the article... still,

I would-up confusing the present Rogoff with the Rogoff of 2009, where in this interview, he talks about being angry towards those who were claiming the economy was in good shape.

http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-rogoff-the-wors...

Having already seen these two interviews, I've lost the slightest respect or credence for the fellow...
The Rumsfeld Hazard
Please let Flash die.
Personal anecdote: I eat quite fast and I have no troubles keeping my weight at a stable 75kg at 178cm height.
Secret? Well, I know generally how much I eat, so that's how much I put on my plate. When it's finished, it's finished, no matter if it took me 5 or 50 minutes to munch through stuff. And of course, if I sometimes give in and consume a lot of pizza, ice cream or similar - I will see my weight go upwards, even if I eat that pizza veeeery slow...
Poor relative to what? Maybe we need to hop in the time machine and relive what smart phones were like in January of 2007 before asking if you want to stick with such an asinine statement.
Yes, but when I stuff myself on one meal, accidentally or otherwise, my next meal is smaller or sometimes even nonexistent. That won't a priori lead to obesity.

This does nothing to address the real question, does overeating cause obesity or does obesity cause overeating? I'd be much happier if the dietary research community would stop designing experiments that are intrinsically blind to that question and start actually examining it.

("Good Calories, Bad Calories" has already been brought up, but I would point out that if there is anything to take away from that book, it is not that he has proved the point that obesity causes overeating, rather than the other way around. The point he really proves is that it is a reasonable hypothesis that fits the facts, including the experiments that have been done, and it has not been adequately tested. It has been unscientifically discarded-by-axiom. If it is put to the test and fails, so be it. But this appears to be yet another experiment that fails to distinguish between the two cases at all, and therefore is not all that interesting to me. This, BTW, is not news to Taubes, it is all he really claims, too.)
Sorry, you say MS is getting better? No. I would gladly go back to Windows XP over 7. The only thing I like about 7 is the taskbar, everything else just gets in the way or annoys me. Why MS feel like shuffling around everything in the control panel every release I will never understand.
How much change is in a vending machine?
I've read otherwise. Divorce is also initiated about 70% of the time by women now, with women typically getting better settlements:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce#Gender_and_divorce

Custody of children goes overwhelmingly to women too:
http://deltabravo.net/custody/divrates.php

What statistics are you referencing?
Tornado achieves concurrency using async network IO and multiple instances per core.
Oh, I get it. I'm usually the one that initiates the banter. It's not worse in person because a misinterpretation is easier to avoid and doesn't devolve into a troll-fest (maybe a fight, but if someone lets it go that far, it's not playful banter, it's being an asshole.)

> Oh, a funny American. Did you get that humor in a legal settlement?

Sure, this comment might just be banter considering the way you misinterpreted the original comment but when you take it the way it was meant, it just looks like petty trolling. That's all I am saying.

And I'm done here. I've made my point and people are down-voting.
Like any piece of code that claims to do xyz, the best way to try it is to run it. So, I tried the TI hints and such at the pool today. It definitely helped me feel more comfortable in the water and the less is more helps. Perhaps the most useful bit was that rotating shoulders.
If a woman puts her husband through med school, his expected future income is an asset that she had some role in providing him. Does she deserve to be compensated for that? If so, then how much?

Or, if a husband supports his wife and pays for her schooling while he's the only one working, is she still entitled to half of everything he earned in that period, including 401k and stock options?

In CA the answer is yes.
Roman Catholic, so I voted Christian.
I always thought it was unfair that Rumsfeld got criticized for that quote.
Missed Paganism (or 'Paganism/Newage', as I frequently see it, much to my annoyance).

Also, I bet there's at least 14 people here who would fill out 'Jedi' on their census form.
What makes the folders/multitasking UI less well thought out? I don't have anything that can run iOS 4 yet, so I haven't tried them out.
This regex has been mentioned on HN a few times before.

If your browser has Java applet support, here you can watch the regex succeed (demonstrating a number is composite) or fail (prime):

49: http://regex.powertoy.org/?pat=/^1%3F%24|^%2811+%3F%29\1+%24...

47: http://regex.powertoy.org/?pat=/^1%3F%24|^%2811+%3F%29\1+%24...
So that means we'll never get to know well educated upper classes accents as they'll have far fewer errors in their pronunciation. No?
I thought RIM was the obvious choice for enterprise, though.
Please go away
4Chan Hacks YouTube
CoffeeScript is just for fun -- it's a thought experiment that tries to see how far we can run with JavaScript semantics towards a more usable language.

Apart from the fact that both compile to JavaScript, CoffeeScript and Objective-J don't really sit together in the same boat. Objective-J is an actual runtime and interpreter: every single method you call is intercepted and handled by "objj_msgSend", so that things like method_missing are possible. See:

http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-language-abstractions/#comm...

CoffeeScript limits itself to current common patterns of JavaScript in practice, and (in a perfect world) would compile 1-to-1 into the JavaScript you would have written. Unlike an implementation of Ruby or Python in JavaScript, where even simple things like numbers work quite differently, the semantics of CoffeeScript are just JavaScript semantics -- so there shouldn't be anywhere for the abstraction to leak.

As to sticking to a single common syntax -- that's a very good argument, and I'd have hesitations introducing CoffeeScript into a team project. But if you just want to play around with a fun way to write JS. I encourage you to give it a spin. For an example, take a peek at this implementation of the Buddhabrot fractal (the render will peg your CPU, so use Chrome):

http://jashkenas.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/buddhabrot/buddhabrot...

Here's the CoffeeScript that runs it:

http://gist.github.com/463880

And here's the compiled JS (not too different):

http://gist.github.com/463881
Accusations stain, opinions leave scar's and acquittal does not completely clean or heal.

Chose to remember, on this 4th of July, all the people who have given their lives so that the laws of our land can be properly exacted between the guilty and the innocent.

Chose to allow the courts to decide if United Directories crossed the line between legal and not.

Chose to wait. Chose to trust. Chose to say good things or nothing at all.

Because in the end, accusations stain, opinions leave scar's and acquittal does not completely clean or heal.

Chose to never abandon a relationship unless you can accuse them from first-hand knowledge and then do it face to face in private.

I have no first hand knowledge. Do you?
Ask HN: Advice for a short travel to the USA to refresh my mind
Hi all,

I broke up with my very loved (and unique) long term girlfriend. It was a relationship of 9 years. I left my last employer because he run out of money, with a two month delay of payments. Currently I'm unemployed and sometimes I feel like depressed, almost burned out. I live with my parents and my sister, and I support them financially. I would like to have a break of the current things.

Reading the "Lost" story of sivers was very enlightening. My state is not so bad, but I would like to change a lot of things on my life. And the first thing occurred to me was to ask to the HN Crowd for advice to recover myself. Life is too short and I would like to make more significant things, I feel the need to expand my horizons.

I'm computer systems engineer. I'm 26. I'd been an enthusiast and passionate developer all my life. Currently I don't care for the money, that's is pretty well covered right now and for the next couple years.

I was thinking of doing a short travel to the USA (for a couple of months), to change my perspective, to refresh my aging geek mind, to learn new and interesting things, and maybe to make some friends. Not to work, given the restrictions of my tourist visa, just I thought it could be a great idea to refresh my viewpoints.

Surely, I expect to afford that, but my issue is how to get the most out of this situation. I'm from South America, previously I traveled abroad participating in conferences and stuff like that so a little longer travel shouldn't be a problem.

The thing is I also am a sort of shy guy, I have ZERO close friends and that's why I'm asking for advice here.

I don't want await for doing visa paperwork to any other place, so the USA is my only really far option. I really want to do that in the most immediate possible way.

Any suggestions? Should I look for something specific to where I can travel? What else can I do?

Thank you very much.

(this is throwaway account, I have been a long time hn user)
It will probably never happen. Linux committed suicide by making the ideological decision to have an unstable ABI for the kernel, making it all but impossible for a 3rd party to ship binary drivers that work across multiple versions of the kernel. Microsoft could barely sustain this even across major revisions of their OS (see massive hostility to Vista because they broke the driver model). But linux does it with every point release of the kernel.
...has 0% software compatibility, and requires a massive amount of retraining and reconfiguration...

Naaah. Too easy. No comment.
No, it just means less imaginative research. And more research by people good at filling out paperwork and kissing ass. These are not the iconoclasts for the most part.
Pastafarian, so I voted nonreligous.
Panic and creativity
I don't know much about ISP DNS configurations, but the problem extends to clients as well. For example, until Java 1.6, the default TTL for DNS lookups was forever.
NH starts new online site to help small businesses
It is silly to try and frame a comparison between iPhone and Android in 1-dimension. We could equally write an article criticizing the App Store and say the difference is about freedom of expression. Or about quality of apps. Or about power and flexibility. Or availability of media. Or hardware. Or half a dozen other things.

Guess what folks, there are many various differences! Personally I choose Android because I value the various dimensions on which it scores highly over those where the iPhone scores highly. But don't try and pretend there is only one dimension to this.
What was the nature of the criticism anyway?
And the truth is even more complex than that.

Roman "Hispania" included originally a good chunk of what today is southern France and of the north of Africa, territory that nowadays would be in Morocco and Algeria.

After the Muslim invasion, (I)spania it was the name the Christians gave to Al-Andalus, the Muslim part of the peninsula, while the Christian northwest preserved the name Gallaecia. In some of these maps, especially in the translation of arab ones, the opposition Gallaecia vs (H(i))spania/Al-Andalus can be observed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfcBE8iEYkc

The kingdom of Aragon, and therefore "Ispania", included Sicily and Naples too at some point.
It's not hard to be atheist or agnostic and a Buddhist. It's fundamentally a very god-optional religion (though some traditions add them back in, like Jodo Shinshu).
You're saying 199 in 200 people should not go to college? I disagree.

A lot of people are going to state and community colleges and are not spending very much money to do so. There are very few people who graduate with over $100k in debt. Most have much less, if any.
true, i can't dispute your logic :) but if something is totally hyperbolic and doesn't fit expectations, then it's still weird. imagine reading something that says "X for SUPER-DUPER-GENIUSES!!!" that somehow implies that X is not for regular folks, even though logically it shouldn't. oh well, people are irrational
I always thought that the quote sucked, because it left out what was Rumsfeld's biggest failing: the unknown knowns. I.e., the things he knew that weren't true.
Ask HN: Lack of self-discipline driving me hopeless. Tips?
Dear Hacker News,

I am a longtime member here. I would never think I would be one of those writing this but here it goes.

I have a terrible problem with focus and discipline. I simply cannot manage to achieve both for any prolonged period of times. For the last five years, I have tried very conciously to become disciplined and no matter what, after a few days or weeks at best, the pattern breaks and I am back to my unproductive, terrible self.

I also cannot really enjoy or focus on anything or anyone for too long. This is the most scary part. I cannot be in a relationship for more than a week or two before becoming very ambivalent after the initial high. I cannot continue working on projects--all of them I would say I enjoy--for more than a few weeks at most.

I am 23 and finishing up school(took some time off to do failed startup). Much of this could be accepted during my teen years and 20s. People close to me respect me for my passion, for my entprenreurial spirit and all of those things. They barely know this miserable side of me and those that do don't know much else to help me.

I always thought I knew what I loved(startups). At this point though, anything I love seems to have become very irrelavant. I make new friends and before I know it, I am avoiding them. I want to socialize but before I know it, I'm avoiding it. I want to work on my startup but before I know it, my mind is just in a confused weird daze. I have no idea what is wrong with me. I have so many things to be greatful about. I am 100% confident that I am holding myself back. And yet, I don't know how to get out of this shitless pattern of life.

After a million self-help programs and motivation books that haven't been of much help, I thought I'd post this on HN.

More recently I have started reading up more on suicides. I am too weak to ever attempt it. But I also never thought I'd ever be so tired and hopeless in life to be googling something so sick.

Thanks!

-A dude
If your taking classes to learn latin or greek, it probably has not. That might be an example of a good subject matter to use as a benchmark.
it is and I thought it was clear from the statement
What are the prices for BitGravity? Any resellers for them?
Wondering if CDNs offer any type of support if we buy through a reseller.
The Simulation Argument.
Rumsfeld wasn't exactly known for being straightforward with reporters, and it's easy to get the impression that it's an evasive, nonsensical answer. It even won an award for that!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3254852.stm
Lets find out by tipping it over!
Interesting question. I have lot of theories regarding religion and I wonder if the HN community is interested discussing them.

Just one question now (for Atheists): Why don't you believe in God. Do you have a good reason? Is it because it doesn't interest you? Is it because of a scientific theory that proved to you that God don't exist?
I'd be interested in the breakdown between non/atheist/agnostic, as there are significant differences e.g. level, intensity, or existence of belief structures.
Why do you believe you understand what exist means? (Edit: Uh, or why don't you?)
Blackberry user here, and to this day I defend the primary point of me continuing to use a physical, full qwerty keyboard is the responsiveness, and the user centric design of the keyboard. Case in point of this having two shift buttons on either side of the spacebar, both iOS and the Android platform lack this logical affordance (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/application-mistakes.html).

Great points, Sam.
Even more important is whether students graduate knowing what they need to know for today's world. I don't think that past study habits are even applicable, since what students need to know nowadays may be completely different from before.
No matter what you prefer, thinco is the pronunciation that preserves the most information. A latin-american speaker can't distinguish phonetically between "cebo" and "sebo", for example. Therefore it's hard to argue that the american collapsing of 'th' sounds into 's' is closer to the original language.
I am a Quaker. I voted other.
> You _can_ block the whole process with a long lived handler.

Or you could handle the event out-of-process.
Secular Humanist, so I filed under non/agnon/etc.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?page=what&secti...

My opinion is that the argument FOR the existence of God is just as philosophically bankrupt to argue AGAINST the existence of God. Best answer: I don't know.

Secular humanism covers the majority of my values without ascribing to any dogmatism. I have a feeling a lot more people are actually secular humanist, but may not know it.