skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speed Reading is just trained a skill. You can train it like a body in exercise room. Reading consists from three steps: decoding text symbols (you should train decode couple words at one glance), comprehensive that text and retention. For speed reading, you should train all these steps. Just think about your reading speed on 7-8 age and on 22 age (in university). Does it have the difference? I think yes, but why? Because it was trained year by year and this skill is trainable. For example, I read before start to learn speed reading 2-3 books a month, but now I read 8-12 books a month. This is my challenge for 2017 year - https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/8700342
Unfortunately, there's no way to prove Fidelity's internal costs from the outside. Vanguard has the lowest expense ratios holding 4.4 trillion dollars in assets (Fidelity only manages 2.13 trillion). If you're undercutting them without that level of assets under management in those funds, you're losing money on it (Blackrocks has 5.7 trillion under management; it'd be reasonable to think they might be able to undercut Vanguard).
Wow. Thanks for sharing this. I think this is overlooked by society today. People have no idea what it takes to truly make software. I would argue most of the people on the software side in tech have non human like abilities which enable such great technology stacks to be developed. It's such a shame that we are so quick to judge, especially when the people have no idea what went into devolpment of a technology. We Champion the outcome but not the process. I think until there is a shift in thinking and celebrating the process and the product you will constantly see nonsense comments, like Page stated, appear in a vicious loop. It would be great to see them release the emails of praise. It just sucks that negative information travels or carries more weight than positive information.
An alarming number of patched Macs remain vulnerable to stealthy firmware hacks
It's also easy to implement as a one liner

var atleastTwo = function(x){return function(){return Math.max(2,x);}

Even simpler with typescript

var atLeastTwo = (x) => (() => Math.max(2, x))
That's good idea in some specific areas and price categories.
> It is therefore debatable whether belief in cryonics or AI singularity, or the Silicon Valley-centered Rationality movement constitutes a religion

If you think being rational is a religion, you've fallen prey to the "All Sides Are Equal" bias, in that you can no longer tell that some philosophies are straight-up more useful than others.

Or is Christian Scientist "No Blood Transfusions Ever" just as useful at surviving major medical emergencies as the rational modern healthcare philosophy?

> It's truth of a different kind than scientific truth, but so is the truth of critical theory

This "different kinds of truth" leads right off the cliff of being unable to evaluate truth claims, and that is the royal road to being an anti-vaxxer, or an AGW denier, or a believer in whatever other fashionable nonsense is in vogue.
This is always the case after they adjust the test. But the averages of generations can differ over time if they use the same test/sans adjustment.

But there is a much stronger way to believe IQ is not the same over time : intelligence is not normally distributed, at all. It really is meaningless to try to measure intelligence samples and call them independent and identically distributed random variables, whether the 'population' is an individual at one snapshot or over time, or an individual in a group (whether over time or not).

Intelligence is probably better measured by a power-law distribution than the normal distribution, whose key property is that it is the probability distribution that maximizes entropy/minimizes information. So maybe there would be a larger discrepancy (relative entropy aka Kullback-Leibler divergence) in measuring IQ as a normal distribution over time than expected (maybe that's the whole reason for the Flynn effect and the author writing this article..)
> C++ culture from Bjarne on down is still hideous. Arrogant, aggressive and generally nasty.

This is the complete opposite of my experience. Most are among the most humble people I've met.
I'd argue that they are the same. Calculating return value of B (return Math.max(2, someNumber)) is calling Math.max with two arguments, the second of which is explicitly named. The result is the same as partial(Math.max, 2)(someNumber). someNumber isn't used anywhere else, and the function itself just does the supplement of someNumber as second argument to Math.max . That's also what partial(Math.max, 2) does.
Can you explain the codependency?
> I don't know if this would have happened in the past.

Let us assume the answer is no for the sake of argument. Does that necessarily mean the quality of education has dropped? Not necessarily. It could mean that 30 years ago this boy would have failed to graduate.

This doesn't mean that the education was any better then, only that the requirements for graduation are lower now. The top and average students today might be leaving with better knowledge and skills than 30 years ago even if the very bottom looks "worse" because fewer people are pushed out entirely. Perhaps the value of the diploma itself diminishes as a result of this, but that doesn't mean the actual education has diminished.

Of course it's also very likely that there have always been people graduating like this.
In addition to legal barriers, #2 can also be about specialised parts that are not documented and not sold (officially). E.g. inventing new screws just to make it harder to open a case.
At one level, “idea person” is a misunderstanding of the founder’s role; founders must execute, all day long. It’s not just the programmmers who “implement,” either.

At another level, I’ll admit that most founders I’ve worked for have excelled more at promoting their ideas, raising money, and hiring talent — top talent, no small feat! — than product ownership. In this case, the lieutenants who make the gears mesh and not jam are the heroes to me.
"More cryptocurrencies than fiat currencies in circulation."

Yeah. Well, no, that's a completely meaningless point. Even "marketcap" for Bitcoin is useless---a marketcap is the marginal price that the greatest current fool is willing to buy one thingy for, multiplied by the number of thingys.

There may be too much money in cryptocurrencies, but this chart isn't showing that.
Pointfree style uses composition (among other operators), currying, and partially applied functions, but it refers to something distinct from the sum of those concepts/features

Exactly. But in all fairness to the parent comment to yours, the original article doesn't convey this as well as you lucidly did, and his confusion is perfectly understandable.
Yes, your worker can make subrequests to other domains, and serving some assets out of S3 is a use case we specifically want to enable.

I haven't looked into how specifically to expose HTTP Push in the API but that certainly seems like something we should support.
Or maybe it's because, somewhat depressingly, IQ is highly hereditary, as research has shown for decades and new gene research is currently confirming, and people with lower IQs tend to have more children.
Haskell is not slow because of point free style. C++ generally won't suffer any performance penalty for point free style in an optimized build. If you think you have specific examples otherwise I'm happy to discuss them.
offtopic: can cloudflare be used as a CDN for just assets? The cloudflare docs talk only about using it as CDN for an entire site.
There are tools available to help reduce the threat, e.g.
http://www.cunningrunning.co.uk/sam-pras

'SAM-PRAS is a unique market-leading solution used by counter-terrorism agencies to identify potential MANPADS launch points within range of flight paths.'

I don't work for or have any association with this company BTW, just aware of their software.
Accenture Awarded Patent for 'Editable Blockchain' Tech – CoinDesk
> ceo fake credentials

no company his a ceo for his undergrad education, sadly. that's probably the nasty side effect of internal fights.
I'm referring to this theology more as a cultural and mythological phenomenon, which is why I specified "evangelical". If you step outside of the text for a minute and look at how these things have gotten unpacked, maybe you will catch what I mean.

Many people interpret the new covenant as God's change of heart. I don't think it is internally possible to acknowledge that the new testament and old testament gods are "different", for that would be a surface violation of monotheism, which is the common understanding of Moses' "first commandment". (this is problematic on many levels, but its the state of popular Christianity). To many Christians, Moses' first commandment is still wrapped up in "put no god before me", which they interpret to mean that Buddhists and Muslims can't "get saved" or some other similar thing. Ugh. The point being that its not safe for some fearful Christians to acknowledge that in their own belief system, "god" takes radically different characters in different contexts... That's too much cognitive dissonance and flirts with a violation of monotheism. The same cognitive dissonance hovers around trinitarian theology, which people also idolize.

Whereas in popular practice, there are myths saying God changes his basic agreement with humankind, and that it represents a change of heart. That God has a moment.

Even if theologically the idea of the old and new covenants is that human beings have come to a fresh relationship with god through some realization and change in their hearts, in evangelicalism it is too commonly is unpacked as "God used to be angry, but now he forgives us. Specifically because of Jesus sacrifice, we get a 'second chance.' Don't blow it."

I understand what your saying too, and find it compelling.
I just don't wanna ignore the cultural myths attached to these theologies. Those are what make it a religion... how people unpack it.

All that said, I really do like your interpretation of the kernel of these theologies.

I'd also point out that Jesus says "I came to fill up the law". Jesus emphasized the positive character of the law, whereas Moses' was prohibitive, framed in negative terms. A lot of messianic type folks miss that one. They interpret this as a statement of pending apocalypse.

But it's really just more of a throwback to the original grace, and simple righteousness, of an integrated passion for your life and the people in it.

"What does the lord require of you but to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your god?" says Micah as he forecasts that some of the the poorest, marginalized people will realize, in a major way, that the answer to that question is "not much else".
perf with source annotation is pretty nice if you're profiling for individual hotspots. But I have not found any solution that lets me spot amdahl bottlenecks which get drowned out in raw cycles spent by the parallel parts. In java this is trivial with thread utilization timlines that incorporate sampling.

Maybe this could be solved by weighting samples by the inverse of number of running threads at the time
Mexico has an average IQ of ~90. Perhaps displacing large swaths of white america wasn't such a great idea.
Five ways science can improve your focus
GraphpostgresQL – GraphQL for your PostGres
Node.js Path validation vulnerability
Yes, that is what folklore means. And apart from people who really believe that the world is 6,000 years old or that bronze-age jews lived hundreds of years, nobody takes the Torah as accurate history. Do you?
Why It's time to fully embrace America's energy grid diversification
I hope so! If even a bit of this is what Google is up to, we're in for a treat come Wednesday!
The Apple of Your EFI: Findings from an Empirical Study of EFI Security [pdf]
This. The most deadly terrorist group to hit the USA was the KKK, with over 3000 black Americans lynched and also over 1000 white Americans killed. Plus countless lives ruined, terrorised, and affected.

These were Americans killing Americans, and similar to the pattern we've seen throughout the 1900s and into the 2000s, it is most likely that future terrorists will also be home grown.

As to this system, was there anything to be gained by keeping these out of the USA, for a tweet?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312

{Off-topic: Because the KKK were (mainly) killing black people and their supporters in Southern states, 'we' don't really think of them as terrorists, nor the people that still push their agenda today as terrorist sympathisers.}
This looks like a large volume version of the cars in Too Like the Lightning -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Like_the_Lightning
I do agree it's good, though I personally prefer Diamond Age, but I also think it has the Standard Stephenson Ending Problem. The ending really is a great action sequence, and resolves the immediate problem that the action sequence was about -- Snow Crash is disarmed -- but it's also more a stopping-point than an actual ending to the plot. There's a lot of "what happened next?" both with the overarching stuff and with the specifics of what happened to all the major characters, so there's not much closure.

There's a certain amount of circumstantial evidence that Diamond Age is set in the same universe decades later, which probably answers at least a bit of that, particularly if you assume a certain character is Y.T. based on one reference. But still, that's not much of a save for Snow Crash viewed as a complete story in itself.
AI Will Shift Preferences to the Microstate – Killing Large Republics
Extension for using multiple monitors as one big monitor, Xinerama, came out in 1998.
If you freelance, there are three ways to earn more: work more, charge more, or hire. A few years ago I made a spreadsheet to model charging more vs hiring some people. The problem with hiring is that you have to spend a lot of time on unbillable work, and also suddenly you have to sell enough projects to keep 3-4 people busy. The risks are higher and you might need to hire 3 others just to break even. I decided that I would focus on just charging more. :-)

But I've also started a small partnership with two other excellent developers, and that has been working very well. I don't have to manage anyone, but I have help when I need it. And as a firm we avoid some of the "market for lemons" freelancer stigma, so we can charge more. Also with 3 of us the chasm to eventually hiring others is maybe easier to leap. I think this is a great way to go!
Do you have the Containers extension installed as well, and the toolbar button enabled? That's what it's bound to. I don't know of a way to list all keybindings.

(Also, I didn't know about Cmd/Ctrl-Click. Nice!)
Maybe I missed it but where's the discussion of security issues and how to prevent code tampering within programmable switches? It's great to be able to program the data plane on demand to trace problems but this also opens up a huge opportunity for technically astute evildoers. I would expect at the very least to see some discussion of risks as well as possible solutions like code signing or secure enclaves but this seems to be absent from both the white paper as well as the cited sources.

In contrast other efforts on networking like Martin Casado's Sane work [1] and OpenFlow [2] explicitly addressed security issues up front.

[1] http://yuba.stanford.edu/ethane/sane.pdf
[2] http://archive.openflow.org/documents/openflow-wp-latest.pdf
Did you try the Enter key on the numeric keypad?
Is it though? Name some funds that have blown up and have continued to raise Capital again? I think you're confusing the two because I think they are drastically different, but that is just my opinion. As the saying goes,there's a sucker born every minute.=) Or as a troll would say, don't hate the player hate the game.
"Quite a bit of engineering?" (in something other than the software sense?)
Not sure about the US but in Europe there are some cheaper cars that have basically no "extras" in the cheapest model. You'll end up with some softwares and computers but probably close to what you'd get in any 10y old car. And it's cheap, the Dacia Sandero costs <£6,000 as a new car (~$8,000).

But you'll also end up with a less secure car probably.
I'm curious what LIDAR solves for border security, that infrared cameras can't already do. I guess they could more easily identify slow moving objects and camoflage?
> If you tax gas, you effectively tax everything, and that's not okay for any economy.

Why? The purpose of the carbon tax is to capture the negative externality of carbon pollution, and to encourage more energy-efficient industries. Not all parts of the economy use equal amounts of energy, and we should encourage the energy-efficient ones.

I burn carbon when I drive my car to work. I burn much less carbon when I take the bus to work. We want to encourage the latter - carbon taxes let the market do this encouragement. The alternative is doing so by government fiat.
I gave up on most western TV for this reason; they don't know how to end things. Everything has to be open ended, so they can milk any successes til they are wit here and bad. I'm still not sure how, but somehow the relatively tiny anime industry manages to regularly put out high quality stories that come to pre-planned, definitive endings within a season or two. (Obviously it also puts out tons of horrid garbage too.)
People seem to report a modification of userChrome.css to hide the tab bar: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224#issuecomm...
What portion of grad students and high tech jobs are Mexican immigrants? Very few.

Conflating immigration from high IQ populations like China, Korea, and Brahmin India with South American immigration is just ridiculous.
There are statistics on education level. For example "Share of the population aged 25-64, by educational attainment level, by place of birth and by sex, EU-28, 2016". http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/....

Now let's say that you make it difficult (either deliberately or due to language barriers) for individuals in the left-most part of that graph to stay. What happens long term? I don't know.
Bitcoin is an example of a coin 'left on the market' in such a state that the original author maybe does not 'exist' anymore. If the codebase is open source, if there is a decentralized autonomous organization behind the project, or even just some kind of community, then the protocol can live on. Cryptotokens will not be companies. They will be some combination of companies, religions, protocols, memes... (Maybe churches are similar?)
Reading the comments here I find that what most people do not understand is that the fact that 99% of ICO-s at the moment are crap does not really matter. What matters is the innovation that the 1% of the cryptotokens bring. If you follow the spce closely, you will see that there is plenty of innovation in the space both technical both organizational (like the DAO of DASH).
Some years later dumb investors will give up investing in the space and only the sophisticated projects remain with sophisticated smart contracts and oracle networks so that for smart people I think there will be even more guarantees than in today's venture investing.
And the real win will be the awful amount of middlemen eliminated. (All kind of lawyers, VCs, accredited investors, etc...). Venture funding will finally become meritocrtic, and not the privilege of some already well connected rich people.
It's easier to colonize Mars than make life on Earth sustainable, because it involves convincing fewer people.
Give it to Accenture
Yes, and the reason is idiots who consider it so.
sigh, probably. OTOH, unless we drastically cut government spending, tax increases on the rich and tax decreases on the middle class won't really help much. Maybe my armchair policy is a bad one, but providing the carrot to corporations to increase wages seems more rational than constantly providing them tax incentives to relocate to places where they can lower their effective tax rate. (see GE moving to MA from CT, e.g.). If you could achieve the same tax rate change by encouraging them to simply pay their workers more, some good might actually come of that policy.
Gil the Arm would make such a great detective show. I hope Ringworld is successful so Amazon develops the rest of Larry Niven's known universe properties.
And connecting the two dots too loudly makes you into a monster.
This Movie About Sheep May Actually Put You to Sleep
> If you tax gas, you effectively tax everything, and that's not okay for any economy.

Why not, we already tax everything as it is right now? And lots of places have carbon taxes, it works fine.
How do you store scripts in each edge ? Since in 1 of 117 datacenters, you'll need all scripts from all customers ready to go/execute.
This is probably the best annoucement of a new feature I have ever read. It makes an analogy to an existing technology. It provides a clear description of the new feature. It provides clear examples of how to use the new feature with a link to a sandbox so you can run and modify the examples. And it explains the thought process behind the implementation. In additon, I didn't notice a single typo, spelling or grammar error.

Also, this feature is pretty cool!
Sounds interesting. It looks like a one man show though. Is it open source/free software?
To me this looked like it could be the key to the whole thing...

That is, the idea is that you build a high-speed airline with spaceports all over the world, refueled by huge solar arrays refining Ox and CH4 out of the air. Then it turns out your airliners, by virtue of the fact they are orbiters, can also launch satellites and go to Mars and other interplanetary destinations (where similar spaceport situations can be built).

The key to the whole thing is to make the second stage an orbiter big enough to do re-entry so the whole system is re-usable. Re-usable second stages are a giant pain, but if the secret is to get big, and that means you're kind of "accidentally" running an airliner, then perhaps SpaceX has found the right business model for commercial space flight in such high volume that things like going to Mars and asteroids and so forth are sort of on the cost order of chartering a private flight -- well within the reach of many organizations.
Maybe you were in a pessimistic period in your life and I am the same way now.

He didn't fear much. He was a bully.
For one thing they need voice recognition models for their languages...
My favorite movie on this topic is Ice Station Zebra: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063121/
Ask HN: What's the worst organized project you've worked on
I'm helping out with a project that is atrocious.
-None of the code is organized in libraries, just a collection of 100s of source files.
-No architecture/design
-Source control consists of copying the source tree into a new folder
-Merging changes from multiple devs is done manually with a merge tool

What is your horror story?
"partial" is an idea which is known in programming, specifically functional one, and its use is much wider than this particular example. It's just that JavaScript doesn't have this standard it has to be defined. Similarly a concept of "function" is a widely known one, which you also need to learn.

The whole article makes sense as telling something new to the one who doesn't know what's the point-free style is - but might know what the partial application is. It's a feature, not a bug when something is learned as the result of reading the article and can be applied later.
YT: "Stupid name."

Hiro: "But you'll never forget it."
The change is not due to evolution, but rather because there's lower gravity, which would affect bone growth (and density).
Unity is elegant and simple, yet offers all the functionality I need, has a minimal UI and keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Gnome3 is a collection of UI blunders and they (over)spend their funding on political bullshit I don't support.
Engineering culture at Algolia