skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a scam, they usually take your money and run after you make an "order".

On a side note, never use money orders with anyone you don't know personally and deeply trust.
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>He's basically claiming that despite a large known population variances in IQ and MA, there is no variance in learning rate.

If this is what he's claiming it's obviously silly. A more plausible claim would be that the rate at which one could learn may be close to equal provided an optimum teaching method is used on a case by case basis.

What I mean here is: I think all the literature you're referencing about learning rates doesn't conclusively prove that it's the students at fault. It could be the teaching method. I've experienced first hand that some people who seemed to not "get it" for some subject could in fact understand it quite well when it was presented in a way they understood (perhaps they didn't see the relevance, perhaps they didn't have the proper frame of reference to understand the normal explanation or a poor grasp of those references).

For me it's just too simple to say "everything's fine, those people are just too stupid. Bad genetics". What if it's not? Then we're throwing away a lot of potential unnecessarily. And part of the reason I suspect this to be the case (to some unknown degree) is because plenty of teaching methods that are still in use are not even the best known method (e.g. how most schools teach a second language).
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There's a FAQ link at the bottom of every page, and that has a link to the formatting.
"3GS iPod Touch"?
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I parse that title as

"Here's your opportunity to ask questions of the YC archive"

rather than the intended

"Here's an archive of the 'Ask YC' items."

Sometimes what one writes is not what the reader reads - care required. The URL for the Italian branch of PowerGen springs to mind, as does the URL for the site listing the representatives of various celebreties.
I really appreciate where code anthem is coming from, but the past few posts I've seen from them have been little more than meaningless platitudes much like this one.
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"It's better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb, than halfway up one you don't."
There are a lot of people that are dependent on their car, but don't know much more than how to turn the steering wheel and push the gas/brake pedals.
For firefox there is "It's all text!"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/

(and mozex, which I used to use before that.)
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The Bespin project has a cool bookmarklet, that replaces every textarea with an instance of Bespin.
I may have not made myself clear. It looks like I suggested that numbers, squares, and circles exists somewhere, just not in our world.

I didn't want to.

The problem comes from the word "exist", which does not mean the same thing when I talk about the physical world and when I talk about mathematical concepts. For instance, when I say "Do unicorns exist?", or "cars do exist", I am talking about actual existence, in our world, such that it could change my life: if unicorns existed, I might see one. If cars did not exist, I would be riding instead of driving.

When I say "do odd numbers exists", or "there exists no even prime number greater than 2", I am talking about mere ideas. See, numbers "exist" by definition. In Peano arithmetic for instance, I declare that natural numbers exist because: (1) I declare that zero exist, (2) I declare that if a number n exist, then a different number, n+1, also exists. (There are other laws, but we'll leave them.) In short, numbers "exist" because I decided it. This is not the same kind of existence than unicorns. No matter how hard I decide, unicorns don't exist.

Now the fact that everyone agrees that numbers "exist" just means that everyone follows the same convention.

I actually agree with David Hume. He's right because of a very simple, now easy to guess, reason: mathematics doesn't even talk about existence of the unicorn/car kind.
I did something similar and took off to Argentina for a year. Took with me only one backpack and and my laptop. Got rid of all my other stuff.

Now that I'm back state side I'm trying to maintain minimal amount of stuff because it was fairly nice. Two words: furnished apartment.
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>We've spent decades if not centuries looking for better teaching strategies and materials

Have we? Then why is the system so incredibly awful today? Why is it for a wide variety of subjects we are using methods that are known to be inferior?

>How do you even expect to find teaching methods that disproportionately benefit the slower kids over the quicker kids anyway?

We know so little about how the brain works, it could be that the method we have today promotes one kind of brain "layout" (if you will) but some other method might promote a different kind.

We just don't know yet. And deciding something based on this lack of knowledge is premature to say the least.
This has become my philosophy. You can buy the Ikea stuff almost as cheap as renting that crummy rent-a-center junk for a few months.

When we move, we just make sure we find a rental close to an Ikea, Craigs List all of the Ikea stuff before we go and then buy it again when we get there, saving thousands on moving expenses.

I'm wicked good at assembling the entire "Lack" series...

I'm about to try this with our biggest jump ever. From the USA to Australia. Selling everything and starting over is hard but has been strangely refreshing.
As far as I can remember, the last few times I met Japanese people informally they extended a handshake (I don't know if it's a "foreigners can't possibly know how to bow" or a "I want to speak English/act like a Western" thing). In formal situations I'm not wearing a hat.
I really, really miss _why. He's one of the main reasons I ditched an awful career in the design industry and got back into UI development; I missed coding that much after reading _why.
A lot of the other comments are spot on. Namely hire selectively, treat it as you would any relationship, be clear in your instructions and get a sample of each task before having them spend 10 hours doing the wrong thing.

A lot depends on the kind of work you want them to do, but I recommend hiring two at a time. One in the $10-15/hr range, and one in the $3/hr range.

The higher paid one is for things that require critical thought, good english, and reliable judgment. Writing emails, filtering out the useless info provided by VA#2, managing other tasks.

The $3/hr one is for pure menial labor. For instance, you want to find a group of blogs on snowboarding to contact regarding your snowboarding product. Have them return an excel file with the blog name, blogger's first name, blogger's last name, blog address, link to relevant article. Stuff like that.

The fact is that you're outsourcing work, but not all of that work is the same. Don't pay someone $15/hr to do stuff that someone can do for $3/hr. And don't waste your time and money by paying the cheaper VA to do tasks that they can't do well.
A real bargain, thanks.
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Funny how pulling in $150k/yr can actually be a downside. Reading between the lines, it sounds like you managed to adjust your lifestyle to match the income.

Most people can live comfortably in the US for under $2k/month all in. So in theory you should be able to save something like 4 years worth of runway with a single year's contracting.

In practice, you just convince yourself that it takes $10k/month to survive and as a result burn yourself into the ground 5x faster than everybody else.
They are a group of academic people, funded by tax payers money that is supposed to be spent on research only. They cant just do what the market wants, because they have a benchmark, which is the number of published papers - not the rate of adoption of their product.
But we should still hold them accountable when they claim to have principles and then violate them.
Why would they launch all their great new tech for the iPod Touch instead of the iPhone? Especially if the iPod Touch is a lower-margin product.

iPhone is clearly the more important product for them; this doesn't mean the iPod Touch isn't important though.
It usually feels to me that if you don't want someone to take up the offer you need to have tighter returns policies. I see why companies do it, for the vast majority of people buying the product it's like an added bonus if something goes astray. This opens the system to gaming by the small minority of customers but still the benefits to the companies sales far outweigh the cost. If everyone was doing it I'm sure the companies would be a lot less generous with their returns.

Reminds me of a story a friend who works at EB Games (some campany as gamestop in america). Every week or 2 a lady would come in and exchange a game she purchased for her kids for another one, usually just falling inside the exchange period. Essentially she was using EB as a free game rental store. Eventually they cut her off but not before she had well and truly gotten value for money on whatever she had originally paid.
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I bet if I saw you on the street, you would register as American to me. (East Coast and Midwest register the same to me.) I would be able to tell you apart from someone who was actually born and raised in China. Conversely, if you went to China, the people there would be able to identify you as foreign-born. Your culture is similar and related to, but very different from, the culture of people still living in China. I might be able to tell you apart from more assimilated Americans of East Asian descent, though.
"What I meant was: I can read, understand, and re-implement 99% of software engineering algorithms / architectures."

While this may be true, you are comparing apples to oranges. "Read, understand and re-implement software algorithms / architectures" is to computer science as "Read, understand and apply some given formulas to solve a problem instance" is to maths/physics.

Formalizing and proving the correctness and boundaries of these formulas is the hard part here, where mathematicians are doing their job. You probably can implement a Support Vector Machine in one day given a detailed pseudo-algorithm, but truly understanding the underliying concept, as well as its weaknesses and strong points is way harder. Let alone improving it. And the very same thing can be said about a lot of other algorithms (MRF-optimization, coding theories, etc.).
When I dist-upgraded neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked under X11.
I have nothing against RoR, but I don't think it is a good choice for the goal of having an easy self-install application. If you look at the popular self-install apps, such as Wordpress, PHPBB, Drupal, etc. they are all written in PHP. There is a lot more small-scale hosting support for PHP, especially because of mod_php. Dump all the files in a public directory, fire up the URL and presto. While there are some RoR hosting providers who can do this, most of the target audience (ie. semi-literate tech people) are more accustomed to being able to install a PHP app.

I use RoR, but if I had to build a product that users would install on a server and run themselves, I would probably build it in PHP, despite the other known disadvantages.
Can anyone recommend anything from this list?

I'm almost through Learning Python after having worked with Python for about 2 years and I really appreciate it. It goes into great depth on all of the commonly used features of the language. I think I got to appreciate it more precisely because I already knew a good deal of Python. This book also shows the whys in Python and gives you an idea of what will be new in Python 3 (and why).
Same thing here, except I found out I was burning too much about halfway through my savings. Since then I realized I have to pay more attention to how I spend money. I'm glad this happened - it is unbelievable how much gets thrown away on stuff I don't really need.
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Of course—this isn't to bring back the whole semantics-of-names-and-addresses issue that HN discussed two months ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472).

I was referring just to the street address part, though, which is almost always entirely freeform, or at least is up to complex and opaque rules that vary by city. This is what textareas are for: unstructured input of a string (not prose writing, but simply a string) that may require newlines in it.

Coming right after the street address field would, of course, be separate single-line input fields for the city, country, etc... but the street address itself should allow as many lines as you need.
> The phone is brilliant, but the market went elsewhere with it's carrier locked subsidised junk models. That's just a market reality, like it or not.

That has always irritated me in its US-centric view of things. They should have kept pushing that phone in Europe, in stores, where it would sit right next to even more expensive iPhone models.
It gets me too. Puts our petty concerns into perspective. Carl Sagan would have been the coolest president ever. If only we could resurrect him. hahah
I love the idea of motorbikes, but find the risk of death off-putting. E.g. http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/risks_of_travel.htm
Ask HN: How do I get into research?
I am a software developer, working at a NLP/textmining startup, and am very interested in research topics on NLP. Researchers dont get paid as well as Industry professionals, in my country, and Unfortunately, My financial conditions do not allow me to go in academic research.

Is it possible to get into computer research,(publish paper et al.) without going to academia? Has anyone tried it?
A friend of mine recently hired a PA in San Jose off of Craigslist. He made a post for a 10 hour a week, Admin/PA that had solid bookeeping skills and knew their way around QuickBooks. He offered $10 an hour, and at the bottom of the posting, he said, "And, just to make sure that you've read this entire job posting, please include the word, 'snap' in your cover letter".

Within 24 hours, he had recieved 120 resumes. 36 of them had actually placed the word 'snap' in the cover letter. He picked the top 4 of those, and hired the first one that seemed great.
Diaspora is a just faster carriage. We need a starship to satisfy our exponentially rising expectations.
a magnitude of different

You probably meant something in English here.
To fund my local news sharing website bighow.com, I sell The Success Manual, a compendium of business and self-help advice.
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Blatant steal from Matt Might's blog: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
iPod Touch based on iPhone 3GS hardware (faster CPU, more RAM than the iPhone 3G)
My parent's address structure is:

House Name,
Road,
Village,
Town,
County,
Country (if applicable)
Post Code.

My address structure is:

Flat Number - Building,
Road,
City,
Country,
Post Code

Some multi-input address forms require that I enter both a city and a county, which in the case of Londoners means you end up putting London twice. The only important parts of the address (for most uses, including credit card processing) are recipient name, house/flat name/number (actually, not sure about this - it might not be necessary) and Post Code.

So why not just have explicit inputs for those fields which are always required, and allow a more fuzzy input for everything else in the form of a textarea? It also means you're more likely to be able to deal with addresses in countries that use slightly different systems.
Notice the Author (Amber) is the same as the submitter (Amber)?

That's kind of a cheap point to make. There's absolutely nothing wrong with an author submitting their own blog post to the site to get feedback.
Pushing iPhone notification requires (somewhat persistent) socket connections. Some environments forbid that, like Google App Engine.
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The paper summarises a novel approach to spatial programming, and and parallel formal model of computation. As far as I am aware, no pure λ-calculus interpreter and simulator for a high level programming language such as Haskell has been constructed, that has viable time and space complexity characteristics. That difficulty lends support to the spatial approach, which questions the outlook that software may be studied as a pure discipline in isolation from hardware. Further links to reports may be found at the isynchronise website.
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I wouldn't ride a motorbike for just this reason. I wonder what the corresponding stats are for mopeds. It's a truism that some [young] reckless motorcyclists ride machines that are too powerful for them to control. Mopeds, not so much I'd guess.

This is the best source I could find with comparative accident rates for motorbikes/mopeds: http://www.motorcycle-accidents.com/pages/stats.html
Could anyone explain the Android Net Neutrality link for me?

Everything Google does goes over the internet. Youtube in particular needs high bandwidth and seems like the kind of thing that would be throttled to protect cable TV. Yet everyone in the media is obsessed with the Android link and claiming Google no longer cares about net neutrality as a result of Android. But not actually explaining why this makes any sense.

Is it just because Verizon is pushing Android hardest out of the US carriers? Seems a bit weak.
Any thoughts on R in a Nutshell?
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I don't see where you get that idea, because it isn't what he said. What he said was "If you pass anybody, you are not walking slowly enough for it to be “taking a walk.”"

i.e. You can only be classed as "taking a walk", if you are the slowest person around, or if the only people slower than you are far enough away that you won't catch them up.

This makes it extremely difficult to take a walk, particularly if you start anywhere near an old people's home, or a primary school, or an area of town where lost tourists peer down each side street in search of a landmark. Note that this is in the paragraph that declares "taking a walk" to be "not difficult".

Taking a walk by my definition - walking at my body's natural pace, aiming for nowhere in particular - is easy. His definition makes it very difficult indeed.
"No stack of crappy DVDs I never watch."

I'm starting to rip all my DVDs to a portable hard drive with the eventual aim of selling off my entire DVD collection. I smile to myself when I think of the CD collections of some people older than me have (MP3 players started to become affordable in my mid-teens). Now I have a sizable collection of music, but it's simply rearranged bits on a hard disc rather than a ton of CDs. No clutter.

I'm toying with the idea of selling of my large book collection and getting an iPad, but books have a high sentimental value for me plus I value the notes I've scribbled in the margins. Even the idea of having a portable hard drive will go away soon with cloud computing and the ever expanding services like Spotify and Netflix. It's amazing the amount of media you can accumulate without ever having to really "see" it (DVD cases etc).
From a credit card perspective, actually, you don't even need the house/flat name/number. As you can see easily on the basecamp paid signup page, all you need is:

First/Last name
Card number
Expiry Date
Billing Zip

The rest of the fields on https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Plus/signup/new are unrelated to billing.

Worth noting that those extra billing fields like address and all that help cut down fraud (as well as signups...) so if your business is not b2b and relatively fraud-free, you probably should keep the extra fields for anti-fraud checks.
The recommendation / ranking engine should be a bit more accurate now, it'll improve as more people add their books.
to be fair, there are lots of very real advantages to 1.9. the development community finally seems to have collectively decided to take the plunge, and let the gems catch up, rather than waiting around on 1.8 forever.
This article is in response to another which is discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1590955
I was equally confused. I assume they must mean that the low frequency makes it impractical for _tracking_ vehicles.
The problem is that Ruby's documentation, main advocacy
sites, and even most sites for popular Ruby libraries
(with one major exception - coming later) try too hard to
demonstrate freedom

No, the main problem is that Ruby's documentation sucks. If it tried too hard to demonstrate freedom, it would at least demonstrate normal use cases. I point to http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html and I rest my case. I hereby promise to submit a patch for that documentation somewhere next week. It has bothered me for too long.
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I'm wondering how long it will be until the "e" in ebook seems anachronistic.
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I've heard bad things about sendmail (hard to configure, but had also a ton of vulns in the past); though I have no experience or hard evidence.

However, I have had good experiences with (and have done my due diligence on) Postfix (and Dovecot) for mail services.
Or even to get attention, if it's a relevant blog post. It's not like submitting your blog post is gaming the system or something. If anybody can understand the need for a basic level of self-promotion, it must be the HN crowd.
I'm more concerned about the opt-out "safe browsing" feature CCing Google on all your requests, complete with ID cookie. When did that cease to be a cardinal sin? Didn't Palm get reamed for that recently?