skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been labeled "gifted" and various things, growing up (and "blowing" a few grade curves, either pleasing or pissing off the instructor, depending upon their personality).

And after having suffered immensely, simultaneously, particularly because no one accepted what I actually said: "I need peace and quiet to work." "Stop fighting." "Just leave me alone."

Number one way to nuture gifted children (per me): TEACH THEM TO STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES. AND TO RESPECT THEMSELVES, RATHER THAN CONSTANTLY DIMINISHING THEM WITH "CORRECTIONS" AND "COMPLIANCE".

I was a pretty nice kid. And I've tried to be a pretty nice guy, as an adult. (I don't know, maybe I ended up partly being that "nice guy", as well... Clueless.)

I didn't need a bunch of "socialization". I needed some acknowledgement and acceptance of what worked for me, and what didn't.

And some HONESTY. Some of the things that most fucked me over, were people being dishonest. Whether maliciously or with "good intentions".

So, if someone had taught me how to (physically, when necessary) keep the bullies off. And that I could indeed trust my intuition.

Well, retrospect, but I kind of think I would have had the rest.

In most of my classes, I pretty much ended up teaching myself, anyway. And I remember the subset of genuinely good instructors who did teach me things.

They didn't merely recite. They paid attention, and added things they could see would be informative and useful to me.

"Gifted". Right there, in the use of that term: You're often dealing with someone who doesn't "get it".

/bitterness

P.S. Lately, I've been on a medication that tends to get me a bit ramped up while also short-circuiting some of my natural "attention to detail" (aka "pause and check", etc.) This may be reflected in some of my posts. Sorry.

Also, why didn't I do this for myself, as an adult. Well, the last couple of years of college and right after, prior history culminated in a couple of serious injuries that took away from my physical capabilities.

I'll add that, in my personal experience, that's a real cut-off: Once you experience physiological losses you can't recoup, your world changes. The journey back from that is much more difficult, especially if/when they start to snowball.

Another real reason to teach kids how to take care of themselves. And to respect themselves (NOT what you arbitrarily tell them). Get them self-sufficient in keeping themselves in good health. "Health is wealth". Boy, did I learn the aptness of that as I got older.
Love the plug for emacs org mode. There are few things I evangelize. Sadly, none of my efforts have gotten anyone using it, to my knowledge. :/
I find that's a pretty solid heuristic; if they're misinformed enough to base their business on top of Microsoft's crap, it's most probably not going anywhere I want to go.
Nope. Have a Motorola Z Play and love it. I won't buy a phone without a large battery and a headphone jack if there are good phones like this available.
The table pulls data from a Google Sheet. When the spreadsheet is updated, the table is populated with data. You have to run the site's jquery, otherwise it's not going to work.
I have taught a few tens of gifted students. I could identify them based on a short test from grade 1 (5-6 years old) onwards. I could even identify some just by a short conversation.

All of them went on to become successful in college (only a few have graduated so far). They consist of medical students in top medical schools in the country, one International Physics Olympiad gold medalist (currently at MIT), one International Chemistry Olympiad gold medalist (currently at U of Tokyo). All of them from a 200k-people city in a developing country and I only taught math to a few classes of these students (for about 4 years) before moving on to another education venture.

I would say it is highly likely most of these students would go on to have very good careers. We still do not know whether they will achieve great things but their trajectory is much brighter than average kids.

I agree that putting young kids in remedial classes could be problematic, but gifted kids do benefit from suitable gifted education.
In addition to everything else you do, I recommend the following book:

"Counterexamples in Analysis" by Gelbaum and Olmsted.

You will find that many of your intuitions you picked up in calculus are violated in analysis. For instance, in calculus, many examples are both continuous and differentiable everywhere. But is every continuous function also differentiable? Nope! See the Weierstrass function [0].

The book is full of such counterexamples that will help you understand analysis at a deeper level (and avoid many pitfalls)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function
Neat to see it all together!

I'd heard of most of these projects, but there's some I hadn't heard about so I'll be sure to check them out.

One issue I've got is that there's no real rhyme or reason to the layout, or why they're put where they are.
That doesn’t make me any less concerned. I’ve read about enough DOJ fuckery over the last 20+ years that when I see assertions like yours I have to add “ostensibly”.

There are plenty of cases near and dear to HN’s heart where the consensus is DOJ did wrong things. I don’t understand how we can simultaneously act like it’s safe to rely on the prosecution’s need to prove intent.
How do you have secure encryption with proprietary backdoors? Maybe this will wake people up to only using open source operating systems.
Read my previous reply.
> Wouldn't that be a bit of a privacy leak? If 0rrt works, it was a request for a static asset.

Response size and timing probably already leak this.
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The host gave Kugler 48 hours’ notice to leave the premises.
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not horrible, considering the stay was meant for a month.
There's work now with DNS-over-HTTPS to prevent that.
Not very likely. Many people are happy to share lessons learned from failure.
If Facebook, Google, et al didn't want these authoritarian laws passed do you think they'd make it through?

They are likely purposefully doing this to create a humongous barrier of entry for new incumbents. And a fresh new way to politically destroy competition.

This is why we need to decentralize as much as possible.
Tim Crook wants to protect Apple from scrutiny, but they are still closed source and they will let anyone become Admin on their new OS X.
Yea, I had the same problem. Was on mobile and confused by the multiple cases in the article. I edited after a more thorough reading and better understanding.

I think this case shows more problems with prosecutorial discretion, and the absolute reliance on plea deals in the system—that insanely incentive people to accept plea deals even when innocent.

Don't get me wrong, I think our criminal justice system is broken in a lot of ways. I also think there are lots of overly broad statutes that criminalize normal behavior and leave people exposed to selective prosecution.

All that said, I don't think this particular statute is that problematic.
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Clean this up in what way?
I took that to be that he is off the charts and not likely to be instructive to look at.

Not that folks shouldn't try. Just don't have expectations that someone that capable will have obviously applicable methods for everyone else.

Saying that, I can hope to be wrong. :)
Playing golf.
One of the things that struck me upon rereading Crime and Punishement recently was how forcefully and persuasively Dostoyevsky argues for both sides of issues. Whereas with lesser authors one can easily tell which side of an issue they are on, with Dostoyevsky it's not so easy (though you can infer from the mere fact that Dostoyevsky chose to write about them at all that he cares deeply about them).

The most unsympathetic of his characters are also portrayed quite sympathetically and compassionately. The reader really understands how they can do the reprehensible things they do, can understand what brought them to this end, and even sympathize with them. They are the polar opposites of the flat, two dimensional cardboard cutouts that pass for characters in most other books.
Years ago Bruce Schneier said that nothing would happen until there was the privacy equivalent of the Exxon Valdez / Bhopal / Chernobyl; a leak high profile and toxic enough to irrevocably change public opinion. Maybe this is that trigger event.

The EU was ahead on this, adopting data protection rules from 1995, before even the first dotcom boom. I believe it's a legacy of fear of the Stasi driving opposition to surveillance.
Me thinks it was not the Protestant culture that was hugely influential for this case. :)
I’m not sure this is the case here. It may well be that in this case they are going for a fruitless search for material destroyed days ago. But at least I hope they are more clever than that.
Cognitive dissonance much? Instagram must be OK because Musk loves it?
Is it fair to suggest though that some kids actually need remedial math?

I was in the “slow” reading group for the first half of first grade, then quickly got moved to the “fast” group and eventually ended up scoring a perfect score on the verbal portion of the MCAT as well as top percentiles on other standardized tests. My point is that sometimes remedial has nothing to do with potential.

We should stop viewing remedial as “bad.”
Monads are actually the "missing" control structure that encapsulates progression from stable state to stable state, and moreover allows you to combine etc. those progressions in a functional fashion.

If you look at the type signature of (>>=) (monadic bind), it says

(>>=) :: Monad m => m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

which, if you instantiate m with a monad that represents state, you you can read as "given a progression 'm a' from state to state with return value of type 'a', and a function that uses this value to construct a progression from state to state with a return value of type 'b', then I can compose both progressions, and get a progression from state to state with return value 'b'". (These "return values" are used to transfer information from one progression to the next progression, and are the only thing that take a bit getting used to).

So pure FP languages do allow you to specify step-by-step progression.

Seen from this point of view, Alan Kay's statement 'there is no reason to invent “monads” in FP' is just nonsense, because he has no experience with pure FPLs, and seems to be only familiar with Lisp, which is a very impure ad-hoc FP.

So while I agree with his conclusion "both OOP and functional computation can be completely compatible (and should be!)." (see e.g. Ocaml for a fusion of both concepts), and I am not particularly impressed by his reasoning.
"The usual people tried to claim responsibility.
First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all."

-- Douglas Adams
You have to allow scripts to run, because it relies on jquery.
Sure, but that's an argument for reforming those parts of our criminal justice system.

Literally every law that includes intent as a component—which I would argue should be almost all of them—rely on the prosecution's need to prove intent.

The fact that the criminal justice system is broken doesn't mean this statute is broken. If we're going to throw out this statute because it depends on the prosecutor's ability to prove intent, I guess that means we need to throw out all of the criminal statutes.

Totally agree about prosecutorial fuckery (though, I wouldn't contain it to just the DOJ, plenty of state level prosecutorial fuckery). I just don't see how that shows that money laundering or structuring statutes themselves are the problem.
I prefer it as: Learn, or learn something else. Failure is it's own lesson.
Prostitution is illegal now.

Yet somehow men are still able to place sugar daddy ads, employers occasionally spring for prostitutes for employees, and some even expect sex from subordinates.

I think legalization has far more beneficial effects than you realize.

And don’t use the word “decriminalize”, it’s regularly used to describe another way of continuing prohibition by making the core offenses no longer felonies, but still illegal. Which means prostitutes are still at the mercy of pimps and customers without any police protection. And it would remain a black market with the profits used to support organized crime.
I downvoted this comment because it was ad hominem and did not add to the conversation.
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But what if you'd given the non-gifted students the same experience? This sounds like selection bias. And it'd be helpful if you explained more about the test, as just claiming that you can isn't evidence that what you did was by any means valid.
At fault for what exactly, Trump getting elected? I still don't understand what we know today that anyone sort of paying attention didn't expect a year ago, or even five years ago.
Texas, after revolting and winning independence from Mexico, chose to join the US after a short jaunt as an independent nation.

The rest, yea, pretty much forcefully taken in one way or another.
Who said anything about revolution? Mainland Chinese hold unnatural views on many issues that are shared essentially nowhere else in the world and are easily traceable back to the CCP's interests and propaganda.

China's claim to Taiwan is the same claim that the UK has to Australia. Most mainland Chinese still think Falun Gong was a bunch of crazies and are unaware of the government crackdown of them. The details of the Tienamen Square Massacre are not well known. Mao is still a hero in the eyes of hundreds of millions. Mainland Chinese are mostly unaware of the human rights abuses occurring among Tibetans and Uighurs. The continuing extreme mistrust of the Japanese hard to explain in a world where Israel is friendly with German--unless you have an authoritarian power seeking to whip up nationalistic support to maintain its control over society.

These views (literally forced upon them, in a collective sense) result them condoning massive human rights violations, mercantilist trade policies, increased risks of war and conflict with major powers, and other societal negatives.

Those risks are exclusively attributable to the CCP, whereas economic growth in a country like China likely does not exclusively require said rulers.
It’s interesting how the collection of the same information by the likes of the five eyes is ok, yet for Facebook it isn’t.
React and HTTP – Retrieving Crypto Currency Data from an API
Instead of trying to strengthen "gifts", I think a more effective approach would be to remove barriers from growth. Even the most gifted children have countless barriers, whether financial, emotional, or motivational. If a child is painfully shy then therapy or some other form of work to open the child up would be far more effective than special teaching methods. Helping a child find a passion is more effective than deeper teaching on a subject they don't care about. These examples are high-level and grossly generalized, but everyone has countless micro and sometimes major traumas they've accumulated over time, and more attention needs to be put on mitigating these.
Not all this money is drug money; a lot of the international money is the result of corruption or theft from the state.
> This guy sounds like one of the most dangerous people on earth.

His argument doesn't delight me either, but individuals are rarely the problem.

Most people's beliefs reflect the beliefs of some culture of which they are part. It's rarely just one person who believes something.

Even in authoritarian dictatorships, the king's decisions and survival usually rest on a weave of broader interests.

When someone says something with which one strongly disagrees, it can be fruitful to approach this as a source of insight into their cultures.

Cultures which often last longer than individuals. Lynton is retired now, or soon will be. The LA subcultures in which his remarks were relatively unremarkable, continue on. And will continue to shape government policy for years to come.

Perhaps it's those cultural beliefs on which more long-term attention might usefully be focused. Perhaps we would be in a better place now, if more hollywood types had been appointed to tech boards over the years?

EDITED to improve clarity.
As I understand it, that's the problem: there's no "enough" self policing. If your site is home to sex trafficking, you're liable.
That sounds similarly euphemistic to the way the word "special" is used in the US.
Thank you for the article, very interesting.

At first read I had the impression that Kogan was criticized on an "ethical" base, then re-reading it, I understood that they were only arguing on how to divide the loot.

If SCL actually had given 1 million, half to Kogan and 1/4 each to Kosinski and Stilwell, we wouldn't have the mails.

>The correspondence reveals the deep anxiety among university psychologists over the activities of Kogan, ...

Deep anxiety over the activities my sock, they wanted US$ 500,000 and were proposed only US$ 100,000 instead, and there started the disagreement ...
I have denied that sort of request from LinkedIn many times, but due to the suggestions it's made, it's clear they scraped my email contacts at some point. Either I slipped up, or they found some oblique way.
At least, you can cherry-pick two who think so (that is how many economists are quoted in the article). On the other hand, you can probably find two economists who will say almost anything. I'm more interested in surveys like the ones the IGM Forum conducts. Here is what they think about the aluminum and steel tariffs:

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/steel-and-aluminum-tariffs

I don't really expect the China tariffs to get much better results, but I guess we will see!
I just hope this does not backfire as new service models that require explicit consent (through ToS) from the user to allow monetizing user data in order to use such service.
Elon Musk: THE BORING COMPANY
What if I have a metal roof?
Where's Gmail?
And why lump Johns in with pimps? Because nobody will defend a John and it will help the prison industry the same way drug users do.
Long time docker user here.

Docker Cloud was getting worse and worse. Tutum (they acquired, rebranded and killed it) was great. But docker team just destroyed it.

That is a shame. Tutum was great since it scaled up and down very well. Nobody thinks about scaling down, but this is important in many ways.

Right now IMO:
- Docker swarm - scales up and down ok. Had too many bugs with even on stable.
- Rancher - fine, very good for medium deployments.
- k8 - winner for larger scale but scales down badly.

This is really sad.
People need to think forward: When Musk's satellite network gets going, what laws/rules are going to govern it?

I know I don't particularly want individual nation states putting their stamp all over that.

Some people have been saying: You need control of the physical layer.

We're about to get a new physical layer. How do we want that run?
Who cares, US just recently disregarded the WTO with China, why shouldn't they?
Literally an example of pave the cow paths.
Thanks, it's just that the self-described "nitpick" is one which I've seen here and there several times, and I was finally motivated to say something about it.

Describing an observed event seen at observer's time X and then recording it as happening at observer's time X minus several factors (the dominant one being light-travel-time) is at best complicated and likely loses accuracy as well.

Making something needlessly less simple and less accurate is kinda the opposite of clever, but for various reasons relatively clever people keep doing exactly that.

(You can get very far down the rathole of how to do precise timings of events generally, and astronomers do just that with e.g. barycentric julian dates. One might ask a computer-engineering question like: suppose one is watching timestamped logs. What does one want to see exactly? The time the logger commits the log message? The time the event generating the log entry occurred (which may require adjusting for network conditions etc)? Reversing that, does one want a clock display program to adjust for conditions between the program and the retina or even primary visual cortex of the user? And what if there are multiple users looking at such a clock?) Time is hard. Let the UTC/TAI/TT/IERS people sort it out, and use their results.)
Not sure. But I would imagine there aren’t a lot of countries importing foreign waste. Probably China has been the main importer of such, since I can’t imagine other countries doing so and with such volumes. Foreign waste as a concept shouldn’t even exist in the first place since it simply shifts pollution elsewhere. It isn’t solving any problems other than sweeping it under the rug, so there shouldn’t be an obligation to do so to begin with.
Thanks! We were really lucky in that the Santa Clara city system was still using analog voice channels with lots of bandwidth (20K0F3E). If you check out the SVRCS system that replaced it (and I also logged for a few years), the audio quality is a lot worse. Super-compressed audio which then gets crammed through /another/ codec (MP3) isn't great.

I will admit that I actually listened to the original system a lot with headphones, so I had every reason to fine-tune it until it sounded as awesome as possible. If you go back far enough into 2011, you can find a bunch of calls with terrible audio before I figured out the finer points of squelch, tuning errors, and 48 vs. 44.1 kHz :-)

I haven't decided whether it's worth building another system now that I have time to actually listen again. Hmm...
I've heard a lot of people talk about how it's a real game changer and that they can't live without it, but I'm not really clear on the specifics as to why. Are there any "killer features" of org mode that I should know about? What exactly does it replace or augment in your workflow? You might be about to get yourself your first conversion to this tool!
The Kwon case demonstrates that the government doesn’t have to prove squat. They’ll keep your money and bleed you in court till you fold.
If a pimp or client beats or threatens a prostitute, she can go to the cops with no fear because her work doesn't warrant criminal prosecution. As it is, prostitutes are kept in line because they have no one to turn to when they are abused by their clients or pimps.