skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a father of a child with special needs and also someone who participated in the "gifted" program, I can add a few thoughts.

1. The gifted program (at my school) was next to worthless. We skipped one regular crap class (social studies) to go build paper airplanes to prepare for this competition: http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/

2. Early intervention (yes funded with tax payer dollars as part of a program) helped my son with high functioning autism. Due to that intervention he is now (besides from some personality quirks and the occasional melt down) virtually indistinguishable from any other student. In fact his IQ puts him very close to the gifted range.

Yes, this is a personal anecdote.

I would like to see the research on gifted programs. Are they worth the cost?

As a "gifted" student, I learned much more from the library (and now the intranet) than any kind of gifted program.
CHsurfer, perfect comment!
Citation needed on pretty much all of that. The future is open source? Please. Wasn't that myth debunked last decade?
(This is more in response to Sunbeam)

I did actually find this quite helpful, as a Canadian I usually gloss over the km/mile conversion with a nice 1 km ~= 1 mile, as with most things you talk about (speed < 60, distances less than 100) the difference is fairly miniscule (and handwavey!). I didn't realize 1million miles is only 621,000 km! Thanks from an ignorant Canadian :)
I recommend not putting the incorrect quote directly under the "What Eric Schmidt actually said" heading; first skimming that page was rather confusing.
Oh, I didn't realize. Without scripting enabled (I use NoScript), the background does not appear.
1. I think its actually interesting. Anonymous feedback/answers, outside of the ones that may be given because its anonymous and people tend to just BS sometimes, tend to be more honest.

3. Design needs to be improved badly. A site shouldn't have ads when it launches, even if it needs to generate revenue. Launching a site with ads, especially Adwords is a negative in my opinion. Go with a slick design, no ads and build a community first.

4. Any time a person can be anonymous, you will get feedback that may be wrong and/or harmful. This is, of course, the internet and there is a subset of people who enjoy being the bad guy.
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> One thing to keep in mind regaring stall is that it's 100% dependent on angle of attack, not speed (something Popular Mechanics gets entirely wrong). What happens basically is that at a high angle of attack the air layer doesn't track the wing surface properly and so you are deprived of standard lift.

So the air layer on the back "peels off", and you have turbulent flow on the back, instead of laminar, is that right? So the negative pressure is greatly diminished.
took one look at the article's stock photo and hit the back button.
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Yeah, I decided not to get into all of the options of each header. Partially because I was writing from a plane without wifi and partially because the response I was hoping for was "these things exist - I'll go read the docs on them".

That said, your points about X-Frame-Options and CSP are definitely important for usability. Maybe I'll update the post w/ some of those details.
I'd better question the way how teaching low achieving students (as opposed to "talented and gifted") is done. The first thing you do to make a person low achieving is call them so and treat them like "low achieving" all the time.

I recall there probably are even some researches indicating that if you treat a student like genius, he or she will most likely turn into genius. We can't reliably measure what we call "natural abilities".

In other words, what you need IMO is not only spending more money on talented students, but also considering more students gifted and talented. Although this is probably slightly out of scope here. =)
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As a turk living away, I've been isolated from these developments. What is this board called?
The problem is we aren't evolved to handle such stimulation right now. That'll lead to unintended consequences. Just like eating fast foods leads to obesity, and modern loneliness leads to mental diseases. Many a million years from now.. but not now.
Using technology as not only a getaway but as a replacement for the 'human OS' (if you will) has been slowly happening over the past 30 years, and will continue to happen as long as technology makes real life better.

Think about how you work today: you sit down in front of a screen. You sit there for 5, 8, 12 hours and stare at a screen to do your work. Millions of desk-workers everywhere have become people staring at screens for about 8 hours a day, playing with a handheld screen when not at a desk.

A large part of it is because technology is enabling and seen as a benefit, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it is an invasive effect in the lives of the first world. As technology gets better, becomes more enabling, and allows us to do more with it, I don't see that stopping.
As if writing verbose rants (mirroring equivalent rants about movies, radio, books, plays, etc. throughout human history) is somehow a superior activity.

the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.

- Ratatouille
A lot of people can't discuss things in a very matter of fact nature.
Correct. A later edit to the article didn't change the title but did add the edit Make that 1942 in blue.
If anything, I think the special brand of "tumblr porn" has differentiated it from other blogging platforms.
I would never use the site, aim it at high schoolers, but you've been beaten there by threewords.me (same concept) and formspring.

Feedback from a quick glance: Don't put adverts on a site with no traffic, first build up your userbase and then implement adverts. Having a big banner advert at the top of your site when I first load it is very unprofessional and puts me off. Secondly, don't require signup before completing the action, let me give feedback and THEN after I submit encourage me to signup, once I've submitted the feedback I'm much more likely to finish the sign up than if you make me do it BEFORE. The site design and layout is just so unwelcoming, I just sent myself "feedback" and both the email and resulting page do nothing to explain WHAT on earth this is, "Someone has sent you personal feedback. If you'd like to read this feedback, please click on the link below" there is no explanation what "personal feedback" means. The email should open with ~20 words explaining what the site is and THEN explain I've been given feedback.
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"On Debian GNU/Linux this file is a symbolic link pointing to /var/run. The contents of this file"

That second 'this file' is ambiguous. I think the grammatically/semantically/whateveryoucallitally best interpretation (by a tiny margin) would be that both 'this file' would talk about the same file, but I am not sure, and I think that, in the real world, that is the incorrect interpretation.
I actually thought the Post A Response button was locked since I tried to click it and nothing happened.
Obligatory reminder of the article I wrote 3 years ago and posted here, "Technology is Heroin" http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2009/02/technology_is...

Good to see people continuing to recognize this troubling fact and the community trying to come to terms with it.
It's a compelling reason to charge taxpayers in perpetuity.
Thank you for that well written article. This is something everyone should read immediately before going into an interview. The title of this posting should be how to pull your head out of your ass before a job interview.
thanks! yeah, i'll take the ads off.
From forecasting shuttle re-entry to medical procedure outcomes
Hopefully capitalism and women will prevent a disaster by rewarding productive and diciplined humans with wealth and children.

If a society does not threaten its people with poverty, misery and slavery as a consiquence to wasting your life on video games, then that society will crumble to make way for one that does.
I do wonder if passengers knew what was happening. Many might have been asleep. It sounds like there was a fair bit of turbulence on.

It looks like from the report that none of the cabin crew raised any concerns, so I'm wondering if people were pretty much oblivious and they went quickly.
They have (http://www.telco2.net/blog/images/amazon%20early%20screen%20...) but once they found something that worked well it makes sense they'd stick with it. A pretty design that causes a 1% drop in sales would be pretty stupid, and I'm sure they've A/B tested such things.
> Of course, very little airliner training happens outside a simulator, which can you can stall without damaging anything.

Maybe they should apply mild taser shocks to pilots stalling in the simulator. I'm not being snarky. There should be some kind of physical consequence of making bad mistakes, otherwise it's too disconnected from reality.
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Without explaining how Dart is,"such an atrocious, bad joke of a language" this comment simply adds nothing to the discussion. I would, however, be interested to read your critique.
Schooling is relatively unimportant. There's nothing your kid can't learn on their own time.

How do you handle properly socializing your kids? You can't teach them that.
Ok, then "I'll secretly give you $1000 more than what you're publicly giving me." Happy?
Thanks citricsquid; realizing now that we need to take the ads down. thanks also for feedback on email. we can add some clarification points to help the receiver understand.
i would recommend a shorter URL.
here : http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2011-705.pdf
It is sad we have to dig for it, it should be the first link in the article.
I've personally suspected for a long time that advertising was in for a huge disruption. Either people will realize they're not getting the value they think they are or some company will realize that 10% of what Google makes is still a ton of money and undercut them heavily. Then all these business plans that rely on "give it away and make it up with ads!" will fall on their ear.
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It's articles like this that make me doubt that I've "probably read enough"[1].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3326210
Implementing your own version of Rails is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think jnorthrop hits on a really important point. To him, the companies are failures because they never grew into more profitable companies.

For the owners, they may be wild successes because they pay the bills and allow them to do something they enjoy. Or travel, or whatever else they want to do with their lifestyle business.

Neither opinion is right or wrong, just depends on your perspective. The only "absolute" failures are arguably the ones that have gone completely out of business.
Let me quote the relevant paragraph from their goals in full:

Standards Compliance

WebKit aims for compliance with relevant web standards,
and support for new standards In addition to improving
compliance, we participate in the web standards community
to bring new technologies into standards, and to make sure
new standards are practical to implement in our engine.
We use regression testing to maintain our standards compliance
gains.

Clearly, one of their goals is to help bring new technologies into standards, as evidenced by first implementing CSS animations, transitions, and transforms, and other various -webkit- things, and then submitting them to standard bodies. Plus there are some code paths in WebKit that only apply to OS X Dashboard, which are really the maintenance burden, given that some OS X relevant bugs are kept in Apple's closed rdar system (I know this because I helped find a bug in canvas). I see no problem if Google will maintain their code -- at least, we'd be able to see bugs in an open bug-tracker.

Why restrict innovation only to certain areas?
1. yeah, i struggled with this one. did a poll. some agreed with you and others thought it was okay. any other thoughts on name?

2. very true

The idea is for people to be able to receive feedback and then assess the validity of that feedback by sharing it with others they trust. People receiving feedback have the option of 1. ignoring/deleting; 2. asking for more feedback from the giver; 3. asking their friends via email if it is accurate; or 4. asking people via facebook/twitter if it is accurate. So, this framework for processing the feedback gives it some added advantages over yahoo answers.
Your life is different,sure. I'm sure home-schooled kids think similar things about their experiences, things they are glad to have not 'missed out on'.
As a Malaysian, I beg to differ. It's true that we have to know the political climate, but the political climate you're looking at is only a small part of it.

If this bill is passed, it will not only hurt people of a particular ethnicity, but everyone and the whole IT industry in the country.

Given the track record of the incumbent political party, I strongly believe that most of the 'registered' people will be the people who are very close to them. The 'registered' people will make use of their status to get themselves into rent-seeking activities to take advantages of the companies/people who genuinely want to start up an IT company or involve in an IT project. This will in turn hurt the IT industry in Malaysia, which is already very weak due to current rent-seeking activities. What will happen eventually? More brain drain to the country, and not to forget a stagnant, if not backward-moving, IT industry in Malaysia.

You only see the racial thing here because you are not looking at the bigger picture. It's true enough that the 'registered' people will most probably be ethnic Malays, but those are ethnic Malays who are close to the incumbent party. The majority of the ethnic Malay will get as little as the ethnic Chinese get.

EDIT:

> University places are allocated based on racial quotas. Therefore, the people who are most concerned by this legislation are ethnic Chinese, who are more likely find themselves disqualified from doing certain work due to their inability to access higher education places.

It's true that qualified ethnic Chinese are having less chance to enter the public colleges, but most of them who can't get into public colleges go for private colleges or study abroad instead. In average, the literacy and qualification of ethnic Chinese is higher than other ethnics in Malaysia. So it's untrue to say that they are concerned due to their inability to access higher education. While there probably is an issue of education equality but the bill does not relate to the issue.
I'd also observe that if one lives more or less their entire reality in some sort of VR simulation... so what?

The meta-question here is very interesting. At what point do humans controlling their environment cease being humans? So yes, you could sit absolutely still and live a tremendously-rewarding virtual life because you have designed a world that emotionally compels you to never leave. To the rest of us, you look like a potted plant. Does that make you less human? Or, to put differently, if you were completely paralyzed, yet were able to think (I believe they call it "locked in") is there anything wrong with you that the rest of us should care about and fix? Is how we define being a human inexorably linked to physical social participation? I believe so, but I'm not comfortable with my own line of reasoning here.

Note that I don't have a problem with us evolving into something else. My only concern is that we acknowledge what's happening so that we can realistically talk about it. If we are evolving, then there will be a selection function that we had get pretty damn good at meeting. I imagine that function is going to be the ability to turn the system off from time to time. What I see instead is millions of folks who spend more time than even they are happy with plugged in and are in a great bit of denial as to exactly what social effect that is having. If you ask me, the singularity is already here. We just can't see it.
Speaking of unintended effects, what happens when the government begins to abuse its new capability to geo-fence areas that driverless smart cars aren't allowed to drive into?

Like protest meeting areas.
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True about the small margin between stall and overspeed, I didn't mean you could regularly fly like that. But according to the article, their air speed decreased from > 220knots to 90knots. What I meant was that regardless of wind, 90knots air speed should give you a ground speed so low that it should leave no doubt that you are stalled.

Apparently the PF was even thinking they were in overspeed at that point. So a ground speed should have told them that they weren't. But on the other hand, positive pitch angle and -10,000 ft/min vertical speed should also tell you beyond a doubt that you are stalled, so the problem here was not that the pilots didn't have the information they needed to figure out what was going on. They did, but failed to process it. It seems this is a classical case of "getting behind the airplane", they were just not processing events at the speed they were happening.
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So much bounty, waiting to be tapped. I want an asteroid!
>> I felt a world-changing idea when you talked about "in person", was kind of disappointed when I realized it's still a survey with a different incentive

I had the same reaction. I got excited to hear what was coming and then felt let down.
I think I've missed an important part of this discussion -- if driverless cars would be revolutionary, what do they provide that an existing taxi service doesn't?

A taxi has many of the listed benefits;

- you don't need to buy the car
- you don't need to drive the car
- it's available on demand through your phone
- the utilisation of cars is very high

So what is the functional difference between a shared-ownership, driverless car, and a standard human-driven taxi?
If your aim is to do dev work... I think it's important to show specifically some of the work you've done.
Nintendo is denying this, according to Reuters:

"This is absolutely not true," said a spokeswoman for Nintendo. "There seems to have been a misunderstanding. He has said all along that he wants to train the younger generation.

"He has no intention of stepping down. Please do not be concerned."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-nintendo-idUSTR...
>It may seem completely insensitive to argue against helping disabled students, but it seems to be happening at the expense of the gifted students.

False dichotomy.

1) To begin with, scholastic success correlates most heavily with income, so we're not quite rewarding what you might think we're rewarding

2) The whole purpose in this case is to help these kids become independent or be able to function properly in society. Cutting these kinds of programs only increases the number of people who need to be assisted.

> "When you read articles like this one, you realize that the people who move society forward in leaps and bounds, the ones who create great businesses, create new products, discover new medicines are predominantly the talented and gifted ones."

This is a tautology. These people don't necessarily do well in school. Success in school != success in life, despite what my family told me.
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100k....thats it? No TV spot on a morning show or Letterman? This is why kids look up to sports stars and reality show stars, incentives are all wrong. Kim Kardashian just got married and divorced within 60 days and made 18 million! Yes I understand this form of career is not about fame and notoriety but kids don't know that until there older. The only thing they know is Kim Kardashian just made a boat a load of money for marketing her wedding and selling tv spots and not for studying hard and curing a diseases.

They should of given her 1 million, so she doesn't ever have to think about money. Frees her to try riskier projects and ideas.
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Private email could work, but there are not built in tools to help the person process the feedback once they have received it. People receiving feedback have the option of 1. ignoring/deleting; 2. asking for more feedback from the giver; 3. asking their friends via email if it is accurate; or 4. asking people via facebook/twitter if it is accurate.

Also, most people do not talk frankly with others. They just let the person continue to make mistakes or let them off the hook. That is part of the problem we are trying to solve.
There's a self-signed certificate over there, here is a direct link to the slides: http://www.lexifi.com/files/resources/runtime_types.pdf
Would you also like to cut off your legs and replace them with computer controlled wheels?

Once again HN and techies in general are a ridiculously small percentage of the population. Normal people do not see things the same way.
Cheeky response: hire an outsourced developer to do your job for less than you make, pocket the difference. Everyone wins.
how would this work; it'd simply be open?
Instead of this blog post, read the original thread:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

"WebKit branch to support multiple VMs (e.g., Dart)", halfway down the page.

In particular, some of Oliver Hunt's responses:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...
Anonymous feedback + internet seems ripe for ugliness - see http://hardnewsinc.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83428f05153ef00e553e58b...

Also, what kind of feedback are you expecting people to give which 1)is meaningful to the person it is directed to and 2) does not identify the person giving the feedback. It's very difficult to give feedback which meets both 1 and 2.
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No, you got it wrong.

Evolution drives cancer.

>besides, nobody is asking to cure cancer in all population for all times. but in specific individual. who may or may not reproduce later in life.

Seriously? Go back and re-read what the GP said.
you really can teach them that. in fact, it's much easier for homeschooled kids to relate to people in different ages and social spheres because you have time to actually socialize them with people born outside of a six-month window on either side of their birthday. there are an incredible number of resources both in terms of physical meetups, online classes, public schools who allow kids to show up for sports or difficult to teach subjects (like foreign language) - it's really an incredibly rich experience to homeschool these days and socialization is often only a challenge for those who don't WANT to socialize - particularly the very religously austere homeschoolers. but that's less and less the average homeschooler these days.