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how did you use flashcards? I.e. did you use some "refined" form of spaced repetition or just moved a card at the end of the pile?

IMHO the difference in the quality of learning varies greatly across the paper flashcard/supermemo-ish software continuum.
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Good idea, I have just remapped mm (mmw feels natural in Dvorak) to : and my pinkies are gonna be thanking you two many times over.
Thank you, you explained better an beyond the usual repetition

There's so much of this it's not even funny. The last part of my post is in this gist.

But in physics this is easier to work around. In other areas not so much

Also, the scientific method and Popper's ideas are a philosophical construct. One has to think: who watches the watchman?
Relevant Asimov's classic article: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

YMMV.
Brilliant last paragraph. Thank you.

And sadly as I type this on a FreeBSD laptop, I am giving up the BSD kernel/userland as no longer providing enough benefits to outweigh the costs. I am moving to Linux and probably Mint.

And I am seriously considering that the license that enabled
Mac OSX is part of the cause - the BSD project would be flooded with people if Apple had released OSX back onto the cvs tree - everyone would have wanted to play with it. But it just dies. And I cannot afford the time to fix my laptop everytime some update conflicts. I fell I am quitting, and stupid but I also feel the license has let the life bleed out of a great eco-system.
Your last point is actually pretty wrong.
I've helped write linkers and loaders, and can sit around and have a combined technical and legal discussion about the impacts of linking in various ways all day if you like.

If you've learned never to ask a lawyer technical engineering questions, you need better lawyers.

Realistically, if your lawyers don't actually understand how your code operates or what it does, at a deep technical level, the advice they give is not going to be all that great or even right.
I hate a lot of the pressure for lax standards on data breech notifications. I do have questions about whether the pressure on privacy laws is about reasonable things (e.x. Don't be like California -- or at least don't prosecute the internet based on laws from 1971 that should have been modified 4 times over by now) or not. I personally try and create reasonable data rules based heavily on user opt-in and sensible standards that allow users to retrieve relevant information. Ideally we could get something resembling a world standard here that countries agreed to comply to as a high-bar so that companies could set-up a best practice for user data that would be usable worldwide. I think most of my problems with user privacy laws are not relating to quality of privacy but rather fragmentation across nations/regions/markets. I want a strong standard here as both a user and a creator, but I also want one that doesn't slow the spread of good technologies across the globe.
>Western countries telling the rest of the world what to do is

Bill Gates is not a Western country. He is a really smart guy who has proved himself pretty good at solving big problems by spending his own money. [1]

If you read the article, he actually criticizes aid linked to furthering political interests. All he is saying is "Aid and development programmes should use feedback to improve things they do." I can't think of a good reason why any one on hacker news who would disagree with such a simple, logical argument.

Are we so blinded by misdeeds of Western nations in the past that we want a man who has experience running some of the largest scale aid operations in the world to shut up and not talk about what he has learned just because he is a citizen of America and he is white?

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/01/12/bill-ga...
Read gumby's email on http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History

It's the "nice" version.

The reunification is kind of glossed over here, but what happened was the FSF fought it all the way, realized EGCS would win, and accepted it back.

GCC got concessions as part of this reunification. The concessions were that GCC would have it's own steering committee, and that we could appeal any RMS decision to the board of the FSF.
Tried "pip install bpython" on Windows 7, but I get an ImportError: No module named _curses.
I always thought of parser generators as a DSL in disguise. There should be no need for parser generators to generate code for high-level languages. It should be quite easy to write a library that does the same thing and does not complicate the build cycle.

Haskell's parser combinators (and its python cousins) are great examples of it.

But, if you need C as the target language for portability reasons they might be the right tool for the job.
Nice discussion of photoshopping and pulling other data out of images. It seems many PRC images are shopped for one reason or another which makes them easy targets.
As someone who's worked with computer vision, I doubt this is fully effective. It might prevent an exact match, but a good facial recognition algorithm can still whittle down the total possibilities. That's because your cheeks, ears and nose are also used as identifying features. The only effective cover is something that covers whole face.
How would YOU research products, made in the USA, for exporting?
Hey everyone. I am working on a project in my spare time for someone I work with. It's going along well so far, but a little help would be appreciated. What I need to do is find products made in the USA in the following categories: robotics, health care (digital health), environment, and energy/recycle. The companies who make these products must have their own research and development departments. The intention of this is to introduce these USA products overseas in Japan through a very well established network of marketing, sales, and distribution departments that I have been recently fortunate enough to have access to. As of now, I have been scanning the following sites for the past few days for product discovery/research: Pinterest and Kickstarter.

I have the following questions:

Anyone know of any more place to go or ways to research online?

A Google alert search perhaps?

Anyone know of any products, perhaps even your own, that you think would do well in Japan?

If you can offer any feedback, it would be appreciated. This is kind of an open question that may lead to some alternative interesting discussion.

Thank you!
Inspired by VinePeek I decided to work on this "Vine Twitter Wall" this weekend. Thanks to Danso on HN for the name suggestion. Hope you like the project - would love to get some feedback
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Watch out! I also live in Canada, and a close friend of mine while travelling was frozen out of his accounts because there were no banks that could handle 6 digit pins there.

For that reason I recommend having a 4 digit pin.
They do, but in many playback contexts they're muted by default. I haven't quite figured out the rules.
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Is it just me, or is this just a library that outputs placeholder divs and placeholder text? That doesn't fulfill the promise of "interactive HTML mock-ups" or "Quickly create and prototype a full interactive HTML mock-up."
That's why i tried to make an example where that added service is not existing or very small. Making your money with "added services" or some real additional value is fine but then, you could just stay with GPL. I tried to build that example where someone exploits the "do whatever you want". Like rebranding everything, telling some customer "that's my product" and "please pay $$$$$$ for that awesome product".
Of course in that example the customer would still have some kind of contract and that sales person would still have to offer some kind of support/guarantee..
I couldn't find the documentation. Can you share the link to it?
I'm surprised to see the Zend Framework is not that popular, given it's backing by the Zend Corp.

Also Yii is pretty new and it seems to be doing well. Anybody have any experience with Yii?
I can't even remember what year it was, but if you start searching the gcc and gcc-patches mailing lists for emails from Chris Lattner, you can find a proposal was made. Google may be able to find it easier.

A lot of discussion of this proposal happened offline. The end result was basically that Chris withdrew it (though not formally), though GCC would have rejected it anyway.

GCC was mostly unwilling to throw away what they had (nobody was really up for rewriting everything again), and Chris realized it would be a disaster to his community. Imagine trying to unify the stereotypes of the ruby and python communities, or something like that (i use this only as an example of the level of difference in ideologies between the GCC and LLVM communities)

In practice, this was probably the right social outcome given the set of developers/people involved on both sides.
From a pure technical perspective, it's much harder to say.
> 3. Easy to check which daemons are running and not.

How? This is one of the things that have really annoyed me as all the systemd services have gone from service --status-all.
I have just realized (thanks to somebody who pointed out this issue on github) that my main .js file's name was incorrect ("genuisClient.js" instead of "geniusClient.js").
That is now fixed.
Regarding (1), I'll echo everything meaty said, and add that basic shell scripting is a valuable and generally useful tool to have anyway, so I'm skeptical of the benefits of replacing them with another, slightly different configuration file format.

For example: we use backuppc for automated network and remote server backups. The backuppc data volume is a TrueCrypt-encrypted drive. Creating an init script that checked to make sure that the volume was present and mounted before launching the backup daemon was fairly straightforward. I understand that I could still do this in systemd, but the catch is that I would have to do it with a shell script -- the same way I am now, except for a different, alien interface -- because the native system doesn't have support for things like that. (This is assuming that some combination of unit config parameters couldn't do it; the commands for finding the drive and checking its status were a little fiddly, and I honestly haven't tried to do this the systemd way. Still though: once you understand shell scripting, you can do anything on Linux.)
It now has one more vote than my own petition:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-alcohol-sched...

Please note that mine is not a joke, but is designed to be rejected by the administration. The goal is to capture on record why a known dangerous substance is allowed to be sold for recreational consumption.

It's been a hard sell, because people:

- are too lazy to click on a link
- don't care
- love their booze and don't understand my proposal
- don't believe in the petitioning process

edit: formatting
A couple of thoughts:

1. What exactly are you trying to understand about design? Are you trying to learn "designing for a client"/the business behind it? Or are you trying to find projects for you to practice css/photoshop skills?

2. Basically, you're holding a contest for people to present themselves as the most interesting person to you, just so they have the right to pay for your services. It seems a little audacious. Unless you can prove that $20-40 for your services is such an incredible deal that it is worth the effort, I think it would be hard to attract signups. Offering a free portfolio--that's a different story.
Laughing at the XKCD cartoon -- I remember having the same idea (and realization) for having a license plate that's all O's and zeros.
One of my colleagues has been involved in rearchictecting a reasonably large database on MySQL; his complaints ran along the same lines as the article. Many bad defaults, many subtle edge cases of wrong. E.g., the encoding based on connection string problem is very real. :-/
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IMO the client side looping and content creation becomes much more interesting when you consider throwing in an Ajax call and true content retrieval. Might be a case where it's beneficial to just output the base element to the client, have it decide on number of times to replicate and poll the server for content for each. This is a pretty common technique these days but it could be turned into a nifty little multi-purpose library.
I always wondered why everything related to my computing devices seems to follow some variation of Moores law but the battery. This explains it.
There's nothing to discuss in this link, nor any evidence that the EU is actually selling out its water.
I don't get how near IR is able to distort facial recognition software.

Let's say I have a camera that cannot record in IR range, just the full spectrum. I can still run a facial recognition software using those photos.

I am well and truly lost about how it works
For anyone using "RTK" I recommend using http://kanji.koohii.com/ . I also recommend that you actually write the kanji out (on paper, or even just tracing it out with your finger in the air) when reviewing, and only consider a kanji remembered when you can render it properly, with the correct stroke order.
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I am slightly disappointed. I was hoping the article would be about what to call 'hashtag' in other languages. What do the Swedes call it? What about the Polish? Then it just turns out to be another relevant article about free speech.
Thanks, makes sense. I've done that in slower ways since I've ignored s.
Anyone know of a fix?
Title is misleading. It's not a petition to repeal the DMCA, it's a petition to revise it. And surprisingly it actually gets the facts right for once: Revising the law to allow circumvention for non-infringing acts would be a pure win. There is no legitimate reason to prohibit circumvention when there is no infringement, all it does is make criminals out of good people.

That still leaves the issue of whether circumvention should be criminal (as opposed to civil) when infringement does occur, and the related question of whether distributing "circumvention tools" should be illegal in itself, but those are things people can reasonably argue about. (I personally think they're both inane, especially given their demonstrable complete lack of effectiveness at their stated purpose.) But I have never heard any legitimate argument whatsoever in favor of prohibiting circumvention when there is no infringement, e.g. to unlock a phone or make fair use of the copyrighted work. So if anyone can supply any reason whatsoever why that should be prohibited then let's hear it, and if not then let's fix it.
Sure, but given that developer time is a bounded resource, we can't really expect to get both fewer restarts and faster restarts. I sympathize with your example, but I would expect that you had already seriously optimized your startup process, and since systemd doesn't make services start more quickly (it only does a better job of parallelizing them), I doubt that it would have made a huge difference in your case. Assuming even a very generous 5-second startup difference, that would have only made a $350 difference per incident.
> 13. Myth: systemd being Linux-only is not nice to the BSDs.

> Completely wrong. The BSD folks are pretty much uninterested in systemd. If systemd was portable, this would change nothing, they still wouldn't adopt it.

> 15. Myth: systemd could be ported to other kernels if its maintainers just wanted to.

> That is simply not true. Porting systemd to other kernel is not feasible. We just use too many Linux-specific interfaces.

So what happens to software written for Linux that can be (and currently is) ported to BSD when it starts to require systemd?
Sam Adams' customer friendly IPO. Why didn't Facebook do the same?
Prohibiting alcohol would require an amendment to the constitution.
I am not a designer so perhaps can relate to you question. I think Bootstrap is a great choice for non-designers who basically want to hack a usable and reliable design. Bootstrap has great advantages to designing a site / webapp that is usable and functional. Much of the design has been well vetted for cross browsers and bugs have been fixed to a great degree.

There are lots of resources available as in the comments to customize bootstrap so that it can achieve a reasonable degree of distinction (vs. the default template).

You will find some great themes that you could mimic to almost have no "traditional" bootstrap trace left in the initial UI experience.

Also, once you get used to Bootstrap you are not going to have to relearn the semantics to get your design out. You can focus more on customizations and the core of your webapp.

I've compiled a huge list of Bootstrap resources over the past year (as mentioned in the other comments). I hope to put another "directory" out shortly.
I am not for hate, but once you go down the road of censorship and get called out for specific types of censoring you are doing, troubled times are ahead; more groups will jump on the bandwagon and cry foul on more and more tweets.
I don't think that would work although I'm only speculating as well. I think the reason that external consultants can work better is that they exist in a different political situation than most internal managers do. A lot of basic management skills are human nature or basic survival techniques such as being efficient, and even untrained managers probably have those, but internal managers just don't have the political situation where they feel they can propose changes and keep their job secure.
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Memrise works quite well for vocabulary building, but more interestingly they're working towards becoming a "course platform", where people can create and sell their own courses. It's not necessarily an innovative learning method (though the emphasis on "mems" and the practice schedule are quite effective), but it's an interesting business model - if it works and if the quality is reasonably high, the cost to produce and distribute the material will be much lower than the big players.

The amazing thing about FluentU is that you can dissect videos of native speakers and understand exactly what's going on, in context, at your own pace. Again, I haven't used it enough to say that it works, but it should be quite effective at learning to understand the spoken language. Again, their costs are relatively low - they use Youtube videos and all they have to do is translate and annotate them.

Then you have an entire army of sites that let you find native speakers to talk to over Skype, or to correct your daily written "journal", etc.

None of those by itself is the "holy grail", but there's a lot of experimentation and innovation. I would argue that combining several of those methods can be at least as effective as something like Pimsleur or Rosetta Stone, at a much lower cost. And I think figuring out how to combine them into a single coherent service will be the holy grail you want.
I signed. That's brilliant.

I have not seen a single sane explanation for the US prescription laws. I'm almost certain they're unconstitutional and there is not a provision in the US constitution that makes it possible to pass laws banning the sale, use, or ownership of non-addictive prescription drugs.

Forget alcohol. Why is non-habit-forming blood pressure medication prescription-only? Sure, you can hurt yourself with it if you take it when you're not supposed to and use it when you don't need it.. but how is that the government's concern? Allergy medicine? Diabetes medication? NSAIDs? Pregnancy pills?
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There are instructions to get it working on Windows at [1] and [2]. Please let us know if they work for you.

[1] http://docs.bpython-interpreter.org/windows.html
[2] https://bitbucket.org/bobf/bpython/src/0f88fb19ee697096511d5...
You bring up a human-nature attitude

Did I? Well, I suppose taking a skeptical view towards new research could be described as a "human-nature attitude." I really don't know what exactly you're reading into readme's and my posts.
I don't remember which set I tried, but their characters seemed disjointed/random and, worst of all, unrelated to anything I was doing at work.

I just found it better to try to read the reports and memos being passed around at the office, and once I looked up kanji I didn't know, I would tend to remember them, since I'd read them in the context of a sentence.
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I also wonder about the "graphene sheets" - it's not the first time I read that on the description of a battery. Surely it's graphite, not graphene? I don't think batteries are built with one-atom-thick layers.
Under exactly the same logic so would prohibiting cocaine.

Realize that the Supreme Court has interpreted the federal government's constitutional powers much more broadly in the decades since prohibition.
This is perhaps the best answer, browser support is poor. Rendering SVG to PNG prior to shipping it out works but you really want to cache it, not do that in real time.

I keep hoping that epub will generate a renaissance of interest in SVG. So far no luck.
I had a friend move to Argentina and in order to improve his Spanish, he found a group that pairs fluent Spanish speakers learning English with fluent English speakers learning Spanish for one-on-one conversations. It was pretty informal in that the pair could meet wherever and whenever they wanted. Half the time they spoke in English, half the time they spoke in Spanish.

Perhaps software that scheduled live video chats of similar conversations between learners could help with the problem you bring up? Given that most language software aims at multiple languages anyway, seems like the only challenge is technical with the video chat (latency might be a problem although audio is pretty good too) and the scheduling interface. And I suppose enough users in each language willing to do such conversations.
I don't see why. Yes, it was done that way last time; but we currently prohibit substances at the national level, that has been upheld by the Supreme Court, and I don't see any reason at all that should work differently than for alcohol. If I'm missing something, please elucidate.
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VineRoulette currently requires Silverlight. Why?
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Perhaps you should have a petition which expresses what you actually hope to achieve, which sounds like some sort of reform of prescription laws. Who wouldn't think it's a waste of time to sign a "gotcha" petition?
If you have not read the original book ("Man's Search for Meaning), do so.
While the EFF's position on revising the DMCA is referenced by the petition, the petition itself does actually does ask to "repeal the DMCA", presumably in its entirety (which I personally support).
Not necessarily. Read the 21st amendment. It mostly repeals the 18th and clarifies that laws can be made to regulate alcohol use. The petition is to control alcohol under the Controlled Substances Act.
Have you tried either

systemctl | grep running

or

systemctl --type=service

The first one gives you a list of all systemd services/sockets currently running, the second one gives you a list of all systemd services, both running and exited. Or you can use

systemctl --type=service | grep running

for the best of both worlds.
Errr ... You have a secret pin.

You modulo that with the pin your bank gives you.

You write the result on the back of the card.

If you forget the pin you can work backwards to the bank issued pin?

Ok I get it now. Sounds crazy.