skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The teacher then undertook to tell students that they had a right not to fill out the survey, not withstanding their exercise of the opt-out opportunity, as if it were a fact.

It is a fact that they don't have to fill the survey out. Whether you want to use the 5th Amendment or something else as an argument to support that, is irrelevant. Bottom line, as a student, you absolutely have the right to wad the survey up, throw it in the trash and say "fuck this". Yes, you may get detention, or suspended from school, but no one has any authority to use force to compel you to fill out a frickin' survey.

What we need here, are more people who are willing to spit in the face of so-called "authority" and take back a little bit of their own power and sovereignty. Just because "they" told you to do something, does not mean you actually have to do it.

Edit: To elaborate more on this, per rayiner's comments, let me add this: I believe the bit about the teacher telling the kids they can skip the survey due to the 5th Amendment protection is approximately correct, given the context. That is, it's a potentially viable legal argument and certainly not something one can dismiss out of hand. Given that the class wasn't a law-school class, that level of approximation strikes me as totally reasonable.

The more interesting point, however, is that whether or not the 5A applies here is kind of irrelevant, since there's a bigger issue at stake. And that is what the 2nd paragraph above is getting at. Forget the Constitution, forget the Bill of Rights, forget the SCOTUS, etc.... none of those things grant us rights. Ultimately, we have the rights we are willing to demand, and willing and able to defend, and that's regardless of what some "authority" figure tries to sell us.
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http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/

Click the "Log In" button at the top to see the Persona login screen.
Some grad students at my university are studying the use of atom interferometers as a so-called "gravimeter" to look for nuclear contraband (uranium has high density, you may have heard) inside shipping containers. It was surprising to me to hear that this was in the realms of possibility. They can essentially do a 3D scan of the container showing the density within (With pretty poor resolution).

With enough precise enough clocks, I imagine it might be possible to do the same by measuring timing differences. Funny thought, really.
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Practice makes perfect?

Nope.

Correct practice makes perfect?

Close.

Supervised correct practice makes perfect?

Yup.

10,000 of practice makes expert?

Nope.

10,000 hours of supervised correct practice makes expert?

Nope.

10,000 hours of progressively more difficult supervised correct practice makes expert?

You got it!

Supervised doesn't mean having a teacher standing behind you watching your work. I think it does mean having some degree of feedback on what you are doing and how you are doing it.

In the case of coding that could mean having your code critiqued in open-source projects (either explicitly or as a side effect of the process).

Then there's the question of what "expert" means in a contextual practical sense. To use a personal example, I was not trained as a machinist. I trained in electronics and software. Yet, I had a need to manufacture parts using various CNC machines, so I learned. Am I an expert? No way. I do, however know I can fabricate nearly any part and, more importantly, in the process developed a great understanding of design for manufacturability.

In my own context yes, I am an expert. This did not take 10,000 hours. If I had to guess I'd say less than 1,000 spread over a number of years with an intense focus during a period if approximately six months.
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Its relieving to think "oh I cant do this or that because my brain is just not designed for it." It frees you to be able to give up and not feel any guilt...

It is more enlightened however to understand that if you have enough desire to be something, you can truly become as great as you want to be at any field in this world...

Its wise to be able to admit that you're not great at x, because you don't have enough motivation or desire to put in the work required to master it.

In my first year at university, my brain was exactly like yours. My brain simply didn't work in a way that allows me to write code.

In December 2012 when I wanted to start a tech company and realised I needed to be able to "build" myself...

... MY BRAIN CHANGED

suddenly it became the kind of brain that was able to code and make simple games in ruby and python?

Why? because in December, I acquired a DESIRE to learn code so I could build my company...
I know nothing about the piano but this sounds exactly the same like reading any language. At first you have to struggle to recognize every single letter, but after enough practice you can identify whole words immediately and later even whole phrases.
> people may start to somehow see Moz as being associated with Mozilla

It's probably good for their SEO. ;)
Counterexample: Cauchy and Riemann, when pioneering complex analysis. They "proved" many results, but with nonrigorous techniques. When they tried to teach complex analysis to their students, those students applied the same techniques and "proved" absurdities.

Cauchy and Riemann really did understand what they were doing - when Weierstrass finally put analysis on a formal footing, every one of their results turned out to be correct. But they were unable to communicate it to their students, because even though they understood it, they couldn't express it in language.
Blocking isn't something I have to answer to anyone for, it's a feature in Twitter that's useful to help keep down the flamage. I think it's one of their greatest innovations.

A little feedback -- you read a lot of meaning into things that are a lot simpler than you think. For example, the markdown support was added because it was coming up a lot in feature requests from users. It's just that simple. Nothing more to it than that.

I've always used MORE and its descendants to write. I wrote every DaveNet piece in MORE or Frontier or the OPML Editor. I write Scripting News in the OPML Editor. Outliners are good for writing.

Like I said, I don't dislike you, or even know you (as you point out). And it probably doesn't matter if you contribute to the mail list, but I don't see how it could hurt. Whatever.
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If you want to build strong domain authority and have the artist profiles take advantage of the positive metrics & ranking ability of the domain then use: domain.com/artist (the sub-domains do not always inherit all of the positive metrics and ranking ability of domain.com)
All of which seem to be saying the opposite of the comment I'm responding to: not having a social network is a bonus.
> If we assume that speakers have conscious control over both their words and manner of delivery

Whoa, whoa, back up. Why should we assume that? Some level of control, sure. Nowhere near absolute.

And yeah, I'm offended by anyone who tries to critique the way other people talk while at the same time going around talking the way they talk all willy-nilly without concern for who they might be annoying.

It's speech. Everyone has inner thoughts and feelings they want to express. If they're trying to communicate in good faith, just let it go.
If you want to understand how VCs and other institutional-type investors are thinking about the Web today, you MUST read Meeker's annual "Internet Trends" presentations. There's really nothing else like them. Always chock-full of useful data and insights.
Where is the pricing information?
We are using this as part of a physical escape-the-room game. Its a great prop, good price, and has a hidden puzzle whose meaning is in the images. Much more interesting than a screen with a slideshow, and enforces order which a bunch of printed photos wouldn't do.
Any thoughts on this Vs. Keepass?

I've been unhappy with Keepass for a while on OSX, specifically because of missing features like AutoType. How does OnePass compare?

Bonus question: how easy is it to migrate my library from Keepass to OnePass?
Thank you. Some people just seek out arguments instead of conversations.
Because the HN crowd (more than most) recognizes the importance of security and single use passwords.

1Password is by far (IMO) the nicest and best way to manage passwords (and generate single use passwords). The only downside is its expense, so when it's 50% off, that's good news for HN.

(I have no affiliation with 1Password)
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There's something odd about those numbers - if really _all_ of those channels, including ESPN, are too expensive to be financed by just their viewers at the current cost level, and each household would pay more for just the things they want... Where exactly does the money for those channels come from?

The logical conclusion would be that large numbers of people never watch their cable TV at all and just subsidize entertainment for the rest of us. I don't think I believe that, given U.S. entertainment consumption habits.
I absolutely agree with you. What Google didn't do is acquire Geocities and del.icio.us, only to disappoint the core users. That was Yahoo.

And then comes the recent string of Summly, GoPollgo, Loki, and Tumblr. From my lay perspective, they seem random, and quite overvalued. Maybe Yahoo will do good things with these companies, as Google did with its acquisitions. Or maybe these will go the way of Geocities.
I'd be a lot more inclined to believe it if I saw photos of the images being projected on a wall. Somehow I don't believe that tiny projector will look too good.
At Hackday Paris in 2011 (48h hackathon), the winners among 49 teams were a group of three, who made listening to music a more haptic experience again. They called it NoiseBox, but they seem to have abandoned it: http://noisebox.herokuapp.com/. It was a cute hack and won, because it combined hardware, software and some magic.

I liked it very much, but then, why not just go straight to vinyl for the experience? See also: UK vinyl sales up 78 per cent in 2013: http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/69832
ObVideo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk
artistdomain.com

(not artist.domain.com, not domain.com/artist)

keyword ('artist') within the name part (www.name.com)
<= 15 characters for the main part, no - or _ in the name part
So teaching misinformation is okay so long as it plays in to your angsty feelings about authority?
> K Anders Ericsson, who is one of the sources of the research on this speculates somewhere (I can't recall of the top of my head where), that there are very likely extremely small marginal differences in initial aptitude

This is incredibly disconnected from reality. This is the sort of theory you come up with when you want reality to reduce down to something simple and elegant.

I understated my experience when I used the word "tinkered." I studied organ at a collegiate level for four years, and gave a senior recital that ended with this piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtA_6lIhKWY I've spent plenty of time at the keyboard. And yet I can still barely sight-read four part hymn writing.

Let me give you another side of the equation: someone I sing with frequently has to work really hard to get all the notes right. Every time we sing a concert she has to get the music in advance, practice it for hours beforehand, whereas I just show up at the first rehearsal and sing it. We've both been doing this for a long time, and she is very skilled at actually singing and loves doing it. But she has to work really hard to get the same results that I get by hardly trying.

This idea that it's all about how hard you work is just that: an attractive idea.
I believe Steve Jobs said the reason he took on the role of CEO when he came back to Apple was so no one would be above him when it came to making decisions about the products.

My experience has been, when a company is built around a product, everyone at the company wants to think they know what is best for the product, regardless of their actual role and abilities. Installing yourself at or near the top is the only way to actually take control. If you can't get high enough up the ladder in the place you are at, and this is frustrating you, it's time to jump ship and move somewhere you can. Else you will likely become a poisonous influence on the team around you.
Not using SMSs. Waiting until Google Authenticator or similar support.
"Last week, ESPN averaged 1.36 million viewers a day, which is 9.52 million for the week, or about 40.8 million for the month."

No, this is wrong. The linked article where this stat is pulled showed an average of 1.36MM viewers during prime time. That's only 3 hours of the day.

I'm not familiar enough with TV metrics to speak to this, but I don't think standard metrics that are public are going to give you the kind of data you're looking for here.

Just from anecdotal evidence, I don't see anyway that only 4.8% of cable/sat households tune in to ESPN at least once a month. I'd have a harder time finding a family I know where no one in the house watches ESPN than a family where someone in the house does.
"Except for one little problem: the economics of cord-cutting simply don’t make sense, for neither networks nor viewers."

I think he doth protest to much.

Cord cutting makes PERFECT SENSE for the viewer.

We haven't had Cable/Sat in our house for over 5 years. Don't miss it (or it's outrageous cost) a bit.
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People who think they want a la carte pricing have no idea what they are talking about. This post makes he case nicely.
If you're someone who actually enjoys using LastPass, I don't really know what to say.

The UX (and design) of 1Password is way better.

But another important reason is that LastPass is a central service where you have to (at least somewhat) trust them to not screw up since all your (encrypted) passwords are on their servers. With 1Password there is no such mandatory central service.

I'd say the only reason to use LastPass is if you're cheap, or if password-sharing is a daily exercise for you.
agreed. i'm the same way. while i can sightread slowly, it hasn't improved much despite 25 years of trying. my ear on the hand has gotten to the point that i can listen to something once or twice & sound it out quickly with with 95%+ accuracy. basically my brain was 'pre-wired' for processing one type of information efficiently and another, not so much.

there was an episode of startrek TNG where on this planet they'd analyze kids' dna and figure out what particular talents they had & they'd put extra emphasis on developing those. i'm sure we're heading towards such a future and it has interesting ethical implications. i also wonder how many mozarts are regularly born to plumbers and never get a chance to reach their potential.
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For me, getting an MS after working for a couple years has helped open up incredible new opportunities and deepened my knowledge.
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You are correct. You can also look at it as if I am going to unbundle, why would I need a cord? We (essentially) have a pipe from the internet to our TVs now, so just use that cord for the individual things you want. Maybe the author has that perspective, even if the terminology is incorrect.
Subdomains can be a little confusing for nontechnical people. Go with domain.com/artist.
Err, you're right, bcrypt wouldn't help stolen passwords and a token wouldn't help a mitm. TOTP would be useful if it were used in a separate channel, but not in this case. I was just brainstorming ways to make authentication suck less in general.
What Wittgenstein means is that you cannot think outside your language. Your language (in its widest sense) both enables and limits your thinking.
I find it interesting that a Facebook engineer would openly compare the company to a "garden", given the criticisms they regularly face.
FocusWriter, listed in the parent as a native Mac application, is open source and works on and has compiled binaries for Windows, Mac, and most Linux distros.
The numbers here don't make sense. Most people are paying $50 per month for cable, which supports the current industry. If they all switch to paying ~$50 per month in a different model (whatever it is), an industry of the same size will be supported.

The subscription "all you can eat" model is great. The thing that needs to change from current cable is that I should be able to watch it wherever and whenever I want (and pay not to have ads). The issue right now is that the contractual relationships are so complex that no one is able to cut through the mess to put together the right offering.
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Perhaps I didn't lay out my entire argument in the interest of brevity, but their argument is silly, in my opinion.

The need for early subsidies to make early profits has little bearing on whether they are a boon or a drain. Whether the cars are expensive or not is even more irrelevant. When the subsidies wear off, it's very likely that Tesla will have economies of scale working and more mainstream models. The jobs and environmental benefits have real value that Cato is not factoring into their simplistic formula.
This is excellent, as I would love to have a shared login provider whose business model does not revolve around sharing my information (e.g. twitter, facebook, google). I really don't want everyone on my [friends list equivalent] to know every time I create an account anywhere on the internet, and I feel like I'm always one privacy setting away from that happening.
At the same time though, a login system offered by an e-commerce company is a huge step toward one-click payment integration.
I don't think it dismisses the evidence - it agrees with the idea that 10,000 hours might be required. It just states that it takes 10,000 hours for a talented person to become good at a field - that a person untalented in a field won't necessarily become a true expert given enough practise.

To me this seems intuitively obvious - people's brains aren't built alike, and if we're willing to accept that brains at the fringes (e.g. aspergers) are more attuned to certain tasks, it's not too out there to suggest variance within the 'normal' parameters too. Of course, proving it would require a complex test - one that (somehow) sorts people into attuned or unattuned on a given subject to begin with, and then makes them work for 10,000 hours on the subject.

Realistically, though, I suppose this question just isn't all that interesting. A lot of the time, the important part of the 'nature' component is simply what you're interested in. If you happen to have an interest in a subject, you're vastly more likely to put in the 10,000 hours. I'm a good computer programmer because I enjoyed and was good at it from the beginning, so I spent more time at it. I'm a terrible dancer because I spent maybe a hundred hours on it, sucked, and lost interest. Maybe if I'd spent a hundred times longer doing it I'd be a world beater, maybe not - but it doesn't matter, because my initial experience was enough to put me off. I imagine someone for whom it clicked more naturally would be vastly more likely to stay interested.
That dog is so gonna be next to go.
I very much doubt that the projector is of high quality or that the projected images would look very good. But if you're an Instagram user you're probably not extraordinarily picky when it comes to viewing high quality, high resolution images anyway. :)
I'd like to point out that as far as I'm aware modern French speakers rarely use ne pas and favour simply using pas to indicate a negative.

Not to mean that says anything about double negatives, but French probably shouldn't be used as an example of them.
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Might be more of a spin-off than them having been fired entirely?
I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
What are the odds that short people never work hard enough to become good swimmers, for example?

I cited K. Anders Ericsson's publication list in my first comment. He specifically mentions physical stature (after growth to adult height is completed) as an exceptional case of a prerequisite to top-level performance in some sports domains that is not malleable to practice. Even at that, I have been impressed during my lifetime, which appears to be longer than yours, at what body types that used to be considered "impossible" for top performance in some sports have since been vindicated as the body types of champions. For example, before Usain Bolt set Olympic records after training very hard, he was believed to be too tall to be a successful sprinter.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/200...

The way to find out what body types strictly limit sports performance is to have people of all body types come out for the sport and engage in deliberate practice, and see what happens. The same principle generalizes to performance that mostly relies on brain activity, especially because we have even less information about how brains differ "inherently," and we know the brain is the organ more than any other human organ that responds to its environment.

See also the photograph of the identical twins Otto and Ewald for malleability of body type.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/control-gene-expression/#axzz...

This photograph is often shown to students at the University of Minnesota, a center for studies of identical twins, in their introductory courses on genetics.
In my experience interviewing candidates, an MS counts for less than a good undergrad. I find that software engineers with foreign undergrad and US MS are often missing some fundamentals.
This seems like a really cool idea, but the site has way to little information for me to get really excited. Where's the pricing info? Also, to have a chance with institutional users it would probably be a good idea to go into great detail about privacy/confidentiality and such.
The missing variable is the cost of providing content 24/7. In an on demand setting, I imagine total revenue may drop, but production costs would also drop.

I may be way off base though. Does anyone with more experience wish to correct me?
Keeping it enjoyable is important too. Some people attach self criticism to their skill, which makes it painful for them to proceed. Enjoying the skill is really the first step.

After that, it's a matter of enjoying to improve. And then doing that every day.
If you can't hear it in Zooey Deschanel's voice, a desk clerk with extravagant vocal fry was a gag in the movie Young Adult. Here's just a part of the scene (2nd clip on the page)

http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/young-adult-clips/
"The truth is that the current TV system is a great deal for everyone."

No, it isn't. I cut the cord, and watch media on Netflix & Hulu and buy 2-3 shows on iTunes. To get the same number of movies and series on TV I was paying for a $100+ per month cable bill. Now I'm paying $40 for internet and $8 for Netflix and about $6 per month from iTunes TV shows. So I get a better experience, can watch what I want when I want it, and pay about half of what I used to.
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At my University in the UK (Warwick) we have three Physics courses:

- BSc: A 3 year taught course with some of the final year devoted to research.

- MPhys[1]: A 4 year taught course that is essentially a longer version of the BSc with good chunk of the final year being a research project (some UK universities have an even larger portion of time in the 4th year for research)

- MSc: A 1 year master's course focussing entirely on research (no exams) designed as a follow-on to a BSc.

In the UK, an MPhys is understood to be different to a MSc in the level of research achieved and teaching received.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Physics