skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relative mobility isn't indicative of people's intuitive notions of mobility either.

Consider an farmer living in a village where incomes for everyone range from 200rs/day to 250rs/day depending solely on random chance (weather, locusts, etc). Relative mobility is high - depending on your crop yield, you could go anywhere from the bottom 1% to the top 1%. And you have no chance to go anywhere besides your farm.
They surveyed homeschooled students about their experience when they were grown up, but they neglected to ask the same of public school students, so it's hard to compare. And as someone already mentioned, the price of $500 doesn't include the money lost when both parents aren't working.

That said, I'd homeschool my kid if i had any. But not everyone can afford to do so (single parents, the poor). So instead of applying band-aids like homeschooling to our national education problem, lets fix public education once and for all.
The Juggler's Dilemma - how to get things done while pursuing various interests
hearts of darkness?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102015/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4
I would strongly recommend learning new languages--both human languages and computer languages. The most beneficial ones will be the most different from what you already know, so if you know English and one or two European languages, try learning something like Chinese or Japanese. It's especially helpful if you can immerse yourself in the other language's environment for some period of time so that your brain is forced to start thinking in the other language. Language and culture shape how you think, and there is no substitute for learning a very different language and being immersed in a very different culture if you want to see how your thoughts and the thoughts of others are affected by those things. I think this exercise is one of the few in this thread that will actually challenge your brain sufficiently to make you significantly smarter as opposed to improving your mental toolset for thinking about the world.

I'd also recommend reading up on behavioral economics, marketing, and design. This is more along the "toolset" line, but understanding why people make the decisions they do and how other people try to exploit those decision-making processes helps to understand a significant amount of otherwise relatively impenetrable behavior.

Oh, and read How to Win Friends and Influence People if you haven't already. As someone else suggested, talking to people can yield a great deal of knowledge, but trying to think from the other person's perspective (a major theme in the book) can yield a great deal more understanding of people in general.
People always look down at cat GIFs but they tend to forget that silly things like comic strips really helped power newspapers in the early days. In fact there were even early publications like Puck which were famous for their cartoons which were the memes of their era. Journalism is about storytelling at the end of the day, and if you tell stories that people are interested in you'll find an audience that may be willing to pay for that.
I use Ubuntu, so I don't know if these are in Debian as well, but Jockey and Ubuntu Software Center come to mind.

My main issue with them is the common symptom where both "hang" or "freeze" for a few seconds. Visually this can look like the window gets grayed out for a bit (common in Jockey) or it it is just stuck for a few seconds with no clear indication anything is happening (more common in Software Center).

EDIT: I should note that I've previously written a few PyGTK apps and have recently started writing Ubuntu Touch apps via their Ubuntu SDK (Qt/QML). I've found that Qt/QML/Ubuntu SDK is a much better experience in both writing the app and the responsiveness of the resulting application. And I'm by no means proficient in QML, I'm just starting out.
In my opinion, "being smart" is not exactly the same thing as "having much knowledge". Given a problem to solve, knowledge helps you make an informed decision, while smartness helps you find a hack. Of course, they're not totally unrelated.

I mention this because I believe it'd be helpful for you to consider which of the two you want to improve in more. Knowledge can come from books and courses, like many people are recommending. I wish I knew how to become smart (perhaps if I was smart, I'd find a hack for it...), but I suspect it might help to get into the habit of questioning everything, and practicing lateral thinking. Perhaps it would also help to try and find abstract similarities between situations from very different contexts - often new insights can come from combining knowledge from different fields, and this will probably help you get used to seeing things in different contexts.

Considering the (no doubt intentional) vagueness of the question, I'm guessing you'd be interested in both. I think a good way to improve both at the same time is to often read, and then try and find something to read that says the opposite. That way you get a lot of knowledge, often from various sides, and it invites you to think about it more and question the assumptions.

I hope that helps.
The effectiveness of Western propaganda comes from the high production values and the degree to which the propaganda agenda is concealed. Modern propaganda techniques have evolved over nearly a century[1]. Employers at media companies covertly liason with the CIA, deals are made with the US military exchanging access to military props for script approval, controlled opposition is used to create a sense of objectivity, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Propaganda
I would like to point out that while (c)python reliance on C seem to be the problem here, it is not inherent to general use of C either. Again, Lua vs. LuaJit prove that a Jit implementation can be a drop in to an other (non Jit) one.

On Gentoo, I tend to force applications to link against LuaJit and it works just fine.

Message written in LuaKit using AwesomeWM and my alt+tag show VLC, Wireshark and MySql Workbench running, all on LuaJit to some level of success (most are flawless). All of those applications doesn't (AFIAK) officially support LuaJit.
What you linked agreed with me not you.

Market makers don’t directly participate directly in the price discovery process. A high frequency trader, or any sort of market maker, has no opinion or information on whether Apple is a valuable company.

Further buying or selling within the spread does not automatically make money it's as there is risk which that article mostly ignores.
Stop watching tv, reading blogs, or using facebook.
I would use my fp and a pin.
It's not that simple. Things that affect employers also effect employees by changing the nature of the kinds of companies that offer employment.
>Better it being more risky for the employer than the employees.

More risk for me as an employer means I don't hire anyone until I've exhausted every other possibility. When every employer does that there's high unemployment, so if you do lose your job you can't replace it. How is this a benefit to employees?
This looks really interesting. I'll check this out.
The output is a function of the corpus.

So if Miranda doesn't usually tweet about the history of Mexico, he can pick other texts (written by him or others) which would sound more plausible as something he might normally tweet.

Having said that, the middle dot is not as unobtrusive as I would like, so perhaps it's better to rethink that part of the system, using some of the other suggestions in this thread.
How in the world did he get off with only 4 years in prison after "repeatedly" raping multiple people?
Don't forget the SSL config analysis -- you're not bad, but not up to the DuckDuckGo standard yet!

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=onions.io

Generally agreed with other comments -- it's impossible to prove that the server is trustworthy (just imagine how easy it would be to tweak the server code to simply log all the cleartext that comes in...), so a purist approach forces you to encrypt on the client-side. On the other hand, a good & open server architecture, hosted somewhere the gov't can't oblige you to cheat, with external security audits goes a long way as well. Good usability and reliability often involve some security trade-off (think about password resets -- these are next to impossible if the server is untrusted!); the important thing is to figure out the best balance based on your intended customers.

Thinking more about the purist solution -- if the server is untrusted in your solution, you don't even need to provide the server anymore; let someone bigger handle that for you. I.e., you could generate a secure data file with your OSS client software (like KeePass or similar do), and let Dropbox or whoever else store it safely for you.

If you could make this really useable (incidentally, KeePass is not a good model here), that'd be a valuable creation. Unfortunately, then you're stuck building native applications for multiple platforms, which is probably not what you were hoping to be working on.
Here it is a literary device to succinctly contrast the highly specialized PhD to the most basic of all programming jobs. It is not intended to be derogatory; rather, simply to emphasize the contrast between the two roles/qualifications.

In general it falls into the same category as other colorful ways to reduce a role either for the purposes of humor or simplicity, such as 'keyboard warrior' or 'desk jockey'
Except where I live there is organized phone snatching. A crew of phone hackers hire drug addicts to yoink phones off transit riders and then pay them 10% of the value. They then go to work on the phone changing the IMEI and I would imagine easily bypassing this fingerprint auth. They make use of the data for fraud purposes and then wipe and sell the phone on the street, a block away from where I live outside a run down sketchy bar.

Police caught the "muggers" slipping the phones into faraday bags so they couldn't be remotely wiped which led them to the ringleaders. They were busted but I'm sure there's a new crew doing it
Sexy Close Up Of Nice Tits (January 30)
Good idea about using typos instead of a middle dot marker (TBH, it's not as unobtrusive as I would like, so perhaps it's better to rethink that part of the system).
I haven't tried that physically fit part I should try that I get lazy sometimes but I do want to get buff.
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Thanks, I'll look into those suggestions, especially since I'm not really happy about using the middle dot (it's really not unobtrusive, and the entire system would work better if I didn't use it).
This statistic only works if the time spent by the parent is worth $0. Homeschooling is extremely time intensive.
Good question. I wrote the original article (a month ago, surprised to see it now on HN). My wife and I have also increased our contributions to both the EFF and ACLU in the last few months. Seems like a good investment.
Great quote com CCC team:

"Biometrics is fundamentally a technology designed for oppression and control, not for securing everyday device access."

It explains why Brazil is trying to put biometric scanners on the electronic voting machines.
Just about anything relating to Vietnam. But yeah, that's been a while.

But what we have today is absolutely nothing compared to films produced right after WWII. I think one factor in that is there was a massive amount of combat footage just lying around waiting to be spliced together, as well as a whole bunch of surplus equipment just waiting to be blown up.
FWIW this was the goal of merging Infogami with Reddit.
-Food (agriculture, livestock, protein from insects, lab grown meat, etc.)

-Transportation (if you can find a way to decrease fuel costs)

-Disruptive medicine (traditional drug companies will be making less and less money, but companies that develop cheaper cures to common world-wide ailments will be extremely successful)

Basically, things that are necessities for living. Media/entertainment will become an increasingly zero-sum game.
I have to say, I've not had the issue where I don't have nearly full control of a server. I do imagine this would provide many different challenges overall.

Does PIL need to be compiled when you use it via Pip (I'm not familiar with PIL, tbh)? Can you just install those via pip and be done with it? So far using virtualenv + pip, I've not encountered a system library vs project dependency clash...but maybe I've just been lucky.
I came here to recommend http://lesswrong.com/, but then I saw that you want to become more knowledgable, not smarter. In that case, your current strategy sounds right to me!
Wouldn't it be ironic if the new iPhone 5S camera had a high enough resolution to take the photo of another user's fingerprint off the screen of his or her phone? ;)
Ευχαριστώ!

There's no obvious way of telling where a "secret" sequence would begin and end.

For now, it might be best left as a coordination issue, similar to the choice of corpus: e.g., you know that you'll be tweeting secretly n times a day, at these specific times only, etc.
Another idea: use a corpus of tweets to retweet.
I suspect that the $500 figure does not account for the wage that the parent(s) would be making if they were working. Defining a number that would be good to compare is probably quite difficult because different people would spend different amounts of time, so maybe an average amount of time, average salary of parents, and standard deviation for both would be more accurate (but also much harder to find). Take it with a grain of salt.
Matrix-like replays for sport events
> The OS is supposed to use memory.

Erm, no. The OS is supposed to virtualize the hardware. It should use the optimal amount of resources for that.

> That's what it's for: to be used.

Not necessarily by the OS. You do know that these things called "Applications" exist and use memory, don't you?
I think this seems to be my biggest problem, the older I get the more cynical I'm becoming, and I hate it. Any tips on looking at ideas through the lens of curiosity rather then cynicism?
Thanks I'll check this out.
Christensen's theory, as I understand it, also does not explain Gucci and Prada. Apple products may or may not have an "objective" advantage relative to the competition (I believe they do not, but I am aware this is widely disputed), but either way I believe that fashion and signalling is the single largest factor in Apple's sales success.

This is not, by the way, a disagreement with the article; I just think the article under-emphasizes this aspect.
That would violate other laws.
the first thing that i think you should do is to define clearly what do you mean by smart.
There is also the opportunity cost of homeschooling. By homeschooling, the parent is reducing their ability to work full-time or part-time so they are losing money. So the true cost for the parent would be something like $20/hour * 5 hours a day * 200 days a year ~= $20k. (Adjust the numbers as you see fit)
We are revamping the documentation and security is pretty neat in the framework too. Right now our focus is to build web applications for customers. Where can I find people who will pay us for building good web applications?
A guy recently posted something similar written in Common Lisp called Turtl. [0] You might want to check that out as it avoids some of your design problems, namely "authentication" is really just entering the decryption key in your browser. All data is decrypted on the browser, and the host-proof service on the service knows none the wiser.

Also see Firefox Sync. [1] But I am seem to be one of five people who advocate it.

[0] https://github.com/turtl

[1] http://docs.services.mozilla.com/sync/
I think the ramifications are bigger than that - heaps of services want unrestricted, virtually unaccountable access to our contacts and address books and quite liberally help themselves to it - like Path earlier this year found to be uploading everyone's address books to their servers.

A best case scenario for us will greatly limit the way and extent companies access our data.
I highly recommend reading Power of Now (terrible title) but one of the best books I've found on the topic, more about awareness then practical guide into meditation.
If we knew how to fix education, we would have done it years ago.
I'm surprised they failed to measure students up taking into account household income, or parental education, or any of a number of other important factors. This seems like the most obvious statistic to look at, and they don't even mention it.
Fast tests are useless
True, you shouldn't use the same corpus more than once, so there's always going to be a coordination issue between the sender and recipients.
Yup. Matt's Script Archive was a long time ago. Modern Perl is about a million times better and easier to use than it used to be.

Dancer, Moose, DBIx::Class (a bit more advanced), Plack/PSGI, etc etc. Not to mention the language changes they've made with 5.10/5.12/5.14/etc (I'm in love with the defined-or operator).
For those looking for the source:

http://wikileaks.org/IMG/html/wikileaks-dreamworks-memo.html

It might change, with all MiTM that occurs on the domain.
I'd like to see these data normalized against parental income, education level, etc. My hypothesis is that there wouldn't be much difference in academic performance for homeschooled vs. non-homeschooled students. In other words, my guess is that having parents with some financial means who place on emphasis on education is what drives academic performance, not whether the child spends their day in a classroom or their house.
Things being worse elsewhere doesn't make things good here.

However, it just might suggest a reason to doubt the statement "The direction the US economy is headed in has no merit," with which I was disagreeing. If smart immigrants come here on a net basis (and they do), then maybe people who have a choice are voting with their feet to say that the direction of the United States economy is not as bad as it could be.

I note the lack of follow-up from the kind person with whom I was disagreeing, perhaps because he is busy with his real life responsibilities, just as I was for the last three hours.
This is probably psychosomatic. Python GUI libraries are usually a thin layer on top of C/C++ libraries like GTK and Qt, so the drawing and input handling is all happening quickly.
I agree, It's annoying taking the extra sign up process just to get Gravatar they need to fix that.
I could definitely use this, very neat.
I would really recommend reading LessWrong to pretty much anyone who is able to absorb the material (and willing to put in the time. It's not greatly organised at the moment).

It is, quite literally, life-altering stuff when internalised. At least it was for me.
Pretty cool, nice interface. A new era of high frequency restaurant reservations emerging? Perhaps purchased reservations can be bundled and sold as an investment vehicle.
I don't think it's possible to change the IMEI on an iPhone at all, and "easily bypassing" touchID involves collecting the user's fingerprint, which I guess is not included in the drug addicts' service offerings.
The life and death of Buran, the USSR shuttle built on faulty assumptions
I find it astonishing how goalposts are moved all of a sudden. Two days ago the fingerprint reader was hyped as a great unbreakable feature ahead of its time and about to replace passwords.

Now, after the release of this video (nobody saw that coming, heh), it's all about how the fingerprint reader is better than no password at all. I think that's a deeply wrong standpoint, as this is (now) demonstrably bad security marketed as good or at least sufficient.

People will not treat it as an emergency feature they can somewhat rely on while they think of a good passphrase. The Iphone is specifically markteted as being "easy to use" for non-technical people, and those people have no idea about security. Giving them a false sense of it is not "better than nothing", it's creating a demand for this bad feature for an entire market. Sadly, most people prefer convenience over security - scratch that - they don't even consider the security part, apart from it being annoying maybe.
If that information is so valuable, then shouldn't some burden be placed on AT&T for negligence? If this had been health care records, AT&T would have been required to notify users and possibly pay a fine. Perhaps it makes sense to have similar laws in place to protect all data, as Europe does (see ECHR).

The point here is, if we want to nail weev to a cross, AT&T should be nailed up right next to him.
Look at Replicant OS, the GNU foundation's effort to put a free Android system.
I wouldn't use this with a bot account, since, as you say, it would become easy to detect those as anomalies.

Instead, I was thinking that you might intersperse these in between your normal tweets, in coordination with the people you're communicating with.
I am curious if google is using the data from its dns service to improve the search index.
iOS lets you choose between a 4 digit pin or an alphanumeric password of whatever length you want. The 4 digit pin is meant to be more convenient, but even then most smartphone owners don't use it.

The point of TouchID was to have a more secure default for most than a 4 digit pin or, more commonly, no pin or password at all. Few people would be happy with having to enter a 12+ character alphanumeric password each time they wanted to use their phone, you're an outlier there.
It's a literal quote from the (incredibly poorly written) suit against LinkedIn.
"We know that one parent was alarmed enough by the conversation to (apparently) forward it to the school administration.'

There is no evidence that the parent who forwarded the e-mail to the teacher (not the school administration; apparently the teacher did that) was "alarmed" by it. They merely disagreed with it. Here's the quote from the article:

"Back in California, when I raised the issue of too much homework on that e‑mail chain, about half the parents were pleased that someone had brought this up, and many had already spoken to the math teacher about it. Others were eager to approach school officials. But at least one parent didn’t agree, and forwarded the whole exchange to the teacher in question."
When you take into consideration that propaganda films have "disappeared" it seems like common-sense that the message is still getting out there.

You can just look at Jerry Bruckheimer's career and make mental notes how every movie since Top Gun has seemingly garnered him more and more access to military assets for his films.
The home costs and mortgage interest need to be paid anyway, so it's really only the opportunity cost of the parent. On top of that there are employment costs the homeschooling parent will avoid by not holding down a job - things like transportation and wardrobe.

That said, most homeschoolers I know spend a lot of time and money making sure their children have opportunities to socialize with other kids, which is something you get for free with public schooling.
Ask HN: Random Facebook Friend Requests
Have you just had a series of random Facebook friend requests? Myself and a number of my friends have just received friend requests from non-legit accounts. Potential exploit? Have you guys experienced this?
Keep reading. I (it's my blog) explain how market makers reduce the transaction costs for speculators, allowing them to more efficiently discover prices.

Similarly, network engineers don't gather news, but they still help the news get out.
> I just wish "free software" wasn't owned by Richard

Just because Stallman is the most vocal voice behind Free Software Movement doesn't mean he owns freedom or free software. He is doing a wonderful job of bringing about awareness of free software (not just "open" software).