skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, children have little else to do but absorb new information and they take a good number of years doing it. Adults have a load of responsibilities that they have to occupy their minds with. Compared to the carefree oblivion of childhood I think it is remarkable that adults can learn anything new at all.

There does seem to be a lack of research that attempts to correct for this, or at least I can't find it. In the absence of data, I prefer to believe that I'm at least as able to learn new things as 6 year old me.
For me it's Mobile Safari. Everyone on the platform is forced to use it and it's many, many horrible bugs.
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For those who want to boycott Mozilla
That is true. I'm sure they were not that naive, but maybe I will give the benefit of the doubt; either way, the situation is kind of a mess, and could have been side stepped but $2b, (or $75m) is a lot of money, can't say I'd have the willpower to necessarily turn either offer down if I were in their shoes...they are a bigger company with lots of employees...not exactly a one man decision and I guess you have to think about what is best for the group. If I were offered a huge sum of money, it would not be worth it for me to take it unless I could be guaranteed total freedom, which usually is not the case - I'd rather have enough money and freedom than a buttload of it and some handcuffs. :)
I would hope that you can't nominate yourself for CEO...
The compiler makes the first branch prediction table. (It's actually smaller than a branch prediction table, because it only needs one exit point for each entry point.) The table can be updated (in memory) during execution if needed. The on-disk version can be modified for optimization purposes for later runs, but the mechanism for that would obviously be software dependent and not reside on chip.
I have a copy of Stephen Biesty's castle cross-section book sitting on my desk. He provides great reference material. :)
Thanks - 90s games were the basis for most of the inspiration. It has niche appeal, so I understand if it turns some people off. :)
Sarin and VX are also irreversible cholinesterase inhibitors. And yes, any pharmacological manipulation should be viewed as a systematic and extremely nonspecific manipulation that will virtually always have unintended side effects.
Really, the Lady Gaga episode was awful. And not only because it was a very obvious 22 minute advertisement. It was just plain bad, very bad. I absolutely agree that it's the worst Simpsons episode I've watched.

The individual ratings may not be very "accurate" (well, they're going to be subjective no matter what. My favourite episode is near the bottom of its season), but the trends are interesting. The fact that the floor of seasons 1-9 is above the ceiling of season 14 and onwards (save a few outliers) reflects quite well what many fans think.
Their sense of duty and loyalty to the organization, or legal obligations, may prevent them from making any statements. They don't "have to" say anything.

(I'd have to guess there's more going on than even controversy over inside/outside candidates. The departure of the prior CEO seemed a bit abrupt. Management of a non-profit has special challenges, without the normal shareholder influences or reductionist profit-making goals. That the Corp is technically a for-profit, but with a single non-profit shareholder, the Foundation, with its own separate board, just adds extra indirection to the challenges.)
I'm surprised this is the first chess article I've seen on HN. I spend a ton of time on here and it seems like a very HN subject.
ummmm, how do you explain learning/brain disorders stemming from childhood?

Neuroplasticity- how the brain is wired (neutral pathways), is a more plausible explanation for dysfunction in our lives. fMRI scans can confirm where activity is taking place in the neurotypical brain as opposed to those who suffer from disorders. What you eat is not going to magically repair the activity in these parts of the brain.
My own eyes rolled preemptively when I started talking about AI. :) The main reason I talked about it a bit is because a few people have asked me to discuss it in the past. But yeah, for now it is just talk, we will see what comes of it. Even if I fail in that respect, there is enough room for a game in other areas.
While I have zero actual proof, I have a nagging worry that is probably worth brining up. This is entirely supposition and speculation, and I welcome hard evidence on the subject regardless of which way it points..

Right now we find ourselves watching vital cornerstone of the Free Internet suddenly ripping itself apart. A community of people who would usually be working on improving (at least attempting to improve) concepts like freedom of speech and publication (press). This is especially important right now, given all of the NSA/Snowden drama of the last year, and the threats they revealed.

So I'm forced to wonder: who's the spy trying to wedge the community apart?

Yes, yes, we've been arguing about sexuality and marriage for a long time, and it should simply be old factions suddenly forced to confront their current situation. Normally, I would simply accept that explanation.

However, given that the spy agencies have been using[1] tactics to disrupt groups they see as threatening, I'm forced to wonder if these new "wedges" between previously-stable communities. Especially in the cases like Mozilla, where and its role on the world stage certainly makes them a target for COINTELPRO or similar attacks.

...

Because of this worry, I'm going to suggest something counter to my usual instincts. Being gay myself, I would normally be strongly against Mr. Eich for reasons already said elsewhere. There is a wisdom in picking your battles, and right now there are more important issues.

So, instead, I am choosing to see Mr. Eich as a strong ally against greater threats. Marriage rights won't easy to fight for if we lose the surveillance/police-state battle first. Emotions are running strong right now - I won't deny that the idea of having funded prop 8 does piss me of - but winning one war often means finding allies, even if you don't like them.

edit: forgot footnote

[1]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
Wow, that looks awesome! :)
I just started to skim your thesis so I apologize if this is covered somewhere. Is it commonly understood that route optimizations for maritime transport are equivalent to automobile transport?
Thanks! I have a niche corner that does not satisfy all requirements, so I think there is still a ton of room for other types of engines.
Wikipedia distinguishes between first and second language acquisition (FLA, SLA). FLA is done by children. SLA is done by children and adults.

The critical period hypothesis is that SLA is age dependent and can only be done properly as a child. However "The critical period hypothesis is the subject of a long-standing debate in linguistics and language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age."

I am not familiar with the research in this field, but I don't think it is clear cut that SLA is age dependent. FLA does appear to be though.
> P(A) >= P(A n B) Always holds whether or not A and B are independent

Yeah.

> The assumption being made is that the NSA can't abuse the Huawei access without Huawei being complicit.

I didn't understand that. That seems like a ridiculous assumption.
this sibling comment seems to be a good start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491549
A single GTX 780, which is...I know, very yikes. It runs on far less, but you have to sacrifice visual detail. That said, if current patterns are an indication, a GTX 780 or equivalent will cost about $200-$250 or less (right now about $500 on Amazon, $700+ when it came out), in a few years when the game is released.
Don't give up - there is help. Reach out to your local chapter of Sesquipedalians Anonymous.
Was your source obfuscated?
Minecraft already did that. I have to raise the bar. :) But yeah, alpha access will be probably not a whole lot more than that. :)
Yeah but once you start exhibiting the symptoms of a neurodegenerative disorder, it's far too late for you because the damage has been taking place for many years prior.

Understanding the diseased brain and using drugs to reverse/attack the root causes of neurodegenerative disorders will help further humanity no doubt. The ketogenic diet does seem to help from what I've read though, so that in conjunction with drugs could be big.
That's an interesting idea (are you a pyromaniac ;)? Right now I have so many things prioritized above types of destruction, but if I ever have time or other employees I will think about that.
They could do both (like every other competent UX team does).

All of those problems are still their, I was responding to the point made in the post, that they couldn't ship the awesome design, because there are people with little screens... That is what responsive is for, meaning they could have shipped exactly what they shipped PLUS the awesome design (that they themselves, said was awesome).

So yes, media queries fix exactly their problem, as they had two designs that they liked, but one was only good for big screens, the other for little screens.

To put it more bluntly they had already solved all the other issues (and more) you talked about... just the screen size was the only problem (cited in that post!)
The ink traps are definitely larger than the wavelengths of light used for making lithographic plates for printing. Or are you making a comparison to semiconductor lithography?
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Anybody email themselves iTunes search results?
>large learning rate at the beginning and smaller and smaller learning rate as you go, eventually reaching zero. It would make sense for brain to use similar strategy.

Maybe if we were still cavemen living in a technologically stagnant world.

The world is changing extremely fast. Humanity needs neuroplasticity boosters to keep up.
MixRank analyzes mobiles apps (android and ios) and we often see apps with embedded api secrets, private keys, and passwords. It's really surprising.

If you'd like to send an email like this to your users, send me an email (in profile) and I can query our database and check to see if any of them are including their api keys.
My counter hypothesis is that children can't possibly conceive the amount of information an adult has to keep track of day to day.

What if we distinguish first language acquisition as a special process? If you don't acquire a language in the first place then you have no framework for formal learning. A better comparison might be second language acquisition in children and adults (see my post about FLA/SLA above).

Maybe we could look at acquisition of a physical skill as a fair comparison?

I think there is a distinction between infants and children. Neither have anything to do but learn, eat and sleep, but children have gone through the unimaginable process of connecting their senses to the world.

I don't really have much more to add, these are just my uninformed guesses.
whatever she does, keep her away from Google-ing any of the following terms:

work from home, mom, passive income, online work
I am just really curious to understand why their wages are so different than what we should expect.

"What we should expect"? What does this even mean? What do you expect someone who provides a service that is in demand charge or make? Why should they make any less than what the market is willing to pay?
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There is no reason why it would be a bad idea.

False positives (people who are legitimately using AWS credentials from their phone for some reason, or somebody who is legitimately using AWS credentials from their computer but with an incorrect useragent for some reason) would cause an inconvenience as time is wasted to inspect it, but ultimately little harm would be done.

False negatives (improperly using AWS credentials but with a useragent that looks reasonable) would not be a deviation from the status quo.

You don't need 0% false negative and false positive rates to make this sort of sanity checking worthwhile. Even if you only find a few of the many instances of improperly used credentials, you're better off than if you had done nothing.

(Of course there is the issue of correlating misused credentials with the specific application that is misusing them. I don't know how that is done if they are basing their investigation off of useragents.)
I have a really hard time with this. I go through periods like this:

15-20 days - really motivated work 10-12 hour days
5-8 days - motivated but uninspired
4-5 days - completely unmotivated and uninspired

that is pretty much my typical month, every month. the lows are low but the highs are high. just find your groove and stick to it. everyone becomes unmotivated at times.
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I can think of lots of counter-examples.

What if your product is licensed per-seat, and your change allows your customer to achieve their goals with fewer employees using your product, reducing the number of licenses purchased?

What if your change allows your customer to complete their task more quickly, and they stop paying for your SaaS product as soon as they complete said task?

What if your improvement improves interoperability, and your customer's partners decide not to purchase your product because they no longer need it to work together?

What if your change reduces the need for your customer to later purchase an upgrade?
The last major example we saw around here was the systemd vote for Debian. One member of the committee (bdale) was to have two votes in the event of a tie (though it was not simply a yes/no vote). If an even number of board members are presented with a scenario where a decision A or B must be made and do nothing is not an option, a tie-breaking vote is pretty important.
And when the manufacturer undercuts you and you're already bankrupt by the time the court case that the manufacturer's spendy lawyers will drag out long past your ability to pay...what then?
Slack: great team communication software
Also, you made the D language. :)
That's not a mathematical proof, for example it doesn't show why the theorem holds for all a, b and c, and not just the values used in the demonstration.
I like it better than HipChat:

* Each chat room has a banner at top that displays the number of messages in the room that you haven't read yet. Clicking the banner scrolls you up to the first unread message.

* Better search
Does it matter? A constant string is a constant string.
Reports of a Drop in Childhood Obesity Are Overblown
What simplicity/safety does using processes buy you relative to a good threaded runtime (read: JVM/Haskell/Go)?
Yup, your landing page is very confusing. (mine once was too!) My best suggestion is to grab a few people who would be your typical audience, physically sit them next to them and watch/listen as you ask them things like:

What would you do first?

Is it clear what the site does for you?

What do you think will happen if you click X

Why would you come to this site?

Iterate and keep going! Good luck.
Ivan has said the problem is that the LLVM treats all pointers as integers.
Fitt's Bar, interaction + data vis design.
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This might help. This is in no way comprehensive, but rather just to help you get unblocked, and that, age has less to do with creative ideas, than you are making it.

1. Industries that disrespect their customers. Say, you had a bad service/sales rep experience. Then you tried to switch, but found out that every other large competitor to this one is as bad. Probably the reason why there are so many banking/financial services upstarts in the last couple of years.

Caveat - usually these businesses are good at building high switching costs into their products. How many times have you thought of ditching your bank, but have never got around to it?

2. Fat and thin margins. If everyone is enjoying a fat margin, they are most likely colluding in their industry, and have some kind of (in)formal association barring anyone else to entry with lower price. Can you legally go against that trade association. Technology helps in leap frogging in these situations. Thin margin businesses (usually) indicate that all the efficiency that there is to be extracted has been. This can still be disrupted, if your tech can find new ways of doing things.

Finally, take a look at this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade

Fedric Tudor started the whole ice industry by cutting pieces of lake in the north and shipping them to south. People weren't even used to having ice in their drinks. He created a whole new market and industry.

This might have been said a million times, most ideas look bad on the surface. What makes them good is the execution. :)
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> The Xerox PARC GUI is everywhere

Quoting Alan Kay

<quote>
Now, the abortion that happened after PARC was the misunderstanding of the user interface that we did for children, which was the overlapping window interface which we made as naive as absolutely we possibly could to the point of not having any workflow ideas in it, and that was taken over uncritically out into the outside world.
</quote>

> Given that, it seems more likely that graphical development hasn't taken off because it isn't good enough yet. All developers have prejudices, but they typically have to yield to superior methodologies.

The only existing mainstream environment that can replicate some of the live coding experience of the said systems is Mathematica.

That is why for old guys like myself it is so interesting to see all the live coding discussions that happen on HN, from people that never used those systems or at least saw them being used.
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That doesn't have anything to do with the complaint about Android's fragmentation.
I've outed myself as being depressed and the reaction has been entirely positive.

There have been a few people who have reacted "strangely" but, to be honest, having these people clearly identify themselves by their behaviour has been a net positive ;)

However, I haven't tried interviewing for jobs yet. I suspect the negatives will really show then. The rational argument (that 40% of our society will undergo treatment for a mental condition at some point, so would they prefer someone who might be mentally ill but in denial, or someone who is aware of the problem, and able to deal with it?) should work in theory.

However, almost everyone I've spoken to has either had the same issue themselves but never admitted it publicly, or has a close relative or friend struggle with the same issues and so understands to a certain extent.

I think we're seeing the beginning of the end of the stigma.
If you are doing a production grade spellchecker (or for that matter, anything ML) I would suggest that you spend some time getting familiar with the literature survey (Google Scholar is your friend). I have done various implementations over time (and also, as it happens, specifically a spellchecker, but that was not meant to be production grade), and I find this to be the most rewarding way in the long run.
My favorite example of APL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
So does this require special a keyboard ? How does inputting those special symbols work. Are APL's typically JITed ?
You could just print the page as pdf?
The card example is a bit contrived. Imagine instead being able to to write linearizationtable = [insert interactive graph here]. Instead of linearizationtable[20][2] = {{0,5}, {4, 20}, .... }

And even if you have a graph it can still be stored in text format for version control reasons.
> But I was baffled by what bad stuff must have happened to the world, that we ended up where we are now and not where we should have been.

UNIX spread into the enterprise world.
Could you explain a bit - users used it and then stopped using it? Or, nobody discovered what you built?

If earlier, did you try to find out why users stopped using it?

If later, how do you expect me to find this great product that I don't exists yet. You didn't even provide a link here.

Famously, before Ford built cars, he asked users and they said they wanted faster (horse) carriages (cars were too expensive, clumsy and broke down all the time). Thankfully, Ford didn't set out to make carriages or the horses faster.
This would be cool if you weren't required to be a build tools dojo to use it. Windows binary please! Complete working stand alone binary. Then it might make an impact.
Sorry i don't need such testing platform because i have very small projects so i think it could be a good idea only on a dirrent project size.
You can use a standard keyboard, if you learn the mapping or get key caps. http://www.rexswain.com/aplkeyb.gif
Ask HN: Surface area of the Earth/Earth's population = How much space each?
I'm not sure about how true this is in the US, but it's definitely much less true for international students, a group that YC doesn't want to leave out.
Credit card companies are a good example of the this too. Since they're responsible for fraudulent charges, there's a huge incentive for them to detect them.
They distribute a 32-bit .exe of APL that should run under Cygwin. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/apl/apl.exe
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It would be driving us so we won't be looking at the speedo. Because of the new "free rides while you listen to our adverts" deal. Big red button for "just buy the goddamned product and leave me in peace".
A proper contract would allow for an immediate injunction as releif.
I think the argument against unpaid internships is not so much that they don't provide value, but that they're only open to people who can afford to do an unpaid internship.
That's until you start thinking about dependency versioning.

The only way I can think of how to integrate versioning into Go's "one workspace" philosophy is to encode versions into package paths and then use import aliases to point to different versions of packages.

But that means you're spreading versioning information across all source files, and it only works if everyone decides to use this approach. So far no one does (I believe).
Nugget: static html gallery generator
It actually does, if a is an integer.
Are the integration tests driven by selenium, phantomjs/casper, or something else?
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The mathematical notation also lacks a lot of type information. Looking at his example formula, First of all, both x and N are magic variable names, where did they come from? Second, what happens if x is a string and + is considered string concatenation. Mathematical notation has all the problems of duck typing and even more. In a way that's also the beauty of math, you can multiply matrices with same rules you learned scalar multiplication in 2nd grade. For quick problems where you can keep all variables in your head this is nice to save on typing, but for larger applications you need clearly defined interfaces and a way to encode them.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=land+area+of+earth+%2F...
One thing that really sped up my compiler was eating a ketogenic diet, and eliminating preprocessed foods.
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Fantastic. Thanks! This is a scarily small area per person.
I am currently working full-time remotely on the MVP of an interesting start-up. I get paid relatively low fees and some equity (the discussions are on). I am doing this because I like being in 100% control of the development process and deeply involved with the creation of the product itself. It's a great learning opportunity that can come in handy when you get around to working on your own product someday.
I dont think it would be that hard to automate decompilation and fire off an email after looking for secret keys. Either way it's good to see.