skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article. A few minor points:

[prodigies] are not given a lot of opportunities in schools that are designed for typically developing kids

... nor should they be. I was learning calculus in elementary school and writing the Putnam in high school. No matter how hard they tried, there's no way the schools I was enrolled in could have given me those opportunities. What prodigies need it not opportunities in school, but rather schools which are flexible enough to let them access opportunities outside of school -- in my case, starting my days at Simon Fraser University and packing my high school courses into the afternoon.

Those of us who managed sky-high SAT scores at 13 were 20 times as likely as the average American to get a doctorate; let's say, being charitable, that we're 100 times as likely to make a significant scientific advance. Since we're only 1 in 10,000 of the U.S. population, that still leaves 99% of scientific advances to be made by all those other kids who didn't get an early ticket to the genius club. We geniuses aren't going to solve all the riddles. Most child prodigies are highly successful — but most highly successful people weren't child prodigies.

This is probably the most important paragraph in the article. The numbers are unsupported, but I don't think they're so far off as to invalidate the point.

It isn't exactly wrong to say that Terry Tao and other former prodigies like him are geniuses. But it is more accurate to say that what they accomplished was genius. Genius is a thing that happens, not a kind of person.

Genius is both a noun and an adjective describing some people. It's a shame that Dr. Ellenberg felt it necessary to end an otherwise good article with such a piece of pithy nonsense.
The comparison is indeed more relevant.
On Linux 3.13 and later it's easier to just add
fq or fq_codel to /etc/sysctl.conf, which will enable it for all your devices, including those with hardware multi-queues. Or, at the command line:

sysctl -w net.core.default_qdisc=fq # if you are a host
sysctl -w net.core.default_qdisc=fq_codel # if you are a router

(but this requires that each interface be taken up and down. Better to just stick it in sysctl.conf and forget about it)
Pretty cool! I wondered how this was updated.
Hopfield net
Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes
That seems to be what they are going for with the game analysis that also makes alternative move suggestions.
Full Commencement Address by Jim Carrey
Id like to explore if there are any automated solutions?

What software/sdk's have you used?
A decade of WWDC keynotes, Apple's most misunderstood events.
Meta:

Someone downvoted 30+ posts on here, all in a few minutes. That's not really how downvoting is supposed to work. If people are submitting spammy or offtopic freelancer posts, then downvote them, or if a person has a really awesome freelance post, then upvote them, but don't game the system and make everyone's posts grey.
If you search my first name on Google, the first downloads of Programming Android appear on the third page of results. Not convenient enough for you? And what did I say about asking for a review copy?
Simple solution in R:

> '%+%' <- get( '+')
> '+' <- function( e1, e2) 1 %+% e1 %+% e2
> 2+2
[1] 5

Regards
Well, looks like someone went through a large number of the freelancers' comments here and downvoted them for no clear reason.
Some followup conversation in the comments at Ellenberg's blog: http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/should-andrew-...
Linked from the "Who's using it" page:

https://github.com/bazqux/bazqux-urweb
Actually their cases aren't geared towards financial and exit situations. I gave those examples because I don't come from that background, and so found those illustrative of what I personally learned.

I'm a computer scientist by training, and found that my experience helps me excel in the classroom, rather than serve as a burden. Classmates do appreciate the technological perspective, and former Microsoft, Google, Apple and startup employees do a great job of giving that perspective in Entrepreneurship, operations and technology classes. Engineers are highly regarded at the school...
You were clear enough before. You still hand wave aside the question about whether the majority of the students are ready for the material (this is separate from the question of whether they should be).

(I agree that the comparison is not probability, but understanding the comparison is what makes probability useful in everyday life...)
OXO has an extremely generous warranty replacement policy so I doubt that's the case
Yeah, then people didn't buy and proved him wrong.
Er - not meaningless to their parents at all. Big stress area (I work in adult education). Those feelings will obviously be picked up by child.
This is cool! Would serve me well when I put out an MVP. I was thinking launchrock, but this seems much more flexible.
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This is far beyond what a computer could do. For instance, see this transcript:

https://github.com/hausdorff/bangbangcon.github.io/blob/gh-p...

For instance, she'll separate out conversations:

>> Can you move the mic closer to your
mouth?
>> Yes. Is this better? Is this better?
Okay. I will talk like this, then.
>> You can move the mic.
>> Like...
>> Take it off the stand and hold it up
to your face.

She can also figure out when something is an acronym (like LARP), make sure everything is capitalized correctly (Python, Ruby), separate out what's being said into paragraphs when the speaker starts talking about something new, and a ton of other things.
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While people keep knocking you down for trolling, I think that's actually a really good point.

I don't equate "piracy" to theft (or piracy, for that matter), but I think we're culturally trapped in a very curious mindset. I don't think anyone would argue that the value in a movie or television show or book or any other creative work lies solely in the cost to reproduce a copy -- if anything, we'd be more likely to argue that the cost to reproduce it is incidental to its value. To me, the logical outcome of that is that we should pay for copies of creative materials regardless of the marginal cost because that's never really been what we were paying for in the first place -- and it seems perfectly reasonable to me that, thus, we should honor the wishes of the creators when it comes to price (or the people the creators have ostensibly delegated that responsibility to, i.e., publishers and distributors). But instead we're often arguing that if the cost to copy is effectively zero, the creators and publishers are unreasonable authoritarian police state thugs for saying, "Hey, the cost of the copy isn't where the value lies, and if you're going to enjoy our work you should still pay us."

And, yes, I know all the arguments about publishers (and creators) making unreasonable demands, but I think that makes the line even murkier, not clearer. We don't say "the price you're asking for this physical object is unreasonable, so I'm just taking it without paying for it at all"; why do we think it's fair to say "the price you're asking for this digital object is unreasonable, so I'm making a copy without paying for it?" Yes, the cost to do so is zero, but the value isn't derived from the reproduction cost.
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Nymote – Lifelong control of your networked personal data
This is the series of books recommended (or at least referenced) by Richard Feynman.
I agree that HBS provides many of the experiences you described, but that argument can be made for college level education as well, no? one of the downsides of online education is that it lacks the social element that is at times just as important as the educational one.

I don't argue that HBS provides all of what you mentioned, but I do argue that many colleges provide the same.
I work with 500and4 on Zonino, and we all met working at a startup.
I joined when we the total number of employees was 13 and now we are 10x that number and growing.
I don't think there is any other working experience out dear that can give you that level professional and personal growth.
On the other hand we have been lucky and if was a company like the one you got in touch with we would be toast.
I guess that's one of the reason we liked the idea of providing an easy way to find and compare startups that are hiring for your skill set, hence the integration with crunchbase, but of course it could be better and we would love your feedback!!
It's not an overly entitled way of thinking when it comes to a device I own that uses a data package I pay for. I don't actually run an ad blocker in my web browser, but on mobile, where screen size, battery life, and data usage constraints are very real, I can't stand them. If I couldn't remove the ads from an app I would definitely find something else.

As for the downvote, you're right, but it wasn't me. I don't have that ability yet.
It is famous for being Richard Feynman's favorite calculus book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZED4gITL28#t=79
So which was the first one you came to think of when you read the title? Mine:

>Gibson, a type of supercomputer used to find oil and perform physics in Hackers (1995)
I'm thinking something similar, but remember also that on top of the 60-90k/year, you will also have an extra income from you (and your spouse) doing "whatever you want" which may only add a few tens of thousands, but it'd make a difference. You're not going to sit around on your sofa playing video games for 365 days a year, are you?
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Untitled Advanced Science Show Lecture Series

We're Atlanta-based and in need of some biology, chemistry, and physics PhDs (or students; perhaps even really good grads).

We want to film 15 minute science lectures that are much more advanced than Cosmos or NOVA, but we need research and writing. Existing formats are drawn out; we can be informationally dense and fast-paced. We'll include a few relevant figures; we'll also add footnotes, equations, and primary literarure citations for those that want to pause and do their own further exploration.

A perfect description of our demographic is HN--educated adults who might not actually be pursuing the field we're covering but have a ton of interest in science. This market also includes advanced college and high school students that likewise share the same level of interest.

The lectures can be broad surveys or deep coverage of a particular area of research or discovery.
We're going to fund filming about 3 videos, film them here in Atlanta, and then test the market for fit (ie. "Show HN"). If the market demands a less "smart" or info-dense video, we'll probably abandon the project. Our goal is to fill the perceived lack of advanced material, not clone the existing formats.

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Don't be Google
Stuart Cheshire is the godfather of the bufferbloat project.

With algorithms like fq_codel we've reduced induced network latencies by orders of magnitude...

Two examples of fq_codel in action:

100Mbit:

http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/nuc-client/results.html

Fixing a cable modem:

http://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2014/05/fixing-bufferbloat-o...

I enjoyed reading all the analogies on this thread. Stephen Hemminger and myself try to explain the latency problems involved in queueing with demos using water bottles in various configurations.

http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/Bloat-video...
Things You Didn't Know Dropbox Could Do
We can wave our hands all we want, but the known number remains for now at one.

Which I find much more philosophically and scientifically intriguing.
Current OFSTED wisdom centres around 'checks of learning'. Plus the fact that experienced teachers can read cues including facial expressions &c (sort of like Douglas Adams and deadlines, he liked the wooshing sound they made past his ears). When you have confused 10 out of 25 students, it sort of bounces off the ceiling and hits you in the mid-forehead if you have any sensitivity.

Plus homework (error analysis is really important).

PS: 'boring' is a problem. We don't push the error bars so much (upper and lower bounds and their impact on accuracy is a GCSE Maths Higher topic). Institute of Physicists in UK did a survey in 80s of members and concluded that most studied the subject at University despite 6th form work rather than because of it!
I'm not really commenting on vim. I actually had a previous comment written where I said almost exactly what you said. I'm not even saying one is better than the other, just that the author's understanding of Emacs was, IMO, less than complete.

The funny thing is both vim and Emacs have these weird learning curves: Emacs starts easier (you can actually type something; wtf is a mode?!), then vim becomes easier (modes and command composing over finger gymnastics and pages-long key bindings), then (and this is, of course, my opinion) Emacs with its programmable everything starts to shine. I wonder how much of the editor wars are simply where people are along that continuum.
Wow. I am not sure what all the downvotes are about. I am an American who is married to a Norwegian and have lived in Norway for a few years now. I never used the phrase when I lived in the US, but picked it up here.

"Ufda" is a phrase commonly used here to mean something along the lines of "that's too bad" or "how unfortunate," with undertones of sympathy (like when you would say "ouch"). The spelling is kind of besides the point, because it is generally a spoken phrase.

But if folks want to get really picky about authenticity, and apparently they do, "Ufda" is how my Norwegian friends spell it in text messages. Although, I am sure alternate spellings would be acceptable too.

I meant it here to say simply that it was too bad this guy got arrested, with undertones of sympathy and a bit of Scandinavian solidarity. Norway and Sweden are only jokingly rivals, but are actually very friendly.

Something obviously got lost in translation, probably due to the American-centric nature of this forum.
Notice that not one reply here has quoted a figure in bitcoins.
How much does carbon cost?
Row types are a way to encode type information of OOP object in a hindley milner type system. It allows you to type check the kind of ducked objects that are often featured in dynamic OOP languages like ruby and javascript. So you may specify a function on a object containing specific fields or methods without specifying a concrete type:

f :: {left: Number, right: Number} -> Number
f object = object.a + object.b

All type checked of course.

See here for more info: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~neelk/rows.pdf
Well scribd asks for registration to download. So after a little search, I've found the 2nd Edition here:

longfiles.com/jq5ti168hjsy/MFSS_Clcls_2_Thmpsn_1946.pdf.html
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Asking: Isn't the only true solution the one using Decibels for Addition? Because everyone else either just redefines or overwrites a value. Also addition of decibels cannot be disproofed as fake.
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The "right to be forgotten" ruling was new because it talked about _linking to_ stuff. But Archive Team and the Internet Archive both make actual copies, so they are covered by copyright. If your friend want his Posterous posts gone he can serve an DMCA notice on them.
Even though there is no materiel difference between the two links, Scribd is a YC company where selling access to copyrighted works is a business model, your link might get you banned.

BTW: The first edition of this book is most certainly out of copyright, Van Nostrad would had to have filed a copyright renewal in 1959 which most did not at the time.
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Mycroft, from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Comedy answer: The Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network.
Downvoting should cost downvoter too.
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You can download the book legally and without the scribd BS from here:

https://archive.org/details/calculusforpract00thom
Has it occurred to leftists and Marxists that some of us will excel in our working lives, and be rewarded appropriately? And that others will aspire to the same high living standards, but never do a job so valued in society that they'll be able to get there easily? And that there's nothing remotely unfair about that?

The answer is not regressive, protectionist trade unions, or forced wealth redistribution. The answer is to re-align people's expectations. A person who's only capable of sweeping the street will never drive a Ferrari. But there are plenty of routes out of menial work. Re-train. Re-skill. If you work hard and aspire to do better, you will do. There are countless community programmes and free training out there.

The socialist turns to wealth redistribution to make everyone equally miserable. The capitalist says: get off your ass and take responsibility for your own life, and if you do, the rewards are limitless
I think the future of education will look very different from both "lectures and interaction in classrooms" and "lectures and interaction online". The more lecture-based material is, the more successful it is to present it online, while the more interaction-based material is, the more it makes sense to be in an actual room with other students.

I'm not sure whether bricks-and-mortar universities or pure-online companies like Coursera are better positioned to transition to this hybrid approach. Universities already have it, but at a price point and class size more similar to a full on-campus program than a fully online program. They already have classrooms and TAs, but they have a lot of overhead. Online companies may actually be in a better position to figure out how to scale courses with an offline component across the country while keeping costs reasonable.
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Seriously, what kind of person does that. If Dang has access to the downvoters name, maybe he should have his downvote permissions revoked.
Emacs is nothing like TECO, though.

In some ways, vi could be considered an evolution of TECO (though I've seen no evidence that there was direct influence). They both use the same core syntax of a numeric count followed by a letter command optionally followed by an ESC-terminated argument. For example, «itextESC» is the same operation in both. (That vi calls it entering a mode rather than supplying an argument is, IMO, an impediment to understanding its compositional nature.)
You don't have to abandon vim just because of pinky strain.

You could just remap jj or jk to ESC.
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