skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I DM'ed 3rd edition and 4th edition campaigns. The author of this article said that 4th edition made combat much longer and that's not true. Once my players got up to speed with the new system, our combat encounters ran about twice as fast as 3.5 did. I also had the impression that 4.0 had been designed with writing computer games in mind (whereas 3.5 would have been a nightmare to code into a game).
That is your opinion, but many religions are based on that notion.
Multiple Single Page Applications' Application
Pavlok: A personal coach on your wrist
Multiple Single Page Applications' Application

There more and more single page applicaitons, to my point of view, it's time to discuss M-SPA!
Examples are taken from Twitter's live stream.

You're not even reading the documentation, you're just searching for reasons to call me an "ASCII neanderthal" over a library that an ASCII neanderthal would have no use for.

And I fail to see how the default settings being able to fix 'L&amp;amp;Atilde;&amp;amp;sup3;pez' is anything but a resounding success.
> Everything I learned felt abstract and standardized. It was a conditional knowledge that existed in separation from the richly textured world just beyond the school’s plate-glass windows, which, for all their transparency, felt like the bars of a prison cell.

Tell that story to a kid in Africa who has to walk miles to get to school and the school might not have electricity or water and so on. They would say "So, you're telling me, you have free transportation to school, teachers, computers in ever classroom, air conditioned rooms, and you choose let your children learn to carve 'beautiful long bows' instead?"

Sorry that is how I feel. I can't shake the feeling that this is elitist. Like the article puts (as if pre-emptively trying to defend against a counter argument) this is like living some "Jeffersonian fantasies" -- that is exactly what I see here.

At the end of the day they are dooming these children to live in an isolated sheltered bubble. Which would have worked great in early settler days. Not today. Today unless they keep in that bubble they will be controlled and owned by those that understand how compounding interest rate works, how computers works, how the legal system works, how lobbying works, how quarks work, how genes work and so on.

Now with that said, it is their right to do it and it is nice to have that choice. This is what makes it great to live in this country. I personally think they are a little bit crazy for doing what they are doing.
I couldn't accuse you of hating fun, but I could accuse you of hating thorough documentation. Would you prefer I hadn't told you about the one case in six million where the library fails? And that failure is really an amazing coincidence when you look into it; change any one of those line-drawing characters and it'll be fine.

Keep in mind that this is a library that finds emoji that has been damaged by "serious" software written by, let's call them "Basic Multilingual Plane neanderthals", and puts it back. There's your fun.
Interesting claim: The creation of strong social bonds, possibly in conjunction with Deming's “plan, do, check, act” cycle, is essential to successful change in schools. (And more successful than extrinsic methods like vouchers or charter, or technological approaches.)

[Disclaimer: I work for an ed-tech company. This reflects my views, not theirs.]
in 2010??? v2/v3 sims were already popular in 2008, and its impossible to clone those (extract ki and imsi)

unless sims in brazil were that outdated/insecure at the time
If I were to speculate, I'd say RoryGlyphic is younger than you.
Didn't mean to spread fear but looks like if the staff are using it then maybe they are okay with it.

Do you have plans to monetize it? How are you paying for the hosting.
There's one very important way in which Fascism was very anti-conservative, and that's in the sense that they literally believed in violent revolution to overthrow the existing order and install an ideologically-driven regime. That part is almost literally cribbed from communism, although the motivating ideologies behind the two are different.

Modern American conservatism, especially lately, is almost exclusively the boring and literal type of conservatism--the type that talks about traditional values and the merits of the status quo and says "no" to all these new liberal initiatives, ranging from gay marriage to Obamacare. It doesn't have the desire to overthrow the existing order of things, nor the ideological fervor to know what to do if it did.
39 here. Held titles such as CTO, Director, Architect and have always managed to spend at least 75% of my time coding.

Now I'm just a programmer and enjoying it. Thankfully I'm at a company that values good developers so you don't have to jump to management for that pay increase.
An eloquent summary.
How do you know, how the next "Hitler" will look like? Do you think a "Hitler" has to have a funny mustache and behave like in the caricatures?

Has a totalitarian state always to come with a crazy person? How about a group of people, how about a system, where you don't see "one big dictator"?

The people in the 30s also did not foresee another big dictator rising. Other parties in Germany for example thought, they could "tame" Hitler.
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How do you know the next Hitler will come from the right wing? Left wing leaders have also racked up big death tolls purging and reordering society under the guise of progressive ideals.

Mao's leadership led to the death of 45 million:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/m...

Stalin killed an estimated 20 million:

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-kil...

Pol Pot killed 1.4 million+:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
>Tell that story to a kid in Africa who has to walk miles to get to school and the school might not have electricity or water and so on. They would say "So, you're telling me, you have free transportation to school, teachers, computers in ever classroom, air conditioned rooms, and you choose let your children learn to carve 'beautiful long bows' instead?"

This is a bit of a false dichotomy. You can learn pretty much whatever you want without being locked in a brutalist concrete box with no windows with dozens of other restless children.

Honestly, I think I would have learned way more (and way faster) if I had just avoided elementary school and was given the latitude to study at my own pace (and maybe do some outdoorsy stuff like that mentioned in the OP). It wasn't until middle school that "normal" schooling (being locked in a room for hour-long sessions) became even remotely useful to me.

Of course, a lot of this is about finding a learning style that works; there is no universal learning style that is good for everyone. Which is why I agree with

>it is their right to do it and it is nice to have that choice.
Not having lived in such smaller tighter knit communities, some people "don't even know what they are missing" so to speak. In other words, it is a totally alien experience.

The "village" though has its dark side and that is everyone is in everyone's business. That goes directly in the face of American individualism.

There is also "social" and "social". That is "social" in a context of a hobby or a club. Or it is programming club, or samba dancing club, or painting class at the local art centre. One can go to those yet still keep most of their non-group-specific life private. Like for example one might attend the local ham radio club and everyone would know they how many words per minute in morse code one can type but they might not be aware that the person's wife just died and they are about to lose the house and so on.

Churches and tight knit communities with all their downsides sort of force and reveal stuff at that depth and are also able to influence it (for better or for worse).
Easier to program (at least for me it is easier to understand a piece of CUDA code) and there is a lot of good documentation for CUDA.

Another plus for CUDA is that it lets you use C++.
I remember tracking down a bad BGP route advertisement in the 90s attributed to Cox. IIRC they ended up pulling a big chunk of some country's traffic into one of their routers. Realized then that the Internet was a fragile thing.
In the public health space, these SIM applications on programmable SIM cards (pass-through sandwiched with parallel carrier SIM cards) are very useful for data collection: See Medic Mobile and http://vimeo.com/45532467
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ict4chw/5WKV3c6RfEU
Canada has a large, defensible landmass, vast oil reserves, and cutting edge technology. North Korea has a huge army and nuclear weapons. Together, they form a powerful adversary.
Agreed on the overseas residence, but only California is known to be a jerk about this. As an overseas resident myself...it would really suck to own a house in California.
Would that not bias your rules towards decoding only the errors which are made by all existing Twitter clients (of which I understand there are relatively few)?

Anyway, now we’re just arguing in circles. I said that the library would guess that “&amp;” was HTML encoded. You said “fix_entities is a parameter. It's not guessing, you told it.” I said that the example given has no such parameter. You then turned around and said that it was a success that it guessed correctly, but my point was that it was, indeed, guessing, and might, therefore, guess wrong.

I don’t want to call you an ASCII neanderthal, really, and I’m sorry I did, it’s just that your library helps the actual ASCII neanderthals from having to bother with evolving. This is my main complaint about this library. It will probably be used by them, reflexively, to decode everything, even when the encoding is known, and therefore introduce (admittedly relatively small amounts of) data corruption (but these things have a tendency to crop up when you least wanted them). Whereas if your library was not used, users would have to think about what decoding to use, use it, and not introduce data corruption.

Also, I have some misgivings about a one-size-fits-all solution of guessing encodings – I guess that it would never really work in quite the painless way most your users imagine. To solve this, I advocated a user-customizable training approach, which would, for each user, be the best possible one for their use case. It would also have the beneficial side effect of forcing the users to actually think about their data and what encodings it was likely to have and in what circumstances, thus making them evolve to Homo Unicodus. ☺ Of course, I could be wrong about this, but my principal worry about this library, as stated above, remains.
>I'm pretty sure that's closer to 4 or 5 for most kids who grow up in families from the Cornell / John Hopkins pedigree

There's a lot of evidence that learning to read early can be detrimental in the long run. More and more of the educated parents I know are no longer focusing on teaching their preschoolers to read.

Edit: see my comment further down this reply chain for links to evidence.
Absolutely amazing. I wonder if it can also print gummy candy in whatever shape.

Even more crazy would be if a 3d printer could actually print the molecules to create any type of material, even sugar.
I think Mearls said somewhere that the staggered release was because their copy editing pipeline couldn't handle three releases at once.
"But charter students do about the same, over all, as their public school counterparts" -- what a pathetic liar. There are redundant empirical evidence supports that charter students perform better.

This author is totally progressive ideology-minded.
Has anyone given this a try yet? Any experience with vpn.sh?
Generative testing in JavaScript
Thanks. The between figure 2 (the one shown in the article) and figure 3 which is the same map controlled for income is interesting. As a Montanan I take it to mean that we get more happiness for our buck here.
OK so any large nation that isn't Russia, China, Great Britain or the United States.
It's a different game.
As a urban parent who plans to unschool our three kids, I think this article only gives a single perspective to the unschool movement - namely a rustic one, which happens to be very popular with this movement.

What is overshadowed in the article, largely because it is an outdoorsy magazine, is that the philosophy behind unschooling is the difference rather than the specific skills learned.

Case in point, my kids will be getting hands on experience with robotics and computing as early as they can read and form abstractions - which includes mathematics and physics education. The distinction is that we will teach at the pace of their understanding and curiosity rather than set milestones in the form of testing.

I think your metaphor generalizes too widely however I do agree that done right, unschooling truly is a rich mans school (time, effort and materiel) because it is so narrowly tailored.
because it's more of a community project now. if you want stuff on thunderbird fixed, you're gonna have to jump in yourself.
>He says they read fine, but reading is something that must be done almost every day for years to get to a highly literate point. Literacy and reading comprehension are essential skills to navigating the modern world.

Almost all of my reading was done on my own time. School work was a detriment to the reading ability of me and my siblings. I read for fun, and by forcing me to spend time reading things I didn't want to, I spent less time reading overall.
I'm skeptical about nootropics. The "nootropics of yesterday" weren't good, and I think the same will be shown of today's. Exercise and good diet are better, and there is no danger.
> There's a lot of evidence that learning to read early can be detrimental in the long run. More and more of the educated parents I know are no longer focusing on teaching their preschoolers to read.

That's horrifying. Can't wait for the rest of us to have to clean up their experiment.
Somewhat off-topic, but every time I visit a FastCo page the only thing I see immediately is the slideshow at the top of the page. I often don't even bother scrolling down, because it doesn't seem that there's anything more to the link. This seems like a usability problem to me. I would imagine that it would result in a lot of articles that go unread. Depending how they count pageviews, though, it's probably quite effective at generating ad revenue.
How about let me google it for you?
There's also a good video about that:
http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_...
Very neat! This is actually an implementation of "spaced repetition", a learning technique that's been employed for many decades. The Pimsleur foreign language courses, famous for their efficacy, use it.

For folks less interested in injecting this into their terminal, check out Anki. It implements spaced repetition as flash cards, and automatically computes how often to show a card based on how often you say you already know the material.
Why I quit setting goals and started getting more done
Re #1, I don't know what config it uses but `:set guifont=*` will give you a font picker (as in any guivim, afaik).
Having lost the plot of your other argument, you fall back on the time-honored low-effort HN comment, "Isn't this useless?"

Your questions could be answered, but not by me. Plonk.
Yeah, so 4x3=12 years of relevant experience. The subject in question is still looking for first job out of college.
Oddly, there are many more video games that use the 3.5 rules (D&D Online, Neverwinter Nights 2, etc.) and only one that uses the 4th Edition rules (Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale).
The quality of the decision made by either party does not invalidate that capitalism is a collection of voluntary activity. It's when government is involved that there is restriction on that activity, which frequently has unintended effects. If there is inadequate planning for future demand then prices may certainly vary more than is considered acceptable. Poor planning on a utility's part is not the fault of capitalism, but which seems to be the major point of the article and the original poster. Indeed, selling future contracts is generally viewed as a good way to stabilize future prices as it gives a signal as to general (market) consensus - if insurance for some activity is considered expensive then it should tell even the minimal of planners that an activity has unevaluated risk. An inability to act properly on such signals does indeed indicate poor planning on one party's part.
Why haven't schools adopted the business model of "hiring great people and letting them do what they do best"? Pay them well, give them support, infrastructure, and enough oversight to help them resolve their issues quickly and effectively...and then just trust them to be productive and successful.

Is it a lack of funding that stops this from being a reality? A lack of qualified applicants? Is there a good reason this model wouldn't work?
It looks like the happiness map is at county level or higher, where as any useful map/data trying to break education and income apart would use census block group or tract at the largest.

imagine philadelphia county which has some of very highly educated areas such as around the University of Pennsylvania. But the overall education of Philadelphia is quite poor.

im just saying that any attempt to link education with happiness data at the county level is somewhat useless for most of the country.
For what it's worth, I was unschooled, and I scored a perfect 800 on the critical reading section of the SAT. I didn't spend nearly as much time outdoors as these kids, though; I gravitated toward computers from a young age.
Yes. The memory space is very limited, which is why you cant code with String, int, or garbage collection. As mentioned in the video, the dev environment is limited and it allows to compile complex applications to a very small binary.
Not to be pedantic, but the notion of launching "12 startups in 12 months" is ridiculous.

I am sure you mean "12 apps in 12 months".

A startup is a company that is positioned for high-growth (both in headcount and user count). See PG's post on Startups.

What I have seen here are apps.

Please don't mistake me, what the OP has done is pretty cool and hard in and of itself. Getting all of that attention for all of your projects is no easy feat.

But 4 startups it is not.
No version is illegal in Germany. You may buy it, you may own it, you may read it, you may sell it.
It seems everyone would be happy if the annotate button didn't overlap the highlighted text.

Would it be possible to move the button just to the right of the highlighted block? Then speed-readers don't get hindered, and the annotate functionality remains usable.
Fair... I don't yell at rivers.

But by your same logic the number one thing isn't banning drivers and replacing them with self driving cars (have you ever written perfectly, 1000% bug-free code?), it's banning all movement faster than walking speed -- and even then requiring people to wear crash helmets and blinkers and "blind sport information systems"...

There is no perfect approach. But I don't think that insurance companies doing this is even on the 'better' spectrum.
It doesn't solve people: not turning on their lights, not merging correctly, talking on the phone, keeping their cars in safe operating condition...

Yes, paying attention to a few numbers and alerting people helps -- but if you want real improvements, you have to tackle the source.

Much like trying to drive on a highway of people who's sole purpose is to "achieve the best MPG EVER!!!!" this encourages hyper-focus in the wrong direction.
Sounds like you'd be happier reading it somewhere else.
So. What's New Zealand's best kept secret?
Flytenow implies the FAA is responding to them, but if you read the letter, this response is actually to a request from one of their competitors, AirPooler.
Example of Local Privilege Escalation in Linux – Nebula
Demo of NEBULA from exploit-exercises.com(Capture The Flag) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zadrpq6Zac
> Nothing cooler than rich kids taking all their advantages

The author's father worked for the state department of education and his mother was a substitute teacher. What evidence do you have that they are rich as you claim?

> I shouldn't be so sarcastic about child abuse

Child abuse is a serious accusation. Please state the evidence you have that there is child abuse and the steps you have taken to report your personal knowledge of the situation to the state authorities.
In my original response I stated that National Socialism wasn't actually comprised of left wing socialists, but rather hard right fascists, and go on and on about how conservatives completely misrepresent this stuff all the time, and in the very next response to that comment, you do the exact same thing that I was lamenting?

Ah yes the great "leftist" Mao, so "left" wing, he purged everyone who disagreed with him (McCarthy?). Ah yes Stalin, "left" wing extraordinaire with his extermination and enslavement of Russian minorities (The Conservative American South?). Pol Pot, such a "left" wing hippy he was a jack booted military thug (Brownshirts?).
The fundamental problem with the elementary school system in the west is that kids are given no room for self-direction whatsoever; school for them is de facto a part-time prison or "labor" camp. As a result they are trained by association to dread to that which the system purports to champion: learning, culture, reading, knowledge, even any demonstration of intelligence.

It takes a combination of luck, will and positive external influences (good parents, a mentor) to overcome that. But most kids don't.

Which is why it seems to me that "setting kids free", in the sense of giving them significant latitude for self-direction in their activities and education, is a great principle. The key problem of education is motivation. Most kids are smart and fast learners, the only difficulty in getting them to learn is to get them interested (even better: passionate). The only way that can happen is by giving them choice, freedom. The opportunity to exercise free will. Let's guide kids, not force them to sit and listen passively (they won't).
I don't get it. You worked on your product and startup. How did that work out?

If you wanted to get degrees, a PhD even, then you would have known that you had to be a very good student.

So you made the decision to go down the startup path. Why not make that successful? Lots of successful founders either never went to university or dropped out. Take inspiration from them.
> I can't shake the feeling that this is elitist.

It's not elitist to acknowledge the faults of a current system even thought it might be better than others.
I left Portland for New Orleans two months ago (I originate from Cleveland) and I couldn't be happier. Without question there is a more cohesive sense of community. People get offended in my neighborhood when I walk past them without saying hello. I barely knew my neighbors in North Portland except when we were banding together to keep tabs on the local heroin dealer ( and that was the most I'd spoken to neighbors compared to the three other places I'd lived in the area) Now only if I could grow royal poinciana here consistently....

My friends in SF (Noe Valley) don't know their neighbors at all and have no plans to change that state of affairs. I find this unconscionable.
feedparser and the often-paired-with chardet library also approach this problem. The feedparser library has a series of fallbacks it uses to attempt to figure out the character encoding of a feed (finally bailing out and assuming windows-1252 if nothing else works). The chardet library is also quite good at guessing the intended encoding of a chunk of text, and will report its best guesses and confidence in them.
Fun, but I'm disappointed that I'm limited to touch instead of clicking on my touchscreen laptop (Lenovo Yoga 13). This only seems to be an issue when I use Chrome/Opera.