skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked with much younger children for several years, I can assure you that most children start of with a natural inclination to learn how to read & understand math, just maybe not in the structured 'worksheet' type approach you see in some schools.

A child that enjoys baking becomes naturally motivated to learn how to understand recipes, a child that is interested in computers & games wants to learn how to recognise the symbols that start their favourite game. It is all about finding the right motivation.

For the even the most reluctant writers it can be about building up the necessary physical skills using less obvious means- lego, clay, eye droppers in the water area. Then instead of practising writing we are making road signs for our car game or writing a list of things to take on our outing.

The point is when young children are given a supportive, no pressure approach that acknowledges & responds to their interests they do have a natural inclination to learn those skills and others. They just need adults that know how to facilitate & scaffold that learning. What is more important- that a child knows how to read by 4 or a child who learns at their own pace, and is far more likely to become someone who loves reading for pleasure?
I've got too kids in primary school in the UK, and my experiences are entirely different. They've gone through schools with lovely, kind, nuturing teachers who have instilled an interest in learning. My youngest daughter delights in maths puzzled and writing bizarre and gruesome stories, for which she has been awarded and praised. My eldest daughter as just finished primary and enjoyed all of it (apart from French) and the P.E teacher recently unearthed an apparent latent talent for cricket (I couldn't catch a ball if you asked me).

Sweeping generalisations about any mode of education is bad. I was lucky in that my kids and school were well matched. But yes, we did also work hard to support the work of the school.
The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet and it contains a lot of great quotable passages. The Little Red Book contains contains quotes and proverbs from Mao. The Quran.. you can hardly say that it is boring. Your book comparison is just wrong. If you want to compare Mein Kampf to something, then Josef Stalin wrotes some tomes which are dreadful.
I was home educated. I had far more time for out of schooltime activities than my friends in schools did. I was part of the town band, the church band, the local drama school (learning, and then helping to teach the younger kids, and touring with the team and performing in schools), Karate, etc. Some of my friends had no social life outside of school at all, really. They had school, homework, TV, and sleep.

I had far more time hanging out with adults who were interested in the same kinds of things as me. Wonderful, lovely people who were interested in mechanics, drama, etc. and spent time mentoring, teaching and helping me.

I feel like I had a really good social experience, as I didn't feel any kind of peer pressure, or pressure to conform or like things (like football) that I found pointless, or to do drugs, or whatever. When I was older, I felt secure enough in who I was, and the acceptance I found in likeminded (and differently minded, but good) people, to not feel like I had to conform, or that I had to judge or conform others. We're all different, and all totally valuable.
That description does not live up to the image I had of Scandinavian prisons. Although I suppose an 8 month sentence will never be about rehabilitation and can only be used as punishment.
> Other items that arrive in the mail, such as vegan candy, won’t be handed out to him until after his release, “but at least the prison has to catalog every single thing you send me, which pisses them off,” Peter says with a wink.

Imagine if millions of people from all around the world sent Peter something every week. I think the prison would want him out of there pretty quick.
Hindenburg was certainly not a socialist. He was a conservative nationalist, for 1920th values of conservative. That is, he wanted to reestablish monarchy and had the interests of the Prussian Junkers at his heart. In addition he got his job because he was a WWI war hero.
This could be the first step towards entire 3D-printed meals.
I think you are thinking of Norway.
I don't think we're safe from politicians exploiting fear and selfishness to push dangerous policy at all.
De Bruijn sequences are cool. Last time I came across them was a fast way to do bit scans. On the older Intel Atoms, an optimised De Bruijn routine to count the numbers of bits set in a word, is competitive with the x86 intrinsic.

https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/BitScan
Finland, Sweden and Norway have fewer people and smaller economies than some cities.
> 76 points and no comments?

Given that HN contains the antithesis for every single argument that has occurred to mankind, I was especially curious to see if anyone would justify the behaviour and business ethics of Gamma, Hacking Team, etc. Lack of opinions seems weird indeed.
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Personally, if I was in prison, annoying the staff would be the last thing I wanted to do.
There's always a chance that you will. Thinking otherwise is very naive. No human is a perfect driver, everyone can get distracted, or have health problems, or somehow end up in a situation where only superhuman reflexes could help.

The only way to be sure you don't cause accident is for you to never drive, at which point you don't need car insurance, and rightly so. As you can see, the system works well - if you can't cause a car accident, you don't need a car insurance.
Here is the original article, paragraphs of which seem to have been stitched together to make the TorrentFreak version:
http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-pe...
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> 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.

If you met two 10 year olds, one learnt to read at age 4 the other at age 8- do you think you could tell the difference? Would it really matter?

Actually more than likely it would- the one who learnt at age 8 is more likely to read for pleasure. An overly formal approach in the early years can be counter productive, and often damaging. Not to mention the fact that all the time spent at age 3-4 learning to read, is time missed doing the stuff they should be: learning social skills, problem solving, independence...

See some of the vast amount of research on this by reading the section on reading for pleasure pages 16-19
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/c...
Well, there's the theory of merit pay, and then there's the practice. I have no idea how merit pay works in the schools trying it out, but my hypothesis is that the overall bonus pool is finite and small. After a few cycles of the game, so to speak, teachers realize that only N merit bonuses can ever be given out in any year. Under such conditions, striving for a merit bonus is directly competitive with your peers, and the pursuit (and awarding) of that bonus can get very political very quickly. Anyone who's ever worked at a large company with stack ranking, department-wide quotas on performance tiers, etc., will know all too well how this sort of system can produce adverse outcomes if not implemented very carefully.

Buffet's system seems like an improvement on that scheme, but it, too, can be perverted under the wrong evaluation and management systems. If the group bonuses are team or unit-based (which seems likely, given the way such systems are usually implemented in order to manage at the local/proximate level), then team leaders compete for political favor. What results is that the savviest team leaders secure the rewards for their teams, whether by currying favor with the higher-ups, or by inflating their performance evaluations. (There are ways around this, however, and they rely on the artful management of access and information symmetry.)

I'm not opposed whatsoever to the idea of giving teachers bonus pay, or hell, higher pay in general. We should be trying to make the profession more prestigious and attractive, and accordingly, raising the bar on whom we accept into the field. There seems to be something working in the Scandinavian model, which regards (and rewards) teachers sort of like how the US regards and rewards lawyers, consultants, and other professionals. Perhaps the US is just too big and too heterogeneous to make something like that work. And there is something to be said about being unable to fire underperformers (though I do think that's putting the cart before the horse). Today's reformers are focusing on culling the dead weight, or on opening up more charter schools. The problem is that most of the weight is dead weight right now. We've had decades of adverse selection into public school teaching, which has become a profession of last resort. Culling dead weight is fine, but we need to rethink the way we treat and compensate the profession if we want to attract professionals to the field.
Really cool!

One issue I see is when someone uses the same word as title, no one else can use it (as opposed to a number-based titling system where no one would care if /90289432 was in use). Also someone else can peruse other people's gifs by just checking random titles (perhaps a non-issue, though).
I burned my finger with my alarm clock
The standard library is not being frozen as a whole at 1.0, we are only providing strong backwards compatibility guarantees about the language itself. There are precise markers and compiler diagnostics that individual parts of the standard library will use to convey their stability properties (including graceful deprecation warnings).
He probably made the card analogy to cover the real way he came up with the algorithm
Germany had similar claims on some of that land it grabbed and might have been able to hold on to: notably the Sudetenland. So Russia's historical claim on the Crimea doesn't really break the analogy.
You may be able to find a specific definition of genocide, which makes that statement true. But in a very narrow definition of genocide as targeted extermination policy, as well as in a very broad definition, where a large part of the people who died in WWII would count against Hitler, this is not true.

For a discussion on the historiography see
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/10/hitler-...
From the little that I know of Elixir, the overloaded methods with pattern matching on the arguments is Elixir-ish.
An American firm in Europe operates according to local laws, I'm not sure how an American attorney would be of much use here.
It is probably a good idea to think twice before you believe a source that says our criminal justice system is all fun and joy. The Scandinavian system is good, but I still don't think being in prison here is easy.

(Not to mention that Sunde is pretty close to being a political prisoner, if you consider the details of how the case was carried out).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#Construction_by_Suez...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal#Later_developments
I'm not sure what your point is? If you are talking population AND area you missed a number of countries too.

Incidentally the population of the Tokyo agglomeration (39 million) isn't far off Spain (46 million) or Ukraine (45 million) and is greater than Poland (38 million) as well as much greater than Australia (22 million). All that proves is that there are some cities with very large populations.
I'm not a Phoenix pro, but I believe it is actually doing something similar to what you're proposing.

http://slides.com/chrismccord/rise-of-the-phoenix#/7

Here is a slidedeck from the creator (@chris_mccord) explaining a bit more about the router. It looks to be doing simply pattern matching.
As a European, I was surprised, too. But the key thing to remember here is that he pissed off some very influential people, so it's likely they stuck him in a maximum security facility with a lot of hardened criminals and some instructions to make his life as difficult as possible. Which is par for the course when you're an activist I guess, and a borderline-but-not-quite political prisoner. If you're someone who gives the authorities a hard time, they'll in turn give you a hard time, such is the nature of political corruption.

However, it's important to keep in mind that his sentence is only 10 months, which may not even be served fully. Those months are going to be bad, but the guy will return to his normal life pretty soon. He's a community hero, and financially taken care of, so there's probably not a lot to be worried about in the mid to long term.
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USSD has very limited support outside Asia and US.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2drhe7/eo_yet_a...
Silicon Valley: the truth about living with the IT crowd
De Bruin sequences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence
I seem to recall research claming that vOICe users already had very impressive results after 50-100 hours of use/training, so I would guess that it's worth the time.

Human echolocation is absolutely balling, what else can I say?
Correction: let me google that for you

http://lmgtfy.com/
Except that's not how multiple cores are normally used.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2dq1bl/google_t...
[1] looks a pretty reasonable overview of the research on homework effectiveness. The meta-analysis is quite supportive of homework as an effective way of improving results:

With only rare exceptions, the relationship between the amount of homework students do and their achievement outcomes was found to be positive and statistically significant. Therefore, we think it would not be imprudent, based on the evidence in hand, to conclude that doing homework causes improved academic achievement.

[1] http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar0...
Controlgroup? I don't think science means what you think it means. The finding that I am referring to is an observational study. There might not have been a "control group" with exactly zero time in school, but plenty of datapoints, and the "dosage effect" is undeniable. That is scientific enough.

"Some argue [about cause of ADHD]" reveals that you just quote the scientific method if you want to argue a point, and don't really understand it. ADHD has been established as a syndrome, and about as firmly as it gets in medicine.

"Present evidence" includes ADHD being a consistent syndrome in Neuroanatomy, EEG, fMRI, genetic studies, and psychological testing. There are even successful treatments for it. The most important factor in ADHD is genetic, other factors include early injuries, environmental toxins, alcohol exposure in the womb, low birth weights - very clear evidence that there are causes for ADHD that a school system can't be changed to prevent.

What kind of evidence do you need for a "clear conclusion", if you don't accept decades of research, involving hundreds of thousands, if not millions of cases?
How would they ever find out?
Hitler used very simple formula that had been often repeated: You have a nation of people defeated and stripped of wealth and pride. A leader comes up with a extremely strongly held view that these people are the greatest thing on the Earth and they will rise from the ashes. He quickly gains followers, boldly breaks rules and obtains initial victories that fuels his next moves in self-feeding way.

Mein Kampf actually does not have any plans or even hints for the atrocities that Hitler's regime performed later on. There are few words of Hitler's dislike for jews here and there where he basically complains that they are not as sophisticated as Germans, they smell, have unusual rituals, they look different etc. He then complains about they controlling major outlets of newspapers and art. Finally he discloses his real reason for dislike: He believed that jews supported socialist party that Hitler hated truly bottom of his heart, perhelps far more than jews.

One should not underestimate frustration of German people in those days. After WW-I, the peace treaty essentially put Germany in the dumpter. They can't have their army, Austria was broken apart, country needed to pay huge sums as part of the treaty and entire nation was under extreme financial depression. It was difficult to get a loaf of bread during that time for an average person. German people though their nation was sold off to winners of World War by their monarch. They thought they had been forever relegated as defeated people from who winners of the war stole everything. This was quite opposite to their belief of Germany as the greatest nation before the WW-I started.

Hitler promised to make bold moves including breaking the post WW-I treaty and payments all together. He promised to throw away monarch and socialist party which were favoring the status-quo. It was little surprise that he won hands down in elections.

The interesting part of Mein Kamf is that Hitler was rather regular guy without any political connections and even desires during the early years. He had bad experiences with members of socialist party which combined with his belief that nation was being sold by them and monarchs, lead him to rebel without caring about consequences including going to prison. This gave him publicity and outlet to write articles in newspapers as well as his autobiography. This in turn earned him strong supporters and even more exposure. Rest is the history.
Russia has strategic as well as a tactical nuclear weapons. They have repeatedly stated that they will use tactical weapons to make up for any shortcoming in conventional forces.

An example could be nuking a large staging area or aircraft carriers. There's nothing irrational about it, once war progresses this far.
Except if you consider that ADHD is a consistent syndrome with extremely predictable negative consequences.

I believe this attitude about ADHD being some kind of "conformity issue" is almost as dangerous as "vaccines cause autism". It certainly is about as wrong...
It's shrinking, but not anywhere near Yubari. Here is the population statistic: [1]. Similar things will happen, but it's not there right now.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonneberg#mediaviewer/Datei:Po...
but those are hosts that I would not expect privacy aware people to use!
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> Kids of above average intelligence with the right parents can do well with unschooling, but then they also do well with regular schooling.

That is not true, and is kind of what this whole discussion is about. My impression is that there might be some sort of happy middle that isn't too damaged by regular schooling, but towards both ends of the bell curve are kids who are poorly served by it. Smart kids are often bored to tears, lose intrinsic motivation to learn, lose out on the opportunity to make good use of their youthful energy and developing brains, lose the opportunity to REALLY LEARN and GET STUFF DONE because they're wasting all their time in classes being talked at by idiots. Or at least, that's what it seems like to some of them looking back (including me).

I think you're needlessly universalizing this. Nobody is saying that EVERYONE MUST unschool. People are advocating that unschooling is a good OPTION for many kids, not that we need to dismantle the entire existing school system to make everyone switch to the new system. If we consider unschooling as merely an OPTION for kids/families that seem well suited to it, while there still ALSO exists the traditional option for everyone else, do your objections mostly go away?

Why does it bother you if kids who "can do well with unschooling" in fact do get to pick that option?
What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?

"The user sees the “cute animal videos” he expects, according to Citizen Lab, but the malicious code exploits a flaw in Adobe’s Flash video player to take control of the computer."
Which is why it probably doesn't make sense to give corporations a vote, therefore it seems unjust to tax them. However corporations are easy to tax despite all the hullaballoo about tax avoidance so I doubt governments are going to give up on it any time soon. Taxing entities that can't vote is basically free money.
I'd second that. Make it clean, easy for the eye and it's far more usable.

But great tool nonetheless. Props to you!
Bezos’s law signals it’s time to ditch the data center
> We should avoid making Elixir a Ruby-on-Erlang when it has the potential to be so much more.

Elixir is fool-proof from turning it into a "Ruby on Erlang" simply because it embraces and improves on Erlang's programming model. Some libraries are ported over from Ruby. But there are also libraries ported from other languages and libraries that have been written for Elixir specifically.

Just a heads up: please don't make hasty generalisations based on a single project you've seen.
Tanzania? Not so sure. What I've seen in Dar is that the way to access mobile money for instance is to dial 150XX# to access services. SIM Toolkit Applications on the contrary present as regular phone applications (albeit limited by the SIM tooklit capabilities).
Until then CloudShield had sold its CS-2000 device, a multipurpose network and content processing product, primarily to the Air Force and other Pentagon customers, who used it to manage and defend their networks, not to attack others

Given that the NSA must get the hardware for QUANTUM somewhere, this statement seems remarkably strong/naive.
There's certainly an argument for research on this topic. The core theory of open source quality is "many eyes" and in the similar case of Wikipedia, it works very well: much better than Encyclopaedia Britannica with it's long-term expert curation. Whether or not it works for open source largely depends on the competence of the individuals vs the complexity of the bugs. However, most bugs are caused by trivial errors that just aren't easy to spot and happen to pass the test cases. That's where a high-volume, low quality process like crowd sourcing can be very effective: someone, somewhere will spot those stupid errors, provided you have sufficient eyes on the code.

The idea that people should be discouraged from working on FOSS projects unless they plan to commit to one project is against the principles of open source, namely that it is open. In fact, if this were done over the course of a 3-4 year course, it's likely that each student would stay with one project anyway, and very likely they'd continue contributing after graduation. I agree that a "one off" exercise would just lead to an influx of inexperienced coders and "do my homework" questions on mailing lists, but that's not what I had in mind at all. Ultimately, any university implementing such a programme should be thinking about the net benefit to the community and doing things like penalising students for filing duplicate bug reports to mitigate against possible negative consequences.
The reason is that roots of communism and nazism are different. Marx wrote Communist Manifesto in 1848 and it influenced working class movement in many ways, which, one can argue, has led to several good things in society. It also influenced the horrors you mentioned. Nazism, on the otherhand, is largely associated with Hitler, although it has roots in pan-Germanism and nationalism in general.

Thus, communism is associated with a wider spectrum of ideas and events than nazism, and because of that expressing some forms of communist ideas is tolerated in the modern society better than expressing the Nazi ideology.
>so it's likely they stuck him in a maximum security facility with a lot of hardened criminals and some instructions to make his life as difficult as possible

The prison is ranked as a "lower security class" prison (Class 2). With 1 being highest and 3 lowest. Considering that he dodged his sentence for several years it is not unreasonable to have him in the slightly higher security prison. Additonally I believe the class 3 prisons are "open prisons" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_prison ).
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