skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So are you saying that when climate change happens, if it's as bad as many scientists fear, then modern US conservatives will take up the mantle of "largest genocide in history"?
How can I generate a private key, though? (EDIT: Never mind, you just type a passphrase when you send an email. You can send me messages at hi+3mrw9gpkAN1Uc5ZUFxdNtxQhUiEvsWE1GveBkzNKYvqF@stavros.io)

I can see this having problems with revocation and password changes, unfortunately. Namely, if your passphrase is compromised, you're screwed.
I'm curious. Could you point me to some links? Searching those keywords did not yield good results.
> but in politics the outcome is all that matters, not the intent

And where is this written as Canon?

Politics is also performed with imperfect predictions of the future. If policies pursued in good faith result in the death of millions, the people implementing them are not as responsible as those for whom death is the policy.

Now, if their intent was to starve the masses to further their goals, you would have a point.
I'll wager you're one of these guys who uses a "framework" for your website without batting an eyelid, or reading every line of code...
> From your original comment:

>> It proves that people are competent to treat themselves, the real meaning of virtual therapy.

> This is simply not supported.

Certainly not, when taken out of context as you have done. Here's the original context, with the parts you deleted:

>> A virtual shrink may sometimes be better than the real thing

> It's true, and this speaks volumes about the value of therapy as a profession. The reason? It proves that people are competent to treat themselves, the real meaning of virtual therapy.

Now read carefully: IF "A virtual shrink may sometimes be better than the real thing", the remark to which I directly replied, THEN "It proves that people are competent to treat themselves".
Consilience by E.O. Wilson is excellent.
Got a newer reference than Benezet 1936?

Got a reference where they tested it with good math teachers?

Has the study been replicated in a country with a different (better) math tradition, such as France?
We've officially decided not to implement Pointer Events in blink.…
Programming in Elixir with the Phoenix Framework
Looks like they lay down a thin layer of sugar and bind it with an inkjet head. So they can print layer by layer in full color.
I fail to see how this is logically sound. Let's look at this by way of analogy:

I create a new pain reliever; let's call it SuperTylenol. Would it be logically sound for me to state that if it is sometimes more effective than regular Tylenol, then people have the ability to relieve their pain without it?

You may be able to say that it suggests such results, but it'd be incredibly intellectually dishonest to say that it proves such a thing.

Again, the science doesn't support the weight of your statements, as far as I can tell.
Reminds me of Elm: http://elm-lang.org/
Example: http://elm-lang.org/edit/examples/Intermediate/Pong.elm
> In addition, the human brain doesn't fully develop until around 25, so your judgment at 16 is fundamentally flawed.

Even if the premise is true, that seems an unreasonable conclusion. On what possible basis could one describe the judgement of a pre-25 brain as "fundamentally flawed"? What makes you consider an old, decrepit, no-longer-developing brain optimal? "Finished growing" doesn't mean "best", it just means "finished growing".

Jewish law considers a man "an adult" at 13, a woman "an adult" at 12. 16-year-olds are perfectly capable of adult behavior, regardless of the degree to which we choose to coddle them in the modern era.

When we treat kids as rational beings capable of mature reasoning, they are more likely to act as such.
>> but in politics the outcome is all that matters, not the intent

> And where is this written as Canon?

In the minds of the survivors.

> If policies pursued in good faith result in the death of millions, the people implementing them are not as responsible as those for whom death is the policy.

History doesn't see it that way. People don't see it that way. Hitler and Stalin are equally reviled, even though Hitler's genocide was intentional and Stalin's was a side effect of "good intentions" -- a Communist revolution.

> Now, if their intent was to starve the masses to further their goals, you would have a point.

Like Mao and Pol Pot? Both were able to explain their programs as "for the good of the people", and both pursued their programs long after their effect was perfectly clear.
The coal industry in Germany mostly happened in hughe cities of the Ruhr metropolitan area, and these are far from dying. There might be small villages in eastern Germany turning into ghost towns, but this is a mostly unheard phenomenon. There is no german Detroit. Probably because there are much fewer places to move to instead.
Japan are part of the west.
I can't speak for anyone else, but when I say 'the west', I'm not talking about geography. I mean cultures that value economic success above most everything else. Besides, they're only 'west' when the US is on the left side of your projection of the globe. It's a useful and well understood colloquialism so I use it.

PS: I'm not saying economy is to blame, but the idea that there's exactly one way to be successful (make money in this case), given enough time and belief, will eventually devolve and create dysfunctional systems like those we see in schools today where individuality is quickly eroded because a 'higher' goal is being chased: pass your tests so you can progress to college (or whatever) and then become a success.
Step one: learn the same stuff, in the same way as everyone else (in an environment that, by design or not, encourages conformity), step 2: ???, step 3: PROFIT.
Reminds me of Elm: http://elm-lang.org/ Example: http://elm-lang.org/edit/examples/Intermediate/Pong.elm
> I hope that every year of my life, I look back, and laugh at the things I 'knew' 10 years ago.

You know what? I never did do that, and I'm starting to think I never will.

There may be many 20-year-olds that "knows" many things (in the same scare quotes you indended), but there are a lot of 30- and 40-year-olds who do that as well. I have a growing suspicion these may all be the same people...
I doubt they'll volunteer for that label. Maybe they'll be viewed as the Catholic Church is now viewed with respect to the trial of Galileo in 1633.
Nearly everyone reading went to school. We know it sucked for us, why should we not believe it sucks now? I know far, far more about primary and secondary school than I do about almost any other industry, I spent thousands of hours in it
I usually only check "Ask HN" and read the top stories posted by Hacker News on Twitter.
In order to read you need to be exposed to books and also somebody to read with you until you can do it on your own. Since there is no instinctual human drive to seek out books you need to be guided in that direction and encouraged to push through the pain barrier because it's quite boring to start with. This is basically what the job of a teacher is.

It may well be true that kids with educated parents can do well in a loosely structured environment with freedom to explore, but these kids tend to outperform whatever the education structure. Kids who grow up in deprived areas without educated role models risk being "educated" by criminal gangs.
Kind of peculiar that I just watched the Zero Theorem tonight. Christopher Waltz talks to a computerized shrink in the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zmDElFUUBw
Sure, if they were allowed to swear and fight in class they might not have skipped so much but what would that achieve besides disrupting the kids who actually wanted to learn?
> You may be able to say that it suggests such results, but it'd be incredibly intellectually dishonest to say that it proves such a thing.

I laid it out for you explicitly -- IF, THEN. Stop excising a phrase from a full context. IF the antecedent, THEN the consequent.

> Again, the science doesn't support the weight of your statements, as far as I can tell.

"The science"? What science is that? We're discussing a field so bereft of science that the chair of the NIMH has recently ruled that the DSM may no longer be used as the basis for scientific research proposals, for the simple reason that it has no scientific content:

http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/05/nimh-wont-follow-psychiat...
Good, tell me more about these feelings.
> You can have endless domain knowledge, and not an original thought in your head.

I hear this a lot, and don't think it's at all true. It's pretty difficult to get to phd-level background in an area without having some thoughts no one else has explored yet. In fact I'm not sure it's even possible.
That's because of the twisted market government has created. In the real world, most roads are built on taxpayers money and police is paid for using tax money of the very same people they beat up. But is this real world a place you want to live in? If I don't like how I myself or my children are being educated (protected, treated), I should be able to stop paying and go buy someone else's services immediately. Without that, the feedback loop is broken and the system stops working properly.
I find absolutely no reason to believe those people have any sort of psychological problems. The guy writes eloquently and coherently. The arguments he makes are rational, albeit, in my opinion, not compelling.

The question is: How much freedom do parents have to influence their children's upbringing. This is clearly a political issue, and seems to have been settled in the US in a way that gives parents a lot of choice. To label somebody who actually uses these liberties as mentally ill is absolutely disgusting.
It would be fun to watch two copies of ELIZA interrogating each other. :)
There seems to be a bug where if you try to create a gif at the same starting point but with a different length than one you've already created for the same video, it only ever returns the original length gif.
Paying in tangibles for intangibles is a very subjective thing and needs to be done wisely.
The "Symphony of Functions" example is worth dissecting, since it's a good example of when NOT to use an Option monad.

The code computes sqrt(-1 * (log(-1 * (20 * 2)))^2).

The potentially failing functions are log and sqrt. Failure is determined by checking if the result is a "normal" floating point value. But 'double' and 'square' may also produce non-normal values, e.g. squaring a large float may produce infinity. So why doesn't double() return an Option as well?

Furthermore, checking if a value is normal is not correct. If x slightly exceeds 1, then log x is a small positive value, i.e. a denormal, and therefore log() will incorrectly report failure.

Floating point arithmetic already has a serviceable "Option" type in its non-finite values (NaN and infinities), so the best way to write this code is the naive way:

let result: f64 = sqrt(pow(-1 * (log(-1 * (20 * 2))), 2));
let success: bool = is_finite(result);

The Option monad only makes this code longer, slower, and buggier.
What about music?

http://phatgifs.com/?v=http%3A%2F%2Fshare.gifyoutube.com%2Fl...

This seems a perfect match for my audio/video mashupper! It could accept YouTube as video source, but despite my efforts, often gifs still sync better than youtube's quirky player as they are converted to webm automatically.
Last comment: You're being intentionally dishonest here. You laid out an IF and a THEN with no relation whatsoever between the two.

IF I can fly a plane, THEN I can make a sandwich. This is the equivalent statement. The virtual therapist being better than a real therapist does not automatically mean that a person can treat themselves any more than an insulin pump means a diabetic can cure themselves.

Again, I agree with you about the lack of scientific rigour in psychology. The issue is you completely mischaracterizing logic and science. You're being dishonest.
Marmut Merah Jambu Full Movie HD [Official]
It doesn't seem to have hurt the Japanese ability to innovate in technology and culture too much though.
Since gifyoutube doesn't support https, this is an updated bookmarklet for thost who use youtube with https and need to change the protocol along with the host:

javascript:location="http://gifyoutube.com"+location.pathname+location.search;
The first thing I would do is think about what capabilities you need in order to successfully execute the product, and equally important how you would want to distribute the product. Depending on the answers, I would then find a framework (or multiple frameworks) that facilitate the approach you want to take. This will allow you to prototype faster (and reiterate faster as you learn from your customers). This would also play in to how you approach building the back end.

From reading your replies to other comments, it sounds like you want access to a phone's local resources, and you are possibly interested in using web technologies. I would look into Apache Cordova (aka PhoneGap) or something similar (there are many). This allows you to build once with HTML/CSS/JS, and then distribute via Android/iOS and more (differentiation being each platform would need specific front end JS code to access the phone's local resources). This approach is commonly used in conjunction with a back end that accepts API Requests (aka front end makes Ajax request, back end responds with Data). I'm using this approach for one of my current projects.
The case against abandoning conventional schooling: In developing countries, every month a child goes to school significantly increases final IQ and future earning power.

You think you have an ADHD epidemic on your hand? Just wait until children who don't have ADHD don't have to learn to sit still and discipline themselves and their emotions.
Thanks for the suggestion. In the same domain, I liked articles about https://www.google.fr/search?q=mechanical+sympathy
business tends to optimize towards what people want, what people want isn't always what education should be ( most of the people just want the diploma to show their employers )
I'm all for making school more fun. But self-direction? Don't forget: these are children. Most (and certainly enough) of them won't have any natural inclination to learn even reading, writing and math. The whole point of having schools is to give an external sense of direction.

I think schools need to be optimized and tuned, but please, please stop these extreme experiments.
https://gifyoutube.com/ seems to work just fine.
Maybe you missed the fact Japan s economy has been in recession for the past 20 years or so. Its not so much a hotbed of technology anymore. Or if it is, they are clearly failing at making money with it.
I am from Denmark and I have also never seen a application on a SIM card.
One month later: Malaysian Airlines MH17 memorial
I'm currently taking a coursera [Fundamentals of music theory](https://class.coursera.org/musictheory-001/wiki/Meet_the_Tea...) class from Dr. Michael Edwards and team from University of Edinburgh. He has deep knowledge in the field. After the class I'll work on this software, hopefuylly.
Given the tensions between the Walloons and Flemings I can imagine circumstances in which an invasion could occur.

It's pretty unlikely, but there are numerous examples of a larger power intervening in another country in support of a particular ethnic group.
It will not be logical for a super artificial intelligence to support humans
A curated list of angular directives
> The virtual therapist being better than a real therapist does not automatically mean that a person can treat themselves

Of course it does. Do you seriously think a person alone in a room with a computer is being treated by a professional? That he is somehow not "treating himself"?

If this virtual therapy idea takes hold, people will be able to choose which therapeutic modality they prefer, then sequester themselves for a private and entirely virtual conversation, one less interpersonal than anything else they do with their computers. They will be treating themselves.

To see your logical error, imagine that someone engaged in virtual therapy insists that they are not treating themselves, but are having a real interpersonal interaction with a mental health professional. That would be grounds for commitment based on mental incompetence.

Imagine that someone who only plays computer Solitaire is accused of not having any real friends. Can he rationally insist that this is not so, that he's not playing with himself but has an imaginary friend?

> You laid out an IF and a THEN with no relation whatsoever between the two.

You read it, but you failed to grasp its meaning. Here it is again: IF "A virtual shrink may sometimes be better than the real thing", the remark to which I directly replied, THEN "It proves that people are competent to treat themselves".

Circle the words you didn't understand and raise your hand.

> You're being intentionally dishonest here.

You're being irrational.
The danger is losing a competitive edge, and the poverty that comes from that. But perhaps its wise to be conservative for now.

What I see is where the last generation of drugs had the shotgun approach and a lot of side effects, the newer drugs are more targeted, effecting more specific areas of the brain exclusively, and are also a lot more potent.

In my recent experiments PRL-8-53 and estradiol stood out as making changes to my thinking that were well outside the capability of even the best diet and a rigorous exercise routine, and I have tried that approach.
The problem is you have to go to school (or have a parent home-school you) by law which robs you of much of the time and motivation to improve yourself. The more time and discipline you expend doing rote memorization so you can graduate and pass the standardized test, the less time you can spend learning something useful.
The last testimonial in the README gave me a good laugh :)
>> "So where is the evidence that socialization in a school environment is necessary"

Just anecdotal but might help. I had a younger family member who had to miss a few weeks of school and stay home. After a few days he was itching to get back for the sole reason of social interaction. If you don't go to school you see your friends for maybe 1 hour in the evening. If you go you see them for 20mins on the bus to school, in-between classes, 45 mins of recess per day, and the 20 min bus ride home. Not to mention the interaction during group activities or lulls in classes. If everyone was homeschooled there would need to be a substitute for this and suggestions I've seen like "all parents should take their kids to the park for an hour" don' suffice. I think the length of the interaction isn't important, the fact that it happens throughout the day is. Seeing someone for 5 mins an hour every hour is different than seeing them for 1 hour, even if it works out to be less time. It's a different experience and one that's hard to replicate.
The only problem I'm having is that it's requesting my passphrase even though I paste my full email address (with my key embedded). I assume it's for signing?

It would be very nice if it could let me choose to send it unsigned.
> In order to read you need to be exposed to books and also somebody to read with you until you can do it on your own.

That's what parents do. You don't need teachers for that.

You found reading "boring to start with"? That seems sad. Me, I wanted to read almost every minute of every day - I was always in the middle of multiple books, read while walking, read books held secretly under the desk during boring class lectures, even occasionally read while riding my bike. I imagine today kids learn texting and tweeting (or whatever the next thing is) with similar vigor, even if long-form work is starting to lose out a bit to it. Do you really imagine that kids won't be able to read if not for elementary school? We live in a world that is saturated with the written word. It is an inescapable fact of our environment that we are surrounded by text and use text to communicate; it seems crazy to imagine that kids of average or better intelligence would fail to find some incentive to learn to read something. I mean, sure, a priori it seems conceivable that could happen, but it doesn't seem particularly likely and as far as I know that hasn't been the experience of anybody who has pursued unschooling.
76 points and no comments?

What I came here to ask is, what is the Youtube vulnerability?
He did fight Great Britain alone (well, the Dominions as well) for over a year once France was occupied and before the invasion of Russia.
Britain couldn't have defeated Germany on her own but she also wasn't going to be defeated. Even leaving aside the Battle of Britain Germany had no way to invade the UK - some of the plans to defeat Operation Sealion (the planned German invasion) were pretty effective, like setting the English channel on fire.
The teaching as a business model is what's broken. It seems to work pretty damned well everywhere else.

And what does your personal experience of that model have to do with it? A lot of people have adjusted schooling hours to better reflect children's biological rhythms. The specific failures of your personal education need not be systemic issues.

Finally, the fundamental issue with education is that it is meant as the great equalizer in society meant to put everyone on a decent pedestal to start things off. It is fundamentally unfair that some children be better educated than others for any reason whatsoever. Scandinavian countries have been aware of this and, while it's never a solved issue, have been doing substantially better than their peers in most areas.
Here it is:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/763.html
Agile Design
Do you think this is a result of the rigidity of the Japanese education system?
>A population of 120k would put it as a top-5 city in any medium-sized European country.

Europe only has a couple of medium-sized countries—Germany and France. 150k people wouldn't make for a top 5 city in either. 120k people is a town, not a city.

Clarification: Examples of large countries (both in terms of land mass and influence) would be Russia, China, Japan, Australia, the US, Brazil, etc
Ctrl-p is great but I agree, lack of caching is a signigicant pain point. I raised an issue on that and the author explained it's because there's actually no mechanism for Vimscript to do it, so someone would probably need to come up with some way to spawn headless Vim from a periodic Cronjob. A standalone app like VimR can also route around this constraint.

https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim/issues/222
Japan is not really part of the West per se. There is still so much cultural legacy at work in the industry and politics, if its part of the West then its a very poor imitation of it. And lets not talk about the place of women in "westernized" Japan, lets not.
In Norway we can use a SIM application to log into the bank. Don't know how it works, but here's a introduction in English:
https://www.bankid.no/Dette-er-BankID/BankID-in-English/Bank...
> The case against abandoning conventional schooling: In developing countries, every month a child goes to school significantly increases final IQ and future earning power.

That may be true, but it omits a control group -- a comparison with people who don't attend school. It therefore lacks a scientific basis for comparison. Therefore it's not a "case against abandoning conventional schooling", it is a case where meaningful science is required to inform public policy.

> Just wait until children who don't have ADHD don't have to learn to sit still and discipline themselves and their emotions.

Some argue that the ADHD epidemic results from the very unnatural conditions in schools, conditions that are barely tolerable to otherwise normal children, and the ADHD diagnosis unjustly shifts responsibility from the oppressive school and educational system to the children.

I'm certainly not saying this is the only explanation, just that no clear conclusion can be made on present evidence.