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I recently finished Make It Stick by Peter C Brown, who also says the learning styles myth is bogus.

Highly recommended book that changed the way read (I take notes and put them on flashcards).

The main point is that effortful retrieval practice is the key to learning effectively for the long-term and such that what you're learning can readily be connected to other ideas.

When practicing retrieval (quizzing yourself), he suggests:

1) spacing practice sessions so that it's hard but not impossible to recall
2) interleaving subjects (frustrating, but memories are much more durable and you can more readily connect leanrned ideas with others)
3) varying how you practice (same benefits as above)
4) rephrasing in your own words and attempting to solve tough problems before knowing the solutions
I don't understand, the sliders are doing nothing (Firefox 31), is that suppose to do anything ?

By the way the contrast is really bad on the top menu and I have to hover everything to have an idea of the text.
I had a reaction to some food from the store. Breakfast burreto. Diabetic? The meds kicking-in? Caffeine? Odd sleep?

It happens once a week or so.

My Dad could slip me extra meds, but that's not it. Wrong time.

The burreto is the right time, but that's silly.

I don't know. Am I diabettic?

The meds are very powerful. It could be them.
Many Hollywood stars iCloud accounts hacked for photos
Ask HN: Graduated at a poor time,suck at interviews but want to be a programmer
I went away to school in 2006 and in 2009 or so I got a CS degree. The economy sucked so bad that I couldn't find a job. Not for free. Everybody wanted somebody with 3+ years of experience and I didn't have it. Looking now at my friends from University only two of the 30 or so that I knew have programming jobs. The rest due to tough times went into other fields like I did. We didn't go to a bad school, top 40 ranked in the states. Those years were just particularly bad for graduating. Of the graduating CS class many people just didn't get jobs. Though now as school newsletters suggest, things are great. Students are having no trouble finding jobs. The problem is nobody wants somebody with a degree from 5 years ago. I'll admit there's validity to that.

I ended up going into systems administration (linux) because that's something I could do well and do enjoy. I genuinely like my job and think I am pretty good at it. The only issue is it leaves a lot to be desired in the technical sense. I feel underutilized and can do most of my job on autopilot.

I've done a few programming interviews but they always tend to be so technical and into CS fundamentals that I used to know at one time. They are always filled with esoteric questions that I am sure people in the specific domain know but I don't because I can only do so much on my own. There's always logic puzzles which I suck at.
I am not a bad programmer. I have a github with a few nice projects I have created. I have asked peers in the python community to rate my code and programs and they always say it's pretty good. I really enjoy CS and programming but I can't really seem to find a way in. In school one of my favorite topics was functional programming and I still play with ML, CL and scheme at times. Everybody just seems to see operations on my resume and well I must be a idiot so that's that. I can't leave 4 years blank on my resume either. Does anybody have any advice?
Of course it does. Look at the price of tuition. That perpetuates class divides more than any other factor.
> Yet so entrenched is our essentialist mind-set, American official forms require everyone to tick one race/ethnicity box or another: no room for intermediates.

On both the 2000 and 2010 census forms, I put "Other" and filled in "human".
I discovered this on my own. English is my 3rd language so while walking in a bad part of town and teenagers looking for trouble started to get interested me. I got nervous and responded with nonsense, by accident. They all froze, as if their brains glitched for a couple of seconds. That gave me enough time to walk away far enough for them to not bother with me.

Since then I used it multiple times. Accidentally bumped in a drunk person's girlfriend at a festival. I apologized but he was getting aggressive so I said "Alright, I'll talk to you later at 4" and walked away. He drunk brain was presumably trying to make sense of my gibberish.

With pan-handlers (which I admit is rude) when they ask for money I just say "No thanks, I'm good". As if they were offering me something.
That's something that has always bugged me about taxonomy in general, or at least the way it is portrayed both in the media and in the broad amateur research I have done on the subject.
No Odroid W – Broadcom will not supply the SoC to Hardkernel
I chose to study economics (in graduate school) because I wanted to make the world better, and I discovered that the non-economists I studied from as an undergrad (in "development studies") were less convincing than the economists they critiqued.

One of the main goals of economics is to provide advise for government policy to make society better off (by some average of human well-being). I would say it takes more spirit to choose the discipline than can and does do this, than to fall for shallow critiques from outside the discipline.
http://serverfault.com/a/588056
This "essentialism" applies to gender as well. Not just gender but sexual orientation and even biological sex which some sociologists and anthropologists distinguish as different from gender. These are not binary, but actually gradients. We like to classify people as either male or female, and have that mapped perfectly to the biological sex they were born with, and likewise mapped to their sexual orientation, but it hides a subtler reality.

This goes with sexual orientation as well. We want to map people into straight or gay, but that is also a gradient where, like gender, people fall in in various parts of the gradient.

When I brought this up with a friend, we were talking about the new women.com yc startup and how they only accepted "women", he responded with that there are two distinct peaks in this gradient, like if you mapped this as a graph. I think you can actually blame these peaks not in small part on the immense social pressure to conform to either being male or female (which bathroom do you go into?), or even being straight or gay. It doesn't have to be that way, and there are ways other cultures solved this problem, like some Native American groups actually had a third gender[1].

I find the concept of "essentialism" interesting and intuitive to think about, including its flaws, which as Dawkins points out can be quite destructive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender
HN sometimes disables registration entirely. It's an experiment in creating a large, long-lived community that doesn't degenerate over time. It's not primarily a platform that promotes free speech.
Exactly but I see nothing wrong with this.

If universities are willing to accept students not based on merit but on a touching story, then they had it coming.

People who admit one to these universities in general are not alumni of that school, did not go through the same experience and are not experts in the subject one wants to study. It is ludicrous to expect them to differentiate good candidates from bad ones.

Also general criticism to above seems to be that it is not feasible to deal with all the applicants. That claim is bogus since Oxford and Cambridge professors are conducting multiple technical interviews with each candidate for centuries for both domestic and international students.

EDIT: Loving down voting without explanation for a reasonable opinion on the subject.
Here's my take on a solution to the problem of linkrot: https://www.purplerails.com/

Major points:

* Automatically saves an exact copy of pages (no need to explicitly bookmark) in the background.

* Data is encrypted with your password before being sync'd to cloud.

* Search through your pages.

* Works as a Chrome browser extension. No need for a native app.
A simple lock down after several failed attempts would have fixed the normal brute force problem (11,000 guesses), yet not this new one (1 guess). Why don't manufacturers implement this, and why isn't it mandated by the specification?
Based on my own personal comparisons in San Francisco, I would mostly agree. Most of the differentiation relevant to me is the app itself. I still mostly use Sidecar, solely because it has the easiest workflow of choosing pickup and destination. I also agree with the article that this is a good thing for riders.
They're missing their greatest opportunity ever to be the sole an only payment method of the wearable age.

Pair an iWatch with an iPhone/iPad point of sale via iBeacon and you have the simplest payment method of all.
I hear what you're saying. But what is light rail but several electric cars daisy chained? If you can put 4 people in one (a la car pooling) and give them a dedicated HOV lane between places.......
Boeing Flies on 99% Ada
She's in touch with a reality. Pretty crazy reality.

There is the material world and there is the spiritual world. It's a delusional reality. You know what? Sometimes, God fuels the delusional reality with cruelly placed events or facts, to perpetuate it.

Her reality probably has a few legitimate freak events that keep her deluded.

----

I have proven God. You retard-niggers can't follow simple logic. I get a random number from a government site. When used as a page number, it talks.

<sigh>Niggers cannot follow logic, though.
I always find this need to totally categorise "race" as an absolute as something very curious about the American culture...
haha... he's headed to the company that'll make the iWatch ;)

http://recode.net/2014/08/31/veteran-tech-journalist-anand-s...
The sharing economy has a common core I.e uber,Lyft,airbnb. Social currency and brand equity will make one win over the other. What customers remember to say about the brand is what will make someone remember to either open their uber or Lyft app the next time they need a ride. If I were in charge of their marketing id invest heavily in product placement for at least a year.
I am a normal consumer, I have never used American Express for business purposes. 25 - 30% seems really high though, considering American Express used to be targeted mainly towards business users...
How are they "Guidelines" if they are enforced as rules?

Are there notable exceptions that do pass the review process (and not by luck, but by being approved)?

In fact, having now skimmed through their guideline documents, it seems that you could just replace the word "guideline" with "requirement" and leave no app developer, or their managers, in any doubt whatsoever.
> But any evolutionist knows there must have existed individuals who were exactly intermediate.

Is this not still up for debate, re: macromutation? Can someone more knowledgeable clear this up?
Frankly, Dawkins didn't answer the question, which was about a /scientific/ idea "ready for retirement". But Dawkins is so blinded by his ridiculous, anti-intellectual scientism that not only did he find himself unable to discredit just one single scientific idea (which, by their sheer quantity and variety, /must/ contain among their number some failure), but he can't even distinguish the boundary between science and philosophical positions which haven't been popular (in their entirety) in millenia. As such, while Dawkins would have provided a convincing (to me) opponent for Plato, in this context, his essay is pure poppycock.
Rust does not have one. The original designer doesn't even work on the language any more.

There is a small core team that operates on rough consensus.
Yes, Square is definitely helping solve some of the issues for places like that.

I shop at farmers markets quite a bit, and a lot of the merchants there are using Square, and it is awesome =)
Probably. I think Mark Rosewater the designer of Magic the Gathering feels that way. For you not to feel cheap or cheated you need to love your job, be payed for it and be good at it. Finding all three is next to impossible
That's something that actually bugged me about Object Oriented Programming, especially the way it was taught at the university (with Java and UML diagrams). Taxonomy is often a useful tool, but the closer you get to hairy real-world problems, the more likely it is that your hierarchical object representation will come around to bite you.
I liked Terra e (2007, not the 1980 film which isn't very good). It bears some similarities to Psycho-Pass, although it probably doesn't meet the "mature" marker with its super powers.

I struggle to recommend more because mature anime is almost nonexistent these days. I can count on one hand the number of shows that might fit the bill in the past 5 years (Aoi Bungaku, Jormungand, Attack on Titan and Night Raid perhaps, and they're not all good).

If you just want something entertaining without the same old cliches in most anime, then Gintama will have you in stitches.
I don't know any program except FB with such bounties for bugs in web apps. If you want to hack for money, focus on FB forget about others.
I am the one missing papers. Why didn't Sheldrake get this published under peer review? I don't feel qualified to judge his setup or analysis, so it would be that much more interesting to read about reactions from scientists who are.

By the rules of the game, if he's not participating in this exercise he's not doing science.
I know what his title will be - Chief Benchmarking Officer - CBO...
The traditional "learning styles" might have questionable scientific merits, but Mel Chua (http://melchua.com) is doing some really interesting research surrounding learning styles in programmers specifically: http://blog.melchua.com/2014/08/12/learning-styles-for-progr...
I'd like something like this but not such a big box. Are there any open source drobo-like projects out there? I'd like something like a drobo but one that's hacker friendly. Anyone know of a chassis like that?
I've been using Uber for a while now, at home and on holiday. I still haven't tried Lyft. The main reason being it's not available outside the US, and I'm one of the few people out here in the world.

Last month I was in San Francisco and I STILL couldn't use Lyft, because you need a US phone number to sign up.

From day one Uber has been thinking on a different scale.
Exactly. Arguably the bank drive through deposit tube is a small scale prototype, but I suspect hyperloop is a greater technical leap than either SpaceX or Tesla.

Not to mention building a right of way from SF to LA is 100x harder politically than rolling back the car dealership laws that Tesla has been fighting.

Elon Musk may be a great entrepreneur, but he is not a magician.
Exactly but I see nothing wrong with this.

I'm sure those other applicants who were turned down in favor of these are fine with it as well
The fact that these companies are working extremely hard to recruit each other's drivers means they are the same companies. Otherwise they would focus on some other core competency.

Google does not need to tell you they are better than another search engine. Use it once, and decide.
I sat in a coffee shop ~5 years ago, and sketched out what a lost-and-found system based on QR codes and QR code readers. My particular application was 'Non-verbal kid lost at mall, kindly smartphone user with QR reader scans (branded) QR code on kid's shirt to get parent's contact info', but I saw no reason why that couldn't work for any item large enough to have a QR code painted/sprayed/stapled on. I don't know why this doesn't exist yet.
I don't know, if this were the case you would expect more sexual experimentation than you see. A majority of straight men never have sex with other men or watch gay porn, just as a majority of gay men have no interest in sex with a woman. Anything in between we call "bisexual" which is an imprecise definition.

For this to be true you would need to believe that most straight men have repressed homosexual desires and most gay men have repressed heterosexual desires.
Can you expand the acronyms? I'm having the most trouble with URE.
Would you recommend building something like this for a much smaller system? 10TiB or so maybe, I do not need that much, or do you think buying a NAS of some kind would be better?

I kind of want to set something like this up while spending the least amount of money. I am comfortable enough with Debian/Linux to do most things, but I have never managed anything like this. In the end I want to end up with somewhere relatively safe to store data pretty much in the same way you are, I just do not need 70TiB, and I have no experience with ZFS/hardware stuff/storage.
Isn't NFC much less secure though than chip and pin?
Agreed. This is a great example of a "straw man attack". He sets up an intellectually shallow definition of a philosophical ideal and then somehow manages to connect it to Florida politics...Brilliant!

He deals so fluently in generalities that he starts sounding like a new-age prophet predicting the next earthquake that will blight humanity.
Because it's written by a woman who writes essays for Chinese students.
I think dynamics like these are pretty interesting, reminds me of a convo with phd student I work with about taking classes he could care less about and I said pretty soon people will probably be using google glass or contacts that they can leverage during exams and a sign of it working will be when universities start trying to crack down on such behavior despite such things making students more efficient in a system that has seemed to focus on everything but what it sells itself as (at least idealized at its "best")… all in all, just another symptom of another system moving to obsolescence.

"I don’t know what I was expecting in return from the student. Would my client feel the pain of the story and then question the ethics of using another person’s life as an admissions essay? Would she call me and thank me for cutting out a personal part of my heart for her? Later, I received a one-word email from her: “Thanks.” The message stung. I thought about the itchy Goodwill sweater and how much itchier it had felt as I cried after my classmate mocked me. I had given up a private piece of myself for the bargain price of $400. I logged off and shut down my laptop."

Also interesting to see how individuals seem to internalize the dynamics of the larger systems they operate within. What's more void: someone engaging in such a behavior as the author in this system or similar behavior in other systems, or any system that incentivizes such behavior through various mechanisms that people who (or would like to) consider themselves not destitute/sellout/whatever-flavor-of-the-day, live their lives by and submit themselves to? I posit neither or both…
For one thing, how many drivers they have matters. More data might produce better estimated ETA (at least Uber use the data from the drivers to predict future traffic congestion, etc.).

Another thing is how well they control supply and demand. Say Uber has 10x drivers than Lyft, what if Uber has 100x consumers than Lyft? Uber likely has to surge at a very high rate, and the consumer can't afford a surge might go to Lyft instead. Since Uber can't control well how many total consumers they have at the moment without surging, one realistic alternative is to just reduce the number of Lyft drivers, so Lyft have to charge higher rates as well.

Here Uber doesn't just want more consumers coming in, because even less consumers is better than more consumers come in initially and can't afford a surge and then have to turn to Lyft.

So to sum up, in the end, Uber have to recruit more drivers (hey, they even just opened API for their product) or cut the number of drivers from Lyft (through alluring them). You can't blame Uber on that, it's the competitiveness of this market.
"The world is divided into those who get this truth and those who wail,..."

Is Dawkins making a joke here, or is he falling into the same fallacy he is deriding in the article. Clearly the world is not "divided" into these two camps, there is a continuum in between and the same person can also hold one view at a time, a different one later, etc.
i stole a heartbreaking anecdote that a girl in my senior high school class wrote about her grandmother dying or something
For C++,I would prefer to just read good textbooks and stay away from tutorials.
Feel free to substitute "scientific idea" with "idea within the scientific community".

Challenges to any strictly "scientific idea" as you are thinking of them are not going to come in this form of article. They will come in the form of scholarly papers and studies published in major journals. They won't be prompted by these sort of fluff questions for celebrity scientists, they will naturally arise through research.

Dawkin's answer was not off; your expectations for what this question was asking and how it could be answered were off.
I've found several SaaS sites that only take Visa and Mastercard, but not Discover or American Express.
Could you turn on the network ads when in review and remotely disable them after passing it?
> 1. Schools in wealthy communities get more funding than schools in poor communities.

This is kinda but not really true. I grew up in one of the richest counties in the country (Fairfax, VA). Total expenditures per student in the public school system is about $13,500. In nearby D.C., it's $18,700. Baltimore City Public Schools is $14,700. Prince Georges County Public Schools (a lower-income district) is $14,000.

It's probably true that rural school districts suffer from both low income and low school expenditure. But many of the poorest, most heavily-minority school districts (in the large cities), are also the best funded.

> 2. More money translates into better teachers, better facilities, more AP classes, better test scores, and measurably better education.

It's quite questionable whether this is true: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/07/study-no-link-betw.... The U.S. spends more on education than all but a handful of countries with high costs of living (Norway, Switzerland, etc): http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/america.... Yet our school performance lags.
Technically speaking that's a messaging queue and not remote procedure call.