skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is confirmation bias. If people plateau in their skill at 1k hours and then stop such serious pursuit, the burden of proof is on you to say that their gains would have resumed as they approached 10k hours.

Surely, though, out of all the people who reached 1k hours and thought about quitting, there would be some who decided to plod through and keep practicing?

These people, as few in number as they might be, would eventually hit 10,000 hours of practice.

Why hasn't anyone found them and interviewed them?

In any pursuit, people will plateau all the time. It's the nature of practice. You have to push through the plateau in order to get to the next level. Some people decide that it's not worth it, so they stop. Are you saying that every single one of these people wasn't genetically talented enough to continue?
Globalresearch is trash

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky
Sunday home delivery is cheaper than unlimited online access, but includes unlimited online access. I go that route.

One of my neighbors started stealing the paper, recently, so I don't even have to take it to the recycling bin myself. What a deal! Not exactly how I'd run _my_ business, though.

Ultimately, I read the Times every day on my phone and computer, and often peruse the archives, so I'd be happy to pay more. But I'd like transparency and to not play the game that ups their offline circulation numbers.

I'd also like the ads to go away, so that I'm paying for the journalism, not the advertisers. But whatever, I'll take what I can get.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, just pointing out that if only 40% of the tax base uses a service, then 60% of the tax base is helping pay for it without directly using it. The indirect effects of those contributions are definitely more interesting!
How am I supposed to pronounce the name?
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Indeed, I'm surprised the author doesn't know about them (or atleast doesn't mention them). Especially since even the async-await strawman (the first thing you'd find when googling for async-await in JS) demonstrates an implementation via generators...
I would like to request, that if you're going to suggest: "Run instances in two or more Availability Zones." as a fault-tolerant architecture method (which everyone SHOULD do) - can we please have a flag or tag to say that "Traffic between Zone-1-HOST-A and Zone-2-HOST-A" is specifically resiliancy/HA/fault-tolerant connection traffic could benefit from a discount in zone transfer fees?

We are moving many hundreds servers between zones every day and sometimes by the hour, specifically to handle all sorts of constraints (Spot, capacity, failure, load, etc)...

I have paid quite a lot to zone transfer fees, especially when dealing with AWS network issues or spot price insanity.

I would love to classify some traffic as resiliency traffic and be charged differently for that traffic as opposed to general traffic used to service my user-base.
I know some nuclear families that are disasters waiting to happen.
Rice is a war criminal. The Government is full of war criminals. Both parties are led by war criminals. We don't need war criminals in tech. Its bad enough with all the brogrammers
Get any further than that?
Having been on both sides of the coin - did my undergrad at a satellite commuter campus of a public institution, and currently doing my PhD at a top 10 school - there is a stark difference. During undergrad I just made the assumption that 'math is math' and I can learn the same concepts anywhere. However, there is a large difference and it's not because top institutions necessarily have the benefit of rubbing shoulders with elite.

- Having TAed for a few undergrad classes, the workload and class speed is much higher.

- The student projects (labs) are much more involved to the point where a 4th year student will often have the tools necessary to assist in PhD research efforts.

- The teachers at the commuter school were much better at stepping through the material so it's easily understood. While here the TAs are much more responsible for expanding and clarifying the theory in recitations.

- Soooo much more group work at the top university. Whether it's 'official' or not, students clump together to help get through the material. At the commuter school, people were more often just waiting to go home.

There's some difference here since I'm not comparing a traditional university experience to a top tier experience, but if anything it's very clear to me that 'math isn't just math' between two schools.
I don't know if Microsoft outsources product naming, but with all that rebranding they do all the time, they just have to be a goldmine for naming companies
Of course this is the top comment on this topic. Of course.

Bravo, HN.
I wonder if Amazon or someone will take the time to make a ksplice-like system for Xen so that future security upgrades probably won't have to go through such disruptive reboot events.

(Or, for that matter, whether they considered making an ad-hoc machine code patch - based on the source patch, it looks like it would probably be doable just by changing a few bytes. I guess it's a bit risky...)
Windows 69 probably isn't a great name.
> the difference between what comes easily and what doesn't.

This is a very telling phrase as well. Mastery doesn't come easy, pretty much as a general rule. If your definition of mastery includes "It has to be easy to get there", then obviously you're not going to master anything because you're going to quit as soon as it gets hard. If I teach my child to only focus on things which come easily to them, I will have failed absolutely as a parent.
I come from an emotionally abusive family. Having them lie, ridicule, etc, were par for the course growing up. I've left them behind, however, have not changed my legal name for various reasons. Because of this, my family has stalked me, has lied about there being deaths in the family to try to get me to talk to them in order to continue their emotionally manipulative bullshit, and otherwise tried to pull me back into their petty gamesmanship. When I had a real name account on facebook, they had found me after a week to try to continue their crap. Being able to be pseudonymous is the only way I can keep in touch with people I actually care about, even with my family hundreds of miles away from me.
Twitter, MIT Create New Research Lab to Analyze Every Tweet
Vurb confuses me because it says "Engineering All Levels" on vurb.com/jobs but then this post says "Lead Android Engineer." What do you really want?
Thanks. Followup question: does the light source have to be a laser? I read on the Wiki that CV Raman demonstrated the phenomenon with sunlight. So would it be possible to just observe the reflected light from an object and determine the molecules on it that are lighting up? If so, can (someday) someone come with a Star Trek-style tricorder that you look through and figure out the molecular composition of an object? Maybe at a distance of 100 meters?
I agree with your point about talent, but I disagree here. It's actually known, in many cases, which kinds of practice are most effective.

So if you want to learn something, it helps to find someone who is good at teaching it at the level you want to reach.
What’s a Bitcoin Look Like? The Story Behind This Popular Photograph
The article argues only against sufficiency. Only if you believe that the 10k hour rule is without exception -- that it's not a broad statement about what is necessary for mastery in a broad range of fields across a broad range of talent but instead a precise, ironclad threshold with no other determining factors -- does the article imply anything about the necessity of a certain number of hours.

Any one datum is questionable: How were the 728 hours tracked? Were some forms of practice excluded? Is the master designation in chess equivalent to the elite mastery the 10k rule describes? Is this measurement for an extreme talent outlier?

Neither the insufficiency argument nor the existence of outliers argument have merit against the 10k hour rule, properly understood. One number cannot possibly cover the range of fields, the range of talent, and the range of practice measurements (hour tracking, practice quality). Might this single number still be a broadly useful heuristic? I'm not sure, but this article tilts at windmills unhelpfully.
The research looks at loss of smell, not never having a (good) sense of smell as an indicator.
Here's a timelapse of every nuclear explosion since 1945. It really puts into perspective just how many nukes have gone off for purposes other than to kill people. It's amazing that only two were used for violence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

According to the video, people have detonated 2053 nukes, and America has the dubious distinction of having detonated over 1000.
I got more than 2,000 pager duty alerts :) Would you like to be on-call?
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If you're really asking, I'd enjoy writing an answer; it's a good question/prompt.

I don't believe that lack of free will and hard determinism are conclusively established. To me they are tied up with what I consider one of the universe's greatest epistemic mysteries, which is where consciousness/sentience comes from. My own perception of my "free will" is that my mind/will have a default response in any situation, but that by spending some kind of mental energy I can override this default behavior. I believe that quantum mechanics leaves plenty of room for this self-perception of my mental process to have an actual basis in reality (though I also admit the truth could be something else entirely).

The idea that we have violent tendencies hard-wired, so-to-speak, doesn't bother me except in extreme cases of people who seem enslaved to them. If you want to know what does seriously trouble me, it's people who struggle internally with something like pedophilia, and are doing everything they can to resist it, but have to fight against it constantly.
They never replied to email or social message, so we're building a replacement that will allow people to import Ohlife entries. We plan to make them a little more secure as well.
FYI: I'm running a 1920x1200 screen rotated, so with my browser (FF32) as full screen I'm just at the point that the annoying #dd_ajax_float element is shown, but it covers the left edge of the first paragraph.
To be honest, I’m not sure how effective these targeted donations are at all. My point was more that in this case, while scary (and probably unrealistic) scenarios of the West somehow being affected were a popular pastime (and seemingly the main frame to view this disaster), hardly anyone seems to actually care about those who are affected by it. (I personally don’t think, for example, that I know better than a charity how to best allocate resources and I think targeted donations tied to a specific cause are quite irresponsible.)

Also, there may have been unique complications that make fighting the spread harder, though we don’t really know how widespread those are and were. They make for good stories, but are they the whole picture? I very much doubt that.

Additionally, it seems to me that even if those troubles were widespread it was possible to a) do something against them with more money (mostly in terms of improving communication about the virus) and b) make up for other deficiencies in resources (like a lack of space and beds and personal).
A bit off topic but in the context of promises and Angular, I love the ability to set a set a promise for the timeout parameter. This is super valuable 'cause it lets me manually cancel any request instead of waiting for a response or timing out via time.
> Clearly the author is questioning the progressive nature of addiction but not considering the well known issue of defining addiction.

'[I]t is hard to argue that we “weren’t really addicted.” I don’t know many non-addicts who shoot up 40 times a day, get suspended from college for dealing and spend several months in a methadone program.'
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Knowing oneself is certainly important. The problem is, when a lot of people hear the word "talent", they think of it as something they couldn't possibly have any of. I think there is a place for encouraging them to stretch themselves anyway. Maybe that's how they will discover their talent.
> It's actually known, in many cases, which kinds of practice are most effective.

I certainly agree with that.

But that is not enough to say that anyone who engages in the right kind of practice will get better. My point is just that it's an easy out to say "oh the 10k rule didn't apply here because they weren't practicing right." For that to be an appropriate response, you would need to actually show that the person was capable of that kind of practice in that area but wasn't doing it.
It seems strange to me that someone who doesn't have the risk appetite to start a business would think they are well suited to running one still in its early stages.
Wow, yeah. I've heard about some of those techniques. I still think it's worth it for the more...upstanding AV companies to blacklist stuff like this. Or at least warn the user of its presence.
>>>> organizations providing quality journalism

If you're a liberal, I'm sure its pretty fantastic. As someone who considers themselves an independent, this newspaper is unabashedly liberal.

Perhaps this is having an effect on its subscribers?

Why are subscribers (and advertisers) of The New York Times fleeing to other newspapers (such as the Wall Street Journal, whose circulation numbers have remained steady), or to other avenues such as Fox News, for their news and information?

There is only one answer: The New York Times has a proclivity towards left-wing bias and unbalanced reporting of the news.

Even a cursory glance of the paper reveals its pervasive editorializing, which comes through loud and clear everywhere from page one to the obituaries. But just as damaging to it than its left-wing slant has been its complete lack of interest in any stories having the remotest possibility of tarnishing the hallowed image of President Barack Obama, an image which it and other members of the so-called "main-stream media" has had such an active role in creating.

source (2009): http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/10/21/liberal-bias-is-killi...
Windows 10 is supposedly going to be the "last major version" of Windows. [1]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-christens-the-next-version-of...
Should probably add that in Germany lower GPA is better. So longer wait = higher priority.
Suggestion: if you want people using the demo page to be able to spot errors easily, it would be useful to give a plain english description of when the time they specified is. For example, if I enter "quarter of six", you could parse it in my local timezone and spit back a piece of text like, "that is a little more than 2 hours from now, or: Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 17:45:00 -0700 (PST)".
Great point.

I'm not at all trying to detract from what they have chosen to spend their time building. I'm simply giving my perspective which can be taken as feedback for the builders or alternatively just sideline commentary on the problem space they are addressing and is interesting to a number of us who care about using our money to impact the world.

There is a fine balance in communities like HN between giving honest feedback/having honest discussions about a topic vs. everyone just being a negative critic and armchair quarterbacking anything anyone builds. I think it's often best to sandwich real feedback in some positive encouragement to avoid the negative critic spiral. On the other hand, sometimes I think that's the same sugar coating as "no offense but..." in which case I skip it.
Removing "suicides" and leaving "kill you" makes it sound far more like Betteridge link-bait than the original. Also, it's pretty disrespectful to the author to remove words at random from their chosen headline because you think something sounds better.
Oh come on, as a (presumably) gender-normative person, I'm somewhat insulted you assume my ignorance.

You also seem to skip over the part of my comment where I largely agree with you. (Though I didn't spell it out explicitly, I assumed it was clear what I mean. Apologies.)

What I was trying to do is draw the distinction between being trans and being a drag performer.

The issue I see is whether an individual can have personas. Should PartyBro045 be forced to present as BusinessDude75 online? (There are valid reasons as well as potential consequences to do this - though they likely don't reach the same level of concern.)

Does that issue get the same attention? No. Understood.

Whatever policy is put in place, it needs to be applied consistently both between and across gender lines.
Yes, as my comment said.
Amazon and Google are worthless to any company without a robust sysadmin/devops team, which is most companies in the world.

It's easy to get stuck in the tech-savvy bubble here, where most people can write code, pick up Chef in a week, and are trying to build cheaply at "web scale." Those people don't need, or want to pay for, support with their servers.

But most companies need some help to run a few servers for web and email. Rackspace is the only large hosting provider who provides that across the board.

That said, Rackspace needs to beef up their devops support, or they risk limiting their own abilities to grow with their customers.
Well first there is more than printing there is distribution and paper cost, power etc but I'm guessing you are wrapping that all into "printing facility" anyway.

But here's the thing. Printing is somewhat efficient if you look at it from a manufacturing standpoint. A huge machine spitting out automatically a bunch of papers taking a web of paper and a final folded product ready for the drivers to take to delivery spots all over. (I was in the industry years ago it's a well oiled machine of productivity for what it does. Same thing every day.)

Of course that costs money but typically the cost of the delivered paper is supposed to cover all of that. Break even as the story is told. Subscription price covers the cost of the printing and distribution so they can sell ads and claim circulation. The high priced ads cover the price of the other structure which they still have to pay even if they discontinue the print operation and that of course (look they have a building and staff in Manhattan) is super expensive.
Yeah, the opinion section is the worst part of NYT, though I'm sure it's a driver of much of the traffic, at least judging from the "most read" and "most emailed" sidebars. I suspect that the by turns vague and inflammatory headlines are great as clickbait, but not something people actively seek out. And anyway, it's not like David Brooks (ever?) has anything interesting to say.
I am a digital subscriber and I have never heard of these apps. I login to the site, and I have some iPhone app I got long ago. I think there's definitely a marketing problem, although I can honestly say the idea of paying the Times more than once for multiple apps is a non-starter to me.
I agree, shouldn't a new service (especially one from Microsoft) be able to get traction without asking people to use another social network to help publicize itself?
The Mythology of Dog Years
Making a homemade metal semi-automatic rifle just got easy