jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Corrected for socioeconomic factors free schools do worse (as per the latest OECD report). One can have many things to say about that way of counting, but if we are to have a system with so many apparent problems, shouldnt we at least get something for it?

And I think that is where the problem lays: we have publicly funded for profit schools. The only way they can make money is by not letting taxpayer money for education go to education. All my other points stem from this.

It is pretty telling about the free school interest group's response to the report of equivalence ("likvärdigheten") of the Swedish school system: they hated all suggestions the report made to make the situation better. Even pretty benign ones like mandatory school selection, removing queued days as grounds for selection and so on. My theory is because they know those things are what makes it possible for them to pocket such a large part of the money they get.

The problem, however, isn't any individual company. It is the law that allows it. Which makes it even more provoking: we have had the numbers for 20 years. Looking at the statistics since 2000 you can see in which direction things were heading. Why didn't anyone go "this is not what we want. Let's re-evaluate".
> install sprinklers (!)

Sure you install sprinklers in a data center to sprinkle water on servers and other electric devices in a context where there might or might not be broken or other wise un-isolated wires due to the fire...

What you can use instead is to flood the room with CO2 to suffocate the fire.

The problem with that is that it's also deadly to humans.

Still e.g. for rooms with long term data storage it's not uncommon to have measurements like that.

Besides that there are docent of other reasons why a data center might go down (temporary).

So the better answer is make sure you system is distributed over multiple data center, i.e. eliminated any single point of failure.
That's why the NDA is so frustrating; we can't talk re the fun features and demos.. I know the AMD and Cavium parts rather well also. The Amd one doesn't support what I have in mind. The Cavium does on paper but the cores, even with just public info, can be seen to be underwhelming. Typical network processor style, which struggles with other workloads. Unfortunately for them, they picked up a couple of the less clued in Calxeda execs that don't understand SW or workloads very well.
You managed to cover a lot in those 40 minutes. Well done!
Just give me the titanium Nokia 8850 [1] with color screen, whatsapp (preferably also telegram), imap and calendar sync.

1 http://www.retromobile.nl/images/productimages/big/8850zilve...
The Fire phone is a gorgeous hardware success in my opinion -- if you try it, it's fast and sleek. The Firefly scanner is super-convenient for shopping.

The show-stopper issue for me is the UI. It feels as if screen elements are sloshing, or hard to find, and the UI is hard to use when I'm in motion.

I expect the UI will be easy for Amazon to solve.
The phone is a version 1 and a strong debut -- even if it didn't sell well.
I'm kind of in a similiar boat. I'm currently based in a small town outside of Seattle called Olympia, where there is really know tech/start-up scene. But I see the potential in this town to harbor start-ups and innovation.

Pretty much south of seattle, it's going to be hard for dev and entreprenuers alike to start-up.

So I started a small business that I work in with my free time, to help build a foundation for people to learn code, brainstorm ideas, and start businesses. I do free code classes via meetup, and I'm working on getting something weekly in motion, and hackathons.

And since I've started my group has been getting a lot of interest and support from the community and even the county.

I plan to keep at it, until there is a solid foundation for people interested.

I don't know the demographics of your town, but the concept I started might be something you could give a trial at.

And if it doesn't work out, or pick up interest. Then abandon ship and make your success story.
I think we've fairly well established that the complexity of the code isn't the problem. The IRS knows what you owe and could just tell you if they wanted to.

Having citizens exposed directly to the mechanics of it during the filing process is a policy choice and the way to fix that is to change the policy, not try to reinvent the tax code from first principles.

This is a complex set of laws yes but it is also detailed multi-generational documentation of all the shit people have tried to pull. You don't just throw that out because it has grown complex. Like all necessary complexity, you isolate and manage it, not spray it all over the end user.
Yes it does. I found it pretty enlightening. It tracks almost perfectly with how I feel in the morning and helped me get a sense of how alcohol in particular affected me.
> Lotteries and casinos are recognized as a form of entertainment - gambling - people may not behave rationally and they may end up ruining their lives, but there is a certain folk wisdom that gambling just loses money and you shouldn't do it (except for fun).

This is a pretense. They're recognized as things that generate huge sums of money for nothing for the owners of lotteries and casinos. They refer to them as "entertainment" to abandon responsibility for serious consequences. Cigarette companies would be happy to sell "smoking entertainment."

edit: to be fair, nutritional supplements have basically lobbied their way into the same thing.
This is a remarkably useless metric. The only reason anyone wouldn't skip an ad is when they are not looking at the screen, which is an inherently random event. Fine tuning an ad campaign based on this doesn't make much sense, does it?
According to this study (http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/355776/study_reveals_p...), the common user reuses passwords everywhere.

The 3000 who used 123456 might be outliers. The real danger of this leak is in those who didn't think of Gawker as being a less important account and therefore undeserving of their primary password.
> we've got one very similar social network that's got arguably more features and arrived to the market a year or so earlier than facebook got its russian localization.

Except that it's an incomplete relatively ugly clone of Facebook, which is why quite a few people are jumping ship to Facebook. It does have its niceties in the form of music uploads, but that's more of a quirk of the general state of regard for copyright laws in the country.
That kid's going places.
I’m pretty sure that this is a development that happened all over the World. Germany had its own Facebook clone [1] early on and it absolutely dominated before Facebook entered the German market [2]. That’s now no more the case.

To quote StudiVZ CEO Riedl: “There is now no more direct battle against the global player Facebook.” [3]

It’s interesting to see that the Facebook clone worked in Russia but didn’t in other places.

[1] StudiVZ: http://www.studivz.net/

[2] StudiVZ was founded in November 2005 (a whole year earlier than Vkontakte), Facebook was localized in early 2008

[3] A week ago, in an interview (German): http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/studivz-ch...
Got both my B.S. Degrees at a state university in TX; they offered me a good scholarship and it was far enough from home. As a programmer/engineer I have to say that school is less important than what you do with yourself while in school - particularly if you want to go the entrepenuer route.

Of course for some professions (lawyer or doctor?) if you have your sights set on a particular employer you'd probably better cater to any favored alma mater(s) that employer has.

Bottom line is study what you love and work hard at it; you'll get good/better as you go. Take schooling seriously but not too seriously.
The author clearly put a lot of work into both the implementation and the presentation as well as the accompanying blog post (I love the quotes interspersed; reminds me of my college Abstract Algebra text by Gallian). However, I must say I was hoping for a GA that evolved a /program/ to print "Hello, world". Maybe in a follow-up post? :D

[EDIT: s/GE/GA/ ... not sure why I got that wrong...]
This is really amazing. Nice!
Correct me, but no reports of it being blocked yet. Iran? Saudi? probably in days.

(and as usual, to get to porn.xxx directly in chrome, you must type http:// on the front. they know about this featurebug)
Wait, what? Now I'm confused about how I've been saying libre. Isn't it a french/spanish word anyway (same word different pronunciation)?

Which non-native english speakers are you talking about?

My pronunciation (as a native english speaker) is pretty much like the spanish version I guess.

That said I don't think it's a particular fantastic name.
i love the IE electrical ghost brainslug thingie, that explains so much.
If you look at air show footage of planes flying inverted, you'll see that they fly with a pretty big angle of attack. It's similar to how a flat-wing plane can fly.
"Mastering Node" could be a good start: http://visionmedia.github.com/masteringnode/

There is also a nodejs hosting service which is open source: http://nodester.com
Based on experience this past weekend at the Baltimore Start-Up Weekend event putting up an about page is tough. We banged out/refined the concept within 4 hours, then did wireframes/logos, set up server, create/modify PSD for both our launchrock page & site, then did front-end coding(other team member did back-end coding at same time) and then finished 1st iteration and tweaked it twice to get the two pages we created looking presentable. We slept some in between.

We definitely(2 biz ppl, 1 designer & 2 techies) would like to have put more info on our homepage (http://www.adsgrader.com) and create an about page but not able to due to time constraints.

For anyone who has not been to a Start-Up Weekend Event I just want to say the $100 to attend is well worth it! SO much fun and the way I think tech incubators should select/choose start-ups(See who can in 48 hours assemble team to create a viable product that can scale & select candidates into incubator to further products that matter along).
Seriously. Once I was assigned to a project with a coworker that commented code instead of deleting it. I explained to him why this was wrong, he kind of agreed and deleted some of the commented code as he saw it, but didn't care much either way. Until at some point, we needed to test a part of the program without a feature, so we commented the code that was related to it. When the time came to uncomment that code, we realized we had no quick way to know which code we had just commented, and what was old stuff that should have been deleted.

After we finished with that, we took a few hours to remove all the useless commented code.
Although I agree that it's not a real backup, there are people out there who have nothing else except for their laptop harddrive.

Dropbox isn't a professional backup for business critical stuff, but it's a massive step up for people who's previous backup strategy was "email myself the data every so often"
I don't think your list proves very much, if anything.

Nearly every field requiring commitment gets a negative reaction of this sort. What fields aren't boring 'til you get them? What fields don't require memorizing things? At best, you're talking any field requiring thought but even there, lots people give up on intense thought, until they one day get it.
It's worth noting the difference in tone from the bulk of the discussion in this thread.

Objectively, Ice Lake "isn't too bad" in comparison with Zen 3 either. "It would be nice if it" drew a 20% less power at load, but in practice you could use either product without trouble.
Not for me. And I go from client to client every few months. I did see horrible 1hr+ stand ups in the past, but I don’t think the author was exposed to that kind of horror
Today is error-RPC-no-connections-available-but-I-restarted-everything-I-need-a-beer day XD
None of this particularly matters given that Signal is actively working on not requiring phone numbers.
>As we saw with GameStop, they can rug pull on you at any time. With decentralized cryptos like BTC & ETH, that can't happen from your own private wallet. You can always transact.

ETH is probably not the best example here because they have rug-pulled people with a hard fork.
large stash =/= premine
You mean also if managers under you were very publicly fired for union organization without you being in the loop and then had the whole union friendly group moved out from under you? Otherwise you're making straw man arguments.
Go & Java don't do reference counting. They have a GC instead.
>But far from a condemnation of the BI.

I'm not condemning it; I see this as just a problematic point that I don't remember being discussed.
I think the problem here is that you're not seeing that 'politics' encompasses an incredibly broad spectrum of things, and the only time that something is labeled 'political' is when it reaches a certain level of controversial for the relevant society.

For example, selling a hamburger would have been an obviously political act in the Soviet Union. We don't see it as such because vanishingly few people believe that commercial transactions between private parties should be forbidden. But whenever someone advertises a hamburger, depicts the purchase of one, or leaves a review of one on a website, they are engaging in an act that we only view as apolitical because of the status quo that we inhabit.
Is there any alternative?
This is not really surprising. I have a VOIP home phone, but only because I don't want to chase down my cell when it rings. If i could just have my cell phone work like a cordless phone at home, i.e. all the phones in the house ring when my cell rings, then I would use just my cell.
Have you spoken to Peldi of Balsamiq? Sure, you're competitors, but I bet he will be happy to give some advice and share some experiences. With your import feature, you could possibly become a good complement to their product.

Regarding your pricing, have you considered not having a free version at all? It sounds like your initial users may be poor startups, which is probably not the best target market. If you raised your prices, you could target more appropriate customers.

Also, check out BidSketch by Ruben. His customers might be yours too.
Right now we're hosting it because it makes setup / integration time very quick. We're considering going open source for those who want to setup a box to do this yourself.

Here's an example of how we use it: We push original high resolution versions of photos/graphics to S3. Then to make a page with smaller, cropped thumbnails, it's as easy as calling for the image through Cloudfront with a special cdnimag.es url. (example integation: http://www.seewhatiwore.com/browse)

You'll notice with a site like Flickr, they generate five fixed sizes and they are locked into those sizes across their site. (example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rappensuncle/183689226/sizes/l/...)

With cdnimag.es you can generate variations of the original image (sizes, crops, grayscale, reflection) on the fly without doing anything to the original. All this while still enjoying the caching and performance benefits of a CDN like Cloudfront.
He said a lot of things, including suggesting that jews went to the ovens voluntary (as some sort of protest against the Nazies). He may have his hearth in the right place, but I wouldn't take advice from him.
I did initially, until I looked up [1] and changed it in the edit. I figure separating it is cleaner.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator
They provided a service which I would not have minded paying for (with a few more features). So I am really surprised to hear this.

Looking forward to hearing why the decision was made.
The following comment adds no value to the discussion, but I'm kind of childish and don't want to look like a dumbass in front of the cool kids :)

You'll notice that there's a footnote that isn't actually related to anything in the body of the comment. It's because the footnote was wrong; I just felt like it would be dishonest to hide it in the edit. (this is also the reason the edit: I did some looking around...) portion exists.

Interestingly, the edit happened prior to any child posts on the comment, and so was not really a reaction to being corrected. I'd actually googled and found [1], and realized (as someone else said) that function calls don't use the comma as an operator.

tl;dr; never, EVER expect left-to-right evaluation of arguments to a function :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator
Totally makes sense! Yeah, this app isn't for everyone. I am personally very regularly in many active facebook group chats and love the stickers. To each their own.
I get the theory behind the talk and I find the idea funny. I find the talk condescending and not in the slightest funny. I find alot of 'traditional' developers miss the point and believe there being insulted and what they have been doing for a long time to be 'wrong' (in no way is it, its just not gospel) and get all protective and dismissive.
I get similar effects, but a simple aspirin seems to subdue them :)
Isn't this ultimately going to end up being a rationing issue?
OK, rationing it's a forbidden word today but maybe we could have carbon credits divided by person and they are free to use them however they want. Even trade them to others.
I know this is _super_ simplified but perhaps we need to start thinking in those terms sooner or later?
Determining jurisdiction is hard and I won't pretend to know the final answer the courts would give (though I have no doubt they already have the tools to figure it out).

But if it were up to me it would come down to geo-targeting. If you can geo-target a locality, you need to abide by the rules there.
I used to be pro-nuclear as well, but I‘m not anymore. If you look at fully externalized cost including the consequences of uranium mining and storage of isotopes, renewables plus storage are close to breaking even.

Except that even the minimum reactor size (for technical, security and proliferation reasons) mandates extremely large investment in terms of capital and space, which in turn leads to ownership by large intransparent conglomerates, bickering by NIMBYs, clearances, costly audits and years of planning and validation.

Renewables plus storage on the other hand just get cheaper by automation and are relatively affordable. Any larger company can afford cash and space for solar on the roof plus a PowerPack in the backyard.

Knowledge and learning rate for that track advances at an order of magnitude faster rate than for fission or fusion.

In terms of scaling up as quickly as needed, nuclear is dead in the water.
I would recommend to stop taking lamotrigine. The IQ points it takes off is unreasonable. Or, put another way, that shit makes you stoopid.
My (western) understanding is that this is in response to a lot of activity (terrorism might be the right word, or it might not) around cultural repression. The goal from the government is integration and safety/control, as I understand it.

As far as "just change", I'm not sure what to say in response to this. I don't mean this as an attack or anything, but "come on just give up your life/culture/values" seems a bit... crass?
Lobbyist are clever. It often isn't the money directly given that matters, but the threat of giving money to the opponent.
You'd be surprised, though, sometimes. My 10 year old loved building the "age 16+" modular buildings, Tower Bridge, container ship, etc, when he was 4-6. Only grownup assistance needed was providing thumbs to mash things down occasionally, and sometimes suggestions on how to sort.

He'd still be doing it, too, if he'd not run out of room to build :P

("Age 16+" LEGOs really just require ... typical age 6-7 spatial skills plus not screaming in terror when you see thousands of pieces).
This is so good!

How does it work with selecting text and copy-pasting? In the Sublime Text example, can Bob overwrite Alice's clipboard.
Maybe is a Russian listening device with unintended side effects like in Cuba?

That would explain why 'workers' aren't dropping dead and people far away under the cube law are legitimately sick?
Also you can watch the lectures by Abelson and Sussman themselves[1], also on MIT OpenCourseWare.

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

[2] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
I would think most WebGL apps would apply mainly to entertainment, which people will do at home. Home users can simply be directed to download a browser that supports WebGL. They are all free.
I use Fahrenheit for iOS and like it.
Sure, but the economics of the marketing are not the same. Websites needed captchas, so it made sense. They saw other websites using them, and the link to the recaptcha was embedded. Are they going to embed language learning modules in language learning programs?
It makes me wonder how much Paul Allen was involved with it besides the money grant. You'd think he'd actually enjoy geeking out on some of the details and be involved enough to either a) prevent mismanagement or b) have enough confidence in what they are doing to continue to commit funds to it.
By that logic, until Microsoft supports Android and iPhone they will never be useful.
why do you have the listing for 3 months? is there a buy it now or do bidders have to wait?
Tell us what your website is and what it does.

I'm sure that this information is in the linked article, but so that this isn't just an advertisement for your sale, tell us about it. How'd you market it, why did it "fail"? What made you decide to sell? How'd you settle on a price? What do you plan on doing after this? Are there employees that come with this? What's it written in etc. etc. etc.
> why does shipping have ANYTHING to do with purchasing!?

Because that is an extremely effective way of detecting fraud.

If someone's billing address is in location X and their shipping destination is location Y (e.g. X = Washington State, Y = Florida) then in terms of your fraud score, it shoots through the roof. This goes astronomical if it is cross-country (e.g. billing in US, shipping to Mexico).

If you're a student it might be worth your while calling your bank and having your billing address moved from whatever your home state is to the state where you plan on living. If you're doing online billing this won't have much impact day to day, but will make it so you dodge most fraud protection.

Unfortunately most (all?) banks don't allow you to add multiple addresses onto a single account.
Maybe SpaceX can use the Google Barges for landing platforms?
I don't think people should have downvoted you for this, but you've also taken this thread way off-topic, and not in the unpredictable satisfying way.

(I've detached this subthread and flagged it as off-topic.)
And of course the opposite is what actually happened. There is probably a lesson in there...
ahead of time optimization!
down hole, surface, annulus, multiple legs, pump speed, pump current, pump vibrations, liquid volume, separator pressure, separator water, separator oil, separator gas, valve positions, tank levels, tank temperatures, tank pumps etc..
Blind luck. Web developers had copied and pasted functions for years, a few of them grew up from that basic beginning and tried to make lemonade.

Can't wait till the next big one, because this one isn't doing it for me.
That was the whole point of Google's advertising platform: it would deliver ads based on the content of the page you were on. That's why it is called "AdSense."

It has since morphed into something else entirely.
These developers are very naive if they are unaware confidentiality / non-defimation clauses are part of most B2B agreements. As a general rule yes you should fear breaking contracts. Bad things might happen.