jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
true that. which immediately shows how excellent the HN community still is, because i've seen far lower points on every other social site i know. good going, guys!
I recently made the choice to put an 80GB SSD into my 2007 MacBook, instead of getting a new machine (and my RAM was already maxed out). It's amazing what this 4 year old machine still does, it feels so much faster, no more beachballs for me.
Public school teachers I know (both those teaching in middle class schools and those teaching in harsh conditions in poorer areas) absolutely know that the system is there, but it’s not something trivial to change as an individual, and many of them are doing all they can just to keep their heads above water.

Teaching 20 or 30 students in a class – whether you have the same students all day as in elementary school, or whether they’re in 5 hour-long batches as in middle/high school – is a tremendously demanding job under the best conditions. If most of those students are dramatically behind where the standard curriculum says they’re supposed to be (discouraged because they’re failing all the official tests), with heart-breaking home lives or time-consuming jobs outside school. Add administrative overhead and so forth, and teachers in many cases just don’t have the time and energy to give every student what he needs. It’s a risky career move and a heck of a lot of work for a teacher to decide that the state mandated curriculum is a load of crap and independently push off in a new direction.

Learning math requires intense focus, and a class of 30 people who don’t want to be there makes everything really really difficult, not at all comparable to a 1-on-1 or small group tutoring situation. The “talented and driven” get some attention because they are easier to teach. But I don’t think your generalization is fair to teachers. The ones I know dump their hearts and souls into reaching the worst-off students, and go home and cry about it when they don’t feel like they’re getting through.
I came up with this idea myself when I was trying to grasp how to connect evolution with altruism between obviously unrelated individuals.

When I was 17 or so.

So I don't think it's new or cunning. I'd like to know why this is stupid. Was the altruism between unrelated individuals never actually observed? Does not cooperative behavior give competitive advantage to groups and individuals?
I think the number on "Paid work and study" had quite significant differences (Japan 6.3, Germany 3.9 (which is less than France and surprisingly low)) and was very interesting.

But I definitely agree that numbers from a more diverse country sample could be very interesting.
The reason it is dismissed is that group selection has been proposed and investigated many times in the history of evolutionary theory and found wanting, ironically because the mathematics don't hold up in realistic natural scenarios.

This article doesn't go into enough detail to tell us what is different in this new formulation of group selection. We'll have to read the paper to find out.
Because they supposedly had anti India content from ISIS (sigh)
The Apple/GT Advanced Technologies fiasco really saddens me. Of course I have no idea what the contract between the two said, but sapphire-coated screens would be really great, and it seems like they still might be possible. But Apple would have to realize that its cultural habit of playing tough with suppliers wasn't the right approach in this case, swallow its pride, and spend whatever is required to salvage the situation.

That's just how it looks to me as a potential customer, piecing together things others have said. I have no inside information.
I think the government Internet providers (MTNL etc.) have already blocked it. I cannot access github without VPN.
It is very important to know two things about that work.

1. It was for Sigbovik, which is a joke conference. The work was a fun side project by one dude.

2. Tom Murphy isn't an AI researcher, it wasn't intended to demonstrate the state of the art of the field, and it wasn't using modern techniques like neural networks.

It was a great story and I love Tom's work, but it shouldn't be used as a meaningful example of the limitations or worries regarding AI.
When I was young and enthusiastic I used to maintain user and chrome CSS overrides like that. Synced via DropBox no less!

Now I am older and tired of doing the symlinking every time I setup a new install of Ff.
Who decides who gets subsidized by facebook or not? Seems like the government wants their propaganda subsidized
Your analogy isn't quite right. More like this:

There are a bunch of stores in your area that offer free samples. You open your own store where people can tell you what stores they like, you go and grab the free sample, and then give the sample out at your store for free in exchange for there person's email and phone number and filing out a survey on which samples they like. Then you tell them where the sample came from and also sell their name and number and preferences to advertisers, some of whom are the stores you're getting samples from. Really hungry people will go to the store and pay for more, everyone else will be happy with the samples you gave them and walk away, maybe telling their friends how good it was. Your store gets hugely popular and has way more visitors every day than any of the local stores.

Now the government comes in and tells you that you have to pay for your samples, but regular people can still go to those stores and get their free samples.

But see, this is why I think Facebook was right here. If the stores really didn't want you doing this, they could just not give you a free sample. I'm not sure why the government needs to step in here at all. If you're providing a benefit to the other stores (more foot traffic) than why should they get paid? And if the traffic you are providing isn't good, why should they let you get the free samples?
I need to get this for my Uncle, he's a huge Star Trek fan and a machinist.
In all stock deals, how much does that end up being? Like 1 share Apple per 1000 stock options of the startup?
> There is explicit Communist Party representation in the EU and other Western governments, so even if it were true that all Chinese have exactly the same political values as defined by the CCP, it is not true that no people in the West share those.

The post-Maoist CCP has very different ideology from Western Communist parties (heck, even the original Maoist CCP had a distinct ideology from the contemporary Stalinist Soviet Communist Party.)

But even if ignoring that, it's the fallacy of composition to conflate “some people in the West have the same ideology as the dominant ideology of the PRC” with a contradiction to “the West as a whole has a different ideology than the PRC”.
need better install instructions.
It’s interesting to note the blacked out parts of the HUD.
That you're still saying things like "survival mode"† suggests that you're not absorbing what's being said. Call it maintenance mode (as in, "to maintain(2)"‡) if you want, and I'll buy that. But survival mode is far, far off.

† https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920187

‡ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maintain
Welcome to white collar america programmers. It sorta sucks but at least you can afford a boat you never use and a house for your ex-wife to raise your kids. Signed Doctors, Bankers and Lawyers.
He's already stated that it won't be free and that the consumer base stations (using phased array antennas) will run from $100 to $300.
I could delete more than that in a week :)
Why would anyone scrape this site when they could just download the leaked dataset?
Laws are supposed to codify what we want the ideal society to be, not what our rage-fueled selves crave.
It could be more misleading. He could have said "sitting in an Oracle database". And that would imply that Oracle can scale enough that one instance would handle it.
"arseassarseholes"?!
Git well soon!
The web client requires my phone to be online and doesn't support offline notifications so that it has to be open all the time. I guess it's very much like Pushbullet for WhatsApp, not a desktop app for WhatsApp.
> if advertisers did this, they have to somehow pay out to the consumer something of worth - free stuff. otherwise, i m not gonna let an advertiser beam anything into my field of view!

Exactly. If the price is right, people will view advertisements. It's really as simple as that. So the question of whether advertisement will win or disappear depends on whether advertisers will be willing to pay what consumers demand in return for viewing the ad in question.

How the economics of this will change is very hard to predict, IMO.
Thanks for the costume idea!
Chrome is the new IE.

The new web developers generation just replaced IE with Chrome.
Great to hear. I got tired of searching for good content and using interfaces that weren't couch friendly.
University of Toronto, Engineering Science Winter 2014-2015: http://www.fees.utoronto.ca/Assets/Student+Accounts+Digital+...

EDIT> And Waterloo (see CS and Systems Engineering): https://uwaterloo.ca/find-out-more/financing/fees

I was referring to top engineering programs that are competitive with top US engineering and CS schools.

EDIT2> I doubt that the daycare rate is typical, in general, but it's typical for the area of Toronto that we live in. Overall, though, daycare is very expensive.
Because kids with bad parents don't deserve good educations. Sigh.
There are a few different types of employees in Japan. Most people want a '正社員', (Seishain) or full company employee position.

Seishain's are notoriously difficult and expensive to fire, even if they are in no way productive.

To get around this, many companies have increased their reliance on contractors, or 派遣, which can be let go pretty easily.

Panasonic could be slicing a large part of their japanese workforce as well by not renewing these contracts, and just not reporting on it, perhaps because of the bad press in japan such measures would generate.
My wife and I tried to do this recently on $1.70 per person per day. We didn't last our intended 28 days. A few observations we found:

Meat and organic food was too expensive.

Fruit is crazy expensive so we bought OJ from concentrate with no additives as a cheap source of Vitamin C.

Eggs were are very expensive, but we needed the protein and nutrients, so rationed ourselves to 3 each per week.

We had to remove all sugar to save on cost and sugar crashed badly.

We decided that Costco was cheating due to the $70 membership fee and so we alternated between Safeway and Walmart.

You quickly learn the difference between broccoli florets and stems. [Stems are cheaper]

Baking your own bread is incredibly cheap and if you're using a sourdough starter you just need flour, salt and water. It's a great staple and adds taste to the meal. I scraped the unused flour off the work bench and dumped it back in the sourdough starter to save on cost.

Lentils are the most complete non-meat protein source.

Combining beans and rice give you a complete protein.

Cheese is too expensive and you can't make cheese from regular organic off-the-shelf homogenized ultra-pasteurized milk. It just doesn't set when you add the rennet.

You can buy coffee for $1 for a months worth of ground coffee at walmart. It's called Master Chef and it tastes like a used catbox.

Before we did our experiment we found a few "living on a dollar a day" blogs, but every single one bought in bulk and then calculated the cost of each scoop they took out of the bin. They also didn't care about nutritional completeness and basically starved themselves for the period.

After trying to do this on $1.70 and failing, I think Mike's budget of $3 is probably a realistic per person budget if you're going to stay healthy.
Lentils? My god, lentils!

I once lived in a happy big house with fellow students. We took turns cooking. One of us, an excellent vegetarian cook, whipped up a terrific lentil stew that was so fantastic I had two large bowls. What a tasty meal!

What a night! My roommate had to abandon the room, and two individuals in adjoining rooms were driven downstairs to the living room. I slept only fitfully between blasts. No one spoke to me for 3 days.

Lentils! Never again!
How do Java annotations encourage that more than struct tags? If you can write metadata, you can write code that reflects on it. I don't see any structural difference other than IBM hasn't started writing enterprise WebSphere code in Go, yet.
If its private enough to poop in its not private enough to do a drug deal in? So you can see multiple people's legs that's going to stop things?
From the article:

>Randomly generating an existing key is essentially impossible. If all 7 billion people on the planet generated a million keys per second for a century, a year later they would have on the order of 1025 new keys - the probability of any of those matching a previously-used key is far less than the probability of winning a lottery jackpot every day for three years. In other words, it’s impossible to “get lucky” and generate a duplicate key even if you have all the computational power on Earth and try for more than the average human lifespan.
>So you are saying that you think that "Postman" declining to pursue legal action against "Postwoman" might lead to a court deciding that "Postman" is a generic mark

Per this posting from a law firm [1], as your question is stated with the inclusion of "might" the answer is yes. Apparently it can go one of three ways: abandoning, not impacting/abandoning, or diminishing. Two of these results are bad for the trademark holder.

I'd assume a C&D letter would be sufficient to get a proper result or at least should be the first move in these matters, but I'm not a lawyer nor play one on TV or online.

[1] https://www.dbllawyers.com/can-lose-trademark-rights-dont-su...
As one living in the US, I think renting a truck is quite viable, as is renting a trailer for your sedan/ minivan/ SUV. Oddly, we don't seem to do it much.

I recently bought a pickup knowing that the number of days in the year I need to transport bulky stuff can't really justify owning a truck. But since it (a Honda Ridgeline) is about as livable as an SUV, I didn't feel too foolish. Given that few luxury SUVs can be had for the $US 40k I paid, and given this truck's many upgrades that help it to rival a luxury car, I was sold.
I know you think this seems very logical, sane - but you have a tell "outside city limits" - you want these people rounded up and bused out. it's not a solution.

Sane policing, treatment programs, and massive development is the solution.
Yes. This probably works better in sand than almost any ICE.
> As a native Polish speaker it was very strange to me when English speakers say things like "twelve hundreds" for numbers between 1000 and 2000

Minor nitpick but people will say, "twelve hundred" not "twelve hundreds" (at least in all of my experience growing up in the US). The reason being, you have eight hundred, nine hundred, (we don't talk about ten hundred), eleven hundred, twelve hundred, and so on. It's kind of like a continuance of how the hundreds below 1000 are named.

Interestingly you will hear sometimes "ten hundred" when talking about address systems where each block increases the address by 100. Such as, "the ten hundred block of Example street." But I've never heard it anywhere else.
“Also, why would you want to allow non-lawyer ownership of law firms?”

For the same reason or not-reason you can have any other company owned by people who are not experts in the company’s subject. This is probably good for lawyers but otherwise this restriction makes no sense.
If anything people might be more worried about doing drug deals in a confined space and not being able to flee making it easier to be robbed.
If graphic design is the makeup, then typography is the bone. You should start with the bone, and I can't recommend enough of this book:
http://www.amazon.ca/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bring...

Also, by typography I don't just mean fonts, but also the layout, the structure, the readability, etc.
Reddit is over that way ---->.
It's worth pointing out that the xboxlive truerank algorithms were first implemented in F#. (and perhaps still are)
My view on this is probably a bit scewed. I grew up in an around auctions, currently work in an auction, my entire family works in auto auctions.

What happened here isn't even slightly uncommon in our industry, it just comes with the territory. What we sell is cars, thousands of them per week.

If somebody bids on a car, but then doesn't pay up...they don't get the car. They might get thrown into something called a "KO book", which means that they'll be banned from our auction, and everybody else's.

That's it. That's the end of it.

If one of our sellers pulled what this seller did, they would almost certainly be banned from ever doing business with us again.
I just looked at the GCC contributors list and used an educated estimateof how many on various commercial compilers. I don't have exact numbers, which is why I said "probably".

And we aren't talking only about high-level ideas here, but actual implementation details.

Huh? What implementation details? Citation? Silverlight looks fundamentally different than any other product, except WPF. I'd love to see who their copying implementation details from.
Meta comment: +8? Who is upvoting this comment which is nothing but a stream of insults, and why?

You value this comment and want to see more of this kind of comment on HN?
The answers are so ungrammatical and mystifying that it almost seems like the designers were trying to kill the test on purpose. The "correct" answer is this:

The predicted height increase in centimeters for one centimeter increase in the first metacarpal bone

...as far as I can tell, the answer written for sentient humans would be something like:

As the length of the metacarpal bone increases, so does height.

But my translation is so obvious that I sat there for five minutes wondering if I was looking at some kind of otherworldly trick question. Nope. They just made a wretched problem.

Obviously, the original SAT was an IQ test (as the article says) that allowed poor but smart kids from poor schools to get into college. But that process is self-defeating, as poor areas have all their smartest people leave for everything from state schools to Harvard. As inequality becomes more rigid groups like the College Board are flailing and improvising.
I dropped Facebook years ago and never bothered much with social media.

I'm still on twitter though. I don't care about hashtags and mentions, but companies do. They're still hooked at this social media bullshit.

So turns out that if you want proper and fast support by most companies, the easiest way is to start talking shit about them on twitter.

Immediate response, by a real human being.

When that stops working, I'll get off twitter.
Suggestion: use OpenID for authentication. I'm going to test the site anyway, but I'm really not looking forward to the prospect of creating yet another account on yet another site.
Corporations have rights to free speech only if they are people under the law. Currently, they are, but I think there are major problems with that. It takes responsibility from those making decisions and puts it on some general body.

Corporations don't make decisions, though. People make decisions. We act as individuals. France doesn't attack Britain. Soldiers in one army attack soldiers in another army. We act as individuals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodological_individualism

I don't agree with everything it said, but The Corporation makes some good points about how corporations as legal entities allow people to abdicate responsibility. Watch it on Youtube here: http://bit.ly/hb0wuL.
Designed on Linux actually, and looks fabulous!
You like that? I was going for a "this shit is crazy" motif. Just to make sure it's clear that it's new and not tested yet.
I like how you have "Marissa Mayer" in your Inbox.
I've always loved how google reader presents their content. There's something about seeing articles appear below you that always causes me to want to read just one more.
There is an almost sinister genius in what he does at Apple

That's an interesting thing to say. Why sinister?

I'm not saying you're doing this, but a lot of people associate evil with efficacy (think Darth Vader, or the "evil genius" character in movies). Actually, that's not so realistic. Thinking about Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and so on - these people are not necessarily paragons of virtue overall, but the qualities that make them so productive ARE virtuous, i.e., good, and not evil.
I understand the economic benefit, but I have yet to see a good explanation of how it might happen. Americans aren't willing to work manufacturing jobs for $5 or even $10 an hour - and you can't support a middle class in the US on $5 or $10 an hour.

All manufacturing requires is a decent infrastructure, reasonably stable political and legal system, and a workforce willing to work cheaply enough. Trying to compete against China - and the rest of the world - on those terms for today's market, rather than doing everything in its power to keep its lead and define tomorrow's markets, is the biggest mistake the US could make.

Manufacturing is a relatively low skilled job - the expectation that manufacturing = middle class made sense 50 years ago, but not today.

Edit: a lot of my thinking on this issue is colored by the book The World is Flat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat). It's a complex issue, and I'm definitely open to new ways of looking at it.
It's ambitious, but between Tor, Freenet, and other building blocks there's a lot to start with. Seems like a great Summer of Code project.
In reference to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1908679
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This is definitely much more readable. My screen is 15" 19x12 resolution. So everything looks pretty small, but I could still read this, while the original one wasn't readable for me.
It's probably so the beam can be fired at a beam of hydrogen, as in a particle accelerator.
Well, they make SACD versions of some truly epic 1960-1970 era music that gets very good reviews.
Why are people randomly picked to go through the scanner? Wouldn't something more comprehensive be a lot more effective?
Here is possibly a better link:

http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_mitochondria.html

This is a sequel to the Inner Life of a Cell animation that came out a few years ago. It shows what happens inside the mitochondria, which supply power to the cell.

A brief explanation:

We see a snake-like molecule go through a couple of holes. This is an unfolded protein molecule and demonstrates that mitochondria mostly don't make their own proteins, they have to be imported. Mitochondria have an inner and an outer membrane so it has to go through two layers.

We follow it through the inner membrane and see the glory of the mitochondrial interior. We zoom past (and through) a bunch of proteins that are involved in oxidizing fuel molecules. There's a double helix DNA in the corner to remind us that mitochondria do synthesize some of their own proteins.

We next zoom in on a piece of the inner membrane. studded with protein complexes and surrounded by glowing molecules. Note that some of the proteins have their bottom part spinning - these are ATP synthase, one of the most amazing of proteins.

[Out of time now, will write more later...]
Police in the United States are not philosophically derived from the Peelian Principles. Police are civilians and not military, but they are government agents of the state you live in, with powers above those of citizens.
But that's not a net win for me, compared to just having the action in a function that is called from several places.

Worse, composing the actions means I have to think through how the composing is going to affect the sequencing of events. Just having a function doesn't give me that problem - the sequencing is explicit, not hidden, and therefore is easier to reason about.