jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We can't have a revolution in education with the current bureaucracy in place. You need a more competitive and innovative supply than what we have, which is what vouchers can help with.

I have a middle ground: Require all charter schools to be "open-source": Open accounting books for everyone to see. Don't cap profits, don't restrict teacher pay, simply make all charter schools show what people are spending for the education they're getting.

The results of the charter schools' performances will show in the quality of the children coming out, as well as (potentially) by some ostensibly neutral, non-binding ratings agency. The only thing that can let a charter school be forced to shut down would be blatant fraud as defined by money laundering or other abuses (aka not tied to performance).
He doesn't look like a kid to me
Well, you've basically explained to us that you have an idea and are not sure if there are patents that cover the idea but have a friend who claims to have seen patents that do. You went and looked for them and found some that sound similar. The "hacker" in me would most likely have been coding this prior to even thinking about patents. What does a patent have to do with it if it doesn't even exist, yet?
Yeah, seriously, go to a local food pantry, they'll be glad for the help
I would define bootstrapping more on par with autonomous scaling. The criterion pertains to the risk in capitalization. The more the risk is self-owned, the more the "quality" of the bootstrap :)
Yeah, and SQL Server has its own set of warts and tradeoffs. As there are with any design. Just the nature of these things. Lots of these issues are getting focus of some sort from the hackers.
Yes, I really want to do my team meetings and one-on-ones in person, but am perfectly happy to do everything else remotely.
You're right. Instead of 2-3 hours spent commuting each day, this way I'll only have to spend 10-15 hours once a week.
Why is everyone who disagrees with SBC getting down voted? Are people not allowed to have different opinions on this? This article and speech are extremely subjective in their own right. Not too mention it's being sponsored by a literal _lobbying_ group. What am I missing here?
The trick is to click on "link" next to the comment and then write a reply. I try not to reveal that or to use it during a heated debate, since the reason the "reply" link is hidden is to discourage flamewars, but it's obviously not intended to hamper tech talk. And I wish HN had a private messaging system so that I could've mentioned that in private.

For a sense of scale, 60 mph travels one mile in 60 seconds, or 0.016 miles per second. Hyperloop goes 760 mph, which is 0.211 miles per second. (Jeez, that's fast.) So it only takes about 10 seconds for the car to traverse 2 miles, or in other words to traverse whatever effect such a motorized roller would have on the path of the vehicle. Like, if the roller causes the track to move "outwards," for example toward the ocean, by a little bit, then the pod is going to move "a little bit toward the ocean and then back" in 10 seconds.

That seems like it might be reasonable. But I suppose the question is whether a 7,700 lb pod travelling at 760 mph can tolerate, say, a 2-meter deviation in its trajectory in 10 seconds. Meaning, one meter toward the ocean, and then one meter back towards its original course. Can the pod bank against the walls by a displacement of 0.2m per second? If you hold out your arms to the length of a meter, 0.2m is pretty small, but it's not too small. And the pod would be going sideways by that amount per second.

1-meter deviation due to thermal expansion is extreme. 0.25m per mile might be a more realistic deviation. So that would be a 1-meter deviation total: 0.5m toward the ocean, then 0.5m back, which would still mean the pod needs to scrape against the inner wall by 0.1m per second.

I wonder what the limits on the banking are...
They need 2x performance increases every year to keep up with Apple/Imgtec and Qualcomm. The only reason their performance looks impressive is they announce long before shipping and compare their unobtanium to everyone else's shipping devices. If you compare shipping devices to shipping devices (e.g. the TK1 vs. A8X benchmarks they have in the article) they're not ahead on performance.
If they haven't gone over it in complete detail yet, ask them about their development cycle. Do they use Scrum/Agile? What version control do they use? How do they do estimates? If they use git, how do they do branching? Do they do testing? If so, do they do unit testing, continuous integration, etc.? Do they have a QA team?

Revealing questions:

1.) What happens when the estimate is off? Does it happen often? This should give you a hint as to how much overtime you'll be working.

2.) Do you like working here? Look for what their reaction is. If they pause or stammer, it can be a red flag.

3.) How many weeks of vacation did you take last year? Some companies have "unlimited" vacation time policy, but you might feel awkward taking 5 weeks if everyone else takes 3.
> But I've been using OS X all this time, and honestly I don't think it's any worse than before.

Agreed. Yosemite has been flat out the best OS X version I used. Zero bug except a few Airplay issues. I'm even using beta builds for production, this thing is that stable.

I'm suspecting that Marco's point shows how a maturing part of the developer/consumer now takes a larger mindshare. Not a bad thing, it's just that it doesn't tell much on the product.

edit: Marco says this gets him 7.8m/s traffic, so there has to be something for _many_ here.
It's a product for troubleshooting (my customers are carriers) and call recording is either on a selective basis (eg record the next n calls from this IP that's having trouble) or for monitoring (record 1% of calls and check for quality issues and alarm if needed). But some companies may be interested in having more extensive recordings for whatever reason. Perhaps as an easy way to offer call recordings for call centers, for instance. Or, I could see robodialling carriers wanting permanent, full audio, logs of many calls to prove they are complying with laws.

You'd be surprised how many intermediaries a call will go through. Sometimes even calling a neighbor, on landlines, will hit a tiny VoIP company in the middle. It's fair to assume, in such cases, random techies can record all sorts of end user calls without any real oversight. But I'm unaware of anyone actually bothering with this, usually the signalling provides all you need to figure problems out.

The only routine call recording I'm aware of is for 911 calls, for obvious reasons.

Anyways, my only point was there's lots of data even outside top websites and you can still have fun writing cool algorithms and systems. E.g. one of my todos is to implement SSE-optimized indexes. Maybe only a few percent boost, but fun and fairly justifiable use of time:)
Well, they were added before the first public release (0.9.0 IIRC) but were not considered from the start and if I remember Guido's write-up correctly, it was more of a design hack because somebody mentioned with Python's internal design at that time, it would have been easy to add some sort of classes.

I'm no expert in the internals of Python and its evolution, so I actually don't know how much that influenced the actual design of the classes later on but it always seemed plausible from what I've seen and also given the fact that Guido himself often says that the very first version didn't have a class statement.
I bet they'll complain about that too!
English is universal, period. It can reach into any new domain like theoretical physics or computer science. Its ability to deal with black holes or linked lists has nothing to do with picking bugs out of fur.

English can also, of course, incorporate 1s and 0s and thus express anything that could be put into a computer (including a dolphin's brain, which is a computer). This would be horribly inelegant and slow, and I don't think it would ever come to that, but English is capable of doing it.

Just like a universal computer is quite a simple and minimal thing, so is a universal language. This is a common theme about universality: as soon as you start to get a reasonable amount of generality in a system, you often find you've reached universality even if you didn't intend to.

Universality will be discussed further in David Deutsch's upcoming book _The Beginning of Infinity_ which I highly recommend. The book also addresses the particular issue of the circumstances of evolution of our brain and whether that fundamentally limits us.
Gruber continually comments about topics unrelated to why people are reading his blog. It's like, great dude, you like Stanley Kubrick. Great dude, you're a liberal. Great dude, you like baseball. No one gives a fuck! Write about apple and tech. DF is too popular to digress and distract into a personal blog like it still has only a few thousand hits a day.
This is utterly ridiculous. But in the same time you have a bit right here. First of all, these blockages are ordered by a law no 5651. They are mostly ordered and applied by judges via isps. Some of the blockages are not based on judge jurisdiction but by government organisation telecommunication and communication precidency. Ridiculous thing is they are full ip based level 3 or level 7 dns-ip diversion blockages. So by blocking a ip blocks they are also blocking "innocent by law" applications or sites. Virtual hosting like same ip different applications are not considered by law or by isp's. (well main isp responsible is Turk Telecom Net cause they have internet monopoly in Turkey). The thing you are right is they have accidentally the whole internet! By blocking google ips. And I do not believe TTnet has this much idiot engineers or admins. They sure have some background agenda by making these "mistakes"
it's so absurd to read these comments here. it's just so laughable... such an amount of nitpicking... let them do it their way... and don't dare to interfere... and if you want to hear a reason: any market, even a "political market" will evolve the best possible way when there is great diversity.

it's just so laughable...
huh? define a philosophical constraint and i'll undefine it for you... i believe the import is that it helps us come to terms with our humanity, which has no formal definition, by definition

mathematics certainly informs philosophy, the most pertinent example that comes to mind is godel on the works of wittgenstein... if you look at philosophy post godel/wittgenstein it has become continental philosophy (analytically formed 'novels') and analytic philosophy (which informs the impact of logic on natural language)...

each of these activities carries as much or as little weight as you would like to give it... but conservative thinkers might say the same of even pure sciences - are we really better off with all the devices/distractions of modern life?
I wish these types of projects would identify themselves as koans in the README or something. Makes it much easier to surface exercises like this when googling.

I think this is the best way to learn languages.

Does anyone know of any for TypeScript?
Climate change is a funny topic in part because some elements on the far Left (represented by Naomi Klein, for example) want to use it as a lever to justify the kind of radical social engineering that failed so spectacularly and murderously and repeatedly throughout the 20th century, and the far Right have decided that to fight the politics they have to fight the science.

This has resulted in a situation where the Left, who abandoned science decades ago, pretend to care about it, while the Right--which has long had an ambivalent relationship with reality--has decided to go full-post-modern and construe all facts as pure social constructs, which is exactly what the Left has been saying for a long time.

Almost none of the discussion of "climate science" in the public sphere has anything to do with science, and if you're an actual scientist with relevant expertise and you say anything about the science you will get beaten up by both sides.

As a computational physicist I've given my opinion on occasion that climate models are non-physical and therefore non-predictive, no matter how well-tuned they are to past climate (because only the correct physics can extrapolate the past forward, and the unphysical approximations in climate models are not small in the relevant sense.) What climate models do show fairly convincingly is that we are increasing the Earth's heat budget by 1.6 W/m2 or so, which is in the range of 0.5% overall, and this is plausibly a very bad thing.

So because I criticize climate models the Left attacks me as a denialist, and the Right embraces me as one, whereas I'm actually saying the models give a pretty decent reason to take some fairly mundane steps, like implementing carbon taxes and tariffs. The "tariff" part is important because it exports the cost of emissions to other jurisdictions. At this point the Right attacks me as being a socialist taxer (because taxes are socialist?) and the Left attacks me for not wanting to "change everything" (because that always works so well.)

There simply isn't any science in the "climate science" debate. It's all politics.
surprisingly interesting...
The good money in trading is in fees. I worked in risk management (on the Merc) which led to compliance for M&A which led to counter intelligence for the Army which led to IT security. 9 years of college, multiple deployments, a divorce, and lots of living leads to debt.
This is polynomial time in the number of bits.

I did make one mistake. I forgot to mention the half-integer case for x and y, which requires some additional logic. I implemented it fully python:

https://gdl.space/obiyukevit.py

N is 256-bit a sample number.
I also get redirected to an affiliate link when I click, contrary to the statement on the blog that, "there are no affiliate links."
Python and Django for missile control? For real?

import sys, missile_lib
destination = sys.argv[1]
controller = missile_lib.Missile_control()
controller.fire(destination)
The commenter above just didn't realize it; the submitter never denied he's using affiliates.
It's interesting to consider how propaganda is widely associated with totalitarian regimes. Propaganda is a means of stopping people from thinking in favor of giving them prefabricated conclusions--do only bad ideas truly benefit from propaganda?
> anybody who's ever successfully soldered smd components before could easily put this together in under half an hour.

Yeah, but the parent has a self-described 0 experience, and I assume can't solder either. So, 1 night to assemble, and 1-6 nights to debug.
It succeed if people like it after they've read it, but those who have read it said it was "good shit"
Schlock Mercenary (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/) also has a large number of strong female characters. It's a comic space opera.
I am reminded of the conservative financial wisdom regarding insurance, which is "don't ever insure against things you can pay out of pocket".

Should we, perhaps, be questioning whether it makes sense to vaccinate against things we can overcome in a few days without harm ?

Of course I am speaking of otherwise healthy adults, and YMMV.
striking resemblance to notify.me which came out several years ago...
yes, it was... YC definitely set me up on several "cofounder dates" during the course of YC... some of them looked promising, but ultimately none worked out. Eventually I had to just bear down and prepare for launch/demo day. As soon as I stopped looking, the right person came along :)
We'll likely be having our next one in SM, since CoLoft so generously donated space to us, but I don't see any reason we wouldn't be able to move around a bit! Out of curiosity, what part of LA are you in?
I'm not sure, besides all the other cryptocurrencies that have the same property.
>People in a position of authority with blind adherence to rules intended for optimal scenarios.

Most of them aren't blind. They know full well they're missing the forest for the trees but they follow through anyway in order to cover their butts and they justify it with "policy is policy" and "I've only got three years until my pension kicks up to the X% bracket".
Just for the record, the Wasm implementation in Chrome is a subsystem of V8. It's integrated into the main codebase and shares a lot of runtime services with the JavaScript support, primarily the optimizing compiler tier. So improvements to the (backend) of the optimizing compiler in V8 benefit both JavaScript and Wasm. There is also a baseline JIT compiler which is specifically built solely for faster Wasm startup and not used by JS.

The team (my former team) that maintains Wasm is a subteam of V8 and they all work together. This is unlike (P)NaCl which was both a separate team and a separate subsystem within Chrome. All of the former NaCl people work on Wasm now, primarily tooling and standards.
It's not cookies though, despite the title. GDPR banners regulate sharing of personally identifiying data, which are a wider category, with things like browser fingerprints or IP addresses in it too.
Well, there were no rules and procedures, per the article.

> a prosecutor told him by email that there were no written protocols from late December; nor had a written wait list yet been found.

And giving short life vaccines to people with co-morbidities during a pandemic is a world of difference than grocery store food. I'm not sure why we're even comparing the two.
Just what women want: coddling from an internet forum they'll never read.

The idea that people should avoid making the same cynical internet comments they always write because it's an African woman that made a thing all by herself is incredibly patronizing, so it concerns me how socially acceptable it is.
Limerance can wreck your life. I'm not kidding. Being with someone just long enough to have a kid may be optimal for your genes, but can really cramp your style in the modern world.

The person whom I was most strongly limerant with was both unmarriable and not someone I want to be connected to by a kid for the rest of my life. Using my brain, or perhaps rather the rest of my brain, and not treating limerance as some mystical holy thing is probably in the top three best decisions I have ever made in my life, along with marrying the person for whom I never had a lot of limerance (a smidge, I suppose, but nothing by comparison), just shared values, life goals, senses of humor, and the ability to have a strong truth-based relationship with each other. You know, all that unimportant stuff next to the question of whether I feel floaty around her.

Use your brain. All of it. Nobody will save you if you don't; they all think this same stupid thing.

(For that matter, it's also dangerous to think that a relationship must be built on limerance and once it fades it's "over". I suppose there are more reliable ways to fail at relationships, but this is up there. The question is not whether it'll ever be "over", the question is, what will you have left once it's "over"?)
"In the US, tax-supported public schools have existed since before the Revolution, and Europe and China had high-quality school systems hundreds of years before that."

I was obviously talking about the Gary plan. (And the widespread adoption of compulsory schooling.)

"People have been getting high for thousands of years, on anything they can find."

Not on benzos, amphetamines, and SSRIs.

"[citation needed]. Seriously, this is the sort of absurd claim you find on health-nut sites"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Trace_mineral_deplet...
This is completely not true anymore and I don't think it has been for 30 years. Just like that WSJ article from a few months back said, WASPs are a dying breed, if not totally dead already. The CEOs of Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Bear Stearns and Barclays are/were all Jewish. As is Charles Schwab, he president of the World Bank, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the president of the European Central Bank, and so on and so forth. Anecdotally, I don't know any WASPs in Finance at all. British Indian, Russian, Chinese/Korean american, tons of jewish people, white guys who aren't WASPs... the hours and culture might be ridiculous, but it ain't WASP culture anymore, if it ever was.
I try to strip things down to the essentials:

1. the things I must do (like eat, or die)

2. the things I should do (like exercise, or get unhealthy and weak and scrawny)

3. the things I want to do (to be me, natural, happy)

If I can't put a task in one of those 3 buckets, I usually don't do it at all. Or at least, it's a lower priority.

4. everything else. blah. meh.
I find it hard to appreciate art that revels in torture, graphic violence and emotional abuse as an end unto itself.

If you want an example of science fiction as high art, personally I would suggest Vernor Vinge (specifically A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky) and Ursula Le Guin.
About the "ignorance" on the part of the FBI guy, I wouldn't believe anything an interrogating officer tells me. Playing dumb is one of the oldest tricks in the book: "So, tell me about the religion you claim to profess and about which I know nothing so you can bullshit me, really".
Three possible replies to this.

#1. I have a MiFi device, so I can get started with the preliminaries as my spouse drives. And of course, once I arrive I'll be on-site with your team.

#2. Because I provide my own living arrangements, my expenses will be much lower. I'll charge you diesel from my current location instead of a round-trip business-class airline ticket, and the RV park is $300 a month, vs. $150 a night at a hotel. Since I tow my car, you won't be paying for a rental. And you won't be billed for bi-weekly weekend trips home, as I bring my home with me.

#3. (fudge it a bit...) I can be there as soon as I finish wrapping things up with my current client. Probably on the 9th.
I agree with andyn on the background image. Plain would work better.
Sans-serif font for the tool bar, make that a little larger (and remove 'stuff').
Looks good but keep working at it!
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This kind of branding is called ingredient branding. They try to remain visible as the supplier of a component. Intel is the textbook example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingredient_branding
In particular, Adblock Edge. They claim not to whitelist. I doubt ad blocking is going to work for Youtube much longer, though. If they can detect when you're not actually watching, what's to stop them from just not letting you watch the video if you refuse to watch at least two seconds of the ad?

"Mohan said the goal is to make sure that advertisers’ video spots run for at least two seconds while covering at least 50 percent of screens -- the industry standard. "
Ghostery + NoScript does just fine. Apparently people don't know but, NoScript also blocks flash, silverlight, and html5 videos/storage. I didn't even know Youtube had Ads until I went to a friend's house.

Adblock is one of the worst plugins you can ever install if you still wish to use your browser without hogging resources.
おめでとうベッム！Nice to hear that the business is doing well!　明けましておめでとう！
Not sure if you have looked at Data2SD. Allows 2GB (max) for /data

More info @

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3981637&p...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=852219 (specific for HTC Desire)
I was a user of xmarks and lastpass and I stopped using xmarks after they announced they were going to shut down. Now that they've merged I use both constantly. best 18 and change (xmarks gets pro-rated to expire the same time as lastpass) for service I've used.