skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really should hear how presumptuous you sound. How are teaching your son to deal with people? How is he going to learn that he lives in a society? That sometime life is boring? that sometimes you are not the only one? 3 hours a day might be enough for the curricular material, but schools are much much more than that.
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I have seen the religious zealots come out of homeschooling too. But do you have a source that has actual data showing that those are not a minority of the homeschool population?

I see no reason to believe they are the majority simply because they are visible.
IoT and the Uncloud: Why Owning Your Data Matters More on the Internet of Things
“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
Before I clicked the link I knew which video it would be. For some reason it's largely the single fact that people on nyc seem remember about Scala.

If you watch the presentation by Odersky you'll find that the new compiler addresses most if not all the things that Paul Philips mentioned.

For instance the new compiler has 5 phases. Just like javac.
Thanks from me too.

My wife and I (both uwaterloo! EE and CS respectively) watch your videos together. She has done quite a bit of wood working, and really enjoys your pantorouter.

In a few weeks, after a decade of waiting, we will finally have a shop to work in. Can't wait to do some projects with her.
my dad's old samsung android phone (guess it was a s3 mini) came with that font as default. Yep, that sucks.
I would be interested. Even though I'm moving to Elixir I'm sure most of the best practices can be ported.
Based on our feedbacks, the new C++11 standard is not its Swan song
The most serious is ignoring the effects of sitting all day. Employers tout their big monitors and new laptops but I've never seen one advertise treadmill workstations.

Another rationalization is that longer work hours are somehow mutually beneficial but I find the opposite to be true.
Eich donated the money in 2008, but nobody made a big deal of it until his promotion in 2014 to CEO. The standards for a project leader are clearly different than the standards for just any hacker.
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Very interesting attempt.

Is there anything about authentication, database connections, rate limiting or authorization planned for Hug?
I mean, those ones are usual things that may be simplified some times.

Anyway, excellent work and +1 for using Falcon and Python 3! :)
> I would be a big fan of the idea that legislation had built-in turnover clauses, for instance, that required renewal every N years (for a value of N not much larger than the turnover rate of legislators). Which then means if you want something to persist, you would have to document your rationale for posterity, and convincingly argue that that rationale still applies.

Let's be honest. These things would mostly be just bundled up and passed all at once. Or, alternatively, they would be used as leverage like the budget currently is. Actually, it would pretty much be exactly like the budget at this point. It either sails through with no issues, or it begins months of partisan bickering.

EDIT: Also, could you imagine the kind of flex we might see on major laws? I can only imagine large sets of laws sunsetting every time the Congress majority changes... Hey, at least it will create a whole industry centered around these adjustments! That's job creation right there! And, as always, the lawyers will be making their money.
I tend to read it as the steps taken in a thought process to try to use quantum entanglement to achieve FTL communication. Personally this is one of my favorite learning methods, since you go through the motions of a discoverer rather than getting the finished thought served.

The book "About Time" (Davies 1995) is written like this, and I love it :)
An important thing to consider is that, while there probably is an ideal block size for the current set of conditions (risk of centralization, average Bitcoin network latency, rate of transactions), there's no a priori reason that it should be 1 MB. It may well be less than 1 MB, or it may well be more. 1 MB is arbitrary. My best guess is that the optimal current block size is somewhat larger than 1 MB.
that and the "hacker vision" extension on chrome.
+1 for f.Lux!

Unfortunately, 35 years of typing in front of a screen has led to trifocals for me (or maybe I would have needed them anyway?).
That still causes issues. Co-ops are still extremely insular. It isn't an issue of being anti-social, it is an issue of being exposed to a vast and diverse set of different people with different biases, backgrounds, and abilities.

Home-schooled kids aren't permanently crippled and unable to succeed or something, but the range of people they are able to relate to and understand is diminished I think.

Non-academic groups are definitely good, but many of those often involve a great deal of like-mindedness (such as church groups, or groups sponsored by church groups). I don't expect you or other people who were home-schooled to be shut ins, but I do expect some extra difficulty in empathizing with those who are significantly different from you. (Not that it is impossible or something, just more difficult)
> If you haven't specified a license they have no legal right to use the code

This is technically correct - however according to the github TOS [1] [2] you agree to allow people to view and fork your code.

But - what is stopping me from creating a new algorithm that is X% faster than what is out there - uploading it to some service or site without a license and suing everyone who uses it? I have a feeling that someone would have done that by now.

Obviously in the US we have fair use for certain circumstances, but also I feel like if you attribute it to the author then that is fine. Otherwise every public school is forcing the students to break the law by making them use content from encyclopedias, research papers, and other online sources that don't have an explicit license. At least when I went to school - copying content from work that was not explicitly licensed was deemed ok as long as you cited it with MLA, APA, or whatever 3 letter format was popular at the time. However - mixing unlicensed code with licensed code could lead to a disastrous situation (unless you stated in the LICENSE file that a chunk of code is not under the overall license).

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/

[2] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/207941/reusin...
How we hire designers at GoCardless
Zsh is largely compatible with bash's quirks, and then layers lots of weird things of its own on top of that. ZSH is a great, very powerful shell which I use and enjoy, but it's not any of: "simple", "consistent", "fast" or "lightweight".
Open sourcing Fastly-configure, a script for automating Fastly config
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043430
Being able to identify the "official" project on GitHub is often tough, especially for projects with hundreds of active forks, none of them with any discernible merge-back pattern. Not sure if it's a great solution to allow a single use the ability to "own" a project name though. You can imagine it resulting in some of the problems associated with domain naming: name squatting and legal fights over trademarks.
I don't understand this response. Whenever homeschooling comes up, someone always says that homeschoolers are unsocialized. I don't even know what that means. Do you think homeschoolers never have friends or enemies growing up? Where did this prevailing belief come from? I say this as someone who was homeschooled all the way through highschool and attended university and grad school. Even if homeschoolers are 'less socialized' than public/private schoolers, have you noticed that there are the oversocialized people as well? I'm talking about the ones who were popular in highschool, and end up deriving their self-worth from what everyone else thinks of them. Is that not also as big a problem?

I don't disagree that socialization is an important part of growing up, I just disagree with the notion that homeschoolers are savages that live in caves until they're 18.
Thanks for the advice. I'm leaning this way. I suspect that if I don't change it now, I probably never will as it will only get harder. Probably doesn't matter that much though.
Why lawyers should help startup founders take cash off the table
Our Closet Door and the Compounding Effect of Procrastination
The problem with these obviously absurd punishments is that they are a result of conflating piracy and piracy-related crimes.

There's a difference between a regular individual illegally sharing a file in private and a for-profit organisation doing the same. For most crimes the motive is a huge factor in the severity of the punishment, the intellectual property utilisation industry desperately tries to prevent that kind of nuance from being applied to IP violations.

Even if you buy into the "file sharing is theft" mantra, the lack of proportion should be obvious: you don't punish casual shoplifters the same as career criminals who turn a profit on stolen goods.

Justice should be blind, no doubt, but context and motives matter. Cutting a decade out of someone's life for privately hoarding data[0] is absurd.

That said, punishments are only reasonable if they are in proportion to the damage (financial, but also social or mental) caused by the crime. The reason most ordinary people consider piracy a trivial offense is that the damages claimed by the industry have barely any basis in reality -- although what damages would be realistic is difficult to say because any research into the non-adverse effects of file sharing tends to be shot down.

I agree that piracy should be illegal. I just disagree on what should be considered piracy and to what extent it should be punished. Jaywalking and fare-dodging are illegal, too, but there are very few occasions in which they could result in punishments that would ruin someone financially (or socially in the case of jail terms).

[0]: An addendum: I prefer to distinguish between "normal" piracy (e.g. downloading the new Hollywood blockbuster) and hoarding (e.g. downloading every Hollywood blockbuster of the past decade including films you're not even interested in watching just for sake of completion). Hoarding isn't new (although the Internet makes it a lot easier compared to cassette and VHS recorders or stacks of CD-Rs) and I think it's better to consider it as a mental health issue rather than simply a "more extreme" (and thus more criminal) form of piracy. My personal experience is that most hoarders in fact also spend more money on legal media (e.g. cinema tickets, blu-rays or music albums) -- which is of course considered less of a problem because it's legal, although it's as much of a symptom as their piracy.
Yep a few nice words without any merit. Great "discussion", you should rant off and destroy another Nobel prize winner like Watson because he doesn't get in line with the facistic PC agenda.
Oh btw, You forgot to throw in a -icst or -phobic word directed at me. The whole "above it all and I am superior" is kinda weak without the shame words.
"Sushi is a tiny, simple hypervisor based monitoring tool detecting and stopping some of PatchGuard activities from Ring-1."

I know what a hypervisor is, I know Ring-1 is something like the vital area of the Windows kernel, and Patchguard seems to be a tool to protect the kernel but I still don't understand what Sushi is.

Is it a hacking tool to corrupt the kernel ?
School is a huge part of most people's early lives, to think you can replicate all of the cultural and social experiences that take place there wholly in extra-curricular activities, i think, is misguided.

I like Salman Khan's approach, which put simply is this:

Learning takes place at home, students can go over material at their own pace.

'homework' is done at school, where children are able to ask questions about the material, helping and receiving help from other students and teachers.

This may be similar to a 'home school co-op' as you mentioned, but i dont know.
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hard to resist temptation to lower oneself to your level (and that's quite a road down there), but I'll try - you are wrong. as always, it depends on people involved.
Harry Potter says, never trust anything if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
TrueCrypt's on-disk format specification is here[1] and it specifies only one hidden volume.

Look for documentation of header backups and you will see it speaks of only two headers,the header for the outer volume and the header for the hidden volume.

[1] https://www.truecrypt71a.com/documentation/technical-details...
The evolution of the API Gateway
Not really a bug in most cases but the assumptions made by the lib that cannot be changed.

Also, sometimes more data doesn't help much so this is somewhat relevant even for spark users.
Can you recommend a resource for learning powershell? (Assuming one has UNIX background)

[it does generate annoyingly long error messages!]
At least in the UK, it is definitely not like that.

Most IT-related jobs do not mention a degree as requirement, and of those that do, many have an "or equivalent experience" clause.

This is how I remember it to be when I was looking for a job 2 years ago, but I also made a quick search for "devops", "senior developer" and similar positions in London through indeed.co.uk just now to confirm it.
Thanks, to be honest most of them coming from google code's "export to github" :-)
I second fish. I've been using it as my primary shell for more than a few years now.

The syntax is better than bash and familiar to those who've done programming in languages like Ruby or Python.

The line editor is actually useful. It handles indentation and highlighting. It will display an appropriate help page if you mess up some command.

It comes bundled with argument completion for most common Unix tools and is easy to extend for other programs.

for file in (ls /home/me/mp3s);
echo $file;
end

It will also highlight incomplete paths, bad syntax, etc, as you type. I know at a glance if I messed up a path or misspelled a program name.

Really useful shell.
I am convinced (although I do not yet have enough data to prove it) that continuous exposure to a lack of ideologically-diverse information is actually very long-term-bad, leading to unnecessary deaths (i.e., war, people killing each other over mere worldview differences, media taking advantage of polarizing forces to whip people up and generate ad views, etc.).

I base this only on my Psych-major training and just in thinking about things and observing.

If anyone had any actual evidence that might support this conclusion, I would be grateful.

If Facebook actually understands that it is kind of their responsibility at this point to ensure people's feeds are more diverse than they might otherwise prefer (i.e., gently introducing discomfort), this might mark the first time I'm actually in favor of them keeping their feed ranking algorithm secret (so as to quiet the masses, most of whom seem content to never experience ideological discomfort). But this, of course, depends on trusting Facebook...
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037157
Fully open source Oracle dev framework
> it's basically taking bash and turning all the weirdness and bizarity up to 11

While I certainly understand where you are coming from, I have found that zsh may be more complicated, but less "weird" (i.e. it is more consistent)

However, zsh is tons of tons of special cases that may be mostly consistent, but without any clear concept which would allow you to remember or deduce solutions. When you are a zsh wizard you can be really productive, but it is a strange skillset that takes time to achieve and require constant refresh.

IMHO the closest thing zsh has to a "concept" is that if it takes too many characters, then there's probably a special case which - if you knew it - could solve the problem in a shorter form.
These algorithms are all fairly complicated with numerous parameters involved in the calculations. Most of the packages (I can't speak for all of them since I'm not familiar with all of them) make it easy to implement these algorithms by providing reasonable default values for most of the necessary parameters. It's very unlikely that they are set to identical values, thus leading to differing results.

In addition, some of the algorithms are non-deterministic. Random forests, as the name implies, involves randomly setting the decision tree parameters numerous times. You can run the same algorithm with the same implementation and get different results. Likewise with NN's, it all depends how you set the weights initially, which is usually a non-deterministic process as well.

To sum it up, I don't think that obtaining different results from different implementations of the same ML algorithm is indicative of a bug. It's actually expected in many situations.
I'm not qualified to answer either way.

But my grandfather worked at a coal fired plant. I've been to the strip mine. I've seen the trains that run continuously to truck it in.

From a layman's perspective it seems like an incredibly efficient process. Is there any chemical refinement going on at all? All that I saw looked mechanical (but I was very young).

I would guess that it would take many years of Solar before it broke even, in an environmental impact sense, with "cleaner" coal.

I think ultimately solar probably wins. But the initial cost seems like it must be orders of magnitude higher.

That said, I'd get solar if I could. Just not my highest home-improvement priority and I'd have to do something about the trees shading the south side of my roof. I like my trees. :-(

OTOH it would be nice if there were a high power (~2KV), affordable (<$2,000?), silent wind turbine solution to supplement our grid power.
I like this idea as another possible interpretation of that data point. Essentially you're saying that it's because everyone's clicking the more conservative links which causes the skew, albeit for different reasons.

The only point I'm trying to make is that the simple sounding sentence "we estimate the factor decrease in the likelihood that an individual clicks on a cross-cutting article relative to the proportion available in News Feed to be 17% for conservatives and 6% for liberals" really let's you draw your own conclusions.
> I don't see how WordPress's general audience would be in the least concerned about its failure to be a "twelve-factor app," do you?

well , it's all about context. I don't see the general audience using digital audience to deploy applications.

So I have nothing against wordpress really , it's not just adapted for modern deployment techniques.
This is very well-done, with pleasing aesthetics. Did you experiment with a free tier? How many users do you have now, if you're open to sharing that information?
I have been doing offline transaction in bitcoin for years now. Private keys on the offline system sign unsigned transactions from an online computer and the interaction is completely over an airgap (webcams and qr codes on/from either side).

Electrum is primarily what I use to do this, but there is an android app called Bither that does essentially the same thing.

Additionally, the Electrum 2.4 client has multi-sig features and it is very easy to setup and use so the security of your funds is distributed across multiple devices/co-signers.
No, I literally meant homeschooling. Not all types of socializing are the same. The main thing home-schooled kids miss out on is being put in rooms with a diverse set of people, some of which are likely to be very different from them. The friction of dealing with people you disagree with, and the broader worldview gained from exposure to different ideas/cultures/attitudes are what I'm referring to.

Setting up playdates with the other home-schooled kids, or being on the church basketball team, etc... will involve selecting your peers, which is something we rarely get to do in "real" adult life.
"Through integration with Project Photon, Project Lightwave can provide security and governance for container workloads."

Do you have container workloads ? Are you sure ? Then you should probably check Project Photon too ;-)

Judging by the "container workloads" thing I guess it's related to Docker and the likes. But it could very well be about sending crap in boats from port A to port B ...
Suppose we have a democracy, or perhaps a freedom preserving autocracy of some sort (e.g. Singapore). How does it benefit anyone to turn a good street sweeper into a great one who vaguely half remembers Shakespeare? Could you lay out the mechanics in concrete terms?

(I.e., no vague platitudes like "a knowledge citizenry is necessary in a democracy", but instead concrete steps like "vague memory of hating shakespeare => recognizing that bushbama is lying with higher probability => voting better". Critical thinking rather than slogans.)
"Rivers are easiest to cross at their source." Syrus

Do it now before it gets harder.
I think the simple answer is "because it's mine."

I guess I am just completely opposed to the idea that what I own, I own just because the government lets me. I'm fine with paying taxes on my income, but at some point it becomes my income and I should be able to do with it as I please.
Google buried an awesome Easter egg deep in its Alphabet announcement
There was this last week: a dump of the 10M comments and posts so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002791
It's a two-way street. Public school yields its own social issues as well: the separation-by-age dynamic, odd social bubbles, bullying, etc. I've had a professor remark that he easily recognizes homeschoolers - they're the students who know how to converse with adults!
Right off the bat my reaction is that I would not expect watches to earn a real return on average over the long term.

That is if I could buy an index on watches where I owned a share in thousands of watches heavily diversified across the market I would expect it to match inflation. The watches don't actually increase in value IOW unlike say companies and economies which grow.

The evidence for this isn't the most convincing, but it's the conclusion Rick Ferri came to when looking at commodities like oil, or gold, and similar investments to watches like fine art over the long term.

And sure enough the timeline cherry picked by the article is 10 years.
Benchmark it? These guys used amazon turk to decide which was best. http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/03/05/test-company-domain-na...
There's a nice collection on Math Overflow: Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand

http://mathoverflow.net/q/100265/8217
It's not that metal can't scratch it; it's that NON-stick surfaces are highly vulnerable to being scratched by metal, whereas cast iron is much, much less so, and scratches can heal as long as you cook with more oil.
Here is the steam page.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/281940/

Remind me of Alice, which had some beautiful levels.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/19680/
Deciduous trees on the south side of your house are great for energy efficiency. The shade reduces summer cooling costs, and then the leaves drop so you get solar heat in the winter. You should definitely think about it carefully before cutting them down to install solar panels.
Silly season
Now you're just being pedantic.

I should be able to give what I own when I'm alive to whomever I please once I die. That is, unless you believe I never owned it in the first place.
In the various recent threads about open office plans, some people have pointed out that extended use of headphones, at the volume required to shut out conversation, causes permanent hearing loss over the long term. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a tech company that takes that concern seriously.
For a good book on the subject try "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution"

http://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Code-Linux-Source-Revolution-ebo...