skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unschooling is a subset of homeschooling. In ordinary homeschooling, the parents set a curriculum, and direct the learning. In unschooling, the student decides what to learn, and the parent provides resources to support that.

If the kid gets into dinosaurs, a regular homeschooling parent might add a dinosaur module to the science/biology part of the curriculum. The unschooling parent might ask, "How would you like it if we took a trip to Utah, to visit an actual dig site?"

If the kid gets into robots, a regular homeschooling parent might add mechanical engineering and electronics to the curriculum. An unschooling parent might bring home a LEGO Mindstorms set and sign the kid up for the robot soccer league run by an adjunct from the local community college.

As I understand it, successful unschoolers rely rather heavily on a whole-family lifestyle commitment, to subtly discourage the kid from choosing to become the world's foremost expert on Minecraft, and learn nothing else. I would, at the least, be compelled to suggest that perhaps my kid should play all the computer games in my personal collection, in chronological order, starting with the Infocom library, progressing through the Sierra/Dynamix era, running through Black Isle and LucasArts titles, and ending with access to my Steam and GOG accounts. I could also hook up my old console systems.

Then I might, ever so subtly, suggest that an encyclopedic knowledge of video gaming, past and present, might be useful to a heavily-followed and well-monetized text or video blogger. Because I am certainly not going to unschool if it won't eventually get the kid out of my basement (and pantry).
Yeah, I've always used Google chat, which works from my computer too (I can type way faster with a keyboard). I do like Erlang, though.
Decentralizing the internet with Ethereum
yes... all you have to configure to be set is a file like this https://github.com/dyne/JaroMail/blob/master/doc/Accounts/de...

there can be one for each different account inside Mail/Accounts.

I think Mutt is really great software, but I cannot live without tab completion from my addressbook and I need it without spending 1h to configure it every time, so that's the gist of it...
It was ~4 years ago on a quad core xeon with ~8GB of memory, using whatever was the most recent version of Q, Python/Numpy and Matlab at the time.
How do the monolithic repository companies handle dependencies on external source code?

Are libraries and large projects e.g. RDBMS generally vendored/forked into the monolithic repositories, regardless of whether the initial intent is to make significant changes?
Any Facebook for Work users here who we can reach out to? We build a cloud-based security solution and would love to get access to FbW so that we can make any necessary updates in time for launch. Any help / intros really appreciated!
Spending $25 billion on a PC company was a pretty dumb idea. Spending $25 billion on Compaq, which had spent almost $10 billion on DEC, was even dumber: either it duplicated the existing business (PCs) or complicated the existing business (severs) by adding duplicate products.

Trying to buy PriceWaterhouseCooper for $14 billion might have been a good move but it was a dumb price. IBM later bought it for $4 billion.

I did go and see her talk at Comdex. She was remarkably clueless about technology.
Disguising a blog post as a native advertisement for your startup is not clever or "growth hacking."
A French Philosopher Explains the Donald Trump Phenomenon
iOS 4.2 was delayed to the point of never being released. Apple went straight to 4.2.1 instead.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/11/developer-reports-major-v...

Source: I found/reported the bug mentioned in the article.
I've been an American 40 years and never had a credit score or a credit report and never borrowed any money (the three agencies don't know who I am). Nevertheless, I can rent apartments. I just have to have a lot of cash available for deposits.
I noticed your other post the other day looking for someone to hack with in NYC. Ok, seems fair. But you're looking for a co-founder "for what"? For "a startup"? To build what? What is your passion? It's fun to say "I want to start a start up, I'll read Paul Graham and make sure not to make those mistakes, 1) Check, 2) Check..." and so on. In reality, having a marketable and economically viable idea is the key to founding a successful business. But it seems from your posts that your key passion is not wanting to work in a large company. That's fair enough as well, but it's not the sort of thing that makes a start up successful.

Find a problem and start solving it. Then tell everyone about it. A co-founder will come. In fact, they will come because they are interested in the problem you are solving. Don't assume that two people who like sitting around together can actually come up with a viable, marketable idea and then become successful startup founders.

Also, Paul Graham is speaking from an investment portfolio perspective when he is speaking of the #1 failure point being not having a co-founder. He says, "Have you noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person?" The thing you should be worrying about is "Have you noticed how few successful startups there are? Why is that?" Answer the second question first, and you will come to find it has very little to do with co-founders.
Did you ever take a look who sits in the European Parliament and European Commission?

Introducing Günther Oettinger, the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society: (wait for his English at the 0:20 mark) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88OGXLFpeMw

As a German I am completely embarrassed.
Well, Steve was half white. A Syrian actor would have been just as innacurate.
Your main point is not true.

First: hospitals are required by law to stabilize you regardless of your ability to pay. Stabilize. They are not required to treat you beyond getting you to the point you won't die on your way out of the ER.

Second: many of the better medical practices, UCSF Ortho for example, will not treat you if you don't have insurance.

Third: bankruptcy is not quite as straightforward as you make it sound, and if you have any assets, you may well lose them. You can have $10 or $20k and still find a $100k surgery very expensive. For example, in CA, you can only protect $3k or $5k, depending, of value in your car during bankruptcy. And there isn't a $3k or $5k car in the US worth a damn.
My little Side Project: http://www.BetterSnipper.com

A screenshot utility that is more powerful than the free Greenshot, yet less expensive than the over the top SnagIt. (Free unlimited trial, $5 to buy, Donating 10% to my favorite charity).

Its got a lot of great features, and a lot more in the works. (I've now started building a light-weight editor... Learning the 'Command pattern' for Undo/Redo'ing)
"biggest electronics company in the world"

Those guys founded Samsung, too? I had no idea. I thought they just founded Apple.
By having them explained by someone who is supposed to be impartial (a magistrate), and has a vested interest in making sure that the child understands the rights, because it's mandated by law that they do, and being known as the judge that takes advantage of small children is not a reputation you want to have.
Maybe they could do the same thing for premises, where by entering a restaurant or any other business you must sign a waiver even if you're just browsing.
I totally agree with what you're saying. But remember that they got to 900M users with this approach. Obviously users liked something about what Whatsapp's philosophy produces.
Really happy to be launching this - if anyone has any questions I'm happy to hang for the next 10-20 minutes to answer them
When and why did the stupid cookie agreements ever start?!
I don't care for Obama, but I agree with him on this.

Assuming that all the pertinent facts surrounding Ahmed's case have been made public (and I have no reason at the moment to suspect they haven't), then the kid was wronged and a white-hot spotlight of shame needs to be focused on the school district and "educators" in question.

Bringing him to the White House is a good first step.
It is Nassim Taleb. The irony is, with his name he would've been rounded up in the same school just like Ahmed.
FWIW, apart from the previously mentioned sensitive stuff, we give engineering interns the same level of access we give full-time engineers. We keep things open because it makes things faster; we have an excellent code search tool that's great for navigating through the Piper repo (e.g. finding subclasses, finding uses of an API) which really speeds up dev time.

When we're not talking about the sensitive stuff, there's not much magic to what many engineers write every day, it's the same "glue technology X to technology Y" stuff you see everywhere, so I don't think there's any value to hiding that in the name of secrecy.
As a practical matter, how do you go about getting the trusted compiler for DDC? Does this include an audit of the source for that compiler and/or the path that the compiler source or compiler binaries take to their destination?
So they never performed well? Very few jobs have pay that directly correlates to current performance.
In the spirit of "You didn't build that," I wonder how many lines of code comprise the binaries that Google binaries run on? Windows, Linux, network stacks, Mercurial, etc, etc.

I also wonder if there's a circular relationship anywhere in there.
Analog weights can save a lot of delay/power/cost if you can implement them right, easier said than done
Kubernetes Has a Ways to Go to Scale Like Google, Mesos
By market cap? Do I need to specify whether I'm measuring using GAAP or non GAAP numbers in order to make a rhetorical point?
Using Docker Machine on OS X with Dinghy
I imagine that there's a lot of Java and C++. I do like Go but it makes you wonder if a more expressive language that requires a fraction of the code would be helpful. Maybe Steve Yegge will see Lisp at Google after all.
How, exactly, is it "pretty messed up" ? I'd think if your goal was to convince the majority of something, you would look for ways to convince that majority of something. Like perhaps that their own kids could very well be arrested and traumatized in exactly this manner.

Reducing racism gets us more "benefit of the doubt" that might have resolved the situation informally. But it does nothing to change school administrators thinking that turning a 14 year old over to the police on a whim is an appropriate thing to do.

In this specific case I'm just glad this kid is actually innocent so that he can hopefully disassociate the event from himself and see that the school and police are horribly broken. Imagine if the arrest had been "justified" for accidentally bringing a pocket knife or aspirin to school - what kind of lasting psychological damage does that cause?
Any book on Lambda calculus
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-Ca...

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programmi...! is a MOOC in Haskell
Agencies Say They Need Access to Americans’ Emails Without a Warrant
A lot of this can be explained by: "If information is cheap, attention becomes expensive." Breakout hit songs must be nothing but hooks because people today scan for music.
And it's worrying that the police can't differentiate a device with no explosives from one with wire going into a block of goo.
I'm currently suffering two copyright infringement cases, which I can only assume are the result of the storm that reset my FritzRepeater back to factory settings, leaving an open bridge into my network.

Two copyright claims, from two law firms, for albums I've never heard of, at times that I wasn't in the house.

Because of an arcane, but largely logical German law named "Störerhaftung" I am by default responsible, and have to pay both claims (in the order of €5,000 each). I have no recourse.

Tech-savvy as I am, powerless to defend against a case such as this, where do I stand, I could theoretically bring a case against AVM Deutschland (manufacturer of the Fritzrepeater) but then the burden is on me to prove their buggy software failed, and reset to factory settings.

An impossible situation, and I hope that laws such as these move in the direction of transparency, the Störerhaftung is designed to make sure that someone who loses out always has someone to claim against (common other uses, are for example if drunks throw stones from the top of a building, and then run away, the building owner is responsible, in lieu of finding and proving that the drunkards were responsible) - it's arcane, and whilst well intended, and the "terrorism" argument holds strong, this is about copyright, and always maintaining the Störerhaftung right.
All of that extra power really only amounts to tens of dollars per year.

Running a processor at an extra (grossly exaggerating here) few watts + an extra 5-10 watts for fans, LEDs, etc don't amount to much. Especially when you consider that all electricity is paid for by the Thousand-Watts/Hour.
Mark Zuckerberg Invites Ahmed to Facebook HQ
There's typically a subdirectory called third_party, with subdirectories for each vendor, product and version. If the team is smart, they will also enact a rule saying "only one version". If you're really, really smart, local changes are kept as a set of patches, keeping them separate from the imported tar file.

So, for source deliveries:

third_party/apache/httpd/2.4/release.tgz
/patch.tgz
/Makefile (or other config)
third_party/apache/httpd/2.2/release.tgz
/patch.tgz
...
Regional Climate Prediction: A Crucial Technology for the 21st Century
I'm a random engineer and I have access to probably 99% of those 2B lines of code. The restricted stuff is a pretty tiny subset of the whole.
There's apps like Roadtrippers and Furkot that will show you lodging along your route (along with dining, attractions, etc), but I don't know any that actually handles booking/price comparison as well.
Is that really why we have these? The illegal act is still illegal, so they just want to be able to tack on additional charges?
Pipefy – Kanban definition in pull systems
You falsely conclude that I have a singular (implicitly subjective) "real issue", to which I "offer" "no other explanation." In fact, despite your projecting, by "real" / "original" issue, I meant the mistreatment of children by authority in schools, which is both the context of the parent comment and the original article from which the TechCrunch article derives.

Again, for clarity, I am asserting that the original article focuses on student mistreatment and not race, TechCrunch subverts it, and the parent comment refocuses on it. In other words, the "real issue" was pre-established as the context for and precedes my comment. All my comment served to do, was concisely articulate the issue of the preceding contexts, which is self-evident when reworded to be less generic, "Use of institutional force by the police and school officials to suppress or punish divergent student behavior."
Software is hard.
> With the orb on their desk telling them at that their integration and unit tests were passing.

Anymore info on this? Is it in house hardware?
I think the agreement was a record that the user was informed.

Here though, can you claim innocence because you weren't informed that doing illegal things on this wifi network were actually illegal?
I know what you mean, I had to unlearn the Dutch way of writing numbers when I moved to the US because almost no-one could read them. It's not just the 8 though, the 1's, 4's, 7's and 9's are also quite different, at least with my handwriting.
Dallas Hackers Are Already Helping Ahmed Mohamed with His Next Inventions
Oh and by the way it looks that they are on product hunt as well http://www.producthunt.com/tech/triprebel-s-favourite-list.
Mark Dayton (D) has been the Governor of Minnesota since 2010.
It's 80TB. You don't clone, just ask for views.
To Scale: The Solar System
I don't think I'm leaking anything by saying that that article about Google is incorrect. Mercurial isn't used at Google, not anywhere I've seen. Probably that article has something to do with the now-defunct Google Code site, which did in fact use Mercurial.
Go at Couchbase and a New Go SDK for Couchbase
Virtual Reality Gets Real
You realize that your proposal would kill startups. No small company can afford this list of benefits.
iOS 9 on the iPad 2: Not worse than iOS 8, but missing many features
Here's Jobs in his high school electronics club: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm//wp-content/uploads/201...

But yeah, I mean, I'm sure he was just there to tell them to use rounded corners on the circuit diagrams and meet girls.

Just cos Woz was the nerd's nerd, let's not crap on Jobs too much - he was geeky enough to hang out with Woz, that should be good enough for everyone else, right?
Note also that this is reliant on not being in a state where a Republican governor has decided to turn down federal money for Medicaid expansion because Obama is a Communist Muslim Death Panelist.

MN, thankfully, has chosen to implement Medicaid expansion.
No, it’s not that they are unsuccessful, it’s that they are unable to maintain it properly. Already today they have tons of open security issues.

Or think about April 1st, when they set a Access-Control-Location: * header on google.com because someone wrote the com.google easteregg.

Read the post from the SoundCloud dude from yesterday to find out how to do software management properly (hint: modularization is everything)
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President Obama has invited him to the White-House in a very public fashion, and Zuck has invited him to visit Facebook. That, at least, show help show Ahmed, and other kids, that there is support for kids who like to tinker.

The one person I personally wish would extend a similar offer, is Elon Musk. I think a lot of nerds / hackers / etc. see him as one of the most prominent and awesome nerds around, and if he offered Ahmed a tour of Tesla and/or SpaceX... well, how cool would that be?
Mavericks was released later than Yosemite. I wouldn’t say either of those were delayed. Both were released in the ‘fall’ as Apple announced at both WWDC ‘13 and ‘14.
Writing in Cafés: A Personal History
It's pretty early in the school year, and judging by his stated age he's likely a freshman. Not much of a chance for a teacher to ascertain things like "character".
Good job his surname wasn't Wozniak, then.
> The students are choosing to attend those charter schools.

Generally not the case. The parents are, usually, choosing.

> People choose things that are better for themselves. Not always, but often enough that you can safely assume it's true for the majority.

You might reasonably make that assumption for cases where the people making the decision are making it for themselves, and with sufficient information and skill to make a reasonable prediction of the utility that will result from each available choice. (A stronger form of this is a central element of rational choice theory, so its common to Econ 101 models of behavior -- and lots of people have internalized these models without understanding the assumptions underpinning them, and how limited they are in the real world.)

I think its far from evident that school choices under the conditions they are actually made meet that description.
> The bill requires network operators to make "reasonable effort to secure the network against unauthorized access" and to "allow access only to users that have agreed not to violate the law during their use" of the network.

Can you elaborate on why this is bad?
The last thing on earth I would use for business
Can you download Linux, etc, software onto a computer with a Chrome OS?
Can you download Linux, Mac, Solaris, or Windows software onto a computer with a Chrome OS without putting the computer in developer mode or doing anything permanent to it? I want to download a Java SE Development Kit but none of the downloads are compatible, and I'm am just renting the computer and am therefor not allowed to put it in developer mode. It seems like a lost cause to me, but any ideas?
In an environment where kids are literally arrested for sending popup messages over the network, I think that attitude has some value. People are overreacting based on things they have no understanding of.
If he brought in $4MM in revenue and he's only making $98k he's incredibly underpaid.
In Colorado teachers can be fired at the drop of a hat (or, more likely, not be asked to come back next year). I can assure you this hasn't kept the state off of the bottom of the academic performance lists.
Better Than Chemo: Turmeric Kills Cancer Not Patients
Fair enough. Question: are there rules about posting cancer cures that the powers that be don't want you knowing about?
I though Google's search advantage really speeds up software development. I wonder if they use the same principle in alphabet across other engineering disciplines - creating some unique knowledge tools, and how do they look.
> If we had an education system that as a whole, gave people what they wanted, we would all be better off.

Because a teacher's job is customer service and the customer is always right? ;)
multiple flagged dead comments for the same kind of race trolling that you're feeding?

This comment (about a muslim conference where the speakers were saying it's never acceptable to beat your wife) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10228134

Or this comment abut how SJWs love victim culture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10228134

Or this comment saying African Americans have an average IQ of 80: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223344

Or this flagged comment, that got a reply from dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9991230

That's quite a lot in a 45 day old account.

(Do you have "ShowDead" turned on?)
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Incredible. I'm so glad that a tech giant is making steady penetration into another stuck-in-middle-ages industry. Glad google decided to do this, instead of another social product or other vanity stuff.
Was the mayor involved in this?
Google devs are working (with some help from Facebook) on getting hg into Google, but they're not there yet. Look at all the work that Google has been putting into hg. It's not purely out of the goodness of their hearts:

https://selenic.com/hg/log?rev=@google.com&revcount=200

I always see a lot of Google and Facebook at the Mercurial sprints.
Great question. It's a huge challenge to find someone whom you can trust - even if they are your friends.

For me, what's important is finding someone who I know can do good work, someone whom I can trust, someone who understands the journey of a startup and someone who's willing to learn.

How you find the perfect person could be through your existing network, meetups, social media, etc. People say you should only work with people you've had a history with. Well, I wasn't so lucky because none of my friends are interested in startups. So I had to find new friends. It's a risk but it's also a risk with friends anyway. What's important is to be clear on your expectations early on. Go out for a coffee and gauge their interest, expectations, appetite for risk and their social standing. Go out some more to get a feel for whether you can trust a person or not. More often than not, your gut could be your guiding light.

I brought on a friend who shared great enthusiasm at the beginning but has decided to part ways. Still a friend but it's clear that he's just not into putting in the hours required.

Since then, I've brought on someone whom I found on social media. We met and we've had some conversations. We've been very open with our communication about where we're headed in life, etc. I've validated some of his work but I have a good feeling about his attitude.

Building a strong team is part of being a great leader - negotiating, motivating and building a team to achieve a goal. I'm a strong believer that there are some natural ingredients. Everything else can be moulded and shaped. Life's a journey so have fun!
Infrastructure as code might be literally impossible