skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where homework plays in that equation is unclear, but take it how you will.

Sure, in the enriched environment you describe students are more likely to have the motivation to make the effort to learn and succeed. I'd guess you and your classmates are engaged with the educational process, ready, even eager to learn. Doing homework would seem the natural thing to do.

By all means it's right to take advantage of such favorable circumstance. The issue for schools and students not so blessed is creating this kind of benefit. The goal won't be achieved by strengthening the factory approach to education. Piling on bureaucracy, "performance" testing, etc. will not help, rather just lead to more discouragement.

I think great examples, like the one you present, give a clue. Find talented teachers (I've known a number of them, they do exist) and leave them unencumbered, let them teach. They will reach some students, and it will begin to inspire others. Perhaps they will assign homework, but then if we offer help to parents and students so they can cope with it better, homework would serve constructive purpose in augmenting learning.

Technology can add to the cause, but by itself is no answer. Used wisely it may play a useful role in evolving solutions, that is, realizing it's a means to an end.
It requires the original license text to be included somewhere, nowhere does it say you have to give a credit or thanks. The author says specifically in his article that what the other person did was perfectly legit within the terms of MIT, so I can only assume the license was there somewhere. I take the Author at his word since he's the one ranting about not getting credit.
Here is my problem with EFF: They are raising a stink and not providing any cited evidence. In Wikipedia terms-- [citation needed]. Take any article published by them and count how many links deep you have to get to any actual information and not just general opinion. I still haven't found anything that goes through the bill and explains what the problem is citing the text of the bill.

This is an actual opening sentence from some material the EFF published: "Although grassroots activism has dealt it a blow, the Senate Intelligence Committee's terrible bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing Act(CISA) keeps shambling along like the zombie it is." It's hard for me to get behind an organization that writes like this.

What I dislike about all the crazy right-wing emails I get is it's all inflated scare mongering and no actual sourcing. The EFF's publications are getting way too similar and it saddens me.

Now, on the flip side, I have yet to see the authors of this bill really put out much material that relates the bill in simpler terms. For that, I am also saddened.
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The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't look good
Is there a text equivalent?
Check out NVBowtie. We don't use standard CPUs to do the alignment. The benchmarks were ran on 2 Nvidia K80s which were in the same blade. To scale it, you need Infiniband between the blades (found this out the hard way). The genomes are loaded into memory to reduce read times.

Just to be clear, we're not reading this directly off of the sequencers. Our assumption is the sequenced data is already stored in which we load the data onto the cluster.

I'm not necessarily the technical one of our group unfortunately but, if you're interested, I'd be interested in picking your brain.
The start-up I'm at uses it. While I can't speak for the administrative side of things as far as using it as an employee it's way easier than the typical HR paperwork bullshit you have to do. Everything is in one place, all my paperwork, insurance sign-up, direct deposit and employment agreement all through one website. I had to print and fill out zero papers which that by itself is such a relief at least for me.
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There are plenty of forms of monetization that don't require users to pay money (ad supported being the obvious one), and there are even more forms of monetization that require the users to pay money, but not pay money for an app (think Uber or Grubhub), and while it does seem to be the case that Android users are less likely to pay money for an app than iPhone users, I'm not aware of any sign that they are less likely to pay for a physical good or physical service through an app.

But clearly iPhone is not in that position, I agree!
Why are they trying to gain weight? They can't convert donut into muscle. Donuts for a sugar feed while working out, sure.
BTW, here's the scene I was talking about from Curb your Enthusiasm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vrD8PXMyU
[...] a Silicon Valley company actually making a difference in the people's health.

Except, in many ways, it isn't: 'disrupting' lab blood testing[1] is far from a public health priority --just because the founder is scared of blood and thinks phlebotomies are "barbaric" doesn't make it so.

[1] As opposed to point-of-care (viz, no-lab) testing, which is a genuine public health priority: i.e. portable glucose monitors, field tests for malaria, and so on.
I agree.

Elixir is already being pickup up for real projects
but I feel like Rubinius has only ever been a play thing.
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Just as there are lots of different types of OS needs, there are lots of different development needs. I develop in Windows and can't work on the software I build in OS X. Or Linux for that matter.
Eh, the corporate world is bland and grey. I'm glad if a company does something different.
Practically speaking, wondershaper is way simpler for basic throttling.
There are many body functions besides muscle growth and fat burning. These functions require vitamins.
I wonder if perhaps kids find the assigned work so dreadful because the manner of assignment assumes it will be. "Why should I read this?," asks the kid. "Because it is assigned," comes the answer. At which point, perhaps the child thinks, "Oh, you don't care about this, so why should I?," and the battle lines are drawn.

In other words, maybe the issue isn't whether or not something is assigned. Maybe the issue is whether or not the teacher cares about - and is excited about - the material. If the teacher thinks it is fun, maybe being assigned it is not such a heavy burden to bear.
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I buy used books on Amazon frequently (about 5/month)--when the Kindle version's price is too high or isn't available. It's a great deal and I've rarely been disappointed.
A review of pre-release hardware with a bug that supposedly isn't in production units.

This is why it's usually a good reason to wait for reviews of production units of any hardware.

Plus the review isn't very well done. "and where are my screen-brightness control keys?" I can see them in the product shot right next to this sentence on the website.
I always just did my homework at school in middle and high school. I graduated high school in 2009, so I imagine kids get a lot more homework now?
It's funny, I also draw the line at season 9, but think of the decline as starting with the New York episode. I remember watching the premier (the New York episode) and feeling very disappointed, and asking people afterwards if they felt the writing had changed. Of course, season 9 is still better than a lot of the stuff that came later.
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I agree any real car hack will likely not end well. This solution also introduces the possibility of a new vector for state sponsored attacks, which should be concerning to some.

The utilitarian decision is still to upgrade everyone, because the people who would hack cars to kill would likely do it another way. This may become the new improved way to "cut brakes." A state mandated system could upgrade hacking charges to serious felonies, which deters most except state-sponsored and psychopaths. I have a feeling that real car hacks will be as rare as poison Halloween candy

Also in a situation where someone is hacked, having a dense recorded model of all the roads in a city would be very handy for investigation, since the hacker would likely have to be near the car.
I've heard this argument many times since I was a kid and I was "fighting" the educational system I was in and later on, and I think this is red herring. Any change in the educational system that seems to target it for the "top" students is pushed back with "this only works for the motivated and we need to take care of the 98% too".

However, it's not at all clear that the status quo is effectively optimized to maximize the benefit for the bottom 98% either. Neither it looks like they are designed by wise, well-intentioned, experts. For the most part, educational systems around the world seem to have been an evolution through design by committee mostly directed by political motives. Since almost everything tried has been quite ineffective at moving the needle for the bottom 98% in any meaningful way, this serves as a good political excuse for not radically moving things around.

Perhaps educational systems should be designed for the top 2% and the other 98% would adapt as time goes by, instead of being crippled with that excuse? (not saying this is true, but it is worth thinking about)
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I do the same thing! If there's a book I want to keep, I scan it with my DIY bookscanner and toss the book away.

I, too, used to dream of having a big home library. Now I dream of a home with almost nothing in it. (If it weren't for music scores, which I use at the piano, there wouldn't be any books in the house other than what I'm currently reading and hasn't been scanned yet.)
Does there not already exist an organization that rates politicians on those issues? I would be very surprised.

I would also be very interested in this. Will do some research.
just out of curiosity, why did you choose to host this on bitbucket and not Github?
Sure. And someone could spend their entire life sitting in front of the tv all day everyday.
The NYT managed to put together an absolutely massive printing and diatribution operation. If editorial cared about putting a citation in a story, they would do it. Getting a journal citation right is no harder than spelling the scientist's name right. Tech talent is not the blocker.
That's awesome, I hope it keeps working out for you.
I find many of these articles very samey-samey. Wish they would step through more advanced features (when and how to use etc) of pg
Ah, gpus are cheating... :) What I meant about i/o is that if you're reading the data off of disc your read/write time is probably longer than 8 minutes. With SSDs you can obviously go faster. One problem with scaling is that you need a bunch of machines that have the gpus available (although if you can get the whole pipeline under 30min you wouldn't need many machines). The cloud genomics companies mostly use AWS and Google cloud for their compute and I don't know what sorts of non CPU compute resources are available. You would probably be interested in looking into Edico Genomics' Dragen FPGA. Is there a way to PM on HN?
I never said the post was OK either. I'm not a grammar nazi analyzing these things 24x7.
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I think OP means non-Americans should not patronize American businesses. Unfortunately though, much of the Internet's transit traffic passes through the US.
I could see teams using this to gain an advantage; they look for every edge they can get. If you think it would be too contrived, consider this example:

In a 1951 baseball playoff game the New York Giants (who later moved to SF) contrived an advantage over the Brooklyn Dodgers (who followed the Giants to the West Coast): If I remember correctly, the Giants placed someone in center field (outside the field of play, behind the wall) with binoculars. He would read the catcher's hand signs to the pitcher, indicating the next pitch. They buried a wire from center field to the first base or third base coach, which would vibrate something under his foot signaling the pitch to him, and he would signal the batter. Nobody knew until 2001 that when Bobby Thompson hit a legendary game-winning home run off of Ralph Branca, sending the Giants to the World Series, Thompson knew ahead of time what pitch was coming (a very large advantage for a batter).

Would a team use 2015 technology to gain an advantage? They wouldn't even need to bury a wire.
Flask is brilliant for building small apps/services.

It makes setting up a new Django project feel like a complete PITA.
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As a former smoker, current nicotine gum addict, I'm surprised CVS hasn't advertised its massive price difference on it and nicotine patches in addition to their not selling tobacco. I can buy (generic CVS branded) nicotine gum for half of what Walgreens branded generic goes for, in basically the same form factor, same strength, etc.
Imagine companies paying for fake positive reviews for their competitors...
After reading about this for the past hour or so, I found this to be the most helpful document to understanding Etherium: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Development-T...
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Yes - it is way better than the previous broker we used. It has automated all of our offers, on-boarding, etc.
The biology you describe for race identification is based on phenotypes, interpreted through culture. It has no deeper genetic basis.

So yes, the popular views of race are based in biology, as they have for hundreds of years. But the choice for what constitutes a race is arbitrary. It could been on hair type, or eye color, or height, or relative length of the fingers, or blood type or any of many other factors. If you choose a different set of factors, you end up with different races. Is there an Irish Race, as in https://archive.org/details/storyofirishrace00macmrich ? And of course the Aryan race - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race - has long been the favorite of scientific racism.

In US history, look at Bhagat Singh Thind. His US citizenship was challenge in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) because, while pure Aryan, and Caucasian, he wasn't white.

The laws at the time said only "free white persons" and "aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent" could become United States citizens by naturalization.

In the Supreme Court decision which stripped Thind of his citizenship (quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_... ; emphasis mine):

> Associate Justice George Sutherland said that authorities on the subject of race were in disagreement over which people were included in the scientific definition of the Caucasian race, so Sutherland instead chose to rely on the common understanding of race rather than the scientific understanding of race.[4] Sutherland found that, while Thind may claim to have "purity of Aryan blood" due to being "born in Village Taragarh Talawa near Jandiala Guru, Amritsar, Punjab" and having "high caste" status, he was not Caucasian in the "common understanding", so he could not be included in the "statutory category as white persons".[6] The Court reiterated its holding in [Ozawa v. United States],[citation needed] explaining that the words "free white person" in the naturalization act were "synonymous with the word ‘Caucasian’ only as that word is popularly understood," pointing out that the statutory language was to be interpreted as "words of common speech and not of scientific origin, . . . written in the common speech, for common understanding, by unscientific men."

So while it's true that biological factors have long been used to assign race, the choice of which factors to use as you yourself say is socially determined. Hence race is socially constructed.

There's no useful genetic basis for saying there is a "black" race, other than as an expression of a phenotype. The diversity of people with black skin is entirely too large for that characterization to be useful.

Stop using definitions of race that were discredited decades ago.
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AFAICR dialup was pay-by-the-minute (for call costs) in Germany.
Odd. Chicagoan here too.. I find staff at Walgreens to be some of the most miserable employees I run into in the retail sector, whereas CVS employees generally try to be helpful and seem to not hate their life.

I think once you cross the white pharmacy curtain, regulatory concerns and negotiated insurance rates pretty much make them exactly the same, but the rest of the store.. I pick CVS since they took over Osco. I was an Osco loyalist too.. and totally pissed when that happened.
Maybe a more descriptive explanation (from the White Paper[0]):

"What Ethereum intends to provide is a blockchain with a built-in fully fledged Turing-complete programming language that can be used to create "contracts" that can be used to encode arbitrary state transition functions, allowing users to create any of the systems described above, as well as many others that we have not yet imagined, simply by writing up the logic in a few lines of code."

[0]https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
The hardest part is coming up with a thoughtful rubric.

I agree that we need some sort of "internet voters guide" or rating system for existing legislators. If the two of you (or others) would like to work on it, shoot me an email (in profile). This is the sort of thing Taskforce.is would love to work on I think.
Well goldenkey answered perfectly for me here.
Also note the recent beer giant announcement, that will see the new company own all or part of 15 of the top 20 beers in the US.
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I suppose we've all wondered what Tolkein would think of the Jackson films.
Interestingly enough, when the schools in my locale started talking about Common Core, I decided to look it up. I found that one or more states had published complete curriculum guides written around CC, and since I like math, I looked through the math curricula.

My impression is that the CC curriculum (neglecting variations that I haven't seen) is so ostentatiously mainstream, that I can't fathom how it became controversial, except that people mistakenly associate it with standardized testing.
This is the best thing I've seen in a long long time. I spend most of my days co-ordinating between timezones for my phone calls and this would really make my life much easier. Coming from an NLP background, I can say that the front-end simplicity does mask a whole lot of back-end complexity.

Quick question, how're you handling daylight savings? Do you rely on the in-browser JS to figure it out? Or are you using something like moment.JS to handle this for you?
HSTS preload doesn't reduce the preamble to a TLS connection:

You have to send the TLS client hello, wait for the TLS server hello back (1 Round trip), send the handshake finished, wait for the server handshake finished (2nd round trip), before sending application data. TLS 1.3 is supposed to help with that (although I haven't read the spec), but that's probably just bringing it down to one extra round trip in the common case. Add tcp (one round trip), and http (one round trip), and it's four round trips, twice as many as plain http.

If you are serving us users on broadband, and you only have servers on one side of the country, half of your users are going to see about 80 ms round trip, so https slows down your first page load by 160 ms, even before you worry about encryption. If you have users around the world, and servers in only one location, you're likely to see many users with 250ms or 300 ms, an very simple https page (short request, short response) is going to take a minimum of 1 second (2 round trips for tls, one for tcp, and one for http), and if your users are on congested mobile networks, ouch.
I'm not a lawyer, nor an accountant, not even a cartoonist (sorry Scott Adams) - so my suggestions are solely based on my experience.

You don't mention how much you have invested in the venture. If the investor is paying for everybody's salary (including yours), then the golden rule applies (he who has the gold, makes the rules).

In the hi-tech space, execution is more valuable (in the long run) than finance. Does your investor understand that? If your ideas are really good, you could stall and find a new investor who has an acceptable view on equity.

Given that Andrew and software team want equity - are they willing to pony up funds? that way you might be able to bootstrap the business. If you are able to bootstrap the business, then I would fire Andrew but not the team.

If I were in your position, I would lock-out everybody. Shutdown the servers, etc to preserve the software. Then hardball negotiate with both Andrew and the investor - separately. At the same time seeking out other potential investors. It might take a couple of weeks, but in terms of the long-term I would see it as a risk worth taking.
Forget about Bootstrap and jQuery, learn vanilla js.

Reading Eloquent JavaScript is a good starting point.
Once you are done with that, build something and join #javascript @ FreenodeIRC and ask for help when you get stuck on something.

The good parts is nice but keep in mind that it is very opinionated, still it is worth reading. There are some lectures by Crockford on youtube too (tl;dr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg&list=PL766437924...
Also this on OOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYPG6vreJg

Finally you may want to familiarize with the most common JavaScript design patterns (some are not unique to js)
http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/bo...
> Even if the spike is controlled down within 1-2 hours, there is a lot of accumulating evidence that it isn't the duration or absolute value of high blood sugars, but the spikes (the occurrence of any delta in the first place) themselves that cause cellular damage.

Can you link to anything about that?
Most of those aren't getting paid for your labor as a hacker, which is to say, a programmer. They're getting paid for support, for ops, for server time -- number 3 is the only one that directly pertains to writing code. So you can monetize ancilliary activities, but the act of giving source code away for free devalues the act of actually writing source code and makes it difficult to monetize the writing of source code itself, not the ancilliaries.
Depends on the route. Transatlantic flights cost more this past summer than when the oil was > $100/barrel.
I agree with most of what you've said, but I think its inaccurate to say that most don't know how to read and write. According to the 2011 Census, the literacy rate is 74% [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Census_of_India#Literacy
That's just economics. Demand in the US for thanksgiving travel goes through the roof. Airlines don't magically have more planes to fly during the holiday (i.e. supply is fixed). The result: prices adjust upwards and force more people to spread out travel over different dates, find alternative arrangements, or forgo travel.
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I think Una turned issues off on her repos...she's getting issue spam:

https://twitter.com/Una/status/659128221292605440
CVS owns the target pharmacies just FYI.
Not to us. It's mostly a nice UI on top of the same old horrible healthcare system. When you submit the form, I guess it sends an email to somebody who does everything manually.

When we signed up with Zenefits, they did a mistake for 4 employees out of 9 and it took 6 months to fix things. I missed an important treatment because I didn't have the right plan and it didn't cover what I needed. Zenefits told us it was Blueshield's fault, and... as you can guess, Blueshield said it was Zenefit's mistake.
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You're overreacting. There's no need to be hysterical over a silly blog post. I hope you don't behave this way in your daily life.

There, I paraphrased your post and threw it back at you. How do you feel now?
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