skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of homework has little direct value.

The real problem is many classes are poorly structured and need to crutch of outside work to cover the material. Even in college I often found reading the textbook was more useful and faster than attending class.

PS: I still remember many math classes where attendance took 5 minutes, then 30 seconds of (new idea! yay), followed by 40 minutes of mind numbing boredom.
We're on almost the exact same timeline. The only added sugar I get right now is from about 2 grams in balsamic vinaigrette salad dressing. I've dropped roughly 10 pounds. My goal is to stay sugar free until Thanksgiving, then see how I feel after pigging out and the next couple days after.

Edit: btw I was already in good shape. A little bit of belly fat but I can still wear slim clothes. So for me at least the effect is there despite starting in the normal weight range.
>While it's easy to attribute something like this to malice, it's saner to attribute it to staggering incompetence and lack of introspection.

I.e. Hanlon's razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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I think AOL pioneered "discrete attribution", years ago their content farming strategy leaked and one of the big priorities was "recirculating traffic" by ensuring as many links as possible go to their own properties -

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-aol-way?op=1
Seriously, parents are complaining about 10-20 min of homework a night? Kids should be spending 1-2 hrs on homework every night, and if they run out of homework they should be working on a personal project or reading. That doesn't have to encroach on their fun time; I'm talking about 2 hrs max. Every night. That's not asking a lot.

It's about learning how to manage your time and developing a productive routine. Kids will be expected to do plenty of homework once they get to college, I don't see the point in not assigning it before then.
I've had this happen outside my house twice, when it was raining. The squirrel looked kinda crispy and would send up a puff of smoke occasionally.
I used to hear "we're talking about equality of _opportunity_ not of _outcome_" when it sounded like people were trying to equalize incomes. Seems like all pretense has been dropped now.
On a related note Camden Real Estate has suspended free holding delivery packages for the 60K apartments it manages across the USA. They said they stored a million packages at cost of 150K employee hours.

Since the younger computer savy apartment crowd tends to order more online, I expect this issue to grow. Maybe apartments will compete on package amenities.
This was me in high school, and even now in college. I couldn't get myself to do work during class and read or daydreamed (one time I brought a pillow to school). At home I did most of my learning and doing.

I don't know why I was this way, but I think I was just more comfortable in my room and thus more likely to learn.
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Firstly, the idea that a parent should have control over homework in any capacity seems like a misguided idea.

Why, may I ask? It seems intuitive to me that the school's influence over the student ends when class is over and they return back to their families.

And regarding standardization in education - that is what leads to a regression to the lowest common denominator (see the non-religious criticism directed at common core), not a lack of standardization. Ideally there would be fewer students per teacher (in a perfect world: 1-1) who are able to tailor the curriculum to the person, rather than trying to shoehorn ~30 kids of varying skills and interests into a one size fits all class measured by a one size fits all standardized test.
> A lot of breads in North America have a lot of added sugars.

The sugar feeds the yeast to make the bread rise. No sugar == solid lump of rock-hard bread-rock.

Sugar is one of the key ingredients in Western-style fluffy loaves, particularly wholegrain flours which need an accelerated fermentation process so that they rise before being 'set' by cooking. Which is nicely ironic since we've been conditioned that wholegrain is the healthy choice!

Sugar also helps to prevent staling, which is critical in home-baked breads which barely last 12 hours even with that assistance.
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It's really depressing how cynical that is. (Developer working at the NYTimes here).

The actual reason links to studies are often left off articles (particularly in cases like this with sharp deadline pressure to publish fast before the competition) is that the software powering the editing and publishing workflow really badly needs improvement. An incredible amount of work and knowledge goes into a story like this.

Versioning rich text through many different software tools designed for writing/editing and publishing across many platforms is hard. Sometimes people copy/paste by hand and in doing so a link can go missing. The news industry needs more technologists to work on these problems. We're hiring for people to do that, by the way: http://developers.nytimes.com/careers/

(Also, the link to the study is now in.)
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Well, we don't know how it will tie into personal information; let's not speculate at this early stage.
Yeah. When your ISP's DNS server starts having hiccups and you are standing there waving at your router, feeling like an idiot... I never want to interact with my router. Why would I? And messing with QoS on demand like that is probably a terrible idea.

Having said that a router like this is a huge step forward for the masses. Most people don't bother configuring their routers, changing admin passwords, etc. They never update the firmware. These new routers from Google solve that, which in itself is fantastic. Here's what I'd love to see happen in addition to all this.

- OpenWRT + automatic updates. Why don't we have this yet? I am contemplating building an x86 based router just because of the auto-update thing.

- Wi-Fi AP's that double as smoke detectors. I already have a bunch of those in the house on every floor. As a bonus they could probably use the wires they already have to set up a high speed backbone. I currently use a Ubiquiti Uni-Fi that looks like a smoke detector and it's fantastic.

- Ability to sign onto a Wi-Fi network that is less painful than sharing the passphrase. For example, if a guest comes to my house all we have to do is bump our phones to get them on my guest network. My router is hidden and my access point is on the ceiling of the second floor.
Isn't that more aptly stated as "implemented with" not "derived from"?
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Of course there is no legal obligation to behave according to the oft-unwritten polite rules of behavior around things like attribution

No, there isn't. Which, by the norms and conventions of the gift economy that open source software defines, jerks like this should be named and shamed for this sort of parasitism. Which is what this blog article is doing.

You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
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Firstly, the idea that a parent should have control over
homework in any capacity seems like a misguided idea

Full disclosure I'm a parent so biased. However with that said I know more about my child's workload than the teacher. The teacher knows how much homework they assign for "their" class. They don't know what the other classes assign. What extra curricular activities require or what chores the child has at home. Asking a Teacher to figure out the appropriate level of homework for a child is asking someone with inadequate information to make a decision on priorities. The person best suited to make an informed decision here is the parent.

EDIT: unbiased to biased.
On the contrary it sounds like an remarkably pragmatic feature which - assuming it works as advertised - will solve many actual real-life issues with wifi better than something less manual would have done.
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Under FDA or American Psychiatric Association guidance and regulations, it could be a suitable aid for help in diagnosing mental health issues. Yet, it would only be ethically reasonable for it to be nothing more than a diagnostic tool in the hands of qualified psychiatrists much like an MRI/CT/PET/etc. is for a radiologist or neurologist or ECG/ultrasound/etc. for a cardiologist.

Edit: In my experience, experts in some areas are just slow to adopt technology. Physicians and cardiologists still use rubber-tube stethoscopes (there's a startup in this area, Eko Devices that's trying to change it, but the physician community, IMO has inertia). Sleep health assessment is done manually by technicians. Psychiatrists rely on simple questionnaires (or sets of questions), while leaving out plenty of other data points. Same with doctors in many other fields, quantification of behavior/phenotype/etc. is in its infancy, with only numbers like blood glucose, blood pressure, body temperature, etc. being reliably used.
> Do you really think that having something like «ol > li» or «select > option» is excessive? Aren't these elements highly coupled by nature?

This is exactly your mistake: you seemingly can't conceive styles as something apart from content/structure/HTML.

Of course, a list item is coupled to a ordered/unordered list. A <li> as a descendant of a <ol> is the way to do it and they are effectively coupled by nature. But this is mark-up, only! The style you give to the list and the list items is a different subject. Imagine that, for some reason, you want to apply the exact same styles to a structure of anchors (<a>) inside a <nav>? Then your selectors (ol, ol > li) wouldn't apply anymore, you'd have to rework the selectors. If you just used classes for the list and the list items, reusing the styles would've been easier and trivial.

> In the end, the whole proposal of restricting styling to only class selectors is not enticing or compelling enough for me to make the switch, at least for now.

I can understand that, totally. I needed a few years of experience to come to the realization that the dumb and predictable "just use classes" was the way to go with CSS. I've been "smart" with selectors a thousand times; many of them came biting back - I just thought "why create an extra class if I can infer this via hierarchy and element relations?". Many, many times the structure changed and the selectors needed to be reworked; even more times, the styles "leaked" to elements I didn't want to style.
I love this feature. Putting html fragments in string literals in javascript seems pretty awkward to me.
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Your sense of scale here is way off. My kids have 2-3 hours of homework a night 5 nights a week. Plus weekends. There have been times I've told my kids not to do the work and if their teacher asks they can take it up with me.
Carbohydrates are not "added sugar".

High-sugar fruits are not "added sugar".

Added sugar = sugar which is added to a product, and shows up on the ingredient list.

The only fruits you would worry about is fruit juice, because good luck eating 10-12 apples in one session, but you can drink 10-12 apples worth of juice without any problems.
This is all on a continuum, I would concur that large quantities of raw fruit is far better for you than the same payload in say Coca Cola.

But is stands that it is possible to become insulin resistant from eating raw fruit, and this is simply not possible from eating eggs for example.

In regards to insulin resistance there is an upper bounds of healthy fruit consumption, just there is with almost any food (although for some foods the consideration may bot be blood sugar, but rather be total calories or omega-6 poly-fat, etc)
I hear eating that much cured meats gives you cancer (back on topic, sorta, I guess)
>"tvOS is content to take some control away from app makers and Apple TV users, and it does so with purpose and philosophy"

Of course it does... On the other hand, I'm not so sure to be content with that loss of control, I'm annoyed already with all the content that I "own" on iTunes but in reality I can't reproduce anywhere else.

So now I must feel happy that Apple can upgrade and delete content/apps from my device when they please? What sadden me most is that probably in a couple of month Google and MS would follow that path too.
Am I missing something, because if this [1] is the Atlantic article being discussed, it looks like the author is Will Partin, not Ian Bogost.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/des...
Ghostery browser FTW.
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Counter anecdote: check out Durianrider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W02aYmy1lcg High-carb, low fat.
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This is not a book, but could be a starting point: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/
Well, "distancing" the player from the realities of prison life is an interesting decision worth commenting on. It's a valid game design choice, sure -- but it's something that definitely can be talked about in the context of "games as art/culture". I find it interesting, at least.

Also, I agree, I too get the vibe that Bogost wanted to talk primarily about the state of American prisons, but this didn't bother me because I wasn't expecting a game review with a final score and a "buy/do not buy" recommendation, and I found some of his points had merit.
As far as academic articles go, "* considered harmful" is probably as vague and bombastic (read: clickbaity) as a title gets (perhaps after 'Ron was wrong, Whit is right'). Personally I'd prefer a more descriptive title, like 'A survey of weaknesses and attacks on the x86 platform'. But then again, I'm a boring kind of person.
I think the problem here is that of BMI. While it is true that BMI is not always accurate as a measure of fitness, it usually is for people who go around saying that BMI doesn't mean anything. It is only incorrect for people who are extremely muscular, and those people know they're fit enough because they have other measures (like precise measures of body composition) to tell them.

So while it is true that not all calories are created equal, the people who most often seem to go around saying that seem to be the same people who refuse to pay attention to portion size and then bitch about not losing weight because they're only eating healthy foods.
In this case, the offender, Danny David Leybzon, used his meat-space name.
I am considering it for sure (just waiting for some reviews of the new Lumias).

Why am i considering it?

- I also find the universal app vision appealing.

- Windows Phones have had some really great cameras

- I'm increasingly worried about increasing search/advertising penetration into every facet of Android. This is purely anecdotal, but it feels like Microsoft is still a few years behind Google/android ecosystem in this area (despite the windows 10 telemetry kerfuffle).

- I actually like Microsoft as far as I like any of our digital overlords.
That is quite flawed. and quite honestly one of the dumbest things I have ever read here. You also come across as quite arrogant or entitled when you say that all CRUD applications are poorly built with no 'user experience' whatever that means.

>We want to showcase the best of Indian creativity and ingenuity in product development. So we coined the name NotCRUD to describe quality custom-built software...

I am an Indian and I am cringing so hard right now! Ouch.
It doesn't have much to do. Software knows no boundaries. But the whole point of community, any community, is that a filter can provide incredible focus. And this focus is what can become a catalyst in future for encouragement and motivation. For starting up VWO.com I was hugely inspired by HN. I'm hoping notCRUD can become such a platform for many other Indian engineers where they know interesting stuff is happen ing in a country where many think only outsourcing happens.
"But then I realized that whoever made this graphic made a key mistake"

This sort of conflation has happened with my work as well - where a deliberate decision is taken by someone else as a "mistake" that must be fixed. Fine to have a differing opinion, but the author is right that the insulting tone is unnecessary.

Also unnecessary from the author's facebook post:

"I made a thing (again)!"

Wow, you made a thing! Again!? Good for you! This is so annoying, I can't help it.
As someone not terribly well-versed in the jargon of the finance and stock market worlds, this was a pretty good article for helping me make sense of it all. My head is spinning a little, but I've got the gist of it. Kudos to a16z for the good writeup.

I do have one question: can someone clarify for me what "tracking stock" is? I see that it has no voting rights and pays no dividends, but I don't understand how the market sets a price in that case. What is stock if not voting rights and dividends?
It's being "unfairly" singled out because it's being "unfairly" added to most processed foods. Why is it added? Because it's addicting, people will always want more, and are therefore willing to pay for it. Want your food product to sell more? Add sugar. It's nice that you think people should "just eat normal levels", but it's extremely hard in practice when the food landscape is heavily saturated in the stuff, especially the cheaper products. Healthy food, or "moderate" behavior, exists alongside a mountain of more appealing options in the moment, especially considering cost.

Go to the grocery (in the US), and look at many products attractive to children. Notice the heavy prevalence of added sugar. Unfairly singled out? lmfao
I think it makes sense. In a lecture you're having to learn at the pace of the lecturer. If it's too slow or too fast you lose interest. At home on your own you go at your own pace.
Playing Devil's advocate to your last point - standardization of curriculum (including handouts), is a dangerous game as students get older. When every classroom is taught the same, with the same lectures, notes, and handouts, the incentive to pay attention in class dwindles as the resources available for that class increase.

A better example may be a typical college course. Most freshman courses at any large University can have an upward of 500+ students. Depending on how the Professor conducts their class, some students may find it is not worth their time to attend class or complete homework themselves, when it's more time-advantageous to simply scheme with others in the course. If you want a tangible example, pull up your favorite "study" site (StudyBlue, Quizlet, CourseHero, Chegg) and view the plethora of paywalled material for classes.

Of course, as class size shrinks, this advantage drops, combined with tougher content, typically better incentives students to attend class and complete homework individually, rather than as a group.
Mac: I remapped screenshot taking to a single key: F3 and F4 for saving to clipboard and saving to file respectively. Saves a lot of finger gymnastics. Works only on non-Apple keyboards... Have to use Fn+F3 and Fn+F4 on Apple keyboards. Still easier than default.

Also I defined where all the screenshots go, and defined a simple naming scheme for them: screenshot XY...
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Every American needs to read this piece [0] about how Lamar Smith and Republicans in Congress are trying to shut down science they don't like by undermining peer review and ridiculing grant proposals with funny titles.

We are facing a new Lysenkoism [1].

[0] http://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9616370/science-committee-wors...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
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That won't stop people from copying your work without attribution. No license can do that.
It also makes me think of game levels designed for the 6th generation of consoles (PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox). Since the consoles had limited memory, they'd have a permanent resident set of memory, and then individual levels would be lumped together into a package file and streamed from the disc on-demand. Lumping them all together meant that they were in the relative location on the disc, so reducing the drive head seek times. As long as the game wasn't pushing up against the size limit of the disc, assets would be repeated to avoid additional seeks (no point in seeking to the sound effect file, seeking to the music file, seeking to the model file, etc. when loading a level).

The difference here is that those lumped-together levels live in the cloud and can be cached to system storage ahead of time (although faster players or those with slow network connections may need to wait for chunks to cache).
I've heard the exobyte data centers called the 21st century's "refineries" or industrial plants. They are physical plants consuming large amount of electricity (and nearly no labor). Although valiant attempts are made to minimize environment costs, the overall energy consumption increases and data creation rapidly grows.
Well, one trick would be to have "starting location" assets as a tag so you could always hop directly to a save, then begin streaming the rest of the surrounding area.

I foresee a lot of smaller games without this concern having good success. I don't expect a 10gb blockbuster any time soon on tvOS...
The "if you're not paying, you're the product" quip was just a way to get people to swallow the surveillance business model.

Now that it's a viable model, why would anyone choose to have N-1 revenue streams when they could have N? It's not like businesses always act on principle over profits.

Combine the consumer's low perceived value of privacy (thanks to intentional and unintentional actions of the businesses doing the surveillance), the fact privacy is largely a market for lemons, and the low number of options in the marketplace. Together you get service providers that rarely lose business for choosing to survival their customers.
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If you're concerned about this, you should use an Android device with a no-contract plan you pay for with cash.
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I'm referring to consumption of housing. Renting a house to live in with no prospect of reselling it.

You are discussing the purchasing of a long term stream of housing with the prospect of resale at some future point.
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>Damn I am so tempted to play it again (does it make me a heartless psycho?), but I am at work :(

Get your coworkers and boss involved, and then play it in "real-time" mode windowed over the course of a couple days. That'll keep engagement up.
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Results from the Quire + Mattermark 2015 Startup Investing Survey.

Super timely with the SEC's announcement this morning that they'll consider final Title III rules this Friday.
When some insist to use C++/JavaScript/PHP/MySql/Mongo/etc (tools with bad design/complexity/bug-prone/etc flaws) with the excuse that is possible to use them "well" if only we are more "disciplined" and "pay attention"?

When bad tools are bad, discipline is not the answer. Is fix the tool, or get rid of them.

Why developers understand that if a end-user have a high-error rate in one program is a problem with the program but when that happend with a language/tool for developers... not think the same???

"Good programmer" is almost a keyword in this context as "someone with the experience with for workaround and avoid the pitfalls that a tool is giving to him, plus also do his job" when is better if "someone that can concentrate in do his job".

Of course, workaround the pitfalls of tools is unavoidable in a world where "worse is better" have win. But why persist on this?
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