skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a "gifted" kid AKA they took my IQ score and put me in the program. (Horrible way to figure that out). I got to go to special things on Saturdays and take harder math classes in school. I totally sucked at spelling and still do and this is a known issue with people with a "mathematical brain" AKA can't spell to save my life but read at a high school level in 3rd grade and was doing calculus in 9th grade.

My son (5 years ago) was tested to be "gifted" and after looking at the program we said no.

1) They would move him to a totally different school in our district.

2) They used a different curriculum and class strategies.

3) Being an "4.0 Student" in undergrad I knew the pressure to stand out besides the perfect scores. Kids would be worse.

4) We live in a dirty poor urban school district and I figured the "gift program" was going to get cut. It did the next year and he would have been right where he was anyways.

5) He had cancer and I kind of was mad that they would tell him these were his options without talking to us first, because there were medical needs that a local school afforded us (AKA we could run to school and give him his pain meds if necessary)

Gifted doesn't mean separate because the one thing that people with different brain strategies needs is the ability to figure out how to work with others. If there is no others they are bound to have trouble later on.
What Netflix’s rebrand teaches us about responsive design
You may be able to negotiate to be paid in stock versus $$$. Very early stage startups that have not raised a round of funding might go for that deal.

I am working on a startup that is currently bootstrap and am very open to getting work done for shares vs salaries.
I guess you never used module based languages.

Why write things twice when the compilers are able to export text definitions from modules and IDEs can show them as well.
Boeing and Airbus are known for quality AND reliability. Those two terms are derived from hard data just as much as from public perception. As other's here have said...China will face an uphill battle.
If you have the training, been apprised of the situation, are wearing the right breathing equipment, and you have 4 bodies lying on the ground in front of you, then you have had all the warnings you could possibly expect to get. Disregarding safety in the face of so much evidence about the danger is either perverse or stupid. I can agree with your excuse for the other people (to some degree) but the fire chief doesn't get a pass on this one.
Do you feel, that you are unfairly discriminated because you are older? It feels terrible to hear such things. If you are a programmer, it seems like you either have to move to management as you grow older or change careers to survive. Best case scenario for a programmer, of course is to make a ton of money so that you don't ever have to depend on employment to pay your bills.
Reverse split happened to Hortonworks as well. Lots of employees got completely screwed by this because the sheer number of their options were cut in half.
This is the "regulation is ineffective, let's get rid of it" argument. Yes, by the time of its repeal banks had found ways around Glass-Steagall, both legal and illegal. The conclusion should not be that we should get rid of GS, we should extend it to cover those holes. Banks finding new ways to extend their size and reach is a metastatic event.
The iPhone 6s Plus I have is a wonderful phone, but I can't help but feel that Apple is losing some of it's perfection. There are some obvious UI annoyances that are present.

Such as, the Plus is a large phone so you most often open it with the phone tilted somehow, giving you landscape mode. It does not easily revert to the upright state without juggling it around, nor is there an option to not go landscape on the home screen only (seriously who needs that?). It's not even in the settings menu to disable rotation entirely - you have to find it in the pull up menu.

Another gripe I have is that all the pull up and down menus also trigger when you don't want it. The screen has gotten really sensitive, which is great, but there are lots of unintended effects now.

A fanatical user running the company wouldn't have overlooked this.
The other two options are armed rebellion and moving out of U.S.

These people probably don't have time, money or influence to do these things either.
Nice question. This is bound to get you good Karma on HN :) Anyways:

http://homebuyinglist.com

I just closed on a house and the process was really painful. So I decided to put a list of resources together in the hopes that they will have an easier time on what should be a joyful experience.
Thank you for following up. Off to get my 409A valuation docs from HR :-P
Wow, this is gonna be big! Congrats to the agile bits team!
I do something I call Dyna-Static.

I can run a static page off an Apache (or any wwwserver) instance. Just chuck files in /var/www/ where you want them.

Now where it gets interesting is I use Node-red to generate the pages; content and all. I want headers? It's a variable. I want ads? It's another variable Google provides. I want chat? Easy ( I can do it with nodered or 3rd party). I can bridge that webchat with my or someone else's IRC room.

Now, I can script it so the pages are updated from nod-red server to webserver. They can easily sit on the same box, as node-red takes few resources.

And the kicker is that I could get that done in an hour or so. Check out Node-Red . It really is that amazing.
A retweet means the tweet being retweeted will show up on the feed of people who are following you. Star/Favoriting is just like a personal bookmark. It won't automatically show up on followers feeds.
Yes, that was a nice strong statement but you are wrong, and the other guy is right. When you send a message from Inbox, you can cancel it, for a few seconds. It doesn't bother actually sending it until the Undo button has disappeared.
The only other outlawed future is motion picture box office receipts:

"7 U.S. Code § 13–1 - Violations, prohibition against dealings in motion picture box office receipts or onion futures; punishment

(a) No contract for the sale of motion picture box office receipts (or any index, measure, value, or data related to such receipts) or onions for future delivery shall be made on or subject to the rules of any board of trade in the United States. The terms used in this section shall have the same meaning as when used in this chapter.
(b) Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be fined not more than $5,000."
Yes, true
Very true, but how else would you do it? How would you pay them to help each other?
Don’t bother with Swift for iOS development
When software rots
It takes a village
This is a neat story. I'd love to hear more stuff like this from other well known companies. Stories of ideas that never got off the ground but could have worked.
moxie,

Please consider my suggestions here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10501636

I would argue that an identifier is just that: an identifier. It does not need to be a number nor does it have to be for an indefinite amount of time.

Lastly, please consider disabling the debug log by default
Much better than the previous version. However, still seriously lacking in the Outlook front versus the MS Windows counterpart.
Did Google decide not to invite you over to interview in person? Perhaps you feel bad because of that.
$ nopassword() { echo -n "MYSEED-${1}" | openssl md5 }
$ nopassword github
9afe72783eaa2d065adb5f891a427147
$ nopassword facebook
8a6933c915ea2b48349f5c5955f9ade0
$ nopassword github
9afe72783eaa2d065adb5f891a427147
> why don't we go full Spartan and take the kids away from the parents right after they're born and have schools teach everything.

I feel like that was the reason we had boarding school for the rich and apprenticeships in the early modern period. Children didn't stay with you in the city at around 12 you shipped them off to be an apprentices and live with the master or you went to a boarding school or college by 12 or 13.
This isn't about adding to the burden of what schools teach or provide - it's about acknowledging that schools are fundamentally a place to educate _humans_ - so some things that are fundamental to the human experience ought to be considered. I don't think a generation or two raised on "your score must improve" is going to be the hallmark of social progress. I'd much rather have a population that understands empathy.

So I'll meet you half way and settle for schools that don't forcibly grind out any spark of individuality, creativity, curiosity, and empathy from their students as part of the hunt for ever higher test scores.
Interesting point, but there's a potentially important, albeit somewhat subtle difference. Google collects data which they claim nobody will ever look at. The reason they collect lots of data is so that machines can look at all of it now, while the NSA collects lots of data because they think that a person might need to look at some of it in the future.
Pretty sure it looks for the phrase "attach", it doesn't appear to be super sophisticated. Either way it works well.
Another case involving pig shit.

"The lagoons themselves are so viscous and venomous that if someone falls in it is foolish to try to save him. A few years ago, a truck driver in Oklahoma was transferring pig shit to a lagoon when he and his truck went over the side. It took almost three weeks to recover his body. In 1992, when a worker making repairs to a lagoon in Minnesota began to choke to death on the fumes, another worker dived in after him, and they died the same death. In another instance, a worker who was repairing a lagoon in Michigan was overcome by the fumes and fell in. His fifteen-year-old nephew dived in to save him but was overcome, the worker's cousin went in to save the teenager but was overcome, the worker's older brother dived in to save them but was overcome, and then the worker's father dived in. They all died in pig shit."

Tough way to go.

From this excellent, long-form piece on Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/boss-hog-the-dark-s...
Seriously? Those things travelled millions of light-years but yet they were stopped by a flight of stairs.
Always liked

> Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization

It succinctly describes the "process" everywhere I've ever worked.
Post election analysis: Twitter vs. traditional polls
You got downvotes (and flags) for the "all your /r/atheism" comment.
Same story, multiple sources, no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10501831 (bbc.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500357 (businessinsider.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500350 (geekwire.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500197 (fortune.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498754 (theverge.com)
I love this kind of stuff. Awhile back I attempted to do similar benchmarking with Pushpin:
http://blog.fanout.io/2013/10/30/pushing-to-100000-api-clien...

Like the Pheonix test, this tested broadcast throughput. However we couldn't push more than 5000 messages per second out of a single EC2 m1.xlarge instance otherwise latency would increase. My theory is that we were hitting the maximum throughput of the underlying NIC, causing packet loss and requiring TCP to retransmit (hence the latency). At some point I want to try adding multiple virtual NICs to the same EC2 instance and see if that helps.
To bad... I hope you'll get your account back, or at least your money ...
Boss Hog: The Dark Side of America's Top Pork Producer (2006)
Yes.

Here is a list of activities that grow at a more-than-linear rate
as project size increases:
- communication
- planning
- management
- requirements development
- system functional design
- interface design and specification
- architecture
- integration
- defect removal
- system testing
- document production

Code Complete section 27.5. Size in this section is referring to LOC.
> In the US, the banking and military sectors - and a large chunk of tech - are at least as dependent on government handouts.

> So the problem isn't one of scale, which is already huge. It's one of distribution.

Ah, but those industries are concentrated interests. The individual value proposition is sufficient for people in these industries to lobby the government, because there's an enormous amount of wealth available to be transferred to a relatively small number of individuals.

On the other hand, the scenario you're proposing is that same enormous amount of wealth available to be transferred to an enormous number of individuals. The upside per individual is relatively small, and most individuals are better off spending their time and resources on things that can more directly improve their life (like going to work, getting an education, exercising, enjoying entertainment, etc.). Note that this isn't individuals making a mistake or being irrational. They're acting in their self-interest.

It's easy to say that "we" should just redistribute the subsidies on big industry to the entire population. But it is, as far as I can tell, not a remotely feasible goal.
Actually, it's enough to be at approximately same level as your peers. Varying interests will balance things out. You might feel that some of your peers are stronger in math, but that biology is your thing and so on.

Skill-based splitting is also a good thing for at least one subject: foreign languages. Practicing with peers on a very different level will not work out at all.

And by the way, if your kid ends up being the best in the class for virtually everything, you need to move him somewhere where they will challenge him more. If you don't, then good luck later on.
Went camping at a popular local park on 4th of July weekend. As it turns out, a hundred or so charcoal cooking fires will blanket a whole region with a thick haze even if they are all outside to begin with =/
This seems more likely as hashtags and mentions both came from how users were using Twitter, they weren't originally in Twitter.
Using Facebook for comparison, a retweet is similar to the 'share' button. Heart parallels the 'like' button. Retweeting explicitly draws your followers' attention to the tweet. While a heart seems to have a multitude of purposes: right from expressing sentiment to bookmarking. Twitter in this case wishes to make it clear to new users that Heart is how they express sentiment. Behaviorally, retweets tend to be expression of public endorsement. While hearts(previously favorites) are a semi-private invocation of approval or interest
Ataşehir Açık Alan İlaçlama, Ataşehir Açık Alan İlaçlama Şirketi
Enterprising Child Saves $54 To Buy Barrel Of Oil

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/enterprising-child-saves-54-...
The article says the U.S. is about 10% below a trend estimated through 2007. 2007 was the peek of the bubble. Why are they using 2007 as a target? The credit market was different back than. How much of that 10% output was fueled by easy credit? It might be better to use a few years before 2007 as a target. I would like to know where we are if you look at it before the Mania Phase of the bubble.
NDX[PSKSKM]
Or a herd. English is flexible.

Most of the collective nouns were made up in the 15th century anyway, and very few have caught on. (Evidence: the article.)
A touch of elegance is missing, I agree.
Gmail does not literally unsend SMTP messages. To give you time to undo, Gmail delays sending the message for a few seconds. So if you don't select "Undo" within the time limit, your message will be sent.

How to use: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1284885?hl=en
There's been a lot of up/down vote action on this Big Bang theory reference. I've found it quite entertaining. Thanks HN. :)
If you want to send me your username I can make sure you are unsubscribed from everything.
To Be Continuous – Ep. #6 – Where Doesn't Continuous Delivery Work?
Yes, it would. If curation is too troublesome for gathering a large enough training set, it might be possible to train a smaller curated network with a higher false-negative rate that flags responses that aren't appropriate (personal info, insults, etc) and removes those from the training set.
From an engineer's perspective, the problem with product management is often lack of a definable process. How do the PM's priorities correlate to actual user priorities? I've never had a PM who showed actual names and numbers or anything quantitative to show this relationship. If I could see that, it might be easier to understand why they're willing to tie up half of engineering for a year to implement a feature that not one of those engineers believes will actually matter, while other apparently low-hanging fruit have to go unpicked. It's OK if they're wrong, so long as there seems to be a rational process involved. I've worked with some pretty good PMs, but even they seemed to be good primarily because they had good gut instincts and not because they applied a rigorous process. In other cases, PM decisions seemed to be based on pure personal bias unchangeable by facts. Anyone who has lost a year of their life because of a PM's ten-second decision is going to be less keen on PMs as a species for a long time.
The Black Mirror is an interesting case. It's got 7 episodes over 3 years and is exactly the kind of show Netflix wants so there going to produce another 12.

Honestly, I think really demonstrates a failing of TV and not a success. Like how firefly got 1/2 a season @ 14 episodes.
LISNR Lands Intel Capital and $10M in Series B Funding
I wasn't sure if I wanted to embarrass the people involved, but they're public figures anyway.

For people: Marc Andreesen, Peter Thiel, Ray Dalio, Warren Buffett. Interestingly, neo-Schumpeterianism (as championed by Perez/Andreesen) seems to be making a comeback.

For important phenomena that mainstream academic macro-economics has no explanation for:

- How do you measure the "substitution effect" of greater quality at lower prices? Most standard economics metrics assume that value = price; GDP is the total value of all goods manufactured within a company. That means that when the price of a computer falls from $2000 to $200, GDP falls. When Google gives away web search, it counts for nothing; when they reduce the number of organic results to show more ads, it increases GDP. When open-source Linux replaces proprietary Windows, GDP falls.

- Inflation is not uniform. Inflation in classical macroeconomics is treated as the measured price of a basket of goods, and caused by an increase in the money supply. But when the money supply increases, that increase does not filter down to all goods equally. It tends to collect at goods with high bargaining power and few substitutes (Warren Buffett was the first person I know of to note this effect). So we have seen massive inflation in the valuation of unicorns, and in the price of San Francisco real estate. We've seen high inflation in health care and the price of a college degree. We've seen steady inflation in home prices elsewhere. We've seen severe deflation in competitive consumer goods markets, and in non-unionized wages. The basket of goods used to calculate CPI is largely commodities, and so by definition tends to understate inflation. That's why the Fed is continuing to step on the gas even though the price of education, or health care, or homeownership is rapidly moving beyond the reach of average Americans.

- Competition and capitalism are to some degree antonyms (this is the Peter Thiel thesis). The first goal of most companies is to build a monopoly and keep competitors out. This is covered in depth in microeconomics, but is largely ignored in macroeconomics. But monopolies behave very differently from competitive businesses when it comes to the macroeconomics fundamentals of employment, output, and wages. Monopolies tend to employ people because they have money and want to eliminate competition, not because they need output; this explains a lot of crazy economics results like why people can work 2 hours/day for six-figure salaries while others work 16 hours/day for minimum wage, or why companies buy startups and then immediately kill their products, or why companies would rather sit on cash than hire more people.

All of these are mentioned as footnotes in economics textbooks, but they're mentioned to say "Yes, we know this is a problem with the model, but nobody has yet found a better way to account for these phenomena." Policy response is still very much dependent upon mainstream macroeconomics models, even though the observed effect of that policy response isn't working.
Well, to be blunt: a closed-minded PM is, by definition, a crappy PM. Listening to experts and external stakeholders is literally one of the core parts of the job.

That's not to say a PM has to take their advice. But if they choose not to, it should be for clearly defined reasons based on strong reasoning backed by data.
Acoma Pueblo is currently producing pottery and stone houses on a mesa, as they've been doing for 900 years, although like everybody else, they buy a lot of their pottery at Wal-Mart. But they also make some to sell to tourists. And more of their construction is adobe than stone at the moment, but a lot of it (especially the older parts) is adobe-grouted masonry.

Wouldn't be surprising at all if those houses were 50, or 100, or 150 years old, rather than ancient artifacts.
There's something wrong with the cost structure in "Advanced Economies". It's just too cheap to make things in China. There are some products where the cost of the raw materials would be more expensive in the U.S than having the finished product shipped from China. There are sky high costs, and nobody can figure out where they are coming from and everyone just shrugs their shoulders. This kind of thing happens in healthcare and education too.

Has anyone in manufacturing looked at the financials of a Chinese manufacturer with low unit cost? Where does the money go or not go that makes things so cheap?
You tell a kid they're smart: You've immediately set them up for long term failure.

"Smart" is a quantifiable hard limit. The problem with smart people is that as soon as they run up against a challenge/concept/issue they cannot immediately overcome, they get frustrated, because they "should be smarter than this!" Which often results in avoidable frustration/anxiety/depression.

You see this a lot. "Gifted" "smart" kids who coast through school for years, until one day they finally run up against something they cannot do and run away from it screaming. Simply because they're not "smart enough."

Where is the school program that let's the bullshit pseudo concept of "smarts" fall by the wayside and instead replaces it with an atmosphere where failure IS acceptable, and that you just have to work through the hard parts?

I have a kid. My wife's side is second generation "gifted." These people are absolutely obsessed with how smart they are/sound/come across, and get incredibly upset/frustrated/annoyed when they feel "dumb" (i.e. things are hard, they don't get it right away, or they make a mistake).

Unfortunately when I raise the issue of "hey, focusing on an intangible level of intelligence could be damaging [here look at this child research]" I just get eye rolls, because they're so deeply into the concept of how innately intelligent they are, they cannot see a less damaging way of living one's life.
Show HN: Toc Messenger – A distributed messaging app that syncs
Thank von Neumann...it's his.

He did a lot of work about what it means for a market to be efficient.

People forget the axioms that lead to market efficiency -- convexity being one of them.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but I thought the point of headers is to avoid writing things twice (or more).