skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair assessment, I think my opinion changed in the process of writing it!

To be fair though, I'm really saying that there isn't a source of such information, but even if there were, it might not much matter for most, myself included. If I don't regret not 'upgrading' after the fact, when I do have slightly better information, I probably wouldn't think it was worth it in advance either, even with perfect information.
It would be beneficial to quantify exactly what about a certain vegetable is good, and to compare it to others. That way, you could obtain the most nutritional value within certain constraints.

Perhaps a certain vegetable is known to provide the most nutrients for the longest storage time. This could benefit people in third-world countries, whose food storage is at a premium.

I get it, you're disillusioned with people who demand scientific evidence uber alles. But the approach has its benefits. And what you may think is obvious because it was true in the past may be proven wrong.

What I don't understand is that you seem to be asking for people to think less critically. We should end science and just return to the olden times? Some of your argument makes a lot of sense to me (sharing lawnmowers with our neighbors rather than owning them entirely). But you also ask people to act without knowledge.

Your argument doesn't offer much in the way of solutions besides immediately acting without data.
My theory is that due to their young age, two teachers can only manage ~10 kids on average, assuming each one is paying 1000/month on average, that's 10000 per month, after admin/rent/tax/insurance there are not much left to split between two staffs. Daycares are very local and can not be too large in size, all in all there is not much economy of scale.
Well, no, but that's probably because 'Lies My Teacher Told Me' is by a completely different author. That book commits its own sins, primarily ones of omission, but agreed, it's far better than Zinn's 800-page Manichean screed.
Lets say child care costs you $12 an hour. That means staying home is 'worth' $12 an hour to you. In order to make it worth going to work, you need to make $12/hr + taxes. Otherwise youre actually losing money by going to work.

In other words, our tax system is encouraging people to stay home. Whether or not we want to do that is up for debate but we can fix this by 1) taxing stay at home moms for the value they are creating or 2) removing child care service taxes.

Its a valid argument.
While I find the majority of that video as absurd as everyone else (it seemed like something out of Mike Judge/HBO's "Silicon Valley") I have to admit the Lego burn down project tracking board thingy was pretty cool.
same, i was hoping it would be something interesting :(
At some point I really loved my job because it allowed me to spend lots of time doing what I really love (outside of main job). Without being restrictive in any way.
Could you please expand a bit more on the long term effects of expanding the money supply?
To build a strong community, stop “community managing”, be a Tummler instead
What mechanism do you propose to explain this phenomenon? ISTM that if an employer is paying a market-clearing wage, and then she decides to just pay less, she's going to have either fewer employees, or less capable employees, or both.
When I was at Microsoft, at least among several of the better developers, when debugging an issue, many would just ignore source code and enter a bunch of "u" (disassemble) commands into windbg. This is IMHO a great habit if you're writing C or C++. In many cases it ensures less distance between you and a bad pointer dereference. Your code, my code, source code, or none - doesn't matter. Just look at the faulting address and see what it expects.

From a certain vantage point, in these languages, if you aren't seeing assembly from time to time, you're not seeing reality.

Consequently, I kind of chuckle when I hear people say they can't debug optimized builds.
We already subsidize employers of low-wage and part-time workers; Wal*Mart is infamous for encouraging its workers to apply for food stamps, for example.

This outcome is even implicit in the common observation that UBI could obviate the minimum wage, making it legal to employ low-skilled workers and improving their dignity by erasing the difference between those on the dole and those who work for a living.
It is appalling that Howard Zinn's harmful conspiratorial worldview is being taught to young people. The lower class mobs are not the saints he purports them to be and they are not the perpetual victims he purports them to be. The capitalist civilization has lifted lower class people in a way primitive communism society he espouses never can.
I think they're great too. I'm just curious what 18f thinks about them.
Knowing a few childcare centre owners, they're very profit driven, and they're generally doing pretty damn well. The staff are paid peanuts, and it shows in the quality of the care. I don't think I'd ever send my kids to one of their centres!
Both of those developers asked the community for money. They should have asked the companies that use their projects directly. I world imagine they'd hey far better results that way.
> typically very controllable and well-behaved

I went to my sons school the other day - parents were invited to attend for half an hour. He's 6. The children sat down quietly when the teacher asked. One of the parents took a phone call (!), at which point one of the kids immediately turned around, gave her the most incredibly stern look and went "shhh!" - it was quite amusing to see a bunch of 6 year old kids behaving better than their parents.

Conversely, though, I had teachers as a kid that wouldn't have been able to get anyone to behave... My class drove more than one teacher to run crying from the class room. In primary school.
The infinite scrolling fad needs to die.
Spontaneous human combustion
I agree that it works. But all of the legislation and rules will not allow it.

If something happens to your child whose fault is it? The adult, the older child. How can you qualify that an older child is able to 'help' and in what capacity.

My mother in law runs an in home daycare. Has been for over 25 years. Fully licensed. The rules and regulations get harder every year. She is allowed 8 kids at most at one time. She has to be certified in CPR for children and newborns, take continuing education courses, background check anybody who lives in her house (including herself) since she runs an in home daycare, monthly/quarterly/random visits from the state, and stay on top of all of the various new rules.

While it has worked in the past, I just can not see it working in our current sue happy culture.
Ask HN: How do I stop comparing myself to others?
I always have this problem of feeling inadequate. I'm a junior CS student at a decent but not great school. Some of my friends go to Stanford or UT Austin and have already interned with multiple top companies, while I haven't accomplished anything of significance. I also read this site daily and I can't even comprehend most of the posts. I didn't figure out what I wanted to do with my life until recently, so now I'm 22 and stuck behind my younger peers.

I'm really impatient to achieve big things. It's like I need to in order to justify my existence. How do I transition to a healthier state of mind and stop feeling worthless?
Eh, we know who writes history books. Nice try though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28text_editor%29
What architecture are you speaking of? Wood buildings like the very common Victorians? I don't know what you mean by "hideous paneling," but of the many places I've lived, San Francisco has the most beautiful/interesting architecture. I grew up in a brick house on the east coast, and I find that sort of architecture drab comparatively.
Yes, yes, wealth distribution.

On the latter, these days it's getting too risky for people who aren't already wealthy to innovate, and disrupt. Corporations are getting increasingly large, and the number of viable competitors in some of the more prominent industries is generally not increasing - because the entry cost is so high.
I... don't really understand how sports are good for education. I mean, I understand why exercise is good for education, but following sports doesn't involve exercise.

>I am not opposing sport, STEM, music, arts, whatever else - I'm opposing an emphasis on any "practical skills" in general.

So what standard do you have for "better"? Do you have any standard for "better" or "good"? would memorizing random strings of numbers, then, make a person "better"?
The unmanned aerial drones of WW2
They've got 30-second MP3 clips of the ones they've digitized online here: http://greenstone.ilam.ru.ac.za/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=il...
Please do. That would make for very interesting reading, imho.
No wonder I have trouble finding the remote.
because it will the super rich's cut
Having a good web browser or partially obscure language does not make Microsoft a web company in a sense that Google or Facebook are. That would be a dishonest comparison. Us devs will never forget about IE, though Edge is a good start in repairing a very frayed relationship.

Regarding social web it is also highly dishonest to compare Xbox Live with Facebook or Twitter, which are deeply ingrained cultural phenomena.

His points are valid, much more than ticking off positives of Microsoft's efforts. There's a reason MS isn't as confident as it was. Redmond is constantly haunted by 2006(AWS), 2007(iPhone), 2008(Chrome) and 2009(Facebook's rise). They seem to be the last to the party...
We pay $780 here in SF for three half days. When we go to five full days it will be near $1600.
Here is one of the best things I've read regarding 'community managers', and the mindset that such a position should entail:

http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2014/04/community-management-t...

The TL;DR: encourage participation even above solving other people's problems for them - lead them toward helping themselves and others.
As long as it is made clear it is sponsored content I don't mind. I find it more acceptable than ads from third party networks.
Kevin Cook Austin: How types of music change your mood
If you've ever worked in residential construction, there's one constant truth: everything you make will be redesigned away before it fails. Our desire for novelty is strong, and cheap construction lets us reconfigure houses affordably in ways that old, stronger construction didn't. Someone will want a new countertop because it looks pretty long before the old one will break, and the same goes for closet space and windows.

That's no explanation for situation in the article, of course. One would expect that structural elements of large, dramatic investments of that sort would take proper care to last. But drywall-on-sticks is an economic reality that makes sense.
You're reading the wrong line on the graph because you're not reading the comments you're replying to. The median income for men is what was cited as being essentially flat since 1970. You can't simply pretend that a different argument was made and refute that.
It also makes Ms look extremely relevant and powerful which is weird..
This is an aside, but somewhat similar in spirit.

In high school, ages ago, I remember discussing the following problem and never being satisfied with the solution. If someone could clarify the exact wording and source of the problem I'd appreciate it.

What I loosely remember is as follows. A teacher tells her students on a Friday that they are to have a test next week. However, she adds, they won't know the day before that they're going to have a test on the following day.

The students, being somewhat savvy, deduce that if it transpires that they don't get tested by the end of the following Thursday then they'd have to be tested on Friday, which would mean that they know this beforehand, so the test cannot possibly be on Friday. And so, inductively, cannot be on Thursday, and so on.

This "logic" is very unsatisfying, so I need to find out what the actual form and solution of the problem is.

This has bugged me for decades.
To use maths/statistics to reason that YC is not biased against certain groups of applicants is amusing. But to even consider that technical female founders are weak candidates is disappointing.

The sample population was chosen by specific type of groups of partners. There is no female technical partners in the group. As a female technical founder, I am not interested in building 'tea-making bot', sandwich making bot or selling organic condom. IMHO we have different views in looking at problems and solving them. Without having female technical founder as partner, YC would be perceived to be biased.

The algorithm of selecting promising candidates will vary once there is a variety of partners.
No problem! Hope it was useful.
an account just for this comment, eh
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Because these rights are necessary for minorities to be protected from majoritarian excesses in a democracy. It's really not that hard to understand if you try to think of it from a neutral standpoint.

Regardless of that, as everyone in aware, religious minorities perform poorly on most social indicators - often ranking even below the scheduled caste. The Sachar committee report [1] is full of examples which illustrate this point.

So it also makes pragmatic sense for state to proactively work for their upliftment. We also do it for schedule/backward caste members even thought they belong to the majority religion.

Btw, I would just say that your point about draconian provisions is simply unsubstantiated.

I'm proactively repeatedly countering you on unsubstantiated facts, just because I don't want such misinformation to spread around and influence other minds.

[1] http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.in/sites/upload_files/moma/fi...
Different sides are great, but at least in my AP US class, the actual textbook we used had biases pretty similar, or at least in a similar direction, to Zinn, if I'm recalling it correctly. (Despite doing well in that class, I don't remember many details from the book, but that was definitely my impression at the time. Also, my comparison to Zinn is limited to reading part of his book in an earlier class; I haven't read all of it.)
It's not, passing most of the times.

It's unstable.
That doesn't mean thats bad.

And Firefox is passing Acid3. And always did.

I mean ACID1 and ACID2 failures are mostly regression that getting fixed a day after but still its not roughly stable.
I had no idea that they were in the cash advance space. It reminds me of the recent Bloomberg piece about it - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-10-06/how-two-gu...
And is rising at approximately 250 meters per year.
Do we have specific evidence that they actually do sift through the source code? They demand its submission, but how do we know they actually do anything with it? I'm asking this as a serious question.
Box of Nada
> Talk to anyone involved in construction.

I am going to take a guess and say that we are not reading a commented written by someone involved in construction. HVAC anything? I'd love to see you sell a house for 750k with asbestos wrapped around all the vents. Vermiculite versus blown in closed cell poly? Poly versus waxed floors? LVLs? Exterior fasteners? Lead paint? Can you imagine how much longer this list would be if I was not content to stick to residential construction?

I could go on and on. TLDR Housing materials have significantly improved since Calvin Coolidge's time. Oh yeah, I forgot Contruction Adhesives...
Perhaps your confusion is in the distinction between the literal 'using it at work' vs. what I interpreted OP's meaning as incorporating a GPL-licensed OSS project as a dependency of commercial software?

The 'problem' with the GPL is easy: commercial software is often distributed to end users only as binaries because it is sold closed-source.

The LGPL may be less clear, but there are still problems: LGPL is (was?) not allowed in iOS apps on the Apple app store, is only intended to be used when licensing software libraries, corporate lawyers spidey sense tingles as the license gets into the details of what is a library and linking, etc.

The commercial friendliness of the BSD license vs. [L]GPL seems to be fairly self-evident; the FSF summarizes it as a 'lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license'[1].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD
Currently we are not testing against our application always, but I sometime try it out and its working aweful.

also on acid2 i get different results every day/week. sometimes i'm good somtimes not.

Yeah servo gets more support, i still think it takes at least another year (or more) to ship it.
The race is long and it is only with yourself.

Realistically, what is the percentage of people in the whole world that can do what you can do? Here is the answer: Under 25-million or you can do what you do better than 0.0000000025% of the planet.

https://www.quora.com/Approximately-how-many-programmers-are...

I bet that didn't help but look at it this may, you may or may not become a "New York Times, number-one, best selling author" or a "Diva at an Italian opera house" but you can master your craft and use it to better people's lives or even your own life for that matter. Perhaps that should be the goal and revel in those accomplishments?
There's a big difference between "assembly is not relevant for anyone" and "assembly is not relevant for everyone". I suspect few people hold the former view and a bunch hold the latter, but shortened both sound the same.
I laughed at this post because my current home is all brick house built in 1930s, with a brick extension built in 1980s.

An inspector said, "those are very good bricks from the 30s. They don't make bricks that strong anymore"
I don't follow why a bank can't see cash flow? I live in Australia, and here almost everyone is using PayPass by MasterCard or PayWave by VISA - both are contactless PINless card payments. All those transactions have to go in to the merchants bank account.
We've been praying to gods for a long time too, but it looks pretty likely that it just doesn't work.

This stuff needs scientific study because simply being ancient doesn't mean something is any good. Sometimes these things are great, sometimes they're useless, sometimes they're harmful. Science is how you figure out which is which.
Ah. Interesting. Maybe my teacher was just particularly good at picking contrasting material.

In our non-Zinn textbook, there were semi-hagiographies of each president as they showed up (including, funnily, a mention of the height of every single one), as well as some interpretations of US policy decisions (e.g. the Mexican-American war) that bent over backwards to give the benefit of the doubt to politicians who were likely very aware of what they were doing. Things like its unequivocal endorsement of the nuclear bombing of Japan, for instance, were nicely offset by Zinn's unequivocal condemnation.
The older are in school learning more challenging things. Most teens would be unable to take the responsibility, and most are not psychologically mature enough to meet today's standards. The modern world is more complicated and education is more advanced than it was, say, 100 years ago.
Oh, no. I'm talking about stuff that's been built over the last 1 or 2 decades. Mainly, the disgusting loft buildings in SOMA and all the larger, paneled residential buildings.
Meant to say JS -> binary so you can have a node/express server compiled and running. Browser JS is another story of cource
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Ad-blocking is widely loathed that one company held a peace summit about it
> It's not, passing most of the times.

Acid1 and Acid2 are reftests. The CI system ensures they continue to pass on every commit. Commits are not merged if they break the Acid tests.

> And Firefox is passing Acid3. And always did.

No, it didn't always pass it. Acid3 didn't even exist when Firefox first came on the scene.

Firefox scores 99/100 for me.
Have you accounted for the rise in quantity of terrestrial devices, or only used the increasing distance of New Horizons to calculate the 250 meters?
Of course, they would force wages down. Instead of money going directly from employer to employee, it would go from employers to government to employees. Nonetheless, the employer would still have to pay competitive wages on top to retain employees. Forces of socialism and capitalism will be in play at the same time. Socialism and capitalism are not mutually independent.

Despite companies like Walmart and Home Depot having to pay more into the system, this would be a windfall for them as the availability of people with money to spend in places like this will drastically increase. The Laffer Curve is correct when the supply side and the demand side on the graph are switched to where they belong. Walmart would then have to hire more employees to meet the demand and put more tax money into the system. lol
Partisan pieces like this are incredibly lame. He doesn't even address the issue properly. $10k is not a living wage in the US and I doubt it is on in Canada. Make it $30k and let's see if job wages get depressed (they won't). The funny part is that there is unfortunately a very good argument against UBI, the only good argument against UBI IMO, and that is that most countries cannot afford it. Let's take the US:

$30 000 * 230 000 000 adults = $6 900 000 000 000 a year

Now obviously, 100% of the adult workforce will not be on UBI, but even with 10% of adults on UBI, you're still looking at close to $700 billion a year. Even currently, I'd bet that way more than 10% of people would quit their bullshit jobs if they could get UBI (also causing a shortage of employees in certain industries and wages to go up) and that percentage will rise much higher in the future.

I'm no economy expert, but somehow, I just don't think we're there yet with the numbers, though I think we possibly will get there at some point. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking because I'd like this to work, even in theory only. Maybe someone has better math than mine ... :)
Finance is the "parasitic" industry that powers every big VC and every tech IPO - the reason that founders can pay programmers as much as they do these days.
I have difficulty believing that beyond the rare exception, those who earn over £1500 a day are nothing more than rent seekers who's staying power is more political than based on work and skill.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
Any tool to recognize male or female in photograph?
Any tool to recognize male or female in photograph?
A mediterranean diet could cut womb cancer risk
> the expensive end is even better than (and more expensive than) the best of the best was 20 years ago

I'm not sure about this part, unless you are very careful in what you're shopping for, and knowledgeable about it. One Achilles heel of a lot of current appliances is that there are now circuit boards everywhere, which are a common point of premature failure. If the computerized part of your appliance fails (due to a power surge, capacitor aging, etc.), the device is effectively bricked in a difficult-to-repair way, even if all the mechanical parts are still fine. One option is to buy all-mechanical high-end models, which works with some appliances (espresso machines) but is basically impossible with others (washing machines).