skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now I'm picturing the latest in automobile technology: the Benjabug Franklin! It designs ambitious hats, runs off of lightning, and modifies the timezone it's in dynamically for +/- hours of fun!
> It is nuts that we segregate children by birth year

The ones that were doing differently are being forced to stop:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/10/30/new-daycare-rules...
If we were to start from scratch? Every kid should learn to be themselves. Let their individual educations naturally sprout forth from that.
What ever happened to Google's "End-To-End" Chrome extension? https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end...
> "What should every kid learn" if we were to start from scratch you think?

Depends on socio economic class I would imagine. If you belong to middle class in India for example, you would want you kids to buy into 'the cult of achievement' where achievement is defined by how many people you can prove that you are better than. Because this is only one of the few methods available to Indian middle class to ensure that her child is not going to live a life of destitution. You probably won't care if your child is 'thinking critically'.

But I guess it is an interesting question as to what school would mean if you belong to upper class in America where you are free from social morality and hierarchies. I would imagine you want you child to learn how to be passionate about things so they can escape a life of constant boredom.
No spaces round an em-dash is what's correct in American English. (Also, Menand's piece that you cite has no spaces around em-dashes either)
Faraday Future
> Or to look back even further in history, at one point not everyone could read and write.

We still have that, in 1st world countries. (I've used the wikipedia entry for the US, but rates are similar across EU)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

> This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."
It's definitely better and much more subtle. Whether or not it is technically two questions per the description of the problem...I'm not sure :)
La Corbusier is still alive in parts of Southern California, resulting in places where it feels like you have to get on the highway for 20 minutes to go to the toilet. This kind of design philosophy results in places that look good from a distance and tick off all the desirability checkboxes but are not actually good places to live.

The comparison with waterfall development is apt: vision first, reality second, users last.
The Displaced
The sender (the sender's service provider or organization) decides when to use TLS while the message bounces around internally, then (this is the typical long hop) the recipient's server and the sender's SMTP client negotiate, and then the recipient gets to decide.

The sender may have opinions, but as soon as the message is handed over to the recipient's server, that's it. That's the end of the sender's influence, and that's how it has to be on a global internet. People can connect without having their infrastructure approved by anyone else.
It's still being worked on. Turns out, getting these things right from a crypto and a UX perspective is hard.
A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers
When Gold Isn’t Worth the Price
For more extreme examples, consider Nazism or malaria.
Enjoy your 1Mbps connection, Comcast suckers. My DSL connection has ten times the bandwidth!

Seriously if you still have a local DSL provider, patronize them before it's too late. National policy is explicitly based around competition between DSL and cable, so when you ignore DSL because cable advertises fraudulent peak-rate speeds, you're saying that competition does not matter to you.

Telco infrastructure is even still regulated such that smaller companies can be ISPs, leading to great customer service and even pro-privacy attitudes such as these: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/06/22/ceo-of-...
Hasn't been legitimate for a long time, though. England's maritime boundaries were extended a while back. If they try something, English police will descend.
Manufacturing high end tech in China isn't as cheap as one might think, when it comes to really high end electronics China/Taiwan is usually really cheaper only at extremly high volumes same goes for any other type of high end manufacturing where human labor isn't a factor anymore.
Other "over-seas" manufacturing cost reductions come mainly when you delegate the entire production operation to a sub-contractor this means that much of your engineering post the prototyping phase such as the "design for manufacturing", tooling, and assembly line engineering are delegated to local engineering firms which while are much more expensive now than even 10 years ago still considerably cheaper than US or European engineers.
If you can't or do not want to do it when the volume isn't huge, and when pretty much all of the work has to be done outside of china you won't see any real cost benefits to it.

So when you combine the already existing experience in both automotive and high tech engineering fields as well as government grants in the US for green/renewable energy and emerging technologies making a Tesla 2.0 in China will probably not cost you sufficiently less to justify the costs of having to build it in China and import it into the US.
And if you also going to replicate Tesla's artificial scarcity business model well then at that volume China might become even a more expensive place to produce in.
the government's approach to cybersecurity has been 100% offense

That is completely wrong. The CSS is largely devoted to IA and IP, not to mention many other defensive cyber support units. In fact DHS, FBI and FCC have heavily invested in Critical Infrastructure protection, NETSEC and related capabilities.

Is it sufficient? No, but saying that the USG strategy is 100% offensive is completely and totally untrue.

[1]https://www.nsa.gov/about/central_security_service/index.sht...
[2]http://www.dhs.gov/topic/cybersecurity
A note to beginning science writers
It's hard to say for sure, as I don't classify traffic in any way, and I only have traffic-by-IP for the past 24 hours.

Personally I just watch an unhealthy amount of anime, which probably accounts for the majority of DL/UL traffic. My monthly offsite backup to Amazon Glacier accounts for ~30GiB UL.

I don't think my household is that extraordinary: we're just three average millennials who all work first-shift.

Something to point out is that we don't get any sort of regular broadcast television -- so all our media consumption is done either online or w/ physical media.

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A funny thing to note: AT&T has been trying to get my business for a while now, as they just installed fiber (to the node) in my neighborhood. I had to turn them down as the contract included a 300GiB bandwidth cap.

The guy seemed genuinely floored when I actually produced logs showing I routinely exceed that cap. He claimed the caps are unlikely to be enforced, but I'm not willing to have it in writing that I agreed to such a thing.
I feel in truth it's not quite there, but on the other hand it's still worth pursuing just to escape the insanity that is Tex and it's patchwork of packages to support everything from things-that-should be core (multi column) to oh-god-why-would-you-do-ath (drawing diagrams).
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Disney Is Finally Getting That Apps Are the Future of TV
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The problem is still that in most regions of the world electric cars are still a gimmick with an environmental friendly marketing spin.

Essentially dirty methods of producing electricity and converting that electricity back into mechanical energy are less efficient than gasoline engines. So yes - we do need electric cars and it's great companies are making them but that won't have a significant impact until the industrial-scale energy problems are addressed.
LA’s new streetlamps come with built-in wireless broadband
I used to work for a major telco and any sensitive lines here monitored looking up C or Liz II's telephone details would ring a lot of alarms.

And then you and had better hope MI5 got to you before BT's internal security did.

The fact that the DCI's details where not secured is shocking the CEO, Chairman head of security should be fired.

Id probably fire the entre call centre shift to make the point as well.
There's some discussion here:

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/6860/the-hangmans-no...
I think you're right; my housemate built a new PC this summer. That download peak coincides with reformatting his old drive.
I'll take that to mean you either didn't care to fully read or understand my comments.
I don't really get the point of this article. The author claims that HTML is ready to replace TeX and then proceeds in presenting us 2 examples, and those two examples look great in TeX and awful in HTML.
I'd like to know how many of the people complaining here about their legislators have called, written, or visited* (yes you can do that) said legislators to help educate them.

*In the U.S.
I'm 34 and I'm also realizing this slowly :) Choices are a major source of my stress. It's the fear that am I making the right choice or will I regret it in the future? I only have one limited life :(
On small transaction the cost of that 'good accountant' will easily outweigh your profits.
Silly for digital media to try and leech off of the more successful tech cos. In general, digital media is scrambling with various monetization strategies. But they're thinking about the problem wrong. They obsess over how to monetize people already on their site. Instead, they should start asking how they can monetize people coming to their site. I think the proposition linked by OP is a very premature recognition of that. The proposed solution is way out in left field, but there are saner approaches, such as the use of interstitial advertising. Of course, now adblockers become relevant to the discussion, and I won't go down that rabbit hole (here, at least.)

Disclosure: I operate a link shortener [1] that pays people based on their traffic using interstitial advertising.

[1] https://credhot.com
A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute (2011)
Too many worlds
When I see what physicists are doing I feel my engineering expertise in programming/algorithms/data structures is entirely useless.
round and round and round we go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law was presented at the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1967.

"You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It’s worked for many people, and it can work for you." — Ron Minnich
But SMTP with TLS is opportunistic -- and if we're talking "national state secrets" it's trivial for a state to MITM the connection and do a TLS downgrade attack.
Do you know where I can get the official docs on how options are controlled?
Sometimes democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner. You spend your life thinking you are the wolf and then wake up one day to realize you're the sheep and the wolves are at the door.
I don't think programming should crowd out interaction with other kids and with the natural world, per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10188796. Also consider the practice of Waldorf schools, whose students include many Google kids, which discourage computer use until 8th grade: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-scho...
Arms-control Lessons from the Volkswagen Scandal
From what I could see, the Quartz backend isn't complete, and generally Mac doesn't seem to be a high priority. Some apps like Inkscape still require to install X11 for mac (which is slow, and makes for a very clunky ux), except for experimental builds with GTK native. In short, not really a plug-and-play experience.
Nobody loves Graphite anymore – on metrics
Hmm, that's an interesting article. Although I'm familiar with the commonplace tactic of oversees shifting of profits, I never knew that the legal principle described in the article as "check the box" was widely considered to be a tax loophole.
It's pretty useful for procreation most of the time.
I looked for this on my Nexus 7 2013 running what I imagine is the current version of the Android Netflix app (no reason on my part that it wouldn't be), and I didn't find it.

Under the hamburger menu, I can only choose which user profile and what category of content I want to view. There is no "Account Settings".

The "three dot" menu does have a "Settings" item, but it only offers a very limited set of settings, not including the one you mention.

I did find a setting on the Netflix web page interface, and I changed that. But it appears to have had no effect on the behavior I experience under the same account and profile on the Nexus tablet.

(The web page Settings page offers many more choices than the Android app Settings page.)
You assert that electric is less efficient. Can you share any data (or even back of the envelope math) to support?

Small gasoline engines are pretty damned inefficient, and I think it's only reasonable to compare full lifecycle costs of our energy sources. For coal, that includes mining. For gasoline, that includes refining (and military defense of oil?). For all, it includes transportation, etc.

It's not obvious to me that gasoline is more efficient than electric. (Nor is it obvious to me that the converse is true, either.)
Jsonstream – cli tool to transform streams of JSON
Does anyone have an idea how a minimal base Linux image can run inside a browser? Like can we create a small virtual Linux server right inside a browser?
A lot of baseline configs can be implemented to setup opportunistic crypto, for what Ben Brookes calls 'starbucks hacker bob' https://brooksreview.net/2013/06/encrypting-stuff-against-st...
Infrared Scans Show Possible Hidden Chamber in King Tut’s Tomb
This is superficial, and one could trivially write a markdown style pre-
processor if you wanted the former syntax

That feels just a tiny bit circular. It's like if I wrote a huge set of C++ preprocessor macros so that I can write my code in JavaScript, have the preprocessor do its magic and transpile it down to plain C++, and then have it compiled down to machine code.

One way or another, you need such a table. For TeX the table consists of ASCII
symbol names.

Not necessarily. It's not difficult to memorize the commands that produce commonly used symbols; `\pi`, `\sum_{}^{}`, `\int`, `\frac{}{}`, `\times`, etc. They're all really, really mnemonic with a consistent naming scheme, and if you don't like a symbol's command, you can always alias it to a new command in the preamble.

I'll give you the last part though, that was my mistake - but I did meant that the environments used to render HTML as well as certain associated standards are shifting towards their more common uses, which are along the lines of websites and blogs rather than research papers.
I'm curious, why do you fear for its future?
I see two major barriers to mass adoption of any crypto system that requires a UI.

1. Abstraction. For the non-expert, the only metaphor that works for PKI is that of physical security. The concept of a "key" as a series of characters or a file that must be protected must be replaced by an abstraction that allows users to protect it in the same way they understand how to protect a key or a wallet.

So long as the "key" continues to appear to be an enormous password, people will continue to treat it that way, along with all the crazy worst-practices in the world. Not to mention the huge host of problems that accompanies key security for the layman.

I don't know what the answer is, but I do think that a physical token of some sort is the right start.

2. At the end of the day, the vast majority of people are not interested in the trade off between better security and convenience.

There is a learning curve, however shallow it can be made, and those that genuinely want or need better security are motivated enough to do the learning. For everyone else, it's like optional homework.

I would add to this that most everyone I know who cares about security is quite comfortable with a large array of APIs and software to do all sorts of cryptographic gymnastics. The bar is quite low already -- it has been for some time, IMO.
Well I'm thinking along the lines, "low-polluting equipment is most likely more expensive => the company is held slightly back by demanding new standards". Maybe some regulation is needed, some is not. And all of it is by definition against the company. But not necessarily against the society as a whole.
> He probably spent hours (invaluable hours!) thinking about those ceiling panels.

When you run an unprofitable company that subsists on investor money, every single hour of leadership's time is invaluable.

> I dunno, should their office be a hovel?

So the choice for startups is a) a swagged-out office in one of the most expensive commercial real estate markets or b) hovel? What world do you live in?

> Because you appear to have some sort of issue with this founder outside his attempt to make their office a nice place to work.

You're free to believe this office represents a modest attempt at creating "a nice place to work," but outside of bubbleland, most people will see excess.

By the way, "a nice place to work" is just as much about how people are treated and interact with each other than it is about all of the "stuff" that gets put in the office. Unfortunately, leadership teams at many early-stage startups today don't seem to recognize this.

> And why on earth would I finance ceiling tile purchases for some random company?

It's only "THOUSANDS!!!" of dollars. You seemed genuinely concerned by the noise levels.

> while it's fine to be surprised at companies lighting money on fire, gloating about a company laying people off is all class.

I started my career at a dot bomb in the first boom/bust, so I have been on the other side. It taught me one of the best and most profitable lessons of my life: don't work for people who seem better at spending money than making it. Hopefully some of the younger folks who get laid off for the first time in this cycle will come away with lessons of their own that will help them avoid being fooled again in the future.

Finally, you seem to be missing the fact that lots of people are not surprised startups today are lighting money on fire. We see it every day, and many of us frequently point it out. What baffles me is that folks like you are surprised at where this leads and indignant when somebody points out that a bad outcome was more than likely. Shouldn't your indignation be directed at the people who are responsible for the incompetence, excess and waste?
You seem to be making the point that differences in health outcomes between the poor and wealthy are due to culture factors. That they lack a "can do attitude" which keeps them from being able to take care of themselves and live a healthy lifestyle. If the "can do attitude" could be instilled into poor people then their health outcomes would improve substantially.

It seems that the evidence you have provided is

1. Some poor people have free time

2. Given free time people can improve their health outcomes.

3. Medicaid did not improve health outcomes substantially in 2 years.

It seems to me that while these are all true. They do not provide a good deal of evidence for you working model. Many things could lead to these problems.

1. Poor lack "can do attitude" which affects both job prospects and health.(YF theory of health inequality)

2. Being poor is stressful and cognitively demanding. This reduces the poor's ability to make healthy long term choices.(There is some evidence for this)

3. People who have problems with executive function(ADHD) tend to become both poor, and make unhealthy choices.( I would imagine this is true to some degree)

4. When a person becomes ill they have a much greater likelihood of being poor.(I imagine this is also true to some degree)

I don't think the fact the first three are true has any influence on how much of the health inequality is explained by your theory vs other possibilities.
Elon Musk on Tesla's Origins: “Almost Every Decision We Made Was Wrong”
It's worth mentioning, the original paper [0] recently won the USENIX Security 2015 Test of Time Award [1], which highlights papers at least 10 years old, that have made a lasting impact on their field.

[0]: http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/conferences/test-of-time-awards
http://jslinux.org/

It's a clever hack, but I don't know of any practical application. Did you have one in mind? Or is it just for the hack value?
Many people (including my friends here in Taiwan) believe it's an attempt by the PRC to influence the elections which are being held here in about two months. The KMT (Ma's party) are going to get annihilated according to polls.

The political situation here is interesting, to say the least. There's also this funny video about the meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEn3xqrMasc
Get a Whiff of This: Man Hasn't Showered in 12 Years
That's if you discount the booming of solar energy.
CDC study: Tapeworms could spread cancer cells to human hosts