skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says Denmark:

"For the study, researchers used data from a nationwide mental-health screening tool of children in Denmark – a survey that is widely used internationally in clinical and academic settings – and matched it against the Danish census. Linking the two allowed researchers to make analyses using exact dates of birth, allowing for robust comparisons among similarly aged children.

Because children in Denmark enroll in kindergarten in the calendar year they turn six, kids born exactly on Dec. 31 would have started kindergarten earlier that year, while those born a day later on Jan. 1 would be 6-years-and-8-months old when they start formal schooling.

Researchers were thus able to examine differences between children who were born a certain number of days before the Dec. 31 enrollment cut-off and those born after the cut-off. They used full-sample sizes from the parent-reported mental health survey; 54,241 parents responded when their children were age 7 and 35,902 responded when the children were about 11 years old."
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Wow I totally missed that, I wouldn't say that it's very good UX considering that it doesn't intuitive for many, with the dropdown it's obvious that you can switch.
Yes. A free market is a solution.

Naturally regulated markets satisfy customer demands at the lowest cost when compared to the results any other system.
Anyone familiar with the industry know what companies might be targets for acquisition?
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This might be another form of the "are they rude to waitstaff?" test.
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Raise your hand if you saw this coming when the US government blocked Intel from supplying chips for China's supercomputing initiative. Way to go, ITAR: once again you've successfully spurred a country to move away from its dependence on American technology, while doing nothing to meaningfully improve our security.
Self Driving Payroll will work perfectly in this case. If you don't offer Benefits, use Zenefits for onboarding and keeping track of your employee info (also free), and have self driving payroll take care of your payroll for free.
I don't get the point of this. Do people not want to learn ES so bad that they will use something like this without understanding how to build an ES query object? All this plugin does is convert sql to an ES query...
False dichotomy?
Hard to say if this is true beyond Denmark:

"Dee also said while there are strong, large effects in the study, kids who delay kindergarten in Denmark have universal access to reasonably good pre-K. In the absence of consistent access to good pre-K, Dee said, children in the U.S. may not be as harmed by starting kindergarten earlier."
How so? It seems from this essay that Jessica achieved a lot of goals she wanted to achieve without having to sell herself.
And you'll break backwards compatibility with every app written prior.
SSH is blocked on some corporate firewalls, they've said before that they've implemented HTTPS support to get around this.
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Yes, but the fact that Martin Shkreli wanted to buy the rights for this drug makes me think there is somewhere a list of potential drugs that can be exploited in this way, and multiple companies are bidding for them.
No, this is just a crude utility, and a first attempt. You could easily slap a shell/perl script around it though.
I've had this book in my Kindle library for ages. I think this thread is going to push me to finally get around to reading it. I've heard nothing but good things both about the book and about what she's done for YC.
This is what confuses me, so maybe someone with a better understanding of this market works can elaborate. How is it that the drug is not patented but the manufacturer has the exclusive right to sell it? It blows my mind that one company can overnight make such a huge change and there is no competitor to turn to.
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The Bicameral-Mind theorist apparently claimed that before 3,000 years ago all/most people behaved as the article's author, receiving direction and correction from externally perceived voices. Only at some point around that time did people become meta-aware, conscious of their own thoughts.
>The price was so high that Alberta delisted it in July,

and government chickens out and fails to protect its citizens. The government has the power to treat it for example as public utility and negotiate the price based on that premise.
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Soup kitchens and restaurants are not competitors.
Not having to learn a different query language for every product is exactly the point of SQL, and naturally also the point of pretty much every "SQL interface for X".
I think the big mistake people make when criticizing this $1 contract is imagining the logical conclusion if everyone worked for $1 instead of realizing that this is a one-off giveaway and it has zero impact on actual rates for this type of work. This guy is not going to continue doing $1 contracts, and nobody is going to respond by reducing their prices to below what they deserve. People can give things away. The reason plumbers aren't concerned about neighbors helping each other with their water heaters is that nobody is going to make a career out of competing with them by doing full-time gratis plumbing jobs.

Complaining about this is like saying the apocryphal jilted wife who sold her husband's prized Porsche for $1 has affected the price of Porsches.
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Well, maybe the documentation for the function could have mentioned that. Oh no, there was none.
I thought the same thing when the article called them an "activist group", and called the guy on the youtube video "a representative" of the "group".
Oh yeah - I loved that crappy little computer with all my heart back in the day. I essentially memorized the "Beginner's BASIC" book that came with it which was an amazingly simple and effective book for learning TI's Basic as a kid. And writing games with Sprites was about the coolest thing ever. And I will never forget the sheer joy of saving and loading the programs I wrote onto/from a cassette tape. For 1982, it was truly an amazingly affordable computer that was an absolute blast. Best Christmas present ever - Thanks Dad!

Beginner's Basic (blast from the past)
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/ti/beginbas.pdf
Yay, another vague Toxoplasma gondii article with vague statements and suppositions.
People interested in CINT and Cling might also be interested in Cxx.jl: https://github.com/Keno/Cxx.jl. It provides a C++ REPL mode for Julia and integrates Clang with Julia and the LLVM JIT to provide a powerful C++ FFI (the author has started using to wrap ROOT).
Implementing weak references sounds like a feature that will make the language's source code much more complex than the simplicity emphasized in your goals.
It took me ages to get used to the old new design (that dropped the tabs on top). Glad they're switching back... definitely a more intuitive structure for me.
I don't know enough about Gladwell personally to make a qualified remark, but I don't see the relevance of his supposedly "statist" political views or opinions on the value of higher education.

The "structure" I refer to is the traditional classroom setting: chalk board, desks, chairs, and sitting while listening to a lecture. The suggestion is that this format is less optimal for children at the age of 6, and that it might be best if they were closer to 7 before educating them in this environment. Perhaps you believe it's inappropriate for children of any age, but this really has nothing to do with this specific study or my comment. It's just an opinion on public education in general: if written at all, better as a reply to the post than my comment.
At certain point in the article, he describes her aversion to give talks and talk to the press.

This makes me think that YC Combinator should upgrade from a school of entrepreneurs to a school of entrepreneurs advisers (which will create their own school of entrepreneurs).

Something like going from a simple school to a school that trains teachers and them to a school that trains teachers how to train a new teacher of teachers.

At this point, you can achieve self-sustenability. Wouldn't be great if YC model was replicated around the world (given the basic pre-requisites)?

TL:DR It would be nice if YC Combinator tought people how do what Paul Graham does, the whole package.
I'm very familiar with what YC does. I'm in no way arguing that she had less of an impact or contribution to the company than any of the other co-founders.

A little food for thought, however: Let's look at the other three founders:

- Robert Morris: Computer scientist (of Morris Worm fame)

- Trevor Blackwell: Software engineer

- Paul Graham: Programmer, PhD in philosophy with a concentration in computer science

So when Paul and Jessica started YC, they recruited two of Paul's friends who, I imagine, they thought would give them the skills they needed to make YC successful. They didn't run out and recruit psychologists, managers, social media people, or motivational speakers -- they recruited technical people. If your theory about what was most necessary to the company is correct, why did they seek out Trevor Blackwell and Robert Morris?
And it also inspired some of the concepts in Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash".
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It's the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect at full force.

Meanwhile many comments in this thread remind me of this bit by Paul Graham:

If you're a database expert, don't build a chat app for teenagers (unless you're also a teenager). Maybe it's a good idea, but you can't trust your judgment about that, so ignore it. There have to be other ideas that involve databases, and whose quality you can judge. Do you find it hard to come up with good ideas involving databases? That's because your expertise raises your standards. Your ideas about chat apps are just as bad, but you're giving yourself a Dunning-Kruger pass in that domain.
There is huge value in observing and listening.

Unfortunately, none of the descriptions demystify the magic. Maybe I am reading the descriptions incorrectly, but the actual logic behind the magic is never explained. The descriptions only contain an appeal to a magic oracle power.

>But after the interview, the three of us would turn to Jessica and ask "What does the Social Radar say?" [1]

The footnote for that quote says:

>...

>"She was always good at sniffing out any red flags about the team or their determination and disarmingly asking the right question, which usually revealed more than the founders realized."

I'd be interested in reading or knowing more about the questions which were asked, instead of a direct appeal to authority (right question), what the questions revealed, and what the founders actually realized.

As far as I can tell, these details never get discussed publicly.
If only this was the case. Except that every database has their own flavour of SQL with plenty of proprietary extensions. Not to mention each database will support a different subset of SQL.
Where does the memory reside? What is it that 'remembers'?
Interesting — looks like the join isn't pipelined. The entire right-hand side evaluates synchronously. So it has to wait for the entire right-hand result set before it can evaluate the join operator, instead of streaming it concurrently. I'm surprised anyone would do it this way in Java, which has good support for concurrency.

Edit: Actually the file you linked to was a test file. Hash join code is here [1], and it uses ES' scrolling feature to incrementally join, though it's not pipelined. Not sure scrolling is entirely appropriate for this; it will potentially hold an unpredictable amount of memory on the server end.

[1] https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/blob/5cd6ab639...
We started our son when he was 6 as opposed to 5 and we have zero regrets. It seems like the emotional development between 5 and 6 year old boy is generally pretty huge.

Grade-wise he mainly gets A's and a B here and there. Honors classes, etc.

While I don't attribute the age he started completely to this, I do think it had a rather positive impact (currently in 8th).

Conversely, I think I started kindergarten at either 4 or 5 and struggled/hated school my entire life. Even had to put up with Evil Nuns. #jake #elwood Food for thought.
You're inferring more than I think is intended. Jessica is the primary point of contact for founders (or, at least, was when we were in YC)...she talks to them a lot, on a one on one basis. Moreso than pg or others, generally speaking. The interview is mostly pg talking, or was for us, with some interjections by rtm because we work on systems issues where he had more experience, but that's not the whole picture, at all.

She is not a silent Oracle, she just isn't particularly outgoing when it comes to press and such, and so she is not seen when looking in from the outside. She is extremely friendly, entirely sincere, and not at all judgmental (unless, of course, there is something negative to judge...character of founders does matter, and if pg has noticed Jessica has better skills in judging character it would be silly to ignore her opinion). pg and the boys seem imminently capable of spotting technical fakery, but maybe are weaker at spotting character fakery. I dunno. They've obviously had great success with the way they operate. I would be unwilling to bet against them, and I know they do it while adhering to pretty high ethical standards.

So, call it a cult if you like, but if I had my druthers, more of the industry would imitate YC.
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I think have that multiple times a week; almost feels like a waterfall in my head. Sometimes a song gets stuck in my head, and I just hum it until I'm "done waking up".
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It'd be interesting to experiment with a model where the roles of student and teacher are interchangeable. Some form of peer learning mesh network.
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So we figured out that younger kids have a harder time sitting still and paying attention?
It was easy to predict this would happen when the US gov made this silly and very pointless move of blocking Intel Xeon chips in China, with an even sillier excuse that China is using its supercomputers to do nuclear research (shocking!):

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2908692/us-blocks-intel-from-...
I don't know about "our arguments", but "battle" describes much better what is happening in the context of my comment than "dance".

And indeed, shaping the way we think about what's happening in our bodies as "battles" was exactly what I intended to convey, risking the inevitable misunderstanding that comes with any analogy. Of course I do not mean to imply any form of intentionality, only the inevitability of competition, or "battle".
You don't become listed as a contributor by merely forking a repo, your fork is just included in the original project's "forks" count.

The project is included in a user's "Repositories contributed to" area when that user creates a pull a pull request or files an issue.

You are listed as a contributor on a project's page only once you have had an accepted pull request.

EDIT: take one of my projects for example[0] - 152 forks recorded but only 8 people are listed as contributors.

[0] https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat
Well, I certainly wouldn't expect a business executive to invest in a drug he suspects will be unprofitable. That aside, if the drug is unprofitable, and society has established as a general principle that the private sector is the appropriate venue for drug manufacturing, then I don't understand the objection to a price increase in principle. Without more information, we just don't know that this is an instance of price gouging. I'm open to that possibility, but I suggest waiting for actual evidence before taking your pitchfork out of the shed.
So different are experiences. I still like my 4 yr old Galaxy Nexus running 4.3 better than my wifes iPhone 6 plus. Never felt the need to update.
Actually Spark SQL's data source API has a very expressive predicate pushdown interface and most data sources implement them. id = 1234 should not do a full scan.
I've been using Ragel on Android since Froyo (Java target); amazing software!
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Has anyone else tried JiffyLogger yet?
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I am several steps removed from the industry but to my knowledge -

There is still a regulatory approval process to be able to manufacture the drug - so the cost and time required to receive this approval, then to market the drug as a generic alternative to the existing drug to a market that often doesn't see itself as the ultimate payor (ie. the consumer thinks the insurance companies / government are paying) and may prefer known names, and the original manufacturer's ability to then lower the price of the drug all combine to push away competition on low volume drugs like this one.
Michael Hayden, former NSA chief, also said zero-sum games in the computing industry would only hurt the US (because Intel/etc gets to make less money and therefore less money for research and investments):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-let-america-be-...

I am actually glad this is happening, as I think competition is great. For the same reason, I hope China eventually sees some success in displacing Windows with Linux, as it could only help Linux's popularity and ecosystem of apps if there's a much bigger Linux installed base, even if I would personally never want to use a Chinese chip or a Chinese app.
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Every time I see a web page that uses things like page-turning animations, I want to grab the person who designed it by the shoulders and say "THE WEB IS NOT A BOOK. THE WEB IS NOT A BOOK. THE WEB IS NOT A BOOK."

It's like a movie from 1910 that's just a camera pointed at a theatrical stage, or a radio show from 1930 that's just a microphone pointed at a big band, or a TV show from 1950 that's just a camera pointed at a bunch of radio actors. We keep dragging the habits of old media with us into the new, and they always hold us back until we muster the courage to discard them.
If you use Spark SQL to query ElasticSearch as a data source, it already has better SQL support with joins and you can push predicates down into ES.
“...the Committee’s request for information and communications includes not just NOAA scientists but also NOAA policy and political staff.”

Anybody else concerned that a taxpayer-funded government science organization even has a "policy and political staff" ?
I have to agree, with digital technology, "you get what you pay for" breaks down completely. Sometimes the very best choice for one component is cost free, or very low cost, because reproducing that component 100% perfectly is pretty much free.

The big problem is identifying what is a good choice. If you don't know, you can't easily contract out the choice either, how do you know the contractor can or will make a good choice for you?

So the best outcome for non-technical organizations is to get lucky and know someone personally who knows what they're doing and has no ulterior motive - someone just like you. They don't really know if they know such a person. But if they get lucky and pick just the right helpful competent person to make IT decisions for them, modern technology can give them quite a lot for very little.

It's a perplexing situation.
Are you talking a single dose? At stores like Target or Walmart in the US, you're typically just paying a $2-$5 premium, and that's on 100-250 pills.
Do you think the idea of basing the timing on location is just bad altogether, or could the implementation be improved? Like mention to users above that latitude that they should set their bedtime, and then factor that into the timings.
There's another eerily similar story of a substitute teacher who's lectern computer was infected with spyware that caused it to display pornographic images...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/20...

These people are easy pickings because they've done nothing wrong and naively trust the system to work out for the best in the end.

I don't know how the prosecution in cases like these can live with themselves. We're already short of good teachers, and there's absolutely no shortage of real criminals to chase down.
> a free product that performs the most important function of their very expensive product line

There is zero chance I'd subject employees to a hacked together payroll system. Building one is far from trivial, considering the complexities of tax and employment law in 50 different states.
Study finds that the older children in a classroom are more successful. Policy Proposal: make everyone the older children in the classroom.

Hmm....
We figured out that kids that start later have an easier time sitting still and paying attention compared to other kids of the same age.

> “We found that delaying kindergarten for one year reduced inattention and hyperactivity by 73 percent for an average child at age 11,”
Quote: "The drug is long off patent."

So why not order the drug from China or India? Is the drug expensive to manufacture? Or is it that the Canadian government will only order the drug from select countries? I wish the article dug a little deeper.
> That's dynamic typing.

No, that's run-time branch selection. Exactly as with pattern matching (`match
.. with ..'), except the latter is more convenient.

> Seriously, you sound like, "why bother with Ocaml when JavaScript does the same thing?".

And you really think I consider elaborate constructions a better thing than
concise pattern matching?
The vast majority of schools outside of the upper echelon don't even get close to FP in mandatory classes for CS.

I know CMU does, however.
According to a CNBC interview last week the product is protected via trade secrets. People know what's in it, but not how to make it. And it's some weird stuff (I think pituitary glands from pigs or something equally weird are key components - not sure there's a lot of open-source knowledge on how to deal with that ingredient pipeline.)

The CEO's pitch was that they believe the drug is useful in more roles than it's currently used for, so they're taking the increased money to perform the studies required to allow the drug to be used to treat more diseases for which there is no alternative.

And right now this is a last-ditch drug - it's used once all other therapies have failed.

So they're trying to increase marketshare by doing expensive studies, which is why this drug is still produced and where the money is going.

At least according to the CEO, and my memory.
So, yeah, this product is a bit confusing until you realize it's just meant to be for application development. The whole idea is to build services that people will pay you for, that are served off of your personal 21.co machine, that or to purchase the services that are being offered. The mining bit is just meant to give you a small stream of bitcoin to mess around with.

This could all be done with your own server or whatever, the 21.co machine just makes setup easier.
Did the media ignore the Beirut bombings? Or did readers?
Actually, you can not eliminate the effects of 6 months on a high fat diet by sleeping more as the title implied. At best you can just make your insulin marginally better.
and then when they decide to add new Menu Items and run out of space, they will switch back to the Sidebar :D
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