skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why you need to change ratio. Just put kids in grade 1 when they're ready, rather than when they're 6, and work from there. The challenge (and most of the point) is to remove the negative bias both teachers and children have against being "behind" by one or more grades.

Reversion to the mean happens. Ability to do e.g. most kinds of arithmetic eventually arrives in everybody by the time they're 13 or so, yet we say the kids who can multiply at 6 are "gifted" and the ones who can't until 13 are "disabled". Neither of these labels tend to still apply in any practical sense once the base skill is learned, and yet you're stuck being treated differently by the educational system, stuck in a different "track", because you took to some things "early" or "late".

Removing that systemic effect would be the best thing we could do for education. The first degree of the Taylor-series of solutions probably looks like figuring out each child's "average" developmental age, and trying to start kids in school so that everyone in grade 1 has the same development level, rather than the same age. The second degree would probably involve separating school into "subjects" at a much earlier level, such that a child could be placed in grade 3 math but grade 1 reading, rather than ending up frustrated in a totally-grade-1 or totally-grade-3 classroom.

(The analytical solution is likely something like a "flipped classroom" MOOC+Montessori model, where recorded lectures are taken in at home, while school is effectively a huge library full of tutors and labs and self-testing apparatuses, with a micro-skill "tech-tree" being filled in by each test, and procedurally-generated tests being able to be repeated until each micro-skill can be achieved at 100% fluency. But don't look for that any time soon, unless Bill Gates or Elon Musk decides to fund one.)
Free markets are good a at lot of things, but staying free is not one of them. (Similarly for a democracy, by the way).

A "naturally" regulated market eventually converges into one all-powerful monopoly player - it's a stable configuration that maximizes the profit for the owners of that monopoly.

So you have to regulate this "freedom" away from disappearing - in the same way that GPL regulates BSD freedom away from disappearing.
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"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." -- Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff January 20, 2009 – October 1, 2010

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin - 11 November 1755
Ah, I'd never seen the "Members" tab until you pointed it out.

I agree, that could indeed be misleading and doesn't seem very useful!
Blog about it and/or email me.

It depends which Nexus 7, but your path will be something like mine: get a kernel running (even if it doesn't complete booting), get libhybris [1] working, get userland working.

You're going to need some kind of serial-out for this.

1: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris/porte...

Edit: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo may be useful for both of us
Everyone talks about how this was orchestrated by some masterminds. What am I missing?

Nine assholes get together in a room and decided to hit nine different places at X time. How hard is it to synchronize watch times?
Scott Alexander wrote a whole article on the difficulties in bringing competitors to out of patent drugs to the US market:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/24/the-problems-with-gener...
Sounds like a lot of the complaints are from trackpad users. I guess the site developers were too lazy to test on more devices than their dev stations.
I think YC does that already, just not particularly publicly. I think the effects of the YC network are a good indicator that this is going on.
Congress had a solution to this problem, in the Office of Technology Assessment. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen... :

> The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was an office of the United States Congress from 1972 to 1995. OTA's purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology assessment. It was a leader in practicing and encouraging delivery of public services in innovative and inexpensive ways, including early involvement in the distribution of government documents through electronic publishing. Its model was widely copied around the world.

It was de-funded "Contract with America" period of the 1990s.
There's that Hofstadterian notion that empathy consists of spawning a VM in your brain and running a simulation of another person in it, which sounds not unlike what you are describing.
How is this politicizing exactly? Is CIA directory John Brennan running for an office that I'm unaware? It seems his commentary on surveillance is pretty relevant to the discussion here.

Also, "being in a database" is not enough and doesn't point to the failure of the concept of surveillance. In fact, it points to the failure to properly surveil.
I wonder if insurance companies would have some motivation to at least partially fund such a charity?
This piece from the NY Review of Books is also a good read, and offers a different perspective.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/aug/13/mystery...
18F/USDS peeps... would you consider bounty or reward style programs that reward all open source contributors? Eg instead of bidding for a contract, keep an open list of tasks/bugs/full projects and reward contributors whose PR's are merged in some way?

Yes, I know this monetizes what used to be free in a way and maybe goes against the "spirit" of open source, but practically speaking it feels like it'd be a huge win win for the open source community and small to medium sized government projects in general.
I don't see how to opt-in, where's the button?
It definitely has terrible discoverability. Same as the file Find As You Type (hit `t`, type bits of a filename).
Another interesting study destroyed by its PR. When will the madness end? I seriously doubt the two effects are "equal", either; could it be that getting a better night's sleep or two removes the effect of a bad night of sleep, whereas six months of diet can't be removed in a couple of days? Just because two elements of an n-dimensional tuple are equal does not mean you've got two equal values. This study, at least, doesn't appear to address that question at all. (Which is fine! That's just a factual statement, not a criticism. Though I do hope having spent 6 months on feeding dogs they took the ~week to see about recovery times for the insulin sensitivity, perhaps for another paper.)
I don't know if you're actually interested in the theory behind analyzing game complexity or just trying to be negative without doing your homework.

Classifying traversal and 2-D games is not a new thing, and they simply apply previous methodologies and proofs to classic Nintendo games. They do not do this via "proofs by obscurity" but rather by classical NP-Hard proofs built upon previous theorems. Specifically, I will point you to the following two papers on fundamentals of proving NP-Hardness of 2-D and traversal games respectively:

- http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00224-013-9497-5

- http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-13122-6...

They chose the collection of games because of their relevance to the authors. They wanted to study classic Nintendo games. Other games have also been studied including some, if not all, of the games you mentioned. If you did your research, you would already know the answers to the complexity of games like Tetris or Pong.

If you're genuinely interested in the underlying proofs or the theory behind game complexity, I urge you to read through the papers and their citations first before jumping to conclusions.
Amateur question: how are linear types in "practice"? How much of concurrency do they solve? And how are they different from modern HM types?

Sorry for being vague. I'm interested in this subject but layman materials on it are hard to come by.
"As far as I know, there’s no evidence the French lacked some kind of surveillance authority that would have made a difference"

This is really all that should need to be said. Opportunists will jump on any event to push their own personal agenda, even if what they are pushing wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference in the outcome of said event.
He did, actually, flee East Germany.

It's a single anecdote and while quite possible that time has affected his memory the fact that he considers our situation even remotely comparable to that under the Stasi - whose history we, as victors, have written up as deplorable and criminal - can at the very least be cause for some concern and curiosity both about our perceived state of freedom and the effect of propaganda.
There's also the problem that if the surveillance is effective, they (the CIA et. al.) still can't necessarily run out and stop everything they know about without tipping their hand about how much they know, causing the adversaries to change their strategy and rendering any future surveillance ineffective.

So, they either need to wait for a truly catastrophic attack, or find a better way to foil attacks without making it look like they knew something they shouldn't have been able to know.

That's of course, assuming it does work, which is probably pretty charitable.
So I guess the time to politicize these attacks has come already.

This complaint has never quite sat right with me. This was, fundamentally, a political action -- a foreign "nation" (entity?) attacking another nation's civilians. It seems a pertinent time to have the debate on what should be done in response, as well as what preventative measures should be taken in the future -- even if you are vehemently against certain preventative measures.
Actually im writing a how-to book on this ;-) ..
Small world! Simon we met 3 years ago when you visited StartupChile! We had ceviche with some friends.
Probably. We're very biologically similar. The sample size is probably a larger issue.
It's politicizing because he would very much like to roll back on the restrictions on his apparatus placed post Snowden, in fact, Snowden is blamed for the attacks in the most thinly veiled way here.

> Also, "being in a database" is not enough and doesn't point to the failure of the concept of surveillance. In fact, it points to the failure to properly surveil.

Hence my suggestion to divert funds to the police rather than to the intelligence services.
>> In other words, "we want to fix everything that is wrong with this success so that it makes more money."

I think a better interpretation is that they want to continue to appeal to kids at a younger age (especially since they now start at 8pm instead of 10pm) while also continuing to attract adults. Think 'ren & stimpy' and to a lesser extent 'spongebob squarepants' or 'the regular show'.
French intelligence complained about too strict legal framework and lack of resources. French people are really sensitive when it comes to their individual freedom and don't want surveillance state.
Can you rephrase this to say that the effect was basically by shifting all learning material one year up? I.e., now the kids are starting kindergarten at the point they'd be regularly starting grade 1, yes, but they're also now getting grade 5 material when they'd be getting grade 6 material and so on?

If so, that suggests to me that we've inadvertently just scheduled everything too early, and kids are getting bored and confused and acting out because they can't understand (or can barely understand, and their brains are being taxed to their limits and the stress is depleting all their dopamine.)
Makes sense both Livermore and ORNL have a lot of older Fortran code that they still use.
"Reddit"?
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All the encryption tools needed are public and open source. Putting backdoors into Skype, iOS Messages, etc. isn't going to get terrorists.
It's next to impossible to have privacy in societies where there are large swaths of population who want to do others harm.

This is why privacy is doomed in "multicultural" societies.
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There is no secret. People who do more observing tend to be more observant. Talk and type less and watch and listen more and in a decade or two you will be able to figure out other people's character pretty fast.
I found it and it was a PC sorry for the wrong lead.
http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=43
Awesome piece of gear anyway. My first computer, given to me by my uncle in 92.
Here's an article that echoes this sentiment: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/paris-attacks-bataclan-ho...
Yeah, I don't doubt that it works fine with a single event from a mouse wheel.
Or, we could change the starting age band for each year.

Perhaps July is simply a poor cutoff.

Shift starting age by 1-2 weeks a year and class size would change little, but you could quickly alter the age bands for each grade level.

Or perhaps we use 1/2 year bands. So, some students start in fall and graduate in spring like now and other start in January and graduate in December. Which also means someone could skip or fail 1/2 a year.

PS: The point being the current system is hardly the only way to approach mass education.
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Throughout the majority of my life I've always somewhat struggled with social anxiety. Ice breakers have always been the most difficult for me. I believe the fear of rejection is a large factor. Communicating with others through technology in turn felt more natural for me. So a friend and I set out to bridge the gap between "online" and "real world" social interaction. Tethr allows users to remain invisible to others until they create a post. Posts remain in the exact location they were created and only those close enough to the location of the post can view them. Users can then direct message others directly from the post.

http://Tethr.mobi

Am I alone in my thinking or is there truly value in this platform for connecting people?

Can you personally see yourself using something like this to connect with others? That is the main question that has been on my mind lately. Also, what additional features could we add to enhance the overall user experience? How can we make this platform more intuitive? We tried to streamline the simplicity of being able to connect with others, yet still remain invisible if you are so inclined.

Your feedback/constructive criticism is greatly appreciated.

I realize that I am fairly new to HN (I originally created this account to apply for YC), so I apologize if I am doing something wrong here.
This isn't directed at you in particular, I've always found the idea that there must be some enforced waiting period between a horrible thing happening, and the response to that thing, to be a bit nonsensical.

For instance, any time there's a shooting, the respective pro/anti gun control folks start at each other with things like "the blood hasn't even dried yet!"

Okay, so? If the argument were for ensuring decisions were made with a cool head, I could understand that, but it never is, usually it's an attempt to make a non-sequitur snipe at the other side for their sincerely held beliefs.

The alternative to there not being a "time to politicize the attacks" is that the government doesn't act on them; which is absurd.
You cannot, in any way, say that these two scenarios are equal from this study alone. While the study tested insulin resistance after 1 night of sleep deprivation and in a separate of animals after 6 months of a high fat diet, they are only point in time measurements. How quickly does the body rebound from the sleep deprived drop? After 1 good sleep? After a week? How long does the resistance last after eating a high fat diet for 6 months? After 1 meal? After a week? After 6 more months? Does 1 night of sleep deprived night lead to the same number of dogs developing diabetes as those fed the diet for 6 months? So much sensationalizing...
There's not enough listeners for the number of music services. If your service stumbles, it's easy to move onto something else, so you really only get one or no chances to convince your potential customers.

My experience with Rdio was one of frustration. Their desktop player was buggy and frequently failed to play anything at all. When it did work, I found the consistency of the music catalog to be unreliable. One week they'd have the license to an album I wanted to listen-to, and then they'd lose it, and I couldn't listen to that anymore. I'm not sure what factors were at-play on their end to cause that to happen, but it was a horrible experience for he listener.

I wanted to like Rdio, but they failed at the basics for my needs.
Thanks for the link, It was a hosting site that was breached.
How can it be that they were able to get my password, shouldn't they encrypt it?
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...said in reference to the financial crisis, on the topic of regulation and reform. A lot less nefarious when you're talking about energy, health, education, tax policy, and regulatory reforms.

He also went on to say "Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."

As for your (IMHO) cliché Franklin quote - that was in reference to a tax dispute.

"He was writing about a tax dispute between the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the family of the Penns, the proprietary family of the Pennsylvania colony who ruled it from afar. And the legislature was trying to tax the Penn family lands to pay for frontier defense during the French and Indian War. And the Penn family kept instructing the governor to veto. Franklin felt that this was a great affront to the ability of the legislature to govern. And so he actually meant purchase a little temporary safety very literally. The Penn family was trying to give a lump sum of money in exchange for the General Assembly's acknowledging that it did not have the authority to tax it."

sigh
Pride before a fall and humility before honor.

Life works like the sword in the stone.

God said "pride or money, choose one." You can have money if you enjoy sucking dick. Either give your music away for free and be a hero, or sell it to a tiny audience.
I suppose it depends on the consequences of those actions. If Anonymous releases the names of ISIS members and this results in vigilante retaliation against them or their families, then that would probably be questionable at best. Even war has rules and limits, at least in theory, but Anonymous really doesn't have to be concerned with anything but notoriety.
Anyone looking for a dedicated music player device should check out FiiO. They have high-quality audio components and support a wide range of lossless and lossy formats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiiO_X_Series
Statist is a strong tell to stop wasting your timing reading drivel.
Denmark; note that there is an explicit identifications of conditions in Denmark that may contribute, and may not be found elsewhere (notably, in the U.S.) regarding universally available alternative for those who do not enroll in kindergarten at 5.

This seems mostly to provide a step toward better understanding of developmental-stage appropriate pedagogy methods, especially given that Denmark has universal pre-K so that the children not going to kindergarten are not starting school later, they are transition between styles of education at a different point.
Rdio is shutting down and Pandora is buying up the scraps
Oof, the times when it's one or more songs are the worst. I'd forgotten about that one.
I'm not Jessica (just a guy on HN), but I do want to add that my social radar increased a bit by doing Vipassana meditation (= body-scan meditation). Or perhaps I should say social intelligence, since I didn't look at the character of people, but I felt what people were feeling quite intensely.

Body-scan meditation allows for the insula in your brain to develop (more than normal). Note that the insula maps to the body in a visceral sense. In my experience, this results in that everything that you will see you will also feel. So that means when you see a facial expression, you will feel it as well in a quite intense fashion. The most interesting example was when my best friend went to the movie Oblivion the evening after a 10 day meditation retreat. He told me he felt like he was in it.

Caveat: you do need to meditate (aka 'feel your body') every day to keep up this level of 'social intelligence' (for lack of a better word).

If you'd want to know more about it, search for: Search Inside Yourself written by Chade-Meng Tan. He worked as a software engineer Google and writes from a software engineer's mind.
Knee jerk legislation gets you eg the Dangerous Dogs Act (England), or now even more sweeping privacy invasions (UK and US).
Yes... a project for government. Are we really going to play the "privilege" card for someone volunteering for civic service? Yes... he has the wherewithal to do the work for free, and instead of lounging around or buying an XBox, he provided free government work. If that's "privilege" wouldn't you like to see more of it?

There's no shortage of work, and no realistic chance that the government is going to be able to get all of its software tasks done via donations, so worrying about what happens if everybody or even a lot of people do this is really looking the gift horse in the mouth.
First let me say I agree that mass surveillance is wrong and even if it did help, I wouldn't support it. But, the attitude that our side tends to have towards people who believe surveillance is worthwhile is not helpful. Responses like this are not constructive:

> So I guess the time to politicize these attacks has come already. Pity.

Believe it or not the people pushing for surveillance are not villains out of a movie or TV show. They see a tragedy like Paris and they really believe that more surveillance would help prevent these kinds of things in the future. They may be misguided and wrong from our perspective, but that doesn't make them evil.

When it comes to political issues it's very helpful if you can avoid reducing your opponents to caricatures. Usually they are motivated by the same thing you are; they want to fix a problem. It's just they disagree about the solution, or sometimes even what the problem is.

And either way complaining about people you disagree with "politicizing" a tragedy is absurd. Immediately after the tragedy is exactly the time we should be taking steps to prevent it in the future.
This statement is about a career government official cynically using the murder of a large number of people for his own ends, just as the murderers cynically used those people for their ends. Yes, it's both political. But it doesn't do any good, what would do good rather than using this to hasten the big brother state to the next level would be to attack these problems at the root. But that would require an entirely different viewpoint, one which I'm not sure America is ready for because it would ask too many questions about deeds in the recent past. If anything a good case could be made for a link between the Iraq invasion and the murders in Paris, my guess is that if the one had not happened the other wouldn't have happened either, but that's just my opinion and not something that I can prove.
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