skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Age 3/4 is considered "pre-school", and is just playing. (It's optional; there's no public preschool, mostly just Christian private preschools that are effectively a less-religious outgrowth of catechism—most of them are still physically attached to a church in some manner. Kids make crafts and take field trips [with heavy church community volunteer involvement] to parks and public pools and pumpkin patches and so forth.)

Kindergarten is age 5-to-6, and is sort of to school as Candy Land is to board games: no actual subject matter, but teaching kids the meta-skills of "following the rules": sitting at desks, listening attentively to lectures, responding to questions and not interrupting others, time management during projects, etc. (Not as dreadful as it sounds; the "lectures" are group story-time, the "questions" are things like "what did you do this weekend", etc.)

Also, there's some attempt in kindergarten at ensuring everyone can read—i.e., it serves as remedial education backstopping the bad parents who never read with their children. That continues on in grade 1, but it's good to know early who the problem children (problem parents) are.
Didn't the Iraqi government warn the French government that there was a plot to attack them a day before? I swore I read that on Google News.
I actually like the idea of writing compilers in C#. :)
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Those restrictions directly affect (in his opinion) his job. It's not like he's scoring points for his local constituents, or trying to nuke a bill sponsored by opponents from another political party. He's saying this "hand wringing" is having an impact - pretty obvious statement from someone in the direct position to know.
Learning the basics is easy with any query language eg. MongoDB/ES JSON. It's when you start writing more advanced queries that you realise that SQLs "write once, run anywhere" premise is an illusion.
Oh god, no. Forgive me my ranting, but...

- NetworkManager has to be restarted regularly because it breaks after too many suspend cycles - and I have an intel wlan card. The last bug I've seen is NetworkManager killing my ipv4 routes without reason - ipv6 keeps working correctly. Wat?

- The more we go forward, the more things get convoluted. Features get removed because "streamlining" an so on, but at the same time the entire system gets more opaque, layer upon layer upon layer.

- Third party app support is still pretty bad. See spotify for a shining example.

- the 3D graphic stack is pretty horrible. No, absolutely horrible. There was a MESA "revision" going on to fix some of the issues, but it's been a long time since I've seen anything.

.. and I can go forward. I'm sorry, but Linux has not matured on the desktop. It's usable, with a lot of warts all around, but is not "mature". And the costant focus on building new shiny thingies instead of improving internals is a problem. All in all, I've been using linux on my desktop/laptops for years, and the older I get the less time I have to report bugs and find workaround or write patches, maybe to be told by some nice welcoming community that since I'm not a developer I'm not an user.
The quoted sentence is an example of the problem that it is trying to describe. He is doing this on purpose for effect.

A simpler rephrasing (which loses this effect) is: If you struggle to find the appropriate word for a given situation, people will think you aren't fluent (and possibly, not intelligent).
I assert that it is possible to have a multicultural society without having large swaths of population who want to do others harm.
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What's the answer here? Should the government pay for manufacturing of generic drugs that are non-profitable but "essential"? Let the tax payers eat the cost of such drugs? There's more than a few like that. I believe snake venom antidotes are often on such lists.

(note: I did specify generic drugs. Not drugs still under patent exclusivity windows. Which is a valid but separate discussion.)
This is a great response to the whole "let's blame Snowden" angle:

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-abou...

Granted, it's from Greenwald, but his arguments are backed up with the real history of events pre and post-9/11.
Nope, not really. Snooping on people to find terrorists is reacting to the problem - while we continue to create it (for example via drone strikes).

We should be preventing terrorism, which we can only with peace.
> Car companies can't outsource production to Foxconn.

What about Magna Steyr, Karmann, or Valmet?
There are many better ways to argue for putting thought into legislation than taking potshots at people's debating positions. The idea that something "shouldn't be politicized" is another way of saying that the government should never do anything about it.

Get two people in a room talking about something, and you've got politics - moreso when we're talking about laws.

"The blood hasn't even dried yet!" - meaningless, emotionally manipulative pap.

"We should think long and hard before making knee-jerk decisions" - sanity.
Any parent dumb enough to put one of these things in their home and sell out their children to "the cloud" or whatever buzzword they've chosen for this particular corporate spying device, should have their children taken away from them.

As for the security concerns, nahhh... really? I'm shocked that a fucking internet-connected doll that analyzes and manipulates/programs children for marketing purposes could possibly have security concerns.
Few states will countenance speed limit reductions that would reduce auto deaths that kill tens of thousands of Americans every year, but we'll allow our basic rights out the window to prevent what looks like a rounding error on that?

This absurdity is actually what's responsible for any of terrorism's effectiveness. It's basically a hack designed to provoke an absurd overreaction. On that count, it succeeded with flying colors in 2001 - I'm hopeful that we've learned enough in the intervening years (both in terms of the war and police state) to prevent repeating our mistakes.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/france-passes-n...

> The new bill, which allows intelligence agencies to tap phones and emails without seeking permission from a judge, sparked protests from rights groups who claimed it would legalise highly intrusive surveillance methods without guarantees for individual freedom and privacy.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/07/france-new-su...

> The surveillance measures authorized by this law are wildly out of proportion. Large swathes of France’s population could soon find themselves under surveillance on obscure grounds and without prior judicial approval.

http://www.nytimes.com/live/paris-attacks-live-updates/turke...

> The Turkish authorities warned their French counterparts twice in the past year about one of the attackers, Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, a 29-year-old French citizen who was known by the authorities as someone who had radical Islamist beliefs, an official said on Monday.

> The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, in line with government protocol, said the government never heard back from France and only received an “information request” about Mr. Mostefaï after the Paris attacks.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/16/paris-atta...

> During an investigation, the Turkish authorities identified Mostefai and notified their French counterparts twice – in December 2014 and June 2015 – the official said.

> “We have, however, not heard back from France on the matter,” the official said. “It was only after the Paris attacks that the Turkish authorities received an information request about Omar Ismail Mostefai from France.”

I'm just going to leave this here since I suspect most people aren't aware that France passed legislation enabling what is effectively total population surveillance as well as was warned about one of the attackers, repeatedly, while they had this capability.

Similarly, while I understand it doesn't "sit right with you" there is really no debate to be had. The facts are pretty clear the problem is operational, not the scope of the powers available.

France had the surveillance authority, was warned twice about at least one of the terrorists, yet failed to act. This isn't a problem solved by providing them with more power but rather with operational and management changes. If they can't do it with total authority to spy on anyone they can as well as with warning from a friendly government...yeah.

Similarly, such changes are not political acts but simply the acts of responsible managers that do not require publicity.
They actually specify that there's no additive effect between the two. So I think the 'better' conclusion is that if your sleep is already poor then you can eat all the fat you want.
Sounds like Qubes
It not just to use old Fortran code. Lot's of it is still being written in the scientific computing world.
This research: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1059217

"...advertising was positively linked to brand prices in manufactured food products. Prices of weakly advertised manufacturer brands, private labels and generic products were substantially lower than the prices of leading brands, especially highly advertised leading brands. Since the products selected for analysis were relatively homogenous, real quality and cost differences do not appear to account for the price differences across brands."

This may or may not be a result of the paradox of choice. That would be an interesting paper: "brand advertising increases prices when there are fewer than five choices of brands" would be a testable hypothesis, but I haven't been able to find that paper.
I knew Jessica and Paul were married, and implicitly assumed this was pre-YC. I read with interest the data point that they were "already dating" at the time.

I was wondering if you could share any data on success/failure of startups where 2 co-founders are in a relationship, and if/how this is rated in yc applications.
Note that this is an article in which the people actually talk about their struggles with homelessness and their fears of becoming homeless.

I don't actually disagree that the trailer park should probably be torn down and be replaced with a denser condo development. And the property owner certainly has a right to sell the property to developers (gentrification would not be so problematic if renters had property rights in their home).

Rising housing costs is not at all due to some inhuman market pressure: it is a policy choice against densification. And surely to think that the way something was is the way it needs to be in the future is irrational. But shouldn't that be true for people who live in single-story houses also?
> So I guess the time to politicize these attacks has come already. Pity.

You're disparaging Brennan for taking a political stance on the issue, then in the same breath also taking a political stance about the issue ("Shut it down, this proves it's ineffective!").
Geilo, specifically, but many others in Norway have tried this year as well.
Taxing wealth suffers from the same problem. People who have a lot of wealth will move that wealth to places with the lowest tax burden.

Basically, the truly wealthy will start living in luxury apartments while shuttling their wealth to the Costa Rican villa in which they are planning to reside during retirement.
I almost never do.

To be less flippant, I'm not sure that defining the field of art history more broadly is a bad thing. I would hate to see the disappearance of those who can make fine distinctions between painters; there should be room for them too in the art history world.

I did guess correctly, by the way, but I couldn't tell you whether it was because I saw one of the pictures long ago at a Canaletto exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, from books, or just chance.
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

This certainly is a valid point, but here you're complaining that he took the wrong political action, not that he took a political action.
Among other things you might be missing are the reports that Iraqi intelligence had warned Western governments shortly before the attacks that they had information, non-specific as to the target, of attacks ordered in one or more Western nations involved in anti-IS operations by the IS to be carried out imminently. [0] Its not that attacks like this could not be carried out locally without a remote command, its that there are reports of specific information indicating that this was not carried out locally without a remote command.

[0] e.g., http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.686257
Indeed, many loopholes are due to the fact that taxes are national whist companies are global.
> Ts are being printed without even the slightest regard for the (old-fashioned) concept known as fiscal rectitude.

> Scarily, there are something like 70 trillion of swap contracts outstanding.

I guess there's 15-20T in T's outstanding... if there's 70T in swaps (that don't have a Fed or an army behind them), what would your comment on their 'fiscal rectitude' be?
I would love to see this as well.

A salesperson from Gusto (fka Zenpayroll) who we use for payroll sent me multiple emails about switching to Gusto for benefits, so I emailed, "Hey - We're currently running everything through Zenefits. Are there any advantages to switching over?" and I never heard a response.

Could have been a mistake (i.e. forgot to respond), a bad salesperson, etc. but not having any differentiators makes the decision tough on my end.
So those "redshirt" kids made your child's 1st grade experience more like the 2nd grade.

In one sense, this seems like an unproductive arms race. But it could be a step in the right direction, towards placing children according to ability rather than age.
Not all politics are electoral politics.
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Not a single bit.
He couldn't have been cheaper. This is how you make voters feel like stupid little kids.
There isn't a single one in the history of the world that lasted for long time.

There's so much research out there that shows that multiculturalism is the root of conflicts. For example [0] and see references too.

Just look at the current French republic and how that worked out for them. [1]

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1409

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1199...
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This is pure capitalism in action, and an important datum about what happens in free markets. [see edit below]

Questcor is cornering the market - this has nothing to do with research or availability. In 2012, they acquired the manufacturing of the pig-pituary-gland version of this drug, called "HP Acthar Gel"[0], and hiked the price from $50 to $28,000 per vial. In June 2014, they acquired the synthetic version called "Synacthen Depot" and modestly hiked it by just 2000%. The generic term naming both is ACTH, which is cleverly (?) disguised inside both names.

This is greed, plain and simple - now that Questcor owns the market, they can name any price they want, or the infantile spasm kids suffer greatly (die, or suffer developmental problems of all sorts including retardation). There are other diseases treated with ACTH, and dropping treatment due to cost has effects almost as severe.

Show me the parent who would let their baby die or become retarded because the price was hiked. That's an example of what any completely free market will converge to.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/business/questcor-finds-pr...

edit: I stand corrected in my use of "pure capitalism" - government regulation makes it very much not pure capitalism. But the monopolizing of production that we see here is a real-world result of capitalism (pure or impure) - the assumption that "if there's money to be made, some other entity will rise to the challenge" is not supported by evidence in small markets (such as ACTH). If it weren't, there would be no need for antitrust laws.
> I assert that it is possible to have a multicultural society without having large swaths of population who want to do others harm.

I (wish) that it is possible to have a multicultural society without having large swaths of population who want to do others harm
What does illegal domestic surveillance by the NSA have to do with recent attacks across the pond?

Are you asking if we now feel more ok with our rights being violated, because we are so damn scared for our own safety after what happened in Paris?

I personally will take liberty/privacy over supposed security any day.
Afaik, there were warning signs that authorities were aware of, but they didn't really have any idea what to actually expect.

That's just what I've heard. Id appreciate if someone could come by with more info or a source.
Pretty sure the ADP fiasco was likely an understanding by ADP that zenefits was working on this already.

Payroll/Benefits is long overdue for disruption.
It's like a big linear regression. He is arguing for a higher surveillance coefficient to the societal equation. There are hidden variables though. Machine learning taught me a lot about politics.
Yea I was worried about the same thing, I've tried it and it's a tad different. Give a few days I think.
But that's not addressing the statement that the attacks themselves were masterminded. It just seems to sensationalize it.
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Effectively he's saying 'If I had had my hands free these attacks might not have happened', and that's several bridges too far in my opinion. There is no proof that it would have made a difference, in fact with the tools currently at his disposal given the scope of these attacks it is fairly clear it just doesn't work.

Those terrorist plots (real ones, not ones all but executed by the authorities) that were foiled were foiled either by coincidence or by personal bravery of one or two people that happened to be accidentally on the scene.

Maybe, I'll concede that much, if a total surveillance state were operational where each and every one of us had a continuous cops eye following us attacks like these could be prevented. But that's in my opinion not world worth living in. Open societies are vulnerable to small numbers of assholes working in a coordinated fashion. And that's something that will be very hard to fix without changing that society for ever so let's not run down that path before the victims of these crimes are even in the ground and think things over for a bit.
Talking about the same age in young children is misleading if you're only referring to the year. A child born in January is a lot more mature than a child born in December of the same year, despite being the same age (during the weeks between their birthdays, anyway).
Yeah. Makes me very curious where they draw the line. Because it is not obvious from outside.
Stock market data does seem like a better source of entropy than Twitter queries.
I assume he means App Sandboxing

https://developer.apple.com/app-sandboxing/
The problem is I think you will find that no one thinks they are doing evil; yet their actions end up causing more harm than good.

Stanford prison experiment, Milgram, etc show this ability to rationalize and do things socially unacceptable in an every day context.

We collectively need to discuss what is right and wrong; point out gaps and bias, and opt for most benefit/least harm.

Mass surveillance/security theatre appears to have high cost, little benefit and negative consequences for those its meant to protect.
I'd be curious to see the data difference between male and female. In some other data I recall seeing boys seemed to react better to starting late than girls did.

If girls do mature earlier than boys, then I almost wonder if we should have different cutoffs for boys and girls...
Sounds like you should start an ad-tech startup. The reason the number of companies in the space has exploded in recent years is because there's clearly money to be made by making this better, especially for specific niches.
Sorry, but how do you know this isn't some kind of placebo, exactly? This reads like pseudoscience.

I do believe some people are certainly better at determining honesty and character than others. But without any sort of blind testing, or even some kind of empirical foundation or proposed specific techniques, it's very difficult to know for sure if a particular person really is better than average or not.
I know. I was surprised to find that my manager hadn't taken FP, while I had during coursework in computational biology at such a school. I think this just illustrates my point: in industry-oriented programs, FP isn't considered a useful tool. Right or wrong, it's the current reality.
Because you don't have to keep supplying credentials when using SHH keys. It's less about speed and more about reducing the friction in common operations. It's also the way I'm used to handling things with gitolite, so that might be part of it.

We already usually use SSH w/ keys for server access, so uploading public keys to GitHub isn't much of an additional hurdle.
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He only pushed prices down compared to what the potential second lowest bidder would've bid. If the second lowest bidder was $1 (or even sometime withing a few dozen dollars of that), then there is basically no effect by his decision.
I wonder about causation and correlation here. Presumably children whose parents can afford to pay for an extra year of childcare before sending them off to school can provide environments that also tend to produce self-regulation. One could also imagine that if waiting a year is somehow the non-standard choice, that having parents invested enough to take that option would give similar effects.
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> So I guess the time to politicize these attacks has come already.

The attacks are inherently political, they can't be "politicized".

Now, its true that they are being exploited to push positions that those pointing to them were pushing long before the attacks, but it only makes sense to call that "politicizing" an event when the event itself isn't political to start with (and, even them, "politicizing" isn't really the issue, what these critiques usually try to do -- but only by implication -- is to suggest that the use of the event in the policy debate is disingenuous or shallow.)
I've provided a link to the skills a kindergartener is expected to know in Texas. The most interesting one to me: 'counting from 20 to 0 backwards.' It touched my indexing heart when they included 0.

http://tea.texas.gov/uploadedFiles/Curriculum/Texas_Essentia...
Most people value the ability to drive 5 mph faster more than they value the right to not be constantly monitored by the government. Sorry you had to find out this way.
By creating abundance, it lessens the need and purpose for armies to take resources from others. There are no armies I am aware of that invade and conquer for Oranges, but they do for Oil.

To complete your second statement, why do you believe we should mine them for gold when we cannot efficiently manage them here on Earth to begin with?
You're close to describing emotional blackmail.

>it would tend to make employees less likely to jump ship because of a personal connection and bond.

Employees should jump ship if the business sucks. It shouldn't matter how nice the owners are to you, if the business itself is no good, you shouldn't stay around and support it.
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