skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had friends who learned how to read when they were toddlers and it had literally no effect on them later in life other than that they were bored in school until everyone else had the chance to learn who did not have their parents expose them to this.

On the other hand I learned to read in kindergarten like most people but had trouble reading until late in 1st grade when it "clicked" rather quickly and from that point forwards I was reading a higher level than most of my classmates until things evened out over the period of several years. My point is that development happens at different paces for different people.

I would like to know if there are any pediatric studies on how this teaching affects a child and if trying to make them learn too early could have negative effects. Most parents just think "the earlier the better" because they can then talk to other parents and say "did you know my kid is already reading." I don't think this is necessarily a productive approach and when children are not able to live up to their parent's expectations it can cause confidence issues.

Edit: I also have read more of this now and the author makes the point that children did not need to "re-learn" to read but from what I remember my friends did in fact have to re-learn because they had learned to memorize words, or read incorrectly some way or another so it was in fact more difficult for them as they had already learned bad habits.
Sometimes it's a matter of time, not money. If you're prototyping a complicated set of parts you'll quickly find that ordering parts from a service results in a days long development cycle instead of minutes. I print many small pieces each day and my designs change fast enough that ordering from a service just doesn't make sense.
It's actually more about complexity. They could simply replace the center engine with a lower power design and still get plenty of mass to orbit. The issue then is that you have to design a completely new engine and have 2 different engines in your first stage. More complexity generally equals more risk, and historically SpaceX has sought to maximize simplicity for the sake of reliability and rapid iteration.
>Absolutely, the same way that great minds of past generations had friends, went to social events, and wrote letters.

I recently read the Wulf's The Invention of Nature, a biography of Alexander von Humboldt - from the middle of his life up until his death Humboldt wrote 2000 to 3000 letters per year, crazy if you think how much work a "regular" letter is.
While we're on the subject of disclosing conflicts of interest, you should note that "big fan" is a bit of an understatement when every other tweet you make is about Product Hunt: https://twitter.com/jsneedles
Insiders are still favored for no other reason than their relationship to the founder:

>>> "Unless you’re one of the early members of the community (those that helped get Product Hunt off the ground and continue to be instrumental in curating great products), all posts submitted to Tech first start in Upcoming. "

Eliminating that loophole completely would help in restoring faith.
I can see how a memorization aid like spaced repetition could actually improve your productivity in 1993, but in 2015, it's neither feasible nor necessary for programmers to memorize all the stuff we use, so I'm not seeing this as terribly useful nowadays.
The bug is only in x86_64 Clang 3.6 for Android (r10e).
How do they give up that freedom? Did they sign some agreement with FB never ever use any other forms of communication / events coordination?
No, they did not. Can we just cut this kind of crap? Facebook or any other social sites did not take away any freedoms from anyone.
This is awesome! Congratulations for landing the booster stage safely.
This. Nobody owes you anything, the least of all some perceived "fairness" in Valley media. In the prioritized list of things I need to accomplish to continually move my startup forward, "spending time thinking about Product Hunt" is sandwiched somewhere between "Start an Ello account" and "attend more pay-to-pitch events."
I think it's generally accepted that the Neanderthals went extinct because we out-competed them, at the very least. We're an astonishingly bloodthirsty batch of apes.
If you're an engineer, Steve Jobs worked to illegally and systematically suppress your wages. Yeah, the iPhone is great, but I'll judge him on that instead.
When I am reading a book I am not producint anything either. Or when listening to music. Or walking. Or…
You can't drill a curved hole.
Of late I've been thinking about the relationships between offices and productivity.

Right at the turn of the century people were thinking about "revenue per employee" as a metric for how efficient a business was. That was silly off the charts when you get to some software startups where a group of 15 or 20 people are generating 20 - 30M$ a year in revenue.

The thing that stuck out for me is the cost of offices as a cost of doing business. For years folks have been working to fit more and more people into fewer and fewer square feet because the office expense was a serious impediment to profitability, it added to the "loaded cost" of your employees, and that combined with salary was your biggest cost.

But here is the thing, if your employees are generating these huge revenue per employee numbers, what that means is that small percentage changes in their productivity has a huge impact on your company's revenue and profitability.

Employers need to look at what would be the impact if your employee was 10% more productive, which means your revenue per employee number went up 10%. How much cost would you be willing invest to make that happen? Even at crazy SF levels of $100/sq ft / year, that is $10,000 for an additional 100 square feet for an engineer. $10,000 represents perhaps a 5% increase in the loaded cost of that employee. But if they boost their productivity by 10% they return 200 - 300% on that investment annually.

Bottom line, build environments that maximize the productivity of your employees, not ones that minimize your real estate costs. Its a better investment than hiring more people.
People are beginning to move to:
https://www.openhunt.co/

Just look at this HN post:
Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt (openhunt.co)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759879
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741827

How about their ranking system:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875
Could someone clarify the stage one path? Where did it launch, and where did it land, and where did it go horizontally in the meantime?
I'd argue that trying to build widespread mass transit in America today is what's bone-headed. The road infrastructure already exists and connects just about every town in the US. Electric cars will solve the fuel efficiency issue to a large degree, and self-driving cars will fix congestion and safety.

I can't believe some of the outrageous stuff this Kuntsler guy says:

>We have about, you know, 38,000 places that are not worth caring about in the United States today. When we have enough of them, we're going to have a nation that's not worth defending. And I want you to think about that when you think about those young men and women who are over in places like Iraq, spilling their blood in the sand, and ask yourself, "What is their last thought of home?" I hope it's not the curb cut between the Chuck E. Cheese and the Target store because that's not good enough for Americans to be spilling their blood for. (Applause) We need better places in this country.

Really? We have a lot worth fighting for, and it's not any physical city, nor should it be. Rather, it's the 300 million people that call this place home, your family and friends among them. It's the idea--the reality--of mankind living in freedom, of opportunity for all, of equal justice before the law, of the dignity of the individual.

>We are entering an epochal period of change in the world, and -- certainly in America -- the period that will be characterized by the end of the cheap oil era. It is going to change absolutely everything. [...] We're not going to be rescued by the hyper-car; we're not going to be rescued by alternative fuels. No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

This guy is just plain wrong. There's no reason why plug-in electrics, and a power grid running on nuclear & renewables, can't replace our current reliance on oil and internal combustion engines.

I've lived in suburbs and in cities, and my take is that the current zeitgeist (that suburbs are evil) is way off the mark. In suburbia, I had boundless privacy and freedom in my home. In the city, I can't play my speakers loud without getting a noise complaint. In suburbia, I could hop in my car and go wherever I want whenever I want. In the city, parking is expensive and public transit is not fun. I have to take several buses, at particular bus stops, at particular times. My door to door morning commute is twice as long by bus as by car. In suburbia, I might have heard a few cars passing by at night, or the occasional loud outdoor party. In the city, I have to choose between burning alive and trying to sleep to the tune of my neighbors' loud conversation on their balcony. There's a lot of great things about the city too--I choose to live in one! Different strokes for different folks. Or even the same folks at different points in their lives.
I disagree. The homepage has to start somewhere... and the small # of "insiders" who post great content everyday have that reputation built up to elevate posts. I'm sure if an "insider" posted some bad products that weren't a great fit for the community... they'd be treated like everyone else. I've seen it happen.
except gold is very useful, every bit of electronic around you uses it.
How do you talk to users if you can't get users?
I'm guessing this isn't actually a technical decision for you, is it?
I'd be interested to learn about parents who continued focused eductions throughout childhood. While I can see that entering a public school and knowing to read won't give a lot of benefit since the child would be held back by the other students catching up, if the parent homeschooled or similar, the child may be able to continue accelerating. I'd also be interested to know if children who learn early develop better habits for learning, and therefore can learn new subjects more easily. Even an increased interest level in reading has benefit though, and I suspect a child who can read can find entertainment in books and that seems like it may help them as well.
The huge difference is the Falcon 9 first stage is part of a system that puts a few thousand kilos in orbit, and it flys half a dozen times per year.

Getting to space is just getting high off the ground, its not very useful unless you can achieve orbit.
Again, who says the world is supposed to be fair? Am I supposed to believe that every product written about in TechCrunch is there because of its merits alone? What about funding? We should probably band together on forums to talk about how some founders are born into money and VC relationships and others aren't. This all seems a bit silly, to be honest.
So FSF is basically PETA of software world.
No, that's not an acceptable solution. Spammers should be banned. But I actually wasn't strong enough:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pus...

By section 5.6, Lyft should be removed from the App Store. I wish they'd do it!
Hacker News and Reddit do not favor insiders, despite popular misconception.
> ...The problem is not so much the money itself as what comes with it. As one VC who spoke at Y Combinator said, "Once you take several million dollars of my money, the clock is ticking." If VCs fund you, they're not going to let you just put the money in the bank and keep operating as two guys living on ramen. They want that money to go to work.

http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

This is an example of A16Z killing a startup. They only care about about the big hits, so they'll happily dump too-many-millions into small products like ProductHunt and RapGenius, trying to force them to Get Big Fast.

ProductHunt should've been operated by two people for 5+ years but they raised too much money. Communities can't really be bought with money. You have to grow them organically and authentically over many years. Hacker News and reddit are perfect examples to emulate.

Digg is an example of the VC way of doing things.
My parents taught me how to read and do some relatively complex math prior to kindergarten - today I feel that I owe nearly all of my academic & career success to that.

Of course, your first point is valid - this was only useful because I was lucky enough to have amazing teachers who took the time to issue me a tailored curriculum at a significantly higher level than my peers. I had teachers and programs which allowed me to stay at a cutting edge until early high school when these initiatives existed naturally (and I had the resources to explore intellectually outside of school).

More than that, it gave me a ton of confidence as I found things easier than my peers.

That's not to say that all of this didn't come at a cost - my social growth was definitely stunted. Instead of playing sports I did homework, and instead of sleepovers with friends I worked on school projects.

In the end, I wish I'd had a bit more balance, but I'm really glad I was lucky enough to have the opportunities I did early. I truly believe our ability to learn slows down every single day, and the early years are most formative.
That would be amazing! I've always wanted an office building to myself.
I'm hoping I'm missing something important, or that there's a reason the documentation isn't more clear, especially if this is coming from Microsoft.

"efficiently manage graphs" != "efficiently traverse graphs"

It's very very easy to store a graph in a database. It's very very hard to efficiently walk an arbitrary path between nodes using SQL.

Browsing the user manual, I don't see any examples of graph walks. There are some glorified joins, but there's no real explanation of why a graph database is better suited for the queries show (quite the opposite I feel -- it's harder to read the non-standard SQL!).
Well, originality isn't everything if your "original" idea is poorly executed and doesn't have much of a story to begin with.

OTOH, it can be argued that ep. 4 is basically a ripoff of kurosawa + WW2 fighter movies... in SPACE! So it's some people are maybe taking all these movies too seriously if they expect great artistic cinema out of them.
This would be a great application for immersive VR.
This makes no sense to me. If you want to recover the rockets why not use parachutes? Guiding a parachute down, maybe with the help of some propellers, has got to be easier and more reliable than this.
So, we need a new database engine instead of mere using tables with partitioning in PostgreSQL with a timestamp as a primary key?

And it is Java - waste two times more resources than the data you have &trade;
It took me a while to realize this isn't about intrusion detection.
In GPL world any user is a developer too. This might have been true at the begining, but it is very far from true now.
That's what RMS failed and still fails to grasp.
Ask HN: Is Place Autocomplete API Broken?
I have seen API response can't be analysed by its own demo javascript. (some AU address case)

So it must be an API response change.

But there isn't any change stated anywhere.

Try to test if its broken for you in a test case at below link,

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-autocomplete-addressform
Interesting. Is it that showing is looked down on in Germany ?
Ford? Brand appeal is quite low.
That's fantastic! Can you upgrade the README with a little detail on this?
I feel like it got much worse when iOS 7 launched.
The paper uses Illumina reads. The "laptop" in the article is referring only to the platform for analysis, not sequencing.
From the comments here, it looks like 3D printing has hit the trough of the hype cycle.

Nonetheless, I'm a fan.

I've designed and printed about a dozen objects in the last week. None of them are world changing, all of them could have been made some other way, and none of them are high strength or high precision. Some of them had to be postprocessed with an X-Acto knife. (-: But it's darned convenient to spend a few minutes drawing CAD, then an hour (or two hours) later have a part good enough to solve my immediate problem.
If you accept that hypothesis then you'd also necessarily have to accept the hypothesis that intelligent people are more likely to have been diagnosed with all sorts of mental disorders because the disorders are more accurately diagnosed in them.
Separation of concerns is neither complexity or misunderstood. It's just good design.
even with a gigantic chute you're still approaching the ground at ~20mph. not a lot can hit the ground at that speed (and be that big) without either making it prohibitively heavy to fly, or without things breaking seriously enough it would be a write off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0
The USAF currently has planes flying with 3D printed parts that serve an important purpose!
typing this from a rockchip rk3188 laptop. with enough RAM, and a proper linux install, they're rock(sorry) solid.

This would certainly explain the weird date issue I had in Android last year, though.
"Actions" in a domain-relevant sense, not so much a technical one. I want the framework to help me assure that anything users can do from within the web app they can also do from a CLI client (possibly decomposed differently).

My biggest objection to web apps is an extension of my objection to applications in general: because the individual steps of my workflow aren't exposed to the shell, I can't manipulate, script, and compose them as I do other sorts of actions.
Try to adjust your work pattern to do many very tiny commits, maybe every few minutes, with a few-words-only commit message. Then, after a few hours, regroup using “git debase -i”. (Of course before anything is being pushed where others can see it).

That way you don't forget what all those tiny changes have been for... And nevertheless have a coherent description of what you did at the end of the day.

When you really are working on very separate things in parallel (which you probably shouldn't), work on different branches...
-- const [] for a HeadList
quux :: a -> HeadList a
quux = HeadList . (const [])

*Main> HeadList "hello... no wait" >>= quux
HeadList {getHeadList = "*** Exception: Prelude.head: empty list

Such breakage is verboten. This monad instance does not fly.
> ... and the small # of "insiders" who post great content everyday have that reputation built up to elevate posts.

This is circular logic. How did the insiders get the great content to post? By excluding other viable content posted by others.
Wow. A brand new product review site that nobody has ever heard of is in complete control over the startup landscape. Has anyone sold the movie rights yet?
No, but it lifted a second stage that continued on to orbit, delivering 11 satellites.

https://i.imgur.com/D9BdO86.png

http://www.flightclub.io/results.php?id=eb627cc3-ffab-43a3-9...
Facebook ‘Accidentally’ Asks U.S. Users to Help Free Basics in India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t...
$20.00+Thank+You+Reward+#InHomeComputerHelp.com+#Honolulu+#Oahu
What's so great about "neighborhood shops" over big box stores? Higher prices and smaller selection?
> CNC machining technologies are becoming much more affordable and easier to use

I disagree with this. The first level of decent CNC machines has been in the $7,000-$10,000 range for quite some time now. As they generally require 3-phase power and flood liquid (generally something which requires a non-trivial MSDS) over the part being cut, they require a dedicated space in a relatively dedicated shop. The "rent" to house the machine exceeds the cost of the machine very quickly.

I would rather have an affordable SLS machine which could print nylon.
How can IBM, Intel, and big banks use Blockchains to remake the internet
You know, I'd kind of like to see someone construct a nuclear plant just to self-source their bitcoin mining power needs.
> I'm just tired of the Elon worship. Nobody acknowledges the amazing people who actually made this happen. As an engineer it pisses me off.

I would have hoped this thread would be a reprieve for you. I'm seeing tons of respect for SpaceX as a whole here. Ditto for the video, where they thank their partners at NASA, The FAA, etc. - and customer, Orbcomm - for making all this possible. I don't recall Elon being mentioned once in the video. Elon's mentioned a few times in thread for the purposes of citation about the plans of SpaceX, and some silly twitter drama - that's about it. No Elon worship I can spot.

> Sorry if this is an unpopular opinion.

I think pretty much everyone is on board with appreciating the hard work of everyone at SpaceX, NASA, The FAA, Orbcomm, and all the engineers and taxpayers who made it possible. Elon's one of those people though. This... jealousy of him? That's probably not the right phrasing. But if it's poorly received, I suspect it's because it comes across as appreciating the hard work of everyone but him. Or put differently: It's not appreciating the hard work of everyone.
You're not the only one. They don't address any of the issues in this blog post.
Depends if the first flight almost destroys the vehicle. It'll be very interesting to see how well this rocket stood up to the flight. Since orbital rockets are within epsilon of just blowing up every time any way!

Incredible project. Reusable rockets. It's science fiction coming to life again, like the 1960s.
lesson 1: 3d printing is about ... upgrading your printer?

The best use case for personal 3d printing I found is RPG board gaming. Custom D&D miniatures, battle maps, even crazy fancy dice (sometimes weighted to annoy friends).
I have no inside knowledge, but I'd suspect Orbcomm paid next to nothing for this launch.

Between "You'll be the first launch since the last one... You know, that one with a small anomaly..." and fact that this was the first launch of a new version of the falcon 9 (with slightly different engines, cooler/more pressurized O2), I know that if I were negociating for Orbcomm, I'd ask spaceX to cross the last digit on their bill (and probably have a much more expensive insurance policy in return).

And to delay a _commercial_ launch in order to accommodate weather for the _landing_ ? AFAIK, that's another world's first in history and I think that tells a lot on the underlying story.

Don't get me wrong, this is an amazing achievement, and the economics of it don't really matter when it comes to the technical prowess
HTTP Error Code 451 for censored webpages
I bought one a while back ago, then I realized the number of I/O's was very low for what I wanted to do. Would have been nice to have access to all the 95 I/O's of the iCE40HX-1K instead of just 16 (or is it 26?)
Try driving in rush hour traffic in the SF Bay Area, then imagine what it'll be like in a few decades when there are 40% more people in the area.

You can replace gasoline powered cars with electrics, but you can't build enough roads to handle the traffic -- there's going to have to be improvements in public transportation and smart planning to let people live closer to where they work and play.

Retrofitting cities with pub transit is expensive today, but it will be even more expensive tomorrow.