skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really curious why it is that students seem to just inherently care about test scores. Surely they were born with such passion for seeing "A" over "B" over "C," and so on.

If they were taught to care about deeper principles from day one, I guarantee they would care about deeper principles by year 8.
I'm an American with $10k or so into Orthodontia to make my teeth straight (I had gaps that were a big self-confidence issue for me) but no, seeing someone with insanely bleached white teeth definitely stands out in my head and always looks strange to me. I think there is a pretty big line between Hollywood White and Smoker Yellow.

To give a perspective, if it's needed, when I was in middle school (6th-8th) just about every single one of my friends at that point had either had, or was currently wearing braces of some sort.

I've now had braces 3 times (Invisalign actually) because my teeth won't stop moving. If I go a few days without wearing a retainer (I wear it nightly) they look different. A month or two without (I've lost the retainer before) and I'm going for round 4. Not sure if this is a genetic thing, or what, my cousins and sister have had the same thing happen, but I know plenty of other people who have never worn their retainers and barely had any movement.
In addition to fuel, the engines also can't restart an unlimited number of times. Starting the engines requires a special chemical charge to get the fire going, and it only carries as many as it actually needs.
At a guess, I would expect kwm to be faster, but probably less far along than Amethyst in terms of features/stability.

It's been a long time since I've actually written any C++, but briefly looking through the code it looks like it's making some of the same assumptions I made that resulted in some strange problems like the dreaded fullscreen bug (https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/254). That said, some of those assumptions were made 3 OS X versions ago so things might have improved.

It does, however, look a lot lighter weight than Amethyst is, and it looks like it does a better job at aggressively caching. It also supports binary space partitioning, which Amethyst doesn't support yet (https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/255). If I'm reading it correctly, though, that's the only thing it supports.

All in all, it seems like a great project. We could probably learn some things from each other, and I expect both projects would be the better for it.
Amusing, but I don't quite agree with this characterization of "all of social science."

But here's something interesting: I've tracked down a source for the 10% claim, and it's absolutely bonkers:

* An editorial[1] in the Detroit Free Press makes the following claim:

| "an analysis of statistics provided by the American Medical Association indicates that 10% of all American physicians are Muslims"

That certainly makes it sound like the AMA thinks that 10% of American physicians are Muslims.

* The source provided for this claim, "Muslim Doctors Abundant, But Muslim Hospitals Non-Existent"[2] is a 2008 post on a site called The Muslim Link.

Here's how that post arrived at the 10% claim:

* 113,585 Physicians in the US (2006)

* 7,000 current and retired physicians are members of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America

* 5.9% of African Americans are Muslim; 3.5% of physicians are African American; therefore there are 2000 African American Muslim physicians

* 7000 + 2000 = 9000; 9000 is just about 10% of 113,585

I shit you not, that's the most straightforward reading of the analysis at [2]. Now it's in the Economist. I seriously hope they got that number somewhere else.

[1] http://www.freep.com/article/20140128/OPINION05/301280121/da...

[2] http://www.muslimlinkpaper.com/myjumla/index.php?option=com_...
Kathryn Edin reveals the lives of people who live on $2 a day
It concerns imports, not booting.
Yeah, I realized that, but at the same time I thought maybe showing the younger "fun" side of me would be beneficial. Definitely something to think about... thanks for the input.
Yes. I ride a bike in London, and taxi drivers tend to act on it too.
I’ve been agile enough to avoid the worst, but my bike was smashed more than I can count (I use city-wide bike scheme). I’ve ended in the hospital twice: I got my front teeth smashed once; I also got my knee busted another time.

I am not trivialising threats, just arguing that putting them in context would help solve the issue — a lot more than putting thousands of teenagers in jail just because they didn’t mesure the consequence of their anger.
JavaScript Factory Design Pattern
I remember having to debug the printing system (lpq, converters etc.) on my first Slackware system back in the early years of the second age, with plenty of shell scripts and literal postscript output. So I regard this with a certain amount of schadenfreude.

(Although the "printer" part of the headline makes this sound much more fancy and hardware-oriented than what it is, yet another HTTP-based protocol that's parsed enough to work for a few use cases).
> One point was his push to improve load times on mobiles by pushing low res pictures first so the article displays faster.

How the fuck do online news sources not know about page load?
> they shouldn't be in a public place...

I beg your pardon?
It's a closer mental model to speak of "trivially-easy persistence" than "globals". In practice the values were as "global" as the values in an SQL database... technically the SQL database is not imposing any sort of visibility constraints on your code, but that doesn't mean that you necessarily think of those values as "globals".
Hi, people generally go to a speciaist when they have a problem they can't solve on their own. They believe that a specialist has the requisite training and experience to help them solve their problem at the risk of making the barest of mistakes. Generalists on the other hand, are believed not to dominate any area of life as problem solvers. So, people don't trust them to solve their problems.
http://ayietim.wordpress.com
1.00 CAD in the east, gasoline should be around 0.80 now but because of weak loonie, oil refineries being in the US and Americans driving more, thus increasing the demand for gas, prices are what they are.
Hi. I wrote the article. To tell you the truth, I've not (yet) found a reason why people in some places (it seems to be mainly North America and some in the UK) define seasons as beginning on solstices and equinoxes. Everyone just seems to repeat that that's when the seasons start, even if they acknowledge that there are other definitions.

I'd be curious if anyone finds a good explanation of why and how this definition took root!
There seems to be a lot of choice regarding very approachable windows managers for OSX these days. I throw in Magnet (http://magnet.crowdcafe.com).
> can run any of the new style apps

This is not the same thing as being able to run any Windows Desktop App.

Also it's not established whether this makes for good Desktop and/or Phone software as a result.
If it is a joke, it's too subtle for me. If you need your CEO to give you advice like that you're in the wrong job.
Guarding the border against an import industry that is worth billions of dollars and is illegal because our political system is beholden to retrograde moralizing.
I have been looking for a scalable TS solution similar to ElasticSearch - single node to 1000's all PnP.
>I just hate not having a Terminal if I plug into a monitor.

Can someone explain what this refers to? (I'm actually an OS X user, but still on Mountain Lion.)
Music Production vs. Code Production
Yes, if the center engine fails, the landing fails. There's no way to recover from that.

But the great thing about SpaceX's system is that it starts with a cheap expendable rocket, then makes it recoverable. You lose one? Who cares, build another one. They could have a 50% success rate recovering the first stages and it would still make things amazingly cheaper.
Security Trade-Offs Can Be an Unfair Trade
Hmm, the author doesn't appear to realize that seasons lag the solstices/equinoxes by a month or more. This happens because the ocean soaks up the heat or cold... one of the properties of water. That's why we push them back half a season.

Whether your city is a maritime one or not is also a factor. For example, this year in California, summer went until the middle of October even though the sun was not very high at that point.

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/heat-capacity.html
>I've made dishes, vases, pieces of art for shelves, and geometric shapes for gifts this Christmas.

So they are not crap, they are now gifts for others.
Sounds like a bad time to invest in an energy ETF, which I've been planning to do (Vanguard VDE).

Where can you publicly determine the barrel price that the supermajors will bust at?
>I've made dishes, vases, pieces of art for shelves, and geometric shapes for gifts this Christmas.

He is gifting his fancier plastic to others and they are now gifts.
But those "jobs" aren't backed by a legal framework, in fact, even in their own country it's considered grotesque, even in the same illegal outfits it's known as the dirty work.
As always in history it's about the question where do your rights get violated the least and Germany is among those places at the moment. Long time data retention is unfortunately very common in Europe.
the problem isn't that vmware integration isn't free.
The problem is more that every vmware fusion/workstation upgrade costs a new vagrant license swell, that makes this combination expensive.
Show HN: Treys – Like solitaire, but fun
I've said it before: we need another space race. If we can't convince the superpower countries to do it, might as well be two billionaire CEOs.

Think we can get Gates or Buffet into it as well maybe?
Obligatory "this isn't reddit"
I've actually done this in the past on my Nexus 7. It's really not too bad. There's a few things to get used to as mentioned in the article. With the rise of online IDEs, cloud technologies, and a remote desktop app, I can actually do all of my work on an Android tablet.
Tripling y/o/y traffic at a large newspaper is impressive. Bezos is a badass.
I tried almost every window manager for OS X. But due to the OS X itself. Some apps have the min window sizes constrain and can't fit in a small part of the display. They always go out side of the grid. This is the most annoying part.

BTW I remember someone made chrome (or another app) running under fullscreen mode in a window. Anyone knows how to do that?
Bundle web app to OS X app without coding
I have a different outlook as someone whose life was crippled by anxiety.

Many times my opinion on varying matters is asked I am met with some derogatory comments about how I only see the grim aspects of a given situation.

When in truth, from my point of view at least, I simply seem to see a large tree of possibilities of things that can go wrong or right. For instance, regarding the positive and negative sides of buying a house, if I point out the price, the distance to school/work and the condition of the roof it seems like people blame me for pointing it out... like I was personally and willingly trying to destroy the happiness the best case scenario would bring if they bought it on the spot. And it rarely fails: my objections are only met with more positive aspects in the form of "but this is okay because...". It's like most people don't want to see the whole picture, only the positive elements of the whole picture.

Now I try to grow up and dodge those situations or let requests for advices pass by.

But it's not about « intelligence », it's more about seeing the whole picture, getting asked about it and being blamed for detailing the obvious (I know next to nothing of carpentry or the real estate market beyond the obvious: "don't buy a house on fire").
Well, it's not like starting winter on December 1 isn't a lie as well – average "meteorological winter" starts Dec 8, a week later. The coldest quarter is also, of course, different every year, and not known until after the fact.

We use astronomical seasons instead because they are predictable, they are basically the same every year, and they definitively take place on a given date.

For the question of starting winter on the solstice vs halfway between solstice and equinox, we do get more cold weather after solstice than before. I think this is less important though – starting halfway between has made sense to me ever since I was a kid and learned what solstice and equinox meant.
I don't know why this is being downvoted, this is completely accurate for the English NHS where the UDA system is used (Northern Ireland and Scotland have a different fee per item system).

Many English NHS dentists encourage patients to return for multiple treatments instead of doing all the work in one treatment.
Wow - that's quite a leap.

Legalize drugs, then the Cartels just say, "Oh, you guys legalized all the drugs were smuggling into your country? I guess we better quit our gang get day jobs now."

Just like we saw when marijuana was legalized here, the cartels simply diversified and started smuggling more heroin, coke and meth and less marijuana. Did their violence subside? Nope. Did it really have a huge impact on their business? Hardly.
Applied Crypto Hardening – TLS software configuration guide [pdf]
I've just recently discovered NodeJS -- heard about it for years, of course. I was able to create a web server for one of my group's web apps in about 5 lines of code. It's a bit weird to wrap one's mind around it at first, but then it starts to make a lot of sense.

This IPP server is cool, though I'm not sure what uses it has yet. Maybe just a handy way to print to disk without having to choose a folder and file name. Or use as a proxy to redirect print requests to different printers depending on size or type of print job. Or a way to queue up print requests until off-hours. This is just off the top of my head and I'll bet there are other cool uses as well.
It's not "tribalism" to understand that Blue Origin's landing was fun but irrelevant unless you want to play five-minute space tourist, while SpaceX's landing is a massively significant event for the future of space travel.
How many early 90s trekkies (sorry, "trekkers") did you actually know.
> “15 awkward photos of world leaders that explain 2015” and a spoof video called “The Galactic Civil War”

I'm not sure you can call this "journalism". Sure, you're giving the people on social media networks what they want: funny, linkbaity stuff they can share. The pageview metrics will support and encourage that. But what individual people want and what society needs is often misaligned, if not diametrically opposed.

I think I'm just disappointed because quality journalism and investigation takes time and is a losing business proposition, so it often requires patrons with large pockets and an altruistic outlook. Bezos could have been that patron. But it seems like he's going in the opposite direction with the Washington Post for business/financial reasons. Not that I should have expected anything else...it is a private company and not a gov-funded org or a charity.
How can the defendant be bound to arbitration if they never signed an agreement or contract with Encore Capital agreeing to such?
But we're talking about drug traffickers, not drug users. Should that be a disease?
Do the Saudis have enough cash on tap to out last the big firms? I have to wonder if they're willing to play chicken for much longer.
Thank you for sharing this. Recently my wife and I have both lamented that although this is a lovely stage of his life that we are thoroughly enjoying, we are somewhat saddened by the thought that he will not remember much or any of it (I certainly don't have any concrete memories from this early age). Perhaps this is me again not giving the young brain enough credit. The fact that you do remember something like this is heartening for me.
O Que É MRR? (Monthly Recurring Revenue)
I guess you could read my post as "others aren't better than MongoDB", but that wasn't my intention. I merely remembered the WEF anecdote and thought I'd mention it here (although it's unfortunate I didn't find an English source for it).

MongoDB is repeating the same mistakes others made 15 years ago.
The trouble is that—as my teacher wife likes to say—once the door closes you can teach whatever you want, however you want. She says that in a positive way to dismiss some of the ridiculous expectations of the bureaucracy but I've seen plenty of teachers do troublesome things because of that.
Yes, sorry to be unclear.
`Uncaught TypeError: PC Load Letter?`

What the fuck does that mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQdNbvSGok
I was going to say.

Last Christmas prices dropped significantly. There were $2.25 to $2.50/gal in California, but almost $1.20/gal in Arizona and New Mexico.

California has another $0.30-$0.50/gal in taxes that other states don't have. The price will always be higher.
Oil producers going bankrupt isn't going to magically make their assets and production capacity disappear. It will just get bought up by better capitalized investors. Meanwhile Iraq, Iran and others are ramping up production right now. We're going to see further oil price fluctuations over the coming decades for sure, but I don't think we'll ever see $100+ per barrel oil again.
Vote for politicians who aren't. Unfortunately drug lords aren't interested in votes.
bluetooth isn't really about interaction though, and voice activation doesn't give you enough control or feedback.

I'd really just like my dash screen to show the contents of my phone... or better yet ... have the phone adapt to the dimensions of the screen, and change the layout/interaction style, etc.
Teachers more likely to “mark up” girls' work
I agree, I don't need the perspective of an author over top of the launch audio feed. I liked the rougher but more authentic streams they did in the past.
We gathered about 30 contacts who could retweet, like and
upvote the content we sent them

Helpful shilling tips for startups.
Way more effective window tiling program than Amethyst IMO.
The conspiracy side of me wonders if this move was completely of the Saudis engineering. Imagine if you're on the Obama administration, you're having problems with Putin, and you're looking to gain a legacy with major climate legislation.

If I was Obama circa several months ago, i'd send Kerry over to the Saudis, i'd say "I intend to do everything I can to reduce carbon emissions, people want me to do it, and it needs to be done. There's maybe 20 or 30 real good years left. Who owns those years is up for grabs, but you're in the best position. Here's how we can solve both of our problems."
>You're right, traffic patterns are not balanced, so the cars returning to the hot areas for pickups will not be contributing to the traffic in the most-congested direction.

Except that in a city, all traffic contributes to congestion,there is no single "commute direction".

>Also, this was all happening when self-driving cars were not around the corner. It's a different story today.

That "corner" is decades away, meanwhile, people need to get to work today -- and you still haven't explained how self-driving cars can replace a million+ trips/day on city streets that are already at capacity during rush hour. They may be self-driving, but they still drive on roads.
I think the real insight from this type of an approach and from the very popular single state atom architecture is that just having all state in one object makes serialization trivial. Many projects end up doing crazy things like solving serialization in too many ways in the same code base, such as too local storage, REST based serialization/deserialization, and etc. You must take considerations to not have the issues globals typically introduce such as hard to mock testing environments and the usual globals as communication shenanigans, but there are ways to treat each code concerns as it's own relative path object within the larger global object.

Personally, I just think having a clean data protocol basically like a database in app space leads to much cleaner architectures, especially once you try to do offline first, data sync, and more advanced features like access models.
I wonder if programming should be taught the same way. Not with writing programs. But reading real ones that you use every day.

You'd have to be careful about what programs you start a beginner with, but I think their might be value to this approach. I at least know I have reached the point in my own development where I learn more from reading others code than I do from reading textbooks. And learning to read others code, trace through programs, etc. is an incredibly important skill that I think is blatantly overlooked in most introductory level books on programming.
I associate WaPo with clickbait and avoid its articles based on the domain alone. This would tend to explain how it got that way.
>You're proposing hanging 14 and 15-year-olds?

I'm proposing trying them like adults with adult sentences, instead of the juvie system. Here in the states we already do this for many crimes. India is just catching up to what most countries do.

>But once they've crossed a line, despite having another 40-50 years of life in front of them, that's it?

Average murder sentence in the USA is around 20 years, that's 10 years with good behavior. Yes, I think they're better locked up than in the streets hurting innocents. If you're murdering people as a teen, you aren't fit for society. Period.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/Fssc00.txt

You'd change your tune if it was your kid they shot, but you have the white suburban privilege of not living in the Chicago ghettos. That doesn't mean your pet liberal politics is correct. It just means you bought yourself out of the high crime areas (yay! money!) so you have this overly generous attitude because you're so incredibly disconnected from the reality on the streets.
I just love how SpaceX is disrupting probably one of the most difficult markets in the world.
Jumbled mess of shell scripts as opposed to jumbled mess of unit files?

/lib/systemd/system is identical to /etc/rc.d in terms of maintenance complexity
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Stop and think though... It actually isn't that ridiculous. Do you not think we (humans) are contributing to the fall of moral civilization? Look around us.

edit: clarity
> not a single instance of permanent eye damage from laser pointers has been recorded anywhere

The study referenced is from 2000, before the time when high-power lasers were available on the internet. There's a study here which states that green lasers can cause lasting retinal damage [0]. As much as I want a sweet laser I'd probably zap myself playing around with it.

[0] http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2982.full
Why we need hackers to secure the future of the internet
I'm the author. (Hi!) The temperature extremes definitely do lag the solstices by around a month. That's not covered explicitly in the piece but implied when I say that the coldest quarter of the year (for the Northern Hemisphere) is from early Dec to early March, putting the temperature trough in the middle, in late January. That lag is well-represented in the meteorological seasons I suggest using: Dec-Feb (centered on January, the coldest month), Mar-May, etc.

Coastal California is indeed one of the few places in northern temperate latitudes where summer goes that late; some of Japan is in the same boat. Even so, December, January, and February are the coldest three months in SF, LA, and Tokyo, which supports the idea that meteorological winter makes a lot of sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#Climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo#Climate
Like the president of Moldova who laundered a billion dollars out of the country?