skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parents replacing school education works. My son went through 5 yrs of public education and learned almost nothing.

He learned in after school classes, at home, etc.

The problem was that public schools are focussed on underperforming kids and my son was above grade level so they did not bother to teach him. He did have a fun time at recess. Lots of time for reading fiction during class.
I want to make sure it's understood that I was recommending OP use the concept of tying a severance payment to signature of a legally binding document that serves the company's interest, not that non-disparagement or NDA were the right tools to use in this instance.

Onto your specific point, N-D is not unusual for senior employees with strong contacts in the company's target market (like e.g. sales & project management). They're not necessarily a sign that the company is doing anything shady, but they are a strong tool for preventing disgruntled former employees from saying bad things which might hurt a business. They're pretty aggressive, granted, but they serve a purpose. Most people's umbrage can be satisfied for a price.
Are you going to notice the 60 extra ppi more or less than the several hours of battery life? If the answer is less, than that sounds like Dell just made a bad engineering trade-off.
Let's be really clear: Haussmann built an autocrat's city. He was the architect of Louis-Napoleon, nephew of the former French emperor, and the city was built during the so-called second empire. That is, it does not reflect democratic values. How does it not reflect them? Well, the broad avenues radiating from star-like intersections are meant to favor the artillery if rebels ever try to build a barricade. This structure was later used to shape Washington DC. These considerations were important because of the Paris Commune of the 1870s, where the people of Paris rebelled against what they felt was bourgeois oppression. Except for a few periods after WWI and WWII, when artists like Picasso or Hemingway briefly frequented a poor and beautiful city, Paris has been a bourgeois stronghold ever since. This has huge cultural ramifications, many of them negative, for life in the city, since a premium is put on proper behavior and, above all, silence. Haussmann's ravages pushed the working class out into the suburbs -- what people now refer to the Red Belt -- depriving Paris of much of its vibrant street life. There were huge tradeoffs in the makeover, so let's not unduly idolize him.
"Apache, due to its process model."... "(prefork)"

Seems to me that the above is all based on reflections from decades ago w/ Apache httpd 1.3. Right now, all web servers can handle similar levels of concurrency with the bottleneck being the network pipe itself.

ATS is a great platform; using it in combo w/ Apache httpd (2.4) allows a pure open source implementation with all the power, speed, reliability one could want, and protection against Open Core business models.
Not for events like shows, movies, work hours, etc. An event starts and stops at a specific local time. If the DST rules change then the UTC version will be wrong but the one stored in local time + TZ will be correct.

Intervals should be stored in UTC. If you're supposed to drop the control rods in a reactor in 24 hours you store the time it's supposed to happen in UTC. DST transitions and rule changes would mess this up if stored in local time.

Timestamps for logs and files should also always be UTC.
Happy #DataPrivacyDay, but Privacy Still Exists in Big Data Era?
> Lots of people here are pretty certain the "key" to a "successful education" are parents.

Most studies I've seen on the topic show that the best predictor of one's educational success and attainment is one's parents educational attainment, so there is something to that that an anecdote from a teacher that, aside from not being a systematic gathering of evidence, doesn't even describe an experience of what drives outcomes, but simply relates a personal practice, isn't really sufficient to rebut.
I don't think so, I believe all this information is publicly available, though anonymized.
Sit/Stand Desk: IKEA Skarsta Review
If you are white and in the wrong place, the police may approach you and tell you where you ought to be and how to get there. If you're white in white Chicago, police pretty much don't exist. They're who you call before your insurance company whenever a property crime occurs, and that's only because your insurer makes you.

You can compare maps at http://gis.chicagopolice.org/clearmap_crime_sums/startpage.h... and http://www.wbez.org/series/race-out-loud/where-we-are-mappin...

If you're black or Hispanic and in the wrong place, the police will approach you and try to find any reason. Any reason to what? Any reason to anything, that's what.

The racial segregation in Chicago is no longer enforced by real estate agents, redlining, and covenants. You can rent wherever you like in the city. But how often do you want to be forced to talk to a cop when you step outside?
Show HN: Automagically sets the top,good resolution images on Reddit as wallpaper
A proxy cannot anonymize encrypted traffic.
How China accumulated $28T in debt
Well, maybe if you listened in class you would realize the benefit of what they're trying to teach you.

If you really think you can understand complexity theory, algorithms, and advanced data structures in "an afternoon or two", I think about 90% of it went right over your head.
I was referring to "newcomers", as just people new to LISP, and not complete newcomers to programming languages. So more the latter of what you wrote.
Surface Book weight: 3.34 lb (in its lightest config without GPU)

MacBook weight: 2.03 lb

Not even remotely the same category.
I think what we need are apprenticeships. I.e. a prominent research group hires kids after the remedial first two years of traditional college curriculum (or something like it plus a couple of years in an entry level job), and has them work on the actual problems at hand, filling the knowledge gaps as needed. It is no longer possible to know much of anything, so we should specialize and diversify at the same time, meaning that these students should be working at the seams between the fields: EE/CS, CS/Statistics, CS/Genetics, CS/Mechanical engineering etc. Further specialization should occur along the lines of whether the student would like to be a researcher, or have a more employable and practical set of skills. I never got much value out of lectures: few people can sustain rapt attention for hours a day. Most of what I know comes from the books. What I did get a lot of value from is working with people who know what they're doing, and from doing things myself, perhaps with their guidance and help. If this is heavily emphasized in this new model, I'm all for it.
There’s been a lot of coverage about the puzzles and ingenuity of the gameplay, but equal attention should be given to the amazing artistic style of the game.

a couple of blog posts about the making of the trees:
http://the-witness.net/news/2013/06/2157/
http://the-witness.net/news/2011/06/witness-trees/

I’d love to see more videogames step away from uncanny-valley and ill-advised attempts at photorealism and instead embrace unique artistic style.
Making social media actually SOCIAL.  My new app 'With'.  Need your feedback
http://apple.co/1SdYMhV

We just launched our app "With: Be With Your Friends" in an effort to make social media truly social. With is about telling the world who you're with - right now, in the moment. Physically tap your phones to make a group, check your friends' profile to see who they've met, and invite friends to come join. I'm looking for all the feedback I can get, and would love for to check it out and send me your thoughts. Thanks!
Definitely an upgrade to the old WinDirStat.
> the unreasonableness of the school making middle schoolers travel to a competition at 5:15 on a weekend morning

This could just as well be "the unreasonableness of signing on for an activity then not wanting to do what's required to participate", and/or "the unreasonableness of signing up for more activities than one is (apparently) able to find time for". I thought she wants to participate in choir. I'd certainly get up early on the occasional weekend for something I wanted to do, and it wouldn't even occur to me to complain, ya know?

As for letting her leave early, 1) they probably don't want to safely coordinate a bunch of individual pick-ups in an unfamiliar place _while trying to keep everyone else on schedule_, and 2) they may consider sticking around for the rest of the event to be important. It's really, really easy to imagine a world in which their refusal isn't primarily due to their being assholes.

Maybe you're right about all this being an example of a hostile school, but your description of events makes it seem more like a case of whiney, entitled kids/parents. Again, maybe that's wrong, but that is definitely the impression I get from this tale, as written. I mean, this: "Yet, the choir forces kids to show up at 5:15 am (!) on a Saturday". I actually LOL'ed at the parenthetical exclamation point. Or: "and also do all of her regular class homework (which is already a lot in its own right)." I mean—yeah, of course. What's weird about that? Quit signing up for extra crap if you're having trouble meeting basic obligations. You cannot have/do everything.
People on HN like jokes, but HN discussion threads are for discussion, not joking.
Public sector unions help protect public employees from the very strong tendency towards abuse and corruption inherent in political control of large numbers of people's salaries. They provide a counterweight to the bargaining power of government/management in sectors where it's not reasonable to expect people to change careers, and they are a subset of collective bargaining in general, which I believe is one of the cornerstones of a properly functioning labor market.
libc, libm, some boost pieces (asio, probably some more), zlib...

That's just from reviewing front pages of github repo and official site.
Seconded, HPD in my experience have been extraordinarily professional and helpful. 10 year resident of O`ahu.
My $0.02 on the state of Clojure -

For building stateful UI's Clojurescript + Reagent beats anything else out there.

For data science and algorithms Clojure beats anything else I've used.

For backend web development Rails is still miles ahead of any Clojure workflow.

Datomic is interesting but there's still too much incidental complexity to be super productive with it. It's hard to build a startup on Datomic because of the pricing and productivity hit, but could see it being useful in the enterprise where speed is less important.

I'm very interested in mobile development with Clojurescript on top of React Native, but haven't found a tutorial that wasn't written in hieroglyphics, so assuming that needs some more time to mature.
I'm going to notice that you're shifting your argument.

You argued that Apple was the only company able to engineer laptops with good screens, when it was pointed out that in fact it was Dell that had the better screen, you're now using that point to argue that Apple is still superior.

So I guess your only point is that "Apple is superior" and you'll massage the facts to support that notion.

- Earlier argument: Worse screen = Apple is superior.

- Latest argument: Better screen = Apple is superior.
There's nothing shocking to anyone who knows how music recording (in particular stoner / doom metal) happens. Recording yourself several times is standard practice (it's called doubling or quading in sound engineering terms). It fattens the sound because the performer will not play exactly the same thing twice: it is just like having two guitar players in unison. Recording with several microphones is also standard practice. Mic placement has a HUGE influence on the sound you get so you will usually use at least 3 mics when recording a guitar amp; more mics just gives you more flexibility to achieve the final mix.
SolidWorks 2016 Crack Download Free
Which is exactly why everyone should click it!
It isn't just the vote of the membership. It is the dollars of the organization. In California, the California Teachers Union and SEIU are regularly 2 of the top 3 campaign spenders.
Yeah, you're right. Most of the issues that people have revolve around integration and trust.

We were thinking about using Zapier but seems like the cost might escalate fairly quickly.

Trust-wise, maybe it would make sense to go after smaller companies who are less technical and less brand-sensitive?
Two days left, No one's cracked GCHQ challenge
> Do you wish your cops were something other than "obedient little servants?"

Yes.

The idea of a small army of men with guns being obedient servants of local elected officials is absolutely terrifying. I'd much prefer a system with checks and balances.
...especially if it's the only language one speaks fluently.
Confessions of a wanna be hacker
A Custom Delivery Solution, Powered by UberRUSH API
I couldn't agree more wrt the virtues of descriptive names. An enormous set of code comments is made redundant by the use of more descriptive names. Modern tools make it trivially easy to reproduce names of arbitrary length.

I can't see the downside, yet the author of the article acts like it should be obvious.
Also similar to Colin Percival's "Depenguinator"[0] script to replace Linux with BSD (originally from 2003).

[0]: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0...
Invocation of several thread-safe event handlers for actor in parallel
Stripe is decent.
I think we're saying the same thing just a little differently.

Apple didn't write Darwin from scratch, after all.
can i take a look at your toy project? i'm working on something also.
Going with that logic, why not downgrade to 1080p? Hardware is hardware dude, Fanboyism is annoying.
I thought this was going to be solved using the collective intelligence of Hacker News and Reddit but it seems that with only 2 days to go, there has not been a successful completion of all stages.

GCHQ director Robert Hannigan, who set the string of teasers, offered a clue: "It's not as abstract as you think."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35429971
If the teacher's secret sauce is "if the parents aren't involved on their own, I get them involved" that means the teacher's secret sauce is parents.
I assumed it referred to the Shannon free zone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Free_Zone
It's great that someone took the time to curate the list. But maybe it'd be better as one of those awesome-X style list of actual repos. With all of these libraries distributed as a mega-lib, it just seems like a bit of a junk drawer.
Your argument is:
1) George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard Business School (not the other way around, btw)
2) George W. Bush is not intelligent

Therefore, one need not be intelligent to graduate from those schools

You may be right about your conclusion, but you don't support premise #2 -- rather, you just assume we all agree.

Why do you think he's dumb?
I've noticed the same thing. I guess that they've stopped using cookies and are using some kind of "super cookie" that uses the visitors computer environment to create a individual id.
How do I convince my friends to use this app for events rather than Facebook?
Will do!

Please do try it out and report the results on the Nim forums (or via blog post). This is one of the chapters where I will need to do some research first, as I don't have much experience with this kind of stuff. So any ideas for this chapter are very much appreciated!

I thought it would be a nice chapter to end the book with though. Plus I am excited to play with this sort of stuff.

My current plan for this chapter is to try replicating some of the projects in the Arduino starter kit and to see where I can go from there.
Uh well, it wasn't "decades ago" but it was some old timey stuff. Yahoo used Apache 1.3 as recently as 2012. They also disabled Keep-Alive on Apache, and most properties would use the hardcoded default number of prefork processes (32). It wasn't the smartest setup.

Nevertheless, I don't think that nginx / Apache / Varnish / haproxy / etc. are able to handle similar concurrent connection levels as ATS without significantly impacting 95th percentile latency due to their core architectures.
What do we do if the original title is too long?
Ha, spoken like a true engineer. However, if the point of writing the sentence is not data storage but communication, then a long, convoluted sentence can be less successful than a shorter, more readable one. Maybe I picked a bad example. Here is another one:

Before:
Perception is the process of extracting information from stimulation emanating from objects, places, and events in the world around us.

After:
Perception extracts information from the outside world.

Yes, the first is more specific and more detailed, but the "outside world" includes things like objects and places and doesn't add much to the gist. The second one is certainly more readable.
Perhaps they'll rather stand up to bullies, criminals and injustice, rather than say, "how low", when asked to "bend" by a bully.
It's far more likely that many government contracts and departments have their team's qualifications on record due to government accountability guidelines. While it hasn't been proven who exactly grabbed the OPM data, the chances are pretty low that someone with the capability to undertake this sort of work would share the spoils with an organization like VICE.
Great products have restraint
> So... what is an example of a well written API/SDK?

I think that this is an underrated question. I am not a programmer, but a mathematician; I will write from my experience in that field.

I was trying to understand a paper which used horrible, ad hoc notation that obscured the simple ideas at its centre. I invented a new, harmonious notation that beautifully revealed these simple ideas, and wrote a paper using it.

The notation was beatiful and harmonious as long as you were its inventor, and it was the most recent thing that you had been thinking about. Now, when I go back and read that paper … I think "wow, this horrible notation obscures the simple ideas at the centre of the paper."

Incidentally, I still think that the notation is better than the original; but the main thing that I've learned is to do it yourself before you complain about what someone else has done—after which (a) you'll have a good implementation and won't need to complain, or (b) you'll feel much humbler and won't want to complain.
> The problem with public unions is that they are not negotiating with an entity that has the motivation to save every penny

The current UK Government is trying to "save every penny". This isn't unique to the UK. Surely some US states face financial hardship or have ideological motivations to cut spending.
>the brain reconfigures (right?)

Right. New neurons, axons, synapses, and more are constantly being generated in the brain (though, perhaps not under certain conditions).

It seems unlikely that any area of the brain would be unconnected, or at least, unconnected for very long.
Due to that game, I can talk with my 13 and 10 year old kids pretty casually about orbital mechanics, Hohmann orbits, etc. "Remember? This is just like that thing in KSP." ;)
> I was referring to "newcomers", as just people new to LISP, and not complete newcomers to programming languages.

Sure, but not all newcomers to lisp that are familiar with programming are people that whose programming experience is tightly tied to Algol-family languages. For me, Lisp wasn't any more unwelcoming than any other new languages when I encountered it well into my experience with programming, but a number of languages I encountered much earlier in my programming life (BASIC, Forth, Logo, x86 ASM, among others) weren't Algol-family languages.
> "if you have to abbreviate your function name and arguments for the common form to fit in a tweet, you're probably doing it wrong".

There go all my Unix commands! (OK, that is an uncharitable interpretation—changing `mv` to `move` wouldn't overflow a tweet—but it does indicate, I think, that it's not always obvious when an abbreviation is reasonable.)
Not to mention that 1080p is the WRONG #$%#@^#$ ASPECT RATIO for any real computer work. It's wrong for anything other than watching movies, and has no advantages even for that.
I still don't get standing desk, how can you can concentrate deeply while standing? I guess not for everyone.
Yes, Freenode has lots of channels for various technologies. It has some more general channels as well.

There are other more specific tech networks like Gimpnet which is Gnome-heavy, OFTC which is Debian heavy, and Mozilla which is Firefox-heavy. But Freenode is the big tech one.
I should have just bought a Thinkpad :-) It's the Infinity display + preinstalled Linux that caught my attention.
My great grandfather roughed it in his Model-T around country Victoria in the 20's with his family. You can see it here:

sleeping under the canvas roof ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/6713547387/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/6713536431/

it could seat quite a few ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/6713476537/

A man (GGF) and his machine ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/6713509017/

A women and her machine (GGM) with child in the drivers seat ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/6713536425/

It really gives me a sense they lived in the future, being able to drive huge distances into remote parts of my home state almost 100 years ago.
I thought the situation was union protection of incompetent staff, in which case ridicule from colleagues / friends, lost pay through striking, and having to listen to the kind of union boss who supports incompetent staff.

But for a significant change in working conditions (which introducing cameras seems to be), then I'd expect the more moderate union to argue this too — if that's what the members want. It might take a lot of negotiation.
Sitting in a chair for 8hrs a day at work, sometimes I have difficulty concentrating because my shoulders/neck hurt. I have a stand-up desk at home and I love it.
>Onto your specific point, N-D is not unusual for senior employees

Not unusual for junior employees either.

>they are a strong tool for preventing disgruntled former employees from saying bad things which might hurt a business.

It prevents you from saying entirely true things which might hurt a business that fully deserved it.
Edit it to fit, but try to preserve as much of the original context and meaning as possible.
One thing the article doesn't mention is that for some reason it was a huge PITA to assemble. I've used Ikea a lot but this was one of the more difficult.

Overall though, I highly recommend
Reference Books I’m Bringing Across the Border (2014)
Seems that Github is recognizing that more and more non-dev types are interacting with Github in various ways and are providing tools to help them out.

I suppose it's fine, and certainly easier than teaching newbies Github-flavored markdown.

One complaint: Using the aA icon to hide the different headers menu. Headers are not just "bigger text" as the icon indicates. They should use a different icon that indicates its for headers and has nothing directly to do with font-size.
>and that the effort/sacrifices to get it are not worth it.

Not quite. Marginal utility means the increase in benefit from an extra unit of some value, is some percentage less than 100% of the benefit gained from the previous unit.

Stated mathematically, its a logistic function.
> “How they determine that it’s purposely caused damages, I’d like to know,” Angelo said last month. “How they can figure out what is mechanical or what is human error, I’d like to know.”

How video uploads significantly increase after the change in policy, with the same equipment and people, I'd like to know.
so basically the tuxissa virus.
It's not just about proving who is who, it can also be about wanting to distance yourself from random people and their nonsense problems.
I use one, never had any issues with it. My wife says the same thing, she can NOT stand and concentrate.