skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the answer. Very much appreciated. What do you think about the keyboard? It doesn't seem to have much key travel. It's always been my main concern about this laptop. The keyboard is probably the thing I put the most importance on. I just can't find laptops with good keyboards. It seems like the Dell Latitude has a good keyboard; I was considering it, but the price is similar to (or even higher than) a Thinkpad.
Perhaps it is hitting the memory ceiling?

When a machine runs out of memory, sometimes new SSH connections can fail because when it tries to fork the processes needed to handle the session, that forking can fail.

You may want to look at how much memory MySQL in particular is allowed to consume on the box. It is actually very configurable in that regard, but pretty greedy out of the box.

Thanks for trying to bring the site back up (and for writing the review, which I'll read when I am able). :)
personally speaking my gripe with public transit isnt last mile (getting to the bus/train stop) its the stopping and accelerating at everyone elses stops along the way. a 10 minute drive becomes 15 mins because suzie expects me to stop at her work and johnny wants me to stop at his gym. Wasted time.
single passenger (ie very small) autonomous vehicles seems like the best fleet. Now the hard part of getting people to accept them socially. (eg: "I look like a wimp in that small thing, I want a hummer" or what have you)
I'd be interested in a picture of your setup. How do you have the monitor and keyboard so they don't just slide off of it? Doesn't it feel like you're using your mouse on a hill-side?
Slow, steady progress is a beautiful thing.
And? Don't park in snow emergency routes during a historic blizzard.
here is another "self-defense" by Toronto police:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx2iQnYMQfM

first 3 bullets in the chest, then 6 in already dead body, then taser the corpse. policemen successfully argued self-defense and was charged with attempted (???) murder. the only reason why this made to trial, was because video was released to public. otherwise he would have walked.
I stopped in Shannon a couple of times, once en route to Iraq and the other on another tour en route back.
Using Docker to Build an IPython-Driven Spark Deployment
It's more than just numbers.

IP addresses 127.192.168.00.1

You can enter many calculations quickly: 327.5 / 15.3 * 7

[enter] also means you can add type in a column on numbers quickly which is useful for setting up spreadsheets or depending on software time sheets etc. Teachers often enter lot's of grades at the same time etc etc.

The downside is wider keyboard. But, you can just use a separate USB device.
This tab-space is a non issue for actual python programmers, because anyone who has done programming in Python for any decent amount of time (say > 5 hours) would stick to using spaces. and learn how to configure their editor to make it a non issue.

Pretty much how, parens are not a concern for actual lisp programmers.
> have never had an incident (and I in fact know many of those young men)

You don't think those two things might be related?

> But its also true that the actual incident rate is much exaggerated by the media and perceptions of neighborhood differences are greater than reality.

"Reality" is a tricky concept here. Public (out-of-neighborhood) perception of risk will depress the incident rate by keeping victims out of the area. If you magically caused people to believe that the risk was at some level that you felt reflected the current incident rate, and the incident rate rose because people started going where they shouldn't have, whose beliefs were more accurate?

People don't really care about "how often do muggings take place in this neighborhood?". They care about "if I go in there, am I going to get mugged?".
Drivers angered at being called out on their selfish behavior.

In other breaking news, water confirmed to be still wet.
Anything in particular you could point out?
Babylonians tracked Jupiter with calculus precursor 1400 years before others
Very interesting, the app works great!
I only have 3rd-degree connections to Gladwell, so this may be completely wrong, but I've heard he knows everyone in the communications field and synthesizes trends and topics from traveling and talking with a lot of researchers. His books aren't rigorously data-driven - they kind of coax out an intuition that explains things - so I think he gets ideas from conversations with people more than reading published works directly.

As for book titles: http://www.malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com
Nope, the term "main thread" is very explicitly defined by both iOS and OS X. Not only in all the frameworks (e.g. NSThread, NSRunLoop, etc. all explicitly define "main thread"), but even at the system level. OS X and iOS have a pthread function `int pthread_main_np(void);` that returns non-zero if the current thread is the main thread (meaning the initial thread that the application was launched with), and that is the thread that all UIKit (iOS UI) and AppKit (OS X UI) code must be running on.
I'd really like an adjustable desk for my home, but at 160x80 (cm) it's just too big. Why can't idea do a smaller version of this, which would suit a simple home office with an iMac on it.
I personally use this in place of R, where possible: https://github.com/incanter/incanter
I've used Google Cardboard and at best it was just a novelty for me, but after using the GearVR which I found to be much more immersive, I am convinced that VR is the future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991084
You won't get updates at the end of that year-long period. You'll get a prompt to upgrade to the newest version. Now that is up in the air if there will be a new version.
USB to the rescue.

http://www.amazon.com/V7-Ergonomic-Resistant-Notebook-KP0N1-...
Nobody should be allowed to vote - there's too much of a conflict of interest. Just imagine if they vote for more money/exemptions/subsidies that benefit themselves!
Apple – losing out on talent
You can lay it flat, of course :) Here you go: https://www.instagram.com/p/86XA-dRG1J/?taken-by=markunfilte... Sorry, no pic of the chair.
Lends credence to the belief that the Magi who came from the East were from Babylon.
My 2015 Reading List
Sit/stand desk. Still stares down at laptop flat on the desk. :( RIP your neck.
"Fish also stole most of his stuff" was a direct quote from your comment, so yeah you kind of did say he stole it.
Tesla could possibly announce two vehicles in March, a sedan and a crossover
Kafka and Elasticsearch, a Perfect Match
I suspect there is a non-trivial number of users for whom the entire internet is broken for this simple reason.
The advisory said they issued 2,091 parking tickets in the
first three hours of the mayor’s declaration.

The tickets drew backlash from drivers who said they were
unable to dig out their cars. Others said they did not feel
comfortable driving in the snow, some because their cars
were not properly equipped for it.

3 hours after the declaration, and for cars that could not reasonably be moved because of said emergency. Have some fucking empathy.
I'm not sure that we should be doing this.

Yes, it stands to reason that if you take framework X, cut out a lot of functionality, remove some of the "ugly" code that addresses edge cases, then you end up with a similar, reduced framework which is smaller in file size.

But this is done at the cost of polluting the Javascript framework environment. The biggest problem right now is pollution, we're all drinking from the fire hose of frameworks and someone needs to cut the supply so we can double-down on the good stuff and stop jumping from one framework to the next like a plastic bag caught in a strong breeze.

Preact is now a decision point for any developer who Googles "react alternative" and scans far enough through the search results. This isn't right. This contributes to decision fatigue. It's time to stop churning out new frameworks that are only marginally different from what's already available.
Thanks for the quick response. You are priced about where my Rigol DS1102E 100 MHz Digital Oscilloscope is. Lots of people use it or the DS1000 (50Mhz) as their daily scope. The Rigol has a ton of memory in it so I can do pretty long capture points (most of mine is long period I2C captures).

I'll keep you bookmarked to watch for a release and a final price.
Any idea what the maximum height of a person would be to use this?
That's much better, perhaps they have one for a full size home/end arrow block? ;)
Oh I see. So it is completely flat in your usage, but you can just change the height up and down. Nice!

Thanks for the picture :)
I'm fine with unions for corporations, that's two private collectives bargaining their mutual economic interests. Capital generally has an advantage in negotiations so it seems only fair that individuals should be able to pool their labor as a counter-negotiating tactic, and this too is a market strategy.

When someone is working for the public the considerations are entirely different and I am much less sure about the ethics or wisdom of allowing collective bargaining. I feel the same way about government procurement/contracting, treating the public interest as just another market participant often seems to result in moral hazard and other unwanted outcomes. I don't have a good theoretical answer for this but I think we badly need to revisit the issue.
This is a very general technique called quantitative trait association mapping (such a locus is called a QTL). It's a technique that has been used for decades, back when we used genetic markers and linkage maps (no genomes).

What's interesting about this work is simply the degree of difficulty finding QTLs for mental illness; it's not the only genetic factor, and not particularly strong, so the signal to noise is quite poor. It required assembling a high-quality data set to identify a locus.

It's good work, but nothing revolutionary. Once you can start to pin down the genetic factors, it can make future work easier, so it does bode well.
> You argued that Apple was the only company able to engineer laptops with good screens

That is not what he said.
This is Washington DC (absolutely egregious omission by NYTimes, IMO), and not only were the roads blanketed with snow but exceedingly slippery a day earlier.

See here for anecdotal reports regarding the city's absurd winter road strategy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/41xgqe/lmfao/

And furthermore, thousands of tickets will be forgiven:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-to-forgi...
All tickets (for parking on snow emergency routes) have been voided

http://dcist.com/2016/01/mayor_bowser_is_voiding_tickets_iss...

During snow emergencies, cities should work with parking garages to make overnight parking for cars, free. It'll solve a lot of problems.

If cars are not removed past the emergency, ticket revenue can be shared with the garage
That's funny - 5'11 is just about average height for Scandinavian males, so IKEA being Swedish this is a bit surprising.
> 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?

No, it cannot. Asking young minds to wake up for a performance (that the school is not required to participate in) is not reasonable. It doesn't matter how busy the student is; it doesn't matter that you voluntarily signed up. None of that matters. The point is that it's too early. It's an unreasonable burden to place on any child.

Your attitude also strikes me as needlessly aggressive about it. Why should the child pay the penalty of being disallowed to participate, grow, and learn (and incur the future costs of what scholarship committees and colleges will think of someone who didn't do those things) just because they think 5:15 am on a weekend morning for children who can't yet drive is too burdensome? What is the point of the school choir if not to provide culturally enriching experiences to the very students who wish to join it? You're acting as if the platonic idea of "the choir" exists totally independently of the bang-simple basic life constraints of its participants.

If the choir said you have to show up at 5:15 am for a concert, and you will not be allowed to use the bathroom or eat food for 6 hours then of course we'd have a problem with it. Kids need to use the bathroom. Kids need to eat. Voluntarily opting-in to participate in the choir doesn't give the choir director the permission to disallow eating or using a bathroom.

But if we just slightly move the needle out to significantly disrupting the regular sleeping habits of a middle school kid, now all of the sudden parents are "whiny" to expect their kid gets to be healthy. Your position is preposterous.

In other words, you're placing a deeply unrealistic expectation of accommodation onto a very young kid, meanwhile not holding grown adults to any degree of reasonableness or compromise.
I really hate this dynamic pricing model. ya ya, supply and demand.
First off, a number pad is really not even in the running as something any laptop less than 17" should even have, so bringing it up is a bit silly here.

But, I would not really have an issue with there being laptops that don't have them if it weren't for the fact that it has become a near universal trait of laptops, even when there's plenty of bezel to accommodate them.

Some of us do use those keys, and having that option would be nice.
Right, but even if you do that, you're still doing it because you have something to hide, even if not everything you're hiding needs to be hidden. Practicing good opsec makes you stand out as someone who NEEDS good opsec when everyone around you doesn't even rise to the level of shitty opsec, they're just not engaging in opsec as a practice.
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Snapchat Offers Original Political Coverage, ‘Good Luck America’
This article highlights that there can be vast differences in effectiveness from one teacher to another. (No surprise, it's true in all professions.) I don't think it's in-depth enough to draw a conclusion about how much of a child's education is due to a quality teacher vs. parents/family/community. In fact, I don't think it is even effective in showing that the one teacher, whose students tended to do better, is a better teacher than the other one. The article just doesn't go into enough detail about the communities around the schools, resources available, the families of the kids, etc.

We have three elementary schools within one mile of each other. The schools have similar profiles with a fairly high number kids on free/reduced-price lunch. The teachers from the different schools train with one another. They come from the same education programs. Yet, my daughter's school significantly outperforms the other schools.

One difference comes from the parents and the culture/education opportunities they can provide outside the school. Parents regularly take their kids to plays, musicals, museums, historical sites, etc. They also read with their kids nightly.

Another important difference is the PTA. Ours is very active. We developed an after school program that offers introductory theater, music, visual arts, sports, marine biology, etc. Thanks to a state legislative grant, we can offer these classes for free to kids whose families can't afford them . Our parents knew enough to look for grants when they started the program. Last year we developed a full theater program for kids who wanted more involved productions.

If you're looking at economic classifications, the other two schools' communities can be described as working and lower middle class. Our community is working, lower and upper middle class.

Again, the stat on free/reduced-price lunches is similar. The schools' budgets are roughly the same accounting for number of students and age of the buildings. We have kids classified as homeless in our school, as I'm sure the other schools have as well. Yet, our school performs significantly better. The difference is the learning that's happening outside the school.

Last year I attended a talk by the president of the principals' association in my state. He cited a study that estimated 48% of a child's education comes from outside the school. There is certainly room for improvement for some teachers. There is also room for modernization in teaching methodology. But, we won't improve education for students as long as we're only looking along one axis for improvement.

(Btw, I'm not an educator. I'm a software engineer who happens to be very involved in the PTA for my daughter's school.)
Here's a somewhat relevant study:

"The Influence of Chronic Exposure to Antipsychotic Medications on Brain Size before and after Tissue Fixation: A Comparison of Haloperidol and Olanzapine in Macaque Monkeys"

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v30/n9/full/1300710a.html
Sometimes the big name schools have an accredited ungraduate program, but an unaccredited masters/phd program.
> Mayor Muriel E. Bowser declared the emergency on Friday before a storm that dropped as much as 26 inches on the capital.

That sentence there carries the word "before", which suggests that when the mayor made the declaration, the blizzard had not yet snowed in any cars.
Jersey Shore Rocked by Sonic Boom, USGS and National Weather Service Confirm
A lot of people in japan are interested but they cant download it from the app store I think they need to have an account with US app store ... Anyway that can be fixed?
yeah, let's not pay the police a good wage - it's not like they would have any opportunities to get that money elsewhere!
Why 'The System' Is Rigged
Another thought about ADD/ADHD in the olden days.

I'm inclined to doubt that these traits could have been a serious handicap in earlier times if we didn't really notice this as a template of behavior until recently.

People have talked about other kinds of mental disorders, not necessarily using modern names, for a long time. I don't know of any anachronistic terms that mean the same thing as what we mean by ADHD today, or older sources that made much recognition of ADHD symptoms at all.

Happy to be corrected here.
I don't think you know anything about controlling a situation when you're in the presence of thugs and criminals. All of these people who have no idea of what it's like to be a police officer sitting here being critics and armchair psychologists is just really tiring.
Giraffe[1] is starting to lease good quality, motorized standing desks in February for $1/day.

Disclamer: I know the founders and currently working on Slack integration for the desks :)

[1] http://standupgiraffe.com
Weird. It was labeled EST for me.
I have also had the experience with infomally teaching (read with a bias towards 'mentor') programming to people, along with the second hand experience of knowing numerous teachers, including my father. Along with this I was unschooled from the age of eleven, and I have seen the effects of this upon the children -- most notably with a child (Eleven years of age) teaching themselves to read to an adult level in roughly six months -> one year, simply because they were interested in a subject.

My example was anecdotal, however when combined with my (Also anecdotal) experiences concerning the education system, the second-hand experiences I noted, and the writings of Russell, Whitehead, Lockheart, and numerous others who also have expounded on the problems with overly structured teaching and similar methods, it provides me with enough evidence to convince me until equal evidence is provided to the contrary.

That is why I say it is not true -- or more accurately, that in my experience, it is not true. I accept that a structured environment is a requirement for some people to learn, but I dispute that it is a hard requirement, and I also dispute that it is natural for the general population to require structure to learn.
Cal Newport just released a book on "Deep Work" that talks about that subject. I haven't finished it yet, but so far the book is really interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/d...
I think, and hope, that the "modularity" of the Javascript ecosystem will lead to extreme decision fatigue, followed by a doubling-down on the best individual modules, aggregation into larger, monolithic frameworks that work well, and finally an increase in developer productivity and standardization of the choices of frameworks. At this point, the Javascript field will no longer be in shambles as it is today.

All it will really take is one person to merge, say, React with a boilerplate-reduxed Flux framework, a REST library, and a handful of other must-haves, under a single, new product name. Let's call it "Rimble". When people realize they can "import { Component, Actions } from Rimble" we'll see a shift towards monolithic frameworks and the ball will start rolling back in the right direction.
Does everyone hate MongoDB
Your first two links as well as the "Teaching Math to the Talented" link are about high and low performing cohorts. The author is slicing the data along national origin lines, which includes the entire ethnic population, not a slice of students that crosses national origin boundaries but differentiates based on relative performance. You can define "demography" in multiple ways, as aptitude (or environmental factors thereof) or national origin and associated culture. Both are valid demographic distinctions. However, you can't compare population slices based on aptitude with population slices based on national origin. Comparing by national origin catches all percentiles of the population, while only comparing the top and bottom percentiles to each other misses the comparison made between the middle cohorts, which are most students.

I did not see anything in that blog post which suggested ethnic or national IQ differences. The author was more concerned with learning cultures between national groups, and how those cultures are carried over to new educational regimes, and how those shared cultures can be used to compare different educational regimes.
Babylonians discovered astronomical geometry 1,400 years before Europeans
On a mac (which, as far as I can tell, is what started this trend) this is all less of an issue because home/end/pgup/pgdn act in ways that are generally less useful on OSX. Mac users are trained to not bother by default (much like with the maximize button).
try domvm [1] it's maturing fast, 8k min, isomorphic, has pure js templates, is extremely quick [2] and allows you to write truly reusable imperative/declarative components. disclaimer: mine.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm

[2] http://leeoniya.github.io/domvm/test/bench/dbmonster/
I'm not yet convinced that it's just syntactic sugar. For example, what (generic) code is `super` syntactic sugar for?

Even if it is just syntactic sugar, that syntactic sugar makes it much more approachable for devs who want to use classical inheritance (not that I'd encourage that).
Pnpm: Performant npm
Circuit City is coming back
> He spoke like a man who didn't know how to speak in public, not like someone who was ignorant or addled.

His problem went beyond not knowing how to speak in public, which, by itself, is not a sign of not being intelligent. He was truly very dull, something he himself admitted to ("I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed").

Aside from that, if you passed through college, then through grad school and always referred to the Internet as "the internets", and to "the google", then public speaking is the least of your worries.
Here is the very cheap $25 disruptive version made from a cardboard box: http://oristand.co/
Angle is adjustable, a slight one is no problem.
Back up for the moment, resized the instance from 512 MB of RAM to 8 GB. Time for a crash course in MySQL memory optimization.