skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience as a judge: (1) Young kids are more fun than older ones. Grade 6 kids have interesting ideas and explore them. Grade 12 kids work in their parent's labs. (2) We were told to pick the top female for a special award. I was thinking about this when another judge (a female) pointed out that there were almost no boys in the competition. Context: Canada, 10 years ago.
Hey there, data geeks!

I am doing research on the rise of social entrepreneurship and got sidetracked by what a badass Bill Gates is. I found out that his foundation is 4x larger than the next largest private foundation in the US. And if you add up the wealth pledged as a part of The Giving Pledge it is 10x larger than that.

I compiled The Giving Pledge data on my own by researching net worths of each pledgee. Planning to put the data on the Wikipedia page shortly.

I found the other data from the following sources (see direct links in article):

Foundation Center
The Giving Pledge
NP Trust
GBD
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Happy to answer any questions and would love feedback.
• Secure communication due inability to intercept the laser-like beam transmission at free air

I would not trust that as a security layer.
Google searches for Capella Education are not promising. I hope Hackbright continues to do well.
Indeed, I'll use the data from the other LHC with the pretty site instead.
His 'plain english' descriptions are really just the definition in Haskell. Haskell defines one or two more methods for efficiency, but if you ignore the entries with default implementations you get:

1. "Functors are containers you can call map on. That's it. Seriously."

class Functor f where
fmap :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

Historically, fmap in Haskell used to be called map. They gave it a different name so that error messages would appear less abstract when working with lists.

fmap (+2) [5] = [7]

2. "you may want to have a function in the container and apply it to value(s) in another container of the same kind. "

class Functor f => Applicative f where
-- | Lift a value.
pure :: a -> f a

-- | Sequential application.
(<*>) :: f (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

So at least in Haskell, he describes the sequential application operator but leaves out the ability to lift a pure value to a container value.

pure 5 = [5]

[(+2)] <*> [5] = [7]

3. "Monads are containers you can call flatMap on. Again, that's it."

class Applicative m => Monad m where
-- | Sequentially compose two actions, passing any value produced
-- by the first as an argument to the second.
(>>=) :: forall a b. m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

And here's how to use it like a flatmap:

[1,2] >>= (\x -> [x + 5, x + 10])
[6,11,7,12]

That's [1 + 5, 1 + 10, 2 + 5, 2 + 10] if you didn't catch that.

Usually these also come with some laws to help you reason about the typeclass, but looking purely at the language level it can help to remember that a Functor, Applicative, or Monad are nothing more than a type together with some functions with a certain signature.

I find it's usually more useful for a beginner to just start writing code without all the abstractions. Once they have a pile of code and start to want to clean it up a bit, it's not too hard to start stacking some monad transformers.
And still it once ment jagged, your sentence doesn't prove jack-shit
Because amazon wants subscription revenue because subscription revenue is valued by analysts. So they do whatever they can to get people on prime.
So You Really Want to Be an Entrepreneur? Have You Got the Positive Attitude?
Web apps/documents both look pretty good compared to modern games, those things are 100s of MB at least.
Walter Kohn has passed away
I guess a disagree. It's really hard to effectively enforce a policy where "obviously safe" experiments don't need any at all review. You'd need some kind of review to determine if they need a review...
It's initially cheaper to make larger web pages, you don't have to optimize for size (most of the time it would probably execute faster if it was smaller but probably not always). Some others make it larger on purpose for obfuscation (like Google).
Which is fastest: read, fread, ifstream or mmap?
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I didn't have to convince anyone, but most of my friends are already off Facebook. For years, I've lead by example through organizing events via other means, and contacting all interested parties directly. You don't have to convince them to delete their account, just to not use it for organizing events.
Serna had been charged with driving while intoxicated.

Will the judge serve life with him when he kills someone because judges keep letting him off the hook?

Because I've had two different friends in two different decades killed by drunk drivers who got only a few years for taking people in their prime off the planet.

Drunk driving when you kill someone should be life. Parole eventually is fine but it should be a life sentence initially.
It's awesome we live in a world where we can throw 100-200 million cpu hours at something of a whim.

That each of those cores are billions of times faster than my first PC just puts the icing on the cake.
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Here is an update. The Unity Speaker Series, employee led, invited men to give their perspective.

"The event is called Gender Equality and Inclusion in the Workplace: A Conversation with Our Male Allies, and is part of a series on promoting gender equality in the workplace. Since we recognize that this is not just a women’s issue, we invited a group of male executives at PayPal to participate in the conversation and to share their perspective on the role men play in achieving equality. "

https://www.paypal.com/stories/us/uniting-to-support-gender-...
+1 for R. I was pleasantly surprised to see Julia there
I guess people assume you're trolling. Perhaps you are, but actually the question is valid in the context of the current time we're in, especially recent news like restroom laws[1], Chariot for women[2]. These issues practically beg the question, in fact. As asked about this instituion, can a man who identifies as a woman drive for Chariot?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/1...
[2] http://safeher.com/
Were you not able to make the connection that he wasn't talking about income inequality causing suicides? He was talking about people having less money than before, financial problems, stagnating wages.
Ooh, I really want two of these. I'm stuck on an island with poor last mile service providers. But, I have line of sight to a number of spots with good quality fiber.
You could try "You Could Have Invented Monads" for an explanation of why they're valuable https://blog.jcoglan.com/2011/03/05/translation-from-haskell... (linking to the JS version, which links to the Haskell version).

But while I liked that tutorial, I think what worked was time. I tried to write Haskell and slowly got a feel for them. After awhile, I started to read JS and Java code and think "oh, another monad".
Many disciplines don't have a reliable way of predicting professional performance from a simple test, like the actuarial discipline, and I think psychology and pedagogy would be among those fields.

So, an employer looking at many undifferentiated candidates would likely choose someone with a masters or doctorate, if not at least to cover their hiring decision if ever questioned.

The development of a fast and cost-efficient test would lower the need for credentials as a gateway.
You are so right.
The web as an application delivery platform sucks.
And we are no even capable of producing UIs with the same level of polishment I did in visual basic 2.0 in 1996 or so.

Alan Kay has expressed the same filling.

PS to downvoters if you have not used a proper interface designer such a QT or Delphi, then you don't know what we mean. Please watch some videos to decide if the state of the art (angular and react) is what we should be using in 2016.
At minimum, it's off-topic to the story at hand. (I do think the OP is bait regardless)
It's not trivial for a middle-schooler to make an incubator and I'm sure this girl got advice from microbiologists that would have taken her much longer to gather on her own. They had all the equipment she would need right there (sterile loop, agar plates, bunsen burner, lab grade ethanol). Plus, she probably had a bunch of equipment to make it easier (test tubes, tube shaker, that light she's using to examine the plates). So really she had a huge advantage over someone doing it on their own.
I hear that prohibition was a huge factor in the decline in quality in American beer in the early 20th century. The hoards of Germany immigrants in the 19th century established breweries (including Coors and Millers) that produced good-quality beer.

During prohibition, the breweries went out of business and the brewers found other occupations. After prohibition, the new breweries that popped up produced beer of much lower quality. They found that the American public was just happy to have beer, and was way less picky about the quality of that beer. You'd think that after only 15 years of no beer, the former quality would be re-established, but I guess there wasn't a market for it anymore.

Same thing happened in California with the wine industry. It took decades after Prohibition before good quality wine returned. Those re-established wineries were producing some pretty terrible wines in their early years.
> I've seen some theories that people in general don't commit suicide while under active hardship, but after the hardship lets up a bit and they have time to reflect on it.

When suicide is driven by an established tradition of leaving so that your family doesn't starve, you really expect it to occur in winter. By the time the hardship is gone, so is the justification for suicide.
What is the false premise?

Why do you think 'faith' is required in a logical argument?

What future?
Pieter, I hope that when the time comes I have the poise and grace to deal with things to as high a standard as you have here.

Thank you.
Possible answer from the script's "notes" page: "the degree hanging in her office is aspirational. she would've gotten it. It's a reminder of everything she gave up"
I thought this was a great story to read. Explained in laymans terms when needed and kept my attention throughout.

Bob sucks.
I'm familiar with policy. With my comment I started the interesting discussion you are now reading. The original comment (not mine) was buried and greyed out at the time I pointed out the improper downvoting. I felt it deserved to be read and responded to.
Speaking of bloat,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548816 - The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
What kind of licensing (FCC or otherwise) would one need to operate such a radio bridge in the US? or is it public spectrum?
What an idiotic article. "Democracy doesn't work. " So the authors wouldn't mind if the US became a dictatorship?

One reason that democracy works vastly better than authoritarian government is that the public agrees on a lot of things. For instance, the public in the US disapproves of governmental corruption, and so it is far lower than in authoritarian countries like Putin's Russia.

Oh, and if the authors think that informing the public doesn't work, then why are they working for a media organization is, guess what, informing the public?
Is suffering all you see in Pieter's post?
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All right. Why do you choose to call "being cool gets you access to pot" the "contrapositive" of "smoking pot makes you cool"? What is the benefit of using a term from an unrelated area which means something different than what you mean? Why is it a category error for me to treat you as talking about logic when you use a term which is restricted to formal logic?
I volunteered at Hackbright for multiple classes. I supported the mission - more diversity in tech - with my personal time for hours per week. However, after a while, the idea of an army of unpaid "volunteers" to mentor students seemed at-odds with the school's startup growth and profit goals. Their policy on recruiting graduates even seemed to imply that we could owe them money if we hired a student.

I don't regret having helped Hackbright for free. I helped some ambitious students enter the tech world and begin new careers. It just saddens me that many of the shoulders on which this for-profit institution stood were ignored.
Thousands of blog posts later, I don't think the following has changed:

* Explaining these concepts in the abstract results in bafflement as to why anyone would care about these useless abstract concepts.

* Explaining only the concrete instances of these concepts results in missing the point that they are all instances of the same concepts (and that you can write reusable code at that level, which can be a big productivity improvement).

* The only way to understand both at once is to sit down and read/write a bunch of code until you understand both levels. And once you pass that point you get it, but then you hit the above two roadblocks trying to find a shortcut to explain the concepts to someone else.

It reminds me of music theory, where you can bombard someone with all sorts of concepts like scales, modes, chords, etc., but it's all nonsense until they actually play music for a while--then most of it is both understandable and useful.
Ethical consumers are seen as unattractive and boring by others, study finds
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He is using "democracy" as an ironic euphemism for "bombs".
Wrt point #1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552498
80 GHz is "light licensed" in the US, the paperwork requirements are not onerous. It's less costly and complicated than a regular part 101 licensed microwave link.
Tell HN: Looking for a startup idea? I would pay for an awesome Flexbox tool
Flexbox is an amazing standard but it's still a pain to work out how to get it to do what I want it to.

Better tools are needed and I waste so much time fiddling with Flexbox settings. If an amazong tool was available for tweaking Flexbox I would happily pay for it.
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> getting representatives which represents the great variety of voter opinions

The parties in the US don't control the opinions and seats of their elected members, which means you get a greater variety of political positions under the same label than you do in a lot of parliamentary systems. Republicans in California can easily be left of Democrats in Georgia.[0]

There are opinions held by small interest groups that are not reflected in the democratic process, to be sure.

On the other hand, performing artists have their own line in the tax code, so sometimes these groups do get their way.

> US elections are so dominated by advertisement, expensive campaigns and donations that there is no way a politician can actually do what they tell voters because at the end of the day they have to satisfy donors

A lot of studies have debunked the influence of money on campaigns.[1]

Jeb's massive war chest didn't keep him in the race.

Here are the richest individuals to ever launch a bid for the presidency[2]:

1) Ross Perot

2) Steve Forbes

3) John Kerry

4) Mitt Romney

5) Al Gore

The Clintons are next, but most of their money was made after Bill's Presidency.

Giuliani, Edwards, and Huntsman round out the list (before this election, I'm not sure if anyone really knows how much Trump is worth).

A lot of losers on that list for a system so influenced by money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zell_Miller

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2012/01/17/how-much-does-campaign-sp...

[2] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ross-perot-tops-lis...
I have line of sight to the building where I work, I would love something like this so I could get gigabit internet at home w/o paying through the nose :)
Not really, the NSL in essence is nothing but a gag order that prevents you from notifying anyone when you are served with a warrant.
One explanation:
* People who buy video games on amazon and don't have prime aren't likely to get prime.
* They're losing money on the free shipping offer (given video games tend to be >$35, may have thinner margins than other products).

I'm not saying this is their reasoning, I'm just saying it could make sense.
I do research in Li-ion battery anodes. High performance materials with exceptional charge capacity, cycling capability, safety, and cost are frequently discovered, but the materials almost never have all of those properties at once, and that is essential to getting a product to market. Most of the new materials with high charge capacity or good cycling performance are very exotic, and thus it is too difficult or expensive to mass produce them.

In my opinion, hybrid Si/C anodes show the most promise as a material that would realistically be found in Li-ion batteries in the next decade. Nanowires/nanospheres do not seem as promising to me, unless we can find a way to cheaply produce them.
IMO the problem is the lack of arranged marriages. Dating is too difficult, and lots of people fail at it. Then they feel depressed because they are alone.
Agreed. They are basically saying "use our special software to find only good tenants, but we aren't responsible for whether it's accurate or not". They are just as sure about their software as I am about their business model right now.
This would get really bad rain fade at 80GHz or even on a humid day the speed would back off a lot. You need to run a lower frequency backup link in parallel.
It's definitely not something to trust in, but intercepting (at a layer 1 level) a PTP 80 GHz link is actually harder than tapping fiber. You'd have to have Rx equipment either directly in the path or directly behind both ends of the radio link.

As compared to the effort required to cut an aerial or underground singlemode cable and fusion splice in place a passive prism split tap (basically the same thing as inserting a split in a GPON FTTH network). A practiced outside plant fiber crew of 2 persons and a bucket truck could do this with less than 5 minutes of downtime on a router-to-router optical interface, short enough time to clear any NMS alerts and prevent a repair team truck roll. Assuming we're talking about only two strands.

Either way actual security is accomplished through standard based crypto, not obfuscation or preventing people from messing with the layer-1.
The downvotes are because he is not engaging with my point. Never did I say the web is a proper application development environment. My point was that you can't create a proper application development environment that is both an open and defacto standard the way the web is.
Impalette is an Azure hosted web app that allows users to upload images to find the nearest neighbors of dominant and related colors to predefined color palettes. Currently, Impalette has Pantone C, Sherwin Williams, and Dunn Edwards. I plan on adding more as I find palettes. Additionally, you get back the color names from the respective palettes as well as the hex values.

There’s also an API that allows 1000 requests per day. It’s one endpoint and pretty easy to use. There’s some light documentation on the landing page (just create an account to get access to the API). The API returns Hex, HSV, RGB, and the color’s palette specific name.

I made this in my spare time because I often work with clients who are small and lack a style guide, but have images that contain colors they would like in their final product. This is a quick way for me to figure out colors that will look good on print or paint and get their actual color names.

Thanks for your interest and I hope someone finds it useful! If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

Technologies used:
-Redis
-ASP.NET MVC
-jQuery
-Azure
PayPal to hold all-male panel on gender equality in the workplace
This story template gets old. Yes, life is tough as a kid with a poor single parent.

Blah, blah. A guy with no arms will have a tough time eating with chopsticks. Equally irrelevant.

Clearly performing a "risk assessment" for an experiment involving washing a toothbrush with lemon juice and vinegar is an incredibly ridiculous display of bureaucratic insanity. I wonder if you need to sign a liability waiver for eating French fries with ketchup? (it contains vinegar, and stains!)

The "privilege" narrative is overplayed to begin with, and in this context it is absurd next to the elephant in the room.
I'll take your money if that will help you with your dire situation.
You're right that they never admittee it directly. Their defense was funny and an indirect admission:

https://fcw.com/articles/1999/06/02/congress-nsa-butt-heads-...

Anyway, it was all over US media from 1999-2001 plus European Parliament with plenty testimony and recommendations. And again, the link encryption recommendation was in US security requirements anyway.
Sounds like a country name! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia
That's the nature of 80 GHz, design the links for your climate and don't try to go more than 2-3km. You can achieve five nines. And yes, run a 5.x GHz backup path in parallel.
So how does one estimate valuations for a coding school anyway?

Their funding doesn't seem to be listed on CrunchBase, but $18M is substantial, more than an acquihire, which suggests there's something I'm missing.
The word "Ethernet" in the title is misleading. That word does not appear in TFA, which appears to discuss a radio transceiver.

[EDIT:] I stand corrected; thanks!
Yes I think of dart as a missed opportunity, it isn't smalltalk for the web, neither is it strongly typed... I think this falt of character makes it that nobody hate it, but also no body loves it.

Go doesn't have generics, some hate it, some love it. But it took a strong stand on that point.
Check out Mimosa's offerings.. For a few hundred dollars you can get ~750mbps via unlicensed spectrum up to ~5km distance.

https://www.mimosa.co/Products/Backhaul/backhaul-specs/B5-Li...

I know Ubiquti has similar products as well but I'm more familiar with Mimosa's.
Also because, suicide is forbidden in the majority of religious. God doesn't like it.
>I mean, if it's such a good idea, surely you could get some people to try it, and then they'd see what a lovely new feeling of freedom they enjoyed, and the idea would spread from there?

No need. There's already communities where the roads and sidewalks are all owned through an HOA. There are communities with private roads yet no HOA.

Are you suggesting those who live in these neighborhoods have some extraneous burden over them as they go for a stroll through their neighborhood?

You say fringe, but they already exist in reality.
Especially if you are Europe.
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@freeatnet Elfinite utilise not only internal but also external communities (for example facebook users). We value links based on number of shares on facebook.
It has a 10GbE SFP+ optical interface and functions as a layer 2 ethernet bridge. From an ethernet port perspective same as 99% of the other PTP microwave and millimeter wave radios on the market. What's new is the 10Gb (vs existing radios with 1Gb SFP).

Read the datasheet linked at the bottom of the page.
Thanks for your response. If I'm reading you right, you seem to be saying for (1) "suicide is better than living like that" - well... yeah, but isn't that always the motive, what's the difference now? And for (2) "sometimes, mistakes are made and people die who shouldn't have" - is that what you also think when it comes to, say, the death penalty?

Sorry about your dad.
Yes it was. Evdn mass audience heard with the reporting in Guardian, USA Today, and so on starting in late 90's. Not to mention awareness that Enemy of the State created which NSA considered one of worst events to ever happen haha.
It's truly a shame that cronyism is becoming a larger part of the technology industry.

Let's hope Theranos acts as a warning to VCs, and not as an indication of things to come…