skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsurprising. Under NCLB and related measures, schools are incentivized not to promote advanced students faster than their age peers, since they are rewarded for improvement in (and punished for insufficient improvement or backtracking in) the percentage of students performing at or above grade level, so students that would otherwise have been advanced in grade ahead of their peers are held back to the normal advancement rate to make the schools' results look better.

You get what you pay for.
How do they plan to collect this tax? Virtually no-one pays the "use tax" for online purchases of physical goods from out of state unless the merchant is forced to collect sales tax. My understanding is that states can only compel companies to collect taxes up front when they have a physical presence in the state of the consumer. Amazon has warehouses everywhere, but I wouldn't expect Netflix, Hulu, etc. to have a physical presence outside of their home states (well, Netflix might have DVD distribution centers, but that's not something you would expect from streaming companies in the general case). If this is going to be self-reported like the current use tax, it won't accomplish very much unless they plan to step up enforcement of use-tax non-payment.

edit: Looking at the notice published by the state, it appears they're just going to lump streaming services in with the general use tax.

> Starting August 1, 2016, the sales and use tax specifically extends to items delivered to a customer electronically or digitally or by streaming

Does anyone know if Netflix has a physical presence in Pennsylvania and will actually be collecting sales tax when billing?
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By Gregory karemeri on August 16, 2016
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An experienced software engineer with a proven track record of designing and building commercial software products in an Agile environment
Collaborative and enjoys working in a tight-knit, team-oriented group
Detail-oriented and passionate for creating an awesome user experience
Deliberate and demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development and long-term code maintainability and supportability
Knowledgeable of current web development technologies
Expert knowledge of at least one of Javascript, C, C++, C# or Java
Believes in the power of test driven development and the need for writing automated tests as part of development
Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to work with them all
Experience with AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQuery
Experience with Node.js, WebSockets, REST API design & development
Experience with modern SW Engineering development and automation tools like Git, Jenkins, Grunt, WebStorm, JIRA, etc.

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Relative to whole raw chickens? Sure, rotisserie chickens may not be cheaper but that doesn't mean their value isn't a bargain.
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Bob Woodward chronicled the access Rice had to Bush in his book "Bush at War"[0]. His impression matches your own. According to Woodward's account, her de facto role as National Security Advisor (before her tenure as Secretary of State) was to meet with the principals (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell) without the President, and then discuss alone with the President the positions of his various cabinet members. Rice met one-on-one with Bush much more often than the others, especially Powell. That said, her explicit role at the time was more about collating data and balancing priorities, not advancing her agenda. But it is definitely fair to say she had the President's ear during this period, perhaps more so than any other national security administration official.

On an semi-related note, "Bush at War" is a great, quick read about the months following 9/11, with a breathless day-by-day account of the meetings and phone calls held between the President and his advisors. Woodward had unparalleled access during this period, including multiple in-person interviews with Bush both in Washington and in Crawford. Fair warning, he does not mince words on his dissatisfaction with Bush's performance.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Bush-at-War-Bob-Woodward/dp/074324461...
It was interesting to see how the "establishment" Republicans tried at every turn to thwart and remove Trump from the process, but in the end relented (however much it pained them) because that's what the voters said they wanted.

The "establishment" Democrats were the same except they succeeded in placing their candidate ahead of what many believe their base really wanted.
I think NoSQL is mainly driven by the fact that Mongo became the defacto standard in Node-land (eg, MEAN).
Then you might owe an absurd amount of money to the tax man. As far as the IRS is concerned, you need to pay the AMT on the difference between the price per share of Dropbox at exercise time, and your strike price. If you joined before Dropbox went through a couple rounds of funding, this tax bill could easily be in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars. You need to get that money from somewhere, but you can't sell on the secondary market, so what do you do?
Anyone here have any experience with the new generation of TB3 External GPU docks like the Razer Core?

$500 is pretty steep for what's essentially just a tiny case + power supply, but if it works as advertised with no serious pitfalls, I might be tempted to make a splurge for the extra flexibility.

Though I wish someone could make a smaller, cheaper graphics dock that's built specifically to house less power hungry, single-slotted cards like the RX 460. Something like that would be more than enough to handle my modest gaming needs for the foreseeable future.
I pay for dropbox and they do that to me, as well. Why would I want to be a business customer if I'm a paid normal user?

Somewhat annoying but maybe it's working for them.
I've recently been looking at Fastmail and Kolab (https://kolabnow.com/) to replace Gmail and Google Calendar. Kolab adds limited notebook and file storage functionality, but I haven't found any decent reviews of the service.

Is anyone using Kolab who'd like to comment on how it's working for them?
It’s always about events that happened and not about things that didn’t happen.

This conversation and the above quote in particular remind me of this article posted here a while back: "Why the world is not falling apart" (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...)

We never see a reporter saying to the camera, “Here we are, live from a country where a war has not broken out”—or a city that has not been bombed, or a school that has not been shot up.

I'm all for the right for free speech, but that doesn't mean that deliberate fear-mongering shouldn't be reprimanded.
> There has probably been a slight increase in the rate of violent crime in the US in 2015, and I say probably because the FBI figures are still not out for that year.

> But even then that wouldn’t even be as high as it was in 2012, just three years ago, and that itself is a huge decrease in the levels of '60s, '70, and '80s in the US, where violent crime has fallen by more than half. So there is probably an uptick for 2015 and 2016. But it’s just a wiggle in a curve that’s been going down, down, down.

I'm not a member of the NRA and I don't own a gun. Personally, I'm ok with a ton of gun-control laws. All the gun-control laws you wanna pass, I'm ok with. Second amendment rights are not high on my personal priority list.

But, still, I sometimes wonder why there is such a hard push for more gun-control laws every year given this decreasing level of domestic violence.
The public school my kids attend routinely teaches the N+1 th grade math material in grades 7 and 8 so I suspect it is well known that the official syllabus has been pushed to allow score inflation. Same thing as all airline timetables having 10-20 minutes padding to reduce the probability of a late arrival.
As I understand it destroying/preventing automation is an example of the broken window fallacy. The problem is not automation, but rather the system that punishes a worker for being displaced for the sake of efficiency. The economy would be burning .8x the resources, as you admitted the efficiency increased, and my worker on welfare does not consume more than when not on welfare.

"Bastiat used the parable of a broken window to point out why destruction doesn't benefit the economy. In Bastiat's tale, a man's son breaks a pane of glass, meaning the man will have to pay to replace it."
off topic, but I keep seeing things in the format of "word^^^^^" and "bribe^H^H^H^H" things like that. In your case it seems to indicate sarcasm, but that doesn't always seem to be the case.

Can someone fill me in?
There is a reason students in other countries learn additional languages at a young age--it's more beneficial for them. The ROI for learning English as a second language is incredibly high. The ROI for learning any second language as an American is comparatively much lower.

The average American who learns a second language also lacks the ability/need to use that language day to day, so even if they do learn, they'll rapidly lose proficiency once they leave school.
If you look more closely at the eastern model you find they cover a lot of completely useless material. Which is the core issue we could have people say memorize the first 4 digits of the square and cube roots of every number from 1 to 100. And yes it's more useful than you might think. However, not enough that students are going to remember it in 15 years.

Quick, what year did the french revolution start and end?
Same here. Meditations is fantastic, though for a more complete look into Stoicism, I can't recommend A Guide to the Good Life (The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy) by William B Irvine enough!
What real argument for age-based grades can there be?
I always get the one that is like "select all of the storefronts" and I screw it up consistently. I end up having to go through like 20 pictures before I'm verified because I choose things that look, to me, like storefronts but, apparently, aren't?
I think they're the only one w linux support? (Not that I expect that to be a significant marketshare)
What about http://pastebin.com or http://www.twitlonger.com (latter requires sign-in, though)?
I love Dropbox and am a paying customer. It just does the thing I want it to do, and nearly everyone I work with also has it, so getting started with a folder to collaborate with any ad-hoc group of writers, designers, or coders, is usually a 2 minute affair. It's hardly free but it's a trivial cost in the context of a year of business.

What, exactly, does Google Drive do "better" than be a totally hassle free way to sync a folder? I don't really see a lot of room for improvement.

Did I mention it just does what I expect it to do?

I find this argument highly compelling:
http://www.michaelrwolfe.com/2013/10/19/why-is-dropbox-more-...
It's a pipe dream to believe that the public education system is going to adapt to be a one-size-fits-all

May I take it that you mean "It's a pipe dream to believe that the public education system is going to adapt to be SOMETHING OTHER THAN a one-size-fits-all"?

As a parent (of four children, two now adults) and as a voter and taxpayer, I am of course interested in general improvements in the education systems of all countries, and especially in the country I now live in, the United States. I think it will be helpful for advocacy of thoughtful improvements in education policy to be aware of how much young people do and can learn, whether or not their schools set high standards. I think setting more ambitious standards will make school less boring and more meaningful for the plurality of young people in the United States, and quite possibly for the majority of young people here.

As a parent, I chose to homeschool my children early on. That seems (according to my oldest son's testimony, sent to me by email) to have been helpful for my oldest son's career as a hacker. My second son may pursue a programming career too, although he has plenty of other interests. I'm still interested in discussions of education policy, the issue that drew me to Hacker News, here because I can still adjust the educational plan for my two younger children some more, and because this matters for all of us, childless or not. But so far I have found it expedient, in a high-income school district with high parental educational levels, to homeschool my children for their elementary education. They then go to the friendly local high school (which has improved its academic standards recently by dint of competition from Minnesota's public school open-enrollment policy) and take lots of AP classes and do lots of academic extracurricular activities with friends who have open-enrolled from the territory of other school districts. It isn't perfect, but it's a trade-off that works well enough for us.
Paper: Evolution Is Not Relevant to Sex Differences in Humans [pdf]
Oden: experimental, statically-typed functional language, built for Go ecosystem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11183836
You're using one right now.
Does a crypto token sale make sense for my open-source project?
No disagreement. I was just pointing out that what you were asking for is in fact user-defined generics.
I've been early adopting Google products for years, many of which sadly nolonger exist. That's the problem.
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Unless you do an 83b election.
> Will Dropbox valuation be affected by BOX's performance in the last few years?

It depends. If Dropbox shows that they are [not] profitable and the margins give us a better picture we can ignore Box. Looking at Google Finance the Box numbers are really bad: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ABOX
Yeah, this is an excellent point. For the Inky product mentioned in the article, a good explanation of how they handle key storage and distribution is provided here: https://medium.com/ink-different/how-inky-stores-encryption-...
This is exactly what I came to say. I just keep JS disabled on my mobile and most things I want to read work and it reduces load times by an order of magnitude. If I really want to read something that won't work with JS, then I'll turn it back on for that site but I rarely if ever have to do that.
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If I were a billionaire my kids wouldn't go to school. I'd fly in experts and pay them top dollar. Want to learn about the web today? Here's Tim Berners-Lee to show you.

I guess I'd make them do team sports so they didn't end up weird though...
Someone at Kiwicon (2015, I think?) went through breaking into a CISCO router. Newer Cisco hardware actually runs a Linux kernel and one, massive (I think it was like 50MB) binary. There's only one ethernet device too because the others are controlled by user-space PCI devices within that binary.

For what I could tell, it looked like Cisco use to have a full independent OS (ios) and when they switched to Intel hardware, it was easier for them to just build a shim layer between Linux and their OS so they could run on cheaper/newer hardware without a massive rewrite.

Anyway, that guy responsibly disclosed and his exploit was patched, but it did give full access to everything, including the ability to create new routes and filters that wouldn't even be visible from within ios.
Let me rephrase.

Donald Trump is either a pathological liar, or is delusional.
You have have to consider the lowest common denominator in security. You're security it's only as good as your weakest link. Say you have an emergency and your grandparents need to email your PII to a hospital. Can they do it securely? You need to email some PII to them. Can you do it securely? Some security for all is better than no security for most, hence the "grandparent test".
Grade inflation. Talk to highschool students in western canada/us. They talk of 90% as a below-average score. My highschool grades, if I applied to university today, wouldn't qualify me for anything.

There is an old skier's adage: If you aren't falling you aren't improving. By already knowing everything, these kids learn nothing. Then after all their As these now adults hit my classroom with reading issues and a fear of curiosity. Anything not on the exam is to be actively ignored. Don't read anything that might confuse the issues. Stick to the outlines.

And when the prof asks you to pick a paper topic on your own, something not already in the outline, inundate him with panicked emails asking what you should and shouldn't find interesting .
This is inane. The approach GP is talking about lets any developer manage the space above their project however they care to. The `GOPATH` approach forces this one structure upon you.

It's like arguing that marriage equality violates your right to believe a marriage is between one man and one woman. One side is arguing that folks should be able to decide what's best for themselves, the other is saying it must be their way. One of these perspectives forces their preferences on the other. And it's not the GP.
> More often than not the mother was highly involved. Almost never was a nanny the primary caregiver.

Sure, if the claim had been "had Bush's ear" rather than "was a senior member of Bush's cabinet", I wouldn't have said it was factually incorrect.
> But, still, I sometimes wonder why there is such a hard push for more gun-control laws every year given this decreasing level of domestic violence.

Another thing to ponder is why the focus on semiautomatic rifles, when 1, violent crime overwhelmingly uses handguns, and 2, the previous assault weapon ban was deemed ineffective by the DOJ. And what is the basis for proposing expanded background checks in response to, for example, the Orlando mass shooting when the shooter not only passed a background check, but had a security guard license (which itself has a more intensive background check).
I realize now where you are getting the 2x, but if you are paying a full man's wages to power a robot you really need a different energy provider. The costs of powering and maintaining a robot are a fraction of the cost of a human.
Google gives you the option to download all your data stored on their servers, across all Google products [1]. Unfortunately they do not give you an option to delete all your data, but most services have facilities for bulk-deleting [2].

Every few months, I download a backup and then delete everything I can. This is a good tradeoff for me: I get to use all the great Google products, but they don't get to keep a permanent archive of all my data.

One more note: lots of people react to this with, "But what if you desperately need an email from X years/months ago?". Two answers: 1) I've been doing this for a couple years, and I've never needed an old email, and 2) I have the local backup if it's something really important.

[1] https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

[2] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/clear-data-google-attempt-regai...

EDIT: Formatting
-print-after-all combined with the graphviz visualizer is very loosely similar.
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I think you overestimate the number of people who care that much about Go. It's not very widely used.

It would also be a massive effort to add generics to it at this point, because of the design choices the team made early on.
That's not relevant to the OPs point. The point is that even SMS clients were capable of merging multiple messages together, yet Twitter has still failed to do so. So whether or not they were SMS doesn't matter.
Cornish Hen bothers me because it's just marketing. It's just a young chicken! It doesn't even have to be a hen! So as a person who appreciates basic honesty I avoid them. Also we are fortunate to spend the autumn and winter in an area with actual game birds that are easily taken, and delicious.
In current version I only removed components from bootstrap.scss, but in future version I also want to remove some code from scss files like for example _navbar.scss. Who needs 3 versions of navbar in one project?
But the point & purpose of CoreUI is that all the "unnecessary" theming (his example: Jumbotrons) is deleted. If you copy the new version of Bootstrap's scss files in, you will lose those optimizations -- negating the entire point of CoreUI.
The tax liabilities on the 'paper gain' could easily go into the six figures. Not sure if many people would be able to do that, let alone want to.
Socialization. A 10-year-old prodigy going into a calculus class full of seniors is not going to spend much time socializing with their emotional peers.
This is the Democrats' abortion: an issue they have total ideological lock from in their core constituencies that they will never have to deliver on but can always use to fundraise.
I suspect it is well known

The submitted article suggests that this is not at all well known, and is an understudied issue. That's my impression too from years of doing research on education policy--most American teachers and school administrators have NO IDEA how much more young people could be learning in the school context, and indeed no idea how much learning the brighter kids do in the summer when they are away from school reading on their own.
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"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."

Mark Twain
> So foreclosures protect mortgages, rather than housing directly, right?

Yes. But making credit more easily available makes housing more accessible.
In recent years I've gotten into the Greek philosophy of Stoicism and find it a great mental tool even in our modern times. I'm partial to the book A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine.

Summary:
http://becomingeden.com/summary-of-a-guide-to-the-good-life/
Science catching up with sci-fi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage
This is far more interesting to me than a cut down 1080 in an oversized laptop that takes its design cues from Transformers. I'd like to know too.
Americans are also often shocked to see how challenging lessons actually are in other places, and sometimes kind of frightened by it. I feel like there's a whole genre of Internet posts of what students are allegedly learning in other countries. ("Cheryl's birthday" from Singapore is a famous recent example, but there are plenty of others.)

I had a physics teacher in high school who came from Russia and was always frustrated at the lower standards for science education here in the U.S. He would describe what people in Russia were supposed to know by a particular grade level and it was commonly years ahead of Americans -- and he claimed students were expected to take much more time studying overall (although that's not necessarily always useful, and there are presumably also many different kinds of schools in Russia, as there are in the U.S.).

We can surely find some possible tradeoffs and disadvantages of particular educational methods and approaches used in other countries. (People often complain about the rote-memorization issue with the associated lack of conceptual understanding or creativity, and, when we see very difficult educational materials from earlier eras in the U.S., there's the observation that students then may have had to learn many fewer subjects at a time.) But it seems like there's a lot of indication that huge numbers of U.S. students could be learning at a more challenging pace than they are today.
> I guess I'd make them do team sports so they didn't end up weird though...

People are quite capable of ending up weird having done team sports while growing up.
So, let's fund things that make people live longer and save their lives but not things to help solve problems related to increased and older population? Seems asinine.
Indeed, would love to know precisely of our (Russian) plans, finally :)