skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pay Gap Between Public-School Teachers and Similar Workers Is Wider Than Ever
Another question... how do you like Ember for your web apps? :)
> what purpose do they serve?

You tell me, we're doing it right now, albeit by proxy. A return to a read-only web outside of Twitter and Facebook would make articles less insightful, sites less accountable and the web a little more boring.

For example, I have saved dozens of comments from The FT and The Economist which added brilliant addendums as well as counter-points to the article topic. It would be dull without these mini-communities below the line.

Sure, some comments are toxic - it's a reflection of society and a consequence of everybody having access to the web. How about a 'show comments' button like some websites have? Make them opt-in.
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This is because it is de facto HN policy to be OK with downvoting to register disagreement. pg put that one down and it hasn't changed.
The survey article by Sven Leyffer is a good paper, but comes from a completely different direction:

It comes from people from convex optimization trying to additionally apply some integrality conditions (a little bit as second-class citizen). On the other hand classical combinatorial optimization is integrality conditions as first-class citizen. I, coming from (M)ILP, would argue that the MINLP people coming from convex optimization tend to sidestep all the problems that make ILP so hard (and interesting). On the other hand MINLP people would equally vocally argue that the (M)ILP people tend to prefer "academic" problems and don't grasp how many important research questions they miss.

It's up to the reader to decide which side is right. :-)

My personal opinion in this "flamewar" is that if you come from a computer science background (in particular theoretical computer science) you will probably prefer classic MILP culture. On the other hand if you come from engineering you will probably prefer MINLP theory as outlined in Sven Leyffer's survey paper.
I understand this for products that have product-market fit. But what about products that aren't generating any revenue yet? Wouldn't the fact that someone is willing to pay to develop it further for them indicate demand for the product? Also couldn't this be viewed as doing things that don't scale by building a product that one company loves? How do you draw the line between this, and creating technical debt?
Turn on "showdead" and you'll see much more.

Often justified. Sometimes not.
One source I've started reading daily is TechNode http://technode.com/. No community there, but a few interesting articles, in the hyped-up TechCrunch vein of startup journalism ;)
O'Reilly does include that notice. But that doesn't really matter; you can pretty much always have your ebooks printed legally. The obstacle is getting the printer to do it regardless of whether it's legal; they don't know what the law is and generally don't care.
Thanks Sid!

It was actually very easy to integrate. Thanks for making the API so easy to use.
You're missing the point. Even if you go through the entire process, get all the licenses, find excellent local partners, setup your infrastructure correctly, and only publish what the Party wants, you STILL have to go through the firewall. There are no exceptions, and your business suffers because you cannot do simple everyday things like having a conference call with your BJS office, or copying an image up to your CN servers.

Yes, the pain of doing business in China is great and asymmetric, but in some fashion, I'm happy that at least the firewall is a symmetric, universal problem.
I read a great article describing how Walmart does this. Companies who pay a living wage, like Costco, essentially subsidize Walmart by allowing them to pay low wages. Government Safety Nets like food stamps, medi-cal, etc., make up for the low wages. Thing is, these are paid for by tax dollars from employees at Costco who actually pay into the state treasury. Many Walmart employees are actually a drain on tax dollars. I'm at work and shouldn't be commenting on HN so here's the link to "Confronting the Parasite Economy. Actually read it here on HN, but it seems pertinent to the discussion.
http://prospect.org/article/confronting-parasite-economy
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>brakes, bearings, and parts of the suspension, which was considered normal wear after 100,000 miles.

Wtf? I don't know of any regular car that's needed all of that changed and it was deemed normal. What's so different about brakes, bearing and suspension in a Tesla? I know 250k Priuses that haven't needed any of these.
I love github pages. Here is a web game I helped make, hosted entirely on github pages (made for the terrible ideas hackathon)

http://scrollscore.com/ "the more you scroll, the more you win!"

https://github.com/amberrayh/scrollscore/tree/gh-pages

Thanks, Github, for making pages even better!
>In an ideal world we'd be able to educate everyone to a certain level of scientific literacy which would at least enable the everyman to decipher some of the more arcane jargon of respective scientific field

Is it ever accurate to say "hey, many of these papers are written in an excessively jargon-filled way, because the intended audience is very narrow?"
I read the question. It's fine that you don't care about performance. But your dogmatic statement in response to xchaotic was factually wrong, and I responded to say that.
That's an asinine argument, as a tax payer I'm "forced" to subsidise many things I don't personally benefit from. Ensuring that the next generation of society is well adjusted and participative seems as sensible an idea as public education and public healthcare.
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Probably not fine...

Do not assume that the "Free" expiration stops them from loading 10 in all but name & fugly menu on your back-end through 40+ supposed updates & patches. The telemetry is what they are after, the telemetry is what they will go to almost any length to collect and telemetry is all you are good for... at the moment.
Why I Chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) as My Website Host
I can't reproduce it anymore. I had a bulleted list near the function definition and somehow as soon as I pressed backspace it went unresponsive until the browser's window crashed. I'll keep trying, but there must have been something else happening.

I understand this is hard work. I hope you find time and maybe someone to help you develop this project.
Hasn't some past leaks been covered by the Freedom of Information Act?
The developers might be OK. If I was a VC type though I might be looking over my shoulder.
How's this pretentious? Certainly wasn't my intent.
HN could remove this disagreement moderation bias by implementing a meta-moderation feature similar to Slashdot.

Slashdot used to be a great place (like HN was a few years ago), and many of the best moderation systems originated there.

Meta-moderation kept everything fair because you could moderate the moderators. The way it worked was that people with high karma would get asked at the top of their page to please take time and meta-moderate 10 comments a day. You get presented with 10 random comments and the moderation +/-, and simply check a radio button indicating whether the moderation was fair or unfair.

The way it was enforced, I assume, is that people who were meta-moderated as unfair too often would lose their ability to moderate completely.
Nice :) I'm not a React person, but I've done a bunch of beginner-level tutorial writing (including a book). I like your writing in general, but to be more critical I would say

* Combine the parts - the first part is really short and doesn't stand that well on its own.

* Make it less about you. As a reader, if I want to know about you I'll stalk your 'about' page or something. I find the info about why you wrote the tutorial and the overly modest "this is just what I think" type statements get in the way of the actual content.

* Instead of the intro about you, I would add an intro about the technology you're using. What are the alternatives, and why are your choices better?

Otherwise keep up the good work :)
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Private companies refusing to sell insurance to someone where they will lose money on the transaction is not at all like dumping toxic waste into a river.

If insurance companies can't make money (or at least break even) for a certain population then they are't a viable means of making sure care is payed for, and we need to develop alternate policies to make things work.

So it's actually very very relevant to understand the decision-making process of insurance companies in these situations.
Are those regular cars in service as taxis? Most cars do the majority of their driving on freeways, where breaks and suspension have it pretty easy.

Taxis, not so much.
Great! Please don't give in to the demand for added flexibility without strong justification. Just as it did with README.md, GitHub has an opportunity to drive successful conventions and global simplifications that virtually no other organization in open source can.
There is goodness to putting your label tag, with the for attribute that points to the input, AFTER the input tag in the DOM that you may not be aware of!

Here are some selectors you can use with that setup:

input + label { ... }
input ~ label { ... }
input:checked + label { ... }
input:checked ~ label { ... }

Those selectors let you style the label based on the STATE of the checkbox, and they work all the way back to IE7. This stateful CSS is very powerful because you can make the input tag visibly hidden and style your label tag to appear as a custom widget or checkbox - and have it look different when toggled. Take a look at html5 boilerplate's visuallyhidden CSS class to see a particularly ninja way of hiding an element. Think of what can you achieve with just CSS and markup that maybe you needed jQuery or JavaScript to achieve in the past!

By the way, using the visuallyhidden class is the ideal way of hiding a tabbable element like a checkbox while keeping it adjacent in the flow to its related elements. This method of hiding is especially kind to low vision users of your site who use tab to navigate your forms.

From an accessibility standpoint, having label-with-for is helpful to screen readers of varying quality out in the wild. label-with-for ensures the screen readers will never be mistaken about which label goes with which checkbox.

.visuallyhidden, input:checked, label-with-for, and the +, ~, and > combinators, plus WAI-ARIA attributes can be used to make visually appealing, yet accessible, widgets without JavaScript.
Good. Given that these tools no longer can be considered available only to the NSA, they might start working with vendors to close these particular set of holes.
San Francisco's housing bubble is collapsing under its own weight
The one I had in mind was about 50TB. A year ago, that would take up to 17 hours from startup to be 'fully available'(I think it prioritizes which tables to load based on how you query them). I haven't worked with it since; Amazon may have improved the startup times.

We were thinking about trying BigQuery at one point since the pricing matched our usage better, but Redshift was good enough. The concern there was that Redshift was similar enough to Postgres we could use our existing database libraries, while BigQuery was some entirely custom protocol that didn't have a Perl SDK.
The AMT tax bill!!! What, this wasn't about exercising stock options? :)

For me, getting myself to exercise is about having a goal. I'll get bored of a routine. Right now, it is to lose the weight I gained from working at a startup that offered free lunch (literally full applebees meals for lunch and dinner) On top of that, I'm currently assessing if a 6pack is attainable or worth attaining.
Except a building isn't almost certain to burn down during its lifespan. Humans, metaphorically, burn down at a much higher rate. Cancer, heart disease, systemic infection ...

"Spreading the risk" doesn't work when the likelihood of something bad happening approaches a percentage in the high double digits, especially with an ageing population and falling birth rates to keep paying into the ponzi scheme.
Time travel from our perspective is impossible. What people talk about when discussing wormholes affecting things before they've happened are on a quantum level.

Quantum particles decay and change and do stuff to each other and to understand it you need an equation to explain that, but some of those equations require the state of those decayed particles to provide their state to earlier parts of the equation, before they were created through quantum decay or their state determined by waveform collapse. This is sometimes described as time travel but it's not really, time has no relevance at that level of understanding. WE live in space-time and quantum physics is the foundation of that fabric. So the solution doesn't really violate the laws of time, it happens in a place where space and time don't have the same relevance.

If you somehow did create a feedback loop in this situation we'd never know. The concepts of it taking forever or being instantaneously resolved don't apply, because as far as we're concerned we only get the end product. We're not even sure of coherence is a good way of telling how much work has been done in a twisty, strange quantum problem like that.

I mention coherence because at the quantum level it's the only way of knowing which direction everything is happening in. It's not the same as time, but it's a bit more like very very fast entropy at a quantum level.

All of these things come together to give you space-time.

So when we talk about wormholes we're talking about the transmission of information on a quantum level, not a feature of space-time. The space and time parts are only relevant later.
Right-libertarian views are generally most popular here - both "conservative" and "liberal" (American definitions of both) views are generally not popular. And god forbid you have views that would be considered slightly left of center in much of the EU.
Great point. You could actually probably say the same thing about any panic today.
Do you have a cite that any airport charges $50 for a taxi to pick up a fare? $30?
I've noticed flagging being used similarly, too. The argument that downvoting should be used to register disagreement falls apart when you consider that only users with enough (>= 500, I think?) karma have disagreement privileges.
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Ah, Soundcloud. One of the companies I should love the most given my usage of it, but hate with a strong passion due to their product and technical bungles. Let's take it from the top:

Product (applicable to iOS and web):

* Their mobile app and desktop products are, essentially, two completely different experiences. They have not evolved in sync with each other at all.

* Listening to tracks I've saved is hidden deep, deep within the app.

* Social capabilities don't exist in the app. Inexplicably, it's most of what exists on the desktop product.

* Oh look, I got a notification on the app. Who knows what it's about, though, no way to find out.

* What about something as simple as listening to a track and trying to figure out what time is? Nope. Their music player inexplicably hides the on-screen clock because some designer didn't want it messing with album artwork.

* Every aspect of the web product screams 'we just cloned every other social network out there all at once'. It's a messy hodgepodge of features, 80% of which I don't use.

Technical:

* This one is easier to explain. The web and mobile products are constantly, incredibly buggy. Music stops every 10 minutes or so, randomly. The app crashes. Display errors abound. It's a mess.

A shame because the 'magic moment' in Soundcloud is, truly, incredible. Make connections with artists and tastemakers you like. See their music and interact with moments of it with other fans. I'm frustrated because I truly believe it could be great. Unfortunately, their product and technical teams have not kept up.
maybe the problem isn't comment moderation, but rather the expectation that anyone should be able to "control" the dissemination of human thought through mediums like the internet?

the sooner news companies etc drop this notion of control the better chance they stand in the future.
It's free. It is a strict improvement from where things were.
The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research
Is there anyway to make readme.md publish to github pages? I'd like to put talk slide in readme.md, then load client side.

Like this, but without the duplicated file:
https://github.com/1wheel/talks/tree/master/graphical-web
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Distance over the horizon can be estimated using d = 3.57 x (h)^1/2. Distance in km, height in meters.

Width of the Taiwan Strait = 180 km (coast to coast)

Height of antenna required for direct line of sight = 2,542 m or ~8,400 ft. This would be one antenna on a tower and one on the ground.

Tallest antenna in the world is on top of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at 2,722 ft.

If you split the difference (so each antenna just sees the other at sea level), the tower would need to be 635m tall or 2,088 ft. So if you put a Burj Khalifa tower on each coast you could make it work.
When you're "unable to recognize the flaws in the argument" you should make that "mistake."

If you're enough of an expert on a topic, I think you decide for yourself regardless.
Why don't you want security updates? Personally, on all OSes I use I just want security updates to happen. My time is too valuable for me to go reading about every minor security update, when I will just install it anyway.
"Its cost of operation is apparently between 10 and 20 percent of that for a helicopter, and it only loses 10 percent of its helium per year." [0]

Not bad, especially if you consider there's 100 paying customers on it.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/8/5880061/airlander-10-photo-...
Honestly, having two computers has been the only way I can sanely function at work. We have to use Windows for at least one application. My solution has been to setup a second desktop (these are small towers), install Linux on it, and remote into the Windows from the Linux machine. Oddly enough, I can actually play some video games on the Windows machine through that remote session.

We replace computers two to three times per year; I get to pick from generally four-year old computers. I assume that a second computer is not an option for most at work.
longest currently existing aircraft maybe. 20th century zeppelins regularly reached nearly triple that length.
Sure, we're all gonna die. But the amount of money we spend on medical expenses between now and then varies by at least an order of magnitude between different people.

If there weren't risk differences then we wouldn't need insurance at all.
The only thing that is going to change anything is if the consequences of 'misleading' articles being published on your work is you don't get anymore funding, or your current funding is clawed back (this would be more effective since the administration would have a fit). Only money will stop this problem.
How is that relevant? Regardless of how hard parenting is, they decided to bring that responsibility upon themselves, and other employees bear the financial burden.

It's not a "job" in the normal sense because you're not generating profit for anyone, but the company is still paying you. All the people without children perform more labor but get rewarded less (because they get less time off, don't get whatever benefits patenthood may entail, etc.). People without children absolutely get screwed over by such arrangements.

Whether or not this is acceptable depends on your goals and what you consider acceptable incentivization schemes.
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Good point but neither the article nor any Tesla documents seem to make the taxi distinction - making it sound like it's normal wear for any Tesla.
I am all in for free trade. US government and media love to bash China. When you look in the mirror, US government adopts protectionism yourself just like other countries do. You think you hold the high moral ground while you are just as dirty. It's not backed by my personal belief. Maybe you live on Mars. There is plenty of evidence there. Go take a look at NSA's PRISM program, a mass surveillance program. Go check the news on US government spying on German Chancellor and your own people. Go ask Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
WHY WOULD THEY JUST SUSPEND THE STOCK TRADING, WHAT IS THE ILEGALITY HERE? THAT THEIR STOCK TRADES AT $56DLLS AND THEY HAVE LOW VOLUME? OR THAT THEY HAVE NOT FILED THEIR FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS? I HAVE READ ON ONE OF THEIR CONTRACTS THAT THEY PERFECTLY STATE THAT THEIR COMPANIE USES INVESTORS CAPITAL SEED TO FUND PROJECTS. WELL LETS JUST WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS ON THE 26TH OF THIS MONTH
Even when you have control over both endpoints, months of uninterrupted service will be punctuated with weeks of playing hide and seek with the Firewall. BTDT.

The problem is when you have a global endpoint that Chinese customers want to access. What do you do then? You either have to figure out how close you can get your services to China and hope and pray they don't whack your traffic one day, or take the bigger risk of deploying your endpoint in China. Either is fraught, but if you want to service that population...

And remember, no multicast traffic in China...
Reddit, maybe? :)
>People living in European countries enjoy criticizing the US on stuff like this, but they fail to realize how much bigger and more spread out we are than they are. The US is more than twice as large as the entire EU. Our density is less than a third of the EU's.

The population density may be an excuse for the poor passenger rail network, but it doesn't make sense regarding parental leave.

>The US is behind in many ways, but this is not because we are backwater full of regressive idiots. We are a very large country without the density and homogeneity to benefit from good economies of scale. It's a lot easier to reach consensus and move a government forward when you have fewer people and they can more easily relate to each other.

The EU has more people and still managed to legislate maternity, paternity, and parental leaves. They managed to do this while speaking 24 languages in Parliament.
The owner of a site is unneeded for the site to continue to work in a dynamic fashion (outside of the single 'ZeroBoard' demo that was made before the new system was in place).

Interactive sites allow users permission to sign/post in a particular directory of the site (data/userpublickey/stuff.json). They sign/publish this like the owner of the site would. The site can either access the .json files directly, or compile them into an SQLite database locally and read from that.

No bots are needed at all. AFAIK, git itself isn't used in ZeroNet at all, besides open-sourcing it's development.

Essentially, the entire site's functionality is entirely local. You can fully use any website (except those that do weird requests to outside of zeronet) without any internet connection.

Try visiting the zerotalk site, disabling your internet connection, making a post/comment, and then refreshing the page. You'll see that the comment is still there. It's just inaccessible until other users obtain the .json file you've modified.

Likewise, many sites are freely cloneable, so you can try running your own local copy and acknowledge that there isn't a bot on the backend.