skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are the best in class teachers?

Are they hiding among the teachers in general? If they can't be identified, there is no effective & material differentiation (read: no justification for higher compensation) among them vs the less skilled.

Are you saying that the best teachers, in principle, could be measured, but we haven't developed the methods to do so (to be sure, a real possibility)? Or are they simply 'better' a-priori/intrinsically regardless if we can measure it or not?

The best in class athletes to best in class teachers comparison either fails or finds athletes winning flat out.
Huh. Could that have not existed before I commented or am I really that blind? Oh well. I swear I read the whole thing.
> Don't bite the hand that feeds you and wants to hand you stacks of cash.

Who is getting handed stacks of cash? I imagine it's not many low/middle-income residents, who simply have to leave.

There are positives and negatives for all options, but it's disingenuous to imagine there is no downside to gentrification.

EDIT: It's a similar issue to the U.S. economy as a whole over the last 30 years. There's been tremendous growth in aggregate, but in particular only for a relatively few people.
I don't see why you're getting downvoted. He made a claim without evidence. I've also been unable to locate studies documenting an observed risk to humans.
Excellent. Notice also this solves the problem of outragious CEO pay. If we figure the marginal value of the CEO as how much more the company would earn if it added another CEO, its at best zero, because the company only needs 1 CEO. Two CEOs would probably just fight with each other so much it would harm the company.

Therefore, CEOs should be paid at most nothing at all, because their marignal value is at best zero.

Of course, CEOs which have big egos and are therefore more likely to be in conflict with an additional CEO, of course, have negative marginal value, and therefore should actually pay the company for the opportunity to be its CEO.

Free Market Capitalism can solve ANYTHING!!!!!!
When the OpenOffice project was accepted by Apache, there was a distinct community around it which was larger than it is today. Now that the community has shrunk, you are seeing the people in it wrestle with how best to go forward responsibly.
If the certificate is expired or belongs to a different site, or if the cert chain is clearly broken, then sure, warn the user. But if it just chains to a root you don't recognize, then there's no evidence that anything is really wrong. Just show the page, and use the plain icons (no locks or anything).
I thought it was "brogrammer".
So what you're saying is, LO vs AOO is real-world testing that shows a conclusive defeat of "permissive" at the hands of "copyleft", in terms of appeal to the class of users who know the difference.
It's already proven that it's harmful. In the same that that overprescribing antibiotics is harmful. It artificially selects for bacteria resistant to these chemicals, which makes them less effective. So the ball was back in the maker's court, either show that this product is worth the risk or shut up and deal with the ban.
Hand sanitizers aren't anti-bacterial
From the OP: "The lower pay of fire fighters and school teachers simply reflects the happy reality that we’re blessed with a much larger supply of superb first-responders and educators than we are of superb jocks and thespians."

Wait, what? Who says we are blessed with a large supply of "superb" school teachers in the US?

According to McKinsey, nationwide, public school teachers in the US come from the bottom third of college graduates.[1] What's more, compared to the public school systems of other developed countries, the US one is far from the best and one of the worst in math.[2]

That's not exactly "superb."

There are countries blessed with a large supply of superb teachers, for example, Finland, where teachers come from the top 10% of college graduates. However, government intervention has apparently played a large role[3], and income inequality there is among the lowest in the EU.[4]

[1] http://www.mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education...

[2] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1

[3] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-sc...

[4] http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/10...
Snapdeal launches its own cloud – Snapdeal Cirrus
EOMA68 goes a long ways to providing this sort of thing for general purpose machines (laptops/desktops).

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
In my personal experience, when I first tried Open Office it ended up being a clunky, unreliable clone of older Microsoft Office products. It was still better than a kick in the teeth though.

In all honesty, after writing my own simple manual editor for PDF, I really don't envy the task of making something compatible with multiple other formats. It would be nice to see the project archived or completely released to the community to continue work on.
They've got socialized medicine, so they don't need as much insurance.
I think I tell this story every time there's an article about the STS on here. When I was a precocious space cadet, I followed the development of the Shuttle as closely as a kid could before the Internet. I remember the initial promised launch cost of $50/lb into LEO. Young theothermkn weighed himself and worked out how much that would cost, and even tried to guess how much a capsule would weigh, and how much of a group capsule's weight that he would be responsible to pay for. Tough, but doable.

And then the price went to $100/lb. Okay, tougher, but still within reach. And then $500/lb. Ugh. And then $1,000/lb. Oh, well. Maybe a later version will be cheaper. Economies of scale! And then the newscasters stopped talking about the cost at all, except to note how far we were from the initial cost.

The Space Shuttle set spaceflight back 40 years. Years later, I got an aerospace engineering degree, and promptly left the field when I graduated because I didn't want to work inside soul-crushing aerospace institutions without even the hope of doing anything good.

We may never recover, given that all our eggs are in the SpaceX basket.
Lectures on Gravity and Entanglement
If what matters to you is actual electoral support, there's no reason to be voting third party anyway. Both Stein and Johnson got less than 1% of the vote in 2012, and even combined only about 1.2%. The most successful third-party/independent Presidential candidate in decades was Ross Perot in 1992, and even winning just under 19% of the popular vote he failed to win any of the electoral college. It's a self-serving double standard to tell people to pass up the major party candidates but then vote based on electoral support for the third parties, ignoring how well their ideological and policy positions actually align with your own.
Hahaha you need to print this article and place it where she will "randomly" run into it.
Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
> I find it sad that corporations have decided the internet should be predominantly a private space.

This has very little to do with "corporations deciding the internet should be a predominantly private space", and everything to do with governments deciding that the internet is open season for information warfare and spying on citizens. The big push for HTTPS-everywhere hasn't been driven by "corporations affected by thieves", it's been driven in the wake of the Snowden revelations.

As long as Advanced Persistent Threats exist, you have no way of verifying you're even reading the real c2.org, or ASCII-doc site, or some censored replacement a privileged network opponent is impersonating it with.

HTTPS gives us some measure of security that we're talking with who we think we're talking with back.
I would be very surprised if there was no way to side load root CAs on enterprise deployments of Blackberry.

Enterprises love to MITM SSL (and may also have their own CAs to issue certs for internal services). Even Chrome ignores cert pinning if the CA is user-installed for this reason.
The FDA must regulate the contents of some consumable goods; can you provide a better model of governance than the current one which dictates where the line is to what the FDA can or cannot regulate? Or even a more philosophical explanation as to why we should instinctively distrust the current model without any examination into its basis, as seems to be your implication?
Then let developers buy plots of land and develop it as such.
What does AP stand for?
Show HN: Let your business users manage and publish JSON
GitHub Pages only supports building sites with Jekyll[0].

According to the Netlify documentation[1], it looks like they support any/most tools, including Jekyll, Grunt, Middleman, Roots, Hugo, etc.

[0]: https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-as-a-static-si...

[1]: https://www.netlify.com/docs/continuous-deployment
What about cooking? e.g. handling raw meat and such?
I do not live in San Francisco, but I would venture a guess that it's much more nuanced than that.
I like the idea of suing bad prosecutors I really do.

The problem is the signal to noise ratio in lawsuits against public officials. I saw dozens of these filed pro se when I was a clerk and they were all garbage. Convicts have absolutely no disincentive to file these suits, and getting rid of prosecutorial immunity would grind the system to a halt.

One approach might be a setup where an EEOC-type organization could issue "right to sue" letters against prosecutors on the basis of informal complaints when there was something potentially meritorious.
I'd be interested to hear about your experience with the C++ Actor Framework. It seems like without the larger ecosystem of Erlang/BEAM for fault tolerance CAF is just a nice coroutine library.
I don't think that is true, though maybe I'm misunderstanding.

The DNS rebinding is a workaround so that you can read the reply of a message.

Enumerating a list of services that are running is something you could do as a precursor to using the dns rebinding attack to attack it. I am not familiar with javascript networking enough to say what kind of rate limiting you would incur, but in theory at least you should be able to probe many IPs at once.
Learning ES6: New Collections
Thanks for that, I've been on commodity hosting for a while (site5, actually been very happy with them), but they don't offer lets-encrypt, so this is quite attractive.
I tried MATE recently, I wanted to like it too but found it to be slower than Xfce.
Everyone at the time told them what would happen, and then it did; so yes, they could have known, because all this was predicted.

It turns out single-vendor projects at Apache work out this way, particularly when the single vendor is IBM. In fact, this had all just occurred with Apache Harmony (their Java clone, which Android's Dalvik was based on), which was going great guns until IBM pulled out, leaving a ghost town.

This was all foretold by people who'd seen what had literally just happened.
It mentions that in the article. They're doing a separate review process for alcohol-based products.
But they let you use a self signed cert for cloudflare to server. Is this enough?
Isn't that what the USA basically does? That's why things are often banned in the EU before America, because the FDA (or whatever) normally has to prove it's bad before it gets pulled.

In the EU it's the other way around.

I could be wrong but I believe that's the general gist of it.
At my current (Dell) laptop I can change RAM, DVD, HD and battery. Seems to be the perfect point between a modular and an integrated designs.

There's no point adding any extra module, people do not upgrade anything besides RAM, and everything that wears off is included.
Compulsory prosecution puts all the power in the hands of the lawmaking branch. In the USA we have a traditional separation and balance of powers. Prosecutor's discretion is considered one of the balancing forces.
Looks interesting. How does it compare to a tool like Ansible?
If it is a single HTML page with all CSS and important JS built in, I don't see how multiplexing will help the single page load faster.
Categorical semantics for digital circuits
Are you talking about the same organization that prosecuted Bond for chemical weapons, and Yates for throwing fish into the ocean under an "anti-shredding" law?[1][2]

The civil rights lawsuit against Ferguson is an entirely political gesture, transparently motivated by a need for the administration to 'do something'.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_v._United_States_(2011)

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_v._United_States_(2015)
Explainer Videos Make Your Startup Look Cool
I'm not the initial poster and have no interest in defending the initial claim about who contributed more, I just wanted to give one example where Samsung lead the market and Apple followed.

Presumably we should also be giving credit to MS for their early pushing of the tabletpc form-factor. It's all evolutionary...
Terrible understanding of labor economics. Football players and firefighters are not static populations, they are also subject to labor forces; people choose to enter jobs based on the quality of the job and the pay. Heck, Tom Brady would probably make an excellent firefighter, if that's where the money was!

We aren't blessed with a surplus of superb teachers; we pay smart people more to work on Wall Street than teach, and so end up with an army of underqualified teachers. If we needed football players in every city, we'd pay them less, too, and they'd be mediocre. The amount of jobs available for firefighters is always high because you need them, and it's that which leads to their lower salaries, and in turn mediocrity. Hayek economics is terrible with externalities; if this post were accurate, we'd never have a shortage of firefighters.
I was inspecting my portable bbq the other day and I noted that the cleaning bristle I keep with it was looking kind of worn out. Time to throw it out!
I remember leaving uni in 2003, for 3-5 years everyone had shitty jobs, bottom of the ladder and then it suddenly just changed.

The first few years of work young people are usually a complete mixed bag, even if gifted. They need quite a lot of baby-sitting, tolerance and guidance from co-workers and bosses and make silly mistakes and usually are quite poor at communicating.

It's all part of growing up. I can look back and realise that in myself back then.

And then it changes and you start getting promotions and then it's all different.

So don't judge anything by where you all are now, give it another 2 or 3 years. I know it sounds trite and patronizing, but it's true.

It's one of the reasons I'm always surprised pg, Thiel, etc. pushed for people to start companies straight out of college or even while in college. Young people are often so utterly clueless that I think a lot of the mistakes they make could just be fixed by them working for someone else for a little bit, even 6 months. As well solving the tendency for hip young entrepreneurs to make incredibly basic HR mistakes.
Implementing window.payment like Google and Apple do?
Not debating that. I agree. I guess I just think there is a more morally justifiable way to go about it than edict. Again, this non-antibacterial soap belief doesn't seem like one that needs force to spread.
It's not necessarily unhealthy to an individual person, it's the effect that it has on the surviving bacteria. These soaps are dangerous to society as a whole because they become less effective the more widespread their usage is [0]. Thus, we don't need to use them for every single thing we get on our hands that we want off, we're not in mortal peril of those germs.

[0]: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378393.ht...
The brand isn't really important as long as it's plain soap.
Could anyone recommend a starting point on Neural Networks for the uninitiated? The parts of this I understood were fascinating, but I quickly realized I was looking up every third word, and not really absorbing much.

If I could only read one thing to gain the technical grounding for this history, what should it be?
It's explained pretty well in the article. Basically the FDA said in 2013 'show us that these chemicals are effective and safe for daily long term use' and companies didn't do it. So there's little to no support for the effectiveness and there may be some long term exposure issues from animal studies.
"You can find plenty of porn and hysteria behind the GFW"

uhhh... what? Are you just making this up? I never come across any of it. Not a single porn site I've tried works. They're pretty thorough in my experience. Haven't seen any mass hysteria, though Reddit surprisingly isn't blocked yet

"but you'll be shut down quickly at the slightest mention of political reform, corruption, or financial info that doesn't fit the gov's narrative"

Again, BBC, with all their uncomfortable information isn't blocked. English Wikipedia (which is over HTTPS, so you can look up any topic you want) isn't blocked (though the Chinese one is unfortunately)

I think you've already made your judgement and are seeing the patterns you want to see
Obviously not, unless the replacement battery actually caused the damage. But like anything you might have to go to court to force the issue.
How about dem earthquakes?
Is there a good reason why squarespace can't enable https at least for those who "buy" their domain names from squarespace as well? It shouldn't cost squarespace any significant amount of money, should it?

And yet https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815898-...
This is the general libertarian economist's retort to any suggestion that things might be better if they were different in my experience and it is uninteresting as it is evasive and unsatisfactory.
That may mean some products and services aren't easily available to those that put a high value on their privacy.

Or we could decide that some things are too high a price to pay and not allow the businesses to include mandatory surveillance technologies. Are TV makers really going to stop making TVs if they aren't allowed to spy on their customers as well? Are TV prices really going to be lower with that spying going on if everyone in the industry is doing it anyway?

Regulation is what you do when competition no longer provides an acceptable level of choice in the market. What constitutes an acceptable level of choice may well depend on how important or even essential a certain type of product or service is, but in any case preventing a lack of real competition from causing this kind of customer-hostile race to the bottom is a valid use of statutory regulation IMHO.
Sort of. It solves this specific attack.

If you were attacking a local webapp interface instead of a non-http daemon like redis, you would need your browser to be able to access the web service. At that point, this kind of attack would still allow an attacker to also access that web service.
My kid went to welding summer camp when he was 8. 12 kids, one instructor; they learnt welding, brazing, soldering, other stuff I don't know the English for. Everyone had a good time and made some amazing things. Nobody suggested there was anything to worry about, but then again those parents wouldn't have signed their kids up. But I never met German parent who were particularly paranoid.

German kids videos and books can be really good too, like the 'was ist was' series that, say, really shows you how internal combustion engines work. I say "can be" because there's a lot of crap there too.
The purpose of the type system in C++ is partly to encode semantics about the usage of a particular construct. For example, we might declare three or four types which all support the increment() function(or operator). The traditional way to do this is to create an interface and have the four concrete types inherit from the interface.

What auto says is "I don't care what type this value is. I just want it to support the semantics that I'm about to describe in this block." If you change the return type of the value in the auto expression, as long as the new return type supports the same semantics as the original return type, you don't need to touch that function after the refactor.

The compiler still complains when it can't find a way to make the return value support the semantics you're asking for. This is an improvement, but only in cases where you genuinely don't care what type it is, but only that it supports iteration. You still have to use auto with care, like every other keyword, but it does significantly improve maintainability in code bases where traditionally you would mechanically key in the same type information multiple times throughout the declaration of a class and its usage. Typedef and using statements solve similar problems, but they don't solve exactly the same problem.

For a good example of why this is a wonderful thing, try to determine what return type you should declare for an STL iterator, or try using Boost while avoiding the auto keyword.
>Music, I can't really say, for I don't pay much attention to today's popular music.

Well just as an example, in the 60s-70s we had stuff like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and many other bands that are now called "classic rock" and have their own radio stations. I don't think these were ever technically considered "pop" (Disco was "pop" back in the 70s), they were always "rock". There is nothing these days that has the musical impact that Led Zeppelin did.

>But I can say that there were a lot of terrible movies made then

There were a lot of terrible movies (and every other art form) in every period. We memorialize the best, not the dreck. This has never changed, it's human nature. I'm sure there was a bunch of second-rate and third-rate junk in Mozart's day too, and we've forgotten it all.

>and there are some made now that can stand up to what was made from 1960 through 1989.

Like what? In the sci-fi genre, for instance, I sure haven't seen anything that matches classics like 2001, Alien, and Aliens, and several attempts (Prometheus, Avatar) were made by the same, now nearly elderly, directors who made two of those! Where's young directors making great new sci-fi films? There aren't any. Instead, we just have not-so-serious comic-book movies. We haven't had any classic horror movies like The Shining or The Thing (1982).

I'm sorry, but this isn't just older generations sneering at the younger generations; things have really changed, and it coincides with the rise of the internet, and some significant changes in society.

Look at movies: movie ticket prices have gotten insane in recent years, and it just isn't that fun an experience now with stupid parents bringing their too-young kids to movies they have no business watching (because the parents are helicopter parents and/or are too cheap to hire a babysitter for their movie night) and the kids end up pitching a screaming fit and annoying everyone, or rude people texting during the movie or talking on their phones, etc. With modern big-screen TVs costing so little, and the availability of DVDs, Blu-Rays, and on-demand internet viewing, it's easier to just stay at home and watch movies there in the comfort of your own home, where you can eat and drink whatever you want without paying extortionate prices and where you can pause to go to the bathroom and rewind if you didn't understand someone.

With music, it seems that musical tastes have splintered so much now, combined with record labels not bothering to seek out quality acts to promote, so now we just have a bunch of decades-old bands running around touring their asses off to take advantage of the new wave of nostalgia for classic rock but nothing new coming out that really gains much of a following.