skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 5 year old, and I was talking to some acquaintances who also have a kindergartener. The kids are learning math, by playing with manipulatives. It's great; they're learning mathematical concepts, and they have no idea anyone in the world doesn't like "math". They don't know what "math" is, they are just starting to discover that the world is made up of interesting but identifiable shapes, and that numbers have some really interesting patterns as well.

These parents, however, don't see anything they recognize as "math". They're afraid their kid is going to fall behind, so they're giving their kid worksheets at home focusing on two-digit addition and subtraction. Their kid doesn't like math already, because at home math is just writing things on a piece of paper with little meaning. This is sad to me, because there are so many interesting things you can do with your kids at home to help them develop their mathematical understanding.

Our educational issues with math start young, and they come from adults. I'm fortunate to work in a small high school where I get to treat each kid individually. It's wonderful to meet kids where they're at, and help them move forward and start to enjoy math again.
Why are you trying to force yourself as a comparison to other companies? In certain cases it makes complete sense and from a brand building perspective can work wonders, but it doesn't always work. I would focus more on describing the value of the product in a clear and concise way.
> imagery that really is not going to help them be well-adjusted in life

Citation needed.
Don't log in, problem solved
Can they improve the resolution of the scanned document by exploiting that multiple images are taken from different angles?
You can't possibly understand calculus without first understanding trigonometry and, to a lesser extent, geometry
Depends on the school district and size of the school. For example, Texas high schools are for the most part huge and can accommodate anyone who wants to take AP classes without question. We did check with our counselor but they were more than happy students took AP classes.
I work at a quite large telecom company and one of the most repeated topics is that mobile traffic has been doubling every year for the last years. The trend is going to keep growing even more.

The nature of mobile networks is being a shared resource, as opposed to traditional DSL or Fiber which have a generally more dedicated bandwith.

This obviously implies quite a challenge for telcos, as expanding the network comes at a massive cost.
In Europe (mostly the German and English speaking parts) there's a search engine for "stuff", formerly only computer-related things, that is often used for this: http://geizhals.de/

Their unique features are curated filters (boatloads of them, extremely handy to narrow choices down) and accurate, non-fake reviews and ratings.

This removed 95 % of the annoyingness in buying hardware for me: 1.) Define requirements 2.) Apply filters on gh 3.) Check reviews for the few resulting choices 4.) Buy.
Summary for the day posted on ESA's website. The highlights:

> The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) of ESA’s ExoMars 2016 has successfully performed the long 139-minute burn required to be captured by Mars and entered an elliptical orbit around the Red Planet, while contact has not yet been confirmed with the mission’s test lander from the surface.

> Media briefing tomorrow at 10:00 CEST for more information. The briefing will be streamed online.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/ExoM...
There's a Woody Allen movie. I belive Annie Hall? I watch it a dozen times over the years. I missed one line though, until recently.

It was just on the lines of, 'I always thought Alvy's hypochondriasis was just an excuse for being narcisstic?" That's not the line, but close.

I missed that line for so many years. I thought, did I just not want to hear it? I've been very hypochondriacal my whole life. It reached its peak in my twenties. I actually popped a gasket over that, and other life matters.

I honestly wish I wasn't so neurotic, and definetly don't verbalize it anymore. That narcisstic line stayed with me though. Was it all narcissism on my part? Then again, I worried about everyone's health, and still haven't come to terms with the shortness/unpredictability of life. It used to bother me if a person had a headache, and didn't take an asprin. So--who knows?

But yea, I can see how depression can come across as too self-involved. I hate to say that because the most depressed people, I knew, were in denial.

And there are still too many people who think depression is some kind of character fault.

"Just work harder?" As the fat, happy man, with Apple Pay on his latest phone, steps over the homeless man.
Ok so publish the hashes on a blockchain and have the client verify them there
Things which I've followed and would recommend:

- Have a vagrant box set up so that the new engineer doesn't have to waste his/her time setting up the system. Use Ansible/Chef/puppet for provisioning the vagrant box. Saves at least a day.

- Make sure all the git repos have a good README file explaining the project details.

- If you have an API powering your backend, use http://swagger.io/ or something similar, so that other engineers don't have to waste time explaining all the API endpoints.

- Maintain an internal wiki or a Google Sites which lists all the common problems faced earlier. You can also explain the business logic and the general flow of the application here.
How to test a new pricing model without changing anything
This matches really well on what I think when I imagine what I would like to see the application landscape to trend towards. So, good job!

Some background: I do not like terminal (curses) applications, and renaissance around them. But I understand why they they are attractive to some; they provide simple, focused, efficient, keyboard driven UIs. The reason why I'm not attracted to them is that I think that the same can be achieved more elegantly (and simply better) without the limitations of 80s character video terminals. And tdo is a demonstration of that idea; an UI that is not too far removed from something that you could imagine finding in a terminal (admittedly the inverted colorscheme might have influenced my initial impression), but still with benefits of more modern tech.

Sadly the modern tech in this case (and in many others) comes with huge amount of baggage; html5+browser stack can't really be described as lightweight, if compared to something like ncurses+rxvt stack. This is the one thing I really would like to see; a native UI toolkit aimed squarely for making applications like this with weight more comparable to ncurses than anything else. Sure, it wouldn't be replacing things like Qt or HTML5 for everything, and probably tons of people will hold on to ncurses anyways (for better or worse reasons), but a man can still dream?
Good ones at least.
>Trump is an ideological figure with very few actual political views. His popularity is due almost entirely to his cultivation of American hate.

I think this is spot on. If someone says something hateful, and I retweet it, am I not also saying something hateful? Say I don't retweet the actual comment, but instead respond w/ "Have some money." Is that not still an endorsement of the hateful speech?

Ultimately, I think we can view hatred as a kind of ignorance and fearfulness of the unknown, and therefore as a kind of stupidity.

It logically follows that endorsing a stupid candidate is itself a form of stupidity.
I'm getting sick of seeing SV expose how many stupid people are among its ranks (on both sides). The whole world used to think we were smart people.

Yay, election year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know a Hispanic girl who says all lives matter. She is fed up with how the common narative is that only Blacks are people of color. Is she ignorant?

And before someone says I'm sexist for using girl instead of woman, she isn't 18 yet.
wo bist du in diesen tagen?
Catholic schools are often cheaper options than other private schools. No need to act condescending.

My parents were considering it because the school I was supposed to go to was a good 40 minute walk and they didn't provide a bus because we were still within the limit.

Wound up with a city bus pass instead.
They're not always required, but they try to bridge what you already know (or are supposed to know) with what is to come and move at a slower pace. It's also sometimes like an extra option for the less mathematically inclined who are still required to take such a number of math courses. On the other hand the only 'pre-' course I ever took (I tested out of pre-algebra somehow) was 'pre-calculus with honors'. I don't remember it much but I think it was mostly reviewing the harder topics from intermediate algebra aka 'algebra 2', which included trig (no separate trig course in my system), introduction to limits, and toward the end differentiation and maybe discrete summation. The 'honors' variant was also geared toward students who were planning on taking the more comprehensive 'AP Calculus BC' variant rather than the 'AB' variant.
>Finding the maximum of a relation using Calculus is much easier than strictly using algebra for this reason

I recently-ish helped my stepdaughter with an algebra assignment where she was asked to find the maximum of some polynomial. I totally blanked on how to do this with only the tools that she was supposed to have. I didn't know how to do it or explain it without calculus.
http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...
So I guess you've never framed up a house have you? Basic trig is so incredibly important to anyone that ever desires to build a thing. Don't you remember learning the unit circle in Calc 2??
TGO is the actual mission. The lander's just a technology demo --- important for the next ExoMars mission rover, but it was only going to last a few days anyway.

Schiaparelli being lost is a 'well, go figure' moment; TGO being lost is an utter disaster.

Unfortunately landers are sexy, while science-rich orbiting probes aren't, so it's Schiaparelli that's getting all the press.
Fair enough. I was thinking about adults. Though, as a kid, I watched few movies--but, then, I didn't have anything like the opportunities to do so that one does today.
These are challenging times for everyone, and the last thing we need is more censorship and stifling of ideas.

FWIW I think most of the editing that happens on HN harms the quality of the site and discussion (title modifications included).
well this is certainly cute.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12742853
Phrasing.

> I can't help but chuckle at the irony that you pay a premium...

vs

> I chuckle at the irony that Catholic schools charge a premium...
> there seems to be a focus on customizing and plugins from the get go

This is understandable. Coming from Emacs, I need an equivalent of projectile to stay productive while learning.
It's our parents' fault we're fucked up. But it's our fault that we stay fucked up.
I shared some of it on a previous thread, which you can find with the search thingy at the bottom of the page.
>If that makes me a poor christian, so be it

Not at all what I meant. I might do the same in your situation. My comment was merely to point out how backward the situation is. That the intent of religion to unify people regardless of economic status is defied when their educational service requires wealth. And one of the reasons it's a premium service may (arguably) be due to economic exclusion.

I don't blame you one bit for providing your child the best education you can.
I'm not closely familiar with the current PUA/Red Pill community, just the one of 5+ years ago when I was a bit involved with it, back when it was just a few forums and guys trying to learn from the few people who were successful. The attitude back then, which may be well disguised these days, was incredibly sociopathic - that females only belonged in men's lives from their pleasure, that you would only succeed when you stopped respecting them, and that happiness was achieved by blatantly disregarding whatever was stopping you. This is why negging was so popular as a learning technique - it taught men that there is little downside to just being as asshole to women.

The community certainly helped (and helps) a lot of men who suffer from confidence issues, but it also did/does so in a very flawed way, and threw everyone else (namely, all women) under the bus.
Chinese tech maker LeEco has been quietly infiltrating Silicon Valley
The prices for "purchasing" often seem absurd -- as much as buying a DVD, with no guarantee that the service will have the movie forever. But rental is typically only $2-$3 dollars -- basically what renting a movie from a video rental store used to cost, so not that unreasonable
I rarely comment on the internet, but HN is one of the few sites that I frequent during micro-breaks at work, and this sort of content is making me feel like HN is becoming a NSFW site to visit. My concern has nothing to do with your stated opinion in the article, but rather that the article doesn't provide enough technical value to warrant being safe for me to read while on the job. Articles that, for instance, inform me about a root key update, or a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel, provide immediate value to me and my employer. Opinion pieces like these though, not only lack technical value, but are a time (money) drain on my company. Please keep HN safe for work for those of us who care about things like that.
Wow, really neat. I like how simple it is but for non-HN users, the onboarding could probably be a bit better. As another user mentioned, if the user visits for the first time, prefill with some tutorial content for the user to learn how to use it.

How can I be sure this is stored? There is nothing in the UI indicating that the stuff I write in the app will stay until the next reload or next time I open my browser, neither is there a Save button somewhere. You should ensure the user that the stuff is saved somehow, maybe with a "Saving" indicator or similar.

Also something I couldn't figure out (or maybe this is a feature request), how can I move items across the list? Tried dragging it to another list, but doesn't seem to work.

In general, love the simplicity, keep doing great work!
I know everybody already got on your case about this but just want to say its all about narrowing the scope. The microbit is much more accessible. It has a narrow range of use cases that really makes it easy to choose projects. It is plug and play, no flashing, no other parts required (no mini Hdmi adapter, everybody has a microUSB cable around).

PiBakery has helped make setting up a pi easier though.
I saw this come up in the Thiel-related thread yesterday but didn't say anything but I will say it now: the right time for the release of the sexual assault reports for Trump was during the repub primaries. Releasing it now has not seemed to hurt him one bit in the eyes of his ardent fans.
> Gatekeepers are an emergent property of artists ... not wanting to mess around with tasks that are unrelated to creativity such as managing a web server farm to distribute their videos to their fans.

This exact same argument can also be made wrt Musicians. Justin Bieber has no interest in managing a web server farm to distribute his music to fans. And yet, I'm able to go online and purchase specific Justin Bieber songs/albums that I'm interested in, without having to pay monthly fees to some Netflix-type aggregator.

> Gatekeepers are an emergent property of artists not having money to self-finance their projects

This seems like a much stronger argument, and I agree that making a TV show is vastly more expensive than making songs. But the vast majority of new musicians do not self-finance their first few albums either. They sign up with a record label, and the record label finances the production/marketing/distribution costs. And ultimately, when consumers pay money to buy the songs/albums, a cut of that money goes back to the record company in order for them to recoup their investment.

The exact same model can work for television shows as well. HBO bankrolls David Fincher $100M to produce Utopia. Customers who want to watch Utopia can pay money just to watch Utopia, without having to sign up for HBO. And as "equity holders", a percentage of that customer money goes back to HBO.

I'm sure there are many other niggling issues that need to be worked out, but at a fundamental level, I don't see why this revised model can't work. Allowing consumers to pay only for the shows that they want to watch, instead of forcing them to pay for an entire monthly bundle, seems like it should be much more economically efficient.
I'd pay $8 / month just for the non-shipping benefits, especially Prime Video. The fact that I also get free two day shipping is awesome.

My big pet peeve are add-on items. I don't understand why they don't just give me the option to pay for shipping. I don't mind paying $10 shipping on a $1 item. It's still cheaper than driving to a store.
Not much different from traffic citations, I guess.
Yes. And the same Zuckerberg that said building walls is bad, but then built a wall around his luxury vacation home in Hawaii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
Isn't SiliconnValley just the wall Street of techbro snowflakes and startup culture? Who cares what they say.

These billionaires don't matter. They don't fund the core advancements that matter, they're just data traders. Even if they pooled all their money it would be dwarfed by real technologists. Not political hucksters and new wall Street aka SV.

Surely, SV is just a cliquey jock and yacht club. Bunch of grandfathered aristocratic rich kids. What a joke.
Well they need a flexible accreditation route then don't they?

UK: I could get short (18 hour) courses accredited by writing a submission including Bloom Cognitive Domain style outcomes and an assessment plan in a couple of months. We made liberal use of e.g. in the assessment criteria so that the criteria could remain valid for a year or five even though the platform, language and methods could change as needed.
Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but both Usertesting.com and Userzoom.com seem to have relatively robust processes built in...
Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Must: 100% Automation Can Be Very Bad
> Is there a name for that kind of occurence?

Heisenberg uncertainty principle [1].

Another example is this "died in a blogging accident" xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/369/.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
Thanks this is good to know. I think many people prefer the immediacy of phone support when they are having a payment issue. I looked through your FAQ and didn't see any mention of support which is why I asked. Congrats on the launch!
> Or because his team just threw an interception

Brady's suspension is over.
indeed, I misunderstood the comment, my bad.
Just license the tech from both and ask for your money back after the case settles.
CISCO was very much the gold standard, I'm thinking more like html -> client side -> server side (simple) -> server side (more complex).

PS: I'm glad it worked for you.
Great to see the community posting about our product. We built Coverr about a year ago as a side project of Veed.me. Glad to see people find it useful!
What has Trump done to make you think he hates diversity?

Have you heard the man speak, or heard him quoted? You don't denigrate Mexicans, federal judges whose parents are Mexican, and blacks because you're a fanboy of diversity. You don't judge women solely on their appearance and yet still get to be the poster boy of diversity. Making fun of the disabled is not only a cheap shot beneath even most 13 year old boys, it also doesn't get you the "Diversity Champion 2016" award.

Why would Trump have anything against gay people?

Because he hasn't shown any respect for anyone else that isn't white, straight, male, and American-born. Why would homosexuals get a pass?
Haven't seen that yet myself but I did see a guy write flappy bird on it.
I don't buy a lot of cables... in fact I don't remember the last time I bought one. I was going through apple headphones entirely too frequently and at one point decided to get the protection plan with some. Best money I ever spent. Every few months I trade in my falling apart headphones for new ones.
I came to the US (where I have children in school) from Scotland (where I obtained my education). US K-12 Mathematics education drives me nuts. Peeve #1 is the idea that the subject should be divided into these seemingly separate subjects : Algebra, Geometry, Calculus and so on. These are not different subjects -- they're all deeply interconnected, and furthermore : observing the connected nature of seemingly disparate areas in Mathematics is one of the key insights to be had.

To be honest I don't really care what kind of Mathematics they teach: I just want it to be taught with passion and rigor such that the students gain insight and a better understanding of how the world is put together; how to solve problems and express ideas.
> imperfect incentives/objectives + strong competition = perverse outcomes

if you think about it, it's just a rephrasing of 'survival of the fittest'.
Your definition of "hateful" can differ from mine.
This isn't even remotely true. There's tens of thousands listed for sale for < 10 USD all over the web right now.
Last Friday I couldn't even get a page to load on my iPhone with "full bars" on Verizon. Where does all the money go towards? Not fios, that's for sure (Verizon defaulted on a deal with the city to roll out fiber to all households[0]).

[0]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/nyc-threatens-to-...
This is actually an extremely common kind of enterprise security product --- though none of them do the Javascript/PGP dance.

Enterprise security teams know, of course, that email is insecure, and that partners and clients want to send sensitive stuff via email. So they buy these products and stand them up, and then instruct their partners to follow a link to upload their documents or sensitive emails, rather than using their email client.

The box itself forwards the email to user inside the enterprise.

I think there's something useful here, but, like 'Tepix said: a simple form on an HTTPS site is already doing 99.999% of the useful work here (that's all the expensive enterprise products do, too).

A direction you can take this to be even more useful is to strip and sanitize attachments, as a way of quarantining malicious email.
Thanks for ruining unlimited data.
Exactly. Physics becomes so much simpler with calculus. Once you realize e.g. the relationship between position, velocity and acceleration you don't need to memorize 20 different equations for all the different flavours of problems that are basically down to integrating or differentiating ...
So, up front, I think there is more than a little schadenfreude to be enjoyed here. I'll skip that, though.

The main thing here is that we chose this future. We built platforms for 140 sniping, and we built censorship tools that helped enable filter bubbles. We built ad tools to monetize rage and not journalism.

We bent over prostrate at the ideas of "equality", diversity, and freedom--all with the best of intentions! We ousted Brendan Eich, we gave Thiel a pass because he was outed by Gawker, and now?

Now they're going against the guys that sign our checks and cheerlead our endeavors.

If this is finally a step too far, if this is a gross misrepresentation of reality or a hit piece, we're late to the party. The time to have avoided this was years ago.

Bunch of hypocrites.
Yeah I waited for a while to see if a US seller would appear but ended up buying one at pimoroni. glad I stopped waiting, its really fun to tinker with.
The statistics say that ALMOST EVERYONE survived. That's the point here. It's very much like terrorism.. hardly anyone dies from terrorism statistically, but some people live in fear of it for no reason.