skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full disclosure: We homeschool our children.

Many here are repeating uninformed myths about homeschooling.

Specifically in regards to academic performance, "The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests."[1]

But who cares? Though I could talk at length on educational benefits, what is needed for children is not an ideal academic environment. Our children need to be loved and mentored to become adults and, on average, no one can do that job better than their own parents.

[1] http://www.nheri.org/research/research-facts-on-homeschoolin...
my thoughts are that cannabis is remarkably safe in general, but that everyone using it should be well informed and not be taking edibles that they don't know the content of.

in legal states you can buy properly labeled edibles at a shop. if it's homemade stuff, you really have to be a lot more careful. either make it yourself or really trust your supplier. personally I would never take edibles bought from a dealer unlabeled. that's a real risk of an uncomfortable experience.

I think smoking (or vaping if you're sensitive to the smoke) is by far the safest and most effective way to take cannabis though.

LSD and MDMA there are really no safety tips that can possibly help. you either trust your source or you don't. if you trust your source and follow the dosage guidelines it's fine. both of those drugs are very safe at appropriate doses.
The modded community has largely matured, with the vast majority of mods being open source and open to contribution these days.

Personally, I haven't heard from FlowerChild in 4+ years. Somebody did start a mod-friendly rewrite of BetterThanWolves though, built on Forge and with compatibility in mind. It's called Better With Mods.

https://github.com/BeetoGuy/BetterWithMods
We can predict the effects of gravitational lensing and note a difference (if applicable and there are any) which must then be explained by some other mechanism. That could be anything from a misestimation of the metric in the region of the body to quantum effects as this observation posits.
What if funding is very one-sided on an issue? Why can't a Scientific field get caught in a 'local minimum' for centuries?
Among high schoolers, within the month they were surveyed:
35% drank some alcohol
21% binge drank (consuming an excessive amount)
22% rode in someone’s car who’d been drinking
10% drove after drinking

The stats show that marijuana use is rampant:
35.1% of 12th graders have smoked pot in the past year
21.3% of 12th graders have smoked pot in the last 30 days
16.6% of 10th graders have smoked pot in the last 30 days
6% of 12th graders say they use marijuana every day
81% of 12th graders say it would be easy to get marijuana
Only 32% of 12th graders feel that regular marijuana use is harmful
— https://www.teenrehabcenter.org/resources/high-school-drug-u...

...checks out.
What proof is there that they were hunter and gatherers (aside from an assumption based on timeline)? Isn't building an extensive permanent structure a signature of settled people?
It's a lot more than these two things, in fact I think these two things are not as important as the main benefit of smaller functions, which is making code that is easy to understand at a glance. Good naming with proper separation of logic into small pieces can make even c++ read almost like prose. It's hard to find, but when you see it, it always blows me over.
Can any crypto people here on HN verify that this gets it right?
I was told that part of the problem on a new glass bottle of ketchup is the surface tension at the top. So if you break the top layer with a knife or whatever the ketchup will suddenly start coming out. However I never looked up if it was true or not (surface tension) but it does appear to work albeit slightly unhygienic.
Only one of those incidents is of a lawsuit against a teacher, the other two incidents are of a lawsuit against the families. And there is a very good reason for this. There is state immunity granted to teachers and schools in that they cannot be sued for grossly negligent supervision that allows a stream of drugs, guns, knives and sex to flow into children under their care.

You can see it mentioned in your first article:

>her attorneys cite a state law that gives school districts and their employees immunity from liability if they make a good faith effort to report threats of violence.

so even if a student threatens violence, as long as the teacher reports it, there will no liability to her or the school even if they didn't do anything to stop the violence or supervise the children adequately. This statute is actually more lenient than other areas where it is complete immunity.

Now this immunity is limited to state actors and does not apply to private schools, churches or sports teams. And I believe that without these protections public schools would have been sued out of existence long ago for the horrible things constantly happening to children under their care.
This was my conclusion also. TFA says:

> It's legitimate for Canonical to insist that you not pass it off as their work when doing so, but their IP policy continues to insist that you remove all references to Canonical's trademarks even if their use would not infringe trademark law.

Since we're being pedantic about wordings, it doesn't say "remove all references to Canonical's trademarks", it says "remove and replace the Trademarks and [...] create your own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source license applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu."

I think it's explicit here that where this request to remove their trademarks conflicts with any existing licensing, that licensing will take precedence.

When read in conjunction with https://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing which stipulates that any component in the main Ubuntu component "must allow modification and distribution of modified copies under the same licence" it seems pretty clear that any software in the main component, at least, is protected and they're only doing what they're legally required to do to protect their trademarks.
With only a third of homeschooling households making over $75,000 per year, I can't imagine that a significant portion have a nanny. Then again, having never hired a nanny, I have no clue what they cost. Perhaps one parent works at night, or one parent works from home. Either way, it's definitely a curious statistic.
Underexplored in this discussion is that primary & secondary education, period, appears to have minimal impact on outcomes. Individual teachers appear to have absolutely minuscule effects at best.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-...
I was told by a VC just the other day that investors want you to get bought.

Maybe, when you start a business, instead of all this bickering about what is bad startup behavior, you just define whether or not you think you want to get bought or go on your own, and act accordingly.
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Yes, to your first point. To the second, I'd argue the impact is the not that much different in most cases. Barring horribly mis-configured systems, networked C/C++ applications execute at the local user level so even if you get an exploit going you're SOL unless you have a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the underlying OS. For a web app, most of them are connected to databases and exploiting a vulnerability there usually allows you to either dump user data, or corrupt memory and execute shell code (leaving you with the same situation as the C code). Usual disclaimers apply - these are oversimplifications for casual conversation purposes yada yada.
If you want to create a big company, there are only two options: 1) grow fast, 2) grow slowly for multiple decades. The latter is riskier because of constant landscape changes and the fact that you only have a 100 years (optimistic) of life.
But hacks are not made -- they are performed. It may be grammatically okay, but not semantically.
You convict Google on hypothetical future patent behavior, but give a pass to Microsoft who is currently engaging in actual bad behavior. And this is not bad behavior in the sense that government bureaucrats decided it, but bad in the sense that the tech community finds it abhorrent. It's a mafia-style shakedown, one in which Microsoft went after Barnes & Noble, a company who is not even a large player in any tech market, for e-reader Android licensing revenues. Chipping away at a criminal operation? Give me a break.

600 million Chinese Android non-OHA smartphones are shipping, millions more in India, lots of evidence you can ship AOSP forked devices, so I don't agree with Europe and Russia's argument. My guess is, if Google just focused on the Pixel as the premier container for their mobile apps, and the rest of the world was AOSP, you'd see Google's services installed by OEMs anyway, because of the sheer popularity of most of them, just as you see on the Web. And Russia could have their Putin-approved Yandex phone, which should make bloggers happy.
Bounds checks are often elided, so many access of vectors won't waste cycles on pointless checks. Or at least, if they are truly pointless, and they're not elided, that's an LLVM bug.
In my experience, which is not too much, people who "home-school" their children, would better not be allowed to do so.
Can you build something that'll make your customers happy?

Then your stack is good enough.
But if that's the whole argument then it's a gimme from the start, since Ubuntu includes non-free driver blobs and the like. They prioritise utility over "free software purity".
Wow, awesome, that's a good success story for those that did't know their co-founders beforehand.
Suppose someone gives you a dollar, and then someone gives you another dollar. Now you have two dollars, which is more than a dollar. Disambiguating two dollars from one dollar is fairly easy, because one is more than the other.

Same principle.
Really? I had the opposite experience. If you take away even one parking spot, people in Brooklyn go absolutely insane. The city was considering putting in bike lanes in my neighborhood, and tons of people showed up to the meeting in opposition to it. They all had their own reasons, but it was pretty clear that the 2 real motivations were a general dislike of cyclists, and a desire to not lose parking spots.

http://gothamist.com/2016/06/22/yell_louder_cyclists.php
This is too rational to be correct.
That it's the only permanent structure of its kind from that period, and that every other type of artefact from the era we have found so far is very different.
There's a Wikipedia article devoted to Ukraine's name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine

In short, Ukrainian has no definite article, unlike English. Ukraine officially dropped 'the' from the English translation of the country's name after independence. Some Ukrainians find the use of 'the' somewhat insulting as it is the Soviet-era translation and disregards the Ukrainian government translation.
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I can understand both perspectives. I'm not really a professional programmer. I started as a kid programming basic on my Apple II, but only dabbled until a few years ago, when I really got into Python/ Javascript/ Ruby. Learning C after the fact has opened up a lot of understanding for me, it allows me to be more confident when I'm using easier languages like Python.
How many samples do you need to take to know how big a set is?
Full body virtual reality using Kinect v1 is now possible
> To answer it, we need to rewind to the year 1998. Nobody had ever heard of JSON (2002) or REST (2000) or SOAP.

But people had heard of S-expressions, which are far more appropriate for data transfer than XML.

And the canonical S-expression spec, from 1997, is rather less than 30 pages: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt
This is actually awesome for demos in lectures! Great to have better tooling for such a regular task on the command line.
This law makes it illegal to create arseholes that can shit in water fountains.

Not shitting in water fountains.
Doesn't really sound like they're stuck. If they don't have the skills or experience, talk to and hire people who do. It's a completely approachable problem, if they want to approach it.
But the amount of resources required to build that type of structure is not present in a H&G society. Those societies tend to be small groups. Quarrying large stones requires a lot of resources, which is only present in a settled society.
I think public schools foster an environment of sex, bullying, drugs and weapons by getting large groups of children together and offering very little supervision. I don't think those kinds of environments could exist outside of modern schools.

Yes giving kids alone time is fine, but leaving a large group of kids together under the supervision of very few adults and repeating this 5 days a week for several years is going to have some effect.
Regardless of your viewpoint, the way you express yourself makes you sound like one of those conspiracy theorists that pats other people on the shoulder saying "don't worry, you'll figure it out some day". Does not help with credibility at all.
FiveStars (YC W11) hiring experienced consumer PMs to make commerce human
FiveStars was founded five years ago as a loyalty program. We replaced the punch card. That product has done well for us - today 16 million consumers check in 1.2 million times every week.
Our mission, however, transcends loyalty. Our mission is to turn transactions into relationships.

In a world ten years from now, when we can get anything we want delivered to our bedsides, I believe we’ll get out of bed in the morning to experience human relationships. It is this desire to connect that will drive us into restaurants, coffee shops, or our local bar.

Five months ago I joined FiveStars over other great options because of our opportunity to serve this desire - to make commerce human. That opportunity is exciting; and ultimately I chose it instead of joining one of the familiar tech giants where I’d be scaling someone else’s product.

To seize this opportunity we must build a product that helps consumers understand we’re more than a punch card replacement. Consumers must seek out FiveStars as a way to connect with the stores they love. Consumers must seek out FiveStars as a way to share the rewards they love.

If our mission excites you, and you’re up for the challenge of helping us move past loyalty, then we want to get to know you. Shoot me an email with your prior startup or product experience. Resumes are fine, but optional

Sam Odio
odio@fivestars.com
A mutual friend introduced us, he was really enthusiastic about building a project together (side project, not full startup for now).

We have complimentary skills (he's more of a PM and business guy). I think I was the hard one to convince :P . I've actually let him down, I'm not pushing as hard as we can and it's stuck at the side project stage (need 50 to 200 more dev hours and I'm the dev).

He actually has beta testers lined up (and willing to pay).
Techniques like this were used in WWII to estimate the number of tanks the Germans had, given only limited information about the serial numbers of some.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
It's entirely possible to pay your property tax (and thus fund public schooling), home-school your children, and be elected to your school board or be otherwise involved in your local education system.

None of those are mutually exclusive activities.
You don't understand why people might like cabs, trucks, busses, and emergency vehicles? People don't drive their own cars already.
I doubt we'll see stories of people making botting tools getting jail time in Korea but the fact that there is a mechanism where they could get jail time, it makes the rule enforceable.

The situation is you have people who break the rules and profit from that, you have enforcers who know who the people are who are breaking the rules but don't have a practical method for controlling them. So this gives them a bigger stick to threaten the bot makers with and presumably they will back down and try some other way to subvert the system that doesn't have the risk of jail time.

The big challenge is that they don't want to turn of players who are paying a subscription revenue but they don't want players that cheat either. If they can make it harder to cheat they hope to keep the revenue and reduce the cheating. Otherwise they ban players which reduces the cheating and reduces the revenue.

My own opinion is that finding the equivalent of shadow banning for these game players would be much more interesting. Back when I was playing World of Warcraft it was suggested that Blizzard might implement a way of adjusting the odds of reward for cheating players against them and in favor of people who were not cheating. That being a more subtle way of making cheating less beneficial and moving people away from it.
AFAICT, he's still around (although I haven't checked in a while). He hasn't talked to the forge folks, though, so nobody cares.

Unless he's left the scene, we can assume that he merely continues to spread his particular brand of poison in his corner of the internet, rarely venturing into the wider community.

But yes, the modding scene is better than it was. Thanks to FTB (as well as Tekkit cleaning up their act), the modpack controversy is mostly a thing of the past. And thanks to King_Lemming, Pahimar, Azanor, SpaceToad, and the rest of the major players in the scene, closed-source mods are very nearly a thing of the past (but not quite).
I guess that depends on the farmer...
> You go to mcdonalds, order a burger without cheese and get charged more then when you order a burger with cheese where you ask the cheese to be checked before it gets applied to the burger, more work.

Will McD even allow you to order like that? Even if, I wouldn't be surprised if you had to pay extra - McD operates a standardized process for food preparation that ensures you get uniform quality everywhere in the world. They don't hire chefs, they hire people that follow detailed instructions to assemble your food. Making you a custom burger is a cost for them.
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It's not published yet, but they have implemented the required syscalls in the WSL repo now (https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/307)
I think you look at it a bit incorrectly. Those high level languages were designed not to avoid mistakes, but to push software complexity to a whole new level. You simply won't be able to get to that complexity with a lower level language, because people have limited ability to think about things and tend to fallback to solutions they can fit in their mind. Which is why you shouldn't expect high level languages to eliminate vulnerabilities, people still use their minds to the limits and make mistakes. Other approaches must be taken.
There's NYC and there's NYC. Manhattan is a small part of NYC: Staten Island, you must have a car. Large swathes of Queens and even Brooklyn have no pub transport (buses can be pretty awful due to traffic although they do exist). I think that's a big block of people opposed. Another political consideration is that the State of New York has control over elements of policy that would otherwise be anti-car. For example, the congestion tax they wanted to bring in, it was the state government that killed that.

I still agree that congestion control, disincentives for car use, wider sidewalks, all should be done. Some of us wish NYC could declare independence so we could choose our own policy, but that's a different story...
I don't think acpid would help much for the halt command. However, it would enable to halt the machine from the web console.
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This is the modern physics model. The major discoveries and papers have 100s of authors attached to them. The soft sciences tend to have lots more smaller studies and papers.

The damage is that there isn't an "Accepted body of knowledge" that everyone knows to be true. Perhaps this isn't even possible.
If you're over step 0 and are pretty sure deep learning is right for the job, I suggest steps 1: download Torch, and 2: get comfortable with putting your data into Tensors. As a software developer I found Torch much easier to learn than alternatives like Tensorflow, probably due to the comfortable imperative style.
It's funny that Googlers like to cite China as proof AOSP is really a thing and that competition exists. But the only reason it works is that as you point out: Google exited China. It's impossible to compete with an illegal monopoly, but we can easily see how much better the market works when Google is gone. So Europe and Russia's argument is, AOSP will thrive when Google (or at least, their blatantly illegal contract terms with OEMs) is gone, of which I agree completely. I'm sure Russia would be more than happy if Google left on "moral grounds".
I fail to see the connection between your questions and the article. Can you elaborate?
Not quite what you're looking for, but the vive is actually quite modular and the headstrap can be replaced/hacked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uDf6ayUQtk
My guess:

Got X budget this year. Used 1/2 of X budget for useful things.

Requirement: Use all of X budget or receive only 1/2 of X budget next year.

Solution: Use the budget to map all the trees.
That's not quite accurate. Local hidden variable theories have been proven wrong, but pilot wave theory is a nonlocal hidden variable theory. Bell himself was a proponent of pilot wave theory.
ok, I'll settle for a metric ton!
One of the things that I really dislike about homebrew is its refusal to run via sudo plus the requirement that you own /usr/local.

This means:

1) It is a security hole; any application can now modify system-wide applications at any time.

2) You can't have multiple users able to use homebrew.

I was expecting homebrew to be something similar to apt/yum/etc, but this makes it pretty fundamentally different.

How does Macports handle this? Does $USER still need write access to /opt?
As long as we accept that this group of people was unique for its time, why shouldn't the uniqueness include settlement?
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Looks interesting, but I can't open it with Adobe Reader on my Android.
I agree, it felt like repeating the same mistake. However, there was a slightly different context in that they were comparing data between two different, parallel-running approaches. That may have helped avoid it happening a second time, maybe?
* standalone stream processing engine ("event sourcing", "complex event
processing") that can run queries (similar to how relational database runs SQL
queries) and works in publish-subscribe mode, one that is not
a proof-of-concept by some researcher, but actually working software

* database for system logs (JSON documents) that is not as brittle as
ElasticSearch and not as big of a memory hog

* topic map engine usable from Perl or Python
Besides the points others have made, my prior would be for people to be better adapted to growing up with mixed-age peers, because they did in essentially all of human history. Maybe the developmental psychologists you mention have robustly found otherwise, and that'd surprise me.
That's $1500 on f-secure
To whatever extent childhood is training for adulthood, navigating school popularity and politics is training for navigating politics at work and in adult communities.
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Pilot wave theory requires non-local hidden variables. Only local hidden variable theories have been shown to be impossible.

In non-relativistic situations, Bohemian mechanics (pilot wave theory) makes the same predictions as more mainstream interpretations of QM.
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