skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They explicitly stated "Every 5 minutes" - which is 12 records/hour.
That's not true very much. Both Facebook and Amazon are asking systems design questions.
With respect, the idea that most parents could fix the system if they just tried is incredibly naive. I think most parents do the best that they can. If they feel that homeschooling is better for their children then they absolutely should pursue that option.
I think between USDS and 18F, 18F has been showing more stable growth and they're on an eat-what-you-kill budget.
I stand corrected. It was clear that all these were attempts to extract additional revenue from their existing user base and infrastructure, and weren't very targeted, but for some reason I thought this due to a combination of flattening profits in an grow-at-all-costs VC environment, and being drunk on money. (Google is a company that is drunk on money.)

Well... I still think Uber is drunk on money. Just VC money.

And I'm sure that if Uber does implode, Travis will still come out a hundred-millionare and a reputation of being a business genius, even though he never actually turned the growth into a successful sustainable business. Kind of like Sean Parker and Napster.

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/12/01/2180647/the-taxi-unic...
This is fascinating. I want to turn as many of my biases as possible from unknowns to knowns, so I appreciate you pointing this out.

An exercise I've now decided to undertake is as follows:

Every time I see something that I feel is "uncritical adoration" I will challenge myself to look for evidence for the opposite of that in the same thread. I'll start with HN, but if this works I want to extend that elsewhere.
I wish people who are underemployed and such exceedingly talented teachers that they are better able to teach their kids than their local school would enter the teaching profession so others could benefit from their teaching.
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My problem is that schools standards are so low that my son was not learning anything there. He spent his days reading his way through the fiction section of the school library while the teachers focussed on the kids that were behind. If he was learning science, math or anything, I would have been happy.
In case you were confused by the introduction of the acronym NPS, (as I was) it means "Net Promoter Score". It's a customer loyalty metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter
One thing you must realize is that the median undocumented immigrant has been here 12 years. Many of these people have children who are American citizens, so if you promise to deport them, you're in effect saying you want to break up families.

Maybe that's fine with you. I don't think it sits well with a lot of people.

Realize as well that immigration status is a precarious thing, and it's not always clear who is here legally and who is not. Many people spend a long time in administrative limbo. I was in the US for seven years before I learned I was "legal".

Like many things, immigration is less clear-cut when you look at it in detail. I encourage you to do that, whether or not you end up agreeing with me.
You're conflating dietary and blood cholesterol, which are completely different things. Eating lots of cholesterol does not give you high blood cholesterol.
I think you're underestimating the level of traffic this "glorified phpBB theme with a relatively small community of fans" receives. Their Alexa rank sits at 3327 which alone means they're receiving tremendous traffic. Not to mention the whole concept of the site is to connect product enthusiasts with products they might end up purchasing. There's actually a fairly significant amount of upside if they can turn PH into a sales platform and take a commission.
What are the average hours worked by people with a minimum wage job, vs before the minimum wage?

3.4% unemployment - Seattle is a hub for tech and tech jobs. What's the unemployment rate amongst minimum wage workers vs salaried workers, and how does that compare to before the wage hike?

Lots of restaurants, eh? What percentage of minimum wage jobs are provided by these restaurants as opposed to say retail, non-union construction, or hospitality?

This article brings up far more questions than it provides answers.
The author is completely wrong.
I think he had misunderstanded the main objective behind using a framework like angular.

Angular is not build for developing a feature for an exisitng webpage. It's developed for building complex and large web applications, in a safe an eficient way.

I'm talking from my experience: We have developed a k3-k6 elearning/game platform in two months. Actually, it has 5 game types, a game creator/editor, user profiles, game boards.. it has around 20 to 30 routes (mostly dinamic) serving stored games and boards. Around 50 to 60 components (with some of them using pixi.js as a canvas render engine)

And despite of the growing feature list, we are still super confortable with the codebase. (We are just on the second iteration, starting the three).. You know something is good, when you are able to throw away parts of it and rewrite them without much drama....

The main application build, when gziped is around 380K ( Think that only firebase + pixi.js are around 150). But also we know that we will be able to split features (modules) for lazy loading them.. (and also our build will be smaller... because soon will be able to treeshake it)

PD: If your main use case is build a slider for a wordpress theme, angular doesn't fit, but instead, if you think on building (a desktop grade) application for the browser, even for the mobile browser you will find angular your best alliated.
No, but I do believe they have an intrinsic desire (money/sweets) that can be used to manipulate their behavior.
I know everyone on HN is big into the whole math, stem, good college thing, but out here in Central Time, all you really need to have a nice life is to not be an ass.

Most schools (even some of the good ones) turn kids into asses through the "Lord of the Flies" effect. Think about it: You have inexperienced little people with underdeveloped judgement spending most of their waking hours for most of the year with other little people who are in the same boat.

And people call this socialization! "I do not think that means what you think it means."

If kids had a little more contact with mature, self-actualized people growing up, they wouldn't have as much baggage to work through in adolescent/adult life.
This is the post I've been waiting for 2+ years - we have a ton of projects that we would like to deploy on AWS, but EC2 and friends have never supported IPv6, which has blocked us from moving forward, and our customers are reluctant to deploy on anything other than the big 4 (IBM/Google/Azure/AWS).

Looking very forward to trying this out.
Honestly, its largely a non-issue. Presenting people with choice and accommodating e.g. mothers is common sense.

It is the fact of protesting such matters at work that threw me off in the first place. Opinions shouldn't be crammed down people's throats.
I was homeschooled, and I personally did a lot of organized sports with other homeschoolers. Not team sports per say, but rather, something kinda similar to gym classes/track-and-field. The biggest events held among homeschoolers in that area probably had around 200+ kids attending, with a mix of religious and non-religious families and a wide variety of ages.

edit: FWIW this was in Toronto, Canada.
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Reading your post personally made me chuckle, as you could be "arguing" against institutional school with only a few words changed and it would hold the same weight.
Went to many a punk show at the Nancy Raygun in Richmond, VA. Great little venue.
Yea just throwing it out there. I think you're right it would most likely require more data
You might be able to sell more volume if it says '40% less sugar same great taste!'
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Sorry my bad writing detracts, Ill work on that. I was expecting a mixed AUS/US audience, so used "Math" not "Maths"

I did proofread it thru[through] a couple [of] times myself, but should have had a few friends proofread it and give feedback and fix typos before releasing.

ps. I've given up the local textbooks in favor of the AoPS.com ones, they are vastly superior imo - they just go much more deeply into things like completing the square etc.

Your comments most welcome - I think its an issue worth discussing, even if my writing skills not quite up to the job.
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I mean, that's a fairly lofty claim considering what I wrote. Would you care to point out some examples?
That doesn't make any sense. Think about it. How does a cab driver get you to your location? Well you explicitly tell him by giving an address, or the name of a POI, or drop a pin on a map. You're then taken to the location you specified. Now, as you approach the location, you make a choice to either finish the ride, or abort it early by telling the driver, "Hey, this close enough. Just let me out wherever." At this point, the cab driver doesn't care, as long as he gets paid and you're happy it's a successful transaction.

So what does following you do? Well it finds your actual final destination. Which restaurant. Which house. Which apartment. Which store. So that brings up two questions. First, how does this true final destination information give a better rider experience? Well it's not exactly clear, since the rider gave explicit destination information at the start of the transaction, or explicitly ended the ride when they became satisfied. So, what's in it for the driver? Well that's not clear at all either, since rider was already satisfied and the driver got paid.

So what doesn't it do for Uber? Well, now they have popularity of specific POIs. Which bar. Which restaurant. Which store. That's valuable information. You could use that to deduce rider profiles that include things such as taste preferences, and income level. Then you can use that information for differential pricing (e.g. "This dude has a bunch of disposable income, charge him an extra two bucks.")

I'm sure there's other things you can do with it, but my point is that it's not useful for navigation, at all, but does give economic information which could be squeezed, and attempts to squeeze all the money they can from essentially a car service on demand app, is Uber's MO.
You can also just switch it back to "Never" when you're done with your trip.
I think that many of the corner cases (background downloads) are cornery enough to justify giving users the options. The UX is hard, totally, but it's worth it.
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I'm extremely sorry about that. This was completely unprofessional on our part. Could I request you to email me your interview and onsite dates, so I can track down exactly where we dropped the ball?
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Right, the 3 way handshake can go sideways during that interim. Thanks.
Are we even trying? I mean we live happy with our 40 hour weeks. Most coders i know work after less work as in even less work hours other than gaining millions. A lot of us even earn more than our parents in the first years of our carreer.
Tell that to the people who want NAT for "security".
For those working with the IoT, this is VERY much of interest.
Beyond the moral arguements, the real reason nothing has happened is that this has absolutely no popular support in areas who actually have undocumented immigrants.

People in these areas usually are fine with them because "who cares". Businesses are fine because they usually represent cheap labor. Local governments have a lot to do on their plate already, they don't want to go in the immigration business.

These policies are basically "federal overreach". Feds fly in to do something the locals do not want.

Do you think LA is a sanctuary city because of Obama? It's the will of the people. Who cares what people in Iowa think?
Transitioning from a home schooled to an institutional education setting at the age of 11 was quite brutal.

At least I had martial arts training.
Was this something that varied at other public schools in the area? Unfortunately for location based assignment some of the burden ends up on the parents to select an appropriate district for their children and preferred educational needs.
Great reason to use their Web app instead of the native one - same functionality, and no such worries.
However, under "Parents' Reasons for Homeschooling Their Children (in percentages)", between 2011 and 2012 64% wanted to provide their children with "religious instruction," 77% "moral instruction."

Also desire to provide religious instruction and concern about the environment in other schools (top reason) are not mutually exclusive. How do you know that the parents who were concerned didn't also list "A desire to provide religious instruction" as their second?
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Very interesting. Have you tested it fully on a wide array of geolocation data? Such as what are the mappings for a variety of cities and towns, where some may fit a string definition or geolocation, such as "Pleasant".

I have used Solr quite a bit, not much Elasticsearch, but I am assuming the text tokenizers/analyzers aren't as complex in the schemas as Solr is, where you have a wide array of different text parsers.
> During that time period, state and federal law enforcement requested information on 408 riders and 205 drivers. Uber, however, only fully complied with 32 percent of requests, while partially complying with 53 percent of requests.

Not exactly an epidemic.
That list is 'most important reason', not 'only reason'. The #1 answer could also fold in the religious/moral answers as well (a 'concern about school environment' is a particularly vague statement)

If you look at the table immediately above it, it shows 'moral' at #2 and 'religious' at #4, with the vague 'environment' again at #1. 2/3rds to 3/4s of parents gave the religious/moral answer. This doesn't define them as young-earth creationist nutters, though - it just lends support back to the GP...

That being said, while Australia (article location) does have some hard-core christian right folks, they're generally not young-earth creationists. Not a lot of biblical literalism here.
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That is an excellent point! If you're going to homeschool, probably a good idea to train your kids in various forms of fitness/self-defense/badassery... just in case!
I always wondered why there's so much sugar in everything. All of my friends, relatives and people I know think that everything is too sweet - cookies, cake, soup, lemonade, ice cream, you name it. Am I weird? Do people actually like the sugar?

I just remember, one dad at a kids party once approached me and asked me "do you know why these cupcakes are so damn delicious? I've put TWICE the sugar that was on the recipe!" so yeah, I guess there are people who actually like it sweet... does anyone know of any data on this?
> I don't feel sorry for people that have come here illegally, afterall they broke the law as their first action to get here.

You are casually dismissing the group of people who are the main focus of controversy: people who arrived as children and have been here all their lives. They have never known the country they would be deported to. They are Americans by lived experience. They broke no laws.

I am simply not comfortable deporting those people. It brings us no benefit whatsoever.

> I have followed this election closely and I have yet to hear a single thing that leads me to think he is going to deport legal citizens of any background whatsoever

If you have a "deportation force" that operates on the kind of scale he claims to want at the speed he wants, you are obviously going to deport some citizens. It happened during Operation Wetback and there is no reason to think it would not happen again. People just don't always have their papers in order, and the immigration courts are backed up for years.
Mainly because their e-car offerings are uncompetitive. Only BMW has an edge over the other German manufacturers with their i models.
High school graduates are all "off". It takes years for them to learn to behave naturally as adults. I'm a professor - I've seen it. The only freshmen who are interesting to talk to at all are the homeschooled ones.

High school teaches "just for the test" and includes a lot of baloney like "evolution" for purposes of checking checkboxes.

High schools are packed with "absurdly unqualified" teachers and even more unqualified "administrators".

All your rationalizations seem pretty thin gruel when you face the undisputable fact that homeschooled kids far exceed public-school peers in academics.

See? beat for beat.
Is it crazy to think that a website with 2.8MM uniques/month could make could make $280,000/month? I honestly don't know the numbers for a media companies, referral programs or direct resellers.

There's also some obvious alignment between the two companies so maybe it was a much larger multiple than I would have expected. The team absolutely managed to build a product that has captured the attention (in many cases daily attention) of the type of people that AngelList wants.
As jobs are automated away and our own unskilled labor force finds it harder to find any job, there will be more concern about it.

All the feds have to do is enforce e-verify. If anything Trumps win likely signifies distress from the working class. If the Dems dig in their heals and cater more to non citizens than they do their own citizens, I'm afraid they may lose in the next election again.
If you are interested in this type of activism, and live in a city that offers its own form of ID (notably SF or LA), you can do this now by signing up for a city ID card. There is considerable concern that the city ID databases will be used as registries of illegal immigrants, so the more legal residents who take advantage of it, the weaker that signal becomes.

Plus, it's nice to have a second form of photo ID sometimes.

In SF, you need an appointment to get an ID. You can make one here: http://sfgov.org/countyclerk/sf-city-id-card
The person you are replying to is not worried about general AI. They're worried about the mindset of moving critical decision making on things that even we haven't fully figured out to AI.
We're fine with them because they're our friends and neighbors.
If you look at Uber's actual transparency report you'll see the feds only requested 65 records. The governments doing the mass data requests were mostly local, state, airports and courts:
https://transparencyreport.uber.com/
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I was a huge fan until now. I'm really disappointed that they pick and choose who they think should pay more for the same ride.
I don't want to sound like I'm minimizing the issue, when I say this, because I respect the sentiments expressed here greatly. But there's a very strong stigma around collection of location data, more so than other forms of more sensitive information. Almost every credit card company, bank, insurance company, and more share your every purchase. What you buy, what you eat, how you live. As far as the sensitivity of data goes, location data is serious, but far less serious compared to things that people are mostly okay with.

For me, I go to and from home, the gym, and work. Every day. If someone was looking at that data, I'd be creeped out, but they'd learn almost nothing about me. If someone saw my credit card statements, I'd be mortified. And yet, almost everyone forgets to fill out and mail back that little slip you get with a new credit card that says "hey, actually I don't want you to sell all of my data to everyone on the planet."
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Is it only not in taste to ask for references when numbers aren't involved? It was a simple request. Bet you could have fulfilled it.
The word socialize seems to have been co-opted to mean institutionalize. The top-down authoritarian school system is completely antithetical to Western values of freedom of expression and voluntary association. The Prussian model, from which state education systems are based upon, was designed to produce subservient citizens who will do as they're told and not make trouble by thinking for themselves. The state education system acts as a corporate subsidy for producing an obedient working class.

The history of state education, especially in America, is pretty dark. John Taylor Gatto, former teacher of the year in New York several times over, has written extensively on the history of education and it's worth reading his books to understand why state education seems so bad -- basically because it's working as intended. Our current education systems are damaging our children's emotional and intellectual independence, and do not serve the hopes and wishes most parents have for their children's education.

Voluntary options to state education should absolutely be celebrated, and parents should have the freedom to choose how to educate their own children.
While there might be some sad subset of home educators that lock kids in a box and disallow social interaction, that isn't the norm. There are vibrant communities that exist around the world. Local education services, museums, community education coops, teams, social groups, friends...

It's not some sort of vacuum where kids spend 9 hours a day practicing for the spelling bee and sewing bonnets.
If you could prove that homeschooling is unhealthy or even worse than public schools, then you could have a point. But now you are just stating your opinion and suggesting that your opinion should be reinforced by the government.

The data shows that homeschoolers perform better than public school students not only academically, but also on measures of social, emotional and psychological development.
A reasonable impact speed for a Rod would be more than mach 20. That's what we get out of ICBMs today. And that's including atmospheric drag.

As far as dropping something from orbit, the concept was each rod would have a tiny booster and be in its orbit. You'd put a few dozen (or a few hundred) in polar orbits, and that way you'd always have one lined up.

The equation you're looking for in your third point is this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis-viva_equation

Exactly how long it would take for the Rod to arrive on target depends on how much control authority you have at hypersonic speeds. Not really sure what's possible there.
Uh, I think the culture that normalizes this kind of extreme approach is really unhealthy and creates a very false mythos around this process. You can see from his other comments that the author will likely burn out if they don't learn how to take care of themselves.

This whole thing feels like myth making. Googler's aren't perfect space aliens.

I spent ~ 6 hours prepping for my interviews, and got an offer. About half that time was cramming Stroustrup's "A Tour of C++" for my C++ interview, since I hadn't used it in a year or so. The other half was going through the most common data structures and algorithms and refreshing my memory.

The coolest thing I used in my interviews was Union-Find.

FWIW, the company I left was actively hiring and I had interviewed 15 candidates in the preceding two months, so I was used to the process.
Our entire application back end is written in IPv6 only. We don't have an IPv4 version of our product. Until IPv6 was offered, no way for us to host our application on AWS.
It was really for physical education...the question posed by my parents was "Tee-ball or karate?" Needless to say that most six and seven-year-old boys have ninja aspirations.

It was a source of discipline, and the dojo was one of my main social groups growing up through every sort of school.