skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK. For Massachusetts 2015, to pick a town and a city that each have one high school and are both expensive property values.

Cambridge (expensive city) $27,569 per pupil

Concord (expensive suburb) $17,517 per pupil

http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/state_report/ppx.aspx

Rankings

Cambridge Ringe and Latin was 214 out of 340

Concord Carlisle High was 27 out of 340

https://www.schooldigger.com/go/MA/schoolrank.aspx?level=3

Not cherry-picked data.

A lot of the difference is that cities, even expensive ones, are cities. A lot more diverse student body. A lot more students with problems at home. More disruption, etc. You can spend more money but the average student in the city school almost certainly has less parental involvement and less of a home environment that's conducive to learning than in the tony suburb.

The linked article (and decades of debate) notwithstanding, it's also hard to really correlate spending per pupil with educational outcomes past a certain point--especially as measured on standardized tests.
Poorer cities do spend less. Two Lawrence high schools have the worst test results in Massachusetts. But its spending, $14,475 per pupil, is still only a bit less than Concord.
They violently forced you to click on the link in HN and violated your individual rights?
I want to ask the HN community to kindly consider this post worthy of reading, because as an anonymous user, submissions are heavily suppressed (to avoid spammers and bots).
As a long time user of Thunderbird, I'm also I'm a big fan of Aquamail. It's probably the richest feature mail client I've found on Android. The developer is incredibly responsible, and it is very performant to the point that I prefer it even on a tablet over anything else.

If it could be available to run on a desktop easily, there might be something to hold me over.

Thunderbird has one piece of robustness that most desktop email apps do not - you can transfer email between laptops and versions of their software. I used apple mail pretty happily for a while until I discovered the dreaded incompatible databases.

If I was to look forward, People are going to start to have more and more email like many of us do already. I'd probably want a tool that uses the best of the established back end mail tech and something multi platform and one code base.

If there's a tool that uses standard java or python libraries that are pressure tested already for backend, and perhaps a front end built in something like electron I'd be seriously interested. As much as I feel I have no other option to use other than Thunderbird as a desktop client across my accounts (google, exchange, etc)
This article makes you thing the new f-strings will be discussed. What is really being discussed is 'string'.format(), which isn't new in any way.
The proposed idea of relying on undocumented internals and blacklisting attribute names to securely sandbox formatting strings is _really_ _dangerous_. Never do that in production code! Language expansions could render your sandbox unsafe at any time.

You can write your own safe formatting engine in much less code.

def safe_format(fmt, **args):
return re.sub(r'\{([^{}]*)\}', lambda m: args.get(m.group(1)), fmt)

safe_format('{foo} {bar}', foo='Hello', bar='world') # Hello world

Add bells and whistles as desired.
NYT is a publicly traded company. I don't see how a publicly traded company can control who buys it's stocks.
If you could nock the price down you could market this to HAMs for QSL cards.
The number of new rich people created by IPOs is a minority of the aggregate demand for housing. Plenty more people are moving to the area from elsewhere.
Annoyance but at least not a backdoor but this will still end up yahoo click bait sounding more serious than it is for a few weeks since it's Apple related.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13291386 and marked it off-topic.
noone is trying to pull anyone down. Don't you see the lack of self awareness of waxing eloquent about " people in need " while accepting money stolen from them at the same time.
In my OPINION mid-tier chairs are a complete waste of money.

Cheap chairs are great because they're cheap. Expensive chairs are great because they're good (e.g. Steelcase, Aeron, Humanscale, et al). Mid tier are neither good nor cheap. It is just burning money.

The closest thing I can suggest is maybe an Ikea MARKUS ($200 or your regional equivalent). But the fixed arms really kill it for me. Plus I had the leather flake off the arms after 2.5 years.

PS - If you're heavier set, pay close attention to the max load. You'll want the max to be at least 10-20% higher than your weight.
You realize that teaching is a different skillset?

Mind you, I'd wager 95% of people trying to teach have zero previous experience, much less on-going experience.

If you wanna go after Amy, you're being foolhardy.
If you ask on HN, and given you're American, you could start by writing more correctly. Reading your "ask" is a bit annoying, it contains so many grammar mistakes. It shows that you did this quickly and without regard to your audience.
I've been going through his series on Statistics to complement some MOOCs I've been doing on Data Science / Statistics. Very helpful stuff. Likewise, I just started going through his Calc I sequence to help me brush up on that stuff. Definitely one of my favorite Youtube personalities. I find his videos tremendously useful.
I'm genuinely curious. Wouldn't a quiet little place be better for your composing work? Or your prefer larger city because of the scene itself?
They have control over who they accept "loans" from. Google it.
I apply this logic universally. Do you?

>so that I can take your advice seriously.

Why would i give you advice.
This is a full rework of my original project, Postacard.io. The entire project has been completely rewritten. The new version includes a Messenger bot for international use without the SMS fees, as well as statistical NLP in address parsing for faster creation (from start to finish) and better accuracy internationally.

FYI, for those of you using "UK" as your country code. The postcard service this uses recognizes "GB" as the country code for United Kingdom. I'll be putting in an alias for this.
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> Inevitably, by necessity, the solution to this mess will come from all those in the middle class who've been forced to find another way.

Yes, they will be living in condos and apartments. You can have a large detached home, or live in a city. You can't have both.
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On this forum, there are plenty of people who are totally out of touch with reality when it comes to salaries, doubled by the fact they they believe they are so above everyone else that they should earn 10 times average Joe's salary and live like kings, hence everything else is a failure.

Very recently, there were the 'unworthy' Japanese salaries. They were 50%-80% higher that what I am used to see around me for equivalent qualifications, but no, the general opinion here was that they were outrageously low (without consideration for any other factor).

I also remember one guy saying he was earning 150k$/year and that leaving in France was with that salary OK but barely so. Truth is that's 3 to 4 times what most mid-career engineer earn, and their salary allows them to have an easy life. That's 6 times the median salary, which means that half of the population can live 6 years or more with a single year of his salary. That's 8 times the minimum wage, and lots of people live with it, some without any problem, some with difficulties, depending on the family situation, the location and the spending habits, but they all make do. Finally that's 20 times the amount of welfare, which is enough to live a poor and simple life. So the guy could have lived, say 10 years with a single year of his income, and yet he was whining.

My jaw regularly falls when I read money/salary related posts on this forum.
Except it isn't an app :), which is the reason for the original inspiration behind the project. Postcards aren't a very popular thing anymore (hopefully that changes!), and I don't quite believe a dedicated app is justified when you can do it straight from SMS or Messenger.
Theoretically, that sounds reasonable, but in reality, they tend to agree on issues due to political alliance, not values. Politicians in both the Republican and Democratic parties have almost unanimously been on both sides of issues depending on who put it forward/who was in power.
It's actually been completely rewritten from the original project. This time it includes NLP for address parsing (this was a huge issue with the first version and didnt work properly internationally). It also includes a Messenger bot integration to avoid the international fees with SMS.
Improved transportation infrastructure is a valid way of increases the number of homes available to job centers.

Increased centralization in cities is a bit of a problem. But cities are such an economic multiplier that it's difficult not to. That's a tougher nut to crack.
>teachers being respected leads to higher pay

Note that teachers are not paid well in Finland. The average wage for a classroom teacher is $43k per year, which is slightly less than the average wage of all workers.
He clearly said, "There are claims that federal funding is biasing climate research; that the federal government isn't just funding research, but are buying science that promotes specific agendas."

Being a college-trained writer, I'm having a difficult time discerning the difference between, "There are claims that..." and "People are told that..." Both are passive sentences, suggesting that some unspecified entity is making claims, and others are believing them. Perhaps you could explain the difference between the two with whatever English degree you have. From my professional perspective, innocentoldguy literally said exactly what you just suggested he should have said, which leads me to believe that he is correct, and that you are judging his post based on emotion rather than rational thought.

As innocentoldguy said, whether people agree or disagree with climate change is not the issue. The issue is that many people don't agree with it, and they believe they have legitimate reasons not to (some of which innocentoldguy outlined in his post). As someone who thinks climate change IS an issue, and wants something to be done about it, you can either down-vote and insult those who you perceive as not agreeing with you (and I’m not convinced innocentoldguy falls into that category), or you can acknowledge their concerns, and work to fix whatever negative perceptions exist in your position. In other words, you can listen to their concerns, and then work to resolve them.

You're never going to convince anybody when you shout them down and down-vote them, but you might if you actually try to listen to what they’re saying and try to have a reasonable dialogue with them. Which seems to be the brightest course of action to you?
So where did this small government wing go?

You're saying that it existed before and that it opposed infrastructure spending doubtfully out of heartfelt principle. Now that the Republican Party candidate has been elected, does this wing still exist? If it exists then surely it can be depended on to resist any large government infrastructure spending that a populist candidate would propose.

Surely this is the case.
Duly noted. In fairness, it was mutual escalation of hostilities.
It's funny how much flak Facebook (and almost no one else) got for "fake news" when the vast majority of today's journalism is so saccharine.

Is there a way contemporary journalism can be fixed?
17 years doesn't seem too far off. Tim Detmer's detailed analysis puts it anywhere from 2037 to 2078, with his preference the latter (or later).

http://timdettmers.com/2015/07/27/brain-vs-deep-learning-sin...

A key assumption I don't share with Detmer is that we must match the brain's raw computational power to have a chance at human-level AI. From an evolutionary point of view, most of the brain's computations surely must be superfluous to intelligence and necessary instead to a vast host of other biological functions.
Well first, a 1-bedroom is the most expensive way to live, at the rate we're going we'll have 3-bedroom apartments with 3 families per bedroom instead of 3 bedrooms per family :). Back to the Industrial Revolution tenements.

You can get your human dynamic just fine on sidewalks, cafes, parks, etc. It doesn't need to be in-building. And even ~70 stories by elevator is still only a few minutes, nothing like the hour-plus train rides middle-class people in cities currently need to endure.
I currently live in Guadalajara as a freelancer and I am thinking of moving to Mexico City next year if I can convince myself to pay the higher rent. Loved being there and there are areas similar to Brooklyn to give you an idea of what life is like there.
Yeah, the "time ran out" prematurely bug killed it for me.
WaPo, Nytimes, CNN, all part of the US propaganda machine.

The anti-Russia hysteria is getting ridiculous, and the more the media drum it up, the less people believe it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0ArMMGXcAIo8oL.jpg
I'd like to use this! But I have questions. Tell me more about the automatic rotation, and in general about how images are fit to cards when the aspect ratio differs. I'm also curious about print resolution.
Reminds me of the turing complete interpreter lurking in libc's printf.

https://github.com/HexHive/printbf
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I think the real question is, why is the amazing interactive simulation medium that we call a computer so abysmal at capturing and representing ideas (particularly ideas about the computer itself) that we have to resort to inventing a new notation for pencil & paper to deal with it?
Most need to operate as non-profit organizations that are barely hanging on.

Need, or choose? The hackerspace I am part of (SplatSpace, in Durham, NC) is a non-profit and that was very much a conscious and pointed decision at the beginning. Nobody involved was interested in trying to make a for-profit business out of it. Everybody just wanted a cool place to hang out and tinker / build / learn / etc. And we got that.

Anyway, to the question of whether or not you can make a viable (for profit) business out of a hackerspace. I don't know. As you note, TechShop has struggled, as have some of the other "for profit" hackerspaces I've seen come and go. My gut feeling is that there's just a sort of fundamental impedance mismatch of sorts between "hackerspace people" and "for profit" hackerspaces.

If there is a way, I think it would have to be aiming it more towards businesses and less towards individual hackers. A startup that needs a place to prototype their new physical -world device (robot, self-driving car, drone, etc.) might pay more for shared use of tools and equipment. Of course some individuals would probably still show up. I think. :-)
Unless you live in a total dictatorship, it's selfish to be completely disinterested in what's going on in the world, more so if you're personally unaffected by a deluge of horrors happening to others. We don't yet live in that dictatorship here in the US, and the actions and expressed preferences of common citizens are still influential in politics, especially if you care enough to call up your legislators and write to your newspapers. We are the cast, not the audience.
Does that include all the value created locally in order to be able to make those exports? Like food that people eat, vehicles that they have to drive, etc., That much drop in economic activity will surely trigger much worse outlook than you are alluding to.
"Many of us lived through the 1960s and 1970s, when the government and scientists claimed we were heading into an ice age."
Looking back on my school career, from elementary through high school, the thing I hated most about school was all the fucking assholes I was force to call classmates.

Then, looking back at all the shitty retail jobs I held, the thing I hated most about work was all the fucking asshole customers.

Then, looking back at all the shitty office jobs I held, the thing I hated most were my co-workers, above me, below me, and across from me.

But really, the thing that I've hated all along, is being forced to do anything without first building the understanding behind why bothering at all.

Why am I going to school?

Fuck you, I'm a kid.

Why am I working this shit job?

Fuck you, for robbing me of my youth.

Why do I work at all?

Fuck you, can I have what's left of my life back please?

And then I fucking died.
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> What will it take Google, GE, or Microsoft to move a big chunk of their respective operations away from San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle?

It's a chicken and egg problem: companies don't want to invest in cities where there aren't a lot of qualified workers, and workers don't want to move to cities where there aren't a lot of jobs. Furthermore, the most competitive workers tend to move to the cities you mentioned, so companies located in those cities can stay where they are and enjoy having the best workers come to them.

Consider the Sacramento area: it's about 2 hours from Silicon Valley by car, with significantly cheaper housing, and plenty of well-connected people because Sacramento is the state capital. Why doesn't that area have a booming tech economy? Because the most competitive tech workers from Sacramento have already moved to the Bay Area. Bay Area companies don't need to open offices in Sacramento to attract those workers.
I think that goes for _any_ country you move to. Yes, in many places you can get by just learning "please", "thank-you", and basic numbers.

But learning a language will let you fit in much more easily, and will make people more willing to help you.

(Recently moved from Scotland to Finland. Great country. Horrible language!)
Yeah, I guess I see what you are trying to say. I just want to clarify when I say predictable, I mean that given a set of operations. No matter the order they come in, the results will be the same. This makes OT powerful in that everyone just needs the operations eventually in order to have a consistent document. The only middle ground that I could see that would allow predictability in the document, and help mitigate these silent errors would be to notify users of when they have both edited the same range before consistency was reached. This would catch "almost" any case that I think you are talking about, although would of course miss the situations in which semantic errors arise due to errors in very different parts of the document(e.g. referencing a figure 2.1, while someone changes that figure to 2.2), but these errors can still easily arise with a single editor, and so are not really unique to OT. I do think that it would be nice to have a solution to that problem though...
Well essentially the platform simply looks at the difference between the width and height, and rotates to fit a 4x6 aspect ratio, gravitated towards the center of the photo. It works best with photos taken directly from a smart phone, uncropped. It also scales the resolution if its not high enough, but this typically isn't an issue if the photo was taken with a modern smartphone today.

You can read a bit about this in FAQ

https://postcardbot.co/faq
> Is there a way contemporary journalism can be fixed?

The Post is being called out by The Intercept, a publication launched in 2014 [1]. That looks an awful lot like a system reacting to itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept
I don't really understand what you mean. They're pointing out unintended consequences of allowing arbitrary string formats. You're linking to one you call "better" which would allow even more powerful misuse of arbitrary string formats.

And while Scala's string formatting looks cool, it hardly seems like your reply applies to the topic/thread. In fact ironically it seems to point out that this would be an even bigger issue in Scala.
Finland used to host Nokia, and as a result of that there are a lot of local talent that are available easily and cheaply. Unless you have great talent, as a non-Finnish-speaker you'll struggle to compete with them.

That said there are startups here, and there are some niches that are thriving (e.g. gaming).
Western European countries are the best gas client of Russia; Ukraine often didn't have money to pay Russia, as well as political disputes.
It isn't great, and they did have a leak, but it is the best option if you're working across platforms (including your phone). And peering options are at least there. I've considered switching out, but have been relatively happy.
The only x86 CPU to not have 16-bit execution, 32-bit only
They did that to me too. I ended up going to a 3rd party and having the battery replaced no problem. Worked great!
The cities are attractive, too attractive, that's why prices are so high. We do not have a demand shortage. We have a supply shortage.
Not at all.

Still, it seems that every single op-ed in the Times has to do with why X liberal opinion is moral and, if you think otherwise, then you are either stupid or immoral. I have yet to see a single NYT opinion article that isn't formatted in such a way.
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Similar list here, but I'd add Ghostery and Google Hangouts to the list. Along with React and Redux dev tools if you use them.
Why would his opinion matter? Doesn't what he has already said stand on its own merit?

In my experience, the reason people usually want to know someone's personal opinion is simply to further their own fallacious, ad hominem arguments. I hope you had something more noble in mind.
Same here. Add the fact that I lived in the USA for most of my life undocumented. I now live in Mexico and doing OK.
Journalism has never been as impartial as people like to believe, bias and opinion always infects every piece. This in itself isn't necessarily a problem, except when society and the media becomes an echo chamber, and difference of opinion is marginalized.

Edit - should add, journalism is being fixed. The MSM is becoming increasingly irrelevant, social media and independent journalists who are on Twitter and various blogs are becoming more relevant.
Yes, but this is not even close to what parent stated.

All notation has a learning curve, PHBs won't just be able to understand them without putting in some effort.
Ironically the Russians have broken into the homes of US diplomats in Moscow and have pooped in them (among other things like killing one of their dogs).

>At a recent meeting of U.S. ambassadors from Russia and Europe in Washington, U.S. ambassadors to several European countries complained that Russian intelligence officials were constantly perpetrating acts of harassment against their diplomatic staff that ranged from the weird to the downright scary. Some of the intimidation has been routine: following diplomats or their family members, showing up at their social events uninvited or paying reporters to write negative stories about them.

But many of the recent acts of intimidation by Russian security services have crossed the line into apparent criminality. In a series of secret memos sent back to Washington, described to me by several current and former U.S. officials who have written or read them, diplomats reported that Russian intruders had broken into their homes late at night, only to rearrange the furniture or turn on all the lights and televisions, and then leave. One diplomat reported that an intruder had defecated on his living room carpet.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russ...
The really shameful part of this is the xenophobic garbage spewed by Democrats who are upset their candidate lost the election. They can't handle the thought that they simply lost, so now anyone who disagrees with them is an agent planted by Putin.
Salaries are much lower.