skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are we actively trying to level the educational playing field between cities and rural America?

Yes, we are. But the cities remain very far behind and there's an enormous amount of work to do.

Seriously: what are you on about here? Almost everything you're saying is just plain wrong. Urban incomes are lower than rural ones in this country. Urban crime rates are higher. Urban hunger rates are higher. Urban drug addiction rates are higher. Urban suicide rates (c.f. this very discussion) are higher. Pick your social ill. The cities have it worse. The cities have always had it worse, since literally the invention of the city.

You've invented this idea that "cities" are inhabited only by college-educated liberals who hate you. Well... they aren't. And the people that actually do live there kinda need your help (and, ahem, empathy) too.
Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages (1967) [pdf]
That's the point. The author merely guessed it from the data of other studies which is impressive and totally correct
The American health care system is a cash cow with absurd barriers to entry, the last thing they want are free markets, transparency, or competition.
> This sounds like an attempt to impose another corruptible organization in the middle of something the market is currently solving quite well.

Whether the market has solved this "quite well" is certainly up for debate. It could definitely be better than it currently is.

We have oversight agencies that are not known for being corrupt. I'm thinking of OSHA, the EPA, the CPA and several others. Does any side involved here deserve due process? It is sad if the default assumption is that everyone is cheating on all sides, and nobody deserves to be treated as innocent until proven guilty.
In the SF Bay Area (Silicon Valley), there was already another a free mobile laundry (with shower) service. [0]

It's good that multiple nonprofits offer overlapping/similar services, especially in an affluent area which can easily afford to provide basic dignity to those in need.

0: http://www.dignityonwheels.org/locations-and-schedule/
Because you pay Microsoft to use Windows, and you pay them a lot. With HBO streaming you can always skip past those ads, and I've never seen them on Prime videos (if you could again you can skip past them). With Google, they're giving you the service for free, so ads are expected.

If I'm going to shell out $120 for a Windows license, I don't want to see goddamn ads built into the fucking operating system.
I agree with what you're getting at, but I think you mean Privacy rather than Net Neutrality.

The other commenter mentioned VPN becoming more regular which is good, but also maybe indicates something troubling. If it's regular for people to feel they need to take extra steps to protect their privacy from companies they're already paying then it would seem something's wrong.
As I said before, I don't know anyone in rural America that can't empathize with poor people in the city.

I know many people in cities that have 0 empathy for rural America and issues such as the heroin epidemic facing America.

You literally said it yourself, "That's an entirely self-inflicted problem.". Go to rural America. Talk to them. Then come back and tell me if you think its self inflicted. Do you really think you are so amazing that you would have been impervious to the cultural impact your environment has on you and never touched those type of drugs?
> imagine for a second someone telling you that 'you should just move from where you are because where you were born isn't good enough'

Sounds to me like how this country was created. Are rural Americans so weak that they can't handle a tenth of the hardship their ancestors endured to create this country? If so, then it sounds like they're the ones standing in the way of Making America Great Again.
Currently using pixterm which works on any ANSI terminal.
https://github.com/eliukblau/pixterm
A lot can happen in a week. Periodic state dumps or checkpoints can save a lot of wasted time if there's a power interruption 5 days in.
Ah, you got me! I know the Roman alphabet, but I know only a few letters from the Greek alphabet, a few I picked up in math and physics. When I type in math, say, into TeX, sometimes I use some Greek letters, but I use only the ones that I am familiar with and, e.g., know how to pronounce! :-)
Although the focus with this book is with the fully interactive figures, I'm more impressed that ALL of the book is available for free.

I'm constantly seeing more people coming out with books for free or just a passive donation link. This makes me immensely happy seeing as how they're leveraging the available free resources (Latex, CC-BY-SA content, free software for graphics) to make more resources available for free.

Open software is one thing, but a book is much more permanent in my opinion. A book like this will never go 'stale' or old like software does. We only need handful of good books for every topic out there at which point we can basically not buy books anymore. For many topics, I hardly have to consider buying a book since I can just use a free book offered by a professor. And watch course lectures.

What I want to say is this: Please write more for free. It doesn't matter if there is not much interest in what you are writing. It will help you too!
My first language back in 1970, then if you wanted to 'program' you had a choice, punch cards and use ASM or Cobol/Fortran, or use a selectric typewriter and do APL.

APL is a natural language for those who love math, however without the correct keyboard with APL fonts labeled on the keyboard I would think it to all be tedious. In 1986 there were some companys selling APL for IBM-PC's, and the SW included some stickers you could apply to your keyboard so you could know where to type the APL characters.

Most of the APL variants I saw on UNIX 1980-2000, used a terrible encoding system for using the APL font.

APL in many ways is like PYTHON of today, fast and powerful, back in the day even Tektronix offered a graphics terminal ( 1970 ) that let you code APL and generate graphics instantly not unlike what you can do today. The nice thing about APL is that all types and maxtrix/scalar/vector op's are taken care for you, you never had to worry about types.

In many way's APL with the proper keyboard is much better that what we have had ever since.

Around the Wheel we go as they used to say. Not unlike a hamster in a cage.
Yet Nigeria's GDP is smaller than Florida's according to google.
I like the daily mixes, possibly because I have hundreds of saved songs across dozens of playlists.
He literally says that his goal is not conversions and that he's doing it because he realized he wasn't putting his faith into action. Further, even if he was trying to convert people, what's so bad about that?

"Hi, let me help you and by the way here's what I believe and why I'm doing what I'm doing." -- no idea why that kind of train of thought can rationally be looked down upon. I've always failed to see why atheists view proselytizing as "bad" -- it's the same thing as lobbying for any other kind of position.
I expect you would, because it "feels" right and confirms your worldview about poor whites being "just as bad off" as poor urban minorities. It's unfortunately wrong about almost everything.

I know you "hate politics", but please look this stuff up. We've long since run out of time for people who "hate politics" to have the luxury of ignorance.
> You clearly have never been to rural America. That is a very ignorant statement. There are many people in rural America that respect all types of people.

I've travelled to several places in rural Illinois, Georgia, and Virginia. And my wife grew up in a small town in Northwestern Iowa. I've found people in rural America to be very warm and friendly.

That said, Steve King is the House representative for the town where my wife grew up. Rural people are disproportionately behind the sorts of laws that make it necessary to have conversations about transgender bathroom rights (something that people would otherwise have no reason or desire to talk about).
Wealth redistribution is nothing close to what they want. Creating more welfare with no jobs still leaves them with no opportunities. That still leaves them with ample depression and boredom to develop drug habits.
Because it lets different organizations/organizational units control different parts of the resolution. for example, you don't want to give heroku control of your whole dns (and they don't want to be in the dns business), but you want to let heroku change the actual network ip addresses that handle your app on their own, you don't even want to have to know what it is.

cnames are what make 'the cloud' work.
Loving the commenters here who didn't read the article. Is that what 99.99% of the internet does?

Spoiler alert: it's a parody.
Again, blame the conservatives for making SNAP and similar programs near useless for getting people back on their feet. They'd rather the programs didn't exist at all than do something to fix the programs such as making the assistance scale with income rather than having a hard cut off.
I am no expert, but I chose React. It has a massive following, and will probably live much longer than the code that I write today.
Medicine still seems like the best use case to me
With FOSS, Indian State of Kerala Saves $58M Each Year
This comes down to empathy.As I said before, I don't know anyone in rural America that can't empathize with poor people in the city.

I know many people in cities that have 0 empathy for rural America and issues such as the heroin epidemic facing America. I know many people that go out and passionately fight for black lives matter. It's actually kind of a trendy thing nowadays. Where is rural lives matter? Where are the people fighting for the girl I knew who was raised in a house that was filled with cigarette smoke that had her parents laugh at her when she talked about applying for college. I know these issues exist in cities, but there is empathy for them. But the 40% of America that has serious issues is completely ignored right now.
>Do I think transgender deserve equal rights? Absolutely. But go to a town ravaged by heroin and lack of financial growth and bring up transgender bathrooms to them. They will be baffled by your lack of knowledge of how their lives operate.

And what about the trans people in those communities who are fighting against the grain of their culture to survive another day? What about their suicides?

This is of course "intersectionality 101" but you can't just write off transgender rights as something only privileged people need. Trans people still commit suicide at far higher rates than the rest of the population (looking at these numbers, especially in rural areas) and they need rights no matter where they live.
Eventually you'll likely give in and install windows.
>Is $2k or $3k crazy?

For most people here, $500 is crazy. People in rural America tend to be poor.
> Then come back and tell me if you think its self inflicted.

I mean people talking about transgender bathroom rights instead of rural poverty (to the extent that's true--which it largely isn't) is a self-inflicted problem.
An interesting challenge to me is: how are these numbers reconciled with understanding the communities involved?

Most people on Hacker News, I think, would argue that NYC, Boston, and New Haven have more in common with each other than say, a rural, sub-10k population town in West Virginia.

But in this analysis of suicide rates, it's actually places like New Haven County in Connecticut and Wirt County in West Virginia that are more statistically similar than either is to Boston or New York City. In my own state, Des Moines and Iowa City would both be in the same category as the very rural towns with marked increases in suicide rates. If the suicide rate is a regression to a mean, what is it about dense major cities that slowed that?

And what is it that makes what I - an Iowan - think of as a city statistically similar to the poorest and most rural counties in America?

Discussion aside, I encourage anyone who has considered taking their own life to reach out and talk to someone.

National Suicide Prevention Hotline
1-800-273-8255
Excellent work! I've been trying to get my mother (she's a physics teacher) to learn linear algebra properly for a long time. Artin didn't work (ha), Khan Academy moved too slow/bored her, but she seems interested in this.

It's important to appreciate how useful it might be to make math "tangible". Sure, someone who can define a manifold by saying "oh, put charts on it, locally diffeo blah blah" probably has a good set of mental models that help them find analogies and even "tangibilize" (word?) new ideas. Once you learn the way abstraction works, broadly speaking, you can take the training wheels off: but lots of people never get past that stage. On one hand, I see a lot of people on HN talk about how the complicated notation of academic math/CS keep people out (and there is an understandable amount of resentment at people keeping "outsiders" out with this), and on the other hand, I sort of reflexively bristle (it's gotten lesser now) at people integrating the notion of an inner product into a vector space, because it is important to not stumble later when you find out your basic intuition for something is broken[3]. (Of course, intuition can be incrementally "patched": Terence Tao's essay[3] talks about this, from the perspective of someone who is a brilliant educator in addition to also being one of the most versatile mathematicians around.)

Maybe presentations of basic mathematics that are

- simple

- rigorous

- free of half-truths

can be made accessible by using such visualizations and interactive techniques to decrease the perceived unfamiliarity of the ideas? I don't think there are many[2] treatments of mathematical topics that satisfy these criteria and yet manage to be approachable: one either skimps on a clean presentation (Khan Academy), or assumes a lot of mathematical maturity (shoutout to Aluffi!) from the reader. "Manipulable resources" might help fill this gap. It's an exciting time!

--

In the section where they give examples of matrix inverses, to give people a sense of how important multiplication order is, they give an example of RHR'H' (using a prime for inverse, R for a rotation matrix, and H for a shear matrix). One of the most beautiful illustrations[1] in the book follows, with the four corners of a square moving independently in circles, and then the book states that

It is quite close, but it is not at all useful.

While I understand the need to clarify the importance of multiplying matrices in the correct order, maybe a short aside on the unreasonable (practical!) effectiveness of commutators[0] would be useful?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutator

[1]: http://immersivemath.com/ila/ch06_matrices/ch06.html ("Example 6.12: Matrix Product Inverse au Faux")

[2]: Visual Complex Analysis is brilliant, though.

[3]: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s...
British man with type 1 diabetes to receive tests after coming off insulin
Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183725.
> I don't know anyone in rural America that can't empathize with poor people in the city.

Odd, because I know several just within my own extended family. And I'd say last November 8th provides a pretty good existence proof that you're wrong about this bit too.

There's no shortage of assholes in this country. Don't you dare pretend that you get to decide who they are.
> Why are we so fond of these narratives?

Because some people believe in that kind of remedy for these problems. I'm being a bit reductive, but there are basically two ways of solving social problems like homelessness: (a) everyone is forced to chip in (e.g. taxes) or (b) citizens make society better by their own volition (e.g. donations, volunteering).

I see the merit of (a), but I like the idea of (b) a lot more.
What's the bet this is IBM trying to both gain favourable PR, and at the same time looking for people they may be able to exploit? (eg lower pay, worse treatment than existing staff)

Hopefully I'm wrong, but IBM has a terrible reputation for a reason. :(

The article mentions more than 500 veterans have been trained already. Anyone here among that group and willing to venture thoughts about it? :)
It would be interesting to see public transit routes plotted over these maps; at least in Boston, they explain the distribution of education pretty precisely. (E.g., check out the transportation to Roxbury versus to Somerville.)
Black people in Baltimore absolutely do occupy a privileged position. I wouldn't quite describe it as "direct America", but it's a fallacy to ignore it.

We blame poor rural whites (correctly, in my view) for their behavior, but make excuses for poor urban blacks who engage in similar behaviors. To do otherwise is racist. A poor Baltimore black kid with a 1500 SAT is guaranteed admission to multiple ivies - the same is not true of the poor rural white kid. Etc.

I have little sympathy for either group feel they are largely responsible for their own problems. But it's silly to ignore this very large cultural distinction in how they are treated. And realistically, it's the cultural distinction rather than economic ones that are driving Trump, Wilders and Le Pen.

Incidentally, people in cities try to push around rural folks all the time - forcing them to bake gay wedding pizzas, taking away their guns, etc. And in fact rural America isn't banning trannies in the ladies room in NYC either - recall that all Trump did was say this wasn't a federal issue. Rural America didn't start your culture war.
You say they can emphathize with the poor in the city but what policies over the last decades have they ever advocated to help those poor by and large. Most politicians the past few decades have been PICK YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS AND GET A JOB and WELFARE QUEEN. I'm sorry if the people there voted for that by accident, but if they didn't it really didn't show their empathy. I also did not say "That's an entirely self-inflicted problem." that was somebody else. Idk what that has to do about drugs , but when you say "impervious to the cultural impact your environment " do you mean growing up there would've made him afraid of trans people? (I'm not trolling just confused when you crossed over to drugs)
I listened to the debates many times. Trump brought up jobs for rural America over and over because he knew how badly it effected many Americans. Hillary brought up jobs much less. I should just do a tally on how many times Trump mentioned jobs vs Hilary in the election race. I'm confident it would lean towards Trump.

PS. I am 100% not a Trump supporter. See how this devolves into assuming I'm a Trump supporter? I'm just stating things based on what they said. I never even attacked Hilary and her claims.
Getting jobs back is a form of redistribution, because it is ultimately funded by subsidies, higher consumer prices, or both. With that said, I favor redistribution, but am flexible about what form it takes.
I'm a man. You have no problem with me going into the bathroom at your daughters school because I self identify as not a man? Cool.
The problem with the backlash against opiod use in the US is that people who actually have to have the drugs are finding it increasingly harder to get.

As a disabled veteran with nerve damage I am rationing pain medication daily. I cannot afford to have a manageable pain day due to the fact I might have a week of excruciating pain.

As you may or may not know, little can be done for functional nerve damage. Some experimental procedures are available but in general, only the symptoms can be treated. For me this means a lot of different muscle relaxers and an opiod for when things are beyond control.

But, the opioids have become increasingly more difficult to get prescribed because of recent DEA rule changes and legislation affecting these medications.

This basically means, for me at least, I will take my own life at some point as the pain will be too unbearable and I won't be able to acquire the medications necessary to control it.
>> Tesla isn't opening up a factory in New Hampshire anytime soon. There certainly isn't as many amazing colleges such as UC berkley there.

That is because of economies of scale. It is not possible to get a U.C. Berkeley in every one of the 17,000 towns the US has. Not even big cities will be getting U.C. Berkeley. Aside from NYC and Boston and Pittsburgh, there isn't any other city that has a comparable Top-5 engineering school.

Same for Tesla factories, you cant have a factory in every one of the 17,000 towns.

I'm not sure how Trump is helping these towns, but the Dems did offer solutions, more fundamental solutions. Like better access to education so new graduates could qualify for better jobs. These problems have been created over a generation and wont be solved with a simple travel ban or what not, they will be solved with education and empowerment.

Secondly, Dems have tried hard to get a better health-care system. Being an entrepreneur I understand how critical this is -- without healthcare I would not take risks, not with a family. I'd stick to my job to just get health benefits. Having a portable health plan is also critical to allowing people mobility, hopefully upward mobility.
Blocking beaconing at the network level would be good next step.

DNSCrypt DNS resolver with a sinkhole that blocks ads and telemetry for any device is fairly easy to setup, I've done it for myself.

Searching for "ad blocking smart DNS" shows there's a ton of such services already. I expect a lot of them will be placing Adwords against "disable windows 10 ads" now.

Next in the arms race, however, Windows will start ignoring your DNS settings and use their resolvers, like some applications do today.
Didn't we just go through two major recessions in 2000 and 2008? Is anyone surprised that more people are giving up hope in recent times with all the factories closing, major retailer closing, unemployment at incredibly high levels (U6, not official statistics) and massive debt from student loans?
Not to mention never raising the cutoffs. The limit for savings someone on medicaid can have is $2000. That limit was last adjusted in 1989. The limit per month for making money, like getting a side job to try to get back to work, is $20, which has not changed since medicaid was started in 1969. The cost of living amount of $600, which is the amount someone can supposedly live off of, hasn't been changed since 1989 as well. It's hard taking those steps back to independence because like you said, the limits are hard, and also outdated.
There's no barrier-to-entry for a shop to call themselves an "accelerator."

Reputation*3.

YC, 500 and some others. Doing due-diligence, building rapport with key people and managing expectations can help. Also, big names have a lot more to lose (rep) and so tend to be safer bets.
At the end of the paper they say they look forward to releasing it under an open source license. That's really interesting.
I love love love Diplomacy but will never ever play it with people I care about. This game is "the breakup". If you want to win you basically have to lie and betray. Trust is easy to break and hard to gain.