skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll echo as well. My wife's classrooms use chromebooks. Due to 'security issues', the computers can only run a hand-full of java applications for the few labs where they do in fact need the computers. These are, if I'm generous, a decade out of date and 'clunky'. Additionally, they are required to login to the central district server before they can use the chromebook (student ID #, etc). Trouble is, there are 35+ students in the classroom, and the wireless routers only can support ~15 chromebooks. The kids end up in a cycle of booting each other off the wireless routers. That is only for one classroom, typically there are ~7 classrooms in the range of that single router which kids can try to log into with their cellphone, further increasing the issues. Also, for the entire school, there is only a single 4GB line out to the central district server for ~2000 kids and associated staff, and that central server has been under DDoS attack from the IoT take-overs from October. State mandated testing of only the freshmen (~700 students), via these chromebooks, is scheduled to take 6 weeks due to these issues and they are not expecting the student to be able to submit these computerized tests even still. Effectively, their school is still in ~1992 with some dilapidated chomebooks and 'smart-boards' stuck in closets like neo-Luddites. Oh, and the voters decided to cut a further 30% from the budget, so now its looking like ~52 kids per classroom next year. We are, obviously, changing districts.
As a counterexample, Hans Geiger was a workaholic. Rutherford said he "works like a slave… [He] is a demon at the work and could count at intervals for a whole night without disturbing his equanimity" [1]

He eventually discovered the atomic nucleus, so I guess it paid off.

[1] http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/ph...
Back when I was at Intel I wasn't aware of anyone frequenting EDA-specific forums. The annual IDC (Intel Developers Conference) was the biggest physical meetup as far as I recall. Also, there were the other company-led events. Very segmented.
> Are you unwilling to even consider the possibility that Palmer is actually a libertarian

No. He may be a libertarian. If I told you I was a democrat and then donated to republican groups, what would you call me? If my girlfriend publicity supported republicans? At some point you really have to start looking at actions and not words.

My initial rebuke to your argument is simple: Words are extremely cheap. He claims NOW that he is a libertarian but his actions say otherwise. He has also demonstrated a willingness to lie. You can see his comments here where he confirms and then denies that he posted under the account in question: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/22/palmer-luck...

I don't find any of this "flimsy" or circumstantial. He backed the wrong guy and then backtracked when he got exposed and trump's nastiness started to really come to light.

Again, I almost feel bad for him. But this lying little Trumpkin helped elect trump, and for that, I will not make excuses and try and defend him. He pushed some cool tech but that doesn't put him beyond reproach.
I don't understand people who use the demeaning and sexist term "tech bros" unironically.

Did you know that there are women who like VR? Who code for VR? Who work to create it? Who are on the boards making decisions about its future?

Does your "techbro" bigotry leave room for the women of tech?

It makes me think you're a Gawker commenter who accidentally found their way to a community where you don't belong. I just don't get how this kind of condescending sexism finds its way here.
yep, I'm sure there would be a lot of similarity between models that could be used to reduce training time
I'm a high school teacher. I've worked in rural/urban/suburban districts with wildly varied student demographics and school resources. The largest tech-related improvements to my teaching have not come from the availability of "edtech" - but from run of the mill productivity software (Email/Google Docs/etc) and students having reliable access to a computer/internet.

I wasn't familiar with K2 Audiovisual before reading the article, so the "free unlimited training" angle doesn't resonate; however, the base argument being made is sound. Our tools need to support the work we do; if they are a distraction or impediment then they will be ignored. I freely admit that there are some interesting edtech tools being developed, but too many of these tools introduce significant redundant labor, user friction, and/or force me to change my goals/processes to fit their vision of what school is supposed to be.

I have strong feelings on where I think things should go, but I'll just say that there is a lot of low hanging fruit in just helping teachers accomplish the things they already know how to do.

There are a lot of teachers out right now saying, "I know [Kid A] would benefit from [extension/scaffold/resource Y] - but there isn't time to make that from scratch". Teachers know they should be personalizing their curriculum, assessment, and instructional performance for what each kid needs. They will typically even know how to accomplish it.

They are logistically constrained from doing so and most edtech tools aren't offering solutions to the kinds of workflow problems that teachers face everyday.

Edit: I have been drilling down on some ideas with another HN member (andrewwhartion). Principally, focused on teacher workflow tools. Email is in profile.
Well, killing SS officials dispelled the "scientific consensus" that Jews were inferior humans... so I'm not sure.
I visited a local trade school last week and was shocked to see Pentium // motherboards, discrete sound cards, etc. in the technology classroom.
I work in a UK school (part time technician not teacher) and we have hardly any budget assigned to hardware, it's make do and mend constantly.

The move now seems to be to teach coding via apps with friendly graphical interfaces, 10 years ago it was based around learning MS Office apps.

I've worked in tech for nearly 20 years and the most important skill I learnt was to touch type. Then HTML, which lead me to simple scripting, and onwards.

I'm not sure of the logic of teaching 11 year olds to code when some of them don't know how to copy and paste.
Welp.

As you observe, most people in a democracy don't agree with you. So your fetishization of "exactly what we got from the government in the 1950s" will be a lonely dream; likely most of the rest of us would like something in excess of 1950s investments in education, health care, and so on. The rest of us here on Planet Earth might also be aware that many of the goods the government might have to pay for competed for by other sectors, so if the government decides that it would like to pay 1950s level prices for such goods, it will be shit out of luck.

I suspect you can probably find a country or two out there with a tax burden and government services akin to the USA in 1950; perhaps you should move there?
What is possible use case for this?
I suspect if you counted the hours they were thinking about their work, the conclusion would be the exact opposite.

Granted, we are talking about "thinkers" here. We can think sitting on the toilet or taking a shower, and maybe even better than staring at a book.

Walking to get your juices flowing surrounded by clean air and a soothing environment would make any hiking trail a great office for any scientist or philosopher.

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. "

― Albert Einstein

"Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

- Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts
Not completely true (the restrictions have been eased a bit) but how does this fact support your claim? ("If they had priced lower, they probably would have seen even greater profits.") Profits were higher when prices were higher.
MasterCard recently increased FX fees 1000% – still better than Visa
So many comments about the economics. Why is no one considering major medical issues from a quality of life standpoint?

Terminal cancer and hospice by 70? How do you want to spend those last 6 months, and what's the value in having an active role in directing what would be inheritance towards those people and causes that matter most to you?

Major unexpected medical issue with a spouse or loved one that requires support beyond basic govt coverage? Maybe you want the option to tighten your belt a bit more that last decade so you can make a difference now.

Have a positive experience with parents or grandparents at end of life? Or an unnecessarily difficult one?

How about the economic situation of other family members and cultural expectations and family history when it comes to caring for elders?

Sure, every financial possibility can be offset by another, and maybe annuity pricing equates $1M lump sum to $5k/mo. But reducing all the personal values that go into someone choosing one vs. another as an illusion of wealth or poverty seems so absurdly academic and out of touch with the basic humanity we each have.
I wish him the best - he jump started this entire industry, which was for a long time in the realm of scifi. Go and read his IAMAs on Reddit: he's clearly passionate and knowledgeable about VR. I hope he finds a proper outlet for his talents, now that he has the resources to do whatever he wants.
Scriptometer: measuring the ease of Script-Oriented Programming languages
> If teachers unions didn't oppose standardized testing

This of course assumes that standardized testing is actually a good mechanism for measuring outcomes.

Which IMO is an extremely dubious assertion.

A lot of people who opt-out of the public school system at great personal expense do so because they agree with those damn teacher's unions on this very question.

> Why here?

Simple. Because I don't care if my burger sucks but I do care that my kid doesn't get a good early education.

A preschool teacher could triple their salary without leaving the middle class. Depending on the size of their family they might even be living in poverty while working full-time.

People teach for a lot of reasons, but even the most enthusiastic and altruistic person is going to bulk at that kind of a sacrifice. And understandably so.
Right... now your working copy is just a commit named WIP that sits at the top of the branch and is updated (--amend style) in real time. Wait! let me finish:

So now you decide you want to move a part of the delta from WIP into a real commit. So split it and move some of the delta from WIP into the split and rename the split. It's the same workflow!
Just the headline the fat morons of America need to hear
> We can't send kids out into a career without having used an iPad

Other than 'app developer', what actual careers involve using specifically an iPad, let alone a generic tablet?

> Most schools have 3D printers, VR headsets, iPads
Tablets sure, not necessarily iPads. 3D printers and VR headsets?! I'm talking about primary school, kids aged 5-11 - it would be rare for even secondary schools in the UK to have 3D printers or VR headsets. You used the word 'blimey', so I assume you are either English or taking the piss?!

Most kids get enough of tablets at home nowadays. Christ, all too many parents plonk their kid in front of a tablet and leave them to it for hours at a time.

I'm not saying tech doesn't have a place, it absolutely does, but sometimes the real, tactile world is the best place to learn - like for 5 year-olds learning basic maths, reading and writing.
> Except for 13, about the money, whenever I read that I always think that comes from the luxury of having needs met, but I will avoid delving into some Maslow debate.

"Having money's not everything, not having it is."

-Kanye West
Pretty sure non-competes are illegal in California.
Couldn't manufacturers just add a low level fin/spoiler to the top of the rotating water outlet ["spray bar"/"spray arm"], run the rotation at low speed as a fan. Seems all the tech barring a slight raised area to catch the air a little is already built in; even just slowly rotating the "spray bar" unmodified probably would give enough air-flow? I can't imagine I'm the first person to think of that [too late to patent it!] bet you there's a company that has/had it as a feature?? One might even pump air down the spray bar using the systems already in place but with no water-flow; residual heat in the pipes might aid the process too?

FWIW some dish-washers have a built in fan eg "TurboHeat Dry" on Kenmore.
> You can learn some heuristics that will help you explore, but it is certainly no guarantee for finding anything.

Agree. Those heuristics were precisely what I was alluding to. It is all about how you explore that space. The best researchers have an amazing ability to intuitively ascertain promising directions. Many smart folks I know constantly spin their wheels working on problems that are intractable.

To me, that ability is the principle value add of a senior PI (aside from funding, of course!)
From Scott McNealy's lips to your keyboard..
I love graphQL and Apollo's React work flow that mimics Redux's HOCs. The addition of it probably increased the maintanablity of my apps 5x.
Added bonus, I found a backend as a service that that works perfectly with Apollo.
Graphcool has increased the maintainability of my app ten fold. I no longer mess with writing my own reducers for the backend. The Graphcool community is also great; they are very helpful on slack and put out a ton of content on top of there great docs.

Watch this video; if you already use graphQL you'll be hooked on Graphcool:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5uxq8Om-AZQ

Here's the code:

https://github.com/graphcool-examples/react-apollo-auth0-exa...
It could have a tiny turbine to charge from the internal water movement!
indiehackers.com is a great place to start looking at ideas. I've recommended it on a couple of threads, but it's worth a look.
Formatting note for the author: on Safari Mac, something is causing ff and fl ligatures to be applied even to the monospaced code, which makes it look kind of weird.
Yeah, worth mentioning https://tyk.io too.

Also, do not forget about Quotas which usually comes along with Rate limits. Modern API gateways can handle so many stuff for you and help with API scaling.
Fix the market first, then deregulate.
Some VR games are really fun and engaging in a way that I never experienced on a screen. As a suggested curriculum towards an informed opinion, get an HTC Vive and play Job Simulator for 1 hour, Arizona Sunshine for 4 hours, and Eagle Flight for 1 hour.
Maybe it is all about funding, the established scientists will receive the greatest chance of getting a grant because they have their previous work to support their ability and direction. Challenging scientists may not be able to contest the established scientists because of this
I almost feel bad for this Trumpkin

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/palmer-luckey-alt...
I work at an EdTech company right now and we've found huge success simply because we've tried to get out of the way and let teachers do what they do. Teachers today have a hard enough time without tech companies, policy makers, administrators, etc. barging into their classrooms and dictating the best way to instruct their kids.

Like germinalphrase mentioned, I think the best place for tech in education is to "[offer] solutions to the kinds of... problems that teachers face everyday" and to make the existing successes even more impactful (e.g. when a student does well, provide ways for teachers, parents, and students to celebrate together).

Teachers know their kids and their struggles best, the tech just has to help them do what they do.
'implementation' was probably the wrong choice of word there. 'design decisions' is probably better.

I'm not sure we're working with the same definition of 'action creator' here, because redux-thunk completely moves the goal posts. In redux, an action creator is a utility function which takes some parameters and creates an action, returning it. This is rather intuitive. It's purpose is to allow functions that dispatch actions to build their actions using a common interface, with little risk of generating an action in a format the dispatcher is not expecting.

In redux-thunk, an action creator is a function which takes some parameters and executes a bunch of business logic, dispatching actions created by OTHER action creators along the way. It does not create any actions and does not return any actions. It's a misnomer.

The only thing a redux-thunk action creator has in common with an actual action creator is they both implement the dispatch interface. This is not at all intuitive for new developers.

Moreover, it's completely unnecessary. What do you gain by overloading the dispatch function to do two completely unrelated things? Nothing. You could just as easily create a differently named higher order function that passes dispatch and getState into whatever function is passed into it, and it would be functionally identical.
AMD Ryzen Game Optimization Begins: Ashes of the Singularity Patched and Tested
But no idea how much of that is going into new or more effective versions of the drugs, how much to manufacturing process research, how much on sales research etc.
> In various subjects, particularly abstract mathematics, I had to grind heavily in order to keep up with the class. I attended every office hours and pattern matched heavily, studying into the wee hours. (I had tried your method and failed in previous semesters).

Grinding will always fail with abstract mathematics because it distracts you from divergent thinking and spontaneous insights. The problem is that university courses are on a fixed schedule so people that need more time than allotted for this kind of study are not accommodated, which pushes a lot of people away from mathematics who could otherwise contribute.
SpaceX may try a daring rocket fairing recovery tonight, too
In Praise of a Nomadic Life
If your omission of what you assume is "unimportant detail" leads to your audience misunderstanding the "important" detail, you actually are failing to communicate.

It may also happen that the one person who you felt was not "worth the trouble" turns out to be someone who will be very important to you one day, like a potential business partner or investor, and who interprets your misuse of language as ignorance.

There's a difference between obsessing over unimportant detail and being thorough, IMHO.
Fun facts: Though non-competes are generally unenforceable in California, there are exceptions when you sell your business, so the details of this particular case may be interesting.
The same is true even when the official version of the law is unannotated. The annotations themselves have no legal bearing, but they are immensely useful for tracking down court cases and (presumably) the legislative sources and discussions about the law to divine legislative intent. That's why lawyers have annotated copies of law on their shelves instead of unannotated ones, even if the annotated text isn't technically the controlling copy.
I've been in classrooms that use iPad effectively, much in the same way they would use a Chromebook. Many attached third-party keyboards to assist in typing.

I would still strongly prefer a proper laptop, but it wasn't as much of a hinderance as I initially expected.
The Mandelwat Set
Umm, no. That defeats the purpose. The purchase is to work a reasonable amount of hours, like 8.
"it's worth" not "its worth": it's means "it is". At least try to get the title of an article correct.
Like Otto?
We were using FogBugz+Kiln on premise for a while but abandoned Kiln for GitHub Enterprise a year or so back.

Seems dead to me, and to be honest, it always kind of sucked and was slow.
Defining (artificial) intelligence at the edge for IoT systems
We use Apollo for the http://expo.io/ client and have found it to be extremely pleasant to use. I love how flexible it is too -- you can use it for weird things like building an ORM layer for SQLite. For example: https://github.com/brentvatne/apollo-sqlite-experiment/blob/... -- the queries here go through a custom NetworkInterface which use a pretty simple graphql resolver (https://github.com/brentvatne/apollo-sqlite-experiment/blob/...) built on graphql-anywhere to pull the data out of the DB.
Are you claiming that hunger, malnutrition, and diet-imposed diseases (diabetes, obesity, vitamin deficiencies) don't exist?

If that's the case, then perhaps the market is working find.

If it isn't, then ... perhaps your assertion fails.
Just stop using Git. Jeez. I don't get it. It is a fundamentally broken tool. Why do people insist on using it? I have been confused about this for years. Just use something else. ANYTHING else.

I understand the usefulness (and popularity) of GitHub. It is a great tool for collaboration. Its just too bad that it uses git as the underlying vcs. I wish there was a decent competitor to GitHub with a different vcs so we could see if people would make the switch. Oh well. Maybe someday.
Thanks for explaining this. I didn't know the full chain of events nor the FTC's involvement and how it affected the 2016 FCC rules. This makes it much more clear.
Ahh, I see. Thank you for clarifying.
I think you may be kidding (and if so, hats off, because citing Hawkins as a sage, and misspelling his name, is some choice dry humor). But in case you aren't:

The whole "Minsky and Papert killed the perceptron" lesson-in-a-nutshell was a historical anecdote at the time the connectionist resurgence started in the 1980s with backprop. I.e., Minsky was already in the distant past by the 1990s, having no influence on connectionism or the NIPS crowd, from which large-scale machine learning eventually sprung.
Live: Historic SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch from Kennedy Space Center
sure. we don't have experience doing anything until we try. Ultimately it doesn't matter what you or I think about this: in the scheme of things (and not to channel musk, but it remains a fact) our species will blip out of existence unless we get off the planet.

Funding be damned. No one is asking you to work your arse off Interstellar style to fund a secret program to fund humanity and get us out of here. And no-one is asking the US government to pump a trillion into setting up colonies out there. But it will happen - and there will be commercial starts to it - asteroid mining, with initial small numbers of support personnel up there, then maybe a few habs. Maybe it will take generations; or maybe we'll be wiped out before then. But it is either part of the inevitable march of the story of our civilisation; or there won't be a civilisation to talk about
I tried integrating Apollo with my Redux app a few weeks ago but found it very confusing, so I just made my Redux app work with my GraphQL Rails backend without Apollo.
Availability monitoring, 0.9 released
git worktree?
SpaceX Is Set to Launch Its Reusable Rocket Tonight
> But why should that have been required of him?

It's not, and now he's dealing with the side effects of the choice he made.
Millennials are sick of the high cost of living in the Bay Area
Yes indeed! From TFA: "Yet when you look closely at their daily lives, they only spent a few hours a day doing what we would recognize as their most important work. The rest of the time, they were hiking mountains, taking naps, going on walks with friends, or just sitting and thinking."

"Just sitting and thinking" sounds like part of their work, and the article deploys a sleight of hand to define this as "not really work" so that it can discover that these guys didn't work very hard.
SpaceX Launch Feels Familiar for Part of the Falcon 9 Rocket
​SpaceX to launch first reused rocket, testing cost-cutting model