skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These could be good ideas, I don't know. I don't want to focus on that. More important to me is, we don't need special case procedures for women or "minorities" (quotes because the term is based on misconceptions we should try to rid ourselves of). One set of procedures for all people is how to maximize fairness.
"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
Robert Anton Wilson

The quote exaggerates reality a little, but the point is that the world may move on but not necessarily in the direction you think, or it will follow your hopes only to suddenly go outside your comfort zone.
"This story is incredible - it shows a massive failure" - I don't see how it is 'incredible' - the history of CIA is a 'Legacy of Ashes' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Ashes_%28book%29
Here's the example Maryland high school tests:

http://mdk12.msde.maryland.gov/assessments/high_school/index...
You can seriously sign away your constitutional rights in the glorious land of green grass, freedom, peace and prosperity called the "USA"? This is what I consider slavery. Having a constitution which makes everyone equal in the eyes of the law yet allows companies to arbitrarily do whatever they want with a "just sign here".
Furthermore, your companies are themselves protected by your "federal" law as much as possible against retaliation from employees?
This goes beyond fixable. This whole game of employment is rigged against everyone participating, yet conformance is what powers that fucked up system. The least of your issues are minorities complaining, discrimination or harassment. They're all symptoms of a terribly built society.
Hi there, I'm in need of some career advice. Is there a way to skip the free trial?
Akrasia is a good word for this concept.
> The intent is not to provide that trail for you, but for the company.

I felt like that little detail was very much missing from the conversation here and yet I feel it is very important.
...but, why? I'm not an american, and I can see from an ocean away (pun intended) that they're incredibly politically biased, but once you ignore their political stance, the actual content of their articles is very good and insightful. Yeah, titles are click-baity, but so is everything else today, and you may have to skip reading their first intro paragraph and their last conclusions one (heh, I sometimes do this even when reading "unbiased" academic papers, to form my own opinion and not get infected with the one of the authoring researcher, so no biggie here), but "the meat" of their articles is darn good!
> This tendency to stick with a limited set a source(s) you agree with is at the core dysfunction of the US government today, imo.

If you believe this, you should definitely not read much of any single source. Including the NYT. Unless you have time to read much of many sources, which makes it full-time job.

Though I'd agree with you that if you skip reporting on current US politics, part of the world politics (e.g. all Middle East reporting) and any editorial content on left's causes du jour, NYT may be not that bad.
For reference on what these tests might look like (mostly Algebra).

The article indicates they're primarily talking about high schools (and one middle school). I'd suspect that the testing questions are not too far removed from the HSA (High School Assessment) tests of prior years. The HSA used to be a required test you had to pass to graduate in Maryland high schools (I believe they've changed to a new testing platform in recent years, to something called PARCC).

If you click on the following link, then click on the "What does HSA look like?" tab, then scroll down for Algebra for 2009.

http://mdk12.msde.maryland.gov/assessments/high_school/index...
WaPo has credibility, and Avi doesn't. There's a drastic contradiction.

You want nasty? Check out what Troy Aikman said about Skip Bayless if you want nasty.

“To say I’m disappointed in the hiring of Skip Bayless would be an enormous understatement,” Aikman said. “Clearly, [Fox Sports president of national networks] Jamie Horowitz and I have a difference of opinion when it comes to building a successful organization. I believe success is achieved by acquiring and developing talented, respected and credible individuals, none of which applies to Skip Bayless."

Mark that.

EDIT: FYI Skip Bayless started a rumor in Dallas that Troy Aikman was gay. I don't think Troy forgets that. You shouldn't either.
No, capitalism is preferred over feudalism and communism because it maximizes individual agency. It may be difficult because you might have a hard time eating, but you can always quit working in capitalism without worrying about the state punishing you.
>Is it really that bad?

No.
GE’s new turbofan engine is as wide as a Boeing 737 fuselage
I am a black engineer and I have experienced unfair treatment at a startup. I think most of these suggestions are good. I'm wary of zero tolerance policies though. Also I think this stuff applies to everyone and not just women and minorities. (Or is this one of those "All Lives Matter" things where that would offend people??)
I don't understand that fixation on "history", it was helpful couple of times to find who did change and if there is ticketing system with attached ticket then I get some context. But bunch of diffs does not matter and for side project that I am doing on my own what I care for is current state not that I changed name of class and then changed it again two days later. Maybe I am missing something?
With all the current collabs in hip-hop, house, and pop, to be honest it almost seems totally played-out these days...if such a good idea about cross-pollinating music genres could be bad thing that is.
I doubt that CDN is really that important. Maybe if your site serves content overseas then there is a difference but what about a website in a relatively small country that is visited mostly by locals? The CDN doesn't make big difference here.

If your server supports HTTP/2 and has a connection with a good bandwith then static resources can be loaded really fast without any CDN because all the resources can be loaded in parallel without waiting in a queue.

The real motivation for publishers to implement AMP is that they hope to get better position in search results.
U.S. reliance on technology is so beyond reasonable at this point that, I'd imagine there's the very real, serious liklihood of something on the level of an Enigma/Lorenz cypher botch that gives away the whole country on a platter.

It's something that I've wondered about for a while now, but really, who am I to question such things?
I feel like you may be underestimating the value of this social contract. The convenience of the rule of law and developed comfort only really become apparent once they are gone.
Contracts bind you to do (or not do) things you would otherwise have the right to not do, or do, as you choose. That's the whole point!

Wouldn't it be possible in most countries to sign a contract promising not to disparage someone publicly, in exchange for money or other consideration?
The key problem article missing(it talks about symptoms): earthworms which are crucial to soil maintenance and growth of humus are eradicated by tilling the earth, pesticides and other chemicals(worms die in acidic soils).
http://www.dw.com/en/earthworm-numbers-dwindle-threatening-s...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170508095152.h...
Org mode, in git repo. Can be exported as blog, but I mostly do not care, since I am usually at my desk.

I push the repo to a server I own on the net. If it has secrets, I gitencypt it.
The outright genocide and outrages perpetrated against the indigenous and enslaved populations are incomparable, but also a separate topic. I am specifically referring to military munitions with that quote and post; without any diminishment of the grave effects of conventional weaponry and opportunistic germ warfare against Native and African Americans, they have not been nuked, clusterbombed, napalmed, and Agent Oranged to death.
This is no surprise to anyone who's seen the Wire.
I actually really like AMP but not for articles but for products in webshops. The media on the internet is such a mess nowadays anyway that having AMP pages makes no difference whatsoever for the content, sharing and talking. How is google optimized content any different than having to print magazines so that they fit through your mailbox? It is just a alternative method of delivery. The truth is that for the everyday user the only interesting part is the content. Not the ads, not the comments, especially not the page layout and hopefully not the links to other "You never believe what X things about Y" articles across 10 X different page loads. AMP for web articles may die as publishers try to remain more independent or relevant in other forums (snapchat, instagram stories, facebook live etc.) but the idea of fast and simple mobile pages should remain.

For webshops where product discovery is really important and having a fast google search result could (I dont have data to back this up) really drive users to use your webshop instead of the competitors. AMP style pages force developers to focus on what is actually important on the page.
The music media's endless circle-jerk about Hunger
Strike/TotD is alive and well I see.

I'm not sure if I'll ever really understand what it is really about.
this just isn't true, and fertilizers work really well.
"With average crop yields remaining at the 1900 level the crop harvest in the year 2000 would have required nearly four times more land and the cultivated area would have claimed nearly half of all ice-free continents, rather than under 15% of the total land area that is required today."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Economic_and_env...
Reddit Admin Gets Caught Running Vote Bot Test
Dealing with license management and account access and payment processing and chargebacks and international tax compliance and everything else I am not thinking of after only five seconds is actually a lot of work. Apple has a lot of revenue from the App Store, but almost no profit: it is something they run and have weird business model restrictions on to maintain device lock-in for users, not something that makes them much profit. In fact, Apple has often reported in public earning calls that the App Store mostly breaks even, and a judge reviewing Google's finances showed that they were losing money on the Android Market.

I run an app-store-like service myself with the same 70% split (which is a more honest way of describing the "30%") that has no forced restrictions (as you can always sidestep it and still distribute your products via my services), and vendors have often even shut down their own payment processing once trying mine as it is just so much easier: being able to concentrate on building your own applications rather than spending time on distribution is actually valuable.

Again: the reason Apple wants payments to go through their wallets and they want licenses for apps to be managed by their store and to control the device licensing model is to maintain platform lock-in for users. It is really important to them that when you buy your paltry $30 in apps--where even if Apple made all of the "30%" they would only net under $10--that that "investment" doesn't make you think twice about plunking down $600 on a new iPhone, where estimates have been made that Apple has a nearly 50% profit margin.

To make this work Apple needs to maintain all of this ludicrous platform control, as otherwise your custom licensing model is obviously going to support stuff like users getting discounts if not entirely free copies of your app for Android if they just bought it for iOS or charging upgrade fees for users who switch to the latest generation of device. I honestly don't believe that given their intense desire to maintain this control--which I will argue is the real problem here--that the 30% just falls out as a reasonable charge for what they are providing (in some cases whether you want the service or not, such as the app review process).
That's a gross oversimplification of the issue. By using mineral fertilizer you add a big load of nitrates to the soil at once instead of slowly decomposing nitrates bound in organic compounds. The plants can't absorb this ok at once. This leads to a run-off into the oceans and ground-water, and also polluted the atmosphere with nitrous oxide. Finally the soil biology is negatively impacted by this.

If you consider phosphor mineral fertilizer you get the problem that you add heavy metals like cadmium and uranium to soil.
I'm working on a shell scripting language that, like Tisp, is rooted in functional and concurrency paradigms while still offering some degree of backwards compatibility with traditional shells like Bash.

It's very immature at the moment but the repo is below if anyone else is curious:

https://github.com/lmorg/murex

I'm not suggesting my level of coding is comparable with the others mentioned though. Murex was created to scratch an itch rather than delusions of thinking I could write a powerful next gen programming language. I intend murex to be more of a REPL shell than something one would use to write scalable applications.
Recently I stumbled upon this on press kit [1], which I've found pretty interesting.

I think the 3 "must have" are pretty solid:

1. Focus your press kit on clear, branded messages.

2. Give your press kit a founder story and a company or product core story

3. You have to create the focus with repetition, and repetition, and more repetition.

[1] https://artplusmarketing.com/3-must-haves-for-your-startups-...
There're real neuroscience studies that could accompany the theories here. It's a shame none of them have come up in this discussion.
Wow, funny to see this on the front page of HN, as someone who once taught high school math there. That two-year stint was the most challenging experience of my life, by far.

I was the founding math teacher at a brand new turnaround school with a rookie principal. I had 5 weeks of training, and my job my first year was to prepare my students for the very same state test mentioned in this article. To connect that with the typical HN world, I was literally a day 1 employee at a startup meant to replace an institution that had failed in more or less the exact same situation. Despite the intensity of the experience, it was deeply transformative for me.

To briefly react to this article, I am not surprised. Baltimore is a poor and segregated city. But that socioeconomic stratum has many layers. There are many ways to end up at a better school. Some are selective, others are high demand and have a lottery, still others you simply sign up for. So you need to have good academic performance or have someone looking out with you with even just the modicum of savvy required to simply opt for a better school. If you have neither of those things, you end up going to your default neighborhood school (e.g. any of those 6 mentioned in the article), which is certain to be completely swamped with students coming from deep poverty and social dislocation. These are schools that tend to have the same number of 9th graders as 10th, 11th, and 12th combined, due drop outs and transfers.

I'd be happy to answer any questions.

----

I journaled my experience here: https://alanjayteaching.wordpress.com/?order=asc.

Another Teach For America Baltimore alumnus wrote a book on her experience. I found it to echo many of my own reflections, almost eerily so: https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Terrordome-Years-Baltimore-A....

One of the schools mentioned, Fredrick Douglass High, has a deep history, and its modern day woes were profiled about a decade ago in the HBO documentary Hard Times At Douglass High: http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/hard-times-at-douglass-high....
This happens all the time, but it depends on user ignorance or apathy.

Just shop using different browsers or devices. Use incognito modes for everything. Use multiple entry points. Use multiple loyalty cards (and don't intermix credit cards amongst them.

For a real-world example, I use 4 different Starbucks cards. Each gets very different reward offers, every time. Y
Here's the first link I saw today on NYT page (not the biggest one, but one on the top of "Sunday Review" column):

4-Year-Olds Don’t Act Like Donald Trump
By ALISON GOPNIK
Comparing our president to a child is inaccurate and unfair to children.

What is it informing me about? That Trump is not literally 4 years old? Well, thanks a lot. In fact, the whole article is dedicated to describing how Trump sucks so much that comparing anybody to him is an insult. Yeah thanks for "informing" me, I'd never know it if not for NYT reporting.
Well, you can't sign a contract that grants someone permissions to murder you (not anywhere civilised, anyway).
sometimes it's purely political. The "I as a high rank manager get along just fine with X and Y, why can't everyone else?" mindset lol.
I believe they might be referring to the bombing in Laos but mixed up the wars.

http://legaciesofwar.org/resources/books-documents/land-of-a...
Not really. You'll also want to tweak the ruleset so that it plays more like one prefers.
I find all the video titles in PyCon 2017 aren't well presented or worth to watch than PyCon 2016. Displaying code against the white background is awful.
Freelance rates/help
Do you charge a different rate for meetings/reviews vs. the actual technical work? If a client doesn't ask for your rates, how do you initiate the discussion?
That reminds me of when I got Civilization I for my birthday.
Inside Russia's Social Media War Against America
Yeah but I see much more of Uber in the press than Monsanto.
No you can't. All an arbitration clause changes is it forces* you to go through the arbitration process before suing the company. Needless to say, if you don't like the outcome of the arbitration you can sue your employer as normal, and make all those materials public through inserting them in the court record.

The world is full of arbitration processes and mostly they do a world of good.

I've gone through an arbitration process and won against the organisation (mostly against one person with a grudge actually). Also I've helped someone else work through that who went on to a regular court afterwards because she did not feel satisfied about the outcome. She won in the court system.

It is good practice, of course, if you go to normal court after arbitration to analyse the arbitration process in your specific case and prepare an explanation of why the outcome wasn't reasonable.

* unless you can point out a good reason to a judge why the arbitration process itself wasn't reasonable.
Faith No More "Epic" was way more influential than "Hunger Strike" and, wouldn't you know it, that video didn't even get a mention in the article.
For me, MOOC were initially a bet that the way we work, would shift from the classical way where you are employed for years at the same place, to a gig economy.
The reasoning goes like that: If you spend only a short time with employers, then you do no need to waste long time in universities. On contrary you could take a quick course on the needed subject and would prove your fitness to a job by other means (Github/Hackaday/...)

Unfortunately all classical long term jobs will not disappear overnight, companies are social constructs because they have customers that are human, they need people they can trust.
In addition, the gig economy had frightened many so many people, that they thought that having a university degree is the best way to escape it. So much for the MOOCs.

I think that as usual (and as Paul Graham said in 2012) universities will be challenged by new comers, but for me it will not be MOOCs. Universities are becoming more and more commodities (as reported in another HN discussion which says that the average IQ of the increasing masses going to university, is diminishing simply as the result of the IQ distribution law). Employers will trust them less and less to select the best individuals.

This is not new, I remember during the mid 90', there was a recruiting crisis, there was not enough people mastering the C language, the answer was not to make everybody to learn it, it was to invent new languages (Java/PHP/Python) that were much less demanding and also new tooling (IDE) making it possible for less gifted but more numerous people to enter this industry.

So the next thing will not be MOOCs or more people to universities, but tooling like DARPA's AIDA [0] applied to science.
On a lesser scale, tooling like Galaxy[1] in biology, are excellent steps in the right direction.

There are many benefits for the society at large to create tools to plan, assist, track and audit the intellectual processes, the science replication crisis is a good example.

[0] https://padiracinnovation.org/2017/04/07/362/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_(computational_biology)
The biggest killer of Chinese in the 19th and 20th century were....other Chinese, not to mention other Asians. I'm not sure why America is singled out when war just happens to be brutal. The PLA has been especially brutal in its treatment of their countrymen (e.g. The siege of Changchun).

Likewise, the north Vietnamese really practiced total war to an extreme, and well, it worked out for them at high costs they were will to pay.
The increase in upvotes is due to the algorithm change back in December. [0]

If you sort top, almost all 100k+ upvotes are after this switch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5gvd6b/score...
> How is google optimized content any different than having to print magazines so that they fit through your mailbox?

That's pretty much the point. The web was supposed to free us from those kinds of practical constraints - why let Google keep them alive for grubby commercial reasons?
We only know about the informants who get clapped, there's perhaps not enough information available to make pronouncements.
Quiver (macOS) is my go-to. It works a lot like basic Evernote functionality but stores everything in readable, text files in a JSON format. You can commit them to a git repo, read them over a network, sync them with DropBox/SyncThing/etc, and so on. It's relatively cheap too @ (iirc) $10. I have no affiliation to them; I just like the product.

There's also an iOS client being worked on as well.

http://happenapps.com/#quiver
What you have described to me is a "bounce house" of dealing with the world, so, my only question to you is how much are you paid per word for the Government service you are representing? I'm inquiring for the sake of market value. I certainly don't want to become a shill and be underpaid for my services.
I'm looking at that graph. I see a spike in the growth rate, after the spike it goes to zero. I'm not an expert (I have a masters in statistics actually) but that doesn't look very exponential to me.

Can you explain what I'm missing ?
Its almost like the game has become watching the devs keep making the game, and to be honest that part seems much more interesting and fun then trying the learn and play the thing.

Long ago I lost the ability to find mindless enjoyment, what I look for in games, in management-type sims such as this. They stress me out too much with the endless options and tweakings.
Pen and paper!

- Pilot precise V5
- Small lined soft cover moleskins.
In your view, what would one of those failing schools require to improve performance to an acceptable level?
Have you ever seen the anti spying posters in china? They totally are oriented around seduction and recklessness (Chinese girls are warned about handsome foreigners, and so on).
Just mention in README that there will be no further updates, and "please fork it yourself".
Hosted, free, indexed on Google search, simple and reliable admin, email and web forum style usage.

I'm not what could be better without paying or self hosting, though I do wish we could have built in formatting like Github and an API for the messages.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340905
Overall, my CompSci degree certainly wasn't. Some classes were though.