skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As research indicates, out-of-school factors like family and neighborhood account for roughly 60 percent of the variance in student test scores; teachers, by contrast—the largest in-school influence—account for only about 10 percent.

> Current data systems, which consist primarily of standardized-test scores, misrepresent school quality. They say more about family income than they do about schools.

The article seems to say that schools are fine, but it's our perceptions that are off. I don't doubt that our perceptions are off at all, when you know more about a situation, there's less fear and random judgement. Especially when it's about your children.

On the other hand, implying that out of school factors such as family income aren't related to schooling leaves out what I consider the real crux of the issue: funding.

Schools in the US are usually funded by local tax dollars, which is why school funding can vary so much from district to district. If you are trying to control for funding, then sure, I could see where you would say that where you live makes up 60% of your child's education, and only 10% is the difference between teachers. What I take this to mean is that 60% of the results come from actually funding the system.

I'm not sure if this controls for the fact that better funded schools have more teachers, which equates to smaller class size, and more time with the teacher, etc.

I also think there's a link between having well paid families and parental involvement in childhood activities, especially school. Involved parents also get involved in the school activities as well, like PTA.

Let's also not forget about the poorest school districts many of the children get free or reduced lunch programs. Comparing the test scores of children that are struggling with the basics vs those who aren't is a pretty stark difference.
People say the same thing about Nintendo, and it's odd that Nintendo and Apple are both swimming in pools of money like Scrooge McDuck despite their (so-called) "obvious missteps".
The Language Construction Kit is great from everything I've read. Yes her book is more on the history & pro/cons of various conlangs mixed with examples...etc. It's not supposed to teach you Klingon, Lojban, Esperanto, and several others all in one book.
> What does this mean?

As someone who's never done cave diving, the perception of risk is going to be higher than the actual risk. 1 time in 24 years is pretty low.
Do you want to maximize your life expectancy or figure out a balance of how to achieve a life that's as enjoyable as possible for as long as possible. A bunch of shitty years at the end really aren't likely worth it. But dying at 40 from partying too hard isn't likely worth it either.
The problem is that we don't really know for sure. We kind of predict things by extrapolating what we know and what we have, but we can never be sure there won't be any sudden breakthroughs.
> useless on my phone

How ironic, Unix came from Bell Labs and all, and now the Unix-like web page is useless on your phone.
>The alternative ... no salaries for police, doctors,

I'm not sure that was ever really an alternative. Much more likely would have to been to default on the debts like Iceland.
"Pedantic" is useful when trying to decipher marketing.

I agree with your parent. "Just Mayo" sounds like.. just mayonnaise. It should be called a made-up term like "Vayo: the vegan mayonnaise" or similar.
Windows 10 support could end early on some Intel systems
Primary use today, sure. But cryptocurrency has more practical application every year, and there are a lot of compelling reasons to believe that major economic players will switch to decentralized currency (not private blockchains, the public ones) in the next 10-20 years.

If during the dotcom bubble internet startups had required something similar (provable waste), people would have said the same thing you are. But here we see that the internet clearly was a trillion dollar industry, just that most dotcom startups were too early and poorly managed speculative vehicles.

Decentralized cryptocurrency will be a trillion dollar industry, and that's trillions in annual recurring revenue I'm talking about, not trillions in total market cap. It's just today we've seen the speculation get ahead of the technology.
As there is no concept of arbitrator reputation, it makes
no sense to deselect arbitrators, as this will only
reduce his trading possibilities. Traders will only be
able to take offers of users with whom they have at least
one overlapping selected arbitrator

- http://bitsquare.io/arbitration_system.pdf
The arcane incantation to login? Seriously? It's literally fly login. You're being ridiculous.
Shivans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent:_FreeSpace_–_The_Great...
good luck reasoning that to any of the current userbase...
> I've also heard it said that bug trackers attract low quality issues

An easy way around this would be to restrict write access (even for stuff like filing bugs) to known developers, and have the system readonly for anyone else.
So, Gopher 2.0?
How one European smart city is giving power back to its citizens
When I referred to "protectionism in general here" I was thinking mostly of its consequences for developing countries during and after their rise to prosperity. I'm afraid my history isn't really good enough to say whether this applies to the USA in the last few centuries :-) I imagine it's quite possible that it does.

I definitely get where you're coming from with optimism for China and can align with it to some extent. I do think we need to be a little careful about giving the CCP or the political structure too much credit for China's achievements when the ingenuity and hard work of the citizens seems to be the much greater part of the explanation to me. OTOH I agree they've made some good decisions along the way - infrastructure in particular. Time will tell I guess.

Whatever the outcome politically I certainly hope the Chinese people carry on along the path towards prosperity.
You're taking my argument to a ridiculous extreme, nowhere did I extend it to ridding self of human dependence. It looks like you are simply content to keep pushing an ideology instead of replying to what's being said.
> However it performs like a dud. No scheduling to speak of, just runs everything as soon as it can. We've run into nodes dying under load (-not- underprovisioned, could run all these jobs manually at once on these monsters). We've run into problems with volume reaping, fork bombs, ui freezes, everything under the sun.

I've used concourse as a consumer for 3 years and I've very, very rarely seen any of the problems you're describing, even on the older versions and certainly not in the last year or so.

> no scheduling to speak of

Concourse has a massive scheduling system built into it.. https://github.com/concourse/atc

Furthermore, you can configure jobs to run in serial (default is parallel).

> ui freezes

Put your `web` binary on a decently-sized VM and your problem should disappear. Also, don't have your workers on the same VM as your `web`.
When did the OP ever mention iOS or Windows Phone being OSS? They've never claimed to be either.
Hi, I'm the author. Thanks for reading and commenting. To clear it all up, yes, I had health problems even at the time, and still do.

I didn't realize how much the condition was affecting me until several years after I started on my own. Now I know that it caused me to make more emotional decisions, to have a short fuse, and to tire easily. It still does.

As I reflect on it, I try not to make that too much of a factor. It's one of those mysterious impossible-to-indentify conditions. I still marvel that a person can go to an office every day, work around all of those people, and not need to take a nap in the middle of the day. In the rare days that I really feel good, suddenly "normal" people make sense. But that quickly slips away.

I don't want to make that a part of my rationalization of my decisions, though it likely played a large part. Anyway, I think I explained the rationale behind my irrationality in my post so I'll let that do the rest.
but if the hash power users leave to another blockchain, and holders of imaginary tokens remain and trust the old blockchain, then the remaining lower hash power users became the dominant hash power.
At the same time, I'm glad this doesn't happen with the federal reserve, because I enjoy stable value in my day to day currency.
I wrote about it here: https://www.jasonswett.net/how-i-got-started-in-training/
The Atlantic audio articles
I found the cunt who got that 8th place trophy
I would really like to hear a definition of what generalization means, because I don't think we have one.

Unless we're talking generalization to arbitrary distributions, which is of course unsolvable.
In-person workshops, usually 3-day or 5-day classes for big companies.
Gold is a commodity of a specific know content, it doesn't need a balance sheet. The only thing left is to set the price, which you can speculate on. But is does have physical value at some price floor and you're just speculating on the demand. Basically the same for any commodity, oil, wheat, orange juice.

Just like the the USD is not a commodity, neither is BTC, so that's a bit disingenuous to compare it to gold, or a publicly traded and regulated stock. It's not even close.
I would love to know.
Oh boy, HN.
Taken to the extreme, your suggestion would be to never drive a car (or indeed go anywhere near a public road), as that is one of the most dangerous things we do every day. Travelling for a holiday would be a definite no-no, as it's likely more dangerous than staying at home. And so on and so forth.
100+ jobs in one pipeline?
Oh you spoiled little snowflake you. What is it like inside the mind of a cunt?
I simply don't recognise that characterisation of ML. I think that "data driven AI" fits far better. ML emerged in a number of ways over the years, but a strong driver of the last iteration was the knowledge engineering bottleneck encountered in fifth generation computing and surrounding the demise of the last turing center.

I invite you to read Chris Bishop's or Stephen Muggleton's books.

Anyone who works with data will find it hard to imagine data that "fell into your lap", all the data I've ever used successfully required slogging and grinding.
Is reddit commercial? You can pay for reddit gold and of course they make money on ads, although they don't make money on porn directly. How about imgur? They host a staggering amount of porn yet are not a porn website - how could they regulate that? How about erotic fan fiction websites where it's 100% text? How about ones where it's just hentai?

It's just an idiotic legislations that most likely has nothing to do with porn - it just wants to establish a framework on which the government can ban anything it doesn't like.
What about MPV do you see as in the spirit of MPC-HC? I'm a user of MPC-HC because of its DirectShow support and nice native UI. MPV has neither of these.
They replaced all lighting with streaming 1080p video.
Yeah, it has to fall below 1.0 child per person for the population to decline. And it's commonly reported that is happening in developed countries.
Yeah you are a cunt
How is it that you think I recommend it? It's a pretty genuine warning that it's a hard way to make a living.
But you're still calling it mayonnaise there, which is what the GP objected to and the parent called pedantry. If "mayonnaise" can't refer to vegan products, we can't use the term "vegan mayonnaise" — but of course that's even more confusing because any other term fails to describe what the product is. But if vegan products can describe themselves as mayonnaise so long as they clarify they're not egg-based, then why isn't Just Mayo labeling itself as "egg-free" on the front of the container enough? Does it just need to be more prominent?
It shows promise but it's still a bit in its infancy.

It lacks (or lacked a couple of months ago when I last tried it) functionality that I deem indispensable, like putting and importing all the movies from the same directory (it wants - or wanted - every movie to be in its own directory).

Also, it uses a lot more memory. Which is probably fine for most people, but since my little server only has 1.5 GB RAM, it really makes a difference for me.
Porting shouldn't be too hard, if you're using good engine. Support for users is proportional to number of users. Very limited choice of hardware and generally up-to-date software should tremendously help with support as well. It might be a net loss for very niche games, but for a few thousand sales it shouldn't be that bad IMO.

Also the fact that there are not that many games on macOS helps as well. I wouldn't buy Civilization, but I bought it, because there was a moment I wanted to play something and Civilization was one of the few recognizable titles I've found in AppStore.
Whereas some here are asking whether to switch from full-time to part-time, I have the reverse situation right now. I was hired by my current employer on a 70% part-time basis (i.e., 28 hours per week) since I'm still finishing my degree. That is nearly done now (thesis is submitted, only the presentation is left), and I'm struggling with the question whether to pursue going back to full-time. The extra money (70% part-time also means 70% pay) would be nice to build up assets, but OTOH I feel like my time is more valuable in my own hands at this point (I'm in my late twenties).
Fwiw, I built a very-very similar application recently using Angular (1.5) and it wasn't a great experience.

I originally used Angular because of all the enterprise components available (like JSON-Schema form elements and custom tables) but pretty much all of them ended up having some behavior that wasn't quite what we needed. Which resulted in tons of wasted time writing code around them, then forking and modifying them, then eventually just scrapping them and rewriting the parts of the app that used them. So I'd personally recommend not going with existing large table/form components. I also found myself working around some of the "Angular way" of doing things as the number of inputs and calculated outputs got larger, with most of the time savers up front (two way binding, etc) requiring major refactoring to get decent performance.

If I was doing it again I'd probably use react/redux/redux-thunk, just for more control over how the application's structured and how I'm connecting the inputs to the business logic.

Like, I recently found https://nadbm.github.io/react-datasheet/ and was pleasantly surprised how small and reasonable the codebase looked. Though I'd still just use it as a start/inspiration for your own custom table components instead of actually pulling it in as a dependency. And they give an example where they're constantly reloading the whole state of the table on change (I think intentionally just to keep the demo simple), but there's definitely better ways to deal with mass input. Just my 2 cents, good luck!

Edit: I originally recommended checking out redux-inputs for mass input, but it has an open issue* that was exactly the kind of thing I ran into with the form/table libraries that started the vicious cycle - I guess the moral is at least when you write your own way of doing this kind of thing you get to choose your battles.

* https://github.com/zillow/redux-inputs/issues/14
I'm only on chapter 2, and I'm not entirely sure where this story is heading - although I think it's centered around football - but chapter 1 is one of the most imaginative, effective multi-media story-telling experiences I have ever had.
Why is it that discussions of basic income so often ignore the effect of society-wide subsidy on market prices?

It's well documented that prices for a good increase when that good is subsidized. Healthcare is a perfect example.

So what of the effect on economy wide prices when a general income subsidy is introduced?

If UBI is simply a massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor, we have far too many poor and too few rich for the redistribution to have any significant impact on the lives of the poor. Taxing the rich and gifting the proceeds to the poor will not have a significant impact on their incomes in a nation like the United States.

So that method won't accomplish the goals of UBI in the first place, ignoring the inevitable inflation that would come with such a plan.

On the other hand if UBI is just printed money, then once again we're left with general inflation that would negate any positive impact of the UBI.
> No... ignoring property rights consistently produces crony-capitalism.

No, the original capitalist system (that is, the dominant system of the mid-19th century system developed West for which critics coined the name “capitalism”) fully embraced the capitalist model of property rights—again, the capitalist model of such rights was defined by what was observed in that system as distinct from a other historical systems—and was deeply and pervasively characterizes by cronyism.

Now, if you have some other model of property rights in mind other than that embodied in the real historical system for which “capitalism” was coined as a label, you might argue have an argument that deviation from that model, such as the deviation seen in capitalism, produces cronyism. But you shouldn't confuse that model with capitalism.
you could add little window decoration / border / title bar which would better indicate that it's actually a draggable "window" of sorts? :)
Not really. I'm quite certain that arresting me for not carrying ID would be illegal in the United States. Note that in some states I might be required to identify myself, but simply stating my full name counts; I don't have to have a physical government-issued ID. Similarly, I am required to carry a driver's license when driving, but forgetting my license at home will at most result in a ticket.

There's just no plausible scenario where I get arrested and taken to jail simply for not having a physical ID with me.
Sources would be nice, but I don't have the time to dig through the mailing lists for quotes from developers. To be fair, those claiming that Core is conspiring to move transactions off-chain would also need to cite sources.

But quotes from developers are not particularly interesting anyway. What's far more interesting is what the Core developers have actually accomplished. Actions speak louder than words.

They released SegWit which _is_ a 2MB upgrade to blocksize, as a softfork. It's exactly what the community wanted at the time (2MB), without any of the downsides (hardforking).

In addition to that, it increased transaction efficiency, fixed bugs, and enhanced the protocol.

SegWit is a thoughtfully designed protocol upgrade that accomplishes an order of magnitude more than any "upgrade" proposed by any of the alternative clients (Bitcoin-XT, Bitcoin Unlimited, and now SegWit2X).

Post-SegWit the developers are already looking at Schnorr signatures to further increase throughput. They've worked tirelessly to optimize signature verification times and improve the efficiency of the P2P protocol.

Why would they make all those efficiency improvements if their "evil plan" was to move everyone over to a lighting network?

EDIT: To be clear, yes I realize not providing sources is a total cop out :P But not everyone has limitless time to peruse the mailing lists for quotes. I just try to provide my best understanding of things, given my experience working with Bitcoin and keeping eyes on the community and ecosystem.
All these current examples of AI and ML are just a very small fraction of what we mean by intelligence so I'm not surprised by the pessimistic posts that hit HN from time to time.

Training systems with rich real world experiences sounds something that Open AI should be developing. It's probably not something that you can do over a weekend plus it takes serious of funding and wetware so it's probably the reason it's not there yet.
As a non cunt, I agree about your cuntery
> there is no standard way to use vector instructions or cache control

Really?

Amazing.
> you're still going to get bugs at the UI layer that you can automatically test for

Surely you can prove the correctness with integration tests of your modules, and then your acceptance tests can be simple 'did the thing not show an error when we clicked on the thing, and it went to the right page'? We have 'simulate the world' 'acceptance' tests at work and they're terribly flaky, and I look back at the layered approach to testing we used in a previous job where the go-live test was to hit the landing page & search results page & check that the status code was 200.

To be fair, the kind of tests I'm proposing won't catch layout issues. But, neither will the tests you're using.
When you start to look at thrillseekers as addicts, it starts to make a lot more sense. It's just that to get high, they take risks instead of using drugs, but the personality and the lack of concern for others in the face of that addiction is more than just similar I believe.
Not GP but I believe he is saying that unless we've been in an underwater cave the diver's perspective may be difficult for us to really appreciate.

To us, continuing to dive seems like an unacceptable risk. To the diver, it seemingly is not.

Along the same vein I believe GP then goes on to say that he does not feel that the diver's perspective is less valid just because he (the GP) doesn't understand it.
to follow up on depth (not just from a difficulty point of view), if care isn't taken - i'd assume that once there's a pathway to the surface, the water pressure would push the air out and drown him.

I also assume they're experts who know what they're doing, but at the same time, I guess there'd be too many unknown unless there was some established air-tight drilling technique specifically for this type of scenario?
I'm pretty sure that's illegal in the USA.
The bad reasons your company wants you to work long hours
Apparently. Though it was discontinued a little while ago, so I assume we won't see more in future. At least, not under that name.
DC security robot says everything is fine, throws itself into pool
I'm not freelancing, but I'd love to hear advice from other freelancers.

I have 11 years working experience as a full stack web developer and I think I'm pretty good at it by now. I'm currently employed and underpaid, and I live in Germany. I have no idea how I'd go about freelancing. What would be your advice to get me started?
With you, except for "no emotional attachment to this article" - why is this needed?