skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I was in middle school (11-13 years old) in the early 2000's our public school got tons of state funds for our "great performance". This led to teachers compensation being tied to said performance.

That meant each teacher would try and assign at least an hour of homework to stuff more and more into their students heads. The school had to implement a "maximum 4 hours of homework" policy. It didn't really do anything - teachers in different departments didn't coordinate. The next year they chose specific days teachers could assign homework...

Two years ago my younger cousin went to the same school - he caught mono and pneumonia, requiring a long stay at home. As a 13 year old he started getting anxiety attacks for fear of the compounding work.

Public schools are broken, and I don't think most parents realize the pressure put upon their children by teachers trying to get a bonus. All around a mess
Nobody sells 100% of IT in a box for an arbitrary country, off the self, zero customization required. Now, they can import things like operating systems, routers, word processors, etc, but so can large counties. And even then localization may not work out of the box.

Remember, things like local tax laws are not going to simply reflect some other country's rules 100% of the time.
From your link:

Finally, let’s insist that the separators be part of the method name; i.e., let’s require that the name of the method be “rotate by: around:” and let’s get rid of the spaces to get “rotateby:around:” as the name and finally, let’s capitalize internal words just for readability to get “rotateBy:around:”. Then our example could be written

rotateBy: a around: v //This is Smalltalk

This is also what Objective-C / Apple does.
As you probably know, the Columbine shooters had ostensibly made a Doom map of their school and indeed a big deal was made about it by people who didn't know anything about Doom or map editors or videogames.

Of course just about everyone who's made maps for any sort of game has tried to make their house or their school. It's just fun to put the real-life places you know into a game.
It's a waste of money if you and your allies aren't under constant, repeated threat.
One of my kids' guidance cousellors once said a very wise things to me:

“You know what makes me really excited about a job? Knowing that after spending eight hours a day at work, I have another three hours of overtime after dinner.”

Homework has generally been shown to not aid in learning. And as a parent I can guarantee that 90% of both of my childrens' homework assignments aren't really even intended to aid in learning. As far as I can tell, they're mostly useful as a way to sort top performers - being kids who not only understand the material, but who are both willing and able to jump through the necessary hoops - from everyone else.

I went to high school in a small rural area in the late 1980's. I had a maximum of one hour of homework a night. Often I was able to finish my homework on the bus home. I spent my free time teaching myself to code, something I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.

I earned a PhD in aerospace engineering; I think I turned out OK, educationally.
What's wrong with Google's offering?
There are many companies using Clojure large and small, nobody actually using the language has problems hiring people for it. This is not a theoretical debate, there's no evidence to support the notion that Clojure is hard to hire for.

In practice, the language is a small part of what a new hire has to learn. Each company has different processes, tools, workflows, frameworks, and so on. A language is only a small part of that.

While there are obviously companies where Clojure wouldn't be a good fit, the reasons wouldn't be that it's hard to train new people to work with it.
Not without support of their parents.
14 year old kids used to spend tons of time playing outside unsupervised. Now they have a carefully choreographed schedule packed with structured supervised activities, an enormous pile of tedious homework, are not allowed to do anything mildly physically risky, and spend the remaining time sitting looking at a screen.

Raking leaves or doing laundry is fine as far as it goes, but isn’t going to fundamentally rebalance anything.

In my opinion kids that age (and especially younger) shouldn’t need to be experts at “time management”. They should just have engaging physical things to play with and a chance to learn about whatever happens to interest them.
People.ai (YC S16) is hiring senior Python engineers
I work at an education company doing tech. Our main product is an education system that goes from prefirst to high school (we're in Mexico so it's different here).

One of the principles of this system is that there should be as little homework as possible. We focus more on building cognitive skills.

Since this is radically different from classic education our biggest challenge is actually coaching and training the teachers.
The 3d-ish animation in that article is atrocious. I fails to provide any meaningful insight other than the raw heights, the trajectories are not actual trajectories (they aren't elliptical and that includes the ISS), and the scale is way off.
Even if you are under threat, what purpose is served in the modern age by putting bombers on alert? The war would be over before they reached an interesting target.
Don't forget to pass -ldflags "-s -w" to `go build`.

Debugging symbols are over 50% of most Go binaries I see, and you don't even need them to get stack traces from panics.

Combined with `upx --ultra-brute`, you can get static Go binaries down to about 12-15% of their plain `go build` size in my experience. (This also assumes CGO_ENABLED=0)
Is calling someone an asshole okay under the guidelines?
I think whats interesting is the role of insurance in economics going back to the fourteenth century or earlier.

Trade demanded ship insurance. Risk capital was locked up behind usury laws (can't lend money and be a good christian, and we killed or expelled all the jews so thats a ... bit of a problem right there..) but insurance for profit at end was legal. The whole UK debt finance from life expectancy, actuarial tables, the long-term rate of insurance as a cost..

Maybe Buffet is just looking into deep economic time and deciding he can live with backing a form of capital investment which pays back over the 100+ year model.
The reason you were down-voted to oblivion was your presumption that religious belief is irrational. Rationality is a slippery concept (if not a completely empty one), and it seems like you've chosen to define it as strict adherence to the doctrines of Physicalism. This kind of view plays well in /r/atheism, but outside those quarters it comes across as arrogant and naive.

My advice: try to empathize with those who don't share your chosen axioms. Certainty is the enemy of critical thinking.
Some would argue a threat worsened by provocative and unilateral actions, but we'll see who writes the history books.
Was talking to a friend of mine that’s at SoftBank. FWIW he mentioned that internally Son is targeting $880Bn for the three Vision Funds!
Amazon patents drone based electric vehicle recharging [pdf]
Does a day go by without the traditional media pushing an article about how bad social media is?
Homework is not really the problem. Our bulky textbooks and overflowing amount of content in our curriculums is the real problem. Cut our curriculum to the most basic things and you will see everything falling into its place.
"Air Force’s top officer and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is asking his force to think about new ways that nuclear weapons could be used for deterrence, or even combat"

That last line about using nukes for combat is scary. Every country should take a stance they wont be first to fire. It reduces the likelyhood of actually having to use them. Once US is talking pre-emptive tactical strikes now Russia and China are much more likely to gear up for the same and sit there guessing if they should launch first next time tensions increase.

We really need to cage these war hawks that get into power. My jaw hit the ground at the stupidity of that statement. They just made the world and their country a significantly more dangerous place. Thats far from defending their nation.
I follow both Casey and the Trending page. This was his first video of his not in there. I'm so incredibly fed up with them. I hope Cloudflare Stream will help someone build a creator-friendly to YouTube, so it can burn in the dumpster fire it created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZakJFqdpRY
Don’t be a parent. :)

You have to cook, wash dishes, wash clothes, make sure everyone gets baths, etc, etc. Help with homework, etc. A whole bunch of post 8 hour work day labor.
> Companies like Slack are never going to go public in this sort of environment and its the employees that suffer the most.

I agree with your premise. The solution is for the private companies to do what all other long-term sustainable private companies have done throughout history: actually earn a profit. In doing so, they can pay dividends and or profit sharing to employees, buy back employee stock (optionally eg if someone wants to leave), and so on. Will that happen? Most of these companies will probably just keep riding the private capital train with things as they are for as long as they can.

They should be following the example of the SAS Institute, which has been private for 41 years and implemented employee profit sharing after their first year in business.
How so? Interested in your elaboration. I would have surmised it'd be very smooth and fun to target, given all the freedoms it gives you (free-form records, dynamically-sized arrays, no types). All the things that are "foot guns" when hand-writing it, should make codegen-ing it a lot easier. Because when a code-gen "shoots yourself in the foot", one can just fix the transpiler once instead of one's individual JS code-base(s) time-and-again
How do you figure? I wrote like that in eighth grade. I wrote like that because I read a lot and interacted with people who challenged me intellectually ("on the internet, nobody knows you're twelve even when you're arguing with them")--which homework never did until college.
Tangentially related: https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2K...

Rocket debris in Kazakhstan. Which I am always looking for reasons to post.
Not at similar age with similar intent, no.
Yep, I agree with you.
Because you're not a customer. You don't pay for YouTube, advertisers do.
I thought the fiber was good because it made you feel fuller and you don't eat as much, not that you somehow interacted with sugar to "disable" it. What's the connection?
This kid has an anger problem, not necessarily a parent problem. Phrases such as "you want to throw something at them, to yell at them to simply leave you alone" and "hands curl into fists" are angry words. I find them shocking compared to how I felt about my parents. He speaks of "...parent[s] tell[ing] you to get off your ass and start doing something productive..." but both the manner and content of that phrase are over the top.

This child needs to learn to communicate how one feels and what has transpired during the day. Now if, when this happens, the parents respond with physical punishment, that is another story.

BTW he doesn't write particularly well.
The place spacecraft go to die
> Mostly I think it's just people stumbling on the domain which was a popular term on Japanese twitter.

Then maybe you should add a Japanese only Twitter account and try to target those people more directly.

Oh... and an app. You need an app. Give me time to finish the Udemy course on Corona SDK and I'll be happy to whip you up something for $20,000.
Having countries peg their currencies to yours certainly helped: http://fortune.com/2014/10/22/why-germany-is-the-eurozones-b... , meanwhile the other Euro countries are suffering. Even freaking Finland.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/22/greece...
Unilateral actions such as capturing military vessels, ignoring international agreements, making credible mortal threats to billions of people, and launching ICBMs over other nations?

DPRK has already engaged in acts of war against both ROK and Japan. There's nothing unilateral left.
Part of being in a family is chipping in and doing what's required to keep the household going.

A key teaching for children is for them to understand that we show our love for one another by our actions and inactions.
Not really, if you look at lung cancer rates among non smokers they are not zero. So, you can't say a specific smoker got long cancer from smoking but by comparing populations you can find changes in rates.
I wouldn't bet a cent, not because his reasoning is wrong, but because the premise is wrong. The government doesn't control the main propaganda source: public education. That was transferred to comunidades autónomas more than 30 years ago and nationalists have used it to brainwash people.

Did you know that it's impossible to have your children study in Spanish at public schools... in Spain? There were sentences from the Supreme Court and Tribunal Constitucional condemning this situation. Regional government ignored them and central governments did nothing for decades.

Other propaganda sources are not going to be controled either. There are a couple of associations, the ones whose leaders are now jailed, that play a central role and, unless illegalized (that I seriously doubt will happen) will still be receiving lots of money from the very same State that they're fighting. Why? Because cutting the financing would mean reforming laws that allow national parties to give money to their own fundations in other parts of Spain.

Public funded tv and radio would get new heads, but replacing the fanatics that produce the contents would need dismantling them, that most likely won't happen either.

Do you know why this situation seems so confusing? Because spanish governments have done nothing for a very long time. This has allowed nationalists to create the ilusion that they're really almost independent and they only need a little push to get there. Then our current prime minister is known for its "do nothing until there's no other option" style, that made the thugs think it's the moment to make their move.
I had a teacher, who, when enumerating, say, three points in his address of the class, used his thumb all three times.
I don't think the threats are credible. I don't see what NK would gain from "nuking Guam," besides the end of their country.

It's just posturing, and "putting Nuclear Bombers on 24-hour alert" is also just posturing.
Liquid metal discovery ushers in new wave of chemistry and electronics
Kenneth Reitz's records library is similar (and also reliant on Sqlalchemy): https://github.com/kennethreitz/records
I believe it's purpose is to reinforce the material. Having said that, our kid has 8-12 pages of worksheets to complete a week, and we have to fight her every night to get her to do it. It seems excessive to me for an elementary student. It reminds me of the saying, "kids are naturally curious and eager to learn until school beats it out of them."
Teenagers are minors, but not "children". Painting them as "children" leads to silly things like a 16-year-old being considered a child right up until birthday 17, at which point they can join the army.

Holes appear in the story in the article when things like "seven straight hours" - do kids not get lunch or recess breaks anymore? It's clear the teen is overstating the case to make it sound worse. That doesn't mean there's no problem to address, but I wouldn't take the statement on face value. I'm also not sure I'd take that letter as typical (for an adult, let alone a young teen), given the quality of the prose.
...never seen anything like that before anywhere, nope, >__>
Sorry, but I disagree with this. My son doesn't have any onerous 'structured supervised activities'. He mentioned from an early age that he hates team sports, so we have never pushed him to join a team or sports club of any sort.

Of late, he has signed up and been accompanying me to my Kendo lessons (his choice), which has been a good opportunity for some father/son bonding, and also a way for him to improve his fitness and mental discipline.

And that word 'discipline' is a key here. Chores aren't just about slave driving. I believe it is important for young kids to get used to a routine, and to learn that sometimes you have to do things even when it is not convenient. A well raked driveway (outside in the sunshine) should give him the satisfaction of a job well done at the end of it.

Plus it is also necessary, as my wife and I (and his brother) simply struggle to cope with the daily maintenance tasks around the house given our work lives. Him doing chores hopefully also will impart on him that managing a household take a lot of work, and I hope it also makes him see that my wife and I are not just house cleaning and meal preparing robots that just make things magically happen. We have the philosophy that we ALL chip in to make our house a nice place to live in.
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I know that in retrospect. I didn't know it back then, or I wouldn't have done the level. Kids do things just randomly, to experiment in various domains. We project our fears onto them. In doing so, we influence them.

I am very surprised by most of the reactions to this article, on HN of all places.
Dude. Just because your life requires an arduous slog through each day doesn't mean you need to project that onto your kids.
I trained a least-squares linear regression model to predict the 'sharability' of a given sale using n-gram feature hashing on data I scraped, applied weights and normalized by percentile, from social media sites.

It's built using Huginn[0], Azure ML[1], and Wordpress.

If anyone has any suggestions to improve the model, or really anything else, please feel free to comment or drop me an email at badmin@flashfed.com

[0]:https://github.com/huginn/huginn
[1]:https://studio.azureml.net
When your parents treat you like shit and that you know you'd be happier without them, you get angry at having to be around them.
Imagine how people would react today to a start-up like Facebook (circa 2009) taking the Russian VC money that they did (Digital Sky, Yuri Milner, Alisher Usmanov). It would be unfeasible for Facebook to do so, politically the firestorm would threaten to burn their company down, as Congress would go ballistic over the perceived implications.
Yeah, I mean, folks with kids are at a professional disadvantage to folks without kids...that's pretty well established. Kids bring all sorts of other great benefits to life. But extra time is not one of them. And folks who choose to spend their off time doing other activities rather than leveling up their skills or applying to better jobs are going to remain that way.
How do you build cognitive skills without doing work?
The twisted essence of Sharing Economy, the sharing bed
This is how 8th graders communicate. They really don't think or speak like adults.

It's very common for young males to be either have violent thoughts or be at least mildly depressed.

As to writing this representative of fairly average writing. http://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/assessment/Writ...
Ahh yes, but if they sold the advertising space in the market they could make more mon... Oh wait.
What makes you say he doesn't write particularly well? Most 8th graders that I know don't write this well.

I personally thought he communicated very well how he felt and what transpired.

I also didn't get the impression that he is blaming his parents - or anyone really, I think he's blaming the system in general.

School is exhausting. Don't know about you, but when I got home from school I just needed an hour to unwind. Usually it was watching TV with my sister for an hour before starting homework.

Sure, some people may be wired differently and "suck it up" and just put up with it, but I think decompressing after a hard day of work is probably healthy.
I think this is an enormously cool experiment on two fronts. Firstly because its a reasonably direct test of our assumptions about the basic operating model of inheritence and evolution. I could imagine critique of it on that basis, but unless somebody stumps up to fund another, this is it for that measure. So, whilst we're comfortable with a theory as a theory, this is an experiment of that theory, its operation, its behaviours over time, which permits the individual (ok every 500) generations to be analysed and compared.

Secondly, because it displays some behaviours as an experiment which I find interesting. The logistic curve of change for instance: a ramp up from slow start, and a long tail, against the cheap-to-achieve changes which maximised reproductive outcome against the constraint. The lack of an 'end point' (so yes, we as humans can continue to evolve and now we may have a reason to believe its slower than other species for a reason: we're beyond our constraint hump)
The threats are credible in that they would have no qualms about executing them, not in that they will fail to be averted.

> It's just posturing, and "putting Nuclear Bombers on 24-hour alert" is also just posturing.

That's exactly my point: there's nothing one-sided about this. DPRK is playing their hand, the U.S. must play theirs.
Those investors are given allocations based on how much the brokers like them, how much brokerage they pay, etc. The book build isn't done on the highest price, that's the messed up part.

If it was done on the highest price - then those investors who are buying after IPO would have put in bids in the IPO and there wouldn't be a pricing gap.
>I think one of the challenges I personally face is that building more features feels safe. You can spend a whole day trying to reach out to more people to validate the problem and come away with nothing. A day of coding gives you something tangible.

Coming away with nothing and then to keep on trying. This has been the hardest thing for me too. Coding/designing/building is way more fun and easy (in the short-term).
> Smalltalk-80 in turn led to modern Smalltalk systems such as… <

Such as:

- the direct commercialization of that work (by Xerox PARC spin-off ParcPlace Systems) as ObjectWorks and then VisualWorks (now Cincom Smalltalk)

- IBM Smalltalk on mainframe and mini computers http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27000344&ai...

- HP Distributed Smalltalk http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/95apr/apr95a11.pdf

- Gemstone https://gemtalksystems.com/
UC Berkeley: Implant lithography, reconfigurable wires and almost gate-all-around
It's the parents job to teach communication and facilitate discussion free of punishment, not the child's.
You're right that he's still just a kid, though I think he's in eighth grade, so roughly 13 years old rather than 8.
To be fair, the families of people I know from most other parts of the world also are often pretty bad at empathy. I’m not convinced that “Western” society is particularly special in that regard.
So if we took the generative/genetic algorithms which invent languages, and we plug them (eliza/parry) into the ones which recognize cat videos, can we train the A.I. to be able to talk to each other about the models they are exploring in Kitteh?
I like how you deduced a psychological background profile and English writing analysis in one fell swoop.
He could be a parent and hire help for all that.
I believe the teachers think it's to reinforce the material. But much of the research says it's ineffective. AFAIK the research doesn't say why, exactly; but I would guess it has something to do with not being able to effectively engage in demanding intellectual pursuits for more than a few hours a day.
End result: install nine apps, end up with three variously outdated copies of the JRE, none of which benefit the tenth app I install.

It's frustrating how we're wallowing in problems that had already been solved for most of my career.