skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is the assumption that throwing money at the problem can fix it? The US already spends more than almost any other nation else on education. And the few places that spend more than us, Austria/Luxembourg/Norway/Switzerland aren't the ones rocking amazing educational outputs.

This [1] page offers a raw table with PISA, a standardized educational performance test, results across nations. We're now losing to places like Vietnam in Math/Science. This article mentions we spend about $11,000 per student on education. The per capita GDP of Vietnam is $2,305. Their per child spending is, in turn, going to likely be some fraction of that.

It's getting quite silly. This [2] is an interactive page allowing you to compare nations' performance based on OECD PISA scores across the world using a wide array of metrics - click on a country to get details and the ability to compare that country to others. The US problem is not with how much money schools get. It's not even with how much money teachers' get. You can find data on that here [3]. The problem is not money.

So what is the problem? I think that's why people like to just blame money, or the lack thereof. It's easy. Trying to figure out what the actual problem is is going to be extremely difficult. And as political correctness is such a hot trend in the US, some factors cannot even be considered which isn't exactly productive for trying to figure out the most effective solution.

[1] - http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-of-mat...

[2] - https://www.oecd.org/pisa/

[3] - https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/teachers-salaries.htm
Most certainly, it is what drove data to Microsoft SPOT watches: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Personal_Objects_Techn...

I still have a few lying around, though the data service has long since been turned off. It was low-bandwidth, but suitable for stock prices, weather, and incoming-only text messages via (IIRC) MSN Messenger. Cell phones have since replaced the functionality, but I loved mine at the time.
I don't want to wait a decade to cash out (that's my 20s or 30s :-o), especially when this is my primary income stream. I would rather work at another competing public tech company in such a case, so that my payout is guaranteed. This way I can start building equity/second income stream etc. quite early in life.
I'm quite surprised at this conclusion. I've always felt that doing SPA with jQuery was the easiest thing I've ever done in my development career. It's so easy to get something set up and running. And it's a breeze to figure out and read the code too: even when it's 10s of thousands of lines of code.

Is it just me, or are many of the newer frameworks actually harder to use? I tried Angular 1 about 4 or 5 years ago and it seemed like a complete disaster. Recently, I've been working on Vue and this seems a bit better.
As a founder do you not feel some responsibility to eventually provide liquidity to your investors and the employees that helped build your co?
I was expecting some horrible pdf akin to some crazy 'liberals' on twitter but that pdf actually does a decent job explaining why these can be upsetting in some situations (it's not like the writer thinks that asking where someone is born is bad in literally all situations). You might personally disagree but the message section of the table talks about how these sayings can be interpreted
Alas, access to the HW functionality is blocked in the ROM for some carriers.
> Seignorage is what the government does when it creates dollars (or when bitcoin is created). That truly is creating money for nothing.

Institutions such as banks and credit unions are also able to create money 'from nothing', via lending.

When they make a loan, it's not as though they deduct the amount loaned (or any part of it) from someone else's account, and typically they're allowed to make loans totaling many times (9x? 11x? I forget) the amount of deposits they possess.
YC was founded in 2005. So yeah, it took dropbox a while but that seems to be the norm these days.
Take a chill pill. They're not assuming anything, they're making a hypothesis based on the available evidence. The paper title even includes the words "A contribution to the debate on it's origin". That hardly looks like a final pronouncement.
But weren't Symbolics Lisp Machines from an era where nothing suffered from these flaws, because nothing did speculative execution?
Yeah, most startups aren't geared towards their employees. They have to grow a certain size before the employees are able to get reasonable terms from their employer.
Economists grapple with the future of the labour market
I feel like this has got to be one of the most infamous / inspiration posts in HN history. Just to be able to look at the MVP of a billion dollar company and watch it get scrutinized, doubted and critiqued at that early stage.. it's an amazing look for anyone w/ thoughts of launching a startup.
See the work by Adam Tornhill

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWhBmJJZoNM

https://pragprog.com/book/atcrime/your-code-as-a-crime-scene

https://pragprog.com/book/atevol/software-design-x-rays
Presumably, the original paper of the dunning kruger effect[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Banks can't loan out more then they have in deposits (unless they themselves have borrowed from someone else, and so on). In fact, they can't even loan out every dollar that's been deposited - there are reserve requirements that they hold some cash on hand to redeem, say, withdrawal requests.
I am not at all a front-end developper. But isn't jQuery the DOM API done right? [Which is a good thing, but only the beginning of the journey.]
When your code deployment model is effectively "download stuff from random websites", I feel like namespace recycling is the least of your worries.

(That is to say, trusting that any given named package that `npm install` downloads is what you think it is is really no different that trusting `wget https://example.com/thecode.tgz`. Even if you verify that the domain hasn't switched hands, you have no guarantee that the author's pipeline wasn't compromised, or that the author didn't add malware themselves. There's a reason Debian, Red Hat et. al. put a lot of effort into ensuring integrity of their repositories.)
It can be, though some covers are "straight up", while others (generally the memorable ones) are practically a new creation in themselves, with a sliding scale in between. But for "cover song" meaning something like Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" or Coltrane's "My Favorite Things", I agree.
The Why of Go
I would assume they would target using the machine guid windows uses for updates.
Have you ever dealt with PCI or HIPPAA compliance? It's all about checking boxes. This approach has not worked.

We need to adequately start pricing in the costs of externalised losses, and studying what actually works, otherwise nothing will get better.
I think I understand Bitcoin well enough to detect that you don't know what you're talking about.

One could argue that a higher current difficulty increases trust in very recent transactions, thereby raising the unitility of Bitcoin as a medium of exchange (ha!) and thus affecting the price.

But that effect is small and we're talking about the difficulty during the last 10 blocks, at most.

Anything before that is for the past.
Have long wanted a home/top gesture, thanks!
I'm the founder of HDP Health, if you have any questions or want clarifications please ask away!
Real Ice Rubik's Cube
"Not only do minorities get asthma at a higher rate, but [UCSF] pulmonologist Dr. Esteban Burchard ... has found that ethnicity is the most important factor in determining if a patient will respond to asthma therapy. Unfortunately, for the most most commonly prescribed asthma medication, Albuterol, 67 percent of Puerto Ricans and 47 percent of African-Americans show no improvement when taking it, yet Albuterol works therapeutically for the vast majority of Caucasian patients."

I did not know that. It's horrifying.
His opposition to this bill is based on nonsense, but it would be wonderfully ironic if he used it as the basis for veto.
What gets me is that there's no conversation list. So if a group conversation drops out of your <n> (15 for web skype?) most recent conversations, it's gone.
But, structure the comp so that all of your early employees & people in the trenches only get paid if you IPO. Then get mad when those same employees openly wonder if and when you are going to IPO.
No idea for how long this one was exactly (apart from short), but something brighter than the moon and visible during daytime is fairly plausible.

Some stuff out there can end up brighter than the sun, too:

https://youtu.be/FJB7gbjiJKw?t=4m13s
Buy a new cpu that is fixed and problem gone maybe we shouldn’t change the world maybe intel should fix there own problem? If a car has a serious fault that makes it dangerous it’s recalled it’s time for intel to do the same.
Maybe call it "Rufus News" or something? You get to keep the fun dog name that way.
my funny meeting cory story:
ran into him after a lecture and fanboyishly told him I'd been reading boingboing half my life (~15 years) - he freaked out, muttered something like "I'm not that old!" shook my hand and ran away.
Indeed cool. I've been spending decent chunk of time exploring Elixir, Phoenix and the ecosystem as a whole, and I haven't had this much fun in a very long time.
I don't know much about the stock stuff so I am wondering why they are doing it secretly? Just because they are not ready to announce yet?
States Push Back After Net Neutrality Repeal
My .02 on this:

You've already lost. The decision has been made, they're moving ahead, and it's clear (a) you can't change their minds and (b) you aren't onboard with it.

You should treat this as a learning experience about decision-making and corporate politics.

Put aside the technical issues and take some time to consider the people issues. Who is the decision-maker? What is his/her motivations? How are decisions made in your organization - top-down, consensus, debate, face-to-face, etc? What role did you think you should have in making this decision, and how did that differ from the role you actually had? How do you feel about all of this?

Maybe you felt this was your decision to make, or should've been given more weight/input on the decision. This is a relationship problem. You don't have the role you want with the others.

Another view might be, you were consulted but ultimately you weren't the top decision-maker in the org, the decision didn't go your way, and you need to either (A) get onboard with it or (b) leave.

It's very reasonable to want out at times like this. Don't do anything rash, but if you can't get onboard with this decision and really do object to it, leaving this organization might be your best bet.

It's important to realize, when you aren't the head person, there are some things that aren't going to go your way. You can argue and fight and debate, but ultimately, a decision has to be made, and it might not be the one you want, but you have to either tow the line, or leave, doubly so as an executive. As bad as this situation is, it's way worse to have a bunch of people who can't agree, and decisions not getting made, than MADE decisions that don't go your way.

If you truly have ethical or legal issues, you should get out. You're young and will move on to something else quickly. But I think this stuff (ICOs and coins in general) is grayer than you might think. There's a lot of gray between 100% upright business practices and fraud, and you're somewhere in the middle.
Is Tiny Tiny RSS in the same category?

https://tt-rss.org/
Package signing by the author helps, but not if (a) the author's key is compromised, or (b) the author acts in bad faith. With npm-style package registries, the risk of such an event increases with the number of dependencies your project has.

Better to (a) ship your code with explicit version and content dependencies (e.g. a SHA-256 of the package you expect to exist), or (b) delegate trust in upstream packages to fewer, more well-vetted, authorities (i.e. distro-style).
FFS New York Times, can you not make EVERY GOD DAMN ARTICLE about Trump and distract everyone from the main issue here?

More than half of this article is about Trump's tweets. How about naming and shaming all the Republicans and Democrats that voted to extend the surveillance law instead?
I think concluding the "end of langsec" goes too far. We'll continue to need both langsec, plus much more thorough hardware verification to re-establish basic isolation assumptions lost with Spectre/Meltdown (or push for detailed HW specs to begin with, to be able to assert these assumptions on our own).

OTOH, as if it wasn't obvious enough already, I'm seeing a serious issue with the concept of executing arbitrary code from untrusted network locations, such as with JavaScript on the Web.
These days, that is mitigated partially by salaries that are closer to market (and sometimes even higher than market) than was historically the case for startups.

But the AMT/exercising problem can be severe if you're unlucky.
Dropbox Team: Congrats on this great milestone! I think I was one of your first users back in the day, and your product has transformed my life - it's been the single greatest productivity tool I've used in the past 10 years!

I know some people will scoff at that, and there is always the "yeah but google drive/box/oneDrive is better", but you guys did it first and still do it best! I've been a Pro member for a long while now and I'll be with you guys until the end - good luck and I'm excited to see what the future holds.
Does this mean they'll remove the constant nag to upgrade my account to get more space? I have 2 GB out of a total of 20GB free on my non-paying account. It's so infuriating that I've uninstalled the client. How did I get 20 GB free? By getting lots of friends onto the service in the early days, and this is how they thank me?
It is why I listen only to one of the NPR affiliates or other listener-supported radio (e. g., KEXP in Seattle). Not that I’m a public radio nut (though, kinda), I’d just rather listen to nothing than put up with the cackling hyenas on commercial drive-time radio. My wife leaves the car radio on the local classic rock station, and it rarely is playing a song when I start the car. An iPhone with access to every song iTunes has, and she listens to that crap. I don’t get it.
But those are all just mitigations, not fixes. Such changes don't guarantee that it's impossible to still leak information - just that it will be harder (but not inherently impossible) to exploit.
Is there any guarantee of a cash-out opportunity at private startups? Or is it at the mercy of your employer and one can even have bad experiences like Zynga where your options could be clawed back?
Are "joe jobs" still a thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job

> A joe job is a spamming technique that sends out unsolicited e-mails using spoofed sender data. Early joe jobs aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender or inducing the recipients to take action against them [...]
But how would advertisers know when you’re watching / listening? Broadcasts will clearly never work!
API Gateway: The Microservices Superglue
Don’t write a report. No one reads them. Talk talk talk and listen listen listen with the people that matter. Don’t end the conversation until one of you changes your mind or you decide that you have to quit.
> the ability to act upon the environment to achieve one's goals.

Prove that the animal has a concept of goals and is not simply a complex arrangement of reactions environmental conditions, like a coffee table moving when you bump into it.
My question as a Java/Swing developper is this: what is the difference between React and Web Components? As far as I understand, both create self-contained components that you can use in your HTML, and that will react when you alter their DOM structure (for example changing an attribute value, or binding an HTML input value with an internal value inside the component).

And from that perspective, will we see in the future off-the-shelf HTML components (based on React or Web Components) just like we can use custom Swing components ?
Haha, I saw the same thing. No way I would pay 20 euro to read that.
I apologize for calling this person out, but I found this funny:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

"quite trivially"
If your in a position where you could convince an organization to use Discord for Business you could probably convince them to use Slack or Hipchat, both of which are better than Skype.
He met with Rand Paul last night who is the staunchest opposition to this bill.
That's what preset buttons are for.
For Python there is Snakefood. I have had good results using it on a huge hairball project to discover interesting and useful things about the topology of the module dependencies.

http://furius.ca/snakefood/

http://furius.ca/snakefood/doc/snakefood-doc.html
Decentralized Gaming Ecosystem
> some attributes which we think of as uniquely human, such as intelligence or consciousness, aren't actually so unique

If you find this topic interesting I'd highly suggest reading the book Other Minds [1] and maybe Being a Beast [2]. Apparently there was a Y fork millions of years ago in the tree of life where vertebrates and invertebrates split. It's interesting that both branches developed advanced nervous systems, specifically octopi and mammals. What's the purpose of an octopus having the highest brain to body mass of any invertebrate? Especially when they live ~2 years. Also, 2/3 of their neurons are found in its arms. Imagine thinking with your arms or seeing with your skin - they have photoreceptors in their skin and are able to match their environment yet they're color blind.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28116739-other-minds

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28696605-being-a-beast
6000 years ago hunting was more popular than even Elvis! I guess it depends on your definition of "obvious".
The problem is that people don't want to give up power while they have it, even if it means their opponent gets it next, and even if there's no next-next because your opponent uses it to ensure you never take power again.
As someone else mentioned, and something that I need to remind myself often: convincing people is a very different matter from proving that you’re right. My $0.02:

- Feel free to build the huge report, but likely only show small and focused bits that will make the difference based on the details on the ground.

- Try not to just make a logical argument, but focus on the emotional and financial needs as well. Emotional needs would be thinking such as ICO is cool, but is there a lot of risk, especially when you have a business that is working.

- It is often hard to completely change people's minds. Sometimes it is better to suggest the compromise. To do ICO for our market, we will need to pivot in these ways ...
> "Consciousness", in the philosophical meaning, is even more interesting because it is entirely non-empirical; it can't be measured in any objective sense.

Don't mistake "don't know how" with "cannot". The fact that we currently don't know what consciousness is, doesn't entail that we won't one day. Consciousness will likely one day be considered a some physical process, which means it will one day be measurable.

The difficulties surrounding qualia require a resolution, but it's a mistake to just take some people's word that physicalism can't account for our qualitative perceptions.
> ericaceous (acid loving) plants

Not to be confused with erinaceous (pertaining to hedgehogs) plants.

Cacti, perhaps? English vocabulary can be weird.
This is one of the first broad-audience articles I've seen that actually acknowledges neuronal firing rates as an important practical consideration.

Usually it's simplified in explanations as "binary", on or off. This isn't wrong for any instant in time (and is sometimes good enough for conceptual models), but in reality the firing rate varies as a function of the stimulus. Analog, if you like...
He'd never veto anything, he'd have to read the bill to veto it.
> Dropbox has been willing to get their hands dirty in their pursuit of user-friendliness since day one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742251

Props to those for whom this finally pays off!
How do you test for humor?
Not every state is heavily unionized, and I don't think you'd point to the states without teacher's unions as being exemplars of education. The problem is new teachers are bad, and old teachers are bad- there's maybe a decade or two in between where they have both the experience and motivation to be truly effective.
I have a feeling that if you tally up all the times a server was hacked, Wordpress will be the reason for the bulk of them. Yes many platforms when not kept upgraded will have holes, but nothing in the magnitude of the WordPress universe.
Is your comment supposed to be an example of how abstraction is a bad thing? I have no idea what you're talking about.
Plus the tax penalty of exercising those options when you leave! The only way companies will give up the ability to lock in talent is if enough people make it a condition of accepting the offer.
The precedence has been set for using FISA against your political opponents. I agree, this will be great for him.
Exactly, if they couldn't even get the title right, what else in the article is going to be incorrect?
lol this is the original Dunning-Kruger paper.. why is it news now?
Just show her what they did to Donald Trump. Via a BS dossier, they wire tapped him and his associates.
Skype should be renamed to "Skype--" in the US. After MS bought it, it became a buggy piece of crap. Every new version had more useless features and was more prone to crashing/freezing up than the last. Screenshare and the other golden features became riddled with issues. Skype was once great. During the period in which it was down for "maintanence" many believe that spying measures were added. In any case, there are much better options these days considering how bloated and buggy the actual client-side software has become.
Also, this topic was discussed today morning on Fox and Friends.
Either I am missing something hidden in plain sight or or maybe deep design knowledge is required to understand why Microsoft killed (is going to kill) an excellent Todo app and to replace it wrote another app, clearly inferior, from scratch which turned out to be "okay" at best.

I mean they could rebranded the app if they did have to call it Microsoft To-Do; and maybe changed the colours and all.
Messaged you through your website. Thanks