skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the bogey man[1] isn't it? That your home schooled kids will somehow become anti-social.

My wife and I home schooled (up to high school) our kids and socialization is a non-issue for three reasons:

1) There are other home schooled kids and they often get together in groups (more on that in a minute).

2) Good home schooling involves interacting with a lot more people from different backgrounds giving more social experience per unit time.

3) One of the common complaints of school students is how messed up the social scene is with regard to cliques, fashion herds, and morality memes.

The image that comes to mind when you think 'home school' is that you and your kid, one on one, going through the curriculum. However, there are lots of people and if you look around you will find that a lot of them are home schooling too. When you find the group that is compatible with your tastes you can plan group activities. Our group was covering science by each parent taking the whole group one day a week to focus on something they knew really well, that group was 10 - 15 kids of a variety of ages.

Then there are programs like the Riekes Center[2] which spend one day a week with a group of kids understanding a local park's biological diversity.

The bottom line is that socialization is the least of the problems you will face. Things that annoy you, people 'turning you in' because your kids aren't in school. People assuming that because you are home schooling you are a science hating religious fanatic, or are a science hating alternate medicine/crystal/universe fanatic, or are sacrificing your child's well-being because they are too lazy to go to school.

[1] "bogey man" that mythical creature that is going to 'get you' if you don't conform. Used by parents to tell kids that if they don't go to sleep the bogey man will get them.

[2] http://www.riekes.org/info/missionstatement.html
If you loved this, you might also want to check out http://www.timecube.com/
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Another problem is that Java and C++ developers often use class inheritance to share implementation code, even if the classes are not modeling proper is-a relationships.
Sorry, here's some R code ( profusely commented )
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs109l/code/week5/exponential....

>Intuitively, this result doesn't seem obvious
It isn't obvious because human arrival times at checkout counters follow a Poisson distribution and their service times follow an Exponential distribution. The stated results follow immediately if you look at the cumulative density function for the exponential.

Stated another way, suppose service times followed a Uniform distribution. Then none of this would hold. But because they are Exponential, these results come into play. Intuitively, we think in terms of Uniform distribution. So your mind is saying, wait a minute, if there are 1000 people in a queue, they probably average a 10 to 15 service minute per person. But that's like saying if there are 1000 people in an office, they probably make 100k on average because that's about what you (might) make. In reality incomes follow a Pareto, so your janitors will take home 30k and your managers will pull in a couple mil. A similar sort of dynamic applies here with the exponential distribution. The key takeaway is: Service times are not uniform but exponential.
I agree. Focus on school and your own side projects.
I think you miscontrue the premise. It's not that the company relies on group lunch. It just helps to integrate the group and improve communication. It also helps people get to know each other, which can be hard for introverts to do without structure. Maybe that's not necessarily a boon to productivity, but I appreciate it.

I also don't think anyone (least of all me) is saying this should be universally enforced as standard practice. If you say you must have this time for yourself, and that's a deal-breaker for you, then I respect that. You obviously wouldn't want to work for a company that insists on this. I'm also not saying that I wouldn't work at a company that didn't have this or a similar policy.

I'm just saying I agree that this kind of policy can help, especially among nerds.
Assumption of innocence is the de facto state for all crimes.
Stealth doesn't mean impossible to detect, it means harder to detect.
I am working on a design for one as well. It's rather tricky, because there are a lot of things you have to balance in order to get a well-designed programming language, especially when you want it to be usable for the sort of things shell scripting is good at, because shell as it exists is basically the opposite of a well-designed programming language and is only popular because it got here first.
No one arrives at any design independently. Design decisions are always informed by what's been proven successful, whether be the current designer or their competitors.

Apple has of course influenced the market. The question is whether Apple has the right to be only company in the market to sell certain things, like rectangular touchscreen tablet devices. I don't think they have that right.
My thoughts exactly. While reading this I could not think about the same counter-intuitive reaction that people have when they drive and the car slips. Most people steer in the direction of the road when the single action to regain control is to slightly steer in the direction of the slippage.
Help this dude in getting a job at Google.
FlipView Like FlipBoard
The 'solaris' option is a bit bogus though; it should be named 'SVR4'. As of Solaris 11, SVR4 packages are no longer the expected package format.
I almost didn't believe you about swipe-left-on-Me. I... just don't understand. What could have possibly made them think that was a good idea? I would have never figured that out in a million years.

Yes, it's true that under "Me" is a "Switch Accounts" button that does the exact same thing, and that's fine, but the idea of implementing swipe-left-on-Me seems to go completely against Apple's HIG and the entire notion of intuitively discovering functionality.
It's obvious that one line is faster? Well it's not.
Considering all cashiers are busy all the time, if it could be faster that would mean they have to manage multiple customers at the same time...
If you're in the top 50% skilled at finding a line, then you're penalized because it just averages the queuing time.
From the first paragraph of the wiki page:

"It is designed as an alternative to the iPod interface which was used exclusively by Apple Inc."

The connector looks like an attempt to confuse people with the iPod peripherals and visual branding. Why that exact shape?
Ask HN: SaaS to Manage Startup Equity / Shares
I've been searching for a simple way to manage our company's shares. I think I remember seeing someone mention something in a comment here but I can't find it.

I've been searching Google for the better part of an hour but I can't find the correct keywords to bring up the right results.

Basically, we have shares in our company and a small number of investors. We'd like an online way to keep track of who owns what shares.
But there is a good chance the response will be "Cool -- but why are you using Y instead of X?".

Repeat using X.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Does Redis still do that thing where it forks and the child writes its core to disk? How does that work under Windows, which doesn't have fork?

Finally, this is one big patch:

339 files changed, 146821 insertions(+), 290 deletions(-)

With many of the changes along the lines of:

static void *callbackValDup(void *privdata, const void *src) {
- ((void) privdata);
redisCallback *dup = malloc(sizeof(*dup));
+ ((void) privdata);
memcpy(dup,src,sizeof(*dup));
return dup;
}

or

- cmd = malloc(totlen+1);
+ cmd = (char*)malloc(totlen+1);

Eliminating compiler warnings is nice and whatever, but probably not the best thing to include in your "add major feature" patch.
So The Mythbusters Punched A Hole In A House With A Cannonball. Now What?
I agree. However, freelancing takes a bunch of time and focus and it's up to you to make sure you still give your startup enough focus. Otherwise, it may be better to take a lax job instead.
A patch file in a gist instead of a pull request? sigh
golvin, I couldn't have said it better. Thanks. The level of mistrust in government is incredible but Malaysians are nobody's fools and they've sadly seen rent-seeking too many times.

ps. no higher ed means no qualifications which means no work.
My personal experiences are as follows:

1. I was also in a couple of gifted programs in school that didn't do much. They were fun at the time, but I don't really think they helped me develop much personally.

2. I participated in some out of school gifted programs that helped me tremendously. I also just learned things on my own time for fun.

3. I went to 2 different middle schools and 3 different high schools (one of them being the school recieving the lowest amount of funding among all the schools in the state). Most of them were really tight on money and were cutting a lot of programs, both academic and otherwise.

While I do wish that school sponsered gifted programs could get more funding as I know gifted programs can be great, if money is tight, I'd rather money go to other programs. There are many ways a gifted child can learn on their own if they choose to, if some one has an undiagnosed learning disability they can't just change that on a whim.

Really I wish schools just got more funding in general. It varies greatly from school to school (I reccently saw my partners old high shcool and I was amazed at how nice the they had proper gym equipment and clean facilities, I don't know about their actual programs, but it looked like they'd have the money to spend on gifted programs), but at the schools I went to there simply wasn't enough money to go around.
Excellent, that is an interesting explanation to the Fermi Paradox.

So what we have to do is gamify exploration and conquest and we'll rule the galaxy within the next thousand years.
Presumably Hawking would be in the gifted program.
Is Social Music on the Rise Because of New Tech, or Old Urges?
Depends on power relations, really. If the journalist and paper aren't likely to get in hot water for it, doesn't happen. For example, U.S. coverage of international news can be pretty bad with misquotes, misattributions, and "accidentally" photoshopped images -- particularly so when the country being covered is primarily non-English-speaking.
There's an aspect of this that I haven't seen mentioned. It seems trivial but I think it's got to be solved before pooled vehicles like this can work: cleaning the vehicles.

There's no incentive for the individual user to keep a shared vehicle clean. So what happens: squalor, or perhaps a new service industry of grooming self-driving vehicles?
The rails world has a name for this object: Coordinator, which is typically a decorator on the model, though personally I feel it should be a facade.

One could think of it as a Presenter but with data flowing the other way through the abstraction.
The README on that gist reminds me how fortunate I am to work with Ubuntu servers. Building redis from source on Linux is literally "git clone https://github.com/antirez/redis && cd redis && make". And that's the hard way to install things in DebianLand.
That was my first thought too. :)
PYTHONSTARTUP also lets you enable things like

* coloured prompt
* tab-completion
* persistent history

Here's mine: http://mg.pov.lt/pythonrc
There have been a lot of interesting views described so far, from hacking the control channel to the plane intentionally landing to put crippled technology into certain countrys' R&D pipelines.

My question is this: How do we even know that's a working drone? It would take a competent body and fender guy less than a week to fabricate and paint a 1:1 model of the exterior of one of these drones.
> a.) get another Stuxnet into their computers while they download data from it,

i hope the CIA didn't forgot to put the virus carrying USB stick into the weapons bay :)
They did not have enough training in such situations. The captain seemed more competent, but he was not on the controls to do the right thing.
It's the same situation when untrained people drive cars to their limit. If the car slips then you should slightly steer in the direction of the slippage which is most of the time opposite to where the road turns. If you're not trained to do that you won't do it.
absolutely. my email is in my profile, if you ever need any advice on all the charitable red tape.
Trip to Disney World with my Granddaughter
I guess I missed a comma when viewing on my mobile device.
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If I pay you to donate, do I get to write off my taxes? Why not just pay you 25 cents per respondent with a commitment I'll donate to charity and let me decide if I want to do good or not.
I can't believe this has so many upvotes! This is based on a silly assumption; aircraft are relatively more expensive than cars to buy, maintain, and use. So it is cheaper and affordable for more people if we time share them.

Cars are much cheaper, so we don't - the value of having a personal car ready right now is worth more to people than taking public transport. If aircraft were as cheap/convenient as cars to use/maintain/store/etc, then I'd have an aircraft parked up outside my house!

Driverless cars will have an enormous effect on society in lots of ways, but I highly doubt reducing the number of cars on the road will be one of them. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more cars on the roads, given that people who currently can't drive (because they're elderly/too young/disabled) will be enabled to.
I think the natural progression of driverless cars is away from individual ownership. Why own a car when you can have near instant availability of a much cheaper rental.

To many people, a car becomes part of their identity, or like you said

>expression/personal entertainment

I'm sure that there will still be people for whom this is true, but for most of us it won't matter b/c the efficient always there taxi will be so much cheaper.

For most middle to lower-middle class Americans I think current cars are really out of their comfortable price range, they own them b/c they view them as a requirement.

If you give them an alternative that is just as convient, but cheaper, and without the maintenance hassles, it's no contest.
This is wrong, but I can no longer delete the comment. It's based on an outdated source. Sorry for the noise.
Amber supports one-way bindings:

App.Post = SC.Object.extend({
fooBinding: SC.oneWay("Bar.baz")
})
My fingers often type "test" when I want to type "text".
Using libuv from Node.js too. Awesome.
can someone please submit a patch to MS to add git pull support to team foundation server or visual sourcesafe (or what are MS guys using these days as version control?)
I wish I could do that, but unfortunately I just can't bring myself to trust their security. I use Evernote for my classes because I use a Asus EeeNote tablet that syncs things to Evernote exclusively, but there are so many things I can't trust in the cloud. If Evernote offered a "host it yourself" option that worked with existing Evernote clients, I'd be all over it.
Eric Lippert (C# designer at MS) wrote up a post titled "Queueing Theory In Action, plus, frogs" a couple of years ago, regarding his experience with lines like this at airports:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/08/20/queue...
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Attack their argument, not the source.
What are you talking about? Did you even follow the link to the site or read the whole post? Long doesn't mean long-winded. He's talking about stuff that really speaks to what a lot of us are going through. You may not have that in common with him but that doesn't mean it's dumb. What if I said "your comment is dumb. You made a short sarcastic quip and left no constructive criticism". It's cool not to like it but give a decent reason that isn't so unnecessarily condescending. Guy poured his heart out, give him a break.

Also, you can sign up right now and he even gives you access to a demo account. Plus the site itself explains what he's doing. I'm not trying to be a dick or anything but I really liked what he was talking about and I feel like I just can't let unfair criticism go unrefuted.
Not sure what they're going to do regarding fork, but they say this at the end of the gist:

TODO

Snapshotting (Fork and Write) is not perfect, right now we simply block requests while memory is dumped on disk. We are working on a solution that will give us better performance. An update will be released soon.
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There are 453 mentions of "fork" in the patch, so I'm imagining it does.
Best Buy has been doing that, too.
Actually, only the less experienced copilot, Bonin, appeared to be in favor of climbing. The other repeatedly told him to level out or dive, and apparently thought Bonin had listened (which would explain why he was so baffled). As the OP points out, neither that copilot nor the captain seemed to realize that Bonin had been futilely trying to climb the whole time until that moment at the end when the captain ordered him to stop.
I visited the site and after a couple minutes Flaviu had started a little chart with me. I up voted because of this. Great way to show a product on a personal level which goes right along side his idea that surveys would have better results if the participants cared about the survey.
If the people developing Amber are reading this and I'm sure they are I hope they take away the message that the community wants better documentation, examples, tutorials, and use cases. It's not features, abstraction X, Y, or Z, it's support!
I've never worked on the RQ-170, but I have directly worked on other models, as well as other low observability aircraft. It has a command channel but was likely running autonomously.

To me, it looks like a rushed mockup designed from existing images for a press event:

- The wing seams are jacked up for a low observable airframe, though this could be because they disassembled it prior.

- The inlet grill configuration is an odd design for low observability and looks like it would significantly block airflow, but this is a low speed aircraft.

- The paint job is odd. Birds are always being repainted all kinds of crazy schemes, but I've never seen this kind. The body does look like it was crated with aircraft metal, though.

I'm willing to bet the original crashed and burned and that this is a mockup. Iran doesn't have the resources to land one of these intact, themselves. Neither does China or Russia.
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Flash 0-day exploit
What are the meaningful API differences between Spine and Backbone?
Now all of my Google+ contacts show up in the gmail chat (that appears next to gmail window). How often do we chat with our contacts in google+? I don't like this since it crowds out my legitimate contacts from gmail chat.
A lie of omission is a lie, yes. But let's take a look at some actual passages from the article:

> Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor

> When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement

> a separate team of LAPD officers used knives to slice open every personal tent in the park ... and then yanked out and destroyed any personal property inside those tents

> As a reminder, Antonio Villaraigosa has referred to all of this as “the LAPD’s finest hour.”

So, we have a group of people in a public park exercising their right to protest, whereby they are arrested with systematic excessive force while their belongings are destroyed. What could have been omitted that would possibly justify this?

Furthermore, you're asserting that the author must be lying in some way, without presenting any proof of your own. I can only conclude you aren't looking for truth at all, but for justification to dismiss the post as it doesn't fit with your world view.
Got it finally! It took about an hour just refreshed again and it is there.

I am not a power user. Perhaps they found that more people tweet from mobile devices that is why they doing it this way?
Can somebody more familiar with the Windows environment explain why prn.h is an "invalid file name"?

edit:// thanks all! :)
For the full story, see my comment at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248552

tl;dr: managed attributes and fine-grained model attribute events make life a lot easier and change the boundary between model and controller.
But that situation is already solved in the MVC world; with filters, callbacks and validation.

Having just finished a pretty complex "application" of this sort (which cannibalized Knockout to get what I needed...) my view is that most stuff does not need any sort of filtering. Or if it does (and the big example I could give here would be timestamps) a lot of the filtering can be standardised.
Thanks for the feedback. I am working on the $1 to be processed separately from the 25 cents so that you can write the amount off.

That's a good idea to give customers the option to do it on their own. However, in that case I cannot guarantee to their respondents that the company will make good on their promise.
Exactly, which was my point to the original parent. =)

Biology is slow, so effective and scientifically accurate trials are slow. These slow trials are required because of regulations for health and safety reasons, which means time to market is slow for drugs.

Which means complaining about the 25 year time to market (the original parent's comment) is really the same as complaining about regulations. Drop the regulations and companies are no longer required to do scientifically accurate/responsible studies, which means faster to-market times (and less safe drugs).
Personally, I see no problem with two-way bindings to views. If your app is well architected it should be able to handle those changes. That said, it's not difficult to set up a buffer to store changes until you "save", if that's what's desired.
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Opa: now looks like JS but works like JS on steroids
It is easy to use apt-get/yum, and necessary for installing lots of vital programs.

On the other hand, I have no idea how I would go about making my apps work with app-get. I'm sure I could go and learn, but I suspect it will be non trivial, and I have an awful feeling it will involve learning automake/autoconf.
The layout of the store may make switching to a single line tricky. You need enough area for people to line up, and stores I've seen with this layout usually had a larger area between the aisles and registers than most grocery stores. Also the largest big-box stores would have to go with multiple multi-register lines due to the sheer number of registers.
Not sure why you are being downvoted, there are many worries about exactly this, compromise of components used in the US military, when imported from foreign countries.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058849/Chinese-coun...

Also, it seems highly likely that most US secrets including drone control systems are likely to have been compromised by hackers.

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/chinese-hackers-took-...

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-21/us/pentagon.hacked_1_plan...
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