skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why assume that person is an expert? Can he prove causality, or is he confusing correlation with causation? I see no methodology. Why do students in Singapore, for instance, achieve among the highest test scores in the world with a merit-based system? Shouldn't you expect different results if the author's thesis is correct?
You mind if I ask what 3.2 features will make 4.0 migration easier? I haven't kept up with the 4.0 changes
When I was in Thailand I was coding in a wicked high speed internet coffee shop in Samui, on terraces looking out to the beach, on a bed next to a pool by the beach and in bars with live music at the nights.

If you're into what you're working on you can work anywhere, the more dynamic the better.
Actually it seems the jokes were fired solely because she was in the earshot.

EDIT: downvoting, seriously?

I just go by her account in the linked article, which I hope everyone commenting took their time to read as well. Her argument is clear and isn't anywhere as unfounded as skimming through the comments here would make you think. She of course could be making things up, which neither me, nor anything else who weren't there are able to verify.
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Silly? Maybe, but I don't think it's undeserved. The vast majority of "journalism" about Apple is just noisy sensationalism. The three bloggers that the OA cites (Gruber, Dediu and Dalrymple) may be biased partisans to more or less degrees, but at least they make a reasonable effort to be backed by the facts before they open their mouths. It's not Apple's job to shape their PR such that reporters do their job right—that's on the reporters for grasping to any unfounded rumor that makes a dramatic headline.
I've found these questions pretty helpful. Anyone interested in building a therapy chat bot that helps entrepreneurs using those same questions?
I think it's a great idea. I haven't tried Twisted and having to install some 3rd party component to get it working doesn't sound tempting, however being supported by default, does.
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So what? It's obvious that someone can reimplement the server logic. This is how we've worked around multiplayer DRM forever. Maxis didn't say "we are incapable of writing this code to run on a local client", they just said "we wrote this code to run on our cloud infrastructure, because it's a buzzword that might get someone stupid to care about us, and because it has a convenient side effect of making piracy more difficult". Of course they could have written the code to run client-side, or to run on independent servers, or whatever.
These content aggregation sites don't actually help in learning. The best way is still, IMO, to learn from an expert or experienced person.
Doesn't the fact that they're selling the same chip for a lower price mean they are profitable with that low-end price, too? I doubt they are just dumping the leftovers for the low-end, and taking a loss.

Also how is this any different from the Adobe scandal in Australia from a couple of months ago? I believe the Australian government even took them, Microsoft and Apple to court over charging Australians a lot more than Americans or others for the same products.
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Steer clear of humor at professional events like this, even if talking with a friend. It's too easy to step over someone's line and come under surveillance. If you wouldn't say it in a courtroom..
That's pretty slow. I get this:

3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 2.31272 s, 87.1 MB/s
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America's top schools are privately-run (Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Andover, Exeter, etc). If we eliminated private schools, does the author expect better test scores?
The flipping of classrooms is promising but Colorado has around 1 million school age children so if you dismiss the idea of learning from Finland because of its size you may want to ignore Colorado as well.

On a related note, saying that the US can't learn from smaller countries is the standard reply every time someone suggests that Americans could learn something from another country. Since only a handful of developing countries, Russia and Japan are in the +100 million population class, it's a convenient argument for not learning from anyone else :-)
What is it like to be in a class taught by Donald Knuth?
One thing to keep in mind, is that author mentions that the same card does not perform equivalently in Windows and Linux, specifically multi-screen support under Linux. From the forum post:

"I own a NVidia GTX 690 which I bought for two reasons, gaming, and multi monitor setup for work, NVidia made it very clear that this card would drive up to 3 screens in 2d, which it does quite nicely :-+... under windows :--! The tight asses have decided that if you want this feature under Linux you have to get a Quadro which has Mosaic support :palm:. So naturally I decided to look at how mod the card, as the price difference is over $1000 between the GTX 690 and the Quadro K5000 (same GPU) and, get this... the K5000 is only single GPU and clocked some 25-30% slower then the gaming card, what a joke"

It might be that he had expected 3 screens under Linux but didn't get it, so he set out to "fix" it. It seems a bit excessive to expect someone to spend $1000 for a card performing 25-30% less just to get Linux support :)
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What about the Dell latitude 6430u[1]? I've not seen it yet but if someone have any comments on it I'd be happy to hear! Seems like it's at least possible to get it with 1600x900.

[1] http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-6430u-ultrabook/f...

Edit: Seems like the 1600x900 resolution is only avaialable in US, or at least not in Sweden.
This just underscores the headline statement of the article though, wouldn't you say? If e.g. US education policy were strongly focused on equity, chances are that those immigrants wouldn't score lower than the average. And since powerful groups would still want their children to score well, chances are that the system would change in a way that pulls everybody up rather than pushing anybody down.

From the other perspective, it seems perfectly possible to have a culturally and ethnically homogenous country with high inequality (along class lines rather than racial lines) and hence worse education results.
The problem is actually about "working alone". When you work alone, the loneliness creeps upon you and takes away the focus from work, and then you're left with the unenviable choice of trying to regain focus (hard) or staring at walls or spiders building cobwebs.

So, ANY place with some people and a decent, undisturbed atmosphere would do. Although, if you already have a coding buddy or someone in the house, then there is no problem working from a house, be it a $2700 mansion in the heart of the prairies or a cramped house in Mumbai.

Just make sure to take regular breaks and go outside to remind yourself that you are alive.
Have you checked lately just how many titles involve zombies? In a recent Xbox360 magazine I picked up it was a clear majority.
I bet students in Finland start off with a lower English level than students in South Los Angeles.
This is at most an argument for agnosticism, not for theism. To say that with our current state of knowledge we don't know how to explain certain things - or even to say that we cannot know certain things - does not mean that we should grab onto the handiest fairytale as the definitive explanation for said lacuna in our knowledge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Trying to figure out what 'Here's a comparison that mostly factors scale out: http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN/co.... - again, the primary intention of the medical system in Canada is equality.' means. Primary intention? Really?
America's demographics are far from homogeneous. Students in Palo Alto need a different approach than students 30 miles away in Oakland. You're dealing with different cultures, values, English-speaking abilities, math levels, reading levels, and on and on.
I upvoted, but hope people understand that software shrinkwrap/clickwrap licenses are still a legal gray area. Yes, it's been this way for 25+ years, but it's still an exception to regular property rights.
Amongst themselves? They were in public!

And one of them was a sponsor of the event, none the less!
The libraries around here tend to be packed full of students.
While you might have a right to mod the hardware you bought you probably don't have a licence to use different drivers?
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If you don't attract attention, then yes, "nothing stops someone from driving to multiple Bank of America locations" but intentionally doing that to skirt the limits actually is prohibited - it's a crime, just not as easily detectable.

If you do it in a large enough amount or you become suspected of some other issue, monitored and this comes up - then you'll be prosecuted for that.
By nobody I think he meant "nobody at C-level". Normal people get fired all the time, but if a company fires a C-level instead of giving him a chance to turn in his resignation, it's pretty much saying "this guy is completely unfit and horrific, do NOT hire him". If a normal person gets fired, it's usually for something normal and is not necessarily an attempt to destroy that person's future.
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I wouldn't say that it's quite that simple, but it rings true if you think about it from the perspective of the de facto power groups.

When private schools exist, those power groups send their children to the best private schools, and few "important" people care about the public system.

However, when private schools do not exist, and those power groups have to send their children into the public system, then suddenly a whole lot of "important" people will care about the state of the public system, which is to everybody's benefit. (Also to the benefit of those "important" people, because they also benefit from the positive externalities of a well-educated society.)

Obviously, it is possible for a public school system to degenerate into a de facto-tiered system, where schools in poorer districts fare much worse than schools in rich districts. So this is just one factor among many, but it is a factor.
1600 x 900, one of the most irritating resolutions ever. Ten years ago, my T42p had 1600 x 1200. It's as if they removed a quarter of my screen and recentered it. What progress!
So the data is stored in the internally developed Go database? How reliable is that?

Also, the dataset of that size shall be distributed. Why Cassandra did not fit?

Genuine questions - I am evaluating which tool to pick for my own stuff.
That's possible, but not clear to me from Richards' account.
Sure, friends do make silly jokes. But friends don't let friends be assholes in public.
Not quite his comic idea, but you might also be interested in Not Tetris[0], which is a little less hellish and quite a lot of fun.

[0] http://stabyourself.net/nottetris2
I don't think there's anything wrong with jokes like this... except that they exacerbate an already huge problem.

There were 4 women who graduated with a degree in CS in my class of more than 100 last year. The intro class to CS had almost 50% female enrollment. I watched as women dropped out, one by one, switching to math or other engineering majors, some to science or humanities. They were left out of study groups, judged by their looks publicly and awkwardly, and basically made to feel unwelcome.

I generally hate the privilege crusader SJW attitude, but we NEED more women in CS. It's not good for society to have an environment that discourages women from joining the highest paid major coming out of college. It's worth policing our tone and being extra careful to be strictly professional. If the numbers even out, I doubt it would be such an issue.
Can we talk about poverty? In many communities in America schools are the only places students can get something to eat. We know that academic performance correlates closely with the economic conditions parents. So why don't we talk about it more?

Schools are in many ways just reflections of a society and its values. Schools don't exist in a vacuum, so comparing American schools to Finnish schools can not be done as an apples to apples comparison.
I found this scale excuse used multiple times (in European countries as well, and for all kinds of topics) but never got any proof for it, rather the opposite. If scale was an issue, how could the US have become such a technology leading nation? Usually, that's is just another way to tell "we don't want to know about it, we have no will to change anything because we hate change, or we screwed up but we don't want to acknowledge it."
As working environments go coffee shops (and indeed most public spaces) are generally pretty dire. They can be noisy with interruptions and the physical set up isn't well suited to work (bad chairs, tables not at a great height, limited space) - in short most of the things programmers will (rightly) complain about in a bad open plan office environment.

It's nice to get out and go somewhere different once in a while but to me unless you're going to spend money on getting a private room somewhere (be in a hotel, a rented house or whatever), they're not places to get anything serious done, they're more about having a break and a change of scenery.
I find that having a 4G wireless hotspot is the hot setup. If the weather is nice you can be outside while not being tied down to a specific location. Only restriction is coverage & power.
The problem with such things cross-financing.

They give free/cheap stuff to poor/normal people and expensive stuff to rich people.

Then the expensive stuff pays for the cheap stuff.

It's like socialism for capitalists.
Look great and thanks again for open sourcing it. I am also working on a fun iOS side project (as a break from the day job).

Do you have any recommendations for useful resources (books, websites, etc.) for somebody just starting off?
Do you also think that gay people shouldn't be so gay so that intolerant people aren't forced to insult them?
I would not be surprised, if he runs into stability issues.

Silicon manufacturers have long used the approach, to just manufacture the top of the line chip and then after testing, deactivate certain parts of the chip, to sell as a lower product. It was famous with AMD processors, where you were able to unlock more cores. The thing is, often those cores were disabled for a reason. I would not be surprised if a similar sheme would apply here, too.
I bet students in South Los Angeles start off with a lower Finnish level than students in Finland.
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What I always enjoy is the "Standardized tests are bad, as this standardized test proves!" schtick.

Moving beyond that, though, this article (in German, use google translate if needed) seems to say that Finland's performance can be wholly accounted for by their focus on pulling up the weakest performers.

http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/wissen/finnlands-pisa-geh...

EDIT- google translate changes "unteren zehntausend" in the title to "pocketful of miracles", seemingly because there was a film with those titles in each language. I think the literal translation of "lower (or bottom) ten thousand" is more accurate in this case. Ah, machine learning.
It isn't about just being profitable, it's about extracting maximum value from every customer.

Ideally, the company would haggle with each and every customer, and get each customer to pay the highest price he in particular accepts. Since haggling is not feasible in mass markets, customers get grouped in segments, where the price is set to the maximum the segment will accept.

Clearly, if you misclassify a hacker into an expensive segment you get your hardware hacked :-)
Of course they are - simply if you can prove the deals, then usually you can convict them of harsher crimes and ignore the tax issue.

However, if their defense proves that the stuff they sold was legal (as some new party drugs might be temporarily), then they can still be prosecuted for tax evasion. And, of course, there is the historical case of Al Capone.

[edit] See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_of_illegal_income_in_t... as noted by another commenter.
There are tons of good for you, cheap, quick to make meals if you have access to the most simple kitchen. A simple salad, sandwich or bowl at spaghetti at home is cheaper at McDonald's and much better for you. Lack of time shouldn't be a justification for fast food. When I worked in an office it would take longer to go out and get food than it would for me to pack a lunch and eat at my desk.
Thank you for publishing the source, its always great to go over a complete working app rather than just snippets. I think charging 99c and giving away the source could be a good strategy as it gets the developer community involved (with their valuable feedback) but still allows you to recoup a bit of money to cover your expenses.
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"Can we talk about poverty? In many communities in America schools are the only places students can get something to eat."

I've worked with inner city youths, and that is completely false. If that were true, we'd expect a very skinny poor population. Instead, a large percentage of America's poor are overweight.
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The use of "school" here is about primary and secondary education, not University/College level tertiary education.
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What you're witnessing is a taboo being formed.
You are thinking about chip costs as if you were selling bread or cars, where the majority cost in making the product are the marginal costs of manufacture. This is not true for microchips. The marginal cost to produce any modern Intel cpu is <$40. Most of the cost of making chips is in developing the process they run on, and designing, testing and validating the chips.

When the economics of making chips are $2B down to make the first one, then $25 for each that goes off the line, you cannot measure profitability like that. They need to recover R&D, and providing more expensive chips to the professional market through price discrimination is a good way to do this.
A large percentage of the poor are overweight or obese because of the low nutritional value of cheap, readymade food.
Dat Ass Google Glass APP - better than face recognition?
> Something's wrong.

How so? If I paid 2700 rent, I too would take a much closer look at my other expenses... ;)
Yes, because you postulate unfounded facts. Nothing in the story indicates that the jokes where fired because she was in the earshot.
London 512:
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 4.93267 s, 40.8 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 5.89248 s, 34.2 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 5.97411 s, 33.7 MB/s

London 2048:
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 4.50047 s, 44.7 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 2.90073 s, 69.4 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.30499 s, 60.9 MB/s

another London 2048:
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.16025 s, 63.7 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 2.86327 s, 70.3 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 4.0267 s, 50.0 MB/s

Newark 4096:
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.19571 s, 63.0 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 4.17497 s, 48.2 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 4.60173 s, 43.8 MB/s

Atlanta 4096:
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 2.19477 s, 91.7 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 2.63818 s, 76.3 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.04094 s, 66.2 MB/s

Dallas 2048:
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 2.65925 s, 75.7 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.11197 s, 64.7 MB/s
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.45745 s, 58.2 MB/s
Thats pretty cool. I'm currently doing the same at Ko Phangan in Thailand spending almost the same (well, maybe a couple of dollars more per day). And i've been more productive working like this than i was at home.

Btw, just curious. Does your place have a fast Wifi connection or are you using 3G internet for your work ?
Yes, Coke does seem to have gone way out of their way to make Diet Coke and Coke Zero taste very distinct.

I miss Diet Pepsi (can't get it in Norway) - Pepsi Max is ok, but it's not the same. Since work ditched Pepsi I've cut way back on the amount of soda I drink. I suppose that may be a good thing, but I still miss the taste.
But the point is that it would be pretty easy to do it without getting caught. You could send multiple people to multiple banks, across a wide area. The cost of manpower and fuel would eat a percentage, sure, but presumably any form of money laundering does. Which explains why the feds are interested in BitCoin.
http://pedestal.io/documentation/service-war-deployment/

Why is the creation of a WAR file more complex than it is currently with lein-ring?
As I understand it, in Asia (and maybe Northern Europe too?) there is less of a stigma against women in science, so the gender ratio in these fields is more balanced.

In America though science is seen as 'nerdy' and most girls are discouraged from being nerds. So women in science are a minority who constantly feel defensive and overwhelmed by attention from men.
Here is an optimized version of that image: http://i4.minus.com/ivpBgQ8dNf5Ge.png (smaller filesize, loads quicker).

Why did you save the image with transparency?
No, we can't talk about poverty. That requires critically examining the American fetishes for proprietarian, neoliberal capitalism and the inequality it drives. In fact, the problem is even deeper: it requires Americans to critically examine the cultural assumption that Life Itself is a competitive game to win or lose as individually as possible.
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You definitely do owe taxes even is your whole income is in bitcoins and there is no official way to tie bitcoin to usd.

First, you'll have to pay taxes based on the USD value of the goods/services/whatever for which you got that bitcoin income.

Second, you'll have to justify how you got to that value.

Third, if IRS doesn't like your justification and think that you're underestimating the income, they'll charge you a fine for the difference if they think it's a mistake; or prosecute you with tax evasion if they think that it was intentional.

After all that you'll pray for Feds to issue official guidelines on how to tie bitcoin value to USD, since it will make all of this simpler and safer for you.
What is your point here...?
Chrome's Omnibar constantly auto-completes searches I did earlier in the day and week, so that I often have to press delete before enter. And there is no settings toggle to turn this off.

(I'm not talking about the completion dropdown or what it contains, I'm talking about how the typed text in the input area has selected text appended to it when it happens to be a prefix for an earlier search.)

Between this, the lack of tree style tabs, and the weird text selection algorithm, I'm generally sticking with Firefox.
Is it worth alienating web developer and power users because they represent a small fraction of your user base ?

Try alienating your power users and wonder your product suddenly start bleeding regular users along with power users.

Start alienating web developer and wonder why suddenly websites start breaking in your browser.

This article is advocating total removal or rendering as impractical as possible as a mean of protecting ignorant people from their ignorance all in the sake of brand image.
You're probably right. I remember when I was in med school in Germany, the gender ratio was something like 70-30 women, and in the hard sciences seminars it was also at least equal.
Exactly, to say an SSD is 8x the cost of a hard drive, or even 2x the cost, is missing the point.

Even an expensive SSD is _cheaper_ than a HD on an IOPs to IOPs comparison, and IOPs is what matters to most people.