skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone from Korea is running some kinda experiment on "sharing" on the Web
> "He also is a member of the board of EarthLink, an Internet service provider that competes aggressively with Verizon and AT&T."

Is that the Scientologist ISP?
Thinking on "Why calculating is better than scheming" vs SICP I realize that there is an axis where most programmer's ways of thinking can be placed, with 2 extremes:

- the mathematician-programmers: the thinking in terms of "what is" extreme, or mathematical thinking inspired programming: people closer to this like to think in terms of types and usually dislike dynamic languages, they also like to be able to properly reason about all aspects of a program, to have defined "states" they can think about. These people tend to like MLs, Haskell, OCaml, F#. The "mathematical beauty of perfect code" is their ideal and favorite metaphor. And I think they are right that teaching a Lisp to a beginner pushes ones mind away from "what is" oriented programming.

- the Schemers: the thinking in terms of "what transformations to apply to something (it doesn't matter what "something" actually "is") to get something else or somewhere else" programmer: these people like to be able to transform everything, including code itself, they like homoiconicity or macros in general, they prefer thinking in terms of "how to compose/cahin transofrmations" instead of types, they tend either no know or not value category theory too much and they are ok with seeing code as an "organic entity" that can't always be reasoned about. These people tend to like Lisps, Smalltalk and dynamic languages. The "programming as magick", in the sense of "controlling the spirits (processes) inside computers" is their favorite metaphor. They also like to maintain a playful mood and their "it's ok that paying customers get shafted every now and then" may have had a reason for businesses' dislike for "schemer" types and "schemer" realted technologies. As an offside paradox, some "schemers" tend to also like OOP, though they understand it should not be overused (I consider Alan Kay, usually mentiones as the father of OOP to be a "schemer"). I think that exposing a young learner to Lisp pushes one mind towards this direction, and this is why I love SICP. If you are a competent engineer you surely have a serious amount of math knowledge, so you can easily switch your mind to what-is/math mode and see the mathematical beauty when there is one to be seen, but most "mathematician-programmers" never seem to be able to love this "ruleless organic beauty" of the "schemer way".

I consider myself a "schemer" and I am biased to this side, but I understand and appreciate the value and arguments of the other - I'd rather fly in a plane with the control systems coded by a "mathematician-programmer" than by a "schemer" like me :)
Here's the previous thread for this article, from 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4784827
There's more to it than that.

Let's assume just for the sake of argument that every actor from their own perspective is reasonable.

The problem is that a small group of parents are at the top of the "food chain." These parents are self-selected and therefore have a more overbearing personality (i.e. helicopter parents) than average.

So these parents sit in PTA meetings or similar and pass more and more rules based on the latest moral panic (e.g. guns, knives, hairstyles, video games, healthy food, etc). They aren't trying to strike a "balance" to find what is reasonable they're trying to keep the kids safe even at the cost of everything and everyone else.

Now you might say "but isn't the principal in charge?!" well, no, not really. I mean the principal is in charge of certain things but if they fail to keep the PTA happy they will be replaced by someone who will. Child safety (as the PTA will spin it) is one of those areas where principals have very little freedom.

With this specific incident in mind, even if the principal AND the teachers thought it was crazy to both exclude and arrest her, they might have effectively zero say in the matter.
Great post. On the money.
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Flight connections
Ramen?
Surely everything after is considered a good idea, because the it was bad; even if suggestions were repeated prior and post suggesting mc donalds, that suggestion is suddenly considered a better idea...
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can you do a lightning talk tomorrow at railsconf?
Technically the "device designed to maim and kill" also had a gas expansion inside of a closed vessel.

I am just making this post to point out that what she was doing COULD have been dangerous or fatal, it just wasn't.

Fortunately plastic containers will fail long before the buildup of pressure becomes too powerful. But in general, that kind of explosion does and can kill.
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>A lego piece - "I'm looking for a 2x3 lego and three 2x2 block legos"

This one doesn't make any sense! You would say I'm looking for a 2x3 block and 3 2x2 blocks.

It all comes down to the fact that the name 'Lego' does not apply to an individual piece. It's a fuzzy area when it comes to brands, but they are normally more adjective than noun, although popular usage can make them noun, verb and adjective.

I don't really take it that seriously. I wouldn't correct someone if they were talking, only on the internet.
Zero tolerance for common sense as well. Why think when it's easier to hide behind the rules?
I was really shocked to learn that most US secondary schools ("K12") have a police officer in them and if you get into trouble the police officer will literally come and "arrest" you.

I don't even know where to start pointing out what is wrong with THAT...
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Basically, this app tries guess whether a floating point number specified by the user can be expressed as some multiple of pi, e or one of the other important math numbers.

ex: You want to calculate 150[degrees] in radians. Simple you say, just convert using your calculator: 150 [degrees] = 2.35619449019 [rad].

However On an exam/homework you would lose marks for this answer since it is not given "the right way" (as a fraction of pi). Using this app you can find out that 2.35619449019 [rad] = (3*pi)/4 [rad] and get all points.

Cool.
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I don't understand, how people, who supposedly must be well educated in biology, allow antibiotics to loose efficiency by feeding them to animals.
Then it's not really that they were paying you less than you were worth, it's that there was an alternate business arrangement that was a win-win for everybody. :-)
Fantastic comment, well said, right on the money, perfection.

I was recently at a startup event in Los Angeles, where the terms "Silicon Beach" and "change the world" were mentioned at least a dozen times. While I love that Los Angeles, for example, is trying to create companies and products/services in the technology space, making another photo sharing app or social network is most likely not "changing the world" in any way whatsoever. Not to mention the stupidity that is the "Silicon Beach" name simply because it "sounds cool" and "they're making stuff in Silicon Valley, let's call ourselves Silicon Beach."

I think the problem lies with the current culture and crop of young people who think success and innovation is attained by spending a few months making an app for iOS. They see success stories like FB, Instagram, Pinterest, etc., read TechCrunch about who raised what round, memorize the terminology and assume that a derivative product will be equally successful. Doesn't work that way, for 99.99% of people/products.

I also think this might be another trend, a sort of app-bubble so to speak where real technology will eventually take precedence over all these bullshit "companies" that are basically applications for an Apple built ecosystem riding a wave a VC money. I want to believe that because we are in a dire state of innovation. There are TONS of real world problems that need to be solved and if more people applied themselves to really "change the world" we would have some amazing companies sprouting up. Perhaps the app-cowboys will continue to battle each other in the Top Charts while seeking Series money to simply get acquired by an even bigger app-company. It's unfortunate we've reached this point of technology, something that wasn't as prevalent before the iOS/smartphone days. Let's see what happens.
Another reference point, though in a different state:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_Cash_scandal

"The "Kids for cash" scandal unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges, President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from Robert Mericle, builder of two private, for-profit juvenile facilities, in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh sentences on juveniles brought before their courts to increase the number of inmates in the detention centers.

For example, Ciavarella sentenced children to extended stays in juvenile detention for offenses as minimal as mocking a principal on Myspace, trespassing in a vacant building, and shoplifting DVDs from Wal-mart."

Not saying this is what happened here, but a plausible hypothesis.
Exactly. You might get value from doing heroin like millions of others, but that doesn't means it's good for people/humanity. I'm not saying FB doesn't have value (it does because it connects people) but I, for one, remember the world being a better place without FB as many others would most likely agree here on HN. More importantly, innovation had more value when 1000 people were trying to create software/hardware/services to help people vs. 1000 instagram and social networking clones for a quick Series round or exit.
While it would be great if the FDA did something about this, there are probably global dimensions to this problem also. Presumably antibiotics are used globally against strains of disease that spread quite merrily from country to country.

I'd assume epidemiology is not domestically constrained: the antibiotic/agricultural practices of one nation impact all others.

I have no idea what is standard practice for domestic agriculture in my own country. Things I think I "know" about agriculture are distorted through the prism of American cultural influence - documentaries like Food Inc., are writ large in the imagination even where these are only concerned with domestic affairs.

What resources exist that document antibiotic use on a global basis?
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You hit the nail on the head, thank you.
Vine is probably the dumbest application of the year. Unfortunately, it's not the last.
The vision was a souped-up, more or less modern, C64 I could give to kids like I had as a kid.

Be aware of the psychology.

A kid is likely to volunteer, "I know interrupts! I know interrupts, do you know interrupts?"

I am haughty like a psychologist.

I made what I set-out to make. It's done. I COMPLETED an operating system with compiler!

The Bible says to laugh at the person who does not check if he can finish, first.

"Is it portable to all architectures?"

ROFLMAO

Those clowns at OSDev plan way beyond anything they will make and, also, it is not useful if it is another Linux. They pat themselves on the back for how grandiose their plans are. They mock me.
> She's obviously a "good" kid, and the cops and admin know it.

The school officials might know it, but I'm not so sure about the cops. It seems she was expelled due to the school system's zero tolerance policy. What about the felony charges? That was a separate decision by the cops or the District Attorney. I doubt violating a school policy requires the filing of criminal charges.
For some reason, Kijiji is dominant in most of Canada. Craigslist is almost never used here. I'm honestly glad, because I occasionally check Craigslist and it's never a rewarding experience. Without the network-effects monopoly, it's a truly awful site.
They do not need a reason to dismiss the board, a majority vote suffices. The shareholders own the company, so they can install whatever board they like for whatever reason they like. I'm not aware of any board that got dismiseed for not aggressively optimizing taxes. Similarily, shareholders rarely complain about philantropic programmes of large corporations, for example this:
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/community.aspx
I have used http://www.tldrlegal.com/compare and found their descriptions quite accurate.
Self - interest and short-term orientation. Improving your own animals' health increases your profits and cash flow now. The downsides are long-term and shared by many others.

For regulators, the incentives might be skewed by lobbying and perhaps corruption.
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Animal research/experimentation is a misleading, conglomerate driven force that makes us all believe it is the only/best way to do biological and medical research for the benefit of humans. The reason it is conglomerate/pharmaceutical driven is because these organizations must rely on animal experimentation to get funding.

What affects an animal has for the most part no relationship to how it affects a human

Yes, there are relatively few instances where how something affects humans is the same as how it affects an animal, but leaving that up to chance as we do research is absolutely not the way to do this!

PCP, which has a violence inducing affect on humans is sometimes used as a horse tranquilizer.

Not only are humans biologically, physiologically different than animals, but each animal is biological/physiologically different from one another.

Due to the fact that animal experimentation/research for the most part (relatively speaking) has not had positive results, researchers started to rely on more extreme methods, such as injecting human DNA into animals so that the animals become more human when they do their research. This causes bacteria/virii which normally would not have been able to penetrate a human, to learn through animals being used as a human DNA surrogate, and therefore becoming stronger and knowing how to attack human cells. Hence the topic of this article and antibiotics becoming less and less effective.

edit, references:

1. Lethal Medicine (Documentary)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYOTH_krTk

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF3yn4-9obw

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Rp9xxW2yc

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld8F9yhUb4M

2. http://www.livescience.com/7962-human-dna-injected-animals.h...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7681252/ns/health-cloning_and_stem...

-In 2004, researchers looking to study viral infections injected human blood stem cells into pigs. The unexpected result: pig cells, human cells and some that combined bits of both developed in the pigs' blood.

-In 2005, researchers created a flock of sheep with bits of human organs growing inside of them, part of an effort (alson carried out in pigs) to eventually create human organ factories.

-Some lab monkeys pack a human form of the Huntington's gene which allow scientists to investigate the development of the disease.

-There are mice with human-like livers that allow studying the effects of drugs.
I think the EE part is pretty much covered on the net. As a software engineer I was able to create a prototype of hardware product I wanted to build with minimal EE knowledge- by searching how to implement specific subsystems in hardware- e.g. laser diode driver, light detector using LED, switching power regulator design, etc. I'm pretty sure such prototypes by people without EE background will fail in edge cases, but hey, it proves a point of whether try to build an actual product/company from it, or just throw in closet and forget about it.
The most regulated industries in America are banking, medicine, and education. It seems to be doing a good job.

Meanwhile internet technology is among the least regulated. Someone needs to do something to ensure a vibrant competitive landscape.
Lazy, horny, cheap and full of ego.
"We don't complain that HTML is broken because it links to images instead of including them, do we?"

Actually, we do.

Saving a webpage and getting tons of file is a nightmare while the IE approach of lumping them all together is just so sensible it's hard to imagine a universe where this isn't standard.

Replacing resources is the special case. Sharing, moving or just storing an image isn't. Just get or write a tool that can replace the resources for you and you have completely satisfied the 0.001% as well.
Please please please support Java in all of its glory and let me get rid of Eclipse!!!!!!
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Also, what's the enforceability of a TOS that disallows actions that would otherwise be legal?

There are 4 standard forms of IP protection that would prevent people from using your work: copyright, trademark, patents, and trade secrets. The data on Craigslist isn't protected by any of these, so are they still able to make it illegal to use that data just because they said so?
The company was founded by several Scientologists, yes - Sky Dayton, Reed Slatkin, and Kevin M. O'Donnell.

It's my understanding that while they were directly involved, some of the published media the corporation put out would sometimes have a 'column' where Sky ended up mentioning Scientology in some way. However, none of them are involved in the company any more.

The company went through some major restructuring, leadership and organization-wise, in 2006-2007. They're a public company with a board of directors (of which Tom is now a part). Not sure how much Scientology has any impact or connection (financial or otherwise) to it any more, so I'm not sure calling it the 'Scientologist ISP' is still accurate.

I know that the connections/beliefs of the founders - and the fact that Reed Slatkin was convicted of a massive ponzi scam - has put Earthlink on many scam/cult watch lists semi-permanently.

If you're attempting to draw a connection between Tom and Scientology, though, I'm not sure I follow.
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about once a year is already pushing it
Hence "basically" =P
If you set out to create an explosion. If this is a complete accident how is this an expulsion-worthy offense?
See also "With Police in Schools, More Children in Court" [1] in the New York Times.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/education/with-police-in-s...
Psychiatry needs its Higgs boson moment
Isn't that common knowledge? Many antivirus programs have a worse effect on system stability/performance than the things they're supposed to prevent.
It's not limited to 20 bytes. If you can create a 20 byte message why not do that several times to make the message length you want.

Specifically, for the blockchain, a transaction sending bitcoins to multiple addresses would do it.
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Awesome thanks, any chance you could push this to GitHub?
Love this! I feel like I'm one of the few developers who really appreciates storyboards. Our game Ghost (built as an open source template available here: http://www.makegameswith.us/sdk/) was built using a pretty simple / clean storyboard. Using it forced us to rely on a simple menu structure, and saved us thousands of lines of code. While I think there is work to be done on improving compatibility with version control + adding flexibility to customize UI elements directly in the editor, I think it's a phenomenal tool for prototyping and often great for building complete apps.
Everyone needs to be taught about jury nullification for cases like this.
You bet. I'm working on an application that is a prototype and a legacy application simultaneously.
IBM Makes World’s Smallest Movie Using Atoms
I recently built a HN clone (for a much smaller community) using exactly this. As a solo / moonlit act, staying in a single language had huge benefits for me.

But I don't see the point of using an ORM with MongoDB... not saying ORMs are bad, I just don't think they have much to offer when there is no SQL to abstract and when you're doing everything in JSON anyway (in this stack). If I'm missing something, happy to be enlightened.
"I read this, and if this story is anywhere near accurate, I can only wonder what the hell is wrong with adults today."

There are likely a number of factors but the worst seems to be that they are scared to death by the mainstream media on a nearly daily basis. Fear sells.

"Could a couple of common household chemicals kill your family slowly and painfully if mixed incorrectly by a high school student? Tune in at 11 to find out."
The XML can store references to the binary chunks in standard formats though, alongside the vector shapes and filters.

<svg viewBox="## ## ## ##">
<image xlink:href="layer1.png" x="##" y="##" width="##" height="##"/>
<image xlink:href="layer2.jpg" x="##" y="##" width="##" height="##"/>
<rect x="##" y="##" width="##" height="##" fill="red"/>
</svg>

All that's left is to standardize a way to package it.
Seriously? This is analogous to writing information of the plates used to print currency/every bill in the country, not scribbling a note onto a twenty.
You're either a troll or you haven't read the post.
-- To be honest, I'm not sure where I'm staying, haven't been told yet. I'm assuming Manhattan or somewhere very close as that's where our office is.

-- I like running, cycling, tennis. I'm into CS and technology so those kind of events/meetups/hackathons (I know that depends on date, so I'll be there mid August till end of September - 6 weeks).

-- My budget can be adjusted, but ~$600 a week for now (to spend on exploration. Living is covered.). I don't mind spending if it's on what I'm enjoying or if I'm "exploring".

-- I'm not the biggest foodie but I appreciate good food. Will probably eat out 2-3 dinners a week, so I might as well go to good places as opposed to winging it every night.

Thanks :-)
I was thinking of the parable of the fishes:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&...

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&...
Looks that it is not available to general public - only for signed in readers. Any summary?
Who are you to be able to speak on behalf of the SQLite developers? Anyone could be behind that username.
You should check the "dictionary".
School is meant to prepare them for adulthood and the odds that an American will go to prison are relatively high.
tl;dr: Save aggressively (for example, 33% of income) to retire quickly. Live frugal for this to work.

Edit: aggressively might be more like 65% of income.
More Extreme Programming:

http://c2.com/xp/DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork.htm...
IBM Manipulates Atoms to Create the 'World's Smallest Movie'
Is there a developed theory around this kind of work? This seems somehow related to various search strategies, but it'd be interesting to hear what sort of tools are exploited.
Nothing says "victory for terrorism" more eloquently that this disgraceful overreaction, triggered by fear and hysteria.
Do you have a reference for the "injecting human DNA into animals" claim you make? It would be extremely disturbing, if true.
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I tried entering 4, which it suggested 2/5 to be the best answer. I would have assumed it suggested 2+2, but apparently it cannot handle simple calculations.

Since 2/5 is 0.4, I thought it was because just entering '4' meant '0.4', but entering '4.0' and it produced the same result.
Interesting.

From the Dragon Innovation home page [1]: "As a matter of corporate policy, Dragon Innovation will not accept any job that involves transferring existing in-house manufacturing from the USA to China."

[1] http://www.dragoninnovation.com
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