skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone in a subordinate role with little to no authority or autonomy. To me, it sounds like a subtly derogatory reference, meant to conjure up imagery of "line cooks" that spend their time cooking one thing and one thing only --eggs, bacon, patties, etc-- and sending it down the line to be finished by the actual "chefs."
I think it is rarely, if ever, wise to "leave" things to the experts. Amateurs can make (and have made) valuable contributions in just about every subject.
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Alumni here.

Wow, this has been circulating among my Facebook friends and I saw the article when it came out. Did not expect to see it on the front page of HN.

I'll try to add a little more information. The article mentions it briefly, but suicide has become a big issue in Batavia[0]. I know of at least the first 2 suicides - two friends (or possibly boyfriend/girlfriend, can't say for sure), roughly 6 months apart. These events were completely unprecedented and were a shock to the quiet, safe, middle-class town.

Major props to Dryden for standing up to the this. Although I never had him for a teacher when I was in school, many of my friends were influenced by him.

I'll ask some friends if they remember any of the survey questions, and post them here if I can.

Also, I look forward to nsxwolf's (another Batavian!) notes from the city council meeting.

[0]: Read a little more here: http://www.kcchronicle.com/mobile/article.xml/articles/2013/...
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I think you're doing good work here, and I agree that PyPI is quite a bit of a mess. One little suggestion/question, though.

CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Rubygems: (self-explanatory)

PyPI: Python Package Index

Crate.io: Crate? Crate.io?

Nothing about the name or any part of the domain really mentions Python, or Python packages or libraries. It's not a bad name, but it doesn't really seem like a name for a large Python package index. What's the exact rationale behind the naming?
I just checked. You can't buy Game of Thrones season 3 via iTunes in the USA, but it looks like you could buy it in Australia. I tried buying an episode from the Australian iTunes store, but no luck.
Here is how I see it possibly played out.

* School district sees all these school shootings, news reports of troubled teens, suicides, bullying and how badly it reflect on the district.

* School district employs below average intelligence administrators who are easily manipulated and controlled by contractors, lobbyists, salesmen, suppliers. Either an administrator or one such salesperson from the test administration company came up with the idea of providing these proprietary tests.

* Tests are touted as an easy, spray and pray instrument "just give them this test for which we'll charge $500 a pop and you'll easily weed out ones who (wink wink) need help."

* This is how the school district solves its paper problem, computer problems, fixing the cracks in the asphalt in the parking lot problem. They are approached by salesmen and given gifts and dinners and are sold "solutions".

* The more overpriced and expensive the solution the more sleeker the sales pitch. "You don't want to end up like Columbine, OR DO YOU?" maybe stuff like "What if Columbine happened here, could you tell the parents that you DID EVERYTHING YOU COULD?" and so on.

* It is not that hard to scare these people into anything. At best it was a plain ol' sales pitch. At worst there were shady deals going on "We'll buy your son a new car if you buy this package"

* Test instrument comes with strict copyright rules (not that unusual for psych and personality test packets), disclosure rules, but I don't think that is that uncommon.

* Administrators buy in. Cha-ching for the testing company and all is well, ...

* Except for one teacher who actually is doing his job and applies his subject to the real world. So we have this story.

* Now I wonder how frequent this stuff is and how many other school districts are doing this, but which don't have teacher like this who like to "stir the pot".
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>But the current wordpress code base is a nightmare to work with

I agree

>and doesn't scale well.

Wordpress scales fine, but it dosent do it magically its self out of the box (but what hobbyist web project written 10 years ago did?)

Smashing magazine talked to some of the bigger wp installs to see how they did it (Hot air is doing 45mil /page view a month) http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/12/secrets-high-traff...

I have scaled Wordpress to multiple front end servers with not to much work (because Wordpress is stateless and doesn't have sessions you dont even have to worry bout sharing sessions).

The only thing you need to worry about is having a shared storage for the uploads. You can do this through a NAS or I just upload to s3 then use a CDN.

If you get to the size that you need to have multiple databases (which you shouldn't if your using a page cache plugin like the official Batcache plugin) wordpress offers HyperDB as a solution.

I am actually going to be working on a Wordpress-a-a-Service type hosting solution where speed and scalability will never be a problem for the customer.

Where Wordpress does not scale is the default install on shared hosting or a VPS with little resources.

Finally I just wanted to thank Matt and the whole team at automatic for all their hard work into a maybe in-prefect but much used work-horse of the internet.
I can't see tech workers breaking out the saws and sandpaper and building quality neighborhoods in their spare time...

Why not? Building physical things for yourself can be just as satisfying as building virtual things for others.
Crate is a synonym for Package and I liked the name :)
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The US and EU markets would have been forced to keep using the old system, which is what they ended up doing. They assumed they were about to switch over to the new system in a few weeks, so my system would be of no use to them. Why switch to my Plan B if Plan A was just around the corner? They continued assuming the Plan A was about a month or two away for two years.

The Asian locales had no old system to fall back on, so when Plan A didn't ship and I revealed my (fully localized) Plan B, they adopted it immediately. If I hadn't done my Plan B, the Asians would have had to go back to product registration by postcard.
The tricky part is that there are:

1. Macronutrients, two of which are essential to life.

2. Micronutrients, of which

a. Vitamins are essential to life, and

b. Pseudo-vitamins are critical for health.

c. Other micronutrients with positive effects of various degrees and kinds.

You can absolutely survive for a long time on a reductionist soup. That's what's given to lots of very obese patients in protein-sparing modified fasts. The problem is that there are a metric buttload of micronutrients that improve health in the long term. And new ones are being discovered all the time. The easiest way to get the benefits is ... eat a varied diet. Just like they told you at primary school.

But most of the arguments in favour of soylent are daft. Really, just silly. Save time cooking? Cook something easier. Prevents eating the "wrong thing"? Why is the "wrong thing" even in your house? And so on.

HN is full of people who like to be hyper-rational and so this appeals. But I think it's an example of where myopically optimising one or two parameters leads to foolish outcomes.
For a while, this included the text of some laws! My understanding is that got overturned, though (thank goodness).
You could say this about anything and everything. Walking 8 miles to work instead of driving, washing clothes by hand instead of using the washer, buying meat from the store instead of hunting etc.
That was the main selling point, though, as I understand -- that you can eat Soylent 100% or hell, 95% of the time, and you'd be healthy and not die. And most people were actually complaining about that, that everything's been so rushed.

Soylent in its current form is nothing new. I am no authority, but it probably isn't the best either, with only a few mere months' worth of research. I'm sure this product isn't going to be an impending health disaster -- I doubt anyone would be dumb enough to eat Soylent till they die. But there are alternatives out there (the OP mentions a few) that are likely better-tested. Soylent's one claim to fame may as well be its better marketing (pretty much everyone in that company's a marketer).
I used to get results from the Getty Images API when I'd call it with future time ranges. Most of the photos were from the next week, but there were always a few handfuls from months and years in the future. Just a bug and bad metadata, not time travel. It did allow me to surface photos before they showed up on Getty though.
Can you explain more what you mean by QS and social engineering being the way Google is raising prices?

My understanding is that AdWords is a an auction system, where your position in the auction is a combination of your Max bid, inventory, and a QS multiple. If Google is manipulating QS, it would just change the ordering of auction winners, rather than overall CPC, right?

My first thought was that prices are rising because 1) more competition on the ads [more companies, higher prices], and 2) as a kw cost/value saturates, more companies were "overpaying" [bidding more than expected ROI], due to any number of causes.
Repetitive food -> Repetitive Batman

Static -> Unfilling, sour tasting water
>Then, with all it drawbacks, the object model may make sense: at least, you have a way to know which actions are available on a given thing.

Not sure what you mean here. Could you elaborate a bit more? I don't want to reply to a misconception of your idea.
Lazy evaluation is not arbitrary, it's a well established convention that any sane language implements (thus marking the languages that do not use it as completely insane and unworthy of our effort).

And also, your reply is technically incorrect, a typographical error or any kind is more likely to be caught in the && situation, and the style of reply makes you an insufferable geek.
There's no need for someone to buy a few thousand acres and let people build structures. You could move to several 250,000+ population cities in the Midwest and there are already startup communities, incubators, and coworking spaces. I live in Omaha and went to school in Lincoln, NE. Omaha is getting gigabit internet soon from CenturyLink, Kansas City has Google Fiber. I worked at an incubator in Lincoln for the summer after my sophomore year in college and got the chance to build whatever I wanted to build with a team of five other students with all expenses paid. There are startups here that have problems finding enough qualified technical talent. I actually laughed really hard when I interned in Palo Alto and saw the internet speeds at our office.

Anyway, my point is that the problem isn't one of infrastructure. It's a chicken and egg problem in meatspace: if there were huge startups hubs in cheaper cities then it would be an easy decision for many to move to lower cost of living cities, but it's hard to start a movement. Silicon Valley's present success is the result of decades of tradition. What makes the small towns in the South Bay interesting places to live isn't the infrastructure but the density of interesting people.

Edit: I should add that the cost of living in the Midwest for a decently frugal, childless hacker willing to live with roommates is indeed $15,000 or less.
Its useful for the non-tech press to point out that no, we're not only solving problems for young people with more disposable income than they know what to do with. It does suggest that there is a very good business to be had 10 - 15 years from now as these people mature and now do need to do something with that income but that is a different article :-)

One wave of things I'm looking for (and it's seems to be foreshadowed with things like the maker movement) is spontaneous manufacturing. Places where you need something built and a bunch of people, using tools in their garage or workshop, contribute parts where a co-ordinator assembles into widgets.
Note: Never do 80/20 or even 100/20(this is a fact). I've pretty much realized this the hard way. If you are very good, you will be perceived by your bosses not as an asset but as a threat to their own positions. And what will follow next if they coming up with most ingenious way to screw you. Seems like that is exactly what has happened to you.

If your success had made a big story, it would have become a case study. It becomes intellectually insulting to them.

It directly means they are not capable of doing their jobs properly.

One fact every one need to realize, It's great to be young. But age is not static. Those who are young today have a very narrow window of 9-10 years. Beyond that we are all the same.
I own a single-family house on the San Francisco peninsula which I bought three years ago (and spent the summer of 2010 remodeling it and the summer of 2011 landscaping it).

What others have said elsewhere in this thread is true: owning a home limits your flexibility in terms of moving for another job. It ties up a lot of your assets, for most people, in a decaying pile of lumber that needs maintenance and upkeep and furnace replacements and driveway repaving and so on. Patrick.net, run by a SF bay area programmer-renter, is an able representation of this point of view.

For me, the benefits outweigh the costs. I'm in the mid-peninsula off the 280, so if necessary I can work at any job between and including San Francisco and San Jose and closer portions of the east bay. I was tired of renting and wanted a place that I could customize and run multiple Cat6 and RG-6 cables to each room, install a home automation system, etc. Plus single-family homes available for rental aren't as nice as the ones available for purchase. Finally it's a hedge against inflation.

Those are reasons why, to a first approximation, anyone in the SF bay area who plans to stay here long enough and can afford to buy a home does.

As bradleyjg said further down, the relative desirability of home ownership is also due in part to government subsidies. The first $250,000-$500,000 of appreciation in home value is not taxed when you sell. And mortgage interest is tax deductible.
If you're talking about filling up a slow cooker to the brim and letting it roll, sure, you can do that. I personally rather drink Soylent if that's the meal we're shooting for.

For example: If you want to do a stew or chili right, you need to brown the meat. You need to do it in batches to avoid crowding the pan. Batches take time.
I think it's wise to leave things to experts most of the time, especially if you can be conversant with the experts.
I'm saying "that doesn't make sense and the closest analogues failed before, please try to convince me more". This isn't a courtroom, but until rdl puts forth a solid case, the burden of proof is not upon the detractors.
But you understand that you don't have to sit there staring at the shake for as long as it would take you to cook a meal, right? You just drink it?

Look, however fast and easy it is to make your fast and easy meals, not having to do that is faster and easier. You've already granted the premise that it makes sense, sometimes, to sacrifice complexity of meals for reduced preparation time. Why shouldn't there be very simple options below "some preparation required", if someone wants them?

And why are you clinging to this metaphor that asserts that such an option is physically impossible?
For the uninitiated, the term "Cathedral" used by the author, is an alt-right term referring to the network left-learning, establishment institutions. The Cathedral comprises almost all universities, public schools, NGO's, the UN, think tanks and advocacy organizations like the Center for American Progress or Brookings, non-military arms of the American government such as the State Department, and "responsible" newspapers like the NYTimes or Washington Post.

I found point number 3 in the essay especially striking. I had never really thought about the inherent contradiction and crossed signals between a teacher arousing excitement in students during class, and then always quitting a lesson at a certain defined time. I wonder how much student indifference over the years builds up due to this contradiction.
Why does the NBC headline need to mention that the boy is Chinese?
Because as much as engineers tend to think they are experts in all fields, they aren't actually. So take a bunch of working professionals who just came home from an 8-hour day, and see how much quality skilled labor in fields they don't know anything about you can get.

I mean, I like building things, yes. I make small tables, I replace parts on my car. But I can't really hope to raise a decent house, even if I had 20 of me.

Ok, so you managed to put up a house? Wait, there's more! Did you build it to code for fire, sanitation, earthquakes...? Of course, some of the codes are overly pedantic and there is some baggage there, but frankly I don't expect IT professionals moonlighting as completely untrained architects will build houses that aren't going to crush hundreds of people in earthquakes or start fires.
> The idea that a publically funded school is passing out surveys to students, and we cannot read them, makes me rage. I

I bet all that was done was done under the public guise of "protecting the children" (then again what isn't these days...). Privately all that was done was to protect the behinds of the administrator in case some kid does something "crazy" and the school is sued or criticized. They want to have something to point to and say "Aha but we did everything we could, see...! we hired professionals in the field to find troubled teens, if they couldn't don't blame us".

Simple as that.

That is the reason there are so many bullshit business consulting companies. It lets those implementing risky and unsound/unpopular idea to go and point their finger to and say "see we hired professional and they agreed with us, these are world class consultants, if they couldn't predict failure, how could you blame us, simple administrators/executives/board of directors..." stuff like that.

It is all basically about having a scapegoat in the end.
You don't actually have the right to provide false answers in many situations and doing so could actually be a crime.
This is an interesting take that I hadn't really heard before.

I find the complaint about the JS engine being slow interesting. I was under the impression that Mozilla had largely closed the gap, but performance differences still existed (but possibly not all in Google's favor). I wonder if he's developing on Chrome, and thus implicitly optimizing for it, and noticing the problem areas where the engines don't have matching characteristics? Then again, maybe Mozilla still has some JS engine areas that really need improvement.
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Yes, evented programming isn't new. Yes, and?

So in your opinion Node.js and MongoDB are piles of crap?

Then, just curious, what system would you use to build the back end for a realtime collaborative web application, or an API that needs to hit several web APIs and do other IO to service each request?

And how do you recommend that we handle data storage for small business web applications? Really would like to know if there is something that is so much better than Mongo. You really think I should go back to building out fully normalized relational databases for small business web applications? What language/platform do you use, and how do you handle things like ORM?

I would like to know if you have ideas that are better. In my experience, Node.js and MongoDB (throw CoffeeScript in there too) are not crap, perform very well, reduce lines of code, and are better software engineering decisions in most cases. Have you actually tried building applications that way?
I've actually been drinking a meal replacement shake (flavoured casein, oats, psyllium, freeze dried fruit/vegetable powder) for lunch most days for the past year and a half. So yes, I understand the mechanics of making them. I would still prefer to cook and eat real food or -- this might surprise you -- pay someone else a small premium to cook for me.

This sub-sub-thread started over a repetitive meal. Replacing it with a bland soup is hardly going to be an improvement.

> And why are you clinging to this metaphor that asserts that such an option is physically impossible?

I don't follow you on this.
What am I good at?
Because it's a relevant fact.

edit: By the way I find it very sexist they mentioned he was a boy.
If you'd like something similar to this that's available today, check out our startup: https://www.dailycred.com/

We also support email & password (using the same OAuth API) and Mozilla Persona, as well as take care of headaches like password reset, email validation, and account de-duplication (for example, if a user signs in using Facebook on day one and then email on day two).

Best of luck to oauth.io however -- the simple js approach is interesting.
OMG I needed something like foauth.org a couple of weeks ago.
Oh well for next time, now I know.
I think that's a bit harsh; at least, I didn't interpret his anecdote as such. I've spent some time in West Africa, but not much in internet cafes and none in Nigeria (or Ghana, for that matter). I never saw anything like what he described, so I appreciated the anecdote.

Basically, I took his observations as more an honest description than a judgement. Your accusations of "inaccurate" and "ignorant" beg the question; are you speaking from a point of superior knowledge on the matter?
Simply appending a number to the variable name would be adequate to prevent name conflicts. Each method would only access its own static variable, so fancy C++-style name mangling would be overkill.
Every such survey that has been given to my kids was always preceeded by a notice sent home, including opt-out instructions if the parent did not wish the student to participate.

When I was in school, I know a fair number of kids just filled in bubbles at random on these things anyway.
This was very cool, but it needs a simple change, it needs a way of changing the text color independently of the background color. Perhaps holding the mouse button would be text color preferred and not holding it would be background preferred or something.

That said, I would love a page that had some ipso-lorem type code C, Perl, js, C++, Java, Etc where each click would change the 'type' of element (keyword, comment, etc) and you could mouse around to set the color. Then right click and download the vim color scheme.
Best guess: Ethnic information adds flavor to the story, sparking curiosity that could lead to more hits.
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Ooh, good one to look out for -- thanks!
In this case, simply computing the GCD may require "non-obvious" intuition, since the polynomials do not act over the real numbers, but the algebraic closure of an unknown finite field. But I wouldn't bet my data on it, at least, not until I am a lot more confident in my understanding of abstract algebra.
3D printing electronics from the transistor (or even IC) up is a very long way away. Centralized manufacturing will exist for a long time. ICs are significantly cheaper in quantities of 10k+, and there's no way a 3D printer could generate a silicon wafer and etch a working circuit onto it, at least not economically. Chip fabs still cost 10 figures.