skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% this.

As per the laws of free market capitalism if a niche in the market is underserved the market will step up and supply to the markets demand.

On Wall st where the author has worked, any market inefficiency is arbitraged away. Where there is profits to be made the market will find them.

I just don't think there's any big viable markets there, it would be nice if the author could identify at least 1 product idea... As she identifies that the allergy problem stretches across all demographics so this is not really a 'unexotic underclass' problem.

The other issue I see here is allot of the b2c opportunities in the tech industry are based on having customers with "disposable income". In theory a struggling single mum probably doesn't/shouldn't have a iPhone.

Finally I'm not sure that the "unexotic underclass being uninteresting is the problem" argument holds water. Again wall street is arguably not that interesting either but they are not crying about a skills shortage.

These issues are government issues. If the government put money into solving these problems im sure the startup community would happily come and help out.
Apply cold water to burn area
P=NP doesn't imply that there is fast algorithm for every problem in NP. It only means, that there is polynomial time algorithm for everything in NP (e.g. n^100 is polynomial).
For example there can be O(n^100) algorithm for solving 3-SAT, which is not fast algorithm.
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The arabic numeral system is base-10, but English numerals are only sort of base 10: consider 2, 10, 12 and 22. In English, these are spoken as "two", "ten", "twelve" and "twenty-two". The words "twelve" and "twenty" are both derived from "two", it's true, but in two different ways. "Teen" and "ten" are similar, but there's nothing about "twenty" that indicates a connection to "ten".

In Japanese (IIRC), 2, 10, 12, 22 is spoken "ni, ju, ju-ni, ni-ju-ni": "two, ten, two-tens, two-tens-and-two".

It's not that one base is better than another: the idea is that a single consistent base is better than inconsistency.
Assuming you are using SMS, can't you just get a new phone and port the number over?
Well, he get proving that his problem is NP-hard right (because the proof is really easy). But his algorithm for solving his problem is really messy and hard to follow.
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As a Developer, I would buy a book or pay for a class on a topic covering how do you improve team dynamics and strive for success. Most of my schooling and knowledge is from the perspective of building a 'thing' and it would be great to learn how to rebuild a team when management is lackluster. Out here in Silicon Valley there are a lot of inexperienced managers working on good or great products, and as an engineer you might recognize the problems, but not know how to help them, or nudge them in the right direction.

It would be nice to learn from the experience of others rather than having to learn on your own each time.

Maybe this is something to talk about at FAILCON?
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That's true, but you could also go with the notion that for every acre of managed timber land there could be an acre, if not more, of untouched primary forest.

Hopefully anyway.
The difference between how Google acquires companies and Yahoo has under Mayer is that Google focuses on Acquihires, bringing each of their hired companies teams on board and integrating them into the culture, etc.

Yahoo seems to be going willy nilly with their acquisitions, even admitting that some of the companies they acquired cough Summly cough were not acquihires but rather for other reasons.

This seems like a waste of money and time to me, and the only people to win are the founders of the acquired companies.
I think this is precisely right. There are many more folks who could be claimed experts, who have not become wealthy like Buffet, or Gates. I treat the 10000-hours/10year milestone as more of an indicator of when you should have sufficiently absorbed a great deal of the subject matter -- indeed it would be hard not to spend so much time and not become intimately familiar with the thing. Of course, those 10000 hours need to be spent practicing and learning, not just screwing around.
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It is related as in the same case can be brought upon bitcoin facilitators.
Double negation is also a feature of modern English; the point is no one can claim speakers of Middle English, French, Afrikaans et cetera are ignorant or unintelligent.
> MtGox's BTC-USD exchange rate is currently trading at that price, and the price of BTC itself cannot be measured.

Yes, it can. The price of a thing is exactly what buyers and sellers agree to exchange for it in the marketplace.

You may be thinking of some value-related concept other than price, but price is very measurable.
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Sharpe Ratio for Algorithmic Trading Performance Measurement
For others as confused as I was, Citibike is apparently a (NYC-based?) bicycle sharing service.

http://citibikenyc.com
The skepticism is mostly inappropriate in the context of public education. It is the purpose of public school educators to help their kids, and that often requires disclosure of information that would not be required of an adult in the same situation.
Whatever you do, do not act negative in any way whatsoever. People like to point the fingers when shit hits the fan. Try to be as positive as possible about this situation.
> And that was it. I could do that much — but that was all. I was hopeless. My brain simply doesn’t work in a way that allows me to write code.

Did he really try for 10k hours? I bet he would have gotten a bit further.

This article really bothers me in its defeatism. It doesn't do talented people "a disservice" to say that anyone can become an expert with 10k hours of practice. No one will be offended by praising their hard work, and no one is best served by believing that their talent is god-given and they are naturally better than everyone else. Outside of certain high-profile athletics there simply isn't enough competition to declare oneself abnormally talented in any endeavor.

The talent component of success can't be scientifically determined anyway. The concept of talent itself is amorphous, there is no falsifiable hypothesis to be formulated. It's not that talent doesn't exist or that hard work is infallible, it's just that a belief in hard work will always result in better outcomes for the believer.
As a native speaker of a Slavic language who has studied English and currently attempts to learn French I find this entire premise a little baffling.

Typically, a Slavic speaker who has just begun learning English tries to make a linguistic calque and says "I don't see nothing". The teachers would then repeatedly make the point that "there is no double negation in English and you must use 'any' in that case".

Similarly, the use of 'ne' in French is more nuanced. Used alone, it may not convey any negative meaning at all (ne explétif) except when paired with just seven verbs (ne littéraire). I would not therefore call 'ne .. pas' a 'double negative'. A double negative would be "Ce n'est pas rien" which works the same way as 'I do not disagree' in English. This does not reinforce the negative meaning like in Slavic languages but resolves to a positive instead. In addition, in spoken informal French the 'ne' is often dropped and 'pas' is the only indicative of negation (e.g Je sais pas).

The article then goes off on some weird tangent on how patriarchal society feels threatened by the linguistic innovations of the teenage slang. I don't even know.
70% of projects fail. According to your options you're either burned out pretty fast by going the extra mile, or you change jobs every couple of years.

IMHO the best thing to do is to express your concerns and from there on just do your job without investing any extra effort. You can't be reluctant cause this will be received as not caring, neither invest the extra effort because usually the reason projects fail is not incompetent programmers but wrong specifications. Let someone else take the blame.
Here's a video of Linus pronouncing his name and Linux (sorry, it kind of cuts out at the end, but you can get the gist):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0
You should quit. Clearly you don't enjoy working n this and life is too short.
The question is interesting but the scenario doesn't sound like that much of a disaster to me. Maybe I'm the only one here who's worked in the insurance business though...?!

A 5-person project with 2 months of work plus another 1.5 months to go is not really that big. Maybe at a startup that's betting the whole company. At a large corp that can just be written off. If the deadline is missed, it just gets re-scheduled. This is not a freak-out scenario. The only concern I'd have is letting people know ASAP if you think the deadline is slipping.

The other stuff about 100's of tables, no unit tests, other system integrations, etc. that sounds like every project in an old school large corp.

In a large corp, as crappy as these apps are, they can go into use internally and process billions of dollars even though they're crappy to use. You then spend the next 10 years improving it.
Go ahead and stereotype
The actual rule is badly misinterpreted. It's not 10,000 hours of practice: it's 10,000 hours of practice at the appropriate level of difficulty -> You need to be taking on tasks that are just slightly beyond what you can do now for most of this time to achieve success. I also think genetics are not nearly as big a factor as the author makes out to be: there can be plenty of barriers that make it impossible for you to do something, but most of those barriers make it impossible to put 10,000 hours of practice in as well. There is also a self-fulfilling prophecy in the works here though: 10,000 hours is inevitable if you succeed at something, but most of those who don't succeed will drop the hours (searching for fallback careers, getting jobs, etc..) they dedicate to something along the way and are quite unlikely to reach the number.
You might be the exception, but I'd wager to bet that over 90% of cases of "I'm bad at X" is caused by self-image, self-sabotage and/or underestimating the amount of time 'naturals' had to put in to get to where they were/are.

When you're told as a kid you're bad at X, most of the time it's because you haven't spent much time doing X. When you're told you're good at Y that's usually because you spent more time doing Y.
You can make iPhone apps with anything you want. You can even use plain html5 and js. There are many, many options to utilize your preferred language in app development. It's definitely not just Ruby.
Forget Sexy, Startups Today Look To Disrupt The Mundane
Not sure why articles never get around to mentioning this but you can find the original study and several other relevant ones collected in "The Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise."

From that book I also highly recommend "The Early Progress of Able Young Musicians" which discusses the importance of a progression of increasingly competent teachers in successful musicians lives.

There's even a study there that talks directly to her point "Expertise and Mental Disabilities"
I am a high school teacher, and I've been working with at-risk students my entire career. I have always paid attention to the surveys I am asked to administer to students.

If I were asked to administer this survey, I would have the same red flags. A survey asking these kinds of questions, with names on them, is pretty serious and students deserve to know what is going to be done with the results of such a survey. They also need to know they have the right to make their own decisions about how much personal information to share.

As a teacher, I would expect this kind of survey to be pretty heavily front-loaded. So either the administration did not prepare staff well enough about administering this survey, or this teacher was not paying attention when it was discussed ahead of time.

Many people in education are afraid of being perfectly honest with students. We need more openness in education, not less.
One too many zeroes. The unexotic underclass would not even be able to afford the $3,000 dollar hybrid battery (Prius) replacement, much less a full EV battery.
import json
def bikes_available_for_set(stats):
available_count = 0
for s in stats['stationBeanList']:
available_count += s['availableBikes']
return available_count

def currently_available_bikes():
!curl https://citibikenyc.com/stations/json > latest.json
stats = json.loads(open("latest.json").read())
available_count = bikes_available_for_set(stats)
print "there are currently %r bikes in stations" % available_count
currently_available_bikes()

That's the code block that I use to figure out how many bikes are currently available. I pull from stations/json url.
> good tutorials teaching kids their basic rights of freedom/privacy?

Social Studies class, depending on teacher. ACLU, EFF, and the internet in general.
Nesting should be as long as it needs to be provided the structure is semantic and not html tags.
> These cut in favor of the school, though.

I completely agree.

> The purpose was to try and identify kids who needed additional psychological support, not get kids to cop to their drug use so they could be prosecuted. (Quoted from your prior post.)

One of the reasons I replied is to show that, regardless of the stated purpose of the survey, the FERPA rules appear to favor of the school even if they should decide to use the survey for other purposes. From my reading, FERPA may very well not protect these kids from a school's decision to ultimately convey this information to police.
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I am pretty sure Gladwell actually said the same thing, you need the 10k hours, but you need a definite measure of talent.

This I realize when I am teaching chess to younger kids, some kids just get it and some do not(just like Ostap Bender said in his famous lecture) The ones who do not get it, they can probably become expert players if they got the resources provided by Polgars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r), but that would be the upper limit.

So I am starting to lean towards the fact that all three Polgar sisters were gifted to some extent.

There needs to be a wider experiment to apply the 10k rule, like maybe 50 kids having the ultimate chess (or math or violin or something else) resource and actually putting in 10k hours of deliberate practice (rememember most kids in special schools do not finish the 10k hours as they simply gravitate to other pursuits, and of course that is natural).

Let's not get started on the 10k hour myth for older people. I am of firm belief that after age of 25 or so, even a gifted one will not be able to get by with 10k hours. At age 40 it is pretty much hopeless, decent expert is all you can hope for.
That usage sense is called a discourse particle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like#As_a_discourse_particle.2C...

It can contain signal when used as a hedge ("The restaurant is only, like, five miles from here.") but generally that usage just substitutes for 'uh' or 'um' while signaling some group-membership (originally Valley Girl I think?)
So you're comparing common decency and common sense to overbearing vanity imposed on people? If I remark about someone's weight to demean them, that's simply dick behavior. Wearing whatever the hell you like is not. Now imposing that one may be somehow inferior for not paying an exorbitant amount of attention to dress (for vanity, no less), that's dick behavior - which was the crux of OP's comment.

And please, tell me how "if you strip away the pretensions from these things, more people would take to them" is the same as "the pretentiousness is necessary and the untraveled, uncultured, blah, blah, don't understand that, because, you know, uncultured".
Bad omen: Harvard graduates are going back into finance
Will Apple feature your app if it has profanity in the title?
I pointed out he's shilling for his daughter's friend. That's not enough to support my characterization for you? I think it's plenty.

But there's tons of other examples of how terrible Friedman is, and most people don't need me to spell them out because they are very familiar with them already.

Do a quick Google search and you'll see what the rest of us already know.
Applied Semantics had nothing to do with the creation of AdWords. AdWords was created in-house by Google years before they acquired Applied Semantics. It was an extremely successful and lucrative operation long before Applied Semantics ever entered the picture.

Google also developed and launched AdSense prior to acquiring Applied Semantics.

They acquired Applied Semantics because it was complementary to what Google had already developed.
"However, I have yet to see convincing proof that humans can effect climate change to this magnitude on a macro scale" Ok, let's start with something easier. Can we agree on the magnitude of the global changes that humans caused on the extension of forests and on the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere?
Why real-time brokerage tradeMONSTER used HTML5 for its mobile apps
Wrap your libraries up in ADT-style interfaces.

Give every such interface a _create() and a _destroy() method.

Have _destroy() either return a pointer (which will always be NULL), or (better, I think) take a pointer-to-pointer so that it can zero the pointer out after destroying the object.

Don't check malloc; instead, rig your code up to detonate if malloc ever fails. Checked allocations create rats nests of error handling.

Have a common hash table, a common binary tree, and a common list or resizable array, working on void-star. Don't allow programmers do implement their own hash table or tree.

Have a common logging library, with debug levels.
Thank you. I had flirted with the thoughts before, but never really explicitly considered how odd the English words "eleven", "twelve" and then the "teens" are. Not only is "teen" not quite "ten", we also put it after the ones digit. That is, 19 is "nine-teen", but 91 is "ninety-one".
I remember reading about them a few years back when they started the project.
I'm sorry, I don't get the joke. Does he break into people's Twitter accounts?
Is Litecoin the New Bitcoin Alternative for Investors?
Mathematically you can prove that an algorithm with certain properties exists, without being able to implement it. Also, as others have pointed out, polynomial does not necessarily mean "fast".
In function currently_available_bikes, you see him curling:

https://citibikenyc.com/stations/json
User-Generated Pricing
Not a great indicator of environmental collapse, but a good one for a drought. I would imagine the people in charge of that artificial lake would love it if it would tide just a bit more at this point.

But I don't think they have as much control you suggest, I do believe they have obligations of letting amounts of water to go downriver for the farmers south of the dam.

I lived there for a number of years, the animated map does not do justice of showing how low the lake is, if you visit the dam you can see the water lines on the dam wall (hah!) and the shores around it. It's not just how much width the water has receded, but how deeply as well.
I am a bit sad that the community seems to prefer Scss over of Sass.

But I really welcome these technologies, because anything that makes CSS more maintainable is welcome.
Yup. Tree farms are not habitat.

I have no problem with timber companies managing their tree farms, so long as they protect water ways (offsets), slopes (no clear cuts causing mud slides), etc. I also think we need new management practices (eg permit more smallers fires to reduce likelihood of huge fires).

My problem is when timber companies must extract every board foot from every acre, threatening critical habitat, from public forests. To add insult to injury, we (the public) build the roads, and sell the timber at a loss.

I wouldn't mind so much if the mythical "free market" was working, so that timber, mining, fishing, and ranching companies actually paid fair market price for the resources they're stealing.
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No, but I was in the supermarket the other day and noticed that almost every magazine in the checkout area had the same woman on the cover, so I asked my wife, "Who is this Kim Kardashian?" She didn't know, either. Is she an actress, too?

And, I should really update that page. It's ancient! - doesn't even follow my current style.
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Keeping Big Data From Big Brother (2013 privacy issues)
It's free, and also by learning with Duolingo you're helping translate the web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo
Dennis's book is interesting for anyone seeking to make a lot of money.

He states that if you want to be really rich you have to sacrifice family and friends because you will have to spend an enormous amount of time focusing on your business.

I found that point interesting. Do you know anyone who is (self made) wealthy that _did not_ spend a lot of time working?

Felix Dennis "How To Get Rich"

http://www.amazon.com/How-to-Get-Rich-ebook/dp/B0017SUYY6

Derek Sivers review:

http://sivers.org/book/HowToGetRich
> Am I just seeing outliers here? Am I seeing frightening trend where children are needlessly criminalised (Kiera)

Zero tolerance means that often police are involved much earlier than they need to be, and for minor things. This is a political area, and so care needs to be taken when reading the following stories.

Here's a young child who took Lego toys to school, and who was threatened with suspension. Luckily the principal called the education board who recommended confiscation of the toy and no further action (http://gothamist.com/2010/02/03/student_nearly_suspended_ove...)

Here's another story about a 5 year old child who made a gun out of Lego. This child got a written warning. (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/5-year-old-boy...)

We don't always know the full story. For example, there might be more to the story of a child suspended for 10 days (reduced to 2) and given psychological assessment after she wanted to play with bubbles. (http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/kindergartner-suspended...)

Here's a 7 year old suspended for pretending his pencil was a gun (https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/va-7-year-old-susp...)

A boy wore a t-shirt with NRA slogans. He was suspended and arrested. (http://www.rightwingnews.com/education/after-student-is-susp...)

Here's a deaf child who must change his name, because the sign language for his name "looks like a gun" (or maybe a gang sign?) (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nebraska-school-3-y...)

Here's a teacher given a 4 day suspension without pay for endangering students by "displaying weapons". The weapons were garden tools. (http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/teacher-sues-school-...)

Here's an example of children being arrested for minor scuffles. (http://www.change.org/petitions/children-should-not-be-arres...)

LA is reviewing zero tolerance policies (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/03/local/la-me-citation...)

(http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead26.1.html)
While word pad did add support for docx files in Windows 7, I wonder how good a viewer it is for viewing complex documents that have complex formatting applied. I do not know but I suspect that the results may be less than stellar. I suspect the same is true for the other programs as well.

I know MS published docx as an open spec but in my experience I find that only MS programs are able to maintain document fidelity in viewing the documents. When you use other viewers there is almost always something that looks a little off.

Does anyone know why you don't have same viewing results for complex docx documents when viewed under different viewers ?