skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That the South Korean school system would do this is discouraging, no question. But I am also discouraged by how, when reading academic scientists and academic journals (_Nature_ in this case), it seems considerably easier to find concern about unscientific nonsense beloved of the right than about unscientific nonsense beloved of the left.

E.g., individual genetic heritability is even more fundamental and even more loudly supported by obvious evidence than evolution by natural selection. Yet not only is this sometimes slighted in the high school curriculum, one can find academic work from prestigious institutions that pretends heritability does not exist (or is at least, for some unexplained reason, absolutely negligible). See, e.g., Chan and Boliver "The Grandparents Effect in Social Mobility", http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0006/papers/asronline.pdf (HT http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/a-grandparent-effect/). It is not easy (for this reader with a BS in Biology) to see why it's scientifically OK to assume that heritability is negligible at the level of detail considered by Chan and Boliver ("if mobility follows a first-order Markovian process"; "well-connected grandparents could also use their social contacts to help grandchildren with job searches"; citations into a more than a decade of research on multigenerational issues, e.g. the cite to Bengtson). It's easy to see how this taboo can help produce useful political soundbites, and why the BBC would take it and run with it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23101446 . It's just hard to see why scientists wouldn't be concerned about this behavior by the BBC and by the academic research community.

In general, it's sensible for a scientific journal to worry about unscientific claptrap. However, specifically skipping over the unscientific claptrap beloved of their faction in the BBC, in academic science, and in academic journals in order to zero in on the unscientific claptrap of rival factions is unbecoming in an organization that claims to be scientific. It doesn't resemble science as much as it resembles sleazy-think-tank-style selective invocation of research in order to advance a political agenda.
There is a fixed amount of land, a growing number of people, and social norms limiting high-density. Of course property will be sustainably outpacing inflation, until at least one of those changes. It's not a bubble when demand is increasing for legitimate reasons rather than speculation.

Which isn't to say there is not a speculative bubble - the price of real estate may well be growing faster than it should - but just the fact that it's growing faster than inflation doesn't demonstrate this.
That is what I said. That is my point.
Have you observed god creating a new species?
Evolution is so in line with reality, scientists have already made correct predictions about transitional fossils and where they would be found. The only choices are belief in evolution or rejection of reality.
I'm very interested in this because this is the kind of web server I was planning to write for my work, but from a quick glance I didn't find HTTPS support.

Is HTTPS supported or planned?
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Ray Comfort is a well-known crackpot who uses deceptive tactics to push his b.s.
I would love to get an internship somewhere but I'm not sure I know the right people to find one that will accept me.

I don't normally upload my projects to Github as I'm never quite happy with them...
Nature has an algorithm, it is called physics. Of course if you believe in god then the rules of physics don't apply, so I guess that won't convince you either.
You can try to, but be prepared to fight through layers of bureaucracy, unions, head teachers, boards of governors, the LEA and your local MPs etc. It's not worth it.

Public sector staff in the UK are pretty untouchable unless they get done for abusing children physically.

Mentally abusing them and giving them a substandard education appears to be OK at all levels...

The best way to return the favor is to withdraw them from the school as people actually have to answer to that and you don't have to be involved in them having to explain themselves up their hierarchy.

For reference I was a school governor for a period of time but the utter incompetence and pure self-interest other people showed forced me to resign on principle. The impression it gave me is that the entire education hierarchy, bar possibly some universities, is a place where the utterly incompetent, half-wit politicians in society can embed themselves and clamber over each other to reach a good public sector state pension. I understand there are exceptions to this and excellent teachers but they are lost in a sea of dross.

Also, this has got much worse since I was at school in the 1980's so don't be skewed by your previous experiences in education.
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My Google search results don't contain a number either, and my related searches include "suicide methods", "suicide video", "suicide notes", etc.
Any plans on making this an actual library instead of an API?
It's showing the top black bar with +You and all the other google links at the top, the stuff that's usually shown if you go to google not logged in.

This is what I'm seeing:

http://i.imgur.com/sau9mXU.png
My impression is that it's largely non-catholics these days, but JP2 canonized (or at least started the process for) hundreds if not thousands of Koreans.
It depends on your goals.

If you want to stick with startup stuff it seems like other successful young people go heavy into the programming side (the Stripe guy) or the design side (Mike Matas) or the PR side (the Summly guy). I think the main thing is to go more hardcore into one aspect of the business. I have a friend who got into web consulting very young and he's still doing almost the exact same thing now that he's old. You don't "level up" by default.

Personally, if I were to do it over again I'd choose design as you can meet more women that way.
Jordan I think not.
I was expecting the 'tiny hardware' to be some microcontroller. A dual core Cortex A7 @ 1 GHz with 1 GB of RAM is comparable in performance with lower spec VPSes that many people use to host personal websites/blogs. I guess the author was refering to the physical size.

[strike]I'm interested where to get a cubieboard2 for $50 since it is sold for $59 by the manufacturer.[/strike] No source of cheap cubieboards. :(
Thanks - much appreciated!

Despite being brought up on VT220's whacked in a VAX/Sun3 I never got my head around the details.
First, no. Like the other response said, you want an open atmosphere for buzz. It's not very inviting, inspiring, or fun to sign such agreements; it can spoil the atmosphere around your product.

The only way I could see this being justified, is if the product is for government (in which secrecy can be important), or big enterprise (in which you're going to have a few clients to start, and you're competing with some massive companies and don't want to tip them off any sooner than absolutely necessary; signing an NDA still won't go over well, many will refuse). If this is in the consumer Web / app space, or small business space, absolutely never seek an NDA.

If you want to keep it secret, and the product is very alpha, test it with the smallest circle possible, ask people nicely to keep it under wraps; you can even lock the access down tightly, but have no illusions about people sharing what they see or talking about it. As the product gets closer to launch, open it to an ever wider audience.

Second, it'll be almost impossible to enforce. NDAs are a big pain to enforce under the best of circumstances.
Of course it will. Porn, terrorism, etc, etc, are always used as fronts for some other goal. History has shown that once a technology is in place it will be misused.
Also (obviously) if they are not able to, they all die.

Species go extinct all the time and the original statement about "hey this one species isn't evolving in front of my eyes so evolution isn't a thing" is an old argument about evolution that has been disproved a million times.
Do you think that same data could be used to find the most efficient manner to shift your opinion?

Sir or Madam, I congratulate you. You have officially scared me shitless.
> If houses were a sure thing, everyone and every institution would buy them.

We give tax breaks to individuals owning their own home that we don't give to institutions or individuals owning homes to rent. It's conceivable that this makes the difference between "sure thing" and a loss.

This isn't at all to say that buying a house is a guaranteed win - look at it carefully before making any sort of major decision like that - but there's not an automatic theoretical refutation.
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Yep. We live more in an Aldous Huxley world than in a George Orwell one.
Natural selection isn't something that's applied to individual animals, it's something that exerts pressure on whole populations over many generations.

To go with your Arctic tern example, just because one bird can dive deeper doesn't guarantee it's survival. It might still get eaten by a predator or catch a disease or just have a run of bad luck that causes it to starve. However, the birds that can't dive as deeply run the same risks (assuming there's no additional risk to diving deeply) and, over a long time and with a large population of birds, those that can dive deeper will survive to breed more often, until eventually the whole population carries that trait.
If you actually just wrote some Go, you'd realize it's not even remotely an issue.
The baseline in the charts is standard CPython. The unoptimized is their register machine without optimizing the bytecode.
Sounds like this http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/... It was posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6018316 a few weeks ago.
This is nothing out of the ordinary, but the Cubieboard platform caught my eye. I like that it has SATA, making it especially suited for server/NAS type applications.
No, but we have found millions of fossils in the ground from different time periods, and it looks an awful lot like different species slowly changed over time (and occasionally branched off or went extinct). If this weren't the case, scientists wouldn't believe in macroevolution either.
Why not send them a patch?
God created everything in existence. We refuse to acknowledge it, because by doing so we have to come to terms with his moral law. This moral law is embedded in our conscience and becomes clear through an examination of the conscience. For example things like lying and stealing (which if we are honest most of us have done either or both at one time or another), become heavy burdens when examined in the light of our consciences. In denying God, we can deny our own conscience and then create our own morality.
I have used micro-controllers, but hosting a webserver on one of them would be a mission! I'm not sure, but I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds?

When I said "about $50" I did mean about $50 - I'm from Aus and my friend got it for me (+shipping) for over $70AUD - I don't keep track of money that exactly.
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What you call "microevolution" is simply adaptation. It has nothing to do with evolution (that you call "macroevolution"). Evolution is the logical outcome of random mutations over a long period of time:

1) Random mutations

2) Survival rate increases for some

3) Evolution

This is so simple and so beautiful at the same time. The only thing you can contest is the existence of random mutations. I think the incredible diversity in our own species is enough proof.
There are system level ways of doing this that make far more sense that fucking around with unix syscalls that won't be portable.
Is this really the direction this website is headed? The NSA conspiracy stuff was bad enough.
> But to sell or rent the house, we should finish renovation/repairs first. And the selling market isn't great now, but becoming a landlord -- especially remotely -- would require a whole new set of skills.

You can often have someone do that for you.
In the UK, from the time a property is listed with an estate agent to the time conveyancing is completed can be on the order of several months, if not vastly more. It's not fast, especially because the buyer's and seller's lawyers doing the conveyancing take their sweet time to talk to each other, the surveys take time, and dealing with the local council and land registry, etc isn't immediate. Also, buyers in a property chain can cause problems if one of the deals in that chain falls through and they don't recover. It's hard work buying or selling somewhere in the UK. It's not a happy process!

The reason I think there's still a bubble is that housing costs are increasing faster than wages. More and more of peoples' budgets are being spent on just protecting themselves from the rain and scorpions, and at some point this cost just becomes untenable and a correction, or worse a crash will occur as the market can no longer bear such prices.

I'm very skeptical when I hear someone articulate that prices must always go up in the long term because they have in the past. They might continue to rise for a while, but eventually ... pop goes the bubble!
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The appearance of things does not make it so. Automobiles appear to be evolved from earlier forms. And they have in sense: in the minds of their creators. So too, animal and plant species appear to be directly related to other prior species populations. But the connection is only in the mind of the Creator.
I'll get rid of the GIL for you. You're not too attached to mutating state, are you?
Since only the tokens are stored on Echelon's server, any compromise might do some damage (tweets, bio change, etc), but you will not lose the account's password.

So that's a pretty good tradeoff if you ask me.
Don't underestimate natural selection. Animals need essential traits to survive at birth. Now consider that most animals are specialized to their environment, how did they get to that point ? What did an Eagle do before it eyes became specialized for air to ground hunting ? How did it survive before it can fly ? How did these animals survive is these environment during their evolution ? That's the paradox, natural selection works too well for evolution by gradual mutation to work.
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> > What happens when our mentors start making suggestions? Do you think that same data could be used to find the most efficient manner to shift your opinion? How deeply does the ranking of links affect your judgement about a subject? Are these new questions to you, or have you simply been holding your hands over your ears?

> None of these ideas are new. You're saying absolutely nothing that hasn't been said thousands of times before, and you're saying it much, much worse.

Maybe not new, but I think this may be the first time I've thought that anything other than a godlike AI may have enough foreknowledge to usefully manipulate our view of reality through carefully curated content presentation.

I think we're really just a bit of research and applied knowledge away from the beginning of this, if we haven't already arrived.
Also, what's the point of defending only one city from cruise missiles? Unless the enemy has a specific political target, they can cause a lot of destruction elsewhere.
Totally agree, and if Go used exceptions I would probably think it perfect.

I added an edit to my comment to avoid the implication you picked up on!
The maintenance effort.

The big performance win is nice (this benchmark:

https://github.com/rjpower/falcon/blob/master/benchmarks/mat...

), but it is still going to be a lot slower than doing it the horrible way (calling out to Numpy).

The benchmark is more aimed at demonstrating the reduction in loop overhead than it is at numerical speed, but numerical stuff is usually where you end up with a lot of loop overhead...
I'm not too familiar with Rails, but it looks like this is actually a static site generated with Ruby and hosted on s3.
Very interesting!

URL manipulation also resulted in more goodies.

http://homakov.github.io/
But to do easy and ~beautiful~ work on the objects (and to work on them the way most JS libraries expect data) you'd have to zipper the arrays together anyway.
It'll never happen, CPython is the reference implementation and a change as drastic as rewriting all of ceval.c is too drastic for any point release.
Could these problems also be addressed by using a regular, full persistence display reflected in a moving mirror that tracks the eye as it saccades?

Aside, this stuff is really fascinating, and it's great to see the field of human-computer interaction pushing up against formerly unknown biological phenomena.
What country are we in a declared war with?
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I think you should elaborate further on what your skill set/s are, so you can get specific feedback on stack, hosting and implementation.

To get started on hosting, it's hard to beat something like Digital Ocean; $5 or $10 / month and you can run all your test infrastructure (and if you feel like staying with them, push a button and scale as your app demands it). There are a few other good cheap options to get started, such as OVH, if you want a dedicated box; ramnode is interesting.
Valve's flat structure leads to cliques, say ex-employee
> The commenters seem to be arguing that reading is only worth the time if the content has been distilled to its basic facts, and further that that facts need to be immediately actionable. Have we no room for soul? Do we lack the energy to take general concepts and apply them to new areas in new ways?

You are reading too much into it. I (and probably the person you replied to) have nothing against long-form articles, as a matter of fact I prefer them.

On a typical day, I will spend 1-2 hours on a book, I will read many smaller articles here on HN and on Reddit, I will also check out my RSS reader, I will read work-related email, I will do actual work, I will train for my marathon (alternate day running and weights) which takes about 2 hours, spend time with my family, socialize, and hopefully get some sleep too. Its all about how you manage your time, not about distilling long-forms into bite-size chunks.

If given a choice between reading a long-form article online or reading a book, I will read a book.

There is only so much time in a day. There is so much to do. I save long article like this for my lazy or slow days to read.
It depends on what you call a cruise missile. We are at the point where anyone can take off the shelf parts and software and make a "drone" [1]. It's a pretty simple matter to modify the software to order the drone to crash into a building, motorcade, or outdoor event. Making an effective payload that can be carried by your small aircraft is another matter.

[1] - http://ardupilot.com/
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I'm not on github, which is why I made my OP so verbose; all the working code is there, s/he just needs to integrate it into their own code :-)
"the second" you read this...
http://getbootstrap.com/ looks like it got its design from Heroku's new website.
Have you ever worked on e-commerce sites? Bad email validation or the requirement for a confirmation email can kill business. If a user buys a product but types `sally@yahhhoo.com` and then doesn't get their purchase or shipping confirmation, you can bet there will be long labor-intensive interactions with customer service. Getting a high confidence value in an email address without a confirmation email has great value.
It seems HN is just as prone to pulling out the "Save The Kids" rhetoric when it suits them.

I wonder why you aren't lauding the NSA surveillance program, as it gives you exactly the kind of ammunition to perform such thought police style discrimination.

You will never agree with everyone. The solution is never to "exclude" or "ban" a school of thought, but counteract it with logic and reason. I see no harm in teaching both sides of human origin, it gives children the chance to decide for themselves, and also offers parents a wonderful opportunity to explain their own beliefs while rebutting any they don't agree with.

If a teacher is not teaching evolution perhaps they aren't performing their job correctly, as opposed to being an insidious agent that must be removed due to their crimethink. I hope you can see the difference between job performance and belief systems.
Are religious persons not allowed to be intelligent? I studied this book carefully; it's one of the most interesting and intelligent things I ever read in whole of my life time.

Reading books about evolution may be interesting, but to me it's like dreaming impossible dreams (science fiction comes to mind).
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No need to learn a new language, perhaps.
Blimps? Why hasn't anyone yet made a Fringe alternate universe reference yet?
Another good source on visual presentation (of data) is Cleveland (author of "The Elements of Graphing Data", see http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2013/02/revisiting-clevelands... ). The neat thing is Cleveland formally tested a lot of his visualization principles (asking people to estimate things from different graphs).
And after a few years of no threats, they will be re-purposed to "catch pedophiles".
I'm not the parent commenter but I've used matlab extensively and found Numpy clunky in comparison.

All I ever did in matlab involved matrices (usually differential equations with matrix coefficients and other things of that nature) and matrices are super easy to use in MATLAB:

A = [1 2 3
4 5 6];

or

A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6];

I can input A just like that and it works, try out the python syntax:

A = array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]])

And it just goes on from there.

Even if you're doing complicated operations because matrices are the essential building blocks of MATLAB it is easy to use, not so much in python.

I tried building my FEA (finite element analysis) project in python after i finished programming it in matlab it and found it to frustrating to continue.
Yes, those best equipped ! But how do you get it equipped ? That's the issue. Yes, not everything survives. But those that survive have all the specialized equipment needed to survive because ?
thanks guys! This is pretty much the way I was feeling about it.
Except this isn't about beliefs and opinions, but about science. You can question evolution with the scientific method if you want to.

And "save the kids" seems a bit more applicable when applied to teachers who are paid to educate said kids.
Is it? Are you being pedantic about the term "meteor" or is consensus behind something other than a collision? Asking honestly and aware that Wikipedia isn't always going to be correct. From Wikipedia:

"It is generally believed that the K-Pg extinction was triggered by a massive comet/asteroid impact and its catastrophic effects on the global environment, including a lingering impact winter..."

Same page then suggests volcanic activity, etc is a less popular theory.