skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patch doesn't seem to have launched in Seattle yet, so here's Redmond, WA's: http://redmond.patch.com

Here's what my neighborhood has, in comparison: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com

CHS beats the pants off of Patch.
I'd love to see some data on how many people draw the line where on that. $1 for a life, sure you save the life. $10? Life. $1m? $1b? Or $1b for 1000 lives? I'm sure not everyone would state that X lives is always worth more than Y dollars for all values of X and Y.
Who invented "magnetic"? Hmmmm.
I never said every single VP ever was like that. But exceptions only prove the rule.

>>but that time has passed

Hardly!!!!. You have worked at nearly every outlier company, there is. And you think culture you've seen there is the norm.

If there is any famous company with awesome executives, you will hear about them. You will never hear about those that crash and burn because of bad executives. Which are far more common than the ones that win.
Yes, bring animated gifs back to the web again!
Maybe he didn't think it was patentable.
But I thought NSA data was only used for counter-terrorism efforts?

Turns out, that's bullshit. It's used by DEA, it's used by IRS -- soon it will be used by Obamacare.
Nit: You can't, by definition, prove an axiom. Memorizing axioms is quite necessary because they are the building blocks for all other theorems.

In any case, I don't disagree with your high-level point.
Imagine a disease in the modern world today that primarily affects young children and causes parents to bleach the streets and sidewalks. Local officials quarantine blocks of neighborhoods when someone is found with the disease, because they don't know what else to do. Now imagine someone was selling a cure at the time. There would be riots, the seller would be strung up, and his drugs/methods would be copied.

I think we have great difficulty today understanding what life was like in parts of America with epidemic breaks before there was a vaccine for polio. There were children in iron lungs for weeks.

I can't imagine anyone developing a vaccine or a cure for something like that and not simply giving it away. The breakthrough with polio doesn't compare to anything else in patentable medicine. Salk's work stands alone.
Really good. Reminded me about Bret victor's http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
> Yes, but many animals see their reflections in watering holes -- only a few of them understand that they're seeing their own reflection.

its the nature doing its thing. only few animals/species develop certain faculties. And humans just happen to develop "mind" faculty. I wouldn't be surprised if some other species on a different planet developed telepathy or some other advanced faculties.

> This diminishes the role of inheritance, but over time research, especially twin studies, has produced increasing support for the idea that we're much more shaped by inheritance than environment.

inheritance only gives you latent abilities ... They will not flower if there is no proper environment for them to be actualized. everything is just manifestation of the nature. we are all just different "expressions" of the ultimate (aka "god" in some religinos)
The usual rebuttal to this line of argument is that property is theft. If I attempted to peacefully enter your house against your will, you would physically prevent me, or worse. By what right? I never agreed that you should have exclusive use of that land or structure. And yet you deprive me of its use through threats of violence.
The 'to' header isn't required to deliver email. You could essentially encrypt the entire header block if you're changing the protocols. What actually delivers the email is the 'RCPT TO' command on the SMTP transaction.

At the moment, SMTP requires that you also give it a 'MAIL FROM' command that tells who the sender is. Most servers also require a HELO that identifies the sending server, but you can basically get away with putting anything in there.

But now you're left with an authorization problem.

Currently the combination of these three fields is what determines whether an SMTP server will accept the message for delivery or relay. If all you get is the 'RCPT TO' command, then you have no idea who's sending the message until it's decoded.

This puts the authorization task on to the recipient's computer. So the 90% of all email that's spam will now need to be parsed on the desktop.

One solution here would be to include another section above the encrypted email header+body that is the authorization block. Now the recipient's server holds then entire encrypted message using the RCPT TO as the destination. The recipient downloads a list of auth-blocks addressed to them and issues back a DENY if they don't want the message.

The authorization block would identify the sender who has signed their identity in a publicly identifiable way. BAM! There goes spam.

Unfortunately the BIGGEST problem in all this is Microsoft. They could have added simple-to-set-up PGP to Outlook years back. So how likely do you think it is that they'll switch to any new protocol. (The anti-spam industry really lives in fear of Microsoft waking up and working on implementing any of the new protocols that would instantly stop spam.)

In all this, I'm ignoring web-based email for all this: that's a much bigger security nightmare as you have to trust your private keys to the third party
I am still a little confused. Is CoreOS designed to be used inside a container, or as a host OS to other containers?
How a Parking Ticket Turned into 40,000 Customers
"Ignorance is bliss". Is this the opposite?
[former CIA director and National Security Agency director
General Michael Hayden] was quoted as saying: "Because of
the nature of global telecommunications, we are playing
with a tremendous home-field advantage, and we need to
exploit that edge.

I really hope the rest of the World understands the implications here and works to eliminate the home field advantage for the US and makes sure that no other country ever gets this advantage. No single country should ever have that power.
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Truly understand? Very doubtful. I expect they only wrote those questions to impress future generations.
Agreed - the same way mobile phones freed us from memorizing dozens of phone numbers.
So what happens when the lights go out? How do we get all the facts?
To carry what zecho was saying, at what point does it become ridiculous? Everyone has a calculator in their pocket, should we stop worrying about teaching addition? You chose to use the extreme items that get memorized, but there where is the 'fine line' of things to memorize?

"Students do not need a teacher nor a classroom to memorize facts."

You are half-right here, the problem is, if we get rid of the teacher, how do you encourage the student to memorize boring rhetoric like math or reading comprehension? The teacher is also there to 'force' you to put down your toys/electronics and work. Doing your up-teenth geography homework question is a lot harder when there is no enforcement and all your friends are on Call of Duty. Teachers help teach discipline.

The poem by Taylor Mali "What does a teacher make?" (http://zenpencils.com/comic/124-taylor-mali-what-teachers-ma...) sort of touches on this too.
I think I even took a picture of one of those when I was in London last Fall: https://twitter.com/marshray/status/321038712735690754

EDIT: That may not have been my own picture in that tweet. But still ISTR having snapped a similar one.
The Case For A Europa Lander Mission
Twitter Bootstrap 3 vs Foundation 4 – Which One Should You Use?
> Haskell doesn't count, since you need to turn on about a dozen GHC language extensions in order to incorporate the last 20 years of research.

I don't follow. Turning on a language extension is as simple as adding a single annotation to your source file. Is this a problem?

Are you objecting to "the last 20 years of research" not being part of the definition of the Haskell language standard? This is a little off the mark, as Haskell was conceived in 1990, and the latest version of the standard is from 2010.

Moreover, Haskell is evolving rapidly precisely due to the use of language extensions. Research is done, papers are written, and extensions are added — then validated through practical use, and either kept or removed.

> There's also quite a bit of design warts that newer academic languages are starting to iron out. In particular, I don't think monad transformer stacks are a reasonable solution to computational effects.

Granted, monad transformer stacks can get unwieldy. Fortunately, writing in this style is not required. Monad transformers are just library code, so it's not necessary to invent a new language to replace them.
A host OS.
Thanks! It got a bunch of upvotes right away and made it to the homepage but then got flagged for the early traction :(
Does VLC 1.1.5 support HI10P (10-bit H.264 video)? That would be one reason to upgrade, as many anime releases now use HI10P (http://wiki.bakabt.me/index.php/Hi10P).
Before the World Wars, what other war in US history, other than the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, would be well known? The Spanish-American War was recent events, the Mexican War was forgotten as it lay between two bigger and more impressive wars (just like Korea is easily forgotten between WWII and Vietnam), and that was it as far as major conflicts go.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary

Looks like they make less than the national median income.

Doesn't look like you pass the median either until you've put in at least a decade.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary...

Teaching might be "Looked at" as being family friendly but unless you're working in a really nice district or are completely apathetic you're probably going to be working 50 hour weeks.

Speaking of pay expectations... software developers with no college education and a few years of experience can be hired for twice an experienced teacher's salary - and these same developers consider themselves underpaid (which they are... but so is most of the middle class)
CoreOS is like dom0 and your containers are domUs. Shared kernel, but LXC for isolation.

We need a better way to explain this...
Someone like that needs help, not a firing in front of everyone on the planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile
Most public School teachers make close to the median household income in the US (50,000$) with some earning double that.

Citation? You make that statement, and then choose as your example an affluent suburb of DC.
Honestly, as someone who grew up looking this up on Wikipedia, my ability to base an argument on credible sources has suffered immensely. Often, I want to make a point, and when I try to back it up I go through the "Did I read this on a reputable website, and if yes, what was the link".

Or in total internet manier:

Source: Myself.
I'm a lot less worried about targeted advertisements and their trackers (which are easily blocked) than I am about a police state. Internet filtering is already a serious problem. And it's not unreasonable to think they could start cracking down on piracy much more in the future. Also intercepted emails and private messages and stuff will be around forever.
Off topic, but if Armstrong is serious about wanting people to leave the company if they're not committed, why not offer buyouts? That would remove one reason why people may decide to stay even if they don't believe in the company.

I know Zappo's offers new trainees a cash bonus if they decide to /not/ join the company after completing the training program. That way Zappo's can be more sure that their new hires are not /just/ financially motivated but also are excited about the company itself.

Buyouts are commonly used during downsizing, but any thoughts as to why this isn't more widespread - i.e., used during 'normal' times as well? You could imagine companies offering a cash bonus (or health insurance for a certain # of months, or something) to anyone that quit but didn't have another job lined up.

That, presumably, would have the effect of empowering people to leave their job. So people who were not aligned with the company itself or otherwise dissatisfied could leave, improving the culture of the company as well.

On a more meta level, pleas like Armstrong's, to "leave if you're not committed" reminds me of the quote from North Dallas Forty [0] (A movie about professional sports): "Every time I say it's business, you say it's a game. Every time I say it's a game, you say it's a business." Leaders of businesses can try to pull the same thing; they alternate between appealing to your sense of mission, and then make decisions under a different logic.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dallas_Forty
I'm guessing they wanted a brief biographical sketch and not a drawing...
Year 8 students in England are ~13 years of age, so yes.

They call pre-school nursery, kindergarten is reception, then it follows with american style numbered years. It is slightly off because they have 13 years and we have 12, but they both carry you to 18 years of age.
That's how I feel about it too.
I cringed at the "in you're life" bit...then I realized it was intentional.

And the trolling begins...
And even in private there are Mich better ways of saying it. "You're fired" is unnecessarily hostile.
Erwin Schrödinger birthday celebrated in Google doodle
Excellent article - writing NUMA-aware code such that it's aware of where a thread's memory is compared to what socket it's on is very important for high-performance code.

You can get serious speed gains by reducing latency.

Similarly, writing cache-aware code (in terms of the cache hierarchy) and locking down thread affinity can have serious benefits as well, especially on OSs with rather poor schedulers like OS X and Windows, which tend to bounce threads around a bit too much.
Yeah, I had no idea what kalsomining was either.
Caring about things
I can't find anything about offering broadband directly from aol here:

http://get.aol.com/plans/index.php?regtype=client&offergrp=w...

Only some crappy "security" software for broadband users (I wouldn't call their subscription model for broadband users scam buts it is a bit shady to take 12 bucks a month for some discount coupons and "$750 Extended Computer Protection").

they seem to offer only 56k dial-up service.

?
>"Most public School teachers make close to the meadean household income in the US"

Yeah...no they don't. Both my parents are career teachers, and both have worked in both public and private school systems. You start out at ~$30,000 in major metropolitan areas and can reach $100,000 after close to a decade, with a graduate degree.
Your point was obscured by getting your history wrong.

Think about: you know, the Romans didn't drive around in nice fancy cars; they walked, or if they were lucky, rode a horse! Therefore we can conclude that they weren't as lazy as we were.

Ridiculous. If the teacher of 1912 had multiple choice tests in their toolbox, they probably would have used them. What point were you trying to make?
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I believe it's enabled under mod_perl. If that someone was allowing user input to make it to an open, system, or back tick call unfiltered then this is just one thing to worry about. It's as bad or worse than taking unfiltered input and building an SQL query with it.

Moreover, this isn't a Perl issue. I can think of ways to do similarly I'll advised things with C#'s process.start or C/C++'s System command.
> Although there's something eerie about the waveform collapse having to do with conscious observers.

Fortunately, it doesn't. Any measurement of a system constitutes an "observer", conscious or not.
I wonder how many write cycles its flash memory is good for.
And it can't be because there are more men geniuses than women (as statistics on iq point out) or because men are naturally more interested in some subjects than women (which has also been the subject of studies and demonstrated). Nope, we have to come up with a conspiracy theory which places the blame on, as always, evil white men. This is why nobody takes feminists seriously.
Putting this in context, I'm sure the gross overall level of education for teenagers in the early 20th century was higher than it is now.

Education was far less prevalent for minority groups, who, as an unfortunate side effect to class-wide limited incomes, don't have the same access to the kind of education which would give this sort of examination to an 8th grader.

Now, if you attend a private grammar school in a Westchester suburb you can expect a lot of your children will have exams like this...
Use the battery.
Reusing the VM terminology "host" and "guest" would have made it clear for me.

Does it include a zero-copy network driver?
There's a plethora of ways to get Wikipedia offline.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967 87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified by {DOB, gender, zip} (latanyasweeney.org) (278 points, 712 days ago, 101 ocmments)
Standard GOP war on teachers talk. They'll compare a teacher in NYC to a software developer in rural Alabama, and call it reasonable.
It's interesting. When Julia first came onto the scene, it seemed everyone was gung-ho to rewrite everything in Julia. Now they've capitulated and are simply incorporating Python bits...
Yeah, I am really surprised that they didn't ask a single question about World War I or II! :)
when the "lights go out", the society would collapse anyway.
High-altitude EMP over the Pacific is often cited as the first step in a Chinese response to open conflict with the United States, followed by cyber-strikes against US infrastructure.

It's a very good asymmetrical warfare weapon for weaker states. Regardless of what course I'd prefer an adversary to take, it certainly makes a great deal of sense from their perspective. By no means are the creators of this strategy of "low intelligence."
I believe that's the idea, yes. Small communities tend to be underserved for news content and local businesses don't want/need to advertise in their region's metro news sites, but may be interested in something more local.
How do you define 'level of education' on a per-student basis? (Well, I guess the whole issue is that that's hard a question to answer, right?)

I think, for instance, that the average eighth grader knows much more in 2013 than they did in 1912, but that the proportion of that knowledge that they gained from an education system is much smaller. Knowledge has become universally accessible; reasoning, less so.
I really doubt this, but random speculation. It reminds me of Gus Fring from Breaking Bad. Rich, stays under the radar as much as possible, and has a perfect front for smuggling stuff in his trucks.
Haha, wow, I found myself having that kneejerk reaction as well. "Gosh, this looks so unprofessional, like a paper from middle school..."
I would say that the plugin offerings is key to its success. Even if I often criticize my wordpress installation I prefer to install a plugin in one click than spend a lot of time at the html/css/js level.

Beyond that I couldn't understand their product feature priorities: no headings in their wysiwyg editor, no good themes. I was looking to something like http://om.co which is wordpress but using commercial themes not available for the general public.
When people start reflecting on how it's so amazing that 8th graders were once expected to describe the Battle of Quebec, I think about this:

http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

The math questions? I could have answered them in 8th grade. They're not hard, and they're the only part that's not just memorization.
Its still there on archive.org - the owner now has a book available documenting the funniest cases. Takes all of about 4 hours to read, but worth it.
I wish in one of these cases someone could also dig up the answers to the question. The questions are interesting, but the expectations are more implied than clear.
Good for you. I was about to buy it despite preferring Linux, but seeing all these comments on HN convinced me to save my money for when the developer releases a native version.

The developer's website [1] says that it uses OpenFL [2], which advertises itself as "an exciting cross-platform framework that targets Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Flash and HTML5."

So why no native Linux version then?

[1] http://dukope.com/
[2] http://www.openfl.org/
It's not really valuable, most companies want to get their names out there.
Oops. My bad. I fixed it. Thanks.
A better translation of chapter 11: http://whitequark.org/blog/2013/04/01/ruby-hacking-guide-ch-...
> You must be logged in to download

I have said it before and I will say it again, because it needs to be said:

F U Richard!

(for making people log in to access content)

UPDATE: On a more constructive note --- @RichardPrice, if you remove the "you must login to access" barrier, I pledge to upload all my papers to your website and I will even promote it.
Things in Haskell which don't exist elsewhere at all
Yes, I think Patch's 'point' was local news for smaller communities - if I'm remembering right, with a focus on affluent areas that could support ad sales.
Optionally, by giving the container direct access to the nic. Docker will do more iptables/veth-pair magic, but if you need direct access you can use other methods. We like systemd-nspawn, since it integrates nicely with systemd.
My dad's been a teacher at the high school level (math and English +SAT prep) for over 50 years. He's barely north of 70K/year in Dallas, TX. And he's one of the top paid teachers in the district. When you say "major metropolitan areas ... can reach $100,000" I think that must be in either very affluent areas, private schools, or the west/northeast coasts.

Even still, for such a vastly important profession, I've always been completely disillusioned by the lack of compensation and support for the teaching profession.
I think the official line is that having investment from both China and the US was considered a dealbreaker by the US side, and since the US wouldn't fund it completely, the deal couldn't go through. Guess this explains why.

I'm a resident but not anyone important, so clarifications welcome
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the insane clown posse? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
Wondering why there was no shouts of derision at the CEO when he said that? The others at the meeting should have spoken up in my opinion.
In my opinion Fab.com is the next step in the evolution from the daily deal websites. The main difference is that currently it focuses on delivered goods while daily deals were about services in your area, but I think their basic hypothesis is that people love deals and will spend money in things they didn't consider buying just because the price is good.
Another difference which I noticed is that unlike most daily deals websites, theirs are not time-limit based, but rather quantity-limit, which I guess works better for the suppliers since there cannot be a situation where they have to honour more transactions than they could have foreseen.
As a customer, I also noticed two main operating models which I find interesting. The first is where Fab.com have the items in stock and the other is that the items are delivered to fab only after you have made the purchase, and sometimes within a week of ordering, which might mean that they are waiting to make a bulk shipment from the supplier, and perhaps don't have to pay for the goods until they have orders.
Another interesting feature they have is they give you 20 minutes to checkout. This, I guess serves two purposes, the first is giving the customer a sense of urgency, a "buy it now or lose it" feeling, and the second is that this prevents blocking people from buying the product just by having it in your basket (since quantity is limited).

There are already quite a few clones which I have seen seen. One is monoqi.com, but I have seen others (just don't remember their names).
Indefinite articles?