skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am writing this in NY while having discussed this article with multiple teachers and principals at a charter school.

Here are some facts: The US spends over $600 billion on the K-12 education system. Just around 0.46% of that entire budget is spent on educational software resources. Most of the content money goes in the pockets of Pearson and other big textbook publishers.

I have been an ed teach entrepreneur for over 1.5 yrs and I started building ed games for ipads over 2 years ago. I actually learnt objective-c for that purpose alone. I have tested our games and numerous other games with 100's of kids and I can unequivocally say, that in my 'subjective' experience, replacing workbooks/textbooks with ipads is much better for kids. iPads should serve as a tool to optimize education.

The argument that these teachers don't know how to use them is complete BS. For every 50 year old teacher, there is a young 23 yr old TFA graduate who is vastly superior at integrating technology. As a society, you cannot make decisions based on accommodating the ever shrinking population of teachers that is too old to work with technology.

Amplify is hardly the example of disruption, they are a big company with around a thousand employees, led by a former superintendent who greases the superintendents all over the country. They have the resources to esentially 'buy-out' schools. Schools in turn let themselves be bought out rather than evaluate all the options, due to district procurement rules. Good tehnology for ed will only be available if there is an easy way to test products in schools since most good tech is iterative. We have to go through so many barriers to do this on a school level, but I have linked up with enough good teachers who understand its value and are willing to put in the time and effort to do so.

I have faced many of the same questions from parents that this article comes up with. Those are nothing new. The question is not about tablets or or no tablets, its the fact that all computers will be tablets (or some form of touch devices) in 5 years. If that is the only computer that is going to be available to us, then schools and teachers need to learn how to assimilate it.
With a polite and well argumented blog post, I presume?
But iOS 7 doesn't really incur that cost and if it does I'd consider medical testing for your cognitive functioning abilities.
Just as Mikko hinted, most startups took 191k for 27% of shares. The thing to remember is that HackFwd gets diluted in next rounds together with the founders, there are no anti-dilution clauses in Geek Agreement (which is public, btw).
Netflix and AMC have very different business models, and Netflix' business would cannibalize AMC's.

AMC makes a small amount of premium content on a continuous basis, and forces cable companies to carry a mixture of paid channels and advertising. AMC is also vastly more profitable, both in terms of P/E ratio (18 vs 300) and gross earnings (200MM vs 40MM), so it's not as if their "legacy" model is hurting them.

Netflix makes a small amount of premium content and sells itself as an alternative to cable, undercutting the traditional AMC model. Their core goal in making content is just to have a library they don't have to license from outside. It doesn't have to be current or ongoing, just big.

It's true that both of them rely on premium content as a loss leader but they have very different ways of earning money and capturing an audience. It would be hard to reconcile one with the other.
Why Apple's 64-bit chip won't matter for years
Outlook.com Team Announces Immediate IMAP Support during Reddit AMA
Don't be a startup martyr
Probably Google's marketing department.
This is very interesting to me. I started Russian and decided I should learn French before Russian so I didn't have to do as much with the alphabet. However I always get busy and stop for just long enough to forget most of what I learned. I will be eagerly watching for reviews of the process from people who have gone through it.

Site looks good, but I think some review of the readability of the bigger paragraphs could be done. Specifically the bullet points on the Guarantee page are a bit difficult to read. Also they are formatted different between Our Promise and Your Commitment, which you may have a good reason for.
This is an important point, and I think most people in IB would agree. However, some of that agreement would stem from déformation professionnelle. If those people had some way of stepping outside their current situation and evaluating the overall course of their employment, they might well choose differently. Of course, only old folks are really capable of that, and at that point they can't do much to fix it, so it's not as if the bankers have it worse than the rest of us.
I believe it. Sadly, cheating has become endemic in STEM degree programs.
You open to the public, you open yourself up to public criticism. The way the business is run is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is, this sucks, and complaining (loudly) is the way to get it fixed.
We discuss this every other day on here, do other professions, I'm just curious.
IDK, I could see this the other way around too. If you are currently doing the job, then you must be qualified for it, or are soon to be fired. There are probably some small percentage of people who just slide under the radar, but I would think if you were entirely incompetent and unable to do your job you would not last long.
Ha!
Do you really want a java cocktail?

OK.
Here is your java cocktail:
1. 50 mg of sand. Yes, you will never drink it, but it will gloriously creak on your teeth
2. Water. Put it as much as you can. If you're really into "hard staff" - use sea water.
3. Alcohol. In fact - you don't need this. But if you want - mix something. Anyway you don't have a lot of space to put a good portion of booze.
They are numerous. Almost daily I see things funded that make me shake my head. Here is the latest http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/foodiequest/
Hi Stremor! :)

Looks like you focus on search, summary, entity and sentiment extraction with a rule-based approach.

Wit's focus is to power human/machine interfaces, and our priority is to provide developers with a 100% configurable solution, with no prior assumption on their domain. And we don't believe in rules, we chose a machine learning approach.
My vote is for the needle: humans were much more restricted about where they could live without being able to sew clothes
My 4 year old son had Lyme Disease a few months ago. Playing around outside my in-laws house for a couple days, my wife found the tick during his shower. The tick must've been on him for a while because you have about a 0% chance of getting Lyme Disease unless the ticket has been attached for over 36 hours (see http://www.aldf.com/pdf/postersmall.pdf). We removed the tick and an expanding rash appeared on his back over the next few days. Could see it plain as day, grew to about 4 inches in diameter. Took him to urgent care (it was a weekend) and instantly diagnosed with Lyme. Important Note: Since the Lyme Disease test is an antibody test, it won't show positive for about 30 days after you're infected. A bulls eye rash over a certain diameter is clinically sufficient to diagnose Lyme. Another fun fact: once you test positive for Lyme, you will test positive for the rest of your life because your body retains the antibodies even though a previous infection is not protective of future infections.

He was on three weeks of antibiotics and the rash s-l-o-w-l-y disappeared over that time. He has no obvious ill effects thus far.
Meanwhile someone who learned to become a plumber or electrician at community college is making more per hour.
I think you're confusing interns and employees. I don't think banking interns make anywhere near $70-80K.
I love that response. It captures the essence of the maturation process. My kids would use variations on it when we talked about rules and behaviors. And that lead to productive discussions about absolute rules versus (don't kill people), contextual rules (kill people who are enemies), and societal rules (kill people who are trying to kill you) [1].

Clearly in the context of TechCrunch Disrupt making sexist jokes is a problem, but Rickrolling Arrington as our CTO did one year when he showed a backwards search engine (you went from a bunch of results to figure out what the query was that would return those kind of thing) just 'funny' (for some definition of funny, since it was pretty late in the Rickrolling meme but I digress).

But the maturation process, the one where you look at a situation and predict which behaviors will be ok for the group or not ok for the group, is something that you can't teach but you can learn.

[1] "Murder" is a useful foil to have this discussion around as there are so many different contexts in which one person may feel compelled or desire to take the life of another.
You might consider switching to the fork Adblock Edge. Adblock Plus has some shady background and nowadays allows tracking and selected advertisers.
I think the situation has started to get better with software start-up infrastructure costs going significantly down, angels and incubators eating traditional VC's lunches (to a point where firms like Sequoia had to initiate stealth scouts program so they could get in early into potential killer startups), founders getting better terms, a healthy founder friendly eco-system nurtured (carefully?) by newly minted successful entrepreneur turned angles. I am optimistically hoping that "Shark VCs" are a dying breed. Not sure how long have you been a VC; You probably have a better handle on this, and privy to a lot more than what keeps getting written. Not to put too much pressure on you but frankly I was hoping you would have a thesis on how to make it even better for engineers/budding-entrepreneurs.
Except you read all the comments in that article and the people from Finland all say they do have homework.

While not as linkbaity perhaps it should be retitled, "Finland has an excellent education system."
Where does fortitude come into the discussion? Should I parse this "(the fortitude) nor the willingness to not shower" or "(the fortitude nor the willingness) to not shower"?

If the former, the fortitude to do or not do what? If the latter, I don't really regard it as fortitude. I've worked with people who didn't shower for days, and it wasn't in a computer lab--once it was on a loading dock.

[edit: added missing quotation mark]
There was a course in my undergraduate college that required each student be 'handicap' for a week (e.g., blind, wheelchair-bound) for much the same reason. I didn't take the course but everyone on campus experienced it to some degree though peers.

In much the same way, I lost the use of my dominant arm for several months during graduate school. I always had respect for those with lifelong physical disabilities, but the insight I gained during that period resulted in even more respect. During that period I had one really supportive professor. But, I also had a second professor that I wanted to do much violence to - simply so that he might gain much needed insight. Since I graduated, the second professor has tried to get me to collaborate with him and I refuse to primarily because of his lack of basic respect for others' abilities (both disabilities and capabilities that exceed his own understanding).
On a related note, the expansive Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base north of San Diego is probably the only thing stopping there being one giant urban sprawl all the way from San Diego through Orange County into LA.
Well, this technique gave us windows vista [1].

[1] http://xkcd.com/323/
Facebook trying to align "Community Standards" with their business protectionism and perhaps even be trying to disguise it as a positive thing they're trying to enforce - it's a bit sickening.
This is really scary that it can be used as a very reliable fingerprinting technique.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-05#sec...

It doesn't seem like the issue is addressed in the webrtc draft.
is it possible to get a hostname(computer name)?
This overlooks the reason why AMC has a deal with Netflix. They're in it to promote the current season of their shows. By having older seasons of Breaking Bad, TWD, etc... they can easily pick up new viewers of their new ones.
Why buy AMC when they can just hire the executives who made the calls on those shows? With a market cap of about $4b, AMC is pretty damn huge. Sure the content would be included but still hard to justify.
Why would you want to procedurally generate routes or verbs? I dunno, perhaps there might be a use case where one would want to define them in configuration or a database. But being able to do something like this is not a "feature," it's just the inherent flexibility of expressing semantics in code.

Why would you want an API that breaks the flexibility of code by forcing it to be glorified XML?
This sounds to me like the issue is more university programs: people completing a STEM degree SHOULD come out of it able to take on a STEM job.

From the hiring side, I agree with the dearth of quality candidates, and on the job training is often the current solution.

From my own university experience: the wrong things were being taught, and depth was pretty much out of the question. I can only imagine its worse elsewhere.

Only due to my personal side projects did I end up getting the knowledge needed for a job.
Actually half of HackFwd companies are tools for businesses or SaaS platforms, not straight-to consumer apps.

@michuk
The trio of the shows: Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Walking Dead — are either on their finishing acts, or too close to finish. This time next year, two of their three flagship shows will be over.

Netflix has a good strategy in their hands. They need to focus on leadership, creative, and funding daring projects.

Side note: Consider this, Netflix already has three hit shows — House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and Arrested Development.
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1. Automatic goose-plucking machine. I was walking out of work one evening around Christmas and had to cross through a flock of Canada geese on the office park lawn. I thought, "I could just snatch one of these guys, wring his neck, and have him for dinner, if only I had a way to pluck him." It would look like a salad spinner, where you add the goose, attach a lid, then turn a crank. Out comes your plucked goose. Also solves goose overpopulation, so it's good for the environment.

2. Rubber trees. Sell them to commercial real estate developers/contractors. Cheaper than real trees, and less maintenance cost. Just pop them into the ground! We'd also sell accessories, like attachable bird nests or battery-powered hooting owls. Premium customers could buy four "styles" of the same tree, one for each season, and with a support contract we'd swap them out at appropriate times of year.

3. Renewable energy. What is the largest source of untapped energy in the universe? Little children! We'd sell shoes with an integrated battery that recharges as your kids play. The sole of the shoe contains a standard power outlet so you can plug in your TV and watch your shows after the kids are in bed.
Yes, but don't you realize that it's somehow still Apple's fault? :)
When you say Walking Dead has been getting "worse and worse" are you referring to the show itself or the ratings? While the show itself is debatable, the ratings are not suffering in the least.

‘Walking Dead’ Season 3 Mid-Season Finale Ratings Top 15 Million
http://screenrant.com/the-walking-dead-season-3-ratings/
A schoolboy fail from Memrise...
I sincerely don't understand what you're talking about.

What "counter argument" I refuse to touch, in your opinion? Just state it in _one single sentence_. Do you really think that "Obama's motivation" is some kind of proven fact that is on your side? Is this it?

Also, just for the sake of a joke, what if I was able to prove you wrong in your assumptions about me, in a skype call, let's say? :)

At first I was really disappointed to have spent so much time in explaining the whole context of Syrian situation. Now I'm really amused, since 1) I believe in your sincerity 2) I find it really incredible that you haven't grasped my position in all it's honesty and being grounded in facts.

I'm not a self-centered person (at least, I like to think so). And I'm really interested in understanding other people. To me your view of the situation is a big question mark that would be fun to resolve.
Stopped reading at the usual "white men" - too bad it was at the end.
While this is cool, why does it have to be on a Raspberry Pi? Could this not be a VM (VirtualBox, since it's free) image as well? That way there's no hardware to buy and you simply install one program to run the image.

A great example of this is ArchiveTeam's Warrior: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior
Yes. And .io means Indian Ocean, .ly is Libya.
>saying you have your entire life in front of you

That's not what you said... you said he was too young to know vi/vim better than you. If you haven't used it in 30 years how would you know vim any better than a younger person? Why would age have anything to do with recognizing the benefits and drawbacks of various text editors? My grandparents barely knew how to turn on a computer... they wouldn't try to teach me that notepad is a better text editor than vim. I'm not discounting your experience (you definitely have more than most people here) but your arguments here could be better.
Never understood what the obsession is with long hours in finance - I highly doubt it actually leads to any more productivity, and certainly reduces the quality of decision making. Surely the better way to impress is to do 40 hours of great work, not 110 hours of being barely awake.
Joking about bodies and sex with coworkers you know well is not the same thing as a product built around the concept of staring (presumably lasciviously) at the boobs of strangers.

Basically, it's a question of participation vs. objectification--of being in on the joke vs. being the butt of the joke.
This behaviour certainly fits with Facebook's controlled-ecosystem and behaviours associated with maintaining that..
In which way C# and .NET is proprietary?

WCF, WindowsForms, EntityFramework are proprietary. But nobody in sane mind will use them.
Sorry to say no. I've done some with the old REST API (using the free quota, cf: http://www.masswerk.at/google60 http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS http://www.masswerk.at/googleAsteroids ) which is due to expire sometime in the near future, but I don't see any backup for this with same functionality. Bing killed their API in favor for the Azure Market Place last year (in August).
DuckDuckGo's API looks nice, but results are not on the same level (as of writing this).

BTW: Google's results using the REST API (free quota) seem to vary with usage. When there's some load, there will be only a limited set of result on the next "page".

Edit: As free quotas are very limited with the new APIs (10/day), I'ld guess the days for any experiments with search operations are over. (If a project gains some interest, you are due for 1M hits/day, and the fees for this are more than anyone would afford for a pet project.) You could try to make a deal with the vendor in question before, but this would result in an amount of planning that is out of scope for a project, which is essentially shoot-and-go.
https://gist.github.com/donovanhide/6541191
rocks optional
Am I forbidden from wearing tinted glasses while looking at Facebook as well? After all, they "alter the experience".
the physicist quoted in the blog post, who is mystified as to how his keys thrown upward could accelerate toward the ceiling

This is another way in which the blog post incorrectly describes the mainstream theory. (Trying to arrive at a good description of what a theory says based on a sound bite in a non-technical article is a waste of time anyway; you need to look at the actual technical literature.)

In the blog post's model, the apparent acceleration up towards the ceiling is achieved by launching the keys upward at almost the speed of light. But in the mainstream dark energy model, if our spacetime locally was dark energy dominated, you could release the keys at rest relative to you, and they would accelerate, in the coordinate sense, up towards the ceiling (instead of accelerating, in the coordinate sense, down towards the floor, as you would expect with normal gravity). That's what the physicist quoted in the NatGeo article was actually describing.
Is it possible that industry automation reduces the workers needed for some positions, freeing them to look for other positions, thus increasing the pool of candidates? That would go some way towards explaining why projected STEM job candidate numbers are always below reality.

Automation affects many jobs. Just because a job isn't replaced entirely by a robot or program, doesn't mean it hasn't been rendered significantly easier or less time consuming, reducing the personnel required.

CAD is probably one of the oldest examples of this. What's to say that similar changes aren't taking place in many industries now?
From what I understand, and again, I'm not with the company, it's not a cloud service, but rather downloadable / installable software that encrypts prior to storage on the disk.
Cosine similarity with Scikit-learn
Who said anything about tards? I said Maccard and there is nothing derogative about it. Jeez.
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1. Since Finland students only get one standardized test, it's very difficult to determine. I have no idea why that's listed as a positive thing in the graphic; you can't improve what you don't measure!

2. According to the article, Finland's average PISA scores are higher than Hong Kong or Japan.

3 & 4. Since the degrees are subsidized by the sate, there are a lot more people getting them. This helps recruit enough teachers to maintain the 12:1 student/teacher ratio.
In Finland, teachers are selected from the top 10% of college graduates.[1]

In the US, nearly half of all new teachers come from the bottom third of college graduates.[2]

Homework or no homework, Finnish students are learning directly from -- and personally interacting with -- some of the brightest minds in their country, every day.

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[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands...

[2] http://www.mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education...
I dont think there is lack of good resources on internet. If you are learning new thing, you have to struggle a bit initially and if you do not give up during initial struggle, then things become very very easy after that.
Internet is wonderful. You can find all kinds of content.
Finland's success in Pisa scores is the reason that these practices are highlighted. Although homogenous population plays a role, Finnish scores are constantly better than almost equally homogenous Norway.

However, the true reason behind the success of Finnish school system is yet unclear. One thing that certainly plays an important role is that teacher as a profession has traditionally been highly regarded in Finnish society, and it's not trivial to get in to universities to study teaching.

There are other interesting aspects, for example does the language play a role: Finland has an affluent Swedish-speaking minority. There a separate schools for Swedish speakers, but they follow similar practices as the rest of the Finnish schooling system. However, for some odd reason doesn't fare as well in Pisa tests than Finnish speaking students, despite that family background of Swedish speakers have traditionally been more stable.
`def` vs `val` vs `lazy val` evaluation in Scala
I wonder if that's the reason he initially didn't claim authorship, because it conflicts with him being a devout Christian?

Here's the original USENET post:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/news.groups...