skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the elimination of grades, but I don't think a teacher per child is necessary. I don't have experience with kids, but I would prefer a system of "circles" and "levels".

For each discipline, there would be defined different levels of ability. To attain a level, you would have to go through exam. If you would fail, you could repeat the level (even multiple times). Each level would be attainable in about half-year of directed study. So there would be no grades, only levels - you couldn't get best grades, because there would always be some level above you which you would attempt to attain.

Now kids would be grouped into circles primarily based on ability at the discipline, not age. So you could be older in one group and younger in another, depending on how good you are. That way, the typical social hierarchy in classroom would be limited. I also think presence of the older kids could prevent lot of bullying, and kids could make more connections with other kids that are better or worse in different disciplines. Of course, there should be ingrained a culture of helping to learn (those with higher levels should help those with lower levels).

You could select yourself which levels in what disciplines you want to attain each semester, however there would probably be some basic total curriculum you have to go through. Also you couldn't opt for less total work; if you fail the level, you would have to repeat it, so you would be motivated not to fail.
I don't know either, what a brick. I really hate expressions where you need context to understand it's intentions, or die stupid.

He could have given context but prefered being condescending.
I also used Protocol Buffers in multiple projects and languages. One huge advantage was that I could serialize data in Objective-C on the iPad, stream it to a C++ server on a desktop, and then forward some of it to a Ruby plugin in a different application. The performance was great and the libraries in each language made it seamless to use the same data structures across the board.
Why? Marketing is needed.
Thank you! Seriously, this was very insightful and will be helpful! I hope more app developers see this comment too.
So in addition to having smaller pixels than Android devices with undetectably small pixels, Apple now has faster reactions that Android devices with undetectably fast reactions.

I'm looking forward to hearing about the new iPhone's unmatched fidelity in reproducing ultraviolet images and ultrasonic sounds.
I have a Samsung Captivate, an iPhone 4 and a Nexus S (developer phone) all purchased in Q4 2010. Nexus S updated until 4.1, iPhone is still current with iOS 7 and the Captivate got ONE update (manually via USB) from 2.1 to 2.2... the Software Update NEVER updated.
...what.

There were two restaurants in the community. If it had been possible to make a profit, more restaurants could have been run and they would have served the community too. The primary complaint in the comment was not, y'know, some balance sheet isn't high enough, but that this person had no where to eat out because it was impossible to run a restaurant without losing money.
I think it's a great site. What I need is the "glue"(how all the different programs, set of instructions) fit together.

I realize most website developement is not programming;
it's following a lot of directions. This is the reason
I hated working with computers when I was younger. I just
wasen't interested in learning a bunch of man made terms
that seemed to change yearly. As older dude, I'm looking
at it differently.

I still think there's got to be a better way of learning
dynamic website developement? I do like the idea of
condensed teaching--like cheat sheets.
I just took a train from Shanghai down to 黄山. While I can't confirm there are entirely empty cities (I don't doubt it though), There were massive modern housing complexes... with no one in them. It was so surreal.
Their patents silly.

Now I am starting to think they will auction them off to get more money
Sounds plausible. By far the plurality of complaints on that page have to do with the loss of customizability. It's as if Yahoo desperately wants people to flip through several pages of unrequested information from sports scores to stock quotes, where one custom page would have sufficed before.

This also ties in with the overall industry trend of using more pixels -- in the form of unnecessary whitespace and large fonts that, again, can't be customized by the user -- to display less information. Once again, the company gets more ad revenue as users struggle to access content that was previously displayed in a more compact format.

These days, beleaguered behemoths like Yahoo and Microsoft focus their business strategies on their wants and needs rather than those of their users. Obviously, this kind of abuse will only work until they're replaced by more customer-centric organizations.
or KRZR, ROKR...
Let's assume you use multiple routing tables (FIBs) wouldn't be nice to have the resolve.conf be a variable symlink dispatching on the processes default FIB instead of having to put processes into chroot environments (or jails)?
Yep.

I often couldn't eat at these places because all of the tables were taken up by people not there to eat; either retirees with nowhere else to go or people wanting to sit inside while waiting for the bus.
Also interesting:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/earning-a-phd-by-stud...
A good CTO should have enough technical skill to build out the solution end to end, and enough managerial skill to get other developers to build it for him. He's experienced enough to know what not to do, but curious enough to dig deep and find out the right thing to do. He's not hands on in everything but can only sleep well when things are running smooth. As a person, he has Warren Buffet's desired qualities - intelligence, integrity, energy.
Sadly, Microsoft's research group and just about everyone else at Microsoft aren't the same people at all :\
Groups? It had the horrible, horrible interface! And it didn't work properly with different encodings.
Looked quite nice to me.

Disclaimer: I don't use my.yahoo.com.
one simply does not drink turkish coffee at fast food place.
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Android users are sick of being called stupid, poor and lacking in taste by a handful of smug, condescending posers [iPhone owners].

:D
Accounting for 20% of South Korea's GDP and having been involved in a number of bribery and wire tapping controversies with former Prime Ministers and government officials, Samsung is too big to fail and they know it.

They are the Goldman Sachs of the electronics industry. The Korean government and the Korean people will never let Samsung fail. Having such a sturdy safety net means they can take some very bold risks and those have really paid off for them.
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You are comparing size with time, which is an invalid comparison without further constraints (e.g. a visual response constrained to emanating out from the touch of a finger). Thus, you are making the assumption that all visual responses to the input of a finger will only occur directly under the real estate occupied by a finger - an assumption that I would argue is entirely unfounded in the realm of modern phones.
Glad to see someone mention this! I've used msgpack in Lua apps and it's been great so far.
Out of curiosity, what don't you like about Scott Aaronson? I find him to be really good at making parts of TCS accessible to laypeople, his new book being a good example.
Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control
Left-to-right.

It's like a series of staggered bars one next to another - http://epmxperts.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/monthly-graph.p... - with two differences:

1) It's continuous, rather than a series of discrete bars. (The linked bar chart could also be continuous, especially if they had that granularity of data. But you could try visually faking it by just connecting the bars into a similar effect.)

2) It represents market share, not absolute volume, so always adds up to 100%. Each point along the X axis contains the same information as a pie chart would at that date, showing current market share.

Overall the effect is that you can track the 'shape' of the componnets as you read left-to-right. This is similar to the effect of this famous chart, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard#Informati... - where you can see the 'width' of Napoleon's army as it marched geographically.

In this case the "the size of the army - providing a strong visual representation of human suffering" is the size of RIM's market share (along with everyone else's, but this is the component the title draws our attention to), providing a strong visual representation of its suffering.

And you can actually read left-to-right over time instead of having to look at it embedded in geography, as with the Napoleon campaign chart.
"for a beacon of democracy such as the US."

I don't think that holds any longer.
America and the rest of the world have to take opposite sides on things: We like football, they like soccer. We like CDMA, they like GSM. We like iPhone, they like Android.
Right. Actually I think McDonald's allows their restaurants to enforce a 20 minute loitering policy. I've seen the signs clearly posted in many of them.

The problem for restaurants is that they're serving the general public. While they're private property, the seating areas inside are considered, for the most part, a public space. While you can refuse people service, you can't do it for any reason that is discriminatory (in the ways that are constitutionally protected plus a few others). If you required a membership, there's implied exclusivity and you can deny anyone you want -- even for discriminatory reasons. This protects businesses like night clubs and the Boy Scouts.

If you start throwing out old people who ordered coffee, you're basically asking for a discrimination suit...unless you have a clearly posted sign stating a policy that is enforced for everyone.
Btw, Samsung is so massive and diversified that it is into areas like Construction, Ship Building, Finance, Automobile, Retail

And the only one of them that's making big money right now is mobile. That's where most of Samsung's (and I mean the big diversified company, including building boats and selling insurance) income has been coming from the last 2 years.

Samsung is very focussed on mobile right now.
Are you sure your professor authorised you to quote him on calling one of the most powerful persons in his field: 'a very good salesman' on a public forum of sorts?
I'm not seeing any content and the console gives me:

"ReferenceError: CONTENT is not defined"
Newspeak: Secure open source text messaging app for iPhone and Android
There are good points, though I would say they're not insurmountable in most cases. I think desktop is moving towards sandboxed too, and will inevitably become more restrictive following Apple's lead. I think that's a good thing and we have the resources now to get that increased security without losing much performance.

Simple - I do think the simplicity of the web is is its greatest strength - it does limit what you can do with the web, but it also means it is not too hard to either produce content or create a browser (though nowadays the browser part is pretty challenging). CSS gradients are a good example in fact of the messy web process of experimentation, consensus, and eventual convergence - you will soon be able to use the prefixless style and not worry about several prefixed versions. Personally I'm not sure prefixes are a good idea anyway, but they do go away eventually.

Open - I meant as in anyone can contribute to the standard, and any vendor can write a browser, no one party controls it, as they do native platforms. I'm quite happy Java is blocked given who controls Java :) On the server of course, you can use whatever you want, whatever framework, language and paradigm you like, which is quite liberating when compared to say creating apps for iOS.

Extensible - well the standard actually allows for other languages, and JS being the only scripting language is more a quirk of history than anything else - there have been moves to allow byte code instead (Nacl), and I suspect that's the way things are heading - to a sandboxed VM which will run any compiled language. When that happens then a huge range of languages will open up, just like server side.

That being said, I don't see why non-locked-down native platforms are bad.

The biggest reason they're bad from my point of view is that they don't cater as the web does to hardware not invented yet (as the web does), obsolete hardware, or to other hardware platforms and are locked-in to a particular chip and instruction set, even if not locked down to an API. The other disadvantage is that you are locked in to whatever API (and typically language) the platform has chosen - everything must be written with that language, or with glue code interfacing to that language.

That's the big difference with the web - it defines a limited reference platform (the browser) which can be made for any hardware, and anyone can target using any server side tech they want. There is a clear division between client and server, and both can change completely without invalidating the other. That's a very powerful abstraction and one which I think gives it an advantage as a platform against any native platform which rivals it.
Unfortunately FreeBSD is still in the 90s with security technology, making it completely unsuitable for hosting anything important.
They buy lots of chips and components from a company that's invested a lot of money to supply that demand. If Apple abruptly stopped or was forced to stop buying flash from Samsung, for example, Samsung would take a bath on their fab investments. Apple is easily their single biggest customer for flash and SOC fab production.
Why Indian IT firms are hiring failed entrepreneurs
* if people think HTML5 is the (only or most) cutting-edge and innovative technology, that's not correct. Absolutely not.*

I don't think anyone could argue that - the web is a messy consensus, and definitely doesn't include cutting edge, innovative tech (except perhaps server-side if you want). That's not its strong point but I think the other points in its favour do make up for it.

Re WebGL, I suspect if we see killer app(s) come out using it, penetration will spread quickly and it will be kept up to date by browser makers. At present it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation.
I suppose you haven't learnt about the ghastly things done by the likes of Alan Turing, Stephen Fry and Neil Patrick Harris.

(If you don't get the sarcasm there, please forgive me and the gentlemen mentioned above too...)
Hmmm true. So let's see what Bayes' formula says :

A = recovering drug addict
B = suicide victim

Bayes theorem P(B|A) = P(A|B) P(A) / P(B)

First link google found with some numbers :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1932152

P(B) is much smaller than P(A), assuming most recovering drug addicts do not actually commit suicide. Let's say 3/4 don't (this is meant to be a lower bound, since increasing this number will mean drugs are responsible for more suicides, given the rest of the calculation). Therefore P(A) / P(B) ~= 4.

So this depends on what fraction of suicides drug addicts represent. If that fraction is above 25%, that means drugs lead to suicide. If that fraction is less, then they don't.

According to the article that fraction is between 25% and 70% (in 25% of cases suicide victims were clearly addicts, in 75% of cases drug abuse was seen before the suicide).

While this is not too rigorous (esp. the sources part), this seems to indicate that "scientifically" you'd clearly find drugs cause suicide. If the fraction of suicides were to be ~ 45%, that would mean drugs increase suicide risk about 4-fold (and thus the number of suicides in a given group). That does not sound like an unreasonable number to me. It also means that free availability of drugs, increasing the number of people exposed will increase suicides by a factor between 1 and 4, depending on how big the problem currently is.

An effective banishment of drugs from our society would cut suicides by that number, between 25% and 70%, assumed to be about 45%.

The obvious criticism of this would be that P(A) and P(B) are nothing but a rational estimate, given that you ONLY know the things on the right side of the equation. In practice we know more. It's still very likely to be a good approximation though.

So good point about reversal of causality, but following through on that point yields more evidence for it to be true, not less.
Note that Stack Overflow itself was not VC funded for a good amount of time. They only raised VC funding when they wanted to push StackExchange towards other areas outside programming. They certainly were not VC funded from the beginning.
Archaeopteryx lived 150 million years ago, the feathers here (and proto-feathers) are from 78 million or 79 million years ago.

So these are very modern Dinosaur feathers or feathers from proto-bird-like creatures.

What is interesting here is probably the proto-feathers / fuzz which might shed light on the evolution of feathers and whether late dinosaurs were fuzzy.

http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2011/09/dinofuzz-fou...
But tags. If I type in [android] in the stackoverflow search box, it gives me all questions tagged android. This doesn't work if I use google.
This is lovely. Although it would be great of there could be some link or info about the track being played because this could work as a brilliant music discovery service.
Intel is fine. They have such a huge manufacturing and capital advantage they can afford to lose time after time, whereas the likes of AMD and ARM can only afford to lose once. Intel will own the mobile space in a decade or so.
A nuclear bomb has to detonate in the right way in order to produce a nuclear explosion. Otherwise, it should just break apart. From that I assume it should be possible to design a bomb and corresponding delivery system that are highly unlikely to detonate by accident, even if your plane blows up or rips apart in midair.
My even bigger problem is Safari: they made web content obviously faster to load, but changed UI to be unpredictable -- you almost never know when it is going to blend in the bigger URL top or the whole lower bar. By introducing changing screen that you don't control, they made the experience much worse.

For the first time in years iPhone starts to behave like Windows before turn of annoying settings. And here I can't even turn them off. Jobs would simply not let them be.
I'm a Chinese and I'm not feeling strange at all why that old farmer would be so grateful to the government and Party. Actually there are a large mount of former-famers around cities attain sudden wealth, through selling their land to the government. Price varies with the economy situation of that city, but is generally comparable with dozens of year's income of their families.
Also, there are a lot farmers failed to reach contract with government, then some of them are violently forced to sell their house and land, though this situation seems to be better controlled these years. Anyway, land and house are always big thing for almost everyone and every government, both good and evil will be stimulated.
Clearly this is not surprising.

Amazon has an interesting problem - they exist as an alternative to real-estate heavy consumer goods businesses, and yet they now find they need real-estate. They new a partner with stores in many locations, but whose business won't be cannibalized by amazon itself.

They need McDonalds.

It would be very good for A fast food restaurant to have an Amazon locker, I think. Both draw heavily on those who are too busy working during the day and just want to grab something on the way home.
Any active projects turning FPGAs into Lisp machines?
Should hopefully get more interest in this since every system we currently have is infested with backdoors and closed source firmware. Would be nice, as Stallman put it to press halt, be able to change source and resume without having to re-compile.
If by GB you mean garbage collection.

Lisp, Smalltalk, Ada, Simula, ML, ...

Simula was the inspiration for C++ by the way.
This is incorrect. It was mostly done in-house, with some outside help.
Sent an email as well.
> corporates such as Yahoo who have lots of money and great talent can only end up with seriously mediocre at best re-designs?

Still suffering from the changes to Google Apps. Now responding to an email in Gmail requires 3 clicks to open it in a pop out full page view.

The sad part is it isn't easy to shift out once your team is on Apps.
Also, I recently found out that Android app from Linkedin extracts your gmail contacts. From what I could gather, you cannot opt-out. I was quite annoyed by this. I also see this a more probable explanation to contact harvesting than hacking to email accounts.
Love the nowhere layout!
Is it possible to go to the previous track? Sometimes you get a song really stuck in your head and its nice to play it on repeat for a while while you work on something.
Point 2, 3 and 4 are nice, but wouldn't really fit in the command line interface, which is the main feature of the website, I think.
And Java is a language for offshoring projects with lower skill developers.

Not bashing the language, just stating the sad state of affairs.
The two businesses that Samsung is in that are making almost all of their money right now are semiconductors (and only flash and SOCs) and mobile handsets. Take those two businesses away and Samsung starts to look more like the ponderous, government-sheltered behemoth that it is.

And someone is going to take away the handset business - everyone in asia is basically waiting for Huawei and ZTE to eat Samsung's lunch. Samsung can't compete with either of them on cost, and eventually they won't be able to pump more pixels into 400+ppi screens to keep customers from buying cheaper smartphones. And without unique software to offer consumers (like Apple), Samsung is extremely vulnerable in the handset market.

And in the meantime, Samsung is amortizing a fortune's worth of chips fabs that were mostly built to supply components for iDevices.

Yes, Samsung needs Apple's business.
Wow, you had better explain that to my brother - he just finished illustrating a children's book with beautiful water-colour style images - all done on an iPad. But maybe I imagined that...
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