skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like he typo'd and put a space in between the "1." and the "5", which got interpreted as an ordered list.
And superb service it is too, the 301 to https did catch us out though.

Top idea we've had for a feature is the ability to include our own icons in the global search, but with priority.

Alternatively, we could just add them to your system :).
This is the worst quality top comment I've seen on HN in a while. I hope it doesn't stay top.
For people aged from 25 to 34, Spain has a higher level of tertiary attainment than Germany.

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/factbook-2013-en/10/01/06...

Personally I think the current economic difficulties are mostly structural, rather than to do with individual attainment or character of the populous. You can have wealthy agricultural societies and you can have poor industrial ones.
We should be far more worried about religious indoctrination than this.
Asteroid impact, global nuclear war etc.?
Wrong link.

Right link: https://wrapbootstrap.com/
I think that's one of the big things that's different with SpaceX. They move quite quickly.
Question for people using this: why use something like this rather than a ready-made professional template from something like Themeforest?
Rethinking the exam structure in US schools to better accommodate and motivate spaced learning would be a significant step toward improving education quality.

'cperciva noted this effect from his time at Oxford...

"When I tell North Americans about my time at Oxford University, one aspect of its undergraduate program inevitably surprises them: Final examinations. Rather than writing examinations at the end of each term, students in most subjects write a single set of examinations at the end of their final year, on which their entire degree performance is measured. (In recent years, some subjects have switched to annual examinations.) As terrifying as this might sound, the system has some merits: Whereas many students at institutions with termly examinations study the day before an exam and forget the material the day after the exam, attempting to 'cram' three years worth of material at once is largely an exercise in futility; as such, Oxford's examinations often provide a better measure of how much material a student has learned and retained. Given some of the conversations I've had with — and code I've seen from — people who have received computer science degrees from major universities and are actively working as software developers, I think that last part is very important: There's a lot of people out there who have forgotten some very basic — and very important — material" (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-10-08-software-developm...).

You can obviously practice spaced repetition regardless of your school's exam structure, and Cal Newport specifies a method for doing this in "The Art of Stealth Studying: How To Earn a 4.0 With Only 1.0 Hours of Work" (http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/10/03/the-art-of-stealth-stu...).

However, most students are unaware of this method nor have the disciple to follow it on their own so to realize its benefits on a mass scale, we would need to revamp the education system around these principles.

And as 'qwern noted, sleep is a key factor in spaced repetition learning. Research shows sleep is when the brain prunes itself by separating signal from noise...

"Sleep researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health believe it is more evidence for their theory of 'synaptic homeostasis.' This is the idea that synapses grow stronger when we're awake as we learn and adapt to an ever-changing the environment, that sleep refreshes the brain by bringing synapses back to a lower level of strength. This is important because larger synapses consume a lot of energy, occupy more space and require more supplies, including the proteins examined in this study."

"Sleep — by allowing synaptic downscaling — saves energy, space and material, and clears away unnecessary 'noise' from the previous day, the researchers believe. The fresh brain is then ready to learn again in the morning" (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402143455.ht...).
> First stage did not land intact.

Intact as in it broke up during descent?
20 thing I learned in North Korea
I think you're conflating latency and bandwidth. The total amount of time spent actually studying a given fact with spaced repetition (to get it in long term memory) is comparable to the amount of time spent studying that fact when cramming for an exam. The difference is that that time is spread over months instead of over a few hours. The bandwidth is roughly equivalent, but the latency is much higher.

So if you use SRS effectively, you can actually spend considerably less time studying. If you cram for each test, you're essentially crunching a bunch of data into short term memory, forgetting it, and then having to crunch a lot of it back in for the next exam. Then, for the final, you end up having to cram all of it in. Essentially, you're paying the cost of short term memorization over and over again, every time you have an exam.

If you use SRS and use it daily over the course of the entire semester, you'll only pay that cost once. And since you'll still have the information in your brain in between exams, your mind will be able to more effectively connect new information to old than if you cram and forget.
I'm not really seeing the point of this per se. Bootstrapping something that's already called Bootstrap? And then having to bootstrap that to make it unique?
I agree that giving kids an accurate understanding is important — the problem with these teaching materials is that they're being very selective in which parts of copyright law that they teach: According to the linked article, there's no mention of Fair Use provisions, which the record industry would much rather you didn't take advantage of, in the curriculum at all.
Yes, it has angered me for many years - and has been a bitter regret my entire life - that my public school basically forced me to break the law for so many years, and never more egregiously than when I made my collages.

To all of the authors, photographers, and publishers of the many magazines and newspapers that I defaced and stole from: I am so, so sorry. I never realized that it was your work, your life blood, and your property that I was so recklessly and wantonly stealing from. My teachers never even mentioned the word "copyright" and I had no idea I had to ask your permission, individually. Of course, ignorance of the law is no excuse, even for a young child, and now I have to live with the shame and the guilt every day.

There are many ways that America's schoolchildren have wronged the members of the RIAA and the MPAA. But record companies and the movie industry aren't the only ones victimized by school children. Literally millions of school papers are written every year, containing billions of quotations and materials, some quoted at length, and virtually none of those papers asked the original creator for permission.

What have we become?
Chromecast is really not special, in the least. It just happens to be basic, "Google", and recent.

Chromecast: SSDP, DIAL, WebRTC (for tab/screen casting)

Bonjour/Airplay: mDNS, DNS-SD

Firefox: Surely WebRTC. Hopefully mDNS+DNS-SD as it's a better solution.

Even Google is pretty obviously looking at mDNS+DNS-SD. The Print guys are working on Privet. The Android guys have mDNS stuff in the MediaRouter APIs.

Once again, Apple has the best technical implementation (it enables a bunch of scenarios that can't be done with DLNA/SSDP alone), but it's locked down so much that everyone else half-assedly re-invented the wheel.

Can we all just get on board with something mDNS+DNS-SD based that uses something like DIAL inside for second screen apps? Please? We get all of the discovery functionality of Bonjour with the openness and second-screen-simplicity of DIAL. It's almost a no-brainer.
> How about vastly easier access to most of the resources in the Solar System?

Is that really true though? Mars isn't vastly close to the asteroid belt and Jupiter systems.

A quick and dirty lookup in Wolfram Alpha tells me that the distance from Mars to main asteroid belt is comparable to the distance from Earth to Mars. Given that we've yet to land or park in orbit a single earth-grazing asteroid, isn't that actually still vastly far ?
As do much of England outside of London and much of the American Midwest.

English-speaking cultures use the word "dinner" for the main meal of the day whenever it happens. Cultures that eat breakfast, dinner, and supper have a large midday meal and a small evening meal. Cultures that eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner are the other way around. It just so happens that the English-speaking cultures that make more movies and TV shows (namely London and the coasts) are breakfast-lunch-dinner cultures, so people assume this is normal everywhere.
If you're looking for a replicated controlled study, there's been something close:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
It's a service, doesn't really fall into the same category as software you install on your machine (which you trust). You have no reason to trust their servers, but ultimately you're not giving them control over your hardware anyway.
"Had to bake my own water out of the soil, and there's perchlorate everywhere! No shuffleboard on the trip over and internet was very laggy. Two stars, would not take trip 2nd time."
The problem is not that you can't manually allocate memory, it's that you cannot not automatically allocate memory.
SAP HANA would be a better option than Redshift. You can get cloud version of HANA. It support R, JavaScript, ArgGIS and more SQL data types.
I'm not sure one is worse than the other. Politically motivated indoctrination and religious indoctrination both cripple minds.
I feel like they serve two different purposes. The ready-made professional templates are finished/polished, I just need to fill in the copy/images. These are starter templates, I'd use these and add on my own styles to create my own unique design.
If Apple is "instructing" that firm, then they aren't representing their clients' interests correctly. That sort of relationship is actually very hard to manage in the courts, which is why it's quite rare (and usually limited to true pro bono work by established non-profits).
Do you still think that there's a dynamic fast-paced IT industry here? I'm a native, and to me it feels, for the most part (excluding some exceptional companies), stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour.
Finish a game — Take it to market — Earn $1
Neville Chamberlain was right to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler
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I agree Bitcoin's approachability and incentive structure were crucial. The interesting question now: is Bitcoin sui generis (like say TCP/IP, and further cemented in place by network effects) or the harbinger of many similar systems (like say Napster/Gnutella)?

A lot of people were deterred from trying things in this sphere because of a (flawed) conventional wisdom that there was no room for success — that various academic attacks would be fatal, and social/institutional barriers too strong. But now that Bitcoin shows that an ugly "Minimum Viable Cryptocurrency" with the right balances/incentives can take off, we're already seeing lots of new interest and experiments.

I strongly expect some of these will discover new workable tradeoffs, in some cases even better than Bitcoin's brilliant+lucky mix, that will then either coexist with Bitcoin in overlapping domains, or feed into the evolution of 'Bitcoin Prime'. Lots more fun ahead.
Did I try to contradict that? My comment was a response to the claim that winters aren't really that dark except for the northern parts of Norway and Sweden, which is not my experience.
Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, I haven't listed the refill packs yet. Good question about GI... nuts and seeds are very low-gi, so when mixed with dried fruit the mixture as a whole is low-gi as the dried fruit is only a small %. I should really make that clearer. Thanks for your comments - I'll get on to it!
Serialising any C++ data structure to disk with 20 lines of code
> distance from Mars to main asteroid belt is comparable to the distance from Earth to Mars.

"Distance." Ahem.

http://i.imgur.com/SqdzxzF.png

Vastly easier in economic terms. The gravity well of Earth is just deep enough that it becomes annoying for creatures whose technology depends on molecular bonds to escape.

EDIT: Take a look at this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of_...

"This is the simple physics fact that I use to blow peoples minds. It takes more energy to crash a rocket into the sun than it does to crash a rocket into Pluto."
What repeated question? What makes you think I know what people will probably say, beyond the doomsday scenarios I already mentioned?

I actually found your idea of better access to space intriguing. I'd love to discuss it. But not with someone like you.
She doesn't have a job, according to her blog.
A self-sufficient Antarctic colony should be able to survive those just fine.
How to get hired as mature self-taught ex-freelancer?
Hi, I'm a self-taught, 39 year old Python web/database coder, now looking to get into a full time position after 8 years of freelancing. My problem (I think?) is that I'm not what is considered a catch to the stereotypical founder: no CS degree, been working on regular Python+SQL projects, not young. I know I'm competent, I've been inhaling CS and coding books for years and have taught myself some tricky stuff like microcontroller assembly and real-time audio/midi app development in C. But maybe I don't know how to properly present myself to people who might be interested in someone like me, or know who those people might be. Surely there are some companies who are actually impressed that someone has had to do all the running-a-business stuff in addition to coding, and has experience being completely responsible for the clients and the bottom line?

If anyone has thoughts on how to better position myself, or to whom I should be looking, or just wants to (constructively) trash my CV, that would be appreciated. Or if the correct answer is that I'm barking up the wrong tree, I'd like to hear that too! I'm not here to whine and vent, I honestly want productive critiques.

Thanks hackers
Iain
http://www.xornot.com/pdf/Iain_Duncan_CV.pdf
Elonmusk: Rocket booster relit twice ...
'Partial Success' for Falcon 9 First Stage Re-entry
If you want to send private comments, iduncan@xornot.com
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Also: "I can't charge more than this because the people who make more than this are obviously more competent."
IANAL, but I imagine that a manager who tolerates such language or allows it to persist @ the workplace is liable for promoting a hostile work environment.
Interesting how the rocket is so skinny with a huge "hammerhead" payload fairing. The upgrades to the Merlin 1 engine series seem to have worked out so well that they have stretched Falcon 9 quite a lot. The loads in the center of the rocket must be huge.
To increase diameter, they would probably need to invest so much more in either risk analysis, flight control, manufacturing or transport that it wasn't deemed necessary.

(Resistance to buckling is roughly relative to rotational inertia of the cross section, which for a circle grows with the square of radius assuming a constant shell thickness, and the thickness would actually increase with increasing radius because it is a pressure vessel. Also the actual bending loads increase supralinearly with length.)
Because you might not have the budget for a Themeforest theme ?

Extended licenses, which you need for a Saas product, are around $800 or $900, which is affordable for a business (still way cheaper than hiring a designer), but far from free.
Why and How to Scout your Enemy
This seems like a slightly less insidious (and, arguably, less fun) version of a common drinking game from my college: text or shot. You take turns with a random person's phone, composing a text to a person of your choice -- you show the (unsent) message to the owner of the phone and they can either elect to send the message or take a shot.

(As one might imagine, this is the kind of game that grows even better over time.)
Joblint: Test tech job specs for issues with sexism, culture, & recruiter fails
In Portugal dinners are like lunches, although we also eat late, but one can probably say we are more Atlantic than Mediterranean.
Took me a while to figure it out too. I think the title would have been best written as "Hadoop and Go".

Its maybe because I'm new to the language, but I have to add 'lang' to all my Google searches for Go documentation/tips, otherwise the keywords are almost always misinterpreted.
Thanks for the kind words!

Making a website a day takes a lot of time. I've been working on this project full-time and on average worked for 10 hours a day including weekends. I'm looking forward to getting my social life back!
Interesting. I wonder about maintainability if the writer's "obvious" version is only there to be refactored out. Can you still read the intent when he's done?
I think beside familiar PostgreSQL enviroment there is not much advantage over SAP HANA. I listed advantages of HANA on my posting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466222
Not during descent --- it got to the point of doing the second burn, but that sputtered out early because the stage was spinning too fast, and the spin was centrifuging fuel to the edges of the tanks. They haven't actually said that it hit the water too hard to stay in one piece, but that's the (fairly clear) implication.

The spin was due to "aerodynamic torque" (i.e., it was spun up by the atmosphere going down), per Elon's twitter stream.
Don't terms like "probable" and "my hypothesis" pretty obviously make this a statement of opinion, and therefore immune to libel claims?
And seemingly didn't save enough either. "fairly good money" means different things to different people, but keep your living expenses as low as possible. If, for example, your living expenses require a minimum of, say, $8k/month, you probably are going to struggle starting freelancing without $50k in the bank already (and sadly, few people actually have this amount of ready cash available to start make such a move).
I have about 4.5 BTC that I mined in mid-to-late 2011, using an nVidia GPU whenever my PC happened to be on and idle. At the time, I was just about breaking even compared to the extra cost of power; since then, the exchange rate has increased enough that if I were to sell, it would end up having been nicely profitable.

Unfortunately, the time when you could pull that off without a large up-front investment seems to be long past. Personally, there's no way I'd consider sinking a large amount of money into mining hardware at this point. If you believe BTC has a promising future, it's much safer to just buy coins. (EDIT: but of course, given the volatility, that only makes sense as a long-term plan.)
From the Grade 1 lesson:

[Select two students who are outgoing and will be able to enjoy this activity. Send the students on a quick
(30 seconds) errand before they start drawing. Example: “Please run this note to the library.” When the
students leave, tell the class you want them to all copy one of the pictures being drawn on the white
board. Remind the class to copy the artwork without telling the volunteer artists.]

What.

I personally think that teachers who can't/won't draft their own lesson plans need to be fired. I still can't get over the fact that American textbooks also come in teacher editions with the answers to exercises provided so that the teacher doesn't have to work them out.

The grade 5 materials are more reasonable, suggesting reliance on resources like creative commons or voluntary sharing, and using real-world examples of people who work in the arts not getting paid. These are just factual; a lot of indie movies only get made because the cast & crew workf or free in exchange for an ownership interest. As pointed out below though, they don't include any discussion of fair use or the notion that copyright should exist for limited times.
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Yes. Having access to a few hundred computers that sit in computer labs all day mostly doing nothing, I used to fold proteins or search for Yeti. Now I mine.

But profit is kind of relative. I have made money. It is bankable, but I probably had more time in doing the initial setup than what I would have made if I had taken that same time and spent it doing something related to my primary job.

There is "Profit" there is "Revenue" and there is "a smart spend of my time". This met two of the three.
I know javajosh would agree, but seriously, is no one else extremely disturbed by the clear implications of this 'plot'?

So basically, a group of corporations can't get people to behave the way they want them to. So their idea is to literally influence the educational curriculum in the hopes that future generations will behave exactly the way they want them to.

This is probably just the tip of the iceberg on our already extremely broken education system. This is what we publicly know. For example, I wouldn't be surprised if oil companies are inserting into geology class that global warming is a hoax.

In much the same way we have separation of church and state, perhaps we should consider having a separation of corporation and state. The government's interest should solely rest with the electorate. Although we legally consider corporations people, they most certainly cannot vote and therefore they should have no influence whatsoever on government.

I know I am speaking from an idealist point of view, but the government's interests should never be aligned with corporations at the expense of the voting electorate. Which is exactly the problem with what the copyright cartel is doing.
Honestly, for $20 you could post whatever you want on my twitter all day long.
religious indoctrination? from the California teachers union? Now that is funny.
This is a very good inteview. It talks about several labor-related and economic issues that will be extremely important in the coming years. Chief among them: the criticality of marketing. In a world where things get easier to produce, convincing people to buy them becomes crucial. It also touches on how autodidactism will essentially be required as required skills/technologies continue to change quickly and information is abundant - but motivation is still a scarce resource. This also reinfoces that the old idea of "go to college, get job, never have to worry about learning again/just focus on your interests or personal relationships" or whatever should be considered a relic of a dead era.

My picks for jobs of the future: software developers in general, and robot developers in particular; robot hardware designers and maintainers; politicians; business owners/managers; "personal service" assistant types; and marketers. As things progress, today's equivalent of "telephone sanitizers" will vanish, and the job market will only get more polarized and become hypercompetitive.
Yes i understand your point but if you try to compare it with another European IT realities, the Irish IT Industry has his own strengths.
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Considering there are places where they will steal your purse which might be worth $3k. Imagine what the theft rate will be for artificial Organs that could be grabbed right off you.

No need to knock a person out and leave them in a hotel bathtub with their kidney's removed, you can just catch them on the subway.
Are they going to protect us from the NSA? What about GCHQ?