skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I'm concerned, students have a right to a high quality education because without one their future will be a trainwreck. Just because they're largely minors doesn't, to me, mean that their parents have the right to deny them a future in favor of whatever their personal reasons may be.

Sounds like the solution is to:
1) Define what a "high quality education" means in terms that it is objectively measurable whether one is being provided to a child,
2) Assure that children, regardless of education venue (home, private, or public school) are receiving it.

Assuming that certain venues do provide a "high quality education" and that other venues do not -- in any direction -- doesn't seem particularly useful if that is a genuine concern rather than a superficial rationalization.
Umm.. seems like we'll have no choice but to pay that!
How does Wikipedia feel about this kind of position? Is there a perceived conflict of interest? Or are the hired contributors given leeway to build out school-specific material? (I know there's no single Wikipedia to consult -- so perhaps the governing body or influential contributors?)
If nothing else this just exposes how high Dropbox's margins must be.
you mean avoid corporate taxes.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/76011/facebook-has-figured...
emacs auto-revert-tail-mode

You can tail as many files as you want.
I'm fairly new to Python (~6 months) and started with SQLAlchemy, but recently switched our app to Peewee (http://peewee.readthedocs.org) because of frustrations with the SQLAlchemy "session".

The standard method of scoped_session(sessionmaker(engine)) will return a thread-local session - so all data manipulation effectively shares a global session.

- Every change needs to be followed with a commit() or rollback(), or you'll end up with rubbish in the session that some later call will inadvertantly commit.

- If you want to do a general "update where" call, make sure you use "synchronize_session=False" and then session.expire_all(), otherwise the session will be out of date.

It felt like every time I had code working with data, I also had a non-trivial amount of session management. It wasn't abstracting the database access away, it was making everything very SQLAlchemy session specific.

To be honest I'm somewhat second guessing my decision, because Peewee is far from the Python standard. But it's simple, understandable and clear, and doesn't force a strange "don't forget to manage the global state" mindset onto everything.
I think attempts like this are symptoms of something really badly broken. It obviously isn't a good solution, but for anyone to even be thinking of seriously implementing it speaks volumes.
> Could you link the study that you have in mind?

Why do you feel a study is needed in order to form an opinion on this? What logical arguments would you make against sobriety checkpoints?

In any case, turns out that at least one study has been performed. This was just the first google search hit. There's probably more out there.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/check...

[2] http://www.wrap.org/pdfs/2010TIPElderCDCPaper.pdf
Speeding is not involved in the majority of fatal accidents.
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Passing another vehicle comes to mind.

I'm not sure I would call that "extremely dangerous", though.
Any 3rd party engine used by a AAA game will have full source. Unreal Engine, Crytek, Source, etc. Sometimes those engines have cheap, no-source indie targeted licenses but the high end games paying the high price tag has source.
Can we think of other way's to make teenagers less attractive as part time employees?

If they don't get out of school until early evening, I would consider them mostly un-employable. Oh well, its not like they are in an economy that can support them... and surely this won't lead to a sense of entitlement later in life.
What data exactly is this site using?
I just can't help but see the other side: on the internet, a doctor is not rushed to draw any conclusions: hey may casually read a question, see the photos, ask additional questions - all the while having enough time to think through the problem. Do you think this might actually be the upside of internet-based healthcare or am I exaggerating?
Surely there have been companies that have shut down less than 5 years from the last time they were profitable.
> What scares me more are the ones that are visibly on the chopping block. You can see their agony from space.

I'd toss google scholar into the ones you listed as well.
A fantastic search tool, but (unless I'm missing something) it's completely buried away on their site.
Here's another time management tip: Don't real the full text content of articles like these.

Read the subheadings and bullet points, and you will probably walk away with as rich an understanding of the intended message as if you'd read every word.
You can add/edit/delete terms and get an updated chart at:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=javascript%2C+objective+c%...
Actually rules made by the FAA do pretty much affect every nation. Many nations do not have their own version of the FAA and just rely on the US.

But it's even easier than that: Just make all US owned airlines require it, and any flight landing in the US. Phase it in, etc, to give time to upgrade, but it's certainly possible.
Seems interesting. Definitely would be great to have a solution to this. Does this require management to approve each expense? If so, it seems the next-day reimbursement is a pipe dream. If not, how do you with illegitimate expenses?
Well, Google gives you 15GB for free, Seeing as you're only using 10GB, not sure why you're paying, especially as you seem to be quite price sensitive.
I so totally agree. But what's the alternative? We all quit?

Since Schneier's crypto reputation is not in question, I think it's reasonable to believe that there is a possible statelmate end state.

If everyone goes all in on certificate transparency, HSTS, and Cert Pinning, engineers can at least make life miserable on the Surveliance Industrial complex for a little while.
Maybe check out 6sync (http://6sync.com/)? They are both ipv4 and ipv6 capable.
there is likely some overlap between js and node.js
Maybe I should have.

BTW my "common sense" says that sobriety checkpoints DO reduce drunk driving and fatal accidents. I'm not any kind of DUI checkpoint denier.
I've used Ramnode to good effect, so far.

You get 16 IPv6 addresses by default, without even having to ask for 'em.
Of course, FireSheep automated this attack in 2010.

http://codebutler.com/firesheep/
"All that said, I feel like DUI is an overblown problem, in a way."

Drinking and alcohol, and their impacts on our society.. and family.. and work, are not overblown. It's completely underestimated. Those who are dealing with the direct impacts of addiction and abuse in their families feel like they're in a bubble, and yet it's absolutely everywhere.

Everyone knows an alcoholic, and drinking&driving&death is only a very small data point in a massive societal issue.
I wonder if such a small effect size is really statistically significant, especially if you correct for the multiple hypotheses that are implicit in that specific a choice of subgroup...
The point is not that homeschooling provides a lower quality education than public schools (though I would argue that, on average, it does) - the point is that homeschooling is being done by unqualified people using unverified, quickly-considered techniques, while public schooling is at least largely done by people who got teaching certifications and their methods get public scrutiny.

To me, the amount of criticism public schools receive is an indicator of their worthiness - people are able to inspect the education and intervene directly if they feel it is inadequate, and the government has the ability to provide useful oversight and assist in setting standards. I'm sure there are many cases where this centralization is to children's detriment, but at least it is a largely transparent system.

In comparison, the only real transparency provided into a homeschooled child's education is when they start college and have to find out whether they really learned enough essential skills and information to be able to compete in a real educational environment. If the answer is 'no', it's too late to do anything.

Objective measurements would be great, and so would more rigorous enforcement. Historically, homeschooling groups are against both.
I just setup a webserver and it literally took 3 minutes and one piece of documentation reading. Very, very impressive. I remember doing this for the first time on AWS, and it took a while!

http://162.243.202.22/
Can't say I'm a fan of this as the father of two elementary school students. The push to accommodate sleepy teenagers means my 5 and 7 year old have to wake before 6 AM to be on the bus by 7:00 AM. If any segment of school age kids are better equipped for an early start it's teenagers who can fully understand the concept of getting a good nights sleep. That kind of reason/logic isn't quite fully developed in a... 5 year old.

Seriously get off the damn cell phone, shut down your Mac and go the fuck to sleep. The more of a routine this becomes the easier it is to drag your ass out of bed early in the morning. Don't force little kids to be in bed at dinner time just because your teenagers are ...cranky.

Maybe I'm showing my old-age here but I think most of this is bull.
You should use hstore to store json in postgres also - no?

https://github.com/djangonauts/django-hstore

I think the issue with that is it converts everything to string so you need to use json.loads().
It's not clear from the slides that the companies were "participating" at all. Further Snowden leaks showed that the NSA was cracking large internet companies' internal systems communications. PRISM doesn't necessarily need their cooperation at all.
They will pay anyone $50 per document if it passes their quality check. I say all the power to them; knowledgeable people get a free dinner for writing an article, they're given credit for their work, and you and I end up with quality articles.
There are already open source alternatives: eXo Platform, Liferay. Why should we pay for this?
I'm aware that the could use it for storing troops and weapons, etc. But, these buildings are not expressly designed for warfare, and therefore could have other uses. In fact, it seems that we have this issue because there are steps in place to make sure these buildings get used for something else.

It's a matter of design versus function. The buildings could be re-purposed for war, but they weren't expressly designed for it.
It's not about right and wrong, it's about what you can and can't do. If you do something and the US decides to go to war with you over it, you are SOL.

Philosphers may claim you have a natural right to buy and consume drugs the US government considers illegal, since you aren't harming others; you can then scream about your natrual rights from prison all you want.
... And discussion on the internet.
> 14 hours a day

Yeah... I don't believe that's the average, sorry.
Good point; .net in a company's url will skew the results. But C# eliminates other .net languages like VB.net, F# (a much smaller quantity). The true quantity of .NET jobs posted is probably somewhere between the .net and c# results.
Could you please send me one? joelwd@gmail.com
Care to link to it? I didn't find anything by "Stross".

My numbers were $0.40 per hour, plus a few hundred for the equipment (it's available off the shelf, don't need anything custom). Don't know how much installation would be, but certainly not millions.
Not to enter that argument either, but whatever cloud storage service you use, you should be storing your data there as well as on at least one local hard disk, not instead of.
> Sounds like the solution is to: 1) Define what a "high quality education" means in terms that it is objectively measurable

Um, good luck with that.
Maybe it's a US thing, but why does "teenagers starting later" mean that your 5 and 7 year old have to be awake so early?
If it's cheaper and/or faster, and has a history of being equally or more effective than traditional doctors, then of course people would want it.
> It reads like someone bitter lost an internet argument when they couldn't bait the employee into saying something incriminating, and they wanted revenge.

Exactly this. This guy baited someone to say something about his employer, posted quotes out of context and with obvious bias. The guy seems like an asshole.
The cynical nitpicker in me would like to express frustration over Facebook tracking both people who use it and people who don't when they visit websites that have Facebook widgets.
At least in CA, an increased checkpoint effort saw a stall followed by an increase in drunk driving fatalities. But this data obviously doesn't account for a lot of variables.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/01/06/41411/california-drunk-d...
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

It's funny how things change.
I tend to be more liberal in my politics, but I don't think people making "too much money" are a problem. That sounds like envy, to be honest.

The problem in America represented by this poll aren't the ~40 people who upvoted >$150k but that the sheer majority have <$3000, like me. That is the problem, that sheer majority[1] of us have to live paycheck-to-paycheck and should a catastrophe happen, we'd be bankrupt.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/index.h...
>GMO, ... all get a free ride for too long,

What do you base that opinion on? Have you actually looked for any conclusive studies on GMO, and found them wanting?
This is a very reductive logic, primarily focused on trolling. I hope you are not a dim-wit like the posts suggests you are.
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I always wonder why we make cars that can go so fast.

If you are actually questioning why car engines have enough power to do that in the first place: An engine capable of hauling a heavy load uphill at the speed limit is capable of exceeding the speed limit on a flat surface. Ditto for an engine capable of accelerating quickly to perform a merge in a short space.

If you are asking why cars don't come with interlocks preventing those kind of speeds: Because they're not required, and they're not a marketable feature.
Interestingly at the last US presidential election there was a consistent and fairly massive arbitrage opportunity between US and European gambling exchanges.

US exchanges gave Romney a much higher implied winning percentage than the European exchanges did. The gap was so high that even taking into account currency conversion fees and the like there was several percentage points of guaranteed profit with deep liquidity that was available for weeks.
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I didn't forget that, but that's true of pretty much every system, no? Most games are bad.
I live in the Bay Area and I pay about $800/year for 120KB/s upload

Well, that's terrible and you are no doubt aware of that. I live in Philadelphia and pay $74.95 per month for Unlimited home phone service, Prime TV channel lineup and 75 Mbps downstream and 35 Mbps upstream unlimited Internet through Verizon FIOS.

I currently use both Dropbox and OneDrive but this pricing is ridiculously cheap. I've been purposely holding back on the things I back up onto cloud because of its costs but if competitors don't follow suit I'll be switching. The main thing I haven't been backing up in the cloud are the ~ 400 GB of home movies I have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
I've used it like this entirely to try trip keyword alerts. The competition for talent is brutal, and their is surprisingly not much in the way of anti-black hat SEO on most job sites. (No, I'm not proud about this)

I mean it isn't like we'd stop them from using node for things, just that they'd have a lot of other stuff to do.
Hey now, if you are going to be pedantic make sure you get your facts straight.

If I'm remembering right, prior to James Madison's writings, there wasn't a real distinction between democracy and republic, besides the fact that democracy was Greek and republic was Latin.

Madison in the Federalist Papers made the distinction between democracy and republic that are your talking about, but it is pretty arbitrary.

Now you are right that we don't live in a direct democracy (though states have features), but we are still a democracy and a republic.

Now that I am being pedantic someone will probably point out where I am in error, but I just felt like posting some information for whoever may find it useful. :)
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We're a business that delivers entire sites to customers, not individual themes. How would we best go about doing this when using git? Just keep the entire installation in git?
In the area that would become the United States, we also fought an entire war over the question of whether colonies had the authority to secede from their empire. The seceding colonies won that fight.
The same set of buses is used for elementary, middle, and high schools, so elementary schools in most places tend to start later (like 9am) and the high schools earlier (like 730). The district in the article probably just reversed those times.
I do think node is for real. I'm a database architect by trade, but have picked up a copy of nodejs in action to try to get in on this. I plan to get up to speed and start creating sites with a MEAN stack.

If all I get out of it is increased javascript skills and linux familiarlity, then it'll be time well spent.

My current shop is .net/windows, but in the last couple years we've introduced nginx, python (django), and angular. Times they are a changin'.
I think it is since I get a higher frame rate for Team Fortress 2 under Linux than under windows. I use the nvidia blob.
They just need to outfit a house near MacGregor, TX, park a Tesla in front of it, and take a picture with SpaceX doing a rocket flight test in the background.
I stopped reading after the first example. If there are no restrictions on the usage, Google can just use all of OSM's data without having to share anything in return. The real selling point for OSM, in my opinion, is that by crowdsourcing its data it has the potential to far surpass the quality of any other dataset. If there are no restrictions on its usage, this hope becomes futile -- the gatekeepers of privately owned datasets will reap the benefits of contributions to OSM without offering anything in return.
I think I've only ever seen platform screen doors once in my life, on the Paris metro, and I thought they were great. It ameliorated my own personal fears and general curiosity about the tracks. Why do you think they are so bad? What if they weren't faulty? On a cursory glance on Google, I don't see much except rare cases where people got stuck(?) in them?

I feel like they would be reduce incidents of people/things falling into the tracks as well as help with queues in front of the doors (i.e., people know where to queue, as opposed to just following the train until it stops).
No, it's not possible. At least, your name, profile picture and cover picture will be shown to everybody.

It was possible to hide yourself from the search, but that doesn't work anymore.

You can hide your friend list as well, but there're some tricks that one can use to find out who are your friends.
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Wikipedia doesn't underline links either. They're doing fine.
'Athletics even dictate the time that school starts each day: despite research showing that later start times improve student performance, many high schools begin before 8 a.m., partly to reserve afternoon daylight hours for sports practice."'

Seems like it might make more sense to put the training mid school-day. Exercise typically helps mental function.
Yeah, the Ark is actually a Sith relic containing the ash from Vader's cremation on Endor.
They are offering a product at 1/10th of the price of their competitors. That comes at a cost. Customer support is already bad enough, my guess is the infrastructure isn't that great so they can price it cheaply.

We wouldn't trust a cheap VPS provider with our data if they were offering storage at this price. What magical thing Google has that suddenly makes us all safe at this price point?
Notice that PHP is missing from the list. I would imagine that PHP is still dominating over all over web languages. And it's not surprising to see Node.js higher than other languages like Ruby or Python, Node.js has commercial appeal and is more hip.

Slight nitpick, but I noticed Javascript and Node.js n the same charts, Node.js is Javascript and Javascript is Node.js.

"If your concern is finding a tech job then your trusty existing technologies are continuing to serve you well." — this statement made me laugh. Any sane technical director/lead knows better than to make a business rely on something still so new. Node.js has proven itself to an extent, but it's got a long way to go before people start using over the likes of Python or .NET.

I've used Node.js a little bit myself, but mostly only when hacking on an idea, not for production use. At the end of the day, use what you like and build what you love.
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I am guessing it is because of buses; the same bus has to take the highschool kids and the elementary kids. It used to be the highschool kids went first, and then the elementary school kids.. now they are reversing it, so the younger kids have to get up earlier.
What profitable projects have they dropped that would be along the same impact as Google Drive?

Are you saying they may significantly cut down the cloud capabilities?
Criminals could not put you in jail for not giving them direct access to your servers.
Substitute football for "ballet" and pep rallies for "debate team practice" and drop the completely non-relevant (and severely biased) quote about head trauma and see if you get the same reaction.

I know it's fun to pick on Football and jocks in general but I don't think we can have a serious debate on the subject when the bias is so obvious.

What about we make athletics part of the school day? Shocking I know, but if we recognize athletics as an important key to youth development and not something that has to happen after "real school" than maybe we might be able to tackle this issue of kids being so overwhelmed and having to stay up late just to stay afloat.
Does this not apply to Google Apps? I went to add Google Drive Storage to our GA for Business account and the page said $89 per month per license for 1 TB.

EDIT: So apparently I can let individual users buy individual Google Drive storage at the prices listed in this post (and listed here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en).

But as a Google Apps admin, if I want to buy licenses and manage them for our users, I have to pay these prices: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1726914

$9.99/mo for 1 TB if the user buys it for themselves.

$89.00/mo for 1 TB if the Google Apps admin buys it for them.

Google, this is stupid.
First of all this is perceived corruption and not corruption.

Secondly I think it's fairly trivial that often corruption is borne out of a need. I think people emigrate a lot less than you'd think.