skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue you are smart enough to give a good reply. You've given your reference material as well (which I should have done previously). You are reading and engaging in Hacker News topics, this means you are way above the "average" person. You are smart enough to give a good reply :)
Fragmentation in the Ruby Community
Being able to apply "common core" to a cross-section of schools, one would have been able to control for a lot of the "unknowns" and common "problems" that is complained about in education. Sadly, they didn't do that and instead pigeon-holed this solution onto all schools. Wonderful opportunity missed, for the sake of politics.

I'm not aware of the phonics things, though? Care to elaborate on it?
Appraisals are completely inaccurrate. They take comps from around the area and once over of your place and put a value on it.

I've seen appraisals of the same property vary by as much as +/-25% based on which comps they choose and the appraiser's mood that day.

Going into our last housing bubble, appraisers were not estimating true value of a propery but propelling it ever higher because of short supply. Every new sale lifted the prices higher because every appraisal was based on a previously inflated sale price in the area.
Push notifications on a private mBaaS powered by LoopBack and Nodejs, on AWS
I think it is really good for people to see the break down of a Kickstarter campaign like this. I see that he gave a short summary into his feelings and I am sorry he was upset with the outcome of this business experiment. I am sure his backers are glad to have his work but would be sorely upset that the artist feels this way at the end of the experience when they put their hard earned dollars into backing his dream.

I guess if an artists point in making a kickstarter is to fund or pay back an interesting and fun side project, ~$4,000 and a number of people now owning your art and knowing your name is a huge payoff (with many hundreds of units of unsold merchandise left over being icing on the cake). If an artists hope was to make this their full time income, then I hope this business experience was a learning one. Kickstarter has made funding business different, not any easier.
Are You Still Manually Pulling and Aggregating Data?
Many individuals who are over this role express their frustration for wasting much of their time trying to extract, aggregate and correlate data
Don't feel bad, I had already graduated college. I was pretty happy about it given there was no way I was going to use gopher being a Univ of NoDak alumni. :)

Assembler class on an IBM/370 was kinda fun.
I've had many an argument with baby-boomers (who bought into the housing market at dirt cheap prices 30 years ago) regarding this same concept.

I told them when interest rates move up from 3.5%, home prices would decrease proportionately, netting to the same monthly cost.

I WAS WRONG.

I was using logic to describe the illogical. Most people don't view real estate as an investment: to most, it's a place you can call home that makes you feel warm and fuzzy.

So what happened when interest rates went from 3.5% -> 4.5%?
-Demand increased: as people on the sidelines got nervous that rates would keep going up, they bit the bullet.
-Increased demand caused prices to increase.
-The price increase led to further demand from nervous buyers sitting on the sidelines, not wanting to miss out on their chance to own a home.
-Finally, in my area anyway, I'm seeing absolutely insane ask prices, but less people are buying. Eventually, stubborn sellers will have to lower their asks to make a deal, but that can take some time.

At a certain point, this doesn't work anymore as people can only stretch themselves so thin, but at least from 2011 (the "bottom") -> 2014, this is my assessment of what happened.
Sadly, this is not the case in Canada. My mind was blown when my American friend showed me a digital capture card that used a "card".
I wrote something similar as a service for DogeCoin with an API that can be integrated in any kind of site. I.e. you could let people upvote anything on your site by utilizing the API.

If anybody is interested in using this on his/her site, feel free to contact me.

It is currently in private beta (sort of).
When I got my Seiki I basically tried all of the different Mac Window managers, most of them were immediately out of the running as they couldn't support a large enough grid to make sense (2x2 was the standard).
With Divvy I could set up a 6x6 grid which is perfect as you can easily set global shortcuts to treat it as either a 3x3 grid or a 2x3 grid with your keyboard shortcuts on the Command and Numpad (see image)
http://imgur.com/3E474eP
This is awesome as you don't have to really 'remember' a bunch of shortcuts as the keyboard grids look just like what your screen grids are.
That's really kind of you to chime in -- would you mind emailing me at (anything) @useronboard.com so I can thank you personally?
Ya but some of their other services have dropped in quality, re: google maps
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/10/google-maps-has-forsaken-us...
There is no logic in politics. What matters is that they come up with a soundbite that is appealing enough to help them get elected.
>Both sides seem to accept the idea of an "internet fast-lane"

I don't see how you get that from the actual facts here, where the FCC (on a 3-2 party-line vote) first adopted regulations with non-discrimination provisions that were struck down by the D.C. Circuit, and then put together (on the same 3-2 vote) a proposal designed to revive those same provisions to the extent consistent with the limits on the FCCs authority laid out in the decision striking the old order down, and specifically calling for public comment on how best to structure the rules within the limits imposed by the Court to prevent discrimination.

Its clear that one side has no problem with the idea of a "fast lane", but I don't see where you get that for the other side.
I didn't say C was only successful because of its middle-approach. It was also in the right place at the right time. I'm sure being from Google is helping Golang tremendously.
I don't feel like Spring can fix the core problems here, unfortunately--they're Java Problems, and Java Problems grow more and more acute as time goes on (though Java 8 is a good step in the right direction).

The pleasant, compositional interaction borne of Scala's syntactical flexibility is why Play's wonderful to use (and Akka as the backend is largely behind-the-scenes). I used to be a detractor early in Play2 because of some large-scale-unfriendly decisions, but they've pretty much all been fixed.
You're very welcome, and indeed, back in my days, late '70s for high school, not only did we have to walk uphill both ways in snow to get there, but the computer programming course was taught in conjunction with the local college, probably the same course they used. It was punched card FORTRAN "IV" on an IBM 1130 (scare quotes because IBM's definition of FORTRAN IV was so permissive this compiler only have numeric ifs; that is, an if statement evaluated an expression and it had three lines it would goto if negative, 0 or positive).

It wasn't as bad as it might sound; sure, punched cards were a bit of a pain, and we all knew they were obsolescent (1978-9), but then again it was a chance to learn how they did things when dinosaurs roamed the earth. But the neatest thing was no computer priesthood for this class: the main computer for the school was an 370/115 (360 series: revolutionary '60s architecture using discrete silicon transistors and core memory, the 370 series used ICs including for main memory (!), the -115 model was the lowest end/slowest, but it ran BASIC fine :-), and they leased the obsolescent 1130 and just put it in a corner.

We'd put our cards in the card reader, hit go, hit the right buttons or whatever to break it out of an infinite loop if necessary, feed in a boot card if it got really confused, all under essentially no supervision, but good help, of the priesthood in the other corner of the room tending the mainframe. It also had a console, and an interactive program was one of the projects.

Lots of people older than me also cut their teeth on the 1130, Wikipedia has a partial list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130#Influence_of_the_1130 I wonder, if only the university library had a book on LISP; instead it had lots of good books on software engineering, which along with the programming taught me the basics. Like don't mix up '0' and 'O' in your variable names, especially if the first cut of the card deck is being produced by students learning how to do date entry from a coding form you filled out (http://www.atkielski.com/PDF/data/fortran.pdf).

Whereas the DEC PDP-11/70 running UNIX(TM) I used was at a big university's summer school following that. And fortunately not at all loaded down then, and it was a very fast system, even had a fixed head disk for swapping. So in my case I was semi-bored with the introductory programming course (at the end the professor privately but nicely called me out for being a ringer), and wrote up the final project using nroff and a XEROX Daisywheel to counter that. Just because even primitive word processing that was extremely neat, and a lot better than typing out a paper in the previous summer on a Selectric typewriter with auto-erase, the best there was at the time.
In the video at the mayo clinic site they talk a bit more about patient 2. While not all tumors were destroyed, they were fully mapped due to compounds from the thyroid being attached to the virus, implying that localized treatment would then be possible.

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...

Editorial Article: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...
"After weeks of public outcry over the proposal, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency would not allow for unfair, or "commercially unreasonable," business practices. He wouldn't accept, for instance, practices that leave a consumer with slower downloads of some Web sites than what the consumer paid for from their Internet service provider."

From what I understand, your example would not be permissable. I know there are downsides to this, but a lot of the negative sentiment I see about this seems like an exaggeration which may not work in our favor.
Blocking in Play should be foreign. On modern hardware architectures, writing code that blocks is the equivalent of throwing up your hands and saying "I can't trust myself to write efficient code so I'll just scale out my hardware and hope for the best". This is how Amazon winds up making so much money off Java developers who get constrained by thread pools and wind up spinning up a million instances of m3.medium machines.

This is, imho, what makes Play so fantastic. That you can have def index = Action { hardComputation() } for blocking code, and change it to def index = Action.async { Future { hardComputation() } } and you have magically changed your application to be asynchronous through the request-as-actor paradigm of Play. Play makes it easy to write async code. Play makes it way easier to control configuration for things like thread pools, dispatchers, and the like vs. Jetty. The performance of the nonblocking async code is incredible, and winds up saving a ton of money and developer time.
DRM is in HTML. That happened already. Mozilla refusing to implement it is not especially likely to make W3C change their minds. It might slow down the rate of adoption among content providers, but it's not gonna change the spec.

I hope we get more from Mozilla than hardware fingerprints that aren't trackable across services. I hope we get a lot more.
I didn't see this.
Thanks for the feedback, and I didn't take it as condescending at all. I tend to lean away from brazen self-promotion, so it's nice to hear I could turn it up a notch or two. Sounds like I have an A/B test coming up!
It needs to get up to 6 or 7% and stay there for a while. Shake out the investment buyers and acheive a healthy equilibrium of buyers and sellers.
"To me the value is that it's obviously the right direction."

Yes, but if all we're going on is "hope" and "politics", then we have absolutely no way of knowing if it's the right direction as you say. As the other poster mentioned, they could have easily done some studies of common core before throwing it at the wall to see if it sticks.

Change is never good if it's for its own sake. It may be intuitive for us to think that "mechanical learning" isn't the right approach to solving literacy in subject X, but we could very well be entirely wrong. The point I was trying to draw upon was the parent's initial comment about "let's do Y, and hope it works". Hoping is absolutely no substitute for hard research with tests and controls.
I agree with you. I went from laymen to building both of them in a matter of months, and subtractive tech is both more readily available, cheaper, has more support from vendors for these uses than a printer. Strictly from a manufacturing perspective, it's the proper method for the part requirements, which is anything but trivial.
Is that really a bad thing though? These old PC's are extremely wasteful with electricity relative to newer ones, so how much money are people really saving? People are so quick to ignore the ongoing costs and obsess over the immediate.

Basic web browsing/word processing is incredibly cheap to do right now in a new PC (sub $200 sans peripherals for the absolute newest hardware). In my opinion, these are machines that will handle web tasks for at least the next 10 years barring some huge shift that I cannot foresee.
He's just telling like he thinks it is.

There, fixed that for ya.

I agree with the Java vs Scala poster. And unlike him, I have a 30,000 line scala production project under my belt. Everything he says is true, and then some. Ever split up a file into chunks because intellij can't edit it effectively?

Yeah, didn't think so. (Just telling like it is)
i believe you're looking for startupsanonymous.com
Patient 1 did have a recurrence of a single tumor that was resolved with site specific treatment, though her marrow remained clear. I didn't see/hear anything about recurrence in patient 2.

Source: video/source article at http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...

Edit: Accompanying editorial to go along with the paper and video: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...
I think that the concerns that the stated goals of this effort cannot be met without addressing peering is a concern that should certainly be raised in the comment period (I'm not sure I agree with it, but I'm sure that some of the people raising it have thought about it more than I have and can present an argument that lays out why that is the case so it can be evaluated.)
Arduino robot being controlled via SkyNet
Name.com talks about why net neutrality is awesome
Would be interesting to see how well they can scale.
Have used them three times with quite a range of difference in the quality of cleanings. (A couple more times the cleaner just didn't show up)
Judging by their recent hourly rate increase, they seem to be confident at where they are at...
There are some weird conclusions about building new housing here. On that graph, both every city above $200 a square foot and every city that built more than 25 units for every 1000 in 1990 are outliers. Every city over $250/sq.ft. has been dreadfully expensive for decades. Every city that overbuilt was extremely bubbly and has had an extreme price drop since.

New houses aren't being built because the vacancy rate is super high (if you include shadow inventory.) Rents are super high because the rental vacancy rate is super low - ex-homeowners have become renters, but shadow inventory hasn't been converted to rentals; it's instead let out in dribs and drabs in order to keep current prices supported.

Prices are destined to net stagnation for the next 3-5 years, by which time they'll have met the trendline.

Saying new houses not being built is the same thing as saying that builders are predicting that they'll see losses if they build. That's the same thing the REITs are saying by ceasing to buy up single-family housing. The current crop of cash buyers are not the funds, but people who have recently sold.

A lot of these articles are reading as if they were mostly sourced from press releases from lobbying groups that are trying to loosen lending standards and/or favorably rezone hot property markets. That would make a lot of large landholders a lot richer.
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* Join a very small engineering team & contribute to scaling Homejoy to millions of users
* Build simple & intuitive web products using Python
* Make decisions on design
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Sample projects include:

* We re-assign jobs to cleaning professionals every night in order to maximize efficiency of the schedule.
* Build a phone system that allows clients and cleaning professionals to connect without revealing personal information and without getting our support team involved.

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* 2+ years of Python development experience. You’ll contribute to our Python code base on your first day of work
* Built significant web applications in Python and can show us what you shipped and how you made critical product decisions
* Obviously we use Python, but if you’re an experienced web developer in another language we’d still like to talk to you
* Bachelors in CS, or equivalent experience
* Startup DNA a must

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* Contributed to an open source software project; show us your Github account!
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I didn't really know what eco-system you were talking about, so I looked at your comment history, from that I assume you're talking about Java.

So, I really didn't mean to denigrate any communities or languages, there's definitely nothing intrinsically wrong with Java, and the ecosystem is at least an order of magnitude larger than the one for Go. Java guys have probably the least reason to switch to Go of all the languages I mentioned. I can certainly understand why a Java dev would look at Go and wonder why anyone would ever choose it over Java.

Go isn't likely to beat many languages on features, since it was purposely designed to have fewer features than most other languages. I do think it offers some advantages over Java, but Java also offers some advantages over Go. It's not a contest. No one has to "win". There's a time and a place for nearly every language.
If this takes place in the United States, depending on where you are, just buying a gun is always going to be easier and less expensive. Elsewhere, it might make more sense.
All true (I gave a talk on this subject just recently [1]), but the easiest and most provable way to isolate mutation is to not use it at all.

I think most people coming from an imperative background are surprised by how infrequently mutation is actually required. It's worthwhile to explore how far pure functions will take you.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQwQXVM6oiY
Thanks for the breakdown.

Kickstarter's spirit isn't about profit, it's about enabling an person's passion project to become a reality. The tone of the post strikes me as odd.
I'm interested in seeing where it goes. Do you have a website for it yet?
I think you may be misunderstanding a few things, and I hope I can clear them up :) First, the term "pure function" does not imply "ivory tower" any more than "recursion" does. Pure functions are tools that allow you to "isolate mutation". In fact, Paul Graham mentions that experienced lisp programmers "try to segregate side-effects in a few functions, allowing the greater part of the program to be written in a purely functional style" (http://unintelligible.org/onlisp/onlisp.html#SEC27). So - don't let the terminology throw you :)

Second, the point of the point of the chapter is to show how much can be accomplished without mutating data structures. I think that's something valuable to focus on. Saying "You can do a lot with pure functions and immutable data structures" is not the same as saying "You'll never need to mutate anything" and as the author, I apologize if my writing suggests otherwise :(

Lastly, Clojure definitely places a huge emphasis on limiting mutability by using pure functions and immutable data structures. I think Rich Hickey even describes pure functions as stable bricks or stable atoms in one of his talks. My impression is that it's definitely not the love child of common lisp and java. Clojure is pragmatic, but that doesn't mean it doesn't place an emphasis on functional programming. I agree that it's "not bogged down in a theory of pure anything", but that doesn't mean it wasn't intentionally designed to support and encourage programming with pure functions and immutable data structures.
In Mavericks, selecting Customize from the System Voice dropdown of the Dictation & Speech preferences brings up a list of voices you can download as well. I think Alex was my default, but some of the others seem much better.
> For this to be the case, cancer must have been killing a significant number of people before they reached the reproductive age.

Evolutionary forces are still in play for people past their reproductive age, though admittedly in a much less direct way. A person that lives long enough to help care for their grandchildren will be more likely to have some of their genes survive.
Twitter's Manhattan: A Real-time, Multi-tenant Distributed Database
~$7k fixing the mistake. Sounds about right.

I'm in the home stretch of fulfilling a Kickstarter and had something similar happen: I realized that I left a page out when I put together the master files for my comic. When I had an advance copy in my hand and 399 more on a loading dock in China.

So I sighed, and threw pretty much all the expected profit for this print run into a corrected reprint. With a couple little tweaks I'd noted down as "fix this in the second edition" anyway. And I looked at the point in the process where I made this mistake and did my best to make sure it'd never happen again.

I kept the backers updated and they've been pretty cool about it.
A psychological gem was dropped in the middle of the article:

People in her circumstances have their world suddenly inverted, and there is nothing in the manner of their taking – no narrative of sacrifice, or enduring for a greater good – to help them derive meaning from it. They must somehow find meaning in their predicament – or mentally detach themselves from their day-to-day reality, which is a monumental task when alone.

This is the same conclusion drawn by Dr. Victor Frankl in his excellent Man's Search for Meaning. His experience in Nazi concentration camps led him to conclude that the only way to fend off complete apathy was to try to find a personal meaning in your experience. Even apparently meaningless suffering, he said, can be made meaningful depending on your response: you can maintain your human dignity in the face of overwhelming suffering, and by not forgetting yourself, you can be an affirmation of the strength of humankind.
"Comments are free" seems like a poor choice. Comments should be the most expensive, in my opinion.
yeah so in that case 'a trial of 1 proves nothing' is especially misleading. this seems like very strong evidence.
SwiftCloud: Fault-Tolerant Geo-Replication Integrated to the Client Machine