skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think outrage at this is a little unjustified. The whole schooling system is built around monitoring student progress.
> I think the best way to help our kids develop these skills is going to be through lots of monitoring. It's certainly good to question the effectiveness of monitoring, and what it's encouraging, so I respect that sentiment of the other posters, but really? Outrage?

I don't think you realize the damage all this pervasive monitoring will do to warp and stress people's minds, being subjected to it 24/7 from early childhood. It will take away all awareness that they are the directors of their own life. It will condition them to constantly act for the benefit of an unseen observer instead of living their life for themselves and being unafraid to walk off the beaten path. And yes that includes being able to cram for a 5th grade history test the night before, it's not like they're handing in their Master's Thesis.
What really rustles my jimmies is these posts in general. Who gives a shit what editor people use? We are all programmers typing text into a damn box. Who cares what kind of box? The outcome is the damn same.

And for every person who accidentally committed ":wq" I'll show you some sublime user writing python using tabs, not spaces, for spacing.

Either way, these editor posts are a waste of everyone's time. Use whatever editor you want to use... the community shouldn't bash you for it.
I can also recommend guake if you're using Linux:

https://github.com/Guake/guake/

Edit: see other simultaneous comment :-)
(I work at Stripe.)

That pricing is the starting tier for us. We scale with your business and make sure that we're completely price-competitive as you grow. (One of the nice things about the industry is everyone has the same backend interchange costs, so it's possible to match anyone else's rates.) As well, other processor headline rates generally don't take into account a number of other read-the-fine-print fees which can add up to quite a lot.

Said another way, pricing should actually be a non-issue in your choice of processor.
Weird Moons of the Solar System
This is interesting. If human consciousness and thinking was changing today, how could you detect it? Perhaps the increased amount of information that we need to process is changing how we think?

Sometimes I have a feeling that our grandparents or parents are not thinking or introspecting as deeply as my generation. They are just doing things, but we seem to be thinking more about the consequences of our actions. Is there a way to measure this? Or is this just the usual "generation gap" thing?
The post you refer to said nothing about "all the hardware" and Ubuntu seems to be able to get along with binary blob drivers on Nexus devices, besides.

Who's spreading falsehoods, here?
What the FT showed is that "It is no longer remotely close to clear that wealth inequality is going up...". This is because when they corrected Piketty's errors, and adopted different (but similarly plausible) weighting schemes, Piketty's major claim of inequality being "high, then low, then high" vanished in Europe.

If by "significant" you mean something else, please say so.

So unless there is evidence that the top 1% or so systematically get significantly better returns on the same capital, an increase in capital income let's us include that there is an increase in base capital from which to derive that income.

You are simply wrong on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7795331

I'm not sure why you describe me as "blatantly mischaracterizeing" Krugman since I explicitly noted it was capital income.

...unless you have evidence that high-income people save less of their income than lower-income people, then wealth will diverge.

Again, this is incorrect. They might achieve a lower rate of return (including being more vulnerable to large shocks).
Yes, I see this side of it. It's certainly important to question the uses and effectiveness of techniques - monitoring or otherwise.

My problem with the narrative of the comments in this thread is that they seem to be paranoid, and they have tunnel vision about CourseSmart, while making claims that will rule out all of the effective new ed tech platforms coming out.

Just look at something like Newton, they monitor your performance like crazy, but they do it in order to make your personal curriculum much more effective for you. Getting outraged about monitoring doesn't even really make sense. We monitor everything these days as an effective way to improve our products, now when a school does it some huge line is crossed? Don't you want our education system to improve? Shouldn't they be trying to improve in the same effective way we improve websites? You monitor user interaction and make adjustments based on that data.
Oops. thanks for picking up on that.

I haven't read Islands in the Net or Schismatrix yet. I should really get around to them at some point. Heavy Weather was pretty good, there's a copy of that within three feet of me right now.
There's luxury and then there's halo-brand luxury. Check the margins on a 7 Series or an S-Class.
>I really do wish he'd elaborated though so we know for sure

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=APILE934L348N

>You will not, without our express, prior written permission: (a) issue any press release or make any other public disclosures regarding this Agreement or its terms
> [...] nor is a factory job any way comparable to a 100k salary position [...]

So what you're saying is that since their salary is low, they don't deserve humane working conditions?!

The fact that they just accepted the health risks for their employees out of "fear of theft" (why couldn't they put a security guard there?) makes them evil.
$1000 for making HTML5 supercomputing applications open source
Aula: Open source curated tech talks
I'm not claiming this monitoring is effective, I'm saying: "Don't get outraged, let them run a test of the program and see if it's effective".

I just don't think it makes sense to get mad at a school for trying to use data to improve their effectiveness.
If your goal is to pass tests you're missing out on the point of education.

Well, looks like the US education system has already failed on your second sentence.
Try microcorruption.com--it's pretty accessible to anyone who understands basic C programming concepts (like stacks and null-terminated strings) and the challenges have a nice progression in difficulty and complexity.
I suppose part of what lead to this was browser vendors pretty much eliminating the traditional title bar (by the time you have a dozen tabs open there's room for maybe 7 letters and a 16x16 icon per tab), so websites have had to start supplementing with their own title bars to help users figure out what site they're on.
Oh, I figured they had used Safari but it makes sense that they used the builtin Mail app.
Thanks for the links, really interesting reads and some great programming concepts.

Although I'm not a fan of curly brackets and semicolons, it's the `var` keyword which annoys me the most!
Here's some that are different:

方法 (method)
In Chinese: fāngfǎ "FONG-fah"
In Japanese: houhou "HOE-hoe"

日常 (everyday, ordinary)
In Chinese: rìcháng "ZI-tchong"
In Japanese: nichijou "NEE-chee-joe"

七月 (July)
In Chinese: qīyuè "CHEE-yue"
In Japanese: shichigatsu "SHEE-chee-gah-tsoo"

(Yes, 'shichigatsu' is seriously the Chinese reading of July; the Japanese reading would be 'nanatsuki'.)

And some that are similar:

開始 (start)
In Chinese: kāishǐ "KAI-tsi"
In Japanese: kaishi "kai-shee"

第三 (third)
In Chinese: dìsān "dee-SAN"
In Japanese: daisan "dai-san"

(Note that the pronunciation guide is somewhat approximate since certain sounds don't map well and English vowel pronunciation is a mess.)

I've heard that the Japanese on'yomi (Chinese) readings are generally closer to Old Chinese than modern Chinese is. Also, notice that Chinese is tonal and Japanese isn't.
> Can Amazon turn evil? Sure. ... If they do, you can replace them tomorrow.

That's precisely the concern though. That, if one day Amazon were to turn evil, the landscape will be so radically changed that no viable competitor would be able to emerge, and there'll be no one to replace them with.
Voters: please do your due diligence and don't upvote content farms
What are the bright students supposed to do to earn a good grade then? It's not their fault the material is too easy and they don't have to study to do well.
Apple said to be prepping smart home software platform for WWDC
I don't think it's usual to describe breaking a contract as "illegal" - that's generally used for something that breaks laws.
Google can iterate on SPDY and QUIC by just releasing new versions of Chrome, which is where all the knowledge behind HTTP 2.0 came from.
Learning Tests
Undoubtedly the best nerd book title ever. When I first saw it I was struck speechless with envy, knowing that, with it's publication, book titles had peaked and that from then on any new publications' titles would pale in comparison.

I once examined the tentative hypothesis that some people lacked consciousness - that their behaviour seemed to be missing certain key components of introspection. So this book caught my interest (and of course because it had a great title). But "Origin" proved to be a tedious read providing weak support for its hypotheses.

Nonetheless, when I find a copy in the wild (usually they're in great condition, not much handling) I buy it and put it on the shelf. When someone is IMO pestering me unduly, I hand them the book, ask them to read it and get back to me. That's good for at least 3 months of peace, a small price to pay for quiet time.
The discussion seems to be drifting into the positives and negatives of the morality of the technique without discussing the rather more important critique of one-size-fits-all techniques, pounding down any nail that stands up, and shoving every peg thru the round hole, no matter if round or square. If a school is trying to do something good, giving them an evil tool doesn't matter, and if they're trying to do something evil, then the presence or absence of tools isn't going to matter much.
Curious how Node isn’t even mentioned. Interesting how many years until it catches up.
I agree and certainly most people in our field do have degrees and have had positive university experiences. That said, if one does consider debt, is it still worth it?
I work in an industrial space similar to GEs space and we generate high volumes of data from our machines in a distributed network. The data is really valuable in operating and optimizing our systems as well as doing reliability analysis. Somehow we convinced our customers to pay for a separate network connection as part of the agreements and do the VPN security. We do not operate over the customer networks except in certain cases and then both sides are super paranoid and isolate each other as much as possible.

We did a lot of the software in-house with open source except were we could not. Every once and a while we talk with GE-IP, OSI, Wonderware, and other large vendors in the space but talks always fall through in the end because its just really expensive. Even with steep discounts these vendors cost several millions of dollars over 3-5 years more than what we currently do for <$500K a year (most of that cost is the vendor software where open source is not available).

Vendor lock-in is a terrible problem for us. I'm pretty sure we do not get the value we are paying for. In one case we are using an 8 year old version because the 3-4 versions released since had major compatibility or breaking changes that we found unacceptable and then they started putting in intrusive always-on DRM-like licensing and actually cause more downtime for us so we don't use it and I'm trying to find a practical way out.

I want to use open-source and I would like my company to support putting our work back into open-source but I don't see it happening. There are way too many fears of loss of IP and effort to get lawyers involved to support it so it probably won't happen. I agree the industrial networking space is ready for disruption one of these days but its not exactly web pages that anyone can do out of school so it does not get open-sourced much but I think its coming soon enough.
You might have. You're hardly representative. If everyone bought books on personal web sites, amazon wouldn't have 80% market penetration.
Science is making up stories and seeing how they check out with reality.

If they check out, we use the stories to extrapolate reality, i.e. build models that predict where reality will go based on our stories.

There are three things to keep in mind:

1) There are infinite stories that may be equally good at describing the same reality. It's best to pick the simplest one that has a set of benefits we need, because why make our life hard, right?

2) If we can't measure how a story matches reality, the story is useless. Say, how on Earth would we measure if people had voices in their minds 3000 years ago? We can't. Therefore the story can't be verified.

3) One should be very careful not to confuse the stories with the reality it models. A story is a story. A model is a model. A math formula is a math formula.

Reality is neither a story, a model, or a math formula. So when it comes to explaining the true nature of things, such as what the heck conscience is, and how it comes to be, science comes short. Because it always has been, and it always will be, just making up stories. But that doesn't make science any less useful, of course.
Sorry, my $10 digital ocean vps is kinda struggling. The blog is hosted on WordPress, and being cached via memcache. But GA real time tells me about 300 people are on concurrently which its having trouble handling. I'll be periodically rebooting the box until I can access a computer.
AngularDart for AngularJS Devs. Introduction To The Best Angular Yet. [Updated]
Report: Apple Planning 'Smart Home' System Debut at WWDC
An interesting way to solve the issue is to hide the bar when scrolling down, and show it when scrolling up.

This pattern is one of the many irritating things about the mobile Chrome and iOS 7 browsers that prevents me from using devices implementing either.

I typically stick to reading around the top of my device, and occasionally I want to re-read something I just read. Instead of just getting to re-read the hidden lines, I have to continue scrolling while stupid chrome or a fixed bar appears, and then finally lets me scroll the content.

It's probably the case that a lot of people love this, but I hate it. If I want to see the browser chrome or navigational elements, I'm happy to tap the top of the window to scroll me there. I don't want the browser trying to figure out what I want to do based purely on scrolling.
Apple Said To Be Prepping Smart Home Software Platform For WWDC Reveal
Parklog: Go tool to redirect your app stdout/stderr to different endpoints
That was my general method at school. I found it works for most exams as it is pretty well established all the material they might cover and you can read the notes version in a day.
search Amazon.com for "dictionary of synonyms".
Can you explain how exactly you root a phone? I mean how do you find an exploit and use it to gain root access?
Possible Lessnesses
Poll: Mt. Gox heist an inside job?
Do you think the heist that took place at Mt. Gox was an inside job?
My friend's ebook is frequently discounted or free by Amazon, and he still receives the same royalties as far as I know. The exclusivity aspect may be real, though, as he only distributes through Amazon.

However, his list price is in the $4 range, so the terms may differ for higher priced books as well.
ICub Robot Marks 10 Years of Development
Prefix Sums and Their Applications (1993) [pdf]
As an IT guy in a university (a satellite campus of US university to be more specific), this shit would not be kosher. We evaluate crap for our people because this school is far from a tech school, and we would never be able to get this out the door to students lest one of them or their professor(s) found out, and the shitstorm would be enormous.

We cannot even reliably monitor computers or remote into them, as the perception of monitoring in a poli sci school has caused so many fights in the past, no campus of the university has the balls to even try.

But good luck to the IT group that gets away this. They will have a fun time explaining it to the angry students or their guardians who foot the bill for this horseshit.

But since the author quotes Neal Stephen, who cares, right? We teach kids the ideals of society in class and school policies (at least for us, won't speak to others), then the ideal society lacks them altogether and government agencies violate the very same trust in society and established protocol, lie about, and probably gloat in their office how stupid these kids are with their monitored engagement.

I give everybody a F, personally.
I know, this one's buried in the list.
Thanks for that. I think some of the comments downstream have sated my appetite to know more as well :)
Based on the author's "About Me" page, I suspect the article has a slight London-centric bias on this point. Quadrupling in 20 years (~doubling in real terms?) seems unlikely even for London's atypical market though.

Elsewhere, things are slightly better. Inflation does seem to have improved the prices a bit already, but real wages have dropped too, so they're still not that affordable. I can't say it's looking good for the author right now...
Move to the woods and fish.
Imagine a company requesting your digital profile from your school years.

Doesn't look good.
What you call a game, is also called operant conditioning and some other google terms to research are "B F Skinner".

It works really well for mere vocation training, habits, etc. Doesn't work very well for education.

There can be some disturbing introspection involved WRT the purpose of the organization, is it vocational, educational, or merely a financialization scam. This also gives an thin smear of "icky" across the whole discussion of the merits of expensive spyware.

Another game theory topic not yet discussed is the classic writing prof problem of how a prof spends her time. Would a prof be better served at whatever goal by spending 15 minutes thinking about improvement of the next lecture, analysis of errors in latest quiz to respond at next lecture, or analyze the gathered stats to hurry along the primate dominance ritual game of rating and classification of students by an arbitrary reward structure?
Sadly it's not just the sciences that are grossly misunderstood by the public (and this misunderstanding exploited by politicians).

I find this quotation in the article the most interesting:

"‘What the rioters appeared to be seeking was fuller participation in the social order and the material benefits enjoyed by the majority of American citizens,’ it concluded. ‘Rather than rejecting the American system, they were anxious to obtain a place for themselves in it.’"

We see this time and again: demonstration and revolt come from those who have something to gain (or lose), not from the truly wretched. From the French revolution to the 60s in Europe and the USA, to Korea in the 80s/90s to Venezuela today.

Yet my kid was still told in school this year that the French revolution was the peasants rising up. It's not like that theory is believed by any academics but still it hasn't filtered down to school.

Likewise, as this article describes it, the idea of "the madness of crowds" is well established in the popular mind, even though it's thoroughly discredited by academic research.

Yet policy is made based on crazy beliefs. I am still a fan of democracy, but when the kids are fed a rasher of discredited bullshit in high school it's hard to see how it can function.
Registration required. Here's a CNET article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-reportedly-readying-new-smart...

and here are others:
https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dFL-vXhTfGbu2BMocXtQJZ9...
I would personally like news to come to my mail box. That would ease my process to read the news as I'm checking my mail. A little like what techi.com did.
The 4K Blu-ray format could be dead in the water because of cloud threat
The CrowdProcess team are doing some really interesting stuff. Essentially, they're making distributed computing more readily available than it has ever been -- if you can write JavaScript, you can dive into distributed computing.

And with browsers advancing so rapidly, I'm really excited about what will be possible on this front in a couple of years time. Imagine being able to run computations on thousands of GPUs without having to distribute any software (think Folding@home, SETI@home, etc).
But the irony for me was, as a language and linguistics major, I liked the difficulty of CS because this was not in my grasp.

I ended up in IT, and I routinely tell people how I failed a midterm in Intro to C++, I had to wind out like a 30 line C++ function with arrays and pointers tracing and writing out the correct cout<< output, only in the last five minutes of that midterm realize I made one trivial error like on the third of these thirty steps.

And so a score of 68 it was. But my god did I love Solaris, g++, and the Unix way well after that.
Google Privacy Enhancer, "smoke bomb" as you browse : fx add-on
Previously on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7730653 I made this search "smoke bomb" into an add-on for Firefox. As you use your browser it silently makes fake google queries for you in the background. Try it out and send pull requests.
Oh man, that stinks. Just fixed this and put out a new release.

A lot of new releases going on over here.
Cool concept, but morally dubious. You're basically using people's electricity in the background without people knowing, not unlike bitcoin miner malware.
Unfortunately, these days it's more like iOS group - there's only one. It helps that Apple usually doesn't bother to patch the bugs until the next release, so jailbreaks last a long time, but there's only so far you can go with a lack of interested people. (Don't look at me...)
You Never Really Learn Something Until You Teach It
Brings back a lot of memories of old sites worked on in the past... and table layouts abused: http://www.davidearl.ca/portfolio/
Not the same guy, but I moved to Haskell. Not due to Python 3, but because I've realized that to get the awesome features Python has, I don't have to give up the safety and performance I thought I had to.
Freezing stabbing victims in suspended animation
Yeah, as a tool for improving coursework, it sounds great. Too easy to abuse, though :(
For a laugh do it on http://www.reddit.com/
How do you do this? Are just using a proxy?

I use mod_jk with Apache. With mod_jk you use the AJP protocol to communicate with Tomcat. It's one line in your Apache config and a few lines in /etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties (Debian)

Are there any support for AJP for Nginx today?
Silvrback is better IMHO. Freedom to brand, highly customizable, and it's very streamlined: http://silvrback.com
Did we honestly need this to know both aren't related? We have plenty of proof in the AI scene.

Also, it hits me as some awful mutation to be using your "external protocol" (voices) for internal communication.

Is the claim they were literally hearing voices? Can't be right.

First you'd constantly be getting startled or confused whether someone in your head said something, or someone outside your head said something.

Second there's an inherent lag in converting speech to information and back, when the brain is interconnected well enough with much more efficient ways of communicating internally.

Speech is also highly inaccurate. Same sentence can have multiple meanings. Imagine the hilarious misunderstandings between you and your internal voice.

Which brings another point. How do you answer back? Do you speak out loud, or does the mind have a dedicated "internal speaker" for you to say things into?

Another awkward redundant apparatus.
Forklift: A Ruby ETL Tool
Yes! Plus if you have a syntax error Python will catch it for you. Peewee works the same way.
Another way of organizing your specs in Rails