skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I have a way to cure poverty. What if we created a national auction system for low wage labor. The person is paid $11.15 an hour(poverty rate). Their time is auctioned off. They can refuse an offer but the difference between an offer they take and the highest offer is subtracted off their pay. They can work less than 40 hr a week but again subtracted off. And it's paid for by a national sales tax. So how much would cost? To pay the 10.5M unemployed cost 234.3B. Subtract unemployement benefits 116B. Bring Minimum wage and lower to $11.15/hr. 3.6M cost 28.8B The rest of the people in proverty 31.9M assuming avg pay at 9.15 hr. 127.8B.
Total of 275B.

National Sales tax of 3.05% on 9T personal consumption(assumes not taxing unprepared food, housing etc.)
Ninja, Wolf, what's the difference.
Thankfully netflix expose their stuff via bgp (as well as other nice things) so you can have multiple paths into their network (and out of yours) without any single giant router. allowing you to balance your traffic.

You can even ask them for a freeish box to run inside your network to reduce requests to their CDNs
State of Missouri Data Portal
40k is low for rural usa, I couldn't imagine taking that in Toronto.
My guess is it could be done at a city or state level with similar % sales tax. As for medical services I think you people pay a % of their income for insurance.
Because there were some applicants that didn't look like they were in a minority group.
Love the design :)
Or you could have public last miles with openaccess requirements providing competition on the parts that can see competition.
In this case, both projects appear to have been produced by Socrata.
Reminds me of MySpace.
Los Angeles's OpenGov site is much more attractive, and at least when it comes to city finances, more immediately useful. http://losangeles.opengov.com.

Disclaimer: I'm a designer at OpenGov :)
It's anecdotal, but I live a fair bit of the time in Guangzhou and noticed a lot of Chinese developers I've met there have taken great interest in Go. The surge in popularity seems to have been since an impressively detailed ebook in Chinese on writing web applications in Go[1] was released a couple of years back now, and remains a very popular project on GitHub.

It is worth noting though that the most popular languages in China reflect the major languages around the rest of the world, a GitHub search for a very common Chinese character[2] shows that for the Chinese open source community.

[1] https://github.com/astaxie/build-web-application-with-golang

[2] https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=%E7%9A%84&ref=cmdform&s=s...
Aw darn, I read 'natives' at first. Photos turning out not nearly as exciting as I had expected..
Did you read TFA? It's not talking about "dramatically underqualified" students.

> If you compare college students with the same standardized-test scores who come from different family backgrounds, you find that their educational outcomes reflect their parents’ income, not their test scores.
> Supposedly, Java is going to be faster than native code any day now.

You'll note that the FORTRAN native code is indeed beaten by Java.
There are quite a few web interfaces that makes IRC accessible to less-technical folks, while also allowing for more tech-savvy users to use their preferred IRC client. What's the advantage you see over using something like that?

Edit: in fact, Chapp itself could be built on top of IRC and retain all of its current functionality. You'll also gain a very well battle tested protocol and software tools.
City of Raleigh Data Portal
Microsoft is probably eager to pay more than Google to be Firefox's default search engine. I believe Microsoft and Yahoo already pay Mozilla to be included as non-default search engines. So even if Google fans switched from default Bing to secondary Google, Mozilla would probably still make money from Google.
There are significant differences between Canada's anti-spam law, CASL, and the U.S. CAN-SPAM. Key differences include:

1. CASL is opt-in, while CAN-SPAM is opt out;

2. Canada has an opt-in exception for existing business relationships that must be renewed every two years; and

3. CASL applies not only to email but to any electronic message, including a message sent via an installed program.

For more information, see: http://www.mcmillan.ca/Files/172403_Key%20Differences%20betw...
Seems that it's not because of a Chinese regional word. http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china
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Here's a paper about this technique: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2011/PAPERS/2011/paper010....
This is a phenomena also encountered in European universities. I know for a fact that it occurs in Physics and Math, since our professors were in the habit of showing us performance statistics.They even tend to adjust the grading accordingly. That is you get a B approximately at the first peak and fail if you are significantly behind the second peak. I don't think it nescessarily has to do with income / prior education.
Are there better quality images anywhere? On the Antartic Heritage Trust site it's just a crappy Flash slide show. Would be nice to see high res JPEGs.
This is a Socrata site as well.
When the reporter blinks, face rec fails entirely bc it can't find their pupils/eyes. This is why 2 frames per second performed so much more reliably than 1. The 5 or 6 second moving average scores were devastated by blinking when only 1 frame per second was considered. Less so with 2 frames per second.
one direction on pricing means it's a 'deals' site and will only attract struggling restaurants.
Show HN : JavaScript quiz ios app
I'd say that statements like that are subject to some degree of interpretation. It's hard for one runtime to be definitively faster than another runtime. It is, however, quite possible for one runtime to have cases where it is better, cases where it is worse, and cases where it is equivalent such that it is reasonable to say that it is "as fast as" the other. Java tends to be a bit slower than C++ still, but the differences between it and "as fast as" are trivial enough that a number of HFT systems, for example, are written in Java.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7850394 (Code length comparison for several languages)
> As a general rule, "qualified" students are much more likely to exhibit the behaviors this program implements

Well, yes.

So the idea here is to take a bunch of underperforming students and invest money and effort into them in the hopes of raising their performance.

Suppose we invested similar amounts in students who were already not failing. We might see an increase in their performance too. Would that be valuable? More or less so than this?
Dont expect a person's opinion to change when their paycheck depends on them having said opinion.
2-3x slower? I guess it depends on what you're doing. For a lot of code I've dealt with the differences in performance have been factional.
5 Stupid Things Movies Believe About Hacking
Oh, for some reason I didn't notice.
I feel the same way, I think it will definitely take a couple more iterations for the new design language to feel strong. But, look at the first beta of iOS 7 and compare it to iOS 7.1/8 and Yosemite. Huge, huge improvements already, IMO.
Yes.

And the only reason you have to click the red squares is to let it know which ones are red. If you try to look up the color of a square using GetComputedStyle, it always comes back gray. That was the resolution of privacy Bug 147777† (":visited support allows queries into global history").

†https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777
Image data is big by nature. If you are working with print-resolution files you can multiply that figure by ten. Each PS layer can contain a large amount of image data. It has nothing to do with the file format, if that is what you are implying.
There are many oddities to be found in Google Trends. Why is Angularjs so popular in Hoffman Estates, IL? Be sure to click "City" below the chart.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angularjs&geo=US&cmp...
> social costs?

Such as? All I heard was smart boys and girls go and do a quantitative finance degree instead of Solve The World's Problems degree.

And that's bullshit. The social cost of _not_ providing other, better alternatives to our youth (downsizing NASA, underfunding research and scientific endeavors), lack of patent reform, lack of bandwidth and unified cross-country 3G/4G has much worse costs.
Un-fucking-believable
Only iPhone game development? Sorry, no interest... Why limit your potential students by offering only one platform?
Apple moves away from Aqua after more than a decade using it, and you're surprised designers have already started pouring over the details to see what's new?
It's worth remembering that native code isn't fast automatically. An unskilled programmer, for instance, could easily write C++ that's slower than Java.
There are a few possible reasons Fortran wasn't faster:

1. Fortran's compilers haven't advanced at the same rate as other languages due to its lack of popularity.

2. Fortran is inherently harder to optimize.

3. People have forgotten how to write fast Fortran, since no one uses it anymore.

I don't know which it might be.
It only makes sense to treat people as individuals. Otherwise, what if one single Lutheran views all Baptists as heretics. I can guarantee that such a person exists.

Are you going to create a new category for that one person? What will you call it? "Lutherans who don't consider Baptists to be Christian"?

"I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know."
- Thomas Jefferson
Yeah I've experienced that too, I always assumed it was their equivalent of Pandora's "are you still there?" only without politely asking before shutting it off
That way all Christians are Jews.
I do miss firegpg http://blog.getfiregpg.org/2010/06/07/firegpg-discontinued/

FireGPG was super easy to use with Gmail (that said, I suppose Google would have grabbed the cleartext in the interim draft state anyway)
Yes. There was a post on Level3's blog explaining that they have zero peering problems worldwide with the exception of a tiny group of ISPs in the US, and this group is coincidentally ranked dead last in customer satisfaction.
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Quick fact check: she's not smart. She's smart only in comparison to the rest of her high school, and the article points out she was admitted under UT's affirmative action program, wherein (for Austin) if you outperform 93% of your high school classmates, they let you in. But the article also points out that she scored the equivalent of a 1030 on the SAT. She's barely above average for the ACT-taking population of Texas as a whole (she scored 22 vs a state average of 21).
I'd like to see a campaign and a web page to encourage big companies to donate to open source projects, and to display their donations publicly.
"The only thing I can think of that would be more boring than working at an online fax company..."

There are lots of companies in "boring" businesses that could provide interesting technical challenges and pleasant working environments for developers. Why would an online fax company be any more boring than an apartment rental company (Airbnb) or a taxi service (Uber)? I'd guess that those two companies would have no difficulty attracting good developers.
City of New York Data Portal
Actual source: http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/12/27/on-ice-100-y...

If you'd like to see the images as large as they are (warning: SWF): http://www.nzaht.org/assets/gallery6/flash/slideshow.swf?r=8...
We have a similar problem in australia. The ACCC (consumer competition watchdogs) forced the 4 largest at the time to peer together (which was a good move) but they refuse to peer with other australian ISPs.

They also control a fair chunk of the overseas connections.
I definitely recommend this course! I've met the founders and have participated once in a flappy bird class. definitely a program considering if you want to have something to show recruiters when looking for jobs
Some other cities with Data Portals
Baltimore - data.baltimorecity.gov
Honolulu - data.honolulu.gov
Colorado - data.opencolorado.org
Lexington - data.lexingtonky.gov
Somerville - data.somervillema.gov
Palo Alto - paloalto.opendata.junar.com
Louisville - portal.louisvilleky.gov
While I think the comment here leaves that open as a possibility, the second sentence of the article it's from makes it pretty clear. "Specifically, Sun says that a platform-independent Java program delivered as bytecodes in class files will run on Hotspot at speeds on par with an equivalent C++ program compiled to a native executable."

There's not a lot of wiggle room there.
Bruteforcing the Devil
No, consent must be explicitely request, so the checkbox must be unchecked by default, or else it's considered merely harvesting the e-mail address.
Do you not think the SAT/ACT work well for measuring aptitude? Quite a bit of research has gone into these tests, although the organizations behind these tests are not very forthcoming about what they measure (for example, the FAQ on the ACT’s website claims that the ACT is an “achievement” test and the SAT is an “aptitude” test, which is a bunch of crap, since they’ve both been shown to be highly g-loaded and are pretty similar tests). Unfortunately, the College Board is yet again making changes to the SAT, presumably for political reasons (e.g., no longer asking questions about “obscure” vocab words) and won’t really have the data to know how these changes affect the test until they’ve been giving it for several years, so that sort undermines my confidence in the groups behind these exams, and/or makes me think that they’re useful only because it’s apparently pretty difficult to make a test with absolutely no correlation with aptitude, despite the political factors at play, not because they actually have a coherent model of what they’re trying to measure and how to do it.
The article is talking about supporting students who are admitted to a flagship school in their affirmative-action program despite being below the 25th percentile for students at that school. It specifically calls them out as being in the bottom quartile. It lists the human-interest protagonist's appallingly low standardized test scores. What more do you want here?

According to http://www.parchment.com/c/college/college-1572-University-o... , the 25th percentile student at UT Austin (entering in 2011, I think) scored 540 verbal and 580 math on the SAT (annoyingly, this doesn't mean that the 25th percentile student scored 1120 overall, but it's the closest thing I could find). The girl in the article scored the ACT equivalent of 90 points lower. But she's not dramatically underqualified?
Step 1 to learning new stuff: stop using self-defeating language. Step 2: Jump in and give it a try. There's no substitute for actually building something.
Not for this example. On E5-2680 v2(Ivy Bridge):

./magic_forest_gcc 617 655 606 7.22s user 0.36s system 100% cpu 7.580 total
./magic_forest_icc 617 655 606 7.00s user 0.34s system 100% cpu 7.340 total
./magic_forest_clang 617 655 606 5.73s user 0.25s system 100% cpu 5.980 total

gcc version 4.8.2
icc version 14.0.1
clang version 3.4
(On 3.14 powered arch linux)

It's might be interesting to see what kind of optimisation clang does, but I currently don't have the time to look into it.
> It feels a bit weird, just leaving at the end of a meal, without having to go to the register.

or walking out of an apple store with an iPad and no bag and no receipt. I enjoy the convenience and green nature of it but feel like a thief sometimes. especially since there is no "checkout register" as everyone can ring you up for the device.
> It may seem counterintuitive, but the more selective the college you choose, the higher your likelihood of graduating.

I hope they controlled for the admission criteria here. Otherwise, the obvious reason to see a correlation like this is that more selective colleges select students who are better at studying for tests (and therefore more likely to graduate).
Senate panel cool towards House NSA reform bill
Baltimore - data.baltimorecity.gov
Honolulu - data.honolulu.gov
Colorado - data.opencolorado.org
Lexington - data.lexingtonky.gov
Somerville - data.somervillema.gov
Palo Alto - paloalto.opendata.junar.com
Louisville - portal.louisvilleky.gov
Only computation-heavy code will show a difference. And the disparity is going to vary a lot. Some code will be easy for Java's optimizer and won't give C++ any advantage.
I haven't, but I'll definitely look into it, cheers. :) Our largest table is only that size due to licensing issues, mind.
Especially, why limit the development to mobile devices when you can create much more impressive games for desktops and the like ?
I consider myself to be a full stack developer. I started working on small layers like every developer. Eventually through need, knowdge transfer and bugs I developed the skills from hardware to software Linux/apache/mysql to code (I'm my case usually php) to HTML and CSS and js. With a variety of tools and frameworks along the way. These skills are required to face the variety of challenges and new projects that come. Not knowing how to configure apache would make me a worse developer.
There is a (3 years?) grace period where businesses with "existing relationships" can request consent to become compliant.
If cookies are disabled/rejected, the splash page goes into an infinite redirection loop.
You could set up a watchdog.
In my comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7855893) I linked to the SWF file by itself, but it seems like even the images in that are low-res.
yeah, I'd like to see that Fortran code. There's some trivial mistakes that can be made by messing up array access orders for example.
Sorry if I was unclear, what I was wondering was whether there might be a practical benefit to adapt the changes that were made in micropython for PyPy3 or if I was misunderstanding the nature of micropython's optimizations.
I was going to suggest we auction off the poor as slaves in a spirit of satire, but I see you've beaten me to it.
Original creator here. I'm super surprised to see this posted here.

I can answer any questions people have.
Thomas Jefferson was an unchurched Deist.
An academic paper summarizing studies on the effect of attitude interventions like those discussed in the OP:

https://labs.la.utexas.edu/adrg/files/2013/12/REVIEW-OF-EDUC...

Positive feelings of belonging and capability seem to be a surprisingly powerful form of race and class based privilege.
Also profile-guided optimization is ever more widespread with C/C++ compilers, which certainly wins some of the gains you'd normally only expect from the JITing VM.
"A lawyer representing the National Security Agency at a Wednesday hearing revealed tech companies were fully aware of the agency’s widespread Internet surveillance programs, contradicting outraged statements that have echoed across Silicon Valley since Edward Snowden’s first leaks came to light."

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/20/nsa-reveals-silicon-valley...
Define "smart".

The ACT is taken by college aspiring high schoolers.

If 22 is top 10% of her whole school, she had some sort of personal cleverness to overcome her near-completely unintellectual community.
Uhh... I disagree. Firstly, I don't see the circle in the following:

- SolutionX puts lots of CO2 into the atmosphere compared to alternatives, and would be extremely uneconomic if we included in the cost/unitSolutionX the cost required to extract that CO2 from the atmosphere again.

- Lots of CO2 in the atmosphere is bad

-> SolutionX is either bad because it's uneconomic, or bad because it leads to lots of CO2 in the atmosphere.

-> We shouldn't use SolutionX until some factors change such that SolutionX is better than alternatives, rather than worse.

That's linear reasoning. If you want to change one of the underlying assumptions, namely that it's expensive to capture CO2 (and convert it back to carbon in this case... where at least the CO2 is coming from a concentrated point which reduces the cost of the process) then it's still linear reasoning with a slightly different result.

For it to become circular there would have to be some step where we said "If we had SolutionX it would be cheap and easy to get CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it back into carbon, but we don't have SolutionX because the methods of getting CO2 from the atmosphere without SolutionX are expensive so SolutionX is dirty".

That, interestingly, was used and is used as an argument against solar cells (e.g. solar cells made on power grids consume energy that may have a large CO2 loading). But it's easily revealed as bullshit through the use of EROEI (Energy returned on energy invested) accounting, and it's easy to show how 'SolutionX' (solar in this case) makes itself clean over time.

How is that the case with this aluminium fuel cell concept? Any advances in energy generation and CO2 capture are probably going to happen independently of aluminium fuel cell production. There's certainly plenty of incentive for both already, the aluminium fuel cells won't create a new market.

In conclusion, you're right that an aluminium based energy storage cycle would be more attractive if we had vast quantities of cheap and clean energy and low emission method of capturing CO2 and turning it into carbon.
But....
1. We have neither of those things
2. So for now an aluminium energy storage cycle is probably unattractive for most applications
3. If we did have both of those things it would totally change the economics of all sorts of other solutions, so you'd need to recalculate those as well before doing any comparisons between aluminium fuel cells and (e.g.) synthetic gasoline.
Uhh... I disagree. Firstly, I don't see the circle in the following:

- SolutionX puts lots of CO2 into the atmosphere compared to alternatives, and would be extremely uneconomic if we included in the cost/unitSolutionX the cost required to extract that CO2 from the atmosphere again.
- Lots of CO2 in the atmosphere is bad
-> SolutionX is either bad because it's uneconomic, or bad because it leads to lots of CO2 in the atmosphere.
-> We shouldn't use SolutionX until some factors change such that SolutionX is better than alternatives, rather than worse.

That's linear reasoning. If you want to change one of the underlying assumptions, namely that it's expensive to capture CO2 (and convert it back to carbon in this case... where at least the CO2 is coming from a concentrated point which reduces the cost of the process) then it's still linear reasoning with a slightly different result.

For it to become circular there would have to be some step where we said "If we had SolutionX it would be cheap and easy to get CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it back into carbon, but we don't have SolutionX because the methods of getting CO2 from the atmosphere without SolutionX are expensive so SolutionX is dirty".

That, interestingly, was used and is used as an argument against solar cells (e.g. solar cells made on power grids consume energy that may have a large CO2 loading). But it's easily revealed as bullshit through the use of EROEI (Energy returned on energy invested) accounting, and it's easy to show how 'SolutionX' (solar in this case) makes itself clean over time.

How is that the case with this aluminium fuel cell concept? Any advances in energy generation and CO2 capture are probably going to happen independently of aluminium fuel cell production. There's certainly plenty of incentive for both already, the aluminium fuel cells won't create a new market.

In conclusion, you're right that an aluminium based energy storage cycle would be more attractive if we had vast quantities of cheap and clean energy and low emission method of capturing CO2 and turning it into carbon.
But....
1. We have neither of those things
2. So for now an aluminium energy storage cycle is probably unattractive for most applications
3. If we did have both of those things it would totally change the economics of all sorts of other solutions, so you'd need to recalculate those as well before doing any comparisons between aluminium fuel cells and (e.g.) synthetic gasoline.