skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good education is politically discouraged.

That is my impression, too. It is very very disappointing, as I am at the beginning of the trajectory John C. Beck just ended. His decision and words do not surprise me a bit...

I didn't find out why, yet. The gist of my current theory is, that this crumbles down from old minds in politics getting more and more detached from what is actually happening in and around the {academe/increasingly digital} world.
Student feedback should be valued for sure, but there has to be another way to evaluate a teacher's skills and ability to impart lasting knowledge.
Maybe your thoughts apply to yourself and you aren't part of the immediate problem, but binge drinking has been known to be the cause/catalyst in incidents involving bystanders (temperament, drunk driving, etc.).

To a personal extent, everyone respects free will. That's not the problem. It's certainly on another caliber, but the dissonance actuated in your arguments remind me a lot of anti-vaccine arguments.
Was just about to comment the same. Dan Carlins podcasts are great. Starting at Archduke Ferdinand oversimplifies
I'm working on DOM diff JS library. https://github.com/widmogrod/jef#dom-diff
Right, because no one at all in the 'tech community' agrees with Mitt Romney.
I drink way too much. I've accepted this. What stops me from drinking way too much? Not much, because I'm able to rationalize my drinking with the many beneficial effects touted. There's a lot of information about how drinking a bit is helpful for heart disease and how it basically reduces mortality across the board. More information is needed about how drinking is HARMFUL beyond cirrhosis and the short term effects (violence, drunk driving). I don't drive while drunk and I'm not a violent drunk, but I drink too much. I know I'm at risk for cirrhosis but I also think there are more dangers than simply that. These other negative effects need to be more prominent for those of us who are these "contributing to society" drinkers.
I just made a parametric FDM 3d printable violin. I hope it can change the education system's music programs.
Hear it: http://instagram.com/p/pxIME9GHfd/?modal=true
Download it: https://github.com/matthova/hovalin
A Better Place – a Twitter positivity filter bubble for the morning
Just looked at the impressive list of institutes you attended. What did you teach?
Sam,

Thanks for giving it a go. You can login without a FB account by signing up for ConvoSpot account. This is the first we've heard about an error with the FB login, we'll take a look.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on the app, feel free to contact me: matt [at] jetrobotlabs [dot] com

Thanks.
Matt
Currently I'm taking a few weeks' holiday, so I'm making sure I work on no projects in the next week or so!

The projects I'm eventually going to return to are the following:

* Data analysis for a property search engine.

* Build some demonstrations for an engineering course I'm going to teach.

* (Longer term) Try to tie brain perfusion data to brain health, and hence predict dementia onset.
Having in mind how many deaths are caused by health issues related to obesity what number should be in headline "Eating behind _ in 10 deaths of working-age adults"?
I'm not mad at them or anything but it is probably the #1 reason for them successfully raising money at this stage. Seems misleading not to have that front and center.
I use (Harpjs)[http://harpjs.com/], it's a nodejs application. It can act as a web server serving static HTML or it can do live rendering of JADE files, MARKDOWN files, LESS files, etc., and comes with templating and yelding mechanism.

Bonus: it can compile any "dynamic"* site it can process to complete static HTML.

* quote, because it's still based on flat files, not on any kind of database.
Whether or not you agree with Marc, I'm always impressed at how persuasive he is and I come away with new data and new additions to my reading list.

He talks about the drop in the number of US public companies being caused by the lack of new IPO's. It's also fueled by private equity delisting public companies, Dell being a prime example in October of last year.

The benefits of staying private are not just due to the onerous regulatory requirements. Delisting has tax benefits. It also concentrates ownership and provides flexibility in executive compensation - and both of these resolve some conflicts of interest between public investors and the exec team.

Staying private or going private also provides you with defensibility against takeover - one less thing for the exec team to worry about so they can get on with the job.

There's also less transparency in the organization which can give you a competitive advantage.
Er, the feature you actually want is collapsing subthreads. Just install one of the half dozen HN extensions for Chrome.
I suspect, the salient fact that the CDC is leaving out is that many, if not most, of these are from car accidents.

Also, by qualifying it as "working-age" it skews the results heavily. What about all the people that did all that drinking and managed to make it past working age?

Lucky for us, automated cars are going to solve most of this problem in a decade or two. So a more honest assessment would answer how many adults are dying from non-vehicular drinking causes.
Do you mean like this one:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28421901#map=9/59.1125/-5.9...

That's just territorial waters.

The lines across Greenland are administrative borders:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/238745790#map=4/71.15/-44.1...

I guess there is so little mapped there that they can stand out.
And as a result of these evaluations coming too soon teaching becomes a popularity contest.
Here is a timeline of the test:
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/ldsd/pia18451/
My compiler has U0 U8 U16 U32 U64.

The U0 is size zero, not the same as void.
Look into the sky at night during a new moon, and count the stars. Look again during the day. The stars are still there, but the atmospheric diffusion of blue light from the sun prevents you from discerning the fainter light of a more distant star.

Lower yourself to the bottom of a deep well during the day, and look up again. You can see the stars again, because the diffuse blue sunlight is much weaker there.

If you were to compress an image of the daytime sky in the same manner that an MP3 compresses audio, you could simply remove all that variation from faint stars and only keep the information from bright sunlight. Follow the ghost discovery technique by taking the difference between the original and the compressed image, and you will see an image resembling the night sky. But most people would not be able to discern much of a difference with the naked eye.

For audio, if you have a pianissimo piccolo solo, and someone plays a crash cymbal in the middle, you could remove some of the harmonics from the melody because humans are incapable of hearing them, and you can also remove that portion drowned out by the crash, because humans can't hear quiet sounds through louder noises.

Finding the "ghost" track is actually revealing all the sound in a piece of music that no one ever hears anyway, whether the track is compressed or not, simply due to the hardware limitations of the human auditory system.
Disneypreneur
I built a piece of hardware that lets you recycle power supplies from old HP servers for powering Bitcoin mining equipment. http://gigampz.com
A distributed search engine for science, with all parts contained within a browser extension: https://github.com/ScholarNinja/extension

A blog post about it recently hit the front page of HN: http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-...

130 people have installed the extension and my server has churned through 100+ GB of data in the past three days, so I'm having scaling/performance issues right off the bat, which is great. Just today we made significant performance improvements (10x) to the underlying webrtc-chord DHT implementation: https://github.com/tsujio/webrtc-chord/issues/6

It's a whole lot of fun developing this :) If anyone cares about this stuff, I'm always happy to discuss!
any demo-site available?
After you take a picture you can see that the picture is "stored" to the right. There is a little animation showing where the picture is going. I dont think its as hard to figure out as you are implying.
I think what's surprising is that 1/10 is pretty high for something that technically could be prevented entirely. It has nothing to do with other causes of death.
I am working on Thunder Defense and building Anti-Big Brother tools to help the general public protect their privacy. The goal is to help create awareness about potential privacy threats with simple to use tools. It's not meant for tech savvy people or hackers but the general population.

My first tool is called Webcam Blocker Pro which protects your audio and video inputs.

http://www.thunderdefense.com
Shell pipes and in-place insanity
One answer would be that russian communism and other communistic countries inspired by it are just one pretty bad type of collective society , and we really haven't enough variations to say collectivism has failed.

But you won't hear something like that from marc, even if there were decent evidence to support this view(the nordic countries might be one such evidence).
Very nice... the interface reminds me a bit of some famo.us demos, except your app actually works well.
Yeah, NameTerrific is completely dead, I'm going to move away ASAP. At least he put up a "we're dead" page.
A means of building complex docker containers.

http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/
https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit

I got frustrated with Dockerfiles and wanted a similar means of building complex deployments without the declarative complexity of puppet and chef. It's taken off a fair amount in my company since the syntax is so easy to learn and the module level so quick to grasp. There's also a UI :)

http://shutit.tk:8080/
I beg to differ, we are in the process of getting accredited and I have yet to find a horses head in my bed. ;)
The Sinking Ship of E-Mail Security
Who is the most badass mathematician ever?
Building an open source CMS for creating single page apps using AngularJS.

Trying to build a low-cost ($4-$5k retail) mobile robotic platform to function as a robot butler.
Most deaths in that age range could be prevented entirely. Alcohol, like many other causes, is a risk we accept in exchange for something.

I would hazard workplace & automotive accidents are also high on the list. We can prevent those entirely, very simply...
That may not be the final product. Here is a screenshot from my phone running stock Android L: http://i.imgur.com/Tu9Vqhc.jpg

As you can see, they are pretty compact. They even overlap each other, kinda.
TechCrunch in particular hyped the shit out of Quora, as many of us struggled to figure out the point of it.
This is a really great project that could really make going from zero to "productive" with a new language so much quicker and more fun. I can't wait for Rust and Elixir to happen :)
No, it doesn't. It hides the "reply" link for deeply nested comments, but you can still always reply by clicking on "link" to view just the comment itself.
I don't think it's supposed to be in terms of FB/Twitter. It's underachieving relative to their funding and valuations.
Phenylethylamine?
Yes: http://9ol.es/BOOTSTRA.386/
I like this a lot. Let's be honest, there's not a lot of services built that are geared towards a small customer demographic of limited means. Which is what this service is geared towards. Those with huge expense accounts don't care about paying ridiculous rates for roaming charges. These types of services seem geared towards people who don't have that luxury and are in a location that doesn't have an internet connection of sufficient quality for skype. This is a demographic that I belong to for quite a few months of the year. ++ from me.
Note - replying to myself - I just realized that of the two things that I considered to be the "Worst Thing that could happen" - are actually both prevented from happening by EulerPy. I honestly hadn't considered that when I was replying to the OP.

Here's hoping we can get more than 202 questions from PE into EulerPy.
Glad you like it! The service came out my own experiences trying communicate with friends or family across international boundaries. Skype and others are fine when they work, but when traveling, they often fall short. Poor or no data connections, flaky apps, or even just moving out of wifi coverage can really kill your conversation.

PhoneCard doesn't even require a smartphone, so you get that much more flexibility.
Interesting to read this piece[1] by the same author.

For the first time in my career, I understand why I’m so nervous and irritable every time I walk into a classroom. In my own small way—in the only way I personally will ever be able to comprehend it—I am feeling the burden of preparing the next generation of humans to be more humane and better individuals. It is an awesome responsibility. But it is also why I’m a teacher.

1. http://www.hult.edu/ja-jp/news/blogs/2012/july/why-im-a-teac...
If I were a woman in a state/country that had such contempt for my rights and well-being, I'd move elsewhere. Honestly, a state with policies like this does not deserve to have women. I still don't understand why there isn't a steady flow of atheist or less-religious women emigrating from fundamentalist religious regions that suppress women's rights like Saudi Arabia and Texas. If these regions, like China, encountered the serious social problems (serious gender ratio imbalance) of treating women as second class citizens, they might rethink their policies.
I try not to buy too much into what he says. What he says is usually too philosophical, so the reader is making their own sense of what he says and gives him credit. He is almost a dictator the power people give him.

He actually went as far as to tell investors beware of investors not from the valley. So people don't steal in the valley as they do anywhere else?
The threshold for binge drinking described in the article is well into the "I'd be smashed" territory, so there's no alcohol scaremongering in this case.

Also things like free-soloing (corrected as per comment below), and for that matter things society frowns on like needle-drug use, are self-limiting and have orders of magnitude less impact than binge drinking. That's where prioritization washes out pursuing ineffective optimizations.
This is amazing. So convincing that I was trying to use it with only a keyboard for a good half minute before it clicked it was still a website.

Allow full-keyboard navigation and restart the DOS revolution?
A couple of comments - (1) "more" should really be turning into "less" on click to allow reversing the expansion (2) it shouldn't mess with the font-size. Otherwise, it's a nice balance between the simplicity and the usefulness.
It looks like that is their way of keeping a visual on the air craft.
I'm working on a bookmarking tool/web clipper that let's you organize sites you save by the search you used to find it. No tags or folders.
knovigator.com
I guess HN is hitting that site pretty hard. It even downloads at 80s speeds!
Excellent example of the lawyer's defense patent. I'm often in discussion with engineers from other fields taking patents as some holy grail. I now have some ammo to show that patents are not a generalized solution.

I do have one remark, Knuth refers to algorithms as fundamental building blocks, but as every programmer knows - we like to abstract upon abstractions making solutions higher level, so when does something stop being a building block and where does something start to be a patentable product.
You trading equity, options, futures? What's your strategy, stat arb, directional, delta-neutral? What's your broker? Lime/IB/Lightspeed/DMA? What's your tech stack? C/Java/Scala/GPU?
[Warning! Self-promotional comment] www.area301.com - free web dev leads aggregator which filters jobs from many sources and tries to show you only those which are with your time
Actually the link was an http link. You likely have HTTPS Everywhere that changed that.
It looks like they are deleting the comments of Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/TENenthusiast
It seems like the opportunity is ripe for disruption in this educational community. The cost of education is becoming prohibitively expensive and our public schools are not preparing students well for the real world.

I think if more emphasis were placed on the importance of career development early on, students would have better focus. In addition, teachers need to do a better job at demonstarting how learning can benefit their students. It is in everybody's best interests to have an informed and educated society.
Thank you for pointing me to this! To date I had not seen anything similar.

Perhaps the biggest differentiator is that PhoneCard works in the opposite direction, too. For example, you can purchase a phone number in the UK and have it forward to a US number. Also, PhoneCard calls you, while Ringo appears to make an outgoing call. In much of the world besides the US/Canada, incoming calls are free (even on a mobile/cell phone), so this means you pay for the call once instead of twice.
We're not all bio-chemists... enlighten us.
look at the Forbes 500 and you see lots of churn,
where is this supposed stability that will happen
with rich people cementing their gains

> Forbes 500

> churn

> people

Uh, because a list of companies is actually a list of faceless bureaucratic entities that only exist on paper, and serve as an apparatus to obfuscate the accumulation of wealth?

So the entities on the list change, but these entities are shells that a public market of callous, nameless, ever-hungry, demanding strangers loans money to, with the aim of extracting a 10% profit (or more) from their share loans, but because the names of these arbitrary, ephemeral entities change with the shifting sands of the economy, this means no one is "cementing their gains"?

If I compile a list of social clubs, ranked by gallons of beer consumed, and those social clubs report how much beer is being imbibed on the weekends nation-wide, and any individual citizen can join any club they want (no discriminatory conditions for membership) at any time they want (a different club every weekend), providing they chip in for at least the beer they drink and more (if they're feeling generous), how can that list be used to determine who accumulated the most liver damage this year?
if you raise $160 million and only have 30 million in revenue with a tiny or even negative growth rate with no profit, you are not only underachieving, but likely to fall out of existence and lose a lot of money for your investors in the near future. Foursquare has the potential to lose more of its investors money than any startup in recent memory.
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It's technically illegal to manipulate the market. But there are hardly ever any cases [enforcing these laws]. Basically the hedge funds run absolutely wild and do whatever they want."""

There's your problem right there. There is a great TED podcast from one of the regulators on savings and loans ("how to rob a bank from the inside") that said basically "we failed to stop either crash but we jailed 9,000 people the last time - this time not one got prosecuted."

I think we have lost our willingness to prosecute big business. I mean Madoff was prosecuted because he was just nakedly fraudulent, but an entire industry pretended liars loans was just a phrase.

So, want a better stock market, want smaller IPOs, want stronger financial system. Hire cops and let them do their work. We don't prevent murder or robbery - we prosecute it. Same here.
> If I were a woman in a state/country that had such contempt for my rights and well-being, I'd move elsewhere. Honestly, a state with policies like this does not deserve to have women. I still don't understand why there isn't a steady flow of atheist or less-religious women emigrating from fundamentalist religious regions that suppress women's rights like Saudi Arabia and Texas.

Because suppressing women's rights makes it hard for them to do lots of things, including leave (the latter, e.g., by increasing their economic dependence on others, particularly men.)

And because regimes that do this don't do so in isolation, they do so hand-in-hand with a dominant set of cultural values in which people (including women) are indoctrinated from birth which support this suppression as a norm.
There are a whole bunch of projects on http://DoerHub.com looking for contributors from code to medicine (and you can soon have private and public project sections over there to manage open contributions and core team stuff).

A few of the projects:

http://www.doerhub.com/for/robopaint

http://www.doerhub.com/for/securityfirst

http://www.doerhub.com/for/hello-tractor

http://www.doerhub.com/for/theodinproject

http://www.doerhub.com/for/highstride

http://www.doerhub.com/for/www-roomva-com

http://www.doerhub.com/for/www-farmstacker-com

http://www.doerhub.com/for/message-impossible
"You have to wonder what the economic impact would be if government policy were driven by a top ten list of quality-of-life issues. "

Not all issues boil down to "economic impact". Nor is it the only determining factor when deciding on such matters. You have to take into account peoples willingness, or lack thereof to do these things you speak of. Otherwise, you'll have to concede that all you're trying to do is maximize peoples' output for the purpose of benefiting the country, as if it were a farm.
If you are experiencing quirks like that, please report them via http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/ since that is the whole purpose of an EAP program. I don't think you will receive support for your specific problem via the tracker, but at least they will be aware that such a condition exists.

If you want help, http://devnet.jetbrains.com/community/idea/ideacommunity will probably be a great place to start. I have found their forums to be responsive and to have a pretty good signal/noise ratio.
History and origins of Latvian jokes
You write:

"a list of companies "

I think you are confusing the Forbes 400 with the Fortune 500. The Forbes list is of people, the Fortune list is of companies.
Thanks for the suggestion but I think I'll have to come up with nice a way to tackle spam/duplicate entries before I let people submit themes. I am adding it to my TODO list.
I always wonder, assuming a person had all the benefits, the perfect genetics, the perfect upbringing, the perfect luck in industry, how much smarter or better informed, or capable could they be than the average person?

We have the meme that a great programmer is 10x better than a lacking peer. I think that is the absolute maximum upper bound on how much better someone can be, and that is in a limited, specific pursuit.

When it comes to predicting the future shape of society, we're talking about the average of many, many disciplines- not a discrete thing like programming ability. So I really think at best it'd be like a 2x-3x factor of improvement.

And with something as difficult as understanding the future, 2-3x isn't much, because you're multiplying a standard ability of near 0.
very inspiring to see the breadth/scope of projects HN'ers are working on, but i shouldn't be surprised.

i'm working on a kafka producer in erlang

http://github.com/helpshift/ekaf
One thing to consider is that alcohol use is progressive - and while you drink a significant amount now - what if you doubled it in five years (as often happens) - would you still have it under control and not negatively affecting others? Addiction = (exposure * time) * genetics.