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Ask HN: Anyone from Brazil? I need your help
I am working on a project to expand educational reach and quality in Brazil. I need the help of a Brazilian to help me understand the whole picture and to help translate our website into Portuguese.
It's plenty of time if you can admit you have a problem and get started on the planning and adaptation. The trouble is that half of the political spectrum in this country has as one of its dearest beliefs the denial that this problem is occurring. This really interferes with long-term mitigation efforts.
The flynn effect has little to do with DNA. Which suggests you could have a vary competent society by today's standards.

Most stupidity is a result of poor education, nutrition, pollution, and disease.

It has been estimated that the average person taking an IQ test in 1932 would score 80points using the a 1997 IQ test. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Ask HN: Best World Cup 2014 content?
I cannot get enough of the World Cup coverage. This has been a great tournament. The only problem is that there is so much quality content and I'm sure I missed some of it. Please share any articles, videos, infographics, ads, websites, anything worth checking out.

Argentina or Germany?
$1 trillion over centuries isn't really a lot. What's the total worth of Amsterdam? Seems like a sound investment.
What on earth are you implying? She talks about outbursts and violent rage. It is not relevant to wonder if she enjoyed spanking. Your whole post makes me feel rather uncomfortable.
I feel like you're making a good argument but have chosen a singularly poor example. Use of "they" is most justified when the gender is unknown. Barack Obama is a very known male.

At some point, we may use "they" for everyone, even if known. But at present, it's not accepted even for cases when gender is unknown.

It's likely better to argue for its usage in unknown cases first before making a case for its usage even when gender is known. The latter is a far more radical proposition.

(I use "they" when gender is unknown".)
Well, that list also includes the University of Newcastle (the same university that published the aforementioned study).

In addition to the University of Newcastle as a funder, there are also these:

University College London, University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, University of East Anglia, University of Oxford

And these -

Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Physics (IOP), Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

And many more like -

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health Research, National Nuclear Laboratory, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Nature

Are they all shills too?
I felt like the test at the end was more of a test of the adventure itself: if many people are off target, there's probably more that should be taught.
Detroit is a great place (I live and work Downtown). It is definitely on an upswing.

However, like other commenters have said calling it the "next Silicon Valley" is a bit disingenuous. The whole regional economy is still very tied to manufacturing (particularly automotive manufacturing). I don't see a drastic change to technology or any other economic sector happening in the near future. I work at a software consultancy in Detroit and almost every project I have worked on has been tied to various parts of the auto industry.

I think other midwest cities like Chicago or even nearby Ann Arbor are much further along the path of being "Silicone Valley-esque"
Dikes won't stop water seeping up through the porous limestone which Miami is built on, nor are they practical for protecting the everglades or any of the existing fresh water and sewerage systems

I think the bigger problem is that the resources for dealing with this sort of catastrophe will be stretched very thin when every coastal city the world over is trying to deal with rising water levels.
I meant more of the same strategies. Data sharing and the like. In a mutable language this can be done by simply updating the head pointer easily enough. In a non-mutable language this is tougher in some respects. This is pretty much the thing that tripped up a ton of folks back from the early days of java. "Why doesn't x.replaceAll('a', 'b') change the value of x?" was not an uncommon mistake to encounter.

DLX is actually a great example of this sort of thing, as the whole point is that the operation to remove an item from a doubly linked list can be reversed to add the item back just from looking at the item that was removed.

And again, consider the way that git works. Nobody would call c and the techniques they use immutable, but the underlying data structure is.

More directly put, I am not calling for all data structures in a classical "mutation based program" to be mutable. I am curious about some of the more famous mutation based algorithms and if there are good comparisons to the analogous versions.

There was a great post here a few weeks ago about the blind spot in functional programmers in building trees. Having just seen the "threaded trees" for what I think is my first time, I have to confess it took me longer to make than I would have thought. Mainly because I was trying to hold on to some of the "immutable" methods of programming.
And the experts are also on non profit and large research universities, including the university that published the study (University of Newcastle). What's your point?
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We build products at the intersection of technology around data. Lots of data visualization, big data and infrastructure.

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We are a multicultural team with French, American, British, Chinese, Korean, Dutch and Finnish colleagues. We are about to settle a third office in Berlin and are looking at remote hiring in Spain and Seoul.

We work a lot with Javascript (node.js, AngularJS), Python, occasionally Go and Erlang. Lots of single page apps, APIs and infrastructure automation.

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Where Online Services Go When They Die
There are three types of people in the world: those that aren't convinced that organic is safer and eat traditional, those that are convinced but don't care/can't afford organic and eat traditional, and those that eat organic -- and are convinced.

That is, nobody eats organic that isn't convinced of its benefits -- why else would they opt for the more costly of the two?
Pittsburgh is quite an outlier on those charts. Anyone know why?
Are the individual instruments cooled to that temperature though? Because if they are not, then the difference doesn't matter.

Had a look at the SPIRE manual [0][1] and it seems that Herschel does include an Helium cooler to cool SPIRE and PACS to 300mK.

On the other hand a closed-cycle system can also extend the mission, since you won't run out of cooling at a fixed point in time.

[0] http://herschel.esac.esa.int/Docs/SPIRE/html/spire_handbook....
[1] http://herschel.esac.esa.int/Docs/Herschel/html/ch02.html
> I tell college students that there is both risk and opportunity in Detroit. If you want the safe choice it's probably not where you want to go. But if you want to skip a few steps in your career rise along with a higher risk of failure then it's one of the best places.

I expressed this exact sentiment at a conference a year ago where the topic was about keeping great talent here (Detroit/Michigan/Midwest) instead of losing it to the coasts. Basically, you could go be a cog in the Google machine, or you could stay here and drive something new to success. Of course you're taking risks; big names missing on your resume, a six figure starting salary, winter. There are benefits though; you get to set the culture, much lower cost of living, and fall here is awesome.

With the bankruptcy in motion I think locals now feel that Detroit has finally hit bottom and can now work its way back to something better. It's not going to be the next Silicon Valley, but with the increased interest from younger generations it's going to be something more than it has been in a while, growing.
Here in America, we always do the right thing... After exhausting all other options.

The sea level rise will take decades to play out. We know exactly how it will go: Conservatives will continue to deny climate change is happening, everyone will procrastinate, then worsening flooding will force action.

When the maps of the US must be redrawn to exclude the submerged land, only then will Conservatives begin to admit climate change is happening (while denying they ever denied it). This is as expected, because the current corporate masters will be dead and not required to pay any taxes to implement mitigation measures (aka the system works as designed)
I would argue it's not so much the community (I'll bet there are maybe a dozen people who understand the source well enough to improve it) so much as the fact that TeX is feature complete, essentially bug free, and written by a genius. It really is an amazing piece of software which has no equal, even if you wanted to spend thousands of dollars. Why are we intent on replacing it again? I understand the gripes about the language, the error messages, and so forth. So design something that compiles down to TeX, not unlike what the Java(Script) people have done. Reinventing TeX just seems like an exercise in futility. (Nice duck logo though.)
Great read. I wish you did one on the Genesis :)
> You could dust your plants with arsenic and call them Organic.

Support this claim.
Off topic but just in case you didn't know, the expression is "I could NOT care less."
> Since this is a game about cognitive biases, hosted at mit.edu, I maintained hope that they, too, would be this pedantic about semantics, but, sadly, no.

It's also very disappointing to have the site claim that there is one unique "right answer" to questions that are ambiguous. For example, the site claims that 30 mph is the "right answer" to "how fast can a race horse run", but Googling shows plenty of examples of race horses running 40 mph or faster. I think they meant something more like "what is the average speed of race horses when clocked during races", but that's not what the question said.
What are those "overall societal benefits"? Can you describe them more concretely?
Governments don't need to be that direct. Long maternity leave, large subsidy's for having children ect can all work without any heavy handed tactics.
Zero History by William Gibson. Half way through.

Pattern Recognition, the first of the trilogy, was my favorite.
Gates Foundation is involved in many non-tech areas, e.g. education & health.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gates+foundation+investment+...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled...

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"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation didn’t just bankroll the development of what became known as the Common Core State Standards. With more than $200 million, the foundation also built political support across the country, persuading state governments to make systemic and costly changes.

Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states’ rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration."

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i don't see how this has relevance on HN. sure its interesting (or at least you may find it so) but so is a cat jumping into a box. I dont see how this has anything to do with compute science / entrepreneurship / Tech
Actually the number of indy bookstores is on the rise, and has been for several years.

They do compete with Amazon, of course, but not nearly as directly as they do with Borders and Barnes & Noble. Borders is gone and B&N is closing stores, which means better times for the indy shops.
I am a data junkie as you are, and I have several years of Foursquare data now, but just recently started using Moves. One gripe I've had is that if I stop somewhere for less than a two to three minutes, Moves doesn't register that I was actually at a location, and there's no way to force it to do so. Have you experienced something similar? Beautiful site, by the way.
watch: Display top-like output for any command
I grew up delivering newspapers in these apartment buildings: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.399458,-83.092935,3a,75y,44....

This is right on the main street into downtown. It's really sad.
Progressive taxation on wealth (not income). Then, mess with the curve of progressiveness.

Generating income becomes the unbridled thing. Sitting on mountains of wealth becomes futile. No dynasties. What have you done for me lately? You can live a king's life by generating obscene earned income, but your kids will only be assured easy street. Their kids only assured middle class. This gives grandpa and grandma a reason to improve the lot of the middle and lower classes.

If you let the lower groups fall too far into despondence, they will eventually come for your heads. You can build prisons to a point. You can create mental prisons to an extent. You can pacify the masses for a long while. Eventually, there's nothing left in the tank. Nothing to lose. Then, you lose stability and your choices are few.

The more your society reflects fiefdoms of the middle ages, the more you'll start seeing royalty thrown from windows and put on stakes.

We have the very wealthy (royalty). We have their military class ready to step in: Gun-coveting believers in the system that amazingly keeps increasing inequality. Then we have a growing base of servants who can't own land or tools of production (education). This looks increasingly familiar.

Or maybe I just have some Dystopia Myopia.
ProcessPoolExecuter from the futures package essentially does this, it runs multiple instances of the interpreter and then distributes instructions to them.
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Show HN: Convert HTML into React.DOM Coffescript calls
It's depressing that I'm far less surprised people are this evil than I am that high level execs are this fucking stupid about using logged, discoverable email to engage in criminal activity.

There's no way being unethical (or at the very least, "an utter dick") in one area doesn't bleed over into other areas.
Really like the site. Is there mobile apps for this?
"No, because such questions, to me, implicitly acknowledge we are talking about a fictional world. The question about the Dalai Lama, however, is a question about this world."

Or, perhaps you're implicitly talking about the world in which the Dalai Lama is reincarnated. There's not much difference to your distinction.

The correct answer is whatever is commonly excepted by Buddhists, I guess, or perhaps there is an official number. 0 would be a trick answer.
Encourage her to get out now. Every sign suggest those insurance rates are only going to increase. And while property values might be increasing at the moment, it's only a mater of time before the insurance rates become so onerous she can't afford the property. And at that point good luck finding anyone willing to buy it.
But that's how smears work. The whole point is to cause deep consternation, because dangerous questions might reflect poorly upon the person that asks them.

So, when confronted with a delicate social scenario that threatens our better intentions, an awkward silence is produced, and everyone's mind races at the grey areas, and 12 people will diverge in 12 directions, guided by assumptions based on personal experiences. But in considering the possibilities, we realize the fact that we are in a situation where we cannot comfortably clarify certain details.

It's important to pick apart details when two people are mutually compromising each other's reputation. It's important to discern who is the agressor, or the possibility that it's an equal match between evenly paired beligerents.

This is where "preponderance of evidence" comes into play. If the situation is criminal, often times that is immediately evident. Serious physical abuse produces serious results. Psychological abuse is more questionable, but criminal psychological abuse generally results in a person that is very obviously broken by profound events.

If something sounds like gossip, then it's more or less a civil disagreement. Sure, emotions may run hot with a gossipy scandal, but at that point it's the social implications of reputation at stake. Serious, within the scope of a professional career, and as an open-ended slow burning problem for the reputable, but that sort of damage is indirect and have yet to completely unfold.

But this is how blackmail works. Is it vapor, smoke and mirros? If there are Ugly dirty details, let's see them. Otherwise, it's simply mud slinging to produce voids of inormation, so that imaginations and simple minds can run wild.
>Yet, it seems that the ROI on college is high (for those you graduate), as evidenced in this article.

The ROI of a college degree earned 30 years ago is high. Recent college graduates aren't faring so well. Those who do have jobs are frequently underemployed, living with their parents, and buried under school loans.
It's a little different:

1) Reduce 'soft' duplication. Overhead of having many small logging calls everywhere is probably higher than we all want to admit
2) Reduce small variances. Common logging format is useful (as a baseline-- additional logging is probably also useful)

I'm not terribly familiar with AOP but the cognitive overhead IMO is reduced if you just have to act as a client to logging (via annotation) than bespoke implementations at each call site.
> half of the political spectrum in this country has as one of its dearest beliefs the denial that this problem is occurring

The Guardian article isn't actually talking about the general "problem" of climate change, even though it titled it that way for ideological reasons. Water backing up through storm sewers during high tides is an obvious issue regardless of the underlying long-term cause; it's bad design, and it shouldn't require a belief that climate change is a worldwide problem to understand that your own city's storm water system needs to be redesigned. I'm sure there are plenty of irrational political reasons why Miami hasn't fixed its storm water system, but I doubt that climate change "denial" is significant among them; I expect it's just, well, politics--elected officials don't get votes by forcing the city to make the hard choices that would have to be made to fix the problem.
Yes it does

aeg@bigwibble ~/ % cp bigfile /Volumes/data_sd1
load: 1.60 cmd: cp 17686 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.09s
bigfile -> /Volumes/data_sd1/bigfile 1%
I would say that pretty much all of 4500 years of western history directly disagree with this statement. There were dozens of non-individualist societies when we started, there is arguably a single (relatively new) one left, one that is at least partially individualist, and a single new one. There is the western civilization (sometimes referred to as western individualism, especially by non-western scholars), islam, a relative newcomer that is certainly more individualist than most the competition it massacred out of existence (like e.g. the Roman Society it is mostly modelled on), and communism (which is arguably dead today, as China can hardly be called an example of a communist society. Who is left ? North Korea ?).

Any solution that requires individuals reacting against their own self-interest on a large scale is a complete non-starter, for such a thing would not be Nash Balance. Non-Nash-balanced things can only survive until the first unexpected event, and require ever increasing infusions of energy to save their existence. Even that is only true if you can make it a global intervention. If not, it will simply get out-competed and replaced outright.
The duck is a (mistaken) interpretation of an early French automaton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck
+5/+1 more like. The sea will rise, but it's just a question of how much.
So is it a zero-sum deal? If there is a certain "type" of person that makes cities better when they are present can we make more of this type? Or must we simply choose between moving them all to a few special extra-nice cities and scattering them out so that all cities are equally mediocre?
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That is not downtown, though. Growing downtown and renovating the exterior with whatever is inevitable. Have to start with downtown and grow. That is a 35 minute bus ride from downtown.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Title+Source,+662+Woodward+A...
It also prevents someone who makes controversial posts from being able to post very much. Downvote as a disagree button only works if there are no consequences to being downvoted. Otherwise, it just reinforces an echo chamber. Substantive, reasoned posts that contain unpopular opinions should be more visible than the circlejerk that always percolates to the top in these situations.
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Not to mention, good old social pressure.

I grew up in a suburb at the tail end of that era. In my view there were some other factors as well:

1. Raising a family on a single income was fathomable.

2. Things like day care centers and summer day camps weren't as prevalent.
Completely agree here. I'd love to hear opinions on the motivation & risks of this news.
> We were able to feed society with family farms

98% of farms in the US are still considered family farms by the USDA.
I would, but for reasons I'm unable to comprehend, she actually likes it there.
No, it's you who are wrong ! Is this what you call a rational argument ?
It's not because you are an old man. Compare that talk with the one with the Google Founders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdnp_7atZ0M

Rap Genius needs so much humble pie, they'd choke to death on it.
Not only that but goals change, and I wouldn't want to end up in a position where I looked like I had failed when in fact I had moved on to other things.
+1 for Detroit Labs. Coolest company in Detroit imo.
Not all tech is like this. Consider the most successful tech company that exists, Google.

Both founders are extremely humble, cogent, and respectful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdnp_7atZ0M

It goes to show that even the most extreme success and fame, can still be processed without destroying your ethics.
My Impressions of Four NYC Coding Bootcamps
Every time I've needed/wanted to learn a new language I found it very helpful to have a project in mind do this. Like, building a simple web-service for me and my friends.

This goal will push you to learn many parts of the language. I've found it gives me a bit more drive than "dry" study.