skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whats really amazing is that this experiment would have been a first of its kind in nearly 100s of years.

I personally think that our class based education systems are languishing at some 100 year based minima right now w.r.t effectiveness.

Present systems don't take into account:
1. Most subjects require different modalities of learning. Teaching computer science via lecture format? seriously?

2. Students have different economic situations which usually means real demands on their time and attention. The system HAS TO cater to this to be more effective.

3. As the environment changes the teaching methodology has to change. Right now phones and tablets really inhibit concentration. So something to counter this would be effective for all other classes.

4. Schools primary function is a safe place to keep your kids. Their inability to accept this makes them stuff the day with classes.
I think being aware and conscious of what you write isn't necessarily a bad thing.

More ever, internet-writing encourages short, clear and concise sentences and argument points which is a very useful and necessary skill in any social context.
Yeah, this has been around for a while, but it's never been independently verified.
Hopefully the redesign won't give us light gray text on a white background, which seems to the rage these days. :)

I had zero problems reading the print version.
Mark Zuckerberg Meets Indian PM Narendra Modi to Partner Govt in NOFN Project
Roughly speaking, it looks to me like younger people do not want to get married, and are in fact choosing partnerships that are expected to be only semi permanent instead. The idea of traditional, permanent marriage is taking on stuffy and backward-thinking connotations.

Some will still get married, even forward thinking secular people. There's a big difference between trying to build a family with someone who wants to partner up for as long as they're not unhappy, and having kids with someone who at least aspires to a permanent commitment. Marriage is pretty messed up in the U.S., but I still think it makes more sense to get married if you want to have kids.

Some won't. I don't think a culture built around transitory relationships is a good one for either parents or children. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a backlash in time, though I think another possibility is people just give up on having kids altogether. We'll have to see.
I absolutely hated the Windup Girl fwiw. The science made no sense whatsoever & and the successive "lets rape the sex-bot again!" scenes made me question why I was reading the book at all. About the only thing is had going for it was atmosphere & once you peel back that surface there's nothing there that would ever make me want to read that book again.
so perhaps Habbo
And some churches have particularly well-developed theologies of marriage and family. See, for example, Pope St. John Paul II's apostolic exhortation Familias Consortio and its many church-teaching references (and, in turn, their references and so on).

http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp2famil.htm
If you liked "Roadside Picnic" you should really watch Tarkovsky's "Stalker" (though the film is much more mystical and less science-fictional than the book).

If you like Lem, I would heartily recommend "Cyberiad".

Unfortunately, Tarkovsky's adaptation of Lem's "Solaris" was pretty awful, especially compared to the likes of "Stalker" and other great Tarkovsky films like "Mirror" and "The Sacrifice".

Curiously, despite Stapledon's enormous influence, to my knowledge none of his books have ever been made in to major motion pictures.
It's not really speculative. Remember that previous leaks showed definitively that the NSA had broken into Google and Yahoo, notwithstanding they had some partnerships/participation from them.

Bruce Schneier was given an opportunity to meet and review a large collection of documents but yes its true we don't really know.
Thank god bikes aren't magnetic.
I see it every day.

For many people communication in online forums is an ego sport. They are here to snipe and crush. If they can interpret your words in a way that makes you look foolish, then that is the interpretation that they will speak to. If they can find a literal inconsistency, then they will take the literal approach. If you speak in contradiction of the conventional view then they will stand atop castle conventionality and pour flaming oil on your head, laughing. If all else fails they will point out grammatic errors.

I see people reacting to this environment. They are hesitant to let their strange opinions dangle free. It definitely inhibits free communication.

I have faith that we will, as a society, pass through this fire and emerge educated. We will all learn to just say "fuck it" and let our special sauce flow.
Oh! An NYT editorial. Things are about to change!
I grew up and went to school in Russia, but spent my last three grades in the US. Both have their pros and cons, but some cons of the US system were very apparent.

1. In Russia I remember having eight classes a day only briefly and that quickly came to an end because having so many classes was considered to be close to child abuse. Six was the norm, sometime seven, but definitely not every day of the week. Here I had 9 classes every single day. I was not pleased at all.

2. The breaks between classes were only 3-5 minutes long in the US. Whereas in Russia they were 10-15 minutes. You can't socialize during 3-5 minutes you have to run to another class. Yes, you are less likely to "get in trouble", but getting in trouble is part of socializing.

3. Not really a problem with the schooling system, but the above two combined with living in the suburbs produces a great problem. You know you won't see any of the students for the rest of the day, unless your mom drives you to the mall or something. Socializing time is very brief during the school day, but really, that's all you've got...

Needless to say I hated going to the US school tremendously. Color me cynical, but I am somewhat surprised that there are not many more school shooting than there are now. Oh and I graduated more than a decade ago, so perhaps things have changed, but I doubt it.
Parenting around the world
But (for those of you who haven't read it) that summary really doesn't even hint at the novel's greatness. It just spills out cool ideas, hardly ever pausing to take a breath.

Bester's The Demolished Man is also well worth mentioning. Won the very first Hugo award, still stands up well today.
Oops! Likely related to some event logging experiments that we did. Thanks, we'll fix that. Should definitely not be needed to play the game!
Often times you can judge the sophistication of an author by the aspects they do and do not take for granted.

...and sometimes you have to call critics the pedantic nitwits that they are.
It depends on who you ask, most of the older generation who grew up under soviet propaganda don't want it. While the younger generation supports this. The people demonstrating are funded by christian and Russian Orthodox churches which is fine but if you consider that something like 85% of Estonians are atheists then it becomes just weird as in they don't really showcase most of our views and are in it for their own reasons. All in all I think it was a right step forward for our country in becoming more accepting of people and in 10 years time it will pay off.
It's not just comments, it's also the permanent nature of the internet that will keep haunting your Google results for years if you don't choose your words carefully.
Also people who stay together for their kids.
Really not much to see here, as the author originally did not know Apple uses stone age FOSS tools because of GPLv3.

Sources here: http://opensource.apple.com

Apple doesn't seem timely in getting sources put up. Wayback Machine shows that 10.9.5 was posted around October 7th even though that update was distributed to users on September 17 (~20 day gap), so they're not exactly adhering to the license as they should.

Also there is no sources for 10.10 and does iOS 7 and 8 really use no GPL'd or other FOSS'd code?
It's not so much about ex-Soviet it's more about protestant culture vs. catholic/orthodox.
Of course, but to be honest, that was the previous expectation of the NSA. It's not that apparent that there is anything useful to gain by leaking their attempts to spy on foreign counties like every other country does.
The AllJoyn [1] protocol supports local communication between devices. It gives devices of certain types the ability to tie into defined APIs for specific shareable functions. So that your door lock could turn on your lights for example.

Not saying this is a perfect and open system, but it could be a step in the right direction and does not require a live internet connection for your things ot talk to each other.

AllJoyn has a lot of major backers but has yet to take off.

1: https://www.alljoyn.org/
The organiser behind gamergate is speaking up against this kind of behaviour every day. This is not a gamegate thing and we see this kind of bullying from the anti gamergate side to an equal extent. The problem of cyberbullying, threats and doxxing is not a particular demographic or one side of an issue, the problem is bad parenting.
Thanks for pointing out the fallacy of the Platonic view. Its an insidious mistake that most people make.

On the notion of the self not 'really' existing, its important to note the distinction between those that say that the sense of self is an illusion vs those that say it doesn't exist.

The sense of self is an illusion and believing that it is otherwise is just as significant of a mistake as adopting the Platonic view that objects are imbued with some essence. Subjectivity is not imbued with any essence of "selfness", though a feeling of subjectivity certainly arises just as a chair is not imbued with "chairness" but the concept of a chair being a chair still arises when we see one.
I find it very mildly ironic that the author is comparing these "ancient" versions to MacPorts. Am I naïve, or do the overwhelming majority of OS X developers use Homebrew nowadays? I've always thought Homebrew to be much more robust than MacPorts. However, I've never actually used MacPorts heavily (and probably never will).
People Kept Complaining This Restaurant Sucked; Look What They Found Out
Yeah, I was very impressed that it just worked and worked really well on my iPad mini.
The "Internet of Things" is still rather pointless. I went to an "Internet of Things" meetup in San Francisco last month. All parties defined "IoT" as "controlling something via a smartphone and cloud server". Most of the applications are rather banal. There are smartphone-connected garage door openers.

The speaker for Samsung had some good insights. They have a refrigerator with a touchscreen and Instagram connectivity, which costs more than a regular refrigerator plus an iPad. He said that they saw three classes of customers:

- Those who want the latest thing.

- Those who like to show off their houses to others (the granite-countertop crowd.)

- Those who just have a lot of money and buy the high end version by default.

None of those people are getting this stuff because it's useful in any way. These are decorative objects to them.

If that's the Internet of Things, it's going to be a fad. Granite countertops are so last-year now, you know.
StartUpSchool – Networking
I wanted get this created so that we can all network with each other and meet some cool people.

9:30am - 11am	REGISTRATION
11am	Ron Conway SV Angel
11:30am	Danae Ringelmann Indiegogo
12pm	Kevin Systrom Instagram
12:30pm	Reid Hoffman LinkedIn
1:00pm - 2:30pm	LUNCH
2:30pm	Jim Goetz & Jan Koum Sequoia / WhatsApp
3pm	Eric Migicovsky Pebble
3:30pm	Office Hours Y Combinator
4pm	BREAK
4:30pm	Andrew Mason Detour / Groupon
5pm	Michelle Zatlyn & Matthew Prince CloudFlare
5:30pm	Hosain Rahman Jawbone
6pm	Emmett Shear Twitch
6:30pm	RECEPTION

There will be a "Speed Networking" event at 1:15 during the lunch hours, we will have a sign up so please stop by and pitch everyone.
We trade with countless non democratic states yet do to a few factors such as Florida being a swing state Cuba is evil incarnate.

If after 50 years the embargo hasn't worked it isn't going to.
In case you want to bet on this, consider buying sherritt.com . This is probably the company that would benefit most from an end of the embargo, as it owns some mining and oil rights on Cuba.

Disclaimer: I myself bought this stock somewhat below 4 CAD. Now its at 2.67 CAD. :(

EDIT: Honestly, why the downvotes? I for one would be very happy if people shared more of their thoughts about how one could trade particular potential events. But maybe hackernews is the wrong community for that...
That's ad hom and anarchistic. All bile must be veiled. That's an unspoken rule I think. Or maybe just the limits of convenient moderation.
Is it a meta joke with the internal server error response?
Agree on the parent part. If I let my kids do anything remotely close to what I did as a kid, CPS would never let me see them again. I left in the morning and came back at dark, with no check in. I did experiments with things I learned in the Anarchists cookbook. Its amazing what you can blow up with household objects. You kids today have it easy blowing up stuff - just go on Youtube. In the early 80s you had to know someone to get the really bad somewhat illegible copy. My kids love watching Mythbusters when they blow things up. I wasn't sure whether to be happy or worried when my 8 year old asked for Polycarbonate blast shields. He was thinking of things he wanted to blow up, and how to do it. That made me worry. He wanted to do it safely and had given some thought to shield and remote triggering. That made me happy, i did not have the same focus on safety as a kid and burned my eyebrows off several times. As of today we have not done anything, he has got his attention on other projects and I am not going to bring it up.

TL:DR - typical 12 year old kid from 1982 would be labeled child Al Quaeda terror cell, parents would go to jail for 25 years.
Your analogy doesn't work because 3 or 4 downvoters does not constitute a crowd. No, this is basically censorship by a small set of group-think leaders.

Thanks for the unsolicited advice though!
Dart: Angular 1.0
Ask HN: Liability insurance for a startup
A friend is nearing the completion of their site and they are now trying to get business liability insurance in the USA. Their concept involves teenagers and young adults providing services to individuals on a for hire and on demand basis. The site acts like a middle man and does vet the workers.

They have been trying to secure insurance for the website to protect in case a user brings a claim against the company (e.g. a person is robbed by an individual hired through the site).

They have been turned down by a handful of underwriters, with one company noting that there is too much risk associated with the age group of potential users.

How have you seen other start-ups handle liability insurance?

I don't see that their business model is much different than sites in operation, except that it's a brand new service.

Are you aware of any companies or resources that may help in overcoming this barrier of getting liability insurance for startups?
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What we see here is the death of broadcast communication.

Print, Radio and Television are granted a monopoly of audience attention. (If you can pay the gatekeepers.)

Now the loudest voices face a real crowd, people who will return the volley.

Does this hold us to a higher standard? Is the end of one-way broadcast the real death of journalism as we know it? I hope so.
It's amusing that Apple products ship with emacs inside.
A New Subatomic Particle Will Help Explain How Atoms Cling Together
WPF has a much steeper learning curve though. For non customer facing desktop programs, WinForms is fine.
Maybe the time is right. With Russia flexing its muscle you may never know when it could turn its attention back to Cuba.
Every developer I know in SF uses Homebrew, never seen anyone use MacPorts.
One of my best friends went to Cuba this summer. He told me that if you wanna see the real thing you must go there pretty fast, things are changing, Castro is losing grip and Capitalism is growing slowly but steadily. Prices have grown and people are ready to embrace foreign investment.

I think it's a good time to end the embargo, given the fact that even in foreign policy Obama failed to deliver what was expected (in retrospect that nobel prize seems utterly ridiculous), I'd say that it would add some points to the US president a bold move like that.
Most developers I know who use OSX use brew; fink used to be the big thing, then macports. I know for some certain packages, macports is still preferred.
Not mentioned and highly significant: Apple hasn't shipped anything which is licensed under GPL v3. That cuts them off from a lot of upstream development, including particularly upstream versions of bash.

I'm not sure they've ever published a reason for this, but outside speculation centers around the v3 patent grant and anti-tivoization clauses.
I can't believe I forgot Elizabeth Bear's _Dust_. (I had been thinking I prefered her fantasy to her SF, but _Dust_ was top-notch.)
"Getting along" is a key aspect of robustness in a relationship: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1021

Robustness is under-rated in the romantic ideals people are sold (and I do mean "sold"), which emphasize "perfection" under various guises.

The romantic ideal is someone who is not just a perfect match for you, but is a unique match for you, not because of your history and shared experiences but because of some supposedly inherent qualities.

The robust ideal is someone you get along with, who you agree with on a few fundamentals--which are mostly about attitude--who you've got enough history with to trust and understand and accept, and who you can negotiate with when you disagree. There could be a million people out there like that if the accidents of history were different, and at least half of those properties are in the relationship, not the person.

Another way I put this is, "You should marry someone you could go through a divorce with and still love them when you're done." I've seen friends with fragile relationships go through horrific divorces, whereas ones with robust relationships, while still unpleasant, generally still love each other when the dust has settled.
For the majority: real integration with the family.
Android ProGuard – why and how
I liked J.G. Ballard's novels - seemed to be sci-fi but not so on-the-nose that it beat you over the head with it.
yeah, I'm usually pretty good at explaining things simply, but none of the explanations here are making me happy, and I can't come up with a good explanation that encapsulates my intuition. Perhaps that means that I don't actually understand it very well myself.
2 hours of running.
Seems to be only about HTML-based browser hosted front ends.
How to Survive a Fireballing
Hey guys

I am hoping that I can start a passionate group around technical co-founders, new technical director/technical dev managers, and CTOs where we share the things we are all learning as we go. This is focused on the challenges of starting and growing companies as technical entrepreneurs.

There is a lot of this going on in disperate areas, and various individual blogs. For now, I am just throwing my hat into the ring, but I would love to build a home that is the source for everything a technical co-founder might ask himself. "How to prepare for a big ad buy from an infrastructure POV?", "How do I learn to 'manage' my first dev team?", "How do I prioritize a lot of high value coding", etc..

I feel like these are evergreen topics and I'm super stoked to write about them. And eventually perhaps turn it into a more community focused experiment. What are your thoughts on that? Would that be helpful to anyone?

Here's the first post I've been working on for a while that kicks off the idea. It is on "What to do if you are about to be fireballed?" or tech crunched, or hunted on product hunt etc. Replace the modifier there, but it is a very applicable problem many startups face. We are optimizing a wordpress site on rackspace too, so it is very approachable (we aren't like optimizing a node js cluster, if that is even a thing).

http://blog.dainmiller.co

Please let me know your thoughts :)

Cheers

Dain
I used MacPorts way back in the day; Homebrew is about a gazillion times better.
It hasn't worked?
I love that book. I have the audio version, and the narrator is excellent, so that lends to relistening easily.

The world it presents is very deep. It mixes a near future of more advanced technologies in some aspects with what a post-cheap energy future could be like.
Samsung spends significantly more on marketing their mobile devices than Apple does.

Samsung is estimated to have spent, in total, $364 million in 2013 in the US. Apple is estimated to have spent $350 million. Is that really "significantly more", especially given that Samsung's total mobile device market is wider than Apple's (e.g. feature phones and so on).

Indeed, thinking in terms of purely smartphones -- I see at least four Apple ads for every one Samsung ad I see. Maybe it's just my market (Toronto area), but there is absolutely no question that Apple's conventional ad spend, and their partnerships with carriers (that pollutes the numbers a bit), absolutely dwarfs Samsung's.

But of course Apple succeeds because they achieve excellence in all areas. As I mentioned elsewhere, they sure as hell are trying to compete, and anyone that argues that they live on some other plane, free of competition, is deluded.

The "bonuses to retail staff" thing, as an aside, seems to be some invention that appeared to justify Android sales, which clearly had to be caused by nefarious interference than consumer choice.
But I wish we’d reflect honestly on whether this level of precision is really warranted in all cases and whether such precision always needs to be completely nailed down up front. Maybe we could all try to exercise a little “ordinary charity” and have a simple conversation sometimes.

For some subjects, the precision is absolutely warranted. Good communication requires people to be on the same page. One of the issues with the Internet is that you can have an extremely diverse audience, and this creates communication challenges that you don't have (or rarely will have) in meatspace. One of the things I have been working on is audience development and how to get my message to the people ready to hear it or who have the background or whatever. This is a challenging thing to do online. Figuring out a means to segment out your audience will help reintroduce the ability to "just have a conversation."

Sadly, I don’t have any concrete proposals and am unsure what to do about all this, but… er, I welcome your comments.

Aside from segmenting out your audience and engaging in audience development/education, which is kind of a different thing, you can model respectful communication and social formality. Social formality is useful in situations where we know little about another person. Given the high diversity you run into online, this is one of the antidotes to the problem.

(Though, really, I am torn about posting this comment for other reasons, one of them being that I often feel like I give away my best ideas and can't figure out how to get money out of what I do. SIGH. Money is a chronic source of stress in my life. :-/ )