skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The common core is a just a standard of what should be taught and when. It is not a curriculum. It is not a book or set of books. It solves a real problem: schools in the US cover subjects at wildly differing times so when children change school districts they may have huge holes in their education.
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Denying rationality to the opposition is pretty much the definition of an 'ad hominem' attack.

There's a wonderful paper of the fundamental difference between the values of people who self-label as 'conservative' and those who self-label as 'liberal'. It has to do with how they prioritize values such as personal liberty, respect for institutions, adherence to authority etc. Both value them; but they prioritize them completely differently.

So, that aristotlean view above may call everything black and white, but actual people start from different premises. So they reach different conclusions.

Its good to respect other's culture including their premises on how we organize our society. Instead of just calling them idiots or that they have 'poor beliefs'. They just don't match yours.

Its good because you can understand them, and have a hope of arguing effectively with them. Instead of disaffecting them by calling them names. Which feels good for a moment, but just balls up any chances of a dialog.
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Gold is a currency.

I've read a bit of literature -- I don't know how canonical it was because it was stuff I was pointed to in the middle of chats like this one but I found most of it to be very 'happy path philosophy' which is to say it didn't stand up to much critical reasoning. It seemed like I needed to accept the conclusions before it made sense in any more than a toy world way. It was all also not very surprising. I never had a 'Oh, well now that makes sense' kind of moments.

As soon as I see that it may be worth my time, I'll have a look, but if the answer is 'well the market works well in this area it must work well in all areas' and 'we'll know it works when we try.' or 'some Norwegian clans 800 years ago tried it for 75 years and it worked great (ignoring the fact they had clan councils and chiefs that enforced common laws -- 'but they could chose to change clans!').

Anyway, as far as I can tell it is pretty weak sauce on the order of Objectivism. If you have a pointer to something remotely enlightening I'd like to see it. So far the proponents and the literature I've come across has been pretty hollow.
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Only because the general public is so... average (pretty dumb).

If the average person had a 10 or 15 point higher IQ, I think people would put a higher value on intelligence in their elected officials.

I think that the world would look a lot different (better) if the average intelligence was raised by this much. So many things would change. A dawn of a new era.
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What an arrogant thought.

First off, your ideas are awful. Your little entrepreneur contest is 20% of the CDC's annual budget before a contract with the winner is even signed. All your big talk about quarterly drills takes an even bigger chunk. All the while, you have pretty much targeted only easy bioweapon vectors that are not airborne. It also is all response based, and doesn't address anything like 1) recognizing an attack (unlike ebola, we wouldn't have the benefit of advance notice or know what the pathogen is in advance) 2) isolation/identification of an unknown disease during an active attack 3) non-medical considerations like medical/military/police/international responses ... so many other things that just aren't worth the effort to poke holes in your surprisingly shallow for the length post.

All of that is before the CDC's primary, more mundane, goal of tracking and controlling non-terrorism related diseases that kill hundreds of thousands in the US per year.

Again, the overwhelming arrogance is striking. I almost wish you could be put in charge of the CDC so that you could implement everything you've talked about, and then miss a worse than average seasonal flu that would kill upwards of a million citizens. Then you could have a bunch of armchair expert/monday-morning quarterbacks calling for your scalp and maybe you'd gain an ounce of perspective.

This doesn't even go into budget, since even the incomplete strategies you've outlined would probably cost more than the existing $6B USD annual CDC budget. Maybe you missed it, but the CDC got hit by sequester and _I'm trying like hell not to get political here_ but it seems that one party in particular seems to have no interest in good governance or increasing government spending whatsoever outside of the military supply chain or private/credit based spending. Maybe you ought to think about holding them responsible, and maybe the people that vote for them, too.
To clarify, you are talking about music production apps? Android L introduced new APIs to improve that, so hopefully it will improve soon.
Philanthropy strikes me as anti-democratic. Why should the rich get to choose which causes are more deserving of their generosity? Let the elected government pool the money and make this determination.
Argh, no CRUD for my job listing :/ The markdown preview and the actual rendering are quite different, so I appear to have posted a Wall Of Text :S
It's maybe excessively optimistic, but I think as long as the U.S. situation is limited to a small number of known, managed cases, the health care worker travel problem should more or less be solved.

I guess a middle step would be to throw a bunch of resources at making a better voluntary quarantine available to people traveling out of the affected regions (not just the self quarantine like failed with the NBC crew, set up some facilities for it).

edit: Also, unless something has again gone horribly wrong, they should be rinsing whatever disinfectant off the sidewalks, not anything directly (and it is clear enough that bleach is effective in denaturing Ebola, so obtaining effective disinfectant isn't an issue).
Hm. I never got exposed; it was illegal and use was hidden. Its a stretch to draw that straw-man life of crime.

Why would this imaginary kid fare differently if it were legal? The exposure becomes pretty much guaranteed, instead of problematical.
Just reading your quote, Gates didn't say "there is absolutely no one who inherits wealth or position." The Waltons are incredibly unusual because they've sustained inherited wealth to a second generation.
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Site is down for me and no webarchive yet, does someone have another cached link?

e: Its back, but in case it goes down again:

http://web.archive.org/web/20141016140435/http://blog.career...
SO what replaces "gun deaths" in the UK? Bullying, physical violence? To call it 'safer' you'd have to talk about actual public safety, not just cherry-pick one stat.
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Work on something with a small but specific goal. Be it unit tests, programming problems or a simple CRUD app in a new language. You should feel accomplished at the end.
Have used this in a handful of projects. Works as advertised. Easy to setup.
They want everybody to volunteer to install an app that captures images while the phone is asleep? That is a surveillance state's wet dream...
Why would we want to tax consumption of the wealthy (or anyone)? Don't we want to promote spending? The tax code should reward those that make investments, purchases, and donations. Not punish them. They should punish those that sit on their wealth and do nothing with it.
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Yup, even relatively new to programming as well (at least, it was immense use for me). You learn a lot of other things as well, including some tooling of the modern developer (working with Git, working with a PaaS like Heroku), and a bit about databases, unit testing, HTML markup, and CSS.

Not everything will necessarily click for you as you read it, but it is a great entry point.
That link only establishes that the 6+ is sold out, not that more of them were sold. It seems equally likely that fewer 6+s were produced.
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Hi,

This is related to an Ask HN I posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464118) - to summarise, I'm a primarily C# dev working on extending/customising existing off-the-shelf CRM systems, but I want to expand myself and learn more diverse technologies.

I built this as I sell on eBay infrequently, and the Royal Mail price-finder (http://www.royalmail.com/price-finder) assumes you know off the top of your head whether what your sending is a small parcel, medium parcel, large letter etc. so this way you just enter the dimensions/weight and it works out what the different services would cost (and automatically excludes services which aren't available for the dimensions/weight of your package)

I put this together over about a day to start to learn AngularJS (it seemed to have the lowest barrier to entry and my JavaScript skills in general are novice level) - the next step for me now I have something that _actually_ works is to learn how I should re-factor it to make it more maintainable and implement testing of it, so that when the prices update I can be sure I've not broken something.

If anyone has any feedback as to how/where/what I should be looking at doing with it to refactor it to be more maintainable/testable that would be greatly appreciated.

Lastly, all the data it needs is currently stored in the controller (such as the points for different parcel sizes and postage costs) as I was hoping to make it available offline and potentially package it in something like PhoneGap and have it able to run even if there was no network available.
There have always been new exploits being found daily, what's changed is the severity and wide reaching nature of said exploits.

Actually, what's changed is a tendency to now give scary names to exploits and to insist on the importance of "branding and marketing" them to increase end user awareness, or something.

It's gotten a little farcical, I think. It's also lead to a lot of ignorant impressions about free software, as of recent. In spite of the fact that everything is business as usual.
It actually doesn't matter if some of them cancel each other out. There still is the best combination of them, and statistically it's very likely to be better than anything evolution has come up with. Human population is just not large enough for the evolution to try many combinations.
At the same time, some companies that formerly embraced remote employees have decided that it's better to have them under one roof. Recent notable examples: Yahoo and Reddit have told all of their remote employees to relocate or find a new job.
Think I might go for the iPad option. Thanks for your work on this. When I needed to learn rails a few years ago railstutorial.org was invaluable.
I'm not sure I understand your other option. If the government doesn't have control over the flow of wealth, why do you think it will not just increasingly flow to those in power?

I understand the concern over governments that are not acting in the best interest of the people. However, abstaining from the process seems a very shaky way to actually get it to act in an appropriate way.

More to the point, I thought the entire premise was that investment has been going up for the sake of investment lately. Which means the main people benefiting from the investment of the wealthy, are the wealthy that are investing.

This odd conflation of philanthropy with investment just smacks of rationalizing high earnings in an "I deserve it" blanket. Yes, more philanthropy is good. No, more investment isn't the same as more philanthropy.

And, no, we don't need to eliminate consumption any more than we need to eliminate investment. Or, rather, I don't know as that we do. (I'm not that bright, all told.) What I do think we need is to increase the benefit to everyone from investment and consumption (and philanthropy). Not just those that are controlling it.
Ok the market just opened on 10/16 and NFLX is trading around $342, which is around $100 below yesterday's closing price but almost exactly equal to the after hours price from yesterday. The after hours trading was 100% real and not amateurs trading in a thin market.
Seems we are more likely to move into rather dark conjecture. For some reason, humans seems to be rather convinced of themselves, in spite of there really being no evidence for any kind of justification. We are facing a future that is being wholly underestimated where the USA is ushering in an existence that is dominated by control and oppression and abuse; how can that be any kind of indication that there are, let alone will be super intelligent humans. I think someone has been reading too many scifi novels and listening to bamboozlers.

There is no objective evidence that we are getting any more intelligent than past intellectuals even if we are simply just building on top of previous achievements. Just alone the notion that you would not realize that our "achievement" is just building upon achievements of the past is proof enough that there really has been little to no improvement. Call me when humanity has been able to wrestle itself away from the mental parasite that is religion. Then we can talk about the possibility of super intelligent humans. Let's the get the blatantly obvious mental health issues out of the way first.
or http://wfh.io
Just open the link on your phone and it will open directly to the app in the itunes store.
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WRT Common Core, I don't think Gates is doing it to serve some personal benefit - I get that his work with that, and things like Malaria reduction are genuinely motivated by trying to improve the world.

The problem is that it's one man's perspective vs. a whole world of reality, and as such the model might not fit and in some areas cause more problems than good. So you end up with a multi-billionare like Gates being able to basically treat the entire US .edu system like his own testing lab.

(no comment on whether Common Core is good or not - most of thing things I hear about it seem positive)
Can we just work on increasing the amount of intelligent human beings before we jump to super-intelligent? Thanks.
That just furthers my suspicion that this is some sort of reference board implementation. Curious that Google is entering the game as late as they are.

For disclosure, I should say I have and rather enjoy a FireTv. Not the most amazing device ever, but more than capable of what it is made to do. (And more to the point, does a good job by me.)
One solution would be to show the 'sidebar' at the top of whichever reddit you're browsing. Of course, considering the size of some sidebars, this might necessitate a 'sidebar' targeted specifically at Alien Blue users (which is now quite feasibly, I suppose).
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I wonder when Netbeans will support this
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It is a members only site that is why is asks for you info. Once you info is provide you have get perks like random deposits of surprise points for $5-$10 off any purchase.
The site is more than Ecommerce it is also a social site that allows for friends/followers to use crowdsourcing, get advice, and for members to enter contests under the Sweeps icon. It seems your experience did not even draw any interest to those area...that is the UX problem.
Good for them.

At the same time, at the company I work for we make heavy use of Ducksboard (v1) and rather nervous about the future.
That's impressive given the exploit is a day old.
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You and the bunch of other folks you know, sadly, aren't really much of a blip on the market for this. There is probably a bigger market that wishes this thing could hook up wirelessly to the tv.
The idea is that just having money does no one any good. You want to spend it on stuff. Further, having an estate tax caps that accumulation at the end of your life. There may be people who truly don't spend any money, but that would be the minority.
The problem with relying, even partially, on philanthropy to correct some of the imbalances of capitalism is that one encounters the free rider problem. There is also the issue where a very wealthy person has as their philanthropic cause something which few others think is a good choice of philanthropy. Such decisions should be made by society as a whole through their elected representatives.

I know this wasn't the main point of your post. Overall I agree very much with what you wrote. Especially your points on taxing labor vs. capital and your point on estate taxes. Even Reagan thought the tax on capital ought to be higher than the tax on labor.
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> I think we’d be best off with a progressive tax on consumption

In theory I like the idea of a "tax on consumption", because it suggests a penalty on conspicuous consumption and wasteful spending. In practice, taxes on consumption are seen as regressive, ie. they affect the poor more than the rich. Is there a way to tax "bad" consumption, without penalizing people who "consume" a large proportion of their income simply because they don't have much of it? I'm picturing some byzantine tax code system where functionaries make value judgements about the morality of various kinds of goods.
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The "double soft-tap" on the 6/6p home button will bring those halfway down the screen for you. Not ideal, obviously, but a decent workaround until people get used to the new UI metaphors.
What language would you choose? / Could you learn in such a time frame?
This article reminded me of the deer hunts I've participated in the past. Looking through the rifle scope, moments before pressing the trigger and feeling that inevitable moment of unconsciousness as the controlled explosion blasts out of the barrel and shocks your senses...I've always aimed for the upper neck. I've seen others shoot deer in the rump and also the shoulder area (which shoulder shots are often recommended to prevent them from running away after being shot)...but then run for miles in pain and exhaustion before expiring. To me, targeting anywhere but the neck is lazy and inhumane.

My neck shot is a way I come to terms with hunting a live animal. I miss more than I have hit - it's a way to keep myself sharp. One shot through the neck with an adequate caliber rifle stops the animal in their tracks and are almost always expired before I can run the 50-100 yards to where they fell. Of the few that were still alive when we reach them...one of us in the hunting party always carries a 9mm pistol to end things quickly.
>The problem is that it's one man's perspective vs. a whole world of reality

This was the point I was trying to make. I agree I don't think in this case he's trying to serve his own personal benefit. However, given he used his money to to implement a program he wanted, it just demonstrates the opportunity exists to use your wealth to push programs that are to your own benefit.
Google searching for "Powered by Drupal" delivers quite a substantial amount of high profile websites. Either as portfolio cases or directly referenced to in website footers. I don't know who will be faster; system administrators patching the bunch or people with malicious intentions writing automated tools to compromise hundreds of sites per second.
Artificial selection also appears to work in unusual ways. We don't really understand the mechanics of it. Foxes were selectively bred in several experiments (and for the fur trade) for tameness. Basically breeding only foxes that don't bite or recoil from people.

The breed developed a whole range of dog like characteristic, behavioral and morphological. They whine and bark (which neither wolves or wild foxes do). They develop a diversity of coloration. I've even heard some had cute floppy ears. Obviously there is a corollary to dog evolution, which we don't really understand either.

Selecting for a trait or a family of traits in humans will probably have unexpected side effects.
is there a (popular?) remote job board for server sysadmin work (esp. Linux)? anyone interested if I throw something together quickly?
This is the first iOS app that I've ever made, so I'm pretty proud of it! Would love to hear what you guys think about it.
In my mind, intellectual dishonesty equates to lying; especially considering how she absolutely refuses to accept any kind of criticism or address the very real and concrete problems with her conclusions.

Some of these things aren't "debatable", she's completely ignorant (either willfully or not is another question, and i'm leaning towards 'willful' due to either the total lack of response or personal attacks that anyone disagreeing with her gets) of information that completely invalidates her arguments.

And saying "well gamergate is worse" is just a cop-out.
> There is probably a bigger market that wishes this thing could hook up wirelessly to the tv.

Sure. We can all wish.

Back in the real world, this is the group of buyers who buys stuff like this, hook it up in a wifi-crowded area and then complain when things don't work properly.

Which is absolutely fair enough, because they're not technicians and not everyone should have to be capable of diagnosing network issues.

So why not just give these "commoners" something reliable in the first place?
I'm no supply-side economist, or advocate of Brave New World consumerism, but I believe that taxing the purchase of actual consumer products would not have a positive effect on the economy of the country. I believe a healthy economy is an active one. An incentive to remove money from active circulation (hoarding) could have long-term negative repercussions. And a country where the government encourages the average person to survive on hand-outs (philanthropy) over jobs (consumer spending) is sick morally as well as financially.
Spending doesn't do as much as starting or investing in new companies or even philanthropy itself.

Gates and Pickety agree on the estate tax which would help for people trying to sit on their wealth and simply pass it along to their heirs. Of course the estate tax needs some improvements.
Drupal.org was a qa testcase for the patch.
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Reminds me of that Outer Limits episode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Finger
From reading reviews of the BB Passport it sounds like new Blackberries are too - just be sure to avoid the middle ground, the last few years they haven't been good at all.
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Glad you like it. I've been working independently for about 5 years now and never plan to go back unless it's something really special (maybe SpaceX's Mars project :). Even then I'd want to be able to work remotely.

Point taken regarding company anonymity. Seems a lot of people have issue with that. I added that "feature" in just because I saw it on other jobs sites (e.g. authenticjobs) and felt that not having it would exclude certain potential companies from posting an ad. On reflection though, I agree with you that knowing which company you're applying to would be better so I'm going to make company information mandatory from now on.
Thanks for the kind words, and glad you like the new approach!
Well in theory, you could have a progressive tax on consumption, i.e. basic subsistence item have a low VAT, while luxury goods have a higher rate. This is already in application in some countries, but this is rather crude and does not take into account what you are using the item for. For example, electricity to heat your single room apartment has the same tax rate than the one used to heat your Olympic pool when it's freezing outside.