skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat off-topic, but if you don't mind sharing, what would you say is the optimal Queens neighborhood for proximity/price/schools?
If San Francisco were more NIMBY-tastic than its sister California coastal cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, then one might expect its housing prices to pull away from those two.

Instead, they seem to move in lock-step: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BolI6BiIMAAgpWT.png
PS: The monitorEvents helper function is a nice thing in Chrome. But that's not so hard to do inline using e.g.:

foo.addEventListener("mousemove", function (event) { console.log(this,event); })

It's only a few characters more than:

monitorEvents(foo,"mousemove")
This is a great application, will be using it
This is misleading...
> I don't understand how do you do that

Here's a simple way to compare someone to the average teacher.

Two tests. One at the beginning of the year, one at the end. Take the average improvement across the school, across the district, across the state. Now apply that average school-wide improvement to a classroom's original scores in the first test to see how those students should have performed on the second test. Compare that number to how they actually performed.

I came up with this in about 10 seconds, there's obviously a better way to do things, but comparing someone to the average teacher really isn't that hard to do.

The most important part is coming up with a test that actually measures understanding. Open ended questions are usually a good place to start. Many tests I have taken really require you to understand the material.
I love the way people in the Startup community talk about how New York is oriented around finance. It is totally true, from the perspective of a certain group of people. New York also has a history and cultural identity that puts monetary success and business above other concerns that can arguably be traced back to its founding by Dutch traders as New Amsterdam.

That said, New York is only oriented culturally around finance from the perspective of a tiny subgroup of self-important people. The overwhelming majority of people living, working, and creating in NYC do not feel that "finance" dominates the culture, the connections, or the emphasis.

New York is the dominant hub (or close to it) for several genres of music, for television, for fashion, for theater, for many counter-culture political movements, textiles ... the list goes on and on and it will be boring if I continue to explain.

Basically, it's the kind of thing you can say if you really know nothing about New York.
But this requires every poster creator to add an ugly QR code. Plus, QR codes just take you to a website and then you have to add info to your calendar manually. Bonus points if they support .ics but that's rare.
Add Mashape's Astronode to the list: https://github.com/Mashape/Astronode-Broadcaster
This is intersting
sounds reasonable, btw remind me of wave. Having used both, I fell back onto gmail, as I still like the ordering of each individual email displayed in front of me, instead of encapsulating them into categorizes which I need to expand one by one to find the ones I am interested in.
Netflix is a Java-heavy shop (the client talked up in the blog post is the Java client). I was pleasantly surprised to see that dynomite is implemented in C with an eye towards both BSD + Linux. I'm curious if this was because a GC'ed language like Java or Go was tried and proven not up to the task, or what.
will you look at including data from Adwords?
Antiquated? Nah...he forgot to mention it was L1 cache :)
While it's not conspicuous consumption, it is conspicuous. I'd argue it falls in a broader category of conspicuous lifestyles.

Is there bad about owning a Ferrari?
I'm a huge fan of antirez in particular for this. So many other devs would have shrugged off the occasional latency as acceptable, or a poor measure of true performance, or blamed it on nebulous EC2 performance issues. Which happened, to a greater or less extent. But three blog posts later he's still digging in to the root causes and has eventually (through no small effort) come up with the cause, and a fix.

Open source is good. Its individuals like antirez who make it great.
You really want me to start citing research papers which show that if you improve latency, even if users don't "notice" it, you gain users?

"web latency research user conversion rate" on google will turn up a ton.

Heck, back in 2004, ten years ago, you only got two seconds:
http://cba.unl.edu/research/articles/548/download.pdf

Now 1 second http://www.australianscience.com.au/research/google/34439.pd...

Even that causes losses:
http://www.tagman.com/mdp-blog/2012/03/just-one-second-delay...

Google sees significant effects at 200ms:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.htm...

blah blah blah.

Feel free to find things that say the opposite, i've never seen a study that says "users will choose the slower service, if it's 'better', they just don't give a crap".

And sure there is a diminishing return, but if your latency times are 1s or greater for a web based service, you are almost 100% guaranteed to be losing users/conversions/etc.
The people advocating for a metric ought to be the ones who are expected to establish that they are sensible. Nonetheless, education "reformers" have consistently been promoting metrics with enormous variation in ranking.

Of course, if your purpose is to garner the political support of people who say "it sounds like it makes absolute sense" actually measuring meaningful things is irrelevant.
You're discounting the "very large scale" portion of your statement.

What may seem fairly low value from the outside or consumer perspective is likely of huge value internally to ensure you can always watch Netflix without even thinking about everything that has to happen to deliver as much video as they do to their customer's browsers.
Location: Seattle(new grad)

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My guess is that because its the biggest and most ergonomic key to access on a keyboard, that it made sense to assign it to the primary UI function on a web browser: to scroll down.
> Are they going to build all the supported HW device
> drivers all into the kernel image?

Historically that was what the 'Generic' kernel was, something which would boot on any system. A typical system configuration would be to boot the generic kernel, edit the configuration file to select only those devices and features that were going to be used, config and then make that kernel. Then boot from the configured kernel from then on.

There has been both a lot of research and debate about various 'microkernel' strategies where the core of the micro-kernel really only knows how to access the boot disk and load modules. Then as hardware is probed and discovered, modules to support that hardware is loaded.

As a desktop machine kernel, micro-kernels allow for changes in the hardware configuration to occur fairly easily without a lot of user visible fuss. But they do leave open the vulnerability that the module system can be exploited. Server systems generally change less frequently and hardware changes beyond adding or removing a disk drive are often quite rare.

Things are always trade-offs.

I wonder if there is anyone doing mixed virtualization studies. Using a hypervisor that is locked down for the lower layer and then booting the "user" machine for interactive use. This is a very powerful architectural choice and was been used for decades in IBM's mainframe OS. Perhaps we'll see a consumer OS based on those principles at some point.
No, it doesn't imply anything at all about whether speed is a big deal or not.

At best one can conclude that concerns about performance aren't as important as other considerations which make Rails/Django more attractive. My opinion is that these other considerations are more along the lines of cost of labor and ease of learning than anything else.
The effect of Prop 13 is much, much more than this. It gives homeowners an incentive to hold on to property as long as possible.

The article mentioned "this uninhabitable home possibly infested by rodents and held up by a couple of poles" selling for $1.8M, but neither that or the linked one mentioned the owner was paying tax on only $70k of assessed value.

There are often comparisons made to Texas-- in this case, someone owning a $1.8M house would be taxed around $54,000 a year in Texas, versus the $700 he was paying in property taxes in California.
Do you really think working remotely is anywhere nearly as stable as working as a doctor? I'm asking honestly. If I were convinced that it were, I'd consider that path. But most companies I've been involved with have clearly preferred developers to actively be part of the office (I guess I need to actively seek out the exceptions), and the areas I would like to live in aren't necessarily ones I'd want to find myself unemployed in (due to lack of technology companies -- I'd either have to find another remote job or uproot my whole life).

I'm also not confident at all on the longevity of most software companies. Part of me does not feel comfortable growing roots somewhere while working for a company that I don't expect to survive the course of even my own career, with very few other local options to fall back on.

Also, for what it's worth, I really do enjoy physically being around coworkers and interacting with people. The lack of interaction is one of the things that bothers me with software development. I think, if I worked remotely, I'd have to start a family just to keep myself feeling connected to the world.
Has someone invented a rigid deck? Or is "horizontal" too many syllables?
> If you translate your entire comment to the non-browser development arena, it seems totally nuts.

Translate it to literacy then. Should everybody be a prolific author or an avid reader? No, it's okay if they're not. Should everybody have the option, the basic ability to? Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if it was considered a human right, or implied by human rights. It's not okay for people to be unable to read, just like poverty is not okay. And what's more, you don't need to know about the chemistry of ink or paper to be literate, just like you don't need to be able to solder a CPU from toothpicks to be computer literate. It's all a matter of degree, with no hard lines, but still, I'm not happy to give up that easily on that much.

We already accepted that making a website is too hard for "normal" users, that just everything taking place in the equivalent of malls is fine, with people hardly interacting in private or public spaces, except for a bunch of wizards in ivory towers, and that is a shame and cannot stand. Especially since the poison of planned obsolescence has already permeated anything to do with computing; if "normal" people can't create their own software and robots, it will not lead to better software and robots made by experts, it will lead to marketing departments shoveling regressing bloatware to people, ultimately. Yeah I'm exaggerating, too, this is FUD in a way, I know that... but I can't help it, this is the one thing to do with computers that really gets to me. I can live with not everybody being a programmer, but I cannot live with not every programmer wishing everybody could program. Being able to make a static website is not even a tiny subset of that, but if I can't even give up on general coding literacy, I can't even consider giving up on general web literacy.

So while it's totally silly to worry over the announcement of something when we don't even, and that will be freely available to everyone, I absolutely love that so many brought this issue up! It does give me hope. But so far, Mozilla has brought me nothing but joy, so I'm not anxious. Whatever it is, it will be open source, right? Right :D Anyone from Mozilla reading this, you guys rock.

TL;DR: I had a dream of a world where the words "developer" and "user" were out of use, just like "free citizen" as distinction to the default case of slave or woman is out of use today (well okay, those problems are also not overcome, but at least there is a consensus amongst smart people that they should be).
1 goal: Destroy Mid-size and Small USA business
2 goal: Destroy Software, IoT, embedded software
3 strategy: 2.3.1 Stomp the grass to scare the snake
4 scope: ALL business uses encryption

5 past: destroy short term crypto by brute force
6 present: destroy mid term crypto by Quantum Computing
7 future: destroy long term crypto security aka NTRU

8 open source: sel4 proved secure and safe
9 open source: Post-Quantum Cryptography NTRU
10 open source: secure against D-Wwaavve Goooogle cracking.

11 crime UNnatural: Nature, internet and Cybersecurity
12 crime UNnatural: Big banksters too big to fail.
13 crime UNnatural: Scapegoat the small business software
14 tactic: firing a drone is expensive.
15 tactic: firing malware at Michael Hastings car is easy
16 pretext: Wind River Fined for Encryption Software

17 bibliography
18 --books many titles destruction of middle class USA
19 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems
20 --[PDF]On the Cryptographic Long Term Security
21 www.scienpress.com/Upload/JAMB/Vol%203_1_1.pdf
22 http://sel4.systems/
23 http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2034
24 http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8317
25 --Insights from the Nature for Cybersecurity
26 --[PDF]Provably Secure LWE Encryption with Smallish Uniform ...
27 eprint.iacr.org/.../164....
28 https://pqcrypto2014.uwaterloo.ca/.../post-quantu...
29 --[PDF]Making NTRU as Secure as Worst-Case Problems over ...
30 www.iacr.org/.../6632...
31 --Michael Hasting's Car Allegedly hacked?
32 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...
Well, they make it seem trivial, while dealing with every watch and every pause, every rating updating complex recommendation engine algorithms. They deal with licensing and region awareness and proxying by ISP and running their own CDNs and...

And that's the magic.

To boot, they do it at enormous scale on a multitude of platforms all while their own destructive code (Chaos Monkey) runs around destroying servers.

It's true, some things like "stream me this" are maybe not rocket science, but at Netflix scale, everything becomes a bit more difficult.
I guess I consider it harsh to judge a book based on the MOOC that uses it.
According to some quick Googling

"wealthiest 1 percent of Americans control 35.6 percent of the total wealth of the country"

"the top 1 percent of income earners took home 17.67 percent of the total income"

http://money.howstuffworks.com/one-percent-control-third-of-...
You can still synchronize them, it's just that "synchronize" takes on a more complicated meaning. Both sides can use their clock, and the known positions of the two clocks over time, to predict the time that the other clock should be reading. The time deltas are no longer the same on both sides, but you can still transform between the two in order to compare them and detect errors occurring.

More pragmatically, we'll probably agree on a standard centralized time (i.e. International Atomic Time) and everyone will translate between their own locally perturbed time and the standardized time when synchronizing.
"Gateway to npr" is a great way to put it. These guys got me listening and donating.
Incorrect, the USA are known for messing with money, goods, people (CIA abductions) or even the airplanes of foreign heads of state (Snowden), even if there is no applicable jurisdiction.

Behave like a bully everywhere, then some day resistance will rise to you...
I could be interpreting your comment wrong, but it seems to put the onus heavily on the teacher, which seems a bit naive. My friend just started teaching in New York actually. And she specifically wanted to teach at a Title 1 school (i.e. poor) in order to reach students with less income and opportunity (she teaches an East Asian language in a predominantly non-Asian minority community). That was the idealized plan anyway. Yet, the school won't give her basic supplies. There is no lounge. No fridge. Ok, fine, that's tolerable (odd to me since I too was raised in an affluent community). But the teacher's need paper. There is a locked up supply room full of supplies, but the teachers are told they can't have access to it. Why? Nobody knows. Printing rights are curbed.

And on top of that all, NYC DoE requires a masters. That equals debt, if you went to a "good" school. But the DoE pays crap. Oh and for some reason at one point, the DoE lowered requirements to be a principal. 3 years of part time teaching, and you could be a principal. Her principal taught dancing for 3 years, and is now purportedly fit to analyze the effectiveness of foreign language teaching methods. But anyway, that's beside the point, that's just describing the environment.

Her program is new. But instead of asking students/parents and filtering for those who might be interested in an East Asian language, the administrators decided to randomly force students into the class, regardless of their prior language history or their year. You know what you get with that? Hostile students. The kind that scream fuck you in your face. OK, fine, just "standard" difficult students. But like any other job, if your "manager" has your back, you can usually deal. But this school doesn't believe in detention. Okay... The "dream" is that if a student is causing trouble, the deans will talk to said student. Uh oh, what wasn't accounted for was the saturation of the deans time due to trouble students. Now you got deans telling you that, sorry, they can't deal with disruptive students telling you to fuck off because they're overloaded. So now you have fire support and you're in the trenches alone. I'm not even going to get into the gay teacher's story. Once the students caught onto that...

This doesn't even include off-the-clock work that is required, which I won't get into. I'm sorry, but as someone in the tech field, or any privatized field, the shit that teachers have to put off with is insane.

I know teachers have been demonized, but the turnover rate in NYC for teachers is apparently extremely high (I have another friend working at the DoE itself). I'll have to get a source, but I seem to recall her saying it was around 70% after 2 years. And after hearing all the ridiculous war stories, I'm not surprised. Ha, another one of my teacher friends was moved to an empty classroom. Upon asking for desks, the administrators told her "we don't know where they are" and left it at that. So she had to essentially salvage desks marked for discard.

I'm not exactly sure how VAM works, but I'm skeptical that an algorithm can model something so complex.
If you are interested in guitars/music and HTML5, I wrote a transcribing tool (looper, slow downer, etc) that runs in a browser and uses the Audio APIs. Wasn't sure if it would be possible, but was able to do quite a bit:

http://www.tunetranscriber.com/
I think this is where science and religion converges.

Religion describes God as all seeing all being, the catch phrase is everything, everywhere, etc.

Multi-verse is also something like an omnipresence, an infinite permutation of realities or simple rules that give rise to every possible scenarios.

My one suspicion with multi-verse is that if every possible scenario is possible, isn't there a universe where nothing is possible? Isn't it possible that there's an anti-multiverse universe that cannabalizes other instances of a universe?

Isn't it also possible that there's an equally pro-multiverse universe that creates faster than the anti-multiverse can destroy?

So perhaps like cells, universes are being created and destroyed at an equal rate so that there is only one instance of it (ours).

My brain hurts.
The earliest pagers had only one function, to page through text, and they would advance a full page when you hit any key. Space being the biggest key on the keyboard, people would commonly hit space to advance. As pagers became more sophisticated and grew additional functions (see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/less.1.html for an example), such as search, line-based motion, horizontal motion, backward motion, multiple files, and so on, "press any key to advance by a page" became "press space to advance by a page" to make room for other keys. (PgDn was typically a much smaller and further-flung target, on keyboards where it existed at all.)

The oldest (text-based) web browsers had a surprising amount in common with pagers, plus the ability to follow links. Graphical web browsers evolved from there.
People also yawn when they see other people (or even animals or pictures) yawn. It's complicated.
> I'm not sure how to parse your statement about status-seeking. A lot of people who go into medicine are status seeking.

My point, I suppose, is that spending an extra 7+ years in school/residency and taking out a ton of debt is not a very efficient way to get money and status unless you plan on being among those who get into a hyper-competitive residency.

I agree that working remotely would solve my problem, but I have serious concerns over (1) long-term stability; (2) being totally isolated from coworkers.
It’s not just startups, VCs would be wise to prepare for leaner times
And if one purchases a property, they are on the receiving end of massive home price appreciation-- housing becomes an investment rather than an expense.
But while all that features of Chrome are really nice, sometimes they stop working and you need to reload the inspector. The "show element in DOM inspector" context menu for elements logged in the console is what breaks most frequently.
Very clean. A lot more stuff is "sized" consistently compared to the current Gmail on Android, which makes it look a lot more professional to me. If your interface is clean enough, you shouldn't have to break things up by changing the spacing/sizing/capital-case of the elements, like the current app does. This is a nice iteration.

I'm happy about these recent app developments but all I really want for Christmas is a marginally newer Google Finance. It's been like ten years. The webapp still uses Flash.
Our instruments ( http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/ ) are really good at measuring near-field gravity gradients; we don't build gravimeters at all. We are adapting our gradiometers to make them more field-usable (which might have considerable use in prospecting), but that's not a huge science priority at present. Every few years, we look hard at whether or not we can make a superior mobile gradiometer. If we could, you'd probably know :). We have one new design that might fit into a borehole; if it works well-enough, we may chase commercialization.

A lot of the imaging market appears to come from security/defense applications, either in portal-monitoring or for IED detection. There are defense contractors working on both. The former is easily spoofed (put your uranium pit in a styrofoam sphere in a truck full of grain, done), and the latter is hard to do at speed in a rugged environment.

I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to do gravitational imaging on the sub-meter scale, and while it does work, it's hard to get sufficient image resolution to be useful for anything other than a party trick.

If our other science weren't more interesting, I'd be doing it for fun alone. Burning 3-6 months on the project to assess feasibility was as far as I wanted to go without a clear exit strategy.
I just data horde as I got sick of how much wasn't available or would just disappear at the whim of an executive.

Hey did you plan on watching Galactica? Sike!
Life is a hell of a lot more complicated than the game of football.