skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many parents know their children are receiving a substandard (or even damaging) 'education'

Many parents believe that.

Many parents have children for which that is true.

The overlap between those two sets, OTOH, may be smaller than you think.

> the problem they often face is that they are powerless to fire the teachers, or switch schools. Being 'engaged' does basically nothing to fix the schools in these cases.

IME, this isn't really true -- but the perception it is true results in parents not being engaged. When parents are active in addressing perceived problems with teachers in public schools, it is very effective in getting those teachers out of the classroom. (And I've seen it happen numerous times both to bad teachers based on parents acting reasonably based on real problems, and to good teachers based on parents acting unreasonable out of offense that their special-snowflake children weren't getting handed grades on a silver platter. Sometimes it doesn't mean the teacher gets fired, sometimes they get laterally transferred or technically promoted to a position with the school system which is out of the classroom and not dealing with students, and sometimes they just voluntarily leave teaching. But parent activism is quite effective at getting teachers out of the classroom.)
That's often but not always true: if you use VMWare on Linux or use an OS which is configured not to run arbitrary executables you can't use the self-extracting file. I certainly wouldn't say those are common problems or insurmountable but they're in the class of things which you simply don't need to worry about with ZIP.
I'm afraid the reality of being a doctor is not quite so rosy as all that. Take a look at these before you make the decision:

- https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=doctors+suicide

- https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=doctors+unhappiness
Right, but drift to/from what.
There is no GPU acceleration. When running IE through RDP we default to software rendering and unfortunately there isn't anything we can do about that :(
Sorry that the it wasn't very clear. Is there any way to use the exposure on the Walgreens developer site to gain even more exposure?
SSL certificate signing provides basically the same level of trust as a signed installer. As long as you curl over https from the domain you trust, you're good.
Just as a comparison.. In my city outside the valley I'm confident that with at most a week, I could land a brand new gig that meets my previous rate requirements.

And the same is true for virtually everyone here currently playing the software game.

Many very good job markets exist in the US.
The Super Mario Rap
Speaking as someone who reads a book per week, and has spent all their life in affluent communities with highly rated educational institutions; I can confidently say that for the overwhelming majority of public schools (even those in rich suburbs), achieving functional literacy with some comprehension and analytic ability for the majority of students is a lofty goal. I do not know of any public school where the difference between a good teacher and a bad one is "between learning to read and finding an appreciation for modernist poetry"; maybe this will be a problem in the future, but it is not something we should be grappling with now.

I am not under the impression that what "keep[s] kids out of prison" is "a sense of civic duty". Good career prospects keep people out of prison; high conscientiousness may be correlated with low rates of imprisonment, but conscientiousness is also a luxury the desperate can ill afford to indulge in.
I think "circling the train" is more witty; it paints a great picture of a stereotypical American wild-west film, with American Indians circling a train whilst shooting rifles in a haphazard manner whilst shouting and yelping.

Or perhaps bandits doing the same thing.

In any case, a large collection of bespectacled Microsoft employees circling a train on horses whilst still wearing 1980s software developer outfits (shirts with pinstripes in them but white collars, high-waisted ironed trousers with a slim gold belt buckle, and big glasses, and a bushy moustache) in all the dirt would be witty, whilst dragging green-screen CRTs and big 5.25" floppy discs in their saddle bags with great difficulty.

I know, I know, this is terribly stereotypical but I think it would make for a great film in the style of Mel Brooks; you can contact me if you want obscure and off-the-wall film settings like this...
The Economics of UberX in NYC
If that is important to you we have also made available all versions of IE in Virtual Machines at https://www.modern.ie
Show HN: A neural net for predicting Bitcoin prices from past 60 days
why is there two apps gmail and inbox for email both developed by google?
I remember people arguing in a thread a while ago about the financial longevity and user-base sustenance of FireFox. Many were arguing that FireFox needed something fresh and different and also needed to identify their target audience.

When Mozilla releases this, which is at least remotely intriguing, many are quick to find small deleterious criticisms.

The fact of the matter is that they are not removing the earlier dev-tools and nobody is forcing anybody to migrate to it. They are just trying to make another tool to help people. Honestly, if you put these arguments in any other context, either software or real life, they sound absolutely ridiculous.
Thanks all are great suggestions, I will do some homework this week and see if I can get the ball rolling on something.
BTF
Technically, the show hasn't been live for a LONG time. Like most NPR programs it is recorded in advance and edited.
PORTAL 'tor router' software provides what AnonyBox failed to deliver
As an update to the 'anonybox' scandal that befell Kickstarter and the web at large, PORTAL promises to deliver at least the software part of the aforementioned product.

The dev's also mention some small chipped and off-the-shelf hardware that you can purchase on your own to run it. And get this - they don't claim to have made said hardware!
wish they'd either included a language section in the graph view, or had the table view sortable by column other than alphabetical name.
Give it a try again. We've done some changes on the server side so you should see IE and log into IE much faster. Just make sure to use the same email as the one you received the notification.
Haha. Kinda of like taking English and putting it into a German translator machine
I noticed that if you walk into a level boundary and hold jump Mario jumps again before he lands on the ground, allowing him to jump up the wall
> Martini: a boat that rides so smoothly, no wave will spill your cocktail.
Ask HN: Why is spacebar still Page Down in browsers
Pardon my ignorance, but spacebar was next page on msdos systems while enter was next line, that still hasn't made much sense to me since we had PgDown key on keyboard. I always use PgDown and PgUp keys in browsers. When i want to pause videos (they have to be in focus in order to pause) i get the same result as if i pressed PgDown. I've got used to using spacebar as "space" in text editors and pause in video players. The question is what made developers do this? Kiosks? EDIT: Shouldn't there be a standard that defines keybinds in apps? End users do get confused-
TOFU. Done.
Two observations:

- Plenty of 4k/month San Francisco apartments get you into terrible public schools.

- Inverting your point, at least people in NYC / finance are generally honest and upfront about their desire to make lots of money for its own sake; many in the SF area go around preaching nonstop about how their only motivation is to reshape society with their paradigm-shifting value-adding "wearable social network for dogs app" that will end all hunger and global poverty, and pick up your drycleaning, too.

After the wildly successful IPO, they still rehash this line; only now it's from the deck of their custom yacht moored on a private dock by their much nicer house.
> is and old and obsolete version that nobody ever used.

Is there another mechanism?

If not, I see this as a step backwards.
You can define a setter that throws in order to throw without using 'use strict;'. However, additions will still be silent :(

https://gist.github.com/vjeux/6b390e6a6bb51e24b646

__DEV__ = true;
var array = ['a', 'b', 'c']
deepFreezeAndThrowOnMutationInDev(array)
array[0] = 10;
Error: You attempted to set the key `0` with the value `10` on an object that is meant to be immutable and has been frozen.
But you can't measure that.

If you have a model, such as:

score_at_end_of_year = score_at_start_of_year + a * parents_income + b * parents_education_level + c * teacher_skill + random_noise

You can figure out the values of a and b by comparing the performance of different students in the same class. If you have a large enough sample size to average out the random noise, you're left with (c * teacher_skill).

Not a perfect method, obviously - but if the best teachers at schools full of poor kids could get more incentive pay by switching to schools full of rich kids, would that be incentivising the right thing?
Another weakness of the valley is the lack of a visa. We would have atleast 5 times the number of startups, if there was an easy way to remain in the united states and start a company for immigrants.
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I think you are confusing nation with state, which is an easy to mistake to make when the nation-state -- the idea of state tightly coupled to nations -- has been a norm for several centuries, but while nation-states might be the current norm, nations and states remain distinct concepts.

In the specific context of Germany, while its true that Germany has been a nation for quite a long time (long before it was a single state), but nations are just social identities, and both sides in the Cold War were quite active in actively using propaganda to build "us" vs. "them" identities, and its not that surprising that without strong organized active supporting for the old pan-German identity and with active efforts to create opposing identities to replace it over a couple of generations, that there is a gulf created which will take another couple of generations of active effort -- at least -- to erase.
We'll talk briefly about this for sure and, time permitting, may demo an example.

As it happens, we're in the process of writing a more in-depth doc about this topic and it should be live later this week at http://mesosphere.com/docs/getting-started/service-discovery.... Ping us at support@mesosphere.io if you have any specific questions after it goes live!
I called two Ikeas in BC and according to them they're still waiting on an ETA for this desk.
It should be simple to develop a predictive model of programmer effectiveness. We can measure the number of lines of codes, number of defects committed, number of defects fixed, etc. against the average developer on the average software project and then we have a way of approximately evaluating a programmer's contributions to a software project.

Science is really hard.
And if there's no RNG seed available? We're talking about the first boot of a system here. You're going to have to wait for sufficient entropy to be available to the kernel or start reading junk. This is why the embedded devices hit many problems.

Sure, /dev/urandom is a good general strategy, I'm not disagreeing with you there, but it's not perfect and it very easily could be made better by simply blocking when needed to gather more entropy. getrandom() seems like a much better solution, providing an RNG without these idiosyncrasies.
Minecraft finally has a voice Curse Voice Beta
You always could hire a lawyer to help you contest parking tickets, and the lawyer always (or at least for decades now) could choose to charge you on contingency only if you won.

I guess what Fixed has done is figure out a way to use technology to make this business model financially feasible for the legal firm. Or at least they think they have. We'll see.

Oh, except someone else in the thread says Fixed tries to tell you it's not an attorney-client relationship, so perhaps they don't have lawyers involved. I'd expect if they become succesful enough that the city doesn't like them, then, the city will try to argue that what they are doing is practicing law without a license. It's odd to me that they don't get some lawyers on staff and say, sure, it's a legal service; have to think through what the problems for their business would be there, not sure, but maybe the challenges of complying with legal standards for legal services are riskier than then the threat of someone succesfully arguing you practicing law without a license.

Presumably they their own legal advice on their business model, for the business where they say they aren't giving their customers legal advice. Or is it just another Uber approach "If we get succesful enough, we can convince people that existing laws don't apply if you make an app... cause... internet?"
While it's great to ask for opinions, you should really be goal setting and measuring results against said goal.

So if your goal is to have someone enter their email address, measure this and judge the pages from that and not opinion.
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Because of economic opportunity. People seem to forget that individuals have choices in a market economy.
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I took a break from the job search to work on http://www.gtdecision.com/, which I just released yesterday. It's a fantasy football-related web app that allows users to create customizable, player-specific Twitter feeds that pull relevant tweets from team journalists. It's built with the MEAN stack. Currently, I'm working to expand it to fantasy basketball.
There are these guys: http://oculusrealporn.com/

Not going to pretend I haven't tried it out of curiosity, along with the usual Rift demos.

It's quite immersive but there's no getting past the fact that you have a big mask strapped to your head. However, trying it, you can see how once the Rift is more popular and less bulky, and the providers in this space can justify investing a bit more, it will take off.

Just as interesting will be new types of cinema-style experiences and short films, hopefully!
I'm just a random internet commenter (and don't we know everything!), so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I wonder, however, if the problems you are describing are things that would work themselves out over time as the equipment improves? The precision of these clocks sound like they're many orders of magnitude better than the old gravity sensors. I think. Perhaps all we'er waiting on is some kind of crazy technological magic over the next 50 years that would involve miniaturization, improved accuracy, and an array of a million or so. (All of which I just made up)
https://class.coursera.org/ml-007

Andrew Ng's Standford course has been a god send in laying out the mathmatics of Machine Learning. Would be a good next step for anybody who was intrigued by this article.
I was wondering the other day, since I have a CV project that could use neural networks to solve some problems. How big of a training dataset does one need? Is there some analysis on the relationship between the size of training data and accuracy?
At the moment, they provide two very different views of email. Actually I guess you could say the old GMail client offers two different views itself, since it has both standard and priority inbox.

It's not clear that Inbox is the right way to look at email for the majority of users, and I'm saying that as a user/tester. I've had to drop back to the regular GMail app do do things a couple of times and Inbox has crashed twice on me.

Note that the GMail client did take on some of the look and feel such as the (+) widget on the bottom right.
If you were still getting 404 idea not found, ping me maybe I can share some random thoughts :)!
The federal government is going to have to step in and establish standards here. State elections for federal office affect the entire nation, and indeed the entire world. Given how close U.S. elections often are, it wouldn't take much to produce enough of a shift in Congress to change, say, the likelihood of obtaining authorization for a war.
I hear you. They should also model the annoyance of the black dots that seem to be the barrier between the moshers and everyone else. Those poor human fences constantly get smacks at full force from the red dots on one side, and annoyed looks from the black dots as they (unwillingly) convert the high impact into a low frequency push forward.

Guess where I always end up at shows?
I have not used the other two for comparison, but Paint.Net is my go-to recommendation for casual graphics editing.

It's not Photoshop or Illustrator, of course, but all the features you need for basic photo adjustments and light-duty layout type stuff.

At a glance, Krita looks pretty nice for doing artworks from scratch.
I've had a handful of successful Dell Vostro laptops.

They are dirt cheap and this Vostro V130 I'm writing this on is fast, cool and light. Found it on ebay for 75$ about a year ago.

Running Latest Arch_64 without any special mods.
The Strange Day When Bugs Bunny Saved the Life of Mel Blanc
I've been using and (for the most part) promoting Android ever since the G1... but after 2.x the rate of UI change has, in my opinion, been terrible from a usability experience.

Pretty much all software (whether that's apps, websites, programming languages, or anything else) past a certain complexity has quirks. Getting used to the quirks is part of learning the software.

Massively changing large swathes of your built-in software is bad for users! I get that it'd be suicide to say "OK, permanent feature freeze... now," but big changes to the UI on apps that are (to many normal users) fundamental to using Android break the user's understanding of their use, often amounting to months of acclimation down the drain.

It's very frustrating.
Caveat to others from my personal experience: take it easy and go see a doctor if you have any problems while transitioning to standing. Standing caused nerve damage in my legs. I have the stamina to walk around all day but not to deal with the possible pain arising from it. Makes me sad and there was no way I would have known this would happen beforehand.
The data tell us that some people leave California in search of cheaper housing. A much larger number come from other countries (India, China, etc) for high-paying jobs. Net migration from Mexico has been very low recently.
Was there a difference in the US and UK editions of Cars? I don't remember the cameo.
How you "feel" about your pay isn't helpful. You need to know:

- IS your pay worse than your male counterparts?

- IS your employer aware of this?

- WHAT is their reaction to this?

- WHAT do you plan to do about it?
Steve Ballmer Interview on Charlie Rose
This.

'What we like' and 'what works well' might be too different things. This sounds like a good case for A/B testing. Tools like optimizely.com make this very easy.
Don't live in BFE Concord? Could get a 3/1 on the Peninsula for a bit more (say, 800-850). Less if you're willing to live in Daly City or EPA or something.
It looks like the desk is $499 but that doesn't include the price of the desk-top. Is that true?
Will do! Thanks I appreciate it. More than likely I will take you up on that offer.
From what I can see, seamless-immutable basically just enforces immutability on native JavaScript data structures. Immutable.js on the other hand, implements full persistent data structures, which give much better time complexity guarantees about important operations. Immutable.js also has a rich API designed for manipulating immutable data structures and uses lazy evaluation for methods like map, filter and concat, which really improves performance when chaining chose operations.
> Washington: A life, by Ron Chernow

Most programs in America, most paintings and all that is apocryphal about Washington always paints him as a humorless, rigid, God-like character. Chernow does a wonderful job of going through the recently released letters of Washington and painting a portrait of a family man, husband, and a man in occasional worry. Love it.
(Yes, I realized and hence the question hehe. I've been bugging the list/github issues on luminus for some time now. Excellent project!)
VC Points Out That VCs Might Have a Burn Rate Problem of Their Own
Could we (easily) build a clock that accurately measures space time intervals? If you place two of them next to each other and synchronize them, you should be able to separate them and they should still be synchronized whenever you bring them back together no matter what happened in between.
Not that I disagree with your point in any way, but I thought you might like to know - the top of Everest is not the furthest point from the centre of the earth. It is the highest point above sea level, but given the slightly ellipsoid nature of the planet, the spot with the largest radius value is actually in South America - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo
Are they going to build all the supported HW device drivers all into the kernel image?

Serial Drivers, all the USB related drivers, all the printers, networks card, graphics card driver?

How big will the new kernel image be?

It also make dev/debugging driver task much harder as it requires complete reboot system to test it.

Also, what about FS? such as ZFS? Build in by default, disable by default, load and reboot different kernel everytime I need something?
Those uses of space/enter date back to pagers such as "more" long before DOS. In browsers, it's a conveniently huge target to use for one of the most frequent operations.