skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WRT point B, the "better resources" are the kids, providing better numerical metric results to the teachers and operators of the charter schools. It would help your argument to expand on "not necessarily a bad idea". I don't see any particular advantage in rewarding a subset of educational professionals for doing little more than gaming the system.
“We didn’t make any money in Windows Phone. Nobody made any money.”
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True - and perhaps not allowing bankruptcy dismissal would be a good start. After all, there's precedent now - you can't dismiss student loans at bankruptcy proceedings, maybe corporations shouldn't be allowed to dismiss court-ordered payments at bankruptcy.

I understand the difficulty in implementation, mind you, but you're right about how the shell companies are set up, and the disincentive needs to be able to follow the humans, not the companies.
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Absolutely agree. I backcountry hike several times a year and always seem to forget how easy the galaxy is to see once you "get away from it all."

When you're in town, you can't see it. When you're in the backcountry, you can't NOT see it.
That's actually strange. Same thing happened to another good topic on AI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8391896
While I like Go as a better C, I wouldn't use it instead of C#.
Do they expect every user to install their modified git client? Is there no longer a full local repository on each users computer?
If you're a contractor / freelancer rather than an employee, you can do at least two things:

- Get paid some percentage up front

- Set out milestones throughout the project where you get paid an additional percentage

If they don't pay when a milestone is completed, development stops. This limits your risk exposure to a percentage of the project rather than the whole thing.

If you are in fact applying to be a remote full time employee, I would do my research on the company before applying. Has anyone else had payroll problems with this company? The same freelancer rules above apply though; if they start to miss paychecks, you start looking for a new job.
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It was sarcasm. Sorry I forgot the <sarcasm> tags - I'll be more careful in future.
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Basically the author is claiming that we have to hold all variables equal to compare charter schools and traditional public schools in order to 'be wise' and 'think critically' about charter schools. Why is that necessarily the case?

What if the expulsion rate (dropping disruptive students) and parent engagement is part of the 'secret sauce' of charter school success? Why should data that is based on these factors be considered 'bogus statistics'?

There is some good, common sense advice in this article but it considers too many fundamental factors 'bogus'.

This is a bit of a tangent but my fundamental problem with the traditional public school system is this: why should my child's education be primarily determined by where our domicile happens to be located?
it's completely retarded and shameful
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Well, I can tell you the implication I intended: saying that a group of people who was hunted to the brink of extinction by the ancestors of the people who now live here are being oversensitive is a dangerous line of thought, which, yes, has the potential to reveal racism. So if you're going to pursue that argument, you better think, and speak, carefully.
Sunfish is really impressive work. From my (brief) understanding of Sunfish, the evaluation function is essentially equivalent to a hardcoded 1 layer network in Deep Pink.

You're right that everything else equal, a better evaluation function should lead to a better chess engine. However in practice I think better evaluation functions means slower evaluation function. So there's some really interesting trade-off there. I doubt humans evaluate more than a few thousand positions, so it seems like a slow but more accurate evaluation function could play chess pretty well
I would create a new category for this since the formate will be much different than the regular HN Jobs.

Scraping is easy. Trying to figure out the best way to parse/display is hard.
I don't think this act had a "mean" intention.

It certainly wasn't "mean". But given the hardships many people in Russia (who don't happen to be petrochemical, banking, and/or internet oligarchs) face, it went well beyond "slightly foolish."
That sounds fun. How does one get started with backcountry hiking?
Wow.. the article and the comments here are fascinating. I don't have much to add, but I think what you guys are calling overtones are something some of my friends and I used to do as kids. One person would sing or yell a single loud note and another would sing or yell a sliding scale of notes listening for the overtone where a "spooky third voice" would chime in. We made up stories about it being a ghost summoning ritual and such. :)
Another reason stencil shadows are difficult in a production environment is that any model that casts a shadow needs to be watertight (i.e. a manifold). Models need to have to full geometry for things like hair, thin fins, and grass.
That would help speed up the network part of the install/update yes. The linked patch on the other hand hopefully gets the CPU part to a decent level for most people.
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Telegram? Ain't that the team that proposed this shitty crypto challenge when people started to poke holes in their crypto schemes?

I agree with the first part of your comment, but I really don't see the link with the future of some garbage crypto app.
Just don't worry about normalizing the data. Just grab each post and treat it as a new job. Let me know if you need help. I'm pretty good with cheerio :)
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Call me crazy, but I have no emotional attachment to buildings and organizations (whichever you mean by schools). As long as the students in failing public schools have at least replacement-level alternatives, there won't be a net negative here.

> The hard-to-teach students need to go somewhere.

That's obvious. The criticism is that, in the current system, laws and tradition have dictated that "somewhere" is Oswald Cobblepot High School down the street, and if that school is a hole, sucks to be you. Blame the voters that didn't pass the bond issue five years ago. Or get rich and move to a nicer neighborhood.

And that last point is especially important. The rich have places to send their problem students. And they can afford to move to overpriced neighborhoods that effectively weed out at-risk students from the student body. The current system (unintentionally) creates public schools full of hard-to-teach students.
There's not even a quote from Musk in this article and you're "siding with Musk" just because he's mentioned in it? That's pretty ridiculous.

From what I've seen on Musk about this before, he's much more measured in his comments than Hawking is in this article. Maybe Hawking is being misrepresented.

When I've seen Musk make comments about it he talks about it in the way that people talk about the sun eventually expanding and swallowing the earth. It's not something that's going to happen really soon.

We're not even anywhere near an AI that can simulate the simplest living organisms let alone a truly intelligent AI. It's absurd to worry about a Skynet like scenario.
IIRC they did pay out to people who found holes.
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Nice, I forgot to search for alternate sources. It's a very nice gallery (with some maths too) of fractals, I'd be happy to have other sources for more complex and recent knowledge about them.
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No, that's just evolution - plain, simple and extremely dumb. Viruses don't really "want" anything, they are just biomolecular machines that run around replicating themselves and screwing things up; some manage to copy themselves, some don't - and this way, generation after generation, you're left with those viruses that are good at copying themselves in the environment they're in. Evolution is a statistical phenomenon.
You're right, I was looking at the Table on Page 4, which lists revenue per customer relationship at $107.97. That must be per month, not per year.
>Worry about scaling your own infrastructure

Does git have scaling issues? I know git manages the 60mil+ SLOC of the Linux Kernel, that's what it was designed for.

I don't see how even medium/large size enterprise will have difficulty. Or am I missing something?
I remember reading something that disproved your point b): mixing students from different socioeconomic background (which in general is a very good proxy for academic performance) benefited the poorer students a lot and hardly had any impact on the richer ones. So in short taking out the best students of a diverse class only negatively impacts the ones who stay.

I can try and find the exact reference, but a quick google search brings up a ton of articles on socioeconomic mixing.
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Part of the problem is that there is no uniform provision across the EU for VAT exemption for books. Some countries charge VAT on paper books, or on e-books, or on both.
> the light won't give you cancer

There are studies that suggest that city lights increase people's risk of cancer. Sleep studies have shown that exposure to blue light suppresses melatonin [1]. Studies with lab mice have shown that melatonin suppresses tumor growth. I don't know how solid the science is on this, so take it with a grain of salt.

[1] This is the reason many people use f.lux (https://justgetflux.com/).
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There is also Veracity SCM [1], but it seems to have gone dormant...

[1] http://veracity-scm.com/
The topic of AI and its implications is unavoidably speculative, because we are likely still many decades away from it being a risk and we don't yet know what path science will take to reach that point. So for now, we're mostly limited to thought experiments.

I never said we should defer to their 'authority' either. But it is a conversation worth having, and the sooner the better.
Why only third-world nations? The inhabitants of "third-world" countries do not produce lsss economic output than first-world countries because they are inferior in intelligence to people in the West. It's all in the education and culture, and there is no reason to believe that this could not be adapted if human-level AI is reached.

It is incredibly myopic to believe that the Western would would be shielded from the impact of such a development. But this is really beside the point I wanted to bring up. My key point is that this argument shows that AI could constitute a threat to humanity in the long term, and that it is necessary to provide more funding for research on AI safety. The economic incentives will bring this stuff to the center stage once it becomes possible, and by then we better have a damn good idea how to ensure that super-human AI keeps acting in our interests.
Use of bad statistics and refusal to answer specific questions that show the badness is usually reason enough to discredit someone or something. Also, in a) those stats are used by the companies (schools) themselves - that's where the journalists and advocates got their data. If you have good solid data, you lead with that.
This looks great, but I do wish there was more variety language varieties (big ones like C# and Java).
> Moreover who told you a dangerous AI needed to be based on human brain?

All these doomsday AI scenarios are predicated on a machine becoming "self aware", having independent thought, the ability to handle self-directed learning, etc. Sounds a lot like human intelligence.
Bezos to kids being born 3 years from now. "You kids are just features. Keep n eye on our announcements page."

It's interesting how they seem to be adding all the stuff in the workflow that we are okay with just being good enough and don't benefit from bells and whistles. Github is very cool for managing an open source project, but for my own stuff just about anything which makes managing my repos relatively simple and saves me a bit of time is fine. I don't need much for an interface or features. Just being able to push a button and having a hosted repo ready for other users and with instructions for less technical contributors is awesome.

If I'm already on Github, I'm probably staying there. Competition is good though. Competition will push Github to continue doing more to differentiate themselves as being something much greater than simply hosting Git repo's.
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I grew up in a very small town and I used to sit very long periods under the stars doing nothing. It was kind of meditation. I moved to the city when I went to uni and started missing it more and more; you hardly could see anything there and it didn't give me the same rest sitting outside. A while ago I looked for a new place to live after the city and I picked that place specifically based on viewing stars as one of the highest priorities on my list. I live in a village deep in the mountains; there is no light in the village at night, there are no cities nearby and the rest is shielded by the mountains. If you have never seen something like this you definitely are missing something worthwhile and yes, I can see the milky way, almost every night.
A potential solution, if the district is large enough, to that is to create an open enrollment district. Stop forcing kids to go to a specific school just because they happen to live at a certain address, or change schools because they need to move.
While some people may think they have a right not to be offended, it is not necessary for it to be a right in order for us to avoid using words like this, which have been historically used to denigrate a class of people while simultaneously depriving them of life and property. We of the ruling class would do well to keep in mind the historical narratives that helped us solidify our power, and do our best to avoid them in the present.

Edit: The downvotes are very instructive. HN: your privilege is showing.
I'm a game dev who uses Unity. One thing I am sorely lacking in experitse in is shaders.

I'm wondering are these shaders compatible with Unity's shaderlab shaders?

Or if not do you think it would be much work to port them over?

Thanks!
It purports to be an article about correctly analyzing Charter school articles, but then it goes into advocacy mode cherry picking the stats it wants to while framing the whole argument in a specific light.

I didn't call it a "hit piece" because I necessarily disagree with the statistics the author chose to present. I called it a hit piece because of the specific statistics the author chose to present and the condescending manner in which the author presented them.
But you do want them to die?
Obviously viruses are not intelligent and they don't "want" to reproduce.

However, they do reproduce, just like pretty much every other form of life. The question of why life does that is closely related to the question of what life is and how it came to exist. Those are deep questions and we don't really have a clue as to the answer right now. There's certainly nothing in the fundamental physical laws of the universe, as we understand them today, that seems to indicate or require the existence of life.
Take money in six months - and do it with Paypal, rule #7, I think is very accurate to a degree. However, it also depends on if you're doing a media startup or a Saas startup. Most of the bootstrapped businesses I've done were professional services or (a few times) download software. In both cases, we took money but in the media business, it was always indirectly - eg, CJ sales, Adsense, etc.

Rule #10 I've seen tossed out the window too many times, as a consultant, to admit it. Thing is though, when I review my own performance, it's always when well balanced with actual life that I get the most work done, even if I'm putting in a paltry ~50 or less hours per week of work.

As an employer and manager, I've also seen the difference between people's engagement and output at peak and at "overclocked performance," where they put in an extreme amount of overtime. Perhaps I'm missing an instance, but I've yet to see the team win where they gave up everything that meant something in their lives in an effort to somehow make the business better.
We love github, don't get me wrong (and we pay decent $ for it). But I'm looking at track record / experience with it doing production auto deploys for years.

S3 has 9 9s of durability and is "closer" to where our servers run so there are less possible points of failure. We have had 0 issues since migrating to s3 backed git repo 2 years ago.

We still use github for day-to-day scm mgmt as you guys have tons of extra value add.
Start doing research about gear you will need for backpacking and where to go near you. State parks are great places to backpack. It took my SO and I about 3 months from initial research to take our first trip. I absolutely love it and also go several times a year now.

Just remember to take it slow! Always better to be over prepared than underprepared. Mother nature is not forgiving.
If I could downvote you a thousand times I would. Philosophy is not 'imbecilic' as you claim. This type of thought only reflects your own shallow lack of understanding of philosophy and its crucial role.
> If killing you means that the pathogen can spread more rapidly, it will evolve to do so.

Sure, but killing the host is not generally the goal of a pathogen. Killing the host typically means the pathogen won't spread any further, and that direction leads to the pathogen's extinction. Or, the death of this family line, if you like.

But, before worrying about that, if a virus does not address the immune system, it will not be able to spread at all - there will be no family line. The initial goal of a new virus is to evade the (highly advanced) immune system.

Ebola apparently has a very naive way of bypassing the human immune system. That is, overwhelm the system, so that the host dies, but you have a small chance of spreading. This works, sometimes, for a little while, but not too much, maybe just enough to gain a few generations of evolution to try and improve your strategy. If you are already a latent virus in a related species, you might get a few attempts at this, as Ebola has.

HIV does this in a frighteningly more effective way - a way which is more evolved - hide from the immune system while maintaining a route to spread to other hosts. This has to be a very subtle balance - hiding from the immune system is no mean feat. This is why I used HIV as an example - HIV somehow negotiates its own and the host's survival with the immune system (where Ebola has not been able to).

The dance between immune system and virus ultimately leads to AIDS. Death of the host is not ideal for the local strain of HIV, but it had a good chance to reproduce in other hosts, so it's a good result for HIV as a whole.

To become an effective and latent human virus, you need to evolve some sympathetic way of defeating the immune system that doesn't have a significantly negative result for the host. It's likely that HIV is still on that path, and Ebola might be on the start of that path.

This is why we observe viruses to become less deadly and more easily spread over time.

It's not necessarily true that this is the only evolutionary path, but the immune system presents such a huge barrier that you have to overcome this before meeting any secondary goals.
I would argue that the majority of what anyone ever sees, including this text on your screen, is the Milky Way Galaxy.

In any case, anyone affected by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 got to see a lot more of the Milky Way. I have never seen it more clearly than during the blackout.
So you changed your mind? Partaking into and funding research on the subject is now not sufficient to express themselves? And i'm the one not being cohesive?

And please stop with your arogant (and erronous) definition of what science is and science is not.

Higgs theorized the Higg's boson existence in the 60s, that could not be tested until 50 years later, are you saying this was not science?
Einstein's general relativity predicted the existence of black holes in 1916, we still don't have definit, hard proof of their existence, is it not science?
The Big Bang theorie has never been proven (data from last year BICEP2 experiment are still being dissected), is it not science?

Should we not talk about all this subjects because they are not proven?

What you are referring to, is the scientific method, which is the way we use to decide if something is sufficiently proven to be deemed as true or not, not the definition of science itself.
One interesting line of research, I think, is using 1 or 2 layered networks to 'simulate' more complex evaluation functions. If you could train such a network to get within a 10% error of Stockfish's evaluation, then you might be able to distil that network as a faster evaluator to plug back into Stockfish for an even stronger engine. As you say, one hard problem is probably finding actually interesting positions to sample for the training.

Anyhow, it's fun to see how engines like these battle it out. It may also be that your approach can yield a more 'fun to play' engine for us mortals.
The point made in this piece is that such students do not have alternatives other than public schools, since the charter school policies are explicitly designed to weed them out. The end result of such policies is that "good" students who have the means to do well in school end up in charter schools, and "bad" students who do not have the means to do well in schools end up in the public schools. But, the public schools will have less overall money than before, since some of their funding has been siphoned off to the charter schools.

As I see it, this exacerbates the problems of rich schools and poor schools.
To be fair, that's bush league in the realm of Russian wealth douchbaggery.
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Bitbucket is superb overall - the issue tracker, wiki and pricing are so much better than Github.

The only thing that Bitbucket devs wont add is gist :(
I view money planes as a joke. In any case, which is better, openly giving money away, or secretly colluding to keep employee wages down? Personally, I prefer his "crassness" to the crassness of the SV elite.
thanks for this, I would love to hack as an "Accounts Payable Specialist"!

The problem with every new tier of these types of new ideas is that they think they are new ideas. "All the hotel bargains in one place" "All the airfares in one place" "All the jobs in one place". Then when you make it completely generic ("in one place All The Things!") new highly differentiated models appear, "forget monsterjobs.com, come to ultra l337 haxors.com"...

If you try to disrupt the invisible hand, [some mixed metaphor here, please post humorous variations]
Our ancestors have successfully concluded such negotiations numerous times:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-17809503
I guess the libc that comes with Ubuntu doesn't count as a good implementation.