skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading through the background materials, some of the claims they make seem a bit suspect. Many of the "discoveries" are that he suggested something might be possible without actually giving any evidence or construction besides his own philosophical musings. This is in re: cardinals, information theory, and computers. And then because someone did it later he is cited as a genius before his time.

But if he wrote over 10,000 pages of publications and articles, how many of his claims and ideas were false, misleading, or inaccurate? Is genius measured by the number of ideas that don't come to fruition, or by lasting successes? We don't cite Darwin as a politician despite his writings about the politics of his time. Nor do we particularly praise Turing as an athlete despite his running hobby.
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I did a similar poll on HN back in 2011: http://utkarshsengar.com/2011/03/analysis-your-favourite-tex...
Very few organizations use git the way the linux kernel project does. Most organizations use github, gitlab, etc, which definitely have had scaling issues.
>Reports and stories about charter schools are in the media every day. The majority of these stories praise charters, while often demeaning public schools.

Interesting. My experience with how the media presents charter schools is quite the opposite. It seems like every few weeks there is a story about a corrupt charter school management team embezzling funds or over-enrolling of students or suspect academic results. Of course with stories on actual events, such as an investigation into missing funds, it's difficult if not downright impossible, if a media outlet so desired, to spin the story into something positive. But I don't recollect reading anything within the past few years that actually praised charter schools, and that's not to mean the traditional public school system is squeaky clean and a model of best practices. I suspect there is an equivalent level of corruption there. I've wondered if it's because I live in Philadelphia where this a strong teachers union and a traditional public school system that is, for all intents and purposes, bankrupt. However, I would expect that these conditions would lead to the opposite in how charter schools are portrayed, if only for the sake that they are an alternative to the current system that is failing miserably.

The charter school debate is a sub-segment of a larger issue, which is this push towards the privatization of everything that is consumed by the public and paid for by tax dollars, from public school systems to prisons to health care programs, such as Medicaid. Personally, I disagree with this push. It creates perverse incentives and from a political economy point of view, I think there are some goods which can't and should not be privatized, but that discussion is for another time.
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Our education system has simply failed to deliver the full skill sets.

Even if you ignore the question of what material post secondary education should be teaching, the more substantial bounds are the time limitation of school. Even a hyper-specialized curriculum can't cover everything, and isn't a substitute for real world experience.

It's soothing to sit around and find ways to opine and blame external parties (education is a popular choice) for the fact that experienced and skilled developers can't be had for the cost of green developers. But it's just an activity that releases energy without changing anything, aka (mental) masturbation.
Some game systems did this too. For instance the Gameboy Advance had DMA, and it was used all the time because if you were eating up your cycles on copying memory, you would run out of time to process your game logic before your vertical blank ended and the system started drawing onscreen.

I also saw it used to save memory. Onscreen sprites had to be placed into a small memory-mapped address range, so instead of putting every character animation frame into this space and using it all up, I saw just one block designated for the character, and it was animated by DMAing the frames sequentially into that space.
Great idea! Would you mind improving the contrast for the job links?
Silly question, why does the author only approximate the number of possible positions in chess?
During the standoff with the SWAT team, which took place soon after, he wouldn’t answer the door. They went home after an hour.

Wait, what? Is that what police in Russia normally do? This would never, ever happen in the United States. LAPD actually even has a "Wrong Doors Unit" which goes around repairing broken down doors when the cops raid the wrong address.[0]

[0] http://www.dailynews.com/20080316/repairs-help-rebuild-lapds...
True, but it's a kind of a "null garbage collector" case. It's the dumbest type of intelligence, a random one. But it did also created intelligences less dumb than itself, if you view the evolutionary process as separate from the workings of human mind.
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Thanks for your opinion, Nature PR guy. However, most of what you state on your opening paragraph is really REALLY wrong.

You are part of the reason journals like Nature can still get away with it. I suggest you put your Nature shirt aside and spend sometime looking at what all the other journals are publishing nowadays, you would be surprised. Also, while you're at it, I suggest you to value your colleagues based on what they actually do instead of the name of the journals where they appear; you may end up doing real science and not these shameful PR stunts.
When I stayed with my mom for a week in NYC, I was shocked by how bright the sky at night was. Literally it glowed orange. I felt like I was in the D'ni caverns from Myst, and it really wore on me. My best guess is that one just stops looking up after a while. Or, as a sibling comment notes, you look down at the city as your new sky.

Cities can take on a sort of self-importance, an introspective ego, anyhow, since there's so much available that you can be permanently distracted from looking outward or upward. Can't say it wasn't a fun place, but it's not my cuppa joe. But I could easily imagine a [native?] city dweller feeling like they're not missing anything.

[EDIT: I guess I just figure some people live in the city because it gives them everything they need. But it certainly made me feel like I lost my sky. I'd be curious to know if you grew up in the city; so far, it seems like that feeling of loss or wrongness is just for people who grew up outside them.]
Ugh. I remember that, I had posted on that to explain to the developer why there was so much attention and kept receiving mails and notifications from github for ages. At the time there was no way to "stop watching" when you had commented on something, if I remember correctly.
There's been a lot of controversy over the Telegram encryption protocol. Any cryptographer that looks at it cringes, but Telegram has deep pockets and has done a decent job building hype.

Beyond doubts with the protocol itself, I think the more important consideration is that most people never use it. Telegram is not encrypted by default. Users have to create a special "secret chat" with contacts that is ephemeral, and some Telegram clients don't even support that mode. Last I checked, there was no way to have group "secret chats" in any client at all.

The result is a situation where many users seem to think that Telegram is somehow secure by default, when it definitely isn't. Telegram even stores plaintext copies of everyone's entire message history on the server for multi-device sync.

I think what Telegram is doing right now is dangerous, and potentially another Lavabit in the making. I'd like to see them incorporate a modern end to end encryption protocol, and enable it by default.

To be transparent, I work on TextSecure and am involved with the WhatsApp end-to-end encryption project.
And if you go to the southern hemisphere, you can see two other galaxies: the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_Clouds
People write that chess has ~ 10^42 board positions. If you read the paper about solving checkers (which you should because it's excellent), they evaluated about sqrt(N) positions, and the final solution took cuberoot(N) board positions. IF that extrapolates to chess, it means that the weak solution would take 10^21 evaluations and 10^14 storage. That's big, but in the realm of feasibility.
Some insightful comments would've been nice.
Something like this:
http://vimeo.com/107069470
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This ought to turn up more relatives in relative finder!
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FoundationDB vs. the New Jepsen
http://www.nodejobs.com/job/23437
to see how much the runtime contributes to the size of the binary use an empty main. for hello world you bring in the fmt package which is a relative heavyweight:

$ cat > t.go
package main
func main() {}
$ go build t.go
$ wc -c t
623280 t
$ nm t | wc -l
1029
$ cat > t.go
package main
import "fmt"
func main() { fmt.Println("hello world") }
$ go build t.go
$ nm t | wc -l
2541
I'm an experienced developer currently looking for work within an hour radius of Cincinnati and was really excited to see this post. Then my hopes were dashed. A bit of constructive feedback:

1. "You are expected", "All employees are expected"... these phrases are extremely off-putting.

2. Your required-skill-to-salary combinations are absurd. Under full stack dev, you've listed everything under the sun: backend, frontend, database, devops, both mobile platforms and mandatory evangelism/marketing... enough stuff that it would take someone 5+ years of intense work to get comfortable with it, much less master it. And then you list $50k-70k? Someone with all those skills and that kind of experience is worth $125k, easy, even in Cincinnati.

And, no, your equity numbers don't make up the difference. Let's say your company is valued at 1-5 million right now (and that this potential employee, by some miracle, agrees with that valuation). 1% equity equates to $10-50k, undoubtedly vesting over 3-4 years. That shouldn't float anyone's boat.

Edit: I see you just raised $1.2 million. First, why not include that information in your post? It's a huge validator. Second, assuming your total fundraising has traded away 20% of the company at this point, then your current valuation is more like $6 million. The equity portion of the full stack position (~1%) is still only $60k vesting over 3-4 years. Better, but still way off the mark.
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Yeah, i have had to move to more expensive ec2 instance on account of this very issue..
"Out of the Tar Pit" (Ben Moseley and Peter Marks) http://www.curtclifton.net/storage/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pd...

Software complexity related to mutable state.
This is the key point. Would be great if all the other tools were integrated into git itself and worked in a distributed fashion.

In theory Github should be leading the way on this (per its open source mission).
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Charter schools are run by for-profit management companies.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/cashing-in-o...
I'm not too familiar with Baremetrics. You would need to try both products and decide which one works best for you. We provide an advanced analytics platform for subscription businesses of any size.
looks a bit like xhtml. whats the point? html is not xml. why would it work this time?
I still have all those notification emails; I am still thinking about graphing them one day to see how the commenting rate on this thread evolved over time.
Why do people downvote questions?
A position for QA?
We do here: https://chartmogul.com/

Didn't think the blog would get quite so much traffic. You're totally right though :)
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> The margins on ebooks are already much higher than paper books (due to reduces production, distribution, storage, returns, and tax costs).

The costs associated with creating and distributing a physical book are probably a smaller % of the price than you assume. This piece http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/aug/04/price... gives a figure of $3.50 for a hardcover which, as I recall, is similar to other breakdowns that I've seen.
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Having <html:a href="/cats">Cats</a> as a link just looks weird.

What's wrong with just using <head>, <html> and <a> instead of <html:head>, <html:a> etc...?

Bad proposal IMO.
HTML will never be semantic. The whole idea should be scrapped. HTML is inextricably bound to CSS in 2014, and has become more and more about presentation and less and less about data.

Which is fine. We have JSON and XML for data. I would rather see some cohesive standards for JSON data formats, because that is the future. HTML is just the glue between CSS and Ajax requests.
Regarding attrition, do you trust any data on dropout rates in the US? When I started to look at this in the past, I was frustrated to learn of the different ways that schools and districts can define "dropout". There's under-accounting, where students who leave before a certain grade level or age are not taken into account. There's over-accounting, where students who take longer than four years to graduate are counted as dropouts.

Given that, I've ignored most data I've seen about dropout rates. Do you have any perspective on this?

PS I always appreciate your comments on education. Thanks for continuing to offer your perspective, even though these articles often get killed.
I hate to shit on people's work[1] on HN because everyone else does it but I earnestly think this will get filed in the same bin as XHTML, aka "no web developer actually cares about this so no one will write it and it will die an awkward, forgotten death."

HTML5 did some very important things. Mainly it wrestled back the web from plugins.

Hey, remember Flash?

Isn't that great! That in 2014 I can say "Remember Flash?" Flash had such an insane grip on the web and now it's nearly gone! Not nearly, you might argue, but there are extremely few serious pages left that depend on flash. We've come a huge way since 2009.

It's crazy to think back, honestly. I'm amazed at how the grip of flash has receded. I would not have guessed in 2008 that this was where we'd be. I am a happy web developer.

This just doesn't solve the same scope of problems. It might be useful to some people, just like XHTML, but it's not worth building a new buzzword paradigm over.

[1] Everyone who writes a post like this deserves to be commended. Putting your own opinions out there is hard, so kudos to the author.
I think the title (and domain name) are a bit misleading: that's not HTML6, because it doesn't appear to be endorsed by anything related to the web standards (Mozilla, W3C, etc). That's MyHTML, sure, but not really HTML6.

Funnily enough, at a first glance it looked like a real proposal, then I looked again and it appeared as a joke (I mean ... <html:html> and <form:form> are a bit satirical), and then I looked the repo and there's enough issues to think that it is actually real.
Go look it up - recent patches have had massive increases in CPU and RAM usage not because of new features, but because of making the code prettier. Notch may not be an expert on lighting or chunk rendering, but he's pretty good at writing efficient game code.
This splits into two points:

1. You're right, our intelligence is the same thing. Intellect is a statistical creation that makes us good at surviving.

2. But usually, when people talk about our intelligence and our having goals, they aren't talking about the fact that we statistically exhibit tendencies towards self-preservation (which is what we're talking about viruses doing). It's that we literally have conceptual goals, which can be written down ahead of time and talked about.

aka you won't find a virus with a to-do list. Conflating that intelligence with viral 'intelligence' is kinda disingeuous.

--

That said, I do agree that we might/will find alien life that looks nothing like what we expect and has 'intelligence', for some reasonable (non-virus) definition.

I would not be inordinately surprised if we managed to find this in the motion of waves in the ocean, or in the swirling gases of the sun, or the gravitational interactions of the asteroid belt, or in tremors in the earth, or in hive-minds of billions of ants.
And I definitely reject dualism and fully expect that a human brain simulated in a computer would be as intelligent as we are.

I'm not sure what the criteria for an 'intelligence medium' is, but it seems to require sufficiently high entropy to allow for complex patterns to form, but not too high - there has to be enough order and especially a not-too-high temperature such that self-contained systems can form and replicate without being blurred back into the whole system.
We do sponsor H1B, yes. Also have engineering teams in our Dublin office. Forgot to mention this, apologies.
I absolutely love the idea of this.

I just think that I'll end up in a database that, despite any promise to the contrary now, will probably end up being used against me at some point in the future (targeted marking / denying of health insurance / whatever else). Which I really don't love.

And I hate to be cynical, but it strikes me that becoming the Google of genomes is ultimately going to make far, far more cash than selling a kit that tests for genetic problems.

Don't be evil, and all that.
Because the real number is unknown?
Why was this taken off YouTube?
I'm almost disappointed to see a post like this with no comments - because while it's often quite negative - HN comments often provide me with context and a counterpoint that's really quite useful.

My first reaction is that I quite like it. It's more semantic than dozens of nested divs and spans, and perhaps that's not as useful for machine generated code - for those of us coding html by hand.
I've had one of these 23andMe kits sitting at home for a while now. I find the information they can give you very interesting and I'm curious to do it. But part of me can't overcome the fear of this data sitting around on a companies servers forever. With me having no way of knowing what they're doing with it. Maybe I'm just too paranoid.
If the release candidates are a few weeks out then it must be beta and very close to stable? Can anyone who's using Rust daily discuss performance and reliability. It should be ready for weekend projects.
We had a quick call on Skype and it pretty much went from there :)
My uncle is a DevOps person and said all of the new tools that Amazon is rolling out would put him out of his job if they caught on.
Hmmmm.... yeah.... if only there were some kind of news aggregator, with links to blogs on topics that people were interested in... hmmm

;-)
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<html:html>
<html:head>
<html:title></html:title>
<html:meta>

I simply can't imagine anyone wanting to adopt this.
It seems like a lot of effort was put into the concept, and there are some great suggestions, but the added bloat goes against adopting the proposed solution.
I'm curious, have companies like this ever been subpoenaed for their data as part of a fishing expedition to catch a criminal or find the father of a child for child support, etc?

To example, there's been a few examples where they found someone through relative('s) DNA for murders in the past, but DNA was voluntarily given.
Cricket to pay feds $2.1M after allegations it charged too much for wiretaps
The light pollution map isn't very good and it doesn't give the full picture. We do astroimaging in the middle of a very bright area, but we are on a hill. A little elevation goes a long way. It also helps that our scopes are in an enclosure which blocks lights from the sides. We can occassionally see the Milky Way on clearer nights.

At my new house on a hill, you can see a huge difference being on the deck versus being down (about 50 feet) in the back yard.

People who are really interested in doing some viewing should check out local astronomy organizations. They will host star parties and will know the best places locally to do observations.
The idea is that there are a few community-developed and supported dependency managers that do this for you to choose from:

https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/PackageManagementTool...
Super cool; training game players is super appealing to me as a math-software-engineer-person.

My babble: if DeepPink can gage its uncertainty on a move, it'd be cool to see a hybrid system in-action. Plus, "DeepFish" has a cool name.

Either way - nice! And thanks for putting the source on GitHub; I will have a goof with it!
Surely you could do the work with your public key and have them swap in theirs once it's ready to go?
While the post mortem is valid in itself, I bet any snoozing customers would've loved to see this posted a while back ;)
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Get paid some percentage up front

To add to this, I would ask new clients for a few days pay up-front as a sign of good faith.

There were several clients who ran away, absolutely outraged, they'd never heard of anyone asking something so ridiculous in all their life!

Running away screaming was very rare though, and by some good fortune, all of my regular clients were an utter delight to work with.

Stick to your guns though: get paid up-front, and invoice as often as you can. (Weekly in my case).

Offering clients a small discount for paying for a good chunk amount of development time in advance also worked well for me. (Lowest I'd typically go was 2 months with a 5% discount).
Out of curiosity what tools do you use for profiling and finding these sorts of things? Plain old xdebug, xhprof, or other things? I'm going to have to jump into debugging a fairly large Symfony application within the next couple months and am on the look out for good tools to help me along.
As an aside, that's the first time I notice Ghost's logo. I don't get it.
Why wait for rust to be stable for something cooler? Haskell is already here :)
If you haven't, please read Asimov's short story "Nightfall". Your comment was made for it.

http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.h...
I am holding out for HTML9. http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
In every explanation of the word 'zügig' here on HN, the word that pops into my head is 'directly'. Not sure how to make that work beside the word 'programming' but it matches the same concept.

It implies that you are following that one named goal and considering nothing else.
There's only one thing I want in my future web client, and that's to not have to use javascript. Dart, or compilation in general is not quite the savior i'm hoping for...

I want to be able to write C#, or Ruby, or python, and reference it on a page, and for it to run. Gosh that would be great. I wouldn't even mind if its a very limited version of the language.

Edit: confused why i'm downvoted... hmmm
haha, yeah but if I were to advertise the blog for sign-ups on hackernews or reddit it would most likely be marked off as spam.
Thanks for the tip. Just darkened the link buttons... let me know what you think of that
It's your (shared) responsibility to determine what done is, and you should have a hand in estimating how long tasks will take. In my opinion, you as the engineer are ultimately the one who decides what quality you will accept. Instead of saying/thinking "it's done, but I'm not happy with the code quality yet", just say "it's not done yet".

I also firmly believe you should review all code before you commit it (would you skip proof-reading a paper before turning it in?), and that's an excellent time to spot easy improvements, places that need documentation, code that doesn't make sense, etc.
Indeed. I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...