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Ask HN: Would love some feedback on our new site – ZIDILIFE
Name of our site is - ZIDILIFE (htpp://www.zidilife.com) which is Swahili for Go Beyond, and Become Greter.

Elevator Pitch - A mission driven company that aims to inspire and empower people to stand up, do great thing and live a ZIDI life.

The founders note can be found here - http://zidilife.com/a-note-from-our-founder/

Some of our favourite articles include:

Sean Conway who swam from Land's End to John O'Groats and who also cycled around the world (9000 miles of which was with a fractured spine!) - http://zidilife.com/sean-conway-something-needed-to-change/

Anna Kennedy who has two children with Autism and who decided to help them by creating her own school and college for people with Autism - http://zidilife.com/anna-kennedy-one-thing-i-did-it/

John McAvoy who used to be an armed robber and spent almost all of his 20s in prison (on the same wing as Abu Hamza) who then turned his life around after finding sport - http://zidilife.com/john-mcavoy-i-never-looked-back/

Specifically, we want to know if you enjoy the articles and if they inspire you? The general layout of the site (we're still in early stages) and overall if you feel there's a place for a site like this.

thanks!
Knowing Amazon, will we see something like $0.0013 per thousand non-ASCII character, "because this is what it costs them after compression".
Yeah, it's weird to put it this way. The thing though is: the whole dev team at our company speaks Polish, so it would be very uncomfortable to be the only person who doesn't.
Your comment would be more persuasive is it were accompanied by evidence that the errors described in the article were not, in fact, pervasive and that there were real data to indicate that charter schools outperform ordinary public schools. As it is, your comment reads like a similar attempt to nip a nasty threat to charter schools in the bud.
Looks like github hosts most/all of them so should be ok.
James Watson to Sell His Nobel Prize
Well, the ending was a big part of what I was referring to. Plus a monolith appears on ancient Earth overnight without disturbing sleeping hominid animals, and somehow teaches them how to use tools. And another monolith that is buried in the moon for millions of years sends a targeted, powerful radio beam at Jupiter.

Maybe 2001 just did a better job than Interstellar of drawing lines for the audience between "known science" and "alien technology so advanced it looks like magic." So that 2001 still has a great reputation for scientific accuracy despite the fact it contains elements at least as fantastic as Interstellar does.
Thank you for the compliment.

Stephen Hawking partakes in research, with Intel, mostly on speech recognition, to help him being able to better express himself.

Elon Musk funds several startups in the field of advanced AI.
If we stipulate that the charter schools in question have strong selection biases in their student bodies and better resources relative to public schools, then:

a) It's true that statistics are frequently misused by journalists and advocates, BUT:

b) It hardly impugns the schools themselves. Taking a subset of more promising students without behavioral issues out of failing public schools and giving them better resources at charters is not necessarily a bad idea.
If you're looking for an open source system for managing fat assets in git, we made a tool that integrates with S3: https://github.com/dailymuse/git-fit
I noticed these white noise generators in my local Community college library and a few business offices. They produce the same whooshing noises as modern HVAC systems (heating, ventilating, air conditioning) and seem pretty effective, after spending a few dozens of hours with my linear algebra and D books.

http://www.marpac.com/Marpac-Dohm-NSF/dp/B006Z8J9I0
I had the same issue in Python recently. The project runs as a server that loads a huge amount of objects from the database, and could use as much as 10GB memory! Python's reference counting works great, but every so often, the full-heap-scanning cycle collector would run, and it took quite a lot of time to scan a mutli-GB heap.

We noticed the issue happened most often when deserializing objects (loading them from Redis to memory). As it turns out, Python would schedule a collection every time the object_created counter was sufficiently higher than object_destroyed counter. In general, this makes sense, because that way you can be sure that objects are being created and not being freed, which most likely means a resource leak or a reference cycle. However, the same thing happens during deserialization - many new objects are created, and none are freed. Coupled with Python's low threshold (700), GC was triggered many many times in every serialization loop (usually in vain, as no new objects became recyclable). Disabling GC and running full collections manually solved the problem
Also check out [Elite: Dangerous][ed] for some awesome procedural planet generation.

[ed]: http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2014/07/elite-dangerous-edu...
I think most of those gifs are hosted on github. I tried to post a linked image, and it only showed the hyperlink. When I uploaded the image to github, it showed up inline.
I think they're doing it on purpose now. They've fixed it for themselves but are hiding said fix from you specifically. The cheeky bastards.
A "hit piece" is not "something I disagree with." This article presents a very clear line of argument that can be discussed without resorting to the sort of tactics usually associated with "hit pieces". You may not agree with the author, but I think "hit piece" is a bit harsh.
This is exactly how I work. It can seem a slower when you tell your boss you just scraped everything to start over, but it's actually super efficient. It never takes nearly as long to rewrite an application. On my latest proejct for example, I took 1 week to think about the problem and play around with different data schemas, then I spent 3 weeks writing the program. It worked well enough, but there were a lot of holes, and it was a god damn mess to read.

I rewrote the entire project in two days. That's right, what took me 3 weeks of playing around only took me 2 days the second time around, and it was well worth the effort. The refactoring increased security tremendously, and made many parts of the code so much cleaner and readable it brings a tear to my eye.

What's even more important is that I was able to easily add new functionality which would have taken a lot of effort to implement because of the way things were written before. Had I left things the way they were, or tried to refactor without a complete rewrite, I would have just introduced more bugs and got really frustrated.
Extremely intelligent people also make mistakes. There are plenty of examples of very smart people believing very wrong ideas.
No, that's not what I meant. Everything is relative, though — if you live in a crazy expensive place like San Francisco, yeah, it's not gonna work.
Damn. The clever bastards. Probably switched to Trac/SVN because they know I only bother with Git.
Actually, things are running pretty smooth for months now - see for yourself at: https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month. If that's not your experience, you can reach out to support@github.com and we'll look into it.
This Three-Word Poem by Jesse Damiani Just Changed Everything
I attempted to be civil months ago. It got ignored.

You pointed out a valid concern, a few people kicked the tyres of it, and when it turned out that the fix entails a good deal of work - something you've skipped over - you decided to become "rude."

My goal is to fix the problem

As I said, your current method of trying to get it fixed plainly isn't working.

If you start and end at the same place (i.e. nothing gets done), the only difference being that you've made people want to actively avoid you, is that a good result for you?
How much more trivial can a domain name get? youcaneatyourfoot.com

Besides, it seems the servergator ate the site.
Ghost Acquires Roon.io
Nowhere. You find interested people manually and tell them about it. Do things that don't scale.
Sentence two of the expert advice is propaganda.

>The majority of these stories praise charters, while often demeaning public schools.

Charter schools are public schools - they are just less regulated ones.
You Don’t Need Spring to Do Dependency Injection
This is the way I work too. I don't handwrite pseudocode, but I draw data structures and relationships in varying degrees of granularity at least until I'm sure I understand the problem. Only then do I begin writing tests and coding.
Only if publishers CHOOSE to raise them.

Let's look at the facts:

- Most paper books are already subject to VAT (90%+).

- The margins on ebooks are already much higher than paper books (due to reduces production, distribution, storage, returns, and tax costs).

- The only reason ebooks cost as much as they do is due to lack of competition and the publishers wanting to continue to sell paper books.

So while publishers might try to exploit this opportunity to raise prices on something which already costs too much, let's not pretend that the VAT (which is effectively already built into the price, since they're 1:1 with paper books which DO pay VAT) has anything to do with it.
Existing-Home Sales Continue to Post Gains
The public school system isn't exactly stellar. I don't claim to know why, but I don't see how competition does anything other than make the whole system stronger. Why so much fear if you are confident you have a superior product?
Deferred Fetching of Model Elements with JFace Viewers
Sounds like an opportunity to convert all the paperwork to some kind of IT-powered workflow.
Intel creates a new tool to help Hawking communicate
I'm hoping this is sarcasm since I don't think I've seen a single intelligent discussion in my life that was helped along by a funny GIF.

Not to say there's anything wrong with funny GIF's, but I come to HN exactly because it moderates away that sort of stuff.
It may rely on them or it may not, you never know. It may simply outsmart or trick humans, no unknown physics involved :)

It's not reasonable, I agree, it's flip-a-coin game. There's no point saying that it's gonna end bad, there exists one's opinion though that it's not worth the risk.

Mine is that it's fully worth the risk.
Consensus on Cassandra
Show HN: Tor Bandwidth Calculator
People actively avoiding me means I don't have to deal with people. This is a good thing, yes.

That's all I need to know - good work!
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I see two lines changed! Click bait! :P
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What is so difficult in building a successful product
It seems irrational to make such a prediction about systems which we don’t understand at all.

It’s not clear how sophisticated a neural network needs to be in order to yield AGI. It could be very simple (then you would be wrong with high probability), or it could extremely complex (then you would be right with high probability).
Challenges in Machine Learning
The demo scene back in those days, and before, was nothing short of astounding.
Wow, OSX 64bit chrome can't handle that many animated gifs. 32bit could just fine. What gives?!
3 tech stocks to own in 2015. $BABA $AAPL &
Couldn't I also speed up Composer by using Toran Proxy? ( https://toranproxy.com/ )
Lawrence Lessig Shows That Today's Political Struggle []
I thought the small write up on D3 was more interesting than the capture aspect.

http://d3js.org/
I still have our old Model 4P, and it's functional (as well as our Model 1, and my Model 100).

I hacked the crap out of those machines; they taught me programming. Assembly language routines in string space, anyone? VARPTR FTW.
Disappointing. Was expecting a view from outside of the galactic plane.
That's an interesting thought. It's like they posses "artificial intelligence", i.e. they behave like the famous paper clip maximizer.
I don't want to be too much of a killjoy, but I never understood what was all that fuss about stars.

Maybe that's because I've had the reverse experience: I grew up in a place seeing a large amount of stars, where seeing the Milky Way was just expected, and then I moved to larger cities where you can barely see the brightest stars.

Well, even though it sure is nice to see the stars when I happen to be in a darker place, I never really missed them at any point. They're a nice feature of the environment, but not something really critical, just like the bird chirps. They're nice to hear on the morning, but you barely notice when they aren't there. When I'm in a city I'm more concerned about the wasted energy revealed by light pollution, and the annoying sound of roaring cars at most hours.
They just announced Amazon CodePipeline and Amazon CodeDeploy.

http://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/

http://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/
This is definitely a retrograde step, especially in countries such as the Republic of Ireland, where paper books are generally ascribed a 0% VAT rate. That doesn't protect us in regard to e-books however, as the specific legislative text refers to "printed matter", and defines some criteria that prevent e-books from taking advantage of this provision. There is also a clause in the relevant legislation that deals more specifically with "printed matter" that is purchased and downloaded via the internet, and states that it is "considered to be a service" and therefore liable to VAT at the standard rate.

Ref: http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/leaflets/printing-and-print...

I've written the usual letters to government ministers and to members of the European Parliament, but have been completely ignored in all cases, not unexpectedly. Unfortunately, I feel that this is going to be another measure pushed through the EP without any public consultation.
They also (typically) get less money per student than non-charter public schools. So even if they are only equally as good, they still win for spending less of the state budget.
Did you click the state field? There are states for Australia, Canada, China, India, and others listed.
Experienced something similarly mind-blowing. Coming from foggy Northern Germany, I travelled to the east coast of Australia and went up the coast on a sailing boat. The night sky was so immense that I never really slept inside, instead always tried to find a place outside to spent the night watching the milky way in all its glory. Breathtaking. Every couple of minutes a falling star shot by, sometimes exploding, sometimes fizzling out. It's been more than fifteen years now and I can still clearly remember this experience and the emotions it created.

Now that this comes back, I need to go back up a mountain, leave civilization, as soon as possible.
> paper books which DO pay VAT

The article mentions that paper books in the UK are VAT exempt?
Bulgaria :)
The syntax is a bit sucky. The relational model is not.
Your comment indicates that you didn't really even read or attempt to think about mine. You're asking me to nitpick statistics that frame the exact worldview the article was pushing.

I'm saying that in the big picture, those probably aren't the specific statistics that many people even care much about at this point.

It's like an article comparing a Tesla to a Ford pickup truck that focuses solely on 0-60 speed and fuel costs but never bothers talking about towing capacity, load capacity, ability to refuel anywhere, etc.
I don't see any indication it comes with a web UI like Github/Gitlab.
The bar stool writing trick
I hereby invoke Betteridge's Law.[1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
You can build your own inexpensive observatory to find new planets
You don't get it. Science relies on published peer reviewed, repeatable, testable evidence. Not the authority of famous, rich, or even smart people. You can accept authority as much as you personally want, but the reason society progresses technologically, and even towards an artificial intelligence, is because of published, peer reviewed, testable, repeatable evidence. If what they fear is backed by such evidence then they should make such evidence available.
Ah that makes more sense. He seemed to mean it as we use Stone Age, Bronze Age, etc. After we got bronze, we could not continue with stone alone.

That below-absolute-zero is in the quantum sense, not the classical sense. Entropy cannot be stopped (absolute zero) in the classical sense.
Point b) is a problem if charter schools are held up as a general solution to the problems with our schools - because the solution obviously doesn't scale. (The hard-to-teach students need to go somewhere.)

Independent of that, it's also problematic because you're essentially giving up on the "failing schools public schools", by taking resources away from them.
$84/yera to be free of subtle corporate "guidance", and the stupidity that would come from walled garden "internet"? Also new startups services would be available faster than lumbering dinosaurs like Cox, Comcast, Centurylink and Verizon could provide, supposing they could even think of a new service? I'll take the $84/year in fees, thank you very much.
The author is silly. Studies have been conducted to account for selection bias. Because, by law, students have to be randomly selected to get into charter schools with lotteries, it is not hard to control for the selective effects. Check this: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20104029/ and this http://seii.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Charter-Schoo...

Also, I don't understand why so many leftists hate charter schools so much. First, charter schools are public schools, not private schools. Second, charter schools are created to help the poor, not the rich. What's wrong with those leftists? I just can't understand. Do you really love teachers union so much that poor kids mean nothing to you?
I don't know about that particular synth, but having a menu of temperaments is not uncommon on digital pianos, see p 41: http://download.yamaha.com/api/asset/file/?language=no&site=...
Answering job-interview questions for systems analysts
This is pronounced like zoo Gig?
I assumed Nature is a US publication. Oops.
Not any longer :p
Does that not depend on your relative point of view?
What if George Lucas had directed the new 'Star Wars'? Trade negotiations
It's also fair to say that the same skeptical lens applied to the charter schools is not also applied to other kinds of schools and schooling techniques.

I agree that statistics are massively abused in politics, and ironically these sorts of post hoc ergo propter hoc arguments are especially prevalent when it comes to issues of education. Take, for example, the recent push for universal public preschool.
Steam Machines, [ Almost ] One Year Later
> But AI could run out of our control, or have us fall victim of unintended consequences.

A lot of people didn't understand this about 2001: Hal was actually doing the logical thing, he was doing his job. The human was unreliable and was indeed endangering the mission. Hal was a tool of mankind, just like the bone that the ape uses to kill in the first scene.

In the same way when we talk about the dangers of AI we tend to personify them and expect them to be either intelligently nefarious (skynet, matrix) or out of control (bug, malfunction).

What we don't imagine is that we might end up being on the wrong end of a perfectly rational decision, or that we don't realize the consequences of the process that we set them to do.
I assumed Nature was a US publication. Oops.
Yay! :P

(They have an auto-updater now, and I'm working on making it verify signatures in a future releases.)
It's as major an issue as not being able to see the blue sky because of the air pollution. Sure, the light won't give you cancer, but it's still pollution that should be avoided.
The article directly addresses why it's a bad idea: "it makes little sense for the district to heavily subsidize schools [i.e. charters] serving less needy children that already have access to more adequate resources. It makes even less sense to make these transfers of facilities space (or the value associated with that space) as city class sizes mushroom and as the state indicates the likelihood that its contributions will continue falling well short of past promises."

Also, the article mentions that many of the charters have suspension rates between 20 and 50%, which suggests that either a.) the students at these schools do have behavioral issues and/or b.) the charters use aggressive suspension policies to get students to leave.
> I believe they have since improved in this area, but it was clear that while GitHub itself offers an extremely available service, GHE is severely lacking in this respect.

That is correct. On earlier versions of GitHub Enterprise backing up data was quite a hassle. For a consistent (repository) backup taken on the VM level you didn't have to shut it down, but you've had to switch the appliance into maintenance mode, effectively preventing people from getting things done. This isn't the case anymore though as we've shipped new backup utilities [1] and support for HA setups with the 2.0.0 major release [2] some time ago.

[1] https://github.com/github/backup-utils

[2] https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.0.0
Unfortunately, to a great many people in the Valley, that kind of behavior wouldn't seem all that crass at all. Many would find it quite "cool", in fact.
While this sounds bad it's probably a sign of the amount of scrutiny Nature articles are under not the Quality of what's published. Basically, the rate of detection is higher in Nature so even if the underlying problem is the same or even less it’s going to look worse.
> I know syntax of about dozen languages, but I am inferior programmer due to lack of appropriate theoretical background. I could spent days trying to figure out, should a request be a closure or an assoc or this fancy but costly "persistent-map", and these nuances like aliasing and locality in Clojure and CL.

I have a deep understanding of various areas of CS and maths and I never resort to "Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V" to get things I don't understand done. I rather spend enough time to understand them. Every. Single. Time. Ah, and I didn't attend a university almost at all.

You could do the same, you know? If I could learn all of this, without any help from friends or from lecturers or from senior programmers (until very late in my learning), basically with books alone (from a library - that was before the Internet!), then you could have done this easily. But you didn't and now you're whining and shifting the blame and making others responsible for your personal failure to learn.

Really, stop that and start learning for yourself, it's not too late!
A second of April joke. Cheeky. The follow up comments from Vas Rajlich are still interesting though.
Yandex Tank
On the accessibility of web components. Again