skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or c.) some public schools don't have high enough behavioral standards for their students for whatever reason and some students have problems adjusting to the new expectations.

If journalists are concerned about the quality of reporting around this issue, explaining the suspension rate seems like a great story. It would be hard work, though, since schools rightly don't talk to strangers about specific disciplinary incidents.
JC is technically brilliant but in other aspects of intelligence has been questionable. This interesting quote is a classic example of a Yogi Berraism. Claiming you can rush creativity, you just need to have the time to rewrite your complex code 2 or 3 times.
This seems like Uber's real play. A massive network of drivers that can be used at all times for all manner of things.
Pretty irrelevant but that reminded me of this scene from Cannibal the Musical [0]. The whole video is worth watching, especially if you've seen the rest of the movie but I only linked to the music theory argument. The movie is one of Trey Parker's earlier works and is quite entertaining [1].

Coming from a family of musicians and artists, it's all pretty foreign to me. And I used to take lessons, and occasionally sit and work my way through a beginner guitar book. I've always heard music theory to be pretty obtuse and challenging. I'm sure if I put in some hours to understand the fundamentals it'd make a lot more sense, and read it at home with a little dedication it'd be a bit easier. It's truly interesting.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF8oIKLlBsI#t=132
[1] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115819/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Speaking as someone who wasted time and money on an interdiciplinary philosophy programme that existed only for the sake of placating a particular professor (like, they didn't even bother making sure that the timetables were compatible), this is really great advice.

A lot of said programmes exist for exactly that reason.
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slowing down or speeding up? I could be mixing things up but I understand that if I was falling into a BH (lets imagine I'm infinity tough and not torn to shreds due to tidal forces) the universe would appear to be slowing-down/getting-smaller until it had dimensions of zero (or to put it another way, time would "stop") at C. An outside observer would see me moving faster and faster and "stretching" longer and longer.

SR makes my brian hurt. :P
What is the difference between a charter school and a private school then?
Why do a charter school gets the same amount of public money from the district as the other school in the district?
>Not everyone wants to follow the classic SV career path.

I'd argue that the previous poster's advice applies to ANY career path that isn't academia.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your test cases?
Excel? any SAAS app? How do you keep them up-to-date and how do you track them?

Edit: I wasn't clear in the original question. I am talking about GUI testing, UAT etc, not unit tests
I think that's pretty useful approach. It's kind of similar to Hinton's latest work on model compression: http://www.ttic.edu/dl/dark14.pdf

The problem with deep models is when you end up having more than 1 hidden layers, you have a big matrix multiplication to get between the layers. If your hidden layers are a few thousand units, that's still pretty slow. Doing things in minibatches or on the GPU speeds it up significantly, but I'm guessing it's still orders of magnitudes slower than whatever Stockfish uses
If you randomly select students for enrollment through a lottery, but then weed out difficult students, you've introduced a selection bias for graduation. This is not a very good approach to "helping the poor".
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> I don't understand why so many people seem to be OK with losing our ability to see the stars

Honest question: why shouldn't they be okay with it?

I was a Boy Scout and I saw the stars at night during camp outs. I've seen the night's sky from the middle of the New Mexico desert. It was very pretty, but I've seen it.

It's not that I don't have a sense of wonder. Heck, I'm a post-doctoral researcher in physics and I've been trying to teach myself cosmology as a hobby. Yet, from my perspective, being able to see the stars every night like being able to see Niagara Falls every night. It's something that you should certainly do once and I don't begrudge those who want it part of their daily life, but I don't think that it needs to be the default option.

You seem to disagree, so I'm wondering what it is that I'm missing.
Tokbox provides a SaaS option for managing webRTC sessions. It is separate from Firefox including webRTC support in its browser. There's nothing stopping a company or site from implementing session handling on their own, and bypassing Tokbox. Lots of places do it, and there are other options in the service provider space anyway.
http://darksitefinder.com/maps/north-america.html is a better dark sky map
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You could always use the Lynx browser
I'm afraid that battle is long lost now :(.
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Rather a shame your comment is greying out. It's not offensive, just an unpopular opinion.

For some people it's an intrinsically beautiful sight. Others, a reminder of their place in spiritual creation. To me, it's incredible that we can see such a gigantic, distant structure so clearly, in a way which gives us a tangible sense of our location in the galaxy.

The night sky is a springboard for thought: what if we lived nearer the galactic center? The sky would be bright all the time, bright as day. Likely we'd never have figured out that we live in a solar system in a galaxy; without sight of the stars and a diurnal cycle, science wouldn't have developed along the same lines. Maybe without astronomy, we'd never have ventured into the oceans. Conceivably, technological civilization would be beyond our reach. We are lucky indeed in our birthplace, for more reasons than its climate and atmosphere.

I hope that gives you some idea what the 'fuss' is about, even if it's just my perspective.
Except that Docker and probably Rocket work really well. And the speed of development on the projects looks to have benefitted from using Go.

Speed of development is the killer feature that Go has. For me and most people I know who enjoy the language it provides an almost frictionless development experience that makes us more productive than any other language I know.

I'm a language geek so I totally get the whole "Why doesn't go have {Generics,Typeclasses,Hindley-Milner Type Inference,...}" arguments. Sometimes I miss them too. But then I remember how I literally cut months off a personal project's development time using Go. That's when I remember to be greatful for the core teams approach to making a purely pragmatic language that is geared toward frictionless development above all else.
Today, yes. But that's a problem our industry needs to solve. A lot of our labor force has already paid in money and time for education. Our education system has simply failed to deliver the full skill sets. Not necessarily the education system's fault -- our industry needs to know what skill sets to ask for and what is their value.
Corporations exist for shielding against the consequences of honest risk taking, not immoral acts.

Yet, the legal system is almost completely random, and may bankrupt anybody that is forced to participate in it. I understand where you are comming from, but you are asking for the wrong reform.
Interesting. It says Hawking would rather stick to his old system than switch to a new one, which conflicts with reports I read like a year ago that suggested he was interested in a direct brain interface.

But perhaps it's not so surprising. He's old, and past a certain age you just don't have time to relearn everything. Your time is better spent squeezing the juice out of what you have.
Hawking is not wrong - AI could end human race. In same sense that God could exist, or P could be equal NP. Reason is that it has not yet been proven to be impossible.

But looking into AI field, it is clear there's nothing further from truth as of yet. What we have is rudiments of bits of intelligence. And some of these rudimentary bits have been around for almost two thirds of a century. We don't have general idea of how intelligence works, or even how to define it objectively.

But I can see where they are coming from. Our brains work as they work, and we know they must have mechanism, it means it must be possible to simulate it in computers, and it means it must be possible to improve it.

But another thing I disagree is the whole "if they are more intelligent than us, there is no way to know what they are going to do". Really? There are plenty of people who are more intelligent than any one of us here. Do they want to kill everyone less intelligent than they? Never heard of it. There are plenty of animals of all levels of intelligence. Do we want to kill them just because they are less intelligent? No. Do other more intelligent animals try to kill less intelligent animals? No.

If what, if there will be more intelligent machine than us, it will want to help us so we can maintain it, fix it and improve it, if it will have survival instinct (which will only happen if we build them to have one). Because robots and AI will not survive long without humans no matter how advanced they are.

Another thing that severely limits the chances of AI posing any danger to us, no matter how smart it will be, is the limited number of parallel AI's running. We, as humans, strive in intellectual stuff, is because there are billions of us and we have very good ways of communicating our knowledge. If one human makes mistake, there are many chances it will be corrected by others. AI's usually are made one of a kind. Which means it is enough to make one mistake for it to be "put down" if something goes wrong. So unless we intentionally create environment for hostile AIs to thrive, we have nothing to worry about even when there will be several of smarter than humans robots.
Do you work with 13yr-olds?
I know that, right.

But I have firsthand experience of the facts that:

- being able to watch the stars won't automatically make people put things into perspective

- watching the stars, while a good way to put things into perspective, isn't the only one

Stars are not a fundamental element of human life experience, just a nice but dispensable thing. Even your Youtube link doesn't show anything a human can see, and just showing a random picture of a starfield wouldn't really have much effect on most people.

Seeing plain stars only works if the people who watch them already have knowledge about them, basic understanding of the involved distances, etc. It is this knowledge that help you put things into perspective, not seeing the stars themselves.
That would be oil drilling and exploration operations. You can see similar lights in North Dakota.
I do. I block Flash in Firefox (v33.1), and it works in Firefox. Chrome (v38.0...) might have some Flash on it somewhere, but it's mostly HTML.
"Solar panels are very expensive"

Times are a changing, $1/watt stereotypical 100 watt panel is about 2x4 feet.

A window of decent quality , somewhat energy efficient, of 2x4 foot size is about $300.

TV's sell for about twice what a comparable surface area window costs. A 50 inch TV has about the same surface area as a 100 watt solar panel.

Aquariums cost about the same as windows (2ft by 4 ft front would probably be about a 60 gallon, which is about $300)

Another way to put it, is if you're looking at glass, per square inch, the cheapest (aside from picture frames) is solar panels, then windows and fish tanks cost about 3 times as much as solar panels, then TVs cost about six times as much as solar panels, per sq inch.

Back on topic you'd be far better off installing perhaps 3x to 10x the square footage of solar panels than installing very expensive windows with this film.

At least theoretically you could apply the film to siding, maybe even roofs, and have slightly cooler surfaces.
Yes I'm well aware of what open source is and how it works (if you notice I'm pretty active on github); I've already sent a PR to fix part of the problem before.

However, it makes very little sense for them to, for example, merge a PR if it uses my public key for verification and not theirs. The problem I'm running into is that I can't just fix the issue without their cooperation.

Regardless, this is all moot because the Composer maintainer is now communicating with me privately to discuss how to fix the problem so it will be solved some day soon.
German has a very nice word for that: "zügig". It means "speedy" as well, but goes a bit towards "stable", "steady" and "friction-free". It's the good kind of fast, which sometimes needs a step back and a look at things.

We have a term for that as well -- cruising speed.
Warning NSFW Commit detected. "Pedophile 11-year-old girl images from 4Chan"

Stay classy programmers.
If a triangular surface has a hole (a cycle of one-triangle-only edges) it's manifold but not watertight.
You must be a pedophile if you enjoy 11-year-old girls and 4Chan.
The view from Mt. Everest base-camp (17,000ft) is outrageous! I have never seen anything like it and would recommend it to anyone (although I'd recommend going to Nepal and Tibet for lots of other reasons too).
It wasn't negligible in my country (Czechoslovakia), where the USSR was the model. I think almost everybody felt relief when Stalin (and Gottwald) died. Maybe Stalin didn't oppress people much after the war, but he still got the _right_ to do so, and the Durov's sentence is 100% correct.
This is good advice. Start slow (short trips, close to civilization) and build up over time. Your experience will tell you what gear you need much better than any review site.

One of the best places to actually START is just Google up a local park, grab a water bottle and do an out-and-back (e.g walk 15 minutes along the trail and then turn around and retrace your footsteps back to the trailhead.) You can do this over lunch.
"charter schools are created to help the poor, not the rich"

This is in theory, many charter schools are not following this principle, see for example:
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/14/do-affluent-white-neighbo...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-15/taxpayers-billed-fo...
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Hey guys - looks cool. How are you different / better than Baremetrics?
I needed something that lets me organize tasks and notes in a tree like manner, like Workflowy, but with proper documents and more text editing functionality, like Evernote, so I built it myself: https://flownote.io
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Educate yourself, comrade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_the_Sov...
Except that, depending on your definition of "intelligence", evolution even as a statistical process fits most to all of the criteria necessary to be intelligent. Basically any definition of intelligence that fits the stuff you see in the movies will also tend to fit evolution. "Has goals, biases set of possible futures toward completing those goals, demonstrates creativity", and so on. It's just that evolution, as an intelligent entity, is utterly, unbelievably alien - psychologically, physically, and 'physiologically'. Which I guess makes sense, right? Aliens aren't going to have rubber foreheads and five fingers; they're going to be utterly unbelievably alien.
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> I don't want to do linux updates.

I'm no EC2 expert, but I believe you still have to do linux updates if you are running on AWS.
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Sounds like you're unhappy with your hosting company and your preferred solution would be to choose an alternative.

If you believe your hosting company is lying then staying there is not a sensible decision to make.

Your server/site could be compromised. There could be malware present. That may or may not be related to the version of Apache.

Most web-compromises are due to weak SSH passwords, old versions of Wordpress, or other applications. I've never yet seen a compromised host which was caused by an old version of Apache, but that isn't to say that this is impossible.
If I'm in the US, is there any way to proxy into my full health results?
This is a good point. I am not Russian but I learned programming in the same way because I started out doing embedded work. Where a build/deploy/test cycle could take hours to an emulator and debugging was very unfriendly. If you did not do rigorous thinking about your program and what you were doing, you could waste huge amounts of time. I no longer do embedded work, but the mentality has stuck. When I commit my work, it tends to have fewer bugs than what my co-workers produce.
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True enough, but that doesn't invalidate the quote, since it was still Stalin at the helm. There were still an estimated 1.7 million people in the camps after WW2, many of them Soviet POWs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag#mediaviewer/File:Gulag_Pr...
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> If the expulsion rate and parent engagement is part of the 'secret sauce', then everyone needs to be aware of that.

What if the key variables are harder truths? What if it's the education level of parents, implying that natural intelligence (or something correlated) is the most important thing. What if it's the marital status of the parents, implying the stability of their homes is the most important thing? What if it's the crime rate in their neighborhood they live in?

Honestly, it's incredibly important to know if we're wasting our time and should be concentrating on lead paint, exercise levels, or healthy marriages.

It seems to me that reporters don't really approach those kinds of issues either. We like to control for those sorts of variables as it they don't matter.
But with that said, I think the concept here is cool. The fact that it doesn't really know the rules of chess but still can play is interesting. I just think that it maybe should have selected a different database for its games; a master-database instead of one filled with amateur games. Of course, there are far many more amateur games, so such a masterbase is much smaller which may be a problem.
Not sure where you live but in Georgia charter schools are not run by private corporation like McDonalds. They take public funding just like every school but have more freedom in their curriculum.[1] They are not governed by a board of education but by a non profit board with less rules but higher accountability by the state.

[1]http://www.gadoe.org/external-affairs-and-policy/charter-sch...
What are realtime visualizations
As to why the problem went unnoticed for so long, it seems that the GC is not able to be observed by profilers, so whenever we looked at profiles to improve things we obviously did not spot the issue.

That sounds like a bug in the profiler, not with Composer. Observing internal time is pretty important for any profiler.
Can you please raise bug report or let me know what you find here? I work on go native dns library for linux, which iirc is used when crosscompiling rather than libc.
As a courtesy to you and to onlookers, I should point out that your very fair reply to the original short version of my comment was posted while I was still expanding the comment with my point-by-point reply to the questions posed by the anonymous correspondent to Diane Ravitch. You are quite correct that we should grapple with each question in the checklist in detail. I hope I have done so in the expanded version of my grandparent comment.
Negligible? Gulag population was on the rise. It surpassed 1939 levels by 1950.
That's a bug.
Not sure why everyone is trying to couple this to solar panels. The TL;DR for the article is a material that is 97% reflective to incoming light and also a heckuva radiative source. As such, it bounces away all the sunlight and radiates additional energy out into the void. The international space station uses a similar setup to achieve this- there's nowhere for waste heat in the space station's solar panels to go (there's no air to accept it) so radiation is the only method of dumping it. Nobody does this on Earth, because radiators are heavy and take up a lot of space. It'd be far cheaper to just install more solar panels.

Solar panels try to absorb all the light they can; that 10-20% is sunlight to electricity, and most of the rest is absorbed as heat.

If you tried to combine the two by stacking, a reflector/radiator with an absorber, you'd render one or both useless. The radiator would block the solar panel's light, or the solar panel would block and reflect the radiated light from the radiator. You could point the radiator down, which would cool the solar panel a bit (making it more efficient), but you'd be heating up whatever was beneath the solar panel. That'd be great in an open field but awful on a rooftop.

This invention's biggest application is in the existing situations where you want to dump heat. Air conditioners have large radiator sections (not sure why they call them radiators because they do not radiate so much as conduct and convect the heat away) which would be able to dump a lot more heat with a properly oriented coating using this novel material (also potentially eliminating blowers and fans).

I'd really like to see a graph of heat flux versus ambient temperature versus area. If it took 1 square meter versus 100 square meters to dump, say, 1000 watts, that would change this from a curiosity to a breakthrough.