skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, someone probably had a stretch goal to clean up some of the static analysis warnings.
“It’s horrific to have someone intentionally shoot a police officer; it’s the wrong message,” he said. “And that is not the message that many have been calling on when they talk about reform.”

Well, what did people expect to happen? We've been sliding into a complete and utter disrespect for the concepts of justice and law in this country--eventually, this sort of thing was bound to happen.

The guy shot his girlfriend before doing in the cops, so he was probably just a crazy. That said, I would be unsurprised if this sort of thing happens more and more frequently. I really, really hope that I'm wrong.
The web still has chokepoints at DNS and PKI, and routing is also vulnerable to blocks. USENET/FIDONET are better mental models when it comes to resilience.
I haven't read either cover-to-cover, but from the chapters I've read, Realm of Racket is a lot more conversational. It feels slightly gimmicky with the emphasis on games. Also Realm assumes you have some programming experience in other languages.

How to Design Programs starts at the very beginning and has a lot more principled of an approach, focusing on FP and programming as calculation of values. It's by far my favourite introductory programming text.
Almost all of those are just front-end/"marketing" and are orthogonal to the quality of the core C++ code itself (e.g. the JS engine, or the audio decoders).
But the S&P500 includes companies that were, in some way or another, affected by the bailout. So that comparison is not appropriate.
Let's also not forget that China hacked Google's portal for the federal intelligence to understand what surveillance operations were being done against their country.

Russia may ultimately ban Facebook for similar reasons. China eventually decided that it wouldn't deal with the US's weaponization of large web corporations - this may eventually be the end state of all the large powers.
When I evaluate programmers I give effectively three times as much credit for removing a line of code than adding one. Sort of .5 for adding a line, 1.0 for changing a line, and 1.5 for reducing by a line. The principle being that well understood code should converge on the simplest correct solution over time.
If you haven't tried it yet, go to any package and press R on your keyboard. That's really the coolest thing about it IMO.
Spotted a little typo:

>When you share a short URL the [recipient] will be saved some potential embarassment if they're not in a location suitable for viewing NSFW content.
Watch in iPad land an airplane
I really feel this. As a founder, my biggest strength is that I'm a domain expert. Right now, I'm doing coding because I don't have money to hire someone else to do it, and I'm perfectly capable of it. But I feel it's not a good use of my time. Any decent programmer could do what I do most of the time right now. What they can't do is understand the domain as intimately as I do.

So as soon as there's money to hire programmers, I'm getting out of the coding biz and hiring others to do it. I want to focus on working with my customers, understanding their needs better than I already do, and guiding programmers to build for those needs.
0.6% per year. Still pretty bad.
To set my life straight. I dropped out of university, went to college because of my parents, I hate college. I want to drop out of college, finish my startup so I can get a developer job. My future depends on this startup.
Sockpuppet means more than aligned views - it implies collaboration.

It's interesting to note here that in America the IRS is regularly weaponized to attack political opponents of whichever current administration.
Our current school system is moronic and this is not an exaggeration. It is the worst possible teaching system I could possibly imagine. Instead of trying to improve the system it should be scrapped entirely.

Here is what is wrong with the current system:

- Grading is harmful. A pass should be 100%/A+. You should not be able to progress until you understand the subject matter 100% as future learning depends on you having a complete understanding of previous content.

- Grouping students by the year they were born is harmful. Some students progress faster than others. By grouping students this way, some students are held back while others are dragged forward; not understanding vital content.

- Grouping a student's progress for all subjects into a single metric is harmful. Eg. grade 1,2,3, etc. Every student will have a natural tendency to be good and bad at certain subjects. Maybe they are good and Physics but bad at English, or vise versa. By grouping a student's progress in all subjects into a single metric a student might be held back in the subjects they are good at or not understand vital content in the subjects they are bad at.

Here is what I imagine a good education system would look like:

- Students progress through subjects independently of their peers and the other subjects they are studying.

- Subject assessment would happen at much smaller increments and students do not progress until they understand that content block 100%.

- Students graduate school when they have reached a certain level of competency in all subjects. This could take an arbitrary amount of time. e.g. it might take one student 3 years but another 8. But once a student graduates they will be competent.

P.S I used to run an company that developed learning management systems, so I have thought about this stuff a bit and developed a hatred for the current education system.
ahahahahahahahahaha nice :D
> Only crazy people put sugar in cornbread

or anyone that reads the cornmeal box.

Here's a tip that makes the sugar component more worth-while without changing an overall savory dish into something else.

Use that same iron skillet, but preheat the skillet in the oven at 475. Pull it out, reduce the oven to 400, oil the skillet and pour the batter. Bake like normal.

The sugar component makes for a caramelized shell when introduced into a hot skillet quickly that has a nearly non-perceivable sweetness, but adds quite a bit to the texture if serving sliced as a side dish.
> How is it possible to discern this in a YC application?

They interview applicants in person, too.
How to Write Code That Doesn't Suck (2012)
By insurers who accommodate these customers, who are already a large and growing set.
[video]Elliptic Curves
Look at Shedskin and the papers it references.
Enterprise programming is like Hadoop. Huge startup overhead, but once workers start up, progress shoots up at a pace faster than possible with less thought out systems.
Typing notes doesn't work well in all classes, though. I can't write equations down on a computer as fast as I write, especially complex ones. Figures are also another problem.

I've seen undergrad classes where the students get the notes and I saw two main problems. They often either don't bother coming to class or they don't pay attention. In some of my grad courses, we got notes ahead of time and then made personal notes during the lectures on top of the supplied ones, but we were a bit more motivated than the average undergrad.

An alternative that seemed to work well in the undergrad courses I had was notes that had portions for students to fill in. The only problem with this approach is that it requires careful consideration by the lecturer. This approach is actually what is suggested by some of the research [1] on note-taking and lectures.

While the research is mixed on note-taking, overall it seems to suggest that some note-taking is good as long as the lectures are set to accommodate it. For example, looking at a study by Kiewra and Benton [2] it says the "amount of note-taking is related to academic achievement" and "ability to hold and manipulate propositional knowledge in working memory is related to the number of words, complex propositions, and main ideas recorded in notes."

[1] McAndrew, Donald A. "Underlining and notetaking: Some suggestions from research," Journal of Reading, 27(2), November 1983, pp. 103-108.

[2] Kiewra, Kenneth A., and Benton, Stephen L. "The relationship between information-processing ability and notetaking," Contemporary Educational Psychology, 13, 1988, pp. 33-44.
Not from the book, but if you are checking the comments to find out what "causal inference" is and why you should care, here's a readable general overview that tries to explain: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...
>Their credibility was never in question: when it comes to assigning blame for a cyberattack, Sony has none.

As far as the public is concerned they do have some credibility. If for no other reason than they were the ones who were actually hacked.

>The FBI, of course, is another story. But the two reasons you give for them to claim NK involvement would work just as well if any other nation or non-state actor were behind it.

They would, but by spinning the NK involvement story they can count on Sony's cooperation. If they started contradicting Sony and arguing that it was China the whole thing would seem a lot less convincing. This is a joint effort.

>And you're just not thinking hard enough if you think NK has no reason to deny responsibility. Off the top of my head: maybe they would rather wriggle out of whatever "response" it is that the U.S. is cooking up

Ok so name a plausible response that would scare them. Invade? Uh, not happening. Economic sanctions? Already doing that. Talk shit about them at the UN? North Korea doesn't care.

>maybe they want to retain what credibility they can so NK can plausibly deny involvement in future attacks

Which:

A) Again they would gain nothing from.
B) Also completely goes against their modus operandi - when they gain military advantage they always crow about it. Every time. Did they cover up Taepodong? Hell no. They issued a press release.

>maybe the fallout is also hurting their relations with China

Or the opposite, because China would almost certainly be happy to mine the hacks for any useful intel. It's not like they are besties with the US.
The sad part is that many Java programmers would probably not realise that this is supposed to be a parody, because there are even more ridiculous-looking things in real, "production" Java code:

http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/apidocs/org/apache/xmlrpc/server...

http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/2.5.x/api/org/sp... (this one is somewhat famous - maybe it wins the "most number of design patterns in a class name" award?)

The impression I get whenever I come across code like this is that its authors were more interested in "creating architecture" than solving a real problem - and creating many classes containing short methods whose only function is to create more objects or pass existing ones around is a particularly insidious form of busy-work.

GNU Hello (http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/ ) is basically the same sort of thing done to a Hello World program.
India has the 10th largest GDP in the world.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nom...

They will soon have the largest population, if the don't already. It's middle class isn't as large as the U.S., but it's growing quickly.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_India

Why wouldn't they want to invest into research to cure common diseases?
Ideally, upon finding correlated variables, one would perform an experiment, changing one to see if it causes the other(s) to change. Looking at noise enables the same principle to be applied when the researcher lacks the ability to perform such an experiment.
I improved my grades in the later undergrad years by taking the notes from class and re-writing them in a nice form (like you using colour and cleaning it up) into bound notebooks, like the kind used for log books. Then, if I needed to review for a test, I just grabbed the book. Now, I have a handy set of books on my shelf.
Beliefs like JEE is a good thing? Like object oriented development is a good thing? Like Portal Server is still relevant? Yeah, I hit the wall with those all the time. Lots of ego in the way of changing those beliefs because the big guys have been selling this for the last two decades. How would you like to be the guy trying to convince enterprises that loosely coupled is the way to go when they've been sold on "silos are bad we need integrated systems"? I feel a little bit like Chicken Little at times. :)
My takeaway from the article is

- State Farm is a mass-market company - no Airbnb

- Chubb is an upmarket company - $15k revenue limit

- Liberty Mutual is a mass-market company - 'occasional' rental, cannot be 'engaged in business' - rather vague

Problem is the vagueness, and the Chubb and Liberty Mutual agents contradict the firm's spokespeople, which is kind of their fault. They should get it together when it comes to Airbnb. Pretty common, easily insurable use case with a known claim history.

Of course, if you want to run a hotel business, you need a commercial policy, and many if not the vast majority of Airbnb-ers skirt the rules.

So yeah, when you do that, there is a massive change in liability, and yeah, if you don't get the right insurance there's denial.

If somebody trips and falls and sues you, or burns down your place, and the insurance company says you were running a hotel business and denies your homeowner's claim, you're screwed. I don't know what Airbnb's umbrella does for you then.
> Knowledge is not implicitly dangerous or immoral

Good phrase!
I think today people could tell the difference today using fMRI studies (and I hope those studies have been done and are being done). It might not have been as straightforward to tell the difference in the past.
I find this admirable, although I also think you seem to be putting yourself under quite a lot of pressure. Have you thought about the kind of support you'll need for that change?
>Let's not forget that Al Qaeda didn't take responsibility for 9/11 until 3 or 4 years after the fact.

Actually, applying the same line of reasoning also brought me to the same conclusion about Al Qaeda.

When Osama initially denied involvement it rang true because he had no motive to deny it if he actually was behind it. He wasn't going to suddenly stop being no. 1 on the FBI's most wanted list. He already had two sizable terrorist attacks to his name.

Whereas... consider what Bush and Cheney would have done if they had found conclusive proof that Mohammed Atta was the sole mastermind of the operation.

"Sorry guys, we can't retaliate because the perpetrators are all dead"?

Heh.
Mobile Safari on iOS behaves similarly.
Trying to scroll, I sometimes I click on a link accidentally.
When network is slow, going back to the original
page does a reload and takes ages or even fails.
Compared to Hackers (1995) and the Matrix (1999) (and countless others), I could watch this movie over and over again. I supremely enjoyed it.
The author notes that they picked up an MacBook Air during one of the scans. Probably unrelated, but interesting nevertheless, is that Kim has been seen using Apple products [1], specifically an iMac. Perhaps the author came across Kim's own notebook?

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/10619703/North-K...
Woah, what happened to the free market? :S
What we have in our world today is closer to universal surveillance of everyone, available to the few. The few, of which we know to due to the declining information asymmetry over our collective human history, are just as susceptible to all the things that make us human.

The reasons those on here give is along the lines of: because HIPAA, because it may be embarrassing for me if I get caught on video in some compromising way, because I might not get that job/promotion/etc (which seem to not be the ones we hear parroted in the news i.e. terrorism, to justify current asymmetries, not to mention no questioning of the utility of a job done by people which people seem to implicitly equate to be the only way resources can be allocated to people in any system).

I have yet to see those then go on to acknowledge in their plausible theoretical scenarios (that probably already happen to some degree without [sous]surveillance available to all easily) that because I may think I was wrongly looked over/scrutinized, what would stop me from then doing the same to those who would wield such over me in those same situations or anyone else?

I can see why it can be distressing if one is convinced that the way one grows up, is normalized to, generally reinforced by their society at large (and maybe less so as time goes by as society…changes) and finds solace in such way of being, figures that is the way the world must be. The unswaddled babies and young children uploaded to internet by their parents (and their parents friends and relatives) without any say, will probably wonder why all the old folks of their time care much when all they have known will be what is so foreign us today.
It's the cost of it working at all, at least in terms of it being as accessible as it is:

Making it feasible for people to create websites quickly enough to be worthwhile entailed allowing the tag soup non-standard HTML we see in practice now, and the confluence of desire and technical limitations made plug-ins inevitable.

A "better-regulated" Internet wouldn't have had the Web at all. Remember that, according to the people using it circa 1988, file transfer and hypertext were both solved problems, with FTP and Gopher respectively already in existence. Unstructured hypertext, something Gopher was not really designed for, wasn't especially desired until some random at CERN released WorldWideWeb and httpd to the world.
Couldn't agree more. I recently saw Princess Kaguya after being essentially dragged to the movie theatre by a friend. I've never really developed a taste for Japanese animation, and went in with no expectations.

Frankly, it's the most emotionally engaging movie I've seen in half a decade. It blew me away. At no point either did the animation ever look unfinished. That's just a weird characterization, and I'm kind of annoyed at the implication that the audience expects a certain baseline of eye candy on the screen at a given time.

Anyhow, the movie's the bomb. Sad to hear that this studio is going on an extended hiatus. I hope someone else fills the void, because I would definitely be in the market to throw money at my screen for anything of this caliber.
Anyone who finds this interesting and is not aware of the Montessori[0] approach should definitely look at it. It is basically the same underlying idea, consistently applied from toddler age. It seems to be effective, if you measure by "people famous for the right reasons"[1], such as Bezos, Brin, Page and Wales.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

[1] http://www.mslf.org/famous-montessori-students/
Possibly of interest to fans of Miyazaki Hayao's work is the series he did for Nippon Animation in '78: Future boy Conan[1].
Despite the cheesy name, in my opinion it is his greatest work. I have watched the complete 26 episodes of this series multiple times with my kids, and they've watched it on their own many times. Anyone I turn onto this series is absolutely slackjawed with how good it is. Most of the character archetypes, themes and famous sequences from his subsequent movies are to be found in this series.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Boy_Conan
I was briefly exposed to this doctrine at school, so I hope dropping the following buzzwords help: POJO, Java Persistent API, Java Enterprise Beans, Gang of Four Design Patterns
What they fail to note is all the good that could have come from not doing TARP, what innovative services might have sprung up instead?

Sure, Detroit might be dead (isn't it already?) but there would also be a huge infrastructure for Tesla to buy on the cheap.

Imagine a world in which Tesla and other startups are the only car manufactures in the US? (Well, save for Ford which didn't need a bailout)

What sort of opportunities would there be for FinTech companies sans Goldman, et al? How many small businesses could have been started with $475 billion?
A combination of wasteful architecture astronomy and legitimate need to divvy up absolutely mammoth line-of-business applications among teams with hundreds of members operating for years with wildly varying skill levels, often on different subsystems from different physical locations, with billions of dollars on the line. You can't let the least senior programmer in the Melbourne office bring down the bank if he screws up with something, so instead you make it virtually impossible for him to touch anything than the single DAO which he is assigned to, and you can conclusively prove that changing that only affects the operation of the one report for the admin screen of a tier 3 analyst in the risk management group for trans-Pacific shipping insurance policies sold to US customers.

The tradeoff is, historically, that you're going to have to hire a team of seven developers, three business analysts, and a project manager to do what is, honestly speaking, two decent engineers worth of work if they were working in e.g. Rails. This is a worthwhile tradeoff for many enterprises, as they care about risk much, much, much more than the salary bill.

(I spent several years in the Big Freaking Enterprise Java Web Applications salt mines. These days I generally work in Rails, and vastly prefer it for aesthetic and productivity reasons, but I'm at least intellectually capable of appreciating the advantages that the Java stack is sold as bringing to users. You can certainly ship enterprise apps in Rails, too, but "the enterprise" has a process which works for shipping Java apps and applying the same development methodology to e.g. a Rails app would result in a highly effective gatling gun for shooting oneself in the foot.)
The World's Most Intense Fitness Program
Ask HN: What is the probability of getting picked/funded by YC for a Start Up?
Given the fact that
1. I have never been to US before nor attended a reputed Business School
2. I am not a techie, but can understand the basics
3. Possess a very good Idea and dying to create something great
It doesn't.

They invested $426 billion 2008 dollars and got back $438 billion 2014 dollars. Officially inflation was 9.7% so they lost about $20 billion.
How to Design Programs is a conventional college textbook. Felleisen and the PLT Group have a specific pedagogy developed during his decades as as educators with a deep interest in teaching computing [not just computing in general].

Realm of Racket is designed more or less as a self paced tutorial. It is in the tradition of Land of Lisp. It is targeted at a broader and more general audience.
The government also spent $2 trillion in QE so if that money wasn't in the market...
For Navalny? Putin is shooting him down because he's gaining too much popular support exposing and fighting corruption. They don't want people on the streets supporting him.

In general, follow the money trail (or the power trail) and it's easy to see who's censoring stuff. Maybe not very obvious in other countries, but in Russia it's clear as day. In Russia-wide issues the power trail always terminates at Putin, with local issues it could be some local government official.

A bit more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8778653
Are you recommending Montessori beyond k-1? Are it even available for that stage? One thing that made me wonder was if these "famous" people only went to Motesorri pre-school or all the way through in higher grades. The reason I'm asking is because if it's only preschool then benefit seems to be too high and questionable.
Parsing tag soup does not require reloading the page and displaying an error page when the network goes away.
...because the Federal Reserve offered the real bailout. TARP's few hundred billion would be worth far less had the Fed not printed trillions, and used it to buy all of the banks' bad MBSs at above-market rates.