skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot on. I've since forgotten about this, but at that age I do remember caring way too much about being liked and what others thought.

It was not that I was so vain - it just seemed like a reality to me. Reality seemed to be, you have to be cool like these guys / that guy / whoever or else you will never have a girlfriend and never have sex and die alone.

In hindsight, that's stupid, idiotic even. But back then that was my life. And it's still like that for teens now. Explains why I can talk to a teen and they seem like perfectly reasonable people, except 10 minutes later they go off and do something unimaginably stupid.

Maybe it's a sort of random mutation of our social genetic makeup - teens must do stupid, senseless stuff, and some, randomly, discover something great (while lots of others just embarrass or injure themselves).
http://terafyle.com is shorter than http://bit.ly/terafyle3. So I'm not sure why you put the bit.ly link—it's very suspicious for a post that already looks like astroturfing.

To be honest, WebDAV and SFTP + GoodReader (on iOS) works perfectly for me and I have no reason to switch to this … whatever it is.
What

But this is valueless. It's a stupid idea, for obvious reasons. Okay it's sort of fun, but if a researcher wants to have fun, they should do it on their own time, or apply for funding from an arts council or something. Why should a taxpayer pay for this? Why should we want a conference to publish it?
Oh, the tactics should be realized by biological systems rather than by manual "brick stacking" of technical systems?
A 100-year study of artificial intelligence?
Has there been a movement which has won in substance through terrorism?

Movements don't win through terrorism. The movements (or however you want to characterize it) have to actually come out and put up a fight if they want to win. Terrorism tends to have the opposite effect --it alienates people from a cause they might actually see some commonality with.

Using the boxing analogy, someone is fighting Muhammad Ali, Ali is up in points, the opponent throws an illegal punch. With that strike is the opponent now winning? No. He is still losing. Further lets say he lands a couple of jabs, is he winning because he got a point? No, he's far from winning. Further lets say he manages to get Ali to change up, change behavior adapt, is he winning? Again no not till he has more points or knocks him out.
I have yet to encounter a situation in my career that called for a binary tree. I use general trees and graphs all the time, but never any of the specialized forms.

Maybe the problems your companies have worked on did. That's fine. Don't go telling people to "stop asking people to pay you to write software" just because they don't know how to use or write a binary tree, though.

I agree with you that I wouldn't hire someone who doesn't understand linked lists, but I still think your statement is too harsh for that situation as well.
https://www.opendns.com/no-more-ads/

the OpenDNS 'guide' is meant to be removed.
OpenID I presume, or something similar?
After a cross country move to a remote coastal town, my wife and I were left at our destination with only a small portion of our possessions. The rest of our stuff was making its way there with the hired movers.

I got into a strange situation where I needed my Mac Mini for something, but it was still trying to connect to an old wired connection instead of the new wireless one. I didn't have any of my cables or display adapters -- just a keyboard.

Long story short: the Mac Mini has an internal speaker, and OS X comes with a vocoder shell program. I managed to boot into the OS and launch terminal, and blindly typed commands into it, piping the output to the vocoder app until I got things working.
I'v just released a first private beta for a tool to manage reusable checklists like code-review checklists. For you HN readers, if you are interested you can try it out at https://app.firesub.com
There's no mention of any control group in the article at all.
I only skimmed the article but does that mean that the research itself is fake as well?
An automated checklist seems far superior for most of the items he covers.

We have had good success using pronto to automatically run Rubocop, Rails Best Practices, and Brakeman running on CircleCI against every code commit on Github. Then, we still have another team member review a branch before approving a merge, but we know that all tests pass, coverage has not dropped, and there are no obvious errors.
Right. After skimming the article I went to my Calendar to see what had changed. Nothing. That calendar was still there and turned off like it always has been. Not sure what everyone is talking about.
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For those who don't want to read the whole book, or want inspiration to read the book, here's the New Yorker articles on which the book is based. It's long, but worth reading: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
600 homosexuals arrested in 2014 in India
All of the hotels within 20 miles are mostly booked or have responded to demand by vastly raising their prices. Lots of event agencies buy these rooms to group up and sell on as packages.

I think Cardiff has roughly 6000 hotel rooms. The concert is expected to bring in 140,000 people.
That's a fair point, though it doesn't outweigh the myriad other reasons not to do client-side hashing.

Security is always a battle of usability and tradeoffs. Client-side hashing simply doesn't make sense for security. It removes the fundamental point of the hash in the first place and introduces an avenue for possibly attacking or manipulating your database.

In fact, there's hardly ever a reason to do client-side security.
I'm not sure why a person would need to set foot in a classroom in order to measure what works in education. Sure, a teacher will have anecdotal evidence about what works and what hasn't for his students. Some of this may even be quite powerful. But it will also necessarily be tied to the socioeconomic patterns that exist among his students, external school circumstances, his personality, etc.

That's why there are people who study the behavior of teachers in the aggregate (and, yes, this involves measuring outcomes through testing), and the associated educational outcomes, so that policymakers at various levels can guide the educational system as a whole in a way that will be the most helpful for the most students. This is, broadly speaking, just one example of how social science research and policymaking is done.

Of course, none of this means that Marzano is not clueless. He might be clueless for entirely separate reasons.
Your second point about American TV networks and pool is also true. Commentary is usually provided by some vacuous talking head who's never played pool before, gets excited about simple shots yet remains oblivious to the subtleties that actually make-up great play, like cue-ball positioning or safety-play. If you're lucky, there might be an inarticulate former pro to provide color commentary.

That's why one of the things that stands-out about the 1966 video clip posted earlier is how unusually competent the commentator was! Announcer was "Whispering" Joe Wilson.
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That's funny.

I taught at a magnet school on the west side that operated the same way.

Many magnet schools do not operate as they were designed.
Each magnet school was supposed to offer an original line of programming in which the school specialized.

Perhaps it was like that at one time, but those days are gone. The school I taught at was supposed to teach aviation. I guess there was one guy who taught that program once, and then he retired. He was not replaced.

Magnet schools give preferential enrollment of up to 40% to neighborhood students and siblings, but they can recruit selectively, unlike a neighborhood school that must accept any student that lives in the attendance boundary.

The situation that I was describing in my original post was more pertaining to high schools than elementary schools.

There are over 100 high schools in Chicago, but most students want to get into the same 5. If you live in a decent neighborhood, your neighborhood school may be alright, but if you live in the South or West sides, the selective enrollment high schools are pretty much your best chance to get out. Therefore, if you fuck up in the sixth or seventh grade on either homework or standardized tests, the consequences can be severe.
tldr;

> At least 750 cases were registered and 600 people arrested under Section 377 of Indian Penal Code in 2014 after Supreme Court struck down 2009 Delhi High Court verdict which decriminalised homosexuality.

> According to Home Ministry statistics, the country witnessed registration of 778 cases and 587 arrests under Section 377 until October.

Section 377 [0] says that:

> 377. Unnatural offences: Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377_of_the_Indian_Penal...
It's funny how many people choose to talk about something besides the point of the story.
The conference has been rescheduled to be two days earlier to avoid the conflict. It's now 31st May - 5th June.
Lizard Stresser runs on hacked home routers
SSD is not for you then, data retention is very poor (single digit years, or few months until read speed degrades in case of Samsung 840 :P). Whats more mere reading degrades flash, current SSDs keep a log of how many times sector has been read, and reallocate that sector when it triggers because read operations upset stored values.
My first real side-project-turned-business is/was Bugrocket (https://bugrocket.com, launched March 2011, bug tracking for small dev teams). Subscription-based and grows very slowly, it mostly hovers around $500/month in revenue. The market is just feels really small these days between Trello and GitHub Issues being decent now (in 2011 it was very lacking).

Next, my wife and I started CourseCraft (https://coursecraft.net, launched December 2012, e-course creator tools + we handle transactions for 5%-9% of sales). Since it's transaction-based it's a lot less consistent monthly, but growing faster. A typical month is $300-$400 in revenue, but it's been a lot higher (and a lot lower) here and there.
Is this seriously a real implementation of the movieplot plan, where the villain sits there stroking his cat and explaining: "Oh no, Mr. Bond, did you really think I attacked Xbox Live and PSN on Christmas day for some ideological purpose? Or for the 'lulz'? No Mr Bond, that was merely a demonstration of my power. Now I can sell my services to the highest bidder and no-one can stop me! not even you, Mr Bond, since you will be observing the auction from the bottom of my shark tank! Ahahaha! Ahahahahahahahaaa!"

Except without the sharktank, and just with an online store offering various service levels. Maybe this is what Moriarty's 'crime as a service' model looks like in the real world...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgtba_GpG-U

Wayland is very flexible.
But this is less secure than storing the properly hashed password. This would reduce the space of all passwords to upper case letters (plus whatever symbols and numbers are allowed) only.
OK - so alan kay did working on creating this great system. Is there any knowledge from it used in a practical application today ? Probably no, because

a.It's probably too soon.

b.It often takes boring work(and money) to transfer pure ideas to successful practical applications.
Looking at those examples I'm not 100% sold, but as a hobbyist LISPer it's hard to look at that and not go "Now that's funky".
I think that the proliferation of the service industry is a natural response to (and possibly a solution to) the increased automation of manual labor. If I thought it were possible I'd say that the solution was for an increase in knowledge workers (since the automated factories still need them), but many people do not want and/or can't do that type of work.
If they have access to your server they can inline javascript that will do the same thing on the client. The client is not secure, ever. If the users are reusing passwords, it's not something you can same them from except not saving the cleartext password yourself. Database attacks are different from on line interception.
I run Minimal Reader [1] (which has about 5k users) and I can say that running a web app like this takes a lot of time and energy keeping everything running smoothly.

My service has a lot of moving parts, all of which are distributed among a couple dozen different servers. Keeping the technical infrastructure running smoothly requires a lot of data visualization of server stats, database stats, web request stats, worker stats, user stats, etc. I have everything piped into a nice dashboard so we can see if there is anything odd happening at a glance. When things break (and they will) you need to know where to look first.

Having 5k users also requires time to help them with support issues. Users generate a lot of bug reports, questions, and suggestions. To keep paying users happy, I offer a 1-day response time on support issues, which requires me to spend quite a bit of time sending emails.

Then, of course, if you want to grow the app, you need to spend time marketing it. We could talk for hours about this.

The list goes on and on. Feel free to shoot me an email (email in my profile) if you want to talk specifics about anything.

[1]: https://minimalreader.com/
I think that few people believe that Netflix should receive preferential treatment for free; rather, the net neutrality issue is that Netflix could be required to pay for whatever carriage it receives, or else receive intentionally degraded service.
This is disingenuous. Medical schools would increase resident caps even without the bonus money from Medicare if there was a reason to do so. Reasons go beyond just the Medicare funds that go for those slots.
Slow news day for Techcrunch?
I'm also self taught, but just starting out. I'd be very interested to hear about how you got started, got your first job, and ended up making a decent career (if you don't mind sharing).

Do you feel like not studying CS has ever held you back? Whenever I'm struggling to understand something I always wonder if a grasp of basic CS concepts would have helped.
I taught high school for 5 years and made the same decision. The biggest factor for me was how the schools were being administered; just a few examples:

- Competition among students, instead of being used as a motivator as piles of research suggests, was specifically DISALLOWED because it might make certain students feel bad.

- When a student fell behind because they were slacking off in class, it was the teacher's responsibility to put in extra time and make sure they caught up, stopping just short of doing the work FOR the student.

- Double standards, administrators demanding that classes be "rigorous", but then when students complain that the class is too hard, or students get bad grades because they can't hack it, that of course is the teacher's fault, and it is reflected in our official evaluations.

- Turf wars among teachers who only care about protecting their own jobs.

- I never had a full time job. Schools will hire for, say .6 FTE, or even .2 FTE, which no one can make a living on. I tried holding 3 teaching jobs at once to put together a full time salary and that worked for about 4 months before things fell apart.

- Working hours of 60-70 hours per week during the school year leads to burnout.

- I make 3x as much as a software engineer.

If it was truly about the students, I'd still be teaching, But it's not.
Yes, any electronic device can die, thats normal.

What is not normal is SSD drive going dark just because there was a SMALL corruption on one of critical flash cells (usually caused by firmware error, or power loss or wear). Its quite rare for magnetic drive to die because of few bad sectors, on the other hand it seems to be a standard failure mode on all SSDs on the market.
Perhaps you can quality "client-side security"? You mean never trust the client right?
Yes. AI (and computing in general) is removing jobs from the market by making work more efficient. For a long time, this has been compensated for by making additional work necessary for modern life, but that can't continue for ever.

Interestingly, in the 1900s this was the goal of industrialization. The idea was that everyone would benefit from this improved machinery, and we would all be living lives of luxury and working 10 hours a week by now. Our focus on everybody wanting/needing a job is a relatively modern philosophy. (circa 1940 WW2, AFAIR)

As far as future AI developments go, I can't see the future. But just to comment on lawyers in specifics, a lawyer these days can handle more than triple the cases now than they could even 15 years ago thanks to existing tools and we don't have 3x the number of lawsuits. These jobs are already disappearing.

I don't have any answers, so I'd encourage you to explore this space now that you've identified this dissonance in yourself. And if you figure out any solutions, let me know!
Good timing - I'm halfway through the core.async chapter in Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks, which is well worth a read too...
Do you have any recommendations for a good linear algebra course/book? I've studied some DSP coming from a pretty limited math background (High School + 2 years college calculus) Linear algebra is one of many topics that's kept me from digging into advanced material.
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That's a good overview. I would also not forget about the type of application. Like you said, resources are pretty cheap these days, maybe leveraging Amazon cloud and integrating with other applications could life the heavy weight that is normally required. If someone can get to 10k active users, they should also note on possible scaling issues down the line.
Some thoughts I've had:

- Pets on-demand. Want a puppy for a half hour?

- Shovel out my car. A little too seasonal however.

- Serious one: Healthcare and on-demand tech is going to be huge, particularly for geriatrics, but regulation is probably going to make it slow-going. There are a few players in this space but it needs an explosion of adoption. Boomers are aging and there are going to be a lot of immobile old people out there.

Tangential sidebar - if anyone here is working on a business in this space, reach out to me.

A great engineer and myself are exploring specializing in "Uber for X" infrastructure - either consulting services or developing reusable software packages around it and we'd love to talk to you.
Yeah, unless you're Knuth, the answer to #1 is almost certainly "no".
As I was holding my iPhone up to my ear, I realized that there is a constant static noise coming out of my phone speaker, even with the volume down!

This page also produces a tiny bit of inductor noise near the middle of the device.
> Just because YOU don't remember it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Well, no, the fact that what you describe didn't happen means it didn't happen. I've found the details of something that did happen on the same general subject, and involving some of the same actors, at about the time you describe [0][1], but it differs from your description:

> AT&T, Verizon, and Google

Just Verizon and Google.

> put forth Net Neutrality legislation

They actually put forth a set of "key elements" that they argued should be included in net neutrality legislation. [0]

> that was perfectly good, but limited temporarily to "wireline" services, because they wanted time to regulate wireless.

It was limited to wireline services (but for the transparency provision), and, in addition, allowed any provider that provided wireline services complying with the neutrality provision unlimited permission to offer any non-neutral services so long as they were distinguished in "scope and function" from the neutral service. [0; "Additional Online Services"] So, it didn't so much require wireline broadband neutrality as require wireline providers to offer a neutral service at some price point as a precondition for offering non-neutral services.

It also explicitly denied the FCC rulemaking authority, limiting the FCC to case-by-case enforcement and issuing reports to Congress. [0; "Case-by-Case Enforcement"]

Also, the temporary part is not entirely accurate. The stated reason for not including wireless services was conditions at the time, but there was nothing temporary about the exclusion (that is, the "key elements" proposed did not include any conditions for imposing wireless neutrality.) [0; "Wireless Broadband"]

> I am simply stating that they came forth with a proposal whose only shortcoming was being restricted temporarily to wireline services.

The things for which the proposal was criticized at the time for included:

1) Moving from the then-existing FCC rules "fixed" vs. "mobile" distinction where stronger neutrality rules existed for fixed and some, but weaker, neutrality rules existed for mobile to a "wireline" vs. "wireless" distinction where no neutrality rules applied to wireless. (Many neutrality proponents were also criticizing the existing FCC rules for the weaker mobile rules, but this was seen as even worse.)

2) Explicitly including a "key element" permitting wireline operators to offer any non-neutral services
so long as they also provided a service meeting the neutrality rules, and expressly limiting the FCC's authority to deal with such additional services to issuing reports. [2]

3) Imposing all the rules and loopholes through statute and including a "key element" expressly limiting the FCC rule to case-by-case enforcement and excluding rulemaking. And proposing encouragement of non-governmental dispute resolution in the framework. [3; "Meaningful harm"]

[0] http://www.scribd.com/doc/35599242/Verizon-Google-Legislativ...

[1] http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/08/google-verizon-un...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/08/googleverizon-we-...
In some humans this page will cause the head to ache.
Is that not already done?
More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856829
Device to help you accurately achieve “The Ballmer Peak”
works here!

but could use a warning
First of all you have to understand that your post will be shown to very few people initially, and if it doesn't get any likes from these few people - let's say it's 10 - immediately, then it won't be shown to anyone else. One reason the newsfeed sucks, and I believe it's the reason I never see posts from the vast majority of my friends.

And then, to me, the quality of the likes matter.

I recently posted 3 different links that were all about stuff very close to my heart - things I really care about. One was a 40 minute video. It got one like, but that like was from my father - I'd trade that for 100 friends likes.
One was an article I loved; it got one like, but the guy loved it so much he shared it. And this is something - if I have reached one person's heart, it's a huge success.
Another one, forget what that was, but it got likes from my brother and another person close to me.

If a post gets no likes, yeah, first of all, fuck them, and secondly only 10 people saw it thanks to Facebook's clever constant optimization algorithm so F Facebook, too.

Let's be honest, I have 300 friends, the likelihood that all 300 saw a post of mine and did NOT like it is pretty much zero. The only way I can get a post with no likes is if it was only shown to a small percentage of my friends. (or if I posted total crap but I'm not, I swear ;) )
> Yes. The religion is open to criticism. Show me where it says otherwise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy

I find it hard to believe you're somehow not aware of this. Are you serious.