skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the Americans without basic abilities, is lack of money the bottleneck?

Sometimes, but not always. It also depends on your definitions. E.g. when kids aren't able to learn because they show up at school having not eaten anything for two days, is the problem that parents don't have enough money to feed their kids, or is it that schools don't have enough money to feed the kids? And this example is actually a significant issue -- right now if schools are running up against the cognitive limits of Americans, it's in large part because a huge percentage of Americans have had their cognitive limits artificially lowered by external societal dysfunction. E.g. in addition to malnutrition, look at all the kids with high lead exposure, premature birth, health problems caused by poverty and shitty parenting, etc.
God bless you man. Great project. Any way others can donate time, code, or $ to the cause of eradicating youth poverty, hunger and homelessness?
0 min (work remotely).

Why don't you work remotely at least a few days a week? The average cost/mile of operating a car is something like $0.50, so you're spending ~$30/day driving.

If you pay a tax rate of 30%, your salary is decreased by ~$9,700, just because you commute that far every day.

Then you have to factor in losing 2 hours of your life every day sitting in a car, the health risks of commuting[1], and your impact on the environment. You could also sleep an extra 2 hours in the morning!

If you have an open office plan, you probably also take a hit to productivity because you're not alone[2].

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261090/

2. http://www.fastcompany.com/3019758/dialed/offices-for-all-wh...
We are such great benefactors: Suicide rate, homelessness rate, prison sentence length for same crimes, life expectancy ...
The government is already picking and choosing - there is already criteria to decide what schools should be accredited and funded. It's not unlibertarian to defend they should have better criteria.
Exactly. Testability, ability to render on server and overall readability and a slew of other points make for a good basis.
I use Forecast.io with these customizations I wrote that make the information I care about easier to see:

My user style https://userstyles.org/styles/104812/forecast-io-hide-map hides the map, which looks cool but is totally useless. That brings the detailed daily forecasts above the fold.

My user script https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/4699-forecast-io-auto-show... expands the detailed forecast for today when you visit the website, without you having to click it. I use the detailed forecast often, to check if the weather would be significantly different if I delayed my outing.
It seems like a special case of the paradox of thrift: it's rational to save, but if everyone saves nobody can save because for one to save another must spend.

(Even if you don't like some of Keynes other ideas, this was one of his key insights. The other is the importance of the velocity of money in the wealth of societies. Superficially Saudi Arabia looks richer than the US because per capita it has more savings, but it's actually poorer because monetary velocity is lower. Wealth is a verb, not a noun.)

In this case you want to be a monopoly, but you want all your suppliers and anyone else you purchase from to be subject to brutal competition. Or as an employee, you want your employer to be a monopoly (and your own skills to be scarce in the labor market) but you want the rest of the market to be brutally competitive.

You can see this in the net neutrality debate. Those who run the Internet want to monopolize and differentiate. Those who use the Internet -- including most non-carrier Internet companies -- want them to be pure commodities subject to crushing competition. The ideal for you the user, or for Netflix or Google, would be to have free broadband Internet access everywhere.

Paradoxes are the norm not the exception in complex systems fields like economics, ecology, and evolutionary dynamics. Most things involve some sort of paradoxical catch-22, trade-off, trichotomy, or N-chotomy. Thiel is just showing us this paradox from a different perspective than we're normally accustomed to thinking about it. It is the proper perspective for an entrepreneur-- you want to find something that can be leveraged to create a monopoly so you can accumulate capital and income enough to move on to the next things before your monopoly status is challenged.
This is mostly the problem, I think. In this sense, both 'theory' and 'hypothesis' are antonyms of 'fact'. Leads directly to uninformed people saying that evolution hasn't been established as a fact, or that it's not "true".
I find it ridiculous that anyone worries about officer safety in this way. It seems almost perverse to me.

If we're worried about officers prematurely killing people how does giving them military-style tools make that any better? If they were going to prematurely kill people before, they're still going to do it. The definition of 'safe' simply moves to a new place. If the OP demonstrates anything, it's that if you give law enforcement these kinds of 'toys' they will find any and every excuse to use them (all under the fake banner of 'officer safety').

Edit: Taking some words from your comment, I guess what I'm arguing is that law enforcement is already pretty invincible.
This is literally semantics.

The vast majority of people know what an "accepted fact" is, and they also know what a "proposed model of reality" is (even if they don't use such phrases).

The opposition to evolutionary theory as a model of reality is a topic that principally obsesses only a specific population: American Protestants.

In most of the Western world, including in the Catholic Church with its over 1 billion adherents, evolution is an "accepted fact" (or "scientific theory" however that may be rendered semantically).
The 95$ per semester figure is for the State University at Sacramento - not for the community college. The current fees work out to ~5500$ per semester[1] for the same university.

[1] http://www.calstate.edu/budget/student-fees/fee-rates/sacram...
I imagine that fire services would work more like insurance companies, most (all?) streets would be come toll roads, etc.
A lot of states already heavily subsidize the tuition of public community colleges and universities for residents. Where I live, in FL, 75% of the cost is paid for by the State of Florida.

I don't know about you, but 75% of the cost seems like a pretty sweet discount. Seems reasonable if you want more, you should have to go through some kind of application process.
This is really great! Seriously, you don't know how helpful something like this is. My girlfriend worked for a charity that helped people find housing around Toronto. She was using this really ancient program from like 1995 to do it. It didn't really do much, she would just end up calling shelters around the city. From what I understood, most of her job was compiling data exactly like what your service provides.
Not at all. The point of C is to have as much abstraction as possible while still allowing maximal control. And 'as much abstraction as possible' is a matter of historical context, since we learn all the time that there are better ways of doing abstraction than C does.
I'm sympathetic to this view. In general, I tend to favor flat programs that no one prices out of instead of need-based programs, because it gets rid of the marginal tax that happens when you earn more. (Every program that is just "for the poor" is a marginal tax on the person climbing out of poverty.) Also, I view the financial aid merely as price discrimination. We wouldn't consider another industry as compassionate for looking through our finances before deciding what we could "really afford."

However, all that said: the FAFSA really isn't that hard to fill out. If a person cannot fill out the FAFSA, why are we sending them to college? Will we fill out their college application for them, too?
Nope, not just all your perception (although the "prepared to strike" ones were split between the "and also protect the population" types, and starting with JFK and Robert Strange McNamara, the truly MAD ones (Mutual Assured Destruction, which to take a riff from Doctor Strangelove, would have worked a lot better if the Soviets accepted it, instead of correctly thinking it was profoundly immoral)).

The question here, is what side do you think the "Inspired Nineteen Eighty Four!" BBC was on?
Yes. You can get significant signal attenuation (particularly at high frequencies, i.e. above 10 GHz) when it is raining.
I recall astronomy being mostly physics. It was one of the most interesting classes I ever took.
A la Rocket Propelled Grenade
Note that the package system used by OpenBSD is explicitly borrowed from FreeBSD.
>There was a war going on between two mafia clans for control of the territory, and violence between them spilled into the streets. I wanted to tell the world what this war zone was like: the victims’ families tearing their clothes, the stink of piss from a man who knew he was going to die and couldn’t control his fear, people shot in the street because they looked like the intended victim.

It is sad and ridiculous that this happens in modern Europe. Can the EU do anything?
The initial proposal from The President costs $60 billion over ten years or $6 billion per year. For some perspective, conservative estimates have put the cost of the war in Iraq at $500 million a day. This proposal would cost 72 days of war.

It's difficult to comprehend how our politicians could have any issues supporting such an initiative.
> For example with outcomes tracking, even if you had a good software system for it, you won't get reimbursed for it.

It's worse than that: It would be sued out of existence by those people who rank badly (ie, exactly those bad practitioners that need to have their asses kicked.)

In a related example: A friend wrote a book about first-hand experience in dealing with a nursing home for her aging parent. There were many instances of problems, but one in particular was that a doc had prescribed the wrong drug.

The publisher loved the book, and made the publication offer contingent on a number of changes. One of those changes: You can't implicate a person or his institution because of the liability. It doesn't matter how good your proof is, the jury system is so broken that the publisher just can't accept the risk.

Now just imagine if there were a searchable database of outcomes tied to individual practitioners or institutions.
It would be fairly easy to design an inexpensive removable bumper that wraps around the outside edge of the Ara, holding all the things in, and protecting against damage.
OS X is mostly open source, the big thing that isn't is XQuartz IIRC.
I should have mentioned the assumption you'd be caching the render on the server. My bad.

So I imagined it as 1 render vs potentially thousands.

Another thing to note: You'd (probably) have to try real hard to find a server side templating solution that would render as slowly and use as much CPU as JavaScript on the client-side.
Yammer _is_ Facebook for work, which is why I'm surprised that FB is releasing this product now, and that they expect much of a marketshare.
My point of contention isn't whether or not we should police high crime neighborhoods more or less, it's whether we should condone the (less-common) explicit or (more-common) implicit police policy of using race as a proxy for the other variables that I mentioned previously. You've danced around my question: is race a valid "indicator" of "problem areas" in your model?
Looks like this is what Peerio was built with.
Last time I heard a statistic about this, about 10% of tweets were seen by followers. That means you'd have to tweet 10 times to have a reasonable chance of reaching all of your followers.

Also, not that many people use Twitter. The bounce rate is astronomical, tons of the "users" are bots, and engagement is in decline. In general, it's an echo-chamber. It's where people go to read/respond to established celebrities and journalists.

From experience marketing online, almost no one uses "social media" buttons on websites, especially landing pages.

You might as well have the Twitter option, since it's easy, but email is tried-and-true and should be your primary option.
Well, there's always a certain conflict between free will/self determination and "what's better" (even in modern societies)

And yeah, finding a way of them to accept this knowledge is important (and tricky)
That's not very empathetic. If you were brought up with no formal education, little access to information outside of your sphere, and you knew most people that lived around you on a first name basis, you too would be as distrusting of strangers.

For all you know they could be trying to poison you to steal your land. To you their stuff might be worthless (a point you made abundantly clear) but to them that stuff is their entire livelihood and everything they have worked for. Something they might wish to pass down to their kids.

Your entire little rant there just comes across arrogant and judgemental.
Compass needles always point N. If you are looking at a compass and you see one like this, then you are facing NW. (Unless I am completely forgetting how compasses work, of course.)
> Today doctors obviously do understand the role of germs in spreading disease better

And yet study after study of hospital acquired infections show that simple hand washing between patient examinations is abysmally irregular (between 10 and 50%.)
Not everything human produces ought to have an economic component.

This is great. But then we need to stop talking about "investment" in college education. This is instead "consumption," like taking a ski trip to Aspen.

How much should the US pay for people to take ski trips to Aspen? I promise you they'll enjoy it.
Obama calls for municipal broadband
> I cut my teeth on NeXTSTEP, SunOS 4, and Slackware Linux

That's the real reason. Everything else is rationalization added later.

(Don't get me wrong, I've also started on Slackware. But sometimes you need to break old habits to learn something new.)
Probably not a coincidence, at all, that $5500 is just under the Pell grant amount.
about 10, avatars of Vishnu.

OTOH, Vishnu himself has a thousand names (Vishnu-Sahasra-nama)!

I'd say you are in fairly good shape.
Is that average? Median? In Los Angeles, I think it's around $44/unit, whereas in NOVA it's about $110/unit
> assuming you're able to read and comprehend them

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YES ! Definitely. Soylent is not available in Europe, so if you are OK to fedex them, I buy them all. My mail is on my profile.
I know most of my peers (myself included) could have gone to Penn State local campuses for 2 years and then 2 years at State College for free, only having to pay room board and food (and overpriced books). I went with a private liberal arts college that gave me nearly a whole boat though.

I think even if you are under a 2.5GPA in high school Penn State subsidizes 80% of tuition and the state does another 10%, so each semester of courses would only be at most a few hundred dollars.
From my experience, it seems that the biggest misconception about Evolution is that species evolve through some sort of conscious decision-making process, and not really by natural selection and random mutation.

For example, I often hear that a big step in the primate-to-human evolution was when one of our common ancestors "left the trees and started walking bipedally", implying to me at least, that it was some sort of "hey, maybe we should try this today" decision made by an individual to attempt it.

It wasn't. What really happened was that a mutation in the population allowed one individual the ability to walk a bit more upright, and this conferred a special ability for this individual to gather more food or have more offspring, thus propagating the mutated gene(s).

I watch the pop-sci channels regularly, and even they fall victim to this anthropomorphic trap about species
"evolving-by-choice".

[edit] I just read this in the OP just below where I stopped...

MISCONCEPTION: Natural selection involves organisms trying to adapt.
Thanks, so we feel based upon that meeting and all the subsequent large companies (Fortune 50 to 500) who then reached out after we have created something extremely special.

Basically it's BlueTooth/BlueTooth Audio on Steroids via the web. Sync 100s to 1000s of IP devices together via a URL to play/control audio, video & or any media in unison on all devices.

Tons of software & hardware innovation will happen in this space, we've already created a few apps using our sync technology.

We just need the right people... their networks and money behind us! We have yet to been to accomplish such and we have shouted and waved our hands telling this story to those who can help, but it falls on deaf ears.

Once and if we open source this tech, we think doing such and then the community further developing will have a big impact on any company that currently uses BlueTooth and or has their own syncing standard.

ALL I WANT TO DO IS INNOVATE AND BE FAIRLY COMPENSATED FOR IT. I feel I have a knack for it based upon my history and all noted here.
Look correct to me. Google even understands the Mebibyte (MiB).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
Running code when exiting scope is the key to many a things that would be useful, cool, or both. You can simulate some of the cases with a for loop. Other than that, you're out of luck unless you're willing to bite the bullet of compiler-specific features.

If we forget about destructors and think about memory management only then (except for objects that are returned back) allocations could be done on the stack if only the stack was big enough. I think Linux could actually grow stack dynamically but it's usually limited to some minor size.

Thus, I've sometimes emulated that with a chunk of heap-allocated memory that I use for carving new allocations one after another. Then, in some reasonable point in the execution I just reset the cursor back to the start of the big chunk, effectively "freeing" all allocations done by the functions called downwards from that point. It wastes memory but it's convenient as you basically have alloca() that uses heap. But you still need to manage any malloc()'d memory by yourself.

Writing a simple garbage collector working on raw allocations is feasible, too, especially if you use the above heap allocated stack to limit the amount of longer-living allocations you do on the gc heap, and if you have a spot in the program that can stand a slight delay when the gc runs.
Side story: I witnessed a situation in which an embedded board had to be manufactured in a variant supporting a bigger DRAM chip, just so there would be room to run Valgrind on it to solve leak issues!

There is also the problem that valgrind lets you confirm that there are leaks, and pinpoint their source. What it doesn't give you is the root cause of the leak. The cause is distributed! If N places in the program have a pointer to an object, and all those N places obliterate the pointer without freeing the object, then all N places are equally responsible.

Just because you know what is leaking and where it came from doesn't mean that it's obvious how to fix it. Introducing code which tries to free those objects is extremely risky, because if you err on the opposite side of a leak, you have a premature deallocation which destabilizes the program in a different way.

If N places lose a pointer, then it's not necessarily always the same one of those places which is the last one to do so. Yet the last one to lose the pointer must be the one which triggers any manual freeing.

This problem is difficult, which is why we have garbage collection and why the problem is sometimes solved in C programs by sliding in a garbage collector like Boehm.
The immigration debates in other threads are another example of this, and to an extent debates about intellectual property.
It also leads to an error many people make, including some posters on HN, in assuming that evolution produces a globally optimal "best".
Very beautiful piece.

Unfortunately, here in Italy quite a few people (shame on them) think Roberto is "overrated" and the shallow public seems more focused on finding small details to criticize rather than being thankful and focusing on the real problem.
Despite hard landing Falcon9 recovery attempt bodes well for reusable spacecraft
Am I wrong in saying that the user base if different? It seems to me that kickstarter is more for products/businesses, but from my limited experience I think gofundme is more of a humanitarian kind of crowdfunding.
Customizable tag input. Progressive. No non-sense
I had a great experiences at the two community colleges I attended. The teachers really seemed to care. Now, my two years at a state college were a waste of time. I only got the BS degree because I wanted something from this
state school. To the teachers, and guidance counselors at Indan valley college, and College of Marin; A huge thank you!
What's your point? That you think the villagers are stupid? They are obviously not any more stupid than the countless other humans who risk their health for esthetic reasons, like not wearing a bicycle helmet.

Either way I think there are both more interesting and more pleasant things to say about this story than a condescending and snarky remark about the villagers. Spread some love, will ya?
Well the iron fish does solved the issue of medical compliance. What good are iron pots or pieces of iron if the villagers not follow the advice.
This is really awesome. I'm actually working on a very similar app! It may be good to put a listing on the side of the cities you support. I'm assuming over time you're planning to grow the coverage.
> but all the required pieces of oppression are being rapidly put into place

This was the point I was trying to make. No, we aren't there yet, but we're on the slope and it's getting more slippery every day.
That's definitely a big part of it.

For a social network to have value, you need users who are compelled to frequently submit content. By adding a power structure, users have to evaluate their decisions, which can generate anxiety or extra work, leading to a drop off in contribution rate.

It's one of the reasons teenagers ditched Facebook once their parents joined.
Angular is the new PHP didn't you know?
I'm able to work remotely now, but in the past my commutes were about 30 minutes each way. I think 30 minutes is reasonable, and I never minded it.

At one time I had a job where I was commuting 1.5 hours each way, but that didn't last long. That drive really wore me down and had me completely burned out after a few months.
I have 3 Questions --

1) How you have created the web interface as I can't see any php or python bindings.

2) How do you copy the csv data into the memory table

3) Can we use it internally as our company's internal BI database , since no licenses are mentioned in the downloaded link so its not very clear ..
Wow, this is seriously great! This is exactly what I needed for my project, Viola[1], that provides an abstraction on top of libCello[2] to allow you to write really high-level C. This really helps make Viola a little more high-level. I am really grateful for your blog post!

[1] - https://github.com/eatonphil/Viola

[2] - https://github.com/orangeduck/libCello
I would be interested to know the reasoning behind using different shells for interactive sessions vs. scripting on FreeBSD. Wouldn't it be easier to pick one for both? Is this just historical legacy?
How to Build Stronger, More Reliable Hardware Products
This is like those Geocities websites with frames, one of which had a midi player.
9 minutes by bike
25 minutes walking
20 minutes by car
Serious question. What funds Policemen, Fire departments, Emergency Medical people like EMTs and Paramedics? If we didn't pay taxes, and we didn't have any of those, it would be pretty lousy.
Maybe this should be a poll? Anyway, my commute is about 11 or 12 minutes one way.