skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the service that he provides is a secure place to store your money. You pay for it by giving the bank money that it can use as "collateral" (in the fractional reserve banking sense) for the loans it gives out, instead of paying with fees.
>> I think asian kids achieve more things because their culture enforces discipline, hard-work and obedience from a young age.

What do they achieve more of? I keep hearing how the US needs to change education to be more like other countries so they can compete on tests, but why change when you're winning on innovation? Or do we attribute that to something else?
Very true. For some apps native is the only solution. I'd wager most apps are on that same order of complexity though.

For example, I don't think Flipboard's use of Canvas to wrap content with fancy animations and magazine-style layout is really a damning indictment of the web platform. It's a failure to understand the medium on their part.

We've got a mature, interoperable, write once run anywhere platform that's completely free to participate in. It has some critical deficiencies I'd like to see fixed rather than abandoned.
Absolutely. I think the disconnect is when some people compare native vs. web, they mean a web app that closely mimics a native app. That's absolutely hard to do, and often not worth the effort. But building a responsive website that simply functions well even if it doesn't try to feel native on every platform is not a major undertaking.
I think you've misunderstood what the author is saying. She's saying that the rules aren't helpful, even if her son is largely following them.

If we take your argument to the extreme we could make rules so stifling that NO child would be able to follow them and then it would obviously be the system that's the problem.

Here is a case where the rules are stifling enough that SOME children are having problems continually following them.

Who is to say what level of rules and restrictions is correct? Should they be broken only 0.01% of the time, or 5% of the time, or 50% of the time, or what? What is the standard that children should be held to?
The original problem, from her website:

"Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door #2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

Craig F. Whitaker

Columbia, Maryland"

(a) she didn't originally pose the problem, it was a question asked of her, and (b) the wording of the problem is not ambiguous.
Assuming most homeschooled kids are also involved in their local homeschool community and are regularly interacting with other kids of different ages as well as adults, I'm curious what you are referring to here.

Could you expand on what "great social development" homeschooled kids are deprived of?
Gee, I wonder what those mice will be doing tonight.
>Rules that are created to make large groups of children manageable are not fine. Children aren't cattle and require personal attention and a rule set that matches their character.

That can only happen at home. Catering to needs of every child individually at school is not easily doable. One child's need may be disruptive to another or the entire class. Expecting teachers to pander to such needs is plain wrong. In a class, the teacher should focus on teaching basic skills. enforcing some rules that makes this easier is fine in my books.
If your child needs special attention, hire a private tutor, home school or send them to piano/fencing class or whatever it is that interests him/her.
That's not how life always works, though. Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. Sometimes you don't get to decide how you spend your time.

It's great to raise a child who does some valuable things because they chose to, but it's also important to raise a child who understands duty, responsibility and obligation: because those are also part of life.
Id rather say that this means the sensors can get bigger for compact cameras and phones. Currently the only thing that limits us making pocketable full frame cameras with zoomable optics is the size of optics, not the size of sensor or other electrical components. Flat optics might make full frame camera phones even possible.
See the difference in the dystopic visions of the two Total Recall movies. In the original, the slums of Mars felt like slums. They seemed rundown, there was trash everywhere. In the sequel, so much was created in CGI that it had a pristine look to it, even though we were told it was a rundown place.

Also look at how often they switch to CGI for action sequences, or CGI enhancement so they can zoom out and show a whole city block or office floor that never existed in reality. It feels off, the movements aren't based on actual body mechanics anymore. A character jumping from building to building moves in perfect ballistic arcs and rarely stumbles when they're generated in CGI. A real person, even skilled, has a clumsier appearance to their movement. They may not actually err, but the way the body moves varies with each step, they aren't just perfectly recreating the same running stride for the entire distance.
The best startup ideas are the ones that seem like bad ideas but are good ideas.

I've thought about this one a lot. Obviously we can't apply these one liners to everything, for example Dropbox and Stripe seemed like plainly obvious good ideas (to me).

You can make them seem like bad ideas in retrospect ("Oh, personal file hosting in the cloud? Been done a million times!") but I think even the traction of Dropbox's first HN post showed it was a good idea.

Is there a better way we can phrase this rule to be closer to an absolute truth?
Amazing golden era NASA photographs you never get to see
> the great social development he's missing out on.

Don't worry, we're going to hire a tutor so they know how to properly ostracize the weak and the non-conformists.
Why can't it just be put in a definitive book and handed around?
> If that was true, than naming constructs in programming languages wouldn't matter at all.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intuitive

I think we're diverging off the track here. Naming is important. Programming has borrowed quite a lot from various places to name the often weird, alien "things" we work with. But a rose by any other name is still a rose.

There is no name for which there exists an analog in nature that we can apply to CAR and CDR. You can't think about them intuitively. As demonstrated elsewhere calling them FIRST and REST is a mistake. FIRST, SECOND, THIRD and so one are just English words for for CAR, CADR, CADAR, and so on.

So it's best not to get stuck in the "intuitive" trap. CAR and CDR have stuck around because people have argued about it endlessly for 40 years and haven't come up with a better name. They took on abstract symbols and the people writing Common Lisp code kept shipping systems.

> Its not, its just one of many small hurdles that keep Lisp as a fairly niche language

I don't think that's the reason for it's lack of market share. That has more to do with corporate politics and business. Read up on the history of Symbolics.

tldr; there were once only commercial implementations of Common Lisp that cost far too much and delivered little. Because money.

So a couple generations of programmers didn't get exposed to it as their first language.

> C-family languages declaration syntax is a major factor in the popularity of dynamically typed languages

Is that so? Why then are their interpreters and virtual machines written in C or some other language? PyPy is making an effort but even then... lots of C. Most implementations I've seen of Common Lisp are written in Common Lisp. Odd.

CAR/CDR isn't a problem. I've explained it five times in various posts on this thread. There's even a link to the HyperSpec (the HTML form of the ANSI specification). It's quite simple.

The real problem is that Common Lisp isn't the first language for most "newcomers." So they come packed with notions and biases that they forget to leave at the door. If C is your first language pointers aren't a big deal and you learn to read the declaration syntax. You know it's not great and that it's difficult to pick up but once you get it you move on. In a similar fashion when you pick up Lisp you figure out CAR and CDR.

Changing the names of CAR and CDR isn't going to make Lisp any more appealing to newcomers. You just have to learn what they are and move on.
I think its because the bar for native apps wasn't that high back then. Also the interactions required for desktop apps are much simpler than mobile apps, where gestures are key part of interactions. Gesture-based animations is actually part of using the app, instead of on desktop where they just make things look pretty.
Oddly insightful for such a simple analogy. Out of curiosity, what products do you use from these companies? (Eg android phone, mac computer, microsoft xbox?)
Sometimes people just talk too fast. To you, it's mumbling. To them, they're just conveying a lot of information quickly and you're struggling to keep up. Don't assume malice in their intent.

I won't argue that calling it 'data compression' is nothing more than cute spin, though.
It seems that way until you find yourself in a situation where none of this advice is being followed. The opposite of doing these things doesn't look terribly sinister, just has poor results. A founder/CEO that pressures the engineers to cut corners on the product to get a few more customers before the next fund-raising round is an easy trap to fall in to. The investors will often be providing this pressure directly. (E.g. "I'd invest if you were showing a little more growth.") It all seems very reasonable when you're in the middle of it.
I maintained a wordpress site for a client and found it to be a security nightmare.
>So .. where to go next?

Specialized subreddits with competent moderation. Ideally with post scores hidden.
The only constant at job interviews for me is the question: "So you majored in music...Why programming?"

As time goes on it becomes more and more irritating to respond to that question, although I suppose given someone's resume and told to interview them for a job, it's a natural starting place.
I love when I discover stuff like this. I remember seeing a medieval bible at the Getty museum with writing in the side, at the time I thought it was Arabic because of the aesthetic. After reading this, it's very clear that the writing was Tironian.
Dynamic variable, rather than global, but yes - it's just a convention.
I started to get the same sense, and remembering a couple of the following things have helped me keep my bearings:

-Startup advice, especially from this corner of the world, applies to a very specific way of creating a software company through venture capital, and subsequently, aggressive growth. It is also built to take advantage of a highly optimistic financial environment that, to me, seems to be temporary (look at VC's performance as an asset class).

-The main purveyors of "startup canon", if you will, just so happen to directly benefit from more people taking their advice and entering the startup pool. In the most jaded view, Graham and the like's advice/essays/mantras are propaganda that, if more people listen to, directly improves their portfolio. I don't go quite that far as a lot of the advice is sensible and experience based, but it's really important to remember that their advice isn't philanthropic.

-Finally, startups are just businesses. The entrance of venture capital into the equation suspends the normal rules of business for a while, but eventually they do return. And while the way software allows people/companies with little to no capital attack large markets is unique, I feel like a lot of founders would do well to broaden their perspective beyond the relatively brief history of silicon valley when looking for insight on guiding their businesses.
I'm a huge fan of cooperatives -- or at least the idea of them. I know that in practice there are many obstacles to their being done right. A few questions:

1) Is your consultancy actually formally organized as a co-op, or are you just using cooperative principles?

2) I imagine many consultancies are organized as limited liability companies. From a legal standpoint, does being organized as a co-op put you at greater liability?
As a site visitor Cloudflare's certificate is the certificate you want, because that's the certificate the site owner has chosen to give you.

Cloudflare is not in the middle, it is is part of the server. We just have to adjust the notion that a server, from the protocol POV, is not a single machine with a single process httpd daemon anymore.
Then it must be a simple to phrase exploit with only one obvious way of stating it.
Clever (YC S12) is hiring full stack engineers – we actually refactor our code
At Clever, we’re building a distributed platform for educational software. Our API helps developers get their educational applications in front of millions of students, and it helps schools manage all their apps while keeping their students’ data secure - for free.

We’ve also experienced incredible growth: after only two years of existence, we’re moving data for 13 million students, and we’re in 1 in 5 schools in America (over 30,000 schools). We’ve just raised a $30M Series B, and we’re ready to expand even more rapidly.

Where you fit in:
We’re looking for full stack engineers: developers who are willing to work across the stack and have some kind of specialty, whether that’s product design, DevOps, databases, or system programming. Right now we’re a team of 47 people (20 engineers), and we work mostly in Node (Coffeescript), Go and Python.

Other stuff we like:

-Tech talks. Every other Tuesday, we do “Clever Talks” during lunch where one of us will give a presentation on anything he/she’s interested in. Recent talks have covered exoplanets, neuroscience, the history of hip-hop, hacking big-company customer service interactions, and what’s wrong with American high school history education.

-Bughouse chess. We play pretty frequently, although not always with Magnus Carlsen: http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo

-Picking up new skills. We offer unlimited Amazon credits for learning.

Check us out: https://clever.com/about/jobs
https://github.com/clever

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
As someone currently on the job hunt I find it very frustrating to not even receive acknowledgement of your application.

Failing that a polite, "Sod off" would be much appreciated when your not successful as well!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829130.100-why-teena...
Articles titled 'Why schools are failing ...' annoy me intensely. They're almost always written by a parent with a struggling or gifted child who has almost no actual experience of the education system, other than that they attended a school twenty years ago.

Modern education is run with a 'one shoe fits all' approach. We try to cater for boys, girls, those with learning difficulties, those that are gifted, those from impoverished households, those that are affluent, and in general every sector of society that are dumped in our classrooms.

I stand in front of 30 different students, 5 times a day and try my best to educate them all to the best of my ability, and do you know what? Sometimes I don't succeed. It pains me, but some kids slip through the cracks and don't get the education they deserve. I try my best, but there are practicalities that need to be considered.

If you want an education system that caters for all students, regardless of academic ability and socio-economic background then you need to realise that this does not come cheaply. Stick me in a classroom with 10 students instead of 30 and I'll have more time to spend with each one, be better able to take into account their personal education needs, be able to tailor my lessons to individuals rather than focusing on what will suit the majority. Also realise that you'll need to employ three times as many teachers and that the your taxes will need to be substantially increased.

On some level, our modern education system (and previous education systems) fails everyone, to a lesser or greater degree, and few students leave school having reached their full potential. If society wants this to change then the answer is to stop treating schools as a free baby-sitting service, allowing both parents to go out to work and contribute to a nation's GDP, and start treating schools as an investment in a nation's future.
We had to do something similar in our real world example where we had the labels but were unsure if the labels were truly accurate or not.

We used a technique similar to LSA.

Our first step was to build a bag of words and construct a scaled TF off of that. Then we verified the label for about 10% of the data and used that as our training set. Using cosine similarity (which we calculated using matrix multiplication of tfs) we found top n labeled documents that were similar to document in question to decide the label of remaining 90% documents.

Once we had this dataset we ran it against logistic regression as well by training on same 10% and use remaining to find the label. Interestingly document similarity was only slightly better than logistic regression. Logistic was 10 times faster.

I think this approach worked for us because we had somewhat of a mutually exclusive set of words for one or other label. This may not work in sentiment analysis where same word can have different meanings depending on surrounding words. N-Grams and then TF on it might help in that case.
The problem with Transferable Objects is that they only work for raw buffers. This is great for math intensive tasks such as image processing, but not that great for UI related tasks.

We want to be able to share js objects, arrays and strings in a fast way. Otherwise you either need to build your entire app on-top of raw buffer but that doesn't look like JS anymore, or you've got to do a serialization step and you're not gaining much compared to JSON serialization.

I'm super excited about immutability because it lets us share objects between different threads very cheaply and still letting us use normal js constructs. I'm not sure anyone is working on it though :(
To choose one, low birth rates leads an aging population which is an issue because it generally means a contracting labor force and more burden on the younger group of the population to support things like Social Security as the ratio of 'young' productive workers to supported older non-workers increases. It also means a shrinking labor pool which drives wages up causing prices to generally rise as well.
Woah woah woah.

Moderation?

Are you mad?!

Fortunately, unlike the original suggestion, I think this article is actually a bit more fair, even if the headline is still click-baity.

Is resilience good? Of course!

Should you go for help every time you encounter a challenge? No, that'd be silly.

But never ever asking for help is still terrible advice.

Fortunately I don't think that's what the author is actually advocating, instead advising the obvious: don't use your co-workers as a crutch, but certainly use them as a support group when you're truly stymied.

But, of course, that's just common sense, and common sense doesn't a click-baity blog post make. ;)
I agree with this. Unfortunately it is against the common notions that ideas don't matter, and execution is all.

My own take is that truly great ideas are as rare as hen's teeth, i.e.those that fulfill your description.
They did say in the article that they hope to produce devices that work for a range of wavelengths. This would be great because 3 wavelengths would not be sufficient for capturing natural images. We can approximate the cone responses of natural images with 3 wavelengths, which is why RGB encoding and display works for displaying images to humans. But in capture, you want to receive broad spectrum light at the detector, and then encode it to RGB.
As long as there is violence, we will not be able to say we actually achieved Civilisation.

So, no. We are quite far from the ideal standard of living.

We are more in a semi-spherical ball of water and continental psychiatric hospitals
ColorKit – Revolutionary colors management in Photoshop
Ooc is a small programming language that compiles to C99
It is an intentional speed-bump to cut down on reflexive flagging.

Since the feature is non-obvious, I post descriptions like the above semi-regularly in the hope of getting the word out.
My only worry about that is that, while your kid may be interacting with a wider age group than at school, they may not be interacting with a wide demographic group. You won't be interacting with kids from tougher backgrounds, who don't have parents who are as involved as a homeschooled kid's parents would be. While I can imagine that might seem like a good thing, I think it is important for a kid to get a glimpse outside their own 'bubble', to have a better understanding of your broader community. When you are done with school, you ARE going to have to interact with people who weren't raised by very involved, homeschooling parents.
> whether the host is allowed to choose whether to open a door or not

The problem as stated is: "you select door #1. Then, the host, who is well-aware of what’s going on behind the scenes, opens door #3". Why would you think the host has the option of not opening a door? And if you think they could do that, why couldn't the host also do other things, like offer the contestant cash to walk away, or swap what's behind the doors, or add more doors, or open all three doors, or sucker-punch them in the gut?
In fairness, a number of partners have stated that Google is the biggest threat to their business in their 10Q's :-). But what is interesting from a game theory point of view is always do Google and Apple think the other is a threat to their business? And what does interdependencies means for things like the consumer? There is an interesting rock/paper/scissors sort of relationship with search, phone OS, app stores, applications, and market sizes. Its during periods where the interdependencies are tend to favor a single player that we see fairly large scale attacks against that entity.
Work: activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.

I'm not sure what definition you are using or how "the entrepreneur redefines work", but if you think that 'real' work must include lifting heavy things, then you are selling humanity short.
If you include the very next paragraph, it is clear that the US federal government manages the Federal Reserve.

> However, the Federal Reserve is subject to oversight by the Congress, which often reviews the Federal Reserve's activities and can alter its responsibilities by statute. Therefore, the Federal Reserve can be more accurately described as "independent within the government" rather than "independent of government."

The 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, which were established by the Congress as the operating arms of the nation's central banking system, are organized similarly to private corporations--possibly leading to some confusion about "ownership." For example, the Reserve Banks issue shares of stock to member banks. However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. The stock may not be sold, traded, or pledged as security for a loan; dividends are, by law, 6 percent per year.