skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad thing is, if they went on GeekHack or Deskthority, they might just be able to find 20 people willing to group buy Alps switches.

Might.
British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code
What I carry with me every day: Erik Spiekermann
When I was in school in the 90s, computer classes were mandatory, but not scheduled as regularly as math, science, or history classes. Rather they were scheduled like gym, music, or wellness/personal-health (all also mandatory, but each only taking place once or twice a week.)

Because the schedule plainly indicated how important adults thought those courses were relative to others, those courses were considered jokes by me and my peers.

Regular and frequent scheduling would probably be required, but even as a professional developer I think that wouldn't be the best use of student time. Students would probably benefit more from math, english, and history courses. (Particularly english and history, since there is a lot that is broken with how we currently teach children mathematics.)
Very sad, and yet, sadder still is that we don't see ourselves for the locusts we've come to be.
One suggestion I would give Sam is to provide for each of the "bullet points" a couple of relevant stories about YC companies.

Most public advice is devoid of context where it originated and unless stated very precisely is wide open to misinterpretation, forming a cargo-cult, or being ignored as too generic. Only a few people in the world can be that precise (I know just two), but adding a relevant story is available to any diligent thinker and it works nearly as well. The best stories are either those that gave rise to the advice, or those where the advice was applied with a visible outcome.
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The opportunity to meet children from families that aren't either white & well off or white & religious?
I have to strongly, strongly disagree. There is no "perfect use" of word clouds in the context of proper data visualization. The arrangement and colorization of the words are virtually on account of randomization (and the sizing of words based on frequency is of dubious value, given how difficult it is for the human eye to evaluate the size comparison)...this randomness is anathema to the proper presentation of data... the variability in interpretation is vast, and depends on each viewer's ability to see colors and read vertically.
A keen observation, and Wilde really makes it four and a half.

But Shakespeare wrote mostly blank verse, and rhyming is not as much of a constraint on vocabulary in French due to the high commonality of word endings. If it's true that works for the stage tend to use fewer words, it might be because dialogue dominates; I imagine narrative, which consists more of description, naturally draws on a bigger vocabulary than even very stylized dialogue.
I personally use Prism.js for my blogging, which is what Smashing Magazine and CSS-tricks uses. Prism includes line numbers.

I like Prism so far and don't have any issues with it yet
Well, I'd like to take some real credit, but all I did was sign a petition and mutter darkly. There was a lot of opposition and I guess every name made a difference.

As far as climbing the Chief goes, get up here, you aren't getting any younger. A bunch of great new routes have gone up over the last few years, including some stellar moderates:

http://squamishclimbingsource.com/sunset-strip/
Pinky and the Brain reference.

"Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mPrhwpZ-8

Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice. In each episode, Brain devises a new plan to take over the world which ultimately ends in failure
Here's a PDF of the transcript of the 1978 story development session between Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan:

http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconferenc...
Would you be willing to violate the privacy of 6 million people to commit genocide?
Thanks - though that still doesn't offer any details on why they believe there is a biological cause, not just a social cause.

> Adolescents are increasingly using stimulants to compensate for sleep loss, and caffeinated and/or sugary drinks are the usual choice. The half-life of caffeine is 5 to 9 hours. So a caffeinated drink late in the day delays sleep at night. Tiredness also increases the likelihood of taking up smoking.

> Collectively, a day of caffeine and nicotine consumption, the biological tendency for delayed sleep and the increased alertness promoted by computer or cellphone use generates what Carskadon calls a "perfect storm" for delayed sleep in teenagers.

Having looked at the full paper about school start times from AAP [1] it cites three papers on this subject [2] [3] [4], I'll come back with another comment if I manage to dive deeper into the rabbit hole on those...

(I'm not saying there isn't a biological cause, just that since my gut instinct is that it would be caused by cultural reasons I'm interested to see the reasoning behind thinking there are biological reasons too.)

[1] http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/08/...

[2] Frey S, Balu S, Greusing S, Rothen N, Cajochen C. Consequences of the timing of
menarche on female adolescent sleep phase preference. PLoS ONE. 2009;4(4):e5217

[3] Carskadon MA, Acebo C, Seifer R. Extended nights, sleep loss, and recovery sleep in
adolescents. Arch Ital Biol. 2001;139(3):301–312

[4] Roenneberg T, Kuehnle T, Pramstaller PP, et al. A marker for the end of adolescence. Curr Biol. 2004;14(24):R1038–R1039
Spot on. The big concern I had before we decided to homeschool was the lack of social development, but when I really thought through all of my "social development" in grade school it was learning to survive in a really nasty Lord-of-the-Flies environment where a lot of kids without well-developed moral compasses were competing for the admiration and respect of a lot of other kids without well-developed moral compasses, and we all learned proper American values like "our parents and other adults are lame" and "we should look down on people in lower grades than us." "Social development" for me was in late high school and college where I reacclimated to an environment where people weren't looking to score social points by putting one another down.

Why would I want my kids to take that long detour through dysfunction?
I am just going to give you one example.
At least 11 out of the last 15 spelling bee champions are of asian descent[1].
I don't know about changing the education system. I actually don't agree with the author of the original article but to answer your question, the innovation that US is so proud of has major contribution from Aisans also and is not something you can attribute entirely to Americans. The reason there is so much innovation could also be due to the fact that US is a developed county with abundant resources and most asian countries are not. When you don't have to worry about pollution, population, food etc, the mind gets freed up to think about innovation and creativity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scripps_National_Spelli...
That's absolutely right. I'm assuming that these will have extremely limited upgradability.
> Utilitarianism -- and many others -- are equally possible.

You misunderstand the dichotomy. This is not about what we can do, humans can delude themselves all the time. The question is about what is logically consistent.

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence" applies in a purely natural universe, which means that if there is no God, we can dismiss Utilitarianism (and all the others) as there is no evidence for it. Only if the universe is supernatural (if God exists) do things change.
To be honest I haven't thought about measuring the performance of different approaches but I have thought about a metric which will signal poor performance and right now I'm interested in eliminating poor performance in my simplistic methodology.

What I mean is that if my output 'sentiment scores' are skewed towards the negative and centered around a negative number (~70% of my documents are scored as 'negative sentiment' using the above scheme) then I know that my model is broken because I know that my document "test set" is necessarily neutral (or even positively skewed).

Mathematically, I need to ensure my 'cost function' is a reflection of reality which means my sentiment scores at the end of the day need to be symmetrical or slightly positive skew with a mean of approximately 0.

I can use regularization to trick the model into looking like this but I don't want to overfit and I can't think of a theoretical reason that I'm getting negative bias for this simple model except perhaps that my positive corpus is missing 'true positive sentiment' (ala a parameter versus an estimate in frequentist statistics) which could be the byproduct of the simplistic 'bag of words' assumption (words are assumed independent) aka breaking down my analysis on the basis of 1-grams (single words). As per my other comment, 2-grams could be the more natural way to express positive sentiment while 1-gram negative words are more readily available. Perhaps this is a sign of our pessimism as a species haha :)
How to Become a Badass iOS Developer
- control your costs

- spread your risk (no single customer > 20% of your business)

- save for the next crisis when the money is good

- focus

- cashflow beats cash

- find your peers and establish relationships

- know your strengths, more importantly, know where you're weak

- working overtime is no substitute for bad planning

- every deal should make money

- better 10 small deals in the pocket than one huge one that you're chasing for the next 6 months

- make a cashflow projection and keep it updated for at least 6 months out

- if you have less than 6 months of running costs in your bank you're in a crisis
With regards to prototyping and designing, you really have to be thinking about responsive layouts with breakpoints.

Whether that's native Android layouts and dimension files with different breakpoints for widths, Size Classes for iOS, or CSS Media Queries for the web, that's really what you need to decide.

Generally speaking, for a content-heavy app, you're going to end up trying to move all of your business logic into your server back end, and let your front end (Android, IOS, web) render content.
Used this in a project[0] a little while ago and found it really easy to work with. The syntax detection was an added bonus that I had expected to need another library for.

http://cmdv.io

edit: I should mention that this might be a cool example for someone looking to use hljs in React/Flux-- I tried to make it fairly clean. There's a github link on the bottom-left of the website.
you lost me with coffeescript, bleh :(
Another big difference between CGI and 'traditional' special FX is that CGI really seems to age worse. The SFX in the Indiana Jones films are dated, but they have aged well, IMO, and are still watchable today. Yet CGI from only a few years back (barring one or two exceptions) somehow manages to look so poor.

I wonder if this trend will continue, or will CGI manage to become 'good enough' so that the effects can stand the test of time. It's weird looking back at old movies and being disappointed at the computer effects, yet when I watched them the first time around I thought they were fine.

Or maybe this is just nostalgia, a sign of me getting old, and how "everything was better in the old days" :)
This is just part of the game --its happened to me.

I had a company that had some investment $$ and realized that it wouldn't work like I thought it would. So I did the responsible thing and found a buyer so that I could get my investors out of the deal.
I was homeschooled for about half of my primary and secondary education. Where I grew up in a small town in Ohio (Mount Vernon), the local homeschooling group had dozens of families (50+ kids) from around the county and beyond. I was in a chess club, drama club, and even a beginner programming class. There were other organized activities too, all organized by members of the local group.
Forgive me, but is this an environmental hazard? This reminds me of a worst-case nuclear meltdown, when radioactive super-hot radioactive material burns its way past the surface of the earth to the water table...
At some point, OSX will jump the shark. It just doesn't fully take part in the nix ecosystem. Different projects like homebrew address some of these issues, but still, Darwin feels more like a nephew, rather than a son of nix. I don't think OSX has done anything really stupid yet.

On the other had, the nix ecosystem has really flubbed a lot of key opportunities for progress. You mentioned liking X11. Personally, I hate it. It's incredibly outdated. Rather than unifying behind a next generation display api, we have efforts divided between Weyland and Mir, ensuring that the display landscape for nix remains fragmented for the foreseeable future. This really is bonkers.

So, to answer your question, I want to move off OSX for the typical philosophical reasons, but I'm not willing to do it at the expense of basic ergonomics and fit and finish.
They achieve more of all the things that schools try to teach. Math, Science, Extra-Curricullars etc. In general, skills. Skills that can only be learned when you're disciplined enough to do the work that is assigned, which I believe is what the parent is referring to.
How is this min-max? Isn't this just straight maximization?
Can someone explains to me how Graham claims he can decrypt the intercepted traffic? The proxy communicates securely with the intended website. It's just the browser <-> proxy communication that's vulnerable but that's local on the machine, no ?
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sarcasm on Are you serious that kids are supposed to play outside in school? After all, they could injure themselves. And then the parents (or their medical insurance, who wants another insurance to pay, if possible) sue the school and the teacher for six-figures. And the parents of the kid too, if possible! Oh, and the kid too, 8 years old and $100k in debt already! sarcasm off

And I'm not sure if that what I just said is fiction or has happened often enough. If I were a teacher, I'd just stick the kids in a classroom to limit my liability.

I was happy to have enjoyed a childhood in which playing outside was normal. I'm not sure if I'd let my kid outside if I had one. Not in a climate where my 8-year-or-whatever-young old son might get a sex offender entry for the rest of his life because he played doctor games with a little girl in kindergarten or whatever. Too many incidents of this sort happened, and I don't want to have a kid in this legal climate.
She is not talking about how compulsory education is failing boys, but about how it is failing her boy.

She talks about 'Little House on the Prairie' as if she expects all boys to be provided lessons on splitting logs and herding cattle. This is not an education that would suit all boys, just hers.

In my experience, boys are doing fine at school. They tend to underachieve in their early years, where they are less inclined to study in comparison to girls. As they progress through school and get to specialise, they tend to do better.
I was lucky enough to be sent to a male boarding school. Seeing the state of public and most private school systems in my region, and the lack of male representation among teachers, I will most definitely be sending my sons to similar all male or military boarding schools.
There's still a good amount of out-of-classroom enrichment, however here in Georgia we've had a rather nasty cold snap that has prevented kids from going outside (county-wide requirement). How teachers respond to this extra time in the classroom is obviously up to them, but I know of one who had her kids do Zumba for the duration of recess instead of just using it for more instruction.
I love the Turing Test. Not as a test of intelligence - that's boring and it's not entirely clear what it means anyway - but as a subversive test of personhood, which is what most people are really interested in anyway.

Personhood rights are ethical and granted by society as a whole. A well administered Turing Test gives the computer intelligence a chance to argue for treatment as a full person, without the prejudices that would normally be attendant on the fact that it's instantiated in electronics.

Even if you started completely against machines having rights, once you've allowed one to convince you that it's human-equivalent, you've much less room to rationalize away poor treatment of it.
I never claimed the name is "technical". The product itself if though, and instead of discussing the product itself you're expressing your opinion on the distastefulness of the name as fact. You might say you're not trying to inject a political issue, but you sound just like that guy that said "darkmail" is racist against white people.
The only reason that matters:

Mobile. Your new format has to be accepted by Apple and Google at minimum. So good luck with that.
It's also important to raise a child who understands duty, responsibility and obligation: because those are also part of life.

Right -- but there are ways the child can attain that understanding without its parents perpetually lording over them, deciding how they spend every minute of the day.
Sure, I agree with that. People who believed Linux was difficult to install rarely tried the same process with a Windows CD. Back in the day, I had plenty of mysterious, unsolvable issues like reboot loops trying to install Windows 2000 and 98.

I'm more thinking about setting up a new system. Whether it's Windows or Linux, I need to obtain things like an FTP program, a photo editor, a torrent manager, firefox, and so forth. It's a lot easier on Debian than Windows because you can get all of those in 5 minutes from the command line.
H igh risk endeavors in science are worth the risk because when they pay off they may shift the way we have been doing things in the past, which leads to unforeseen opportunities in the future. This is not an insightful thought, but I believe it is usually overlooked.

The British Engineer Charles Babbage (Father of the Computer in many respects) wasn't afforded the opportunity to complete the first working mechanical calculator because of cost restrictions by the British Gov't, an invention which could have altered the British course in History. High risk projects in Science and Engineering may rarely pay off, but when they do the ROI is incalculable in many ways. Flipping houses, not so much.

Curing cancer is a place holder for any number of fields that are still under-explored. Finance really shouldn't be a driver of growth, especially when the growth is concentrated in public financing of debt, it just doesn't seem sustainable.
For that matter, were AV vendors intentionally looking the other way with Superfish, or any other nasties?
> Probably you missed TFA and the whole conversation thread you're answering to?

TFA and whole conversation are exactly the context which makes it ridiculous to claim that 1% is an acceptable margin of error.

> Of course. 1% blood alcohol gets its significance not in what it is ("1% oh, so much") but RELATIVE to the amount that's OK for a human to stand.

> 1% error in missile calculations gets its significance RELATIVE to the target area it has to hit and the acceptable margin of error.

Agreed. 1% error in judging the gender of people is significant relative to medical and social policy targets. On what grounds are you claiming that 70 million people are ignorable in medical and social policy?

Ironically, the only argument from you I've seen so far against sex being considered a spectrum is basically, "1%, oh, not so much". You said: "You say that like it's some huge number. 70 million or not, it's still 1%."

And ultimately, this is in research before we are even talking about medical and social policy. I'm not sure why we should just discard that 1% of data at all--there's no reason to artificially create error in reasoning that isn't imposed by data collection methods.
If this had been done by a private person instead of a corporation, they would be looking at prison time. The double standard is frustrating.
During my first few years in university, I was a real asshole. My friends and I had this game called "spot the homeschooled kid", which was more or less exactly what it sounds like. We'd observe other students in class or social settings, and attempt to determine which had been homeschooled before attending university. One of us would make a wager, we'd all bet on it, then one of us would befriend the subject of the bet and determine who was right.

There is little doubt that our false-negative rate was very high, but our false-positive rate was also astonishingly low. You play the game long enough and you start to notice some pretty damning "tells".

(This said, the damage doesn't seem to be permanent; after about the second year the game became much harder as people acclimatized to university life.)

Hell, maybe this anecdote supports your point. We all went to traditional schools and we were serious assholes...
I like the end. "Keep doing this for 10 years". :)
I wonder what would happen if the next presidential candidate had that as his/her mission: "I will invest more money in educating our children better".
They were being a bit imprecise with the terms. The important part is that refractive index is dependent on wavelength and so you get dispersion, which increases with the distance between surfaces. But in a regular lens, the distance is necessary in order to achieve overall deflection of the light beam's initial angle, which results in focusing. A flat piece of glass deflects light internally, but upon exiting, ever beam is parallel to how it entered, resulting in no focusing.

Being able to directly deflect at a flat, thin plane eliminates the need to consider dispersion. Well, as long as you can deflect all wavelengths at the same angle. They talk about demonstrating 3 wavelengths and seeking to extend this to more.
Pretty much. It's a bad title.
You're joking, right? If so, sorry for not being sure. If not, the answer is that lots of people do try writing books with startup advice, but there's no one with the power to wave a magic wand and make a book "definitive", have everyone agree that it's definitive, and make everyone new to the field realize that it's definitive and they should grab a copy.