skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say cultural bias was an issue, you're twisting my words. And the people I know who vouch for the effectiveness of test prep classes don't even teach them anymore, they taught them mostly as a summer jobs or jobs out of college before they found more of a career path job. They have no reason to vouch for the effectiveness of the classes, they are speaking about personal experience.

And you honestly don't think the classes help at all? Seeing sample questions, taking sample tests, and learning strategies to handle questions you don't know. You might as well say structured practice doesn't help. And sure you could say "why don't the kids from less affluent families practice just as much?" but if your parent doesn't know how the game is played the sixteen year old kid still isn't as prepared as the kid who has affluent parents. And the scores aren't going to reflect ability as much as they reflect whether you come from a household that prepares you for standardized tests.
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It's a similar situation with depression -- there are treatments available (such as CBT), but they aren't effective for everyone.

I think the problem with CBT for CFS is that it has an incorrect etiology, and more effective psychological treatments will likely become available.

From what I can see, CFS definitely can be cured by "some sort of emotional technique". It's just that a lot of CFS patients simply don't want to believe it, so they essentially end up doing the exact opposite of what is required to recover, resulting in further illness rather than recovery.
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Luckily most (all?) of this was fixed in RDF 1.1
interesting read anyway.
Name a major US city in a strong position to build out fiber Internet at their own expense and we can drill into the numbers.

Before I wrote, I pulled up the general fund numbers (debt load and deficit) for the 5 biggest US cities, and a couple random cities down around #15. I was going to write up a little table, but got pulled into a meeting.

This is one of those discussions where we have the benefit of actual numbers to work from. They're just a Google search away. If you're right, this should be an easy debate for you to win.

Slightly later

Figuring that the top 10 cities might put your argument at a disadvantage (it's harder to run a giant city than a smaller one and obviously more expensive to roll fiber out in one), I checked the next 10 cities on the list (by population). Quick observations:

* San Jose - huge deficits, pension crisis, closing police stations.

* Austin - like all the cities in Texas they seem to be doing OK.

* Indianapolis - 8 figure deficit, funding the city from reserves.

* Jacksonville - small deficit, service and pay cuts to keep the budget balanced.

* San Francisco - mid-high 8 figure deficits.

* Columbus - hard to find figures, probably doing OK.

* Charlotte - seems to be doing OK

* Fort Worth - Texas, seem to be doing OK

* Detroit - Heh

* El Paso - Texas, seems to be doing OK

* Memphis - 8 figure deficit, service cuts.
Just to be clear, I didn't mean the price point of the parts if you bought them separately and assembled them yourself. (My bet is they'd cost you more that way, if only because of the shipping/gas expenses.) What I meant was the price you'd pay when buying a P4-era PC whole when it is sold as working by the previous owner or a small reseller.

I agree with you on the testing; if it's rigorous enough that will likely the biggest sale point.
Well, there's Wikidata: www.wikidata.org
I agree, I love the concept, but you also have to add the cost of a monitor + keyboard + mouse AND the fact that everybody wants (needs?) a laptop these days.
That depends on how much time it spends powered up. Someone in the market for a PC this cheap is probably not a heavy computer user.
Thanks, to you and jonrx both. I did not get that from my quick perusal of thier site.
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Possibly similar, meant for running CentOS LXCs on Slackware:
http://www.rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/lxc-centos.sh.htm
Thanks for that link. It also links to http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-28/warren-buff..., which is well worth the read.
Could be self-driving car infrastructure.
And more important: I he hadn't he wouldn't have had the money to found NeXT, which was quite probably required for Apple to survive.
I didn't want to take part the first time I saw this (linked to by sctb below) but on closer inspection and reading the comments this time around convinced me.

Still not sure if I'll get to see what was collected, but at least confirmation will be interesting.
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I did an exercise one time in which I had to write down, in as much detail, my "ideal" day. The exercise was structured around a conceit that there was a magical genie who would grant you everything you wanted, but only if you could describe it in detail, and only in the detail that you describe it.

I found it helpful. I learned a lot about what I want from it. It took me a while to finish and ended up being several pages long. It helped when I realized that the trick is to describe lifestyle, not possessions obtained or goals achieved. That's really the important thing.

I realized that most of the goals I had created were vague, barely thought-through assumptions that would supposedly make that lifestyle possible. But those two things aren't really connected.

So now, I do some freelancing for 20 hours a week and the rest of the week is mine. I've achieved 80% of my lifestyle goals and it was mostly about rearranging the things I already had in my life.

I spend the rest of the week working on projects that will hopefully get me the other 20%.
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These lists are pretty arbitrary. They don't include more than $32 trillion hidden in off shore accounts. Putin, Gaddafi, Mubarak, and other third world dicators have many trillions stashed away. That is not even to count the monarchs who practically own entire countries.
While I like the direction they are taking, I am still kinda scratching my head at the use cases.

Seniors who need a basic websurfer with malware proctection?

[edit]
I guess third-world users too, but like others have remarked, the power consumption is pretty brutal.
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Whoa, did they use the same developers? The sites look very alike. The top navigation, squared layout, lots of white space, etc. Maybe this is the current design fad. Can't say I'm in love with it. I think all the spacing and heavy use of white space tries to mimick a print-like look, but on a screen just looks inefficient and bloaty.

I like how Ars Technica handles their layout. Its dense, not overly white, column based, and with a nice background gradient that keeps all that white at bay.
I regularly use a netbook with 1GB of RAM (Dell Mini 9). It's on #! (I know, I might need to look for an alternative), which uses Openbox, but I have no problems with web surfing as long as I max at about 5 tabs. I also don't use a lot of web apps. With HTML5 video, videos work well enough. I can even run Eclipse if nothing else is open without too many problems, although for development work on it I'm usually using RDP.

Edit: I'll add I use Firefox on it. I find on Windows and Linux that Chrome takes up quite a bit more RAM than the alternatives. I use IE11 on my Windows machine with 4GB which I am using now, because Chrome would eat away my memory with the same usage.
What makes most sense in this space is for Google to build a global MVNO for M2M communication. This would allow them to create a network for devices without roaming restrictions and fully leverage IPV6 without legacy considerations. Right now M2M traffic on GPRS/UMTS legacy networks using IPV4 is a total pain to manage for the carriers and results in poor user experience.
I don't think this is correct. Sure, it reached the "same number" but I don't think the indices are inflation adjusted, so the value isn't the same.

Edit: Here's a brief explanation using the DJIA as an example http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/03/05/173515767/the-dow-...
True.

An open search engine was on "Show HN" on Saturday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122397 -> https://deusu.org

Another open search engine from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152839 -> http://www.gigablast.com

The European Union sponsored the development of an European Google competitor: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Quaero-Erster-Vorlaeu... -> https://www.exalead.com/search/
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Just google the article title and click through from the search results. Annoying but it works.
I was thinking the same thing. The increased power usage (over something like an ARM based Chromebook) is probably easily offset by the power needed to manufacture new but from a cost perspective to the user it may be a false-economy (assuming the machines are in use 24/7).

You also have the power consumption of the VGA monitor to contend with.

Are they remanufacturing in the USA?
So is this targeted at the third world?
Easy and hard are relative.
Attempted to import my Linkedin information, it only grabbed my last company worked for, name and email address.

I like the idea, bit wary about trusting a random website with my personal history (Linkedin took me long enough to join), but without full functionality I didn't spend more than a minute playing around with this.
First, I really don't want to discourage you. I have myself reinvented a lot of stuff from a raytracer over a database to a kernel and a lot more. A simple steganographic tool, too. I think this is a great way to learn things, because it really makes you realize the complexity involved, how much effort other people have put into figuring things out and why some things look so quirky and make you think you can do it way better. But don't be fooled, chances are pretty close to zero that you will come up with an idea that has not been tried and dismissed long ago. There are a lot of people out there much smarter than you and me. So reinventing stuff is good for learning, but improving on the state of art and coming up with something useful for others is really pretty unlikely.

Now having no clue may sound a bit insulting but it was really not meant as a personal attack. But just by searching for »detecting steganography in images« you will easily find a lot of papers and even software dealing with this and they also deal with your idea of a randomized embedding in the least significant bit. You obviously did not research what other people have tried and what works and what not and that is why I called it clueless. The abstract of »Reliable Detection of LSB Steganography in Color and Grayscale Images« [1] from 2001 and one of the top search results for me starts with the following abstract.

We describe a reliable and accurate method for detecting least significant bit (LSB) nonsequential embedding in digital images. The secret message length is derived by inspecting the lossless capacity in the LSB and shifted LSB plane. An upper bound of 0.005 bits/pixel was experimentally determined for safe LSB embedding.

So this idea has been rendered obsolete at least a decade and a half ago unless you only want to embed tiny messages in huge images. Hiding only a single tweet requires a uncompressed image of 0.64 MiB to remain safe. And I did not search for it, but there may be other algorithms making the situation even worse. And using lossless compression is a nonstarter to begin with because you will stick out of the sea of JPEG images. But there are of course ways to embed hidden information in JPEG images, but again there are also ways to detect this.

[1] http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/Research/acm_2001_03.p...
Because of modern amenities, people that would have died off due to reasons of low intellect now survive.

I was watching Star Trek TOS last night, and noticed the vocabulary of the actors is significantly larger than current crop of TV shows. I'd wager that people are getting dumber, and the ad/television networks are catering to this absence of education.

I wonder how I would go about proving that? Perhaps find a script archive and process for average age of learning words, and average each year up?
So, a day later I'm back to Postbox now. Here's what broke it for me this time. It's hard to believe but these things are indeed still unfixed:

* The message list can not scroll to bottom. Neither on startup, nor on arrival of new messages. That bug[1] is open since 2010(!).

* The unread count and new message notification can not be disabled for specific IMAP-folders. Since my spam folder is a regular IMAP-folder (managed by spam assassin) Thunderbird insists on notifying me about every new Spam mail I get. Uhm, no thanks.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539468
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The case is way too big for what it is...
I agree on the arbitrariness. But do you have a some links for the $32 trillion hidden offshore. I'm just interested.
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They've updated the announcement, most of the restarts have been cancelled due to them being able to upgrade the machines without reboots.
xkcd runs on IIS? I haven't seen an IIS header since 1997.
> The user experience on the page is quite nice

I wonder if we used the same page. I just got a welcome page. When I input 'patterns' into the search box and hit return, nothing happened. When I clicked on 'Recent Changes' I see a gray bar reading 'activity,' with no contents.

It appears to be a broken test site to me.

> On a related note, I'm curious to hear what others think about the trend of sending data over-the-wire and rendering HTML on the client.

I think it's evil, given that it requires me to allow code execution in order to read content.
I'm an optimist. I'm overjoyed by the fact that Valve have been so successful they can beaver away quietly on HL3 and whatever other projects they have on the boil, funded by the incredible success of not only their own games but riding on the back of simply, hands down, the best online content purchasing system.

As has been seen time and time again, with complete freedom over when to release a game generally comes greatness (given the caveat that they developers actually have a clue, and by golly Valve staff are clearly among the best).

ps: I can understand your comment of "Dota 2 exists, I guess" if you're measuring it against LoL. Take a broader view of it in the entire online market and it is a massive success: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
I searched for my game (Orange Season) and the first result was Vladimir Putin
I agree, this is a dreadful idea. The CPUs are going to hog a whole load of energy (as are the motherboards). The HDDs are going to be seriously used and probably prone to complete breakdown.

An ARM SoC would do this same job much faster probably at much less cost, with FAR less energy consumption.
If you wear a pair of those glasses, everyone is going to know who you are.
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Normally I'd just upvote and move on, but this is really fucking good. For example, I wish I could have seen something like that "Sine Wave Aliasing" page when I was learning this stuff, would have saved me a lot of confusion.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/22/us-offshore-wealth...

That's a lot of money.
Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
In my experience, MVNO's have worse service despite being on the same network as the big providers. Especially when it comes to data.

Isn't Google worried about that hurting user experience?
Haha, that's excellent as well! I think I'll just note both of them in my quotes file.

BTW. After watching all episodes of John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" I'm looking for interesting shows. Is that podcast worth listening to? Anything else you'd recommend?
Doubtful, the "wisdom of crowds" is useless for something like Bitcoin. It's too new, too revolutionary, too complex for its applications and failures to be apparent to even a select few. Let alone a statistically relevant population.
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I had a lackluster interview experience at the company the author works for and mentions. After completing a coding challenge, I got a generic:

"After deliberating, we have decided not to proceed with your application."

I asked for more specific feedback, from two different people, and got no response.
.... but why?
From the first paragraph of their blurb:

"Symple PC gives classroom labs, non-profits and call centers a..."

They are aiming it at cost-sensitive groups that need to buy a bunch of workstations.
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Nope:

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Friend recently shared a short story with me, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - Harry Turtledove[1] and what you said reminded me of it.

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When he died the greatest contribution to his net worth was his Disney money actually.
I'm not on the other side either (Democrat). I'm more of a centrist.
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whats the status of neovim at the moment ? has it reached a level such that you can use as an editor on a daily basis ?
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I am working on a web server for a project at school right now and have been pleased to see the tools that exist for Rust already in this space. This site [1] is a good one to look at for existing frameworks that are quite usable. I am taking advantage of Hyper for its parsing and server capabilities.

[1]: http://arewewebyet.com/
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Are you accepting interns this summer? If so, do you also sponsor VISA?
Almost 2000 billionaires. Almost 100 in India. 200+ in China. 500 plus in US. 100 some in Russia. WTH.
No, I was not. I'm assuming that the standard double or float do not conform to this spec, though, right?
I'm seeing <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> in the source of every page...
> over something like an ARM based Chromebook) is probably easily offset by the power needed to manufacture

I doubt it. Manufactoring cost for ARM SOC is $10, this thing burns it in a month.
You can download vector files on the fly.
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Let's listen to security advice from the person who thinks obscurity means anything. :-)
...and Disney stock has roughly tripled since he died.
The four stations where the directions change are the square made up of Park Street, State Street, DTX, and Government Center (or Haymarket since Gov Center is down? Not sure, haven't been to Haymarket in at least two years).

Directionality (for new folks) or terminus (for more seasoned riders) are infinitely better than Inbound/Outbound.
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I wonder how he keeps getting so wealthy. He does not own much of Microsoft anymore. 95% of his wealth is not Microsoft.

So how does he keep getting wealthy?
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How do websites actually implement that?
I realize that 1/3 is not terminating in decimal, what I meant was that in JS, it seemed to end neatly after x decimal places, which I found interesting. I hadn't tried the operation you mentioned until you posted that, the results are even more bizarre to me. Seems I need to spend some time relearning floating point math to better understand what I'm seeing.
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Do you have any details on this build? My father has RLS and nothing seems to work for him. A quick google shows me you can buy the units used in the study, but they are quite pricey.
I found this webcast pretty boring, in the best possible way. It started, they showed a promo video, completely nominal countdown, launch, go, everything on time and as it's supposed to be. Pretty cool.
incompetence, desperation, and a great way to shift some blame onto GitHub, in the eyes of people who know absolutely nothing about how this stuff works.

which could be the audience they're most concerned about.
This seems completely unrelated to the article and doesn't really add anything to the conversation.
Those people have all the incentives of scale to want low-power computers instead.
He probably just created a redirect in the domain host's web interface.

Just checked, and xkcd runs lighttpd.
When has google ever cared about the user experience?

Edit: I find it interesting that this comment got all the way to at least +5 and has now descended to -2 as I edit it. Apparently what I said was more polarizing than I thought -- I honestly thought it was something that everyone agreed with.