skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In early primary school (5-7 years old in France), we'd have around 30 hours of classes a week. We'd start homework in class, with the teacher there to help us understand the subjects at hand. We'd then go back home and finish that, which would take between 30 minutes and an hour every day of the week.

The number of hours of work at school and at home then gradually increased over the years, giving rise to more and more standardized, less personalized and "busy" teaching methods and assignments.

By the end of high-school (15-18 years old), I had an average of 42 hours of classes a week, plus about half of that in homework (so 60+ hours a week). It was brutal, which wasn't helped by the fact that I had chosen one of the hardest specializations (scientific), that my dad was a teacher, that my parents were generally pretty strict when it came to school stuff, that I had music classes, that I had insomnia, or that I was working in kitchens every so often. Expectations of academic success were very high, personal or social success, on the other hand, were out of the equation.

It was stressful and in my opinion, largely unnecessary. By the time I graduated high school (Baccalaureate, 9 subjects), I nearly instantly forgot pretty much everything I had learnt. Not that it wasn't useful, just that I was profoundly sick of it. I'm also much better at "learning in the trenches", but I suppose that's a personal preference.

If anything, this "training" made University (in Scotland) a breathe, while I saw other British students struggle with the amount of work in first year, I felt like I had joined a year-round summer camp (it got harder the following years but nothing at the high-school level).

This makes it somewhat hard for me to define what a good homework policy actually is. I liked my primary school of way doing things, it felt personal and somewhat enjoyable, but this simply doesn't work for some people. My high-school way of doing things was anything but enjoyable, but it had this military feel to it that does work for some (and has long lasting consequences, both good and bad).

My ideal homework policies would involve at least:

- cross-disciplinary projects

- non-standardized homework (all of my best teachers, without exception, wrote their own exercises and did not rely on books)

- some level of freedom/creativity, i.e. give the students a subject but give some leeway as to how students can approach the subject

- no forced group projects (not once have I seen this work properly), however encourage students to talk to each other (and not systematically assume it is the same as cheating)

- very generally speaking, make the students feel like they're doing this for themselves, not for the teacher, not for their parents, and especially not to meet a quota or check boxes in a bullet point list handed out to thousands of teachers by an unrelated bureaucrat
Maybe not logical, but rights are a social construct. Nationality is a public recognition of 'here the social rules change'.
I'm working through this course - http://bitfountain.io/courses/complete-ios8

It's really comprehensive but absolutely massive. If you have a demanding full time job it could easily take you a year to get through the full course.

> I haven't specifically shopped for a developer cause forget $50k, I can't even spend $5k.

The problem isn't really the initial dollar amount, it's spending what you think you can make back on the application in a reasonable amount of time (6 months). If you can't make $50k on an app then why spend the money to have it made?

On the other hand if you can spend 3-4 hours per week learning how to build the app then what you make back is really whatever you value your time at minus the upside of learning a new skill.

The problem is that it takes years of experience using these tools and programming in order to make anything complex. I'm learning that the hard way.
The title was changed by one of the admins, "dang", and he posted in this thread that the reason for the change was that the original title was "controversial".
Don't they usually contain things like. "Any changes to this standard contract have to be approved by the CEO of LargeCorp in writing, otherwise it is invalid". And every change has to be initialed by has to be initialed by both parties.
EA shuts down SimCity, the Sims developer Maxis
Iphone does the same thing when the media volume is set above the "safe" limit.
It's a regulatory requirement not some Android bug.
If the startup took on any debt, at the front of the line is a bank. Their 'note' usually gets paid first. $POOL -= $BANK

Debt holders do not have priority when the debtor is sold, as the debtor remains in existence. Creditor priority generally matters only where an entity's debt structure is being altered, such as in a bankruptcy, liquidation, or debt restructuring. However, your example is correct if the bank held convertible debt, exercised the option to convert the debt to equity, and the converted equity carried a liquidation preference. (Note that "liquidation" shows up twice in this paragraph but the two usages have very different meanings. "Liquidation" refers to the termination of a corporate business and the distribution of its assets to its creditors and shareholders; "liquidation preference" refers to the maximum return a preferred stockholder may receive when it "liquidates" its holdings in a company as part of an exit event before the common shareholders or subordinated preferred shareholders receive their returns. In the Non-VC world, liquidation preferences are almost always fixed numbers; in the VC-world, liquidation preferences are usually multiples.)
> But the second one; "At the same fee level, transaction count must increase 250 folds." Seems completely possible.

Possible, sure, but likely? Bitcoin has been around since 2009 and has so far failed to gain any real amount of mainstream adoption. I don't see any compelling reasons why this should change any time soon.

To me, Bitcoin is not the internet of money, it's more like the Linux desktop of money. Sure you can argue it has certain benefits over the status quo, such as lower cost and freedom from certain 'evil' corporations, but the general public arguably doesn't care enough about these things to be bothered to make the switch, especially given the relatively high barrier of entry and low amount of third-party support.

edit: anyone care to explain why I am being downvoted?
> But the transaction volume in USD

This is again irrelevant to the point the OP and blog post author were making. If the number of tx/block continues to increase, then the current level of network security will increase, all else being equal (eg. USD price of Bitcoin staying flat).

> on a 6-12 month timescale bitcoin has been absolutely terrible investment

Absolutely, but long price downtrends have happened multiple times in the past. That's why I asked "what makes you think this bubble, as opposed to the last N bubbles, is clearly different and clearly marks the end of Bitcoin?".

> which you did use as an example

Well I didn't, the OP did :)

> There is no mention whatsoever on how many purchases they have that is being made with bitcoin.

I was pointing to these slides because they show a multitude of metrics increasing. It seems unlikely bitcoin purchases would be declining given everything else is increasing: number of bitcoin startups, number of wallets, number of merchants, number of daily tx, etc. Individually these metrics mean little, but all combined... Heck we went from 0 to 100,000 merchants since 2009, so it is certain bitcoin purchases have increased in that time frame. Why would you doubt that?

> Do you happen to have any data about the purchases made specifically with bitcoin?

Very few merchants publish their bitcoin metrics. But 2 come to mind: Gyft and Newegg said that their 2014 Bitcoin black friday sales were the best ever: http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/12/09/bitcoin-black-friday-2014-...
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Thanks for the feedback.

That did seem rather inefficient at the time but I wasn't able to discern the more efficient method at the time. I've kind of been waiting for Rust 1 to cycle back around. But I'll see if I might be able to address some of those and bump to Rust 1.0 alpha in the next few days.

Note the conversation about performance is kind of unfortunate. Those numbers should be considered VERY rough (they were just a personal notes file of mine). Also, with --release, the numbers place rust in the same range as other compiled languages.
Show HN: Make randoapp descriptions.
I have experience buying these Chineese parts, very often you end up with a board that is very poorly soldered or even doesn't work at all.

At least with a genuine Arduino board you get something that works and is of a reasonable level of quality.

When you have your final product you can always make economies of scale.
Borders are essential. For groups, organizations, life itself.

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/border-stories/
You sound like me, but I'm still in high school currently in my sophmore year. What advice would you give to your high school self?
github : [https://github.com/humanarity/empichen]

"An app to vibrantly teleport your house — for humans"
Amsterdam Twitter activity heat map
I will get excited once it can solve Bongard puzzles: http://www.foundalis.com/res/diss_research.html
Having worked in this field, I have noticed that when large companies have issues with their security people, it is almost always an issue with contract employees and noone from the company managing the situation close enough. There is also an added layer when you have contractors, sometimes miscommunication happens, sometimes it devolves into coverups.

When you employ the security guard directly you also can avoid attrition detracting from the familiarity the guards have with the property and procedures. They will also have more invested in making sure things go well for the company.

In these sort of transitions, often the existing contractor will work with the client to ensure a good transition so that they can maintain relations. In some cases they also will continue to hire guards who transition to FTEs after a period (temp-to-hire).

The reason that it does not happen that often is that the industry is used to contracting out for these employees and long introspective studies of physical security are expensive and often embarrassing.
Wrong abstract.

http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/105/201413...
I wonder how the statistics will look if you filter based on individuals background. Programmers I know do not live in the city they were born or studied in, which could be the cause of a distinctly different social circles than for those who stated with the community they were born in.
IBM buys AlchemyAPI to boost Watson
Why Some Observers Think Apple Watch Won't Succeed
I'm quite happy to take PRs from an expert to address the issues and represent Rust better. :-)

UPDATE: I will point out that the README is pretty clear that this is rust 0.13. Doesn't mean it's a good representation of rust 0.13 either of course, but it clearly isn't based on a recent version of Rust.
Raises have of course been requested and granted. My salary isn't really what's at stake here and any raise I could ask for is dwarfed by the potential value of shares sitting on the table that I simply don't know how to get money out of. What are you imagining I'd ask for when you say "help with the stock option problem?" Ask them to buy me out?
Inversion of Control – Best Practises
The answer is that they're all hanging out with people who do the same thing they do too. This situation isn't unique to programmers.
Not a good idea if the OP wants to profit from the app. Might be an OK idea if he just wants to get his name out there, and have something good for the ol' CV.
It's the laminate.

Here's a pic:
http://i.imgur.com/vF4zo56.jpg
How about the fact that a sufficiently large adversary (e.g., Google or a powerful government) could take over the blockchain by throwing more processing power at mining than the rest of the world?
Capital can't come bringing ebola or polio.
The advice to "scratch your own itch" is fine if you're building a hobby project. If you intend to build a real business then doing at least some "validation" (I hate how entrepreneurs use that word, but that's beside the point) is critical.

Even just talking to 10-20 people is better than nothing. Hindsight is 20/20, but hopefully anyone reading this reply takes a moment to do that before coding anything.
Thats interesting.

Can I convince you to just bullet point explain what you mean with context switching?
Lots of Cases of Synesthesia Are Based on Alphabet Magnets
But how do you specify at what level the note should bind?

Sometimes, you'd want it at the file-level, sometimes at the vim-level, and sometimes at the terminal-level, I suppose.
Maybe they have read one before, and they're all pretty similar so the benefit of reading another one is minor compared to just having insurance pay for it.

Also the rental companies have a an incentive to not be featured in a 60 minutes style expose.
That's a premise so inane that it goes right into meaninglessness. Everything is "conceivable", especially "something that works as well as what I'm using in every way, but doesn't have problem X". It does nothing to conceive that, though.

As to what Facebook's building, meh. Anyone can try to build a better-in-every-way-for-every-application VCS, but look to TFA for a list of just some of the failed attempts to produce better version control mousetraps. It's more likely that they'll produce something that will be handy for niche uses than something that will be a clear win over git for everyone else.
It's a big risk though. You can be right, but there may be other reasons why the stock moves. If you don't get on 60 minutes and the company gets acquired, you could face a big loss of capital.
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That is to assume that those customers care about economic benefit. Frankly, if cost were their only concern, the US military would have abandoned ULA and gone with SpaceX long ago.

I'm reminded of the first calls (90s->2002, not the later programs) for bids to replace the KC-135. There were only two real contenders, Airbus and Boeing. Airbus's first reaction was essentially: "why even bother."
Sounds like you're describing ISOs, while the parent was describing NQSOs. With NQSOs, the (market value - exercise price) spread is taxed as ordinary income at the time of exercise.
Great news, but I'm a bit disappointed that Debian/Ubuntu repo is not available on launch day.
Origamics is a wonderful book, it is worth it if you are interested in math or origami.
You are right. I'm planning a follow up with more detail.
Kairos is an awesome organization. I'm extremely glad I was able to join. Hopefully, I'll be making the next hackathon.
I'm genuinely curious, is a 2x multiple really common these days?

All of the recent raises I've been involved in have been Non-Participating Preferred at a 1x multiple. Or at least capped. I was under the impression that was where everyone had sort of settled these days?

I'm basing this almost entirely off personal experience and the cooley report. http://www.cooley.com/files/104854_vf2014q2.pdf
Has Utah seen an increase in homeless with their free housing program?
Policy – a fork of the Scala compiler
Do you believe that Dakota Johnson’s pubic hair in Fifty Shades were fake? -
A touching story, props to the author for his measured response -- the experience has to be difficult not to internalise or freak out from.

I wonder if the DID experience is the same as "ego death" as described after ingesting large amounts of psychedelics?
I just looked up css3 multiple columns. Great pointer. I'll investigate it, thanks!
I'm just pointing out that limiting active miners to people with fast internet connections means there will be fewer of them.
The problem with this question is that you are probably talking to a HR flunky at this point. It's a good question if you are interviewing with a particular department, but not something your average recruiter is going to have a clue about.
Python environment variables backed by Consul key/value store
>Nationality is ultimately an obsolete concept.

as well as planet or galaxy quadrant or specific species one was born on or at. Many people/societies have evolved past the stage of the valley/tribe/village and now the most of the human species is at region and nationality state. Some advanced people were able to evolve past that. It requires letting go identification characteristics that are just given by birth and mentally moving on to what her or his truely personal identification is, ie. result of her/his personal efforts, like education, life/work experience, personal spiritual and intellectual development, etc...

> What rational basis is there

there isn't. Just our low evolutionary stage. Deeply xenophobic.
Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run
I believe it's necessary to repeat this point because of the constant churn of new users who are otherwise ignorant of Google's business model. I still hear people say, "I'm so glad Google is nice enough to give us free apps!"
Open source the code, will add value to your resume, so indirectly you're still going to profit from this.
> But there is no reason why any person should be excluded from basic rights and privileges because they aren't "owned" by any particular subdivision.

This is something to work towards, but it runs up against some pretty basic problems.

For one thing, enforcement of those rights will entail war.

For another, some rights are contrary to local culture. For example, the right to leave Islam is contrary to the culture of a region which wants sharia law. The right for certain people to get married and live together and have sex (both of which are relevant even if marriage goes away) is contrary to certain other religious cultures. Are those cultures wrong? Are you going to tell people their culture is wrong?
I highly, highly encourage all employees with options packages to go through our equity checklist and blog post here:

http://offerletter.io/blog/201412-understanding-and-negotiat...

Questions:

> What is the number of shares outstanding on a fully-diluted basis?

> What is the fair market value (FMV) of my shares?

> What is the exercise price (aka strike price)?

> Do you allow early-exercise of options?

> Do you allow an 83(b) Election?

> What is the vesting schedule?

> What are some potential exit scenarios?

Equity is complicated. Options are complicated. Even well-meaning founders may inadvertently introduce disfavorable language into an employee options plan at the behest of an investor or board member. It is contingent on the individual to figure this out and stand up for themselves.

I also encourage virtually every engineer i chat with these days to retain an equity lawyer to help them pore over the contents of their grant paperwork and minimize surprise. It's going to cost a few hundred bucks and potentially save you from millions in losses down the road.
Wait, you are being sarcastic, right? You know that you're replying to Steve Klabnik, who is on the Rust core team?
The real practical application for bitcoin that I see will be machine to machine transactions, not human to human transactions.

Pre-bitcoin if you want to set up a static website that accepts donations to keep on serving it's content you absolutely have to have a human in the loop to faciliate those transactions.

If your webserver is overloaded and you need to charge browsers 0.0001 cents per connection to filter out the legitimate browsers there is a clear path to do that with bitcoin, not so with any other payment scheme. The path to do that involves everyone loading bitcoin into the browser and doing some sort of side chain, trust channel, trusted third party to enable such a cheap transaction, but the point being that there is no one stopping people from developing and pushing these technologies with bitcoin. If you wanted to do this with paypal or cash or credit cards or any other known payment system there are very real road blocks and people that can simply pull the plug.

Bitcoin enables people to try out new ways of paying without asking anyone's permission.

The quickest to market is illegal trades, because there is no one to say no and no one to pull the plug. It is really fairly similar to bittorrent in that way. Everyone will first say the technology should die because it lets people do things illegally.
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How we convinced the founder of Pandora to speak at Hustle Con
You're making an inference based on conditional probabilities that is not supportable by logic and mathematics.

Bitcoin has widespread adoption among criminals because they cannot reasonably make use of personal checks or card-based payments. It is their best alternative to cash for certain use cases.

For everyone else, Bitcoin has to be better than a debit card, rather than better than cash. This requires widespread adoption and financial service businesses using Bitcoin.

The foundation of the currency has little to do with the character of early adopters. I don't judge my stereo by the pretentiousness of the first audiophile to review it. Likewise, I don't care that people use Bitcoin to buy weed. There are only two problems I have with Bitcoin:

1. I can't pay all my bills with it.

2. I can't get paid for my work with it.

I can certainly jump through additional hoops to convert my dollar-denominated bank accounts into Bitcoin, but that does not actually improve my life right now. I have no compelling reason to use Bitcoin other than a vague desire to have some long-term alternative to the existing financial service businesses.

I have no reason to believe that Bitcoin will be that long-term viable alternative. I think that such an alternative will likely emerge within the next decade, but I don't think I have seen it yet. I see potential. But I don't buy potential; I buy value.

The bad news for widespread adoption of Bitcoin is really that it hasn't happened yet.
It isn't silly to assume considering that an overwhelming majority of Google's revenue comes directly from advertisements.

As for self driving cars, I can think of a ton of marketing use cases including tracking how often people drive, where they go, how long they stay there, the frequency in which someone goes to a location, what type of features in the car the user takes advantage of...

And that's just from the top of my head in 30 seconds. I'm sure the marketing kids at Google can think of far more ways to milk you.
"An app to innovatively follow that creepy guy at the bar — for geeks"
The increasing co-dependency between Google and Wikipedia, has basically has turned unwitting Wikipedia editors into Google's unpaid fact checkers. http://newslines.org/blog/google-and-wikipedia-best-friends-...