skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for doing whatever we can to improve education, but it is extremely difficult to compare the quality of a education between public and private schools because of selection bias.

Private schools tend to pick and choose the best kids and have significantly higher suspension and expulsion rates eliminating the "problem" children. Public schools on the other hand, have to accept everyone from the hyperactive to those with learning disabilities.

When we try to control for these effects, often there is little to no difference between these custom approaches and standard ones. Montessori for instance does customization and outcomes are effectively the same as public schools.

I suppose though even if the end result is a cheaper and highly replicable education system, it could become quite successful as a company.
this may be true, but when a doctor finds out you are on medicare versus say, paying cash, they add on a few extra procedures just to bill the gov a bit more.

source: i work in healthcare.
I think the key point here is that Tesla is not trying to make the world's best electric car, they're trying to make the best car, period. If they try to make something radical and different looking, then they're going to gain some extra traction with people who want to stand out and be different, but they already have those people in the bag anyway.

On the flip side, making their cars deliberately strange looking is likely to turn a lot of people off. People who might otherwise be interested in buying a Tesla simply because it's a high-quality, practical car that competes well with other cars in its price segment, gasoline or not.
> But the big problem is that assumption that you must either store solar, or you burn coal / oil

So your plan is to turn the electricity off at night?
Thanks. I think I was confused by Top Gear reviewing so many nebulously classed Porsche SUV-ish-whatever things.
Routine screening for breast cancer started in the 80's.
http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/ld/breast.html
Can you explain the way this works? I hear stuff like this all the time, but my (admittedly limited) tax knowledge says this is not possible. Donations to charity allow you to reduce the gross income you are taxed on (in the US at least). However, you are not saving any money this way. The top tax bracket is basically 40%, so if you donate 1 million to charity, you reduce your gross income by 1 million, saving you at most 400K in taxes, but you donated 1 million, which means you lost an extra 600K vs just paying your taxes.
...because zebra's are not a universally useful modelling tool to programmers like references are. Thus, the absence of a reference, ie nil, also becomes a useful, commonly used modeling tool. If we all wrote software using african wildlife metaphor, 'non-zebra' might then be just as useful.
It's quite simple...
There are people who have a knack/drive for understanding the world/universe and its many functions. People who care to understand the root mechanism as opposed to speculating about how the tree and leaves form. This is the base talent behind good software engineers who become great through experience and challenges. If you -truly- understand something, you are good at communicating it in many ways and capable of expressing it in a 'language'. What came first? Language or understanding. What do a lot of institutions teach? Programming. What don't companies want to invest in : Understanding....Mind the gap.

You may be good at a language and still not have any good ideas to express;Programmer

A lot of people fail to see this and go on with arbitrary measures of what makes a good software engineer. Oh nos', you don't know how to craft the perfect general expression for this. Oh nos', your Translation look-a-side buffer calculation was off... And so on.

The typical interview centers on how well someone programs. People write long articles which stirs people into a frenzy and much is lost in the discourse. Mindless interview structures are administered which tests people on their ability to work through leaf problems.

Tress of horrible construction are made and root analyzers are called in to save the day. Since there aren't many who fully understand root construction, such talent is hardly ever understood for its value : Modern software engineering at your alphabet soup of companies.

And here we are. Much will never change because there are few actually looking at the root issues.
Few actually care to. It's all about the leaves and low hanging fruit.
My sister-in-law from the Philippines was amazed that our drug stores have an aisle dedicated to darkening your skin (Tanning). Back home, that aisle is full of skin-whitening products.
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> Some folks look at a task like "build a web application" and seize up at enormity of the task. Others, start breaking down the problem into it's component parts.

This can be learned by anyone!! This is not a binary idea. The more "complete unknown" concepts in said task the more likely anyone is to seize up - good programmers (or basically any engineer) are just more practiced than most at overcoming a lack of knowledge.
Uber may have been hacked
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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/azure-i... - go hear to learn more about our vision.
Bonuses. Let me spend the money the way I like.
This and the story like it [0] from a day or two ago disgusts me. I really hope that people go to jail for denying these people their rights (fuck their state of emergency) but since they are police officers we'd sooner see an actual ham sandwich indicted [1]. I really couldn't give a fuck what justification they are using for keeping these people this long, IMO there is NO circumstances under which this should be permissible.

Indiscriminately pulling people off the street and locking them up for over 2 FULL days turns my stomach as it should everyone. Even during the a work week I could probably take that in stride and not lose my job but the vast majority of people could not and so they have to ask themselves "Can I risk losing my job over this protest?" which is a question no one should ever have to ask themselves. To make matters worse the people who are most at risk for job loss are the same people who live with cops shooting their friends/family/neighbors with no repercussions.

This is sickening and if Freddie Gray wasn't a good enough reason to riot (yes, I fully condone these riots. "A riot is the language of the unheard - MLK Jr", no one gave 2 shits when they were just protesting. Also America's fucking history has it's roots in rioting and overthrowing the government. What makes it right then but not now?) then cops stomping all over our rights should be. We now live in a world where gangs known for their violence show more maturity and level headedness than the cops they are protecting [2].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9478544

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/11/25/sol_wac...

[2] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/27/the-bloods-...
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"...and the metal bench was designed to be cold and uncomfortable."

Yep. I'm sure they went out of their way just to make her uncomfortable. From reading the article, I picked up on a person that steps outside just hoping to be offended.
The French McDonald's (McDo) are quite nice. Maybe the supply chain won't allow it, but establishing/converting a few McCafe's like that in trendy locations would help their image among people like us (which will trickle down to the plebs). Kind of like Blue Moon and Coors....
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http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-in-france-is-better...
The data seems very weird for my home county (Sanders, MT). A few factors might contribute to this:

1. There are a lot of troubled youth 'programs' there. Wealthy parents send their children to a depopulated part of Montana to keep them out of trouble, and then they return to the advantages of their family's income. One member of my high school's graduating class works for his dad's investment bank, for instance.

2. The data might not include people who don't graduate high shcool(?) or it might not include dishwashers and convenience store clerks. I'd like to know how the data was gathered.

3. Small sample sizes which include outliers give distorted results. One early-stage Dropbox engineer makes a big difference when the entire county graduated 300 people from high school that year.
You don't pay at Tesla stations, because you've prepaid for the supercharging option. They may have recently eliminated it as a separate ~$2,000 option with the introduction of the 70D, but that just means it is rolled into the price of the car.
You could have a home distillery and use kitchen waste as the mash for the starter. Using kitchen waste to make fuel is so green not like those coal-fired electricty plants.
Amazing! This is again a smart move from MS. There is still a market segment that does not want to move to the cloud but looking for cloud like services, for example fast provisioning.
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I gotta admit, having written a high-speed, multi-threaded streaming CSV parser for the browser[1], I'm quite impressed by your project. I've done CUDA programming before and it's not easy (albeit libraries do help). Good work!

[1] http://papaparse.com
I think there are two levels. On the one hand, many firms need big data experts who can reason statistically and apply machine learning techniques to their domain. This started out 15 years ago as predicting shopping cart basket items etc..

On the other side the big tech companies are investing heavily in Deep Learning for things like NLP, Speech, Vision, Siri, and wherever else these neural net approaches may work etc...
Which is why the average neighborhood road is overhauled far less frequently than highways.
> I can trace the code all the way down to the kernel.

Maybe you can but do you? This requires not only figuring out how to compile your ENTIRE stack but also doing it AND figuring out how to debug each piece (since generic debugging tools are not the best). I understand there may be major issues that require this level of insanity but the rarity is so incredibly high and so few have enough domain knowledge to do it effectively that I don't buy this argument at all.
Try to build a Siri clone, or try any of the Kaggle projects using neural networks.
Here is the sample chapter. The URL required some data cleaning.
http://wzchen.com/s/the_data_science_handbook_three_free_sam...
Sigh. Another web request piped into an interpreter.

Not even https.
There is a system of full-frames and deltas, like video encoding. Every frame gets saved and reproduced exactly. There is no interpolation.
http://gdcvault.com/play/1012210/The-Implementation-of-Rewin...
Let me guess: you are also addicted to Matt Easton videos :)
Here is a sample chapter.
http://wzchen.com/s/the_data_science_handbook_three_free_sam...
This is great news. Thank you very much for the explanation.

Will I be able to "burst" from on premise into Azure in this model? I'm in the process of deploying cloudstack/Ubuntu MAAS now for my on premise (and generally longer duration deployment) needs and using Azure for when I need rapid setup/teardown or a large amount of capacity (on demand).

If I could have one stack locally and in "the cloud", I would be VERY happy (especially if it's all tied in with AD, federated etc).
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Perhaps not the most important but it is important.
Whatever the job, if you can do it faster you have more time available to do it better.
Puffyrice, sure thing. It's already tested and will be published in the coming weeks. Check this unlisted video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FHN7jxDJN8
Nothing beats cash.

Remote.

Flexibility.
it's only a problem if you aren't white. lol
>It was arranged that way to make sure that the typebars didn't bind even at high typing speeds

>From the very beginning, Sholes arranged his keys to be less likely to jam, based on frequency of use

Weird way to "disagree". QWERTY is pretty good for typing speed in the absence of jams, because the letter spreading helps both, but it wasn't the primary design goal.

As much as I have heard about this "myth" of QWERTY trying to slow down typists, I have never seen a single person that actually believed it. It's like a weird anti-meme.
In the linked Motherboard report (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/more-uber-accounts-have-bee...), the user stated that "the credentials she used for Uber were the same as the ones she had used on other services."

Basically, someone bought a bunch of credentials for other services and tested them with Uber. Nothing to do with Uber, just stupid users.
>anyone can learn to play piano

Is there a belief that anyone can learn to play the piano? I can't. I struggled for many years trying to learn various instruments. I failed miserably no matter how hard I tried. I tried and I tried, I really wanted to be able to play an instrument, any instrument, but I was unable to. I'm not dumb, I am a programmer, but music was just something my brain couldn't comprehend.

Of course we also have to define what exactly is "able to play the piano" and what is "able to program"? If know how to write "hello world" does that mean I know how to program? If I play a couple cords does that mean I know how to play the piano?
I selfishly want this reference to always be obscure.
As someone that uses Perl daily I totally agree with you.

The name not only is bad for newcomers but also for Perl itself. Perl 5.0.0 was released in 1994 (!), today's Perl 5.20 is miles ahead but we can't bump the version because it would only make things even more confusing..
The first compilation, which is 160 KB, is totally unoptimized, contains all kinds of debugging and checks. It's just supposed to be for yourself during development of the program.

Also there is some overhead every Nim program has. But if you get to bigger programs you'll see that Nim's binary size is just fine, for example a NES emulator is just 136 KB: http://hookrace.net/blog/porting-nes-go-nim/#comparison-of-g...
Some dental coverage that doesn't suck.
"The country ranks 14th—below Russia and other developed nations—in a Pearson study on global math, science, reading, literacy and graduation rates. One reason for that is a lack of funding for public schools, something Ventilla's hot tech startup no longer needs to worry about."

I don't know the details, but does Russia have better funded schools than the US? Or what does the author try to say by highlighting Russia as being better than the US at education?
I wish I had the resources to formally test the hypothesis but alas I don't. However anecdotal my experience is, it has been consistent and enough that I'm not willing to risk my career hiring anyone other than the best I can find. It's actually a lot easier to hire mediocre developers so I wish that produced great results. It hasn't for me though.
>The reality I've experienced suggests that deliberate process correlates strongly to quality. In the absence of true talent we can still write great software by leveraging processes and tools to wrangle complexity and manage defects. We see this in plenty of engineering disciplines. Why is software so special?

Because of the entry level.

Think of this joke: What do you call the guy who graduates from medical school as the bottom of his class? Doctor.

The point is that even though there is a worst, they still have to have gotten so far. Even the worst engineer had to do good enough to become an engineer, which is a far greater test of skill than what I've seen in some interviews, especially when those hiring are not technically experienced.

I think many who call this a myth happen to have rarely come across these people in technical roles. At worst they may have interviewed a few, but they were quickly cast aside. They've never met a person who managed to get into a senior position as a cargo cult programmer who can't explain even the basics of the frameworks they are using.
I believe those all support my claim -- that the QWERTY layout was designed to prevent the typebars from binding.

I deliberately do not perpetuate the myth that it's designed to slow typists down.
I looked for a breakdown of Tesla sales, but could not find anything. I am pretty sure that it is accurate to say the majority of Tesla Model S's on the road are 6 figure vehicles.
I know this is anecdotal, but here in the Houston area, I would say the breakdown of Model S vehicles on the road are about 5% P65, 65% P85, and the rest P85D/S/+. Now, Im sure there are people who bought the stripped down P65 with no options. However, Most of these P85s are loaded, and a quick glance at the Tesla motors site shows that a 70 will cost you 76,750 base and 91,250 loaded (+ 1200 dest&regulation fee.) A 85/D will cost you 81,750 base and loaded is over 101,250. Cars like the ones most magazines test are fully loaded top of the line models. The sticker on the P85D in the video vs the charger hellcat was 129k. Sure you can get one in the 75-90k range, but most on the road are not going to be equipped that way.

This is just the nature of the car business(even a disrupted one). People want options, and base price is rarely what gets delivered, there is just too much profit to be had from options.

I am not saying this to deride Tesla, but lets call the model S what it really is, a 100k electric car with great performance.
I think the bimodal theory exists because we merely haven't learned to teach people without exceptional talent programming.
Sounds like the earlier tech demos were running on more powerful hardware and could handle a lot more modeling and display. Now that they're moving toward getting it to work in something you might actually buy and use, it will have more to do with optimization for lower-powered and lighter components.

Still, I can't help but be excited by this stuff. I said the same thing when I got my Oculus dev unit: this is a lot like early portable and mobile computing. There were tradeoffs necessary to get the first portable computers to fit in a briefcase but now we've got ultrabooks. And I remember seeing early smart phone prototypes that did a lot more on a breadboard than when they were big, clunky Treos and PocketPCs at Radio Shack.

But things that can only be done in prototype or with less "wow!" in early consumer products have a way of progressing pretty quickly once engineering and software development races to catch up to demand and proof of concept.
In most worlds, the oldest state just gets thrown out; you keep playing as usual, it's just that if you were then to try and rewind all the way to the beginning, there would be a limit on how far you can go.

In world 4, though, where you can walk to the beginning of time just by walking to the leftmost part of the level, I actually kick the player out of the level when there's no more memory. I have never heard of anyone noticing this.
Defaulting to Manhattan, apparently, if one is in Budapest.
> They pick the wrong data structures, think about code first and data is an afterthought.

It makes me so happy to read this.

Data in the grand scheme of things is vastly more important than code. "picking" data structures is a luxury in many cases and thus data structure often dictates the structure and expectations of your code. Data usually outlives the code. Data is effectively the earth in your code farm. Take care of it, and form it as best you can given a set of restrictions so that your program runs smoothly.
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For a relaxing time, make it Suntory time.
The sell RHD in a few markets now (Australia for one), so chances are they'll eventually sell them in more and more markets.
I actually used to believe it, until I learned that it was the careful arrangement of keys opposite each other rather than a decrease in speed that led to fewer jams.
I don't feel qualified to say without seeing a CV.
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Let me give you a quick recap of history. 250+ years back India was _NOT_ a great place. There was huge economic and educational divide. The rich kings kept getting richer and the poor just surviving. For them education wasn't even an after thought. Then came the Anglo-European travellers with their Bible to rid us of all our miseries. Slinging their religion they _did_ help remove some of the inequalities. Provided modern and great education. But the missionaries were soon followed by the imperialists. The missionaries had no clue what hit them. And what followed was 200 years of darkness and 1000s of steps backward. The Internet is the ultimate equaliser! It empowers people to rise up, just like education. India today is again _NOT_ a great nation. And Zuck and his crew are trying sling Internet the same way as the Bible was. While this might be a good thing at first sight, its _NOT_ and the effects of it will be realised 20-30 years later and by then my friend it would be too late. Just too late. Maybe Zuck and us won't be even around. Please take a moment [use system II in daniel kahneman words] and think through, we are privileged and the goal should be to bring everyone at the same level with the same world view.
You pay for it with range though in the less expensive options. Even as a second car, 80 mile battery range is pretty much useless for me. Yeah, I could run some local errands or commute to my office but I couldn't even drive in to the city for dinner or some other evening activity (a bit over 40 miles each way).
That Vice episode was really amusing.
The same happens with private insurance. I think your point would have been better if you had written "Medicare or health insurance"
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That's about as insightful as cursing Carl Benz to damnation because you bought a crappy car.
If someone compared a state with low caps on medical malpractice like Texas ($250,000), with other states that don't have such caps you could probably get a fairly straightforward answer.

I don't know how that shakes out. But I do know that various testing companies give kickbacks to doctors in the form of leasing office space from them at far above the market rate so their people can give on-premise 'consultations' on which tests need to be done. Among other abuses.

At any rate, I think the financial incentives that exist in the medical sector and how those incentives align with the patient need, desperately, to be addressed as forthrightly and quickly as possible. But there seems to be a taboo around suggesting that doctors are human and are susceptible to the influence of money as anyone else.
What is the point of stating that though? It's pretty hard to know ahead of time and talent is rarely worth more than sheer effort.

Not only that but I would say technical lead of a software team that revolutionizes the industry requires many other skills besides writing the best code. In fact, people skills probably are far more important.
You could do that, but then you aren't storing events any more, you're storing world state again. (That is what it means to make events reversible .. or at least that is the straightforward way I would think to do it.)
"The California drought of today is mostly nature’s hand, diminishing an Eden created by man."

FFS. And the repeated mantra of almonds, along with not one mention of meat. It's nothing but hubris and ignorance.