skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vouchers don't work as well as you'd expect. The reason is that parents are not rational agents on behalf of their children. Especially parents of lower socioeconomic status tend to value convenience (how close the school is) to the quality of the school.

The effect of vouchers in the real world is that the best schools get a little bit better while the worst ones get a lot worse.
re: Gender-specific pronouns for inanimates - English is weird. It sounds right to my ear as "she", but the opposite to others. Historically if a gender is required, male is used, but some find that offensive. On the other hand, certain inanimate objects (countries, vehicles of many kinds) are referred to as "she" simply because of tradition.

My girlfriend is learning a little Hindi right now and she finds it maddening that nouns are gendered male or female seemingly at random. I can tell her which is which, but as far as I know there's no system. Some are just male, some are female.

Anyway, "it" sounded weird in that sentence. I should have just rewritten it. :)
Do web components have a chance when a polyfills are required for iOS? Does anyone have any experience w/ Polymer performance on iOS?
I am not complaining about the Galaxy Nexus not being supported NOW, although frankly I don't see why it shouldn't be -- the hardware is plenty capable of running new Android versions. It was terrible about getting updates back when it was still available for sale.

EDIT: I have three and four year old computers that are running Windows 10 Technical Preview just fine. And it's not like new low-end Android phones are more powerful than four-year-old mid- and high-end phones. I think that it's silly that we have reset our expectations so low that it's beyond the pale that companies should support OS updates on four-year-old phones.
Sounds really nice, but sadly, Xerox parc and other places like that (eg Bell Labs) are a thing of the past. These places just won't be compatible with today's project management professionals who expect "deliverables" on a schedule. Michaelangelo's kpi's sucked.
> Weakening or qualifying any of those could produce a statement I emphatically agree with.

My qualification was meant to be "according to the formal systems definition of the words 'prove', 'correct', etc., which was supposed to be applied to consistent systems; yet Java is inconsistent".

Well, I'd actually say that all languages are consistent, it's only particular interpretations of the encodings that may be inconsistent, but that's another discussion ;)
It would be interesting to try and make a graph of the product lines / companies in this space. I.e. HP started off doing test equipment, and back in the 90s spun that division and everything not related to computers/storage/printers to Agilent. Agilent has since spun off:

* Phillips Medical Systems: health care
* Avago: Semiconductors
* Verigy: Semiconductor test
* Keysight: Test equipment

+ Probably more I don't know about due to acquisitions.
Modern CPUs have only one sort of accesses from RAM. 64 byte ones.
I am perfectly comfortable being a cunt with people who refuse to use reason and choose to be so ignorant OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS after some of this ignorant nonsense started.

It's like telling someone they are being a fucking cunt for ridiculing and rejecting someone who believes in human sacrifice to Aztec gods. It IS fucking primitive nonsense and it should no longer be tolerated in any form.

And, no, it isn't emotional, it's rational. There's nothing emotional about taking the position that people who believe such incredibly ridiculous nonsense are absolutely delusional. They are and that's absolutley objective with no emotion attached whatsoever.

Sorry, you are wrong.

Would you accept medieval beliefs being imposed by leaders in your town? Of course not. And you would be doing so objectively and not based on emotion.

Religoius superstition needs to be ridiculed and relegated to the history books. It needs to be no different than when we study primitive civilizations, their beliefs and customs. This should be taught and studied but nobody in a million years would propose it should be tolerated or respected in any way.
Why don't you just keep reading the current AskReddit thread where you got the idea?

I mean, sure, the audience is different, but we really don't need to mirror Reddit. The some thousand comments should comprehensively take everything into account that we could write here.
Opticoms can be preempted with a strobe light using an IR filter; they don't need to receive visible light to activate.

If the Opticom sequence is trivial, the hardware is easy. If its a complex pattern, a 555 timer is required.

Sitting outside your local fire station recording video of the strobe pattern on an emergency vehicle should be sufficient to determine the necessary pattern (you step through frame by frame to identify the sequence).

The above is informational only. One should keep in mind that today, most traffic lights will log the preemption with their central controller, and that unauthorized use is illegal in most jurisdictions.
Well... you can use the half-angle formulas and the angle addition formulas to calculate sin and cos for angles that are arbitrarily close to the ones that you want. Add to that the idea that sin and cos must be continuous (I consider that intuitively obvious from a unit circle, but I don't know how to make that argument rigorous), and you can start to interpolate. You can in fact use these methods to calculate sin and cos for an arbitrary angle to any desired degree of precision... if you have the patience. It will be shorter to use the series derived from calculus, I'll admit.
Thanks for the kind words, Evan. Glad to hear you guys are fans of Photojojo (and photography)!
Thanks to you all for commenting.

@brudgers thanks for your impressive comments. And I totally agree with you on "My impression is that PG often says things that require unpacking. There's not a lot of meaningless fill." Actually I keep wondering why not everyone who is into building/developing something users want, analyses his quotes to the bone.

@rubiquity PG had no reason for being arrogant.

@27182818284 Of course you are right. Alexis mentions in the book that this quote stayed with him until today. So the reader expects this quote to have a certain significance. And of course, the quote by itself has to be put into context. That is the reason I was asking for context :)
I want to point out this is worst case retention after the maximum guaranteed writes are done to the SSD. For a typical SSD that means 70TB to 150TB. An SSD which is not close to that level of writing will retain for much longer.

My Crucial m4 from 2 years ago, which I regularly abuse - full disk encryption (more random IO), no TRIM (eventually filling the SSD), and I am at 98% life (i.e. I have used only 2%). The retention at this point is much more than a year. Yes, I expect that if I write something and leave my SSD on the shelf it will be readable in 5 years or more.
Yea, wtf: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/37kxyh/what_are_s...
Data furnaces arrive in Europe: Free heating, if you have fibre Internet
As of a week ago, I was on Notes at work, which had not-so-great search. I still did this. Once or twice in the past few years I had to go in an delete large attachments, but I do that when it becomes a problem. It's not worth the mental effort of categorizing emails. (And deleting counts as categorizing.)

Now I'm on Verse (http://www.ibm.com/social-business/us/en/newway/), and it has great search. I'll keep doing what I was doing, just with even less pain.
More like Facebook is to RSS what HTML email is to plaintext.

I don't find Twitter is at all useful for keeping on top of interests.
Ask HN: How do we buy US health insurance for a remote team?
Everybody on our four-person team is a US citizen working from home; each of us resides in a different state. (CA, MI, MA, NY)

We're trying to buy group health insurance for our team, but we can't find any way to do it. All of the health insurance companies we've tried to contact require that we have at least 51% of our employees in that state. They literally won't take our money.

Does anybody know anybody who has solved a problem like this? What do we do? Whom can we call?
It's not uncommon. Women don't have any unique ownership of the term "she."

If you refer to your dog lucy, you might say: she likes that toy.

People sometimes refer to their vehicles as her or she and give them cute names.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/she

2) "used to refer to one regarded as feminine (as by personification) <she was a fine ship>"
Job postings and job pages can reinforce/hint at this age bias as well. Since they can't outright discriminate, over time I've gotten a lot better at reading between the lines to see if the company has any room for people over 30.
It does the same thing for me. I actually went looking to see if I had some sort of crazy malware messing with my browser after opening it...
Talk by Paco Nathan on Graph Analytics in Spark
Not devices, but applications targeting M, yes.
Yeah, I tried finding links to go with my comment, but information I found was varied and often contradictory. English is definitely weird. I was just curious what others thought (while hopefully not derailing the comments). "It" sounds way more appropriate to me. Anyway, back to the actual content...
Weave apparently has been the name of the Nest protocol for quite some time (before the Google acquisition, I think); there have been articles about it for quite a while. The new thing with Weave isn't something with that name being created by Google, its it becoming available to third parties, as well as the Android-derived Brillo IoT stack.
To add to this, Tesco does unlimited Tues-Thurs deliveries for £3/month or £6/month for any day. Minimum order size £25 for hour slots.

I hardly ever go to the grocery store now, because with such a low minimum order I can order very frequently. The prices are generally better than Ocado too.
I think I've recommended sourceforge.net be added to the webfilter global block list at every client I've worked with in the last 5 years. Once I pointed out the risk of their drive-by download strategy, no one has said no, and very rarely has an end-user complained (something almost always remedied by finding a legitimate download site for them).
Despite its non-falsifiablity, Jaynes will still be read when every hopelessly vapid and uninspired fMRI 'breakthrough' is long forgotten. Modern neuroscience assumes the brain is like a computer and proceeds from there, failing to see that that itself is a hypothesis.
NYC Mayor Proposes $1000 per-update fee, city approval, for Uber and Lyft Apps
You don't, but that's what the entire field of statistics was invented for to estimate :)

From the above, though, it sounds like that's not necessary since it's fundamental to the cast protocol.
Living in a high-cost area is a consumption choice, just like me living in a mansion in my town would be.
Generating a Random Program vs. Generating All Programs
> yet you never hear people on HN comment that the copyrighted material is out of place in those settings.

Some parts of HN don't make that kind of meta style comment because it's off topic for HN. But here it's a risk for the site owner - DMCA could remove their site - and so people mention it.

There are people who could mention copyright at every applicable opportunity and I'm glad that they don't. (Although I would like a place for that kind of comment! Also, tpyos).
Jump – Experiences like you're actually there
That's a bit of a strawman, isn't it? No one is saying their ad blocker is their "only" protection. But when you go to to an ad-infested site like huffington post, with dozens of different ad sources on each page, an ad blocker can cut your exposure to a small fraction of what it would be otherwise.
At a big company, you're getting multiple approvals from multiple people in different areas of the company. If it was as simple as "Get the approval from the President" that'd be one thing, but there's most like a team in charge of just URLs and another team designing the app who would need to go to the URL team for approvals. Another team will most likely be the gatekeeper for whether it goes to production or not, and there's probably at least a half dozen other infrastructure teams I haven't mentioned also involved in the process. I haven't worked for Amazon, but I've worked for another large company, so I know what it's like.
Googles 360 3D VR camera plans
“Golden Tan” – Useful iOS assistant for healthy sunbathing
I won't say it does a great job, but Facebook does allow you to categorize your friends by "close" vs" acquaintance" vs "alum" and so on. It's worked pretty well for me insofar that I get notifications whenever a close friend updates and when I want to share with everyone-but-X.

Not so good as a subject matter filter though. I can create a list of only tech people on FB, but if a tech friend wants to post about his puppy to everyone, not so much I can do about that.
Chrome drops NAPI support: Java users to consider alternatives to Chrome
I'd say he is an awesome hire! Interested and able, also with seemingly a good understand of privacy and social location data. Handling GEO data for individuals is very very tricky.
It's from Google's Polymer project https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/
If you're going to use Muckrack, you should pay for it.

HN users might be interested in knowing that Muckrack was built by Greg Galant, who brought us the excellent and free VentureVoice podcast, where he interviewed dozens of top startup founders:
http://www.venturevoice.com/library.html
The Gods began when consciousness created them.
Ask HN: Pro Bono for developers?
Along with lawyers, developers have a similarly specialized and in-demand skill set. One whose price sadly puts it out of reach for many people and organizations who need digital services.

Does anyone here engage in side-work for a nonprofit or charity, at a free or discounted rate? Does your company promote or have any hand supporting these contributions?

I expect the number of formal programs is low, so another question.

Would you support a program at your company that encouraged doing technical work for approved organizations? Could you see yourself donating time in that way?

Or is open source the developer's Pro Bono?
I think a limit would increase exposure for the featured products, and reduce the fatigue in browsing them each day.
Google Photos for Android
I am not sure that I understand what you mean with chipset vendor? In my view both Intel and Qualcomm are chipset vendors as well a "solution" consisting of multiple chips. Usually this is indicated in their reference platforms. For Intel that would be the CPU and the motherboard and for Qualcomm that would be their handset reference platform.

Aside from that, the new company will be really big even after divisions have been sold off.
Google has some serious chops when it comes to image recognition and machine learning. Telling the difference between a photo of a car and a photo of a train is much more difficult that telling the difference between a real photo and some random file encoded as a photo.
The topic is fascinating, but the article doesn't talk to how this "reverse design" algorithm works at all, which I think might be very relevant to this audience. Does anyone have a link to more about the design algorithm and how it works?
Google Photos for iOS
And I'm SO thankful for this. It really makes selling a client on the service much easier, since many of them seem to only care about fancy spash pages...
The new permission system will be available on devices running M only. So a dev will have to support both when targeting M.
On the other hand the company in question here (Broadcom) was started by essentially two guys in a garage in early to mid-nineties.
Nobody knows; the conjecture is really too big to test, and we don't have reliable markers for a lot of psychiatric problems right now. I came across it some 20 years ago and have read it 8 or 10 times since. I don't believe it, but but I don't disbelieve it either - it's become a permanent part of my mental toolbox.

Yes, it's quite a disorienting read at first, and indeed on subsequent readings.
Dragged a line, it locked my windows 7 office box and forced windows explorer to restart after about two minutes of waiting. I expect more from them.
Show HN: Webgl globe of Earth millions of years ago
Pay your way with Android
Fresh in Seattle was originally included in regular Prime (when purchasing >$50), so the habits of Seattle-ites may change after the price goes up to $299.
Nope. As others have pointed out, every cast has to begin with a call to google.com (which is why chromecast must be connected to the internet). The call basically sends an id number to google, and then google returns a URL of where to get the code for that cast.
The fabulous Bitcoin Island
This was the best I/O in over 3 years. Very impressed...
I think I wasn't clear in saying that I believe the current pedagogical value of trigonometry is in giving students a brief familiarity with the trig functions when they see it again in the context of physics or engineering. Or standardized testing. I think those are the likely scenarios where students are going to be seeing relevance in trigonometry.

What other foundation or learning pathway do you see trigonometry serving as? Somebody else mentioned that it gives students a sense of applications, so they know that calculus is not for nothing. So then I question: what applications? And I pose, how about statistics?
Google for Education: Expeditions
That's the ripple animation from Material Design[1]--it looks good on an product page for Android.

[1]: http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-inter...
The amount of times you refer to the business as 'she' or 'her' is a bit off putting to me.
I need to learn to read before comment lol
Integral[f(x)g(x)dx] defines an inner product on a space of functions (glossing over exactly what functions) on an interval. So Integral[f(x) dx] is the inner product (f, 1), where "1" is the constant function g(x) = 1 on the interval.
As someone with little experience in Go, I'm curious: How do racy programs end up crashing? Do they just end up in some inconsistent state and panic or can you actually trigger a CPU fault?
Imagine if you build a platform around Stripe payments, and then having to rip it out and go with something else. If that's the case, five days is essentially overnight, if you have retask developers/hire contractors or do it yourself.

I have no idea what kind of transactions he was performing, and whether cutting him off is ultimately justified. What's concerning is a TOS agreement that provides no means of arbitration, with notice comes via an email (what happens if this goes in the spam filter?).
Not sure why anyone would pay $99/month when you have two (and probably more) great services for much less.

http://www.squarespace.com/pricing/ ,
http://virb.com/pricing

You don't seem to be offering anything unique that justifies that price point (from what I could tell).
You can press and hold on the Apple Watch to activate Siri to make and answer calls.
It's also probably a great way to annoy your RIR when they ask 'how the hell did you burn through your initial IPv6 delegation with only two hosts'

Since /56 seems to become the "easily available standard size" for allocations, using a /64 doesn't seem like to much of an issue, especially since larger orgs should easily get /48s? (But are /64 really accepted as routes? I would have imagined that to be also limited to /56 or /60 or so)
Now the markets speak instead of the gods.
Sure. First, thanks for the writeup. I had imagined that the Rust standard library used safe code all the way down. (Whatever that meant, I hadn't put all that much thought into it.) But as you state, "everything is built on top of unsafe."

So I guess my understanding after reading this is that I could, using only "safe" code, accidentally manipulate the Rust standard library to cause undefined behavior, it's just much more unlikely in Rust than in C++.
Google Teams with GoPro to Bring VR to YouTube
In the future, when your job gets outsourced to China for a fraction of what you earn currently, ask yourself the same questions.
Hotjar offers free analytics for everyone
You could probably use some steganographic techniques to embed your data in what looks like a real photo prior to uploading though c:
Biggest problem with payments startups (Square, Stripe) is their unwillingness to scale out their operations (i.e. call centers, live customer support) proportional to their business. So a lot of it becomes as automated as possible through use of flawed analytics/machine learning and then email-only support, which I agree is unacceptable when you're dealing with potentially large sums of real money as a business owner.
Okay, you have to admit that's a pretty contrived example. Firstly, most people are not going to run for anything in 20 years. The chance of that alone happening is pretty slim. Secondly, how would that complicate my hypothetical run, anyway? If we were going to go by this insanely arbitrary requirement, then everyone in the US will most likely have a photo with someone that ends up on a no-fly list. It's really easy to be in photos with other people, you don't even have to know the person. So what, I knew someone 20 years in the past that had since been put on a list. That has absolutely no implications of my actions or connections in that present day. That said, I could see how the media might react, so that part wouldn't be too far off base in that regard.

But if that's the best argument against it, then I continue to not care about what I put on Facebook. If it comes back to bite me in the ass 20 years from now, then I can deal with it then. I'd rather not completely destroy my social life in the present for a hypothetical scenario that will probably never end up even happening.
Reactive Animation with SVG, ClojureScript and Om
Battle of Kursk was fight in the summer, Stalingrad was fought over multiple seasons. The most major factor that winter played was probably Moscow in 1941.
I loved Snow Crash, but Peter Watts' more recent Blindsight is a fascinating and more direct exploration of this theme.
organizing email is a fool's errand.
Direct link for Firefox users since there is a certificate error: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1At2Ls5_fhJQ59kDK2DFVhFu3...
I don't think any modern neuroscientist "fails to see" that modeling the brain as a computer is a hypothesis. Many wouldn't even subscribe to that theory, and those who do undoubtedly treat it as a working model.
Using a nice component based architecture and Sass you can also achieve the same, for me is more maintainable changing a key value in a map and having a new type of button generated than having to copy/paste the rules. And I think learning Sass is not that difficult if you already know css.

Not having lots of nested divs with lots of class names also helps to code readability and maintainability if you use something like React with JSX.

I see advantages in not needing to precompile in the future, but apart from that I see this as a step back, of course it's my opinion, I see how this can work for other people.