skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is not homogeneous in that regard. Many states give more funding to schools in poor towns than rich towns, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_district in NJ. Hasn't had a measurable impact on reducing the performance disparity.

The real problems, whatever they are, run much deeper than local funding of schools. Focusing on funding is a red herring.
The IDL study worked with brain imaging data and tried to correlate a particular part of the brain with emotion. The NPR article relates a Finnish study where people experiencing emotion were asked to map our where they felt different emotions. Looks like apples v. oranges to me.
It's really not that hard.

<div class="center-this"><div>Stuff</div></div>

.center-this {display:table;}
.center-this > div {display:table-cell;height:100%;vertical-align:middle;}

I even code pen'd it for you: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/RPEypL
Jensen's Device
> Funding schools through property taxes is an easy explanation for that one

Though if it wasn't for that it would be through a local school levy, or a fundraiser, or any number of other seemingly harmless methods of transferring money from parents to the school.

Even dumb ideas off the top of my head like "Wealthy parent A purchases 300 textbooks and donates them to the school so the school can spend that money on higher salaries for teachers" are probably legal ways for wealthy parents to supplement their local school.

Like a wise princess once said, "The more you tighten your grip, the more [wealthy parents] will slip through your fingers."
One of the wonderful ironies of CSS is that after years of puritanical preaching about the evils of non-semantic table elements, the best-practice recommendation for centering a div of unknown dimensions, assuming you want any kind of legacy support, is[0]:

<div style="display:table;">
<div style="display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;">
<div style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;"></div>
</div>
</div>

[0] http://howtocenterincss.com/#contentType=div&horizontal=cent...
> As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals

And military front lines. The US has had a system to allow the children of the rich to avoid the military during wars since World War II - the student 2-S draft deferment to the end of conscription altogether in the early 1970s. This goes back in US history - the US Civil War is where the phrase "rich man's war, poor man's fight" comes from.
These economists love aggrandizing each other by referring to each other's work as "magnum opuses" and "tour de force", similar to handing out their faux nobel prize annually to the trendy economist of the moment. It is all part of their attempt to try to legitimise their vague beliefs as science.
The mars mission is a death mission. Someone with a family has a duty to support and protect that family. She's a complete failure as a parent. She's telling her children that her death mission is more import an than them. I'd hope she would come to her senses come launch day.
Doh. You're absolutely right, was due to a bad copy and paste error from the old version. Should be all fixed now, but do need to add some more to it.
Recent research into the rock art and function of Nawarla Gabarnmang, Australia
I always wonder why people think using Google Docs is more secure and private than Excel and being on Windows. I mean, lets just imagine you're hoping no one is stealing all your data and monitoring you. On one hand, you have Windows and Excel which are closed source and could be sending all that information. On the other hand you have Google Docs hosted on a cloud infrastructure by a company which specializes in searching, indexing, and extracting information from documents. Thanks to technical limitations from it's feature set it records every movement, change, and action forever in the document.

So you run something 10 times worse on a Free OS? You pretty much now only have the option of Libre Office. And to be fair, if Libre Office was good enough you wouldn't have mentioned Google Docs. It works, but it's not Google Docs or Excel.
The network effect is the barrier to entry. It's a huge barrier to entry. There wasn't a barrier to entry a few years ago, but now there is a huge one. There won't be more than a few of these companies in the future; it's just not worth it for customers to have 5+ apps - 2 or 3 will do just fine (at the most). I only have the Uber app, like most people, and I don't have a reason to download another until Uber disappoints me. However, more users lead to more drivers, which minimizes the chance Uber disappoints me.

Logistics companies are an ok comparison, but not really. A higher number of people that use a certain logistics company doesn't necessarily translate to better service. FedEx/UPS would be a better comparison (more people utilizing their capacity will reduce shipping rates and increase service levels, i.e. delivery times), but they own inventory, so it's not a perfect comparison.
The article has a DNA versus RNA spin that, scientifically, is more of a distractor than anything when it comes to cancer. I understand that for marketing, it's useful.

In blood cell cancers, Steve McCarroll's group has shown that oncogenic somatic DNA changes are readily discovered through routine sequencing, and these are prognostic of poor outcome.[1] If you do this on a pre-disease schedule based on the risk estimates from your first round of sequencing, you will be able to detect blood cell cancers at any stage you like.

In non-blood cell cancers (say, breast cancer), you don't expect to capture any of the tissue-specific cell of interest from a blood draw to determine if there are somatic mutations occurring. However, there is growing evidence that there is often enough circulating tumor DNA in the blood that it can be of diagnostic significance.[2]

In contrast, for diseases that do not involve somatic mutations (in other words, for diseases aside from cancer), an RNA-based assay could be quite interesting. For example, getting better characterization around non-dilated cardiomyopathies would be of broad interest.

1 = http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1409405

2 = https://www.genome.gov/27556716
There were third party memory managers that you could use in DOS; for example, QEMM and 386max. I assume Wing Commander was licensing and shipping one of those rather than relying on the stock memory manager. In fact in 1993 MS licensed some technology for later versions of EMM386 from Helix's third party memory manager[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_Software_Company
There was a statewide measure in Colorado in the last election that would (somewhat) equalize funding across school districts, taking money from rich areas and giving more to poor areas (meaning more than they get under the current system, not more money in aggregate).

This is, IMO, a very progressive idea, and I totally expected it to fail. What I didn't expect was how badly it failed in the one of the most progressive/liberal towns in the state: Boulder.

It seems that, while the people in Boulder talk about helping others, when it comes to potentially reducing the (granted, excellent) quality of the schools in their own back yard, they vote selfishly along with the rest.

Sad.
People had bad and good roommates, and matchmakers (for dating) long before Gen X.
One could make the argument that having table layout behavior decoupled from a specific tag is a perfectly desirable state of affairs. One of the issues with using tables for layouts is the massive clutter of row and cell tags that make the markup extremely difficult to read. Being able to assign those behaviors when and where you need them is the best of both worlds.
Read Resumes Backwards
It's better if you can cite at least one example/solution when criticizing.
An interesting but related point about the power of propaganda:

The family farms story is a myth created (or maybe first given authority) by Bill Beach at the Heritage Foundation around 1996. It was part his plan for the rhetoric and talking points of an assault on the estate tax.[1]

repeal proponents are still unable to produce a single,
verifiable example of a farm or business closing due to
the burden of estate tax payments. [as of 2013]

It's amazing to think that one person can sit down in a room and plan terminology and a story like that, and here we are almost 20 years later and people blithely repeat it. It's a bit scary too. The term "death tax" was part of the same planning, though I'm not sure it was Beach's idea.

I highly recommend the article below, which will change how you look at politics forever:

[1] http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19132
distributed discussions that preserve free speech and allow eliminating crap is definitely moon-shot hard.

The way you just defined the problem, it's not moon shot hard; it's a logical impossibility. "Free speech" and "eliminating crap" are complete opposites. You can't have one with the other. If you want a high quality of discussions, some people are going to have to be deprived of their voice to make that happen, either through moderation or selective membership.
People who think they can be roommates with anyone, because they have minimal life commitments and they go out a lot and don't care about their home environment, are often people others find to be bad roommates.
Good opportunity missed here too, since a lot of stuff that's a bit of work in other DBs is often less in postgres... if you know the magic words.
Isn't the first example undefined behavior? I always thought you shouldn't assign data to a union using one member, then access the data using a different member.
They don't wrap when their parent container shrinks, but sometimes that's the behavior you want (navigation bars for example), and media queries get around those issues nicely.
How many police officers are shot yearly? This seldom gets much press.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/03/us-usa-shooting-te...

Just knowing this stuff happens must make police edgy.
> inheritance taxes are taxes on illiquid assets

This is why estate planning exists. Any business that actually plans for estate taxes will not have this problem at all.
I don't think it's very useful to quote the bible as a source of what Christians believe. So far as I can tell, only a tiny sliver of Christians believe the work in its entirety.
Sure, many prefer to live in a big well built private home, but we can't afford it. Even individual apartments doing provide that much audio privacy, in USA construction.
The irony is that what we are doing, semantically, is "centering." Yet to express that concept we are forced to refer to the entirely unrelated concepts of tables and cells, only because of the historical accident that table elements were the only way you could do many types of centering because CSS lacked basic facilities for layout.

Also, naming issues aside, we are forced to pollute our markup with pointless, unsemantic container divs simply to achieve a basic style on the contained div.
It might seem like a paradox from our perspective, but there is good possibility that like fish in water - our senses & instruments just haven't evolved to perceive and function out of water (off earth) A good possible explanation would be that the seemingly empty void of space is chalk full of dark matter scientists assume makes up 95% of the universe and our eyes can't see it like a dog can't see color, and this invisible matter might someday end up being a biological commodity to future beings that evolve from us just like fresh air is to our lungs.

The universe might look like a cerulean sky, we just haven't evolved to see it that way yet.
Although you may be technically correct, it doesn't change the argument. Their contract terms still force them to try to extract every penny out of customers to maintain profitability.

Airlines get squeezed by airports and manufacturers (Boeing, Airbus, etc). Uber doesn't get squeezed by anything. They don't have the same risk to oil prices, and they certainly don't have to worry about covering MASSIVE fixed costs like airlines. Uber simply gets a cut of every transaction, and those transactions will continue to flow. They don't have to schedule anything with anyone (100% on demand), they aren't subject to airport fees, they don't have to worry about $billions of planes, and they don't even provide the service (the driver does - he is the one operating the vehicle and arranging the pickups/dropoffs).

Uber's software does all of this already. They just need to maintain a certain level of marketing and overhead to support the whole shebang, while collecting boatloads of cash.
Why is SFBA sacrosanct? Open a startup in Kansas City.
A copy of Frontpage in middle school is what got me in to programming, back in the day.

One of my earliest memories of 'coding' (It seems silly to call it that now, but hey, I was 13!) was opening the generated html files to remove the "Created with Frontpage" html comments that were automatically injected.
Interestingly, "death tax" was a term of propoganda created for the organized campaign against the estate tax.

The story is told in the article below; it's worth a few bucks. It will change how you look at politics forever. Probably, like almost all Americans, you have no idea how carefully planned many of the political arguments everyone repeats [EDIT: as everyday conversation] are, and by just a few people:

http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19132
Or it could be that Chinese companies were stockpiling steel (as the price was rising), and are now trying to sell it off now that the price is dropping.

So if you've got a great big lump of steel, it's not cost effective to break it apart to sell right now.
The set of real numbers is uncountable. There are infinitely many members.

The set of natural numbers is countable. There are infinitely many members.

It would be better to say that infinite sets are fundamentally unphysical, since there are no actual infinities. Talk about uncountable versus countable is tangential.
This is has been a problem for a long time, but it's fixed now:
https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/verti...
http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
yup. HGLUMUPMPMMURLPH.
Thanks for your comments, and yes, you've got it exactly.

In cancer, both DNA and RNA can be effective diagnostics, and there's been a lot of great work on the DNA side in cancer.

In essentially all other diseases, though, there are changes in RNA but not in DNA.
All honor of the online solution goes to my friend/genius Brian Suda: http://www.suda.co.uk, though I worked with him on the design and supplied data. 3d,drawing+painting+coding=you don´t wanna know, I tend to shock most customers with initial estimates, which is why most of the projects are self initiated, like this one.
Can you provide any examples of trained women vs trained men fighting in a martial arts competition? I haven't encountered such fights myself. If you haven't either then I do wonder, what exactly do you base your opinion on so strongly?

I find it plausible that males have some advantage due to larger bones & muscles, but there's a long spectrum of skill between "decent" as you say, and what it takes to be a UFC champion. I don't think the extra muscle & bone mass will do much if you're unable to defend the elite level judo throws.
Exactly right. But the example was of combining two code bases, one of which tried to maintain const correctness and one which had utter disregard for it. If you don't believe in const correctness in the first place, the work of making your code compatible can seem intractable.
Thanks! that's really great to hear.
There is a list of entries to put in your hosts files to block all of the known data telemetry hosts here: http://paste2.org/A1sv86VF

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3f38ed/guide_how...
I had an extension called Deeper History which I shut down out security/privacy concerns very similar to yours. The solution I came up with half worked. I used https://github.com/travist/jsencrypt to encrypt the sensitive data before storing it in IndexedDB.

The problem was I couldn't get it to work with public keys I created locally. According to jsencrypt's github it should be possible. If you could get it to work you could give security conscious people a way to safely cache stuff locally.

Anyways if it would help to store user info on the client, I jut wanted to say there is a viable way forward on that. I have the code to chunk and encrypt stuff on the client if you're interested.
Which, naturally, you should be avoiding, too, to ensure immutability and thus consistency and predictability across the entire piece of code. =)

(Obviously you know that, Steve, but it's the sort of thing that I find a lot of Java folks mentally don't get.)
It doesn't do a very good job of it, but the MS Word for creating HTML is MS Word.
I really think that with heart failure, we need the biomarker equivalent of somatic pre-cancerous DNA changes in cancer. But we also need (to steal from the psychiatrists), better endophenotyping, because many different aberrant states lead to very similar clinical syndromes of "heart failure".

A group, perhaps yours or in concert with yours, could both define the disease subsets based on biomarkers and then diagnose/prognose/inform treatment. Surely the same is true for other diseases, this is just one high-impact example.
In the age of bittorrent, I'm surprised people still use USENET for piracy and porn.
Hi Snorri,
-J
If your memory bandwidth limited then, yes. Otherwise your better of with a decently clocked intel. Anything that spends a portion of its time running out of L2 or better on the Xeon will be significantly faster.
Because it is the normal, and only way for Go. Static linking isn't as easy for other language platforms, as some issues crop up (a google/SO search shows many questions). Often it is as simple as not having the static libraries available, or having difficulty linking with them because they still want to dynamically load other libraries.

ie other languages may not work, is less tested, and not normally done.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to leave school for a year to join a startup?
I'm thinking about leaving school for a year and joining a startup. I technically will be enrolled as a full time student and for the purposes of school will be a practicum. It will probably be a year and then I'll go back, but open to staying longer.
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Well, I think you don't understand what a network effect is. From Wikipedia, "A network effect is the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product to other people."

It's as simple as this: the more users Uber has, the more drivers it will have. The more drivers Uber has, the better the service and the lower the prices. Therefore, a greater number of users leads to greater value of the product (service) to other people.

"You are talking about a quality effect from the assumption that more assets will lead to a lock in effect but it's hopeful at best."
I think you're totally missing here. Why is everyone talking about Uber and not Lyft or some other company? Why would anyone switch from Uber to another app if he/she is happy with Uber? Why don't you or anyone else write an app and go create a network of drivers? Because no one will switch, that's why. And that's the effect of the network.

Facebook didn't have any more assets than Google+, except for the users. How is this any different from the "quality effect" you are talking about?
http://googler700.blogspot.com/2015/06/table-th-td-border-1p...
> but in C-family languages, 'const' modifies type, making objects that benefit from the compiler hints 'const' implies type-incompatible with objects that do not.

It was fixed years ago. Now const behaves properly in modern C compilers.
Magna Opera and Tours de Force /pedantry

Yes, though, much aggrandizing in academia
Please don't editorialize the titles of stories you post to HN. This one was egregious: "Quora becoming desperate, makes browser extension to spam notifications".

Totally not ok.
Java 8 elegant supplement
>> If I were to throw away one system of belief with that behavior, why would I adopt another?

You seem comfortable with the arbitrariness of your faith now. So why not any other? A hypothetical true-believer in the Flying Spaghetti Monster would (by most reasonable criteria) be moving in the right direction if he/she were to become a Christian instead. Even though both faiths may be unanchored, there are wider considerations too.
On 1) there's been a ton of research on intergenerational social mobility, and it plays such a gigantic role that inheritance of capital has become inheritance of socioeconomic status and all that it entails.

And it's becoming a bit insane. Anyway it's not a death tax and I think it makes sense not to use the term too much. You die, your don't get taxed, you're dead. If you had no heirs, there'd be no taxation to be done because well hey you're dead. The taxation comes from inheritance. Calling it a death tax feels like screwing over old, vulnerable and well, dead people. But inheritance of even $100 is this money you never worked for, that you somehow deserve to have because someone related by blood just died. And if it's $100k I don't care much. But above that, it's insane to just get all this money you never worked for. I mean we don't do that for anything else, do we? We don't say 'oh your father was from a powerful family, he just died so here's 1 ticket to the best private school, 1 ticket to have people build you a house, 1 ticket to have doctors treat you for the rest of your life for free, 1 ticket to get all these fancy jobs' etc. It'd be pure nepotism. Yet when instead of a ticket, it's a bag of a ridiculous amount of money (say a few million), that can buy the equivalent of all those tickets, it's completely fine. And talking about a tax on that, so that if you inherit $100k you keep it all, but if you inherit $2m you only keep $500k (yeah, pretty aggressive), makes total sense to me. I mean that $500k is still a mind boggling advantage over those without it, you're basically carefree and set up until you're past 30 without any financial issues and any education you want, and the ability to take measured risks.

I guess to some extent it's a self-reproducing issue. In an unequal society, if I had $10m, I'd want my kid to have it. In an equal society, I'd want my kid to have $50k and do his very best. Like here in the Netherlands I couldn't care less if my kid didn't inherit a whole bunch of money, university is essentially free, as is healthcare, subsidies exist for housing, if you work hard and have parents to guide you, money isn't a top factor (although it plays a role, always). But in the states I'd be really concerned for my kids as a poor parent, and if I happened to be rich and about to die, I'd really want to leave them wealth because it plays such a big role in social mobility.
Something something something ethics in games journalism!!!

(Oh, hang on, male sounding name - as you were...)
The truth is that for most users, a locked down device is simply more secure. By controlling the environment tightly, the manufacturer can be sure to exclude malicious software. For example, how easy is it to install a keylogger on an iPhone?

Allowing users to bypass security mechanisms will ensure they get bypassed. Wasn't it Facebook that was having users compromised by attackers tricking users into running code in the console? If iPhones shipped with a special security bypass button or something, it wouldn't be long before people became accustomed to using it and we'd be back to user devices being rooted left and right. This seems like a difficult problem to work around, if we want users to have a "worry free" experience.

I find it disgusting and unfortunate, but I recognize that my desires are not representative of the general market.
Ubuntu Phone?

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone
http://googler700.blogspot.com/2015/07/c-programming.html