jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My coauthor for http://haskellbook.com/ had never programmed before, so I have some experience teaching people Haskell that have used imperative languages and some experience teaching people that have no prior programming experience.

1. It's not a panacea

2. It's still more work overall to teach Haskell (or any language) to somebody that has never programmed before

3. It's more fun teaching them because they don't argue with you or waste time trying to apply nouns/verbs they already know to Haskell.
While Oberon is a bit verbose, the C/C++ declaration syntax is a train wreck. Consider the declaration of signal(), which does not have a very complicated type:

(*signal(int sigcatch, void (*func)(int sigraised)))(int);

I can't think of any C-derived language (other than C++) that uses C-style declarations.
I'm looking for something competitive with a 15" MacBook Pro. In the past, I have struggled to find screens and trackpads that are comparable to Apple's. Any recommendations?
There's really nothing magical about 10 years vs. 4 - the further out you go, the more you have to discount the predictive value. Is there some evidence that, in general, there's market skepticism about MS' long-term future? Sure. But this "4-year" business is just absurd.
Personally I find that when I see twitter posts like "RT" and links to the post.. it influences me to NOT comment because I know those people aren't going to talk back.
Are you kidding me? It's AT and fucking T. They don't let you get out of your two-year contract without exacting their poiund of flesh; what makes you think they'll let something as lucrative as iPhone exclusivity just wriggle away?
Maybe Google has been refused classification? ;-)
Yeah, but that doesn't mean the Admissions Department isn't lying through their teeth, knowingly or unknowingly. E.g. they were strongly emphasizing the tradition of hacking (http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/hacks_traditions/) at the same time the Campus Police changed their posture on it and started arresting students in situations they hadn't previously. And while it's ugly to point out, they had to fire the Dean of Admissions in 2007 for falsifying her resume; she started in the Admissions Office in 1979 (if early in the year, she very possibly looked at my application...) and became the Dean in 1997.

They might also be trying to change MIT by attracting different students; as noted by sethg there was a strong push to change MIT from its traditional role of producing Sons of Martha who work for Sons of Mary, and it started a few years before he showed up (here is a fantastic rant by Hal Albeson on one of the early signs of that: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/hal/papers/coop.html).

The Admissions Office even drastically changed its real admissions policy for a couple of years until the hard subjects (e.g. physics) faculty forced a correction of that. The admitted classes were overall having too much trouble with the core curriculum, but even if they were less capable on average they were still dedicated to the traditional MIT mission.

Self-selection by applicants is so strong (MIT survived for a dozen year without a professional as the Director), whatever gloss the Office is now putting on the Institute, it's able to change things only so much. E.g. MIT remains the a place where you don't graduate without taking (or placing out of) a year of the calculus and classical physics (taught at MIT speed), for all majors.
I guess I'll have to try the e-book version and see what I'm missing out on.
Asking for copyright permission doesn't make for interesting real-life either. Nor does it fit with today's technology and expectations. This was the point of the article. The law needs to be changed.
> When shoppers see persistent price declines, they hold out on buying things. They ask, will I get a better deal next week, next month, next year?

Who does this? For 90% of my consumer goods, I don't care what they're going to cost in a month or a year. I need to replace the one I have today.
Legal can sometime be a bit like coding, some laws in this domain are still changing (ie. France just recently allowed online casinos). My advise is use the most common denominator in your space, launch and tweak, it's like coding. That's what most successful companies have done. You don't get in much trouble until you have a certain level of success. Of course you need to have a good approach, good intentions and know what you are doing. But you can never really know it all, so that's my advice.
This is going to do to traveling what the iPhone did to smartphones.
I'm sorry but given the choice between your personal hunches/anecdotes/biases and published statistics I'm going with the latter:

Year	Total	# Most fatal attacks by	# Second-most fatal attacks by
2005	29	Pit bull-type (18) (62%)	Rottweiler (6) (21%)
2006	29	Pit bull-type (15) (52%)	Rottweiler (8) (27%)
2007	34	Pit bull-type (18) (53%)	Rottweiler (4) (12%)
2008	23	Pit bull-type (15) (65%)	Husky (3) (13%)
2009	30	Pit bull-type (14) (47%)	Rottweiler (4) (13%)
2010	32	Pit bull-type (22) (69%)	Rottweiler (3) (9%)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_th...

The vast majority of these deaths were <10 year olds.

> The pit is anecdotally the worst breed for guard dog. They tend to be that friendly towards humans. You have to remember that these dogs were indeed bred for fighting. Dogs not humans. So they were heavily bred to be friendly towards humans - how else can one control a powerful beast if it won't obey you and let you tend its wounds?

Yeah right that's why they are the #1 human killer dogs with a spectacular margin.

> They are so protective of children that you can easily let one babysit your kid while you're away.

shudder until your 3 year old accidentally hits the pitbull on the nose.

Do you happen to own a pitbull?
The justice system is about the raw exercise of power and creating profits for Corrections Corporation of America and the like.

It is supported by the population which enjoys watching people get hurt playing football or smashed up driving fast cars in races, in lieu of gladiator fights to the death.

Speaking of which, in many prisons the guards stage gladiator fights* to the death between prisoners and take bets on who will win.

* http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/04/06/60II/main41867.sht...
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-72442.h...
http://en.terra.com/latin-in-america/news/brutal_gladiator_s...
Would you prefer the term "blatantly sub-optimal" in place of "broken"? Let's list off a few ways:

* Big lecture classes, where a professor delivers canned lectures to enormous crowds of people as though we still lived before the invention of online video and the printing press. As far as I can tell, this is strictly inferior to having a really good teacher record lectures, then put them online. Preferably with an option to play them at 1.4--2x speed. This would also free up time and resources to focus on the parts of the educational experience where college can be better than online lecture videos plus a textbook.

* Often, a whole class of people has to proceed through a set list of topics in lock-step. Some people will find this too slow, and others too fast, for any given topic. What if you want some time to really think through a particular topic? There's no time; you've got to go on to the next thing. And then at the end of the semester, there's a flurry of activity as people finish up final projects and study for exams, and then BAM! It's over!

* The workload tends to be heavily skewed to the end of the semester, so people seldom have enough time to devote to finishing projects properly. This has caused no end of frustration.

* People are crazy-focused on grades, often at the expense of their education. Grades are a clumsy proxy for learning. It's like trying to measure someone's happiness by how much they smile: there's a correlation, sure, but telling someone to smile more is not the best way to make them happier.

I could list more, but that should be enough for starters. Would you dispute the claim that such a system is at least a little broken? Or, if you prefer, blatantly sub-optimal?
> Copyright is a tradeoff between society and creators, where we take rights away from the public to give copyright holders an opportunity to profit more from a work, in the hope that the net effect is of benefit to society.

That's true of every property right. In the state of nature, I have the "right" to trample all over your yard, to kill you and eat you. When the government comes along and creates the "right" to land and the "right" to life, that is a trade off between society and property owners.

> It is perfectly possible to believe that the way copyright terms have been extended and the way usage restrictions have hollowed out public access means the balance has been distorted to a point where the bargain is no longer justifiable.

And the way to handle this is to lobby to get the right redefined to have the sort of scope you want. And nothing would help this effort more than supporting indie content creators, undercutting the wealth and power of the traditional media companies.

> and my guess is that it is largely down to the way copyright holders have massively abused their position to shift the balance ever further towards them.

The "abused their position" canard is becoming toothless in the face of how much money is on the opposition side now, in companies that specialize in distributing content (Youtube, Apple, etc). The lobbying dollars are there to weaken copyright protections to give these distributors a better negotiating position. It's a hard political sell because in the U.S. we just believe in really strong protections for property rights. My parents have this huge back yard that they never use. But if a homeless squatter sought refuge on a tiny portion of their land, an infringement that would cost my parents basically nothing, they can still have the police come and kick that person out. We like our property rights absolute, and that's why the media industry has found it so easy to drive copyright protection in that direction.
You are right, I lied a bit to oversimplify :)
Telling them what it can do or what it is used for is almost always the best way to talk about something you do with the totally uninitiated.

Make sure it's something they've heard of before, e.g. the Rubik's cube example.
Just a thought, but the party closer to the ruling parties of nearly every other country where average life expectancy hasn't been on the decline, unlike the US.
The republic is at stake and armed rioters have broken into the capital. To let the president do this and do nothing is to give up more credibility. It is to admit that the legislature is incapable of even providing for its own physical security, let alone the needs of their constituents.
Bear in mind that only a tiny fraction of the energy spent by Sedol's brain during his whole life was dedicated to learning Go. Even while playing Go, a human neural system spends a big part of its energy doing mundane stuff like moving your hand, standing up, deciphering the inputs coming from the eyes and every other sensitive body parts and subconsciously processing it (my back hurts I need to change posture, my opponent smells well, the light in the room is too bright, etc.). Interestingly enough, doing most of these things is also a big challenge for IA today.
We've got connections for sure
https://www.cameo.com/v/LP_Hemal_W
I heard reports that the mismatched file download/installer hash was known and never fixed for MONTHS, if true, points to incompetency at SolarWinds.
Naively it seems like the problem that will make progress at both ends with the right spark. As I image it, soon enough someone else will have already convinced part of your network to make the move.

People, in general, don't have a qualm about installing another app when it's recommended by someone they trust.
Joining a big tech company as an IC is by far the most reliable option: https://levels.fyi

The absolute highest paying companies pay more today than what you might even make in equity at a successful early stage startup: https://levels.fyi/2020/
I didn't mean to disparage the people in Florida, or the quality of life in general. But I do think it would be a lot better if so many people didn't have to deal with so much traffic.

I think it's a problem the way that cities have grown via sprawl over the past few decades, and a lot of southern cities have grown a lot during that time. Apparently it's more profitable to build further out instead of infilling, and build housing developments instead of integrated neighbourhoods. It's depressing to see apartment complexes with sidewalks to nowhere and nothing to do but drive a couple/few miles to the nearest applebees or whatever.

I think the problem with crazy drivers comes with the amount and density of traffic, the long commutes, the divided highways with people driving well over the already fast speed limits while people are pulling in and out of plazas, etc. This can be brutal for the people who need to deal with that every day.

The neighborhoods in older cities, or older parts of cities, tend to be grids of various sized roads dispersing traffic as opposed to cul-de-sacs funnelling everyone in and out of their complexes and developments onto a couple of congested main roads.

I've lived in a northern city, much of it built before the automobile, but not anywhere as crowded as Chicago or NYC.

I'm not personally bitter, except for maybe zoning laws that don't allow for more density. I've had a work form home job for quite a while, and haven't had to deal much with bad traffic. I do feel sad for the people I know who have to commute more than an hour in bad traffic, I feel sad for the working poor who struggle to keep a car on the road, I feel sad for the kids in some of these places who need a ride to see any of their friends, the teenagers with nowhere to hang out besides the Waffle House parking lot, etc.
When I moved stateside I lived in Berkeley for a year, it's overpriced (rent and daycare are ridiculously expensive!!), overrated, overrun with homeless people (anything below 6th street) and the coup de grace has to be the incessant virtue signaling with houses competing for who has the most "social justice" billboards and signs..Glad I moved away..
Good point - stability of taxes is important for the govt as well as homeowners.
They couldn't have given two-hoots for "global activism". It was the most powerful empire in the world and it made considerable money from slavery. They were pressured into it by British people, many of whom had moral objections to slavery. They didn't just "stop slaving people". They forced much of the world to "stop slaving people" too.

Furthermore, they didn't "enslave colonies". They established colonies. They conquered nations and territories. And they shipped slaves, a minority of whom were captured by British slavers, but most of whom they bought from Arab and African slavers.
Superconducting magnets don't produce heat. (They are superconducting) All the heat comes from the resistive feeder cables and the walls of the cryostat.
Latest React Native Starter Kit with React Native Navigation + Redux + Airbnb TSLint to build iOS and Android apps using TypeScript.
Central planning is not something we should be encouraging, except for cases where the market fails. It's not clear to me there's a market failure that's being corrected with single family zoning.

Central planning leads to a situation where market signals are ignored, and entrenches the status quo, rather than allowing cities (and economies in general) to change as needed. It seems highly unlikely that we've stumbled upon the "perfect" land use pattern. Why make it impossible to change from it then?
Microsoft support is always useless in that way and the TAMs are pretty powerless. I hired an intern just to contest the hours to effectively cut our (large) premier bill 70-80%.

Their model was fault-based, and a “bug” gets billed to the support group. So the game was always for MS to avoid assignment for non Sev-A cases, and our game was to find a product defect for anything.
You cannot separate quarks and antiquarks. The force that holds them together increases, rather than decreases, the further apart you pull them, until the energy in that field is so strong it can spontaneously convert to matter in the form of a new quark and antiquark to bind to the now-separated old quark and antiquark.
This is not unique to BankID though. Voice phishing is a global problem and independent of authentication method.
useful info, thanks, though even a $2500 could be a problem for a startup, not even $12000
I'd add a quote from Jamie Zawinski:

"At the end of the day, ship the fucking thing!"

in "Top 10 Things Ten Years of Professional Software Development Has Taught Me"
Samsung employees have been very actively contributing to the EFL port of WebKit: http://trac.webkit.org/search?q=samsung
Well yes, except that that is usually peanuts compared to the lost income from your service being down.

Really the only purpose of a SLA penalty is to incentivize the provider to keep the network reliable.
Which leaves a question: why not engineer around humans, such that they are never needed in the day-to-day running of the systems?
> What about introverted people

People that have difficulties socializing will probably benefit as well from a more informal setting. Some other people are so introverted that they will not -- but then they probably are not going to be good team players for that reason, no?
I save the HN post itself, not the endlink. It's better in case you want to comment rather than go straight to the article. And since you saved the HN link, you can always easily navigate to the article later. I don't read in instapaper itself, I go direct to link. Instapaper is just a really efficient bookmarking tool for me.
Brain model doesn't seem to be a common term. The linked paper uses the word model several times but not in a way that matches how used it.

I'm not going to debate the paper. For the benefit of anyone else reading here's a rebuttal.[1] I suggest reading both.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20131029200900/https://www.ncas.r...
Gmail. Typing in gmail is painfully laggy.
> It is absolutely unbelievable (and unforgivable) that a cash cow such as GTA V has a problem like this present for over 6 years and it turns out to be something so absolutely simple.

It is both believable and - by virtue of the fact that, as you said, the series continues to be a cash cow - is apparently forgivable.

Here's the thing: the company has zero reasons to fix this, or other ostensibly egregious affronts like DRM, because gamers keep buying the product. There is literally no economic incentive to 'fix' it.
Former gamedev here. I can vouch for this conversation. The idea that management would ask about slow loading times doesn't seem to be too realistic in my experience.
> Why not just get kids together to play baseball?

You can, if everyone trusts everyone involved, and you just want some casual fun. But beyond that...

Some of the developmental/training issues have been mentioned, as well as some allusion to safety. Also related is liability; do it enough and there are going to be injuries, some of them serious. And if you haven't planned for this, it's quite easy for someone to unexpectedly end up responsible for a huge unexpected liability.
Oh dear... that's one of the biggest footguns I've ever seen in all my years of working with C.
Normally I'd agree with you but this particularly problem is SO visible, and experienced by everyone, that I have to think management must have looked into it. I mean, it's the loading screen. They couldn't not encounter it themselves, every time.

But I could be wrong. I've only worked with sites and apps not gaming.
HR isn’t spending time on this ritual for performance reasons, but for risk management. It doesn’t serve your desired purpose, and the math would make no sense. Yet it perfectly satisfices what’s asked of them.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
Singapore had to import Nepalese Gurkhas to keep the peace, both because they're extremely militarily effective and also because they were seen as impartial by the different ethnic groups.
Articles and blog posts like this disappoint and annoy me. They lack logic and intellectual depth.

I sincerely hope young Americans/westerners don't get discouraged by reading such nonsense.

The problem described here is a combination of naivety and misallocation of skills and resources. It has nothing to do with being white and yet this lady can't seem to get away from that.

I'm South Asian and I would have faced the exact same problems this lady faced had I volunteered in the places and organizations she did. However being older and perhaps wiser, I wouldn't have made the error of volunteering to do things I have no skill in.
Thats the only mistake she made and the problems she mentioned are easily fixed with a little common sense. Yet somehow she can't see that

I wonder where this silliness comes from - could it be the result of the modern American education system ?

Before closing I should mention I would likely never have been born had it not been for a bunch of young European women who saved my orphaned grandmother from certain starvation and neglect when she was a toddler.
They gave her a home, an excellent education and looked afer her till she was a young woman. Their actions helped my grandmother get the skills she later used to pull her family out of poverty (resulting from the Partition of India) into the upper middle class.

Thank heavens for those dedicated, young, white voluntourists.
There's also the fact that an upward-pointing (or any other 90-degree direction) pointer quite strongly evokes direction instead of just pointing, while other not-aligned directions evoke pointing more than direction.
And FBI won't break into it!
> It worked through a backstage "reputation" system that begins to look eerily familiar.

A system that was government driven. Don't try to pretend that decentralized consequences are authoritarian.
You have nothing to gain by using your real information online. Everything to lose.

I don't consider HN a social network but more like a casual linkedin.

For all other uses, anonymous. Always. Put gibberish as username and drop in false info in bio fields.
You never use a pan? No sautéed vegetables? No pan searing? No sauces?

What things other than stews can a pressure cooker make?
Why the whole IT office? Just the hardware running the software, not the humans who develop it.
Making a positive income on youtube is incredibly difficult. The competition is very high, the pay is pretty subpar, and the hours are long. You also need to take a few (yes, a few, not a couple) years off of your day job to work entirely on content and marketing to get your channel off the ground.

A topic like chess might take 60 hours a week of video editing over the course of years just to get to 4k/month in income IF you beat the nearest 10,000 competitors who are trying to make similar channels.

Really not a realistic option for most people.
This may sound strange first, but there is nothing to argue in a team about if you sort them alphabetically.
Interesting. People have natural awareness of Chesterton's fence. Very cool.
The YouTube Kids AppleTV app is also horrible. It freezes and needs to be restarted constantly immediately after opening.

But even worse is that there is no way to quickly rewind or fast forward. You can only use the skip 10 seconds buttons. So if my son watches half of a show and wants to watch it again a week later, the show starts where he left off. I end up having to click the remote about 200 times to get back to the start. I upgraded to get rid of ads, which has made the experience much better, but the UI is really infuriating.