jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
after running a few MOOC classes and contrasting them to brick and mortar classes the real problem in my opinion is assessment. the material we prepared was equal to what we would teach in a college class, but the assignment quality is not. this is I think a fundamental problem of scale. the only assessment tools that we have are multiple choice and regular expression matching short answer quiz questions. coming up with challenging yet fair multiple choice questions that let the learner express they have mastered a concept is extremely difficult. and to make the class rigorous, MOOC instructors would have to re-do that work for each class, which defeats another scaling point.

I think that MOOCs solved the wrong problem and because of that aren't the solution to the class. the MOOC is an iteration on the textbook. a domain expert puts a lot of time into the layout, design and presentation of materials and then creates a relatively static asset out of it. it's less static than the old textbook, but you can't walk into the professors office and ask questions for an hour face to face either.

we haven't figured out how to make assessment scale. we haven't moved far from the model we used for thousands of years, which is to have a student stand and talk to their instructors/mentors, and their mentors to make a judgement. how can you get a deep sense of a students capabilities this way, online?

I don't think it can't be done, I just don't think that MOOCs have really tried, and my current cynical understanding is that they don't really want to try. Platforms like edX, coursera, and OCW seem to stop at "you got video and text what more you want", and stuff like minerva is using technology but keeping the same scaling factor between instructors and students.
What do you think when someone with 3 years experience gets paid more than someone with 12 years experience simply because they live in California, when the 12 year lives in Alabama?
The only real reneweable energy storage problem is that we've not built enough generation to really need any storage yet. And so we're shovelling money to authoritarian regimes around the globe which they use to buy politicians and media.

Luckily the EV market alone is enough to drive battery tech for short term storage forward, and green hydrogen for fertilizer is enough to take care of the rest. But, there's no need to wait, we should be a decade ahead on this at least if not for well funded lies holding us back.
Brought a smile to read this. Thank you
I had a similar thing happen to me when an elevator I was in started to fall (it had emergency brakes but I didn't know that). I wouldn't describe it as shock, but almost as indifference. I thought "huh, so this is how it happens".
Is this a reprise of the original HN comment on Dropbox?

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
That's a smart theory. I have another theory: life-review is the simulation diverting additional compute resources to your local "process" to quickly judge whether or not your annihilation would be optimal for the reality/simulation/timeline. This requires intense extra compute in real-time to assess each moment of your life, and the reason you experience it is because there's no priority in that moment to maintain the normal veil between "in-time" (real time subjective to observer) and "out-of-time" (ie as in simulation time) experience. So the rapid processing starves the normal "subjective you" process, and your consciousness gets to "peek through" at the workings of the simulation as it judges whether you dying would be catastrophic. If you "pass", then the simulation ensures your exist for at least a while longer, otherwise, it lets the event take its course.

The subconscious knowledge of this is why we've internalized and re-expressed the "judgement upon death" notion across many religions.
Am Romanian, probably shouldn't have entered this conversation, but it's the first such attempt that I see on this website at hitting at the people under which I'm labeled in my passport so I feel like probably I should enter the conversation after all.

First, about the Bulgaria thing. I grew up in a Romanian city just north of the Danube, Bulgaria was 11 km away (12-13, if you include the width of the Danube itself). In my home-town's central park there was (still is, afaik, I left that town ~20 years ago) a monument devoted to the Romanian soldiers who had died in the Second Balkan War, i.e. the war that you mentioned. They died when their boat had sunk while crossing the Danube. The majority of the Romanian deaths in that war (and there were a few) were the result of typhus (if I remember rightly), either way, what I do remember is my dad telling kid-me how stupid it was for us to get into that war whenever we were walking in front of that monument, how stupid our deaths had been. Of course, those deaths and that war were not mentioned in our history books.

What was also not mentioned were the atrocities committed by the Bulgarian soldiers once they invaded back, around 1917. It was really eye-opening to see photos of naked, dead, raped women in a Carnegie-report written just after WW1, a report that was mentioning places a few kilometers away from the village where my grand-parents had lived. I stumbled upon that report in an antiques-shop here in Bucharest a few years ago, again, no mention of those atrocities had been made in our history classes.

> after which sign an armistice with the Central Powers and invade Moldova to "secure" some space.

That was not an invasion, if you had read something, almost anything, on that subject you would have known that. Granted, I don't fault you for that, even here, in Romania, that event is seen in the wrong light, i.e. as a celebration of Romanians coming together after 100 years of Russian occupation. There was a coming back together of Romanians but there was nothing celebratory about it, as people who were alive back then and who were witnessing the whole thing actually said. It was a thing that the Germans wanted us, Romanians, to have, as compensation for the losses they had been inflicting on us (the union happened in March 1918, the Buftea peace treaty was signed in May 1918).

I will not go into the can of worms you opened about Transylvania because it's just not worth it, but the truth is I had expected better from HN readers/writers in here, no matter their nationality and ideological affinities.
Remember that you also need to recharge the car. EV are called environmental friendly, in the sense "they pollute less than ICEs in their life" only if charging is done from renewables.
Most people like edw519 have talked about practical solutions to it, but have you ever considered why you do it?

Maybe you just need excitement and intellectual company? Maybe you just want to have someone in your life that inspires you to do something? Maybe you just need to find the right people?

The point is that physical hacks for behavioral problems are ineffective until emotional hacks are taken into account. Just take a deep breath and try to understand yourself.

I'm saying this because I used to be addicted to HN, but now it just doesn't matter. After a series of realizations I'm simply indifferent to that high, and that's something far more long lasting than a firefox extension.

Take care.
>Sadly, most people don't care enough about freedom

What most people don't care about is thoughtless spin like this. It's not "free" vs. "draconian lock down", it's a trade off. Android lets you do anything you want, in which case people... do anything they want. Apple puts controls in place on what can be done. That means you can get more things quicker on the Anroid but it also means you can apps that steal your credit card info, etc.

It's a trade off and both sides have advantages and disadvantages. Stop with this disingenuous "it's about freedom!" nonsense.
Update: The request was granted, and an arrest warrant is issued for him. According to the newspapers this might be expanded to an international arrest warrant.

Probably the best news source in English for this: http://www.thelocal.se/30286/20101118/
Sure, and I'm sure that it can do that with the iPhone keep increasing their sales as well. There is a huge market of dumb-phones that Android will slowly erode and make its.
First of all, I don't quite have all day: I'm still doing some other stuff to make rent. But more of the day. :)

As for a re-write, Hackety (for the most part) is actually in a really good place. It's already undergone one huge reorganization in the last few months, I don't see it as being time for another yet. Most of the work it needs now is polish.

That said, there is something that's undergoing a total re-write, and has been taking up more of my time: Shoes. Shoes is part of Hackety, as far as I'm concerned, and so I've been putting a lot of effort into it as well. But if you haven't heard about that... you will soon. Lots of good things coming there, and making Shoes better makes Hackety better by association.
I don't suppose there's any chance we can send it back?
Yes, it would be best (in the sense of "least bad") if no sentient being existed at all.

Whether already existing people like life is like asking whether already addicted people like heroin. You can't use the result to justify forcibly addicting people to heroin.
haha, I used noprocrast once, but it has the opposite effect. Whenever somebody says that I can't do something, this is when I try harder. It always does not work.
At least with Groovy, most Java programs are also valid groovy programs (the converse is not true, but not too different).
The drugs you're talking about are classified NDRIs not SNRIs.

Amphetamine is a releasing agent too.

Different drugs have different receptor affinities. And the different metabolites do too.
for ac machines, langsdorf.
Here's a more in depth article about Mr Hatch and his penguins

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/harvest-of-souls/
With Maven you can have circular dependencies within a module, whereas Bazel IIRC gets its speed from having a graph of small modules where only modules that change get rebuilt, but which places strict requirements on circle-free code.

So how does this work with maven? Does it just make one huge bazel module that gets recompiled every time? I'd be interested in some more details in the readme.

Also FWIW bazel is the only official way to use j2cl to compile java to javascript.
> That's not true.

True enough to have become the standard periodization of Russian history from early-1970s to mid-1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation The deepening paralysis and apathy of administrative and security apparatus eventually made tanks non-scary. It takes willpower and determination to use them, but that was nowhere to be seen, everyone just sat on their asses and preferred to wait things out instead of doing what the Chinese did on the Tiananmen Square.
> There was no mention of this collaboration beforehand.

There was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718488
Actually "this context" was my previous reply. Much like I can nest a lexical scope inside a program and have it reach up and past the containing scope, I can create a new context in a discussion. Please at least try to understand my position before you reply.
I find the job posting to be completely unremarkable; they are essentially hiring a Consultant from a VAR (Value Added Reseller).

It's pretty much what I do today, except I do it for many customers and my current VAR doesn't have me on a on-call rotation, though it wouldn't be remarkable if I was on a rotation or depending on the VAR, permanently on call.

This is a dog whistle ad for consultants who maybe want to stop consulting independently or consultants who want to stop working for a VAR.
2400+ MOOC courses, which is why it's good to have review sites. I like both class-central.com and coursetalk.com.
Say you are implementing a self-tracking objects model for data management. How do you fix the reversal of control required to manage that? Specifically you need to go from the representative object to the controller to store the fact that you changed.
> Don't believe me? Then don't skim-read.

My hero.
The government is in bed with the industry. I don't trust the government with increased power over health care, because they will just screw everyone even more and give money to corporations. I have 0 confidence in the federal government to represent my interests, and that's the only reason I don't want them to have more control over my healthcare costs.
The word waffling was too negative, and you're right. I apologize and I'll definitely keep watching. Erlang and Ruby are my two favorite languages as well, so if you do pull it off at some point, you'll have my support (:
True, he does have the right to be angry, but unless he's an uncommonly egotistical person I find it hard to believe that he'd react quite that strongly to an allegation that was completely false, unless he was deliberately trying to leverage his perceived reputation and personal pride to allay suspicion.

Consider an FBI informant who has penetrated a terrorist cell. Suppose one of the actual terrorists suspects him and accuses him of being a traitor in front of the rest. What will he do to save his skin? He'll be indignant, he'll try to tug on any personal ties he has with the other members, he'll cite his reputation, he'll potentially attack the accuser.

Why? Because he feels that in order to be perceived as telling the truth he has to "leak" raw human emotion. He has to communicate that his rational mind is not in control b/c he feels that others will doubt him if they don't see that human emotion.

If he's innocent on the other hand, he'd laugh and say f* you and assume nobody would take it all that seriously, since he would not assume that anybody would listen to such a ludicrous allegation, and if he started to actually worry that the accusation was believable to others, he'd think quite rationally and demand that his accuser produce more evidence, since he has the information advantage about his own actions and could easily refute false charges.
it's a real shame - both facebook and google tried to use XMPP but have since removed support.
I don't think this is essentially a political article. I think the article is interesting in its subject matter alone, regardless of the author's blatant political shoe-horning.
This is incredibly horrifying.
I can't believe this is real.
How can a person protect themselves from such brutality ?
You should try it?
What's your point? Does it change my point if they're considered contractors vs employees vs hobbyists vs whatever?
A common framework for explaining spacetime gravitation is the rubber sheet with a heavy ball, showing that other objects on the sheet fall towards the ball. This is really flawed because it explains gravity using gravity.

Instead, you keep the rubber sheet and the single ball. Instead of placing other objects on the curved rubber, project (using a projector if you want) a straight line (from a flat surface) down onto the rubber. If you trace the projection of the line onto the rubber, you'll notice that it is no longer straight - it curves with the rubber (especially if you subsequently flatten the rubber out). That's a world line[1]. That's the direction of movement that an object would see as its "momentum" - but it wouldn't actually follow the world line, as the world line changes when the object moves.

To build a geodesic (the actual orbit/movement of the object), you need to move along the world line and then build a new one, repeatedly. I haven't completely figured out the instructions to build a geodesic in this analogy, but seeing/imagining the curved world line should be enlightening:

There is no attraction.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_line#World_lines_in_gene...
Luckily I don't need to generalize the Internet to be good or bad, I only need to determine whether the good it brings to my life personally outweighs the bad.

I don't have an exact answer to that, but what I do know for sure is that the good has been on a downward trajectory, and the bad on an even steeper upward one, for years. Even if they haven't actually crossed yet, it seems only a matter of time before they will.
Can attest to this experience as well.

When I was in high visibility roles in start-ups, I dreamt of a place where I could fall through the cracks and kind of breathe -- or at least what I thought would be breathing. I found that spot, and after a couple years feel like taking the offer was a monumental mistake in my career. Nothing is a challenge, my output is minimal yet when I actually do produce something, I get massive praise, and yearn for somewhere that I can throw myself into interesting work.

I think that next phase is coming, but I've definitely stagnated a bit and wish I'd spent more time using the required seat time (have to be visibly online 9+ hours a day) doing something fruitful instead of wasting time on HN and occasionally toying with various project ideas.

The soul crush is real in this kind of position, and as OP said, always being "half on" emphasizes the mental toll that all of my output has suffered both personally and professionally. Or I might just be burnt out.
Funny, I'd put that in the exact opposite order. Back in the day there were taskbars, popups, visitor counters and what have you, JS was mostly an annoying gimmick. Today it's about actual site functionality, it's pretty fast and (generally) sandboxed.
I used to work at Google and outsiders would always speculate about how the perks would disappear if the company stopped making insane amounts of money. There was always an implication that things wouldn't be as rosy then.

Truth is, I would have worked at Google without any of the perks. I now work at a startup that has zero perks. But it has equally hard problems and equally brilliant people. And we are empowered and challenged to do our best. I totally agree the perks are a symptom not a cause.
'cd !$' is another recent discovery for me, as in:

mv somefile -t /somedir

cd !$ # now you are in /somedir
Personally, I don't enjoy receiving anything electronic or gadget related as a present - I have a reasonable idea of what is available and if there is something I want I'll buy it for myself.

I'd love to be given a voucher paying for me to do some activity that the giver things I will enjoy, but which I would not have thought of doing myself. Bonus points if it has a time limit to give me an incentive to get on and try it straight away.
John Walker's Fourmilab has been providing quantum random bits for 14 years already: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
Not just changing the colors. You had websites with entire themes.
>there remains the possibility that there were more photos that were censored by the British government

I believe that the photos would've run into the SHAEF censors and been permanently censored (deleted). SHAEF was not the British government but was instead the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force(s), with Gen Dwight D Eisenhower as commander and other Field Generals from all the branches of the Allied nations in the European Theater as subordinates. Thus it would've been purely a military censor in charge of allowing or disallowing publication.

One of my favorite passages about military censors comes from that awesome book "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller where Yossarian ends up in a position where he must censor correspondence leaving their camp and he gets pretty inventive with his methodology. The whole book is hilarious if you have never read it. His passage about censorship is pretty great.

I couldn't find my copy of the book but I did find this online mention for your enjoyment:

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/07/12/two-par...
Signal note to self
Exactly.

This is what I received:

"Additionally, we are electing to terminate your Cash App account (as allowed in our Terms of Service, section XIII.8). As a result of the termination of your Cash App account, you will no longer be able to use Cash App and its services going forward."

XIII.8. Termination of Account

We can terminate or deny you access to our services at any time, for any reason. You can also choose to deactivate your account at any time.

We may terminate these Cash App Terms or any Terms, or suspend or terminate your Account or your access to any Service, at any time for any reason, including a violation of the Terms. We may add or remove, suspend, stop, delete, discontinue or impose conditions on Services or any feature or aspect of a Service. We will take reasonable steps to notify you of termination or these other types of Service changes by email or at the next time you attempt to access your Account. You may also terminate the Cash App Terms applicable to your Account by deactivating your Account at any time.
I mean here we are on a message board that is the vanity project of an investment firm catering to highly skilled technicians.
Worst case? They don't. They adopt OSS where possible to cut costs, fluff resumes, reduce effort and it ends up in a private repo somewhere only a few people will ever see. Best case? They create a public fork that fixes bugs and makes it suitable for their use case. Source: anecdata from being in the kitchen while the sausage was made.
Well... Apple did. The rest just followed them.

And Android still has a visible file system.
Not sure this is true. The registration documents claim shares can only be traded in 50,000 share blocks (called "Baskets", approx worth $1 million at launch) and you have to be a registered broker-dealer (with a bunch of other rich-people-problem restrictions) to trade.

Am I missing something? Or will broker-dealers turn around and sell single shares to the public? Or these statements don't mean what I think they mean?
This story got caught in a spam filter. Sorry, but those are necessarily more aggressive with brand new accounts.

We marked your account legit so it won't happen again, and unkilled this story. But you are welcome to repost it, since obviously it didn't get any exposure while dead.
I was an avid Spectrum user and I remember this game very well, mostly because I could not get my hands on it in South Africa. Chase HQ was praised to high heavens when it was released on the ZX Spectrum. For a long time, this was THE game to get on the machine. That and Rainbow Islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_H.Q.#Ports_and_related_re...

I still have this copy of SU laying around somewhere where they reviewed the game:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairUser/...
Last I checked, theladders.com is still fairly successful (business model: pay $35/month for your job search).
Fault doesn't matter. The end result is what matters.
True, but very good writeup nonetheless.
How many phones have a display with better than 800:1 contrast ratio[1]? All the resolution in the world doesn't matter if you can't actually see it. The Nexus One, in comparison, has a 100,000:1 contrast ratio[2].

1. http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One
http://www.jobspice.com/home (YC S09)
Sounds like my apartment in San Fran at any given point in time = ) Included in the long list of wifi networks here are several by a company that spam advertises through SSIDs.

From their website: "Freedom of Expression"...
Wow, my development team had planned to use this service last year for a product launch that (thankfully) got delayed. Contrary to what people might think about the safety of using big companies as providers, the truth is that going live with a new Google service is a real risk.
<sarcasm> Soon to be CBRNEP (pointy)

Because clearly explosives or pointy sticks are just as bad as nuclear or biological weapons. </sarcasm>

PS: I thougt about saying heavy or fast, but that can still be scary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment