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Very strange, there are videos for the 2014 edition on YouTube, but not this year...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhoHEZlJjdQKI1cs5yPRU...

Because while I'd love to fly to Italy, I suspect I'd be completely jetlagged for a couple days and by then, the winter school would be over.

So if I were to go to one of these things, I'd love to be able to rewatch the lectures at my leisure (not that I suspect much has changed since 2014).
But Vim did, didn't it? Google Code shutting down may still have contributed to the sea change.
I think Google is very interested in who might win. If for no other reason that for future planning of products and services. Some candidates may be more favourable than others regarding certain issues.

Whether it's their influence or cash, either way would be buying the candidate. Providing under the table services for preferential treat by authorities is also well-engrained in most countries.

Sad, but factual.
So on the one hand I love that they're moving forward. Sometimes it's good to get rid of cruft (and boy is XPCOM crufty). On the other hand, the rich extension ecosystem is one of the highlights of Firefox.

I honestly don't know what I'll do if my TreeStyleTab extension is disabled. I lucked out because the Beta version has the preference to use unsigned extensions. But that extension is so fundamental to my Firefox experience that if they remove that preference in the new version then I think I'll have no choice but to turn off updates and live with my current version indefinitely. And that doesn't make me happy.
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I know it's still quite a controversial topic, and I have not yet come down on whether or not I like the current implementations, but I am a fan of the notion of a Right to be Forgotten.

At the very least, I like the notion that a person should be able to have some level of control over what companies are allowed to access about them; the control over what information may be in the public sphere is a little more difficult to talk about. E.g., I deeply dislike that most companies operate on an opt-out system for information collection; I would rather information collection (particularly anything dealing with personally-identifying information) to be universally opt-in with some reasonable attempt (not an EULA) made to offer the user an informed decision.

Search-engines are tricky because they provide a public service for finding information but are, themselves, a company that often profits from the collection of information both in the usership of their service and in the data they crawl to aid their users in finding content.

My current opinion (which is not yet fully formed) is that it is wrong to order Google to unlist results; but, on the other hand, it should be completely legal to order Google to remove what is essentially a dossier that they have on a particular user (at that user's request).

I am still mulling this whole thing over; but, at the very least, it is obvious that the issue isn't a simple one.
Friday afternoon club, aka beer Friday aka sit around and catch up over a beer with others at the company.
Which brings us back to the point that one cannot develop any new, unforseen kind of extension unless you either have the option to directly interface with the browser's internals or somehow get that API included in the browser.
We always leave enough time for the transfers on these types of flights. The flight mentioned in the article leaves a whole night as transfer time. When searching with this method you might actually discover routes that are 1) cheaper and 2) you were previously unaware of them. If you like the stopover you can extend the time, as the prices of these routes are likely to be similar +/- 3 days.
I'd like to see a peek of it in action, maybe not the whole video, but something. How does it compare to the tools I know? A video that only shows me someone had a great idea leaves me thinking it might only be a great idea. I don't need to be sold great ideas, only great implementations.
This is pretty circular as the comment 2 levels up is "you provide GPS for the running feature"

If you don't want to give them permission to something, don't give it. Of course, that will also mean you can't use features that depend on it.
He was already 40 years old during WWII
The content looks good - the bucket resonates with me. The animation could use some work, voice over is professionally done. Good luck.
Sounds sorta like tech is not for you.
That definitely goes against my hacker instincts where if I can automate a daily task with the amount of time that it would take me to do it in a few days, I go ahead and automate it.
Maybe I should stop reading HN and get back to work. Or maybe this is more of a tortoise and hare kind of race.
This is pretty funny given that so many people started complaining about it and deleting their accounts.
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A task may or may not be run on another thread. It just represents a unit of work with a potential result.

It can be confusing because Task objects original main use was running stuff on background worker threads. That is no longer the case.

Note, you can use async and threads. But a lot of code using async and task are NOT using threads.
What were you called back then if not apprentices?
Many countries still require warrants.
Odd: "This implmentation (sic) currently does not implement the counter feature."
Launching doesn't seem like a big deal

In the film, there's obviously a lot of turbulence. Bouncing up into either the trapeze or the zeppelin is clearly a real danger. Or getting ripped off the trapeze prematurely. Further, those biplanes generate a lot of lift, even at low speed, and tend to rise on release, so the pilot has to be in control (stick forward) at all times and can't simply drop away.
Based on the headline, I thought they were displaying the queue time on monitors held by life-sized mannikins of the former President.

Read the article, was disappointed. It's still interesting tech though.
This article seems like a submarine from a wealthy lobby group trying to influence the re-authorization of No Child Left Behind. For starters the article shows a complete failure to understand educational funding, example:

>Both Ontario and Taiwan treat gifted children as eligible for “special education,” much like disabled students, giving them access to additional resources.

So does the US...Perhaps the misunderstanding is much broader than I give credit, but in the US everyone is entitled to a free and appropriate education, including ESE students. It seems people think ESE is just for disabled children, but it is also for gifted students. As a lawyer who advocated on behalf of ESE students, I saw everything from a disabled child being subsidized to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, to a blind student being denied a ~$100 reading program (maybe one of the most rewarding moments of my legal career was getting the school to agree to purchase that program - but was a lawyer really necessary?), and advocating for a gifted ESE high school student who attended some classes at the local university via duel enrollment.

If US students' scores are lagging behind their international counter-parts it is not because gifted students in the US are not getting funding. There are more resources now than ever for gifted students, including: duel enrollments, online curriculum, and vouchers for private/charter schools.
Awesome, this kind of technology should be used in ALL waiting lines. I read that the average person spends months of their lives just waiting in lines. This is ridiculous and should be fixed. Every store should have an average waiting time and they should try to minimize it.
Factory orders are a very "mechanical" economic indicator. The "sex appeal" of a countries manufactoring sector seems quite unrelated to me. Perhaps that is why you are getting some down-os?
Very true. It's a feedback loop as well. Schools perform poorly, so affluent people remove their high-performing children, which lowers the average performance of the school and gives it less funding. And so on.

The thing is, you can't blame people for optimizing for their own children, but doing so drags down the quality even further for everyone else. It's a problem that requires some serious intervention.
Something similar from Airbnb http://airbnb.io/infinity/
>> It's a strange feeling to project these tales of business, technology, and marketing back onto simpler memories of my own naive youth.

I agree! If that feeling is something you want more of, I highly suggest _Game_Over:_How_Nintendo_Conquered_the_World_ by David Sheff.
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Honestly didn't realize it was still around. I remember when it first blew up in the public consciousness, a local bar had a funny event one night where they set up a computer with a webcam/mic pointed at the bar and a projector to put the video on the wall. Then we logged on to Chatroulette and let the amusement roll.

Loads of people were taken aback by talking to a bar full of people. Some were really cool and chatted with us. Of course plenty of dudes were just whackin it. Some clicked "next" when they saw the bar full of people but at least one just kept going until we had to get up and click "next". Pretty fun idea but they only did it a few times before the novelty of Chatroulette mostly wore off.
Environmentaly speaking, i suppose US factories deal with wastes much better than china. From a worker legislation pov, i also suppose that US doesn't employ children.
Should be quite easy to implement, actually. Some stores have this kind of technology to track traffic. I think the problem is installing the cameras and the software, but that's trivial for an airport.
You are quite slow to grasp simple concepts aren't you.

The car theft example is not an analogy it is a fact. I never said that taking a car is legal. However, the crime is "taking without permission" not "theft" (although it is I admit often referred to as theft in common parlance). This is because theft has a clear long standing meaning which for various reasons is often difficult to establish for cars. Therefore a new type of crime (which happens to have the same punishment) was created.

The point about how stupid you copyright maximalists sound to the general public when about software 'theft' stands. You weaken you position when you do so and make yourselves subject to ridicule.
I was in a gifted program grades 1-6 and 8, and I still wasn't challenged by the material we were covering.

I took the entire 7th grade off (officially I was homeschooled, but my parents didn't teach me anything) and played on the computer every day. I taught myself how to be a better Javascript and PHP programmer and explored math concepts that interested me on my own.

I came back ahead of the class.

I'm not convinced there's much value in the gifted program I was enrolled in. (I'm also not convinced that I'm exceptionally intelligent by any meaningful measure.)
Not sex appeal of manufacturing, but culture. I have discussed this in length in the subsequent replies.
Everything here is totally wrong.

I am certainly not an anti-capitalist. Although I don't regard such a comment as a slur.

I do think that creators should be paid.

I don't think that companies should slam arbitrary egregious charges on people -- and I know that courts don't always uphold these speculative invoices and indeed have been known to punish the people making the demand and their legal representation quite strongly.

I do know that most people in the real world would find this utterly outrageous given that the student had the right to use the software in question in the setting in which it was detected.

I personally would not do what he did -- all software that I use is either free (as in speech) or properly licensed.

Oh and you are a copyright troll apologist.
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Good point. If downtime of your website affects your business, you would be wise to setup monitoring.
C# plus Visual Studio plus MSDN is real awesome
Why not? I hope it will really shine in combination with Vulkan though, not with OpenGL.
Useful for applied game theory.
Could someone make an extension to re-enable this config option?

And... would Mozilla agree to sign it?

(Since, you know, the standard response over the years to users complaining about removed functionality in Firefox has been, "use an extension")
already being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10097678
> this approach unfairly favors the middle and upper classes who have the time to do this.

Yes, that's the argument against it. And it is even worse than you might guess because they don't do just regular classroom stuff. They go on trips. They build things. They talk to experts. They use nice tablets and laptops. etc.

Our local nice private school costs ~$20K a semester. We blow the doors off that cost just in lost wages alone.

I'm a big believer in solving all problems at once -- we are solving this problem for ourselves and I think we are building a model for public schools to strive for if they ever care to look. We also need to try and solve the larger societal problem you mentioned.

The key factor is parent focus and involvement. You can't reform schools alone to make that happen. The government is not getting it right, but not just because the schools aren't running as they should. We need to get to the point where people have the time and resources to care about their kids education on a day to day basis even at the lowest end of the socio-economic scale. We must get a better handle on poverty in this country.
From what I gather, ATM, Cloudflare doesn't have employees that could step up and replace Mike, which means it would be foolish of them to burn the bridges with the community.

This is true. There is not obvious replacement for Mike at CloudFlare or elsewhere. I've been hoping that discussion on the mailing list would lead to someone emerging or a consensus.

Also, Mike has said he wants the transition to be 'one to two months' and I have not personally been involved with the LuaJIT community so stepping as lightly as possible while trying to do what Mike wanted (which was have CloudFlare take the load off his shoulders and help the transition).
It's an interesting concept. I agree with you completely, but we're basically saying that the gifted have no responsibility to the average and below average. While in this specific situation, it seems obvious that a child shouldn't have to receive a lower quality education in order the help those with less ability, that concept has some Randian implications if you extrapolate it to society in general.
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The gifted students are already segregated into their upper level classes. They have little to no contact with average students outside of the cafeteria or gym class.
Personal to the device, not personal to its owner. Then again, most of us consider our devices extensions of ourselves nowadays anyway.
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Personally, I think aborting an embryo that will be born to live with serious defects or illnesses is the first answer, at least until embryonic genetic editing is viable in all cases.
What software are you talking about? I've seen very clever people struggle with PGP. In fact Ed Snowden famously screwed up when he first emailed Glenn Greenwald.
Thank you for the feedback. Are there specific parts of the animation that didn't work for you?
I don't wanna tell you that you learned the wrong lesson, but consider that the very negative lesson you learned was to equate success with victories on tests and homework.

What changes in a lot of people is not that they learn the value of "hard work" which is kind of neutral in itself, but their goals shift to objectives that require work and long-term investments in developing skills.

Maybe that's the same thing or too subtle a distinction, but it seems like an interesting idea to me.
Apple's T&Cs are so long because they usually show you like 6 different documents, most of which aren't even in regard to iTunes. (Google does this too.)
I got a bad view of school in general via my similar childhood experiences. I went to community college because my parents pushed me to get a degree, but I had a kid before I was done with college and went into the workforce and now have no motivation to go back to school.

I coasted through community college as well (including classes considered difficult) still bored and getting As and Bs. I probably needed to have cared more in high school and gone to a harder college for me to get the wake up call to learn to study.

As it is, I learn on my own time and program. It's not the worst, but I always wonder what I'd been capable of with more motivation.
So in other words... NO.
Regarding the "why" notion of so much effort being put into the kids at the bottom, it's my personal experience that the most vocal parents tend to come from the pool toward the bottom, be it physically or mentally disabled. They have a point, certainly, in asserting their children have a right to equal access...but I do think the costs associated with such access typically burden the state far more than the parent in terms of accommodation. As in, some special needs kids genuinely don't belong in mainstream education environments, but through parental outcry and pressure, sometimes this gets over-ruled.

What has bothered me the most, time and again, is the assumption that smart kids will 'turn out fine' without additional challenges and, by contrast, there's any reasonable ROI expectation with the a large portion of developmentally challenged / mentally deficient kids. It's a sensitive issue for sure. Somehow just postulating this kind of thinking draws up feelings of insensitivity, but I'm trying to focus on some empirical observations. Difficult tight rope!
I read this as "Click OK once while updating and we'll be gettin' all up in yo phone".

"We will never access your photos without explicit permission"

"We will never gather or use the location of your mobile device without your explicit permission."

"We will never access your microphone without your permission."

"We will never scan or import your contacts without your permission."

Crikey, you're not screening me for a mortgage or a job with a three-letter agency. Can't you write an app that doesn't need every last piece of info on my phone?
It is mind boggling that the Mao-created famine that killed 40 million was only ~50 years ago.
git has more or less completly taken over the mindshare from all other version control system.
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I wonder if it would have been better to launch at a slower speed, then.
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The whole education system is broken. People learn at different rates and they should learn different things. Having dozens of kids in a classroom all trying to learn the same things is definitely not the most efficient way to teach kids IMHO.
I think you're correct.

That's one of the issues with results from theoretical math- the result is true, but it might not be useful.

As another commenter in the thread talks about, we can get a nearly identical result by using polynomials of extremely large degree, but that doesn't work well, because of overfitting. We could come up with a polynomial that also calculates with arbitrarily high accuracy if a point is in the Mandelbrot set or not, but it might end up being of 10100 degree, which is useless.
I was trying to be sarcastic but in hindsight it was a bit too plausible around here heh.
I don't see how anything like right to be forgotten can be implemented without essentially internet censorship.

Does a corrupt politician have a right to be forgotten forgotten? Former politician? Bank executive? Hedge fund manager? Barbara Streisand? How about those who donate to political causes? The trend seems to be going the other way on that one, at least in the US.

What is the criteria and who decides? I can't imagine how such subjectivity would not be abused.
Thank you for the feedback. Are you looking for product snapshots in the video? Comparison chart is something we were considering to put up on the website.
In Austin's airport there are several security lines that you can choose from. Each line shows its average wait time as well as the average wait time for the other lines. It's helpful to be able to see that the lines closest to you is 20 minutes but the line just down the terminal is only 5 minutes.
> suppress lines of thought that have political outcomes that I don't like?

Do not fund lines of thought where the harms outweigh the potential benefits, and/or where ethical commitments are violated.

That policy is neither particularly strong or particularly uncommon. It's the guiding principle behind IRBs, which are pervasive. (In fact, as Horgan points out, one of the primary motivations for IRBs was racist scientists conducting downright evil experiments on black men.)

There are two components to this analysis.

First, do benefits outweigh harms? This is easy because there are no benefits. Suppose there is a correlation between race and IQ. What non-evil thing, pray tell, would you have us do with that knowledge?

Second, are there any ethical violations? Also easy. Racial superiority theories aren't "political outcomes that I don't like." They are fundamentally Evil; for god's sake, this is one of very situations where the motivation behind Godwin's Law doesn't apply.
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As a non mathematician, this is non obvious to me.

Thinking about it a bit (I haven't finished reading the article yet)... Since the size of the hidden layer isn't specified, I suppose you could have a hidden layer node for every possible input... So, of course any function is computable with a neural network. Really the magical thing here is finding the smallest set of nodes that computes the function...
> The gifted students are already segregated into their upper level classes.

Unless you have a special gifted program, that's generally only true in high school and maybe middle school, and (even then), is subject to the availability of distinct "upper level" classes, which even in high schools may be limited in districts where the effort is focused on maintaining the middle and bringing up the bottom.
> A local time with a timezone is a unique time, it does not occur twice.

If you define timezone as an IANA timezone, this is incorrect: a whole slew of local times repeat during a DST fallback event: you'll have a (1:30 AM (dst=True), America/New_York), and then a (1:30 AM (dst=False), America/New_York); that "dst=True|False" bit is the only difference, and that needs to get stored. If you consider "America/New_York" to be the TZ, then storing that bit on the TZ isn't appropriate, as it depends on a particular timestamp.

If you've ever worked with PyTZ, there's a sort of rule of "just call normalize() always"; otherwise, you'll get funny answers to some introspections on the datetime instance: things like the offset being not what a local would say the offset should be. My understanding is that pytz stores the dst flag on the timezone instance itself; things get funny because the timezone instance is not given a chance to update after arithmetic on the datetime instance.

(Really, I feel like the whole thing would work better if there was a separate class for "instant in time" and a function for, "convert this instant in time to Gregorian year/month/day/etc. in this TZ", which then returned a broken-out-type. (And a reverse, of course, for building "Instant" instances.))

UTC datetime + IANA TZ (if relevant) is the way to go. Alas, not all data is so nice.
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