skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well one argument is that teen brains are not done developing, and something that has a negligible effect on an adult might not be so for teenagers... even if there are no harmful long-term effects it might interfere with schoolwork or other things that teenagers are responsible for. I have read these arguments but I don't know what the available evidence points to, this seems like the kind of thing I'd want this sort of education to cover.

Alcohol and tobacco are most definitely harmful for everybody, and it's certainly possible to argue that choosing to use a potentially harmful substance is not something minors are prepared to make a reasoned judgement about.

More generally, I think that showing teenagers that people who buy ads in magazines don't necessarily have their best interests at heart is a good thing!
EDIT: I believe you are misunderstanding the meaning of my previous comment based on its use of indefinite pronouns and how it was physically structured relative to the quote block. Rather than rehash it here, please re-read it.[1]

EDIT 2: Looks like my Edit window timed out. I meant to also update this line as follows:

Neither the original DallasNews article nor the TechCrunch article
makes any such assertion about the officer's use of his surname.

I'm not going to call him a liar, because that presumes malice. He was wrong and irresponsible in his defaming statement.

EDIT 3: One last time for clarity, the kid felt his name to be relevant (which still does not mean his name was in fact relevant), but did not assert that the "police made repeated mention of his surname", which, apart from the mischaracterizations, was specifically what I was refuting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10228819
To add to your point: let's differentiate between a monolithic REPOSITORY vs a monolithic CODE BASE. Having all the code in a monolithic REPOSITORY allows developers to more efficiently explore and transform the code with a better understanding of the breadth of their impact.

Whether the CODE BASE is monolithic or not is orthogonal to the repository's nature. I was G for a couple years and I'd say they've done an ok job of breaking things up into libraries and services. Certainly there are interfaces that have done a better or worse job of setting the code up for open sourcing but because of the nature of the repository, large scale refactoring is more efficiently accomplished.
Reading mode in Edge solves this problem, if you're looking for solutions.
To save others some time.

Input 1: authors check out (PRL, Nature pubs). Not a one-off crazy posting to arXiv.

Input 2: Unless this your field, I'd be surprised if you get much from the paper other than interpretation of quantum mechanics is still an active field and information theory / thermodynamics has an important role in that field.

Input 3: After a few reads, I don't like the phrasing the authors put on Type-II interpretations. They say "Another class sees quantum probabilities as not directly dealing with intrinsic properties of the world but with relational experiences between an observer and the world." Another way to say it may be that it's impossible to separate observation from the intrinsic properties of the world. That is, reality is tightly bound up with observation and trying to separate the two is artificial. But I'd be happy to hear what others think about it.
Don't you mean "more sketchy", as in we look at the S&P and think "Yay" But we are getting dubious signals from the so-called real economy that do not correlate with the signals we are getting from the stock market. Hence, "more sketchy", no?
And then you killed off the public version and you keep that fun (and useful) toy to yourself.

(But as great as Google Code Search was, my grudge is because of Reader.)
> Creating money out of thin air ends up devaluing the currency that is currently in circulation.

To some extent, compared to not doing so, it does. But whether the extent a particular injection does this is undesirable or not depends on conditions, and manifestly the large injections of money by the Fed over recent years have not resulted in significant inflation.
For example, here is Chromium's third_party directory:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...
It seems like a few big figures did pick this it up and offer the kid some awesome opportunities. Obama, Facebook, NASA, etc.
More inequality and poverty is the exact opposite of what happened.

http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/
http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...
Do you know what party he runs for? Because that would seem to be a bit of important information to have before you slander him.

He ran for the National Reform Party. Here's his website: https://web.archive.org/web/20110903180626/http://www.alisla...

Note repeated use of the word "sufi".

EDIT: He tried to repeal laws against converting from Islam and ratifying human rights. That's not the stance of Islamists. http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9339063/ahmed-mohamed-elhassan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
Yes, I know who he is. Although I had a much older account, which password I couldn't recover, because it's from the days when no email was necessary here, I frequent HN for years and that's why I care about this community as I spend a significant portion of my life in here.
Maybe human understanding will evolve and we will start studying these things in order to better understand the lifestyle that gets them this result rather than how to make a pill to replicate some piece of the chemistry.

Great comment. Thank you for making it.
Oh I'm all too familiar with the issues as a minority in the Netherlands, don't worry. But I like to speak about places I know something about.
The U.S. is helping China build a Molten Salt Reactor
You're probably running a much more powerful processor than the school's computers were. The report is from 2009 at the earliest based on the cited forum post. There were some very low TDP processors during the 2000-2009 time frame that were very common in education systems.

Core 2 Duo was <35W TDP and was pretty popular from what I remember. P3 was in the same neighborhood too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_...
Public anonymity is the most important first building block to public dissent. Human nature is not to voice thoughts to those who disagree with them. Anonymity gives an outlet for thoughts; it gets the ball rolling. Seeing others anonymously expressing your most secret thoughts allows you the mental energy to express those thoughts pseudonymously, to organize and communicate and reassure each other of idea-worth.
Science. It impedes brain development in youth.
Nobody's business was ever obviously, directly ruined because of bad documentation, and so nobody was ever blamed for it or fired over it.
Yeah, wait until these Javascript beasting brogrammers reach 35- all of a sudden experience will become much more valuable to them.
> Nobody's business was ever ruined because of bad documentation, sadly.

I've seen quite a few startups fail because they had a smart, but completely undocumented code base. Then the smart programmers leave and who is left cannot handle the code and new hires take too long to get into it. Then funding runs out and the apparent lack of progress ensures that nobody wants to put more money into the company.

> Literate programming is an interesting idea from academia, but in the engineering environment of most startups it's a waste of time.

Amazingly, we're actually getting back to something that resembles literate programming - via TDD. Instead of asking for a proper spec, we now ask for test definitions that the code must pass. Those can even be written in something that is pretty close to natural language (cucumber etc) so that management can write them. Then we spend time to make the test framework understand all those pseudo-natural-language test definitions and then we finally write the code. Is that really faster? Or are we just missing the tools that would allow us to tie a natural language specification to code?
> Green threads didn't provide performance benefits over native threads in Rust. That's why they were removed.

This seems wrong. This shouldn't be the point of green threads -- green threads aren't a "faster" alternative to native threads. How would that work? How could it be the case that virtual threads implemented in user space are faster than native threads provided by the OS? I don't think anyone expects that to be true of green threads in general.

We don't have green threads as a useful abstraction because they're fast, we have them because they're flexible, and because they allow us to easily capture a lot of patterns. They let you easily and efficiently distribute work amongst multiple processors without having to think about the subtleties of the underlying threading model.

Of course, given Rust's other goals, shying away from green threads makes sense.
I'd venture to say that our wage and labor problems have less to do with the economy itself and more to do with a shift in global demand and specialization. All of those manufacturing jobs are going to China (whether we like it or not, China's labor costs are probably always going to be more cost effective for business), and the US labor market is demanding more skilled labor. We have an enormous oversupply of unskilled labor that isn't meeting the shift in labor demand.

Instead of using politics and complex tax systems to try and gain back those manufacturing jobs, I wish our government would focus more on helping our workforce adapt to the things where our country can have a competitive advantage in the world: education, technology, engineering, etc.
That said, by turning the above features off, why are you using a smartphone in the first place?

Cheap shot but surprisingly close answer: Because I couldn't find a feature phone with decent build quality any more.

Slightly less cheap shot and still remarkably accurate answer: Because almost all I want in a smartphone is the phone itself plus mobile Web access on a usefully large screen.

My interest in mobile devices really has very little to do with apps, even less to do with cloud services, and absolutely nothing to do with "digital assistants".
Colorado's budget is a $27 Billion per year. Marijuana taxes fund 0.26% percent of the budget. "Big new revenue source" is plainly not an argument for legalization.
So I get that his poor English is a sign of his age, and that older folks are less likely to grok tech. But I'd still wager he has used WiFI before, and should be able to understand how useless but still costly those click-to-agree screens are.
The police knew it wasn't a bomb the moment they saw it. Otherwise they would have called in the bomb squad right away.

The fact that they continued to play games and arrest the kid is not for "safety". It's clear they arrested him because of racism.
...But the fact that it is diverse is the exact problem that Go doesn't address.
It is kind of a brute force methodology, but it is kind of all we have. We would need a more elegant understanding of the problem space in order to address such things effectively without relying on some kind of racism/classism/OtherIsm to select for who needs some help getting a leg up when they are routinely left out by our current processes. Perhaps we can gain that understanding, but if it already existed, we wouldn't have the problems we currently have. So perhaps not a good time to hold out for some perfect solution.
> I'll give them credit for not demanding that science not be taught, just that they wanted their pet theory taught too

This was largely demonstrated to be a ruse by so-called "Intelligent Design" proponents in the Kitzmiller v Dover trial[0].

I would respectfully suggest that you haven't really looked into the evidence that carefully if you question the degree of rigor that underpins evolutionary science.

Large parts of evolutionary theory are indeed based on circumstantial evidence. But the quantity of such evidence is so overwhelming[1] that questioning its explanatory power is rather foolish. It's the sort of evidence where coming up with any alternative hypothesis besides evolution quickly becomes an exercise in futility. Unless, that is, you don't care if the hypothesis is testable or not, in which case creationists have many.

Moreover, evolution does not only have circumstantial evidence. You and I are living through the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria - an evolutionary change that is being observed and documented as it occurs. Fruit flies from the same species have been split into physically isolated groups, allowed to breed over many generations, and subsequently reintroduced, only to discover that they had become reproductively isolated.

There's more evidence discussed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent

Or here:

http://amazon.com/dp/1416594795/

Or here:

http://www.talkorigins.org/

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_Schoo...

[1] For example, here's Wikipedia's list of transitional fossils (so-called "missing links" between divergent extant species) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
In the 1960s people werent as uptight about in-school murders and international terrorism.

However the 60s did have their share of domestic terrorism- leftwing anarchist protesting the war or big government. They deployed bombs.
The paper on Dissent gives a pretty good use case - groups like Wikileaks, where "members may wish to send messages to each other, to the whole group, or to a non-member, such that the receiver knows that some member sent the message but no one knows which member...We also wish to hold members accountable, however, not by compromising their anonymity and allowing some authority or majority quorum to unmask a member whose messages prove unpopular, but rather by ensuring that no malicious member can abuse his (strong) anonymity to disrupt the group’s operation. For example, a malicious member should be unable to corrupt or block other members’ messages, overrun the group with spam, stuff ballots, or create unlimited anonymous Sybil identities [17] or sock puppets [36] with which to bias or subvert the group’s deliberations."
Have been following Cockroach for a bit now, looking forward to it. One of the things I like about Cassandra's CQL is that it doesn't let you shoot yourself in the foot. You have to opt-in to doing conditionals that require range scans, you have to provide the PK (or indexed column) for every query, etc. Will Cockroach will do similar in forcing the users to select their data in a certain way that is performant (or at least require opt-out to do full scans)?
The irony seems lost on them that something similar happens within your body with constant drug use. Let's hope the sin tax scenario remains open to future reversibility as the body does.
Maybe not breaking the law, but if you're not the person ultimately responsible for the costs and they're not actually your computers, that's still a dick move. I'd fire you if you worked for me and caused a massive increase in my power bill for something that had no relation to what I asked you to do.
Both versions of our IBM stories are obviously anecdotal, but just to show you're not 100% correct, they told me the door was always open if I ever wanted to go back. I also knew several people that had come and gone.
> If the ground really is that uneven maybe the problem is not the founders, but the system (again, how to change that is a super complicated discussion)

don't avoid this discussion, it is essential. it's not complicated. we are all part of the system, and if we all chip in to even the field, things will improve.
The executives completely renounced the whole dress code thing though. It was some middle manager who though it would be a great idea for his unit and got slammed after it hit public media.
> Human nature is not to voice thoughts to those who disagree with them

And yet somehow we're managing to do exactly that in this very discussion. And without cryptographic anonymity.
"compared bills after turning it off" is a direct measure of costs.
Absolutely love Papers. I think anyone doing serious work with research papers/citations will need the tools from the desktop app, but for reading/organizing papers the iOS app is great on is own.
The teacher has very little to do with this stupidity- zero tolerance and post-Columbine hysteria are not the fault of an English teacher.
Some questions that immediately come to my mind:

- What is the disk size of a shallow clone of a repo (without history)?

- Can each developer actually clone the whole thing, or you do partial checkout?

- Does the VCS support a checkout of a subfolder (AFAIK mercurial, same as git, does not support it)?

- How long does it take to clone the repo / update the repo in the morning?

Since people are talking about huge across-repo refactorings, I guess it must be possible to clone the whole thing.

Facebook faces similar issues as Google with scaling so they wrote some mercurial extensions, e.g. for cloning only metadata instead of whole contents of each commit [1]. Would be interesting to know what Google exactly modified in hg.

[1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
Well, among all the people who get treated unfairly, maybe some of them learn, but some others take revenge. I was once in a situation which couldn't be managed by laws, and since then I vote extreme right in my country. As much for learning from unfair situations.
Well, you're the one here teasing everyone about it. Seems like it gives you a hard-on knowing something secret-ish. Pretty typical, I suppose. But please stop acting like you're the shit because you may know a number.
customer acquisition costs are high, and driver acquisition costs are very high.
Are you saying the Mayor defines this area more than the numerous other demographics that show it is not simply a backwoods hillbilly town?
>He thought it was because he had won, yet again, the school’s top math prize. Instead he was confronted by the police.

This kind of belies the idea that this is a new phenomenon.
Not an economist but let me try to see if I really have as good a handle on all this macro-economic stuff as I like to think I do.

Ok. My guess is that QE goes directly to banks. Banks should start lending. QE is inflationary so the economy artificially grows and exports are helped cuz the $ gets cheaper but imports are hurt. This is not so bad for the $ because it is the world's reserve currency and a lot of commodities are traded in it.

Anyway, for some reason, the institutions don't lend the QE money into the real economy they buy portfolios of stocks because the return is greater and the risk is lower. That's my guess. I suppose for proper bonus points I need to be able to say why the stock market seems like a better bet than the real economy. And maybe #3 hasn't panned out because companies aren't paying dividends like they ought to.

crosses fingers
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MAKWA is a Password Hashing Competition finalist, for what it's worth.
It's much easier to justify wasting money on normal business things every day people understand, like buying office paper. Most people can relate to that, even when things go wrong and money is wasted.

Most people, be they in the deep south or the northeast have no fucking clue what SETI is and may even have very specific metaphysical opinions on how we should deal with the possibility of alien life that doing this violates. Most people don't care enough about paper to do more than write it off as a normal expense.

I personally think that alien life is everywhere and I can't wait until we discover more evidence of it. But I think SETI is a huge waste of resources that could be spent better elsewhere. Even though I'm pro science, discovery, and utilizing wasted cpu cycles, I still think searching for life this way is a huge waste of time and resources and I'd be pissed if some teacher decided he was going to use the resources I take a part in paying for to do this.

The benefits of this are external while the cost is internal. If you're going to use resources, at least use them to benefits the kids who are in your budge.
80% of crime goes unsolved, but if you have never lived in a bad neighborhood you might misunderstand.
Much like other european countries, compulsory "solidarity" through social taxes. As for the quality of the health care system, I have been lucky not to pay them a visit yet :) I was told that it's good though.

If you want more informations regarding the tax system:
http://www.investinestonia.com/en/investment-guide/tax-syste...
Is this article saying that all developer employees have access to the "holy" search algorithm internals? I can hardly believe that to be true, given the fact that SEO is a complete industry.
I smell a merger. Didi already merged with its main chinese competitor, raised a ton of money recently, and is expanding faster than Uber in china. This seems like a perfect fit. Lyft seems to not have their shit together the way Uber does (even if their company SEEMS more friendly to employees and drivers).
I'm having trouble understanding your point. Yes, using the proper name "Lyft" in describing themselves is the third-person, but that's exactly what you do in your suggestion. And the author of the post mostly uses the pronouns "we" and "our," the first-person, not the third-person.
> The satellite imagery in Google Maps is also much better; it never turns to black and white like Apple Maps, and is noticeably higher in detail and resolution.

That's not been my experience; at least in San Francisco, the satellite imagery in Apple Maps is remarkably good and noticeably sharper than in Google Maps. I wouldn't be surprised though if this varied by region.
HNXplorer – HN Reader for the Linux Terminal
Direct link - http://ybin.me

this is nice, but it needs syntax coloring and a way to edit+repost.

There's something wrong with your dropdown menus in Safari - http://imgur.com/0pF4Dy8
So JSX is not enabled by default, right?
Thanks, I sent them $50.
The point of Uber isn't to fix transportation, it's to feed Travis Kalanick's god complex. So, no, they won't be able to co-exist peacefully.
>playing with the supply side of money while having absolutely no effect on the demand side.

This is a strange position to take on a website that glorifies start ups. Cheap capital can unlock demand by lowering barriers to entry.

People looking for investment opportunities fund companies like Uber. And uber turns around an creates massive demand for private adhock drivers.

That sort of incentivize won't reverse a recession like deficit spending can. But it has a real effect.

The critiques of QE never really panned out.

>The Fed has dug itself into a hole with QE, where it is losing the ability to control anything in the economy due to the lower 0 bound of the FFR and the economy's inability to handle an interest rate hike.

The fed always has the option of last resort. Actually printing money and buying debt from government directly.
> Another way to say it may be that it's impossible to separate observation from the intrinsic properties of the world.

I think it is more parsimonious to say that there are no intrinsic properties of the world that are not relational, not that they are impossible to separate from observation. It defeats the purpose of interpretations like relational quantum mechanics to hold on to the concept of an intrinsic reality when the interpretation makes such a concept superfluous.

I would say that it is impossible to disentangle the intrinsic properties of the world from observations in the same way that going north of the North Pole is impossible.