skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Both Points,

Please provide sources for your claims which go against accepted knowledge.

The exploiters do so as a means of earning money, if its legal what use do the prostitutes have for an exploiter? Why not just tell the cops someone is extorting them? Its much easier to go to the cops if what you're doing is not illegal. You don't hear about people going to the cops when they get ripped off trying to purchase something illegal, or have something illegal stolen because doing so is self-incriminating, make it legal see what happens
If by "difficult to teach" you mean kids who cause problems for the other kids, then yeah. I went to a Catholic high school, and they did not tolerate disruptions. That allowed them to have classes with almost 50 kids and still have better than 95% of the graduating class going on to a four year college.
I wish I was Jeff Bezos...
It works for some things... It doesn't for others, but there's a lot more social justice than in many other places
I worked for a year as a tutor in an elementary school. Even the first graders are doing six or seven standardized tests every year, plus random additional tests (including those given by me and my fellow reading tutors, testing every student in the school three times yearly to see if they qualified to be tutored).

The kids would even get their scores back too, so would be distraught when they didn't match up to other classmates who would brag about doing better. I tutored kids who were behind a bit in reading, so of course my students were consistently stressed out before the tests and afterwards, they would tell me how this bullshit test meant that they're "stupid". I had many kids use that exact word.

The teachers universally hated it too, since they constantly had administrators breathing down their necks and it severely restricted their freedom to teach creative, engaging material.
$50 is a month's wages in rural India. And let's not factor in illiteracy, lack of electricity, no wifi etc.
A while ago I read a comment (probably on HN) that said that
the firmware in modern mobile hardware deliberately slows the processor down over time to counterbalance aging.

I took this as some crazy planned obsolescence conspiracy theory and didn't bookmark it. Now I'm not really sure if that's really that crazy but I can't find the comment anymore.
Did you deny low-rated riders pickups?
I like the idea, but I feel like as soon as I'm caring about performance and looking at Python code, something has gone terribly wrong.
The Stack That Helped Medium Drive 2.6 Millennia of Reading Time
OEIS is a great project and always was of great help for me. Still, they did not yet receive the attention they deserve.

Anything that helps them to get more attention is a good thing.

However, I would have preferred if they put their energy into making their website, and especially the search results, more pleasant to look at. Nevertheless, "Play a Sequence" is a nice gadget.
I think detecting the malicious process will be the harder problem. You could monitor instruction patterns but this will certainly come with a performance penalty.
Yes, although I wouldn't describe this as "2nd derivative queries", but more like "put the code that you need anyway into two separate layers (tools) with clean boundaries and a persistent intermediate result".
People noticed that crime happened around certain types of establishments.
> News tickers revealed which gates the army was entering from, where police were situated, and which areas were being cordoned off. Inside the airport, the militants were keeping up with the TV updates and adjusting their positions accordingly. “I accept this is the wrong thing,” Hyder said later, with a guilty laugh. “But what can I do? It’s my work.”

Hey, the militants must've also accepted they were doing the wrong thing, but what can they do? It's their job. /sarcasm

Great job for strengthening the terrorists' position. The good guys in the government and police are trying to combat the insurgency, and these leeches are undermining that effort.
Less standardized testing. More socratic learning method in small-sized classes, taught by highly paid teachers. That results in better prepared less stressed students who get admissions to better universities. They then get better jobs, beget richer kids, who then get admissions into private schools, and so on it goes.
Why isn't this the top rated post? No matter what you think of the subject matter, the newspeak is running bold and thick in this piece. It's like the dihydrogen monoxide scare without the irony.
Well, no. There's also the small matter that private school teachers tend to be amazingly more qualified. I've heard of PhDs teaching at some of the very top private schools. By contrast, state school teachers are poorly trained and poorly paid.
As other people say, you are only looking at part of the picture. Plants need different wavelengths and these change through the plant's lifecycle.

LEDs are not optimal but plenty of people have reasonable success with them.

Personally I have a 250w metal halide. My electricity is $0.12 per kW/h so 10 hours per day costs me $0.40.

I grew with fluorescent before that and I would use that again.

I don't grow cannabis - chillis and basil at the moment but come spring I use it to sprout seedlings for the University allotment.
Eskimo, Infected Mushroom, GSM, orbital,
If Ai Weiwei posted his p.o.box address on e.g. Twitter, I'm sure he would soon have more than enough Lego for his project.
Distraction really works. Meditation works really well. I used it recently when I was having a lot of pain. Also, this works really well but I'll understand if you're skeptical http://breakingmuscle.com/health-medicine/the-most-famous-ac...
I find this ironic, as I've lived in a few cities in mainland China and it was almost impossible to walk more than a couple blocks without seeing a "massage parlour" or the like. In spite of it being nominally illegal there, China seems a lot more tolerant of prostitution than the average US/Canadian city, so I don't imagine an ad like this would have much effect.
That sounds pretty cool, what cameras do you use? Do you have the code for the web app available somewhere?
Grep is not that naive, afaik.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393587
I switched to a Wacom pad and I really like it. It's a little weird to get used to picking up the pen but that is mostly when context switching between programming and web browsing.

I have heard good things about using a vertical mouse but I haven't tried it.
Jack Dorsey is currently running two startups...
Yes, there are very few careers and/or hobbies that are _not_ mundane.

I like to make paper figurines in my spare time. I like seeing how the designs work together. However, about 90% of the time is spent either cutting the figure out, or folding/creasing the figure out. I really hate those parts, but I know that it's necessary for me to make the figure I want.

It's 90% mundane, but the 10% I spend actually putting it together, as well as the finished product, makes it worth the monotony, in my opinion.

And I think that's where passion lies--in a person's ability to trudge through the monotony because of the end goal.
Why don't private schools have to deal with these "dull-normals" too? Having rich parents doesn't disqualify one from having below-average IQ.
To fix this problem, we introduced the simple rule that new
stable releases of the software must (a) talk to old stable
releases and (b) they must support existing apps, without
changes. We more or less succeeded with that, so ZeroMQ
versions 3.2 and 4.0 work nicely with 2.2 and 2.1, for
example.

...and pain ensued.
Real shame there's no root access. I understand what Amazon is doing - but if love to have turned these into some glorified smart displays.
Like bar fights?
Author makes a comment that "If we just run /bin/true, we can do 500 of them in a second" -- this is very platform dependent -- i think Linux' process creation is supposed to be 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than Windows, for example (i don't have the exact numbers though).
No true Scotsman disagrees with the article.
Assuming your pattern is static, it shouldn't be much slower. String matching can be done in linear time with some preprocessing: check out Knuth-Morris-Pratt and Boyer-Moore algorithms.

Basically, the idea is that you build a deterministic finite state automaton and try feeding the string through it. Each character would cause exactly one automaton transition. Therefore, you can do the whole thing in O(n) after you pay the cost of preprocessing to build the automaton, with a quite tiny constant for small patterns.
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The (Mis)guided Dream of Graham Greene
A better name for the article: "How to justify industrial regulations and carbon tax with references to Apollo program".
Uh huh yes. The sum wealth of humans today is vastly larger than that of humans 100, 500, 1000, 5000, and 10000 years ago. Vastly.
SF Businesses Find New Hires Hard to Find
My idea for o3db is currently: I'm using date to calculate version number. But the server side will announce protocol and version. This allows both a continuous release, and experimenting with server protocols.
How Microsoft's Secret User Onboarding Process Fooled Us All
What projects in Haskell are considered to have well-written, idiomatic code?

I looked at some about a year ago but almost all projects I saw had lot of IO and bangs everywhere.
As a nation, we've decided that every child should be educated. I think that's a good goal to have, although there may be a more efficient way to do it. We kind of have a system in place with magnet schools and selective enrollment, but that's for high school.

>allow schools to suspend/expel students who are repeatedly disruptive or violent in class

I think education and patience are helpful in teaching kids to vent their frustrations in more productive ways, so depriving them of those things seems likely to make it a vicious cycle.
Private schools can choose who they want to admit
Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
"I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?" —George Carlin
We are apparently just one design for nuclear-powered dredges away from a cheaply constructed Kra Isthmus canal, exactly as you say.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/5172272_Kra_Canal_(T...

That tech aside, Chinese ventures have had their eyes on the idea of a canal there for a long time. Six months ago they apparently put out a premature press release (as Chinese firms tend to do with construction megaprojects for some reason) in this direction, which was disavowed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Canal
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Did you mean to say, 'Low quantity (as in price) has a quality all its own'? That's what this Ars Technica review is saying. That, surprisingly, it's good enough for most tasks despite being cheap as chips. So it's not low quality, that'd mean it's kinda crap, I bought one of those cheap chinese tablets a few years back and that _was_ low quality. Ugh. This is good enough quality and cheap.

I have a nexus 7 (2013) and gave the kid my 2012 Nexus 7, and I'm still thinking of getting one of these just because. And a Nexus 9, which I think is drool-worthy.
So your opinion is that the sane choice is to give up?
>As a nation, we've decided that every child should be educated.

The key point is that the current approach is failing at this. It's possible that by giving up on the really hard cases and focusing more on the average cases, it would be possible to educate more children than the current approach achieves. Better to reach for a good outcome and succeed than to reach for a perfect outcome and fail, so to speak.

>I think education and patience are helpful in teaching kids to vent their frustrations in more productive ways, so depriving them of those things seems likely to make it a vicious cycle.

The problem is that spending time in school doesn't necessarily equal education, especially for the most difficult students. As a hypothetical, if it could be known that a particular student is 99% likely not to gain anything from being forced to spend the next 3 years in a classroom, and it's also known that this student harasses other students, reducing their ability to benefit from learning, would the benefit of keeping this student in class on the 1% chance they'd gain something outweigh the downsides?
You could use electric power from PV and wind to heat molten salts instead of a solar concentrator. Sure you lose 40% when you convert it back via a gas turbine+generator. But considering the falling costs of PV/Wind vs solar thermal, might make sense. If PV or wind is 1/2 the cost of solar thermal you might as well skip the power tower and mirrors.
Exacerbated by the fact the repo uses `/usr/bin/env python` instead of explicitly python2 or python3 - which means it will use python 2.x on any PEP394-compliant system, and python 3.x on e.g. Arch.
Pretty sure you could find oral and anal sex throughout human history with non-prostitute intimate partners, just maybe not all of them or at least varying rates depending on the era.

Some women and men love these sexual acts so it seems like they would pursue them even in the past. Maybe people are more open to admitting that they engage in these activities than those folks in the past, as well.
I think that attitude is great. It leaves room for the people who think "OK this exists. Now how about making GOOD version of it."

Problems start when everybody too perfectionist or everybody is too quick and dirty.
> Count the motivations to resist alterations that would doubtless improve Chromium's respect for privacy.

That's a very indirect way of explaining motivations. I am certain that there are conflicting requirements that have tradeoff and not as black-and-white as you make it seem.

Firefox is a great contrast to Chromium since they are likely to have greater respect for privacy. Is there a privacy aspect that Chromium lags significantly behind Firefox? If not, then your hypothesis (on motivation) is wrong (proof by contradiction: Mozilla doesn't have the same motivations)
Maybe in later grades it's helpful, I don't think it requires a phd to teach 8 year olds multiplication tables. Private school, as far as i can tell, have 18 kids with an aide per classroom. Public school will have 30-40 kids per class.

I dunno. if it was easy it wouldn't be a problem. There are lots of dials to turn. As you say, qualification levels of teachers is is one, frequency of testing is another. I think the least effort improvement is just smaller classes.
On one hand I agree: yes things like this are a step into what is common tech for us in the hands of people all over the world. On the other hand I sometimes have serious doubts about whether it is really needed to push our consumption society into these countries where there are often still problems with basics like clean water/hygiene/electricity/birth control/housing/western influenced dirty industries/...
Well there must be private schools somewhere that admit children of below-average intelligence, due to the profit to be had from rich parents with said children, so perhaps it would be instructive to look at how those schools handle it.
Obfuscation: how leaving a trail of confusion can beat online surveillance
And then ignored what they noticed and implemented their prejudices/aversion/"moral values" as laws.
No one is very well served by the current system, I would agree. But if you start thrusting out the bottom end of students without even the increasingly value-less credential of a high school diploma, you're effectively consigning them to the prison system for life. With so many under-employed liberal arts college grads and aged-out boomers sucking up the low-end jobs, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find jobs for those who have only high school diploma, let alone those who don't have even that thin sheet of paper to their name.
From my limited experience with friends from private schools, I've seen that they usually have better infrastructure, lab equipment, etc.

Also from what I was told, teachers usually are payed better so a lot of them come from better universities and also it seems that they are better updated on current technologies.

Of course this will depend on school and I also think even private schools get some crappy teachers/bad syllabus, but in general I think it boils down to having either better material stuff or better trained teachers or both.

Edit: Forgot to add that these two improved areas seem to combine to give much better learning experience which in the end seems to somewhat correlate to student success.
Fair point. An alarm fatigue of sorts.
Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death
...and how we're unique individuals from the very very beginning. Pretty wonderful/amazing.
This is what happened in the Mumbai attacks in 2007 too, the media was giving away every single thing happening outside.
> governments are (as the data shows) really, really bad at. eg. reforming the education system

Are you sure? Finland government did pretty good in reforming education system..

> governments are a monopoly

No they are not! Bad governments, maybe. But ideally, they should be democratically controlled by the population, and then the usage of the term "monopoly" is meaningless. (Not to mention that each nation competes with other nations.)
Intriguing. So, regardless of the noise, you think the signal will resonate due to its demand by the consumer. But, won't the first commenter's idea play here where consumers get sick of trying new products after getting burned?
Sending Children Parcel Post
They are nearly finished with the third locks (operation expected in 5 months). They are now contemplating a fourth set of locks, which would provide competition with a pending Nicaragua supercanal at a small fraction of the price, and provide room for the sort of ships that are launching now.

Cargo and cruise ships ships got very big, very fast this century amidst the sustained high oil prices. 20 years ago the record holder was around 5k TEU, the current Maersk Triple E, produced in quantity, runs 18k TEU.

An 8" height difference seems fairly trivial in the broad scheme of things. This would be a very long canal. Far lesser ships navigate rivers against much steeper drops.
Jersey to introduce 'light touch' Bitcoin regulation
In Russia, his diary published an edition of 800 copies. Only 800! In the educational program of schools it is not present. What to say about the West?) Translation matches to the original, but cut his more emotional statements about the criminal policy of Chamberlain and Daladier
Of course you'll see lots of IO. An application without side effects is rather useless.
That is not a crime, but recreation.
Yes, sorry, I misunderstood you. You can't use a fold expression to fold a binary function over a parameter pack as far as I know. You can fold application of a unary function using a fold over the comma operator though.
In what brave new world is this a bad thing?
> Denying private citizens the ability to have great wealth basically gives the Government a large scale monopoly on far out projects.

Not necessarily. People can still organize, collect wealth and build a large scale project themselves. Or the bureaucrats running companies can organize and together finance big projects. There are many other possibilities.

> allow the private citizen to decide how to deploy the fruits of their work

Assuming these really are their fruits, which is pretty disputable in case of very wealthy people.

> it's always easier to play with other people's money

I agree, and this is actually the reason why one person owning a billion may be more willing to invest to crazy projects than a thousand people owning million each.
Well, when the data looks like this... http://mathbabe.org/2012/03/06/the-value-added-teacher-model...

That could be embarrassing. "Objective" teacher performance measures all seem to be as bad as, if not worse than measuring programmer performance with SLOC.

Oddly enough it looks like the proposals he was trying to ram through in New Jersey look like a attempt at teacher union busting. Why Zuckerberg would involve himself in that is a bit of a mystery.

While he seems to be the public face, it could be that a lot of the money doesn't come from him.
There is both a decline in prostitution as well as a huge decline in prostitute salaries. At the turn of the 19th - 20th century, prostitutes who weren't madams were making the equivalent of about $400,000 - 500,000.
> Alternatively: do you know how much your computer could do in a second, but isn't, because the majority of software is so full of inefficiency?

Amusingly, in the first example, the compiler's static analysis concludes that the entire for loop can be omitted. I have no idea how they came up with that precise number...
CodeShip: Our Experience with Immutable Infrastructure
"So, if government introduced land-value tax most of those people would not be able to afford paying it, effectively forcing them to sell their apartments."

That is a laughably stupid argument. What if the LVT were set very low at 1% of rental values, they would all be able to afford to pay it.

If LVT - however high - were used to replace other taxes which low earners have to pay, then nearly all of them would still be able to afford it.

Further, as you say yourself, those people got given those apartments for free or for cheap and have lived there rent free ever since.

A younger person wanting to live there would have to pay a large amount of money - you said so yourself.

So LVT levels the playing field, which must be a good thing.
Based on the next paragraph, a typo of XXE, or XML External Entities.
zaw's[1] history widget on Ctrl-R is so much better than the regular backward history search that it's difficult to imagine using a shell without it anymore.

1: https://github.com/zsh-users/zaw
Maybe you can find plenty of this before the Dark Ages, but after that - I'm not so sure especially once Victorian culture starts to spread.
That's the free market: competition between different media agencies and no government regulation.
Don't forget that there is always market for exploitation itself. The whys of prostitution are more complex than making someone cum - there will always be sick people that enjoy the shadiest of places, exactly because the girls are broken, terrified and so on. Legalization won't help at all with fighting that type of crime.
Researchers use engineered viruses to provide enhancement of energy transport
Well there's the question of how much of it is being provided by sex slaves. Still, prostitution is not as wide spread as it was in the US before the 1960's.
I wouldn't have characterized that as evil per se, but the fact that they are just not disclosing these restrictions is at the very least a communications failure, if not a shady business practice. It would have been completely understandable if they had just mentioned the existence of these restrictions, but they haven't.

If you start using LFS, you are effectively losing features and the product becomes worse for a lot of their users, a lot of them paying customers.

The question is not whether this was being just inflammatory (it was) but rather whether it was unwarranted criticism.

Disclaimer: I am the author of the article.
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