skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to be missing something here. Someone mind helping me out?

The code posted in the "infringing" article does not appear to be a copy of the code in the OP's repository. Nor do the images (OPs are green, the "infringing" articles are blue).

The OP's code also does not have the header in the file, which makes innocent infringement a lot easier to do.

It really does look like the "infringing" author was inspired by the OP... but there's nothing being stolen that I can see here.
Xerox PARC already had it for Mesa/Cedar in the early 80's, which was the inspiration Niklaus Wirth had for his Oberon system.

Which was a statically typed systems programming language with RC and local GC.

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/34...

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparcteCedarProgra...

The progress we have lost with mainstream ignoring Xerox PARC research in programming environments.

Those workstations already had something like IPython and Swift Playgrounds available.
This is almost a self-parody of an overbuilt system. Be aware that a lot of stuff you'll read war stories on is hugely overdesigned, especially in the cloud, because it's basically like playing engineering legos.

When someone else is paying for it, it's a huge amount of fun. If you're paying for it yourself, eliminate as many layers of the 'stack' as you can get away with.
The question is whether the codes were sufficiently far apart that you couldn't stumble onto one by accident, or whether they were similar enough that you could generate LAUNCH MISSILES by accident with a typo, even if you never went near the safe and had no idea what your message actually meant.
Are they tracking the CEOs of companies in which they invest, or what?

Tracking A, B, and C-level executives should be very profitable. Who meets with whom is valuable info. Especially when you also have their phone call metadata. The activity in advance of a merger should be quite visible.

Tracking elected officials should reveal who influences whom, and who's bribing whom. It may be possible to detect bribery to the level of establishing probable cause for an investigation in that way.
Yep! I wanted to specifically target uses who would actually want to get a reminder. Its been pretty effective since. Almost 80% open rate on emails that people send to themselves and over 20% click rate. This is a huge win for any notification/ bookmark.
VLC for Android dropping ID permissions requirements
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The issue with the idea of the flipped classroom is I feel the proponents only examine the "happy path" as you might call it in QA. Assuming parents are invested in their child's education and enforce the consumption of the lecture materials and preparation for class the next day the system sounds great. The current model of education in this country is designed (for better or worse) around the opposite paradigm. Mandatory schooling dominated by lecture allows the establishing of a minimum level of exposure. And then homework with penalty provides the negative feedback to ensure (as best possible) the minimum of parental involvement. You still need a home life that treats education as a priority to get excellent results but the floor is capped as best we can.

You see this thinking in almost every metric by which we grade schools. % failing to pass test, % drop out, etc are all built on the foundation of measuring the efficacy of the achievement floor.
Gotthard Base Tunnel
True, though unrelated. Here's where it comes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_gazza_ladra
I'm not the author (or the other guy) but it's revelatory, in a bad way, that this possibility never occurred to me. Stupid de-personalization of the internet.
VoIP calls over VPN over cellular data are likely to have extreme reliability, latency, and jitter problems.
I know a few people who've been home schooled. You would never be able to tell unless they told you (which is how I found out in every case)
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This a solid analysis and will be a very interesting piece to refer back to in five years. It sketches out the extreme machinations these huge companies need to go through to get their deals structures, and I for one am very curious about the end-game that Dell has in mind.

A couple points stuck out to me; one the comment that Dell's capital cost will be lower in part because they aggressively paid down the debt from going private a few years ago. That has to be one of the most valuable reputations in the world -- probably saved over a billion dollars on this deal, just from having good credit. Yow!

The other that's interesting perspective is noting that EMC alone could pay the debt burden here with what it's been spending on share buybacks.

It's also interesting that we have massive moves from industry participants going both directions right now: HP splitting, and EMC/Dell merging, both looking to unlock extra value.

Something in me tends to not trust the 'break em up' push from activists; I guess I tend to believe synergies are real things. At some level, maybe activists don't disagree, but think they encourage bad or lazy behavior, and break-ups force harder thinking and focus from management teams that are fat and happy.

If that's true, my bet would be on Dell turning this into something good; Michael seems very motivated to me from watching his moves over the last few years.
You responded to a rhetorical question and completely ignored my response to your ridiculous claim that sugar is being unfairly singled out. Why is that?

Because it's delicious

It's not though. It's only delicious for people who have high sugar intake. And besides, deliciousness is subjective and orthogonal to nutrition, while nutritional value is largely objective (we hope).

Smoking is bad for you, so it's illegal for minors to buy and it's illegal to even smoke with a minor in the car. High sugar intake is bad for you, so it's illegal to advertise sweets to children /s.

Maybe we should focus on why people use food to feel happy rather than why food is manufactured to make people feel happy.

You really think for us to have any hope of changing the prevalence of obesity is to get people to change their behavior, instead of minimizing the accessibility and prevalence of the environment which reinforces said behavior? It'd be great to do both, but realistically...? Get millions of people to change their behavior and opt for the more expensive / less flavorful foods? (And I mean less flavorful in a subjective sense, since they're used to very sweet, very salty things.)
Repetition, when overdone, leads to an absence of learning. And repetition in the context of rote memorization is often actively harmful to learning. The biggest thing missing in modern public education is synthesis, because there's no time for it, but that's how learning truly sinks in and becomes valuable. Otherwise it's all just disconnected trivia.
Does it matter?

If most people consuming a lot of added sugar also consume too many calories, and most people not consuming too many calories also don't consume a lot of added sugar, then isn't it still good advice to most people to stop eating so much sugar?

Yeah there's probably some case of some kid eating his weight in bananas and getting obese from that. Or someone that has a lot of added sugar but controls their calories just fine. So sure, the statement "obesity is caused solely by added sugar" or "all added sugar is bad" may not be totally accurate.

But unless you really think that added sugar and calories and obesity are totally unrelated, surely you can agree that the statement "if you're obese you should probably tone down the sugar" makes some sense.

The vast majority of people aren't carefully counting their calories and daily nutrient values. They aren't saying "well if I have this soda I should only have half of my entree". The information "maybe just stay away from the soda" is a net benefit to them.

If you're that guy that's counting all of your calories, sure, maybe the studies that don't control for that won't help you. They're measuring something else. But they're measuring what most people are doing.
> Before coming to the US I would never consider "maintaining a healthy weight" (I've lived in the UAE and India before).

To be fair, the UAE has approximately the same obesity rate as the US.
The best thing my school did was moving to the 'block' system. Instead of having 6 or 8 classes to go to every day, I had 4 classes a semester. It also meant that my algebra class, or biology, was twice as long as your 'standard' class at another school.

The block system meant that the instructor had twice as long with the students and could really dig into a subject. It also meant we didn't usually have homework because it wasn't necessary-the instructor taught, we learned, we drilled on it in class.
The Odds That a Panel Would 'Randomly' Be All Men Are Astronomical
Controlling more parameters so that there are fewer variables between test cases being compared usually reduces the degree to which an experiment is misleading. (Ideally, one parameter would vary and "all else is held constant").

Failure to control total calories just about damns the validity of any diet study right off the bat.
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Rethinking TV back to 1080p maximum while everyone Android TV and Smart TVs built in apps are all 4K?
I have to agree on this point. If everyone thought the original analysis was the final word, then there would be no need to release the source. Other people are going to think that there was a better way to do things, and that was the point of releasing the code, to facilitate that exploration.
To be honest — and there are numerous reports which confirm this — drones are dangerous. Though I personally enjoy flying around with my Parrot, I can easily see how they are capable of inflicting severe damage or even killing people given the right circumstances. With consumer oriented drones becoming faster, heavier and offering more precise aerodynamic control, it's very likely that future terrorists will simply pickup drones from Walmart and fly them into a crowded or mission critical junction point (like a power supply in the city center).

Paste some explosives on those drones and you can simply fly in, killing dozens of people without ever being seen in the neighborhood as you safely control your drone from miles distance.
I find it hard to understand what circumstances force them into this kind of homelessness. In most cases, within a 1 hr public transit commute, you can find a reasonably priced studio apartment. This reminds me of how poverty can sometimes be tied to behavioral issues, Esther Duflo of MIT has written about this- poor people spending extra money to buy a TV instead of more calories, for example. I wonder if something like that is in play here.
Yes! Thanks for the correction! I'm an idiot. I got confused because this is exactly the kind of article Bogost (who is a game designer/researcher and also writes for The Atlantic) would write. Not that this is a valid excuse, but I read this article some time ago, when it was mentioned in Twitter by Bogost, and somehow got confused and didn't read the byline this time :(
> prepaid so the provider doesn't need your personal info.

I don't think this is possible in the USA anymore. I tried with ATT Verizon and Tmobile but I'm sure they are smaller players. All required somewhat my personal info altho for prepaid Tmobile did not ask for SSN. All told me this is due to the fact you're getting equipment "practically free". When offered to actually pay for it, I was always told "we don't have option like that".

Europe is much simpler. I walked into Play store [1], put $60 on table, and got USB dongle with prepaid scratch card of 6GB on a 3G network. No IDs, no documentation, nothing. Refills are very simple - you purchase a scratch offs for 3/6/9 GB or more, over the counter, no ID required.

[1] http://www.play.pl
Did you get your background in austrian economics from 4chan university? Cause thats what it sounds like, heck you overtrolled me.
This is awful to read. We need a tool to make votes clear and searchable. Is there a database of them someplace we could query?
Surprised that Steven Pinker is on the vanguard of this clear writing movement, when his writing tends to be very opaque and difficult to parse. Started reading The Blank Slate, but couldn't finish it because it was so dry.
Already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453401
Would I spend $100 to save myself an hour over a couple of months? Probably not, no. Not as an individual dev who could spend 100 bucks and get much more value for it. I could buy intellij for for the same price for instance.
Whatever, Michael Jackson came out of the womb singing! Sha-moh!
Assigning blame for a system that sucks is tricky. That kind of narrating is often just an outlet for bias, frustrations and such. In reality the way things are has a long history, with interlocking effects and counter effects.

Teachers being unhappy with being teacher is a problem. It's partly because teaching is often an available profession, mostly due to how many we need. There are other things to blame too: Education is bureaucratic and regimented, this makes teacher dislike the job. It's the legacy of reactions to failures in the past, an attempt to make sure that schools can't fail kids. Class sizes are way too big, often. A class of 15 9 year olds can learn more in 4 hours than a class 30 9 year olds can learn more in 8. But, we need babysitting. Teachers don't have high pay or a respected place in our society. Etc. Etc.

The reality is that it's hard to do this right. It's easy to blame. Even if you're right, it's not useful.
What other companies are utilizing this data? Any beyond SAP, Airsage, etc... I'm trying to do some research in this area
What exactly does it do? I can't figure out how to translate "boost the Wi-Fi speed for a particular device" into any technical process.
\e is the most amazing shortcut for big ugly queries!

I found that I often want to do basic things, like see the schema and some sample values, maybe even the distribution of values.

So, I ended up building a web UI, to do all of these in just a few clicks. It's also a good way for non-developers to run basic queries - https://getvql.com
The idea here was that every single employee asked to do it refuses, in which case it simply doesn't get done. So then contempt of court becomes relevant for the entire group.
Except children don't sit down at school and begin a "school lesson". Basic education is going to cover Math, Science, Language, History and hopefully Art. So in a given subject there might be 5 hours of lesson time week. When framed that way, asking for another hour or 2 of practice time for mastery doesn't sound so unreasonable.
Ask HN: Exciting things to study(in CS) to break out of plateau?
Hey, everybody! I want to ask you for some advice.

I have been learning to code for a few years now, I've learned some programming languages, I've built some cool projects. I know things about Computer Science, but I am far from being a master of my craft.

Now I feel like I hit a plateau. I've got a bunch of things to do and to study, but it's going kinda slow, and feels kinda stale.

So I am looking for new and exciting avenues to exlore, I want to get "in the zone" of rapidly learning new skills and exploring unfamiliar subjects.

Can you suggest some new, cool, interesting things to do and explore? It can be a project or a book or a challenge, or some niche of CS I haven't thought of yet.

What gets you excited? What do you crave to learn?
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> Clearly a few days makes a big difference to a lot of people.

It certainly does hence why I mentioned 1-2 days assuming everyone was someone who does 2 day at the most :)

I'd imagine more people care about getting it in 1-2 days versus 3-5 days but I'm not sure how many care about the time difference in getting it same day. Sure people care but I feel like the bigger business opportunity is slimming down the inventory and retail presence.
It's worth noting that the normal VMW stock doesn't pay a dividend, either.
In meteorology and oceanography we call this type of plot a Hovmöller diagram [0], and I'm sure it goes by many other names, because it's hardly a difficult idea to arrive at. Perhaps you should credit one of those prior authors?

I would normally try to avoid the snark, but, setting the code-duplication issue aside, the rest of your complaints seem a bit thin-skinned, put in the light of the kinds of criticisms you find in normal scientific literature.

See aakilfernandes' comment here [1], for the appropriate way to look at this other person's comments on your analysis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovm%C3%B6ller_diagram

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459559
Because it's a political entity just like the IPCC, and they have political agenda instead of a scientific process?
http://www.who.int/governance/eb/eb_members/en/ 26% of the 34 members are muslim states: ALBANIA, EGYPT, ERITREA, GAMBIA, JORDAN, KAZAKHSTAN, KUWAIT, PAKISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA.
Throughout most of human history, any information you could find was always public. Private information is a social construct, and not one that often advantages individuals to concern themselves with.
One evening my wife, daughter and I were sitting in the living room. My wife and I were reading and my daughter was doing her Math homework, when all of sudden she asks "Did Heath Ledger commit suicide?"

I said "that's a weird question, what brought that up?" and she said they were talking about it at school today with the Dare Police Officer. I said "Oh you had a Police Officer in your class today?" and she said "Yeah, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays."

No one I've ever told that story to has ever commented on it.
Why would BT throttle bitbucket of all things? They don't have a competing service and bitbucket's share of BT bandwidth must be negligible.
Not the ONLY move...

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52a1db6969bedd87275...
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They are organized and they have bootcamps!

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>" I mentioned I'd not seen a good game with the Smokey the Bear. When I started a couple of weeks later, as I was introducing myself to the other programmers, one mentioned that he's working on a Smokey the Bear pitch that came out of the blue from the boss."

You could have turned the whole thing into a game. If he's willing to steal a Smokey the Bear idea, just how ridiculous of an idea is he willing to steal?
> "I'm referring to consumption of housing. Renting a house to live in with no prospect of reselling it."

If you rent then you don't have the rights to sell, renting a property isn't an investment anywhere in the world (as far as I know), how is that different in NYC and SF? Is this some sort of freehold/leasehold issue (leasehold may be a UK-only arrangement, not sure if it exists elsewhere)?
Joe Scarborough has a 95% lifetime rating from the American conservative Union, and he's on msnbc. Your statements are a lot more universal than the evidence supports and there are plenty of people who don't run for the hills if their network of choice has a diversity of viewpoints.
The license requires credit to be given-- it was not.
That wasn't what I was criticizing - I was criticizing the title on HN. It previously said (new paper). While that is true, in this context, it is actually a summary of existing information.

I was not criticizing the quality of information in the paper or article. I was criticizing the summary previously displayed on HN before it was changed, which suggests that someone agrees with me.
Well, there's ten minutes of my life I'll never get back!
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Beyond Remote: Talking about a remote work mindset
HDF5 is like a mini, portable filesystem. Pretty neat.
https://www.coursetalk.com has quite good reviews, especially on the more popular courses.
I suspect, based on the lines previous to that one, that the statement is related to the fact that honey is basically a high-sugar syrup. About 80% sugar, 17% water, and 3% "other". For comparison, simple syrup is 50% sugar and maple syrup is 60% sugar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Nutrition_and_compositio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup#Food_and_nutrition
>It is also not clear if the high blood pressure findings shown in the study would eventually lead to poorer health over time.

So in the article headline they state that the ambivalent marriage takes a toll on health, but in the article itself they clearly contradict this and state they are not sure whether this is even true (see above quote). I think AB-testing pointed out that the masses are becoming aware of Betteridge's law and online media now show more caution when publishing headlines with question marks at the end.

It's not unlikely that a few months ago, this article would have been published as "Does the ambivalent marriage take a toll on health?". At least then it would have been clear from the get-go that this is linkbait.
This is where I think technology and legislation can really be helpful. A standardized structure for encouraging the top achievers combined with a national database of templates and problems to accommodate the wide spectrum of students would go along way.
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It's not easy for low SES students to learn much from homework.

Schools are designed by upper-middle-class people who care a lot about school. The problem students are from a very different background.

It's nice to say that teachers should be doing parenting for kids (building their self esteem, helping them develop as people, etc), but that's just glorified daycare. The poor students need to be taught to read, write, and do math, because that's what their parents can't help them with.

Education is meant to give every child a chance. I really think poor people have decent general cognitive skills (problem solving, relationships, etc), but really need a leg-up when it comes to formal academic work.

I don't think schools are really helping kids, when they shunt the fundamentals off to parents, as homework. 6 hours a day should be plenty to develop basic numeracy and literacy. But that's often not a priority to educators. It's more fun for teachers to tell themselves they're being parents - teaching kids how to develop as people.
Absolutely. But by the time our inept government even gets around to considering regulations for...well, whatever that may entail, Google will already be heavily profiting off of whatever R&D they assembled years before.

This is what our tax dollars give us. It's the government's fault they can't keep this guy on the payroll. On the whole, there's such mindbendingly little personal incentive to solve problems in the public sector when entities in the private sector will offer you whatever you desire in pay/benefits.
> Thinking of enlightening questions is often quite difficult.

And this is a big piece of the problem with homework. Enlightening questions could be asked as homework, but various forces create an emphasis on quantity over quality.

As someone who's taught arithmetic to lots of adults, I use 'enlightening' in a broad sense. I hope most of us agree that grasping arithmetic requires practice (in or out of class), but that's not the same as repetition. Even simple arithmetic problems can be varied in deliberate ways that draw students' attention to those variations and at the same time reinforce the underlying pattern.