skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If no one listens to you, but lots of people listen to you when you put a certain hat on, and you feel the subject is an ethical imperative for you, then speak your mind, I say. Be prepared to deal with the consequences of course, which may include derision, abandonment, cynicism, or apathy.
But you as a parent could easily fix that. Schools don't have a monopoly on education.
Summon puts secrets metadata into source control; not actual secrets.
Running a payment gateway and authentication services is like painting a massive target on your back. The security must be impeccable, one mistake would be a monumental score on the part of a cracker.

A VPS introduces many layers of possible weakness, that could be used a entry points for an attack.

PHP just isn't the right tool for the job. I agree with you, that at this point in time it's secure. I trust that other languages, with smaller, simpler code bases will be more secure over time.
>We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide.

-Alan Watts, Way of Zen
What aren't you getting? There are tons of companies in Silicon Valley that only hire local developers because they don't believe remote working is as effective. If you want to hire a local developer, those are the companies you compete with.

You try to make it sound ridiculous by changing location with the car they drive, but that is intellectually dishonest because it's not clear remote work is as efficient. There is a reason Google doesn't allow it.
Agreed, my girlfriend's school implements iPad use and she has none of these problems. They have a single IT person in the school who setup all the iPads. My gf setup guided access on her 30 ipads to lock them down and the kids only use them for 1 or 2 lessons max. The majority of her teaching is down without iPad use. A lot of the author's issues seem to be a lack of awareness on technology, how to use iPads, and even proper classroom management.
> negatively impact basic arithmetic skills

Yep and that skill was rendered completely obsolete. Always remember being told "you won't always have a calculator with you!!" because I couldn't be bothered showing my working on my maths work.

How did that work out... oh everyone now always has calculators with them. Glad I didn't waste my time memorising multiplication tables.
Exponential growth is needed only for keynesian economists because it keeps their pyramid scheme called welfare state running. If you have a decent one-digit economy growth on non-inflatable money (bitcoin), then everything Just Works. Money does not suddenly lose all its value because no one is printing it to extend never-ending credit that leads to inevitable collapse of inflated expectations and reality of finite supply of resources.
It is just a matter of remembering the tricks. (9x10) + (9x4)
> please tell me why playing with Legos is any more valuable than playing minecraft?

First, it's important for children to use their hands to develop their cognitive abilities. There is more in the world than just "pictures behind glass" to interact with and manipulating objects of various shapes, texture and weight is important.

Secondly, playing Minecraft is great, but maybe that's not what the kids were rushing to do. If they were playing Candy Crush or reading Facebook they would benefit more from playing lego.
Or it could mean that what you think of as "you" can't access the parts of your brain that makes decisions. Just like it can't access how you digest food.
RNN identifies dangerous roads from sound input
Minecraft is multiplayer, and supports chat.
The China Study[1] is a really good book that contains a lot of research about the effect on chronic disease a vegan diet has. I found it very interesting.

Did you read any of the critisism though? Here are some

http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/China-Study.html

http://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/...

http://rawfoodsos.com/the-china-study/
> Usually people choose their governments via media nowadays and media are really, really bad.

In the US maybe, but not in france. There's been very little pro-nationalist coverage in france, even after the attack. The rise of nationalism has more to do with the french observing the changes happening in their own neighborhoods and not wanting their country to become an Islamic nation.
Money is a big player in the accusations. GhostSec insists Ghost Security Group is under paid contract from the federal government now that they've gone legit. Members of Ghost Security Group, as well as Smith, have said this is unequivocally false. They say the only money that sustains the Group comes from donations.

If money wasn't a key factor in going legit, then why do it? You don't go to the lengths they went to unless you have money to support a legit operation. Clearly, they haven't registered as a non-profit, so saying they survive on donations is a bit. . .well. . . suspicious.
iPads are primarily high end content consumption devices - in my mind, that makes them a strange choice for education.
Thanks a lot! We will do our best to provide a valuable product and hopefully you'll decide to come and work with us in the future! ;-)
Sharp 20 kHz LPF that is present in almost all lossy codecs. The 20+ kHz gives you the certain feeling of "air", but doesn't actually affect the music quality in the meaningful way.
UK supermarket chain accidentally introduces 20% discount at 140 stores
A phone can do anything your desktop or laptop can do given sufficient memory. You didn't bring anything new to the table.

I don't even know why you would care about the energy consumption caused by wireless transfer except if your software doesn't need to be compiled because it's interpreted or your codebase is tiny. Also since you never talked about speed, compiling on a server can still be significantly faster than compiling on a phone.

By the way, why do you pretend to be a caveman? Can't you just think a little bit ahead? You don't send the entire software twice you only send the changes and assets don't have to be transferred back to your phone.
Cached Thoughts and Variations on a Theme
Controlling a motorcycle tachometer with a Raspberry Pi
no book of religion pushes people to grab a knife or a gun to harm others; crazy leaders do and unstable and uneducated people follow.

yet, even if we discard that previous point : forbidding religions would be exactly the same as creating one and pointing "believers" as enemies of "non believers" ... triggering more of what you try to stop

general education and broad tolerance between cultures (either religious or not) is quite probably the only way to move towards non violence and peace ...
So it's simple, you won't be able to hire any developers from silicon Valley. However, with such a shortage of competent developers, companies basically can't afford to ignore more expensive markets.

Just like with the car analogy, if you need to put together a fleet of vehicles immediately, you will have to buy anything that is available, including the one with the bigger engine.
I would argue that in this case it is a waste of education budget. Their high cost and non-core use sounds like it raises costs without cutting anything. For technology to work in the classroom, it needs to be attractive to administrators.
This was really painful to read.

I don't often think I have vision or significant insight, but it's been obvious to me for as long as I can remember that egregious use of technology in classrooms is a profoundly terrible idea. What, educators were worried children wouldn't spend enough time staring at glowing rectangles, and needed to get a head start? Really?

It's not clear whether most adults are even capable of making good decisions about what technologies to invite into their lives. Inflicting computers and software on children in a classroom, I think, demonstrates either profound lack of understanding about the state of these technologies, or judgement, or both.

Pens, pencils, crayons, markers, paper, books, musical instruments. These are the kinds of things that belong in classrooms. Children should be reading and drawing and building and talking and playing creatively, learning to think and solve problems based on experiencing the world directly, not trying to sip secondhand information through the straw of a screen, not wasting time with the latest malware and ads and passwords and an infinite amount of other stupid computer bullshit. Technology is a kind of heroin-like thing you should choose to invite into your life later as an adult if you want, not inflicted on you as a child.
Weird, I did it the other way - 9x10 + 9x4 = 90 + 36 = 126
If everyone followed that argument we would've missed so many interesting things, Facebook for instance.

Time can create a better context for an idea to develop. Or maybe the people attempting to implement it the nth time are not idiots or, or, or...
These programs are often funded by federal aid based on the number of students on free or reduced lunch. The money, IIRC, can really only be used for library stuff or technology, and it's a sort of 'use it or lose it' deal.
> Are schools afraid of really educating their students, as opposed to making them dependents of Apple's consumer culture?

I think a key component to the problem here is the very clear gap between computing enthusiasts/application developer and your typical K-12 teacher. Which is really not meant to be a knock on our teachers, but I don't think your typical school has the people with the right skill sets to teach "true" computing.

They don't realistically have any choice but to rely on the watered-down end user version experienced through the walled-garden of one vendor or another. Which makes most "technology in the classroom" initiatives to me look more like solutions in search of a problem (ie. not a very effective use of district resources).
>> people choose their governments via media nowadays...

I'm in the U.S. and this is quite true. Then again, it think it always has been. The difference now is that the media is owned by a the parties (or the parties and the media have become one) and simply push the party line rather than pushing a particular candidate. And the particular candidate that will move the nation farthest in the party/media's direction gets the most positive attention. And any candidate from the opposite side becomes "Hitler Satan" (TM).

>> ...media are really, really bad.

No, the media has become really, really good! It's just that what their good at is not what you think you want out of media. Once you realize the media exists to corral and direct you rather than inform you, you begin to see how truly good they've become.
A thought regarding the argument that iPads encourage anti-social behavior:

Many of us here were introduced to this immersive technology as mature adults & don't know how to balance this technology with the demands of humanity (namely, proper social communication). Give me an iPad, and I'll find a way to watch stupid videos and avoid productivity (that's why I don't have one). Or send me a text and I'll make my best effort at checking it ASAP, even if that means losing focus on a real conversation for a few moments.

BUT: humans have an innate need to communicate. It's not a generational thing--it's a human thing. Kids aren't going to forget they need to make quality bonds with the people in their lives. They'll still do it. And I bet these kids growing up now will be able to achieve this balance between man and machine better than us.

I predict: it's not technology we're going to learn from our kids--it's how to truly live well with it.
https://youtu.be/sxoda3pLdN0?t=1m24s

This is basic standard Thai used by all central Thais.
This blog post describes the tool a bit more:

http://nickapedia.com/2015/12/02/what-if-collecting-data-cen...

PS @orchestrate your comment appears as [dead]
It does. Specifically, it is carrying an implicit "which is":

> E-Prime, [which is] a prescriptive version of the English language, ...

That sentence should instead be written:

> E-Prime prescribes a version of the English language which excludes all forms of the verb "to be".
Earth Class Mail does it too.
CSS should have just been a functional programming language to begin with.
SF runs the gamut. I enjoy the hardest of the hard science fiction a'la the Martian but I like a good space opera, too.

Like the author said at the beginning of the article, a lot of SF is about character (first) and metaphor. If an author has to invent a method for unspooling pocket dimensions do dump heat into for the sake of the story, so be it.
I don't assume — may be I didn't state this in the most correct way. I ask the person about his listening habits and fashion sense when giving advice, of course. Often, brands like SkullCandy or UrbanEars are aesthetically closer to a person's style; Beats is just a good illustration of a principle.
I currently use Mozilla Persona to auth 50k users, with at least 15k sign-in events per month over 300 websites.

The biggest problems with login box, a.k.a. drov.io:

1) Trust. Who are you?

2) Pricing. Even with 300 sites, 1,000 concurrent users at any given moment, and fully dynamic sites, the proposed pricing for me of EUR 70 per month is a quarter of all my current costs. The cloud has made things very cheap, and this looks very expensive as a result.

3) Multi-user and PaaS. How could I grant access to the membership and management of one slice of users but not the rest? i.e. my 300 sites are on one platform, each site is typically a non-profit who own their own users... in theory they own their user database and I just host it, they should be able to manage it and for me to query that to apply authorisation within my app.

4) Longevity. If I consider moving things over... what happens in 18 months time if you reach the end of your runway? How could I reverse adopting this?

5) How do I identify a user? Assuming you auth them and then say "you're good", what single thing can I use to identify them that is meaningful to me? Persona returns a verified email for all users, are you able to do the same?

6) Are you static site friendly? i.e. Can the pages with the "Sign-in" box be cached and thus allow me to serve great numbers with little hardware, and does loading a page with a "Sign-in" box always trigger a HTTP request to you (if I'm under DDoS attack, is it going to take you down?)

7) How do you manage "email change"? Or things like "I signed in with my Gmail, but now I want to use my Github"?

Those things weigh heavily. Happy to talk with you about them, I notice that you're in London and so am I. These sites are side projects, not my main gig... just things that linger and that I still maintain.
> France is no longer a democratic country

"Democratic" and "liberal" are not synonyms. They often go together, but they don't have to: there is indeed such a thing as an "illiberal democracy" [0], and a bunch of them exist already (e.g. Singapore, Russia). France is still democratic, though it's taken a serious turn towards illiberal recently.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy
Heh, yeah.ZODB seems to be pretty good for the purpose here (it's performance is usually not the bottleneck).

But when indexing large texts, it becomes a problem. One way to solve it is instead of using generic serializing for data structures, take real structure into account. Many isinstance() calls cause the CPU bottleneck [http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za/Members/roche/where-im-calli...]. Though, it turns out to be not as bad [http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za/Members/roche/where-im-calli...]
Makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
I did not know this, thank you very much! Enlightening indeed.
Login-aaS seems conceptually strange to me.

With a tonne of example code for social logins, why do these services' customers prefer to pay for the privilege of trusting the indirect social login to the provider's service?

I'm very surprised if there isn't an open-source project with similar 'dashboard' etc. that Auth0 offers - and wouldn't the security-savvy guys prefer that?
Isn't the first graph erroneous (and subsequantly the others)?

How can the GDP/Capita in the Mad Max age stay the same than the GDP/Capita in ~2050?

Shouldn't it go back to the same level as the GDP/Capita during the stone age?

I'm probably missing something there.
Well, first time anyone's accused me of that. And yes, I think the West is indeed worse than Iran in this regard.
I don't know if you'll know this, but are they implementing any other safeguards on the Macbook Airs? (MbA) Just from doing tons of work in a Mac-centric university where the students' idea of pirating was to search "[item] download mac", the search results are crawling with predator sites that promise anything from PDFs to interactive solutions manuals, only to actually download a dmg full of malware (usually Mackeeper and a few others). And of course students (and professors alike) would dutifully punch in their admin pass without thinking about it, and quick enough there'd be a nice and infected machine.

What I'm getting at is if I were the tech admin for that school, I'd be less concerned about what 0-days exist in flash or java and more concerned about what people are willingly installing on their computer, and though this is obviously anecdotal, seeing what my younger cousin would end up installing despite our warnings, I'm inclined to think kids aren't up to the task just yet of full on computer management. Even fairly savvy kids would fall the the sales pitch of the one kid who found a free download for a popular game, which of course was packed with malware.
At my last job, we were still supporting .dlls written in VB6. Last I heard they had plans to upgrade them to .NET by Q2 2016.
My Russian is very very basic. Sorry.
> "This would be more convincing if this hadn't been the predicted future for decades already, repeatedly labelling various "human readable" or AI based solutions the new messiah only to realize non-programs are not interested in learning to program and getting rid of the language doesn't change it."

Non programmers do program a lot, they just don't recognise it as such. What are formulas in Excel if not programming?
Premises:

1. "Upshot: any work of SF that takes 'Lunar 3He mining' as an economic premise is about as plausible as one that assumes combustion powered by the release of phlogiston."

2. This argument applies to essentially anything requiring space travel. It's expensive, very delayed, unworkable based on any kind of science as we know her today, low margin, and generally silly.

Conclusion:

Charlie, as a science fiction reader, has very little reading to do.

* "Faceless 80's style corporations ruling entire planets (hint: who handles the externalities?)" I dunno, who handles the externalities for 2010s-style faceless corporations?

* "small farming planets (hint: just one ecosystem for a planet?)" Yeah, that one's pretty stanky.

* "the glib dismissal of life support systems in space as trivially easy to maintain" If it's not trivial, it's not likely to work very well over any kind of long-term. Any system that requires heroic efforts from superior individuals is going to fail in short order, very likely the second time it is used. Of course, it may fail spectacularly, dramatically, and very entertainingly. But probably not.

* "political structures based on design patterns proven to be unworkable in the context of any society more modern than the late middle ages" Anyone got an example of a political structure proven to be workable in the context of, etc, etc?

* "AIs that follow the disembodied-brain-in-a-box mode of Hal 9000" It's been a while, is that the Berkeley response or John Searle's?

* "futures in which we wear mini-dresses and three-piece suits, drive gas-burning automobiles (or hovercars: it's just a rabbit/smeerp replacement), carry handguns (or blasters: see rabbit/smeerp), eat the kind of food we eat today, live the kind of way we live today, and most importantly think the way we think today" Unfortunately, any use of the term "cache-sex" is verboten and should be expunged from the literature as she is known. The writer of such should be expunged from existence.

Conclusion:

"Edit: if there's an entry for your pet shibboleth in the Turkey City Lexicon don't bother repeating it here—I'm taking familiarity with the canonical list of cliches as a given."

Given that most of this article either appears in the canonical list, or ought to if Sterling and what's-his-name had thought of it, this ending makes the article delightfully self-negating. Très poste-moderne!

On the other hand, this kind of list of things-I-hate-about-all-of-the-rest-of-you has been rather done to death; examples in any decent library abound in much the same way as silverfish. See, por ejemplo, Strunk and White.

4/10. A good effort, but not extraordinary.
So, core technology is an AI system that, given a project, will automatically determine how long it will take and what sort of work will be required?

Great, I'll buy a license and tell my buddies here in New Mexico about it so we can compete with Gigster at probably 25% of whatever they're charging for apps, because New Mexico is cheap as all hell yet still remarkably beautiful. Don't tell too many of your friends, we're trying to keep it that way.

But seriously, this is nothing more than a development agency that happens to have a very cool piece of tech on hand that enables them to essentially productize development. That's cool. But eventually that same piece of tech will eventually be replicated and available to freelancers the world over, probably as a subscription-based service.

It doesn't even have to be that smart.
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"One of the sarcophagi, made from stone, bears a long inscription". Given that these sorts of inscriptions are usually very stereotypical and therefore not very revealing linguistically, this sound intriguing, is it too much to hope that it will advance our knowledge of the language ?
It was on the front page for 3 1/2 hours and you're complaining?

Interesting. If this is a problem you could consider not making your post live on the weekend.
Just because it doesn't run on the GPU doesn't mean it can't be fast. At least they acknowledge it's slow.
Fasthttp vs. nginx on static files: fasthttp wins