skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorta strange they're kicking people off Twitter (that Twitter allows it). Did they take down so many of those apparently otherwise normal French accounts that were pro-attack? It sets a bad free speech precedent too. It's not like it's exactly hard to host something on Tor.

I wonder if a Sybil-esque attack would be more fun on Twitter. Obviously you'd need to understand language and ideology, but then post well-made materials that are "subversive" and so on.
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But calculators actually did negatively impact basic arithmetic skills.

The number of people that can't do 9x14 without reaching for a calculator is scary.
Thanks for that information. But it would be nice if you answered my question.

How do you define headphone quality? Do you think that this definition is the same for everyone?
A few years back I worked in an open office setting and I went a little headphone crazy. I bought 4 pairs of over the ear headphones, and 5 pairs of in-ear headphones. I read all the forums and reviews. I even bought two headphone amps!

I ended up with a pair for home, pair for travel, pair for work, and a pair that go in my laptop case. I gave the other pairs to friends and family.

Headphone preference is just as much a personal preference as it is picking the 'best' ones. Some just aren't comfortable on certain shape/size heads or ears. You might just not like how certain pairs sound.
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Change also doesn't just happen because you dumped a computer in a room. I personally haven't seen a computer used effectively in a classroom, in a large part because the teachers don't know how to integrate them into their lessons. They were given devices and then given no instruction on how to use them.
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Given how little has changed in the way I'm programming compared to a decade ago, I'm going to guess very little.

edit: what has changed is size of data sets I can work with and speed at which I can manipulate them. 10 years ago 300-500 GB of data was quite a lot of data, now it's something I trivially work with on a middle of road computer using normal software without really having to worry too much about performance. Loading 20-30 GB data sets into memory is something I just do without really thinking about it, as is visualizing them in 3D.

Basically everything is the same, it's just 10 times bigger and 10 times faster
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Regardless of what the final outcome is, this paints a pretty bleak picture of how France is thinking currently.
Article hits pretty close to the truth in that our societal structure is based around males being trained to be loud and space-demanding while females are trained to "deal with it"
> a ban on free and shared Wi-Fi connections during a
> state of emergency

Restricting communication and access to news bulletins sounds like a terrible thing to do in a state of emergency!
> My lively little kids stopped talking and adopted the bent-neck, plugged-in posture of tap, tap, swipe.

I'm extremely skeptical about the utility of technology in education, but iPads are a bad idea for reasons other than the above. A room full of kids working hard with pre-iPad technology looks like that too, except they're concentrating on books and paper.
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10687787
I'm always suspicious of Etruscan finds. Some original 'tombs' were empty when first recorded, then mysteriously full of artifacts decades later. Something fishy going on.

And the finds are always so 'pat'. The museum I visited had amphorae with amusing graffiti, toys and knickknacks, even a 'pencil cup' with the Etruscan and Greek alphabets written around the top. So convenient! So that everything else could be instantly translated, this 'Rosetta stone' was included no extra charge.

And now a complete tomb found, with just the right sort of cool stuff to get the tourists coming back for another 10 years. Ok.
Those are the prices to build clones of those sites (I think).
I don't see a future in tablets. They removed the most important component for a programmer (keyboard). Sure you can get a bluetooth keyboard but then why didn't you get a laptop in the first place? If I'd remove something from a laptop it would be the screen and replace it with the hololens or some other holographic device.
And it's cheaper too...
Destabilizing. But IMHO they're much less of a problem, as they don't act as randomly as Saudi Arabia.
I strongly disagree. Beats is to headphones as Monster Cables are to wires. Pure overpriced marketing B.S.

It's fine if you want to buy them for the looks, but know that you are not getting the best sound quality achievable for said money.
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People have a tendency to brush those deaths off as "your own fault", or one off accidents. The media hyperinflation of events doesn't help either. It's actually really interesting to look at studies measuring people's relative evaluations of risk. One tidbit is that back around 9/11 and for a long while thereafter people believed that flying was more dangerous than driving, despite that being very untrue.
> Good headphones only bring marginally better sound over mediocre ones for most of the source material and format people hear

I have to disagree here. Perhaps it's just me, but when I listen to my music downloaded from iTunes over crappy headphones, then over my good headphones, there is a tremendous difference. I can hear synth beats, quiet drum hits, vocal inflections, and guitar riffs on the good headphones which are lost to the muddled and over-driven bass in bad headphones.

And this is with recent music by Taylor Swift, Adelle, and Avicci.

> Appearance matters.

Thankfully, companies like Sennheiser have started to make tremendous leaps in these qualities. Of course, they're starting to drive up their prices as well, so that's a bit of a backslide...

> So optimize what's actually important to you

Agreed. Though it wouldn't hurt to expose folks to more good sounding headphones, so they can make a decision on actual data. If I didn't have headroom in my home town, I wouldn't know what truly good headphones would sound like; my experience would have been limited to Boise and Beats.
The number of people who need to do 9x14 when they have no access to a calculator is pretty much zero.
This reminds me of how most people seem to use "hopefully." I very seldom hear people say "I hope this works." Instead, almost every time I hear, "hopefully, this works." It seems to have a "language smell" of wanting a way to weasel out making a commitment to a particular stance or viewpoint.
I think I get it. Look at their pricing:

https://gigster.com/pricing

Most software development shops don't ever scale past a few dozen or a few hundred developers. As a result, they don't have much project overlap. If you were able to scale to handle tons of similar projects, and be picky about which projects you take on, you could re-use 90% of the code needed for each project without ever dropping prices, essentially charging over and over again for hours that were only actually worked once.

All marketplace codebases are pretty similar, all dating apps are pretty similar, all daily deals sites are pretty similar, etc.

I think all their talk of Artificial Intelligence is nonsense to throw people off their trail.
I'm gonna go on a limb here and say that ISIS is suspiciously the perfect enemy for our leaders. It just happens that ISIS attacks our enemy (Assad) and the more we "fight" it, the more powerful we get because we have reasons to increase the "defense" spending and the more they attack "us" (they never really attack the leaders personally), the longer we can stay in power (see Hollande's support ratings after attacks), we can pass sensible legislation, keep the internal dissent low and we never run the risk of a clear and complete defeat like it would happen with a real enemy like China or Russia. It's the best enemy you can get (so much better than USSR) no wonder the west supported it's creation and are quite annoyed when Russia wants to destroy them too.
globalresearch.ca/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis/5451640
Stories like these are great to look for what the author is omitting and what propaganda is being pushed.

"Residents in suburbs, who tend to be over 30 with children, said they live
there because of the cost, size and type of their housing, to be close to
good schools,and because of the safety and security of the neighbourhood."

The city infrastructure, the very things it is supposed to do, is inadequate for its citizens needs: it cannot provide good schools, safety, or security.

I would like to note that this article is not the usual puff piece from Citylab and this documents with further evidence a common theme that we all know:

a. young: live the hipster lifestyle in the city

b. mid-age: live the family lifestyle in the suburbs

c. old-age: live the retirement lifestyle in the country.
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> It baffles me that automatically update your dependencies is considering the right thing to do.

The idea is to rely on semver. If you do ~1.3.4 in your dependency then if that dependency follows semver properly, you'll get 1.3.5 if it's out, and your stuff will still work, but you're getting bug fixes and patches without having to keep an eye on the sometimes hundreds of dependencies. Luckily tools like greenkeeper.io are around now.

The drawback is many people don't follow semver, so I opt to appending --save-exact to all npm installs (actually have npm config set save-exact true)
To this point is there an easier way to do this than mentally do (9x10)+(9x4), which is what I've done since I was in elementary school (29 now)?
There will still be jobs for "configurers", who define the inter-field dependencies and so on, in support of the business logic. As it gets easier to make these forms the amount of logic in them will increase.

Your job will be to understand a business process, and build the app out so that the app supports the process.
Colectiile de haine Miss Grant sunt acum din ce in ce mai cautate datorita calitatii exceptionale a materialelor. Este mai usor ca niciodata sa faci shopping online pentru copii, deoarece in ultimii ani au aparut numeroase site-uri ce ofera produse pentru copii. Sunt disponibile haine precum rochite, veste, paltonase, dar si incaltaminte de piele pentru copii la preturi accesibile.
BTW Elliot had quite interesting memory design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
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I wish the article's author wouldn't sound so naive - why wouldn't he discuss all the other similar attempts at automating app development, their shortcomings, and how Gigster is going to find a way to do better? People might think from reading his article that this hasn't been going on for a decade+.
Of course not - that's why I listed some criteria that I use to judge the subjective quality of headphones. If fashion is important to you, you might choose differently.
The number of people who can do it quickly in their head, maybe. I don't know a single adult who would look at that problem and say they don't know how to solve it.

Math is a perishable skill. You get slow at it if you don't use it.
Makes the first sentence an even better summary, IMO.
yeah, that's what I though at first as well, but Instagram on the Web > Facebook on the Web? =?

Tinder > Facebook ??
After 9/11 we should have taken over Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq since that is where the money came from.
How are Iran destabilizing that region?
To be fair though, that's the math version of "I don't need to know JavaScript at all because I will always have jQuery." Technically accurate but lazy.
I look forward to replacing Evernote with something, and I find the idea of Emacs org-mode for dummies great.
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Hasn't software been eating software development ever since the first compiler was written?
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I have taken to this route. It also clears out the cruft to bring dependency directory size down. Your module doesn't need .editorconfig or README.md and other stuff to run, remove it from the published stuff.
That doesn't mean it isn't a valuable skill. Mental arithmetic can also improve other brain skills.
German Vice Chancellor Gabriel:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/120...

http://news.yahoo.com/german-vice-chancellor-warns-saudi-ara...
Its problematic to mix blocking and message-based paradigms together. Its kind of worse than either one alone, because added complexity. Yet its so hard to come up with an entirely blockless design, especially since OSs won't cooperate (rarely have non-blocking APIs throughout).
Basically, IIRC, you're saying if someone does cheat (as in buys a good account or hires someone to kick ass for them), you human filter them anyways and it'll be pretty obvious they don't know what they're doing.

Though I was a bit confused by a statement you made. You said you'd need to beat the Turing test to automatically pass the last level of Stockfighter. But if that's true, how are you generating and validating the levels - that seems an equivalent challenge. (Unless you've made tons by hand.)
We'll change the background soon. Thanks for letting us know.
As for subresource integrity, it's in our plans for future versions. Right now we are focusing on making our main features as secure as possible.
Are there any really decent examples of devices like tablets being utilized creatively and effectively in a K-12 classroom?

I don't want to sound cynical or like a luddite (I would be posting on the wrong site, for sure), but nearly every application that I have used that is meant to be used in a classroom environment has been extremely shallow.
It really is too bad that we are hardwired to suck at being corrected. It is the source of so much social and organizational inefficiency.
Mine went down the hill so much that I can't even read books nor enjoy films / videogames anymore.

I've found that crippling my tech is a nice workaround. Some examples:

Sticking to dead tree or kindle-like devices instead of PDF on a computer / tablet makes me concentrate, finish and think about the book I'm reading.

Playing in some dumbed down console allows me to enjoy a videogame and relax without distractions. I rarely play PC games to the end.

I reach my productivity peak with an OpenBSD netbook without internet connection and some spartan window manager like cwm or wmii. I'm also reading man files regularly now instead of compulsively asking my search engine of choice.

I still hate sitting still for 90 minutes in order to watch a movie though.
Isn't this called outsourcing ? But still someone has to write the code.
My school district has lost almost 20% of the teachers and looking at another $13,000,000 in deficit next year. they can afford iPads what a BROKEN Education Funding System we have! Latino students get $0.85 for every dollar spent on White non-Hispanic students.

> writes about how we are sacrificing connections, one quick check of our screens at a time

The old Computers cause people to disconnect and check out argument again!

As an old Geek I have always heard the anti-social behaviors breed by computer use. The funny thing is I was more connected to people then anyone I knew. The one culture that connects and gathers together have been the Geeks.

PS iPads for each child in elementary school is a bad idea but not for these reasons.
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Good lord.... I don't think I can roll my eyes hard enough....

> One of my saddest days in my digital classroom was when the children rushed in from the lunchroom one rainy recess and dashed for their iPads. Wait, I implored, we play with Legos on rainy days! I dumped out the huge container of Legos that were pure magic just a couple of weeks ago, that prompted so much collaboration and conversation, but the delight was gone. My students looked at me with disdain. Some crossed their arms and pouted. We aren’t kids who just play anymore, their crossed arms implied. We’re iPad users. We’re tech-savvy. Later, when I allowed their devices to hum to glowing life, conversation shut down altogether.

Look I loved Lego's growing up, I still have massive rubbermaid containers full of them but please tell me why playing with Legos is any more valuable than playing minecraft? Let's not pretend that just because kids like different things now that something MUST be lost. I never played a cup-and-ball game like I'm sure generations before me did (I'm sure they lamented the introduction of things like Lego). Every generation complains about the younger generation and how they are going to turn out wrong because they weren't raised the same way they were or with the same things ("I walked up hill to school both ways").

Did the kids get quieter? Sure, I have no doubt of that but who's to say they weren't communicating even more than before using chat programs? I had teachers in HS CONSTANTLY complain about how students were reading less and less all the time which I took issue with not only because I read plenty of books but also I read tons of articles online. The medium may change but the core concept remains IHMO. Reading Pride and Prejudice doesn't automatically make you a better person than the student who know what's happening in the world like the back of their hand.

Lastly not introducing them to tech now is just setting them up for failure down the line. For better or worse the people who know technology will excel more than those who don't. Tech is not it's own little sector/industry, it's everywhere and it's integrated in to everything. To pretend otherwise is to stick one's head in the ground and ignore the world around you.
> Except instead of a variable normally a 'test' instruction is used on a page of memory, and instead of setting the variable, the permission on the page are changed triggering a page fault.

Which GCs do that? The only one I know is Azul's Pauseless JVM GC, but that's a kind of a special case, given that it needs support from the kernel.
Yeah, and not to mention screaming out DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
Congrats on launching! I work at a competing service, Stormpath, but wish you the absolute best! There's still so much room to make a dent in this particular market, especially if you execute really well with polished libraries, etc.

All the best! <3
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My line of thinking when I saw the headline was very similar. If you believe that your brain decides something without you, that just means you don't have a good understanding of who/what you are.
But calculators actually did negatively impact basic arithmetic skills.

Sure, but the interesting question is if they negatively impacted math skills.
Access, not immersion.

I cringed 15 years ago when school boards pushed to put computers in every classroom. What good is a room full of kids on MySpace and AIM?

Sure, you need computer skills for the future. But beyond learning how to use a computer for typing, spreadsheets, word processing, you don't need more than that in the K-12 level. Some kids will want to be programmers. Some kids will want to do music. Some will want to do graphics or desktop publish. Have computers available for kids to do that in computer class or art class or math - but don't push them in every setting.
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Javascript or 9x14 is not the kind of knowledge that's valuable for its own sake. http://unreasonable.org/Feynman_and_the_map_of_the_cat
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Does anyone know any open source projects that provide that level of abstraction? I mean, login code, user profile management etc. is so repetitive, I'm surprised that even with all the frameworks there are out there, that none just have drag and drop ready to go functionality for this sort of stuff already.
Thanks for letting us know! We will fix those links as soon as we have the documents ready. We just added a more explanatory text!
The region has been under destabilizing pressure from the West since 1979.

Iran has not invaded or subverted Iraq, Syria, Libya.

Iran did not invade Afghanistan. (USSR, NATO).

Iran did not train and arm the Taliban.

Iran did not create ISIS (or whatever is their acronym du jour.)

This isn't fox news forum. This is HN.
But human genetics mostly unchanged from the days we hunted mammoths.

I'm not advocating sacrifice. I just think most guys need the feeling of contributing to stay sane.
It's more that it's sad that the official JSON spec doesn't have that nor comments. And that quotes are superfluously mandatory on all names.
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It may be too late to avoid computers in every setting. Or soon will be - witness WalMart's $10 smart phone. We have to learn to deal with this somehow.
Author confuses units from step 1 to step 2 of his arguments.

Step 1 starts with an "S" shaped graph of GDP/Capita. Step 2 shows derivative of the curve, but is labeled as dGDP/dt, ignoring dCapita/dt. Author does not consider historical changes in demographics when GDP growth slows.

See demographic changes in Japan, Europe, US for examples of how population growth rates change due to economic and war-related shocks. Also see motivation for China ending the 1 child policy - they want to bring the cost of labor back down and they need a higher pop growth rate to generate enough economic activity to pay pensions, retirement, healthcare for expensive retirement-age cohort where people are living longer and thus costing the country much more.

Author should have challenged Porter's initial claim: "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."

While it makes for a good soundbyte, it ignores the symbiotic and (usually) directly proportional but lagged/leading relationship of economic growth and population growth.
Hm, this is sad. What I wonder is - couldn't this be anticipated beforehand? If they asked me, I would probably predict that what she describes would happen (having iPad and a child at home). Anyway, why on earth would you give the child a mainly-leisure device, why at least not netbook instead?!
“He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_software_engine...

Maybe it IS different this time around. I can see for very simple apps this might be possible. But one of the first questions that often gets asked on projects that I am on is "Is this even possible?"
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E-Prime has two very practical uses:

1. Code documentation. If you write your comments and docs in E-Prime, you will find it a little more difficult to write ambiguous docs. In comments, E-Prime helps you avoid using "is" to describe a variable's contents and type with the same phrasing, which can confuse later readers.

2. ET speech in Sci-Fi movies or Tee Vee shows. If you write, say, a Vulcan's lines in E-Prime, you almost always end up with a slightly foreign, or "scientific" sounding prose.
Not as surprised as I was to actually work with JSON in AVR C.
So ZeroDB is a fork of Zope's ZODB! I had watched a ZeroDB fintech pitch on youtube a few weeks back and had no idea. I can understand the USP: cloud DB hosting for sensitive data. Even though I'm a long time Pythonista I can't help wondering about the performance implications. IIRC ZODB did have some C optimisations last time I looked at the code, which was back in 2001/2 (yikes!)