skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have only transformed their distribution model. Big whoop for a semi-monopolist with a largely captive audience?
OS can use Force Unit Access flag with NCQ to control disk buffering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_buffer#Force_Unit_Access_...
Unless the file IO is done correctly, even the best file system won't save you from data loss, such as the kind that can result from sudden power failure, which is what the article talks about.

PG obviously thinks RDBMSs are just unnecessary middlemen between you and the same file system. He doesn't realize that even if they ultimately use the same file system you do, they likely don't use it the way you do. Maybe Viaweb used something like the last snippet of code in the article, but I doubt it.
http://mnemosyne-proj.org/ is also a simpler alternative
I would bet that static analysis is going to be one of the top reasons. Being able to automate the process of analyzing code for leaked keys, outdated/vulnerable libraries, insecure storage, permissions, etc.

Here is an open-source tool I've used in the past to do quick static security checks on APKs: https://github.com/ajinabraham/Mobile-Security-Framework-Mob...

It also supports dynamic analysis, but I haven't used that portion of it yet.

I, too, am interested in the other enterprise tools that are built on top of this though.
Avast’s man in the middle
First thing that comes to mind when I read your comment is Memrise. Or is even that missing something?
"A friend" reporting in...

While many people may love Anki, you can count me out. I used it extensively during my first 2 years of medical school along with trying physical cards, Quizlet, and even my own custom batch files and macros. I think that it works for a very particular use case, and you need to fully commit to it to get the intended benefits.

My personal belief is that an "adaptive" learning system doesn't just adapt to the spacing effect, but to your study habits, emotional state, learning style, and even the global activity linked to certain concepts. (e.g. If you have a centralized API, you can track which facts learners struggle with and use the algorithms weight those facts for first-time learners). Learning isn't just meant to be something you do in isolation - there is a community aspect and there are endless things you can with a big data approach.

Our goal is to take spaced repetition and this new concept of meta-adaptivity and apply it to the masses, not just the hardcore users. Yeah, it sounds like a fancy vision but we're further along than you'd think. Would love to start a discussion on this and possibly get more manpower on making this a reality. (I dropped my career as a surgeon to make this happen, so we're all-in at this point).

A few references:

1.	Dyrbye LN, Thomas MR, Shanafelt TD. Systematic review of depression, anxiety,
and other indicators of psychological distress among U.S. and Canadian medical
students. Acad Med. 2006 Apr;81(4):354-73. Review. PubMed PMID: 16565188.

2.	Beard C, Clegg S, Smith K. Acknowledging the affective in higher education. BRIT EDUC RES J. 2007; 33(2): 235–252

3.	Burleson W, Picard R. Affective Agents: Sustaining Motivation to Learn Through Failure and a State of “Stuck”. Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments Workshop in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Maceio-Alagoas, Brasil. August 31, 2004. http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/04.burleson-picard.pdf

4.	Durlak JA, Weissberg RP, Dymnicki AB, Taylor RD, Schellinger KB. The impact of
enhancing students' social and emotional learning: a meta-analysis of
school-based universal interventions. Child Dev. 2011 Jan-Feb;82(1):405-32. doi:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01564.x. PubMed PMID: 21291449.
I use it times to times, very simple to setup, quite reliable also.
Did you get any details on these 18 errors? Were they single bit flips?
We have a usury system. The cost of education is set by available credit with the upper ceiling at the expected total earnings less existing costs.

Creating the credit consumes zero resources. The state/banks don't care if you don't pay it back. If you can pay it back they get a share of your labour.
That's hilarious. Now they have "stockfighter" too ;)

https://stockfighter.readme.io/docs/getting-started
Maybe you didn't read the article or make it to the end, but it pretty clearly states that the time frame for this was 1950-1958 and then it became obsolete as technology changed and restrictions where eased.

Not saying your point is wrong, just your complaining that the article doesn't cover things outside it's scope.
Thank you for the detailed post - very helpful for me. If I may ask, what were some of the factors that you used to determine the demand for a property in a given area?
You need to pay tribute to the big unis or you can't apply for the big jobs. Pledge your labour.
I hate to be that guy, but the guidelines for Show HN threads are clear that submissions should actually be ready for use, and not just landing pages like this. It leaves a negative impression when the box marked "Sign up below" is actually just your survey.
I would like to recommend Memrise [1] as alternative to Anki.

[1] http://www.memrise.com/
As a law-school graduate who did pass the California State Bar but is not in active practice, I sympathize with her. Our culture portrays law school as a path to an interesting job with great pay and fine suits, but in practice, law practice can be a dull, soul-crushing career with a high drug and alcohol abuse rate. One of the clerks at a Prestigious Court at which I interned one semester even said to me once, "you're really good at technology. Why are you here?"

And most attorneys, despite paying over $90k just in tuition for private law schools (which make up the majority of law schools), don't even make a six-figure salary. Sure, if you graduate from a top-tier university or in the top 10% of your class at a second-tier university, you might get a job at a Big Firm making $165k/year in exchange for 100-hour work weeks, but the rest of us don't even cross the 6-figure mark. The salary curve looks like a rollercoaster elevation with a big bump on the left and a little bump on the right. A camel's back, if you will.

Florida Coastal, BTW, isn't even on the map in terms of law school ratings. It might as well be the University of Phoenix. If the subject in this story is going to make it, she's basically going to have to run her own practice and hustle for clients -- that is, if they even educated her well enough to pass the state Bar. And that's rather difficult to do if you're ill and possibly taking care of children.

In short: I returned to my technology career after an expensive sabbatical in law school. I am still mired in debt almost 9 years later, but I probably earn more now than at least half my graduating class does today. I cannot declare bankruptcy and rid myself of student loans like I would have been able to 20 years ago (which, BTW, helped keep tuition in check and abusive loans relatively rare). But at least I'm lucky enough to be able to pay them off.
Last number I looked at was something like half of people getting Bachelor's degree are unemployed or underemployed. Don't know if it's inflated but job discussion forums are full of people with degrees in IT and Business that can't get jobs outside minimum or low wage. For for-profit, minimum payments can be around $2000 a month. So, a job offering $20k a year entry-level is a net loss.

What's happening is pretty obvious. People are told they need a degree to get a decent job with many companies even including that in job listings. Colleges and high schools show charts about how much extra people with degrees make. Then, people get degrees with student loans from colleges that often don't care about job placement or coaching on the major. Then, they get out into real world to find businesses all lied, don't care about them, expect more than the degree, and try to underpay them. Result is all kinds of people that can't pay their student loan bills.

Looks like a giant scam benefiting politicians, colleges, and student loan industry to me. Taxpayers and graduates are left with the burdens without rewards. A chunk of them make it, though, so it's not all losses.
Privacy is against the ethos of your platform? I think that's about all that needs to be said.
I'm learning Russian in my spare time, and have used the goldlist method to build vocabulary. The goldlist method is great, because
1) There's no cramming. Nothing is worse than cramming, and
2) you can have breaks as long as you want.
I reached 2200 words the first year, while having many week long breaks. I kinda stopped the regular vocabulary building around 2014, but even after months of inactivity, I can easily pick up the goldlist and continue where I stopped.
What can hackers teach web developers in one minute?
Termites need somewhere to live. They won't come along to eat a wooden house in Manhattan, unless there's some habitat for them nearby.
There's a concept called 'app wrapping'. A generic app is decompiled, and then the manifest and code is changed to add in some 'wrapper' code around the app. The app can then be resigned with the enterprises certificate.
Sounds like a great hacking project with access to the right equipment
Sports team facilities and couch salary? ... probably not, that's some other cash that comes from exploitative media deals
The advertising industry is not capable of self-regulating. Advertising will change when technology forces it to change.
I currently use TiddlyWiki Classic [1]. The sheer simplicity of its UX was what got me to start using it. It has served me well over the years in that I have had no data loss using it with TiddlyFox [2] and the codebase was easy enough to understand and modify when I wanted to customize it beyond the settings exposed to the user. However, as my personal wiki grew and I used it more I found the nonstandard markup and especially the lack of revision history for the individual notes (wiki pages) to be major flaws. The newer version 5.0 release fixes the first one (by introducing Markdown support) but, AFAICT, not the second, which makes the me reluctant to upgrade and lose my modifications to the wiki code. (The downside to TiddlyWiki's approach is that an advanced user ends up effectively maintaining a fork.)

I've looked for alternatives among desktop wikis that run on Linux and my favorite so far is Zim [3]. It uses Markdown and implements history through storing pages as text files in a Git repository. Unlike TiddlyWiki, it doesn't run in the browser. I am considering either switching to it or biting the bullet and setting up a local instance of MediaWiki (or another full-fledged wiki — suggestions welcome!). The latter will likely require more ongoing maintenance but it also keeps the advantages of a browser-based wiki that TiddlyWiki has like embedding images from remote hosts and customizing your user experience with JavaScript.

[1] http://classic.tiddlywiki.com/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tiddlyfox/

[3] http://zim-wiki.org/
Ask HN: What are your biggest demotivators?
I’m hugely grateful to be employed, but the last few years, I’ve been struggling to keep up with my own side-projects, and it seems like additional work demands, agile meetings, release deadlines have really been an issue with me simply not wanting to fire up XCode after I get home and work on my own projects.

What obstacles get in the way of your own projects and what techniques do you use to get over them?
The answer is: into the economy. It's a mechanism for printing money. They set it as high as possible to push as much money as possible into the economy to get "growth".

Also why are people asking "where does the money go". Are you suggesting that there is one-to-one between money creation and expended effort / energy? It's fiat money. There is no such link.
TBH we're well past the point where people should be in the streets protesting student loan payments. The entire economy is experiencing a lack of demand, partially as a result of young people being impoverished from a sycophantic education system.

A repayment boycott would ruin a lot of credit scores, but bring the problem into focus... consider that a huge proportion of people are already in default.
CompanyLunch – Web app written in ES6, react and flux
For science I'm currently trying to get someone to x-Ray an LP. Let's see. Direct digital though, let's skip that film screen rubbish.
You should try getting a sense of humor one day...
The funny thing is, founders in many cases are exactly that
Straight into those positions
I ran into a #1 where during the interview they wanted to know if I was planning on leaving for Silicon Valley anytime soon, because that's where all their employees were going.

I said no and gave reassurances, they didn't hire me, the guy who did the peer-programming part of the interview (stage 4) me changed his LinkedIn to "Apple" about a week later.

They've taken down that ad and reposted it about a month later three times since then.
Okay, I actually consider that a valid question. The thing was: all the female employees in that team got half (!) the pay of the guys. The guys of that team didn't work, but the women were much more productive.

The fact that he's "from some important school" wich in this case didn't provide any value at all, was just a lame excuse for "he has a p*nis".

Another excuse I heard from that CEO, when one of the underpaid team members asked him about the difference in pay, was this: "It's your market value!" which reads quite clearly as "You earn less because you're a woman"

PS: Had a lot of these cases in that company and the gender was the only common denominator. I'm glad I left. Meanwhile they have a new CEO, and things have improved.
I get errors...
On one hand, there's an emotional and personal story of an individual graduate who got in debt and then didn't even try to pass the bar.

On the other hand, we have this citation: "On average, our graduates earn $750,000 more in their lifetime than if they hadn’t received their law degree from Coastal Law."

I find it curious, how the article author decided to treat such a critical piece of information. Statistics gives a better view on a situation concerning millions of people than one emotional story. Yet, this citation is given without any analysis or proof. There's no attempt to understand, if this is true or not; instead, it's only present in the article as citation of a clearly interested party (the college administration), so that the reader who's already involved on one side of the debate, is ready to disregard it as excuses and advertisement.

May be it is excuses and advertisement indeed. But the article doesn't stop to think about it. The most important question you could ask yourself: is it worth it, for median student, to spend all this money? — is not addressed. What is it, if not bad journalism?
> A strong culture can bind a team together in fantastically productive ways. However, a strong culture can also lead to groupthink and exclude voices that would help build an even better team.

You are conflating "strong" with "exclusionary".

>The exclusionary aspect can also be seen as sexist/racist/bigoted from an outside perspective even though it is doubtful that the team intends it that way.

Team members have to be very callous not to realize that an exclusionary culture is, well, excluding people.
This really resonated with me as well. Something I don't understand though: if you have high aptitude in a lot of things then how do you make time to exercise all of those things? It sounds like an organizational hassle and like it will be hard to attend to, given that I'm quite impulsive.
It pushes higher money creation at the point of inception. Debt can be created instantly and enters the system and becomes "dollars" as another account is credited to balance.

Then over the lifetime of the ex-student they pay back this "money" plus interest which destroys the principal and consumes existing "money".

It should be noted that the creation of the debt benefits "growth" in the present electoral cycle whilst the repayment occurs mostly in other electoral cycles.
Wood framed structures are horrible for dampening the noises from people walking (or stomping) around. I will never live in a wood structure with people living above me, its horrible. This is a non issue with steel and concrete structures.
There is a slight difference with MSFT, a company that has a wee bit of cash and resourses set aside just for cases like that.
I mean, they may need something delivered by a date. It may be impossible, but that doesn't change the fact they need it. This is where you step up and say it's impossible.
But physics doesn't answer this kind of question. We don't know why magnetism, for example, works the way it does - we just measure it's effects and model it with mathematics.

OTOH I think it's interesting to imagine universes with stronger or weaker gravity, and to realize that in most of them it's hard to imagine life being possible at all. (Life would not arise without gravity (since you need to smush matter together to get life) but it also wouldn't arise with super strong gravity (since life needs to be able to move around).)
> "As for Sofia, she says she’d like to meet with someone to work out a repayment plan rather than field as many as 20 phone calls some days dunning her for money."

Twenty phone calls per day is absolutely insane, and should not be legal. For that matter, is it legal? If enough of these are coming from the same party or from closely related parties, then it's crossed the line into harrassment.
A bunch of rich peoples rocks and metal which were sitting in a vault and not being put to any practical use were stolen. Who cares about that?

I guess the police, as their job is to do whatever rich people want.
Here's a video about a 14-story building like this in Norway. The video is from last year, but it was completed just this month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XsqauBCX4

For those of you who understand Norwegian or are willing to use Google Translate, there's an article about the building here[1], which also mentions some of the same projects as the Guardian article.

[1]: http://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/Canada-sikler-pa-bergensk-ve...
I used the KanjiDamage method, which is similar to Heisig but available online: http://www.kanjidamage.com/. The advantage is that the mnemonics also help you remember the on-yomi for each character. It's not for everyone, though: the author has a filthy sense of humour! Personally, I found that made the mnemonics even more effective.
Also beware, September to November is peak ios moment in the year due to release cycle. 2016 q2, q3 would be quite different in Europe too.
I had a similar experience when I moved from my cave of an apartment in Brooklyn to an apartment high up on a hill in Seattle comprised mostly of windows overlooking the the city. That didn't "fix" my schedule, but it regulated it quite a bit when I wasn't entirely focused on a project. If I were in-need of something more predictable, I'd try to find something similar here in Chicago. But personally, I prefer having a weird schedule.

For better or worse, there are no hills in Chicago
From anywhere to anywhere by plane and by car
Very True! But are Universities today orders of magnitude better at educating people? Because it certainly cost a lot more today than it used to [1].

1. https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/college-cost-infl...
So what? It costs them nothing to create the money and if you don't pay it back they still get the economic boost.

Yes it's a sham, yes there is a huge opportunity cost but that's because our current system is mad.
>Choice #2, Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS), allows you to write `a.someFunc(b)` or `someFunc(a, b)` interchangeably.

Interesting idea.

The topic of function call syntax reminded me of something:

I'm not a language creator, but years ago, when I was fairly new to programming, I had this idea that it would be cool and maybe useful for a language to have function call syntax something like this, to more closely resemble English sentences:

hit_the_(ball)_with_the_(bat)

or just:

hit_(ball)_with_(bat)

where ball and bat are arguments. (Not too good an example, I know, because in a cricket or baseball game, the ball and bat would not vary at all, or not vary often, unlike arguments tend to do, on different calls. But I think people will get the idea.) IOW, instead of having all the arguments grouped together inside one set of parentheses, make it more like an imperative English sentence, by having multiple parentheses, one per argument, separated (if needed) by other words (which are part of the function name).

The above example would be for a language where types of function arguments are not specified. For a language where they are, it could be like this:

hit_(ball: Ball)_with_(bat: Bat)

Of course, I've left out the syntax for something like "def" (as in Python) to say that this is a function definition and for the return value/type, if any.

Don't know what the complexity of implementing something like that would be.
Don't give up. Find ways to use your superpowers, because you have: ADHD superpowers that I'm aware of includes hyperfocus, immunity to exam stress, being one of those: "when the going gets though, the tough gets going" etc.

While it is a real enough problem it has some remarkable upsides as well. You have to live with the downsides even though you can make them less visble and annoying, but also be aware of your superskills and put them to use for yourself so that you can have more to give back to your family, your friend and the world.
You act like it's carelessness on her part. The bar exam is usually paid for by an employer (exam and study materials are very expensive), and she couldn't find any employer who would be willing to accommodate her illness and her desire to help with her parents' illnesses. So, even if she self-financed it, there aren't great prospects of being hired anyway.
> in what way do you consider Swift a Wirth-influenced language?

It looks to me you misunderstood the post.
OTOH, creating large lifetime financial obligations on the basis of poor decision-making by people who are by definition immature, seems like a set-up for indentured servitude.

Part of the point of using debt to fund education is to improve economic efficiency - ideally courses that students can't follow through to profitable conclusion wouldn't be taken. However, young people aren't necessarily sufficiently rational actors, and impairing young people's lives with debt they can't repay is probably not in the greater social interest.
The reason your comment is so highly rated is that your description of European VCs pretty much matches those of US and Asian VCs as well. Many VCs got where they were by being sociopaths that threw a lot of social convention out the window.
I agree, but that's why it makes no sense for them to encourage users to use Tor and then block based on IP.
Kind of on the right track but I don't think that is it though... But if you had shown me facebook in 2005, I would have said the same thing.
The whole thing is predatory. It's the classic monopoly system where you loose out if you play and if you don't. Think degrees are overpriced? Go live life as a labourer with no access to the top paying jobs. Or suck it up and hand over a large part of your labour to the gate-keeper.

Available credit sets the price. Ramp it up and watch the tribute flow in.
Humble apologies, this was my first "Ask" HN post ever.
"The market matures" in my view means "innovation has stagnated". The only apparent differences between the competing products are cost, convenience and the network effect. The technological differences are uninteresting. It seems in this environment, the smaller players attempt to stay alive by becoming replicas of the market leader.