skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot more reading materials available for children than when The Cat in Hat was first published. Interest and attention at the task of reading something, anything is more important than fantastic content. I don't have children but if I did I'd read What Do People Do All Day and The Way Things Work. Richard Scarry books are the best.

The twenty somethings are back from college. Last Saturday they collectively entered a fantasy world with the Santa Con pub crawl. Two guys were wearing Thing 1 costumes. Men acting like children just can't be healthy. Perhaps they grew up in a fantasy they never left.

For me imagination is the greatest thing. I produce so much thought and ideas -- new stuff every day. I sit at a computer with the IDE open and want to make something happen. That is where imagination comes in. I can't stop it, ideas just keep coming, but that doesn't mean they are good. I had a boss whose ego was so big she treated anything she thought as a good idea just because she thought it. The real power of imagination is that I can take new ideas and further imagine the different outcomes without typing a single key. As a coder looking at a blank new JS file, when I ask myself, "What should we do?" I'm quoting Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat. I should probably go to work now, and like in the book, I'll be spending most of my day breaking perfectly fine things cursing myself for not writing more tests.
#WisdomOfCrowds
Fair enough! I'm sure it's not to everyones taste ;-)
Is there anything similar to this for physics? I'm taking an introductory mechanics class and I can't help but think there must be a much more intuitive, logical way to solve even complicated multi-step problems than just falling into algorithmic pattern-based resolution.
It's deeply gratifying to see Robert and George use DTrace to teach operating systems: all three of us on the DTrace team had TA'd our operating systems course at school[1], and one of our unspoken goals with DTrace was to offer for educators a pedagogical tool that could potentially be used to revolutionize operating systems education. It's profoundly satisfying to see them realize this dream[2]: good on them, and may it serve to educate a new generation of software engineers!

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2007/05/06/the-inculcation-of-sy...

[2] http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2015/12/bsdtalk260-teachbsdorg-w...
Probably. Many of the low-level dealers make below minimum wage; it would be pretty easy to give them a better options.
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You should start writing that book! https://leanpub.com/
>The median per capita income in the US is 56K

Where are you getting that from? The median personal income is very close to 30K. The median household income isn't even 56K.

And where did you get 40K per year for total cost at a public university, the average is closer to 20K.

Furthermore, why are you including cost of living for college students but not for workers when calculating the opportunity cost?

>If you're going to attend a university, don't do it for money. That's a really stupid rationale.

Even if you're calculations were correct, they're only correct for generic "college". If you plan on choosing a major that pays better than average, even with your calculations, attending university for the money would still be a net win.
> have fun soldering for few hours per week and let him be with you when you do that.

I just want to follow up and say that as a parent, you should do your best to involve them in whatever it is that you're doing. If you're cooking, have them help you measure things. If you're playing board games, let them move/place the pieces for you. If it's something that they can't safely be involved with, talk to them about what's going on.

Explain what you're doing along the way.

Involve them, and expose them, to a wide range of activities. Children's minds can handle and process a lot more than most people give them credit for.
The more, the merrier

If this is going to bankrupt the Wahabi and terrorism sponsoring House of Saud, I'm all for it
The one that got me, was the German company I was working for was bankrupted by the president of the company as a key sale of the software product fell through. He did it on December 23rd, before any of the directors could intervene (A quirk of german company law).

I found out on the phone on the 28th while back in the UK. Fun times.

So my contribution:
"When it appears the directors bet the company on a single sale and failed."
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It's also Turing complete.
> Handling effects this way would presumably have the same problems?

First, I didn't suggest actually using checked exceptions as they are now to model "typesafe continuations" in Java. I'm perfectly fine with continuations not being fully type-checked (I like types, but I'm far from a type zealot).

But more to the point, such an effect system (or actually even Java's checked exceptions) won't pose such a problem at all. On the contrary. Just like you can't store a monadic value in a variable of a "plain" value, it makes sense to reject `int foo() throws IO` from a computation that doesn't support IO. It is a problem in Java with checked exceptions because `int foo() throws InterruptedException` would work where `int f()` is expected, and having it rejected (and requiring a wrapper) is indeed a nuisance. That's not the same issue if effects are involved.

> I can use the former as a value whereas the latter I can only throw from methods. That's the difference I'm worried about here.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction. You can always use something like Optional (Maybe) if you want a value. Alternatively, no one is stopping you from using the monadic Either even in an imperative context (although you may lose the stack trace). You can still use it this way if that's how you like doing things. I don't.

> then which semantics do I get, and how do I get the other one?

throwc(new MyException());
add(Writer.class, "Here");

would never call the writer (like your first example, I believe), while

tryc(() -> {
add(Writer.class, "Here");
...
},
// catch:
(MyException e) ->
add(Writer.class, e));

would log the exception, as in your second example.

You don't even need to think about it. It works just like plain imperative code. Continuations are the general (mathematical if you will) formulation of how imperative code already behaves.
Privacy is conceptually incompatible with public places.

If one doesn't want that the fact they've been at some public location, doing something, they shouldn't be there. Forcing bystanding observers to not remember or not disclose the facts they have observed is somewhat odd idea.
I was using the figure provided by OP. The post has since been edited to note that was an older figure. Using the data on that page, it would be 981K over the lifetime of the worker.

Plug that into the formulas above and it's still nowhere near half after all the costs are factored in, although it's a far healthier percentage.

One thing that isn't noted though ... there is a fundamental difference between causation and correlation. There is no evidence to suggest colleges add that value. Merely that people who earn more go to college.
Knewton has done a good job of curating!
> the only real difference between your eye and your Canon is in material composition

There's a huge difference: With a camera, you can record the photons and share them. The barrier to entry for privacy violation and harassment has via "captured photons" has never been lower.
When you're a contractor and a project you were working on gets cancelled internally, the only other developer leaves for greener pastures, and suddenly your boss takes an added interest in everything related to your work, and makes sure to get the passwords for various things.

... you might get a call as your driving home from work that day to tell you not to come in to work the next day because your contract has been terminated, and they'll ship your desk contents to you, eventually.
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I am an advocate of open source. One time I had a laptop running Linux that I couldn't get the wi-fi driver working for. Eventually after searching the internet I found that the driver was linking to a restricted syscall, so I recomipled the driver, to change a variable claiming it was mit-licenced (it wasn't) and then the wi-fi driver worked.
I'd say watch out for a meeting that's so important that it's split into two groups, and you're in the first group.
When your network login suddenly stops working.
This was first reported as a bug in 2005, and is still not fixed:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=15086
Not to be confused with the other F language, which tried to remove all the cruft from Fortran but didn't really catch on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_%28programming_language%29
Cancelling the company Christmas party has been the sign of a death spiral for two companies that I worked at.
Depends on what you mean by "any plausible reason".

There were cryptographers who could have given you a plausible reason to use Dual_EC --- all of them would have recommended against doing so, though.

But there's no practical reason.
Why did they sold Vuforia if they have another CV and AR lib ?
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The etymology of 'winter', as best can be determined, is 'rainy season'. So depending upon your local climate you might like to slide those three-month windows around a bit.

In my part of the UK November is definitely part of winter on that basis, which is why I like the Soltice-as-midpoint-of-season approach.
I actually answer that on the blog post - I'm LAZYYYY - I would never have the patience to crank the desk up and down multiple times a day. That's why I actually intend to automate the movement.
Not to step on the general point you are making, but a barrel of oil is 42 gallons[0], so $0.83/gal. Also, I get spring water from a ~local spring for $0.85/gal.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_%28unit%29#Oil_barrel
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Or, when you get a weird email from the payroll system about having just withdrawn /exactly/ how much PTO you've accrued.
The "problem" I have with Javascript is when people try to use it for everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
Or
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When you try to enter office's multi-level parking but your access key doesn't work.

When the Director/VP/Head says "even though the market has turned, we have _no_ plans to lay people off"

When you receive a notification that your <enter company's source control> privileges have been revoked.

When you see a voicemail (or tweet in case of Twitter) from HR around Friday afternoon/evening or early Monday morning.

When you apply for vacation but the request is denied for unspecified reasons ("We may need you here during that period").

When your manager keeps postponing your ++year() roadmap meeting requests.
I just love this guy's ADEPT method of exposition (Analogy, Diagram, Example, Plain English explanation, and just then Technical definition). [1]

That is exactly how I like to be introduced to any new concept, in special when I'm a complete newcomer to the field and can't relate it to previous ideas in it. Judging by the reactions to the BetterExplained site, other people agree with that.

[1] http://betterexplained.com/articles/adept-method/
> putting some levelheadedness behind their opinion columns

You are aware what an opinion column is, right?
When you get asked to wait two weeks because the main client hasn't paid yet because their assets aren't "liquid enough" (the client said that to everyone himself). And then they ask you to do it again a month later.

...you might get called in to be told the company can't afford you anymore and get laid off with two-thirds of the staff.
When all your external vendors and subcontractors are told to stop working and ship back all materials.
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When you wake up to this https://twitter.com/bartt/status/653946266938818561
Does anyone make a system for license plates? And is it legal?
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Having the entire team suddenly focus on a superfluous project like the company intranet or any non-critical busywork. Not a good sign!
Warning sign you're getting bought: someone asks for the licenses of all the open-source libraries in your stack...
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When your company sends a press release about the layoffs to the wire services and it accidentally gets released 24 hours before the event.
Great post! I dream of a day when this will be a pull request on a government repo so that USPS could more easily adopt it. Imagine average citizens working together to solve problems that they face every day....
Now if only Firefox would support NativeClient.
Bunking, debunking, and discovery
How many of these OS X WM replacements are configurable to use a 3-button mouse + a keyboard key for window management shortcuts?

I've used X11 for almost 30 years, and inherited a twmrc file at the very start which had the following mappings which have become muscle memory to me:

alt + mouse_left = move + raise

alt + mouse_middle = resize

alt + mouse_right = iconify

I've configured KDE to do this for years. I once tried switching to a mac, but between not being able to map the mouse buttons like that, and not having focus-follows-mouse. I ended up giving the Mac to my inlaws..
Actually, I got a surprise meeting request with CIO and Global Head of HR (and not even of his grim minions) - which I didn't think was good.

Got the meeting request while I was out of the office - got in to find my account locked out...

Not good I think - but I was on 6 months notice so WTF...

Turns out I was being notified of a restructuring and a new boss and my account being locked out was an unfortunate coincidence.

Mind you the entire office did get the bullet about a year later - I'd left by that point as it was clear that something was up....
We get 3 pages of comics (my favorite part of the newspaper, especially bizarro, foxtrot, and marmaduke) and 30 pages of news. When you switch the ratios, you're not running a newspaper anymore, you're running an entertainmentpaper. Which is fine, as Rupert Murdoch has proven time and time again.
When the CEO puts "restructuring meeting" on the shared calendar accidentally.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but this sounds exactly like the arguments made supporting Perl, which is an interesting comparison.
Some of the recent leaked docs point to the NSA having problems with PGP these days, but the rumor back in mid-90s was that they successfully broke it in multiple ways, which lead the Feds to drop the case against Zimmerman.

No idea of the validity of this story, but it seems plausible at least:
http://kraut.co/2015/02/28/1994-when-the-nsa-loved-pgp/
Small drone with a paint gun. Fly up to the camera and paint over the lens.
reverting a commit = _ULTRA_ easy

generating a new P and Q correctly = how to elliptic curve?
Hey, Kalid from BetterExplained here, thanks! My general philosophy is to be really, really honest with myself if I understood something. It's ok (really!) to admit when we haven't fully understood a concept.

Want a fun example? How about percentages. Yeah, that thing we mastered in 4th grade or whatever. That thing we use every day.

Well, did you know that

a% of b = b% of a?

Let's say you want 16% of 25. Ugh. Ok, let's multiply it out... divide by 100... no!

How about 25% of 16? Well, that's 4. Easy. But are they the same thing?

a% of b = a/100 * b

b% of a = b/100 * a

Either way, it's ab/100. Now every percentage problem has a 50% chance of being expressed more easily. How did we miss this? (Argh!!!)

Math is full of insights like that. Trig functions (sine, cosine, tan, etc.) are actually themselves percentages. A sine of .95 means you are at 95% of your maximum height (where the max is the hypotenuse). Sine and cosine are unitless numbers, and that's why the can be each other's derivatives (the percentage change of a percentage change...). So many things click! What else have we overlooked?

Anyway, really appreciate the note!
We affect our children’s gender, and it affects us back
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I love that idea.
When a company that was previously very strict about line managers setting yearly and half-yearly performance objectives suddenly doesn't set any....
> Where are you getting that from? The median personal income is very close to 30K. The median household income isn't even 56K.

The data is clearly sourced it the wikipedia article. Your data is either old or just wrong.

> Furthermore, why are you including cost of living for college students but not for workers when calculating the opportunity cost?

That's a fair point. You will still incur costs that you wouldn't otherwise, like books, etc.

> If you plan on choosing a major that pays better than average

Where is the evidence the increase in earnings is the result of the degree rather than selection bias? Correlation is not causation.
>They've been talking about the regime imploding for practically 30 years now.

With what's happened in Northern Africa in the last few years and real elections next door in Iraq (and probably Syria within the next couple years) the Saudi people have to be on the brink. Saudi Arabia already has a defense budget the size of Russia's just to keep the country peaceful.
>For many people, when the choice is between giving up the right to go to court or the chance to get a job, it is not a choice at all.

This is the worst part. There's really no choice for 'the little guy' on whether or not to sign these things. But this article and others demonstrate it to be an unfair system people should be able to keep out of (that's what those rights are for!) So how do we solve it?

It seems like legally requiring the option of going to court should work. When there is no other option but to waive your rights, the rights may as well not exist.
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“The U.S., over time, began to stop having as many vocational kind of skills,”

Over time... Just happened...

As if this wasn't a concerted effort on the part of american-based multi-nationals to move the entire supply chain to cheap-labor, non-existent environmental control countries. They wanted to arbitrage the consumption power of salaries in the west by not supporting them out of profits, but rather out of debt.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Also when external vendors start dropping hints to you that they haven't been paid for their previous invoice (and you are not responsible for finances).
Maine teacher forced to say goodbye to Hello Kitty Christmas tree in classroom
I've had the Bekant desk since March and have been really pleased with it. It's quite stable with a 27" monitor and all my office stuff. The only thing I wish it had is presets for the potion.

I don't stand at it for the whole day, usually just for the morning.
I'm not sure what compels people to download and look at any of these leaks.

There's a real dichotomy between the mostly universal opinion on here that ad tracking is a terrible evil, but downloading and investigating people's private data that was illegally obtained and distributed is okay.
That's an interesting question actually. My guess, and I hate to guess, is that laws state the a license plate needs to be readable but most likely don't say that have to be able to be read by a camera since the laws were written before those were commmonplace and most likely have not been adopted as technology has changed.
It's a basic site with basic features. The login page is just a blank white page with text boxes.

For further reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7218528

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297695

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1510615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10441902

Found with the search box that is at the bottom of the page. Wouldn't it make more sense for the search box to be at the top of the page?
What type of design is this geared for? UX? Hardware? Software? Brand? The article is an industry fluff piece that doesn't really attach itself to an industry, except for Silicon Valley. Is SV an independent industry?
By "rxvt" I meant rxvt-unicode/urxvt. I'm quite fond of it, but it doesn't support glyph ligatures.
Thanks! I was really hesitant to force an acronym (it actually started as ADE) but then I realized I could work my way up to the full technical definition. Really glad to hear it's resonating. (Sometimes things happen out of order, i.e. you start with a plain English definition. But the idea is to have all 5 parts if you want to truly master a concept.)
>> "...beholden to retrograde moralizing."

I wish that was the only reason for the drug war, but moralizing is probably a relatively minor factor. I claim the bigger reasons are:

1) The prison-industrial complex is large and politically powerful, and it needs drug "criminals"

2) Many recreational drugs make the working populace less productive. They'd be blowing lines of coke and screwing each other all day or giggling at Spongebob after smoking a bowl instead of diligently churning out more boxes at the packing plant. Drugs that make you more productive are perfectly legal and widely prescribed (Adderall etc).

3) Many popular drugs are easily produced at home in quantities appropriate for individual use. You can trivially grow enough weed at home to support a serious habit. The man hates that and prefers drugs that are only amenable to production on a vast industrial scale, such that monopoly, taxation, and centralized control of production are easy. Tobacco and the aforementioned psychostimulants are the ne plus ultra industrial-only drugs; it's no cooincidence that they're quite legal.
What?!

I've wasted so much of my life.
When everything has been "We have to work really hard and long hours just to keep the startup alive!" (we were working 60+ hour weeks every week) and suddenly there's nothing to work on, and you're told you can take a few days off, and the boss is suddenly a lot harder to get ahold of (he worked in the parent office and came by to visit as much as possible).

...the next time you see your boss in person might be to tell you the apps he pretended were successful didn't actually make any money and he has to close the company down.
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Or that a "board member" wants detailed write ups on your processes.
Any particular reason for that? They've been an excellent newspaper for decades and I'm personally not noticing a quality decline, so I find your stance baffling.
"draft - not for distribution"
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This has been warned about in the security community for years. Even if the person guarding such a database is a saint, which he is, the mere existence of the NON database is a threat to the privacy of everyone on the planet.
The fatal flaw in all of these startups was they just aggregated content. None of them solved the real problem of distilling the overwhelming amount of content online into the few thing(s) I should read.
I had the unusual experience of having everyone else in the office being summoned to an HR meeting and me left at my desk as I'd already resigned...
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> Also, when a bank charges me 1% for a wire transfer, they pay salaries from that money and some people buy food.

So basically they are paying bunch of people to live and consume without doing anything useful. How much power wasted is that? How do you know how much wasted day of human life costs?