skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Micro kernel design of the MVC framework
Ec2 container registry now GA
Where I live, a child who enters first grade without knowing how to read is an abnormality.

In fact, the school system assumes that any child who enters first grade already has the basics of literacy and numeracy -- a child who doesn't know how to read will probably be channeled to a special class for slow/disadvantaged kids.

This seems like a cultural quirk and doesn't appear to make people smarter in the long run, however.
btilly I did not mean to fight you, I am sorry for coming off in a manor.

What I mean to say is that meditation works for everyone, even though there are many people who have tried it and concluded that it does not work for them. But we know that meditation works for everyone because we have studied it enough to see how it is fundamental to the way every humans' mind-body operates. For thousands of years, before science, I think many teachers of meditation knew in their hearts that anyone could learn how to meditate. And many others knew it in their hearts that they could not learn how to.

Maybe I'm wrong, and there is no way we can read each other's minds, but what if a system like GTD, maybe not even specifically GTD itself, was also fundamental enough to work for anyone? The way David Allen presents the system, which can be in a very elitist tone sometimes, is that GTD is all about doing what we already do as people, but in a differently-ordered way.

As for addressing that creativity can be scheduled in 2 hour chunks, I was not correct in making that flaky statement and you are right to make a point of it.
> I've been ticketed in Atlanta for walking on a patch of grass by a road because that section of the road did not have a sidewalk.

What were you even supposed to do in that case?
>"A generalist can become a specialist relatively quickly, especially when doing something day-to-day on a job."
Same feeling! Many things I learn seem to have similar patterns be it programming, graphics designing, music or photography; and every new thing learnt broadens my perspective on how things work.
WPA/WPA2 is a very good analogy for SSL/TLS. Effectively the same protocol, but a more rigorously defined standard. In the case of WPA2 it was WPA as ratified by IEEE 802.11i, whereas the original WPA had to be rushed out to answer the immediate deficiencies in WEP.
Equating Cromwell with immigration is pretty fallacious. Overall, I think colonialism was nevertheless a net benefit to my home country, thanks.
> Guess I'll have to visit Japan to find out.

Given that the competition for a good sushi place is much tougher and they have a long standing history of this, of course sushi in Japan will be better. It doesn't say anything about whether or not these rituals and power structures are important, though.
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http://i.imgur.com/vv8LuDZ.png

Because it's not default, and learning how to tweak a browser isn't fun to me. I'd rather study history, or how to write well.

I also have an irrational sense that bypassing someone's website is wrong. By avoiding their homepage, I'd also be avoiding their plea for donations, for example. But I realize this is an irrational feeling, and the only reason I'm voicing it is because you asked why I personally won't do that.
I fail to see the difference with http://sparkjava.com

We are using Spark four new code in our product and we are happy with it.
The green bar certs that nobody in the world ever looks for.
Mijn favoriete blog posts in 2015 van Nederlandse VCs en ondernemers
Meh. In the literary genre of systemd criticism there are better examples, mostly from people fond of the microkernel design aesthetic.

"Systemd will start them both at the same time, but buffer any messages A tries to send to B until B is ready."

It's not systemd which is buffering messages, it's the kernel's IP or UNIX domain sockets. (Also, this means that daemons don't need to run setuid root just to bind a low socket.)

"With systemd, the order is not deterministic, so you don’t know what’s going to happen next time you boot."

All you need to do is define the dependency graph properly, then any possible ordering will be fine. You might as well argue that "make -jN" is somehow harmful.

"A server spends several minutes in the BIOS during POST anyway, before the bootloader is even run; making the OS boot faster doesn’t change very much"

Never used virtualization or containers?

"That doesn’t feel modular to me."
"Cleaning up or re-implementing ntpd is a good thing, but OpenBSD didn’t feel the need to make it part of init."

The systemd project is not (any more) an init system, it's a collection of tools to create a Linux-based OS from. http://www.openntpd.org/ says that OpenBSD includes OpenNTPD as part of its base system.

"OpenNTPD was primarily developed by Henning Brauer as part of the OpenBSD Project and gets released as a base component of OpenBSD every six months."

Clearly this is the same as what systemd does? Do we conclude from this that OpenBSD feels "not modular", since it has an NTP implementation in the same repository as its init, or is it only bad if systemd does it?

"Regular journal corruption that Lennart says is not a problem. It seems obvious that a non-transactional binary log is a terrible idea."

As opposed to plain text files, which magically survive having random blocks overwritten by hypothetical filesystem bugs or hardware issues without losing a single line of log content?

"Numerous reports of systemd hanging on boot because of something in fstab that violated POLA."

Does this refer to systemd implementing the "nofail" keyword exactly as it was documented? The author will be very surprised when he discovers that FreeBSD does exactly the same thing, except that the keyword is called "failok".

"To my knowledge, no one has ever lost data as a result of a bug in ZFS."

Does the author have access to Sun/Oracle's internal bug tracker where such customer bugs would be reported, in particular during the early years of ZFS's existence?
Oracle ordered to admit on its website that it lost the plot on Java security
You mean: as framework creator you should make your documentation reflect the latest security standards right? Just to make sure.
Hahaha... Thanks, that cheered me up.

Someone should totally do rap battles while pretending to be some famous figure. The possibilities are endless. Faux Bill Gates vs Faux Steve Jobs.
Several of these "waves of immigration" were literal invasions.
Nature is quite fair in one respect: for every child on this planet a week has 168 hours. Spend time teaching your child reading and math, and some other children will have learnt something else - climbing trees, using a bicycle, making friends, showing empathy. Parents should think of the opportunity costs when they push their kids into one direction only because they perceive a certain extra value in that.
Although automation could certainly be implemented to some extent here, note that on city routes the carrier will often use this form when not near their vehicle (flats fit in the bag). There are several options for body-worn thermal printers, but durability of the device and output might be a problem. These cards are printed on pretty heavy stock and are really very sturdy.

As far as body-worn printing of adhesive labels, I'm not aware of any product for that. Thermal print (on thermal paper, not thermal transfer printing) tends to fade very easily in sun or rain and would also be a problem.
I think the chef being interviewed is looking to become a "celebrity chef" by being a "white sushi chef". Perception is a big part of the culinary scene in the USA today.
Between high school, college, and professional life I've worked in cities, rural areas, suburban wastelands, and urban areas like SF. The majority of the time, most of my colleagues were concerned more with commute than "what's around where I work". SF was a bit different, but parking and commute (late 90s early 2000s) were still top of list.

When I worked in SF, my getaway area was Grace Cathedral and the park near by. Uphill, no people, no trash, quiet overall.

But some office parks have walkable spaces, places to eat, etc. Some are easier to reach commute-wise than others.

Suburban does not rule out walkable. Walnut Creek is completely suburban, but the office complexes there have become (or been developed for) being walkable over the years -- one of the places I reference above was part of this.

And honestly, depending on the definition of "walkable" many suburban places are more "walkable" than big cities -- traffic, sidewalks, bums spread on the sidewalk etc.

Is the end goal a live/work situation where you don't have to commute a long way, have reasonable rent/mortgage, and a good quality of life? Honestly, pick two of three, if you want to be in the bay area.

Born here in South San Jose. Grew up/still live in in San Jose, Sacramento, the east bay, and Santa Cruz. Seen a whole bunch of things.
If I was this kid, the last thing I'd want is to be associated with Clock Boy. That guy was an attention seeker who was willing to do some really crazy shit. This kid on the other hand was probably just making a stupid joke in class.
Url changed from http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/12/sub..., which points to this.
> although I’ve tried to minimise breakage as much as possible

The R community really needs to grasp version control head on. There are some great tools, and using git or similar works just fine, but their central packaging system only knows about the latest version of everything.
Quite common for e-learning materials in UK. Have a look at the sample material on mymaths.co.uk (a commercial operation, originally a 'start up' by a group of teachers, now sold to Oxford UP). Front end is tablet usable, the materials themselves are flash based.

Does anyone here have any experience of converting materials authored in Flash (.fla files) into html5 using the Adobe software? Views on fidelity and practicality would be most welcome.

Most of the adult students I teach have some access to a laptop/PC although the majority prefer stuff they can get on their phone. I shall send the link round and see what happens.
Neither Ng nor Carmack need Twitter accounts. Plenty of scientific and technical luminaries don't have them.
Yeah, it's a shame about the BE site. They've moved to https://gitlab.com/bugseverywhere/bugseverywhere for reference.

I do like your approach actually, particularly as it could be easily expanded a little, e.g. to use markdown (or similar) content and present a web view (aka Gollum for Bugs).

Any chance you could be convinced to add support for Mercurial? :-)
The Falcon 9 does not rely on differential thrust - the center engine (and the others, I believe) can gimbal ("rotate").
Clarkson: 'My time’s more important than yours.’ and that’s rude.'
same considerations here. everything in the same font size makes important information disappear, plus there is no call action.
The rational argument about halting immigration has nothing to do with genetics, but if it makes the people already living there better off (assuming it is not a literal invasion and they have a choice). If it does help then it is a good idea and if it doesn’t then it is a bad idea.
I used that message box to contact TRAI, but I don't think that my message is exactly what Facebook expected.

> Hey TRAI, you're doing an awesome job!

> Net neutrality is awesome! Don't let shithead companies like Facebook from stop you from your goal. You're doing a good job!
I think dodyg's point is more that someone using MD5 as a password hash is unlikely to have created a modern, secure, well-designed framework. If there's a problem as significant as poor password security then there's very likely to be other more subtle problems as well.
Did Oliver Cromwell ever personally travel to Ireland?
> does washing rice for 3 years really make your sushi that much better?

I think so. Preparing rice properly is not easy. Most of the time it's not done well, even in Japan.

> The way sushi chefs talk about sushi makes it sound like there's some sort of massive, order-of-magnitude difference between them and the "sushi men".

The way hackers talk about code makes it sound like there's some sort of massive, order-of-magnitude difference between them and some guy who started making web sites with Wordpress a couple years ago.

Having sushi prepared by a man who knows the names and favors of hundreds of different kinds of fish by heart, who knows exactly what time of year they're best, how to perfectly cut and season them, what temperature each needs to be served at, who has access to buy the best of the best and who won't accept any compromise on the rice is objectively different.

I also love the cheap junk food rolls. The ones that come with a generous amount of spicy mayo, tempura flakes and all that... but how much skill does it really take to prepare that? Deep fried stuff and favored mayo makes anything taste good.

It's like the difference between a cigarette and a cigar. Sure, they're both tobacco, and maybe the cigar is overpriced, but they're objectively not the same experience.
It would be the forever (especially in Javascript frameworks); why don't more people combine forces instead of doing their own thing? But then coders have opinions which do not fit the other frameworks (like they don't like the deps or coding style or usage patterns) and then they roll their own while the alternatives are perfectly fine for most.
Apple Criticizes Proposed U.K. Expanded-Surveillance Law
Very happy to see this trend catch up with Java.
> I thoroughly acquainted him with the alphabet and got him used to the idea of sounding out words with refrigerator magnets. Next, I started showing him flashcards (words plus pictures) arranged into increasingly difficult phonetic groupings, in a systematic order. About the same time, we started watching Your Baby Can Read—I am glad that I was able to put aside my misgivings about the off-putting hype surrounding YBCR and Doman’s method. Both before and after the most intensive “teaching” period, when he was two, I read huge amounts to him, which he liked. After I started teaching him to read, I made a point of always running my finger under the text as I read to him. That sums up our method,

I had plastic letters I played with, with my mom. No flashcards I can recall. No video. My mom read to me tons and tons (no finger running though). My favorite stuff more times than anyone can count. Some SF too, although I'm not sure how early. She bought me comic books but refused to read them for me. Long story short. When I was about six and went to pre-school I remember reading aloud one of my favorite short stories to group of other children.
To be fair, Rap Genius did grow a community organically over time.

Google Trends "rap genius": https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22rap%20genius%22&c... [2]

Remember at Demo Day in their W11 batch, they had both: more traffic than every other startup in the batch combined, and more than any other YC startup at any demo day in history [1].

1: Source: The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator

2: I think the fall off in the last year is due to rebranding to just Genius.
You hit dogs to stop them pooping inside? I don't think there's anything grey about that...
Sophy: Fast Python Bindings for Sophia Database
Watch: How “magic” apps are helping the blind to see
You don't have to take the car.
packrat and especially checkpoint to the rescue!
> Because if somebody can spend $1mln to perform 51% attack and move around $1bln, that will likely be done.

This attack allows double spending and censorship. It does not allow to directly steal someone's BTC.

> Also, when a bank charges me 1% for a wire transfer, they pay salaries from that money and some people buy food.

And horses are pissed at cars.

> The power burnt by BitCoin is actually literally immediately irrecoverably physically wasted.

No, it is not. It buys security in a way which traditional banking is not capable of providing.
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> how this teaching affects a child and if trying to make them learn too early could have negative effects

I know this question is always asked. But if you love your child and give it all attention it needs does any teaching have any negative effects on the child? Apart from knowing too much without the need, which affects many people even as adults.
If not you should find rational reasons not to visit a therapist
Facebook provides free access to Facebook / Wikipedia etc... then customers that have no access win because they get access and along with it, some pretty nifty tools to gain information and share news with their friends and family.

On the other hand, if Facebook doesn't provide free internet, then all those people stay in the dark.

What does net neutrality have to do with this? It's not those people are paying for an unequal service. It's FREE!
Or they would just translate Rust to C++

Might be hard at first and not very compatible with different compilers, but it is doable
Initial reaction to the first two images: "Curious on how he/she would redesign that non-intuitive layout."

Ouch :(
In the UK, level 2 Maths for adult students is called Functional Skills. A sample of the tests is available from each of the exam boards, link below is to Edexcel/Pearson's offering...

http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-...

Just got to love those URLs.

UK has a history of public education in Maths and English.

ReadWrite+

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100813100846/htt...

Gremlins

https://www.tes.com/article.aspx?storycode=398793

On the Move

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27254465
Realistically, most of your domains are likely to be worthless (to others). They may be great names, but are they names that have a resale market?

NewYorkBagels.com for example would be something a real business would want to buy. Something "brandable" like bagelo.io is much less likely to find a buyer (apart from anything else, who would be looking for it?).

If I've made the wrong assumption, and your names are in fact good one to three word generic .coms for products that people buy, then there's flippa.com (has good free escrow included, and both paid auctions and free listings). If your name is really good, there's also sedo.com, who charge higher fees. Over the past year I've sold way more on Flippa than Sedo.

Don't be surprised if very few of your names get any offers, that's just the way the market is, very illiquid. It can take a decade or so to find the right buyer.
I know it was shut down. But I think it's interesting to see how the wheel turned, again.
The USD and Euro haven't collapsed, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
As I'm not up to the current security research, what is problem with using md5 hash of name+password? Is the missing salt problem you are refering to?

Brute forcing md5 is easier than some other hashing algo because of collisions?

(And I would disagree that knowing that how to properly hash passwords means that the whole framework itself is poorly designed)
> I don't want to impose that on him

So don't. If you want him to learn violin you too should learn, show him how fun it is so he can learn with you.

If you want you kid to learn soldering. Then have fun soldering for few hours per week and let him be with you when you do that.

You don't have to (shouldn't?) force anything on your child. Children are starving for fun and are willing to try anything they see you have fun with.
I know, right? So when I see all the HN comments about how dare we be angry at this person and how straightforward and ethical they are and that they only care about the community... it feels even more infuriating.
You missed the "in that sense", which provides context to that statement.
It was fixed in April.
Huawei E397Bu-501 4G LTE Modem
A surprising proportion of the European populace really does think something like genetics, or maybe the slightly fuzzier "ethnicity", is at the core of the issue. Many people really think that they belong to a specific ethnicity that has existed in roughly its current form for hundreds or thousands of years, and that this is the glue holding together their nation-state and the reason for its success. That Europe's current ethnicities are the product of melting pots that emerged from waves of migration and intermingling and assimilation, is a common view among academics, but not so much the average person. I've had reasonably educated people specifically tell me that this is the thing Americans don't understand about Europe: that the American identity was created in the last 200 years from people of many backgrounds, while the European ethnic identities are 2000 years old and not the products of melting pots. Which is not really exactly right, but it's what many Europeans think. This is even true in Greece (I'm Greek-American), which is historically maybe one of the world's most "melting-pot" oriented ethnicities, almost evangelical in its desire to Hellenize people of any background.
DHL does that (in Germany at least). The delivery people have combined scanner/printer things that thermal-print on adhesive labels. So if they didn't find you and you need to pick up a package, you get a card in the mailbox with a printed slip on top of it which says where you can pick it up as well as the opening hours of that shop (which is a great improvement to before when the opening hours weren't listed).

When you give them a package (you don't have to bring it to the post office, you can give it to delivery people as well), they scan the label and print you a receipt (which also has the tracking number on it so you can track it).

The nice thing about that is that adding new features to the print-out (e.g. the opening hours mentioned before) is just a software update.

Some delivery services here also give you very accurate tracking with a delivery window that's just 15 minutes or so and you get the option to re-route the package online if you know you're not present during that time – or tell them to drop it off in a certain place (I have asked for non-fragile things to just thrown on our balcony in the first floor before; it's secure enough and I'd rather have a package instead of having to wait for redelivery or pick it up), or let them deliver to a neighbour.

All in all I think there are numerous possible improvements here and not all of them revolve around designing a better form that may be obsoleted by some of the better options.