skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who did this, there's a caveat not typically mentioned. It's much more difficult to get an internship as a CC student than as a university student. Thus, by the time you transfer to university, you're going to be competing for your first internship with people who have already done 1-2 because they were already at university for 2 years.
see: す - imagine if it were written from bottom to top. The placement of the 'straight' part of the vertical line and the placement of the 'curl' would be opposite (especially if you're using a brush instead of a pen). This is similar to the lowercase English 'a' or 'u' written bottom to top - especially if using cursive.

or see: お

the last 'dash' in the top right is a retouching of the paper after the curl on the bottom right. Imagine a swirl that starts in top middle, swings around on the bottom left, swings around on the bottom right, lifts off the paper, and then touches back down briefly in the top right. If you're hand-writing, that little landing dot can be huge, tiny, or even conjoined, but to be legible it's generally visually a continuation of the lower stroke. If you just copied the letter without any concept of stroke, it would be difficult to read because you'd be looking for that swirl. Imagine the dot on a lowercase 'i' - it's supposed to be directly above the stroke for your brain to render it as an 'i' vs an 'l'. It's why when written out you can distinguish 'il' and lt' even though they're quite similar if drawn literally, quickly.

An example of stroke order vs stroke direction is more apparent when you need good proportions. Kanji like 風 or 看 are really hard to 'draw' with good square proportions if you don't stroke them in a particular order. Kind of like trying to draw a face by starting with the nostrils, then doing the eyebrows, and ending with the outline of the face - it's tough.

Interestingly, the Japanese hiragana letters are really designed to be written with a brush from top to bottom. The letters flow from one to the next really nicely when written from top to bottom, and are actually much harder to write properly when written left to right. See: す - き - の. They're much more natural to write top to bottom, and keep going down rather than from a left to right (which is also indicated by stroke order - the horizontal bars on the letters above are written before the downstrokes).
True in San Francisco, but even in NYC $250k is 95th percentile: http://www.businessinsider.com/san-franciscos-top-5-of-earne....
Unfortunately, Wirth never seemed to be very cooperative in attempts to standardize his languages, and often inclined to tinker with the language whenever he wrote a new compiler.

My personal theory is that his participation in the Algol 68 design effort left him with enough unpleasant experiences in language standardization to stop him from ever trying this again (Though I never asked him personally).

I never cease to be amazed at the dedication Stroustrup has been bringing to the C++ standardization for several decades now.
Regardless of policy it was the right thing to do.
> I think the other interesting question is why Law Enforcement feel the need to execute a search warrant like this with a SWAT team and a massive show of force.

If they actually had probable cause to believe that it was a major criminal marijuana grow operation, that itself would probably be nearly sufficient reason to expect that the risk of armed resistance would be high enough to warrant the kind of raid actually conducted.
It's mocking it by making a parody, and there's an analogy between the parody and the original. As that analogy breaks down,the parody becomes less meaningful. You could not call it an analogy if you want, it's just semantics.

>They've extended that analogy, in fact, to try and prevent people from ripping their own music, DVDs, etc

They want to prevent people from being able to upload pirated DVDs. They couldn't care less whether you rip them for yourselves, afaik, but they want to ban the tools to do so because they're also used by pirates.

If I'm wrong, do you have an example of when they tried to stop self-copying for its own sake?
The real problem is talking about absolute values. $250k/year makes you king in many places, but in several cities you'll be hard-pressed to buy a house or even an apartment.

Owning your home has long been the staple of middle class. In places like San Francisco even the very high income engineers mostly pay rent. Especially the ones in their 20's.

(source: me and my girlfriend put together make just over $200k/year, we wouldn't dare think of buying a place, probably ever. According to the article we're top 96th percentile)
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I'm quoted at length in the article, so I feel obliged to respond. Overall I think it's good, but it misses some nuances.

First off, there's a small contradiction about offline storage. The author says that users prefer web apps because they take up little-to-no space, but that the web needs to catch up in terms of storage capability. You can't have it both ways - if websites become more offline-heavy, then users will need to get accustomed to managing their available space (as they already do with native apps). This is an as-yet unsolved UX problem for the web.

Also, based on the comments in this thread, I think many people don't realize how far the web has come in terms of offline storage. Today you can build a mobile site that stores MBs of data, launches from the home screen, and works even in airplane mode. (On Android anyway. iOS is another story.)

I built a small site to demonstrate: http://www.pocketjavascript.com/blog/2015/11/23/introducing-.... On an Android phone, Pokedex.org is basically indistinguishable from a native app, at least once you add it to the home screen. In Chrome, tap the green lock and you can see exactly how much space it takes up (around 6MB). Feel free to put your phone in airplane mode and refresh the page - it will still work.

Second off, there's a lot of speculation in the post about Apple's motives, and why they might be throttling back on the web platform relative to Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft. I'm guilty of this myself in "Safari is the new IE," but nowadays I try to have a more nuanced take.

AFAICT, Apple seems to have many small teams with many different motivations, as does Google. Within Google, you'll even find teams that actively undermine other teams - e.g. what the Chrome team is doing with Progressive Web Apps is a direct threat to Android apps. (I'm even surprised to see one team occasionally trash-talking the other on Twitter.) So talking about "Google's motives" or "Apple's motives" as if they're each one big monolithic entity is a little simplistic.

My favorite theory about Apple and the web comes from this article (http://blog.html5test.com/2015/07/safari-and-ie/), which argues that the WebKit team is just too small since the Blink split, which is why they've been having trouble keeping up. No grand conspiracy theory required - just that the team is a little under-financed. Also, Safari is still rocking it in terms of performance and battery life, so it's not like they're asleep at the wheel.

I think the web still has a chance to catch up with native (for a lot of use cases anyway, not all of them), but it will require a change in how we build websites. In the same way that XMLHttpRequest was around for years before web devs "discovered" Ajax, I think offline storage and various mobile APIs might lay dormant for awhile before suddenly everybody is taking advantage of them. As web developers, the ball is in our court.
Do you think 0-days should be reported as soon as they're found if the vendor is incompetent? If yes, what's the argument, if not, why is this different?
Can't find anything in a search, is there something similar for ruby?
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This is another interesting one, made by a fellow intern at my industry placement company (part of a Computer Science degree here in Australia):

http://www.digitaldesignacademy.com/color-theory

Lesson 12 has a really cool palette generator.
First thought: does this account for the emerging DIY electrical engineering community, e.g. the raspberry pi "gadgeteers" on kickstarter?
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I know a Swede who was growing pot in his apartment and got ratted on by a neighbor. The police showed up since they were obligated to respond, and proceeded to politely knock on the door, search the apartment, and in the end confiscate the plants / equipment. There were two policemen, and while they were doing the work they were chatting with my friend about the details of his setup, complimented him on how neat it was, and were almost apologetic about having to take it away. What a world of difference.
I wouldn't expect it from politicians, but am surprised how even experienced writers on this topic can't seem to understand the real factors at work here and contribute to an objective conversation about income, wealth, and class in America circa 2015...

If my wife and I work 80 hours/week for an energy company that is highly cyclical, we are very different than two physicians who work 80 hours a week but have lots of job security, who are in turn very different from a retired police captain who collects $250k from two spiked Government pensions, who himself is very different from a retiree who lives on $250k in dividend income from a $10 million dollar portfolio of index funds. Not to mention who owns their own home (inherited perhaps), and who doesn't. It's almost like ''income is the worst way we have to measure relative prosperity, except for all the others''.
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What's your idea? Even a vague pointer to the field that it is in?
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As a family just inside that 5% mark, my first reaction is to object to the idea that I'm somehow part of a wealthy elite. However, my second reaction is shock that the median household income is $53,000. If you've got a couple kids in Portland, Oregon and you're making $53,000, you're going to have a bad day. I guess I'm left with a feeling of doom that I'm going to be asked to support so many people when I feel like I have so little margin. We're investing in our retirement, investing in our kids' 529, and paying down debts. With a home loan and student debt, we're worth considerably less than zero. I've never been overseas, and I mostly vacation in state. If I'm the mule that's supposed to carry this load, I fear we're all going to have a bad day.
Three times a year... versus the time it takes to set up a VM.
There are a lot of degrees that are unlikely to prosperous career after schooling and people still pursue those.
I'm inclined to agree with your conclusion, overall.

In this case it's worth noting that the issue is ameliorated by the fact that ScopedTypeVariables can only change the meaning of code that already uses other extensions, since it only affects type variables explicitly listed in a forall, and by default you can't have explicit foralls.
I wonder what RNN-generated fake Latin characters would look like. Sort of a handwriting version of that "what does English sounds like to non-English-speaking people" video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY)
It wasn't the FAA. It was all the lawsuits that made the liability of general aviation airplanes completely unprofitable. Aircraft development is still going strong in other countries around the world.
There aren't a lot of places where you can't live on an annual gross income of 250K. The quality of life will vary, if you living in New Jersey for example and commuting over to Manhattan, or out in Livermore taking the train into San Jose or Oakland. You would be doing just fine in Portland and much of Seattle. Places like Albuquerque and Des Moines would have you really living well.

But looking at it a different way, where is the money going in those various locales? Given the cost of living in the Bay Area compared to the Columbus metro area, the amount of 'pay dollars' is generally flowing out at a much higher rate in the Bay Area, but they are soaked up just as quickly as they are in Columbus. So who is getting them? Banks with their Mortgages? Schools? Government? Restaurants? How can you have a population of people making $200K a year in one place experiencing the same level of "wealth" as people making $100K a year in another place? That makes for an interesting conversation.
> neutrinos could travel faster than light, as spotted by the Italy-based experiment OPERA in 2011; another came after the discovery of gravitational waves using the South Pole-based BICEP2 telescope in 2014.

I hate, no, I loathe how they conflated these two things. It's inaccurate and misleading. I expected better from Scientific American.

The FLT neutrino discovery was proven incorrect and the result of faulting connection/wiring. The BICEP2 findings were not thrown out, and could still be correct. The only thing that happened with them is the confidence level was lowered a bit so it's still inconclusive. The people who are on the project still believe they spotted gravity waves but they need to further work to disprove/discount some other factors which could have accounted for their results. Basically, they're still working on it.

Conflating the two makes it seem like both were flat out wrong. Only one was flat out wrong, the jury is still out on the other.
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Middle class is not principally about income, its about the method by which you participate in the economy. If your primary means of support is applying your labor to your capital, you are middle class (yeoman farmers, independent small business owners, professionals that own or are full partners in their practices, etc.)

If you primarily live by renting your labor to be applied to someone else's capital, you are working class.

If you primarily live off your own capital, with most of the labor applied to it being labor you rent from others, you are in the capitalist class.

Income correlates with economic class, but neither strictly determines the other. $250K a year is not middle class in the same way that, say, wearing a bowtie is not middle class.

Its possible to be in any (of the three mentioned) economic class and have $250K/year income.
You didn't see this part of my comment:

> "It's arguable there is a genuine requirement for staffing companies, but these need to be scrutinized thoroughly."
The biggest problem is that 250k a year is is barely middle class in a large city.

If you have three children, and 250k income, that will provide you a decent living, maaaybe allow you to purchase a home, and just barely afford college funds. That's what's broken.
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"Middle class" doesn't have to be precise or correct, because it's not a mathematical term. When a politician uses that term, they're doing it because they know that the guy making $20K (who doesn't want to identify with poverty), and the guy making $300K (who still feels a sting when he needs to buy a roof for his McMansion), and everyone in between considers themselves middle class. Hillary Clinton is just saying "I won't raise taxes for you, Friend."
I was skeptical, but the format works really well. It scales up to the desktop version well enough but also works much better on mobile. The page is actually a great read (since I'm learning Norwegian, at least).

Man kan lese det hit: http://www.nrk.no/bygda-som-sa-nei-1.12703629
Interesting, isn't Android ASL?
Weighing the risks. Cost of protecting against root escalation versus likelihood of a root escalation exploit on a patched Windows computer, and cost of using a different user to play the games against the likelihood that someone typo'd a script and it wipes out my home directory. If I really wanted security I'd unplug from the network and refuse to run third-party code at all.

See Myth II: http://minimaxir.com/2013/06/working-as-intended/

This is the type of scenario I'm protecting against, as well as unsophisticated but malicious actors.
The second one is merely an observation of fact.
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Amazon has crazy volumes that give them options to innovate beyond what UPS/FedEx sorting centers can do.

They can skip the whole hub step and do what Southwest did for passenger travel. Because they don't need to build a nationwide network, they can cherry pick the markets that make sense to them.

It's great for Amazon, but awful for everyone else. FedEx will lose, and UPS will take a body blow, but have more clout and market power.
http://hanja.naver.com/

Here's a korean site providing many Hanja/Kanji/Hanzi stroke orders
Right, because in any sane templating library you would just have something like

Hello &amp; Welcome {{a}}

but despite being "built for the web", php is not a sane templating language for dealing with html.

Facebook's XHP solves this problem:

https://github.com/facebook/xhp-lib#escaping

"An interesting feature of XHP is the idea of automatic escaping" ... "As you can see, using XHP makes safety the default rather than the exception."

Unfortunately your standard php hosting site is not running hhvm.
> Their product is scientific. It's not just a health app or some nutriment recommendation which can be claimed successful without any scientific claims to back it.

So was VioXX[0]. Read the Withdrawal section, especially the last paragraph. As someone who was following the case closely while it was happening, I can tell you that everyone involved looked guilty as hell, even though the court found only the marketing people "overzealous".

You see, "science" doesn't lie. But scientists do. Some liars are better than others, though.

Also, the standard US medical advice about things like nuts that might cause allergy are "delay introduction as much as possible" (e.g., do not introduce peanuts before age 3 or so, for fear of allergic reaction). You will hear this from doctors and find this in official manuals, although there is no science to support this (never was), and in fact, there's data indicating that early exposure to nuts reduces allergy.

> Theranos has a very a scientific product with a binary output and so it's claims will stand up to that (i.e. being approved by passing a number of tests)

Output is not binary. Most (often all) data used to evaluate medical products is provided exclusively by manufacturer, who is able to massage data to yield specific desired results, see e.g. VioXX.

> My lesson was for those who wanted to change the world via healthcare, not those who wanted to get rich.

Well then, they shouldn't look to Theranos - those guys obviously care more about getting rich than about changing the world (well, changing the world for the global good, anyway).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib
I'm not who you are addressing exactly, but it is not "bigoted" to make the claim that bringing more workers into a workforce will drive salaries down.
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I think "selectively enforced" is a better way to put it.
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Yeah we had major recent fire all the tech staff events both with Disney as well as a major utility company in CA.
Perhaps the employee considers the reported vulnerability in the extension resolved and the XSS issue was just a side note. I'm sure a lawyer could argue that Google is in full compliance with its policies which are probably noted in a EULA and T&C as being subject to the discretion of Google employees.

Ostensibly the 90-day window is to protect everyone, not protect companies. It gives them time to develop and test a patch which is good for all users of the software. It's not to give a company mishandling security more time to be idiots. Especially a security company. Better that users get the information to act on immediately.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804163
I remember using AVG many years ago when it was a decent product. I recently had the displeasure to have to install it again. AVG Free right now is malware, plain and simple. It highjacks your home page in every browser, changes your search page, and silently installs an extension. And if you go and switch the home page back, it shows you a popup asking you to set it back to AVG. This is pure malware behavior.
While this certainly might be interesting today, you glossed over the fact that middle class was earned by a single income in earlier days.

Which I think is far more interesting.
Thanks, I remembered it being extensible. Turns out that section is a char in the man code so it could easily be a new section or a switch to extract the examples.

I might do some work on this - import the examples from tldr and bro and get them into the man pages, and hopefully find a way so that man pages are easier to contribute to.
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> Having a child pushed her well below the poverty line

Although it's not discussed, family planning support (from contraception to abortion) may be as important as good free public transport in supporting vulnerable individuals into getting out of the poverty trap.

Not saying people should not have babies just because they're poor, but public services can surely provide the counseling so they can weight consequences of such a decision, means to prevent unwanted pregnancies and freedom to stop them if the mother decides or the prospects change. In this case it's clear the pregnancy was unwanted/unexpected.
Is it? Because the last time I was looking for a job, everyone I asked about remote work had some hand-wavey bullshit excuse about the "value of collaboration". As does my current employer. I would dearly love for remote work to be a thing, but it seems like very few employers actually allow it.
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Yes. 90-day windows are for us, not for companies/projects/teams. They are an acknowledgement that the producer of the software is best suited to patch and get that update to users. If they aren't suited for the task notifying users that they are at risk is the right thing to do.
That's fair. Racist attacks are definitely a big problem. But these are racist members of racist websites mostly acting of their own initiative, and not reading violent instructions or declarations from the website. In contrast, Islamic extremist websites do specifically tell people to kill people. That's why censorship of those resources could be a bit more justified.
I think in the most "civilized" countries for the long time already it's that we (as whole communities) agree to the law (and the authority) either because we don't know about it or we believe that we personally (as individuals) will never have to actually follow it.

I wonder if we're far beyond the point when we could actually stop following the law if it becomes bad enough and it's already virtually 1984 but we just didn't really notice. Or if there's still some hope out there, somewhere.