skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this guy completely missed the point. He mixes distractions from real research work. "Being informed" is a vague phrase. Sometimes information consumption is like eating junk food - it can be too much. In case of author, it feels like a solid case. Unless he uses social networks for real work - I cannot see how reading Facebook can be productive or relevant to work.

In the end, this article felt like self defence, or even more like rationalization on the topic. But I must admit that it forced me to think about this topic a little.
This isn't even a trade school. Trade schools definitely have classes and lectures.
Let's create the "Tweetable API" movement. If the most common call of a function doesn't fit in a tweet, you're probably doing it wrong.
I don't know what you did in your college, but I wasn't sitting at my desk for extended period of time.
The only constitutional voting test is, are you a citizen of voting age, who is not a felon?

I would rather see that test applied as a prerequisite to run for public office.
Apple iPhone sales in India rise by 76% in Q1 of 2016
If you test currently available dead-code elimination tools for JS you will discover that there are tricks that those tools can't play, most important one being eliminating unused methods on object / classes.

AFAIK Webpack2 is using Rollup under the hood. While rollup is great and can build smaller outputs (biggest win seems to be elimination of the module system overhead) it can't perform miracles.

In short: size still matters, even with dead-code elimination tools (at least as they are today).
Engineering degrees universally require a technical writing course. Engineers universally revile it as busy work. This memo is Exhibit A for why written communication is critical for engineering, and I imagine an assignment to rewrite this memo to be more effective would be a good way to underscore the importance of clear and concise writing.
It would be interesting to compose your own 'major' program out of smaller granularity subject modules. So e.g. if one were interested in majoring in robotics, you could assemble a study program of something like basic CS, basic MechE, basic EE, then stack some other intermediate level subjects modules on top... Controls, Visual processing, etc...
I Do Sex Work So I Can Look at Myself in the Mirror
Activist Predicts His Own Death, Says the Cops Killed Him
One edge case doesn't disprove a rule, and timezone/DST rules changing is definitely an edge case.

For internationalisation storing in UTC is still the gold standard, since it remains consistent with itself across time and DST zones.

Storing in local and then converting from one timezone to another timezone on demand has far more edge cases and gotchas. Plus it too isn't immune from rule changes, if you store in local time (e.g. 10 am) but DST rules changes, from an outside observer's perspective (someone in any other timezone) the meeting's time has now changed.

So even just using that edge case you're talking about exchange one downside (local time changes) to another downside (remote time changes).
I think Dragon 2 is a propulsive landing all the way, with parachutes used only in case of emergency. /r/spacex would be a good place to ask this (and the moon landing question), lots of people are quite knowledgeable and like running numbers like this.
I would like to offer an alternative viewpoint. Downvote me if you like, but it's a slice of the world of opinions, and you'll need to deal with that.

There's nothing wrong with American education.

The job of American education is to sedate the masses, while letting the legit geniuses rise to the top (create the next Google, etc.). It is very effective in doing this.
Oh come on, we might as well start posting this warning every time someone links to any files on HN.

In fact, websites are known for carrying malware.

Especially considering that at the point where you have the docs you have already opened the torrent, and torrent clients are known for being super secure
Yeah I was waiting for that part too. seems that it would involve Buffet more, being that he's financing the strong arm.
>Either that, or you don't get to vote.

What? Graduating from school (highschool or university) is about learning how to follow directions and play the game. To say that a degree somehow guarantees that a person knows how to think critically is ludicrous.

But you're not even making such a modest claim, you're actually claiming that it is the only way to assure people can think critically (even though it's not even a valid way to begin with). Some of us can think critically as children. Do you honestly believe just because you couldn't think critically until you were an adult, that means that hundreds of millions of people that you've never met should be forced into the same fruitless, and arbitrary indoctrination you had to undergo to become adequate in your own eyes?

Are you aware of how absolutely stupid school seems to people who are really, really smart? http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
Gates? Considering what he's achieved I always found him quite humble.

Here's a guy perfectly justified if he said "I am much more brilliant than everyone else". This take over the world thing is quite new amongst tech entrepreneurs. From my understanding.. he knew he was onto something big, but super-billionaire was not in the expectations.
>most people are passive

They are not naturally. But society designed by people like you turned them to being passive.

Imagine people start education from start in society like this university, everyone will be excited, because they are going to do what they like.

My problem with people like you is this.you are scaling your small experience to one of the fundamental things in human kind.

Maybe passiveness in your language learning group was other where? Maybe because people was forced to be there? Because of raise? Beacsue of earning respect? Or because of something deep in their unconscious part of their mind.
But I am 100% sure if they were truly there, they would have been excited.

Things are simple.if you compare them with sex.almost every bode (healthy) excited about sex.
Education should be like this.free.and whenever whatever you like.

Every person is/will be excited if he/she truely become free to do what they love.
Great resource! Can we filter results via Pricing? Like I wanted to see all resourced with "Free" plans to try out before buying.

Thanks
Real estate commission model is due for a change
Critical thinking is a must, besides we need some STEM knowledge also because you cannot do much of meaningful critical thinking without it, especially in today's world. So high school is definitely a must and college if you can.
It does, but the support is not very friendly in my opinion. But this is actually one thing that is currently being improved.

Currently you have to use allocShared, allocShared0 etc to use shared memory. You must then manage the memory yourself.
"I’m looking at a new model, where the whole sort of vocabularity is different"

Impressive! Creating a new word in the same sentence you declare you'll be using new words. Assuming I understand her cromulent new word.
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the ISS
Leave. Frictionless and painless. (I left Chicago after living there for ~2 decades)
I don't know of any source for that. Is 204s a typo of 240s? 204s would be awfully low for a Hydrazine engine (though I suppose it's possible they care a lot more about the TWR and have optimized for that).
Yeah bring raised on JDM cars, I was surprised about the small comforts of German vehicles. Perhaps you should consider a wagon and drop the mini-van... ;p
This will be helpful in understanding this framework I found yesterday called RestBus[1]. From their site: "RestBus is a high performance messaging library that enables you to consume ASP.NET Core, Web API and ServiceStack service endpoints via RabbitMQ".

[1] http://restbus.org/
this is true for this early warning from the manufacturing company, but the launch day reasoning was chilling. I'll be back with links to the worse parts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277408
Sounds like this ticket was raised before the uBlock / Origin split. It would probably be worth re-opening or re-submitting the ticket explicitly with regards to:
A) That uBlock Origin is still actively worked on while uBlock has largely stalled.
B) The evidence[0] that uBlock Origin operates with substantially less overhead than Adblock Plus
C) The ability for uBlock Origin to double as a Javascript blocker.

[0]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#cpu
There's no way to reliably anonymize medical data in the general case. PII/PHI often exists within free-text fields and file attachments. You can't remove it all just by searching and replacing.
In our app, everything that's a timestamp (invoices, payments, registering to an event, sending messages, create/update timestamps, etc..) is stored in UTC. Having both depending on the use case is really the best for us.
I as a consumer missed the point of the game by not being enticing enough for me to finish it so I could get it, apart from its special 3D and artwork, yes.

I am not saying he Stole Fez, I am saying he seems to have mistreated people who worked on it with him.
In the end, Blow is a force of nature, Fish was lucky to have someone code the engine for him, period. Look through the videos on Jai, there is some good stuff there that's not related to games in general.
Interesting, but maybe not all that useful. The purpose of a major is to give others an implicit idea of what you studied. If I say I have a major in Robotics, then everyone can infer what that consisted of, even if it varies across universities (in which case that knowledge usually disseminates). What happens when I say I majored in robotics, but I failed to actually include anything on the hardware side of it and only really studied AI and control algorithms?
Did you develop an ability to think critically? Can you rationalize your position? Congratulations, you can do well on your own and you are not a liability. But you are also in the minority, I envy your the intelligence and will to learn you were born with, but not everyone has that.

Most discussion about college not being important is about the fact that we don't use anything we learned in our majors after college, but your major is hardly the important thing to learn in college.
TC39 Zone Proposal
I think it's worth reminding people that there's a huge difference between harmless text files and MS Office documents that can carry all kinds of malware.
Yeah this is pretty unfortunate.

Sadly, having played through the puzzles that involve color, it's not superficial at all. The puzzles are fundamentally about how colors work and combine. There isn't an obvious way to make a colorblind friendly version...
Note though that C++ is something very different. And c2nim can produce C++ wrappers, see for example Urhonimo, a Nim wrapper of Urhod3D. Of course this is a benefit from going via C/C++ offsetting the disadvantage. Btw, I am not negative towards Rust, although I prefer Nim for my use cases (but eventually I will try Rust) - I just wish people could view and critique languages from their respective design goals.
LAPD and SFPD are under constant scandal, OaklandPD have been under federal control for years. You don't know what you're talking about wrt California police probably because you're white and wealthy.
Capturing Java Exceptions with Sentry
Sure,

But currently Stingray and Body Cameras are the two biggest contentious technology issues with police at the moment.

Police in Chicago were caught destroying cameras and mics to avoid audio recording and reporting.

Stingrays are seemingly getting reported weekly.

So, I think they are a good focus.

But - make a word cloud and see whats largest.
There isn't really a "problem" in American education, in the sense that it's unusually bad compared to other countries. Looking at PISA scores, Latin American / European / Asian students in the USA do as well or better than in their mother countries.

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2012/pisa2012highlights_...

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2012/pisa2012highlights_...
Clearly Clinton was wrong; Iraq was the biggest security issue in America by the end of the Bush administration.
Imagine being on the team that discovered and warned about this issue, and then a year later watching the replays of the shuttle exploding on television. Just knowing that's what had happened and your worst fears at come true.
I didn't say it did - in fact, I explicitly said I wasn't defending them. Perhaps I didn't phrase it strongly enough.
HOW CAR WINDOWS ARE MADE
There was a previous discussion on that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9539372 [2015]
Books to Improve Your Writing Skills
Productive is really hard to define because we all value what we produce differently.

If I'm playing minecraft and optimize a factory in an hour, that is a productive hour of gaming. But to my father, that entire time was wasted because he cares naught for video games and would instead be out working his farm. But I look at the small scale farm and realize that for what it produces, it would be cheaper to just buy the produce and thus don't see it as productive.

Is watching football and prime time TV productive? What if you have someone who doesn't like either but is doing so only so they can be a better culture fit at work since that is what everyone else at work is doing?
Five physics classes? Really? So... what subjects are those?

Because you should definitely be taking at least a little physics and quite a lot of math.
Well in most highschools and universities children/people sit for hours at a time behind desks while someone talks.

Did you stand for your lectures?
Did you not have lectures?
Is 6 hours a day not an extended period of time?
L.'s Talia Frenkel on Turning a Concept into a Company
>>Imagine people start education from start in society like this university, everyone will be excited, because they are going to do what they like.

Anybody and their grandmom may be excited to do what they like; it takes education to learn to do something even if you don't necessarily like it. What he/she seems to be saying by "structured-ness" may have to do with this.
Nature forces you to hunt for food, else I am happy to just keep on pondering and doing philosophy because I like it.
As far as I see the answers was: work-in-progress

And you asked why this happens, and I answered, because Nim claims it is secure. Not more not less.

It's like saying OpenSSL is perfectly (or as good as it gets) secure, and there aren't any known vulnerabilities. That statement is going to get a strong reaction from anyone that specializes in security and reads HN (for example tpatcek).

I don't like or dislike Nim. I did like Nim's macro system, although I fear its too powerful (it seems like macros would be really easy solution in many cases).
I have a friend who is a high school teacher, and I was shocked to learn how they evaluate him. (No idea how true this is for other schools).

They compare the standardized test scores of this years group of students with those of last year's. If these students do better than those, he must have improved, and if they do worse, he must have slacked.

Now, he'll have between 20-100 students each year. Any teacher will tell you that the variation between one year's group of students and the next is considerable. (indeed, among my teacher friends I've learned it's a major point of gossip - not individual students, but the collective lot)

This seems insane to me. Why not compare this years students with THOSE SAME STUDENTS' SCORES from last year? Or find something else less likely to be so "swingy".
So... Y Combinator?
I don't think there's any harm in a warning for binary files distributed by someone who presumably broke the law to get them.
How many letters to VPs and pre-launch holdups were there, then?

Surely you can't make this argument without detailing that?
Yes. But it doesn't mean that, given a random sampling of 100 cops in relationships, you could expect ~40 of those to be currently abusive of their partners.
Bookmarking this for future entertainment. I hope he got a dump of their emails...that's probably where most of the interesting stuff is.
Prosecutor's fallacy
Nor any harm in a warning for binary files created by people willing to break the law to protect their conspiracies.
'Making a Murderer' Supercut – “Yeah?”
If he violated company policy by moving PII to his laptop, then the company may punish and/or prosecute him. But if there was no consistent policy then one must be formulated and all employees brought to heel without recriminations.

If he demonstrably violated company policy then the company nonetheless may be responsible for his past and continuing actions. In this case I would also hire a knowledgeable private investigator to help determine what he might have done with the information.

If you are responsible for allowing the situation, or in allowing it to continue, then you may, in the end, be terminated or required to resign. Prepare yourself. Perhaps you should consult an attorney.
Looks great - nice work!

One suggestion: The URLs of the comparison pages could really use some SEO love.

BAD: `http://www.analyzo.com/compare/131/2,8,13,`

GOOD: `http://www.analyzo.com/compare/bluehost-vs-godaddy-vs-hostga...
There is another axis that would be pretty interesting. I suspect that these "national security" types get a sizable and relatively automatic boost in pay for a PhD and it's likely not correlated to any performance or value.

Top Secret America by Dana Priest (http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-America-American-Security/d...) is a somewhat interesting read on it. There are some politically angled results you can take from it but one of the most obvious non-political results is that the national security apparatus employs people that tend to be better paid, live in better areas and have all those benefits (better schools for their kids, less crime, etc..) They also seem to be disproportionately white men. If you squint your eyes just right, it looks an awful lot like a jobs program for white men. The book is a few years old but as I remember it I want to say the average pay for a top secret cleared generic 'analyst' was in the $150k+ range, more if you're in a valuable specialty. Then the real kicker, most of them justify their own jobs and contracts, oversight consists of reading that justification, which I guess isn't totally unusual for government work but since they're contractors it's a little odd.. It's not performance based.
And this is the problem. Apple, Google, etc. need to step up and say enough is enough. Implement something usable as a default email mechanism. Highlight the insecurity of defaults (e.g. chrome showing the broken lock symbol on non-https sites). The average person doesn't realize how insecure they really are.
Power users can remove it by putting this in their user style:

.toolbar-commenting{display:none !important;}

Use with e.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...
I have a place for you that your might really like, https://www.reddit.com/r/topmindsofreddit

Go there and be happy.

The important thing in high school and college wasn't what I learned in the classroom, although some of it does help me in life. The important this was what I learned in that environment with my peers.

I don't know how bad your college was, but I did go to a pretty good college in my country. It might not compare to ivy league colleges, but it taught me important life lessons none the less. My opinions are biased by my college experience but it sure goes to show that college can be great and not completely useless and a lot of people like to claim.
I would rather have sales tax separated. Why? I've seen so many people bitching about why certain products are more expensive in Australia, and commonly blame the company.

In reality, they should be blaming the government. Merging the prices allows politicians to raise taxes without the citizens actually knowing the true amount.

This is not true. If you sell to consumers in Germany, you have to add the sales tax in your prices, too, but you also have to give out an receipt that shows the tax rate and amount. I believe it is the same in Australia. The consumer knows the tax rate and he does not have to calculate the price he is paying.

If you sell to businesses only, you do not have to add the tax in your prices, but you have to give out this receipt, too.
But, why doesn't this guy have a work laptop?

I have a work laptop my company provided. My wife has a work laptop her company provided. Everyone in both of our companies have work laptops provided by the employer.

Plus there are policies in place with this. We have agreements that all work is done on the work laptop and nothing personal. We signed saying we agreed. When we leave they take the laptop, in its entirety. It is also encrypted and automatically backed up. They also know if we have plugged in ANY external device like a flash drive and or external HD.

So not buying a work dedicated laptop for this guy, I think will cost you now that you care about what he might do with it.
> Nothing I've worked on has been nearly to this scale, but having management understand and ignore warnings is commonplace.

So you are implying that every warning issued management ends up resulting in a failure of medium, large or catastrophic proportions?

There is no data available almost certainly on warnings issued where nothing has happened.
To be fair, it would be a lot of work to fix the backend. The SQL is dynamically generated for every request, and the code that does so is thousands of lines long, with nested subroutines that construct sub-portions of the query, so there is no easy way to check where things need to be parameterized. Also there is some injection from unusual places (like a search options object separate from the search criteria object which includes the ASC/DESC which, you guessed it, is directly injected).

Realistically, to be safe, you'd have to gut the whole thing and replace it. You can be a "little safe" by doing something silly like replacing ' with '' but that doesn't protect in non-string cases, etc, and I wouldn't propose a solution like that because it could give a false sense of security.

I understand the push-back. The backend is maintained by others and it would add to their workload to secure it. That's a real and actual cost.

As for the business impact, you are right. I just wanted it to be "on the table" that I informed people of the situation, so that if there is an exploit in the future, I don't get the "why didn't you tell anyone this was vulnerable?" or something like that.
Startup Weekend Education
The transcript is incorrect. It uses "Manager" under Kapp's signature, instead of the original "Manger".
>Like it or not, people prefer wealth with a risk of cancer to rural poverty

"Since Guan-yin's husband died of stomach cancer two years earlier, she's been pushing for change. She says she's been harassed by authorities constantly"

How does it feel being an apologist for some of the worst forms of state oppression?
Show HN: Spockhub – Get the Dark Bar from GitHub Enterprise
Not stated in the second sentence is the statement of data supporting the observation, or the fact that pelicans are affected by oil.

It's easy to trim sentences when you take away data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10975838
A look at the PowerVR graphics architecture: Deferred rendering
Oh, but there are more puzzles to do, it isn't just about panels. Keep looking, those puzzles are everywhere.
What's wrong with sequence A096774 (numbers with 9*10^n+7 prime)? Why is sequence A000027 (numbers starting at 1 increasing by 1 each time) better? Because it comes earlier in the encyclopedia of sequences?
I've got to agree with exhilaration here. There's nothing lost from a little extra security when reviewing these files.