skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that book is a pretty shallow hatchet job on the subject of public unions, with a clear agenda.

The argument for public unions (aside from all of the private sector arguments that also apply to public unions) is as follows:

- Government is often subject to swings in power, political party, budget crises, etc. that are much less common in private sector jobs. There's a value in giving people job stability here - case in point, a new school board is elected and decides they want to purge anyone from the science department district-wide who doesn't believe in creationism. The union acts to protect those people.

- Politics, by its nature, has been bedeviled by cronyism and favoritism. Unions are one of many ways that situation can be helped, but helping to insure continuity across administrations or preventing punitive actions towards people of a different political party, for example, has real value.

I'm not thrilled with the behavior of a lot of unions in the US, but I disagree with the premise that "public unions are clearly bad".
From the wise words of N.W.A - Fuck da police!!!
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> Could you imagine if oil prices went up and suddenly that $0.50/gal tax disappeared overnight?

Great point. This is the same thing that's happening now with tobacco taxes and lottery revenue. Tax money is fungible so the repercussions will cascade beyond the original programs the money would be allocated to.
The key to succesful education is involved parents. It's really that simple.

No amount of training or methods is going to change that simple but important fact. Involved parents means involved kids which means they will learn.

That isn't to say that the education system shouldn't be optimized (it should)

But there is no problem with education as such. There is a problem with how parents are involved with their kids education.

Edit: To clear up confusion. No I am not saying parents are a substitute for education I am not talking about parents intervening either.

I am saying that by being involved intellectually in their kids education they are providing their kids with the best kind of foundation possible and it will fix a lot of the issues that comes out of parents not being involved or outright harmful to their kids education.
I think you're mistaking socialization for some broader natural truth. My partner was unschooled, and her peers are on average doing much better than mine, having attended the best charter/magnet high school in my state.
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I don't think it can do so. The Dragon 2 has a delta-V of around 400 m/s, and lunar orbital velocity is around 1600 m/s - so you'd need at minimum 3200 m/s to land and take off again. The dragon would need to carry some sort of fuel+landing legs trunk to drastically increase its delta-v to even have a chance.
While companies do sometimes give tests to candidates coming out of college, it is rarely the case that this is more than a crude in-house diagnostics tool that attempts to gauge very narrow job skill-sets or aptitudes.

There is no "Exam".
I'm in the UK, different rules.

Spoke to a friend in local gov who put me in touch with the right people to deal with our equivalents however so I will be compliant, in addition since users self-elect to insert their data I've got my company's legal representative looking into it as well.

Medical data makes me nervous but this could help a lot of people, it's a product I'd have used immediately if it existed.
Teaching remains a craft-based occupation, but we're haven't yet developed tools that actually support the job of a teacher. There's no way that Universities/k12 school administrators will be capable of providing the level of detailed feedback necessary to teach teachers how to be effective, so we need better methods for teachers to self-assess and improve independently.

So much effort is being put into one-off, discrete solution to a curriculum problem (like leveled non-fiction texts, grammar instruction, etc.) - but what we really need are tools that allow me to understand what my students are capable of, support my development of curriculum materials/activities/assessment, and discover/remix the multitude of learning resources that are being created in classrooms just like mine all over the country.

I want a VisiCalc, because I'm tired of running these numbers by hand.
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Well, if you are an american, the college I went to is nothing to brag about. But we do with what we have.

> Graduating from school (highschool or university) is about learning how to follow directions and play the game.

Really? Is that what college is about, or is that what some colleges have become? The progress from middle school to high school to college is less about learning what's on the board and more about being able to stand on your own among your peers. It gradually moves you from a smaller echo box to a larger and larger one. Until the time you start working and living independently, where the echo box becomes your workplace and the city.

> But you're not even making such a modest claim, you're actually claiming that it is the

I never said that was the only way, but it has been one of the better ways historically. If you know of a better way to teach a good portion of the population critical thinking abilities I am all for it. I am not supporting going to a college with and being $200K in debt when you graduate and still not knowing what you want to do in life. But I am opposed to the fact that the r/hn hivemind thinks that all college is a waste of time.

> Are you aware of how absolutely stupid school seems to peop...

Well good for them, maybe they can broaden their horizons a bit earlier, but what kind of smart people are you talking about? 3 standard deviation from the mean? So the 0.1%? Or 2 sigma? So the 2.3%?
I didn't mean to talk about the field in general. Computer science is, beyond doubt, "degree deserving knowledge". I just meant that most IT jobs don't require such knowledge and, in my opinion, would benefit from a more flexible approach to teaching. Something more trade school-like.
Thanks for responding. I never really thought about how that might be a controversial opinion but it does ring true the more I think about it. My self-described "libertarian" friends don't believe in the same social policies I do and don't believe in the same correlations between social policies and economic success.

I'm sure you already knew this but I figured I'd share it anyways: After thinking about it last night I decided I believed in a "trickle up effect" and then went to google it, thinking it a nice take on the "trickle down effect," only to find that "trickle up effect" was the original and "trickle down" was apparently the clever take down... Sigh. Guess I should have paid more attention in Economics.

Anyways, like most economic theories I'm sure there are a myriad of reasons why it might not work or be the most effective (which you graciously decided to not go into.)
> Oh another JavaScript framework. Of course the world needs that.

We're trying to avoid snarky dismissals here, especially in response to new work. Substantive criticism is fine, so this comment would be better with just the second paragraph.
Kinda begs the question, 'at what point do we start making the tools used in other industries better rather than constantly cycling our own'?

This is like a marketer who tweets about a commercial that was created to promote the twitter account.

As a result, The number of followers sky rockets, the account gets notice from all the major media outlets, and it's hailed as a great success in the marketing world. A disruptor, a peek into the future of marketing.

Meanwhile, people who have real products and services are failing to reach their potential audience because super twitter self-referential marketing v2.0-beta is doninating the marketing industry.

Source: I write libraries too but oft times question the utility of such things.
I think we spoke about your start up a year or so ago on here, I hope it's going well :).
I don't think that's a good idea.
It's also less of a simulator and more of a total brain takeover.

When I first started playing all I could think about (as I was trying to get work done) were trans-munar injections and free-return trajectories.
You have a point, but civil labor usually has an advantage their private-sector counterparts don't: they elect their bosses. Public unions multiply that power. Whether that's a net benefit for society at large, I'm not going to discuss here.
I found it here:

https://listserv.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105&L=PIVOT&F=&S...

"From: Bjarne Stroustrup..."
People should be allowed to associate with any clubs, partnerships, unions, corporations or organizations that they want to and the other party is agreeable. If you don't want to join, then don't join. If you don't want to do business with a company or a union, then don't do business with them.

There is no need for the government to massively interfere unless there is a real physical danger to citizens.
Sounds like a cool idea, and I wholeheartedly support attempts to distribute education so that all can benefit and contribute to the sum of human knowledge.

However, one of the primary reasons for higher education (for better or for worse), is to get a job. Currently, most places are going to ask for your degree, or experience. What's someone coming out of this program going to have? And how long until most employers accept it?
Ask HN: What's the best way to be notified of comment replies?
Looks like HNNotify.com is dead (a shame, it was awesome), and I can't find any similar services.

Not sure if there's ever been an official word on why that functionality isn't baked into HN, but curious what others use in the meantime.
I put off developing in Python for ages because I dislike significant whitespace. Eventually I was persuaded to give it a go. After developing in Python for some time now, I still dislike significant whitespace and the whole tab-space issue, but can learn to live with it.

I will likely give Nim a go, despite its significant whitespace and weird variable naming rules. In any case I continue to follow Nim and wish the project every success.
Well, it's a puzzle game. So I might argue that not being intuitive is kind of the point.

And to that point, maybe one reason I've found so many recent major game titles boring recently is that there is no puzzle to them. They're just activities. Go here. Shoot that. Collect that. It's nice to actually be stumped. And not just frustrated by my lack of hand-eye coordination.
This is awesome. Totally a ballsy thing to do :)
Title should read "Russia hopes Saudis will propose global oil production cut". With Iran coming back into the world market, Saudi Arabia has an interest in keeping prices low to prevent Iran from pulling in billions in oil revenue. Further, there's a hard limit on how high prices can climb now that natural gas wells in North America (and elsewhere) are ready to resume production as soon as the price warrants it.
I am "management" where I work, and I'd drive my company into the ground and make everyone unemployed, before I allowed my defective product to kill someone.
You're getting downvoted, but I think this is a legitimate question to ask, at least about police unions. There are many serious problems with public sector unions. I'd like to point to the financial situations (unfunded pension liability related) of California and Illinois as prime examples of such problems.
I majored in math, and had several future math teachers in my homework group. One answer is future high school math teachers are some of the worst math students. I'm sure that's totally unrelated to the pay being completely shit.

I have a friend who teaches in a Belmont (peninsula in the valley) school. He also works as a receptionist at a gym 4 days a week after working at the school, and he still spends half his take home pay on rent. So he's at the school where he teaches by 6:55AM and leaves the gym at 10PM, then does grading. The only reason you would legitimately struggle to understand why it's hard to hire teachers or why skilled people don't do it is because you're a startup founder (why aren't engineers jumping take a $50k paycut in exchange for most-likely-worthless 0.1% options? Engineering shortage!)

In the bay area in CA, teaching is a cute hobby that has to be supported by a spouse or a second job. If you want to draw more high-quality people into the profession, change that. And then maintain the changes and wait 10+ years at least for the knowledge to percolate and another generation of teachers to come up through high school and college.
Here's an interesting thing about the Challenger (and Columbia) disaster: We find it to be particularly devastating, the same as a major natural disaster or terrorist attack. But on paper, they don't even compare. The explosion of the Challenger killed 7 people and cost NASA around $40 billion. The destruction of the world trade center killed over 2600 and the cost to the private insurers alone was over $40 billion. Hurricane Katrina killed over 1800 and cost at least $100 billion. Not even the same ballpark. So why the big emotional impact? Because they stood for something important.
By the way, Google's PageSpeed module, which is available for Apache [0] and Nginx [1], is also available on ATS [2]!

[0]: http://modpagespeed.com/

[1]: http://ngxpagespeed.com/

[2]: https://www.iispeed.com/pagespeed/products/ats-pagespeed
> It’s true that the average SAT score of high school students who plan to become teachers is below the national average.

If you ever take education classes, the first thing you'll notice is that the people leading them tend to go out of their way to follow best practices for teaching / learning.

Since most other classes only incorporate a handful of evidence-based teaching methods, and many times are structured around blatant anti-patterns, a lot of the ways these programs are structured are going to feel wrong to outside observers. But often there is some sort of theory / research behind why they are the way they are.

Granted this applies more to Ivy league teaching programs and not random Internet diploma mills, but for what it's worth.
The secret to more productive Android development
RiotJS couldn't keep it to the original size of about 3 KB, it's about 9 KB now. They market it as a "React-like", but it appears that this one is way more "React-like" than RiotJS ever was.
> Certificates are free? Some are. Do you trust certificates given without checking the real identity of the user? I do not. It has a cost. If you do not check you have the perfect tool for a MITM.

But you just said that HTTP was fine, right? You can MITM plaintext HTTP too, so I don't understand why that's a problem for HTTPS to be (potentially) MITMable.

> Of course you idiot.

I have stopped reading here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Have feedback on this post? Let @github know on Twitter.

This probably isn't new, but I just noticed it. For shame.
SOGo 3.0 is out
I disagree. One of the most enjoyable classes I took was Weather and Climatology. Completely irrelevant to my current work and I paid a significant sum of money to take that required science credit.
Ask HN: Why are comments disabled for YC job posts?
Not judging--just genuinely curious. YC has a lot of interesting companies and those posts seem like a great opportunity for potentially interested folks to ask questions directly to the founders before deciding whether they want to move forward with the whole resume dog and pony show.

Is it because they can devolve with a ton of negative responses?
Not in the future no. If the Islamic population in France becomes the majority, and that's a reasonable possibility during this century, then it's perfectly acceptable that part of the population elects a radical islamic leader for president.

Many dictators got to power with free elections if you care to look at history.
Appears to have come back - but status page shows blip: https://status.github.com/
They are foo because his arguments regarding toolchains, driver stability, distro "stability" are not troublesome in 2016 is it was some years ago. This is a technical discussion, not a discussion of selling.

Yes, I am arrogant by the way, I learned not to be afraid of standing tall with my own point of view.
I think we probably agree completely.

Also, can we all agree that we'd feel a lot less safe in Wrigleyville after a Cubs game than anywhere else in the city?
Yes, numeric cases are solved by running the input through a function that allows only numeric characters, [-.0-9]. That's the only other case.

Management is more likely to listen to this, since it doesn't require a rewrite.
But why is it the employees decision?
I did once replace a remote running Windows 2000 server with ubuntu, via netinst + repacked intrd with full preseeding bundled.

Rebooted the machine, waited 20 mins whilst apprehensively hammering it with ssh.
An interesting thing about OCW and some of the moocs is that they allow us to see what different schools are like, to some extent. Even with the semi-watered-down versions of classes from Stanford and MIT, I definitely feel those schools in particular are more challenging than most others.

Other ivy league schools, not so much, at least from the watered down versions, and with some exceptions from notables (Financial Markets taught by Robert Shiller, for example)

Most schools, at least in the mooc versions, tend to be about the same level, regardless of prestige.
I grew up in an Asian country where I have seen police corruption first hand more than once and I always wished my country had better educated and morally strong individuals who would protect the weaker sections of the society instead of siding with rich/powerful people even if they are criminals.

I always wished like in the west police would enforce the law regardless of the status of that individual and that police and other govt officials are better paid and hence there was no need for them to get corrupted for the sake few extra bucks.

I am currently working in one of those "developed" countries in the west and observing things around me, reading articles/comments like here. It appears that, it is not really very different here either. I guess human greed is universal.
Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth
Automated B2B Lead Generation
Does anyone have a mirror? I'm seeing an Azure message that the "app is stopped".
Yes, the script posts the user/password to the ipmi http(s) server to get the jnlp file (which includes an embedded credential that's tied to the http(s) session)
Dragon 2 is going to start out doing parachute landings with no propulsion at all. Once the system is sufficiently proven, they'll switch over to propulsive landings, where the parachutes are just an emergency backup in case the engines don't light or something.
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Someone attending MIT has the opportunity to expose themselves to far, far more than someone who went to community college. MIT has far more resources, and cutting edge research is taking place there.
There's also an aspect of optimism to it, I think, not just naivete. I have enjoyed the startups that I've worked at, but I feel very out-of-place when I'm around many serial entrepreneurs because they seem to latch on to an idea and think it has extreme potential far more easily than I do. If you're optimistic and actually ENJOY being motivated by potential more than a paycheck, you'd probably trade salary for it. Just not who I am, nor a bet I think is sensible. But each to his own.
I stand by everything I wrote in my original comment and have to add that I really don't understand anything you're trying to say here.
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The Lincoln Park incident involved a white 20 something lawyer...
Dell XPS 15 review: A bigger version of the best PC laptop
The language surface area has already increased. The decision has been made.
> The key to successful education is involved parents.

That seems to be the case with asian parents/children and they usually get better GPA.

Is there any source that proves or disproves that?
A severe disaster could cause total collapse of society and lack of food. Think like the aftermath of a full nuclear war between two large super powers, or an electromagnetic storm hitting earth, or a man made virus that wipes out half the population and has the other half hiding indoors scared to go outside - borders closed and massive quarantines.

None of these things is particularly likely to happen IMO. But if they did happen, you suddenly have a large portion of people not being fed. When people aren't being fed, you get uprisings, wars, and desperate people joining the roving bands of marauders that the article talks about.

But man, the Earth currently produces so much food. It's incredible really how much we can do with so few humans, with modern agriculture. Most of it goes to animals, and in a time of need we could slaughter them and eat the corn directly.

It would be really, really hard to seriously damage the food output of Earth - or at least first world countries. And it's only going to increase with technology like genetic engineering, super efficient robot greenhouses, or microorganisms bred to produce things like sugar 20x cheaper than conventional agriculture.
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I went to two different state schools. 4000 level courses at one were 2000 level classes at the other, and vice versa. I lost 30+ hours transferring, because courses didn't meet the rigor, or they weren't even courses at the better university. For instance, a 4000 level linear algebra course counted as half of a calc 2 credit.
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Feel free to make a cogent argument in favor of public sector unions rather than just saying "I've heard Republicans make your argument before, therefore I disagree with it" and making personal attacks against the poster.
Yes that's true. I meant making education more accesible in terms of making it free not making it less difficult. It becomes cheaper for people to give it a shot and more people end up graduating. It's true that this devalues the achievement and nobody really can hire you just because you graduated. On the other hand in a society where most of your peers have (devalued) university education you won't even get to job interview without one.
To be fair, Android has a hugely disproportionate number of API WTFs to choose from. It's an absolute mess.
At the very least, I hope it is investigated at the federal level just so I don't have to be so jaded.
When you say categorizing, this would be placing them in categories yourself, or some sort of smart categories the software creates?
The Whonix approach is very reasonable. Tails must be considered inadequate when used as a complete solution as long as the browser isn't fully isolated from the Tor underlay.