skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a tiny fraction of the population needs to understand computer science. Most people will struggle through it, learn to hate it, and immediately forget it after they graduate, just as they do with math and science. Meanwhile, college professors will have to spend inordinate amounts of time unteaching all the stupid things kids learned in K-12, because there is no way to structure these curricula in a way that serves as a good foundation for those who will actually major in the subject and is simultaneously approachable for everyone else.

Public education should serve some practical purpose: teaching kids the basic skills everyone needs to be productive in the workforce and to contribute as citizens. To that end, I'd advocate taking courses away instead of adding them. Math and science education in K-12 is a disaster and a waste of time for all but a small fraction of kids. We'd be better off taking those out, shortening mandatory education to K-10, and letting kids who actually want to go into particular fields study the relevant coursework when they're old enough to actually learn it properly.
Totally wrong about Hungarian. "Pihentagyú" (literally "relaxed-brained") is a negative word. It implies the person hasn't had to used his brain in a while (for normal day-to-day worries) and so he comes up with some crazy ideas. It could be some terrible pun, some stupid "life-hack" or prank. When someone looks like they were bored and tried to get creative but ends up looking silly or hurt himself. The typical funny "fail" videos where someone feels they have a new "clever" way of something, like tie a sledge behind a tram or similar.

It's totally mistranslated.
No, OSX is based on NeXT, which was based on Mach, and BSD. As far as I know, iOS is proprietary.
From the original article, it appears the French are not the only ones embarking on the "romantic and pointless" project.

The Dutch are in on it too, though on a smaller scale. And over here in America (Idaho to be specific), http://www.solarroadways.com has won a $750,000 contract from the USDoT for something similar.
Trump's kindred spirit?
I think maybe you need to read the book. Your question is the essential topic it deals with, and the author comes down heavily on fear being a net positive in those life threatening situations.

One example: a girl is being chatted up by a guy. He seems nice, says all the right things. Intellectually everything seems fine. But there's a feeling nagging at her that something isn't right. A feeling of fear.

Mr De Becker is saying that in all the cases he's examined, the women went on to ignore their fear - eg by the socially expected action of returning reciprocated trust. Someone tells you a bit of information, you return it. Someone reveals a bit more, you do the same. Ultimately, these women put themselves in danger by not listening to their fear.

Now I'm not sure what you mean by the difference between "no fear" and "ignored fear." Plainly they have ignored their fear. But if a situation seems off due to a feeling of fear, not having that feeling isn't going to help in any sense. Its a signal that is no longer available, so you lose one data point to make a decision. Decisions with less data tend to be less reliable.
The US also gives large sums of money and arms to Egypt and Jordan, as well as Pakistan and quite a few other nations as well.

They support Saudi Arabia which historically funded the majority of terrorists groups who fought against Israel.

The US constantly also limits the Israeli freedom of engagement during both peace and war time the US pretty much "halted" every war Israel had which actually prevented a clear victory and just resulted in both sides going back to the same cease fire lines and resuming their stalemate.

The support the the US gives to Israel is given despite their interests in the region not because for the most part the US has to walk a very thin line between them wanting to idologically support a democracy and a like minded ally and the region and them needing the region "stable" (as defined by the US not actual stability as would be defined by any person who's actually living in the region) and capable of continuously producing oil and gas which will continue to be traded in US currency, as well as keep control over the shipping lines that connect Europe to the far east.
What do you use now?
This is not an official Google product. So why did it say Google in the title? This should be clarified.
Think about how many people and resources are already devoted to those Earthly problems though. I'm not saying that they're not still huge problems, but Elon seems to be one of the only people that's seriously and realistically trying to tackle the the need for an interplanetary insurance policy.

As someone else in this thread mentioned, solving hunger disease, and violence doesn't really do anything to address most of the extinction-level threats.
Pushing up the sites now (editing CNAMES), will comment again here and on GH issue when they're up.
Apple Has a Massive Secretive Unit and It’s Not Building Cars
PG actually addressed this in a recent tweet:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/663416191344447488
The problem with YouTube redesign is that it wastes a huge amount of space considering there are a lot of users rocking 4" iPhones. Basically a third of the screen is the top bars.

They also blown up the huge thumbnails for videos, so you can basically see 2 and half videos on the screen, compared to a much denser list before.

Not to mention the information density on the tablet : http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple69/v4/37/3f/0d/373f0d5d-...

Material design can be pretty nice, but not with horrible wasting of space where Google went completely overboard. This is BAD.
Gah, just saw your edit :) You're correct, seems like this article is not well researched at all.

Schnapsidee doesn't mean "an ingenious plan hatched while drunk", as you might expect it just means an obviously stupid idea, hatched with or without alcohol.

Also, "© 2023 by Tim Lomas", wtf?
I love this idea. Alongside factual_error_bot it would completely transform political discourse.

Imagine if presidential debates had real-time scoring of what was being said. Politifact is great, but 24h delay makes it substantially less impactful.
This carries a lot of emotions, even for someone with no family links with the US. All these people starting from scratch...
My father told me about an "aunt" of style who went through Ellis Island. I tracked down her entry registry (the ones digitalised by the Mormons). It is an amazing feeling to see that one line of text which meant a new life for her.
I never tried to contact that "family" but sure hope that the 4th of 5th generation still remembers who brouth them there.
>Also, you do not need to know Calculus, or pre-calculus, or trigonometry, or geometry, or algebra, or pre-algebra in order to build, say an Android twitter app.

At this stage you don't really need to know comp sci either. Just watch a tutorial and follow the steps.
HTTP Servers - all is ok

Frameworks - all is fine

HTTP client - Hyper works fine.

Email - homemade email servers is a good way to go into blacklists, so mandrill/postman is the much better choice.

"Several hundred thousand things about the place" - not actual anymore, there are rare things which are not covered by crates. Just open crates.io and type name of thing you need.
two, seemingly valid, examples, and "We can expect any technologist suicide to be called a murder at the hands of the state from now on". Your'e the one being hyperbolic.
Obama Announces Computer Science for All
> hunger, poverty, education and incurable diseases?

Those are threats to individual human beings, not to mankind as a whole. A Great Plague or a (non-nuclear) world war here and there can wipe 1/3 of humanity, but for the species as a whole it's just an inconvenience: it can be compensated in a couple of generations, through our adaptable fertility rate.

There are dangers, mostly ecological, which can wipe out the whole species: nuclear winter, mega-volcanoes, meteors... (yes, most of them are about some form of climate change) The mitigation for those dangers is to have several separated ecosystems, not regrowing the population locally after a demographic setback.

A city on Mars would probably take centuries to turn into an independent ecosystem (including all of the mining, transforming and recycling of every material required, and the means to extend itself across the planet. Or even, maybe, terraforming). But a partially Earth-dependent Mars city is a very important milestone towards the big goal.

Finally, he doesn't say that all of our efforts should be dedicated to that single goal: he's quite involved in fixing Earthly problem, including energy, climate change and transportation. He's also vocal about how we should think very hard about the kind of IA we want to cohabit with.
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> It's entirely possible that Apple takes code or inspiration from the Linux software project, but I think it's better to say that OS X is Unix based.

Apple can't take code from Linux as the code is GPL licensed. OSX is largely based on NeXT and BSD. Linux and OSX are both POSIXish though.
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>Really? You don't think society places great emphasis on milestone achievements like marriage, reproduction, employment success, sporting prowess, etc? Only you know what will make you truly happy - but everyone will be very keen to tell you if you're a winner or a loser.

IMO it's more like gamification:

Achievement Unlocked: $100K of student loans!

Achievement Unlocked: Wage Slave!

Achievement Unlocked: Something's in the oven!

Achievement Unlocked: Mortgage!

Achievement Unlocked: Couples counseling.

Achievement Unlocked: Substance addiction...

Achievement Unlocked: Divorced...

Achievement Unlocked: Rebound!!!

Achievement Unlocked: Downsized...

Achievement Unlocked: Child support...

Achievement Unlocked: Rehired!!!

Achievement Unlocked: New love!!!

Achievement Unlocked: Foreclosure...

Achievement Unlocked: 40...

Achievement Unlocked: Life-threatening health issue...

Achievement Unlocked: Recovered!!!

Achievement Unlocked: Remarried!!!

Achievement Unlocked: Divorce times 2...

Achievement Unlocked: Technological Unemployment...

Achievement Unlocked: Back to School!!!

Etc...
or you just inline CSS?

<p class="fs14px mt25 mb0 ml2em br30%">You can combine formulas as well</p>

vs

<p style="font-size:14px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; border-radius:30%;">inline css</p>
It's on the google github organization...
Time is a favorite topic of mine too. It began when I read Kant and his conclusion that ~time is an a priori condition of all inner experience [i.e. that time is something that the human mind projects out into the world]. Buy into that as the strong scientific claim that there is no independent process of time independent of our experience of it or not...there's no denying that our systems for measuring and expressing time are artifacts of human culture and that scientific definitions are ex post facto.

The idea that noon is not when the sun is on the meridian and a mere footstep east or west changes time by an hour with all the force of the state's instruments of violence [1] is a mark of tyrannical authority. The Gregorian Calendar is a product of a system in which people act upon a belief in a divine mandate for their authority.

Which brings me to the objection that was not addressed. I don't want to cede my freedom to a theocracy even dressed in technocratic robes. My time isn't yours to decide.

[1]: aka, don't be late for court 'cause the judge will throw your ass in jail.
The transliteration for قاموس is also wrong. He has 'tarab' but it should be something more like 'qaamus'.
I believe it means they want to share the code but not support it like an official product launch, but I don't know for sure.
Tcl is far from crappy.
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> LWN subscriber-only content

kinda shitty
http://www.getmdl.io/
Privatization Means Rebuilds
I think it's a correct assertion, although I'm aware of my hyperbolic tone.
Why would you want to?

There's a lot of smoke and noise made about how companies are desperate for COBOL developers because the old ones are retiring or dying blah blah blah, but I've never seen actual good salaries to back it up. And to add insult to injury, you're unlikely to be able to take the skills you've learned to your next job when you inevitably change jobs.
(1) A detailed study of cost in the (building) construction industry.

(a) What are the components of cost? What is their relative size? Labor, land, materials, permitting, architecture/engineering, regulatory compliance,

(b) The housing value chain. Parties involved, who's adding the most value/earning the highest markups. How the cost of commodities (wood, steel) compares to the final, built value of a structure.

(c) Why it costs more to build in some places than others (materials availability? labor)?

(d) The true cost and benefits of various types of regulations, e.g. SF's Affordable Housing Bonus Density Program, various types of zoning ordinances, height limits. Quantifying the cost of regulatory uncertainty in extending project lifetimes. The extent to which a regulatory/uncertainty premium influences investment behavior.

(2) Effects of technology on mental health. I've been happier since giving up facebook and I wonder the extent to which this is a placebo, or something more widespread and generalizable.

(3) Computer security. A study of what actually causes breaches, data theft/loss, and other high-impact disasters/outages and how we can fix it, with detailed cost metrics. Things like "employee malfeasance", "unpatched software", "configuration error", etc. As a sysadmin, I'd like to know "what are the 5 top causes of breaches" and "what is the highest ROI investment I can make in software/procedure/etc. to keep my large-scale computer system safe/confidential" (I wanted to do this one in grad school but never got around to it)

(4) A true study of the early-stage ecosystem. Kind of meta, but I'm tired of people making vague hand-wavey generalizations like "99% of companies fail". How much return do venture funds actually earn? What are their biggest economic drivers? How do VC returns as a whole correlate with other benchmarks like the S&P 500?

If anyone wants to discuss these further my email is in my sig. I used to be a researcher and think of questions like these all the time when walking the streets of SF ;)
Oh dear: "Publishing his initial findings in the The Journal of Positive Psychology, Lomas' hope is not only that we might learn more about the positive psychology of other cultures, but that hearing of these words might enrich our own emotional lives. [...] Lomas' method was to trawl websites devoted to "untranslatable words" (i.e. words that don't have a single corresponding word in English), then to do some googling and finally to consult colleagues and students. This way he ended up with a list of 216 untranslatable words for positive emotional states and concepts."
Amazon UK Link = http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1771642483/

Due to be published 13 Sept. 2016
> a computer with chinese semiconductors

How will you know where the semiconductors are made?
Cheap oil (ie, cheap fuel) presumably also affects this.
Yes, The Register's article is much better/higher quality.
SpaceX hasn't made any public statements yet on how they are planning to send humans to Mars, but you can be pretty sure that robots will be a big part of it. Lots of SpaceX people are big fans of Mars Direct and similar plans.
A colleague of mine at Pivotal had previously interviewed with Elon for a position at Tesla. He asked the recruiting coordinator: "what's he like? What does he look for in an interview?"

The response: "The important thing to understand about Elon is that he wants to retire on Mars". Deadpan serious.

Goals are dreams with a deadline.
Is this supposed to be the one example to prove me wrong? ...it's an exception to the rule.
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Just looked up Finnish quickly. I never thought of it before but its very strange to me that a basic word like jaksaa is missing from English. It seems as basic a word as want or cant. In English you have to say something cumbersome "I don't have the energy to do that" in Finnish or Swedish you say that in 3 short words.
Cafuné is a Brazilian Portuguese word and is not very common in other Portuguese speaking countries. It originates from "kifumate" a word in Umbundu, a native language in Angola, that designates collective grooming, the activity of picking lice and parasites from someone's hair.

The explanation for "desenrascanço" is wrong. It actually means the verb "desenrascar", similar to the English "dodging a bullet". Desenrascanço is a substantive and means the trick actually used to avoid the trouble. It is a word used mostly in Portugal, most people would probably not understand it in other portuguese-speaking countries.
I'd also encourage people to check out gun - http://gun.js.org/ (disclaimer: I'm on the gun team)

GUN is a highly modular, open-source, real-time, offline-first, distributed cache storage engine. By default gun uses localStorage for data storage, but with gun-level there are many more data storage engines just a module away. GUN defaults to pushing all data. The gun team is regularly releasing new modules, new and improved functionality, and improving performance. If you have any questions, please feel free to ping the gun team on Gitter.

[gun-level]: https://github.com/PsychoLlama/gun-level

[available data storage engines]: https://github.com/Level/levelup/wiki/Modules#storage

[gun's gitter channel]: https://gitter.im/amark/gun
Solar panels are getting cheap. This makes many things that used to be stupid eventually become reasonable.

Don't forget many things where dumb wastes of processing power, until they became reasonable.
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Is this effort as part of the VC arm of YC ? or just the independent research arm ? because open AI doesn't seem like a VC effort .
During the day, when the sun shines the brightest the roads will have the most amount of traffic, shading the panels from the sun. Doesn't make sense to me.

Why not just spend this money and put solar panels on industrial buildings or state owned buildings?
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> A "Schnapsidee" is not "an ingenious plan hatched while drunk". In fact, most "Schnapsideen" are, while often imaginative, quite stupid, unrealistic or just weird.

I'd love a website to collect examples of these.

The Japanese Chindogu are perhaps similar, but for inventions not ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu

http://www.chindogu.com/
I figured readers could fill in the relevant blanks. Updated example:

if something:
value = do something
else:
if something_else:
value = do something else
else:
value = do a third thing

As I said in my initial post, "it helps once you have nested ifs, and multiple lines of code." Here's the change:

if something:
return do something

if something_else:
return do something else

return do a third thing

Again, what I'm stressing here is that if you already have your result, you can return, and it makes the code easier to follow than adding a superfluous "else:" statement.
Heh, way back I got a letter from them too. I was talking about an integrated Java Application Development Environment (JADE) at the time. It was sort of a unikernel with all the Java system classes compiled into code and only the application classes (policy) being interpreted by the JVM.
Looking at the Japanese and Korean, it seems there's some over-romanticization here.It's a little odd seeing the Japanese "nakama", the word Monkey D. Luffy constantly throws around to refer to his crew, described like it has some deep philosophy behind it. Similar goes for Korean "Sarang", which is probably the first word every Korean student learns, and the most common word said by any K-Pop star - if its usage isn't in any way distinct from the English word for "love", it shouldn't be described like some alien concept. On the other hand, Japanese "Ai" would actually be slightly distinct, since people use "Suki" for anything more casual.
They can (and did), they could also blown the drone out of the sky.

Iran is making a power play in the region one of the outcomes of the deal is that the US have lost the "respect" of most of it's allies in the region (and I'm not talking about Israel but about SA and the gulf states).

This incident just like the incident a week ago with the captured US sailors is pretty much an embarrassment to the US in a region where your image and reputation mean allot.

This isn't something aimed against the US to show that Iran can deal with them, this is aimed at all the countries in the region showing that Iran can pull down their (US) pants so everyone could have a laugh without a reprisal.

The US has lost it's only card it had against Iran which was the sanctions, it can no longer enforce any sanctions regardless of what they are for Iran has stated that sanctions against them even if they are due to their support of terrorism or due to their long range ballistic missile program will constitute a violation of the nuclear deal.

Europe has already swarmed the Iranian market it was a market they desperately needed especially with sanctions over Russia and with China importing less and less goods from the EU.
Iranian economy is ripe for rapid growth they had a huge automotive industry in the past, they have a big (even if severely outdated) energy section and unlike most countries in the region Iran actually has a good primary and higher education systems which means that you actually have a fairly large pool of educated professionals to draw from even if Iranian schools are quite behind the west they are still better than any other country in the region except for Israel.

Iran is Turkey but with considerable energy reserves and an educated population if it wasn't being ruled by an authoritarian religious regime it could've been one of the biggest economies in the world easily. Even with their current handicap they have the potential to rival the likes of Canada and the big European economies especially if they finally will be ready for another revolution that will dismantle the mullahs and the IRGC.
Looks interesting.

But only MacOS? No Linux?

Encrypted database? I once tried a password keeper. I think it was called xpassword or something like that. After having a corrupted database twice within days, I pass.

I you want privacy your HDD should be encrypted anyway.
I imagine one of these would make short work of any threatening drone approaching a ship or carrier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
You can watch the talk on YouTube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJb8WOJYdA
In French, "flâner" is a negative word. It directly translates to "loitering".

I only ever see it being used on these signs:
http://frenchpotatoes.r.f.f.unblog.fr/files/2008/07/dsc01060...
Not to mention that there still isn't a cheap launch vehicle available that's cheap enough for lunar exploration to be feasible for a private initiative. SpaceX themselves could probably send a probe to the Moon soon if they wanted to; the Falcon 9 is likely a lot cheaper than what SpaceX charge their customers.
Heard the same sort of refrain about PHP, WordPress, jQuery, Bootstrap, etc. as they were gaining popularity. Each of them somehow devalued something or made people think they were experts...
I will see about ensuring that that problem is only mentioned in the first chapter once. Thank you for your feedback!