skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nightmarish is the perfect adjective for this.

It's reminiscent of the way the Stasi[0] operated. Files on everyone, turn your subversive friends and neighbors in to gain political influence, revenge or just spite. Only in China, it will be automated. AI will determine who is naughty and who is nice. I've always felt Gilliam's Brazil was a true cautionary tale. It looms before us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
How much cash do the top five open source projects bring in? That's the other side of it. Funding a side project, let alone a large open source project, is hard
Maybe a better idea than homework is to include mandatory "study halls" within the actual school day, where kids are expected to work quietly and independently on this followup work.
I've definitely seen a YouTube video of that.
From the article and poking around the site it appears that the author has basically rediscovered the empirical CDF.

(Also its not at all clear what the author's "jackknife" is, but the real one dates to the 1950s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackknife_resampling )
It would be fair to say that you have some technical skill not afforded to the truly poor. Most English teaching positions in Japan require a college education, which is the epitome of this study carried to an extreme.

Anyone can learn to code or do Linux ops work, a skill that you have that keeps true poverty at bay. Most can go to school on grants if they are truly poor but there's a learning curve to being able to fill the paperwork out, a time and transportation cost to getting the paperwork done and to the right place.

In these situations, you have chosen to live as poor, but the opportunity to not be poor is always there because you had an education, you had a skill, and those things gave you an opportunity to save up enough to work for free for a while.

There are a lot of places in the world where people don't even know you could work on computers for a very high wage. And even when they do, they lack the know-how to find a geographically diverse community that can mentor them.
Really? Most people don't think that "much poverty" is caused by human behaviour?

I'll grant that some temporary localized poverty may exist due to circumstances beyond human control, but I'm absolutely certain that most poverty exists because humans collectively permit it, not because we are - as a whole - powerless to prevent it.
Interesting, i've put together exactly this at a startup I just joined.

Based it off Atlassian's own article (which also goes into hardware): https://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/03/jira-asset-management-ov...
Except that such institutions do exist, and in many cases they do trigger upwards spirals [1]. The high fixed costs of collection relative to the actual loan amounts drive up the incentive to be a bad actor (on both sides of the transaction) and that makes small amounts of debt much more expensive than large amounts. But the existence of bad actors doesn't invalidate the positive impact access to low-cost loans can create. Also, to your question below about poor people's unwillingness to borrow money: this is absolutely a psychological barrier that can be difficult to overcome, and it's a known problem [2]. It's also not irrational: the increasing instability of wages at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder (last week you got scheduled for 29 hours, this week you got 5 hours) further increases the risk of taking on debt [3][4].

Nothing in the real world is as simple as that quote. People like it because it so clearly captures a very real situation - nobody is going to give you a zero interest loan to stock up on toilet paper, and the poorer you are the less liquid capital you have.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfinance
[2] http://www.ihep.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/pubs/fa...
[3] http://www.res.org.uk/details/mediabrief/4410321/Americans-F...
[4] http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/shift-change-j...
Evidence to what? Both of them are dead, also this was work phone.

There's nothing interesting there.
> Operating systems perform context switches on I/O.

which are very cheap :)
> “Trump” was a name chosen because it refers to a card belonging to a suit of higher rank than the other suits

Absolute speculation.

More likely, it's because "Drumpf" was too Germanic and the family was trying to avoid this exact kind of ribbing.

And let's be honest - it's implicit here that the word "Drumpf" itself is funny. Why? Because it sounds funny to the Anglo ear. It even looks funny. It's like laughing at the surname "Wang."

> Overall, I’d recommend against stooping to that level. Trump is the master of childish slap-fights and dick measuring contests.

You're not like, arguing with Trump.

You probably really trying to convince your fellow citizens not to vote for him. I haven't made a decision, and will probably sit this election out unless I hear something compelling, but I just immediately tune out anyone saying "Drumpf," "repug," or "Obummer." ymmv.
That requires a follow-up: how much does the surpassing group remember 30 years later.

In 2007 I got into keyboard; I learned a whole bunch of Bach pieces on the piano in just a matter of months. I was surpassing the people who did years of piano for many hours a day as little kids to get to the same stage!

I could rip through the two-part invention #13 in A minor, #8 in F, and others. I got an old-fashioned wind-up metronome and was dropping that weight lower and lower ...

Someone---LOL---asked me where I studied music. :)

Then I somehow dropped out of it, and stopped playing. Today, I can hardly remember anything. I can get through a few bars of that Minuet in G, and then draw a blank.

It was "fake" learning, in a sense. A flash in the pan epiphany that fizzled away.

But I can wake up in the middle of the night and manipulate polynomials, remember trig identities, do arithmetic like long division (and do it fast), multiply and divide numbers in my head, manipulate fractions, logarithms, you name it. It just stuck, from the years of steady practice.
Teens React to Windows 95
Yeah. You can save a lot of your time, and the candidates' time with a simple coding interview - even FizzBuzz will knock out half of the candidates. Then pair up and/or give a take-home, then discuss the solution in a one-on-one session.
What the heck is fastsortx? This is another problem I have. I study all these algorithm books then when I get to the interview they ask something that either isn't in the books or they've come up with some nickname for it and expect me to know it.
Good luck!

Yeah, I know there'd be a reaction from the school, but I wonder how much real trouble it'd bring. (Of course it's way easier for me to wonder than for you all to try it. I hope I'm not annoying you here.)

When I was a kid I skipped a lot of homework -- for some classes in high school, basically all of it -- which got me in some trouble with my parents and got me kicked out of the honors English tracks twice (in middle school and then in high school), but FWIW I still got into a good college via test scores and (surprisingly) teacher recommendations. Unfortunately I can't claim this would generalize -- these were California schools in relatively affluent neighborhoods, and decades ago, and I'm not your daughter... and I'll shut up now. But I hope this might've been vaguely helpful to hear.
Milling machine might work better. You need Z as well as X and Y.
It looks exactly like it.

I've seen exactly that same dynamic play out with other items of clothing, and even with shoes. And the thing is, when you're poor it's not that you can't afford expensive jeans if you really tried, it's that of necessity if you have that much money to spend on something you have other higher priority needs (things that you've just gone without, or things that you've stretched beyond their useful lifetimes but haven't replaced because you didn't have the money), and not on clothes or shoes.

But you see exactly this dynamic play out in housing, transportation, and so many other places. A poor person with bad credit is going to end up being forced into having to take a high interest loan in order to buy even a low quality car. And they're going to have to dump a lot more into maintenance and refurbishment costs than someone who can afford a nicer car. Over several years they may end up having dumped more money into that crappy car and the financing of the loan than it would have cost to buy a much more reliable car if they had the money. I bought my car almost 10 years ago, and had it paid off in less than a year, I've put 100k miles on an incredibly reliable vehicle with almost no spending on maintenance. That saved me a ton of money on financing costs and in maintenance costs. I've seen tons of other people who couldn't do that and ended up buying less reliable vehicles for a lower initial cost but have much more maintenance and end up having to buy yet other cars more frequently. And if you take public transit, you instead spend a ton of money on that without having anything to show for it.

Housing is even more extreme. Being able to afford to live near where you work can save a ton of money on travel costs over the long term. And being able to invest in purchasing property puts you way farther ahead than being forced to constantly rent.

The point of that little quote is that the difference between rich and poor is very much non-linear, and not merely a factor of the rich having more money. Having more money means being able to spend money in ways that produce solid returns. Buying goods of high quality and high longevity which result in a net savings down the road. And buying things of lasting market value which serve as investments.
> Because your comment was regarding our having the technology needed to allow someone to live 1000+ years. In order to allow that, we'll need to have mastered manipulation of literally every cell in the body.

This is not correct. The core concept is that we will develop individual solutions which solve pieces of the longevity problem. Living to 150 may only require solving one of them. Living to 1000+ may require what you propose (although that is not clear either) but in the intervening time period between the initial solution and the ultimate solution you cannot assume all other physical aspects of an aged individual will simply vanish.
Seriously, how much more of this analysis do we really need?

The poor have it bad. Now, what are we going to do about it?
These generalizations about education in "the US" are inaccurate, since there is no universal norm of "US" education.

The US is an enormous country. Educational policy is defined at the state level. There are 50 states, each with a different and unique educational system. Even within a single state, much policy devolves to individual districts and to the administration of particular schools.

Besides the standard state-run schools, there are numerous private schools, religious schools, and charter schools (privately run but funded by the state). All of these are free to do whatever they like in terms of educational policy (within very broad general limits.)
MDWriter first pre-release for Linux, Windows and OS X
What Facebook Reach Looks Like with 2,000 Followers
Coders, the robots will be coming for your jobs before mine
Hyper may very well be much faster, but it isn't. Which is the whole issue with the Rust vs Go debates: one is possibly much better, but the other one gets all the code written for it in 1/6th of the time (Rust came out the same time Go did, to great fanfare).

Are we willing to wait 6x longer for rust to catch up? Some people are, most people aren't.
And then we've also accelerated the idea that the one thing worth spending your time on is performing for the sake of society at large. We increased testing of children in America. Many schools spend a lot of time teaching to the test. The lesson there is that your time is most valuable when it's helping the state prove your productivity. Why learn a musical instrument when society will most value you when you're sitting at a desk?

I would argue, regarding the value of learning a musical instrument, that it's worth children sampling many things to even figure out what they will like spending their time on. How will they know they will care about music without exposure to it?
When selling a site means selling a community
Worksnaps Reporting: Chart and Calendar View
Yes(ish)

This is Debt Slavery (or Debt Bondage)[1], and you are correct that it is a different thing to chattel slavery. However, it is still considered slavery. In particular, it is outlawed under international law under the "Convention on the Abolition of Slavery"[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplementary_Convention_on_th...
One thing that doesn't get talked about very often is the social aspect of fasting. I've learned to just shut up about it because more often than not, people generally think you're crazy.
You are "quit writing software and went to Japan" poor.

There is also the "working 2 jobs to feed 3 kids" sort of poor.

These are completely different kinds of "poor".
WinFS was too slow and consumed too much CPU resources.

I'm genuinely curious what your source is for this. From the following uncited text on Wikipedia?

"An early revision of WinFS was also included, but very little in the way of a user interface was included, and as such it appeared to early testers to be nothing more than a service that consumed large amounts of memory and processor time."

Or do you have another source?

WinFS betas were released post-Longhorn as well.
Those are unrelated concerns. Microsoft isn't a big homogenous unit. The business unit that would join the Linux Foundation would be Cloud & Enterprise (which does crazy things like open sourcing .NET and joining the Eclipse Foundation).

The business unit that would open source Windows is Windows Development Group, who are mostly stuck in neutral. They can barely perform builds of Windows themselves, it's so huge and tangled and poorly organized. They can't change anything because they're crippled with decades of technical debt. Whether they want to or not (and I don't think that they really do want to) to try to open source that monstrosity is quite far away.

That said, I'm sure some people within Netscape said the same thing about Mozilla. So I'd love to be proven wrong.
The article didn't imply anything like that to me.

Where it mentioned buying in bulk it mentioned two classes of people: people who could not buy in bulk at all, and people who did buy in bulk at the beginning of the month, if the option was available, but could not do so at the end.

If you could point at the paragraph which led you to believe it implied the poor were unable to afford bulk purchases due to "wasting" their money, that'd be great.
Basic income is easy and would solve all of these problems. Just ensure everyone has the capital to satisfy their basic needs. Then if child labor emerged near me I'd know it was inspired by self-discipline or ambition and not poverty. I wanted to work when I was 14 but I wasn't allowed to. Apparently my employment was caught in the crossfire of the rich people exploiting poor kids and the regulators trying to stop them. You can't just ban the employment of poor kids. That's certain to fail politically. So ban the employment of all kids? Ugh. It doesn't have to be like this. Just make it impossible to be poor. You can say that it just changes what it means to be poor. In fact that's essential. When someone with food, shelter and the unsatisfied desire for an Xbox can't see themselves as poor it is only because there is someone poorer. I can't compete with this poorer person's desperation for security. They would do anything for food and shelter. Despite being a member of this new poor class I'm totally secure. I just want an Xbox. I won't enter a job market that is merely good enough for the desperate until I am also sufficiently desperate. Like much of America is becoming. The only solution to this problem is to extinguish the status quo of insecurity. The poorest of the poor need to be secure or soon none of us will be.
Wow. Not everything is clear black and white you know. Your single experience does not cover everyone else's. Let's ignore any depression or anything else stemming from long term poverty that makes things worse, or at least less clear cut.

> they make really bad financial decisions

A lot of the time they KNOW they are making poor financial decisions. Imagine there is barely enough money coming in each month, the kids need to eat, the cooker just broke, the mortgage/rent is due, and you don't have money to solve all of those. So, make a sensible financial decision please, one that is not going to worsen your lot. A second hand cooker is only £50

Sorry kids, no more hot food? Just instant noodles for all for a week, so we can buy the old cooker?

Sometimes the choice is between a poor decision, a bad decision and a really stupid one.

The thing about poverty, especially long term poverty, is it completely takes away your ability to survive an emergency. That could be as simple as an appliance or transport failure. It's the crisis that generally fucks people up. The first three months, whilst the budgets remain credible and intact, is something any fool can cope with.

Most parents I've known would put themselves into penury and risk malnutrition to keep half decent food in their kids' bellies daily. Oftentimes knowing full well, and with due consideration, that they are making their future a little (perhaps a lot) harder.

And just in case you are thinking, but why have kids if so poor? Maybe there was a good job when the kids arrived. Before the recession, accident, or before dad died or whatever.

Yeah, it's easy man.
A lot of warranties have gotten longer. I just had something fixed that sneaked in under a 5-year powertrain warranty and probably wouldn't have been cheap. However, in general, leaving aside the question of buying new vs. used, it's usually pretty economical to hold today's cars for a pretty long time.

To be sure, there's a certain cost in time and inconvenience in decreasing reliability. And it's always a bit of a crapshoot (which I've typically let go on a beat or two too long) at the point where it's time to get rid of the thing. But I've been mostly happy with buying new and driving it until I start to run into ongoing issues.

(Currently I have a '97 Honda with about 170K on it but I admittedly don't drive it on salted roads any longer or take it on long road trips.)
Recruiting is F*&^%$
No matter what you do to the interview process
Hiring managers are looking for @#$#%
and they may be #%@%@ and
their company maybe $@%@
and their team dynamics are ##%#
Candidates are looking for $@#!@
and they may be $@@$ and their
personal situation is $$@@ and
their salary expectation is ##%@@
There's a similar game on iOS — Infinite Primes.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/infinite-primes/id1063881848...
Out of curiosity, what sort of behind-the-curve ideas have you seen?
I tried and failed many times too. I just drink a cup of coffee and eat lunch after about 3-4 hrs after waking up.

I am worried about how it is going to effect me longterm.
Small improvements. Don't get me wrong: the things you listed are all nice and useful (+1 for keeping more than one stack trace). But I don't think anyone's definitions of "innovation" includes fixing exception reporting and changing the semantics of object comparisons. No disrespect intended but your earlier statement was clearly meant to convey what a boatload of innovation there was in Python3, and your response to the request for an example just bolsters the counter claim, frankly.
This is a straw man, in the sense that there is a very big difference between "purely on ideologic standpoints" and "not purely pragmatic". A difference that seems obvious if you are interested in intellectualy honest discussion.
It is to give parents enough time to drop their kids off at school and make it to work on time.
As the landlord of a small building in a poor neighborhood, I cannot tell you how true this copypasta is. It really has calloused my sympathy for the poor. Poor people are poor because they live beyond their means. Save for extreme talent, intelligence (+2 σ above mean), or lottery-winner luck, there isn't really a general way to make more income without investment (i.e., having money). So for a non-intelligent average person born from a poor family to become middle+ class, the only way is to grow savings (in order to invest) by living within or below one's means.

But these people have different priorities. Or maybe they do wish to improve their lot but lack the executive functions to skip costly partying/restaurants/weed/gambling/whatever. A little part of me dies inside when a tenant tells me they can't pay the rest of the rent until X date and pulls out a iPhone 6S to show me on the calendar.
One day I needed to pick up a few things on the way to a party. Was passing through a bad part of town and figured I'd stop at the only grocery store. Surely they have the basics, beer, snacks, etc... To make a long story short, I left without buying anything because the prices were more than I was willing to pay.

I ended up wandering around the store comparing the prices to what I pay in my neighborhood. Almost everything was more expensive. I have no idea how the lower class folks in that neighborhood eat.
There's no objective definition of 'best'
Yes, of course. Have a hearty breakfast and a hearty dinner. Light lunch.
> Most children are not self motivated to learn anything without immediate gratification

That’s definitely not true. I’ve spent enough time hanging out with small children of various backgrounds to observe that they are in general far more curious and self motivated to learn and explore than adults are. (Of course, some adults maintain this same imagination and curiosity.)

What they often aren’t motivated to do is memorize lists of irrelevant-seeming facts or work through endless identical arithmetic problems.
Security is just a collection of details; details matter.
For the record, it was a Fiesta (that's the name of the grocery chain) in Houston.
I can actually see that as being real. There is a lot of legacy code out there (especially in larger corporations) and, while these languages are rarely featured in the news, many people are required to use them at work.
You can make your own keyboard layouts with X11.

This is mine:

https://github.com/jleclanche/dotfiles/blob/master/X11/xkb/s...
Sure, but it's about a million times more likely that they won't bother with the fingerprints and will just sell my phone for parts.

Nobody is going to be lifting fingerprints off of pint glasses to unlock a phone unless they think there's something really valuable on that phone, and that means "a determined adversary who targets me specifically."

Don't keep nuclear bomb plans or thousands of bitcoin on your phone if you're going to protect it with your fingerprint. But mundane e-mails and such? Good enough for me.
True historically, but Vanguard et al have fixed this.
The time it takes to get familiar with a tool shouldn't be too heavily discounted. Bash is remarkably easy to get started with.
That's a good question and I don't know the answer. Rebecca Power, CEO of Quixote Games, is currently an Artist in Residence at SFMOMA. I'll mention it to her (and I bet if you sent her fan mail asking her to write about what she's up to, that would be exciting for her).
Imagine though that it doesn't match how everyone else does it in their heads. So, you are telling kids there is a right or wrong intuitive approach to a question- teaching an intuitive approach as a mechanical approach, which misses the valuable step of developing the intuition.

I have no problem with showing kids different ways to conceptualize a problem, but marking 5 x 3 = 5 + 5 + 5 wrong is just madness.