skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worse than lackluster, IMO: it's downright confusing and nonsensical. To someone who uses it every single day and spends a lot of time there, I can see how they would become accustomed to the UI, but if you're an occasional user it's not easy to use at all. Also, it changes frequently so every time you come back things will be different.

Worse, every time I try to use it, it seems like everything on the page is jumping around; it takes too long to render and scrolling isn't smooth, so it's impossible to just smoothly scroll down and see everything. But I see that on a lot of sites these days.
I think there's a fundamental flaw in this article, which is that it uses the blanket term of "homework" to probably mean simple revision of theory taught in class. Coming from a rural primary school where education was subpar, I remember my Mum would make me do maths exercises from a book, with varying levels of difficulty. She was say, "do this chapter", and then I would have to read the entire chapter and work out the answers to the questions just based on the reading - a fantastic exercise in problem solving at that young age.

There were annual mathematics competitions which placed your ranking compared to other students in Australia, and - at the time I did that homework - I was in the top 1%.

Fast forward a few years where we stopped doing maths exercises and just started relying on what the primary and then subsequent secondary school taught. My grades dropped, going from top 1% to 10% nationally and then lower still. The reason was that I wasn't exposed to enough content from the school itself.

Simply put, it is fallacious to argue that less exposure to learning materials puts children in better stead.

As far as the idea of disillusionment of children with the world goes: this is more a function of teaching things in an interesting and real-world-applicable way. Entertainment is the name of the game here, not less work. Kids are inspired by what they find fun.
You may choose (like you actually do) to make-believe whatever you wish about the exploits' worthlessness, but you may also assume that there already were a lot of black hats out there that provided "service" relying on the recently covered security weakness.

Also, about the "Facebook's security team is one of the strongest and most sophisticated of any company" mantra, even a mediocre strategist after knowing at least something about his opponents can improve his attack based on that knowledge. Assuming a modicum of surveillance on traffic dynamic from Facebook security team's part, this may translate into hiding the signature of a brute-force attack by spreading it into space (using a botnet) and time (spreading out a little each individual trial), or into a more elaborate method.
There's no incentive effect there though, they're going to produce that amount anyway, so you buying in is irrelevant. It's even a negative if they have to sell you the electricity they were going to produce and sell anyway, at a lower price.
Your Seamless Food May Not Actually Be from a Restaurant
June 30, 2024 or longer for RHEL7. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life...
Nice! Worth doing these things even if to personally experience the boundaries of good/bad interview practice.
Normalcy bias may have people spending lots of money on fabs assuming that the problems would be solved by the time the fabs are built.

However, I'm talking hundreds of billions spent on R&D to specifically to solve problems associated with chip manufacture. It took on the order of 25 years to solve each of the problems listed in the grandparent's post. Nobody would spend that kind of money or time on something that they think somebody else would solve.
A lot of their stuff makes me ask why bother, HHVM comes to mind. Even React at times seems like serious overkill.
You don't need the Facebook messenger app or a Messenger Lite app.

Just install "Trillian"; it does Facebook messaging, plus a bunch of other networks, and is fast and low-resource.
Use of __slots__ in Python Class
In high school, this was roughly my experience as well.

I did some homework during the school day, generally at the expense of listening to the teacher lecture. Or, I jammed in some last-minute homework over lunch (half-assed effort simply to get credit for having attempted something).

It didn't impact my grades much. I was an A/B student, probably could have been straight-A if I wanted to be, but preferred playing sports, or just being a kid/teenager.

I had enough honors/AP course-work and extra-curricular activities to make up for slightly less-than-stellar grades. I ended up at the top public university in my state, alongside many of the straight-A students. Could I have gone to Harvard or Stanford with better grades? Maybe. But I probably would have gone to UVA regardless because of cost.
Interesting! I was also at a Montessori school but we had plenty of homework. Granted, it wasn't a big deal if you didn't do it every now and then, but you were expected to complete the majority of it.

Either way, I think your social position shows through in your reasoning. Being able to learn programming or tinker with chemistry kits at least to a point requires parents that encourage and/or support that kind of pastime. A lot of kids don't have that, and will simply not be exposed to the existence of programming and chemistry kits. (Books are generally more accessible, but there's also something to be said for parents encouraging and supporting reading – the people I know who like to read also have parents who like to read, and the people I know who don't like to read have parents who also never read, for what it's worth.)
Some of their engineering is good. Saying "nothing meets our scale" as an excuse for everything is just silly though
Nobody has wanted to use cryogenic liquid fueled rockets to kill people since rockets that weren't like that were invented. It takes hours to get one ready to fire which might have been worthwhile[1] for the first ICBMs in the era before satellite surveillance but any modern military would be crazy to use one.

But if you're worried about launching military communication satellites, well, they probably will be at some point.

[1] Not my view of what's worthwhile of course.
Introducing OMR: Building language runtimes
JSweet strives for more interoperability between Java and TypeScript
Another major difference is that Flink's scheduler doesn't have a notion of data locality like Spark's. If you want to use data local to the node you have to query whatever you're storing your stuff in (HDFS) and filter those items that aren't on the node.
I've been bitten by Poe's Law[1], despite the winky. Blast!

Edit: Really though, it's a problem of apathy. I'm supposed to care about python 3? Why? When I type "python" on the command line (and everyone else that doesn't care, which is most every "filthy casual", right?), I--and everyone else with a default install of Ubuntu and CentOS/RedHat--gets python 2. Fix that, and overnight you'll have massive python 3 uptake.

In fact, you're suggesting I set myself up to be stuck with the problem Maven is in, which is that everyone has an "m2" repository even though they're onto Maven 3. I'm supposed to hardcode "3" into everything? C'mon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
here is the bug https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-x-...
Doesn't HTTP2 solves this by using Stream dependencies? It seems to be a lot clean than using JS eval()
InstartLogic have been delivering a service that does something similar for a few years - not sure how good it is though
Dammit. Cheap - very cheap - for everything but storage.

It seems impossible to find a low-cost server with some big, slow spinning disks on it at the moment. I'm really not sure why.

Anyone got any recommendations there? Where would I look, if anywhere, for, say, 4Tb of storage attached to a low-cost virtual or dedicated server, for less than Google Nearline or equivalent?
Anything similar in the UK?
Don't mix up OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, those are two completely different products that don't have anything in common ;-P
The Sweden Democrats have an openly fascist agenda. Several high officials have stated that they want to abolish freedom-of-press.

Hardly "conservative social".
'Wasting' in the eye of the beholder.
Show HN: Never miss a lead again
It's typical HN moderation: downvote anything that disagrees with (or even appears to disagree with) the popular orthodoxy.
Except in large American suburbs, college admissions has become so competitive that you need a near-perfect GPA (along with decent extra-curricular activities) to get accepted to the decent state schools.

This wasn't the case 15-20 years ago. When I started college (1995), good (but not perfect) grades, with a compelling life-story, were good enough. These days, there are simply too many students applying to college - the bar is much higher, even for schools that were previously considered fall-backs (JMU, GMU, VCU in my state).
A very apt comparison. AOL put out some stuff that was very well done technically but didn't necessarily catch on for the long term, for example AOLServer.
Here:

https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/135321837876/benchmarking-s...

http://data-artisans.com/extending-the-yahoo-streaming-bench...
Bingo. Another way to think about it is that the market is impossible to exploit on average. On a single bet, in a vacuum, some people will win (had the right information), some will lose (thought they had the right information, were wrong). But proving that you can do the former, consistently, is impossible.
Six Simple Tax Savvy Ways to Stay Clear of IRS
Writing a bit about the Echo has been on my todo list but this article touches on a lot of points I was thinking about. I got it thinking it would be a bit of a gimmick—and to an extent, it still is at times. But, as the author found, it has snuck into facets of my life. Shopping lists, weather, home automation, etc.

The thing is, it's a natural interface with a decent interaction model. Keyboards, mice, etc, have all become second nature to most of us but they're still not truly natural. The Echo feels like one of the first voice-based interfaces that isn't a complete gimmick. And the hardware does an amazing job of perking up when I say the wake word and picking me out of a room full of noise.

What really convinced me of it's value was when I started digging in to writing a skill for it. My grandfather passed recently and my grandmother has horrible eyesight. I wrote a skill that enables my grandmother to ask to start a phone call. She is then asked who she would like to call. Once she says a name, she receives a call on her landline, is greeted, and the call is forwarded to the intended recipient. There was a small learning curve ("you can't just say, 'call John,' you have to ask her to 'start a phone call'") but it has worked and has provided an often confused elderly woman with poor eyesight a straightforward way of connecting with her loved ones.
Typical "50 cent troll" rhetoric. "The US and Britain have done bad things, so China can do them too". In fact, most of the points you've made are untrue and reek of CCP propaganda.

>Do you not take the formidable number of Chinese people that have been lifted off abject poverty seriously?

After China's own government has driven the entire country into famine and poverty, and destroyed any lingering of culture the country had.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

> Do you not take the millions of kilometers of railroad that have been built both within and outside China by Chinese companies and people seriously?

Built quickly and shoddily with no safety standards. The major aim of building the high-speed rail network was to boost the GDP.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/world/asia/18rail.html
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/08/07/70-of-chinese-train-co...

> Do you not take the infrastructure that has been built, no questions asked, in Africa seriously while western nations have only taken from Africa while giving nothing in return except conflict and weapons?
> Do you not take seriously that Chinese entrepreneurs, often being from a modest background themselves, left their country for Sub-Saharian Africa and Egypt and even Ethiopia and have become of the main providers of employment and growth and even HOPE-you-can-believe-in in those countries?

China has been routinely called "the new colonialists" for their actions in Africa.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/china-in-africa-the-...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-echochambers-26328763

>Do you not take seriously the information that a Chinese company, COSCO, recently became the operator of Greece's ports?

Sole bid. No one else wanted it.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-cosco-makes-sole-bid-for-g...

I'm not even going to start on your ridiculous claim about China "building islands and infrastructure to fight against piracy and more important, ensure safe harbor for ships in a world that will be increasingly affected by climate change" in the South China Sea, which is so bizarre that it needs no refutal.

So, no, I don't take whatever you say seriously. In fact, I think you are a shill paid by the Chinese government to post this.
Validation and user errors in GraphQL mutations
There's quite a gap and a lot of head scratching between the theory of H2 dependence based prioritization and the reality of implementation - for example Chrome haven't even implemented it yet.

Even with resource hints, H2 etc. the browser is still discovering the dependencies at run time and relying to the developer to hint them correctly for some performance speed up.
How much did this match cost the AlphaGo team? (From a computing resources perspective)
For more comparison, here's a $5 Digital Ocean droplet (VPS)

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CPU : GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz 2400MHz
L2 Cache : 15360 KB
OS : Linux 3.13.0-37-generic
C compiler : gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1)
libc : libc-2.19.so
MEMORY INDEX : 35.003
INTEGER INDEX : 33.843
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Baseline (LINUX) : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
I'm also in the UK, and in a similar situation it sounds. I'm atheist, and I'm really quite happy with how my sons school approached religious studies. They covered all the major world religions, and started with hinduism (there are very few hindus at his school, but rather sizeable groups of both christians and muslims - I have a feeling they explicitly chose hinduism to prevent any claims of favouritism).

So when they started learning about religions, my son came home and excitedly told us about Ganesh and Shiva.

But at the end of the entire round, at some point he told me unprompted "I don't believe in god, but I won't tell the other kids, just like with the Tooth Fairy or Santa" (we'd given him strict admonitions when he realised they weren't real to not "correct" the other kids if they come up because some of them might get upset).

Kids spend a lot of time around this age coming to terms with things they believe turning out to be false, and learning to discern them, so in general I think that unless they have a lot of adults actively ganging up and strongly reinforcing something, chances are very good they'll come out not believing.

In fact, I spent more time with my son reassuring him that various real-life things that seems unbelievable to him are actually true (first and foremost, he finds it incredibly hard to believe YouTube didn't exist when I was a kid... I might as well have claimed I had a pet dinosaur growing up; coming to terms with whether or not God is real is apparently far easier than accepting that there was life before YouTube)
I mean on detail scence (clicked to one of news).
I see the title example is "How we built Facebook Lite for..."
that is you had substring the full title, right ?
But I wonder do it's length responsive to screen size ?
Example :
With bigger screen size, title will be display more longer "How we built Facebook Lite for every Android..."
If mostly maintain compatibility with 2.7, why not call it 2.8 or 2.9? Python 4 makes it sound like you're going to break compatibility again.
Slight nitpick - US permanent residents (green card holders) can see ITAR stuff even though they're foreign nationals.
I guess you best bet would be Amazon S3?
> tries to automagically optimize poorly written webpages.

Doesn't this describe all web browser development of the past 15 years?
I am currently losing weight (slowly), about 5 lbs since I started. But to answer: I eat more calories on the days I'm not fasting. Let's do the math:

At my age and weight, I need ~ 1900 calories/day to maintain my weight assuming I'm sedentary. That's 13,300 calories/week.

I run 76 miles per week. That's about 7,600 calories.

So 20,900 calories a week. On two days I restrict myself to 600/day, so that's 19,700 across the other 5 days, or 3,940 calories on those days. But I've been losing about 0.5 lb/week, which is a deficit of about 1750 calories/week. So on those other 5 days I must be around 3600 calories.

3500-4000 calories a day is a lot, but not extreme, just ask any weight lifter. And I happen to really enjoy food. So it hasn't been a problem.

But, I may have to reduce my fasting to 1 day a week once I reach my goal weight.
Kisan Network (YC W16) is an online marketplace for Indian agriculture
Yeah, this is the exact right answer. The artists in the crew have the pieces in their portfolio. The techs are free to go into details when needed. For much else of the gig and things around it go discretion is the norm.
inhabitants of Lovecraft's Nameless City
Cryptomator 1.0 Released for OS X and iOS
I can confirm this. I grew up on forested property in the Canadian shield with my two brothers being unschooled. For my parents, both of them hated school and hated being told what to do (mostly slow down you are making the other kids feel badly) so they just let us do whatever we wanted. We are in the Libertarian/pro liberty camp and my parents empowered us to do what we want since birth.

I had far more fun than my peers, learned how to allocate my time and learned about various fields of study. We formed a community with other local unschoolers/homeschoolers. I went to school from age 12-16 and found it to be soul draining. It is the only period of my life I spent unhappy and disengaged. It was too slow, provided useless information and generally made people regress.

I am planning to unschool my children. All of the scare tactics around socialization are so inaccurate. I just did what I wanted, which included team sports, and found myself in leadership roles often. Read John Holt if you want to better understand how detrimental school is to actual creative development. All four of my grandparents were educators of some kind and if not for that exposure my parents would never have had first hand experience with the detriment school has on developing young people
Matrix director Lilly Wachowski comes out as a transgender woman
3 out of 5 where it's come down to that kind of bizarro pissing contest.
Minting Money with Monero  and CPU vector intrinsics (2014)
IPv6 came out 10 years before PY3, though I have more hope for PY3.
4GB is too little?
Samsung Galaxy fingerprint scanner hack discovered
Show HN: Stack your classes within template literals
I think there is a self-selection towards people for whom getting fked up is a full time job. I wouldn't want to write anything about an experience I had there because I don't want to rub shoulders with those others.

Even the cannabis group is leaning toward stories along the lines of "I threw a joint at the propane tank and boy..."

I see the same thing on medical support groups of all kind. When I had patellofemoral syndrome and was trying to heal I found I'd get shouted down by people who said that they saw the best orthopedic surgeon in the country and this guy told them his knees were the most fked up he'd ever seen and he was so inspired he wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon when he grows up.

Somebody like that wants to revel in being sick and has nothing to offer to anybody who wants to heal.
>typo 0 server. It's bare metal, but much more performant than here

Packet's 0 server is Atom C2550 and costs 36$/month.

Scaleway C2S server is the same Atom C2550 but it costs ~$13/month.

Scaleway C2M is C2750 which has twice as much cores and costs ~20/month, so I am not seeing how it is possible for Packet 0 server to be "much more performant" when in fact Packet's offering is so much weaker.
What Are the Top Ad Networks for Online Arbitrage in 2016?
> Given that the world hasn't yet agreed on if a line ends by carriage return or carriage return-line feed I would not hold out much hope on this front (although with the death of just line feed some progress on this front as been made).

Your point's correct, but linefeed hasn't died: it's still the line-ending on Unixes. Old Macs used carriage return; Windows use carriage return line feed; Unix uses linefeed. I don't know what Mac OS X uses, because I stopped using Macs before it came out.
The 25 best interview questions (and the answers to look out for)
'Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans'
I love Cryptomator. Easy way to encrypt your files locally before having them synced to a cloud storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox. It's unfortunate that these companies don't offer this very same feature themselves in their native clients.
>"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."

-Buckminster Fuller
A wireframe or a mock-up is not a "viable product".

Unless you plan to sell wireframes or mockups, I guess.

Even a "prototype" isn't a "viable product" -- unless it is.

Does "MVP" actually mean anything anymore?
> "The research group" is an extremist left-wing group

> Sweden Democrats is not at all far-right, it is more like a conservative social party

Hmm, where's the bias here, I wonder...

The Swedish Democrats are basically a cleaned-up racist-nationalist party. They had to explicitly ban members from wearing nazi uniforms. Did a green party ever have that problem? Everyone else knows that they're just playing at dog-whistle politics. "concerned about immigration" obviously means "keep out brown people, get rid of as many as possible who are already here".

> mainstream media which is most likely the worst in the world when it comes to being objective

This is just hilarious. You've clearly never read the washington post or watched just about any american news tv.

> Sure maybe some were technically writing racists comments online,

While being sitting politicans...

> This is also old news in Sweden.

This is as least true. It's from 2013
Intel acquires Replay Technologies
Hetzner will give you a server with 24TB for €82/month, or 5TB FTP space at €26/month