skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I explicitly tell students that total rebellion from the school system (or professor expectations) is usually really stupid—but so is total conformity. Students, and people in general, need to find ways to rebel intelligently.

That's probably true in many companies too. A lot of employers, especially white collar / creative employers, don't want or need total drones. But they also can't have people who are utterly unable to work towards common goals.

I remember a somewhat notorious guy at Google who got fired because he was wildly, vociferously opposed to much of what the rest of the company was doing much of the time. Can't remember his name, though.
Not sure if you're at liberty to say, but if you are I'm interested in what he had to say about the emails.
It depends - at that moment perhaps not, but when the kid gets out of daycare the second spouse is still in the workforce instead of having to get back in after several years off.
Ehhhh.... well, it's complicated. For most cryptosystems, the answer is no, because if you can solve the underlying problem efficiently you can break the security of the scheme as defined. It turns out that this isn't always a 'break' in the sense that most people understand it. For example, a 'break' might just mean the ciphertext is no longer indistinguishable from random noise, but it might be possible to prove meaningful security in a weakened model that doesn't require ciphertexts to look like random noise but, for example, requires that no bits of the plaintext are leaked with high probability. Cryptographers build schemes with very strong, conservative security guarantees for this exact reason.
You'd rather tell a disabled worker he is worse than useless because if he wanted to work he'd be displacing an able bodied person.

If a disabled person wants to work despite being given benefits I think they should be allowed to.

Perhaps the only reason he is having to accept a lower wage in the first place is because of his appearance. (People afraid of someone who doesn't look normal) which speaks nothing about his effectiveness or capability.

You're preventing people from joining in society, because they are different. That's some prejudice and discrimination.
Well, yes. This isn't a new observation. Here's a modern overview, describing kindergarten as boot camp.[1] This idea goes back a long way in European tradition, when education was church-driven. Submission to authority is basic Catholic doctrine, and persists in most spinoffs from Catholicism.

School as training for submission to authority went mainstream during the Industrial Revolution, when employers needed a large but passive workforce. But that's a longer story than I have time for now.

[1] http://www.sociology101.net/readings/Learning-the-Student-Ro...
I think this is death for small developers. How many "easy monthly payments" do people want to deal with?

Also, people will be comparing subscription prices to Microsoft et al. If I am paying ~$7 per month for an Office 365 subscription[1] that comes with Office, 1TB OneDrive space, Skype minutes, etc., $4 for some small utility would be overpriced.

[1] I actually pay far less, since I can use the academic version.
Let's very pessimistically say this attack killed 50% of viruses, and only those lucky enough to have a mutation at the cleavage site managed to survive, and then multiply after, making the virus immune to that specific cleavage.

Couldn't you then cleave at a few sites at once? With 64 different cleavage sites, only 1/2^64 viruses will survive, meaning it's pretty much completely certain you will kill every last virus.

This assumes none of viruses have some general anti-CRISPR defence, but I think that should be a pretty good assumption.
> "absolute privacy" hampers law enforcement.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ..."

Sorry man, you were instituted to serve me, at my consent and pleasure, not the other way around. You have the make the case to me to do what you want, not the other way around.
> Nonetheless, a very famous tech company that was once very prolific, but by 2012, most people considered as their "second choice" company

So.. Yahoo?
We Set Up an Offshore Company in a Tax Haven (July 2012)
What do you mean by "public domain"? Many countries don't have a concept of a public domain (or it's not as well-established as in America). If you actually wanted to release it as public domain (or as close as possible) then use CC0.

But I still stand by saying that CC-BY-SA is the best license for academic works because it ensures that the work is always useful to future generations.
Going out on a limb, I think yourapostasy pointed to Levittown not to attempt to explain the entire economics of housing for the U.S.A. during the 70's (because hey, if we're taking the issue to that level we have to talk globally about inflation, oil, etc), but rather they were simply suggesting that, given the (in yourapostasy's ,i think correct and understated, words) "complex" issues surrounding affordable housing, Levittown is a helpful example in as far as providing a cookie cutter foundation which lends itself to indiviualisation over the long term, which is actually a more complex concept (much like building mountains or clouds out of simpler fractal shapes) than it first seems.
A couple comments; first, you have clearly never tried to manage a third-world work force/team. A single example came to mind quickly for me; a hotel I frequented in Mozambique had a serious problem with feral cats. Like 50 of them. They would come right up to your table, jump on it while you were elsewhere, and lick the butter of your plate.

I like cats as much as the next guy, but seriously.

It took a couple of months to get an exterminator in willing to deal with them; cats = black magic = no employees (relatively well educated and very well paid for the town) were willing to deal with them.

The fact that you're writing this post in English significantly bolsters the point the author made about acculturation. You live in a world in which the English essentially won the culture war, and imposed their culture on a vast swath of the globe. (Check out this fine map of places England has not invaded for some perspective: http://www.humanosphere.org/basics/2013/08/map-of-the-day-wh...)

While it might be controversial to say that English culture generates on average more wealth than some other cultures, I think it would be reasonably easy to demonstrate that something about the English acculturation of colonies left them better off financially than other European and Asian colonizers.

And, by better off, I mean vastly better off. Compare Nigeria (British, $3k+ per person GDP) to CAR (French, $350 per person GDP). I'm not cherry picking, either. America to Mexico. We live in a world shaped by the Brits.

To your point, financial well-being isn't anything like the only measure. At least in America, part of what made growth easy was whole-sale genocide. Places with more balanced colonization plans got much more strung out violence and economic difficulty. I would argue due to culture conflicts, at least in part.

I don't think the author is disputing this in the essay, though. He is instead saying that more individualistic cultures who will not engage with Western school systems hurt their economic outcomes, for a variety of reasons.
This is why Hooters doesn't have to employ men as servers. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-can-hooters-hire-only-wom...
However, one argument the author doesn't account for is the increasing prevalence of apps that involve cloud services - which, even in the case of something lightweight like a sync mechanism, will still incur ongoing costs for existing users indefinitely.

This IMO is another disease. I don't really want to store my data in the cloud of a small independent company, who probably don't have many security chops, are not audited, etc. Moreover, if a company goes under, I can only hope that I can still access my data.

Give me a choice to store my data in Dropbox, iCloud, or whatever, but not in your private cloud.
The NYC government says that 56% of people in NYC are overweight or obese. That's lower than the national average, but higher than many other cities. It's also only a few percentage points lower than the State of Florida's averag (which includes rural areas with much higher obesity rates).

>I find it pretty hard to find a fat person on the subway in NYC.

Maybe you ride a particularly fit (particularly affluent?) section of the subway because if 56% of New Yorkers are overweight or obese, it seems like they'd be fairly common on the subway.
GitHub CSS Search: rbg instead of rgb
Sounds like an attempt to score votes from frequent callers to the UFO Hotline and the "Coast to Coast AM" crowd.
I wish the book was already done! Not many secti9ns have been finished since I've last visited a year ago. :(
My just retired Acer laptop has no such light. My HP Windows tablet I use with a bluetooth keyboard doesn't either.

I checked and my new(ish) XPS 13 does have a tiny light when you use it as does my ASUS 2-in-1.

So I'm at 50-50 in my collection. I asked my girlfriend and she doesn't recall there being a light on her Toshiba laptop and she does Skype with it semi-regularly.
At the Hoover Book Soiree? I heard great things about it.

I'd love it if you might share what he mentioned about the email scandal, as it's one of the few current political events that I haven't followed in great detail.
Good points. Tricky. If there's one general principle I prescribe to it is this: things are always more complicated.
I kinda see how the subscription pricing makes sense for software such as Windows, Office and Adobe Creative Cloud. I like it but as long as the perceived cost per year of use is lower than the old one time licensing costs. If it's the same or higher it just feels like a scam. So I think it's a matter of price adjustment.

I'm hoping for a future where I can pay per hour like I do with an AWS server.

Want to use Adobe, download for free and pay 10USD per hour of usage. License as a Service.
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May that never come to pass. It would all go downhill from there.
Still, I'd say my comment stands. It's about threat minimization. Reduce the attack surface by covering the cam.
It's true there are plenty of problems with our school system, but....I've been to places that don't have school systems, and having a poor one is better than none.

Also, I feel sorry for anyone who only views education as a way to get a job. They've missed out on a lot of beauty in the world.
Some of the features of ES6 are pretty neat. Some of them are just crap piled on crap, which bloat out the language for marginal benefits at best.

Unfortunately, many of the ES6 features inspired by CoffeeScript features are completely unoptimized and an order of magnitude slower in cutting-edge browsers than the CoffeeScript versions. Even more unfortunately, they don’t work at all in lots of browser versions people are still using today. Which means that they can’t really be adopted by most projects yet.

Finally, even if ES6 were implemented perfectly everywhere, it’s still much less pleasant (from a syntax clarity perspective) to read and write ES6 code than CoffeeScript code, at least for me.

At the point when the vast majority of browsers support ES6 features, it will perhaps be reasonable to change CoffeeScript to use them in its generated output. In the mean time, CS is fantastic as-is, and its generated code works efficiently in every browser.

But hey, use whatever language you like (ClojureScript, Elm, Dart, Haxe, ES6, whatever..). It’s your code, so the only people who should care are you and your close collaborators.
No one has mentioned Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society yet? I obviously haven't read Bryan Caplan's book that's discussed in this article, but from the looks of it, none of his ideas are new. They've been explored before.

I find his title interesting though, the problem isn't education, but schooling. Another commenter touched on this, but if you're actually interested in this subject check out Illich's book. It's a lot more radical than this hard to understand piece.

Another thing, at the end why is the concept of appearing as "prestigious forager teachers" instead of the actual "dominating bosses" listed as a benefit? Maybe I'm not reading it right.

tl;dr: read Illich.
Ultimately: This. With a cooler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gehrAhflQ&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZE0psQsX0&nohtml5=False
Not that many people want to deal with "easy monthly payments." Which is why most small developers should be charging their subscriptions annually.
Ah. I don't use Javascript that much, and have been writing obsolete Javascript.
I like that Data.Sequence bypasses this whole issue by just not doing anything special:

empty
|> ("one" , 1)
|> ("two" , 2)
|> ("three", 3)

Edit: It's interesting that, when we have things that are supposed to commute, we use infix operators that create a layout that makes it difficult to reorder them.
Great point, though, how many programs truly own a niche.

Still, as a personal preference, I feel like subscriptions are less preferable. I want to buy something and own it, and the continued costs of subscriptions feels like a money suck. Beyond that, it seems to me that subscription costs almost always end up costing me, the end-user, more money.

Edit: thinking a bit more about it, I do suppose that I'm okay with paying for some subscriptions (e.g. VPN provider, Netflix, etc.) but it's the software program subscription model which I find most irksome.
generally,,, idk. i lived in Stuyvesant Town for a time, in Manhattan. it, was not blighted. it was effin amazing and i miss the living there, a lot. a lot, alot. if you didn't earn 150k+ in the city, it was pretty much the best thing going. new york city's post-war housing was not "low income", it was affordable housing. it was meant for working class folks. blight doesn't happen because something was initially meant for use by "low income" folks. blight happens because of neglect or stagnation. the term blight itself: "a plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts." so to stigmatize "low income" as being "blight" prone is to so badly conflate the issues involved as to verge on ignorance.
> Most nations today would be richer if they had long ago just submitted wholesale to a rich nation, allowing that rich nation to change their laws, customs, etc., and just do everything their way. But this idea greatly offends national and cultural pride. So nations stay poor.

The examples of China, Japan and the USA suggest the exact opposite. (Actually I do not know an example that would support the authors claim.)

> When firms and managers from rich places try to transplant rich practices to poor places, giving poor place workers exactly the same equipment, materials, procedures, etc., one of the main things that goes wrong is that poor place workers just refuse to do what they are told.

[Citation needed]
and so on, and so on...

In conclusion, I think were the essay falls apart is, that it does not examine different kinds of submit. 'submit' is a very different word if the pupil submits to a teacher out of a deep desire to learn a new skill or if someone submits to a warlord. (And both are very different from submitting to a boss at a workplace.) Plus it would be nice to see a rejection of the standard story, that school mainly teaches useful skills.
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They're an enterprise customer and not automatically enrolled into this for a few reasons. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11459229
Microsoft? I'm only basing this off the implication in http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/26.html
I explained how, if you were correct, it would have a less probable implication. (That's how a lot of reasoning works: "if you were correct about oxygen absorption spectra, the sky shouldn't be blue.")

Here, the improbable implication of your claim that I highlighted is that businesses are normally allowed n-year cutoffs (for some value of n) for discounted future liabilities.

It was not simply a reassertion.

If you need another reason your claim is implausible, it would suggest that, should a business issue a zero coupon bond with 76-year maturity, it should log that as an increase in book value (with corresponding tax liability). But obviously a loan should not itself increase tax liability!
Can somebody explain to me the meaning of the variable names "st" and "pct" on this page[0]? I understand the code itself, but I can't puzzle out what the letters stand for.

[0]http://thebookofshaders.com/05/
I really don't like all these IoT things. Modern software (except for Apple mobile devices) is full or bugs and vulnerabilities. So yesterday a hacker could break into your PC and see your files and tomorrow NSA or some bored teenager will be able to turn off the light and open the doors in your home.

And I don't like the idea of having critical parts of a device or infrastructure somewhere in a foreign country. Today "smart" phones, TVs or even cars send encrypted data over Internet to their manuacturers. How do you check they don't spy on you?

"Cloud" services have much in common with proprietary software: user cannot have full control over them.
Think about the threat model for a lock on a suitcase. The adversary must have your bag in their possession. It's the perfect example of something that's only to keep honest people honest. Also, they make sure that your bag stays closed.
Yes, but there are solutions to this (cut-and-choose, published specs, etc.)
Here's a modified version that doesn't stall:

package main

import "fmt"
import "runtime"

func main() {
go hog()
for i := 0; ; i++ {
fmt.Println(i)
}
}

func hog() {
for {
runtime.Gosched()
}
}
I'm not sure I understand this. If I were to observe the pattern before I reach the agent, it would be easy enough to let someone go ahead of me while pretending to finish a phone call or something. It doesn't require the cooperation of the TSA agent.
At my place, reneging carries a significant negative tone (it is also where I learned the word). It is also deeply against the culture here to miss commitments willfully and without notice.

In particular, one tentative but reneged new hire was on a visa from India. I'm not sure what happens there. Though I'm not sure if the visa was sponsored by my place or not.
Static and Dynamic Data and Web Pages with D3.js
She's a senator. She has a state, not a district.
In fairness, there are 40 million people in her 'district', so your chances of an individualized reply and/or influencing her opinion on any controversial matter would have to be quite low.
Well, that opens up a whole new can of syntax worms...

But yeah, all of this stuff just makes me more convinced that Lisp syntax is the best ever.
I'm of the opinion that a very large amount of the work we do now produces minimal value products in terms of general welfare and happiness (Facebook, finance, advertising, companies that support other companies doing useless things. Basically moving money around without producing things. Facebook does generate good research, so maybe that's it's benefit?) Therefore, the cost of society slowing down and doing less work is quite low.

Having more time to explore novel ideas will probably become more beneficial to society in the future. Or maybe not, but I like to dream.
I wonder if it'd be possible to alter HIV into something benign instead of killing it. If done properly, that'd eliminate the virus's drive to out-evolve our treatment.
Indonesian marketplace Tokopedia raises $147M
No, they're only being required to fund the benefits over the next 75 years of current and past employees. The notion that they're being asked to fund benefits for people who haven't been hired yet is pure fiction.
This makes me very happy. Congratulations to the team behind this. I can only imagine how many hours of work, how many checks and re-checks, how many second-guesses, how many inspirations it took to make this happen. Very well done. The people behind this have put another paving-stone in the path of civilization.
You can't build a career on that behavior. Especially if you stick around a place for a decade or so, you'd be surprised whom you run into and whose help you might need down the road. Unless you're leaving town and the industry for good, don't burn bridges.
Some Lenovo ThinkCentre all-in-one PCs have a physical sliding webcam cover, and you can see at a glance what position it's in. Microphones are harder to handle in such a low tech way, though.
The discussion is about cleaning up the standard library, not the language. Multiple standard libraries can coexist happily.
Agreed. Even beyond the monetary aspect, it'd be an absolute headache to have to replace this stuff with any frequency.

The biggest reason I'm a skeptic though is the incredibly carefree and reckless approach I've seen used by many IoT devices.

The Nest is a great example - I was shocked to discover there's no division between the part that directly controls the furnace/AC/etc and the rest of the device. That should've been a no-brainer, because first and foremost the device shouldn't cause harm, and when the "smart" portion inevitably has a problem (even if temporary), a user shouldn't wake up to a frozen or overheating home.

This stuff needs a higher level of safety and guarantee, and treating them like smartphone apps is going to end very poorly.
Who am I to tell anyone that they are worse than useless? I never said anyone was worthless - that's your Protestant work ethic talking. The reality is that in the near future we will no longer need everyone in the population to do assembly-line work. It's time to explore self-actualization - the softer arts, enterpreneurship, etc...

We are all going to have to get used to the idea that someone who isn't in the workforce isn't "worse than useless", as you put it. When you put it in so many words, that's really a hideously offensive concept. Sometimes people drop out of college and start the next Apple or Microsoft or become the next Andy Warhol. The rates of enterpreneurship in Scandinavia are nearly an order of magnitude higher than the US. Believe it or not people actually don't want to sit idle and will start working on that one crazy idea if you let them.

We can certainly find something for disabled people to do regardless of whether it's paid. In no way should we prevent people from joining in society - but society is so much more than a paycheck. There are so many things to do in society that help our fellow citizens but don't necessarily pay a check every two weeks. But until we get something like a basic income going, we also must ensure that things like mentally-disabled and prison labor don't the labor market that's actually feeding families.
It's such a simple tool that it feels wrong the first time you do it.
"it's that other design decisions can be much faster, such as those mentioned in the B3 JIT link above."

The B3 JIT link describes things that LLVM plans on doing in the next year, precisely for these reasons, so ...

Had they emailed the list, ever, they would have known this.

It's not like these were design decisions that someone said "we should never change these", they were design decisions that were good at the time, but like anything else, need to grow and change over time.

If you give up and rewrite an entire jit/compiler every time it might require rearchitecting, that may be fun but it doesn't make a lot of progress.
You will spend years to get to a no-regressions vs old compiler state (unless your old compiler was truly bad)