skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is strange. Unless something has changed recently, AP exams do not have a concept of pass or fail. You get a score and colleges can choose to give you college credit based on the score.

I got a 1 on the AP Calculus exam but colleges wanted a 3 or a 4 or a 5 depending on their requirements to give me credit for college calc. So I have no idea what it means to have everybody 'pass'.

I have no doubt he's probably an exceptional teacher. That AP Calculus test was really really hard when I took it a decade ago, but the metrics don't make any sense to me
My kids tried really hard to play it - it was super complicated and worst of all - way too slow! Otherwise, they kinda liked it.
Or maybe those things took over because of lack of opportunities for healthy identity in terms of meaningful contribution to society.

Ship away everyone's opportunity for self esteem building work in locations with little wealth for self esteem building side projects and they cling to something to preserve identity.
I swear by wooden pencils and 5x5mm graph paper. I have a nice flipboard with a notepad, a pencil, a sharpener and an eraser attached with velcro.

Measured in straight up typing speed, a keyboard is faster but when you're talking note taking mixed with thinking or something that involved equations or diagrams, I can't get anywhere close with a computer. And there are no distractions on paper.

And why wooden pencils instead of a mechanical one? The smell. The smell of fresh shavings from the pencil sets my brain in the right gear.
Yeah - maybe go with bitcoin.
Educate yourself http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...
Thngs – a place for every thing
In https://github.com/aodin/sol#sol I separated the table schema, which is a function, from the destination / receiver structs. This approach allows you to build tables programmatically and do condensed selections, such as all IDs into a []int. However, this process still has to match database columns to struct field names for most selections.
That's good: there will always be another site to do, our jobs are secured.
> To this day, if you begin a plain text email message with the word "From", you'll confuse mail programs […]

RFC 5322:

> […] The body is simply a sequence of
> characters that follows the header section and is separated from the
> header section by an empty line (i.e., a line with nothing preceding
> the CRLF).

What brain dead mail program interprets anything after the first empty line as a header?
That's everyone, sir. Conservatives calling liberals righteous is some inappropriate first-stone-casting.
There's also the idea that evangelism is mostly a southern thing, and Republicans tend to play heavily into the sort of racially charged politics that resonate with southerners.
>Compare it to a board made in the 70s or 80s.

I can buy Scrabble for $20, rather than $40 in 1985 money.
Indeed, the article should say more likely to be limousine liberal.
You're buying a license, is all. It's plain as day in the corporate world.
It may have been on purpose, but it just felt very hollow. The author didn't even bother linking to the resource [1] for trying Kotlin that apo helpfully shared in a comment below. I think if you embed the famous "mind blown" animated gif in your blog post, you owe it to your readers to say quite a bit more about what's so amazing.

[1]: http://try.kotlinlang.org/
Ubiquity reminds me of quicksilver.
April = 4

2nd = 2
For example, why do a lot of "fiscal conservatives" support wasting trillions of dollars for decades in wars with no goal?
The Dual Strike was innovation ahead of its time: https://www.google.com/search?q=SideWinder+Dual+Strike&tbm=i...

Before MS gutted the PC gaming hardware division to focus on forcing the Xbox on us..
> Am I being unreasonable here?

No, you are being pretty reasonable.

I am programming since the mid-80's, and as a language geek I have dabbled in lots of programming languages, focusing in systems programming lectures (compilers, graphics and OS architectures) at the university.

What I learned through my professional career was to only rely on OS SDK sanctioned programming languages for production code.

OS vendors also discontinue their official languages, but there is a higher probability that the programming languages will stay around vs tool vendor X.

The way Borland and ETHZ mismanaged their programming languages made me eventually adopt this attitude.

So I tend to be a late adopter in what concerns programming languages and as such find that you are quite reasonable.
They often are, but talk past each other, in what's known as a Motte and Bailey[1][2]. A mens rights group doesn't want to ban all women from holding positions of power, just the incapable ones. Who's a capable woman? Well, they haven't found one, but if they did they'd surely let her into their club. Their core argument sounds like it might meet you halfway, but they never do.

Variants along this argument come up all the time. It's pretty much the entirety of political speechwriting; Even Trump's most outlandish statements are forms of it. He'll proclaim to ban all muslims, back up to 'well, just enhanced screening', but darned if it's not going to be racist anyway. But on the opposite side, nearly every gun control argument ends up this way, with someone asking that just 'assault weapons' with 'no sports shooting value' be banned, and then their list of assault weapons is based on whatever the most common rifle is at the time.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle
[2]http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch#Motte_and_baile...
Click specification: "We're currently working on parsing the TeX sources of the specification to generate a more modern version of the CLHS.

This might take a while."

Yeah, that's probably not the message you want to send after all the virtues (e.g. speed) listed on the first page.
That's a pretty big difference, though.
I've always thought it interesting that the Natives of the new world were basically living a Stone Age existence. For 15,000 years, it turns out.

Aside from outlier examples to the contrary, there was basically nothing around for the European settlers to discover but basic tribesmen, oral history and primitive notions of things like weather, cosmology, medicine, etc.

15,000 years. Stone Age.
500 eur note is most value in the least volume and mass of any (?) bank note in the world. That's why it's preferred by international crime. They say an honest man never saw a 500 eur bill. I sure never have.
Any reason homes with phones back then couldn't have "emails", in the sense of being able to receive text messages from other phone numbers and automatically print them to a paper feed?
Can someone explain to me the main differences between a language like Common Lisp and Haskell?

I'm planning on learning on a purely functional language this year and I've narrowed it down to Haskell and CL but I don't know which to pick. Haskell has sort of been winning due to my friends knowing it and using it.

If you have any resources as well, please let me know. I don't know if this is the right place to post this.
Most colleges give credits for 3 and above on AP exams so many people think of a 3 as "passing".
> I could barely comprehend how little I wrote to get something to work.

There's a subset of developers that really fall in love with this idea. I try and understand where they're coming from but really have a hard time. The more involved with code reviews I've become through my career the more I recoil with fear when I hear this, recalling all the time I spent unbundling nested with nested within nested operations.

In the end I believe less LOC as an end goal is largely for the satisfaction of the single engineer writing the code. It feels good at he time.

Over time the super compact lines of code decay into hieroglyphics that cast a curse to the unlucky explorer that disturbs their tomb.
Yep I am sure - read the full paper, it's linked on the right hand side of the article. Some of the examples are the soundtracks from Skyrim and Legend of Zelda...

It seems like an odd term to use though.
“Sendmail usage declined from 80% in 1998 to 6% in 2016”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/1...

> Nearly 2.5 million students took a total of almost 4.5 million AP tests overall last year. Of the test-takers, just 322 obtained every point possible on an AP test, and perfect scores were logged on 21 of the 36 AP exams. Here’s the breakdown of those perfect scores:

67 in Computer Science A

55 in Spanish Language and Culture

54 in Microeconomics

36 in German Language and Culture

22 in Macroeconomics

16 in Studio Art: Drawing Portfolio

12 in Calculus AB

11 in Calculus BC

11 in Physics C: Mechanics

7 in Japanese Language and Culture

7 in Studio Art: 2-D Design Portfolio

4 in Chemistry

4 in Psychology

4 in Italian Language and Culture

3 in U.S. Government and Politics

2 in French Language and Culture

2 in Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

2 in Statistics

2 in U.S. History

2 in Studio Art: 3-D Design Portfolio

1 in Latin

-----

Surprisingly low numbers, considering how many hundreds of students ace their calculus tests in college.
I think that's the trouble with so-called "fiscal conservativism." It holds that government should only be spending money on "the important stuff." What comprises the important stuff is anybody's guess.
Does Nietzsche record the spreading of liberal views from academia to the greater mainstream and confirm liberal views were born in academia first and foremost?
Why I Set Out to Learn Ruby and Came Out Coding JavaScript
I stopped reading once he suggested renaming political correctness to neo-stalinism.

Is everyone on "that side" of the debate so completely incapable of keeping things in perspective? Or do they genuinely feel that much of an existential threat from the kids these days?
> "...Then, of course, the restaurants had the tremendous service of the Harvey Girls, who were the face of the operation.” In 1883, Harvey had decided to fire the rowdy male waiters at his restaurant in Raton, New Mexico, and hire respectable young women in their place. Customers responded so positively to the female staff that Harvey began replacing all of his company’s male servers, advertising for women employees in newspapers throughout the Midwestern and Eastern states. Unlike much of the Eastern United States, in small Western outposts, it was acceptable for single young women to work and live away from their parents—though they were often stigmatized as being prostitutes or sexually promiscuous. Harvey had no trouble finding suitable young women, despite the perception that the Wild West would scare them off. In fact, many women jumped at the opportunity for economic independence, adventure, and travel in an era when their prospects were greatly limited. “A lot of them came for the chance to see a different part of the country,” Melzer says. “After six months at a Harvey House, you could be transferred, so even if you started in a small place like Belen, New Mexico, you might eventually get to Santa Fe or to the Grand Canyon. Others came for the money, hoping to send it home to their families, save for their education, or maybe open a business themselves someday.”...Despite the often-patronizing rules, women working for Fred Harvey developed a kind of collegiate sisterhood, a community that maintained its bonds long after members had quit working as Harvey Girls. “I read the obituaries every day, and when a former Harvey Girl dies, they always mention it,” Melzer says. “It’s like being in the Green Berets—it was something they were really proud of because it was respected and admired.”

This is an interesting example of taste-based discrimination vs statistical discrimination. To see whether instances of discrimination represent mere prejudice or rational decision-making, one can simply ask: could you make money by not engaging in that discrimination? As Alan Greenspan discovered in hiring women in the '60s, and Harvey in the 1880s, the answer in their eras was: yes. So it was taste-based discrimination / sexism.
UK drivers may be able to store their driving license on Apple Passbook
India to Have 100 Percent Electric Vehicles by 2030
Yeah, Buffett prefers buying high free cash flow assets, ideally backed by some kind of monopoly or other barrier to entry, and then using the cheap money to offer exactly this kind of financing. Buying Yahoo assets themselves wouldn't be at all his style.
Whoa all the jetbrains projects are using this and they are the main backer of the language. Very interesting.
Thought HN might like this. Sendmail was one of the most 'non-Unixlike' Unix apps: a big monolith that included UUCP, X400, and other non-SMTP support whether you wanted it to or not. It frequently needed patching - IIRC the Morris worm used it to break into systems. It used a non-human readable config format, so everyone had to use another similarly awful macro language to edit it. It was awful, but everyone doing SysAdmin in the early 2000s had to learn it because it was everywhere.

Now it's mostly gone. Hooray.
I haven't specifically heard of that kind of overt disruption (which is not to say it doesn't exist). I do, however, know some professors who are currently nervous about teaching certain topics, even though those topics are fairly fundamental to their curricula.
Source? All the schools I looked at required a 4 or 5.
There was a music "tracker" called Jeskola Buzz tracker. I used it to write music for 8 years. It was the perfect mix between DAW and experimental tool. It technically still exists, but the source had been lost for ages before I even started using it. It was buggy, and PC-only.
The Most Important Elevator Pitch Rule That You Don’t Know
I agree with you, however currently JetBrains is making sure Kotlin works reasonable well on Android, while no one really cares about Scala on Android.

Yes many in the Scala community do care, but there isn't an ongoing effort with Android Studio tooling integration as in Kotlin.

So this could be a way for it to pick up steam, but it remains to be seen if the Android team still keeps the "We care only about Java" attitude at the upcoming Google IO.
Go with your friends. That will make 100x the difference that any technical difference does. Same with any language really.
9 Reasons Why You Start Using Total Commander File Manager Right Now
College liberalism is - and has always been - an extreme form of liberalism. Safe spaces and censorship on college campuses is not a reflection of the real world.

It definitely spills over some, but it's hardly representative. That's probably why that article didn't get much love. Many here identify as liberal (like me) but not at all with the ridiculous censorious behavior and right to not be offended found in many of your examples (also like me).
A lot of mail clients actually send both HTML and text (as they should), so if you configure your mail client to prefer text, almost all incoming mail will be presented to you as text. Now configure it to only send out plain text, and you are no longer part of the problem. :)
> In terms of acceptance of minorities, especially (gay, trans or just ethnic) I think that liberal mindset comes from an academic need to include minority opinions into discussion.

or it comes from being smart enough to see the illogic of religious belief and to hold more complex thoughts than simple prejudices.
I found my top of the line Wizard (nee Zarus) the other day and fished out some batteries and turned it on. So quaint, so challenging to read. What I liked about it is that it worked for years (and still does what its supposed to) for years without updates or upgrades.

I think if I was going to do a CPU swapout I'd try to use an ARM chip, that said construction was not designed for remanufacturing :-)
Pfizer blocks drugs from being used in lethal injections
Seems pretty clear to me:

Yom says he keeps getting asked if there's some secret recipe for getting students to perform at their highest potential.

"This may sound corny, but you really have to love them," Yom says. "You build this trust, and at that point, whatever you ask them to do, they'll go the extra mile. The recipe is love."

Basically it comes down to soft skills. If people think you care about them they will care about what you want and think and help you achieve things together.
Author compares apples and oranges though. The closes thing to a planned communities ("hellholes" as people refer them to in this thread) are so called "sleeper districts" in ex-USSR. Outskirts of towns, full of multi-storied apartment buildings, all looking the same, with a large "univermag" (supermarket) somewhere in the middle.

I used to live in Greater New York area and it's full of little towns like Union, Springfield, Millburn that look and feel very close to the European towns the author likes that much. Even Short Hills - the "sleeper district" of the affluent East coast - looks amazingly good, and it's strictly residential.

The deeper South you go, the more planned neighborhoods are there. But saying that "all US is like that" is a stretch.
Time is never free, even when it's free :) There's opportunity costs.
Because one person or company that is bound to lose millions of dollars, or their entire business model (deceptive advertising and marketing, for one) has more of an incentive to lobby against a regulation than a million unorganized people that might lose 25 or 30 dollars over signing up for a difficult to cancel "membership".
The common language of the world should be Indonesian.

Currently the world language is English though.

Learning other languages is not difficult. There is no reason to not learn a new a language.
April 2nd.
Personally, I kind of find pop-culture parodying a bit annoying. Not sure if it's just my taste, or if others dislike it too - thoughts on if it's appropriate for HN?
What is it/what does it do? (One of those names where a Google search doesn't exactly get you what you want)
مشاهدة قناة دبي الرياضية بث مباشر اون لاين Dubai Sport HD
Here is PG's note on ITA software from 2001 http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

It's all good stuff but I would wonder about any language community that hadn't gotten any other big hitters onboard in the last 15 years.
> The libertarian club at my university has hosted a "free speech ball"

Must be a fun party.

> sign a beach ball

Oh.
I must say, this kind of thing is what keeps me coming to HN. It's very refreshing to see actual anti clickbait policies on link aggregators.
This isn't about discrimination or other trendy buzzwords, just practicality. English, for better or worse, is the standard language of the wider Internet, not to mention many professional fields.
Not quite: "Chill music and stress are both stimuli for a neuro-chemical called Dopamine. However, they release the Dopamine at different parts of the brain ..."
> "You're confusing me."

I imagine the NX device to be a low cost set top box style affair. The 3x power I'm referring to is the total processing power of the NX platform, with the vast majority of that processing power living in the cloud. Does that help clear up the confusion?
Yup, he buys well-run companies then leaves the managers to do their thing, offering capital when needed. Yahoo is the most anti-Buffett company on Earth.

This is more like when he loaned money to GE. Hope this bid wins, I always love learning how he structures his deals.
That is not the least bit true. No website wants to generate revenue from 100% of their visitors, that is horribly un-optimized. The resources it takes to provide a couple pageviews for one person is less than a penny, and those pageviews have value outside of ad clicks.

There are a million benefits from high traffic, even if that traffic doesn't click ads. I'm not going to list them, they are dead obvious.
It's nice except for the one part where he says he has some responsibility to his users. He doesn't. Not at all. That would be a one-way relationship or responsibility. If his users were paying him, then I could see some responsibility. If it's free and/or incomplete, it's the users that have responsibility when they download it: be grateful for work done so far, make sure it works as intended, and so on.

FOSS developers shouldn't feel guilty or responsible in the slightest for their users unless their users' success is part of the developers' lifelong goals. For instance, protecting liberty by making sure Tor and GPG work properly. Otherwise, screw them if they want something done but won't contribute anything back.
-1 for the utterly superfluous T in deaths/TWHr
"The whole point is to exclude people"

That's pretty much it. Also to actualize through the echo chamber.
Are you trolling? Social shares are a pyramid scheme and a nonviable way to drive traffic?
NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Time, Newseek, to name a few are all media companies available on Blendle, a news platform with micropayments. I use it and love it, so you can't see these companies aren't trying.
What constitutes a perfect score? Is it no longer a 1-5 grade or is this talking about the underlying score before normalizing to a 5 point scale or were there only 322 5s?
Because modern American conservatism is strongly aligned with anti-intellectual sentiments: the pathos of nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, "traditional views" on religion and the role of science, and a craving for simple categorization into Manichean good or bad, male or female, okay-to-say or not-okay-to-say, us or them, yours or mine. Onto this we lay a matrix of Ayn Randian property-rights-fetishists and aging anticommunists & libertarians (the previous generation's right-wing intellectuals, now bought off or shouted down), as well as the remnants of the the-Confederacy-should-have-won enthusiasts, dressed up in strict constructionist clothing. Driving the parade is an endless stream of corporate lobbyists trying to get a return on investment in the simplest way possible.

These sorts of stereotypes are observations about the net behavior of large groups of conservatives rather than being ubiquitous in individuals, but occasionally I talk to a certain flavor of conservative friends about such topics, while taking care to avoid being dismissive of their chosen tribe. They become viscerally infuriated not so much at the positions, but at acknowledgement of the nuances ("But they're Muslim. They're at war with us. They say they're at war with us.") and the notion that improving everyone's situation ("How the hell can you say it doesn't matter whether they deserve it") could be a goal of all of us. They are looking for politics to simplify, not to complicate, their thinking. It's not complete ignorance of the tricky bits, it's a desire to disregard them.

This is not the stuff that a career as a lifetime thinker is made of. The letters 'PhD' stand for 'Doctor of Philosophy', and appreciating complexity has to be a part of extended research in any field. An explicit disavowel of 'experts' or or 'academics' or 'scientists' is quite common on the right, usually with airquotes to indicate that the speaker disbelieves these people's expertise and doesn't consider them worth the speaker's time, because the speaker is busy Doing things (necessarily simplifying reality) and they merely Think about things.

The best of the GWB Administration:

"The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.""