skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the market appreciates the art history graduate going through cycles of forbearance and capitalization which allow them to charge higher interest rates on the reliably solvent MIT software engineer.
Yup. Its a shame they can't expose a normal http interface directly to lambda. That would make setting up APIs a thousand times easier. For example I want to have a lambda function receive events from github, but in order to authenticate those requests I need to have the raw body and headers.

The API Gateway has the concept of "custom authorizers" in which another lambda function gets called to authorize the request before it gets passed to the real lambda function (WHY!!!).

The API Gateway feels more like "enterprise" software than anything else I've used in AWS (not in a good way).

I hope the AWS team and jeffbarr are listening.
> Ban education discrimination against job applicants. (Except for jobs which require certification).

All that will do is create a regime of required certifications that people will need to get a job, and it will probably greatly reduce (individual) employment flexibility. Employers need some way of judging applicants ability, and it's my understanding that explicit aptitude tests have basically been banned, employers have to use education as a proxy.

> put lower boundaries on what % of tuition goes towards instruction. Most tuition funds do not go towards education, and there is a lot of pressure for universities to spend them on building Potemkin villages.

I think this is a much more reasonable suggestion. Cut out all the extra costs and make college a spartan environment focused on learning.
There's nothing magical about the way the author dismiss breakfast either. In the end it's an article where the author says that "breakfast research is flawed" and "I don't like breakfast".

I'm disappointed on how the author missed intermittent fasting which, even not being scientific consensus, has many studies in favor of not breaking the fast.
Your post led me down the rabbit hole of over-compression, not for the first time, and I ended up at this video which gave a very succinct answer to my question of: "Okay, I realize that music is getting compressed, but what are we losing?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

Via a nice article with analysis: https://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/23/the-loudness-war/
I think the patching of Docker container images is a big problem. We try to provide a completely automated flow in GitLab using CI, CD, and the container registry. I would love to have a big button that says 'update all my containers'. I've made an issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/592
VB6 is basically as simple as a form builder to start with. You start with designing forms for every screen you need and then write logic for specific events, like a button click event etc. It was much more simpler than say a modern framework based on MVC.
I don't think it's inferior at all.

There are, as I see it, two extremes here:
1) Use traditional roles, including the woman doesn't work.
2) Everyone does everything 50/50

Neither, if imposed from the outside, is good.

It's a hard problem in general that people don't know what they want, or what they need to be happy. Women (or men for that matter) who stay home with children are told (implicitly or explicitly) that they "should" go out and work may become unhappy if they do this.

And they can become unhappy not because they don't do what they want, but because they are treated like, or even start believing, that they "want the wrong things". And it's not just that other people say it. It can be the case that they genuinely don't know if they would be happier doing something else.

Try not wanting to have children at all. Parents, family members, and even complete strangers will tell you that you are not happy, that you want the wrong thing, and they'll pity you.

Then there's the "it's selfish of you to not work as a woman, have children, be an breadwinner as a man", etc..
That's worse. That's admitting that the advice you're giving would make that person less happy, so that they will fit in to the advice giver's world view.

In the end I just want people to have control of their lives. I can try enabling their freedom, but I can't make them make good choices.
I think the important part here is that (in your example), Joe in HR wrote an application that is important enough to be used but not important enough to be professionally rewritten in a "better" language. I don't really think that speaks to faults in VB6, but to a sizable and interesting market for a product that allows non-programmers to write simple programs.
Ethereum is coming to GDAX/Coinbase Exchange tomorrow
I work with SAP HANA as an enterprise database, and it works quite well with Spark, has code push down, query compilation, all sorts of fun stuff.

Depends on the enterprise database, is my point.
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Developers? Over a thousand.

There is a migration, though slow, from VB6 to ASP.NET C# stuff.

We use VB6 because of the component-like nature of how it can integrate with other parts of a larger application--and it usually doesn't have catastrophic failure (like a segfault) which can be contained. Another aspect of why it is used is because of the low-memory requirements, which by extension means one server can host more application sessions for more users. (It is easier to upgrade one server's software instance than thousands of individual workstations)
Disclaimer. I have skin in the game. I've been developing on the platform since the Frontier launch and I have some Ether holdings.

1. Checksums are available via the mechanism in https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/55

2. I don't have any experience mining. Maybe someone else can answer this.

3. If I recall correctly, this is being fixed in Serenity. Transaction validity will no longer require ether to be submitted with the transaction allowing miners to accept transactions that are paid for during their execution.

4. Ethereum only left Alpha/Beta on March 14th 2016, roughly two months ago. Until then there were clear warnings posted that there were likely to be bugs. I'm not aware of anyone losing money due to protocol errors. The losses I've read about are predominantly user error and errors in 3rd party software.

5. This seems like a clear lack of understanding of the intentional design of the system. If you could directly make HTTP queries from smart contracts it would be impossible to reach consensus on what the result of code execution was because two clients could get two different responses from the same query. Everything that the EVM executes has to be 100% deterministic. Take a look at http://www.oraclize.it/ for an example of how communication with the outside world can be done.

I hope that clears things up.
I'm with you on your last point. But I really don't think that this film is an accurate representation of what it'll be like at all. Unless you really wanted to make it that way for yourself, which neither you nor I would want
College debt is a good investment if you learn things and graduate, but too many colleges are failing to educate students and too many students end up dropping out with debt and no degree

I teach college and will also add that there are a large number of students who have no business being there. They aren't prepared, don't know why they're in college, don't have the skills (and frequently disposition) to succeed, and only go because parents / teachers told them they should. Many are poorly served by sitting quietly and doing abstract symbol manipulation; they'd be better served by schools of shorter duration that teach practical skills.

This is pretty obvious to anyone teaching at non-elite schools.
I don't see why you couldn't still do this with WinForms in VB.NET or C#
Maybe not from that one product (a single cathedral) but after it has been built knowledge has been gained on how to create flying buttressed, move stone around efficiently, build a foundation, etc. So if you had another large project you could benefit from this gain in societal knowledge.
The author doesn't get hungry before lunch. Maybe that seems weird to you, but it doesn't to me. I don't get hungry until lunch, either.
The state of Swift JSON parsing libraries
I feel like there are probably similar cotriggers for many chronic illnesses.

The classic example is H. Pylori in stomach problems. I doubt that it's a lone outlier.
A. That's not even remotely related to any definition of "collective bargaining" I've ever heard of.

B. I think it's pretty clear what the parent meant by "demand."

C. Semantics aside, cp the market clearly bears much higher salaries for a candidate with a Bachelor's degree than for one without.

D. Your comment is needlessly rude.
I always felt a rigorous test could be administered, and tailored to specific job applicants.

And yes, if we had tough tests, make it illegial for an employer to even ask where you went to school.

For example, if a person can pass the CA bar, let him/her practice law?

I bring up the CA bar test because it's especially hard.

There are some professions that wouldn't lend themselfs to testing, but they would be the exception.
The US is rocking the information economy.

You can maybe complain that we aren't employing even more people in the information economy.
>people adding muscle mass.

There is a very large following of Intermittent Fasting in the bodybuilding community. Tens/hundreds of thousands of consistent weightlifters who do not eat breakfast or lunch and put on impressive mass. Your body doesn't care about daily fluctuations, calories in/calories out, count your macros. Fin.

So I disagree with your casual conclusion.
Car charging is a steady, predictable usage of electricity. People don't all arrive home at the exact same time.

Additionally, being giant batteries, electric cars have the means to charge when most advantageous to the national grid. Most electric cars already have an option to wait to charge until off peak rates happen. (Off peak rates being cheaper because low overall demand.)

But electric cars may be useful to the grid as giant surge protectors for things just like that cup of tea electric kettle break. Under some of the "smart grid" proposals, the electric companies would be able to not feed electricity to a vehicle in those brief moments of high demand on the grid, prioritizing immediate needs like people's kettles. Furthermore, "smart grid" ideas could even use electric cars as battery backup options, "leasing" already stored energy back from the car and paying it back later, as changes in demand happen.

Even if some of those "smart grid" ideas don't get nationalized, you could still theoretically take advantage of some of those kinds of things in your own home.

So if anything, electric cars may be surge stabilizers rather than surge causers.
> fingerprints

I don't know how many times people need to repeat this: Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords. I am really not a fan of biometrics as identification at all.
I think you might've posted in the wrong thread, and actually meant to post here instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11754414
The author used to be a big name in AI and learning but now sounds like someone complaining about going to and from school uphill both ways in the snow.
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There is also the qemu-as-a-library, Unicorn. https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn

Funny how there's so many of them considering that the name Unicorn is generally supposed to have an air of rarity about it.
>Someone spamming your SSH listener is bad for other reasons, and blacklisting obvious ne'er-do-wells is never overkill.

If it is, you've got something seriously wrong with your setup. You should make fixing that your first priority.

>Aren't most hosting environments shared these days? :-)

Generally not, and that'd obviously only apply if you were operating the environment as generally only the host has root on such systems.
Waffles at the right time with coffee can be magical.
Where do you delineate workloads between HANA and Spark?

(I'm just curious...used to work the internal SAP HANA dev team)
The problems with student debt are (a) it is not affected by bankruptcy and (b) the Federal government guarantees it, either via the pre-2010 program or the subsequent direct loan program.

The result is that colleges and universities do not experience meaningful declining rates of acceptance (demand) when they raise their prices.

One alternative would be to stop government support of loans entirely. That would tend to re-price college at a level closer to its actual value.

Another alternative would be to nationalize higher education.
graffiti is the most notable one
There is Gambas, which while not a clone in the way FreeBASIC is of QuickBASIC, is at least intended to provide a similar experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas
There is a reverse effect as well, good hospitals in developing countries are aggressively marketing their services for medical tourism by customers in developed nations. I dont know if this has any measurable effects for pricing in those countries.
I'm rebuilding an old hackathon project, ChainProof, to use Ethereum. It's basically a service that lets people submit facts about themselves and automated or trusted notaries verify the information and vouch for it.

DAOs and smart contracts would be able to use the knowledge in really cool ways. A DAO could requires participants to be KYC verified, limited to college students, be accredited investors, pass a background check, etc.

Neat thing is that once those checks are done, it'll be attached to their Ethereum identity so they don't have to redo the verification for every compatible service or DAO.

Ethereum might have some weaknesses at the moment but it's a lot more exciting than Bitcoin.
Unicorn again? Gosh this bubble is huger than it seems.
Agreed. My start as a professional developer was an internal tracking tool that started as an Excel spreadsheet, which I turned into an Access database... added numerous VBA macros... once I'd hit that limit I created an entire frontend in VB.NET, which led me to C#...

I've left it all long behind now, but those were some great building blocks. It was around a decade ago, and when I left the company they had announced plans to replace everything (my code included) with SAP. Last time I spoke to someone there (about three years ago) that plan has still not been completed.
Here is my observation: based on oldest kid graduating 1.5 years ago from a Big 10 University with a degree in Scientific & Technical Communication. It was substantially harder to get a job than we expected. With my network - I finally located her a summer internship on 1099 basis that has turned into a year long engagement - still on a 1099 basis. To date she is showing no financial advantage from attending college. She could make the equivalent doing any number of things that don't require a 4 year degree. They are finally making noise about bringing her on FT salaried with benefits.

Then we run into someone who graduated in her same class - still hasn't found work in her field and is making do as a hostess at a restaurant. No financial advantage.

These are kids who graduated from respected university and yet here they are still struggling to see a financial benefit.

My daughter's debt is fairly low because: she took advantage of a state program that pays tuition to start college early, she lived at home, took public transportation, didn't buy a car until she got this 'job' and still lives at home with our support so that she can focus on paying off the education loans that she did end up with.

Was college worth it? I still think so and I have 3 more to go, but I have to say that I am really starting to think hard about the value of higher education.
I can't speak of the past couple years, but in 2012 I reached out to him to see if he might be interested in speaking to a users group I ran (Philadelphia Java Users' Group) because I knew he was local and would likely draw a crowd. He agreed to speak because it was convenient, and seemed appreciative of the gesture - I don't think he'd been presenting much at the time.

In his presentation he mentioned some things he was working on at the time. I videotaped the presentation and published it with his permission.

https://phillyjug.com/2012/04/18/esr/
I worked in Singapore this year, and it is very nice! It is a clean and well run city, friendly people, and generally the place had a very good vibe.

I am in my 60s, but if I were younger, then Singapore would be high on my list of places to work and live.
Have you heard of David Sirlin's game Codex? It's not out yet, unfortunately, but I think it takes an interesting approach to this (I've yet to see how it actually plays).

The basic rules resemble Hearthstone, but rather than building a deck beforehand, you just pick one of seven 10-card starter decks, and 3 of 20 "codices", and then at the end of each turn you take two cards from your codices and add them into your deck. So there's still luck of the draw, but not to the extent of having to shuffle a 30 or 60 card deck beforehand. (Also you go through your cards Dominion-style rather than one-card-per-turn Magic style, but I'm honestly not sure as to whether that counts as an increase or decrease in luck!)

I've heard this compared to Mage Wars, but looking that up, it looks like that just lets you cast spells straight out of your spellbook, no deck at all. Is that right? So I guess Codex is another intermediate step there.

(As regards "mana", it doesn't follow Hearthstone, but rather takes the fairly-common approach where any card from your hand can also be turned into a mana producer (this permanently removes them from your deck, so you can remove cards as well as adding them).)
Bad example. You can do it!

http://www.cbtronline.com/index.php/californias-law-office-s...
They are just radio-frequency chips. Unless people start changing the bands NFC and RFID use, it really shouldn't need to be replaced. Maybe if the battery somehow ran out but then I don't have a CompE degree so I can't really speak about the in-depth detail about RFID chips and their power consumption (besides they really don't consume a lot).

Maybe to get a chip with more storage (These chips are really tiny storage-wise [last I checked] so not really something you could store a virtual wallet on)
Heh, I didn't read the hint until after the registry announcement, but saw what you did and appreciated it with the benefit of hindsight!
There is literally nothing wrong with studying the humanities. I am amazed at how many brilliant engineers skip history and literature and become predictable consumerist cogs because "that's how the world works" as far as they've ever known.

Time was you'd go to college, get a job, and get trained while you work. Of course I'm not saying a rocket scientist opening should cater equally to the engineer and the artist, but we have become so addicted to pedigree that we forget how differently things can be done when we don't expect a new CS graduate to build a mobile API on their first day.
Did you already have some experience creating/editing videos?
Fun fact, the mark is on the hand, to the believer of the time of Revelation your whole arm is considered your hand. The letter "YOD" in ancient pictographic Hebrew was the picture of a hand (it's a full arm, but described usually as just a hand), the letter Yod is the tiniest in modern Hebrew.
You missed out "... by the American government".
anything from C. J. Date
That does sound like a good argument against it -- adding punishment without evidence... Could they argue that they're reducing sentences for those less likely to repeat? If they don't see "evidence" that the person will repeat then they give a reduced sentence (kindof like early parole). Still unethical crap because it pushes a race-based agenda (consciously or unconsciously). I'd say there's no difference, and would agreewith your argument. Also, not a lawyer. Technically they don't ask "are you black". They ask whether or not you had a parent incarcerated -- good for propagating a broken status quo. That question almost seems designed to "increase punishment without evidence". Regardless there shouldn't be any private algorithm deciding this and any public algorithm should be well scrutinized and validated for accuracy.

One thing is certain -- the federal government needs to shut these sentencing analysis companies down. At the very least heavy public audits. I'd say even libertarians would agree this is the definition of something that should be regulated.
Because there is no money in that model.
> Which minor offences?

Vandalism, drug abuse, illegal money-lending, 'rioting' as defined by a government that doesn't tolerate assembly..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#Offences_p...

There's also the problematic government support of corporal punishment for children..
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You can, but it's not as simple.

VB6 would spit out an exe that could often be installed by just copying it to the client machine.

You could also generate DLLs that other applications could easily load and use. These days you can still do it, but it's much more complicated (i.e. registration-free COM).
Yes. And like the french word it literally means to stop fasting.
That's a valid distinction -- I really didn't mean to conflate the two.

I guess I'm imagining a shared super-reality, not an alternative reality, which I didn't make clear.
Remove ugly things from the world and replace them with beautiful things. I think that might be something that people would put weird glasses on for.
At elite technical schools, the figure is more like 60% foreign
And he'd be the first to tell you that.
Thank you for catching that.
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It's designed to run on your local machine and be accessed by your browser. You can run it on a server if you like, but the give-away is the fact that it only supports single users — the original conception was for personal use.

I heard they're moving in the direction of supporting multiple users, which will be fantastic. Then you really can use it as a proper webmail client for a small email server.
What would a shared super-reality look like?
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I've survived 21 years on the internet with no AdBlock, until 1 week ago a horrible TalkingPointsMemo link that autoplayed shit all over the place was the final straw.

But using AdBlockPro, I had no issues with this link.
Fingerprints are neither usernames nor passwords; fingerprints can be destroyed independently of the user, usernames should not be destroyable as long as the user exists. Fingerprints are more something that is suitable as an optional proxy for a username.
Not really a whole lot.

When I told my family about how much I wanted to get an RFID chip implanted in my hand my grandma flipped. She called me Satan, totally unjokingly.

I learned quickly to just not speak about technology. The top comment on the article proves why (People don't understand it)
What about rolling back the disastrous 2005 bankruptcy "reform" legislation?

I mean, in terms of political viability, that'd be just as viable as the two options you mentioned...
At present, as far as I know all of the scalability plans for Ethereum are theoretical. That said the plan thus far is:

Light Client Support allows for running a node that does not sync the full chain, but rather downloads and verifies only the small parts necessary to send transactions and read state.

Proof-of-Stake replaces Proof-of-Work which opens up options for things like parallelization.

Sharding is a plan to split the blockchain into many smaller chains that are all linked but operate largely independently, allowing for horizontal scaling of the network. Transactions within a shard are synchronous. Transactions across shards are asynchronous.