skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When growing up I ended up going through both systems (living in Texas and France), so I feel qualified to talk about this:

I would finish school at 3 in the US, at 5/6 in France. There's 3 hours of the day that French kids can't spend in structured things. That alone completely changes dynamics. Basically you get to have one structured activity (like learning an instrument) and that's about it.

The French education system also doesn't promote much in terms of extracurricular activities. There's gym but you don't have sports in school or whatnot. Most depressing thing for me going from TX to France was losing Orchestra as a school class. Tried signing up to a conservatory but it would have ended up being my "1 thing" that I could do.

Honestly I preferred the American system much better. It gives you more flexibility for things like Boy Scouts, sports, or learning to program. And I still had loads of time to go to my friends house to do whatever.

So in the end the US system gives you more structured activities AND more unstructured time. School as an educational system is overrated. School as a socialised event organiser (like for Orchestra, Arts, and the like) is way underrated, and totally not a part of the French system.

The counterpoint is that I've heard recently that US schools have started giving waaaay too much homework, eating up at the unstructured time. I'm a fan of letting kids investigate what they want to do. Homework's important but so is giving people the opportunity to discover things.

Side note about the article: who brings their kids to Yoga class? Is that a thing?
I sense a disturbance in the force. It's as if 1,000 BitCam clones were just born.
Yeah, the author maintains a very loose definition of isomorphism.
Yes, they are bound to sage. I really, really want to break things apart into separate Python modules that can be used outside Sage. However, that's an enormous amount of work that doesn't help at all with finishing a math research paper, so it's unlikely to happen without money. I've proposed and brought up exactly this very frequently on the Sage mailing lists in the last year. If the company makes money, one my dreams is that all of Sage will be available as smaller modules that are pip installable....
> I take offense to the idea of the "golden age fallacy".

That doesn't mean it's false.

> Roman democracy the golden age was so and so centuries -- no ifs and buts about it

Historiography is always changing.
I wonder if a simplified variant of SageMath / SageMathCloud would make sense as a Sandstorm app. IPython on Sandstorm is a generally excellent experience, and the sage notebook is a similar concept.
Creating efficient development environments
> How about studying the most 'human' checkout setup?

> Used to be that you could make small talk

If you want to satisfy as many customers as possible, you'd need to handle both: the customers who want a human face, and the "is there a machine I can speak to instead" customers. Not everyone considers human interaction a feature in a transactional setting.
> One very small part of the arctic circle.

Ok, we replaced "the article circle" with "Tromsø" in the title above. That should narrow it down a bit :)
It still defaults to saving documents in docx, xlsx and so on so its hardly solving the problem.
why is this necessary? shouldn't you just delete it and recreate it?

installation via pip ought to take advantage of wheels and such, no?
Most of us/them are not in bad situations.
I was H1B and it was great - stressful during the downturns, but better off than not coming here.

Scammers will prey on those with less chance to make it.

Edit: btw, when things got bad at my sponsor company I was able to get another company to sponsor, transfered my H1B and continued the GC process.
Shutting Gawker was not act of oppression, the judge made a decision based on the jury's decision and his interpretation of the law, not on the amount of money Theil spent on Hogan's lawyers, and my guess is if the plaintiff were a guy that was being oppressed by an institution with more money and notoriety at hand, many people would support the third party paying for that underdog's lawyer fees.
I wonder who owns a placenta - child or mother? Presumably it's only handy to the child.
Reading this you might get excited thinking wow a secret FPGA hidden in a cpu, in reality they are talking about disabling HT, VT-x, AVX, multiplier change, video encoder/decoder block, AES etc

Basically binning for different market segments.
The author says that he "became more convinced [string theorists] are merely building a mathematical toy universe." The explanation for his conclusion was that they kept revising string theory in order to fit observations. I know little of string theory, so I am probably misreading his meaning, but isn't that how all science works? Create a model, then revise it when you get more data.
I didn't know DDR3 RAM was scrambled. Thanks for the link & tip. Analog scramblers of the past were defeated in a number of simple and clever ways. Most security engineers stopped trusting scrambling as it almost always fails. A useful obfuscation at best on top of genuine encryption and authentication in RAM as in my other comment. No surprise we have another one on breakers' resumes in the RAM area.

Note: Nice shortcut link to the blog and research on it. LAVA is still on my backlog to check out although some itch in me suggests it has potential in high-assurance for testing tools, mechanisms for recovery-oriented architectures, or even teams with simulated subversion. Just haven't had time so far after work and looking at preventative stuff.
I thought the blockchain boundary is limited to the provider (IBM, MS etc), not to the transaction type or business domain (shipping, bonds etc).

If the a blockchain is specific to a transaction type, does it mean all providers will use the same copy of the blockchain for that transaction type (shipping type etc)? But in that case, since blockchain doesn't belong to anyone, the BaaS providers would be similar to mining pools. Isn't it?
I'm reading this. The business model of the company is basically exactly what you're suggesting. Yes, there is very strong coherence between the leaders of Sage and Jupyter. (The founder of Jupyter is just to the right near the back in the picture of Sage Days 1 in slide 16...)
I think you're naive, cashier pay is typically minimum wage, there's no sense in paying people based on efficiency when most are getting paid as little ass legally allowed.
Exactly my thoughts. Why rig up some online simulation of a store when they could just get a reak store to try both ways while timing it.
NoSuchAgent account created 3 hours ago and most likely is the same PR, or the company referenced. Unbelievable.
Yeah it's not a perfect word to describe what's going on. I think the loose definition I posted at the beginning of the article works well though.
I did during my 2014-2015 sabbatical. Building a successful company is vastly more difficult and demanding of attention than I could have imagined. Maybe I'm just not as good at doing multiple difficult things at once as other people.
It's a tricky one. You can't infer any sort of causality by just looking at real stores, because the policy varies by store or chain. So there are a zillionty (to be precise) other variables changing along with whether they use a common queue or not. Any difference you see could be due to any of them. And just taking an existing store and trying to randomize the policy is still tricky, since the form of queue you use influences the physical layout of the store and you might get weird effects from a mismatch.

But doing it in a lab means you have no ecological validity. People know they're being watched closely, much more closely than they would be in a real life scenario, and that will affect their behavior. So you really can't be sure your results will generalize to the real world.

Possibly the best you can do is take a few stabs at both approaches and hope that all the studies point in roughly the same direction.
Yeah, this is really weird.
This is precisely correct. And even if I could get away with it, I would not feel that it is morally right (for me at least).
Remember that those are the most broken of the certification criteria. They just say it has certain features with a structured development process. Jonathan Shapiro had a nice write-up after Windows got EAL4+:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040214043848/http://eros.cs.jh...

Whereas, medium to high assurance evaluations were more meaningful as they had stronger assurance requirements. Precise ways of looking at system, careful implementation, every feature corresponding to a requirement, covert channel analysis, pentests, SCM, trusted distribution, and so on. Those say quite a bit about what level of trust one can put into software. That's how it was originally meant to be done. So, you can put a little more trust in the TOE.

Whereas, for EAL4, there's no reason to believe it's secure at all given the criteria are designed for "casual or inadvertent attempts" to breach security. Internet and insider threats are slightly more hostile than that. ;)
Without reading the article, I've never seen anything remotely as efficient at scale as Apple Store employees that all have handheld swipers. It scales out linearly and is best because someone who is a tech can still double as a checkout person. It also makes for a much more pleasant user experience IMO.
One of my favourites is "ffs=sudo" so that when I forget to sudo a command I can type "ffs !!"
In books and news articles, France often plays the foil to America, just as it once did to England. The French language serves as a sign of socio-economic distinction, a class marker, and for its disciples, it is probably easy to think that French ways are superior in everything from cooking to flirtation to parenthood.

Americans moving to France in search of a more sophisticated lifestyle are confronted with a stagnating economy, a society riven by inequality and racism, and a cuisine in many ways inferior to that of the US, Germany or other countries embracing fresh and organic good.

After an initial lost period, these American immigrants make careers out of France itself, trading off its pre-war reputation. "French women don't get fat", "Why French Parents Are Superior", "Bringing Up Bebe" and "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life" -- these are all real works published by people monetizing their lifestyle choices by preaching French superiority to those they have left behind.

Unfortunately, none of it is true. I spent 14 years in Paris, enough time to gauge the average weight of French womanhood and watch many French parents strut their stuff. France is becoming heavier and heavier as fast foods make deeper inroads. And French parenting is often a hystrionic affair that verges on verbal abuse when applied to toddlers. It's shocking, actually.

So these articles simply use France as a rhetorical trope to introduce new ideas to American society. Those ideas should be considered independently of the distortions applied to France itself. In fact, someone should build an app that substitutes the word "Utopia" for France in those articles. It will clear the mind and steer the reader clear of the many impasses in which French society is stuck.
I want the next Facebook to run on top of colony.io. Matrix would be a close second.
I find it interesting the amount of sudden vitriol by some of the formerly "free market" supporters that thought that the terrible job market for non-STEM majors would never, ever hit the technology industry. Those that decry artistry and creative industry jobs as beneath them and their money, those that felt working class people were just too lazy to find "good" jobs, and generally feeling apathy if not schadenfreude for those suffering from the corporate recovery of 2010-present.

Those same free marketers also agreed with the destruction of unions and protections like minimum wage. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, look at the comments. "H1-Bs are depressing prices" have replaced "why should I pay for music and movies" and "any industry that relies on ads should die".

Well, now with the tables turned, why should working class Americans and artists and content creators give one shit that the technology industry is suffering from "depressed salaries". Suffer with the rest of America.
Everyone is different, and has different needs
Allan Steel is awesome!! I really like him and have learned so much from him -- it's one reason I put his picture up for Magma in that slide. (I think you might be overestimating the extent to which U Sydney funds development of Magma.)
nice. thanks for the info.
> Luxury car

It's a SUV. They get used to tow boats, take science-fair projects to school, and take the family on vacations. They aren't used for track days at Road Atlanta.
This reminds me of GNU Screen's "nethack" command, which translates a bunch of the error messages to Nethack-themed ones [1]. It looks like it's been removed and won't be in the next release, though.

[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/tree/src/nethack...
Thanks for the citation! Wish I hadn't been downvoted for asking an honest question, but this clears things up.
Counterintuitive, amazing, horrifying. Everyone should read about this experiment. I would love to know if it has been re-created.
Universal Unitarianism is pretty close to this. It is non-creedal (you don't have to believe in anything) and very community-oriented.
To me though, this proves that it is merely a difference of degree and not of kind. You could do this with short stories about guitar dolphins, as many images as you'd like, maybe a song, and even videos someday with enough compute.
Building React Applications with Idiomatic Redux
"Noticing something is not fun" is the archetype of non specific advice. There are tons of games i dont find fun yet many are very popular and other folks seem to enjoy them. And even then even if you do playtesting you need to ensure your sample is representative and things like that.

Playtesting is key but its far from being a simple step in itself and it never tells you exactly what is the right solution to fix things. Thats why making games is hard.
Modern Android programming
As a former McDonald's cashier/drive-thru operator, this makes intuitive sense to me.

There is a very real stress you feel when a line starts building up. I naturally worked harder when it felt like I was falling behind.
cc. For map geeks, another slight error by the BBC was that the circle isn't an area but a line. Nobody lives on the circle. The normal phrase is 'above the arctic circle' or just 'in the arctic'. Canada has "the north" which is actually an official thing for tax purposes (extra deductions for the higher cost of living).
One problem in New York is that the vast majority of people who try to talk to you on the street want something--they're selling something, canvassing for a candidate, begging, creepily flirting or running a scam--and another big segment are under the influence or mentally ill. Usually the best case is a lost tourist asking for directions. The worst case, that everyone's aware of, is someone trying to get you to stop walking so they can assault you and/or rob you by force or trickery.
Loneliness is a curse of some cultures.
in the case that isomorphic javascript takes over the web for whatever reason, it will be just a matter of time people will be wanting the client/server distinction all over again. it's a sure cycle. but regardless, what OP did looks like excellent work, love the simplicity.
For what it is worth, lisp is also one of the components of Sage, since we need it for Maxima, which provides some important functionality.

sage: lisp('(+ 2 3)')

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The elementary school I went to in France would finish at 4:30pm, and most busy days in middle school at 5pm. Did you go to some private school?

In elementary school there's the long playground times, one in the morning, one big at lunch, and one in the afternoon. Kids have plenty of time to play soccer.

In middle school the Wednesdays afternoon are always free, you have time do extracurricular activities there: soccer, swimming, tennis, music, whatever. There was time to do those things in elementary school, I don't remember exactly when.

There was a special extra hours until 6 for those who want to, but basically at the end of those you'd be completely done with your homework.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11853419
Activist disavows Trump endorsement after being ‘super hacked’
Sage should run fine in the new Microsoft's Bash on Windows

https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about
Cool! We use preemptible VMs a lot in SageMathCloud -- they are extremely useful for big mathematics computations, which are often easily resumed.
Company lawyers think of maximizing the company's power and safety in every contract. If the clause is not illegal and improves that equation, it'll be standard.

Morality notwithstanding.
In the name of all that is holy. No.

Run this pass a trader on Wall Street and they will either laugh you out the door or play to your naiveté while trying to sell you some ocean front property in Arizona.

The "economy" is an abstract concept that people refer to. It is not an actual thing. It is not a computer that has been programmed to do anything, like process events within the framework of information theory.

These "events" are simply the confluence of a bunch of smaller events that happen to be bad across the board. Every day there are just as many events occurring, but because they are not generally bad but are instead a mixed bag, well, we don't call it an "event". Yet, using your terms, "information" is continuously being processed.

God is not a watchmaker and the economy is not a information processing computer.
From the article:

"The economy is made of people, networks of people and the things that people make. People and networks of people accumulate knowledge and knowhow, both individually and collectively, and they use that knowledge and knowhow to produce a variety of products that, in turn, augments people’s capacity to produce new products."

The economy is made up of people... Dangerous. So Dangerous. What about the animals. What about weather. What about solar flares. These things all impact the GDP, the macro economic landscape, and market cycles. Hurricanes have been called a shot in the arm for our economy, because they trigger so much rebuilding. What then is something that does not impact the GDP? Is it not information? Is it part of a different information processing computational process?

If you want to go whole hog on the reductionist angle, well,look to quantum physics and chaos theory. Or, just watch the weather channel. Look, there is always info between the data points. And sometimes it ends up influencing the big picture. This is a fact. So, would you say then that the economy is an imprecise machine? I would say that it is simply a shared concept we humans all agree on when discussing these things amongst ourselves. I would say what is really driving it is, well, reality, the arrow of time, entropy (well ish, now we're back to information; but at least this time it's the physicists fault, not the economists).

The reason this sorta framework is dangerous is that it relinquishes responsibility. Any responsibility that we hand off to some abstraction (be it "god", "the gods", "luck", or "the economy") is responsibility we are shirking.
A lot of it's cultural. I'm from Boston and the NYC anecdote resonates with how I operate. If you talk to me on street or on the T or really anywhere i'm not expecting you to talk to me and we don't have some business talking together then I've just been raised to assume you're crazy or asking for something. I feel like 80% of the time it's a good strategy.
The idea is to make yourself visible as someone who is friendly, so that people approach you. (Granted, this might not be something you want to start out with as a total newcomer to a neighborhood like London.)
True, of course. But at some indeterminate point theories start seeming awfully ad-hoc even if they still retain other properties.

Let's say I propose that no existing solar panel designs respond to artificial light. Easily falsifiable. Say you perform the experiment and find that panels from First Solar do respond to artificial light. I refine my hypothesis to "no existing solar panel designs respond to artificial light except for First Solar". You find that SunEdison panels do, by testing at your lab in SF. I refine my hypothesis to "no existing solar panel designs respond to artificial light when tested outside San Francisco except for First Solar". You repeat the experiment in San Jose, and I refine my hypothesis again.

We're revising the model, keeping it falsifiable, and keeping it consistent with existing evidence. It would not be without merit to claim that this is something of a toy hypothesis, however, and that our time would be better served otherwise.
Hm. I was sure avadaKedavra will be pkill and not rm.
In the article, if you read all of it, they suggest point to a study that suggests a better helmet may be of no use in preventing the injury. If you search for "animal" in the article, you should find it.

On the other hand, if the majority of people who want to join the army understand the dangers they face (in addition to death and dismemberment) then we might find that they held a war, and nobody came.
Indeed, for any given nomad, you'd have to ask them their goals to know which ones they had.
I'm distressed to realize that I actually get the references, the result of a christmas with young family members. I think I've got about a year until that dreaded stage show comes to town. Hopefully they will have aged-out of the craze by then.
Would be useful for packaging up a virtualenv in an RPM (though I avoid doing that for various reasons), if there was an option to fix the paths without actually performing the move.
Harvard Graphics ?
City Observatory Calculates Cost of Urban Sprawl for Commuters
There is https://github.com/berdario/pew which provides a better wrapper around virtual environments compared to virtualenv wrapper.

It also supports renaming.
Can't upgrade across major releases without downtime. (Supposedly is on the roadmap for next release or two)

Doesn't allow you to force the use of an index in querying.

Materialized views always do a full rebuild, instead of applying deltas.

No estimates for when a long-running query will complete.
Yea, totally agree with everything you've said about it being defense mechanism, but the behavior tends to manifest in all aspects of our life and in places where it should not. For example, when I'm sitting in bars and where it's reasonably safe I'm still fairly reserved and I get annoyed when the guy to the left or right of me starts trying to make unsolicited conversation. It's not just me either, when I was younger and first started going out I learned pretty quickly people don't like be disturbed around here any more than I do now.
Droste effect in Conway's Game of Life
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/148/148909.h...
Well, perhaps you haven't read this: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-f...

I read the article the same way. While I don't disagree that for many folks social isolation is an issue, it isn't that way for everyone. I find that non-introverts don't necessarily quite get it.
Living in Portland now after moving from SF. Jarring at first how many people will actually just look at you, and half the time will actually pop a quick "Mornin'" or "Hi" to you. A friend from NYC was here visiting and expressed how much it freaked him out to have people looking at him in the eye -- given his experience, he felt like they were being aggressive or nosy.

Anyway, having originally been from a small rural town in Arizona (where many people just knew each other by last name), it really bothered me how people in SF would seem to actively ignore your existence.
The JS community switched from the term "isomorphic" to "universal" around a year ago. Seems not everyone is on the same page yet.