skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inclined to agree about knowledge inflation (in the sense explained in the following paragraphs), but I don't think it has to do with the perceived difficulty of subjects changing, or necessarily with instructors inability to teach at a level of rigor that might pull the average down (by increasing perceived difficulty).

Regarding "knowledge inflation", I'm not sure that we see an inflation in knowledge per se (at least in a way that affects grade inflation in college courses), but I think what we do see is an increase in 1) quantitative methods, and 2) cross-talk between fields. This influences the subject matter people in a variety of fields are expected to know (e.g., the amount of math, comp. sci., stats, etc...) , and thus, I suppose, inflates the expected knowledge in this sense.

Anecdata: I teach calculus 1, and guess how many math majors are enrolled? Zero. It's mostly bio, and other sciencey fields. This affects how I teach (and grade!) calculus. I'm willing to bet other courses -- like intro programming, intro stats, etc... -- experience something similar. Is this an explanatory factor for grade inflation? I don't know. There's obviously a huge number of things to consider.
You just summarised the goal of the European Nation, well the opposite of it anyway: trying to unite peacefully instead of killing each other endlessly.

Now I guess you would suggest the EU should invade the UK to set them back straight ? Third time the charm for Germany ?
I closed the tab as soon as the audio started playing automatically. If I want to watch a video or listen to an audio clip, I will indicate that by pressing a play button. Until then, please stop shoving your unwanted sounds into my ear holes.
He justified policy actions by what happens on prime-time cop soaps.
Why Brexit Should Scare Anti-Trump Americans
OK, I misunderstood. But, to answer your question I didn't intend to imply it was ridiculous but I don't think any EU citizen (regardless of national citizenship) should have a say in the UK's membership of the EU, not least because they would be somewhat biased.

Just my opinion.
People used the pro-Brexit vote as a proxy vote for other issues: Anti-establishment, anti-politician, anti-immigrant, anti-corporation, etc.

The same exact undertones that drive Trump's support in the US (and to a lesser extent Sanders) were what drove the Brexit movement. Many of these people don't even understand the EU, they just want to give the finger to everyone who happened to be on the Remain side.

The vast majority of people who voted for it were older, so won't have to live with the consequences, or working class who outright rejected the arguments of experts/academics/etc. This was a "my heartfelt ignorance is just as valid as your knowledge" situation.

So, yes, 500K more people voted for Brexit than voted to Remain. But what is it that they actually were voting for? If you listen to them talk or look at surveys, it had little to do with the EU beyond immigration.
Ask HN: When to get legal?
Hi HN,

I have been talking with my co founder about a new idea. We've talked about a 50/50 partnerships (equity) in an entity. This would have to be a corporation, as that is the only way I would do it. Is it best to incorporate before beginning to develop the product?
Recent history has just outlined to me how massive the gulf is between my own politics and philosophies are to the rest of the country.

Britain is right-wing, xenophobic, corrupt and utterly in the service of financial elites who direct everyones attention toward Johnny Foreigner in order to hide their own self-serving agendas.

Plus we're well on the way to becoming a police state now that we face a future without the tempering hand of the EU on our thoroughly right-wing, demagogue politicians.

I need to start seriously considering moving somewhere else because I have very little patience for the path this country is on.
Replying to myself as a follow up:

Make sure the S3 bucket is set to Static Website Hosting mode, and make sure your Index and Error documents are set appropriately. Then make sure your CloudFront distribution is pointed at the Website's endpoint and NOT the normal S3 endpoint.
Excellent Keynote from YAPC 2016 by Dr. Damian Conway
Apple opens iPhone kernel to improve performance without reducing security
It still surprises me that the worlds largest economy still has ridiculous fees for college. I wonder what impact this has over a 100 year period.
They will come back- the world is gone, where superpowers try to charm the small players. Just look how the us stripped the swiss (a fellow democracy) of its main buisness-model (tax-avoidance). If you are not sumo-sized you will get shoved around, even with nukes.
"C14" is suspiciously similar to "CIA"... just saying.
I'm glad to hear you found some good from such a terrible situation.
A bit late to this AMA, but I've been watching Alan's videos on Smalltalk/Squeak, and I'm wondering why the OLTP didn't use Squeak as the basis for its software (instead of the linux/Sugar/python combo that they went with instead).
Unlike European contries who never invaded Russia /s
possibly... cant see anything about it on storage pod 6 [1] but i do remember mentioning a file system, i just though it was XFS...

[1]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...
Yes. But they are not all equal. If they are, cannibalism becomes a question of taste.
Awesome project, I will watch your videos and come back with feedback.
Yes you are right. Political parties need to present a Euro agenda that their representatives will commit to advancing. Currently we only have the false dichotomy of (a) do what Brussels tells us or (b) tell Brussels to GFT which really isn't good enough. Sending the prime minister over there every 6 months or so to "get concessions" that the representatives should have been coherently campaigning for in the first place doesn't count.
This isn't a game.

It will do exactly that because it will show how bad of an idea it is to quit from the EU even for the richest country in Europe.

The comments on this thread are ridiculously naive, I expected better from HN.
> Not so sure on this one: one thing that the UK is an example of is its respect for democracy.

As a Brit, I find that laughable.
I know that capstone, keystone and unicorn are marketed to the "security community" but these projects are some of the most promising I've seen for programming in general, e.g., for the few people who still might want to write small, simple (and fast) programs that run on multiple architectures.

Great work.

(This project relies on keystone and capstone.)
There's no trade barrier involved in the uber-mess. Rendering a local service is subject to local regulations that Uber tries to skirt. Uber is flat out illegal in large parts of Europe, for example all of Germany. So your point here is moot.
We've not had austerity of the same severity as Spain or Greece but that's not to say we haven't had it. We have. Cameron (and Boris, Gove, etc) have no idea how it's affected poor people.
It never occurred to me that anti-aliasing methods had moral qualities at all.
what's wrong with you people? brushing them with olive oil and sprinkling dill on them, and then roasting in the oven is the only way to go!
I bet Elon have seen this :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
That was also the original model of messaging in Smalltalk (well, without the necessity of a broker).
> Several friends of mine commented how stored procedures were a disaster because they weren't kept in version control

There are pre-made tools to do this, and its relatively easy to author your own extracting of the DDL from all DB objects into a tree and commit them into revision control.

There is little difference between SQL and other languages in this context.
> Well a license is just a form of contract

Free software licenses (and some proprietary software licenses) are not contracts in any meaningful way. They do not require any of the tests of contract law (meeting of minds, bystander, willingness to be bound, etc) and are implicit agreements (to be fair, contracts can also be implicit but that's not what people are talking about when they say "contracts"). The reason you have to obey the GPL is because the only way you can do anything with the software is by obeying the terms of the license (assuming it's not dual-licensed). That doesn't smell or sound like a contract to me.

> Copyright assignment is more like a sales contract

Except free software copyright assignment gives you non-exclusive rights to licensing anyway (so you only lose the power to sue people, which is not something that software developers do regularly). In addition if you sign a contract to buy a car under the condition that you will drive it to Texas and you don't drive it to Texas, then the contract is voided. Same with houses, or anything else you could possibly sell.
Never the less he jeopardized the status for others who didn't have a say in his unilateral activism.

On the one hand I understand his sense of juvenile fairness, on the other he's jeopardizing the benefits extended to a class of workers who the company is not contractually obligated to provide.

Back a long time ago MS temps sued MS for keeping them as "permanent temps". One of the arguments was MS treated them in many ways as direct employees (meetings, outings, perks, etc.) The result of that is that temps are now treated as temps (curbed perks so as not to blend/blur the distinction). Be careful what you wish for.
tsurprise.com offers tea subscription on highly competitive market. Primary focus on content to rank, then lead generation with bloggers for PR and coverage. Bootstrapped and profitable in 4 months.
This is the biggest risk, that every time a business wants to invest in Europe over the coming years London looks a little less attractive and Paris or Berlin a little more.
That it can be ordered from anywhere not USA/UK/Canada.
Any idea how many EU multinational headquarters and logistics centers the UK has, versus Switzerland or Norway? Right...

What about financial centers?

Make no mistake. This will have a significant impact. Even my small laser cutting service company in Riga, Latvia (<shameless plug>https://lusis.eu</shameless plug>) has to charge non-EU clients extra because of the real barriers exporting outside of the EU.
I do not want to seem like the guy holding the doomsday banner. I totally agree with you that there are still ways of righting the ship and isolationism is not a contract for war, I am simply pointing out that the similarity to what we have seen in history before is uncanny and we must heed those warnings.

To avoid sounding cliche, I hope we remember history...
> send [...] using FTP, SFTP, Rsync or SCP,

and upload and download are both free, operations (archiving/unarchiving?, et al) are not

Unless they changed it in the space of 16 minutes, I think you might of wanted to give a closer look for making your tl;dr
Middle of the earth attack (2012) [pdf]
Well multitouch was available on the first gen android handsets but Apple's patents prevented them from using it for a couple of years.
The UK has voted for unfettered servitude to the City of London financial institutions.
That's exactly my configuration and works like a charm.
I think he's referring to better support for crash reporting inside of mobile apps.
Be careful what you wish for, something like 20% of German build cars are exported to Britain

The dogma of ever closer EU integration and the creation of a superstate is just as bad as the dogma of those who voted to withdraw from the EU
Yes, the resignation speech mentioned the equal marriage legislation and foreign aid specifically. I suspect that is a semaphore for the successor (who will be further to the right) to leave those firmly alone.
Am I the only one who kind of feel positive about this regardless of the negative consequences in the short term economically. I mean, democratically this is a landmark, the people have just decided to reject one of the biggest and most powerful government institution on Earth in a peaceful way, by voting. I don't think this has ever happened in the history of humanity that a people decided to say fuck you to a huge powerful government body and be done with it peacefully, just voting them out of their life. This in a way should be celebrated. I mean, the very goal of a democracy is the power for the people to do exactly that, remove and change their government institutions whenever they feel like it. It could also all turn out ok if the UK becomes a EEA member.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*TD7RywMw4YnWGpfjR...

https://medium.com/@WhiteWednesday/poll-reveals-eea-option-h...
Nice spin in the title, under the huge assumption that voting preferences stay fixed over a lifetime. Or we could simply read the results as a confirmation to the old adage:

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain."

Young voters will grow old, get wiser, and possibly want Brexit more than they did in their youth.

Now get off my lawn.
Reverse Greenland: Letting Scotland Stay
What would be a good use case/type of project where you'd use C# to target non-Windows? Over, say, any of the JVM languages?
Ditching the iPhone headphone jack is annoying for everyone except Apple
> The US does not have a common enemy to force it together. It does not have a shared language, or culture, or identity. Its dream, while noble, does not speak to ordinary people. And it is pretty damned incompetent at what duties it has assigned itself. The prospect of a United States was extremely remote even before today. It's dead, now.

FTFY. In all seriousness, this whole UK thing sounds like a good excuse for California and The Bay Area to attempt to secede from the union. I'm about sick of our broken consensus mechanisms here.
We are tired of your exceptionalism. You had a great (unfair for the rest) deal, and you were still complaining. We do not care one bit about the “concerns of the leave side“. Just go.
A London Tech Company on Brexit
Life expectancy in the UK is 71. As we need to be over 18 to vote, I suggest putting a cap on the higher end to... something like over 53 should not be allowed to vote!
"It does not have a shared language, or culture, or identity. Its dream, while noble, does not speak to ordinary people."

I think you speak of real challenges that the EU has; but to put it in context, other countries have similar challenges. Spend some time in the US, and you will see cultural and language differences among the states. You can also find the same differences in India and China.

Assuming you are American, like me, it's very easy to see the differences in European culture because each state is still a sovereign nation. Chinese and Indian states don't bring their separate flags to the Olympics, so we just assume it's one culture. We go out for "Indian" or "Chinese" food in restaurants that gloss over their internal differences.
That's €0.002 per GB/m, AWS Glacier is $0.007 per GB/m. So it's like a third of the price. Do I read this right?
There is also solid evidence that when you have more guns, you have less crime - something I pointed out in my original post.

Another Harvard study concluded the same thing:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_Kate...

While American gun ownership is quite high, many other developed nations (e.g., Norway, Finland, Germany, France, Denmark) have high rates of gun ownership," said the report. "These countries, however, have murder rates as low or lower than many developed nations in which gun ownership is much rarer. For example, Luxembourg, where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, had a murder rate nine times higher than Germany in 2002."
Okay this is the worst argument for an unregulated healthcare system I have ever heard.

1) How much money goes into pet medicine research vs human?

2) What happens when a pet is sick and the cost of care exceeds money of owner?

You want a health care system where you use 15-20 year old medicine with no research, and most bills > $1000 lead to euthanasia? Sure that would be a cheap healthcare system...
Right, the correct answer is a well-informed public, and the answer is education.
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/large_files.html
As of a research paper by Kaijanaho, Antti-Juhani
(https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/47698)

Since 1960 till 2012, there are only 22 research papers that used empirical evidence with randomised cross over studies for language design.

As of which, Class inheritance had 4 randomized controlled experiments. With a collection of other studies. That is mostly of the information I have come across.

There is a research paper on Java that looked at how programmers use inheritance. It's a interesting read and its a good source.
(https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/16840)

I think Google published another paper looking at development time and I believe the result was the biggest time consumer for programmer was dependencies not necessary the programming langue.
Yeah, that gets you 122 bits of entropy (with a good RNG) so that should be fine. I mainly pointed that out just in case anyone assumes "UUID" automatically means "random UUID" and fails to check whether their particular UUID generator uses v4 or something else.
That sounds ok to me.
Fail2ban still solves that problem. A few entries with failed auth, and hey presto no more log entries because it's rejected by the firewall.

It's a well established pattern for brute force tools to not just try the default port, but perform a port scan to detect listening ports, and then try those.

Putting your services on other ports just makes things inconvenient for the user, nothing more.
Have you ever been in a modern German car factory? Nowadays there are huge buildings, spotlessly clean with tons of robots assembling cars.

Occasionally you see someone sitting around reading the newspaper and drinking coffee, ready to jump into action should something go wrong. The times where the industry consisted of huge factories filled with blue collar workers assembling cars by hand is long over.

The industry has two years to focus on other markets to export to. There might be some impact but it won't be catastrophic or lead to massive job loss.
Because it's a modern, safer systems language. It fills more or less the same niche as Rust except it's more familiar to C++ programmers, or at least that's been my experience. I know C++ fairly well, and I feel more at home with D than with Rust.
40% is a valid EBITDA margin for telcos. Twilio is indeed slightly negative in terms of adjusted EBITDA (around -5%) but market cap of tech companies is usually rather based on NTM EBITDA or industry average EBITDA - see prospectus of IPOs
From what I was reading during the last Scottish independence vote, if Scotland goes independent then they take almost all of the UK's oil and gas industries and a surprising amount of the economy with them. If Scotland goes independent and joins the EU, it definitely sounds like Britain's economy could collapse under the pressure of British companies having to spend EU market fees to trade with their subsidiaries that lease Scottish oil fields, alone.

We are living in interesting times, it would seem.
The British are googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
I initially had issues because I was pointing CloudFront at the normal S3 endpoint. Once that was solved, everything started working smoothly.
Well, basically, http://dlang.org/ , under the fold with "Why D?".
There are a lot of trad labour voters who are interested in the UKIP message (or what they perceive it to be). Good mileage for splitting what is left of Labour vote in marginals in next election.
No vindictive sanctions, just a deal on EU terms. The UK can take it or leave it.
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British politicians and the City of London are all unhinged neo-liberals too, so this does nothing to change your indentured servitude to the oligarchs.

If that's why you voted out, you've been made a fool of.
So it scrolls by like an ECG chart? Which way do you read those?
The voting privilege is really not that important. Switzerland does not get forced to implement laws that they don't want. Currently Freedom activists in Switzerland try to fight new surveillance laws, that would be required if we were in the EU. German and Austria have a huge amount of problems because they are in the EU.

Switzerland also has more freedom to have other international agreements, both with states in and outside of the EU.

Switzerland and Norway can join the parts that they like and avoid many others. They have agree to pay certain amounts but they not immediately have to pay more if the EU sets up something new. They have much more control over their spending.

I am not against many of the things the money are spent on so the fact that we are paying, is not that relevant. It is relevant that we have control over it. In Switzerland I can get a bunch of people to sign something and the population will vote on the issue. That why we are not in the EU in the first place.
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"They spoke Spanish in California, the western territories, and Florida; French along the Mississippi river, etc."

This is a completely inaccurate and hamfisted statement.
By the time of the Civil War, California was already predominantly Anglo. The only Spanish speaking parts at that point were the southern part of the state, which was sparsely populated compared to the Bay Area.

Florida was already filled with Anglo settlers as well. Spain had a number of horrifically protectionist policies that doomed their outlying North American colonies to poverty and depopulation, making them extremely vulnerable to infiltration by settlers from the US, who ironically, were illegal immigrants.
Sad day. Shocked.
Seriously? Have you watched any of the demos Alan references? They were doing things with computers in the 1960s/70s that still haven't reached mainstream use as yet. Computers as used today are still absolutely dumb machines that are little more than super-fast calculators, and in most cases increases the mental burden of their users instead of reducing/augmenting them. Nicholas Negroponte had a great quote in '94 that's still true today - "those infra-red urinals in public restrooms know more about what we are doing than our computers today."
I like your alternatively. Thank you for the optimism.
That "standard argument" doesn't apply here.

The OP claimed that McDonalds burgers were "inedible". Observably, millions of people do eat them, therefore the OP is wrong.

That says nothing about the quality of the burgers, or whether eating them is a good idea, or anything else. It merely demonstrates that people do, in fact, find them edible.

"How about mystery meat products at the food store like "olive loaf bologna""

What about it? People obviously buy it and presumably eat it, or it wouldn't be in the store.
>I wish I could read an economic analysis of a container of iPhones landing at the port of Los Angeles. This is recorded as trade imbalance but somehow I feel Apple and US customers are getting the full benefit of low cost Chinese labor.

It doesn't seem like Chinese labor plays that big of a role regardless, seeing as labor costs on a $800 device are around $2.

Apple and their shareholders certainly benefit from selling $800 devices at 70% profit margins, but I would not go so far as to say that consumers also get the benefit, seeing as they are paying 70% markups.
OK, I should have said "some powerful business interests in Germany especially will hope they prove to be right about the last one".
We probably won't, at least not at human-scale and not on Earth. Flapping wings don't scale; there's a reason you have to get to #12 of the heaviest birds list to get one that flies, at ~13% the maximum mass of the heaviest bird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_birds#Table_of...