skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++ has also had native unicode support for a while now (made standard in C++11). The table complains that indexing is byte-based, but that's arguably better than the deceptive UTF-16 based indexing many languages have, since UTF-16 code units are not equivalent to unicode code points. Even UTF-32 code points are not equivalent to composed characters or visible gylphs, so character-based indexing makes very little sense unless you're using a Unicode-specific library.

I also wonder why C++ is claimed to have no instance function pointers even though std::bind was available since TR1 and boost::bind was available aeons ago. Did the author confuse C++ style function references with C function pointers? But this is like confusing the C++ std::string (which exist only as a library feature) with C-style char arrays.
as Platz already pointed out

> Set subjects are limited to maths, German, English and social studies, supplemented by more abstract courses such as “responsibility” and “challenge”.

Also, there is some accountability in the system. That means there should be some scale to determine if the student has met the required work for the week.

> Rasfeld’s institution tries to embed student self-determination within a relatively strict system of rules. Students who dawdle during lessons have to come into school on Saturday morning to catch up, a punishment known as “silentium”. “The more freedom you have, the more structure you need,” says Rasfeld.

Edit:

Here is a link on their website on learning guidance. It is google translation of their german link. So it is a bit hard to follow.

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
This kinda works. But again only for starting..
[Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site: nightchamber.com]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881622

It's still running today, though the user-base has stabilised around a dedicated core of users, and not seeing much/any growth.

EDIT: holy shit, I just checked the stats, 7k unique users over the last two months. It's doing better than I remember.
I remember the CEO of Information Services JSC (the de-facto Bulgarian monopolist in governement software procurement), prof. Mihail Konstantinov, making the ridiculous claim on TV that "We can't release the source code of the elections counting software. Anyone who has the source can hack into the system, even children know that. If you don't understand that, you should tear your diploma". Glad to see that morons such as him will no longer have the final say.
It might be an idea to add that there's a free tier to the Plans & Pricing section, rather than just in the FAQ. That might give an indication of what to expect from the free trial as that isn't clear.

I think you could make better use of the demo too by scrapping the placeholder text and instead using it as a 'how to' guide for the platform itself - not only would this be useful in itself for your customers, but it'd help show off what it can do. I tend to prefer demos that show the product in a real-life situation as it helps me more in understanding how I might be able to get value from it.

Also I actually find the "No Credit Card Required" a bit scary (although that could just be me) - perhaps something more like "Get Started For Free"?
Very good work. I enjoyed it and while viewing I just reminded myself the following:
By watching it at full speed, I am causing the CPU on my machine to do so much computational work in so short a time just so that I can enjoy the animation.

I wonder, how much computational power (measured in CPU/GPU cycles) is used all over the world for animations/games.

Computers have greatly changed our lives and our perspectives too.
Or use a bookmarklet (see my other comment for a copy-paste)
(2013) Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls
He will continue being an MEP for another 2 years. Sounds like a bad joke.
X86-64 machine level programming [pdf] (2005)
Actually, we made sure that the e-voting provisions in the new electoral code explicitly require the whole software to be open source. Especially for voting this is mandatory, otherwise there is no trust.
I love Nightchamber!
Whichever subject Prof. Konstantinov is an expert in, it's not cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle.
That's awesome to hear. Many thanks for your efforts :)
[NASA] Juno live stream YouTube account
Some notes on my last Out of Office message
I've always wondered what made the C64 so lasting in our memories. My Commodore 64 days were 1986-1990 when I switched to IBM clones. I still hold my C64 days as the "good ole' days," some 26 years later. Perhaps it was because I was young.
Why do they need an ulterior motive? They want a single, non-fragmented userbase running the latest software, so there's a simple platform for third-party developers and for Microsoft themselves. That's more than reason enough.
That's quite cool. Would you mind explaining something to me? Where do you find customers?

I've always wondered how apps like yours (single isolated feature done well, available many other places for free) get customers. I've only built things which are niche-based so it's easier to find customers, but with your type of project it feels to me like gaining traction would be quite difficult. I always want to learn from people who have taken something so simple (not downplaying your efforts, just the 'concept'), and made it stick.
Try the two-minute rule!

If the task will take you less than two minute to complete, just shut up and go do it.

I've used it to really lockdown my chore times.
PGP is a great choice when you want to be able to send encrypted messages over any channel you want. It sounds like you do not understand how PGP works -- you exchange public keys over a trusted medium and then use public key cryptography to encrypt the AES key used to encrypt the rest of the message.

The OpenPGP library it uses has been audited (twice). Most of the mistakes that could have be made are avoided this way.

Edit: Yes, you lose PFS by using PGP, but it would not really be possible to negotiate PFS via, say, email.
Bookmarklet:

javascript:(function() { var url = 'http://essentialyoutube.com/#'; var videoId = ''; var vars = window.location.search.substring(1).split("&"); for (var i=0;i<vars.length;i++) { var pair = vars[i].split("="); if(pair[0] == 'v') { videoId = pair[1]; break; }} if (!videoId) { return; } window.location = url + videoId; })();
Or Montessori, [1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
Quality Assurance and Prototyping: Q&A with Neil Price Jones
Hacking passwords of UPC WiFi routers
He is a professor in Mathematics, and is often invited in popular TV shows as a supposed "expert" on elections, software, and politics in general.
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If you think you have what it takes then we want to hear from you. We’ll expect you to demonstrate an entrepreneurial edge and your strengths to become a Venture Founder. We’ll start with an initial telephone screen before inviting you in to pitch to us, to prove you’ve got what it takes. For aspiring CTOs we’ll ask you to complete a technical challenge. After the final stage will give you’ll have an opportunity to engage deeper with the program and the InMotion team. So, if you’re excited by the opportunity then apply online through inmotion.im/ or with bscallan@jaguarlandrover.com, business lead to find out more.

Reference Ycombinator
Let me make that a navigable link so users don't have to copy and paste: http://letzcode.com

You could have made this a URL-type rather than text-type submission and then added your explanation as a comment.
Gosh, you people think I'm kidding about this! You think I'm sketching a tasteless comic or something full of foul language just for kicks.. If anything, I've put it too kindly! It is A LOT worse than this.
Reminds me of Microsoft's newer offerings:
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services
And how do you ensure that the actual deployed code doesn't differ from the one posted on GitHub?
The industrial one that did, Modula-3, didn't manage to do that despite some uptake in commercial sector. Had great combo of features:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3
I went to one of these as a child and learned nothing. It became a real struggle to learn in a time efficient manner. I would strongly discourage parents from choosing this kind of education for early learners as it doesn't include various social skills like how to sit in a classroom, address a prompt, etc.
Right now, 18F is primarily a product delivery team within FedGov, but -- due to the volume of work they're receiving -- they've started a process to prequalify a small number of vendors to take on work they can't. "Buy first" would flip the script and force them to outsource to federal contractors their projects as the default option, or else get them out of the procurement side and force them to compete with contractors for work from contracting agencies.
Kahneman is half-right, though. You have to accept the conclusion of a study as true. You can't accept the study as true and then keep believing in the thing the study just disproved.

What you can do, though, is question whether the study itself is true. Sometimes, it's not.
Certificate and Public Key Pinning
> In part because of this, I find it really difficult to deal with people I work with complaining about pay/bonuses/hours etc,

I get what you're saying and that you likely don't mean any malice, but just in case: It isn't a competition to see who can have the worst working conditions.

That kind of rhetoric is the same that those with capital use to suppress wages/benefits because it's obviously profitable in the long run. It's a manipulation: Many people want to be seen as industrious, and telling someone they're entitled because they want an extra vacation day a year is a powerful manipulation that works much of the time.

Don't be manipulated. The company is almost assuredly making a huge return on your employment. Don't be afraid to assert your right to some of it.
About a year ago I have launched http://rationalfiction.io (a platfirm for publishing hard sci-fi). I'm still working on it, it's growing gradually, slow but steady. 900+ users by now.

A few months ago I have launched http://lumiverse.io (a website where you can publish and discover educational videos). Since the launch I had other priorities, so the traffic slowly trickled down, now it's consistently at around 100 visitors per day. I'm planning to get back to it soon with new ideas and improvements, hopefully it will take off.
I'm not American, nor a lawyer, but I have read that as they offered no disclaimers of ownership of the website they were promoting, that it might be possible to challenge them.
Well, at least the TV shows invite mathematicians, that's not a bad start.
I think in this particular case a significant portion of customers are actually being converted through the free WordPress plugin that they provide. People know what quality looks and feels like, and are more than willing to pay for it. I suppose that's one slice of the cake. Needless to say, bloggers have promoted Kraken willingly because they want to provide content like "best image optimizers" etc,.
I'm currently looking into where else I'd like to live and work.
It occurred to me that with so much backstabbing in brexit rangs, one disgruntled key figure could bring the whole house crashing down. What would happen if BoJo would anounce “the whole thing was just a big lie, and I need to clear my conscience“ - irregardless of the merit of the statement, just out of spite.

It just seems to me that emotions are running wild post referendum in the leave camp.
The reason I pointed out the "fascist EU" bit is because I only recently found out the reason I kept running into Leavers who think the EU is uniquely controlled by Germany: a quote from a prominent pro-Brexit politician (I forgot who it was but I want to say Boris Johnson).

> The right-wing parties on the continent are far scarier, and generally have higher support.

Don't conflate nationalism with right-wing. The BNP already was a thing. UKIP is just less ostensibly racist. A similar thing happened in Germany actually: the NPD is blatantly racist (though always just constitutional enough to avoid being banned) and the AfD is almost a carbon copy of UKIP (just with more anti-muslim rhetoric as it seems).

> You are reading different papers to me.

Probably. I'm not even in the UK. However Cameron's speech after the referendum sounded pretty much like "okay, we're leaving but I'm not the PM to do that" and pretty much everything else I saw on BBC World within the days following the referendum sounded like the Brexit has been decided -- plus the various statements by "the remaining 27" EU members certainly are phrased in ways that no longer count the UK as an EU member.

> No, that's exactly what Cameron said would happen - that we'd have to trigger Article 50 the next day.

I guess I should have avoided saying "the UK" because politics are too complex to put everything in terms like that. The Leave campaign certainly seems dumbstruck they won't get to negotiate prior to triggering Article 50, however.

And there are an awful lot of people who seem to think the UK isn't already leaving or that there's still a way -- though I guess that's mostly wishful thinking (or the "bargaining" step on the grief progression).
We launched Routific's first beta landing page 2.5 years ago: https://routific.com

It gave us a boost of initial interest and feedback, which was awesome – the effects of which I summarized here [1]

Two years after Show HN we went through Techstars. Now we are a 10-person team. Thanks HN!

[1] https://medium.com/routific/what-61-points-on-hn-did-for-my-...
Thanks! :D

Feel free to point more people towards the site! We could do with some new blood.
I think it would be pragrmatic to consider leaving the UK
https://www.spincast.org

No comments at all on my "Show HN" thread! ;-)

But it's not that surprising since it's a new Java web framework (and it's still in beta).

The development goes very well though! WebSockets are now fully supported. Version 1.0.0 will be released in a couple of months.

If you are a Java developer and a Guice fan, please have a look. We are looking for new ideas and contributors.
I see this is your first time reading anything on HN regarding Black people. Anti-Black shit that manages to avoid outright slurs is a surefire path to internet points.
> if you don't speak the language well people will treat you as less intelligent because you are not able to communicate at the same level of sophistication

Again, this is showing inherent biases. An AAVE or Southern dialect speaker speaking GA as well as a speaker of a New England dialect will be treated quite differently. The former is much more likely to be thrown in the "not speaking the language well" category; the latter is much more likely to be dismissed as merely a regional variation.

> AAVE contains grammar that is based on simplified English grammar.

But that's not true, as the paper mentions. Again, shouldn't we be deferring to the linguistics here?

> Please don't simply ignore my entire argument because you think I'm trying to go full Hegel and claim black people are less intelligent.

I honestly have no idea how you got this from my comments.
That looks awesome! Hopefully in the future they will indeed achieve global coverage, or at least cover the oceans to make it easier to find lost planes.
Just to clarify as the title got edited out. The 1258 emails were released today.
It's nice to know what's popular and what's largely unused; this helps Microsoft figure out where to allocate scarce engineer time for feature development and maintenance. You'd generally want them to fix the most common crashes and UI weirdnesses before fixing the uncommon ones, right?
My partner became involved in Montessori a few years ago, and I've been really impressed with how it works.

If you don't know much about Montessori, here is my "in a nutshell" version: It's a method of schooling usually associated with preschool and elementary education. There are mixed age groups (e.g. 3 to 6) in classrooms. There is at least one adult who gives one-on-one lessons on how to work with "materials." The materials do the teaching, not the adult.

There are hundreds of different types of materials. They're designed to teach or exercise a particular skill, but they look like games and are all designed to be "beautiful" as to entice children to them (Montessori is really serious about this; materials are not allowed to be broken or chipped or worn). They follow a particular progression. Children may work with any material for which they've had a lesson. They can work with it as many times as they like.

My favorite example of how Montessori works is how it develops reading skills. First a child is introduced to materials that involve very short crayons - when they use them they strengthen the muscles in their hands. Then they're introduced to letter-tracing materials. Then they're introduced to letter/sound matching materials.
Children who follow these lessons wind up writing first, and then reading follows very naturally. The emphasis on developing physical capabilities first really demonstrates the attention to detail that's typical of Montessori.

The math education progression is impressive also. There are materials that have children doing proto-multiplication, exponentiation, algebraic manipulation, and more. My partner developed a material that teaches counting, addition, and subtraction in base 8. (Her 4 and 5-year-olds understood it much more quickly than her colleagues!)

There are parts of the method I don't like (e.g. dogmatic resistance to rewarding performance, for example), but overall it feels like a huge improvement over typical early childhood education.
Fixed! Thank you.
Good to hear. I figured as much.
This isn't the only long - term show to end - Whad'ya Know (notmuch.com) wrapped up a 30+ year run the last weekend in June though it was ended due to declining numbers and being expensive to produce (live audience, traveling shows, etc.).
IDK. The toughest calls for home-schooling in Germany come from religious extremists, be it Islamists, Jewish orthodox or Twelve Tribes christian fundamentalists.

None of those are anti-authority to begin with. Also: Godwin.
getstream.io, show HN 2 years ago. Stream is an API for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. (Think Twitter/Facebook style feed technology in a box)

We now power over 300 production applications, raised funding and have gathered a pretty awesome team:
https://getstream.io/team/
I think that is probably best solution.

Just having the audio I can easily do it right now by doing the search in another tab while having the video playing in the background.

Anyway, I like the idea and what you did, even if it is still an early project.
Agreed. Although I think that the name is also a problem. It feels like most of the upvotes are coming in because of the pretty image in the readme...
I went to a Montessori school for a while. Much like what is described here. For me it was fantastic and I sometimes lightly regret not continuing in high school due to (minor) practical obstacles. That said, I believe these types of systems are definitely not for everyone. Lots of kids are probably better off with a bit of structure and imposed discipline.
wow... 5 years already... i remember this! and so far i haven't done anything with my life hahahaha :sad:
Nearly a year ago I've posted "whoishiring.it" [0] as a visualisation for HN's "Who is hiring" thread with all the positions on the map. And it was received pretty damn well. Way better than I've expected.

Originally the idea was just to add better search mechanism for "Who is hiring" thread, but i've decided to go beyond that. I've added every big job board that I could find. Right now it aggregates 15956 jobs for IT from 12 different sources [1]. The website didn't make a dollar yet. Although I received few investment propositions to make something bigger out of it.

The current domain is whoishiring.io (google didn't like .it much)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9838955

[1] https://whoishiring.io/stats/