skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except, of course, we don't need Common Core for that goal.

I grew up in Florida. Florida had state-wide testing starting in the 1970s. http://www.fldoe.org/accountability/assessments/k-12-student... .

Why wasn't that good enough to compare schools X and Y, and what does Common Core-based testing add to that? All I can think of is it adds a way to compare schools between states.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is suppose to give some idea of how different regions of the US compare, and NAEP started in 1969. Why isn't that enough?

Suppose we know that a school in Miami is "performing badly relative to students" in Anchorage?

I don't see how that will help make policy decisions. Will we use the result of the test take money that would have gone to Alaska and send it to Florida? Does it mean that people will move to Alaska to be in a better school district?

And lastly, what method is used to interpret those test results, and can they be understood by the people (like parents) who need to make decisions? After all, grades depends on more than just the quality of the school. A school in a poor region with many new immigrants who don't speak English well (I'm thinking of parts of Miami in the early 1980s, after the Cuban emigration from Mariel) will likely have low marks. Does that means it's a poor school?

The methods I've seen so far, like VAM, are shaky at best. At worst? The NY Supreme Court calls it "arbitrary and capricious", at least as way to set someone's salary.
Couldn't you just do the equivalent of a remote attack like you might do on a car?

Could probably do this with a group of cooperating people if you really wanted to trade time for a little bit of money.
> But for something large like a monorepo, we're talking about hundreds of millions of lines of code that worked before.

Unless you're also monobuild (a nightmare at 100 MLOC no matter how you slice it, although I've heard enough horror stories that I bet such exists), you don't need to upgrade every project at the same time. And if you can't afford the dev time to fix that many warnings, you probably can't afford the QA time to verify the compiler upgrade didn't introduce any "new" bugs from e.g. previously benign undefined behavior that the optimizer can take advantage of now in new optimizations. Although this presupposes you've got decent control over pinning your compiler versions.

My experience has been that compiler upgrades generally don't introduce too many new warnings - I'll generally fix all the new warnings before switching over the CI servers, yes, although I've only dealt with <1MLOC or so at a time. New compilers may introduce too many warnings to fix all at once, in which case I may temporarily squelch or downgrade the specific "lower priority" warning types (read: those that seem to be mostly false positives) and establish corresponding work items for going through the codebase to fix those individual warnings and unsquelching the warning type, as a means to unblock whatever high priority thing is requiring the new compiler in the first place.

...in other words, it may be sufficient in the short term to review the new types of warnings, which is mostly independent of codebase size, if only to create a backlog to prioritize and triage. And hey, maybe each new warning type is useless, in which case you've found a bunch of warnings to disable so they don't distract your fellow developers.
Underestimate the number of elderly, you do.
It's important to note that dismissed notifications are persistent and will remain dismissed when the page reloads.
But CalTrain does have employees occasionally walk through the cars scanning Clipper cards.
If there are bugs in the universal algorithm, they'll not be the kind of bugs you find in C, but the kind you find in the ideal programming language. So research into better programming languages is crucial to human transcendence!
Future mad science project ... build an RNN to generate random buzzy bios.
> Neither Schema nor Lisp nor any but a very few quite obscure languages satisfy this.

That doesn't seem like it would be a very useful definition then.
Even if we don't, the observation that all these potentially-life-hosting worlds are (or aren't) dead would tell us something important.
Yep and I've seen them catch people who just hopped on.
I'm not the most versed in encryption & stuff,

so does Let's Encrypt prevents / subvert Verizon's HTTP modification?

EDIT: ah it's supercookie[1] and apparently a full protection is "Only a VPN or Tor"

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
Could you tell more about the LG G4?

I have one and only had problems with a bad screen protector (that covered the sensor). Despite that, I was going to the G5, just thinking because off the smaller screen.
One final note before I dive in: this algorithm is essentially large scale ticket swapping, which is obviously illegal and unethical. I don’t believe that it would be ethical to use this in the real world... and since Clipper cards are not cloneable, this work can’t be used to facilitate this large-scale theft.
HOW does he not have a bench supply? Looking around the rest of his shop at least gives the appearance of a functioning lab.

To any budding hardware hackers, a benchtop (or rackmount, because they can be had for very cheap if they're old) power supply is one of the FIRST thing you should buy, probably before you get an oscilloscope, and probably right after you get a soldering iron.

edit: Actually, at 3:00, isn't that a bench supply that is sitting in front of him?

edit2: And at about 7:34 you can actually see the terminals for it.
http://feram.co
This is great! Throwing all of these into an anki deck. :)
Silicon Nanoparticles for Biocompatible Solution to Cancer Detection/Treatment
5 billion dollars down the drain! Yahoo has excellent negotiators I must say!
Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited
Show HN: Rplisp: A toy language similar to HP Calc RPL
Exactly. That's not shady, that's just how their business works and labels are not blind from that fact.
The more interesting question would be why? however
A specific type and dose of brain training reduces dementia risk by almost half
Are perf and flamegraph the de facto tools for recording and viewing performance?

I was looking for an alternative to Instruments (macOS) on Linux and I came across callgrind and kcachegrind, which worked really well for me when profiling some Rust code.
Reviewing Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Library: Partial – Ayende  Rahien
makes me wonder about 3d printing with powder-compound coral or cadaver bone - potentially even with very simple FDM 3d printers.

I was astounded to learn about the composite materials being developed for cheap 3d printers - see http://colorfabb.com/ and https://ninjatek.com/products/filaments/ninjaflex/
Iodine is probably a good idea, but unless you're the only one left you probably ought to save up some ammo as well.
People are always looking for something to blame other than themselves. I'm sure there's at least one person in history that committed suicide solely due to weed consumption, but I would wager a guess that there haven't been more than 10.
Standard Oil may have accrued monopoly power, but at least to me it's not a foregone conclusion the company should have broken up. Yes, indeed, Rockefeller consolidated industries and bought many competitors, but he was also a master of efficiency and cost-savings. If it weren't for the break-up we might have had lower cost petroleum and as a result greater economic prosperity.
This isn't a new idea or theory, it's older than the internet itself. So what?

This is a tired argument that doesn't really make a point. People being "the product" isn't some inherently bad thing. These platforms have so many engaged users because they do actually deliver value to those users, whether you think so or not.

Maybe you want to pay for a social network but others want it free and are fine with the trade-off. Both perspectives are fine and what's important is that you have a choice, but saying that "user counts should never be exponential of customer counts" still makes no sense as it not up to you to decide everyone else's fate. Does that really seem logical to you?
> I just aren't seeing anything that is bigoted. I'm very, very open to being persuaded otherwise.

See, I am starting to realize that you're not actually open, or at least you're not as open as you think you are and you're not acknowledging the way you're going out of the way to ignore or write off blatantly bigoted behavior.

Here's just one example [0] < https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4u5ztv/dnc_email_... >.

Since it seems like we have a disagreement even in kind, it might be best to just see what your thoughts are about that lone example. If we can't agree that it is egregiously, lose-your-job-on-the-spot bigoted, then it's doubtful we can agree on anything else.
The inventory robot reminds me of an idea I had 11 years ago to use roomba tech + rfid readers to track inventory in stores like walmart. Curious to see how their use of computer vision can account for things like depth of shelves etc.
When you are some kid in their parents basement and figure out ways to scam money from public transit you are rebelling as a natural part of childhood.

When you are a well skilled and very well payed employee of a high profile tech company you are essentially having fun at the expense of the public servants who work(for a lot less money) to provide essential services to the public.

Maybe those reading this can take this as a lesson in tone and tact.
Yep, definitely child pornography and solicitation thereof.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091003234700/http://denniscoop...

EDIT:

DC has also been untruthful in interviews about the blog's removal, claiming

"I never used pornographic imagery and most didn’t even show the escort’s genitals. "

From the above link, that is clearly not true.
Ms exchange.
You can have weakly/dynamically typed functional languages (most lisps for example) just like you can have strongly/statically typed procedural or OO languages, like Fortran or C++.

Haskell the language also knows nothing at all about invariants, and the language will happily let you make something a Monad even if it doesn't obey the right laws. The culture and libraries of course take invariants quite seriously, but some aspects of the Javascript culture also take invariants quite seriously, like Promises for example.
Goodbye, object oriented programming
Basically, you format the drive for ext4, then copy the filesystem over with async. Then edit the cmdline.txt on the sdcard to point to root=/dev/sda2. It's rather more problematic if you have multiple usb drives, and there's a RPi forum message somewhere with a lot more details...
MS: Yahoo says they're worth way more than we can figure out. They must know something we don't. Offer them a premium!

Yahoo: MS offered us way more than we can figure out we're worth. They must know something we don't. Reject the offer and we'll monetize it ourselves!
Ah crap--yes, that would have been very useful. Thank you, and I will definitely use this in the future.
The only thing that stands out for me here, and I think directly applies to Google's business overall, is the lack of a human factor. Google wants to move into the enterprise, enterprises generally like talking to people -- especially when dealing with support -- that isn't a strong suit.

I will take some time and read the other links someone posted below, but the story and the lack of human response parallels many other postings around Google support.
Show HN: Crot: Colour space rotations to make pretty pictures
Unfortunately I don't know enough about the hardware or encryption used in the Clipper Card to say whether that sort of attack is feasible. It's interesting but ultimately I'm not looking to execute this sort of attack!
Clever, but I hear it's pretty easy to just hop over the BART railings.
>>Except that there is a real advantage to using pure functional programming; being able to easily prove theorems about your code and understand different components in isolation.

How much of the Haskell (a pure FP language) library code is formally proved? Just curious.

Also I wonder, if code like xmonad can be proved at all.
Hi, can you elaborate more on what you are asking?
In the original manual formulation, I don't understand how the paths of these two travelers cross in Oakland. It looks like they'd only be able to take their quite short section. Unless they both stayed on their trains past the points where they where supposed to exit, but I don't see how you can do that if they scan your ticket when exiting the train.
It really depends, even from one city or town to another there's different laws. However in California electric-powered skateboards are allowed use of bike lanes (which are generally in the road). The sidewalks around here are either to crowded with pedestrians or in such bad shape as to make skateboarding virtually impossible (you might as well walk to your destination).
The time you're spending reviewing warnings, determining warnings don't make sense, and individually suppressing warnings sounds like it could be considerable. Worse is that it's never ending - each new gcc/clang (or change from gcc to clang etc.) could bring hundreds of new errors…

Otoh, gcc and clang now support colorized output. Warnings stand out a lot if you're building with make, and can be noted and disabled or fixed (if it's an actual problem) ${WHENEVER}, without having to drop everything now.

I wonder if the argument for/against -Werror is really the difference between the beliefs "a compiler warning is probably a problem in my code" vs "a compiler warning is probably a problem in the compiler"
Inside Google X: Moonshots and Rewarding Failure.
Bonus, there's a huge community already around them.

http://www.ticalc.org/
Yea, I've had too many issues with imprecise SNES emulation, so I only wanted to use bsnes. I get why people skimp and go for a less precise emu that can handle their hardware, but its too frustrating to me to invest time into a game to be thwarted by emulation failures.
a programming paradiam can be accepted massively not because people hate the predecessor, it's because the new one is more intuitive and useful. If you hate oop so much, then approve how it is counter-intuitive compare to fp. Keep complaining make you sounds too emotional, as a SE you should know how to objectively analysis.

FYI, in OOP paradiam all inherent, encapsulate and so concepts are for one goal – design a better interface, that also follow how the real world be designed, for example, power outlet at you home.
Correct, BART is not a proof of payment system. You must scan your clipper card or transit pass to enter the gated BART platform.
My personal experience has been that there's more of a correlation with alcohol, and that there's somewhat of a negative feedback loop. Considerably less so with marijuana.
Reardon metal!
Don't add your 2 cents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154228
The last link (12100781) is to an unrelated article.
And if you look respectable you can get away with it. Life hack!
That makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
It appears that kdbus is being reworked into BUS1[0]; the new API looks a lot less warty.

[0] http://www.bus1.org/bus1.html
Summary of all tricks used can be found here:
http://uguu-archive.appspot.com/fuuko/source/c_version.c
The BART stations use turnstiles at entrances to the stations, and that's it. No ticket checking on the actual train.
Ahh Smalltalk.
My 2nd Object Oriented Language & the Father/Mother of Objective-C, which was my 1st OOL on NeXTStep.
ParcPlace VisualWorks - What a very nice system. I loved it at the time. It did have some crashing issue on windows NT and then Windows 2000. I've played with Squeak and Pharo. They are nice.

Smalltalk could have been Java. Only if it didn't cost so much money back then, mid to Late 90's and if it wasn't "closed" by the companies that own it (like IBM's VisualAge.)

Learn Smalltalk. It's an excellent language (IDE / debugger included!)

Peace

Sun MicroSystems was smart. Throwing Java out there there for "free." Now all these years later, it's practically in every major Financial institution's production environment.
How is this censoring when it could be that one hashtag is just more popular than another? Applying hanlon's razor here.
I doubt that tweets/second is the only metric used to determine what is shown in trending.
AFAIK your Two-Factor is not connected to your google account. Or maybe we're talking about different things. Mine is an app that happens to be made by Google but it has no connection to my google account. If I Google kicked me off the two factor app would keep running

https://github.com/google/google-authenticator
> you are essentially having fun at the expense of the public servants

The author never actually went out and fraudulently saved money by implementing his idea, so I fail to see how his actions are "at the expense of the public servants". To quote him,

> One final note before I dive in: this algorithm is essentially large scale ticket swapping, which is obviously illegal and unethical. I don’t believe that it would be ethical to use this in the real world. I value safe and smooth travel more than I value the 20-40% of my fare I could save by stealing from
> I once had an engineering professor who claimed that the answer to every engineering question is “it depends”

http://danluu.com/julialang/
That's what your cat is programming you to think while it's on your head all night. You buy the expensive cat food now too, don't you...
Freedom of speech protects you from Government prosecution for expressing your opinions. Google is a private company.
A nuclear EMP device is indistinguishable from a retaliatory perspective than a nuclear strike. If one goes off, EMP will be the least of your worries. And please provide a cite for a conventional EMP device effective for more than yards, much less miles.
I hear similar complaints with other companies. I know at the last large company I worked for there was lots of this but also other groups who were better / different. Hard to stereotype a huge company like Verizon as one specific way of operating.
The technical component of the post is really interesting and indeed it's a more general problem, but I had a similar reaction to the framing: spending time figuring out how to reduce revenue on public transportation isn't the right problem. That same time 'hacking' could have been spent thinking how to genuinely improve a public service.
begin? I've always hated it. I think it is called "medium" because it isn't well-done...

However, I don't think the style of this article is Medium's fault. I find it more and more common that I see a headline and have to skim through the whole article to find out what the point is. I don't know if it is from watching too many TED talks or just poor writing (not mutually exclusive, of course). But then I go read the comments and see tons of people commenting about how they loved the article and how well written it was so maybe it is me that is wrong.

On second though, no. It's the children who are wrong.
Dunno about the US, but unless your Oz friend is a high gov't official, that seems to be in contradiction with the posted guidelines:

* * *

You are either:

* the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or regional or country head of a registered business entity

* an owner or director of a registered business entity

* a Board member of a registered business entity

* the CEO or CFO of an Australian-based business peak body

* an employee of a registered business entity nominated by the CEO, CFO, regional head, owner or director of the organisation.

* a senior government official – contact us for the eligibility requirements before you apply.
S (R's ancestor) was developed in the mid-70s and 80s, at least a decade before Python was written. Then couldn't your argument be applied to those working on Python data science tools? Variety is the spice of life. :)
yeah, not everyone is RetroGameModz

4 hour video on theory of operation and fix of CD drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZK3Rmerg1I
If you are a paying customer :)
> You can have weakly/dynamically typed functional languages (most lisps for example)

I would call Racket a functional language. Common Lisp? Nope.

> Haskell the language also knows nothing at all about invariants

I'm aware. But I'm not talking about mechanically enforcing equational laws. I'm talking about the ability to state them in the first place. For this, you need a sufficiently rich value language, where, for example, the list [1,2,3] is always the list [1,2,3] regardless of where it resides in memory.

In JavaScript, [1,2,3] isn't a list. It's an expression that, when evaluated, constructs an object whose initial value is one particular list, but its value at another point in time might be a different list. Furthermore, if you evaluate [1,2,3] twice, you get completely different objects. Although the objects are first-class, the list values aren't, so you can't (soundly) formulate any equational laws about lists. And object identities have an equational theory so weak (“everything is equal to itself and nothing else”) that it's completely useless.
The one I went to once, people were talking but I didn't feel they were genuine.
I am treating Skylake as a generation of intel chips to completely avoid.

I do have a Surface pro 4 with a skylake chip in it and even Microsoft appears to have struggled with power management on that chip. The Skylake NUCs have also been plagued by multiple issues. I briefly looked into getting one, but the issues scared me away.
Does anybody have any idea where this specific resurgent fear came from? The first place I came across it recently was, astonishingly, in the GOP 2016 platform [1] - there's a section on page 54 which makes the quite remarkable claim that "A single nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude over this country would collapse our electrical grid and other critical infrastructures and endanger the lives of millions" - this seems like SUCH an out there risk to specifically address that I figure there must be some particular source...

[1] https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com/media/document...
Adjusted for stock returns (since it was an all stock deal), $1.3b. And that includes the huge Alibaba stake that is most of Yahoo's value, if that deal never happened and Yahoo was just what Verizon bought the total would be ~$169m.

Mark was smart and bought puts to protect his stake and then sold it so that he wasn't tied to Yahoo. In retrospect he was really smart.
If you're interested in emulation, The Internet Archive also has something cool: https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
Software Quality Lessons to Learn from Pokemon Go
Look at the URL slug: edward-snowden-is-a-russian-agent.html

Someone had second thoughts on their original title: http://web.archive.org/web/20160722125335/https://www.pastem...
since reading the prag prog book a decade ago, I started putting everything I can in version control. saved my ass several times so far. used
my own svn server for a while, now using a combination of GitHub and AWS git (I think it's called codesource)
Then why don't you just shut up. You could have after "I'm not going to substantiate what I said", but the fact you keep replying is pretty indicative of how much you want people to take your unsubstantiated "contribution" seriously.
And when the BART starts breaking down and looking shitty, we'll know to blame you guys for not paying for it.
Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go's Impact Is Limited