skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former K-12 private schooler, the one I went to was non-profit. It eventually went out of business due to being run a little bit too non-profit even though it existed for 20 years. I really enjoyed my time there and was sad to see it go out of business.

Many private schools are not profitable institutions by a long shot. They could use a little bit more profit motive sometimes.

Many private schools are either:

* some religious institution, like a catholic school

* some really old private school that has kept on going because it's where all the rich kids go to with a relatively large endowment.

* opening with a specific charter in mind, like a sudbury school
> Not really. Another instance of the principle that a purpose-built solution is often better than free ad-hoc scripts/nonstandard configuration that can do exactly the same thing.

As long as your needs remain constant and perfectly aligned with the purpose of the app. Which happens exactly never.

Flexible / configurable solutions have higher up-front costs but often turn out better overall - because they can be easily adapted as needs (and wants) change.

INB4 someone says that users are dumb - no, they aren't. The dumb thing is actually the predominant trend in our industry of making everything purpose-built and simpler than possible, which makes people no longer expect themselves to spend even 5 seconds of learning to master a tool.
"stealth mode" is a thing. just because they launched their website a couple months ago doesn't mean they haven't been working on this stuff for while longer.
So what? Everyone who sells or buys meat in the US benefits from it, not just McDonald's
You don't have to forgive anyone. Getting the retribution you think is just and deserved means giving the state the power to inflict that retribution on anyone it wants. There are consequences to having the brutish government punish people on your behalf and they always come back to harm the weak and innocent.

Justice systems don't operate to make people feel better or make the evil suffer.
Why a major OS would need to be "picking up Rust as a first class citizen"? What does that even mean?

So far no major OS has picked C++, Java or any other language than C as a first class citizen either. All of the OS related loadable library APIs are still C.

Doesn't seem to slow down any of those languages, though.
Update: I am pulling these previews offline for the time being, with the intention of repackaging them up for a more easily consumable version. Stay tuned.
What you have to keep in mind, is that AMD is valued at a quarter of Nvidia, and at 1/25th of Intel. Therefore the market has a huge scepticism discount built in. AMD doesn't have to hit the ball out of the park with Zen. It just needs to get to 85% area of Intel at same tdp, and the market will call it a winner. If it does 95%, call AMD stock 50% undervalued, minimum.

Obliquely, also remember that while Nvidia is winning on the "pure" GPU front with the awesome 1080 etc, the major problem for Nvidia is that its tech needs a host processor, and its ARM attempts are going nowhere (Nintendo NX notwithstanding). AMD does not face this problem. It's becoming clearer that pure-parallel is not always optimal. Hybrid GPU/CPU architectures have a lot of upside as we are seeing with the Xeon Phi use cases, which smackdown on Nvidia bigtime as soon as you mix even the slightest bit of dependency in your algorithms.

I am very bullish on AMD. I believe its stock has double potential, because the price is so catastrophically pessimistic already. And without even talking market valuations, I think we have had enough of monopoly-style price gouging on Xeon and Tesla.
I say stick it in Iceland... a country that's at least shown itself to stand for its convictions when they let the banking system hang themselves.

There is a perception of Switzerland's stance on privacy becoming increasingly weak as time goes by, showing that their convictions at the very least are becoming diluted in favour of international pressure.
Don’t forget Rx. Not exactly language feature, but certainly a great contribution to come out of C#/.NET. And who knows if it would have happened without LINQ.

I like the language. Just not enough to use it over JVM. And I think most people feel the same way.
The point of hedge funds is that the US government will allow very rich people to pay super high fees on poorly regulated investments.
AMD has had a on-die management CPU (dubbed the PSP - Platform Security Processor) for years now, similar to the Intel ME, this is something completely different. Memory encryption doesn't prevent you from doing anything with your device, as far as userland is aware they still have access to the full address space with no knowledge encryption is happening - the only difference is memory IS encrypted so even if you manage to freeze memory to preserve the charge it will be useless as soon as it is removed from the host machine or it is rebooted.
Open Letter to Senator Feinstein on Cybersecurity
I think it's also about permission-free innovation, and maintaining a software and Internet ecosystem that allows that.

If we allow the Internet to become too centralized, ISPs and major cloud providers will have a large incentive to join forces or even consolidate. If you follow this trend the end-game could be an Internet that's like iOS: only whitelisted traffic is allowed, every link and protocol has to be approved, etc.

Then all innovation will stop because only huge players will be able to do anything new.
https://backchannel.com/the-man-who-built-googles-first-self...

Uber acqui-hires ex-Googlers
(Canadian) Law on electronic passwords must safeguard rights
No, at least in the version I have, license expires quickly.

If I don't enter the credentials, it won't be able to renew the license, so it's not possible to use it at all. Regardless of any checkbox ticks.
You received a couple civil, substantive replies. Are you only interested in civil, substantive replies that agree with you?
I upgraded from a i5-2400 to a second-hand i7-3770K around a year ago given they're socket compatible: the difference between them is larger than the difference between the i7-3770K and the i7-6700K, from what I saw looking at benchmarks when I did this. There's certainly workloads where there's a noticeable different in performance.
That's great! Thanks for taking the time to read through that :)
It does if you hit the keyboard shortcut (alt-space)
@ Tomte

Thanks for posting it as the comments have valuable feedback. I was holding off on responses until it dropped off the front page to let the discussions happen unimpeded. I can already see ways to make the case more clear. What I haven't seen is any contradictory evidence supplied with citations about (a) why C's justifications then no longer apply outside maybe embedded or (b) why it was better a design level than others. A few, good opinions, though. A few comments also have some misinformation on C the article itself addresses despite citations in article... from inventors of BCPL and C... directly contradicting their claims. That's the psychological effect I mention where cause and effect being so far separated in history that affected people not knowing bad causes (or no longer applicable ones) start inventing better, false causes to reinforce their choice of language or faith in its design process.

All in all, I've enjoyed reading the feedback on my ranty summary of that Vimeo vid I did in half an hour or so after doing a C debate. I did condense hours of watching/reading into something digestible but presentation is still shit in a number of ways. Many of points survived with others needing to be improved or replaced to make case clearer. Will do in near future. :)
Is this the most expensive game ever?
I worked on a team at NREC that was building self-driving trucks for use in surface mines. The project was a descendant of CMU's work on the DARPA Grand/Urban Challenges. These vehicles actually went into production and are being used at a few mining sites around the world. Most of that team is now at Uber.

I can tell you that there is absolutely substance here. I have no idea what's going on inside Uber, but they have a group of people there (some of the only ones in the world) with experience building actual production-worthy fully-autonomous ground vehicles.

Having a safety driver in place during development and testing is common practice, and for sure they're still very much in the development and testing phase. Full autonomy on public roads is a harder problem that full autonomy in a more controlled environment like a mine site, for reasons that have discussed here and elsewhere, and I don't know how much progress they have made in dealing with those challenges. However, I have no doubt that they are working toward the goal of a fully-autonomous no-driver vehicle, not just the type of assisted-driving features you may have already seen in production.
I believe level 4 is where the car takes over completely. Level 5 is where the no steering wheel is introduced.
> I'd be more worried about the performance overhead, personally - I can't imagine using this if the impact is significant, and it seems like it almost has to be.

Not necessarily. Bandwidth to main memory is already typically several times less than to L1 or L2 caches. If processor caches are not encrypted, then it seems conceivable that you could have some dedicated encryption/decryption silicon and it probably wouldn't even have to be as fast as it would need to be for general purpose use (like the Intel AES instructions).

Even if it does cost bandwidth or latency to main memory, if it's by a small enough amount it could still be a worthwhile tradeoff for some applications.
To speak with Debord: Punk has been subsumed within spectacular society.

Interestingly, Debord seemed to have proposed a life style of Derive, aimless wandering, following one's desires. To me, this resembles the mind set that he tries to attack. Both tell individuals "You are a snowflake! Follow your inner desires!"

Maybe the more during counter life style against the fads and suppressions of the spectacle society, is a devotion to objectivity and naked facts.
It would cause alot of anger. I hear a lot of hatred at work towards the baby boomers about everything
Would you also make builds available in epub/mobi?
None, I have colleagues that received that and that led me to believe companies needed to do that. Not quite sure why they would request a guy to go mindlessly to an office where there is nobody of his management line and no colleague.

To be fair, I worked for a company previously that didn't provide facilities for remote working as a general rule (i.e. access VPN that existed for sales), but I still had 1 colleague in my team that was working from home full time (i.e. using the VPN).

So I guess it must be random.
false equivalency
After reading "Deep Work" recently I did the same - I unsubscribed from all services, newsletters, Facebook pages, social apps, etc. that I don't really care about, and I decided to only check e-mail and social media a few times a day in pre-scheduled moments. Does wonders for my productivity and stress levels.
I'm putting a reminder in my calendar 2 years from now to check in on this!
Feel free to email ian.greenleigh@data.world and he will look into it.

Thanks!
New Version of the Rails Let's Encrypt Manager LeSSL
Of course not: CIA has many fewer members.
He wants to rewrite Linux in Rust, probably.
Meesho (YC S16) Is Shopify for Small Businesses in India
Great for private prisons!
Reminds me of the JavaScript ecosystem.
Most drivers earn money based on the amount of time they spend transporting people/things, correct? I don't believe there are many drivers who get a great base salary regardless of work output. Supply and demand would prevent people who tried to use driving as their primary income and the task would be taken care of by people willing to do it on the side when the demand is there
> nd then delegate the licensing requirements to a federal agency who has unilateral and arbitrary authority to alter licensing compliance
But then the lobbyists would start lobbying to loosen these restrictions...
> When said company controls a public method of communication, then their diktats have the equivalent effect as governmental law.

Whatever effect they have, unless there's something in the constitution or our laws which prevents them from doing it, then they can infringe away.

The constitution recognizes our right to free speech and prevents our government from passing infringing laws (we've made exceptions for public safety - inciting violence or panic for example), but is there something that prevents a company from infringing on your right to free speech?

And even if there was, how exactly is twitter refusing to broadcast your message infringing on your right to speak? You don't have an inherent right to publish messages on twitter.com, correct?

> Would you say that a US citizen in North Korea still has an unoppressed right to free speech?

How is this relevant?
Take the money.

Calculate like this: job1 pays 100, and imagine you get a 10% raise yearly for the rest of your career. Calculate your total income over your career. Job2 pays 15, calculate same. How much difference is it?

In other words: a significant salary increase early in your career tends to pay dividends beyond just the current year.
> Everyone does groceries probably once a week.

This isn't true by a longshot. The 300m figure is every man, woman, teenager, child, and infant in America, and you only need one person per family going for a weekly grocery trip. And that's of course ignoring the people who don't do weekly groceries. On top of THAT, the 30% number doesn't seem particularly reasonable either (though that one is at least the only remotely plausible thing you've said).
You could also try ScanTailor: http://scantailor.org/
Are you claiming police and prison guard lobbying isn't a real thing?
Fluoride consumption linked to diabetes using mathematical models
To recover lost windows without using alt you can actually hover over the window in the task bar. Eventually a small representation will pop-up that you can right click-on and choose maximise, minimise, move, etc.
These are really cool, but not exactly rare, even in working condition. You can always find at least 1 or 2 on eBay, generally in working condition, and you can buy them at blackholeinc.com. They're neat pieces of computing history and moderately collectible, but by no means rare.
> Your original comments mostly contained your personal opinions

I never tried to pass it as anything else.
The down payment is equity, it's not really the same as protection. Although the higher your down payment, the lower your leverage risk. Let's say you put $100k down to purchase a property for $500k (i.e. you borrow $400k). If the property value falls to $400k (20% drop), your entire equity is wiped out. If you sell the property, the proceeds go to the bank to pay back the loan, and you have lost 100% of your the original $100k down payment ... This is due to leverage. If the property value falls below $400k, then you are in a negative equity situation ... Get deep enough into negative equity and it becomes rational for some people to just default and "walk away."
An elevator anchored to the earth and extending past geosynchronous orbit is wildly implausible.

However orbital vertical tethers are doable with Zylon. A series of 3 orbital tethers could move stuff between LEO and the lunar neighborhood. http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2016/08/tran-cislunar-railr...

Both Musk and Bezos seem well on their way to reusable boosters. But reusable upper stages is another story.

An upper stage re-enters at around 8 km/s. An ~7 km/s delta V budget plus the need to carry a payload means a very slim dry mass fraction, an egg shell space craft.

Recovering and reusing upper stages will be much harder than reusing boosters.
Even in sports with less variance in performance (e.g. weightlifting), we're only looking at one or very few data points. There are definitely random factors in the final outcome, but it may even add excitement to the events.

That said, I still think fairness or at least perception of reasonable fairness is very important in high-level sports. No one is going to watch the games (or the ads as the GP pointed out) if they think the game's rigged.
If you have a fleet of networked cars, then as soon as one car encounters a new pothole, all the cars know about it.
Could be. I read that as discarding user-defined methods, not library-provided methods. Hopefully it is both.
This is going to end up being the junk shed of game distribution. In everything it does, it seems FB's mediocre content curation/distribution is 'good enough' for its users. It's the fast food of the Internet, after all.

That said, I assume it will be successful and I'm a fan of the idea. It'll help bridge that gap from a casual browser-flash gamer to start installing clients and move onto more serious entertainment.

I'm confident this WILL remain a tool for strictly casual gamers, though. Discerning/younger audiences only use FB for event invites at this point.

Steam rules the space because it has fought for credibility in the gamer community. Facebook on the other hand caused so much hate/drama when they bought Oculus.
I'd welcome competition, steam can get a lot better (it's one of the worse apps I use) but I'm not going to use a facebook game thing.

Already have steam, gog galaxy, origin, and uplay for various things. I use only the former 2 as much as I can.
> "Software must be provided as a package – not as a service – with each user running their own private copy." This sounds like a going back to desktop apps. Or am I missing something?

Yep, you're missing something: sandstorm is trying to be something like an open source app store for servers.

I believe sandstorm can be run on anyone's server (or VPS). Then, you can manage through its web interface (one-click install) various sandstorm-compatible apps onto that server.

Since you still control the server, it's your data, but because it's a server it can be accessed from your desktop computer, or phone, or whatever. I think there's an easy backup / transfer solution if, say, you want to move your server from Linode to DigitalOcean or to your own hardware.

edit: to clarify how this relates to the post:

I'm a web developer.

In my free time I'd love to throw together a little free budgeting web app, but I have a distribution problem: Either I centralize it, in which case I have to deal with data security, authentication, and scaling, or I release it as a rails app and ask my users to go through that rigamarole of installing and running their own rails server.

Instead, with sandstorm, I package up my rails app as a sandstorm app and put it in their app store, and anyone who wants a budgeting app can easily install and run it on their own private server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_(disambiguation)
Eventually, it might be. However just because the car has better sensors doesn't mean it will react better than a human would with less information.
It's been years since I've pointed out that something doesn't work when cookies are blocked, since it's at least half of the demos I click on.

But out of curiosity, I just checked for an error message on this (blank) page:

SecurityError: The operation is insecure.
e.exports.getItem()

So... it's a local storage call, which uses the domain's cookie permissions. That makes more sense (than cookies).

Still, how can a first visit to a site require a getItem call before displaying anything at all?

Others commenters are saying this is not even a demo, but just a landing page. Wow. You might be overengineering.
Hopefully someday, though the new book will also be published by No Starch, so if you don't want to wait, I'll bet you can buy one from them (proceeds going to charity).
This is one of the things that make me hate advertising industry the most. Just count up the physical spam you get weekly, multiply by your country's population and divide by average household - and you get a good low-bound estimate of how much paper, ink and energy goes from a manufacturer straight to garbage can, with the sole side effect of pissing people off. It's ridiculous.
I still don't get it. This article was about the deletion of religious extremist accounts (i.e. terrorist recruiters). So you're saying that those on the right or left are terrorist recruiters?
The 260 million dollar figure isn't for store visitors, it's for stores + websites. From walmart.com:

> Today, nearly 260 million customers visit our more than 11,500 stores under 63 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce sites in 11 countries each week.

> According to statisticbrain[2], Wal-Mart stores (location not specified) have 100 million customers (not visits) per week.

The source you cited looks like the location they're referring to is worldwide. They cite "Total Wal-mart sales annually" and that lines up with their total global revenue, so I think it's a fair assumption that their "Total numbers of customer per week" would likewise be globally.
Regarding your side-note, I enjoy Samsara much more than Koyaanisqatsi.
New lithium-oxygen battery that may revolutionize electric car technology
I'm using bit-banging since the Alto's Ethernet is only 3 megabits/sec so the PRU (the microcontroller inside the processor chip) is fast enough. I'm pretty sure that using the MII (Media-Independent Interface, i.e. the Ethernet controller inside the PRU inside the chip) would just cause me more problems.
> I'd even go so far as to say Valve not caring is a good thing.

Ridiculous statement.

Waiting weeks for a support request is not a good thing.

Waiting weeks then getting response in russian is not a good thing.

The app being a generally slow clunky experience is not a good thing.

Piss poor preview games is not a good thing.

CS Go gambling is not a good thing.

DotA2 is not a good thing. :p

A lot of things were even worse before Origin arrived and Valve started at least a half-assed attempt to make things better.
Ask HN: Digital Nomads Who Stopped Wandering- Where Did You Settle?
Hi,

I'm interested in hearing about what cities Digital Nomads have come to consider worth settling in.

For example, what city has a good public transportation system such that it makes it unnecessary to have & pay for a car. And which of these cities has a low cost of living?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315205
Images Manipulation API for .NET – No Photoshop
ScanTailor [1] also implements automatic dewarping and is overall great for scan postprocessing.

[1] http://scantailor.org/
Distribution ray tracing is not exactly pathtracing. Proper physically correct pathtracing was formulated by James Kajiya in this paper:

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2011/course/TDA361/2007/...
Because that's a ridiculously stupid idea that defeats the very concept of taking a photo or recording a video.

That, or I am too old already.
Ask someone whose loved ones have been fatally poisoned due to government negligence in rubber-stamping an environmental impact report and I think they'd offer a feisty debate.

(Or anyone at the receiving end of military action, for that matter)

The point is that drawing a line between lobbying that affects prisons (nevermind a distinction between federal, local, and other institutions of incarceration) and lobbying that affects anything else can be a largely arbitrary affair.
Have you seen Dosage? It supports a lot of webcomics, but I don't remember how general it was. (Edit: I missed that you finished by publishing the content as an epub)

http://dosage.rocks/