skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think reading The Little Prince should be required approximately every five years from college graduation until end of life. It's far too easy to fall into a "daily grind", where one operates in a zombie-like mode executing a lot of minute tasks that are mostly devoid of any legitimate impact.
What kind are you after? There's sort of two:
1. The Philosophical OOP, brought to us by Alan Kay's mind, which probably has to be experienced through a language with sufficient OO-ness. It's always the ship on the horizon.

2. Working OOP, which you can learn in an afternoon from a handful of blog posts and/or library examples.
Pretty sure I was denied clearance because I had made pro-Snowden remarks in public.
Thanks for the information and the link. I edited my response appropriately.

As an aside, I see a lot of parallels between this particular statement and the recent discussions on plea deals:

"They may say anything to make the waterboarding stop, and could actually be physically unable to provide any cogent intelligence."

Obviously the physical issues (probably) don't apply, but the use of oversized charges could be seen as a mental torture technique when phrased that way...
A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features
> Writing a 100 page thesis is not hard work either

Except if you stubbornly decide to fully understand LaTeX in the process.
> Dishwashers only save a little time. Most dishes still have to be rinsed in the sink first or else the leftover food plugs up the machine. And then putting away dishes takes just as much time.

If this is the case your dishwasher sucks. Other than knocking big chunks (bones, cobs, etc...) into the trash there's no need to pre-rinse dishes on a competent machine.

I do agree that dishwashers don't save as much time as you would hope, but they do help. Handwashing and drying is slow.

The laundry machine is absolutely faster than beating your clothes against the washboard, but yes, it doesn't check for stains and it is still a big time sink.

Roombas suck. No argument there. Vacuuming a room is actually pretty quick, it's picking up all of the stuff first that takes forever when you have kids.
Depending on the bootcamp, or school that you attend, it might come with some industry recognition. For example, if a company has had success with hires from hack reactor[1], 42[2], or Holberton[3], then they are generally more likely to hire grads from that bootcamp. If you are simply self educated, then you don't have the references for companies to go by.

[1] http://www.hackreactor.com
[2] https://www.42.us.org
[3] https://www.holbertonschool.com
The perceived intentions of the author/utterer absolutely affect the humour value of a comment.
Well he was a patsy so pardoning him reduces the risk he will blow true story of the most successful increase in intelligence gathering capacity since WWII... So there's that. Pardon him for sure. And never doubt he's a patriot. But he doesn't believe in openness. He helped usher in a new age of secrecy. I think that's a good thing. I also think people should actually know the real.
Link goes right to 404 - Thats one heck of a new feature.
I feel violence is wrong overall, and would die to defend that conviction if a situation came to that.
Ask HN: How do I keep my skills up to date?
Even though I have over 5 years of experience in my field, I gained probably 80% of my knowledge during a brutal stretch at a startup where I worked like a dog.

I'm very proud of what I accomplished there, but I don't think I want to be in that type of environment 24/7.

Now I'm back at a regular Big Co. Inc. where there is a specialized role for everything and I have a great fear that being in this environment will make my skills be obsolete eventually.

My question is, how do I keep my skills up to date? I've always relied on external motivators (grades, work projects, work deadlines, etc.) so I don't know if I can keep up with just my own projects. Even then, the diversity of problems I solved before would have been hard to think of on my own.

My current thought is to try to get more hands on at work, but this will become harder and harder over time.

What do I do?
You can't pardon someone who hasn't been convicted of anything, or even tried. Why are so many hackers unwilling to learn the basics of civics? The governmental system we have sucks, but if you're going to petition for people to act within that framework then the least you could do is develop a basic working knowledge of it first. It is neither legally possible nor politically feasible for President Obama to pardon Snowden. To attempt to do so pre-emptively would be grounds for impeachment.

Cripes, I'm not even American and I'm getting really tired of explaining legal & civic fundamentals to Americans who didn't pay any attention to the topic in school. Are so many of you really so dense that your critical thinking skills can be suspended by presenting you with a pretty landing page? Wake the fuck up.
Also you've missed a "him"
Critiques can also be sincere, careful, and nuanced. Language like that permits one to dismiss an adversary without considering the critique.
Does this change mean YCombinator is going to invest in primarily mature startups?

It feels like the research and mooc will boost early stage startups to eventually apply to the YC core program. Is that the goal?
Heh, I knew this pattern had emerged elsewhere but I was struggling to place my finger on it. Subsidized drugs are perfect analogs here purely because of profit potential. Subsidized food I don't think is as directly comparable for a variety of market reasons, but subsidized drugs are a harbinger of what's to come with Point.
The Greatest Sales Deck I've Ever Seen
Agreed, after the Great Recession state funding to universities (and K-12, colleges) dropped dramatically. Arizona leads the way with almost a -50% drop in funding, of course tuition goes up by almost 90% [1]. The article has this data from 2000-2014 but most of the damage was 2008-present.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/13/pf/college/public-university...
That makes no sense. Declaring that there are "Tesla fanboys" is not proof of their existence. Sure, I'll grant you they do exist, but they exist for a lot of different companies/products and are usually a much tinier base of people than the speaker believes, and almost certainly when someone accuses someone else of being a "fanboy" they're wrong and are just using that to try and discredit the other speaker instead of addressing their points.

In this particular case, the author didn't even cite any behavior that indicates being a fanboy, they're just claiming that anyone who points out that Tesla's car has more luxury options, can upgrade to the autopilot, has access to the supercharger network, has brand cachet, and will be more profitable at scale is a fanboy. All of these are legitimate things to say about Tesla and do not require some sort of blind devotion to Tesla in order to point out.
Concepts are something minds create to make sense of the world. Correct manipulation as judged by standard is also a mental judgement. The rules of Go are rules because human beings defined them. That there is a context for valid board states is because we created a game that had a context.
If my child regularly sustained serious injuries at home, Child Protective Services would eventually stop accepting my failure to supervise her as an excuse. Schools should not be allowed to get away with it.

This problem can be solved. The trouble is that it probably requires money, which taxpayers really hate to provide.
Fate of your country at risk. And you ask where is the risk for you. What's in it for you. That cowardice is a disease of Western culture these days. Ask not...
> As an US citizen, I no longer salute that piece of cloth or sing the national anthem at sports games. I don't even bother standing for it and encourage others to do the same to show our distaste for how our own government treats us.

The fact that you can do this and face no consequences says something about our freedoms though. At the very least we have a foundation that is worth taking the effort to improve.
> but that doesn't mean they want to be better than everyone else.

I never said that they did.
I'd love to be able to buy call options on houses in area you're planning on moving to in the future. Maybe someday their mode could support that too?

I don't currently know of any way to lock in current prices for a future purchase.
The previous poster was correct - it depends on what sort of things will make you, personally, feel free.

I wound up in Norway, and find a certain freedom here. I don't mind the taxes and such, and I rather enjoy the general equality in opportunity sort of thing. I'm no longer worried that blue hair makes me un-hireable (though it might make it harder to find work). But other Americans here simply hate it and can't wait to wind up going back to the states.

The best bet is if you have some choices in the matter - and know it - join some groups with other americans living there and talk to them about their experiences there.
I'm sorry that it was unreadable. I thought the double space thingy was the way to quote things here. I guess it's for code.
Over 6M ClixSense Accounts Hacked, 2.2M Leaked Online
"It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you are not." Andrew Gide "People think it is holding on that makes you stronger, but sometimes it's letting go." Herman Hesse "Action expresses priorities." Gandhi
Anyone in NYC looking for a CTO?
https://coshx-consultations-nyc.eventbrite.com
GraphQL: Leaving technical preview
It depends on how you look at it. There has been a decrease in funding per student.
Watch the Frontline special "The US of Secrets," to find out what happens to those who complained loudly enough.
Seems like the author has a motivation to push this kind of storyline, that startups are sexy for scientists. Yet another early-stage fund with tons of investments and none that are notable successes (yet).
It's worth asking what drove the states to cut aid. Some states have certainly had lower tax revenues than expected. But some states (probably) felt safe moving the funding problem onto loans and/or sources such as lottery proceeds.
Note, especially, that they aren't recreating their toolchain, tweaking the character design, or trying out new ways of making the show every six days: they've got all that settled, or change it between seasons.
Rogue wave – Wikipedia
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496398 and marked it off-topic.
I read 194-209. I think their approach is fantastic, and it's rare to see such careful thought on this subject. However... nothing struck me as being incompatible with an information IO model?
I piled on along wfn's recommendation of the book here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7267811

The story (https://qntm.org/responsibility) was really fun, and there were good comments too. It's certainly one of my favorite HN posts.

Re: OQ, I don't have a single favorite, but I like whenever the hivemind hashes out what's going on with a big tech issue, like Facebook's post denying complicity in NSA spying.
Brakeman Pro Engine Is Here
Door labels in brail are useless. Just close your eyes and try it yourself. And even with brail it should cost under $40

Blind (or otherwise disabled) people should have an assistant to help them around.

Some MOOCs are already brail reader friendly. And online education in general has very little barriers.
This is an impressive list of changes. I'm definitely going to be using GitHub Projects, Code Review, and I'm tentatively interested in the community forums.
Because of the asymmetry in laboral relationships.

If you have a rare, valuable skill, employers will be willing to pay handsomely for your time, but they will demand a lot of your time. IF you are good enough, they will be even willing to pay you premium to have you not use your skills for anyone else. The caveat is that these arrangements are, more often than not, non-negotiable. It is an all or nothing proposition.

On the other hand, if your skills are commodity, potential employers will be happy to hire you part time (so they do not have to give you any benefits). However, your wage will be so low that, more often than not, you'll want to juggle two or more part-time jobs so you can earn a reasonable compensation that actually pays for your living expenses.
The author made a mistake by linking to the embargoed URL that news writers can read, not the actual URL for plebs like us.

The article is at http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/9/e011329 .
> The online MOOCs aren't going to introduce braille.

No, but they can (and do) add accessibility features.
> The online MOOCs aren't going to introduce braille.

In general, putting content online makes learning more accessible. As a specific example, Khan Academy has done important work developing tools in this area: http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/tota11y.htm.

I see where you're coming from - many "dispuptive" services have (shamefully, in my opinion) resisted making their services accessible, but I don't think MOOCs really fall into that class.
In New York City, "Wash and Fold" is incredibly common. Most places will even pick up/drop off from where you live.
What fancy dorms? You'd pay like $200/month or less for such a place in most cities...
I actually have a lot of trouble finding cheap houses near annoyances. Sellers just don't seem to care.

I looked at a house 20 feet from a busy train track and no discount from identical houses a block away.

Another one by some kind of firehouse air raid siren and again no discount.
I think you're being ridiculous. This is being run through the ACLU, which has over 500,000 members.

I just signed and donated $50.
He's trying to measure himself against the average single person his age. Of course, more realistically according to the Bay Area metric, he is below the household poverty line.
I actually like how it looks. It looks like a plain regular compact hatchback. I hate how manufacturers feel the need to design all EV cars with black shiny plastic trims all over the place, weird lights and a hatch door that is ugly and non functional.

I don't feel the need for my car to scream "Look! A'm electric car! And you people are all ICEhole."
but the use-case for these is not a static import (that is possible already), but a dynamic one, such as:

await import(`${config.providerType}.js`);

and this can't be resolved at tokenization phase (and brute-forcing it with speculative/symbolic execution would be too much of a hack IMHO).
EU faces 'existential crisis'
> it destroys jobs

The bedrock of corporate profit is consumer demand.

We're in a vicious cycle where people are unemployed/underemployed -> consumer demand is depressed (because they have no money) -> companies don't hire (because nobody will buy their goods) -> people are unemployed

You have to break the cycle by first propping up consumer demand, and the most direct way to that is by giving consumers money to spend.
LinkNYC Turning Off Web Access to Curb Squatting
What If Urban Sprawl Is the Only Realistic Way to Create Affordable Cities?
For all you coffee drinkers: Espresso was discussed thoroughly yesterday; here is the HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12489523 for a Food Biophysics Paper on Espresso Crema (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140933/). Stay caffeinated!
"Please, can I keep at least one of my darlings?"
I've yet to find a reit that simply holds property (or holds and rents)

They all seem to have leveraged loans that make them sensitive to interest rates.
No. Design patterns are just idioms, ways of accomplishing something. They aren't enshrined in any way by OO.

As for the idea of a set of common patterns that can be reused in a variety of situations, yes, that's a natural consequence of OO. But that's a natural consequence of any paradigm. OO's just had better marketing and GoF gave them a name.
Well if you have no interest in remaining and academia and you only compare it to becoming a professor, anything would be better, right?
The web development consulting agency I work for has been hiring a good number of individuals who have been trained for development at a bootcamp. The demand for developers exceeds the supply and companies are willing to take on the burden of training.
No, the difference is there because kids are different from adults. Their brains are different, their level of responsibility is different, they are different kinds of people.

Humans are naturally physical animals. Get some toddlers together, and (in addition to lots of other nice behavior like sharing and talking), they will push, grab, hit, etc. each other. We're primates and we do primate-y things.

As we get older, we learn the mores of our culture and learn to not physically interact with people in this way, but that process takes a lot of time. Kids haven't completed it yet (some adults never do). In the meantime, we have to provide an environment that handles the fact that they are behaviorally different from respectable, trustworthy adults.

Above, you say "We create these Lord of the Flies type situations for children", but the whole point of Lord of the Flies is that savagery is how children naturally act when taken outside of the strictures of society.

A Lord of Flies situation doesn't have to be manufactured by adults—it's what you get if you don't work hard to prevent it.
You are giving them too much credit, we live in a system of rules (loosely speaking) and it is these rules which have the power. In fact "elites" are probably more frustrated by them than the average citizen because they stumble onto them more quickly.

Who is too blame for advertising to children directly? Is it a few people? Probably not, in fact it brings in a lot of talented people, of whom each may in fact have a negative opinion of advertising to children when asked.

If you are talking about giant corps that can influence rule(s), then ok, but these are not individuals but are the stakeholders and can be large swaths of people.
There is no such thing as "de-evolution".
Hey, thanks for the read theory.org link. That's a handy site!
Prior work and why I love StarCraft as a testbed for AI described here:

http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~cdavid/starcraftaicomp/report...

The two papers in RTS techniques sections are a must read for an idea of what problems it poses along with results of prior attempts. The ability of human pro's to detect AI patterns and defeat them with bluffs is pretty consistent. StarCraft, like Poker, involves lots of psychological analyses and ploys.

Even if Google or Facebook make one, I still think of humans as superior until it can learn how to beat them with mere dozens to hundreds of games rather than what was fed into AlphaGo. That wasn't human equivalent or superior so much as approximating the results of nearly all human activity in the space then focusing it against one human. You could call it superhuman but it required tons of activity by brilliant humans. Brilliant humans require little with the champions a lot less than the automated techniques. Lots of self-discovery with limited data. I want to see the AI's pull that off plus keep it going when encountering humans with innovative, never-before-seen strategies. That's when I'll give them credit as useful on barely-defined problems with curveballs like humans.
It is bound to all interfaces as of the current commit: https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html/blob/7c002fdc...
Generally the sanest default for that value is 127.0.0.1 and changeable via a cli option.
It sounds like you'd enjoy this Food Biophysics paper on Espresso Crema - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140933/

Related HN Submission with comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12489523
Thanks!

So I think my objection to this narrative is clearer if we put it back into context.

What we're really debating is whether someone like Snowden had the means to appropriately handle the issues he discovered through official channels. The narrative on places like HN is that by raising issues and escalating them, perhaps beyond NSA, and NSA's IG, all the way to Senate Intelligence, someone like Snowden would face retaliation.

Here, I think, I have two points to raise:

* First, if by retaliation we mean "termination", it's hard to fit that into the actual Snowden story. Snowden took the Booz job in the first place in order to gain access to this information and route it to the people he thought needed it. His only reason to be there was to do the thing we're saying he'd get fired for. That's not a real deterrent.

* Second, if we look at actual prosecutions --- or even FBI investigations, like what happened to Binney and Roark --- they're tied up with news leaks. It's hard, I think, to find a case of an NSA whistleblower who faced law enforcement retaliation for escalating concerns to the NSA IG or Senate committees. Where you see the DOJ go ape-shit is when NSA secrets wind up on the front page of the New York Times. Indeed, that's what happened to Roark and Binney and Loomis! They got caught up in an investigation into an NYT story that was launched at the (direct!) behest of George Bush.
The GitHub GraphQL API
Sounds like a good way to hedge against declines in your overvalued property without having to move.

"If you don't sell, you can buy back Point’s stake at any time during the term at the then current appraised property value."
I refer to this one as DarkShikari's law: "Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012082

It explains the death of so many communities, and also sorta works for 4chan, despite the perpetual state of undeath that 4chan is in.
>The only mechanism I can think of by which google might even approach this is by creating evil AI

If you control people's access to information, you control people's minds, albeit indirectly. Its a simple philosophy that has kinda-sorta worked in China. You can get large scale approval from the public for pretty horrendous things like the US has done, simply by controlling what gets seen on cable news/mainstream media, etc. If Google is the gatekeeper of all information (so far it isn't), and they're ultimately controlled by the NSA or CIA, then we're screwed. So how many people has the US killed? How many of those wars could have been avoided if the public weren't fed lies?
Uh dropping the Hours for full time work. The DOL made the time and a half for work over 40 hrs per week to increase labor demand. Imagine a world where it's 6 hrs per day or 30 per week. More people would be employed. And since those hours are paid piece wise no ones hourly wage would decrease. That's how the labor force could increase.