skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I skipped the 9th grade. My parents had the option of sending me from 8th directly into college but decided to only skip 9th because they felt I needed to mature socially.

In a way I resent them for it because am not satisfied with where I am in my life (figure I could have been much farther along by now in career/academia), even though I should be satisfied. On the other hand, I know they did what they thought was best....either way, I'm still socially a mess inside although I appear pretty charismatic when I try.

I guess I could have been a disaster without those high school formative years....it's up to me now at 37, I suppose.
Guile is my second favorite scheme (after chicken). It's semi-R6RS, but still feels nice, and still feels scheme-y. It's nicely practical, and it's one of the rare Scheme implementations to support pthreads. Also, it has a lot of good libraries (behind Racket and Chicken, but better than many schemes), and an FFI that's actually pretty nice, but encourages writing a wrapper around the library that's more than paper-thin. It also embeds well, with it and Chibi being pretty much the only game in town on Scheme embedding.

I love it, just not as much as I love Chicken.
This article is largely on point, but I get the feeling they are playing games with Tuition v. Total cost. At my state university Tuition is separate from dorm costs, so fancy dorms effect loan amounts but not "tuition".
It honestly depends on who you ask. A lot of people think consciousness is inherently unsolvable by normal science (Chalmers' "hard problem of consciousness"), but there are plenty (Dennett etc.) who will deny that such a hard problem exists, and make reasonable arguments that the scientific method can make headway in reductively explaining consciousness.
The cynic in me is happy Snowden is in Russia and not in Yemen, Obama would probably just sanction a drone strike and take him out otherwise. Fortunately for Snowden, not all collateral damage is create (with) equal (access to a nuclear arsenal).
That's an excellent point. When people tell you that you should comply with a mugger, that's because there's a serious threat of being killed, and compliance offers the best chance of surviving the encounter.
> community college

Community colleges are not representative of bigger colleges. They aren't supported as much (as you say), and tuition is drastically cheaper.
State funding decreases (or lack of necessary increases) are easy for legislators to justify, because the students can just get loans.

This was pretty obvious over the past 10 years in the University of California system -- every time state funding was cut or tuition was raised, the availability of financial aid, including loans, was used to defend the decision.
It simply sounds really hard to do it right. In the short term, it would be really easy to resolve disputes by just taking the IP, but that could lead to long term troubles as people drop out of the market. Disagreements between the best short term and long term strategies sound like a recipe for trouble. I'd bet it could work in theory, but I doubt we could get it right.
Joint proposal developed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Adobe with contributions from font tool makers.
The review stuff is semi similar to what I requested GitLab do and I'm surprised it's taken so long for anyone to really do it. It's a great workflow. I'm still not convinced about keeping all of your project's management in the version control system (I mean I prefer issues in there but the rest seems...wrong to me for whatever biased reason I have).

Overall looks good! When does Enterprise get these features? :)
Uber riders in Pittsburgh can hail self-driving Ford Fusions in test program
> I've been meaning to do an analysis of inflation based on hours worked. It;s hard to redefine hours but I'm sure politicians will find a way!

The cynic in me says that they simply record fractional portions of FTE and FTE takes on different values over time and across industries.
You're assuming that the only thing that will happen is expulsion. Fighting back -- especially if you do what GGP did and land "on the order of 40 blows to the kid's face" -- is very likely to result in the police being called and you being hit with criminal charges, and past the age of 14 or so will get you tried as an adult. On top of that, well, 40 blows to someone's face is going to do some real damage resulting in medical bills, and that kid's parents are going to sue your parents for the damages.

So imagine you're a parent. Your son fights back and beats an alleged bully into the hospital in front of witnesses, including teachers. Your son is expelled, the police took him into custody and charged him with felony assault, and the alleged bully's parents have filed a lawsuit against you and your spouse personally for thousands of dollars in medical expenses plus punitive damages for pain and suffering.

So now you're going to have to shell out money to bail your son out, you're going to have to hire a criminal defense attorney to try and keep your son out of state penitentiary, and you're going to have to hire a civil defense attorney to defend against the alleged bully's lawsuit. Oh, and the economy isn't going so great either. Remember that you can only get a court-appointed criminal attorney if you're absolutely indigent, and there's no such thing as a court-appointed civil attorney because the constitutional right to an attorney only applies to criminal cases.

Unless you are filthy rich, you are not going to be able to afford to sue the school. Even if you were rich enough to sue the school while defending yourself on multiple fronts, you don't have much of a case. There will be multiple witnesses, including teachers, to the fact that your son beat the shit out of another student, but no witnesses to the other kid bullying your son. Bullies are smarter than you think: most of them know to only bully people when nobody's watching. That's how they get away with it.

The best-case scenario is that your son accepts a plea bargain for misdemeanor assault, serving probation and community service, and you settle with the other kid's lawyers for somewhat less than they're asking but still enough to cover the other kid's hospital bills. You sell the house to pay for the lawyers and the settlement, you move into a tiny apartment in a dangerous neighborhood, and maybe if your son is really lucky, you'll have just enough money left over that he can get his GED. College won't happen, and he'll be lucky to get even a low-level retail job until he finishes his probation and the conviction is expunged.

Yeah, it sucks, but that's how the world works.
Are there any API-first services out there?
Not happy with only your ISP and government knowing where you're going online? Install DNSCrypt and add some more third parties to the mix.

[edit] From DNSCrypt's own front page:

Please note that DNSCrypt is not a replacement for a VPN, as it only authenticates DNS traffic, and doesn't prevent "DNS leaks", or third-party DNS resolvers from logging your activity. The TLS protocol, as used in HTTPS and HTTP2, also leaks leaks websites host names in plain text, rendering DNSCrypt useless as a way to hide this information.
Lots of comments here about the information he leaked from the CIA and zilch about race. This article isn't about the CIA; it's about racism in America.
Wonder how services like Waffle will react to this
Not a general strategy - "I told him that if anyone ever hits him, pushes him or punches him again he has my permission to hit back commensurately"

I wish I'd had someome tell me this when I was in grade school. I was ready to go when I was eight, nine years old, but had already learned "That's not acceptable behavior" and didn't fight back. Years and a lot of counseling later, I had some self esteem again.
Vim? Really? Does vim implement the original vi's lisp mode?

I hope it does. The original vi's lisp mode is something I have only seen traditional vi implement thus far, and it's pretty nice.
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We're glad you like them! Don't hesitate to reach out to us via our Support team - as well as via the Community Forum - as you tinker with them a bit more. This is the first of many features we'll be making on both those items, and we appreciate any feedback you can provide.
I think the lack of guile 2.0 support was mentioned as one of the main blockers behind full MusicXML import/export support - this was a couple of years ago though, not sure if that's still true.
That's exactly the scenario that would happen in a libertopia most libertarians describe - minimal government.

It's an incentive for other actors to try to imitate the role of government through other means.

Actually, not just Somalia - Africa is ripe with examples of these.
Pardoning Snowden implies he did something in violation of US law. If a pardon is a moral judgement at all, it is a judgement that what was done was not wrong.
Well Monsanto is one of the companies that produced the chemical weapon Agent Orange, causing birth defects and death in Vietnam to this day, and the last time Bayer, a producer of poison gas in WWI, had a merger, the result was IG Farben, producer of Zyklon B. So what could go wrong?
Is this the death of Trello?
What is the scheme equivent of ANSI C or Common Lisp?

By that I mean what is the default/main/vanilla scheme?
DOM is specified in HTML.
Wagon will be shutting down on October 3rd
Universities do it more softly. They don't lay off tenured faculty, but they do fill more open positions with adjuncts and grad students rather than tenure-track professors.
How to Build Products for the Next Billion
Ask HN: Why all the software labeled as “robots” now?
Am I missing something, or is software with a web-based questionnaire interface not a "robot?"

Is this the latest fundraising and media hype device?
I used to love South Park. Now I can barely stand it. Am I getting too old? I rewatch old episodes with pleasure though. It's the new episodes that make me cringe. It used to be about fart jokes and silliness. Now it's all political crap.
No they are not - you don't need braille on the internet. Their biggest expense would be to subtitle all their videos, but that is going to be a one-time fixed cost, and help them with ESL students too.
I know. Notice my complaint was about the lack of verification or other genuine need of the information. Not about the request for personal information itself. If they made legitimate use of it (and ONLY legitimate use), I would understand. However, the ones I have tried do not seem to verify anything, and instead use your contact info as a way to send you campaign materials and advertise to you in the future. That's the part that rubs me the wrong way - it feels like a scam designed to get your personal information. And in this age of identity theft, I really have little incentive to risk it.
We've helped put huge E Ink screens on the back of a truck for live ads
Some nice improvements here. It appears, though, that Projects suffer from the same problem we've had with Issues: they are limited to one repo.

I know there are some tools to manage Issues across repos, but for the most part, the tools seem to assume you work on only one repo, or that milestones only affect a single repo.

I would love to see projects/milestones become more capable when dealing with cross-repo issues.
> There are a lot of people (mostly in NA, it seems) who reflexively call every hatch ugly.

Not NA, more like US. Canadians do like hatchbacks.
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Beats 1 is fantastic. I listen to Zane Lowe's show everyday. It's a pretty diverse mix of music so even if I don't like everything I always discover some new stuff I never would have otherwise. I listen to Josh Homme, Elton John, and deadmau5 on demand. Matt Wilkinson is also quite good. The key feature for me is that I can easily add the tracks to my library while listening. That makes it a great discovery tool as paired with the 'recently added' view in iTunes I end up listening to the tracks a lot for a week or two and dig into the artists more in my own time.
100%, and we have seen it in other areas. Remember the housing bubble caused by anyone and everyone being able to get loans for insane amounts of money that could never be paid back? Same thing.

When lots of money is loaned out with artificially low rates (because they are not able to be discharged and are backed by the gov.) this is exactly what happens.
Is “make a pretty generic RISC processor and license it” really “disruption”? ARM didn't do anything especially novel, they did one thing really well. They read the Berkley SPARC papers and made a simple CPU. It's the same thing as MIPS, i960, and Am29k. The difference being ARM's Acorn computer was rather unsuccessful so they licensed the ARM IP instead.

They were very much in a race with MIPS, Intel, and AMD. They won by doing the same thing everyone else did, but by doing it quite well.

Silicon Valley terminology is getting stupider by the day.
My personal experience directly contradicts this.

We were in the waiting area before seeing the principal about an earlier push+shove in class. He kept going on and on about how after school was over, he was gonna fuck me up, etc, etc.

I "snapped," I lost my shit and stood up and started wailing on him. Or I would have liked to, but my first few punches were wild and didn't touch him, and he was up before I knew it and suddenly I was on the ground with part of glasses frames stuck in my face. And then he kicked me a couple times before one of the secretary's pulled him away from me.

We were both suspended, and when we got back, he hunted me down and started threatening me with a tree branch. Thankfully I had friends around, and one of them punched him. That stopped him.

So fuck your "all you need to do is retaliate". What I needed was several months of fight training??? A body I knew how to control???
Generally, anytime the federal government aims the money fire hose at something the price goes up. You remove the cost of a thing from the thing and demand naturally increases.

See it everywhere from student loans to housing to health insurance. When people don't feel the cost of something, they have no reason to say no to a price increase.
Just to be clear, the parent of my comment is absolutely not true. You are told the adult equivalent of "just ignore them" when faced with a mugging (do what they say, give them what they want, your wallet isn't worth your life).

Furthermore, in most states, you do not have a legal "right" to stand your ground when attacked, you are expected to retreat if possible, and there are very frequently countersuits on the behalf of the assailant that are successful in civil courts, not to mention the criminal charges that may stem from "defending yourself" against an assailant, especially depending on how much damage you do.

It's alarming to me the number of people in this comment section who believe violence will solve a problem for children or adults. It's also alarming this "if adults were in situations like children are" analogy is getting so much attention. Kids are not adults, they lack the cognitive capacity to reason as adults, and need safe places to learn how to be humans. We're casually throwing away hundreds of years of experimental results and academic consensus on childhood because our two-minute reasoning is superior.

Come on, HN, we can do better.
The difference between the idea (fire the drivers) and the execution (develop decades' worth of cutting-edge AI which kills people if it fails) is huge, though. You don't expect your usual fancy-app startup to develop this kind of technology.
Slacker Radio has this. It is pretty good.
This Company Claims to Have Invented a Revolutionary Holodeck
This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post:

1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services.

2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows

3. reviews can be made mandatory.

4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap

5. a graphql api to query their database

6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one)

7. summarized timeline for your contibutions

Just a few days back, at the GitLab release, I'd noticed a lot of complains about gitlab releasing useful and impactful features and github being slow on releases. Moreover, now with a public roadmap (even if it is just for platforms), it is a great start.

I'm really liking this change in pace.

mods: Can we make this the canonical discussion for this topic? Otherwise, a lot of branching will happen
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated "Ads based on your interest". Notice no where in there does it say that these interests are based on your emails.

Gmail does a lot of stuff that requires email parsing:
* Spam filtering
* Search indexing
* Applying rule based filters
* Priority Inbox
* Picking up automated emails corresponding to receipts, flights, or calendar appointments and making them available to search or see in Google Now.
* To train the Smart Reply feature

One primary reason Apple doesn't do this is that Apple doesn't have a cloud based email service. They are forced to do everything on device. I have about 10Gb of email in my work account and 16Gb of email in my personal account. Do I want to sync 26Gb of email to my phone, tablet, and desktop, all so that they can do purely local indexing, filtering, and other smart AI based features? If I'm a user in a developing country on a 2G or 3G network, do I want this to all happen locally, or in the cloud?

There are tradeoffs in all scenarios, and the theorized nasty things from all of the speculated profiling going on don't seem to be very apparent. And if all of these profiling is going on, then why is what Google thinks I'm interested in so often wrong? Perhaps there's a disconnect between what people imagine Google "could be doing" and what they're actually doing.
GitHub Announces New Features for Workflow Management
The improvements to code reviews are really exciting. Having comments submit all at once instead of one at a time is a great UX change, I've definitely gotten sidetracked mid-review because somebody started responding to my initial comments when I'm neck deep. Comment threading is super useful for discussion-heavy comments like code review, and an in-UI approve/request changes is great.
We're also discussing a cop who failed to 'err on the side of self-preservation', which is an obviously relevant detail. The officer was facing a man who was emotionally unstable and had a gun. The cop certainly did the morally correct thing, but it was also logically stupid. Again, it's necessary to think in the aggregate about encounters with armed opponents. It's a logical misstep to treat this incident in isolation.
I didn't like the characters of Undertale, but I loved the main plotline. It's disturbing that Toby Fox loves to mention the characters and humor but not the 'plot' (basically, the game mechanics of multiple endings and the final ending, vaguely written to not be a spoiler).

And it's quite sad that Toby was so so so so disturbed by his 'duty' to protect the people who haven't played from spoilers and such--it seemed like it really has consumed him so much (just look at all the things he's done, in social media and inside the game files). In one way I can say that he's dedicated but on the other hand it seems too self destructive to say that it's a good thing.
And still no HTTPS for github pages with custom domains...
For me South Park was cool because it was offensive and taboo but it still felt like you were watching something that was smart. It was an adult show aimed at kids and its audience was kids. I don't think its audience is still kids so I doubt one could call it traditionally cool anymore. I don't think anyone I know would keep watching southpark if not for the love of certain characters (Randy, Butters). I feel like the show now just panders to its audience in order to remain relevant these days.
Lots of non-devs use Trello.

Trello also has lot of features this does not, but I can see GH users using Trello jumping to this, like me.
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Errr, what about "semi-presidential" systems like France's Fifth Republic? Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-presidential_system the difference is to whom the cabinet is responsible, i.e. who can fire them.

Other examples where I'm pretty sure "it works" would include the Republic of China (Taiwan) and maybe Portugal?

From the list of fully presidential with a prime minister (see link below), South Korea seems to have been making it work for a long time now, and, yes, I remember Park Chung-hee et. al. ... ah, and I see his first born daughter is now President, but obtained that by normal means, yes? Hasn't their Sixth Republic has been stable since 1987?

For fully presidential, while I'd be hesitant to say Argentina entirely "works", their system of government has been in place since after the Falklands, right? I would tentatively add to the list from vague memory Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the Philippines from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_system#Republics_...

Although few of these systems have been in existence for that many decades (but see my other comment, I believe the same as of Hoover/FDR), and you could legitimately claim e.g. Mexico prior to the PRI allowing itself to lose wasn't really one, but I'm not sure it's quite that dire.
Is the cost related to regulatory compliance, or are they just being taken for a ride or failing to control costs? A brief search turns up ADA-compliant bathroom signs for under $20 each. It certainly doesn't seem like the sort of thing that should cost a ton.
The Entire History of Kickstarter Projects, Broken Down by City
Would you like to be specific about the damage?
Agreed, awful clickbait.
The fact that Colorado cut per student spending by $7.8k and tuition went up by $7.7k is pretty convincing. Complex economic models that make unsupported assumptions about the cause and effect of increased availability of loans, much less so.
This is an important part of the new integrations early access program: https://developer.github.com/changes/2016-09-14-Integrations...