skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what do you get from fixing the world?

An abundance of profound happiness which, for now, unfortunately remains too invisible for too many people. But I have a feeling that this is about to begin to change now.
In one school of non-fiction speed reading, you are advised to reverse-engineer the "schema" (book proposal that was funded by the editor) of a book, without reading the book. This can be done by reading the conclusions of each chapter in the book, starting at the end and working backwards. There are also commercial services which offer book summaries.

Once you have the book schema in hand, you then diff against your prior knowledge to determine a topology of value relative to your goals (which of course vary with time). Then you perform a non-linear reading of the parts of the book which are sufficiently new/relevant for your goals. You can always return to a different part of the book later, if your goals change and you recall the schema.

This also applies to other media, e.g. video, which can be accessed via non-linear hypertext index. What we are missing is a commercial market for metadata to faciliate non-linear learning, dynamically mapped to ever-changing user goals by navigational interfaces.
True, as far as it goes, but it tells us literally next to nothing about what a mind is and how it works. Unless the analogy is more specific than this, it does not advance our understanding much.
For the managers reading this thread: just because some people can stand the noise and the distractions shouldn't mean it's safe to opt for a henhouse floorplan. There is a significant number of people (probably even more so in software development) whose noise filtering is broken on a hardware level. They CANNOT learn to filter better.

If you have a noisy environment, you probably shouldn't hire people with ASD/AD(H)D for example.
It's too bad that people were willing to ostracize Brendan Eich for not being a cookie-cutter silly-valley progressive.

Oculus is facing that now. It's the new mccarthyism.
True.
But I've heard this before by European providers avoiding US-based certificates.
That doesn't make it any better, but this is a persistent myth, not limited to chinese customers.
Yes, I scrolled until the end only to find out its only available in app form. I wanted to play around with it, but this made me give up. I'm not going to install an app (worse: I'll have to free some space on my phone to do it) just to play around with it for one minute and uninstall it (to get back that storage space).
German push to ban combustion-engine cars by 2030 wins support
The footnote says:

this presentation was prepared before the Krebs On Security DDoS attacks which had a different profile and did not use Spoofed IP addresses. Krebs's DDoS attacks launched by internet-of-things devices were unusually large. Most of the non-spoofed attacks were way smaller. This does not invalidate this talk. Non-spoofed attacks are easier to block - since the source addresses are known. It is also possible to fight and eventually destroy the botnets. This is much harder when the IP's are spoofed.
ignoring the UFO aspect of this, maybe this tech would help a 12 mile long tether from breaking as the 1996 nasa version did...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUEFcSesD-w
I like Bernie, but he had absolutely no chance of winning the primary. In the few states that he won, he only won because of how the primaries were structured. The democrats never took him seriously.
Exactly! I can work all day long in coffee shop, but an open space is pure torture to me.
>...Should we come up with a new one?

To me, the history of mind analogies, and of how they tend to be reflections of the then-current technology, suggests that making analogies is not particularly useful (and perhaps harmful, if doing so leads us to over-estimate our level of understanding.)
He may be right, but as an employer, your aim won't be to make all your programmers famous. The work better done behind closed doors is probably at least as important as that of the visionary with open doors: putting out fires, fixing bugs, meeting deadlines. As an employee, you'll surely want the "open door" work ...
There are a lot of reasons to criticize Wosign. Lack of English skills isn't one of them.

I didn't realize this until I first visited China, but there are parts of the world where it's really hard to find people fluent in English. If you require people to be fluent in English in order to participate in running the Internet you're locking a large number of world regions out.
200M is probably including a lot of research. I expect a duplication of this place to be much cheaper.
If you're familiar with the DNC leaks I have no idea how you could claim equivalence in good faith.
> what bunch of high school students wouldn't want an IT class that taught compiler design

The majority of high school students can hardly wrap their brains around the AP curriculum (probably for lack of time or effort, rather than ability). There are some that are honestly, actually interested in computer science and are thus capable of stuff like that... but they are low in number.

What might be able to work is a fully-fledged web design course, using modern standards instead of boring stuff from ten years ago. With HTML, CSS, and finally JS (probably React, then Node). Maybe even SQL. With knowledge like that, you have more than enough of a base upon which to stand. You could likely even get a job.

> Even Python is more fun than spreadsheets, right?

Spreadsheets are easy computation for a wide audience, with a little learning curve. What can Python do, out of the box? What could you convince a high school kid to program with it that isn't a derivative of "10 PRINT HELLO WORLD; 20 GOTO 10;" ?
I like your project, thanks for open sourcing it! I may use it soon, because it's something I've needed :)
His name is Pitman. Kent Pitman.

> Many of the same people were involved in the standardization effort, and the creation of both.

I doubt that this is the case for R7RS.

> The thing is, the Scheme community may not be able to share code directly, but we are able to, and often do, share ideas.

That's my point. There are few ideas shared and no code. Today the various spinoffs of Lisp have their own communities. I don't say that it is bad or good, it's just the way it is. That's not only the fate of a programming language family, it also happens in other areas, that domains are divided into groups which have problems to understand each other and which are not able to track or use the work of other groups. The groups have different preferences and their topic gets an independent life.
I bet Kawa Scheme performs well in that regard.
> Really? Unless in the middle of the document you decide to make some change in notation...

You mean like renaming a variable from c to d? The proper things to do here is define an alias for any variables you use a lot.
It's hardly the new McCarthyism when there's no government force that leads the charge against private citizens, driving them to be unable to find any work in their field in the US.

The public deciding that it doesn't want to support someone is an entirely different phenomenon. The public can still be wrong, of course, but there's no need to conflate the two situations.
Maybe elaborate on what you mean? The single acronym in your reply doesn't actually expound a point of view.
Learn. You only need a handful of people to read the language in which 99% of all scientific publications are written in.

Reading knowledge of a language can be gotten fairly quickly.
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My university's Engineering Science department runs a competition each year for high school students along the same lines -- mathematical modelling of an open-ended question.

I also found it very valuable; it was one of the factors that pushed me over the line into studying STEM at university (I was a better English and economics student in school).
I am of Portuguese descent (and learned recently I can't become citizen because my Portuguese grandpa died when my father was a child :/)

I have two first names, two last names, and filho (means "son"). I have yet to find any system that understand my name properly, even in Brazil where I had official documents with my name butchered in one way or another. (Nevermindt people assuming the last name was literal last name and insisting in calling me Mr. Filho, something that doesn't make sense)
by the same people?

EDIT: NM, yes.... by the same
Sure but it didn't get them very far
I'm capable of reading and writing a number of languages, but I'm not proficient at it. This also means that I probably have the writing level of a lower grade school child in those languages, and if I was to try and speak, I'd sound like I was mentally disabled since my vocabulary and general knowledge of the language is lacking.

Japanese is one. I've many times read comments written in Japanese in the Ruby language source code and understood their meaning, but there is absolutely zero ability for me to visit that country and be able to interact with anyone.

The author of this incident report is leagues more capable than I am in writing a report in a foreign language. They didn't insult my mother, or my dog, or call me names by accident. I don't see the justification in insulting their English.
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This is why I stopped playing. I took a break for a week or two and they'd completely broken my steam controller.
You can also get some good stats by lighting some random fires yourself and record who comes in to either put them out, or fan the flames.
Beautiful, yes, but I'm a form follows function guy, and at least from looking at their screenshots of the Chicago Loop, I'm left thinking their version of the map is quite a bit less useful than the (admittedly unsightly and cluttered) official one[1].

Some things that are iffy or missing from a functional perspective:

• Any indication that the red and blue line stations are connected by tunnels at Lake/Washington and Jackson.

• For that matter, the fact that the Jackson blue line station exists in the first place - it's obscured by the B in the street label for Jackson Boulevard. Same goes for the LaSalle blue line and State red line stations, and the Washington blue line station is also iffy. That's over 1/4 of the stations in the map's area hidden under
street labels.

• Which stations have elevators? Most of the ones downtown don't.

• Which directions are the trains traveling in? With the exception of the green line, all of the elevated trains go only one way around the loop.

• Color matters, especially on a system where all the trains are identified by color. Why did they use a dark mauve to indicate the pink line? In the real system it's indicated by a bright bubblegum pink. They've created a big opportunity for confusion with the purple line.

• A human touch might be able to make some better arrangement choices. The CTA map crosses the blue line over the green and pink lines a little outside of the loop, at the point where it diverges from the other two. That's a much better choice than trying to do it right in the middle of the already jumbled mess that is the confluence of all of the trains in Chicago's transit system (save one small spur line out in the suburbs) along a three block section of Lake street.

• Clearly indicating that the purple line operates differently from the others is also useful, and might save someone who's unfamiliar with the system from a lot of time spent waiting on the wrong side of the station while watching a bunch of brown lines pass by.

I'll grant the loop section of the L system may well be the most fiddly, nit-picky light rail mapping problem in the world, and the datasets they were working with might not have given all the detail they needed. (On the other hand, that thing with hiding stations under street names feels pretty egregious to me.) I guess what I'm really going for here is, when it comes to drawing maps, I still think involving a human hand in the process can make an enormous difference in the quality of the final product.

[1]: http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/clickable_system_map/...
Expressing an opinion is "Orwellian"? When you use words in such a manner they start to lose meaning. Maybe that already happened and led to your post.

No, I do not think it is a problem for any person or editorial body to share an opinion. I do not see it as a form of mind control to be exposed to other people's worldview. And Trump is exactly as hideous a human being as everyone has pointed out, besides being a deeply flawed candidate who is in over his head and has no capability to deliver on even a fraction of (what little) he has promised.
I'll admit, sometimes I interrupt others in meetings. I don't do it to be power-hungry or an asshole, I'm just excited about my thought.

I tell all my team members to call me out when I've interrupted. I usually catch myself, though, and apologize profusely.
Well, that's hardly true. I thought we'd established that JS in inferior to Lisp.

;-)
King of Greece has no surname.

People insist in demanding surname, not just for real reasons, but to actually spite him.

Greece even made a law after the king was deposed making surnames mandatory (and then promptly declared the guy noncitizen for illegally not having one)
The problems he suggests overall seem too difficult for the average non-mathematically inclined student. And they also require quite a skilled teacher to teach.

I'm not sure stuff beyond "algebra 1" needs to be taught to everyone in high school. Even the concept of using "x" to stand for an unknown is very difficult for some to grasp. Instead, schools should make sure all students can properly understand how to use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, with applications to things like personal finance. In my experience, even many college graduates have trouble understanding when to multiply, divide, etc...
>Have people considered that Trump has had considerably less public interaction, and is not tied to as many organizations as Hillary is? I mean, there could be lots of good reasons why all the dirt we can find is on her.

Trump is a billionaire globalist, an elite among elites. He's been a celebrity for decades, embroiled in countless public scandals and lawsuits, and this isn't even his first Presidential run. His attack surface is as vast as his ego.

> I mean, there could be lots of good reasons why all the dirt we can find is on her.

I think your apparent conflation of "all the dirt Wikileaks publishes" with "all the dirt we can find" is in error, or at least can't be substantiated.

Perhaps some people are simply dismissing what "dirt" there is on Trump (there's plenty) as being smear tactics and lies manufactured by the "Clinton owned news media," and assuming the "dirt" on Clinton is far more damaging than it actually is?

Or perhaps Trump and his supporters are simply more effective at propagandizing through social media than Clinton?
Whenever this topic comes up in HN, a sometimes quite large fraction of the comments do make, or are predicated on, what seem to me to be unjustifiably specific analogies to current software technology (I guess that's no surprise.)
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No problem, it's just a 30,000 year dark age.

We come out OK at the end of it!
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Their parent companies website is just as vague - https://every.international/. They were just founded on the 6th of September and the website purchased just about a month before that.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/every-llc#/entity
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They are more likely to. There is a fairly strong inverse relationship between wealth / money and morality. They are many dubious things that will increase your earnings and franking people less willing to do this stuff tend to make less money and come from famalies that made less money.

For a specific and kind of mind blowing example the inverter of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction decided not to become a mult-billionaire as he felt starting a company would be worse for humanity and somewhat sketchy.

On the other hand zuckerberg would not have become a billionaire without several amorale choices. I am not saying he is vastly more evil than the average person, but clearly not the kind of guy you want to have any actual power.

PS: And yes this is backed up by research. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace
The first robot is not able to pass the big, bad wolf's third test case just yet. The three little pigs have not yet given their stamp of approval for this reason
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On many non-English layouts there are dead keys, and the ` key may not exist, except as a dead key.

For example, the letters å, ø and æ are very common in Danish, so they have their own keys. The acute accent is sometimes used to mark stress, like é or ǿ, and this is done using a dead key -- it wouldn't make sense to have several keys just for this purpose.

http://fontmeme.com/images/danish-keyboard-550x183.png
Google has private offices ? Which building ?
> “Microsoft figured out a way to create software with a high degree of sanity,” he said.

I stopped reading.
Here, use this to make a bulleted list •, there's no markup support for it. Leading whitespace triggers the code formatting that breaks wrapping so remove that too.
Pretty neat. I like the idea of using pixel space. They could break it out to tiles to parallelize things instead of handling things globally if that's a bottleneck for them.
At the risk of being sarcastic, the suggestion seems to be that mathematics is best taught through stereotypical management consulting interview questions. Or the apocryphal (?) Google interview questions like how many ping pong balls can fit on a bus.

ADDED: I also suspect that the average high school student lacks the world knowledge to come up with meaningful guestimates for the inputs to many of those questions.

A lot of the high school mathematics that I learned such as geometric proofs and trig are not all that useful. And it seems as if things that would be more generally useful like probability and stats are not that broadly taught--and are often taught in a very theoretical way when they are.
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I always thought this was underrated but few people have heard of it.
Joel should shut up indeed
The Chinese were far from being genuinely offended, they were more than happy with the parts of the spontaneously disassembled F-117A.
Probably they even helped to make the new artificial lake afterwards.
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There are disciplines that have been teaching concentration for hundreds of years that produce people who can concentrate at will under pretty much any circumstance. To teach beginners they choose a very quiet, distraction-free environment.

Your advice seems to advocate throwing people into the deep end and taking a sink or swim approach. Train people to concentrate until it's something that's familiar and available to them on demand, and then they can do it in the face of distraction.

That you managed to make it work the way you did is great. Some people may have much more trouble than you did in similar circumstances.
Americans prefer 40-hour workweek, not the flexible work schedules
What's wrong with the way it is now? Wrapping looks fine to me.
The reason managers want this is because they dont know how to tell their employees are actually working so if they see the employee in the office, then they feel better. Sad but true.
It's fine to have a public UDP server on the internet. Just make sure it can't be used to amplify/mirror attacks.

QUIC uses tokens for example.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g5nIXAIkN_Y-7XJW5K45IblH...
wow, ever heard of freedom of speech? newspapers are free to express their own beliefs. you won't get that in Russia or China.
I would guess Piaget, because it reminds of this quote from Papert (who drew heavily on Piaget):

> Slowly I began to formulate what I still consider the fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult.
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You raise an important point, but the record shows that CMS was aware, and asked Mylan to stop doing this[1]. If your error is pointed out and you continue doing it, that's certainly fraud, no?

1. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/05/mylan-accused-of-bilking-taxp...

with the relevant paragraph:

> CMS "has, on multiple occasions, provided guidance to the industry and Mylan on the proper classification of drugs and has expressly told Mylan that the product is incorrectly classified," Slavitt wrote.
Dude, you didn't need all the citations. I am very keenly aware of every stupid thing Trump has ever said, probably. And I repeat that all of those things are secondary compared to this.

Unfortunately, I don't think war with Russia is outlandish at all. Like I said, for the past 10 years Russia has been repeatedly saying that the US's missile "shield" is threatening their nuclear capabilities (please please see [1], or you won't understand where I'm coming from). Obviously, there is the question of: do they really believe their nuclear capabilities are threatened, or are they just using that as a talking point? If they actually do, that's by far more dangerous than anything Trump can do. You know what happens if you corner a rat, right?

All I said is that the above is more important than Trump's idiocy. I'm not sure why you think this is a myopic view. It's not like I don't know about the things you mentioned. I know about them and took them into account. In fact, I've always said I'd vote Clinton because Trump is too much of a wild card. But actually... as things are, I'd rather take the wild card.

[1] If you're actually interested in informing yourself about this, start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo
The bit I'm talking about starts at 4:00 to roughly 9:00.
You can give TiDB a try. TiDB is a NewSQL database inspired by Google Spanner and F1. It supports the best features of both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL. Check it out here:
https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
Set an alert for "cop convicted of unlawful killing of suspect"

<crickets>
I have ADD and work in an open floor plan hell hole. Google is great for most things, but the open floor plan is killing my experience the most because of my condition. They dont really care because they have too many employees to afford switching from open floor plan now.
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You aren't purchasing the person and agency of a person when you engage the services of a sex worker, and it isn't yet established that sex work is inherently abusive. Miles of digital ink wasted on just-so stories do not suffice for evidence.
I would have walked out after hearing that. How could a recruiting firm be of any help to you if their goal is to get you to accept a low paying job asap. They'll be fighting with you every step of the way. I would rather search for a job on my own, even if it means eating ramen every day for months.