skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a city-adjacent suburb in Chicago, Oak Park, directly butting up against Austin, the largest high-crime overwhelmingly black neighborhood in the city of Chicago.

Oak Park is tiny and known for its school system.

The western side Austin Ave, which divides Chicago from Oak Park, hosts an unbroken row of multi-family dwellings, many of them large apartment buildings. The occupants of those buildings are people who would otherwise live in Austin, but move to Oak Park to get their kids into Oak Park schools.

This has been going on for decades in Oak Park, and we continue to have excellent schools, and continue to be a high-status magnet for professionals who want to live somewhere connected to the CTA trains but not part of CPS schools.

It doesn't happen in Kennilworth or Wilmette, because those suburbs aren't directly adjacent to troubled neighborhoods in Chicago. But there is absolutely no reason to believe that the carrying capacity for lower-income students of those suburbs --- the majority of Chicago suburbs, which like Wilmette and unlike Oak Park, aren't city-adjacent --- is any less than that of Oak Park.

So, no, I don't think your hypothesis about inner-city kids disrupting suburban schools is accurate, nor do I think "instant white flight" is going to happen.

"White flight" was an irrational, racist reaction to housing integration. It's not a law of nature; it was/is a growing pain of the US getting over centuries of segregation.
I remember one of my dev friends showed me this when jQuery was taking off. The site has changed over the years because back in the day when I first saw it, he was railing against using too much javascript - specifically jQuery.
This website is tiresome and confusing. I have no concrete idea what they're trying to say. This is after reading the first two attention settings. I failed to read the last due to technical malfunctions.

Is this an appeal to Google to monopolize Orwell's Nightmare?
Dismissing reviews on Pull Requests
Well then, maybe. Consider me corrected.
Hey HN!

We made a million "deal with it" gifs from a small sample of our media. The project incorporated computer vision which is an area that we are really excited about exploring more.

There were a lot of learning experiences and lessons learned during the project all the way from the front-end to scaling. Happy to answer any questions!
Google search bots etc, do client side rendering...
These examples are all good but I doubt whether you can really avoid javascript. In reality it's more like you can't avoid javascript if you wanted too.
What everyone's trying to tell you is that your point is beside the point.
Any page could also embed anything else NSFW, such as actual porn videos. The assumption is that these sites are generally NSFW by association.

What would you propose instead?
How many people browsing the web would know to do this? Would even 0.5% of users know?
I have accounts at literally hundreds of sites, from credit cards and banks, public utilities, online stores, photo sites, discussion sites and forums, social networks, etc. I don't even have an exhaustive list of all the sites I've got accounts with. I certainly don't use them all frequently enough to know what my login account is set to and it would be a lot more than a Sunday morning for me to track them all down.
You're not alone. I was lucky enough to go to undergrad with Nima Arkani-Hamed [1]. I later had lunch with him while he was at Harvard, and he mentioned that a lot of what he did in the intervening years was to get away from the very formal mathematical, proof-based thinking of our math courses back then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima_Arkani-Hamed
The article glosses over the interesting rationale behind the dazzle camouflage on ships. It's not intended, as the article suggests, to make ships at sea harder to see. That's not really possible since they make a distinct bump on a flat horizon, but the wild paint jobs make it harder for sailors looking through binoculars or scopes to make out the type of ship, its size, or its true heading by breaking up the lines.

There isn't that much evidence that dazzle camouflage worked all that well, but there'e an interesting hypothesis that cubism, an art movement that was ascendant in the early 20th century, was an influence on the technique. And it looks like dazzle camouflage feel out of favor at the same time cubism did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

There's a great 99% invisible podcast on the topic:
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-65-razzle-dazz...
Hm. I live at the edge of a University town with a rural population at the very other end of the socio-economic scale. I went to these schools once upon a time. It was not much different from other experiences I suppose - cliquishness, jocks and nerds and fashionistas and so on.

My siblings, 6 of us brought up on feeding pigs and making hay and fixing fences, all ended up going to college in medicine and engineering. All professionals; all successful. I always credited our going to school with all those 'city kids' with their high expectations.

So it can work.
Doesn't the indie crowd also rely on word of mouth?
Show HN: Boondoggle, a VR Music Visualizer
Upscaling worked ok for me:

Upscaled image: https://imgur.com/a/4IQA7

Result on demo page: http://imgur.com/a/A0v5C

The hammerman Tikes ﬂsosushsath: Greetings. My name is Tikes
Leafsilk.

You: Rh. hello. I'm Stasbo Murderknower the Craterous Trance of Fins.
Don't travel alone at night. or the bogeyman will get you.

You: Tell me about this hall.

Tikes: This is The ﬂccidental Ualley. In 123, Stasho Steamdances
ruled from The ﬂccidental Ualley of The Council of Cobras in Ueilapes.

...
rm -i *.zip

Apparently, in iTerm2, you can actually copy and paste the name, and do

ls *.zip
rm -i cv.zip
It makes me sad that stacked bar graphs are even an option here.
This is something best handled through an agnostic B-corp or NPO, funded by Google and other tech companies (the way Let's Encrypt has been handled [1]).

However fragmented this message is, I get that they're trying to propose a program to bridge the gap with the physical world, but that results in regional monopolies. Sure, cities and states can help regulate it, but it's best if the organization was aligned entirely with the people living in that region.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
Create a Short Film About Hacking and Win 50,000 Euros
My very wide-cast idea is this: The last 5 years we've rid ourselves of flash (for the most part) and replaced it with javascript.
I appreciate this, but here are a few actually-useful (to my family) that I have committed and that are still in use today:

- a Growatt -> pvoutput.org data extractor/uploader (w/C.H.I.P.)

- a MAME Arcade (Raspberry Pi 2)

- ISS Above tracker (Raspberry Pi 2) ()

- My main SSH gateway and Seafile server (Raspberry Pi 2)

I may finish my Espresso PID/controller this year (Rascillio Silvia) (Raspberry Pi 3)

() ISS Above is amazing for engaging my kids and myself in Astronomy. EDIT: formatting
I guess one could setup a jammer or some room that could completely cut off any signal possibility. However then they could put something even more malicious then just spying into the device. As much as a tin foil hat theory that is, maybe it's just best to not know what's on the drive cause it's more than likely not worth even the slightest bit of trouble. Sad the world has come to this
> A group of engineers under the name of one man made rockets. Musk himself did not do this. If you're going to cheerlead, cheerlead for he people that did the work.

A group of engineers under the name of one man made rockets. Each engineer did not do this. If you're going to cheerlead, cheerlead the person that brought the engineers together.
Food is a commodity. It would be very very hard to accomplish the same kind of lock-in. Lock-in is easy with software because of its brittleness.
FYI, it's very NSFW in the back-end. Your browser is sending requests to obvious porn servers when you hit this link so it can test if you're logged in to them.
How can VR (Virtual Reality) change the way we do Marketing
> a lot of the best tools are open source

That is simply NOT true.
You mean Solitaire...Solitude sounds so odd...
You are saying that like I have a problem with that.
No, tesseract is a C++ library; this is a wrapper for an Emscripten port of that library.
Don't worry, they got plenty of other ideas like this.
Since we're trading "I failed" stories...

I spent a weekend tying Tesseract together with Tekkotsu (the amazing open framework for the Sony AIBO) in an attempt to teach my robot dog to read. The eventual goal being to hook up the output of OCR --> Text To Speech (TTS) and have him read to me.

Alas, the low resolution of the camera was an insurmountable problem. Poor Aibo needed 40-point fonts and I practically had to rub his nose in the book. Not exactly the user experience I was aiming for.

Never got around to the TTS part.
> Are roads in wealthy neighbourhoods repaired on a different schedule than poor neighbourhoods too?

School budgets are a small part of the effect, if any. Typically (at least around here) teachers in good districts are paid substantially less than in bad districts, and per-student spending is often lower in good districts than bad.

As far as I can tell the good-district/bad-district effect is caused by a series of self-reinforcing loops, one of which is that schools full of the kids of parents who both can and will spend more on housing to be in a good school district tend to be better because they're full of those kids.

[EDIT] I took your question about roads to mean whether, broadly, rich areas receive more government spending than poor areas, which is sometimes true for some things but does not seem to be a major driver of school inequality AFAIK
I wish that there was just a solid way to prevent DDoS attacks and netsplits.
IRC has always been one of my favorite communication mediums.
Given that software patents probably shouldn't even be allowed, I'm okay with this. Also, it's not THAT different from the fairly popular Apache License 2.0's patent provisions.
Apple and Samsung Lock Horns Over Design Patent in Supreme Court
Kraft Heinz describes trip to excellence (in testing)
Real Time Influencer Counter Using Social Media API
Pretty sure you meant to say, "whet"?
Why is that team member any more important than any other team member?
It's good that you used "remarkable" as a bridge for your analysis, but can we also edit this title to be less click-baity (I'm sad to see Washington Post start steeping as low as Buzzfeed here too)?

Suggested edit:

"The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you help parents with rent"

=>

"Children of parents who receive public housing assistance associated with having better life outcomes"
> My biggest issue with PyPy is library/modules incompatibility.

Addressing this has been a big focus for PyPy lately. You should consider re-evaluating PyPy. numpy (arguably one of the heaviest users of C extensions) works on pypy at very nearly 100% of its tests passing.
> There'a a on/off switch to share contacts under Wire Settings/Options and it's off by default at installation, (it was at the end of August when I started using the service).

Oh, thanks that's good to know. And impossible to find out without just installing the app.

> Entries are then hashed (using SHA- 256) and base-64 encoded before being transmitted to the server.

This signals that they care about privacy, but it doesn't really provide much protection against someone who wants to break it. Maybe it's just about keeping honest people honest. It would be very straightforward to dictionary attack the un-salted hash. Using a password cracking program like HashCat, you could probably recover most of the numbers in a few hours.
I am interested in this too; so far my best solution has been to just burn a Rasbperry pi on it.
We spent a decent amount of time evaluating Abbyy vs Tesseract vs Cloud Vision. Cloud Vision wins hands down and is very reasonably priced.
> It has a filename not everyone will immediately know how to delete.

Click on the file, press delete?
Y: "There are too many homeless here, it feels unsafe."
A: "How dare you! Those are human beings!"
Y: "Why can't they stay in shelters?"
A: "They feel unsafe, there are too many homeless there."

It would be funny if it weren't tragic.
If that's the case, then their machines have a learning disability, at least as applied in my case and those of a few people that I know.
> To be fair, according to this article, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others have explicitly denied allowing government officials direct access to their servers.

Right, but the statements were very carefully crafted PR statements that only implied that there were no similar feeds while leaving open the possibility that there may be.

Having watching the industry for some time (Skype's PR denials come to mind as well as all the companies implicated in the Snowden disclosures) I have no confidence that those PR releases mean anything of significance besides a recognition from the companies that their users might not like certain activities by their customers.
In NYC, the problem is a severe shortage of low to middle income housing units, whether that be market-rate or public housing. Every new building that pops up is a luxury building - serving as an investment or pied-a-terre for rich foreigners or front for money laundering. Our mayor's plan to expand affordable housing is to have these luxury building developers set aside a percentage of these luxury units to house low income people in their luxury buildings, which obviously is an extraordinarily inefficient way to provide affordable housing and doesn't even come close to meeting the demand.

Since private developers aren't building apartments catering to low income people, the government needs to step in and develop them themselves. High-rises with barebones utilitarian apartments. Get rid of this 150 square feet mandate on living rooms, living rooms are a luxury already as it is since most tenants erect makeshift walls to convert them into additional bedrooms to make the rent affordable.

The units should be market-rate, but governments will prioritize applicants who are U.S. citizens, have children, don't have a criminal record, etc. If they were to sell as condos, then priority would be given to first-time homebuyers and people who actually will live in the place.

A certain percentage can be allocated to low income people, but unlike current public housing, you shouldn't be able to just live there forever, especially if your income increases to a point where you're no longer low income.

The main idea is that we need to increase the supply of non-luxury apartments to compensate for the failure of the private markets to do the same. This would be similar to public housing, except that it would have market-rate apartments.
I know perfectly well what their views are. I did describe them as sociopaths, remember? UB, to some degree, might be resonable. C-style nasal-demon UB, with propogating conditions so that you can't check for integer overflows reasonably is possible to live with, but insane.

C's culture of hyper-optimization is ridiculous. Unfortunately, while Rust may well eat C++'s lunch, there's very little that is competitve with C at the same level of abstraction, so for some work (kernel development, perhaps, embedded systems, definately) it will remain significant for some time, if not outright dominant.
I didn't know about either of these things and I consider myself fairly security savvy (for a programmer).

uBlock Origin looks way better than Ghostery, which I was using until now.
Presumably in that traditionally an actual normal court that is accountable to the public would have to based on evidence approve a warrant naming particularly the individuals and why and for a finite duration of time.

This is fundamentally different from building a tool that would allow them to access any or all of your customers communications forever with no further oversight forever based on a secret courts request or in fact sometimes nothing more than administrative request or even breaking in.
I'm happy to recommend that everyone stop using React if Facebook ever sues someone for using React. But it remains a very unlikely possibility, especially since we don't even know if Facebook has React patents.
Apache 2, iirc, has similar patent provisions where you lose patent protection if you bring suit to any contributors.
> a DNC can complete a moving blocks puzzle in which changing goals are specified by sequences of symbols

A neural network without memory can't do that or can't do it as well perhaps?
Hillary is “to buy some of the law enforcement arguments on crypto and Snowden”
I dunno I feel like one could get a reasonable grasp of mathematical physics without sitting through oil drop experiments and so on...
That's a good observation. I've seen a couple of things offer successive "takes" of increasing complexity, and always thought it was an interesting idea.

At a first guess, my bad reaction to the slider was based on an intuitive fear that the differences would be something more substantive than best-effort restatements of one idea.
Sure going from 1% low income to 10% low income will have the short term effect of changing the overall average test scores. But how will it change the quality of education for the existing students? It'll be the same teachers, same curriculum, same facilities, etc.
There's a fourth class of malicious USB keys: those which discharge -100V across the USB data lines, aka "usb killers". Drop a couple of these on a huge parking lot to create a boatload of damage.
No, it means there are some developers out there that are happy to earn their income and pay their bills developing software for desktop users, something that doesn't really exist in GNU/Linux.

Living from donations isn't really a sustainable thing.
The keyword in all of these sites is the "YOU MIGHT NOT NEED" not "YOU DON'T NEED".. One could theoretically create youmightnotneeda.website and convey that maybe for what you're doing, a website isn't actually needed at all... Doesn't mean it's gospel and everyone should follow it.
Google Cloud Vision API is very expensive though -- if you can sacrifice some amount of quality, it might make sense to go with the open source alternative. At $2.50/unit the cost is absurd, and even the free trial expires after 90 days.
All you have to do is visit the site (e.g., volume 1's TOC is here: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html).

Check out some of the first chapters. You expect to see some kind of Newtonian prelude with force, mass, acceleration, motion of projectiles, etc. It's not really there.

The FLP are really rewarding to browse around in -- I would hate to have to read it from cover to cover -- but they are not good as a textbook. It's not a systematic treatment. It's an idiosyncratic look at how one person enters a problem space and walks through it.

Friends who took classes at Caltech (in the 1980s, I think) using FLP found it to be a bad fit for people who did not have an immediate grasp of problem essentials. In other words, if you did not already have some mastery of the basics, it might not help. I can't imagine the confusion possible when the class was first taught in the 1960s, and there was only the verbal lecture, with no companion text.
Author of the story here. Chromebook manufacturers tend to also be Windows OEMs - HP, Samsung, Toshiba, ASUS, Acer. So saying Chromebooks are excelling at the expense of Windows is useless, since the manufacturers are not feeling that. In fact, HP found strong gains year-over-year, and that's just in terms of unit sales; if they sold a high mix of their high-end machines, they could be doing even better.
Also, I did mention that Apple was likely affected by the stagnant Mac line. But the fact is that a lot of people buying computing equipment for school, a situation when waiting for a new Mac may not be an option, chose to buy Chromebooks while many fewer chose Macs.
The headline may go a bit far, but the numbers don't lie.
Let's not conflate the very different concepts of "statistical significance" and magnitude of the effect.

An effect with a small magnitude can be highly statistically significant, and vice versa.

If you don't understand the very important difference, then you probably flunked out of freshman stats.
We do need rainforest though, and it is currently being cut down to provide land for cattle.
Religion is a much stronger predictor of number of children than any genetic factor. Religion is typically passed on to children, but not genetically!
No idea when LibreSSL will add X25519 or X448, as defined in RFC 7748 - Elliptic Curves for Security.

Here's RFC 7748
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7748

Here's the errata for RFC 7748
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7748
It is significant in the sense of scope (they searched everyone's email), in the sense of legality (this wasn't court ordered, indeed it didn't come through corporate attorneys), in the sense of reasonable suspicion (there was none), and in the sense of scale (data at scale can be used to do things that individual bits of data can not).
What's tragic is that you think warehousing people who are overwhelmingly addicts, or mentally ill would be workable. The term, 'Bedlam' springs to mind.

Besides, it's almost like different homeless people are... different... people.
It was. Thank you.

I want stdin to work. I also want specifying a file name to work. I think supporting both is good UI design, and follows the principle of least surprise.
Multi-View Stereo: A Tutorial [pdf]
Upload Filtering Mandate Would Shred European Copyright Safe Harbor
The educational experience of students is not dictated wholly by teachers, curriculum, and facilities.
Hmm weird, it correctly detected everything except for the false negatives of PayPal, Tumblr, and Spotify. Taking a look at the mechanism I have no idea why this would happen, and opening the relevant links in my browser gives the favicon as it should. Weird.
The Twitter app properly communicates when you're geotagging your tweets or not, and allows deactivation using a simple click before you submit. If that's all it takes for privacy, then I'm ok with this. Facebook is much more sneaky. I would be curious to know how many protesters shared their location without wanting to. Witnessing my family of tech-unaware people, privacy leaks is a monster they're all afraid of, thanks to headlines of media, and they often ask "Not to be tagged on fb" or "How can I be sure that ...". Protesters are probably even more conscious of this.
50% more RAM for 2x more. Same formula!
It's great actually (modulo binary blobs). With the eMMC modules compute, storage, and communication feels fast enough to be actually useful. I use the default Ubuntu installation. The 2 GiB of DRAM is really valuable to me.

Even though the Raspberries are cheaper, their only advantage to me are the vast assortment of good [value] accessories, such as the Official 7" Touch screen.

I'm intrigued by the CHIP Pro, but am so disappointed by the lack of DRAM.