skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First let me say that by moving my family with two young kids to Oak Park, I was almost definitionally participating in the phenomenon that turn suburban public schools into de facto private schools. People move to Oak Park because it's on the Green and Blue CTA lines; it's a suburb that feels like living in a particularly nice residential part of Chicago. You move to Oak Park because you want all the perks of Chicago without exposure to its school system.

So with that having been said, and recognizing my own role:

Why exactly should we sympathize with parents who react to problems in their school systems by using their economic leverage both to exempt their own kids from those problems and also, by altering the tax base for their original school system, making those problems worse? Why is that praiseworthy? It doesn't seem praiseworthy to me. It seems to me like just another of those little pragmatic immoralities we all undertake regularly.

We have few problems seeing the problem when it takes the form of kids going to Choate and Bowdoin. But at the smaller scale we all deal with, we seem unable to recognize the same thing happening. We seem to believe can't possibly be a part of the problem. But, of course, we are.

I don't mean to crucify anyone for doing it. After all, I did it too. But I think we can reasonably draw the line at rationalizing or valorizing the de facto privatization of good public education in our country.
"Nothing to do" is probably unfair. "Masterminded" or "Steve Jobs created" is also unfair.

Maybe we could talk in something other than extremes?
> the ability to watch as many episodes of a show as you want to watch whenever you want to watch them is VASTLY superior.

Only true for shows that are not in the top 250 shows.

Netflix: Offering cheap & unlimited access for everytone to shows that noone wants to watch.
Have you noticed any drawbacks to using Gitlab over Bitbucket/Github?
On the Evolutionary Origin of Symbolic Communication
Forgot the most important part :

>The important thing when you start is to know how a computer works, and how lines of code are interpreted and executed by the computer, as well as how to express and solve real world problems with computer instructions.

And C is both low-level enough and high-level enough to allow you to do all of this at the same time.
What cluster features were in VMScluster that weren't also in TruCluster? To me the interesting part of TruCluster was the shared filesystem and the application failover. That said, I work for a company now that eschews that kind of tight coupling, because it's expensive to scale the hardware.
So at what point does a cause become "serious" enough that you have special dispensation to ignore laws in its pursuit, and who decides that?

What if I disagree? What if you disagree? What if a whole lot of people disagree? You're not going to like the result, because you've already excluded the rule of law from this equation.
In the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan, there is a public housing development. The neighborhood is very nice and otherwise leans towards the affluent side. A lot of the public housing residents have to go over to Jersey to buy groceries and household products because most things in Chelsea are too expensive. The only grocery stores in the area are Whole Foods and the like.

Overall, I think the neighborhood works out for those in public housing, but there are downsides.

Anecdotally, I'm not sure if just dropping public housing in "good" districts is always a viable solution. Definitely, being in a good school district is beneficial and I think integration is helpful, but it's not as simple as just mashing two economic classes together.
"Here's another perspective. I started learning JS in reverse and ended up just creating my own framework because it was less verbose. But you would hire me over your patch-and-patch fellows?"

Yes more likely. In fact I would find informative to see the framework that you have built as an example of understanding web development.

To expand a bit I think learning the framework is easier once you have an understanding of the web platform's basic. For non web stuff I value more problem solving ability, general CS knowledge over specific technology knowledge. I usually don't set a language requirements in interviews and look more to someone being able to explain how the code they wrote works and why it's a better solution than say some inefficient brute force method. Which in my example when applied to web stuff would translate to why is implementing something this way in angular better than an alternative, what advantages did you gain from angular. Etc...
A copyright license is not necessarily the same as a patent grant... Apache 2 does contain a patent grant, and an even bigger nuclear deterrent similar to Facebook's separate grant with MIT.
I haven't found a single company that I think gets it right across their product lines. Quorn have some really good items- I really enjoy their pork roast type item, but I sometimes find their stuff to be overly dry and the texture is a bit off. Beyond's chicken strips have a closer texture in my opinion. Match has the best option for ground beef and sausage. Sweet Earth's seitan burgers are by far the best tasting veggie burger I've had, although they are not like an actual hamburger at all.

I'm really looking forward to trying some of the newer alternatives that use plant-derived heme to increase the similarity to actual meat, but as far as I can tell those aren't widely available for purchase yet so who knows how good they'll actually end up being.
Can an algorithm replace the pill? Natural Cycles app wants to do just that
While I can appreciate the slippery-slope argument against mass surveillance and bulk data collection, comparing municipal police with infamous clandestine federal investigative agencies borders on conspiracy theory. While I don't doubt that the police dislike like the criticism, it seems more likely that their strongest incentive is to keep the peace (specifically preventing the destruction, theft, assault, and murder that characterize so many of these "protests").
> but read some books on history of physics (and math) first.

That's great advice. Do you have any more recommendations?

As a working scientist myself, I find that a historical context really helps. This is especially true when a lot of quantum concepts are taught from a quasi-classical approach first, which arguably makes things harder for everyone in the long run, but feels more natural when you consider the historical thinking that led there (electron spin, I'm looking at you).

Edit: Some recommendations of my own... A math teacher in school very kindly leant me a biography of James Clerk Maxwell (might have been 'The Man Who Changed Everything' but I'm not sure) and Marcus du Sautoy's 'Music of the Primes.' They were both great introductions, and definitely changed my thinking.
Wow, the first thing that sentence made me think of was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

xD
Los Angeles ‘summit’ focuses on California’s acute housing crisis
why are all the interesting books > $100 :(
As somebody who tried to build code respecting "Do Not Track" preferences, I have to say that feature, while well-intended, is a complete farce.

Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE9, IE10, and IE11 all use different APIs for Do Not Track [1], so a front-end developer has to do a lot of extra leg work to check if the user has the preference set.

I find it highly unlikely that most companies would go through the effort of respecting Do Not Track.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/d...
South Asians have a high predisposition to metabolic syndrome - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=india+metabolic+syndrome+genetic+predis...
1. my mom was teaching computer in one of those labs, I got to spend every day after school ruling Oregon Trail and Paperboy on an Apple IIe.
2. Apple is providing free products to underserved schools, but not enough to make a difference IMO.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/apple-stays-in-school-with...
https://9to5mac.com/2015/08/23/tim-cook-apple-education-gma-...
Scarcity of reliably arable land combined with extreme disease burdens probably have something to do with that.
I keep thinking about this concept of a "glass server".

They can run it, but allow developers to somehow see running processes, and write (rate-limited) queries to test things.

I haven't solidified this concept in my head but it seems like a step towards federation without the problems of federation.
That is not what I think.
Facebook Had an Insane Effect on Voter Registration
I wouldn't say that, no. Especially since supporting "doing well in school" may not be the same as supporting "getting a proper education". After all, the first may be more about pushing conformity and obedience than the second, depending on the circumstances.

As nice and easy it would be to measure a person's worth as a parent by how well their kids do in school, or how much they make as an adult (like this article), I don't think that's reasonable at all.
Sorry I was wrong about Firefox, I must have reconfigured mine and forgotten about it. My point was that Privacy Badger alone won't prevent this attack, you have to disable 3rd party cookies.
This is what I came here to say. Cordova is relevant, yes, and many people use it. For basic applications, Cordova applications can feel "native enough".

However, I don't think Cordova is necessary anymore with Xamarin.
Those are the burglars who aren't able to peer inside multiple homes via xbox cameras.
That's an internal detail. It's much cleaner than postgresql that leaves old tuples in disk and has to vacuum them later.
Everyone here is focusing on the $500/yr, which I agree sounds like nothing although is actually substantial to many of these families. But the incarceration figures in the article are pretty interesting: an 11% smaller chance of ending up in jail sounds pretty good to me.
FYI you can already use the new Google Assistant in several devices http://www.xda-developers.com/xda-external-link/google-assis...
Microsoft’s Windows Server 2016 is now generally available
CRISPR deployed to combat sickle-cell anaemia
It's not. But it's no less important that the team itself, which isn't very useful without direction.
>I would open other people’s medicine cabinets, root through trash cans where I had previously disposed of pills, write friends’ college essays for barter.

That's going too far and might have a deeper meaning than the drug's addictive nature. I wonder if the sense of "I'm getting addicted to this" is innate or if it's learned. For me, drugs like cigarettes weren't addictive enough for me to continue after the pack I tried.

I am somewhat jealous of those with addictive tendencies. If they leverage them properly, they can be wildly successful. I know someone who turned his addiction to Valium into an addiction to exercise, money, and creativity.

I haven't been able to develop any habits that turn into an addiction, but it could be nice, especially in the right circumstances.
On HN, we try to give others the benefit of the doubt, so please don't post comments that are unsubstantive and uncharitable.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691967 and marked it off-topic.
How on earth can they be regarded as too difficult? The Feynman lectures were set books at Exeter Uni. for my applied physics degree '74-'77, I don't remember anyone complaining that they were too difficult, challenging of course.
Not at all:

"If you or your agent or exclusive licensee
institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of Polymer or any code incorporated within this implementation of Polymer constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of Polymer shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed."

I dont see how is that similar to react. It makes way more sense and is closer in spirit to apache I think.
Then it should stop you from using software from EVERY large company... many choose Apache 2, which has similar provisions which include revoking your copyright license... MS and Google both include similar provisions in most of their permissively licensed software tools/libraries.
New AWS Quick Starts for Atlassian JIRA Software and Bitbucket Data Center
I don't know if I'd call it praiseworthy. I do think it's the sort of pragmatic immorality that a great many parents are happy to take on for the perceived benefits gained. As a result, it's easy to oppose for the large-scale effects but difficult to oppose as individual choices.

I think we should be careful about the difference between rationalizing and understanding the decisions parents make. The two are readily confused on the best of days, and political discussions about school quality generally don't happen on the best of days.
> Why can't those primes be calculated on the fly? Checking a number for being within a certain distance of a power of two is well within the programming capability of a freshman CS student.

You're assuming that that's the only criteria for a bad prime, but as this article points out, it's not.

> Given the incentives involved, I see strong reason to believe this is not the case.

Incentives where? The incentives by nearly everybody involved in making crypto is to be secure. The NSA wants to be able to break crypto, but the NSA didn't write the software that uses these primes (e.g. Apache).
Just Give Me Some Privacy
Sorry but I think you are quite mistaken regarding Apache 2.0 - that termination clause is only triggered by patent claims relating to the "work" (i.e. the derivative software) whereas the React licence appears to cover any claims made against FB. It is a big difference!

I agree that software patents should not be allowed and am fortunate to live in a mostly sane jurisdiction where they are mostly not allowed but that's not the case for everyone.
More fallow land would be a good thing. Poor herd management contributes greatly to desertification and reduced carbon capture. Biodiversity is harmed by loss of habit and humans killing top predators.
There is alaso eLua but for other (dumber, smaller) platforms.

http://www.eluaproject.net
The Bitbucket UI is a mess.

* It takes over your native browsers find feature.

* It's javascript heavy and has multiple panes that scroll, collapse, and expand.

* Viewing diffs requires you to click each file that changed (unlike every other diff/code browser I've used where it has one long page with all the changes)
Yes! I use and love containers.
Thinking the unthinkable: what we cannot think in programming
A couple of questions about your numbers:

> was estimated to be around 2 billion

By whom? A source would be nice, which is why I generally refrain from using passive tense when stating facts.

> Also given that population growth was not arrested back in the 1970's, but only slowed down, the carrying capacity has not improved at all

How exactly does population growth affect carrying capacity? If I have a car with 7 seats, its passenger capacity is the same whether I have no passengers or 6 passengers. If population is an intrinsic factor in carrying capacity, then whatever definition of carrying capacity you are using is inadequate.
c.h.i.p. is probably not that great of a name, but 'getchip' always returns the relevant information for me. I do like the "white-label" implications of this name: If one builds a product using chip, that fact would be hard to recover from a cursory web search.
Double speed 16bit inference on the Titan X too
Well, then, that would explain it. We have our tastes: there's nothing wrong with yours.

Your last sentence was a bit scrambled, but I gather you're saying that other Lisp development environments are superior to Emacs. That may be true, but most other Lisp environments are either in the Emacs family (Edwin, Hemlock), not superior to Emacs in any way (Dr Racket), or really expensive, so I know nothing about them (LispWorks, etc.).

So in conclusion, I'll take arguably inferior but really really good over allegedly superior but very very expensive.
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UN Triggered a Devastating Cholera Epidemic in Haiti After 100-Year Hiatus
Although that also introduces risks. Losing control over your domain would be problematic. It happens.

The argument for individual domains suggests itself, or an equivalent follows-the-person mechanism.
My comment was somewhat tongue in cheek - a reference to the stereotypical hipster who always has to have liked something before it was cool, and once it's cool they only like the older stuff (that you probably haven't heard of). In reality, I'm sure they do rely on word of mouth, or at least less mainstream, centralized-but-still-kind-of-centralized sources to aggregate and filter new stuff for what's good.
Xamarin provides a bunch of generic controls that act as bridges to their corresponding platforms. It has enough flexibility that you can build the UI code from scratch for each platform, but you could probably put together a simple form based application with a single UI source.
> A non-free compiler is a big impediment to build reproducibility and accessibility for new contributors for a large open source project.

Agree, this is why I've mentioned that you can use Fortran code compiled as a DLL with gfortran (open source) from Visual Studio in C, C++ and C# projects.
There already is a method that works like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_roulette
It doesn't work that well.
It's worth remembering that OpenSSL has faithfully served the community for many years. Most of those years with almost no financial support. Few projects would survive the scrutiny they have undergone. These guys deserve some credit.
tl/dr: U.S. Military spy satellite camera calibration.
> you simply suffer from retrocomputing

I love the way you phrase that! (I do suffer from that condition, too, in a way, if "suffer" is the word I want - but in my case it is select pieces of obsolete equipment sitting on my bookshelf. My favorite is an ancient IBM ISDN adapter (it still says 1TR6 instead of EDSS1 somewhere on the case) that once hooked up a mainframe to the outside world... ;-)
15 Deep Learning Tutorials
So, assuming you actually have a patent, and Facebook actually decides to infringe on that patent, the worst case scenario is that you lose your license to use React. There are principles of fairness and equity in the law that would allow you to stop using React in a reasonable amount of time. So write your frontend in Elm. It probably needed a rewrite anyways.
That's inbound only though, correct?

You need another provider for sending.
Iceland liberalises currency controls, capital inflow expected
If a filter is set up to not just block access to but also flag based on something as trivial to embed as a URL one would hope the technology would be a little bit more involved than a single hit on a .ico file for a flag.
On the upside, depending on where you live, you probably save a lot of money on heating... ;-)
Yeah, don't wait for self driving cars, it could be 30 years before they're fully realized. Autonomous vehicles can do wonderful things when it comes to addressing first and last mile problems, but as the backbone of a commuter transit system, rail's capacity to do the heavy lifting will be as viable as it ever was.
You can't do terrestrial radio, satellite radio, bluetooth, USB music playback, etc with a single knob and 20-character display.

The 2nd easiest-to-use interface in our vehicles is the USD$85 Pioneer DIN 1 head unit we put in our '81 VW camper van. It does all of what you list, as well as Pandora and (some other music service). Lots of buttons, not just one knob, but I'll bet that display doesn't do a whole lot more than 20 characters.

The most easy-to-use interface we have is CarPlay on the aftermarket head unit in our '04 Scion xB. Any cars we buy in the future will have CarPlay or no sale. I'm done with crap ass automotive UIs done by some designer trying to make her mark on the world. And though I'm sure some makers have UIs that don't suck, I'm not going to the trouble to find out which. CarPlay or nothing.
Don't forget Carl Bosch! Everyone forgets Bosch for some reason. You can't just have chemist discover a process, you need a chemical engineer to make it work on an industrial scale.
> There is a long history of blocking crucial infrastructure during civil unrest and protesting. Its used as a tactic because its effective. Nothing about it is new or specific to today's society.

What does this have to do with anything? Is this supposed to justify the tactics?

> How does that justify potentially infringing upon the protected rights of the protestors?

Why do you think police need justification to enforce the law without infringing on the rights of protesters?
Future of Apple Music and Why Everyone Is Getting Everything Wrong
Dwarfpool empty block mining
It's amazing that some still don't acknowledge this point. It's the difference between 99% (or higher) [1] profit margins and less than 10% profit margins, in the case of a kitchen blender.

Even more so, the 99% profit margin isn't the whole story, as torrents are arguably more efficient (by making use of spare bandwidth among the populace). The 1% marginal costs for legally downloaded media primarily exists only because of the company's need to tightly control distribution and charge for access. With torrents, this requirement disappears and the marginal costs drop even closer to zero.

[1] I'm only counting bandwith costs here, which seems to be at most $0.05 per GB. This is what Google charges for their CDN traffic, so their internal costs per GB must be lower: https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/cdn-interconnect#prici...
uh... i'm logged into a bunch of those services, no ad block or "privacy badger" or whatever else they are claiming.

the website doesn't work.

you're all idiots.
You made this assertion before, but it's wrong and dangerous. Without knowing what the patents are, you cannot possibly say whether or not OTHER technology is infringing on it. It is especially bad considering you are not a lawyer, nor have professed any familiarity with the patent process.

It is a moderate, but known, amount of work to look through FB's patents, assess which are likely around React, and read through the claims. Considering it's possible, I certainly think that it's reasonable to ask you to do the work, or stop making the assertions.
Much of it is. Facebook claims that the data Geofeedia was accessing was publicly shared, as in, not related to the location pings used by the service to find nearby friends.

That means pictures and posts with GPS data attached (read: willfully created by the user), unless there's some kind of proof that this company had a level of API access that goes beyond the level any other developer can access.

People oversharing is a huge problem.
This is actually one line of discussion I'd hoped to spark in posting the item.

There are a few dyanmics here:

1. Goodwill for a company with repeated security breeches.

2. Goodwill for a company which rolls over in the face of government surveillance.

3. Privacy expectations in the face of third-party hosted services. Frankly, Yahoo's actions should send stone-cold shivers through anyone using such systems.

4. The whole question of online petitions and such.
No matter how I changed the attention slider I just couldn't seem to focus on anything.
Hot to get a startup CEO to say “yes”
I liken it to a mutually assured destruction aka nuclear deterrent. Which is a pretty close fit. As someone who is opposed to software patents in general, I'm okay with this.
I just checked because I couldn't believe that price.

"Price per 1000 units. Unit volumes are based on monthly usage."
It's $2.50 per 1000 units, so 0.25 cents per unit.

Edit: And, according to the pricing page [1] the first 1000 units are free.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing