skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there is plenty of stuff on t'web about the current state of play [1] [2] [3].

My recollection is that Gove's original idea was to scrap the GCSE completely and replace it with a new 16+ qualification consisting of a single 3h exam for each subject. Maths represents a difficulty of course as the range of ability encountered at age 16 for all 700,000 children each year is huge. Maths and science subjects differentiate by topic, wheras Humanities subjects differentiate by response to a brief.

As a concrete example you can ask a group of 30 students to write two sides about the best learning experience they have ever had. Everyone can leave the room feeling they gave it their best shot. Some will be excellent and creative with a good range of vocabulary and demonstrating some self-knowledge and analytical ability. Others will produce a description description, possibly with limited vocabulary, possibly with deficient skills in punctuation, grammar and spelling.

Now ask the same group of 30 students to take a single Maths test. Some will finish in 5 minutes with full marks (it wasn't the right test for them) and some will take an hour and score close to zero (it wasn't accessible to them either).

'The Blob' (the education establishment in the UK, i.e. the people at the sharp end) managed to head this one off together with the QCA and the House of Commons' select committee on education lead by Graham Stuart - a conservative but with experience of work in education unlike Gove. The result was a re-vamped GCSE Maths in which the Foundation tier has some topics previously only found on the Higher tier such as trigonometry, surds, rules of indices with fractional indexes, simultaneous equations, quadratics: solving by formula, factorisation and substituting into to plot graph. Much of the more useful statistics has been removed (graphical presentation &c) and replaced with harder probability. Much more emphasis on technical algebra and difficult fractions/ratio questions.

This lot is working its way down the school system now. If they stick to it the result might be OK in 5 years but my guess is they will get stick for the atrocious pass rates for the next couple of years (or fiddle them somehow) and then fudge it.

[1] http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-...

[2] https://bettermaths.aqa.org.uk/2014/06/28/gcse-maths-topic-c...

[3] https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...
In my opinion that's not more important. Also because they contains almost no information.
This is not true if you have custom snapshots. DO takes quiet a bit of time if you have custom images. My experience with vultr is that it boots very fast (<1 min)
As a college student looking for a job, a lot of this is quite worrying. I don't really know where to start as a junior developer and I have seen quite a bit of this mentality that "we are looking for the best". Does anyone know how, from our corner, filter out companies that will do crazy stuff like make you barf up 30 sort algorithms?

And more importantly for my case, does anyone know where to look for companies that are willing to work around a college student's schedule?

The cards seem to be stacked against us in this one.
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As a 'best of both worlds' option you could use a free tier on one (or more) of the cloud hosts. As far as I'm aware OpenShift, AWS and Azure all offer free tiers. Combine that with a CDN with a free tier like CloudFlare and free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt and you could be looking at a very low cost to start out (just the domain name cost).
> 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.

Or, you know, don't put them into a situation where they need yet another skill. Just give them a frickin' office.
Which would require a very different cost structure from the Twitter of today. Not impossible perhaps but certainly a fundamental change. <$100m annual expenses for Wikimedia vs. $2b, so about 25x. Of course, some of those expenses are cost of sales and others could be cut in a more streamlined non-profit but it's a big difference today.
Twitter betrayed all developers that relied on their API, and also helped overthrow legitimate governments and put middle east and ukraine in chaos. Their failure is well deserved and should help other startups to not fuck with everybody while pretending to help (Google and Facebook, are you the next?)
The media is clearly benefiting, with many stories backed by a Donald Trump tweet. But if the tweets weren't free to begin with, they might not be as newsworthy.
Hard to imagine Twitter working as a non-profit when so much compensation is tied to equity.
I strongly disagree with that. Best developers switch many jobs - that's how they become great - by working on lots of different stuff and learning all the time - there are very few full time positions where you can continuously learn and actually do new things all the time and don't become a nuisance for your co-workers. They also start their own startups, fail, and go to job market again.
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Though mostly good advice, I definitely disagree with this:

DONT:
Plurals—use the more natural collective term where possible instead. For
example staff instead of employees or people instead of individuals.

I like naming my tables as plurals so that foreign keys to the table rows can have a name that relates to the table name. For instance, having column `Orders.employee` as an FK to an `Employees` record makes much more sense than having column `Orders.employee` as an FK to a `Staff` record.
We do that at my employer, we all come in once a week into the office.
Since Github Pages doesn't support SSL/TLS certificates for custom domains, I don't think anyone should be using it. It's simply outdated technology.
Gumtree seems to be only for UK and AU, is that right? (from a quick Google for the name).

Congrats on your work.
If you look at individual tax rates the United States is an even bigger outlier. No VAT, and income tax is extremely progressive.
You missed one thing about the poor: they are useful as slaves--which is still legal in America. So America spends billions, maybe trillions over the last four to five decades to incarcerate people for anything, especially normal everyday human endeavors so they can be enslaved, provide free labor, and provide a base for others to profit off their pain. Most of these people are, of course, people of color, whom America has enslaved since before it even existed as America, so there is an additional benefit of removing them off the white-controlled streets. No analysis of American poverty is complete without acknowledging this fundamental factor: race and slavery.
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Great freedoms come with great responsibilities. I tend to think that free speech works only when the consequences of using that free speech...y'know...exist. In a universe of pseudonymity and anonymity, those consequences don't exist. Even when you are literally committing the crime of assault (friendly reminder: assault is the threat of violence, battery is the violence) against somebody because they have the temerity to be a woman who makes video games or a black man who criticizes the police on the Internet.

To that end, showing people the door seems eminently reasonable. You aren't going to actually be able to visit upon them the prosecution (again, for literal and extant crimes) that they have earned for themselves, but you can, and IMO should, cut them out of the social universe that you undertake to create and protect.
More importantly to who? To me and all developers that I know, this isn't the most important. A good and reliable API is.
Samsung released S8 dual camera back next year on February 26
I've been using for more than 2 years with 100% uptime.
“The Reinheitsgebot is no marketing gag”
That's what I mean. Like SMS it's a syntax that would allow for smart clients to re-assemble the message but is visible in plain text for backwards compatibility
TBH most of it is not about finding havens but about avoiding taxes.
This is totally true, the more I built the more I learned and stuff I never got in university just came to me after simply trying it in a small project.

You also have to know, what you can't do that takes looong time to learn. Stuff like distributed systems and cryptography is hard, so don't think it comes as easy as writing you first CRUD-app.
Nah, it's really not! I think the author even mentioned the actor model in an interview about it. And Go certainly has never desired to be associated as "the actor model." It lacks many of the tools required.
> More importantly twitter profiles are public by default. That's not true for most social media.

Maybe, but now logged-out users (or users without an account) cannot see more than the last few tweets on an account.

Twitter is a lot less open than it was two or three years ago, and while it's more public-by-default than Facebook, it's less public-by-default than Blogger was.
I'm not going to pretend you can run Twitter on an DigitalOcean box for $40pm with one guy.

But when I see things like $100m in losses - I can't help but feel there is a real opportunity for Twitter to streamline its engineering and operational costs?

Is there a breakdown available of where/how they spend their money?
Sweet! Did you consider using AutoGEMM.py from clBLAS instead of a static GEMM kernel ?

I was considering using a polyhedral compiler macro (like PPCG), for writing OpenCL kernels in matlisp, but it's not clear how optimal this would be.
The majority of pediatric malignancies are either germline related, in utero (de novo mutation/SV, potentially caused or facilitated by maternal environmental exposures), or a reverse lottery winner. There simply isn't enough time for somatic mutation to cause the sort of devastating fallout that you see in DIPG or infant leukemias. (Furthermore, even the point mutations seen in pediatric cases are characteristic and rare or absent in adults; some structural variants are also observed in adults, but they are much rarer and accompanied by fewer cooperating events)
All they had to say was "baseband processor back doors" and drop the mic.
Not to mention with an ORM tool you'll have an Employee object, and probably call your collection employees.

Which is better?

foreach (var employee in staff)
{

}

or

foreach (var employee in employees)
{

}
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Privacy after the Agile Turn
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The status-quo is already effectively a "male only" event.
Depending on your application and stack, you may want to consider Google Cloud or AWS. While I really like DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, etc they lack production features like a centralized firewall and IAM security. Additionally AWS and Google have a slew of complimentary services so maybe you don't need raw physical machines. For example, instead you may be able to use Elasticache, RDS, and Elastic Container Service and don't have to manage any servers.
you should check out free tier offered by Amazon

https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Also do apply for things like BizSpark
https://bizspark.microsoft.com/

if you have a static marketing page, you can also host it for free ( almost ? ) on
https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/
As a non-profit, Twitter could focus on being ubiquitous as possible. That could lead to restoring the original API rules.
Sending Potatoes to Idaho? How the Free Market Can Fight Poverty
Maybe they can pair up with Elsevier to charge outrageous subscription fees for access to the data to help it become profitable.
Massive false dichotomy.

First, there's a huge amount of space in policy design between "zoning laws with racial segregation as an explicit goal" and "Soviet regime restriction on personal choice re: where to live".

Second, a lot of people's preferences are a much more nuanced than toy game theoretic models assume.
Most of the people I talk to on Twitter don't have money to spare. They're the kind of people who have to toss up a fundraiser to make rent because they had a surprise medical bill or car repair.
Its a candidate's markets. A few companies can afford to only hire top notch candidates. You've heard of them, and that's why. If you only try to apply for places you've heard of as being the best of the best, well, it will be harder because everyone is doing the same.

There's hundreds, thousands of companies who aren't the best, and aren't looking for the best either. Work there, get your experience up, jump around every few years (so you can eventually get a feel as to WHY those companies aren't the best), and you'll be good enough to go anywhere you want.

Or you can try to play the SV game, learn the 30 sort algorithms and learn how to speak "Big SaaS Company" speak right after college and skip that.

I personally wasn't good enough for that out of college, so I did it the hard way, and now I'm where I wanted to be all along. It took 10 years, but ::shrugs::, I made it.
a great developer would have styled the article to make it legible before publishing.
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The US army camp in Heidelberg actually had their perfectly fine tap water chlorinated.

From a German point of view (chlorine tastes and smells horrible) this is just ridiculous.
Exactly. Most people who work for non-profits do so out of passion for the company and mission because the salaries often are going to be about 80% of market rate. With no equity to compensate with either, you are left mostly with the believers (or the less optimal workers).

I'm not sure I see Twitter's mission being strong enough to attract the developers it needs if it were to become a non-profit. Further, while there are large media grants out there, I don't really see a huge pool of capital willing to cover Twitter's operational costs with donations.
> That's the problem you have to solve if this is something you really care about.

We already know that. It's not trivial but there is a clear path.

You make something that will become popular for reasons unrelated to the thing it should replace, it just happens to also be able to replace it. Once you have something that everybody already uses for other reasons and can do everything Facebook does, anyone can start using it instead of Facebook without waiting for anybody else.

The interesting thing is this bootstraps across the whole space if you can do it once. Given a decentralized social graph you can take over for YouTube as soon as you have video support etc.
What? Eliminating ass-backwards zoning laws that enforce 'aesthetic character' is a Soviet dystopia? How?

And here I always thought that the best example of a Soviet dystopia in housing was the row after row of cookie-cutter prefab Krushevkas [1]. That and the constant lack of housing. In fact, restrictions on aesthetics, driveway sizes, etc, only exacerbate the problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHdFd2RKRSI&ab_channel=Inese...
clBLAS is, in my opinion, hard to build AND hard to integrate.

On top of it, this approach gives better performance in most cases even on AMD, and especially on Nvidia. Now, I have AMD hardware, but it is better to create an overall more encompassing library, thus I avoided clBLAS :)

When I need to write my own OpenCL kernels, I use ClojureCL - it gives me easy management while still retaining full control of the kernels and their performance.
Twitter needs to be acquired by Google.
This article pleases the Market Economics Fairy, who rarely sees anyone thinking top-to-bottom in supply-demand balances.
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I wonder how many services on Amazon allow user-configurable webhooks that can be pointed to http://169.254.169.254 ...
Non-materialistic millennials and the Great Stagnation
I hear ya on the podcasts. When I had a 2-hour round-trip commute for several years, I listened to a few hundred audio books. Up to that point I had read probably two fiction books over the course of my entire life (outside of required reading for school)[0].

After a few years I could hold my own in conversations about literature and found myself really enjoying some of the classics. I find it almost impossible to listen to audio books when I'm not driving or doing some muscle-memory exercise like cutting the lawn/driving/riding a bike, so without that consistent drive time, I haven't gotten to enjoy a good book in several years. It's not even worth downloading them any longer because I know it'll take two years to finish one book and I'll forget where I left off between listens.

[0] I'm a speed reader (skimming/scanning style, not the "gimmicky" speed reading that is advertised these days) and find it difficult to read fiction without using my training. Speed reading fiction is like turning to the back of the book to see how it ends before starting the book -- it ruins fiction -- so the only fiction reading I enjoy is narrated to me (by Scott Brick, if I'm lucky) on Audible.
I am taking an indirect pay cut staying with my current employer which allows for remote work rather than getting a much higher paying job that requires a daily commute. Working from home 4 days a week and then going into the office around 10 am after traffic settles is definitely a perk. A daily commute would probably require me to buy a newer vehicle which would definitely eat into any gains in salary anyways. My employer has struggled lately with layoffs so I am constantly evaluating my job prospects. So instead of commuting I am building up my consulting business.
>>At which point you're in the minority because the set of people who affirmatively want to give up their privacy is not larger than the set who either don't want to or don't care.

The set of people who affirmatively want to give up their privacy is in the majority if most people don't care about privacy but want privacy reducing features. Sure, in a perfect world they'd take both, but we're talking about which is more important to them when they have to make a decision. You're arguing my second point, about market viability of a privacy-enhancing product. My first point, which supports my second point, is that most people give up their privacy because they understand the compromise and don't value privacy more than convenience-enhancing, privacy-reducing features.

I'm not sure if I'm conveying my points well, let me try to rephrase. I don't think my postulated demographic is in the majority if they 1) desire competitive features which reduce privacy, 2) are willing to responsibly reduce their privacy for those features and if the market alternatives (decentralized or otherwise) increase their privacy without competitive feature parity.

Basically, if the majority of people are ambivalent about privacy, understand the privacy compromise and still desire privacy-reducing convenience in features, then the alternatives will never become mainstream. This is my hypothesis, and I am pushing this hypothesis by defending the idea that most people give up privacy because they understand but don't value it, not because they are naive or ignorant and value it. The reason I am putting this hypothesis forward is because I think it's important that the HN crowd consider this possibility.

It's easy to believe people give up their privacy because they don't have alternatives, or because they don't know any better, but that perspective comes across as condescending to people who fully understand the compromise they agree to, and there is a strong argument that this is the majority of the population. If that's true, you can't expect privacy-enhancing products to become mainstream if privacy is the only competitive feature, or if the privacy precludes competitive features offered by other companies.

The overall conclusion, based on these premises, is that many privacy-valuing technies misunderstand the privacy values of the majority of the population. They believe that the aforementioned privacy-enhancing products can be competitive and replace the incumbents if only they could get people to understand the privacy breaches they're suffering. My grand unifying theory here begins with the hypothesis that most users actually understand the privacy compromise, and it's really the vocal HN zeitgeist that misunderstands the awareness of most users in this arena. By extension, they also misunderstand the market oppurtunity, mainstream potential or even feasibility of open alternatives that can change or replace the incumbents.

At this juncture I'm not sure how else to convey my point. I feel as though we are probably talking past each other.
Please tell me how Turkey is going to MITM Google on a recurring basis, enough to implement filtering.
Well, his definition appears to be that the people with closed doors did it "enough that they miss fame". Who's to say whether those people made extremely good contributions, but since they were introverts didn't seek out fame, or actively ran from it? The whole quote is just anecdotal stuff.
You can host static pages on GitLab.com for free, with TLS certificates and custom domains.

You can use _any_ static site generator.
1). It is false, your implication that alternative medicine won someone a Nobel Prize. Artemisinin has scientific, peer reviewed research to support its claims. It would been impossible for Tu Youyou to win without real scientific evidence. The last award to lack much science was invention of the Lobotomy, which was called an "astounding error of judgment"

2). "The market" is provably an unreliable source of evidence given the historic success of snake oil and the popularity of many treatments later found to be dangerous.

3). Your friends absolutely cannot reliably detect a placebo effect. No one can, that's the whole reason to double blind tests.

4). Please don't misquote me. I did not say alternative medicine is "never more effective than a placebo". The statement was "almost none" which is true.

5). Science is not "ridged and simplistic". It certainly can be improved and the great part is when practiced properly it allows for the possibility it is wrong and self corrects.
Sure they could still do it as long as the company itself remains non-partisan, but they just couldn't take money from politicians or political campaigns. They would have to find some other sort of donor capital to sustain their operations.
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It seems weird to say that twitter discussion was so significant in furthering different causes. From the outside (I don't use it), I've still heard plenty about those events. From the inside, I'd bet it seems like they were the original source for the events, or at least the cause of it getting so big. On reddit/imgur/9gag/4chan/etc, there seems to be an idea that whichever one you are on is the source of whichever meme is getting popular. I think it's the same kind of thing. Maybe the discussion grows "organically" and that causes it to grow on each of these platforms, instead of the platform causing the growth.
You say containers are unnecessary because the problems have been solved.

What problems?

How are they solved?

I'm asking because I'm genuinely interested in understanding what you are trying to say.

Maybe I already know it. Maybe I don't. Right now I have no way to tell.