skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These parents were able to send their kid to NYU, an extremely expensive private college with almost no financial aid.

Many of the parents who put insane pressure on their kids to succeed academically do so because they can't afford schools like NYU- they have to get into more competitive schools that offer more financial aid or lower tuitions.
None of this makes any sense to me (except that these unfounded claims are not charitable). Lightbend (my employer) builds our whole platform in Scala, and we are proud to say you'll have the best experience using it from Scala (though Java 8 will do too, if that's more your jam). Sure, we make some money from training, but we are far more interested in having as many people use Scala so that they'll be even more productive using our platform.

My team at Lightbend is responsible the majority of the Scala 2.x compiler and standard library work. That's our focus. We do try to help out on the documentation front over at https://github.com/scala/scala-lang. You can easily see for yourself that 90% of the PRs there get merged.

Don't boo -- submit a PR!
This almost makes some kind of sense. The "whistleblower award" he got was the percentage of recovery the IRS pays as a bounty for intelligence on tax avoidance schemes; it's a portion of the money he actually helped recover for the government. There is a rational case to make for someone being both fully culpable for wrongdoing while still remaining entitled to bounties they've satisfied.

For another complicated IRS recovery bounty case, see the story about Vanguard's "internal whistleblower" who is making the case to the IRS that their cost-saving structure is an unfair advantage, and that they owe taxes on those savings to the government. If that "whistleblower" prevails, he'll have harmed the retirement savings of tens of millions of Americans, all of whom benefit from Vanguard's novel structure. But there you go!

As for this guy's superiors not being prosecuted, yeah, that sucks. The prosecutors can only make the cases they can make; this guy confessed.
In all those cases I was aware of, the versions were never upgraded, they were frozen to the one used when the project started.
Well yeah, "break down" was probably too much of a term. I did not mean to diss Alpine; I just meant to point out that the downsides of minimal images should be carefully considered.
What you call "dedication to usability" I am more apt to label "dedication to user interface". There is an important separation of meaning there.

The technology learning curve is less steep with an Apple product, but the capabilities of the device eventually hit a wall, unless you are willing to undertake the additional effort of learning to jailbreak. Competing devices have a steeper learning curve, but they go all the way up to the hardware ceiling without such a big discontinuity. Rooting or re-flashing an Android device is still a leap, but it is much less of a shock to someone who has gone to that point. In comparing Apple and Android devices, I'd say that stock Android is more capable, but Apple is more user-friendly. Carrier-crippled Android devices reduce the functionality to that of an Apple device or less, without the mitigating factor of the superior user experience.

It turns out that doing all your user hand-holding with soft, warm hands has significant market value.
I was expecting to see some Squeak links (OSS Smalltalk) but I guess no one at Disney is using it now? I think it was the Go.com group ala Alan Kay that was doing something with it internally (I'll need to do some googling but it appears the group moved to ycombinator according to wikipedia... my memory sucks).
So it's the same as with Docker.
Funny how these things pan out, I just came across this the other day and thought it was pretty appropriate.
https://youtu.be/SqEo107j-uw?t=32m18s
Why don't you debate this?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-17/politicos-chief-pol...

Glenn Thrush, Politco's Chief Political Correspondent, decided to make it crystal clear in the
following email to Podesta back in April 2015 in which he admits that he has "become a hack."
The email below from Thrush was sent to get guidance related to an article he published the
very next day entitled "Hillary's Big-Money Dilemma."

=============

Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u

Please don't share or tell anyone I did this

Tell me if I fucked up anything
When done right it's server-side plus client-side, giving all the advantages of each.
You are disagreeing with an argument I didn't make. The burden of proof is always on the accuser/state. That is what makes sex crimes so hard to prosecute. I never made any statement regarding that or suggested anything should change with sex crimes compared to other crimes.

I simply stated that the ideas someone can't be raped if they have previously had consensual sex with their rapist or that they must immediately end contact with their rapist are ignorant ideas.
> Since when do developers have much say in which OS they use

i predominantly work in java; and while windows is the "official" development environment (more by default than by decree) there weren't any objections or policies against using linux, as nothing in the workflow is tied to a single platform. (hooray!)
Since you understand both cultures, why are people in USA not able to see the threat posed by Hillary.
Relevant is Martin Shkreli's finance lesson series which includes an analysis of netflix as an investment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTM05cVOEDY
I would pay a hundred extra for a steel unibody phone. The thing would be bomb proof.
In the submission:

> Note: synthetic post written in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719089
Johnson thinks we should eliminate income taxes and replace them with high consumption taxes and Stein thinks we should cancel student debt. I've admittedly cherry picked some things I don't like.
It'd be good if the reasoning for the foundation could be properly explained.

I understand what governance and architecture etc means in large scale projects but what does it mean for JavaScript if it's not standards based governance i.e. ECMA specs?
The Dojo and jQuery foundations merged a year ago, both of them brought a number of libraries and toolkits together such as lodash, grunt etc under a single banner.

What benefit to the open source community does it actually bring?

Is it the combined power of contributors and experts to debate and future proof standards?

The libraries and toolkits under this foundation could be argued by the cool kids of today be legacy. It could be easily ignored by these cool kids.

Bringing it under the linux foundation is interesting but can anyone explain whether this news is actually important for the future of JavaScript?
Wi-Fi Beacon Pollution
I think Clinton and Trump would each start WW3 in different ways, which makes it harder to directly compare. He would do something stupid/impulsive which couldn't be walked back (most things can, thankfully), or would cripple long-term alliances making war more likely later. She would get involved in some situation (no one thinks Trump is competent enough to let him actually engage in an intentional expansion of a conflict), which then escalates out of control.

I completely agree that being a single-issue voter on "preventing WW3" is the most moral thing possible. It's just really hard to tell which is less likely. And maybe if it is 0.00000001% vs. 0.000000011%, some other issue should have priority.
Perhaps I should change the full phrase to "the best you can be"
> institute immigration policy that benefited that country

This is implying that less educated immigrants are not beneficial? Almost any migration only happens because there are resources to be acquired on the other side. It is exactly like the drug war - you could ignore the causes of demand and try to somehow crush supply which has objectively failed (because supplies will arise to meet demands) or you implement policy to get the demand you want.

And the immigrant demand takes many forms. Some times, welfare programs are too lax and give immigrants easy ways to avoid working. And other times, there is work to be done nobody is doing (often under minimum wage) that immigrants are willing to do because even below regulated standards of income they make way more here than they would back home.

Both reflect on failings of policy that crated the demand, and those failings could be addressed in many ways and all political ideologies tout their own ideas as the solution, which is the point of debate. Most can agree the status quo is unsustainable globally, when states are trying to consistently stop the supply of immigrants rather than resolve what is causing the demand.
Whoever wins I'm VERY interested to see what election/campaign/voting reform laws get proposed or passed.

Do people try to make tax returns a requirement? Birth certificates? Do we move to a more federal election system so it's not 50 states + 1000s of counties deciding how elections are run? Do presidential powers get reigned in a bit?

Much of that may require amendments, but I have a feeling we're going to have the discussions.
People are starting to throw firebombs at each other. It's only been one incident so far (that I'm aware of), but it's not a good trajectory.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I have seen zero information leaked during this election that didn't have an anti-Hillary agenda, content discussion and validity aside. If there is anything critical of Trump, please share. With that being the case, it's clearly beyond a disruption agenda, and a pro-Trump agenda. Again, maybe I just haven't seen anything anti-Trump, but I've looked and found nothing.
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Do you think there is more uncertainty about the future today than there was, say, 50 years ago?

Anxiety about school and grades may be an outcome of an increasing sense of uncertainty. The less confident one is about the prospects of the future, the more safety net they will desire. Getting the best possible education is perceived to be the best safety net short of a trust fund.

One major difference between 2016 and 1956 is the perceived likelihood (for Americans, anyway) that you'll be able to work on an assembly line, or, a customer support group, or that your white collar job will be done on-shore.

My advice to my kids was to seek a profession that could not be sent overseas, one way or the other. Such as dentist or lumberjack :-) But of course, we now have hair transplant robots which bodes poorly for both professions.

What it means to me is that navigating the rest of the 21st century requires thoughtfulness, sound analytical skills and a sense of agency. People have to be able to understand the relative impact of all manner of dynamic systems in the world, not just technology, but economics and government, and the way they all interact. Then, they need to plan how to do to stay relevant and execute their plan.

Learning that seems like a lot to ask from a public high school education these days, yet, I believe I learned it 40 years ago.

What has changed?
But the cost of phones is a couple of zeros ( at least 1.x zeros ) off the cost of cars. What keeps people from buying more expensive cars is how much ( and what sort of ) financing they can qualify for.
That is because the recent email leaks just validated what everyone already knew about Hillary Clinton and her campaign.

The fact that the emails were LEAKED OMG is not the newsworthy part. It is what is in them. And largely speaking, there's not much news in them.

IMO a major problem in the U.S. today is that not many people understand how political campaigns or the federal government actually work. So a lot of people can be led to believe that boringly standard practices like revising talking points over email, and getting updates on court hearings, are actually proof of corruption. But they're not.
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So that's the tradeoff. Would you rather that the X party might get a seat at the table next time or would you rather that you do your best NOT to elect the person you don't want by voting for their opponent.
Yup. No explanation from @Wikileaks either
(a two day delay after the original enigmatic tweet and kludging yet another reference to Hillary Clinton Goldman Sachs emails - hardly likely to be Ecuador's main concern - into the followup suggests that whoever is managing the Twitter account is more worried about managing the US election news cycle than anything else...)
And it remains your decision how much of your own personal politics you are willing to sacrifice in exchange for a candidate more likely to win.

For a lot of people, this year, you are basically on a scale from yourself with no chance to the major nominees with at least 99.9% of the chance and almost nothing you agree with.
I'm pretty unhappy that this is what passes for discourse on HN now.
Nope, thanks for the link.
I hadn't heard that before, but I like that way of thinking about it. It reminds me a bit of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". Good grades might be a good measure of a student's performance, but when we focus on optimizing the grades themselves, they become less useful as a metric.

When I was in high school, there were some students who wouldn't take a class if it wasn't weighted, because it would bring down their overall GPA; even if it was an interest of theirs, they were worried that the effect on their class rank would hurt their college admissions chances.
I'm with you, I would be staring in the mirror having an existential crisis. "What the heck? Are they giving me a thinly disguised participation trophy? They hate participation trophies?!?"

I guess know your audience applies to parenting as well as performance.
A journalist's job is not to give anyone or anything a pass.

You can identify a good publication because everyone, on all sides of an issue, thinks the publication is out to get them. Both the Clinton and Trump camps think that about the NY Times, for example. In a way, a good way, it's true.
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I have experienced both types of approaches from my family. As a kid attending school in Ukraine we had classes 6 days a week and hours of homework each day. My grandmother was a teacher before retirement - I remember her having some very harsh words over my late nights doing math homework in 3rd-5th grade (I can't remember why but in my school there was no 4th grade, everyone in my class went from 3rd into 5th). I just could not get long division for the longest time - there was yelling and tears.

When my family (not including grandparents) moved to the U.S., my parents noticeably loosened up. I think it was because they didn't feel like they had to chase after me to do well so much anymore. They were kind of caught off guard by the school system. Math was the most important, but the stuff we were learning in math at the U.S. school were things we learned long ago in Ukraine so to them it looked like I was doing well and needed no chasing. In truth I was only doing well because my grandmother made me drill math so hard in Ukraine in prior years!

Unfortunately when in later years what we learned in American schools started to overtake what I had already known from Ukrainian schools, the relaxed attitude began to show in my grades. Perfect scores slipped to mid-lower 90s, then to Bs, and even some Cs. I remember failing one test - still can't remember why, even my teacher was shocked. I ended up graduating high school with "above average" grades, but nowhere near as good as they would've been had my grandmother kept charge of my learning.

While I don't miss my grandmother's yelling, I do wish my parents were a bit more strict back then (and at the same time realize that my lack of motivation in school was entirely my fault). I turned out ok, but feel like having a stronger grasp of math and more structured study habits would've been very beneficial later in life.
I wouldn't recommend SBT, especially for beginners (Maven is much better documented), but no, it can't give you a prompt because programs don't have access to modify the keystore by design. The JVM is one of the few platforms that actually has a decent go at security, which sometimes means usability suffers.
But they say in the instructions that you are supposed to Code it - "Do this with code." Not to use the OpenSSL. Or at least that's how I read it.
Agree and up-voted.

It's supposed to be about equality, right? How can we get more equal than focusing on the ideas themselves?
I say this as someone currently developing a vast space game using procedural generation: The danger with procedural generation is "remix boredom." The user can feel, "Oh, this is just a remixed variation of the same stuff."

The reason why we don't feel that way about the real world, is because the real world doesn't just have "remix procedural." You have to have some player-significant emergent effects coming out of the procedural generation. You see this in Minecraft. You even see it in the 1st generation of the original Elite game. The player's interest in your procedural world is directly dependent on how deep these emergent effects are. (So the emergent effects can be shallow or deep, with the corresponding amount of interest from the user.) (Which is why my procedural generated world primarily exists to support a procedural generated technology tree.)
If we want to fund things, we'll need to pay taxes.
Could you explain problems related to data science?
A long time ago I noticed a trend in job listings. Words you would associate with perfectionism (detail-oriented, accurate, etc.) are usually used with lower-paid and lower-status jobs. For example: admins, data-entry, etc.

Words you see in higher-paid and higher-status jobs often focus on strategy and planning in a complex goal space, as you note.

What's interesting about our education system is we focus a lot on precision and accuracy and not that much on strategy and planning. It seems like a system built to produce accountants and actuaries more than a new generation of entrepreneurs.
> recovery the IRS pays as a bounty for intelligence on tax avoidance scheme

Tax evasion. Tax avoidance is legal; evasion is illegal. The one is avoiding taxes by applying the law; the other is breaking the law in some fashion or another.
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>A person should not lose their job, their status on a board, their inclusion in an event, etc. based on who they decide to support politically.

* Job: agreed

* board seat: disagreed, board members are elected to represent the shareholders, companies voice their political opinions through political contributions. If those opinions aren't reflective of the shareholders, then that's a valid
reason for their removal.

* public event: agreed.

* private event: disagreed. Distasteful to do something like this, but private events are private events.
A Brief History of Voice Control
>uses his charity to pay off his businesses legal settlements

This is unproductive and dishonest hyperbole and I'm not going to waste my breath explaining the obvious.

>It's classic mis-direction

So is your post. "Just look at how bad Trump is!".

>to lobby drug companies to give massive discounts on AIDs drugs to poor people

What they've actually done is lobby drug companies into business dealings that make money for everyone. Do you think the drug companies are just giving shit out for free because Hillary and Bill asked nicely? Of course not. This would be like Trump saying he's saved lives by providing employment with health benefits.

>Trump's charity has done nothing charitable

It's funny that you try to say this in the same post as "Trump uses his charity to pay off his businesses legal settlements" because that pay-off was actually a donation to a charity for veterans (something the city of Palm Beach agreed to).
Ok, thanks for your answers, that sounds reasonable. So if I have a multi-core machine with 8 cores I can utilize all of them if I have 8 CPU intensive jobs (considering they fit into memory)?
For map nerds!

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Obama explains why Washington D.C. will never run like Silicon Valley
> I am not clear as to why you think this would not have occurred

Because those "teams" live from headline to headline and those sorts of fishing expeditions are expensive.
Douglas Adams joked about this phenomenon by describing that people will vote for lizards they hate so long it means that the wrong lizard won't win. In a zero-sum game, that result is a Nash equilibrium.

It is still a lizard that get voted into office at the end of the day.
Yeah, because partners. But Jim Lentz of Toyota America was on Charlie Rose last week - they see self-driving cars as an initial skirmish into the larger AI market. They want the whole enchilada, not just a licensing partner.
Thiel has not just backed Trump with money. He has very publicly endorsed him:

http://fortune.com/2016/07/21/peter-thiel-gives-full-throate...

The only way that this could be anything less than a full support of the Trump platform, would be if Thiel had specifically rejected large chunks of the platform are bad, and he's not supporting them, but there's some things there in particular that he finds so important that they override all the bad stuff. In other words, the "lesser of two evils" endorsement, such as some Republicans have made for Clinton this year.

Thiel didn't do that. In his speech, the only reference to that was decrying the "fake culture wars".

Ergo, he fully supports not just Trump, but the entirety of the Trump platform.
As the Scala team lead at Lightbend, I'm truly saddened to see posts like this. It couldn't be farther from our intentions and interests! We absolutely want outstanding Scala documentation, and would never stand in the way of improving them in any way.

My whole team has worked extremely hard this year to bring you the best 2.12 compiler we can. We also spend as much time as possible helping out with polishing documentation, but we feel a coordinated push for better documentation belongs under the umbrella of the Scala Center (whose mission is to "Independently guide and support the Scala community" and to "Provide deep, and quality, educational materials for Scala"). We'll be thrilled to collaborate, but we (as veteran Scala users) are not the best placed to write getting started guides.

EDIT: It was brought to my attention that my comment about the Scala Center could be misinterpreted. I meant to say I would support a proposal to the Scala Center advisory board about improving Scala's documentation, with a focus on the getting started experience.
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Consider putting your money into a business you know, equity, or rental property.

The idea is that rather than holding liquid exchange media (money), you make that money work by investing it on a productive venture.

Investing in the stock market (or an index fund) is similar in many regards to starting your own business or putting the money into a partnership or investment property: you're investing financial capital (giving someone else the ability to buy stuff -- liquid exchange medium) in return for an ownership interest in the return.

On balance, investing in stocks is cheap, has little by way of management obligations, and (notable exceptions notwithstanding) tends to produce pretty good returns over time, especially as compared to holding cash. Your investment is also fairly liquid, as stocks themselves can be sold (converted to cash) at any time.

No, it's not risk-free. But it's a pretty decent risk, and in general you're in the same boat as everyone else.