skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is an increase in living costs at the same time and/or a decrease in quality of goods then obviously yes.
There's a UK comedy show from a few years ago called Little Britain that has this same thing happening in a recurring skit except with English. There was a British woman who claimed to never understand what an old Indian woman wearing a sari with an Indian accent was saying despite it being quite clear. I wonder whether this is some low level passive aggressive behaviour around the world due annoyance of dealing with a 'foreigner'.
> Namusobya from ISER said she believes BIA causes segregation between the poor and rich.
She said in government-run schools every child is treated equally, but BIA's model only targets the poor.

Not sure that I'm seeing the problem here... since when are the rich jealous of the poors' education?

And here is the bit where Gates/Zuck benefit (possibly now, certainly in the future):

> You have technology -- like tablets -- often standing in place of teachers...

Gates/Zuck [could] make more money selling tech to these schools (probably not through tuition, though, because it's only $6/month).

[I see the benefits being long-term edu foothold, not short-term profiteering]

Edit: Added edits in [].
I'm a programmer, mostly web based apps and related servers. For my usage, I need an SSD (~512gb) and a recent cpu with 16gb+ ram. The touchpad has been what kept me on the mbp... Looking at the Razer Blade Pro, love the keyboard layout, but its totally overkill for my needs.

An integrated gpu, with a higher end i5, with a big ssd and lots of ram for half the price would be more appealing to me.. even bringing a lower rez screen would be okay for my needs... love the for factor though.

Everyone has different needs, as you said.
> For non-distributable (or at least non-multi-master) DBs, you are often using your most expensive and least distributable resource to do your cheapest and most distributable work.

I see your logic, but I think this is misleading, and often the reason why people do inefficient things.

The pattern I see regularly is if the database does more thinking, its planner will diminish the amount of actual work; it will touch fewer rows from disk, and less data will result sent over the network and in fewer round trips. Overall for any extensive report you're likely to be paying significant cost to distribute the work, often more than actually doing the work.

Of course, as you say it's subjective. Scaling databases becomes necessary at a point, but it may be because of developers not embracing them; I think this is why NoSQL has gained in popularity.
Clearly the "Remember this and that"event culture is not working. Books and movies are obviously not enough to keep the horrors and fails of the past alive. Three Generations after WW2 suddenly its okay to demonize a group again.

I must admit i dont have any answer to this. And obviously more of the same doesn't work - i wish you could craft this learning experience into games. Like participating in a civil war- at the beginning you are blindly on a side- but then you play a second story, and lose some beloved character to your own murderous attitude, and you do that again and again, until it becomes clear that the enemy is you giving in to instinct.

But even that could only educate on basic humanity- you cant transport complex mistakes like economical mistakes in such game.
I couldn't figure how to apply the coupon though. It says that the coupon has been applied, but I am charged 48 usd for the Mini/Yearly plan.
The rationale for shutting them down looks sound to me -- for-profit schools that don't meet standards, and are run by unqualified teachers.
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Alright, so currently we can't even predict how bad osteoporosis becomes after a flight to Mars (will astronauts break their hips on the first step out of landing module?), what would radiation exposure outside Earth's magnetosphere do to our bodies, yet we should hurry up to Titan. Currently even human space flight to Mars is a pipe dream, our practical knowledge constructing vehicles capable of reaching Moon and sustaining human life deteriorated (still using Soviet engines from the 60s?), not mentioning reaching Mars which is way way farther than Moon (50M-400M km vs 380k km, 130-1050x farther). Overcoming this would require massive undertaking of all humanity, like with LHC, and not just PR from SpaceX to secure their funding.
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Technically matrix-vector multiplication is just a special case of matrix-matrix-multiplication, but I take your point. Indeed it would be illuminating to see how exactly matrix multiplication composes two transformations.
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For me (closer to react guy), I want an SSD and plenty of ram... a high end core i5 with integrated gpu will do... but in many corp environments there are only a handful of build options, so you get the uber machine or 8gb ram with spinning rust drive.
Maybe not entirely tech related but /r/entrepreneur has some good posts (not all of them but there's some gold here and there)
Anyone here used Fastmail but migrated to this service, and able to provide a more detailed comparison?

I'm happy with Fastmail, but Migadu's pricing is very appealing...
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And even with uMatrix installed + JS disabled for that domain!

Edit: raised an issue in uMatrix: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/672
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r/TrueReddit is the audition for HN and vice versa. Folks wanting to eke out karma arbitrage can just copy and paste between them, they track each other with about 12-24 hours lag.
All we can see as outsiders is that shadowbanned accounts mostly stop posting

You're right. And this itself is evidence that banning is effective. It's not effective because they can't create new accounts (which they can); it's effective because they generally stop posting.

In addition,

- I haven't seen users obviously thumbing their noses at the mods with respect to the ineffectiveness of banning;

- I haven't seen the mods using or discussing any other methods stronger than banning to combat trolls, which I think they would if banning wasn't effective.

On the flip side, what evidence is there that banning isn't effective?

I've been a little frustrated by your lack of answers to some pertinent questions I've asked:

- Do you have particular examples where the mods haven't been fair?

- Do you have any other ideas as to how to fairly and effectively shape community behavior?
There is nothing odd or hard to understand about it. The rule for mockery or jokes in the US is generally "you don't punch down." No cop has ever flipped out and shot an unarmed Asian kid based on stereotypes about how hard asians study. There is no such thing as "driving while Asian." Asians make more money on average than even white people, they live longer, etc. They are well represented in higher academia and high income professions. You'll find Asians in high income neighborhoods around the country. The country didn't fight a war over half of it trying to enslave Asians.

One of the things I've always found shocking about America, as an Asian immigrant myself, is how black people are treated as more foreign, in their own country, than actual foreigners. There are small pockets of unintegrated Asians (mostly first generation immigrants) but cities all over the country are highly segregated along black/white lines. If you really want to understand what makes American culture tick, live somewhere like Philadelphia or Baltimore for awhile.
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Thanks for your answer. That was very informative. I am working on a collaborative version of this, but it's quite complex.

One point I want to make though is that the app works well with a shell.

Not sure if you saw the entire video but in the end it shows how you can use it in context with terminal (and I have users who use it with iTerm2 (http://disq.us/p/vao7ti)

Anyway this was very valuable as I am always looking for ways to optimize flow for my user.
Or let's spend all this money and energy keep earth a safe and livable place to be.
Should the 20 just be bought out, or forced to sell, or allowed to rezone and then sell one by one (with the first person getting the most money, as each lot is turned into a high rise).

We are facing some of this in the city in which I live and I don't really know how to address it (I can see validity in the arguments of both sides) so was wondering what you see as the path forward.
If your roommates in college mock you for studying all day,they may be missing the point of college, and you may want different roommates anyway.
Yes, but it's not entirely clear whether those schools actually don't meet standards, or if someone in government has been "motivated" to say so by the for-profit school organization.
Is it hard to nuke Mars or Titan? Looks the same for me. Deploy nukes in the Mars orbit and destroy colony if needed.
So here's the dilemma. People who see the beauty and elegance of mathematics are always going to go into something that exercises that, and will never go into teaching.

Why would anyone who is seriously good at lots of math go into teaching? Especially in the USA, UK, or other countries where teaching has such a low status. In many cases teachers are genuinely despised.

Why would anyone good at math ever go into teaching? No money, no status, no respect, no flexibility, no control, crushing hours, crushing workload ... why would anyone do that?!?

No wonder students are never exposed to the real beauty and elegance of mathematics.
I have to wonder if the recently discovered ice deposits on mars would do the job

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mars-ice-deposit-holds-as-m...

If this really is just a metre down and 80% water it's got to be an attractive target - relatively easy to mine (once surface is cleared, just use heat) and a hollowed out underground structure with 1m of ice above would be an effective radiation shield:

http://space.stackexchange.com/a/1826

... and once you're there, water is water, plus water can be used to make fuel.
Because computers also need to rest sometimes.
Right now the only replies list reddit and lobste.rs. That's really depressing :/

Are there really no other decent online communities out there? I'm increasingly disenfranchised with reddit and lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea). I've been poking around the various *chans to see if I can brave the noise and chaos in the hope that I'll occasionally find a similar calibre of info as what I find on here.
India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
The name-dropping of Gates and Zuck helps the western reader relate to pretty domestic Ugandan news. Whereas it helps attracts views, I wonder exactly to what extent the two billionaires and their interests are involved in BIA.
So, when are you getting started?
True, my point was that the title is misleading -- the shutdown isn't directly related to Gates or Zuckerberg. It is not an attack on them, but a reasonable response to actual problems with the education. Whether or not those claims are true isn't something I can know just based on reading the article.
Are you asking what is the connection between China and Mao?
Yea, mathematics is more fundamental than physics, in the sense that it would be possible for different universes to exist with different physics, but it's not clear at all that universes could exist with different mathematics. What would that even mean? You may like Max Tegmark's idea that the universe is math: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646

But it's nonsense that the natural numbers require two dimensions. Time appears nowhere in the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo–Fraenkel_set_theory
Why are people upvoting this?
And why are you convinced this bid to control the news is not part of that weaponizing process; maybe you're inadvertently helping them. "They" may just be seeking cover under the idea that adults are too easily manipulated to trust their abilities to sort fact from fiction.
I've just a few days ago started using a seedbox/vps service to avoid any possible incursions on comcast/xfinity's 6-strikes policy.
That's the case sometimes. It's not the case with something like GNU.
Taken out of context thats easy to conclude, but putten in context then it remains unclear.

Because even then he said, that he is not going to say that he wil accept a loss, no matter what happened.
It's hardly surprising that they would use rationale that makes sense, given that they need to convince a judge. This is not the same thing as their rationale being accurate. Since most HN readers are not there, it's hard to know what is really going on here. For instance, the counter-rationale, that the school threatens other schools as well as the government schools that these children would otherwise be going to also makes sense.

When I'm reading a story like this, there are some immediate questions that come to mind:

1) what are the alternatives these students have and how accessible are they?

2) what are the students educational outcomes vs students who are using the alternative?

3) it seems the organization runs schools in other parts of Africa, so how are they received there?

I could go on...
Ever since I heard about the proposal for floating cities on Venus, I have been a fan.

There may be higher risks with floating cities initially, but considering the proximity of Venus from Earth, I think we can afford to trial (on robots or Humans for shorter periods of time) more often than say Mars, Europa or Titan.
Doubtful. I'm not fan of Gates or Zuckerberg, but they can invest their money with a much higher return than is likely to be achieved in the Ugandan private education industry.

Even people who generally do the wrong thing can do the right thing sometimes - and Gates in particular has demonstrated this. Sure, contributing to reducing malaria deaths means more potential windows users, but it's a bit of a tenuous link.
Learning by doing and reading books go together like peanut butter and jelly.
Unfortunately there's not much on the chans either. The ones I used to browse have generally been overtaken, even on tech/programming boards with threads complaining about diversity or they are thinly-veiled alt-right recruitment posts.

I haven't been there for a while, but Lainchan isn't all that bad. Quite slow, though.
I think you're probably right for the most part, but a few other thoughts occurred to me for energy sources not mentioned in the article:

1) Cryovulcanism is suspected to be present on Titan. Maybe it would be possible to tap into geothermal energy there?

2) Given that there's an atmosphere, we could fly balloons there. It might be possible to use high-altitude solar panels to collect energy with some sort of drone balloon swarm. Probably still not all that practical for a dense population, but maybe it could support some sort of sparse drone rancher scenario?

3) Along with wind as you mentioned, there's also the possibility of hydroelectric power as there are rivers, lakes, and rain on Titan. Bearing in mind that the "hydro" there is hydrocarbon sludge, of course.

Yeah, probably not all that practical of a place to live, but fun to think about. :)
What should be added about LKY? He did many wonderful things for his country, but he was also a dictator. As a dictator, he was evil. He wasn't the worst kind of evil, but that was bad. I really can't imagine how intelligent people can still discuss about it.
Being a dictator means forcing your decision to people with different ideas. That's violence. How can it be good? You may say that, in a case like Singapore, the man did more good than evil, but that isn't the point. The dictatorship part was wrong.
By the way, if you need to force your ideas to most of your people, it means that you are not doing a good job as a governor. If you force your ideas to just a minority, than you are being evil just for the sake of being evil.
Well, impacts. I suppose that a vertical hit at interplanetary speeds (or earth-orbit speeds, that high up) will leave a nicely clean hole, but think of the enormous cut made by something coming in on a trajectory that would slingshot close to the moon surface if the bubble wasn't there.

Sure, with technology indistinguishable from magic you could still do it, but i don't known if there would still be much incentive for building the bubble left in that case.
But 12.5 minutes a day for 10 years is only 761 hours. The purpose of SuperMemo is to optimise for total time spent. (Of course, the specific course/material might not have been the most effective.)

But I guess that argument doesn't hold water, since rdslw is surely also exposed to a lot of other material in English.
Just as a note to anyone wanting to pick one up. The webcam is down by the keyboard, and not in the bezel above the screen. So if you work remote, all your fellow workmates will be staring up your nose.

https://www.google.no/search?q=xps+13+webcam&safe=off&source...
What is your opinion on Qt mobile?
I think you implicitly assume adaptation meaning losing someone's identity with his/her own culture.

Those two things are not mutually exclusive, IMO. Quite on the contrary, I think in order to successfully adapt, you have to know where you stand in the first place. What fits you, what does not. It is an ever-going process, long and sometimes painful. But in the end, it will force you to better understand your own background, its virtue and weakness alike, and what difference has America bringing to it.
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Elon Musk's ticket to Mars will be less meaningful (if we take the word 'colonization' seriously) unless somebody can stick several thousand people into a hermetic sealed box and they are still alive and thriving after 10 years.

I've been disappointed with the lack of progress in closed loop systems to date. There was Biosphere 2, a great ambitious start. Then a few years ago there was Kamen's Slingshot (outcome unknown). That and the ISS toilet doesn't work properly. It's an un-sexy topic and there hasn't been much progress.

I see houses are heading towards zero energy from the grid, but a magic box which would reliably and cheaply convert black/gray water to high quality drinking water and turn poop and organics into energy bricks to eliminate sewage plants and septic tanks seems like a technology we should have invented a long time ago.

Off topic, I enjoyed 'A Colder War' and was curious about your thoughts on Gene Wolfe.
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> Overcoming this would require massive undertaking of all humanity, like with LHC

I don't think this is a fair comparison.

The LHC while an amazing feat was not complex, in the sense that it was a well defined and very bounded project.

Interplanetary travel is such an open project that just defining the relevant problems is in itself much harder than the LHC, let alone solving them.
Looks like they are using Rainloop (https://www.rainloop.net/) with a customized skin.
>If we were to invest in building a underwater 'Sealab' on the bottom of some ocean floor, say at least 100m water deep, what kind of cataclysmic event could destroy it.

Maybe a sinking ship landing on the dome might be a problem. Or depth charges dropped during war. It would be considerably more difficult to destroy a colony on Mars through physical intervention, intentional or not.

... hacking in and opening all airlocks and evicting all oxygen, like fire suppression systems, on the other hand...
"if I had built the game natively, I don't think I would have had to worry about this kind of stuff at all"

Actually you still would have had to worry about this stuff. A mature game library would likely have helped but the choice of language isnt the issue here.
>You can buy tiny little USB-C adapters like this by the handful on Amazon for cents:

Buying a proper USB-C adapter is not trivial.[1] I read somewhere that Amazon subsequently removed a lot of bad listings/sellers but that doesn't mean a new batch of bad adapters are selling now 2016.

>In a year or two when we all have junk drawers packed full of extra generic USB-C cables that cost nearly nothing, we’re going to look back on this and wonder why everyone was so worked up.

Because Apple didn't synchronize the USB-C-is-the-future simultaneously across all new products. The brand new iPhone 7 is Lightning instead of USB-C. The brand new yet-to-be-released AirPods' recharging dock is Lightning instead of USB-C. That's what leads to the mob mocking Apple's product strategy requiring the clutter of dongles.[2]

[1]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/google-engineer-leave...

[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5a6lbd/it_just_works...
> Despite my initial impressions, I really like the keyboard.

Have only tried typing a few lines in store and I also enjoyed it, but might be personal preference: use keyboard with Cherry MX Brown at home and got used to light/low-force actuation.

Getting a maxed out 13'' to replace my 2008 one.
The article says that the water ice could be used as a source of oxygen, needed to power the combustion of hydrocarbons as fuel. But the oxygen is trapped in water molecules, wouldn't it need to be freed from the hydrogen atoms first (which requires energy)?
And remote work needs to get more and more mainstream.

If that doesn't happen, then the pressure will remain on the geographies with many job opportunities, and most of the wealth will flow to the landowners.
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Well, I would guess Mad Max without the combustion engines
This is kind of what LINQ does. You write a query in C#. The structure of the query (like an abstract syntax tree) can be exposed to the query provider which can interpret it or compile it to the CLR or compile it to SQL or whatever.
I wouldn't say these are comparable to HN but r/cableporn and r/welding might be interesting to HN posters.
Python 2.7 fork with new syntax, builtins, libraries backported from Py3
As shown in this Ars review: http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/11/dell-xps-13-kaby-la...
I think it might have something to do with the structure of the fugue.

> a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.