skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As does yours. Any data to back up that number, or just anecdotal evidence?
There are board games that teach similar concepts.

I've played Robot Turtles (http://www.robotturtles.com/) with my 5 year old at a friends place and they all appeared to enjoy it. I'm not sold on whether it's teaching "programming" any more than any sequence toy/game does...
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Good teams can form within bad organizations, but it's a vulnerable position to be in as an employee. One reorg and suddenly it's all bad.
I fully agree that tracing each concept to its originating source has great value.

From a presentational point of view, I wonder if it would pollute the plain/clean presentation of the formulas. Perhaps very small footnote-like citations could work, but it has to be unobtrusive.

The hardest part, however, will be coming up with the authoritative source for each concept. As it's outside my field of expertise, we would have to rely on the community to fill in these details incrementally.
I don't think I really care. It's basically a scam, and it's not gonna play well in the long term. I'm not speeding up the demise of Facebook by quitting messenger, but I'm losing the option to keep track of many contacts.

Matters of privacy are much more relevant, but that's still not a deal breaker for me, right now. Otherwise I would have just quit a long time ago.
It would be somewhat unfair to drop the hammer, out of nowhere, on some unsuspecting CEO who just did "business as usual".

I remember learning pretty early on that life is not fair, and later on that the justice system is not fair. But dropping the hammer is the only way that the business as usual stops being usual.
Followup post showing Apple is willing to replace the devices damaged by their faulty drivers

> https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5e7whh/update_bootca...

and have since also updated their drivers

> https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5e7whh/update_bootca...
That's _almost_ the startup we created ~3.5 years ago (still going today!) https://www.uvize.com/

It's not 100% online mentorship though. It's really there to facilitate / manage / help existing mentorship programs at organizations.

We thought about trying to get it to a point where it could work with non-associated mentors/mentees, but it's really a chicken/egg problem at that point.
Given all the recommendations for Lego bricks (with which I concur), I thought this bit of advice might be useful:

Try to stay away from the themed and/or branded sets. They are full of special parts that exists only to make bricks look like something else, and are not (generally speaking) particularly useful in any other sense (certainly not for developing a kid's imagination).

Instead, try to get the large sets of ordinary bricks, and sets with the special parts that are generally useful. You should start (on Amazon or other retailers) with searches like "Lego Classic", "Lego Creative", and "Lego Education".

If they are interested in progressing to the sort of mechanisms the Technic sets enable, those type of parts can also be found in various "Lego Education" sets as well as using search phrases like "Lego Simple Machines", "Lego Simple Mechanisms", "Lego WeDo", and "Lego Pneumatics" as starting points.

Enjoy!
> He is a guy with some real skin in the game.

Your mechanic has zero skin in the car safety game. He has nothing to gain or lose from giving accurate safety advice. This means he's not financially incentivized to push certain cars but also means he's not incentivized to gather or provide accurate or useful data.

I'm amazed that you're so distrustful of the government that you prefer tarot reading from your mechanic over the recommendations from the agency that literally crashes thousands of cars to gather data on how safe they are. This isn't healthy skepticism. This is blind hate.

> People refer to yelp, friends and other known patients before visiting a doctor.

People generally have no way of knowing the quality of a doctor. They recommend primarily based on whether they like the doctor on a personal level. Which is fine because the medical industry is structured to largely keep incompetent doctors out.

> In the absence of government's heavy handed approach of medical regulation the market can perhaps develop a FICO like score for doctors.

I'm just kind of at a loss here. FICO was such a screwed up system that the government had to step in and regulate it because people were unable to get loans because of bad data and they had no way to find out or fix it. This is hardly a good model for controlling quality in general.

When industries form bodies to self-regulate in the absence of government involvement, it generally doesn't help consumers. It helps the industry. It's also typically called collusion because it's such a harmful practice.
Depends on how you start your car I guess.

My car is also a BMW product, but it was a big toggle switch on bottom of the dashboard for Engine on/off. Pulses red when it's ready to start.
Diamond has perfect cleavage in four directions.

If you want a mineral that you can really pound on without it breaking, you want nephrite. The Maori made war clubs out of it. Bring a diamond to a nephrite fight, and you're going to end up in the stewpot.

If you need hardness and toughness, corundum is what you want.
I bet you guys sit alone on Jabber while everyone else are having conversations on Skype and Slack.
Although I am a white heterosexual man, I have always refused to provide such information as gender (I have recently made a new passport without gender information). Your gender should not be of concern neither for the state and administration, nor for any organisation or company. By law in certain countries (in Europe) it is illegal to ask about things such as gender, marital status or age, and it should be illegal to ask for adding photos to your CV.

Even if they ask you to fill a form, just leave these fields blank.
Specifically, I am asking about how safe spaces or trigger warnings in college are at all relevant to the occurrence of suicide outside of a college setting.

I do apologize for my final note, as I realize it is off topic and I would rather not enter tangential discussion. I've edited it out. If you would like to continue talking, let me know if there is another way to talk (email, etc.)
The sad fact is that the general public only seems to care about the fancy buttons.

The general public is (by our standards) astonishingly bad at using computers.

http://boingboing.net/2016/11/28/people-really-really-suck-a...

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

Perhaps most users need the fancy buttons, need the leading-users-by-the-nose-through-a-garden-of-visual-delights sort of experience that modern, beautiful, dumbed-down web UIs mostly provide.

The dense old interfaces the author champions are very rewarding and powerful for people who understand how to use them, but they're a huge turn-off for people who don't understand them and who aren't interested in investing the time needed to learn new tools.

Pretty much every web UI post-mortem you see finds the same thing: The more clicks you require of users to perform a function or use a feature, the less users engage with that function or feature. One click is often too much to ask.

Even so, the web as it stands today seems like (from a comp-sci point of view) a monumentally inefficient way of producing the functions it provides, with a ridiculous amount of hardware and software consumed by the problem of displaying, say, a news article which the reader has maybe a 5% chance of actually reading through and a 1% chance of commenting on.
I checked their sign-up page to find out more, they tout the reasons for signing up as: commenting, favouriting videos, viewing private content and being able to upload your own content. The article also lists these pretty much verbatim.

Supposedly there are almost 13m accounts on the site, I would expect at least some of the accounts which have uploaded personal content could be valuable for extortion. Even without having uploaded content a profile of someones porn habits could be used for blackmail.
I take it you don't live in Iceland.
Last generation of iBook G3 went through graphics chipsets at an astounding rate. Most of my friends who bought one got all the way through the 3 strikes and you get a replacement machine with them. All of them got a free iBook G4 for their trouble.

At one point, the iBook G3 had a 73% failure rate...
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Would appreciate a bug report if you have a repo: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/entry?template=WASM%20...
I have a question for senior developers like the author. I've been a developer for 1.5 years and on this article's checklist for switching jobs I have everything except a mentor (that's probably more my fault). According to the this article I should not switch jobs. However I live in the Bay Area and there is a huge COL and also salary difference between top and "2nd tier" companies. Junior engineers at Google/FB/MSFT make 180+ while I would say market is 120+ for the Bay Area. This is a sizable income difference esp when you compound over 3-5 years. Dan Luu explains it better: http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

Does it make sense to stay
at my job where I am learning well or should I try to switch to a larger tech company since it has a material impact on my financial well being ? I want to raise a family and hope own a home (or rent one near good schools) and I don't see that as being possible in the Bay Area without a Google salary. If I was living in a market like Texas I would stay at my current job because market salaries allow you easily have a middle class family lifestyle (my parents live there and you can easily raise a family on 90k). The Bay Area however is another beast and that 50-60K Google salary difference compounded over many years seems substantial (esp for that mortgage down payment). I don't want to move out of the Bay (my wife is tied here too). What do you guys think - are the financial reasons enough to consider switching jobs for the Bay Area ?
Deepstream 2.0 up to thousand times faster than socket.io
> Data Genetics came up with the numbers by analyzing a database of 3.4 million stolen passwords that have been made public over the years. Most of these are passwords for websites. But by looking specifically at those that comprise exactly four characters, all of which are numerals, the researchers figured they could get a decent proxy for ATM PINs as well.

That seems like an incredibly faulty assumption. Most pins are auto-generated randomly and then you are given the option to change them if you choose. Most passwords are not. I'd guess that PINs would be FAR more random than 4 digit passwords.
Yeah, the GPU issues - but like you said they didn't manifest themselves right away.

I got hit by the 2011 MBP issue a year or so in. I had to buy a new laptop because Apple didn't issue the repair order until well after my AppleCare expired and I wasn't going to pay $500+ for the repair not knowing whether Apple would eventually pick up the tab.
Since it's on HN it is now the most common pin of tech ceos and sysadmins.
>It seems like if I want my programs to run for more than ten years I shouldn't be using Python

I do hope other language communities have learned from the Python2 Python3 fiasco. Dealing with no new features in a version with millions of lines of code already written, enough syntactical and other issues that require large underlying changes, etc.
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What do you mean by "give credit"? You have to name the original author with MIT somewhere:

<snip>
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
</snip>
Everyone has different needs. For your needs (for most people's needs), Py3 is better. For his needs, Py2.7 is better. It's not hard to understand.

If everything he encounters, for example, is in 2.7, then that's probably the best tool for the job. If I'm commuting to work in the morning, I want a nice sedan with an automatic transmission and fuel injection because it's nice and modern and easy to use. If I'm in rural Africa though, I probably want a truck with a manual transmission and a carburetor. Sure it's outdated, but if I need a mechanic to work on it or parts that will fit it, every other car on the road there is just as outdated as mine.
Make sure you find out from several sources how many hours those engineers at "top tier" companies are working. They could be making the same as a "2nd tier" engineer, just working 1.5x more. Thats cool if you have the funds to put your kid into a nice school, but you also have to be present to be a good parent.
Thread a few weeks ago on the MSP430:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12952100

tl;dr (I hunted up the datasheets); they'll run (i.e. processing numbers, not idling) at 120 µA/MHz, which is miniscule. However, there are some new ARM-Thumb designs which will run at 35 µA/MHz:

http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/arm/sam-l.asp...
I would hate to try to predict.

Right now the economy is not that bad, but it is not that good either.

The P/E ratio is near the high end of "normal", which means if we got a 50% rally in the next few years, we would be in bubble territory and I think that would all get given up.

The long term factor is that there is too much capital built up, which is why there is so much demand for US dollars, US government debt, etc. If they really did anything to reduce the national debt it would create a crisis for the international financial system since you really have to have a hole in your head to buy EU debt, Chinese debt, etc.

It is heresy but I think a good burst of inflation would help align future debts with reality. If I was boss I'd print money and give $100,000 to every American. Trouble is it might wind up in the housing market or the stock market and contribute to the problem, not the solution.
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That's the lot of early adopters. Too be fair any widely popular product will have its share of problems, and since we in the west basically stopped caring about the conditions in which these products are built...
>And how many PINs do you suppose they blacklist?

I hope they will blacklist top 9997 pins.

Greetings, the bad guy.
You should never do this. Best-case favors outliers and does not represent expected performance, which is what we care about. Just because the stars happen to align one time doesn't mean you report that run.

Consider the following runs of two systems:

system A: 10s, 10s, 10s, 10s, 10s, 10s, 10s, 5s

system B: 6s, 6s, 6s, 6s, 6s, 6s, 6s, 6s

Which one is faster? (Hint: don't say system A)
It's admittedly anecdotal. But I've encountered it so often, in different meetups, I don't think it's such an isolated phenomena.

Maybe the foolish ones are just more vocal than the ones who are there to learn.
Programs like keepass are good solutions.
I run it in a cloud setting, with a back up on multiple of my own devices.
A good strong master password is important.
offline password managers are pretty good.
Ask HN: How many bits of storage does each unpopulated cell in excel use?
And is there a way to save excel files without using up this space?
Closer shave, more time before I get bristly. I personally prefer a tidy facial appearance. And since having children, more time for snuggles before the whiskers get to scratchy for them :)
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> disk I/O is the new RAM

If you try to run OSX on a machine with a magnetic drive, you'll see that this is the case now. :/

To make it clear, my Mac Mini was performant about three major OS releases ago, and went to crap after an OS upgrade, so it's not the hardware.
Do you have a link to that study?

I remember seeing a study that showed that people who take notes on paper do better vs people who take notes on a laptop. People who didn't take notes(or take very few) weren't mentioned.
Many of us already carry around lithium ion batteries in our pockets, and I think these nuclear batteries could be far less dangerous. Phones can explode without warning, and bending or piercing a battery can cause huge explosions and fires. You'd have to try really hard to shatter these diamonds, and they would probably have some lead lining.
At least on iOS, there was an option "Share location only while using app" that you could use with Uber and other iOS apps.

The latest version of the Uber app has removed this as an option.

IMO, Apple should remove the option of "Always" to prevent apps from abusing location data.

As a result, I've just been leaving location set to off on the Uber app and manually entering addresses. Thanks Uber for making your service less functional.
TBH not any less excusable since laptops should be tested in a thermal chamber and for a long duration, but PR wise it wasn't this bad.

And what's worse it just hints a deeper issues, the 6/6plus bendgate and the more recent display gate were kinda meh, now this line which not only had some questionable design choices but also has multiple hardware issues.

Things just seem to be broken.
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A note: every compiler writer should read this paper.

https://emeryberger.com/research/stabilizer/
What? You really have no idea how epistemology works, do you? Just reading David Brooks make unsourced claims with third hand knowledge and thinking about what he said like it's true is no basis for an analysis, especially an easily studied one like this.

First off, you'd need to demonstrate an effect that focused on that age group. But suicide rates are going up much more quickly for the middle aged and the poor. [0] Second, you clearly have no idea what "safe spaces" are. They're not "every part of life", they're specific meeting places in the community and focus on problems that have to be grappled with constantly, everywhere else. People who have access to safe spaces are consistently living with unsafe spaces; providing a small space of momentary refuge isn't coddling.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/hea...
I am slightly worried that a lot of public Wifi seems to be unable to redirect you to the login page (think Starbucks) if you visit https:// sites. The Guardian was my go-to for such situation so that I could login and get online.

I'm not sure how these redirects work (DNS? Inserting JS into the page?) but it seems to be a common problem.
Needs a [1998] in the title:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980206223800/http://www.norvig...
That's way too hot.
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I've either been forced to change my pin the first time I've used my ATM card, or I've not even known the PIN until I've assigned it. I would be in absolutely no way surprised if most people only had one four digit number they used for everything. Anecdotally, when it comes to four digit numbers, a lot of people I know use a significant date.
This is old news and you can play the game without enablidng stuff. I literary played this in browser few days ago.
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There is a tool that might help you, it's called Visolve (http://www.ryobi-sol.co.jp/visolve/en/visolve.html).

I couldn't find anything similar for Linux distros, though.
I read it as "Hackers are training thousands of hamsters for porn details." :(
Actually, this is the first time I hear it's even possible to change your PIN code at all... As far as I know I just get a new PIN code whenever I get a new card, and just have to live with it ;-)
I clicked over to this, prepared to hate-read it and leave a caustic comment.

(background: I live on a farm, and have come across dozens if not hundreds of websites that promise to "open source", and/or "crowd source" "innovative", "new" plans for farm tools, all of which are either useless, overly complicated, too much work to build, or better bought as a working product from Tractor Supply.)

...and - much to my surprise - this website actually has a fair number of really decent ideas.

"Pastured pig waterer", "Home built no-till seed drill", and a few others all look interesting.

FWIW, over the next year or two I'd like to design and weld up a potato row mounder and a potato harvester, both designed to attach via three point hitch to my tractor. They're commercially available, but not locally, and shipping on big stuff like this is killer.
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There you go! Thanks :)
>That's not a negative, especially for anyone who makes their living selling software.

So you think free things should be banned so that leaches who want to make money selling things can do so? How idiotic.

If I'd like to make a living selling air for breathing, is it wrong for people to breathe the air that's freely available? I guess so, in your world.

>And there's nothing special about Linux that saves it from that; if it became popular, commercial software would be written for it as well, and you'd have the same problem.

Here you completely miss the point. I'm not talking about special niche software, just basic stuff. I can't even edit a fucking text file in Windows without installing some special third-party software, because Windows doesn't come with a usable text editor. Luckily there's free stuff available on the web for some things like that, but it's a big PITA to go find some website, find a download link, and install the program. On Linux, this kind of basic software is part of a standard install, and at the very worst, all I have to do is something like "sudo apt-get install vim".
Interestingly, there seem to be an established names for flat/planar/2D inclusions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(chemistry)

As well as for point/0D inclusions:

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

..but not for what this article describes, which appear to be linear/1D inclusions.
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance
As far as I know, they are one of the few big media outlets to support https. So yes, this should have been done earlier, but kudos to them for pioneering this in their field and for publishing a short instruction manual for whoever else is planning this.

I'm not surprised that they are worried about the financial impact of https on their (very modest) revenue. It's a big investment for an industry struggling financially.
Brilliant, beautiful, open and supported by heavy horsepower.
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