skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember in 2nd grade asking, "Do I have to do this?" whatever the assignment was, because it was boring. By 6th grade I was asking, "Why does it take this long to learn this little?"

Primary schools, at least in the U.S. are designed to make good little worker bees who follow instructions. It's practically designed to make children feel comfortable with being bored.

The practicality of homeschooling is very far from universal. The whole concepts of time devoted to career, wealth projection, real estate cost, all need to be made more practical if homeschooling is also going to be practical. It's not practical to expect one parent to be the stay at home teacher. Not everyone is a good teacher anyway, and most of them are working full time jobs.
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> show what's missing

Go to the Guardian article, press ctrl+f and type:

- corruption

- review

- buy

Now you see what is missing. I don't say that Gamergate didn't evolved into mostly hate driven movement in its latter phase, but its primary cause must not be ignored.

Nevertheless, I don't want to waste my time on discussing it, since my comment was about mjg59 behavior, not Gamergate (and I didn't followed it enough to discuss it in details).

He was neglecting his maintainers duties, for example he accepted a patch from a well-known troll, which in fact broke some things. So he would have to step down from maintenance anyway. (This is not any secret info, it all can be read on LKML.)

Instead he decided to play drama and presented Gamergate as a reason of stepping down. And replaced all comments who were disproving his statement with "Fart fart fart".

Having in mind all of that, I don't thing calling him 'clown' and describing his actions as childish is an exaggeration.
High school students make Martin Shkreli's $750-drug Daraprim for $2
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While I agree with your general sentiment—I would also be skittish to refer to them as H&G—I think a few things are clear that we can all agree on:

1. The site well pre-dates current archeological evidence for sustained agriculture.

2. The site clearly supported a lot of people with similar aims and (most likely) religious significance.

3. The site is quite impressive to build on both a physical and organizational level.

The question I've heard posed around the site is: did the social/religious element help bootstrap sustained agriculture, or did the agriculture allow the gathering to form when it couldn't be sustained before, or did they form in unison? I don't think the archeological record is anywhere near answering that question; I don't recall much evidence of agriculture, and the only other model of clearly pre-agriculture society we have is H&G societies.

Long-winded; apologies. But I think we can have a more nuanced discussion than H&G vs Settled.
No one is denying that students experiment with sex and drugs.

Rather, the observation is that these things happen mostly outside of school, so avoiding schools isn't an effective way of avoiding this things.

The link between school and these activities is, IMO, largely specious. Or at the very least completely unsubstantiated by evidence.

Or are you seriously suggesting that kids are binge drinking and lighting up in between history and chemistry?

Basically, vivek's argument is that by not sending your kids to school you avoid all of these behaviors. But these behaviors are far more common outside of school that within school.

Home schooling doesn't replace effective parenting, and sending your kdis to a school doesn't preclude effective parenting.

Finally, I think it's worth asking so what?! to a lot of your statistics. Particularly the "drank some alcohol" and "smoked pot in the last 30 days" statistics. These things aren't a priori bad, and drinking at that age isn't even illegal in a lot of developed countries (and even in some places in the US, under adult supervision).
Note that Ethereum has collapsed from $21.50 to $7.88 or -63% following a series of hacks, forks and bugs.

$1 billion in market cap is gone from Ethereum, and a large part of that has probably moved into old, boring, reliable Bitcoin.

Note that the ETHBTC pair dropped from a high of 0.037 to 0.010, or -73%. Since the dollar has strengthened during this time due to Brexit and Trump, you would expect ETHUSD to be more severe.

The fact that ETHBTC has been hurt even more may indicate that there's more driving Bitcoin demand than just rotation out of Ethereum.
Also interested.

Is there a general way to attack naive ciphers?

I fall of at even a proper Vigenère cipher, although I guess I could hack together a terribly inefficient python script to test all options and then print them line by line and start visually scanning for patterns :-/
To be a bit snarky, polkit is freedesktop dbus centric (and thus over-engineered) reimplementation of sudo for the GUI.

It uses a session tracker (used to be Consolekit, these days it is systemd-logind) to tell if something is running under an active user session and, and checks that against a bunch of rules (stored in XML, natch) to see if what is being attempted is allows (and if not, spawn a password prompt so the user can elevate their privileges).

If you want to do anything "complicated" like powering down your PC by clicking a button in your DE of choice you need polkit (and entourage) to be present these days.

Its one of those CADT things that seems to lead to "year of the (linux) desktop" never happening.
I've been thinking about getting into react native lately, and I needed something like this.

Thank you!
I've complained about Trump win and discussed consequences - and possible actions. However, I feel rather offended by a suggestion that I'm not democratic in views.

I also felt Trump won democratically, more or less. Played by existed rules, nobody loudly objected to rules before voting - sounds fair. That was until I looked into things with different perspective.

I think election and voting are two rather different things. While voting took a day and was fair by itself, election was going on for a couple of years - enough to be able to work out democratic approach. It this case it was a sort of propaganda - the populist way Trump chose and rather skillfully followed.

Now I don't think the winning is too legitimate. However in practice I think we're left more with attempts to keep the good parts of existing system, protecting them from possible and likely mistakes or deliberate attacks from the president. This protection will take efforts and won't likely be perfect, but that's I think what we have.

So, lots of work ahead. A good thing is that the election forces us to look into root causes of the problems. But all that has little to do with rejection of democracy by those who oppose Trump.
If you have ever wondered about why one goes through the difficulties of the tritium fuel cycle: It's really politically motivated, so none of the participating countries has to rely on an external fuel supply.
Yeah, this isn't really comparably to pro sports such as NFL players taking steroids or cheating at a casino. It's more analogous to cheating in your friendly Sunday company softball game and getting 5 years in prison. I also agree that it makes sense for professional sports, but is absurd for casual players.

I hate cheaters in video games, just not enough that I think they should be jailed. Cheating at an event with a monetary reward though...
New Yorkers come from all over the world.
I leave my machine always on. Zero boot time.
I like your approach. Thanks for taking the time to post.
Smalltalk has those same features (which is where Ruby got them from). Almost all of the high performance JIT technology we use these days was originally invented by Smalltalk VM hackers. They invented that stuff specifically to make that kind of code go fast.
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I was bullyed a lot. Poor kid with cheap clothes that were too small. If I wasn't as headstrong it would of been crushing (headstrong in public school = ADD when I attended). Perhaps the solution is to find ways to give real positive praise to kids instead of trying to remove every single negative reaction they might have.
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That said it's like it was written by a Chinese AI propaganda generator.
There are several counterpoints to your opinion that Uber is a bastion of values and respect. Here are a few (excluding the many incidents involving drivers):

1. Your CEO refers to the impact of his company on his sex life as "Boober". https://pando.com/2014/02/27/we-call-that-boob-er-the-four-m...
2. Uber orders and then cancels thousands of rides of its biggest competitor, Lyft. http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re...
3. Uber exec threatens a journalist Sarah Lacy with a smear campaign. https://pando.com/2016/05/04/npr-proves-once-again-uber-lyin...
4. God mode: Insiders tracked users personal movements and were fined 20k for misusing their access. http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10726004/uber-god-mode-sett...

Your closing statement is spot on: it's not easy to believe "nothing nefarious is going on". For me, it's not even possible.
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Part of the benefit of homeschooling is the ability to teach 1:n where n is 1 or a small number, allowing you to progress at the pace of the child rather than that of the class.
Inferno seems to be very comparable to Riot.js, only Riot is more mature, has event delegation and a router, and is only 9.5k vs Inferno's 7k. And riot has an actual web page.

http://riotjs.com/
No. I have not, nor will I ever buy into the propaganda that Uber was out to do anything to regulations. They were out to make money, and they decided they didn't have to follow the law. That's it.
Proof WordPerfect is Cancer!!

I'm an OEM, I want to put WordPerfect on my computer, WordPerfect sued me. WaaHaa.
Let's try to keep a clear distinction between the two concepts of education and childrearing.
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We homeschooled for years. Now our kids are in public school. Both homeschooling and public/private schooling have plenty of good outcomes.

But there are some positive peer-induced socializations. Both my boys had some quite annoying habits of speech and mannerisms that are gone now. I think part of the reason is that their peers are less understanding and forgiving of such behavior than their parents. Similarly, they are more receptive to peer criticism, as it packs more of a threat. Other kids will ostracize you; parents, not so much.
The fact that I'm here in 2016 having to defend the 1870s is mind blowing to me. And yet, through out contemporary American politics, it's basically a widespread effort to repeal the 20th Century.
A tech lead is not supposed to be a mediator. He/she is supposed to lead and that means understanding the business, the product, and the priorities enough to communicate as simply and as directly as possible. It's not about whether or not you need a "tech lead", it's about whether or not you have anybody, and I mean anybody, that can fulfill those tasks. It might very well be two people, or a team that can drive specific targets, doesn't matter. A "tech lead" is just a title that further complicates matters.
That seems like an extreme reaction to be honest.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/htop/

Found a presentation from Hisham about the effort.
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Were they profitable before? Were the controlling parties financially comfortable?

If my company is profitable (or has revenue growth and is likely to become profitable) and a scummy company wants to buy it, I'm going to say no.

Hard as it may be for some of the HN/VC crowd to believe, but there are people out there who start companies with their own money, because they believe in something. At no point does "find some fat megacorp to buy us our" enter the game plan.
Europe's new anti-privacy laws will spread everywhere if we don't stop them
Compiles fine with -Wall -Werror. No warnings.
> The current observed peak load for HealthCare.gov’s Open Enrollment in 2016 was on Dec 14

2016 Dec 14? Did I miss something?
I'm surprised they bother when the scams cheap cards pull are often waaaaay easier.

The cheekiest example I've seen was great in its own way: it defined an advertised minute as being 55 seconds long.
It's always surprising when I learn that this isn't more widely known - it's such a core part of my daily workflow!

The links to the project aren't immediately obvious, so here they are:

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
https://jqplay.org/
I think of phreaking as a byproduct of an era where signal controls were integrated in bearer traffic.

It feels magical to know that the same transport that delivers the sound of your voice was susceptible to tampering and rerouting by other sounds.

This is something other than phreaking, imo. It's straight forward service fraud and hacking. Bearer and Signal have been divorced. The attacker has to get privileged access to a network that is generally not accessible to the public. Phreaking was neat because literally anyone could do it if they knew about the methods.

Knowing the methods used here isn't enough. You need to get on the trusted SS7 network and have a roaming/interconnect agreement to start doing really interesting things.
Interesting. Might the effect be due to coffee's acidity? When you drink coffee, the environment in your stomach becomes more acidic, which would (just speculating) make it more effective at destroying/metabolising any mal-folded amino-acid metabolites/proteins (i.e. prions, scary stuff).

Pharmacokinetics does not seem to be particularly well understood currently, but we do seem to be finding it's much more important than we thought. That, and whatever you call the 'study of metabolism' (metabolomics?)...
Whatever one you want to use and don't take (or give) any guff from (or to) anybody else about it.
I'm really disappointed that (9.4) Elliptic curve cryptography is still under TODO.

If anyone is interested in ECC, ars has a pretty good introduction [0].

[0] : http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to...
last I checked, Inferno was a React "near drop-in" replacement. So not the same at all, unless you look at it in a vacuum.
Equal funding mandates, where they exist, often address operating funding, not capital costs.

Of course, infrastructure quality effects operating costs, so there is a source of inequality right there.
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Same thing every other parent says.
This basically becomes a necessity when working with the AWS cli. Great tool!
It wasn't about Google, it was about the way they did business that was so bad that no one could rely on them.
Many might, but not the ones I talk to about it, since people who think similarly congregate together. Perhaps you can see some parallels in the anecdata I was replying to.
Anywhere in rural America that has broadband. I have reasonably fast/ cheap cable and was able to buy a decent house for ~$80k. That puts my mortgage at around $475 per month. Rent can be very cheap too, especially if you just need a room or you have roommates. I'm not in the cheapest area either.
We are trying to do this at Smarter Time with 99% automatic tracking. We just launched our first version (on Android) so there are still some rough edges, but this is our end goal.
None of them are self sustaining or energy positive as of yet.

Fusion works but stellar fusion is effectively powered by gravity, no one knows yet if it will be viable on smaller scales hence why while a lot of process has been made no one has a made sufficient progress to claim they have a working reactor.

You can initiate fusion in your garage making it energy positive even by a small margin is what we haven't really managed to break.
I'd argue that the "socialization" provided by public school is a negative rather than a positive. In other words, if I'd send my kid to public school it would be _despite_ the kind of socialization you'll find there (violence, bullying, gangs, drug dealing) not because of it.
"Whenever we worry about socialization [for our homeschooled kids], we grab them, yank them into the bathroom, and beat them up for their lunch money."

I stole that from somewhere, but it makes the point. Much "socialization" in public schools is not a net win.
So, if you had a few dozen pints of toddler blood in, say, a bar cooler, what would be the best way to dispose of that? Asking for a friend.
It's also very difficult to roll back to a previous version of a package unless the maintainers specifically opt in to tagging them. Homebrew also updates itself when you install something now, so say if you install python, it might update readline, so your postgres client will break.

It's not the worst approximation of ports, but it doesn't share the quality and care that goes into package maintenance and dependency management.
How would you keep them separate? I am not a homeschooling advocate, but I don't know how you could separate education on academic subjects from education on the rest of life.
Love this post, first function explanation for 'uptime' module gives a concise 'strace' demo showing how to determine the files the standard 'uptime' binary opens.

Really excellent example of showing your work!
> Someone has to decide what the kid learns. It might as well be someone who has a better chance of actually caring about them.

This is a salient point. But I don't think the answer is "parents homeschooling" which can only ever address privileged individuals.

Might there be some way we can get more people involved in the the lives of all children that fit the description of "someone who has a better chance of actually caring about them"? That's the problem I believe homeschool ignores.
It might depend on the interpretation of "legitimate", and make more sense if "are legitimate" is interpreted as "ever legitimate". For example, could a military coup in North Korea be "legitimate"?

They give some more detail in their linked earlier paper:

Similarly, while 43 percent of older Americans, including those born between the world wars and their baby-boomer children, do not believe that it is legitimate in a democracy for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job, the figure among millennials is much lower at 19 percent. In Europe, the generation gap is somewhat less stark but equally clear, with 53 percent of older Europeans and only 36 percent of millennials strongly rejecting the notion that a government’s incompetence can justify having the army “take over.”

http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Foa%26...

While still striking, and while I still wonder whether generational differences in terminology are a factor, the addition of "when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job" does make it more plausible.
Probably as much as I would pay for a website that could do the same thing. How much is wordpress?
> What other laws of physics have changed since I was in school?

Sorry for the late reply -- I'm traveling. What I said in my original post is quite uncontroversial. When charging a capacitor one must not think in terms of voltage (which is an effect, not a cause of charging) but of current.

> The important factor for charging time is how many joules/second you can stuff in, not how much current (coulombs/second) is flowing.

You're confusing cause and effect. Capacitor charging is accomplished with current -- voltage is an effect, not a cause.

The voltage on a capacitor is the time integral of past applied currents. Want to change the charge level on a capacitor? Apply a current and let the voltage change in response.

> You can pull a helluva lot more joules/second out of a wall outlet than you can a micro-USB connector.

Non sequitur, the issue is how much current the capacitor can tolerate. And attaching a capacitor to a wall outlet will not work for multiple reasons.

The ideal charging source for a capacitor is a constant-current supply set to provide a high, but not damaging, level of current, then when the capacitor's voltage limit is approached, shut down the current supply.

The worst possible source for a capacitor is a constant voltage with substantial power available, which will destroy the device.

As I originally said, "Capacitors aren't charged by voltage, they're charged by current." Concise, and quite accurate.
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I can't say we didn't see this coming but hopefully Medium will deliver something like YouTube Red/Goole Contributor. I really like supporting content creators and boy do I hate ads.

Give the users a choice to choose how to support.
And I think that opinion is both unsubstantiated and incorrect, especially wrt drugs and sex. Do you have any data backing this assertion?
The attitude displayed in the opening of the blog post is unproductive. Chalice is deliberately minimalistic, opinionated, and tightly integrated with botocore on Python. It's also licensed under the Apache license. Zappa is a more general purpose framework, fulfilling a more general set of needs. When Lambda-API Gateway first came out, I spent a long time figuring out how to make things work, and I ended up with many of the same patterns that the author accuses Chalice of stealing - before looking at Zappa, and long before Chalice came out. If anything, both Zappa and Chalice are imitating (not "ripping off") Flask.

The rest of the post contains an informative technical comparison, and I appreciate Zappa for pioneering the integration of some very useful features, so it's too bad that the opening really discredits it.

I've had my fair share of PRs ignored by Amazon teams, so I can relate to the feeling that they're not engaged with the community, but it's better to respond with a constructive attitude.
Because back then, it entirely depended on who your family was to determine the level of education someone got. If you were born into a rich family, congratulations. If you were born into a poor family, you're lucky if you get taught how to read and write.

You can argue all you want about current school systems, but I think we can all agree that it's far, far, far better that everyone receive a baseline level of education, regardless of family background, than the way things were before.
The lines are not so clear. My parents started out as the former and evolved into the latter.
Yes -- translation: "Capacitors are charged by current, not voltage."
Probably Dec 14 2015 for the 2016 enrollment year
Re 2) I'm running a multi user homebrew setup for years. I have my users (personal and various work accounts) live under the "Local" Group and do

```
sudo chmod -R 770 /usr/local/
sudo chmod -R +a "group:Local allow delete,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit" /usr/local/
```

I remember sometimes running into permissions issues but nothing re-running that command didn't fix.
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Thorium reactors have no advantage over any other molten salt reactor.

The novelty in thorium isn't the fissile material but then reactor design which isn't novel either it just not a breeder reactor so no one is going to spend billions if when push comes to shove it can't be used to make nukes on the way.
I mean if it helps you sleep at night after you pirate a bunch of stuff sure, but ultimately there are people out there who want a digital thing and have the money to buy it. Some percentage of those people pirate the thing and money is lost for the content creator.
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I've never worked for a big company, so this kind of thinking, while not really a surprise, is still kind of shocking. It's unfortunate to be in a situation where you can't be candid and straight-forward with your manager. I think I'd last 2 seconds in a job like that.
If you scroll past the first few rainbows, there's lots of valuable chart data on a white background.
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