skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

People going to college should consider it a valuable use of their time, not a necessary credential for entering the workforce. Guess which of those I believe drives college admissions right now.

Of course many careers will benefit from a college education, but here in the US we have long since surpassed that number of people attending college.
I feel that that's not really true. I'm from a dynamic language background and I didn't have many problems. Quite the opposite actually, as to me the Rust compiler was more of a teacher at first. I've tried getting into C and C++ a couple of times in the past, but since I started using Rust I finally started understanding some of the concepts and issues from those languages that I had a hard time grasping earlier.
I don't think this is the kind of comment that should be downvoted. I'm in the same boat as enraged_camel.
The PLUS pedal is an audio engine that offers piano-style sustain
It's not strange, because we're not at equilibrium when it comes to rights, respect and various other issues related to gender. I don't think that this change in language is going to suddenly "change reality" in that there will be a dramatic shift in gender/occupation relationships, but that isn't the goal.
This is really nice. If you are looking to expand, I would like to see more audio equipment included, such as synthesizers, mixers, and computer audio interfaces. I've recently been struggling somewhat with the difference between mono, balanced mono, and stereo connections as I try to set up a small home studio.
Yeah that's not really BASIC-like at all, to me. It seems such an odd thing to say since Pascal was pretty much designed to be the anti-BASIC - a language for education but done 'right' through 'structured programming'.
Sailing: You don't need a boat. Most cities near the water will have some sort of sailing club where for $300 a year you can join and use their fleet of boats. My end goal is to do some sort of week long solo trip.

Rock Climbing: Lots of fun and a great work out.

Meditation: Just getting started with this, but have already seen improvements in concentration and a decrease in anxiety.

Introductory Deep Learning: http://course.fast.ai/ This is probably my favorite course I've ever taken online.
> The quote "An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid." is popularly attributed to Lord Rutherford of Nelson in as stated in Einstein, the Man and His Achievement By G. J. Whitrow, Dover Press 1973. Einstein is unlikely to have said it since his theory of relativity was very abstract and based on sophisticated mathematics.[1]

Also, see the next answer for a more direct source. The list of misattribution is entertaining, too.[2]

[1] - http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/22409

[2] - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Misattributed
Dataminr terminates RT access to Twitter news discovery tool
Turn what off? Be more specific please.

Telemetry? You can set it to basic unless you are on Windows Enterprise. If you are trying to do anything else you are doing it wrong.
People keep talking about Mozilla like it's the engineering wing of the EFF, that it's tirelessly working on a mission of Internet freedom, etc.

I'm sorry, but I just don't see it. I see:

(1) a team of developers, incrementally maintaining a codebase that that was donated by a 1990's commercial entity, and

(2) some second-tier marketing types, burning through Google/Yahoo money and padding their resumes with random "me too" projects that don't last very long.

The flagship browser has only had one major re-think since Netscape's demise, and that re-think was, "We should make its UI and dev cycle look like Chrome's". The most significant "new" project dreamed up by the marketing types was a me-too Android alternative, which they then almost immediately canceled.

The only noteworthy and truly innovative things I can think of coming out of Mozilla have been Rust and Persona, and the latter was also quickly canceled (which was a shame since it's the only example I can think of that REALLY fits the mission statement they talk about).

I'm glad that Firefox is out there to prevent a Google monopoly, and I'm glad that Rust has a financial patron since it's a pretty interesting language. But if Mozilla want to be seen as some greater "force for Internet freedom", beyond just maintaining an dated and declining web browser, then a logo change won't be enough. Actually DO some other stuff without canceling it.
Older people often have older hardware since they don't feel the need to change what works. My first search for a common older printer connector (USB AB) didn't work:

http://www.notebookreview.com/feature/what-printer-cables-do...
> ...I wouldn't be surprised if in 15 years, instead of AWS, we are using geforce cloud...

NVidia's already there with the hardware:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-grid.html
Fair. The context of your comments made me think it was safe to assume we are talking about the US.
Mattis' influence, perhaps.
> Though I tend to prefer languages that are at least somewhat functional (eg. python, go).

Can't think of any less functional languages than these.
The mentioned schools are grouped into the 'Ivy plus' label and ranked as even more selective than the 'elite' group.
Signal is told to be a secure crypto messenger everyone can use. This means that people are installing it on a usual Android device and assume that nobody is able to read their messages without physical access.

Of course you are right, there are many black boxes in most mobile devices. But does this mean we shouldn't care about any of them? Most of these black boxes are not updated on a regular basis or the update requires user consent. This means that, if they don't allow arbitrary code execution now, it is hard to make them do evil things.

The mentioned issue with Google Maps integration (leave the GCM problems aside) however is a real possibility to silently drive targeted attacks on Signal - it's actually damn easy for Google to do this. If we'd be doing a proper analysis on all other black boxes (processor, modem, manufacturer extensions, etc), I doubt we'll find such kind of backdoors in most of them. And if I will find such a thing, be sure I'll be writing about it as well.

This backdoor is important for those that want to securely communicate and their adversary is for example the US gov. e.g. the next Snowden. Google can be forced by US agencies to use this backdoor and this renders Signal unusable for them. These people should know about the backdoor. If you know and don't care, that's your problem...
I have, sadly it doesn’t really scale well enough.

I work on Quasseldroid, an android client for the quassel IRC bouncer, and the idea is that you can always access all messages instantly, while the client only buffers a few of them.

This works quite well, and is easy to do with Feathers.js and others, even Firebase...

...if there wasn’t the issue that the average user is in hundreds of channels and gets tenthousands of messages per hour, in some cases, even thousands of messages a second (if the user is in a channel with > 10k other users, for example, and everyone is chatting – such as during eurovision on Quakenet’s #eurovision).

Although users self-host, so we don’t have infrastructure costs, they usually do so on a raspberry pi – and Feathers.js can’t easily handle thousands of changes per minute to its database while running on a raspberry pi, and accurately sync them to multiple clients.
One day, when I was still in high school, my dad brought home a DEC mini (dunno which one). It had 2 8" floppy drives and an actualy terminal that would sit on top. When you would turn it on, it had these 2 huge fans in the back that sounded like an airliner taking off. It was still in its 8u rack chassis.

When I turned it on for the first time, it booted off of what must have been some kind of rom and dropped straight into UCSD Pascal. I was programming at home at the time via Basic & 6502 assembly, and when I saw the Pascal prompt, I was like, awesome! (I had a class at school using Turob Pascal)

I spent a lot of weekends in our cold garage (over the winter) hacking on that machine. I wish I would have saved some pictures. I made a star trek type game and (my fav at the time) a database ala dBase.

Good times..

(Mobile typo edits)
I'm with Sir_Cmpwn. No sites with paywalls of any kind should be allowed here. I shouldn't have to go out of my way to get around barriers to get content for free. I'm also realizing I'm having a hard time saying what I mean effectively. If they want a paywall then it should just be a wall. It's awkward and unethical to bypass the wall to get the content for free anyway, yet that is what is expected when those links are allowed on HN. So those links should just not be allowed at all then.
Very likely because Google is acutely aware of how many people will leave if they do. Gmail is an incredibly powerful, versatile mail client which has a ton of custom options like the density of the lists, that you'll find missing in all of Google's newer apps.

Inbox by Gmail was intended to be the new version of Gmail, and they decided to make it a separate site after the internal backlash against the Gmail team by other Google employees for "ruining" Gmail.

If you want the newest, Googliest version of Gmail today, use Inbox. And then there's Gmail, for those who want a dependable, stable email client that has all the features that people have come to depend on over the past decade.
>The whole purpose of text is to _unambigously_ convey information.

I have a pile of novels (e.g. Faulkner, Philip K. Dick) that argue against this very narrow view of text.
> The workaround is not difficult,

Several people have said that the work around is not working for them. That's the whole point of the thread. It's in the OP, it's in several replies.

Most people wouldn't mind paywall links if the workaround was working, but it's not working for some people.
Are there ANY games which improve real-life skills? Games are often said to improve you in some way, to up-skill you, but I'm not sure I've ever seen evidence.
I checked MIT (alma mater) and it was 173 greatly skewed towards the bottom 60%. Don't know if this is something to be proud of but there it is :)
Your heart surgery question is ridiculous. As anyone who has taken the SAT can attest, it has nothing to do with ability to perform complex medical procedures.

As for your question about which number drawn at random from two differently distributed populations would be higher on average - yes, in this hypothetical college that admits black students with SAT scores below the black population's average but only takes white students who are 1+ STD above the white population's average, I would expect the white students to have higher SAT scores.

What I would interrogate is why you seem to be defining the worthiness of students by their SAT scores, which most elite colleges now essentially disregard, since studies have shown that it correlates alarmingly well with parents' income.

I also don't understand why so many people, when discussing the merits of college or job applicants, are so focused on the exact point of application, to the point of refusing to consider earlier opportunities and environmental effects.

Wouldn't you consider a 500 SAT score from a low-income family's student more impressive than a 500 SAT score from a high-income family's student, based on the relative availability of SAT prep classes to the two students?
Shouldn't such contextual information be considered when evaluating candidates?
Wouldn't you say that the candidate from the less advantageous background who has achieved identical "on paper" results is more deserving of selection, considering what they must've overcome to achieve such results?
If the candidate from the less advantageous background is more deserving, why do studies find that, when presented with identical applicants, hirers will choose the one with the whiter name? [0] http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/mar/15/...
This seems interesting because it addresses the issue of "show your work." Many years ago, I spent a semester teaching the freshman algebra course at the nearby Big 10 university. This is the course that you take if you don't get into calculus. My students were bright kids -- they were all admitted to the state flagship school -- but not mathematicians.

There was huge variation in the preparation that kids brought with them from high school. In particular, very few of them understood what "show your work" means. They were told "show your work," but nobody told them what it really entails. Is it just to provide evidence that you did some work, to deter cheating, or is it something else? Many of my students were taught "test taking skills" such as the guess-and-try method. So on one exam, a question was:

x^3 = 27

One student's work:

1^3 = 1

2^3 = 8

3^3 = 27

Answer = 3

I asked the professors to tell me what "show your work" means. None of them had a good answer! These were the top mathematicians in the world. I wanted to talk with my students about it, but I'm not even sure that my own answer was very good.

But if we did well in math, then we just know what it means. It's not just evidence that you did the work. It doesn't mean "turn in all of your chicken scratch along with the answers." It means something along the lines of supplying a step-by-step argument, identifying the premises and connecting them with the conclusion, in a language that is "accepted," i.e., that mimics the language of the textbook / teacher. In fact, the reason to read the textbook and attend lectures, is to learn that language. (It's not so different in the humanities courses).

At least, that's my take on it, as just one teacher with one semester's worth of experience.

In my view, a problem solving tool that actually addresses the process of building the argument and not just determining the answer, would be beneficial to students.
I already mentioned that about Google. Thank you.
> The flip side of this is that student loans are guaranteed by the federal government, and when tuition goes up, so does loan availability. If financing is guaranteed no matter the cost, then no one should be shocked when customers lose their price sensitivity.

This is not true. Federal student loans have an annual cap and overall cap, anything above that has to be financed with private student loans, which are not guaranteed by the government and have much higher interest rates. They are generally co-signed for by a parent, who is on the hook if the student cant pay.

edit: this is further broken down into subsidized and unsubsidized loans (the former the government pays the interest on while you are in school, the latter they dont): https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsid...
I suspect Python 2.x will be extended like copyright.
Change languages and you're in a whole other world.

Have an Argentine (for example) pronounce Yosemite National Park for you.

Or for that matter, ask an English speaker to pronounce Habanero (there's no ñ) or someone from the East Coast to say Oregon or Puyallup.

While those are words and names, examples abound in marketing.

But to continue my example, Argentines already pronounce Mozilla differently than an English speaker, or other Spanish speakers for that matter! So this should be nothing new.
The worst ones on the top 10 list, in my experience, have very "upper class" reputations that aren't necessarily justified by their academic standards. For example, at Trinity College, only 43% of students were top 10% in high school, and the median SAT scores are in the 600-700 range per-test, while the estimated total annual cost is $68,940 [0]. Compare to nearby Yale, where 97% of students are in the top 10% and the middle range of SAT scores is 700-800 (i.e., the top 25% of SAT scores are perfect), while the annual cost is $68,950 [1].

I haven't looked at the rest, but I'm guessing (by repuation) that for a lot of those schools, "elite" is more about class and networks than academic ability.

[0]: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search...
[1] https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search...
Anyone know who the guy in the video giving the speech with his shirt buttoned all the way up is?

Edit: wow I don't recognize Jobs with a beard.
do you eat meat?

alterations to follow:

~Not having had meat in the house for over 8 years now, I was reintroduced to the world of eating meat during our holidays when we went away for a month and stayed with friends who were avid meat eaters.

~Been that long since I had eaten meat, and I was astounded at the how banal and low brow most meat options are these days. I seem to remember a time when meat meals were clever and creative, but the ones I kept eating with monotonous regularity were nothing more than quick bites causing people to go buy junk or eat more crap.

~Everything was really disjointed and jarring to me - I actually came across a couple of meals that I wanted to eat, but they never seemed to get started - every few minutes there was an interruption telling me what else I "couldn't miss" eating, which are just more meals that will in turn have interruptions to eat other meals. Oddly, my friends who eat meat didn't seem to see a problem.

~Really makes me wonder if meat eaters these days are just conditioned to have such a short attention span and are used to being forced fed suggestions like this. Or perhaps they are so hardened to it that advertising companies have to just blast short messages to them with all the subtlety of a drone strike?

~Time for humanity to take control back over their health and environment, otherwise it will just be "You're vegetarians, who cares what you do?" (o)...

i think steak is gross now and i have friends who have said the idea that they could start to dislike meat, if they stopped eating it, was reason to keep eating it

reminds me of rush, "What you say about his company,
Is what you say about society"(i)

(o) https://youtu.be/xkR2XEYEFgk

(i) https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk

(i/2) lyrics: http://www.rush.com/songs/tom-sawyer/
This isn't scare mongering. Just my opinion about how things are going to go from someone who lived through Reagan and both Bushes. The main theme of right wing parties is to reduce government, but their stated goal of reducing taxes always turns out to be a crock of shit. Their motivation is to get tax dollars (and borrowed dollars) flowing to right wing organizations. Remember faith based initiatives? They had tax money flowing to churches.
Disclosure: I worked on Parse.

I personally wouldn't call Parse a "failure" and without going into details, this has absolutely nothing to do with why Parse shutdown.

That said the real challenge, that other such platforms might not have, was handling all the very different DB workloads for all the apps we were hosting.

I worked on some of the pieces of that auto indexer. In most cases, this is a feature that was both necessary for us and extremely useful for our customers who didn't know how to manage their own DB. What was arguably missing was a way to expose the indexing operations to the developers, although this would have brought it's share of other challenges for obvious reasons.

If we created 17 indexes on the same collection (in some cases, it was way! more), that's because there were query families issued that needed those 17 indexes. I can't say this is your case, but in almost all instances I've seen, this was a result of poorly designed DB schemas and query patterns. Of course, for developers who know what they're doing, it's hard to design properly when you're dealing with a blackbox.

Yes, amplification and DB size are an issue when over indexing but our auto indexer was under constant tweaking and wasn't creating indexes "just because".

It remains a very hard problem...
I think at least as much effort on poverty needs to happen as fixing K-12. Already by the time kids enter kindergarten, there's a massive effect of poverty; and it persists through K-12 even in the form of who eats what kind of food and how. Very basic.

I like the way the French do food with kids in school. Kids eat lunch at school. They do not bring sack lunches, and they don't get to leave for lunch. All of them have access to the same food, and kids experiment with foods from an early age.
Harsh in personal interactions perhaps. People generally feel free to be blunter with close people relative to strangers. The issue here is hiring practices
And this is worse than artificially putting in a cost barrier and then cutting out a bulk of those who do get in anyway?
States don't cut funding to colleges because of careful consideration of the empirical evidence, they cut funding to colleges because of ideology.
"The best way to express it is that with Go programming is fun again."

I beg to disagree in the strongest possible terms. I found programming with Go to be the opposite of fun. It's a highly opinionated language which gives people poor libraries, poor tooling, and the worst of many possible worlds. It's as if someone who couldn't see past C wanted to be slightly Erlangish.

No thank you, I will go back to Common Lisp and Haskell any day of the week from this abomination of a language. I've been exploring Clojure (on JVM, CLR and JS) as a practical alternative to CL lately.
The ORF.at-Wahlbot
I'm in the same boat. Planning to go iOS first, since I'm an iOS developer and don't know Android. Go with what you are most comfortable developing.

React Native might also be a good choice. I was pretty impressed with what it could do on iOS, but I had challenges getting it to work on Android.
A Whatsapp server browses links you paste into chat, searches for any meta tags and opengraph information it can find and shows a picture/title in chat if it can. That's as close as it got to an API
React Studio Mac - A design tool for React JS
Send him a cheque or EMT.
Gmail is the legacy interface, Inbox is the modern interface. Gmail still exists specifically for people who don't want any major change, so it makes sense that it's not seeing major change.
SpaceX back to launching, but pressure still high after last year’s failure
Podsearch: transcript of podcasts via speech-to-text
Tbh, SNSV is a perfectly valid reading for the first two. That one's just a shitty font.
> flat screen TVs

When was the last time you saw a CRT?
How a computer sees history after “reading” 35M news stories
I missed that, I only looked at the image and there it looks way more massive and larger than what the dimensions table says. Even taking into account that the image depicts an entire stage and not just the engine, 0.84 m and 100 kg is a lot less than I would have expected or guessed based on the image.
Sure thing! This is what one of your users created: http://quickpages.co/p/closedeyemedia