skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Apart from the idea of sorting people into useful and useless being inhumane

How do you think it would affect a country to suddenly have a very large amount of low-skill immigrants? How would the native citizens, the people by which their government is held accountable and to whose interests their government's purpose is to advance, be affected? The answer is probably that they would be very adversely effected, in which case however "inhumane" it is to sort people like this, it is also inhumane to do wrong by the native citizens who built the country that those immigrants would be living in. Immigration is not a human right, nobody has a right to immigrate anywhere and no country has an obligation to accept any particular person or group of people as immigrants.
Benchmarks Reveal Major Increase in EDB Replication Performance
On the "faster" claim, you may miss it with all the visual noise but on the blog posts they boast noticeable speedups, although I didn't see any quantification.
Metro ticket machines in Seattle also give them in change.
I don't think that quote means much of anything other than it's very difficult to legislate efficacy.

Suppose you had the absolute dream of a public education system -- one that existed solely to provide a real education for the children. What would the actual laws around that system look like? Is it a misdemeanor to make a D on a math test?

It also ignores that there are a wide range of well-meaning (but probably counterproductive) things we require of teachers that are for all intents and purposes legal requirements. If your kids perform too poorly on a test, your school may lose funding, for example. Again, I think that crosses the line beyond which such mandates make sense, but it's pretty clearly intended to improve the legitimate education your kids get. If it were about babysitting, they wouldn't bother.
that was The Todd, not Turk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxTcpbOki0
> "The slope and y-intercept of the line are determined using gradient descent."

Slope and intercept are very standard names for the parameters of a linear regression model. Gradient descent is the name of the algorithm used.
I think you are confusing immigration with entering a foreign country.
Your main point aside, your experience having taken more math and physics courses than "technicians", and bearing "more responsibility in dollars and livelihoods and use math more extensively in my job than most mechanical and electrical engineers I graduated with" is anecdotal evidence. I am not even done with my BS/MS EE degree and I've already taken more math and physics than my CS peers will ever take. This will change from college to college and degree to degree. You are right about the state of firmware though--security practices in IoT are often pretty terrible. Perhaps that points to an inadequacy in the licensing/regulation system that we have in place. I think most people in the comments could agree that the word "Engineer" implies rigorous certification--once software development has the same, then it could be considered Engineering.
Extracting data from damaged NTFS drives
Nice to see a soft landing for this worthwhile project.

EDIT: disregard the above, that this was a careless misunderstanding of the title. TFA says "Sandstorm, for its part, remains an independent entity, and I won’t be working on it during my day job at Cloudflare. However, I will be working on Cap’n Proto."
Yes: Illegal emigration is always fine with me. Just not illegal immigration.
>Considering that they are using resources without giving something back in return?

Funny. Ads are consuming CPU time and electricity that I pay for in addition to my attention and time, and compromise my decision making. To me, any of those are infinitely more valuable than resources the website expends on serving ads or trying to.
I still am not one of the accursed 'morning people'.

Maybe it's natural for /you/ to get up that early, but it never was for me (the closest I came was waking up super early for reruns of Mr. Wizard, then falling back asleep).
The idea of some of these salaries, relative to what normal people make, is even more absurd.
Wonder why they went with streaming on YT instead of FB Live...
I don't know why you're singling out Humanities degrees, as if STEM degrees are chock full of "real world" knowledge. Many STEM degrees have very clear job positions to enter but "job preparedness" and "real world knowledge" are not synonymous.

I would expect a journalism major to be very good at media literacy which I consider important real world knowledge a construction worker or someone in the military would not develop over the same period of time.
Although there are various ways (which I'm not personally familiar with), hours of SNLT may be a starting point for more complex calculations. It doesn't apply for management positions (or really positions which don't produce a non-reproducible good), though I'd be interested to see where the research in that's going.

I'm not sure why my comment was downvoted, especially without explanation. I thought it's quite reasonable for a person to be paid as much as he or she works.
woah woah woah let's be reasonable here
Yep. It's amortized about $50k/year over the five years active requirement. You can also leave any time in the first two years of school without any penalty. And they don't throw you in the brig, you get a tax lien. It sucks, but it's really no worse than a student loan.
Indeed! On the Mill project we leave boxes crunching hours and hours of csmith/creduce, and we don't watch them do it :)

SPE looks to be very nice too.
Wow, somebody here hates the author. Every one of their comments is down voted to death.

What gives? Did they do something to make people mad? I'm really confused.
> I'm in favor of a solid border control regime (i.e. "build the wall"),

Having lived on the east side of Berlin (post Wall!) I cannot forget that that wall was supposedly built to keep people out but of course it kept people in.

I am Australian, and I have to admit the points based system does work there...but. I have lived longest in the USA where the chaos has been beneficial for the country, and thus for me. Australia doesn't have a culture of "creative destruction" and its system has kept that from arriving/emerging.

If the US does choose to shut the door and I'll jump through it before it slams...and continue starting businesses (and creating jobs) elsewhere.
I used this for a while but I found that it was unbearably slow. Perhaps it's too much to ask from a RaspberryPi3.
> Supporting Republicans means supporting racism.

This is patently untrue and statements like these are not helpful to the overall political situation that you're upset about. Demonizing your opposition in your rhetoric is divisive and causes reasonable people to shy away. One of the reasons the Democrats lost the elections almost across the board in 2016 was because of their insistence on divisive rhetoric. To win elections you need the reasonable middle that are registered to neither party, this voting bloc overwhelmingly voted Republican in 2016.

The conservative ideology is not racist. In fact, strong conservativism was a primary hallmark of support for things like the civil rights movement. Unfortunately the Republican Party is more authoritarian and corporatist than conservative these days. Regardless, many people are registered as Republicans who abhor racism and bigotry.
Honestly curious, what do you use for your phone then? Are you going full flip-phone? Kudos if you are, I couldn't do it.
I feel like they should state this first before giving the command. I had to scroll down the page to see this warning.

Anyway, if you decide to live on the edge.. don't copy-paste: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
How does it make the system easier to game?

> Or that could be another downside if the answer is "the moderators".

To me it seems like an upside if we know when moderators are gaming the system.
> needs intervention by the government

It already has intervention by the government..
this is called 'student loans' which prop up US treasury bonds..

That the situation of requiring expensive degrees further implies increased dependency on higher paying corporate jobs, in turn further centralizes economic power, increases social pressure to purchase luxury consumer goods, and also strengthens washington lobbying dollars doesn't hurt either..
Playing the Game with PLT Redex
The people behind Sandstorm are joining Cloudflare and will now have less time to spend on Sandstorm. That's sad, because I was excited in general behind the idea of Sandstorm, and I hope it continues to be worked on, even if it's just during the weekend.
The market would be forced to adjust. Beef, dairy, and other products that come from farms would become much more expensive.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing (possibly not a good thing either). For example, it may force the adoption of vertical farms and force people to cut down on their meet intake which probably has a net health benefit.

A real problem with that is how to value property. Property is not always easy to value. For example, I'm pretty sure the tax office values my house by fair dice roll. (joking, hopefully obviously)
Here's the documentation: http://llvm.org/docs/Coroutines.html
>Do realize that by using force to escape one country you'd immediately be illegally emigrating into another.

Sure, that's fine as long as you aren't illegally immigrating into another.
Oh I get it. Thanks.
Oh, please. With or without Scotland, England remains in the lead or on a par with the other most advanced countries in the world in most areas. Of course it has it's problems - like everywhere else - but the downturn that was forecasted to begin immediately after a leave vote has not materialised, with the UK economy proving remarkably resilient in this post-leave/pre-Article 50 period. If we judge it by the wisdom of crowds, I don't see a massive exodus of immigrants leaving the UK in fear of a downturn post-Brexit - in fact the opposite - I seem to encounter more and more immigrants everywhere I go in England, so no doubt they judge that your sinking ship is preferable to life in Spain, Poland etc. If you want to see a sinking ship, look across the EU where there is mass unemployment, suppression of free speech in support of mass immigration, a failed currency resulting in destructive economic imbalances, social dislocation due to lack of integration of migrants, free movement for terrorists and criminals, nepotism, all ruled over by an unelected and unaccountable elite in Brussels.

England is still one of the most important economies in the world. Better not hope she goes down, or everyone gets poorer.
That is literally the least we can do. Or would you rather we deny emergency medical treatment and let people just die? They do pay sales taxes, rent payments (they have to live somewhere) that go towards property taxes and the majority also pay into social security which they will never qualify for.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/illegal-immigrant...

And by the way, many have kids that are Americans by birthright. So, I'm not sure what the benefit is to scapegoating the undocumented immigrant labor class. Maybe you can answer that.
That's an annual return of 3.2% during a period of time when the S&P500 did 18.9%. That's a pretty shit return if you ask me.
>Computers as we know them are, in fact, dying.

My point exactly.

I was not critising click baiting, or the article. I was simply pointing out that the title was in fact misleading and exaggerating by using semantic tricks. I used the term click bait because in that particular case, the author was not trying to lie, but rather simply make their title have more impact.
In Atlanta, I find this wholly untrue, and the "doesn't cook at home" is something I find most easily defines between gen-x/early millennials / millenials with older siblings and late millennials.

Of my friends and people I've in mid twenties to late thirties, most define eating at home as microwaving or heating a frozen meal; otherwise fast food and eating out are what they spend their budgets on.
Old is merely perception and a convenient way to sum up the "bias" that is actually just a vague "culture fit". Face it, dev culture is a bit geeky and perhaps off-putting to some, but likely more tolerable from a younger person fresh out of college. It gets less cute the older one gets so if one has not made an effort to keep their appearance and social skills up, they'll likely lose out to a younger, fresher-faced person with an objectively lower skill set since we're so fortunate to be able to "brute force" your average business problems with less skill.
I wouldn't say capsized ship as much as "capsizing". Yahoo had a revolving door of CEOs. She was the 4th CEO in a decade. The one before her lasted 4 months (and made $6 million for his trouble). And in that time the stock price had gone from $40 to $16. Just because Yahoo was sinking doesn't mean it was sunk. Yahoo still had revenue, people, and products, but it had been declining for a long time.

It wasn't a death march, it was hail mary to see if Yahoo could be saved. The majority of her compensation was tied to stock price.

The snark doesn't bother me, but people want to hang the failure of Yahoo on Mayer. She did not take a vibrant, innovative, and successful company and drive it into the ground.

The stake in alibaba helped Mayer give her a windfall of cash she wouldn't have had otherwise. Her incentives were tied to stock price NOT performance. Start bashing the board for tying her compensation to the wrong metric.
I think his family should have felt obligated to shove him through it. I also think it's his fault for not understanding why or what he could have done instead. I do think he is better off too. Sure, he's worked a couple bad postgrad jobs and is currently unemployed but someone with his work ethic that stops after high schools usually ends up way worse. Maybe married with two kids working at costco just trying to scrape by. No one wants to be in that situation.

It's probably unfair for me to be assuming so much about him but it just reminds me of so many people I've seen in my life and I don't empathize for him at all.
I was unable to get past the paywall (with the web option) but I'm wondering if race and inherent privilege that comes with it is considered in the study.
Bullshit. We need to make it mandatory and free for everyone just like a high school diploma. Alternative option would be mandatory trade skill training. The USA is currently fucked for the foreseeable future due to not caring about education. Let's make it a priority instead of a gigantic military.
Give the stupid noise machines something to do. They'll have no problem going to sleep if their idea of fun is digging a hole in the back yard.
Wow. Have you not been paying attention? They actively portray liberals and Democrats as un-American all the time. Every democratic president or majority is illegitimate. They've actively stoked racial fears my entire life. They are opposed to critical thinking... you think that last one is hyperbole, except it isn't. The Texas republican party tried to add opposition to teaching kids critical thinking to their official platform in 2012.
I wouldn't want to come across like an asshole, though. The other side denies science and started the Iraq war. But I would want to come off as harsh, though...
I'm not sure about the rules, but shouldn't posts linking to own, personal projects be prefixed with "Show HN:"? I've seen a lot such posts lately where the poster was clearly the author as well.
>Claims to the contrary the map is not the territory and a country is not a house

I think you miss a "despite" or "notwithstanding" somewhere there.

In any case, even though a country is indeed not a house in some ways (no ceiling for one), it is quite like a house in others -- a set of people live there, some where born there, others came later, but in any case, it's their house, they (and their parents and grandparents) maintained it over the years, and its their decision who comes in and how it's run.

>Note that most dictatorships use walls around their 'houses' to keep the population in, not to keep others out.

That's not generally applicable, except when the dictatorship can't guarantee enough prosperity or is especially violent towards some groups. It's safety and/or food primarily. Otherwise, most people have little intention of living merely for political freedom.

But even if so, it's orthogonal to our subject. Dictatorships might do that (keep their population in), but we're talking about the inverse (keep non-citizens out -- which, by some logic, would be what democracies do).

>Those fences and walls are there for practical reasons and to delineate responsibility and right-of-way, not to specifically make it harder for your neighbor to share in the collective wealth of the neighborhood.

Borders are there for very practical purposes too. To define the area that a nation state controls, taxes, enforces laws, etc, and to keep non citizens of that state, outside of it unless asked to come in.
Imagine you have something and you take it to the market and investors tell you it's worth negative amounts of money. It's actually worse than worthless. Then you take it to them later and they purchase it for multiple billions of dollars.

Did she turn a valueless asset into a hundred billion dollar company? No. No one _expected_ her to, some may have hoped that she would but hope is different to expectation as is made clear from her compensation agreement.

"If you turn this company around we'll pay you loads of money. Money stacked so high you'll have trouble keeping them from toppling over. On the other hand if you _just_ make it worth a few billion, we'll _just_ give you a lot of money. The piles will not topple over."

On net her bets were of positive value to investors. That's the whole of the equation once the sale is closed.
Yes, she worked hard. I guarantee you the person working two jobs to put their children through school is working harder.
Firefox 52 makes some changes to setTimeout()
Sorry, I now realize my answer could appear to be rude when it wasn't my intention.

The correct year to consider it fully a region of Spain would be 1714, when the Spanish army defeated the catalans and removed most of its state structures/institutions, etc. This article's intro might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Catalonia

I don't want to bore you with a history lesson that I myself might not know accurately, but I feel the need to say that different namings for the same levels of independence of state structures should be taken into consideration. So saying "Catalonia has always been a region of Spain" is far from the truth or at least it skips a lot of history.
Dude, it was just an example for a style discussion. You're missing the point of the discussion and way over-engineering the example.
Currently we have a Postgres database and run manual queries against it. One-off hackjob turned production.
I think there's a case to be made that the decision in Griggs vs Duke Power Co. (employers may not administer IQ tests) is the reason we're in this mess. IQ is really important and correlates with lots of outcomes. Employers therefore want to know it. They're not allowed to ask, but admission to/success at an exclusive college correlates well with IQ, so they ask about that instead. Means everyone spends hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of their life to advertise something that could be measured in an hour.
I'm just thinking if you count the subsidies as coming from Britain to Scotland but not the oil being pumped from Scotland and sent to Britain?

How would the borders go in case of separation? Seems Scotland has only one refinery, and it's half owned by a Chinese company.
Show HN: Good/Bad/Breaking News in Your Pocket (Android)
Let's be honest though, winter in Scotland is long, dark and miserable.
Unfortunate that there are no TypeScript related talks

Edit: it appears that there is a talk related to TypeScript
Unix MUMPS was written by Harlan Stenn, the same guy (somewhat famous for) maintaining NTP on a shoestring.
All right, thank you. I'll look into the other options you mentioned
I think they've got caught in a broken filter. It might be worth emailing mods to let them know.

Also, if you click the timestamp you should see a [vouch] link. Clicking that helps too.
Do you think that Yahoo's board decided to grant Mayer
the golden parachute [...] out of sympathy to a fellow
member of the nobility?

A number of explanations have been posited for the fact executive pay has soared in recent decades while other workers' pay has remained stagnant.

Bebchuk and Fried's "Pay without Performance" attribute this to the fact that boards routinely approve pay packages that serve the CEO rather than shareholders, instead of bargaining with the aim of maximising shareholder wealth.

They identify several factors underlying this - shareholder inactivity bears a big part of the blame - but one factor is essentially yes: It's in the interests of people who are at the top of business to approve high pay for people who are at the top of business.
I wonder if you could do something similar with a student loan/financial aid program. The company doesn't take on the risk of building a university, but can set curriculum and performance standards to maintain the scholarship. If it's structured as a loan, worst case you're on the hook the way anyone is for a student loan.
Unlikely. VS is an IDE that has a lot of dependency and compilation chain management. If you need that, it's great. If not, then stick with what you know.
And yet people all across the country protested at airports a few weeks ago...
We're all in favor of mods using their powers in order to further the site's stated goals, but we're also very wary of mods using their powers in order to further their own personal agendas.

HN is quite well moderated, IMO (and I have been a moderator, and I spend a LOT of my time rolling my eyes at how most mods are doing it wrong, damnit). Your comment is a kind of comment I see a lot on HN that sticks in my craw. I blogged about that very recently, so, it isn't you and I don't want to get into a pissing contest, but this is my cranky feeling about remarks of this ilk:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/03/hello-did-yo...
Doesn't change his ancestry.
It had 512MB of RAM, which I realise is a bit rediculous to run anything like this. I don't have a whole lot of budget for R&D so I try to keep things cheaper where possible.
Oh boy. I guess that's it for Sandstorm.
But major releases are always expected to be API-breaking, right? Isn't that basically the (SemVer, at least) definition of a major vs minor release?

Nothing's forcing anyone to keep up to date, though, so anyone can pick a version and stick with it as long as they like. (So long as they keep making patches for at least the previous version for major bugs...)
Just a happy user and not affiliated, but Brave was a hallelujah-moment for me. Never got Firefox to be especially fluid, not even close to Chrome. But Brave, IIUC, takes Chromium and adds some adblocking. It's not perfect, and some ads makes its way in, but it removes quite a lot while still being very snappy. To the best of my knowledge and experience, I can really recommend it.

Now I just hope that Brave doesn't turn out to be too evil :S.