skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a look and found these two recent papers seem related... I'm about to read them myself :)

Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults (2012)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491569/

On the psychology of poverty (2014)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262582311_On_the_ps...

Most of the research I found seemed focused on childhood poverty specifically, e.g.:

Childhood poverty and recruitment of adult emotion regulatory neurocircuitry
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/10/11/1596/1644154/Chi...

School Readiness and Self-Regulation: A Developmental Psychobiological Approach
http://annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-01081...

How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement
http://reading4all.com/entries/page/1156
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i stopped reading after they used absolute numbers of robots for biggest country in this world by population, why they don't show robots per capita poor robots per total factory output or GDP, i don't like this promoting China as some country to look up to
it's a good comment when you look at half posts here - pure envy how unfair the world is, how he doesn't deserve it and so on. it doesn't matter how hard he worked (from 0), how talented he is. no, he has too much and should burn in hell and have his money taken from him.

it's one of the more sad days on HN - I held general audience here in higher esteem. well back to work
Where is the code?
> The £1.66m project largely was financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund

This should be mentioned in the opening paragraph.
Decoupling Post-Auth Events in React with RxJS
Has Deck considered making video ads? I ended up liking their take on 'banner ads'. Curious to see what they might have done with video.
They can't detect a bug in code you never run. These were problems with the curl API, not the curl command line program.
Computer generated ads (and recommendations in general) are always lame, everywhere: more of what you already like. I really want to explore new things, from the things I already like, well I do already have some of it, so just sth. else that scrolls by.

Tangentially (maybe), the only ads I clicked were the Deck ads and affiliate links in writing that I read. If the rest of the ads that I see are returning profits to the ad-host and ad-network, those profits are fake, as I not only no click them at all (well if not accidentally, and I've clicked, voluntarily, five-six such ads in my 20-odd years of life) the effect is negative, it's a -5 for the ad publisher and the ad host for me. But with Deck, if a website has (had?) Deck ads on it, it was +5 for both. So sad that this sort of value-adding service is going offline.
The North Korea we know, with its God-king dynasty and intense insularism, is thoroughly the creation of Kim Jong-Il. He manipulated himself into power, usurping his father. Truly, one of the greatest modern talents in bastardry. Kim Jong-Un is a kid who was mollycoddled his whole life and is now in charge of a country that he is far from the most powerful character in. If North Korea will survive, it will likely not be with the Kim dynasty at the helm. I would put money on a coup by those closest to Kim Jong-Un, followed by China immediately stomping on them. I'm just an armchair NK enthusiast though so don't take that as gospel.
If you haven't read Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, by David Mackay, I recommend it.

Free download: http://withouthotair.com

About the author:

David MacKay FRS is the Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He returned to Cambridge as a Royal Society research fellow at Darwin College. He is internationally known for his research in machine learning, information theory, and communication systems, including the invention of Dasher, a software interface that enables efficient communication in any language with any muscle. He was appointed a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at Cambridge in 1995 and was a Professor in the Department of Physics from 2003 to 2013. Since 2005, he has devoted much of his time to public teaching about energy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Nine months after the publication of 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air', David MacKay was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0W1ZZYIV8o

Harvard talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFosQtEqzSE
"if you have moral misgivings about people being happy or making money then you may want to examine those, or at least elucidate them."

I was following on my original half-joking comment that weed could be viewed as a way to pacify the masses instead of fixing the societal problems that induce malcontent.

I have no problem with people abating their personal pain with drugs. I do have a problem with this as a social policy - i.e. instead of focusing on building healthier communities people would be just given drugs. Which, actually, is kind of happening already if you look at the opiate and antidepressant use in the USA.

If society's rules are making people miserable the correct long term solution is not more drugs but a better society.
I'm impressed anyone who's ever seen so much as a picture of a full NYC subway car would try and compare them to trains in Finland...
this just shows how distrustful are Chinese about their own currency that they seek any way to store money abroad in safe harbor away from RMB and Chinese government
Which part is lagging?
If you generated all of the energy you used via atomic power at the end of your life the total size of that waste is about the size of a coke can.

1. How much lithium waste will be produced each year by this process? Aren't we talking creating more batteries than we ever have before by several orders of magnitude here? We send most of our ewaste to the third world to be burned currently, this sounds like an ecological disaster.

2. Do you really believe that in 75 years time the United States won't have the ability to safely store or simply hurl 400 million coke cans at the sun? A big project for sure but the reward is virtually unlimited, virtually free energy.
> and it is amusing how many professed non-many-worlders say such things.

I'm not saying I do or don't believe any of this (if anything, I'm interpretation-agnostic at the moment). I'm just pointing out that there is a contradiction in having one postulate demand unitary state evolution (the Schrödinger equation) for some ill-defined "system" while another postulate says that unitarity is broken at the system/environment boundary. While there's been plenty of attempts to work around this (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012), I wouldn't say that anyone has formulated a consistent set of axioms that definitively resolves the issue.

> We often describe quantum systems using an entirely deterministic (Schroedinger) equation. But we don't know in what sense that equation describes the physical state of the experimenter + system, or in what sense it is "just" a probability model.

Agreed. It's certainly a useful model but it leaves out all kinds of interesting phenomena that we observe in practice (namely, relativistic and radiative effects). Curiously though, if you turn to QFT for a better probabilistic model, Haag's theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haag%27s_theorem) implies that a universal Hilbert space representation cannot describe both free and interacting fields (a problem that the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation doesn't have!)
Samsung is beating Microsoft in the battle to turn a phone into a PC
still better and less risky than keeping money in free falling RMB
I live in Ireland. I don't file any returns since I have a single source of income, my company/government figure it out for me => 0 time wasted.
There are other "accidents" besides motor vehicle accidents, but the point stands. Even with major advances in organ preservation (like vitrification), if you eliminate car accidents the rate of people going on the transfer list seems likely to exceed the rate of accidental deaths — if you exclude deaths from falls (likely to be elderly, organs not highly viable) and poisoning.

EDIT: this of course does not include the fact that a single organ donor can save multiple lives. I have no idea what the average lives saved per donor is, but presumably it could be raised substantially if organs could be preserved indefinitely.
Some very interesting posts on this blog. I particularly enjoyed the 2014 FTC "year in review" post[0], but was sad to find none for other years.

[0] https://writing.kemitchell.com/2015/02/13/FTC-2014-Year-in-R...
A someone working with MBTA data I can chime in.

The story is rather complicated. Boston's subway system serves a population of around 2 million, including administratively separate cities like Somerville, Cambridge, Brookline and Newton that are more like boroughs than separate cities. The rest is served by the commuter rail system and bus system, which do a good job of covering most people (probably about 4 million of 5 million).

There's actually 145 subway stations (though that includes a few underground stations on the silver line, technically BRT for now), but the article didn't the green line (America's first subway, 1898), because it's a "light rail" subway, not a "heavy rail" subway. Those stations all got retrofitted with wheelchair access or else were already above ground stations with access.

It's fair to say that those 145 stations serve about 1/4 the population of the MTA in New York.
From Communist Manifesto:

8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

Unsurprisingly this leads to labor camps in every communist government.
Is the situation described for the woman in the article common? It sounds completely insane, I don't see how anyone could defend it.

Minimum wage is $7.25, so at a guess say $20k/yr net? $800/month insurance is $9,600, nearly 50% of her income for insurance that would still have left her with a $70k bill after the haemorrhage?

Edit: I realise that's kind of the point of the article, but seeing those figures I don't see how _anyone_ below the middle class could get decent insurance.
Yes, but nothing will stop you from casting pointer to meters into pointer to yards, while many C features force or encourage this behaviour. You also cannot override operators for combining those units. And the value is still just int.
Stunning new photos of Jupiter were just released by NASA
Definitely, but I find it can also be massively difficult to figure out why something is wrong. It's not as clear as for example backend web programming. For example this is a progression of me implementing a camera that can move https://twitter.com/K0nserv/status/846488675794014208
It would be nice if they opened the protocol specs up. But I'm happy to have a professionally maintained client binary signed by google. Much easier to get it distributed.

https://github.com/google/earthenterprise/wiki/Google-Earth-...
There's a very strange phenomena going on where are starting to equate non-violent things with violence. Even words are violence.

I have witnessed a friend being physically attacked and have seen the aftermath of an physical attack.

From this perspective, I can only conclude that these people equating things to violence are simply attempting to gain political power, or virtue signal or whatever.
I totally get your point, and I recall from my past in my naïveté I used to think like that. But now I realize that, for example, with cancer they can cure some of it, but there is not "one root cause" to the problem yet- every problem is different. Like solving physics problems not using equations but just putting in numbers. That's a tough road.

But these climate scientists were employed before this issue. Having a theory that God created the universe doesn't mean we can't try to understand how.

But I'm not trying to argue with you. I know you understand. I'm just rhetorically lamenting the state of humankind. :)
Judging by that PDF, it's hard to call it a fallacy without palming a card or three.
These really need more attention. Best iems I've used :D.
That's neat, though looking at your demo (thru pleenq.com), the discoverability is not that good: I'd not hover things with my cursor if I didn't know that those popups would appear. You should tell that to the user somehow on the ad host.
I'm aware, I travel via TLV a lot :)
It's not only a heuristic, it's also a principle. It states that "when choosing between two theories which make the exact same predictions, choose the one with the fewer assumptions". Which is to say, correctness comes first, of course, but when deciding between two equally correct theories, choose the one with the fewer assumptions.
If I say: "There are all these bugs in curl, you should rewrite it in rust and it will be better (but I've never done anything similar, nor there is any scienetific proof for what I am saying)" then it's not thoughtful criticism, but pure personal opinion. There is a very low value in that.

On the other hand if there is a project like curl rewritten from C to Rust and its author says: "We have switched from C to Rust in a year and after two years we have less new bugs", there is at least some value.
Unfortunately, HTTP proxies are kind of a thing of the past. Back when I wrote it, it was easy to implement a proxy (HTTP 1.0 with some HTTP 1.1 features). Now there are two issues. The smaller one is that you have to handle a lot of complexity from HTTP 1.1. The bigger one is that increasing use of HTTPS (a good thing!) means that things like caching, ad-blocking, and history search absolutely have to be in the browser. The author of Polipo, one of the best caching proxies, has declared it obsolete for this reason.

It would be a good feature for the deluxe Pinboard subscription. As long as you're mirroring the content, you might as well index it with Lucene or something.
No, it's not statically checked for correctness.

Example of successful compilation in C Language which is semantically wrong: http://ideone.com/Hdd4Sh

(No casts required.)
React-lite is 25kb, it gets there by stripping off proptypes and some other things without, sacrificing functionality, so it can always be applied as a production alias. Things like Preact and Inferno compat go even further, you can bring React down to 5kb or less. With React Fiber it will be easier to create modular packages that contain specifically what the app needs.

TS already supports JSX.
Very good. Great even.
But there is a problem. Whatsapp has already won the chat/calls app war. Watch it grow massivly in the next year, i promise.
Mostly due to incompetence of MS and Google.
If you believe that you can rewrite any of those libraries or tools in a nice modern language with no security issues and all the portability that they had (including operating systems and embedded systems), please do grace us with your work.

In the meantime, it appears rather difficult to replace the last 40 years of work overnight in a novel, untested language, with support for a tiny fraction of the targets that C has been supporting all that time, while maintaining reasonable performance.

Or in short: It's easy to work smart when you're not working hard in your arm chair.
Sebastian Thrun Interviews Yann LeCun
The 1979 Scottish Devolution referendum (also 52:48 in favour) was not passed because Yes failed to meet a threshold of 40% of the electorate.
To be fair, Eigg is hardly a big consumer of electricity. I was there in December of 2006. I was staying in the guest house --- there's only one. I was the only tourist there. At one point I was kidnapped and taken to their community nativity play (which was actually a lot of fun). But the population is only 83, so running the whole place off renewable energy isn't difficult.

Fuzzy pictures from my trip here; the first few are from Mallaig, the other end of the ferry link:

https://goo.gl/photos/GQNcBpE4vVgv1A1i7
Closed source, not end-to-end encrypted by default, end-to-end only device to device (so I can't swap seamlessly from a desktop to a mobile session).
Not even the protocoll is open, so I am bound to their clients.

Sadly it was the only nice alternative when the snowden stuff was published. That means those of my peers who made it away from skype/fb/whatsapp are now on telegram.
0.585... bits more capacity, but yeah (bits = log2(states)).
Rare exceptions include CC0 and WTFPL, which are not OSI-approved and thus are free software licenses but maybe not open source licenses, and Artistic 1.0, which is not FSF-approved and thus open source but not free software.
I happened to be reading a comparison of Telegram and Whatsapp this morning [1]. I've never used Whatsapp, is it really this bad or is the reviewer clearly a massive Telegram fanboy/girl?

[1] https://info.seibert-media.net/display/Atlassian/Comparison+...
It sounds good to me. Not sure why you'd want to pronounce it as Tah-leb Kwah-lee?

If anything, it sounds like "quiley".
The fact of the matter is there is nothing new or transformative about Amazon Connect. Anyone who knows something about how contact center technology can attest to this.

Read analysis here: http://blog.fenero.com/amazon-connect-is-not-only-over-price...
Isn't that the thrust of the article though? They narrowed their ad spend to whitelisted sites and have not seen a drop in sales. If the major sports apparel company stopped paying for endorsements and saw no drop in sales, you might be tempted to conclude that those endorsements are not good investments.
Is there a need to move your eCommerce to mCommerce?
A study by Statista in 2015 showed that 131.4 million users have made at least one purchase using a mobile app in 2015. This number is expected to grow in the coming years as rapid adoption of mobile technology is rampant across the globe. In recognition of the importance of mobile platform, Google is offering perks to websites that are responsive.

See More: https://www.solutionanalysts.com/blog/is-there-a-need-to-move-your-ecommerce-to-mcommerce/
Latest Tesla patch enables Autosteer at 80 mph for HW2 models
it's not really just disabled people, actually they are pretty irrelevant group compared to families with children in stroller and elderly, you will understand this once you will have child, that while until then you thought all those ramps everywhere are useless for those few disabled people there are tons of parents work children in strollers, heck i would say majority of population is dealing with this at least once in life, so good luck subsidizing these people
Custom Themes in Ionic 2
> No amount of 'type safety' will prevent idiots from being idiots

But it will limit the damage they do considerably. Having bit of space or trees between lanes on a road saves a lot of lives, even if people drive as idiotically as they would without it.

> What is NOT idiotic is what you discribe as 'ridiculous amount of verification'

Designing systems that rely only on that is idiotic when there are better options.
He's not the sort to make any friends. The GOP is just whistling sideways hoping the rest of America stops wondering what Trump is actually up to beyond the surface noise.
Sounds like marketing speech for variable bitrate encoding and/or adjusting compression aggressiveness.
I don't think this generalises that well. We're learning some general truths that should be known to many people with enough time. You can certainly criticise whole architecture and methodology based on those ideas. For some ideas it took a long time before they became something obvious - we may be at a time when the scales are slowly tipping.

For example imagine telling someone in 2000 that they should be running an automated continuous integration pipeline rather than purely manual testing. Now it's a norm. Then, we were still discussing whether Extreme Programming was a waste of time. But we also didn't have the tools to support the CI properly.

Memory safe compiled languages seem to me like the same thing. We had things like Cyclone, OOC, and other experiments which barely anyone knew. Now we have Rust which is still hard to use, but it's gaining ground. In a decade, I hope to be pointing out to this post when someone complains that you can't criticize an entire methodology. "Remember when people said the same thing about enforced memory safety?"

Curl will not be rewritten of course. But I'm happy people push this idea. The next curl will not be written in C.
Only for someone who has never seen JSX, and for very simple cases. For anything that goes deeper you have to break the pre-made HTML conditionals and circumvent. For instance the horror an Angular uses goes through to loop an object with "pipes" which are now defined in separate files, whereas everyone else would use Object.keys and that's that. I often wonder, where are the actual benefits with templates, all i can see from using them are critical downsides.

Do this in a template for instance:

import range from 'lodash/range'

const Item = ({ number }) => <li>{number}</li>
const App = () => (
<ul>
{range(0, 20, 5)
.map(index =>
<Item number={index} />
)
}
</ul>
)

Templates can't even resolve <Item> because they don't know scope. The have no access to `range` either. Instead we're now hacking around with template registrations and injections. This results in a mess of functionality sprinkled all over the place for no good reason.
You grossly underestimate the long-term importance of it and its institutions. it's not just a "trade union" as a glance at its budget will show. Anyway we obviously have a different vision for it.
Because we solve practical problems, and do not nit pick of what is technically correct. We are not drones and easily understand that in this context it's megabytes.

Just look at all that "technically it's mebibytes bla bla bla" in replies. No one cares. Write some code. Or better - go outside.
(Tiny rick)
Many of those tools cost money, where we're used to programming tools being gratis.

Probably a lot of it is simply lack of familiarity, though. I've never seen a university course that even touches on this...
He's not a Republican. He hijacked the party and beat the living shit out of every single one of them, and they fear him.
Excellent book and a thoroughly nice chap. He also name-checked my business as an example of a nice effective energy product at a DECC event a few years ago, which was flattering and unexpected (radfan.com for those interested).

Update: I had no idea he had passed, such a loss.
> We have lost Mars climate orbiter due to not using type-safe language.

One company creates a closed-source component that produces a float, another company creates a closed-source component that receives a float. Units differ. Crash. No type-safe language will prevent that bug from happening. Let 100 programmers write these programs in your type-safe language of choice and all will be vulnerable to this.

"Oh no", I hear you say, "we'll give every unit its own type" and it still won't stop your programmers from deserializing a 4 byte value in English units into the metric value they think it is. "So we'll make all the IO typed as well!" You don't need a type safe language to do that. And why would you do it in the first place? If your API spec says you receive a float in metric units, you write your program accordingly. When you're writing mission critical software, would you really want to replace a

> read(sensor, &value, sizeof(float))

with 100k lines of even buggier code to prevent a bug from happening that shouldn't happen in the first place?
Archived version: http://archive.is/2EhFW
Slavery still very much exists in places like Middle East, South Asia, and US prisons, so your argument is moot.
I highly recommend you check out WIRE. Cheers
will better don't look okay American banking, trains and internet either

there is some odd perception flying around world that US is particularly developed country, while reality about their infrastructure contradicts this